In his report to the Council of the League of Nations, the Administrator of the Australian mandated Territory of New Guinea (Brig Gen. W. Ramsay MeNicoll) tells of a quaint experience in the course of a visit to the home of a settler in Belik, in New Ireland, The settler's native cook had been in Rabaul, the capital of the Territory, and had seen a menu card. He evidently considered that ' Belik should do honour to the Administra-for and his wife by having menu card on the dinner table. Having received some instruction in the phonetic writing of pidgin English, the chief medium of communication between whites and natives, he produced the following menu:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.