-39- This year there are to be, it is said, three moving picture theaters, any number of motor cars for hire--the length of the roadway in Hikueru is less than a half mile, but that apparently does not make any difference--a brass band and, it is reported, electric lights along the "Great White Way" of this little ring of coral sand. Late advices indicate that the season this year at Hikueru will be the most active in many years. It is estimated there will be at least 1,000 divers at the island. These, together with their families and the traders with their staffs, will swell the population of the island during the season to nearly 4,000." The length of the season is not stated, but it probably lasts for two or three months at least, which would bring it into conflict with the nesting season for sea birds. Whether the bird protection laws are suspended at this season to enable the traders to supply the natives with cheap fire-arms, is a question; but the din and bustle of men erecting movie theaters and trading places, with brass bands and similar noise-makers thrown in can hardly offer encouragement to the fauna of a small island. Ducie, Oeno, Henderson, and Pitcairn, belong to England, and the British Consul at Tahiti has jurisdiction over Henderson, and possibly of the others.