SKIM MILK OR CREAM?

I bar in Port Vila, in what was then still the New Hebrides – a so-called Co-Dominion of Britain and France. There was all kind of duplication of government institutions with a French- and British-based legal system. Not that it mattered; the real colonial power was exercised by the Australian Department of Agriculture, who told the locals what crops to plant or, more recently, to run cattle instead of growing coconuts. There was an independence movement lurking in the