Daily radio news carries frequent notices of house-hold furniture etc., for sale at reasonable rates by detached officers. Ice boxes, wardrobes, chairs etc., also make at Gendarmerie prison. Cooks purchase vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry, fish and native meat three times weekly at much better rates than housekeepers can get. Native meat fairly good but restricted choice. Brigade Commissary has good stock canned and staple articles and excellent bakery.
Local stores handle American fruit and butter and French stores an excellent range of delicatessen.
Care should be had that fish and lobsters are fresh. Fish should show pink gills, showing that they are freshly caught, and test for lobsters is to make them walk. Native boats seafood in daily. Ice is delivered daily by Brigade. Four garages that handle Packard, Willys-Knight, Buick, Dodge, Chevrolet, Star and Ford, and give service.