January 1958
AA Around the World
UNDER THE MAROELA TREE <lbNews, comments and letters from and about AA's worldwide outposts and centers--gleaned from letters to the Grapevine and General Service Headquarters, and from the "AA Exchange Bulletin," published monthly by GSH
THE NAME OF OUR GROUP IS "MAROELA." This may well be explained. The Maroela tree, which grows in the Northern Transvaal, is an evergreen, a beautiful tree which bears fruit not unlike a large plum. It has a large stone and a thick skin. The fruit ripens to a yellow color and in season litters the ground so that at noon in the area of its own shadow, the tree has a carpet of greenish yellow Maroelas--each of them a neat container of natural alcohol. Before it rots, the fruit reaches a peak of potency which goes to show that alcohol is a natural substance.
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