Our Colour Photo Competition
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[?]E Of Pim's Biggest Headaches
A Quarter Century
[?]oosing the Award Winners in Our Colour Photo Competition
S announced in June issue of . Pacific Islands Monthly, the following were award winners in Quarter-Century colour-photo i petition;
First Prize Award Of £25:
lolour transparency submitted by >r. K. W. Todd, c/o Department f Health, Port Moresby, Papua, übject: Mt. Hagen huntsman.
See page 17, this issue).
AWARDS OF £5: These will be lade to the following: R. H. T. Newick, Apia, Western amo a. Subject: A Study of imoan fales and blue sea. (Cover, lis issue).
The Rev. Fr. Michael E. Bodnar, oroka, via Lae, New Guinea, abject: A Wahgi Valley Tul-tul. >age 21, this issue).
F. E. Dunn, Noumea, New Cale mia. Subject: Study of a Fijian rl. (Page 42, this issue).
Mrs. B. Haydon, Lae, New uinea. Subject: Haus Tambaran, Maprik. (Page 43, this issue).
Mrs. R. F. Williams, c/o Radio ation 2 GN, Goulburn, NSW. ibject: Storm over the reef, ’age 43, this issue). le contest was announced in of October, 1954, and by clos date, March 31, 1955, there were over 200 entries—some indica of how popular colour ography has become in the last years. ie number of entries was dis ly gratifying—but a number headache for those who had to se the half-dozen that were lately used. At least 75 per cent, he entries would have made ;ing pictures, so we had to fall on what we had said in our nal announcement that we d use those “that we consider oest for our purpose.” this regard then, perhaps it be said that this was no tary photo competition in that lical perfection did not weigh eavily with us as it does in competitions, ne entries which we favoured strongly were eliminated be ! the block-maker considered other somewhat similar entries i be easier to reproduce. Into category came “The Net her,” submitted by Pan Ameri -srints, of Pago Pago, a delicate parency in pastel blues and ; “New Hanover Beach Scene,” itted by H. W. Evans, of mg, T-NG; and “The Pottery-
Makers,” by G. E. Miller, of Samarai, Papua.
Several brilliant entries were re luctantly rejected because it was considered that they could have been anywhere in the tropics and not necessarily in the South Seas.
K. Reschke’s “Tulagi—l9s4” came into this category; so did R. J.
Oxley’s study of a flame tree on Apia waterfront.
Other entries were rejected be cause, although they were attractive, they were obviously posed—which we did not want.
Each entry was examined care fully; after three elimination pro cesses we divided those that had survived into sections—New Guinea Highlands; Samoa; Fiji; Polynesia, general; Papua-New Guinea; New Caledonia, BSIP, etc.; and Miscel laneous. The following entries, in the above sections, are those from which we made the final choice:
Highlands: —T H E Rev. Fr.
Michael E. Bodnar, Goroka, (Wahgi Valley Tul-Tul); Pastor A. J. Camp bell, SDA Mission, Goroka, (Studies of Goroka and Chimbu Natives); Dr. K. W. Todd, Port Moresby, (Hagen Huntsman and study of a Banz native); T. Dwyer, New Britain, (Gift exchange ceremony, Mt. Hagen).
SAMOA: Pan American Prints, Pago Pago, (The Net-Thrower); Art Wisner, Pago Pago, (Samoan fale ); R. H. T. Newick, Apia, (Beach House and Reef); R. J. Oxley, Fanning Island, (Apia Flame Tree) ; C. A.
Stinson, Suva, (Village Scene).
FIJI;—The Rev. W. H. Hill, Savusavu, Fiji, (Fijian Girls with tobe locks); F. E. Dunn, Noumea, (Study of a Girl) ; C. A. Stinson (Sunset on Suva Harbour); P. A.
Bonhote, Suva, (Bullocks in Cane field) ; R. C. Evetts, Suva, (Fijian Policeman); Dr. Marshall Laird, Singapore (Suva Market Scene); Capt. H. P. Hammond, Sydney (Fiji Military Band) ; Mrs. R. F. Williams, Goulburn, NSW (Storm Over the Reef).
Polynesia. General:—Mrs.
A. Vercoe, Pago Pago, (July 14 Celebration, Papeete) ; Jack Thorn ton, Suva, (Rotuman “Pin-up”
Girl); August Hettig, Nukualofa (Tongan Seascape) ; D. E. McMahon, Wellington, NZ (Rarotonga Water front) ; Pastor A. G. Stewart, Syd ney, (Tongan Beauty).
Papua-New Guinea:—L. G.
Naughton, Kikori, Papua (Kukuku kus) ; Miss Dorothy Pederick, Rabaul, T-NG, (Mother and Child Study, Duke of York Is.); N. C.
Robinson, Wau, NG, (Group in a Rice-field); John Greene, Sydney, (Loading at Kieta) ; Mrs. A. M. Hall, Samarai, Papua (Sila Sila, Papua); W. C. J. Grafen, Melbourne, (River Scene) ; H. W. Evans, Kavieng, (New Hanover Beach); Mrs. B. Haydon, Lae, (Haus Tambaran, Maprik) ; The Rev. J. D. Robinson, Rabaul, (Native Feast, Duke of York Is.) ; R. V. Grant, Sydney, (Trobriand Yam-houses) ; G. E. Miller, Samarai, (Pottery-maker) ; K. Hermann, Hotel Rouna, Papua, (Marine Village, Papua) ; Mrs. T. D. Grant, Sydney, (Rat Is., Papua);.
New Caledonia, Bsip, Etc.:
—K. Reschke, Honiara, BSIP, (Tulagi—l9s4) ; A. T. Dunne, Diamond Creek, Vic., (Native Canoes, Western Solomons); Holland Bois, Noumea, (Wallis Islanders) ; F. E.
Dunn, Noumea, (New Caledonian Boy) ; Dr. J. S. Cumpston, Noumea (Flying-boat Alighting, Vila) ; J. W.
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:obson, Noumea (New Caledonian ’1).
Miscellaneous; K. E. Robin
1, Rabaul (Flower Studies).
r or the cover picture we required nething with a distinct South Sea mds flavour —which, in general, ant coconuts, surf on the reef, tive houses. The one chosen fils all these requirements. For ; other pictures which we have troduced in this issue, we had no ‘conceived ideas: We chose those ich pleased us. We hope that jy will please you, too.
We should have liked to have id at least three times as many our-pictures as we have done, t the cost of colour blocks articularly from transparencies) is Dhibitive. However, we have kept careful list of every entry and Duld PIM again blossom into lour, we will apply to those of u who submitted entries that ted highly.
Finally, we should like to thank ery entrant, successful or un ccessful. Your enthusiastic re onse to our appeal for colour msparencies gave us a wide oice of material and has enabled to put real South Pacific colour to this, our Quarter-Century issue.
All transparencies submitted are iw on their way back to their re ective owners.
The engagement of Mr. Bruce ;ek, of Adelaide, and Miss Norma icker, of Vermont, Victoria, both Lth the British Phosphate Com ission at Ocean Island, has been inounced. They plan to be married Melbourne in December and to turn to Ocean Island early in 1956.