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Pacific Islands Monthly

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Bully Beef If You Want

It, Too

|N a small hotel in the heart of I one of New Guinea’s most beautiful valleys, internationally famous dishes from nearly every :ountry are presented on a menu yhich would whet the appetite of my gourmet.

The hotel is Wau, the hotelier Job Zeelen, and the recipes include fichysoisse soup from France; Sami Goreng from Indonesia; lungarian Goulash from Hungary;

Ipatchcock from Europe; and

)hocolate Volcano from America, 'hich can be topped off with )cally grown fruit and coffee, and lanish and Dutch cheeses.

Bob Zeelen, former manager for [orobe Hotels Ltd., at Goroka, was )r six years in Port Moresby. He itered for the Duke of Edinburgh uring the Duke’s Territory visit i 1956.

He is not long back from a world iur when he visited the well known Dtels of Fiji, Honolulu, America, ngland and the Continent, and ade a study of the preparation id serving of meals in the most mous hotels around the world.

In the near future, Mr. Zeelen ans to build self-contained ttages near the present hotel at au, where tourists and visitors n enjoy the mixed pleasures of ’ht-seeing, swimming, golf, and inis.

Sydney’S Front Door

Is Changed

r was Monday, March 24. I stood on top of a building in Macquarie Street, Sydney, and watched the 5t rush of motor traffic across the ■ft high roadway, over Circular &y, after the Premier had oflfici y opened the new thoroughfare, fhis huge wall of concrete runs mg the edge of Circular Quay, ere has been much reclamation •e, over the last 150 years. Phil s little ships once berthed where v soars the double highways—one trains and one for cars, thought of the thousands of le ships which had gone from cular Quay, out among the o Islan ds, in the first century Sydney’s existence. How many

of their companies had ever imagined a thing like this! How many of the wretched convicts who built Circular Quay had even dreamed of electric trains or motor cars, let alone this huge structure for their accommodation.

And then I thought of Kipling’s “Song of the Cities—Sydney”: Greeting! My birthstain have I turned to good Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness — The first flush of the tropics in my blood And at my feet, Success.

R.

Just A Lumpy Old Atoll

BEAUTIFUL rueeed wpII norm lofoi r>oi\ g • ™ en P° P , U ‘ lated Rarotonga, in the Cooks, it hS A^ back when it heard an American news broad

cast announcing that a commercia airline would make a special cal to Rarotonga to pick up some Americans stranded there aftei their private Catalina broke dowr (see elsewhere).

They didn’t particularly object tc the announcer insisting that the commercial flight would be made by the non-existent Tasmanian Empire Airways, but when he referred to Rarotonga as a “tiny remote Pacific atoll” they felt like throwing the fellow off the peak oi 2,000 ft. Mt. Te Manga.

Cold Shoulder For The

Antarctic Scientists

IT’S not often that New Guinea is held up as an example to Antarctica, but Senator George Cole managed to do it in the Aus tralian Senate in March.

He made a plea for the scientists who work under strenuous conditions in the Antarctic for 12 months at a time. He said they were treated harshly in having to pay income tax, and should receive the same consideration as the people of New Guinea, who didn’t have to pay tax “because of the conditions under which they live”

What the Senator didn t say was hat from all accounts P-NG wont 3 e tax free for much longer.

&N Old Link Joined Again

CURIOS collected by Fiji’s first doctor, Dr. Richard Birdsall Lyth, are now back in Fiji after in absence of more than 100 years.

The collection includes beauti ully woven mats (one worn by Faufa’shau later King George Fubou I, first ruler of the king dom of Tonga) which is woven vith 17 strands to the inch, and :arved figurines with limbs that nove—possibly made as dolls for ;irls of high rank.

Dr. Lyth was a pioneer missionary )f Fiji and Tonga, first arriving n the Pacific in 1836. He spent 15 in Fiji and took his collec ion back to England with him in 1854.

Curator of the Suva Museum, Mr. R. A. Derrick, heard of the ed uction last June through a Suva nan, Mr. C. A. Stokes, who is re lated to the Lyth family—and in quiries in England resulted in the curios coming home, after a

century.

Now They’Ve Built A

Catapon

A THING called a catapon has arrived in Honolulu. It’s not an animal but a new type of seacraft, designed by an American Presbyterian minister, who also happens to be a construction engineer.

The catapon looks a bit like a jazzed up outrigger canoe. It consists of two metal tubes acting as pontoons, and slung between them is a platform carrying a steering wheel and an outboard motor. There is room for several people.

The minister, Mr. M. E. Rhodes, says his boat should go well over reefs, and in Honolulu he’s looking for somebody to finance him.

Police Blossom Into Print

FIJI has a new quarterly, Fiji Police Magazine , edited by Assistant Police Superintendent C. Marlow. It contains a lot of material of general interest, and will be on sale to the public.