Cruising Yachts

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

12-mile fishing limit for P-NG, Norfolk Island, Nauru

Australia and its external territories, which include Papua- New Guinea, Norfolk Island and Nauru, are to have a new limit for exclusive offshore fishing rights.

HE Australian Minister for Primary Industry, Mr. Adermann, i in Federal Parliament in mid irch that legislation was to be reduced in Parliament later in the sion to extend the present limit for shore fishing rights from three to miles.

Te said the Government had :ided to extend the limit because developments in the international / of the sea in the past few years.

Fhe Government’s decision applied external territories as well as Aus lia. But it related only to fisheries 1 did not involve any increase in breadth of the territorial sea, ich would stay at three miles.

Vlr. Adermann said the new islation would bring Australia into ; with many other countries, in ding Britain, the United States and w Zealand.

Fhe Government was still examin : the position of nationals from ter countries who fish in the new ie, between three and 12 miles out.

“Fortunately, so far as both Aus tralia and the territories are con cerned, there is no evidence of any substantial degree of foreign fishing having taken place in the new zone,” he added.

The main countries that will be affected by the new legislation are Japan, Russia and Formosa.

Japanese long-line tuna fishermen, who range far and wide across the Pacific from bases in American Samoa, Fiji, the New Hebrides and elsewhere, have sometimes been re ported to be operating close to the east coast of Australia, in the Gulf of Papua, and in the vicinity of Norfolk Island.

Formosan fishermen have been arrested on numerous occasions over the past three years for poaching trochus shell from reefs and islands in Papua-New Guinea. The first case was in July, 1964 ( PIM, Aug., 1964, P- 95).

There have been no positive re ports in recent years of Russian fishermen operating off any of Aus tralia’s Pacific territories, but they have been showing increasing interest in the waters of the Great Australian Bight and off the Western Australian coast.

$40,000 Ng Shipment

For Carolines

Foodstuffs and general goods worth about $40,000 were loaded aboard the 392-ton United States Trust Ter ritory ship Kaselehlia at Rabaul in February for Ponape in the Eastern Caroline Islands.

The buyers, the Ponape Federation of Co-operatives, intended to resell the cargo in the Caroline Islands through the federation’s three trading centres at Ponape, Truk and Yap.

A spokesman for the buyers said the Kaselehlia had made the 500-mile

trip to Rabaul because the items purchased were cheaper in Rabaul than in Japan or Guam.

He said there was a businessman aboard the ship who had placed further orders for his own trading company.

In October, 1965, the Kaselehlia was one of three ships taken over by Micronesian commercial agencies in Ponape, Truk and Yap. (PIM, Nov., 1965, p. 105).

Japanese In Papuan

Fishing Venture

A fishing company has been set up to fish for barramundi, tuna, reef fish and prawns in Papuan waters.

Called the South Sea Fishing Com pany, it will use four converted Queensland prawning boats and a 146 ft Japanese mother ship.

Several businessmen from Queens land and New Guinea and one of the world’s largest fishing groups, Nihon Kinkai Hogei Co. Ltd., of Japan, have invested $200,000 to get the company started.

Selling headquarters will be in Brisbane.

The company’s fishing director, Mr.

Mitsuri Sano, said recently that the

;t thing the company planned to do s survey 1,000 miles of the coast e from Samarai to the West Irian rder, [t would be the first outside janised venture of its type in the ;ion. The company had received working permit from the Australian Jeral Government. [t wanted to pinpoint the best ter irial waters for fishing, and then I its catch all over the world. [n the beginning, the mother p would freeze and process the ches and then transship them to isbane in coastal cargo ships for e and export. rhe company’s Australian director, •. J. Stewart-Moore, said stage two the company’s plans was to build string of depots, freezing and :kaging plants, throughout Papua 1 the Solomons in about 18 mths’ time.

He said the company planned to e maximum employment to the tive people.

: Ship To Survey

Ok Islands

HMNZS Lachlan under Com mder Munroe, is to make a survey the Cook Islands in May and June, e ship is due to arrive in Raro iga on May 16. She will survey : southern islands from May 18 to , She will leave for Papeete until ty 28, and will continue her work the northern islands from May 30 June 11.

The ship will return to Auckland i Apia and Suva.

W Shipyards Build

Ssels For P-Ng

Two vessels for native societies in SfG are currently being built at pyards at Ballina, NSW.

The Trans-Fly Co-operative Ship ig Society, of Daru, is having one ilt for general cargo work for ; Moorehead, Lake Murray and unga buyers’ societies.

The ship, which will have a cargo pacity of 25 tons, is expected to delivered by June. She will be sed at Daru.

The other ship, a 70 ft steel lied vessel, is being built for the ;w Ireland Native Societies As :iation Ltd. She will cost $120,000.

The ship will be used to deliver pra and other merchandise to out ng co-operative societies in the ja.

She has a 60 cubic ft deep freeze, d is capable of carrying 4,000 Hons of fuel for pumping ashore, lere is storage space for 1,250 bags conra.

Delivery is expected in May.

Burns Philp Fined For

Stevedoring Breaches

Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., was fined a total of $1,500 for three breaches of the Stevedoring Industry Act in the Commonwealth Industrial Court in Sydney on March 13.

The company pleaded not guilty to the charges, which related to one of its ships, the Malekula, at Walsh Bay, Sydney, on November 23, 1965.

The Malekula maintains a seven weekly cargo service from Sydney and Brisbane to Papua-New Guinea ports.

Mr. Justice Kerr ordered the com

pany to pay the minimum fine of $5OO on each charge, plus the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority’s legal costs.

The company was convicted of having acted in a manner in which the safe performance of stevedoring operations was prejudiced, having failed to ensure that stevedoring operations were expeditiously, safely and efficiently performed, and having failed to ensure that the labour avail able for the stevedoring work was used to the best advantage.

Mr. Justice Kerr said the com pany had followed an unsafe loading practice and had unjustly dismissed

terside workers after they had sed the safety issue, and “stood their rights”.

The practice allowed by the com ny could have caused cargo to fall d injure a hatchman and other iployees, he added.

C To Set Up

Iheries Station

The South Pacific Commission is 3ected to make a decision on a ; for a fisheries research station at next session in October.

The SPC’s fisheries officer, Mr. n Powell, completed a seven-week vey early this year to look for ssible sites. He visited American noa, Hawaii, Guam, Saipan and ror in the US trust Territory and mila.

He told PIM the station would be id to teach Pacific Islanders com rcial fishing.

Vlr. Powell, who was Fisheries :icer for the Cook Islands Govern nt before he took up his post h the SPC for six months from t July, also told us that the Cook inds Government had gone ahead h a long-term plan for develop nt of tuna fishing in the Cook ands.

Construction of a workshop had »un in 1962 and now a 55 ft tuna npan and a slipway were being ilt. ‘Progress has been slow because y little labour is available,” he d.

Ckei Company

Lis Freighter

Fhe New Caledonian nickel com iy, Societe le Nickel, has sold its 00-ton freighter Quebec to Chinese crests.

The Quebec was built to the order the nickel company in Canada in : early post-war years. Her sale ves the company with two 15,000i vessels and the 5,000-ton Caronte.

Hon Steam Ship Co.

Id The Press

PIM some months ago com inted on what was called the archiness” of managers of the lion SS Co. Ltd, in Australia and :w Zealand and other places, when ced for information by newspaper jorters.

It was mild comment; but friends PlM’s old friend, Mr. David A. itler, who for 20 years was the lion SS Co. manager in Fiji, Dught it might have reflected upon n.

Actually, it did not. David Butler, all his contacts with the public

Fiji and thereabouts, including the wspapers, was an agreeable and co erative official —and testimony to > qualities in that respect was heard the goodwill expressed at a public action in Suva when Mr. Butler :urned to New Zealand several ars ago.

There was a period, covering some cades, when the Union Company’s airs were ruled by a board of ectors (probably of Dunedin igin!) who apparently hated blicity in all its forms, and seldom, ever, expressed any love for news pers. Naturally, the company’s inch managers throughout the uth Seas had to conform.

But that grim era ended a long le ago. The Union SS Co. of NZ wadays is well regarded by news therers, who generally find it help and sympathetic on the rare casions when Union SS Co. affairs ; in the limelight,

I Help For P-Ng

Lurch Vessel

The American Diocese of Minne ;a will help the Anglican Church Papua-New Guinea to buy a ssel to join the 18-year-old aclaren-King II on passenger and rgo trips.

The Americans hope to raise about 0,000 towards the cost of the new at. The new ship will have freezer ace and a motorised winch to speed rgo handling.

!W Tanker To Be

Vsed In Fiji

A new Shell Co. tanker, the %awale, arrived in Suva on Feb ary 28 on her delivery voyage from Dng Kong. She will operate out of va, carrying petroleum products to ibasa, Savusavu, Taveuni, and icific territories outside Fiji.

The Sigawale was formerly the n Fah Chan and was used as a mkering craft in Hong Kong.

A sister ship, the Kuanua, also rmerly of Hong Kong, has been ansferred to Rabaul.

Captain Dick Speary has taken 'er the Sigawale as master; the chief tgineer is Mr. Fritz Ragg; and his sistant is Mr. Isaac Underwood.

*Ench Commander On

Fficial Visit To Bsip

One of the French Navy’s latest ng-range escort vessels, the 2,000n Enseigne de Vaisseau Henry, ith Rear-Admiral J. Gouttier, the »mmander-in-chief of French Forces the Pacific, aboard, paid a four ly visit to Honiara BSIP, in March.

The escort vessel is named after

isei g n e de Vaisseau (Flag sutenant) Paul Henry, a French ral officer killed at Peking in 1900, ile defending the city against the xers.

Rear-Admiral Gouttier has been n-C Pacific since last December en he replaced Rear-Admiral (now :e-Admiral) J. Picard-Destelan. He >7 and a commander of the Legion Honour, the Croix de Guerre and former commander of the Fleet fining Centre at Toulon.

Tis headquarters are now at umea.

Ok Islands Ship In

For Annual Inspection

[he 113 ft Cook Islands schooner atere, one of three ships run by Islands trader, A. B. Donald Ltd., s in Auckland in February for her lual examination of hull and cargo ir.

Dutch-built in 1948, the Akatere s trading between Holland and the Itic seaports when A. B. Donald jght her in 1963. She arrived in aeete on New Year’s Day, 1964, 1 was handed over to her master, . A, J. Pickering, who is still in nmand.

0 Schoolboys For

Cific Cruise

\ group of 150 New Zealand ondary school boys, from 14 to years old, will go on a South :ific cruise with the China Naviga -1 Company’s liner Kuala Lumpur August. [he cruise will start from Welling on August 13 and will take in umea, Santo and Suva before ling at Auckland on September 2.

Phis will be the second of two :ific cruises by the Kuala Lumpur ; year. The first will begin in llington on July 22 and will end Wellington on August 12.

Fch Up For Sale

Wellington, 80 ft ketch owned by all Price, was up for sale in Bris le in February. Price is well awn in the Pacific for his voyages skipper of the 22 ft yacht C’est Vie. In early 1966 he took the llington to the Solomons to look charter work (P/M, Mar., 1966, 107).

Ferest In Geic

Aining Plan

fwo big shipping companies, the ina Navigation Company and the lumbus Line, have supported the •posed merchant marine training 00l in the GEIC, according to

reports in the New Zealand Press.

The reports say they have told the GEIC Government they will give graduates of the school jobs on their ships operating in the Pacific. This could mean jobs for more than 420 islanders.

The reports say: • The China Navigation Company has agreed to take on two deck crews, totalling 20 to 30 men, on a trial basis. • The Columbus Line has said it is anxious to employ full islander crews—i.e. deck, engine and catering crews and that there are prospects of

at least 400 jobs with the line and its associates.

The training vessel for the school, the Ter aka, was due to arrive at Tarawa from London in March ( PIM , Feb., p. 105).

The Teraka will be moored in Tarawa lagoon and its captain and

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training cruises to other Pacific ter ... 6 ntones.

While lying at Tarawa, the ship will be used for overseas cargo storage—so that trainees can gain experience in cargo handling, The trainee intake will be phased

to 100 men who should be ready service in automated ships after 12-month course.

On-Tiki" Style

Iyage Abandoned

\ Kon-Tiki style raft expedition, ich began in Guayaquil, Ecuador, December, was abandoned 800 !es west of Guayaquil, near the lapagos Islands, in March when raft became waterlogged, fhe expedition was headed by a year-old Spaniard, Vital Alzar, of itander, Spain. There were five ier crew members, fheir raft was made of 11 trunks balsa set lengthwise and nine jrally. with others set diagonally, area was about 46 ft by 30 ft. fhe raft pushed off from Guayaquil December 25 to try to prove that ancavilca Indians from Ecuador ild have peopled the islands of Lynesia a couple of thousand years ). There had been a false start ) months earlier (PIM, Dec., p. n.

On March 15, a report from ayaquil said that the raftsmen were aiting rescue in their waterlogged 1 half-submerged craft near the lapagos Islands. \ German vessel picked up the adventurers the following day.

Owded Days At

Mgs Wharf, Suva

Fhe Suva harbour authorities had ir work cut out on March 11 en they had to berth three big ;rseas liners at the Kings Wharf.

Fhe ships were the Ariana, north md for American west coast ports i the Far East, the Monterey, on Pacific cruise, and the Norwegian ury liner, Sagafjord, also on a :ific cruise with some of Ameri s wealthiest citizens.

W Shipping Service

Rarotonga

From the beginning of April, a pping service to Rarotonga, Cook mds, will be provided by Holm i Company Limited, of Welling i, in conjunction with the New aland Department of Island Ter aries and the department’s vessel, lana Roa.

Fhe company expects to make six as a year to Rarotonga. The service iy be extended to Tahiti if trade aspects warrant.

Until a few months ago, a sup mentary service to that of the mna Roa was provided by the lion Steam Ship Company’s trans cific vessels en route to the west

coast of North America. These vessels have now been withdrawn from the trade.

Holm and Company provide a regular shipping service from New Zealand to Norfolk Island and New Caledonia, and to the Chatham Islands. The company’s vessels also undertake the annual servicing of the weather stations at Campbell Island (South of NZ’s South Island) and to Raoul Island in the Kermadecs.

They have also made a few trips to Fiji.