A bird's eye view
pp. 55-58 · Read in the full issue
They look like a row of discarded match boxes,- in fact it's Hanuabada village in Port Moresby harbour. Captain A. G. Shearer, Fiji pilot, took this bird's eye view of a familiar South Seas landmark and there are others from his camera on the following two pages.
Seen from the air: Top, Bonriki Airport, Tarawa Atoll, GEIC; above, Fiji School of Medicine, Suva; right, Forari manganese mines, Efate, New Hebrides, operated by Southland Mining Ltd. Opposite page top, Honiara, the circular building is the High Court and the Legislative Assembly building; BSIP administrative headquarters is in the oblong building opposite.
Right: Tonga's International Dateline Hotel, facing the waterfront at Nukualofa.
At the same time as the carving of traditional figures and ceremonial gongs. New Hebrideans, following the same pattern as throughout the Pacific, are turning out more and more items for the tourist market. Whether or not they can produce their magnificent slit gongs, at the same time carving lesser works for tourists, remains to be seen. Certainly these mask carvings show no con cession to the second-rate—yet.