Letters

Worry About Na-Griamel

Dear Sir, —Gooday to you. I like i say something, I am old man worry jout our islands.

Many native people from my unity busy with Na Griamel they ;en plant six tons Peanuts.

Maybe three years ago English an from agriculture show Na riamel how to plant these Peanuts it he not fix up Market and Peanuts e waist.

One leader prophet Moses, he half an Tonga, half english and a little t native, he start Na Griamel like le companie but he true name mmy Stevens.

I worry for young people of my imily waist money to help this an, he spend plenty money air anes many times Noumea and Suva, e say he want find Peanuts Market. r e fraid he bring back many ouble for New Hebrides because ; mix with india people, and trouble ith india men in Fiji. We not want me trouble hear.

Many people hear very happy we e good news in Vila papers about r. Dupertuis. He make one copra mble before war start. I help ime trees and find bad coconut fly id they die when Mr. Depertuis treading small insects, he call irsites over many plantations and ve our copra. He work hard for is.

We sorry Mr. Dupertuis he die he as good frend. We thanks to him, id now we worry about this man i think his name prophet Moses, e come big man and want to make >ss on us. He’s write in Fiji paper id make flash talk.

Thank you. Goodbye.

Sam Massin.

into, ew Hebrides.

Editor’s note: On June 10 Jimmy ephens returned from Suva where ? had been since March looking r a market for agricultural produce 2 behalf of the people of Vanofo llage on Santo.

Early Ng Pilots

Sir, —I would like to contact or ;ar from anyone who has informa m about any of the early New uinea pilots, such as E. A. Mustar, . J. P. Parer, A. S. Cross, L. Shaw,

. S. Shoppee, and others, and who as any photographs of these early lots and machines and particulars F the flights and the mails and >vers carried on these flights.

Living as I do so far from the ene of operations I find it exceed gly difficult to get any of this in irmation, and am hopeful that some ! your readers may be able to assist e.

I have just been offered two bums of photographs of the pilot en Garden, and of the various ghts up the Sepik and Fly Rivers >36-37 by J. Ward Williams, Stuart ampbell, Ken Garden prospecting r gold and other payable minerals, ave you any information on J. ard-Williams or Stuart Campbell, pecially the latter; I have several vers carried and autographed by m, but neither a photograph or y information about him; do you iow if he is still alive?

Any help which you can give me procure any of this information flights and pilots and photographs them will be greatly appreciated.

William C. Huston,

Chairman, Papua Philatelic Society (GB).

Southern Lane, ;w Milton, Hants. 8H25 7JA

Zero-Hunter

Sir, —For the past several years u have periodically carried stories out Japanese Mitsubishi Zero air ift which have been found in rious former Pacific war zone areas.

A copy of this letter is going to larles H. Gebhardt, Chief of Air ift Restoration, Air Force Museum, right-Patterson Air Force Base, lyton, 0hi0—45433, USA, because obviously does not read your :ellent magazine.

Zero-hunter Gebhardt was last re rted at Saipan in the Marianas ining down some hot tips. He s been quoted as saying that a itored Zero fighter is worth FS50;000. Perhaps some of your iders would like to contact him?

Bertram F. Rudolph, Jr.

) Box 2302, rmel, California, 93921.

They Are "Tormented"

Sir, —In answer to M. Van nder’s reply ( PIM , June, p. 37) Mr. Kinza Clodumar’s letter from luru ( PIM , March, p. 44), M. n Tender seems to picture only e side of the story in South Africa. [ certainly agree with him that the uth African Government is helping 5 black man, materially. This is great thing, but what about the

tier side of the problem? That is, the South African Government nng to improve the moral situation?

The Bantu and other coloured oples are denied political rights and sic human freedoms: they are slaved, exploited, stripped of every stige of human dignity.

As a rational thinking individual, really can’t see how you could ply that the Africans are not living i torment and terror” in “a universe nightmare and horror”.

Brendan Diema

imilton, Vic.

When I Go To S.A.

Sir, —In replying to my letter, Mr. ,n Tender (PIM, June, p. 37) com tely missed the point. He un tifiably quoted me out of context t has kindly invited me to visit nth Africa. \s I have absolutely no intention visiting South Africa, nor have ntertained the slightest wish to do while an oppressive and immoral /eminent is in office, I must admit t I find his reply quite irrelevant, hly presumptuous and in an scure way flattering. That Mr. Van nder puts forth irrelevant counter ims makes him a propagandist for policies of the present regime and > indicates the extent to which naging material against the govern nt is deemed a realistic threat to stability of the apparently power- South African Government. }f course the time will come when shall visit South Africa: a time en the government’s decrees are te useless. Perhaps Mr. Van nder would like to know the South ica I shall see: shall talk freely with whom I •ose, ride upon the bus of my a choice and make use of public iveniences that happen to be rest to me. I shall eat where I ! and dwell where I like.

Christianity, where practised, will free from blatant hypocrisy and t recognise Christ for the dark aite .he would have been.

Kinza Clodumar

uru.

An Endurance Record?

an item in PIM (July, p. 99) r informant is quite correct when says that the 19-year-old Brian Hams is a member of the All Black iby team touring South Africa, as Frank Solomon played in v Zealand in 1931 and 1932 and Solomon in 1935, they would h be a little old now for con ;ration for the present team.

W. L. Mcconnell

:kland. editor: Our faces are red.