Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. IV, No. 7 (Feb. 20, 1934)
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Pacific Islands Travellers

Passengers Per Morinda Which

Sailed From Sydney For Lord Howe

AND NORFOLK ISLANDS ON JANUARY 18:- Messrs. E. Anschou, H. Cummins, H. Connebee, Carter, F. Cridland, De Jaunay, Forsyth, Folkes, G. Gregerson, W. H. Lucas, J. Lumsdaine, J. R.

McKenzie, R. S. Morris, Milson, J. Merrick, Nicholson, G. Nichols, W. E. Pearcey, G. J. Payten, T. Reynolds, E. Rickman, E. F. Syder, J.

Stewart, L. A. Sainty, R. G. Sainty, A. Taylor, S. Whitehead, Wilken; Mesdames Anschou, J.

Archbold, G. W. Bromhill, Brockhoff, W. J. Cox, H. Connebee, B. Cognet, Calvert, De Jaunay, G.

Gregerson, A. Hordern, Hurt, H. Loder and infant, McKenzie and two children, L. Mclntyre, N. JVlilson, L. Pattison, G. C. Reynolds, Robertson and infant, Simpson and infant, Whitehead; Misses Arouet, A. Boham, L. Banks, Barnard, Clifford, M. Cummins, G. Chadwick, Carter (2), R. Ditchfield, B. Dwane, Garrett, J. Hordern, Irwin- Smith, A. Lawrie, D. McArthur, Sister Mcßae, Peterson, Steain, L. Smith, B. Smith, M. Shoobridge, Thompson, Wills.

Passengers Per Montoro Which

Arrived In Sydney From New Guinea

AND PAPUA ON JANUARY 19;-Miss L. Maguire, Miss E. Standish, Mrs. G. Carpenter, Miss M. Archer, Mrs. M. Ross, Mrs. I. Champion and infant, Mr. G. Carpenter, Mr. A. Innes, Mr, and Mrs. G. McMahon and three children, Miss M.

Rowlinson, Mr. W. Kyte, Mrs. E. Gunther, Mr.

J. Devany, Mr. E. Thompsett, Mr. P. Conwell, Mr. F. Moore, Mr. T. Duncan, Mr. J. Dunn, Mr.

W. Martyn, Mr. E. Ashwell, Mr. W. Simpson, Miss R. Keppler, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wagner, Master Flierl, Mr. F. Nixon, Miss F. McAdam, Mr. G.

McKechnie, Mr. I. Easton, Miss A. Pattison, Mrs.

G. Peper, Miss J. Pennyfather, Mrs. E. Slater and child, Mr. J. Capron, Mr. H. Woolcott, Hon.

J. G. Nelsson, Dr. and Mrs. Williams and two children, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lees and child, Miss M.

Mayo, Mr. R. D. Hutchison, Mr. G. Foley, Dr. C.

Gunther, Mr. W. Watson, Mr. A. J. Bates, Mrs.

A. Brown and two children, Father Lang, Brother Titz, Mrs. E, Guinan and child, Mr, and Mrs. O.

Denny and two children, Mr. G. K. Billing, Hon.

E. C. Harris, Mrs. E. G. Baker, Mr. C. Potts, Miss E. Riley, Mr, F. A. Williams.

Passengers Per Malaita Which

Sailed From Sydney For Solomon

ISLANDS ON JANUARY 20:-Messrs. J. T.

Barrett, J. K. Brownlees, G. T. Bennett, A. A.

Butchart, K. Fitzgerald, Brother Gerard, G. Howes, C. W. Heyde, R. Laycock, R. J. Lever, V. C.

Middleton, J. McLean, A. W. Martin, W. M.

Murcutt, J. Sim, F. Smith, E. B. Salmond, B.

A. Timms, J. V. Mather. Mesdames L. Armstrong, Barrett, D. I. Colley and infant, Fitzgerald, Middleton, Martin, F. Pile, F. Smith.

Misses M. Armstrong, M. Andrews, Barrett, J.

Binskin, Dack, Fahey, N. Grushenkova.

Passengers Per Morinda Which

Arrived In Sydney From Norfolk And

Lord Howe Islands On January 27

Mr. J. Carter, Miss O. Carter, Miss F. C. Crossman, Mrs. G. M. Donnison, Mr. N. P. Donnison, Miss V. E. Donnison, Mrs. M. Downward, Mr. f!

J. Hyde, Mrs. D. G. Long, Mr. J. S. Lumsdaine, Mr. and Mrs. J. McLachlan, Miss M. Morrison, Mr c. Olsson, Miss M. J. Peterson, Mrs., Miss and Master Pinney, Mrs. R. Quintal, Mrs. E.

Quintal and child, Mrs. A. S. Russell, Misses B. E. and L. B. Smith, Miss L. F. Smith, Mr. W C Tennent, Miss A. L. Thomson, Miss P. R. Webbi Mr. J. E. Wilken, Mr. and Mrs. Anchau, Mr E F Austen, Miss L. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Board and two children, Mr. A. Brown, Mr. W. B.

Brown, Miss J. Bryant, Miss A. Brinnacombe, Mr.

W. L. Casey, Miss V. M. Champion, Dr. and Mrs. H. Clarke, Dr. A. Clarke, Miss F. Clifford, Miss J. Cotton, Mr. H. Cummins, Miss H. Cummins, Mr. Lloyd Davies, Mrs. M. Davies, Miss F.

Debenham, Mr. and Mrs. De Jaunay, Mr. and Mrs. W. Dignam, Mr. G. England, Mr. R. K. horsyth, Miss M. Frost, Miss Garrett, Mrs J Gordon and infant, Miss H. Hall, Mr. E. H. Hogg ™ rS ’ &r L _, Hurt ’ Miss S - Kell y’ Mr - H - F - Links!

Mrs. H. Loder and infant, Miss H. Love, Miss R Louttit, Miss D. Louttit, Misses R. and M. May, Mrs. M. Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Martin, Misses J. and I. McLachlan, Mr. and Mrs. Monoghan, Mr. R. Morris, Mr. S. Nicholas, Mrs. O. G Patterson and child, Mr. F. Reynolds, Mrs. G C Reynolds, Mr. J. S. Reynolds, Mr. H. H. Roxburgh, Mr. W. K. Small, Mr. R. Small, Miss G.

Scott, Miss L. Steain, Mrs. B. S. Stevens, Misses Stevens, Master Stevens, Miss M. Stephens, Miss F Stules, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Taylor, Rev. A.

W Tonge Mr. J. Tonge, Mr. B. Whetham, Mr.

Mrs - A. S Whiting, Miss Whiting, Miss M.

Wilson, Miss F. Woodhill, Miss E. Woods, Miss A. Gorst.

Passengers Per Montoro Which

Sailed From Sydney For New Guinea

AND PAPUA ON JANUARY 31:-Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Mannering, Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. W. Prior, Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Searle; Mesdames G. Taylor, D.

Whitehead, M. Campbell, H. Jones, C. E. Koch, J. F. Thompson; Misses D. Prior, B. L. Fair, W.

Acraman; Messrs. Hon, J. G. Nelsson, R. Collins, E. Haines, E. A. de Latour, J. Eaton, A. Graves, W. Shedden, N. G. Imlay, Sir J. H. P. Murray, R. A. Mason, A. G. Sorrell, M. G. Evenson, R.

Symes, M. P. Kennedy, Dwyer, M. H. Robinson, Dr. H. I. Hogbin, K. A. Crawford, W. H. Wright, R. B. Bertie, T. G. Wilkinson, F. Low, E. Fahey, C. Booth, E. V. Eason.

PASSENGERS PER NANKIN WHICH AR-

Rived In Sydney From Rabaul, New

GUINEA, ON JANUARY 18:-Miss I. E. Wall, Mrs. M. Forsyth, Mr. G. H. McQueen, Mr. S.

Corfield, Mr. I. F. Tracey.

PASSENGERS PER MARIPOSA WHICH AR- RIVED IN SYDNEY FROM FIJI AND AMERI- CAN SAMOA ON JANUARY 29:-Mrs. A. R.

Aspinall, Mr. C. G. Barry, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.

Brooks, Miss M. Brooks, Mr, A. W. Brooks, Jnr., Mr. T. S. Crawford, Mr. A. Crothers, Mr. and Mrs. M. Dabscheck, Mr. and Mrs. O. Damman, Mr. A. Damman, Mr. L. Damman, Mr. and Mrs.

B. Davis, Dr. D. F. Finley, Dr. and Mrs. J. P.

Fogarty, Mr. L. Frenkel, Miss M. E. Harricks, Miss K. Higgins, Miss E. MacKenzie, Miss M. A.

Mercer, Miss W. Nash, Mrs. C. R. Parish, Mr.

R. J. Parish, Miss S. Parish, Mr. K. Pinkerton, Mr. J. E. Roche, Miss E. Roche, Mr. and Mrs. D.

Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs.

L. W. Vance, Mr. C. B. Visbord, Mrs. H. S.

Warne-Nicholls, Master E. S. Warne-Nicholls, Mr.

H. Wilsallen, Miss B. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. F. D.

Burrows, Miss J. Green, Mrs. Initia, Mr. F. S.

Nemaia, Miss M. Pardy, Miss V. Rudge, Mr. and Mrs. H. Sprengel, Miss L. Sprengel, Miss M.

Sprengel, Miss H. Sprengel, Miss E. Swan, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Valentine, Miss L. Valentine.

Passengers Per Niagara, Which

Sailed From Sydney For Suva On

FEBRUARY 1: —Mr. W. Service, Mr. G. L. Ferris, Mr. B. Worledge, Mr. A. J. Pagon, Miss C. La Roche, Mr. A. B. Riley, Master R. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. O. Colahan, Miss S. Colahan, Masters G. and R. Colahan, Miss P. Gale, Miss S. Trivett, Mr. J. Payten, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mann, Capt.

E. E. Kettle, Miss H. Debbage, Mr. W. A. Dwyer, Miss V. Walcot, Mrs. P. Preston, Miss D. Preston, Mrs. G. M. Vine, Mrs. I. V. Wright and two children, Mr. W. J. Tanner, Mr. H. W. Fisher, Mrs. L. A. Lane, Miss J. Lane, Miss F. Lane, Masters S. and A. Lane, Mrs. A. Sheaves, Miss P. Sheaves. Mr. T. Latham.

Passengers Per Mariposa Which

Sailed From Sydney For Suva, Fiji, On

FEBRUARY 7: —Miss J. Bowden, Mr. T. H. Bray, Miss J. Broderick, Miss J. Brown, Miss J. L. De Renzy, Mrs. A. L. Duckworth, Mrs. B. C. Duckworth, Mr. A. Duckworth, Miss L. A. Glasier, Mr. E. D. Gunn, Miss M. Holt, Mrs. E. V. Knight, Miss A. S. Leslie, Mr. D. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs.

D. H. Muirhead, Miss D. Nicholls, Mr. G. E.

Payne, Mr. J. Theodore, Mr. A. Andrews, Mr. C.

Close, Mrs. Davies, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Derrick, Masters Lloyd and Brian Derrick, Misses R., J., and N. Derrick, Miss J. Donnelly, Miss N. Donkin, Mr. R. J. R. Douglas, Mr. H. Graham, Sister L.

Irvine, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lyons, Mr. T. Morrissey, Mr. T. Nicholls, Mr. R, Ramsamju, Mr. J.

Rowe.

Passengers Per Nankin Which

Sailed For Rabaul, New Guinea, From

SYDNEY ON FEBRUARY 10: Mr. R. T. Squires, Mr. I. Cook, Mr. J. B. Mirfield, Mr. J. Twist, Mr. B. W. Storey, Mr. L. Tracey, Mr. J. H. Hope, Mrs. R. Goyne-Stevens, Mr. B. W. Sherman, Mr.

B. G. Sherman.

Passengers Per Morinda Which

Sailed From Sydney For Norfolk

ISLAND AND NEW HEBRIDES ON FEBRU- ARY 8: Messrs. J. Buckley, K. Booth, S. M. Barron, S. W. Brown, A, Cornelissen, A. E. Crisp, C.

D. Cook, G. G. Cannon, G. F. Collier, R. Dobinson, T. Douglas, Fenton, R. Farr-Jones, Fairlie, R. G.

Gifford, A. C. Hancock, A. Hunter, E. F. Harris, J. Howard, Harrison, G. A. Horniman, Hamill, F. R. Harcourt, C. F. T. Jackson, E. B. Jukes, Jones, A. J. Marshall, H. Mackey, F. Newton, Peapes, F. Porter, H. W. Parson, Solomons, See, Schiess, E. G. Scott, J. A. Sykes, E. Taylor, Tomkins, F, H. Tuckey, J. A. Whelen, Dr. F. A.

Weisener, F. W. Walker, N. Whiffen, A. H. Weil, Winn, W. H. Waterman. Mesdames A. Anstey, C. Burke and infant, A. Christian, J. Craven, Farr-Jones, Hancock, R. Innes, H. Parker-Smith, Walker, L. Williams, Weil, H. West, Winn; Misses B. Amos, K. Bowron, J. Benham, J. Burnell, V. Corbury, M. Cullen, P. Cooper, A. E.

Cooper, M. Dhu, E. Daly, J. Eichman, Ferguson, M. Frost, V. Holder, Johnston, P. M. Kidson, N.

Lund, M. Maslin, M. McNally, M. O’Brien, D.

Roberts, M. Riley, M. Simpson, J. Spence, K.

Summers, M. Shervy, M. Thrum.

A party of wealthy Americans recently left Suva for Vila, New Hebrides, by the auxiliary yacht White Shadow, which is on her way to France. The passengers included Ben Valentine, heavyweight boxing champion of Fiji, who has been offered a contract for five contests in Australia. 1

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February 20, 1934.

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Fiji’s Governor, Sir Murchison Fletcher, approved of the design, which was then carried out by Mr. R, Metcalf at the Royal Mint, London, and the coins shipped to Suva, late in 1933. This will put an end to the smuggling of British silver out of Fiji which, owing to the advantages given by the present exchange rates, had attained embarrassing proportions.

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Copra Production and Unilever Combine W 1 ™ the collapse in the copra market, the immediate outlook for coconutplanting in the South Seas is very black indeed. It is a time when planters, dependent in the past on copra, must give serious consideration to their condition.

The market is controlled by two great factors First, over-production; second, the dominance of the Unilever combine.

Is it possible to secure, throughout the ranks of coconut-growers in the world, a sufficient measure of co-operation to permit the producers to deal in some way with those two evils?

At first glance, it does not seem practicable. There are in the world six great groups of copra producers—namely, Africa, Ceylon, Malaya and Dutch East Indies, Phillipines, South and Central Pacific, and West Indies.

It may be noted that, in the last year (1930) for which complete figures are available, exports of copra from these various areas, in thousands of tons, were: In each of these areas, again, there are two or three classes of producers the big planters, who conduct their plantations in a scientific manner; the small producers, white and coloured, whose production is partly efficient and partly haphazard; and, finally, the natives, whose methods are entirely primitive. Looking at those facts, one may say at once that it appears impossible to organise the producers themselves so as to control the world markets, as has been done in the case of tea, tin, etc,, in recent years.

But each of the regions referred to is under the control of ordered government, and it is just possible that, if the various Administrations concerned could be brought together, a plan could be evolved under which the export of copra from the various Territories could be regulated. It is a tremendous thing to envisage; but it appears now that an attempt at something of the sort is the only alternative to the collapse of the coconut-planting industry, as it has developed during the past quarter century.

If there were a free market there would be no need for special action. The evil of over-production would cure itself. The great economic law of supply and demand would operate as it has operated in past ages. Over-production would cause a fall in prices; production consequently would be reduced; buyers would begin to compete one against the other for available supplies; and prices would rise again to a point which at least would permit the producer to live.

But there is no free market. In this post-War era, natural economic laws have been defied and broken. A world-wide system of growing complexity and viciousness usually taking the form of aggressive tariffs and Government subsidies has interfered in an extraordinary and growing degree with the law of supply and demand. The evil has been aggravated by the growth of trusts and combines, which clearly manipulate world markets, and direct the ebb and flow of money and merchandise, to suit their own purposes.

We know that low copra prices are 3

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partly the result of over-production. But owing to the manipulation of the market by the Unilever combine we do not know the extent of that over-production; and consequently it becomes apparent that we cannot leave the ordinary law of supply and demand to cure the evils.

That brings us to consideration of another phase of the problem. Even if there could be concerted action among the Governments of Britain, France, Holland, Japan and the United States to limit production, would not the benefits to the industry thus created be seized by the Unilever combine at the expense of the growers? We know that it is impossible for any single Government to control Unilever, which sits astride the margarine and soap industries in half a dozen European countries and defies any single Administration; but would it be possible for half a dozen Governments, acting in unison, to deal with Unilever? We doubt it. The world of commerce and finance to-day is dominated by great trusts and combines, and as a general rule they snap their fingers at all Governments.

So, following out the argument as it affects the copra industry, we find ourselves face to face with one of the great problems which now is troubling the whole civilised world namely, the domination of finance and trade by international financiers. If we are to free the copra industry entirely from the evils which now depress it, it is clear that we must go right back to Unilever. As that, apparently, is impossible the alternative is clear we must either abandon hope, or turn around and see what can be done in a more limited sphere. All that we can say in this connection, therefore, is that it is desirable that Administrations concerned should consult together and seek the largest possible measure of international co-operation in order to save the industry. The alternative is at least the partial ruin of an industry involving hundreds of thousands of primary producers and millions of capital.

Some people argue that the Unilever combine is not necessarily vicious that it may operate benevolently organising the market for the growers on the one side, and, by mass production and scientific methods, reducing prices to the consumers on the other. All we can say is that no combine dominated by the need of making profits can possibly be other than vicious in the long run, and that this particular combine has operated to the detriment of the planting industry throughout the world for several years. It has not only crushed out all competition in its particular field; but it also is largely responsible for the introduction of methods under which such commodities as whale oil, soya bean oil, etc., are deodorized and purified, so that these things may be used as substitutes for coconut oil. In ordinary circumstances such scientific discoveries are utilised for the benefit of consumers in particular and humanity in general. But this has not happened in the case of the Unilever combine. The commodities it manufactures and distributes throughout the world—soap, margarine, etc. have not been perceptibly reduced in price, and thus contributed to a lower cost of living; but cheaper production has provided increased dividends for the Unilever group of companies, even during the period of depression.

When first we discussed this position, three years ago, we pointed out that Unilever would defy governments. The great combine, through its groups of mills, was astride Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria and Italy we named its several units in those countries. In such circumstances it seems impossible to control the operations of the organisation by Government action.

But to-day, under the imperative necessity of dealing with the deplorable condition of the coconut growing industry throughout the world, it is just possible that concerted action by the nations concerned could do something to free the world’s copra markets from the grip of the octupus.

If the copra industry is left in its present condition enormous losses, in the shape of ruined planters and plantations, will be incurred in the Territories controlled by the following countries: Great Britain in her Colonies and Dependencies in Africa, Ceylon, Malaya, South Seas, West Indies.

Australia—through her Territories in Papua and New Guinea.

New Zealand through her Territories in Samoa and Cook Islands.

France through her Territories in Africa, Cochin China and the South Seas.

United States—through her Territories in Hawaii and Phillipines.

Holland—through her Territories in Dutch East Indies.

Japan—through her Territories in Caroline and Marshall Islands.

As it happens, there shortly will take place in Australia a Conference of Australian Pacific Administrators. It is believed that Sir Murchison Fletcher, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, will be in Australia at the same time. Here is an opportunity to bring up for discussion the general or world aspect of the copra industry, and submit something for the consideration of the other nations concerned.

There is an opportunity, also, of initiating a research movement in regard to alternative uses for coconut oil. Hitherto this commodity has been used mostly for food, cleansing and toilet purposes. But there is little doubt that it has a lubricating value; and also it is of value as a fuel.

It is a common practice in certain places to use coconut oil or well-dried copra as an illuminant it burns with a clear white light. It was announced recently that a Japanese chemist had succeeded in adapting whale oil for lubricating purposes. If that can be done with whale oil, it surely can be done with coconut oil. This writer is under the impression that there is in use somewhere possibly in Africa—an engine called the Robey engine, which is run on vegetable oil. Is it not a reasonable proposition that, since coconut oil is being displaced from its old uses by other commodities, as a result of scientific research, we should seek by the same means to adapt coconut oil for use as a motor fuel, for which there is a world-wide and increasing demand? The chemist and the laboratory expert, by applying new processes to the rivals of coconut oil, have caused a vast disturbance of the copra industry. Would it not be poetic justice if the same expert chemist were to discover methods by which coconut oil could be used for engines and machinery?

Here then is a chance for Australia to give the world a lead in a matter of vital importance to tropical producers generally. There is need for control of coconut production; for consideration of the position created by the Unilever combine; and there is most urgent need for well-directed research, so as to find new uses for coconut oil.

New Guinea Gold

£840,000 Produced In Morobe By Two Companies In 1933 have been supplied from an unoffl- ” cial source with figures showing the production of gold on the Morobe goldfield by the two major companies during the year ended 31st December, 1933.

During that period the Bulolo Gold Dredging Company, according to its monthly reports published in the “Sydney Morning Herald,” treated 5,880,000 cubic yards, from which it recovered 136,000 ozs. of bullion gold, which was worth in Australian currency £683,000. According to the company’s own figures this gold gave a profit for the year of £501,000 (Australian).

New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., during the same period, produced 27,000 ozs. of alluvial bullion and 15,000 ozs. of milled bullion —the former of which was worth in Australian currency £74,000 and the latter £83,000, or a total of £157,000 for the year.

This gave a production for the year, from the two companies alone, of £846,000.

It is probable that during the current year the Bulolo Company will show a,n even better return, as it will have all its four dredges in full operation. But even on the figures for 1933 an unofficial estimate shows that that Company is making an average profit of 1/8 per cubic yard. 450 MILES OF SEA- SICKNESS!

Rabaul Lads’ Love of Cricket A N Australian Eleven, or Sixteen, is not the only team in this Continent that travels many miles across water, all for the love of the leather and willow.

On the night of December 22, seventeen Rabaul lads boarded the M.V. Drina (80 tons) and proceeded on a 450 miles journey to Salamaua, arriving at that port on Christmas morning.

It was an excellent trip—except for the last 17 hours, when it commenced to rain and the wind blew lustily. With leaking bulk-heads, the Drina bravely ploughed her way through the high seas, while the 17 cricketers huddled together, half of them desperately sea-sick and the other half aggressively cheerful.

The main object of the visit was to meet and defeat the Wau Cricket Team.

Let it be whispered that after such suffering, Rabaul was defeated by an innings and 151 runs.

It is marvellous what an Australian will do for his much beloved god, Sport.—S.L. 4 February 20, 1934.

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Period ended.

Nov. 30.

No. 1 and 2 dredges— Dec. 31 Jan. 31.

Cubic yards 400,200 410,800 380,000 Bullion, oz 10,202 10,076 10,304 Gold fine oz. . 6,764 6,680 6,832 VALUE- Aust. Currency . *£50,730 *£50,100 t £58,072 Per cubic yard /30.42 /29.27 /36.67 Working Profit .. £A38,220 £A37,620 £A45,458 No. 3 dredge— Cubic yards 82,000 141,000 251,200 Gold, fine oz. . 670 405 1,621 * At £A7/10/ per fine ounce, t At £A8/107 per fine ounce.

Bullion, oz. — Nov.

Dec.

Jan.

Alluvial 1,857 2,412 1,644 Mill 1,833 1,900 1,941 Estimated profit— Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Alluvial £5,400 .. £4,816 .. £7,200 Mill 7,280 .. 10,563 .. 11,500 ADMINISTRATION Important Conference in Canberra THE following is the Agenda prepared for the Conference of Australian- Pacific Administrators, to be held in Canberra during the second week in March.

The Conference represents a most important development in the history of Pacific Administration.

It will be attended by General Griffiths (New Guinea), Sir Hubert Murray (Papua), Captain Pinney (Norfolk Island), and Commander Garsia (Nauru).

Administration Amalgamation of Territories.

Co-operation between the Administrations of the Territories.

Co-ordination of Policy in relation to the Territories.

Economic development.

Determination of the boundary between Papua and New Guinea.

Public Service Creation of Commonwealth Territorial Service.

Superannuation.

Interchange of officers.

Conditions of employment.

Commerce and Trade Regulation of shipping in and in relation to the Territories.

Subsidised shipping services.

Preferential Tariff in favour of Australian goods.

Measures to be taken to promote trade in Australian goods within the Territories.

Marketing assistance for produce of the Territories.

Measures to be taken to promote trade in Australia in the produce of the Territories, including preference for Territorial goods in the Australian tariff.

Health Co-ordination of activities relating to public health.

Interchange of medical officers.

Interchange of technical information.

Campaign against Leprosy.

Campaign against Tuberculosis.

Research.

Natives Use of natives in services of Administration.

Steps to be taken to advance the social conditions of the natives, including improvement of health and economic development.

Economic relations between natives and nonnatives with special reference to native labour.

Taxation of natives and provision of services directed to their moral and material improvement.

Whipping of natives and capital punishment.

Native Co-operative Societies.

Native administration and powers of Chiefs.

Agriculture Promotion of agricultural activities, including encouragement of new industries and crops.

Advice of technical advisers to be available to all Territories.

Native agriculture.

Legislation relating to the control of import and export of plants and agricultural products.

Mining Mining activities in proximity to Papuan and New Guinea boundary.

Policy in relation to encouragement to be given in connection with opening up of new areas.

Forestry Afforestation.

Exploitation of timber resources.

Functions of Commonwealth Inspector-General of Forests in relation to the Territories.

Land Land settlement, including method of making land available to settlers.

Acquisition of land from natives.

Grant of freehold titles.

Education Native education.

Training of native medical assistants.

Training of natives in Australia.

Denominational schools.

Facilities for education of white children, including grant of scholarships.

Religious Missions Co-operation with Administration.

Educational activities.

Medical activities.

Spheres of influence.

Subsidies.

Finance Assistance from the Commonwealth Government.

Local coinage.

Interest reduction.

General Wireless broadcasting.

Portable wireless sets —use by Patrol Officers.

Study of Anthropology.

Encouragement of tourist traffic.

DEAD AT 92 Cornelius Quintal, Pitcairner THE death has occurred on Norfolk Island, at the age of 92, of Cornelius Quintal, who was a direct descendant of one of the “Bounty” mutineers, who settled on Pitcairn Island, 150 years ago.

He was born on June 17, 1841, and was generally known as “Uncle Cornish.”

Of the 194 Pitcairners who were brought from Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island by the “Morayshire,” in 1856, only two now survive—Mrs. Selina Buffet, aged 77; and Mr. Packin Christian, aged 80. Mrs. Rachael Taylor (nee Quintal) died last August, aged 84; and Mr. Cornelius Quintal, on February 10.

N.G. and Papua Must Pay Primage SOME time ago the Island Trade Section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, on the suggestion of Mr. R. W. Robson, directed the attention of the Federal Minister for Trade and Customs to an apparent anomaly, which lay in the fact that while the products of Norfolk Island were allowed to enter the Commonwealth free of all Customs and allied duties, the products of Papua and New Guinea were subject to primage. The argument was submitted that as Papua and New Guinea were just as much a part of Australia as is Norfolk Island, it was only fair that Australian producers in the former Territories should have the same assistance and privileges.

The Minister duly replied that the position of the two large Territories is different from that of the small Territory because, under the Norfolk Island Act of 1913, it is provided that duties of Customs shall not be charged on imports from Norfolk Island. He also said that he had received many requests for relief from primage duty and that the tax is a revenue impost and exemptions are necessarily subject to considerations of Government finance. The position of Papua and New Guinea would receive attention when the question of further exemptions is being considered.

EDITORIAL NOTE. —This is typical of the manner in which bureaucracy evades direct issues and shelters itself behind rules and regulations.

Why, in the name of common-sense, should the products of Papua and New Guinea be taxed with primage while the products of Norfolk Island are free? Why should they be taxed at all? Why should there be any distinction made between the products of Papua and of the Northern Territory, which for administration purposes and from the point of view of Government authority are exactly equal in their relationship to Canberra? It seems that the Commonwealth Government, like the unfortunate Spanish maiden of the rude old song, seeks safety by having one invariable answer to all propositions, namely, “No, Sir —No!”

Unlawful Killing

N.G. Miner Gets Two Years' Gaol From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Feb. 4.

C' 1 EORGE CHESTER, a prospector who * has been working on the Lower Dunantina River, in the Purari district —one of the most isolated areas in the Morobe goldfields—came before Chief Judge Wanliss on January 17, charged with unlawfully killing a native. Accused pleaded not guilty.

The evidence was that of an incident which might happen at almost any mining camp in the Territory. The assault took place at the end of the day. Koluve, the deceased native, was controlling the water that was running into the box, when the daily wash-up was taking place; he allowed too much water to flow, with the result that gold and concentrates were washed into the tail-race, and much was lost. The accused, incensed at the boy’s action, according to the evidence, lost his temper, and assaulted the boy, who subsequently died that same afternoon. Medical evidence showed that the cause of death was a ruptured spleen.

His Honour said that brutality was not the way to enforce discipline; and this kind of thing not only led to loss of life, but also to unfortunate difficulties with fellow miners. “I know,” continued His Honour, ‘‘the conditions under which you have to work there, alone; wretched food, no society of any kind; troubles with labour very often, I suppose, sickness and malaria. These things get on the mind and affect a man’s disposition, and make him do things he could not think of doing under other circumstances, and I am going to take all these facts into consideration in your case.”

The accused was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labour.

Bulolo Dredges

Production of the Nos. 1,2, and 3 dredges of the Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd. (New Guinea) for January compares with that of the previous periods as follows: — No. 1 dredge was closed down for 12 days for equipping with pontoons.

The deep drilling on the original Bulolo area has increased the width of payable deep gravel to 1600 feet. The average depth of payable values across that width appears to be about 60 feet, and the lower gravels average about 30 cents with gold at 35 dollars per ounce. Drilling will now be continued upstream and then downstream to discover the extent of these lower gravels.

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS, LTD.

The monthly returns of production and estimated profits of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., are as follows Development: Location 3, west drive on No. 3 level advanced 55ft. in ore averaging 24.9dwt. gold and 20.50 z. silver, over width 28 inches. 5

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New Slipway Opened

Important Event in N.G.

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Jan. 31.

'T'HE new slipway at Karavia, opposite Rabaui, erected by Carpenter’s Slipway, Ltd., was opened by his Honour the Administrator on January 18, when the s.s. Duranbah was slipped before a representative crowd of residents.

The operation was carried out without a hitch. Much credit is due to Mr. Hay, the contractor, for the work he has put into this undertaking.

Toasts were drunk and speeches made by Mr. B. B. Merriman, M.L.C., manager for Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co., and replies were given by His Honour the Administrator. Regrets were expressed that Mr. Mirfleld, who had taken such a keen interest and practical part in the erection of the slip, was forced to be absent in Sydney.

It was the intention of the “Southern Cross VII.” to be the first vessel to be placed on the slip; but owing to some difficulties regarding insurance, it had to be deferred.

The overhauling of the “Duranbah” being completed a few days after the opening" of the slip, the mission vessel was placed on the slip, surveyed and taken off again successfully. At present, one of the Lever Company’s boats from the British Solomons is at anchor, awaiting an opportunity to be slipped.

The erection of the slipway is without doubt a forward step in the Territory, and will prove a great boon to owners of small steamers, who can now overhaul here vessels which otherwise would have to go to an Australian port—usually Sydney.

Governor Of Fiji In

AUSTRALIA r FHE Governor of Fiji and High Com- -®- missioner for the Western Pacific, Sir A. G. Murchison Fletcher, arrived in Sydney by the Monowai from New Zealand on February 17.

It is believed that His Excellency will enter into discussions with the Federal Government concerning trade relations between Australia and Fiji, which are in a bad way. Sir Murchison pointed out to Sydney reporters, in a mild reference to the subject, that the balance of the trade at present is overwhelmingly in favour of Australia.

No official intimation has been given, but it is hoped that the Governor will be in Canberra, or somewhere near at hand, when the Conference of Australian Pacific Administrators is held in March.

A farewell dinner was given to Mr. R.

F. Whitten, at the Papua Hotel, on January 17, on the night of his departure from Port Moresby for Samarai. Mr.

Whitten had sold his business interests in the town, and his many friends gathered to bid him farewell. Mr. Justice Gore presided, and three dozen men made up the party, which was probably the most representative gathering in Port Moresby for many years. The toast of the evening, “Our Guest,” was proposed by the Hon. H. W. Champion, C.B.E. (Acting-Lieut.-Governor). Mr. R. F.

Whitten has been a resident in the Territory for 40 years. He arrived in 1894, and his late brother, Hon William Whitten, arrived still earlier, on August 22, 1885, when he accompanied the first Special Commissioner (Sir Peter Scratchley) to the then Protectorate. Whitten Bros, is a firm that has been established here from the beginning; and the early progress of the Territory was in a large measure assisted by its operations.

Cheap Beef!

New Calendonia’s Trouble IF copra is over-produced and corre- *- spondingly valueless, what can we say about beef in New Caledonia?” said a Sydney man who arrived recently from the French colony.

“Good freshly-killed beef is selling in Noumea at Id per lb. Pastoralists cannot get more than 20/- to 25/- per head for their beasts. There are large herds of cattle in New Caledonia, where the industry has been built up over many years, but it is practically impossible under present conditions to find any market at all for canned beef or the other products of the industry. It is apparent that if some outlet is not found soon this very valuable pastoral industry of New Caledonia will disappear.”

A fair amount of Australian capital is invested in meat-canning works and pastoral properties in New Caledonia.

Mission Ketch Delayed By

Bad Weather

The ketch “Patterson,” built recently by Mr. Lars Halvorsen for mission work in the New Hebrides, after satisfactory trials, left Sydney Harbour for the New Hebrides on January 19, with a crew of four; but she reappeared on January 29 at Jervis Bay, on the South Coast of New South Wales, having been driven back by rough seas and contrary winds. The crew immediately made preparations to resume the voyage.

The run of bad luck continued after the ketch returned to Sydney on January 31.

She left Sydney for New Hebrides again on Feb. 3. When about 40 miles north-east of Middleton Reef, on Feb. 8, the rudder stock carried away; and the vessel arrived in Newcastle on Feb. 13, after sailing 600 miles with an improvised rudder consisting of a batten hanging astern, and a couple of small paddles at the side. The seas were generally very rough, but the ketch proved a splendid sea-boat. She came on from Newcastle to Sydney, where she will be repaired at Mr. Lars Halvorsen’s yards.

Affray in Central Papua WE have received from our Port Moresby Correspondent a full account of the recent affray in Central Papua, to which reference is made on page 18.

It is quite clear that the basic cause of the trouble is the lack of sufficient patrol officers, due to economies which have been forced upon the Papuan Administration. Patrol Officer Cowley could not be in two places at once; and the clash with the Kagave people appears to have been the result of sending native police into dangerous country without a white man in charge.

A subsequent investigation has resulted in two of the native police concerned being placed on trial for murdering four Kagave natives.

We shall publish a full account of the incident, and subsequent developments, in our March issue.

New Guinea Notes

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Feb. 4.

A MOVEMENT is on foot for the formation of an Automobile Club of New Guinea. Already two preliminary meetings have been held and a general meeting is called for February 15. It is hoped that this organisation will be able to work in with the Administration for good roads and to protect the interests of the motorists in the Territory.

Successful experiments have been made by Mr. H. J. Washington, of Kabaira plantation, in planting cocoa between the lines of his coconuts; after the roots had penetrated beneath the shallow-feeding coconut roots the trees showed great improvement and Mr. Washington expects to obtain good crops from these trees.

Other successful experiments have been made by the A.W.A. radio station at Rabaul with wireless telephony. Conversations were held recently with the m.v.

Macdhui, while she was at Kavieng and also during her run to Kieta and Buka.

The reception was excellent. The set used was the short-wave portable one, which has a pedal attachment for generating the power. The tests were made on a wave length of 44 metres.

His Lordship the Bishop of Melanesia entertained a number of local residents to tea on the Southern Cross VII. while the vessel was in port, and the visitors had an opportunity of making an inspection of a most comfortable and commodious craft.

Capt. J. Scott, previously first officer on the Southern Cross VI., is in charge of the vessel.

Mr. and Mrs. Vandercook, of New Yoi’k, who are visiting these parts in the interests of the National Geographic Magazine, have left for the Solomons, where they expect to remain some months. If possible, they will make for the New Hebrides from the Solomons, but as steamer connections are not good that way, they probably will be compelled to return here and proceed on to Manila and from there to U.S.A.

The death occurred on Thursday, January 18, at Namanula, of Mr. Kevin Hewson Rollison, one of the clerical staff of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter. Deceased was a married man, and came from Adelaide. The funeral service, held at St. George’s Church, was well attended by many friends who paid a last tribute to a popular man. 15 NATIVES ARRESTED Papuan Officer’s Feat From Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, Feb. 4.

Patrol Officer J. Hides, who in 1931 crossed and recrossed New Guinea with only six police and 10 carriers, arrived at Port Moresby on Saturday evening with 15 natives accused of murder, whom he brought overland from Loloipa Valley, near Kumimaipa Valley, which is 250 miles from Port Moresby.

Since December 1, with an escort of only eight native police, he has searched for and arrested the natives, believed to have been concerned in two murders and a massacre. Patrol Officer Hides arrested all the tribesmen without shooting a native, though a policeman was killed and Hides himself was nearly killed. 6 February 20, 1934.

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GRIEVANCES NUMEROUS letters to hand from the Solomon Islands by the Malaiti mail (November 15), indicate an increasingly disturbed condition of public opinion in that Group. Space at this late hour prevents odr stating the people’s grievances in detail. The following is a summary: / As a result of the new preferential tariff in operation in the Solomons, the officials have introduced a system which causes much exasperating delay in securing delivery of goods. Traders, particularly, are being caused great inconvenience, and they are the more bitter because it appears that goods addressed to Government officials are cleared with a minimum of delay.

It is stated that the Administration proposes to stop trochus fishing for six months —although, in spite of steady fishing, shell is no scarcer now than it was ten years ago. The cessation of trochus fishing would give many traders the coup-de-grace.

Despite the depression among Europeans a number of additional tradingboat licenses have been granted to Chinese, and it is reported that additional store licenses are to be issued to them.

Public feeling concerning this matter is very high.

Although it was understood that a promise had been made in Suva that native wages in the Solomons would be reduced to the level of the adjoining territories, nothing has been done up to the end of January.

It is reported that the Resident Commissioner, Mr. F. N. Ashley, has arrived in Sydney by the Malaita to formally discuss Solomon Islands affairs with the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Murchison Fletcher. There appear to be many matters for discussion.

General Griffiths

From a Special Correspondent.

RABAUL Jan. 24.

TT is reported here, but quite unofficially, that the present Administrator of the Territory, General T. Griffiths, will not return to the Territory after his visit to Australia, to attend the Administrators’

Conference at Canberra, in March.

The change—if the report is true—is not viewed with any favour here. General Griffiths always was held in great esteem; and his good reputation has been strengthened tremendously since he took up duty here eighteen months ago. He is regarded as the ideal Administrator— firm, just and wise—and the popular view is that if the Federal Government wishes this Territory to go along as happily in the future as it has done in the recent past, it should try to induce the General to remain at Namanula.

Reciprocity With Tonga

As a result of developments following the Ottawa Agreement a reciprocal tariff has been arranged between Australia and the Government of Tonga, under which the products of Australia imported into Tonga will be given preference over those of any non-British country. Australia exports annually about £25,000 worth of goods to Tonga—mostly preserved meats, biscuits, beer, spirits, timber, hardware, and drapery.

Light Dredge In Papua

From Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, Feb. 2.

The new light dredge, described in the November issue of the P.1.M., specially built for the Tiveri Gold Mining Co., was delivered in Port Moresby by the “Macdhui” on November 30, and has since been landed at its destination on the Lakekamu River. It is anticipated that the dredge will be at work by the end of March.

Conduct Of Papuan

STUDENTS THERE is likely to be some stir concerning the conduct in Sydney of the Motuan youths, who were sent down from Papua a few months ago to undergo at the Sydney University a special course of training in the work of medical assistants.

The young natives have been provided with accommodation at the Quarantine Station, near Manly, and it is alleged that some of them have spent a portion of their leisure time in the company of young European girls. Nothing of an improper character is alleged, as far as we know, but the fact of the association itself is held in sharp distaste by various people with a knowledge of social conditions in the Melanesian Islands; and there is very strong resentment concerning the latitude which has been allowed the Papuan students.

We do not know who is responsible for the supervision of the lads while they are in Sydney; but whoever it is is likely soon to be under very sharp cross-fire from a section of the Sydney press, which is interesting itself in the matter.

Fiji Airways

Doubt About Future of Service THE directors of Fiji Airways, Ltd., whose head office is in Adelaide, in a memorandum to shareholders dated January 27, report that the ten months’ operations of the Company have been disappointing and that they have been trying to secure better support from both the Government and public of Fiji. They say frankly that they have not been encouraged by a conference which they have had recently with a member of the Legislative Council of Fiji, and therefore they are disinclined to continue their contractual obligations after March, 1934.

The Directors say that recently they received a letter from Fiji expressing the view that it might be as well to abandon the enterprise there, “but if the Directors wish to be magnanimous and look to the future it would be to the interests of Fiji undoubtedly if you put a couple of larger planes into service and continued operations in the Colony. . . . but I personally think it will be many years before Fiji is air-minded enough to support a decent air service.”

The position is to be considered at an early meeting of shareholders.

It will be a matter for great regret if Fiji Airways, Ltd., and the Fiji Government cannot between them inaugurate an aerial transport service within this Colony.

Such services are certain to come in all of the Island Groups within the next decade or two; and it would be a good thing for Pacific Administrations generally if the rich and influential Fiji Government could pioneer this development.

A Challenge To

UNILEVER N.G. Planters’ Appeal to Australia - From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Feb. 4.

T'HE Executive Committee of the Planters’ Association of New Guinea has started a movement for the investigation of the “ramifications” of Unilever, Ltd.

The following extract, from “The Rabaul Times,” explains the situation: The following is the resolution passed by the committee at the January (1934) meeting and forwarded to the Prime Minister of Australia for transmission to the British Government: “That this Association, through the Administrator, requests the Commonwealth Government to make representation to the British Government, through the Higii Commissioner for Australia, London, to institute an inquiry into the ramifications of the Unilever Company and its subsidiary companies with a view to regulating and, if necessary, restricting the profits of the Unilever Combine within reasonable limits. We suggest at the same time, that the co-operation of other Governments concerned should be sought.

This action is requested in view of the control exercised by the Unilever Company .and its Associated Companies over the world’s vegetable oil products, which is directly instrumental in maintaining the price of these products below cost of production. Further, that copies of representations made be forwarded to recognised producers’ associations in all copra-producing countries, requesting them to make similar representations to their respective Governments.”

In the covering letter to the Australian Prime Minister, the Committe said — “After mature consideration the members of this organisation deemed it desirable that, in order to save the extensively established coconut industry of the various tropical countries of the world, there should be some international en deavour made to rationalise the effect of a world combine on the market price of copra.

“Although the Territory of New Guinea produces a very small proportion of the world’s copra, we understand that these Islands market more copra than any other British group or country in the South Sea Islands, which is the greatest producing section in the world, for that reason it may be appropriate for the request to emanate from this Association.”

EDITORIAL NOTE. —The foregoing report, which reached us on the eve of going to press, is of first-rate importance. It will be most interesting to observe the manner in which the request of the Planters’ Association is dealt with by the Australian and British Governmental authorities.

The subject, by a curious coincidence, is dealt with in detail in our article on pages 3 and 4 of this issue—which was actually in type before we knew of the action taken by the N.G. Planters’

Association.

Fiji Copra Exports

Final figures of exports of copra from Fiji for 1933 show that 11,761 tons were shipped from Suva, and 10,836 tons from Levuka. The total quantity exported was 22,599 tons, as against 15,076 tons in 1932.

The average declared value per ton in 1933 was £B/13/3, as against £ll/5/10 in 1932. 7

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The Federal Ministry has asked Mr.

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New Tobacco Company In

N.G.

From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Jan. 15'.

A LOCAL tobacco company has been formed on the North Coast, near Rabaul, where native stick tobacco is being manufactured and is having good sales.

It is claimed that this article can be put on the market profitably, at a much lower cost than the imported article, and it is being well received by the natives, who are very discriminating customers where tobacco is concerned.

Mr. J. C. Mullaly, M.L.C., is interested in the enterprise.

London Markets

The Copra Position From Our Own Correspondent.

LONDON, December 16.

The world is slowly but surely settling down to being governed by corporations.

The cartage contractors, such as Pickfords and Carter Paterson, have now joined the Railroad groups. About 100 wage-earners have been dismissed, but two big £3500 p.a. directors are added to the boards—for cheaper and more efficient working, they say. The wage-earners represent a reduced expenditure weekly of £150; and the directors’ cash will be banked and used later, perhaps for speculation.

The following are the closing prices of yesterday: SUGAR is quiet and easier for futures.

March sold for 4/7i, whilst next Oct. Nov. and Dec. are quoted at 5/2, 5/2 and 5/3| respectively, all per cwt. c.i.f.

COCOA is firm at the low price of 17/9 per 50 kilos c.i.f. Jan. shipment. The call market for ACCRAS was Dec. 19/-, Jan. 18/9, Feb. and March 18/9, up to 20/3 for Oct., per 50 kilos, c.i.f. terms. Lagos: F.a.q., sellers, Jan./March 17/- c.i.f., 50 k.

Bahia: Dec./Feb., 24/-, sellers. Samoan is still unsaleable, and little, if anything, is moving.

RUBBER; The talk on Mincing Lane was not quite so animated, and the trend showed that the market was steadier, though quiet. Both Liverpool and London stocks are expected to be up next week by 150 tons, and 100 tons respectively, whilst the prices ruling were: Spot and Dec, sold from 4 3/16 to 4 7/32 per lb., and value; Jan./March 4 3/16 to and July/Sept. 4g to 4 13/32d, and value. Crepe sold spot 4 11/16d and value.

COPRA: This is the real thing for some enterprising firm to handle, and get the product out on its own a bit, instead of it being the plaything, but money maker, for the corporation and high financiers.

The Lane calls the market “steady ”

Straits F.M.S. quoted £lO and buyers; Jan. sold at £10; Feb. sold £lO/1/3, and buyers, also for more at that figure; South Sea F.M.S., Dec./Jan. £B/7/6, value c.i.f.; Rotterdam, kiln-dried, £ 8/2/6 and sellers to Marseilles. The official spot prices show a premium of 7/6 per ton on Straits and 12/6 per ton on South Seas F.M.S.

The outlook is not any better and, whilst the existing ring lasts, and the trading concerns can and do pay bumper dividends, the planter cannot hope for anything better. The whole system of copra marketing is the most disgraceful thing under the sun, and not one person suffers except the planter himself. The freightowner, the trader and the big ten-fisted margarine-cum-soap, cum-candy combine, all make their full pound of flesh, whilst the planter needs to watch every penny and restrict his spending and holidays. Anyone connected with any of the the foregoing octupii may be seen flashing their wealth, taking extended holidays and generally making the people who don’t know, think the cocoanut man is able to enjoy life. This writer told “Dad” Forsyth in Rabaul, less than three years ago, that copra would go below £l2 per ton in Europe, and he laughed at me.

“Dad” has gone now, but what would he think of to-day’s price of just over £B, and still without any sign of any improvement?

LONDON, January 10.

Conditions in the produce market do not show many signs of improvement. The prices for copra are lower than they have been for several years, and it is not possible to get any opinion of the future from any of the people who should know.

The tonnage of butter from all the butter producing countries has increased enormously, whilst there is a corresponding increase in the amount of edible fats available.

The crux of the position is, I think, the fact that the combine is not passing onto the consumer the benefits of the low prices of edible fats, but using the illgained profits to boost the non-paying sections of the corporation. The Unilever combine must have lost enormous sums on their cocoa ventures, but somehow or other they always appear to be able to make a good show in their balance sheets, and one wonders what would really happen if they had to break up this octupus, and work all their holdings individually.

The cocoa market is dull, although there are slight attempts being made to get the price up a little. The value of Samoan at the time of writing is from £2O to £3O per ton, in bond in London.

I am unable to find any having being sold at the price indicated in your last issue, i.e., £7 per ton, and made very definite inquiries in this.

The first prize-winners of the “Tiny Tots” section at the New Guinea Club Fancy Dress Christmas Tree party held in Rabaul on December 22. They are the two small daughters, Roma and Lesley, of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Davies, of Rabaul. 8 February 20, 1934.

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The Larkin Case

Letter to the Editor.

AS one who approves of much that appears in th© editorial columns of the P.1.M., I write to say that I think you are in error in urging that James Larkin was over-punished for bringing about the death of a native in New Guinea.

If you make inquiries among the official records you will find that Larkin was in trouble on possibly half a dozen previous occasions, owing to assaults on natives.

I believe that there was one occasion when he very narrowly escaped a severe sentence at the hands of a responsible D.O. lam quite in accord with th© argument that discipline must be maintained among natives, and that injustice must be resisted at all costs, but I think you will find if you make due inquiry, that James Larkin’s record was not a creditable one, and that such record fully justified the severe sentence imposed upon him for the particular offence of which he was convicted.

The P.I.M. is too good and useful a journal to be allowed to go so seriously astray in this matter of the Larkin case.

I am, etc., N.G. PLANTER.

Sydney, 10th Feb., 1934.

Native Executed

Sequel to Assault in Port Moresby A BOUT 500 natives of both sexes and a small number of Europeans assembled on the hillside near the gaol on the morning of January 29 to witness the execution of the native sergeant, Stephen, for a grave assault on a European child aged five.

The gallows was erected on the lower portion of th© hill, but only the steps were visible, the remainder being screened by hessian. An armed native police guard was stationed around the hill and th© flat, but there was no disturbance.

Stephen died immediately. For 15 years he was a member of the native armed constabulary.

Tour Of Pacific

Liner with 235 Travellers in E. Polynesia From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, January 25.

THE Matson liner “City of Los Angeles” (12,642 tons), arrived in Papeete on January 22, by way of the Marquesas Islands, with 235 tourists on a cruise round the Pacific, and left for Rarotonga on January 24.

The shore entertainments were in the hands of the Societe Commerciale de TOceanie, and included an excursion round the main part of Tahiti; a native feast at the village of Pueu; performances by male and female dancing troupes; and a fire-walking ceremony, A flotilla of decorated canoes escorted the “City of Los Angeles” into the harbour, and at the dock her passengers were received with fragrant wreaths and songs of welcome, which drew enthusiastic encores and were replied to by the ship’s musicians, who had been practising the Tahitian national song of appreciation all the way from the Marquesas.

An open air “Bal Publique,” favoured with fin© weather, was organised on the Place du Marechal Joffre, where th© visitors were received by the Comite des Fetes, and its President, Mr. Geo. Barnbridge, Mayor of Papeete. His Excellency Governor Montagne was present at the ball, which carried on till daylight.

The “City of Los Angeles” is expected to return to Tahiti in June next, on a similar tour.

At Rarotonga

RAROTONGA, January 27.

On January 26, the tourist ship “City of Los Angeles” spent a day here, and the passengers greatly enjoyed themselves.

Trucks and cars met them at the wharf, and conveyed them round the island to Muri, a beautiful beach and good lagoon, with islets on the reef, in easy reach of swimming or canoeing enthusiasts. Native dancing went on almost continuously and, in the afternoon, a play, based on an episode in Maori history, was enacted. On all sides this was acclaimed as excellent, and the costumes particularly admired, many being bought right off the backs of the performers. Money seemed plentiful and circulated freely.

Hurricane In Cook

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Otto Rossiter, owner of “Harmony,” the winner of the coveted Morobe Gold Cup, radioed Sydney for a jockey. The jockey arrived a few days before the race, and was very enthusiastic about the success of his mount, on such an auspicious occasion. He plied the trainer with many questions as to the condition of the horse.

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Dry native biscuits! The jockey, being an Australian, made adequate comment with a very fervent “Gawd Struth!”—S.L.

A NUKUALOFA correspondent on a meteorological note: —The Government of Tonga has an accumulated surplus of about £135,000. When this was being accumulated by the taxpayers it was stated to be “for a rainy day.” The rainy day has struck Tonga with a vengeance, but the Government and its servants are the only people with umbrellas!

QUITE a number of persons have called at the office of the “Pacific Islands Monthly” in recent weeks and enquired about the possibility of purchasing plantations in the Islands at bargain prices. It appears that there are surprisingly many people with some money saved, and a dream of a sun-drenched existence in a beautiful, tax-free Islands home. There are indications, also, that as soon as world economic conditions improve, providing a definite market for Pacific Islands products, there will be many men and much money definitely seeking permanent investments in the Pacific Territories. However, even at the present time there appears to be a market for any discouraged Islands planters who wish to sell out at a sacrifice.

THE following advertisement was published recently in a Pacific Islands newspaper: “If you want house boys, cook boys, wash boys, labourers, etc., apply to , Curiosity Shop , The address “Curiosity Shop” caught the attention of an Islands resident, and he writes bitterly: “Having met with some marked curiosities in the past in the matter of native servants, I am wondering if this advertisement is being subtle, or is merely guilty of unconscious humour.”

WHEN the Commonwealth Government invited tenders for the supply of two seaplanes for the use of the New Guinea Administration, two private aviation companies offered to provide the New Guinea Administration with an efficient air service in New Guinea, without subsidy. They asked only that they should be guaranteed 10,000 miles of air travel — 2000 miles less than was specified in the Government’s tender forms.

The Federal Government, however, rejected the offers and suggested that if the companies concerned were interested they should submit a tender which would be considered along with the others for the supply of the machines.

There is speculation as to whether the New Guinea Administration will attempt to establish a fully equipped air base for seaplanes in Rabaul —obviously an expensive and difficult undertaking—or whether, for purposes of repairs and maintenance, the Administration will link up with the well-equipped aviation establishments at Lae and Salamaua, at the other end of the Territory.

A LONDON correspondent, on a Samoan matter: “Your correspondent, Mr. M. T. Greene, on the Sea Transport in Samoa, although late in the day, has brought attention to a very important matter, and one which calls for immediate attention. If the Apia authorities refused permission for the boat named, to use the port, unless it conformed to the British rules, there would b© very little trouble in the matter.

I can sympathise with anyone who has had to make that trip, as I have had to do it on no less than six occasions—at one time in the “Tiapan,” when we were under nearly the whole way.”

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J. D. Marshall, Clerk.

F. G. Palfreyman, Clerk, E. T. Fulton, Clerk.

A. M. Eglinton, Storeman.

H. G. B. Nolan, Medical Assistant.

N. L. White, Clerk.

C. C. Marr, Agricultural Inspector and Instructor.

N. S. Duncan, Inspector and Instructor.

ACTING APPOINTMENTS.

A. Nurton, Acting Assistant District Officer.

W. E. Sansom, Acting Assistant District Officer.

M. J. P. A. Pitt, Acting Assistant District Officer.

TRANSFERS.

E. C. McDonald, Assistant District Officer, Rabaul to Namatanai.

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J. Davidson, Teacher, Salamaua to Rabaul.

E. A. Holland, Medical Officer, Rabaul to Kavieng.

N. V. McKenna, Medical Officer, Kavieng to Salamaua.

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TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS.

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A. McLeod, Clerk.

POLICE FORCE TRANSFER.

S. Reilly, Warrant Officer, Rabaul to Salamaua. 10 February 20, 1934.

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About Islands People

Mrs. Finney, wife of the Administrator of Norfolk Island and daughter of Sir Hubert Murray (Lieut.-Governor of Papua) is making the Hotel Metropole her headquarters during her three months’ holiday in Sydney. At present she is at Mossvale, to be near her daughter Maura who is a boarder at the Dominician Convent. Son Peter is at Riverview.

The two sons of Dr. and Mrs. Giblin, of Papua, have returned to Mowbray House, Chatswood, to resume their schooling.

Eldest son Victor was Dux of the school last year, beside* carrying off the Science, Latin and Greek prizes.

Mr. Peter Miravitch, of Billyard Avenue, Wahroonga, who paid a hurried visit South from Edie Creek, N.G., on account of his wife’s illness, returned by the last ship. His son, Erik, who is at the Conservatorium, is said to be following in the footsteps of his famous cousin, Benno Mosievitch.

John, Henk and Lew Pronk, from Java, arrived by the “Nieuw Holland” to resume their studies at “Shore”; also lan Coote and Bill Wright, from Port Moresby.

Mr. Hunter Kirke, M.C., who has been down on three months’ furlough from Kiandi, Edie Creek, returned last month. It seemed as if every former “cobber” of the 19th Battalion was at the ship to wave a cheery farewell to this popular Digger.

Mr. Morton Westbrook, whose dad is one of the big men in the Customs in N.S.W., sends a “cheerio” from Pondo.

Morton has quite recovered from his recent illness, which necessitated a “holiday” in the hospital at Rabaul. By the way, Morton’s brother is the famous “escapologist,” who has been creating such a furore with star turns at the Hoyt Theatres.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Innes, of Salamaua, T.N.G., left Sydney early in February to spend a holiday in Melbourne and Tasmania. They intend to return to Salamaua late in March. Mrs. Innes, before she left Sydney, was making a collection of interesting Islands material for two Englishwomen whose guest she was while abroad, namely, Lady Millais, of “Wharehorne,” Kent, and Mrs. Talbot Cadow, of “Edenfleld Manor,” Carlisle. Both ladies —probably as a result of Mrs. Innes’ picturesque stories of life in the South Seas —have displayed a very keen interest in the Pacific Islands.

Mr. N. Hagen, the well-known merchant of Noumea, New Caledonia, passed through Sydney in January on his way home after eight months spent abroad, mostly in Paris.

Mr. W. C. Groves, who has for some time been located on Tabar Island, New Ireland district, has left his island home and is now in Rabaul. Mr. Groves has been studying sociological conditions amongst the natives of New Ireland for the National Council of Research under a Rockefeller endowment, and has collected very interesting data, and prepared exhaustive proposals regarding the future education system which he claims would best be applied in certain districts in the Territory. Prior to this work he was attached to the Administration Educational Department in 1922.

Mrs. Morris McCullagh, of Fiji, is expected in Sydney at the end of the month, and will spend some of her holidays with her sister, Sheila McDonald, the wellknown artist.

Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Grabowsky have spent many anxious moments since leaving their home at Lae, New Guinea, where Mr. Grabowsky is one of the chief executives of New Guinea Airways. On arrival in Sydney a Macquarie Street specialist told “Grabs” it would be necessary to amputate one of his legs. But he sought further advice, and, it is pleasing to learn that the trouble is now being successfully cured by a Melbourne specialist.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Laws have received many congratulatory messages; for just recently the stork paid them a visit in Rabaul, and left them an attractive baby girl, Mr. Laws is a partner in the wellknown Rabaul trading firm of Greenwood & Laws —which, by the way, has arranged to open a branch at Wau.

Mr. E. C. Green, of the Department of Agriculture, New Guinea Administration, is at present undergoing a special course at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, British West Indies.

He expects to return to Australia about July of this year.

Mr. Roland Green, M.P., who was injured rather severely in an accident during the Christmas holidays, is now making good progress, after a long spell in hospital. Mr. Green has very many friends in Papua and New Guinea, who were distressed to learn of the painful accident which befell him.

Mr, T. G. Murray, M.L.C., who has become well-known in Sydney as an investor, returned recently from the United States, and reported that he had made contact with influential people who were interested in gold mining in New Guinea.

They proposed to send four geologists to make investigations in Northern Australia, and it is presumed that these gentlemen will also take a look at New Guinea and Papua before returning home.

Miss Dove Nicholls, of Fiji, who was a passenger by the Monterey, is on a four weeks’ holiday to Melbourne. For some time she was the teacher at a native school at Ba, Fiji, and for five months she has had charge of another school that has been opened by the Colonial Sugar Refining- Company. The eight children at the school are all half-castes. Miss Nicholls finds them intelligent and eager. Miss Nicholls, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Warne Nicholls, of Solovi Nadi, has just announced her engagement to Mr. John C. Potts, who is stationed in Fiji as a chemist with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company.

Mr. A. J. Vogan, a well-known traveller in the Pacific, has left Sydney for Fiji, where he intends to make further investigations concerning some ancient rockcarvings which he discovered in one of the northern islands of the group.

Dr. and Mme. De La Rue, a distinguished French scientist and his wife, arrived in Sydney last week en route to New Caledonia. The interesting native axes with heads of jade in the Paris Museum, from New Caledonia, have inspired them to seek further specimens. They also will visit the New Hebrides, the doctor to study the habits of South Seas volcanoes and Madame, who is a naturalist of distinction, to collect plants and insects. They have pursued their researches in many parts of the world.

Rev. W. H. Cox, of New Guinea, has been very ill. Immediately after his arrival in Sydney from New Britain in December last he was taken to hospital and was under observation for some time, in the hope of avoiding a serious operation.

Ultimately, however, the operation had to be performed, which was of an extensive character, and for some days his condition was critical. However, owing to the unremitting attention of surgeon and nurses, Mr. Cox has considerably improved, and his many friends hope that he will soon be in normal health again. It has been announced that it will be impossible for him to return to New Britain, where he has performed yeoman service for the Methodist Church, Mr. A. H. Weil, Seventh Day Adventist missionary of Port Resolution, on the volcanic island of Tanna, New Hebrides, returned to his station by the Morinda on February 8. He has been on furlough in New South Wales.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Derrick, Methodist missionaries at Davuilevu, Fiji, returned to Suva by the Mariposa on January 7. Mr.

Derrick is in charge of the Boys’ High School at Davuilevu.

Mrs. E. G. Sayers, wife of Dr. Sayers, Gizo, British Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney with her two children during January en route to New Zealand. Dr. 11

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Miss M. A. Hurse, of the Melanesian Mission, who has just retired after completing 32 years of work at the school for native girls at Torgil, Banks Island, left Sydney for New Zealand on January 19.

She intends to reside in Christchurch.

Mr. Reginald Robert Higgins, of Fiji, died in Suva after a short illness on January 7. Pie was 49 years of age and had been a popular officer in the Fiji Public Service for over 20 years. Born in Mildura, Victoria, he went to Fiji in 1909 in the service of the Vacuum Oil Co., but joined the Fiji Customs Department the following year. After holding various positions in the Customs and Telegraph Departments, he was appointed Accountant and Cashier in the Government Savings Bank in 1928 and held this position until he died. He is survived by his wife and eight children.

Rev. G. J. Flatten, Methodist missionary in New Britain, and his wife arrived in Sydney recently by the Tanda. He has retired after six years of service at Namatanai and has returned to New South Wales to enable his children to study at a Sydney school.

Rev. A. A. Butchart, of the Melanesian Mission, left Sydney for the Solomon Islands by the Malaita on January 20, after six months’ furlough. He is doing mission work at Gaua, Banks Island.

Mr. D. C. Hartam-Bayes, of the Solomon Islands, has been on a visit to Melbourne and Tasmania. He will return to the Islands in April, Mr. A. B. Thomas, manager of Messrs.

Sturt Ogilvie, Ltd., died from heart failure at Suva. Mr. Thomas was born at Nairn, South Australia, and went to Fiji in 1908.

He leaves a widow and a young daughter.

Miss Beatrice Grimshaw returned to Port Moresby by ’plane on Januarv 18, after a six weeks’ visit to the New Guinea Goldfields, where she called in at Salamaua, Lae, Wau, and other centres of the district. It is rumored Miss Grimshaw is writing a new novel in which the New Guinea Goldfield is to be taken as a setting.

End Of Mandate

SYSTEM Japan Clears the Air UNDER no circumstances would the Marshall and Caroline Islands, in the Central Pacific, held by Japan under Mandate from the League of Nations, be given up again to the League of Nation® said the Foreign Minister of Japan (M.

Hirota) in a public statement on February 9.

M. Hirota claimed that the Allies promised the Islands to Japan by secret treaty signed during the world war, and the ultimat esession was made in mandate form merely to circumvent the opposition of President Wilson, That means, concluded the Minister, that the right of control of these tactically important naval bases is founded on what might be considered a permanent mandate which is in no way dependent on the League of Nations.

The unequivocal statement on behalf of Japan settles the future, not only of the Marshall and Caroline groups, but also of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, the Northern Solomons, Western Samoa and Nauru, all of which are held by the British Empire under similar mandates. If Japan is to be permitted to hold those Central Pacific groups (and there is no doubt that she will be “permitted”), the British will be entitled equally to permanent possession of New Guinea, Samoa, etc.

The development was confidently foretold in this journal two years ago. The League of Nations is moribund, and the Mandates system is virtually dead. But it is interesting to fix the date of the commencement of the new phase—February 9, 1934.

Presumably, however, the farce of reporting to Geneva, and sending delegates there to answer a whole series of more or less silly questions about the conduct of the Mandatories, will continue for some time yet.

Europeans Let In

ASIATICS Invasion of Pacific Islands manner in which the Pacific Islands have been invaded by Asiatic peoples, as a result of the “civilisation” introduced by Europeans, was described interestingly in a recent lecture in Melbourne by Rev. A. W. Amos, secretary of the Methodist Foreign Mission Society.

After telling of the discovery of the Islands by early seafarers, such as Captain Cook and Dutch and French sailors, Mr. Amos said that, following in the wake of the navigators came the traders, and then followed the introduction of new economic systems.

Speaking of Hawaii, he said that to-day there were 20,427 natives, but these were outnumbered by Chinese, of whom there were 25,212, in addition to 137,407 Japanese.

In Samoa the invasion had resulted in the presence in that island to-day of 939 Chinese. In the mandated territory of New Guinea we had 1238 Chinese and 50 Japanese. To-day in Fiji there were nearly 100,000 natives, 1503 Chinese, 100 Japanese and 80,000 Indians. There was scarcely a European storekeeper left in Fiji. 12 February 20, 1934.

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Japan In The Marshalls

Truth About “Fortifications” Story VERY little information is available nowadays about conditions in the Marshall and Caroline Islands. Prior to 1914 these groups were in close trading contact tenth Australia, but after the war they were taken over by Japan under Mandate from the League of Nations.

Since then, reports have been mostly to the effect that the Islands are being fortified by Japan and maintained as a close preserve for Japan’s shipping and trading interests.

The following extracts from a letter written in November, 1933, by a well known resident of the Central Pacific, have considerable interest: THERE are two routes from Japan to the Marshalls, the Eastern and the Western traversed alternately, month about, by the N.T.K. steamers. By the Eastern route Saipan is the first point of call, and by the Western, Paloa. The remaining islands called at on the outward or homeward run, as the case may be, are the same by either route. I went to Japan by the Western route, and returned by the Eastern.

Saipan is an elevated island of coral formation, doubtless pushed up by some convulsion of the Pacific bed in bygone ages. Opposite, about fifteen or twenty miles distant, is another island of similar formation. Extensive areas of land on these Islands, which were formerly but little or even quit© uncultivated have been converted into profitable sugar-cane and banana plantations by the Japanese. Copra really appears to be of a secondary consideration there nowadays. I understand that the Japanese population is over 20,000.

I did not go ashore at Saipan, but was, of course, free to do so.

Now for a few remarks concerning Palao, the seat of Government in the Japanese South Sea Mandates, which I visited on the way to Japan. It is a precipitous, hilly island, apparently of coral formation like Saipan, but very different in appearance. Areas of land suitable for the cultivation of sugar-cane, etc., do not appear to be extensive. There is a small land-locked harbour adjacent to the township, but rather* too small to be of much account. The main road of the little township is very well kept, and in the residential section is bordered with flowering shrubs, back of which are neat, substantial dwellings, of a type suitable for the tropics.

The Government offices are fine, large and airy, all that could be desired for such a place. The township is provided with many of the conveniences of modern civilisation, such as electric light, radio, icemaking plant, motor cars, etc. —not many motor cars, to be sure, but some. To the writer, the whole aspect of the place was charming.

Should Germans, who formerly resided in this section of the South Sea Islands, re-visit Palao, or for that matter any of the principal islands in the Marshalls or Carolines, I think that they would be greatly surprised at the progress made since that fateful 1914; but at the same time I also think racial prejudice and wounded self-esteem would be apt to prevent all but a few giving the present regime due credit for the same.

Along what lines has there been progress? Well, in educational facilities, hospital treatment, road-making, harbour improvements, town improvements, plantation developments, the encouragement of native arts, etc. No unprejudiced person, with knowledge of past and present conditions in these Mandates, can truthfully deny that considerable progress, such as I have stated, has been mad© under the present regime, and that the Islanders have benefited thereby materially. Incidentally, Japanese may have benefited also, but not at the cost of the Islanders.

Now, why do I relate all this? I will tell you. Regardless of likes or dislikes, now as ever, I believe that fair play is bonnie play; and that attitude appears to be sadly lacking in some quarters nowadays. I have before me an article entitled “Manchuria, Where East Meets West,” which appeared in “McCall’s” early this year. The following - assertion occurs in the article: “Remember this: The Japs, have had a Mandate over six hundred Pacific Islands since the war. The Mandate provides that they must not fortify the islands. But everybody knows that they have built naval bases at all the important points.”

Now, is this assertion concerning Japanese activities in the Islands true? It is not. Having visited all the important points recently, as already stated in this letter, I can positively assert that it is false.

Again, in a recent number of the “New Outlook,” a well known American magazine, a similar statement occurs in an article entitled “Our Next War For Peace,” if I remember correctly. The statement is very similar to the one already quoted, but with a little addition. It is asserted that recently an American, with some unexplained official connection, was slain at some island somewhere in the Carolines, and that the Japanese authorities blamed bandits for the crime.

I can say without any hesitation that I believe this to be a fabrication. The Islanders are great gossipers, and had any- 13

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Copies of Mab’s Fashions; Roma’s Pictorial Fashions and Home Fashions available. — P.O. Box 116. Tel.; 141. thing of the sort occurred, I would most certainly have heard something about it.

And on the face of it, it does not bear the impress of truth. Consider it —an unnamed man, on an unnamed island, slain by non-existent South Sea bandits! Why not give the names, if true? And, if false, why not supply a fictitious name for the imaginary person slain by the non-existent bandits? Because it would enable the authorities, or any local resident, to disprove the whole story too easily.

Now you may begin to think that I am strongly pro-Japanese. Well, I am not, in the general sense of the expression. That is, if bias is implied. I simply believe in truth and justice for anyone, regardless of nationality, and I do detest false and malicious statements concerning friend or foe.

Numerous statements similar to those referred to would seem to indicate that propaganda is at work, and for no good purpose. When one reads articles reflecting upon Japanese activities in Manchuria, and in the course of such sees some reference, which one knows to be absolutely untrue, concerning Japanese doings in the South Sea Mandates, one is apt to doubt the veracity of all such articles. One does not wonder so much at Pontius Pilate asking long ago, “What is truth?”

Although it may not exactly coincide with what you may have heard about the Mandates over a decade ago, I have written the truth in this letter. Believe me, no great Powers can hope to justly deprive Japan of the Mandates on the ground if inefficiency, mismanagement, or a disregard of the terms of the Mandates.

Spelling Reform For

Fijian Language

VTTHEN the missionaries first printed ** books in Fijian, they had some difficulty in spelling the sounds of the language.

At the last meeting of the Legislative Council in Fiji (says Sydney Morning Herald) a proposal by the Government to spell the Fijian words as pronounced met with opposition from the Secretary of Native Affairs. However, the Government has now issued a notice in the Gazette that, in future, all words in official documents published in Fijian and normally read outside the colony, will be spelled as in the official maps.

In future, therefore, B will read MB, C will be TH, D will be ND, G will be NG, and Q will be NGG. Nadi, for instance, is pronounced Nandi, and it will be spelt in the latter form in future.

Gold In Eastern

PAPUA Move to Develop Misima and Woodlark 4 T long last, after lengthy “company promoting,” and much investigation, a definite move has been made to develop the gold industry in Misima and Woodlark, two large islands off the east coast of Papua. There is good gold in Eastern Papua, but the place, unfortunately, has been infested for years with “wild cat” promoters.

The Misima property includes the old Mount Sisa leases, which are right alongside Mr. Cuthbert’s famous money-spinner (New Misima Co.). Mount Sisa was a good concern, but badly muddled (to put it mildly) and eventually it sold out to Misima Options Ltd. The latter had no sooner become active than Mt. Sisa appeared on the scene again, and sustained its claim that it still had an interest in the development of the proposition. Finally, the two companies compounded, and went on together, in some way that is not clear.

Then the powerful Pratten interests came into the picture, and authority was given for a very strict investigation by New Guinea Alluvials Ltd. The result was the formation and registration in January of Gold Mines of Papua Ltd., which represents a combination of the interests of the Pratten group, Mount Sisa, Misima Options and N.G. Alluvials.

The following appeared in the newspapers on January 20: — GOLD MINES OF PAPUA LTD. has been registered in Canberra for the purpose of extensivelyprospecting two lines of lode, the Umuna on Misima Island and the Kulumadau on Woodlark Island. Operations on the Umuna lode on Misima Island will cover the extension of the lode beyond the holdings of the New Misima Company, which has operated for some years and has developed large reserves. A preliminary report by Mr. A. J.

Peterson, who investigated the property on behalf of New Guinea Alluvials Ltd., indicates continuous ore body 2700 feet in length. Operations will be confined to exploration along the line of lode with a view to proving quantities and values. If results are satisfactory steps will be taken to finance development and equipment on a large scale.

On Woodlark Island recent workings have exposed a rich shoot of ore on the northern end of the old Kulumadau mine, and Mr. Peterson, in his report, expresses his belief that the exposure is on the Kulumadau line of lode. His sampling gave an average of 15dwt for a width of 30ft. This exposure will be developed and a small treatment plant installed. Simultaneously with this work the 130.000 tons of sands and slimes from the old Kulumadau mine will be cyanided. Mr. Peterson’s sampling shows that the slimes are worth from 3 to 4 dwt per ton, and the sands Idwt or better.

At present gold prices these values show profits.

The nominal capital of the company is £60,000, divided into 240,000 shares of 5/ each, of which fully paid shares to the value of £30,000, plus £2OOO cash, will be paid for mining interests on Misima and Woodlark Islands and reports and technical advice. Sixty thousand contributory shares of 5/ each have been issued net, while the balance, 60.000 shares, are under option to be subscribed for at par.

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U.S.A. In The Pacific

Is Uncle Sam Seeking New Naval Stations?

THE following article appeared on January 29, in many Australian newspapers. As it may have great political significance it is reprinted in full: The London “Sunday Express” gives prominence to reports of the Singapore Conference, and affirms that one of the vital questions being discussed is that of the ceding to the United States by Britain and France of a number of islands in the Southern Pacific in return for cancellation of part of the allied war debt.

The paper declares:—“The Governments of the United States, Great Britain, and France have been forced by the aggressive policy of Japan to consider the whole question of the balance of power in the Pacific. With a view to the defence of her interests, America has tentatively advanced the proposal that she should be given facilities in South Pacific island groups administered by Britain, Prance, and New Zealand for establishing a chain of harbors and aerodromes for commercial purposes in time of peace and as bases for aeroplanes and warships in wartime. America is particularly anxious to acquire a footing in the Marquesas Islands.

“Significance is attached to the statement by Mr. Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives, last week, that it would be a happy solution were it possible to acquire a Pacific base strategically located without burdening the American taxpayer while permitting foreign debtors to discharge portion of their indebtedness.”

Editorial Note With a map of the Pacific before one, it is difficult to understand what is sought by the United States —that is, if the foregoing is a serious article, and not just a Sunday newspaper story.

In Pago Pago, American Samoa, U.S.A. has a splendid harbor, capable of accommodating her largest warships. As Pago Pago has been in the occupation of the United States Naval forces for more than 30 years, it may be safely assumed that it has been well adapted to naval purposes.

The United States, with its command over Hawaii, Philippines, and Guam, is strongly placed in the North Pacific.

Guam, a strong American station, is conveniently placed between Philippines and Hawaii. As America’s only potential enemy in the Pacific is Japan, it appears that Hawaii, Guam, and Philippines give her all the ocean outposts she requires for purposes of aggression.

If U.S.A. were to obtain naval stations in the South Pacific, which would demand protection in the event of war with Japan, their possession might be a source of weakness rather than strength. Naval outposts in the South Pacific would be of use only if America feared attack from the direction of Australia or New Zealand.

Perhaps America, however, is seeking fortified places of ready refuge for her mercantile shipping in the event of a sudden outbreak of war. Then, deep-water harbors like Pago Pago would be very valuable.

Of such harbors there are many available in the South Seas. There are two or three in the depopulated Marquesas.

That is a large, beautiful and fertile Group close to America, and France might be glad to hand it over to some nation which could develop it. One hundred years ago it carried a numerous, happy population; to-day, owing to pests, etc., introduced by Europeans, there are not 1500 people there.

The Marquesas might provide a suitable port for America in the eastern portion of the South Pacific. Pago Pago meets requirements in the central portion. For a useful port in the western portion of the South Pacific we must look somewhere in the vicinity of the New Hebrides or Southern Solomons. There are several harbors in this region worthy of consideration. For instance, Port Patteson, in in the Island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks Group (part of the Condominium of the New Hebrides), would float a fleet ct battleships; and it is a fertile and attractive place. Also, in the Banks Group, is the Island of Ureparapara. It appears to be the top of an old volcano, one side of which has disappeared. Thus has been created a magnificent harbor, which can accommodate large ships. .

One of the finest harbors in the Pacific, capable of being easily defended, is that of Vavau, in the northern part of Tonga, The Germans had their eye on this place before the war, and, in 1914, there were more German flags than British to be seen there, showing that the method of peaceful penetration had almost succeeded, But Vavau may not appeal to the Amencans, as it is fairly close to Pago Pago. 15

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Australia’S Mad-Headed Fiscal Policy

Extraordinary Story of Fiji Bananas THE deplorable history of trade relations between Fiji and Australia, and the more recent chapter of thgt history which is concerned tenth Fiji bananas, are cogently dealt with in an article by Mr. C. B. Joske, of Suva, president of the Fiji Bananas-growers 1 Association, which was published in the “Sydney Morning Herald 11 on January 30. The shameful story needs no comment.

It is not too much to say that the Australian fiscal policy seems to be under the control of lunatics. The Australian manufacturing industries are riddled with unemployment, yet Australia, by the madheaded use of tariffs, and an inability to see that trade must be reciprocal, is having the doors to market after market slammed in her face. Fiji is only one of half a dozen instances which have been quoted in Australian newspapers in recent weeks.

Mr. Joske 1 s letter follows: — IN recent issues of your journal I note references to the action taken by certain countries by way of retaliation for the imposition of prohibitive tariffs on their products by Australia, e.g., Belgium (sheet glass v. meat) and China (peanuts v. flour). Even little Fiji, whose white population is largely Australian, is contemplating the same type of action in defence of the right of entry of her bananas to the Australian market.

These are the facts. The Ottawa Agreement gave Fiji the right to send 40,000 centals of bananas to Sydney and Melbourne at a duty of 2/6 per cental (one case contains about 801 b.). This represented a share of about 3 per cent, of the total Australian consumption of bananas.

The essence of Ottawa was fair competition and no discrimination—in other words, Fiji bananas were to compete on equal terms with Australian, once the tariff barrier was passed. Instead, we find that the banana concession has been emasculated by the levying of taxes on Fijian bananas which are not levied on Australian bananas. In addition, certain Queensland interests have done their best to prevent the fruit agents from handling Fiji bananas by withholding from such agents supplies of Queensland fruits.

A pretty commentary on the good faith of Australia, and one which will be noted with interest by those British agriculturists who are at this moment being asked to sacrifice themselves “in the spirit of Ottawa” to help Australian meat, butter, etc.! It is worth remembering that restrictions on the importation of meat into the United Kingdom may be imposed after June, 1934.

The taxes which have been levied specially on Fiji bananas are as follow; — Primage: 10 per cent, of the net value of our bananas f.o.b. Suva.

Sales Tax: 5 per cent, of the gross selling price.

Special Income Tax: lOd in the £ of the gross selling price.

Quarantine inspection: 4d per case.

The import duty agreed at Ottawa is equivalent to 2/ per case; ’the taxes listed above —imposed on Fiji bananas and not on Australian bananas —approximate to another 3/6 per case. Is that fair Ottawa competition? Rather too “body-line,” I suggest.

In order to bring this ingenuous treatment before the notice of the people of Australia I have suggested to the Government of Fiji that some drastic action must be taken to diminish Australia’s share of Fiji trade. In 1933 Australia bought from Fiji £43,000, but Fiji bought from Australia £380,000. Details of 1933 are not yet available, but in 1932 the imports from Australia included: —Beer £6200, cordage and rope £4215, confectionery £2894, drugs £6366, flour and flour by-products £53,229, milk £2615, tea £8977, cigarettes £18,690, a total of £103,186. In all the above items Australia has keen competitors in New Zealand, Canada, and England.

The quality of the manufactures from these countries is at least as good as those from Australia —there is no great difference in prices. Even a Queenslander would agree there is no great hardship involved in drinking New Zealand beer, smoking an English cigarette, or eating a Canadian loaf.

The obvious line of action for Fiji is, therefore, to select such items as Australian beer, cigarettes and flour for special taxation to such an extent that these products of Australian manufacture will be replaced by the manufactures of New Zealand, Canada, or the United Kingdom—and to continue such special taxation until we get an Ottawa deal from Australia.

May I —brought up and educated in Australia, with Australian interests and connections —warn those Australians concerned in the Fiji market that such action is under very serious consideration in Fiji? 16 February 20, 1934.

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Some Useful Recipes for Islands Residents A BRISBANE lady writes : — In answer to your correspondent's plea for simple recipes for Islands residents, who must depend largely on “tins” I am enclosing a few well-tried and very easy ones which may he of use to your readers.

Having lived under somewhat similar conditions as those mentioned in the letter —worse if anything, as we did not even have “the usual native vegetables”—l can readily sympathise with the request.

After the first or second supervision, the cook-hoy of average intelligence will rise to the occasion, and he quite equal to the recipes.

CANAPE.

This recipe is delightful with any cold meat (tinned or fresh), poultry, ham, or boiled bacon.

Place a slice of boiled beef or Camp Pie, or slice of Fitzroy Luncheon Beef, on plate, then one or two crisp lettuce leaves, a slice of pineapple, then a thick slice seasoned tomato.

Lastly place on top half a hard-boiled egg, cut lengthwise and coat with thick mayonnaise sauce.

Garnish with parsley and serve as cold as possible.

MAYONNAISE SAUCE.

Dissolve 1 heaped dessertspoon butter in a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon flour and stir well.

Add V 2 pint milk and stir over fire till it boils three minutes. Add salt, 1 teaspoon mixed mustard, and yolk of egg in the order given. Lastly add one-third cup vinegar gradually. A little sugar may be added if liked. Allow to cool.

INDIAN RAREBIT. 2 cups tinned corn. 2 teaspoon chopped onion. 1 cup grated cheese, or y 2 tin Rex cheese. 2 tablespoons butter. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 pinch spice.

Melt butter in saucepan. Add onion and cook for three minutes without allowing to brown. Then add corn and simmer for ten minutes. Remove from fire and stir in the cheese till melted. Serve on buttered toast.

DEVILLED KIDNEYS. 1 tin devilled kidneys, 2 onions, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon flour, y 2 teaspoon mustard (mixed) y 2 teaspoon curry powder.

Melt butter in saucepan; peel and slice onions and brown in the butter. Remove kidneys from gravy, cut in halves, place in piedish. Thicken the gravy from the kidneys after adding sufficient water to make half a pint of liquid. Add onions and the Yi teaspoon mixed mustard and simmer slowly for 15 minutes. Pour gravy over kidneys.

Sprinkle over with bread crumbs and bake in moderate oven for twenty minutes.

Aberdeen Sausage

1 tin camp pie (1-lb), Yi lb bacon (minced), 1 ' 1 tablespoon minced onion, 2 cups white breadcrumbs 2 teaspoons parsley, Pepper, salt, and nutmeg, 1 teaspoon Holbrooks sauce.

Mash Camp Pie with minced bacon and mix well with breadcrumbs, sauce and seasoning. Add well-beaten egg and mix thoroughly. Dip cloth in boiling water, wring dry, flour well and roll up sausage. Tie cloth at each end and boil for two hours. When cooked, cover while hot with crisp breadcrumbs and serve cold.

If required hot, serve with gravy made with Gravox or any gravy extract, to which has been added 1 teaspoon of tomato sauce, y 2 teaspoon Marmite and y 2 teaspoon Holbrooks sauce.

SPAGHETTI WITH TOMATOES.

Grease a shallow casserole or pie dish, and line with sliced tomato. Pour over it the contents of a tin of spaghetti. Place a layer of sliced cooked potato on top and sprinkle thickly with breadcrumbs and a little finely grated cheese. Put a few pieces of butter on top and bake in a steady oven till a light brown. Serve very hot.

TONGUE AU GRATIN. 1 tin sheep or ox tongue, y, i teaspoon minced parsley, 1 ]/ 2 tablespoon butter, y 2 cup breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon capers, 1 tablespoon minced onion.

Cut tongue into thin slices. Mix together parsley, capers, and onion, and sprinkle the mixture over the tongue arranged in a well-buttered piedish. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon breadcrumbs, then cover with sliced tomato and another layer of tongue and so on till the dish is filled. Add seasoning to taste, and one tablespoon hot water to which a little Marmite has been added. Cover with remainder of breadcrumbs. Dab with butter and brown well in oven.

EVANDALE TRIFLE (Simple and Delicious).

Cut 2 slices of bread l / 2 an inch thick into small squares. Place in a glass dish, squeeze the juice of 1 orange over it and half the grated rind if liked. Pour over 1 pint of boiled custard made with yolks only. When the pudding is cold, beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, gradually adding a little apricot jam to colour and taste.

Pile high on top of pudding. This pudding is even more delicious when sponge cake is substituted for bread and a layer of banana added before pouring on the custard.

ANGELS FOOD. 2 cups milk (skim will do), Ya cup sugar, 2 eggs, Juice of 1 lemon, or essence of lemon, 2 dessertspoon powdered gelatine.

Place the milk, sugar, well-beaten yolks of eggs and essence into the saucepan. Let all just come to the boil, remove from fire and allow to cool.

Then stir in the gelatine which has been dissolved m a little hot water. When cold stir in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and put in a wet aluminium mould to set. Turn on a glass dish and serve with vanilla custard or tinned cream (to which has been added vanilla and sugar to flavour), or fruit.

To cool without ice, place the mould in a dish of water which contains 1 handful of salt to the pint and a piece of washing soda the size of a walnut.

PINEAPPLE LEMONADE. 1 pineapple, 1 lb sugar, 5 lemons, 3 pints water.

Carefully peel and grate pineapple. Pour over it the strained juice of lemons. Boil sugar and 1 pint of the water together for ten minutes. Stir syrup into the fruit juices and add remainder of water. Strain through fine muslin, chill, and when serving, add a cherry to each glass.

Fiji’S Gold

Development at Tavua From a Special Correspondent.

TAVUA, (Fiji), Feb. 1.

T\EVELOPMENT work is still going on at the Tavua goldfield, in Northern Fiji.

The ground has been proved at a depth of 50 feet, and assays taken from that depth have given over 3oz. to the ton. It has been proved that the lode is over 40 feet wide in many places, and extends for a considerable distance.

Mr. E. G. Theodore was the first to bring Australian capital into this field, and he has the best wishes of Fiji residents for his success. He was in early, and naturally secured some valuable properties. There are some other very promising leases, I understand, which have been opened up lately and which only require more capital to permit thorough investigation.

It is iioped here that people with some experience and sufficient capital will take an interest in this goldfield, as the prospects are too good to be “mucked up” by inexperienced people. Emphatically, we do not want the “go-getter” type of promoter here. But there is a good future for the genuine man, who can get in well at this early stage. 17

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February 20, 1934.

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Police Carriers

ATTACKED Affray in Central Papua.

A FIGHT occurred between natives of the Kunimaipa Valley and Papuan native police under Patrol Officer Cecil Cowley, who recently went through Kunimaipa to protect a mining party in Tinai Valley, which is on the Papuan-New Guinea border, close to Mt. Chapman.

Tinai was reached satisfactorily, and the carriers, returning home, were put under the charge of a native police sergeant. Four of them left the main body to take a short cut, and were attacked by natives of the Kivena tribe. Two of them were killed. The sergeant chased the attackers and killed four.

When the party reached Kagave, people there killed a pig and gave it to the police patrol. While all were standing talking, a young policeman is said to have fired a rifle in the air. The other police then fired also, allegedly in the air. The sergeant, thinking the patrol was being attacked, shot a man who came to the door of the house to see what had happened. The villagers remained calm. A full investigation is being made.

PESTS IN B.S.I.

Same Remedial Measures IVJ’H. R. A. LEVER, a well-known entomologist of the British Solomon Islands arrived in Sydney recently, after leave in England, and left for Tulagi by the Malaita on January 19.

Mr. Lever’s chief investigations in the two and a half years he already has spent in the Solomons concerned ravages upon coconut palms, thought to have been due to insect pests. But it has now been found that the trouble was caused by insufficient manuring and cultivation, and several companies intend to apply manurial treatment to their estates.

Trouble caused by the horn fly, a cattle pest, introduced into Northern Queensland from New Guinea some ten years ago, and which has now spread to the Solomons, has also attracted Mr. Lever’s attention. The ravages of this pest are responsible for serious loss of condition among cattle in the Solomons. One hundred fertilised females of a parasitic wasp were liberated recently by' Mr. Lever to prey upon the fly, and he proposes later to liberate supplies of the hybrid wasp— a cross between an Australian and an East Indian wasp—recently evolved by Dr Tillyard in Canberra, numbers of which have been already released in Queensland.

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Returned-soldier Planters Letter to the Editor.

An article appeared in your. December issue stating that the two large trading firms in New Guinea had arranged to waive interest to planters from October to March, when the London price of copra averaged under £lO per ton.

It stated that this was an equivalent to a gift of at least £20,000 to the planters, mostly returned soldiers.

Prom figures available, I would esti mate that the saving to actual returned soldier planters would be less than half this amount.

While it is not policy “to look a gift horse in the mouth,” this gesture to returned soldier planters is not before its time. The Government has been giving purchasers of expropriated properties a moratorium for the last 3i years, and this must have helped those firms considerably, in reducing the majority of returned soldier overdrafts.

Also, those firms to-day are collecting from the tied returned-soldier planter almost the same profit margin on copra at £8 London as they were at £l4 per ton, London, which would compensate considerably for foregoing the interest, which in some cases they probably would never get, as their only security, as far as the expropriated properties are concerned, is an equity that disappeared three years ago.

The firms are greatly responsible for the position of returned soldier debtors to-day, through their boom financing, and it is very probable that they will be compelled to make still further concessions to them, before the depression lifts from the industry.

I am, etc.

W. M. MIDDLETON.

“Kulili,” Madang, T.N.G. 18 February 20, 1934.

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How Shrewd Dr. Solf Avoided Samoan Rising in 1908 From Our Samoan Correspondent.

CONSIDERING the recent startling events in Samoa and the strong action the New Zealand Administration has undertaken against the “Mau” Movement, reminiscences of Dr. Solf, the first German Governor of Samoa, and later a member of the German Cabinet, which were recently published in the German press, are of special interest.

Dr. Solf, under the heading of “Thunderstorm over Samoa,” relates the facts of the attempted uprising of the high chief Lemati in 1908, and the means by which this uprising was successfully suppressed, with the help of the German Navy.

It was during a severe illness of the “grand old man of Samoa — Mataafa, the highest chief, respected and obeyed by all the Samoan factions. As he was expected to die hourly, the question of his successor was ventilated, and all the factions had their candidates ready to present to the Imperial German Government.

The real rulers of the Samoan people were the Association of Chief Spokesmen—the Fumua and Pule, the king-makers, who at the same time were also responsible for and guilty of continuous unrest and fighting in the country. Dr. Solf had tried to abolish their rulership, but this revolutionary change could hardly be brought about by a stroke of the pen.

The leading representative of Pule, the “highest spokesman chief” (tulafale), Lauati, in the name of the Pule and Fumua, promised his support and financial assistance to the various candidates for kingship. Addressing the masses of the Samoans—politically indifferent and ignorant—in vigorous speeches, he attacked the payment of a poll tax to the Imperial Government as lowering tne Samoans’ self-respect and aiming to have young Samoans do coolies’ work, like Chinamen . . .

Lauati, by his eloquence and his high standing, reached his aim—a large majority of Samoans supported him. In a grand and impressive meeting the demands of the Samoans were to be formulated and presented to the Governor, Dr.

Solf. Nothing was known about Lauati’s intentions after his demands were refused. Apparently the future did not worry him. He would have resisted an order to go home to Savaii—his own island—and perhaps open revolt would have followed.

Dr. Solf, aware of the dangers of the situation, now took action. The demonstration meeting was forbidden, the natives prohibited from visiting Apia, the capital and seat of Government.

These measures seemed to invite Lauati to come out into the open. With two large parties, Lauati came to Apia, at the same time sending agents all over the islands to induce people to disobedience, and recruiting adherents for the “patmotu-Samoans” Movement the first Samoan “Mau.”

Dr. Solf went himself to Savaii, Lauati’s tribal seat, where his power and influence were paramount. Dr, Solf had no military and police force at his disposal, and could not hope to force developments.

Diplomacy was the watchword of the hour! So Dr. Solf made a speech on the common (malae) to the assembled Samoans, trying to bring them back to reason and to effect a peaceful settlement of the pending conflict. He summoned Lauati to appear before him.

But Lauati, to demonstrate his power, mobilised all Savaii, and arrived this time with a force of 25 large boats. Solf wrote —“I have invited only yourself, and shall see only yourself.”

Lauati replied—“My men have come with me, to say a last ‘tofa’ (farewell) to me, in case I shall be deported or hanged” . . .

Alarming reports came to hand. Blackpainted Samoans were approaching Apia with war-knives and in war-like mood.

They could have pillaged Apia within a few hours. Lauati was reported to have gathered his warriors at Vasusu, at the very gates of Apia.

Dr. Solf hastened to fetch Mataafa, just recovered from his illness, and took him in his carriage to Vasusu, accompanied only by his A.D.C. and an interpreter, to see Lauati. Not a minute was to be lost, to save the dangerous situation.

At Vasusu, Lauati came out to welcome the Governor, who ignored his outstretched hand.

“The Samoans spoil everything,” said Lauati.

“No,” Dr. Solf replied, “It is you who are spoiling the Samoans.”

At the Vasusu meeting-house scenes of dramatic force were enacted. A debate of extraordinary intensity occurred between two adversaries of surpassing eloquence—Dr. Solf and Lauati. Both addressed the meeting, and Lauati’s speech —according to Dr. Solf —was a masterpiece of colourful and flowery Samoan rhetoric and diplomacy.

The scene ended in conciliation all round —between Dr. Solf, Mataafa, and Lauati, the latter promising obedience, if he would be pardoned. To all outward appearances the game was won.

But the same day a new report reached Dr. Solf. The chiefs of the Tumua party had asked the Imperial Government for rifles—to capture Lauati and chase off his men. Dr. Solf, refusing their request, was relieved to find that a strong opposition against Lauati had arisen among the Samoans.

Lauati had not gone to Savaii, but to Manovno, the island allied to him. The news reaching Apia grew alarming. The Tumua Party had taken the war path; its warriors were on the way to Apia to 19

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Dr. Solf gave strict orders to keep the peace. The war fever had infected even the German and other European settlers.

A spark might now explode the powdercask. Dr. Solf at once took up communication with his Government in Berlin, and despatched a cable, asking for the assistance of three warships, to be sent as quickly as possible.

Five weeks of anxious waiting followed—-then at last came a cable—the warships should arrive in another fortnight. Dr. Solf pursued a waiting policy —he avoided all measures and steps by which the Samoans might be driven to sudden decisions, and left them to wonder at the strange inactivity of the Government.

At last S.M.S. “Leipzig,” “Ariona,” and “Jaguar,” with the tender “Titania,” arrived off Apia. It was high time, now, to act decisively. The loyal chiefs could not prevent the outbreak of hostilities any longer—it was expected any minute now.

But the arrival of the warships changed the situation. The German Admiral, Cooper, informed by Dr. Solf of the situation, was with difficulty persuaded to delay warlike actions and use diplomacy, as Dr. Solf desired. A proclamation was printed, requesting Lauati and other rebels to surrender within eight days.

Three days after the issue of the proclamation the reply came—the rebels refused to obey and prepared, with their adherents, to flee to the bush. Information came to hand, furthermore, that already large quantities of provisions were taken to the bush.

A new fono (general meeting) of Samoans decided by a majority, comprised of Lauati’s adherents, not to give in, but to fight.

But now the missions acted. They induced a number of the leaders to surrender peacefully, and their defection left only Lauati and his closest friends and relations in favour of a bush war. In any case, a bush war was a most unpleasant prospect to the Government — meaning a blockade for an indefinite period and the necessity to order larger military forces from Germany. This had to be avoided.

But the ultimatum expired, and no Lauati had appeared. Admiral Cooper sent the “Titania” and “Ariona” to Savaii, Lauati’s island home. On board was Dr.

Solf. When two hours from Apia a signal mate rushed up to Dr. Solf with a message from the “Leipzig.” It read: “Have Lauati and five chiefs on board.”

Lauati had surrendered after all!

The worry and excitement of the last weeks disappeared magically. An important step forward in the peaceful development of the Protectorate had been taken.

Lauati and nine of his chiefly followers were banned and deported to the island of Saipan.

Doubtless the success and the bloodless solution of the difficult political problem were mainly due to the masterful diplomacy and skilful strategy of Dr. Solf, who had a wonderful knowledge of the native psychology and was able to fight the Samoans with their own weapons, and beat them at the game.

The New Zealand Administration —20 years later—could well have taken a leaf from the pages of the history of German administration in Samoa. Then a struggle, which might have lasted only weeks, would not have grown into a protracted disturbance of as many years, and an immense amount of trouble and expense would have been saved.

German Cruiser In Samoa

From our own Correspondent APIA, January 20.

"PREPARATIONS for the visit of the German cruiser Karlsruhe to Apia on February 1 are now in full swing and a full citizens’ committee has been elected to take the occasion in hand and organise the various functions, especially the citizens’ dance on Monday, February 5, at Tipaga Playhouse, which promises to be a monster function.

Mr. A. G. Smythe is the active chairman of the committee. The German residents, including the German Club “Concordia,” are also preparing dances, parties, smoke concerts, etc., to welcome their countrymen in the best fashion.

The warship will remain in Apia from February Ist to 7th, and will then proceed on her voyage to Honolulu.

Murder Alleged In Samoa

T ATU, a Samoan, 16, was charged in the High Court, Apia, on January 25, with the murder, at Satapuala, of Vasa, a Samoan.

Reports state that a quarrel took place regarding a girl, and as a result Vasa, a much older man, threatened Latu on two occasions. The men met on a plantation track. Words were exchanged, and both slashed at each other with knives. Vasa was wounded, and pursued Latu, brandishing a knife and shouting threats. When overtaken, it was alleged, Latu turned and struck a second blow, which severed Vasa’s hand above the wrist, and a third blow, which split Vasa’s skull. The injured man died on reaching hospital.

Mr. J. E. L. Westbrook, of Apia, Samoa, who for over 30 years has been a well-known writer on Samoan political affairs. 20 February 20, 1934.

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MR. 0. F. NELSON IN REPLY Letter to the Editor VT'OUR editorial references to the situation in Western Samoa and to myself, in your issue of December 21, 1933, need correction in many places, for which I trust you will allow me space.

Your long commentary (page 31) under the caption “Mr, Nelson and Mr. Greene” throws a very prejudicial light on the letters written by me to Mr. Greene, in the effort to correct the wrong impressions likely to be made on the public mind by his abusive remarks about me in his reports to the American and New Zealand press. The very manner and language adopted by Mr. Greene towards me in those reports must cause every unbiassed person to feel that they could not but have been prompted by motives other than just to give his readers a fair view of the unhappy situation in Samoa.

His rather extreme resentment of what he called gross “discourtesy,” because two Mau chiefs and I did not return his casual calls, must show this. No such resentment was shown when Mr. Greene called on my office and my home in Auckland several times, without the least suggestion that he expected me to return any of his calls. I have not heard of the others he called on here having returned his call. I did not invite him to call at my home here, because I felt such might prejudice his position with the Administration.

I wrote him a personal letter of protest against his first letter to an Auckland newspaper from here. He replied to sav that he positively refused to have a controversy with me through the post. I therefore published my next letter to him in regard to the “S.P. Chronicle” article.

You now say that article was not unduly offensive. But you say that my “attacks on Mr. Greene have been hysterical, savage and unbalanced.” You say nothing about my challenge, which Mr. Greene did not take up, nor of the sinister suggestions in his articles of how to deal with the situation which the Government have now followed.

I suggested the Fono (conference) with the Administrator to the Samoans The Administrator did not “flatly” refuse to meet me with the Samoans when my name was first mentioned. The Samoans well remember my participation in similar Fonos on previous occasions with the expressed approval of former Administrators. So soon as I learnt of the Administrator’s objection to my presence at the Fono, I earnestly advised the Samoans to hold the conference without me. When they refused to hear of this, I definitely urged them the second time.

They persisted, and the Administrator then cancelled the Fono he had agreed to, though the Samoans had complied with all his original demands. You now say that my attitude towards Mr. Greene proves that I was “the very last man who should be admitted to such a conference.”

Why?

In your leading editorial of the same issue (page 3, paragraph 4), you refer to “the period between 1923 and 1930, when the Administrators placed in Samoa by the New Zealand Government created a very unfortunate and undesirable condition of affairs ” In the last paragraph of that editorial, you referred to me as “the outstanding victim of the discredited Administrations which New Zealand established in the Territory between 1923 and 1930.” You have only to read the report of the Samoa Royal Commission, 1927, to find that the Government’s purpose was to show that whereas serious blunders might have been made by former Administrators, the advent of General Richardson in March, 1923, was the beginning of better times all round for Samoa; that the good progress, advancement and happiness of all the inhabitants of the Territory were only disturbed by the appearance of the “lying prophet” in September, 1926. He told the Royal Commission that he referred to me as “the lying prophet.” He had, however, often sought my advice and assistance on Samoan affairs before that.

General Richardson was replaced by Colonel Allen in April, 1928, so he must bear some of the blame for “the period of 1923 to 1930,” Col. Allen has been knighted for his services in Samoa. You now say that the appointment of General Hart to Samoa proves “a change of heart in Wellington regarding Samoan affairs.”

You refer to the present Administrator as “a man with a better understanding of Samoan character and with genuine desire to reconcile the differences between the Administration and the Mau.” That has been said of every new Administrator who ever came to Samoa, but the trouble persisted simply because not one of them was allowed to satisfy the grievances of the Samoans. These were allowed to increase very materially.

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You express the “hope that the New Zealand Government, in the case of Mr.

Nelson, and for the sake of British prestige in the South Seas, will be generous” as “it can afford to be.” I have never pleaded for generosity for the Samoans or myself, and expect none. All we have asked for, and still ask for, is common justice. When that will be allowed by the Mandatory is the main question.

I am, etc., O. F. NELSON (TAISI).

“Tuaefu,”

Samoa. 19/l/’34., Mr. Newrich (touring in his new car): “Where are we now?”

Chauffeur: “Half-way between Paris and Marseilles, sir.”

Mr. Newrich: “Don’t bother me with niggling little details. What country are we in?”

Silly Stories About the Islands Old-time Trader Speaks His Mind Letter to the Editor.

I OFTEN wonder if the old-time writers drew on their imagination as th© modern ones do. If any writings dealing with present-day conditions in Papua, and the Mandated Territory, survive, what sort of impressions will they give to the grandchildren of this generation, of conditions here in 1934?

At a conservative estimate, 85 per cent, of what is published will not bear a moment’s investigation. Recently, the authoress of a much-read book, dealing with the early days on Edie Creek, admitted that a lot of it was fiction. The word used by her was “romance.”

The outstanding example was the article that appeared in the “Toronto Star,” over the signature of Gordon Sinclair, extracts from which you published in your October number. The vapourings of this absurd youth are too silly to dwell on, except to say that far from being “slave driven,” the natives of N.G. are being “coddled.” I recently travelled with an official of that Territory. He told me that he had to carry out the policy laid down. He had his own idea how it would develop. His picture of what, in his opinion, that would be in five years’ time was far from attractive.

Then, with regard to this small corner of Papua, we have, during the past 18 months, read that “nine out of ten business men coming into this district would be knocked on th© head in 24 hours.” We also read of a “sacred valley;” of a party saved by th© medical skill of one of its members; of “hostile natives;” of a small party of natives banking 200 (or was it 300?) ounces of gold a week (an oddhundred ounces of gold is, after all, a trifle while we are at it); of “platinum as big as maize seeds.”

Now, let me clear up a few of those statements, as far as I can. Business men have moved in and out of the districts for many years—one (Jimmy Inman) for 32 years. I can give the names of many who have earned a crust in it during the past 20 years. Not one of these men has been molested.

There is no “sacred valley” nor “hostile natives.” The man who wrote this was never out of touch with a store; in fact, had his party walked a little further they would have come to two plantations that were started 20 years ago. Alluvial gold is worked by the natives, having taken the place of copra, but the suggestion of 200 ounces a week is absurd. The best I’ve known, during a number of years, as a licensed gold buyer, was four natives winning a half-ounce a week. There is, however, a fair outlook for reef gold, and platinum will be heard of later. It exists over a very large area.

In your November number we read: “Ere I last left Samarai, I saw a fine house being built which was designed and contracted for, and carried out in every detail —electric light, and garden design, etc. —by brown men.”

The politician, like the rest of us, reads his batch of daily papers. One of them recently advocated that the natives should be represented on the Council. We can safely assume that the mover has never visited th© country, or the suggestion would never have been made. But the above is the kind of thing that he reads. It causes him to form an absolutely wrong impression of the native.

The house was not designed by a native; it was not contracted for by a native; the regulations alone would not permit of a native installing the electric light; the natives neither designed the garden, nor did they do the work.

I am, etc., H. DEXTER.

Milne Bay, Papua, 4/l/’34.

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Looking After Ourselves In

The Tropics

Some Hints on Health Matters by a Tropical Medico LIKE the bush folk of Australia’s “Never Never,” old residents of the Islands have to turn their hands to many a job that would floor their city cousins. Among others, amateur doctoring, often performed with a surprising amount of ability and skill, claims a leading place.

The following tips on minor health matters are drawn from the experience of a qualified tropical medical practitioner, in the hope that they may prove of service to some isolated settlers in the Pacific.

CARE OF THE FEET.

Foot troubles are very common in the tropics and many of them may be traced to the widespread habit of going about barefoot on occasions. Native servants leave the germs of infection about the floors and round the house, and their masters pick them up; fortunately they are fairly easily kept in check.

Moisture between the toes offers a congenial situation for the infection to grow and spread, and an itchy and widespread eruption results; the skin becomes sodden and peels off, till finally a condition resembling eczema is produced. Any remedy that contains strong or caustic drugs should be avoided—thus iodine is better shunned unless past experience has shown that it does not over-stimulate.

No matter how we classify these foot troubles, be it ringworm, tinea, dhobie itch, eczema, etc., a simple measure appears to alleviate them all. Fill a wash basin with warm water and pour in a very few drops of lysol, so as to make a mild, soapy solution; then leave the feet in it for ten minutes or so. The writer has his basin of lysol placed under the breakfast table on such occasions as a dose seems necessary, and endures his footbath during the consumption of the bacon and eggs. A week or so of this treatment, applied twice daily, gives an immunity for months, and further treatment appears to be required .only at increasing intervals. The important thing to remember is not to make the lysol too strong. Excess of zeal in this respect may cause increased inflammation of the feet and a postponement of cure.

CARE OF THE EARS.

In temperate climates the ears may be left to look after themselves, but in the tropics occasional attention to the ear passages, especially during the rainy season, may prevent a common and very painful infection by germs.

The waxy secretion in the passage permits of the rapid growth of septic germs which appear to be always looking for a chance to “get one in” during the hot weather. Minute but painful abscesses or boils result, and the patient suffers a good deal. The first sign is often an itchiness of the ear passage, and the prompt application of an antiseptic may stop the trouble at once.

The best drug to use is peroxide of hydrogen, but this keeps so badly in the tropics that it is usually reported missing by evaporation when most needed. One quarter tabloid of corrosive sublimate, dissolved in a quarter pint of methylated spirit, is equally good and always to hand, and regular use, say, once a fortnight, or if the slightest sign of itching appears, will save an immense amount of suffering—how much, only those who have let the disease get fully established can tell.

Both ear passages should be attended to, for infection often occurs on on© side after the other. Once the preliminary stage is missed, there is not much hope of avoiding abscess formation, so get in early and guard your ears from infection just as you would preserve your teeth from decay.

CARE OF THE EYES.

A superficial inflammation of the eyeball is common, resulting in mucus in the eye and interference with vision.

Argyrol dropped in is of great value, in combating this complaint, which is usually traced to glare or errors of refraction in the eye (want of glasses, or unsuitable ones). The man who is fond of his gun will find a great improvement in his sight by the use of Argyrol, which is not a patent drug, and is obtainable from any chemist or doctor.

CARE OF THE TEETH.

Dentists do not arrive with every boat in the Islands; what teeth Nature leaves us with in this age of rapid dental decay have to be more carefully preserved by our own efforts than is the case in Australia, where professional attendance is immediately obtainable.

Anyone who has learnt the advantage of a soft toothbrush made of badger’s hair will never readily return to the hard bristly variety in general use. A soft toothbrush cleans more effectively, because it can be used vigorously without fear of tearing the gums.

Most people have ideas of their own in the selection of a dentifrice, but the one used by the writer, varied occasionally by a powder, has definitely warded off threatened pyorrhoea. This is a preparation containing iodine, made by a wellknown firm of chemists in Sydney at the instance of the members of the British Medical Association: I do not know of any other on the market which controls germs so effectively. The editor of th© P.I.M. will disclose the name of this dentifrice to any inquirers.

Incidentally, a broken tooth may cause an amount of suffering, pain, and nervous distress out of all proportion to so slight a cause. I have known such an accident reduce a strong man to a state of drivelling madness in a few hours from the inability to eat, smoke, or speak without pain that resulted. The use of a file against the raw edge calmed him down in five minutes, but not before his tongue and gums had become badly swollen. This is a tip worth knowing, if out on patrol or away from skilled help.

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DEATH OF MRS. S. R.

YOUNG From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Jan. 31.

IVTANY sincere expressions of sympatny -L*- 1 - were received by Mr. S. R.

Young, the well-known and esteemed proprietor of the Kokopo Hotel, about 12 miles from Rabaul, when it was announced that his wife had died from that dreaded scourge, blackwater fever, after an illness of only 12 hours.

Mrs. Young’s gay personality and ready helping-hand will be sadly missed in Rabaul. She had been resident here for 10 years and was highly esteemed.

Fiji Indians

“A Problem and a Curse” [The writer of the following “Letter to the Editor” is a little extreme in his views, and disrespectful of authority; but he knows Fiji intimately, and he deals trenchantly with a problem of growing seriousness. There is a strong feeling in some quarters that the Fiji Government is giving too much attention to Indian clamour, and not enough to the needs of the native Fijians.] 'VT’OUR article in the November issue about the Indian problem in Fiji is only too true.

The Governor does not seem to have the power either to protect the native Fijian, or assist British enterprise in Fiji.

The Indian is pampered and spoon-fed both by Governor and Council. The Indian is assisted in every way, whether he breaks the law or preaches sedition. His crimes are overlooked in many cases. Corruption is rampant.

The Indian is becoming arrogant. He defies anyone, and he considers the European as an interloper. Moreover, the time is not far distant when serious trouble will take place. The only people the European can now depend upon are the half-castes and the Fijian natives, both of whom the Governor and Council seem to look upon as people of no consequence.

The native Fijian has been betrayed by the British Government. When Fiji was ceded to Queen Victoria, as a Protectorate, Queen Vcitoria handed the lands back to the Fijian natives. Now her descendants, through their representives, are betraying the Fijians into the hands of a race which was brought to Fiji as coolie labor in the caneflelds.

The natives of Fiji are taxed more than the Indians, and they are jailed and fined for the least thing. They are treated as foreigners in their own native land.

The Wesleyan Mission blows its trumpets about what it has done and is doing: now, at the present time, the Wesleyans have a good opportunity to bestir themselves and declare for Fiji for the Fijian.

But they lie low—their troubles about Fijian rights! Where is the British justice to be found—certainly not in Fiji at present!

According to the Governor’s doctrine, Fiji is not the place for the descendants of those early British pioneers of the Colony, who braved all in a hostile country to pave the way for British officials and their crowd of Indian coolies.

The descendants of these same pioneers are being calmly told by Sir Murchison Fletcher that there is no room for their children in Fiji, and they must look elsewhere for work!

The Indians in Fiji are a problem and a curse. Australia and New Zealand are wise in preventing them from coming in.

They breed like rabbits, and Fiji in a few years cannot and will not be able to support them. India does not want them back. Where will they go?

I am, etc..

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R.M.S. Aorangi, 16/12/’33.

Insolent Natives

N.G. Goldfields Cases f T'HERE has been a certain amount of murmuring among residents of the goldfields area in New Guinea owing to what is described as the growing insolence and unreliability of native labourers.

We are informed that in the Wau district, within the past three or four months, there have been at least half a dozen cases—none of very serious character —of assaults on European women by natives. If this is a fact, it indicates a condition of affairs that most urgently requires the attention of the authorities.

The whole question of the punishment of native servants demands revision. Owing to the stupidity and ponderousness of the law which governs industrial relations in New Guinea, boys escape far too easily from punishment for these offences.

By way of contrast, we may mention the case of Mr. George Chester, who had occasion recently to report to the authorities that one of his native labourers had died while he was on the job, out in the Morobe district. There was evidence that the boy had been injured by his master, who did not deny that he had been obliged to punish him severely. As a result of the incident, the Administration sent a magistrate out into the wilds to investigate the matter and it is reported that Mr. Chester has been taken to Rabaul on a charge of murder.

We know nothing about the merits of the case; and we cannot say positively that the report is correct. We can only hope that we are not going to have a repetition of the Larkin case, which still stands to the discredit of the Territory.

But we do say most emphatically that the whole basis of the law as applied in these cases is wrong and ridiculous. In our view, it is a much more serious thing that white women resident in New Guinea should be menaced by insolent “coons” than that a carrier or labourer should be injured by an employer upon whom devolves the responsibility for maintaining discipline. It would be a better thing for the future of New Guinea if the Administration were less concerned with the behaviour of whites towards blacks, and gave more attention to the behaviour of blacks towards whites. 24 February 20, 1934.

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"Charlie" Ward's Experience From Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, Nov. 30.

IT was a notable coincidence that the article in the October number of the P.1.M., by Charlie Ward, on “How the Cook Islands became British,” appeared on the same page as an advertisement for the Bank of New South Wales in Broome and Roebuck Bay.

This brings to the mind of Charlie the fact that he took the first squatter to Roebuck Bay in the Melbourne barque “Maroon,” in about 1881.

The squatter’s name was Muir, and he landed with his son, two European drovers, about 500 sheep, two horses, and a dog. He settled some miles inland from the Bay, and Charlie walked over to see him once or twice before the “Maroon” sailed away.

“I often wonder,” says Charlie, “what happened to him. I never got round that way, again, so never heard.” Perhaps someone in Roebuck Bay could tell him?

The “Maroon” lay in the bay for two weeks or so, and on the first day Charlie was warned not to let any of the aboriginals get behind him, as several pearldivers, hitherto the only Europeans in these parts, had been stabbed in the back.

Charlie listened. “But,” h e says, “with evening coming I got restless. I was only a lad then.”

So, filling his pockets with twist tobacco and matches, he slipped down the rope ladder and waded ashore. He could see the lights of the natives’ fires, a hundred yards inland, and made for them and company. He got near and saw the blacks Sitting in a semi-circle, facing a man who was obv i ous iy the chief.

“Well, here goes,” said Charlie. “A knif© in tho back or a jolly evening l . 99 Ho strode boldly up to the chief, and presented him with the twist and matches.

The men in the semi-circle rose, but the chief motioned them back, and he made Charli6 git by his side . They had been singing and dancing and drinking, and when the “komiti” came round, Charlie i^i n e d j n J \ .... x _ . Boy> „ says « that was l a fine ev< r n " mg. All them y° un £ roosters prancing round, and me leaning against the chief, watching the girls. Pretty? Lor’ bless you ’ no! Ugly as sin, and as black; but young, you know, young.” * 5 ’ * J B . ..

In afew 6 it ntof * th f komiti were finished and Charlie stood apto s °- Three of t* l6 roosters were *° ld of f t( ? accompany him, and a girl was also singled out. But no hanky-panky tor me Charlie was firm. I made ’em walk in front, and kept one of my eyes swivelled backwards till I’d left the group by the fires.”

Arrived at the beach, he bade them good-night, and waded back to the barque. Going up the ladder he was sure he felt someone underneath him, and was expecting every minute to get a jab in the leg But when he reached the deck and looked over, it was the girl who was following him. She stepped on board quite unafraid, and he gave her a good meal beef, biscuits, etc., in his cabin. He told her by signs that he was sleepy, but she showed quite clearly that she had every intention of staying.

“And she did,” grins Charlie, “ugly as a crow, she was, too, and she followed me round like a shadder all the time we were in the bay, I was the only one who went ashore, and never met anything but smiling faces. When we left they all stood waist deep in the water and yelled —such a caterwauling they set up! My mates laughed at me till they nearly split their pants.

“But I tell you, same to-day as then, treat natives right and they’ll treat you the same. What I told that Muir chap.

Wonder what happened to him?”

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New Guinea

From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Jan. 26.

Mrs. Grace Lansley, until recently the proprietress of the Pacific Hotel in Rabaul, was married on December 18 to Mr. T.

Evans, of the Public Health Department, Miss Ruth Hagan, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid, and Mr. C. Wood as best man. The affair was only a quiet one, and shortly after the ceremony the happy couple journeyed to Toma for their honeymoon. Miss Hagan has taken over the management of the hotel.

Mrs. J. K. Twycross, wife of our popular Amalgamated Wireless manager, has journeyed South on holidays and has taken her three children with her. Mr.

Twycross expects to follow, in the course of the next month or so.

Dr. E. T. Brennan, Director of Public Health, has returned from his leave, which was spent in the East. Dr. Hosking, who was relieving as P.M.O. during the Director’s absence, will attend the Malaria Conference at Singapore in April and May.

Mr. J. R. Rigby, the A.D.0., stationed at Namatanai, has proceeded on leave and has been relieved by Mr. E. C. McDonald.

A son was born to Mr, and Mrs. W.

L. MacGowan on Christmas Eve.

The many friends of Mr. Armer Hamilton, our one-time Bank of New South Wales manager, are pleased to know that he is fully recovered from his illness contracted in this Territory, and that he is now attached to the Northern district, New South Wales, inspection branch.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Vandercook, who have been travelling through Papua in the interests of the National Geographical Magazine, have arrived in Rabaul and intend proceeding to the British Solomon Islands from here. Both of them are very interesting people and have travelled extensively in out-of-the-way places. Mr.

Vandercook is a well-known author and journalist, and his wife is a successful New York sculptor.

On Saturday afternoon, December 16, the wedding took place at St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Rabaul, of Miss Rita Donoghue, of Cairns, and Mr. M. Walsh, of the New Guinea Club. Mrs. W. H.

Wilson acted as matron-of-honour, and Mr. G. H. Murray as best man. The wedding breakfast was held at the Wunawutung Hotel.

Mrs. T. Parer, of Melbourne, passed through Rabaul recently, and has joined her husband at the Wau.

Captain Meldrum, of the B.P. Inter- Island steamer “Maiwara” has returned from leave and has again taken over command. Mr. P. Anderson, who was in charge of the “Maiwara” during Captain Meldrum’s absence, has been transferred to the “Mirani” as chief officer.

Mr. Cyril Parer, of Wau, was married on December 21 to Miss Fogarty, of Camberwell, Victoria. The couple will live at the Wau.

Commander Webb, our Harbour Master in Rabaul, has returned from his visit to England, and has taken over his duties again.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Baker have arrived in Rabaul. Mr. Baker is looking after the interests of Mr. A. N. McLennan, solicitor, during his absence on leave. Mr. Baker was previously attached to the Titles Office as Registrar, during the absence of Mr. J. L. Street.

Mr. Ralph Follows, of Kavieng, was married on December 16 to Miss Ceilia Hillier.

Mr. G. Boediker, of Hong Kong, who is a member of the firm of that name, has recently returned to the East, after having made an extensive tour of this Territory. Mr. H. Schmidt, representative of the Hong Kong firm of Messrs. Melchers and Co., has also been making a business trip through New Guinea and returned to Hong Kong by the Friderun recently. The Hong Kong houses are out to capture the trade of this Territory, which many people affirm will not be a difficult matter owing to the favourable prices which the eastern firms are able to give the consumers of New Guinea. It would be well for the Australian firms not to ignore altogether this commercial penetration from the East. 26 February 20, 1934.

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New Laws Cause Stir In Cook Is.

From Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, Dec. 11.

AS a result of the visit to the Cook Islands in July and August past, of Mr. Smith, the Secretary of the Cook Islands Department at Wellington, the Fifth Amendment to the Fruit Regulations of 1928 has made its appearance.

Presumably tired of the complaints received from interested parties, to wit, the fruit speculators mostly, on the inferiority of the Cook Islands oranges, Mr. Smith immediately after his arrival set about interviewing European planters, and holding settlement meetings with native growers, that he might learn what was needed to make an improvement. These regulations are the outcome.

The native growers, looking at the low prices which they have habitually obtained for their oranges for many years past, and which they rightly attribute to the dumping of Australian oranges, permitted by the New Zealand Government, more than to the inferiority of their fruit, were by no means unanimous about incurring further expenses in growing fruit, which it may be safely said does not bring them a profit, on the average, of one shilling per case in Rarotonga.

In this respect it might be mentioned that the restriction of imports from Australia during our orange season of 1938 did result in a slightly better average price of round 1/6 per case. But consider the agitation of the fruit speculators to have this embargo removed, in which they succeeded.

Whether they like it or not, the Cook Island growers are to be dragooned into improvement, and if one can judge by appearances at the roadside, a number have already begun to follow the new law, as trees pruned and whitewashed are becoming noticeable. But how far inland is this work being carried on?

Amendment No. 5 is in the right direction; contains nothing that an intelligent citrus grower would not of his own volition do, and should result in a cleaner and better looking fruit if followed out properly. It will be years before the native owners can be persuaded or forced to cut down all diseased or infected trees; thin all clumps of citrus trees; prune all dead wood; cut down trees to a desirable height; cultivate under all trees; and to treat, disinfect, and otherwise deal with all trees as may be ordered by the Director of Agriculture.

If the owners do not carry out the work, the Director can carry it out at the expense of the owner. The recovery of the expenses will present difficulty in a great many cases. Remember Samoa!

Further, with a view to lessening the fruit fly nuisance, all fallen citrus fruit, mangoes, and avocado pears, are to be gathered weekly, and buried or burnt. As they will not burn they must be buried deep, to be effective in fly destruction.

Also, guavas and rose apples are declared noxious weeds. It appears as if the planters will be so busy cutting, spraying, burning, burying, and digging out guava and rose apple bushes that they will have no time to plant food or anything else.

The Amendment bears evidence of having been got out in a hurry, and no doubt will be further amended.

One or two of the regulations make one wonder whether the property belongs to the owners in fee simple, or to the Government.

For instance, No. 7 makes it unlawful “for any owner to tether animals of any kind to any citrus tree.” Presumably, any one other than the owner can do so and commit no breach of the regulation; and it must be understood that by the definition it is the owner of the land, not the owner of the horse, who shall fall into trouble. Trespassing and tethering horses on other people’s land are among the greatest annoyances land holders suffer from here; the horses being tethered after dark and removed at daybreak. The signs are obvious, but the ownership of the horse is not. This regulation should have the words “any person” substituted for “any owner.”

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To sum up, the Regulations are in the right direction, but the mouthful is too big to chew at once. Fortunately our Director of Agriculture is helpful, and will, we hope, use a mixture of enthusiasm tempered with common sense, to make these regulations work harmoniously and beneficially, without too much Court prosecution, of which the island has more than its share at all times.

We have had packing sheds here for a few years, resulting in a multiplication of officials and extra charges. We have better packing, admittedly, but of the same old fruit, with no better prices to the growers. Our dread is that these new regulations will result similarly.

The fruit business appears to be entirely at the disposal of the fruit speculators in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. However, these regulations, which we believe are honest in intention, seem to be the first that have not had their source in their scheming brains, and are for our benefit, not theirs.

Progress On New Guinea

GOLDFIELD It is reported that Wau, chief town of the New Guinea goldfield, is to have a second hotel. A license has been granted to Mr. John Parer, formerly of Melbourne, who is an uncle of the well-known airman, Ray Parer.

Mr. A. F. Parer was recently granted a license for Edie Creek, and it is reported that he is building a hotel there.

It is likely that there will be considerable developments in the Edie Creek area at an early date. A contract for the construction of a full width road, over the 14 miles between Wau and Edie Creek, has been let and, on last advices, construction work was to commence immediately. The new road will not follow the old track and will, of course, be better graded.

Samoan Producers

Facing a Lean Season From our own Correspondent APIA, January 17.

IVTO change for the better can be reported in the economic situation of Samoa since last report.

The N.Z. Government has shown little sympathy and no inclination to give some active assistance to the hard-pressed primary producer of Samoa. A planters’ meeting a few days ago decided to approach again the N.Z. Government, through Mr. Goetz, the President, at present on a N.Z. vacation, and appeal for assistance to the plantation industry, threatened with complete ruin. The prospects of success are not very bright.

Cocoa is still at £l2/5/- a ton and/or an advance of £lO per ton on consignments.

Copra has reached a new low level with £7/12/6 per ton on the London market.

Samoans refuse to cut at the present rate of i cent per lb., while Europeans are effectively prevented from doing so by the low price, which does not even cover the actual cash expenses required for cutting.

The only bright spot on the dark Samoan horizon is bananas. But the monthly quota of about 7,000 cases is insufficient to give the industry a satisfactory outlet. The day after the “Maui Pomare” had left with a full cargo, applications for 10,000 cases were received. A steamer with twice the capacity of the “Maui” could easily be filled. The quality of the fruit is very high indeed and favourably commented upon by the N.Z. buyers. The outlook for a new market in Vancouver is not considered encouraging.

A large number of trading stations are being closed all over the group. Employees are being dismissed and retrenchment is the order of the day. The number of unemployed is steadily growing among Europeans and, in the circumstances, it is a bit difficult to maintain a cheerful attitude.

Samoan Cocoa

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The Mau Cases In Samoa

APIA, January 25, THE trial of Mr. O. F. Nelson, leader of the Samoan Mau, on charges of sedition was interrupted in an unexpected manner in mid-January.

Mr. Nelson during his cross-examination of Police Inspector Braisby, which continued for nine days, broke down in court on January 11. He had been a very sick man even before his arrest.

The case was adjourned until January 15, to give Mr. Nelson a chance to recover; but during that week-end Judge Luxford, who has been hearing the case, had the misfortune to cut his foot severely on green coral, and was taken to Apia hospital, suffering from blood poisoning.

At the time of writing, Judge Luxford is still in hospital, under treatment, and the case has been further postponed.

Poisoning from green coral is a very dangerous thing, and the most skilled attention has been made available for the Judge.

The hearing was adjourned until January 22, and then to January 29.

Up to the time of the adjournment on January 11, the proceedings before the court had been very lengthy; and it is believed that, even if a conviction is recorded, there will be an appeal to the Supreme Court in New Zealand, and possibly to the Privy Council. A large number of witnesses have still to be examined.

The lengthy addresses of the prosecuting attorney, Mr. McCarthy, in outlining the history of the Mau movement, and of the Chief of Police, Mr. Braisby, reading a large quantity of documentary evidence seized at the various raids on Mr, Nelson’s residence and other places, brought very little of a sensational character. The lengthy statements filled many pages of the local paper.

Some characteristic extracts of letters and documents, written by Mr. Nelson and seized by the police, are of interest from a psychological point of view.

In one document a passage talks of the Mau “doing silent work, and getting the running of the country into our own hands”; and “one day the Government would wake up and find the Mau running the country.”

A Mau “Budget” and Estimates, written by Nelson himself, and showing a balance of £2200, gives details of revenue and expenditure, a tax on 4000 matais (householders) at 6/- and 8000 tauleleas (commoners) at 3/ on the one side; and expenditure on the “Guardian” (the Mau newspaper in Auckland) of £5OO, maintenance of Mau capital (Vaimoso) of £344, and remunerations of Mau officials amounting to over £llOO.

The Constitution of the Mau, combining features of the present Administration and old Sampan tribal customs, is a lengthy document, dealing with the organisation of central and village administration, down to minute details. The “Guardian” newspaper and its Samoan supplement is not overlooked; it should be read out by those who receive it to all people of the village, even to the school children.

In a letter written by Nelson he states that papalgis (white people) should be invited to Mau functions. They would supposedly prefer not to attend but will find it hard to refuse the Samoans, because of commercial and other reasons, but they are to be invited so as to find out which side they are on. It is now a matter of “You must be with us or against us.”

New Zealand will wake up one day to find that by peaceful penetration of the Mau, and their own incompetency to govern a proud and dignified people, the Samoans will have wrested the last vestige of control of the Samoans from the Mandatory Government.”

Of one of his own speeches at Vaimoso taalolo, Mr. Nelson says that “I am pleased that the boys like my speech at Vaimoso and, reading the proofs again, I am rather impressed with it myself. . . . As puts it, I should feel honoured to be worthy of being called New Zealand’s greatest foe, and may become the bogeyman to frighten N.Z. children when they are naughty.”

It appears that a full three thousand pounds of actual cash belonging to Nelson has been used on the newspaper (the ‘‘N.Z. Samoa Guardian”), The cross-examination of Inspector Braisby by Mr. Nelson himself brought a lot of quite irrelevant questions. The courthouse during the first nine days of the trial was every day surrounded by a large crowd of Mau adherents, men and women, who also crowded the court room to overflowing - . Mr. Nelson’s statements and questions were translated into Samoan and, at times, the Samoans clapped their hands.

The Court, on the other hand, apparently was desirous of avoiding any charges that the accused was hampered in any way in the conduct of his case and practically unlimited freedom was granted to Nelson to put a widely divergent range of questions.

On the ninth day the prosecuting counsel pointed out that Mr. Nelson, when arriving at the Court, was greeted by the Samoans assembled there with the Mau salute, which constituted a breach of the bail and should be prohibited. The Court then ruled that in future any act of this kind should constitute a breach of bail and would be dealt with accordingly.

During the cross-examination of Inspector Braisby by Mr. Nelson, on the ninth day of the trial, the former stated that after Nelson’s return to Samoa from New Zealand there had been increased interest and activity in Mau affairs.

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Inspector, to rebellion. As proof of his contention, he pointed to the nature of certain documents seized at Nelson’s residence.

A heated interchange of questions and replies then took place.

NELSON: Do you suggest that those activities were organised and prompted by me?

BRAISBY: I believe that you were a party to them.

NELSON: Then I would also have been a party to rebellion?

BRAISBY: If those activities had resulted in an open rebellion, and you were associated with them, you would have been.

A discussion then took place between Mr. Nelson and Inspector Braisby regarding the effects of Nelson’s deportation on Mau activities. The dramatic interchange apparently proved too great a strain on Mr. Nelson’s nerves. He was noticeably unwell, and the Court had to be adjourned.

Dr. Dawson was called and stated that the trial had proved too great a strain on defendant’s health and that complete restfor a few days was imperative to restore it.

The Judge then granted counsel’s request to adjourn the case until January 15. It was later adjourned to January 29 owing to the illness of Judge Luxford,

Sudden Death Of Mau Secretary

MAT A’UHA.

As a considerable shock to the Mau came the sudden demise of the Mau secretary Mata’uha Kalauna. The deceased suffered from jaundice and his condition became serious, probably owing to some negligence on his part, acting against the advice of Dr. Dawson.

Absurd rumours at once were spread amongst the Samoans—one that the deceased gentleman had confessed to being a traitor to the Mau, in the service of the Administration, and that he had poisoned himself in consequence.

Previous to his death, it was reported that Mata’uha was to be one of the star witnesses for Mr. Nelson in his trial.

Suppression Of The Mau

NEWSPAPER.

By special announcement, based on the “Samoa Publication Order 1933,” the Administrator has declared the “N.Z. Samoa Guardian” to be a seditious newspaper.

This prevents the receipt in Samoa of the paper, and anyone receiving it is liable to punishment.

It is probable that the prohibition was caused by a violent attack on the High Court of Samoa by the paper in its issue of December 15, 1933.

MAU DOES NOT WANT EUROPEANS.

During the trial of several Samoan chiefs for Mau activities, which was reported in an earlier issue of the P.I.M. one of the accused, Autagavara, was asked by prosecuting counsel, Mr. McCarthy, what the term “Manua o Samoa ’’meant.

The reply was that it meant that the Samoans want Samoa for the Samoans, and no Europeans.

Mr. MCCARTHY: Do you mean, therefore, that the Samoans want the Europeans to leave Samoa and leave the Samoans to run the country?—Yes.

Mr. MCCARTHY: The Mau will be dissatisfied until they get this point?—Yes.

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Islands Produce

Coffee The following quotations were obtained on February 15: — Robusta, f.a.q., imported from Java on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., prompt shipment Sydney, per cwt., 43/7; Robusta, as above, based on 9 gulden to Australian £, fluctuations at date of shipment on buyers’ account; shipment February, 1934, 36/6.

Arabian (Aden), Hodeidah No. 1 (pure), c.i.f.

Sydney, November shipment, per cwt., 63/-.

Longberry Harrar, December shipment No. 1, 61/-.

Importers of Robusta coffee from Java pay the following charges:—As above, per cwt., 43/7; remitting 25)4 P er cent, exchange, 10/10; duty, 4d. per lb., 37/4; primage, 10 per cent., 4/4; landing charges, 1/-; total, 97/1 per cwt., equal to per lb., landed cost. Coffee imported from Papua and New Guinea is free from exchange and duty equal to 47/2 per cwt.

Kapok Based on an exchange conversion of 9 gulden to the Australian £, the Australian c.i.f. prices current in mid-February were; —Prime Samarang, 4 13-16 d. per lb; Prime Japara, 5%d. per lb.

Cocoa No. 1 Quote: Accra, good fermented, 22/9 per cwt.

No. 2 Quote: Cocoa beans, £25 to £32, per ton.

Trocas Shell Quotations for trocas shell obtained i» Sydney from two different sources on February 15 were: — (a) Trocas shell, No. 1 grade £B2 Trocas shell, No. 2 grade £7B Trocas shell, No. 3 grade £56 (b) Trocas shell, No. 1 grade £B5 Trocas shell, No. 2 grade £72 Trocas shell, No. 3 grade £5B All quotes are f.0.b., and on the Australian £.

Ivory Nuts Quote No. 1: £6/5/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Quote No. 2: £lO-£ll per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Green Snail Shell Good quality green snail shell was quoted in Sydney in mid-February at £25-£26 per ton.

Cotton London c.i.f. prices of cotton as quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald during the past month were; January 19, 5.81 d. per lb., February shipment; January 26, 5.81 d. per lb., February shipment; February 2,6.1 d. per lb., March shipment; February 9,6.44 d. per lb., March shipment.

Rice Rangoon rice, packed in 1001 b. or 2001 b. bags, £lO/10/- per ton, f.o.b. Sydney.

Australian table rice, packed in 561 b. bags, £l5/10/- per ton. 31

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Conditions In French Oceania

New Governor Gives Inspiring Lead From Our Own Correspondent, PAPEETE, February 2.

THE first session of the Financial and Economic Delegation was opened recently by His Excellency Governor Montagne.

This body, which acts mainly in a consultative and advisory capacity, but has the power of veto over projected expenditures which are not obligatory, was organised recently to assist the local Administration in finding solutions for many pressing problems which present themselves during this critical period in the history of the Colony.

In presenting the Budget for 1934 Monsieur Montagne said that since his arrival in Tahiti in June last he had made a close study of those economic and budgetary questions, the rapid solution of which was of the first importance to the future of the Colony. Everywhere he had travelled in the pursuit of his investigations, in Tahiti, in the Leeward Group, and in the Tuamoto Archipelago, he had been assisted with the same fine spirit of loyal cooperation.

The estimated Administrative revenue for 1934 was placed at 15,400,000 francs, the same as 1933, and the estimated expenditure at the same figure, but it was considered as highly improbable that this amount would all be utilised. Discussing the deficit accumulated during the years 1931 and 1933, which totalled over 7,000,000 francs, Monsieur Montagne said that, on the proposition of the Minister for the Colonies, the Home Parliament had voted 5,490,000 francs towards its diminution.

Taking the figures for 1913 —the only normal year during the period covered by his studies —as a basis for comparison of Administrative expenses, His Excellency found that the ratio of increase for 1931 worked out at 7.30, and for 1934 (estimated) 5.83; the latter figure being not very much in excess of 1913 when the depreciated value of the franc was taken into account. He considered that the reduction achieved during the past three years represented a very real effort towards the readjustment of expenses to meet diminished resources, and that the figures revealed a situation which might be regarded with envy by many other countries.

In the very admirable portion of his speech dealing with education and public health Monsieur Montagne held out no hope of reduction in the amounts allocated for these important services. He took a lofty view of their duties towards the Polynesian natives, who were so very dear to France. Such redoubtable enemies as leprosy, tuberculosis and elephantitis, would not yield to the magic of vain speeches; they must be prepared for a long and arduous struggle. He had already arranged that women born in the Colony should in future be admitted free into the Maternity Hospital at Papeete, and planned to have two more institutions of the same sort working in 1934, one in Moorea, and the other in Borabora. The attention of the Home Government had already been directed towards this question of public health, and the financial aid necessary for the mobilisation of their protective forces against disease, and he was inclined to believe that the matter would now be taken up as one of national importance.

After discussing the trade statistics of the Colony for 1933, and the copra bonus now in operation—matters which have already been commented upon in these notes —Monsieur Montagne said that he would not fail to acquaint the Home Government with the special conditions which were responsible for a relatively high Administrative expense; the dispersal of the islands over an enormous area of ocean, the sparsity and numerical unimportance of the population, and the great distance from France and from other great political and commercial centres of the world.

With the object of improving the grade of cattle in the Colony, and ensuring a better supply of fresh milk, Monsieur Montagne said that the Administration were importing animals from the best obtainable breeds, and would establish a stud service in the experimental gardens at Mamao. Of interest also to landowners was the announcement of the opening of the “Credit Mutuel Agricole,” which, in the absence of a land or mortgage bank, would encourage co-operation and assist small proprietors in the development of their enterprises.

Monsieur Montagne considered that the geographical situation of Tahiti midway between the Panama Canal and Australia gave it a unique value from a tourist standpoint, and he fully realised the important role played by international tourism in the prosperity of the Colony, and of Papeete in particular. As with other industries, the equipment necessary for the expansion of the tourist industry within these beautiful islands must be augmented and improved by continuous effort, persevering, prudent, and French, and he advocated supporting the propaganda of the Tourist Association in order that our little Capital might become favourably known as the centre of tourism. (A special Commission, working in conjunction with the Tourist Association, has since been appointed, and is charged with the duty of establishing a plan of touristic improvements to be undertaken during 1934.) M. LUCIEN MONTAGNE, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Governor of French Oceania. Before his appointment to Tahiti, his Excellency held the post of Governor over the Comorro Archipelago, a Dependency of Madagascar, and, save for an interruption caused by the war, his brilliant reputation was achieved solely in that important Colony. While there he became one of the most active members of the Madagascar Acadamie, and received from that institution the Diploma for Oriental Languages, of which he is a profound student. The new Chief of the Colony arrived in June last, with two of his sons, but has since been joined by Madame Montagne and his four other children. 32 February 20, 1934.

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Fashion Notes for Island Women By THERESE.

THE vogue for less clothes is world wide. Even the sterner sex follows it with reckless abandon. As there is no field of masculine attire that woman has not invaded, the “Roland” for her “Oliver” is the “Male Mannequin Parade,” in which athletic brother Bill struts in clothes that bid fair to outrival even Joseph’s coat.

On Continental beaches men sport scarlet shirts, and brown slacks, their berets matching their vivid shirts.

Woman in the meantime cultivates for day wear the plainly cut, little trimmed frock in quiet shades. She gets her splash of color from her accessories, so to these she gives minute attention.

A frock of soft grey voile or silk boasts cuffs and huge bow of polka dots in contrasting shades —extremely attractive and very unusual.

The trouser-dress is the newest mode in ideal sporting garments. Its bodice is like that of an ordinary frock, while the trouser portion is a cleverly cut widely flared divided skirt. With it are worn Roman sandals and—no stockings, please!

The economical trend for evening is the skirt of satin, since with it can be worn such a variety of the most fascinating little blouses and coatees. The scope for expressing your individuality in this direction is tremendous. Lace, georgette, ninon, all offer wonderful possibilities.

When you want to wear this “rock of salvation” skirt for more formal occasions, clip on a blouse of the same material, add a belt or sash, and you can face even your dearest enemy with the calm indifference borne of confidence. For special party occasions, nothing could be more alluring than fine black net over a black taffeta slip. Flounces of billowing net start from the knees and a white rose is worn at the corsage. All very new and exceedingly youthful.

For the full floating skirt of a georgette evening gown—a skirt that looks like a drifting cloud —the newest of new pantaloons are worn of the same material.

In that beautiful buttercup yellow shade it would be an inspiration for an “Ode to Perfection.”

The newest evening handkerchiefs, for display, of course, are of georgette or chiffon, bordered with little designs in gold beads. They are very easily made, too, 18 to 24 inches square. For those of you who tremble to attempt a design, dot a bead here and there over the handkerchief. The effect is delightful, and equally effective. For a very tiny sum you can get half an ounce of crystal beads in any desired shade.

Hand-made wristlets of beads and flowers are fashion’s latest whim. Make a long strand of beads the length you require; fold it into four equal lengths and attach it to a tiny velvet gardenia. Attach a press fastener so that it fits tightly to the wrist and, hey, presto! a few minutes’ work and the attractive little wristlet is yours.

“My mother bids me bind my hair,” and daughters rush to do mother’s bidding, for the Alice in Wonderland bands of gold, silver, and tortoiseshell are distinctly fascinating.

For the woman who has not shorn her locks, there is the halo plait—so soft, feminine, and very smart just now. If you have been wearing clusters of curls, you must proceed to forget them, for the hair is much shorter this season. It clings to your head in soft waves and breaks into a sudden curl at the end of the wave. The new style of hairdressing makes you look younger and slimmer, too, so should prove popular in every way.

Hats are still the reckless wisps that call for the perfect coiffure, and it matters not what shape they are, so long as they suit your individuality. The sporting girl buys the inexpensive pique hat worn by the cricketers and folds it to the shape she requires, and for her ingenuity she is rewarded with success beyond measure.

Remember that whatever the occasion, your hat must be discreetly trimmed. A tiny feather, a jaunty bow, a brilliant clip, or the plainest of bands at the correct angle, spell all the difference between success and failure —and not a wandering hair of you will be considered outside the pale.

A Slumber Cap

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In making a cap for preserving the wave in sleep it is better to err on the large side than the small, as a tight fit will drag the waves out of position. Crochet cotton is an ideal medium for working, and for this cap one ball is required in any shade, with a crochet hook, No. 4^.

This cap is commenced at the centre crown, the rose being part of the cap and not attached afterwards, a much more satisfactory and practical idea for sleeping wear. The ear-points should be lengthened according to personal requirements, and the cap should be tried on after about 3in. has been worked. To alter the size the number of chain stitches should be increased or decreased. This cap measures 20in. round the widest part.

For the rose:—9 ch. form into ring, 24 d.c. into ring, 1 d.c. into first d.c., 7 ch., 1 d.c. into every 3rd d.c. round (making 8 loops). Into each loop work 1 d.c., 6 tr., 1 d.c., round this work 8 ch. and 1 d.c. into the vertical st. on the back of work between each petal. Into each loop work 1 d.c.; 8 tr., 1 d.c.; round this row work 11 ch. for loops, into each loop work 1 d.c., 10 tr., 1 d.c., round this work 10 ch. for loops. Into first loop work 1 picot (8 ch., insert hook into sth ch. from hook, draw thread through that and the loop on the hook to form picot, 4 ch.), 1 d.c. into third ch. of loop. *- 1 picot, miss 3 ch., 1 d.c. into next ch., 1 picot, 1 d.c. into third ch. of next loop, repeat from * all round (16 picots). Work 3 more rows, working over ch. after picot. 11 ch., 1 d.c. into ch. after picot all round, into each loop work 1 d.c., 12 tr., 1 d.c. (16 petals), s.s. to the third tr. of first petal, * 1 picot, miss 6 tr., 1 d.c. into next tr., 1 picot, 1 d.c. into third tr. of next petal, repeat from * all round. 34 more rows, working 1 d.c. over eh, after picot.

Right Ear-pieces.—lst row: Turn, work 1 picot, miss 1 picot of previous row, 1 d.c. over ch. before next picot. Work 6 picots more; when working next picot omit the 4 ch. and join to cap with quad tr. 2nd row. —Turn, 1 picot, miss 1 picot of previous row, 1 d.c. over ch. after next picot, 5 more picots; when working next picot omit the 4 ch. and join with quad tr.

Repeat first and second rows, making 1 picot less each row until there is only 1 picot, finish off.

Leave 7 clear picots for back of cap. Join thread on ch. before next picot, work left earpiece to correspond with right. 9 ch., 1 d.c. into each space all round, working into point at earpieces, 1 d.c., 11 tr., 1 d.c. into each loop, finish off. Sew piece of ribbon on each side.

Abbreviations.—Ch., chain; st., stitch; d.c., double crochet; tr., treble; quad tr., quadruple treble (thread over hook 4 times); s.s., slip stitch. 33 February 20, 1934.

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New Guinea Cricket

Wau Defeats Rabaul From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Jan. 5.

New Britain Cricket XI. journeyed by steamer to Salamaua during the Christmas holidays. Result: Salamaua 28, New Britain 120 for 9 wickets.

Aeroplaning up to the Wau, the team arrived on race day (December 26), and were the guests of the Morobe Turf Club On the following day a match was played with the Wau XI. Wau scored 232; the visitors made 60.

The Rabaul Cricket Association is planning other tours, so as to encourage interdistrict matches.

From Dubbo To Rabaul

After* having been connected with the Dubbo (New South Wales) branch of the Commonwealth Bank for some time, Air.

Jim Twist, graduate of Dubbo High School, well-known footballer and popular townsman, will leave early this montn for Rabaul, on transfer. Last week he was farewelled at “Woonah” guest house, Dubbo, where a surprise party was arranged by Mr. and Mrs. E. Lundholm.

Jim, who has been staying at “Woonah,” was genuinely surprised when he returned home and was ushered into the lounge room, where he was greeted with the strains of “Why was he born so beautiful,” and “For he’s a jolly good fellow,” sung by about 25 guests.

Dancing, musical items and a presentation provided enjoyment during the remainder of the evening. 5000 N.G. NATIVES AT MALAGENE From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Jan. 20.

TPHE New Year “sing-sing” (or malagene) organised by the Administration for the local natives around Rabaul and district, was held on January 6, and was attended - by over 5000 natives from the villages within the Rabaul district.

The organisation was perfect, and, owing to the willingness and co-operation of the paramount chief of Matupi, some members of the Duk-duk society appeared in full regalia. The ceremony of “throwing away” native money at the feet of the “tubuans” was not the least interesting ceremony of the afternoon.

Many of the head-dresses carried unique carving.

It is anticipated that a dance on somewhat similar lines will be staged when the overseas tourist vessel arrives from Australia in June.

Trading Hours in Cook Is.

From Our Own Correspondent.

RARATONGA, February 2.

A MOTION to close all retail stores at 4 p.m. was put forward at the last meeting of the Island Council, by Mr.

Bert Shearman, trader, and the only European member of the Council.

Previously, there have been no legal opening and closing hours; teashops doing business at early as 5 a.m. and stores opening at 7 a.m., and the main stores closing at 4 p.m. If this new motion is adopted, the small retail stores will be affected, as two-thirds of their trade is done after 4 p.m., when the plantation workers return from the hills. There are about 30 of these small business men, who are doing their best to fight the movement. It appears that a special licence, for trading up to 9 p.m., would meet the case.

Administrator of Western Samoa THE term of the present Administrator of Samoa, Brigadier-General H. E.

Hart, will expire in March and it is expected that a new appointment will he announced shortly by the N.Z. Government.

The view is taken in some quarters that to appoint a new man to the position, after General Hart has carried on successfully for three years under very difficult conditions, and has obtained invaluable experience, is not a wise proceeding —in other words, that it would be better if General Hart were re-appointed. It is also reported, however, that General Hart does not desire re-appointment.

It is also stated that the appointment of a new Administrator might be made an occasion to seek again a conference with the remnants of the Mau, with a view to making another attempt to bring peace at last to Samoa. 34 February 20, 1934.

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Mr. Adamson is at present in Fiji. The board placed oh record its sense of the great loss to the Fiji district by Mr. Lelean’s retirement. For 33 years Mr. Lelean had served the Church in Fiji faithfully and with conspicuous ability. As principal of the college for 20 years he had rendered his greatest service, and he had influenced profoundly the present generation in Fiji.

He had done much translation and revision work which would serve the Fijian church for generations.

Vanikoro Timber

South African Ships Provide Australian Connection T'HE kauri timber industry on the Island of Vanikoro, in the southern Solomons, has taken a new lease of life; and cargoes of undressed logs are now being regularly shipped to Melbourne and Sydney, where they are milled and marketed. Formerly, the logs were milled in Vanikoro, but the new Australian duty on sawn timber caused a reorganisation of the Vanikoro enterprise, which has grown considerably in recent months. The Vanikoro industry is carried on by a branch of the principal firm handling kauri in New Zealand.

There has been an interesting shipping arrangement, under which a regular connection is now maintained between Vanikoro and Australian ports. The large 9,000 tons steamers of the South African (Millars’) line—the Erica, Dalia, and Aloe —are now calling regularly at Vanikoro on their round trip from South Africa to Singapore and Far Eastern ports.

Instead of returning along the same track, they come south-east to the Solomons and pass southward of Australia, after delivering their timber cargoes in Australian ports. They also carry a limited number of passengers, and are reported to be very comfortable steamers. Travellers may book for the round trip—that is to say, from Australian ports to South African ports, thence to Indian and Far Eastern ports, thence south-eastward through the East Indies and Pacific Islands to Vanikoro, thence to Sydney or Melbourne. Two new vessels are being built for this line, which will provide a more frequent service.

Two Islanders Missing

THURSDAY IS., January 14.

Three weeks ago two old South Sea Islanders, Willy Ambrym and Charlie Mallicole, who had been permitted to reside at Port Lihou, and had been visiting Thursday Island for Christmas, left for their home in a sailing dinghy. It was ascertained that they had not reached home. They were last seen on the morning of December 27, making their way in squally weather through a boat passage at the Prince of Wales Island. It seems certain that they have been lost, for an intense search of surrounding localities has revealed no trace of the missing men.

Both were formerly engaged in sugar growing and pearling work.

German Journalist In

RABAUL Arrives from Japanese Islands From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Jan. 15.

IJERR HERBERT RITTLINGER arrived in Rabaul on December 16 by the small Japanese vessel “Heiyei Maru” which occasionally makes a run to Rabaul, from the Japanese Mandated Territory.

Mr. Rittlinger is a German journalist, as well as being a Rover Scout, and is well-known in Germany for his accounts of his trip, made through Kurdistan in a collapsible boat. He represents several German newspapers and journals, and is making his way round the world, gathering material for another book.

In the Japanese Mandated Islands, Mr.

Rittlinger experienced some difficulties with regard to being able to take photographs for his journals, and during his stay there, he states, he was at all times subjected to strict surveillance.

Mr. Rittlinger was somewhat reserved in his remarks regarding his treatment at the hands of the Japanese in the Marshall and Caroline Islands, but it was not difficult to perceive that his impressions of the country were prejudiced on account of the reception accorded him.

Regarding the journey from Ponape to New Guinea, Mr. Rittlinger stated that the vessel called only at Greenwich Island and from thence sailed direct to Kavieng.

During the voyage there was no indication that any contact was made with th© Japanese poacher vessels, which have been reported so often in these waters.

Stores were landed at Greenwich Island, and only a short stay made there. 35

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Akmana New Guinea, N.L £ • pd. 1 i 140,000 £ 0 s 1 d 0 £ 0 s d 1 0 £ s d £ s d Aktnana New Guinea, N.L ctg. f 30,000 1 1 360,000 0 1 0 0 0 7 Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd $6,000,000 765,000 $5.00 $5.00 6 15 0 6 17 0 Day Dawn Sth. (N.G.), N.L. .. 50,000 175,000 0 4 0 0 1 6 0 3 2 0 3 5 Guinea Gold, N.L 'jn non 1 o o 1 n n q in n Mount Kaindi, N.L • Pd. I I [ 90,000 0 4 0 1 0 u u 4 0 o 1U u Mount Kaindi, N.L ctg. f 50 000 j l 160 000 o 4 o o 1 3 Mount Lawson Blocks, N.L. ... • Pd. 1 i so’ooo 0 4 0 0 4 0 Mount Lawson Blocks, N.L ctg. J 48,000 | 1 140,000 0 4 0 0 1 0 Mount Lawson Extended, N.L. • pd. 7 1 80,000 0 4 0 0 4 0 Mount Lawson Extended, N.L. . ctg. ( 48,000 i 1 140,000 0 4 0 0 1 0 Mount Sisa, N.L • pd. 1 | 120.000 o 4 o o 4 0 Mount Sisa, N.L ctg. | 70 000 i 1 190 000 o 4 o o N. Guinea Developments, N.L. .. 40,000 643,800 0 1 0 0 i iviyz 1 0 HZ N. Guinea Gold Deposits, N.L. . • Pd. 1 1 I 20,000 0 2 6 0 2 6 N. Guinea Gold Deposits, N.L. . . ctg. J 20,000 1 [ 100,000 0 2 6 0 1 9 N. Guinea Gold & Osmiridium, N.L. 10,000 80,000 0 2 6 0 2 6 N. Guinea Goldfields, Ltd .. pd. 1 1 [4,055,186 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 4 0 7 5 N. Guinea Goldfields, Ltd . ctg.* j 5,250,000 j 1 375,000 1 0 0 0 1 0 N. Guinea Options, Ltd., N.L. .. pd, | 1 f 50,000 0 2 0 0 2 0 N. Guinea Options, Ltd., N.L. . ctg. f 50,000 | [ 272,200 0 2 0 0 0 9 North East N. Guinea, N.L .. pd. / [ 90,000 0 4 0 0 4 0 North East N. Guinea, N.L . ctg. J 50,000 ( [ 140,000 0 4 0 0 1 0 Placer Development, Ltd $500,000 80,000 $5.00 $5.00 17 15 0 18 0 0 Sloane’s New Guinea, N.L . pd. 7 I \ 25,000 0 2 0 0 2 0 — — Sloane’s New Guinea, N.L . ctg. J 25,000 { 200,000 0 2 0 0 0 8 — — * Quotations not granted these shares.

Jan. 20 Jan. 27 Feb. 3 Feb. 10 Placer D’ment, Co.— h£ 18/15/- s£19 b £18/15/- s£19 b£19/5/- s £19/12/b£ 18/12/- s £18/15/- N.G. Goldfields, Ltd.— b8/3 s8/4 b7/6 s7/7 b8/4 s8/5 b7/3 s7/4 Jan. 20. Jan. 27 Feb. 3 Feb. 10 Day Dawn (N.G.) b27/6 .. b29/- .. b28/- .. s33/- Gold Mines of Papua .. b 6/6 .. b 6/8 .. b 7/- Mt. Kasi (Fiji) .. .. b 4/- .. b 4/- N.G. Alluvials b 9/6 .. bl0/6 .. blO/- .. b 9/7 Introducing THE

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New Goldfield In New

GUINEA Between Wau and Edie Creek From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL. Jan. 15.

THE Mining Warden for the Morob© district, Mr. H. Taylour, in his November report, which has just been released, refers to a new goldfield which has been discovered, between Wau and Edie Creek, The report reads: “Mr. R. S. Moody, who has been prospecting in the vicinity of the Wau-Kaindi mule road, about mid-way between Wau and Edie Creek, has located gold-bearing quartz.

“The extent of the discovery is at present unknown as insufficient work has been done to expose the underlying formations. The surface of the ground is covered with forest growth and moss, and few rock exposures are visible in the immediate vicinity of the find. Several shallow test-pits have been sunk from the surface through broken and fractured schistone rocks.

“I saw dish prospects washed from three of those pits and each one showed a good ‘tail’ of free gold. Pieces of quartz and partially oxidised pyritic breccia, broken from a shallow costean, also showed free gold.

“The work so far carried out shows the rock formations to be fractured and disturbed, and further systematic prospecting will be required before any definite opinion can be arrived at concerning the nature and extent of the occurrence. Four gold mining leases have been applied for over the discovery area.

“The find is being investigated and reported upon by Mr. J. M. Spence, late Mine Superintendent with New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd. An assay made of the bullion from dish prospects taken from the talus gave a fineness of 806.4 and 193.6 silver. This fineness is higher than the average alluvial gold found in Edie Creek.”

The Orient Company’s liner, “Oronsay,” will leave Sydney on another Islands cruise to New Caledonia on March 29.

She will call at Lord Howe Island before arriving at Noumea and will return via Brisbane. The cruise will be of 11 days’, duration.

New Guinea And Papuan Gold Share

MARKET The following gives details of shares of New Guinea and Papuan goldmining companies, listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange, with latest available marke* price: WEEKLY FLUCTUATIONS.

The following shows weekly fluctuations for two of the main New Guinea concerns:— QUOTATIONS FOR UNLISTED SHARES.

AROUND MILNE BAY.

The following appeared in Sydney Bulletin, January 24; Several small shows continue to scratch busily about the old mining field of Milne Bay in southeast Papua. Samarai Mining Gold Development has reported that it is on 2oz. stone, but is silent as to how much of it there is. There is also a rumor that another concern has tested a big area showing values from sdwt. to 50z., but this has to be confirmed. Debolina, a platinum show holding 800 acres, and run by a local syndicate of six men, is doing well.

Port Moresby has experienced an extraordinary amount of rainfall during the present North-west season. In one week in particular the total rainfall was 5.6 inches, and for one 24 hours, the fall was 2.54 inches, making a total of 8.14 inches in eight days. 36 February 20, 1934.

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London Para Plantation Smoked.

Price on — per lb. per lb.

June 9 .. .. 5Hd. . 3yd.

June 23 .. .. 5yd. 3.34d.

July 7 .. .. 5Hd. 3.71d.

July 14 2.90d.

July 21 .. .. 5yd. 4.06d.

July 28 .. .. syd. 3.84d.

August 4 .. .. syd. 4d.

August 11 .. .. 5/ 2 d. 3.9d.

August 18 .. .. sy 2 d. 3.78d.

August 25 .. .. 5Md. 3.71d.

September 1 .. .. .. .. 5<L 3.78d.

September 8 .. .. .. .. 4*4d. 3.5d.

September 15 .. .. .. .. 4Md. 3.65d.

September 22 .. ., .. .. 4/ 2 d. 3.71d.

September 29 .. .. .. .. 4y 2 d. 4d.

October 6 .. .. 4^d. 4.03d.

October 13 .. .. 4yd. 4d.

October 20 .. .. 4'/ 2 d. 3.71d.

October 27 3.90d.

November 3 .. .. 3.96d.

November 10 .. .. .. 4Hd. 4.09d.

November 17 .. .. .. .. 4y 2 d. 4yd.

November 24 .. .. 4.28d.

December 1 .. .. .. .. 4Vsd. 4}id.

December 8 .. .. 4Hd. 4md.

December 15 .. .. 4.21d.

December 22 .. .. .. .. 4Hd. 4^d.

December 29 .. ..

January 5, 1934 .. .. 4Hd. .. .. 4%d. .. .. md. 4yd. 4.28d.

January 12 .. .. 4.21d.

January 19 4.5^d.

January 26 4.8d.

February 2 4.84d.

February 9 Sd.

February 16 ... .. .. 4^d. 5d.

South Sea, Plantation, Hot-air Dried, London.

Sun-Dried, Rabaul.

Price on — Per ton c.i.f. Per ton c.i.f.

November 3 .. . £9 10 0 £9 IS 0 November 10.. . .... £9 7 6 £9 7 6 November 17 .. .... £9 2 6 £9 7 6 November 24.. . .. .. £8 12 6 £9 0 0 December 1 .. .. .. £8 12 6 £9 0 0 December 8 .. . .... £8 2 6 £8 12 6 December 15 .. . .... £8 7 6 £8 15 0 December 22 .. .... £8 2 6 £8 10 0 December 29 .. . .... £8 2 6 £8 10 0 January 5, 1934 . .... £8 0 0 £8 7 6 January 12 .. . .... £7 12 6 £8 0 0 January 19 .. . .... £7 15 0 £8 2 6 January 26 .. .. .... £7 12 6 £8 0 0 February 2 .. .. .. .. £7 12 6 £8 0 0 February 9 .. .. .... £7 12 6 £8 5 0 February 16 .. . .... £7 17 6 £8 10 0 London Rubber Para Plantation Smoked Price on — per lb. per lb.

January 1, 1932 4*d. 3 5/16d.

February 5 3Hd. .. 2^d.

March 4 .. .. 3Hd. 2 5/16d.

April 1 3Hd. .. VAd.

May 13 .. .. 3Hd. 1 13/16d.

June 10 3V 4 d. 1 ll/16d.

July 22 3**d. 1 15/16d.

August 5 .. .. .. 2%d.

September 2 5%d. .. 27Ad.

October 14 .. .. 2.40^d.

November 11 ..

Sd. 2.65^d.

December 2 5d. 2.59cL January 6, 1933 .. 4Md. 2.43d.

January 27 .. .. 4}4d. 2,15d.

February 3 .. .. 4'Ad. • • 2j^d.

February 10 VAd. .. 2?Ad.

March 10 .. .. 4^d. 2%d.

March 24 .. ., 4j4d. .. 2'Ad.

April 14 .. .. 4^d. 2.34d.

April 28 .... 4J/ 2 d. . - 2Ad.

May 5 4^d. 2.81d.

May 26 sy s d. 3.09d.

June 2 sy 2 d. 3.56d.

London.

Copra South Sea, Sun-Dried.

Plantation, Hot-air Dried, Rabaul.

Price on — Per ton c.i.f . Per ton c.i.f.

January 16, 1931 .. .. £14 7 6 £14 12 6 February 27 .. .. .. £14 12 6 £14 17 6 March 27 .... .. £14 10 0 £14 12 6 April 24 .. .. £13 15 0 £13 17 6 May 29 .. .. £10 17 6 £11 0 0 June 26 .. .. £11 15 0 £11 17 6 July 31 .. .. £11 5 0 £11 7 6 August 28 .. .. .. .. £11 2 6 £11 5 0 September 25 .. .. .. £12 IS 0 £12 IS 0 October 30 .. .. £13 10 0 £13 15 0 November 6 .. .. .. .. £14 0 0 £14 5 0 November 27 .. .. .. .. £13 10 0 £13 IS 0 December 4 .. .. .. .. £14 5 0 £14 10 0 December 18.. .. .. .. £14 5 0 £14 10 0 January 1, 1932 .. .. .. £14 10 0 £14 IS 0 January 29 .. .. .. £14 15 0 £15 0 0 February 12 .. .. .. .. £16 7 6 £16 10 0 February 26 .. .. .. .. £16 10 0 £16 12 6 March 11 .. .. £16 2 6 £16 5 0 March 25 .. .. £14 17 6 £15 0 0 April 1 .. .. £14 10 0 £14 15 0 April 29 .. .. £14 15 0 £14 17 6 May 20 .. .. £13 17 6 £14 0 0 May 27 .. .. £13 0 0 £13 2 6 June 3 .. .. £12 17 6 £13 0 0 June 17 .. .. £13 2 6 £13 5 0 July 1 .. .. £13 5 0 £13 7 6 July 29 .. .. £13 15 0 £13 17 6 August 12 .. .. £13 17 6 £14 0 0 August 26 .. .. .. .. £13 12 6 £13 IS 0 September 2 .. .. .. .. £13 17 6 £14 0 0 September 16 .. .. £14 2 6 £14 5 0 October 7 .. .. £14 5 0 £14 7 6 October 28 .. .. .. .. £14 2 6 £14 5 0 November 11.. .. .. .. £14 7 6 £14 10 0 November 18.. .. .. .. £14 5 0 £14 7 6 December 16 .. .. .. .. £14 2 6 £14 5 0 December 30 .. .. .. .. £13 15 0 £13 17 6 January 6, 1933 .. .. .. £13 10 0 £13 12 6 January 13 .. .. .. .. £13 10 0 £13 12 6 January 20 .. .. .. £13 2 6 £13 5 0 January 27 .. .. £13 0 0 February 3 .. .. .. .. £12 5 0 £12 7 6 February 10 .. .. .. £12 2 6 £12 5 0 February 17 .. .. .. .. £12 2 6 £12 5 0 February 24 .. . .. .. £11 15 0 £11 17 6 March 3 £11 10 0 March 10 £11 15 0 March 17 £11 15 0 March 24 £11 10 0 March 31 £10 15 0 April 7 £10 2 6 April 14 £10 7 6 April 21 .. .. £10 10 0 £10 12 6 April 28 .. .. £10 10 0 £10 12 6 May 5 .. .. £10 7 6 £10 10 0 May 12 .. .. £10 5 0 £10 7 6 May 19 .. .. £10 12 6 £10 15 0 May 26 .. .. £11 2 6 £11 5 0 June 2 £11 15 0 June 9 .. . £11 10 0 Jun e 16 £10 15 0 June 23 .. .. £10 15 0 £10 17 6 June 30 £11 0 0 July 7 £10 17 6 July 14 £10 17 6 July 21 £11 5 0 July 28 £10 15 0 August 4 .. .. £10 10 0 £10 12 6 August 11 • • .. £10 10 0 £10 12 6 August 18 £10 7 6 August 25 £10 7 6 September 1 .. .. £10 2 6 September 8 .. . £9 17 6 September 15.. .. £9 17 6 September 22.. ., £9 12 6 September 29 .. .. £9 10 6 October 6 £9 7 6 October 13 .. .. £9 10 0 October 20 ... .. .. £8 IS 0 £9 0 0 October 27 .. .. .. .. £9 0 0 £9 2 6

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Market Quotations Range of Prices The Pacific Islands Monthly makes a close check of the prices quoted for Islands produce; and it regularly publishes the range of prices during each month, including the last available quotation before going to press.

All Quiet In Tahiti

All the escaped prisoners who committed depredations in Tahiti a few months ago have been re-captured and sentenced to an additional five years’ imprisonment. They are to be sent to the French penal establishment in Cayenne. 37

The Pacific Islands Monthly

February 20. 1934.

Buying. Selling.

Telegraphic transfer.. .. £110 15 0 £112 0 0 On demand £110 12 6 £111 17 6 Buying. Selling.

Telegraphic transfer.. .. £124 5 0 £125 5 0 On demand 124 0 0 124 17 6 30 days 123 15 0 124 5 0 60 days 123 10 0 124 12 6 Average for Australia on Papeete. week ended 22/1/34 ..

Francs to £ Australian 63.10 Average for week ended 19/1/34 .. 62.75 Average for week ended 5/2/34 .. 61.90 Average for week ended 12/2/34 .. 61.63 Average for Australia on Noumea. week ended 22/1/34 ..

Francs to £ Australian 62.90 Average for week ended 29/1/34 .. 62.55 Average for week ended 5/2/34 .. 61.70 Average for week ended 12/2/34 .. 61.43 COMMONWEALTH BANK.

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Exchange Rates The following exchange quotations, gathered in Sydney, show the rates existing in Sydney on February 15: — FIJI—THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

AND BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

Australia on Fiji on basis of £100 Fiji: Buying £111, selling £113/10/-.

Fiji-London on basis £100 London.

Western Samoa—Through

BANK OF N.Z.

Exchange Australia, on Western Samoa, basis £100 Samoa—selling £113/15/-, buying £110/15/-.

Exchange, Samoa on London, basis £100 in London:— The above is only a nominal indication. The exchange between Apia and Suva, Apia and New Zealand, Apia and Sydney, and Apia and London, is constantly altering.

NEW GUINEA AND PAPUA-

Through Commonwealth

BANK.

From Australia, on Rabaul and Pt. Moresby, £1 per cent.

From Rabaul on London, same as Australia on London—25 y 2 per cent.

THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

Australia, on Papua and New Guinea, £1 per cent, premium each way, equivalent to commission of £1 per cent.

Papua and New Guinea, on London; Same as Australia on London, and vice versa.

DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER.

SELLING RATES.

Quoted by

Bank Of New South Wales

in Australia.

New Caledonia—Through

FRENCH BANK.

Drafts, Sydney-Noumea and Noumea-Sydney, are on the basis of current rate of exchange on Paris, less 1 per cent, either way. As quoted by the Comptoir National, in Sydney, and the Bank ct Indo-Chine, Noumea;— On February 15, when the Australian £ was nominally worth 60.5 francs, £lOO Australian would purchase a credit in Noumea of 6,050 francs.

The rates between Sydney and Noumea are not made direct, but depend mostly on the Paris - London telegraphic rate, which fluctuates constantly. It is usually much cheaper to transfer a large sum than a small sum between Sydney and Noumea, as the large sum can be made the subject of a cable to Paris, and its transfer arranged at a fixed price, while the small sum takes the chance of the market; and the banks, of course, guard themselves against loss.

POST OFFICE ORDERS.

The following are the rates for transfer of money between Sydney and Pacific Groups through the General Post Office, All such transfers are limited in amount.

Papua, Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia—rate 3d. for each £ or fraction, with minimum charge of 6d.; remittances strictly restricted to small amounts for business purposes, at absolute discretion of post office authorities.

Norfolk’ Island —6d. for £5 or fraction; no restriction; same as Interstate.

Solomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Tonga.—No actual restriction, but an implied one; rate, 4d. for each £ or fraction for first £6; and 3d. for each additional £, with minimum charge of 9d. Post office orders issued at discretion of post office authorities.

New Hebrides and Tahiti. —No money order issued through post office.

Western Samoa and Cook Islands.—Transfers can be effected by Australian Post Office through New Zealand Post Office; but amounts are limited to £lOO per week per remitter.

Value of English Currency The following is the quotation for English currency, obtained in Sydney just before this issue went to press:—

“Malaita” Makes Good

IMPRESSION From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, January 5.

THE new B.P. motor vessel, “Malaita,” arrived in Rabaul on December 15 from Singapore, via Salamaua, and Capt.

“Jazz” Williams reports having experienced a very fine trip out from Europe. A nonstop run was made from Aden to Singapore—a distance of some 3,600 miles.

Another good run was made from Singapore to Salamaua, where cargo for the goldfields was discharged.

In appearance the “Malaita” is one of the nicest ships that has entered the harbour. Unlike the other B.P. liners, she is painted white, the only similarity with other vessels of the fleet being the checkerfunnel band, and the übiquitous sevenlettered name.

Mr. W. Snellgrove, superintendent engineer of the company, was a passenger and visited Rabaul again after a lapse of some thirty years. Conditions regarding native labour, he explained, were much worse now than when he was here in the earlier days.

Mr. D. Whitford, of Vanikoro, and the New Hebrides, who has been engaged in the Vanikoro timber industry for some time, arrived in Sydney on furlough during January. 38 February 20, 1934.

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Montoro Sydney Feb 22 * Mar 15 Brisbane . .

Feb 24 Mar 17 Townsville.

Feb 27 Mar 20 Cairns.

Feb 28 Mar 21 Pt. Moresby Mar 2 Mar 23 Yule Is. .. .

Mar 24 Samarai .. .

Mar 3 Mar 26 Woodlark Is.

Rabaul .. .

Mar 5-6 Mar 28-29 Lindenhafen Mar 7 Pondo.

Kavieng .. , Lombrum.

Apr 1 Lorengau.

Boram.

Apr 2 Murnass..

Madang..

Apr 3 Salamaua. .| I Mar 8-9 Apr 4-5 Lae J Finschafen Mar 10 Madang. .. [ Mar 11 -12 Alexis 1 Witu ) Mar 13 1 A Pondo .. ..J r Kavieng .. .

Mar 15 Apr Rabaul ..

Mar 16 7 Salamaua Mar 18 Apr Samarai ... ..

Mar 20 9 Pt Moresby Cairns ..

Mar 21 Apr 10 Apr 12 Townsville Mar 23 15 Brisbane Mar 25 Apr Sydney . ..

Mar 27 Apr 17 Burns, Philp & Go., Ltd., Agents Tanda Nankin Nellore Hongkong Mar 3 Mar 30 May 4 Manila Mar 6 Apr 2 May 7 Rabaul Mar 14 Apr 10 May 15 Brisbane .. ..

Mar 20 Apr 16 May 21 Sydney Mar 22 Apr 18 May 23 Melbourne, dep Apr 4 Apr 23 June 2 Sydney, dep. .

Apr 14 May 12 June 13 Brisbane .. ..

Apr 16 May 14 June 15 Rabaul Apr 24 May 22 Tune 23 Manila May 2 May 30 July 1 Hongkong May 5 June 2 July 4 E. & A. STEAMSHIP CO. LTD., Agents.

Per S.S. Morinda.

Sydney Mar 8 Mar 20 Lord Howe Mar 10 Mar 22 Norfolk Is Mar 12 Mar 24-25 Vila Mar 28 Bushman s Bay Mar 29 Malo ] Tangoa [ Mar 29 Segond J Aoba Mar 30 Vila Mar 31 Norfolk Is Mar 13 Apr 3 Lord Howe Mar 15 Apr 5 Sydney Mar 17 Apr 7 BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., Agents.

Bremerhaven Friderun Hongkong Mar 3 Mar 28 Madang Apr 10 Salamaua Apr 12 Rabaul Mar 18 Apr 14 Kavieng Apr 17 Manus — Apr 20 Tulagi Mar 22 Gizo ..

Mar 27 ■ Kieta Mar 29 Madang Apr 30 Rabaul Apr 10 May 10 Hongkong Apr 25 May 24 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD , Agents.

Verdun Esperance Strasbourg Papeete .. .. Mar 17-19 May 12-14 July 7-9 Raiatea .. .. Mar 20 May IS July 10 Vila Mar 30 May 25 July 20 Noumea, arr. Apr 1 May 27 July 22 To Panama — Noumea, dep. Apr 10 June 5 July 31 Vila Apr 14 June 9 Aug 4 Raiatea (opt.) Apr 22 June 17 Aug 12 Papeete .. .. Apr 23-25 June 18-20 Aug 13-15 M.V.

Malaita.

Feb 24 Feb 26 Makambo • 1 T ulagi Mar 24 Gavutu J Mar 5 Kaukaul ■ 1 R ere .f Aola • 1 Rere •{ Mar 6 Teneru ■j Kookoom Mar 6 Mar 6 Comma . [ Mar 7 Aruligo Mar 7 Yandina .1 Banika • Mar 8 Lingatu • 1 Ufa • Mar 8 Faiami •J Younger • 1 Pepesale • 1- Mar 9 Kaylan • J Meringe Mar 10-11 West Bay • I Soma t a f Rendova * J Mar 12 Stanmore Vila 1 Hathorn :/ Giza Mar 12 Faisi Mar 13 Kieta .) Arigua .

Mar 14 Teopasino Numa Mar IS Rabaul Afar 1£. .17 Soraken Mar 18-19 Kieta Mar 20 Faisi Mar 21 Gizo Mar 21 Tetipari Russell Group Mar 22-23 Tulagi Mar 24 Brisbane Mar 28 Sydney 30 Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. •9 Agents

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Hongkong, New Guinea, British Solomon Islands Service.

Regular Sailings By

S.S. “Friderun” And S.S. “Bremerhaven”

Through Bills of Lading and Passage Tickets issued to all parts of the world.

For further particulars apply to MELCHERS & CO., General Agents, P. 0.8., 423, Hongkong, China.

C. A. M. ADELSKOLD. N.D.L. Agents, Rabaul.

GREENWOOD & LAWS, N.D.L. Agents, Rabaul.

GILCHRIST, WATT & SANDERSON, LTD., N.D.L. Agents, Sydney.

Shipping Services in the Pacific Sydney—Papua—New Guinea Sydney—Norfolk Island—New Service.

Sydney—Rabaul—Hongkong Papuan Inter-Island Services 5.5. Papuan Chief (Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.) makes regular round trips from Port Moresby to Kapa Kapa, Abau, Baibara, Samarai, and back by same route; then Port Moresby to Hisiu, Yule Island, Kukipi, Orokolo, Kikori, Daru and back via Orokolo, Yule Island, and Hisiu —full trip occupying about one month.

The M.V. Nusa (Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.) holds the Papuan Government’s contract for carrying mails and passengers on the north-east coast of Papua. The Nusa connects with all southern mail steamers at Samarai, N.G. Goldfields’ Service Aeroplanes conducted by Guinea Airways Ltd., Holden’s Air Transport Services Ltd., and other companies, leave Salamaua and Lae two and three times daily for Wau, and other centres on the Morobe Goldfield. The aerial services are the only means of communication.

Wau-Port Moresby A regular aeroplane service is now maintained by Guinea Airways Ltd., allowing passengers to and from the goldfields to connect with the steamers at Port Moresby. Details from the pursers of the Burns, Philp steamers.

New Guinea Inter-Island Service 5.5. Maiwara (Burns, Philp & Co.) makes regular round trips from Rabaul to New Ireland and Bougainville ports. 5.5. Mirani (Burns, Philp & Co.) makes regular round trips from Rabaul to New Guinea mainland ports. 5.5. Duris, s.s. Durour, m.v. John Bolton (W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.) make sailings from Rabaul every two or three weeks to various ports in the Territory.

Hebrides Hongkong—New Guinea— Solomon Islands Service Sydney—Fiji—Tonga Service The Waipahi, which has replaced the Karetu, will leave Sydney for Fiji and Tonga on Wednesday, March 14. She will call at Lautoka (arr.

Mar. 22), Suva (arriv.-dep. Mar. 24), Nukualofa (dep. Mar. 26), Suva (arr. Mar. 28; dep. Mar. 29), Auckland (arr. Apr. 3), and return to Sydney direct. The Waipahi will leave Sydney on her next trip on April 11.

UNION S.S. CO. LTD., Agents.

New Hebrides Inter-Island 5.5. Makambo (Burns, Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.) connects every 6 weeks at Vila with s.s.

Morinda from Sydney, then proceeds on southern trip, calling at the islands of Efate, Erromanga, Tanna, Aneityum, and returns to Vila —trip occupying 7 or 8 days. After 2 or 3 days at Vila, departs on northern trip, calling at the islands of Efate, Mai, Tongoa, Epi, Paama, Ambrym, Malekula, Abba, Malo, Santo, and returns to Vila —trip occupying 25 to 28 days. Vessel extends to Banks Group every second trip, equivalent to about every six weeks. 5.5. “Bucephale,” Messageries Maritimes interisland service steamer, makes regular trips to Tanna every two months, connecting at Vila with the “Laperouse.” She visits Banks Group evety six weeks.

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Service M.V. Ralum, 368 tons (Burns, Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.), operates from Tarawa (Gilbert Islands), and connects regularly with all Islands in the Gilbert and Ellice Groups.

Solomons Inter-Island Service S.S. Mitiaro (Burns, Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.) maintains a regular service. The inter-island vessels of Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. and W. R.

Carpenter & Co. occasionally run down from New Guinea.

French Eastern Pacific Service By ships running between Dunkirk and Noumea, via West Indies and Panama Canal.

From Panama — Solomon Islands —N.G. Service. 39

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Mariposa Monterey Mariposa Honolulu . ..

Mar 12 Apr 9 May 7 Pago Pago ..

Mar 17 Apr 14 May 12 Suva Mar 20 Apr 17 May 15 Auckland .. ..

Mar 23 Apr 20 May 18 Sydney Mar 26 Apr 23 May 21 Melbourne Mar 30 Apr 27 May 25 Sydney, dep. .

Apr 4 May 2 May 30 Auckland .. ..

Apr 7 May 5 June 2 Suva Apr 10 May 8 June 5 Pago Pago ..

Apr 11 May 9 June 6 Honolulu . ..

Apr 16 May 14 June 11

The Oceanic Steamship

CO., MATSON LINE, Agents.

Maunganui Makura Maunganui Papeete .. .. Mar 24 Apr 21 May 19 Rarotonga .. Mar 27 Apr 24 May 22 Wellington .. Apr 2 Apr 30 May 28 Sydney. .. .. Apr 7 May 5 June 2 Sydney. .. .. Apr 12 May 10 June 7 Wellington .. Apr 17 May 15 *June 12 Rarotonga .. Apr 21 May 19 June 16 Paneete .. .. Apr 23 May 21 June 18 UNION S.S.

CO.

LTD., Agents, * At Wellington, on Tune 12, the Maunganui will be replaced by the Makura for this trip only. The Maunganui will enter the service again at Wellington on July 10.

Per S, ,S. Van Rees.

Saigon Batavia . .. Mar 13 May 15 . .. Mar 17-19 May 19- ■21 Samarang . .. Mar 20 May 22 Port Moresby . .. Mar 29 May 31 Samarai . .. Mar 31 June 2 Rabaul . .. Apr 2-3 June 1 1-5 Vila June 11 Noumea . .. Apr 11-13 Junel3 •15 Sydney Junel9 •21 Port Moresby Apr 27 June 27 Batavia Jy 8-Ag 1 Saigon Aug 6

Royal Packet

Navigation Co

. LTD.

Niagara Aorangi Niagara Honolulu .. .. Mar 7 Apr 4 May 2 Suva Mar 16 Apr 13 May 11 Auckland .. .. Mar 19 Apr 16 May 14 Sydney Mar 24 Apr 21 May 19 Sydney, dep. . Mar 29 Apr 26 May 24 Auckland .. .. Apr 3 May 1 May 29 Suva Apr 6 May 4 June 1 Honolulu .. .. Apr 13 May 11 June 8 UNION S.S. CO., LTD., Agents.

Sydney . . . .

Mar 3 Mar 27 Apr 26 Noumea .. ..

Mar 7-12 Mar 31-Apr 3 Apr 30- May 2 Tanna .. ..

Vila Apr Apr Apr 5 May 4 5 Luganville 7 May S Le Dart .. . .

Apr g May 6 Surenda .. .• Apr 9 Hog Harbour Apr 10 May 21-22 May 24-27 Hongkong Haiphong . ..

Saigon .. 1\/To -\r <(l. Inn 1 June 17 Santo .. • • Pt. Sandwich Apr 11 11 June 18 June 20-23 June 27 Vila Apr 12 Noumea ..

A nr 1 d - Kembla ..

Mar 16 Svdney .. ..

Mar 17 Apr 20 June 28 MESSAGERIES MARITIMES CO., Agents, HOLDEN’S AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES LTD.

Air Transport, Customs, Shipping and Indent Agents.

SALAMAUA. WAU. SYDNEY, 7 Wynyard St—’Phone: B 4315.

Holders Of The Government Passenger, Freight And

Mail Contracts Between Salamaua And/Or Lae And

ALL PARTS OF THE MOROBE GOLDFIELDS.

Holden’s Air Transport Services, Ltd., was established in New Guinea in 1930, by the late Captain Les. Holden, M.C., A.F.C. It now operates six Aeroplanes, and carries on Daily Services (weather permitting) to all Major Aerodromes.

Charters Arranged To Any Aerodrome In New Guinea

OR PAPUA.

Holden’s are Organised, Staffed and Equipped to give the most Efficient Air Service to the Goldfields at the Lowest Possible Rates.

Steamships Trading Company Limited

Port Moresby PAPUA Samarai Chairman and Managing Director: A, S. FITCH.

Shipowners, Wholesale and Retail Merchants and Traders; Shipping, Customs and Insurance Agents AGENCIES:—At Port Moresby: Cored Sea Insurance Co.; Phoenix Insurance Co.; Delta Sawmills, Ltd.; Acme Bakery Co.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd. At Samarai: Royal Packet Nav. Co,; Yorkshire Insurance Co.; Coral Sea Insurance Co.; Papuan Rubber and Copra Co.; Delta Sawmills, Ltd.

BRANCHES.—In Papua: Hanauabada, Sivitoi, Aroma, Koki, Hula, Ela Beach, SYDNEY: NELSON & ROBERTSON, 12 Spring St.; Melbourne, 39G Flinders Lane; London, E. Whiteaway & Co., 7 Chiswell Street, Finsbury, London.

Cable Address: “STEAMSHIPS.” Code: Bentley's. f (PREPA R E D ) Keeps on Keeping' on .

Agents Throughout The Islands

/ New Zealand-Samoa N.Z. Government steamer Maui Pomare (mails, passengers and cargo) carries on a regular service between New Zealand ports and Western Samoa.

There are also regular services between Apia (Samoa) and Suva (Fiji).

Samoan Inter-Island Services A.S. Makoa, 250 tons (Burns, Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.). Operates from Apia and connects regularly with Pago Pago, also Tokelaus, Swain, Nasau, Puka-Puka and Phoenix Groups.

Sydney—N.Z.—Fiji—Samoa— Hawaii Sydney—N.Z.—Cook Is. — Tahiti Saigon—Java—Noumea Line Sydney—N.Z.—Fiji—Hawaii Sydney—N. Hebrides —Noumea

Per S.S. Laperouse

Fiji Inter-Island Service S.S. Malake, 736 tons (Burns, Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.), under contract with Fiji Government.

Regular four-weekly itinerary comprises: Two trips each Suva to Levuka, Savu Savu, Taveuni, Buca Bay and Rabi, returning by same route to Suva — trip occupying 8 days. Two trips each Suva to Lautoka, returning to Suva direct or via Ellington —trip occupying 3 or 4 days.

M.S. Sir John Forrest (Fiji Shipping Co., Ltd.), makes regular trips from Suva to Levuka, Savu Savu, Nabouwalu, Baulailai, Lekutu, Dreketi, Raduri Labassa, and return by the same route, round trip occupying about 9 days.

M.S. Adi Rewa (Fiji Shipping Co., Ltd.) makes regular trips from Suva to Ba and Lautoka, round voyage occupying four days.

Ocean Island-Nauru Service British Phosphate Commission, 16 Spring St., Sydney, sends boats irregularly from Melbourne.

THE death occurred in the European Hospital, Port Moresby, on January 14, of Mr. Walter Spence, a resident of Bulolo, New Guinea. Mr. Spence had returned from Australia in December from leave, and was on his way to the goldfields in New Guinea, when he became seriously ill, and died.

Mr. Spence was well and favourably known in Papua, where he had been a resident for seven years. He had been employed in Governmental Service as carpenter. More recently he was in the employment of Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. 40 February 20, 1934.

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A Unique Aerial Transport Service aSBMMBHBaBHBHHni ■ ■ uo^ 1 MV ' ■ Three of the Large Trimotored Aeroplanes, operated by Guinea Airdays Ltd., on Bulolo Aerodrome, in the heart of the New Guinea Mountains.

BELOW: Giant wheel with a diameter of over feet for one of the Bulolo Gold Dredging Company’s dredges. It is bolted securely inside the cabin of a G3l tri-motored Junker for transport to the goldfields. The balance of the load was made up with hundred pound bags of rice.

A ERIAL Transport made possible the development of the great Gold A Industry of New Guinea. Ihe presence of Rich Gold was proved in 1926, but the Problem was Communication. Morobe was guarded by dense jungle and precipitous mountains. A road could not be built, except at enormous, crippling cost. % Guinea Airways Ltd. launched its unique aerial service seven years ago, with one machine and a handful of men. To-day, it operates a fleet of modern aeroplanes, and employs large European and native staffs. Its machines, running on regular schedules, have carried men, machinery, dredges, building material, foodstuffs, motor-trucks, livestock, over the mountains of New Guinea, without accident and without delay. 31 Aerodromes • BABUAP t BAPI i BULOLO t BULWA f GABANZIZ | GARINA f JUNI I KAJABIT f kidjura I KOKODA* t KABUNA* i LAE : MT. HAGEN • MARILINAN I MENYAMYA MARAWASSA NADZAB PORT MORESBY* PURARI RAMU SALAMAUA SANGAN SUNSHINE SURPRISE CK.

UP. WATUT WAGAU WAHGI WAMPIT WAU ZENAG WARONA In Papua.

Two years ago, there were not a dozen landing-grounds on the goldfields. To-day, there are over 30. Prospectors are constantly opening new country. New enterprises are being launched. No sooner is a new camp established, than a new landing-ground is cleared, and Guinea Airways machines provide communication.

Travellers may leave the steamer at Port Moresby, fly across to Morobe (time of journey, Ih. 45min.) and spend 9 days in the Goldfield centres before rejoining steamer at Lae for Rabaul.

Or, after visiting Rabaul, they may disembark at Salamaua or Lae, spend several days on the Goldfield, and fly to Pt. Moresby to rejoin the steamer.

All information from Pursers on the Steamers. v •a V % % m

Guinea Airways

Lae - Salamaua

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