Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. V, No. 8 ( Mar. 21, 1935)
1935-03-21 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly Vol. V.-No. 8 March 21st 1935 ,[Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney for transmission by post as a newspaper J 6 d Typical bowman of a Ramu (New Guinea) tribe, who are notorious head-hunters and child-stealers, and much feared by their neighbours. They are people of fine physique and high intelligence.

Now being brought under control. —Photo.: R. Macgregor, Madang.

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Pacific Islands Travellers

Passengers Per Malaita Which

Arrived In Sydney From Solomon

ISLANDS ON MARCH I:—Mr. Boye, Rev. Butchart, Messrs. Bunskin, Bilton, Father Coicaud, Messrs. Courtney, Catell, Downes, Facer, Hay, Laycock, MacMillan, McGregor, Mason, Pagden, Russell, Stock, Spring, Thebon, Threlfall, Warrant. Williams. Mesdames Flood Johnston. Misses Bignell, Blake, Canning, Coverlid, Fitzgerald, Holmes, Johnston. Masters Osborne and Scott.

Passengers Per Macdhui Which

Arrived In Sydney From Papua And

NEW GUINEA ON MARCH s.—Messrs. Abbie, Anderson, Anscombe, Aumuller, Austin, Baker, Bannigan, Bearup, Black, Bradford, Bilston, Beaney, Cameron, Campbell, Comerford, Cross, Downs, Doe, Davis, Dalton, Eagle, Edwards, Frame, Fryer, Gunner. Godden, Dr. Heydon, Messrs. Hollowed, Harrison, Dr. Hosking, Messrs.

Koskey, King, Lambden, Lee, Lowe, Lucas, Monteith, McDonald, MacGowan, Moore, Mullaly, McAlpine, McKenzie, McClaffeirJty, McDermott, McMillan. Nicholl. O’Dea, Lanepoole, Pomeroy, Shaw, Schneider, Thompson, Vial, Verey, Wardle, Waterhouse, Warden, Wilde. Mesdames Byrne, Batty, De Groen, Day, Davis, Everall, Hawnt, Ifould, Monteith, Moore, Moran, Nicholl, O’Dea, Phelps, Parker (2), Pollard, Father Reigler, Misses Campbell, Chenoweth, Dupain (2), Grahamslaw, Mathews, McLaren, Reid, Uhe.

Passengers Per Morinda Which

ARRIVED IN SYDNEY FROM NEW HEB-

Rides And Norfolk Island On March

s.—Messrs. Kerr, Wilson, More, Judge A de J.

Carey, Judge P. Cruyl, Messrs. Nathan, Michol, Blackburn, Blake, Cameron, Christiansen, Dillon, Howell, King, Scarlett, Sloman, Southey, Tarleton, Westwood, Anderson, Baxter. Mesdames Nathan, Byford, Dillon, Fleck, Howell, King, McCoy, O’Leary, Scarlett, Tarleton. Misses Dupertius, Anderson, Dent, Macfarlane, Blunden.

Passengers Per Montoro Which

Sailed From Sydney For Papua And

NEW GUINEA ON FEBRUARY 20: Messrs.

Adelskold, Arnall, Auston, Audsley, Atcherly, Blackley, Best, Butcher, Brereton, Beenham, Boles, Campbell, Coulson, Davies, Ellis (2), Edmonds, Flynn. Farquarson, Ford, Ferguson, Fitzpatrick, Glanville, Gordon, Graydon, Green, Gardiner, Crimson. Hadley, Huxley, Hiles, Heggarty, Hicks, Hindwood, Huish, Kosh, Knox, Lock (2). Lucas, McNicoll, Michell, Mansell, McCrea, McGollan, McArthur, Percy, Preddy, Rae, Rubli, Steed, Searle, Spencer, Sabine, Smith, Smeaton, Sloss, Stewart, Thomas, Turner, Vivian, Wishart, Wurth, Wallace, Woodward, Woods, Wilson; Mesdames Atcherley, Blanch, Caskey, Chinnery, Dette, Florance, French, Glanville, Gors, Joubert, Lock (3), Louden. Lucas, Melrose, Newton, Pearce, Parry, Richards, Searle, Steed (2), Smith, Stewart, Wauchope; Misses Allday, Cooper, Caskey, Foxall, Johnstone, Krasnik.

PASSENGERS PER MARIPOSA WHICH AR-

Rived In Sydney From Suva, Fiji, On

FEBRUARY 25: Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Baker, Miss Q. Baker, Miss J. Baker, Mr. B. Bannon, Miss S. Bell, Master G. Bell, Mr. E. H. Coldwell, Mr. and Mrs. G. Coles, Miss S. Coles, Mrs. E. Crespin. Mr. T. Featherstone, Mr. R. Fisher, Mr. H.

Francis, Mr. P. P. Hagarty, Mr. T. Horne, Mr. and Mrs. G. Mitchell, Mrs. E. L. Malony, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. H.

Procter-Brown, Mrs. N. F. Puddy, Miss Betty F. Puddy, Mrs. H. L. Saulwick, Miss D. Soady, Mrs. E. Stuart. Mrs. A. M. Tate, Mr. E. G.

Theodore, Miss S. G. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. W.

L. Trewenack, Masters R. and B. Trewanack, Miss A. Vandenber-g, Miss I. Anderson, Mrs. A. Andrews, Mr. V. L. Greenwood, Mr. I. H. Horton, Mr. M. L. Lau, Mr. L. Lau, Mr. T. Nai, Miss R. Nunn, Mr. F. Nunn, Mr. and Mrs. R. B.

Roberts, Misses J. and A. Roberts, Mr. J. Stannard.

Passengers Per Mariposa Which

Sailed From Sydney For Fiji On

MARCH 6. —Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Andrews, Mrs.

J. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Baldridge, G. G.

Bateman, Miss L. Brown, C. R. Browne, R. F.

Brownettes, R. H. Close, Mrs. W. Coleman, H. C.

Cornforth, A. C. Crabtree. Miss M. E. Crabtree, Miss W. A. Crabtree, S. Cruickshank, W. I.

Doran, Mrs. H. J. Durward, M. J. Foster, Mrs. M.

E. Goodsir, Miss J. R. Goodsir, Mr. and Mrs.

R. S. Gordon. Mrs. B. Kelly. Mrs. D. Kelly, R.

Mayne, F. Miller, Miss G. Noall, Miss G. Piere, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Pitt, J. G. Ryrie, Mrs. V.

Schrader, Miss B. V. Schrader, Max Schirmer, T.

J. Shepard, A. Speed, J. Victor, Mrs. E. Bannister, F. L. Brown, Rev. J. Calviac, Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Chambers, A. Daja, Mr. and Mrs.

H .E. Ellis, Miss J. Ellis, F. Gatherwood, A.

Grainger. Mr. Guy, M. Halford, F. Halford, F.

Henderson, Rev. and Mrs. H. Johnstone, Miss A.

Johnstone, Master B. Johnstone, Mrs. and Mrs. £. J. Lambert, Miss Maca-Levaci, Mr. and Mrs.

G. M. Masters, Master F. Masters, D. Nagindos, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Nicholson, Capt. and Mrs.

D. A. Peart, F. A. Pearce, E. J. Rae, T. Rohan, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Smythe, Masters L. and B.

Smythe, Miss B. Smythe, M. Whan, L. Wilson!

Passengers Per Niagara Which

SAILED FROM SYDNEY FOR FIJI ON FEB- RUARY 28: —Mr. E. G. Banks, Mrs. F. Cradick, Mr. W. Chatterton, Mr. F. W. Price, Mrs C L Stafford, Mr. F. Faber, Mr. R. S. M. Southey' Mr. C. D. Cook, Mr. Stanley, Rev. Sister A. m!

Le Cam, Rev. Sister A. Carmes, Rev. Sister Q M. Murphy, Miss P. E. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs.

W. Croysdale, Mr. E. Drummond, Mr. W R Morris, Mr. and Mrs. G. Robley, Mr. W J Nichol, Miss M. Elliott, Mr. T. A. Green. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Forest, Mr. H. B. Bowen,’Miss S. Gale, Mrs. C. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. C. S.

Sharp, Miss Stuckey, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Stuckey, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Curry and two children Miss’

M. Rutter, Miss J. C. Rutter.

Passengers Per Malaita Which

SAILED FOR SOLOMON ISLANDS AND RA- BAUL (N.G.) ON MARCH 9; Messrs. A. N.

Browning, A. E. Buchanan, J. McG. Carson, H.

Cropp, R. Hill, W. G. Jackson, J. Kidnie, J.

Lawrence, D. Murphy, C. J. Moxon, F. L. Pinching, G. W. Richardson, P, J. Ranken, V. G.

Smith, V. L. Sherwin, H. Mcß. Stewart, Rev. U.

Sotutu, H. Traue, Tod, C. R. Thebon, A. T.

Westhoven, J. Waite, H. S. Young; Mesdames: M. F. Barker, Carson, M. Johnston, Kidnie, Knibbs, D. Lotze and infant, Sotutu and three children, Tod, A. A. Thompson, L. W. S. Wright and infant; Misses M. Clever, E. Field, Harrison, O. M. Johnston, B. Kroening, L. Maguire, Mac- Andrew, Rev. Sister M. Appoline, Rev. Sister M.

Denis.

Passengers Per Macdhui Which

Left Sydney For Papua And N. Guinea

ON MARCH 14: —Messrs. Scott, Ward-Williams, Nelson, Hallam, Howell, Bell, Gubley, Ireland, McCay, Bretag, Gwilt, Koru, Mclntyre, McKenzie, Allen, Cooper, Hemsworth, Digby, Farnham, McLennan, Teasedale-Smith, Sker, Mable, Johannsen, Anderson, Brown, Hargreaves, Panton, Swinfield, Rabin, Black, Maroney, Cooper, Jones, Palmer, Stone, Roberts, Judd, Williams, Walsh, Long, Sandford, Doherty, Anderson, Armstrong, Mansell-Turner, Bax, Thompson, Roberts, Granter, Munro, Pinnock, Clancy, Foley, Williams, Anderson, iStewart, Bell, Moore, Coomber, Aiken, Gibson, Gallagher, Wallent, Blake, Lane, Hill, Davis, Gofton, McAviney, Parnell, Wilkins, Marshall, Sutherland, McDonald, Plumb, Winterford, Evans, Burns, Andrews, Rudd, Dodds, Clarke, Drayson, Dixon, Skarratt, Taylor, Davies, Dr.

Strong, Rev. Nixon, Rev. Father Janssen, Rev.

Father Fillodeau, Brother Vogt, Brother Pearce, Father Lyons, Capt. Irvine, Brig.-General Wisdom. Mesdames Willis, Nixon, Howell, Kosh, Clay, Hyndman, Clarke, Hargreaves, Bignold, Maroney, Walsh, Long, Headrick, Costello, Barker, Moore, Hennessy, Beer, Winterford, Taylor, Harris, Anderson, Strickland, Ifould, Mitchell, Shennan, Davies. Misses Kellskog, Reilly, Compton, Fellows, Hyndman, Gilmore, Bryant, Watson, Buckerridge, Harris, Keppler, Ward.

A Sydney company is making extensive experiments with soya beans and tung oil trees in the Coff’s Harbour district, New South Wales. A crushing factory is to be established nearby, at Korora.

Results of these experiments may be of interest to Islands planters. 1

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Police Boy 17 New Guinea Expeditions 19 Queen Salote to Visit Australia .. 21 Trading by Papuan Missionaries . . 22 William Lockerby, Fiji Sandalwood Trader 23 Mysteries of Copra Market 24 Sepik Gold Search 25 Mount Hagen Murders 26 Page Planters’ Sad Plight in S.I, .. .. .. 28 Dammar Resin 29 Corporal Punishment in N. Guinea .. 31 Papuan Memories of 1884 3G New Rubber Substitute 39 Reminiscences of “Gin-Soaked Trader” 44 Chinese in the Solomons 45 Hurricane Rakes Cook Is 46 Thursday Is. News 47 New Guinea Notes 50 Newly-Discovered N. Guinea .. .. 52 Fashion Hints for Islands Women . . 54 Wau Notes 56 Baby’s Bottle in Tropics 57 Samoa-Cook Is. Control 60 Lakekamu Goldfield Progress . . .. 62 Outrageous Islands Radio Fees . . . . 63 Pacific Mining Notes 64 Shipping Services in South Seas .. 67 Market Quotations 69 Islands Produce 70 Exchange Rates 70 Search for Oil in Papua 71 2 March 21, 1935

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When The Law Is An Ass

r pHE law, in its relation to its administration in the Solomon Islands, is in danger of being written down as an ass —unless something has been done or is being done of which we have no information.

We refer to the astonishing history of an assault case in the Solomon Islands.

A native washboy committed an outrageous attack upon the wife of a plantation manager—a clear case of attempted rape —and it appears that he will be released this year after serving a mere twenty months’ imprisonment.

The circumstances are quite well known. The manager’s wife —a Sydney woman of good family—was attacked one morning in September, 1933, in most deliberate and determined fashion, by the washboy Punuhuru; and had she not fought him off with great strength and courage he must have achieved his purpose, as her husband and the native servants were away in the plantation. Her clothes were torn off and she suffered seriously from bruises and shock, Punuhuru ran away; and, when overtaken some time later by the plantation manager, he menaced the latter with a copra knife. He did not then, or at any future time, deny his guilt.

The planter sent for the District Officer and described the urgency of the case.

The D. 0., although he had the fastest launch in that part of the Group, did not put in an appearance for three days.

When he did come, he carried out his investigation in leisurely fashion, although the unfortunate woman, by then, was in a state of nervous collapse, and it was most necessary that the enquiry be hurried on, so that she might be sent away.

The District Officer, and his superiors at Tulagi, appear to have treated the case in lackadaisical fashion, and quite unnecessary weeks elapsed before the native was tried. The trial was conducted by the District Officer; and probably it will remain for all time an outstanding example of administrative muddling.

The charge was laid under Section 48 of the Offences Against the Person Act, and the D.O. held that the offence was punishable with more than 12 months’ imprisonment and less than 7 years. But section 48 deals only with the offence of rape, for which the punishment is penal servitude for life. Attempts to commit crime are otherwise provided for, and the maximum penalty is 2 years’ imprisonment. The charge should have been laid under Section 38 of the Act—i.e., “assault with intent to ravish”—and the maximum penalty provided therefor is 2 years’ imprisonment. The procedure adopted by the D.O. was that which is provided for a preliminary investigation, and not for a trial, and therefore it was all wrong. The court finally convicted Punuhuru of an offence under Section 47 of the Act (an assault occasioning actual bodily harm) and he was awarded 5 years’ penal servitude; and the assessors who assisted the D.O. recommended further punishment, including a flogging.

The indignant residents of the Solomons urged that the punishment was inadequate, and the case was brought before the Supreme Court in Fiji. That Court found that Punuhuru had been convicted of something with which he was never charged. He had been charged under Section 48, and not Section 47, and therefore he could not suffer more 3

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than the punishment provided under Section 48. His 5 years of imprisonment accordingly were reduced to 2 years. The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific was perturbed over this matter, and immediately had the law amended to make it clear that flogging may be imposed for rape or indecent assault upon a white woman; but it was decided that this amendment could not be made retrospective to cover the case of Punuhuru.

That seems to have been the end of the matter. Punuhuru will be released from gaol with a clean skin about the middle of this year, after having committed one of the worst assaults with intent in the history of the Solomon Islands.

Meanwhile, the manager’s wife, the victim of this flash mission-educated native, has been in Sydney undergoing a series of painful operations, the result of an injury she sustained during her struggle with the native. Complacent officialdom appaiently refuses to be further concerned with the case. The District Officer who was responsible for part of the ghastly legal muddle has disappeared from the Service; the native criminal has practically escaped punishment owing to a technicality; and that, says officialdom, is the end of the matter.

But, if what we hear is true, the matter will not end so peacefully as officialdom hopes. There are men in the Solomons —good and reputable citizens —who have declared that this flash native is not going to escape so easily. It is to be assumed that if officialdom does not find some way of having this case re-tried, and the native properly punished, then the native may disappear from mortal ken in some manner better imagined than described.

What a travesty upon justice! There are Europeans to-day in Australian prisons, condemned to long terms of hard labour because they assaulted native labourers in INew Guinea. But Punuhuru, who made a most ferocious attempt to rape an unprotected European woman, and who in that attempt injured her very seriously, escapes with 20 months’ penal Mr. H. Williams and Mr. N. Judd, representing Upper Sepik Gold Syndicate N.L., left Sydney for New Guinea by the Macdhui on March 14.

Mr. George H. Murray, Director of Agriculture for New Guinea, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul on extended leave by the Van Rees on March 19.

Mr. C. J. Moxon, of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, returned to the Protectorate by the March Malaita.

Copra Price

A sharp fall in the London copra quotation was announced on March 18.

The market appears to have Sydney operators completely puzzled, and none now ventures a forecast. A recent authoritative survey of the world position in relation to oils and fats by Messrs.

Harrop, Sydney, discloses a general shortage which, it is said, is likely to last for at least a year.

By March Macdhui

THE B.P. liner Malaita left Sydney for Papua and New Guinea on March 14, with a full complement of passengers. Her skipper was the cheery Captain A. Campbell, who recently took over command from Captain Williams, after many years of service with Burns, Philp and Co. As Chief Officer of the Macdhui, Mr, Campbell became a well-known figure in both Territories, where he is well-liked and highly respected.

The passengers included many prominent Islands folk. Geoffrey Hemsworth, Ray Parer’s companion in the Centenary Air Race, returned to Port Moresby from whence he will fly over to the Morobe goldfield to take charge again of P.A.T Co.’s activities. Brigadier-General A. E. Wisdom, formerly Administrator of New Guinea, was on his way to Papua, where he will look over the various areas taken up by goldmining companies in which he is actively interested.

Mr. J. Ward-Williams, American mining expert, returned to Papua to carry out investigations in the Fly River district. Wally Digby, well-known N.G. prospector and one of the finders of the rich Day Dawn mine, was en route to Morobe to supervise his gold interests, after furlough in Australia.

Father F. Lyons, accompanied by Brothers Pearce and Vogt, left for the Sacred Heart Mission at Saraarai.

Mr. Moresby Gofton, popular son of Mrs. Stewart, of Wau hotel, reluctantly said “good-bye” to Sydney, after three months’ holidaying. On a tour of inspection of the Sacred Heart Mission stations was Rev. Father Janssen, Superior-General of the Mission. Mr, G. V. Maunsell-Turner, of the N.G.

Crown Law Office, returned to Rabaul, after leave in Australia. „ ~ . .

On behalf of Misima United N.L., Mr. A. A.

Hargreaves, consulting engineer, left for Misima Island to superintend the preliminary work in connection with the option his company recently exercised over four leases there. Captain D. G. Irvine, of W. R. Carpenter and Co., departed for Rabaul, where he will pick up the schooner “France,” and sail her across to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

Rev. Maurice Nixon, L.M.S. Missionary, returned to Port Moresby, en route to Moru Station, after furlough in Tasmania. Dr. W. M, Strong, Chief Medical Officer of Papua, also was a passenger for Port Moresby. With him were 18 Papuan medical students, who have been undergoing training at Sydney University to fit them for medical work among Papuan natives. The students, neatly dressed in Scout uniform, created considerable interest among the large congregation which had gathered on the wharf to bid farewell to friends.

Among the deck cargo were three draught horses, a pony, two rams, and a small bleating goat, all for Salamaua. On board also was a ferociouslooking boar consigned to Wewak. For Sunshine Gold Development Co., a new sturdy Ford lorry was taken aboard. A trim 27-ft. launch, the ‘Papcon,” fitted by Mr. G. Rutherford, of Sydney, with a 15 h.p. Kelvin engine, was shipped for Papuan Concessions N.L., for use on the Fly River.

N.C. Governor On Tour

From Our Own Correspondent.

NOUMEA, Feb. 2.

Having completed a cruise up the West Coast of Noumea, the French man-ofwar Admiral Charner left recently with His Excellency the Governor, M. Siadous, on board for the Loyalty Group (Mare, Lifou, and Ouvea Islands), and the Isle of Pines.

When she returns to port again on February 5, the Governor will leave immediately for Wallis Island in order to investigate the economic conditions there.

Checking “Wildcats”

Comment on Fiji Position ON page 20 there is an article entitled “Fiji Wildcats Checked.” Since that article was put into type our Suva correspondent has supplied us with the following interesting comment upon the mining situation in Fiji.

SUVA, March 1.

The Koroere and the Loloma flotations in Melbourne put Tavua as a whole right in the centre of the speculative stage in Melbourne, and a scramble took place to secure any old sort of option on any so-called claim on the Tavua field.

Our recent visitors include well-known men. Sir Charles Marr and Mr. Napthali represented Tavua Options for whom Mr. Weekly has been examining three areas for some months. Mr. Campbell represented the Fiji Prospecting Syndicate, cf which Messrs. Victor, Jaffrey and Wallace-Smith, of Melbourne, are directors. Mr. Boyd came to look us over on behalf of Messrs. J. C. Were and Sons, of Melbourne; and Mr. Thomas was investigating for another Melbourne group.

By mid-February, Fiji local folk who held areas on Tavua began to dream of great wealth. The price of Tavua options soared, as the 10/- shares of Koroere and Loloma (paid to only 3/-) skyrocketed in Melbourne to 17/- and 29/- respectively. Current gossip here in Suva is that W. G.

Lawler, who paid £25 for the Loloma area, is now worth something like £60,000; whilst the Pat Costello interest in Koroere was valued at £30,000; the Theodore group received shares in both co.’s, upon which the share market put a valuation of £lOO,OOO.

The Governor viewed all this speculative activity with some concern, and it was then that, in order to check the wildcats and protect the good name of Fiji, he issued his statement of policy. It came like a dash of cold water to those who had contented themselves with putting four pegs in the ground and then sitting back to await the profits.

On the Tavua field the original prospecting licence over 400 acres was given to Pat Costello, later being transferred to Mr. E. G. Theodore, who had meanwhile taken out a similar licence over an adjoining block of 400 acres. No difficulty was made as to the granting of licences at that time, and altogether 16 prospecting licences covering about 6000/7000 acres were issued. More would have been issued had not Sir Murchison Fletcher, at that time on leave in London, decided firmly on a policy of restriction of licences until the original prospectors had proved, or disproved, the existence of gold. A number of optimists took out mere prospectors’ rights, put in their pegs, and made applications, to be told they could not be considered at that stage. It was the offering for sale at large figures of these non-existent rights which really stirred the Governor, and caused a plain declaration that under no circumstances would alleged transfers be recognised.

The Governor, in his statement, after explaining the position under the Fiji Mining Ordinance, said that only one mining lease had so far been justified on the Tavua field. The reference, of course, was to E. G. Theodore’s Emperor Gold Mining Co. He then pointed out that of the sixteen prospecting licences granted, four had already expired and the remainder were due to expire on May 31.

It is known that the Government has referred the whole subject of goldmining in Fiji to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and some instructions from that quarter are expected at an early date.

Mr. E. Lane Poole, of the Commonwealth Forestry Department, returned to Australia by the Macdhui on March 5, after investigating the timber resources of the Mandated Territory.

Mr. A. V. Leggo, of Melbourne, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Upper Sepik Gold Syndicate N.L., formed recently in Victoria.

Mr. J. Kidnie, of Gizo, returned to the Solomon Islands by the Malaita from Sydney on March 9. 4 March 21, 1935

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Awarded Cilento Medal

THE Cilento Medal (which has just been X founded in perpetuity by Sir Raphael Cilento, Director-General of Health in Queensland, to be awarded annually for the best work in tropical hygiene and native welfare) has been awarded to Mr. F. E.

Williams, Government Anthropologist in Papua. Mr. Williams has thus been awarded the Cilento Medal in recognition of his brilliant field work in anthropology.

To Seek Gold in Dutch New Guinea Powerful Company Formed TT was announced in Batavia in January that the Netherlands New Guinea Mining Company had been formed, and registered in Batavia, to search for gold in Dutch New Guinea, and carry on any necessary developmental work in connection therewith. The nominal capital Is 1,500,000 guilders—about £250,000 Australian, The new company has been formed by the Billiton Tin Company, the Oroville Gold Company, Erdman Sielcker and Co., and the Anglo-Oriental Co.—four very large and powerful organisations.

It is understood that the search for gold will be carried out in the north-eastern corner of Dutch New Guinea, in that area contiguous to the border of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. It is proposed to use aeroplanes freely in the work.

Major C. B. Joske, managing director of the Suva firm of Brown and Joske, Ltd., arrived in Sydney in March. He will return to the Colony in April,

Better Times

Optimism in Papua From a Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, March 1.

TIMES are beginning to mend and ”*■ everybody here is very optimistic, compared with the feeling that had been displayed during the past four years. If the copra market will only hold, Papua will again become quite an attractive place in which to make a living.

Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., recently purchased from Mr. J. Downs a half-share of the Delta sawmill and store at Kikori.

Mr. Downs had been far from well, and has been ordered South by his doctor. The business was floated into a company (Sawmillers and Traders, Ltd.), and Steamships Trading Co. are the managing agents, and hold half the shares. This is a growing and prosperous business.

Steamships Trading Company Ltd., have purchased outright, from Mr. Geoffrey Syme, of the “Age,” Melbourne, the New Guinea Rubber Estates, at Kemp Welch, in Papua. This plantation consists of 2283 acres, of which 625 acres are of fully-bearing coconuts, and 70 acres of rubber.

Mr. C. N. Nicholson, the present manager, will continue in that capacity under the new management.

The same company are opening on Misima (where there is now much mining activity), having a fine corner block in the newly laid-out town there. The buildings are about half-way completed.

The company purchased, two months ago, the “Kikere,” to add to their fishing and shelling fleet at Samarai, where they have seven vessels operating. A thorough overhaul of the “Kikere” having now been completed, she will shortly be put to fishing beche-de-mer, and will carry 21 boys and six dinghies.

Minister On A Visit To

NORFOLK IS. an official visit to Norfolk Island to discuss trade problems and complaints about the administration, the Minister in Charge of Territories (Sir George Pearce) left Sydney on March 16 by the Morinda, and will spend a day and a night on the island. He will return to Sydney on March 25.

Trading Vessel

LOST Wreck in the Solomons 'THE well-known trader and recruiter, A Mr. M. Harper, of Mandoliana, Solomon Islands, had the misfortunte to lose his trading vessel, the “Trader,” on the coast of Guadalcanal early in the morning of February 3.

Mr. Harper had been recruiting on the weather side of Guadalcanal, and was anchored about three-quarters of a mile from the Roman Catholic mission station at Avu Avu. About 3.20 a.m. a southerly came up and shortly afterward it changed round to south-west and attained gale force. Two anchors were down, and the engine—an excellent machine, a 30-40 horse power Invincible Diesel—was started going full speed ahead, but in spite of this the ship was driven stern on to the shingle and the propeller began to throw up stones. So the engine was stopped and the boys ordered to grab anything they could and jump over the stern on to the beach.

Mr. Harper lost practically everything— drums of kerosene, oil, half a ton of rice, etc. A few odds and ends of things were got ashore, but practically everything went down with the ship, which later disappeared in deep water alongside the shore.

In trying to save his vessel, Mr, Harper received a severe cut on his leg, and this later turned septic and compelled him to spend some time in Tulagi Hospital.

The unfortunate trader received much assistance from Father Boudard and Father Courtais who came to his assistance with their boys from the mission, and did their best to save Mr. Harper’s property from the surf. They then took him to their mission house and nursed him carefully until he could get a passage to Tulagi.

The “Trader” was insured, but only for the hull and engine. Mr. Harper estimates that his loss in gear and goods is about £lOOO.

Mr. F. E. Williams photographed while engaged in field work i n an inland district of Papua.

Photos taken immediately after the wreck of the “Trader.” Left: The two Marist Fathers with some of the mission boys who assisted Mr. Harper. Right: Inspecting the remains of the “Trader” thrown up on the beach near Avu Avu. 5

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Sailing Against The

PROPELLER Quaint Memory of Southern Cross III.

We are indebted to Mr. F. S. Whitcombe, of Levuka, Fiji, for the following interesting story of the old Melanesian Mission Ship, Southern Cross III.: IN the P.I.M. of January you printed a history of “Southern Crosses.”

Southern Cross 111. was not a threemasted two-topsail schooner, but was barque-rigged, when owned by the Mission, and she was a little beauty. Her main royal was the size of a large handkerchief.

After Capt. W. Ross bought her she was barquentine-rigged; foresail, two topsails, and a top-gallant sail, with main and upper staysails. Her topsail yard was rigged with Cunningham’s patent topsail reefing gear, and every time we used to reef down it jammed, and a hand would have to go aloft to overhaul the downhaul.

When Captain Ross made his first run to Tonga in her (after doing away with the boiler and machinery and making a sailer of her), the propellor, a two-bladed one, was left in place up and down; but the aperture was boarded up, with the propellor inside.

During the trip, when near Sunday Island, we struck dirty weather, and the planking was stripped from the aperture, with the result that the propellor, which was a pretty long one, worked athwart the ship or cross-ways, like a barn door, and stopped the ship’s way.

The dear old man nearly had a fit over the next two days’ runs. With a fair wind, the vessel was only doing 5 to 6 knots, with the wind on her quarter, when she should have been doing 10.

Anyhow, one of the hands happened to think of the propellor, and we lowered him over the weather quarter in a bowline, and he spotted what was wrong. So we rigged a hook on a |in. iron bar, and straightened her up until we arrived at Nukualofa.

The Ysabel could sail like a witch, and could do 30 to 40 miles to windward, against a dead muzzier, any day in a day’s work.

I was A.B. on her, and she was a happy ship.

“Bounty Mutiny” To Be

Filmed In Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Feb. 11.

IT is announced that the advance party of the Metro-Goldwyn Company, which will make two films in Tahiti, is due to arrive by the Maunganui on February 23. The party consists of 29 operators who will be housed at the Stuart Hotel.

The company will first of all be occupied with Herman Melville’s story “Typee,” and will then film Messrs. Hall and Nordhoff’s “Mutiny on the Bounty.” In connection with the latter story, it seems that a ship—an exact replica of the old Bounty— has been built in America and will be sent to Papeete for the purposes of the picture Success Claimed for New Malaria Drug TWO hundred cases of malaria in Ceylon A have been cured by Dr. A. T. Simeon, an Englishman, who used the drug atebrim musonal, the Colombo correspondent of the “Daily Mail” states.

Two injections, it is stated, are sufficient to prevent a relapse, in contrast with the long treatment necessary with quinine.

The Ceylon Government, impressed with the success of the new drug, proposes to treat 50,000 sufferers.

Dr. Simeon, accompanied by his young German wife and one assistant, works in the jungle villages, where thousands clamour for treatment.

Supplies of the drug are exhausted, but more is coming by air from Germany, where it was discovered.

DRUG KNOWN FOR SOME YEARS.

Claims of the new malaria drug by London users were described as “far too optimistic” by Dr. Richard Green, bacteriologist of the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States, who was interviewed by the “Sun” in Sydney on March 9.

Dr. Green, who has used the drug himself, said he could not agreed that two injections were sufficient to prevent a relapse.

The correct name of the drug was “atebrim,” he said. It was introduced by the Bayer Meister Lecus in 1932. A yellow drug, it was the first synthetic substitute for quinine produced.

The relapse rate, compared with treatment with quinine, was distinctly lower. The new drug, however, cost two and a half times as much. It had been successfully injected, but the usual method was to take it by tablets.

Dr. Green said malaria was still the major disease in the tropics. Progress is being made against it through the Government appointed trained malarialogists. With a rainfall of 250 inches a year it is impossible to control all breeding places, but the specialist can tell which of 300 odd species of mosquitoes is responsible.

Quinine had been the chief weapon against malaria since as early as 1660, Dr. Green added. During the war, however, there had been great difficulty in obtaining supplies of the bark from which it was extracted. Research had led to a substitute, first of plasmoquinine in 1926.

Now atebrim, the first real synthetic, was offered to the world.

Lieutenant-Governor

Visits Western Papua

From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY .March 2.

TTIS Excellency Sir Hubert Murray, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, accompanied by the Government Secretary, the Official Secretary, and the Hons. H. W. Champion and H. L. Murray, left Port Moresby by the “Laurabada” on February 20, on an official visit to the western stations of the Territory, and those in the Gulf and Central Division, west of Port Moresby.

His Excellency held sittings of the Central Court at stations where criminal cases were awaiting trial.

The “Laurabada” returned to port on February 28.

Rev. F. J. Lewis, Chairman of the Methodist Mission Society, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on January 21. He praised the work of the native mission teachers who are out among the tribes in uncontrolled areas.

At present, said Mr. Lewis, there are about 350 native missionaries doing evangelistic work in such areas.

A recent photograph of Mrs. Bowring, one of the most popular women on the New Guinea goldfields. Mrs. Bowring went to Edie Creek when it was simply an unsightly collection of shacks (it is now beginning to look like an orderly township) and took charge of the mess-room there. She has now established a modern guest-house. She is famous for her kindness and hospitality; and scores of young Australians, transported suddenly from city comforts to this wild, rain-soaked place on the top of the New Guinea mountains, include her name in their prayers o’ nights. 6 March 21, 1935

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PIDGIN A New Guinea resident supplies the following delightful examples of Pidgin as ■it is used in the Territory :— Planter (arriving on the beach after Jhaving previously made arrangements for his departure to town): Pinnace ’e stop?

Boss Boy: ’e stop.

Planter: Boat’s crew ’e stop?

Boss Boy: ’e stop.

Planter: All the time-finish boy ’e stop?

Boss Boy: 'e stop.

Planter: Boat’s crew ’e got kai-kai?

Boss Boy: ’e got.

Planter: Kai kai belong me he come up?

Boss Boy: ’e stop finish.

Planter: Bed belong me he come up?

Boss Boy: ’e come finish.

Planter: Got water?

Boss Boy: ’e got.

Planter: Got benzine?

Boss Boy: ’e got.

Planter: Now altogether something he all right?

Boss Boy: Altogether sumfin ’e all right; thas all; crank shaft; ’e b up finish.

Cook Boy to Planter; One fella Master ’e come—now he ’ide all Beer belong you.

Planter (meeting one of his old boys in town, after he has repeatedly but vainly asked him to sign on again): What for you make new paper along one fella Master? Before me hard work along you to make new time —close up three fella moon me askem you all the time.

Boy: Master, what for you no askem me one time more?

Planter (who is about to be married, to cook-boy who swears on the least provocation) : Missis belong me he come up lik-lik time and this talk-talk no good, must finish.

Cook-boy: Me savvy fashion belong all the Misses, Master.

Bride duly arrives and they are waiting for dinner to be served, when there is a crash of crockery on the concrete floor of the kitchen.

Cook-boy rushes in: Master altogether new fella dishes 'e come along Sydney, 'e b r up finish!

Planter (looking sternly at boy): WHAT ?

Cook-boy: Altogether new fella dishes 'e come along Sydney ’e (turning to Missis) Aw —me make mistake Missis —’e no b r up—’e broke thas all.

Boy (who has lodged 10/- in bank during previous week) to bank teller: Me like catchem altogether money belong me.

Bank Teller: What? Altogether?

Boy: Yes, Masta.

Bank Teller closes the account and hands over 10/-.

Boy, having spread the silver along the countar and, carefully counted, it, pushes it back across counter; Me like putem back —me like lookem, thas all!

Collapse of bank teller.

Planter (addressing house-boy, who has a habit of entering the bedroom of planter’s wife before she has finished dressing); “You no can go along room belong Missis suppose she no got clos,”

House-boy: “Masta me like talk straight along this sumthin. All time me look along hole belong lock—suppose Missis he no got clos, me no go along room belong him.”

Goods From Papua and New Guinea From March 15, goods imported into Australia from Papua and New Guinea will be subject to primage duty at the same rates as similar goods admissible under the British preferential tariff, instead of at the foreign rate, as hitherto.

There are now about 700 cars of British and American make in Rabaul, and the roads are fairly good. The climate of New Guinea has a destructive influence on cars unless special precautions are taken.

MR. A. W. SEYMOUR Promoted from Fiji to Trinidad 1\T R. A. W. SEYMOUR, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, has been selected for appointment as Colonial Secretary of Trinidad, in succession to Sir Selwyn Grier, Governor designate of the Windward Islands.

This is an important promotion for Mr.

Seymour, and he has received many congratulations. Mr. Alfred Seymour is 53 years old. He was educated at St. Andrew’s University, and joined the Colonial Office Service, as a cadet in Ceylon, in 1905, and rose, step by step, in that administration, until he was Registrar-General, in 1926.

He was appointed Government Secretary in Fiji in December, 1926, and he since has acted, on occasion, as Governor and High Commissioner. Before leaving Suva in May last for ten months’ furlough in England, Mr. Seymour was invested with the Order of C.M.G., which had been conferred upon him by the King.

Solomon Is. Goldmining

From Our Own Correspondent.

TULAGI, February 20.

A DEFINITE effort is now being made to put the Solomons gold industry on a satisfactory footing. Messrs. Thebon and J. Williamson arrived from Sydney by the February Malaita to inspect one of the propositions.

Two other syndicates actively interested in prospecting on Guadalcanal have availed themselves of the opportunity to have their areas given an expert survey, with a view to development or abandonment, according to the verdict.

Two new German liners, which are being placed in the N.D.L. service between Hong Kong and Germany, have been named Scharnhorst and Gneisenau —recalling the names of German warships which made Pacific history in 1914.

Photograph taken during the visit to Fiji of the Duke of Gloucester.

Standing (left to right): Capt. A.

H. Stafford, Hon.

A.D.C.; Capt. D.

Schreiber, Extra Equery; Capt.

Howard Kerr, M.V.O., Equery; Major C. B. Joske, M.C., Hon. A.D.C.

Sitting (left to right): Capt. A.

R. Curtis, C.M.G., C.B.C., M.C., Private Secretary; H.E. Sir Murchison Fletcher, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Governor of Fiji; H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester; Major-General Howard-Vyse, C.B., D.S.O., Chief of Staff; Capt. M.

Godley, A.D.C. —Photo by Caine, Suva. 7

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Ancient Samoan

CEREMONIES Prince Henry Honoured With Rare King’s Kava From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Feb. 12.

A MOST unique function arranged in honour of the Duke of Gloucester’s visit to Western Samoa was a huge native Ta’alolo (feast of welcome) held on February 7 at Mulinu’u, the seat of the old kings of Samoa, now a suburb of Apia.

The quaint traditional rites and customs, reminiscent of the historical Samoan kings, greatly impressed the Royal visitor and astounded even local residents, who seldom have occasion to witness such a performance; while the King’s Kava, intended to show deference to visitors of Royal blood, is executed only once in a generation The large Malae (village play-ground) in front of the Native Affairs Office, served as a theatre for the important ceremony.

Long before the proceedings started, about 8,000 Europeans and natives had gathered in the vicinity. A prettily decorated dais had been erected at one end of the malae , from which the Prince and his suite could best follow the proceedings.

On arrival, His Royal Highness and party were welcomed by the native representatives, the Hon. Malietoa, 0.8. E.,, M.L.C., and the Hon. Mataafa, M.L.C., and the National Anthem was sung by a Native school choir. Leading Samoan chiefs and orators were then presented to the Duke, amongst whom were 29 Faipules (members of native parliament).

King’s Kava, a custom of respect to Royalty since immemorial times, was then prepared with many quaint rites. The people of the Falealili district (Southern Coast of Upolu), who are the hereditary purveyors of the rite to the Tupua, the head of one of the two main clans of the Samoans, performed the ceremony.

In former times at ceremonies the kava was chewed by certain dignitaries, and in daily life by girls, but to-day it is pounded by stones, mixed with water and strained in an ancient, reverently kept kava bowk Accompanied by various rigidly observed rites it is then poured into a coconut shell, and offered to the Royal recipient, wha drinks it and hands the cup back, whereupon a crier calls out his chiefly name and title. The ceremony is then repeated

Prince Henry’S Visit To

SAMOA Top picture: The King’s Kava is served to His Royal Highness by the people of the Falealili district of South Upolu. The Prince is seated on the prettily decorated dais.

Centre picture: The Royal party at Vailima, near Apia, the former home of Robert Louis Stevenson, and now the Residency. In the group—Seated, left to right: Mrs. Fairbrother, His Excellency the Administrator (Brigadier-General Hart), His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Mrs. Hart, General Howard-Vyse. Standing, left to right: Lieut.

Schreiber, Captain Curtis (Private Secretary), Miss Hart. Captain Howard-Kerr, Captain Fairbrother, A.D.C.

Lower picture: The arch of honour in front of the new business premises of Messrs. Burns Philp (S.S. Co.) Ltd. in Apia. 8 March 21, 1933

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for each recipient lower in rank than the first. The serving of the kava is accompanied by clapping of hands by all those present.

After the kava ceremony the Su’d Taute took place, the offering of food to Royalty.

To the accompaniment of beating drums a large line of Samoans, headed by a taupou <village virgin) approached the Duke, •carrying an opened drinking coconut and cooked food, wrapped in leaves, amongst which was large cooked pig.

The Ta’alolos then followed by the traditional old districts of Savaii and Upolu.

The men of these districts in a dense crowd approached the dais, slowly marching forward, singing songs of welcome, preceded by chiefs and a number of taupous in full ceremonial dancing dress with tuigas (high headdresses), dancing to the tune of the Samoan songs sung by the men. In front of the dais they paraded, district after district, offering a pretty and colourful typically Samoan spectacle.

After the ta’alolos a Samoan song in honour of the Royal visitor was sung by the male choir of Laulii village, followed by a dance performed by 200 girls from the Government native schools, dressed in Samoan style and singing songs specially composed in honour of the occasion. This dance and the subsequent performances of an axe dance by 200 natives of the Aana district, and a spear dance by 250 Manono Islanders were heartily applauded by the Prince and the large crowd.

At the finish of the programme a presentation of gifts by representative Sameans from all the districts of Western Samoa took place. The gifts consisted ot fine mats, kava bowls, walking sticks, tapa cloth, native carvings, fans, etc.

New Co. For Papua

T'HE following appeared in the Sydney newspapers at the end of February: British Australian Fibre Co. Ltd., capital £750,000, in shares of £1 each, was registered in Canberra. The objects of this company are the production of nipa palm, the extraction of alcohol, and the manufacture of paper pulp from palm and other fibre in Papua and New Guinea.

Subscribers: D. Hampson, J. C. Paige, E.

D. Antire, B. H. Oxlade, A. D. Reid, C. E.

Taylor, S. I. Battershill.

This is a new concern formed to take over the Commonwealth Hemp Corporation Ltd. (which has been trying to establish sisal hemp in Papua) and other interests. Its plans include the investigation of Kurukuru grass as a possible source of supply for paper pulp. The offices of the Co. are at 14 Martin Place, Sydney. Mr. E. J. Frame, of Port Moresby, who arrived in Sydney early in March, has been consulting with and advising the new company.

Papuan Kuru Kuru Grass From Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, Feb. 21.

A great deal of interest has been aroused by the investigations of Messrs.

W. D. and L. D. Mason, who arrived by the last Macdhui from Australia, representing a company which is testing the possibilities of paper pulp from the Kuru Kuru grass that abounds in the Territory.

The Kuru Kuru grass of Papua is said to be superior to the African grass known as Esparto for the manufacture of paper and paper materials. Messrs. W. D. and L. D. Mason left on February 20 for Kanosia, accompanied by Mr. R. A.

Goodyear, to inspect suitable areas.

Prince Henry And

THE MAU Incident of Samoan Visit WE have been supplied with copies of two letters, signed by leaders of the Mau, which were sent to Government House, Apia, on February 5, 1935, on the occasion of the visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester. They are as follow: — Faleata, Vaimoso, Sth February, 1935.

His Excellency, Brigadier-General H. E. Hart, Administrator for Western Samoa, Apia.

Sir, —We beg leave to enclose a letter to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester which we respectfully ask you to cause to be delivered to His Royal Highness on his arrival in Samoa, and wish to repeat to Your Excellency our regrets that conditions still existing in Samoa do not permit of our participating in the welcome reception and function being prepared for His Royal Highness. The ceremony to be held at the Clock Tower only reminds us that the man who presented that memorial, and paid for most of the cost of the tower is now in exile from his native country, because of the harsh laws against which we have complained for so long without avail. We feel confident that should His Royal Highness desire it, the whole of our petitions and prayers for the redress of our grievances will be placed before him.

We have the honour to remain. Sir, Your most humble servants, (Signed by 14 Mau leaders).

“Samoa Mo Samoa”

Faleata, Vaimoso, Sth February, 1935.

His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester, Apia.

Sir, —On behalf of the Samoan national organisation known as “O le Mau” of which the very large majority of the Samoans are adherents, we beg leave to extend to Your Royal Highness a sincere welcome to Samoa, and our heartiest good wishes that you will enjoy your short stay in our country.

It was our earnest hope that the Mandatory Government will have given due consideration to our longstanding and oft-repeated complaints, and removed the harsh laws against us, so we could have gladly participated in the welcome functions and addresses being prepared for Your Royal Highness. Nevertheless, we sincerely pray that your visit to these Islands will be a most interesting, and a very successful one.

We have the honour to remain, Sir, Your most humble servants, (Sgd.) Tuimalealiifano, (Sgd.) Faumuina Fiame, Prince. President of the Mau. (Sgd.) Tamasese, Prince. (Sgd.) District of: Aufa’i Gagaemauga (Saleaula) Alipia S. Aana (Leulumoega) Tuilagi Faasaleleaga Tupa’i Atua (Lufilufi) Autagavaia Palauli Masoe E. Vaisigano Talamaivao Vaa-o-Fonoti Lavea T. Gagaifomauga (Safotu) Fata T. Tuamasaga (Tuisamau) Vaafataua’i Satupaitea Lei’ataua T. Aiga-i-le-Tai We have been informed that, at the end of February, the Mau leaders had received no acknowledgment of those letters.

Mr. L. H. Courlander and Mr. Riley, of the Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney by the Malaita recently. While in Sydney they made their headquarters at “Belvedere,” Darlinghurst.

Mrs. G. F. Cradick, of Lautoka, Fiji, arrived in Australia recently after an extended tour of Europe and England. She left Sydney for Suva by the Niagara on February 28.

This Land—Papua

WHATEVER call I felt to leave this land In bygone days, a prey to thoughts that seemed To promise more than what I had in hand Of calm and ease and pleasures real or dreamed; Whatever call I felt I must obey, To find relief from longing’s plaintive cry, It is to this wild land that now to-day My spirit clings, my calmer soul gives way.

I feel and know that here where I have fought And sinned and suffered, laughed at passion’s heat.

Drunk all the draughts of pleasure life has brought Or bitter cups of misery and defeat—■ Here in this land whose discords suit my ear, Whose features once were sullen in my eyes, This very land that has to me grown dear, Now holds me close in mild but sweet surprise.

Whatever call I feel to wander now To distant lands with wider ways that hold For other men a heavy-laden bough Of care, success, or crop of gleaming gold, This land the mother of all I know unkind, Whose wayward steps I never could explain, This very land the only place I find Where I can live at rest with heart and mind.

RICHARD HUMPHRIES.

Kikori, Papua.

MR. W. H. TAYLOUR Death of New Guinea Mining Engineer A FTER a varied career in England, Australia, and New Guinea, Mr.

William Henry Taylour, a well-known figure in New Guinea mining circles, died at Wau, aged 72, on February 14. His son, Mr. Harold Taylour, is Government Mining Warden on the Morobe goldfield.

Mr. Taylour was born at Dover, England, in 1863, and went to Australia at the age of 20. In he became sub-editor of the “Mildura Cultivator,” and for many years was actively interested in agriculture and citrus fruit growing.

The first intercolonial convention of fruit growers was convened through his efforts in 1894, and the following year he organised the first citrus fair held in Australia.

Going to Tasmania, he established and edited the “Mt. Lyall Standard” at Queenstown in 1896.

Then for almost 14 years he was metallurgical accountant of Mt. Lyall Mining Co. During late years he had been connected with mining ventures in New Guinea.

At the time of his death, Mr. Taylour was N.G. representative for Enterprise of New Guinea N.L.

Owing to illness, arrangements had been made for him to depart for Melbourne on furlough, but a few days before he was due to leave for South his death occurred at Wau. Enterprise of New Guinea has appointed Mr. W. Cash to carry on Mr.

Taylour’s work for the company in the Morobe district.

Rich New Caledonian

Chrome Mine

From Our Own Correspondent.

NOUMEA, Feb. 4.

The Australian mining syndicate which held an option over the Sunshine Mine at Bomber, owned by Mr. Griffiths, has taken it up. It is understood that a company with 250,000 shares will be formed immediately to develop it.

For some time Mr. Griffiths has received handsome offers for his mine, but feeling confident that it was exceptionally good, he held on to it.

The chrome on the dome of this mine is on the surface, and only needs a pick and shovel to develop it. Mr. Griffiths declares that it is even better below, and that three great spurs of pure chrome jut out on the far side of the mountain.

TROPICALITIES THE social life of Apia is not devoid of amusing incidents, and European residents, usually belonging to this or that clique, find the social game interesting and entertaining. A certain highly placed official organised a champagne dinner and a dance at a certain place of entertainment recently. He had intentionally and pointedly, for reasons of his own, omitted to invite to his party, given in honour of several distinguished visitors to Samoa, some of the more prominent residents of his set, who considered this omission a deliberate slight offered to them. They quickly decided to get even with their friend, and organized a “counter” dinner and dance on a much larger scale at another place of entertainment, but at the identical time. Of the two parties, that of the official was a complete washout, while the “counter” party proved to be a huge success, forming a welcome topic of conversation for several days on the Beach. Since then relations have been somewhat strained between the various sets of Apian society. * * • A SYDNEY journal, noted for the intimate character of its social revela* tions, has announced, in a “front paga story,” that Prince Henry became discreetly gay in Suva. It is stated that the first evidence of His Highness’s determination to break away from official boredom was seen at the Government Ball in Suva when, after a couple of duty dances, the Royal eye fell upon Miss Marjorie Harcourt, “the tall, blue-eyed, dark-haired daughter of a well-known Fiji family’’; and that he danced with her far more often than with any one girl during his tour. Later, at a private Government House dance, Miss Harcourt was again the favourite. At the conclusion of this function, the Prince clambered from his room down a fire-escape, and joined a merry “bacon-and-eggs” party at the house of a Ayell-known bachelor. Here, His Highness again met Miss Harcourt and (says the newspaper, with a journalistic smack of its lips) he escorted the young lady home at 4 a.m. * * * MR. W. R. CARPENTER, since he purchased the motor vessels “Rabaul” and “Salamaua” for the Pacific Ocean- Europe trade, has experienced some of the joys of trans-ocean shipowners. The “Rabaul,” en route to London from New Guinea, called at Darwin at the end of February; and had to lie there four days before a berth was available.

Then, because of the notorious “goslow” tactics of the wharf workers, and partly because of the lowness of the tide, she had to leave the berth with only about half of the 50 tons of pearl shell she was to have loaded for the London market.

When the Rabaul moved out into the channel, police searched the ship and found two men, who had stripped off all their clothing, owing to the excessive heat.

They were hiding underneath the cargo of copra in a forward hold. Soon afterwards, another stowaway was discovered among the cargo in the after hold. They were taken ashore by the police.

A search was also made for two men (one a prominent Communist), who went aboard early in the morning, but who were not seen to come ashore. They had not been found when the Rabaul finally cleared the harbour.

Darwin was included in the itinerary of this new line because it was believed that added shipping facilities would assist in the development of the Northern Territory. What with one thing and another, the shipowners must be wondering whether any public spirit is worth while, after all.

Later: Officially announced that no more Carpenter ships will call at Darwin. # * * JAPANESE cruisers will be seen in Is- ** lands ports during the coming year. The training squadron cruisers Asama and Yakumo, under the command of Rear- Admiral Kanesaburo Nakamura, with 180 cadets, sailed from Yokosuka on February 20, via Hongkong and Singapore, arriving at Fremantle on April 13. The cruisers will visit Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, and New Zealand, returning via Suva, Apia, Honolulu, and the Mandated Islands. * * V CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Jack Hides, Papuan A.R.M., on the birth of a daughter. The happy event occurred in Camden, New South Wales, at the end of February. Both doing well. Jack Hides will not receive these congratulations, nor recognise the glad thrill of proud paternity, for some months yet; because Mr. Hides is leading an exploring expedition in the far interior of unknown Papua. He disappeared, according to plan, beyond the headwaters of the Fly River in January, and if all goes well his expedition will re-appear in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, somewhere between Mount Hagen and the Sepik River, about May.

Messrs. Blackie, London, will publish this year a book recently written by Mr.

Hides. * * * WE beg to make formal protest against the continued use of “British” Solomon Islands. The word “British” actually has no meaning. At the beginning of the century, as the result of some territorial adjustments in the Pacific, the Northern Solomon Islands (Bougainville and Buka) went to Germany, while the remainder of the Solomons remained British. Thenceforward, we had the British and the German Solomons. But, in 1914, Germany lost her Pacific territories; and in 1920 Bougainville and Buka were included, with New Ireland and New Britain, as part of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, and now virtually part of the British Empire, The use of the term “British” Solomons, therefore, has been quite unnecessary since 1920, and, indeed, absurd, and confusing to the people of the younger generation. * * * MR. a. H. E. SCOTT, who has just retired from the service of the Union Bank of Australia, joined that staff in Fiji in 1889; and he has told the newspapers some interesting things about that period. Fiji in 1893 was not linked by cable with the outside world. One day the mail steamer arrived with sufficient bullion aboard for the bank to make possible the immediate discharge in gold, if necessary, of all the Union Bank s liabilities to its Fijian customers. A mystified local manager rubbed his eyes.

Letters and newspapers brought by the steamer soon made things clear. The first great Australian banking crisis had arrived, and. the bank was determined not to risk suspension of payments even by the most remote of its branches. But the run on the Fiji branch began and ended with a single customer, who was back next day to deposit the gold he had withdrawn. He did not redeposit it. The bank took the stand that it had no further desire for his business. * * * A CHEERFUL letter is to hand from Mr. I. H. Grabowsky, general manager of Guinea Airways, Ltd., who recently underwent an operation in Melbourne and had one of his legs amputated. He now is making a satisfactory recovery from his serious illness.

“I was particularly ‘tickled’ with your statement that I would be a better man with a wooden leg,” writes “Grab.” “I am in agreement with that fact myself and, to put it quite frankly, I was darned glad to get rid of the one that had been causing so much trouble.

“I do not know what my personal boys in New Guinea will think when I pass them over a perfectly good artificial leg to play around with and polish up. They tell weird stories about Shark-eye Park’s eye and artificial teeth, so there may be a few running around about the collapsible leg.”

Queen Of Sud-Est

Mrs. Elizabeth Mahony, known to an earliergeneration as “the Queen of Sud-Est Island/' and still remembered and loved by all the older residents of Eastern Papua, is now living ire Bathurst, N.S.W.

DEAR lady, if you would but please— For you amongst them long did. dwell — What stories of the tropic seas And Islands frolics you could tell!

You queened it o’er that coral isle, And ruled your subjects white and brown, At times by force, at times by guile, And some times merely with, a frown.

With confidence the natives came To sell to you the gold they’d won; You held respect, but, all the same, They knew how you could use a gun.

The gentle savage, white or tan.

Would see he didn’t get too. gay, While it was known you’d “get your man/ From over fifty yards away.

And when the stocks were getting low Around your little trading store You’d take a native crew and! go Away to Samarai, for more.

You’d safely steer your little craft Past island, atoll, reef, and palm, When seas were crashing fore and aft, Or when both wind and sea were calm-.

Whether skies were grey or blue, You’d never seem to care a rap; You’d bring your vessel safely through, With neither sextant, chart, nor map.

And when the stores were in the hold.

Be it sunshine, storm, or rain, Perchance if cyclone were foretold, You’d sail her straight back home* again.

Sick miners in that tropic land Young and blithe or old and grey, They blessed your skilful, soothing handl That drove their fevered pains away.

And victims of misfortune’s whim, Your help were always sure to find — Tho’ sometimes you looked rather grim, Your heart was tender, warm and kind.

Old days are gone; but know that we All join to wish you Fortune’s best.

In you, old timers always see Their Queen of Fair Sud-Est.

FRANK PRYKE. 10 March 21, 1935

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Ml n m JSIEBUSO home paint POOTtCrt 8 New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. are Proposing Reconstruction THERE is little comfort for either shareholders in New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. or the Administration of New Guinea in a statement made by Earl Castle Stewart, the chairman of the Mining Trust (which controls N.G.G. Ltd.) at the annual meeting of the Trust in London recently.

The Earl said that for some time past negotiations had been going on with the Sydney board of the New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. in regard to financial reconstruction of the latter company. He had recently received a cablegram to the effect that agreement had been reached upon the general principles which should govern such a reorganisation. There were still some details of substantial importance to be settled.

Which probably means that, as we have forecast repeatedly, those shareholders of N.G.G. Ltd. who trustingly accepted N.G.G. scrip in payment for their valuable leases on the Morobe field, are going to “take it in the neck.” They have seen this “pup” of the all-powerful Mining Trust muddle along for about five years, wasting many tens of thousands of pounds through stupidity and inefficiency, and they are just as helpless to do anything now as they were then. It is a tragic example of the kind of thing that has distinguished some large-scale mining operations in every country and in every decade.

The Trust chairman stated also that New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. had in hand at the beginning of December £A240,255 and £ stg 45,000 was due to the company as the remainder of the call on the Mining Trust’s shares. It had been estimated that ore reserves at the Golden Ridges would permit of work being continued until early in 1936 at the present rate of profit. Before then the mill at Edie Creek would be erected and would be treating 30,000 tons a year. It was estimated that the scale of operations could be maintained for five years at least.

It was impossible to estimate profits from alluvial work (he continued) and no statement of annual profits for the fiveyear period could be made. Further profits would depend on the results of development work now being undertaken to test the Edie veins at depth, and on discoveries on the other leases of the company. The search for sulphide ore in depth on the Edie veins was being continued by drifting from the No. 1 shaft.

Any casual person, reading that vague statement of pious hopes, would suppose that N.G.G. Ltd. had commenced operations quite recently. Instead the Co, has been at work in New Guinea for at least five years. The Mining Trust group and the Placer-Bulolo group got in on this rich, new goldfield almost simultaneously.

The Placer-Bulolo people formulated a plan and set to work to produce gold on a worth-while scale; and their gold has been coming out for the better part of two years, on a steadily increasing scale, to the great enrichment of the Territory. By comparison, the Mining Trust-N.G.G. Ltd. group have not appeared in a favourable light. Their gold production to-day, when set against the issued capital of N.G.G.

Ltd. (4,405,389 shares of £l, of which 4,130,389 are fully paid) is ludicrous— particularly when it is remembered that N.G.G. Ltd. is squatting on a large section of the rich and still undeveloped leases of the field.

Bulolo G.D. Ltd.’s £1 shares are quoted at £9; N.G.G. Ltd.’s £1 shares at 6/3.

Further comment is needless.

The Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of shareholders in New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., will be held in Sydney on March 27. It is reported that Mr. Frank Hambridge will retire from the directorate.

A proposition has been made—but, we understand, has not been seriously considered—that the interests of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., should be sold to the Placer-Bulolo group; or that, alternatively, the two groups should be amalgamated. From the public point of view, it seems a great pity that something of the kind cannot be done. The connection with Placer-Bulolo would provide a guarantee that operations on the field would move swiftly on a well-ordered plan, and that there would be adequate gold-production within a reasonable time; and it also would assist the unfortunate N.G.G. shareholders by raising immediately the market value of their holdings.

Something of a definite and drastic character should be done. Only a superoptimist can expect the price of gold to remain indefinitely at its present level.

If N.G.G. continue at their present rate they will reach worth-while production about 1938, when the economic pendulum will be swinging back to lower gold prices. [Since the above article was put into type, the company’s directors issued their annual report, and proposals, for the general meeting. It is proposed to reduce nominal capital from £5,250,000, in £1 shares, to £1,312,500, in 5/- shares.

Paid-up capital which has been lost or is, unrepresented by available assets is to be cancelled, representing a loss of 15/- per share on 4,472,331 issued shares that is, £3,354,248 is to be wiped out.

The issued capital would then be £1,118,083, in 5/- shares.]

Governor Of Fiji

Sir Murchison Fletcher, K.C.M.G., Governor of Fiji, left Suva for England by the Niagara on March 8. He intends to return at the end of July.

Our Suva correspondent reports that during the absence on leave of Sir Murchison Fletcher, Hon. A. A. Wright, the Acting Colonial Secretary, is to act as officer administering the Government of Fiji, whilst Hon. A. L. Armstrong is to act as Colonial Secretary. The affairs of the Western Pacific High Commission will be administered by the Assistant to the High Commissioner, Captain Sir Maxwell Maxwell-Anderson, C.8.E., R.N. (retired).

The health of the Governor of Fiji (who is also High Commissioner for the Western Pacific) has not been satisfactory, and he is suffering from nervous strain.

He plans to return in July; but as his term of office expires about September he is unlikely to do so unless his appointment is extended for another twelve months. In any case, a lot depends upon medical advice.

Sir Murchison joined the Colonial Service in Hongkong in 1901, and most of his earlier career was in the East. Later, he had a strenuous period of service as Colonial Secretary in Ceylon at the time when the Donaughmore report was being framed. From Ceylon he was appointed to his present post in 1930. His predecessor, Sir Eyre Hutson, had taken office when the Colony’s balance sheet showed an accumulated deficit of nearly £250,000, but had turned that deficit into a surplus. Sir Murchison continued the good work and to-day the Colony’s accumulated surplus is round about the half million mark. Naturally such an amazing reversal inside a decade has beenonly possible through unexpected windfalls, such as gold sales and exchange,. but Sir Murchison’s policy of stringent and meticulous economy has helped considerably to build up the present rocksound state of affairs.

Mr. C. Southey, of Ba, Fiji, was staying at “Belvedere,” Darlinghurst. early in March. He was joined later by his son Jack, from Norfolk Island. 11

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About Islands Peopue

Miss Patience Rowe, 8.A., Th.L., of Labasa, Fiji, who had been in Bundaberg and Brisbane on furlough, left Queensland on February 18 to return to her mission station.

Mr. T. J. Shepherd and Mr. J. Victor, Victorian mining engineers, left Melbourne for Suva by the Mariposa on March 2. On behalf of the Australian Prospecting Co. N.L., they will prospect several gold-bearing areas in Fiji.

Mr. C. Thebon, mining, engineer for Pioneer Goldmining Syndicate N.L., departed for the Solomon Islands from Sydney by the Malaita on March 9. In January last he left Sydney for Guadalcanal to examine an auriferous deposit there. While in the Protectorate, he was laid up with dysentery and was ordered back to Sydney for treatment.

He has now returned to S.I. to carry out further investigations for six weeks on Guadalcanal.

Mr. E. C. Carr arrived recently in Papua to collect specimens of plant life for the British Museum. He left Pt.

Moresby in February for Kanosia and the western districts, where he commenced his collections.

Sir Maynard Hedstrom, of Suva, has been appointed to the boards of Koroer© Gold N.L. and Loloma Gold Mines N.L.

He is a director of Messrs. Morris Hedstrom Ltd., and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Fiji.

Mr. S. Elliott Smith, Patrol Officer in the Papuan Administration, who has been stationed for some time at loma, is at present on leave. In February, he was spending a quiet holiday with relatives at Bathurst, N.S.W.

Mr. W. E. Grose, of Kavieng, New Ireland, who has been visiting Sydney, sailed by the Orontes on March 13 for the Far East. He will return to Rabaul in June.

Mr. N. Hagen, well-known merchant and ship-owner of Noumea, who has been spending a few days in Brisbane and Sydney, will leave for New Caledonia before the end of the month.

Mr. Dermott Lane, son of the late Dr.

R. M. Lane, of Melbourne, and Mrs. H.

M. Lane, of Manly, sailed for Edie Creek by the Macdhui on March 14.

Prior to leaving Sydney, he announced his engagement to Miss Anne D’Arcy, of Newcastle.

Pastor A. G. Stewart, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, left by the March Macdhui to visit the St. Mathias Group, in New Guinea, and the Ramu-Purari section of the Morobe goldfield. He will return to Sydney in May.

Mr. L. Williams, of the staff of Messrs.

Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., at Makambo, Solomon Islands, has been transferred to Salamaua, in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea.

Mr. T. H. Downs and his wife, of the Solomon Islands, are at present spending their furlough at Mittagong, New South Wales.

Right Rev. Walter H. Baddeley, M.A., Bishop of Melanesia, arrived in Sydney via Brisbane on March 12. He addressed meetings of the Australian Board of Missions, and left for Perth on March 17.

He will return to Sydney, after visiting Adelaide and Melbourne, and depart for the Solomon Islands by the Malaita on April 18. Bishop Baddeley who, before going to the South Seas, was Vicar at South Bank, England, had a very distinguished war record, being awarded the M.C. and D.S.O.

Mr. Charles Lewaid, of Kalbar, Queensland, left Brisbane for New Guinea early in February. He proceeded to Madang, where he will do mission work for the Lutheran Church.

Mr. Frank Stock, postmaster of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, left Sydney by the Ballarat on March 6, for furlough in England.

Miss Margaret Carvers, who has been working for the Melanesian Mission for two years, returned to Raga station in the New Hebrides by the Morinda on February 14.

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About Inlands People

Dr. E. P. Ellison, who took command of the situation following- the hurricane in Rarotonga last month, in the absence of the Commissioner (Judge Ayson), is a New Zealander, who has served as a medical officer in different parts of the Pacific. He comes from well-known South island stock, and married into the famous Taiaroa family, of football prowess. Dr. Ellison was himself a footballer of prominence in his young days.

Professor Peter Buck and Mrs. Buck, who have been staying in Tahiti for some months, arrived in New Zealand by the “Maunganui” en route to their home in Honolulu, where the former will resume his duties at the Bishop Museum.

Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, until recently Native Minister in New Zealand, is seriously ill in Rotorua, and has been excused from attendance in Parliament.

Judge Ayson, Resident Commissioner for the Cook Islands, who went to New Zealand on furlough by the last “Makura,” left Wellington hurriedly on his return by the same vessel when he learned the extent of damage sustained by Rarotonga and other islands following the recent hurricane. Consequently, a proposed stay in Rotorua was abandoned.

Dr. N. T. Coulson, a retired American doctor of dentistry, departed from Sydney by the Montoro in February on a visit to Papua and New Guinea. An Englishman by birth, Mr. Coulson was a member of the company on the mission ship Southern Cross, which left Cornwall and sailed the South Seas with Bishop Patteson, who was later murdered by Santa Cruz natives in the Solomon Islands. Having attained the venerable age of 80 years, Dr. Coulson was anxious to visit Norfolk Island and New Hebrides to view again the Islands among which he voyaged as a youth. Unfortunately, however, he was unable to make satisfactory steamer connections, and was compelled to abandon his plans. On his return from the Mandated Territory in March, he will sail direct for his home in San Francisco.

Mr. Frank Hambridge, the local head of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., returned to Sydney by the Narkunda in February, after visiting New York, London, and Paris.

Mr. D. G. Kennedy and Mr. H. E. Maude, Administrative Officers in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands service, have been appointed by the Western Pacific High Commission as Native Lands Commissioners for the Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands, respectively.

Mr. H. Pitman, driller, and Mr. S. C.

Shaw, engineer, arrived in Sydney recently from South Australia, en route to the New Guinea goldfields, where they will complete a 12 months’ engagement with Guinea Gold N.L. They sailed fo” the Territory by the Macdhui on January 31.

Mr. E. G. Banks, technical managing director for Australian Mining Trust, Limited, sailed from Melbourne for Fiji on February 28 to inspect certain areas in which Australian Mining Trust Limited is interested. Mr. Banks, who is a director of Loloma Gold Mines, N.L., Fiji, will also visit that company’s property.

Rev. H. S, Perkins, London Missionary Society worker, who had been at Apia, Western Samoa, from 1925 until he left with his wife for England last year, will return to Australia in April next. For six months he will do deputation work in various Australian States and will then sail for Samoa.

Sir Charles Marr, M.P., who is chairman of directors of Mineral Developments, Ltd., returned to Sydney by the Niagara on February 23, after visiting the company’s gold options at Tavua, Fiji. He said there were big possibilities for gold mining in the group.

Rev. Alfred A. Butchart, of the Melanesian Mission at North Mala, 5.1., fell down some steps at his home on Malaita in February, and broke his left leg in three places. He was put aboard the Malaita and spent the whole of the voyage South in his bunk, with his leg in plaster. At Sydney he was transferred by ambulance to St. Luke’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, where he was reported at the middle of March to be making good progress.

Captain J. L. W. Rawson, skipper of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd. motor vessel Kurimarau, was in Tulagi Hos- ENGAGEMENT THE engagement is announced of Miss Olive Leiwia Newman, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

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Mrs. C. Kendrick, a well-known and popular resident of Papua, left Port Moresby for Queensland by the Montoro on February 7. On arrival in Brisbane she was married on February 19 to Mr.

James Wilton, of Watut, New Guinea.

Mr. F. L. Pinching, travelling medical officer for Lever’s Pacific Plantations, Ltd., in the Solomon Islands, returned to Gavutu by the March Malaita, after furlough in Australia.

Mr. G. Pinchot, late Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, with his wife, arrived in Tahiti in February by the Stella Polaris. Mr. Pinchot is an ardent fisherman and his stay in Tahiti will be devoted chiefly to the pursuit of swordfish and other pelagic monsters for which those waters are noted.

Mr, Georges Simeon, correspondent of the French newspaper “Paris Soir,” arrived in Tahiti by the Ville de Verdun recently and has taken up his residence in the Murnau establishment at Punaavia.

Mr. Simeon is the author of a number of romances, and it is understood that his visit to Tahiti is in connection with another story which is shortly to be put on the French screen.

Mr. Loring Andrews, American writer and author of “The Horizon Chaser” and “Isles of Eden,’’ left for the States last month after over a year’s residence in the Cook Islands. He completed, during his visit, a new novel which will appear under the title of “Nature Boy.” The most accomplished accordion player heard in those parts for many years, Loring Andrews was a popular figure among the Maoris, with whom he lived as one of themselves, becoming an expert underwater fisherman, using diving glasses and a twelve foot spear.

Mrs. P. Hinds, wife of Mr. Percy Hinds, merchant, of Pt. Moresby, and late of Daru, Western Papua, is the proud mother of a baby girl—Elvira Edna— born at Newcastle, N.S.W., on February 26.

Mr. Osbert Freeman, aged 59, of Naduruloulou, Fiji, died after a sudden collapse at his home on February 8. Going to Australia from England as a boy, he lived for some years at Bodalla, N.S.W.

About the year 1900, Mr. Freeman went to Fiji and was for many years engaged in sugar-growing at Rewa. Recently, however, he had been farming at Vunitoa.

Mr. J. D. Rogers, who for the past five years was assistant general manager of the Vacuum Oil Co. in Western Australia, has now taken up the position of N.S.W. assistant general manager for the company. Mr. Rogers had a distinguished war record, and was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

Mr. H. C. Monckton, accompanied by his wife and daughter, returned to Fiji by the Aorangi on February 8, after several months’ furlough. He is a senior District Commissioner of the Colony, and is stationed at Rewa.

Mrs. Leah Levy, of Suva, who had resided in Fiji since 1913, died at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital on February 15, at the age of 75.

M iss F. Johnstone was a passenger to Papua by the last Montoro. On her arrival at Port Moresby, she was met by her fiance, Mr. R. Hunter, manager of the Papuan Courier. Their marriage will take place at Port Moresby in the near future.

Mr. William Broedelow, who was born at Lomaloma, Dau Group, in 1891, died at Suva on February 14, after a short illness.

At an early age he went to Western Samoa, and there resided for many years.

In 1924, he returned to Fiji, and had since been employed in the Fiji Public Works Department. Though a reserved and quiet citizen, Mr. Broedelow was very popular with his large circle of friends.

He is survived by a widow and two children.

Madame Unger, wife of M. Adolphus Unger, Conseillor-General of New Caledonia, died at her home in the Valle de Colon on January 5. She was a member of one of the old families of the Colony, and was loved and respected by many friends.

Rev. D. M. Cattanach arrived in Fiji by the Aorangi on February 8 to replace Rev. T. H. Roseveare at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Suva. Mr. and Mrs. Roseveare departed for New Zealand by the Niagara the following week.

Mis Estelle Field, of the Melanesian Mission hospital on Malaita, Solomon Islands, who has been on short furlough, arrived in Australia early in March after visiting her relatives in New Zealand.

She left Sydney for S.I. by the Malaita on March 9.

Mr. Lucien Sigogne, Consul for Sweden at Papeete, Tahiti, died at Darlinghurst, Sydney, on February 27. During a voyage across the Tasman from Wellington, New Zealand, to Australia, on board the Monowai, he became seriously ill.

When the Monowai reached Sydney, Mr.

Sigogne was rushed to Wootton private hospital, but there died two days later. 14 March 21. 1935

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Will Prices Stay on Higher Plane?

THE following interesting summary of the copra market in 1934 and prospects in 1935 was issued by Messrs.

Faure Blattman and Co., London, on January 14: The imports into and exports from the United Kingdom of oils, fats and oil seeds, the latter converted into their oil equivalent, for 1934, as compared with the previous two years, show that the net impor: s, arrived at by deducting the exports from the imports, including butter, lard, and margarine, amounted to 1,263,888 tons during 1934, against 1,202,821 tons during 1933, and 1,139,439 tons during 1932. The total net imports for December, 1934, amounted to 96,098 tons, against 93,316 tons for December, 1933.

In all our recent monthly reviews, we have had to report a steady advance in markets, and a prospect of a further lifting of values. In our last review, we foresaw a temporary halt in the American buying, and although for a few days American buyers did hold off, the demand was soon renewed with increased vigour, with the resul that we'have seen a sharp advance all along the line, applying to practically all oils and oilseeds.

Even copra, which up to quite recently •continued to be sadly neglected, suddenly seems to have come to life and has seen a rise of over £2 per ton since our last report.

There is no doubt that consumers in Europe are gradually waking up to the fact that this American buying is more than just a temporary wave, but that there is a real shortage to be made up, and tljat the American consumers will continue to be in the market until they have satisfied their requirements.

The latest reports on hog production in the U.b.A. are generally construed as extremely bullish, and the same applies to the prospects of tallow production, prospective supplies of both of which must be wery seriously affected by last year’s -drought.

If it had not been for the exchange difficulties in Central Europe, which have caused Germany and other Central Europeans countries to remain practically out of the market for months, there is no doubt that we would have seen a much sharper advance, and the rise might even have been in the nature of a panic.

One of the reasons why the Germans have been able to refrain from buying is no doubt to be found in their large purchases of whale oil which would be equivalent to a cover for the imports of fat for two or three months, their only other purchases being effected by cortipensation business, that is to say, bartered against German goods. It is generally recognised that Germany is getting to the point where she is again in need of oils and fats, and one hears already of large purchases of butter, etc., whioh have been made in the Argentine. We may therefore assume that before long the imports of oils and fats will again be given precedence in the allotment of foreign exchange, and that Germany will once again enter the market, although the tendency will be only to buy what is absolutely needed.

The latest figures on the whale oil catch show a production at the end of December of 666,490 barrels, against 1,207,450 barrels in 1933/34, and 1,132,750 barrels in 1932/33. This, however, does not mean any falling-off in the supply of whales, but is due entirely to the agreement to commence fishing operations only on the Ist December.

The American cotton oil consumption for December was 250,347 barrels. This figure in itself cannot really be construed as either bullish or bearish, as it is just what the trade expected. It is, kowever, well up to the average of last year, and in view of the heavy consumption during the first months of the present season, leaves the deficiency foreseen in our last month’s report unchanged.

There is no doubt that the feeling is gradually gaining ground that the low level of prices of oils and fats to which we have grown accustomed in recent years must be looked upon as a thing of the past, and that prices for some time to come will stay on a higher plane.

Mr. A. H. Marlow, of Fiji, has been elected a member of the Suva Municipal Council to replace Mr. W. G. Halstead, who recently retired.

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Tricks of European Buyers From a Special Correspondent.

LONDON, Feb. 3.

YOUR cartoon in the December P.1.M., concerning- “free fatty acid” in copra, is timely.

Do you know that buyers in Europe, as a regular practice, use free fatty acid as an unfak* means to get copra for a lower price? The United Stated buyers seldom, if ever, make any claim on this account; but, here in London, the buyers claim arbitration as soon as the steamer is reported in the Channel, and they go to all lengths to try and get some reduction in price.

Free fatty acid, according to expert modern chemists, is not the trouble that some manufacturers say it is; and, with present-day methods, neutralisation is a fairly simple matter. 15

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TAHITI Death of Pomare V.’s Divorced Wife From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Feb. 13.

February 2 the titular ex-Queen of Tahiti, Joanna Marautaaroa Salmon, died, aged 74, in Papeete Hospital, after a grave operation. As befitted her important position in local society, she was accorded an impressive funeral, at which the French Administration was fully represented, and to which delegations from all the districts of Tahiti and Moorea were in attendance. Her passing represents the severance of a very interesting link between present day conditions and Tahiti of olden days.

Madame Marautaaroa Salmon was the daughter of an Englishman named Alexander Salmon, who married Ariitaimai, the daughter of Tati, chief of Papara district, by whom he had eight children. Ariitaimai, though not of Royal blood, was of good lineage, and had been brought up by the same foster-mother who reared Queen Pomare IV., who reigned from 1827 to 1877. In consequence of this association a deep affection existed between Pomare IV. and her foster-sister Ariitaimai, which later came to fruition in the marriage of the Queen’s son (afterwards Pomare V.) and Marautaaroa Salmon. This marriage, which was consummated shortly before the death of Queen Pomare IV., was neither happy or fruitful.

Not long after his accession to the throne of Tahiti in 1877, Pomare V. divorced Marautaaroa, who thereupon resumed her maiden name of Salmon. King Pomare V. never re-married and died without issue in 1891. He it was who ceded Tahiti and its dependencies to France in 1880, and who was, therefore, the last reigning King of Tahiti. Marautaaroa Salmon, however, was recognised by the French Government as the ex- Queen of Tahiti, and was granted a pension up to the time of her decease.

Of stately presence, finished education, and strong personality, the titular ex- Queen maintained the dignity of her assumed rank, especially in the eyes of foreign visitors, and of those local residents not familiar with the history and genealogy of the Tahitian Royal family- The majority of the natives, however, unyielding in their allegiance to the legitimate inheritors of the blood Royal, accepted Madame Marautaaroa with reserve.

The present head of the Royal Pomare family is the younger brother of Pomare V., Ariipaea Pomare, the last surviving son of Prince Hinoi (deceased in 1916), who was the eldest son of Teriitua (called by the French, Joinville). There are eight adult princes and princesses today of the blood Royal in Tahiti, six of whom are the direct descendants of Tamatoa, through his daughters Teriivaetua and Teriinavahorua. The other two are Ariipaea Pomare and his sister Tetuanui, grandchildren of Teriitua (Joinville). Tamatoa and Teriitua are the only children of Queen Pomare IV., who left legitimate issue.

Rev. and Mrs. H. Johnstone returned to Suva by the Mariposa on March 6, for work at the Methodist Mission at Nadroga, Fiji. 16 March 21, 1935

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A.D.O. McDonald Fatally Shot While Asleep ATTACKED by a demented police boy, Edward Colin McDonald, A.D.0., at Ambunti, New Guinea, was shot dead while asleep, at dawn on February 27, during an exploring trip into unknown regions near the Papuan border. The frantic native, who had “run amok,” was overpowered while attempting suicide and was found to be suffering from severe ■concussion.

Assistant District-Officer McDonald, the second son of the Mayor of Geelong (Councillor E. A. McDonald), was 29 years of age, and unmarried. He had been in the service of the New Guinea Administration for 11 years.

Educated at Geelong High School and the Melbourne University, Mr. McDonald was one of the first two cadets chosen from hundreds of applicants throughout the Commonwealth for appointment to the New Guinea Service. After a 12 months’ course at Sydney University, he qualified in anthropology and law, and then commenced service in the Territory.

He was appointed A.D.O. in 1933, being stationed at Ambunti, a small Government outpost about 250 miles up the Sepik River.

In 1932 while a patrol officer, Mr.

McDonald had a narrow escape from death at the hands of hostile natives. A recruiter named Exton had been clubbed to death in uncontrolled country, and Colin McDonald was sent out to arrest the murderers. His party was ambushed, and it was only after a sharp fight that the police party escaped with their lives.

McDonald arrested nine natives, seven of whom were later sentenced to death for murder.

When on furlough a few years ago, Mr.

McDonald qualified as an air pilot. In 1933 he made a world tour, spending some time in Great Britain and on the Continent.

Last Letter To Parents

The last news obtained by his parents in Geeiong from Mr. McDonald was received quite recently in a letter dated December 31. At that time he was operating from a base on the Sepik, three days inland by canoe from Angoram. Mr.

McDonald expected to travel further up the Sepik, and then hit across the mountainous country and reach a lake, 9000 ft. above sea level, which is believed to lie in that area.

He described the big trip ahead and endeavoured to dispel fears of possible danger by light-heartedly commenting, “Anyway, I’m getting too old to look for trouble, so I am avoiding it this time.”

“This may possibly be the last letter you will receive for a long time,” he wrote, “as I am going away for three months into country which has never previously been explored by Europeans.

“I expect to be away for three months, but don’t worry. I am taking a young cadet with me and a party of police boys.

It will be good experience of the bush life for the cadet.”

The natives of the area between Sepik River and the Papuan border were, h© said, reported to be rather friendly to Europeans. “So,” he added, “there will be no trouble with them.”

Friend of the Stone Age THE following tribute to Mr, E. C.

McDonald and his work in the Mandated Territory, written by Mr. Bertram Calcutt, who was formerly an Assistant District Officer in the New Guinea Administration, and who is now resident in 17

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Sydney, appeared in the “Sydney Morning Herald” on March 9: I first met Colin McDonald at Gasmata, New Britain, in 1929, a fortnight after the chief, Porlo, had felled me with an axe.

A few weeks later, after a stay in hospital, I returned to Gasmata, where I found that McDonald had the chief in custody, and that Porlo’s area had been quietened by him.

McDonald was then a patrol officer and a magistrate of the Native Court, and 23 years old. He was of military bearing, well-educated, and of good family. About Moewe Harbour was an area which was a fester on New Britain; the people lived in stockades built under fig-trees, the trees themselves being converted into fortresses into which the natives retired at an alarm; and it was the last stronghold of widow-strangling, a deeply religious ceremony. I had patrolled through portion of the area the previous year, and I then decided that a military situation existed in it, requiring only a strong hand.

McDonald was athletic, could do anything physically which the Stone Age could do, and he had physical and moral courage.

He was an officer of the Commonwealth Forces, and had the command of men, his patrol organisation being the model of efficiency.

An Outstanding Triumph

In 1929 I sent McDonald to Moewe Harbour with instructions to bring the area under control, after building a substation at a place to be selected by himself, and to abolish the custom of strangling a man’s widow, or widows (for they were polygamous), immediately after his death. Formerly immolation of women was the custom in the whole of the area between Cape Merkus and Roebuck Bay, on southern New Britain, the native belief being that at death a man required everything he had possessed on earth. His coconut palms were cut down, his garden stripped for a feast, his house burned down, and his pigs killed for a feast; finally, his widow was strangled, after a gruesome dance under the waistband with which her blood-relations killed her. There are still recrudescences of the ceremony, but McDonald more than any other, by his presence and dash, must have saved the lives of hundreds of widows.

He was then fresh from his courses at the University of Sydney in anthropology, public health, law, and physical geography, and this knowledge, combined with his personality and dash, fitted him for the stupendous task of refining the Stone Age and bringing its conduct into line with that of educated English people.

By Christmas, 1929, McDonald, metaphorically, had the Stone Age people of Moewe Harbour “eating out of his hand,” and on such good terms was he with them that even the savage yokels from far inland attended his feasting and dancing assembly at Arung Bay, and a spot which was formerly a fester took on a healthy appearance. McDonald was young, but he did not fail to carry the heavy responsibilities I had placed on him, and Moewe Harbour, an area where Government influence was small because of the natives’' resistance to penetration of their country is one of his triumphs.

I next heard of McDonald in 1933, when, he was in charge of Wewak, on the New Guinea mainland, at which place I was m charge in 1925. At 27 McDonald had been promoted to the position of Assistant District Officer, a magisterial office with the same powers as a police magistrate in Australia. The hinterland, as with Moewe Harbour, needed a Arm guiding hand, and McDonald distinguished himself by pressing deep into the Sepik Basin, at places fighting through armed opponents, to a village in which a recruiter had been murdered. He was tall and thin, healthy, physically and mentally vigorous; just the type of man the Stone Age admires —a foeman worthy of their spears, and one to whom it was not disgraceful to submit.

Exacting Service

The Sepik Basin was just the place for a man of McDonald’s ability, although it is a ghastly drain on health. McDonald was in charge at Ambunti, the Government station established in 1925, situated about 240 miles along the course of the Sepik River from the coast. I was stationed there in 1925 and 1926, and spent nine months amongst myriads of mosquitoes in the swamps which fringe the river.

Service there is the severest drain on physical and mental health, and the people need a strong hand, such as McDonald and few others could show.

There must be a quarter of a million members of the Stone Age in the Sepik.

Basin, and at the time of his death Mc- Donald was their temporal leader, guide, and friend. This at twenty-nine!

The Sepiks are head-hunters except In those areas under full Government con- 18 March 21. 1933

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On February 27, 1935, McDonald was asleep in that sweet coolness of a tropic dawn, when he was shot by one of his own men, a maniacal police “boy.” The man whose sole aim was to guide, refine, and protect the Stone Age was destroyed by it. Vale, Colin McDonald—a splendid son of Australia!

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BOTANIST From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Feb. 12.

TN recognition of his services to agriculture in the Colony, Mr. Harrison W.

Smith, at one time Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, U.S.A.), lias recently had conferred upon him by the French Government the distinction of Chevalier du Merite Agricole.

Since his arrival here many years ago with a cargo of tropical plants and seeds from Borneo and the East Indies, Mr.

Smith has been actively engaged in the introduction and propagation of useful plants and trees. His plantation at Papeari has developed into a fair-sized botanical garden, the practical value of which will become more and more appreciated as time goes on.

N. Guinea Expeditions

Two Advertised in London Arouse Criticism T'HE London newspaper, “John Bull,” of January 26, 1935, with unfavourable criticism, reviews “two remarkable expeditions to the South Sea Islands,” which at that time were being extensively advertised in England.

The South Seas Film Expedition proposed to go to New Guinea in a “luxurious yacht” (the “Jungle Hawk,” said to be lying at Southhampton) to make a film of wild animal life and of tribal customs, in the unexplored interior. A party of ten persons is to penetrate the region between Port Moresby and Aitape. The producer and general manager of the expedition (Mr. E. A. Cross) hopes to find, among the unexplored swamps and mountains, “prehistoric animals and monsters the like of which have never yet been seen by civilised man.” The secretary is Mr. V. H. Tumidge, and the offices are in High Holborn. “John Bull” says that persons have been asked to subscribe varying amounts, from £750 to £20,000.

The other concern has its offices at 84 Kingsway, and is directed by Lieut.- Colonel Delme-Radcliffe, D. 5.0., formerly of the Indian Army, who is trying to get in touch with men to put in £4OO each, wherewith to seek for gold in New Guinea, Papua and Dutch New Guinea. The prospectus is based on reports mad© by the Colonel’s son, Mr. Peter Delme-Radcliffe, who has been prospecting in New Guinea for two years, apparently in the Ramu, Purari, Finisterre Range region, and the company is to be called New Guinea Exploration Syndicate Ltd, There seems nothing more speculative about the gold-prospecting- plan than about dozens of others now being hawked in Australia, but “John Bull,” for some reason, warns investors against it. The paper says that Colonel Delme-Radcliffe was formerly interested in gold enterprises in Western and Central Australia. 19

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No Speculation in Mining Permits Allowed Until Values are Proved THERE appear to be interesting deposits of gold in Fiji—on the Tavua field, near the northern coast of Viti Levu, and on the Tanawai field, in the southwest of Vanua Levu. No one knows yet whether these are really rich fields—they appear to be profitable. All deposits must come close to being profitable, while gold maintains its present record price in terms of sterling.

There seems to be a curious charm about the name of “Fiji gold.” Or does the 1 excitement lie in the name of Theodore? It is a fact that, ever since it was seen that Mr. E. G. Theodore (the Labour politician whose cleverness and long vision made him a very rich man) was interested in Fiji gold, Fiji developments have been followed feverishly by Australian speculators.

The “boom” commenced about November. All sorts and conditions of people began to rush off from Australia to Fiji and seek some sort of title over land near the area taken up by the Theodore- Costello interests; and by the end of December there were Fiji wild-cats prowling, naked and unashamed, in Pitt Street and Collins Street.

People were falling over each other in their eagerness to invest, when the Governor of Fiji (Sir Murchison Fletcher) and his responsible Council stepped in, and effectively put a stop to the shearing of the tender lambs. (The metaphor is getting mixed! Shall we say that the swallowing of the innocent lambs by the sophisticated wild cats received a check?) The Fiji Government very wisely decided that no person, syndicate or company should have the right to hold and exploit mining land until it had been clearly shown that such land contained gold of value.

The baffled wild-cats are snarling and cursing: but everyone who is jealous of the good name of Pacific Islands goldmining will heartily commend the action of Fiji officialdom.

A message from Suva, published in Sydney on February 25, stated that the Fijian prospecting board will not consider applications for prospecting licences on the Tavua and Yanawai goldmining areas for the present. A number of applications has been made on behalf of Australian intcrßsts The Fijian Government’s goldmining policy is published officially in the “Fiji Royal Gazette” of February 15. The Government invites the co-operation of private enterprise in the proving and extraction of Fiji’s gold deposits, and it will assist genuine enterprise by all reasonable means. It intends, as far as lies in its power, to prevent any form of speculation which may tend to damage the colony’s good name. It is proposed to amend the law in order to enable the Government to issue a prospecting licence for such term as it may think fit. A prospecting licence is not transferable, except upon conditions approved by the Government. The holder of a prospecting licence has a prior right to a mining lease, but a mining lease will not be granted unless reasonable evidence is produced that the gold is present in payable quantities within the area which it is desired to lease, and that the applicant possesses or commands sufficient working capital. It may be made a condition that suitable extraction plant shall be installed.

The proclamation continues: “Rumours have reached the Government regarding proposals which are being made for the sale of Tavua prospecting licences. All existing Tavua licences expire on June 1, 1935, they are not renewable, and they cannot be transferred except upon conditions approved by the Government, and interested parties are warned that they should ascertain those conditions before they conclude an agreement. . . . The Government is informed that certain persons who have filed applications for prospecting licences are endeavoring to sell non-existent rightsi. No trafficking in such applications will, in any circumstances, be recognised. ...

“Persons proposing to float companies in connections with the colony’s gold deposits are reminded that the conditions must be approved by the Government. As at present advised, the Government is of opinion that ‘no liability’ companies are undesirable. Generally speaking, it is the desire of the Government to promote by all means in its power the orderly commercial development of the colony s gold deposits. It intends to prevent the getrich-quick type of speculation which seeks to gain unearned wealth at the expense of the community.”

The Cunard liner Franconia, which is carrying more than 200 passengers of all nationalities on a luxury cruise around the world, arrived in Sydney from New York on March 4. She left on March 6 for East Indies, via Port Moresby. 20 March 21, 1935

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NOUMEA From Our Own Correspondent.

NOUMEA. Feb. 1.

PEARLY on Saturday, January 19, the Mongolia, with 750 tourists on board, arrived at Noumea. She moored out in the stream, as is customary with these great liners, and an effective service of launches brought the passengers to .and from the vessel.

The visitors made excursions to the native villages near St. Louis and then through a cool grove of coconut palms to a small farm near Plum. Two hundred of the tourists visited Magenta racecourse in the afternoon to watch the native dances.

At 5 p.m. on Sunday afternoon the Mon golia weighed anchor. The pilot decided to go round Infernal Bank in the harbour, but found his ship too large to turn, and she went ashore on Artillery Point, where the captain experienced an anxious hour and a quarter. Fortunately, it was a mud bottom, and, after manoeuvring ahead and astern for some time, she finally floated off with the full tide—apparently none the worse for her adventure.

The Admiral Charner, the French man-of-war, was in the harbour, and was of great assistance in making soundings and signalling the Mongolia’s captain.

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TULAGI From Our Own Correspondent.

TULAGI, February 20.

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S. G. Masterman’s aeroplane, upon which he has been working assiduously to convert it into a seaplane, was very badly knocked about, and is almost beyond repair. Mr. Masterman, undaunted, contemplates purchasing an all-metal ’plane.

Queen Salote of Tonga and her Consort, Prince Tugi, who is Premier of the Kingdom. 21

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IF you would allow me space again in your valuable paper, I would like to follow up my letter, published in your issue of November, on the old subject—Missionaries and Traders.

Since writing, I have been informed by a Samarai resident that the grant given to Kwato Extension Inc. is £l2OO per year (£BOO for technical training and £4OO for child welfare). This information was obtained direct from the Government Secretary by the person to whom I am indebted for the information.

The contradiction of Mr. Harrison’s letter by the secretary of the L.M.S. in Sydney in June, also one by a Mr. Smith in October, is rather amusing to read by any resident in this Territory conversant with the subject.

It is a remarkable thing that the mention of the subject trading always brings forth an indignant denial from the secretaries of Mission Societies.

Some time ago we had the spectacle of a secretary publicly denying that any member of his Society was trading, and when he was proved in the wrong, there was no apology tendered per the medium of your paper, which he used to make his ' absurd statement.

Mr. Smith talks of an apology. What for?

When Kwato were under the L.M.S., years ago, they traded in opposition to Europeans in Milne Bay, the same as the foreign Company are doing to-day.

The excuses made by the L.M.S. that they do not trade in opposition to the man on the spot is a mere quibble. They do trade, and that is the bone of contention at present.

We will take Fife Bay as an example of Mr.

Smith’s argument. This is controlled by the L.M.S., under the Rev. C. F. Rich, one of the most popular and best-respected men in the Territory, and incidentally, one of the most successful traders. There has never been any complaint as far as his trading is concerned, but to follow up Mr. Smith’s contention about the “man on the spot,” the reason the Mission have the field to themselves, is simply because any ordinary trader has no earthly chance of competing against them. I can safely say that if Fife Bay was not used as a Trading Station, two or three traders would be making a living there.

The same applies to Mailu and other stations on the South Coast. Further, Fife Bay is also running in opposition to the three slips in Samarai, for all boat repairs, etc.

I would further remind the secretary of the L.M.S. and Mr. Smith that if it was not for their Society handing over or selling their interests in the Eastern division, we would not be inflicted with the Kwato Extension Inc., and, instead of asking for apologies, it would enlighten a bewildered public, if they would explain why they handed over this part of the Territory to a foreign Mission.

There is a very considerable population in the Kwato area, and as the land was granted in the first place for religious purposes *to the L.M.S., and they continued their teaching there for some years, it seems incredible that a sound financial Society like theirs should suddenly abandon this area to another Society not recognised in Australia.

As the two gentlemen both disclaim any association with Kwato, one may now ask what religion is being taught the natives since the L.M.S. faded out of the picture.

In 1925, Kwato was under the New Guinea Evangelization Society Inc. of New York, of which Walter McDougall was the treasurer, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York. Who they are and what religion they represent I have no idea. That they are not a recognised Australian Mission Society is well known, and it is astonishing how readily they were received and recognised by the Papuan Government.

To show that some Missionary Societies do a bit of exploiting, as w r ell as the trader, lam enclosing you a document issued by a Society asking for public subscriptions towards evangelizing the poor natives; and, on enquiry from any Government office, you will find this document is, in the main, a tissue of false statements, issued to delude the public into subscribing to a cause which does not exist. (Document received—very remarkable.—Ed. P.1.M.).

I omitted several ventures in my last list which Kwato had tried —viz.; Milk vendors, sawmillers, and caterers. In your issue of November it says “shop” proprietors. This should read slip proprietors. It is now announced that they are entering into the freighting trade in Milne Bay.

To trade in Papua, one has to obtain a trading license, a nominal amount of £1 per year, but the site selected must be quarter of a mile away from the nearest village. This is not a regulation, only instructions issued to the Government officers.

Owing to the small amount of gold obtainable here, the only hope I had to pay living expenses was to augment my income by opening a small trade store. I built a home and store on the beach, on Crown lands, not 66 feet from highwater. The natives selected the site and asked me to build there. I am only 100 ft. from four village houses on one side of me. I am now told no license will be granted to me, as I am not a quarter of a mile from the village. This deters me from making a living at all here, as there is no spot anyway handy, that I could get within a quarter of a mile from a village.

Kwato Extension Inc. have been trading for years in Milne Bay, on sites granted “for religious purposes only,” and they do not pay any license fee at all. Why the distinction? I have no £l2OO a year grant, or rich friends in America to contribute towards my support.

Can we not find someone in the Federal Parlia- 22 March 21. 1935

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We constantly read this piffle about the exploitation of the natives by traders. It may have been the case 40 years ago, but for nearly 25 years, to my knowledge, the natives in the Eastern and South-Eastern divisions, through working for and mixing with Europeans, know too much about prices of trade goods ever to be exploited. To-day we find that if any exploitation does occur, it is done by the native to the European.

In this respect, he is encouraged by the Government. If you assist a native by giving him credit to go fishing for shell or searching for gold, you have no redress if the native sells the result of his trip to someone else, and you are left with the debt. The Government informs the native he need not pay the white man. Most firms in Samarai and elsewhere have had to write off large sums as bad debts, incurred by natives.

Another thing all the missionaries lose sight of when uttering the old fallacy about exploitation is that, although being a Missionary Society, they can buy all their trade goods at a price much below that given to a small trader, and as they sell to the natives at the same price as the trader, it looks as if the exploitation is on their side.

Missionary Societies are, or were, granted concessions in freight on their goods by the subsidised mail steamers —another little bit of extra profit over the trader.

Mission trading is a matter for the Federal Government to take up. So far, any redress that has “been received has been solely due to your valuable paper; and we further hope that by the constant publication of these grievances a further improvement will take place.

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William Lockerby

In Fiji 135 Years Ago A WRITER in England, when inquiring about an old house that was being demolished in Liverpool, England, brought to light a bit of the fascinating early history of the Pacific. The house, known as Fairfield House, was built and occupied over 100 years ago by William Lockerby—the man who wrote the “Journal of William Lockerby, Sandalwood Trader in Fiji, 1808-1809,” which was published some 25 years ago—a long time after his death.

Lockerby came from the famous Lockerby family of Annandale, in the county of Dumfries, and he was born in Annandale in 1782. This family was devoted to the Stuart cause, and most of the Lockerbys threw in their lot with Bonnie Prince Charlie, in the 1745 rebellion. A notable incident in the southward march of Prince Charlie in 1745 was the rescue of Janet Halliday from a burning house.

Janet Halliday carried in her arms an infant girl; and this infant was afterwards the mother of William Lockerby.

William Lockerby settled in Liverpool, and was married there about 1798 or 1799. Then he mysteriously disappeared, and it was thought that he had been taken by a Press Gang. But it turned out subsequently that he had somehow got away into the Pacific, and he was shipwrecked or marooned in the then totally unknown Fiji Islands. He was there from 1800 until 1802; and then he was able to get away to America and thence to Liverpool, where he rejoined his wife. He had some amazing adventures in Fiji; but he was a shrewd, farseeing man and he noted many things in Fiji which he afterwards turned to good account. He settled down at Fairfield, in Liverpool, and established himself in business as a ship owner. He apparently returned afterwards to Fiji, and did much to develop the sandalwood business there. He was still living in Fairfield, Liverpool, in 1849.

He wrote an extraordinary account of his experiences in Fiji, but this was strictly preserved from publication until one of his great-grandchildren, in cooperation with Sir Everard F, im Thurn (at one time Governor of Fiji) had it published by the Hakluyt Society, sometime early in the present century, as “a unique cpntribution to the history of savage life in the South Seas.”

Lockerby’s old home, Fairfield House, was recently demolished, and his fascinating story was retold.

Lockerby had several children, and Jane, his second daughter, married one Richard Gaskell. Mr. Robert Gaskell, who is a resident of Tulagi, Solomon Islands, is a grandson of this Richard Gaskell, and, therefore, a great-grandson of William Lockerby.

Pastor W. N. Lock returned to Papua by the Montoro on February 20, after six months’ furlough in Australia. He is a Seventh Day Adventist missionary at Mirigeda, the S.D.A. headquarters near Port Moresby. 23

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LONDON, Jan. 22.

THE Copra market seems to have taken a definite trend for the better. But how long it will last, is a horse of another colour.

One of the brilliant Financial Editors of one of the Sunday newspapers starts his page this week by: “I had a letter from a friend in Fiji last week . . . He runs a 7,000 acre Plantation (coconut).

His landlords are the ‘Ecclesiastical Commissioners’, who I believe are the world’s largest owners of land”; and so on until the Benevolent Editor is asked whether his good friend in Fiji should sell his land and come home, or words to that effect. And the “8.E.” has told him . t , With all due respect to such an august person, I feel that if the Benevolent Editor were asked what copra is made from and also why it is made, he would need to refer to a book to have the questinn answered for him tion answered tor him.

The reason I am giving all this detail is to enable the reader of your journal, to understand just how much faith they may put into any report which appears in the ultra-controlled English newspapers.

Some of the reasons given for the rise in the selling price of copra are too well known to the coconut planter to need retelling; but, at the same time, there is a strangeness in the air, and even the Benevolent Editor will need to dig deep down to explain the position.

I refer to the lowering of the retail price of soap. Sunlight soap, which has never been (at least not for some years) below 5d per box, has now dropped to 4d, or fully 20 per cent., and at the same time the selling price of the essential parts have increased almost that equivalent. In fact, although all vegetable oils have advanced fairly rapidly, the commodities which need the oil for their manufacture have been reduced in price.

The cotton seed market is not so plentifully supplied as during the past few years; consequently Soya Bean oil has benefitted to the extent of £2 per long ton. But whale oil has not moved much, and the soap people have purchased the balance of the Norwegian stocks of this commodity for around £lO per ton.

But, with all this, the exact position of the copra industry is still shrouded in mystery, and it is still impossible to get anything definite in the way of a forecast from the people who have handled the produce for over 25 years past.

In any case, seeing that Soya Bean is a short oil producing crop, and also that 80 per cent, of it comes from a foreign country, why cannot the British Government put a huge embargo on it, so as to give the Empire copra producers a chance. I do not think that the soya cake is any better than copra cake; and, if that is the case, then why not do what, other nations are doing, and put their own countries first, and then work with theforeigner on the same basis he works with us.

We all know, however, that Manchuriacum-Japan supplies the largest tonnage of soya bean, and also that the trading side of the balance sheet between the Empire and Japan is largely in the Empire’s favour. But surely something could be done to enable the Old Country to get this oil business down on to a different basis. If nothing else can be done, for the coconuts, then give them the same backing as is given to bacon, potatoes, etc., in England, and lay a definite programme of help for those Colonies which are still, for all practical purposes, an integral part of the British Isles.

Anyway, our friend with the 7,000 acres; owned by the Church will need to join the anti-tithe community now operating in England, and if he has such a nice large block of land in one area, then he is in a most difficult position, as the collector of tithes in England does not appear tohave any soul, and cannot even read the Bible on such questions as benevolence.

We can leave that to the editors of the Financial Sections of some English newspapers. • Miss A. I. Samuels, a young nurse from Ashburton, New Zealand, left Sydney for New Hebrides by the Morinda on February 14. She is en route to the Melanesian' Mission station at Torgil, Banks; Islands. 24 March 21, 1935

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New Guineea DH. J. R. ATCHERLEY, well-known in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea as a skilful gold-prospector and explorer, sailed from Sydney for Salamaua with Mr. George Beenhan, mining engineer, by the Montoro on February 20.

On behalf of Morobe (New Guinea) Gold Options N.L., they will recruit a line of boys, and will then leave on an eight months’ prospecting and exploring trip into the north-west interior of New Guinea.

The expedition intends to travel 300 miles up the great Sepik River, and then cut across into the little known region between the Sepik and the borders of Papua and Dutch N. Guinea, where the party will prospect for gold. Dr. Atcherley is confident that rich dirt in payable quantities will be found in the area he intends to search.

Morobe (New Guinea) Gold Options N.L. was formed in Victoria at the middle of February with a capital of £7,500, the shares of which, paid to £3, were quoted at the end of February on the Melbourne Stock Exchange at £ll. The directors of the new company include Brigadier-General E. A. Wisdom, C. 8., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Administrator of New Guinea from 1921 to 1932), Mr. Wallace- Smith (stockbroker of Melbourne), Mr.

Douglas (mining investor) and Mr. Blakemore (solicitor). The Melbourne firm of Stringer and Phillips is the legal adviser.

Some months ago, Dr. Atcherley with Mr. Albert E. Palmer, led a prospecting expedition to the Mandated Territory for the Equatorial Gold Exploration (New Guinea and New Britain) Syndicate.

After taking up gold-bearing areas on New Britain, and pegging out dredging claims on the Ramu River, the party returned to Australia by the Macdhui on December 13.

The report submitted to his principals by Dr. Atcherley was very optimistic, and the syndicate decided to form a subsidiary concern to work the Ramu leases.

Subsequently, Ramu Gold Reefs N.L. was formed in Melbourne; the name, however, was later altered to Barola Gold Reefs N.L.

Barola Gold Reefs N.L. has a nominal capital of £7,500, in shares of £5 each. Of the 1500 shares, 690 fully paid were allotted to the Equatorial Syndicate. About £3OO was also paid to the Syndicate for expenses incurred in securing an option over Mr. E. R. Rowlands’ leases on the Ramu.

If Barola Gold Reefs decide to purchase the property after an option period of 12 months, Mr. Rowlands will receive £2OOO In cash, and £6OOO in fully paid shares. In the meantime he will get £3OO cash and 10 per cent, of gold won during the option period.

Rev. S. Ray Rooney, a pioneer Methodist missionary in the British Solomon Islands, died at Prospect, South Australia, on February 1, after a long illness. In 1903 he went to Roviana and served there until he was transferred in 1906 to Choiseul, Northern Solomon Islands, remaining there until he went to South Australia in 1913. The name of Rooney ranks high in the annals of the Methodist Mission Society, his father also having accomplished much pioneer mission work in New Britain, after serving for 15 years in the Fiji Group.

Crime In Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Feb. 13.

JUDGE J. H. LUXFORD arrived recently from New Zealand by the Maui Pomare, on circuit, and presided at the High Court of Samoa on February 8, when a number of cases were tried.

There were several sexual offences of a serious character on the calendar.

The most serious case was that in which a native of Saleaula (Savaii) was prosecuted for rape on a young Samoan girl. The unanimous verdict of the four assessors (three Europeans and one Samoan) was “guilty,” and the judge, concurring with the verdict, sentenced the accused to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour. In a second rape case, several Samoans of Aleipata district were found guilty by the jury, and sentenced to five and three years’ imprisonment respectively.

In a case of forgery of documents, several Samoans, after pleading guilty, wei’e sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. A few cases of theft and burglary were also tried before Judge Luxford. 25

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SALAMAUA, February 18.

NONE of the newspapers appear to have told “the story behind the story” of the murder of the Roman Catholic missionary at Mount Hagen, in New Guinea.

As I understand it, the Roman Catholic missionary fathers pushed out into this unknown and uncontrolled area quite a long time ago—l think that Father van Braan was actually the first man in. The missionary was not welcomed by the natives and they resisted the building of his church. These missionaries, however, do not lack courage and they went on with their enterprise. Then the hostile people burned down the mission buildings. The exasperated missionaries are said to have then committed an error of judgment they promptly retaliated by shooting a number of the natives’ pigs. This was tantamount to fining a white man in his worldly goods.

Father Morschheuser, the murdered missionary. was unlucky enough to follow in the footsteps of the pioneers, and he merely collected the punishment intended by the natives for white people generally.

One cannot b.ame the primitive savages— they acted simply in accordance with ageold customs. Neither can one blame the missionaries —they were fearlessly carrying out their duty as they saw it. But. the basic conception of the whole thing is w r rong, and lives —both European and native —have been uselessly wasted.

It has been suggested that the influence of another mission organisation is at the back of the natives’ refusal to have the Roman Catholic church established in their midst. I do not believe this for a moment —although there are others who do. It i& a fact, however, that there is very keen competition between the missionaries representing different churches who have pushed out into the new country.

Old Man New Guinea By Gordon Thomas.

EVERY now and then Old Man New Guinea stirs from his lethargy amt strikes, and the sound reaches round theworld in a tragic echo.

From its mysterious hinterland ther© comes a voice saying: “You can penetrate my vastness; you can take away my distances with aeroplanes, and you can become familiar with my people; but I am still New Guinea, with my sacred, customs, which are as old as the Cross and none the less sacred to my peoplebecause you term them pagan.”

And when we hear the voice of Old Man New Guinea and see him strike wesuddenly realise the truthfulness of it all.

Because of our own modern powers of penetration, and our self-satisfied western slant on things primitive, we underestimate the power and ignore the feelings; of the Old Man. We are liable, too, toforget that New Guinea, under its skin, is still New Guinea —despite our aeroplanes zooming over its jungles, our refrigerating plants standing in homes in. its valleys, and the wireless sets bringing" to-day’s news to our ears.

The Old Man has his customs and his prejudices, as deep-rooted as our own; his ethics are as worthy of recognition as ours. When he objects to their desecration by the White strangers he feels, perfectly justified in meting out justice and retaliation in his own methods. The trouble is, his methods are not our methods; A wrong is committed by the Whites and the Old Man deals with the offence collectively: not individually. The 26 March 21, 1935

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THE following is an extract from a letter to the editor, from a planter in the Soloynon Islands. Its date is January IS, 1935: The ruin of the Western Solomons and of its British pioneer settlers and traders continues. Two more sailed by the last boat to Australia.

Vella Lavella, the most closely-settled island in the Group a few years ago, is to-day littered with abandoned plantations. Of the ten properties on that island that were in production two years ago, eight have been closed down or abandoned. His Excellency the High Commissioner will, no doubt, be pleased to leani that while the last two pioneers were passing, the prosperous Chinese in Gizo slapped on another trading vessel against the few remaining doomed British traders.

A deep hatred of Fiji has become prevalent here. We feel we have been thrown to the wolves and can expect no pity nor redress from the High Commissioner. Public opinion is turning to Australia as our sole means of salvation.

There is an upsurge of feeling against the Colonial Office connection, and it is considered that we would get a fairer deal from Rabaul than from Suva. At least we would receive from Rabaul the sympathetic consideration, which is denied us by Whitehall and Suva.

As all our affiliations —commercial, shipping, banking and ethic —are with Australia or the Mandated Territory, the last step, that of political union, should be taken, and freedom from the always irksome and illogical Fijian connections be bestowed upon us.

Fiji’s indifference to the settlers of the Solomons is no new development. Sir Cecil Rodwell, when High Commissioner, on a visit to Gizo many years ago, told the Secretary of the Solomon Islands Planters and Settlers’ Association that the Government “wished there were no small settlers in the Solomons —as they only added to the difficulty of Government”!

No doubt, it would have been much more simple for the High Commissioner to solve administrative problems over a dinner and cigars with the executives of a few big companies than have to endure the boredom of listening to the troubles of the small settlers. Certainly, Suva ever since has done its best to eliminate the nuisances by encouraging Chinese comagainst them.

Fiji can take comfort in the fact that its fell work is nearly done. Quite effectively, and with the most satisfactory rapidity, the new policy is removing the unwanted, obnoxious white settlers. What a pity Fiji did not think of it earlier!

Montoro In A Storm

THE Burns, Philp Islands liner Mon- A toro ran into a heavy storm after leaving Brisbane for Townsville, en route to Papua and New Guinea, at the end of February.

Shortly after departing from port on Friday, February 22, the vessel struck severe weather, which increased in violence on Sunday. Unable to pick up landmarks through bad visibility, Captain Williams hove-to, as the squally weather continued and the seas grew heavier.

There was no anxiety among the passengers, and the Montoro rode the storm splendidly. At midnight on Sunday she resumed her course and continued on to Townsville, through gusty squalls and dim visibility. The Montoro’s deck cargo and the numerous animals on board did not receive any damage.

“Talkies” For Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Feb. 14.

A PEW years ago Apia could boast of two picture theatres. Competition and the depression, however, brought about the ruin and liquidation of both enterprises, and for the last year, Apia has had no moving pictures, silent or “talkies.”

A new picture-show company has now been formed in Samoa through the enterprise of Mr. E. Paul (director of the Gold Star Transportation Co.). This new company has taken over the assets of the late Tifaga Playhouse Co. (in liquidation), and will instal up-to-date “talkie” equipment. The new establishment will probably be opened at Easter. 28 March 21, 1935

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Possible New Industry for N. Guinea A N industry that may be worth investigating so far as the Mandated Territory of New Guinea is concerned is that of exploiting a species of Kauri pine, the Dammara (or Agathis) tree. The Dammara tree (Agathis Orientalis) is wellknown in the Federal Malay States, the East Indies and India, where it produces a resin of value in manufacturing colourless varnish.

A Japanese company in recent years discovered that this tree grew in large quantities in the vicinity of Geelvink Bay, on the northern shores of Dutch New Guinea. This company obtained from the Nederlands East Indies Government valuable concessions under which it proposed to export timber from this region and also the valuable Dammar resin obtained from the Agathis tree.

Believing that investigations would show that the tree grows in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, the “Pacific Islands Monthly” made inquiries at the National Herbarium, Sydney, which controls the Botanie Gardens, where several species of the Agathis tree from the Pacific Islands are growing.

“I am of opinion that if investigations were made,” said Mr. E. Cheel, Curator of the Herbarium, “varieties of the Agathis tree, very closely related to the Kauri pines of North Queensland, Fiji, New Hebrides, the Solomons, and New Caledonia, would be found growing in the mountainous regions of New Guinea.

They would yield a gum very similar to the so-called Dammar resin.

“At the end of last century, the German botanists made a very thorough examination of the lower forms of New Guinea flora, the valuable results of which were subsequently published. The scientists were still engaged on the tremendous work of cataloguing the higher forms of plant life when the Great War broke out.

“I am sure that had not their work been interrupted,” he continued, “they would have completed a comprehensive survey of the major flora of the Territory and found the Agathis pine growing profusely in certain elevated districts on the mainland.

“When in Fiji several years ago, I saw magnificent Agathis Vitiensis trees growing to a height of over 150 ft. With the hotter New Guinea climate, the trees should grow even taller there.”

The Agathis trees in the Botanic Gardens are well-developed trees of the Ovata and Moorei (New Caledonia), Vitiensis (Fiji), Robusta (Nth. Queensland), and Obtusa (New Hebrides) varieties.

The North Queensland variety, which it is thought is similar to the New Guinea species, is a large tall specimen of about 100 ft. in height. The girth of its mottled brown trunk measures six to eight feet at the base and tapers to about 18 ins. at the summit. Branching out on alternate sides, the slim limbs bear a profuse growth of smooth, bright green leaves, about three inches long and one inch wide.

The valuable Dammar resin has many uses, the chief of which is its use in the making of colourless spirit varnishes. It is also utilized, with certain other preparations, for varnishing fabrics, paper, cloth, etc., and for interior decorative work. Dammar resin is an important constituent of duco for renovating automobile bodies, etc. In India the black resin has a wide variety of uses for medicinal purposes. Its present worth in Sydney is about £5O per ton, though No. 1 Singapore grade is selling on the world market at about £7B per ton.

Apart from the resin, the Agathis tree itself, having a close grained, easily worked wood, is in considerable demand for housebuilding and for the manufacture of furniture. This aspect has been commercialised in the Solomon Islands by the Vanikoro Kauri Timber Co., which exports (mostly to Melbourne) the huge logs cut from the forests in the southern Solomon Islands.

In Fiji the Agathis Vitiensis tree is known locally as the Dukua, and the resin is called “makadre.” The Fijian natives collect this gum from time to time and occasionally small parcels are shipped from the Colony, The general practice of extracting the gum is by incision, or by cutting down the tree, firing the roots, and gathering the gum as it oozes from the cut. In New Zealand, however, large deposits of fossilized Dammar resin are found at 5 to 6ft. below the earth’s surface, thus indicating the presence of huge forests of Kauri trees at some former period. The gathering of this “Kauri gum” has been 29

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Murals for Rabaul Church WHEN Archdeacon Ralph de Voil, of New Guinea, returned to Rabaul from Sydney in March, he took back with him a unique triptych for the Children’s Chapel of the Church of St.

George at Rabaul. The triptych, which consists of a centre mural and two side panels, is intended to link up Bible history with the surroundings familiar to the New Guinea children.

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Carrying the banner of St. George, the Rabaul choirboys are depicted climbing a hill in the background.

The side panels each represent a New Guinea savage wearing a brilliant head-dress and arrayed in ceremonial costume; while standing behind the native is an angel beseeching him to turn to the Church.

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Effect Of Betel-Nut

CHEWING Letter to the Editor.

MR. , VOGAN’S article in your December P.I.M. concludes with the statement that “Two facts seem already harvested from Pacific investigation; That Northern races deteriorate under tropical conditions for a time, and then slowly recover themselves; and that the Arica-nut (the mis-named betel chewing) has a very deleterious effect upon the brain, although preserving the teeth from decay.”

In answer to the first “fact” I would refer him to Northern Queensland; and in answer to the second “fact” to the Mandated Territory and the Morobe District as an example.

The most intelligent natives a*-e from the coastal area, and the Markham and Waria valleys, where betel-nut chewing is rife. In the rest of the district, by far the major portion, the habit is unknown to the Kanakas, although their teeth are equally as good, and look a lot better. But their physique and intelligence are far below that of the betel-nut chewers.

So that Mr. Vogan’s “researches” have not even disclosed two “facts.”

Every country in the world has its own particular stimulant and benefits by it. It is only abuse that makes it deleterious.

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In New Guinea

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I READ with a mixture of pity and amusement the outpourings of “Veri” from New Ireland and “Duk Duk” of Rabaul (comrades in distress) in the December issue of your valued journal. Both are at least deserving of a little sympathy, but unfortunately of a great deal of correction.

Our friend “Veri” was evidently quite oblivious while writing the latter portion of his letter of his opening remarks; or at least he quite forgot to read over his journalistic product, otherwise he could not have failed to observe the glaring inconsistency that one part bears to the other. <1) “Veri” begins by informing us that ten white men have been charged with killing natives, and countless others have been imprisoned and fined for assaults on natives. (He might have added that only a fraction of the cases ever reach a court.) (2) The cause of all this trouble, according to “Veri,” is the lax system of governing the natives. (Truly a scathing indictment on Australian intelligence and administrative ability.) (3) Th« remedy, in “Veri’s” opinion, is the re-introduction of the German system obtaining here over twenty years ago, of giving a settler legal power to punish natives. (This is alleged to be the panacea for all evils.) Unfortunately, however, dor “Veri’s” case, he states further down in his letter (and I do not for a moment dispute the veracity of the admission) that the natives are receiving far more punishment now than in the German time.

If the Germans used corporal punishment on natives and secured by means of it such happy results —contentment, docility, obedience, respect for authority and, most important of all, more work-one would naturally conclude that as the ■quantity of corporal punishment has been greatly increased (and it certainly has) the bulk of happy results would have increased, at least in equal ratio. Yet, according to “Veri,” the identical opposite is the case.

It would be very difficult to reconcile the evidence placed before the court in the killing cases with the claim that those who committed the heinous crimes were men of such high moral and social virtues as “Veri” would like us to believe.

Facts are stubborn things and very unyielding. An honest survey of the court records would upset many fantastic calculations. If those few who have been convicted and punished are types of •cultured Australians with honourable records, I can quite understand the notice posted up outside at least two South African hotels after the Boer War, “No admittance for dogs, devils or Australians.”

Whether the Germans were right or wrong in giving settlers legal power to punish natives (and I do not agree with it), we are not concerned now. At least the German Administration gave legal status to the practice, so the poor native knew at least he was receiving legalised cruelty.

Now the native’s back is bruised, but a far greater injury is inflicted on his mind. The natives here to-day are naturally far more mentally developed than their primitive ancestors twenty or thirty years ago. The natives know through officials, luluais and the village schools, that the white man is forbidden in law to inflict corporal punishment; and, still, according to “Veri,” the natives are receiving more punishment than ever before. No wonder there exists resentment, bitterness and disrespect for law. If we wish to teach the natives respect for law and reverence for authority we should first set the example.

Take, for instance, a case that came before the cdurt from that perpetually unhappy region, the Kavieng District. Natives were charged with attempting to kill their master. Yet evidence wrung from that employer in the court showed that natives were forced to work on Sundays, and were corporally punished by the master, as well as given bitter medicines to drink for punishment Evidence was placed before the court showing that the oppressed people made an attempt to go away a long distance and report the matter to the District Officer, and were brought back and punished. The employer concerned knew the law as clearly as he knows the alphabet, yet the cruel practices were continued. The facts of the case were faithfully presented to the court by the Crown Law Officer; the Chief Judge, in summing up, strongly pointed out that each of the cruelties used were illegal. Yet the offender was neither fined nor imprisoned. Why? .No wonder the oppresssed people are so often driven to seek redress by violence, after having exhausted all reasonable means!

In my opinion the “White Australia Policy," stretched and strained until it has become an instrument of oppression in the hands of a number of unscrupulous whites, is the cause of 95 per cent, of the troubles between Europeans and natives to-day. People come here from Australia and make no attempt to conceal the fact that they loathe the native and, in fact, everything coloured. 31

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When Mr. McKenna (Permanent Head of the Queensland Education Department) was invited here to report and advise on the education of the natives, he wrote, inter alia, “That one of the strangest things in this strange land was the attitude of the whites towards the natives. Any suggestion that a little kindness would produce better results meets with derision and contempt.”

Mr. McKenna was a keen and intelligent observer and in my opinion he was not long in noting the cause at the root of nearly all the trouble here to-day.

All colonial administrations have found it necessary to check and restrain the exploitation tendencies of their colonists. Australia, in dealing with her own aboriginals, has a black and bloody history to live down. Arsenic was deliberately put in bags of sugar to poison off the people; they were shot down most cruelly by early settlers; and these facts are known even to school children in English schools to-day. In my opinion, if one thing more than another will prompt Geneva, Canberra or the local Administration to tighten up and more rigorously apply laws for the protection of the native races, it will be the perpetual hate now at white heat, seeking to legalise barbarity in the Territory. If the German system applied to primitive people was reintroduced even for a month among the at their present stage of development, those whites now clamouring for it would be the first to urge its repeal to save their own lives.

“Duk Duk’s” lament is that there is no jury system in the Territory. Yet if his letter is a faithful reflex of his mind it is evident that zeal for the execution of justice was not his primary motive in writing. The introduction of the jury system in this Territory now would certainly benefit and unjustly protect the white and even in many cases give him a licence to violate law.

It would absolutely rob the native of the protection of law.

If the jury system, on account of the many loopholes it offers to injustice, is on trial in so many places, what hope is there it would ever succeed here? The system has been caustically criticised in Victoria and N.S. Wales many times by those whose legal training gives value to their opinions. Tasmania is reported to have dispensed with it.

In a country like New Guinea with its sparse and scattered European population and its large native and coloured population, where the native is condemned and despised, I honestly believe that the jury system would mean the collapse of justice in the Territory. The work of Police, District Officers, Crown Law Office and Judges would be at the mercy of cliques whose ingrained aversion would prejudice and blind them in any dispute or case where Black would be against White. The jury system would be an inducement for prospective law-breakers to act with impunity and would drive the native to seek redress by the only means left to him—violence. Twelve jurymen could never be empanelled in this Territory to return. a verdict of guilty against a European.

Even after the clear exposition of the barbarous details of the killing of a native, published in succeeding issues of the “Rabaul Times” recently,, potential jurymen, volatile and talkative with liquor, were holding up the culprit as an unfortunate hero, more deserving of a V.C. than a terra of imprisonment.

If there is anything in “Duk Duk’s” case, the only sane and logical inference must be that we have a judge or judges who are corrupt, incompetent, or at least prejudiced against their own countrymen. Mr. Justice Wahliss, the Chief Judge, is a sound lawyer and a just judge, and has, moreover, a long and honourable military service. He enjoys the respect and confidence of every educated person here to-day.

It is neither pleasant nor just to the living relatives of those who have been sentenced to review the details of the cases cited by “Duk Duk,” in support of his plea for a jury system.

The reports can be read by any interested party.

How any sincere critic could hope to succeed by pointing to such cases is beyond comprehension.

If they are types of “cultured” white men with honourable records, Australian culture must be of an extremely inferior quality. Perhaps this explains why the natives are so slow at absorbing it.

“Duk Duk,” I observe, has quoted approvingly the Crown Law Officer for the Territory (Mr. G.

Hogan) as stating that native evidence was worthless and unreliable. Only last week the Crown Law Officer stated in the Legislative Council that he did not cause a letter to be written stating that he fully realised that native evidence was worthless and unreliable. I know that the Crown Law Officer has repeatedly stated in court the direct opposite to “Duk Duk’s” contention.

What the Crown Law Officer probably did say was that in a particular case the native’s evidence was worthless and unreliable.

I would remind “Duk Duk” that a person who sets out to prove too much usually ends by proving nothing. The logical, sane and traditional way is to collect and survey the evidence first and then draw conclusions.

I am, etc., LOVER OF JUSTICE.

Rabaul, N.G., Ist February, 1935.

Mr. David R. McNicoll, son of the Administrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, sailed by the Montoro for Rabaul on February 20. After spending several weeks with his parents at Namanula, New Britain, he made a trip across to New Ireland in the Administration schooner Thetis. Mr. McNicoll, who is a journalist, will return to his duties on the editorial staff of the “Sydney Morning Herald” in April next. 32 March 21. 1933

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ANTHROPOLOGY And “Enthusiasm” in New Guinea Letter to the Editor.

THE statement in your Tropicalities column, that, according to a newspaper report, I told the Anthropology Section of the Science Congress that “everywhere in New Guinea European representatives were enthusiastic about anthropology . . . including planters, judges, and miners,” will be as much enjoyed by my friends as it was “by me. The idea of those Morobe miners rushing away from their claims to pursue the fascinating lore of the Kanaka is enough to reduce us all to tears.

It is true that one Melbourne journal did report me thus; but that particular journal is notorious for its lack of sense of humour.

Needless to say, nowhere at the Congress did I make any such stupid statement. My whole paper pleaded to the anthropologists to face realities; to come down to Earth from their academic planets; pointing out that, except in the official world, where the work was beginning to be accepted as having relation to and value for native administration, our science was not regarded with esteem or favour; and this was because its purpose was not understood. I quoted the critical reference by a member of the Legislative Council in Rabaul, last year, to the “horde of anthropologists” who have been in and out of New Guinea, without, according to the critic, having shown any great or practical results for the Territory.

So that the point I tried to emphasise was not that planters, etc., were enthusiastic, but rather that it behoved each anthropological field-worker who goes to New Guinea to attempt to give his work a practical application; and, in addition, always to be prepared to show to any European who appeared interested or critically inquisitive, the nature of the work being done and some idea of the technique of a sociological survey.

“Let the anthropologist come out into the open; table all his cards; show that he has nothing to hide; attempt to have his work and his point of view understood by the Europeans in the Territory, and so remove from the work the blight of suspicion and ridicule that are due solely to lack of understanding. Anthropology is beginning to justify itself in the official mind—after a long and uphill fight,” I said; “it is still far from finding acceptance and justification in the mind of the ordinary European. And until it does—as it will <io when it is understood—it cannot hope to achieve anything great or of lasting worth.”

When I met the late Eric Randahl at Sio Island last year, for instance, I spent a couple of hours showing him, with all my records in front of us, what I was trying to dp. At the outset, he was openly critical. He had just come from the Sepik River, where he had heard from the natives something of the doings of an anthropological party.

“What do you anthropology birds do?” he had asked me, in all seriousness. And I was glad of the opportunity to show him what one at least of the “horde” was doing. His honest remark after our session, “H’m—there’s something in this anthropology after all,” was reward for my pains.

That every anthropologist—or “ethnographer,” if you like (perhaps we ought to put it more simply and say “every one who sets out to understand native life”) —should attempt to bring about understanding of his work and point of view amongst the Europeans in the Territory, who, after all, are responsible for its management and development (including planters and miners; I don’t know why the paper dragged the judges ini), was the burden of my plea.

But that they are enthusiastic about it already —Oh, la, lal One more point, Mr. Editor. In the summary of the paper of Mr. F. E. Williams, you quote: “Even anthropologists have come to see what academically-minded people saw long before them,” etc. This should read: “Even anthropologists have come to see . . . what less academically-minded people saw long before them.” The omission of the little word “less” makes a world of difference in the meaning. And Williams’s paper is too important and valuable to be misinterpreted.

I am, etc., W. C. GROVES.

Melbourne, 23/2/35.

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These two young teachers were later joined by three other young girls—Mary, Ruth, and Nesta —and the five brown Sisters emulating their guardian white Sisters of the Cross, are doing much helpful work for their own Christian people on lonely Sikaianna. 33

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MR. O. F. NELSON The Pending Appeal Letter to the Editor, WHEN the Supreme Court of New Zealand delivered judgment last June on my appeal against convictions entered against me for political offences by Judge Luxford at the High Court of Western Samoa in March, 1934, and the four Supreme Court Judges were evenly divided for and against the main convictions, my counsel asked in open court for leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

After some discussion of the matter, the Judges ruled that they did not think they had power to grant leave to appeal, but it was suggested that leave may be granted by the Judicial Committee direct, so it was no secret that leave to appeal was being applied for. Latest advices from London state that an early fixture is expected for the hearing of that petition.

It will be remembered that Mr. Justice Blair, one of the four Judges who sat on the Supreme Court hearing in Wellington, gave a very strong dissenting judgment, in which he ruled that the whole of the convictions should be quashed, and the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, supported him in regard to what he termed the main conviction. It was therefore surprising to read Mr. Marc Greene’s letter in your December issue, in which he stated, inter alia ; “ . . . There is not a chance in a hundred of the Privy Council reversing it, even if it is taken to that body.” And) “I am the last person to maintain that the system is a success or should be continued, but it is certain that no High Court would take the responsibility of action that would amount to a settings aside of the authority of the Mandatory.”

In view of the facts mentioned above, there is no question but that the case is sub judice, and had it been an Australian, instead of a New Zealand case, the question of privilege to publish such comments at this stage might have arisen.

To say the least of Mr. Greene’s remarks, they show no respect for the high integrity and discretion of the highest judicial tribunal in the British Empire, with jurisdiction over appeals from outside of the United Kingdom. Perhaps this cannot be expected from an American journalist like Mr. Marc Greene, but that a British journal of the high standing of the P.I.M. should publish such a letter, at this juncture, must be amazing to many who hold the last court of appeal in Dominions and Colonial matters in that high respect to which it should be entitled.

I am, etc., O. F. NELSON.

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Mr. Howard S. Hipkin, of the Solomon Islands, arrived in Sydney recently from short furlough in New Zealand. At present he is studying at the House of the Ascension, Goulburn, N.S.W., before returning to his work at the Melanesian Mission, Mala. 34

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NATIVE MEMORIES OF 1884 Things That Impressed the Primitive Papuan Minds of 50 Years Ago IN this article, written with delightful humour, Mr. F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist, provides some interesting and unusual sidelights on the ceremonies which marked the addition of Papua to the British Empire.

THE ceremony of declaring the Protectorate at Port Moresby fifty years ago has been very fully described by Charles Lyne, the journalist, as well as by Chalmers, the missionary. Without expecting to learn anything new about the ceremony I thought, however, that it might be worth while questioning some of the oldest natives in the Port Moresby villages, to see what they could remember of it and how they regarded it.

The results of my enquiry were, I confess, rather disappointing. I consulted three of those old-timers.

The first of them, Gavera Gavera, had but the haziest recollection of it all. He spoke of the men-of-war (there “were actually five in the harbour), of the firing of their guns, and of a diari, or “beam”— presumably the searchlight. He also remembered how the sailors and marines fell in and marched, and how they fired their rifles, the startling noise of three feux de joie being clearly a vivid recollection. But there was no intriguing detail to supplement the written accounts of Chalmers and Lyne.

My second informant, Igo Gau, was almost equally a failure. He remembered however that, whereas the other chiefs who went aboard the “Nelson” were dressed in native fashion, Boe Vagi wore a shirt —a detail which is regrettably verified by Lyne, who says that the paramount chief “was dressed in a shirt, with a handkerchief round his loins, and a red felt hat on his head.” This costume in itself was sufficiently distinctive to have Motu Nonuka wearing the naval hat and uniform presented to his grandfather, Boe Vagi, at Port Moresby in 1884, on the occasion of the declaration of a Protectorate over Papua. 36

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He was not himself one of the privileged fifty to go aboard the flagship. He had watched with the others for their return, and remembers how the villagers were amazed at the appearance of their newlycreated chief. For whereas he had gone onto the “Nelson” clad in a shirt, he came out of it carrying a stick and wearing a naval officer’s uniform. There is no doubt that Boe Vagi did wear a naval uniform later on, in his official capacity; but I think my informant may have anticipated this investiture in his account, for neither Chalmers nor Lyne makes mention of what would have been at least a very surprising transformation.

Igo does not forget the noise of the cannon, though he mistook its significance, In the words of an English-speaking native who has transcribed his account, “the meaning of the cannons which they fired, saluting the chief Boe Vagi.”

Dr. Lawes, the missionary, had forewarned the people of the display of fireworks which was to take place on the evening before the actual ceremony, (It happened to be November 5. Were the rockets solely to impress the natives, or did the Commodore send up a few extra for Guy Fawkes?) To use the words of my scribe again: “In this occasion Dr.

Lawes told the villagers that they would not be afraid, but to watch and they can see some amazing things, viz., flashing lights, crackers, sky-rockets, etc. When the light flashed towards them, and when they heard the sounds, these things will do no harms; so they may not move from their villages. If this does not be told, I should say the villagers would be rushed to and fro.” As it happened, only the Koiari, visitors from the hinterland, were sufficiently scared by the entertainment which had been staged for their "benefit to run away from it.

The last of the three old-timers was Taubada Ova. I entrusted the task of dragging out his recollections to a young educated native, and in due course received a written account of them. It was a very short one, to which the young man, digusted at the failure of Taubada’s memory, wrote an indignant preface: “In my opinion he can remember things that happened yesterday, but not day before yesterday. His head is full saw-dusts, etc.” This is strong language for an upstart to use of a rather eminent and certainly intelligent old native; but then the youth was anxious to please, and pumping informants without result can be a little exasperating, Taubada Ova had been on a hunting expedition with his friends when they heard, reverberating through the hills, the thunder of the Royal Salute, They hastened back to the village to learn the meaning of these unaccountable noises, but by that time of course the •celebration was all over. There was, however, “lots of news about appointment of Boe Vagi as a chief”; and he had been driven walking-stick, uniform, and hat by “Gamadoa (Commodore), a big man which was sent here for appointing someone as chief.”

Later in the evening, Taubada went to see the flag flying at Boe Vagi’s house— not the Union Jack of the Declaration, but a lesser emblem which will be referred to presently, “a beautiful flag . . . enaigned with Bird of Paradise.” Beneath it were gathered a crowd of natives who "talked amongst themselves about obeying Boe Vagi’s order and respecting him when he walked about.”

But if living memories have grown indistinct, some concrete mementos of the scene remain in a rather better state of preservation. Boe Vagi had been appointed by the Commodore (no doubt on adequate recommendation) as leader among the fifty or more assembled chiefs.

And at the conclusion of the reception on board the “Nelson,” when the guests had disposed of the “great tub of boiled rice, sweetened with brown sugar,” and had listened to the Commodore’s harangue, he, Boe Vagi, was called forward and presented with an ebony stick. It was to be, said the Commodore, an emblem to him of his authority, and all the tribes represented by the chiefs there present were to “look to the holder of this stick, Boe Vagi.”

The emblem of authority—it would have made a very serviceable weapon—is a thick black stick, encircled at the top by a band of silver. This band encloses a florin, face upwards, and we may picture Boe Vagi and his fellow tribesmen (who had hitherto seen but one white woman, the wife of Dr. Lawes) passing the stick from hand to hand and gazing with wonder at their new Queen who, as the Commodore had said, would guard and watch over them and would look upon them as her children.

At subsequent ceremonies performed at different parts of the coast, Commodore Erskine presented five of these staffs of office to “paramount chiefs,” the sixth being given to Mr. Chalmers as a souvenir. It is more than doubtful whether any of them, except the last, now serves the purpose for which it was given. Boe Vagi’s remains in the house of his grandson, and neither he nor any other is bold enough to carry it as a staff of office. For Boe Vagi's status from the beginning was a fictitious one, and his place was not taken by a successor.

The ebony stick passed into the hands of his only daughter, Gabadi Boe. She it was whom Dyne described as the “village belle,” but as “not very beautiful according to English or Australian ideas of female beauty, for her face is broad, her nose flat, her mouth large, and her head of hair immense.” But her form was robust; she wore many bands of shells, and a large piece of pearl around her neck; and she “wagged her petticoat with as much style and effect as her sex in Sydney, much more elaborately dressed, can show in a walk round the block.”

It is not a very sympathetic picture.

Gabadi Boe must have looked, dressed, and behaved like the Motu kekeni of today, who is uncommonly attractive; and incidentally I am sure she wagged her petticoat with more verve than would be tolerated on the streets of Sydney.

She was no doubt making the most of her father’s glory, for Lyne adds, somewhat fancifully, that she was “evidently the admiration if not the envy of a select circle of young female acquaintances who were generally with her in a capacity something like that of maids of honour.”

In short, she was permitting herself to be lionised.

Gabadi Boe in due course married, and it is her son, Motu Nonuka, who now has the stick in his possession. He is a respectable little native with no pretensions to chieftainship, the highest public honour he has achieved being no more than membership of the Village Council.

When I visited his house he had the relics of his distinguished grandfather placed ready on a table. Besides the ebony staff, there was an old moth-eaten flag, dark blue, with a white square in the corner. Unfortunately, the white corner had almost totally disappeared, though on what remained of it could be distinguished some streaks of dye or 37

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’Phone: MA 3430. painting. This was the flag which Taubada Ova had admired. It had been substituted by Commodore Erskine for the Union Jack given to Boe Vagi in the previous year by Mr. H. M. Chester, when the country was prematurely annexed to Queensland. The streaks of painting are all the remains of a design printed on the white square by Mr. Cooper, of the N.S.W. Civil Service —viz., a Bird of Paradise —the first official appearance of Papua’s emblem.

But the most interesting of the relics were still to come. Motu Nonuka opened a rusty tin box of most unusual shape, and disclosed a naval officer’s cocked hat, and then, unwrapping a brown-paper parcel, he carefully laid out a naval officer’s cut-away. Both were grievously moth-eaten and tattered; but some 60 per cent, of the gilt buttons remained on the coat, and there were a pair of heavy epaulettes which, despite their dilapidation, still gave it an air of magnificence.

As we have seen, there is some doubt whether this uniform was actually given to Boe Vagi by the Commodore; though Motu, his grandson, as well as two of my ancient informants, declared that it was.

But whoever gave it, we may be sure that the paramount chief often wore it and that it made its due impression.

On his death it passed, like the ebony stick, into the hands of his daughter, Gabadi Boe; nor does it appear that anyone ever ventured to wear it again, save on one occasion Gabadi Boe herself.

She had married a man, Nonuka Daroa, who once found himself in gaol for the incautious or malicious use of fire in a native garden. His highly-connected wife came to his rescue. I have the story from their son Motu, who remembers seeing his mother don the naval uniform and thus apparelled proceed from Hanuabada to the office of the Resident Magistrate, where she petitioned for her husband’s release. The Government —or so it would appear from Motu’s story—was sufficiently sentimental to be affected, and the husband speedily found himself free again.

This ludicrous but charming episode is enough to prove, what one suspected already, that Boe Vagi’s daughter was a woman of character. It is worth adding that she could not on this heroic occasion have worn the trousers belonging to the uniform, because Boe Vagi had been buried in them.

The present possessor of eboriy stick, flag, and uniform is a modest man.

Though his mother habitually carried the stick and once dared ridicule by wearing the uniform, he keeps them inside his house. He readily agreed to dress himself up for a photograph, but if there is anything Napoleonic in his pose it is the photographer’s fault.

Motu Nonuka has no vanity in the possession of these heirlooms. He regards them —the flag and uniform, at any rate —as junk, and suggested burning them.

I realiy did not know whether it was right to dissuade him, they are so far gone.

But he has decided to put them away for a further span, and recently turned up at my office to accept a handful of mothballs.

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Continuous tests of the material and a wide variety of experimental applications to uses where rubber or other materials are used at present, have failed to exhaust market possibilities; new and previously unlooked for properties are still being discovered by Goodrich chemists and engineers.

Although of a different chemical composition, Koroseal, like rubber, can be variously compounded to be hard or soft. When given a doughy consistency, it can be molded into any shape. It takes a variety of colours and is odourless, Goodrich chemists point out that, unlike ordinary rubber, Koroseal does not swell and soften when exposed to oils and greases, resists disintegration in the presence of corrosive chemicals, stands up under the action of hot, concentrated nitric acid or chromic acid, and offers great ‘ resistance to light and oxidation.

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A Lucky Landing

From Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, February 12.

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It had no funds for such a purpose. We were left to wonder what a Navy League is for, anyway. Apparently, another organisation for the glorification of superannuated old gentlemen.

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The Navy Office “regretted that it was unable to comply with the request,” and suggested that we apply to the Admiralty, Whitehall, London. Which we now propose to do.

It is an extraordinary thing that, with all these naval organisations functioning, mere civilians like Mr. Harper and the editor of the P.I.M. should have to fuss and fret in order to arrange so simple a thing as the marking of the graves of bluejackets wfio were killed while on duty. ■ Rev. J. W. P. Gillan, Principal of the Teachers’ Training College, Tangoa, New Hebrides, who is in Victoria on holidays, was relieving the Presbyterian Minister at Beechmet, Melbourne, in February. He will return to the Condominium in May next.

A Moving Mass Of

CRABS Egg-laying Rite in the Solomons From, A Lady Resident of the Solomon Islands ALWAYS there are a few crabs about the garden and paddocks, making a nuisance of themselves, digging holes in the front paths and nipping the tops off very special plants or eating chickens not properly cooped; but for the first week or two in November we noticed their numbers steadily increasing.

The climax came one night, about the third week in November, when, sitting inside reading, we could hear a strange rustling going on outside. A friend described it as a flock of sheep on the move. Going out to the front gate and flashing a shooting light round about w© saw a sight which made me “creep” for nights after.

The ground was just a moving mass or carpet of crabs. On every bush and fence they swarmed in hundreds, all moving, with their funny cumbrous gait in the one direction —towards the sea. I was informed they were all female crabs because they didn’t have hairy legs.

Next morning, I was up at dawn, and it was still a case of “watch your step,” as they were still on the move. But as the light of day approached and the sun became hotter, those that had not reached the water’s edge, made haste to hide themselves under coral and pieces of rubbish, wood, or anything at all, until by 9 o’clock there was not a crab to be seen, unless one went looking for them.

We went to the beach, and there witnessed what appeared to be almost a religious rite of some kind, for each crab advanced to the water’s edge, and, crossing its claws above its head, shook itself hard —not once, but many times; and then moved back among the stones to make way for another. The crab’s belly was covered with what appeared to be a dark-coloured rubber sponge, only with very, very minute knobs in place of the holes in a sponge. Perhaps that’s not a very good simile, but anyway those are the eggs, and the natives told us that the female crab goes to the sea every year at the same time, and washes her eggs in the salt water and then goes back and hatches them in the sand.

On going round the plantation we saw the whole foreshore was riddled with crab-holes —looked just like a miniature battlefield.

Needless to say, a few of the creatures died on the journey, and a sickening stench hung over everything for days.

We are now awaiting developments, as the natives say they come back again in February.

At Here, I have seen, at a certain time of the year, millions of very tiny crabs come out of the salt water, and my theory is that they are those hatched from the eggs we saw, and that they are left in the rocks and not taken back to terra firma at all. One year at Here the baby ones were feet deep on the beach and against the copra shed. I cannot remember having seen the big crabs there, though.

These, here, are about 4in. to sin. across, I suppose, and most ferociouslooking creatures. 40 March 21, 1933

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It is some months now since the Commonwealth Government, as a result of representations made by the Administrations and commercial interests in New Guinea, Papua, and Torres Straits, decided to call for tenders for a seaplane and patrol launches. Tenders were invited, but only one was received. This, however, was not accepted. The Federal Ministry was thus faced with the alternatives of supplying a Government machine, pilot and mechanics, or of deferring the project.

Formerly the New Guinea Administration maintained a steam-yacht for administrative and other purposes in the Territory. This vessel —the Franklin— was sold about two years ago and, as the seaplane proposal was in the air, nothing was done to replace her. Now that the plan to obtain a suitable machine has been shelved, it is likely that a small steamer will be purchased in Australia for the New Guinea Administration.

No decision has been made concerning the patrol launches, and inquiries by the Federal Government are still proceeding.

Rev. James Orsmond

His Valuable Work in Tahiti WRITING in the “Sydney Morning Herald” of February 2 last, Mr. Eric Ramsden supplies some interesting material concerning Rev. James Muggridg© Orsmond, pioneer “Duff” missionary to Tahiti. Mr. Ramsden has based his article on data contained in a document purchased by the Mitchell Library (Sydney) from the collection of the late Dr. John Dunmore Lang.

According to the recently purchased document, which was compiled by Mr.

Orsmond himself, the Church gained a firm footing in Tahiti only after King Pomare 11. was converted, and, for his own political ends, advocated Christianity.

“After the King was baptised,” wrote Mr.

Orsmond, “the door was open, and a desire to follow his example ran through the islands like wild fire among stubble.”

Travelling to Sydney in 1817 in the company of two natives, Mr. Orsmond acquired a workable knowledge of Tahitian. On his return to Papeete he studied the language diligently until he obtained complete mastery over it. He saw the people in transition and made full use of this by going among the chiefs, priests, and commoners seeking their opinions, studying their customs and legends, and assimilating the fundamentals of their inherent culture. This mass of detail he recorded while it was still fresh in his memory, and so gathered a comprehensive and valuable collection of ancient Tahitian lore.

Later he generously presented his collected writings, embodying his observations and researches, to the French Government. Unfortunately, these documents of inestimable value were subsequently destroyed in Paris. Years later his brilliant granddaughter, Teuira Henry, a fluent linguist and a profound student of Tahitian culture, undertook the tremendous task of restoring Mr. Orsmond’s life work. After her death in 1915, Miss Henry’s manuscripts, elaborated with notes by other Tahiti experts, were published by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, of Honolulu.

When his wife died in Tahiti on January 6, 1815, Mr. Orsmond went to Sydney and married Miss Isabella Nelson, a Sunday school teacher of Parramatta, N.S.W.

Their daughter Eliza married Isaac S Henry, son of Rev. William Henry (veteran missionary of the “Duff,” who later settled at Ryde, N.S.W.). From this union was born Teuira Henry, on January 24, 1847; thus she was the granddaughter of both the old "Duff” missionaries, Rev.

James Orsmond and Rev. William Henry.

After the French occupation of Tahiti, Mr. Orsmond realised that Britain would 41

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Incredible Story

How Lost Bag of Gold Was Recovered THE following description of an incident in Papua is always given a prominent place among “Incredible Stories.” Yet it is absolutely true.

It is amusing to recall that the story was once written by a certain Bishop, and sent to a magazine that publishes “only truth” ! It was returned with thanks, and a reminder to the above effect.

Henry Dexter, writing from England to the editor, recalls the story, and remarks that Percy Leigh, the diver concerned, and Sandy Christy, owner of the salvaged bag, were at the wharf to say good-bye to him when he left the Territory last November. Dexter retells the story in the book he now is writing.

A cutter from the North-east Coast of Papua was nearing Samarai, and there was much bustle on board as the miners stacked their goods on deck, ready for disembarkation. There came a sudden squall from the nearby mountains. The cutter was thrown on her beam ends and four bags, containing gold, slid gently overboard and sank.

The skipper kept his head, and immediately gybed the cutter and took crossbearings to mark the spot. Then he went on to Samarai; and, soon afterwards, returned with diver Leigh, and Christy, the frantic owner of the gold.

The cutter was jibbed about until the marks were in line, and Leigh went overboard. They were right on the spot, and three bags were sent up. But a long search failed to reveal the fourth; and the despondent Christy said that that bag contained gold worth about £lOOO.

The diver, finally, gave it up, and climbed aboard.

“Heave up, boys!” called the skipper, and the native crew slowly raised the anchor.

A native, looking over the bow, suddenly yelled:’

“Pusa yen-o-o Talbudda!” (The bag is there, Taubada.) And there it was.

When the anchor was dropped, it fell onto the bag, hiding it from the diver.

When the anchor was raised, one of its flukes caught one of the shoulder-straps of the bag and brought it to the surface, and into the hands of its anxious owner.

Danish Scientist

Saves His Pacific Specimens DR. AXEL HOLLER, a Danish scientist, who experienced many exciting adventures in the Pacific Ocean, including the wreck of his schooner, in the Southern Solomons, arrived at Darwin on the motor-ship Rabaul on February 24, on his return voyage.

Dr. Holler said that, with the schooner’s launch, they salvaged all the valuable exhibits and the schooner’s equipment. The loss of the schooner was negligible compared with the value of the exhibits, which were probably the best collection ever sent to Denmark. 42 March 21. 1933

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Henry Dexter is Compiling a Book NO one expected that Henry Dexter, late trader, of Papua, when he retired to England, would sit about with folded hands; but at least he might have rested a while, after 25 years of hard work.

He is not like that, however. He says, in a letter dated January 15, that already he has written 20,000 words of his book of Papuan memories.

The sections of the book are intriguing.

“The Voyage of the Bentinck,” “Abau Patrol, 1915,” “Queer Happenings,” “The Prospector,” “The Mysterious Fish of the Veri Veri Islands,” “Types of Natives,”

“Missionaries v. Traders,” etc. —those titles will mean something to old Papuans.

Mr. Dexter writes: “The Bentinck yarn is readable, I know ; the Abau parol, in which I played a minor part as emergency magistrate, being in charge of the island at the time, keeping up communication with the patrol, trying all cases that a magistrate for native matters is competent to try. You know, of course, that the affair arose out of the massacre of a sergeant and three police.

“ ‘Queer Happenings’ are a collection of weird events, that are either my own experiences, or those of men whom I knew well.

“ ‘The Prospector’ deals with the man who is plucky to a fault, who would try to get to the South Pole if gold was reported there, a man ‘who knows everything but how to keep his gold when he has found it.’ That last sentence was written by Beatrice Grimshaw over twenty years ago, but is equally true today. I’ve given instances that are almost forgotten.

“ ‘The Mysterious Fish of the Veri Veri Islands’ was last seen by Butler (engineer) and me in 1910. Those who saw it during a number of years were Jimmy Fowler, Kunson, His Excellency the Governor, Chalmers (afterwards killed and eaten at the mouth of the Fly River), Thompkins (a missionary who was also killed at the same time as Chalmers), Rev.

Dauncey (one time of Delana). Dauncey, with Chalmers and Thompkins, were bound up to P.M. from Yule Island when they saw it.

“Passing the spot in 1925 I told Rev.

Dauncey of my experience. ‘And you saw that fish, too,’ he said. ‘Chalmers, Thompkins, and I were in a small cutter; it was before the days of motors. The fish came up astern of us; really, it almost looked as if it could take us—cutter and all —into its mouth.’

“In 1897, this water was being fished by three Japanese luggers after pearl shell.

On the first day, things were going well, and shell was plentiful. Suddenly the tube and line of one of the divers parted.

There was no pull, which showed it was not through the diver putting his foot into the shell of a giant clam. The tube was cut clean as if with a pair of giant shears.

“The next day the same thing happened and the boats left.

“Was this giant fish, which has never been identified by those who have seen it, responsible for the tragedy?

“As far as I know, that water has never been fished since. In 1914, a firm in Thursday Island were sending me over two pearling luggers to give it a try.

They were to arrive in September; but war was declared just as they were about to leave.

“‘Missionaries v. Traders’: You can guess the line taken. It hasn’t a word that will hurt the ordinary, common, or garden missionary. I’m careful tp say that missionaries were among the most genuine friends I had in Papua. It is only the minority, who keep the old stock yarns going, that I hit at. In short, I ask for fair play for the trader, and that he should not be saddled with the sins of his forebears.

“The compilation is entitled ‘Reminiscences of a Gin-Soaked Trader.”

“A chapter is called ‘Paradise Plumes.’

It treats of the traffic after it became illegal, and one or two of the incidents are humorous. The five men (Roche, Jackson, Dressier, Penrose, and Bell) who were all killed at different times over the Dutch border, were all known to me personally. Your article in the P.1.M., 22/2/’33, gives quite a good account of these men, but omits mentioning that Dressler’s skull was found by Lyons (R.M.) on the British side of the border.

“I tell of how it was found in a dubu.

The gold stopping in the teeth told of its being that of a white man. It was shown to ‘Daddy’ Leigh, who used to travel the coast doing dentistry work. He claimed two stoppings as being his work; two others were identified by a dentist at the internment camp, South. Dressier was an Austrian, not a German, as Doc. Vernon has it.”

Dr. Alan Grant, formerly Government Medical Officer at Nauru, left Sydney with his wife recently to do post-graduate study in England. 44

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A PERSISTENT investigator reports that when the Chinese question is mentioned in Tulagi, he receives a chilly reception, followed by a “heated championship of the Chinese by the higher officials.” Continues he: “Those officials will not hear a word against the Chinese, because they are considered so industrious and law-abiding.”

Granted. But, by implication, the British traders feel that in the official mind they are regarded as loafers and law-breakers, in comparison with the Chinese.

Regarding the industriousness of the two classes of traders, those officials would be the first to condemn as “beachcombers” and “loafers” a number of whites seen lolling about a small store, laughing and chatting with a crowd of lounging natives. Yet when the Chinese do this they are praised for being “industrious and giving service to the natives.”

The records of the Courts will bear witness that the Chinese break the trading regulations probably to a greater degree than the whites.

Though, taken on the whole, the laws are obeyed very well by both classes of traders.

The British traders feel that the Tulagi officials are altogether too eager to adopt the role of apologist for the Chinese. This excessive friendliness is undoubtedly responsible for the lack of perspective with which the trading position is viewed by Tulagi, to the benefit of the Chinese and to the prejudice of the Whites.

As Chinatown is on Tulagi’s doorstep, while the white traders are remotely scattered throughout the length and breadth of the Group, the Chinese, Because of their propinquity, are virtually in the position of permanently being in residence at Court. As the Chinese as a race are masters of diplomacy and underground engineering it behoves Tulagi to be ever on its guard against the danger of viewing trading conditions through Chinese spectacles only.

The trader is the only European in the Group who is subjected to Chinese competition. Assuming it was possible to subject 'Government officials to similar competition, the complacency with which the majority of those good folk view the death throes of the white trader would receive a rude shock. The introduction into the Group of Chinese officials would result in an en masse native changeover to the newcomers, and the British officials would be left in splendid isolation. When in due course they had lost nearly all their income and self-respect, they would feel as we few doomed British traders are feeling now.

The trader is criticised often enough, but has the Government courage enough to invite the natives to indicate their opinion by taking a vote on the question “Chinese Officials or British Officials”? It knows only too well that the vote would be overwhelmingly in favour of the Chinese.

Competition is a wonderful thing—for the other fellow.

The fantastic proposals in the foregoing paragraph are deliberately made to bring into high relief the realities of the matter at issue.

The native is a child and is swayed by childish impulses and desires—all of which are not necessarily for his own good. With him, the question of European versus Asiatic is not an economic one, as it is with us, but a racial one. The native feels he is nearer in race to the Chinese than to the Whites. The fact that the white traders’ prices, quality, and service are as good or better than those of the Chinese, carries no weight against the blind, unreasoning, racial preference of the native for the Chinese. The fundamental unfairness to the European was committed when the Government permitted the Chinese to compete against him. There being a kind of Gresham’s Law in this connection—“ Asiatic traders will drive out European traders.” The natives treat the Chinese more like one of themselves, and speak to them in a manner they would be afraid to adopt to a white man. This insolent indulgence of the natives’ inferiority complex spells business to the Celestials—who smile and rake in the shekels —but at the same time it means ruin to the Whites.

From what has been said we arrive at the conclusion that the official policy of the ‘‘open go,” and so-called “equality,” is utterly unfair, because the European, by virtue of his being a European, is always under a heavy handicap, the handicap of race.

Can the Government, or the Missionaries, for that matter, as guardians of the infant native race, contend that Asiatic contacts that breed insolence and create an anti-white complex in their charges, are desirable or necessary?

I am, etc., B.S.I.

Tulagi, 28 Jan., 1935. 45

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RAROTONGA' Feb. 25.

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FTER years of comparative immunity Rarotonga, is now recovering from the effects of the most severe weather expenenced since 1893.

On Thursday, February 7, barometers started to fall, reaching, on Sunday night, the lowest known recording of 28.97.

Meanwhile, the wind had increased from a gale to hurricane pitch, blowing at 90 miles an hour from the north-west.

Huge seas rplled in on the island, churnmg and volleying along the white curve of the reef like lines of smoking destroyers racing for the shore.

The main settlement of Avarua received the full force of the storm, the approach of which, strangely enough, roused singularly little activity until it was too late to make any effective protection of property. With sinister rapidity the hurricane gathered strength, leaping with amazing ferocity from the darkness of Saturday night on to the exposed, already shaken township. Jerrybuilt native shacks went down before it, while galvanised iron roofs clattered like castanets, in several cases ripping away from their wooden rafters to be whirled off like so many sheets of grey blotting paper.

Along the water-front, where the buildings stand as close as 30 or 40 yardsabove high-tide mark, the damage was heaviest. A small shop and a neighbouring dwelling-house were completely demolished, leaving in their places only a barren expanse of coral-studded ground.

Further along, the seas pounded the rear portion of Messrs, dagger and Harvey’s store.

Shortly after midday on Sunday the road skirting the settlement was torn up for a distance of several hundred yards and deposited, together with a considerable quantity of sand and loose rock, in the gardens of the Hotel Rarotonga and the Chief Customs Officer. At the same time a fleet of large cargo lighters belonging to the Union Steamship Co. were lifted off the slipway and sent foaming past the Administration offices, before stranding in the middle of the Tukuvaine road. One, caught by cross-currents, careened onto the Government steps and came to rest with its. bows a few feet from the Resident Commissioner’s room- The volume of water was so great that a tract of low-lying and thickly populated land behind the hotel was inundated to a depth of six or seven feet.

In the hospital Dr. Ellison, 5.M.0., performed a major emergency operation while waves lashed at the base of the back verandah, forcing a thin sandy trickle under the ward doors.

On Monday, the island presented an unusual appearance. Telephone wires curled in festoons across the Circular Road, which was for two or three days impassable at certain points. Here and, there whole sections had been obliterated by the sea, while at others passage was barred by fallen trees. Every village had its own quota of roofless or wrecked houses; and in Avarua the posts of Messrs. A. B. Donald and Co.’s private wharf rose from the surrounding waters 46 March 21, 1933

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Considering the exceptional severity of the storm, surprisingly small damage was done. Volunteer labour corps were quickly organised to clear the roads; individuals rebuilt or removed the remains of their houses, and rubbish was burnt so expeditiously and with such general good temper that it is now almost impossible to credit the memories of two weeks ago.

But, in events of this kind, the most serious effects are not immediately visible. They lie in the losses among orange and banana plantations, losses which have been unofficially estimated at be tween 60 and 80 per cent, of the total crop. The coming year will be a “lean” one, not only for native growers but for those business firms who depend largely for their trade upon the circulation of money derived from the sale of fruit.

The Resident Commissioner, Judge H.

F. Ayson, C.M.G., who was away on fur • lough, returned hurriedly from New Zealand by yesterday’s mail steamer.

The north-westerly hurricane which raked Rarotonga is reported to have extended over an area of 400 miles and fear has been expressed locally for the small low-lying atolls of the Northern Group. In response to radio requests the New Zealand Government have despatched the Union Co.’s ship Maital, which is due to arrive here early this week, whence she will proceed north on a tour of investigation. On board are Mr. Smith, Secretary for the Cook Islands Department, and Dr. Dawson, of Christchurch. The Maitai is expected to call at Penrhyn, Manihiki and Rakahanga in addition to visiting the islands of the Lower Group.

Only incomplete reports of the hurricane in the Lower Group are available.

In all cases heavy damage to fruit crops is reported, the island of Aitutaki being particularly hard hit.

The White Star’s luxury cruiser Franconia, scheduled to reach Rarotonga on February 13, was diverted on the request on the local authorities. The Franconia’s captain reiterated his wish to visit the scene of the hurricane, with 500 moneyed sightseers, but was again refused on grounds of inadequate provision for their reception. Steaming for Samoa, disgruntled luxury passengers saw nothing, but saved the money which might otherwise have been spent in the island.

THURSDAY IS.

NOTES From Our Own Correspondent.

THURSDAY IS., March 2.

Prior to leaving Thursday Is. to return to her home in Sydney, Mrs. Gerald Bruce tendered a large picnic at Port Lihou on Prince of Wales Island, in return for some of the hospitality that had been extended to her during her long stay.

The picnic was a most enjoyable one, being favoured with splendid weather conditions.

The prices obtained for local mother-of-pearl shell lately have been rather low, making the future of the pearling industry insecure. The Commonwealth Government has undertaken to give financial assistance to pearlers in order to prevent more unemployment.

The business of the Port Kennedy Engineering and Shipyards Co. is now in full swing, owing to the presence in the harbour of most of the luggers and cutters used in the marine industry. The manager, Mr. S. West Newman, will pay a private visit to England in the near future.

Mr. Donald Walker, of the Customs Service, has been transferred back to Townsville, much to the regret of his friends.

The Bishop of Carpentaria has travelled down to Sydney to take part in the meeting of the House of Bishops on March 12. The chief item of business is the election of the Anglican Primate of Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rowan, of the Lockhart River Mission, have been on a visit to T. 1., where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan.

Mrs. J. I. Adams has proceeded South in order to place her two younger daughters in boarding schools. One of them, Patricia, has fine promise as an elocutionist.

The Pilot Service has lost a valued officer of long standing by the passing of Captain C. Priest, The deceased has been ailing for a considerable time. He was 58 years of age.

A mail left recently on a Norwegian tanker by the kind favour of Captain A. Rule. Thursday Island owes a great debt of gratitude to the members of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service for the trouble in bringing in and taking out mailbags to passing steamers. The regular mail service is scanty.

Mrs. Eric Corran has returned to T.I. for a holiday.

The Protector of Aboriginals has been on the annual recruiting tour of the Torres Strait Islands for the “company” boats—the luggers and cutters owned by the natives working in the marine industry.

His other partners having withdrawn from the business, Mr. Gordon Vidgen is now controlling the Port Kennedy Butchering and Ice Co., cn lease.

A’ relieving teacher is being sought for the Torres Strait Island Schools. His duties when he is not relieving absent white teachers, will be_ to train native teachers, and assist in the growing office work of the Protector of Aborigines.

All five candidates from the local State school have passed the recent Scholarship Examination.

This is very creditable for all concerned, especially the head teacher, Mr. Harry Finter, who has been working hard bringing the candidates up to concert pitch.

The Synod of the Diocese of Carpentaria has been called to foregather on July 7, at the see-town, Thursday Island. The proceedings are likely to last about a week, and will be commenced with a Quiet Day to be conducted by the Rector of Darwin, Rev. Housden. 47

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The Crown Law Officer (Mr. Gerald Hogan) said that the introduction of the system of circuit courts advocated by Mr.

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“In my opinion,” added Mr. Hogan, “no machinery for the administration of justice can be regarded as effective unless it takes justice to the people and administers it with dispatch, with independence, with certainty, and with skill. Judicial work should be performed by persons with adequate experience who are trained in the weighing of evidence and the requirements of legal proof; and, if practicable, by such persons in the district in which a crime is committed and the witnesses reside. Sittings of the Supreme Court held at frequent intervals at District Headquarters would remove some of the defects of the existing system.

“Because of general agreement with these views, the error is sometimes committed of assuming that the holding of sittings of the Supreme Court in Districts must of itself improve the administration of justice. Whilst I agree that it is very important that trials by the Supreme Court should be held in the District in which the crime was committed and the witnesses reside, yet I think all matters affecting the administration of justice in the Territory have to be carefully weighed when considering the introduction of the circuit system. One cannot ignore financial considerations, the staff available, and Territory conditions generally when considering any matter of administration.

“The question is, would the introduction of the circuit system under conditions existing in the Territory at present improve the administration of justice in the Territory? The paramount consideration is the administration of justice to the prisoner.

“Even if the necessary transport were available and the circuit courts could be held at frequent intervals in each District, I doubt whether the advantages which would result from the introduction of the circuit court system outweigh the disadvantages under present Territory conditions. The question of the introduction of the circuit court system is being carefully considered by the Administration at the present time. lam in favour of the introduction of the system as soon as practicable.”

Methodist Missions and Work In Papua MISSION activities in the Pacific Islands were described at the annual demonstration of the Foreign Mission section of the Australian Methodist Conference, held in Sydney on February 28.

The new President of the Conference, by the way, is the Rev. M. K. Gilmour, who, for 33 years, was a missionary in Papua, and retired last year. His many Papuan friends will be glad that his notable career has been marked by this signal honour.

Rev. John W. Dixon, of Papua, in an address recalled that it was 44 years ago that the ship Lord of the Isles took from Sydney the first party of missionaries to Papua. This pioneer party included Tongans, Samoans, and Fijians, as well as European missionaries. That was an effective answer to those who asked what could be made of the natives. Amongst the 38,000 people for whom the Church was working there were many victims of the purveyors of magic. The work of evangelism included education, trade technique, medical service, printing work, and agriculture.

Mr. Dixon told how he secured a printing press for his work in Papua. By means of friends, he made a search of Sydney for what he wanted, without success. Then Mr. E. C. Sommerlad, M.L.C., told him of a press that was held by the police—the property of men in gaol, who had used it for illegally printing postage stamps and Irish lottery tickets.

Having purchased this, he taught three of the natives in Papua to operate it, and by its means produced in six languages magazines and school primers. He believed “that the sound of the printing presses is dealing a death-blow to heathen darkness.”

The Rev. Usaia Sotutu, a Fijian minister, stationed in the Solomon Islands, also spoke by the aid of an interpreter. 48 March 21. 1935

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Administration Closes Mount Hagen Area From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Feb. 9.

AS a result of the tragic death of Father Morschheuser and the subsequent passing away of Brother Eugene, who were attacked by natives in the Mount Hagen area, the Administration has decided definitely to close the trolled'’ areas in this part of the mainland. Government patrols are now penetrating to villages where disturbances have occurred, and no other white parties will be allowed to enter the region.

Official sanction has been granted for members of the N.G. Legislative Council to bear the courtesy title of “Honourable” during their term of office.

The motor ketch “Marina,” when leaving Rabaul Harbour recently, was struck by a nor -west squall, and capsized when off Matupi Point. Whi.e being towed in the vessel sank in 13 fathoms of water, but was subsequently salvaged by the Japanese diver Nozaki.

The Rabaul Dramatic and Musical Society held a successful musicale on January 28, under the capable supervision of Mrs. Clive Backhouse. The string quartette, consisting of Messrs. Hopkins and Thornthwaite (violins), Haslam (cello), and Mrs. Backhouse (pianiste) rendered several items which were well received. The vocalists were.

Madames Bates and Youlden, and Messrs. Clive Mears and Virgil King. An outstanding item of the programme was an able pianoforte solo rendered by Mr. Keith Chambers.

On January 21 Rabaul hot air dried copra was quoted at £ll/1/6 per ton in store Rabaul. This is the best price paid for our staple product since February, 1933, and, consequently, the rise has gladdened the hearts of all local planters and traders.

Advice has been received from the Australian Customs authorities to the effect that New Guinea residents, when taking their cars with them to Australia, are now permitted to enter into a guarantee instead of having to deposit in cash the value of their car during the time it is being used in Australia. This permission is a great convenience to New Guinea residents, who in the past have not always found it practicable to make a cash deposit while on leave.

During December the exports of copra from the Territory amounted to 2,941 tons. The amount shipped to Australia was 600 tons; the balance being exported to European ports, of which 1,195 tons was consigned to the United Kingdom.

The District Office of New Britain has been transferred from Kokopo to Rabaul and the District Officer, Mr. Don Waugh, and his staff have taken up their residence in Rabaul.

On February 9, the Rabaul Bowling Club was officially opened by His Honour the Administrator, assisted by Mrs. McNicoll, who bowled the first bowl. The greens were in excellent condition, and there was a good attendance. The club’s president is Mr. T. W. Ellis, who for some time now has been an enthusiastic worker for its formation.

The secretary is Mr. J. E. Bennie.

The engagement has been announced of Miss Donella Refshauge, ok Melbourne, who has been attached to the Custodian’s office here, and Mr.

J. R. Walker of the Commonwealth Bank staff, Rabaul. Miss Refshauge recently departed for South on the “Montoro.”

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NOUMEA, Feb. 1.

The new Tontouta bridge was to have been opened on Saturday, January 12, at 3 p.m., by His Excellency, the Governor, M. Siadous. Unfortunately, torrential rain rendered this quite impossible, so the ceremony was postponed.

The river rose to a great height, five metres (about eighteen feet) above normal height, and there was a serious washaway in the approach on the Noumean side of the road. A hastily improvised bridge soon spanned the gap and the traffic was only interrupted for a few days.

Curiously, the old punt had been damaged the day before through carrying a large canion heavily loaded, and was thus also put out of action.

Maui Pomare Refitted

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Feb. 12.

AFTER having been refitted and partly rebuilt in New Zealand, the N.Z.

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Amongst the passengers were Judge Luxford (on circuit duty), Mr. and Mrs.

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A full shipment of over 7,000 cases of bananas of excellent quality was procured for Lyttleton and Wellington. 50 March 21. 1935

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X>ECENTLY I had occasion to walkabout the eastern end of Papua, and I found remarkable evidence of the effect of our tropical climate.

First, I travelled xhto Samarai with Captain Andersen, of the “Papuan Chief.” Apple-cheeked and smart, in shorts, he looks a well-preserved 50; actually, he is 70. Elias Solomon, at Samarai, is close on 70, but is full of plans for developing his land. Dick Talbot, owner (with his brother Charlie), of Puni-puni, is well over 70, and as sprightly as an M.C. at an outback ball.

Jack Gray, of Annie Inlet, can (and does) refer to Henry Dexter as “a smart young fellow.” Jack speaks of the days of Sir William MacGregor as if they had ceased but last Shrove Tuesday. His eyes have “gone back on him,” the rheumatism cramps his style a trifle, and the malaria gets him down now and again; but, apart from that he is “pretty jake.”

He is more than half-way through his seventies, but lives an active oudoor existence, travelling frequently on foot between his two plantations, which are quite a few miles apart.

Dr. Harse, of Tomino, is also a septuagenarian. The excellent state of his rubber trees bears ample evidence of his activity, even if one could ignore the testimony of his robust appearance, clear eye and springy gait.

The extensive rpeair and reconstru ction of the Government wharf at Vavau, Tonga, gave the natives of this place some work to do. Five years ago they would not work for less than 8/a day; now they are glad to get 3/- a day. —Finau Photo. 51

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Phone. BW 1171 29-33 CLARENCE STREET. SYDNEY Box 2672EE Newly-Discovered New Guinea Official Descriptions of Ramu — Mt. Hagen Region TWO papers of considerable interest are contained in the issue of the “Geographical Journal” of November, 1934.

The first, illustrated with striking and unusual photographs, is entitled “The Central Ranges of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea —from Mount Chapman to Mount Hagen,” by E. W. P. Chinnery, who is the official anthropologist in New Guinea and head of District Services and Native Affairs. The second, “Mapping the Purari Plateau, New Guinea,” is by K. L. Spinks, who is an official surveyor, and recently examined this country.

These two papers constitute the first authoritative publication describing the remarkable new country that has been discovered in Central New Guinea during the past 20 months.

This region is certain to receive a great deal of attention in the future. It is a series of vast park-like plateaux, tablelands, and well-watered valleys lying at an average height of 5000 feet, southward of the Bismarck Ranges and the Ramu River (which run parallel with the northern coast of New Guinea). These mighty natural barriers had defeated for a century the best efforts of exploration parties; and, although this vast central region was marked on the maps as unexplored, it was assumed that it comprised the broken, rocky, jungle-clad wilderness that is characteristic of the southern Morobe district and of the mountain chains which lie along the borderline of New Guinea and Papua.

But in 1932-33 parties of Government patrol officers and gold prospectors began to push steadily westward from Wau, into the very broken country along the border; and north-west from the Bulolo end of the Morobe goldfield, down past the headwaters of the Ramu River; and, in the latter country particularly they found densely-populated districts of astonishing beauty and fertility. Instead of impassable rocky crags, they found wide smiling valleys and great grassy plains watered by innumerable rivers. Instead of the semi-nomadic Kukukukus treacherous and elusive jungle tribes —they discovered comparatively well-ordered communities and natives of magnificent physique and unusual intelligence, whose well-planned and irrigated gardens and farmlets proved them to be agriculturists of no mean order. Instead of steamy jungles and malarial swamps they found healthy wind-swept uplands, lying at an average height which, although close to the equator, gave them a climate of subtropical quality.

Goverment officials and prospectors during 1933-34 pushed rapidly into this astonishing country and their exploratory activities were greatly aided by aeroplanes. The skilled aviators of Guinea Airways, Ltd., Holden’s Air Transport Services. Ltd., and other companies did work of incalculable value. As the exploring parties advanced they cleared landing grounds, and thus the aeroplanes constantly sought them out with supplies and mails, and maintained communication.

More or less incomplete accounts of these discoveries have been published, and throughout the world intense interest has been manifested in this fascinating newcountry, the existence of which was hitherto unsuspected. The demands for further information have been insatiable; and for this reason the papers by Messrs. Chinery and Spinks will be gladly received.

The two gentlemen named have not sought to provide anything like a detailed description of the new country and the new people; but the facts they have published are the results of the careful observations of trained and experienced professional men; and for that reason they are of value at the present time.

Together with the papers there is published an exceedingly valuable map showing in considerable detail the river systems, the villages, and the principal mountains in the region between the Ramu headwaters and Mount Hagen. A number of these river systems disappear into unknown country, and junction somewhere in order to form the headwaters of the great Purari River, which later emerges in Papua.

It is most interesting, also, to note that on this new map, on the southern limits of the newly explored country (and therefore not far from the border between Papua and New Guinea), three new mountain peaks have been marked Mount Leahy (14,270 ft.), Mount Daniel (13,420 ft.), and Mount Spinks (12,500 ft.).

So far as we are aware this is the first time that these peaks, of such notable height, have been shown on any map.

Mr. Ray Mansell, a young aviator of Bathurst, New South Wales, departed from Sydney for Salamaua, New Guinea, by the Montoro on February 20. He intends to take up a position as pilot with one of the major goldfields aerial transport companies. • 52 March 21, 1935

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PAPEETE, Feb. 9.

Belgian school ship, “Mercator,” a steel-built barque with auxiliary power, came into Papeete Harbour in the middle of January. As this was the first time that a vessel flying the Belgian flag had been seen in Tahiti, her arrival was something of an event, and she was accorded an enthusiastic reception.

Official visits to His Excellency Governor Montagne and the Mayor of Papeete (Mr. George Bambridge) were paid by Commandante Van de Sanie. He also placed a splendid wreath upon the monument to the Tahitian soldiers killed in the Great War. During the ceremony the band from the Ecole des Freres de Ploermel rendered the Marseillaise and the Brabancone —the National Anthems of France and Belgium.

A native style fete was held in honour of the visitors at the beautiful King Albert Park, at Papeete. This was followed by an animated ball in the open air, which, in true Tahitian style, did not end till well after daybreak.

The Mercator came to Papeete by way of the Canary Islands, Martinique, Gua- •quil, Easter Island, and Pitcairn. By arrangement with the Chillian Government, two large stone images were picked up at Easter Island for the Trocadero Museum in Paris and the Museum at Brussels.

Dr. Metraux, from the Trocadero Museum, and Dr. de Lavacherie, from the Brussels Institution were passengers on board.

Mission Launch Shipped to New Guinea The new 40ft, Seventh Day Adventist mission launch Malalagi, built in Sydney in January, was shipped to New Guinea as deck cargo by the February Montoro. Embodying several new features for ocean-going craft, the launch was built specially for tropical conditions by Lars Halvorsen at Neutral Bay.

Mr. H. R. Steed, the S.D.A. missionary in ■charge of the launch, also left for the Territory by the Montoro, with his wife and son. After leaving the Montoro, Pastor Steed, with a party •of S.D.A. workers, took the boat to Mussau Island, in the St. Matthias Group, about 100 miles north of New Ireland. The party landed at Bolin, where the head S.D.A. school for the Mandated Territory was recently established.

Mr. Steed, who formerly was at Buresala Training School for native teachers at Ovalau, Fiji, said that almost £2OOO had been subscribed for the new launch. As it cost only £l3OO, the balance of the subscribed money is being devoted to the construction of another mission boat. Work on tthis new craft has been already commenced at Halvorsen’s shipyards.

Died From Storm

INJURIES Cook Is. Official Mr. CECIL J. BOUCHIER, Director of Agriculture at Rarotonga, died as an indirect cause of the cyclone in the Cook Islands last month. He was caught and carried along by a great wave, and his leg was broken. Dr. Ellison, medical officer in charge (who was also acting as Resident Commissioner in Judge Ayson’s absence), had to amputate the leg beneath the knee. At first it was believed that Mr.

Bouchier was making good progress, but complications set in and he lost his life.

Mr. Bouchier had had an extremely useful experience in other parts of the Pacific and his late post was considered one of the most important, because of his expert knowledge of citrus fruits, in the Cook Group. The New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr. Forbes), who is also Minister in Charge of the Cook Islands, declared that Mr, Bouchier would be a difficult man to replace.—E.R.

French Scouts at Noumea From Our Own Correspondent.

NOUMEA, Feb. 6.

A party of 24 French Boy Scouts, who attended the Australian Jamboree at Melbourne, arrived here recently by the Laperouse, en route to France via the South Seas and Panama Canal.

On arrival they were welcomed by the troop of New Caledonian Scouts and, later, M.

Schlemmer placed a wreath on the Monument Aux Morts in honour of those brave New Caledonians who fell in the Great War. The party visited many places of interest in the nearby towns, and tramped many miles through the country districts.

They sailed for Marseilles by the Ville de Strasbourg after spending four days in the Colony. 53

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Fashion Hints for Islands Women By Therese NEARING a change of seasons, the jaded eye hails with delight any new idea that gives a new lease of life to our slightly jaundiced wardrobe. Bits and pieces, popped here and there with an ingenuity that is surprising, lift clothes that have lost their pristine freshness to the heights. Equally is this true of both day and evening gowns.

Sales being everywhere, the woman of discernment sees in short lengths the medium for many changes. She wears yokes, but is not bowed down, so she chooses a short length of lace to make the most fascinating yoke for an afternoon or evening gown of simple design. The resultant success is exhilarating . Again, any short lengths may form a colour contrast in the way of sleeves, collars or peplums.

Gathered ruffles peep from out the neckline of a close fitting jacket with a softening effect that is essentially feminine. For evening, a soft fluttering scarf ties high at the throat, and falls in lovely folds to the floor.

A delightful rejuvenation medium is the plaited ties of gaily coloured wools, knotted at the neckline. Gaily coloured plaid taffetas form the most jaunty and fascinating scarves to wear with an ensemble. So supple is this material that whichever way clever fingers may twist it, chic is its portion. Large jabots of the same adaptable silk are equally successful.

Sashes are more popular than ever.

Matching, contrasting, or a combination of colours, they do delightful things to one’s frocks. Large striped sashes, widening out to a train, are most effective on a simply-cut gown of black or white, and are astonishingly smart. A sash of velvet ribbon looped like a hangman’s noose, falls to the knees with most unusual effect. A huge taffeta bow at the hip gives a slimness unbelievable.

Sleeves are teeming with interest and come in many shapes—high set-in sleeves with sloping shoulder effect, wide set-m sleeves loose to the wrist like a nun s habit, sleeves shirred, their fullness falling below the elbow, sleeves slim and straight to the wrist or the very newest three-quarter effect —and all are charming, offering as they do great scope for individuality.

Blouses and skirts have a host of devotees, and are a marvellous standby in one’s wardrobe. Skirts have many ups and downs, and the newer models tilt surprisingly upwards in the front while trailing floorwards at the back. The slashed skirt mode still persists and is both comfortable and attractive, revealing as it does, ever and anon, a discreet glimpse of silken-clad nether limb. Skirts are still cut on the cross, giving that lovely svelte line. Wrap-on skirts are the answer to the prayer of the pleasingly plump. The crossover bodice with softly falling revers is a fitting accompaniment, its slenderizing lines being most flattering to the full figure.

A reversal of form is the skirt of silver lame topped by a satin blouse. A little startling, but of undoubted chic.

O’er the tight-fitting bodice of a black taffeta evening gown huge revers of silver lame, for all the world like a shiningbreast-plate, give a Puritan effect that is belied by the almost backless decolletage.

The skirt flows voluminously from slim hips.

A slim sheath-like evening gown of soft flame-coloured satin, shrieking sophistication in its utter simplicity, has as sol© adornment a gold gauze rose at the deep- V neckline. Large gold filagree ear-rings and sandals, body and sole held together by strips of gold kid, make loveliness complete.

We sing a paean of praise to the cape,, for it comes in sizes and shapes innumerable and covers a multitude of discrepancies in our wardrobes.

A pleated mariette cape falling to the knees is a fitting accompaniment to a frock of the same softly feminine material.

Shoulder capes of taffeta, tightly boxpleated into a yoke, tie high at the neck with an enormous bow. Capes of tulle or fine silk net, shirred with incredible fineness, are dream-like possessions, entrancing in their fairy-like effect, and are aired on every possible occasion with smug self-satisfaction.

Shirt frocks continue to give yeoman service and are a wonderful standby for every hour of the day. There are many variations of them and all successful. It has its skirt pleated, plain, or slashed, and sports many varieties of buttons.

The suit of string linen also holds itsown. It is very distinctive when worn with a navy spotted blouse and navy accessories, and proves a delightful change from the inevitable brown which seems a natural combination with string" and beige shades.

The Cossack influence is still with us,, not so much in the tunic as of yore, but in the bloused and belted coat and cap, and these spell chic personified. Short jackets hold pride of place in the ensemble. Swaggers are seen, but in modified form only. Jackets need not match the dress, but clever colour contrasts may be introduced. Box pleated short coats, their pleats flaring widely and dipping at centre back are extremely smart whenworn over a plain frock which has that poured-in effect, achieved only by virtu© of having been cut on the cross. 54 March 21. 1935

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The newest undergarment is the long cami-knicker, first cousin to a slip, but with a band joining front and back at the usual cami-knicker length. Slim and svelte, it is the perfect three-in-one garment.

Accessories are delightful and amusing these days. Especially do belts come under this category. Made of glass, soft and supple patent leather, fabric with beads strung across the front, they are delightful to contemplate, while the belt of leather steel studded and buckled leaves nothing to be desired.

Miss Helen J. Beegling, who has many friends in Papua and New Guinea, leaves Sydney on a world tour on March 26. and will visit the East Indies, the Far East, North America, and Europe. She will stay in Edinburgh for some time with relations.

Mrs. Maynard, whose husband is a member of the technical staff of Bulolo G.D. Co. Ltd., has been on a visit to Sydney with Mr. Maynard and their small daughter, Gwynette. 55

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EDIE CK., Feb. 24.

MISS J. PARER has been staying on the Creek for the past week, together with her cousin, Miss G. Luttrell, of Melbourne, who is here on a holiday. They stayed at the Hotel Edie.

Mr. Frank Brenton who has been at Day Dawn for the past three years as mine foreman, was given a send-off by his fellow-employees. He has gone to Misima Island (Papua), for the Pratten Co.

Mr. W. C. Abbie, has left for another holiday South, his second since Xmas. During his absence, “Nobby” Clarke has charge of his lease.

The following have been recently added to the Day Dawn staff, T. G. Blakey (general manager), R. Greenwood (assayer), W. Wesley (assayer), and A. Anderson (mine manager).

Edie Creek people are holding a benefit sports meeting for the late Mr. Charlie Ramm, who was employed at Day Dawn for a considerable time.

There will be a dance in the evening.

Mr. J. Passlow has returned to the Creek after three months’ holiday South.

Mrs. Rex, who has been goldmining on Lyall’s Creek, has packed up and is now working a claim on the Edie.

Mr. and Mrs. N. P. H. Neal paid a hurried visit to the Creek during the month. It takes a lot to get them away from their beautiful little home at Wau.

New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. power line from Bulolo has been completed, and they are now drawing their power from Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., over 13 miles of power line.

Day Dawn’s late manager (Mr. Dermott-Smith) has settled in Wau. He is going into business with his old friend, Jack Spence.

Mr. J. Ashcroft returned to Edie by the Montoro after three months’ leave. He is still the same old Jim, but, of course, has put on more weight.

Niall Lane was in Wau Hospital for a week with fever, but is out and smiling again. He had only been on the field a month.

Ray Parer and Geoffrey Hemsworth are expected to return to New Guinea very shortly, and what a welcome awaits them here. During Mr. Hemsworth’s absence Kevin Parer has been keeping P.A.T.’s flag flying, with the assistance ot M.

Cameron.

W. (“Bill”) Cash arrived recently from the Watut area and spent a few days in Wau. Even the Watut country does not seem to stop mil, it is a pity he never went to the Empire Games he is the fastest walker in these parts, as we all know too well. Ted Nichterlein is another who should be hobbled. .

The new swimming baths at Salamaua are bemg opened on Saturday. They will be a boon to Salamaua residents and visitors from other parts of Morobe.

Mrs. D. Lyall is off to Rabaul next boat, she has been staying at the Hotel Edie for some months now.

By the next Macdhui will arrive Dermott Lane, making three Lanes on the goldfields; Niall and Brian being both at Day Dawn. There will soon be as many Lanes in Morobe as Parers.

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EDIE CK., February 13.

AROUSING send-off was given recently to popular Bob Farr, who has been engineer at Day Dawn for four years. Bob has left for New Zealand to take over a big mining concern at Greymouth and will be greatly missed. The hotel at Upper Edie was en fete when 40 guests sat down to a sumptuous dinner, much “bubbly” and a dance following, in honour of Bob, who, when attempting to reply to the very flattering remarks of his friends, was quite overcome and just said, “You’re great coves, thank you everybody.”

Ken Austin, the electrical engineer at Golden Ridges has had more honours showered on him and is now in charge of all the electrical plant.

The Kirke Bros. (Clem and Hunter) have called their new farm “Bukit Bharn,” which is the Malay for “New Garden.” These enterprising “diggers” have a large consignment of stud fowls and ducks on the way from South, and have also imported some Berkshire sows. It is worthy of note that oranges, lemons and bananas are doing exceptionally well on this plantation, which bears out Mick Leahy’s contention that this area is great agricultural land.

Back again from a six months’ holiday South is Alex Malcolm, who is looking very fit, and once more working with his partner, Len Budger, at the Merri.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Nason Jones, who have been honeymooning in New Zealand, are expected back very shortly. Mrs. Nason Jones is a niece of G.O.M. Artist Cummins, of Pymble, N.S.W., whose pictures hang in the National Gallery.

New arrivals at Day Dawn mine include Messrs.

R. Greenwood, of Uratha Mine, N.S.W., W. Wesley from Queensland, and young Niall Lane.

Anzac Day—April 25—at Wau (Morobe branch of the R.S. and S.L.) promises to be a big event in this part of the world. ’Planes will bring all the Diggers from various districts. After the celebrations, there is to be a sports meeting, a dance at the hotel in the evening, and a gala picture show.

Lightning Kills Three Indians at Ba, Fiji From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, March 2.

The little town of Ba, on the northwestern coast of Viti Levu, experienced a sudden and severe thunderstorm, followed by heavy rainfall, on February 21.

Near the village of Natanuku an Indian dwelling containing seven persons was struck by lightning and burned.

Three Indians —a youth and two young children —were killed outright.

Mr. F. T. (“Tommy”) O’Dea, the;popular general manager for Holden’s Air Transport Services in the Mandated Territory, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Macdhui on March 5, on annual furlough. »

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The Baby’s Bottle in the Tropics By CHRISTINA.

AFTER every meal make the nurse or cookboy wash the bottle in cold water, and boil it in a covered saucepan. This is later removed from the fire and placed in toto on a tray, on the baby’s food table, to await the next meal.

Should the mother be in poor health, and unable to attend to other details, It is better to have the rubber teat washed with cold water, and boiled with the bottle.

Be sure the boy knows how to “make a bottle” for the baby. Watch him make It and feed the baby (lying in his cot) until you are satisfied that he will do it properly if an emergency should arise. The mother of a young baby is very susceptible to malaria in places where it is prevalent. Once I went to bed with a high temperature for several days, and had no woman neighbour to come and take charge of my home. The boy did everything for both baby and toddler, and they pulled through all right, though I should hate it to happen again.

For this reason one cannot beat Vi Lactogen for a young baby and Lactogen for an older one. The manufacture of a mixture with boiled milk, emulsion, and milk sugar, is not suited to unskilled black labour.

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A teething baby, or one up to eighteen months, being put on to new foods, will probably refuse to take food from a boy.

But he’ll always take a bottle. Raw egg (if baby is used to it) can be shaken up with the milk, or the Lactogen can be made very strong, and given from an old teat with a large hole. A baby resolutely refusing solid food, for teething or other reasons, can be tided over a bad few days in this way till he is ready to eat again.

No good comes of letting a baby go hungry in the tropics—contrary to all other advice from excellent people whose time-tables for feeding are drawn up to suit other climes. I know a tropical doctor, who, like myself with regard to his elder child and mine, observed carefully the recognised rules for hot weather, some of which are: A weaker mixture of food for hot weather, and not pushing food when the child was not hungry. Our two elder children are very light, with an appearance of being underfed, and not much appetite. The younger child in both cases was given a stronger mixture of bottle food, and not refused a second bottle if the child were hungry for it. Both our younger ones are really lovely specimens of childhood. This doctor told me he had definitely concluded that so far from a weaker mixture being desirable for a child in the tropics, a stronger mixture than normal seemed indicated.

Also another reason for urging the continued use of a bottle is the ease with which an aperient can b© administered.

Milk of magnesia is readily taken in a bottle. Also, should there be any fear that the baby may be developing malaria, two grains of powdered ethlycarbonat© of quinine (tasteless), can be included in the bottle.

I am not saying that these instructions represent the ideal. Far from it. But if illness comes to you in the tropics and for some days the care of your baby depends on a native boy, these hints will enable the baby to pull through the trying days without loss of weight or sleep, or impairment to the system from underfeeding.

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AS the sun glittered on the silver coffin rails and the fragrant scent of white flowers and red pervaded the still heat of a February afternoon, Burleigh Gorman, footballer, miner, soldier. New Guinea prospector, storekeeper, and prince of good-fellows was laid to his last rest. For three weeks in a private hospital at Randwick, N.S.W., he had waged a losing battle with Death and, finally, on February 27, at the age of 66, he succumbed to a serious illness, complicated by a recurrent attack of malaida.

T>URLEIGH GORMAN, typical of those Australian pioneers who blazed the path on the New Guinea goldfields, and helped to bring to an eager world the vast dormant wealth of the Morobe goldfields, had an incredibly varied career.

Possibly not half a dozen men in the whole of the Mandated Territory knew his correct name—Alexander William — "but as “Burleigh” Gorman he was known and beloved by all whom the rays of fiis warm personality descended on.

Born at Bloomfield station, near Yass, Southern New South Wales, on October ■22. 1868, he went to Sydney at an early -age, and there became well-known in sporting circles —especially Rugby Union football. After engaging in various commercial businesses in N.S.W., he joined the rush to the Western Australian goldfields in the ’nineties, and for some years was mining at Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie fields.

After the outbreak of the Great War, he enlisted in the Miners’ Corps at Blackboy Hill Camp, W.A., being drafted to New Guinea. After service at Rabaul, he was discharged from the army as medically unfit, and returned to Sydney for home service at Liverpool Camp, N.S.W. On being demobilised he purchased a store at Leeton in the N.S.W.

Irrigation Area. and remained in that charming district regaining his health for a year or so. But Burleigh Gorman had breathed the disturbing air of dark New Guinea, and his restless spirit bade him return to the land that called.

It was sometime in 1924 when he made his way to Rabaul and thence across to the mainland, plunging into the jungle to join the other pioneers seeking the elusive yellow gleam. Finally, he drifted to Koranga Creek, where gold was being won by such early goldfields’ identities as the mysterious Sharkeye Park, Nettleton the rover, the lean Queenslander Joe Sloan, and C. J. Levien. the tireless visionary to whose grit # and energy New Guinea owes so much.

For weeks and months Burleigh Gorman struggled on. prospecting; winning sjmalli quantities of gold, only to see it swallowed up by the heavy expense entailed in getting supplies. Bad luck dogged his efforts, and, though most of the other pioneers reaped huge fortunes in those early days, Gorman could not “strike it rich." Time went on, and on one occasion on a trek to Salamaua to obtain supplies he met Captain Will Money, who had .erected a palm-thatched store-shed on the little strip of tropical beach at Salamaua. They chummed up, and Money, eager to get on to the field to join his pal, Dick Glasson, who was on good gold, asked Gorman to take over his little depot.

Within several months Gorman had bought the store, rebuilt it into a twostorey bungalow, and erected a jetty on the beach. That was in 1925. Soon afterwards arrived the advance-guard of the rush, clamouring to get to the field. By the old Marsina they came; veteran prospectors—wrinkled and toothless, with a wise eye and taciturn manner, and young tyros fresh from the cities —the cuff and collar team, with loads of hope, vague ideas, not much money, and still more hope.

It was Burleigh Gorman who checked their stores and equipment, sorted their tools and belongings, collected their junk and battered suitcases that littered the narrow palm-fringed isthmus after the B.P. boat steamed away. It was Gorman who helped and encouraged them, provided them with a string of sweating native boys to carry the precious provisions up the mountains and through the jungle track on a 14-days’ tortuous journey to Wau, the Mecca of those feverish, struggling, gold-hungered prospectors.

Gorman became the miners’ general and shipping agent; looking after their stores, packing their carriers with fresh provisions, transacting their business, and taking care of their hard-won gold.

On one occasion there was £50,000 worth of the cherished metal in bags, battered tins and crazy parcels lying in his rickety store, awaiting shipment Sou'll.

The amiability and generosity of Burleigh Gorman became by-words among the early men. To one well-known 58 March 21. 1935

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Alone at the beach store, Gorman had some trying experiences with troublesome natives.

Once, when ill from malaria, he was attacked by a “flash” Sepik native carrier. Wresting the stick from his adversary, he sent his fist crashing to the native’s jaw, dropping him like a log. With his hand smashed and his senses reeling, he barely managed to order the gaping boys back to work and walk to his bungalow, where he collapsed.

Ordered South for treatment, he arrived in Sydney early in 1927, a very sick man. The long months, when he had worked like a fury, had taken toll of his health; but he made a fortune. Mr. Gorman floated the Salamaua Trading Company, and, still retaining a share in the business, retired. The present lessee, Mr.

Allan Innes, was appointed manager.

When he had recovered sufficiently from his illness, Mr. Gorman linked up with the “Waratahs” —the Australian Rugby Union football team —and with them toured Great Britain and the Continent in 1927-28. On his return he made several trips to New Guinea, but since 1930 he had resided in Sydney, and had lived at Coogee for the past three years.

Salamaua, once called the “Port of Hopes,” has grown enormously since Burleigh Gorman rebuilt his quaint bungalow-hotel in 1925. Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co., and Messrs. Carpenters Tiave big establishments, and there are numerous other buildings—commercial, banking, residential, and administrative.

Close at hand is a busy aerodrome, with great and small aeroplanes cutting crisscross tracks over a field that a few years ago was virgin jungle. Refrigeration, wireless, electric light, and arm chairs housed in an up-to-date hotel have ousted Burleigh Gorman’s old ramshackle store-building of 1925, with its creaking stairs and packing-case seats. But the recollection of the stirring times of those early days, and the genial Burleigh Gorman, is evergreen in the memories of the old hands.

Four burly Waratah footballers were pall-bearers to the grave. As the coffin was lowered and brown earth sprinkled on the tomb. Rev. Manning, of Parramatta, paid fitting tribute to Mr. Gorman’s personality, his prowess in sport, bis generosity, and the respect in which his friends held him. Truly, he was a man among men.

Among those who attended the funeral were Mr. Earl Gorman (nephew), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pryke, and Mr. R. L.

Dick, of New Guinea (now living at Coogee, N.S.W.), Messrs. W. Galloway, J.

Clarkin, W. Hill and J. Noseda, as well as many of his comrade Waratah footballers.

SELWYN HUGHES.

Mr. E. G. Theodore, who is actively connected with the development of the Fiji goldmining industry, returned to Sydney by the Mariposa on February 25, after a visit to the Colony in connection with his interests at Tavua.

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N.Z. Prime Minister Takes Over Control AN important change in the administrative control of native affairs of the territories administered by New Zealand —Samoa and Cook Islands —was announced at the end of February.

The Cook Is. Department has been transferred to the Department of External Affairs and is now under the direction of the Prime Minister (Hon. G. W. Forbes).

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Bishop Wade

Takes Useful Film to U.S.A. and Europe T>R. THOMAS WADE, Bishop of the MJ Roman Catholic Church in the Northem Solomon Islands, has been responsible for the display in Australia of a cinema film which has aroused much interest. It presents the remarkable story of the work of the missionaries in the Pacific Islands and the conditions which they face when they go to those places. It is aptly called “Saints and Savages,” and no more effective propanda cQuid be deviged tQ ghow the value Of the work of the missionaries. The nt nrodllo *j on ’

Wade left Svdnev bv the Marinosa on 6 for America and he wll to Europe and wffi visit The R „ .’ t . • „ w - tVi pe T^ He , IS . , this notable film and intends to display it in many places. It will accomplish more than a dozen volumes in descnbwork that Bishop Wade is doing j n South Seas.

Incidentally Dr Wade will visit his birthplace (Providence, Rhode Is., U.S.A.) where his father died at the end of February.

Methodist Mission’S

Financial Crisis

THE Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, the operations of whose 100-odd white missionaries extend over five sections of the Pacific Islands, is facing a grave crisis, not only financially but through a lack of zeal for missionary work, according to Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A., general secretary, at the annual session of the Methodist Foreign Mission Board, held in Sydney in February.

“Since 1924,” he said, “the financial position has steadily become worse until, with last year’s deficit of over £6OOO, the accumulated deficit is now £22,337.

“This is not wholly due to the depression,” continued Mr. Burton, “but to the fact that the missionary appeal has very largely, lost its glamour; the world is shrinking, and there are now no ‘unknown corners.’ Instead of enthusiasm for missionary work, the youth of the churches are turning their attention to economic and international problems.”

The Mission Board has decided to hand over to the Government the work of primary education in Fiji. The mission will still control vocational and other special schools.

A general policy for education in Papua and New Guinea was adopted. It was decided to co-operate in every possible way with the Administrations to ensure that every child of school age was given a suitable education.

For the extension of its work in Papua, the Board decided to purchase land on Goodenough Island, in the D’Entrecasteaux Group.

Father Flynn, of the Catholic Sacred Heart Mission, Koki, Papua, sailed for the Territory by the February Montoro, after three months’ holiday in Australia. 60 March 21. 1933

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B.S.I. Chinese Firm’s Astute Methods From Our Own Correspondent.

TULAGI, February 22.

AVERY large local Chinese firm has been in trouble over invoices. This case may throw a little light on the problem of how the Asiatics are able to undersell European traders. At any rate It is a sad comment on the Official preference to Chinese as the more desirable traders.

Some difficulty was found in getting the Chinese firm’s invoices for Customs purposes to work out as they should.

Investigations followed, and it was found that the firm’s shippers were supplying faked invoices for Customs purposes, and genuine ones for the firm’s own use and information.

Much could be said, and is being said, on this subject, but will it change the official attitude and opinion—that the Chinese trader is the better for the Group?

MR. AND MRS. R. O. MANX, OF

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MR. AND MRS. RICHARD O. MANT, who were married at Port Moresby, Papua, in January, have settled down happily at their new home at Salamaua, New Guinea.

Included among those who attended the wedding at the Church of England were Captain A. Campbell, relieving skipper of the Montoro, Mr. E. Lane Poole, of Canberra, and Captain A. S. Fitch, Managing Director of Papuan Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. After the ceremony, Capt. Campbell entertained the wedding party on board the Montoro, and then the bridal couple flew across to New Guinea.

Mrs. Mant was formerly Miss Helen Lindemann, daughter of Commander and Mrs. Y. G. Lindemann, of Bellevue Hill.

The groom, Dick Mant, son of the late Mr.

W. Mant and Mrs. Mant, of Double Bay, is a well-known pilot engaged in tli© aerial freighting service of Messrs. W. R.

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Papuan Accounts For

Last Half Year

From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Feb. 24.

Statements issued by the Papua Treasury Dept., lor the six months ended December 31, 1934, show that the half year concluded with a short surplus ■of revenue over expenditure of £B3. The surplus for the six months ended December 31, 1933, was £279.

Total revenue increased £14,903, to £69,509. Of this amount, however, £10,674 represented additional grants from the Federal Govt.—subsidy increase, £1250, and rubber subsidy, £9424. Principal increase in revenue was Customs receipts, which advanced from £2035 to £19,256. Mining revenue rose from £1568 to £1789. Only decrease •was the Lands revenue, which dropped £202.

For the six months under review expenditure increased £15,047, to £69,716. Of this amount, it is ■understood that £9424 was expended in grants-inaid to rubber growers. At December 31, the Trust Fund totalled £44,151, and the Public Debt at £65,504, all of which is due to the Commonwealth of Australia.

The French sloop Amiral Charner, which is stationed at New Caledonia, arrived in Sydney on March 2 to be overhauled. She is commanded by Capt. P.

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LAKEKAMU Progress And Activity On Papuan Goldfield From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Feb. 25.

THE Lakekamu goldfield, which was reopened by the Administration in 1930, appears to be going ahead rapidly.

New areas are being taken up, and the population on the field is increasing each month as new men arrive by the Southern steamers. Latest arrivals at Lakekamu are Messrs. W. Brewster, A. Timberly, and M. P. Curtain. More engineers and prospectors are expected by the Montoro and by the March Macdhui.

The light dredge erected by Tiveri Gold Dredging Co. is still running successfully, and the company is doing very well.

About £15,000 worth of gold per annum, it is estimated, is being produced by the small dredge.

Five dredging claims in the Twisty area of Lakekamu have been taken up by a newly formed company, the Lakekamu Goldfields (Papua) Development N.L. This company, with a nominal capital of £20,000, includes among its directors the former Administrator of New Guinea, Brigadier-General A. E.

Wisdom, and his co-directors are men reputed on Collins Street for their foresight and shrewd-headedness.

The vendor of the Twisty area is Tiveri Gold Dredging Co., and it is rumoured that their principal shareholders. have large interests in the new company. Lakekamu Development Company’s engineers will arrive by fche Montoro on February 28. They will proceed immediately to the field to test the leases and report to their headquarters in Melbourne.

A small staff of engineers and technicians are still carrying out investigations with drills and bores on behalf of Guinea Gold N.L. Mr. J. Nason Jones, who has been prospecting and exploring around Lakekamu for Guinea Gold, is expected here shortly after reporting to his directors in Adelaide the results of his recent months of activity, which culminated in the pegging out of 7,000 acres in the Lakekamu district.

Beri Beri Sickness

An outbreak of Beri Beri sickness among the native labourers on Lakekamu field received prompt attention by the Administration. Dr. Eric Giblin, Government Medical Officer, flew over to the field from Port Moresby on February 25 in a Guinea Airways Moth piloted by Mr. Orme Denny.

After investigations Dr. Giblin diagnosed the sickness as a mild outbreak of Beri Beri, which nowadays is easily remedied by corrections in diet. Beri Beri was once a dreaded disease, but the march of medical science has robbed it of most of its terrors.

It was extremely fortunate for the goldfields people that they were able to secure so promptly the services of a medical man, experienced in the endemic conditions of the district.

In 1910 Dr. Giblin was stationed on the old Lakekamu goldfield as medical officer when, after the discovery of gold by the Pryke Brothers in 1909, miners poured into the field and sickness broke out among their 600 labourers. 62 March 21. 1933

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Astrolabe Copper Field

Some interest has been awakened in the Astrolabe mineral field by the application of Mr. Alexander Christie, a wellknown miner and trader, for leases previously held for the mining of copper.

Mr. Christie, it is understood, intends to work these leases for copper and other minerals, including gold and silver.

Between 1920 and 1927 the Astrolabe copper field was a hive of industry.

After many delays New Guinea Copper- Mines, Ltd., established smelting plant, seven miles of railway from the Dubuna mine, and three miles of aerial tramway from the Laloki mine to the sintering plant. The company then commenced producing a steady output of blister copper. In 1927, however, the price of copper declined sharply, causing the company to suspend operations, and 100 white men and 1,000 native labourers were thrown out of employment.

Outrageous Radio

FEES Imposed on Pacific Listeners A RESIDENT of the Cook Islands -**■ writes to point out that he is charged the exorbitant amount of 30/- per annum, as a license fee on his radio receiving set.

He remarks that this, on top of static, battery troubles, and absence of daylight reception, has induced him to abandon his wireless outfit.

We have had similar complaints from other Islands territories. The majority of Administrations seem to think they have som© kind of Divine right to tax the owners of radio sets, while acknowledging no responsibility for reception or service.

A most interesting development has occurred in Papua, where the proprietor of the “Papuan Courier,” with most commendable public spirit, has successfully resisted in the Courts the Commonwealth Government’s demand for a wireless receiving license fee. While that resistance was offered on the ground that the Commonwealth has no jurisdiction in Papua, it directs attention to the fact that these demands are made, in practically all the islands, by taxing authorities who make no effort to supply listeners with a reliable service.

The position of radio listeners in the Pacific is tragic. They are so isolated that radio makes a tremendous difference in their daily lives, yet their needs are not catered for in any way. Every resident of the Islands, almost, has a listening set of some kind, in the hope that, between bursts of static, he may be able to pick up some indication of what is happening in the world. A few keep on listening, but the majority, after a time, become discouraged, and use their radio cabinets as containers for bottled goods.

Not one of these people would object to paying radio fees if some honest attempt were made to give them service, either by way of a central transmitting station somewhere in the Western Pacific, or by a technical study of their requirements, so that a North Queensland station could so improve its transmission as to give reliable service. So far as the Central and Eastern Pacific is concerned, there should be a special transmission from Suva or Apia.

If a few score people will follow the example of Mr. James, In Port Moresby, and fight the rapacious tax-collector in such a way as to direct public attention to the iniquity, there will be some chance of reform.

RAY PARER To Investigate Cape York Landing Ground IVIR. RAYMOND PARER and Mr.

Geoffrey E. Hemsworth, the New Guinea airmen who, after setting out from England in the Centenary Air Race in October last, recently arrived in Melbourne after many adventures and setbacks, landed at Sydney on their return to New Guinea on February 26. Early in March their machine, still giving them trouble, was being overhauled at Mascot aerodrome.

En route to New Guinea at the end of March, Mr. Parer will visit Cape York, at the tip of Northern Queensland, and investigate the possibility of establishing an official landing ground there. The ground would eliminate the dangerous 400-mile water hop between Port Douglas (Queensland) and Port Moresby, stated Mr. Parer.

Apart from its assistance to aviators flying to New Guinea, the Cape York aerodrome would be of strategic value to the Commonwealth. It would also pave the way for a weekly aerial mail service between New Guinea, Papua and Queensland. The 120-mile flight across from Cape York to New Guinea, he continued, would take only an hour, and would be virtually accident-proof because there was a string of islands in the line of flight.

Possibly the reason why New Guinea airmen prefer to fly from Port Douglas to Papua is that after the flight across from Cape York, there is still some 450 miles to be flown along the Papuan coast before Port Moresby landing ground is reached. 63

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Pacific Mining Notes

DAY DAWN (N.G.) LTD.

Day Dawn (New Guinea) Ltd. advises that 286 tons of ore crushed from Ist to 9th February returned 112 oz. of bullion. Experts are investigating the application of a hydro-electric power scheme to the mine. A modern cyanide plant has been erected, but it cannot be operated until hydroelectric power is connected from an adjoining company’s scheme in a few weeks. The value of the gold contents in the levels going south have been disappointing, erratic, and beyond certain points unprofitable. The good values of the upper levels have not, on the average, been maintained beyond a length of 300 feet on the bottom level. Further extension of the upper levels towards the south has for the present been postponed. The directors consider the true ore body may be located by crosscuts. On the bottom level for 285 feet going south the average value over a width of 4 feet is 12dwt. 17gr., but the next 50 feet so diminished as to be unprofitable. The mine manager expects to expose good values in approximately 30 feet.

This is based on the fact that highly payable values were mined in the level immediately above. In a drive on the manganese lode at the same level, a shoot of 80 feet in length of average width of 30 inches, produced on an average 24dwt. lt is more than probable these values will be found to extend across the creek. The heavy expense in connection with exploratory operations, and cyanide plant during the last three months caused the expenditure considerably to exceed the returns.

MISIMA UNITED N.L.

With a nominal capital of £45,000. Misima United N.L. was formed recently in Victoria. The capital is in 4500 shares of £lO each, of which 3000 have been subscribed for at £5 a share; 500 were taken up by the vendors, who also received 900 fully paid, and 100, fully paid, have been allotted to the promoters. The company has acquired an interest in an option to purchase leases, and application for leases, comprising 330 acres, cn Misima Island, off the south-eastern coast of the Papuan mainland. The lodes will be developed to determine the values at depth. The directors are Messrs. D. J. McClelland, W. J. Nicol, D.

Reid, and S. Wright-Smith. Mr. J. D. Morrison, Bank House, Bank Place, Melbourne, is legal manager.

Navasi Gold Syndicate

With a nominal capital of £lO,OOO, in 2000 shares of £5 each, Nasavi (Fiji) Gold Syndicate, N.L., has been formed. For subscription, 1500 shares were offered at £2 a share; 250, fully paid, are to be issued to the promoters, and 250 will be under option to Mr. M. J. Foster for 12 months, at such price as the shares are called up to upon which the option is exercised. A prospector’s right issued on January 16, is held by Mr. Foster, who will proceed to Tavua, Fiji. Provisional directors are Messrs. G. G. Dunstan, D. C. J. Hill, P. J.

Moloney, and J. B. Laing. Mr. H. W. Percival, 422 Collins Street, Melbourne, is the legal manager.

The New Guinea Syndicate

The New Guinea Syndicate has been registered in Melbourne with a capital of £3,000, in 300 shares of £lO each. The company proposes to exercise an option to purchase held over six adjacent 50-acre leases on Edie Creek, New Guinea.

A series of parallel reefs of true fissure type, it is stated, run through the area, and one gold-bearing lode is outcropping for a length of over 1000 ft., having a visible depth of 700 ft. Though the goldbearing ore is not payable where the superficial investigation has been effected, the prospects are stated to justify diamond drilling, prospecting by tunnelling and by sinking prospecting shafts.

If these areas justify development the New Guinea Syndicate will form Edie Creek Gold Prospecting and Option Syndicate, N.L., with a nominal capital of £15,000, to exploit them. When formed the new company will lease further alluvial areas and water rights on Edie Creek. It is claimed that a great part of the alluvial gold being won by the Bulolo Company’s two upper dredges has been shed from the sources of Edie Creek, and has passed down the stream through these alluvial leases, and into the Bulolo River, above the Bulolo dredges. Within the area is located an ore body, which is similar in type to that being worked by New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. at Golden Ridges.

Golden Range Leases On Ramu

RIVER, N.G.

The New Guinea representative of Universal Gold Development N.L. reported in February that he had acquired an option over the Golden Range leases, on the Ramu River, of approximately 1200 acres. The representative and an engineer left immediately to inspect the property.

Oriomo Exploration’S Option On

N.G. Sluicing Areas

A free option for six months with an extension, if required, for a further six months on reasonable terms, has been obtained by Oriomo Explorations, Ltd., over 150 acres sluicing and dredging areas in the Mandated Territory. Through the area, which consists of old river beds, terraces, flats, and beaches, the Bulolo River runs for approximately 62 chains. Inspection of the property is proceeding forthwith.

NEW TERRITORY (N.G.) N.L.

An option has been acquired by the directors of New Territory (New Guinea) N.L., on satisfactory terms, over a large area of ground in New Guinea. The area is said to contain good values, and is in new country. With the object of confirming reports already received, arrangements are being made to have the ground further tested and opened up. For this purpose a competent mining engineer will investigate on behalf of the company.

The company also reports that Messrs. Leahy Bros, the company’s prospectors in New Guinea, have been unsuccessful in finding a suitable property for the company, and their contract has been terminated.

Enterprise Of N. Guinea

The representative in New Guinea of the Enterprise Company has advised that Mr. W. F.

McKenzie, the engineer appointed to examine part of the company’s ground on the Watut River and other areas held by the company in that district, has arrived with his assistant, and has started his examination of the areas. He further advises that the amended mining ordinance (extended prospecting licence) has been enacted.

N.G. GOLDFIELDS LTD.

Monthly returns and estimated profits of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. are compared in the following table:— 64 March 21. 1935

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Alluvial— Dec. Jan. Feb.

Fine gold, oz. .. 879 .. 1903 .. 1263 Fine silver, oz .. 698 .. 831 .. 986 Mill- Fine gold, oz. .. 1828 2342 ,. 1623 Fine silver, oz. .. 843 .. 1132 .. 822 Estimated profit— Nov. Dec. Jan.

Alluvial .. .. £5,109 .. £3,523 .. £4,681 Mill .. .. £16,317 .. £11,293 .. £15,414

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EDIE OPTIONS LTD.

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A. H. O. Boulton, and F. R. Black (1 share each).

KOROERE GOLD N.L.

A cable message received from Fiji early in March by Koroere Gold N.L. stated that a mining lease over 100 acres of the Cardigan area had been approved. The Government will grant a prospecting licence over the Koroere area, at Tavua, with assurance that granting of a mining lease will follow. The company comments that the leases adjoin each other, and comprise a total area of 100 acres. This is the second gold-mining lease to be granted by the Government of Fiji, the first having been given to the private company operating the Emperor mine near Tavua, Viti Levu.

The property of the Koroere company adjoins that of the Emperor mine.

New Misima Mines

The manager of New Misima Gold Mines Ltd., Misima Island, Papua, reported for the month of January: 1206 tons of ore have been put through the mill, yielding 921 tons of sand and 285 of slime for gold bullion of approximate value in Australian currency of £2958. General repairs have been effected to cyanide works and manager’s residence.

The mine work has been carried on as usual.

Dividend, No. 39, of 1/6 per share, has been declared.

Mt. Lawson Prospecting And Option

SYNDICATE Shareholders of Mt. Lawson Prospecting and Option Syndicate N.L. decided at a meeting held in Melbourne on March 5 to continue the existence of the company. The chairman of directors (Mr. D. J. McClelland) said that as a result of his visit to New Guinea, Upper Watut Gold Alluvials N.L. was formed, and £8625 and 200,000 fully paid shares were allotted to the Mt. Lawson Syndicate, together with the right to apply for 187 000 contributing shares. If the cash was disbursed among syndicate holders it would represent about £l2 a share. The directors, however, recommended a continuance of the syndicate. There were several ways in which the company might continue with profitable results. Several propositions were available to investigate, and, in view °f. t^ ie higher price of gold, it was thought there might be still favourable opportunities to acquire profitable mining properties. The company could also obtain share interests in other companies •, directors c ? u °btain the right for shareholders to subscribe in new companies which might be formed. Speaking at the Upper Watut Company, Mr. McClelland said the price of gold was now 20/- an oz, above the prospectus estimate, increasing the estimated profits by 2S 65

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the previous two periods as follows: — Dec. Jan. Feb.

Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 dredges— Cubic yards .. .. 881,400 913,000 820,000 Bullion, oz 14,919 16,222 14,417 Gold, fine oz 10,986 11,199 10,022 VALUE- Aust. currency* .. £93,381 £95,191 £85,187 Per cub. yd 25.42 25.02 24.94 Working profit .. £66,104 £67,821 £58,318 * At £A8/10/- per fine ounce.

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McEwan) had carried out their duties, it was decided to allot £2lO to the board, and a like amount to Mr. McEwan.

Sunshine Gold Equipment

Sunshine Gold Development advise that tenders have been accepted for their new equipment.

Orders have been placed for the supply of pipe line and plant for the equipment of the Consolidated claim. The first shipment of the new gear will be made in June, and the balance in July or August. The recent new issue of 72,000 contributing shares offered to shareholders at a premium of 5/- per share was oversubscribed by 33 per cent.

Lucy Syndicate Abandons Fiji Project

Lucy Syndicate N.L., or Melbourne, announced in February that a prospecting party would be sent to Fiji at an early date. The party under the leadership of Mr. T. J. Rogers, mining engineer, of Victoria, included Messrs. W. V. Terry, of Fiji (who had been prospecting there with Mr.

W. Borthwick), J. Wilson, of Western Australia, and A. Radley, of Chiltern, Victoria. To meet the cost of the expedition, shareholders were offered 240 reserve shares. The shares, however, were not fully taken up and the directors have abandoned the project.

Diabot Dredging Syndicate

Dr. Jensen left for Noumea on February 18 for the Diabot River Dredging Syndicate, a Co. registered in N.S.W. but subscribed for mostly in Adelaide. He will supervise scout-boring tests over 12,000 acres on the banks of the Diabot River, in the north-west of New Caledonia. John Hay, well known in timber circles in Tasmania, tested the area by dish, and reported values exceeding 4s. a yard on the surface. The gamble is whether these values go down. An adjoining 3000 acres, held by the Upper Diabot Syndicate, is also to be tested by the Jensen party. The Fernhill Gold Mine, adjacent to this property, has produced 21,0000 z. of gold from 13,000 tons. This and other reefs are believed to have shed their gold into the valley of the Diabot.—“Bulletin.”

Day Dawn South (N.G.)

The mine manager at Day Dawn South mine, New Guinea, reported at the end of January:— No. 1 Vein, 130 ft. Level. —North drive has been advanced 40ft. in ore. Total, 290 ft. East X cut has been started at 160 ft. in north drive and put out 28ft. in porphyry containing small veins of quartz. Total, 28ft.

No. 1 Vein, 30ft. Level. —North drive has been advanced 50ft. in ore. Total, 155 ft. A start has been made on surface winze to connect through to No. 2 rise from No. 1 vein, 130 ft. level.

North-East N.G. Goldfields

A parcel of 29,100 forfeited shares in North- East New Guinea Goldfields N.L. were offered for sale at auction in Sydney on March 5. Four hundred were sold at 3d. per share and 3,600 realised 2d. each.

EAST REEFS N.L.

The vanguard of a prospecting party to search and prospect auriferous areas in Fiji for East Reefs (Bendigo) N.L. left Sydney for Suva by the Mariposa on March 5.

SEARCH FOR OIL IN SEPIK AREA, T.N.G.

Geological activities in the Sepik district of New Guinea were renewed in November last by Oil Search Ltd., with an augmented staff of geologists.

The management advises that one party, headed by Mr. G. A. V. Stanley, is geological mapping an area previously surveyed and proved to possess features of geological value. A larger party, under the supervision of Mr. J. N. Montgomery, is making a critical study of a group of important anticlinal structures recognised through reconnaisance mapping during a previous survey, which led to recommending this area for further attention.

Bulolo Dredge Production

February production of the four dredges of the Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., compares with that of

Golden Terraces (N.G.) Syndicate

With a nominal capital of £7500 in 1500 shares of £5 each, Golden Terraces (New Guinea) Syndicate N.L. has been formed. Eight hundred shares have been subscribed for at £3 a share; 300, fully paid, will be issued to the vendor, who will also receive £250; 200 will be held under option to the vendor for 12 months at the price to which the contributing shares have been called up on the date of which the option is exercised, and 200 will be held under option to the holders of the 800 contributing shares for 12 months, upon the same terms. At the preliminary meeting of shareholders held recently in Melbourne the chairman of directors (Mr. R. T. Trembath) explained that the syndicate had been formed to acquire an option to purchase certain dredging and sluicing leases and water rights along the Lower Edie Creek, New Guinea, about two miles upstream from the junction of the creek with the Bulolo River and three miles and a half by road from Wau, containing about 150 acres. Arrangements were being made with Mr. J. M. Spence to examine and report upon the areas. Messrs. J. W. Patched. R. T. Trembath, and F. G. Wilson were elected directors, and Mr. F. L. Smyth, 413 Collins-street, Melbourne, legal manager.

N.G. Gold Shares

Recent fluctuations in the shares of three of the main gold companies operating on the Morobe goldfield New Guinea, were as follows: — 66 March 21, 1933

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COLYER, WATSON & CO., N.D.L. Agents, New Guinea, Rabaul.

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

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

Ocean Island-Nauru Service British Phosphate Commission, 16 Spring Street, Sydney, sends boats irregularly from Melbourne.

Gilbert and Ellice Islands 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.

Sydney—Rabaul—Hongkong Hongkong—New Guinea— Solomon Islands Service Solomon Islands—N.G. Service.

Sydney—N. Hebrides—Noumea —lndochine Papuan Inter-Island Services S.S. Papuan Chief (Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.) makes regular round trips from Port Moresby to Samarai via Kapa Kapa, Abau, and Baibara, return by same route; then Port Moresby to Dana via Hisiu, Yule Is., Kukipi, Orokolo, Kikori and back via Orokolo, Ynle Island, and Hisiu —full trip occupying about one month.

M.V. Nusa (Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.) holds the Papuan Government’s contract for carrying mails and passengers on the north-cast coast of Papua. The Nusa connects with all Southern mail steamers at Samarai.

Sydney—N.Z.—Cook Is.— Tahiti Saigon—Java—Noumea Line French Eastern Pacific Service By ships running between Marseilles and Noumea, Wast Indies and Panama Canal. 67

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March 21, 1933

Per S.S. Morinda.

Sydney Mar 28 Apr 18 May 9 Lord Howe Is..

Mar 30 Apr 20 May 11 Norfolk Island Apr 1 Apr 22 May 13 Vila Apr 4-5 — May 16-11 Bushman’s Bay Apr 6 — May 18 Malo ] Tangoa .. .. [ Apr 6 — May 18 Segond .. .. J Aoba (opt.) ..

Apr 7 — May 19 Vila Apr 8 — May 20 Norfolk Is.

Apr 11 Apr 22 May 23 Lord Howe Is.

Apr 13 Apr 24 May 25 Sydney .. ..

Apr 15 Apr 26 May 27 BURNS, PHILP & CO.

LTD., Agents Niagara Aorangi Niagara Honolulu Apr 3 May 1 May 29 Suva..

Apr 12 May 10 June 7 Auckland Apr l5-16May 13-14 June 10-11 Sydney .. .. Apr 20 May 18 June 15 Sydney, dep. Apr 25 May 23 June 20 Auckland Apr 29-30May 27-23 June 24-25 Suva ,. .. May 3 May 31 fune 28 Honolulu May 10 June 7 July 5 UNION S.S. CO.

LTD., Agents.

M.V, Neptuna.

Melbourne Sydney Apr 18-20 Brisbane (opt.) Salamaua Apr 28 Rabaul Sandakan May 8 Manila May 11 Hongkong May 14-18 Manila Saigon Sandakan Salamaua Rabaul Sydney June 10-11 Melbourne June 13-15

Burns, Philp

& CO., LTD., Agent*.

Mariposa Monterey Mariposa Honolulu .. Apr 9 May 6 June 3 Pago Pago • • Apr 14 May 11 June 8 Suva .. ..

May 14 June 11 Auckland • • Apr 20 May 17 June 14 Sydney, arr. .. Apr 23 May 20 June 15 Melbourne.. .. Apr 26-27 May 24-25 June 21-22 Sydney, dep. . .. May 1 May 29 June 26 Auckland .. .. May 4 June 1 June 29 Suva .. .. .. May 7 June 4 July 2 Pago Pago .. May 8 June 5 July 3 Honolulu.. .. May 13 Tune 10 July 8 OCEANIC : STEAMSHIP CO., MATSON LINE,.

Rabaul Salamaua London .... Apr 27 July 13 Teneriffe .... May 10 July 26 Dakar July 29 Sydney Sept 9 Gladstone June 27 Townsville....

July 1 Sept 13 Rabaul, arr...

July 6 Sept 18 Madang, dep.. .... July 17 Sept 28 London Nov 25 Calls will be made at Kavieng and Salamaua if sufficient inducement offers.

W. R.

CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Pune Facts

P Holden’s have long had an enviable reputation for the safety and reliability of their services.

Only the steadiest and sturdiest machines are used.

New Guinea’s aerial services are the world’s most unique. They afford the only regular transport between the 600 white residents in the goldfields and the outside world.

Trips arranged from Port Moresby or Salamaua to any aerodrome in N.G. =— HOLDEN’S— AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES LTD.

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REQUIREMENTS Island Representative:

W. M. Reid, York Street, Sydney

Head Office; 572-574 KING STREET, NEWTOWN Sydney—Norfolk Island —New Hebrides Sydney—N.Z.—Fiji—Hawaii Fiji Inter-Island Services 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 Lcvuka, Savu, Taveuni, Rabi and Buca Bay, 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.

A.K. Tui Labasa (Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.) makes regular trips from Suva to Labasa via Levuka and Macuata ports, then return* to Suva. Round trip occupies about 9 days.

M.S. Adi Rewa (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) make* trips from Suva to Levuka and Labasa via Macuata ports—trip occupies 8 days. Leaves Suva and proceeds to Levuka, Nabouwalu, Lekutu, Dreketi, Naduri, and Labasa. Returns to Suva by same route. On alternative trips she returns from Labasa via Naduri, Nakaloa, Dreketi, Naiserewaqa, Lekutu, Galoa, Nabouwalu, and Levuka. Latter trip occupies about 10 days.

M.S. Tui Kauvaro (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) operates from Suva to Levuka, calling at Lautoka and Ellington. Voyage takes 4 days.

M.V. Tui Cakau (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) operates from Suva and makes regular inter-island trips throughout the Colony.

Sydney-Fiji Service The Waipahi will leave Sydney for Fiji on Wednesday, April 10. She will call at Lautoka (arr. April 18); Suva (arr, April 20; dep. April 25); Auckland (arr. April 30), and return to Sydney direct. On her next trip to Fiji the Waipahi will leave Sydney on Wednesday, May 8. The call formerly made at Nukualofa (Tonga) has been omitted for the present.

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

Samoan Inter-Island Service A.S. Makoa, 250 tons (Burn? Philo (South Sea) Co. Ltd.) operates from Apia and connects regularly with Pago Pago, also Tokelaus, Swain, Nasau, Puka-Puka and Phoenix Groups.

French Oceania Inter-Island S.S. Tooya (597 tons) makes regular trips from Papeete, through Leeward Group (Raiatea, Huahine, Borabora, etc.) about every four weeks, and also regularly visits Tuamotu and Gambier Archipelagoes.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES CO.. Agents.

Sydney-N. Guinea-Hongkong New Zealand-Samoa N.Z. Government steamer Maui Pomare (1159 tons) is on a regular service between New Zealand ports and Western Samoa, carrying mails, passengers, and cargo.

There are also regular services between Apia (Samoa) and Suva (Fiji).

Sydney—N.Z.—Fiji—Samoa— Hawaii London —Sydney—New Guinea 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, Philo steamers.

New Guinea Inter-Island Service S.S. Maiwara (Burns, Philp & Co.) makes regular round trips from Rabaul to New Ireland and Bougainville ports.

M.V. Duranbah, m.v. John Bolton, m.v. Desikoko (W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd.) make sailings from Rabaul every two or three weeks to various ports in the Territory, Exploiting the Natives NON-TRADER” writes: “You have published a good deal against the Chinese traders in the Solomons. There is another side to the case.

“A British trader was along here recently. He charged the natives 6d for a common lead pencil, 2/- for a small tin of boot polish, 2/- for a tin of brass polish, 2/- for a writing pad. They can buy the same stuff from the Chinese for a third of those prices.

“Another trader tried to make a native pay 16/- for a pair of common rubber shoes that one can buy in Tulagi for 7/or 8/-, He also tried to persuade a native to pay him £2 for a concertina that was hopelessly broken.

“All white traders are not like this — the majority give a square deal. But while that kind of exploitation is permitted, native custom will go inevitably to the Chinese.” 68 March 21. 1933

The Pacific Islands Monthly

London Para Plantation Smoked Price on — per lb. per lb.

Janaary 18 .. .. .. .. 4?Ad. 6.4^d.

January 25 .. .. .. .. 4Hd. 6^d.

February 1 .. .. .. .. 4Ud. 6^d.

February 8 .. .. 4*$d. 6^d.

February 15 .. .. 4^d. 6tfd.

February 22 .. .. 4Hd. .. 6^d.

March 1 .. .. 454d. 6.1^d.

March 8 .. .. 4&d. 6%d.

March 15 .. Sftd December 14.. .. .. .. £8 15 0 £9 10 0 December 21.. .. .... £8 15 0 £9 7 6 December 28.. .. .... £9 0 0 £9 12 6 January 4, 1935 .. .... £9 5 0 £10 5 0 January 11 .. .. .. £10 10 0 £11 0 0 January 18 .. .. .. .. £12 0 0 £12 15 0 January 25 .. .. .. .. £11 10 0 £12 5 0 February 1 .. .. £11 12 6 £12 2 6 February 8 .. .. £12 0 0 £12 15 0 February 15 .. .. .. .. £12 0 0 £12 15 0 February 22 .. .. .. .. £12 2 6 £12 17 6 March 1 .. .. .. £12 2 6 £12 IS 0 March 8 .... .. .. £12 2 6 £12 12 6 March 15 .. .. .. .. £10 15 0 £11 5 0 London Rubber Para Plantation Smoked Price on— per lb. per lb.

January 1, 1932 February 5 W. 3 S/16d. 3fcd. 2Hd.

March 4 .. .. 3&d. 2 S/16d.

April 1 3**d. md.

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

June 10 3Hd. 1 ll/16d.

July 22 3Hd. 1 15/16d.

August 5 .. .. 4d. 2Hd.

September 2 SHd. 2Hd.

October 14 .. ..

Sd. 2.40Hd.

November 11 Sd. 2.6SHd.

December 2 Sd. 2.59d.

January 6, 1933 4Hd. 2.43d.

February 10 4Hd. 2Hd.

March 10 .. .. 4«d. 2Hd.

April 14 4Hd. 2.34d.

May 5 4^d. 2.81d.

June 2 SHd. 3.56d.

July 7 SHd. 3.7ld.

August 4 .. .. sy,d. 4d.

September 1 5d. 3.78d.

October 13 .. .. 4Hd. 4d.

November 10 .. 4Hd. 4.09d.

December 8 4Hd. 4.0Hd.

January 5 1934 4Hd. 4.28d.

February 2 4*/ 2 d. 4.84d.

March 2 .. .. 4.93d.

March 16 .. .. 5d.

S.lSd.

April 6 5.43d.

May 4 SHd. 7d.

May 18 .. .. 6.18d.

June 1 SHd. 6Hd.

Tune 15 .. ..

SHd. 6Hd.

June 22 .. .. 554d- 6Hd.

July 6 7.06d.

July 20 S^d. 6.88d.

July 27 SHd. 7d.

August 3 .. ..

SHd. 7.18d.

August 17 .. ..

SHd. 7Hd.

August 31 .. ..

SHd. 7Hd.

September 7 SHd. 7Hd.

September 21 SHd. 7.31d.

September 28 SHd. 7.31d.

October 5 .. ..

SHd. 6Hd.

October 12 .. .. 7d.

October 26 .. .. 6Hd.

November 2 6Hd.

November 16 ..

SHd. 6Hd.

November 23 SHd. 6Hd.

November 30 6Hd.

December 7 6^gd.

December 14 6% d.

December 21 6.31Hd. 6Hd.

December 28 January 4, 1935 6Hd January 11 6Hd.

London.

Copra Plantation, South Sea, Hot-air Dried, Sun-Dried. Rabaul.

Price on — Per ton c.i.f.

Per ton c.i 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 15 0 £12 15 0 October 30 .. .. £13 10 0 £13 15 0 November 27.. .. .. £13 10 0 £13 15 0 December 18.. .. .. .. £14 5 0 £14 10 0 January 1, 1932 .. .. .. £14 10 0 £14 IS 0 February 12 .. .. .. .. £16 7 6 £16 10 0 March 25 .. .. £14 17 6 £15 0 0 April 29 .. .. £14 IS 0 £14 17 6 May 20 .. .. £13 17 6 £14 0 0 June 3 .. .. £12 17 6 £13 0 0 June 17 .. .. £13 2 6 £13 5 0 July 1 .. .. £13 5 0 £13 7 6 August 12 .. .. .. .. £13 17 6 £14 0 0 September 2 .. .. .. .. £13 17 6 £14 0 0 October 7 .. .. £14 5 0 £14 7 6 November 11.. .. .. £14 7 6 £14 10 0 December 16 .. .. .. .. £14 2 6 £14 5 0 January 6, 1933 .. .. .. £13 10 0 £13 12 6 February 3 .. .. .. .. £12 5 0 £12 7 6 March 3 .. .. £11 7 6 £11 10 0 April 28 .. .. £10 10 0 £10 12 6 May 26 6 £11 5 0 June 30 .. .. £10 17 6 £11 0 0 July 21 .. .. £11 2 6 £11 5 0 August 4 0 £10 12 6 September 29 .... £9 7 6 £9 10 6 October 20 .. .. .... £8 15 0 £9 0 0 November 3 .. .... £9 10 0 £9 15 0 December 1 .. .... £8 12 6 £9 0 0 January 5, 1934 . - .... £8 0 0 £8 7 6 January 19 .. .. .. .. £7 15 0 £8 2 6 February 16 .. .. .. .. £7 17 6 £8 10 0 February 23 .. .. .. .. £7 12 6 £8 7 6 March 2 .. .. £7 15 0 £8 10 0 March 30 .... £7 7 6 £8 0 0 April 6 .... £7 5 0 £7 15 0 April 27 6 £8 0 0 May 4 .. .. £7 12 6 £8 5 0 May 11 .. .. £7 17 6 £8 10 0 May 18 .. .. £7 15 0 £8 12 6 June 1 .. .. £7 17 6 £8 12 6 June IS .. .. £8 0 0 £8 12 6 July 6 .. .. £7 17 6 £8 IS 0 July 13 .. .. £8 0 0 £8 17 6 July 20 6 £8 15 0 August 3 .. .. .. .. £8 0 0 £8 17 6 August 17 .. ,. .. .. £7 15 0 £8 15 0 August 24 .. .. .. .. £7 17 6 £8 17 6 August 31 .. .. .. .. £7 12 6 £8 15 0 September 7 .. .. .. £7 12 6 £8 15 0 September 14.. .. 0 £8 17 6 September 21.. .. .. £8 0 0 £9 0 0 September 28.. .. .. .. £8 5 0 £9 5 0 October 5 .. .. £8 0 0 £9 0 0 October 12 .. .. .. .. £8 5 0 £9 5 0 October 19 .. .. .. .. £8 2 6 £9 2 6 October 26 .. .. .. .. £7 IS 0 £8 12 6 November 2 .. .. .. .. £7 15 0 £8 IS 0 November 9 .. .. .. .. £7 12 6 £8 12 6 November 16 • • £7 17 6 £8 15 0 November 23.. .. .. .. £8 2 6 £9 0 0 November 30.. .. ■ £8 7 6 £9 2 6 December 7 .. .. • • •• £8 15 0 £9 12 6 Suspect Your A great danger of kidney weakness is that it often gains a firm hold before the sufferer knows what is wrong with him.

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A. SUMMERBELL "Wyoming," Hunter Street, Sydney 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. 69

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March 21, 1935

(a) Trocas shell, No. 1 grade £93 Trocas shell, No. 2 grade £80 Trocas shell. No. 3 grade £67 (b) Trocas shell, No. 1 grade £92 Trocas shell, No. 2 grade £81 Trocas shell, No. 3 grade £69 All quotes are f.o.b., and on the Australian £.

Buying. Selling.

Telegraphic transfer.. .. 125 0 0 On demand £123 0 0 124 17 6 30 days 122 15 0 124 15 0 60 days 122 10 0 124 12 6 90 days 122 5 0 124 10 0 120 days 122 0 0 124 7 6 Average for week ended 25/2/35 ..

Francs to £ Australian 57.78 Average for week ended 4/3/35 .. 57.19 * Average for week ended 11/3/35 .. 55.97 Average for week ended 18/3/35 .. 56.69 Average for Australia on Noumea. week ended 25/2/35 ..

Francs to £ Australian 57.58 Average for week ended 4/3/35 .. 56.99 Average for week ended 11/3/35 .. 55.77 Average for week ended 18/3/35 .. 56.49 New Britain Express Delivery.

GENERAL OVERSEAS AGENTS.

General Carriers, Baggage And

Forwarding Agents

Royal Mail Contractors

Reliable Cars and Trucks.

We aim to give quick and reliable Service at reasonable costs. P.O. Box 116. 'Phone 141.

W. WALKER-'FLYNN, Proprietor, Malaguna Road, Rabaul, T.N.G.

To Island Shippers And Merchants

Send Your Shipments, Both Inward and Outward, Through

Dawson & Row

CUSTOMS BROKERS, SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT, AND INSURANCE AGENTS

Reiby Chambers Reiby Place Sydney

Cargo Space Arranged to All Oversea Ports. Storage Space for All Kinds of Merchandise. Agents at All Interstate Ports. All References may be Made to the E.S. & A. Bank Ltd., George and King Sts., Sydney, N.S.W.

Steamships Trading Company Limited

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

Shipowners, Wholesale and Retail Merchants and Traders; Shipping, Customs and Insurance Agents; Copra and Rubber Plantation Owners.

Mail Contractors to Commonwealth and Papuan Governments.

AGENCIES:—At Port Moresby: Coral Sea Insurance Co.; Phoenix Insurance Co.; Delta Sawmills. Ltd.; Acme Bakery Co.; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd. At Samarai: Coral Sea Insurance Co.; Delta Sawmills, Ltd.; Bankers and Traders Insurance Co.; National Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Kmaro Shipyard*; Mamai Plantations, BRANCHES.—In Papua: Hanuabada, Sivitoi, Aroma, Koki, Hula, Ela Beach, Duga Duga, Yule Island.

SYDNEY: NELSON & ROBERTSON, 12 Spring St.; Melbourne, 396 Flinders Lane; London, E. Whiteaway & Co.. 7 Chiswell Street, Finsbury, London, , „ , , Cable Address: “STEAMSHIPS.” Code; Bentley*.

Islands Produce Coffee The following quotations were obtained or.

March 19:- Robusta, f.a.q., imported from Java on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., prompt shipment, Sydney; Quote No. 1, 30/- per cwt.; quote No. 2, 39/- per cwt.

Kenya, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt. No. 1 quotation: Grade “B,” 59/-; Grade “C”, 52/-; Triage, 40/-. No. 2 Quotation: Grade “B”, 62/-; Grade “C”, 55/-; Triage, 45/-.

Mysore, f.a.q., prompt shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt.; Quote No. 1: Grade “A”, 72/-; Grade “B”, 68/-; Grade “C”, 65/-; Triage, 59/-. Quote No. 2 Grade “B”, 68/-; Triage, 60/-. Quote No. 3: Grade “B”, 72/-; Triage, 64/-.

Arabian (AdenJ, Hodeidah, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney—Quote (a); No. 1, pure, 66/- per cwt.; quote (b): 68/- per cwt.

Kapok Based on an exchange conversion of 12 gulden to the Australian £, the Australian c.i.f prices current during March were: Prime Samarang, 5 1-32 d. per lb.; prime Japara, 5 13-32 d. per lb.

Cocoa Quote No. 1: Cocoa beans, £26-£3O per ton.

Quote No. 2: Accra, good fermented, 24/- per cwt., c.i.f., Sydney.

Ivory Nuts No. 1 Quotation: £9/-/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

No. 2 Quotation: £9/5/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Trocas Shell Quotations for trocas shell obtained in Sydney from two different sources were: Green Snail Shell Good quality green snail shell was quoted in Sydney in mid-March at £26/10/- to £2B per ton.

Cotton The London c.i.f. prices of cotton as quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald during the past month were: February 22, 6.89 d., March shipment; March 1,6.85 d. lb., April shipment; March 8,6.86 d, lb., April shipment; March 15, 6.24 d. lb., April shipment.

Rice Rangoon rice, packed in 1001 b. or 2001 b. bags, £l2/10/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

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

Exchange Rates The following exchange quotations, gathered in Sydney, show the rates existing in Sydney on March 19.

FlJl—through bank of n.s.w.

AND BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

Australia on Fiji on basis of £lOO Fiji: Buying £Alll, selling £AII3/10/-.

Fiji-London on basis £lOO London.

Buying. Selling.

Telegraphic transfer .. £FIIO 15 0 £FII2 0 0 On demand £FIIO 12 6 £FIII 17 6

Western Samoa—Through

BANK OF N. 2.

Exchange, Australia, on Western Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa —selling £AIOO/-/-, buying £AIOO/10/-.

Exchange, Samoa on London, basis £lOO in London:— DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER.

SELLING RATES.

Quoted by

Bank Of New South Wales

in Australia.

Australia on Papeete.

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 March 18, when the Australian £ was nominally worth 57.15 francs, £lOO Australian would purchase a credit in Noumea of 5,715 francs.

NEW GUINEA AND PAPUA-

Through Commonwealth

BANK.

From Australia, Pt. Moresby, £1 per cent., on Rabaul 10/- per cent—other N. Guinea districts £1 per cent.

From Rabaul on London, same as Australia on London: — Buying T.T. £AI2S equals £stg. 100.

Selling T.T. £AI2S/10/- equals £stg, 100.

THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

Australia, on Papua, £1 per cent, premium each way, equivalent to commission of £1 per cent.; Australia, on Rabaul, 10/- per cent, premium.

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

N.G. Public Service IN the New Guinea Administration’s Bulletin No. 35 were gazetted the following transfers and appointments affecting the staff of the N.G. Public Service: Appointments P. M. Doyle, Clerk, Government Secretary’s Department. , N. E. Weldon, Assistant Surveyor, Lands Department.

H. A. Gregory, Acting District Officer.

W. E. Sansom, Acting Assistant District Officer.

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

A. A. Roberts, Acting Assistant District Officer.

Transfers M. J. P. A. Pitt, Patrol Officer, Rabaul to Salamaua.

G. Greathead, Cadet, Rabaul to Salamaua.

J. R. Rigby, Patrol Officer, Namatanai to Rabaul (en route Kieta).

H. E. Woodman, A.D.0., Kavieng to Rabaul.

C. K. Norris, Clerk, Rabaul to Salamaua (en route Wau).

A .K. Walker, Clerk, Wau to Rabaul.

W. Upton, Medical Assistant, Rabaul to Salamaua (en route Wau).

J. H. L. McGuigan, Medical Assistant, Wau to Rabaul. „ , , , I. Clark, Medical Assistant, Rabaul to Madang.

H. J. Badger, Chainman, Rabaul to Salamaua (en route Wau).

Temporary Staff

E. F. Kerr appointed Typiste, District Services Department.

G. E. Ballam appointed Surveyor, Wau.

Police Force Transfers

H. J. Stevenson, Warrant Officer, Rabaul t« Salamaua (en route Edie Creek).

A. L Jones, Warrant Officer, Rabaul to Kokopo.

W. H. Bedser, Warrant Officer, Kokopo to Rabaul (en route Kavieng). .

A. R. Haviland, Warrant Officer, Kavieng to Rabaul. 70 March 21, 1935

The Pacific Islands Monthly

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Long—made extra long in sleeves specially to fit men with very long arms.

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Island Traders apply for Price Lists and Agency Terms NORRIS iah uii\ “MVICATOB” 4-Cycle, 11/18 h.p. - MARINE IM.IM. & “Navigator” Paraffin Engine has been produced for the benefit of those desiring a Marine Unit both efficient in design and of outstanding economy as regards initial and subsequent running cost. This Engine has undergone the most thorough testing for marine requirements, and brings to the many tasks for which it is suited all that sturdiness of construction and reliability of performance associated with Morris manufacture. £ A 4-cylinder developing 11 h.p. at 1,000 r.p.m. and 18 h.o. at 2,000 r.p.m. The vaporiser is noticeably simple and efficient, there being no moving parts.

Dual action carburettor is fitted, the change-over to paraffin being by two-way cock. Essentially an economy engine, quiet and smooth in running and capable of sustained hard work. Suitable for powering fishing vessels, passenger-carrying boats, or as an auxiliary in seagoing yachts.

Do Not Confuse

nil'll CAR CONVERSIONS L. HALVORSEN, Boat Builder & Designer, Neutral Bay, Sydney

To Seek Oil

AGAIN? £500,000 Co. in Papua From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Feb. 2. * A N important new’ registration under the N.S. Wales Companies Act is that of Oil Search Ltd., with a capital of £500,000. Directors. —Chairman: W. A.

Freeman; W. D. Whatron, A. J. Gibson, John Mac Kay, H. G. Foxall, S. N. Mclean and E. L. Walter. The registered office is at Port Moresby, Papua. Agent in N.S.W.: Neil Walter, 350 George St., Sydney.

It is supposed that this Co. is connected in some way with the Oriomo Oil Company, W’hich was operating in the Western Division (north-west of the Fly, on the mainland of Papua, opposite Daru) up to 1928/29, under Mr. S. N. McLean.

Mr. McLean has now gone through to New Guinea to report on the work of geologists there. After having tested New Guinea, the company will send experts to Papua. The survey w’orks are being done thoroughly, and the company hopes to find oil in both territories.

The Oriomo Oil Co. was visited by Dr.

Richardson (principal geologist to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd.) in March, 1928. His report was unfavourable. In October, 1927, Oriomo had four bores which w r ere then being drilled.

Up to 1927/28 there were five oil companies operating in Papua, namely: New Guinea Oil Company Ltd. (Gulf Division); "VJogel (Papua) Petroleum Coy., Ltd. (N.E. Division): Oriomo Ltd. (Western Division): Papuan Petroleum Co.

Ltd. (Gulf Division); Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. (Popo Area).

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company ceased boring operations in Papua in October, 1929, and the only company working in 1930 was the Cape Vogel Co. By 1931 the search for petroleum in Papua was abandoned.

The cessation of boring for oil at Popo by the Commonwealth Government (with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company) was it was said, because the Commonwealth Government preferred not to continue such a costly undertaking and not because there was no prospect of oil in the Territory.

An extract from the annual report, 1930-31, compiled by the Administratm*, Sir J, H. P. Murray: “The search for petroleum has been abandoned, but I am loathe to believe that it does not exist in payable quantities somewhere in the Gulf or in the Western Division; and I can appeal in support of my own extremely ill-informed opinion to an article by Sir Edward David on the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey in the Journal of 71

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Explanation of Recent Ordinance From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Feb. 20.

IN the January number of the P.I.M. a paragraph dealt with a recent proclamation, by which 29,000 square miles of the Territory are specially reserved for a large British concern. Recent letters from Port Moresby, it was stated, . indicated that there was a good deal of strong feeling against the Ordinance, and in consideration of this feeling, the following information may be of interest.

The Mining (Facilities for Development) Ordinance, 1934, was passed in order to facilitate prospecting- on a large scale and in remote parts of the country.

It was based upon similar legislation passed by a Labour Government in Western Australia; and there is also similar legislation in Queensland.

It has nothing to do with Oil.

The area reserved is still open to prospecting as before, but the Company has the right of first refusal over mining tenements acquired after the grant of the reserve; and no lease or tenement will be granted except upon conditions that the applicant gives the grantee of the reserve the first right of purchase “on terms not more onerous than those which he would be prepared to offer it to others.”

Mining tenements already existing are not affected at all.

Such an opportunity of testing this remote part of the country by a company with ample capital was not to be refused, and it would have been madness not to have accepted it.

The Bill was explained and discussed in the Legislative Council. The following is from Legislative Council Debates Meeting No. 2, July, 1934.

“The Bill is introduced for the greater encouragemen of prospecting and mining for the ultimate good of the Territory. The physical features of the country make the efforts of individuals for the most part unproductive. The Territory can the more readily, and the more successfully, be prospected for its mineral wealth, by companies with ample capital than by individuals who mostly have no capital at all, and cannot command capital for development, even if successful in prospecting.

Companies are known to exist, ready and willing to spend money in the search for gold and other minerals in the Territory. It seems only proper that some benefits should be bestowed upon them in return for the money they spend in the risky business of prospecting; “By the provisions of this Bill, areas may be reserved in which the grantee Company has right of first refusal over mining tenements acquired after the grant of the reserve. The rights of original mining tenants, whether tenants before or after the creation of the reserve, are not disturbed. The Bill is destined, too, to assist the individual prospector to find a ready market for his mining tenement should he wish to dispose of it.”

It is reported that Mr. Ward Williams, the well known mining engineer, will accompany members of the Oroville Company up the Fly River to Palmer Junction, where a base camp will be made from which prospecting parties will work eastwards.

Aftermath Of Royal

VISIT From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 2.

BOTH visitors and visited appear to have enjoyed themselves thoroughly during the recent visit to Suva of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester and H.M.A.S.

Australia. It is known that Prince Henry expressed himself in no uncertain terms; it was probably the restriction of official functions to the bare minimum, coupled with the informality and the outdoor life that appealed to H.R.H. particularly.

Apart from that, much credit is due to the Governor and his officials for the very able staff work which resulted in a programme that ran without a hitch. But, crowning everything, was the glorious weather, bright sunshine and not unduly hot, which was not at all true to the usual February sample, THE AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

The Australian Navy deserves a sincere compliment upon the excellent impression created by the officers and men of H.M.A.S. Australia. Suva folk see the personnel of the Royal Navy, the United States Navy, the Japanese Navy, etc., at various times at close quarters, and are by now shrewd critics. On all sides opinion as to the Australians’ splendid behaviour and personal courtesy was unanimous and perhaps in the future we may hope to see other of H.M.’s Australian ships in Suva.

Rev. H. J. E. Short, of Hula, Papua, arrived in Sydney from Port Moresby by the Van Rees on two months’ furlough on March 19. He is the secretary of the London Missionary Society in Papua. 72 March 21, 1933

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■p ijMsf 1 & m m * " ~> n ■ - * .... : Centre —One of the Bulolo Dredges under construction in Central New Guinea—three aeroplanes operated by Guinea Airways Ltd. discharging cargo.

Top right—Dairy cattle being loaded into a Guinea Airways plane for transport to the Goldfields.

Lower left —Interior of one of Guinea Airways car go-carrying aeroplanes.

SAFETY . . . SPEED . . . COMFORT . . . DEPENDABILITY years ago, Central New Guinea was almost unexplored, and practically inaccessible.

To-day, although there are no roads through the dense jungles and precipitous mountains, the Morobe Goldfield, in Central New Guinea, is the seat of a flourishing industry. There are half a dozen growing townships, four huge, modern dredges, two hydro-electric stations, crushing-mills, saw-mills, etc. . . Aerial transport alone made this possible.

Aeroplanes, flying in all weathers on regular timetables, connecting the coastal towns of Lae, Salamaua and Port Moresby with over thirty inland aerodromes and landing-grounds, have carried in thousands of tons of engineering equipment, a large European population, thousands of native labourers, foodstuffs, livestock, mails ,etc.

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A visit to Central New Guinea, in one of Guinea Airways speedy and comfortable air-liners, is a unique and delightful experience.

Travellers may leave the steamer at Port Moresby, fly across to Morohe (time of journey, 1 hour 45 minutes) and spend nine 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 Goldfields, and fly to Port Moresby to rejoin the steamer. All information from Pursers on the steamers.

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