Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. VI, No. 12 ( Jul. 21, 1936)
1936-07-21 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly Vol. VI.—No. 12 ♦I ii I y 31, I »:*« k[Meff\st\ed at the G.P.0.. Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper.] 6 d

A Bowman Of The

Goaribari, Papua

—Photo: A. and K. Gibson

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Pacific Islands Travellers

Passengers Per Montoro Which

Departed From Sydney For Papua

AND NEW GUINEA ON JUNE 17:—Messrs.; Ahearn, Brown, Branney, Bailey, Bell, Barnett, Costa, Casbolt (2), Cox, Cox, Doile, Esson, England, Gibbons, Grant (2), Garvie, Grills, Higgins, Hewitt, Hoeltker, Innes, Irwin, Johnson, Jackson, Kirschbaum, Lukin, Leggatt, Larking, Me- Lauchlan, Mitchell, McKibbin, Marane, Owen- Turner, Ord, Prudence, Packer, Robinson, Rossiter, Reynish, Symes, Serafimi, Sherrill, Stanley, Sinclair, Tompsitt, Vagg, Webb, Walsh, Ward, Windeyer, White, Yard, Yeomans. Mesdames: Blanche, Bawden, Chester, Casbolt, Chadderton, Esson, Garvie, Grills, Grant, Harris, Hawes, Hart, Lumley, Larking, Packer, Rosser, Robinson, Stephens. Vagg, Webb, White. Misses: Daish, Gannon, Knopp, Munro, McGahan, Rossen, Tonkin, White. #

Passengers Per Malaita Which

Arrived In Sydney From Solomon

ISLANDS AND N.G. PORTS ON JUNE 18: Messrs.: Brown, Blake, Cropp, Crook, Davis, de Redder, Dwyer, Emmerson, Hodges, Kryschanoffsky, Layton, Monck, McQuinn, May, O’May, Russell, Warner, Short, Terrey, Wallace. Mesdames: Blake. Cowan, Cropp, Davis, Dwyer, Monk, Maw, MacLaughlin, Smith, Wride. Misses: Burgess, Davis, Devir, de Redder, Facer, Fitzgerald, Knight, O’May, Sterling, Sister Gwen.

Passengers Per Aorangi, Which

SAILED FROM SYDNEY FOR SUVA, FIJI, ON JUNE 18: Mrs. A. Leggart, Mr. and Mrs.

G. Robins, Mr. and Mrs. R. Dundas Smith, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Sullivan, G. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Allard, Miss R. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Rutter, Miss H. M. Dale, Miss M. L. Cole, E.

Durham, Miss R. West, Miss W. A. Close, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Davis, J. N. Hewitt, T. F. Harricks, Mr. and Mrs. A. Robinson, Mrs. F. Ellerton. Miss Ann Ellerton, E. Kenyon, Mr. and Mrs.

S. Abrahams, A. C. Rendell, Mr. and Mrs. S. A.

Lee, Miss M. Donald, H. J. Manns, M. Connelly, R. C. Kenkham, Capt. and Mrs. L. A, Williams, Rev. Father Destable, Mrs. R. Bottle, Capt. O.

Anderson.

Passengers Per Mariposa. Which

Sailed From Sydney For Suva. Fiji, On

JUNE 24: E. Admans, E. Atkinson, Miss M.

Carter, P. Cody, J. E. Crombie, E. H. Davies, Miss M. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. B. Foster, Mrs.

E. Godden, Miss Godden, G. Greensill, Miss J.

Greensill, Mr. and Mrs. J. Groman, Miss J. Henderson, Mrs. B. Herring, Mrs. D. R. Hicks, Dr.

Loftus Hills, F. C. T. Lord, W. A. Mayne, G.

O’Callaghan, G. F. O’Connor, Miss E. O’Connor, Miss M. O’Connor. Mr. and Mrs. E. Smail, W. 11.

Smith, Mr, and Mrs. G. A. Waterhouse, T. R.

Victor, Miss K. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. W. G.

Booth, C. A. Burness, A. Hawkins, Mrs. D. Hicks, Mrs. A. Johnson, Master A. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. Ruge, Miss L. Steinmetz, G. A. Thomas.

Passengers Per Morinda Which

SAILED FROM SYDNEY FOR NEW HEB-

Rides, Lord Howe Is., And Norfolk

IS. ON JUNE 25: —Messrs.: Andrews, Baddeley, Bennett (2), Carey, Chisholm, Evenett, Egar, Fletcher, Jay, Kitching, Lucas, Lee, Martin, Morris, Oppy, Sandiland. Mesdames; Andrews, Baddeley, Bennett (2), Evenett, Jewell, Lee (2), McFarlane, McDermott, Winter. Misses: Bearup (2), Boyes, Clarke, Cerutty, Collins, Dunne, Dobbin, Hawkes, Mahoney, Studman, Shepherd, Wilkinson.

Passengers Per Malaita Which

Sailed From Sydney For Solomon

ISLANDS AND N.G. PORTS ON JUNE 27: Messrs.: Blucher, Blyth, Binskin, Dick, Davidson, Donald, Finger, Garrett, Green, Grant, Lavis, Jarman, Machin, Mutch, Osborne, Patrick, Penman, Stokes, Thompson (2), Telleson, Vinnicombe, Warren, Watson. Mesdames: Blyth, Edwards, Ferguson. Foster, Green (2), Gardener, Hattersley, Hicks, Osborne, Scheps, Stock, Warren.

Misses: Bone, Burrows, Caldwell, Dagnall, Devir, Fernande, Fitzgerald, Hattersley, Hensel, Kerr, O’Leary, Patrick, Studders, Stretton, Weimer, Warren (2).

PASSENGERS PER MACDHUI. WHICH AR-

Rived In Sydney From Papua And New

GUINEA ON JULY 2:—Messrs. Austin, Baskett, Bayliss, Bald, Bellett, Barrell, Blau, Buchhauser, Brown, Cameron, Carey, Cawley, Chater, Clark.

Clarke, Cruickshank, Flowers, Flynn, Garry, Gerber, Goodman. Green, Hailes, Harvey, Harrington, Hinks, Hilyard, Hughes, Huson, Jackson, Kendall, Kennedy, Kyle, Leal, Lees, Malcolm, Monck, Montgomery, Mount, Nelson (2), Owen, O’Dea, Shennan, Smith Smeaton, Waltin. Mesdames Austin, Bald, Cawley, Clarke, Goodman, Green, Jones, Laws, Leal, Lockart, Nelson, Phillpott, Shennan, Tait, Taylor. Misses Blestowe, Dawes, Howell, Holmes, Jackson, Nicholson, Robertson, Passengers per macdhui, which

Sailed From Sydney For Papua And

NEW GUINEA ON JULY B:— Messrs. Allen, Brennan, Board, Binns, Blackley, Bradford, Burke, Bedford, Bonney, Bushby, Brown (2), Challis,Chadderton, Cox, Cameron, Cobb, Deland, Day, Ferguson, Gander, Green, Gullidge, Hartley, Hellenthal, Hamilton Harle, Huie, Henry, Hippesley, Ifould, Korn, Lark, Laurence, Lucas, Lander, Middleton, Martin, Mason, Millar, Moore, Mc- Donnell, McLennan, McMullen, Oakley, Petri, Pearce, Ross, Rawnsley, Rossiter, Turner, Simson, Spence, Smith, Skinner, Stevenson, Stratford, Thomas, Tomkinson, Vine, Webberley. Mesdames Brown (2), Challis, Chadderton, Champion (2), Lumley, Deland, Gander, Green, Hartley, Horsay, Laurence, Mason, Marshall, McDonnell, McLennan, Nicholson, Parkridge? Ross, Rawnsley, Russell, Rountree, Spinks, Smith, Scott, Tomkinson, Walsh, Watt. Misses Garvey, Ifould, Laurence, Locks, Loebel, Mason, Stevenson.

Passengers Per Monterey, Which

Arrived In Sydney From Suva. Fiji, On

JULY 13: C. Admans, A. Bitcon, Miss M. Carter, P. Cody, J. Crombie, Miss A. B. Curry, E. A.

Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Dunlop, Dr. and Mrs.

B. Foster, J. G. Grant, Miss F. Grant, G. Greensill, Miss J. Greensill, Mrs. J. Gorman, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hallam-Roberts, Master Richard Hallam- Roberts, Mrs. B. Herring, E. Kenyon, J. H. Leask, J. P. Mayne, Misses F., M. and E. O’Connor, Miss H. Sage, Mr. and Mrs. E. Smail, W. H. Smith, T. R. Victor, Dr. and Mrs. G. Waterhouse, Miss K. Woodward, E. Atkinson, M. Grimes. Dr. F.

K. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lawson, B. H.

McMahon, S. E. Radford, N. Smolin, Mrs. B.

Whitwell, A. Yoos.

American Tax On Oils

AND FATS THE United States House of Representatives and the Senate at the end of June agreed to an import tax of three cents a pound on coconut oil and palm oil, and on taxes varying from two cents to four and a half cents a pound on whale oil and tallow.

This measure, which will probably become operative in August, is part of a gigantic revenue bill to raise 1,000,000,000 dollars.

Australian tallow exporters will be hard hit, as an impost of £l6/10/- per ton would kill the trade with America, which is valued at £330,000 a year.

Mrs. E. C. Harris, wife of the Treasurer of Papua, returned to Port Moresby by the Montoro from Sydney on June 17. 1 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Subsidise Transport—or Lose the Islands Territories!

'J'HERE can be no real success in the administration and development of the Pacific Territories unless transport facilities are abundant and economical. That is true of most countries; but, in the peculiar conditions of the Pacific Islands, it is the fact that must be taken first into consideration in all plans for the future. There is nothing in the world like the Pacific Islands—an uncountable number of small areas of land, rich and for the most part incalculably productive, supporting very many small, isolated communities.

It may be argued that there is no need to “develop” these territories— that the real obligation upon the countries which hold them is to protect the natives against exploiters and criminals, and maintain an orderly social system. That may have been true, once; but to-day, with armed and aggressive nations increasingly seeking new lands for their crowded millions, any territory which is capable of providing a home for additional people, and which is not being used, is regarded as a reproach and a temptation.

There is room in the tropical and sub-tropical islands for very many more people than live there now. If they are not developed and populated by the nations which hold them, it is inevitable that they will be taken, sooner or later, by other nations whose paramount need is more land.

Transport is the key to the future of the Islands. Their productivity is such that cheap communication soon will bring new settlement. The provision of adequate transport is the responsibility of the countries which hold the Islands Territories, and which desire to see the status quo maintained in the Pacific.

British Imperial interests —and especially Australia —cannot contemplate any change in the control of that fringe of Western Pacific Islands (New Guinea, Papua, Solomons, New Hebrides) which now interpose a defensive barrier between Australia and overcrowded Asia. But, except for the establishment of the gold industry in New Guinea, there has been very little commercial progress in those groups during the past two decades. France has shown, in carrying on her share of the New Hebrides administration, a vigorous readiness to use the resources of the Mother Country in establishing her nationals in the group; but Britain and Australia have been quite careless of their obligations and indifferent towards certain obvious possibilities. Those island groups must be populated and developed; there can be no new population worth considering without commercial progress; commercial progress necessarily waits upon frequent, cheap transport; and the present responsibility for providing transport rests not upon commercial 3 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

interests, but directly upon those British and Dominions Governments which wish to keep the present position unchanged in the Pacific.

The tendency, in the past, has been to leave the provision of transport to those trading enterprises which hope to derive profits from the commercial development of the Islands Territories. That may have been sound, in the past; but, in the present condition of world affairs, it is a policy of sheer, inexcusable folly. If the British nations which now hold the Pacific Islands territories do not develop and populate and strengthen those territories, they will lose them; and, in losing them, they will bring to their front doors a menace that is now some thousands of miles away. To-day, Sydney and Brisbane and Auckland are fairly well protected, by isolation, against attacks by bombing and gas-poisoning aeroplanes; but those cities might easily be wiped out by air forces based on the nearer Pacific Islands.

Since they dare not wait for the slow development that is based on ordinary commercial penetration, the British and Dominions Governments, as a matter of defence policy, should face the position, and hasten development by providing transport, even if the cost of same has to be charged to defence expenditure.

Among the Pacific Territories today, there are several situations which should be brought into line with a transport and developmental policy based on Imperial defence requirements. It is reported, for example, that the Commonwealth Government is trying to reduce, in the new contract or contracts to be made shortly, the amount of the subsidy (paid for many years past to Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd.) for maintaining transport services between Australian and Islands ports. Some politicians have argued that, as the gold industry has been established in New Guinea, the B.P. ships may now be run profitably on the ordinary traffic. Such a policy, in view of the international situation, is short-sighted to the point of lunacy. The subsidy, instead of being reduced, should rather be increased, on condition, of course, that cheaper and still cheaper transport be provided for all those Western Pacific Islands whose rapid development and population are vital to the safety of Australia.

Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co.

Ltd. recently established, unaided, a line of motor-vessels between the Western Pacific Islands and Europe, to help in the quick and profitable marketing of Islands produce. Australia should subsidise that line—not for any love of Carpenter and Co., but as part of the vital business of protecting and defending her Pacific Territories.

There have been arguments and squabbling over a shipping reorganisation and a proposed readjustment of aviation transport conditions in New Guinea. In all these things, the essential point has been neglected— namely, that it is quite in accord with a sound defence policy to give special concessions, and even a direct subsidy, to all British Pacific transportation provided that no dangerous monopolies are created, and that the companies concerned give guarantee that they will provide the Islands people with cheaper and yet cheaper transport, so that settlement of good racial stock in the Islands may proceed as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

For instance, the New Guinea gold industry, which probably will be worked out in a decade or two, and which has established there a large European population and highly efficient aviation transport services, gives Australia almost a providential opportunity. If the goldfields revenues are used, with wisdom and vision, to subsidise the transport services, to give cheap and easy communication, a large European population can be settled permanently in New Guinea.

This line of argument may cause surprise in some quarters. If it does, it simply means that the surprised ones do not recognise the menace of the East. They should read a Tokio press despatch, published on June 15, describing Japan’s plans for the settlement of her nationals in Formosa and in her Mandated Islands.

This transport problem crops up in many places; and everywhere it is treated as if it were not a matter of vital importance to the Pacific portion of the British Empire. It would seem that our politicians, after futile babbling in Canberra, Wellington and London, are going to permit the abandonment of certain of the British trans-Pacific services, for lack of an adequate subsidy. The withdrawal of the Wellington-’Erisco line would not have much significance, as the only British Islands territory affected would be the Cooks; but any interference with the Auckland-Vancouver Line would be a shipping calamity of the first magnitude. In the present condition of world trade and world politics, the Union Company should be liberally subsidised, within reason, and encouraged to provide cheap transport between the Central and Eastern Pacific groups and the bigger markets.

New Zealand, for instance, could absorb an immensely greater quantity of the produce of the Cook Islands and Samoa. But those Islands growers cannot profitably get to the Dominion’s markets. There is little cold storage available on the infrequent ships running between the Cooks and New Zealand; while there is only one little Governmentowned vessel maintaining communication between Samoa and New Zealand. Samoa, under German rule, was a place of importance in the Central Pacific, and was served by lines of good ships; to-day, it is one of the most isolated and depressed places in the Pacific. No regular liners call there—presumably, because the N.Z. Government insists on competing in the shipping business. This short-sighted policy has deprived Samoa of transport and put a blight upon a place that is capable of supporting a much larger population of Empire-defenders.

It may be true that “trade (and settlement) follows the flag”; but there have been tremendous, and dangerous, changes in international relationships since that happy phrase was coined. If the British people do not use the Islands they will lose them. Cheaper and better transport will solve the problem, and that means subsidies, charged to defence. •

Castaway On Island In

Society Group

THE steamer, Port Darwin, which arrived in Brisbane from New York on July 8, passed a man who appeared to be a castaway on an island of the Society Group.

Captain Hudson said that he was surprised to see smoke coming from the island, which was thought to be uninhabited. Through his glasses, as the ship drew nearer, he' saw a man waving his arms and piling brushwood on a fire to create more smoke. \ The weather was too unfavourable to lower a boat or to take the ship closer to the island, so a wireless message was sent to the Governor of Tahiti, 300 miles away.

The message was acknowledged. 4 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

Showered With

PROTESTS Minister on Tour in Papua and New Guinea IN his official capacity as Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs, Colonel T. W. White made a tour of Australia’s territories in the north during June and July. He was accompanied by his wife and child, and Mrs. F.

M. Grant (private secretary).

In the middle of June, the Minister inquired into the pearling industry at Thursday Island. He went out in a lugger and descended in diving dress, a Japanese diver accompanying him below to show the method of gathering pearl shell. Before leaving for Cairns to join the Montoro for Papua and New Guinea, Mr. White said he was convinced that foreign poachers were carrying out unlawful depredations in Torres Straits waters. He promised to station a large patrol launch at T.I.

Papua Wants Permanent

Rubber Bounty

In Papua, Colonel White met representatives of the Planters’ Association, who acquainted him with their case for a permanent rubber bounty.

At Rabaul on July 1 he received deputations from the Returned Soldiers’ Association and the Planters’ Association. They protested against the introduction of the Shipping Bill and against the proposed amendments to the trading regulations, abolishing the two mile protective limit.

The Minister was told that assistance had been requested from the Federal Government for the erection of a war memorial clock tower. He replied that it was not the practice of the Government to subscribe to war memorials. Other issues discussed included the renewal of bounties on N.G. produce exported to Australia.

With Administrator To

OUTPORTS Accompanied by the Administrator (Brigadier-General W. Ramsay McNicoll) and Mr. J. C. Mullaly (president of the Planters’ Association), Colonel White departed the same evening for the outports.

At Kavieng he heard further representations from planters.

Disembarking from the Montoro at Salamaua on July 4, he flew to Wau where the Citizens’ Committee entered a protest against the proposed merger of aviation interests. After inspecting the Bulolo dredges and N.G.G. Ltd’s Edie Creek workings, the Minister flew to Ramu and the Chimbu Valley country.

Returning, he spent some time at Lae and afterwards proceeded in a Guinea Airways’ machine to Finschafen, the Lutheran Mission’s headquarters. Mr. White, whose distinguished war record as an aviator is well-known, piloted G.A.’s new Stinson most of the distance.

Rejoining the B.P. ship, he called at Madang. By launch he then visited Alexishafen (headquarters of the Roman Catholic Mission) to see New Guinea’s largest cathedral and inspect the busy mission centre. Continuing on by the Montoro, he touched at several other ports before returning to Rabaul, from whence he proceeded to Salamaua for a further inspection of the goldfields area.

Mr. White than flew across from Wau to Pt. Moresby, where he was the guest of Messrs. T. L. Sefton and T. Nevitt at Koitaki Para Rubber Estates’ plantation.

In the middle of July he joined the Montoro for Australia.

N.Z. DELEGATION Investigating Cook Is. Fruit Trade AUCKLAND, July 9.

THE three members of the N.Z. House of Representatives appointed by the Government to investigate the Cook Is. £ rui l indus ‘ ry ’ left Wei mgton ™ Jdly , 6 by the Makura for Rarotonga, the deputation comprised Messrs. J Robertson and R *. Hunter (Labour), and S. G. Holland (National) and was accompanied by Mr.

S. J. Smith, of the Cook Is. Department.

The party will return to New Zealand on August 14 by the Union Company s new steamer Matua and will report to the Industnes and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives.

Jack Hides to Lead New Expedition MR. JACK HIDES, Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Papuan Administration, who won distinction last year for his hazardous patrol into unknown Central Papua, has resigned from the service. He will shortly lead a party into the Strickland-Purari country in search of gold.

On his recent exploratory trip, Mr, Hides discovered country bearing a remarkable resemblance to the rich Morobe goldfield in New Guinea. A Sydney syndicate, Investors Ltd., has been formed to send a party under Mr. Hides to examine closely this possible great new goldfield.

The expedition will clear a landingground so that a ’plane, piloted by Captain P. G. Taylor, can land at the site, A foremost Australian mining expert will then thoroughly test the area.

Consisting of three white men and 60 natives, the expedition will be particularly well-equipped. It will carry a portable radio receiving and transmitting set.

Overturned in Squall Archbold Party’s Seaplane Sinks at Pt. Moresby From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, July 13.

THE Fairchild amphibian belonging - to the American Museum of Natural History expedition overturned and sank in a sharp 60 m.p.h. squall in Pt. Moresby Harbour on July 9. The seaplane, which with equipment was valued at £20,000, was completely ruined.

The machine came in from Daru on July 8 for supplies. Before daylight the following morning the pilot, Mr. Russell Rogers, and the radio operator, Mr. E. C. Julestedt, went down to fly the seaplane out to meet the tourist liner Orama. They found the machine upside down in the water, and almost submerged.

With the assistance of the captain of the Orama, and after a great deal of labour, she was towed to the ship, but, when they were endeavouring to lift her aboard, a wing broke and she went down again.

When brought up she was towed back to the landing buoy.

Arrangements are being made for a Guinea Airways’ ’plane to take supplies to the base camp 400 miles up the Fly River and to the advance party at Mount Blucher. A launch has been chartered to transport three months’ supplies to the camp, established by the Oroville Co.’s expedition last year, which is now occupied by the Archbold party.

Led by Dr. Richard Archbold, a noted American airman and scientist, the expedition arrived in the Territory in March to spend several months exploring the Upper Fly River in Western Papua, Rev. C. F. Andrews, noted religious writer and lecturer, arrived in Sydney by the Niagara on July 11, after a visit to Fiji to inquire into Indian conditions.

Nauruan Catches Giant Marlin

Putting to shame the famous anglers who use tackle worth hundreds of pounds, the Nauru native on the left of the photograph caught singlehanded this giant marlin, with a couple of shillings’ worth of “trade” fishing line. The Nauruan was paddling in his frail canoe when he hooked and played the 10ft. fish. A few days previously a similar big catch was made by the same native. 5 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Chasing Sampan, French Aeroplane

Falls Into Sea

Audacious Japanese Poachers Captured in New Caledonia and the Solomons THERE Have been dramatic events during the month in connection with the activities of Japanese shell-poachers in the Western Pacific.

An aeroplane, despatched by the Governor of New Caledonia to apprehend raiders, fell into the sea near the sampan it was pursuing. Rescuing the two aviators, the Japanese took them to Hienghene, where the vessel was arrested, and a quantity of shell seized.

A fortnight later another sampan was chased in New Caledonia by a motor ketch and, finally, captured.

On July 19, gendarmes in a fast launch caught a third poacher at Pouerihouen.

At Gizo, in the British Solomon Islands, 17 poachers caught while fishing on a reef were gaoled. After an exciting chase, the boat from which they were working was overtaken. The captain and his crew were subsequently fined £lO.

ON June 20 reports reached Noumea that foreign sampans were fishing for trochus shell at Touho and Pouebo. M.

Siadoux (Governor of the French Colony) asked the local Aero Club to send out their 'plane “Cagou” to investigate and compel the raiders to go to Noumea. Piloted by M. Beaumont with M. Martinet (president of the Aero Club) as observer, the machine flew along the east coast, armed with handgrenades and a Hock howitzer.

A poacher was sighted near the reefs off Cape Touho. three miles from the land.

The aviators dropped a message ordering the captain to go to the nearest port, and threatened to sink his ship with bombs if he disobeyed.

The sampan began to obey; but suddenly the aeroplane fell into the sea, the controls becoming jammed by a bomb. One of the aviators was injured and fainted.

The other hoisted him on one of the wings.

The sampan then tried to escape, but, in response to the desperate signals of the aviators, returned, and rescued them. The poachers consented to take the men to port. but only on condition that they themselves would be set at liberty.

M. Martinet had a rib broken and was unconscious for three hours. His companion was slightly injured in the head.

The aeroplane sank and was a total loss.

The poachers took the injured men into Hienghene. There they were met by a launch carrying the local gendarmes who arrested the crew of 30 Japanese. The authorities seized the large sampan with its cargo of 30 tons of trochus shell.

After a few days’ detention the Japanese were released, as promised by the aviators.

In the belief that the trochus shell had been obtained unlawfully, the French officials kept half the cargo.

“Caledonien” Catches A Poacher

Early in July the motor ketch Caledonien came upon a Japanese vessel gathering trochus off Yate. near Noumea. After a 90 minutes’ chase, the French yacht caught the sampan.

Six natives, armed with tomahawks and spears, were put on board, and the vessel was taken to the nearest landing place.

It was finally towed to Noumea, where it was detained by the Customs authorities.

The vessel was of 30 tons, and had a 50 h.p. motor and a crew of 22 Japanese.

Seventy up-to-date charts of various Pacific Islands were found on board.

Third Sampan Captured

While poaching off the coast of New Caledonia, a third Japanese vessel was captured on July 19. Gendarmes and some settlers and natives set out from the town of Pouerihouen in a speedy launch and overtook the sampan as she was making off from the reefs. Six tons of trochus were seized.

The ship was of 80 tons, had a 100-h.p. motor, and carried a crew of 30 Japanese.

Many other similar vessels have been sighted off the New Caledonian coast and it has been learned that they are receiving supplies from a fast steamer of 800 tons.

Japanese Gaoled At Gizo

Great excitement was caused at Gizo, in the Solomon Islands, on June 6 by the appearance of a Japanese poacher in Ferguson Channel, between Wana Wana Lagoon and Gizo. Two small boats containing 17 men put off and began fishing on the reef.

District Officer C. E. J. Wilson and two officials, in the Government launch Gizo, started off in pursuit of the sampan. The vessel soon out-distanced them, so they returned and eventually captured the men in the dinghies. The poachers were unable to speak English, so they were taken to port, where a domiciled Japanese trader acted as interpreter.

The Japanese were charged and then imprisoned in the hospital. The local gaol was not big enough to accommodate 17 men.

Next morning the sampan was sighted some miles distant, evidently searching for the dinghies and divers. The District Officer again set out in pursuit, and a long chase followed. The sampan possessed the greater speed, and was slowly gaining ground when suddenly it altered course and slowed down, breaking the Japanese ensign.

The captain, it was learned, had decided that the better policy was to face an inquiry rather than lose the services of most of his crew. After much gesticulating and signs, the order to proceed into port in the wake of the Government launch was understood. The captain and his two companions were imprisoned with the other Japanese.

In court the following day, the master of the sampan stated that he had been a month out from Formosa and required food and water. He had dropped the dinghies on the reef to look for shell while he went ashore at Kolombangara Island for supplies.

He was charged under the Solomon Islands Fisheries Regulations, and fined the maximum of £lO. He was ordered to report to the Administration headquarters at Tulagi.

Great dissatisfaction has been expressed throughout the Solomon Islands at the inadequacy of the law. The Administration has been approached with a request to amend the regulation to provide for a more severe penalty in cases where poachers are caught red-handed.

Large Samoan Church

Opened After 20 Years' Effort From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 26.

ON Friday, June 19 the largest Catholic Church on the east coast of Upolu was consecrated and opened at Falefa with due ceremony by Bishop Darnaud and the clergy of the diocese, in the presence of a very large gathering of Europeans and natives from all parts of the group, estimated at several thousand people. The Acting Administrator was present at the colourful and impressive ceremonies.

Falefa, a Samoan village about 15 miles east of Apia, started a fund for the new church about 20 years ago, and the people patiently continued their pious endeavours until 10 years ago, when they started to build. But it took them another 10 years to complete the project.

The usual Samoan feast was of truly gigantic dimensions. iu included 700 pigs and 400 cattle.

New Guinea Inter-Island Shipping IN the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on July 9, the Federal Government invited tenders for the maintenance of an inter-island shipping service in New Guinea. Tenders close on October 30.

The announcement said that tenderers should state the annual subsidy required, and full particulars of the vessels that would be employed, including information as to the size and speed, accommodation for passengers, cargo capacity and refrigerator space.

Tenderers should state where any vessel proposed to be used in the service was built. 6 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

Royal Funeral

IN TONGA Ancient Ceremonies Performed at Interment of Prince Tuku’aho PRINCE William Tuku’aho, the 16-yearold son of Queen Salote, ruler of the Kingdom of Tonga, and H.R.H. Prince Tugi, died of heart failure recently, and was buried in May at Mala’e Kula, the tomb of the Tongan kings.

It was entirely fitting that the young Prince who, throughout his brief life had made a deep study of Tongan customs and traditions, was interred with the highest ceremonial rites that have been performed for generations at the death of members of the ruling family.

Tuku’aho was well loved by the people, and his death was a sad event for all Tonga. Thousands of natives gathered to pay their respects at the graveside, and there were poignant scenes as the bier, decked with the Tongan Royal Standard, was carried to the burial-ground on the shoulders of commoners, through lanes of boys and girls of the Wesleyan, Catholic, and Government colleges.

The Rev. R. C. G. Page, of the Methodist Mission, officiated at the graveside.

The photographs reproduced below (taken by Mr. August Hettig, of Nukualofa) show the picturesque ceremonies that attended the Royal funeral.

Top Left: The ancient custom of Buibui Tabu. This is the practice of screening the grave with tapa cloth at the moment of burial. The rite is carried out only at the interment of very high chiefs. It is a sacred tabu —the eyes of the commoners must not see the last moment of burial when the coffin is lowered into the grave.

Lower Left: The bier, containing the coffin in the Palace grounds at Nukualofa.

It was carried shoulder high by the common people, tvho are shown resting before the cortege moved off to Mala’e Kula. The uniformed figure in the middle of the picture is Valai Tubou, the Queen’s A.D.C.

Standing next to him is Chief Tuiha’ateiho, Governor of Haapai.

Top Right: The ceremony of Takibo (lighting of fires at night). The grounds of the Palace, where Prince Tuku’aho’s body was lying-in-state for two days, were lit by thousands of lanterns. The ceremony of lighting fires around the Palace walls was performed by hundreds of people.

There is no definite explanation of this rite, but some old natives believe it is done to ward off evil influences.

Lower Right: Chief Kalanivalu, one .of the chief mourners. The photograph shows the style of deep mourning attire of the Tongan chiefs who attended the funeral.

Brother Daheim, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Mission in the Mandated Territory, who came to Sydney in April for medical treatment, died in St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, on May 27. He arrived in New Guinea in 1904 to undergo three years’ training at Vunapope as a carpenter, and then built many mission stations in New Britain and Manus. In 1915 he was given command of the mission vessel Ludwig, and as her kindly and trustworthy captain was well-known throughout the Territory.

For Lau Group

New Vessel Launched SUVA, June 25.

ON June 1, the Seniceva, which has been constructed for the Province of Lau, was launched at the yards of the Public Works Department by Her Excellency Mrs. Juxon Barton, wife of the Acting-Governor.

The launching ceremony was attended by the usual Fijian customs. The people of Lau provided a feast and various gifts of cloth, tapa, etc., for the workmen who constructed the Seniceva, which, to give it a free translation, means “Flower of the Trade Wind.”

After the vessel had run down the slipway, following the breaking of the traditional bottle of wine across the bows, the official guests were taken for a cruise around the harbour. As she approached the shore again, the Fijian crew dived overboard and raced to the beach, in accordance with an old Fijian custom.

The vessel is well suited for her duty of serving as a means of transport for the District Commissioner of the Lau Province between the various islands of his scattered territory.

A feature of the new vessel is her fine figurehead. This was carved by one of the staff of the Public Works Department, and is a female Fijian head, which sets the ship off well, (Other details of the new vessel were published in the May issue of the "Pacific Islands Monthly.”) Mr. G. A. V. Stanley, of Oil Search Limited, was a passenger to Rabaul. New Guinea, by the Montoro from Australia in mid-June. 7 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

Across Rewa River

New Fiji Bridge Under Construction From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 3.

THE bridge over the Rewa River, one of the largest public works ever undertaken in Fjii, is now well advanced in construction, and it should not be long before the old pontoon service across the river is discontinued.

The bridge is a large steel structure, and latterly some difficulty has been experienced in sinking the piles. When work was proceeding on the Davuilevu side of the river, the sinking had to be done in hard sandstone, and there was a solid foundation for the piers when they were sunk.

On the Nausori side of the river there is a soft bed, and in cases it was necessary to go to a great depth before bottom was reached. A few days ago, one cylinder had to be sunk 105 feet below water level, or 123 ft. below the highest flood level. With a few exceptions, notably the Hawkesbury River bridge in Australia, where piers were sunk to a depth of 160 ft., this is a record depth for the Southern Hemisphere.

Much of the trouble in connection with this pier was due to the fact that at a depth of 95ft. granite boulders were encountered. This depth was too great for the men in the air cylinder to work in, as was done for the other piers, so a one and a half ton cutter was employed to break up the obstruction.

Before the pier was finally dropped into position, it weighed over 500 tons, and there was a weight of 90 tons of pig iron superimposed on this. The handling of such a huge mass required ceaseless care, but the task was successfully accomplished, and the pier placed in its correct position.

Britain Agrees to Aid Pacific Shipping With Dominions’ Assistance, Capital and Subsidy Will Be Provided to Meet Matson Competition A FTER protracted negotiations in Lonbetween Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, and British representatives, the British Government plans to aid Pacific shipping by a form of capital assistance in the building of ships and an annual subsidy, in co-operation with the dominions concerned.

In announcing this development on July 15, it was stressed that this action is not in a spirit of antagonism to the United States, but is simply for reasons of selfpreservation.

It is likely that the construction of two 26,000-tons liners with a speed of 22 knots will be undertaken as soon as details of the subsidy are worked out.

These vessels will replace the Aorangi and Niagara on the Australia-N.Z.-Fiji- Vancouver run.

No definite indication has been given of the probable amount of the subsidy, but quotas mentioned in London during the talks on British shipping in the Pacific were: United Kingdom, £90,000; Canada, £80,000; Australia, £50,000; New Zealand,,,. £25,000; and Fiji, £10,000; making a total of £255,000. The Matson Line receives an annual grant of £148,000 from the American Government.

As the Union Co.’s Sydney-N.Z.-Cook Is.-Tahiti-’Frisco service is to be withdrawn at the end of this year, it has been suggested that the two new vessels should call at San Francisco on their return trip from Vancouver to Australia.

To provide passenger and cargo facilities from Australia and New Zealand to Tahiti, the U.S.S. vessels Limerick.

Hauraki, Waiotapu, and Wairuna will make regular calls at Papeete en route to American Pacific coast ports. Passengers and cargo for the Cook Islands will be catered for by the new Islands vessel Matua.

Queen Salote Tubou, D.8.E., of Tonga, who arrived in Australia in June to seek medical advice, has been resting in Sydney during the month. Her Majesty’s health has improved considerably, and it is understood that she will not be compelled to undergo treatment in hospital.

Queen Salote probably will return to Nukualofa in September.

Carpenters’ Sydney—N.G.

Air Service Postponed Federal Government to Call for Tenders 'X'HE inauguration of the air line between -*■ Australia and New Guinea, which had been planned by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd. for the end of June, was postponed when it was learned that the Federal Government would shortly invite tenders for a subsidised service.

The Federal Cabinet, on July 9, approved of tenders being called for a weekly twoway air line between Sydney and the Mandated Territory, carrying mails and passengers. A good landing-ground will be made at Cooktown, and the provision of necessary facilities at other places along the route will be proceeded with immediately.

The ’planes, which may be of either sea or land types, will call at Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cooktown, Horne Island (near Thursday Island), Daru (Western Papua), and Wau.

The Prime Minister’s Department advises that it is too early yet to give an indication when tenders will be published. The terms and conditions will be decided after consultation with the Civil Aviation Board and the Administrations of Papua and New Guinea.

Guinea Airways Or Carpenters?

It is presumed that the only two serious contenders for this service will be Messrs. Guinea Airways Ltd. and Messrs.

W. R. Carpenter and Co, Ltd. Guinea Airways have an excellent ground organisation at Lae and other centres and have recently brought out from America four new, modern ’planes, the largest of which has accommodation for 10 passengers and has a speed of 215 m.p.h. Carpenter and Co. also have good ground equipment in New Guinea and several of their machines, including a new six-passenger Gannet just built in Australia, could be used for the service.

It will be interesting to note which company, if either, gets the contract. It is known that several members of the Commonwealth Government would look with disfavour upon any air link between Australia and New Guinea using foreign ’planes. They are of opinion that this service is a necessary adjunct to Australia’s defence and viewed in that light it would be unwise to subsidise a service that did not operate with Australian or British machines.

Islands Mining Engineer in Air Tragedy C. J. Melrose’s Heston Phoenix ’ ’ monoplane broke into pieces in midair and crashed at South Melton, Victoria, on July 5, the owner and his passenger, Alexander George Campbell, aged 47, who had a distinguished career as a soldier and as an Islands mining engineer, were killed instantly.

Mr. Campbell, who had chartered the machine to fly to Darwin, via Adelaide, was well-known in Fiji and New Guinea, where he had reported on numerous projects. He was a director of Emperor Mines Ltd., Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines N.L., and Developments (New Guinea) N.L. His fine war record won him the D. 5.0., and promotion to the rank of colonel.

A recent photograph showing the progress made in the construction of the bridge across the Rewa River, Fiji. 8 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

How “Granny” Sits On Samoa’S Head

Lack of Transport, Plus Liquor Regulations, Have Made Tourist Traffic Impossible

By R. W. Robson

STOLID, unimaginative, well-intentioned New Zealand sits like a hroad-hottomed grandmother upon the head of gay and temperamental Samoa; and the resulting picture, while very funny, is a tragedy in administration.

Samoa kicks and screams; hut the only effect is that the dear old Presbyterian lady purses her mouth grimly, and settles herself more firmly in her corrective seat.

Samoa must either be good, or be smothered.

'VT OWHERE in the South Seas is there a place more colourful and charming than this island of Upolu. I am looking out, now, over the bay of Apia, and the sheer beauty of it takes away my breath.

And, so far as the Pacific Islands are concerned, I am “hard-boiled”.

Between the blue sea and the dark-blue mountains there is a variety of glowing colours that beggars description—green and sparkling lagoon, white coral beach, feathery palm-trees, picturesque brown native houses, a riot of gorgeous flowers; a clean-skinned, merry, laughing people; languorous scents and a profusion of tropical fruits —a tourists’ paradise.

But when a tourist arrives here, having survived incredible difficulties of transportation, “Granny” either dances on his neck or kicks him in the pants.

For years, people have reached this Islands paradise through a transportation purgatory. The only way to get directly to Samoa is to travel from Wellington by the Maui Pomare, or be sworn in at Auckland or Suva as second assistant cabinboy on an occasional freighter. The other way is to go by Matson liner to Pago; and then spend twelve seasick, sunburned hours on a tiny launch, between Pago and Apia.

As for the Maui Pomare, she is about 1,100 tons, and can carry 22 passengers (with the aid of a shoe-horn and the ingenuity of a sardine-packer); and she is staffed by the cheeriest officers and most attentive stewards in the South Seas. But old Father Neptune was annoyed at the moment of her launching; and, ever since then, whenever she puts to sea, he produces the dirtiest weather in his repertoire. j n th e cabin next to mine there was a W oman tourist. I knew she was there because of the sounds of resigned regurgitation which reached me from the time the Pomare left Wellington, and began to buck the steep, Antarctic rollers. There was no complaint, until we were off the Kermadecs. Then I heard a feeble, bitter voice: “My God, to think that I paid money for this!”

The Maui Pomare, being only a little ship, does everything in a choppy sea except bite her own tail; and the reactions which she can produce in a normal stomach deserve the pen of a Milton. If ever I travel on the Maui Pomare again it will be because I am curious to know whether the little ship can do again to my internal economy the extraordinary things she achieved in that bitter weather off the coast of New Zealand.

Tourists do travel on the Maui Pomare; but they seem to be mostly hard-bitten Scots from Dunedin way, who can appreciate the “round trip reduction”, and for whose cast-iron, porridge-built interiors seasickness has no terrors.

Samoa deserves more than half a dozen Scottish tourists per three weeks. If these beautiful islands were in the hands of any country capable of understanding and catering for the pleasure-loving section of mankind, hundreds of travellers every month would be spending thousands of pounds here in making firsthand acquaintance with the beauty and fascination of Samoa.

As it is, “Granny” seems deliberately to put every obstacle in the way of the pleasure-seeker —doubtless on the hypothesis that every pleasure-seeker is a potential sinner. When the Maui Pomare is in a quiet sea she is a jolly, comfortable, friendly little ship; and if she ran out of Auckland, northwards, much of the terror of the trip might be avoided.

But “Granny” resolutely sends her to Lyttelton and Wellington, which is the home of stormy weather; and the tourists capable of tackling those seas in a little ship are not numerous.

The Matson Company might have been induced to drop a regular anchor in Apia roadstead, which would have brought into Samoa a flow of American dollars and Australian pounds. The Monterey and Mariposa already pass regularly within sight of this coast. But New Zealand did not encourage the idea —I do not know why.

The ferocious port charges which have ruled here for many years discourage any idea of shipping and tourist enterprise. When cruising liners like the Stella Polaris or Monowai come in here, packed with tourists eager to spend money in Samoa, “Granny” socks them with port charges in a manner that gives the managers heart failure. Although the port facilities are small —the ships anchor out in a roadstead sheltered by the natural reef, and there are lights at Apia and at four or five points along the coast —the charges are double those at Suva, where port facilities are considerable.

Last night, the freighter Limerick hung about all night out at sea —if she had come straight in, on arrival, and allowed her men an evening ashore, she would have been obliged to pay another £2O or so in port charges.

In the natural order of things, the transportation for Western Samoa would have been a job for the Union S.S. Co., v\ hich has innumerable interests in the South Seas. The Aorangi and Niagara pass within sight of the Upolu coast, every three or four weeks; and one would have expected to see the big British shipping concern, and the New Zealand Government co-operating in building up a tourist traffic for Samoa. But, for some reason that no one seems to know, the two institutions do not play in each other’s backyard. The Government runs its little Maui Pomare as a State enterprise, and the Union Co. sends an occasional freighter into Samoan waters.

This is about to be altered. The Union Company’s fine new motor-vessel Matua is about to take up a new itinerary that will link the Fijian, Samoan, Tongan, and Cook Island ports with Auckland; and Samoa, for the first time for many years, thus will escape her crippling isolation.

BUT, if a profitable tourist industry is to be established in Samoa, “Granny” must be persuaded to relax her hold a little. The free-spending tourists definitely do not like a “prohibition” community; and “Granny” long years ago, fastened upon helpless Samoa the most extraordinary liquor-control system I have seen.

“Granny” starts with the hypothesis that liquor is an evil, but may be necessary for medicinal purposes. Liquor, therefore, may not be regarded as a beverage or a pleasure; but, in order to ward off colds, colic, and snakebite, each European is entitled to two bottles of whisky per month.

So far, so good. But certain Europeans pointed out that they had trouble with their kidneys—could they not have gin?

“Granny” saw the point, and the rule became “two bottles of whisky or gin.”

The Casino Hotel at Apia, Western Samoa 9 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

Certain pesky beach-dwellers still were not satisfied. They argued that as they could not drink whisky or gin, and as they found beer a nourishing food, they were entitled to beer instead of the distilled stuff. “Granny” rolled a very suspicious eye upon them, and sniffed disdainfully: but finally agreed that, if they wished, they could take it out in beer—three dozen of beer being regarded as the equivalent of two bottles of whisky or gin per month.

Some people like a good deal of liquor —others little. But all were entitled to the same quantity per head. The obvious thing was for the teetotallers to trade their liquor rights to the drinkers. But “Granny” saw to that. Every person who claimed monthly liquor rights had to go personally to the Customs-house and personally carry their bottles—there was to be no pooling of liquor rights through a centrally organised system.

And that, with some recent modifications, is the system which obtains to this day. The one hotel has no bar—one can purchase nothing stronger than limejuice. Because of the liquor disability, I presume, there is no club, except the unlicensed German Concordia. The very hospitable European residents usually have liquor in their homes; but, because of the system under which they procure it, they produce it in a curious way—with a combination of pride, apology, and conspiracy.

The Europeans who, for medicinal reasons, obtain liquor from the Administration, have to pay for it at rates which return “Granny” a good margin of profit.

They have a limited choice of brands — “Granny” gives them what she thinks will be good for them. But she is a shrewd old lady. A N.Z. brewery fell into the hands of the Public Trustee; and the product of that brewery, a sour, offensive production, was sent to Samoa, to be doled out—as a medicinal necessity! until the harassed, thirst-wracked residents rebelled, and threatened to blow up the Customs-house.

I have been here a week, but I have not yet seen wine of any description.

A Dr. Cotterill—a rich man, with a good yacht—came here some time ago, with the intention of buying a home in this beautiful tropical island. But when he found that he would have to plead with “Granny” to obtain two bottles of whisky or 36 bottles of beer per month, and undergo various similar humiliations, he departed for climes where a man’s private life is permitted to be his own affair.

The Casino Hotel was built by the Germans—a huge, attractively designed place, with large, airy rooms, balconies back and front, private flats—and set attractively amid palms, shrubberies and lawns. It easily could be made the social centre of Samoa, and a first-class, comfortable tourist resort. But it is threequarters empty—merely a home for a handful of public servants. Samoa residents seldom go there, because there is no liquor refreshment. Tourists cannot fill the place, because of “Granny.” If the Casino Hotel were functioning as it should, it would be distributing many thousands of pounds of tourist money annually in Samoa.

Nothing I have seen in Samoa seemed to throw greater ridicule upon the “Granny”

Government than this liquor system—a quaint survival of the Prohibition laws of New Zealand, which certain fanatics flogged to death a quarter-century ago.

There can be no worth-while tourist traffic in Samoa while such a system remains.

A TOP of all, there is the cost of living.

Samoa is compelled, by the stark facts of transportation, to buy much of her necessary goods from New Zealand.

New Zealand is not to any extent a manufacturing country, and herself imports many of her requirements. These goods go on to Samoa, where they are subject to a flatfooted import duty of about 22§ per cent., and the iniquitous “port and service tax,” equal to about 5 per cent. Still, tourists would not worry unduly about that, if other facilities were adequate and reasonable. It is the resident of Samoa who takes it in the neck.

Many sweeping reforms are mooted — transport, port charges, liquor laws, etc., and perhaps it now is a little late to jeer at “Granny.” She has taken her job seriously in Samoa, and conscientiously has tried to do her very best for the Samoans. She has brought little joy into their lives, but medically she has cleaned them up in a truly marvellous way.

Judged from the point of view of personal hygiene, absence of skin diseases and general health, there are no cleaner and better-looking people in the Pacific: and they were not like that when New Zealand took charge of them 20 years ago.

And, if there had been no Maui Pomare, providing the Territory with a sound, three-weekly market for bananas in New Zealand, the Samoans would have had a thinner time than they did in the depression years, when the bottom fell out of the copra and cocoa industries.

Many beach politicians in Samoa hope that, somehow, sometime, this Territory will get loose from New Zealand. I cannot see it. For better or worse, until the status quo in the Pacific is completely destroyed, New Zealand and Samoa are joined. New Zealand, ultimately, may make Samoa a happy home for a model little lot of natives.

But I do wish that old “Granny” would get off the head of pretty little reckless Samoa, and encourage liveliness and some laughter, and give the profitable tourist trade a chance.

Dutch Priest Brought from New Guinea THE young Dutch Roman Catholic A priest, Anthony Cranssen, who was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour by Judge Wanliss in the Rabaul Supreme Court in May on a charge of arson, was brought to Sydney by the Tanda on June 24.

His escort, Captain F. W. Assistant District Officer in the Administration, said that Cranssen had pleaded guilty to the charge of having incited natives to burn the huts of a rival mission, and a heavy sentence had been imposed, The sentence was calculated to be a deterrent in a country fraught with many difficulties between white and native.

A priest of the Society of the Divine Word Mission, who met the prisoner, said that the term of imprisonment would be served in a New South Wales gaol.

On July 16, Messrs. Frank Brennan and Co., solicitors of Melbourne, gave notice to the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor of intention to apply to the High Court for leave to appeal against the sentence imposed on Father Cranssen. The hearing by the Full Court of the High Court has been fixed for August 10.

Mr. F. Mach in, manager of Kindar Estate, Solomon Islands, departed from Australia after leave by the Malaita at the end of June.

Polynesian Club

Kava Ceremony for Prince Tugi, of Tonga the first time in the history of -*■ Sydney, the ancient Polynesian ceremony of the making and presentation of kava was performed on June 18 by members of the Polynesian Club in honour of Prince Tugi, Consort of Queen Salote and Premier of Tonga.

The kava was made by Mrs. Alfred Page CLefuaoalii), a Samoan high chief tainess. Attired in native costume, Mrs.

Page seated herself on a mat of tapa cloth and proceeded to squeeze the juice of the kava root into a carved Islands bowl.

When the drink was ready, a native woman presented a cupful to Prince Tugi and to each of the principal guests of honour.

Prior to the kava ceremony, Mr. Harold Rabone, a grandson of the Rev. Stephen Rabone, pioneer missionary in Tonga, the centenary of whose arrival in the Pacific was celebrated in June, gave a short lecture on Tonga’s geography and history.

The lecturer had been at Newington College in Sydney with Prince Tugi.

The subsequent entertainment included many Islands songs and dances by Tahitian, Samoan, Maori, and Rotuman members of the Club. These were under the direction of Mr. Leonard Moran (president) and Mr. Eric Ramsden.

Her Majesty Queen Salote, who did not attend the gathering owing to her recent bereavement, has been invited to become the Club’s patroness. Expressing himself delighted with the function, Prince Tugi said he believed that the Queen would give her consent.

O.B.E. FOR HON. W. WISE, OF FIJI From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 3.

ON the birthday of His Majesty the King, the Hon. Juxon Barton, 0.8. E. (Acting-Governor) announced that the Hon. Wilfred Wise, Director of Public Works, had been appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division).

Mr. Wise, who is at present on leave in England, joined the Fiji Civil Service as an assistant engineer in 1921, and became head of his department in 1926.

Norwegian Yacht “Ho Ho”

Off Again FTER being stranded at Norfolk Island since August last year, when she went ashore at Ball Bay, the Norwegian yacht Ho Ho was recommissioned, and departed from N.L at the end of June for New Zealand.

It took a week to sail 540 miles to Auckland, where she arrived on July 5. During the latter half of the trip, a southwest gale was encountered, and the Ho Ho was hove to for two days.

The crew consists of her owners, Messrs. T. Schyberg, B. Bryhn, and T.

Ostmoer, all aged 36. Four Norfolk Islanders were on board as guests. After a short stay in New Zealand, the vessel will return to Norway, via Norfolk Island. 10 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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“I take te pottle. He gif me te vairakau (medicine); red kin’, an’ I no like him ’mell. Put ’im on te grart (grass) and bimeby I look. Grart ’im too dead all b up too mush dead. No good! He killem grart, what bout me? I no want dead. No fear! Heave pottle sea. Pinitsh!

Get one pucketi Maori kin’, all right, sick he gone. Good!” —Te Ruau. « ♦ • TWO young Aucklanders are still living on Sunday Island, a green, pleasantlooking, place in the Kermadec group. Their names are Alfred Bacon and Bruce Robertson, and they have been there a year. The Maui Pomare called not long ago, and found them well, and staunchly bearded. They said they have an abundance of goatflesh, fish, vegetables and fruit—they wanted only kerosene and salt —and they are quite happy there, in their extreme isolation. We passed the island on Saturday, June 20, and could see their hut on the north coast. A yacht, far down on the northwest horizon, was just then beating towards the island and it was thought that this carried a couple of men from Sydney, who have been expected to join the Aucklanders. A Dr.

Ross, of Sydney, owns 750 acres on Sunday Island.—R.W.R. ♦ * * A SISTER ship of the old Countess of Ranfurly, Government schooner, having been found bottom up in the Hauraki Gulf, a pessimistic Rarotongan shellback prophesied an early demise for the Countess, much to the captain’s disgust.

There followed a voyage to Mangaia, with the late Colonel Gudgeon and other very unhappy officials aboard, and a heavy gale en route, during which occupants of the windward berths had a most unhappy time avoiding decantation to the deck.

The Colonel held out until after daylight, and then he made the deck to “see about it”—to find a beaming captain balancing on the weather rail, and beaming with joy. Said he: “Morning, Colonel! Take a look at her!

Nowhere to shove another cloth and the old bitch simply WON’T tip over! Tender ship be damned!”

It took some time before the Colonel could gently but firmly get him to understand that the Government was officially satisfied with the success of the experiment, but wanted breakfast on an even keel.

To this day, the captain includes in the Colonel’s few demerits the fact that he did not exhibit proper pride in the ship of which nominally and officially he was temporary “owner!” —Te Ruau. * ♦ * WHEN the late Sir Thomas Henley was visiting Samoa, he hired a native taximan to drive him around. They passed a church. “That,” said the taxi-man, “is the Mormon Church.” “H’m, h’m, Mormons, eh?” remarked Sir Thomas, with interest. “So they are here! Tell me, my man, do they practise polygamy here?”

“Oh, yes, sir,” replied the courteous Samoan. “It is every afternoon at four o’clock.” —R.W.R. * * ♦ SOME of the wives of officials who live for a time in Samoa may be excellent housekeepers, but they are not a good advertisement for the dignity of officialdom.

Idlers retail with glee, on the beach at Apia, the story of one extremely careful lady who ordered from a trader one pound of cheese. The .trader cut a piece off, and it was slightly overweight. “A little over —it will cost twopence more,” he said. "I asked for a pound, and I want a pound,” snapped the lady. The trader glared.

Then, “Puss, puss, puss,” he called, in an insinuating voice, and his cat came from the back of the store. He shaved the cheese down until it weighed exactly one pound, and fed the bits to his grateful cat.

The lady said nothing; but if looks could kill —! Another woman, wife of a very high official, received from the store a one-pound tin of salmon, instead of the half-pound tin she had ordered. She opened the tin, took out half a pound, and sent the remaining half-pound back to the storekeeper. The same woman ordered some ham, to be fed to her guests at a party. She sent the ham back next day, with the message: “Please credit my account with this ham. I do not need it, as my guests did not turn up.”—R. W. R.

Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Gamble, Inspector of Constabulary in Fiji, departed from Suva for furlough in England by the Aorangi on June 26.

Bishop Of Melanesia

Returns from England A FTER a visit to England, the Bishop of A Melanesia (the Right Rev. Walter H.

Baddeley) accompanied by his wife, returned to Australia en route to his headquarters in the Solomon Islands by the Wanganella on June 23.

His trip to England was primarily to report on his diocese to the old-established Anglican committee which devotes itself to the maintenance of interest in oversea dioceses. This committee furnishes up to £lO,OOO per year for the work of Melanesian and other dioceses.

While he was in England, Bishop Baddeley undertook a strenuous programme, and engaged in deputation work throughout the country. He received many gifts for the furtherance of his work in the Islands, including sufficient money to meet the cost of a new mission station on New Britain.

The new station will be built at Lupun, near Gasmata, on the southern end of the island. The station will be largely a medical centre, and will have a trained nurse in attendance. While he was in England, Bishop Baddeley received many offers of service in the Pacific Islands from members of the Church. It is possible that he may bring out some recruits for service in New Guinea.

The Bishop and Mrs. Baddeley left Sydney for the New Hebrides, via Norfolk Island, by the Morinda on June 25.

At Vila, they joined the Melanesian Mission’s vessel Southern Cross for Siota, Solomon Islands.

Dr. C. M. Deland, formerly Medical Officer at Kieta, New Guinea, who has been in Australia on 12 months’ leave, returned to thje Territory for a further term of service by the July Macdhui.

Mr. Leo Austen, Assistant Resident Magistrate, arrived in Sydney from Papua on leave by the Macdhui on July 2. For the past five years he has been stationed in the Trobriand Group. Mr. Austen holds a Diploma of Anthropology from the University of Sydney. 11 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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About Islands People

Dr. C. C. Simson, chairman of the Pacific Islands Association, who has plantation interests in Papua, sailed from Sydney for Port Moresby on one of his periodical business trips by the Macdhui on July 8, Mr. C. R. Harley Nott, Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary for Fiji, returned to Suva from leave spent in England on June 2. He was accompanied by his wife.

Mr. and Mrs. William G. Sears, of the Latter Day Saints Mission, left Samoa for the United States in June after completing their third term of service. They have been succeeded by Elder and Mrs.

William M. Waddoups.

Mr, J. R. Kinnaird, of the London Missionary Society, arrived in Suva in June to join the mission vessel, John Williams V., as chief engineer.

Captain A. S. Fitch, managing director of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., departed from Australia for Samarai, Papua, by the Macdhui at the beginning of July, Mr. W. R. Smith, clerk in the Customs Department at Rabaul, returned with his wife to New Guinea from leave in Australia by the Macdhui on July 8.

Mr. Robert Norton Ginn died in Suva on June 26, at the age of 60. A popular resident for 30 years, he first went to the Colony from New Zealand to join the firm of Henry Marks and Co. Latterly, Mr.

Ginn had been in the dairying industry on his own account. He is survived by his widow, two daughters (Mrs. Peter Greenwood and Miss Grace Ginn), and a son (Mr. Robert Ginn), all of Suva.

Mr. E. W. Oakley, District Officer in the N.G. Service, who was formerly stationed at Lorengau, returned to Rabaul after furlough by the July Macdhui.

Mr. Frank Mote, Deputy Superintendent of the Suva Fire Brigade, left Fiji for holidays in England by the Mariposa on June 30.

Mrs. H. W. Champion, wife of the Government Secretary of Papua, returned to her home at Port Moresby by the Macdhui from Sydney on July 8.

Dr. Loftus Hills, Victorian geologist, arrived in Fiji by the Mariposa on June 30 to carry out mining investigations at Tavua.

Mr. T. Grills, of Messrs. Siemens (Aust.) Pty, Ltd., sailed from Sydney with his wife by the Montoro on June 17 for Lae, New Guinea. He later went by ’plane to the property of Upper Watut Gold Alluvials N.L. to erect a water turbine in connection with Upper Watut’s hydro-electric scheme.

Mr. E. J. Ifould, who has extensive plantation interests in the Sepik district, New Guinea, sailed from Australia for Boram by the July Macdhui.

Mr. Walter D. Mason, of Fibres Limited, left Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, with his wife, by the Macdhui early in July.

Fibres Ltd., of which Mr. Mason is engineer, is concerned with the project to erect pulp mills and manufacture paper pulp from the Kurukuru grasses of Papua and New Guinea, Mr. S. H. Gander, Seventh Day Adventist missionary, who is stationed in the Upper Ramu country, returned to New Guinea by the last Macdhui after several months’ leave in Sydney.

Mr. R. W. Robson, F.R.G.S., editor of the “Pacific Islands Monthly,’’ who is on a three months’ visit to the Central Pacific groups, arrived at Suva, Fiji, by the Monowai from Western Samoa on July 17.

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Mr. Ragnar Hyne, Chief Justice of Tonga, who left Nukualofa for New Zealand by the Port Whangarei at the end of June, reached Sydney by the Niagara on July 11. He departed the same day for Brisbane to spend a week’s holiday before continuing his journey to England, by way of South Africa. Mr.

Hyne, who was born in Norway, graduated at the Brisbane University, where he was admitted to the Bar.

Mr. Stan Baldy, of Wau, New Guinea, flew across to Salamaua in June to join the Neptuna for the East, en route to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. During his absence his position with Messrs, W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd. will be filled by Mr. Dave Yarroll, who recently returned from leave.

Mrs. E. Taylor, wife of the District Officer at Salamaua, who has been in New Guinea for 10 years, arrived in Sydney by the Macdhui on July 2. She came South to undergo further treatment for a broken leg, caused by a fall after she had witnessed the opening of the workings of Irowat Gold Alluvials N.L. at the end of May. After the accident, Mrs.

Taylor was taken to Wau Hospital where she remained for six weeks. On medical advice, she has come to Australia for an indefinite period.

Mr. J. A. Todd, of the Australian National Research Council, arrived in Sydney by the Tanda on June 24, after completing three years* anthropological work among the natives on the south coast of New Britain. Mr. Todd brought back with him several cases of rare specimens, together with volumes of scientific data.

Major N. E. Cobbold, who has been visiting French Oceania and the Cook Islands, returned to Australia in June.

He came out to Australia from England earlier in the year on the Herzogin Cecilie, the four-masted barque which was recently wrecked on the Devon coast, and subsequently refloated.

Miss Tessie Boyes, of Tasmania, sailed from Sydney for the New Hebrides by the Morinda on June 24. On her arrival in Vila she was married to Mr. Louis Smith, of Messrs. Burns, Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Fontaine left Thursday Island at the end of June for a tour of Queensland, before proceeding to Sydney.

Mr. Fontaine has been transferred South from the T.I. Radio Station.

Dr. R. W. Cooper, Medical Officer in the N.G. Administration, who has been on long leave, visited Japan, China, and Ceylon before reaching Melbourne by the Maloja on July 6. He will return to the Mandated Territory with his wife at the end of July, Mr. K. Bi nns, librarian of the National Library at Canberra, left Sydney by the Macdhui on July 8 on a visit to Papua and New Guinea to investigate proposals for the establishment of libraries. He will confer with the Administrators and Government officials in both territories and will report to the Federal Parliament on his return.

Rev. A. H. Cropp, of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, who is stationed at Buka Passage, Bougainville, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the Malaita on June 18.

Messrs. J. N. Montgomery and S. W.

Carey, of Oil Search Limited, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the Macdhui on July 2.

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WRECKED From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, June 15.

NEWS was received early in June that the Government vessel Eros was wrecked on the Numa Numa reef, off Bougainville Island. The passengers and mails were taken off successfully. Later the crew and cargo were also landed safely.

It has not yet been learned whether the Eros is a total wreck.

This is the second mishap to Government vessels in recent months. Last November the schooner Hermes was lost with all hands between Madang and Rabaul 13 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Friday, June 26. to Monday, June 29.

Mission meets various deputations, especially representatives of European residents, local Labour Party, Samoan planters, etc., and promises various reforms, and consideration of others.

Tuesday, June 30. —Mission begins discussion of various proposed reforms with representatives of Samoan people (united Mau and Malo) at Mulinu’u. Adjourned until July 14.

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A N unlucky star was in the ascendant when I arranged this visit to Western Samoa; for the Maui Pomare voyage which I selected was selected also by the “Ministerial Goodwill Party”—sent by the New Zealand Labour Government to clean up the political situation ih the Mandated Territory. So, instead of quietness and peace, I have had the clamour of beach politics and the everlasting buzz of “coconut wireless.”

The party consists of Mr. P. Langstone, Minister for Lands, and Mrs. Langstone; Mr. J. O’Brien, a Westland M.P., and chairman of the Native Affairs Committee, with Mrs. O’Brien; and Mr. Mulligan, secretary to the Minister, and Mrs. Mulligan.

They were charming travelling companions; but I cannot understand why New Zealand selected them to come here and settle the Samoan native troubles. None of them had previously even seen a Pacific island. They are animated by good intentions and kindly sentiment, and they carry a cart-load of indexed files and weighty documents, which they study with industry; but of the real problems of Samoa— which mostly are biological and psychological—they know very little. And a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

However, it is not my affair. New Zealand must bear the odium of any further muddling by politicians an I fcr soldiers.

New Zealand is so small a country, and so very isolated, that she has neither the personnel nor the vision to administer successfully this difficult little Territory. In my humble opinion, it clearly is a job for experienced men of the British Colonial Office. But when I say these things to 14 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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I had hoped to see a quiet normal Samoa; but, instead, I found the place in a state of political convulsion. 111-judged, untimely communications from Wellington had convinced the Samoans that the “Goodwill Mission” was coming to create a new heaven and a new earth; and when the Maui Fomare drew into Apia roadstead, the beach was lined for miles by wildly excited people, while 26 longboats, flying the Mau flag (purple, with a white cross and star), each manned by some 40 men, made a lane through which the official party were brought ashore.

About 3000 well-drilled, uniformed men and women of the Mau (the anti-Government party) took charge of the proceedings ashore, and gave the Mission a flattering welcome. The leaders of the Mau and the Malo (pro-Government party) fraternised, for the first time in history— a tribute to the tact of Acting-Administrator Turnbull. Greetings, smiling faces, gifts, everywhere met the delighted gaze of the “Goodwill Mission.”

This went on for two days. A welcome by the Malo at Mulinu’u; a welcome by the Mau at Vaimoso; official greetings everywhere. Oratory—endless, tedious hoqrs of it.

The Missioners, new to this gorgeouslycoloured tropical isle, and unaccustomed to the studied courtesy and eternal, disarming smile of the Samoan, reacted in the most satisfactory manner.

The Minister, Mr. Langstone, seemed to be happy. I heard him speak several times. His style was infectiously oratorical: his manner was sweet, and kindly, and pleading: and his material, for the most part, was the tosh which habitual politicians usually supply to defenceless audiences in the backblocks. I cannot imagine anything less suited to the occasion. The Polynesian races, for all their intelligence and amiability, do not want loving tenderness and an appeal to reason; and the man who tries to get things done in that fashion is doomed to bitter disappointment. The Samoans, in these official relationships, appreciate and respect an impressive personality, dignified but grim strength, and strict, cold, impartial justice. In the quiet of the fale, they laugh at the European who pleads with them.

Older Europeans jeered. The Acting- Administrator and his clever wife sat silent and impassive: I wondered many times what they were thinking. Function succeeded function—endless, wearying oratory.

Finally, after I had heard the Missioners preaching long-winded, involved economic sermons to groups of patient schoolchildren who knew little English, I kept away from the official proceedings. Life is really too short for that kind of thing.

Yet one cannot too highly praise the wellmeant sincerity of the Missioners.

However, so many undesirable things existed actively in connection with the Samoan administration that the Missioners were given several opportunities for dramatic gestures of goodwill.

THE Mau, some t y ears a &o, was declared a seditious organisation, and it could not lawfully assemble in certain districts.

The Mission announced, with a flourish, that these laws were cancelled forthwith.

They were dead laws, anyway—they had not been invoked for years. But the Samoans cheered, as they were expected to.

Many natives are in arrears with their taxes. The Administration, being without imagination or vision, deducted these sums from the Samoans’ miserable earnings from banana-growing, road-making, etc.

“Is this fair?” they asked the Minister.

“No,” he answered at once. “It shall cease immediately.”

More cheers!

There is a large school for European and half-caste children —probably one of the best institutions of the kind in the South Seas. But the Administration, for some reason, has refused free education. The fee is £1 per quarter. Children who cannot pay, or whose fees are in arrears, are kept out, despite their pleading—a cruel, monstrous system.

“Can this not be altered?” the Minister was asked. “It can, and will be,” was his prompt reply.

All honour to the Missioners for the promise of such reforms. I believe that there will be reforms, also, in such matters as the liquor-permit system and the port charges—outstanding examples of inexcusable, grandmotherly stupidity. But it is not so much a matter of giving credit 15 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Cor NATIVES 'Wan u factur ers & Specialists PATTERSON & STONE, CRICHTON WORKS, WALSALL, ENGL AND. to the Missioners, who simply are sweeping away undesirable excrescences, as of placing blame upon the people who for so long have allowed such things to continue.

CO far as the political future of this country is concerned, I personally have neither faith, hope, nor charity.

The Missioners think that they may “effect a settlement,” A settlement of what? One understands that the Mau has placed before the Mission a list of demands a yard long. I have not seen it —I am told that it asks for such things as the setting up of a king of Samoa, for the appointment of a Samoan Administrator, and for the removal from Samoa of Messrs. Turnbull (Acting Administrator), Mackay (Native Affairs), and Braisby (Police)—who are the three outstanding officials who really have some knowledge of Samoan conditions.

Actually, no one appears to know what the Mau wants—l doubt if it knows itself, Actually, the native Samoans are in a very happy, comfortable condition—they get from the European administration very ™ uch than they give In return. They y e win treSfd V The Sku woufd have had no life at all if there had not been this prim, grandmotherly control from Wellington, which was made worse by periods of brainlessness at Vailima. The uselessness of Tate, the impatience of the very capable, dynamic Richardson, the futility of Allen, the terrifying inactivity of Hart, with the unforgivable muddling which caused the massacre in 1929—a1l these things exasperated the European and half-caste community, and encouraged’the formation of the Mau and kept it alive. One thoroughly capable Administrator, with adequate authority (something, incidentally, which Wellington officialdom never will tolerate) would have cleared away, long ago, the manifest injustices and absurdities under which Samoa suffers, and there would have been no “Samoan problem.”

The Mau does not constitute the “Samoan problem”: it is created by the inefficiency and bad history of the New Zealand Administration, and their reactions upon communities other than the native community, Mau means “opposition to the government or ruler.” There always has been a Mau in Samoa, and always there will be.

Every man with a knowledge of native life agrees with that. Talking, debates, flowery oratory—these things are the breath of life to a people whose simple, easy, comfortable life is made up of a little gardening, a little fishing, much ceremonial, and much sitting in idleness. If they can find a few grievances to which they can hang their talks, so much the better. But they will talk, anyway. 13ERHAPS by this time, the “Goodwill Mission” realises what it is up against.

The Missioners have little knowledge of Samoan history and psychology, but they are not fools. In the week since they arrived, they have met these long-winded Samoan gentlemen in Mulinu’u, Vaimoso, and elsewhere, and they must recognise now that they have not the least hope of bringing about reforms which will put the Mau out of existence. If that was ever their ideal, they should know that they made it impossible of attainment by the way in which they met the Mau—pleadingly, with many promises of reform—as man-to-man and brother-to-brother.

The Minister Mr. Langstone, put the coping stone on it when at Vaimoso, on the second day of his visit, he told the Mau that “he was commanded by the Right Honourable the Prime Minister of New Zealand” to tell the Samoans that their beloved Taisi (Mr. O. F. Nelson) would be returned from banishment, that his expenses in returning to Samoa would be paid by the Government, and that the Goodwill Mission and the Administration would associate themselves with the Samoans in giving welcome to Taisi on his return.

If the Minister thinks that the Samoans, on this momentous occasion, will try to express their gratitude to the N.Z. Government by promising to be good little boys, and urging Mr. Nelson to be the loyal friend of the Administrator of Samoa, he is due for disillusionment.

The Mau people are so cockahoop at what they regard as the capitulation of the Government that they are certain to demand a substantial share in the administrative control of the Territory; and when this is refused them, they will sulk and agitate. Mr. Nelson, probably, will be grateful and loyal; but he will want rather more wisdom and tact than his record indicates that he possesses, if he is going to bring the Mau into line with the Malo as supporters of the Government.

Some believe that the Missioners will recommend that Samoans be given a larger representation in the constitution of the Legislative Council, and that this will satisfy the Mau’s political aspirations.

Such a development will not quieten the Mau. The Mau thinks that at last it has got the papalangi on the run; and that it

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A Trading Regulation in New Guinea From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, June 18, ALTHOUGH no actual regulation amending the Licensing Ordinance has been gazetted, it is officially understood that the abolition of the “two-mile limit,” in respect to the location of trading sites, has been seriously considered by the Executive Council. Planters and traders have received an intimation to this effect from the Administration.

In the past, a protective regulation gave the holder of a trading station an exclusive right to purchase the coconuts or copra within a two-mile radius of his station. Lately, however, monopolies have come into existence in certain areas, and it is claimed by the Administration that in such instances the natives have not been receiving the benefit of the improved market conditions when disposing of their produce.

With so many interests in the Territory —especially around Rabaul—that have become self-appointed guardians of the “down-trodden” black any semblance of exploiting the native is availed of for two reasons: To curry favour with the natives; and to criticise the Administration in seeming dilatoriness in safeguarding native interests. When such allegations as neglecting the “sacred trust” are directed against the local authorities it forces their hand either to take action or prepare a defence of such charges for the perusal of the Permanent Mandates Commission.

The Administration, in this instance, has decided to take action in order to eliminate any possibility of the existence of monopolies and to establish free trade among the copra-buyers. This decision has naturally been met unfavourably by planters and traders.

One of the main arguments put forward by the 6 ona fide planter for the retention of the protective area is that it obviates the likelihood of plantation produce being stolen and sold to nearby trading ventures. The establishment of a two-mile protective zone around plantations was the idea originally put forward by the Expropriation Board in 1923, when, early in 1924, the old German trading stations were put up for tender. It is proposed in the new regulations still to maintain this protective zone around plantations, but the area has been reduced and the suggested zone will now, in all probability, be 1,000 metres.

The proposed regulations, however, will allow traders to operate at any point, excluding those areas situated within 1,000 metres of any plantation.

What effect exactly these innovations will have on trading is difficult to prophesy. It would seem that it will encourage a price war for the purchase of native copra. Providing the overseas price is maintained and competition among buyers does not become too keen, traders should be able to show a profit. The general price around Rabaul now being paid for coconuts is one stick of trade tobacco for 15 nuts. This works out at approximately 60 nuts for 1/- or £5 a ton; added to the purchase price is the cost of bags, curing and transport to place of shipment.

Another innovation affecting trade copra in the Rabaul neighbourhood is the erection by natives of hot air kilns, which turn out a No. 1 grade of Rabaul hot air copra and is sold direct to the overseas shippers by the native, eliminating the middle man—the small trader. The native owners of these kilns cure the copra of other natives and market the produce, presumably on commission. Natives, as yet, are not allowed to buy copra, though with the present rate of progress of native evolution it is not unlikely that this privilege will be extended to them in the not distant future.

It is merely a matter of the effluxion of time when native kiln-owners will be handling the greater bulk of trade copra.

This will defeat one of the objects of the abolition of the “two-mile limit,” which is to create an avenue for the absorption of the unemployed Asiatic population which has already reached alarming dimensions.

Eliminate the middle-man trader and employment for the Asiatic buyer of copra is eliminated also. He will have to depend solely on the turnover from his mercantile store. This in time no doubt will meet the same fate as copra-buying, for natives in the next decade will probably be tradestore owners as well as kiln-owners.

The wheels of evolution in New Guinea are turning very quickly—too quickly!

More Buildings For Wau

From Our Own Correspondent WAIT, June 23.

W A U is still expanding and the number of dwellings is on the increase.

Three new Administration bungalows are under way, the successful tenderer being Mr. W. Stewart. An Assay office is also being erected at the rear of the Lands and Mines building, the builder being A, P.

Dowsett.

Messrs. Currie and Fitzgerald are constructing an isolation ward for natives under Administration contract, and Messrs.

Mazlin and Taylor are busy erecting new nurses’ quarters at the European Hospital. 17 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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WIGHT LONG, the young American world tourer, arrived in Port Moresby in his ketch Idle Hour on June 16, and sailed again on the 23rd for Torres Strait, Singapore, and London. The journey from Sydney, up the Australian coast and across the Gulf of Papua, was without incident, and in pleasant contrast to the stress of the voyage from American Samoa to New Zealand.

The weather was very fine when he left Port Moresby; and although his engine apparently refused duty and left him adrift within 50 yards of the wharf, a light breeze got up a little later and carried him out of the harbour and out of our ken.

Like most adventurers, Mr. Long is far from “backward in coming forward.” While in Papua he wrote a letter to the King of England, asking that a seat might be reserved for him in Westminster Abbey for the Coronation ceremony in May next year. He hopes to receive a reply in Singapore: and if it is favourable he will cut out contemplated calls in Egypt and Palestine, so as to make sure of being in London by the end of April.

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For its further progress it was decided In June to form a limited liability company, under the designation of W. M. Reid Limited. Mr. Reid is now chairman of directors, and the firm still has the benefit of the exceptional ability of Mrs. Reid, in an executive capacity. Mr. H. Van Dugteren, who has had considerable experience in Java and the East, has been appointed managing director.

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One of the first commissions to be filled by the new firm was the securing of a fighting cock for a client in Tahiti. The world over, July 14 is a day of rejoicing for Frenchmen, and Mr. Fred Haereaaroa, of Papeete, requested Mr. Reid to send over a bird to take part in the cockfighting sports to be held on* that date.

By the Makura from Sydney on July 2, a gamecock was shipped to find death or glory in the arena on July 14, when the battles were to take place before a big crowd at the racecourse. Last year, Mr.

Reid sent across a Sydney bird of game breed which fought its way to the championship. Mr. Haereaaroa, by last mail, asked him to ship across another bird capable of beating the present champion.

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THE Government Medical Officer at Port Moresby, Dr. Eric Giblin, has resigned from the Public Service, and will leave for Wau, New Guinea, by the Macdhui on July 15. It is understood that he will be the successor to Dr. R. H. von der Borch as Medical Officer to New Guinea Goldfields Ltd.

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Rabaul Hotel Leased

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, July 6. fT'HE well-known Rabaul Hotel, which is owned by Messrs. Nelson and Robertson Limited, of Sydney, has been leased for three years from July 1 by Mr. E. C.

Monck.

The establishment is situated on the corner of Yara Avenue, opposite the cricket ground. A new bar was recently installed in the hotel, and six new bedrooms have been added. 22 YEARS AFTER Australian Soldier Returns German Souvenir Taken From Kieta /~\N June 11, Dr. R. Asmis (Consul General in Australia for Germany) met by appointment an Australian “Digger,” who 22 years after the incident, presented him with a German gold-plated war badge and German seals, in the hope that Dr. Asmis might locate the official in whose desk they were found in the former German possession of Northern Solomon Islands.

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Alexander McKay, of Rozelle, was a member of the Australian garrison at Kieta, in the then German Solomons, and administrative headquarters of the German possessions in the Western Pacific at that period. On the enemy surrendering, German officers in charge of the native troops, and officials were transferred to Rabaul.

War souvenirs were eagerly sought there as in other areas of hostility. It was in that way that Private McKay came across the little gold-plated badge, surmounted by a reproduction of the Imperial Eagle, and some small circular seals, inscribed “Kaiserliche Station, Kieta.” They were discovered in a desk in the office which had been occupied by the German administrator at Kieta.

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Arrives Safely ALL fears for the safety of the small British full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad, which had been reported missing in the Pacific Ocean, were dispelled on June 20 when she arrived safely at Papeete, Tahiti.

Commanded by her owner, Captain Alan J. Villiers, the vessel left Lord Howe Island on May II for French Oceania, and on the 41 days’ voyage was sighted and identified only once, near New Zealand on May 22. Alarm was felt in certain quarters on May 24 when an unconfirmed report from Lord Howe stated that she had been lost with all hands.

On May 27 flares were seen off Maatsuyker Island, the most southern Australian lighthouse, and it was thought that they might have been from the Conrad.

A search was conducted by the lighthouse steamer, Cape York, without result, and the rumours regarding her fate continued.

On June 4, a sailing ship was reported off the east coast of New Zealand, and, as no other such vessel was known to be in that area, it was assumed that it was the Conrad. Following a severe storm, wreckage, supposedly from a sailing vessel, was found at Poranghahau, and once again it was rumoured that the little British sailer had been lost. Shipping authorities, however, proved that the wreckage was not from the Conrad, thus deepening the mystery of the vessel’s whereabouts,

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In a cable message from Papeete to the Sydney Sun, Captain Villiers stated that the vessel and its crew were never at any time in serious distress after leaving Lord Howe. The only difficulty had been on the voyage down from Samarai (Papua) when the Conrad in a calm touched Wari Reef. The crew managed to hove the vessel off undamaged with their own gear.

Before reaching Tahiti they encountered eight days of heavy gale, resembling the “Roaring Forties.” The Conrad weathered the strain beautifully, standing up well to the repeated buffeting. A boat and a few deck fittings were lost. None of the crew was hurt, except Captain Villiers, who received a few broken ribs during the height of the storm.

The sailing ship will remain at Tahiti for some time, repairing minor damages.

She will then sail south-eastwards to attempt the winter passage to New York via Cape Horn.

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Mr. Herbert Thomas Kienzle, manager of Yodda Goldfields Ltd., of Papua, married Miss Meryl Elma Holliday, of Croydon, N.S.W., at St. John’s Anglican Church, Port Moresby, on June 4. After a short honeymoon at Rona, they left for their new home at the Yodda. Mr.

Kienzle, who has been in the Territory for some years, was engaged in the planting industry prior to going to the Yodda field to take up mining.

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From Our Own Correspondent WAU, June 26. 4 PART from a few private swimming pools of minor dimensions, Wau has felt for a long time the lack of swimming facilities. At last the matter has been taken up, as a business proposition.

Mr. Leo. Poland is busy with his labour, constructing a pool adjoining the Big Wau Creek. Its opening is being looked forward to eagerly by residents, particularly the younger ones of whom there are quite a number in Wau now. As yet, there are no organised sporting activities for them.

Dr. C. C. Bonney, who has been appointed Medical Officer at Port Moresby, left Sydney for Papua by the July Macdhui. 21 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, June 13.

THE recent death of Captain John Me- Culloch has left Manihiki Island (Northern Cooks) temporarily without a Resident Agent, and rumour holds that the main* qualification for his successor will be a knowledge of wireless telegraphy.

Whether this is correct or not, a number of local residents have added their applications to those already before the authorities.

The post of Resident Agent on an isolated atoll requires a combination of temperament, qualities and experience not usually found among wireless operators.

In the opinion of many people it would be unwise to select an applicant principally on technical grounds rather than on those for which the position specifically calls.

In the past it was generally the custom to appoint men who had already spent a large part of their lives in the Islands.

Frequently, they were schooner captains grown weary of seafaring, but whose inclinations still bound them closely to their environment. Often thev had married native women. They kn€w the language and the habits of the people, their weaknesses, and foibles.

Under them it was certain that the spirit would always triumph over the precise letter of the law which they were there to administer. Almost without exception they expected to die in the land of their adoption. It was their “home”— not simply a halt on the road to somewhere, and it would be as unreasonable as it would be unlikely to find such views shared by the average young man of to-day.

Manihiki is approximately 650 miles N.N.W. of Rarotonga. It has a population of some 700, and, with the exception of a Catholic priest, there are no resident Europeans. There is no anchorage. The highest point of land is not more than 10 or 12ft. above sea level. The annual per capita wealth of the people is probably under £l.

It is, therefore, a little puzzling to know exactly why the erection of a wireless station should be thought necessary or beneficial. Assuredly it will not prove the latter if the kindly and sympathetic rule of a man familiar with native life is to be substituted for that of an inexperienced person for whom the novelty of his position would be the only excuse for the ignorance which he might display.

On Scientific Cruise

American Yacht “Director”

Arrives in Fiji From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, June 20. i'VN a scientific voyage through the South Seas, the 10 tons yacht Director reached Suva on June 14 from America, via Tahiti, Pago Pago, and ports. Under the leadership of Mr. Bruce Fahnestock, a party is collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History.

The expedition comprises Mr. B. Fahnestock, entomologist; Mr. Sheridan Fahnestock, master of the Director who specialises in collecting fish specimens; Mr.

Dennis Puleston, an English ornithologist; Mr. Edward Dair, New York artist; and Mr. Lewis Hirshon, ethnologist. Mrs. M.

Fahnestock, mother of the leader of the party, acted as secretary to the expedition.

She will leave the Director at Suva and return to America by the next liner.

Leaving New York early in 1935, the Director sailed for the Galapagos Islands, via Panama. The party spent some time in the group carrying out hydrographic and geographic work. From there they journeyed south-west to Papeete, staying almost nine months in French Oceania.

Before arriving at Suva, calls were made at Penrhyn Island, American Samoa, and Wallis Island.

After remaining in Fiji for three or four weeks, the Director will go on to the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands. The expedition expects to carry out extensive entomological study in the Northern Solomons.

The party will then return to America, via the Cape of Good Hope, arriving in New York at the end of next year. 22 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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WHEN Captain James Cook, R.N., sailed round half the world in the Whitby barque Endeavour to found an empire at the end of the 18th century, Britain sat up at night to read about the unknown South Seas. Twenty years later, inspired by Cook’s journal, a London merchant, Joseph Hardcastle, and his friend, the Rev. Thomas Haweie, established the London Missionary Society to venture into the remote Pacific isles “to claim them for the Lord.”

The romantic story of the enterprise of the L.M.S. in the Pacific is now again told in a vivid, modern way in “Southward Ho!” by the Rev. Cecil Northcott, M.A. From the River Thames in 1796, when the little Duff, with Captain James Wilson pacing the quarter-deck, slipped into the open Channel bound for Tahiti, the adventurous tale is traced up to the present day.

The hardships of the Tahiti mission, the forlorn attempts to fan the flame of Christianity in Tonga, and the evangelistic wanderings of the sea-minded John Williams, all have their place in the history of the South Seas, and are retold here with gusto.

Mr. Northcott deals enlighteningly with the church and its future in Samoa and the Gilbert and Ellice Group. In those islands the L.M.S. is deep-rooted, and the Society is endeavouring to build up self-supporting churches. The author pays tribute to the devotion and work of native pastors, and to the indispensability of the schooner John 'Williams V., which is the London Missionary Society’s greatest weapon in the outer islands in the struggle against revivals of heathenism and secular indifference. —S.H, SOUTHWARD HOI, by the Rev. Cecil Northcott, M.A. Published by the Livingstone Press, London. Price 1/-.

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From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, June 26.

THE plans and specifications for the hospital for native tubercular patients are now complete, and the building will soon be erected on an island by Hunter Passage at the entrance to the harbour.

The natives of Hanuabada objected to the hospital being erected in their village district, as their superstitious beliefs were against it. The Government, therefore, decided to erect it on the island instead.

Its isolated position will be greatly to the advantage of the natives.

Malayta Company

Absorbed by Fairy mead Sugar Co.

AT the end of June, Fairymead Sugar Company Limited, of Queensland, purchased the assets of the Malayta Co. Ltd., as a going concern, in return for an issue of 95,000 fully paid shares in Fairymead.

The Malayta Co. has operated profitably in the Solomon Islands for 27 years.

The change of proprietorship will not involve any alterations in the personnel or methods of conducting the former business of the Malayta Co., beyond that its administration as a department of the Fairymead Co. will be removed to Brisbane, a branch office remaining in Sydney. Although the Malayta Co. will probably be wound up, its name may be preserved in connection with the future conduct of Islands business, in conjunction with that of the Fairymead Co.

The Malayta Company was established in 1909 by Messrs. Horace and Ernest Young, who, three years later, converted their sugar plantations and mill at Bundaberg into the present Fairymead Co. The Malayta Co., in fact, arose out of the repatriation of Solomon Islanders who, until that time, had been employed in the sugar fields at Fairymead.

The Company’s operations have consisted mostly of copra growing in the Solomon Islands, where it owned extensive areas, almost entirely freehold, planted under mature coconut palms. One of its plantations was considered to be probably the finest in the Pacific. The combination of the operations of the Malayta Co. with those of the Fairymead Co. will provide the technical staff of the latter with a greater outlet for their energies and skill, enhancing the value of the Islands products.

At the annual meeting of Fairymead Sugar Co. on June 16, the nominal capital was raised from £300,000 (of which £265,000 was issued) to £500,000. Of the increased shares, 132,500 were absorbed in a bonus distribution to shareholders, 95,000 were earmarked to purchase the Malayta Co., and the balance of 7500 remained unissued.

For the year ended December 31 last, Fairymead Sugar Co. made a net profit of £29,857, a dividend of 10 per cent, being paid. 23 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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PAPUA Planters Plead for Permanence of Bounty From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, June 23.

THE rubber planters of Papua are A taking advantage of the forthcoming visit of the Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs to advance a plea for the permanence of the rubber bounty which at present is paid from year to year and may be withdrawn at any time.

The deputation can do little more than repeat the arguments that Sir Hubert Murray has already used.

The position may be stated quite simply. With a satisfactory and assured price for rubber there is some hope that Papua may continue to produce marketable products, and even that new capital may be invested here. Without such an assured price, not only will potential investors be discouraged, but existing plantations must struggle to continue, and copra, Papua’s only other product, must suffer the burden of rising costs that the collapse of rubber .would cause.

Federal Govt.’S Proposal

A proposal was recently submitted to the Administration by the authorities at Canberra, with regard to the rubber bounty. The proposal is that payment of the bounty shall cease forthwith, in view of the satisfactory price of rubber on the market at the present time.

It is further proposed that a fund be created by payments from the Australian import duty on rubber; and that this fund shall be drawn upon to assist Papuan rubber planters at any time when a fall in the market price of rubber would otherwise inflict hardship upon them.

To the disinterested observer the proposal seems adequate, as it ensures a profitable price for the product, whatever the state of the market. Thus it means security, which is exactly what planters have been asking for. If the details of the scheme are satisfactorily fixed, there should be ample encouragement in the rubber industry for new investors.

Polynesian Adze Heads

Washed Up By Norfolk Island Floods ONE interesting result of the cyclone which swept Norfolk Island in May was the discovery of a number of Polynesian adze heads, washed up by the floods.

A local antiquarian believes that they belonged to an extinct line of islanders, and the finds are to be sent to the Australian Museum in Sydney for expert examination.

Also uncovered by the storm were several skeletons, including one of a woman with a silver chain around the neck. The woman, it is believed, was the original of Sylvia, heroine of Marcus Clarke’s story of Norfolk Island, “For the Term of His Natural Life.”

In the story, Sylvia, was the wife of the commandant. She loved the convict, Richard Devine (alias Rufus Dawes).

They fled in the Lady Franklin, but the vessel was wrecked, and Sylvia and Dawes were drowned.

Pitcairners, who are now living at the N.I. town of Kingston, remember an old tomb at Emily Bay, which, according to legend, was named after Emily, the original of Sylvia. The sea destroyed it 80 years ago. Emily’s history is broadly said to be that of Sylvia’s in the novel.

The output of dry rubber in June from the Papuan plantations of Koitaki Para Rubber Estates Ltd. was 38,5891 b. 24 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21,1936

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The Marsters Family

Memories of Four Days Among the Palmerston Islanders at Suwarrow

By Dwight Long

IT took five days to sail my 32-foot ketch Idle Hour from Penrhyn to Suwarrow atoll. Before leaving Penrhyn, Philip Woonton, the Resident Agent, told us that 19 Palmerston Islanders were stationed at Suwarrow making copra for A. B. Donald Limited, of New Zealand. They were the first inhabitants to live for any length of time on the island since 1905.

We anchored in the lee of the largest motu. Soon canoes put off to greet us.

To my surprise out of the 19 people only three were men. All the rest were women and children, the families of these men.

They explained that the Company they were employed by would not let any man come without his family, because several years ago when a party of men were sent to make copra, some came with their wives and some without. As at Pitcairn Island, only on a smaller scale, trouble soon developed. Three white men were strung up on the high coconut trees by the native labourers.

All the people at Suwarrow are from one family, the Marsters family of Palmerston Island. About 150 years ago Marsters, an Englishman working for a half-caste who owned Palmerston, planted the entire island with coconuts, following the orders of his employer who took a trip to Tahiti. Upon his return after three years he was unable to pay Marsters for all the work, and Marsters was given the island.

The Englishman married three Polynesian women, and started three families. tbpn. ereneration after generation has married and intermarried with no outside blood being introduced. New Zealand has a protectorate over the island as it is in the Cook Group. She has kept the motu under strict isolation, observing this unique family as an experiment, and apparently the intermarriage has not degenerated the descendants to any marked degree. Recently a hurricane swept all the coconuts off their isle of Palmerston, and the Cook Administration had to move many of the Marsters away to other islands in the group where food was plentiful.

As they talked, the 19 Palmerston Islanders at Suwarrow used many old English phrases of the Elizabethan Age.

Mr. William Marsters, the father of this enormous family, with over 200 descendants all intermarried, strictly taught his wives English, and no native tongue is spoken. To hear little Polynesian children talking English was unique. Never before had I heard native children talk good English!

Timi (my Tahitian companion) and I were introduced to the wives and children of Tom, Thomas and Ned Marsters. The family call one Tom and another Thomas to distinguish between them. Mrs. Tom Marsters said, “We are very glad you have come to pay us a visit.’’ A sentence in perfect English was a novelty, for all the natives I had met to date, even in Hawaii, talked pidgin-English, using short, broken phrases, like: “No good,” “Me go get knife,” “You like go eat here,” etc.

Thomas Marsters invited me to go sailing with him in his 18ft. canoe, gathering bird eggs. The sail and the mast were tied up tightly before we started out, and unless the canoe was brought into shallow water so we could get out and unfasten the various lashings it was impossible to lower the sail.

We had sailed halfway across the lagoon when suddenly the outrigger broke away. This was the worst thing that could happen to a canoe, much less a sailing canoe with all the sails tied fast. We tried to attract the attention of the one and only other canoe at Suwarrow, half a mile in our lee. Finally with frantic gestures that almost upset out craft we got their attention. The wind freshed, and the waves became higher and higher as the trades swept across the lagoon. My 25 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Sharks! Soon fins were showing up on the surface all around the canoe. As a monster darted under our tiny craft, Tom had to pull in his hand that was bracing the strut which formerly held the outrigger. Two of his toes and a portion of his foot were missing from a previous experience. A shark hit the side of our canoe, and almost turned us over. They must have sensed our predicament for they surrounded us, and between scoops I counted over a dozen.

Gradually the other canoe gained on us as the winds temporarily weakened. As it came alongside one shark almost got sandwiched in between the two frail dugouts. Thomas got the canoes lashed together, and the immediate danger was over. As I continued bailing I looked at the Idle Hour with longing eyes, and never cared whether I saw any birds or eggs, ever.

However, next day we started off again for a motu across the lagoon and this time I made sure the outrigger’s fastenings were secure before we set sail.

Reaching the distant motu we found booby birds, frigate birds, and man-ofwar birds nesting everywhere, some on the ground and others in low branches. I was amazed how easy it was to get the birds. Not a shot had to be fired; one merely picked the young birds out of their nests. The smaller birds were not taken, only those almost ready to fly. The frigates had a wing spread of six feet, but could not fly. We would grab the booby birds quickly behind the head, and then string them on a reed of coconut fibre, tieing them by their bills.

Often as we approached, the young birds nesting would throw up fish they had just been fed on. Some threw up five or six fish that had not yet been disintegrated, and these were gathered up and carried in a banana leaf. One booby bird threw up eleven fish, but only six were good enough to keep—the rest had almost been digested. The fish were warm and tasted half cooked. I had never eaten fish cooked this way before, but they were delicious.

After we had collected 146 birds, our friends climbed the trees and gathered about a hundred coconuts. With our booty we sailed back and had a real feast.

The birds were not all killed as the meat would spoil. While in captivity each bird was refed one of the fish it had thrown up while being captured.

That evening following supper, all the family joined in singing hymns in English. Many I recognised, such as “Onward Christian Soldiers,” “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “Holy, Holy, Holy.” It was good to hear them, but it seemed so strange to listen to natives on a remote atoll in the South Seas singing them just as we do in the States.

Sunday we went to church, held in the house where all the natives live. Here the Palmerston Islanders praised God and were thankful for the little bit they had.

Their own island had been hit the worst of any motu in the entire Pacific in 1927 and again in 1934. All the new coconut trees planted in 1928 and 1929 were The overseer’s house on Suwarrow Island.

Some years ago it was the scene of grim tragedy when native copra-cutters killed three white men. 26 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, only two were drowned.

A trading schooner calls at Palmerston once a year. After the seas had swept the island the poor people were without sufficient food for over three months until a schooner arrived with supplies. The Marsters community we visited at Suwarrow had been removed from Palmerston about the same time as three other groups were taken to Penrhyn, Manihiki and Mauni —isles where the hurricane had not devastated the entire mytus. William Marsters, the son of the original Marsters, is now over 80 years old, and is still living with 60-odd members of his family on Palmerston. The Cook Island Government has furnished them with food and sent along new coconut shoots so that they can replant the island.

After four days of unforgettable experiences on Suwarrow Island we returned aboard the Idle Hour. Our calendar told us the sad story that we must up anchor and be on our way lest we be caught in the paths of oncoming hurricanes. We had become attached to this unique family and really regretted our departure as we bid farewell to the Palmerston Islanders, and sailed away from Suwarrow.

Sugar, Copra And Gold

Fiji Enjoying Prosperity is destined to play an increasingly -*■* important part in the affairs of the Pacific,” said Major Clive Joske on his arrival in Sydney in June by the Aorangi.

“On one of the main highways of the world, it is well situated strategically to become a possible naval and air force base,” he added.

Major Joske is managing director of Brown and Joske Ltd., which recently amalgamated with W. R. Carpenter and Co. He said that the advent of Carpenter and Co. into Fiji meant that another large group of Australian shareholders is now interested commercially in the group. Fiji is enjoying prosperity at the present time; both sugar and copra crops promise to touch record tonnages for the year, and gold production is still increasing.

Fiji is at present in a strong financial position, continued Major Joske. Revenue has exceeded expenditure by a considerable margin over the past few years.

“Fiji issues its own currency, and the note issue is backed by investments in sterling which more than cover the issue,” remarked the Major. “In view of the healthy state of the Currency Fund and of Fijian finances and trade, it would not be surprising to see the Colonial Office in London restore the Fijian pound to parity with the pound sterling. At present it has been arbitrarily depreciated by the Government’s action to a point halfway between the Australian pound and the pound sterling.”

Mr. Mason Warner, special travel correspondent of the Chicago “Tribune” returned to Sydney by the Malaita on June 19 after visiting the Solomon Islands and Rabaul to gather material for American newspapers. He said that the voyage was one of the most fascinating he had undertaken in 20 years of travelling. Mr. Warner brought back with him a large number of spears and native curios which he will present to the Famous Adventurers’ Club in Chicago.

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MANAGER LEAVES FOR N.Z.

From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, June 14.

MR. H. S. MANNING, manager at Rarotonga for the Union Steam Ship Co. since 1934, leaves for New Zealand with his family by to-morrow’s Makura.

Mr. Manning’s health has been troubling him for some months, and a transfer to a less isolated post will no doubt be welcome.

Described on his arrival in the Cook Islands as “a man of very pleasant disposition,” Mr. Manning has lived up to his reputation. Congenial and convivial, he has maintained the best of relations with every class of local society. His genial personality will be greatly missed by all sections, particularly among his fellow members in the Bowling and Cricket Associations in Rarotonga. 27 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Interesting Experiment With Native Communities in Hawaii SHOULD Polynesians strive to adapt themselves to civilisation, so-called, or return to the fish and poi life they enjoyed before. Captain Cook arrived to disturb the even tenor of their existence?

That question has been debated in every part of the Pacific, and is now being put to a test by American scientists in Hawaii.

Two “rehabilitation” movements, which, it is hoped, will eventually enable ethnologists to make some sort of conclusion, are being conducted within a few miles of each other on the island of Molokai.

On the central plateau of this island 50 Hawaiian families are residing under territorial supervision, and financing.

They are being trained as specialists in pineapple production. Automobiles and radios are found in every home. Twice a week “talkies” are shown at the local theatre. On other nights an orchestra blares jazz tunes for community dances.

Liberal credit sends smart clothes, canned fruits and vegetables, and meats from the butcher to each homestead. The community lives up to a strictly modern standard.

Over the island’s 5000 ft. mountain is Halawa Valley, part of the 9000-acre estate of Paul I. Fagan, San Francisco capitalist. There Hawaiian families are given leases for one dollar a year—with one condition. If they wish to live there they must live, as much as it is practicable, in the manner of their ancestors.

The valley has no theatre, no store, no motor cars. From the soil and sea comes the food of the people. Essential conveniences are admitted, but life must be kept as close to the ancient pattern as possible.

Samoan Bus Driver Not Guilty of Manslaughter From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 6.

THE hearing was commenced last month in the case of manslaughter against Su’a Fllo, the Samoan driver of the bus which crashed through Letogo Bridge into the river on April 6. As a result of the accident, a young Samoan, Patioli, was killed, and several natives were injured.

After lengthy proceedings before Chief Judge R. M. Watson and a jury of four assessors, Su’a Filo was acquitted, evidence having been submitted by a technical expert (Mr. Miedicke) that under the circumstances the mishap might have happened to any normal driver. After the verdict had been delivered, Judge Watson complimented Commissioner R. V. Kay on the fair and efficient way in which the prosecution had been conducted.

Dr. A. P. Elkin, Professor on Anthropology at the Sydney University, accompanied by Mr. F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist of Papua, left Australia for Hawaii as delegates to the Pacific Education Conference by the Mariposa on June 24. 28 Pacific islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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By Julian Hillas

ATLANTIS in the East; Lemuria in the West; continents as large and perhaps even larger than the whole area of Europe disappeared without trace, leaving behind no record beyond the rocky peaks of their highest mountain ranges.

Throughout history, like lesser satellites, numerous small Pacific Islands have been visited once or twice, and then lost forever in the dim twilight of travellers’ tales.

Among these may be counted the sunken atoll of Tuanaki, commonly supposed to have existed some 300 miles south or south-west of Rarotonga in the Cook Group and to have consisted of three densely populated islets strung together on a connecting reef.

The first reference in print to Tuanaki is in the Rev. William Gill’s “Gems of the Coral Islands” which appeared in 1865.

Mention is made there to the arrival at Rarotonga in the year 1844 of a schooner from Rurutu which had been sent out under the direction of the Rev. G. Platt to search for an island known by report throughout the Group, but which had never been visited or definitely located by Europeans.

In the autobiography of the missionary Maretu —subsequently translated by Dr.

Wyatt Gill—is found an account of a further attempt to reach the island, this time in a vessel belonging to John Williams, also, as far as can be made out from some confusion of dates, during 1844. The vessel in question called first at-Aitutaki and whilst there the Captain and Mr. Gill interviewed a native seaman named Toma who claimed to have seen Tuanaki while employed on board a whaling ship.

According to his account he had gone ashore there as one of a landing-party of seven, and after proceeding some distance inland came upon a house filled with men, amongst whom was the Ariki, or Chief.

Gifts of scissors, axes and head-dresses were presented by the visitors who, in exchange, received fowls, pigs, yams and bananas, which shows that although Tuanaki was only an atoll its soil must have been considerably better than the average. The ship remained six days, during which time Toma and his companions stayed ashore as guests. He informed Mr. Gill that the people were just like the Aitutakians in appearance, although their language and customs more closely resembled those of the Mangaians, who were in fact their nearest neighbours—it taking only a day and a night to reach that island.

After leaving Aitutaki, William’s vessel called at Mangaia and proceeding thence in the supposed direction of Tuanaki encountered such heavy weather that her boom and after mast were both broken, necessitating an immediate return to Rarotonga.

No further attempt seems to have been made to find the lost atoll, although it is on record that some time during the 40’s a trading vessel from Auckland used to visit an island of which the exact position was kent secret, and w T hich subsequently disappeared.

But that Tuanaki formerly did exist appears fairly certain. To-day among the people of Rarotonga a particular reddishbrown shade of hair is spoken of as the tu Tuanaki, rumour having it that this was the general colouring of that island, a belief to which substance is lent by the more southerly and temperate climate Modern oceanic survey has moreover established the location of a shoal in latitude 27.308, a distance of 360 miles from Rarotonga, a position in every way corresponding to the supposed site of Tuanaki. Writing in 1901, Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Gudgeon, then Resident Commissioner at Rarotonga, believed that the island was in existence up to 70 years ago and disappeared as the result of a volcanic upheaval.

One can imagine the three islets, mere crumbs of land on a narrow riband of coral reef. Placid and uneventful days filled with small interests and cares —the perpetual motion of a self-contained life.

Maretu tells us that the Tuanakians knew nothing of warfare; they only knew how to dance and sing.

Perhaps it was night-time when the first tremor shook the atoll, sending the water in the lagoon surging ashore in angry waves among the palms. Strange marine fires may have lit the scene like great lamps burning in the ocean depths. ... A second tremor and the rending of the island’s coral foundations, followed by the rushing together of the waters. Darkness and the swirling currents; the shrill cries of women and children; and the hoarse gutteral shout- 29 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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DUD 86.DS ing of men. And then dawn, pale and sickly, with heavy vapours, creeping across the eastern horizon: “Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.” t hS Ct D °u r L a lP ? la i n ,?h .«**«* S& tS "north-east of Aitutaki in the Cook Groilp, and rumour held that it was rich in guano deposits. That these reports were considered authentic is evident from an insertion which appeared in a Melbourne newspaper in February, 1865. ‘‘WANTED. Single man to take charge of an island in the South Pacific. Apply B. B. Nicholson and Co., Ship Brokers, Elizabeth Street.” , . antwe?e e d Vo ? h t 1, a e d vSe m fn , ll rd « s re Tt ed a‘n he u a n P p P u°SeT “. . . he (Mr. Nicholson) said that he was going to Sandwich in the morning and would like me to go with him to see Captain Murphy of the barque Envoy from Liverpool, to know \yhen he would be ready to start for the South Sea Islands.

“At 8 a.rn. we went and saw the barque, a fine new vessel of 500 tons. The Captain said he would be ready to sail on March 8. . . . Mr. Nicholson agreed to give me £l2 a month with all provisions, tents, boat, and tools for prospecting Victoria Island for guano. I was to find a man who could fix up the tents, row a boat, and cook. I soon found a sailor at £ 6 a month and on the following day we signed articles before the Shipping Master, I as Captain of Victoria Island and Woods as Mate.

“. . . The same evening we left (Aitutaki) to hunt for Victoria Island, which the Captain said was about 1000 miles distant. After a fortnight Captain Murphy said we were near the island and he sent a man aloft to look but. At daylight next morning another man went aloft, but again no land was sighted.

Murp.hy said we were now within five miles and as we had strong trade-winds the barque was scudding along.

“About 9 a.m, the Captain and Mate took the sun and, working out the reckoning, declared that we had sailed right over the island. There were thousands of birds hovering around and most of us concluded that the island had gone down in that dreadful hurricane that had done so much damage in Aitutaki. However, we ploughed the ocean for 100 miles in all directions, but no land was to be seen, so we started for Malden Island where the barque was to load guano for Melbourne.

We arrived there correct. Captain Murphy was a splendid navigator—he could pick up an island if it was marked right on the chart. ...”

Old tales die hard and although Victoria has never been definitely reported by a reliable authority, belief in its existence still lingers on, particularly among the inhabitants of Manihiki, who declare that as late as the 60’s their people used to rest at Victoria Island on the journeys between Manihiki and Malden. That this corresponds with the time when William Oliver was searching for the lost island is perhaps significant, insomuch as no mention after that date is again made to Victoria by the Manihikians. The presence of a large flock of gulls could very well be accounted for by shoal water—a shoal possibly quite recently formed by some marine subsidence.

Shrouded in conjecture, the histories of Tuanaki and Victoria add yet another link to the long chain of unsolved Pacific mysteries, watched over by the greatest enigma of all—those inscrutable stone faces forever glooming out across the waters from the barren hillsides of Easter Island.

Recreation Club Formed at Pt. Moresby From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, June 8.

ASIDELINE of the Port Moresby Institute Hall, a Recreation Club has been formed with Mr. E. J. Frame as president, and is already in full swing - . Social games tournaments will be held reg-ularly, and a prominent outdoor sport of the Club will be canoe racing on the Harbour.

Mr. R. P. Barwick has been appointed secretary and treasurer and is indefatigable in his efforts to push forward this movement that promises to do much towards providing entertainment and recreation *for the people of Port Moresby.

Mr. A. G. Former, of the Bank of New Zealand in Suva, left Fiji in June on transfer to New Zealand. 30 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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WHILE horticulturists of Bulolo (N.G.) bemoan drought and deluge, lamenting the meagre reward of their toil, Dame Nature does a little bit of gardening on her own just to show these amateurs what can be done if they only knew how to do it.

The result is a giant sweet-potato, measuring 2ft. in length, and weighing over 451b5., which was found growing in the high ridges of stones and gravel piled up by the dredges in their wake, and known locally as the “rock-pile.”

Along the whole glaring, shadeless stretch not a particle of ground remains, and the bleached stones become so scorchingly hot under the fierce sun that it is astonishing how any plant can survive in such uncongenial surroundings, much less produce a prodigy. Yet in our gardens, in spite of careful shading and daily attention, all we manage to rear are a few undersized weaklings, without strength to hold up their heads under a local shower.

The place where the Wape native found this tit-bit, worthy of even his colossal appetite, is close to the lake which has been dug for building the new dredge, which is now under construction.

This spot seems predestined to fame for the production of prodigies. Recently, a strange aquatic monster made its appearance in the lake. It was seen one afternoon by three Europeans and some natives, who at first took it to be a large tortoise. The creature stayed on the surface for about fifteen minutes and, watching its movements, they were able to see that it was more like an enormous fish, and appeared to have two large ears or fins. Closer investigation was not possible, as it remained in the centre of the lake, which is about 300 ft. wide, and none of the boys could be persuaded to swim out.

It has since been seen several times by natives, with the result that swimming in the lake has lost all attraction.

Large conger-eels have been caught in the vicinity, so it is thought that the apparition may prove a giant of that species. With the construction of the dredge starting it is unlikely that the monster will be able to preserve its incognito as successfully as its famous contemporary of Loch Ness.—C.F.

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From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, June 6.

THE public of Papeete recently had cause to be grateful for the generosity of Messrs. Lewin and Thalberg of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation of Hollywood for their donation to the Colony of a copy of the film “Mutiny on the Bounty” by our famous local authors Nordhoff and Hall.

As an important part of this picture was filmed here in Tahiti, the attendance at the premiere showing at Tony Bambridge’s Theatre Moderne was extremely large and enthusiastic. H.E; the Governor turned the entire financial handling *of the film over to the local Red Cross Association, and the proceeds will be used exclusively for charitable purposes.

The photographic work of one of the world’s greatest camera-men, Clyde da Vinna, resulted in the production of a masterpiece of photography, while the fine technical hand of the famous director, Frank Lloyd, wove the whole together into that great picture which has received the approbation of the entire world.

During their stay in French Oceania these two supreme masters of their art endeared themselves personally to the large number of Tahitians who worked in the making of the picture. It is safe to say that their return to the Islands at any future date will be attended by loud cheers and jubilations.

Mr. Norman C. Nelson, director of Nelson and Robertson Ltd., Islands merchants and agents of Sydney, returned to Australia with his wife and son from a business visit to New Guinea by the July Macdhui.

The native, on the bank of the lake at Bulolo, with his giant sweet-potato. 31 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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N.G. Public Service THE following particulars of appointments, etc., to the New Guinea Public Service were announced in the June Gazette (No. 450); — Appointments: F. N. Green, Medical Assistant, Public Health Dept.; E. H. F. Mitchell, F. G.

Hutton, and J. J. Murphy, Cadets, District Services Dept.; Misses V. Thwaite and I. Wall, Typistes, Govt. Secretary’s Dept.; C. Darbyshire, Draftsman, Registrar-General’s Dept.; J. H. L.

Waterhouse, Assistant Teacher, Education Dept.; Miss M. M. Byron, Assistant Teacher, Education Dept.; Miss J. A. Gridley, Relieving Typiste; Miss F. J. Mathieson, Typiste, Treasury Dept.; C. C.

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Guthrie and G. W. Stanley, Inspectors, Agriculture Dept.; A. MacLeod, Clerk-Watchman, Customs Dept.; J. Laird, Schooner Engineer, Customs Dept.; J. R. Rigby, Acting A.D.0., District Services Dept.

Public Works Dept. Appointments: Miss P.

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Hoffman, W. J. Stewart, and H. G. Strong, Roadmasters.

Termination of Services: M. A. Nagle (dismissed); R. B. McVilly (appointment annulled); Matron U. M. Garter, and A. Barnes (resigned).

Repression or Expression?

The Puzzle of Those Lotus- Eating Trippers TT is puzzling sometimes to know exactly why persons who are perhaps quiet, generous, and even quite likeable in their habits at home should reveal such opposite characteristics on their arrival In the Islands.

Popular literature is no doubt partly responsible for a certain class of visitor.

For years the South Seas have been pictured as a paradise where "something for nothing” may really be obtained. One result of this has been a steady stream of small mendicant yachts whose crews appear to exist solely on the bunches of free bananas hung, for lack of space elsewhere, in the rigging of their millimetre masts. For weeks and often months these peripatetic parasites moor their vessels to the wharves, only leaving when the last bunch is consumed and the source of supply finally exhausted.

Then, again, there are the apparently well-off, who, after letting it be known— always in the strictest confidence—that they really are "somebody,” proceed at once to disprove it by their behaviour.

Frequently they collect things, pearls, antiques, shells, or even seaweed, but whatever it is they argue fiercely over the price. Purely, of course, on principle.

Their admiration of other peoples’ nicknacks is positively magnetic. They admire, acquire, and retire.

For them the unconsidered trifle simply does not exist. Their scale of values is a descending one, and the article which has been obtained for nothing ranks highly. If, by some singularly lucky "find,” they contrive to “make” a little towards the cost of their visit, then they feel they have not travelled in vain.

But perhaps even more objectionable still is the young unattached male visitor who throughout his stay appears to exist in a state of continual rut. Loosed in the playgrounds of the Pacific, he throws not merely discretion but all sense of proportion to the trade-wind, and, metaphorically flinging his new topee over the nearest coconut palm, bounds into a mad intemperate race with the time at his disposal.

In a similar but far less disagreeable class are the old men, the “sugar daddies," who totter a little apologetically into these verdant fields of romance. There is something rather pathetic in the sight of their too obvious gratitude for the transitory interest shown by some mercenaryminded maiden. Their hearts burst with tender emotion, but, alas, false teeth and indigestion soon send them back whence they came, a little poorer, a little wiser, and, perhaps, a little sadder. The red, red rose which once has bloomed!

There are, of course, many pleasant visitors to leaven this unsavoury concoction, but their agreeable qualities only serve to emphasise the unpalatable ingredients which compose so large a part of the whole bill of fare. —J.H.

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Charlie Savage—The White Chief of Bau

By Erle Wilson

ONE of the most picturesque figures of Fiji’s “bad old days” was Charlie Savage, the young English seaman who became a chief of the Bau people and polygamous husband of chiefs’ daughters.

The story of his career —known to most old hands in the Group—is one of stirring adventure. Though his reign was brief, his influence on the political fortunes of more than one tribe in Na Viti Levu can be traced to-day more than 120 years after he was cast away on Mocea reef at Nairai when the brig Josephine was wrecked.

Savage and four companions were the only members of the crew to reach the shore alive. Without food, unarmed, and in rags, they might well have met the fate of so many other Europeans who fell helpless into the hands of Fijians even at a much later date. But, to the Kai Viti of that time, a white-man was a rara avis indeed, and the Tui Lawaki, into whose hands Savage and his companions fell, was astute enough to see that the possession of five such curiosities, alive, was likely to prove of more value than five dead, white-skinned strangers. It may have been, too, and subsequent events lend weight to the supposition, that Tui Lawaki was not a sufficiently high chief to keep such rare dainties to himself, for, shortly after their landing on Nairai, the chief of Verata, passing through Lawaki, took Savage’s four companions away to his town.

Why Charlie Savage was left is uncertain. Perhaps, as he was but a youth, he was not thought of much worth, and the Tui Lawaki was allowed to keep him. In this the Verata peoplfe blundered. For before long the youthful Savage—soon to be a savage indeed —was to become their most powerful enemy, leading the warriors of the rival clan of Bau.

Shortly after the Verata men had left Lawaki, some Levuka people called there en route to Bau, of which state they were subject. When they moved on they took Savage with them as a present to a newly-installed War-Chief, Ratu Ramatenikutu.

Savage attached himself closely to the War-Chief and, far from showing compunction or reluctance he proved himself eager to join in the almost incessant fighting that went on against neighbouring clans. He was a vigorous youth and acquitted himself well; but native weapons were evidently not deadly enough for him. Soon his mind turned back to the muskets which he knew had been aboard the Josephine and at last he persuaded Ratu Ramatenikutu to let him return to the wreck in the hope of finding them.

His search in the vicinity of the wreck was without result, but as he was about to return empty-handed to Bau he saw the rusted barrel of a musket projecting from the grass-thatched roof of Tul JLawaki’s house. This he took, cleaned thoroughly and, having no powder, put away in readiness for the future. Wrecks, he knew, would become more frequent in those uncharted waters as European ships penetrated further into the Fiji Islands: from one of them he might procure the necessary powder and bullets.

He was right. Shortly afterwards, an unfortunate brig was driven ashore on Oneata and from it Savage procured the ammunition he needed, together with three more muskets.

Now was his chance to increase his already considerable prestige in the land.

His adopted clansmen had no knowledge of firearms. Chiefs and commoners alike were greatly impressed, not to say awed, when their white man drove a bullet through a stout canoe rest from several yards’ distance. The tribal medicine-man, seeing how things were going and fearing a rival, immediately claimed the musket for himself and, as custom disallowed the refusal of a claim from such a quarter, Savage had perforce to part with the weapon.

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Cautiously the painted fighters of Bau advanced on Nakelo but their approach was known: the gates were closed and the Bati-ni-koro—the Teeth-of-the-Town —crouched, waiting in readiness behind the war-fence.

Now was the opportunity of the white man. His bullets would have pierced the stockade, but ammunition was too valuable to use in random shooting. He directed the Bau warriors to erect a platform on the edge of the bush, high enough to give him sight beyond the stockade.

It was quickly done and, mounting this platform, he opened fire on the Nakelo.

His first shot brought a shout of "A kuru siga!” (“A bolt from the blue!”) from the defenders. Savage was an expert marksman. He fired carefully, each time dropping his man. Never before had a gun been used in war in Fiji: the astounded Nakelo fled, pursued by the equally astonished but exultant killers of Bau.

Verata at that time was the most powerful rival of Bau. Soon after the Nakelo fight, some Bau canoes with Charlie Savage aboard, met and routed a fleet of Verata fishermen near Macoi Point. In the fight that took place, Savage again distinguished himself by his shooting and courage. After the fight, the blooded warriors were streaked with black and red, and Savage also was painted according to custom, and given the honorific title of Koroinavunivalu.

In the opinion of the Bau High-Chiefs, Savage (now Koroinavunivalu) had proven his devotion to his adopted tribe and two women of rank were given to him as wives: Adi Kakua, daughter of Roko Tui Bau (High-Chief of Bau) and another, daughter of Tui Lomaloma (Chief of Lomaloma), as well as a number of other wives of low degree.

The young ex-seaman now ranked as a Chief in the land; but, though he had fallen in so completely with native life, his thoughts often turned to his four erstwhile companions who had been taken to Verata. He knew they were still alive and at last he contrived to get a written message to them, urging them to join him at Bau. This they eventually did and they were welcomed and given a house for their own use. But they did not show Savage’s ability to adapt themselves to their circumstances. The fears of massacre which they must have felt at first had long since been allayed and, as time passed, they increasingly adopted a pose of superiority by virtue of their lighter skins alone.

Koroinavunivalu remonstrated with them to no effect and, eventually, annoyed at being excluded from a feast of warriors, they went by night to the rara and cut up the communal supply of yams.

The chiefs were angered, and it is an indication of the firm position Savage had won among them that they sought his permission before making a move to punish the presumptuous whites by death.

The permission was given. Whether readily or not we do not know, but there is nothing in Charlie Savage’s history to indicate the likelihood of any great reluctance to abandon his old companions in order to preserve his own standing. Death had become a familiar thing to him, and the four were clearly not fitted to the Fijian way of life.

Armed with muskets, the seamen retired into their vale and barricaded the two narrow doors. A Bau Chief and a Soso man were shot before the vale was fired, and the four castaways suffocated in its smoke.

Koroinavunivalu continued to live the life of a fighting Chief of Bau. He had been with the clan about two years when the daughter of Tui Lomaloma bore him a daughter whom he named Maria.

About five years later a brig arrived at Bau and the captain asked Koroinavunivalu’s permission to cut sandalwood near Bau. The white Chief agreed and with several other Bau Chiefs accompanied the sailors to Navakasiga where they anchored near the town. For once Charlie Savage’s judgment was at fault.

While his party were busy felling trees with only their logging tools at hand, they were rushed by the warriors of Navakasiga and massacred to a man.

That ambush was the beginning of a long and bitter war in which Navakasiga and several other towns were sacked, and Charlie Savage and the Bau Chiefs fiercely avenged. During the war, a young chief who had particularly distinguished himself was given the title of Koroijale (Koroi-Charlie) after the Fijian fashion of creating a living memorial to a fallen warrior Chief.

Maria, Savage’s daughter, later became the wife of a Rewa chief, Roko Tui Dreketi, and their only daughter, Adi Karalaini Lako, later married a Bau Chief, Ratu Isireli Tawakedina. Their son, Ratu Tomu, was taken to school in Australia by a Mr. G. A. Woods just prior to the hoisting of the British flag in Fiji in 1874. He did not return.

What became of him is not known and in him ended the line of Chiefs of Bau founded by Charlie Savage, one of the first Europeans to survive shipwreck on the beaches of Fiji.

Captain C. R. Pinney, M.C., has been reappointed Administrator and Chief Magistrate of Norfolk Island for a year from July 1. 34 Pacific islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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A LTHOUGH Papua may never experience the aviation activity of New Guinea, the territory Is certainly becoming air-minded. Aerodromes have already been established at Port Moresby, Kokoda, Yodda, loma, Kubuna, and Bapual.

Land has aleo been purchased for a ground at Dam, and there Is another aerodrome actually under construction near the sawmill on Wame River In the Delta Division. -H The site of the Wame ’drome is known as Port Romilly. The landing ground will be 700 yards by 100 yards, running N.N.W. and S.S.E. By the end of the year, it is hoped that at least 500 yards will have been smoothed and grassed. The approach and take-off for the new aerodrome are being cleared of obstructions to give aircraft a free passage.

Most of the work connected with this landing ground will fall on Mr. Charles McKinnon, manager of the Sawmill. He will be assisted by Government prison labour.

Mr. E. Folks returned to Sydney from Lord Howe Island by the Morinda on June 22, after serving as schoolmaster for two and a half years. He said residents were very interested in the proposals which had been made for the provision of continuous medical service on the island.

Mrs. Folks had been the official nurse on Lord Howe, and on several occasions had felt the responsibility keenly.

The Sicknesses Of Tami

By Te Ruau

IN his thatched, pebble-floored cookhouse I found Tami, ex-sailor, ex-tallyboy and Mate’s pimp, presently store-boy absent without leave (but of course virtuously expecting un-docked wages at the end of the month). He was squatting on a mat not too brilliantly clean, with a glass, a wide-mouthed bottle containing a white powder, and a small enamelled bowl in front of him. In his hand he held a dessert-spoon, bearing on its handle the engraved house-flag of a famous shipping company.

A man of many, mostly imaginary, sicknesses (when not real and due to a mixed and extensive diet in which fat halfcooked pork and anciently-cooked fish figured largely), Tami greeted me cheerlessly, if politely, and proceeded to dip from the bottle two dessert-spoons of the white powder.

Becoming interested as I perched on the edge of the doorboard, I was informed that the gentleman was suffering from “piwa” (fever) for which he was about to consume “kinyin.” It was prescribed by his latest medical adviser, a returned native missionary from Papua, who had there learned many of the white man’s ways, converting the heathen by methods in which black twist tobacco seems to have figured largely as an aid to grace. For “piwa” one tablespoon, mixed to a cream with cold water, was regarded as a permanent cure for the Cook Islander’s main ills.

We argued more or less calmly. It was white man’s medicine, and Tami was free to admit that it would be very strong; but he persisted in upholding missionary knowledge, as a prominent church light himself, against that of any trader. But, finally, and most reluctantly, he agreed (on my remarking that under no circumstances did I propose to provide any ship's biscuit, kegged salt beef, or coffin-timber, with “silver” fittings therefor, for the obsequies of any permanently-cured storeboy, however holy or intellectual) to reduce that quinine dose to one teaspoonful. But he was quite sure that it would not meet the needs of his case.

Having done my best, it was with mixed feelings that saw him prepare the potion, swallow, choke, spit, and grimace horribly. Then I left, that I might not be held as an accessory before a Tribal Court; for in those days it was a foregone conclusion that all the family would unite to swear away the liberty of anyone, so be that the sacred person of a missionary, with all the chiefs well to heel, might not be brought into the limelight.

I need not have worried. Hourly reports supplied by a native friend not only assured me that Tami was alive and sweating profusely under piled covers, but also that six hours later he had assimilated, under the direct supervision of the missionary aforesaid, another and larger dose. He was back at work, next morning, refusing to admit that his ears were fitted with bells or that he felt other than exceptionally fit and well.

The dosage tables of the British Pharmacopoeia, seemingly, were not compiled to guide Brown Brother!

TAMI was again sick. Nothing concrete, but indefinite pains of wind, water, and tide —probably due to Tahiti rum, seven days from a still formed from a large iron kettle, a piece of bamboo with sundry packings of not over-clean rag, and, of course, the sugarcane molasSes or Juice “mash.” That the rum was smuggled goes perhaps without saying.

The more cocksure but less reliably in- 35 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Tami’s latest Ta’unga Maori thought of none of these, but supplied him, at the direction of his ghost or familiar spirit, a weird and untranslatable name distinctly of the non-parlour variety, and provided Tami with an evil-looking olive-green mixture wherein fragments of bark and leaf were afloat, strange argosies on an unknown sea, in a not-very-inviting kerosene tin, autumnal in hue.

Decantation was suggested on Tami’s arrival with his load at the store door at 7 a.m. So he procured a No. 12 bucket from the stock (mine), an enamel basin (mine), and perched the whole on a convenient case of tinned beef (also mine) in the back storeroom.

Calling Tami and breaking the news to him that one bucket and one bowl were duly debited against his prospective wages (whereat he said dolefully “whooooo”) and that one case of beef, if wetted, would sidle underneath these entries, I learned that the mess had to be swallowed before sundown, roughly 6 p.m., else it would not effect a cure.

Tami was hopeful on all counts; but removed the apparatus to an empty beefcase, to be sure of one phase.

Noon saw him visibly wilting and not feeding up to form. But, between us, we managed to keep him resolute; and at 4 p.m.

Tami and his bucket were put out Into the yard, as we wanted to close the store.

He had then a good third of the bucket to go, and made the remark: “Py Klaish!

He one damn pig pucketi, ol lite.”

I do not know whether he played fair, but I should imagine he did, for three very interested natives were hanging about (stimulated thereto by a gift of twist tobacco from me). Akama, or shame, would do the rest, I thought. He would not empty the bucket on the grass and go home, in the circumstances.

I nearly forgot to mention that on and off during the day, I had, unbeknown to Tami, been adding sundry cups of water from the tap to Tami’s bucket, to help the good work along.

Tami is an unsuspicious soul, for a fo’c’stle graduate—but he changed his doctor next day and he has not been violently worshipful of me since. Tami’s medical adviser usually lasted a week, and his real friendships a little longer; therefore, I imagine, he must have smelt a rat.

HTAMI had a lodger—one of those queer fowl, reputedly monied, who drift in and out of the Islands, live native and seem, to say the least, “careful!”

This one had been down many times before, arriving with a bag of oatmeal, kerosene, a tin of what he called “grease,” and some canned skimmed milk for provender —buying his rice and sugar locally “to help local trade.”

This time he had brought along a large tin of raisins, which aroused Tami’s curiosity.

“Why you bring that?” he asked.

“Oh,” said the lodger, “I got ’em for a song, so I took ’em.”

Tami made no remark. But he took time off to consider the amazing news—and, next day, to a white friend, he said: “You know that fellow sing?”

The white man laughed. “No! not very much” —and laughed again.

Said Tami: “True, I tell you. He get the raisin for the. song, he tell me. Py crlpes, I not know he can sing, this long time!”

Indian Land Leases In Fiji From Our N.Z. Correspondent..

AUCKLAND, June 12.

AFTER a month’s visit to Fiji in the interests of Indians resident there, the Rev. C. P. Andrew’s noted religious mystic, author, and friend of the Indian people, returned to New Zealand by the Aorangi on June 8.

Mr. Andrews said a remarkable improvement had taken place in conditions for Indians in Fiji since his previous visits.

The abolition of indentured labour had allowed the Indians to become peasant proprietors. They had proved themselves good cultivators of sugar, and the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. had done wisely in making them its chief farmers.

The main problem he had been confronted with had been the renewal of Fijian leases held by Indians, which were now expiring. This had caused a critical situation, involving endless bargaining and the expenditure of large sums of money, since the Indians had to make presents to the leading members of the tribe, the land being held by the tribe as a whole. The process was leading to great demoralisation. He was now working on the problem of a just and simple method of lease renewal.

His inquiries into the education of Indians had revealed that remarkable progress had been made. The third question, that of the abolition of the franchise for the Legislative Council, was in his opinion a mistake, and he gave his view as strongly in favour of it being retained. 36 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Economical Value of Medical Handbooks By R. F. THOMPSON, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.

A CELEBRATED medical man in Australia, Philip E. Muskett, published in the year 1903 The Illustrated Australian Medical Guide in two volumes. The great urge for this work was that the only similar works obtainable in Australia had been written in England or America and were quite valueless to the Australian people.

Muskett’s volumes are still to be found all over Australia and in all sorts of homes. People in isolated homesteads, far from medical aid, find Muskett a reliable old friend of 33 years’ standing.

Dave of the outback, for example, is bitten by a poisonous snake and is kept alive by Sarah who has hastily verified that the bite is from a venomous reptile by observing only two punctures instead of several as left by the non-venomous variety. She seizes the whip that Dave is carrying and ties the lash above the bitten part, ignoring the while the advice of an obstinate old swaggy who insists that Dave should be made as drunk as a lord. Muskett is emphatic that there is no sense in making the patient intoxicated. Dave continues his fencing job that afternoon feeling none the worse for the experience.

In the Solomon Islands, Muskett’s Australian publication, like English and American works in Australia, has a lessened value. Typhoid does not exist in the Solomons. Poisonous snakes are very rare, but centipedes, scorpions, and many poisonous fish are found. Yaws, from which most of the native children suffer, are known by their framboesial appearance.

There are many tropical complaints such as “mango toe*’ and nasty abscess formations that need constant attention out on the lonely plantations, away from any medical help whatever. Nathaniel Crichlow, M. 8., Ch.B., Glasgow, who has been for a long time a Government Medical Officer in the Solomons, published in 1921 a small handbook entitled “A Brief Medical Guide for the Solomon Islands’’ wherein the important diseases such as Blackwater, Malaria, Dysentery and pulmonary complaints are dealt with very fullv. Many deaths have been averted by the aid of this small Medical Guide of only 109 pages. Hundreds of labourers have annually been cured of sicknesses, thus ensuring the continued production of hundreds of tons of copra and other produce.

The Medical Guide is kept on every plantation in the Solomons, and is the inspiration of the planter in times when ill-health hovers at his door. These Medical Guides, therefore, have a great economic value apart from other things, but it is evident that locality governs their usefulness.

Why Umio Snores No

MORE From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, June 6.

THE unpleasant habit of snoring was checked rather drastically in Rigo recently, when the deep vibrations of an elderly native, Faula Umio, were unfortunately mistaken for those of a pig, and he was speared to death before the mistake became known.

It seems that in a hunt for pigs, one night at Rigo, Umio was charged with guarding the trap while his companions dispersed. The night was dark, and the waiting tedious. Umio’s old bones ached, and soon he was snoring, with grunts so thick and vigorous that no other animal than a pig could produce them.

Guided by the sound, the party crept back, and one, Tagugaina, stealthily drove his spear home. To his dismay he found later on that the dark form lying dead on the ground was no pig, but his old uncle, Umio!

Tagugaina was charged in the Central Court with murder, but under the circumstances was found not guilty and discharged.

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VOYAGE Interesting Relics in New Zealand * I 'HKOUGH the cinema, books, and newspaper articles much prominence has been given in recent months to the Bounty mutiny and Captain Bligh’s subsequent amazing voyage in an open boat to Timor.

The fierce spotlight of publicity has now uncovered the interesting fact that one of Bligh’s grandsons lives at Inglewood, near New Plymouth, in New Zealand.

He is Dr. E. S. Nutting, and in his possession are the historic gourd, cup, bullet, and compass used on the epic sea journey after the loyal men had been cast adrift by the mutineers.

The gourd from which Bligh ate his allowance of bread and water on the voya &e in the Bounty's launch is fashioned from the shell of a coconut. On it are faintly penned the words, “The cup I eat my miserable allowance out of.” The small cup made from the horn of some animal measured the water, one gill served to each written^Th^hniiAt ° f n bullet * 3 a]] ' b f e pf a lb - was the wh i cb sup Pp rted 18 three time! ,f er ™? d to each pe^ 30a with which B^ PaSS tha l f rorn Tftf ope^L.boat ste ®f ed Besides Timor ' 3618 mfies. b f to s. lc mementoes. Dr.

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Restlessness In

New Guinea

Is Bureaucracy in the Saddle Again?

Letter to the Editor.

T\o the people down South know that Bureaucracy has been completely reestablished in New Guinea, and that the morale of the service is being undermined by petty, harassing tactics? Do you know that all the fine work done by General Griffiths, in forming a policy of progress and development, and in checking the more autocratic officials, has been destroyed, and that there is murmuring and discontent all through the Territory?

The belief here is that the new Administrator leaves most of the important decisions to Canberra, and that our Department in Canberra is being run by the janitor and the office cat. I have not heard a good word for the Government for months, and I am in daily contact with officials, traders, planters and miners.

The main complaint of the responsible officials is that they are treated like naughty children by a gentleman who, whatever may have been his military record, has not had one-tenth of their experience of tropical administration.

Why cannot Australia, in filling these positions, get an experienced Colonial Governor from the British Colonial Office?

This is done, as a matter of policy, by other British countries—why does not Australia do the same?

If someone in authority in Australia does not soon become aware of what is happening here, and take steps accordingly, there will be a first-class row, which will not be much credit to Australia’s administration of the mandate.

I am. etc..

TRADER.

Rabaul, New Guinea, 9/5/36.

EDITORIAL NOTE: We publish the above letter not because we subscribe to the views expressed, but because it is only one of half-adozen of the same character recently received.

We do not know exactly what it is that our correspondent complains of. Apparently there has been a good deal of pin-pricking in certain sections of the Public Service, and the officials are irritated and restless. General Griffiths was a kindly, humane man, who valued the personal contact method of doing things, rather than the harsher method of discipline, routine, and official formality. General McNicoll belongs to the official school; and no matter how just and conscientious he may be, the people make a comparison, and do not like the result.

There is nothing to show that there is anything very seriously wrong in the New Guinea Administration. If there is any trouble, it can be traced to what our correspondent calls the reestablishment of bureaucracy in New Guinea, The Administrator necessarily leaves much to his departmental heads; and some of those officials have been too long in New Guinea, and have been spoiled by having too much authority. They are good, capable officers, no doubt, but they should be moved on. But how, and where?

Here is where one sees the merit of the “Tropical Service Corps” idea, put forward by Sir Charles Marr, when he was Minister. Under such a plan, the trouble in New Guinea would end when two or three prominent officials were moved to other responsible posts. As it is, we suppose that unconscious bureaucracy will continue unchecked on its distressing way; and the life of the Administrator will be made increasingly miserable by the discontent within his service, and the growling of the populace without.

A tropical territory cannot be run like a military camp. They found that out in Samoa — but too late to prevent an administrative scandal. 38 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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MacFarlane, who is now rector at Scotsdalc, Tasmania, has compiled from various sources this strange sequel to the ghastly story of Papuan cannibalism in the ’fifties folloxving upon the wreck of the “St. Paul,” as related in the May issue of the “Pacific Islands Monthly."

ICAME across this sequel when searching through some of the age-scarred records of the old settlement of Somerset, on Cape York Peninsula —first formed as a port of refuge for shipwrecked voyagers in the days when the nearest European settlement was about 1000 miles away.

In the handwriting of the then Government Resident, it was told how the pearling brig John Bell sailed into Somerset on© day in 1875, having on board a white man whom the crew had found living with the blacks in the vicinity of Cape Sidmouth.

His name was given as Narcisse Peltier, a Frenchman. He had almost forgotten his mother tongue, and his body was marked with lacerations which denoted his tribal degree. For 17 years he had lived with the tribe of blacks into which he had been initiated.

After a while he was able to tell his story. He was one of the company of the French ship St. Paul, which had been wrecked on Rossel Island. A very few of the ship’s company had escaped, and with them he had managed to reach the mainland of Australia. Going ashore for water, he had wandered away from the others, into the bush; and had been left behind. Blacks had found him, had treated him kindly, and he had been one of themselves ever since.

After being looked after at Somerset for some little time, the Frenchman was sent to Brisbane.

At Albury, a couple of years ago, I had opportunity of examining some old files of the Border Post. In the issue of June 9, 1875, were details of the discovery of a white man who had just recently been discovered amongst Cape York aboriginals.

The following notes, which I extracted may be of interest as supplementing the story previously related.

Narcisse Pierre Pallatier was the son of a shoemaker of Bordeaux, and was cabin boy in the French ship St. Paul bound from China in 1858 with 350 Chinese. The vessel wias wrecked on a ln the Louisiad© Group, and all hands got ashore on an uninhabited island. As the Europeans feared that the Chinese would eat them, they sailed to another Island, where they were attacked by natives, and three men were killed. They then returned to where they had left the Chinese.

At night they sailed away, hoping to reach Australia. After a journey of 600 miles, with terrible sufferings they landed near Cape Direction. On getting ashore they found a waterhole. The men drank all the water, leaving none for the boy who went off into the bush. Eventually they sailed without him, and a tribe of blacks, following the tracks of the party found him and treated him kindly.

He was discovered by the crew of the John Bell, stark naked and with his body scarified, an ear being ornamented with a piece of wood. He did not want to leave the blacks. At Somerset, where he was taken, he tried to escape; but while there made some clever sketches of Australian animals. After he was taken to Brisbane, a subscription list was opened to enable him to return home.

An earlier issue, May 22, of the same newspaper, records that the mate and crew of the St. Paul had been picked up by the Rose of Denmark, and landed at New Caledonia. The newspaper clipping reprinted in the P.I.M. states that the Prince of Denmark was the rescuing vessel.

Mr. A. R. Broadhurst, of Messrs. Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., Rabaul, New Guinea, married Miss Mavis McLaren, daughter of Captain G. McLaren (formerly in charge of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission at Matupi) at Rabaul on June 8.

Mr. William C. Groves, 8.A., of Kew, Victoria, sailed from Sydney by the Aorangi on June 18 for Hawaii to attend the International Conference on Education and Anthropology, as one of Australia’s representatives. Mr. Groves, who is well known in New Guinea where he has done much anthropological work, expects to return to Sydney in September. 39 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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“Tin-Can” Mail

First Delivery at Niuafoou for a Year THE “tin-can” mail was delivered at - B- Niuafoou Island in the Tongan Group for the first time for over a year in the middle of July. The Monowai on a cruise in Central Pacific called at the little island to drop eagerly-awaited letters.

The novelty of the “tin-can” mail has always attracted philatelists, and the steamer carried a large batch of letters sent by Australian and New Zealand stamp collectors. Niuafoou is dependent for its mail on very infrequent visits of itinerant schooners, and consequently the stamps and postmark are highly valued by collectors.

To obtain the Niuafoou postmark on envelopes, letters were addressed to an intended recipient and sent in another envelope to the Union Co., together with loose Australian or New Zealand stamps for 6d. Of this amount 2|d was for the Tongan stamp and the balance for the Islanders’ service in handling the mail.

The envelopes were taken to the island by the Monowai, and after being dealt with there are to be returned by a later boat.

Some months may elapse before the letters reach the addressee, for, apart from the infrequency of vessels calling there, occasionally delay is caused by the island’s supply of Tongan stamps running short.

The population of Niuafoou is about 1000 natives, and one or two Europeans. It has no harbour, and until recently the natives swam out to sea for the mail which was put in a sealed tin, thrown overboard, and then retrieved by the swimmers. Since one of the natives was carried off by a shark this practice has been discontinued. Nowadays the natives paddle out in canoes to pick up the tin. The name of the “tincan” mail has extended to Niuafoou itself, and it is frequently referred to as “Tin-Can Island.”

Niuafoou is a volcanic island about five miles in diameter, and the entire centre is comprised of a crater lake surrounded by steep cliffs. It produces some of the biggest coconuts in the Pacific, and one of its few birds, the malua, lays the largest egg in proportion to its size of any bird in the world.

Those Spanish Coins

Letter to the Editor TN the May number of the P.I.M. there A are references to old Spanish coins found near Wau, but no mention is made of any dates on them. It would seem strange if among all the coins found in and around New Guinea there was none in a good enough state of preservation to show the date. A date would give some idea of the period when they were obtained by the natives.

It is well known that both gold and silver Spanish coins were current in Australia in the early days—in fact they were the only coins that could be used to purchase goods in the East by ships that went there from Sydney.

In recent years I have seen Spanish dollars over 100 years old that are still used in China.

I am, etc., Sydney, WILLIAM DIXSON.

Miss Mary Edwards, the clever Australian artist who recently returned to Sydney frcm a visit to New Caledonia left for Fiji, by the Monterey on June 24 to paint native subjects.

May 25, 1936. 40 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Ancient Idol In The Solomons

By Barbara W. Milne

IREAD with interest the short paragraph entitled “Unknown Civilisation at Choiseul, 5.1.,” in the February number of your magazine.

In 1934, I paid my second visit to the Solomons, and stayed for a month on the Choiseul Island with the Rev. and Mrs.

Metcalfe, at the Methodist Mission station, at Bambatana. We went on numerous expeditions, including 35 miles up the coast by war-canoe (manned by 19 native paddlers) to Choiseul Bay, but perhaps the most interesting was the expedition up the mountain to see the ancient idol pictured in the photograph below.

This idol, as you may see, consists of head and neck only. It is made of wood, shaped into a face about 2 ft. high, very like the faces of the stone images of Easter Island. The eyes are two small pieces of clam-shell and there is a large white cowrie shell on its forehead.

Above the idol is an enormous piece of clam-shell, with a fret-work of small figures of men, etc. At the base lie heaps of kesa (only one shows in the photo.) and conch-shells.

The idol is very old and must have belonged to some former inhabitants of the island, as nobody now knows anything of its origin or real significance.

The natives used to offer sacrifices to it— Mr. Metcalfe told me— before setting out on war expeditions. A few people still worship it now.

An old man, clothed chiefly in white paint and with big circles of white paint around his eyes, looks after it. He told us that he was very sad because so few people come to it now. They can hardly be blamed for not going, because it is in an almost inaccessible spot, at the top of a jungle-covered mountain. Though less than 3,500 feet, as the crow flies, we had to climb and scramble and slip and slide and wade and climb again, for six miles, and it took us over five hours to get there!

Pastor A. G. Stewart, vice-president of the Seventh Day Adventist organisation in Australia, arrived in Fiji in June by the Monterey to attend several mission council meetings. He was accompanied by Mr. B. H. McMahon, who will spend five weeks in the Colony inspecting S.D.A. schools.

The ancient idol of Choiseul, B.S.I., in a shelter in the dense jungle, on top of a high hill. (Photo. by the Rev. J. Metcalfe, Methodist Mission.) 41 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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First Missionary Ship How the “Duff” took L.M.S.

Evangelists to Tahiti By the REV. CECIL NORTHCOTT, M.A.

THERE are two missionary ships to-day which sail among the small islands in the South Seas —one is the Southern Cross VII. of the Melanesian Mission, and the other the John Williams V. of the London Missionary Society, named after the pioneer John Williams, who met his death at the hands of savage New Hebrides natives.

The exciting story of missionary ships goes back 140 years for it was on August 10, 1796, that the first missionary ship, the Duff, sailed down the Thames for the Pacific.

One of the reasons why the Duff set sail with the gospel was that Captain Cook had come home from the South Seas with wonderful tales of beautiful islands and savage peoples. English people had just begun to think of the great world which as yet was untouched by the gospel. The “inspired cobbler,” William Carey, had reached India and his letters had stirred the people’s interest.

So a group of ministers and laymen joined together in London to form the London Missionary Society whose sole object was to “preach the gospel of the blessed God.”

But how were the first missionaries to go to the South Seas? England was at war with France and everybody said it was a foolish time to begin foreign missionary work. But the pioneers were undaunted, and they looked round for a ship and a captain.

The captain came first. Down at Horndean in Hampshire there was living James Wilson, a handsome man in the prime of life. He had come from a family of 19 children born on Tyneside and had run away to sea. At 15 he was present at the famous battle of Bunker Hill when young America gave a heavy blow to the old country. Then he went out to India on one of the great majestic clipper ships of those days. He was captured in a battle there after swimming a river full of crocodiles. The tyrant Hyder Ali kept him in a dungeon chained between dead men for two years. He and the other prisoners were forced to eat the vermin crawling on the walls and floor in order to keep alive.

But Wilson was one of the few who came out alive.

Wilson had never taken much interest in religion. But one Sunday evening he went to service in the little Baptist Chapel at Horndean and heard a sermon which stirred his heart. He was converted and at once wanted to do something to show his faith. He volunteered to be the captain of the first missionary ship.

He helped to find the ship. She was lying in the Thames down at Blackwall. and Wilson recommended the Society to buy her for £5,000. She was 267 tons, with a fine copper bottom to withstand the weeds of the sea. So the little? Duff was fitted out, and up and down the country all sorts of people volunteered to sail in her as missionaries to the unknown South Seas.

The people chosen were a curious assortment for missionary work. There was a shoemaker, a harness-maker, a tailor, a man described as a hatter, a linen draper, a bricklayer, carpenter, surgeon, cabinetmaker. gardener, blacksmith, cooper, butcher, weaver, cotton manufacturer, shopkeeper, and five ministers. Many of them had given up their jobs to volunteer for this great adventure.

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Owing to the war with France every vessel was examined before she sailed down the channel.

“Whither bound?” challenged the mano'-war.

“Tahiti,” came the reply.

“What cargo?”

“Missionaries and provisions.”

No one on board the man-o’-war had ever heard of such a strange cargo, so a midshipman was sent off in a rowing boat to examine this strange sight. Next day the Duff was allowed to proceed to Southampton.

There they had to wait for five weeks until a convoy of ships could be arranged to take them safely past the coast of France. Some of the missionaries had their wives and children on board, as there was every hope of starting prosperous homes on the South Sea islands.

Going on across the broad Atlantic, the little Duff proved herself a good sailer, and Wilson determined to leave the other ships behind at Rio do Janeiro and sail on alone.

What a sail that was! Down the long coast of South America, the ship headed for Cape Horn. At the top of her mast the mission flag of blue with the dove of peace on -it waved in the strong wind.

Near Cape Horn it began to blow a gale.

For a fortnight Wilson and the ship fought the storm. The daily service of prayer, singing, and scripture reading was kept up down below in spite of illness and discomfort.

At last the captain had to turn back and go half way across the w'orld to the Cape of Good Hope, and make for Tahiti that way. For 90 days the Duff saw no other ships and a great loneliness came over the company. Alone on the great ocean they had no news of home and were afraid that in the savage islands they were coming to, circumstances might be too much for them.

They sailed on into the year 1797, and on a Sunday morning in March entered the wide, blue bay of Tahiti. Seventy canoes of naked tatooed warriors rushed out to meet the ship, and were astonished to hear a strange noise floating across the water.

It was a hymn, “O’er the gloomy hills of darkness.” and they watched one of the missionaries preach on the deck. The natives expected to hear cannon and rifle shots, but here was a new sort of people coming as friends.

Some of the missionaries were taken to small remote islands where all their courage and stout hearts melted at the heathen savagery and unresponsiveness of the people. On Tahiti itself the main group of the missionaries held on. No one could speak the language. So the bricklayer.

Henry Nott, began the laborious task of writing it down from listening to the sounds the natives made. It took him 40 years to finish his task, and by that time he had translated the Bible into the language.

Murder, treachery and extreme loneliness made some of the missionaries give up and retreat to Australia in a passing ship. But five of them, Mr. and Mrs. Eyre, Henry Bicknell (carpenter), Henry Nott (bricklayer), and John Jefferson, held on.

The climate began to tell on them, and for four years they heard nothing from home. Their clothes became ragged, and Mrs. Eyre had no woman friend. But said Henry Nott: “We have endeavoured to lisp out something of the things of Christ.”

The fruit of their heroic work is seen today in the Christian communities of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas. Only recently Tahiti publicly restored the graves of the humble heroes who brought the gospel to her.

Wilson and the Duff sailed homewards with a tale which kept Britain excited for weeks. People crowded to visit her in the Thames and walk the decks which had burned under the sun of the South Seas.

Little did they know of the tale of Christian heroism which was going on among the people she had left behind.

Soon a new expedition was. planned by the London Missionary Society and new volunteers came forward. But on the next voyage the Duff was captured by privateers and never seen again, after the missionaries had been landed in South America. Her name is a great one in Christian story, and the long line of her successors in the five ships called John Williams carry the news of the gospel today.

Mr. G. Moore, general manager in New Zealand for the Yorkshire Insurance Co., visited Tahiti in June on one of his periodical tours of inspection of his company’s interests in French Oceania, 43 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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The Establishment Of Port Humboldt

IN 1852 ONE of the most interesting events of the very early days of the occupation of Dutch New Guinea was an expedition sent from the Moluccas by the Netherlands Government to annex the north of the island to its possessions in the East and establish a settlement at Port Humboldt. Port Humboldt is on the north coast of Dutch New Guinea, a few miles to the westward of the border of the Mandated Territory.

The expedition left Ternate in March, 1850, under the command of Mr. Van Den Dungen Gronovious, in the war schooner Circe, with Lieutenant Brutel de la Riviere in charge, and was accompanied by a small flotilla of war praus belonging to the Sultan of Tidore, represented for the occasion by Captain Amir, a prince of Tidore.

Mr. Gronovious stood in high repute as a colonial administrator. For several years he had been Resident of the Dutch possession, in Timor. He was invested with some kind of authority by the Sultan of Tidore, a pensioner of the Dutch Government, who claimed suzerainty over the northern and eastern coast of New Guinea. The Sultan had for many years enforced his claim by sending forth periodically a flotilla of Hongi (or war praus) to collect tribute in slaves and trade; these generally maintained order by dealing out destruction to any tribe who offered any resistance, carrying off hundreds of slaves and burning their principal villages.

The natives acknowledged this dominance on the whole without ill-feeling, excepting a few remote tribes who had not yet learned the wisdom of obedience.

They were in favour of placing themselves under the protection of the most powerful chief in the neighbourhood, as a safeguard against the piracy that infested these waters, even though they had to submit to his arbitrary measures.

The Netherlands Government had likewise encouraged the Sultan’s suzerainty, for it gave them a claim to a country which they might some day see fit to occupy. Indeed, this expedition was sent for this purpose. A transfer of the suzerainty from the Sultan was a formality which could easily be negotiated, and Captain Amir accompanied the expedition for the object of formally handing over possession.

On these occasions, representatives of the Sultan were invariably present when new settlements were established for the Dutch Government.

The expedition was well fitted out with trade and presents for the native chiefs.

The officials also carried a number of iron plates displaying the Netherlands arms, which they intended to erect wherever they visited along the coast. These, apparently, were erected at each new settlement of the Netherlands Indies.

Giby, or Gebby, was their first port of call (an island well known to ancient mariners on their route to China) and from Gebby they proceeded to Port Dorey, a trading post from time immemorial for Chinese and traders of the East. There they remained from April 1 to 20, waiting for the Sultan’s flotilla, which had been delayed along the coast.

Lieutenant Bruijn Kops, on board the Circe, describes the natives of Geelvink Bay and Port Dorey (northwest New Guinea), in great detail, in a narrative published in the “Natuurkundige Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, 1851.”

He writes of the arrival of the flotilla, and the panic it caused.

“On the news of the arrival of the flotilla,” he states, “the women and children took flight with the small canoes, carrying with them everything of value. They went to the opposite shore and into the interior bays, in order to avoid the rapacity of the crews of the flotilla. It is not to be wondered at that the flotilla instils so much fear,” he continues, “for wherever it goes the crews pillage and steal, destroying plantations and appropriating everything that takes their fancy.”

The chief of Dorey at once presented himself to Captain Amir on his arrival, taking with him a slave and a great number of birds-of-paradise, as a present, which was apart from the yearly tax of the chief to the Sultan—one slave, three praus, and provisions.

According to the general opinion of travellers in New Guinea, the Dorians were taken to be of very mixed origin, owing to their intercourse with more civilised people for hundreds of years.

To this Lieut. Bruijn Kops could not agree. He considered that people of mixed race were to be found everywhere in the islands of the Moluccan seas, but very rarely in Papua itself; which he explained by the traffic in slaves, hundreds, even thousands, having been exported westward for ages past, while no brown or yellow people ever settled in New Guinea, or became even temporary residents beyond the limits of trading stations, excepting a few Mohammedan priests.

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Quand on I’attaque il se defend”

Bruijn Kops deals at length with the customs, habits, arts and agriculture of the Dorians. “The manners and customs, he writes, “of the Dorians are much less barbarous than might be expected from these rude uncivilised races. On the contrary, in general, they gave evidence of a mild disposition, of an inclination to right and justice, and strong moral principles.”

Though kidnapping was general, and was followed as a branch of trade, there was no dishonour attached to it. Indeed, the chief trade at that time, besides odiferous bark and birds-of-paradise, was in slaves; the slave being the standard of value throughout the western parts of New Guinea. The captives from New Guinea were held in high esteem, fetching higher prices than even those from Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa.

One of their arts which took his attention was the working of iron, by means of a forge, consisting of a bellows composed of two large bamboos about four feet long, from which the air was expelled by means of two pistons with bunches of feathers at the end, worked in the manner of hand pumps. This instrument was identical with the bellows he had seen in use among the natives of the Malay Archipelago, from whom no doubt the custom was borrowed.

They also made rings, bracelets and earrings from copper and silver, and from Spanish coins which they had obtained from the French surveying ships Astrolabe and Z elee when they visited the district in 1840.

After the formalities over the transfer had been completed, the expedition proceeded to Run, an island situated in the “Great Bay” of Geelvink. Here, they found the natives had little or no knowledge of the outside world and therefore did not flee in terror at sight of the flotilla. It had only recently been opened as a trading post, and was rarely visited except by an Englishman named Captain Deighton, who had been for many years a trader in the Moluccas and had traded on the north coast of New Guinea since 1820. He was well known to all inhabitants and held in high esteem.

“The frankness with which I was received,” wrote Bruijn Kops, “struck me, as it was entirely unexpected.” He attributed their friendly attitude towards the expedition to the honourable character of Captain Deighton and his honest dealings with the natives. It was in marked contrast with the fear and suspicion they encountered at Dorey.

Captain Deighton, according to Bruijn Kops, appeared to be the one check on the rapacity of the Tidore tributecollectors in these waters. Fearing that he would report them to the authorities, they refrained from committing their worst atrocities.

Kurudu, an important trading station to the extreme N.B. of Geelvink Bay (or Great Bay, as Lieutenant Bruijn Kops named it) was next visited, and probably for the first time by an European vessel.

Here, again, they were received in a cautious, but by no means unfriendly, manner, although only a few years previously their villages had been destroyed and 200 of their members carried away into captivity by a dependant of the Sultan of Tidore, Singaji of Gebby.

On the approach of the Circe the natives gathered on the shore fully armed, but the weapons were soon laid aside on landing, and a friendly intercourse was established, which however was rudely shattered by the firing of the evening gun from the schooner. The natives fled in terror immediately, and the next morning no sign of them was to be seen, “The entire population, from the village to the mainland,” had disappeared into thin air, and only a few dogs remained, whose melancholy bowlings added to the exasperation of the Dutch officers.

Bruijn Kops found the inhabitants of Kurudu altogether different from those at Dorey and Run; he took them to be more of a Polynesian than a Malayan character.

He thought that the Great Bay (Qeelvink) might possibly be the dividing line between the Papuans of the Pacific and those of the Indian Archipelago.

Leaving Kurudu, the expedition passed eastwards for more than a hundred miles past the delta of a large river, named Ambermo by the natives. From its many outlets muddy water poured out to sea, and for thirty miles shoals and sandbanks hindered the passage of the Circe as she pushed her way carefully towards Humboldt Bay.

The chief object of the expedition was to examine Port Humboldt (Hollandia), L a t. 2.205, Long. 140.47 E, and to ascertain whether the existing conditions merited the formation of a settlement. But, unfortunately, on arriving, a strong S.E. squall prevented the Circe from making an entrance into the harbour, and they were forced to turn back to Amboina. 47 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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However, the information gathered by Mr. Van Den Dungen Gronovious seemed to be sufficiently encouraging for the Netherlands to decide upon an establishment: for one reads that in 1852 a garrison consisting of a party of burghers, or native militia from Ternate were sent to Port Humboldt for that purpose. ‘‘A class of men,” writes a traveller of that time (G. Windsor Earl) “who though capable of holding their own in this inhospitable region, were by no means calculated to inspire respect in the stalwart and energetic Papuans.”

It seemed that the Dutch Government hoped that the settlement, apart from its administrative value, might be looked upon as a haven for shipping employed in the commerce of the Far East, and would open up the 1,400 miles of inhospitable coastland of New Guinea for vessels crossing from America. Shipping would attract trade and, perhaps, settlement, which would eventually lead to the establishment being placed on a more substantial footing.

It is over 80 years since Port Humboldt was established, and the rewards of the enterprise so far have not borne much fruit. The inhospitable nature of the country, and its isolation, offer little inducement for development. It is only to-day that one hears, among the big developments that are taking place in Dutch New Guinea, that colonists have settled near the scene of the old Post of 1852, and are making a living at farming —a peaceful occupation in contrast to the livelier one of slave-raiding which, until 1879, formed one of the principal occupations of the Archipelago, and the north coast of New Guinea.—M.L.

Mrs. Frank Hockings, of Thursday Island, returned to T.I. in June from a visit to her parents at Roma, Queensland.

PEANUTS New Crop for Norfolk Island QNE result of the visit to Australia of Mr. Charles Bennett, well-known grower on Norfolk Island, is that the Island is likely to possess another industry in the near future. Mr. Bennett was surprised to find in Sydney a factory, employing 200 hands, which deals exclusively in peanuts and the by-products of that nut.

He was assured of a market for all the peanuts that can be grown on N.I. This nut has been cultivated with much success and profit in recent years in the Northern Territox-y of Australia.

Hitherto, peanuts have not been grown commercially on Norfolk Island. Mr. Bennett took back with him by the June Morinda some of the best examples of Spanish and Brazil peanuts, which he is confident will,/in the near future, be a source of potential wealth to his fellow-growers on the Island.

“While it is not likely that growers will give up their profitable crops of beans,” he explained, “I think that some portions of N.I. are most suitable for peanut growing, and that the crop should do exceedingly well on the Island.”

Mr, Bennett also interviewed the N.Z.

Trade Commissioner (Mr. W. Taylor) and put forward a strong plea for the exclusion of Norfolk from the present fruit embargo that exists between Australia and New Zealand. “Our fruit is absolutely clean,” he declared, “and there is no reason why it should be restricted in any form. As a result of the restriction some growers are in reduced financial circumstances. Indeed, some of the families are actually on the bread line.”

The existing condition of N.I, affairs he contended was due to inefficient and costly administration, and a disregard of their trusteeship by Australian Federal Ministers. Administration charges, he said, totalled £14,000 annually, while the Islanders submitted that they could run their own affairs for £5,000 and leave a surplus with which to develop the Island.

Mr. Bennett said that Norfolk Island was not part and parcel of the Commonwealth, but had been handed over by Downing Street as a trust to the Australian Government. The visit of Sir George Pearce had not improved the situation, and some Islanders were urging a change in administration. At present the Officer in Charge of the Administration acted in a dual capacity as prosecutor and judge. The Islanders, who now number 1,000, had no representation in Federal Parliament.

Mr. Frank R. Hewitt, general manager of Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd., left Sydney by the Montoro on June 17 for Samarai, Papua, to visit Giligili Plantation. Later he joined Lever’s vessel for Gavutu, British Solomon Islands, to inspect the Company’s plantations in the Group. He will return to Australia by the Malaita in September. 48 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Centenary of Pioneer Tongan Missionary THE centenary fell in June of the arrival in Tonga of the Rev. Stephen Rabone, who laboured for 14 years in the Friendly Islands, and for a short time was acting principal of Newington College, an institution which to-day preserves its early associations with the only remaining independent kingdom in the Pacific (wrote Mr. Eric Ramsden in the Sydney Morning Herald on June 27). Newingtoh’s students include the Crown Prince Taufa’ahau, a direct descendant of the great Taufa’ahau (George Tubou I.), one of the first to welcome Stephen Rabone to Tonga in 1836.

Rabone’s first attempt to reach Tonga resulted in shipwreck off the island of Bona Vista, in the Verde Group, in December, 1834. Undaunted, the Wesleyan Methodist missionary and his young wife returned to England, and again sailed on the Rubicon, a sailing vessel of 450 tons, on April 17, 1835. Hobart Town was reached after an uneventful voyage in the following August.

Mr. and Mrs. Rabone remained there for six months (during which period their eldest child was born), and arrived in Sydney in February, 1836. Six weeks later they sailed for Neiafu, Vavau, and later settled at Feleatoa. The vessel in which they travelled was the old Active, which the Rev. Samuel Marsden had employed so successfully in the Pacific. On the return voyage the Active went on a reef and became a total wreck.

Tongatabu was sighted on June 9, 1936.

“Oh, what were our feelings while looking at this island, which has engaged every feeling of our hearts for years past,” declared the missionary in his unpublished journal (the original of which is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney). “The scenery as you approach surpasses everything we have seen or could imagine.”

“Where you from? Have you missionary?” inquired an English-speaking Tongan from a canoe, when the Active lay off Vavau on June 14. “Which him? Which him?” eagerly inquired the native. The Tongan proved to be a man who had lived for some years with the Rev. John Thomas. Rabone and Thomas were doubly related; the newly-married missionary was a step-brother of Mrs. Thomas and his wife was Thomas’s sister. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas had arrived at Hihifo as early as 1826. Before returning to England in 1851 they spent a quarter of a century in the Islands. Four years later they returned to spend another five years there before finally retiring.

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When Queen Salote returned to Tonga from Sydney last year she carried with her a famous whale tooth, yellow with age, which King George Tubou I. had exhibited at a missionary meeting in Wesley Church, Chippendale, Sydney, in 1853, The tooth was a priceless relic of the old pagan days. No more precious gift in Tongan eyes could possibly be imagined when the king handed it to Rabone, “to show the people of Australia what the Tongan worshipped prior to accepting Christianity.” Queen Salote was naturally delighted to find that it was still in the possession of the Rabone family, and remarked that she could trace it back to the grandfather of George Tubou I. The year previous to the missionary’s arrival in Tonga the king had freed his slaves, and ancestral carved spears were converted into communion rails.

On behalf of members of his family.

Mr. W. T. Rabone (a grandson of the Rev. Stephen Rabone) handed it to the Queen, to be returned to her kingdom. It is now in the Royal Palace at Nukualofa.

A century ago, Tonga was by no means the model Christian State it is to-day. At the time of Rabone’s arrival the missionaries were still meeting with a great deal of opposition. As had Kamehameha in Hawaii, and Pomare 11. in Tahiti, George Tubou I. had to consolidate his kingdom; though the king was a Christian, many of his fellow-countrymen were not prepared to accept the new creed, and were ready to die in defence of the old gods.

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European traders were also a cause of anxiety to the missionaries. In one of the first entries in his journal Rabone makes reference to a certain captain who, after taking a Tongan girl to sea, in a state of intoxication threw her overboard, and then forcibly took another young woman, the betrothed of an important chieftain.

In a subsequent altercation the captain killed the aggrieved native. Such men, declared the missionary, made him ashamed “of the name of Englishman.”

King George, declared Rabone, was “indeed a fine man, body and soul.” At the opening of anew church, in 1837, he appeared in “a suit of English clothes,” to read Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the Temple. “His remarks, I am told, were judicious and well placed,” commented the newcomer, “his zeal as manifest was worthy of a king in so good a cause.” The king, who was the political force behind the Christian cause, lived until 1893. At that time, however, he was 49 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Agents for: Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, MORRIS, HEDSTROM, LTD., Suva, Lautoka, and Ba. about to visit Hapaii, where, it was hoped, he would deliver a deathblow to “the remaining cause of heathenism in Tonga.”

On December 31, 1836, the young missionary was present at a native watchnight service. Two days later the missionaries were alarmed at hearing the beating of the lali or war drum. The call announced the arrival of a canoe from Tongatabu, which brought information that King George wanted all “strong and healthy men” to proceed to that island, “in case the heathen should be foolish enough to fight, that he might have a force to meet them, and, in the name of the Lord, put them to flight.” The heathen, as a matter of fact, put up a determined resistance and many lives were lost in the fighting that ensued.

That same year the missionary and his wife were homeless as the result of a devastating hurricane. “Last night it came on to blow very hard, with heavy rain, which before daylight had well filled our bedroom,” he wrote on March 8.

“With the day the wind increased, so that it was soon necessary for my dear wife and child to leave the house. Part of the roof was soon cai'ried away In attempting to walk I was nearly carried away. About 9 o’clock, our house and every building on the premises were down level with the earth . ” Describing the scene next day, he declared; “Oh, what destruction is visible all round!

Scarcely a house, however proverbially strong, but is brought to the earth. Trees of very great size are broken off short and uprooted; many of these have endured the blasts and storms of bygone generations. The nut trees are all stripped of their fruit, every banana tree is flat on the earth, so that we fear there will be considerable. scarcity felt by the natives, ... It is little more than iwo 'years since we were cast upon the island of Bona Vista, where we lost everything we had except what we stood in, and now by land we are partially Stripped again. Thy will be done! Amen.”

On walking to Neiafu that week, he was astounded “at the scene of barrenness and destruction.” The hurricane had left its mark on every tree and plant.

“Many of them are shrivelled up as if scorched,” he declared. On leaving the village the lali again began to beat, announcing the arrival of a sail off the coast.

Fortunately, it proved to be a brig fj*om Sydney with supplies for the missionaries.

The Minerva had been driven off the island, thrown on her beam ends, and the crew had to cut away the masts.

The Tui Tonga

In February of the following year (1838) Rabone recorded the arrival of the Tui Tonga, the revered religious head of former days. “He is the greatest personage on the island,” he wrote, “but what a creature of imagination, what a monstrous cypher! He had a handful of people only, cannot speak a word in reference to the government of the island nor anything that concernis it. It is not lawful to eat in his presence . . . and there is language only applicable to this useless being, as much utility to the island as a large mole to a man’s face!”

The old Tonga was passing. The power of the Tui Tonga was already in the hands of George Tubou, ally of the missionaries.

Rabone and his wife later decided to remove to Nukualofa (now the capital).

Then followed patient years of hard missionary work.

Following the triumph of Christianity in Tonga, the family removed to Australia.

Later Stephen Rabone’s son decided to offer himself as a missionary. Uhder the tuition of his father (who became a noted Tongan scholar and was responsible for compiling a vocabulary printed in Vavau in 1845 and now keenly sought after by collectors), the Rev. W. T. Rabone became so proficient in the tongue he had known as a child that, on the first Sunday after his return, he was able to preach in Tongan.

Stephen Rabone collapsed in a Sydney street on July 27, 1872, when on his way to the Wesley Church, Chippendale, and died that day. His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. James Watkin, who was in Tonga when the former arrived there in 1836. An appeal for funds for a memorial, to which many Tongans subscribed, resulted in £2OOO being raised.

However, no memorial has yet been completed to honour the memory of a worthy pioneer of the Methodist Church in the Pacific and Australia.

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BY the Waipahi on June 20, Mr. Basil Chalmers arrived in Fiji, bringing with him six pedigree Friesian heifers for Waidranu Farm, Vatia Point, Tavua.

This breed is becoming very popular in Fiji, and the new beasts will be an asset to Waidranu.

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The heifers are from Mr. A. H. Court’s Hobson Farm, Helensville, which is reputed to be one of the finest N.Z. Friesian stud farms. 50 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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The following is a summary of the information contained therein: Captain A. S. Fitch has resigned. He found that his business interests conflicted with the aims of the Association.

The Association has written to the Agricultural Adviser to the Colonial Office, London, for assistance in obtaining the services for the Administration of an Agricultural Expert, with practical field experience. Members have agreed that the appointee should be given a seat on the Legislative Council.

The Hon. T. Nevitt recently interviewed the Minister for Customs in Australia in an endeavour to accelerate rubber bounty payments. The Minister promised to see that there was no further delay.

Experiments in rubber packing have been carried out at Eilpgo Estate. The produce was packed in one cover of heavy type Japanese calico.

It reached Sydney in good order, but Melbourne wharf lumpers used cargo hooks on it, completely disrobing it. According to the Hon. T. Nevitt, the Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Co. insists on rubber being baled in hessian wrappers with an inside covering of light calico. Dunlops say that a light sprinkling of french chalk should be given the bale before wrapping, to prevent the cover from sticking to the rubber.

The Association, in a letter to the Director of Agriculture, has pointed out that there are plenty of suitable places in Papua for tea growing, but want of roads prevents such development. The only labour available (prisoners) for district roads is now being enrolled for carrying on patrol work.

The Council views with concern the expenditure of revenue in this direction and the neglect of outside public works.

On his own initiative, the Hon. Arthur Jewell has installed a telephone radio station at Lolurua.

The Council has asked the Government what radio stations it intends to erect, as some members are about to instal land telephones to nearby shipping ports. They cannot make a move until they know the Government’s programme.

Representation has been made to the directors of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., in an endeavour to bring about a cheaper form of handling copra and other produce at Port Moresby.

Ten years ago the Federal Government granted Papua a preferential tariff and the sum of £25,000 per annum for 10 years. Hardly any of the items of the tariff have been grown in any quantity, with the result that very little of the £250,000 set aside has been touched. Planters at the time complained that the principal product, rubber, which should have been included, was left out.

The term for the preferential tariff has expired and the Federal Cabinet is now considering a new one. The Planters’ Association suggests that rubber should be definitely included. A more simple method would be for Australia to grant a long term bounty of 20 to 30 years. With such a guarantee, many investors would put capital into Papua, and in the course of years the Commonwealth’s rubber requirements would be solely supplied by the Territory.

Crime In Lautoka

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 2.

THERE has been an increase in crime in Lautoka. On a recent night, thieves entered Johnson’s butchery, and removed the safe, containing some £3O.

Mr. W. Shirley’s Shamrock Hotel was also broken into, and five cases of whisky stolen from the storeroom. An attempt was made on Morris, Hedstrom’s store, but this was unsuccessful. A Chinese store was entered, and about £3 stolen.

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SOME months ago, as reported in the Pacific Islands Monthly, the Papeete Chamber of Commerce discussed the question of raising the import duty on foreign soap to afford protection to Marseilles soap and to the local soap factories.

The proposition, however, did not secure the support of the Chamber, but was subsequently taken up again by the “Conseil Prive.” As a result this measure has now been approved by the home authorities.

By a decree dated March 18, 1936, and published in the Journal Official of Tahiti on June 1, the duty on foreign laundry soap is now 150 francs per 100 kilogrammes. Most of the laundry soap imported at present comes from New Zealand which will, therefore, be the chief sufferer from the new decree.

Another interesting item in the same announcement is that which prohibits the importation of bees from abroad. This appears to the resu.t of research work who the coursl of his work discovered that the Tahitian entirely free from the disease ’inToTahlU' * intr ° dUCti ° n ° £ loul t> roocl into xan . .

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OVER 60 years ago traders were attracted to the Louisiades (Papua) and the S.E. coast of New Guinea by wild tales of adventure and rich rewards gained from beche-de-mer and pearl-shell fishing.

The gold-tipped pearl-shell oyster, worth £2OO a ton, and a superior variety of beche-de-mer, were said to exist in considerable quantities along the coral beds that sketched from far-away Rossel Island to the mainland. And these men in schooners and cutters from Queensland fished the beds from the Engineer Group to the Calvados, and further south, to Sud Est and Rossel; threading their way through the intricate passages which separate one reef from another.

The enterprise provided plenty of excitement, for not only did the islanders practise headhunting and cannibalism, but they fiercely resented interference from outside. Any newcomer was regarded as an enemy and worthy of death.

Further, they were disturbed by the “blackbirding” traffic that had been conducted in their islands for a number of years. The best of their manhood had been carried away, never to return, and their resentment showed itself in continued acts of violence and treachery. For their custom required a white man’s skull, or compensation, for each of their lost friends, so that their spirits might return in peace to their original haunts. Many an unsuspecting trader met his dea k h. in accordance with this custom.

The natives, like many of the tribes of Malay and Borneo Dyaks of that time regarded the heads of those slain in raids as their most cherished possessions.

Bleaching them to ivory whiteness in anthills, they placed them in prominent positions in their households, as trophies of prowess. As custom demanded the heads of enemy tribesmen, headhunting was one of their chief occupations.

It was said that a great fighting chief of the Engineer Group, named Yawarroopoo, made annual raids for this purpose, in which he depopulated whole islands; and, after torturing his victims, he saw them eaten in ceremonial feasts.

He and his fighting men were more feared in the Louisiades than were the Tugeri in Western New Guinea.

One trader, Nicolas Minister, was fortunate to become friendly with Yawarroopoo and as a patron he was valuable.

But it was with misgiving that Nicolas accepted his hospitality later on, for near the “guest house” lay a collection of bones. Not wishing to add to their number, Nicolas weighed anchor and departed without ceremony.

It appeared that the Brooker Islanders were more treacherous towards the traders than others, and the reason given An old-time fighting Chief of the Louisiades. 52 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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was that they had inter-married at one time with a number of Solomon Islanders, who had murdered their European employers while fishing near Brooker. , „ , .

In 1880 they massacred Captain Forman and five Europeans of the Annie Brooks, stabbing them with the kmves they had unsuspectingly provided. The only survivor, the cook, held them at bay and weighed anchor but, not understanding navigation, he ran the Annie Brooks ashore and a Solomon Islander, pretending to assist him, tipped him overboard and shot him with his own rifle.

These murders increased and by 1885 they became a commonplace. Those of William Read, Frank Gerret, Captam Webb, and Miller followed one upon another in quick succession, and the position became so serious that warships were sent the i s i an( j s most seriously concerne(j. The Special Commissioner (Sir p e ter Scratchley) issued a caution to all traders that certain districts, including the Louisiades, were unsafe for their schooners. It appeared that he was hostije to traders, and was inclined to take v j ew G f the missionaries who attributed these murders entirely to traders’ violation of native rights.

The traders bitterly resented the implication and demanded protection. They complained of the missionaries’ attitude, and attributed the open hostility to the lack of reprisals, stating that the warships did nothing to vindicate the murders of their fellow men, beyond destroying a few houses and coconuts, with the result that the natives became only more confident and insolent.

A well-known trader, Captain Fryer, happened to pass the wreck of the Annie Brooks a few days after the tragedy and the natives, jubilant over their recent acquisition of skulls, surrounded and attacked him. But Fryer was a man of great strength, subject to strange fits when unduly excited, and in a muscular frenzy he seized the foremost by his ankles and using him as a club, dispersed the mob with his human weapon.

Captain Fryer was a famous character in the Pacific. There were few Islands, from New Guinea to Peru, that he had not visited, either for pleasure or profit.

In his early years he had served in the Mexican wars and later taken service under King George of Tonga, sailing his private yacht to Fiji and Samoa.

He and the famous Nicolas Minister were friends. Both sea rovers and adventurers. they found the Louisiades a free field in which to impose their will, and to exercise their wild spirits without restraint. But the natives respected them.

Fryer went fully armed and, when referring to the numerous massacres that were taking place around him, expressed regret Dead men’s bones in the Louisiades — grisly remain of a cannibal feast. 53 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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IT’S A PASTE! that the white men had “all been taken so cheaply.” He little dreamed that he himself was to be caught in the same way before long!

In July, 1885, he was murdered off Hoop Iron Bay, Moresby Island, and his skull was given up later to H.M.S. Diamond when the island was visited and the principal village burnt to the ground. Fryer had been taken off his guard. Sending his boat’s crew ashore he allowed natives on board with coconuts and produce—and the old scene was re-enacted.

The Lalla Rookh, later, lay alongside the wharf in Townsville and, in the words of an eye-witness, “bore terrible testimony to the struggle that had taken place."

Fryer had deajt some execution before being finally overwhelmed by numbers.

It was said, at the time, that Fryer’s life was taken in accordance with native custom —that two natives had died in his employ without their relatives receiving compensation—but this was disputed.

Fryer was punctilious in his payments for “deaders,” as he called them, his payments being two tomahawks, two clay pipes and i lb. of tobacco for each native who died in his service—a payment that evidently had become established by custom.

Escapees from the French convict prisons in New Caledonia did not find the Louisiades the haven they hoped. Many landed in open boats to be heard of no more. In 1883 two landed at Joannet Island, and Captain Fryer, hearing of their arrival, rushed to their assistance—but apparently too late, for, surprising the guilty village before daybreak, he was only able to recover a few relics. One was the New Caledonia prison stamp, which was identified later the authorities in Cooktown.

The power of the vendetta increased beyond bounds in 1886 and Australia became seriously alarmed.

Six Chinamen in the Pride of the Logan were murdered oft Moresby Island shortly after Captain Fryer’s death, and this was followed by the murder of Captain Craig and his crew of the Emily (three white men and five Malays) off Joannet Island.

Later, a murderous attack was made upon Captain Marx of H.M.S. Swinger, at Misima. It appeared that unless justice was dealt out swiftly, the natives could be excused if they regarded the murder of unoffending white men as legitimate sport.

Captain Craig, besides being an experienced traveller in the Pacific, was a wealthy pearl-seller and a respected citizen of Cooktown. Public opinion was aroused over his revolting murder, and his friends demanded measures to suppress the vendetta. The demands became so insistent that Sir Arthur Palmer, in November, 1886, in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, exhorted the members to action. “It is notorious,” he declared, “that the very name of an Englishman seemed to carry with it a licence to be tomahawked by savages! . . , Other nations,” he informed them, “protected their traders from outrage, and why should, the people of this colony and other Britishers be exposed to such attacks and no notice be taken of them?”

Th e apologists for native outrages and the exponents of club law were silenced at last. It was mainly due to their repreponeVsoVil. pums men a eenpost Early in 1887 a punitive expedition left Samarai for Joannet Island, consisting of an Assistant Magistrate and 45 natives.

Minister, recommended to the Special Commissioner on account of his experience and knowledge. Their orders were to justice, with^ instructions that there But Nicolas, in the excitement of the proceedings, took charge and, in his zeal for reve nge, hunted down the murderers mercilessly in their own fastnesses and So j ust i ce was carried out. It was crude but effective, for Minister believed in rough justice in dealing with a crude people. But his methods did not commend themselves to the high ethics of the “Jabbega,” or “a sittingdown place"— made of flat stones in circular formation— scene of oldtime cannibal feasts, Rossel Island.

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Thus were the traders left in peace.

But, unfortunately for most of them, it was the peace of death. What their comments might have been can hardly be recorded. As with the Oysters, in the “Walrus and the Carpenter”: But answers came there none.

And this was scarcely odd because They’d eaten everyone.

For want of men the industry of bechede-mer and pearl-shell fishing gradually declined. The Louisiades had been given a bad name and a wide berth. Already other islands in the Pacific had offered traders greater attractions and richer rewards than a place of honour for their whitened skulls. The beautiful islands were deserted.

But not for long. Gold had been discovered at Joannet and Sud Est, and soon miners were looking eagerly towards the Louisiades, however savage their reputation. Hundreds crossed over from Cooktown to make their fortunes. By 1888 the era of gold mining in the Louisiades had set in and the old trading days and their tragedies were forgotten in changed conditions and new and even more exciting experiences.

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Efforts to Attract Tourists From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, June 5.

THAT the Papeete Radio Club (Radio Club Oceanien) has become something more than a distraction for the local population is evidenced by the number of letters received from many far-away points such as Cuba, Japan, and the United States. Originally started by a few enthusiasts as a purely local experiment, the Club now has a membership of over 60.

Most of them are very surprised to find that their more or less haphazard programmes are being picked up by listeners thousands of miles distant from French Oceania.

It is understood that a much more powerful transmitter has been ordered and will soon be installed. A serious effort is also being made to improve the standard of the items broadcast for listeners abroad. This question was the subject of discussion by the Tourist Bureau recently when a substantial amount was voted to the funds of the Club and proposals put forward for the proper control of the programmes.

It is now realised that radio can become a powerful agent for popularising Tahiti abitjad, thus resulting eventually in a greater influx of tourists. It is, however, considered essential that the items broadcast for listeners abroad —on special evenings, at least —should be of a true Tahitian character, American jazz and imitation Hawaiian melodies being barred from the programmes on such occasions.

In order to bring about this desirable result it was decided to solicit the cooperation of the Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes (which concerns itself with the preservation of the Polynesian culture, including - music) and also to encourage the native performers in the perfection of their music and singing. All this will require time and organisation as well as more funds than are available now, but it is hoped that the Tourist Bureau will be able to contribute a much larger sum next year.

The call letters of the Radio Club Oceanien are FOBAA. Broadcasts are made on Tuesday and Friday evenings, operating on 7.1 megacycles. The president of the organisation is Mr. Alfred Poroi, Mr. Harold Wells, of Messrs. Sargood Gardiner Ltd., will leave Sydney for Papua and New Guinea by the Montoro at the end of July, and return to Australia through the Solomon Islands by the Malaita. For 20 years, Mr. Wells has been handling Sargood Gardiner’s Islands business at the Sydney end, and, as this is his first visit to the Western Pacific groups, he shall be able to meet personally the clients with whom he has been dealing for so many years. 55 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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INDUSTRY Returning Delegates Satisfied with N.Z. Inquiry From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, June 14.

DESPITE a slight drizzle an unusually large crowd gathered last evening on the Avarua wharf to greet the returning members of the delegation which submitted evidence in connection with the Cook Is. fruit industry before the Parliamentary Committee in Wellington.

First to land from the Maunganui was the party headed by Mr. William Mcßirney, chairman of the Growers’ Association. Although it is as yet premature to attempt any estimate of the work performed by these gentlemen it is safe to assume from their general air of satisfaction that they regard the future with a confident eye.

From those who advocated the formation of a Fruit Control Board one gathers that their proposals, and indeed the whole position of local growers, received an uncommonly sympathetic hearing from the committee, who were, it appeared, surprisingly well-informed on conditions generally in the Cook Islands. This almost unprecedented attitude on the part of the Government, coupled to the sincerity of its desire to effect results, created in turn an equally unprecedented feeling of confidence among the delegates. What, under less auspicious conditions, might have been a battleground for the contending interests of middleman and producer developed rather into a conference for the betterment of the latter.

It is also understood that the delegates from the Growers’ Association have made a number of contacts of a business nature which will, they hope, eventually be the means of bringing about a better state of things in connection with the supply of fruit boxes and other subsidiary aspects of the industry.

Local interest is now focussed on the arrival in July of the three committee members detailed by Parliament to investigate matters personally in Rarotonga.

With a sympathetic Government in power there has never previously been such an opportunity for growers to lay their troubles before the one quarter from which relief can come. The Labour Party is to be congratulated both on its determination to see matters put right and in its choice of such straight-forward methods of setting about doing so.

Were these Islands politically represented in New Zealand there is no question to-day for which side the population could be relied upon to vote.

Nurse L. G. McMillan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McMillan, of Suva, Fiji, has been appointed as a nurse in Papua with the London Missionary Society.

Previously she had served on the staff of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva.

Dr. D. L. Muir, Assistant Superintendent at the Auckland Hospital, arrived in Rarotonga recently to put in the winter working with the Cook Islands Medical Officer, Dr, E, P. Ellison. Dr. Muir’s health has been unsatisfactory for some time and it was with the object of escaping the N.Z. winter that he went north to the Cooks. Specialising in gynecology, he will find plenty to keep him occupied in the Cook Group. 56 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Tunic coats are worn over blouses and skirts. Usually they match the skirt, depending on the blouse for colour contrast: but any liberty one chooses may be taken with the colour scheme.

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Sports and beach clothes grow more and more intriguing as they grow less and less. A beach beauty story is told 57 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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A tailored dress in linen or pique is buttoned right down the front and becomes a coat when worn over a backless play suit.

Trousers still persist; but to be really in the forefront of fashion they must reach just below the calf. Butcher blue trousers with orange shirt to form the delightful colour contrast, have a Mexican sombrero and sandals to complete the picture.

If there is no appeal in the trousered mode, a beach skirt buttoning to the hem may be your choice. Coloured bands trim its hem and its sun-tan top repeats the colour scheme.

Evening gowns are magnificent. Lovely materials go towards their making and the designers offer such infinite variety for individual choice that even the most critical among us is happy and satisfied.

Frothing, frilling, tulle continues on its romantic way. Yards and yards of this drift-down stuff metamorphose into frocks that are a combination of sophistication and innocence. Gauging and cording lend themselves admirably to the achieving of the fulness so loved by the ingenue, which is in startling contrast to the sophisticated slimness of the slips beneath.

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A lovely gown of white lace, moulding the figure to undreamed of perfection, spreads itself into a gracious train. Its soft cowl neck line and tight fittingsleeves give it a dignity almost regal. It would be an ideal bridal array. Clouds of tulle form a veil which is caught with a coronet of pearls.

Making the attendant as lovely as the bride is the gown of printed chiffon with ethereal puffed sleeves and delightful frilly cape, which may be detached at will. Velvet ribbon ties in a bow at the waist and falls to the hem of the skirt.

An absurdly lovely little head-dress of flowers perches on the side of the head, and ties under the chin with a velvet ribbon bow.

For those who crave slim, svelte sophistication there is the slim column of black crepe with draped panel falling from the shoulders or thrown over the head sari-wise. A massive Oriental belt and bangle add further Eastern allure.

Suave tailored frocks for evening wear gain popularity. A soft cdllar buttons in front, high or low, and the new high back is slit to the waist.

A dramatic entry is made by the silver gown of lame ruffled at the throat over which is thrown a Fra Angelica cape of purple velvet.

Delightfully jeune fille is the frothing frock of cyclamen pink net scattered with gold sequins which outline the neck to the waist-low decolletage. A belt of the same glittering discs encircles the slim waist.

Wedding At Samarai

From a Special Correspondent SAMARAI, June 26. \ WEDDING of interest was celebrated at the Catholic Church here on June 20. The bride was Mrs. Lena von Bremen, one of Samarai’s most popular women, and the bridegroom, Mr, J. B. Roche, of Sydney. Rev. Father Francis Lyons officiated at the ceremony.

Looking graceful in a silver grey delustred satin gown trimmed with grey and pink, the bride was given away by an intimate friend, Mr. E. Skelly. Mrs. A. W.

Broodbank was matron of honour, and the duties of best man were carried out by Mr. P. Wood. After the ceremony, the breakfast was held at the Samarai Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Roche will remain in Papua for some time before leaving for Australia to make their future home in Sydney.

Mr. F. T. O’Dea, manager of Holden’s Air Transport Services Ltd. in New Guinea, arrived in Sydney on a short business visit by the Macdhui on July 2. 58 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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The bride wore a moulded gown of ivory satin and carried a beautiful shower bouquet. She also wore a platinum watch, the gift of the bridegroom, and an ancestral brooch over 200 years old.

The bride was attended by her two sisters, whose gowns were of white chiffon over ice blue satin, with matching halo hats. Assisting the groom were Messrs. Bruce Watson and Geoff. Webb.

After the ceremony, 100 guests were received at Del Monte, Strathfield, by Mrs. G. L. Duncan, in a royal blue chiffon frock with matching coat, and Mrs. J. A. Cattell (mother of the bridegroom, and well-known in the Solomon Islands), who wore a gown of burgundy lace with hip-length velvet celette cape. Many Islands folk attended the wedding breakfast.

The guests included Mr. Justice and Mrs. A. M.

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E. Baker, Miss C. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Kidnie, Miss Kidnie, Mr. and Mrs. Lougan, Mrs. Cassow, Mr. and Mrs. Cutcheon, Miss Paul, and the Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Dillon.

After a honeymoon on the Blue Mountains, N.S.W., Mr. and Mrs. Hartley sailed from Sydney for their new home in Port Moresby by the Macdhui on July 8.

Mrs. M. E. Allen, a well-known resident of Apia, Western Samoa, who recently left for a visit to New Zealand by the Maui Pomare, was taken to hospital shortly after the vessel’s arrival. She died soon after being admitted to Wellington Hospital. Mrs. Allen was the widow of the late Captain Allen, Islands shipper, an old identity of Samoa.

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Says Missionary Nurse GLIMPSES of the life of medical missionaries in Papua were given by Miss H, Donoghue, who recently arrived in Sydney on her way to Adelaide, after spending three years at the Methodist Mission Hospital at Salamo. After receiving her training in South Australian hospitals, Miss Donoghue went straight to Papua, and the hospital life there she describes as “strenuous, but marvellously interesting.”

This hospital, said Miss Donoghue, was established about 10 years ago, and was conducted by the Methodist Mission, subsidised by the Papuan Government. It was valuable not only for its care of the natives and a good many white people, but as a training school for native nurses and medical boys.

The girls did a two-year course of training and lectures, and then went out into the villages to do midwifery and general nursing, and they made excellent nurses.

The native boys’ course usually took about three years, after which they went out patrolling the villages in Salamo and the other islands, treating cases of accidents and tropical diseases. Later they returned to the hospital to take a post-graduate course in general medical training, which enabled them to do all the dispensing and to perform minor operations and administer anaesthetics.

Many diseases foreign to white people The Bride and Groom, after the ceremony. —Photo by Falk Studio. 59 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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It is still the custom in some parts of Papua when the mother of a newly-born infant dies to bury the baby alive in the mother’s grave. The work of the Salamo Hospital is to rescue these babies and bring them up until they are old enough to eat native food, and then return them to their people. “There is an average of seven waifs in the hospital all the time,” said Sister Donoghue. “The death roll among these children is very heavy, as by the time the hospital rescues them they are often starved almost to death.”

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Astrolabe Copper Field

From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, June 22. nPHERE are indications that the Astrolabe copper field, near the Laloki River, which many years ago attracted attention on account of its rich copper lodes, will develop into a big “show.”

In the old days the copper lodes showed a percentage of gold and silver, and it is reported that a sample shipment from the Moresby King mine has produced two ounces of gold to the ton. Even with the price of copper at £36 per ton, ore containing two ounces of gold to the ton might well be payable.

Mandated Alluvials N.L. is the main concern interested in the Astrolabe properties.

It is rumoured in Port Moresby that another strong company will be formed shortly to take up various areas on the field.

Easter Island

"No Mystery,” Says French Scientist 1 1 1 HE colossal statues on Easter Island are not such problems as has been believed and the “mystery” of the Island has been grossly overplayed is the opinion of Dr. Alfred Metraux, French ethnologist, who recently joined the staff of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

The figures weigh only five or six tons and could easily have been moved from their local quarries and set in place on the seashore by hand labour, he declared.

Four hundred men could drag them with ropes of native weaving.

The inhabitants of Easter, sometimes conjectured to be the remnant of the population of a lost continent, are identified by Dr. Metraux as related to the Maoris of New Zealand and other Polynesians. He calculates they came to Easter Island in about the 12th century.

Lack of timber and an abundance of soft rock, easily carved, modified their culture.

The Easter Island “script” on wooden tablets, which has been the subject of much speculation, is considered by Dr.

Metraux to be not a true written language, but rather a device to aid the memory in reciting sacred legends.

Monsieur Metraux visited Easter Island last year as a representative of the Paris Museum of Ethnology, with an expedition, aboard the Belgian training ship Mercator.

He joined the Bishop Museum because he believes it is the only place for a thorough study of the archaelogical and ethnological history of the South Seas.

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It is now intended to issue another 75,000 ordinary shares of £1 each, payable 2/6 on application and 2/6 on allotment.

It is not anticipated that more will be required for some time.

W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd. and its associates will take up 25,000 of these additional shares, and individual shareholders of W. R. Carpenter and Co. will be given the first opportunity of making application for the remaining 50,000 shares..

The Co. is following the usual sound practice of reinsurance, and only carries a minimum risk in respect of any one line. With additional capital the directors anticipate that they will be able to seek and obtain increased outside business, in addition to the profitable Islands connections which they now enjoy.

The company has operated profitably to the close of its financial year on March 31 last, and the directors consider that the investment should be dividendpaying from its inception.

Mr. J. Binskin, of Bagga Plantation, Vella Lavella, in the Northern Solomon Islands, returned from Sydney by the Malaita on June 27. 60 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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By H.C.R. (SAMOA) A PRACTICAL and efficient machine- T*- grater for the rapid grating or rasping of coconuts, and all starch-bearing tubers, or for the purpose of making arrowroot or starch, can be inexpensively made at home by any one handy with tools. It has a self-feeding hopper, with hand power, and it is capable of dealing with about 6001 b. of Cassava-roots (Manioca), Pia, Canna-edulis, Sweetpotatoes and Yams. Tubers, such as the Maranta-arundinacea are quickly rasped to a pulp in a cleanly and rapid manner.

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For the purpose of making arrowroot for home use, the starch for laundry, or other purposes, the machine-grater will prove invaluable; while, in case of the preparation of cassava-meal for bread or cakes, the machine will save time, labour and trouble.

Needless to say, all tubers need to be clean, washed, and peeled before they are placed in the grater. Large tubers should be cut up into sections. Clean peeling is essential when the resulting arrowroot or starch is to be used for some household purpose.

Some of the starches will “deposit” in a few minutes—canna-edulis, for one. Other 62 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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The machine consists of a “stand,” height 2ft. €in.; length, 3ft. 6in.; width, 2ft. This is merely a table with four legs, upon which is mounted the hopper-box.

Inside the hopper-box is fitted a piece of wood; at an angle which allows the cut-up tubers to slide down by their own weight on to a revolving metal grater. The grater may be made by punching holes closely together, all over a sheet of tin, such as a flattened-out benzine tin. The holes can be punched out with a stout nail by laying the tin over a piece of soft wood, and using a hammer.

For the grater, a piece of suitable wood is needed —a section of .an old mangle-roller would do; but the job is best done by having a small log turned down to suitable size, say 12 inches by 8 inches, and a hole bored through the centre to take a rod or spindle, to which is fitted a wheel, such as an old mangle wheel (or one cut from a tree-trunk).

A metal wheel is best, of any suitable size and not too heavy. The metal is tacked or nailed on to the roller with 1-inch nails, and can be renewed in time, when worn.

The grater revolves, and should be mounted in metal bearings (see Fig. 1).

The hopper may be simply a box of suitable size to cover the grater. In the case of a grater of less than 9| inches in width, a benzine-case will make a suitable hopper. But with a grater of larger dimensions, the hopper of suitable size can be adapted from a box or packing case.

Where it is difficult to obtain or turn a piece of wood suitable for the grater, it is advisable to construct a roller by nailing battens of 1| inches in width, closely together, on two round sections of circular wood to form the roller upon which the punched-tin grater is to be fitted.

The dotted line inside the hopper indicates the position of the board which conveys the tubers to the grater-wheel, and the size of the hopper should be in accordance with your requirements.

Where it is desired to rasp or grate coconuts, the machine will need to be of sturdy construction, well-braced, and bolted together with carriage-bolts and screws. The nuts must be halved; and care should be taken to prevent the “shells” getting ihto contact with the metalgrater, or damage will ensue.

If a regular dripping of water can be maintained, so as to fall on to the revolving grater, so much the better. But this is not absolutely necessary, as a little water can be applied occasionally, during the grating process, by the worker.

The revolving grater is bolted down to the stand as shown; and the hopper-box fits as a separate unit, and may be secured to the stand by means of either a couple of small screws or by buttons.

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FIRE AT WAU, T.N.G.

From Our Own Correspondent WAU, June 24.

THE total loss by fire on June 16 of the house occupied by Mr. H. G. Strong, roadmaster in the Administration has caused widespread regret in Wau. The cause of the fire, which was noticed early in the afternoon, is not known, although it is thought that a flying spark from burning kunai, some distance away, may have started the outbreak.

The kunai-grass roof prevented any attempt to save the structure. Fortunately no one was in the dwelling at the time. The house was not insured, and all contents were totally destroyed.

Mr. and Mrs. P. Taylor returned to Thursday Island in June after 12 months’ leave. They later proceeded to the C.M.S. station on Groot© Eylandt (Great Island) in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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From Our Own Correspondent WAU, June 24.

THE arrival on the field of several new modern Stinson ’planes, augmenting the fleet of Guinea Airways Ltd., has caused much interest at Wau, as nothing of their class has previously been seen on the ’drome. They are now in commission, and are flying perfectly.

To the layman they appear first-class machines, with perfect finish and fittings.

Their cruising speed is 130 miles per hour, and this may have a revolutionary effect on flying in the Morobe goldfields area.

It is rumoured that the new ’planes might be used for an Australian —New Guinea service, should Guinea Airways enter this field.

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Ltd., left Brisbane for Port Moresby, Papua, by the Montoro on June 19. 63 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Native Prisoner Lutheran Missionary’s Version of the Crime From Our Own Correspondent RABAUD, June 17.

TTENRY POBGB, an American Lutheran missionary stationed in the uncontrolled” area of Wahgi-Mt Hagen, in the Morobe District, appeared before His Honour the Chief Judge in the Supreme Court on June 3 charged with unlawfully depriving a native of his liberty. , The accused pleaded guilty. He made an unsworn statement from the box in which he related how three of his native mission helpers had been assaulted and robbed by natives in the Danga district « h ho rr r> w - s • beyond . th< k ar<^ T in which he ! had permission, under the Uncontrolled” Areas Ordinance, to reside and carry on mission work.

According to the accused, he and his workers decided to recover the stolen ~ goods and for this purpose preparations were made. In his statement, he explained how on receiving news of the assault he and his colleagues carefully went into the matter and decided that the Danga attitude of boldness and avariciousness must be stopped. . , , . J „ Continuing With his statement Foege said: — “On the morning of January 10, I started for the Danga territory with 10 helpers in compliance with previous instructions that if we should have to leave our station to carry with us five or six guns and about 10 civilised natives. We took six guns. Arriving at the Dagal mission two of the helpers remained there, whilst the rest climbed up a ridge towards the Danga territory. We came upon some Damba natives who are a clan of the larger Danga tribe, but were not of the clan that had committed the robbery. These continued with us to the first house of the guilty clan.

“Upon our arrival some members of the guilty clan were fleeing; we called to them to bring back the articles they had stolen. There was no response. We then asked the Damba natives to call them in their own dialect. Soon the Danga natives appeared with some of the stolen articles.

They deposited them within 200 yds. of us, and thereupon beat a hasty retreat.

“Since it was already late in the afternoon, we returned to the Danga mission post, with the retrieved articles. As we had not recovered all the stolen goods and had not talked with the Danga natives we went back the following morning. Upon arriving at the first house of the guilty tribe we found it deserted. We called, but there was no response. We left three helpers there to intercept any of the Danga natives. The rest of us continued some distance further to see if we could meet the Danga people. After a short time the helpers who had remained at the house called out that they had taken a native.

“Upon our arrival one of the three helpers who had been pursued identified this native as one of the pursuers, although not one of the actual perpetrators of the robbery. After having tied his hands behind his back we asked him where the rest of his clan were. He said they had fled.

We told him to call out to his people to return the remainder of the stolen goods and a pig each as an expiatory gift for having pursued and pounded the three mission helpers. This he did.

“After waiting some time rain threatened and we retreated some distance to a house of the Damba clan, taking the native lad with us. We waited some hours for the Danga people. At first we were stern towards the captive and told him that he and his people were bad. He asked us to take off the adornments he was wearing as they were inconveniencing him while he was tied.

Thereafter I sat with him and took down words of his dialect, which he gave me. Towards evening some of the Damba clan, acting as intermediaries for the guilty Danga tribe, returned more of the stolen articles, as well as two pigs. However, no representative of the Danga tribe itself came along.

“We told these intermediaries that we would not accept the pigs since we had not been able to speak with the guilty clan, and that we would now go down to the Dagal mission post, taking the boy with us. We said we would return the following morning with the lad. We then went down to the mission station at Dagal, taking the tied Danga native with us.

“At Dagal there were some natives around and since these Dagals are more or less hostile to the Dangas we took special precaution in keeping the prisoner tied lest he escape during the night and possibly come to grief at the hands of the Dagals; especially since these Dagals had intimated that we might kill him, as it was their custom to kill.

“We trussed his legs with rope, and the helpers put mats down near the fire for him to sleep on.

The end of the rope, with which his hands were tied, was fastened to a post supporting the platform. There was ample length of rope to permit him to change his position. We conversed with the boy for some time during the evening, and he showed no fear.

“The following morning we again started out for the Danga country, taking the boy with us. As we drew near the house, where we had captured him the previous day, we stopped upon the suggestion of some Damba natives who had come with us. The Damba representatives said they would go ahead and convince the Danga people they need not be afraid to meet us. Later these Damba people told us that the Dangas had brought pigs, but that they were unable to retrieve the remainder of the stolen goods. The Dangas were therefore afraid to come up to us.

“We called back that if it were true they could not recover the goods they should bring a pig or 64 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Cables: Russell, Tahiti (Bentley’s Code) something else in lieu of this. The Damba intermediary came and told us that they had brought another pig, but were still reluctant to come directly to us. Noticing that it was only fear that kept them away we conclusively demonstrated to them that we had no evil intention, by tying our guns in a bundle and laying them aside. Slowly the first Dangas came up to us and shook hands.

They then also laid their bows and arrows aside.

“Meanwhile some of our helpers killed and dissected a pig, one half of which they put before the Danga natives and we kept the other half. We then asked the Dangas what this meant, and they said we wanted to eat a peace meal. We told them we had not come to take revenge like they would in such a case, that we wished to be their friends.

“I asked them whether they had mistreated the mission helpers for a valid reason; whether those mission helpers had ever trampled over their fields, or misused their women. Thereupon the Chiefs said that the helpers had never done anything like that, and that their people who had pursued and robbed them were bad. We said that two helpers who were pursued and attacked were still suffering from their injuries at Kerewa. The Dangas reiterated that their boys who committed the misdeeds were bad, and that they wished to have mission helpers stationed in their midst.

“We then untied their boy and I put a small handful of gire gire (native money) into his hand.

He then asked us to come to his house where he would give us his younger brother to take back to our mission station, so that we might learn the Danga dialect. We refused to take the boy alone since the Parau tribe was hostile towards these Dangas and this boy might be harmed while at the station. The Danga Chiefs then pointed out a site to build a helpers’ station. We were unable to comply with their wishes, as this was beyond the ‘closed area’ regulations.

“After conversing with them for awhile longer, we demonstrated to them that our relations in the future would be peaceful by breaking an arrow in two, giving one half of the broken arrow to the Dangas, and keeping the other half ourselves. We told them that this broken arrow was to remind them that whenever Europeans passed through their country they should treat them well by supplying them with food, and not stealing from them. We then parted after shaking hands.”

On June 10, the Chief Judge, after carefully reviewing the regulations regarding “Uncontrolled” Areas and the evidence which had been placed before the Court expressed the opinion that Foege’s evidence had been highly coloured regarding some matters.

“You say you feel humiliated,” said His Honour, “but you have brought shame on us efforts and hindering the Administrator in its work. Your Counsel has ably said all that could be said on your behalf but I cannot vindicate the law without punishing you.”

His Honour then sentenced the accused to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour.

Cniu-i ®f P i ica ! io 7. for le ® v ? to appeal to the High of thl R A n raha was l°Jged in Sydney on behalf Thnn,/ on July 16. Messrs. Reginald r™™? 31 ? i S w ’ 8 °i Icl !? rs > h ave briefed a King’s F«ge“' bThalf, M " J - W - Sh “* “> »»Pe.r S .„ Mr. F. W. Eggleston, of Victoria, who is Australia’s representative on the Executive Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, will lead a delegation of six prominent Australians to attend the Institute’s sixth conference shortly to be held in California, U.S.A. The conference win discuss problems relating to the South Seas and the Far East, giving special notice to the changing balance of political forces in the Pacific.

Death of Well-known Fijian From Our Own Correspondent SUVA June 20.

YVTALKING home from the Defence Force parade on the night of June 11, Rupeni Semi Tabilai collapsed in the street and died. Rupeni, as the native was generally known, was a very familiar figure in Suva, having been messenger for the Bank of New Zealand for 30 years.

Enlisting in the Fiji Defence Force in January, 1917, Rupeni had long service with the militia. In 1920 he was promoted to lance corporal, and four years later became a sergeant. He held the efficiency medal and clasp.

A good citizen and a trustworthy Fijian, Rupeni will be missed around Suva. He was 58 years of age, and came from Dravo village, in the Tailevu District.

Mr. Frank Fraser, of Ingham, Queensland, paid a visit to Wau, New Guinea, in June to attend to his business interests in the Morobe District. 65 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Principal: MISS F. HAWTHORNE, B.A. Matron: Miss L. WHITE, A.T.N.A. need only keep on with its activities to achieve the object stated on its letterheads —namely Samoa mo Samoa (Samoa for the Samoans).

Mr. Nelson, if he has retained his influence over the Samoans, can help the Government very much in establishing comparative political quiet. I believe that Mr.

Nelson will “play the game”; but it doubtful whether he will hold his influence with the Mau when he tries to find a compromise between the Government and the Samoans, on certain constitutional questions.

BY now, probably, the Missioners have learned that, while the Mau provides the agitation, the real hardships and injustices are suffered by the European and half-caste communities. Three separate groups have presented their requests for reforms to the Minister—the Europeans, through their elected representatives on the Legislative Council, Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Smythe; the planters; and the local-born (the usual name for the halfcaste people who live in European fashion) who have just banded themselves together as the “Samoan Labour Party”!

Their requests may be numbered in scores, and can be only summarised here.

By far the most important are those relating to the local-born. There are at least 3,000 of these attractive people, and their condition is most tragic. They have beauty, intelligence, spirit; the culture and outlook of the Europeans; the European’s readiness to work —yet they have no status as citizens of Samoa, • and there are no jobs for them. A good many of the men, recognising the hopelessness of their outlook, turn to the native community, marry natives, acquire a native status, and are absorbed into native life.

But it is not so easy for the girls. Almost without exception, they are pretty, fastidious, gentle creatures, with marked social gifts, and taking a high degree of education; and their comeliness and intelligence make of them quite admirable wives. But there are few husbands available for them.

There are only 400 white people in the Territory; and “Granny” in Wellington has informed the couple of score of young’ bachelors in the service here that if they so much as look at a local-born girl, they will be spanked and sent home.

The thing to do is to give these people a status and a place in Samoa; and what appears to be an admirable plan, to that end, has been worked out by the Acting- Administrator, Mr. A. C. Turnbull, with the assistance of some of the leading citizens.

It is proposed to use good lands (2500 acres of Reparation Estates, in the Saleimoa district, 10 miles west of Apia, and several thousands of acres in the Faasaleleaga district of Savaii, are especially mentioned) for group settlements of local-born lads. They will be maintained and trained by experts in bush-felling, clearing and planting suitable crops; and, when ready, each will be supplied with a small plantation, which will be loaded with the cost of maintaining and training the lad. It is proposed that there shall be a little town, with all the amenities of modern life, near each group settlement. Each plantation, it is suggested, would comprise 25 acres or more —10 planted in bananas, cocoa or coffee, and 15 under bush, to provide for expansion.

There will be failures, of course —a proportion of the local-born people are not 66 Samoa in Throes of Political Re-arrangement

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The European residents are very strongly urging that, instead of men being brought from New Zealand, more of the local-born men and women should be more extensively used in all branches of administrative work, including the Reparation Estates.

European Requests

A meeting of European residents, presided over by Mr. A. G. Smythe and Mr. I. H. Carruthers, decided to ask the Goodwill Mission and the Administration for a number of things, including— Reform of the liquor laws (which are the quaintest in the South Seas, and are described elsewhere).

The appointment of a Finance Board to assist the Administration in reducing expenditure, so as to give taxpayers some relief. (It was urged that there is considerable over-staffing—the Treasury, Native Department, Police and Prisons Department being especially mentioned).

Abolition of port and service tax. and reduction of import duties.

Appointment of school and hospital committees, and the education of all children, whether able to pay school fees or not.

More rigid medical inspection of passengers arriving in Samoa.

The franchise for every European over 21 years, who pays personal tax.

To Assist Planters

The Planters’ Association has a short but important list of matters for the attention of the Government.

Opportunity has been taken to urge the paramount importance of maintaining a supply of imported labour. Plantations cannot otherwise be worked, as neither Samoans nor local-born men can be depended upon for permanent labour. The Chinese are excellent labourers, but there is objection to them, in some quarters, because almost invariably, during their term here, they take a temporary Samoan wife; and, when they go, they usually leave a number of children here, to be absorbed into the mother’s family group. The planters seem to prefer Chinese; but their main concern is to have a dependable supply of labour.

An urgent necessity here at present is a cheaper supply of fertiliser. Many plantations are deteriorating because of the very high cost of reviving them. It has been noted that the ships which carry Chinese labour between China and Samoa usually call at Ocean Island and Nauru, where the phosphate deposits also are worked by imported Chinese. It has been asked if it is not possible to arrange that the ships, when calling at those islands, shall pick up cargoes of phosphate for Samoa direct, thus greatly reducing the cost.

Other requests include a temporary suspension of the monthly payments towards the Chinese Labour Overhead Expense Fund, which at present shows a large surplus balance; further consideration of plantation rents; assistance in the provision of fertilizers; and a higher price for bananas exported to New Zealand.

Requests Of Samoan-Born

The Labour Party of Western Samoa (otherwise the local-born European - Samoans) submitted a list of 17 requests— most of them very fair and reasonable.

They included: A franchise for all taxpayers; a larger Legislative Council; medical training, at the hospital, of local-born boys and girls (such invaluable training being now given to full-Samoans, yet withheld from European-Samoans); appointment of European-Samoans to the police and other services; provision for settlement of local-born people upon the land; free education; reduction of hospital fees and provision of more accessible hospital services; European-Samoans to be trained 67 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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Result Of Goodwill Mission

So far as the native political trouble is concerned, it is most unlikely that the Goodwill Mission will achieve anything worth while. But I believe that the Minister, Mr. Langstone, and the M.P., Mr.

O’Brien—who are broadminded, sincere men—will achieve a great amount of good by sweeping away much of the stifling redtape which “Granny” Government has fastended upon Samoa; by stirring up various petty, complacent officials to a sense of their obligations; and by initiating reforms which will be, in an economic sense, of value to the Territory.

New Administrator

The beach, with bated breath, awaits the appointment of a new Administrator. The Minister is as the Sphinx—not a word has come from him on which even a coconut wireless could be based. Nothing will be heard until he returns to Wellington.

Personally, I expect that Mr. Turnbull will be appointed. He has well and worthily earned the honour; and greater respect is accorded to him and his wife by all classes here than has been given to a leading official for many years, if ever before. The Government cannot do better than place him in charge, with adequate authority, and with a clear understanding that he is not under the dictation of the Mau and its functionaries. But of that, more anon.

Mau Is All Samoa

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 23.

TT must be considered a favourable A omen for a satisfactory settlement of long standing political native troubles, that after nearly 10 years’ dissension the two opposing factions—the pro-Government faction under High Chief Malietoa Tanu, and the Mau (or anti-Government movement) under High Chief Faumuina Piame —a few days ago effected a complete reconciliation—mainly due to the advice and the good services of Acting Administrator A. C. Turnbull.

Malietoa Tanu, after the recent death of Mataafa, the only remaining Fautua (or Native Adviser of the Administration) and Native Member of the Legislative Council, called at the headquarters of the Mau at Lepea (the residence of Faumuina) dressed in a Mau uniform lavalava, blue with white stripes, and asked to be accepted as a member of the Mau movement, for himself, the Faipules (or members of the native Parliament) and all their followers. They were duly accepted by the Mau leaders. In consequence, the N.Z. Goodwill Mission was welcomed by a united Samoa—the Mau movement now comprising the whole of the Samoan native population.

Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Bentley arrived in Sydney from Fiji on their honeymoon by the Aorangi on June 13. They were married quietly at Suva on June 3, the bride being Miss Evelyn Agnes Watson, daughter of Mr. R. B. S. Watson, of Wakaya, and the late Mrs. Watson. 68 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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THERE was little important business transacted by the Fiji Legislative Council at its first business meeting of 1936, held on June 24 and 25.

The opening address of His Excellency the Acting Governor (Hon. Juxon Barton) was briefer than the usual inaugural address, and stressed the fact that there was little new legislation to come before the Council.

Referring to Fiji’s financial position, His Excellency said that ordinary revenue for 1935 was £710,222 (£lOB,BBB more than estimated), being £109,065 more than in 1934. Extraordinary revenue amounted to £23,310, being a transfer of surplus funds from the currency note security fund. The total of ordinary and extraordinary revenue was £733,432. The Customs revenue, which amounted to £394,453, was £70,703 in excess of the estimate.

Total expenditure for the year was £641,181, of which £35,734 was expended from the accumulated surplus balances upon public works. The result of the year’s working was therefore a net surplus of £92,251 of revenue over expenditure.

The accumulated surplus funds were thus increased to the record figure of £353,416 at December 31. In addition, the Colony possessed reserves of £246,636 in the Immigration Fund Proceeds account and in the reserve fund. Grants from the Colonial Development fund, totalling £11,394, were received on account of the Rewa bridge and roads on Viti Levu.

The usual procedure with Legislative Council meetings is to adjourn for at least two days after the presentation of the Governor’s address. His Excellency surprised members by going right ahead with the business, with the result that there was only one bill left to deal with when the Council adjourned until the following morning.

Most of the business transacted was of a routine nature, there being one or two amendments of a minor kind made to certain ordinances. An important motion before the Council was that the salary of the Governor shall be £2500 a year in Fijian currency, with a duty allowance of £F7SO a year, payable while on service in the Colony or within the limits of the Western Pacific High Commission. This has the effect of placing the Governor on the same basis as other officers on salaries in Fijian currency. The present salary of the Fiji Governor, apart from the post of High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, is £3OOO per annum.

A bill was passed controlling boxing and wrestling contests. It gives wide powers to the police in respect of the sport, making it necessary to obtain a permit and police approval before any contest is held.

It is modelled on the N.Z. Act, and the regulation will be drafted so that in future when professional wrestlers appear there will be definite control over them.

The authorities will have power to veto any match. This means that, if considered necessary, there will be no difficulty in stopping inter-racial wrestling, which has given rise to bad feeling in the past.

Captain and Mrs. G. E. Warner, of England, recently paid a visit to Cook Islands.

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Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mine N.L

DIRECTORS of Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mine report that the Company’s consulting metallurgist (Mr. A. E. Paton), of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, has approved of the plans and specifications for the Company’s treatment plant. Tenders for the supply, delivery, and erection of the plant have been called in Australia and London.

The plant has been designed to handle a minimum of 500 tons of ore weekly. The treatment method will be roasting and cyanidition. A site has been selected for the plant, and it is considered likely that production will begin about the end of this year or early in 1937.

Mr. F. W. R. Godden, late of Placer Development Ltd., is in charge of operations at the Loloma Mine. A party of Melbourne mining men is now looking over the Company’s property on the Tavua field.

PACIFIC GOLD N.L.

The directors of Pacific Gold N.L. received the following cablegram on June 20 from the field superintendent in FijiWainivesi area: Both adits 12ft. apart; free gold in both faces. Values, eastern wall, 14dwt. North drive; No. 2 adit to 42ft.; first 30ft. average lldwt.; face sample 2oz. and 15dwt. Width of lode 120 ft.; length exposed 450 ft.; dish prospects over full distance.

The cablegram setting out developments and values is related to the operations mentioned in a recent circular to shareholders. This circular stated that prospects were reported to be promising, but no opinion could be expressed for about three months. Assays up till then had ranged from 19 grains to 10 dwts. 20 grains.

Mr. T. R. Victor, who left by the June Mariposa, has been engaged by the company to make a thorough investigation and report on the property.

MT. KASI MINES LTD.

The mine manager of Mount Kasi Mines Limited in Fiji reported on June 16 as follows, for the period from May 10 to June 4 (25 days):—Mill treated 730 tons for 407 ozs. of bullion. The estimated value was £A3026. The mill was stopped for seven days for alteration of the position of the ball mill. Weather has been bad, and the ore slimy, causing considerable delays in filtration.

An additional filter has now arrived.

FIJI MINING CORPORATION N.L.

At the first annual meeting of Fiji Mining Corporation N.L., Tavua, Fiji, held in Melbourne on June 30, Mr. J. Dunlop said it had been decided to concentrate work on No. 3 shaft, with a view to picking up the downward extension of the rich stone cut in that shaft about 35 feet from the surface. The lode had been intercepted in both the east and west drives off the bottom level of this shaft at 110 feet, which was as deep as any working on the Tavua field. Values disclosed to date were encouraging, a 10 feet seam on the south wall in the east drive giving a value last week of 14 dwt., and this week of 7 dwt. a ton. It was considered the area was promising, but further prospecting was necessary to prove its value.

The Directors, in their annual report, state that they have exercised the option over prospecting licence No. 288 at Tavua, and development is proceeding under the supervision of Mr. D. M. Deane.

The future operations of the company from No. 3 shaft and the further development of the eastern lode are fraught with great possibilities and directors are hopeful that the property will prove as valuable as the Emperor and Loloma. Mr. E.

G. Theodore has been appointed a local director.

AUSTRALIAN GOLD DEVELOPMENT, N.L.

During the 12 months ended March 21, Australian Gold Development N.L. was offered options over various gold properties in Fiji and New Guinea.

The consulting engineer (Mr. T. R. Victor) examined and reported on most of those submitted, but they were found to be of no value to the company.

Shareholders were enabled to participate in the Emperor Mines Ltd. flotation to the extent of 50,000 shares, which were offered in the proportion of 25 Emperor shares for each share held. Expenditure for the period was £3900, and £74 was received in interest on deposits, leaving a debit balance of £3826. At the close of the year current assets exceeded liabilities by £2566, excluding shares in other companies, valued at £625.

EMPEROR MINES LIMITED.

The following table compares the monthly output of Emperor Mines Limited for May and June: From Papua OCEANIC GOLD EXPLORATION N.L.

Shareholders of Oceanic Gold Explorations N.L., at an extraordinary general meeting on June 17, voluntarily decided to wind up. It is expected there will be a return to shareholders of 13/4 a share. The Company was formed with a nominal capital of £lO,OOO, in 2000 shares of £5 each, of which 1500 were issued at £2 a share, and 500 were in reserve.

The Company sent an expedition to Papua aboard the sailing ship Joseph Conrad early this year. Results at the property inspected in the South Eastern Division of the Territory, were negative, and the party returned by steamer to Australia.

NEW MISIMA GOLD MINES LTD.

Mr. F. W. Cuthbert, liquidator of New Misima Gold Mines Limited (in liquidation), of Papua, reported on June 19 that Liquidation Dividend Number Three of £l/-/- per share had been declared. It was payable on June 22. 70 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

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April 23. May 23. June 23.

Ore treated, tons . . 1,790 1,436 1,580 Bullion, oz 2,139 1,877 — ♦Estimated value . . £4,590 £4,095 £4,122 * Based on gold at £8 an oz.

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Mr. Clif G. Rutledge, who was recently appointed general manager of Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Ltd., arrived at Misima on June 12.

He reported to his principals in Sydney on June 21 that the mill was running regularly and had crushed to June 13, 1200 tons. Mine faces are looking satisfactory, and there is no difficulty in keeping up production. About one-third of the excavations for enlarged plant is completed. He expected to have new timber road completed and ready for motor truck within four weeks.

Output for the last three months was: From New Guinea MOROBE ALLUVIALS N.L.

Mr. C. Budden, general manager of Morobe Alluvials N.L., New Guinea, conferred in Melbourne in June with the directors regarding future operations, and the equipment of the company’s property at Wau. The directors decided to adopt Mr. Sudden’s recommendations to instal additional up-to-date plant, for which the Company has ample funds in hand. Mr. Budden will return immediately to New Guinea to supervise the installation of the plant. When it is completed, the monthly output will be considerably increased.

Mr. Budden estimates there is at least eight years’ profitable work ahead.

UPPER WATUT GOLD ALLUVIALS N.L.

Following protracted negotiations, Upper Watut Gold Alluvials N.L., has acquired an option of purchase over the Mainka lease, adjoining the company’s present area. This information is contained in the director’s half-yearly report, issued on June 16. It is understood that tributors on the area have signed their respective agreements and a cabled acceptance has been received from the owner in Germany. The new ground contains over 5 million yards downstream from the present area. Values are expected to be around 2/6 a yard. Work in the last 12 months by tributors on selected sections is said to have produced about 4/- a yard. Although no plans for working have yet been announced, it is possible that this will be by drag-line shovel and scow washing plants, which are operating extensively in America at costs lower than sluicing and in some cases practically comparable with bucket dredging costs.

The possibility of additional ground was hinted at when the company announced earlier this year its association with Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.

In the event of Bulolo exercising its option with Upper Watut, the new ground will be included.

The first amount of £4OOO in payment for shares in terms of its option agreement is payable by Bulolo on September 3, unless in the meantime it decides not to exercise its option.

The Company’s hydro-electric scheme will provide 1860 horse power. Civil and hydraulic work on the electric power scheme is practically complete, and the main pressure pipe line from the surge tank (at the end of the water race) to the power station is in hand. Generating plant has arrived. Steel pontoons and gravel pumps have been shipped.

To February 29, £66,267 had been spent on mine development and construction account. Cash in hand »and fixed deposits were £14,442. Sundry creditors were £8986.

Directors report that commencement of sluicing operations will be to scheduled time. It is understood that the rate of progress of plant erection will depend on the suitability of flying conditions for aerial transport of the heavy machinery. The gear will be erected and ready to produce in August.

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS LTD.

Scout drilling by New Guinea Goldfields, Limited, of the alluvials in the Wau area indicates the presence within the Company’s leases of ancient auriferous gravels, possibly of river formation, underlying the more recent alluvial deposits.

Where encountered, the depths and results (per cubic yard in Australian currency) have been as follows; Hole No. K 9; Depth 85ft.-88ft., value 38/1; at 88ft. -159 ft., 4/3; at 159ft.-188ft., 2/10. Hole Jl9 : 200ft.-210ft., 46/4; at 210ft.-245ft., 18/6. Hole Kl: 87ft.-94ft., 45/9. Hole H 18: 86ft.-94ft., 8/1; at 94ft.-97ft., 24/3; at 97ft.-102ft., 3/1. Hole MLI4: 114ft.-124ft.. 19/4. Hole JKI4: 145ft.-175ft., 4/8; at 175ft.-177ft., 26/3; at 177ft.-205ft., 17/1; at 205 ft- . 8/1.

The overlying alluvial contains but small values, the values from the surface in each hole average as follows: —Hole No. K 9; Total depth, 188 ft., average per cub. yd., /19. Hole Jl9: 245 ft., /62.

Hole Kl; 160 ft., /25. Hole H 18; 102 ft., /21. Hole MI. 14; 200 ft., /17. Hole JKI4; 235 ft., /44. In view of these results, a programme of drilling at regular intervals has been commenced, in order to de-limit the area of these gravels.

The Company’s monthly returns of production and estimated profits are as follows: —

Irowat Gold Alluvials N.L

From the New Guinea area of Irowat Gold Alluvials, N.L., a cabled report was received on July 1 stating that a clean-up of two workings is proceeding. Officials estimate that 20,000 cubic yards lie treated, plus 3500 cubic yards in tail race, No. 1 working. No. 2 main pipe column has been completed, and No. 3 steel boxes have been set up. The No. 4 boxes have also been completed. It is stated that the yardage treated has been affected by the opening up of_ initial paddocks, which factor will disappear. This, and the Installation of elevators, will enable the estimated yardage to be treated in future operations. 72 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

April.

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Dear Sir, In reply to your letter dated 7th May, 1936, I have to advise having tested “Cuprinol” as follows: Eight pieces of imported softwood taken from a case were sharpened and four soaked in “Cuprinol” solution. All were then driven into ant-infested ground a few inches apart, untreated pieces being placed alternatively with those which had been treated.

After six weeks the test pieces were examined and those treated with “Cuprinol” were untouched while the others were very badly eaten.

The softwood mentioned is very vulnerable to the attacks of the local termites and I feel sure that “Cuprinol” will give ample protection to any timbers likely to be used for building purposes.

Yours faithfully, (Signed) W. A. C. DALE, 8.E., Shire Engineer.

ISLANDS DISTRIBUTORS; Paul A Gray Ltd. 82-84 Sussex Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

MINING TRUST LTD.

A schedule of its shares and interests in other companies shows that the Mining Trust Ltd., of London, held at December 31 last, 843,147 fullypaid shares of 5/- each in New Guinea Goldfields, Limited, this being 18.8 per cent, of the issued capital. The holding was originally 1,838,147 shares, *>ut in 1934 the Company offered its shareholders 1,000,000 shares at 5/3 each.

BULOLO GOLD DEPOSITS LTD.

The manager of Bulolo Gold Deposits Limited in New Guinea reported on July 3 that a clean-up of the property resulted in the recovery of 179 ounces of gold for approximately five and a half week’s work.

SANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING LTD.

The mine manager of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Limited, New Guinea, reports that during June. 202 ounces of gold were recovered from 11,675 cubic yards of material treated, giving an average value of approximately 2/7 a cubic yard.

The following table shows the comparison between April, May, and June productions: UPPER SEPIK GOLD SYNDICATE N.L.

In a progress report by letter, dated June 24 to Upper Sepik Gold Syndicate N.L., Mr. J. M.

Spence, mining engineer, advises that five pits have been put down on the area in New Guinea, to a depth of 15ft., for values of 7d. a cubic yard. Ten pits, incomplete, ranging from 7 feet 4 inches to 19 feet and not bottomed, averaged 1/9 a cubic yard. Mr. Spence states the first few pits were patchy, but the pits at present in progress show the wash, excluding overburden which averages 6 feet, without having bottomed, as going 1/- to nearly 8/- a cubic yard, based on the present price of gold.

Shareholders at the annual meeting of the Company on July 3 passed a resolution to exclude members of the Press while a discussion took place on a confidential report by the auditor, prepared for the directors at their request. The meeting was told that Messrs. Spence and Smith are testing portions of an area of 325 acres on the Watut River.

ENTERPRISE OF NEW GUINEA N.L.

Accounts of Enterprise of New Guinea N.L., New Guinea, for the 12 months ended October 31 last, disclose a loss of £6528. At the close of the year there was a surplus of current assets over liabilities of £12,280. The greater portion of activities, the directors report, have been concentrated on building the water race from Iroa Creek to the site of the Surprise Creek workings, a distance of over three miles, to enable sluicing on a large scale to be carried on at that area.

Unavoidable delays have occurred, but production is expected to commence shortly, when good returns are confidently expected by the directors.

The saw-milling plant installed at Surprise Creek has sawn the native timber for the construction of the water race. Prospecting by hand sluicing has been carried out almost continuously on the Oriabanda area, and while it has not been on an extensive basis, it has proved to be of a highly payable nature. Work on this area has suffered by disastrous floods from time to time, with resultant washing away of sluicing and other gear.

Systematic prospecting has been carried on, and a topographical survey is in progress. It is hoped some valuable formations will be discovered.

The Warden’s Court has recommended that an area at Oriabanda, containing about 12 Yi square miles, be granted, but no official intimation has been received of its being gazetted. The petroleum ordinance for the Papuan area became operative in April last, but the New Guinea one is not yet in operation, though it is expected to become so shortly. The position is being carefully watched, and the interests of the Company safeguarded.

From April 8, 1935 to March 31 last, 3342 cubic yards of wash was treated at Oriabanda for a recovery of 183 oz. 11 dwt. of unrefined retorted gold. A sluicing plant at Surprise Creek removed since August 14 last 4250 cubic yards of overburden and 985 cubic yards of wash for a recovery of 54J oz, of unrefined retorted gold. Production from tributing recently commenced on the Lula Creek claim, returned 3 oz. 13 dwt. of unrefined gold to March 31 from 150 cubic yards of wash.

Mr. H. Taylour (general manager) reports as follows for the period May 14 to May 30:—Surprise Creek area: Timber getting, saw milling, preparation of timber, and distribution of same for flume construction continued. Of the seven flumes required on main water race two were completed, and work on another three commenced. Clearing and excavating for pressure pipe line started.

Well advanced. Minor accidents and malarial fever delayed work somewhat. In Oriabanda area. flood damage was repaired, and box sluicing resumed in a small way. Creek diversion wall and channel been constructed. This will permit about one quarter mile of main creek to be worked.

Prospecting continued. For May 9 oz. 11 dwt. of retorted gold produced from 569 cubic yards treated.

The report from May 31 to June 23 stated:— Five flumes completed. Work well in hand on remaining two. Lines of pipes bolted into position, sand traps constructed, and sluice gates erected on intake section of race. Unstable portions of race lined with timber. Further progress made on outlet end of race. Saw mill worked two shifts during latter portion period. Box sluicing commenced on Company’s property near junction of Surprise Creek with Watut River. In the Oriabanda area, alluvial mining and prospecting been under way during earlier part of period.

Latterly, labour force has been transferred to more urgent work elsewhere. On gold mining leases at Edie Creek, surface prospecting been in progress.

DEVELOPMENTS (N.G.) N.L.

A written communication received from the engineers by the management of Developments (New Guinea) N.L., confirms their report by cablegram that to date, pits and bores on the dredging area ui New Guinea down to 20 feet averaged 1/3 a yard, with gold at £4/5/- an oz.

They state that they bottomed on mud rock, adding, “as the local rock outcrops are practically all limestone, there is a big possibility that we are on a false bottom.” This development is considered by the directors to be important, and boring instructions have been given to attempt to drill through the mud rock.

Mr. F. A. Roberg, has been engaged as engineer by the Company and has arrived in New Guinea, to take charge of testing and development operations on the Company’s Dunantina River property. Mr. Roberg has had extensive dredging experience in the East. The property is about 260 miles from Wau, and is reached by aeroplane. Four white men and a number of natives are already on the property.

BULOLO GOLD DREDGING LTD.

Details of the new issue of 60,000 shares of S dollars (Canadian) each in Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., of New Guinea, at a premium of 15 dollars, show that the amount of 20 dollars per share is payable in two instalments of 10 dollars each,

VALUE- April May June Cubic yards 974,800 1,051,500 1,002,000 Bullion, oz. 17,398 15,815 15,682 Gold, fine, oz. . 12,265 11,196 11,065 VALUE— Aust. currency* .. £107.318 £97,965 £96,818 Per cubic yard .

Z26.42 Z22.36 /23.19 Working profit . ... £72,931 £66,79754 £65,380 "At £ A8/15/per fine ounce.

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Production for the company’s dredges for June compares with that of the previous two periods as follows: Mr. L. E. Ford, a resident of 12 years’ standing in the Cook Islands, left at the end of May for London, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Ford was formerly in the employ of A. B. Donald and Co., from which firm he resigned in 1931 to take up the position of secretary and accountant to the Rarotonga Fruit Company. It is understood that he will undertake work of a literary nature in connection with a new magazine shortly to appear in England. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ford are attempting their hands at novels with an Islands background.

Fierce Fight

One Killed and Several Injured in Samoan Brawl From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 26.

A BREACH of native etiquette led to a brawl, the death of a man, and a charge of murder, during festivities which followed the opening of a new church in the east coast district.

A Po Pese (or singing competition) took place between the choirs of the Catholic churches from the villages of Siumu, Nofoalii and Safata; and the prize, two calves, was won by Siumu. A Samoan of Nofoalii, for some reason, started to beat a calf which was tied to a tree together with the two prize calves.

The third calf belonged to Falefa village.

The beating of an animal belonging to a Samoan by another Samoan is, according' to ancient Samoan custom, considered . a deadly insult. So a Falefa native attempted to stop the Nofoalii man from maltreating the Falefa calf.

A fierce fight developed in which immediately the men of both villages took part.

Stones, sticks and knives were used.

A few minutes after, when priests and chiefs rushed in to stop the fight, a number of wounded men lay on the ground. Also, a Nofoalii matai, who was struck by a stone on the temple and also hit at the base of the head with a stick, subsequently died from his injuries. Other Samoans were injured more or less seriously, but not fatally.

The police made an arrest.

The chiefs of Falefa and other east coast villages have gone to Nofoalii, home of the killed man for the ceremony of ifoga (or peace offering and atonement) and are asking for the pardon of the offended village and families, and offering fine mats as a peace offering.

Papuan Visitor Robbed

In Melbourne

ON a visit to her daughters in Victoria, Mrs. D. Irvine, of Giligili Plantation.

Samarai, Papua, was robbed of jewellery valued at more than £2OO by a thief who late at night entered her East Melbourne flat early in July.

Gaining entrance through a window, the intruder took Mrs. Irvine’s pearls and diamonds, including a pearl worth £l5O.

Earlier in the evening, one of her daughters heard a noise in the bedroom, but on investigating found nothing amiss. 74 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 193©

Average Australia on Papeete for week ended 22/6/36 Francs to k Australian 59.81 Average for week ended 29/6/36 59.54 Average for week ended 6/7/36 59.21 Average for week ended 13/7/36 59.28 Average for week ended 20/7/36 59.32 Average Australia on Noumea for week ended 22/6/36 . .

Francs to 1 Australian 59.71 Average for week ended 29/6/36 59.48 Average for week ended 6/7/36 59.31 Average for week ended 13/7/36 . . 59.38 Average for week ended 20/7/36 . . 59.42 Buying. Selling.

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Exchange Rates The following exchange quotations, gathered m Sydney, show the rates existing in Sydney on July 17: — FIJI—THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

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Australia on Fiji on basis of £lOO Fiji: Buying £Alll/2/6, selling £AII3.

Fiji-London on basis £lOO London: Buying. Selling.

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Exchange, Australia on Western Samoa, basi» £lOO Samoa —buying £AIOO, selling £AIOO/10/-.

Exchange, Samoa on London, basis £lOO in London:—

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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 of Indo-Chine, Noumea: On July 17, when the Australian £ was nominally worth 63 francs, £lOO Australian would purchase a credit to Noumea of 6,300 francs.

NEW GUINEA AND PAPUA-

Through Commonwealth

BANK From Australia, Pt. Moresby, £1 per cent.; co Rabaul 10/- per cent. —other N, Guinea district* £1 per cent.

From Rabaul on London, same as Australia on London:— Buying: T.T. £AI2S equals £stg. 100.

Selling: T.T. £AI2S/1.0/- 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 as Australia on London, and vice versa.

Islands Produce Coffee The following quotations were obtained on July 17:— Robusta, f.a.q., imported from Java on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., prompt shipment.

Sydney: Quote No. 1, 18/- per cwt.; quote No. 2, 19/- (based on 12 guilders).

Kenya, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt. No. 1 quotations: Grade “A,” 48/-; grade “B,” 45/-; grade “C,” 43/-. No. 2 quotations: Grade “A,” 51/-; grade “B,” 48/-; grade “C,” 44/-; Triage, 38/6. No. 3 quotations; Grade “B.” 47/-; grade “C,” 41/-; Triage, 37/-.

Mysore, f.a.q., prompt shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt.; No. 1 quotation, grade “A,” 55/-; grade “B,” 50/-. No. 2 quotation; Grade Triage, 41/6.

Arabian (Aden), Hodeidah, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney. Quote (a) No. 1, pure, 60/- per cwt. Quote (b) : 52/- per cwt.

Note; Importers of coffee from Java, etc., pay the following additional charges; Exchange (251 per cent, in the case of Java), duty (4d. lb.). primage (10 per cent.), landing costs (1/- per cwt.). Coffee from Papua and New Guinea escape* most of these charges.

Kapok Based on an exchange conversion of 12 gulden to the Australian £, the Australian c.i.f. prices current during July were: Prime Samarang, 3 21/32d. per lb.; prime Japara, 3 25/32d.

Cocoa Quote No. 1: Cocoa beans, £33 per ton.

Quote No. 2: Accra, good fermented, £29/15/per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Ivory Nuts No. 1 quotation; £B/15/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

No. 2 quotation: £B/10/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Green Snail Shell Good quality green snail shell was quoted by Sydney buyers in mid-July at £5O per ton.

Sales, however, have been made in Sydney recently at £7l per ton.

Trochus Shell Quotations for trochus shell obtained m Sydney from two different sources were: (a) Trochus shell, No. 1 grade £llO Trochus shell, No. 2 grade £lO6 Trochus shell. No. 3 grade £94 (b) Trochus shell, No. 1 grade £llO Trochus shell. No. 2 grade £lO5 Trochus shell. No. 3 grade £93 All quotes are f.o.b. and on the Australian £.

Cotton London c.i.f. prices for cotton during the month were: June 19, 6.47 d. per lb, July shipment; June 26, 6.56 d. lb., July shipment; July 3,6.59 d. lb., Aug. shipment; July 10, 7.08 d. lb, Aug. shipment; July 17, 6.89 d. lb., Aug. shipment.

Rice Rangoon rice, packed in 1001 b. or 2001 b. bag*, £l2/10/- per ton f.o.b. Sydney.

Australian table rice, packed in 561 b. bags, £l6/10/- per ton. 75 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936

London Price on— South Sea, Plantation, Sun-Dried Hot-air Dried, to London Rabaul Per ton, c.i.f. Per ton, c.i.f.

January 16, 1931 . .. £14 7 6 £14 12 6 February 27 . .. £14 12 6 £14 17 6 March 27 . .. £14 10 0 £14 12 6 April 24 . .. £13 15 0 £13 17 6 May 29 . .. £10 17 6 £11 0 0 June 26 . .. £11 IS 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 15 0 February 12 . .. £16 7 6 £16 10 0 March 25 . .. £14 17 6 £15 0 0 April 29 May 20 . .. £14 15 0 £14 17 6 . .. £13 17 6 £14 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 South Sea.

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

Feb. 14 . . £13 0 0 £13 15 0 £14 15 0 Feb. 21 . . £13 5 0 £14 0 0 £14 17 6 Feb. 28 . . £12 15 0 £13 12 6 £14 5 0 Mar. 6 . . £11 15 0 £12 15 0 £13 0 0 Mar. 13 . . £12 12 6 £13 0 0 £13 15 0 Mar. 20 . £12 2 6 £13 0 0 £13 12 6 Mar. 27 . £12 5 0 £13 5 0 £13 17 6 Apr. 3 . £12 7 6 £13 5 0 £13 17 6 Apr. 9 . £12 10 0 £13 5 0 £14 0 0 Apr. 17 . . £12 5 0 £12 17 6 £13 15 0 Apr. 24 . . £11 17 6 £12 2 6 £13 0 0 May 1 . £11 10 0 £11 IS 0 £12 10 0 May 8 . . £11 7 6 £11 15 0 £12 7 6 May IS . . £11 15 0 £12 2 6 £12 15 0 May 22 . . £11 15 0 £12 15 0 £13 0 0 May 29: Market closed during Whitsun holidays.

June 5 . . £11 10 0 £12 0 0 £12 17 6 June 12 . . £11 10 0 £12 0 0 £13 0 0 J une 19 . . £11 15 0 £12 5 0 £13 5 0 June 26 . . £12 2 6 £12 10 0 £13 12 6 July 3 . . £12 0 0 £12 10 0 £13 10 0 July 10 . . £12 10 0 £12 IS 0 £13 15 0 July 17 . . £12 17 6 £13 2 6 £14 2 6 Rubber Plantation London Para Smoked Price onper lb.

Per lb.

January 6 1933 .. .. .. 4**d. 2.43d.

February 10 .... .. .. 4%d. 27Ad.

March 10 .. .. 4^d. 2'/ t d.

April 14 .. .. 4*4d. 2.34d.

May 5 .. .. .. 4&1. 2.81d.

June 2 .. .. .. sy 2 d. 3.56d.

July 7 .. .. .. Stfd. 3.71d.

August 4 .. .. 5/ 3 d. 4d.

September 1 .. .. .. .. 5d. 3.78d.

October 13 .. .. 4>4d. 4d.

November 10 .. .. .. .. 4tfd. 4.09d.

December 8 .... .. .. 4tfd. 4.0**d.

January 5, 1934.. .. .. .. A'Ad. 4.28d.

February 2 .. .. .. .. 4/ a d. 4.84d.

March 6 .. .. 5d. 5.15d.

May 4 .. .. .. 5Hd. 7d.

June 1 .. .. .. S'M. 6Ad.

July 6 .. .. .. 554d. 7.06d.

August 3 .. ... 5/ a d. 7.18d.

September 7 .. .. .. .. 5*d. 7Hd.

October 5 .. .. sy A d. 6J%d.

November 16 .. .. .. .. 5'Ad. ey A d.

December 28 .. .. .. .. 5d. 6'Ad.

January 4, 1935 .. .. .. 5d. 6Jid.

February 1 .. .. .. .. 4*id. 6><d.

March 1 .. .. 4H<i. e.nAd.

April 5 .. .. .. AHd. 5.4*d.

May 3 .. .. .. iHd. 5 9/16d.

June 7 .. .. ,. 5d. 6d.

July 5 .. .. .. 5d.

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August 2 .. .. 4^d. sy A d.

September 6 W. 5'Ad.

October 4 .. .. 5d.

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November 1 .... .. .. 5^d. 6Ad.

December 6 .... .. .. 6Hd. 6Hd.

December 27 .. .. .. .. ey 4 d. 6 13/32d.

January 3. 1936 .. .. .. 6-Kd. 6'Ad.

January 17 .. .. 7d. 6Hd.

January 24 .. .. 7d. 7d.

January 31 .. .. 7^d. 6 15/16d.

February 7 .. .. ?y 4 d. 7 3/16d.

February : 21 .... .. .. 8^d. 7Hd.

February 28 .... .. .. 8'Ad. 7Hd.

March 6 .. .. 8'/ 4 d. 7'A d.

March 13 .. .. sy 2 d. 7 13/32d.

March 20 .. .. 83^d. ?yd.

March 27 .. .. 8Ad. 7VA.

April 3 .. .. sy 4 d. 7'Ad.

April 9 .. . 9d. .. 7 9/16d.

April 17 .. .. 9d. 7Hd.

April 24 .. .. 9d. 7 9/16d.

Mav 1 .. .. .. 9d. 7 15/32d.

May 8 .. .. 9d. 7'Ad.

May 15 .. .. 9d. 7 7/16d.

May 22 .. .. 9d. 7Hd.

May 29 .. .. 9d. 7 5/16d.

June 5 .. .. 9d. 7'Ad.

June 12 .. .. 9id. 6.32d.

June 19 .. .. 9Ad. 7gd.

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Index to Volume VI.

AUGUST, 1935, TO JULY, 1936, INCLUSIVE [First numeral indicates number of issue, and second numeral gives the page] ASBESTOS House for Tropics: 3-19.

Atebrin: 5-62, 7-7.

Aviation in Pacific: In New Guinea —see New Guinea; In North Pacific, 1-33, 2-9, 4-3, 5-5, 6-6, 9-26, 10-25; In Papua, 2-67, 3-60, 10-50, 12-35; In Central Pacific. 8-5, 8-46, 9-20, 9-51, 10-39; In N. Caledonia, 10-5; In Solomons, 10-7.

Ay son. Judge: 2-37. g ABIES, Feeding in Tropics: Baker Island: 1-33, 2-9, 3-5, 7-49, 7-75, 8-5, 8-21, 10-39.

“Blackbirding”: 4-20.

“Bounty” Film: 1-10, 6-35, 8-11, 11-66. 12-31.

British N.G. Dev. Co.: 1-35.

Brown, Dr. George, 8-56.

Buck, Professor, 7-5, 8-49.

Bureaucrats of Pacific: 2-3, 6-3, 12-38 Burns, "Philp & Co.; 9-10, 10-16.

New Store (Nukualofa); 1-6, 5-54.

B.P. (S.S.) Report: 9-22.

Burns, Philp Steamer Services: 1-6, 3-10, 3-27, 5-8, 5-37, 6-4, 8-9, 8-10, 9-7, 10-7, 10-10, 12-4.

CAROLINE & Marshall Is.: 6-66, 7-55.

Carpenter, J.A.: 9-7.

Carpenter, Sir Walter; 2-11, 6-73, 9-7.

Carpenter Aviation Service: .3-65, 4-74, 11-7, 12-8.

Carpenter Shipping Line: 10-59, 12-4.

Carpenter, W. R. & Co. Ltd.: 1-4, 2-14, 6-73, 8-7, 9-7, 10-65, 12-60.

Cocoa; 2-10, 3-40, 4-62, 5-57. 7-29, 7-36, 8-27, 11-45.

Cocos Island Treasure: 11-33.

Cook Group, General: 2-43, 3-18, 4-35, 5-20, 5-36, 6-24, 8-18, 8-40, 8-61, 9-15, 9-51, 10-5, 11-10, 12-22; Pearl Shell, 2-11, 4-34; Minister’s Visit, 3-23, 12-7; Viggo Rasmussen, 2-40; Stephen Savage, 4-40; Suwarrow Is., 5-37, 12-25; Fruit Industry, 5-47, 5-49, 6-64, 7-9, 8-21, 9-17, 10-23, 11-6, 11-29, 12-5, 12-56; “Norval,” 6-28; Mangaia, ' 6-31, 7-26; Henry Worth Pearse, 7-26; John Salmon & Queen Tinamana, 8-51; Rosa Cruickshanks, 10-37; “Takitumu,” 11-42; Lost Atolls, 12-29.

Copra Market: 1-6, 2-5, 5-5, 6-5, 7-73, 8-7, 10-8, 11-24.

Damien, Father, 5-34.

Deaths: J. W. Sharpe, 2-31; John MacDonald, 2-51; Lyn Brooke, 3-21; Capt. Dow, 4-7; F. Headon, 4-74; H. C. (“Chum”) Jardine, 6-6; J. E.

Sabine, 6-6; M. Aitkin, 6-9; J.

A. Philips, 6-33; R. Hagen, 6-37; Le’auanae (Samoa), 7-33; F. Turner, 7-50; C. O.

Hodgins, 7-53; A. Stewart, 7-63; Dr. W. Solf, 8-29: E.

Graf, 8-38; Rev. J. Schomberg, 8-53; C. A. W. Monckton, 8-54; G. Kirchner, 9-24; J.

Perrier, 9-24; A. Swan, 9-24; Mataafa (Samoa), 9-30; Capt.

J. McCulloch, 9-53; Prince Tuku’aho (Tonga), 10-4; A.

Lancon, 10-27; W. Robinson, 10-29; lelu (Samoa), 10-42; G. Klinkmueller, 10-66; C. H.

Hughes. 10-73; A. Ballande. 11-8; E. C. Carr, 11-72; W.

J. Swann, 11-74; Rupeni (Fiji), 12-65; A. G. Campbell, 12-8.

Dexter, Henry, Papua: 2-5.

Dinghy, How to Build: 1-56.

Dutch New Guinea: 2-10, 3-10, 5-22, 6-10, 8-38, 10-46, 12-46.

Easter is.; 7-45, 11-51. 12-60.

Edmunds, Percy H.: 7-45.

Education of Pacific Races: 6-65, 11-21.

Fanning is.: e-e.

Fiji: General, 1-43, 2-59, 3-42, 8-7, 9-38, 9-65, 10-17, 10-34, 10-58 , 11-6, 11-52, 12-37, 12-69; New Governor, 8-54, 9-51; Copra, 7-73, 8-16, 12-37; Rock-carving, 4-6; Suva Medical School, 1-8, 4-22, 10-5; Franchise, 1-9, 1-41, 2-54, 2-61, 4-7, 4-45, 5-6, 6-62, 11-3, 11-14; Goldmining, 1-11, 1-54, 1-68, 2-6, 2-58, 2-68, 3-10, 3-45, 3-68, 4-19, 4-46, 4-68, 5-68, 6-52, 6-68, 7-9, 7-68, 8-5, 8-65, 9-8, 9-71, 10-57, 10-68, 11-71, 12-70; Wrestling, 9-35, 11-51, 12-69; Brown & Joske, 8-7, 9-18; Shipping, 1-15, 8-66, 9-67, 10-57, 10-60, 11-19, 11-28, 12-6; Big Fish, 1-59, 11-20; Yasawa Caves, 2-39; Trade, 2-59, 4-61, 5-62, 8-28, 11-39; Bananas, 2-60, 10-73; Gold Tax, 2-60, 3-43; Mission Centenary, 3-6, 4-21; Town Board, 6-8, 9-67; Lese Majesty, 3-35; Share Speculation, 3-58, 5-10, 5-74, 7-8; W. Borthwick, 4-5, 4-11; Currency, 4-47; Floods, 5-4; Radio, 1-4, 3-28, 5-8, 8-66, 9-37, 9-66; Tongan Queen, 5-33; Cotton, 5-63; Sugar, 6-50, 11-39, 12-37; Power Co., 9-5, 11-50; Hurricane, 7-63; Native Riot, 7-75, 8-65; New Road, 8-10; Rewa Bridge, 8-10, 12-8; Pineapples, 8-15; Charlie Savage, 12-33.

Fletcher, Sir M., Fiji: 1-55, 7-5, 11-8.

Fortune, Dr. Reo: 1-5.

Fox, Dr. C. E.: 6-41. ("'i AUGIN, Paul: 8-35. ~W Germany in Pacific: 5-4, 5-9, 8-22, 11-68.

Gilbert & Ellice Group: 1-25, 3-11, 5-9.

Gold Mining in Pacific; : Papua. 1-1, 1-52, 1-72, 2-39, 2-57, 2-73, 3-22, 3-46, 3-59, 3-72, 4-71, 5-69, 6-68, 7-68, 8-69, 9-72, 10-32, 10-53, 10-68, 10-73, 11-70, 12-60, 12-70.

Fiji; 1-11, 1-54, 1-68, 2-6, 2-58, 2-68, 3-68, 4-46, 4-68, 5-68, 6-52, 6-68, 7-54, 7-68, 8-68, 9-8, 9-71, 10-57, 10-68, 11-70, 12-70.

New Guinea: 1-19, 1-25, 1-64, 1-70, 1-80, 2-17, 2-38, 2-70, 3-69, 4-70, 5-53, 5-70, 6-69, 7-69, 8-70, 9-5, 9-73, 10-69, 11-71, 12-71.

Solomons: 4-51, 5-10, 6-50, 7-74, 11-39, New Caledonia: 3-15, 5-35.6-48.

Grating Machine, Home-made: 12-62 Greene, Marc T.: 5-55, 11-60.

Guinea Airways Ltd.: 2-10, 7-15, 10-14, 11-23, 11-61, 12-63.

HART, General: 1-4.

Hawaii: 11-48, 12-28; Air Services, 6-59.

Hayes, “Bully”: 1-46.

Hides, Jack, Exploration in Papua: 1-7, 1-14, 2-4, 2-9, 3-52, 3-54, 12-5, 8-39; General, 4-11, 5-9, 8-10; New Book. 4-74, 10-11.

Holdens Ltd.: 8-26.

Howland Island: 1-33, 2-9, 3-5, 7-49, 7-75, 8-5, 8-21, 10-39.

Hurricanes: Solomon Is., 6-5; New Hebrides, 6-5; Fiji, 7-63.

INDIANS in Fiji: 7-6, 7-62, 10-59, 11-3, 11-49, 12-86.

JAPAN in Pacific: 5-7, 5-24, 6-9, 6-31, 7-3, 8-22, 9-80, 10-52, 12-8; Sampan Wrecked, 10-38; Poachers, 2-11, 2-29, 3-11. 7-5, 8-6, 9-8, 9-16, 11-4, 11-74, 12-6.

Jardine, “Chum”: 6-6, 7-38.

Jarvis Is.: 2-9, 3-5, 7-49, 7-75, 8-5, 8-21, 10-39.

“Joseph Conrad”: 5-66, 6-10, 6-42, 7-19, 8-54, 9-11, 10-73, 11-7, 12-21.

KAVA: 3-17.

Kingman Reef: 10-39.

Leahy bros. (n.g.): 1-14. 4-10, 5-9, 9-6, 9-46.

Lever Bros.; 10-5.

Lord Howe Is.: 9-4, 11-9, 12-56.

Luckner, Count von: 9-45.

Tl/TALAYAN CANAL: 10-20.

ITJ. Malaria: 1-62, 11-54.

Malayta Co.: 12-23.

Marquesas Is.: 10-29.

Marshall Is.: 2-25, 5-17, 6-55, 6-66, 7-55, 8-55, 9-36.

Marsters Family (Suwarrow Is.) : 12-25.

Medical Problems: 1-6, 2-8, 4-54, 6-66, 10-54, 10-75, 11-59, 12-37.

Melanesian Mission: 1-17, 2-11, 6-41, 6-65, 12-11; “Southern Cross VII.”, 8-16; Tasiu Moffatt, 8-25; V. H. Sherwin, 11-26, Migrations in Pacific: 8-50.

Missionaries and Missions: 1-3, 1-51, 1-55, 2-7, 2-19, 2-58, 3-6, 3-52, 4-16, 4-25, 4-64, 6-23, 6-25, 6-65, 7-19, 7-48. 7-55, 8-10, 8-30, 8-56, 8-67, 9-38, 10-7, 10-35, 11-5, 11-16, 11-26, 11-30, 11-40, 11-69, 12-11, 12-23, 12-42, 12-49.

Missions and Trading; 2-23, 4-50, 6-57.

Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.: 12-45.

Mosquitoes: 6-4 6.

Mummies in New Guinea: 1-5, 1-42, 2-28, 3-11, 4-60.

McNicoll, General W. R.; 3-17, 4-56, 9-26.

NAURU: 2-11, 2-31, 4-11, 8-24, 8-55, 10-50, 11-48.

Nelson, O. F.: 2-31, 9-6, 10-6, 10-72.

New Caledonia: General, 1-29, 2-5, 6-80, 8-34, 8-41, 9-80, 10-8, 10-30, 10-73; Hornets, 6-39; Nickel, 2-5, 6-5, 7-6; Goldmining, 3-15, 5-35, 6-48; Queer Fish, 6-47; “Pierre Loti,” 10-1; Casino, 10-5.

New Guinea: General, 1-16, 2-5, 2-65, 3-15, 5-10, 8-4, 8-7, 8-20, 9-15, 9-32, 10-30, 11-17, 11-37, 12-17, 12-19; Corporal Punishment, 7-17; Planters’ Debts, 1-23, 7-6, 8-4, 9-8, 10-53; Chinese, 1-66; Tea. 6-10, 7-22; Aviation, 1-31, 1-32, 2-10, 2-53, 2-58, 3-10, 3-47, 3-65, 4-74, 6-7, 6-27, 7-15, 7-51, 7-52, 7-56, 8-5, 8-54, 8-62, 9-4, 9-7, 9-9, 9-16, 9-49, 9-56, 9-70, 10-14, 10-50, 10-73, 11-7, 11-23, 11-36, 11-61, 12-8, 12-63; Trade, 1-67; Agriculture, 2-10, 6-67, 6-74, 10-29; Health, 2-15; Crime, 2-16, 10-7, 12-64; Native Education, 2-52, 10-21; Land Tax, 3-8; Capture of “Komet,” 3-38, 5-19; Native Labour, 1-34, 8-16, 9-4; “Hermes.” 5-8, 6-16; Administrator, 3-17, 4-56, 9-26; Earthquake, 3-5, 3-41, 5-9; Finances, 2-24, 9-50, 11-64; Minister’s Visit, 1-5, 11-74, 12-5; Native Lands, 2-7; Cocoagrowing, 2-10, 5-57, 7-29, 7-36, 8-27, 10-46, 11-45; New Coinage, 2-14, 4-6, 5-26, 10-36; Native Buys Car, 2-20; Pack Drill, 3-16, 7-17; Opossums, 2-43, 5-20; Ludwig Schmidt, 2-75, 5-6, 7-73, 8-34, 9-9, 9-11, 9-55; “Fanaticism,” 3-16, 3-32, 4-10, 6-67; Iron Ore. 4-5, 6-37; Oil. 5-4, 5-16, 6-18, 6-35, 9-43, 10-46; Kunai Grass, 5-29, 8-17, 8-42; Fox Bros., 6-10, 7-41; “Queen Petterson,” 7-39; Spanish Coins, 8-7, 10-40, 12-40; Shipping, 8-9, 8-75, 9-7, 9-55, 9-80, 12-6; Progress at Wau, 8-47, 9-39, 11-10, 12-17; “Uncontrolled’ Areas, 8-61; Hotels, 9-24, 11-5, 11-20, 12-19; Native Marriages, 9-27; Ramu Region, 1-37, 2-49, 3-8, 5-32, 9-46, 10-56, 10-65; Priest Gaoled, 10-7, 11- 12-10, 12-64; Purdy Is., 10-66.

New Guinea Gold Industry: General, 1- 1-80, 2-38, 2-70, 3-G, 3-69, 4-70, 5-53, 5-70, 6-14, 6-69, 7-69, 8-70, 9-5, 9-73, 10-69, 11-53, 11-71, 12-71; Day Dawn, 1-19, 4-24, 9-5; Sepik R. Search, 1-25, 1-64; Conference, 2-15; Tatau Is., 2- Kupei Field, 2-54; Strike at Wau, 3-8, 3-57, 4-8, 5- Early Days, 3-33, 4-28, 6- Wampit Valley, 5-5, 6-8, 7- Bulolo Co., 5-18, 6-27, 10-8.

New Guinea Goldfields Ltd.: 5-7, 6-14, 7-7, 8-8; Strike at Wau. 3- 3-57, 4-8, 5-9.

New Hebrides: General 5-15, 5-48, 6-5, 7-20, 7-30, 7-71, 10-29; “Makambo” Beached, 3-27. 4- Cannibals Captured, 3-59.

Norfolk Is.: General, 1-20, 2-38, 3-9, 3-11, 3-14, 5-74, 7-8, 9-11, 9-23, 9-39, 11-28, 12- 12-48; Council. 2-17.

OCEAN IS.: 2-29.

Opium; 9-24.

PACIFIC Trade: 10-3, 10-9.

Palolo: 8-29.

Pan-American Airways: 1-33; 2-9, 4-3, 5-5, 6-6, 6-52, 8-5, 9-20 9-26, 9-51, 10-25.

Papua; General, 2-5, 2-30, 2-32, 2-49, 2-52, 4-10, 5-8, 6-23, 6-49, 7-25, 7-32, 9-4, 9-23. 10-56, 11-9, 12-52, 12-59; Administrator, 8-4, 11-5; Planters’ Assoc., 7-56, 12-51; Minister’s Visit, 1-5, 12-5; Oroville Seaplane, 1-40, 2-45, 3-7, 5-57; Council Session, 1-73; Medical Trainees, 2-10, 3-9; Native Health, 2-29, 11-59, 12-23; Murder of Weaver, 2-46; “Handsome Harry,” 2-57, 6-24, 9-48; Shipping;, 2-60, 3-8; Cuthbert’s Mine, 3-4, 4-49; Kurukuru Grass, 4-65, 5-5, 8-17, 10-49; “Vailala Madness,” 5-25; Goldmining, 1-1, 1-52, 1-72, 2-39, 2-56, 2-57, 2-73, 3-22, 3-46, 3-59, 3-72, 4-71, 5-69, 6-68, 7-54, 7-68, 8-59, 9-72, 10-32, 10-53, 10-68, 10-73, 11-71, 12-60, 12-70; Mt. Yule Climbed, 3-7; Dysentery, 3-18; Desiccated Coconut 3-67; Rubber, 4-5, 7-23, 8-57, 12-24; Radio, 4-75, 7-10. 8-24; Tea, 6-10; Crime, 8-24, 9-6, 11-30; Aviation, 3-60, 10-50, 12-35; Sugar, 5-7, 5-28, 7-47, 8-46; Oroville Co., 5-8, 6-26; Air Survey, 6-5, 7-66, 8-39; “Jim” O’Malley, 10-36; Minerals, 6-16; Archbold Party. 6-10, 7-10, 8-32, 9-10, 9-34, 11-73, 12-5; Ancient Stones, 7-52, 11-32; Shipping, 8-9, 8-50; Ivan Champion, 6-5, 7-66, 8-39, 10-24; Fish. 10-43, 11-62; Massacred Chinese, 10-47, 12-39.

Pawpaw Recipes; 7-60.

Pearce, Sir George, 1-5.

Pearling Industry: 1-29, 3-42, 5-9, 6-75, 8-20, 12-5.

Philippine Islands: 5-42.

Phoenix Group; 11-67.

Pitcairn Island: 11-66.

Planting in Pacific; 8-3.

Poachers, Shell; 2-11, 2-29, 3-11, 7-5, 8-6, 9-8, 9-16, 10-52, 11-74, 12-6.

Polynesian Club; 6-9, 7-61, 9-47, 12-10.

Poultry - keeping: 5-14.

Primage on Copra: 1-9, 3-10.

Pryke, Frank: 2-19, 7-30, 8-32, 9-4.

RADIO in Pacific; Fiji Station, 1-4, 3-28, 5-8, 8-66, 9-37, 9-66; Gilbert Is.. 1-25; Club in Tahiti, 1-42, 12-55; Pedal Sets, 2-65; Papua, 3-28, 4-75, 7-10, 11-41.

Recipes: 2-64.

Reid, W. M.: 4-8, 10-9, 12-18.

Rennell Is.: 6-34, 6-44.

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BRANCHES.—In Papua: Hanuabada, Sivitoi, Aroma, Koki, Hula, Ela Beach, Duga Duga, Yule Island.

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Salote, Queen: 1-5, 2-5, 3-7, 3-25, 5-7, 5-33, 11-5.

Samoa, Eastern: 3-31, 8-5, 9-35, 9-43, 10-52.

Samoa, West: General, 1-11, 2-22, 3-31, 5-32, 5-59, 6-55, 7-30, 8-33, 9-38, 9-47, 12-9, 12-14; Administratorship, 2-37, 4-5, 7-75, 9-4; General Hart Leaves, 1-14; First Mission Commemorated, 1-10, 2-7; Dr.

Schultz, 2-28; Mau, 2-31, 6-22, 6-31, 10-6; Epidemics, 9-9, 10-6, 11-4; H. S. Griffin. 2-50; Stamps, 2-66; Fa’a Samea, 4-6; G. E. L. Westbrook, 4-19; Council Election, 4-22, 5-30; Trade, 4-63, 9-34, 10-51; Produce, 5-42, 6-54, 7-32, 7-44, 8-37; “Tiafau”

Wrecked, 6-8, 7-72, 8-45, 9-5, 10-54, 11-6; Work of Dr.

Solf, 9-52; ’Bus in River, 10-48, 12-28; Minister’s Tour, 11-5, 12-14.

Shipping Mishaps: 1-22, 1-34, 3-27, 3-39, 6-8, 6-63 7-1, 8-10, 8-50, 8-66, 10-56, 11-28, 11-38.

Solomon Is.: General, 2-33, 5-10, 5- 6-5, 6-16, 7-1, 7-29, 7-74, 10-5, 10-32, 10-71, 10-75, 11-41, 12-41; Seaplane, 10-7, 10-56, 11-7; Council, 6-38; Shipping, 5-37, 7-7; “Lolch Ness” Monster, 1-10, 6-75; Trading, 2-10; Finance, 3-11; Labour Unrest, 4-5, 4-56, 9-16; Tribal Clash, 4- Lone Voyager’s End, 4-7, 7-8; Future Control, 4-9, 6- Gold Industry, 4-51, 5- 6-50, 7-74, 11-39; “Mitiaro,” 5-5; Chinese, 6-34; Poachers, 7-5, 12-6; Beachcombers, 9-5, 10-16; Hotel, 10-72.

Soma Plant: 7-34.

Soya Beans: 6-24.

Subsidies for Shipping: 5-75, 6-66, 7- 12-3.

Sunday Is.: 6-17.

Swain’s Is.: 6-52.

TAHITI: General. 4-33, 4-37, 5-9, 5-32, 5-46, 5-48, 7-9. 7- 8-64, 9-11, 9-23, 10-6, 10-9, 10-33, 11-40; Copra, 8- Shipping, 1-34, 1-39, 5- 5-10, 7-24, 8-64, 9-4, 10-62, 11-10, 11-30; July 14 Festival, 1-40, 2-44; Murnau’s House, 3-44; Aero Club, 4-27; Tourist Traffic, 4-43, 6-53; Arthur Brander, 5-41; Nott’s Bible, 6-72, 7-54; Missionary Laws, 7-48; Paul Gaugin, 8-35; Thomas Lewis, 9-41; “Lawrence of Manchuria,” 10-45; Trade, 10-55; Radio, 1-42, 12-55.

Taro Recipes: 8-48.

Taxation; 3-21, 3-42, 4-61, 8-75.

Tobacco: 4-32, 10-66.

Tomlinson, Canon S.: 2-8.

Tonga: General, 2-32, 5-10, 8-32, 10-74; Prince’s Death, 10-4, 12-7; B.P. Store, 1-6, 6-54; Queen Salote, 1-5, 2-5, 3-7, 3-25, 5-7, 5-33, 11-5; Early MSS., 5-41; Eruption, 5-10, 6- “Tin Can” Mail, 6-43, 12-40; Prince Taufa’ahau, 8-5; Rev. Rabone, 12-49.

Torres St. Islands: 2-53, 4-48, 5-6, 5-9, 5-10, 6-59, 6-75, 7-11, 8-20, 10-8, 10-50, 11-38.

Treasure-seekers: 1-31, 11-33.

UNION S.S. CO.; 1-39, 2-4, 3-3, 5-7, 5-47, 6-56, 7-24, 7-65, 9-4, 11-19, 12-4; “Matua,” 7-5, 9-4, 9-40, 9-46, 11-4.

YOGAN, A. J.: 2-39, 3-17, 4-6, 4-11, 6-16.

WALLIS IS.: 1-10.

Walpole Is.; 9-47.

Ward, C. J.; 3-29, 9-54.

Washington Is.: 6-6.

Whaling: 3-24.

“Williams, John,” No. 2: 4-18.

Willis Is.: 7-21.

YACHTS Cruising in Pacific: 1-22, 1-56, 3-21, 5-29, 5-36, 6-7, 6-9, 6-18, 6-52, 6-63 7-7, 8-15, 8-33, 9-34, 10-9, 10-60, 11-16, 12-10, 12-18, 12-22.

Caught In Waterspout

Papuan Ketch and Nine Natives Lost From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, July 3.

SWALLOWED by a waterspout off the Papuan coast, the ketch Lytton, owned by J. R. Clay and Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, was lost when returning from a recruiting trip on June 21.

Nine of the 21 natives aboard were drowned when she was smothered in foam and swept below the surface. By clinging to a floating kerosene case, Mr.

Bruce Hamilton, who was in charge of the ketch, managed to reach the shore after an eight hours’ struggle.

The tragedy occurred near Pailele, off the east coast and is the second coastal disaster this year in that vicinity. Eastern Papua has been experiencing heavy weather of late. Samarai, the main centre, has been flooded in many parts recently.

N.Z. Scouts Visit Fiji From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 3.

A PARTY of N.Z. Rover Scouts have been visiting Fiji for the last five weeks, and left by the Niagara to-day, after what they describe as a fine holiday.

The New Zealand boys travelled to the northern side of the island of Viti Levu. and then to Lautoka, and afterwards trekked through Sigatoka and Navua to Suva. All around, they received wonderful hospitality from local Boy Scouts, especially from members of the Fijian troops. Latterly they spent a couple of days on the island of Nukulau, one of the Government quarantine stations, and a favourite week-end resort.

Mr. Leo P. Gibbons, general manager of Gold Mines of Papua Ltd., returned by the June Montoro to Samarai, Papua, en route to Misima Island, after a business visit to Australia. 80 Pacific Islands Monthly, July 21, 1936 Index to Vol. Vl.— (Continued) Published by Pacific Publications Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney (Telephone BW 5037). Wholly set up and printed in Australia by The Land Newspaper Ltd., 59 Regent St., Sydney. (7251)

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