Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. IX, No. 3 ( Oct. 15, 1938)
1938-10-15 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly VOL. IX. NO. 3.

October 15, 1938 [Registered at the G.P.0.. Sydney, lor transmission by post as a newspaper.] 8 a DECORATION In Europe, to-day, the ladies favour scarlet lips and fingernails. In Asia, the cult of beauty inclines towards a malformation of features. In Papua, Nature is aided in this fashion. —Photo, by A. and K. Gibson.

For Quick Delivery of PARCELS-PACKETS- MERCHANDISE ROCKH/ ® RABAUL SALAMAUA

Port Moresby

COOK TOWN CAIRNS TOWNSVILLE ROCKHAMPTON BRISBANE ® SYDNEY per W.R.C.Airliners CHEAP RATES—LESS PACKING-QUICK TRANSIT—EARLIER REMITTANCES The Freight Section of the new W.R.C. Sydney-New Guinea Aeroplane Service brings many important advantages to both Business Houses and individual senders—as well as to consignees; and as these benefits become more widely known, increasing use is made of this modern transport system for the quick delivery of goods by Air.

For ''Urgent" freight, such as machinery parts, repairs, etc., it achieves a particularly valuable service—but, the reduction of weeks in transit time justifies most goods being forwarded by these Airliners. Among many classes of merchandise which already have appeared on the manifests are the following:— Dresses, Drapery, Shoes. Millinery, Accessories. Machinery Parts and Re- Aircraft Instruments, etc.. Stationery & Hosiery, Chemicals, Drugs and Medicines, pairs, Radio Accessories, Plants, Seeds, Printed Matter, Cosmetics and Toilet Dental and Optical Goods, Scientific Eggs for Hatching. Strawberries, Cam- Supplies, etc., etc.

Instruments, Hospital Supplies, Motor eras, Jewellery and Watches, Binoculars, EARLY REMITTANCES FOR GOODS SENT C.O.D.

Business firms sending goods C.0.D., or on Demand Drafts, obviate the long delays previously experienced in obtaining payments, and now receive Early Remittances—with the subsequent saving of interest.

Much goodwill also may be achieved by extending to Islands clients this air freighting service, assuring speedy delivery of orders.

RATES In many instances it is more economical to forward by air than by sea. Rate Schedules are obtainable from Booking Agencies.

Booking Procedure Is Simple

Full information is available on request from any of the Company’s agents listed below.

AGENTS AND BOOKING OFFICES: SYDNEY; Macdonald Hamilton & Co., 4 TOWNSVILLE: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., PORT MORESBY: Burns, Philp & Co.

Challis House, Martin Place. Flinders Street. Ltd.

BRISBANE: Macdonald Hamilton & Co., CAIRNS: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., 31-35 SALAMAUA: W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. 244 Queen Street. Abbot Street.

ROCKHAMPTON: Walter Reid, Quay COOKTOWN: S. M. Standen. RABAUL: W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd, Street.

Or Full Details of the Sydney-New Guinea Air-Mail Service may he obtained on application to — W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Merchants and Shipowners.

AGENTS for Australian, European and American Manufacturers, and Distributors of Every Description of Merchandise : : Complete Range of all Stocks Carried.

Head Office: 19-21 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY.

Branches at: RABAUL (New Britain), KAVIENG (New Ireland), MADANG, SALAMAUA, WAU, BUT 'New Guinea), TULAGI (Solomon Islands), SUVA (Fiji), and other Pacific Islands; and in LONDON.

Buyers and Shippers of: Copra, Trocas, and all Classes of Islands Produce.

Pacific Islands Monthl y—O l5, 1938

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The track routes of the K.P.M.-South Pacific Line new motor vessel "Maetsuycker" and the well-known passenger steamer "Tasman" are each as follows: "MAET- SUYCKER": Saigon, Singapore, Batavia, Samarang, Sourabaya, Port Moresby, Samarai, Salamaua, Rabaul, Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Port Moresby, Sourabaya, Samarang, Batavia, Singapore, Saigon. "TASMAN": Saigon, Singapore, Batavia, Samarang, Sourabaya, Port Moresby, Port Vila, Noumea, Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Port Moresby, Sourabaya, Samarang, Batavia, Singapore, Saigon.

Saigon, Diethelm & Co.: Port Moresby and Samarai, Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.: Rabaul and Salamaua. W. R.

Carpenter & Co. Ltd.: Port Vila. Gubbay Preres: Noumea, Carlo Leoni; Auckland, Russell & Somers Ltd.: Wellington, Johnston & Co. Ltd.

Pacific Islands Travellers

PASSENGERS PER “MORINDA” FROM SYD- NEY FOR LORD HOWE IS., NORFOLK IS., AND NEW HEBRIDES ON SEPTEMBER 15; Messrs. Arthur, Ewing, Leigh, Tattersall, Niven.

Bairstow, Martin, Thomas, Adams, Gaihblier, Bayly (2), Baxter, Cunningham, Marlin, Benny, Flower, Moir, Lord, Heffernan, Gill. Mesdames Ewing, Baddeley, Kelly, Butt, Simpson. Misses Glissan, Buckland, Owen, Henry, O’Connor, Gorrick, Boldham, Shelper, Wilde, Pearce (2), Bayly, Watchorm, Perkins, Thorpe, Brown, Nicholls.

Passengers Per Airmail Liner Which

Arrived In Sydney On September 16

FROM: —Rabaul: Mrs. Cameron. Salamaua: Mesdames Crouch and Judd; Messrs. Judd and Curry.

Passengers Per “Macdhui” Which

Arrived In Sydney From New Guinea

AND PAPUA ON SEPTEMBER 17: Messrs.

Audsley, Atkinson, Board, Barnewitz, Brough, Boys. Collins, Cooper, Crookshanks, Davidson, Downham, Doggett, Deland, Dodd, English, Fryer, Farn, Geddes, Gardner, Haycroft, Horne, Harris, Loudon, Lukin, Lord, Molloy, Mullerreid, Maxwell, McLennan, Moseley, Matthias, Mac- Lean, Munro, Niall, Oakley. Pratt, Rideout (2), Rigby. Sutton. Shade, Shorter, Shoppee, Tomlinson, Thiele, Yourn, Warner, Wade, Ward, Wiltshire, Watson. Mesdames Bird. Ditton, Deland, English, Earl, Haycroft, Horne, Ma>cgregor. Maxwell, McLennan, Matthias, Munro, Niall, Oakley, Price, Rawson, Rigby, Short, Shoppee, Turner, Tomlinson, Wade. White.

Misses Balmain, Donovan, St. Florent, Harber, Kirby, Margaret, Rudd, Williamson.

Passengers Per Airmail Liner Which

Left Sydney On September 20 For:—

Salamaua; Mr. Hintos. Rabaul: Mr. Hore- Lacy. Brisbane to Port Moresby: Miss Jacobs.

Townsville to Salamaua: Mr. Green. Cairns to Rabaul; Miss Hogan. Salamaua to Rabaul: Messrs. Shipson, Neal, Ostrom, Markkanin; Mrs. Simpson; Miss Markkanin.

PASSENGERS PER “TANDA” WHICH AR-

Rived In Sydney From Rabaul, N.G., On

SEPTEMBER 21:—Messrs. Townsend, Reed, Reynolds (2), Noble, Berry. Mesdames McCosker, Gosmer, Reynolds, Tahija, Johnson, Flatten, Costello. Miss Harris.

Passengers Per “Maetsuycker” From

Sydney For Pt. Moresby, Papua, On

SEPTEMBER 24:—Messrs. Mackie, Swanson, Waterhouse, Wyborn (2). Mesdames Batham, Chawner, Fletcher, Swanson, Wyborn.

Passengers Per Airmail Liner Which

Left Rabaul (N.G.) On September 24

FOR: —Salamaua; Messrs. Costello, Neal, Ostrom, Johnson. Salamaua to Brisbane: Mrs.

V. Smith, Miss J. Smith. To Sydney: Mrs.

Cahill. Pt. Moresby to Cairns: Mr. Casement.

To Brisbane: Miss Jacobs, Mrs. Thompson. To Sydney: Mr. Aitlsen.

PASSENGERS PER “MACDHUI” FROM SYD-

Ney For New Guinea And Papua On

SEPTEMBER 24:—Messrs. Milligan, James, Horne, Burton, Rich, Rogerson, Daulton, Robertson. Laird, Rutledge, Ryan, Devine, Cox, Whitbread, Cou-tts, Turner, Whale, Abel, Pomeroy, Chisholm, Stopp, Cheetham, Whyte, Buckland, Benham, Archer. Slorach, Brudo Boyd, Chapman. Jay, McCabe, Armstrong, Bentley, Duncan, Reaby, Louttit, Wedd, Partridge, Saviane, Paoloni, Shaw, Frank, Wakefield Mulligan, Sexton, Thomas, Matthies. Mesdames Taylor, McLean, Smallwood, Rowatt, Rich, Rogerson, Laird, Chisholm, Montgomery, Grose, Drosten, Gibson. Champion, Whyte, Rohrlach, Lee. Chapman, Johnson, Matthies. Misses Rudd, Kirby, Raymond, Cameron, Devitt, Mackay, Kostka, Linus.

Passengers Per Airmail Liner Which

LEFT SYDNEY ON SEPTEMBER 27 FOR: Rabaul; Messrs. Cotter, Sterling, Padgett, Faulks. Cairns to Rabaul: Messrs. Murray, Parker, Osborne.

Passengers Per “Niagara” Which

Sailed From Sydney For Suva. Fiji. On

SEPTEMBER 29; Messrs. Alldritt, Cummings,

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Ltd 9 Lustre Hosiery Ltd. 63 “Majora” Paints . 56 Mcllrath’s Ltd. . . 18 Master Sewing Machine Co. . . 44 Maxwell Porter Ltd 43 Maurer, Chris. . . 75 Miller & Co. Pty.

Ltd 50 Morris, Hedstrom, Limited .... 60 N.D.L 82 Nelson & Robertson.

Pty. Ltd. . 20, 69 Nestle’s Milk . 40 N.S.W. Seed Co. . 74 Newlands Bros. Ltd 45 Newmarket Saddlery 76 Nock & Kirby Ltd. 57 Noyes Bros. Ltd. . 54 “Oriana” Gst Hse 81 Pacific Is. Club 9 Papua Hotel, The 84 Paul & Grey Ltd. 14 Pike Bros. Ltd. . 16 Plantation Wanted 75 Position Wanted . 74 Prescott, Ltd. . . 37 Prouds, Ltd. , . . 9 Ransome Sims & Jeffries, Ltd. . . 60 Reed. William E. 30 Riverstone Meat Co. 16 Rohu, Sil . . . . 67 Royal Packet Co. i.

St. Ignatius’ Col. 79 Scott’s Emulsion . 14 Scott, Ltd., J. . . 81 Shell Oil Co. . . 55 Slade’s Radio . . 73 Springwood, L. Col. 63 Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. . 66. 66 Sterling Varnish Co. 5 Sullivan, Ltd. C. . 31 Swallow & Ariell . 37 “Talkeries”, The . 18 Taylor & Co., A. . 70 “Tenax” Soap . . 52 “Teviot” College . 53 Tilley Lamp Co. . 26 Tillock & Co. Ltd. 39 Tboheys, Ltd. . . 17 “Top Dog” Men’s Wear .... 33 Tooth & Co. . cov. 4 Usher’s Hotel . . 52 Vincent’s A.P.C. . 74 Warburton, Franki Ltd 15 West, Harry ... 76 Weymark & Son . 38 Wills, W.D. and H. 0.. Ltd. ... 33 Woods’ Peppermint Cure 52 Wright & Co. ... 69 Wright & Co. Ltd.

E 51 Wunderlich, Ltd. . 43 Yellow Express Carriers, Ltd. ... 8 Contents ! r Page Pacific Islands Travellers i., 84 Effect on Pacific of Agreement in Europe iff.

New Lands and People in D.N.G. 1 New B.P. Motor Vessel “Bulolo” .. 1 Making Weather Maps for Airmen . 2 Fiji’s New Road 3 Why Not One Tropical Service? .. 3 Mr. S. J. Smith, Former C.I. Commissioner, Retires 4 Beer Boycott in New Guinea .... 4 No Decision Yet About N.G. Capital 5, 75 New W.R.C. Ship for Pacific .. . . 6 Sir Harry Luke Arrives in Fiji . . . . 6 Tropicalities 7 About Islands People 8 Story of Big U.S. Guns in Hawaii . 11 Pacific Territories on Guard .. .. 12 Zoologist in Dutch N. Guinea .... 13 Activities of Japanese Fishermen .. 14 How N.G. Prospectors are Rewarded 15 Death of Mr. G. M. Turnbull (Papua) 17 Dwight Long’s Adventures 18 Page Niue Labourers for Samoa 25 Was There Cruelty in German Colonies? 26 Denial of Fortifications in Japan’s Mandated Islands 29 Whale Blubber as a Food 31 Independence of Philippine Islands 32 Britain and America on Canton Is. 33 How to Administer Papua and N.G. 34 Early Tahiti and Spain 36 Impressions of a Visit to Fiji .. .. 40 Patrol in Central New Guinea .... 45 Administrative Power on Nauru .. 46 Fight Against Malaria 50 New Birds for Tahiti 54 Kwato Mission and Trade 56 Fashion Hints for Islands Women .. 63 Girl Solicitor Settles in 8.5.1 65 Islands Mining Notes 69 Radio Programmes (Oct. 30-Nov. 19) 73 Copra and Rubber Prices 77 Produce and Exchange Rates .. .. 78 Pacific Shipping Timetables 79 II Pacific Islands Month! y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Effect on Pacific of Agreement in Europe THE far-reaching changes in international relationships that occurred between September 15 and 30 will affect the Pacific Territories, politically and economically.

The threat of war in Western Europe has been removed completely—for the present, at any rate. This almost certainly will react upon the world’s stock exchanges and commodity markets; a return of confidence in the future will allow freer operation, and prices generally should rise.

But a factor, on the other side, lies in the armaments position. As the threat of war diminishes, expenditure on armaments will decrease and, then, only international action of a new and drastic kind will prevent a slump.

Most people, now, can see that world recovery from the depression was aided enormously by the armaments race. The main cause of the depression still exists —namely, the inability of the world to adjust its financial and industrial systems (involving the whole economy of civilisation) to the rapid, sweeping changes that have occurred in production and distribution in the last three decades.

The unit of the economic structure of civilisation is the amount of work which the average man must do per day to maintain himself and his dependants in comfort and security. Thirty years ago, that unit was eight hours; to-day, owing to inventions, co-ordination of effort quicker transport and communications, mass production, the unit is very much reduced. Nevertheless, the economic structure still is harnessed to a workingweek of 44 or 48 hours. In 1929-33 we saw the world staggering to social collapse because the whole of the world’s needs were over-supplied by 75 per cent, of workers, working on the old schedule, while 25 per cent, were unemployed and starving.

There is much befogged argument about all this. But the facts are perfectly clear to any man who can read intelligently and think clearly, and is old enough to remember pre-war conditions.

Out of the idiocies and inequalities of the Versailles Treaty there arose, inevitably, a condition of international affairs which produced the dictatorships, and a mad race for rearmament. In 1930, Britain stubbornly was leading the nations to disarmament, the arts of peace and the League of Nations: and a world, almost completely under peacetime conditions, found that it had no work for an alarmingly large proportion of its people.

Then the totalitarian States introduced a new era of military activity, and the League of Nations was paralysed. In 1933-1934, frantic rearmament provided a new or additional service for the community, work was provided for the unemployed, and the depression disappeared.

Taxation was increased vastly, of course, so that rearmament might be financed; but the newly-employed now were able to buy food, clothing, shelter, etc., and those who paid the taxes found themselves, in the end, better off.

It is apparent that if millions of workers, throughout the world, are to be released from armament duties, some other work must be found for them — that is, -some other communal service must be performed by them. They either must share the present non-armaments work, now being performed by the rest of the community (which means a worldwide shortening of the working week, or appalling social and economic confusion) or some new service must be performed for the community, either as part of a general rise in the standard of living, or through the Governments providing such amenities as improved housing, cheap transport, free hospital service, etc.

It is a vast subject. Sufficient has been said to show the real danger of the European agreement. But there is no sign of disarmament yet: and therefore no need yet to worry, HITLER has said that, having secured Sudeten-land, Germany has no desire for further territory in Europe; and European statesmen believe him. But, already, a clamour is arising for “the return of the German colonies ’. And so, almost immediately, we are facing the situation that had been foretold in many recent issues of the “P.1.M.” We insisted that the international tension could not last much longer; we anticipated an agreement and a “policy of appeasement’’; and we assumed that, as part of that policy, Britain and France would get ready to pass certain colonial territories over to Germany. It must work out that way, as the only alternative to war.

We always have taken the view that Germany does not want New Guinea; and, despite a recent London report to the contrary, we only can repeat that, in all the numerous communications we have had with European interests on the subject during the past eight years, we have

not one line of evidence that New Guinea enters into Hitler’s colonial plans or calculations—unless for bargaining purposes only. Western Samoa never has been even mentioned.

It is likely that, in the early future, the incalculably shrewd propagandists of Germany will have much to say about the vast, undeveloped richness of New Guinea, its potential value to Germany, and Australia’s failure to do any more with this territory than allow certain interests to provide facilities for the development of the Morobe goldfield. But that will be done, deliberately, to “put the wind up” Whitehall and Canberra.

Germany wants —and will have—a colonial Empire in Africa.

THE outstanding effect of the European agreement is its startling.diplomatic re-alignment of the nations. The France- Czech-Russian alliance (which had an “understanding” with the Little Entente, and to which Britain was more or less tied up) is gone. Britain, while retaining her close relationship with France, is reaching a friendly understanding with Germany and Italy.

This seems all to the good—but Western European hopes depend absolutely upon a humbly-born person named Adolf Hitler. He is the mystery-man of the moment. If he plays the game with Mr.

Chamberlain, a Western European pact may do much to ensure the peace and progress of humanity. But, for a time — two or three years, maybe—we shall not know whether Hitler is a kind of madman, or one of the greatest figures in history. Anglo-French opinion, at the moment, is friendly to the Germans and io Hitler; but we cannot yet forget how this man massacred the suspected anti- Nazis, on Jane 30, 1936, and how callously he broke his pledged word to Mussolini and to Schuschnigg last March, and seized Austria.

THE point that interests us, at the moment, is the apparent isolation of Japan. Until September 30, it seemed that the Anti-Comintern Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan bound those three Powers together in all kinds of international trouble. On that black day of September 28, when war appeared unavoidable, British and French communities throughout the Pacific were very hurriedly preparing to meet raids by hostile Japanese. To-day, only two weeks later, international realignments are proceeding in Europe in such a way as to suggest that Japan is left out in the cold.

Not knowing the nature of the Anti- Comintern Pact, however, we really do not know how closely Germany and Italy are bound to Japan.

But, at the moment, it does appear as if Japan is isolated. If that is so, it is a matter of great importance to the Pacific territories. Japan’s military adventure in China has gone sadly awry. The campaign has been enormously costly; the weaknesses of the Japanese military machine have become painfully apparent; and the invader’s cruelty to the Chinese, such as the “rape of Nanking”, has built up against her a volume of hatred that must have widespread reactions. But, presumably, Japan will extricate herself from China in due time, and turn south into the Pacific. If, as a result of the European re-alignment, she comes alone, and not as the ally of Germany, she can be taken care of. If there is to be appeasement in Europe, however we may expect some serious effort by the Western Powers to solve Japan’s desperate problems of markets and colonies. So far as the Western Powers and Japan are concerned, there are only three courses possible—namely, remain everlastingly armed, and on guard; fight and exterminate the Japanese; help Japan to solve the problems created by “Europeanisation” of a too large and rapidly growing population. * * * FNALLY, markets. It is thought that buyers, generally, seeing the threat of war removed, should hurry into the market to build up stocks before prices rise; and this should accelerate the rise.

But producers should not build their hopes too high. We can see nothing in the world situation to indicate any large increase in consumption—such as happened four or five years ago, when many millions of men returned to work and became free consumers of world goods.

Production during the past couple of years has been ample to take care of world demand. The building up of stocks may bring prices back to what they were nine months ago; but it would be foolish to expect a return of the conditions of early 1937.

New pacific Shipping Service COMMENCING in January, a Norwegian Company, A/S. Thor Dahl, will regularly run two fast motor ships— freighters, with accommodation for 12 passengers—from San Francisco to Gentral and South Pacific ports, One ship will run from ’Frisco to Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga (and perhaps to Australia and New Zealand) and back to ’Frisco.

The other ship will run from ’Frisco to Noumea, New Guinea, Papua, North Australian ports, and back to 'Frisco.

Messrs. Birt and Co. Ltd., 4 Bridge Street, Sydney, are Australasian agents, The new service has the Vacuum contract for oil deliveries, and thus takes the place of the Flood Bros, ships, recently sold.

A neat cartoon in Sydney “Daily Telegraph” shows how a new wooer of Miss Colonies has come upon the scene; while two gentlemen, hitherto in supreme control of the lady, watch suspiciously from the background.

Visitor from South: "What name this?"

Papuan House-boy: "Sassises, Sinabada". Visitor: "What?"

House-boy: "Sassises, Sinabada. You sav'? Banana belong builamakau!"

IV Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

New lands and People Archbold Exploration In Dutch New Guinea From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 7.

THAT Russell Rogers, pilot of the airboat “Guba”, with the Archbold expedition in Dutch New Guinea, knows his tropical flying is proved by what he did during the first ten days of August.

He flew no less than 110 men and 30 tons of supplies and equipment from Hollandia, tne expedition’s base on the north coast, to advance camps that have been established 180 miles inland. One is on the Idenburg River, and the other on Lake Habbema, 11,000 feet above sea level.

The Indenburg party is breaking through into the unexplored country that was aerially photographed. The Lake Habbema party are executing a similar mission east and north. Each party carries a portable two-way radio telephone set, with which Hollandia and the “Guba” (while in flight) are contacted.

Friendly relations have been made with the natives, who are very primitive people with nothing to indicate previous contacts with the outside world. There are a few scattered villages in the mountains and valleys, but the bulk of the population appears to be concentrated in the big valley east of Lake Habbema, Mr.

Archbold reports.

Daily reports are made by the field parties via their radio-telephone sets to the Hollandia base, and requests for supplies, equipment and medicines are attended to immediately by Russell Rogers, who flies out in the “Guba” and drops them in parachutes.

Reports Mr. Archbold: “I feel enthusiastic about the progress of the expedition to date, as everything has proceeded exactly according to schedule. Everything is working out perfectly. There has been no sickness. The scientists already have secured many fine specimens of rare mammals, birds and plants. This is not surprising, because the parties are in virgin territory. It seems our most sanguine expectations will be exceeded”.

Chrome and Nickel Oust Copra Protest From Tahiti Shippers From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Sept. 12.

DURING the past months a situation has arisen which has a bad effect on the economic life of this colony.

The entire production of copra in French Oceania is marketed in France.

For transportation, the colony is dependent on the Messageries Maritimes steamers voyaging between New Caledonia, Tahiti and France, at intervals of six weeks. Hitherto, the capacity of these ships has been sufficient to accommodate all cargo offered at Papeete.

Of late, however, the requirements of the metallurgic industries of France for the chrome and nickel ores of New Caledonia, have made necessary the allotment of major cargo space for these metals; leaving little room for the copra offered at Papeete.

When the S.S. “Ville d’Amiens” sailed late in July, she was compelled to leave 2,800 tons of copra on the wharf at Papeete. This tonnage has been greatly augmented since that time, and the S.S.

“C. Ramel”, which sailed on September 3, was able to cairy only a fraction.

Appeal by cable to the delegate for French Oceania, at Paris, Monsieur Chappedelaine, has been made, and that officer has come to the rescue of the colony by cnartering a special steamer which, it is stated, will arrive early in October.

M.V. "BULOLO"

New Vessel to Replace "Montoro" on N.G. Run MESSRS. Burns, Philp & Co.’s new motor vessel “Bulolo”, at present on her maiden voyage from England, is expected at Sydney on October 31. She will make her inaugural trip in the Australian- Papua-New Guinea service from Sydney on November 19, replacing the “Montoro”.

Built by Messrs. Barclay, Curie & Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, the new vessel is of 6,500 gross tons, with length of 412 ft. overall, and 58 ft. moulded beam. Accommodation is provided for 223 passengers in 1, 2 and 3-berth cabins on the main and upper decks. Latest types of life saving equipment have been installed, and the steel lifeboats are launched by means of the most modern type of gravity davits, operated by electric winches.

The dining room is air-conditioned by a thermotank installation and living spaces throughout the ship are ventilated by the well-known punkah-louvre system.

A special fire-detection system is also installed.

There is ample space for Islands cargo in five large cargo holds, with 10 electric winches and 15 derricks. Two heavy lift derricks, capable of handling 20 tons, have been installed. Provision has been made also for large quantities of freezer and cooler cargo.

No announcement has been made yet regarding the personnel of the new vessel.

Captain A. Campbell, who has been with Burns, Philp & Co. for many years, is in command of the “Bulolo” on her trip out from England.

The future of the “Montoro” will be decided when the new boat reaches Sydney.

Islands Bound

Salvaging Wrecked Cargoes in N. Caledonia MR. JOHN JOHNSTONE, salvage expert, of Melbourne, returned to Australia in September by the “Pierre Loti” from Noumea. For 14 weeks he had worked with oxy-hydrogen apparatus in 15 fathoms on the sunken steamer “Joliette” at Thio, New Caledonia. In that time 2,400 feet of the ship’s side was cut away, and a total of 92 tons of cobalt, worth £lO a ton, was salvaged.

The ship was wrecked in a cyclone in 1909, with a cargo of 3,000 tons of nickel ore and 250 tons of cobalt. After 92 tons of cobalt had been recovered, Mr. Johnstone said, the bulkhead collapsed, and further salvage work was impossible.

After a holiday in Sydney and Melbourne, Mr. Johnstone said that he might apply for permission from the French authorities to undertake salvage work on the wreck of the “Rounoke”, which was burnt to the waterline, and sank in the Bay of Nehoue in 1905 with 3,500 tons of chromium.

Sir Hubert Murray (Lieut.-Governor of Papua) placing a wreath on the grave of the late Mr.

David Lyall, at Daru, Western Papua. Mr. Lyall, prospector and explorer, was brought out of the middle of New Guinea in an epic journey by Jack Hides (now also dead), but he died at Daru on September 17, 1937. The wreath was sent to Papua by Mr. Lyall’s mother, and taken to Daru by the Governor.

Mr. R. C. Evans, Town Clerk of Suva, together with Mrs. Evans, sailed from Sydney for Fiji by the “Monterey” on September 16, after seven weeks’ holiday in Sydney.

Mr. C. Dupertuis, entomologist, sailed from Sydney for Vila, New Hebrides, by the September “Pierre Loti”.

He was responsible for the triumph over the coconut pest.

Pro mecotheca, which troubled planters in the Condominium for 25 years.

Mr. C. Thomas sailed from Sydney for Rabaul, New Guinea, by the “Nellore” on September 14.

Mr. J. M. Hedstrom, son of Sir Maynard Hedstrom, who is well known in Fiji, departed from Sydney for Suva by the “Niagara” on September 29, after five months’ holiday in Australia 1 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Making Weather Maps For Airmen

Important New Organisation in South Pacific We are indebted to Mr. E. B. Buxton, Meteorologist for Pan American Airways at Auckland, for this interesting description of a new organisation in the Pacific.

DURING the past two years Pan American Airways has had its meteorologists in the South Pacific, daily carrying out analyses of the weather, from Cocos Island in the Indian Ocean, to Tahiti, in the Society Group.

For several years prior to this, the meteorological office in Alameda, U.S.A., and its branch in Manila had been analysing tropical weather along its routes to the Orient, but the study of the South Pacific had been based upon statistics and the works of other agencies.

Late in 1936, the Company sent one of its meteorologists, experienced in the characteristics of typhoons and other tropical weather phenomena, to Auckland, N.Z., to prepare for a survey flight.

The resources of the well-established N.Z. Meteorological Office were extended to the Company by the Director, Dr. E.

Kidson, and Dr. Macky of his staff was assigned to Auckland, where he co-operated with the Pan American meteorologist in the preparation of weather maps.

After the first survey flight was carried out in March, 1937, work on permanent bases in the South Pacific progressed steadily, regular service commencing late in December.

The interruption in the South Pacific service has not interfered with the routine meteorological research being carried out by the Company’s staff.

In the past two years over 800 weather charts of the South Pacific have been drawn from reports collected from Australia, New Zealand, ships at sea, and the Islands. These reports are disseminated from collecting centres at Richmond and Pt. Cook (Australia) and Wellington (New Zealand). The broadcasts are picked up by the Company’s radio in Auckland and turned over to the Meteorological Department in the Terminal Building in Mechanics Bay.

With these reports, which are synoptic, a map is prepared showing the pressure distribution and the location of Fronts (discontinuities between various air masses).

The Auckland office prepares all forecasts south of the Equator, while the Alameda office is responsible for advices issued north.

The first flights emphasised several important requisites for the despatching of aircraft in this region.

A fairly dense network of observation stations, furnishing at least two reports daily, with a high percentage of regularity, is required. Upper-air surroundings must be obtained in order to ascertain the structure of the tropical storms which are such a prominent feature of the weather in this part of the world.

From an airline point of view it is not sufficient to know the approximate location of the centre of a storm; something must be known of its frontal structure, if an accurate forecast of flying conditions is to be made.

Looking into the future, when frequent services will be operating in the South Pacific, a conference was called by Dr.

Kidson in Wellington in November, 1937.

Invitations were extended to representatives from Australia, Apia, Suva, London, U.S.A., France and New Zealand. Pan American Airways was represented at this conference, and a complete organisation was developed in the form of resolutions and recommendations which, when carried out, will ensure a satisfactory meteorological service for all transport operations in the South Pacific.

To carry out these recommendations, sizeable appropriations will be required in some cases. The co-operation of all Administrations in the Pacific has been solicited, as being vital to the success of aircraft operations in the South Seas.

Recognition of the invaluable service rendered by voluntary meteorological observers throughout the Pacific Islands is not often enough brought to the attention of the public. The solitary radio observer or school-teacher, reading his barometer and coding his report of local weather conditions several hundred miles from the next observer, plays a more important part in weather forecasting and research than he would in any other part of the world.

A good example of this occurred recently, when the writer of this article succeeded in tracing a mass of Polar Maritime air from its first appearance in the Australian Bight, north-eastward into the tropics, and thence eastward beyond Tahiti. This air, fresh from high latitudes, is naturally cold and, having been long over water, is relatively moist.

In its passage north and east it is heated from below and this thermodynamic process causes the typical south-westerly type of weather so familiar to navigators of the Tasman.

From day to day, the progress of this air mass was traced r by locating its northern boundary, which appears on the weather chart as a blue line. This blue line is known technically as a Squall Line, or Cold Front. Tracing his Front up to Norfolk Island was fairly easy from ship reports; but, north of Latitude 30S, the air had become so modified that its boundaries became more difficult to find.

Its passage over Noumea was indicated by the shift in wind. Reports from Santo and Vanikoro were missing, hence between Vila and Tulagi the location of the Front was vague and uncertain. The Tongans, Fiji, Rotuma and Funafuti verified the movement of the mass still further; and, finally, Wallis, Uiuafu, Keppel and Apia reported its effects.

The reports from Danger Island, Manihiki and Penrhyn were significant, in that they proved that they were out of the range of the Front, It does not appear that the air mass penetrated the equatorial latitude, but its eastward march was clearly traced past the Cook Islands.

With sufficient reports, it will be possible to study the modifications an air mass undergoes in such a journey, and forecasting for the tropics will be improved.

This is only one case where Island stations played a significant part in an interesting bit of meteorological research.

Each and every report received at this office is carefully scrutinised, and an attempt made to visualise the weather at each particular station. Seven days a week, throughout the year, this goes on, since an interruption breaks up the continuity and reasoning behind the weather map.

Mr. and Mrs. David Morris, and their daughter Patricia, paid a short visit to Fiji by the “Otranto” in September. Mr.

Morris is a director of Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd.

Dr. H. W. Jack, Director of Agriculture at Suva, Fiji, and Mrs. Jack returned to the Colony on September 15 by the “Niagara” after leave.

Sigatoka River Bridge, on the new highway, eastward of Suva, Fiji. —Photo, by Courtesy of Methodist Mission. 2 Pacific Islands Mont hi y —o ctober 15, 1938

Fiji'S New Road

Toll-Gate Causes Annoyance FJI residents are proud of the new road, opened recently between Sigatoka and Suva, which makes it possible now for motorists to drive right round the large island of Viti Levu. But the decision to pay for the road by means of a toll has caused annoyance.

Nadi and Sigatoka residents are justly irate at the decision of the Government to instal a toll gate on the Sigatoka-Suva Road (says the “Fiji Times”). Toll gates are an anachronism and ?re being done away with in England as much as possible.

“We can understand the toll on the Rewa Bridge, as that was part of the agreement, but why, in heaven’s name, a toll gate on the Sigatoka-Suva Road? Are not the people in the back blocks penalized. enough as it is, without having to pay extra to use the roads?

“In nine cases out of ten the settlers go in to Suva on business, not pleasure, and it costs them quite a bit to get in.

Now, on top of all their other expenses, they have to contribute towards —what?”

The Bay Loo Co., Ltd., of Rabaul, was the successful tenderer for the erection of new Police Barracks and additions to the District Office at Wewak, Northern New Guinea. The contract is for £1,700.

The 50 tons British yacht “Ronda” arrived at Apia, Western Samoa, in September, in the course of her Pacific cruise. Her owner is Captain H. Hudson, R.N, (Rtd.L NIUE HAS £13,132 Made Out of Stamps THE island of Niue which has a native population of 4,215, and is under New Zealand administration, had a governmental revenue last year of £35,443, and finished with a surplus of £13,132.

This was due entirely to the sale of Coronation postage stamps, there having been a special issue for the tiny territory —and philatelists having, as usual, rushed in furiously to buy.

The year’s exports were worth £23,321 and the imports £29,309.

Wild Pig Menace In Vanua

LEVU WILD pigs are becoming a serious probblem in Vanua Levu, one of the two large islands of Fiji. They have increased so rapidly that they have become not only a nuisance, but a danger.

One newspaper correspondent says;— “Native gardens are being destroyed; late rice crops suffered heavily; and the continued loss to coconut planters is severe.

Surely the Government can grant a little assistance? Why not again pay 1/- for every jaw bone as was done in the past?

It would offer inducement to the natives ‘to go on the kill’.”

Nurse Williamson, of the Methodist Mission, arrived in Sydney from Misima Island, Papua, by the last “Macdhui” and proceeded to Victoria, where she will spend a holiday.

Wedding In Western Samoa

Why Not One

SERVICE?

Australian Tropical Territories' Administration AUSTRALIAN newspapers practically ignored pleas made in the Commonwealth Parliament for a reform of the system under which Papua and the Mandated Territory are governed; and Ministers concerned replied evasively, and in general terms. Yet the speeches were logical, and well-supported by facts.

Sir Charles Marr, on September 23, argued in favour of one territorial service. “At present”, he said, “we have five territories, with different ordinances and various kinds of administration, as well as separate superannuation schemes.

Whilst I realize that New Guinea cannot be amalgamated with Papua, it would be possible to have one service, so that officers could be transferred from one territory to another. One director of agriculture and one director of medical services should be sufficient for all territories”.

Mr. Green: “Could that system be adopted in regard to a mandated territory?”

Sir Charles Marr: “Yes. In Tanganyika, the British territory and the mandated territory are under one administration”.

Mr. Green: “The patrol service in New Guinea is superior to those in any other parts of the world”.

Sir Charles Marr: “Yes; but as soon as a principal position in the service becomes vacant, an outside officer is appointed, although he may have no knowledge whatever of the work required to be done.

The men already in the service, who have been trained as patrol officers, assistant magistrates, land officers, mining officers, and so on, should be given the opportunity to fill the highest positions available”.

On October 6, Mr. J. V. Fairbairn, who recently visited New Guinea, suggested that there should be one capital for the territories of New Guinea and Papua, that there should be one administrative service for the territories, and that men should be trained for this service who could interchange with all the territories —Papua, New Guinea, Nauru, and the Northern Territory, and that there should be one pension system for all the territory service.

“I think that our people have a genius for this type of work, and that we should train them and do everything we can do improve the high state of efficiency they have attained,” he added. (This matter is dealt with also in an article on page 34.) Miss J. March, of the Methodist Mission at Vunairima, New Britain, will retire from missionary activities in December, 1939.

Miss Loma Dick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Dick, of Suva, Fiji, returned to the Colony recently after completing a nursing training overseas.

Miss E. Brabin, 8.A., has notified the Board of the Methodist Mission that owing to domestic circumstances, she will be obliged to retire in September, next year.

Miss Brabin is at present working at the Vunairima station, T.N.G.

MISS AILEEN MARGARET FABRI- CIUS, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Fabricius, a well-known merchant, of Apia, Western Samoa, was married on September 10 to Mr. J. B.

Wright, of Dannevirke, New Zealand. The bridesmaids were Miss Josie Siemsen and Miss Phoebe Hellesloe; the best man was Mr. D, Jones and the groomsman Mr. G.

Parkhouse; while Magnolia Mann was flower-girl, and Gustav Hoeflich was page boy. Mr. Wright, who was a member of the Administration staff in Samoa, has been transferred to Wellington, and the young couple will live there in future. (Photo, by A. P. McFarland.) 3 Pacific Islands Monthl y —O ctober 15, 1938

"S.J.S." RETIRES Sequel to Cook Is. Fruit Control Plan MR. S. J. SMITH, who retired a couple of months ago from the position of Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, has now, at his own request, retired from the New Zealand Government Service on superannuation. He had been 40 years in the service—the last 23 connected with the Islands Territories.

It is no secret that Mr. Smith was a bitterly disappointed man when he withdrew from Rarotonga. He had devoted years of his life to a study of the conditions surrounding the marketing of the produce of Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa in New Zealand; and when the N.Z.

Labour Government decided to take control of the trade, Mr. Smith went eagerly to Rarotonga in 1937, as Resident Commissioner, to direct the marketing organisation there, and try out certain plans and strongly-held theories of his own.

He found, however, that plans and theories which appeared sound and “watertight” in the rooms of politicians and officials, had a different appearance when put under practical test in the cold and merciless light of the market-place.

The difficulties of the fruit control plan seemed to grow in number and complexity, the longer he struggled with them, and almost broke his heart.

Mr. Smith, however, both as an important official in Wellington, and as an Island Administrator, proved himself to be a man of courage, rectitude and industry; and, even if his fruit control plans went awry, it is a fact that he leaves behind him, in New Zealand and her tropical territories, an enviable record of work well done, and a very large number of friends and well-wishers.

The Two Samoas

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Sept. 20.

U.S.S. “Ontario” arrived in Apia on September 12 with Commander Hanson (Governor of American Samoa) and Mrs. Hanson, and an official party from Pago Pago, to pay an official visit to Western Samoa. A ball in honour of the American visitors was given at Vailima on Tuesday night, September 13, when over 200 guests accepted the invitation of Acting-Administrator and Mrs.

Turnbull. The “Ontario” left on September 15 on her return to Pago Pago.

Opium Raids In Fiji

THE police have been busy in Fiji lately, trying to check a traffic in opium; and various Chinese in Lautoka and Ba have been sentenced to imprisonment, and heavy fines, for having the vicious drug in their possession.

The most serious development was a raid upon the crew of the Sugar Company’s steamer “Fiona”. As a result, the boatswain, Dickenson, was sentenced to two months’ gaol, and the carpenter, Niblock, to one month, for being in possession of opium.

Output of Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd., Papua, for September was 38,480 lb. of dry rubber.

Beer Boycott

N.G. Miners on Warpath THERE was a stir in Sydney on October 11, when it was announced that the New Guinea Mining Association had declared a boycott against the two hotels in Wau, owned by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd.; and that an extension of the boycott to the firm’s stores and flying services was contemplated.

It was explained that this course was being followed because members of the Mining Association believed that some action had been taken by Carpenter & Co., Ltd., to prevent the construction of the road between Wau and Salamaua.

It was stated that the miners were refusing to drink beer, and that this was the first beer strike in New Guinea.

The principals of W. R. Carpenter & Co., in Sydney, took immediate action, and very strong representations were made to the Minister for Territories (Mr.

Hughes), and to Mr. C. C. Judd, who is at present representing the Mining Association in Australia.

Offer To Build Road

Sir Walter Carpenter told the “Pacific Islands Monthly” that he denied, in a most emphatic fashion, that any action had been taken by him, or any other person connected with his firm, to block the construction of the proposed road.

He and his associates were quite indifferent as to whether the road was built or not. His firm, if given the opportunity, was quite prepared to build the road.

Sir Walter handed us, for publication, the following copy of a radiogram which he had that morning despatched to the manager of his firm in Salamaua: — “The following radiogram has been sent by Judd to Allan (President of the Mining Association at Wau): ‘Have seen W.

R. Carpenter and am assured by him he is not opposing road. —Judd’.

“Judd also informed us that he felt that the rumour had been circulated by interested people. So much are we not opposing road that we have offered to build same immediately if Commonwealth Government will guarantee repayment over ten years of cost plus interest. Advise Miners’ Federation and publish this message.”

Sir Walter Carpenter also stated that he was having inquiries made forthwith in New Guinea and Australia with a view to ascertaining the source of the report that he or his associates were opposing the road; and, if he could obtain this information, he would commence an action for malicious libel.

"Determined To Have Our Road"

Morobe Goldfields Interests are Emphatic From a Special Correspondent.

WAU, Oct. 8.

THE public meeting held in Wau on September 26 to deal with the road and capital site matters (see report on page 76) was possibly the largest and most enthusiastic public meeting ever held in New Guinea, and shows that public feeling is at last becoming aroused in this district. We are determined to have our road, whatever happens.

At the moment it would appear that, in spite of all that has been printed, the road that will be built will be the one by the most direct route —that is, up the Bitoi Valley (not Bergin’s or Sheldon’s route), but a new one following the Bitoi Valley, where the grades will not exceed one in 14. The total length will be 48 miles, and the construction cost will be the smallest of any of the routes proposed.

You may be interested to 'Know that the Public Works Department in Rabaul, in its estimates for the maintenance cost of the road to be built, considers that the maximum maintenance cost on any road will not exceed £6,700 annually, and that the freight cost of goods per ton, including the payment of a toll for redemption and interest on the loan, will vary between £4/10/- and £5/10/- per ton, according to the route selected.

We are now definitely opposed to any long roundabout route.

Editorial Note: In our view, it is more important, for the future of New Guinea, that the Salamaua-Morobe road should be the first stage of a highway giving access to Central New Guinea, than that it should be built only to give cheap freights to the Wau-Edie Creek goldfield, which has a limited life.

But it is a fact that the Morobe interests are being made to pay specially for the new road, and therefore have a clear right to say that, in its construction, their interests shall be primarily considered.

It is also a fact —of a very exasperating character—that the New Guinea Administration has collected at least £500,000 in gold royalty from these Morobe interests in recent years, and has spent it all for general purposes, and has mighty little to show for it. An Administration worthy of the name would have used the goldfields revenues long ago to build for the goldfields towns a road that would give cheap access to the coast, and then would have used the economic impetus of the impermanent gold industry to establish permanent agricultural industries on the Central New Guinea plateaus. Now, it is too late. A road from Salamaua to Wau, via the Bitoi, may be capable of use as the first link in a road through the Bulolo and Watut valleys to the Markham and Ramu country—but we doubt it.

The only “mile-peg” in New Guinea. It reads; “Salamaua-Wau road—52 miles to Salamaua”. It is placed near the bottom of the Black Cat track, in the Bulolo Valley, about 3 miles from Wau. This is where the new road will emerge from the mountains, if the Middle Bitoi route is followed. —Photo, by H. W. Audsley. 4 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

In Memoriam

LYALL TREASURED memories of my dear Son. and our Brother. David, who gave his life to exploration. Passed away at Daru, Papua. 17th Sept., 1937. Age, 26 years.

One year has passed since that sad day.

When the one we loved was called away; The end was sudden, the shock severe.

We little knew the end was near.

Loved in life, honoured in death, A beautiful memory, is all we have left. —Sadly missed by his loving mother and brothers, Victor. Jackie and Clifford.

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No Decision In New Guinea

Capital Site Still Unknown—Wall Interests Fight for Retention of Road Plan rdo not like to adopt the methods of the sensational press, and hint at duplicity, graft, and Queer Goings On; but there certainly is something mysterious about Canberra and recent events in New Guinea.

Consider the facts in their sequence: May 29, 1937—Eruption at Rabaul.

November, 1937—Expert vulcanolo«dsts recommend earliest possible removal of administrative establishment, April, 1938—Griffiths Committee recommends Lap as site for administrative establishment, and submits detailed plans. . June, 1938—Mr. Hughes, for some Unknown reason, rejects Griffiths report, Dashes to New Guinea and back, and announces that Salamaua will be new caoital, at cost of about £350.000, and that a road will be built at a cost of £150,000, to connect Wau with Salamaua.

July, 1938—Administrator goes to Salamaua with engineers, and finds that it will cost £250,000 above the Minister’s estimate, to fill in a swamp and to make Salamaua suitable for purpose stated.

Survey parties begin to survey four alternative routes for Wau-Salamaua road.

August, 1938—There is such a chorus of criticism of Salamaua as the capital site that it is announced, practically officially, that the Minister’s selection had been abandoned.

September, 1938—Administrator and officials arrive at Lae presumably to make plans for transfer of capital, according to Griffiths renort: but return to Rabaul, after a couple of days.

September, 22, 1938—Administrator departs on four months’ leave.

And, since then, nothing.

Almost every day. during September and up to date, Mr. Lyons and Mr. Hughes have been asked about the “New Guinea capital site” in Parliament bv members, and outside by pressmen, and they consistently have returned evasive answers.

On October, before going to Tasmania on three weeks’ holiday, the Prime Minister said that “the search for a new capital site was still proceeding diligently”—a silly and flippant statement, on the face of it. No search is going on.

It is believed, at the date of this writing (October 11) that the choice lies between Lae and Wau, with a possibility that financial considerations yet may keep the administrative establishment somewhere in the Rabaul district. But this is all guesswork.

Attack On Road Plan

THERE is the same vague and unsatisfactory atmosphere about the road plan.

We hinted, last month, that strong influences were operating to kill the road plan; and so it nroved. Mr, c. C. Judd, of the Wau Mining Association, has been hard at work in Canberra and Sydney all this month, fighting off an attack upon the road proposal, which is based on the argument that it would be cheaper to subsidise the aeronlane services, so as to give low freights, than to spend the money on a road that may cost something far in excess of the estimate.

However, on September 22, the Legislative Council of New Guinea met and passed the Road Loan Bill. The Bill was criticised by Messrs. J. C. Mullaly and W.

E. Grose, who asked how they could be expected to deal intelligently with the plan, when they had no details about the character of the road, the route to be followed, and the absence of data showing how the deficiency was to be provided for, if the toll did not produce enough revenue.

The Director of Works, Mr. C. R. Field, said that the intended road would be 20 feet wide, allowing for a 12 foot carriage way and four feet water tables on each side. Metalling, in his opinion, was not of such great importance as drainage; bridges would be designed similar to the Victorian class B bridge. In speaking of the uncertainty of the toll, Mr. Field said: “Perhaps we owe something to the goldfields. A considerable amount of the revenue of this country comes from the goldfields. Perhaps it is reasonable to let them have some consideration on account of the amount of revenue they produce, The estimate this year of gold royalty is £117,000. In my opinion it is even more important, if there is a tendency for the price of gold to come down, to give the goldfields a chance of cheaper transport and keep them going longer than they would with aeroplane transport.”

Mr. Hughes, being persistently nagged at in Parliament between September 20 and October 6. finally said that there were five routes being surveyed, and that a decision as to the best route could not be reached until all the data was complete.

Indications are that the strong representations made by Morobe interests to the Minister, and oh the spot by Mr. Judd, have kept the road plan intact and in being; but the Australian Federal Government machinery is notoriouslv inefficient and slow-moving, and Wau will be lucky if it sees its road complete inside four years.

Wau As Capital?

CITIZENS of Wau have been making strong representations to Canberra in favour of placing the capital at Wau and their plan was received so kindly by Mr. Hughes that one newspaper announced that Wau had been selected.

Rabaul sniffs with disdain at the idea of conducting the administration from Wau, isolated in the Morobe ranges at one end of the Territory; but many of the objections to Wau would disappear if there was a good trafficable road between Wau and the coast. Then, Wau would have much to recommend it, especially the climate.

But, if the administration is to remain at Rabaul until a road is built in to Wau, it might as well remain there altogether.

Wau people can see that for themselves, and it is little wonder that they get very weary of the dodging of the politicians and the time-wasting circumlocution ot bureaucrats.

Lae And The Minister

THE evident determination of the Minister to say no word or take no action in favour of Lae —the selection of an expert committee that, obviously, was beyond bias and influence—is a little hard to understand.

Lae, of course, is the headquarters of Guinea Airways, Ltd.:and one gets the impression that the Minister feels that his shining coat may be tarnished if he even associated himself with this rich organisation. Yet the fact is that, without Guinea Airways, there would have been no Morobe goldfield: and without Morobe, the Administration of New Guinea would have been a very poor, feeble thing, financially busted. The (Continued on Page 75.) 5 Pacific Islands Monthl y —o ctober 15, 1938

W.R.C. LINE "S.S. Suva" Leaves for Pacific Ports in November THE 9,000-tons steamer “Suva”, newlybuilt for the W.R.C. Line (Carpenter & Co., Ltd.) is expected to sail from London about November 12 for Pacific ports, via Panama. She will go, first, to Vancouver, and thence to Apia, in Western Samoa.

The Carpenter firm hope to provide, with their new ship, a regular service between Western Samoa and Europe.

Prom Apia, the “Suva” will go to Suva and Rabaul, and may call at other Islands ports, if required. From New Guinea, she will proceed direct to Capetown, and thence back to London. It is not intended that on this, her maiden voyage, she shall call at Australian ports.

That schedule—London, Panama, Pacific ports, Capetown, and back to London— wm be followed regularly, three times per annum, by the “S.S. Suva”, in future. The Apia call will be made regularly if justified by results

Fijian Chief

Character of Late Ratu Veli A STRIKING tribute to a Fijian chief was paid recently by Mr. H. B. Gibson, in an article in the “Fiji Times”. It is notable as indicating the type of men found frequently among the chiefly class of Fijians. The following are extracts;— In the sudden passing of Ratu Veli, late Roko Tui Macuata, Fiji has lost a character the strength of which we will probably never see again in our time. In addition to the possession of a fine presence Ratu Veli was a leader of no mean order.

I can never forget the debt of gratitude which we residents of Nasea owe to his organising ability on the occasion of the Labasa hurricane of December 10. A handful of Europeans, many Chinese and hundreds of Indians who live in Nasea owe, if not our lives, then our present state of health and well-being, to the leadership of Ratu Veli.

He always captained his own vessel. I have sailed with him on many an occasion, and it was characteristic of his seamanship, as it was characteristic of his whole life, that in an emergency one always found Ratu Veli with the rudder in his own hand.

He was never loath to criticise an officer of State or Church, whom he thought to be weak, misguided or prejudiced. He was extremely diplomatic and always polite, but he was no mere flagwagger.

He had friends amongst peoples of all nationalities, amongst followers of many creeds and in many stations of life.

Sir Harry Luke

Cordial Welcome for New Governor in Fiji GLORIOUS weather, combined with the cordial friendliness of the people, provided a happy augury for the rule of Sir Harry Luke, C.M.G., when he disembarked from R.M.S. “Niagara” in Suva on September 16, to assume the Governorship of Fiji, and High Commissionership of the Western Pacific.

His Excellency was greeted aboard the liner by the Chief Justice (Mr. O. C. K.

Corrie), and Mrs. Corrie, and the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Juxon Barton, C.M.G., 0.8. E.), and Mrs. Barton, attended by the Honorary Aides de Camp, Major C. B.

Joske, 0.8. E., M.C., and Major A. H.

Stafford.

The new Governor, when he landed, was received with a Royal Salute. He inspected the guard of honour, consisting of European, Fijian and Indian units of the Defence Force, under the command of Major P. G. Forster.

He formally inspected a parade of returned sailors and soldiers, and then proceeded to the Customs Shed, where he was introduced to members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, officials, and members of the public.

After the usual formal ceremonies, Sir Harry Luke delivered a brief address. An interesting section was as follows: “May I, through those present in this building, send greetings to those whom you represent; to the Fijian people whose country this is; to the Europeans who, either in the service of the State, or in mission and teaching work, or in commerce and industry, are working in and for Fiji; to the Indians who have made their homes here, are working for the development of these Islands and have identified themselves with their interests.”

The formal speech of welcome to the new Governor was made by the Chief Justice (Mr. Corrie); and it was disclosed that Sir Harry Luke and Mr. Corrie are old friends, having been associated in administrative work in Palestine soon after the war. “Your Excellency”, said Mr.

Corrie, “was then one of the youthful rising hopes of the Colonial Service —in fact, you were then already an experienced administrator, having served in three colonies, Sierra Leone, Barbados, and Cyprus, and having served also as British Chief Commissioner in the Caucasus”.

Native culivation on the Central New Guinea plateau, in the Ramu-Purari region. This great, fertile, cool plateau has been receiving a good deal of attention lately, as a possible field of enterprise for Europeans. When the above photographs were taken, these natives and their gardens had never previously been seen by Europeans. The trenches are not for irrigation, but are lines of division. The natives are of superior type, and live in scattered farmhouses, instead of clustering together in villages. 6 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—O ctober 15, 1938

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TROPICALITIES THE schooner was sinking. The captain, even rougher and harder-bitten than his men, yelled through the gale:— “All hands on deck. Come up you misfired adjectival lot of lubbery sons of sea cooks. Can any one of yer say a prayer? No. I thought as much. Not one of yer!”

Then up spake a native boat-boy claiming that he was a good Mission fella and plenty prayer belonga him.

“Then pray like yer never prayed before,” yelled the captain. “We’re a lifebelt short.” ♦ ♦ ♦ THUS Sir Charles Marr, in the Australian Parliament on September 23 on Mr. Harold Page, Government Secretary in New Guinea and at present Acting-Administrator : “We have not a better officer in the service than Mr. Harold Page, brother of the Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page). It is unfortunate for him, in some ways, that he is related to the Minister.

I first visited New Guinea in 1927 as a Minister, when Brigadier-General Wisdom was the Administrator, and I confess that at that time I was not enamoured of Mr.

Page. Later, when Brigadier-General Griffiths was appointed Administrator by the Lyons Government, I, in my capacity as Minister, said: T want one Administrator, not two’. But after his return to Australia, I asked him what he thought of Mr. Page, and he said, T have never met a more conscientious, or better officer than Mr. Page is’. I mention this because I think that we should do our very utmost to encourage good officers and give them the opportunity to advance to the highest positions we have to offer. I suggested some years ago that Mr. Page should be appointed Administrator of Nauru, in order to prove his capacity as an administrator, but the suggestion was not acceptable.” * * * IT’S an old Navy custom that British warships never carry a white flag. This tradition caused an amusing incident at Apia, Western Samoa, on August 29, 1914, when the New Zealand troops, escorted by the Australian squadron, arrived to take possession of the islands from Germany. The rules of war made it imperative that a flag of truce should be carried by the landing party when asking for the surrender of the town. There was consternation for a time, when it was discovered that the party was all ready but no white flag was available.

Finally, the difficulty was overcome by nailing a serviette to a staff! * * * WHEN the good ship “Sirius” brought the Administrator and a party of officials to Lae, New Guinea, early in September, on some mysterious mission connected with the new capital, minor horrors were anticipated by the Europeans—but no one guessed just what they were in for. They soon learned. The “vice-regal” edict went forth: All officials, including the D.O. and the Roadmaster, were to wear neckties in future, when appearing in public.

The uncouth, non-official class gasned, and then jeered: but levitv turned to sympathy when the wretched officials duly appeared, their faces stiff, and their sweating necks duly encased in the gay products of Sydney tie factories. The only sensible costume in the always humid coastal districts of New Guinea— except in Rabaul, where official rigidities are painfully observed—is an open-neck shirt. However, officialdom will have its way, the world over.

But Lae had its revenge. Next day, half the dogs in the place appeared, with ribbons tied in gay little bows around their necks. The unhappy official tiewearers did not bat an eye-lid—lese majesty is definitely an offence in New Guinea —but we are informed that their expressions definitely were less severe. ♦ * ♦ TWO or three of the residents of the Samarai district of Papua have written to us, in terms which call for asbestos paper and non-inflammable ink, about the Oxford Movement at Kwato, and its application to the native villages and village life. Some of the articles which have been published in Australian journals about this aspect of the Oxford Movement, do appear a little ridiculous; but, maybe, comment had better wait upon a clearer understanding of what actually is claimed by the Kwato Mission.

Captain H. and Mrs. Gosling, of Suva, returned to Fiji from a holiday visit to England by the “Niagara” in September.

Pastor E. B. Rudge, President of the Australasian Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, arrived in Suva, Fiji, by the “Monterey” in September. He is wellknown to Fiji residents, having been connected with the Fiji Mission of Seventh Day Adventists as Superintendent for a number of years. 7 Pacific Islands Mont hi y —O ctober 15, 19 3 8

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Miss Alice Piggott, formerly of Yarrabah Mission, Queensland, who has been receiving special training at the Training Hostel for Women in Sydney, will leave for Kumbun, New Britain, T.N.G., in the diocese of Melanesia, by the next “Montoro”.

Rev. and Mrs. H. T. Shotton, who are at present engaged in mission work for thje Methodist Mission at Kiriwina, Papua, will shortly be returning to Sydney.

Miss Emily Clarke, late of Norfolk Island, and Sister Merle Charlton, of Victoria, are expected to leave for Port Moresby, Papua, by the “Macdhui” early in November. They will engage in duties for the Australian Board of Missions.

Miss Bessie Smith will join the “Macdhui” at Brisbane early in November, for Port Moresby, Papua, from whence she will proceed to Doubina. to take up duties for the Methodist Mission.

Rev. J. Gilkison, late of Wellington, N.Z., will leave Sydney for Pt. Moresby, Papua, by the “Montoro” on October 19, to undergo a short training period before being assigned to one of the London Missionary Society’s stations.

Mr. Stuart Lade, 8.A., of the Methodist Mission, will leave by the next “Montoro” for Port Moresby, Papua, where he will take up a position in the Methodist Boy’s School.

Rev. H. A. Brown, M.A., of the London Missionary Society, is expected to arrive in Sydney on November 17 from London, England. He will proceed to Port Moresby, Papua, by the “Bulolo” on November 19.

Rev. Henry W. Whyte, M.A., and Mrs.

Whyte, of Ipswich, Queensland, have been appointed to the London Missionary Society, at Apia, Samoa. They will leave Auckland, New Zealand, by the “Matua” on November 29. Mr. Whyte has had 20 years’ of missionary experience in India.

Rev. J. W. Burton, General Secretary of the Methodist Overseas Missions, left Sydney by the “Macdhui” on September 24 for Rabaul, New Guinea, where he will confer with local missionaries in connection with important district matters. He recently paid a visit to Fiji to investigate educational matters.

Commander R. C. Garsia, who lately has retired from the position of Administrator of Nauru, arrived in Auckland on October 10, on his way back to Australia.

Mr. G. S. Mouat, M.P.S., Ph.C., has acquired the old-established pharmaceutical business of A. J. Swann & Co., Ltd., in Suva, Fiji, and the business will in future be carried on under his personal supervision. Mr. Mouat came originally to Fiji as manager of Swann & Co.. Ltd., and subsequently joined the staff of Mr. C. A.

Adams, at Lautoka.

Miss Sylvia Tree arrived in Sydney from Papeete, by the “Pierre Loti” on October 5. She spent some time in Tahiti where two friends, Geoffrey and Dahl Pollings, made a documentary film of Tahiti.

Mr. and Mrs. L.

J. M. Page, of Vila, New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney by the October “Pierre Loti” for a short holiday. He is a well known surveyor.

Mr. Auguste Roland, of the staff of Bank of Indo-China in Noumea, New Caledonia, arrived at Sydney by the last “Pierre Loti”.

He intends taking up permanent residence in Sydney. 8 Pacific Islands Monthl y —o ctober 15, 1938

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About Islands People

Miss Frienda Simpfendoerfer, of Brisbane, Queensland, has taken up duties with the Lutheran Mission at Madang, New Guinea.

Mr. N. M. Johnstone has joined the staff of the Bank of N.S.W., Wau, New Guinea.

Mr. L. Kissick, of Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., Salamaua, New Guinea, has been transferred to the Wau branch.

Sir Walter McNicoll, Administrator of New Guinea, left Rabaul by the “Nellore” on September 22, to spend four months’ leave in the East and in Australia. He was accompanied by Lady McNicoll.

Madame Struve-Gleiche, who has been travelling through the Pacific Islands in search of material for songs, stories and sketches, arrived in Sydney from Noumea by the September “Pierre Loti’’.

Major Mann, Superintendent of Aerodromes for Civil Aviation in Australia, arrived in Sydney from Salamaua, New Guinea, by aeroplane in September, after inspecting aerodromes in the N.G. goldfields district.

Monsieur Henri David, assistant to the French Deputy at Santo, New Hebrides, recently married Mademoiselle Marie-Louise Houdie, daughter of Madame Houdie, who owns and manages a plantation at Mele.

Mr. R. J. Lotze, of Tulagi, a member of the British Solomon Islands Advisory Committee, arrived in Sydney by the “Malaita”, on furlough. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lotze.

Miss Margery Munro, of Sydney, was recently married at Kieta, New Guinea, to Mr. Alexander Scott, local manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. The ceremony was performed by the District Officer (Mr. R. Merrylees), at the hospitable home of Dr. and Mrs. Price.

There was a large gathering of district residents, and the newly-married couple were showered with good wishes.

Dr. R. F. Baird, formerly Chief Magistrate of Norfolk Island, has been appointed Government Medical Officer and Lieutenant-Colonel F. R. Xvakhos has been appointed Chief Magistrate.

Rev. V. C. A. Longden, of the Melanesian Mission at Moewe Harbour, New Britain, New Guinea, has been in Sydney on leave. He will return to the Mandated Territory this month.

Rev. Otto Thiele, of the Lutheran Mission, was in New Guinea in September making arrangements to purchase for the Mission the well-known Gisarum plantation on Siassi Island, which has been conducted for a long time by Messrs.

Money and Reynolds.

Brother Walter Garrod, M.S.C., left Sydney by the last “Montoro” for Pt.

Moresby, Papua, en route to Yule Island, where he is engaged in mission work for the Sacred Heart Mission. Brother Garrod, has been in Papua for 12 years.

Mr. E. Ryan sailed from Sydney by the last “Macdhui” for Misima Island, Papua, where he is employed by Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Ltd. He spent three months’ leave in Sydney.

Mr. G. C. (“Jos”) Holmes, branch manager of W. R. Carpenter & Co.

Ltd., at Kavieng, returned to New Guinea by the September “Montoro” after two months’ holiday in N.S.

Wales.

Father F. Lyons, M.S.C., of the Sacred Heart Mission, who has been in Sydney for some months receiving medical attention, departed from Sydney for Ft.

Moresby, Papua, by the “Macdhui” on September 24. 9 Pacific Islands Mont hi y —o ctober 15, 1938

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Copra Freights

Co-operative Action Urged to Secure Relief Prom Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, Sept. 18.

A REQUESI that the Papuan Government mignt intercede in the matter of increased overseas freights—which had so far exceedea previous rates that local buyers of copra had increased their marginal deduction by over 30/ —was brought forward by Hon. J. G. Nelsson at a recent meeting of the Legislative Council.

This deduction is a serious matter for all copra producers, and it is hoped that planters in both Papua and New Guinea by combined efforts and demands, may secure some relief.

It is understood that the Papuan Government is investigating the whole position.

Coffee "Dumped" In Australia Protests From (stands Growers AS a result of the continued “dumping” of coffee from the Dutch East Indies —which has been further aggravated this year by the removal of export restrictions in Brazil —coffee planters in the South Seas have become alarmed over the fall in price and the prospects of the industry.

At the recent session of the Legislative Council of Papua it was proposed that the Papuan Government suggest to the Australian Government that, as most coffee manufacturers and retailers in Australia are also interested in tea, Commonwealth contracts for tea or coffee should be refused unless a proportion of Islands coffee be included.

This measure of protection was suggested as a result of recent increased purchases of coffee from Brazil and the Dutch East Indies by Australian coffee roasters. The latter had not been slow to take advantage of the world position, with the result that the price now offered to Islands coffee producers is below a profitable basis.

Papuan and New Guinea coffee is already admitted into the Commonwealth duty free. On all imports of coffee, other than Islands coffee, a duty of 4d. per lb. and 10/- primage is payable. Landing charges amount to about 1/- per cwt.

The average wholesale price for bulk coffee in Melbourne during 1937 was 1/3 to 1/8 per lb.

In 1936-7 Papua exported 88 tons of coffee valued at £7,536 (9.17 d. per lb), and in 1937-8, 83 tons, valued at £6,606, Mr. Nicol Entrop arrived in Sydney in September by the “Montoro” from Samarai, where he was in hospital for some time recovering from bums received from an accident on the yacht “Vanora” on June 27, when a small primus stove exploded.

Mrs. G. A. Joy, wife of the Resident Commissioner of the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney recently by the “Pierre Loti”. She was accompanied by her son Arthur, who is on his way back to Glemes College, Hobart, Tasmania, after spending his school holidays with his parents at Vila. 10 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—O ctober 15, I§BB

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Still "A Pain In The Neck"

WHEN the small steamer "Make”, recently purchased in Auckland, N.Z., by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., sailed from Sydney for Rabaul on September 24 to enter the New Guinea trade, W.R.C. officials heaved a sigh of relief. The little 500-tons vessel was towed to Australia by the “Salamaua” in August and, by her pleasant habit of slipping the towline and wandering off alone to explore the Tasman, she gave Captain Andrew Smith and his crew on the “Salamaua” so much trouble that she was tartly referred to as “a pain in the neck”.

Twenty-four hours after she left Sydney, the “Mako” put back to port—engine trouble had developed near Cape Hawke, Northern New South Wales. Repairs were made and the vessel, under Captain Cruickshank, left again for Rabaul on September 27.

OVERLOOKED!

Men Who Helped During The Rabaul Eruption “T REGRET that little or no credit has X been given to the people who played such notable parts in the rescue work during the eruption at Rabaul in May, 1937”, said Sir Charles Marr in the Australian Parliament on September 23.

“One person who was overlooked by the Minister in this respect was Bishop Vesters of Vunapope. The Administrator was the first person to be recognised for the work that was done, but he was not even at Rabaul when the volcano erupted.

“The captain of an American freighter that was alongside the wharf has never even received a letter of thanks for his valuable work. He manoeuvred his vessel in the darkness, and moved hundreds of people from the danger zone.

“The junior officers of the service who did meritorious work have also been overlooked. There has been no recognition of the services of the man who sat by the telephone and kept the town in communication with other parts. Nor has there been any recognition of the man who took over the wireless and sent messages to the outside world when the wireless operator met his death.

“These men are deserving of more than thanks and the Minister will do himself credit if he obtains a report written by the men on the spot instead of contenting himself with a cold-blooded official document. Judge Phillips is one man who could furnish such a report”.

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Story of U.S. Big Guns at Honolulu From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 10.

SIXTEEN inch guns, the mightiest possessed by the U.S. army, defend the approaches to the great Pearl Harbour navy base near Honolulu. But because it costs exactly 719 dollars to fire one shell, rarely are the great guns used.

On August 16 the army decided to have a blow-out with their prize pets.

They set aside 10,000 dollars and let the guns roar. A grand time was had by all —including two cats!

One of the officers wanted to know how a human being would fare if stood directly in front of one of the guns.

Mice usually make good experimental animals, but this time it was cats. A couple were placed in front of one of the guns, duly stroked and told to be good little pusses.

The brass hats, from high ranking generals down to coastal artillery captains, lined up behind the guns, their field glasses, it must be confessed, trained expectantly on the cats. After all, most men are boys at heart, and boys like playing tricks on animals.

“Bang” went one shell, screaming off over the horizon, the blast flattening the trees and shrubs which camouflage the gun positions. The brass hats were thunderstruck. One cat continued to 101 l in the sun, the other arched its back, twitched its tail, sat down. They could take it!

“Bang” went another shell. The cats stuck to the gun. Whether that meant a human being could, the ranking officer responsible for the experiment would not say.

A total of 14 shells was fired; and, after about the sixth, it was reported by the observers that one of the cats took to the tree tops, whether in fright or simply to get a better view of the show it could not be reliably reported, because the cat would not be coaxed down, even though everybody from the generals down tried their persuasive best.

The other cat remained in the original position and did not budge an inch until the brass hats en masse strode across to view the Pussy that didn’t turn a hair at 10,000 dollars worth of 16-inch shells!

But now the question that furrows the brows of brass hats is; If one cat can take fourteen 16-inch shells, what man can? Next shoot they may use mice.

Mice may talk.

However, on the more serious side, the gunnery was excellent. Four shells were fired to get the range of a towed target beyond the horizon, 20 miles away. (The guns are at sea level). Two aeroplanes hovered about the target, reporting back by radio the fall of each shell.

Conditions were the best. The target was towed in a straight line at 9 knots. In actual war, of course, the target would zig zag, answer back, drive away the observing aircraft with anti-aircraft shrapnel.

It took four shells to get the range, then another 10 shells were blazed away in quick succession, six of them registering direct hits, which is great shooting.

Each shell weighs more than one ton.

At the moment it leaves the gun barrel The “Make” in Sydney, just before she left for New Guinea. 11 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Mr. H. W. Audsley, of B.G.D. staff, Bulolo, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney in September, on furlough.

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Quick Action Throughout Pacific Territories on September 28 WHEN, on September 26 to 28, it seemed that war between the Western Powers of Europe was unavoidable, there were quick, though unobtrusive, movements in all British and French ports throughout the Central and South Pacific.

It was noted that, in those critical hours, all German ships disappeared out of sight, over the horizon; but that Japanese ships in port remained in port, apparently unperturbed. Yet the active Anglo-French preparations were not connected with the Germans at all—they were designed to meet any possible move by Japan, the presumed ally of Germany.

It would be impossible, here—even if we had the details—to give any indication of the measures that were taken in scores of ports in Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas; but it was comforting to note that the authorities apparently have a plan ready for operation in an emergency.

Severe apprehension was felt in New Guinea among well-informed people, who sensed what was going on. New Guinea is very conscious of its nearness to the Japanese Mandated Territory.

After the bluff and bluster of Australian Ministers regarding the non-use of the Mandated Territory for military purposes. it would be interesting to know what precautionary measures were taken by the defence authorities in regard to New Guinea, between September 20 and 30.

To Found A Model Colony Mr. Briggs Leaves for the Marquesas TO found a “modern Utopia far from strife, turmoil, and social problems”, a 30 ft. auxiliary cruiser “Connella” left Hobart on October 3 for the Marquesas Islands in the Central Pacific.

The cruiser carried Mr. and Mrs. O F Briggs, of Sydney, and Mr. T. Alexander, of Hobart. They will call at Sydney and then leave for the Marquesas, 3,000 miles away,, to form the advance guard of an expedition organised by the International Goodwill Society. The vessel has half a ton of stores and medical supplies

New Guinea'S Highest

MOUNTAIN MOUNT CHIMBU, which is believed to be the highest peak in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, has been climbed by an Administration patrol, led by Patrol Officer Vial.

During the ascent a series of heavy snowfalls impeded the climbers.

Vial’s observations give the height as 14,905 feet.

Mr. W. J. (“Billy”) Candler recently paid a visit to Suva, Fiji, by the “Speybank”. Mr. Candler is a commercial traveller well known to Central Pacific business people, having made frequent trips between Australia and the Islands over a period of 30 years. 12 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Prom Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Oct. 4.

ALL is quiet on this front.

Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. are busy with their new store, and Rabaul looks like anything but a town about to be shifted, or a capital being deprived of its status.

The Chinese are busily building and the Public Works officials are doing much to bring the roads into decent shape.

This agitation from Wau, that it should be the capital, is regarded by Rabaul with disdain. It is an impossible plan, on account of the location of Wau.

We are without the Administrator/ who is away on holiday in the East; but Mr. Page (Government Secretary) is acting very satisfactorily as head of the Government.

Mr. S. Geddes, formerly in charge of the drilling operations for N.G.G., Ltd., and who recently had been carrying out drilling work for the W. S. Syndicate in New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the last “Macdhui”. He later sailed for New Zealand.

"A Great, Wild Laboratory"

Zoologist in Dutch New Guinea From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 10.

DUTCH New Guinea was described as “one of the great wild laboratories for the scientist and explorer” by Mr. S. Dillon Ripley, a zoologist with the Denison-Crockett expedition, which was sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, who has just returned to America.

He brought back at least 1,250 birds, a strange cargo that included birds of paradise, storks, rare parrots and hombills.

Among Mr. Ripley’s collection were some parakeets that are prized by the natives because of their fondness for lice. It appears that the natives, who have extremely long and bushy hair, make pets of the parakeets, and the birds spend most of their time on top of the natives’ heads, diligently hunting for lice.

Mr. Ripley experienced no trouble with the hinterland natives. The Dutch authorities keep wide areas strictly patrolled. However, Mr. Ripley bumped into a major scandal which involved a native woman and her two sons, charged with cannibalism. According to the evidence, the mother disliked her two daughtersin-law and persuaded her sons to kill and then eat them.

“No white man has been killed by a cannibal since 1936”, said Mr. Ripley.

“Personally, I found the natives extremely friendly, and it would have been impossible to capture many of the birds I brought back without their help. Of course, you must be careful and remain on your guard at all times. If a white man ever gets into danger, it is almost always, as every old-timer will tell you, his own fault.

“Not long ago a party of Chinese went in from the coast to trade for bird of paradise skins. These same curious natives surrounded one Chinese and began plucking at his pudgy arms, and then drawing their fingers across their lips with a smacking sound. He was a very fat man. He and his friends wasted no more time, but ran for the nearest town. The natives all thought this was a wonderful joke and have been laughing about it ever since.

“If anybody is eaten by these, it’s only somebody with a black skin. White and yellow are dangerous colours”.

A little known phase of New Caledonia’s sporting life is deer-stalking. There is first-class game hunting in the interior districts of the French Colony for keen-eyed marksmen. The photograph shows a Sumatra deer killed on an estate near Bouloupari. 13 Pacific Islands Month 1 y—o ctober I£, 1938

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UNCLE SAM already has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in establishing a super-defence base in these islands, and he has budgeted to spend millions upon millions more, the idea being to keep the ambitious Japanese west of Hawaii.

But, in the shadow of the great guns that command the approaches from Japan. in the coastal waters that wash into Pearl Harbour (the immense base that is the crux of the Hawaii defence scheme) enterprising, alien Japanese are reaping a harvest—and making military experts wonder.

The latest figures available show that alien Japanese dominate the commercial fishing industry of the islands. Of the total U.S. licenses issued. 272 belong to alien Japanese, and only 70 to U.S. citizens (many of them of Japanese parentage).

These fishermen use sampans, many of them ocean-going. Licensed power boats (sampans) owned by these aliens total 384, a sizeable fleet. Alien Japanese also own 280 licensed rowboats.

There are 595 night-angling permits possessed by aliens. This gives the holders access to foreshores.

This tightly-knit alien Japanese group monopolises the wholesale and retail marketing of fish. There is proceeding, at present, a territorial investigation of the entire system. The public have complained about the high prices.

Experts are here from Washington to see that the investigation covers every angle, to probe every angle of the setup themselves, anyhow.

Japanese fishing fleets are spread throughout the Pacific. Make a note of the localities: In the Dutch East Indies. along Australia’s northern coasti, in the Mandated Islands, in Siberian waters, in Alaskan waters, in Hawaii, along the California coast, and down in the vicinity of the Panama Canal.

Many of the sampans have an extraordinarily long cruising range. Many are equipped with radio.

Major H. S. N. Robinson, Secretary of the Melanesian Mission, returned to Sydney early in October from New Zealand, where he attended to the business side of the visit of the Melanesian Mission yacht “Southern Cross”, which made the trip to Auckland for a special survey by Lloyds.

Mr. W. N. Lock, of the S.D.A. Mission at Merigeda, Papua, arrived in Sydney recently on leave.

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“An Australian man unshipped 40 head of Australian cattle, swam them ashore, and drove them up to the Ramu River, where he built a bungalow which the natives burnt out, and then built himself another one. That man is now well established. He is a typical Australian.

Nobody else is allowed into the country —it is not under control—but this man has done good work. Apart from driving the cattle to the goldfields, where he sold them at £4O a head, he has done other things to place himself on a firm footing in the Mandated Territory. I take off my hat to him”.

Mr. A. J. Campbell, a Seventh Day Adventist missionary who has been stationed in Central New Guinea, in the Ramu- Purari area, for 2J years, told “Sydney Morning Herald” recently:— “There are many people scratching around on arid ground in Australia when there are thousands of square miles of good agricultural territory in Central New Guinea, which is droughtless, We have a splendid possession in New Guinea, but nobody seems to know about it”. 14 Pacific Islands Monthly—October .15, 19 38

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Guinea Miners

How Australia Rewards the Prospectors A STRONG plea on behalf of the prospectors and miners in New Guinea, who take all the risks and discomforts of opening up new territory, was made in the Australian Parliament by Mr. A. E. Green, who recently visited the Territory.

Mr. Green attacked the gold royalty of 5 per cent, in its application to these men. Miners who were earning barely enough to purchase adequate food, were charged relatively the same rate as large companies, such as the Bulolo Dredging Company, which is showing a profit of £600,000 per annum. He urged that, in view of the small amount that must accrue to the revenue by imposing the tax on the prospector earning less than an appropriate wage, the tax be abolished on all gold returning less than an adequate living.

As the Minister’s only answer was that he would “consider” it, Mr. Green returned to the attack later; and then Mr. Hughes recounted (on September 23) the history of the gold royalty in New Guinea, and said; “I shall consider very carefully and sympathetically the suggestion that prospectors, especially those who are on poor ground, and those who are recovering such a small quantity of gold as to make the royalty a formidable item in their economy, should be exempted from its operation”.

Mr. Green also brought up the case of Messrs. Forrester and Tebb, two prospectors who last April pushed in from Madang to a point on Mogo Creek, four miles south of the Ramu River, near the uncontrolled area. They found a promising area, and set to work to develop it —but wild natives from the Bismarcks (uncontrolled area) came in and stole their gear. They appealed to the DO. at Madang for help; but all they got was advice “to vacate your present mining location without delay”. A patrol was not available to go out and protect their property: and they were told that, if they delayed, action would be taken to include their area within the uncontrolled area, which would mean that they could not go out there and recommence prospecting. In view of this.

Forrester and Tebb abandoned their area, and the £2OO they had sunk in the enterprise. It was understandable that men should feel resentment against such treatment.

The Minister said he would inquire into the matter. He added—with his usual septuagenarian determination to make a joke out of anything, no matter how serious —“We must have some regard for the hobbies of these lighthearted people (the uncontrolled natives) and their need for recreation”.

EDITORIAL NOTE; The foregoing is typical of the spirit in which Australia governs New Guinea. Men who. with superb tenacity and courage, are prospecting this primitive region, receive no encouragement and very little help from certain sections of politicians and officials: but the whole administration gets the jitters if a European dares even to plant a sound kick in the stern of a thieving native. Forrester and Tebb did what they thought was right—and lost everything. The next time that prospectors find themselves in similar circumstances, there may be an “unfortunate accident”. Whose will be the fault?

Mr. Peter Johnson has completed his two years’ term with the Bank of New South Wales, Wau, New Guinea.

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Father Francois Caillon, who has been engaged in missionary work in the New Hebrides for the past 35 years, arrived in Sydney by the October “Pierre Loti” on a health and holiday trip.

Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Strachan arrived in Sydney by the “Mangola” recently from Butaritari, Gilbert Islands, where he is resident engineer for Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd.

Miss Molly Molloy, sister of Mr. W. Brian Molloy, who has been practising law in Port Moresby for three years, returned to Sydney by the “Maetsuycker” from Papua on September 23. "Though a visitor herself to Papua for only 10 weeks, Miss Molloy was much amused at the gullibility of tourists from cruise liners —they bought poinciana seed pods from the wily natives for anything up to 2/- each, under the impression that they were “rare Papuan boomerangs!”

Tongan Reforms

An Election Next Month Letter to the Editor PERMIT me to thank you for the publicity you have given to “Leftist” views in regard to Tonga. Something has been achieved at last. At the recent Parliament certain improvements were registered. Briefly, they are:— (1) An extension of Public Works (which will give some further employment) . (2) The abolition of arrears in the Poll Tax up to 1937 inclusive (a big thing this), and a reduction in the tax of 1/- per quarter. (3) Reduction in motor lorry licenses on the smaller vehicles. (4) Rate per day for prisoners paying off their arrears of Poll Tax in future to be 2/6 per day instead of 3d. per day—this latter iniquitous rate having been the law for 63 years. (5) An increase of duty on other than British goods, to give some assistance to British imports against Jap. (mainly). This is right in principle, but should have been done years ago, or, rather, the Japanese should never have been allowed in.

With regard to No. 2, a proposition was brought forward in Parliament to abolish the Poll Tax altogether and, had it not been for the stupidity of one of the people’s representatives, it would have been carried. But at the decisive moment he let his people down. The proposition was voted upon, and it was found to be 10 in favour of the abolition of the tax and 9 to retain it, one member not having voted. Somebody asked him, “What about it?”, and he voted with the Government’s 9, thus making it 10 all; and the casting vote with the Speaker who, as is usual, voted to maintain the status quo.

The gentleman who let his constituents down is one of the three run by the Wesleyan Mission at the last election, 3 years ago, when the people were told in the sermons from the Wesleyan pulpits to vote for three named Wesleyans.

There is a strong fear here that this Wesleyan Mission and certain high personages—all Wesleyans—are simply working together to get as much out of the common people as they possibly can. The people are beginning to see the position, and at the next election of people’s representatives, in November, it is hoped that they will clear these three out and get three more in place of them who will faithfully discharge their trust.

I am, etc., OBSERVER.

Nukualofa, Tonga. 22/9/’3B.

War On Coconut Pest

THE “Mariposa” brought to Sydney on October 3 several million leaf parasites from Fiji, which are to fight a coconut pest in New Guinea. The parasites were taken in a specially cooled box in the Carpenter airliner, which left for Rabaul on October 4.

“The parasites were packed in a box with a store of honey on which they feed,” said Mr. R. O. Mant, flight superintendent of W.R.C. Airlines. “We received instructions to pack ice around the box, the interior of which must be kept at about 40 degrees Fahr.”

When the parasites arrived at Rabaul on October 7 they were received by officers of the Department of Agriculture, and will be set loose to wage war on other insects which have ravaged the coconut plantations since they were covered with pumice during last year’s volcanic eruption.

The sloop “Rigault de Genouilly” of the French Pacific squadron arrived in Sydney from Tahiti early in October, for overhaul.

When a party of Samoans was working at Vaea Hill gravel pit, at the Roman Catholic Mission, near Apia, on September 19, a sudden fall of earth buried several natives under two tons of gravel.

A 20-years-old Samoan, Masima, of Taufusi, was killed; the others were rescued almost unharmed. 16 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober lt>, 19 3 8

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Papuan Architect and Author AT Belligen Hospital, N.S.W., on September 7. Mr. Gilbert Munro Turnbull, a well-known and respected retired Papuan public servant, and author, died suddenly from pneumonia in his 49th year. His passing was unexpected—in recent months, away from his Armidale home to avoid the winter climate, he had been steadily and quietly pushing ahead with a new novel, and enjoying frequent, fishing excursions. His illness lasted only a few days.

Mr. Turnbull arrived in Papua in 1913, and for a time was engaged in planting and trading in the Eastern Division, until he joined the Public Service in 1914.

He served in the Territory for 20 years, retiring on supperannuation in September, 1934.

For a short period, Mr. Turnbull was attached to the Lands Department, under the late Mr. Gustave Sabine, and later was appointed architect to the Public Works Department. He designed 'many prominent buildings in the territory, including the Treasury, the European Hospital, the Government Stores, the Roman Catholic Presbytery in Port Moresby, and the War Memorial Hall in Samarai. Many buildings stand to his credit on Government out-stations and plantations.

Apart from his profession as an architect, followed previously in U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico, Mr. Turnbull was a successful author of Islands fiction. Several of his works, notably “Disenchantment”

“Paradise. Plumes”, and “Mountains of the Moon” (under the pen name of Stanley Paul) commanded attention, on account of their vivid descriptions of life in and around the Pacific, especially in Papua.

Mr. Turnbull was one of the prime movers in organising the Public Service Association, which celebrated its 21st anniversary in March this year.

Mr. Turnbull is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jean Turnbull, and young daughter.

N.G.G. Ltd. Buy Out Bulolo Gold Deposits NEW Guinea Goldfields, Limited have bought the whole of the leases, water rights, and plant of Bulolo Gold Deposits, Ltd., in the Morobe District, T.N.G., for £21,500 cash.

In a circular to shareholders, the directors of Bulolo Gold Deposits explained that the accounts for the year ended June 30 show a loss of £1,250. Further capital expenditure was necessary to complete race extensions and pipe line to allow for working the Morobe Alluvials property on a larger and more profitable scale, and, in addition, considerable money would have to be spent in repairing the existing race. The company’s financial position did not permit of this expenditure.

Bulolo Gold Deposits, Ltd.’s capital is £41,784 in shares of 2/- each.

Mr. N. Proud, accountant for Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum N.L., is now in Melbourne on three months’ leave.

Mr. W. C. Harley, newly appointed Chief Judge of Western Samoa, and Mrs. Harley, arrived in Apia by the “Maui Pomare” from Wellington, N.Z., in September.

Mr. F. I’A. Ryan, of the Fiji Government Tourist Bureau, arrived in New Zealand for a holiday by the “Port Jackson” during September.

Mr. C. M. Tremewan, of the Apia Observatory staff, Western Samoa, was married on September 15 at Apia Church of England to Miss E. D. Barratt, of New Zealand.

Mr. C. N. Perry, store manager of the B.N.G. Trading Co., Port Moresby, Papua, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Sydney by the “Montoro” in September, for a holiday. 17 Pacific Islands Monthl y— O ctobel* 15, 1938

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Mr. Kenneth Shorter arrived in Sydney from Misima Island, Papua, by the September “Macdhui”. He is employed by Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine Co., and will spend three months’ furlough in Sydney.

Dwight Long’S Adventures

Under Arrest in Spain—Meets Tahitian in Madeira ■ N his little 32-feet sailing-boat, “Idle Hour”, ■ the young American, Dwight Long, has arrived in the United States from Europe, and thus has circumnavigated the globe. It is one of the most remarkable small-boat voyages in history.

Dwight Long made many friends in the Pacific in 1936-7, while sailing from America to Sydney. They will read with interest this letter, written on July 27, in the middle of the Atlantic, by Dwight Long to the editor of the ‘‘P.I.M.”:— I AM writing this at Lat. 28, Long. 33, and we are 35 days out of Falmouth.

I have just been looking over an old “P.1.M.” (May 26, 1937, p. 27) and I have read that Mr. Oscar G. Nordman, of Tahiti, made a model of the non-magnetic survey ship “Galilee”. He stated: “a new non-magnetic vessel, the ‘Beach’, has just been completed in England, to carry on the work of the ship that was lost, the ‘Carnegie’

Mr. Nordman is in error. While in London, I met Lord Shatfield, first Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and was introduced to Admiral Edgell, the Chief Hydrographer.

The latter extended to me an invitation to visit the “Research” now under construction at Phillip’s Shipyard, in Dartmouth, the new non-magnetic ship to carry on the Carnegie research work.

Commander Fryer, who will be her skipper, is now supervising her construction details, especially the rigging.

Ilere is a point of interest. Commander Fryer was sent by the Admiralty to make a cruise to Australia and return on one of the grain ships. After this experience he constructed a model of the “Research”. and the rigging of the new schooner is being carried out from the detailed model —a rather unique way of rigging a vessel!

I was surprised to see so much bronze — piles and piles of it—l didn’t realise there was so much in existence. All the frames were finished. She is being planked with 4 inch teak, from Burma.

Each link of her anchor chain cost £1 sterling, and the only metals with any magnetism will be a limited number of carpenter’s tools, which must hold a hard cutting edge.

Beside The “Cutty Sark”

IHAD another surprise. “Idle Hour” met the “Amaryllis”, the 65-foot cutter Lieut. Mullhauser sailed around the world in. She visited Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji and Sydney en route. Now, she is attached to the Dartmouth Naval College and, every afternoon, she sails out into the Channel with a dozen cadets, teaching practical seamanship to Britain’s future Admirals.

“Idle Hour” then sailed westward to Falmouth, ai.d moored alongside the famous old tea-clipper “Cutty Sark”. (See photo, on page 20.) “Cutty Sark” left for the Thames to join the “Worcestershire” as a training ship, before “Idle Hour” sailed for America.

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THEN came the black night of July 2.

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We were ordered into port. “Idle Hour” was searched from stem to stern. We were taken ashore as “prisoners of war”.

A detachment of armed soldiers awaited us on the jetty. Paraded, between Franco’s storm-troopers, with cocked rifles, we were taken to an army truck and ordered aboard.

As we drove away, I wondered when I would see “Idle Hour” again? Finally,, we arrived at the village of Barcadero.

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Direct From Tahiti!

FIVE days later we reached Madeira and there I received a surprise of my life. A French yacht was just being lowered from the deck of a steamer from Tahiti, with a Tahitian aboard!

This boat has an interesting history.

Probably, you will remember that about 4 years ago, a Spanish-American, Henry Blanco, sailed the yacht “Evelu” from Spain with his 5-years-old daughter, to Tahiti. There, he sold the little ketch to the French administration, to be used cruising back and forth between the Marquesas and Tahiti.

She was renamed the “Frigate”. On her first return passage, she struck the reef off Tetiaroa, 26 miles north of Tahiti, and was wrecked. Later, she was salvaged, and Mr. D. de Trevicur, a French globetrotter, purchased the wreck and had her rebuilt in Papeete. He rechristened her the “Alexandri”—after Egypt’s famous seaport.

After sailing for several months through the Tuamotus and the Society Isles, he had his craft shipped to Madeira as he had to be in Prance in August, and it would be impossible to sail her all this distance against the trades, or sail westward round the world in such a short time. Then the “Alexandri”, ex-“ Frigate”, ex-“Evelu”, will sail for Alexandria. Egypt (her new name-place) where the owner plans to cruise up the Nile.

The stout little ketch has many years before her—good luck “Alexandri!” It made me homesick for the Pacific, seeing a Tahitian clad in a pareu again.

“Idle Hour” is heading westward. Daily, we are logging 100 miles to the westward, and nearer the Pacific! But we will have to detour to New York, as I have to see my American publishers.

My book, “Sailing the Seas”, is coming out in London in September, published by Hodder and Stoughton. Alan Villiers has written the preface. I am dedicating my book to Timi, who gave his all for my cruise (the Tahitian boy from Bora Bora, who was my companion for almost two years, and who died of fever in Colombo).

I trust you will find the book interesting—over half of it has its setting in the Pacific.

Mr. S. C. Clarke, accountant of Koranga Gold Sluicing Co., Ltd., Wau, New Guinea, left the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on October 7. On doctor’s orders, he flew to Sydney by aeroplane and was admitted to hospital on September 6 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Fox, and their small daughter, Noeline, returned to Wau, New Guinea, in September after three months’ leave in Melbourne, Victoria. He has resumed duties at the District Office.

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CAN anyone supply information about “German Harry”—otherwise, a Danish sailor named Captain S. Christensen, who was well known in the Central and South Pacific some 20 or 30 years ago. The enquiry comes from a New Guinea resident, who has been asked for information by a resident of Copenhagen.

It is believed that Captain Christensen died in Sydney in 1913; but Somerset Maugham claims to have met him in 'the Pacific some time after the Great War.

If anyone can supply a photograph of “German Harry” it would be gratefully received. Anyone who has information to give would be conferring a favour by writirig to the editor of the “Pacific Islands Monthly”, or direct to Mr. Peter Jensen, C/0., Post Office, Bulolo, New Guinea.

The “Idle Hour” in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. 21 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Prom Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, Sept. 22.

WHEN the schooner “Tiare Taporo” returned from her voyage to the Northern Cooks, Tahiti and Christmas Island, she brought an interesting passenger in Captain Ronald Powell.

Although only in his 30th year Powell has led a life full of adventure afloat and ashore in many lands. Before coming here, he was for some time in the West Indies and Panama Zone, as captain of an American millionaire’s luxury yacht, the “ Santa Maria”. He intends now to go to Mangaia Island where, he says, he might settle down to a life of peace.

Many of his sailing adventures are set down in his most interesting book “I Sailed in the Morning”. In it the author tells that when he left school he made up his mind to escape at the first opportunity from the monotony of existence in a small town, and sail out into the world in, search of excitement and foreign scenes. By the time he had reached 24 he had saved from a modest income something over £lOO. At the point of deciding to buy his own boat, he heard that Mr. Eric Muspratt, an Australian author, planned to cruise in the Mediterranean in a small, but seaworthy 56 tons schooner, which was laid up in Haifa.

Captain Powell joined the crew as a volunteer, the other hands being Mr. and Mrs. Muspratt, with a Mr. Denne as amateur skipper. Their varied and amusing experiences have been most entertainingly described by the author. On reaching Malta, he parted brass-rags with his shipmates, and lived for some time on the island. His next job was with an American owner of a small sailing ship bonne for New York, across the open Atlantic.

Since writing his book, Powell has been in many tight spots and queer comers of the world. He was in Barcelona at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and was nearly shot, when mistaken for a German spy.

Mr, W. J. Errinsrton has joined the accounts staff of Island Explorations Co. Ltd., at Daru. Western Papua.

Mr. A. Ward, Commonwealth Government geologist, arrived in Sydney from Papua by the “Macdhui” on September 18. He made an extensive; inspection of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co.’s area in the Gulf Division.

Papua'S Gold

Activity on Various Fields From Our Own Correspondent, PORT MORESBY, Sept. 25.

DURING the 50 years since payable gold was first discovered at Misima Island, Eastern Papua, approximately £2,000,000 worth of gold has been produced in the Territory. For 1937-38 the total output was 41.308 oz. valued at £108.141 an increase of 7,728 oz and £21,138 over 1936-37. The following interesting summarv shows what was done during the year on the various fields: —

Woodlark Island

Seven Europeans and 90 natives were employed during 1937-38, and the total production amounted to 1,468 oz. worth • £7,552. Individual natives won 87 oz. valued at £520. Experts predict a good future for Woodlark Island mining, and operations are being extended on practically all existing claims.

Misima Island

At present this field is the main scene of activity 77 Europeans and 1,100 natives being employed by the major companies. Output of Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine, Ltd., was 30,697 oz. valued at £72,031. With their plant operating only for broken periods over six months, Gold Mines of Papua, Ltd., produced 4,689 oz. worth £3.538. Better results are expected during the 1938-39 period, when its new plant is running to full capacity.

Misima natives won only a little more gold than was necessary to pay their tax money.

MILNE BAY At Milne Bay, at the extreme eastern Captain Ronald Powell swaps yarns with Captain Cambridge, on board the Cook Islands schooner, “Tiare Taporo” in Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga. 23 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 19 3 8

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Other Fields

Three claims were worked at Gira (Northern Division) during 1937-38, but the results were not startling.

At Astrolabe, near Port Moresby, Mandated Alluvials N.L. from April 12 to June 30 treated " 1,130 tons of oxide? ore and 546 tons of sulphide ore for a recovery of 570 oz. of gold. 1,434 oz. of silver, and 16.9 tons of copper. The plant since June has been running intermittently, but with periodical adjustments has shown improved return' Mr. English at his mine in the Rigo district. Central Division, produced 100 tons of manganese in the period.

THE captain and the engineer of a trading schooner in the Central Pacific got to arguing one day about which one had the easiest job. Finally, to settle the wrangling, they agreed to change places.

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The engineer, at the wheel, yelled back: ‘‘You don’t have to —! She’s up on the beach, now!”

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Browne (best man), the bride, the bridegroom, Miss Jessie Sword 24 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Niue Labourers For

SAMOA How N.Z. Government is Replacing Chinese Prom Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Sept. 13.

THE plantation manager of the New Zealand Reparation Estates, Mr. R.

F Ott, left recently for Niue Island, to recruit 20 Niue islanders as plantation labourers for the New Zealand Government’s Reparation Estates.

Niue boys have proved superior as plantation workers in Samoa to the native Samoans —especially for work of a permanent nature —and it is believed that in future a larger mimber of Niue islanders will be contracted for work on Samoan Government and private plantations.

This is a very interesting development.

The New Zealand Ministers, when they came here in July, 1936, and insisted on the reparation of the indentured Chinese labourers, argued that all the plantation labour needed could be supplied locally.

They would not listen to the experienced planters, who declared that tne wellendowed Samoans had never accepted regular work as labourers, and probably never would.

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INDIA BECAUSE Rev. T. T. Webb, of North Australia, is unable to make the trip, Rev. A. H. Blacket, 8.A., 8.D., of the Methodist Mission at Nausori, Fiji, has been selected by the National Missionary Council of Australia to be a representative at the Madras Missionary Conference in India in December.

Another missionary, well-known in the Pacific, Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A., chairman of the N.M.C.A. and secretary of the Methodist Board of Oversea Missions will be unable to attend the Conference. It is hoped that Canon J. $. Needham, chairman of the New Guinea Mission will fill his place. The representative of the “Younger Churches in the Pacific” will be a Fijian, Wilson Inia.

Rev. H. J. E. Short, delegate of the London Missionary Society, will leave Papua by the “Tasman” on October 27 for India, via Java. After the Conference, he and his wife will go on to England to do deputation work for the L.M.S., later returning to Papua via North America.

U.S. Destroyer On A Secret

MISSION rE U.S. destroyer “Maury” is expected in Auckland this month. She left Honolulu on September 14 on a “secret mission” to the South Pacific. It was reported that her mission is “one of a number of moves to be made by the United States for the consolidation of aerial and naval defence lines in the Pacific with those of Britain and France”.

Mrs. Smallwood, a former teacher at several of the Government schools on islands in Torres Strait, died recently at Thursday Island, where she had lived in retirement for a number of years. 25 Pacific Islands Mont hi y —o ctober 15, 1938

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After an interval of 17 years he made his second visit to Pitcairn on the “Arawa”, which called at the isolated little island in May, in response to a radio for medical assistance to cope with an outbreak of typhoid fever. The “Arawa’s” doctor went to the settlement to investigate, and hastily returned to the ship to confiscate baskets and fruit bought by Mr. Cunningham from the Islanders. The goods were returned after they had been'disinfected; This is the origin of the story of typhoid on Pitcairn, referred to elsewhere.

Earthquake in Samoa APIA, Sept. 13.

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Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of directors of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., has been nominated president of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for 1939.

IVDss Mary Mills, of the New Guinea Mission, arrived in Sydney from Papua by the September “Montoro”.

Was There Cruelty In German

COLONIES?

A Handbook of 1919, and Something About One-Eyed Propaganda NOW that the European international crisis is over, the next subject of argument with Germany probably will be the question of returning the former German colonies.

This matter has been discussed in the “P.1.M.”; and we have expressed the opinion that completely good friendship between. Britain and Germany is not possible while the great Germanic nation is without colonies. We also have praised the ability in colonial administration displayed by Germany prior to 1914. In reply, we have received, from a valued correspondent, the following:— IAM disturbed when I read that you are rather inclined to favour the return of some of Germany’s colonies. I have a book here before me, “Treatment of Natives in the German Colonies”, prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office. The information it contains was compiled by trained writers, and it (with others) was prepared for the Peace Conference (1919) to provide British delegates with information in the most convenient form respecting the different countries they had to consider. G. W. Prothero is the General Editor and formerly Director of the Historical Section. This handbook deals with the official element, Administration of Justice, Flogging. Forced Labour, and Brutalities in South West Africa, and the different Risings and Rebellions. It is very damning indeed.

It appears that the actual administration of justice was in a state of chaos.

Each official was a law unto himself.

Power was given to and exercised by minor officials, almost without appeal to the higher authorities, who failed to exercise any effective supervision over the proceedings of their subordinates. And in every official scandal that was revealed, secret influences screened the offenders to prevent publicity.

Father Schmitz, a missionary, and his associates in Togoland, who exposed some of the atrocities and immoralities of an officer named Schmidt, were directly threatened by Dernberg in the Reichstag.

The Secretary of State said that he had written to the Chapter of Cologne Cathedral complaining of the charges brought by their missionaries against officials, and intimating that if what he termed “the unfounded charges” did not cease, he would feel compelled to resort to administrative measures against the missions. “This campaign against officials must cease, else it would be impossible to get anyone to enter the Colonial Service”. (Dernberg, Reichstag, December 3rd, 1906.) In the administration of the German colonies the system of flogging was the chief instrument of .oppression. The facts in connection with this system were so notorious and so generally known in other colonies that German African colonies were freely spoken of as the “Colonies of the Twenty-five” (i.e., where 25 lashes were the usual punishment), and the “Flogging Colonies”.

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Teachings at the Institute will seek to combine the lessons drawn from pre-war colonial experience with the newer ideas of the National-Socialist Reich. Particular attention will be paid to the application of the Nazi racial theory in the colonies, which implies a rigid separation of natives and Europeans.

In a book on the German Colonial Empire, edited by Hans Meyer in 1910, reference is made to South-west Africa’s policy, and it is stated that colonists could not consider the inhabitants; they were allowed to live as long as they did not interfere with the development of progress, but should they do so, then they were shot down like wild animals.

“Wo sie diese Forderung aber nicht erfullten, hat man sie wie Raubwild abgeschossen”.

I feel that if we give way to the Germans, as we are doing, they will not only want their former colonies returned to them, but will demand ours as well.

Any people who could ill-treat natives as the Germans did in South-west Africa, when they exterminated over 75,000 in the Majimaji Rebellion by their ferocity, are not fit to handle primitive and subject people. In the Herero Rebellion in 1904, General von Trotha, “issued his proclamation of October 2, 1904, stating that Hereros, with or without arms, would be shot, and that the whole nation must leave the country. No attempt was made to negotiate with the rebels. No quarter was given. Women and children were shot or hanged”. Only about 20,000 out of 80,000 escaped from the slaughter.

Among the cruelties, one reads that a practice was to hang natives by means of barbed-wire round their necks. Bodies, too, were found fastened together in graves, with every indication of being buried alive.

This handbook, of course, is biased, and the Foreign Office was making out a case.

But can it all be exaggeration?

Editorial Note

AS the future happiness and progress of humankind, under the new conditions of communication and transport, depend upon the maintenance of good relations between nations, it follows that the misuse of propaganda and publicity media may be the greatest danger of our era.

Our greatest curse to-day is an ignorant, cockeyed, sensation-loving press. Europe, on September 27, 1938, was on the very brink of a frightful war; and 90 per cent, of the blame for that goes to the newspapers. Facts are twisted or halfpresented, without scruple, so as to play upon racial hatreds and selfish prejudices.

Publicists, to an increasing degree, base their appeals upon a deliberately inadequate survey of the facts.

The handbook quoted by our correspondent is suspect, because it belongs to the “Hang the Kaiser” period of European politics—when every kind of half-truth was dished up, with imaginative trimmings, to justify the punishment of defeated Germany. Out of that period came the Versailles Treaty—and from the Versailles Treaty the sequence of events that brought the world so close to a holocaust that, on September 27, we almost could smell the slaughter and decay and see the crumbling of European civilisation.

There surely is another and a better side to the story of German colonisation. 27 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Mr. and Mrs. D. Munro, accompanied by their two small children Malcolm and Donald, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea recently by the “Macdhui” en route to Perth, Western Australia, where they will spend three months’ furlough before returning to Rabaul. Mr. Munro is a warrant officer in the New Guinea Police Force.

Samoan Banana Inquiry

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

T upt3 t APIA. Sept. 15. he Banana Inquiry, which was reopened some time ago at the request of the Mau leaders, was completed, after evidence was taken on the alleged complaints submitted by the Mau during a period stretching over about three months A report will be forwarded to the New Zealand Government by the chairman (Mr. R. V. Kay).

It is claimed that the alleged complaints were disproved, and found unwarranted when investigated on the basis of the official records Some “complainants even stated that they had never submitted complaints to the Mau while others either withdrew the complaints or did not appear at the inquiry to substantiate same.

A Famous Light

Prom Our Own Correspondent. , PAPEETE, Sept. 20. r|\HE mariner sailing close in to Tahiti, J. along its northern shore after night- * sees ou^ine d against the splendour of the stars, the towering twin peaks of and, at its base, a brilliant point of light. By this light he can correct his chronometers and verify his latitude; for it stands on the charts as exactly 149 deg. 29 min. west of Greenwich and 17 deg. 29 min. south of the Line For many years this lighthouse (Mahina) on Point Venus was the only marine beacon in all Polynesia. In the days of sailing ships, captains navigating the South Pacific were accustomed to lay their course so as to sight this light in order to test the accuracy of their calculations and the trustworthiness of their instruments. Even now, from time to time, some strange ship will appear over the horizon, and pass on, apparently on the same errand.

Mahina light stands on the most northerly point of land of Tahiti; adjacent to the memorial which marks the spot where Captain Cook set up his astronomical instruments in 1769; and overlooks Matavai Bay.

An inscription (in French), on a tablet above the door, reads as follows: “Constructed during the reign of Pomare IV.

“Count de la Ronciere, Commandant, Imperial Commissioner, “Captain of Engineers, Treze, Builder.”

On the lintel of the doorway is the date, 1867.

Mr. L, M. Cook, of the Treasury Department, Western Samoa, arrived in Apia from New Zealand by the September “Maui Pomare”.

Mahina Light and, in the foreground, Cook’s Monument, Point Venus, Tahiti. 28 Pacific Islands Mon t h 1 y~O cto b e r 15, 193 8

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Japan'S Mandated

ISLANDS Denial of Fortifications and Hostile Bases

By John Williams

SINCE the expiry of the treaty of London in December. 1936, by which Britain. Japan and America agreed not to upset the Pacific status quo by developing new navy bases, there have been statements made in London and Washington that Japan is developing bases in her mandated islands.

Such bases would “fence off” the Philippines from the U.S. sphere of influence in the Pacific and base for base match those being developed by America at Midway, Wake and other islands in mid and west Pacific. From the Australasian point of view. Japan’s new bases would cut the trade routes to the Orient and create for Japan a fine advance strategy in her penetration southward, which is the bogey of Anzacs.

The Japanese attitude to these statements and fears is one of impatient derision. However, no official statement was made until lust recently when an Overseas Ministry spokesman made a flat denial that Japan is fortifying the mandated islands or has any intention of doing so.

He added: “Any foreigner can go into the islands and see for himself!”

It is a coincidence, but at this time a wealthy U.S. citizen was anxious to visit the mandated islands in his luxury yacht during a world cruise. Through the U.S.

State Department he made application, but the Japanese Government refused permission. (And that is the fate, so far as we know, of every application made for permission to enter the Marshall and Caroline Islands.

That mandated territory is absolutely closed against European inspection, and has been for many years. Only a few Europeans have been allowed to go to designated places. There may be no fortifications there: but there are aeroplane bases, submarine shelters, and large stores of oil fuel—Ed. “P.T.M.”).

The Japanese official agreed that Japan is anxious to thrust an airline from Japan down through her mandated islands. Indeed, the Communications Ministry intends to request an appropriation of 2.000.000 dollars from the next Diet, he said, for the purpose of developing mandated air routes.

Loss Of Giant Airboat

Little known to the outside world. Japan has been working on the mandated aerial developments for some time.

More than two years ago, the American Douglas Aircraft Company built a 32-passenger airboat with a range of almost 3,000 miles. Other specifications: Gross weight, 28.500 pounds: two 1,000 h.p.

Wright Cyclone engines; highest speed at 6.500 feet, 185 m.p.h. In a few words, more or less on the same “lines” as the Empire airboats.

This airboat, after thorough testing, was sold and shipped to Japan with scarcely any mention in the U.S. press. Douglas experts followed and instructed the Japanese, who frankly intended to copy its best features.

Exactly two weeks after the “Hawaii Clipper” disappeared on the Pan-American Airways route near Manila, a crew of seven Japanese set off from Tokyo in a “Japanese” Douglas airboat, with the intention of surveying a trunk airline through the mandated islands. They had passed the Bonin Islands, all well, but when at a point given as 143 degrees 10 minutes east longitude and 25 degrees 17 minutes west latitude, the airboat developed engine trouble—and no more was heard from it.

The Japanese Government promptly dispatched numerous surface craft in search, but no trace of it has been found. Thus ended, tragically, Japan’s first attempt to fly southward.

My Tokyo informant says that this wifi not deter Japan’s determination to push the airline scheme. The Overseas Ministry spokesman was frank about the islands’ varied uses to Japan. Minerals have been discovered, and exports of these to Japar supplement the sugar and fish industries.

The spokeman added; “Fishing and pearl-diving are very important in the islands. The Japanese ships in large numbers go as far south as Australia on these missions. They will continue to do so. After all, the seas are free —or they are supposed to be.”

Mr. A. McMillan, of the Samoan Police Department, returned to Apia from N.Z. in mid-September.

Dr. Hridaya Kunzaru, President of the Servants of India Society, who has been in Australia attending the British Commonwealth Affairs Conference, will visit Fiji at the end of October.

Mrs. Isabella Landels, widow of the late Rev. J. D. Landels, pioneer Presbyterian missionary at Malo, New Hebrides, died recently in Victoria, at the age of 77. 29 Pacific Islands Monthl y — O ctober 15, 1938

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Small Generators for Isolated Homes A BOON for the Islands man to-day is the small petrol electric generator set, known as the home-power unit.

These outfits are generally available in two sizes, one having an output of 6 volts, 100 watts, being driven by a V 2 h.p. petrol engine, and the other 12 volts 300 watts, being driven by 1 h.p. petrol engine. Good makes have extraordinarily high efficiency and long life and can be adapted to a number of uses.

Radio was responsible for these machines.

In the early stages of radio, all valves in receivers were of the heavy consumption type, which necessitated the use of accumulators. The disability attendant on the charging of accumulators brought about low consumption valves, which made possible the use of dry cells, carbon cells, etc., in place of the accumulator. Having eliminated the accumulator radio engineers then attacked the “B'’ battery!

The vibrator was introduced; but, whilst eliminating the “B” battery, by reason of the additional consumption it brought back the accumulator. The bugbear of accumulator charging, therefore, again demanded attention, and was taken care of by the home-power unit.

Since the smallest commercial petrol engine manufactured is y 2 h.p., the whole of this power was made available in electrical energy, so that the engine not only took care of radio battery charging, but also of car and launch battery charging, and even operated a limited number of electric lamps. • The necessity for the device on the one hand, plus the luxury of some electric lights, created an extraordinary demand and brought about the production of a 12-volt machine, also.

It is claimed that these little machines will take full care of any home up to about 10 rooms.

A home-power unit, in two types, now being marketed throughout Australia and the South Seas by Messrs. Amplion (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., of Sydney, is that of Briggs and Stratton, the world s largest manufacturers of small gasoline engines. The same company also markets a full range of motors, varying from % to 5 h.p., and a complete service is offered on both home-power units and petrol motors.—** Miss B. Kroening returned to Kieta, Bougainville, T.N.G., by the last “Malaita”.

Papua’S Trade

Over the Million Mark Last Year Prom Our Own Correspondent.

T_ . , , PORT MORESBY, Sept. 16.

HE total trade of Papua in the year ended June 30, IS3B, was £1,067,090.

The Territory’s trade only once before exceeded the million mark—in the year ended June 30, 1926.

Principal exports compared with the previous year as follows:

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Mr. T. V. Lowney, of the Papuan Public Service, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Native Affairs, Port Moresby. Mr. Lowney, for a long time, was a well-known figure on the official staff at Government House, where for 11 years he acted as a personal clerk to Sir Hubert 4 Murray and the official secretary, Mr. Leonard Murray. The transfer means promotion for Mr. Lowney —but he left the happy atmosphere of Government House very reluctantly.

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Whale Blubber As

A FOOD Is it Not Time to Protect the Public?

Letter to the Editor.

COPRA producers are being forced out of business, owing to the low price of copra and the high cost of getting it to market.

Australian butter producers are also suffering, owing to the keen competition of margarine in Europe—apparently both copra producer and dairy farmer are menaced by the whale, from which presentday margarine is made.

Personally, I never believed that “Jonah swallowed the whale” but I am inclined to believe some of Jonah’s descendants are very busy trying to swallow us coconut growers and dairy farmers. The question is, can these Jonahs keep the public of Great Britain and Europe from swallowing margarine made from whale oil?

Pure margarine is made from milk, butter, premier Jus fats, coconut oil and other vegetable oils, all of which are produced in the sun; and, throughout the world, scientists are teaching us to use more and more sun-products.

Whale oil margarine contains very little of these essential sun grown products, for the whale feeds and lives out of the sun.

The cutting up of a whale, besides being very revolting, causes one to think, and wonder why the billions of worms and parasites exist, if the whale is a healthy mammal. I understand that even skilled scientists have difficulty in classifying these worms.

Cattle play a large part in the supply of pure fats for good margarine, and governments throughout the world keep special veterinary staffs checking and testing every animal; and those with diseases, such as tuberculosis, are immediately destroyed, and not allowed to be used in the manufacture of any food product.

The producer of butter is carefully checked up, in dairy and factory, by government-appointed chemists. The vegetable oil products are carefully examined at the port of shipment; and, in England, the Board of Trade have a large staff of chemists checking up at the crushing mills.

I have shown that all the ingredients of first-class vegetable margarine are carefully examined by scientists before consumption. But does this happen in the case of whales? Are they examined for disease by government officials and chemists? Are the stinking conditions of a whaling factory “mother-ship” all that can be desired in producing a food product? Do tribes living within the Arctic Circle, who live on whale and seal blubber, suffer more from goitre, cancer, etc., than other races?

In conclusion: whale oil (before known as train oil) must eventually disappear from the world’s markets, as the whales are exterminated. During this period of wholesale slaughter and low prices for vegetable oils and, butter, growers and producers of butter will lose heart and gradually go out of business. What happens then? It may become true, that Jonah has really swallowed the whale and exterminated him.

It seems to be the duty of the governments of the world firstly to stop the wholesale slaughter and extermination of whales, and secondly make a thorough investigation, as to the value of whale oil as a food and its effect on consumers.

I am etc.

G. A. LOUDON.

Pt. Moresby, Papua, 3/9/1938.

EDITORIAL NOTE: Mr. Loudon makes a point that is well worth investigation.

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Tahiti Rebels Against Jazz

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Sept. 20.

HISTORY is dotted with examples of how events momentous to the human race germinated and came to flower in the most unlikely and remote places. For instance, was not grim, Arctic Iceland the hearth-place of liberty and a centre of literature; and did not art and poetry flourish in far away Bagdad, at a time when the barbarians of the European continent were gnawing bones and howling in uncouth measures around their camp fires in the wilderness?

Such a destiny seems to portend for Tahiti.

The young people of our island have rebelled against the cacophony of jazz and the monotony of modern dances.

Under the tutelage of dancing masters of other days, they are learning the waltz, the quadrille, the schottische, and the mazurka.

“Great oaks from little acorns grow.”

Can we hope that at some not distant day we may turn the dial of our radio with the certainty that we shall hear gracious and pleasing dance music, instead of the horrible, discordant sounds which compel us nightly to shut off our instrument and to wonder if beauty and good taste have fled forever from our planet.

Mr. A. J. Birtles, of Wellington, Ne# Zealand, has succeeded Rev. A. C. Cato, M.A., 8.D., Dip. Ed., as head of the Methodist Mission’s training college at Davuilevu, Fiji. After four years’ work at Davuilevu, Mr. Cato has gone to Kadavu.

Independence Of

PHILIPPINES Planned for 1946, Despite Japanese Interest From Qur Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 25.

U.S. troops occupied Manila, and became possessed of the Philippine Islands on August 13, 1898. Thirty nine anniversaries were allowed to slide by uncelebrated, but this year, with whatever implications you choose to imagine, President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, who recently visited Japan and hobnobbed with the inner officials, ordered all Filipinos to celebrate the 40th anniversary of American rule.

In a speech radio-networked throughout the islands and to the United States, President Quezon paid picturesque respect to the Stars and Stripes, but he ended his talk on a note which proved that his political following still is for complete independence of the islands. He said: “ . . .

When it (the U.S. flag) finally comes down in 1946 it will find somewhere in its folds the grateful hearts of our people.”

Latest step towards being prepared for the new era that 1946 will usher in, the Quezon government is pushing plans for a strong trans-oceanic and inter-island merchant marine under the Filipino flag.

The American Dollar Line’s inter-island steamer “Mayon” has been bought. This announcement followed the arrival in San Francisco of the Madrigal freighter “Don Jose”, first Filipino merchantman to enter an overseas port.

But it was an unhappy maiden voyage.

U.S. customs agents discovered 1,485 cans of narcotics, valued at 67.000 dollars hidden in coal bunkers!

The Government-owned Philippine National Bank has loaned the Madrigal Company funds with which four ships are being built—one passenger ship, in Germany, and three freighters, for the Pacific service. in Italv.

Another Filipino company, the Transoceanic Steamship Corporation, is preparing to enter trans-Pacific lanes with a fleet of merchantmen.

Malaria And Gum Tries

Letter to the Editor.

IWAS glad to see Miss Beatrice Phillips’ letter in your far-flung columns and venture to add my hearty endorsement to her capable arguments. When living in the South of Prance as a boy (1878), I saw how much the Blue Cor Flood) gum had been planted in fever-stricken districts; and I later heard that its success was pronounced.

Lately it has been shown that the Eucalyptus is beneficial in several directions besides those commonly recognised—one being that it attracts enemies of the Anopheles, and another that the scent is “foreign” and obnoxious to the fevermosquito.

I am. etc.

ARTHUR J. VOGAN.

“Goldicourt”, Waverton, Sydney. 17/9/’3B.

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Britain And America On Canton Island AN important new stage in Anglo- American co-operation in the Pacific was marked by an announcement, made in London and Washington in August, that Great Britain and the United States had concluded an agreement for their joint political and commercial control of Canton and Enderbury Islands in the Phoenix Group (north of Fiji).

For one hundred years, the eight islands of the Phoenix Group (excluding Baker and Howland Islands, which lie far to the north-west) were regarded as British territory; but as they had little commercial importance, and no inhabitants except a few coconut planters and phosphate diggers, no one took any interest in them.

When the famous Australian airman, Kingsford Smith, made his pioneer flight across the Pacific, he pointed out that the Phoenix Islands were on the direct line between Fiji and Hawaii, and therefore must have value in the coming age of aviation.

Developments since then are well-known.

The United States grabbed Howland and Baker Islands, as part of an aviation defence scheme, while Britain very energetically planted flags and established officials on the main Phoenix Islands, so that her title to these valuable dots of land might not be challenged America, however, did challenge; and, during the past year, we have had the quaint spectacle of important officials, representing respectively the United and Britain, camped amicably side by side on these barren sandbanks, under the equator, chasing crabs and reporting languidly by radio on meteorological conditions, while Washington and London engaged in long-winded arguments.

The new agreement will end the situation. Latest information is that American workmen and materials have been landed on Canton, and the place is being properly prepared and equipped for use as a landing station for aeroplanes and flying boats.

There are no details, yet, of the nature of the government which will be established on Canton and Enderbury Islands, but, as the principle of Anglo-American co-operative control has been accepted by both sides, there should be no difficulty in giving final shape to the arrangement—the obvious purpose of which is to allow the planes of both British and American trans-Pacific lines to land freely at this small but important aviation station.

U.S. Yacht At Samoa

THE U.S. yacht “Henrietta” arrived at Apia, Samoa, from Pago Pago and Swain’s Is. late in August. Captain Peter Sawyer, from Truro, Cape Cod, Boston, left his home port a year ago on a three years’ world cruise. He is accompanied by his wife (an Australian), and has a cosmopolitan crew of volunteers.

So far, the itinerary has been West Indies, South America, Magellan’s Strait, Easter Is., Tuamotus, and Tahiti; and the continuation of the cruise will take them via Fiji and New Caledonia to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Suez Canal.

An Illusive God

WHILE in the west of Papua, recently, a Government Patrol Officer found that the natives in one village worshipped a crocodile as their god, their belief being that years ago the reptile ate an aged chief and that his spirit still dwells inside it and works for their good.

This spirit, so they said, kept them informed of the movements of enemy tribes, and particularly if raids were contemplated. Only the night before it had warned them of the patrol’s approach.

This, they explained ingenuously, was all to the good, for they were thus able to clean up the village before the party's arrival.

The officer was informed that an old woman, a relation of the dead chief, was the only person whose call the crocodile would answer. It was she who supplied it with food and talked to the spirit of the chief.

When the officer asked for a demonstration of her powers, the natives readily consented. Eight o’clock that night was the appointed time, on the condition that no lights should be showing.

Four hours the officer waited in the darkness, the silence broken only by the buzzing of mosquitoes and the croaking of frogs in the surrounding swamps, while at intervals the woman sent her shrill voice over the water, to be echoed by the impenetrable walls of the mangrove-lined banks. But, alas, no god made his appearance.

Becoming apologetic, the natives at last informed the officer that their god must be displeased and that it must be due to his scepticism They declared that the crocodile never made his presence known to disbelievers: and they refused to be laughed out of their super stitous belief. —ML.

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Mrs. Broederlow, who had lived for many years in Fiji, died in Suva hospital recently, aged 70. One son, Mr. Peter Broederlow, lives in Samoa. 33 Pacific Islands Monthl y —O ctober 15, 1938

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How to Administer Papua and New Guinea Why Not One Capitol for Both?

AN interesting contribution to the argument about a new capital site in New Guinea was made in September by Mr. J. V. Fairbairn, M.P., who asked whether it was not practicable to govern Papua and the Mandated Territory with the one administration, from one administrative headquarters, and thus save at least £500,000 (the proposed cost of the new capital).

It is a question that has been asked by many people who cannot understand why the two territories, lying side by side, with exactly similar conditions to deal with, should be kept jealously in watertight compartments, so that there is no interchange of officials and not even regular consultation—or consultation of any kind—between the two administrations.

Mr. Hughes, however, chose to make a disdainful reply to Mr. Fairbairn; he said things which will be of interest to Territory residents—namely;— “It is unfortunate that Mr. Fairbairn should have raised this question, I feel that he cannot have given the matter serious consideration.

“We govern New Guinea under a mandate in the interests of a primitive people.

We have been appointed their guardians and protectors. We are not developing New Guinea in the interests of Australia, but in the interests of its natives.

“If centralisation is the objective, New Guinea might be administered from Canberra, just as economically as it could be from Port Moresby.

“An examination of the administrative practices in mandated territories in various parts of the world will show that in each case the administrative headquarters is in the mandated territory itself.”

All of which shows the Minister’s remarkable ignorance of the territories he controls.

In what way is Australia “governing in the interests of the natives”? What sort of education system, or health system, has been devised “in the interests of the natives”?

If Australia’s main object is development in the interests of the natives, why is £150,000 being spent on a road, and financial encouragement being given to the search for oil, and £500,000 provided for a new capital?

What actually are the obstacles to the administration of Papua and New Guinea from the same centre?

Mr. Hughes’ remark, that New Guinea might as easily be administered from Canberra as from Port Moresby, proves that he really does not know what he is talking about.

Incidentally, attempts have been made, for several years, to administer New Guinea from Canberra, with results that are notorious.

Anyway, is not the Mandate system of the League of Nations—in which Mr.

Hughes has the doubtful honour of claiming paternity—now quite discredited, and practically dead?

Monsieur Normet, Inspector-General of the Health Service in New Caledonia, has been elevated to the rank of Chief Officer of the Legion of Honour. 34 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Influenza In The Islands

Memories of Pneumonic Plague Letter to the Editor.

INFLUENZA has again come ashore from some ship at Papeete and is spreading through the islands. That it has assumed the magnitude of an epidemic, the closing of the schools bears witness.

By rare good fortune this outbreak is not of the type of disease designated ••Spanish Influenza”. If it were, it would have stalked ashore with none to hinder it; for maladies under the title of “influenza” are not included in the international lists of disease to be quarantined.

Like the Holy Roman Empire—which was “neither holy nor Roman nor an Empire”—Spanish Influenza is neither Spanish nor influenza. Anyone who had perused the medical reports of the outbreak in Manchuria in 1910, recognised this pestilence, masquerading under the name “Spanish Influenza”, as pneumonic plague.

Under the circumstances of war, the doctors and those in authority (if, indeed, the authorities were ever told the truth) were afraid to reveal the true name of the disease, and it was allowed to go forth, with no quarantine restrictions and under a false title, to slay its millions in every country in the world.

That should have been a warning.

But, after twenty years, we look through the international lists of quarantinable diseases to discover that the most tragic, the most destructive epidemic in history, has taught our all-wise international medical profession no lasting lesson.

I am, etc., REREHIRI-I-AMAURA.

Tahiti. 30/9/1938.

NEW STEAMER FOR C.S.R. CO.

THE Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s new vessel “Tambua”, 3,566 gross tonnage, arrived in Suva from the shipyards in Dundee on September 13, and in Sydney on September 26. She is a singlescrew, coal-burning steamer, designed for the sugar trade between Fiji, Australia and New Zealand. She can carry 2,288 tons of molasses in wing tanks, and she has ample space for general cargo. Her speed is about 11 knots. She can accommodate 12 passengers.

N.Z. SLOOP VISITS G. & E.

GROUP From Our Own Correspondent.

TARAWA, Sept. 2. rE N.Z. sloop “Wellington’* (Commander Lauriston Clark) recently made its annual visit to the Gilbert and Ellice Colony, bringing the new Acting Resident Commissioner, His Honour Mr.

H H Garvey, M.A., F.R.A.1., on a visit of inspection from headquarters at Ocean Island.

The Senior Administrative Officer, Major C. A. Swinbourne, 0.8. E., paid the usual formal call aboard, followed by a visit ashore by the Acting Resident Commissioner, accompanied by Commander Lauriston Clark and District Officer Blaikie. After taking the salute from the native police Guard of Honour and meeting European residents, the Commissioner addressed the native population through an interpreter.

During the warship’s stay, a sports and entertainment programme was carried through, including a native dance at Betio village and the annual cricket match, Navy versus Boys’ School, at Baeriki.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Garrett, of Varzin Plantation, Kokopo, New Guinea, who have been absent from the Territory for several years, returned to Rabaul by the September “Salamaua”.

Rev. H. Irving, who during the past 18 months has been curate of Suva, Fiji, returned to New Zealand by the last “Mariposa”, having resigned owing to ill-health.

Blonde and Brunette —a snapshot at Samarai, Papua. 35 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctooer 15, 1938

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Governor To Visit Unknown

PAPUA ARRANGEMENTS have been made under which a party comprising Sir Hubert Murray (Lieut. Governor of Papua), and Messrs. H. L. Murray (Official Secretary), H. W. Champion (Government Secretary) F. E. Williams (Government Anthropologist) and four members of the magisterial service, will be taken in a Guinea Airways machine in November from Kikori to the Police Camp at Lake Kutubu in the interior, on the edge of the region labelled “unexplored and uncontrolled”.

Actually, this huge central region is now becoming better known and is being steadily brought under control, as described in an article on page 15 of last issue. A police camp was established at Kutubu last year by Mr. Ivan Champion, AR M., and Patrol Officer C. T. J: Adamson; and these two officials, with 10 constables and 30 carriers have been making extensive patrols to the east and west.

Captain G. F. ‘W. Zimmer, formerly of the Papuan Administration, who during recent years has engaged in mining work on the Lakekamu goldfield, has joined the staff of Islands Exploration Company which is seeking oil in Western Papua.

M. Louis Bouvier, a Frenchman who is walking around the world, reached Sydney by the last “Malaita” after tramping through parts of Papua and New Guinea. He will return to Marseilles via Prance’s Pacific colonies.

Early Tahiti And

SPAIN Some History of 150 Years Ago From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Sept. 18.

A GLIMPSE into the Spanish official mind in regard to the expeditions into Pacific waters undertaken by French and English navigators during the late years of the eighteenth century, is given in the confidential despatch and enclosure, sent by the Viceroy of Peru, Don Teodoro de Croix, to the Secretary of State for the Indes under the date, July 5, 1786: Confidential.

“Most Excellent Senor,—The exploitation of the island of Otaheti. being of the highest importance of the Monarchy, and the Royal Commands that were addressed to my predecessor and to myself to carry it out and, if possible, establish Missions there, having been repeated I have endeavoured to promote this undertaking with all speed; but the Public Treasury being completely exhausted, and finding no means nor resources for giving effect to my plans, these have, of necessity, been suspended. Nevertheless, as there Is reason to believe that European nations may not be losing sight of so fine a possession and that, once settled there, they might cause us much trouble or apprehension, I apprise your Excellency of the position for your guidance,, -Regarding this point, I think it probable. despite the strictness with which they mask their designs, that the French expedition under the Count of La Perouse may be proceeding, among other projects, to examine the island In question; as Your Excellency will observe from the annexed copy of a despatch addressed to me by the Governor of La Concepcion in Chile:— “ ‘Lima: sth July, 1786.

“ ‘Most Excellent Senor:—Having received intelligence, when at the frontier, of the arrival in this bay, on the 24th February, of the Most Christian King’s two frigates, the ‘Buzola’ and ‘Astrolavio’. (Note: ‘La Boussole’, commanded by the Sieur de la Perouse, and ‘L’Astrolabe’ under Capt. de Langle) under the command of the Count of La Perouse, I had to come down to this city in order to fulfil Our Sovereign’s command, dated at Aranjuez on the 19th of May last, and communicated lo the President of this Realm, of which the Commandante La Perouse carries with him a duplicate. ... I found that Don Pedro Quixada, the officer in command here,, had already waited upon the strangers, prior to my arrival, and had afforded them all the assistance they asked; but I took pains to make things pleasant for the commanders, the officers, and the other persons they have on board, to their entire satisfaction. Briefly, they will have as many supplies as they stand in need of, which is to say wood, water, some fresh provisions, dried vegetables, flour, wine, etc., and the Count of La Perouse assures me that he will get away to sea in the coming week, without fail.

“ ‘But he has not told me what places he is bound to next, and, as it is said that he was very reticent on this subject before my arrival, I have not cared to push inquiries unavailingly in the face of an express order not to disclose 36 Pacific Islands Monthly-October 15, 1938

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“T have noticed that they say nothing about occupying themselves with any search for a Southern Continent, nor with penetrating the seas toward that Pole, nor about visiting New Zealand either. Maybe they do not consider it necessary; but they carry with them the journals of the famous Captain Kook, his nautical and astronomical observations, and notes of all that he examined during his three voyages round the world, and even his own instruments, which the Royal Society of Sciences of London passed on to the Count of La Perouse. as I have just learnt.

“ ‘Kook spoke in the highest terms of the island of Otaheti; preferring it. for purposes of colonisation, before any of the neighbouring places discovered by Mendana and Quiros. All modern circumnavigators praise its situation, soil, climate, and resources, as Being fitted for an establishment of the first order.

These gentlemen have formed no meaner an estimate of the same island, but I do not know whether they intend to visit it or no.

“Tt may well be that they will not care to lose the time that is so necessary to them for gaining those high latitudes on the other side of the Equator where, as I said before, they have much before them: especially in connection with completing the latest explorations in that hemisphere, which Kook perforce left unfinished, by reason of his unfortunate death. I remain, etc., etc. —Ambrosio Higgins de Vallinar’.”

Doctor B. G. Corney (from whose “Quest and Occupation of Tahiti”, Vol. 11. these extracts are adds the following footnote:—“O’Higgins’ surmise that La Perouse was bound to Tahiti amongst other places, was a sound one The French instructions directed in fact that, though the ships were to part, company after quitting Easter Island, they should re-loin at Tahiti and spend a month there; calling afterwards at the leeward islands of the Society Group.

However, they never did go there”.

The following Royal Command was the last document issued in regard to the long contemplated expedition to Tahiti for the purpose of restoring the Spanish inscription that Cantain Cook had obliterated. and re-establishing the Mission which had been abandoned in 1775: “From Your Excellency’s confidential despatch of July, of the year last nast No. 28. and the copy enclosed with it of one you received from Don Ambrosio Higgins, Governor of La Concepcion de Chile, the King has become acauainted with designs which it is possible the French expedition commanded by the Count of La Perouse, and other European nations besides, may have had in regard to the Island of Otaheti. *“His Majesty likewise learns the reasons which have made it impossible on our part to exploit the island and settle Missionaries upon it, the business of which was • entrusted, through the medium of repeated Royal Commands, to your Viceregency. It is still His Majesty’s intention to carry this enterprise into effect, when it may be possible to do so; and I am commanded to give Your Excellency this intimation of his Royal will, for your information and compliance. —Dated 19th June, 1787”.

The King was not destined to see his royal intention achieved. On the 14th of December, in the following year, he ceased to live; and the occupation of Tahiti by missionaries of his nation was never resumed.

Captain Ernest Kettle, master of the London Missionary Society’s schooner “John Williams V”, well-known in Central Pacific, was in Australia in September spending furlough. 37 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

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SOMEONE, either by accident or design, has evolved the quackless duck.

There are many speciments of this satisfying breed of water fowl in Tahiti.

He tries valiantly to emulate his noisy ancestor: stretching his neck, opening his spoon-like beak to its widest extent, and contracting his thorax in a mighty effort; but all that emanates is a wheezy hiss.

This achievement envisions the bringing to pass of a transmutation vastly more vital to the peace and serenity of a harassed humanity—the crowless rooster.

The roosters of Tahiti, like Rostand’s chantjcleer, crow not only to cause the rising of the sun. but to keep it steadily in its course throughout the day. By night, they awake at stated occasions to regulate the procession of the constellations.

As stations for these fanfares, they invariably choose the vicinity of our residence or, at night, the trees adjacent to the windows of our sleeping quarters. Were they numbered among our possessions, we might find consolation for our irritated nerves and compensation for our violated slumbers in the prospect of the smoking forms of these disturbers of our tranquility one day gracing our table. But they are not.

What we lack is, however, supplied in abundance by our neighbours; and, for some reason known only to those mysterious and malignant forces that cunningly contrive instruments to plague humanity, all the chickens of our neighborhood have chosen our demesne as their happy hunting ground. Each morning, before the sun has risen, the roosters and their retinues enter from all points of the compass: sounding their approach like trumpeters and heralds inducting pageants to the jousting arena of Camelot—and we are awakened to another day of fury and exasperation.

The Tahiti hens are scarcely less noisy than their consorts. From mom ’til eve— like many people we know—they keep up a continual clatter of gossip, backbiting and criticism of each others’ feathers.

We have essayed every method our ingenuity could invent to abate the nuisance.

Dogs were trained to chase crowing cocks —they all died of exhaustion; fire crackers and Roman candles: Chinese gongs and missiles.

The last has resulted in the denting or fracture of everything movable in our possession. Our aim is poor and we have never hit anything; thereby preserving ourselves in the state of love and charity with our neighbors who own the fowl. All that ever happens is the noisy scattering of indignant hens who, within five minutes have returned to hold a council of deliberation to determine if the object is edible, while a massed choir of cocks send up a sevenfold Hallelujah in mockery of our efforts.

Theocritus, Virgil and countless poets, through the centuries since their time, have sung the praises of the calm serenity of bucolic life. None of them had ever encountered the domestic fowl—male nnd female—of Tahiti. Were they today residents of our island they would be composing sonorous hexameters of petition to omthologists. bird fanciers and biologists to emulate the creator of the quackless duck by evolving the crowless rooster and the cackleless hen.

He who achieves this miracle of science will merit ribands, orders, titles of nobilitv and his bronze bust in all the Halls of Fame; for he will be a benefactor of the nremier class, worthy of the homage of his fellow men.

LEPROSY SCOURGE iN B.S.I.

THE scourge of leprosy among Melanesian natives—narticularly in the British Solomon Islands —and the urgent need for increased facilities for fighting the disease were emphasised by the Bishop of Melanesia (Rt. Rev. W. H. Baddeley) in an address at Auckland, N.Z.. in September.

At present an expert is making a survey of lepers in the Solomons, but other than that the Administration has done little to cope with the situation. The Mission runs a leprosarium without subsidy, but is handicapped through lack of funds. Asking for support, the Bishop said, “In the Mission field the hospital is as essential as the church, and our expenditure on hospitals and dispensaries is as essential as it is heavy.” He added that “well-fed bodies are better able to resist leprosy and so the Mission is encouraging agriculture and efficient rotation of crops so that a better variety of food of improved nutritive value can be obtained by the natives.” 38 Pacific Islands Monthly—October 15, 1938

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This statement was made by Mr. Arthur H. Hasell, managing director of the company, when giving evidence before the Tariff Board in Sydney in September.

“Most of the sulphur can be hand-picked, and will not have to be refined”, he said.

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DURING the last three months, excellent prices have been received for local tomatoes on the N.Z. market—for tomatoes shipped by the September boat buyers paid up to 10/- per 22 lb. box. It is a pity that the season is of so short a duration, in view of the fact that the Islanders’ only income beside these until the next orange season is bananas.

Captain George Harvey, who last century was a well-known figure in the Pacific, died in September in Auckland, New Zealand, aged 95. An Englishman, he went to N.Z. in his early youth and later became a seaman on vessels engaged in the Western Pacific “blackbirding” trade —recruiting native labour, mostly in the New Hebrides. He was well acquainted with the notorious Captain “Bully” Hayes, who at one time wanted him to join his schooner “Black Diamond”.

Cook Islands Dictionary From Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, Sept. 23.

MR. STEPHAN SAVAGE, who has been working for a long time on a dictionary of the Cook Islands, has completed the job, and it is now in the hands of the New Zealand Government Printer.

Those who have seen the manuscript declare that it is the finest that has been compiled on the subject.

The engagement has been announced of Miss Ela Gofton, of Wau, New Guinea, to Mr, Chas. W. Blake, who has a gold claim on the Bulolo River.

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Mount Kasi

And Some Impressions of Fiji A GOLD mine in Fiji!

Try to put that across in Dungog or Gundagai, and even the simplest hayseed will look knowing and inquire as he clings tightly to his wallet: “Belongs to your uncle, eh?”

And yet there is a gold mine in Fiji. In fact, there are three, and their combined production is getting well on towards a million pounds worth of gold per year.

This is a short account of a visit to one of them.

With C. and his wife I landed at Suva from the “Aorangi" one aiternoon in Julv last. It was nouring with rainreal tropical stuff such as inspired Somerset Maugham or would gladden the hearts of those responsible for Sydney’s water supply.

Suva is much boomed these days as a tourist resort, and a large contingent landed from the “Aorangi”. The small custom house was a bedlam. Accommodation had fortunately been arranged for us: but, after all the hotels and boarding houses had been crammed there were some thirty people left with no roof for the night, until SO S. appeals to local private residents had secured this for them.

Mount Kasi mine is not on Viti Levu island, of which Suva is the main town and the capital of the Fiji group, and we had to go some 120 miles north-east, to Vanua Levu. For this, a tiny island trading steamer had been chartered, with an experienced skipper. It had no accommodation for passengers, but two stretchers were lashed to a small deck behind the bridge under a canvas awning. We were warned that it was rough outside the reef, and that we would have an uncomfortable passage.

It was, and we did.

Mrs. C. wisely decided to stay in Suva, but C. end I dulv sailed at 10 p.m. While still well in sight of the lights and comforts of Suva, the engines broke down, and we circled slowly and drunkenly around, in dangerous waters, while repp irs were effected.

Soon we passed beyond the reef, and our troubles started in earnest. The little ship developed a lovely corkscrew motion, compounded of pitch and roll. Our stretchers strained at their moorings all night and. as we had not been moored to the stretchers, we found it very hard to stay put. Fumes from the engine-room came up alongside the stretchers and added to the joys of life.

Came the dawn, as in the old, silent pictures, and I regret that I was not in a state to appreciate fully its real beauties.

To port lay Wakaya Island, where Von Luckner was captured by a smart piece of bluff, with Makogai, the leper settlement, further west and north. To starboard was Nairai Island and, right ahead, the large island of Koro. Vanua Levu was still invisible, and we had to traverse the Koro Sea. with a local reputation like that of the Tasman or the Bay of Biscay, before we reached calm water in Savu Savu Bay about 4 p.m.

In food we had taken no interest during this journey; but no sooner had we passed inside the reef than C. dealt faithfully with a large plate of pork, to my great admiration and envy.

Disembarking to a small launch, we passed a few miles up the Yanawai River to the mine-landing stage, and then proceeded bv foot about 21 miles, rising over 40 Pacific Islands Monthly-October 15, 1938

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The mine camp comprises an unexpected sort of settlement in the midst of dense jungle. There are 15 Europeans, in comfortable quarters (five with their wives) some 40 half-castes, and 200 Fijians and other natives. The half-caste people are a tremendous help to mining enterprise, and constitute the bulk of the skilled labour. They are skilful and intelligent. amenable to discipline, stand the climate, and are prepared to work long hours cheerfully in an emergency.

The Fijians are aptlv described by the manager as “likeable, exasperating, smiling”. Some of them are splendid physical specimens, but nearly all are lazy and unreliable.

In common with Emperor and Loloma mines, Mount Kasi ore deposit is very puzzling, and has no exact parallel anywhere else. The whole hill is a volcanic eruption of andesite, and gold is widely distributed, although concentrations of an economic value occur in somewhat erratic fashion. Payable values have been found on the lowest level so far examined at Mount Kasi, and it may be that these values will persist at greater depth, within better defined limits than on the surface.

If so, this will be an important mine.

The treatment plant has a capacity of about 3,000 tons of ore per month, and the process is a comparatively simple one of fine grinding, cyanidation and filter pressing.

The white staff is almost all Australian, with a general manager trained in Sydney University Mining School and with wide general experience. They are tackling the problems in a thoroughly efficient manner.

Prom Mount Kasi height, the view is quite superb, with the jungle mountains of Vanua Levu to the north and most of the important islands of the Fijian group showing up to the east, west and south.

We left Suva by the “Niagara” and, on the same ship, Sir Arthur Richards travelled to Auckland. He had done a splendid job in Fiji as Governor, and had been promoted to Jamaica to clean up a difficult situation there. One was struck by the difference between Fiji under trained administrators, and New Guinea under political appointees. Fiji has its problems of mixed races, but is solving them with harmony. Sir Arthur s words at one of his farewell functions contain wisdom which should be widely spread—“ The Europeans must give a little more, the Indians must ask a little less, and the Fijians must learn to work”.

On this policy, with its wonderful resources. Fiji has a great future.

The Fijian native band performed at the wharf and their music and singing were really fine. I mentioned to a Suva resident that their beautiful farewell song “Isa Lei” seemed to have borrowed something from Hawaii, but I was squashed and told that the Hawaiian melodies were borrowed from Fiji. So now I know. —R.

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Parliament House, Nukualofa, Tonga. 41 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

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New Cathedral Towers Mark Fiji Bishop's Jubilee THE golden jubilee of his ordination was celebrated on September 22 by his Lordship the Most Reverend Dr. C.

J, Nicolas, S.M., Vicar Apostolic of Fiji, Almost the whole of these fifty years have been spent in Fiji where (says the “Fiji Times”) His Lordship is loved by his own flock and esteemed and respected by all sections of the community.

The occasion was marked by numerous religious and public observances; and on the afternoon of September 25 the new towers of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, which are the jubilee gift to the Bishop from his people, were formally blessed and presented.

Miss Betty Linn, of Mandated Airlines, Ltd., Wau, New Guinea, has announced her engagement to Mr. David M. Campbell, a member of the local office staff of N.G. Goldfields, Ltd. The wedding will take place at Salamaua in November.

Radios Part

In Development of Papua and New Guinea LIFE in the remote parts of New Guinea, Papua, and the neighbouring islands has been revolutionised by the new teleradio outfits, of which 150 have been installed within the past two years,” said Mr. L. A. Hooke, general manager of Amalgamated Wireless (A/sia), Ltd., on his return to Sydney in mid-September from a visit of inspection.

Mr. J* ooke instanced the case of a man CMr. N. Entrop) whom he met. whose clothing had caught fire from a primus lamp while on the American yacht Vanora”. Although he had quickly lumped into the sea, he was very severely ‘burned. The yacht put in at the Trobnand Group. where a planter with a teleradio set communicated with Port Moresby.loo miles away. A ’plane flew to the ‘Vanora”, and picked up the patient, who was eventually brought to Sydney for treatment. Nothing else, said Mr. Hooke, but quick action could have saved the man, who was well again in two months.

The “Montoro” upon which Mr. Hooke travelled, was asked by the Rabaul radio station to divert her course to pick up a sick man whose plight had been reported by teleradio from a plantation at Djaul.

The patient was paddled to the ship in a native canoe and taken South for treatment. His wife was constantly advised by teleradio of his progress and movements.

Suppplies By Air

Teleradio performed a valuable service withm the past few months for a patrol party working through unexplored country in the mainland. The explorers were in daily touch by teleradio with the Administrator at Rabaul (700 miles away), and when they ran short of supplies, they simply said so. An aeroplane was sent out, and, as the country was too difficult to land, supplies were dropped by parachute.

Mr. Hooke explained that planters, exploring parties, geologists engaged upon scientific research, and others seldom travelled without teleradio sets which could readily be carried by native bearers Organisations such as Papua Oil Development Co. and Islands Exploration Co have their own “mother stations” which are in constant touch with officers in outlying places. These stations, working with the A.W.A. main stations at the principal centres of population, link the dwellers of the most remote parts with the whole outside world.

“Aviation and radio are jointly performing a great service of development in Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea,” said Mr. Hooke. “Large ’planes leave Lae and Salamaua daily, lifting loads up to four tons in weight.

When the plant for A.W.A.’s first wireless station was transported from Salamaua to Wau,” he added, “we started with 300 native boys, carrying the gear over trackless country on a journey which occupied six weeks. Recently, a large dredge weighing 4,000 tons was carried in sections over the same country by air.

The air trip between Salamaua and Wau now occupies only 35 minutes.”

Miss Hilda Walker, B.A. (Oxon.), has been appointed assistant teacher at the Anglican St. John’s school for Solomon Islanders in Fiji. 42 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Japanese Penetration Concern in Gilbert and Ellice Group From Our Own Correspondent.

TARAWA, Sept. 1. rpHE Japanese steamer “Naeki Maru” re- X cently arrived at Tarawa from the Marshall Islands. She cleared port the same day for Butaritari (Northern Gilberts), with a cargo of merchandise for the Japanese trading firm Nanyo Boyeki Kaisha (South Sea Trading Co.). The “Naeki Maru” is a modernly equipped vessel credited with a speed of 15 knots— much higher power than would seem to be warranted for purely Islands trading; possibly her itinerary carries her further abroad in between her periodical trips to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

The Nanyo Boyeki Kaisha is firmly established at Butaritari and has become a serious rival to all competitors, including the principal Australian Islands merchant firms. The Japanese are heavily outbidding for the copra trade in the Group, apparently regardless of the world's market prices and London parity, and it is feared there is a Japanese objective still further south among the Pacific Islands by peaceful penetration.

In view of the “close preserve” maintained at the Marshall Islands by the Japanese, and the fact that all non- Japanese competition that existed there in pre-War days has been driven out and given no opportunity to re-enter, trading concerns in this British colony—next door neighbours to the Marshall Islands—are a little concerned to know how far foreign inroads will be encouraged or complacently permitted in non-Japanese zones in the Western Pacific.

When Mr. Vincent Astor. the American millionaire yacht-owner , visited these waters a few months ago, collecting tropical marine specimens for an American Museum, he stated that he had tried unsuccessfully to obtain permission to enter the Japanese Mandated Territory of the Marshall Islands.

Hon. H, O. Townsend, Treasurer of the Territory of New Guinea, arrived in Australia by the September “Tanda” on long leave.

Fiji’s sugar quota for 1939 is 129,300 long tons —a reduction of four per cent, on the 1938 figure.

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Citizens Flee To Arms CONTRIBUTED RECENT developments have caused considerable alarm to the worthy burghers of Samarai (Eastern Papua) some of whom are making hasty preparations to evacuate the island and flee to the safety of the hills. “Back to the Bamboos” is said to be their slogan.

Coming so soon after their narrow escape from the local head-hunters—an escape from which they can never be sufficiently grateful to “the four absolutes” —this new alarm has set the erstwhile peaceful community by their ears.

An unusual feature of the remarkable affair is that no one knew anything about it until the intelligence arrived in a hitherto unknown Sydney journal, which stated, in its issue of July 30. that “Samarai and Galilee will be garrisoned by steel-hatted British Tommies and armed police”.

The first reaction to this startling announcement was one of great indignation; and a crowded public meeting, headed by the Mayor and Aldermen, resolved: (a) That a strong protest be sent to His Excellency the Lieut.-Governor (and a copy to Canberra) against the counling of Samarai with Galilee, a land with which Samarai has nothing in common save a well-developed, fully matured thirst: and (b) that anyone found on the island with a steel hat. or a stolen hat, be weighted with firebars and sunk in the stream until well perforated by the toredo borer.

These resolutions having been carried unanimously, the inhabitants immediately divided themselves into two camps.

One, as stated above, made hasty preparations to evacuate the island, whilst the other occupied a strategic position commanding the communication lines between the two pubs, and are reported to be strongly entrenched there.

LATER Further reports are to the effect that a number of the guards have withdrawn themselves from the vital channels of communication referred to above, and the fugitives have postponed their departure indefinitely.

It is stated that this development is due to a rumour, probably ill-founded, that the original report should have read “Samaria” instead of Samarai.

Nevertheless strong reinforcements have arrived from the plantations and mines on the mainland, and any threat to the libertv of the subject will be met with the strongest possible resistance.

LATEST An indication of the ferment which has been caused by the recent unrest mav be found in the fact that September 1 found the whole population in arms, at a dance in the Institute Hall (in aid of the Cricket Club funds) which was somewhat marred by an incident which caused “wholesale destruction of property” when the M.C., in a moment of abstraction, was overcome by his emotions whilst handing round a tray of coffee cups. But normalitv was restored eventually and the casualties up to now are listed hereunder: — Missing—One upper set of dentures.

Killed—Nil. 44 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

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New airmail stamps of five denominations, issued to commemorate the declaration of British New Guinea (Papua) as a British possession were on sale for the first time at Port Moresby on September 6. 45 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Administrative Power on Nauru Island Letter to the Editor.

THE information published in your July and August issues relative to the position of Commander Garsia as Administrator of Nauru, appears to be of a clumsily “inspired” nature, obviously intended to save somebody’s face.

It may have been an astute publicity move to work the defence business; but rather maladroit to the minds of thinking residents of the island, who realise that the place presents an obvious case of the best defence being no defence at all. Nor will it be agreed, I thinkgranting the need for an elaborate system of defence—that a retired lieutenantcommander of the Royal Australian Navy is necessarily the best or most authoritative adviser on the subject. After all, the Commonwealth Government may have its own plans in the matter; and it is possible that the trained defence experts (of whom we still have a few in Australia, from A.I.F. times, products of Duntroon and Camberley), have other views and more far-reaching plans than those of Commander Garsia.

The idea of danger to the Europeans on the island from the 1,500 well-treated Chinese labourers in the employ of the British Phosphate Commission is ludicrous to anyone who knows the conditions. A walk through the Chinese compound, to-day, in the company of the very efficient Labour Inspector, will effectively dispel any such idea.

There have been two so-called “riots” amongst the Chinese coolies on the island, in my experience. The first was effectively quelled by General Griffiths, who employed a few dozen local natives, armed with waddies, for the purpose The second “riot”, which happened during the Newman Administration, had no possible connection with Europeans, and arose from a tong feud within the compound.

It resulted in the death qf one native policeman; and this, it was believed at the time, might have been avoided had the situation been less inexpertly handled.

I have no doubt that the Europeans who have lived on the island through the Garsia regime, feel gratified at the sudden and very recent administrative solicitude for their welfare. But I think they will be disinclined, from their experience, to credit the suggestion that this solicitude has been the cause of Commander Garsia’s “retirement”.

No; the plain facts in the case are that Commander Garsia’s initial appointment was for a term of five years. That term expired early this year. For reasons of expediency, it was extended for six months, and has now expired. During the extension period, Commander Garsia was notified by Canberra that his term would not be further extended. There is no question of Commander Garsia’s deciding as you suggest, “that he would rather relinquish the post than remain in Nauru and be fettered by the red tape of Canberra”.

After all, Canberra has to take the initiative in some circumstances. Or is a petty island Administrator to “rule the roost” on his own judgment alone?

Remember that the situation in Nauru is unique; there is no legislative or even official advisory body in existence, and this gives an Administrator absolute power over the destinies of the people and interests of the island—except in the matters that concern the actual work of the 46 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctobc-r 15, 1938

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British Phosphate Commission. A dangerous situation, I think you will admit, in certain circumstances, and one which Canberra must recognise.

You say Commander Garsia is a “trained naval man”. Does it not occur to you that the narrow regimen of naval training is not necessarily the right or best training for such an administrative post as Nauru? One seems to remember that Evans of the “Broke”, whose standing and seniority as a naval man cannot be questioned, did not make an unqualified success of the job of High Commissioner of Bechuanaland. At all events, his term was not extended.

I am, etc., NAURU-ITE.

Nauru, August 27, 1938.

CL and Tahiti Families United Prom Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, Sept. 20.

TWO well-known Rarotonga and Tahiti families were united when Mr. Hugh Norman McKegg married Miss Marion Purea Brander on September 3, at the palace of Makea Tinirau Ariki. The officiating clergyman was Rev. Cater, of the L.M.S. Church.

The bridegroom is a nephew of Mr.

Robert McKegg, general manager of the Cook Islands Trading Co. The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. John Teariinui-o-Tahiti Brander, a member of one of the oldest families in Tahiti.

The best man was Mr. Philip Woonton, the “pearl king” of the Northern Cooks; and the bridesmaid, Miss H, Framhein, daughter of the late Captain Framhein, one-time trader on Mauke Island. The pretty flower girls were Ella Hoff, granddaughter of the late Captain A. Von Hoff, another old-time trader of the Cook Group, and Darling, a granddaughter of Makea Tinirau, paramount chief of the Cook Islands.

Mr. L. Luscombe, of the A.W.A. station at Thursday Island, has been transferred to Darwin to supervise the new directional finding station there. Mr. Gerald Walters is now in charge at T. I.

Rev. A. C. Hobson, of the Diocese of Polynesia, will visit the Cook Islands in November, returning to Suva, Fiji, just before Christmas.,

"Destiny" Reaches Rabaul

From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, Oct. 3.

TWO brothers, Messrs. S. S. and J. E.

Grimson. arrived on September 16 in the small 13-tons auxiliary ketch “Destiny”, after a two and a half months’ voyage from Sydney, via Papua. Until they undertook this trip, they had had no previous knowledge of sailing—they learned navigation at night school in their spare time. The voyagers spent a week in Port Moresby, Samarai, and the Trobriand Group.

The day after their arrival here, Mr. J.

Thurston, of Wewak, saw the “Destiny” and offered to buy it. With Mr. Thurston, the Grimson brothers will shortly sail for Wewak.

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Practically every month, for three years, there has been a different report about the intentions of the four Governments (Britain, Canada Australia, New Zealand), ranging from, “They definitely will build the ships to They definitely wm not ”- The Wedding Group 47 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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P.I. Club Entertains Maori Chieftainess

Notable Issue Of Kodak

JOURNAL Death of Mr. J. J. Rouse IN the “Australasian Photo Review” of September there are two notable articles.

One records the passing and describes the life of Mr. J. J. Rouse, who not only was chairman of directors of Kodak (A/asia) Pty.

Ltd., but was also, by reason of his wide vision, his philanthropic and humanitarian interests, and his sense of responsibility in civic affairs, one of Sydney’s really valuable citizens. He died at the ripe age of 77, leaving Kodak Ltd. as a fine monument of a lifetime’s successful enterprise and hard work.

The other article discloses the interesting fact that it is no less than 50 years since the Eastman Kodak Company introduced the first Kodak. At first, it used a roll of paper carrying a sensitive gelatine emulsion; but, a year later, in 1889, Mr. Eastman produced the first film, and popular photography entered a new phase.

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B.P.'S New Store At Bulolo

From Our Own Correspondent.

WAU, Oct. 6.

THE large, well ventilated store, complete with local cedar fittings, which was recently built at Bulolo for Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., is now open for business. This is the fourth B.P. establishment in the Morobe District, and is in charge of Mr. W. W. Grose, formerly of the Wau branch. It is situated below the office of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Limited.

It was reported from Hollywood, U.S.A., on September 28 that film star Errol Flynn was seriously ill, his condition being complicated by a recurrence of malaria, contracted when he was in New Guinea five years ago.

The South African ketch-rigged yacht “Land’s End” arrived at Nukualofa, Tonga, from New Zealand on September 13. She made a call at Sunday Island, in the Kermadec Group.

Mr. D. E. Ball, N.Z. Chief Inspector of Native Schools, arrived in Samoa in September.

Members of the Pacific Islands Club entertained Miss To Mauri Meihana, a chieftainess of the Te Arawa and Tuhoe tribes in New Zealand, at the Hotel Carlton, Sydney, on September 17.

Miss Meihana is an authority not only on Maori music, but also on the customs and traditions of her people. Islands visitors to famed Rotorua, will remember her as “Guide Molly”, who showed them the tourist sights.

In this group photograph taken at the gathering are:—Front row (from left): Mrs. Wiki Byron (Rotorua); Miss Te Mauri Meihana (Te Arawa Chieftainess, guest of honour); Lefaga- Olii (Mrs. A. Page, the P.I. Club’s Chieftainess).

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Mrs. Doris Booth, the well-known resident and authoress of Morobe District, New Guinea, who was also a guest of honour, left before the photograph was taken. —Photo.: Hood. 49 Pacific Islands Mon thl y— october 15, 19 3 8

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THE marriage between Miss Jessie Learmonth Hobler, daughter of the late Mr. W. L.

Hobler and Mrs. Hobler, formerly of Rockhampton, and now of Sydney, and Mr. Leonard Cooper Dobbin, son of Colonel and Mrs. L.

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The reception was held at Wau Guest House, where Mrs. Stower, as hostess, wearing a black taffeta frock and smart black toque, received 60 guests. The decorations on the wedding cake were a miniature rowing skiff and aeroplane, representing the sports in which the bride and bridegroom are most Interested.

Rev. A. L, Sadd, of the London Missionary Society, returned to his station at Beru, Gilbert and Ellice Group, in September after furlough in England

Fight Against Malaria

Use of Plasmoquine and Atabrine in Southern States of America THE present position of the world fight against malaria (which kills 3,000,000 people annually) is set out in a recent article by Paul de Kruif, in “Country Gentleman”. It is written from the point of view of the United States, where a major problem is the continued existence of virulent malaria in the Southern States; but the following extracts are just as applicable to the fever-ridden territories of Melanesia.

MALARIA spreads in just.one way: by one kind of she mosquito. This insect sucks the blood of an infected person; then she bites and spits the microbes back into healthy people.

Why can’t our bug hunters, using oil, Pans green and drainage ditches, destroy all mosquito breeding places? Such measures made the Panama Canal possible.

But—aside from the enormous cost—if our South were thoroughly drained of all its waters that hatch malaria mosquitoes, the land, with a greatly lowered water table, might no longer support its millions of human beings.

Yet the man-to-mosquito-to-man chain must be broken. If mosquitoes can’t be kept from giving malaria to men, why can’t we keep men from infecting mosquitoes?

Another weapon is quinine, which has saved millions from malarious death. It cures individual cases wonderfully. Yet quinine has dismally failed jto prevent malaria’s wrecking the blood of our Southern millions. Malaria microbes are tough, and in many a human being the curative doses doctors have to use are so terrific they’re dangerous. Many prefer the disease to the cure! Thus the chain of infection survives, and malaria continues in the community.

When it became evident that the manto-mosquito-to-man chain couldn’t be broken by quinine, a team of German microbe hunters began to seek a synthetic drug which would do the trick. By 1925 they had cooked up a chemical which, in experiments with malaria in canary birds, was real poison for male and female microbes. Here was power that quinine lacked.

But there are two kinds of malaria microbes, sexual and sexless neuters.

These neuters are the real killers. Yet, strangely, it is the male and female microbes that perpetuate the chain of malarious death. It is these that a mosquito sucks into her stomach, where they beget myriads of malaria-microbe children which Mrs. Mosquito injects into the blood of healthy people.

To test this new coal-tar chemical— “plasmoquine”—on humans, German microbe hunter Roehl hurried to Spain where malignant, tropical malaria was raging. June, 1925, he sent an excited telegram back to Germany: “Plasmoquine kills sexual malaria parasites in human beings!”

But plasmoquine was feeble against the murderous sexless microbes. Quinine could cure malaria, but couldn’t powerfully prevent it. Plasmoquine could prevent malaria from going via mosquito from man to man. But couldn’t cure it.

Our searchers struck off on a new chemical trail —something that would kill these sexless microbes. And, in 1930, after five years of toiling, they developed a complicated drug which they called “atabrine”.

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Compared to quinine, these pills were harmless. At worst, they colored some people’s skins yellow for a while. Babies could take them safely. And it was amazing how littie atabrine you needed to cure most malarious people. One little pill, by mouth, three times a day, for five days or at longest seven. Atabrine magically brought people moribund with malignant malaria back from the grave. It began to be reported in many a tropical pest-hole that doctors no longer feared even that most sinister form of malaria, “black-water fever”, in which shivering grows more and more violent, fevers fiercer and fiercer, the blood dissolving and running out of the doomed one in horrid dark red urine.

Georgia’s State Health Commissioner T. F. Abercrombie heard of the miracles atabrine was performing in the tropical hospitals of the United Fruit Company.

In 1933 he sent State Epidemiologist Daniel Seckinger, armed with these newfangled pills, to Calhoun County, Georgia.

Here malaria was so vicious that hardly a white family could live in its rural regions. Here 80 out of every 100 rural school children, in 1932, showed their blood peppered with malaria parasites.

May, 1933, when the mosquitoes began their sinister humming, Seckinger split these farm people up into two gangs: To half the families, in which he found any case of malaria, he gave the 15 pills of atabrine. And since the county was notorious for its malignant malaria, he fed those same families very tiny amounts of plasmoquine three times a week all summer to keep them from giving mosquitoes that deadly infection.

That autumn there was no doubt of the answer. The persons who did not take atabrine suffered six times the amount of malaria suffered by the families under atabrine. Having thus proved the effectiveness of atabrine, Seckinger gave his magic pills to cure all who were sick.

In the bad malaria of 1934 that followed, it was plain that this 1933 atabrine dosage hadn’t left many microbes for the 1934 mosquitoes. While malaria was epidemic over the rest of Calhoun County-death rate at the terrible high of 109 per 100,000—in all of Seckinger’s 54 square miles there wasn’t much malaria. And not one person died of it.

TT ln T^ February ’ 1934 ’ Glynn County’s Health Commissioner, Dr. M. E. Winchester started another experiment.

Aided by seven F.E.R.A. nurses and P.E.R.A. funds to provide free atabrine he canvassed every last home of Glynn County’s rural families. Forty per cent of them gave a history of undoubted malaria the year before. Winchester set up four health centres, with nurses to examine, teach and treat all who came complaining of “dumb chills and innard fever . The nurses enforced a rule that if any member of a family was malarious —everyone in the family got the 15-pill treatment.

That summer and autumn there was at least 90 per cent, malaria, and no deaths from it in Glynn County. Less than 50 people had to come back for a second treatment, and the school teachers were amazed because no children had to fever nt h ° m6 fr ° m schoQl With chills and . r J? , 1935 ’ Winchester extended his tests rnf?SfS rio o St ly i malar i ous P arts of Mclntosh TSI n £oii gato Tth conclusive results.

The health record of these former pestme^%7l S 936Zd m 7. throUgh ““ SUm ' Meanwhile the systematic 15-pill treatment in the Glynn County health centres every spring, of all members of all families with any member malarious, had reduced that ancient, perennial, lifesapping plague to hardly more than a memory. And in the blood-test surveys Winchester made each year from 1934 to 1937, in no year did the positives reach one per cent. This record for that invincibly malarious corner of our Southland is unprecedented.

Despite this, there are malariologists high in authority who admit they still have to be shown. Dr. L. L. Williams, jr., of the U.S. Public Health Service, points out that malaria has up-and-down swings in periods of years. He fears that Dr. Winchester’s experiments began on a downswing in 1934, and that when the upswing starts, atabrine may be powerless.

To such criticism Winchester replies: “If I’m wrong, I’m anxious to be shown.

The Georgia state laboratory examinations of the people’s blood show there’s very little malaria. People aren’t losing work time from malaria. They aren’t dying from it. What I want to find out is what’s wrong with the experiment”, Winchester is building Exhibit A for all Southern rural regions that can’t wipe o ut malaria by wiping out mosquitoes. If men no longer can give malaria to mosquitoes, the man-to-mosquito-to-man chain is broken, and malaria should disappear in a few years. 51 Pacific Islands Monthly—October 15, 1938

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YACHTSMAN From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 20.

MR. NORTHRUP CASTLE, scion of a local wealthy family, departed on September 5 for a prolonged cruise through South Pacific isles in his auxiliary cutter “Laila”, which is a 41-foot vessel technically identified as a Norwegian pilot boat. It is equipped with a 20 h.p. engine.

The tentative itinerary provides for calls at Fanning and Christmas Islands, the Tuamotus, Tahiti and the Marquesas.

First mate will be Mrs. Castle, who always accompanies her venturesome husband on his voyages. Incidentally, he became known to Australia when, in 1934. he scoured outlying Hawaiian islands for the lost Australian airman, Captain C. T. P.

Ulm. For this purpose, he used the schooner “Lanikai” which he sold later on to the Hollywood interests that used her in the super-imaginative movie, “Hurricane”.

Some time ago, “P.1.M.” reported that Mr. Castle was building a schooner in Honolulu for the current voyage, but he abandoned this work when he was offered the “Laila”, which for long had been idle in Puget Sound.

In May-June of this year Mr. Castle sailed her to Honolulu from Seattle.

Miss Joy Coates, of Chatswood, N.S.W.. arrived in New Caledonia from Sydney by the September “Pierre Loti” to be married to Mr. Lindsay Macmillan, of Noumea.

The Polynesian

ORIGIN Discussion of the South American Theory From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Sept. 20.

A SCHOOL of thought persists which sees in certain elements in Polynesian life of pre-European times, bearing unmistakable evidence of origin in the South American continent, proofs that the Polynesian race emigrated into the Pacific from the Americas and not, as is generally accepted, from Asia, by way of the East Indies.

How these South American elements could have been, and most probably were, introduced into Polynesia, is told concisely and clearly by Mr. Kenneth P. Emory, of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, in his bulletin No. 116, entitled. “Stone Remains in the Society Islands”. In discoursing of the probable origin of the art of dressed stonework found in the ancient Marae, of Tahiti, Mr. Emory writes as follows: “That the construction of facings of rectangular blocks of unequal size, necessitating in some instances the cutting of shoulders or jogs in order to bring the top of the finished course to a level, is an old technique in South-eastern Polynesia, is clear from its appearance in prehistoric image platforms of Easter Island, where it is even more at home than in the Society Islands—the only other place in Polynesia from which it has been reported besides Hawaii.

“While it may have evolved either in Tahiti or Easter Island, its appearance as the dominant note in the cut-stone facings of ancient Peru makes South America a possible source, with Easter Island, where its megalithic aspect brings it more in line with the Inca work, the introductory point.

“As it is now generally agreed that the sweet potato, in South-eastern Polynesia, is an introduction from America, and once ante-dating the final dispersals fb Hawaii and New Zealand (from this cultural centre in the Society Islands some twenty generations ago, or before the fourteenth century), it is quite within reason to entertain an American origin for a cultural element so specialised as this stone facing.

“It is a conspicuous element localised in the part of America nearest to Polynesia, a part where currents strike out and flow in the direction of Easter Island and the Tuamctus. This current, in 1929, carried a flock of drums of gasoline, from some wreck on the South American coast, into the Tuamotus, bringing timely aid to the nearly exhausted supply of our party.

May not one of the sea-going rafts of the early Incas have been swept into this current, carrying survivors as far as Easter Island. 2,000 miles to the west? on!S ron ? Easter Island to Tahiti, another 2,000 miles west, voyages are more likely to have been performed.

“In times of trouble, Easter Islanders forced to flee from their island, or Polynesian visitors turning back, would set out before the trades towards the islands 9j the west, taking with them things or ideas which were new to Polynesia, and of value or interest to them.”

Dr. Agnes Hoege r , of the Lutheran Mission, Madang, N.G., was in Queensland in September, having just returned from U.S.A. 52 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Pawpaw Freaks From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 20.

ROBERT L. RIPLEY (Believe It or Not) recently made the published state • ment that a male pawpaw (papau, in some islands) plant can be turned into a female simply by pinching off its head.

But Mr. William B. Storey, University of Hawaii biologist, has completed a long and exhaustive study of the tropics’ prolific fruit, and he declares Mr. Ripley is wrong.

Some pawpaws that do not bear fruit are not only males, but sterile hermaphrodites, he says. Pruning does not cause a reversal of sex, but rather encourages the development of reverses within the tree and restores rather than reverses its sex.

If anybody wants to contact Mr. Storey for the next 12 months he will be carrying out advanced studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York State. He’d be interested in hearing about “freakish” things that have happened with your pawpaws.

Mr, C. V. Caldwell was recently transferred to Ba, Fiji, as District Commissioner.

Measles—Quarantine

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Oct. 14.

WHEN the “Maetsuycker” arrived from Sydney on September 29, she reported an outbreak of measles aboard.

All communication with the shore was forbidden, and the nine passengers whom she landed were placed in quarantine, on an isolated allotment, three miles from Port Moresby.

Mr. O. C. Ludolph, Fiji Government Architect, returned to Suva in mid-September from leave spent in England.

TOP.—Left: Pastor G. H. Englebrecht, Superintendent of the S.D.A. Mission, in the New Hebrides, returned to Acre, South Santo, by the September “Pierre Loti”. He came to Sydney to attend the 10 days’ annual council meeting which concluded on September 14. Right: Captain L. Pons, commander of the New Hebrides inter-island steamer “Pervanche”, with Mrs.

Pons, sailed from Sydney for Vila, by the last “Pierre Loti”.

SECOND ROW.—Left: Mr. J. A. Davidson, of Islands Exploration Ltd., arrived in Sydney from Papua by the September “Macdhui” en route to Melbourne, Victoria, to receive medical treatment for a fractured leg, sustained while on exploration work connected with the search for oil, at the head of the Ply River.

Right: Father Joseph Cantala, S.M., sailed from Sydney by the September “Pierre Loti” for Futuna Island where for some years he has been engaged in work for the Marist Mission, THIRD ROW.—Left: Mr. W. B. Prior, accompanied by Mrs. Prior, sailed from Sydney for Rabaul, New Guinea, by the “Nellore” in mid- September. Mr. Prior, who is an inspector in the N.G. Police Force, spent three months’ leave in Sydney. Right; Mr. R. F. Armstrong, of the New Guinea Public Health Department, sailed from Sydney by the last “Nellore”, for Rabaul. en route to Namatamai, New Ireland, where he is in charge of the Government station. He has spent 16 years in the Mandated Territory.

FOURTH ROW.—Left: Mr. F. A. Lord, plantation assistant with Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, near Port Moresby, Papua, arrived in Sydney by the “Macdhui” on September 18. He brought a Moth aeroplane with him to fly to Moree, N.S.W., where he will spend a short holiday. Right: Mr, T. Saviane, of Bulowat Gold Syndicate, Bulowat, New Guinea, sailed from Sydney by the “Macdhui” on September 24, after spending several months’ holiday In Sydney. 53 Pacific Islands Monthl y —O ctober 15, 1938

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TAHITI Interesting and Valuable Experiment in Aviculture From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Sept. 20.

OUR island of Tahiti is particularly fortunate in having as residents men and women endowed with special knowledge and of that quality of spirit which inspires them to apply their knowledge to the welfare of the colony.

A great deficiency, in otherwise ideal surroundings, is the poverty of bird life in the islands.

The Itatae, which fly in pairs and look like seraphim against the sapphire of our southern sky; the Rupe, our handsome mountain pigeon; the Uupa, the dove of Tahiti; and even the dismal Upoa, which flies by night crying the wail of a lost spirit; have been decimated almost to extinction by gunmen who slay for the delight of killing, and by predatory hawks introduced many years ago.

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“The French Government has been very sympathetic in my experiments, giving me necessary permits to import birds, and has passed local laws prohibiting all shooting and trapping. Likewise, the British Consul-General has aided me considerably to obtain permits to secure some of the exquisite and rare Australian Finches.

“I am just now expecting, through the courtesy of Mr. H. B. Brown, Secretary of the Taronga Zoo, of Sydney, a shipment of about 500 birds from Australia, including Gouldian, long-tailed, and Star Finches, all to be liberated as soon as they have been properly conditioned.

“So far, I have liberated about 6,000 birds of fifty different kinds. As to results, the species may be divided into the following classes:— Birds Which Have Nested and Reared Young Gouldian, Double Bar, Zebra, Masked, Long Tailed and Fire Finches; Euphonia, Mrs. Wilson’s, Maroon and Black Tanagers; African, Orange-Breasted, Orange Cheeked and St. Helena Waxbills; Golden and Ringneck Pheasants; Cordon Bleu; Indian Amaduvade; Magpie Mannikin, California Quail and Mallard Duck.

Birds Which Come to be Fed, But Have Not Nested Rufous-Tailed, Blue-Faced and Tricoloured Parrot Finches; Diamond Sparrow; Yellow-Winged Sugarbird; New Zealand Zosterop; and Pekin Robin.

“Gradually, through the presence of the birds I have imported, people on the island are becoming bird-conscious.

“His Excellency, Monsieur Chastnet de Gery, has established a feeding-dish in the grounds at Government House; also Mr.

James Norman Hall has put one up on his property to attract any birds that may wander to his side of the island. Mr.

Charles B. Nordhoff, who is keenly interested in water-fowl, has done a great deal to promote this interest by liberating Wood and Mandarin Duck, as well as California Quail and Pheasants, “We are receiving great help and encouragement from France through the untiring efforts of Monsieur Jean Delacour who is doing everything possible to protect birds throughout the French colonies.”

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Kwato Mission

AND TRADE Hope of the Oxford Group Movement Letter to the Editor.

SNOOPING around among broadcast and short wave, on the night of 20th July last, we were startled to hear the announcement “Mr. Russell Abel, of Kwato, will now tell us of the interesting work in the dissemination amongst the local natives of the new cult, commonly called the O.G.M. (Oxford Group Movement); and of the astonishing changes made in village fife and customs.”

If we can believe Mr. Russell Abel the millenium has at last arrived in Papua; or, if not in the whole of the Territory, at least amongst the anthropophagi dwelling in the vicinity of that much-boosted industrial mission.

Dwelling, as we do, in the Stygian darkness of the D’Entrecasteaux Group, where lying is a fine art, thieving a science, and the pursuit of the other fellow’s wife about the only recreation left since the Government prohibited fighting, we can only conclude that either Mr. Russell Abel is a cheerful and fatuous optimist, or aU we have ever known about brown brother in general, and the Papuan in particular for 30 years, has been just a bad dream.

That the new cult should have taken root at Kwato proves that the age of miracles is not past—either that, or we must accuse Mr. Abel of broadcasting an interesting and descriptive account of what is, at best, a passing and impermanent phase of village life. If, twelve months from now, any vestige of the O.GM. can be found among the oily, greasy mass of “rascality” that inhabits Rogeia, and other islands adjacent, settlers in Papua will be considerably surprised, and it will then be time for Messrs. Abel and Baskett to exhibit a modicum of optimistic satisfaction.

The Eastern Papuan possesses in full the capacity to be “all things to all men”.

He follows the line of least resistance,.or rather the practice of it; and keeps one side of his make-up for the Government: one for the Mission; and one for “Taubadas” of the common or garden variety.

A brief conversation with any member oi these sections of the white community will bear this out, and show why they seldon can see eye to eye on any matter relating to the native.

The present propaganda from Kwato is quite understandable. It is an “Industrial Mission’ , which, to be interpreted, is a Mission that usually spells business with a big B.

Kwato, as a Mission, through the years has been an immense power for good, especially so latterly, through its medical work and hospital. This phase of its activity recommends it to all unprejudiced persons; and it needs bolstering by neither fiction nor fairy-tales.

Kwato as a business and trading company is quite a different proposition. No ship-owner, boat-builder, engineer or trader can hope to compete with them.

Their student and other sources of cheap labour enable them to under-cut any competitor, and the financial standing and credit they possess as a Mission gives them the advantage where there is any trading opposition of any kind. What they lose on the swings of business they can recoup on the roundabouts of public subscriptions.

Small wonder then, that at the mention of Kwato, local tradesmen begin to exhibit all the symptoms of an apoplectic attack, and make use of language usually described as “unparliamentary”.

However, for these unfortunate exiles there is hope at last. If the O.G.M. can so touch the black hearts of head-hunting cannibals as to enable them to climb the dizzy heights of moral rectitude, and. without difficulty, breathe the rarefied air of incorruptible virtue (accompanied of course by Messrs Russell Abel and Geoffrey Baskett), then surely the Movement will also touch the flinty hearts of those who guide the business side of Kwato Extension, Inc., so that competition will be tempered with mercy, and a modicum of compassion will be extended to those settlers who dwell within the field of Kwato operations, and who have (unlike most Missionaries) to live by “the toil of their hands, and the sweat of their brows”.

At least, let us hope so.

I am, etc.

E. W. HARRISON.

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Samoan Pioneer Passes On

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Sept. 20.

ONE of the few remaining pioneers and “old-timers” of Samoa, died recently, in the person of Mr. Henry Achatz, of Mataur.uuta, at the age of 79 years. He was born at Harmony, Minnesota, U.S.A, and came to Samoa 47 years ago from South America. He started a plantation and business of his own, and was well respected for his honest and straightforward ways. He leaves a widow and a large family to mourn their loss. 67 Years Since Bishop Patteson's Murder THE 67th anniversary of the murder of Dr. John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, by natives at Nukapu, in the Santa Cruz group on September 20, 1871, was celebrated in Auckland on September 20 by the Bishop of Melanesia (Rt. Rev. W. H. Baddeley).

The murder of Bishop Patteson was due to a tragic error. The bishop had for years protested unavailingly against the iniquities of recruiters of kanaka labour impersonating missionaries to facilitate kidnapping. Bishop Patteson visited Nukapu, and at the request of two natives, went ashore in a native canoe instead of in his own boat. He was clubbed to death in a native hut ashore, his body, rolled in a native mat, being recovered from a canoe turned adrift from the shore.

Mr. J. Hayes, of the accounts branch of the B.N.G. Trading Co., Port Moresby.

Papua, arrived in Brisbane recently by the “Montoro” on leave.

Pilot Norm. Fader has left the services of Mandated Airlines, Ltd., New Guinea and is now flying with Guinea Airways.

Ltd Mr. Henry Acbatz. 57 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Polynesia At New York

World Fair

From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 30.

POLYNESIA will be strongly represented at the New York World Fair in 1939, in a display that will cover 46,000 sq. feet, landscaped to represent a tropical garden, in which appropriate buildings will be erected for exhibits of Polynesian culture from primitive to modem times.

This announcement was made this week by Mr. John H. Wilson, postmaster, of Honolulu, and veteran showman, who has entered into a partnership with New York promoters.

Hawaii and Samoa representatives will be chosen from the communities here, but in January Mr. Wilson will sail for Fiji.

New Zealand and Tahiti to engage at least 20 men and women from each group. Mr.

Wilson will be accompanied by an agent of the New York group.

Preference will be given to troupes already experienced in public performances.

In Tahiti Mr. Wilson hopes to enlist firewalkers. Artisans will be chosen so that they may demonstrate their arts and crafts in the shadow of Manhattan’s towers.

Mr. J. B. Collins, of W. R. Carpenter & Co,, Ltd., Salamaua. New Guinea, arrived in Sydney by the “Macdhui” in September, for three months’ furlough.

Mr. A. Cooper, formerly with Cuthbert’s Misima Goldmine, Co., Ltd., Misima Island, Eastern Papua, arrived in Sydney recently by the “Macdhui”.

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Samoan Report for 1937-38 From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Sept. 13.

THE annual report of the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa for the year ended March 31, 1938, shows the following:— One of the Samoan seats in the Legislative Council is still vacant owing to the nomination of the Mau of Mr. O. P Nelson for the seat. Mr. Nelson, owing to his European status, is ineligible. The report mentions the formation of a Samoan Party in opposition to the Mau Movement.

There is an admission of the failure of the experiment of the Government-owned N.Z. Reparations Estate? to replace Chinese plantation labour with Samoan labour. It is stated that “very few natives have availed themselves of facilities to reside permanently on the plantations and the resident Samoans have been limited to two drier attendants”.

Health conditions in the Territory during the year compare favourably with the preceding year. A striking reduction in infant mortality was recorded, ascribed to intensified baby welfare work and progressive medical and sanitary education among the natives. During the year, 16,800 Samoan fales were visited and 1.820 vilage inspections carried out. Over 72 women’s village committees are in existence, and collaborate with the Medical Department and the Native medical practitioners.

Trade in 1937 was the best since 1928 total trade being £620,304 against £430,275 for the previous year, an increase of 44.16 per cent., mainly due to better prices for copra and cocoa during the first half of 1937 and an increase in banana exports, which reached the record figure of 187,755 cases.

In consequence of improved trade conditions, the finances of the Samoan Administration were the best for many years past, and a surplus of £3BO is shown after the payment of £5,500 in direct redemption of debt, the setting aside of £5,000 for the proposed replacement of the bridge over the Vaisigano River, and a further £8,500 for the 1938-39 building programme. The accumulated surplus at March, 1938, was £24,561, apart from reserves for replacements of assets, and for building purposes, totalling £25,000. The total revenue of the Administration in 1937-38 was £139,450, the highest since 1920-21. 61 NATIVES FINED THE volcanologists, last year, urgently recommended the removal of the Rapindik native hospital, on the outskirts of Rabaul, on the ground that it is very dangerously situated near to Matupi volcano. The administration, accordingly, surveyed a section of native land, in the Ratavul district, as a preliminary to placing the hospital there. The natives, however, pulled up the survey pegs, and the work could not continue.

On September 26, in Rabaul, 61 natives were charged with having removed the pegs. All pleaded guilty and were convicted.

Mr. Norman Davies has taken over the management of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Samarai, Papua. 58 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Uawana, Beware!

From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Sept. 10.

IN the village of Takaroa, down in the Tuamotus, although it is nearby “glamorous Tahiti”, life is humdrum. There is a movie show once a week, and the 400 inhabitants share one radio set.

On the same street is a big grass hut in which an enterprising youth named Uawana has a billiards table. The green cloth is faded and the rubber sides are perishing, but the Takaroans like the way the balls, especially the vari-coloured snooker balls, roll and chase each other around and around. Uawana makes a steady income.

Very soon, though, Uawana is going to have some competition. Teni Huri, another Takaroan, leaves here this week with a plan to “clean up”. In case this meets the eye of Uawana before Teni Huri gets home, here is the lowdown: Teni Huri came to Hawaii in March, 1937, in the yacht “Viva”, which had been a-wandering around the South Seas. The “Viva” was sold here, and so Teni Huri was stranded. Local government authorities allowed Teni to find work with the local relief gangs. He saved up against the day when a yacht would call in, en route to his beloved isles.

Teni is a man of thfe world. He has sailed to Mexico, to Mangareva, and even to the Cook Islands in trading schooners.

Prom every voyage he took back to Takaroa something that intrigued the villagers, in the same way as missionaries and traders intrigue with beads and red cloth.

This time Teni has something up his sleeve that he knows will set Takaroa on fire. At the local Y.M.C.A. he first came across ping-pong Teni couldn’t believe his eyes. Billiard balls are heavy, they bruise your toes when you over-enthusiastically drive them from the table. But ping-pong balls! They have the lightness and energy of a bird.

Teni saved his pennies. To-day he has six ping-pong sets. He has small pots of different coloured paint which will be a surprise up his sleeve when the Takaroans tire of playing all the time with white balls. This week he sails in the cutter “Laila”, which belongs to the Northrup Castles, local people who plan a prolonged South Sea cruise. Teni is going as one of the crew. The “Laila” will drop him at Takaroa.

Teni has it all worked out. Even to the profits he will make. So, Uawana, beware!

British Warship At Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Sept. 20.

THE stay of “H.M.S. Leith” at Papeete —from August 1 until August 14 — was the occasion of many official and private receptions and dinners at Government House, the British Consul-General’s residence, and on board the two warships, the “Rigault de Genouilly” and the “Leith”.

A public ball and exhibition of native singing and dancing were given on the night of August 3.

Queen Elizabeth’s birthday was celebrated with full military and naval honours. The town was decorated with British and French flags, and all the ships in the harbour were gay with buntings.

At noon, a royal salute was fired.

During the following days football games were staged, at the racecourse and athletic field at Fautaua, between the sailors of the “Leith” and local teams— in which the victories went to the home players.

Mr. H. F. Sutton, of Bums, Philp and Co., Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua, arrived in Sydney by the September “Macdhui’

He has completed his term of employment with B.P. and will not return to the Territory.

Teni Hurl, just before leaving Honolulu, with his ping-pong sets. 59 Pacific Islands Monthly-October 15, 19 3 8

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PARAGRAPH supplied to the Melbourne “Herald” by Miss Katherine Welford, after a visit to Pitcairn Island and a study of its laws;— “If a dog damages property, its owner is liable to compensate the propertyholder, but if the identity of the dog (and its owner) cannot be established all dog-owners must collaborate to make good the damage. If a fowl trespasses on a man’s land, he may shoot it and keep the carcase, and the owner of the fowl must pay for the powder and shot used.

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This brings Mr. Reid’s purchases from this source to 70 head. It is the second purchase since the earthquake, when several of his herd were destroyed. Mr.

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Mr. C. K. Norris has been transferred to Salamaua, New Guinea, where he will take over the duties of Chief Clerk at Salamaua District Office.

Snakes In Fiji

Papuans' Fear Of

SORCERY A Murder Report—and Its Sequel From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Sept. 23.

ON September 13, a Koiari native, one of a party of four returning from a visit to Port Moresby, reported that while passing Sapphire Creek bridge late in the evening the party was attacked by members of the Public Works road gang, and several murdered.

Steps were taken immediately. A detachment of police searching the district eventually discovered the missing men alive and not far distant from Tupuselei village, near Bootless Inlet.

It appears that a number of Orokolo natives of the Public Works gang, camped near Sapphire Creek bridge, unexpectedly saw figures in the dim light.

Greatly fearing the evil spirits of the Koiari, they rushed the forms and dispersed them with blows. The terrified Koiari men made off in different directions. imagining the worst. One, finding himself separated from his friends, reported their murder.

This incident serves to show how intense is the natives’ belief in and fear of sorcery in the Port Moresby district even to-day. According to the Orokolo natives, so great is their dread of the Vada (evil spirits) that a member of the camp stands on guard throughout the night.

On this occasion he did not recognise the approaching figures as human and in nervous excitement gave the alarm.

Mr. Sid. Wiltshire, well-known pilot of Guinea Airways, Ltd.. Lae, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney recently by the “Macdhui” on three months' leave.

NON-POISONOUS snakes are numerous in the island of Ovalau, Fiji. They are covered with reddish stripes; they are harmless and will not attack unless disturbed. They are hatched out in dozens, and families are commonly found hidden among stones and overgrowth. The photo shows a native holding up five young reptiles, which are writhing and hissing in an effort to free themselves. —Photo, by J. Madhaven. 60 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1028

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“17'OR several weeks, owing to a false Jl report that someone sent flying through the air, to the effect that we had typhoid fever here, the shipping companies stopped their boats from calling”, writes a resident of Pitcairn Island, under date of September 13.

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Sheers are ideal for the frocks that are made on looser lines. The neck and sleeves of a sheer frock are trimmed with narrow kilting. The full blouse falls softly over the slimly moulded hip bands and the skirt is softly flared. Without doubt Sheer is the best all-round summer material that manufacturers have presented for some time.

It can be draped, pleated, flared or gathered and the effect is always good.

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Stripes are used with more ingenuity than ever before and are they popular!

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ALL evening gowns are lovely—whether slim and sophisticated or bouffant and flowing, romance is in every line and fold.

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The corseletted waistline appears frequently on frocks of heavy crepe and satin. This high and low banded waist holds an important place in Fashion’s rulings, and the skirt beneath is fitted to below the hips then flares widely.

Lace is deservedly in the limelight this season. A burgundy lace goes over a’ full foundation of dusky pink taffetas and is magnificent. The halter neck line is made of the taffetas. A black lace frock is tied at the waist with turquoise velvet ribbon. A V-shaped shirred panel, draped shoulders, and the skirt gathered widely over a taffeta slip, and a frock appealing in its femininity is presented.

Boldly patterned satins and sheers are well to the fore. These come in brilliant colours splashed over pastel grounds and are lovely beyond description. No trimming is required for frocks made of these patterned silks. A good cut and their own beauty are sufficient to cause a sensation.

BE discriminating in your choice of accessories. Dressmaker jewellery and artificial flowers can be charming but they require discriminate choosing. Too much, and all is lost; just the right amount and added chic is the result.

Gloves require the same careful choice.

Skin gloves are always a good bet —hand stitched, of course, and the gloves of pig skin wear and look well and are the perfect complement to tailored and spectator sports frocks. Long kid gloves are finding favour for formal afternoon wear and they are to be had in delicate pastel shades that will match any frock in your wardrobe.

Shoes are given as much consideration as the rest of the wardrobe. New on the skyline is the heavenly-comfortable Cubit —that wedge soled shoe that is now seen everywhere. Two tone shoes always look chic and cool, and set off the frocks with which they are worn. The court, like “the poor”, is always with us and deservedly so since nothing can claim more chic than this type of shoe. It is correct with formal afternoon wear and can be worn on informal occasions also.

"Dark River"

A New Islands Story By Nordhoff and Hall From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Oct. 1.

THE bubble reputation—however glittering- and iridescent it may be in other lands —casts no spell upon the critical judgment of a book, the mise-ensoene of which is Polynesia, when it comes to be read by older residents of the Pacific islands.

There are volumes now in circulation by authors who have achieved fame and fortune, and their works acceptance and regard, which, nevertheless, are anathema in the South Seas on account of the profound ignorance of the Islands life and custom, of history and legend, of native character and motive, that stares out of their pages.

The unqualified approval by South Seas critics of Messrs. Nordhoff and Hall’s “Dark River” (lately published as a serial in the “Saturday Evening Post” and presently to be brought out in book form) is, therefore, a hall-mark attesting accuracy of incident and environments, authenticity of drama and character presentation.

In its pages—as we read —we have met men and women we knew in days long past; have lived again in remote places whose beauty cast a never-ending enchantment over our memory; have sensed about us the fragrance of romance which has held many a European in these fascinating Islands.

What is so satisfactory about Nordhoff and Hall’s work is that there is in it no trace of the sentimentality which makes much of the South Sea literature so sickening.

It is a plain tale, well told; but the charm of style, the certainty of touch, capture the reader’s mind so that, for the time, he is actually living in the Islands and sharing in the daily life, with its problems and comedy and tragedy, of those about him.

Mr. J. Fairbaim, of the Police Department, Western Samoa, arrived in New Zealand recently on furlough. 64 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 19 3 S

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M’Bangai (pronounced Bangee) is a small island in the British Solomon Islands, not far from Tulagi, the capital (said the Melbourne “Herald” on September 23). A few weeks ago Miss Hackett signed the purchase papers for the island, which will be her home for part of each year.

Miss Hackett has practised as a barrister for some years in Adelaide, and in 1937 left her partner, Mr. Robert Napier (son of Judge Napier), in charge of the practice and went with a girl companion for a holiday to the Solomons.

When she arrived, she found that the group did not have a lawyer, so she decided to stay for some months and set up in practice in Tulagi.

Among her many cases she undertook the defence of four natives on trial for murder. They were acquitted.

After three months in Tulagi, the charm of the islands gave her the idea of having an island of her own. She bought a launch, and spent some time cruising, till she found the little tropical spot that was exactly what she wanted.

She returned to Adelaide last year with the Tulagi practice well established and plans in train for the purchase of M’Bangai. Her partner then went to the Solomons and carried on the practice for some months.

About four months ago Miss Hackett left Australia again for the South Seas and the realisation of her dream. She is still at Tulagi, but will return to Australia in OctobeV. She is making plans to build a house on M’Bangai, and has hired native “houseboys”, whom she is training to take charge of the island during her absence.

From Sydney she ordered some gay printed materials and silver chains as a sort of uniform for the “boys”, who are much envied by their fellows for their picturesque outfits. Their employertall, slender and good-looking, with masses of hair which she wears in two coils over her ears—wears shorts, sun tops and a sun helmet in Tulagi.

Miss Hackett is known in Australia for her interest in amateur theatricals and had a theatre of her own in Adelaide for some time, in which she produced rarelyseen plays. This year she published a book of verse.

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Mr. Ivan Champion, A.R.M., in charge of Lake Kutubu police camp in Central Papua, was expected at Kikori station about October 11. Mr. Champion will remain at Kikori to supervise arrangements for the aerial transport of a further year’s sunply of provisions for the camp at Kutubu.

Rev. B. W. S. Moore, of the Melanesian Mission, New Britain, is now in Australia doing deputation work.

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GUINEA MR. S. CAREY, a geologist with Oil Search Ltd. in New Guinea and Papua, lectured to the Pacific Islands Club at the Carlton Hotel. Sydney, on October 5 on “Volcanic Acivity in New Guinea”. He pointed out that while the damage wrought by the recent Rabaul eruption had been severe, matters would have been much worse had the other volcanoes surrounding the township erupted with the same force as Vulcan. He said that if Rapindik, just behind Rabaul, had blown up. history might have repeated itself with a second Pompeii.

Mr. Carey explained the origin of what were erroneously called “tidal waves”, which have been experienced from time to time on New Guinea coasts. Volcanic eruptions on the bed of the ocean caused the sea in the vicinity to boil and steam quickly rose to the surface: the water thrown back by the explosion and steam jets caused a large wave. Similarly a series of explosions caused a series of large waves.

NEW BOOKS MADMAN’S ISLAND”, by lon L.

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What would you do if you were marooned on a very small, mangrove island near the Barrier Reef, North Queensland, with nothing but a few simple articles of camp equipment?

It is indicated that there is nothing on the island to assist human existence except a small spring, liable to inundation during high tides.

That was the dismal situation in which Idriess and another man found themselves several years ago. But life was by no means dull.

There was the endless, primitive adventure of procuring food —in which every ounce of their bushcraft was called upon—and further excitement lay in the fact that the other man was subject to spells of homicidal mania, during which he stalked Idriess purposefully among rocks and through mangrove thickets.

It is explained that Idriess wrote this book a long time ago. but it did not “click”. Now that he is Australia’s most successful author, the book has been revised; and Idriess’s large public will find much pleasure in it. Idriess, in his inimitable fashion, describes the strangeness of life in that lonely place; the grim intentness with which they set about matching their quickness and ingenuity against the cunning of the fish and crabs which were their only hope of sustaining life; their despair as ships passed distantly, ignoring their frantic signals, and the months dragged on; and their primitive savagery whenever one of them went mad, and attacked the other. Idriess is at his best when describing the curious natural phenomena of their bleak little island. An eminently readable book.

“MAELSTROM”, by E. V. Timms. Our copy from Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney, 8/6.

This admirable novel has been universally acclaimed, and it carries Mr. Timms to the front rank of British authors. The story opens with the death of Cardinal Richelieu, dictator of France; is interwoven closely with the dramatic national events which immediately followed: shifts for a time to England and introduces Oliver Cromwell; and ends in New France, which was being established then in Eastern Canada. It is an Alexander Dumas, or “Scarlet Pimpernel” type of story—it bristles with daring deeds and startling situations, portrays some very lovable women, introduces famous historical personages to its quick-moving drama, and it is endowed with much rich humour.

All critics have joined in chorus to praise the craftsmanship of Mr. Timms, who has succeeded in building, against an historical background that appears to be most accurately and faithfully drawn, one of the best and liveliest stories we have read in years.

Ten Years' Timber Lease Warning in Australian Parliament FURTHER information about the Federal Government’s plan to give a contract to someone to remove 50.000 super feet of hoop pine and klinkii from the Bulolo Valley, New Guinea, was sought in the Australian Parliament by Mr. A. E. Green on September 23. What were the areas affected, what was the term of the contract, and how was it proposed to remove the timber?

The Minister was completely vague. One gathers, from a close study of his long speech, that tenders close on December 2; that the contract is for 10 years; and that the contractor must begin to remove timber within two years, either by the new road (if it is built!) or by some other means.

Mr. Green said he had heard some strange stories about the proposal of the Government to give a long-term contract to one Company; and he gave a warning that the members of the House would be very vigilant. 66 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Twenty Years on Throne From Our Own Correspondent.

NUKUALOFA, Oct. 12.

THE 20th anniversary of the accession of Queen Salote Tubou, D.8.E., to the throne of Tonga (on October 11 1918) was celebrated throughout Tonga.

The proceedings in Nukualofa extended over several days and included an agricultural show, a regatta, sports meetings, native dancing and displays of homage.

The Tongan Government on October 12 made a special issue of Id., 2d. and stamps.

The first King of Tonga, based on the European conception of the title, was Taufaahau, who became King in 1845 under the name of George Tubou I. and died in 1893 at the age of 96 years. He was succeeded by his great-grandson, who became George Tubou 11.. and who died in 1918. His daughter, the present Queen, then ascended the Throne. Educated at Auckland Diocesan High School.

Queen Salote has never lost her affection for the school, and on visits to Auckland invariably makes use of the opportunity to meet old school friends. The Crown Prince of Tonga, Prince Taufaa’Hau, was educated at Newington College, Sydney, and is now enrolled at Sydney University.

British Justice?

A Bitter Cry From New Guinea Letter to the Editor, WHEREVER you go in the world, and get into British territory, you always depend on British justice, irresnective of nationality or creed.

But what has happened in New Guinea?

The only law I can see in New Guinea is that designed to protect our black brothers against being worked and paid and looked after by those terrible “white masters”, who come and start plantations. and ask their labourers to do their ta*k for the day.

The plantation manager either “handles” his labour properly, and by sheer luck, or through some understanding D. 0., who knows how to interpret the law gets away with it; or he is prosecuted, and gets the sack from the company he works for, or a term in an Australian gaol. And this usually from native evidence, which is notoriously unreliable. Any native will swear his own father’s life away for two bob, if you get him the right way.

Have the Government forgotten that when the revenue from the goldfields peters out, there still will be the planter, who has struggled for 10 or 15 years to bring his place into being, paid his taxes, duties, etc., and is still the main industry of New Guinea?

Copra is down. It doesn’t pay even to cut it; and still this Government persists in putting every obstacle in the planter’s way, instead of giving him a helping hand with labour, etc.

This is the only country in the world where British justice is so misinterpreted.

In Australia, if you start on the land and things are a bit hard, you have the Agricultural Bank to see you over your difficulties. Here, with all the Government surplus revenue that is talked about, wouldn’t it be a good idea to learn this little lesson from Australia?

Then, perhaps, we would not hear any more of this outcry that “we wish to God the Germans would come back here and show them how to handle natives!”

I am, etc., PLANTER.

New Britain, T.N.G. 16/8/’38.

Queen Salote, and her Consort, Prince Tugi, Premier of the Kingdom. 67 Pacific Islands Monthl y —o ctober 15, 1938

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Mr. Darcy Jones, sales manager of the Chris Craft Boats and Marine Engine Division of Paul and Gray Ltd., returned to Sydney early in October from an extensive tour of inspection of the eastern coast of Australia, from Sydney to Cairns. He reports an unusual happening: he met by chance in a Cairns street, Mr. “Ted” Tanner, well-known in that centre, who served in the Great War with Mr. Jones—after not having seen each other since 1916. Recognition was mutual, after 27 years!

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GUINEA Character of The Record MR. JENNINGS, in the Australian House of Representatives on October 7, directed attention to a statement made by the Australian journalist and naturalist, Mr. A. H. Chisholm, on his return to London from a visit to Germany, to the effect that German scientists were showing a marked interest in the resources of New Guinea, and were complaining that Australia had failed in its duty to exploit these resources adequately, and left this task to Americans.

The Minister for External Affairs, Mr.

Hughes, denied that the Government had been laggard in its efforts to develop the resources of New Guinea.

Later, Mr. Hughes pointed out that Australia had every reason to be proud of development in New Guinea. In 1913, the white population of the Territory was only 968. Now it was 4,332. In the same period natives under European control had increased from 230,000 to 542,000. The value of exports had grown from £402,000 to £3,389,000, and imports had increased from £425,000 to £1,311,000. The Commonwealth, in the years that it had held the mandate, had spent about £350,000 on development works in New Guinea.

Editorial Note: And the “Pacific Islands Monthly” repeats its assertion, made on dozens of occasions, that Australia has nothing in New Guinea to be proud of.

Here is a great, rich, undeveloped country; endless opportunities for initiative and enterprise; many hundreds of resourceful young Australians, official and non-official, eager to get on with the work of development; and, squatting on top of it all, an Administration that is paralysed in New Guinea, and controlled in Canberra, by a gang of blathering and visionless politicians and ex-politicians, who ought not to be allowed out without petticoats. Nearly all the development that has occurred in New Guinea since 1918 has been carried out by the goldminers, and the gold companies, and a couple of enterprising trading firms; and what they have achieved has been achieved mostly in spite of the Government. and not because of encouragement received. Where are the new lands opened up to European settlement? What new lines of agriculture have been introduced? How many new plantations have been started, to take the place of the German-planted areas, now petering out 9 What new industries have been established, outside the Morobe goldfields 9 What public works have been carried out, outside of Morobe? What has been done worthy of mention, in introducing health and education services to the natives?

Morobe Warden'S Report

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THE following extracts are taken from the Mine Managers’ Monthly Reports supplied to the Warden of the Morobe Goldfield, T.N.G., for the period ended September 30:— Sunshine G.D. Ltd. —For the quarter ended (August 31, the total gold won from the Consolidated Claims amounted to 834 oz. from 80.- 800 yds. Staff comprised 11 Europeans and 127 natives. One native died in Wau Hospital from chronic dysentery. A shelter shed was erected on the dredge tailings near the Baiune River, to serve as a garage and protection for stores, etc., in the event of the Baiune River not being safe to ford.

Bulolo Deposits Ltd, —Morobe Alluvials: A paddock containing 7,900 yds. was completed for a fair return. Two more paddocks will complete the workings up to the road. Morobe Deposits: A paddock was completed, the plant shifted and a total of 8,500 cub. yds. treated for a fair return. This ground is improving in values and the ground Is more easily removed. Flat Creek was worked, but on account of the dry spell, little work was done on Upper Morobe and Lower Morobe. Employees: Whites, 5; natives, 116.

Bulolo G.D. Ltd.—Total cargo carried was 1,054,849 lbs. (527 short tons) in 184 trips, 280 tons of cargo for the Co. were landed at Lae from 3 vessels. 222 ft. of drilling was carried out ahead of No. 2 dredge. Pitting and costeening on the eastern boundary of Gorge Leases totalled 413 ft. Shafting amounted to 19 ft.

Dredge No. 7 Construction; Good progress continues to be made, 64 workmen and 40 natives being engaged. Commenced a new retort house at Bulolo and native quarters at No. 6 camp.

Timbering work on the Wau Bridge is under way. 68 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—O ctober 15, 1938

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Oil-Seekers In Papua 20

YEARS AGO THIS interesting, old photograph taken at Vailala River, Papua, nearly 20 years ago, shows geologists of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, who then were conducting a vigorous search for oil in the Territory The A.P.O. activities extended over 10 years, until boring work at Popo ceased in October, 1929.

In the group are: Standing (left to right) Messrs. W. Gray and Brown, Mrs.

Mayo, Messrs. Mayo (Chief Geologist), and E. Lister-James (General Manager); sitting (left to right): Messrs. Haynes (now in Papua with the Apinaipi Petroleum Co.), de Verteuil (at present in Trinidad), J. N. Montgomery (in Papua again now as Chief Geologist of Oriomo Oil Co.), and Bouchier (killed some time ago in a motor accident in the Malay States).

Mr. Indar Singh, formerly well-known in Fiji as Seigeant-Major of Constabulary, arrived back in the Colony recently from India, where he had been living in retirement. He has now settled permanently in Fiji.

Mr. D. A. C. Butler, newly appointed manager in Fiji for the Union Steamship Co., arrived in Suva by the last “Matua”.

Mr. A. J. Thomas sailed from Sydney for Hog Harbour, New Hebrides, by the “Morinda” on September 15. He is British Agent at Hog Harbour, and had just completed five months’ leave in Australia His Honour Chief Judge F. B. Phillips arrived In Sydney from Rabaul, New Guinea, by the “Montoro” on September 5, for several months’ holiday. He is being relieved by Mr. P. L. Griffiths, Solicitor-General of Tasmania.

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NOTES From Fiji LOLOMA (FIJI) GOLD MINES N.L.

ORE of a higher grade was treated by Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines N.L., Tavua, Fiji, in the four weeks ended September 7, and gold production of 2,742 fine oz. constituted a record. Recent returns are:—

Emperor And Loloma

Emperor Mines Ltd. is experimenting with the flotation process on telluride ore, said the chairman of directors (Mr. W. H. Smith), on his return from a visit to the field in mid- September. Mr. Smith emphasised that the experiments were being conducted to obtain the best results and to apply the process to the field. Results to date were encouraging.

At present only oxidised ore was being treated, but later attention would be directed to the sulphide ore, and the tests being conducted would assist in obtaining the best results at depth.

Roasting of the Loloma ore was costly, and should the experiments prove successful, a 69 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 35, 1938

July 13.

Aug. 10.

Sept. 7.

Tons, crushed 14,748 14,091 14,583 Head value, dwt. 6.2 6.29 6.3 Yield, oz. (est.) .. 4,166.6 4,017.5 4,120.6 Dwt., a ton 5.66 5.67 5.65 Tailings, dwt. 0.6 0.57 0.53 Four weeks ended: June 15.

July 13. Aug. 10. Sep. 7.

Ore, tons .. .. 2,749 3,290 3,030 2,754 Gold, fine oz. 608 650 659 615 Value, £ A. . . £5320 £5,687 £5,766 £5,381 Aug 3.

Sept. 6.

Sept. 25.

Morobe Alluvials— Hours 550 600 290 Yards . 5.000 7.500 2,000 Gold, oz. 70 140 50 Morobe Deposits— Hours 470 525 300 Yards . 6.500 8,500 4,500 Gold, oz. .. 45 45 30 June. July. Aug.

Edie Creek mill— Gold, oz., fine .. 1,126 1,208 1,154 Silver, oz., fine . 3,906 4,052 3,865 Alluvial— Gold, oz., fine .. 1,185 1,120 809 Silver, oz., fine .. 838 797 612 Operating profit— Edie Creek .. .. £1,588 £2,771 £2,532 Alluvial 4,639 4,305 2,700 Mining Ore Treatment Machinery

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Mr. Smith said that developmental work in the Loloma mine at 224 ft. was disclosing rich telluride ore. The ore body was going down strongly below the level, and augured well for the future of the field at depth. Sinking of the new main shaft was in progress.

In the Emperor mine a winze was being sunk from 300 ft. to 400 ft., the depth at which rich values were being obtained in the Loloma mine. At this horizon the Company was expecting better results.

Mr. Smith added that in the Dolphin mine operatidns had reached a depth of 200 ft., and developments were satisfactory.

EMPEROR MINES LIMITED.

Gold recovered by Emperor Mines Ltd. (Fiji) again exceeded the 4,000 oz. mark in the four weeks ended September 7. In the last four crushing periods the yields have been steady around this point.

In the September clean-up the Company crushed 14,583 tons for a yield of 4,120.6 oz of fine gold. Combined head value, 6.3 dwt. 6.3 dwt. a ton. New mill head value, 6.3 dwt. a ton; pilot plant head value, 5.7 dwt. a ton.

Combined residue value was 0.53 dwt. a ton; new mill residues, 0.49 dwt. a ton; pilot plant residues, 1.4 dwt. a ton. Concentrates from pilot plant weighing approximately three tons estimated to contain 60oz. of fine gold were stored for further treatment.

Latest yields compare as follow: Progress Report.—Koroere Area: Good progress made in forming and metalling road from Cardigan section to “Emperor” mill. Bulk oil installation: Work has been delayed owing to shortage of labour and sickness. Lime-burning plant at Tau: Satisfactory progress has been made, and everything was in readiness for bricklayers, when they arrived on September 23.

The Company reports that option holders have exercised their rights on the remaining shares, totalling 140,000, making the capital 1,900,000 shares of 10/- fully paid. The option shares will participate in the first dividend of 1/- per share, which thus requires £95,000.

MT. KASI MINES LTD.

Yields from the Mount Kasi mine, Vanua Levu, for the past four months, are compared in the following table:— From New Guinea GOLD AND POWER LIMITED.

GOLD AND POWER LIMITED has been incorporated in New Guinea to purchase the assets of Upper Watut Gold Alluvials N.L. (in liquidation). The issued capital is £16,031. The directors of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd. (Messrs. H. B. Jamieson, H. G. Hyde, J. W.

Hinks, and A. J. Smeaton) are personally interested in the Company and the Sandy Creek Company has invested £l,OOO in the concern.

Towards the end of 1937, the New Guinea assets of Upper Watut Gold Alluvials were put up for sale. Sandy Creek Company was interested, but did not have sufficient opportunity to examine the leases closely and, therefore, did not tender. The liquidators rejected the tenders received. Sandy Creek Company again was approached, and it found that the largest creditors of Upper Watut Gold were willing to sell their interest for £6,000.

A hurried decision was necessary; thereupon the Sandy Creek directors formed and financed the Hydraulic Gold and Power Syndicate in order to close the deal. The new Company (Gold and Power Ltd.) will take over the Syndicate’s interest and will also purchase the assets of Upper Watut Gold Alluvials.

BULOLO GOLD DEPOSITS LTD.

The following yields have been reported by Bulolo Gold Deposits, New Guinea:— This Company has now been taken over by New Guinea Goldfields Limited.

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS LIMITED.

The following progress report for August has been issued by the Mining Trust Limited, consulting engineers for N.G. Goldfields Ltd.:— - The reconstructed Golden Ridges mill was run in on low-grade tailings during August, and treated 1,200 tons for a recovery of 113 oz. fine gold and 116 oz. silver. The estimated operating loss was £ 1,005.

The Company has arranged to purchase the whole of the assets of Bulolo Gold Deposits Ltd. for £21,500 (see page 17 for details). New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. has also made an agreement with Koranga Gold Sluicing Ltd. for the working of the deep alluvials belonging to both Companies in the Koranga area.

ENTERPRISE OF NEW GUINEA N.L.

The general manager of Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development N.L. (Mr. Harold Taylour), reported as follows for the period, August 26 to September 8: Edie mine, No. 3 level, west drive, No. 1 parallel lode to 68ft. at 60ft. assays 4dwt. 4.Bgr. gold over 27in.; at 65ft. two smaller sections of lode assay 9wdt. loz. gold; No. 1 level, west drive, main lode crosscut at 801 ft. not yet reached. Pootwall ore exposed 15ft. wide, all works proceeding satisfactorily.

Production of unrefined retorted alluvial gold from all sources for September was 250 z. 1 dwt. from 5,100 cub. yds. 70 Pacific Islands Month! y—O ctober 15, 1938

June. July. Aug.

Cubic yards .. 1,184,000 1,232,000 1,249,000 Bullion oz 18,265 19,667 23,492 Gold, fine, oz. . . 12,603 13.569 16,209 V&lU6 "

Aust. currency* . £110,276 £118,729 £141,829 Value, per c.y. . /22.3 /23.1 /27.2 Working profit .. £75,967 £77,875 £100,695 ♦At £A8/15/- per fine ounce.

June. July. Aug. Sept.

Cubic yards .. 15,949 16,088 18,497 19,644 Gold oz. . . 292 531 538 359 Per c.y. ... 2/9 4/11 4/4 2/9 Work, cost 1/3 Vb 1/5 1/2 1/0 Vz June. July.

Aug.* Sept.f Crushed, tons 1,690 2,190 2,128 2,750 Gold, oz., fine — — ' 396 Silver, oz — — — 1,749 Value £1,775 £2,675 £2,705 £3,620 ♦ Average battery head value by assay was 5dwt. and the tails 6 grains. t Residues, 7 grains.

July. Aug. Sept.

Treated, tons .. .. 2,800 2,858 2.905 Bullion, ozs 2,466 2,872 2,922 Gold, fine, oz 804 822 835 Silver, fine, oz 1,570 1,939 1,986 Value, £A8 oz. .. £6,517 £6.684 £6,797 Value per ton .. 46/7 46/9 46/9

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The August output of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.. Morobe goldfield, New Guinea, compares with the two previous yields as follows: — SANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING LTD.

The mine manager of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Limited, New Guinea, reported on October 4 that the working of No. 1 plant at Sandy Creek during September was seriously affected by flooding. The last four yields compare as follows: — From Papua PAPUAN APINAIPI PETROLEUM CO.

RADIO advice from Mr. Launcelot Owen, the Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co.’s geologist, stated on September 12 that the Oiapu bore was down 853 feet, that the trace of oil struck at 774 feet was continuous to 842 ft., and that there was slight gas at 774 ft. to the bottom. Dr. Wade and Dr. Ward having completed their inspection of the Company’s area, returned to Sydney in September by the “Macdhui”. They have submitted a report to the Minister for Territories.

The following report of their visit has been received from Mr. Launcelot Owen: ‘‘The detail work done and the results of my examination of the air photographs taken since my report of May 31 have fully confirmed my favourable opinion of the Oiapu structure as a potential oil producer. The showing of oil does prove that the lower argillaceous series in which we are now drilling, is petroliferous at the actual well site. Such work as has been done, and the results from the Oiapu bore have amply confirmed the statements in my published report and the conclusions which I reached. The cores have been minutely examined by Dr. Wade and Dr. Ward, and myself. A noticeable feature of the cores is the abundance of plant remains, which proves shallow water conditions of deposition”.

MANDATED ALLUVIALS N.L.

Mandated Alluvials, N.L., Papua, reports that returns from Chillagoe smelters, give the net assay of the fourth shipment of matte as 286 oz. gold, 4590 z. silver, and 7 tons copper, the total value being £3,048.

MISIMA NORTH LTD.

Misima North Limited has been registered in Sydney with a nominal capital of £lOO,OOO in £1 shares to acquire mines and mineral properties in Eastern Papua. The first directors are Messrs Joseph Tomlinson, Robert Dugan, Claude M. Cox, and Alfred N. Harding.

YODDA GOLDFIELDS LTD.

Yodda Goldfields Ltd., Papua, reports a net profit of £l,OBB for the year ended April 30, and, after deducting a debit balance of £712, brought forward, there remains a credit of £376 in profit and loss account. The directors recommend payment of a dividend of Id a share, amounting to £365. In May last, capital was reduced by writing off assets sufficient to reduce the nominal value of shares to 2/- each. Gross proceeds of gold won during the year totalled £3.737 from 25,882 c. yds., averaging 2/10 a yard. Continued improvements in results are anticipated and a consequent payment of quarterly dividends.

Mr. H. T. Kienzle, mine manager of Yodda Goldfields Ltd., said at the annual meeting in Sydney in mid-September, that the mine had a life of about 10 years. The present output was about 70oz. per month. A dividend of Id. per share was declared at the meeting, and, in a statement submitted by the directors, a further dividend of Id. per share, payable on October 15, was foreshadowed.

Yield for Yodda Goldfields for September was 87oz. 3dwt.

GOLD MINES OF PAPUA LTD.

Comparative monthly returns from Gold Mines of Papua, Ltd., Misima Island, show:— CUTHBERT’S MISIMA GOLDMINE LTD.

Figures for the monthly cleanup on September 23 from Cuthbert’s Misima mine compare with the previous two months as follows: — Total developments for August 401 ft.; 511 tons ore won from development; 2,347 tons from stopping; total 2,858 tons; average assay, gold 6dwt. 6gr. per ton; silver, 36dwt. 3gr. per ton.

Mr. Percy Morris, a director of Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd., and a former resident of Fiji, visited the Colony on a holiday trip in September.

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Oct. 31 (M0n.)—9.30 a.m. Serial; 12 “Health and Biology”: 1.30 Music and Description of Ascot Races: 5.20 Children’s Session; 8 “The Valley of the Sky”.

Nov. 1 (Tues.) —9-30 a.m. Radio Serial; 1.30 p.m. Melbourne Cup race meeting: 6 Lesson in German: 7.40 “The Watchman”: 9.45 Jim Davidson’s Dance Band.

Nov. 2 (Wed.) —130 p.m. Ascot Races: 8 Request Items; 9.10 “Love Marches On”; 9.30 Serial—“ Captain Kettle”: 9.45 Harry Bloom’s Dance Band; 10.30 Spivakovsky Duo (Plano & Violin).

Nov. 3 (Thurs.)—l.3o p.m. Flemington Races; 6 Lesson in Italian; 9.30 Revue—“ls There a Sturgeon?”; 10.15 Jim Davidson’s Band.

Nov. 4 (Fri.)—B p.m. Jim Davidson’s Dance Band: 8 30 Desmond Tanner at Electric Organ; 9.15 Community Singing.

Nov. 5 (Sat.) —8.30 a.m. Talk (Mr. M. S.

Sharland); 9.30 Hobbles Session; 1.15 p.m. Plemington Races; 8 and 9.10 Old Time Dance Music.

Nov. 6 (Sun.) —10.15 a.m. Book Review; 10.30 “From the Operas”; 6.30 p.m. Talk by Don Bradman: 9 Play. (Continued Overleaf.) 73 Pacific Islands Monthly—O ctober 15, 1938

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Nov. 7 (Mon.) —1.30 p.m. Geelong Races; 6 French Lesson; 8 Serial; 8.30 National Military Band (Stephen Yorke).

Nov. 8 (Tues.) —9.30 a.m. Serial; 3 p.m.

“Everyday Science and Nature Study”; 6 German Lesson.

Nov. 9 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Musical Programme & Woodend Races; 8 Request Items; 9.10 Music.

Nov. 10 (Thurs.) —1.30 Mornington Races; 6 Italian Lesson; 7.40 Talk “Revealing a Continent”: 8 Musical Programme.

Nov. 11 (Fri.)—3 p.m. “Adventures in Music”; 3.20 Seymour Races; 8 Jim Davidson’s Dance Band; 8.30 Desmond Tanner at Electric Organ; 9.15 Community Singing.

Nov. 12 (Sat.) —9.30 a.m. Hobbies Session; 1.15 Williamstown Races; 10.30 Dance Music.

Nov. 13 (Sun.) —10.30 a.m. “From the Operas”; 4.30 p.m. Organ Recital; 4.50 Adelaide Wireless Chorus; 7.15 New Note Octet; 7.50 Harry Bloom; 9.20 Play.

Nov. 14 (Mon.) —8 p.m. Serial ‘‘The Labours of Hercules”; 8.30 National Military Band; 9 Topical Revue; 9.30 “Choral Cavalcade”.

Nov. 15 (Tues.) —3.15 p.m. Kimore Races; 6 German Lesson; 8 Musical Programme, including community singing.

Nov. 16 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Bendigo Races; 8 Request Items; 8.45 “Emma and ’Erbert”; 9.10 “Love Marches On”; 9.30 Serial; 9.45 Harry Bloom’s Band; 10.50 Spivakovsky Duo.

Nov. 17 (Thurs.) —1.30 p.m. Bendigo Races; 6 Italian Lesson; 7.40 Talk—“ Australia, the Heroine”: 8 “The Play’s the Thing”.

Nov. 18 (Fri.) —3 p.m. “Adventures in Music”; 8 Jim Davidson’s A.B.C. Dance Band; 8.30 Desmond Tanner at Electric Organ.

Nov. 19 (Sat,)—l.ls p.m. V.A.T.C. Races (Caulfield): 7.35 Sporting Highlights; 11 Dance Music; 12 Close.

Melville Island

Short-Lived Plan to Place Jews There THOUSANDS of foreign Jews, driven out of Germany, Austria, Italy, etc., have been clamouring for admission to Australia, and thus causing embarrassment to Canberra, which does not know what to do with them.

For a time, prominence was given to a suggestion that 100,000 Jewish refugees be placed on Melville Island. This island, 40 miles north of Darwin, is 80 miles long, by 40 miles wide, and contains 1,500,000 acres. It was claimed to be fertile and well-watered, and eminently fit for colonisation.

Very soon, however, the plan was vigorously condemned by a number of people who personally had visited Melville Island. They declared that it was hot, humid, low-lying and malarious, and most unfit for colonisation. The plan appears now to have died.

It is recalled that, in recent years, a sort of Australian promotion company has held some option over Melville Island, and has been trying to organise a settlement plan there.

Where Socialism

OPERATES Strength and Weakness of Tonga (Written for the P.I.M. by J. T.

Goedicke, of Haapai, Tonga, 80 years of age, and an old resident of Tonga.) THE little kingdom of Tonga is without a parallel in the countries of the world, for it has neither poverty nor serious crime, nor a national debt, and a system of virtual land nationalisation prevails.

The Government is constitutional, with the British Consul and Agent as the power behind the throne. The people are happy, if not prosperous. The conditions of life are easy, and every Tongan has his bit of land —or should have it. Education is universal, and in some respects it is up to colonial matriculation standard —although an agricultural education would be more suitable. The Tongan’s health is well looked after by European doctors and native medical practitioners.

While there is no poverty in Tonga, there is no wealth. The immemorial tribal system is opposed to the accumulation of property. A man’s relations have the right to come and live with him, and share what he possesses.

Some years ago a Tongan high chief lost his wife, and married a Samoan of high rank. One result was that he was bothered by his wife’s Samoan relations, who were all related to him because they were related to her. Those Samoans came to Tonga with nothing; they returned with well-stocked sandalwood chests which they had “cadged” from their relative’s husband. He would not break Polynesian etiquette by refusal — he would rather be heavily in debt to the traders!

In Tonga are to be seen the strength and weakness of Socialism—“a people without poverty, but a people without individualism”. The Tongan may be ready to utilise the inventions and discoveries of others, but he will not invent or discover for himself. The man who wants to rise above his fellows had better leave the country. To those whose ideal of life will be realised in short hours of labour, abundance of food, and neither poverty nor riches, Tonga will be Utopia.

But whether humanity at large would be content with that Utopia becoming world-wide is a matter of speculation.

Social and economic conditions must alter in civilised lands —but then will not follow the Polynesian pattern where the changes are affected. 74 Pacific Islands Mont hi y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Hughes should be proud to be associated with a company which, as an actual fact, pioneered gold-dredging aerial transport and, in New Guinea, made aviation history.

The selection of Lae probably would add value to Gumea Airways’ establishment there, but that is a happy accident for which G.A. are not responsible. When C. J. Levien fossicked around there in 1927. and located a possible aerodrome on flat ground at the mouth of the Markham River, he never dreamed that some day it would be regarded as a suitable place for the capital of the Territory.

The idea of rejecting Lae, in the face of the Griffiths Committee’s report, because it may be held to “favour a rich company”, is a little fantastic.

New Building In Rabaul

WHAT is happening In Rabaul? The “Rabaul Times” says that Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd,, and W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., “have decided to go ahead with huge building programmes in Rabaul. A bigger, better, brighter store and offices in the heart of beleaguered, bewildered, besieged and be-damned Rabaul, has been decided on as the immediate programme of the former, whilst extensions to their wharves, sheds and storage nremises at Toboi (on the very slopes of Vulcan), together with a new slip-way in the harbour itself, is the contemplated programme of the latter firm.” which seems to indicate confidence in the future of Rabaul.

Meanwhile, most surprisingly, the Administrator (Sir Walter McNicoll) left Rabaul on September 22 on four months’ leave. That is not the action of a man who expected that, at any moment, his staff would become involved in the heavy task of moving the capital.

Is there any reason in the suggestion of a Rabaul resident, that Minister and Administrator have decided to pursue, for a while, a policy of masterly inactivity, in the hope that everyone concerned will become so sick of the uncertainty and delay that they* gladly will agree to a suggestion to leave the capital where it is?

RECRUITING NEW GUINEA affairs occupied large slices of the Commonwealth Parliament reports in September and October. Some extracts follow.

Question by Mr. R. James, on September 21: — “Is it a fact that in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea recruiting officers go into the native villages, recruit natives and sell them to farms, plantations and mines for the sum of £lO head? Is it also a fact that these natives are contracted to work for 10/- a month and their keep, which consists of sweet potatoes? Will the labour that is proposed to be used for the construction of a new road be exploited in a similar manner by the contractors?

It should be explained, perhaps, that Mr. James has suggested that unemployed European labour from the Australian coalfields might be used on road-building in New Guinea.

The Minister (Mr. Hughes), said he knew “nothing at all about sweet potatoes, or any of those other matters”; but he would make inquiries.

“From China To Peru”?

MR. ANTHONY wanted to know where the new capital of New Guinea was to be.

Mr. Hughes said: “We are still searching diligently for the right site.”

Sir Charles Marr: Can the Minister state if the report that the Administrator has left on a trip to China has anything to do with this diligent search for a new capital for New Guinea?

Mr. Hughes: I have not heard that it has. It is a fact, however, that the Administrator has applied for and been granted four months’ leave of absence.

On September 22, Mr. Curtin asked what was to be the route of the road, was it to be built by day labour or contract, would it provide for 5-ton vehicles, and when would construction work commence.

Mr. Hughes said as the surveys were not completed, no decisions could be made.

Hughes And Salamaua—And Marr

ON September 23, Sir Charles Marr caustically criticised Mr. Hughes’ selection of Salamaua, which he described as a god-forsaken nlace, subject to tidal waves and malaria. Further, he did not know of any coastal place which would cost more to fill in, to make it suitable as a capital site.

Mr. Hughes retaliated that Salamaua was a reasonably healthy place, and said that the last annual hospital returns showed there were 89 cases of malaria in Rabaul, 74 in Wau and 26 in Salamaua and Lae combined.

Sir Charles retorted that there were 9,000 people in the Rabaul district, and only a few in Salamaua.

The exchanges between the Minister and the ex-Minister were sharp and heated.

Sir Charles argued that it was not necessary that the capital be on the seaboard. He recommended Amelie, 20 miles inland from Madang, on a cool and healthy tableland, 1,200 feet above sea level.

Mr. Anthony (C.P., N.S.W.): I have the N.G. Capital Site (Continued from Page 5.)

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official report here, and it bears out what Sir Charles has said about Salamaua.

Mr. Hughes: I also have an official report, and my report overrides yours.

Sir Charles Marr then rose on a point of personal explanation. “I spoke of Salamaua as a fever-infested area, and everyone in New Guinea knows that that is so”, he said. The fact is that the greatest part of the population of Salamaua is in the cemetery.”

Mr. Hughes: I do not know whether Sir Charles can make a statement of that kind.

Called to order by the Speaker Sir Charles said that Mr. Hughes, in stating that he (Sir Charles) had misrepresented the facts, had himself been guilty of misrepresentation.

Resolutions By Public Meeting In Wau, New Guinea THE following report, dated at Wau, New Guinea, on September 26, has been communicated to the “Pacific Islands Monthly” by Messrs. N. P. A.

Neal. M.L.C. (chairman of meeting), H.

T. Allan (president of New Guinea Mining Association), R. A. Laws (Morobe Citizens’ Association), J. Spence (Wau branch, A.L.P.), H. Taylour (Morobe Chamber of Mines);— The largest public meeting ever held in the Morobe district of New Guinea took place in Wau on Sunday, September 25. The meeting was convened by the New Guinea Mining Association, the Morobe Citizens’ Association, the Chamber of Mines, and the Wau branch of the A.L.P. At this meeting it was resolved : That the road, Salamaua to Wau, by the most direct route possible, should be commenced immediately: and that this meeting declares itself definitely opposed to the alternative circuitous routes, via the Markham, and/or the Wampit. This motion was passed unanimously.

That Wau should be selected as the site for the new capital of New Guinea, as it can function immediately, with a considerable saving in expenditure. Further, the cost (estimated at £150.000) of the additional road, between Salamaua and Lae, would be eliminated. This motion was carried with one dissentient.

That this community registers extreme resentment against the remarks, which we say are definitely untrue, published in the “Sydney Morning Herald”, by Mr.

Fairbairn, M.P., on his return to Australia from here. Mr. Fairbairn arrived in Wau two days before his notified date, accompanied by the chairman and manager of Guinea Airways, Ltd. He made no effort to interview representatives of organized bodies in Wau, remaining two hours only.

The remainder of his visit was confined to Lae, as the guest of Guinea Airways, Ltd. Mr. Fairbairn then proceeded, via Salamaua, to Australia, without returning to Wau. This meeting states that Mr. Fairbairn’s remarks cannot be disinterested, and reflect the views of those opposed to the construction of the road. This meeting records its resentment of the action of this politician.

This motion was carried unanimously.

The meeting terminated with a unanimous vote of confidence in the Minister for Territories, and a declaration that the whole community supports his efforts to secure the construction of a road which is vital to the future of the Morobe district.

On Saturday, September 24. a large and representative public meeting was held at Edie Creek, and it unanimously adopted the foregoing resolutions.

The Morobe residents are determined that the road shall be built by the shortest route nossible, and that the control of the merchandising and transportation services, at present existing under the trading agreement between the major firms, shall be broken.

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AIR services affecting the tropical territories continue to expand.

The Federal authorities are trying to find enough flat country in a suitable locality on Thursday Island (in Torres Strait) to construct an aerodrome, but so far without success. It is hoped to provide Thursday Island with a regular service, with land-planes.

Dutch aviation companies continue to show an interest in Papua and New Guinea. A Dutch line is being established between Java and Dutch New Guinea, and it is thought that it would be easy to extend the service into British New Guinea and on to Australia. Messrs.

F. W. J. Surink and D. C. Ruygrok, aerial surveyor and flight sunerintendent of K.N.I.L.M. (well-known Dutch East Indies aviation company) arrived in Port Moresby on October 8 to make inquiries.

Miss Hester Clark, of Nausori, who has spent 26 years working among the Indians in Fiji on behalf of the Methodist Mission, will retire at the end of October.

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Papua, arrived in Australia from Port Moresby by the September “Macdhui”.

Master Edward Schaaffhausen, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Schaaffhausen, well-known residents of Western Samoa, died in Apia Government Hospital on September 16, from typhoid fever. Only 16 years of age, he. had just finished his education at Ifi Ifi Government school, where he was a popular and clever pupil.

Miss M. Harris, of the Methodist Mission at Ulu, New Britain, reached Sydney from Rabaul on furlough by the “Tanda” on September 22. 76 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

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Jan. 3, '36 £13 2 6 £13 15 0 £14 0 0 Peb. 7 £13 0 0 £14 0 0 £15 0 0 Mar. 6 . . £11 15 0 £12 15 0 £13 0 0 April 3 . . £12 7 6 £13 5 0 £13 17 6 May 1 . - £11 10 0 £11 15 0 £12 10 0 June 5 . . £11 10 0 £12 0 0 £12 17 6 July 3 . . £12 0 0 £12 10 0 £13 10 0 Aug. 7 . . £12 17 6 £13 7 6 £14 7 6 Sept. 4 . . £13 2 6 £13 10 0 £14 12 6 Oct. 2 . . £13 7 6 £13 10 0 £14 10 0 Nov. 6 . . £15 10 0 £15 2 6 £16 5 0 Dec. 4 . . £19 7 6 £19 7 6 £20 7 6 Jan. 8, ’37 £22 12 6 £22 12 6 £23 12 6 Feb. 5 . . £19 0 0 £19 0 0 £19 15 0 Mar. 5 . . £19 0 0 £19 5 0 £20 0 0 April 2 . . £19 0 0 £19 15 0 £20 15 0 May 7 . . £16 0 0 £16 12 6 £17 12 6 June 4 £15 15 0 £15 12 6 £16 12 6 July 2 . . £14 15 0 £14 17 6 £15 15 0 Aug. 6 . . £15 2 6 £15 2 6 £15 17 6 Sept. 3 . . £13 5 0 £13 5 0 £14 0 0 Oct. 1 . . £14 15 0 £14 17 6 £15 12 6 Nov. 5 . . £13 10 0 £13 10 0 £14 5 0 Dec. 3 . . £12 10 0 £12 12 6 £13 7 6 Jan. 7, ’38 1 £12 12 6 £12 15 0 £13 12 6 Jan. 21 .. £12 0 0 £12 12 6 £13 0 0 Jan. 28 ... £11 17 6 £12 0 0 £12 15 0 Peb. 4 . .. £11 2 6 £11 10 0 £12 7 6 Peb. 18 .. £10 12 6 £11 0 0 £11 15 0 Feb. 25 .. £11 2 6 £11 5 0 £12 5 0 Mar. 4 £10 17 6 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Mar. 18 .. £10 15 0 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Mar. 25 .. £10 12 6 £10 15 0 £11 12 6 Apr. 1 .. £10 10 0 £10 12 6 £11 10 0 Apr. 14 £10 15 0 £10 17 6 £11 15 0 Apr. 22 £10 17 6 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Apr. 29 £10 17 6 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 May 6 £10 17 6 £10 17 6 £11 17 6 May 13 .. £10 15 0 £10 15 0 £11 15 0 May 20 .. £10 15 0 £10 15 0 £11 15 0 May 27 .. £10 0 0 £10 0 0 £10 15 0 June 3 .. . £9 15 0 £9 15 0 £10 12 6 June 10 .. £9 15 0 £9 15 0 £10 10 0 June 17 . £9 12 6 £9 12 6 £10 7 6 June 24 , £10 0 0 £10 0 0 £11 0 0 July 1 . . £9 17 6 £9 17 6 £10 17 6 July 8 . . £10 2 6 £10 2 6 £11 2 6 July 15 , £10 5 0 £10 5 0 £11 5 0 July 22 , £10 5 0 £10 7 6 £11 7 6 July 29 . £10 0 0 £10 0 0 £11 0 0 Aug. 5 . £9 15 0 £9 15 0 £10 15 0 Aug. 12 . £9 12 6 £9 12 6 £10 12 6 Aug. 19 . £9 15 0 £9 15 0 £10 15 0 Aug. 26 . £9 10 0 £9 10 0 £10 12 6 Sept. • 2 . £9 10 0 £9 10 0 £10 10 0 Sept. 9 . £9 5 0 £9 5 0 £10 5 0 Sept. 16 £9 10 0 £9 10 0 £10 10 0 Sept. 23 . £9 7 6 £9 7 6 £10 7 6 Sept. 30 . . £9 7 6 £9 7 6 £10 7 6 Oct. 7 . , . £9 2 6 £9 2 6 £10 2 6 Kidney Germs Wreck Health Your Kidneys are a marvelous structure.

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Useful Medical Book

ANEW edition of Dr. James’s book, “Diseases Commonly Met With in Melanesia”, has been published by the Melanesian Mission. The first edition, published in 1936, has been sold out. This is one of the most useful compilations of the kind that have been produced. It describes most of the sicknesses and diseases common to the South Seas, and methods of treatment. Copies are on sale at most Islands stores.

The Papuan District Committee of the London Missionary Society will meet at Port Moresby, Papua, on November 25.

A new 42 ft. launch is being built by Papuan native workers under the supervision of the Methodist Mission’s technical instructor at Fife Bay, Papua. The launch will be used for mission work at Daru and the Fly River.

Two vessels belonging to the P.O.D.

Company, the steam lighter “Angas” and the tug “Molek” have left Daru, Papua, for Thursday Island, en route to Singapore. The Company has no further use for them in connection with the oil search in Papua. 77 Pacific Islands Monthl y —o ctober 15, 1938

Buying.

Selling. £ s. d. £ s. d.

Telegraphic transfer .. 110 15 0 112 0 0 On demand 110 12 6 111 17 6 DIRECT

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SELLING RATES Quoted by

Bank Op New South Wales

in Australia.

Francs to £ Australia on Papeete.

Australian Average for week ended 19/9/38 . . .. 139.71 Average for week ended 26/9/38 . . .. 139.58 Average for week ended 3/10/38 . . .. 138.02 Average for week ended 10/10/38 . . .. 140.25 Francs to £ Australia on Noumea Australian Average for week ended 19/9/38 . . .. 139.56 Average for week ended 26/9/38 . . .. 139.42 Average for week ended 3/10/38 . , .. 137.76 Average for week ended 10/10/38 . . .. 140.10 Buying. Selling.

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[Copyright by “Pacific Islands Monthly”.] Coffee THE following quotations were obtained in Sydney in mid-October:— Robusta, f.a.q., Imported from Java on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., prompt shipment, Sydney: Quote No. 1: 29/- per cwt. (new season prompt shipment); quote No. 2: 20/9 per cwt.

Kenya, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt.:—No. 1 quotations: Grade “A”, 60/-; grade “B", 55/-; grade “C”, 50/-. Triage 45/-. No. 2 quotations (new season prompt shipment); Grade “A” 57/-; grade “B” 48/6; grade “C” 54/6. Triage, 38/6 (drought coffee). No. 3 quotations: Grade “B”, 54/-; grade “C”, 46/-.

Mysore, f.a.q., prompt shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt.; No. 1 quotations: Grade “A”, 56/-; grade “B”, 50/6. No. 2 quotation: Grade “B”, Jan.-March delivery, 56/-. Triage, Jan.-March shipment, 48/-.

Arabian (Aden) Hodeidah, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney—No. 1 quotation; 68/6 per cwt. No. 2 quotation, 73/- per cwt.

Note: Importers of coffee from Java, etc., pay the following additional charges: Exchange, duty (4d. lb.), primage (10 per cent.), landing costs (1/- per cwt). Coffee from Papua and New Guinea escapes most of these charges.

Kapok Based on Aim conversion of exchange, the c.i.f. official prices for kapok quoted in Sydney in mid-October were: Average Java 7 7 /ad. per lb., and prime Japara, 7 7-16 d. per lb.

Cocoa Quote No. 1: Cocoa beans, £36-£4O per ton.

Quote No. 2; New Guinea cocoa £29-£3l per ton.

Quote No. 3: Accra, good fermented (Peb.- Mar. shipment), £25 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Cotton London c.i.f. cotton prices during the month were: September 16, 4.61 d. lb., October shipment; September 24, 4.58 d. lb., October shipment; September 30, 4.61 d. lb., November shipment; October 7,4.73 d. lb., November shipment.

Ivory Nuts No. 1 quotation; £7 per ton, f.o.b.

No. 2 quotation: £7 per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Quotations nominal.

Rice Rangoon rice: packed in 100 lb. bags, £l2/ 10/ per ton; 200 lb. bags, £l2/5/ per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Australian table ric-% pa ;ked in 56 lb. bags, £lB per ton.

Trochus Shell Owing to Japan’s restrictions on oversea credits, there have been no sales for some time.

Quotations a:o nominal.

The follow) \g quotations, by two firms, represent last sales, several months ago:— (a) Trochus shell, No. 1 grade £65 Trochus shell. No. 2 grade £57 Trochus shell, No. 3 grade £44 (b) Trochus shell. No. 1 grade £6B Trochus shell, No. 2 grade £6l Trochus shell, No. 3 grade £4B All quotes are f.0.b., and on the Australian £.

Mother of Pearl Shell At the sales of Mother of Pearl shell in Lone 1 ' n, a large supply of Torres Strait shell came forward and wa sold at prices ranging from £125 (sterling) for A.A. chicken to £62 (sterling) for fair d fective pickings.

There was no New Guinea shell offered; 20 packages of Black Edged Tahitian shell were put up, but were mostly withdrawn. 260 packages of Darwin shell fetched £132 (sterling) for Ist. grade to £7l (sterling) for fair defective pickings. Prices generally were lower than the previous sale, although small shell was firm.

Green Snail Shell Green snail shell, good quality, was quoted by Sydney buyers in mid-October, at £5O per ton.

Exchange Rates [Copyright by “Pacific Islands Monthly”.] THE following exchange quotations, gathered in Sydney, show the rates existing in mid-October:— FIJI—THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

And Bank Of New Zealand

Australia on Fiji on basis of £lOO Fiji; Buying £AIII/2/6, selling £AII3.

Fiji-London on basis £lOO London:— NEW GUINEA AND PAPUA-

Through Commonwealth Bank

From Australia, Pt. Moresby 10/- per cent.; on Rabaul 10/- per cent. —Other New Guinea districts £1 per cent.

Prom Rabaul on London, same as Australia on London:— Buying: T.T. £AI2S equals £stg. 100.

Selling: T.T. £AI2S/10/- equals £stg. 100.

THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

Australia on Papua 10/- per cent, premium each way, equivalent to commission of 10/- per cent.; Australia on Rabaul 10/- per cent, premium.

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

New Caledonia—Through

French Bank

Drafts, Sydney-Noumea and Noumea-Sydney, are on basis of current rate of exchange on Paris, less IVt per cent, (approx.) either way.

As quoted by the Comptolr National d’Escompte de Paris, in Sydney, and the Banque de ITndochine, Noumea: On October 12, when the Australian £ was nominally worth) 142.40 francs, £lOO Australian would purchase a draft in Noumea of 14,160 francs.

Western Samoa—Through

BANK OF N.Z.

Exchange, Australia on Western Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa—buying £AIOO, selling £AIOO/10/-.

Exchange, Samoa on London, basis £lOO in London: — 78 Pacific Islands Month l.y—O ctober 15, 1938

Subject to alteration without Notice Honolulu Pago Pago ..

Mariposa.

Nov. 14 Nov. 19 Nov. 22 Monterey.

Dec. 12 Dec. 17 Dec. 20 Mariposa.

Jan, 9 Jan. 14 Jan. 17 Monterey.

Peb. 6 Peb. 11 Feb. 14 Mariposa.

Mar. 6 Mar. 11 Mar. 14 Monterey.

Apr 3 Apr. 8 Apr. 11 Mariposa.

May 1 May 6 May 9 Auckland Sydney Nov. 25 Nov. 28 Dec. 23 Dec. 26 Jan. 20 Jan. 23 Peb. 17 Feb. 20 Mar. 17 Mar. 20 M. 24-27 Mar. 31 Apr. 14 Apr. 17 A. 21-24 Apr. 28 May 12 May 15 Melbourne ...

QvHnpv ..« Dec. 2-5 Dec. 9 Dec. 12 Dec. 15 Dec. 16 Dec. 21 D. 30-J. 2 Jan. 6 J. 27-30 Peb. 3 F. 24-27 Mar. 3 M. 19-22 May 26 oyuiicjf Auckland ....

Suva Pago Pago ..

Honolulu Jan. 9 Jan. 12 Jan. 13 Jan. 18 Feb. 6 Peb. 9 Feb. 10 Feb. 15 Mar. 6 Mar. 9 Mar. 10 Mar. 15 Apr. 3 Apr. 6 Apr. 7 Apr. 12 May 1 May 4 May 5 May 10 May 29 June 1 June 2 June 7 OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO., MATSON LINE.

Subject to alteration i without notice.

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Tanda.

Nankin.

Nellore.

Tanda.

Nankin.

Nellore.

Hong Kong Nov. 4 Dec. 2 Dec. 31 Feb. 3 Mar. 4 Apr. 1 May 5 Manila Nov. 7 Dec. 5 Jan. 3 Feb. 6 Mar. 7 Apr. 4 May 8 Rabaul Nov. 15 Dec. 13 Jan. 11 Feb. 14 Mar. 15 Apr. 12 May 16 Brisbane Nov. 21 Dec. 19 Jan. 17 Feb. 20 Mar. 21 Apr. 18 May 22 Sydney Nov 23 Dec. 21 Jan. 19 Feb. 22 Mar. 23 Apr. 20 May 24 Melbourne • N.28-D. 3 Dec. 5 Dec. 8 Dec. 14 Dec. 16 D. 26-J. 4 J. 23--F. >1 F. 27-M. 4 M.27-A. 1 A. 24-M. 3 M. 29~J. 3 Hobart Jan. 6 Feb. 3 Mar. 6 Apr. 3 May 6 June 5 Newcastle ..

Sydney, dep.

Brisbane ...

Jan. 9 Jan. 14 Jan. 16 Feb. 6 Feb. 11 Feb. 13 Mar. 9 Mar. 15 Mar. 17 Apr. 6 Apr. 15 Apr. 17 May 8 May 13 May 15 June 8 June 14 June 16 Townsville .

Rabaul Dec. 19 Dec. 24 Jan. 22 Feb. 19 Mar. 23 Apr. 23 May 21 June 22 Manila Jan. 1 Jan. 31 Feb. 28 Apr. 1 May 2 May 30 July 1 Hong Kong Jan. 4 Feb. 3 E. & A.

Mar. 3 STEAMSHIP Apr. 4 CO. LTD.

May 5 , Agents.

June 1 July 4 Marella.

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Sydney Nov. 5 Dec. 8 Jan. 7 Brisbane Nov. 7 Dec. 10 Jan. 9 Townsville (opt.) Nov. 10 Dec. 13 Jan. 12 Thursday Is Nov. 13 Dec. 16 Jan. 15 Darwin Nov. 17 Dec. 20 Jan. 19 Sourabaya Nov. 23 Dec. 26 Jan. 24 Samarang Nov. 24 Dec. 27 Jan. 25 Cheribon (opt.) .

Nov. 25 Dec. 28 Jan. 26 Batavia Nov. 26 Dec. 29 Jan. 27 Singapore / N. 28 -D. 2 D. 31-J. 5 J. 29 -P. 3 Batavia Dec. 5 Jan. 8 Feb. 6 Samarang Dec. 6 Jan. 9 Feb. 7 Sourabaya .......

Dec. 7 Jan. 10 Feb. 8 Darwin Dec. 12 Jan. 15 Feb. 13 Thursday Is Dec. 15 Jan. 18 Feb. 16 Townsville (opt.) Dec. 17 Jan. 20 Peb. 18 Brisbane Dec. 20 Jan. 23 Feb. 21 Sydney D. 22-24 Jan. 25 F. 23-24 Melbourne D. 27-31 J. 28-31 Peb. 27

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IM m ■I M Shipping Services in the Pacific Sydney N.Z. Fiji Samoa Hawaii Sydney Robaul Hong Kong N. Zeaiand-Samoa-Niue Subject to alteration without notice.

The New Zealand Government’s steamer Maui Pomare (1,159 tons) is the only direct connection between N.Z., the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa and Niue Island.

The vessel, which carries mails, passengers, and cargo, is controlled by the Department of External Affairs at Wellington, where application should be made concerning freights, berths, etc.

M.V. Maui Pomare.

Wellington Nov. 1 Nov. 22 Apia N. 8-10 N. 29-D. 1 Niue . Nov. 12 Dec. 3 Lyttelton Nov. 21 Dec. 12 Wellington Nov. 22 Dec. 13 Sydney - T.l. - Darwin Singapore 79 Pacific Islands Monthl y—O ctober 15, 1938

Subject to alteration without notice.

M.V. Matua Auckland ... Nov. 7-8 Nov. 29 Jan. 2-3 Cook Is Nov. 12 Dec. 3 Jan. 7 Outer Cooks .. — — — Cook Is — — Nukualofa ... N. 17-18 Dec. 8-9 J. 12-13 Apia N. 18-19 Dec. 9-10 J. 13-14 Suva N. 22-24 D. 13-15 J. 17-19 Auckland ... Nov. 28 Dec. 19 Jan. 23 Subject to alteration without notice.

M.V. Neptuna. * Sydney Salamaua _ Rabaul Cebu (opt.) - Manila Nov. 9-12 Nov. 19 Nov. 21 Nov. 28 Dec. 1 Dec. 3-7 Dec. 13 Dec. 24 Dec. 27 Dec, 30 Jan. 6-7 J. 9-11 J. 13-18 Jan. 25 Jan. 27 Fsb. 3 Feb. 6 P. 8-12 Feb. 18 Mar. 1 Mar, 4 Mar. 7 Mar. 14 M. 17-20 M. 22-25 Apr. 1 Apr. 3 Apr. 10 Apr. 13 M. 26-31 June 7 June 9 June 16 J Une jg Aug. 2-5 Aug. 12 Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 24 A. 26-30 Sept. 5 Sept. 16 Sept. 19 Sept. 22 S. 29-30 Oct. 2-4 Oct. 6-11 Oct. 18 Oct. 20 Oct. 27 Oct. 30 Nov. 1-5 Nov. 11 Nov. 22 Nov. 25 Nov. 28 Dec. 5 Dec. 8-11 D. 13 Dec.

Dec.

Jan.

Jan.

Jan.

Jan.

Jan.

Jan.

Feb.

Feb.

Feb. -16 23 25 1 Hong Kong Saigon Madang Salamaua Rabaul Sydney „ Melbourne _ A. 15-19 Apr. 25 May 6 May 9 May 12 M. 19-20 M. 22-24 J. 21-25 July 1 July 12 July 15 July 18 July 25 July 28 4 6-10 16 27 30 2 9 12 BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., Agents.

Papeete Eridan.

O. 22-23 D’ Amiens Dec. 4-5 C. Ramel.

J. 15-16 Ralatea (opt.) Suva Oct. 31 — Jan. 23 Vila Nov. 2 Dec. 14 Jan. 25 Noumea N. 4-12 D. 16-23 J. 27-F. 3 Vila Nov. 15 Dec. 26 Feb. 6 Raiatea Nov. 22 Jan. 2 Feb. 13 Papeete N. 23-25 J. 3-5 F. 14-16 MESSAGERIES MARITIMES CO. LTD., Agents.

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CO. (Aust.) LTD. 80X2672 EE, G.P.0., SYDNEY Central Pacific Services The cargo vessel M.V. Riley (4,993 tons) will depart from Sydney on November 4 (approximately) for Suva and Lautoka (Fiji), Papeete (Tahiti) and North American Ports. She will carry malls and general cargo. The following cargo vessel, the Tolten, is scheduled to leave Sydney for Fiji, Tahiti, and North American ports at the end of November.

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. LTD.

Sydney-Noumea-Tahiti SgTYIC© Subject to alteration without notice.

Malls and passengers from Sydney for Tahiti may connect with Messageries Maritimes liners at Noumea, per Pierre Loti (see Sydney-Noumea-New Hebrides service). The M.M. Liners run between Marseilles and Noumea, via Panama Canal.

Sydney - New Guinea - Hong Kong Samoa Inter-Island Service The M.V. Matafele (Burns Philp (South Seas) Co. Ltd.) is expected to arrive at Apia, Western Samoa, some time this month, in command of Captain Tanner, She will connect regularly with Pago Pago (American Samoa), also Tokelaus, Swain, Nassau, and Phoenix Groups.

Fiji Inter-Island Services S.S. Malake, 736 tons (Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.), under contract with Fiji Government. Regular four weekly itinerary comprises: Two trips Buca Bay, returning by same route to Suva—trip occupying 8 days.

Two trips each Suva to Lautoka, returning to Suva direct or via Ellington—trip occupying 3 or 4 days.

'M.V. Yanawai (Burns Philp (South Seas) Co. Ltd.) makes regular trips from Suva to Labasa, via Levuka and Macuata ports, then returns to Suva.

Trip A: Suva-Labasa, via Levuka and Macuata ports, returning to Suva by the same route. Duration of voyage, 8-10 days. Trip B: Suva-Labasa, via Levuka and Macuata ports, then calling at the ports on the coast beyond Labasa, Natewa Bay ports, Levuka, and Suva.

Duration of voyage, 10-12 days.

M.S. Adi Rewa (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) makes trips from Suva to Levuka and Labasa via Macuata ports—trip occupies 8 days. Leaves Suva and proceeds to Levuka, Nabouwalu, Lekutu, Dreketi, Naduri, and Labasa. Returns to Suva by same route. On alternative trips she returns from Labasa via Naduri, Nakaloa, Dreketi, Naiserewaqa, Lekutu, Galoa, Nabouwalu and Levuka. The latter round trip from Suva occupies about 10 days.

M.S. Tui Kauvaro (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) operates from Suva to Levuka, calling at Lautoka and Ellington. Voyage takes 4 days.

M.V. Tui Cakau (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) operates from Suva and makes regular interisland trips throughout the Colony. 80 Pacific Islands Monthl y—o ctober 15, 1938

Subject to alteration without notice.

Niagara.

Aorangi.

Niagara.

Aorangi.

Niagara.

Aorangi.

Niagara.

Honolulu — Nov. 2 Nov. 30 Dec. 28 • Jan. 25 Feb. 22 Mar. 22 Apr. 19 Suva Auckland - Nov. 11 Dec. 9 Jan. ti Feb. 3 Mar. 3 Mar. 31 Apr. 28 N. 14-15 D. 12-13 J. 9-10 Feb. 6-7 Mar. 6-7 Apr. 3-4 May 1-2 Sydney Sydney, dep.

Auckland - Nov. 19 Dec. 17 Jan. 14 Feb. 11 Mar. 11 Apr. 8 May 6* Nov. 24 Dec. 22 Jan. 19 Feb. 16 Mar. 16 Apr. 13 May 11 N. 28-29 D. 26-27 J. 23-24 F. 20-21 M. 20-21 A. 17-18 M. 15-16 Suva Honolulu — Dec. 2 Dec. 30 Jan. 27 Feb. 24 Mar. 24 Apr. 21 May 19 Dec. 9 Jan. 6 Feb. 3 Mar. 3 Mar. 31 Apr. 28 May 26 *On its arrival in Sydney on May 6, the “Niagara” will go into dry dock for her regular survey, on May 11.

The “Monowai” (10,852 tons) will UNION S.S. CO. take up the “Niagara’s LTD., Agents. ’ run and leave Sydney Subject to alteration without notice. £.S. Ripley. M.V. Rabaul.

London .. Sept. 29 London Oct. 24 Suva Nov. 16 Rabaul Nov. 29 Salamaua .. Dec. 10 London .... Feb. 12 s.s.

Priderun.

Hong Kong Nov. 19 Jan. 8 Feb. 27 Madang Dec. 1 Jan. 20 Mar. 11 Salamaua Dec. 3 Jan. 22 Mar. 13 Tulagi (arr) Dec. 7 J. 26-28 Mar. 17 Tulagi (dep) Dec. 9 Jan. 31 Mar. 19 Rabaul D. 12 -16 J. 31-P. 4 M. 22-26 Lorengau Dec. 19 Feb. 7 Mar. 29 Hong Kong Dec. 31 Feb. 19 Apr. 10 GILCHRIST, WATT & SANDERSON.

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Sydney - New Guinea S.S. Suva London: Leaves about November 12. Calls at Apia, Suva, Rabaul, Capetown, London.

M.V. Salamaua, the sister ship of M.V.

Rabaul, is due to arrive in England from Pacific Islands ports on November 3.

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Saigon Java South Seas - N.Z. - Sydney N.G. Inter-Island Services 5.5. Maiwara and M.V. Muliama (Burns, Philp & Co.) make regular round trips from Rabaul to New Ireland and Bougainville ports: New Britain-Manus-Witu; and New Guinea mainland ports. 5.5. Coombar, M.V. Desikoko, M.V. Duranbah (W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd) make sailings from Rabaul every two or three weeks to various ports in the Territory.

Hong Kong - New Guinea Solomon Islands S.S. Friderun (cabin, third-class and deck passengers) runs from Hong Kong to New Guinea and Solomon Islands ports. In the Solomons she calls at Tulagi, Rere, Pulakora and Maringe.

New Hebrides Inter-Island Services S.S. Mirani (Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.) connects every six weeks at Vila with S.S. Morinda from Sydney, then proceeds on southern trip, calling at the Islands of Efate, Erromanga, Tanna. Aneityum, and returns to Vila—trip occupying 7 or 8 days.

After 2 or 3 days at Vila, departs on northern trip, calling at the Islands of Efate, Mai, Tongoa, Epi, Paama, Ambrym, Malekula, Aoba, Malo, Santo and returns to Vila, trip occupying 25 to 28 days. Vessel extends to Banks Group every second trip equivalent to about every six weeks.

M.V. Polynesien (Messageries, Maritimes Ltd.) maintains a service from Vila to northern and southern ports as well as occasional trips to Wallis and Futuna Islands. The service comprises the following:— Wallis and Futuna Is.:—Leaves Vila, calling at Siguave, Mata Utu.

Northern run: Leaves Vila on Nov. 15, calling at N’Guna, Mai, Tongoa, Diamond Bay, Ringdove, Nelson, Paama, Port Sandwich, Craigcove, Olal, Rhanone. Wanour, Bale Homo.

Pointe Truchy, Melsissi, Namarang, Loltong, Loloque-pue, Nengire, Lone, N’Dui-N’Dui, Port Patteson, Port Olry, Hog Harbour, Bale des Requins, Bale des Tortues, Mate Wulu, Saramy, Saraoutou, Surrenda, Aisse, Luganville, Malo, Barclay, Malo Pass, Bale Benier, Vao, Walla, Norsup, Sarmette, Rensari, Banam Bay, Ouesso, Port Sandwich, Lamap, Sakau (Maskelines), and returns to Vila on November 30.

Southern Run:—Leaves Vila on December 7. calling at Lenakel, Ibock, White Sands, Waississi, Erromango, La Teouma, Mele, and returns to Vila on December 12. 81 Pacific Islands Monthly—Octooer 15, 19 3 8

Subject to alteration without notice.

S.S. Morinda Sydney Lord Howe Norfolk Is. .

Vila Bushman's B.

Malo 1 Tangoa Segond j Oct. 27 Oct. 29 Oct. 31 Nov. 3-4 Nov. 5 Nov. 29 Dec. 1 Dec. 3 Dec. 6-7 Dec. 8 Dec. 20 Dec. 22 Dec. 27 Dec. 31 Jan.

Jan. 2 Jan. — Jan. — J. 14 — Jan. 7 9 11 -15 16 Jan. 28 Jan. 30 Feb. 1 Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb. 20 F. 23-24 Feb. 25 Nov. 5 Dec. 8 - Jan. 16 — Feb. 25 Aoba Hog Har. . ..

Norfolk Is. ..

Lord Howe .

Sydney Nov. 6 Nov. 7 Nov. 10 Nov. 12 Nov. 15 Dec. 9 Dec. 10 Dec. 13 Dec. 15 Dec. 18 BURNS.

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Jan. — Jan.

Jan. 2 Jan.

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Sydney Nov. 2 Nov. 19 Dec. 10 Dec. 31 Jan. 18 Feb. 8 Feb. 25 Brisbane Nov. 4 Nov. 21 Dec. 12 Jan. 2 Jan. 20 Feb. 10 Feb. 27 Townsville Nov. 7 Dec. 14 Jan. 23 Mar. 1 Cairns Nov. 8 — Dec. 15 Jan. 24 Mar. 2 Pt. Moresby ....

Nov. 10 Nov. 25 Dec. 17 Jan. 6 Jan. 26 Feb. 14 Mar. 4 Samarai Nov. 11 Nov. 26 D. 18-19 Jan. 7 Jan. 27 Feb. 15 Mar. 5-6 Rabaul N, 13-14 N. 28-29 D. 20-21 Jan. 9-10 J. 29-30 F. 17-18 Mar. 7-8 Kavieng Nov. 15 Dec. 22 Jan. 31 Mar. 9 Lindenhafen .... — Nov. 30 — Jan. ii Feb. 19 Salamaua Lae N. 17-18 Dec. 1-2 D. 23-24 J. 12-13 Feb. 2-3 F. 20-21 M. 10-11 Madang Nov. 19 Dec. 3 D. 25-26 Jan. 14 Feb. 4 Feb. 22 Mar. 12 Alexishafen, Opt.

Nov. 19 Dec. 3 D. 25-26 Jan. 14 Feb. 4 Feb. 22 Mar. 13 Wewak I Boram r '' N. 20-21 Dec. 4-5 — J. 15-16 Feb. 5-6 Feb. 23 — Madang Nov. 22 Dec. 6 Dec. 26 Jan. 17 Feb. 7 Feb. 24 Mar. 13 Finschafen, Opt.

Nov. 23 — Dec. 27 — Feb. 8 — Mar. 14 Salaftnaua Nov. 23 Dec. 7 Dec. 28 Jan. 18 Feb. 8 Feb. 25 Mar. 15 Kavieng — Dec. 8-9 — J. 19-20 — F. 26-27 — Pondo Nov. 25 — Dec. 30 Feb. 10 — Mar. 17 Rabaul Nov. 26 Dec. 10 Dec. 31 Jan. 21 Feb. 11 Feb. 28 Mar. 18 Salamaua — Dec. 11 — Jan. 22 — Mar. 1 — Samarai Nov. 28 Dec. 13 Jan. 2 Jan. 24 Feb. 13 Mar. 3 Mar. 20 Pt. Moresby ....

Nov. 29 Dec. 14 Jan. 3 Jan. 25 Feb. 14 Mar. 4 Mar. 21 Cairns Dec. 1 — Jan. 5 — Feb. 16 — Mar. 23 Brisbane • Dec. 4 Dec. 18 Jan. 8 Jan. 29 Feb. 19 Mar. 8 Mar. 26 Sydney Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 10 Jan. 31 Feb. 21 Mar. 10 Mar. 28 BURNS, PHILP & CO.

LTD., Agents.

Subject to alteration without notice.

Pierre Loti Sydney Oct. 20 Nov. 17 Jan. 20 Noumea O. 24-26 N. 21-23 J. 24-26 Mare Oct. 26 Jan. 26 Vila O. 27-28 N. 24-25 J. 27-28 Lupanville Oct. 29 Nov. 26 Jan. 29 L© Dart ___ O.30-31 N. 27-28 J. 30-31 Norsup Oct. 31 Saigon D. 13-15 Haiphong ...

D. 18-22 Luganville . .

Jan. 6 Le Dart Nov. 2 Jan. 7 — Vila N. 2-3 J. 8-9 Feb. 1-2 Mare Nov. 4 Feb. 2 Noumea — N. 5-6 J. 10-12 Feb. 3-4 Sydney Nov. 10 Jan. 16 Feb. 8 Note. —The “Pierre Loti” will call at Pt.

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Sydney-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Sydney - Papua New Guinea Sydney - Noumea - New Hebrides - Indochina Nauru - Ocean Island Service Ships are despatched by the British Phosphate Commissioners from* Melbourne (Victoria) two or three times monthly, and from Auckland (New Zealand) irregularly, according to the requirements of the phosphate trade. 82 Pacific Islands Mon t h 1 y—o ctob e r‘ 15, 19 3 8

M.V. Malaita.

Sydney Brisbane Townsvill Cairns Tulagi Makambc Gavutu Domma Nov. 26 Jan. 7 Feb. 18 Apr. 1 May 13 June 24 Aug. 5 e Nov. 28 Jan. 9 Jan. 12 Jan. 13 Feb. 20 Feb. 23 Feb. 24 Apr. 3 Apr. 6 May 15 May 18 May 19 June 26 June 29 June 30 Aug. 7 Aug. 10 Aug. 11 1 L ..

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M. 23-24 May 25 May 26 July 4-5 Tiilir ft A. 15-16 Aug. 17 Aug. 18 Su’u r Tasavarong ' Mamara Aruligo Lavoro - Mamara i Tasavarong Aruligo • Dec. 8 Jan. 19 Jan. 20 Jan. 21 Mar. 2 Mar. 3 Apr. 13 Apr. 14 Apr. 15 July O July 7 July 8 Hivo Yandina Banika Ufa Faiami Younger Pepesalaj Lingatu West Ba; Somata Gizo p a isi ,.. r ,1 Dec. 10 Jan. 22 Mar. 4 Mar. 5 Mar. 6 Apr. 16 May 27 May 28 May 29 TVTq v 30 July 9 Aug. 19 Aug. 20 ) Jan. 23 A nr* 1 7 July 10 Aug. 21 A nr 1 ft July 11 Aug. 22 Jan. 24 Mar. 7 Api . 1 O jf 111* IQ JVld.V TV/Tqv July 11 Aug. 22 Arigua Numa Numa Dec. 14 Jan. 24 Jan. 25 Ton Oft Mar. 7 Mar. 8 rVpi . 10 Apr. 19 Apr. 20 A. 21-22 iviay jw May 31 June 1 June 2-3 July 12 July 13 Aug. 23 Aug. 24 Rabaul Soraken Kieta lid 11.

J. 27-28 Mar. 9 J. 14-15 A 25-26 j 29-30 -VA. lU-li Apr. 23 Apr. 24 Apr. 25 Apr. 26 Apr. 27 June 4 July 16 27 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Mar. 12 TVTq r 17 June 5 July 17 Aug. 28 1VX cU , June 6 July 18 Aug. 29 Gizo l Tetipari i Duccull Ts Feb. 2 F. 3-4 Mar. 15 Ma*. 16 M. 17-18 June 7 June 8 July 19 July 20 Aug. 30 Aug. 31 Gavutu L Feb. 4 Feb. 9 A. 28-29 J. 9-10 June 15 J. 21-22 Sept. 1-2 Sept. 7 Makambo !

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Sydney - Papuo - N.G. Air Service Under contract with the Commonwealth Government, a weekly airmail service between Sydney, Papua, and New Guinea is conducted by W.R.C. Airlines Ltd., with two 10-seater De Havilland airliners. A ’plane leaves Kingsford-Smith aerodrome. Sydney, every Tuesday at 7 am. and calls at Brisbane (Tues.), Rockhampton (Tues.), Townsville (Tues.), Cairns (Wed.), Cooktown (Wed.), Port Moresby (Wed.), Salamaua (Wed.), and Rabaul (Thurs). The return trip from Rabaul commences at 1 p.m. every Friday, the airliner reaching Sydney at 5.30 p.m. the following Sunday.

W. R. CARPENTER AND CO. LTD.

N.G. Goldfields' Air Services Aeroplanes conducted by Guinea Airways Ltd., Mandated Airlines Ltd. (late Carpenter Airways) and other companies, leave Salamaua and Lae, the New Guinea mainland ports, two and three times daily for Wau and other centres on the Morobe goldfield. The aerial services are the only means of communication.

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

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“Papuan Chief”

Samarai . Oct. 30 Daru. dep .. Nov. 14 Fife Bay . Oct. 30 Pt. Romilly . Nov. 15 Bona Bona . Oct. 30 Pt. Romilly, dep N. 17 Gadaisu . Oct. 31 Orokolo .. Nov. 17 Baibara . Oct. 31 Kukipi . ...

Pt. Glasgow . . Oct. 31 Yule Is. .. .. Nov. 19 Mogubu .. . . . Nov. 1 Pt. Moresby . Nov. 20 Abau . Nov. 1 Pt. Moresby . Nov. 24 Aroma , 2 Kapa Kapa . . Nov. 24 Hula 2 Hula .. Nov. 24 Kapa Kapa . Nov. 3 Aroma . . Nov. 25 Pt. Moresby . Nov. 3 Abau Pt. Moresby . . Nov. 7 Mogubu . . Nov. 26 Yule Is. . Nov. 7 Pt. Glasgow . Nov. 27 Moru 8 Baibara . . Nov. 27 Kukipi . Nov 8 Gadaisu . . Nov. 28 Orokolo . Nov. 9 Fife Bay .. Nov. 29 Kikori N. 10- -11 Samarai . . Nov 20 Daru Nov. 12 Bn LICENSEE: E.J. MORROW Cosmopolitan SAMARA! Hotel First-class Accommodation for Tourists and Travellers Ballroom: Electric Light; Billiards; Freezing - works; Cold Store. Best brands of Wines. Spirits, Ales.

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Misses Swinton (2).

Passengers Per Airmail Liner Which

Left Rabaul (N.G.) On September 30

FOR;—Salamaua: Messrs. Ramcke, Padgett, Faulks, Sterling, Cotter. Sydney: Mesdames Mullaly and Heron. Salamaua to Sydney: Messrs. Campbell, Fader, Peacock. Pt. Moresby to Sydney: Mr. Clegg.

PASSENGERS PER “MALA3TA” WHICH AR-

Rived In Sydney From Rabaul (N.G.)

AND 8.5.1. ON OCTOBER 7;—Messrs. Barham, Boy dell, Clark, Deck, Doyle, Eilam. Grant, Hart, Hewitt, Kenny, Leauli, Lotze, Moore, Moriarty,. Mortimer, Moxon, Phillips, Price, Richards, Sandars, Smith, Tomlinson, Turnbull, Wills. Mesdames Barham, Catanach, Collins, Fairchild, Farlow, Hart, Kennedy, Lee, Lotze, Mcßae, Osborne, Phillips, Price, Riddiford, Short, Silvester, Widdy, Wilson. Misses Campion, Cohen, Collins, Grant, Holdgate Moore, Parsons, Read, Semple.

Passengers Per “Morinda” Which

Arrived In Sydney From Lord Howe

Is.. Norfolk Is.. And New Hebrides On

OCTOBER 7:—Messrs. Adams, Barry, Bayley, Baxter, Benny, Brewer, Douglas, Gambier. Gill, Hoare, Kursey, Lord, Moir, Moverly, McKellar- White, Stevens, Stephenson. Tattersall, Arthur, Hughes, Leigh, Niven, Edwards, Hill, Downes, Ewing. Mesdames Parnant, Hankinson, Hines, Kelly, Kirby, Kursey, M'ollin, Moverly, M<> Kellar-White, Saville, Stevens, Bailey, Beveridge, Blackwell, Burgess, Downes, Ewing, Hutchinson. Misses Bayley, Buckland, Gehde, Glission, Garrick. Henry, Nichols, «Oates (2). O’Connor, Owen. Oldham. Pearce (2), Ralph, Richardson, Shelper, Wilde, Willis, Brown, Perkins, Thorpe, Bailey, Everett, Messiter, Wilson.

Passengers Per “Tanda” From Sydney

FOR RABAUL, N.G., ON OCTOBER 12;—Messrs.

Taylor, McGowan. Tupling. Holmes, Spensley, Alexander, Bruckshaw, Anthony, Kyle, Johnston, George, Robinson, Roberts, Kerslake. Mesdames Holmes, McGowan, Spensley, Dwyer, Bruckshaw, Anthony, Cassell, Challis, George.

Robinson. Misses Makins, Booth, Banks.

Rt. Rev. P, N. Strong:, Bishon of New Guinea, will return to Papua from Sydney by the October “Montoro”.

Papuan Inter-Island Services M.V. Lakatoi (Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.) makes round trips on a regular schedule from Samarai to Misima Island, via the Conflict Group; also cai.s at Woodlark Island.

M.V. Nusa (Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.) holds the Papuam Government’s contract for carrying mails and passengers on the north-east coast of Papua. The Nusa connects with all Southern mail steamers at Samarai.

S.S. Papuan Chief (Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd.) makes regular round trips from Port Moresby to Samarai via Kapa Kapa, Abau, and Baibara, returns by same route; then Port Moresby to Daru via Hisiu, Yule Is., Kukipi, Orokolo, Kikori and back via Orokolo, Yule Island, and Hisiu —full trip occupying about one month.

Gilbert- and Ellice Islands Service M.V. Moamoa (Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.) and M.V. John Bolton (W. R. Carpenter and Co.) operate from Tarawa (Gilbert Islands), and connect regularly with all Islands in the Gilbert and Ellice Groups.

New Caledonian Inter- Island Services M.V. Le Phoque (Societe des lies Loyalty) makes regular trips, carrying mails and passengers, from Noumea along the east coast to Arama. Also from Noumea to Poum and Belep Islands, via the west coast. Leaving Noumea on the run up the east coast the vessel calls at Yate, Touarou, N. Goye, Kaukue, Thio Nakety, Canalo, Gouaoua, Hauoilou, Moueo’

Pouerihouen, Tieti, Poindimie, Wagap, Touho’, Kokingone, Hieghene, Tao, Outbatch, Pouebo, Balada, Pam and Arama. Return by same route. Ports visited on west coast trip are: Bourail, Poya, Mueo, Poumbout, Kono, Voh, Temala, Ouaco, Koumac, Karamble, Tahgadiou, Paagoumene, Nehoue. Mouac, Belep, and return by same route. Her next trip up the east coast commences on November 25 (approx.); and next west coast voyage is due on December 13 (approx.).

M.V. Le Phoque also maintains a 4 weeks’ service between Noumea and the Loyalty Group.

The vessel calls at Tadine (Mare Is.), Chopenehe, and We (Lifou Is.). Fajoue, St. Joseph and Banout (Ouvea Is.). Calls are made occasionally at Isle of Pines and Walpole Island. Next trip to Loyalty Group: November 21 (approx.).

Noumea Australia The small steamer Neo Hebridais (Societe Maritime et Miniere Hagen) carries on a monthly service between Noumea (New Caledonia), and Nev/castle and Sydney (N.S.W.). The round trip occupies about 17 days.

The three vessels of the Societe Le Nickel, Cap Tarifa (2,177 tons). Capitaine Illiaquer (2,138 tons), and Notou (2,384 tons) make irregular trips between Noumea (New Caledonia) and Sydney, Newcastle, and Port Kembla, N.S.W.

Solomon Is. Inter-Island A.S. Mamutu, 200 tons (Burns Philp (South Seas) Co. Ltd.), operates through the Group.

She has cargo capacity for 120 tons of copra.

Carolines—Western and Centra! Pacific Twice a year, the Japanese motor vessel, “Takachio Maru” (Nanyo Boyeki Kaisha) leaves Ponape, Carolines (Japanese Mandated Territory) to Visit Kavieng, Rabaul, Salamaua (New Guinea); Port Moresby (Papua); Vila (New Hebrides); Noumea (New Caledonia); Nukualofa (Tonga); Suva (Fiji); Tulagi (Solomon Islands); and thence back to Ponape via Rabaul (N.G.).

Pacific Travellers

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