Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XII, No. 2 (16 Sept., 1941)
1941-09-16 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly VOL. XII. NO. 2.

September 16, 1941 Established 1930 [Registered Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper ] 8° Aerial view of LAE—selected as the new capital of New Guinea, in place of Rabaul. The township (Guinea Airways’ establishment and aerodrome) is in the foreground. Immediately behind, leading away to the left, are the terraces, or plateaus, on which the administrative capital will be built. The terraces run back into the foothills of high, jungle-clad mountains. The Markham River enters the sea a few miles to the left.

Its current washes along the foreshore (seen in the foreground), and causes a good deal of erosion. Ships anchor out from the wharf, in the right-hand corner.

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SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Nut-Fall In The

SOLOMONS Dr. Phillips on Chances of Treatment AN interesting note is to hand from Dr. J. S. Phillips, of Kenilworth Court, Hagley Road, Birmingham, England. He is the skilled entomologist who discovered the cause of nut-fall in the Solomon Islands, and who told the fascinating story of his search in his book. “Coconut Quest”. (See “PIM”, February. 1941).

“The ‘PIM’ reviewer,” says Dr. Phillips, “is the only reviewer of my book who has grasped that the key factor in this problem of immature nut-fall is the change of ant population in the plantations, brought about by the accidental introduction of Fido (Pheidole oceanica).

“In the note at the end of your review, you suggest a remedy: ‘Why cannot something else be introduced to deal with Fido?’

“This suggestion, I agree, offers the best, perhaps the only, way of stopping immature nut-fall in the Solomons. But the chance of findipg such a ‘control’, and establishing it successfully, is very, very small. The control would have to be another species of ant, and I doubt whether any could be found capable of driving Fido out of the plantations, especially as the selection would be limited to tree-nesting species, as ground-nesting ones would not protect the spadices from the coconut-bug.

“And even if such a creature could be found, it would take many years to spread into ail the nut-fall areas—well over 20,000 acres.

“Oeco. the indigenous tree-ant, which formerly protected the nuts from attack, seems able to maintain itself against Fido in the bush. One might therefore imagine that by allowing plantations to revert to bush conditions, Oeco would reestablish itself and force Fido out again.

Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case. There are estate areas on Guadalcanal and Malaita, which have been ‘let go’; but Fido remains the dominant ant there.”

Samoan Volunteers

Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, Aug. 23.

THE second contingent of men who have enlisted for service overseas will shortly leave for training in NZ.

They are Messrs. L. Aspinall, P. Foster, J. Hancock, L. Jessop, R. P. and F. J.

McFall, and they will leave in charge of Sgt.-Major T. Bott, of the Samoan Defence Force.

Apia Patriotic Society organised a function at which each man was presented with a wristlet watch.

The following New Guinea men have left the Territory to join the AIF; — Rabaul: Messrs. L. McMahon, McKee, McMillan-Kerr and I. Downs; Wau: Messrs. G. Selle, R. Whitbread, C. Duffy, J. McDonald and S. Watson.

Mrs. Krutli, wife of Mr, O. C. Krutli, a Papuan Government surveyor, died in Pt.

Moresby, on August 22.

Mrs. Lucy Friend (wife of Mr. L. C.

Friend, well known in Fiji as a member of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand in Suva for many years), died in August at Napier, NZ. She was a sister of Mr.

L. E. Austen, officer in charge of Native Coffee Plantations at Sangara, Papua.

Pacific News-Review

Notes and Comment on the Progress of the War, Aug. 13 to Sept. 15 Aug. 13: Masses of RAF bombers, guarded by new, secret Whirlwind fighters, carried out greatest daylight raid of war over German cities. Berlin, Hanover, Essen suffered. Two vital power stations at Cologne were smashed. Minor raids damaged objectives in Holland and Northern France. Thirty-four British planes were lost.

Aug. 13: Nazi panzer units in Ukraine have reached the Black Sea, encircling port of Odessa. On this front, Russia’s “scorched earth” policy has prevented Germans from obtaining coveted Ukraine grain harvest.

Aug. 14: Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Atlee, in world broadcast, revealed that Mr.

Churchill, British Prime Minister, and Mr. Roosevelt, President of United States, met at sea aboard a battleship, somewhere in Atlantic, early in month, with their military and economic advisers.

A joint British-American declaration of war aims was issued, containing 9 basic principles. Main points: They seek no territory; wish no territorial changes not in accord with freely-expressed wishes of people concerned; will restore sovereign rights and self-government to occupied countries. Peace promises; Equal trade and raw materials for all; fullest economic collaboration among nations; freedom of the seas; “all men in all lands shall live out their lives in freedom from fear and want”.

Aug. 14: Marshal Budenny’s Southern Russian army has been extricated from German encircling move in Ukraine, and is being reorganised east of Bug River, before Ukraine’s main industrial areas.

Aug. 15: The Churchill-Roosevelt meeting has stirred the world. Newspapers proclaim their declaration as “an international New Deal”.

Aug. 15: Lord Beaverbrook, dynamic British Minister for Supply, has gone to USA to accelerate war supplies for Britain and Russia.

Aug. 15: Further powerful Australian reinforcements, soldiers and airmen, have arrived at Singapore to guard Malaya.

Aug. 17: Russia has accepted offer to hold conference with British and US representatives in Moscow to discuss Soviet’s war needs. Expected that Stalin will ask for tanks, planes, and war material of all kinds, in belief Russians can defeat Hitler if they have equipment.

Aug 18; Russians admit several towns in Ukraine evacuated in face of strong Nazi drive.

Aug. 19: A German drive on north of Eastern front is now only 70 miles west of Leningrad.

Aug. 20: Despite fairly large territorial gains, Nazis have failed to smash Russian army organisation, as second month of conflict draws to close. Commentators say Germany is likely to settle down to hard winter campaign in which she is not nearly so adequately equipped as Russia.

Aug. 20: Moscow claims 1,500,000 Germans have been killed, wounded or taken prisoners, and 6,000 tanks and and 8,000 guns destroyed or captured in past six weeks. Losses of men and equipment on both sides have been colossal.

Aug. 21: Marshal Budenny, in Ukraine, blew up great Dneiper Dam, one of world’s foremost engineering works, to prevent Germans crossing Dneiper River.

Thousands of Nazi troops and fleeing Russian peasants were engulfed.

Aug. 22: Soldiers and civilians are feverishly converting Leningrad into an armed fortress.

Aug. 22; Japan has asked USA for guarantees that American bombers will not be based in Eastern Siberia. She is gravely concerned over shipments of American war supplies to Russia, via the Far East.

Aug, 22; Berlin claims Germans are within 30 miles of Leningrad.

Aug. 24: Britain’s open declaration that she will go to war with Japan if the latter fights United States has had a sobering effect on Tokio. There are indications that Japan may modify her pro-Axis policy, in view of Britain and America’s stiffened attitude in recent months.

Aug. 25: British and Russian troops to-day simultaneously entered Iran (formerly Persia) at three points, following Iranian Government’s refusal to expel large number of German agents and technicians congregating there.

Allies’ invasion met with only token resistance.

This development has forestalled possible German attempt to secure the Iranian oilfields (production: 100,000,000 tons yearly). It opens up also a direct “supply route” for British and American help to Russia. Thirdly, it removes menace of any Nazi move to strike at Soviet through her “back door”.

Aug. 26: British and Indian troops in Iran are pushing on towards Tehran, the capital, meeting with little opposition.

Aug. 26: Soviet has launched counterattack in central sector, inflicting what Moscow describes as “major defeat” on Nazis.

Aug. 27: 101 German planes destroyed in two days during terrific aerial blitz on Leningrad.

Aug 27: Promising expulsion of Germans, Shah of Iran is seeking cessation of Anglo-Russian invasion. British have occupied all important oilfields.

Aug. 27: Soviet has warned Japan against interference with US shipments of war materials to Russia.

Aug. 28: After weeks of internal political bickering, Mr. Menzies has resigned Prime Ministership of Australia. Mr.

Fadden (Queensland-born Country Party leader) is new PM. There have been no other Cabinet changes.

Aug. 28: Pierre Laval, pro-Nazi ex- Premier of France, was seriously wounded by young de Gaulle adherent, in assassination attempt. Two other French fascists also shot. Reports indicate that unrest and sabotage in Occupied France is rife, as conditions imposed by Nazi overlords, through Admiral Darlan, become more harsh.

Aug. 28: “Cease fire” order given to British and Russians in Iran.

Aug. 29: Talks are going on in Washington between President Roosevelt and Japanese Ambassador (Admiral Nomura), with a view to arranging settlement of situation in Pacific.

Aug. 31: Russians appear to be holding out on all fronts —Nazis have made little progress in their drive on Leningrad, in north; Marshal Budenny’s army in Dneiper area has been reformed, to hit back at Germans in Ukraine; Odessa, while encircled, has not yet been taken.

Aug. 31: Hitler and Mussolini have again met to discuss war developments. 1 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

Aug. 31: Although there is much optimism in certain USA quarters concerning the possibility of easier and better relations between USA and Japan, British observers do not take so hopeful a view of the underground negotiations and have again advised Britons where possible to leave Japanese territory.

Sept. 1: The voluntary withdrawal of Russian armies from the Karelian Isthmus, where they were facing the Finnish armies, has set most commentators speculating. The withdrawal, in view of reports that the Finns are prepared to consider a separate mediated peace with Russia, is significant.

Sept. 1: England on Sunday night experienced its first large-scale air attack since mid-July. A north-east coastal town was “blitzed”.

Sept. 2: Japan officially states that the replies of the United States and Russia to Japan’s protest against the shipment of American oil to Russia, by way of Vladivostock, are unsatisfactory, and further representations will be made.

Sept. 2: There are increasing signs that the Axis powers are putting pressure on Turkey to allow Axis naval forces to go through the Dardanelles, to attack the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, and thus open the road to the Caucasus oilfields.

Sept. 4: A terrific battle for Leningrad is developing and the German forces, step by step, are creeping around the city. They seem to be at an average distance now of between 10 and 15 miles from the city, on the south and east.

Sept. 5: It now is clear that negotiations for a separate peace between Finland and Russia have been discontinued.

Sept. 5: Unarmed, and flying the American flag, the first tanker carrying American petrol to Russia has arrived in Vladivostock.

Sept. 5: In a heartening review of the shipping position, the Chairman of USA Maritime Commission stated that Britain and American would be able to manage, now, with their existing merchantmen, with current production taking care of replacements. There has been a steady fall in shipping losses in the Atlantic.

The July figures were the best for a year, and the August figures are better than July.

Sept. 5: Increasing sabotage in the occupied countries of Europe is being answered by increased German terrorism.

Sept. 5: United States announces that USA destroyer “Greer”, 1,090 tons, was attacked by a submarine off Iceland, and it immediately fought back and dropped a depth charge.

Sept. 6: Following the occupation of Iran by the Allies, the Iranian police are taking action to prevent 700 Germans from leaving the German Legation. They will be interned.

Sept. 9: RAF raids on Berlin on Sunday night were the heaviest yet carried out against the German capital.

Sept. 9: Canadian, British and Norwegian troops temporarily occupied the Spitzbergen archipelago in the Arctic, destroyed all mining machinery and other material which might have been of use to the enemy, and withdrew.

Sept. 9: Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that there had been a great falling-off in the sinking of British and Allied shipping in the last three months. He said that Britain must make serious sacrifices in order to provide munitions for Russia and the skilful defence of the Russians had made it certain that Hitler’s hope of a short war in Russia had been dispelled.

Sept. 10: While the Russians are continuing a counter-offensive on the central sector, Hitler is reported to have ordered his northern armies to take Leningrad quickly, at all costs, and the tury of the German assault upon the city has been re-doubled, taking no account of huge losses of men and material.

Sept. 10: Mr. Churchill says the Allied iront now runs in an immense crescent from the Arctic to Tobruk, and the British section of this front will be held by British and Imperial forces, with growing strength, fed by ocean-borne supplies from Britain, USA, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Sept. 11; The American ship “Seafarer , and the Danish “Sessa”, under USA control, have been destroyed and sunk by German action. . Sept. 11: RAF bombers carried out a neavy night attack on Northern Italy, the main objective being Turin They flew across the Alps from England.

Sept. 12: Indications that Britain is preparing to launch in Libya the most powerful land offensive of the war. The flow of supplies and reinforcements continues unabated.

It is obvious that if Britain could throw the Germans and Italians out of Libya, and could occupy Tunisia and French Northern Africa, as they occupied Syria, the German operations in north-west Africa would be cripped. At present the Germans are using the ports of Dakar and Casablanca as bases for submarines against British shipping in central Atlantic.

Sept. 12: President Roosevelt, in world broadcast, warned the Axis, that if German or Italian warships entered waters, the protection of which is necessary for American defence, they will be shot at.

Americans will not only protect American ships, but any ships engaged in legitimate commerce.

Sept. 13: Seven great battles raging simultaneously along the Eastern front have carried the war in Russia to new heights of intensity and ferocity. A new German thrust in the southern portion of the central sector is regarded very seriously, as menacing the Ukraine.

Meanwhile. Leningrad fights on steadily in a great defensive battle, to the accompaniment of ceaseless air warfare.

Sept. 13: American reports say that very powerful and influential groups in Japan are now willing to make an agreement with the Democracies, which it is suggested will be based upon a resumption of trade relations and an assurance of peace in the Pacific.

Sept. 14: A complete Wing of the Royal Air Force, complete with pilots, machines and ground personnel has arrived in Russia.

Sept. 15: Terrific fighting is still in progress all along the Eastern front and it is apparent that a decisive stage is rapidly approaching.

Sept. 15; Supply routes to Russia have now been opened up not only through the Persian Gulf and Iran, but also through Syria and Irak.

Sept. 15: An order for general mobilisation in Bulgaria may mean that Germany is preparing for the long-awaited attack upon the British in the Mediterranean.

Miss Elsie Matthews, of the Unevangelized Field Mission in Papua, is at present spending leave in Victoria.

Sgt.-Pilot Kenneth Williams, formerly of New Guinea, who has been serving in Britain as a member of the second RAAF Spitfire Squadron, carrying out patrol work, was posted in early September to the crack RAAF Fighter Squadron.

Lieutenant Hugh Lyons, of the NG Volunteer Rifles, and formerly a member of Guinea Airways staff at Lae, has come South to join the AIF.

From Monk To

WARRIOR Remarkable Career of New French Pacific Commissioner From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Sept. 8.

XTRAORDINARY romance and adventure have been packed into the ~A 11 Captain Georges Thierry d Argenlieu, who has just arrived in Noumea to organise, for Free France, the French colonies of the South Pacific (New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Tahiti, and French Oceania, etc.).

Two years ago he was a monk. One year ago, he was risking his life before Dakar, To-day, he is High Commissioner for General de Gaulle in the Pacific.

Captain d’Argenlieu comes of an old and noble family of Picardy and Breton descent. He is the third of seven children, five of whom were boys. He entered Navai School at 16, and in 1911 he was aidede-camp to Admiral de Marolles at the coronation of George V. As an ensign, he took part in Lyautey’s campaign in Morocco, from 1912 to 1914, receiving the Legion of Honour and a lifesaving medal.

In 1914-18, he served on patrol ships and destroyers, mainly on anti-submarine work, finishing the war as lieutenant in command of the patrol-ship “Tourterelle”.

After the war he became a monk (Father Louis of the Trinity), entering the Order of Carmel, and undergoing for 10 years the discipline of silence and effacement. In 1932, he was chosen to restore the old Carmelite province of Paris, which he governed as provincial until August, 1939.

When mobilised in 1939, he served at the great base of Cherbourg, until the capitulation made him and 500 other officers prisoners of the Germans. fTIHREE days of such captivity was JL enough for d’Argenlieu, and on June 22, 1940, he escaped from the convoy which was taking him to Germany and reached the coast. Dressed as a Norman peasant, he was smuggled across the Atlantic. Learning with indignation of the armistice, he joined General de Gaulle.

His arrival coincided with the arrival by ’plane from Gibraltar of Admiral Muselier, and the creation on July 1 of the Free French Navy. For a time, d’Agenlieu became aumonier (chaplain), visiting the sailors wherever they were camped, and instilling confidence and the will to continue the fight.

On August 23 he resumed active service, to leave England on a particularly dangerous mission.

We next hear of him as leader of the de Gaulle delegation which was sent to negotiate with the Vichy French Governor of Dakar. The failure of that mission is now history. On Sept. 23, Governor de Boisson, at Dakar, repeatedly refused to receive them, and threatened their arrest.

So d’Argenlieu re-embarked his delegation in their two launches, bearing the Tricolour and a flag of truce; but, en route, they were fired on, and d’Argenlieu was wounded by machine-gun fire.

After six weeks in hospital at Douala (French Equatorial African port), he embarked on the sloop “Savorgnan de Brazza”, and directed the naval operations at Gabon, which led to the occupation by Free French troops of Libreville and Port Gentil. He subsequently organised the naval bases of Equatorial Africa, and re-armed the Free French ships immobilised there.

In January, 1941, General de Gaulle appointed him a member of the Conseil de Defense de I’Empire, recalling him to London. In recent months, he has been engaged on special work in Canada. 2

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Mr. R. C. Hutchinson, the expert chemist on the staff of the Department 0 f Agriculture in New Guinea, arrived in Australia this month, accompanied by Mrs. Hutchinson, on furlough. He expects to spend his leave m Tasmania.

Grow Cassava!

But Examine its Bugs !

IN your February number, you mention a campaign in favour of growing cassava in New Guinea/’ says Dr. J. S. Phillips, an eminent British entomologist, in a letter to “PIM” editor.

“Island-grown cassava would indeed make an excellent substitute for rice, which is imported from Asia at such unnecessary expense and use of transport, into many parts of the Pacific.

“It would be best, though, to plant this crop on a small scale at first. On Malaita, Solomon Islands, I saw a few cassava plants in 1938, and these were badly attacked by the coconut-bug Amblypelta, which had caused twisting of the stems and shrivelling of the leaves. Dasynus manihotis, a very close relation of the coconut-bug, does similar damage in Java, though the outbreaks are curiously local and sporadic.

“It might be advisable, therefore, to find out whether Amblypelta could do serious damage to cassava before planting it on a large scale in that Group.” 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Miss C. Newman, who recently arrived at Apia from NZ, has succeeded Miss Steel on the teaching staff of Ifi Ifi Government School in Western Samoa.

Contents Nut-Fall in the Solomons 1 Pacific News-Review 1 Remarkable Career of New French Pacific High Commissioner .... 2 South Seas Travellers 3 Cassava as an Islands Crop 3 All is Not Well in New Guinea .... 5 In the Third Year of War 5 A Protest Against Use of “Coon” .. 6 Triplets on Pitcairn Island 7 Copra Marketing Plan Under Fire .. 7 Cost of HMFS “Viti” 8 Squadron-Leader Clive Brewster, of Fiji 8 Militant Unionism on NG Goldfield 9 PAA’s Call at Suva 11 How Vichy Ordered Arrest of British Consul at Noumea 12 Golf in “Fiji 12, 25 Tropicalities 13 Clearer Sky in French Pacific Colonies 14 Sugar Industry in Fiji 15 Prospecting for BSI Gold 17 Roll of Honour 18 Tribute to “Aunt Mary” of Suva .. 20 NG Murder Still Unsolved 22 Cl Fruit-growers Want Better Prices 24 “Elementary, My Dear Watson”—A Fiji Tale 27 “Marrying” the Vanilla Plant .. .. 28 NG Men in Tobruk 29 A Cook Is. Comedy of Love 30 Taureka, of Papua 31 Who Was the Outlaw? 32 “Victims” of Free France 33 A Cockroach—and a Moral (Verse) 34 New Books 35, 47 Reflections About Oil ’37 Death of Stephen Savage (Cook Is.) 38 The “Royal Tar” 39 Making History in Rotuma ...... 40 A Radio Operator’s Heroism 41 History of Pacific’s Equatorial Islands 42 Prospecting on the Fly River, 1875 44 American Air Strength in Pacific .. 46 Catholic Bishop’s Death in Fiji .... 48 A Section for Women 49 Training Polynesian Nurses 50 Native Degeneracy in New Guinea 51 Islands Mining News 54 Short Wave Radio Programmes .... 57 Copra and Rubber Prices 58 Produce Quotations 59 Delayed Radio Messages 61 NG’s Capital to be Moved to Lae .. 63 4 SEPTEMBER, 1941 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONiHII

Pacific Islands Monthly The Newspaper-Magazine of the Sonth Seas [Registered at the G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper .] Published Once Each Month and Circulated in Australia and New Zealand and in the following Pacific Territories and Islands Groups; Australian Territory of Papua.

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All Is Not Well In New Guinea POLITICAL, economic and administrative developments in New Guinea in recent weeks may at last suggest to the Commonwealth authority that all is not well with the government of Australia’s Mandated Territory. Let the following facts, rather than accusation and argument, disclose the position.

First: As a direct result of the New Guinea Administration’s failure to plan and put into action a firm, soundly-based native-control policy, there is growing evidence of native demoralisation throughout the Territory. (See article, page 51.) Second: After four years of official dithering, the Administration has decided to transfer its headquarters from Rabaul to Lae, and now finds itself faced with the task of providing considerably more than £250,000 to meet the cost of transfer. The Administration says now that it is acting on the expert reports prepared by the Dutch vulcanologist, Stehn, and by Brig.-General Griffiths— omitting to add that their recommendations were made at the end of 1937 and early 1938 If the Administration had been farsighted—the 1937 report forecasted an early recrudescence of volcanic activity—it would now have been comfortably established on the NG mainland, Instead, with none-too-robust finances, it now is compelled to make a hasty transfer, under adverse conditions. Skilled labour, and building materials now are difficult to procure, In addition, since the 1937 eruption, nearly £lOO,OOO has been spent on rebuilding at Rabaul—a large part of it by the Administration itself, In the third place, as explained in an article elsewhere in this issue, the Administration’s insistence on the retention of its copra pooling and marketing scheme has endangered the future economic structure of New Guinea. The meagre information available indicates that a struggle is going on behind the scenes between the Administration and the big trading firms—the outcome of which may be catastrophic for the future of Australian enterprise m the Territory, Most people, without discussing whether there is need for putting a curb on the power of the big firms in New Guinea, will ask whether this is an opportune time to engage in a struggle of this kind. The big firms have done much to keep the wheels of trade and commerce turning m the past, and their help will be needed again, before long, Finally, at the Morobe end of the Territory, an incredible development actually has occurred. From out of the blue, the goldfields industry has had foisted upon it a Labour Department organisation, in the Australian fashion, complete with registrar. awards and compulsory unionism, This in a primitive, tropical country, where industry is carried on mostly by indentured native labour! And the goldfield industry is the one thing that has saved the Territory from complete economic collapse.

The foregoing facts, even if there were no other aspects of uncertain and preoccupied administration—and there are plenty—indicate that the system of government in New Guinea urgently requires overhaul.

In the Third Year of War IN the first year of the war, Germany smashed the Entente Alliance, so that France lay prostrate and Britain was “groggy”. In the second year, she aligned Italy and Japan beside her in the Axis Pact, over-ran most of Europe, and then, in the belief that only Russia lay between her and world hegemony (a contemptuous belief, so far as Britain and the United States were concerned), she hurled her terrible military machine upon the Soviet. Until then, her military success and progress had been amazing, and without parallel.

It seemed that nothing could stop this cruel and monstrous power.

About 130,000,000 people, in a dozen defeated and occupied countries, abandoned themselves to a century of slavery, under the overlordship of the Huns.

But the third year opened in September on a new note of hope. In July and August, in the greatest battles ever known, the Russians held

up the German attack, and severely mauled and weakened the hitherto irresistible armies of Hitler. Britain launched ceaseless, smashing air attacks upon Western Germany, claimed air equality in Western Europe, and disclosed figures that proved that the British slowly are winning the Battle of the Atlantic. Britain and Russia, acting together, occupied Iran, threw out a few thousand German Fifth Columnists who were preparing a coup, and thus opened direct communications between the British Persian Gulf and the Russian Caucasus, by which Anglo-American aid can reach Russia. The United States, under the firm, clear-visioned leadership of Roosevelt, has moved steadily from “all aid short of war”, to outright “shooting”—and that despite such contortions by the gangs of professional politicians who cluster around Washington that one almost loses faith in democracy. Millions of people in German-occupied countries are now threatening to revolt.

Above all—and this is of paramount importance to dwellers in the Pacific—Far Eastern tension definitely is easier. That is the best war barometer of all.

When Germany was expanding and boastful and apparently irresistible, and Britain alone faced an armed Europe, and America was dithering, and Stalin was believed to be trembling at the sound of Hitler’s name, Japan was arrogant and menacing, and an all-in war was very close to the Pacific. The change in Europe, the result of Russia’s unexpected stand, and President Roosevelt’s steadfastness, is reflected in a marked change in the attitude of Japan.

BUT it is far too soon to start cheering. Thousands of silly people, bleating optimism and rushing to buy stocks and shares, ought to be kicked into a concentration camp, as a public nuisance.

The Hun is far from beaten. He has met a very serious check, and he is snarling, and threatening, and lying, in a way that proves his embarrassment. But let us not forget that Russia cannot possibly stand up indefinitely to those German attacks; and, if Hitler organises a winter campaign and German tanks can travel over snow and frozen mud, the Russian line may break. _lt is quite possible that, in the next few weeks, German armies will overrun the Ukraine and enter the Caucasus oilfields; that Axis armies will launch a smashing offensive against the British in the Middle East; that Germany yet may induce Japan to engage United States, and so divert American aid from Britain and Russia.

Nevertheless, the third year of war opens in a way that, if forecast a year ago, would have seemed fantastic. A year ago, it was indeed a grim prospect of “toil and sweat and tears”.

Now, if still we toil and sweat, we may hope to see Hitler driven from offence to defence; and there is a reasonable chance of his defeat, and of the destruction of the foul thing he created.

After that, the economic and political deluge!

No Pennies!

Fiji's War-Time Troubles From Our Own Correspondent 0 SUVA, Aug. 24.

UR Government, after running short successively of currency notes, postage stamps, and silver coins, has now run short of pennies. Inconvenience in retail shops is considerable, and the Treasury has had to issue notices urging people to keep the pennies moving The war, of course, is blamed for the shortages, but it is difficult to believe that the authorities have anticipated matters as they should have done, in view of the successive scarcities.

Perhaps the Government might consider “farming out” the issue to some local firm. To the uninitiated eye, that studies the small intrinsic value of our coinage, it would seem that there is so much profit to the issuer that the ordinary trading company would raise both heaven and hell before it ran out of supplies!

Mr. R. w. Robson, editor and publisher of “Pacific Islands Monthly”, will leave Sydney in mid-September for Suva, and he will spend some weeks in Fiji and the Polynesian islands.

"COON "

Bishop of Melanesia Protests Against Use of Offensive Word Letter to the Editor REPLYING in the House of Commons, some months ago, to a question on the usage of the term “nigger”, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. George Hall) said: “I am confident that the BBC and the press of this country will entirely agree with the view that terms which are likely to give offence to any peoples of the Empire should be avoided.”

May I urge, through your widely-read journal, the discontinuance of the equally offensive “coon” which is so often carelessly applied to the peoples of these Pacific Islands.

Sincerely yours, "+ WALTER MELANESIA.

Tulagi, BSI. 12/8/1941.

EDITORIAL NOTE: The term “coon”, especially applied to indentured native labourers, is in very common use in New Guinea (not Papua) and the Solomon Islands. The word, both in itself and in the manner of its application, is offensive and objectionable, and residents of the Territories, who have a sense of responsibility, should try to discourage its use. We think that the somewhat tough lads of the Morobe Goldfields are the chief offenders, and that the Bishop’s appeal should be addressed to them.

The word is so common, now, in New Guinea, that New Guinea people may think nothing of it; but a moment’s reflection will show several good reasons why it should be made more or less tabu.

Canada Buys Samoan Copra From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Aug. 23.

TN recent weeks, large quantities of L Samoan copra have been sold to Canada, helping to clear the large accumulation now held in Apia sheds. It is hoped that transport will be available shortly to move the copra overseas Presumably, this copra will be treated in Canada by the new mill of W. R.

Carpenter (Canada), Ltd., at Vancouver.

So far, the copra price has not been raised, but it is hoped there will be an increase soon in the rates paid to producers, as has been done in Fiji. Merchants are willing to raise the price, providing the Administration does not reimpose the copra export duty.

Governor Visits Fiji's War-workers Sir Harry Luke (Governor of Fiji) visited Suva headquarters of the Fiji Patriotic Knitting and Sewing Circle on its first anniversary, in July. From 10 energetic members, the Circle has grown to a 500 membership throughout the Colony. To Britain have gone 4,000 knitted garments for air-raid victims, another 600 are awaiting shipment.

Left to right: Mrs. L. C.

Bentley (in charge of sewing), Mr. J. S. Thompson (ADC to the Governor), Mrs. S. H. Ellis (Air Force Comforts), Mrs. W.

E. Willoughby-Tottenham (joint founder), Mrs. H. A. Vaskess (assistant treasurer), the Governor. Mrs. E. Burrows (joint founder and organising secretary), Mrs. F. V. Miller (Navy Comforts). 6 SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Triplets On

PITCAIRN Heirs of "Bounty" and an Occasion of Wild Excitement From a Special Correspondent PITCAIRN ISLAND, Aug. 5.

LAST night, the whole community was startled by an unusual stroke of the public bell. People rushed from all directions to the public square, where the bell hangs, to find out the cause of the alarm. When the reason was ascertained, our excitement was intense.

Mrs. Nelson Dyett had just given birth to the first triplets bom on Pitcairn Island—two girls and a boy. Mr. Dyett was so eager to make a public announcement that immediately he resorted to the bell. To his dismay, when he returned home, he found that one of the girls had died. The others are well.

Mrs. Dyett was formerly Maud Young, and she is a great, great, great granddaughter of Midshipman Young, who was the only officer, other than Fletcher Christian, who went with the “Bounty” mutineers into exile on Pitcairn Island 150 years ago.

Twins frequently are born on Pitcairn: but. since the day the “Bounty” arrived, only one confinement has been attended by a doctor. We have skilled midwives here. The triplets were brought into the world bv Mrs. Lily Warren and Mrs.

Rose Christian, who are twin sisters and who themselves are descendants of Edward Young.

Another New Guinea

GOLD FIND From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Sept. 5.

STEADILY, step by step, Australian gold nrospectors in New Guinea are pushing out into the comfortless and inhospitable Sepik region. Every now and again another gold strike is reported and the men nush further into the interior.

One of these days, maybe, they will discover another Morobe.

The “Morobe News”, of August 16, reported another gold discoverv. about 6 to 8 hours up the Senik River, from Murui, on the western side of the Chambri Lakes Messrs. Beckett and Eichorn found the gold, and have been doing reasonably well, and a number of other pioneer miners have gone in from Wewak and Madang.

The newspaper says that the big drawback of the region is mosquitoes—and one can believe it. This part of the Sepik is swampy, unpleasant, and generally “lousy”.

A Grandson At Last!

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. Sept. 1.

AFTER being presented with three grand-daughters in succession. Sir Maynard Hedstrom jestingly offered a bonus of £lOO for his first grandson.

In the intervening ten years or so he has acquired three more grand-children —all girls!

But, at last, the luck has changed, and he has just proudly signed a cheque in favour of the parents of John Maynard Hedstrom 111, born in Suva on August 22.

Mr. and Mrs. Ward Nolan, who operate a medical post at Orokolo, Papua, for the SDA Mission, are at present in Sydney on furlough.

Copra Marketing Plan Under

FIRE New Guinea Seeks Compulsory Pool :: Big Firms Being Roughly Treated :: Implications of Levers' New Mill in Sydney SHARP difficulties have developed in the operation of the copra marketing pool which, as indicated in August, was expected to apply to the Mandated Territory of New Guinea in mid-September.

Regulations were made and a Copra Control Committee (Messrs. Hogan, Archer and Mackenzie) was appointed; but it was assumed a month ago that the procedure would be somewhat as follows: Copra planters would apply where necesary to the Committee for assistance, and the Committee would guarantee £4/10/per ton on their plantation for copra produced. The Committee would be responsible for shipping the copra to a suitable central point for marketing, and would divide equally among the planters on a basis of tonnage supplies, whatever sum remained from the price received after costs of transport, etc., had been deducted. It was assumed that the Committee would sell the copra thus taken over to the big firms engaged in buying copra and shipping it abroad.

There was consternation when it was discovered that that was not by any means the plan of the Administration or of Canberra.

It was to be a compulsory pool—that is, all the copra produced in New Guinea was to go into the pool whether the producer wished it or not; the NG Copra Committee was to have absolute authority in disposing of copra and in distributing any further returns above the £4/10/per ton.

This led to confusion, because only some 25 per cent, of New Guinea’s copra is produced by small, independent planters. All the rest is copra produced under the control of big interests—and the latter insisted that they were completely capable not only of selling at more than £4/10/- all the copra they produced, but also of providing transport.

BUT the Government said that all the copra must go into the pool. The firms asked why, when the procedure would almost certainly result in a serious diminution in the net return they otherwise would receive for the copra they produced. , , ~ Important copra interests begged the Australian Government to let the industry run free. It was emphasised that, although some copra marketing plan probably was necessary to assist the industry early in 1941, there was no necessity for it now—the various producing and marketing organisations had found ways out of the impasse, and there was now a market for all South Pacific copra. Why should New Guinea be subject to this crippling marketing plan, while all the other territories were allowed to run free?

Up to the time of writing, however, Canberra and Rabaul have proved obdurate. They insist that all the copra produced in New Guinea shall go into the pool.

There are indications, moreover, that, at the instigation of the Commonwealth Government, other South Sea territories may now be brought under the compulsory copra pool, and that the complete pooling and marketing plan, under the control of a board in Sydney, will be set up as originally proposed—that is, it will not be confined to New Guinea only.

BURNS, Philp & Co., and W. R. Carpenter & Co., who have hundreds of thousands of pounds invested in plantations in New Guinea bv mortgages or direct ownership, are gravely perturbed hv the nosition that has developed there.

Under the recent moratorium, the firms now have no control whatever over the plantations on which they have advanced money. They have no redress in regard to unpaid interest and principal. The planters concerned may sell their copra to the marketing control Committee, and the big firms have no voice whatever in the disposal of the money received for same.

On present indications, much of the New Guinea investments of the big firms have practically “gone west”—and this, in turn, probably will mean that big firms generally will refuse to finance nlanting enterprises in New Guinea in future, and that the responsibility for finance will rest on the Administration.

IT was thought, two or three months ago, that the establishment of the Carpenter crushing mills in Canada would partly solve the problem of disposing of a large part of New Guinea’s copra production—it was reported that Carpenters were prepared to pay £6 per All that remained of the Burns, Philp store and offices at Ralamaua, New Guinea, a few hours after a fire started at 5.30 a.m. on August 21. All the contents were destroyed. 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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But the Governmental authority has shown little inclination to co-operate with Carpenters in the matter—and it is now suggested that it is influenced in this attitude by the fact that the worldpowerful Lever interests are establishing in Sydney a new crushing mill, capable of dealing with 40,000 tons of copra p.a., in addition to the existing Lever mill, which can handle about 20,000 tons p.a. (copra which generally comes from the Lever plantations in the Solomons).

Some suggest that the Commonwealth authority regards with complacency the possibility of New Guinea copra being sold to the Lever interests in Australia at £4/10/- per ton, rather than to the Carpenter mill in Canada at £6 per ton —but such an idea surely is absurd.

The feeling among planters against the Unilever combine is so strong that, if the Commonwealth dared to plav into the hands of Lever interests as suggested, there would be such resentment among planters that it would be bound to have reaction in the Commonwealth Parliament.

Nevertheless, strange and as yet unexplained things are going on. rfTHE position may be simplified by the A fact that low grade copra only will be wanted by the new Lever mill in Sydney, while the new Carpenter mill in Canada wants high grade. But. if that is not to be the position, we vet may witness the extraordinary sight of the Carpenter interests, which nominally own or control plantations all over New Guinea, paying the Dutch East Indies or the Philippines £6 per ton for copra for the Canadian mill, while the New Guinea copra is being shipped to Sydney at less than £5 per ton.

The position is the subject of a series of conferences now proceeding. Unless it is delicately handled, it is going to have a serious reaction upon the economic future of the Territory.

One can only wonder why the Australian authority persisted in its conra marketing plan, when it was obvious that the industry was finding its own way out of its troubles.

A consideration of the circumstances, combined with the curious results flowing from the present moratorium in New Guinea, might suggest that it is the deliberate policy of the New Guinea Administration to smash the commercial power of the big firms in New Guinea.

There may be something to commend such a policy—no one loves monopolies— but this seems to be the worst possible time in history to put it into operation.

Mr. L. H. Hilder, chief clerk in the Papuan Lands Department, has been appointed Government Storekeeper at Pt.

Moresby.

AWARDED D.F.M.

Clive Brewster A MAN known well in Fiji, Squadron- Leader Clive A. Brewster, has been appointed Commandant of the RAAF Initial Training School at Somers, Victoria.

As soon as war came, Mr. Brewster proceeded to Sydney, with 1914-18 honours thick upon him, and bearing the rank of lieutenant-colonel in charge of a Fiji defence battalion. But Australia (then) wanted no “old soldiers”, and the man from Fiji had to swing all the influence he could command, and submit to the arrogance of various puppy-dog officers, before he could get a toe-hold in the Australian Air Force. Eventually, he was taken on in some junior administrative job; and. then, nothing could stop him. His friends cheered, when they saw that he had been selected to succeed, 'at Somers, Wing-Commander White. MP, who goes to an RAAF command in England.

Mr. Brewster, born in 1896, was a British machine-gunner in France in 19.14; an RAF observer in France soon after; then he became a fighter-pilot, was promoted to Flight-Commander, and twice won the Military Cross.

When he arrived in Sydney, in 1939, as a suppliant for war work, he was Lieut.- Colonel Clive A. Brewster, OBE, MC and Bar, ED; Commander of Legion of Honour; Chevalier of the First Class of the Order of St. Olaf. Three months later he was plain Pilot-Officer Brewster. But you can’t keep a good man down!

“Viti” Cost

Snarling Taxpayers and a Busy Governor THERE has been some political snarlin? in Fiji about the cost of the Fijian Government ship “Viti” and the manner in which she is used by the Governor and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Harry Luke) It may be in order to give a few facts—or as many facts as may be given in wartime.

The Government, in November, 1937, approved of £50,000 being spent on a patrol-ship, to replace the old “Pioneer”

Later, in order to make the “Viti” suitable for certain war-time purposes, the allocation was increased to £60.000 and then to £7O 000. It can be said that late developments have completely justified this expenditure. It will be disclosed, after the war, that the “Viti” has been used, in recent weeks, in a way that might almost have been foreseen when the extra expense was undertaken.

The Fiji taxpayers mostly are patriots, and if they could be told certain things there would be no howl from them.

Unfortunately, they cannot be told; therefore, quite naturally, they howl.

Another wail has had relation to the cost of maintaining the “Viti”—said to be nearly £lOO per day while in port, and something fantastic while at sea. The official figure is £42/5/- per day in port, and an additional £l4 per 100 miles while at sea—this covering every imaginable and accountancy contingency, except war-risk insurance.

There also are critics who declare that “Sir Harry Luke spends far too much time tripping around the Pacific.”

The suggestion, apparently, is that Sir Harry is away at sea making wassail, and twining garlands in his hair.

All this, again, indicates a lack of imagination or intelligence on the part of Fiji taxpayers. Nothing can be said about the tasks that have been thrown upon the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific during the last twelve months; but it can be said that he has had to undertake some delicate and altogether extraordinary jobs, at the request of London.

Taxpayers should read, in the July, August and September issues of the “PIM”. the articles which indicate very peculiar conditions in the French colonies of the South Pacific; and they might listen in on the radio to the news of what is called the “crisis in the Far East”; and then they should let their imagination work a little.

The most important half of this war is not being fought on battlefields or with war-like weapons. It is largely a war of move and counter-move, with the pieces hidden. Within this hidden aspect of the war probably lies the deciding factor. And the hidden half of the war is not reported in the newspapers.

Pilot-Officer George Evans, now undergoing special RAAF training in Victoria, after having just received his commission, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Evans, former well-known residents of Buka, New Guinea. Several years ago, young Evans won the first open scholarship from NG and was educated at Brisbane Grammar School. He was on the staff of the Union Bank, Melbourne, prior to enlisting. His progress through the various Air Force training schools was rapid and distinguished.

SGT. GEOFFREY MOORE, of the NZ Royal Air Force, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal in August. Eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moore, of Lindfield, NSW, he served in 1937-39 as an engineer on the BP interisland steamer “Maiwara”, in New Guinea.

Later, he was on the trans-Pacific liner “Aorangi”. On the outbreak of war, he joined the NZRAF and went to England to complete his training, subsequently being posted to the Middle East.

The official version of the feat which earned him the DFM stated “Sgt, Moore was rear gunner of a plane attacked by three enemy fighters. He shot one down and drove off the others by accurate, determined shooting. Moore has displayed great courage and a high standard of gunnery at all times”. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1941 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Next address: “Sir Hubert Murray as I Knew Him and Papua as I Knew It”, by Mr. J. T. Bensted, M.L.C., of Papua—at Hotel Carlton at 8 p.m., Wed., Sept. 24.

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An Example Of War

SERVICE HERE is a record of war service of which Vila (New Hebrides) can be proud.

Mrs. J. Fletcher, of Vila, is doing war work in Sydney in various capacities— mainly those of the New Zealand Association and the NZ branch of the Women’s War Unit Auxiliary. She is the official hostess to NZ service men passing through Sydney. Her daughter. Miss Barbara Thorburn, at one time on the Vila staff of Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., is a wire- -1 e s s telegraphy trainee with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, at Melbourne Training Depot. Another daughter (Mrs.

Frank Turnbull) is a member of the VAD National Emergency Service.

Her son-in-law, Frank Turnbull (photograph herewith) was accounts clerk at the British Residency, Vila. The powers-that-be would not give him leave to enlist; so he resigned his job, proceeded to Sydney, joined the RAAF, married his fiancee (Miss Marion Fletcher) and, at last advices, was in training in Canada.

No Shoe-Leather

New Caledonia's Economic Troubles From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Sept. 1.

AT present, there is such a scarcity of leather in New Caledonia that shoes cannot be soled.

The head of the Colony’s Economic Department (Mr. Puaux) complains that Australia, which gives this country a good price for all the hides that are exported, is refusing such necessities as caustic soda and newsprint, although the quantities needed are not large. “It is to be hoped,” he adds, “that the Commonwealth will take the situation into consideration.”

Mr. Bert Heath, one of Guinea Airways’ pilots at Lae, New Guinea, is at present spending leave in Adelaide, South Australia.

Mrs. Walter J. Daniels, wife of the new vicar of Thursday Island, has returned to TI from Sydney with her daughter, Angela, and her new baby, Nigel.

"Join Union or Be Sacked!"

New Guinea Goldfield Meets Militant Unionism AS a result of commercial pig-headedness, official stupidity and bureaucratic meddling, the goldfields industry of New Guinea has been brought under Australian trade union rules; and, in defiance of what appear to be the clearly expressed wishes of the majority of Europeans employed there, industrial machinery on Australian Labour Department lines is being fastened on this end of the tropical territory.

The thing started, some months ago, when the directors of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. took an aloof and highhanded attitude towards their European employees, who apparently had a few grievances; and so they precipitated a strike.

The strike should have been settled at once—but, although the Administrator came all the way from Rabaul, he apparently did no more than make futile gestures, and the strike went on. The shrewd people thought it soon would fizzle out.

But the Australian Labour Party staged a very pretty threat in the House of Representatives, playing on the fact that the Government parties have a majority of only one; whereupon the panic-stricken and weak-kneed Australian administration apologised to the world for the New Guinea strike, and hurriedly sent a former Labour organiser and present Commonwealth Labour Inspector, Mr. Arthur Blakeley, post-haste to New Guinea to settle matters there.

MR. Blakeley appears to have had the time of his life. He found himself in virgin country, where trade unions were unknown, and the foot of the Labour organiser had never trod.

Instead of effecting a reasonable settlement, as between NGG Ltd. and its employees, he proceeded to organise a full-blown Labour Department machine, complete with registrar, awards, trade unions, etc., to control industrial operations in future on the Morobe Goldfield.

A great majority of Europeans on the Trainee-Pilot Frank Turnbull. 9

Pacific Islands Mont H L T September, 1941

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Morobe Goldfield are normal and sensible men, and when they saw what Mr.

Blakeley was at they protested. A section of the NGG employees were all for Mr.

Blakeley, of course; but the balance of the NGG employees, and practically all the other Europeans—including the very numerous staff of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. —were emphatic in their declaration that they did not want Mr. Blakeley and his elaborate plans, and that trade union machinery was not a good thing in a dark-skinned tropical territory, anyhow.

As luck would have it, while the argument was proceeding there came along the new Minister for the Territories, Mr.

McDonald; and this unfortunate gentleman, being quite ignorant of the conditions which govern a tropical territory, gave a sympathetic ear to the urgent pleas of Mr. Blakeley, and finally told him to go right ahead with his plans, and promised that he, as Minister, would see to it that Canberra gave him all necessary authority under the National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations.

The busy Mr. Blakeley found himself clothed with the authority of a czar.

On August 20, Mr. Blakeley announced that the gold-mining industry in New Guinea, in future, would be controlled by an industrial award; and, as he had been directed by Mr. McDonald to exercise the powers of a Conciliation Commissioner, as defined under the National Security Regulations, he duly made an industrial award which was published in detail in the “Morobe News” on August 30, and which has a currency of one year.

This award apparently gives preference to unionists (that is, all mineworkers in New Guinea must become members of the New Guinea and Papuan Miners and Workers’ Union within 28 days); an all-round increase of wages of about 18/- per week; a reduction of four hours in the working week; and some minor concessions.

Mr. Blakeley formally refused to recognise any union other than the union named; and he issued an order that the latter, at an early date, should elect permanent officers with whom he might deal, as Conciliation Commissioner.

A meeting of members of the union elected Mr. J. Pollard as president, and Mr. K. Laurance as secretary.

MEANWHILE, on August 28, a very large meeting of the employees of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. met in Bulolo and expressed, in strong terms, their resentment at a trade union being forced upon them in the manner described. Their attitude towards the new union, and towards Mr. Blakeley and all his works, was hostile; and the following motions were carried by a large majority:— “(1) That we will not join this union under the terms stated in the award.

“(2) That the following radio be sent to the Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) ; ‘By overwhelming majority, BGD employees at meeting decided against compulsory joining of union as instructed by Commissioner Blakeley. Suggest you hold up passing of Act until you receive our petition.”

However, as the result of the supineness of the Administrator and the ignorance of the new Minister, all that Mr Blakeley has done already has the force of law; which means that all goldfields employers must obey Mr. Blakeley’s new award, and all employees must join the union within 28 days, or be dismissed from their jobs.

There is much strong and bitter feeling between the pro-Blakeley and anti- Blakeley groups, and Sydney newspapers have reported quarrelling and fighting among Europeans in the Morobe district.

It is one of the worst chapters in the tragic history of Australian Governmental muddling in New Guinea.

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Pastor and Mrs. R. H. Tutty, of the SDA Mission, Lorengau, Manus, New Guinea, are expected to arrive in Sydney this month on leave. They have completed 22 years’ missionary work in the Pacific. 10

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PERHAPS the most interesting development in Suva lately is the apparently close approach of the date when Pan American Airways’ Clippers will call here.

The new schedule is expected to be inaugurated on October 18, from San Francisco.

Not very much progress has been made with the actual airport construction; but it is understood that, in the initial stages of the service, the Clippers will moor to a barge in Laucala Bay, at the back of Suva, and passengers will be carried to the town by launch. The reason for choosing Laucala Bay as the landing-ground is that better visibility can be expected there than in Suva Harbour itself.

Eventually, an embankment and a wharf-head will have to be made, but this may be an expensive and a long task, because the shallows extend so far that the wharf-head would have to be a long way offshore.

However, the main thing is to get the service started; and, Mr. Harold Gatty, Auckland manager of PAA, has been spending several weeks here completing all arrangements.

The Suva call, both ways, will be made between Canton Island and Noumea; and, as far as is known, the Clippers will remain overnight at Suva.

The southwards schedule then will be Honolulu to Canton Island, first day; Canton Island to Suva, second day; Suva to Noumea, third day; and Noumea to Auckland, fourth day.

It is reported from NZ that PAA, is seeking Washington’s authority to use Palmyra Island (between Honolulu and Canton Is.) as a re-fuelling base.

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For Future Sportsmen in N. Caledonia From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Sept. 1.

SOME day, New Caledonia is going to be a Mecca for deer-shooters and anglers.

Recently, an Australian party had a most enjoyable deer-shooting expedition.

The deer were in fine condition and in astonishing numbers.

The new Col d'Amieu road, across the island, from La Foa to Canala, runs through New Zealand-like scenery, with mountains and forests, tree-palms, cascades and clear streams. Governor Sautot thinks it could produce trout. He says he repently has been talking with Sir Harry Luke, who told him what was being done to introduce trout from New Zealand to Fijian streams. His opinion was that New Caledonian waters would prove even more suitable—they are already the habitat of quantities of freshwater fish, running up to a pound or two. So if New Zealand wants to do New Caledonia a good turn, here’s an opportunity.

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British Consul in Noumea How Vichy Ordered His Arrest From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Aug. 14.

It/rONSIEUR Bayardelle, Secretary-Gen- -I*l eral of New Caledonia at the time when the Colony rallied to the Free French Movement, and who is now at headquarters in London, reveals that, preceding the Conseil-General’s repudiation of Governor Pelicier on August 26, last year, two telegrams were received from the Vichy Government.

One ol them ordered the arrest of the British Consul in Noumea (Mr. Johnston) and the other ordered the Colony to give priority in its mineral exports to Japan and to Russia (meaning, of course, Germany).

He adds that Vichy’s official repudiation of the French Republic was the signal for the Noumea Municipality to repaint all the town’s public buildings with the words: “Republique Francaise —Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite”.

Suva's New Golf Course From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Sept. 2.

SUVA’S new golf course is settling down —particularly the additional 9 holes, recently opened. It is the first 18hole course in Fiji, and, though never likely to become a Sandwich or even a Rose Bay, it is definitely attractive to Suva residents, who fill it daily, and should be popular with visiting tourists — if and when tourists come into being again.

The 18 holes are all on the flat, which perhaps lessens their interest a little, but which certainly makes play practicable for an older generation than could tackle the old, now abandoned course, one round of which, on a warmish day, was calculated to reduce the ordinary player to a damp sponge. (See illustrated article on page 25, written before the new 9 holes were opened.) Mr. G. J. A. Moore, BP manager at Pt. Moresby, is now in Australia on leave.

Modern Chinese School

IN RABAUL THIS attractive, well-ventilated tropical building is the Methodist Mission’s new Chinese School at Rabaul, New Britain, opened a few months ago.

Nestling at the foot of the hills behind the town, the* school was built to modern plans prepared by Mr. W. Mac- Gowan, of the NG Public Works Department, and the entire cost was met by Rabaul’s Chinese community. White, with black granite pillars and steps, it consists of an assembly room, three classrooms, kindergarten, library, and permanent stage—an important item in a Chinese school. Above the main entrance is the title, “Overseas Chinese School”, in red English lettering and in huge bronze Chinese characters.

At present the school is closed—almost continuous eruptions from Matupi crater a few miles away have covered the building with a grey blanket of fine pumice dust half an inch thick, making it untenantable. —Photo; “Missionary Review.” 12 SEPTEMBER, 1641 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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TROPICAOTIES NEW dignities are sometimes expensive. Men offered a peerage have been known to refuse, on the ground that they did not care to expend the necessary money on their robes and patent. No such restraint is necessary when the taxpayer’s purse is behind you.

When Fiji Government yacht “Viti” was recently given naval status her launch automatically became a naval barge, and as such had to be graced with the pair of dolphins customary on such craft—dolphins, presumably, of ornament and distinction, but hardly of much practical use. Dolphins could be cast in Suva. But, alas, their full brilliance would not be revealed without chromium-plating, so they were despatched to Sydney to acquire the necessary lustre. The bill is understood to be a little under £lOO. Still, perhaps this has brought us a little nearer to winning the war.

AN act of simple and sincere goodcomradeship is reported from Wau, New Guinea. In that tropical town, isolated in the mountains, they have found some very good dramatic talent, and Major Ayris regularly produces some first-class plays. Recently, “It Pays to Advertise” ran for a short, successful season.

After the last performance, the players went in a body to the cemetery and placed a wreath upon the grave of Miss Jean Wilson, whose brutal murder is one of the unsolved mysteries of the Territory. Jean Wilson, a charming and popular girl, was cast for one of the chief parts in “It Pays to Advertise”, and had rehearsed regularly up to the time of her tragic death on June 23.

Her associates, in the moment of their success, thought first of her. * AREAL gesture of goodwill! The popular American authors, Nordhoff and Hall, of Tahiti, have produced another book of the Bligh series, entitled “Botany Bay”, The others —all outstanding successes—were “Mutiny”, “Men Against the Sea”, and “Pitcairn’s Island”.

Chapman and Hall, of London, will publish the British Empire edition of “Botany Bay”, and the authors have arranged that the whole of the profits therefrom shall go to British war funds, as an expression of their admiration of the behaviour of the British people, under Blitzkrieg. Nordhoff and Hall were aviators in the last war—that, in fact, is where they first met. They were In the French Air Force, and, in 1917, transferred to the United States organisation.

After the war, they went off together to seek some quiet place, away from the hateful, warring world —and they found Tahiti. * THE ever-murmuring “coconut wireless” can be a boon or a bane in an Islands community. At one Central Pacific port recently it received more round cursing from local residents than the Gestapo has bestowed on Europe’s hidden “freedom radios”.

A few months ago “coconut wireless” whispered that a party of Free French soldiers would call at the island on their way overseas. Old residents scoffed; but, within a day or two, a vessel put into port and, sure enough, ashore came the Frenchmen. There was a hectic scramble among the locals to give the contingent happy memories of their visit.

Quite recently, when “coconut wireless” let it be known that another batch of men would pass through, nothing was left to chance. Each village killed pigs and chickens and gathered ever y v^ ri ety of fresh produce, to ensure that the Frenchmen would have to be carried b ack their Natives lined the beach when a steamer arrived on the due date; but great was the disappomtment, and loud the cursing, when it was found that s °ldiers were aboard, There was only one thing to do tuck away the fine food before it went rotten, m tro Pte al fa s hlo ?J- An< ? , the local epi " cures did that, with gusto, * A T the recent term examinations at Newington College, Sydney, the name of Prince Jione Gu, youngest son of Queen Salote of Tonga, headed the list in wool-classing. Until he went to New Zealand a couple of years ago, to study with a tutor, Prince Jione had never seen a sheep. This is certainly a new departure for a Polynesian.

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Clearer Sky In French Pacific Colonies

Brunot is Recalled :: D'Argenlieu Arrives :: Many Disloyal Officials Dismissed HHHE political situation in relation 1 to the French Colonies in the South Pacific which was cnnfncpH and puzzling ’when the “PIM” went to press in August, is now more clear.

The P° sition - up to three months ago, was that M Henri Sautot was Governor of New Caledonia, and Free French High Commissioner in the Pacific- and Dr de Curton, in Papeete, was Governor of French Oceania.

Then there arrived in Noumea Commandant Richard Brunot, described as “Free French Governor-General in the Pacific”. His mission apparently was to co-ordinate French interests in the Pacific. In May, accompanied by his wife and his aide-de-camp, Captain Fatoux, he proceeded to Tahiti, where he arrived late in June.

Just prior to his arrival, the Tahiti Governor, Dr. de Curton, arrested a number of high officials, on the ground that they were disloyal to Free France.

In July, it was announced that Governor-General Brunot had arrested Governor de Curton, a number of officials, and Captain Fatoux (his own aide).

Very little news has been allowed to leak out of Tahiti; but sufficient has been published in Australian, New Zealand and New Caledonia to indicate that the course of events was somewhat as follows.

Commandant Brunot encountered, in Tahiti, a definitely hostile atmosphere Perhaps it was the fault of M. Brunot— no one knows. It is significant that his aide, Captain Fatoux, asked permission to return to London, two days after they arrived.

Within a short time, it was reported that there was afoot a plot to make prisoner the “Governor-General”. The upshot of it all was that Governor de Curton, Captain Fatoux, and various officials, were placed under arrest by M.

Brunot, who himself assumed office as Governor of French Oceania.

How and why all this happened has not yet been explained. One suspects petty jealousies among a host of nervewracked officials. It is at least clear that the non-official populace remained calm, and completely pro-de Gaulle.

EVIDENTLY, London had been kept apprised of events. On August 8. it was announced in Sydney that Captain Thierry d’Argenlieu had been appointed by General de Gaulle as High Commissioner in the Pacific; and, in Noumea, on August 13, that Commandant Brunot had been recalled to London by General de Gaulle.

It was reported in Noumea, early in August, that Captain d’Argenlieu, as High Commissioner for Free France in the Pacific, would have his headquarters at Tahiti, where he would act also as Governor of French Oceania. Another report (on August 27) said he would have his headquarters at Noumea.

Cordial messages were exchanged between Captain d’Argenlieu and M. Sautot. In a broadcast address on August 5, M. Sautot said:— “Since last Saturday, I am no longer High Commissioner for Free France in the Pacific.

General de Gaulle has notified me by telegram to this effect, at the same time declaring that I am to continue to enjoy his confidence in my capacity as Governor of New Caledonia and High Commissioner for Free France in the New Hebrides. General de Gaulle has decided at last to combine the duties of High Commissioner for Free France in the united French territories of the Pacific with that of military head of French Pacific territories in the person of Captain d’Argenlieu, who will be Governor of French Oceania at Tahiti.”

In a communication to Governor Sautot, dated London, August 5, Captain d’Argenlieu said: — “I am happy to announce that, by decree dated August 1, General de Gaulle has appointed you Companion of the Ordre Liberation, and he has asked me to receive you formally into the Order, which will constitute an honour and a joy for me.”

The coming of the new High Commissioner, and his apparent intention to live in Noumea, is regarded with misgiving by the people of New Caledonia and New Hebrides, who are greatly de- 14 SEPTEMBER. 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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THE following details of French officials who have been either relieved of duties or placed under arrest on charges involving disloyalty are taken from French and other publications. All appear to have occurred in July and August;— Dr. Loison, medical officer at Sous-le-Vent Islands, relieved of duties.

Mile. Bourasset, of Colonial Hospital, Tahiti, suspended.

Mon. Senesse (head of the judiciary service) and MM. Drouhet and Leroux (assistant judges at the Papeete tribunal) relieved of duties.

The following have been placed under military guard in Tahiti: Mano (principal Deeds Clerk), Senesse (head of judiciary service), Drouhet (magistrate), Mille (medical officer), Third (chief clerk of the local Administration), Fagot (medical officer). Petard, Rosmorduo (medical officer), Foucard (medical officer), Pu.io (medical officer), Loison (medical officer) and lorss.

Mon. Deverge Roger, teacher (fifth grade, metropolitan service) dismissed from service and placed in an internment camp.

Messrs. Friaire and Ehrart interned.

Mile. Barbier de Preville Benedicta, female employee of the third grade in the Administrative Service of the New Hebrides, dismissed, as from August 16, owing to continued hostility to the cause of Free France.

Five fonctionnaires at Port Vila, New Hebrides, including two women, relieved of office for hostility to Free France.

Another Romance

THE Pacific Islands Society’s second romance was announced in August.

From a chance meeting at one of the Society’s meetings there has resulted the engagement of Miss Gabrielle Cosset, only daughter of the late Mr. R.

W. Cosset, formerly an Islands resident, to Mr. R. W. I. Band, BA, of the Malayan Civil Service, and until recently administrative officer at Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Miss Cosset, who is secretary of the Board of Social Studies at the University of Sydney, is a niece of the late Lieutenant- Colonel Cosset, once Commissioner in Rarotonga. The young couple will settle in Malaya.

The other marriage, which arose out of a Pacific Islands Society meeting, was that of Mr. Gordon Smith (New Guinea) and Miss Anna Laurenson (Samoa). The more frivolous members of the Society are elaborating a plan under which their tireless secretary (Eric Ramsden) will appear in future at Society gatherings in the habiliments of Cupid—bow and arrow, and a pair of wings.

Mr. R. Dunlop, a former New Zealand mining engineer who has been on the Morobe Goldfields for the past couple of years, has been appointed Inspector of Mines there during the absence on furlough of Mr. A. Fry.

Mr. W. H. Leydin, of Port Moresby, Papua, arrived in Australia recently to join the Navy. He was in the Navy many years ago and served in it during the last war.

Fiji'S Sugar

A Period of Anxiety From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Aug. 20.

IN these days, arrangements and contracts must necessarily be made on more or less hand-to-mouth terms.

Even so, it is disconcerting to learn that there are doubts whether the Fiji sugar crop for 1942 can be sold or shipped.

Any interference with the regular routine of planting and harvesting cane would be an economic disaster for Fiji, where, even in these times of big gold production, sugar is still overwhelmingly the main product.

The industry, locally, is in strong 'hands; and, presumably, therefore, will fare better in time of stress than most cane industries in other parts of the world. But the very large number of Indian farmers, who are the main producers, and whose whole economic life is a matter of adjustment between cane prices and cash advances on their anticipated crops, have heard disquieting forecasts and are full of foreboding.

Mr. W. W. Field, a former resident of Papua, and brother of the late Mr. R.

A. Field, at one time editor of the “Papuan Courier”, died in Sydney in August. 15 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Theodore Forty Prospecting on Guadalcanal THE exploratory party sent to the Solomons by Mr. E. G. Theodore to investigate gold-mining possibilities is now at work in the interior of the great, primitive island of Guadalcanal.

The camp, in August, was at a point on the inland ranges, about 22 miles from the coast.

There was an interesting development soon after the party arrived. Mr.

Cramer Roberts, the manager, pegged a location near Tulagi, and hurriedly returned South. There is said to be a deposit of manganese there. The local people had been talking about it for years, but never had bothered to peg it.

Nowadays, manganese is valuable.

A Tulagi correspondent writes interestingly of the new development;— “The Solomon Islands have never appealed to me greatly, and I can understand them being the white mam’s ruin, that they are supposed to be. They are not developed nearly as much as the islands north of Choiseul, which come under the New Guinea mandate, and it seems that only a rich strike of gold would ever put any life into the place.

So far, there seems to be nothing worth while for a company, and any rich lodes have yet to be found.

“There is no big native population in Guadalcanal, and so bush tracks and native villages are few and far between, which means that rice for native labourers will have to be carried everywhere, and there is not the usual chance of getting eggs and a few vegetables from native villages. Also, quite a few parts are regarded by the natives as tabu, and they refuse to go there.

“It is funny to see the old BSI explanters sitting around the table in Chinatown’s luxurious hotel, in Tulagi, drinking their beer and chewing at their pipes, while they talk in terms of sluiceheads, pennyweights to the yard, refractory ore, and so on. Once upon a time it was Ceylon driers, beetle borer, green mould, kanaka trade, and so on.”

Mr. J. Wingate, a resident of Titikaveka, Rarotonga, left the Cook Islands for the United States, via NZ, in August.

Rev. Maurice and Mrs. Nixon, together with their daughter, Margaret, will return shortly to Papua, where Mr Nixon is engaged in work for the London Missionary Society. They have been in Australia for several weeks on furlough.

Cook Is. Men Enlist

From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, Aug. 10.

SEVEN men were selected to make up the first draft of European volunteers to leave the Cook Islands for overseas service with the NZ Forces.

They are Messrs. K. S. Graham (planter), C. H. Hollands (store accountant), N.

Cooper (store manager), L. K. Pitt (Fruit Control accountant), F. R. Swanston (engineer), and G. Woodroofe (school teacher).

On August 5, at a dance held by the Patriotic Committee of Rarotonga, each recruit was presented with a parcel of knitted wear.

A further £5OO from the Cook Islands Patriotic Fund was forwarded to New Zealand in August.

The new Post Office on Pitcairn Island. It stands in the public square in the middle of the village. In the right background, well loaded, is Mr. A. E. Fuller, who went from Fiji to Pitcairn to introduce a regular postal system; while in front, on the left, is Roy P. Clark, of the Pitcairn community, who has been appointed postmaster for two years. Mr. Fuller returned to Suva, some months ago. (Photo, by courtesy of Mrs. Ada M. Christian.) 17

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COURAGE IS A GRAND THING, BUT SOMETIMES COURAGE ALONE ISN’T ENOUGH. TAKE THE CASE OF ARTHUR WEBSTER, FOR INSTANCE.

ONE EVENING HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH HIS FRIEND, BILL THOMPSON, WHEN BILL SAID: are using up energy. Your heart has to beat 35,000 times and your lungs make 20,000 muscular movements during your eight hours’ sleep.

“So you can see for yourself if energy isn’t replaced during sleep you wake tired, feel run down and get behind in your work. You need Horlick’s. Start drinking Horlick’s every night before you go to bed.”

Arthur Webster started drinking Horlick’s every night before bed.

Soon he lost that heavy , tired feeling and found that he could put twice as much drive into his work.

His sales figures bucked up and for the first time since he had been on the Island the Head Office sat up and took some notice of him.

Do you feel tired all day? Wake tired? Find it hard to concentrate on your work? Feel dull and nervy? Then the chances are that you, too, are suffering from Night-Starvation. Remember, Horlick’s guards against Night-Starvation, keeps you wonderfully fit. Ask your chemist or storekeeper to-day for a bottle of Horlick’s. You can buy Horlick’s in all main towns throughout the British Pacific Islands. *owjrt» I oriic .MixcV fcri Sf *o= “Things pretty good at the store, Arthur?”

“Y-yes. We’re doing all right.”

But the store wasn't doing as well as it should have been. Arthur Webster was really worried. That night he had a heart to heart chat with his wife.

“Arthur darling, you worry too much —things’ll be all right soon.”

“I wish I didn’t feel so tired all the time! I seem to wake up tired lately. I suppose I’ll just have to pull myself together and do a real job for the next couple of months.”

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“Darling, there’s something really wrong with you. I know what you’re going through . . . but I’m sure there’s something behind this day after day tiredness of yours. Why don’t you see a doctor?”

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Roll Of Honour

KILLED Pilot-Officer Len BAYLISS, flying instructor in the RAAF, formerly of Rabaul, New Guinea.

Killed in Sydney, 18/11/1940, when he fell from a trainer aircraft, at a great height, without a parachute.

A/Bdr. Neville W. BERTWISTLE, AIF artillery (tank unit), formerly a clerk on the staff of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., of Rabaul, New Guinea. Killed in action, April, IS'4l.

Flight-Lieutenant G. J. I. CLARKE, of the RAAF, formerly Assistant Flight Superintendent of Carpenter Airways, New Guinea. Reported missing after operations off Dakar (French West Africa), while attached to HMAS “Australia”, 25/9/1940 —now presumed killed.

Pte. Felix CRAIG, AIF, formerly of accounts department, Australasian Petroleum Co., Port Moresby, Papua. Reported killed, June, 1941.

Captain Kenneth GARDEN, of the RAF Ferry Command, formerly chief pilot of Guinea Airways, Ltd., in New Guinea. Killed in air accident, 2/9/1941, when bomber, which he had flown across Atlantic from USA, crashed near west coast of Britain.

Flying-Officer Moresby GOFTON, of the RAF, son of Mrs. F, S. Stewart, of Wau, New Guinea.

Reported missing, 17/5/1940 —now presumed killed.

Flying-Officer K. J. A. JOHNSTONE, of the RAF, who was born in Suva, Fiji, In 1915. Reported missing, 1/5/1940 —now presumed killed.

Cpl. Alex, C. SCOTT, AIF, formerly manager at Kieta, TNG. for Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd.

Killed in action in the Middle East, 19/6/1941.

Died From Wounds

Pte. Ernest HENRY, AIF, formerly of the Rabaul (NG) staff of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd. Died from wounds received during Battle of Crete, 1/6/1941.

Pte. Walter PEARSON, of first NG Quota of AEP (infantry). Died from wounds received in action, 24/6/1941.

A/Bdr. W. R. SCOTT, AIF, of New Guinea.

Died from wounds, July, 1941.

Sergeant-Pilot Peter Clarkson WISE, of the RAF, son of Mr. W. Wise, OBE, Director of Public Works, Fiji. Died from wounds received during bombing raid over Germany, January, 1941.

Died From Illness

Pte. Clarence A, HUTTON, AIF, formerly of Edie Creek, New Guinea. Died from illness, April, 1941.

MISSING A/Sgt. A. A. S. COTMAN, AIF infantry, of Abau, Papua. Reported missing—believed prisoner of war, 5/5/1941.

A recent “snapshot” of Mr. W. R. (“Wally”) Scott, of New Guinea, whose death overseas from wounds received while on active service with the AIF was reported last month. This photograph was taken when Scott was working at the Kupei mine, on Bougainville Island, TNG. 18 SEPTEMBER. 1941 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Pte. L. F. McCarthy, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported “wounded in action and missing —believed prisoner of war”, 15/7/1941.

Alex. McKAY. of the RAAF, formerly engineer at the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s mill, Penang, Fiji. Reported missing, August, 1941.

Pte. John O. SMITH, of the NZ Forces, son of Captain Smith, of “Tui Kauvaro”, and Mrs.

Smith, of Suva, Fiji. Reported missing, 29/5/1941, during Greek campaign.

WOUNDED Pte. V. BLANCO, AIF infantry, of Thursday Island. Reported wounded in action, 8/7/1941.

L/Cpl. J. P. BLENCOWE, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 15/7/1941.

Pte. Thomas BYERS, AIF infantry, of Thursday Island. Reported wounded in action, May, 1941.

Sgt. C. HENDRICK, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 15/7/1941.

Stanley HIGGS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Higgs, .of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., wellknown in New Guinea. Member of an English Lancers’ regiment, wounded during British evacuation from Dunkirk (France), May, 1940.

Lieut. L. T. HURRELL, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported “wounded in action, remaining on duty”, 29/7/1941.

Cpl. W. H. LANNEN, AIP artillery, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported “wounded in action — on seriously ill list, 30/6/1941; removed from seriously ill list, 25/7/1941”.

Gnr. E. G. LOBAN, AIF artillery, of Thursday Island, wounded during Greek campaign, May, 1941. Reported July, 1941, he being invalided home after having his left forearm amputated.

Capt. Edward Tiwi LOVE, NZ Maori Battalion, husband of Mrs. Takau Rio Love, Ariki-nui of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Reported missing during Greek campaign, 27/5/1941; later, 22/6/1941, reported “wounded and safe”.

Cpl. R. McKERLIE, AIF, of Yandina, BSI, wounded in face by bomb explosion, April, 1941.

A/Sgt. Alastair MACLEAN, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, in Libya, 30/6/1941.

S/Sgt. Graham B. MIRFIELD, AIF engineers, of Rabaul, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, 16/7/1941.

Pte. L. G. REECE, of Bulolo, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action with AIP, July, 1941.

A/Cpl. N. K. SAWYER, AIF infantry, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported wounded in action, 22/7/1941.

Pte. L. STAMPER, formerly schoolmaster at Wau, New Guinea. Reported wounded in action, August, 1941.

Private H. G. TURNER, of Samarai, Eastern Papua, wounded in action with AIF at Bardia, in Libya, January, 1941.

Prisoners Of War

A/Cpl. Peter W. BOSGARD, AIF Infantry, formerly of the Lands Department, Port Moresby, Papua. Reported missing, 5/5/1941; reported prisoner of war at Solmona, Abruzzl, Italy, 29/6/1941.

Pte. W. GOSSNER, AIF infantry, of Port Moresby, Papua. Reported missing, 7/6/1941; reported prisoner of war, Abruzzi, Italy, 6/7/1941.

Gnr. A. L. B. KING, AIF artillery, of Rabaul, TNG. Reported , missing, 16/6/1941; reported prisoner of war, 29/7/1941.

A/Cpl. John H. LONERGAN, AIF, Supply and Transport, of New Guinea. Reported missing during Greek campaign, 5/6/1941; reported prisoner of war at Corinthia, Italy, 8/7/1941.

DECORATIONS Lieut. Colin HILL, RANR, of the Australian destroyer, “Waterhen”, formerly second officer bn the trans-Pacific liner “Niagara”. Made a member of the Order of the British Empire for salvaging a burning oil tanker near Suda Bay, Crete.

Flying-Officer James R. HYDE, of the RAF, formerly a patrol officer in Namatanal and Sepik Districts, TNG. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bombing raids on Heligoland Bight, in the North Sea.

Lieutenant-Commander A. W. R. McNICOLL, RAN, son of Sir Ramsay McNicoll, Administrator of New Guinea, and Lady McNicoll.

Awarded the George Medal “for gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty”. (It is hoped to assemble, here, the names of men, former residents of the Pacific Territories, which appear in British and Free French casualty lists, or in lists of honours awarded.

We should be grateful if relations and friends would send us details.) Captain Ken. Garden CAPTAIN Kenneth Garden, of the Royal Air Force, who was wellknown in Papua and New Guinea, was killed in an air crash on the west coast of Britain, early in September.

Only 25, he was an outstanding flier.

He was attached to the RAF Perry Command, flying US-manufactured Liberator bombers to Britain and the plane which crashed had just completed an Atlantic crossing. Six passengers and the crew of four were killed.

Garden joined the Ward Williams gold-seeking expedition in Western Papua and New Guinea in 1936. Later, he flew with Guinea Airways Ltd., becoming their chief pilot. In 1939, he resigned to join Imperial Airways. 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Tribute To "Aunt Mary" Of Suva

Letter to the Editor IWAS very interested in an article in your July issue, entitled “Two Women of Suva”, featuring the fine qualities of “Aunt Mary” (Miss Mary Graburn) and Mrs. Barrack.

It is women of this type who have made distant and sparsely settled areas worth living in. The bigness of their hearts and understanding has attracted to their homes peoples of every description, and the more fortunately circumstanced have at times sought advice and sympathy.

The mention of “Aunt Mary” brought to the writer’s mind another gifted lady who, many years ago, resided near Sir Samuel Hordern’s home at Darling Point, Sydney. Like “Aunt Mary” of Suva, this good woman spent her days helping the distressed in mind and body. Nursing the sick, supplying comforts to the poor, this lady also raised money for various charities by organising scone, sandwich and cake-baking competitions.

Fortunately for Australia, our country towns are blessed with their own Aunt Marys. They need no memorial to perpetuate their good deeds—their worth is engraved in the hearts of many thousands who have benefited by their self sacrifice, courage and will to help those less fortunately placed than most of us.

I am, etc., A. D. HANNAM.

Cammeray, Sydney, 12/8/1941.

Some 30 tons of Cook Islands sweet potatoes were purchased by the NZ Internal Marketing Division in August, at Id. per lb. to the grower. A larger shipment is expected to leave this month.

To raise money for the Papuan War Fund, a committee under the trusteeship of Messrs. E. A. James and E. J.

Frame, two prominent Port Moresby businessmen, proposes to conduct a series of lotteries. The first will be limited to 2,000 tickets of 2/- each, first prize being £75.

The “Two Women of Suva”, referred to in our July Issue. Mrs. Barrack is on the left and “Aunt Mary” on the right. 20

September, Id4L Pacific Islands Monthly

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Papua's New Buildings From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, Aug. 25.

MANY new buildings are planned by the Government, in the current year’s estimates. They include a new Supreme Courthouse and offices, a new residence for the Resident Magistrate in Port Moresby, several new cottages, a customs depot for the Port Moresby Aerodrome; at Kerema, a new residence is to be erected for the Resident Magistrate; and various sums have been set aside for new roads.

Major Edwin Harrowell, formerly of the Pacific Colonial Service, died in Auckland, NZ, in August, aged 74. After achieving the rank of captain in the South African War, this English-born administrator was appointed to the New Hebrides. In the last war he fought with the New Zealanders on Gallipoli and. later, occupied administrative posts at Ocean Is., Fanning Is. and Fiji. Four years ago he retired and settled in Auckland. His widow, and one son, Lieut.

Dudley Harrowell, survive Major Harrowell.

New Guinea Murder Mystery rE New Guinea police, assisted 'by Sydney detectives, appear to have made no further progress In their investigation of the murder of Miss Lily Jean Wilson, which took place in the house of her brother-in-law in Wau, early in the morning of Monday, June 23.

It is a mysterious, baffling crime, the circumstances of which were set out fully in the last issue of the “PIM”.

Circumstantial evidence has pointed strongly towards a native labourer named Taiki; but, although Taiki was held for a time by the police, he was subsequently released on the verdict of the Coroner—mostly for the reason that such evidence as there was against him was purely circumstantial, and there was not the slightest indication of a motive. It never has been proved, in the history of New Guinea, that a European woman has been attacked in this fashion, while asleep, by a native.

In our summary of the case, published in August, we said that there was no indication that Taiki had ever had any connection with the household of Mr.

Ray (Miss Wilson’s brother-in-law). But Taiki, on a number of occasions, was one of a party of native servants and labourers, who gambled, in a concrete room, under Mr. Ray’s house. There is also a suggestion that, on one or two occasions, Miss Wilson complained of the noise made bv these native gamblers, and ordered them away. There is no doubt that, early in the night when the crime was committed, Taiki was one of a party which consumed much intoxicating liquor: and the native with whom Taiki lived said in evidence that Taiki woke him up at 6 a.m. on the morning after the crime—a most unusual occurrence, as he invariably had to awaken Taiki.

“Wau-ites in a Lynching Frame of Mind”

A Port Moresby resident, writing in August, said he had been in conversation recently with people from Wau, the scene of the mysterious murder of Miss Wilson. He said that many theories of the crime were discussed; and he proceeds:— “Rumour has it that Miss Wilson had punished the ‘monkey belong Manus boy’ by locking him up for some offence; and the Manus boy (Taiki), with a good skinful of cocktail and betel nut, may have decided to take his revenge in ‘fashion belong before’. However, nobody can prove the boy was at any particular place from the time that the party broke up until he started work next morning. The Wau people were in a lynching frame of mind; but. according to one outspoken padre, the whole thing is directly to be blamed to the laxity of both the administration, and no less the white population, in handling the natives, as there have been quite a number of attempts on white women by native boys, which have gone unreported owing to fear of scandal.”

Mr. W. M. Caldwell, Assistant Commissioner of Inland Revenue in Fiji, retired in July. He joined the Civil Service as a junior clerk in 1903.

Mr. Ken. Macgregor returned to Wau, New Guinea, recently, to settle his personal affairs, having enlisted in the AIF.

His legal practice at Wau has been closed down “for the duration”. 22 SEPTEMBER. 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Soap Factory in Fiji From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Aug. 20.

IN a recent issue of “PIM”, a correspondent suggests that Suva might copy Colombo in starting the manufacture of side products of the coconut, such as matting, edible oils, coir, brooms, etc But it is doubtful whether much is possible in this direction. A coir factory, operated some twenty years ago on Taveuni, Fiji, but was not successful and when it was accidentally burned down it was not rebuilt. The trouble is that the local demand is small, and the export prospect is handicapped by remoteness from notential markets and by the fact that Fiji’s scale of payment for labour is much higher than is usual in the East.

However, an increasmg amount of locally-produced coconut oil is being used in Suva’s prosperous and very wellmanaged soap factory, and it is understood that coconut oil is the basis of several edible products now issued by that factory.

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PAPUA From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, Aug. 26.

THE Territory, with much regret, says farewell to Mr. Ken Frank, the highly efficient and always courteous officer who has been for years in charge of the AW A service in Papua, and is now being promoted and transferred.

When Mr. Prank first arrived in Papua in 1929, radio communication was effective enough, but crude. Since then, we have enjoyed the following developments and refinements: — .

Beam transmission has been installed, to give us direct and immediate contact with the chief Australian and Pacific stations.

Teleradio has spread, from being a crude set, powered by a sweating boy on a bicycle frame, until now practically every plantation in the Territory can communicate with the PM motherstation.

Now, by radiophone, we can talk to our friends in Australia, New Guinea, or even farther afield.

Mr. E. J. O’Donnell, also a well-known AWA officer, will succeed Mr. Frank in Port Moresby.

Mr. Peter Jensen, of Lae, New Guinea, arrived in Australia recently to enlist in the AIF.

Mr. Charles Cooke, of Emira Island, New Guinea Territory, who succoured the survivors of the “Rangitane’’ last year, was unable to attend the August meeting of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney, owing to an attack of malaria.

Members hope to meet him, however, before he returns to his island home.

One of the best known figures in former years in Samoa, Mr. William Blacklock, is lying seriously ill at his home at Woollahra, Sydney, where, in early September, he celebrated his 85th birthday. Mr. Blacklock, Victorian-bom, though an American citizen, went to Samoa in the early ’eighties, and for some years was United States Consul- General there. His daughters, the Misses Eva and Ella Blacklock, reside in Sydney.

Burmese Visitor at Pacific Gathering A COLOURFUL little figure in her national costume at the August meeting of the Pacific Islands Society, at the Carlton Hotel in Sydney, was Ma Than A, 8.A., of the staff of lecturers at the teachers’ training college, Rangoon, Burma, who was escorted by her fellow-countryman, Mo Myit, 8.A., a member of the Society. The Burmese visitor described recent visits to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, and New Zealand and Australia. The principal speaker was Mrs. E. J. Bryce, and her subject was “Yunnan and the Burma Road’’.

Fiji’s annual show will be held this year at Suva on October 13.

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FLIGHT FIRST one-day commercial flight from Port Moresby, Papua, to Sydney, a distance of 1,860 miles, was made late in August by a Carpenter Airlines Lockheed 14, piloted by Captain R. O.

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Mr. C. Nunn was recently appointed European Constable at Port Moresby, Papua. Other members of the local force are Messrs. T. Gough (who is in charge), E. Bresnan, J. Orr-Harper and F. Young.

Mr. Ted. Einsiedel, of Burns, Philp & Co.’s Rabaul staff, has returned to New Guinea, after leave in Australia. 23 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Growers Petition NZ Parliament for Price Increase From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, Aug. 10.

MR. W. P. Browne, a member of the Rarotonga Island Council, presented to the NZ Parliament, recently, a petition which, he declared, has the support of all native members of the Council and the Fruit Advisory Committee. It called for:— (a) An increase in prices for all Cook Islands fruit purchased by the NZ Internal Marketing Division; (b) Recognition of the rights of scientific and modern growers of oranges, as against the old-fashioned laissez faire native growers; (c) The quick planning and introduction of a scheme to revive the bananagrowing industry, which has not for years approached its previous importance and which was badly hit by a heavy gale early this year.

The demand for an all-round increase in prices for Cl fruit is justified in view of the increased cost of living and of production, since the outbreak of war.

Probably, the bonus of 3d. a case paid on the first two orange shipments this year (later shipments carried too much loss to allow of a further bonus) was meant as a sop in this direction. Such payments, at the whim of the Fruit Control, are not 'so re-assuring or encouraging as the straight-out declaration of, say. a 10 per cent, increase in prices would be.

Mr. Browne stated that banana production could be soon increased to 10 times the present level. No doubt he was thinking of the 100-odd fertile little vallevs that have relapsed into bush since the Government took control of bananas at the disappointing price of 4/- per case of 87 lb. net.

The recent drought of over two months was not at all beneficial to the sadly-depleted banana crop, either.

Death of an Old Soldier From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, Sept. 7.

ANOTHER “old-timer” of the Territory passed away on August 30, at the Catholic Mission Hosnital, Yule Island —Jack Seymour, aged 73, a veteran of the Boer War and a Farrier- Sergeant in the regiment commanded by the late Sir Hubert Murray, Lt.-Governor of Papua.

Seymour, who had been in Papua for over 20 years, was one of the best stockmen ever seen here. Owning small properties at different times, he dealt chiefly with horses and mules. At one time he managed the pack-horse transport on the mainland and inland from Yule Island.

As an old soldier. Jack Seymour was carried to his grave on Yule Island by members of the Royal Papuan Constabulary.

Miss Silva de Simas, Staff Sister in the Fiji Nursing Service, is at present in New Zealand on leave.

Miss M. Stephenson, of the Melanesian Mission, is at present in Sydney on furlough. She has been stationed at Fauabu. on Malaita. BSI, but on the completion of her furlough will go to Lolowai, New Hebrides. 24 SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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(CONTRIBUTED) THE chief golf course in Fiji is the Fiji Golf Club, situated about two miles from Suva.

The course is at present only 9 holes but shortly it will be extended to 18, with a yardage of 5,662. The course has a most attractive setting.

The standard scratch is 72 and it takes really first-class golf to secure this figure, as the fairways are narrow and the rough is really rough. A ball driven from the straight and narrow exacts a severe penalty, a chip onto the fairway being the only safe recovery method.

The chief handicap to progress of golf in Suva is the rain, and 13 inches of rain in a week is a modest fall. When a ball lands in water, and a splash goes up, it is referred to as Fijian dust, the only type ever seen here.

The greens are moderate and are of couch, the climate being much too severe for anything else. The surface is fair, but, of course, the ball does not run smoothly, as on turf.

Caddies are nearly all Indian, and there is never a shortage—in fact, there appears to be an army of the little dark chaps in waiting as one approaches the club-house. Caddy fees are moderate, 1/- a round, and one usually also employs a fore caddy. Although the fees are low, the standard of efficiency of these lads is not over-high. It is most interesting to hear them laying bets in their native tongue, on the respective estimated scores of their employers.

On the island of Kandavu, in the Fiji Group, there is a club composed wholly of Fijians, who are exceptionally keen on the game. This club, a few years ago, presented a silver mounted whale’s tooth to the Fiji Golf Club. It is custom that a gift of a whale’s tooth shall never be parted from the recipient, and if he parts with the gift this is looked upon as an insult.

The best players at present in Suva are:— R. J. Woodman, late of Inverell Club (NSW), who plays from a handicap of 4. Mr. Woodman is on the staff of the Bank of NSW.

J. Falvey, handicap 5, is a late Balmacewen member (Otago, NZ), and is in the Colonial Secretary's office.

Mr. J. Hudson, who for a number of years has been in charge of the Suva branch of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., is at present on furlough in Australia. He will not be returning to Fiji, but instead will take up duties, at the Sydney office.

Mr. C. Willington, manager of Mt.

Kasi Mines, Ltd., on Vanua Levu, Fiji, has been in Australia spending holidays with Mrs. and Miss Willington, during the past month or so.

The Fiji Golf Club’s golf-house, with groups of players and caddies; and (lower) R. J. Woodman in action. 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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BY “AMEL”

THE money, two pound notes in a sealed envelope, had gone. Nobody knew where. With my usual forethought, I had placed the envelope on a shelf between two windows, while a brisk wind was blowing. Consequently, when I went to collect it a little later, it had vanished I turned the house inside out, peered down crab-holes and rooted around in the canna beds, but nothing could I find.

Then up spoke Sherlock Holmes.

“You put the envelope there?”

“Yes.”

“And the wind was blowing?”

“Yes.”

“Well, it would blow the envelope out of the window. And it should be lying there,” he indicated, “but it isn’t,”

Yes and no,” I said, feebly.

“Hmnn,” he muttered, “this needs some thinking out.” Brow wrinkled and chin in hand, Dad wandered around the yard.

The strain was too much for me. I went and had a bath. In the midst of my ablutions, I heard an ear-splitting yell, by which I judged that Dad had either stubbed his toe on a coconut, bumped his head on a shutter, or solved the problem.

The latter was the case. Waving the missing envelope in his hand, Dad had an interesting tale to relate. It was the sort of thing you read about and view with a slight tinge of scepticism. Yet everyone who knows the impudent little maina bird of the Islands will believe it.

Having noticed a maina carry a piece of paper up to its nest in a coconut tree, he had resolved to set a trap and test a theory. Placing a piece of paper on the ground near the window, he watched quietly. Presently, along came a maina, cocked its eye at the paper, seized it and made off. But a strong gust of wind wrenched the paper from the bird’s grasp, and it did not bother to retrieve it.

Another bait was tried —this time an open envelope with a thin piece of paper inside. Once more the maina appeared, and inspected the envelope. This, apparently, was to its liking. The bird, as if a connoisseur on such matters, looked into the envelope, saw that it contained something good and . . . shook it out!

Then, spearing it daintily with its beak, it flew up into the hollow limb of a nearby tree.

Dad grabbed a ladder and swiftly mounted to investigate. The maina fled.

Putting his hand inside the hollow limb, he drew out rags, sticks, the paper and other rubbish . . . but no envelope.

Disappointed, he sat up there on his perch and gazed around the landscape.

Suddenly, under a kaumoce bush, on the ground, he spotted a corner of white.

Fixing it with his eye, lest it should be spirited away, he slowly dismounted.

It was the missing envelope, with the money intact. The maina, unable to extract the notes, had cast the whole thing from its nest . . . only to lead us to its discovery again!

Lieutenant Colin Hill, Royal Australian Naval Reserve, who was second officer on the trans-Pacific liner “Niagara” before the war, has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire (Military), He led a small party of volunteers from the Australian destroyer “Waterhen” (since sunk by Nazi divebombers in the Mediterranean) and salvaged a burning oil tanker near Suda Bay, Crete.

Three Salamaua (New Guinea) men, D. Williams, G. Clark, and H. Wyatt, are serving in the same AIF battalion in the Middle East.

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N. CALEDONIA THE present Government of New Caledonia is trying valiantly to make the Colony self-supporting now that its principal markets have been cut off by the surrender of France to Germany.

The proposals which are receiving practical consideration include one to revive the distillation of rum from sugar-cane grown in the Colony—an industry that formerly flourished there, but which was eventually killed by the competition of Martinique rum. The liquors customarily consumed—especially French wines—have been cut off by war conditions and the distillation of New Caledonian rum may supply a clamant need in New Caledonia.

The French are also planning to base a new industry upon what at present is one of their outstanding curses—namely, the deer, which over-run the Colony.

Deer are so numerous that their slaughter is part of the regular activities of pastoralists; but now there is a steady, regular and profitable market for deerskins. Deer-hunting has become, instead of a wearisome duty, a combination of sport and industry. About 80,000 deer skins per annum are exported to Australia, for tanning.

But the practical French have now decided that this tanning may be done in New Caledonia itself, and men are going to Australia to be trained in tanning methods. Eventually, New Caledonia will export fine leather instead of deer-skins.

Miss Anne Cole, of Western Australia, has been appointed LMS nurse at Poreporena Hospital, near Pt. Moresby, Papua.

Dr, J. Taylor, Fiji Medical Officer, was in New Zealand last month spending furlough. 27

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VANILLA Busy Days in Society Islands AN interesting phenomenon Is described by Mr. R. Schultz, of Raiatea, Society Islands, in a letter written several months ago:— There was a profuse flowering of vanilla on the islands of Raiatea and Tahaa, during September. The flowering period lasted for about a fortnight.

All available labour was employed, from daylight till dark, “marrying” (fertilising) the flowers by hand.

In the plant’s native home this is done by a small insect. Unfortunately this useful creature does not exist in the Society Islands, so the fertilisation must be done by hand.

The flowers open in the morning and only last a day, so that every flower not fertilised that day means one pod less when the time comes to gather the crop.

Some idea of the extent of the crop on the islands mentioned may be gathered from the fact that on one plantation, on Tahaa, about 40,000 flowers per day were fertilised. On a small plantation, on Raiatea, three persons fertilised about 7.000 flowers in one day.

Referring to the slump in the copra market, Mr. Schultz said he was experimenting in an endeavour to find further uses for the flesh of the coconut.

For his first experiment he used only nuts which had fully ripened on the trees. The flesh of these is sweet, and free from rancidity. It is put through a press, and the oil produced has been found to be excellent for frying purposes, or for use as salad oil. For his second experiment he grated some nuts, squeezed the “cream” into a bowl, and put it through his milk separator. It separated into thick “cream” and water. The “cream” proved excellent for making pastry.

Mr. Kenneth P. Emory, ethnologist at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, has been given leave, to study for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Yale University.

Before leaving Hawaii, he completed his Tuamotuan studies, and made a final revision on the manuscript, “The Marae in Tuamotuan Religion”, These young Marist Mission teachers, Brothers Augustine, Ervan and Donatus, sailed from Sydney recently for missionary service in the Western Pacific. One will be stationed at Marau training school for native catechists, on Guadalcanal, BSI; the other two have gone to Chabai training centre, Buka Passage, TNG. —Photo: “Catholic Freeman’s Journal.” 28 September, i 9 4 i pacific islands monthly

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Ng Men In Tobruk

Letter From "Blue"

Allan IjIROM one of the hottest corners of 1 the war—Tobruk —comes news of two well-known New Guinea men, Major H. T, (“Blue”) Allan, and Major Norman Neal.

Major Allan, in a letter dated July 24, to the editor of the “PIM”, says:— “Where I am now is an area that is much in the news these days, and which will become one of the famous marks in the history of the AIF, when written.

“It has nothing much to recommend it, except that it is a place where our troops have already covered themselves with glory; and also where the first VC in the AIF was won. Incidentally, I am very proud of this latter distinction as the award went to my own battalion — although unfortunately the award was a posthumous one.

“As regards our own people from the North, Major Norman Neal, late MLC in Rabaul, and also the Goldfields nominee to the Council since its inception, is here, near me, and I see quite a lot of him. He is doing a fine job as second in command of his battalion.

“Vic. Pearson and Gilmore, Jr., of Rabaul, are both in this area, and both looking well, although a little dusty—as we all are.

“Barry, of Rabaul, also came to see me some time back, and, as far as I know, is still carrying on. Bill Heinicke, of cricketing and baseball fame, arrived the other day, full of fight, and looking for the Hun. We were able to accommodate him in that respect, quite easily.

“I hear that Lieut. Alan Ross has gone to a Staff appointment.

“Lieut.-Col. Walstab, late Superintendent of Police in Rabaul, is holding an important job on Corps Headquarters, and Geoff. Braddon, formerly an inspector for the Custodian of Expropriated Properties, is at the moment a captain, and doing training duties in Palestine.

We expect him to join up with Major Neal shortly.

“Captain J. K. Woodhill, of the Crown Law Department in Rabaul, has now been appointed Legal Staff Officer, after coming safely out of Greece.

“Ken Nettleship, of the Customs, also came safely out of the same place.

“I am told that there are 75 men from New Guinea somewhere together up in Palestine, but I have no details of them.

“Our men from the tropics seem to be standing up remarkably well to the hardships and discomforts of this life, and most of them seem to have emerged from the obscurity of the ranks and have either got promotion or have qualified as specialists.

“As regards Major Neal and myself, although we were told that, being returned soldiers from the last war, we were too old for this, we have both come through with no ill-effects nor any illhealth, after five months of extreme physical and mental exertion, coupled with quite a lot of discomfort. I think the New Guinea life, with its toil on the goldfields, and tramping over the mountains, prospecting and recruiting, must have helped us a lot to remain in good physical condition.

“For the last three months, I have been Brigade Major, and I find the job nearly as strenuous as trying to get a road built in New Guinea—the only difference being that we are up against Huns and Italians, instead of the ‘vested interests’.

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Mr. Duncan Caldwell, of Fiji, has received his “wings” as an RAAF pilot in Canada. His parents, Major and Mrs.

R. N. Caldwell, of Ba, are well known in the Colony.

Mr. Jack Steeples, who was on the assay staff of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. in New Guinea, prior to his enlistment in the AIP, has proceeded overseas as a member of a Machine Gun unit.

A Cook Is. Comedy of Love rE course of true love never did run smooth in the Islands, or anywhere else for that matter. A case in point was that of Ware Strickland, the halfcaste grandson of Geoffrey Strickland, who settled at Aitutaki (Cook Group) last century.

The original pioneer, Strickland, was an adventurous American, a well-known character in the Pacific in those days, who had roamed the seven seas. Ware, his grandson, had his eye on Tapairu, a Rarotongan belle, who created something of a sensation at Aitutaki in 1902; but his parents had other ideas for Ware Without consulting him, they engaged him to the half-caste daughter of a trader at Manihiki Island. Ware, usually simple and quiet, explained that he had no wish to go to the other island for his bride. In fact, he refused to be sacrificed on the altar of matrimony to please his relatives.

But, in spite of all his pleadings, plans were rushed ahead for the wedding, and the arrival of the schooner “Tamarii Tahiti” provided an opportunity for the family to sail for Manihiki. His parents and sister were on board, but nothing was seen of Ware. He had adopted the only course; he had taken to the bush with his lady-love. Eventually, when he thought he was safe, Ware ventured near the shore, where he was promptly arrested by Tiki-taunga,' the Aitutaki policeman. Cook Islands policemen in those days had not the foggiest notion of the law. Tiki used such force on the unwilling bridegroom that he was. at a subsequent examination, suspended from office. After all. Ware had committed no offence. Still, he was hustled on board, and the marriage duly took place at Manihiki. Polynesian tradition was strong in those days, and where land interests ran counter to the call of love, the former was often successful.

The ungentle upholder of the law, Tiki, would have been severely punished by the visiting magistrate except that there was no one to prosecute him—Ware was with his bride on the other island.

“Tetuareva”.

Fire Destroys Port Moresby

LANDMARK From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, Aug. 20.

A WELL-KNOWN landmark of Pt.

Moresby disappeared when a fire completely demolished the old British New Guinea Development Co.’s building, on August 8. Erected nearly 30 years ago, it had been leased for some years past to the B.N.G. Trading Co. as a bulk store.

The cause of the outbreak is unknown.

Large stocks of merchandise, foodstuffs, paints, oils and spirits, and rubber awaiting shipment, went up in flames.

Bands of voluntary helpers saved nearbv buildings, including the Vacuum Oil Co.’s depot. Estimated loss, including building and stocks, is said to be well over £20,000.

Unfortunately, while assisting with other" members of the Royal Papuan Constabulary, a native policeman named Habia was hit by a falling wall. He died before he could be removed to hospital.

The British New Guinea Development Co. commenced operations in Papua in 1910, and the timber and iron building was erected shortly afterwards in a prominent position facing the harbour.

Twenty or so years ago it was a busy centre of Port Moresby, a large portion of the building being devoted to a general store, with offices and other departments alongside.

Mr. John Robert Dods, who was well known in Fiji, died in Auckland. NZ, in August, at the age of 49. Born at Valaga, he spent his youth on his father’s coconut plantation in Vanua Levu; later, after serving in the Great War. he became interested in gold mining in Fiji when the industry was in its infancy. Mr. Dods was employed at Loloma (Fiji) Goldmines NL until illness necessitated a visit to NZ for medical treatment. 30 SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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They were child friends, married early, and were lovely and pleasant in their lives. , _ , All white travellers here knew Taureka of Gavuone, at the entrance to the Marshall Lagoons. They liked his manners and unobtrusive helpfulness. They admired his seamanship in the .peerless canoes he made, and the very charming wide church of coral lime he built and surrounded with flowers.

Early in this July, 1941, I was with him in a rest-house he had built for me on the highest point of the coast. There were limitless views of mountains and sea We talked of our plans for a chapel there, and other works.

A few days later his wife, Kwalio, died from epidemic influenza. Taureka was at her burial, but lay down afterwards.

He had seemed in his accustomed vigour until then, but in talks with his people he showed that he knew his end was near. On the last evening he was carried to a verandah, and, from his mat, preached to a crowd, then led in prayer. At midnight he died.

Just a week after his wife’s funeral his body was borne on his best canoe, surrounded with flowers and the church elders in white ramis, rowing across the lagoon, to the burial mound. Almost every canoe in the district followed, crowded with mourners, singing hymns that Taureka had composed and taught.

Less than 50 years ago he was a boy, with the first missionary to his district; and now his children’s children are studying to prove themselves as good servants of the King.

H. J. E. SHORT.

A Record Catch A NATIVE, fishing from a canoe in deep water off the main settlement of Oneroa, Mangaia (Cook Group), found his line fast to some heavy, but movable object.

Peering curiously into the water, he hauled in his catch, which, when it first came in view, appeared to be a matchbox, but, as it slowly ascended through the clear water, it grew in size, until the astonished man finally hoisted aboard a whole case of bully beef. The hook was caught around a single nailhead.

The case had been lost overboard from a shipment three weeks previously.

It is quite a common occurrence for weighty articles to be lost during transhipment at the reef islands of the Outer Cooks. A short while ago, a handsome new cooking range, for the use of the Resident Agent, was being unloaded, and the canoe had hardly left the schooner’s side when it rolled on the crest of a swell, and the heavy stove gently slid off the narrow gunwales and gracefully sank from human ken into the blue depths.

The RA’s comments are quite unsuitable for publication.

When heavy objects are dropped, in diving depth, near the reef, they are usually recovered by native divers; but, farther out, they are naturally beyond recall—the case of meat referred to above being the lone exception to the rule, A wet welcome was accorded NMP John Numa when he landed on Mangaia recently, to relieve NMP Tere Williams. who has been transferred to Aitutaki.

The canoe in which Mr. Numa was travelling, with two of his three young children, was capsized in the heavy surf outside the reef and, to assist the children, he was forced to release his grip on the bag containing his surgical instruments and drugs, and a banjo, which was in the other hand. A native boy dived and retrieved both articles, and a day in the sun, and a few hours’ attention, put the instruments and banjo into good working .order, but some of the drugs were ruined.

The incident was followed by an anxious spell while another canoe, carrying Mrs. Numa’s piano, negotiated the reef. The piano caused a sensation at its initial public appearance, this being the first time that this instrument has been seen and heard in Mangaia.- W.S.B.

Mr. A. Flemming has replaced Mr.

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Mr. S. Tovey, of the Suva branch of the Bank of New Zealand, left Fiji recently for NZ to join the Navy.

Mr. Lindsay Hutchison, of Suva, Fiji, is now in Canada being trained for the RAAF under the Empire Air Scheme. 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Who Was The

OUTLAW?

JN May, 1872, before the Kidnapping 1 Act was passed in Australia Can tain John Moresby sailed ’ under orders from Sydney in HMS “Basilisk” for the South Seas, to investigate the evils of the labour traffic- and on his way from the Ellice Group through the New Hebrides, he anchored off Black Beach, Tanna Island, famous for many lawless affravs in the nnst , P , rollfw- 6 ai }chorage lay the large cotton P* an of (as described by Captain Moresby) “one of the most notorious of these lawless men”, who had been connected with the worst crimes of kidnapping; and who, like others of his kind, had settled with reckless courage in these savage islands, defending himself and his right of possession merely by the terror he inspired.

When the “Basilisk” dropped anchor, the lawless man came on board to pay his respects; and, wrote Captain Moresby, “I looked with curiosity on this specimen of a class of men who, with all their great faults, possess many of the rough strong virtues of Englishmen. He was a big, burly, middle-aged man, with a large red beard and moustache, a small nose, surmounted by light, restless blue eyes, and a low forehead, which betokened the power to will and do without regard to consequences.”

Walking with difficulty, owing to his many gunshot wounds, he led Captain Moresby and his party up the steep cliffs past gangs of labourers, through his clearing, to his small wooden house, standing on a rise, and surrounded by a fence to protect it from assaults; and, as they reached the steps, he entered first, then turned and gave them a hearty welcome.

As they sat and talked it was noticed that loaded guns hung around the room.

These, and the pistols in his belt, showed that he left nothing to chance, and was ready for any emergency.

When questioned about his labourers, he assured Captain Moresby that he could secure as many as he wished without resorting to kidnapping, and that he returned them at the end of one year, paying them with trade or a few muskets for their service. His chief difficulty, he explained, lay with the hill people, who raided him continually, and without provocation.

He was reticent in regard to his former life. “If reports were true,” stated Captain Moresby, “it had been a wild and wicked one.” But, as there was no specific charge against him, and his labourers seemed happy and well fed, Captain Moresby took his leave, feeling (he wrote) “admiration for his indomitable pluck, although of a vagabond kind”.

As they passed through the clearings, on their way to the beach, it could be seen that he had 30 or so acres in full bearing, of very fine cotton, 50 or 60 acres more had been cleared ready for further cultivation, and some thousands of acres of grasslands stretched in the rear, nominally in his possession. “There can be no doubt” commented Captain Moresby, “of this man’s ultimate wealth, if he can secure his life; but, that is the question.”

Near the cliffs, they nassed a neat and small enclosure.

“What is this?’ asked the Captain.

“My partner’s grave, sir” was the answer. “He was shot there, where he is buried, some months ago, by the hill people.”

Asked the reason, he replied, curtly: “They owed him a grudge for something or another.”

Not wishing to press the question, as the matter had already been decided and was evidently an unpleasant one, the subject was dropped.

Captain Moresby boarded the “Basilisk” and left for Aneityum Island and, later, New Caledonia, having, as stated, safely visited 53 islands in the course of his cruise, “by the goodness of Providence”. —Mollie Lett.

Mr. W. Paton, assistant manager of the “Lady Lever” plantation in BSI, has resigned and returned to Sydney.

M. G. des Granges, lawyer at Port Vila and president of the French Agricultural Syndicate, who was against the Free French movement when New Hebrides rallied to de Gaulle, and who therefore went to Indo-China, has now returned, having assured the authorities that his sympathies are now with the Free French. He described his Indo- Chinese experiences as “an evil memory”. 32 SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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FRANCE How Internees Suffer in New Caledonia From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, August 6.

THE number of anti-regime internees now in New Caledonia can be counted on the fihgers of both hands.

Half a dozen of them have just been moved from Camp Est, on He Nou, to Freycinet Island, former quarantine station, capable of housing one or two thousand persons.

The few internees are lodged individually, under a one-legged guardian. They have a Tonkinese cook and spend a lot of their time fishing.

Two others, in July, were being held at Camp Est, pending investigation by the Noumea Court. One, a Customs official of Teutonic origin, said to have been formerly in the Saar, was found in possession of tracts and cuttings of a compromising nature from Italian, German and Mexican sources. He is to be examined regarding the possession of forbidden foreign currency.

It was found that the Camp Est internees were making use at a nearby point of a cache for letters, which were afterwards being smuggled across to the mainland. It was also discovered that the internees had cunningly photographed each other, standing behind the only barred window in their dwelling house, intending apparently to smuggle these photographs to friends in Indochina, who would believe that they were living in durance vile under a reign of terror. Whereas, the facts are that they were allowed a considerable amount of liberty, with the right to walk about and go fishing, the use of a radio set and other privileges such as free milk —a commodity for which their guardians have to pay.

Such are the ill-treated victims of our Free French regime! The discovery of their photographs debunked their plans, and made them the subject of laughter.

Mr. Frank J. Stimson, of Tahiti, has been visiting the United States for health reasons. In connection with his recent work in the Austral Islands, he has been working on the material he collected in Raivavae, and he has also augmented the Tuamotuan and Raivavaean dictionaries, upon which he has been engaged for some years. Mr. Stimson is research associate in linguistics at the Bishop Museum, Hawaii, and has published several authoritative works.

This group of New Guinea men who went abroad with the first NG quota of the AIF includes two soldiers who have been reported killed —A/Bdr. Neville W. Bertwhistle (artillery), of Rabaul, reported killed in action in April last (second from right), and Pte. Walter Pearson (infantry), reported died from wounds received on active service in June (extreme right). —Photo: C. H. Meen. 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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FACED with a possible shortage of labour, resulting from repatriations to the Dutch East Indies, the New Caledonian Government has asked planters and cattle-raisers to state their possible labour requirements. Two hundred and thirty replies have been received, and the local Netherlands Consul has been asked if it is possible to obtain authorisation to introduce 1,000 workers.

But, as the florin is now valued at 24 francs, instead of 15 (as it was when the last convoy arrived) and as the passage money required is now 2,400 francs in place of the original 1,000 francs, the cost this labour will be much heavier than formerly.

In any case, the introduction of Javanese will not be hurried both because of shipping limitations and because it is not desirable to increase too much the colony’s monetary overseas commitments

A Cockroach—And A

MORAL HAVE we just time for a story, though the days be dark and gory, With this trouble over Hitler and his bloody lustful staff?

For this tale concerns our fathers, all our great-grand-blooming-fathers.

And though sordid, dark and dreary, it may somewhere cause a laugh.

We are sitting at our table, being cheerful, if we’re able, When a cockroach fights his neighbours over who will eat our cheque.

There is just one fiery tussle, with a deep and throaty rustle, As the signature so noble disappears into his neck.

And we feel that his digestion will sure meet with some congestion When he £.s.d. encounters and on figures does encroach; For we’ve had the same dashed trouble, and it makes our blood all bubble, When we try to make the figures and last month’s accounts approach.

Looking roachward we are humbled, for that roach has never stumbled, Nor has faltered in his downward thrust of all things that appease.

Then when he has eaten luncheon he sits there contented, munchin’.

Most respectfully, we watch him as we sit back at our ease.

For in all of roach’s capers he has cleaned up all our papers.

In an evening he’s demolished half our worries and our ills.

In his awful lust for succour, he has eaten as plain tucker Our cheque from our last pay-day—and the whole of last month’s bills!

Then some more come out to plunder, and they tear this roach asunder.

And devour him leg by whisker, while he jumps about and kicks.

So we see now in the precincts of these low and uncouth insects A moral that is golden, which will weather stones and bricks.

Back in dim and distant ages our forefathers (now in cages), Fought their battles for their kaikai in the treetops side by side, But when one had full and many, and the others hadn’t any, Then they ate him, without cooking, from his shinbones to his hide.

Now we have the German nation, all goose-stepping in formation, As the over-greedy cockroach, but increasing all our woes.

But they’ll sure be torn asunder, from their everlasting plunder— Even, in the end, it may be, by their friends and not their foes.

Papua.

L. H. W.

Private Frank Burke, who was the first man to enlist in the New Guinea Quota of the AIF, has returned to Rabaul after serving overseas (mostly in England). He has been discharged from the Army owing to ill-health. It is a rare occurence that the first man to enlist from a town is the first to return.

Mr. J. H. Dawkins, Registry Clerk in the Joint Court of the New Hebrides Condominium, who arrived in Australia from Vila early this year on four and a half months’ furlough, resigned from the Service at the expiration of his leave.

He now has a post in the Navy Department, Sydney. Altogether, Mr. Dawkins spent 12 years in the New Hebrides. 34 SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The forces which broke the old order developed within a few decades: in a few decades, they can be destroyed. But, before they can be attacked, they must be seen. It is the duty of Dr. Angus, and people like him, who wish to point the way to the new order, to name the evils which virtually have destroyed the old order. But none has the courage to do it. And so the masses go stumbling along in the darkness, from war to depression, from depression to revolution and destruction and, possibly, to another dark age. Dr. Angus recognises the evils, but is too much of a gentleman to name them; and, in seeking the remedy, he hunts too far afield.

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Vichy "Stinks"

Anger in NC Over Indo-China Surrender Prom Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, August 19 jl/fEN prominent in New Caledonian ITI history were also prominent in founding the French Empire in Indo-China, which Vichy France has basely handed over to the Japanese; and nowhere in the world is this action more bitterly resented than in Noumea.

To mention but two names out of the past: Commandant Henri Riviere was the man who suppressed the great native insurrection in New Caledonia in 1878-9 Afterwards, in Tonkin, he took Hanoi’s citadel with a handful of men later meeting violent death at the hands of the Annamite Pavillon-Noirs.

Then Admiral Courbet, after being Governor of this French Pacific Island, was sent to Indo-China to bring order out of chaos. He won a series of victories which, by June. 1885, led to France’s protectorate over Indo-China being definitely recognised by China.

Men from New Caledonia helped him in this task.

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OIL ONCE upon a time coal was king.

Then came a time when cotton became king. Now we have crowned oil as monarch. Much has already been written about the hydro-carbon hidden away in the bowels of the earth, the search and struggle for possession, brought to the surface to become the life blood of mechanical energy. Here let us discuss another kind of oil, vital energy of man.

Edwin E. Slosson, in his book, “Creative Chemistry”, says: “All life, and all that life accomplishes, depend upon the supply of solar energy stored in the form of food The chief sources of this vital energy are the fats and the sugars. The former contain two and a quarter times the potential energy of the latter. Both, when completely purified, consist of nothing but carbon, hydrogen and oxygen; elements that are to be found freely everywhere in air and water. So when the sunny southland exports fats and oils, starches and sugar, it is then sending away nothing material but what comes back to it on the next wind. What it is sending to the regions of more slanting sunshine is merely some of the surplus of the radiant energy it has received so abundantly, compacted for convenience into a portable and edible form.”

Unlike cotton, there is no evidence of over-production of vegetable and animal fats; true, there may have been a glut when the huge shipments of whale oil arrived after the season’s slaughter.

When Leviathan was exterminated from the northern seas, the hunt went remorselessly on to his last refuge in the Antarctic, as Herman Melville says. The moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters.

There is an intimate relation between the over-production of cotton (or, rather, under-consumption), and the paltry price paid for the tropical oil seeds. The palmy days, when cotton was king, and coconuts the “consols of the East”, when the produce of land and sea was bought and sold on competitive world markets, are but a blessed memory.

Would it be straining the imagination to suggest that this monster combine, Unilever, was a contributing factor in precipitating the great depression, by depressing the price of copra, that restricted the purchasing capacity of the cotton-wearing peoples of the tropical belt of the world, and by unbalancing the financial stability of the cotton growing and spinning industry with its consequent unemployment?

Let us look at another interesting item, glycerine, the sweet element of fats and oils. It is a by-product in the manufacture of soap, and is extensively used in the preparation of nitro-glycerine and explosives.

Like soap and margarine, its price has soared out of all proportion to the primary product.

Here then are all the factors that supply the energy to prosecute the war against Hitlerism. The hydro-carbons supply mechanical energy, fats for human energy, and glycerine a vital element in chemical energy.

If the war aims of the Allies are to crush this hideous thing called Hitlerism in Germany, only to prolong and better the condition of the greedy munition, armament, and oligarchy interests (called democracy in England) then our young manhood on the battle front will again have died In vain and our wretched civilisation will slide to destruction, greased by the greed and rapacity of soulless combines that restrict the free exchange of food and commodities between the nations of the world. uwccii buc a, A London correspondent (“PIM”, 19/7/34) struck a warning note. Newspaper quotations of copra values were a farce The newspapers merely told the world what the combines had to say.

The corporations were getting stronger every day, in the copra industry, as in everything else; and, unless there is some world-wide movement to check the strength of these merciless capitalists, serious consequences must follow. The masses will rebel against the stranglehold of the combines, just as all through history they have rebelled against other forms of tyranny.- R.S.

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Pr(lm Qur Qwn oorrespondent port TvroßTrspv - Anmist ir ¥XON r P E R AUMULLER Y ’in theLeeis- Hi,.' G ' E -, AUMULLERm the Legis- H lative Council recently, asked the Government whether the objections to the introduction of Chinese, as cooks, would be reconsidered, and whether permission would be granted for a limited number to be introduced under indenture for a period not exceeding 5 years, sub- Ject to conditions imposed by the Government. i n reply, the Government Secretary, Mr. Champion, stated that the Government could not see any reason for changing its policy on this question, which had been expressed on several occasions—namely, that the employment of Papuans or Europeans as cooks must be insisted upon. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1641

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POLYNESIA Death of Stephen Savage, Veteren Cook Is. Official 117TTH nearly half a century of public service behind him, Mr. Stephen Savage, Registrar and Interpreter of + 6 Native Land Court, died at Raro- July 25. He was 68 years’ old.

A New Zealander, Mr. Savage went to the C s°t°aff Henry SMt Later he was’employed ® y Torea newspaper and, then, by *tS rival “loi Karenga”. He became Government Secretary to the old Federal “W ai 2f iexeci by NZ in 1901, retained tnis °mce Until 1909, then being appointed Deputy Registrar of Courts and Deeds. He was made Registrar in 1919 ?f X t^ a H S i e h te c r o?r e t beCame Commissioner ic , , . _ During the past 15 years he held a variety of posts in the Administration— ranging from Government Printer to Resident Agent at several outlying iscorrespondent, a few years ago, wrote of him: Mr. Savage is one of those men who are like the wheels of a clock: they do the work without being seen. Indeed, there have |3 een times when it was very doubtful whether the hands would have gone round at all without his unobtrusive and efficient assistance”. i. Brought into close contact with native me by his official positions, Mr. Savage was an enthusiastic student of matters Polynesian. He was regarded as the leading authority on Cook Islands native lore, history and dialects. Only recently, he completed the first dictionary of the Cl language, after years of painstaking work. Articles from his pen have appeared regularly in a number of NZ scientific journals.

“Teveni”, as the Cook Islanders called him, was an accomplished violin-maker and an excellent entertainer. Just a few weeks before his death he organised and directed a markedly successful concert in Rarotonga to raise War Funds. One of the most popular items of the show was a tap-dance by Mr. Savage—and he was nearly 70 years’ old!

Mr. Savage was twice married and left 11 children.

“One Of Polynesia’S Most

Faithful Historians”

From Our Own Correspondent RAROTONGA, August 10.

THE death of Stephen Savage—the result of an illness arising out of mild food poisoning will be mourned by many Islands people, for he was widely known in the South-east Pacific as a linguist and authority on Polynesian history.

Half NZ Maori himself, he took an intense interest in Cook Islands legend and culture, and his dictionary, recently taken up by the British Museum, was the result of many years’ patient search and inquiry in its inexhaustible detail and erudition. He was a highly honoured member of the NZ Polynesian Society and knew intimately Bishop Williams, Dr. Buck and many other scientists who visited the Cook Islands.

So passes yet another old-timer who knew the happy, carefree days of Islands life in times gone by. The name of Stephen Savage will not die: he will take his place as one of Polynesia’s most faithful historians.

Rev. H. Robinson, formerly of the Methodist Mission, North-west Fergusson Island, Papua, has enlisted in the AIF.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Savage, with the Chief of Atiu Island—a photograph taken a few years ago, when Mr. Savage was leaving Atiu after a term as Resident Agent. 38

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The "Royal Tar"

WHEN Mr. Norman Nelson was examining the papers of his father, Mr.

Ivan Nelson, well-known Islands merchant and head of Nelson and Robertson Pty., Ltd., who died in Sydney in July, he came across an interesting old document, linked with a nowalmost-forgotten chapter of Australian history—the bill of sale of the 597-tons barque, “Royal Tar”.

No doubt there still are some Pacific residents in whose memory the name “Royal Tar”, largest sailing ship built in Australia, will strike a responsive chord.

She was purchased by Mr. Nelson for the New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association and he supervised her refitting to carry Australian colonists to South America, where, under a Bristolborn visionary and writer, William Lane, a new Utopia was to be established. The site chosen was in Paraguay, a small state in the centre of the huge continent.

Two hundred men and women made the voyage across the Pacific from Sydney in July, 1893—a voyage marked by bitter dissension, for all were willing to command but few to obey. Settled in their new land, the colonists bravely faced hardships, disappointments and wrangling among the leaders.

Finally, as letters and documents in the Mitchell Library (Sydney) show, the enterprise failed. Most of the settlers returned to Australia, though descendants of the handful who stayed are still there to-day, scratching out a bare existence from the land.

After her return from South America, the “Royal Tar” traded for a time in New Zealand, where ultimately she ended her career.

An Eventful Voyage

A COUPLE of years before the New Australia venture, the “Royal Tar” was owned by a Sydney business syndicate, which sent her to German New Guinea with coal. Having unloaded her bunkers, the officers and crew went ashore, shooting, in the bush; with the result that the Anopheles mosquito had a very busy time. The entire complement contracted malarial fever.

At sea only a day or so, en route to the Pacific coast of America to take aboard timber, Captain Franklin died; the second in command, Rodgers, took charge, but he too fell a victim to the disease. Others of the crew were laid low, leaving only the third officer, John McColl, and two weakened seamen to carry on. For days, the barque just drifted lazily across the Pacific; eventually, when some of the crew recovered slightly, they got back on their course and reached San Francisco.

Their troubles were not over, even then —the US marine authorities wanted to sink the “Royal Tar” outside the harbour to prevent a possible spread of fever. However, McColl and a committee of inquiry convinced them otherwise.

Mrs. Martha Bish, wife of Mr. Gideon Bish, of Lami, Fiji, died recently at the age of 71. She went to Fiji with Mr.

Bish in the 1890’s, and for many years they lived in Ba District. Mrs. Bish is survived by her husband and six children—Messrs. Leslie and Leonard Bish, of the Fiji Public Works Department; Messrs. John and Albert Bish, of the Suva firm, Bish Ltd.; Mr. Frank Bish, of Auckland: and Mrs. Grace Bentley, who also lives in NZ.

Miss Gwen Lewis, of Western Australia, has joined the Methodist Mission in Papua as the District Chairman’s Assistant at Dobu.

More Fiji Men For RAF A FURTHER batch of 17 young men, residents of Fiji, who have been accepted for service with the Royal Air Force, will shortly proceed overseas for training. They are Messrs. E. Bradman, A. and K. Brooks, W. Garnett, V.

Jackson, R. Kerkham, and J. McLauchlan, all of whom were born in the Colony; and Messrs. J. Clough. D. Cummings, L. Guest, R. Harricks, W. McCloy, D. Rounds, J. Potter, K. Thompson, V.

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Mr. R. McLaughlin, of Burns, Philp and Co.’s Shipping Department at Rabaul, New Guinea, is at present on a health visit to the East.

Dr. Montfort, former medical officer at Vila, New Hebrides, is serving with the Free French Forces in the Lake Chad region, West Africa. With him is Dr. Lamy, formerly of Wallis Island. In letters to New Caledonian officials, Dr.

Montfort says that he intends to seek a transfer so that he may serve with the Free French contingent from the South Seas. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Dr. Alfred Metraux, French anthropologist, who carried out investigations some years ago on Easter Island, and subsequently worked in Hawaii, has now completed his field work in South America, for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent advices state that he was at Yale revising his material.

Among the Polynesian material that he examined in the National Museum at Rio de Janiero was a collection left there by the Hawaiian Royal couple, Liholiho and Kamamalu, when on their way to England in 1820. Among his discoveries was one of the ancient and much prized feather cloaks of Hawaii.

Making History In

ROTUMA BY “AMEL”

IN all the years of its existence as a civilised community, Rotuma (Fiji) has never had a telephone. But now, owing to circumstances shrouded in official secrecy, Rotuma has a telephone.

Only a mile or so of wire and a couple of boxes, but a telephone, nevertheless.

And we were going to inspect it.

“I have a book,” panted the Commissioner, forging ahead with an enviable burst of speed, “that you will anpreciate readmg after climbing this hill.”

“Oh, thanks,” I puffed, feeling a stream of perspiration trickling into the toe of my shoe.

“It tells,” he continued, when he had regained sufficient breath, “how to scale mountains from a hotel balcony.”

“Wish I knew the technique,” i sighed.

The Scoutmaster blew his whistle and announced that he was taking the better way We wished him joy and, after a simple process of slipping, slithering, gliding, clutching, hauling, pushing, sitting down and occasionally walking we met him again at the top of the hill’ . The telephone was not quite ready for inspection, but, lost in admiring the view we almost forgot its existence.

We were so high up that the whole of the lovely little island, a dark green carpet from shore to shore, seemed to lie at our feet. It was, we agreed, tropical beauty at its best. Everything—dazzling white beaches, verdant, tangled masses of forest, graceful palms, foaming breakers on the reef, villages nestling along the shore—was there under the blue of the sky.

The surf-ringed emerald islands, surrounding Rotuma, guarded it like sentinels. Each one had an aloof appearance and an air of mystery.

Far down in the indigo sea, an object like a brown paper bag wavered for a while and then sank. It was a turtle.

“There’s somebody on the telephone,” said the Commissioner in a matter-offact voice, and back we came to earth again.

The telephone line was through, ana the ensuing excitement would have done credit to the inauguration of a worldencircling telephone service!

The bells would not ring, but that minor fault would be remedied later.

Meanwhile, all of us completed the making of history by saying “hallo” to the long-suffering linesman at the other end.

Then we observed the reactions of a native boy who put the receiver to his ear very carefully, after looking at it once or twice as if he expected the Loch Ness monster to spring out at him.

Linesman: “Hallo!”

Boy: “Hallo!”

Linesman: “Who’s speaking?”

Boy: “Me!”

While this brilliant dialogue was entertaining to us, it must have reduced the linesman to a gibbering wreck, and he was probably the most relieved person on Rotuma when we called it a day and went home!

The Work of Professor Buck IT is some years now since Professor Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa) published the results of his investigations at Aitutaki and other islands in the Cook Group. Though he has since published his “Vikings of the Sunrise”, which was intended for the general reader, he has continued to accumulate specialised material relating to Rarotonga and its sister islands.

This project, which will take the form of a study of the arts and crafts of the Cook Islands, is now nearing completion in Hawaii, where Dr. Buck is Director of the Bishop Museum. It has been his aim to apply to material culture some of the scientific principles used in the natural sciences. Artifacts that were made with native tools have been selected as type specimens, and the location of the specimen will be given for the information of students.

Dr. Buck has been culling the large collection of photographs in the Museum for illustrations.

Mr. Charles Nelson, one of the pioneer prospectors of Papua, died in Port Moresby Hospital recently, after a short illness. He was 72. Born in Norway, “Charlie” Nelson went to Papua in 1906 and during his long period there made many gold-seeking trips which covered most of the Territory. 40 SEPTEMBER, 1941 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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In the middle of 1940, when France surrendered to the Nazis, the Messageries Maritime Co.’s liner, “Commissaire Kamel” (10,000 tons) which ran between France and her Pacific colonies, was commandeered at Suva by the British authorities and manned with an Australian crew. Mr. Brown became chief radio operator.

The “Ramel” left Australian waters for the United Kingdom in September last year. Half way across the Indian Ocean, at 1 a.m., a strange ship approached and a Morse lamp demanded her name. As the mate replied, Brown, on the captain’s orders, commenced to transmit a Morse warning of the raider’s presence. The corsair’s reply was a rain of shells, from 650 yards range.

While the searchlight * sought out the wireless cabin, machine-guns and “pompoms” swept the “Ramel’s” decks. Brown continued his SOS until the power failed.

The shelling stopped: but when Brown got the emergency set working, the guns roared again. A shell hit the upper corner of the wireless room, then another, and still another. Brown went unconscious from shrapnel wounds.

Brought around by his assistant, the defiant operator again started to transmit on the spark set. Then, as Mr.

Brown told the “Fiji Times” recently, “the whole room seemed to fold up on top of me—l have a vague recollection of trying to get out, but there seemed to be a mass of tangled wire, radio gear and timber blocking my way. Somehow I managed to scramble through it.”

Brown and a couple of sailors got away in a ship’s boat, but they were captured, and were prisoners for months on enemy ships, and finally at Mogadishu. capital of Italian Somaliland.

There, under filthy conditions, they were kept prisoners until the British took Somaliland and released them.

Islands Troops In Film

DURING the recent stay in Sydney of the First Battalion of the Pacific Islanders enlisted under the De Gaulle banner a film was made by M.

J. M. X. Chollot, of “Le Courrier Australien”. Its first screening was given before members of the Pacific Islands Society at the Carlton Hotel, on August 27, in the presence of M. Andre Brenac, leader of the Free French Movement in Australia, and Madame Brenac. Partly in colour, and titled both in French and English, this excellent record of the Tahitians and New Caledonians in camp at Liverpool, marching through Sydney, and at the La Perouse memorial, Botany Bay, will later be screened in Noumea and Papeete.

It is learned that the New Caledonian Foyer, or Club, run in London, for Caledonians serving with the Free French Forces, with funds raised in the Colony, was entirely destroyed in a recent German raid on Britain. But the work will go on, for new funds are being raised to re-open the club in another building.

Mr. Trafford Smith, the Colonial Office official, who has been touring the Pacific, is now temporarily attached to the office of the British High Commissioner in Canada who, strangely enough, is Mr.

Malcolm MacDonald, his old chief at the Dominions Office in London. Mr. and Mrs. Smith travelled by mission schooner from Funafuti in the Ellice Group direct to Suva, and there caught a Matson boat for the USA. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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WAR shortages in Suva develop in the most surprising directions. Except for building materials, there have been no really serious shortages in imported goods, where one might expect them. On the other hand, the Suva Municipal Electrical Department states that it is short of current, and, in advertisements, is shrieking to users to consume as little as possible.

This seems very unfortunate, because the more current a service sells, the cheaper the price at which it can sell.

For many years, after a bad start (when it was taken in by the charms of buying a second-hand plant discarded by a country town in New South Wales) the Suva service developed excellently, made a goyl deal of money for the ratepayers, and served its customers well. The new customer was welcomed. But now, apparently, that process is to be reversed — new custom is refused, and old customers are stinted.

The explanation offered is, of course, the war, and new wartime needs.

Perhaps the threatened Suva blackout will come not as a result of Administrative Order but through the failure of the present electrical service, which is understood to be working under considerable strain.

Mr. E. E. Jenkins, who has been Attorney-General of Fiji since 1938, arrived in New Zealand recently for two months’ furlough.

History of Equatorial Islands Invaluable New Book Published in Honolulu SO many of the endless romantic stories of the Pacific are based upon the little-known Line (or Equatorial) Islands that one greets, with almost a whoop of joy, a new book, “American Polynesia”, by Edwin H. Bryan, of the staff of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu.

This is a book of facts —one is given the exact position, size, condition, topographical features, and history of each island, taken carefully from official records.

The title is a little challenging. One assumes that “American Polynesia” is Hawaii; but in reading Mr, Bryan’s book, one discovers that American Polynesia comprises the Line Islands, and one learns the real basis of the United States' claim to so many equatorial islands—a development which has puzzled many people in recent years.

Between 1830 and 1850, it was discovered that vast deposits of guano on many of these islands were valuable; and American interests became very active.

US Congress, on August 18, 1856, passed the Guano Act, which authorised Americans to claim unoccupied islands for the United States for the purpose of removing the guano. Accordingly, claims were made for 48 islands, under the Guano Act, and a list of these was published in the “New York Tribune” on March 5, 1858. The list was reprinted in “The Friend”, Honolulu, on April 20, 1859; also by a German writer, E. Behm, in 1859; and in “American Journal of Science”, September, 1859.

Only 18 of those 48 islands are now known by the names then given; 12 are known by different names; and 15 are to-day not known at all.

Early in 1857, representatives of the American Guano Company, of New York, took possession of Howland, Jarvis and Baker Islands. The Phoenix Guano Co. (American) took possession of McKean and Phoenix Islands in 1859 and of Enderbury in 1862. The industry was active in the seventies.

The Americans withdrew when the rich deposits were worked out and, from about 1879 to 1891, John T. Arundel & Co.

''British), with supplies from Apia, and labourers from Niue and the Cooks, carried on guano digging on the islands named above, and also on the islands of Sydney, Canton, Flint and Starbuck.

Mr. Bryan’s researches show that, after 1879, the United States officially manifested no interest whatever in these “guano islands”. In 1889, at Mr. Arundel’s request, Britain annexed the Phoenix group: and guano-digging was continued sporadically by British and Australian concerns. An American whaler found the rich deposits on Malden Island in 1848, and sold his find to a Sydney company.

A few natives and a handful of Europeans continued, for the next 50 years, to take guano and copra from this coral “no-man’s-land”. Britain did not particularly want the islands; but someone had to police the law of the white man, and so gradually they all came under British jurisdiction. All maps, from about the ’nineties, showed the following as British; Howland Baker Palmyra Washington Fanning Christmas Jarvis Malden Starbuck Caroline Vostock Flint Six islands in Phoenix group None argued or cared who owned the little islands. The guano was all worked out, they had only a few coconuts, and 42 SEPTEMBER, 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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* * * London-July, 1890 An unprecedented and unseemly spectacle was presented yesterday by immodest females who rode on bicycles through streets of London wearing Bloomer Costumes It would have been sufficient shock, to see females riding bicycles, but when to this indiscretion they added the worse one of appearing in Bloomer Costume, no words of censure can be too strong q What is the British home coming to?

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VIISBB there was not a harbour worthy of the name among the lot of them. rEN, in 1928, the great Australian airman, Kingsford Smith, flew from San Francisco to Sydney, across the Pacific, and directed attention to the importance of those Line Islands as landinggrounds, on the direct route from Hawaii to Fiji and New Zealand. Officialdom took little notice.

By 1934, people were beginning to realise that trans-Pacific aviation services were possible, and a few people displayed interest in islands that, hitherto, were regarded as worthless. Official American “colonists” were landed on Jarvis on March 26, 1935; on Howland, March 30; and on Baker, April 3. The islands were officiallv annexed bv the United States.

In 1936 and 1937, there was a great scurrying to and fro among the other Line Islands named above, by British official parties. Britain’s long and unchallenged title to the various little bits of uninteresting and depressing coral and sand was re-affirmed by flying flags, erecting notices and beacons and. finally, by landing colonists and administrators.

Anglo-American competition came to a head at Canton Island. USA wanted it; Britain showed a good title. Both occupied it. But the two parties didn’t fight over it. They sat down together in the only bit of shade in the god-forsaken snot, and shared their cold beer, and left Washington and London to argue it out.

The result was that America and Britain decided that they have equal occupational aviation rights there.

Canton Island is now an important PAA station. It seems certain that other Line Islands, hitherto worthless, will be needed in the future for aviation purposes. If disputes should arise, the precedent set bv Canton Island, and the publication of Mr. Bryan's invaluable book, should show the way to a simple settlement.

MR. Bryan gives a detailed geogranhical. historical, botanical and zoological description, not only of what we have called the Line Islands, but also of the Tokelau or Union groun (north of Samoa, administered bv New Zealand). Samoa, and the Northern Cooks. There is a carefully-drawn map of practically every island described, no matter how small and insignificant it is —priceless material for any reference library.

The book contains accounts of some of the most romantic and colourful episodes of early Polynesia—for instance, the early history of Olosenga (Swains Island), “one of the most beautiful and picturesque under the American flag”, and the romantic home of the Jennings family (related to the T. H. Carruthers family, of Samoa); the strange story of Suwarrow Island, where there is more than a tradition of buried treasure * the colonisation of Palmerston Island by William Marsters and his three Polynesian wives; and so on.

There is evidence everywhere of the pains taken by the author to ensure the accuracy of his compilation—a huge bibliography is quoted in detail. Everyone interested in Pacific Islands research will be grateful to Mr. Brvan for this unique, invaluable and fascinating volume.

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Miss E, A, Downs, of the Papauta Girls’ School Apia. Western Samoa, will return to the Territory shortly, after furlough and deputation work for the LMS in Australia and New Zealand.

Radiophone and Water Supply for Pt. Moresby From Our Own correspondent PT. MORESBY, Aug. 20.

PORT Moresby had two red-letter days m the th new radio-telephone On July 14 the n s7 P r Q a n v Q ° between Australia and Papua was officially opened.

On August 9. water from the Laloki River (lifted by means of a temporary pumping plant) began to now into the Port Moresby reservoir. It is being carted to residents, from the reservoir, for 5/per 1,000 gallons. While this is not the complete gravitation supply scheme, from the Laloki (held up owing to wartime inability to get machinery) it is nevertheless a most welcome alternative to the dry-season methods which we have suffered in the past. , Monsieur Paul Laubreaux, of Noumea, has been appointed manager of the electrical works at Port Vila, New Hebrides.

Societe Union Electrique Coloniale, which has for many years supplied Noumea with electricity, built and will run the Hebridean undertaking.

Rakatani Keke, a well-known Senior Village Councillor in Papua, and spokesman 0 f Hanuabada village, who recently made a speech in English at the native welcome for Mr. McDonald, Australian Minister for Islands Territories, died suddenly on August 16. His funeral, conducted by a native priest, was attended by Rev. D. E. Ure, the P. M. Resident Magistrate (Mr. W. R. Humphries), Mr. f. e. Williams (Government Anthropologist) and over 400 natives. Rakatani Keke was a native with strong personality and had been interpreter at the Central Court of Papua for many years. His death will be a great loss to the native community. 43 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Prospecting on the Fly River, 1875

By R. B. Howard

TN 1875, a party of diggers met in Cookm°™! r S I . eir . cai 4P at v , lslt I;he sea f th6ir g ° M aRd gBt a At th . e some excitement was apparent owing to a report by “German vT a 5 ry and “Nick the Greek” that they , nad se ® n 8 of gold-bearing stone in §. a v?, Ld 4 1 a yillage, some distance up the Fly River, in New Guinea. The 19, •^ eI \ ea serly discussed, and it was d< £s?® d 1 take;a trip to investigate. names of comprisingX party^so will call them by the names by which they were generally known.

First, there was “Red Dick”, who held a first mate’s certificate. “Dublin Bob” was an able seaman. The others were Christy, “Talavera Jack”, “The Squeezer” and “Long Dick”.

A suitable lugger was procured, and put in good sea-going order, with the necessary charts, ample fire-arms and food.

Cooktown was left early one morning.

Cape Direction was soon reached, where we dropped anchor in Lloyd Bay. A native abo. boy was recruited to act as pilot.

The next place of call was Somerset, where that grand old pioneer, Frank Jardine, was interviewed. He gave us some useful information about the intricacies of the Barrier.

At Thursday Island we, replenished our stores and set sail for the Fly River.

After a few days, we reached Daru, where another native boy was recruited to act as interpreter. We called him Goggles.

Soon after, we entered the Fly and passed a village occupied by the Tugeri tribe, reputed to be the most bloodthirsty cannibals along the coast.

A day or two later, we came to another village. Here, the people were friendly, but could not give us any information about gold-bearing stone. Subsequently, we called at several villages, but failed to find any evidence of there being gold in the vicinity.

After proceeding many more miles, we came to the junction of a large stream and the Fly. Here we found a large village. The place was deserted, but numbers of human skulls were lying about, some of them still quite fresh—a gruesome sight.

In a short time an old man appeared, apparently from nowhere. On being questioned by Goggles, and on being shown a specimen of quartz, he said, pointing to some conical hills in the distance, that there was plenty there, and he promised to provide a guide for us the next day.

True to his promise, the guide put in an appearance, accompanied by a number of natives, but no women or child- Mr. R. B. Howard, of Navua, Fiji. 44 SEPTEMBER. 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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ren. We realised that treachery was afoot, and were soon engaged in dispersing the horde of cannibals. Our fire-arms convinced these warriors that we were not helpless, and they decamped.

It was then decided to give up the search.

On our return journey we were again attacked by warriors in canoes, in considerable force. But, once more, our fire-arms convinced the natives that they had no chance of success.

On leaving the Fly, we encountered a muzzier of a head-wind; but, after a very boisterous trip, we found ourselves once again in Cooktown.

It was unanimously decided that both “German Harry” and “Nick the Greek” were liars.

EDITORIAL NOTE: Mr. Howard’s party may have been the first gold-seekers up the Fly, but they were by no means the last. The whole length of that mighty river, and most of its huge tributary, the Strickland, has been searched during the last 50 years, but it nol is realised that, although traces of very line gold may be found almost everywhere there is no payable gold in territory at present accessible. Jack Hides and David Lyall, in !037, seeking gold on the Upper Strickland (beyond Mr. Howard’s large cannibal village) A? prp j nriva firms from which both subsequenuy Qiea. u u u Mr. Max Andrews, who has been connected With Stephens Aviation Co., Wau, New Guinea, during the past three years, has returned to Australia with Mrs.

Andrews. They will not be going b&ck to the Territory.

"Blank, Blanketty -Blank!"

When "Jimmy the Nut" Was Gone But Not Forgotten IN the old days of the early Lakekamu gold rush in Papua, there was one prospector known far and wide as “Jimmy the Nut”.

Famous for his humour, Jimmy was a master of extreme Australianisms, which astonished even the “hard cases” by their highly coloured fluency. So choice was his language on one occasion that a storekeeper, possessing a gramophone recorder, decided to preserve this particularly brilliant performance for posterity. , , , .

Jimmy died shortly afterwards, and his funeral on the field was well attended; and after the ceremony his old mates foregathered at the store to drink his health.

It was while recounting all the virtues of their departed friend that the record was mentioned. “Let’s hear old Jimmy again,” they all said, and the idea took hold. So the gramophone was dragged forth and wound up, and the record fixed.

Then, with shining and solemn faces, they listened in reverent admiration, while the atmosphere became charged and sultry with the profane eloquence of their beloved mate, “Jimmy the Nut”.

M.L.

Mr. T. A. Fletcher, Educational Inspector for the NZ Government, has returned to Auckland from the Cook Islands He made a tour of inspection around the Lower Cook Group by schooner.

Re-Union in Palestine . x , i MONO the AIP troops now m Pales- A tine are a number of men from New Guinea and p apua , and recently, at the Hotel Central, Tel Aviv, they held a re-union, Lance-Corporal John D. Wilkinson, formerly of Misima Island, Eastern Papua, writes. We had rather a jolly time and all agreed that such gatherings should be held regularly. Toasts to the King and to missing comrades were drunk, “Getting ‘home’ was to some an unenviable experience, owmg to the vaganes of ■the 'Wog- (Arab) drivers and their taxis.

“Unfortunately, most of the Papuan men were unable to be Present, but those who attended were: Papua: L/Cpl.’s A.

Mclntyre, R. Nolan, J. Wilkinson. New Guinea; Lt- _ Co i. Wa if o rd King, Lt.’s Fairfax-Ross, R. Cardew, R. Cole, Sgt.’s Lew Dayi Qu Black « Ralph „ Con _ nor > Y - B - Donald - Ted Fulton > Cpl ’ s Frinkel, Peel, Pte.’s J. and S. Grimson, AveraU . Burke, There were one or twQ Qther NGX . but J missed ettlng their names Jn thg crush _„

Scholarships For Islands Boys

THE King’s School, one of the best-known Great Public Schools in New South Wales, announces that three exhibitions for boarders are open to Pacific Islands boys between 12 and 16 years of age. The scholarships, each worth £6O a year, are tenable for three years (minimum). Winners must enter the King’s School at Parramatta, Sydney, for the first term in 1942. Entry forms should reach the headmaster not later than October 21 —see the School’s advertisement in this issue for further details.— *** 45 pacific islands monthly September, iMI

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American Air Strength In

PACIFIC Chain of New Bases and Growing Masses of Modern Aircraft JOHNSTON Island, south-west of Hawaii, and Palmyra Island, further south, strategic points in the Central Pacific, were taken over by the US Navy and Air Commands in August.

They will be used as bases for patrol and emergency landing fields, and as fuel depots for seaplanes operating from Hawaii.

The United States Navy Department on August 11, 1939, ordered work to be started on five Pacific Island air bases — two in the Hawaiian Islands and the others at Midway, Johnston and Palmyra Islands respectively. Contracts covering the work were awarded of a total value of 14,607,000 dollars. Subsequently, work was started on a base in Eastern Samoa, where 2,000,000 dollars are being spent.

The scheme is part of a three-year 69,000,000-dollar programme to create a chain of air bases from Alaska to the South Pacific, and to a point where the air forces of the British Empire could establish contact with the United States’ air forces if the two nations should be required to fight on the same side.

Reinforcements at Hawaii WITH weekly reinforcements of aeroplanes, the numbers of which are a military secret, America is greatly increasing her air power in Hawaii, main bastion of the United States Pacific defence scheme. As stepping stones for giant bombers, America is rapidly constructing runways on islands to the westward—to within easy striking distance of Japanese territory (says Auckland “Herald” of August 20).

Backbone of this new aerial front is the B-17-D, or four-engined Flying Fortress bomber, hundreds of which, incidentally, are being delivered to Britain for her unrelenting raids upon Germany.

Support from Mainland In May, the United States Army Air Corps proved how easily and quickly Pacific bases can be reinforced from mainland bases, when 21 Flying Fortresses were flown the 2,400 miles from San Francisco to Hawaii in 14 hours.

In addition to B-17-D’s, which operate at 30,000 ft., America is now producing B-17-E’s. These bombers have a pressure cabin to protect the crews at 40,000 ft., an altitude which will keep them above all pursuit aeroplanes.

The speed and altitude performances of the B-17-o E’s make them ideal for use in the Pacific. They have a non-stop range in excess of 4,000 miles, which means that if additional gas tanks were substituted for bomb spaces, they could fly non-stop from Hawaii to Australia.

In California, the Air Corps is now experimenting with the B-19, a bomber much larger than the B-17-E. It has a range of 8,000 miles non-stop, and a bomb load of approximately 18 tons.

The Air Corps has also developed medium type bombers like the B-24, known in Britain, where it is widely used’ as the Liberator, and the attack-bomber A-20, which Britain calls the Havoc. In action, these high-speed medium bombers protect or support the Flying Fortresses ai lower altitudes. In Hawaii, the A-20 has excelled fighter and pursuit aeroplanes m both speed and range.

IF enemy bombers approached Hawaii, Flying Portresses would speed out with their heavy demolition loads.

If they failed to frustrate the enemy, medium bombers would follow up and engage it, while the Fortresses flew back to the base to reload for a fresh attack.

This manoeuvre would be repeated with successive waves of Flying Fortresses and medium bombers.

To minimise the chance of an enemy taking Hawaii by surprise, America has developed bases on islands to the west— like Midway and Wake—which would stand the first shock of invasion. Being within easy distance of the main Hawaiian aerodromes, all these bases could be quickly reinforced.

Land Planes Preferred America is methodically discarding dependence upon the naval patrol bombers. She has proved beyond doubt that Army landplane bombers have far higher speeds, can lift greater bomb loads, and, of course, can fly just as far out to sea in perfect safety to locate an enemy.

It is important to bear in mind that an analysis of the damage done by German air power to British warships and other shipping shows that all the Nazi bombers are landbased—landplanes sent out from strategic bases. America is duplicating this strategy in Hawaii so that US bombers will dominate every mile of the Pacific’s routes. 46 SEPTEMBER, 1941 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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THEY’LL NEVER QUIT, by Harvey Klemmer, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 7 6.) Here, frank and brutal and uncensored, is an account of the German air blitz on London, and other great British cities, which went on from September 7, 1940, until well into 1941. It is written by a US embassy official who was in London from Munich (1938) until early in 1941, and who saw and recorded every aspect of the blitzkrieg. It is a valuable contribution to history, and its publication now is timely—because in the USA, as in the South Seas, the mass of people have no real conception of the horrors and terrors of the blitzkrieg, and therefore they still do not appreciate the magnificent courage and tenacity of the British people. Mr. Klemmer supplies all the bits which have been missing from other descriptions. We learn for the first time, for instance, of the military damage done in several of the London blitzes, and in the Coventry blitz, when factory production was reduced by 50 per cent. We are told that when the Huns sank the “Empress of Britain” they sank also 70 Lockheed bombers; and we are told many new and ghastly aspects of what happened in those fearful nights of September, 1940. We challenge any ordinary man or woman to read a chapter, describing a direct hit upon a shelter in Chelsea, when about 60 men, women and children were smashed to pieces, without being physically sick. We hope, for reasons that become more obvious every day, that millions of copies of'this book are read in the USA.

The South Seas In The Modern

WORLD, by Felix M. Keesing. (Published by the American Institute of Pacific Relations, 129 E. 52nd St., New York, USA.

Price, $3.50). This is another monumental volume by a scientist who is doing magnificent work on behalf of the peoples of the central and south Pacific. Dr.

Keesing, in this book, draws a comprehensive picture of the Pacific Islands — their political status, their resources and economic development, the changing life and problems of the islanders, and tne position of various Asiatic migrants.

There is room here only for this brief note of the publication of a valuable work—we hope to review it at length in an early issue.

Australia Foots The Bill—A

study in War Finance, by four University men. (Published by Angus & Robertson, Svdney. 4/6.) This is the answer to a whole series of questions which every serious and thoughtful man is asking today—How are we going to pay the cost of this war, and what is its economic effect upon national finance, and the living standards of the people. It is noted that, whereas Australia spent £14,000,000 in peaceful 1937/8, the total had risen under war conditions to £55,000,000 in 1939 40, and £170,000,000 in 1940/41; and that an expenditure of £250,000,000 is budgeted for in 1941/42. It is an economist’s night-mare. But war has always been like that, and the nations somehow have survived.

COAST TO COAST—A collection of best short stories, recently written by Australian writers. (Selected by Cecil Mann and published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, for 7/6.) Most people do not realise how much literary talent there is in Australia. This big and worthwhile volume not only conforms to a high literary standard, but also it is eminently readable and in places very amusing. Unhesitatingly recommended to the notice of the average reader.

NATIONAL PORTRAITS, by Vance Palmer. (Published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney. 8/6). This book has double value. In its pages, we are given the. story of twenty-one of Australia’s most notable men, from John Macarthur to Sir John Monash —and this kind of compilation is long overdue. Biography always is interesting; and Vance Palmer, one of Australia’s best writers, has made of each biography a dramatic and fascinating little story.

Land Utilisation In American

SAMOA, by John Wesley Coulter. B. P.

Bishop Museum Bui. 170, 48 pp„ 2 pis., 7 figs., 1941. Describes natural environment, crops, agricultural methods, pests, forests and ocean products, trade and changing conditions.

Mr. Badri Maharaj Gyaneshwar, LLB (Wales), who was the first Fiji-born Indian to qualify for the English Bar, was admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor of the Fiji Supreme Court on August 18. He has set up his legal practice at Labasa.

The Hymn of Hate AND this I hate—not men, nor flag nor race, But only War, with its wild, grinning face.

God strike it till its eyes be blind as night, And all its members tremble with affright!

Oh, let it hear in its death agony The wail of mothers for their best-loved ones, And on its head Descend the venomed curses of its sons Who followed her, deluded, where its guns Had dyed the daisies red.

All these I hate—war and its panoply, The lie that hides its ghastly mockery, That makes its glories out of women’s tears.

The toil of peasants through the burdened years, The legacy of long disease that preys On bone and body in the after-days.

God’s curses pour, Until it shrivel with its votaries And die away in its own fiery seas, That nevermore Its dreadful call of murder may be heard; A thing accursed in very deed and word From blood-drenched shore to shore!

Joseph Dana Miller. 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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DEATH Rt. Rev. C. J. Nicolas, of Fiji ALONG life of service devoted to the Church and the native people of the Central Pacific ended with the death, in Suva on August 15, of Rt. Rev.

Charles Joseph Nicolas, SM, CBE, Catholic Bishop of Fiji, in his 82nd year.

Born in Lorraine in 1860, he entered the Marist Order and studied in England and Ireland. Ordained a priest at 28, he was sent out to New Caledonia.

An exchange of missionaries led to his going to Fiji, where eventually he oecame parish priest of Suva, serving in that capacity for 20 years.

In 1910 he was appointed Marist Provincial, which necessitated his travelling regularly to all Marist stations in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, BSI, New Hebrides and New Caledonia. He held this post for eight years.

When the aged Bishop Vidal, of Suva, felt the need for a coadjutor, Father Nicolas was chosen and, at Sydney in 1919, was consecrated Titular Bishop of Panopolis. Three years later he became Vicar Apostolic of Fiji, on the death of Bishop Vidal.

During his 52 years in the Colony, Bishop Nicolas devoted himself particularly to the educational advancement of the Fijians, for he sought the welfare of the natives along secular as well as religious lines. Probably his outstanding work in this direction was the establishment of many schools and of a seminary for training native clergy at Cawaci.

Exactly three years ago, in September, 1938, Bishop Nicolas celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination and, to mark the occasion, Suva’s Roman Catholic community, as a gift, erected two towers to complete the Sacred Heart Cathedral. The honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire was conferred on the Bishop in January, 1939.

In spite of his age, Bishop Nicolas took an active part in the affairs of the Mission, right up to his death. He insisted, early in August, on making a visit to Cawaci station, despite the pleas and anxiety of his staff; and at Cawaci he collapsed, and was taken back to Suva Colonial War Memorial Hospital, where he passed away within a few days.

Mr. S. H. C. Short, who was well known in Bougainville, TNG, and the British Solomon Islands as a plantation manager for Choiseul Plantations Ltd., died in Sydney recently, while on leave.

Colonel H, C. Cameron, a prominent planter of New Guinea, arrived in Australia recently for a holiday. During his absence, Mr. Jim Ormonde has taken over the management of Djaul estate.

BISHOP NICOLAS. —Photo: “Catholic Freeman’s Journal.” 48

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COTTONS for spring are crisp, fresh and gaily patterned and all have splendid washing qualities. Stripes are in—pink and white, green and white, navy and white, etc.; Windsor stripes they call them.

Linens of the uncrushable variety are to be had in knoppe and plain weave, in pastel and deeper shades. Jacket suits are still important items in the wardrobe —skirt and jacket may be of the same material and colour, or have the jacket in different material of contrasting colour.

Pastels are popular. There is a lovely new pink, rather fresher than last year’s shades, that looks adorable when worn with belt, bag, gloves and hat of dark blue.

Biege is staging a come-back, though its appeal was never really lost, for it can be worn with such gay accessories.

It is particularly smart with green.

Blue, cool and flattering, is the best shade there is against a tanned skin.

Interest centres on the crown in the new season’s hats—clusters of flowers are perched atop in all sorts of enchanting angles. There are some delightful little sailors, too, that are worn well tilted forward and have veils that tie in a bow behind, in a quaint 1830 sort of fashion.

Kitchen Lore

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Fish Rissoles

Raw or cooked fish may be used. Remove bones and mince, add a thick slice of bread soaked in water (or mashed potatoes instead of bread), salt, pepper, a little nutmeg, chopped parsley, and, if desired, a little chopped onion.

Mix with one or two eggs; make into rissoles and fry in hot oil or lard after first rolling in flour.

Mayonnaise For Fish

Take 1 tin of condensed milk and mix with strong white vinegar till of a sufficiently soft consistency for a sauce; add a teaspoon of prepared mustard and salt.

Fish Fillets With Peas

Dress and cut fish into fillets, sprinkle with salt and pepper and lemon juice. Fold each fillet round a slice of raw potato and arrange in a greased baking dish. Bake about 10 minutes. Dress the fillets, one overlapping another in a circle with cooked green peas in the centre. Sift a cooked egg yolk between the fillets. Thicken the stock with a thick sauce.

Remove the potato before serving.

Fish Macaroni Pie

Two oz. cooked macaroni, 1 egg, V 2 lb, cooked fish, V 2 pint milk, salt, pepper and a good squeeze of lemon juice.

Mix macaroni with fish, add 1 oz. butter, etc., pour over hot milk and beaten egg. C over pie with layer of bread crumbs and tiny bits of butter.

Hints On Fish

A spoonful of vinegar added to the water in which fish is boiled will soften the fish and keep it firm and white.

Salt fish is easily freshened by leaving it to soak in sour milk.

To remove the smell of fish or onion from a pot put a little vinegar into it.

Anything baked or cooked in oil or fat becomes light and airy by lifting it 3 or 4 times out of the fat during the baking process. This makes a great difference to baked foods.

Paw Paw Scones

Two cups self-raising flour (white or wholemeal), l U cup castor sugar, V\ teaspoon salt. 1 ripe paw paw, 1 tablespoon butter.

Sift flour, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl.

Rub in butter with tips of fingers. Peel, seed and mash paw paw well; add a cup full of pulp to the dry ingredients and mix into a light dough. Turn out on to a floured board, roll out, cut into rounds and bake in a quick oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

Wholemeal Scones

Two cups self-raising wholemeal flour, V 2 teaspoon salt, 1 dessert spoon butter, 1 cup milk or milk and water.

Mix the wholemeal self-raising flour and the salt together in a basin. Melt the butter, stir into the milk and pour into the flour. This will make a nice soft dough. Turn out on to a floured board dusted with oatmeal; knead lightly, roll out and cut into desired shape.

Bake in a hot oven from 12 to 15 minutes.

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Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miller arrived in Sydney from New Hebrides recently, on furlough. They are Seventh Day Adventist missionaries on Santo Island, in the north of the Group.

Pastor W. N. Lock, superintendent of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in Papua, is at present in Australia on furlough. with Mrs. Lock. They are attending the Quadrenniel Session of the Australasian Union Conference being held in NSW from September 10 to 21. Pastor and Mrs. Lock are stationed at Mirigeda, Bootless Bay, Papua.

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WHILE the “Men of Vichy” were repudiating France’s National Day (July 14, when the phrase “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” was born), the Free French people of New Caledonia were celebrating it with more than usual fervour.

“It may please the Men of Vichy to erase July 14 from our national calendar,” said Governor Henri Sautot, “but we Free French continue to proclaim the intangibility of the past with all its glories.

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Lamentable Effect of Administration's Failure to Produce a Native Control Policy

By R. W. Robson

IF Australia had anything like a normal Government, the Minister responsible for Pacific Territories administration would be bound to take official notice of the accumulating evidence of deteriorating morale among New Guinea’s “civilised” natives, and to seek the cause and the remedy.

As it is, nothing is likely to happen, until some ugly outbreak among the natives forces officialdom to panicstricken action. By then, much harm will have been done, and remedial measures will be correspondingly difficult.

The Australian Government is not normal. At this time of gravest crisis in Imperial affairs, Australia has what is probably the weakest, blindest and most inefficient government in the history of the Commonwealth. That is the price the Australian people must pay for tolerating professionalism in politics and permitting the most selfish interests to dominate Parliaments. The New Guinea Territory, apparently, must suffer along with the mainland of Australia.

FROM one end of the Mandated Territory to the other, thoughtful and far-seeing Europeans are giving warnings of deteriorating native morale, and asking, most urgently, that the Administration formulate a native control policy which will take care of present evils and future needs. These evils may be summed up as follows: — 1. Insolence and disobedience among indentured native labourers on mines and plantations; and cheekiness and laziness among house-servants —all being the result of the inability of the employer to administer even minor corporal punishment. 2. Refusal on the part of a growing number of time-expired labourers to enter into indentures again—they prefer to hang around the towns and accept engagements at a weekly wage, which is higher than the indentured wage. 3. A steadily-growing spirit of hooliganism among both indentured and unindentured natives, which is seen not only in the cheekier attitude of natives generally, but also in a marked increase in the volume of petty crime—drunkenness, gambling, sodomy, “sing-sing” orgies which often extend over a weekend, theft, and so on.

These things are most frequently referred to at the Morobe end of New Guinea.

But statements published in the “Rabaul Times”, during the past two or three years, indicate similar alarming conditions in the New Britain district.

Matters came to a head recently when a young woman was brutally murdered in Wau, apparently by a drink-crazed native. The evidence placed before the coroner provided so startling a story of drunken and sexual orgies among native labourers, and of habitual theft, gambling and lack of discipline among native house-servants, that the coroner pointedly directed official attention to It.

After that, a committee of Morobe citizens demanded that the Administration should protect European residents in the Territory by exercising stricter control over natives. But there is, as yet, no indication that either Rabaul or Canberra is going to do anything about it.

The plain fact is that the formulation of a policy which will really control these now sophisticated natives, and ensure better conditions in the future, calls for a degree of knowledge, experience and understanding that apparently is lacking in authoritative quarters in Rabaul, and which cannot be found in Canberra.

MURMURINGS against New Guinea’s native policy (or lack of it) were heard first in the ’twenties; and by 1930 and 1931, when the “PIM” began to publish articles on the subject, complaints were loud and frequent.

Administrators who held office between 1921 and 1932, mostly political appointees, apparently were incapable of formulating any policy which called for a cultured mind, statesmanlike vision and real knowledge of native control.

The late Sir Hubert Murray, watching critically from across the Papuan border, more than once expressed to this 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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If Sir Hubert could view the Mandated Territory to-day. he would see, there, justification of his misgivings and his warnings.

There was a ray of hope in 1932, when wise, hard-working, far-seeing Thomas Griffiths became Administrator. He applied himself at once to the formulation of a native control policy; and in 1933 I saw the scope of his wisdom in two things—in “flash” native law-breakers sweating in the gaol-yards under pack-drill (and so learning that calaboose was something more than a wellprovisioned holiday resort), and in the General’s close and frequent consultations with the old-established missions, to which he turned naturally and properly for help and guidance in controlling the present generation of natives, and educating those of the future.

BUT Thomas Griffiths lasted less .than two years. To the dismay of those of us who had found inspiration and hope in his New Guinea work, he suddenly retired. He never has uttered one word against Canberra: but there is no doubt at all that Canberra’s petty officialdom drove him out.

Griffiths knew what New Guinea wanted, and he was determined to supplv that need. He was no ornamental place-holder and salary-grabber. To him, residence in Rabaul was a discomfort and a sacrifice—but he endured both, in the belief that he was doing an Imperial job.

When Canberra nagged and niggled, and interfered with everything that it could not understand, Thomas Griffiths said politely that he would not carry on, and he went back happily to his home and family in Melbourne.

In 1934, there came to the Administratorship Brig.-General W. R. McNicoll subsequently knighted. He had been awarded high honours in the 1914-18 war; he had been head of a country Presbyterian Ladies’ College from 1921 to 1931; and he had had three years in Parliament; but of tropical administration he had had not one minute’s practical experience. His appointment was regarded as a political one, and it was— and still is—deeply resented by the public services of Australia’s tropical territories. That has not made for a spirit of co-operation.

THE condition of native affairs was by no means good in 1934; since then, it has deteriorated steadily. The Administrator has made one or two sincere but fumbling attempts to do something about it. But the remedy—and, above all, the formulation of a policy for the guidance of the administrative service and the direction of future administrations—calls for a firm hand, informed by real knowledge, experience and understanding of native affairs. And the events of 1934-41 have shown, with lamentable clarity, that those qualities are not to be found in Rabaul.

It now has become an ugly problem and an appalling job, this native position in New Guinea. It has been too long neglected, and it is difficult now to suggest how it should be dealt with.

Certainly, an inquirer should first investigate the causes of the deterioration of native morale. He probably would find that the trouble became rapidly worse as more Australians, unaccustomed to handling native labour, entered the goldfields area. They did 52 SEPTEMBER, 1941_PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Many natives were exasperatingly stupid; but many also were sensitive and intelligent, and capable of being turned, by sympathetic treatment, into lawabiding citizens and loyal helpers of the Europeans. By far too many employers they were just “a bunch of coons”, to be driven to labour like cattle. There were good employers—but there were too many bad employers.

How many of those tough miners from Australia, driving their lines of boys in the sodden gorges of the Bulolo, realised that, to the natives, they were tne representatives of a race of white gods? How many recognised their obligation to help these poor creatures over the wobbly, puzzling bridge between Stone Age (the villages whicn they had just leit) and Machine Age (the life which they would know in the future)?

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This kind of employer usually doled out a minimum of food and supplies. The labourers were primitive—but not so primitive that they could not recognise and resent the brutality of their treatment.

ISAW things on the Morobe goldfield in 1932 which made me sick on the stomach. I was certain that those conditions would lead to serious trouble —and I said so, emphatically, to Sir Hubert Murray, in Port Moresby, on my Way back. A new Administrator, General Griffiths, had just taken charge, so I published nothing.

At that time, in private letters, I expressed the opinion that if any wandering writer got into the Morobe end of New Guinea, and saw what was being done with native labour, he would write a book comparable with “Red Rubber”, that startling expose of what pre-war Belgium was doing in the Congo. But I kept quiet, in the hope that Australia presently would properly take hold of her responsibilities to New Guinea natives, and make of her Mandate administration as creditable a job as she had done in Papua.

Griffiths departed, and McNicoll came, and again I hoped that native affairs would be placed under decisive orderliness and control. But nothing much has been done —the dreadful policy of laissez faire lies like Matupi dust over everything.

MEANWHILE, year by year, step by step, the primitive natives of New Guinea, being under no kind of moral or educational check, have emulated the worst traits of their white masters, and have become cunning, deceitful, covetous and vice-ridden.

Is it realised in complacent Canberra, for instance, that for over ten years there have been at least 10,000 indentured labourers jammed together in crude barracks on the Morobe goldfield, without any organised means of recreation, without educational facilities, without women, and with very little in the way of moral education or control?

Of course, these are not the same 10,000 labourers. There is a constant coming and going, as time-expired men are replaced.

And what becomes of men who do not sign on again? They go back to their villages, taking with them a knowledge of the ways of white men—and, unfortunately, of the ways of white women, for there have been of harlots and semiharlots quite a few on the Morobe field —sufficient to undermine and perhaps destroy European prestige.

This is no idle suggestion. Long ago, far-sighted people pointed out, to the • PIM”, the inevitable result of sending thousands of sophisticated boys back each year to their primitive villages; and the “PIM” emphasised the danger.

But na one displayed any interest. It takes more than “newspaper hooey” to lift bureaucrats in comfortable jobs out of their pleasant routine.

THE foregoing, of course, deals only with the Morobe angle of a Territory-wide problem, and indicates only some of the causes.

The whole problem requires consideration by a committee of experts, who would study cause, effect and remedy.

For the personnel of the committee one need go no farther than the Executive and Legislative Councils of New Guinea.

There are men there thoroughly capable of recognising, presenting and solving New Guinea’s native problem, and formulating a practical policy. Messrs. E.

Taylor and R. Melrose, heads of the Native Affairs Department, are officers of outstanding ability—the present condition of native affairs in New Guinea is not their fault—although, unhappily, it is their responsibility.

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They have earned a reputation for accuracy and integrity in all their business dealings, which is proved by the fact that they are privileged to handle more gold from the Islands of the Pacific than any other organisation.

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LOLOMA (FIJI) GOLD MINES, LTD.

Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines, Ltd., has declared a dividend of 1 - a share, payable September 8.

This dividend, the Co.’s 14th, is for the final quarter, making 4 - a share for the year ended June 30, compared with a total of 6/- a share in the previous year. Production for the financial year was 45,124 fine oz. from 33,308 tons, compared with 48,006 fine oz. from 33,342 tons in the previous year.

Production for the period ended September 4 is compared with the three previous yields in the following table: — EMPEROR MINES, LTD.

Production at the Emperor mine at Tavua, Viti Levu, during the past three months compares as follows: — In a report issued on September 8, the Co. states that development at the No. 6 level is encouraging, as shattered zone formation now appears extending further south than originally anticipated. Consideration is being given to connecting the No. 6 level with Loloma No. 4 level —they are practically on the same elevation.

From Papua CL'THBERT’S MISIMA GOLD MINE, LTD.

A REPORT from Cuthbert’s Misima Gold Mine, Ltd,, compares the figures for August with the two previous months as follows: PAPUAN APINAIPI PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

Directors of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co., Ltd., have decided to issue a further 160,600 shares of 5/- each, making the total shares issued 561,600 and increasing subscribed capital from £100,250 to £140,400. Shares will be offered in the ratio of two for every five held, without regard to fractional interest. Terms are 6d. per share on application, 6d. on allotment, and the balance when required in calls ■not exceeding 6d. per month. Applications close on September 22. Additional capital is required, the directors point out, so that the possibilities of the permit area in Papua can be fully explored by continued and extended drilling operations. The Commonwealth Government will make advances up to £20,000 as the work proceeds. in addition to previous advances of £30,000 and hire of the major drilling plant.

A report issued at the end of August stated that the No. 2 major well at Oiapu had reached a depth of 2,040 ft. Work is being continued on the No. 3 northern well, where casing has been inserted, and on September 8 was reported to have reached a depth of 1,293 ft.

YODDA GOLDFIELDS, LTD.

Yodda Goldfields, Ltd., reports that production for August was 127 oz. of gold, compared with 106 oz. 18 dwt. for July.

MANDATED ALLUVIALS, NL.

In a report issued early this month, directors of Mandated Alluvials, NL, stated that during the four months ended July 31, 162 tons of matte were produced, containing about 630 oz. gold, 1,920 oz. silver, and 23 tons copper. Considerable quantities of ore have been mined from re-opened areas. Assays over 100 feet averaged more than 1 oz. gold per ton. In this area, there are indications that at least a further 1,000 tons of stone will be obtained. Other areas appear to be promising.

That Report of Flow Oil in New Guinea VARIOUS members of the Commonwealth Parliament pointed out that an Australian company was prepared to finance and conduct an expedition into the interior of New Guinea to investigate a report that flow oil had been discovered there, and that the Government was not asked to undertake any expense whatever in connection with this investigation.

The new Minister for Territories, Mr.

McDonald, could only reply that the district to which the company desired to go is in an “uncontrolled” area; there was an Ordinance in existence forbidding European entry into such an area; and he had been told in New Guinea that the report made on behalf of the company, that flow oil had been found in that district, was “too fantastic for words”.

Mr, Ernest Connelly, of Nadi, Fiji, died during the middle of last month, aged over 60. His family was very well known in Levuka, having settled there in the 70's of last century, and where Mr. Connelly himself was born. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lizzie Connelly. 55 £.4tl f I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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We Can Supply, at a Keen Price, Any Available Article You Require. 56 SEPTEMBER, 1941 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Call Time Wave Frequency Length Sign (Metres) (K/cs.) VLR8. 6.30-10.15 a.m. 25.51 11,760 VLR3. 12 00-6.15 p.m 25.25 11,880 VLR 6.30-11.30 n.m. 31.32 9 580 VLG6. 6.30 a.m.-6.15 p.m. 1?.66 12,230 VLG5. 6.30 p.m.-l a.m. 25.25 11,880 VLG. 1.25-2.10 a.m. 31.315 9,580 VLG5. 2.25 a.m.-2.55 a.m. 25.25 11,880 Aust. Eastern Noumea Standard Time.

Time. 6.25 p.m. 7.25 p.m.

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Australian Short Wove Broadcast AN Australian radio programme is broadcast daily on short wave from Lyndhurst (Victoria) for listeners in the Western Pacific. Details of the two stations through which broadcasts are made:— Power: VLR, 2 Kilowatts; VLG, 10 Kilowatts.

Times given are Australian Eastern Standard (10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time).

WEEK DAYS. —a.m.: 6.30. Market Reports; 6.45, News; 7.15. Music; 7.45. News; 8, Music; 9.30, Story; 10, Devotional Service; 10.15, Close, p.m.; 12, Time Signal and broadcast to schools; 12.35, Essential Services: 12.50, News; 1.05, Music; 1.35, News- 415 News; 4.30, Music; 5.30, Young People’s Session: 6.15, Close; 6.30, Dinner Music; 6.45, Sporting Session; 7, News; 10.30, Music; 11, News; 11.30, Close.

SATURDAYS. —Same as daily programme, except between 1.05 p.m. and 5.15 p.m., when description of current sporting and athletic events is given, interspersed with music. Close at 11.35 p.m. _ SUNDAYS.—a.m.: 6.45, News; 7.05, Music; 9, News: 9.15, AIF Recordings; 9.30, New Releases (Recorded): 10.15. Book Reviews; 10.30. Famous Singers; 11. Divine Service. p.m.: 12.30, Great Violinists: 12.50. News; 12.55, Music; 3. Musical Quiz: 3.30, “Adventures in Art”: 4.15, News; 5. BBC Newsreel: 6. BBC News; 6.15. Close; 6.30, Music; 7, News and Commentary: 11, Close.

OCTOBER 1 TO OCTOBER 18 Oct. 1 (Wed.). —8 p.m., “Out of the Bag”; 9.

National Military Band; 9.30. Talk; 9.45, Songs of England: 10.30, Modern Compositions.

Oct. 2 (Thurs.). —8 p.m.. Mancell Kirby (Harpsichord). H. Sampford (Viola da Gambu) and Muriel Cheek (Soprano); 8.30. Australian Compositions; 9.55, ABC Salon Sextet.

Oct. 3 (Fri.). —8 p.m., “Sons of the Sea”; 8.30, Play; 9.45, Scotland Calling; 10. Variety.

Oct. 4 (Sat.). —1.10 p.m., Race & Football Descriptions: 8, Orchestral Hour; 8.50, Neville Cardus Feature; 9.30, Ballad Concert.

Oct. 5 (Sun.). —7.30 p.m.. Play—“ She Passed Thro’ Lorraine”; 8.30. Australian Artists; 9.15, Talk —“To-morrow’s World”: 9.30, Neville Cardus.

Oct. 6 (Mon.). —8 p.m.. “Merry Go Round”; 9, Melbourne Wireless Chorus; 9.30, Serial; 10, Montague Brearley’s Ensemble.

Oct. 7 (Tues.). —8 p.m.. Talk; 8.15, Camn Concert: 9, Band Music; 9.50, Pianoforte Recital; 10.05. Mastersingers.

Oct. 8 (Wed.).—B n.m., Vocalist: 8.15, Celebrity Concert; 10.15, Story; 10.30, Modern Compositions.

Oct. 9 (Thurs.). —8 p.m., Sydney String Quartet; 8.45. Talk; 9, Orchestral Programme; 9.45.

Revue —“Stinging Nettle Castle”; 10.30, Recorded Music.

Oct. 10 (Fri.). —8 p.m., “Sons of the Sea”, with National Military Band; 8.30, Play—“l Was Hitler’s Prisoner”: 9.30, Celebrity Concert; 10, Argosy Trio.

Oct. 11 (Sat.).—l.lo p.m., Sydney & Melbourne Race Descriptions; 8 Neville Cardus Talk; 8.15, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: 9.15, R-ecital by Alam Eddy (Bass); 10.15, AIF Recording.

Oct. 12 (Sun.)—7.3o p.m. Play—"To the Public Danger”; -8.30 Australian Artists; 9.15 Talk— “ To-morrow’s World”; 9.35 Neville Cardus.

Oct. 13 (Mon.) —8 p.m. Serial—"As Ye Sow”; 8.30 “Out of the Bag’’; 9.30 The Mastersingers; 9.45 AIF Recording; 10 Military Band.

Oct. 14 (Tues.) —8.15 p.m. Symphony Orchestra; 9 Frank Hutchens (pianist); 10 Talk; 10.30 Dance Music.

Oct, 15 (Wed.) —8 p.m. Dance Band and Wireless Chorus; 9 Montague Brearley’s Ensemble; 9.35 Talk; 9.50 Songs of England; 10.30 Modern Compositions.

Oct. 16 (Thurs.) —3 p.m. The Mastersingers; 8.15 Recital (Dorothy Helmrich); 9 Orchestral Programme; 10 Revue.

Oct. 17 (Fri.) —8 p.m. “Sons of the Sea”; 8.30 Play—“ All Passion Spent”; 9.30 Orchestral Music; 10 Talk; 10.15 Wireless Chorus.

Oct. 18 (Sat.) —1.10 p.m. Flemington & Randwick Races; 8 “Judas Maccabeus”.

Broadcast To French

Pacific Colonies

THE Australian Department of Information, in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, makes a daily broadcast in French of news, talks, and music for listeners in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Tahiti.

Transmission is made from Station VLQ, Sydney, on a wave-length of 31.2 metres (frequency. 9.615 mcs.) and consists of the following items: 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

Mar. 5 . . £19 0 0 £19 5 0 £20 0 0 June 4 . . £15 15 0 £15 12 6 £16 12 6 Sept. 3 . . £13 5 0 £13 5 0 £14 0 0 Dec. 3 . . £12 10 0 £12 12 6 £13 7 6 Jan. 7, ’38 £12 12 6 £12 15 0 £13 12 6 Feb. 4 . . £11 2 6 £11 10 0 £12 7 « Mar. 4 . . £10 17 6 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Apr. 1 . . £10 10 0 £10 12 6 £11 10 0 May 6 , . £10 17 6 £10 17 6 £11 17 6 June 3 . . £9 15 0 £9 15 0 £10 12 6 July 1 . . £9 17 6 £9 17 6 £10 17 6 Aug. 5 , . £9 15 0 £9 15 0 £10 15 0 Sept. 2 . . £ 9 10 0 £9 10 0 £10 10 0 Oct. 7 . . £9 2 6 £9 2 6 £10 2 6 Nov. 4 . . £8 12 6 £8 12 6 £9 10 0 Dec. 2 . , £9 5 0 £9 5 0 £10 2 6 Jan. 6, '39 £9 12 6 £9 15 0 £10 10 0 Peb. 3 . . £9 10 0 £9 12 6 £10 10 0 Feb. 24 . £9 17 6 £10 2 6 £11 0 0 Mar. 3 , . £10 0 0 £10 2 6 £11 0 0 Mar. 24 . £9 15 0 £9 17 6 £10 17 6 Apr, 6 . . £9 12 6 £9 15 0 £10 12 6 Apr. 28 . £9 17 6 £10 0 0 £11 0 0 May 5 . . £10 0 0 £10 5 0 £11 0 0 May 12 . £10 5 0 £10 10 0 £11 5 0 June 2 . . £10 7 6 £10 10 0 £11 7 6 June 9 . . £10 5 0 £10 10 0 £11 7 6 July 7 . . £9 2 6 £9 7 6 £10 5 0 July 14 . £9 0 0 £9 5 0 £10 0 0 Aug. 4 . £9 2 6 £9 5 0 £ 10 5 0 Aug. 11 . £9 2 6 £9 5 0 £ 10 5 0 Sept. 1 . . £9 10 0 £9 12 6 £10 12 6 Sept. 8.—Not quoted —outbreak of war.

Sept. 15 to 29.- -Not quoted.

OCt. 6 . £11 15 0 [unquoted] ft to 15 0 Oct. 12.—Fixed price based on £12/7/6 per ton c.i.f., London, for plantation hot-air dried Jan. 8, 1940.—April 20, 1940. —Fixed price, for plantation, hot-air dried, £13/5/ - per ' ton, c.i.f., London.

April 20, 1940.—Fixed price for plantation, hotair dried, £12/17/6 per ton, c.i.f.. London since then, quotations nominal, as above.

LONDON COPRA PRICE Straits copra, sun -dried, was quoted bv “The Economist’ ’ at £12/10/per ton. c.i.: f.. in London, throughout the first quarter of 1941.

RUBBER London Plantation Para.

Smoked.

Price onper lb. per lb.

January 6, 1933 4%d . 2.43d July 7 .. 5%d . 3.71d December 8 . . 43/sd . 4.0%d January 5, 1934 414d . 4.28d July 6 .. 5M>d . 5d . 5d .

December 28 .. 6V 4 d 63/sd January 4, 1935 July 5 .. 5d . 7y s d December 6 .. 6%d . 6%d . 6 3 /ad 6%d January 3, 1936 June 5 .. 9d . 1/- . *71 [/. A December 4 . . 9 l-16d January 8, 1937 1/2 . 10»/ 2 d June 4 .. lid . 9 5-8d December 3 .. 7V 2 d . 7V 2 d January 7, 1938 7V 4 d . 7d July 1 6%d .

IVzd . 7d . 7V 4 d 8d SVad December 2 January 6, 1939 July 7 .. 7%d . 8V 4 d December 1 . . 12d UVad 11.6y 8 d January 5, 1940 13d .

July 5 .. 15d . 13d . 123/ 4 d 12d December 6 ..

January 3, 1941 13d . 12.47 7 /ad February 7 13d 12.5 5 /ad 13 9 /ed March 7 15d .

April 4 . . 15d . 14Vad to 14V*d May 2 . . 14.0%d June 6 .. 16V 2 d . 17d . 13.5%d 13 7-16d July 4 ..

August 1 . 17d .

UVzd August 8 . 17d . 13.6%d August 15 17d . 13.55/ad August 22 17d . 13 5 /ad August 29 17d . 13= /ad September 5 .. — 13 5 /8d September 12 .. — . 133/ 4 d South Sea, Plantation, Sun-dried Hot-air Dried.

London to London Rabaul Price on— Per ton. c.i.f.

Per ton c i.f.

January 1, 1932 £14 0 0 £14 15 0 June 17 .. .. £13 2 6 £13 5 0 December 16 .. £14 2 6 £14 5 0 January 6, 1933 £13 0 0 £13 12 6 June 30 .. .. £10 17 6 £11 0 0 December 1 .. £8 12 6 £9 0 0 January 5, 1934 £8 0 0 £8 7 6 June 15 .. .. £8 0 0 £8 12 6 December 28 . . £9 0 0 £9 12 6 January 4, 1935 £9 5 0 £10 5 0 March 1 .. . . £12 2 6 £12 15 0 June 7 .. .. £11 15 0 £12 7 6 September 6 .. £9 17 6 £10 17 6 December 6 . . £12 17 6 £14 0 0 South Sea South Sea Plantation Smoked to Genoa Sun-dried Hot-air Dried London and Marseilles. to London.

Rabaul.

Price on— Per ton, i c.i.f.

Per ton, c.i.f. . Per ton, c.i. f.

Jan, 3. ’36 £13 2 6 £13 15 0 £14 0 0 Mar. 6 . . £11 15 0 £12 15 e £13 0 0 June 5 . . £11 10 0 £12 0 0 £12 17 6 Sept. 4 . . £13 2 6 £13 10 0 £14 12 6 Dec. 4 . . £19 7 6 £19 7 6 £20 7 6 Jan. 8, ’37 £22 12 6 £22 12 6 £23 12 6 Radio REPLACEMENT Parts we help you with that nard-to-secure" part? If not available from stock we can have it made for you.

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Market Quotations COPRA Rev. and Mrs. B. Chenoweth, of the Methodist Mission, Kavieng, New Guinea, are at present on furlough in South Australia. They came from Rabaul by the WRC Airline and on arrival at Townsville the plane’s undercarriage became jammed, with the result that after circling above the aerodrome for some two hours while the pilot vainly tried to adjust the landing gear, they were forced to make a crash-landing.

Fortunately, no one was injured and the big aeroplane was only slightly damaged. 58 SEPTEMBER, 1041-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Islands Produce

THE following quotations were obtained in Sydney in mid-September;— COFFEE Java: Robusta, f.a.q., imported on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., prompt shipment, Sydney (Sterling): Quote No. 1: 44/-. Quote No. 2: 47/-.

Boengie (a good quality Java coffee), c.i.f., Sydney, 62/3.

Kenya, f.a.q., Immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt. (Stg.): Quote No. 1; Grade “B”, 71/-; “C”, 68/-.

East Africa: Robusta, f.a.q., c.i.f., Sydney, 50/-. Mocha (Standard Billy), f.a.q., c.i.f., Sydney, 54/-.

Mysore, f.a.q., c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt. Quote No. 1: Grade “A”, 84/-; Grade “B”, 82/-; Grade “C”, 74/-.

Arabian (Aden) Hodeidah, f.a.q., c.i.f., Sydney.

No. 1 quotation: 82/-.

NG and Papua: Quote No. 1: OVid. per lb. (delivered store, Sydney), medium quality.

Quote No. 2: OVfed.-lOd. per lb. (delivered store, Sydney). Quote No. 3: Sales recently at 9 5 /sd. per lb., c.i.f., Sydney.

New Caledonia: New Caledonian coffee coming into Australia varies considerably in quality.

Each parcel, agents state, must be treated on its merits. The following are quotations obtained from several different sources in Sent.: Quote No. 1 (in store, Sydney): Arabica, Grade “A”, HVfed.-l/-; “B”, 10%d.: Robusta. 9 3 8 d.-10d. Quote No. 2 (c.i.f. & e., Sydney): Robusta, 4d. per lb.; Arabica, Bd. per lb. Quote No. 3 (c.i.f., Sydney): Arabica, Bd. per lb.; Robusta, 4d. per lb. Quote No. 4 (c.i.f., Sydney); Arabica, £56-£6O per ton; Robusta, £34-£4O per ton. Quote No. 5 (c.i.f., Sydney); Robusta, £37-£39 per ton.

New Hebrides (c.i.f., Sydney): Quote No. 1: £36 per ton. Quote No. 2: £37-£39 ner ton.

Quote No. 3: £3O-£33 a ton (f.a.q.), c.i.f, and e., Sydney. [Note: Importers of all coffees —except NG and Papuan—pay additional charges, including exchange, duty (4.4 d. lb.), primage (11 per cent.), landing costs (1/- per cwt.), war duty (10 per cent.)]

Vanilla Beans

Tahiti: Quote No. 1 (c. & f., Sydney): Approximate market price, white label, 32/6 a lb.; green label, 23/6 a lb. Quote No. 2 (c.i.f., Sydney): White label and yellow label (September or October shipment), 32/-32/6 per lb. Quote No. 3: This agent reports a firm market for firstgrade beans.

KAPOK Quote No. 1: Average Java 6 7-32 d. per lb., c.i.f.; Prime Japara, 6 17-32 d. per lb., c.i.f. Quote No. 2: Average Java, 7d., c.i.f.; Prime Japara, 7-5/16d., c.i.f. (Prices sterling and subject to exchange 25V 2 %, duty 2d. per lb., 10% primage, 10% war duty, wharfage).

Ivory Nuts

Owing to war conditions, Sydney agents are not quoting for ivory nuts. The last quotations, some months ago, indicated that a nominal rate was in the vicinity of £7 per ton.

COTTON New Caledonian, c.i.f., Sydney. Quote No. 1: 9d, per lb. Quote No. 2: 10-lld. per lb. Quote No. 3 (delivered store, Sydney): lOd.-lld. (approximate market price) per lb.

COCOA New Guinea cocoa: Quote No. 1: £47 per ton —market rising. Quote No. 2: £47-£49 per ton.

Accra (West Africa): No sales for some months, last quote, £33/10/- (Stg.) per ton for good fermented.

New Hebrides cocoa (delivered store, Sydney): Quote No. 1: £4B per ton. Quote No. 2: £5O- - per ton. Quote No. 3: Ist Grade, £46-£49 (according to quality) per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Quote No. 4: £5O per ton. Quote No. 5: End of last crop, some weeks ago, £4O a ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Western Samoan cocoa: In a letter to a Sydney importer recently, a Samoan planter said: “We expect a good crop in September.” This agent also reports that a parcel of Samoan cocoa was sold in San Francisco (USA) recently at a price equivalent to £55 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney. Quote No. 2: £57 per ton. c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE Australian table rice, packed in 56 lb. bags, £2O per ton.

Rangoon rice, packed in 100 lb. bags, £22/10/per ton; 200 lb. sacks, £22 per ton.

Trochus Shell

Sales have been reported in recent weeks at the following prices: Quote No. 1; Good average parcel of mixed grades, £4B per ton. Quote No. 2: Mixed parcels, £45. Quote No. 3: “A” 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Grade, £56; “B” Grade, £46/10/-; “C” Grade £37/10/-. Quote No. 4: “A”, £5l/10/-; “B”’ £42/10/-; “C”, £32/10/. Quote No. 5 (Nominal) - ‘‘A”, £64: “B’ ( £46; “C”, £34. Quote No. 6: Mixed parcels, £47/10/-.

Green Snail Shell

Sales of green snail shell are reported by a Sydney agent at the following prices:—Ist grade, £62 a ton; mixed parcel, £5B/10/- a ton Another agent reported sales of a good quality shell recently at £64 a ton. Quote No 3 - £66/10/-. Quote No. 4: £5O-£55. Quote No 5 (N Hebrides, Solomon Is., N. Caledonian shell): £65/10/- a ton, f.o.b. Sydney market firm.

Quote No. 6: Good grade BSI shell, approx. £6O-£65 a ton, f.0.b., Sydney. This agent states that markets and freights are changing periodically. Quote No. 7: £66-£67 a ton. Quote No. 8 (nominal): £64 a ton.

Mother Of Pearl Shell

Thursday Is. MOP, c.i.f., Sydney. Grade “AA” £173 per ton; Grade “A”, £l73*; Grade “B”’ £157; Grade “DD”, £128; Grade “D”, £ll7;’

Grade “E”, £7B. This agent reports sales of “C” Grade MOP in New York, recently at a price equivalent to £202 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

A temporary absence of stocks has limited transactions in other grades.

PEANUTS New Guinea peanuts: Unshelled, 2%d. per lb • shelled, 4%d. per lb.

Exchange Rates 'T'KE following exchange quotations, gathered in Sydney, show the rate existing in mid- September:— FIJI Through Bank of NSW and Bank of New Zealand:—Australia on Fiji on basis of £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; selling, £AII3. Fiji- London on basis £IOQ London:

Western Samoa

Through Bank of New Zealand:—Australia on Western Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa—buying, £ A99/12/6; selling, £AIOO/2/6. Samoa on London, basis £lOO in London:—

New Guinea And Papua

Through Commonwealth Bank and Bank of NSW: —Australia on Port Moresby and Samarai, Papua, 10/- per cent.; on Rabaul, NG, 10/- per cent.—other Papua and New Guinea districts, £ 1 per cent.

Rabaul on London, same as Australia on London:— Buying; T.T. £AI2S equals £stg. 100.

Selling: T.T. £AI2S/10/- equals £stg. 100.

New Caledonia And Tahiti

London banks nowadays are not quoting on Paris: therefore the rates furnished to the •‘PIM” by the Comptoir National d’Escompte de Paris, Sydney, and the Bank of NSW are no longer available. Most of the business between the Free French Colonies in the Pacific and Australia is being done in Australian currency: but there is in existence an unofficial, fluctuating rate of between 140 and 143.5 francs to the Australian £. 60 SEPTEMBER. 1941-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Letter to the Editor THERE is much resentment here over the unnecessary delay in radios from Australia to New Guinea. In some cases, over a week has elapsed between lodging and delivery; and, in many cases, a radio sent several days later, on the same subject, has been received first, causing consternation and worry One could fill a page in giving examples of these blundering incidents.

Many have caused expense, loss of time, etc., where they have been business communications. Others of a personal nature have caused extreme worry and expense.

How long this state of affairs is going to last it is hard to say but the sooner someone is stepped upon or the system changed the better for all concerned.

Such things do not stimulate the minds of the public to an “all in” war effort.

I am, etc., Madang, NG. R. MacGREGOR. 14/7/41.

EDITORIAL NOTE: Needless to say, the fault does not lie with the transmitting authority. The delay is caused by an imperative need to check and recheck the meaning and possible implications of every radio message going out into the Central Pacific. A glance at Madang’s position on the map may explain much. Persons sending radiograms should see to it that the text, and addresses of both sender and recipient, are in plain terms, and incapable of double meaning: otherwise, delay must occur while inquiries are made. This complaint, nevertheless, is being referred to official quarters in Australia.

Papuan Oil Search A.P.C. Drill is Down 4,620 ft.

GOOD progress is being made by Australasian Petroleum Co. Pty., Ltd., in its search for oil at Kariava, on the Vailala River, Papua.

In the July-August period, the drill in No 1 test well reached a depth of 3,399 ft ’in 14-1/Bth in. hole. From August 12 to September 9, a further 1,221 ft. were drilled in 10-5/Bth in. hole, making a total depth of 4,620 ft. Continuous coring was carried out through alternating bands of sandstones and mudstones.

Drilling can go down to 10,000 ft. with the present equipment, and the next few months should reveal whether Australia will have an independent oil supply from Papua.

During the past 18 months, APC has carved from the jungle at Kariava a model settlement, complete with modern amenities. In addition, it has made miles of passable roads, transported a quarter of a million pounds’ worth of materials and machinery up the Vailala, and erected the huge drilling rig.

Private Fred. Swan, of Apia, Western Samoa, was included in a New Zealand casualty list, recently issued, as “missing after the Battle of Crete”. He is a son of the late Mr. W. J. Swan and a brother of Mesdames Croudace, Gray and Fabricius, of Apia. He left Samoa early last year to enlist in the NZ Army Medical Corps. 61 pacific islands monthlt—B e p t e m b e r. ihi

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From Our Own Correspondent PT. MORESBY, Sept. 5.

THE current quotation in Port Moresby on September 5 for hot-air-dried plantation copra was £6 per ton in store Port Moresby; sun-dried plantation copra was £5/15/- per ton in store Port Moresby. (Australian currency.) Mr. K. Paul, of Nyngan, NSW, has taken up a position with the Bank of New South Wales at Rabaul, New Guinea.

The three years’ term of Mr. and Mrs.

F. P. Ward, SDA missionaries on Pitcairn Island, expired in June, but they were asked by the Australasian Union Conference, to remain a year longer in their isolated post.

Miss Ethel M. Nordman, daughter of Mr Oscar G. Nordman, and one of the brightest and most popular girls of Papeete, is to marry Captain Oscar Schindler Fajardo, of the Mexican motor-ship “Hidalgo”. Miss Nordman recently left Tahiti for California, where she is to undergo an operation, and the above photo was taken at Manzanillo, Mexico, while she was on her way.

The motor-ship “Hidalgo” was once the barquentine “Hawaii”, which was built in Dumbarton, Scotland, 50 years ago. She was in the Australian trade, carrying lumber, after the last war; then she was cut down to a 4-master, two diesel engines were installed, and she was rechristened the “Ethel M. Sterling”, and later sold to Mexican interests. The “Hidalgo” is now running copra between French Oceania and Mexico. Another Mexican steamer now in the Tahiti copra trade in the “Marmex”, formerly the Canadian rum-runner “Federal Ship”, previously the “Golondrina”, and previous to that the “Aquila”. 62

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Transfer From Rabaul To Lae

Volcanic Activity Drives New Guinea's Administrative Headquarters to Other End of Territory ON Monday, August 24, the Administrator of New Guinea issued the following statement in Rabaul; — “The Administration has decided that the recommendations regarding the removal from Rabaul of the Administrative headquarters set out in the Stehn and Griffiths reports should be adopted immediately.

“Arrangements are being made for an advance party to proceed to Lae to select and prepare suitable sites for the erection of temporary accommodation for personnel and offices.

Accommodation for officers required to remain in Rabaul will be provided on sites to be selected outside the caldera and not within an area likely to be affected by the dust deposits from the volcanoes.”

On Monday, September 8, the Minister for External Territories announced:— The Commonwealth Government has decided that the Administrative headquarters of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea shall be transferred from Rabaul to Lae. This decision has been taken in view of the continued activity of Tavurvur volcano. Tavurvur crater has been in almost continuous eruption since June 6, and the dust and fumes spread over the town constitute a serious uanger to health.

As it will take a considerable time to prepare a settlement at Lae to house the Administrative headquarters, such temporary arrangements will be made as will enable the officers of the Administration to be removed from the Rabaul area at the earliest practicable date, and for this purpose as much use as possible will be made of existing settlements, from which the Departments can function, pending the complete transfer to Lae.

It is reported from Salamaua that, late in August and early in September, Administration officials already were booking all available accommodation in Lae, Salamaua and Wau, as temporary offices and residences for the staff to be moved from Rabaul.

There is no indication of how the heavy cost of transfer (estimated in 1938 at £300,000) is to be met.

The transfer of the Administrative headquarters does not mean the abandonment of Rabaul. There will be always an important commercial and shipping centre on this harbour— although it is quite possible that the actual “centre” will have to be moved from its present location around the harbour to the westwards, away from the volcanoes.

The removal of some hundreds of public servants and their families, however, will have a serious economic effect upon the town.

The Stehn report, made soon after the 1937 eruption, recommended the early removal of the Administrative headquarters to a suitable, non-volcanic district. The Griffiths report, made early in 1938 ’ after exhaustive inquiry, recommended that the Administrative headquarters be established at Lae.

The matter was complicated by the 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1941

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Situated on high ground overlooking both coasts, its Spacious Lounges are always Cool and comfortable , . . Cars meet all Steamers. then Territories Minister, Mr. W M Hughes. He threw the Griffiths report’ aside, flew to New Guinea, and personally selected Salamaua as the new capitel. By the time the tangle had been straightened out, and the impulsive Mr Hughes shown that Salamaua was impossible, three things had happened: The Rabaul volcanoes had quietened down, and Rabaul had returned to normal; it was calculated that the removal to Lae would cost £300,000; war had broken out, rE volcanoes (Vulcan and Matupi) apparently were dead, and the plan to remove the capital was forgotten until June, 1941. Then Matupi suddenly began belching out masses of dust and ashes, which the prevailing south-easter carried over Rabaul.

Week by week, since then, conditions have become worse and life in the capital is now intolerable. Gardens and trees are being slowly suffocated under an increasing mass of choking dust- and human beings are following suit.

The acute discomfort of the town’s population was added to by the continued absence of rain, and the high bitter quality of the south-easter New Guinea, in common with Australia and most lands in the eastern part of the Ocean and the western part of the Pacific, is in the grip of drought.

Members of the public service made strong representations to the Administration. A number of commercial firms completed arrangements to move their staffs a couple of miles to the westward (along the northern shore of the harbour), outside the “dust belt”. The Carpenter staff moved out to Toboi, and as much of the Burns, Philp establishment as could be so organised went to Malaguna. Finally, the Administrator announced his decision.

Rabaul is on the north-eastern shore of the harbour. Matupi volcano is two or three miles south of Rabaul, on the harbour’s eastern shore. Malaguna and Toboi are on the northern and northwest shores, westward of Rabaul. rE Administrator’s announcement appeared clear-cut and definite; but the “Rabaul Times” said it was contingent upon approval being given In Canberra.

Within a week (about September 2) it was known in Sydney that— Non-official opinion in Rabaul was strongly against a move to Lae, and strongly in favour of transferring the capital to Kokopo or Bitapaka (at the south-western entrance to Rabaul harbour).

Opinion in Canberra, unofficially expressed, was that there was no money available for the proposed costly move from Rabaul to Lae.

This indicated possibilities of a clash between the Administration in Rabaul, and bureaucracy in Canberra; for the announcement on August 24 was forthright and mandatory, and admitted of no compromise.

However, the Australian Government, on September 8, decided finally in favour of Lae.

Financial considerations were expected to influence Canberra in favour of Kokopo.

A transfer from Rabaul to Kokopo (some 15 miles away, along a good road) would be easy. Lae is an excellent site for a town especially in relation to the Markham-Bulolo-Ramu hinterland, but it has no harbour. Kokopo has exactly the same disability. Ships can anchor, in safety, off Kokopo, far out. They can anchor off Lae, close in. 64

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