Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXII, No. 3 (Oct., 1951)
1951-10-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly OCTOBER, 1951 Vol. XXII. No. 3. t P P O>t*s>ydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper ] Mr. Harold Gatty, founder and managing director of Fiji Airways Ltd., chatting with Pilot Fred Ladd, at Nausori airstrip, near Suva, just before the De Havilland Rapide took off on September 1, to inaugurate Fiji’s new internal air service.-Photo by Rob Wright.

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In This Issue

Editorials: Fateful British Decision on October 25; Sir Brian Freeston and the Indian Bogey 5, 6 Local Voice- in P-NG Administration —Legislative Cel. Election in November 7 Tourists for Eastern Samoa .. 8 Violent Eruption on Ambrym . 8 Reduced Grant Shocks P-NG .. 9 Fiji’s Unusual Loan—£s could Earn £1,250 9 Wharf Wants in Fiji 10 Treason Felony Case in BSI 10 Editors’ Mail Bag 11 Territories’ Talk Talk 12 Mr. Greathead’s Fine Record in NG Highlands 15 Fiji’s Tuna Fleet for Dutch NG? 16 Acting Governor-General in Papua-N. Guinea 17 Fiji’s New Internal Airways .. 19 Large Families Expensive Indian Luxury Now 21 Heinz-brand Currencies Comph- .. cate Life in South Pacific .. 23 Danish Scientists Based on Moresby 24 Snap Impressions of Nukualofa 27 Appointment of Dr. Thieme Urged by Samoans 31 Danish Expedition Measures the Deeps 33 Fiji’s Snail Pace Airmail .... 34 Two High P-NG Officials Charged With Contempt .. 35 Tribute to Lik Lik Doctors .. 37 Duisiga—Fijian Newspaper ~ 41 French Ships May Call at Suva 41 Madang Notes 43 Let’s All Do the Tralala .. .. 45 New Zealand’s Warm Reaction to Fijian Footballers .. ~ 49 Pacific Islands Society Annual Meeting 50 Notes From Lae, NG 53 Second Legislative Assembly, W. Samoa 54 The Question of Accommodation at Nadi Airport, Fiji .. 55 Margarine with a J— 57 Historical Records in the Islands 59 MAGAZINE SECTION: We Plough the Fields—and Scatter 61 Crossquiz 62 Tropicalities 63 35-year-old Memories of Seeadler 64 Rehabilitation of a Citizen ~ 65 The New Telephone 67 Bougainville Notes 72 New Airfare for Suva-Auckland —Sydney The Month in Papua-New Guinea World Demand for Nickel ..

Rawhiti Will Go to Great Lakes Eastern Pacific Notes NZ Wants Jamaica Oranges Now Recent Events in New Caledonia New Air Services in W. Pacific W. Samoa Spurns Legalised Labour Recruiting 100 Trouble-Free Flights by NAC in South Pacific .. ‘ Suva’s New Cathedral Grows Upon its Hill Tahiti Accused of Hounding Tourists 3 Plane and Shipping Timetables : Plans for Pacific Films ~ Rabaul News Why Gold Prospecting in BSI was Abandoned South Pacific Commission ..

OBITUARY: Dr. N. B. Wat« Mrs. T. Symons; Mrs. R. A. Pi ley; C. A. Gaertner; Mrs. A Bentley; William Hansen; M Ina B. Pyke; H. I. Moore ..

Filariasis Conference in Papeete NG Highlands Notes Commercial, Markets, etc 4 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISL'ANDS MONTH!

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Fateful British Decision on October 25 A USTRALIA is the western guar- A. dian of the Pacific Islands; and the Australians, as they turn teir faces towards Asia, see a picjre that grows uglier every day.

To realise the fearful menace of sia, and the dangers to which we ave become exposed by political r eakness and Socialist muddling, it > necessary to recapitulate a few lets.

In 1939, there was a threat in sia; but it was concentrated in ne place—Japan. The remainder I Asia was harmless—and peaceful, cid reasonably secure and well-fed. he Westerners smashed Japanese egression; and then they went ack to domestic arguments, while lese things happened: China became Communist; Indohina, under Communist direction, igaged in long-range fighting ?ainst the French; Siam became a ippy hunting-ground for the Reds; le bemused British handed Burma, idia and Ceylon over to their ationals. and forced the Dutch to aandon the East Indies to the Inmesians, thus exposing our froner to Asia and opening an apirently endless era of political turioil and economic chaos; British eakness permitted the establishlent in Malaya of a murderous mg of Red terrorists, who still rest authority’s bumble-footed efforts • remove them; Persia, defying-all eaties and agreements, and jeer- •g at the British Government, eked out the British oil interests, , which had developed an enormous industry and given Persia an economic backbone; British influence in the Arabic States of the Middle East—vital to us in World War 111 h ave been weakened and ridiculed; and, finally, the Egyptians nesting that the British leave the Suez area and the Soudan immediately.

Surely, there can be no clearer mdication of what the Attlee Socialist Government has done to Britain and .the Empire than this spectacle of the Wogs “cocking a snook” at the Power which protected them for so long, gave them freedom, and defended them against Nazi invasion only a short decade ago!

B _____ , , .. destruction of British strength and prestige, in the fields of diplomacy and economics, has been world-wide, although it is most clearly seen under the limelight of Communist growth in Asia. A Britisher, surveying the international spectacle, feels something akin to despair. Can w e retrieve our spiritual and material losses, and resume, with America, our job of maintaining orderliness in a seething world of hungry Asiatics, clamorous nationalists and crazy Planners?

There is one comforting' thnno-Hf These ' inklcuteblelSs£f 5 ssis In 1945, Britain stood beside America on top of the world. She was there not only because of her military strength, but because of the unconquerable spirit of her people, their steadiness and courage, and their capacity for sacrifice.

You cannot destroy the fundamental qualities of a nation in seven years.

The bewildered, war-weary and somewhat stupid British masses have been put on the skids by the Socialists, and they have slid far and fast; but it is not too late to pull them back from the precipice of national destruction. A clearcut policy in international affairs, jealous guardianship of our remaining Empire, close co-operation with the Americans, and the ruthless exercise of governmental authority (especially in relation to Planners!) could do much towards creating a new world, and one worth living in.

The British people, this month, go to the polls. All the signs indicate that they are completely sick of their great Socialist experiment and that Winston Churchill will be sent back to clean up the unholy mess, just as he did in 1940. Mr.

Churchill is the world’s greatest living Britisher, and none knows, better than he, what is needed. But it is a terrifying task—and he is now 77 years old.

The re-establishment of the British Empire as a world power may quite easily lead to World War 111. Mr, Stalin, of Moscow, will resent any interruption of the processes by which he now is rapidly

conquering the world. But better a hot war, and the recovery of our battered freedom, than life under the intolerable conditions we have experienced since we achieved “the greatest military victory in human history.”

FOOTNOTE: As that last line was written, Sydney “Sun” of October 11 was laid on our desk. Across the front page: “Cairo Rioters Wreck, Bum British Shops.” Well, well—this from the Wogs! Hurry, Mr. Churchill.

Sir Brian Freeston and the Indian Bogey BECAUSE of the rapid growth of the politically-aggressive Indian population in Fiji, the Governorship of that Colony, in the past couple of decades, has not been a “cushy” job. Any Governor with almost autocratic powers must, like a judge, subvert all personal feeling to the obligation which is upon him to hold the balance of justice very firmly as between races and classes, prejudices and privileges.

On what is called the “Indian problem” the Governors of Fiji have been singularly silent. It was evident that they felt that only in that way lay the safety of their careers.

The only Governor, in 20 years, who had the courage to be outspoken and forthright on the thorny subject of the future of the Indians in Fiji was Sir Brian Freeston. He caused a stir, a couple of years ago, when he said officially— what everyone was thinking—that if the Indians really wanted to contribute something to the peace and security of Fiji, they must exercise birth control.

Privately and publicly, he told the Indians what was going to happen, if events followed the course of the last two or three decades.

Maybe the Indians were influenced by what he said. Maybe they were not. But it is a fact that, in the last two or three years, there is a better feeling in Fiji in relation to the Indian problem. Some people seriously believe that the Indians may yet co-operate with the other two races there in seeking a way out of a most difficult situation.

Sir Brian Freeston is retired, and gone to another sphere. Like all Governors, he had his friends and his critics. But he always will be remembered in Fiji as the Governor who had the courage and the honesty to drag the Indian bogeyman right out into the open, where it could be frankly examined and discussed by all the three large communities concerned.

Bain-Emberson Wedding

Lae On Constitution Of

New Guinea Councils

LAE, Sept. 30.

HAVING observed the constitution of various Advisory' Councils set up by the Administration, the Lae sub-branchi of the RSL expressed to its headquarters its strong feeling that the; claims of returned servicemen were; being persistently ignored.

Within a few days, the Administration asked the RSL organisation! to submit a panel of nominations,, from which would be chosen aj nominee for the Morobe district Advisory Council.

The RSL organisation in Lae i& now urging the people to take am interest in the nomination of candidates for election to the Legislatives Council, so as to avoid the selection! of “yes” men.

There is strong feeling throughout! this district that the disadvantagess of the nominee system in relation to the Legislative Council and Advisory Councils should be offset by, securing the appointment wherever] possible of men who can be depended upon to express and defend the non-official view.

Public Works Expenditure

Non-official opinion in this district is that the cutting down of public works provides an opportunity fon a general overhaul of the Works «Si Housing expenditure methods in this part of New Guinea.

It is believed that there has been extraordinary waste of public money by W & H on all kinds of projects during the past couple of years.

For example, why is the Department proceeding with the erection of such extensive buildings along the Milfordhaven Road, for its use as stores and workshops, while operations have ceased on greaij necessary utilities like the Mala-j hang airstrip and the Markham Bridge?

We contend here that the results of the Department’s activities in this area during the past two yearr are negligible in comparison witithe amount of money it has spent!

Successful Clubs

The Lae and Services Club ha.i had another good year financially It was the first of its kind in post d war Lae; and, although the growv ing town has now several othe:s Clubs (Returned Soldiers, Civin Aviation, Qantas, Works & House ing, Golf) the original Club is still going strong. The main executive positions have been filled b;c Messrs. R. Watson (President), S Feman and F. Blucher (vices Presidents), K. Reid and J. Hanley (Treasurer).

The Returned Soldiers are buildb ing a modem Club House in thrl town, on the terrace. —Photo by Stinsons.

The marriage of Miss Margaret Elizabeth Emberson, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Emberson, of Suva, to Mr. Kenneth Ross Bain, took place in the Suva Presbyterian Church in early September. A reception for 100 guests, who included Lady Freeston and Miss Wanda Freeston, leading Government officials and distinguished members of every community in Fiji, was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel.

The bride is a member of an old and well-known Fiji family. Her greatgrandfather, H. G. G.

Emberson was Receiver-General in the first post-cession Government under Sir Arthur Gordon.

The groom is an administrative officer in the Colonial Service. Miss Emberson was attended by Miss Dorothy Kearsley and Miss Margaret Weaver. Dr. P. G.

Griffiths was best man, and Mr. J. S.

Thomson groomsman.

October, 195 Pacific Islands Monthly*

Local Voice In Papua-N. Guinea

ADMINISTRATION Legislative Council Taking Shape After Long Delay AFTER a remarkable and unexplained delay of about two years, the Australian Department of Territories—under the driving force of the new Minister, Mr.

Paul Hasluck—proceeded in October to set up the new Legislative Council with a speed which left most people breathless.

Under the Act there is provision for a Legislative Council as follows: The Administrator .... 1 Departmental Heads and officials 16 Europeans, nominated .. 3 Missionaries, nominated 3 Natives, nominated .... 3 Europeans, elected .... 3 29 It was officially announced on October 3 that the first meeting of he new Council will be held in the ■led Cross Hall (to be thus used mtil the Council can get its own milding) in Port Moresby on Monlay, November 26.

In order to elect three Europeans, he Territories have been divided nto three electoral districts— -sapua, New Guinea mainland, and Jew Guinea islands (New Britain, Jew Ireland, Bougainville, Manus, tc.). All adults, other than natives nd aliens, who have had 12 months’ esidence, are entitled to vote. Any oter, who has resided at least hree years in the Territories, can »e nominated as a Councillor.

Rolls closed on October 11, lominations will close on October 8, and the elections in the three iistricts will be taken on November 0.

The returning Officers are: *apua—Mr. P. J. Mollison; New 5-uinea mainland—Mr. E. H. B.

Britain; New Guinea Islands—Mr.

G. Ormsby.

The Legislative Council will have o legislative power, of course; but ;s deliberations unquestionably will erve to guide the Minister and idministrator. It will provide the 'apua-New Guinea communities rith a forum for the airing of their iews, which they now lack.

Advisory Councils

the Administrator TJI has continued to appoint Town and District Advisory touncils, which discuss local affairs fith their respective District Comlissioners—a distinct step forward, compared with conditions a couple of years ago. The following are recent appointments:—

Bougainville District

Bishop Wade; Rev. A. H. Voyce; Mr. D.

CoUey; Mr. N. Sandford; Mr. F. P.

Archer; (Mr. J. Ellis; Mr. James Joyes; Mr. Paul Mason.

Central District

Bishop Sorin (Sacred Heart Mission); Pastor C. E. Mitchell (Seventh Day Adventist Mission); Rev. Percy Chatterton (London Missionary Society); Mr. W. E.

Wyatt (Port Moresby); Mr. J. P.

McKenna, Senior (Kanosia); (Mr. C.

Sefton (Sogeri); Mr. A. L. Baldwin (Port Moresby).

Morobe District

Messrs. N. Wilde, F. Rose, J. Birrell.

A. J. Bretag, anJd J. Peterson; Rev.’

Frerichs; Kam Hong.

Madang District

Messrs. W. M. Middleton, M. Perkins, G. R. Clarke. G. Bliss, G. B. Luff. W.

R. Cahill; Rer. Father W. J. Saiko; Rev.

A. M. Walck.

New Britain District

Bishop Scharmach; Rev. F. G. Lewis; Messrs. D. Barrett, W. Washington, J.

A. Thurston. R. G. Marsland, R. Galloway, Chin Hoi Meen.

Manus District

Rev. Father C. Patrick; Pastor E.

Boehm; Rev. J. de Roo; Messrs. Bruce Watterson, H. O. Fletcher, R. Booker, Norman Whiteley.

Native Advisory Councils

IN an official statement, made during the month, the Administrator (Colonel Murray) said that, now that European Advisory Councils had been appointed in most towns and districts, he was giving close consideration to the setting-up of Native Advisory Councils, to assist in the work of local administration. Such Councils would be appointed, in due course.

New Department

With the advent of the new Assistant Administrator (Mr. Cleland) the P-NG Administration has been somewhat re-arranged.

There has been created a Department of the Administrator, and apparently Mr. Cleland becomes its actual departmental head. This Department takes over some of the general administrative functions hitherto carried out by other Departments, notably that of the Government Secretary.

It apparently now is to be the practice that the Assistant Administrator will act as Deputy Administrator in the absence of the Administrator. Hitherto, one or other of the Judges usually acted as Deputy Administrator in the absence of Colonel Murray.

Nominated Members THE Minister, on October 9, announced the following appointments to the Legislative Council:— Official Members—l 6 MR. D. M. CLELAND. Assistant Administrator.

MR. C. CHAMPION, Acting Government Secretary.

MR. J. H. JONES, Director, District Services and Native Affairs.

DR. J. T. GUNTHER. Director, Public Health.

MR. I. CHAMPION, Assistant Director, District Services and Native Affairs.

MR. H. H. REEVE. Treasurer. Director of Finance.

MR. W. C. GROVES, Director, Education.

MR. C. C. MARR, Acting Director, Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries.

HR. E. P. HOLMES. Secretary, Lands, Surveys and Mines.

MR. J. B. McADAM, Director, Forests.

MR. W. W. WATKINS, Crown Law Officer.

MR. T. P. BYRNE, Chief Collector of Customs.

MR. H. R. NIALL, District Commissioner, Morobe District (New Guinea).

MR. J. K. MCCARTHY. District Commissioner, New Britain District (New Guinea).

MR. J. R. FOLDI. Acting Assistant Director, Department of District Services and Native Affairs.

MR. S. ETJ.TOTT-SMJTH, District Commissioner, Northern Division (Papua).

Non-Official Members Representing Missions—3 REV. D. E. URE. Chairman of LMS. In Papua since 1930.

REV. J. DWYER, MSC. Head of E. Papua Catholic Mission.

Rev. F. G. LEWIS. Chairman of Methodist Mission, Rabaul. In NG since 1920.

Was member of pre-war Leg. Council.

Non-Official Native Members—3 MERARI DICKSON, of Papua. Described as a man of strong personality who speaks fluent English.

AISOLI SALIN. School-teacher at Tabar Islands. Educated in Melbourne.

SIMOGUN. of Wewak. NG. Won BEM In World War 11, and Loyal Service Medal in NG Police before the war.

Other Non-Official Members—3 MR. B. FAIRFAX-ROSS, general manager of BNG Development Co. Pty., Ltd., Port Moresby.

MRS. DORIS BOOTH, OBE, a pioneer of Morobe gold industry. Decorated for nursing service in epidemic in 1926.

MR. J. B. SEDGERS, managing director of New Guinea Co., Ltd., of Rabaul.

Non-Official European Members—3 to be elected

Smaller Yardage—

Richer Ground

THE following were the results of dredging by the Bulolo Company in the three months ended August 31: 1951. 1950.

Yardage dredged . . 2,605,570 3,082,200 oz. fine gold . . 16,867 13,666 Value, $35 per oz. . $590,345 $478,310 Value, per yd. cents 22,66 15,52 No. 5 dredge should return to operation in January, An accident put it out of operation in 1950. 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 105 1

Tourists For

E. SAMOA New Governor and PAA Are On the Job ANEW competitor for Pacific Islands tourist traffic is about to enter the field—American Samoa, in combination with Pan American Airways.

At present, Pan American operates two trans-Pacific flights per week. Persons wishing to go to Eastern Samoa, however, must leave PAA in Nadi (Fiji); go to Apia (Western Samoa) by another airline: and cover the remaining 60 miles as best they may.

Pan American now has applied for a permit for a direct flight route to Pago Pago (East or American Samoa) which will remove the need for a break of journey in Fiji.

Tourists then may fly direct to attractive Pago Pago from either America or Australia.

Accommodation in Eastern Samoa is limited —as yet—but the new and energetic American civfl administration is on the job. Eastern Samoa’s undoubted tourist attractions are to be sold, to provide revenues to take the place of those that dried up in June when the Navy establishment was removed.

A modem hotel, with all amenities. which overlooks Pago Pago harbour, offers accommodation at 8 dollars per day. Other houses, on the harbourside have the same tariff. The Goat Island Club, in the harbour, will take visitors at 10 dollars per day.

New buildings for visitors are planned. Are Fiji and Tahiti going to allow the Americans to steal the cream of this rich tourist traffic?

LACK of hotel accommodation has bottle-necked the tourist traffic available for Fiji. Whites Aviation Limited, energetic Auckland organisers, have been sending New Zealand tourists regularly to Fiji this season. But, owing to the overcrowded state of the Suva hotels, the parties have been limited to about eight persons per week.

Fiji easily could provide a happy tropical holiday for 80 or 800 per week; but they all want to see Suva, and Suva cannot accommodate them.

There is plenty of capital for investment in Fiji; but private enterprise has been scared off by the lack of building materials and artisans.

However, it now looks as if American Samoa will do what British Fiji has failed to do. Perhaps Samoa’s need is greater.

Violent Eruptions

Ambrym Island in Danger SANTO, NH, Oct. 1.

THERE is almost continuous volcanic action at Mounts Benbow and Marram, on Ambrym Island. Several new fissures have appeared.

Ashes in some places are more than 3 feet deep, and several plantations appear to be damaged.

Much vegetation is dying off—many coconut • palms have only 2 or 3 fronds left.

Experts say that even if the eruptions decrease in intensity, the productivity of most plantations is finished, or at least ruined for some years.

Most of the natives have lefteven those in apparently safe areas are getting ready to move to other Islands. Several plantationowners and traders have departed.

This constant volcanic action is giving colour to the belief that Ambrym Island is in danger of complete destruction.

Quake Damage In Solomons

HONIARA, Oct. 1. fTiHE earthquake which occurred X on the south coast of Guadalcanal last November (1950) caused a great deal more damage that was at first realised.

A landslide between Pite and Duindui swept into the sea the whole of one side of a 2,000 ft. mountain ridge, taking with it the village of Chaunaroga. No loss of life occurred, however—the natives were so scared by the preliminary shaking that they fled into the jungle on higher ground.

All communications along most of the south coast have been wiped out. The native tracks have been rendered perilous by the uncertain formation of the ground.

A large freshwater lake, inland from the south coast, broke out to the sea; and as it has been raining incessantly for several weeks, the native villages are inundated and the native gardens have been washed away.

As if to aggravate the situation, the sharks along this coast have been more than usually active and have taken recently a heavy toll of native fishermen.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huxley, of Madang, New Guinea, are at present in Australia on extended vacation, touring the eastern coast by car.

They spent some time in Sydney with their three children, Noya, Travers and Mike, who are at college. Mr. Huxley is a contractor and recently completed a new bakery for a syndicate at Madang.

Norfolk Islanders Want

To Remain Australian

Prom (Our Own Correspondent NORFOLK IS., Oct. 1.

THE suggestion that Norfoll Island would be better off ii administered by New Zealand as nublished in September PIM, hai not been well received by resident! of the Island.

NZ may be the logical market fa our fruit, vegetables, flowers, etc: but those who have a knowledge a life in New Zealand feel that thi bureaucratic dictation that persist there, even under the Nation© Government, would soon dominate life here.

We cherish our freedom and lac: of irksome restrictions. Present conr ditions under an understands Administrator are generally ven satisfactory.

However, it is felt that two-wa£ trade between New Zealand anr Norfolk Island would benefit th residents of both countries.

Mr. And Mrs. ‘Normie’

Neal Leave New Guine

EVERY section of the Morol community of New Guinea wr represented at a gathering Wau at the end <pf September, whe farewell was said to Mr. & Mi.

Norman Neal, who have decided make their permanent residence Australia.

With the exception of the m years, they have lived in the Gold fields district of New Guinea ew since the goldfield was establish© and they have taken a promines part in all developmental and soci; activities. They always have bes held in high esteem.

Mr Neal was a successful golf miner in the 30’s. He also gave go<c service to the Territory as a Men ber of the Legislative Council. Lit all his contemporaries, he served World War 11, and with the ran of Major.

After the war, Mr. and Mrs. N© re-established their residence the hill-top in the Bulolo Valhi near Wau. But a couple of ye©; ago, he obtained a valuable tribu from New Guinea Goldfields as they moved up to Edie Creek as resided there while the tribute w w worked. The tribute has shore signs of “petering out” in reca; months, and the couple decided tm the time had come for them settle in a more civilised climei probably Sydney.

They will be sadly missed in tbl part of New Guinea—and, compart with Morobe, they may not ftfl Sydney so civilised! 8 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Reduced Australian Grant

Shocks Papua-New Guinea

WITHOUT warning, Papua-New Guinea has had its allocation of public funds from Australia suddenly reduced by between one and two millions of pounds.

As a result, there has been severe ‘slashing” of public works and departmental expenditure to which the Territories considered themselves already committed; and there is dismay in some quarters.

In the year ended June 30 last, P-NG spent £6,400,000— being £4i millions granted by Australia, and some £1,900,000 from local revenues.

A total expenditure of over £8 millions seems to have been contemplated in 1951-52. But Canberra das announced that Australia’s *rant this year is £5,400,000 (nearly a million more than last year, but far short of what was expected); and officialdom has been obliged to :ut expenditure down to £7,000,000.

This is being done by curtailing public works; reducing Departmental expenditure by 21 per cent; reducing staffs by 5 per cent; increasing local fees and charges; and there is grave talk of imposing an income tax.

Mr. C. J. Archer (First Assistant Secretary) and Mr. J. E. Willoughby (research and planning officer) flew to Moresby on September 23 to discuss the matter and order the slashing; and it was later reported that the new Assistant Administrator (Mr. Cleland) would fly to Canberra to beg for a little mercy from the financial Molochs.

It is not likely that Canberra will give concessions to P-NG, when so much Australian money is involved, and Australians themselvies are being so brutally taxed under the new Budget.

The P-NG economy, in any event, is almost entirely false. Something like this was bound to happen.

There is no reason at all why Australia should keep pouring money into the Territories, on the recent scale and in the recent fashion, except for defence.

Before the war, Papua got along on a fairly regular grant of £40,000 from Australia. New Guinea was almost entirely self-supporting.

Since the war, year by year, Australia has been granting P-NG more and more money, until it has reached staggering proportions. It has not been justified on the score of defence. There has been colossal waste in the Works and Housing set-up, and in the Administration generally—mostly in the shape of ridiculous over-staffing. Money, in the Territories, has flowed like water.

The PIM has warned again and again that these good times could not last. They have not ended yet —£7,000,000 is still a huge annual expenditure—but the sight of the pruning-knife has scared a few people.

Quite a number of public works are reported as slated for cancellation. The quarter-million bridge over the Markham, the new Malahang (Lae) airstrip and the new town at Rapopo (south of Rabaul) are among those mentioned, but there is nothing official.

The hold-up of the Markham Bridge might be a good thing. Mr.

M. J. Leahy’s vigorous denunciation of the project, plus a general lack of faith in W-H policies, has created a certain amount of doubt about the wisdom of the Markham Point site.

New Governor In Noumea

NOUMEA, Sept. 28.

Following the refusal of m.

Louveau to serve in New Caledonia and Dependencies as Governor, M. Angamarre, Governor Second Class, has been appointed to the post. He was to arrive by plane in October.

M. Angamarre will be the 33rd Governor of New Caledonia in 55 years, and will succeed M. Pierre Cournarie, who left in July.

It is M. Angmarre’s first appointment as Governor. He served in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides in 1929-30. He was for several years in Madagascar, filling various positions.

Cocos Islands’ New Queen £5 Could Earn You £1,250!

A New Kind of Government Loan for Fiji IF the necessary Bill is not turned down by the next session of the Legislative Council (October 24). an investment of £5 in the new Fiji Premium Bonds Loan could return you the handsome sum of £1.250.

Or, on the other hand, it could earn you only 10/- in the next 10 years.

Officialdom says that this loan is in a “novel form for Fiji,” and please, not to call it a lottery—but it is enough to stir the interest of anyone with a teaspoon of sporting blood.

The loan is to raise £250,000 by the issue of 50,000 bonds of £5 each.

The total interest payable on this each year would amount to something like £7,000, but instead of paying each bondholder a few shillings, a public drawing will be held annually of a hundred tickets bearing the numbers of 100 bonds, and the whole of the interest will be divided amongst the holders of these bonds. The others will get nothing that year.

These 100 prize-winning bonds will then be regarded as redeemed and they will not take part in subsequent years’ drawings.

Any bonds which have not been drawn by February, 1962, will be redeemed in the following year for £5/10/- each—which will return their holders about 1 per cent, per annum.

The first drawing (if the loan is filled) will take place on February 15, 1953. The bond bearing the number of the first ticket drawn will be redeemed for £1,250; the second for £l,OOO, the third for £500; numbers four to six, for £250 each; the following ten for £lOO each; the following 20 at £5O each; and 64 will be redeemed at £2O each.

The excitement in Fiji as each February approaches should do something to dispel the humidity of the hot season. We hesitate to mention it in the same sentence as the various Caskets, Consultations and whatnot that keep the hopes of Australian citizens high, but it should prove a tonic to the small investor in Fiji. You can’t lose— and you could win substantially.

THE rest of the Colony’s loan programme is dull in comparison—the raising of £1,000,000 by the conventional-type bearer debentures of £lO, £l,OOO and £lO,OOO each, bearing interest of between three and four per cent. according to when they are redeemed.

Both loans will help finance development work in the Colony.

An English newspaper’s photograph of Mr. John Clunies Ross, “King” of Cooos Islands (Australia’s most recently acquired Territory) and the English girl he married, in England, in July last. He is the fifth Clunies Ross, in a direct line, to hold the Cocos Islands. 9 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1951

Large Timber Consignment For Lautoka Prom Our Own Correspondent LAUTOKA, Sept. 25.

Fthe course of four or five days in September, over a million super feet of Oregon lumber was discharged from the Lakemba at the CSR wharf at Lautoka, Fiji.

About three times that amount had already been discharged at Suva in a similar time.

According to Lakemba’s skipper, this job of unloading in the two Fiji ports—nine or 10 days in all— would take Sydney wharfies about three weeks to perform. That is a pretty good testimonial to the industry of Fiji wharf labourers, as they have only the minimum of labour-saving equipment.

Need For New Wharf

UNLOADING at Lautoka would be much faster if the wharf were bigger. At present only two hatches of a ship the size of Lakemba can be unloaded onto the wharf. Other hatches are worked onto lighters or, in the case of the lumber, is dumped overboard into the sea and pulled ashore in the form of large rafts.

However, the * most important reason why Lautoka wants a new wharf is that under the existing set-up, the CSR Co. has priority at its wharf. If a CSR ship comes into port while another ship is at the wharf, the latter must move off and allow the CSR ship to tie up.

While no one disputes the company’s right to use its own wharf when and how it wishes, this CSR priority naturally does not make other ship-owners anxious to discharge cargo at Lautoka and a considerable amount of Lautoka cargo is discharged at Suva and goes on by road or by small coastal ship.

SOME of the garbled press reports on the matter of the proposed Lautoka wharf seem to suggest that the CSR Co. are against it, because they want to go on using their own wharf.

There has been no suggestion that they will not go on using their own wharf; there is no proposal to pull down the existing wharf. When the new wharf is built it will be at some other site.

It was also suggested in August PIM that the CSR Co. did not charge anyone for using their wharf.

Maybe the company do not—but the Government, through the port and customs authorities, charge wharfage on all goods just as in other ports.

Lautoka’s wharf plan is no new thing. There have been many plans and many suggested sites ranging from somewhere near the Lautoka Hotel in the town—which is a very long way from the CSR wharf—to adjacent to the CSR wharf, where there are already two large cranes, and provision for small-ships.

The proposed wharf was discussed with Mr. Dugdale when he visited Lautoka in August. He was of the opinion that the town probably did not need one—but, as the Governor, Sir Brian Freeston, pointed out to him, it had already been decided that Lautoka did need it. and that it was now only a matter of when, where and how much.

New Wharf For Suva

ANEW wharf is also needed in Suva, where it is not now unusual for trucks to crash through the wooden decking.

Piers and other supports to the structure are said to be in an extremely unsatisfactory state.

A local estimate is that it would probably cost half a million pounds to provide Suva with suitable wharf facilities.

The present wharf was built 35 years ago and at that stage experts stated that the decking was not strong enough to carry laden lorries.

They were therefore kept off it until the crisis days of the Second World War when the Army took matters into its own hands. Since then heavy lorries have gone onto the wharf—with unfortunate results.

MV Bulolo Back in December Copra ‘Spontaneous Combustion’ Theory IT is expected that the MV Bulolo —the Bums Philp liner which maintains communications between Sydney and Papua-New Guinea—will be repaired and back in service in early December.

The Bulolo was badly damaged by a fire which broke out in her copra cargo, in No. 3 hold, when she was being unloaded in Sydney on August 29. It is doubtful if £200,000 will cover the cost of repairs, and the loss caused by the laying-up of the vessel for 3-4 months, and disorganisation of services.

Sydney newspapers said the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion in the copra. It is doubtful if there is any authentic case of spontaneous combustion in copra. If there were, many ships would have been lost at sea.

Copra fires have occurred on ships, but almost always when their cargo was being worked in port.

Careless wharf labourers throw cigarette butts around; and the oil-soaked fabric of copra containers is naturally inflammable. ‘Treason Felony’

Case In the Solomons From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, Oct. 1.

AVERY remarkable case came before the Judicial Commissioner here recently, when a Solomon Islands native. Aerial Siseli, was found guilty of treasonfelony and sentenced to hard labour for 12 years.

It appears that this native was instrumental in publishing what he called the “Malaita Declaration of Independence,” which appeared to be based on the American Declaration of Independence. , If the prosecution had taken the course usual in such cases, the native would have been guilty of high treason, which carries the death penalty. Apparently it was felt that this ignorant man did not really know what he was doing and that, in any event, his activities were not likely to destroy the BSI Government; and so the charge was made one of treason-felony—a new kind of crime which does not necessarily carry the death penalty.

There has been a good deal of restlessness and discontent among the natives of the Solomons since the war. It took serious shape at one time in what was called the Marching Rule Movement —but this was broken up by vigorous official action.

These natives are mostly illiterate —many have a smattering of mission education. The importance of their political activities can quite easily be exaggerated—in fact, it has been exaggerated to a ridiculous degree by inexperienced writers in Australian newspapers.

A well-directed native policy would probably remove the causes of discontent; and it is hoped that this will be provided under the proposed new regime in the Solomon Islands.

LEFT £2,000 IN RABAUL IT appears that a baker named Lionel Charles Thomas, aged 44, who last year was sentenced in Sydney to life imprisonment for the murder of a woman, was a resident of New Guinea for a time.

Thomas hanged himself in a Sydney gaol in August, and it then was disclosed that he had £2,000 in the Commonwealth Bank in Rabaul. deposited in the name of Arthur Graham, one of the aliases which he used. Thomas was a notorious criminal with a long list of serious convictions. There is now a move afoot to give the £2,000 in Rabaul to the children of the woman whom he murdered. 10 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

The Editors' Mailbag

Paric an#? all Tliaf M rar i. s , , , R. G. L. BARROW, transferred from the Western Pacific to Nigeria, after several years’ service in the New Hebrides, called in on Paris on his way across, and writes entertainingly in September “Corona” of his impressions. The last two paragraphs of his article: “The Parisians have perhaps sobered down a little. There is not so much gesticulating argument in cafes and at street corners, but that is perhaps little loss. One change I noticed was the almost complete absence of pornography in the book stalls. On the other hand there seemed to be more prostitutes than ever on the boulevards in the small hours. Is this perhaps symptomatic of the French disgust with idle theorising m favour of practical ac- , . , , , , . Sit ? 1 ¥? y CaSC do try and get to Paris No one seems to know SPjJfL a rrr? S? it more interesting and amusing wit Pant 6 was told in Paris, always takes England with him when he travels.

This is perhaps particularly true of those who go to the colonies, so why once and nave a ta#ste of the capital of that other great Empire, the French Union?”

Incidentally, this “Corona,” esta- Wished only a couple of years ago, is one of the most fascinating of the monthlies that come to our desk.

It is written by Colonial Office men for His Majesty’s Colonial Service; and marked literary ability often combined with a delightful sense of humour, seems to be characteristic of these officials Hpaf an#? Tnnra a 4NOTHER correction this time rl. concerning a typipgraphical a error, Mr. J. D. Whitcomb, of Auckland, describing in August an incident associated with copra, wrote: It had been left out in very wet weather, and was rotten.” The hnotyper made “hot,” out of “wet,” which, of course, does not make sense to Islanders. Copra-makers like to put the kernels of their coconuts under the influence of heat —that is how copra is made. But the wetter the weather, the more inferior the copra.

Ronald Harvey and flia ? , Cy an(l tfte KedS 4 WEST INDIES correspondent says that, when the Colonial Office decided to make a Colonial Governor of Ronald Garvey (a well-known and popular official in the Central Pacific in the 30’s) and sent him to British Honauras, it picked for him one of the hot spots of the Empire.

Central American States are honeycombed with Communism and full 0 f anti-British agents, and Governor Sir Ronald Garvey soon was in holts with them, The Belize City Council refused to hang, in the City Hall, a portrait 0 f the King. The Council said it refused the picture because of the “numerous burdens” placed upon the country by the British, sir Ronald promptly dissolved the Council. “After my God comes my King,” he said. “From my youth I was taught to respect my King. I win not stand for such an act of disloyalty.”

Thereupon “the British Honduras People’s United Party” proclaimed indefinite period ot national mourning Pity the Empire has not got a fcw m o re Garveys in it. We should not then see these shameful things, like the murder of the governor of Malaya, the eviction of the British from Persia and the insolence of the decadent Egyptians. Under Muscovite di rec ti o n, this campaign against the British is world-wide. But the dav of reckoning is not far awav aay 01 recKomng 18 not lar away - Mr . , c , IMew uuinea s onakes THE District Medical Officer at I p_i__ TiriicAn taken us to task for pubin, a report Rl? ’ L> een identified as a deadly Taipan D J’ 1 8 - 1 hav f been unable to find out who exactly was responsible for this astonishing identification: it would appear to have originated in the mind of your reporter. . . . The snake in question was a member of the python family a ll of which are quite harmless.”

He then gives us this useful information:— “A good deal of ignorance and confusion exists in the public mind in the Territory with regard to snakes, dangerous and otherwise, The known position is simply this, The only important poisonous terrestial snake in New Guinea is the Death Adder, (Acanthopis). It is common in Papua, west of Port Moresby, in the Central Highlands, the Morobe District and parts of the Sepik District. It has been recorded i n New Britain, but is extremely rare that island - It is unknown in New Ireland, Bougainville, and the Solomons.

“The Taipan (Oxyuranus) has been definitely recorded on at least two occasions from the Fly River of Papua, but nowhere else in the Territory.

“All sea-snakes (Enhydrina) are highly dangerous. Their venom is, quantity for quantity, more potent than that of the Taipan or Australian Tiger Snake. Sea-snakes are common all round the coasts of the Territory and Islands.”

Hunting Deer by Amphibian Enthusiastic note from an Aucklander: Tell all the hunters in the Islands, who like a cool hunt, to look into this new idea, under which deer-stalkers are taken by Widgeon amphibian plane right in onto the lakes and fiords of the southwest South Island, around which deer abound. Amphibian Airways Ltd. was formed in Invercargill, NZ, to fly shooters in to the Fiordland lakes, and this is what one of the promoters says: ‘‘We’ve had a wonderful run and to date have been unable to cope with the demand of deer-stalking parties wanting to go to isolated lakes. ‘‘Fiordland has wonderful possibilities. We’ve only touched the edge, but we’ve had overseas inquiries and I think it’ll be possible to offer something really worthwhile. This winter we hope to build log cabins at selected spots, surrounded by the very best of fishing and shooting.”

Dwindling Labour In

SOLOMONS WHEN Captain Georgetti (who is accompanied by his wife) arrived in the Solomons from New Zealand with his little ship Loma to engage in general trade and recruiting, he was immediately engaged by the Vanikoro Timber Co. to proceed to the island of Tikopia to recruit labour there for the timber industry at Vanikoro (South Solomons).

The Vanikoro timber industry is flourishing; but its problem is to get adequate labour. Formerly, the company engaged Santa Cruz and Reef Islands natives at £2 per month and all found; but lately the latter have intimated that, while they will go to Levers Plantations at those rates, they want £4 per month and bigger rations for the heavier work of the timber industry.

Levers Pacific Plantations have experimented with Polynesian-type natives from Tikopia and Rennell islands; but the latter suffered so much from pulmonary complaints, malaria and home-sickness that they were not a success.

The Vanikoro timber people are determined not to pay increased rates for local natives. If the new recruits from Tikopia are not a success they may try to get labour from Malaita; and if Malaita men are not useful they may seek to bring in Italian labourers from Queensland, or even direct from Italy. 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1851

Judicial Mix-Up Alleged In Samarai SAMARAI residents are taking a lively interest in the Wilkinson-Bock case, which has some extraordinary features.

L. H. Wilkinson, a trader, and Bock, a Native Labour official, were both concerned in charges involving the alleged theft of canned meat, property of the Administration.

Wilkinson was tried by Mr. Justice Bignold, found guilty and sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour. (Certain peculiar features of his imprisonment, involving two high officials in charges of contempt of court, are reported elsewhere in this issue.) Bock then came up for trial. Mr.

Justice Bignold said that, as he had already heard the evidence, he thought another judge should try Bock.

Mr. Justice Kelly tried Bock and —on what is alleged to be practically the same circumstances and evidence—found him not guilty.

The Wilkinson brothers (there are two, H. L. and John D.) have many friends in Samarai district and they, naturally, are demanding a review of the whole puzzling case.

It does not appear, on what has been reported, that the authorities can very well leave it where it is.

The circumstances do emphasise the embarrassments which can be caused a judge in criminal cases by the absence of a jury system.

Jap Poacher Fined £6OO AFTER the Japanese vessel Kyoyo Maru was arrested in the Hermit Islands, north of New Guinea, on August 5, the master (who escaped but was recaptured) was tried at Manus on a number of charges between August 23 and Sept. 3. He was fined:— £5OO for having employed his ship in fishery without a licence; £lO for having himself engaged in fishery without a licence; £5O for having trespassed on a reef off the foreshore of Maron plantation (Hermits); £lO for having entered a place other than a nort, contrary to Customs Ordinance.

The total fines on master and crew was £6OO. They were given 60 days from August 27 to pay. Failing that, the ship will be seized.

Mr. Clifford Reece, of the Fairymead Sugar Co., BSI, reached Sydney by air during September with his wife and baby. They will spend two months’ holiday in Sydney, before returning to Aruligo.

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala BILL COOK, one of the few survivors of the Tol massacre, has been much in the news— having unfortunately lost both legs in a Sydney train accident. He came along to see me a few weeks before his accident, and was telling me some of the ghastly details of the Tol affair. He was a cheery soul, as he tootled along on his motor-bike.

Bill was a medical orderly with the military in Rabaul before the Japs landed. Amongst the Rabaul folk he met at Tol was the everpopular Bob Kennedy, who did a fine job up to the end. Here’s wishing Bill all the best. He has guts.

Norman Bennington Watch, known to all old New Guineaites as “Squlzzy,” passed, aw&y on September 11 at his home at Ashbury. An outstanding personality in the Territory, he was always ready to fight for the underdog, and when he ceased being an Administration medico he took a keen interest in public affairs, as well as dabbling in several commercial enterprises, including the Rabaul Pictures, where he acted as monitor for years.

When the Japs arrived in Rabaul, he was MO of the NGVR, with the rank of Major, and did a fine job at the Vunapope hospital. After his term as a POW in Japan, he went to Africa for a while, and returned a short while ago, owing to illhealth. He served in World War I and collected the MBE for his work in the 1937 eruption. He was 68 when he passed over. Anticipating his end, he wrote his own “Into the Silence” notice for Sydney Bulletin.

The Fadden economy shears are not leaving the Territories out of the picture. Anticipated expenditure was in the neighbourhood of £7 million; now it is cut to a mere £5.3 million. Director Rooney, of the Works & Housing, reckons no new work can be undertaken. In fact, in the first three months of the financial period they have spent nearly all the money available for the entire year. Malahang air strip is deferred, and I can’t see the transfer from Rabaul to Rapopo having a very healthy time.

Now, wouldn’t it have been nice to have had the Yanks maintaining the Manus base in tip-top order?

As a result of the damaging fire on Bulolo in August—due it is alleged to spontaneous combustion— P-NG Administration might now pay more attention to copra inspections, as made in the old days, *and which gave us what was called “Rabaul Copra,” which commanded a higher price than other South Seas grades. From what I hear, this very necessary piece of Administration supervision is being sadly neglected. And that is something worth spending money on.

The appointment of D. M. C. Cleland as Assistant Administrator appears to be a popular one in many circles. I notice he has dropped his military title of Brigadier. One wonders why the Administrator clings so tenaciously to his colonelcy. One does not hear of the “half-colonels,” majors and captains, who surround him in the Service, hanging on to their military handles. This is quite unlike the first post-war period in New Guinea, when the majors and the captains of the Military administration kept their titles long after Civil Administration had absorbed them.

Speaking of Assistant Administrator Cleland—who was Liberal Pafty organiser for Australia—the opinion is being widely expressed that he left his job with the Party too soon. They say that if he had been directing the Referendum campaign, “Yes” might not have lost by a mere 50,000 in a vote of 5,000,000, But then, who knows?

Dr. Mowll, Archbishop of Sydney,spent a few weeks up in the Territory in August, and on his return was loud in his praise “of the work done by the Federal Government in developing Papua and New Guinea.”

Not a word for the private individual living in the far-flung snots of the Territory and doing every bit as much (if not more) to develop the country—and using his own money, too.

Years ago Australia used to send out missionaries to Fiji. Now Fiji sends missionaries to Australia!

A few weeks ago Penaia Motonicocoka Sati and his wife arrived in Sydney and flew to Darwin to teach aborigines “how to love God and grow vegetables.” They are Methodists, and have gone to Elcho Island.

Norman Neal and his wife were recently farewelled at Wau, where the Neal home, “Izzidizzy” (is he dizzy to build on that place?) was a popular haven for the weary traveller in pre-War days. 12 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Not only Wau. but the whole of e Morobe goldfields owe a lot to at couple. Norman was the first LC for the goldfields, and he had i uphill job in the Legislative mncil at Rabaul in the early days, it he was a fighter and got places.

I wish him all the best in this itterless. budget-ridden country, jan see him, later, wishing himself ,ck where the mists rise lazily out the valley; or, maybe, travelling » the Khindi road again. 1 don’t like to see these oldners leaving the country for which ey have done so much. They are balancing influence —although the ‘hinds may not think so. And ch one will be missed from his rn area more than is realised. But, en, New Guinea has always been )ked upon as a stepping stone to flower-garden in Killara, or some ch city suburb.

Wanton destruction of inward rgo at Rabaul is the claim of the 3al Chamber of Commerce there, a result of much damage in uniding goods from overseas ships.

There was a day when Jack Edirds, with his well-trained labour ie, would have shuddered to have ard of such complaints. I can 2 the Befores shaking their heads d muttering: “Lack of discipline, hat do you expect?”

And that sort of wanton destruc- »n can be but the beginning of tier things to come. It couldn’t ssibly be organised sabotage, uld it?

Ew Director Of Health

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|R. T. C. LONTE, medical officer " of health for the Palmerston North district, NZ, has been pointed Director of Health for estern Samoa and takes up his w duties in October.

Born and educated in Scotland, graduated MB. Chß, in 1924. At e University of London he studied jpical medicine, and in 1925-26 worked in a West African misin hospital.

Prom 1927 to 1930 he was em- Dyed in the Colonial Medical Ser- -3e in Malaya; then went home to ke a course in public health at e University of London.

After working for eight years in blic health services in Britain he ;nt into general practice in Glasw in 1940.

Two years later he went to New laland to become a medical officer health.

Mr. and Mrs, L. Noerr returned to iva, Fiji, from an extended holiday sit to Australia by the Aorangi i September 14.

Fijian Chiefly Families United

What was one of the most important Fijian marriages in years and probably the most interesting social event of the year in Fiji, took place on September 22, when Ratu Kamisese K. T. Mara, son of Ratu Tevia Uluilakeba, Tui Nayau, and Adi Lusiana Qolikoro, was married to Adi [?]itia Lalabalavu Tuisawau, daughter of Ratu George C. Tuisawau. Roko Tui Dreketi, and Adi Asenaca Vosai’lagi, Radi Dreketi.

This marriage links two of the greatest chiefly families sf Fiji. The ceremony at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, was performed by the Rt. Rev. V. Foley. SM.

Roman Catholic Bishop of Fiji, and it was attended by a large congregation, which included high Government officials and representatives of every community in Fiji.

A reception was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, and this was followed later by Fijian marriage ceremonies. atu Mara, now an Administration official, has had a distinguished scholastic and athletic career at the University of New Zealand and at Oxford, where he spent about four years. There he became the first Fijian Oxford “Blue.”

TOP (left to right): J. L. VosaUagi (groomsman), Naceba (bridesmaid).

Ratu Mara and his bride, Adi Eci (bridesmaid), Ratu G. K. Cakobau (best man).

LOWER (left to right): The bride’s mother, Adi Asenaca Vosailagi; the bride and groom; Ratu E. T. T. Cahabau, master-of-ceremonies; and the bride’s father, Ratu G. Tuisawau. 13

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Officialdom’s New Move May Restrict His Usefulness r is reported that the Central Highlands Administrative District of New Guinea has been t in two —Western and Eastern ghiands Districts—and that Disict Commissioner Greathead has en given charge of the Eastern strict.

There may be good reasons for is rearrangement; but the first ration of the average observer is unvourable.

One of the best administrative >s in Papua-New Guinea since the it has been done on the Central ghiands by Mr. George Greatad. He was given charge of a ge area, stretching from the imu-Markham Divide westwards actically to the Dutch border; and proved to be the ideal man for most difficult task.

He was handicapped in the beming by lack of equipment /erything still has to be flown in), :k of trained personnel and lack transport and communications, ithin a remarkably short time, by iet and patient work, brilliant inning and the intense personal ierest he took in the District, he jembled a loyal, comnetent and thusiastic staff, and gained the odwill and co-operation not only non-official Europeans and of all ssionaries, but also of the counts tribes of very primitive natives, rhe whole region now is “under fitrol”; the way is open to the ralopment of what is really a new d rich Territory; and most of J credit goes to Mr. Greathead. rhe next stage in the administran of the Central Highlands will most important. The Adminis- >tion cannot afford to make misses. It easily could make a stake by putting an unsuitable m in charge of the new Western ?hlands District.

'To mistake would have been tde if the Administration had left . Greathead in charge of the ole Central Highlands area, and )ported him by giving him two puty District Commissioners— -3 at the eastern and one at the stem. Why interfere with a sysn that has been so successful?

HIS kind of thing is typical of NG Administration. We had, for example, a couple of years 3, the much-criticised switchmnd between Mr. Bates and Mr :Carthy, at Rabaul.

Mr. Bates had been at Rabaul ice its restoration after the war, and had done a splendid job, and was held in high public esteem. For no reason that the non-official mind could understand, he was transferred to the less important post at Madang; and Mr. McCarthy, who was virtually a stranger to Rabaul, was sent there at a vitally important time.

The Rabaul people resented the change. This had nothing whatever to do with Mr. McCarthy, whose administrative and personal record is excellent; but the effect of it all was a serious loss in District Commissioner service and efficiency. Mr.

Bates was discouraged, and was wasted in Madang, and at least a year passed before Mr. McCarthy could get anywhere as close to the difficult job in Rabaul as Mr. Bates had been.

This criticism, no doubt, will be dismissed contemptuously ’in high official quarters in Moresby or Canberra. But the facts and the records, in the Central Highlands and in Rabaul, speak for themselves.— RWR.

Mrs. and Mrs. Frank Exon, oJ Suva, Fiji, who are in Australia on long leave, have settled down at.

“Glencraig,” near Robertson, NSW and later will visit other States Their two pretty daughters, Elizabeth and Jocelyn, are now residing in Brisbane. Miss Elizabeth Exon will marry a well-known Brisbane business man early in 1952. 15

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Fiji's Tuna Fleet fc Dutch New Guinea SUVA, Sept. 22..

THE fleet of small ships whio South Seas Marine Produdi brought to Fiji from the II a couple of years ago, hoping i establish a tuna fishing industi here, are still idle and tied up : Lami, near Suva.

They have been bought by a American company which is zu gotiating with Netherlands author ties who are anxious to establis a tuna fishing industry and can nery in Dutch New Guinea.

Exhaustive tests showed ths. there were tuna in Fiji water but. after the ships and equipmei were brought here, and a cannei established at Pago Pago to can fc the American market, it was four that the tuna hereabouts refuse to be caught by orthodox tuns fishing methods.

One of the clippers, Senibm went to New South Wales lai summer but, although satisfactoi quantities of the fish were caugh nothing further transpired.

The NSW Government, throug an irresponsible Chief Secretan made things as difficult as possibc for the visitors and it was probabc considered that the setting-up such an industry in Australia und'i existing political and economic con ditions was not worth botherin about.

Senibua returned to Suva aboK six months ago.

The Australian Governmer made extensive fishery surveys i New Guinea and Papuan waters i 1950 and tuna was among the fis. noted in large quantities. Presunr ably the Dutch have made simihJ surveys.

Since the survey, little has bee done to establish fishing on a com mercial scale in P-NG, althoug the industry figured largely in tH Administration’s post-war natri policy.

Most people will hope that tH extreme coyness of Fiji tuna not extend to those in Netherlann New Guinea waters, and that tH Dutch succeed in their project.

Nash-Hammond Wedding THE District Commissioner Madang, NG, Mr. lan Down officiated when Miss Yvoniii Nash was married to Mr. Jaoi Hammond, in Madang, recently,. 1 Mrs. F. Bird was matron-oo honour and Mr. Ken King b© man.

A group of residents assisted tHd bride’s stepfather and mother, MV and Mrs. F. Koesler in arranging the wedding breakfast.

The couple later left for a hone:s moon in Australia. 16 OCTOBER. 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Telegraphic Address; “GABRIEL ACHUN.” RABAUL. sting Gov.-General In Papua-N. Guinea HE acting Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Northcott, (who has the title of Administer) made a quick visit to ma-New Guinea between Octo- -5 and 11.

Co one knows why. The Gover- -General, Mr. McKell, visited the ritories not long ago; and, since n, there has been a succession tours by Ministers and VlP’s I their entourages. Maybe it is t of the Menzies-Fadden plan halting inflation by getting rid is much public funds as possible. feneral Sir John Northcott is a lifted and soldierly figure and— ?n he stayed long enough in one :e to let the people see him — made an excellent impression, met most of the leaders of the ?e communities; but, of course, did not discuss either Adminis- ;ion or political affairs. He was impanied by his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Northcott, and his ADC, Lieut-Commander M. J. Gregory.

His Excellency was entertained in the usual way by the usual speeches, luncheons and dinners, native dances, picnics, etc. The itinerary was as follows: Fri., Oct. s—Arrive Port Moresby by special plane.

Sat. „ 6—Visit Sogeri.

Sun. „ 7 —Day of rest.

Mon ~ B—To Samarai by Catalina; remain overnight.

Tues. „ 9—At Milne Bay. Thence by Dakota to Lae via Mt. Lamington and Buna.

Wed. ~ 10 —From Lae to Momote.

Thur. „ 11—From Momote to Madang.

Fri. „ 12—Madang to Mt. Hagen.

Depart 2.30 pm for Port Moresby.

Sat. „ 13H —Return to Australia.

The P-NG Administrator. Col. J.

K. Murray, accompanied Sir John on his tour.

Farewell To Lady Freeston

his photograph (by Stinsons) some senior members of Suva’s European community seen saying good-bye to Lady Freeston, before the departure of the Governor of (Sir Brian Freeston) and Lady Freeston in September. Lady Freeston received also resentation and affectionate messages from representatives of the native Fijian farmers. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Factors in Harold Gatty's Enterprise JIJI now has an internal airways about 25 years behind New Guinea but at last an accomished fact ’ And if they have any nse the n’eonle who live here will ep them flying To anyone nurtured in the NO idition the reliance of this Colonv itfl now on sS irregula^ and idenendable shins is utterly fsn- Stic - y All the nioneerine that has been ne* KwGuS in“wS cades has been done by men who shed out on foot and, as soon as ey had reached where they mted to go, cleared a valley floor levelled off a mountain top in ier that a plane might land. rhat probably is the essential ison why Fiji has not gone ahead &£ .Clous little pioneering to be done .. , , „ [n many ways Fiji reminds me of i m her ways. least 50 per cent, of the European community in the Suva area (they view things differently on “ the other side”), feel that (a) they don’t want an air service, anyway; (b) the fares are too high; (c) the services are too frequent; (d) it can t pay its way.

In respect to fares: If my memory serves me aright, the fare from Port Moresby to Lae, (flying-time comparable with that between Nausori an d Nadi) is about three times as much. However, one concession that FAL could make is in respect of the luggage allowance of passen- S ers arriving or leaving on the international airways. The international allowance is over 60 lbs.

The FAL allowance is 30 lbs.—excess at 6d. a pound. It should be easy to arrange that concession for People holding “through” tickets.

And in respect of (a), (c) and (d) —the essential convenience of the service offered is sure to bore a few holes in even the most conservative hide in the end. In the meantime, the service is being supported fully by visitors, business folk and anyone else who wants to get something ! “ a SPeC C ' The service will probably get the fuP support of the Indian community particularly when it is extended to the other islands. At present, the Indians usually have to travel as deck passengers on the small inter-island boats. In a plane they can travel like human beings.

The Indian factor is an important one in the economics of any enter prise in this Colony, 1T IJI Airways—which is owned by JT Katafaga Estates, Ltd., which is, almost wholly, Mr. Harold Gatty, of Suva is a sort of byproduct of the Committee set up in Fiji a couple of years ago to go into the question of internal airways, Qantas Empire Airways, who already run the majority of the internal services in P-NG, were asked to make a survey and submit a proposition.

They intended to use 24-seater Catalinas; but the set-up they pronot me£ with toe K the mato for som? Hme until sutLitted to The WtT l sTTe^that*hasTulnflnTTi^%he scheme TTnTv culnunated m the The comSanThas at nresent one Raoide aircraft which is ffvdna a t\^ce-daflv service between Nausori -lfml?es y Nadi Ind Lautoka. The frequency of this service may be varied later, depending upon how it is patronised.

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Work is proceeding at Labasa airstrip—about six miles out of town — and when this is completed about mid-November the service will be extended there. This service, probably daily, will take the place of the present TEAL flying-boat extension service from Suva to Labasa which is run each Tuesday after the plane arrives from Auckland.

Work is also going on on the strip at Taveuni, but there has been some hold-up there due to the fact that some ground levelling had not been provided for. Finally, a strip will be built at Savu Savu, Vanua Levu.

At present the company has a subsidy of £1,250 a quarter from the Government of Fiji. When two aircraft are in use this will be increased to £1,500 per quarter; and when the Drover is in operation, the quarterly subsidy will be £1,875.

The airservice will provide the community with speedier airmail, speedier communication and relieve travellers of some of their accommodation headaches.

Now, at the fag-end of the tourist season, hotel accommodation is fully booked and the indefinite guest, who does not know when his boat might be leaving, is a pain in the neck to himself as well as to hotel management.

In the flights between Suva and Nadi, special efforts are made to show passengers something of Fiji from the air. Depending on weather conditions flights are made along the coast and over the reefs or, alternately, across the mountains of the interior which even permanent residents rarely see except at a distance.

The five-minute flight—at a cost of about 12/6—between Nadi and Lautoka, is popular with members of the Indian community, who are keen to try out this flying business.

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Suva, Sept. 10.

Papuan Co.’S Rich Profits

IN the year ended July 31, 1951, Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., of Papua, made a net profit of £85,005, which was £20,000 better than the previous year. It increased its ordinary dividend to 121 per cent.

The company is enjoying the full benefit of the lavish expenditure of public money in the Territories, plus a high price for rubber (it has substantial interests in rubber plantations).

Next year may not be so good.

Governmental expenditure now is being slashed, and rubber is down a bit. Nonetheless, this company need not worry—the reserves it has built up should tide it over many a stony patch.

Services to Soldiers Mr. G. S. Chisholm, manager of the A branch of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., has b awarded the Gold Star badge of the RS in recognition of his outstanding servi to returned servicemen in Fiji and West Samoa since 1919. 20 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH II

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Large Families Are An Expensive Indian Luxury Now Cost-of-Living Figures Skyrocket rHE rising cost of living in Fiji is indicated bj the record leap in the cost-of-living index igure of Indian workmen during he quarter ended in September.

The index figure for Suva rose by 8 points to 251 and for the rest of fiti Levu to 283. (The base figure, aken to represent the cost-of-living lefore the war, is 100).

The increased cost of food —bread, harps, rice, dhall, condiments, anned mutton and onions—is aostly responsible. Some of these oods are imported from Australia, nd reflect the inflationary spiral i that country, but some of them re Fiji-grown.

Onions previously 7id per pound ose to 1/3 and accounted for five oints of the rise. Onions are an nportant item in the Indian diet nd cannot be grown locally.

Onions in Sydney, incidentally, rere 2/6 per pound in October).

In Suva imported rice rose by 2d er pound to 9d (the equivalent of bout £B3 Fijian per ton) and local torekepeers immediately raised the rice of locally-grown rice to the ime figure.

It seems utterly fantastic that >cally grown rice should cost anyiing like this amount and probbly production costs are but a 'action of the sum for which it is fid retail.

It seems unlikely, however, that nder present methods of cultivaon, the production of local rice in be much increased. It is grown, >r the most part, in small homeead patches and suitable land for le growing of this crop is by no leans unlmited. With the rapidly 'owing Indian population it is a lathematical certainty that they ill have to depend more and more i imported rice.

To date there is no indication lat the Indians of Fiji have taken ly heed of Sir Brian Freeston’s arning of a couple of years ago iat they must limit their families if ley wish to survive.- But as they now have got to the age of being unable to produce lough to eat and as the cost of iported foodstuffs continues to iral, they probably will be forced something of the sort out of eer economic necessity.

Mr. Jack Ponting has established radio repair shop in Madang, 3. He is operating in a room at e rear of the Picture Theatre. 21 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19/51

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Heinz Brand Currencies Complicate Life in South Pacific )NE of the most pleasant sights in the world for the Britisher occurs at Pago Pago, Amerim Samoa, when the Union Comany’s Matua pays a visit every [ght or nine weeks.

American officials come on to the lip with large suitcases full of illar bills, and there seems to be o limit to the amount they will xhange for New Zealand £’s.

As “dollar-shortage” has now ;come part of the Anglo-Saxon’s nguage, Matua passengers react :cordingly and change their oney frantically, regardless of the ct that, if they are Australians, ,ch dollar bill costs them about -, and if from NZ or Fiji, somelere between 7/- and 8/-.

And, once having got your money to nice neat dollar bills, you gin to behave something like an nerican and regard the bill with out the same offhandedness as two-shilling piece.

Something that costs one-dollarfifty sounds ridiculously cheap. It is only when you get back on the boat and convert it into shillings and pence that you realise that you have paid about 13/- for something that would cost maybe half that further south.

It is suggested that the reason why the Pago Pago Americans pay out good dollars for NZ currency is that, while NZ takes nothing from American Samoa, that Territory gets all its frozen meat and some of its grocery lines from the Dominion, and they therefore want NZ money.

If so, it is a wonder that the NZ Treasury has not come down on this leakage of their precious £ notes.

NZ travellers are supposed not to take more than £7 out of NZ, and some tourists to Fiji, who apparently have not heard of travellers’ cheques or letters-ofcredit —or perhaps because Authority in NZ js a bit sticky about issuing these things actually bring no more than that with them, and keep within that limit for spending-money (all travel and hotel expenses being paid for in NZ).

Small wonder, then, that NZ tourists to Fiji have the name of not being very big spenders.

THE variety of exchange rates and currencies in the small area covered by the Matua on her journey from Suva through the islands ' back to Suva—less than 2,000 miles —is fantastic.

If you come from Australia in the first Diace, you change your money into Fijian, and lose 12i per cent, in the process. First call after leaving Suva is Tonga, and here they have their own notes, worth in terms of Stg., 12h per cent, less than Fiji (same as Australian).

The purser on the ship obligingly changes your Fijian money into Tongan; and you proceed to Niua a NZ Territory where they turn up their noses at anything that is not good NZ currency. So 23

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Finally, you get back to Suva, carrying with you bits and piece:; of all these currencies and you take it to the bank and say “Here, give me some Fijian money for this, 5 ' and they sort it all out, twirling their little calculating machines, arrive at some answer and hand you the result.

It is not as much as you hoped it would be, and you are left reflecting on the cigarettes you bought in Pago and the baskets in Niue, and you begin to realise that they weren’t so dirt cheap as you imagined at the time.

Pre-World War I Britishers speak longingly of the days when a golden sovereign was accepted as currency anywhere in the world. No doubt; the natives of these now complicated South Seas can become nostalgic over the days when most things could be purchased for sticks: of trade tobacco..

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THE Danish scientific expeditior aboard the Danish frigat* Galathea (see article on page 33! arrived in Port Moresby from thu Philippines and East Indies at tho end of September; and she will us* Port Moresby as a base durinjj October and November, while ini vestigating the ocean deeps to thu eastward, between the New Guinea; archipelagoes and the Solomon Islands.

It is expected that the Galatheae in late November, will visit Brisbane and Melbourne, and she will go tc: Sydney about the end of the yean for docking.

Captain Henrik Madsen com-: mands the Galathea, with Comi mander K. H. Seehausen, second in command. Dr. Anton Bruun, oc Copenhagen University, is at thr head of the scientific party.

Mr. Hakon Mielche, who is £ Danish author-traveller with man:i friends in the South Pacific, i i aboard the Galathea in charge oc the public relations section. He wiEj receive a warm welcome in Sydney and in Central Pacific and Poly-y nesian ports.

The Gold and Silver Ball, helo; on Seotember 1, to raise funds foie the St. Augustine’s Church, Wauo netted £l5O. Mr. Dick Greatrix once again produced a Floor Show — ballets, solo numbers and the storr of Cinderella in burlesque.

Mr. O. L. Speck, SDA missionary at Ambunti, Upper Sepik, Nev‘ Guinea, accompanied by Mrs. Specie and their two children, returned td the Territory by air at the end oo September, after spending leave iii Australia. 24 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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AT NUKUALOFA SEPT. 8 FNGA has two shortages at the moment —rain and . currency.

The first is an act of God and the second seems to be an act of ofiicialdon—which of them is embarrassing the residents more is a matter of opinion.

At this date there has been little Dr no rain for over two months; and as Tongatabu, at least, is a flat, streamless island, tank water is practically exhausted and wells are getting down to bedrock.

Vegetable gardens, which were planted enthusiastically after the NZ shipping strike and consequent food hold-up, have been ruined by the continuing dry weather.

THE why and wherefor of the currency shortage is a complete mystery to most residents.

You are told on one hand that because of good copra prices there is “plenty of money”; and, on the Dther, that there is none at all —and that two weeks ago even the local Sopra Board had to suspend buying Dperations because there was not enough paper money to pay for it.

When you exclaim that the money must be somewhere —unless they have taken to burying it in the ground as the United States does Its gold reserve—all you get is a look of blank despair.

The most likely explanation seems to be that Tonga, unlike other countries, has not increased her note issue to keep pace with her growing population and the prosperity that copra and fruit has Drought in the last few years.

It is suggested that this is Officialdom’s measure for preventing indue inflation—and those who subscribe to the theory that most of Australia’s inflation problems stem from the swollen note issue of the war years, that was not recalled when peace came, will probably see merit in it.

However, a little moderation is always a good thing and the curbed lote issue in Tonga has apparently now reached a state of embarrassment for most people.

Trading firms have reached the stage where they cannot get enough currency into their stores to pay the iuty on imported goods and so replenish their stocks.

Tongans—who, like most Islanders, believe that money was made bo spend—are hanging on to their cash, just in case there is no more where that came from.

Just what officialdom’s answer to ill this is, I cannot say. The Matua bias made a week-end visit to Nukualofa this time.

TONGA has its own paper money, but uses Australian silver. The Tongan £, like Australia’s, is 25 per cent, under Sterling.

The first question residents ask an Australian is, when is he going to revalue his £. They feel that if the Australian £ were revalued, the Tongan £ would automatically follow and imports would immediately cost less.

Why the Tongan £ should be tied to Australia is a complete mystery to me. The local explanation is that ‘‘we buy most of our goods from Australia.” Which seems no reason at all.

Australia must take exceedingly little from Tonga. And purchases of flour, canned meat, etc. from Australia would be less costly if Tonga had the same rate of exchange as Fiji or Samoa.

There are many things that Australia does not supply—building materials, for one example—and these are at an exorbitant price here.

At present, they are unloading a great quantity of United Kingdom cement in drums, the landed cost of which is about £3O Tongan per ton. Most of the timber I have 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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The high price of these materials is probably the reason why Tongan houses are in the last stages of dilapidation.

Presumably, years ago, imported timber and galvanised iron were very cheap and were used in preference to native reeds and thatch.

Not a thing has been done to them for years and, consequently, these paintless, wobbly structures give an impression of extreme squalor.

In defence of rusty galvanised iron in place of thatch, it can be said, of course, that it is an essential in a place where the only water supply comes from roof catchments.

NEITHER shortage of building materials or currency or high prices has unduly affected the building of what is probably the largest church in the South Seas.

This photograph shows it in j course of erection, about two < streets back from the Palace, in j Nukualofa; but it gives no idea of its size, which is surely sufficient to hold every Methodist in the Kingdom of Tonga and a few more besides.

It is built entirely of cement; blocks, made on the spot, and there e are lashings of building materials,, including precious corrugated fibro( roofing, strewn all over the site.

Presumably, it has been paid forby the Tongans, who will no doubt ; derive much pleasure from it. But i why they cannot get the same kindl of fun buying a little paint for their *3 tumble-down houses is beyond me.

THE withdrawal of the New Zealand air service from Tongas has been a blow to residents..; Mails now come in regularly by Matua —with an odd copra shipc calling occasionally, Tongans say that it was not much r use to them anyhow—it was more off a convenience for Europeans thanr anything else. But if Tonga is toe take its place in the modem world! and become the prosperous selfsufficient Kingdom its leaders want,.; 28 OCTOBER, 19 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Also procurable from Bunting’s, Lae. ting its air link seems a retrode step. [owever, the £lO,OOO per annum uired by the NZ Government a fortnightly service seems exsive and probably is beyond the ources of the Kingdom, lie hope that TEAL’S new sere through Cook Islands to hiti would make a call there ms unlikely to come to anything, ler. [?]m Strips With A Pressure Lantern LTHOUGH the film strip is a valuable aid in visual education, it is not always possible use it where it is most needed, ;ause there is often no electricity lilable to work a projector. rhis may now be solved by the roscope, a non-electric film protor that works from any of the assure lanterns now on the irket. rhe Keroscope is made in the Z by Watson, Manasty & Co., and 5 South Pacific Commission, tich has investigated its makers’ liras, feel that it is the answer educationalists in isolated commities. rhe Keroscope is supplied without the lantern and weighs about five pounds. It is supplied with either a 3 in. or a 41 in. lens and these produce pictures up to 6 it. by 4i ft. Costs range between £7 and £9 stg. Those interested should contact the Social Development Section, South Pacific Commission, Box 5254 GPO, Sydney.

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THE composition of the LegisLJ tive Council of Papua-Ne Guinea had been criticises H l6 , A ssist ant Administrate (Mr. D M, Cleland) in a recei broadcast. He was not concern® with —it belonged to the pas But he was concerned with tH future.

“I d 9 not regard the Council s consisting of so many official mem bers and so many non-official mem bers,’ he said. “Rather do I regan it as a team—a team of 29 peop< who are concerned with thre things only—and those are th future of these Territories, the we!; fare of the native population, an the development of private enten prise.

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Appointment of Dr. Thieme [?]rged by Samoans Shortage of Doctors in Territory From a Special Correspondent APIA, Sept. 18.

TO decision has been reached by \ the Administration of Western Samoa on the proposed Dpointment of Dr. H. Thieme as medical officer of the Territory.

Dr. Thieme with his wife and uld, his sister, Mrs. Senning, and s brother, Mr. F. F. Thieme, rently arrived from Germany. Their ther, the late Dr. F. Thieme, a erman, died in Apia during World ar I. Their mother, Mrs. L. lieme. is still living in Apia. They sre sent to Germany to be eduited and Dr. Thieme’s medical igrees are German and as such e not recognised by the New ‘aland Government. Therein lies e official reason for hesitating er his appointment.

However, the Samoans are ixious to see Dr. Thieme take up edical duties in the Territory aich is woefully short of doctors — Tee doctors to about 80,000 of a ipulation and none at all for the rge island of Savai’i which has tween 25,000 and 30,000 of a pulation.

A motion asking that Thieme be (pointed was introduced in the st session of the Legislative ;sembly and supported by all scted European and Samoan embers. A delegation to the esident Commissioner in mid- :ptember urged also that he be (pointed.

It is pointed out that the fact at European degrees are not regnised in British countries did (t prevent the appointment of a sech doctor to Western Samoa, ir has it prevented the appointent of scores of refugee European ictors to the medical service of ipua-New Guinea.

Haying failed to make any imession on either official circles in imoa or the NZ Government in gard to this appointment, the imoans feel that this is an exnple of discrimination against ople of Samoan blood.

In the face of what New Zealand is already done to give Samoa If-expression, this conclusion ems ridiculous. But if this is not e reason, the Administration ould give up sheltering behind e screen of red tape and, in view the great need of medical men Western Samoa, appoint Thieme give some practical reasons why ey should not.

Government Takes Over

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From Our Own Correspondent NIUE, Sept. 10.

THE London Missionary Society has pioneered education on many Pacific Islands, including Niue.

Some years after the New Zealand administration took control of the affairs of the island, they commenced a school at Alofi, then at intervals they have added two more schools in the larger villages.

Recently Mr. R. J. T. Davies, Senior Inspector of the Islands Education Department, visited Niue and made arrangements for the taking over of nine village schools which be consolidated into four Government schools.

So the London Missionary Society hands over yet another of its pioneer efforts.

It is the policy of the Society to work only in educational and medical fields where the authorities will not or cannot fulfil their obligations to the people and meet their needs.

For the third year in succession, Mrs. C. P. McCubbery has won the Port Moresby women’s golf championship. She was a champion player in Victoria before her marriage. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Fiji’s Snail-Pace Airmail Prom Our Own Correspondent LAUTOKA, Sept. 25.

IF Lautoka were 1,500 miles from.

Suva, instead of being 150 by road and less airline, there might be some excuse for mail delays.

Air mail letters from Australia which arrive in Suva on the Saturday Qantas plane are available to post-office box holders there within an hour or two of arrival. If those same letters have a Lautoka address,, they do not arrive at their destination until Tuesday.

What happens to them in the interval is a secret known only to the post office. Presumably they wait in Suva until Monday and then meander off around the island in an Indian bus.

Fiji Airways are running a twicea-day service between Suva and Lautoka including Sundays. As these mails do the first few thousand miles in a matter of hours, why not complete the job and send them the last 150 in the fastest possible time.

Mails for Suva which come or go through Nadi by BCPA and Pan American are subject to the same frustrating delays, although overseas airmail costs here are far in excess of Australian rates.

There is far too much busmindedness (or cutter-mindedness) in certain official quarters in this Colony. 34 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A MOST extraordinary sequence of events came to head on August 29, in the Supreme Court at Moresby, when there were presented to Mr. Justice Kelly two of the leading officials of the Territory, Mr. Claude Champion (Acting Assistant Government Secretary) and Mr. Frank Champion (Acting District Commissioner at Samarai).

Before the Court was a motion that the two brothers be committed to prison for contempt of court.

The following is what had happened.

At Samarai, on August 6, Mr.

Justice Bignold sentenced Lancelot Harcourt Wilkinson, a well-known trader, to 18 months’ imprisonment for stealing five cartons of fish cutlets, the property of the Administration.

While awaiting trial, Wilkinson had been kept in custody in the house of Police Inspector J. A.

Phillips. There is no European gaol in Samarai. As soon as Wilkinson was sentenced, arrangements were made to send him next day by Catalina to Bomana Gaol, Port Moresby.

On an appeal by the sub-branch of the RSL, the Administrator gave permission for Wilkinson to remain in Samarai for one week, to finalise "business matters.

The police inspector refused further to accommodate Wilkinson, as he had not been behaving himself.

THIS created an awkward problem. There was no place, other than the native gaol, where Wilkinson could be housed.

In custody. There were urgent radiophone discussions between Acting DC and Acting GS; but the conversations were not clear, owing to distortion. As a result, it was decided to allow Wilkinson, during this week granted by the Administrator, to live in his own home on the little island of Samarai, and report daily to the police.

However, next day the police inspector found a new boy-house where Wilkinson could be kept in custody, and he was imprisoned there. He was out of gaol for 24 hours.

When Mr. Justice Bignold heard of the release of Wilkinson from custody he put in process a contempt of court motion against Claude Champion and Frank Allan Champion. Mr. Justice Kelly, when reviewing the case, commented that had his fellow-judge not taken this action he would have been failing in his duty.

The Acting Crown Law Officer, Mr. W. Watkins, appeared for the Messrs. Champion; and, having heard him, and the brothers’ affidavits, Mr. Justice Kelly said he was satisfied an innocent mistake had been made by District Commissioner Champion, and that Government Secretary Champion had taken such steps as could reasonably be expected of him. He condemned the absence of gaol premises in such a place as Samarai; and suggested that District and Police officials should not be expected to add to their normal duties the incarceration of prisoners not otherwise provided for.

He then quashed the motion, and the Acting Assistant Government Secretary, temporarily handling the duties of Government Secretary, and the Acting District Commissioner for the Samarai Division, stepped from the shadow of a possible committal to gaol without a stain on their characters. (Since the foregoing article was written, there has been a further extraordinary development in what is now known as the Wilkinson- Bock case. For details, see an article elsewhere in this issue.) 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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A Tribute to the Lik Lik Doctors

By Eric Feldt

THE recent deaths of two wellknown Medical Assistants, Cyril Lambert and Robert Findlay Armstrong, call for a tribute to them and to the other ‘Lik Lik Doctors” of the Territory —a hard-working body of men whose deeds remain unsung.

Between the wars, the Mandated Ferritory had a remarkable medical service, whose record is insufficiently appreciated.

The organisation consisted, in general, of a District Hospital, with i Medical Officer in charge, and with two or three Medical Assistin ts under him. In the villages were Medical Tultuls, who gave elementiry first-aid treatment and brought nore serious patients to the hos- )ital.

In sub-Districts, a Senior Medical Assistant was in charge of the hos- )ital with, sometimes, a Junior mder him. As the Doctor had to >e always available for serious jases, this resulted in his being ;ied fairly closely to the hospital md the outside work fell on the Medical Assistants.

Hospitals, of course, are a fetish )f the Australian public. A public lealth service is judged by its hos- )itals, by the number of its beds, he amount of technical equipment, by the staff and the qualifications of its doctors.

This is all very well in its way; but in New Guinea, where roads are scarce and the native population scattered in small villages, it is only half the story. In addition to hospitals, medicine must be brought to the natives themselves to achieve a public health service.

It was brought to them by the Medical Assistants, the “Lik Lik Doctors.”

ADDED to the difficulties of travel, there was a deep-rooted native aversion to going to hospital which had to be overcome. Every native belief made the patient cling to his own surroundings. He distrusted the strange atmosphere and the novel methods of European medicine until results gave him confidence.

Added to these initial superstitions, the hard facts meant that only serious cases were sent to hospital, of whom many died —from which the native mind soon inverted it to mean that if one went to hospital, one died.

It was against this background of belief, as well as the difficulties of treatment, that the Lik Lik Doctor had to struggle.

Medical patrols went out, drugs and instruments being carried in boxes, as well as food and patrol equipment. Walking itself was a major feat, over some of the country encountered.

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N.G.7. not explain their symptoms, and would not carry out the treatment given them, unless watched. Only slowly, in the early twenties, was confidence established.

Work was hard and thankless, and the Medical Assistant’s job was not particularly attractive, as he could not be promoted beyond a certain grade, but must always be junior to a Doctor.

But they carried on, until in the thirties yaws and hookworm were under control, malaria was being treated and ulcers were fewer than ever before. This preventative medicine was probably the greatest benefit that the native population received in those years; and, although directed by Doctors, it was. mainly carried out by Medical!

Assistants.

OF such was Cyril Lambert. Ij remember his arrival on the?

Sepik in 1924. his first outstation. He arrived wearing a collar and tie which, with his slickedback, wavy, fair hair and tenor voice, made us wonder. But when L saw him stripped for the evening; shower, the rippling muscles under the white skin corrected any misapprehension. Later, we heard that! in Rabaul he had been called!

“Pansy”; but not to his face.

Cyril loved good living, and particularly a cigar, but cheerfully put! up with every discomfort and hardship that came his way.

He was sent to the goldfields sooni after the rush to Edie Creek, and rendered sterling service in theE dysentery outbreak among the labourers there.

Then he was carried away by the lure of gold, resigned, and went) prospecting. The search was a failure, and he rejoined the Administration, losing all his seniority, but) with never a complaint against the luck.

Though years over age, he served in Angau during the Second World War, and retired only a few months before his death.

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Wi ministration in 1921, and served Ln most parts of the Territory. His short, rotund figure was well Imown, and his sense of humour even better. He was a bom legpuller and, often, had newcomers istening wide-eyed to his fictitious tales, told in a dry, matter- Df-fact voice that disarmed suspicion.

His mimicry, too, was convincing, )ften combined with an incongru- >us concept—as in his imaginary :onversation in broken English, importing to be two German Mislionaries discussing the chances of various horses in the Melbourne 2up.

In a land where the miseries are ill too common, his was a welcome iresence on an outstation, particuarly coupled with his competence it treating the tropical maladies phich beset us all, white as well as irown. He, too, died soon after reirement. rHE world moves on, and the future of the Medical Assistant is clouded. Natives are icing trained and will one day take he place of the Medical Assistants who have filled the gap in he past.

But the Lik Lik Doctors can look iack at their record with pride. By ioing their own jobs well, they aved countless lives, engendered onfidence and made life better forth living for natives and whites like.

It is no mean performance that .ik Lik Doctors such as Bob Armtrong and Cyril Lambert, have left ehind them. New Guinea is a etter place because they lived.

Officials In Losing

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With E. J. Maelstrom

IOME of the endless regulations ) which bureaucracy loves to fasten upon us have got across le neck of Mr. E. J. Hallstrom, le Sydney philanthropist who gave bndugl and the sheep industry to le New Guinea Highlands.

Mr. Hallstrom, who is also the preding genius of the famous Taronga ark Zoo, in Sydney, recently pre- ;nted to the Zoo some 300 birds-ofiradise, the biggest and finest Election in the world, and someling calculated to give even reater distinction to Taronga Park, e says he spent many thousands f pounds in collecting these birds i New Guinea.

But Australian officialdom said he Dald not bring the birds into Aus- •alia. It was against the law. They light introduce Newcastle disease, hich affects poultry.

Mr. Hallstrom was surprised. He lid there is no Newcastle disease in New Guinea. The officials shook their heads. Mr. Hallstrom then offered to set up a quarantine station in New Guinea, under the supervision of a Government expert, so as to show whether the birdsof-paradise are diseased. Officialdom did not answer his letter.

So now Mr. Hallstrom has offered to contribute £lO,OOO towards Polio research if officialdom can show that Newcastle disease exists in New Guinea.

At this writing, officialdom is still silent. But obviously it is beaten.

Taronga will get the birds-ofparadise. No one can stand long against EJH when he makes up his mind.

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SUVA, Aug. 31. fTUJI’s first Fijian-language weekly i newspaper is 27 weeks old with the current issue; and the pubsher-editor, Richard Abel, feels hat he can uncross his fingers to certain extent: “Duisiga” seems ) be going to take.

The name was given to the paper y Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna but is ae of those words rather imposble of literal translation into nglish. The nearest approach *ems to be “a very good day” but means more than that to a Fijian id that is what counts in this case.

The paper is printed at the Ocean rintery, which was taken over by . N. Dean, an Indian resident of iva, about last November. Duisiga the same size and has the same rmat as the defunct Oceanic Daily ews.

It usually rims to 12 pages, is tractively set out and is entirely Fijian. It has the blessing of e Government of Fiji and the liefs, and there seems to be no tubt about its popularity among e Fijians. At the beginning it printed only 2,000 copies; circulation has already increased to 3,100 and is growing each week.

Because circulation figures can sometimes mean little, and to see if its popularity were not mere wishful thinking on the part of the owner, I checked with the local Public Relations Office and also asked a few stray Fijians what they thought about it.

The PRO feel it is a “very good thing” and the Fijian answer invariably was a big grin, and the reply that the Fijians liked it “very much.” Fijian enthusiasm for it is borne out by the fact that when it is displayed on various bookstalls round town, invariably there is a Fijian there getting a free read of the front page—checking up on the progress of the Fijian Rugby team now touring in NZ, most likely.

There now are about 130,000 Fijians in the Colony. The great majority cannot read English but they are all literate in their own language.

All these people are in the market for certain overseas manufactured goods and this all-Fijian paper could be a first-rate medium for advertising. It already carries a good amount of local advertising, but so far has not attracted much from Australia or New Zealand.

Duisiga sells at 6d. per copy.

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VTEGOTIATIONS to have Mesial sageries Maritimes vessels call at Suva, en route from Papeete to Noumea, are now in progress.

It is expected that, if bunkering facilities can be arranged, the call will be made.

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WHEN being towed to Kar Kar Island, Sek, by the Joseph, a lighter broke its tow rope and, in tumultuous seas, drifted on to a reef off Kerosene (Beliau) Island.

In attempting to recover the vessel, the Joseph’s engine broke down and she was nearly dumped on the reef, too. Despite attempts at refloating, the lighter is still on the reef.

The Golf Club is raising funds, to complete three new holes. Sister E. Klernan organised a delightful “evening” and netted £125.

Sister Joyce Jones —once wellknown in Madang as Taffy—was here en route to Moresby from Kavieng. Somehow, in a rushed few hours, “Taffy” saw most of her friends and admirers. In Moresby she organises the child-welfare flinic, and is doing a grand job.

Yagaum Hospital in the Amele District has a busy time with the stork. Four Madang babies arrived :here in August—for Mr. and Mrs.

Robinson (of Colyer Watson), Mr. and Mrs. Doering, Mr. and Mrs. 3pehrs and Mr. and Mrs. Pensche (of Lutheran Mission).

Some dig for gold. Others go liamond-crazy. Hal Herriot unearths jeeps. While bulldozing on he golf course, he dug up the body md wheels of a jeep. They tell ne the golfers now are digging in ereference to helping the grass line.

Changes are noted for SDA Mision personnel. Pastor and Mrs.

Boehm return from Manus to take »ver from Pastor and Mrs. Ward Jolan. Pastor Nolan has been ap- )ointed secretary of the Medical Mission Society for the Coral Sea.

Good work is being done by lygiene Inspector Tom Cunningon in draining the large swamp in he centre of Kalibobo Area. This eems to be assisting eradication of nosquitoes from the new residential rea thereabouts.

The small-ships wharf is now in se, after protests from the Advisory 'ouncil on the long delay by offilaldom in sanctioning its use.

At last Madang has a public hrary, under the direction of the .ducation Department, and conucted by a staff of voluntary brarians. We all appreciate the jrvices of these citizens.

Surveyor Webb and party, from Be, have been in town surveying le hotel site and further residenal sites and industrial areas Miss Joan Wheeler, of Coconut roducts Ltd,, has transferred to -abaul, where she will be trained 1 the mechanics of the new ac- :nmting machines to be used bv ie Company.

Navy dentist, Ron Collins, attached to the RAN establishment at Manus. New Guinea. recently married Miss Pat Lumley, of the Trobriands Group, Eastern Papua, who had been serving as an RAN nurse. They travelled specially to Losuia, in the Trobriands, to be married in the old thatched-roof home of the Lumley family on Kiriwina Island.

In 1896, the Rev. H. P. Schlencker left London for Papua, where he remained as a missionary, often among dangerous tribes, for 32 years.

On Sunday, August 19 last, in his 85th year, he preached a sermon in the Congregational Church, Woody Point (near Brisbane) where he now lives in retirement. He was trained for the ministry at Hackney Training College, London and was ordained in 1896.

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All Good Tourists Do, in Lautoka PASSENGERS on Canadian Pacific Airlines planes spend 12 hours in Fiji, on both northbound and southbound flights between Sydney and Vancouver. If they don’t go on their way feeling that Fiji is a pretty good place, it is not the fault of Lautoka’s city fathers.

This is one instance when Lautoka holds all the cards—because Siren Suva is right away on the other side of the island, and as the air passengers do not glimpse it, they cannot have their affections alienated.

They are brought in from Nadi airport to Lautoka hotel in cars, given rooms and drinks, much fine food and loads of tropical fruit and, in the afternoon, are taken sightseeing to surrounding villages and the beach.

After dinner at night there are more cars that whirl them away to the establishment of Mr. Jerry Adams, one of Lautoka’s first citizens and certainly its most enthusiastic fan.

Here they are met by native dancers and singers, with grass skirts and guitars, and they are presented with leis and led into a suitably darkened lounge and asked to sit down. • In the very nature of things (financial) about 95 per cent, of international travellers are well past middle-age, and by this time they are feeling pretty jaded. Then the guitar players start to strum and the girls begin to dance and the travellers sigh a deep sigh and begin to relax.

It doesn’t matter two hoots to them that these lads and lasses are predominantly Fijian; that there is only one Polynesian amongst them; that traditionally Fijian males do not wear Hawaiian grass skirts and play ukeleles; or that Fijian females do not make and serve kava, or do the hula. The visitors like grass skirts and hulas and ukeleles—what’s tradition got to do with it, anyhow!

LATER, the music quickens in tempo. This is the tralala.

Somewhat reluctantly, at first, the travellers are prised out of their chairs; then, in a jiffy, they are prancing and capering, whirling and twirling—that oldster, never to see 60 again, slightly soured you’d say, probably got a heart or an ulcer, is clasping a grass-skirted Fijian lass round the middle and kicking up his heels like a two-years-old.

Don’t know what he is at home— maybe a bank president—but right now he’s wearing his hula shirt— all purple palm trees and riotous pineapples—hanging out of his pants and is having fun.

Mrs. Bank President, grey-haired and plump, possibly the prop and stay of society back in Melbourne or Vancouver, is jigging madly about, clasped in the arms of a large and agile Fijian.

The Anglo-Saxon is notoriously reluctant to let down his back hair in public; but if you want to see it done by the soft-lights-andislahd-music treatment, come to Lautoka.

It is a sobering thought that 12 hours hence these people will be back in their little grooves-—dark suits and plain shirts, tight corsets and nylon hose. Back to Pitt Street, and the International Situation and the H Bomb; the Russians and the excess-profits tax.

Mr. Jerry Adams and his band of island entertainers are doing a better job for civilisation than they know—JT, Lautoka. 24/9/51. 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1951

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Yacht Inspire In Sydney THE South Pacific cruising yacht Inspire, 30 tons, and 80 ft. long—formerly a Brixham trawler —which reached Newcastle in a somewhat battered condition on August 15, was quickly repaired, and arrived in Sydney three weeks later. Owner-skipper H. Williams, an Australian, who sailed her out from England, via Panama Canal.

French Oceania and the Cook Islands, thinks he may offer her for sale.

The Inspire spent a considerable time in Polynesia. All the original English crew, except one, went home: and Captain Williams brought the vessel from the Cook Islands with one European and three lads from Rarotonga.

Captain Williams’s chief grievance is that the Australian officials will not allow him to take ashore his favourite fox terrier, although the dog has first-class health certificates, and comes from West Indies, where rabies are practically unknown.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Malcolm, of Wau, New Guinea, well-known old residents of the goldfield, were on furlough in Sydney in October.

Samoa's Fatal Bus Accident This is where the motor-bus was wrecked at Solosolo, Western Samoa, on July 26. The bus left the roadway (top, right hand) and fell 30 feet down the bank on to the rocks, killing four and injuring 16 people. The smashed bus is seen in foreground. —Photo: Apia Photo House. 46 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISL'ANDS MONTHLY

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TO celebrate the Jubilee of the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Protection between Britain and Tonga, the Tongan Government has issued a new set of postage stamps.

In this connection, the following entries from my Diary of 50 years ago may interest you: April 30, 1900— HMS Porpoise arrives in Nukualofa with Mr. Basil Thompson on board.

May S—HMS Porpoise sails for Niue.

May 18—Basil Thompson takes up his quarters with Dr. McLennan, at Fangalooga.

May 18, a.m.—l called on my old friend Dr. McLennan, who introduced me to Basil Thompson. Mr.

Thompson tells me that he is waiting for Premier Satiki and U. Tungi (Minister of Lands) to sign a Treaty of Friendship and Protection. At 8 o’clock Lateki arrived, and Mr. R. Hanslip, who is going to do the interpreting, but at 10 o’clock there was still no sign of Tungi. A messenger was sent to his home and an answer came back “Kataki.” At 11 o’clock Tungi arrived in his invalid chair, pushed by his servant Helu Nima Motu. At midnight the treaty is signed.

June 13—U. Tungi dies.

February 16,1901— HMS Tauranga arrives with the Governor of Fiji, to sign the Ratification of the Treaty of Friendship and Protection, signed in 1900.

All the persons who signed or saw the signing of the Treaty, such as Sir Basil Thompson, Premier Sateki, U. Tungi (Minister of Lands), Robert Hanslip, Dr. McLellan, are all dead—only your humble servant, who sends his kind regards, is still alive, but in poor health (and now 90 years old). 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19 51

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NZ’s Warm Reaction To Fijian Footballers THE Fijian team of Rugby footballers which recently toured New Zealand made an extraordinarily happy impression on the people of the Dominion. Their excellent behaviour, invariable good temper and the clean, open football which they played delighted the New Zealanders. Fiji never sent abroad a party of more successful ambassadors of goodwill. Here is how a well-known NZ newspaper, the Marlborough Express, summed it up:— RUGBY followers and admirers of good sportsmanship generally will salute the Fijian tourists )n their excellent win over the Maori representatives at Wellington yesterday.

Few of the many overseas teams hat have travelled through the Dominion have established a finer >r friendlier reputation than these sland neighbours. They readily jvercame the handicap of race, anguage and our cold climate to vin admiration, respect and full icceptance into the generous circle ►f the Rugby code.

They achieved that by their eemly conduct, open friendliness ,nd genuine appreciation of hoslitality, and by the football they ilayed.

On the field they were an instananeous success as crowd-pleasers. md they succeeded simply because hey insisted on playing the style f Rugby that, quite obviously, New lealand crowds want.

Perhaps they did not know any ther style. Their game is a careree, open-passing form, contrasting dth the dour, colourless forward bruggles that the Springboks have irgely dictated as the correct and nly thing in international cometition.

TST the light of the heart-searching . that has been going on in Rugby’s concentric circles, a jmark passed by the Fijian team’s lanager sharply rings a gong.

“One thing we will not take away ith us,” he said, “is this grim forard game you have here. It may 3 sound, but it is dull and does not lit the Fijian character.”

Judging from the delighted region of the crowds at the Fijian atches and the sporting response : New Zealand teams in playing le visitors at their own exhilarates game, it suits the New Zealand mperament but little better.

Our club, provincial and national des (as many of our school sides ready do) could provide the Fijian •and of sport even within the usting rules if there were the :ample, the will and the engagement both on and off the -Id. The example has been given us once again, for it can fairly be said of the Fijians that they came ito learn and stayed to teach.

Will the lesson stick? The last two local representative matches, in which the level fell so dismally below that in the game against Fiji, more than hint that there has been a swift lapse into old, uninspiring ways.

It has been reported that Lloyd’s of London will probably leave on the ocean bed off Lae, New Guinea, the £35,000 worth of gold lost in a plane accident on July 16.

Marine salvage expert, Captain J.

W. Herd, said in Brisbane recently that he would recommend resumption of a search for the gold, in his report to Harvey Trinder Pty., Ltd. (NSW), Lloyd’s brokers. They employed Captain Herd to search for the gold. Captain Herd thought that the brokers would probably call off a further search, and that Lloyd’s might decide to sell the salvage rights to another organisation.

The Baptist Union Assembly, which met in Brisbane on September 13, was informed that Baptist missionaries in New Guinea will use a plane in their work next year.

Two missionary trainees are already qualified as pilots. 49

A C I Ft C Islands Monthly October, 1951

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Scientists who have returned to United States from an exploration of the Pacific report discovery of a mountain rising more than two miles from the ocean floor, 700 miles NW of Hawaii. It is probably the world’s largest, has a base 18 miles wide, and lies a mile below the surface.

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BY special resolution, adopted at the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Society, Sydney, in August, it was decided to issue to all Islands visitors to Sydney an invitation to join the members of the Society, at their monthly gatherings, whenever they pleased. Visitors are always welcome.

The Society’s members meet in History House, 8 Young Street, Sydney (near Circular Quay) at 8 pm on the fourth Wednesday of every month. Sometimes the meeting is wholly social—usually a cocktail party or something of the sort in honour of distinguished visitors — but usually the meeting takes the form of a short address on some interesting subject, and a social gathering later over supper. Intending visitors should telephone the Secretary, Mr. Price Conigrave, on BU 1160.

The annual meeting elected the following office-bearers: — President: R. W. Robson; vice-presidents, Aubrey Halloran, Major. C. A.

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Casey, H. E. Maude, A. E. Sturt, Lionel Haynes, Mrs. M. S. Williamson and Captain Brett Hilder. 50 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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James Crawford and Paddy Mulelly.

The show took the form of a revue and included songs in Chinese (beautifully sung by Mrs. Gordon Honson), a sword dance by Misses B. and D. Leaver, violin solos by Miss Anne Evetts, hula by Miss An?, Swani, and concerted numbers by the Fijian Boys’ Choir and the Harmony Three. There was also a popular tango danced by Mrs. Kitty Carter (who also trained the Ballet) and Paddy Mulelly.

The revue was the first production of the Suva Group Theatre, which has been formed by James Crawford and Paddy Mulelly. The Group will present Patrick Bamilton’s Victorian thriller “Gaslight” it the end of November, with Howard Bayden in charge of production.

Hon. E. F. Paul, a well-known merchant f Apia, Western Samoa, who recently ' as elected MLA, is photographed at a lub dance in Apia. His partner is Miss oretta Haged, of Apia; and they won the ovelty dance, in which they competed.

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AT the annual general meeting of the Lae Cricket Association, held on September 4, congratulations were extended to the members of the Levien Trophy team for their part in winning, for Lae, the long-established Levien Trophy, Principal new office-bearers are: Mr, Ray Watson, president; Mr. Leo Bowman, secretary; Mr. J.

V. Knight, treasurer. The new ground, in the town area, is not yet ready for cricket; but it has been used for football, and should be available by November. Meantime, the old Army oval in Busu Road is used.

Native Woman’S Triplets

A NATIVE woman, in Lae, gave birth to triplets. Both husband and wife are Markham people.

Last year the woman had twins, which died shortly after birth. No better luck was in store for the latest arrivals—they lived only a few days. Commenting on the event, the District Commissioner, Mr. H.

L. R. Niall, recalled that triplets were bom to a native woman at Samarai last year, but it is a very unusual occurrence in these districts.

PERSONAL Mr. Dick Lowe, electrical engineer, Works and Housing, with his wife and small son, returned by the last Bulolo . . . Mr. C. Jacobsen, plantation owner, who has been sojowning on the mainland for many months, is back. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Eekhoff have departed on leave, taking little daughter Judith Ann along . . . Owing to the departure of Inspector Steeples from Port Moresby, on sick leave, Inspector Bill Dix, of Lae, has been transferred to fill the vacancy.

Superintendent Ron Hicks, who is no stranger to Lae, has returned as oflicer in charge . . . Assistant Sub- Inspector J. Kelleher and wife have departed on leave . . . Mrs. Flora Stewart, of the Hotel Cecil, has gone on a world tour by air. During her absence (only six weeks) Miss Flora Stewart is managing the hotel . . . The return of Mr. Leo Bowman, formerly of the staff of the Commonwealth Bank, Lae, was welcomed in all sporting circles; and he has taken up duty with Vacuum Oil Co.

The maternity section of the Lae Hospital is still kept busy. Recent arrivals include: Sons for Mr. and Mrs. Dudgeon (Works and Housing) and Mr. and Mrs. A. Joyce (Lucas & Ducrow). Daughters for Mr. and Mrs. Dick Collins (Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.), Mr. and Mrs. J.

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Mr. B. J. O’Brien, recently appointed Queensland Postal Services Superintendent, was chosen in 1945 to reorganise Papua and New Guinea postal services and did a good job there. 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Photo was taken in front of the Fono House, at Mulinuu, Apia.

First Row (sitting): Hon. H. W. Moors, Tofa Tomasi, A. M. Gurau, Tualaulelei, Hon. Fautua Tamasese, High Commissioner R. G. Powles, Hon. Fautua Malietoa, Hon.

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In Defence of Nadi’s Mocambo CANNOT find any reason for all this “beefing” about the Mocambo at Nadi airport. At ie moment it is undergoing novation and it may, or may not, ive been as grim as some people .y; before this work commenced.

As it is at present, however, it is very pleasant spot in which to >end a few hours which are about 1 the average air-traveller is asked spend there.

There is a large dining room, a sry pleasant lounge in which itive materials have been blended tractively with European, a bar, enty of easy chairs, and a shop nere Fiji souvenirs and other )ods may be purchased.

In the same building they have ist installed excellent showeroms, toilets, powder-rooms for the dies, and for the babies a special *°m equipped with baby-baths and ?corated with an animal freize by an Indian signpainter.

The animals may be zoological Idities in some respects, but neither the babies nor their mothers will be fussy about that.

In separate buildings are the sleeping quarters which once took in, as over-night guests, those travellers who were joining or leaving planes at odd hours. This accommodation is now not available —except in the event of a plane being grounded and emergency sleeping accommodation being called for.

This accommodation is certainly not exciting; but it seems to me that if the air-line companies want something better they should do something about it themselves, either off or on the airport area.

From the point of view of tourism, (Continued on Page 73.) 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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PRESUMABLY there are sheeconomists in this sad world; but it always seems to me that the crazy shortages of this and that are usually caused by the interference and brain-storms of the male of the species.

I felt this more than ever to-day as I examined the Carpenter oil and margarine factory in Suva; saw jopra being fed in one end and margarine coming out the other, md reflected that in the two weeks lefore I left Sydney I could buy mly one-quarter pound of butter— md no margarine.

I thought even less highly of the et-up when I learned that the Australian margarine that one canlot buy in Australia is also available at some establishments in >uva. It may make economics. It loesn’t make sense, l/JAKING margarine from copra .?! is comparatively easy. You grind it and toast it and queeze the oil out of it; then you liter it and neutralise it, hydroenise it, deodorise it, put in colour, lavour, a few odd vitamins, salt — nd there you are—so like butter nyone might be fooled.

The only catch is that between he crude lumps of copra and the mished, wrapped pat of margarine, here is, I should judge, about half million pounds’ worth of machlery and equipment.

If you have built so little as a hicken coop in the past ten years, ben you would be staggered, as I r as, at the amount that has been one in this Suva oil-mill. I don’t now how long it took; but there r as nothing there six years ago r hen I last visited Suva.

The initial difficulty must have een the provision of power. Most Duntries seem now to have per- Jcted methods of restricting the se of electricity; in Sydney they ave their celebrated blackouts; in Z there is a ration.

Suva solved its difficulty by not mnecting any more consumers to le supply.

The oil mill and margarine ictory, therefore, provide all their iyn requirements in this direction, ith oil fuel and two generators lat look large enough to supply a nail town. Each generator can reduce 500 kilowatts; but only one in use at a time. The mill works ' hours a day, seven days a weekad there are two of everything so lat the process never stops.

The basic operation is the pronction of crude coconut oil—and it Suva Oil Mill. —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office. 57 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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FIRST stage between crude oil and margafine is neutralisation of the acid content; next is the addition of hydrogen, which supplies the hardening agent, making it a fat rather than an oil (they manufacture their own hydrogen) ; then deodorisation by adding chemicals, and heating in a vacuum. The whole thing takes place in a chamber that looks like a cross between a dairy and laboratory, and nowhere during the manufacture is the product handled by the operators.

As well as margarine, the company makes a pure cooking oil, a mustard oil much favoured by the local Indians for curries, etc., and a ghee-flavoured oil which is also a growing favourite with the Indian population.

While I was there they were putting out a special brew of vitaminised oil at the request of the South Pacific Commission for some atoll folk in the Line Islands.

Also, samewhere around the neutralising phase, liquid soap is made. This is supplied to local institutions, but is not sold commercially at present.

The margarine sells locally at 1/11 per pound. (Butter is 3/4.) It is exceedingly popular with local housewives and has a growing export market in Samoa, Tonga and New Caledonia.

It would be welcome in Australia —but until such time as Australians are at starvation point there is about as much chance of the Commonwealth abandoning the White Australia policy as there is of letting Fiji margarine through the protective barrier Australian farmers and politicians have built up.

TWO other points of interest; One they spell their margarine with a J instead of a G, allegedly because margarine in one of the local languages means something nasty.

Two—the queer things that find their way in from the plantations with the copra. In a special chamber of horrors reserved for these mementoes which have been plucked out of the crushing machinery are large stones, a pipe (tobacco, for the use of), a huge piece of iron, rusty hinges, an iron ball, and a miscellaneous collection of bolts, nuts,, screws, nails, and wire.- JT.

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Chief of Police, Niue Is. He succeeds Mr. J. O’Rourke, who has returned to New Zealand. 58 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mr. Robson pointed out that most countries had an Historical Society, the chief purpose of which was the preservation of the country’s records in an orderly fashion; but there was no such organisation for the Pacific Islands. Islands’ records were preserved by such institutions as the Mitchell Library, in Sydney, and the Historical Societies of Australia and New Zealand; but that happened only where such islands’ records were connected with their own country’s records.

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Anyone wanting to study records relating to the events of the past century in a particular islands group, for example, had usually to travel over half the world, on a sort of hit-or-miss system. Thousands of people, carrying valuable and irreplaceable facts in their memories, had passed away, without any adequate record having been made of their knowledge. It was not yet too late to do something, but no more time should be lost.

The meeting approved of a suggestion that the subject be discussed with the NSW branch of the Royal Historical Society.

Mr. William Reiher, of the Gilbert Islands, is now the master of the Administration vessel Maureen. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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We Plough the Fields —and Scatter

By Judy Tudor

yVER been chased over a bumpy i field by a wild-eyed Indian, driving a tractor behind which, eked up like a bustle, is a sixsc harrow? in a sentence, that is an agriculral field-day and machinery demstration in Fiji.

That is the kind of hazard one jst expect in the tropics these ys-and it is a mighty far call )m the tropics of our greatgrandbhers.

Those other-day tropics! Where e sat on a shady verandah, a ig, cold and stimulating drink at nd. And, outside in the blazing n, a long line of willing dusky wants who produced the food and 3W the coconuts that brought pros to the bank account.

Alas, there are no countries of eap labour force these days sn in Fiji, where there is a plenul supply of (a) Indians and (b) jians. The machine is doing m’s more laborious chores there Jr— and (something else grandpop 1 not calculate on either) tb* niri sky servants are in the agriculre busmess for themselves, and the market for tractors and wer-post-hole diggers and man- B " s P r G3-hers.

Well, after the demand for ichmes, there come the men , me men to sell them; and, after that, the Department of Agriculture to whip up a field-day, where farmers can gather and size up the relative merits of the various gadgets.

And that is what we had on Mr.

L. L. Hunt’s farm at Tailevu, at the end of August. 1 JUDGE this area has an annual rainfall of somewhere around 120 inches, but this day was fine and hot with a sun that blazed down and blistered. Gathered to see the five types of tractors and all their attachments (operated by wild Indians and some Fijians) were Suva bank managers, Directors of Agriculture, veterinary officers, District Officers and plain farmers— European, Indian and Fijian—in shirts and shorts and sulus and turbans, Australian digger hats, and straw sombreros, and Simple-Simon felts, and large mops of hair.

A pretty dull day, you might imagine, for the layman. And, in HEADING PHOTO: A general view of the scene.

DOWN SIDE: Top—Mr. F. S. Ohman, Senior Vet. Officer, brought along his umbrella (sun and manure-spreader), and Mr. C. H. Harvey, Director of Agriculture, his sun-glasses. Centre—The Red Peril an Indian who appropriately wore a red shirt and whirled tractors around where they should not be whirled. Lower— Fashions in hats; Mr. W. J. Gatward, in straw model. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-OCTOBER, 1951

the ordinary course of events, you would probably be right.

But all blood sports are at least stimulating: and get into a small paddock with six Indians loose on tractors, which are trailing various lethal instruments, and you can take it from me that you won’t have a dull moment.

The average Indian, given a piece of machinery that does something, immediately develops the bright eyes of a fanatic and proceeds to do all possible with it, at full speed, regardless of what or who happens to be in the way.

Pick out what seems a safe place, and stand in it, and immediately a mad Indian charges up on a tractor and proceeds to cut a swathe of grass from that very place. You move smartly out of range, only to encounter another fanatic who suddenly waltzes his outfit round like a top, forgetful of the discplough or whatnot sticking six feet out at the rear.

For a while I stuck close in the shadow of Mr. C. H. Harvey, on the mistaken theory that they wouldn’t dare mow down the Director of Agriculture.

It was no safer than any other spot. Nehru himself would not be safe in that bunch.

AT midday we retired for lunch to the old hotel on its knoll above the river. This old landmark, owned now by Mr. W.

J. Gatward, and perhaps other members of the Gatward clan, is soon to be abandoned for a fine new establishment now nearing completion some miles away, and close to the main road.

Mr. Gatward’s father, who operated the old hotel for many years, began the new one, but died some time ago. His son is an enthusiastic farmer, but a not-so-enthusiastic publican. He shrugs his shoulders over the new pub—and rushes to gloat over a three-tyne harrow or a mechanical scrubcutter The new hotel is well designed, with spacious lounges and large bedrooms, each with its own shower and toilet. It should be a pleasant spot to stay, and a rendezvous for local folk.

AFTER lunch the piece de resistance was a manurespreader hitched behind a tractor and worked by an over-enthusiastic Indian who spread manure successfully over an area of half a square mile, with no apologies to anyone.

Mr. P. S. Ohman, Senior Vet. Officer, had brought along a large umbrella. I guess he had heard about the potentialities of that manurespreader in advance.

The talk throughout the day was farmers’ talk; what to plant and what not. What might be profitable and what not. Cocoa, maybe was worth a trial, some thought— although it does not look to me like cocoa country. What did surprise me is the number of European farmers who seem tempted to go in for sugar cane which, at its present price, can no longer be regarded merely as a peasant farmers' crop.

That must be just about full circle as far as Fiji economy is concerned.

OPEN ROAD . . . OPEN JEEP It’s time someone sent me (Won’t someone invent me!) A hat that stays on in a jeep: Something capacious And rather vivacious That doesn’t bounce off at each leap.

When wearing a topee I look rather dopee And feel it a weight on my brow: If I had a toupee— Besides looking droopee— It might stay behind on a bought But hoodless (and snoodless)) We bounce (oh, my goodness) On sand with the sun overhead: While some people natter A hat doesn’t matter — We might buy a new jeep, instead!

NOELLE MASON.

Bougainville.

A new trade store, being built by N.G. Estates, is almost completed at the northern end of Chinatown, Madang, New Guinea. Mr. Jack Morgan is the manager.

Crossquiz — No. 22 (Solution on Page 71) ACROSS 1. —Who succeeded Washington as President of the USA? 3. —who transmitted the first trans-Atlantic wireless messages? 6. —What was the name of the first General of the Roundheads?

B— What is the Lettic capital? 9/ —Who wrote “Anna Karenina”? 10. —Which Greek letter forms a triangular diluvial tract at the mouth of a river? 12. —What Christian Dodies separated from the Roman Communion in the Reformation? 13. —What is the name of the platter used by Christ at the Last Supper? 14. Which Is the largest river in France? 17. —What is the inland sea in Russian Central Asia? 18. —Who patented over 1,300 inventions.

DOWN 19. —Who had to sit, during a banquet, beneath a naked sword suspended by a single hair? 20. Which inert gas is used for electrical lighting? . 21. —What is the legal expression for division of real property between joint tenants? ~ , .... 1. —who was the author of Little Women”? , 2. —Which Greek god was the son of Jupiter and Latona? 3. —what peninsula is the most southern part in Asia? 4. —,who discovered radium? 5. —who was the “Lady with th Lamp”? 7.—ln which battle was Napoleon dt feated by Wellington in 1815? - 10. —What type of jockey handle musical recordings? 11. —Which Poet Laureate first practise medicine? 12. —Where in Czechoslovakia is world-famous beer brewed? 15. —Which Asiatic country has a totJ area of 1,808,679 square miles? 16. Which 25-year-old youth led tl; Irish rebellion in 1803? 17. where is the famous racecourse Berkshire, near Windsor?

The new Gatwood Hotel at Tailev u—now almost ready for occupation. 62 OCTOBER, 1951-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Tropicalities

Mr. Dugdale Achieved

Something For Fiji

A POLITICIAN can get things (\ done, sometimes.

Some months ago the bar at he Mocambo, the establishment hat caters for transient air travelers at Fiji’s international airport ,t Nadi, was closed by Authority.

This sad fact was pointed out to Ir. Dugdale, Minister for State for he Colonies, when he visited the jautoka district in August. And, he reports have it, the MP was uitably horrified.

“Surely something can be done bout this,” he said. A procession f officials appeared before him and tiree days later the bar was retired to the Mocambo.

Coincidence, maybe. But local ssidents are generously giving the redit to Mr. Dugdale.

Perils Of Travel

rEY have a new Fijian girl at the Sigatoka Hotel, She speaks no English, but is supposed to now something about chip batheaters; and was told off to preare me a bath the following lorning. Seven a.m. was fixed as le time.

About 6.30 I was awakened to le sound of frantic fire-makings i the bathroom next door—the •ackle of sticks and the reek of srosene.

But no one came near and, after I minutes, I went to investigate.

There was a furious fire going in le heater and everything was noking and red hot. But she had elected to do that very necessary ling—turn on the water.

No one was in sight so I ap- ■oached cautiously, and, expecting ie whole works to explode in my ce, gingerly turned the water on. here was a great hissing of steam, tremendous spattering of solder id with a dull clank the spout of e contraption fell off into the ith.

Boiling water immediately started gush out of the hole where the ►out should be, all over the floor id I was marooned on the wooden th-mat. The room got full of earn and the fire burned more adly than ever.

Where my Fijian handmaiden had t to I haven’t a clue; but, after ntemplating the gusher for some ne —as the little Dutch boy of ble must have once contemplated e hole in the dyke—l fished the out out of the bath and, holding it on with a towel, managed to catch sufficient water to wash.

The old-fashioned shower bucket may be less efficient—but is not so lethal in the hands of the uninstructed Islanders.—JT.

Consanguinity—Ci Fashion

I HAVE often smiled at the solemn injunction in both the Cl native Bible, and the English Authorised ditto, that a man shall not marry his grandmother.

Personally, I wouldn’t be keen on the move, even if permitted.

Lately, I’ve been wondering just what the ancient prophets would have had to say about a man marrying his step-mother. I always understood that it is illegal. But, upon my island in the Cooks, it has been done—and nobody seemed to mind!

There was an old codger—call him Rori —who had married a woman much younger than himself. She proved, alas, no model of fidelity, and left him for his neighbour, a similar oldster, slightly more virile possibly than decrepit Rori.

With hubby II she lived a while; and then he and Rori both snuffed it within a few weeks of each other.

The widow not long after “up and married” a son of Rori by his first wife. So, after being his mother, she became her final husband’s lawful spouse—and Rori’s daughter-in-law!

I shall be interested to see how it works out in the Hereafter; but it seems odd that the High Court of Cl never investigated the matter upon this mundane sphere, for one suspects that the parties had no legal right to wed at all.

Search For A Town Site In New Britain

rpWO morals may be drawn from -*■ study of the above sketch.

The first is, Never pick your Port until it is chosen by the Planners. The second is Administrators and sea-going captains Srh/? i??o eir f h J^ ir better than th ose W Thi l^v,r?, t rriS? n I b^ ra ‘ iu *io thoughtful figure at the left S ooS„ Hon( i u L th ® Administrator 01 Papua and New Guinea, Colonel hannv pp gf lte him, in Secret n rv°°nf ¥ ri Reg V Hall i gan ’ tSSc of ™ he Department of Territories. The vigorous young man in the centre is Captain James Duncan, of Rapopo Plantation, Kokopo—the site of the new town which will eventually replace Rabaul.

Captain Duncan, who has spent some 35 years in the Territory, recently advised a party—which ineluded the Administrator and Mr.

Halligan—on the respective merits of Gunantambu and Ralum as ports for the township. It may be indicative that the matter of Ralum seems to be cast aside and that Captain Jimmy looks sad as he contemplates the nearby site of Gunantambu.- JKMcC. 63 ACIFIC islands Monthly_ o c t o b e R, 1»51

Next thing, someone will be marrying his mother-in-law!—ETl.

Five-Toed Pigs

ACCORDING to Mr. Leo Austen (writing in the Star, Lismore, NSW), Papua has a unique species of pig—one with five toes.

Pigs, since time immemorial, have had a cloven hoof, and Mr. Austen believes that the five-toed variety, which he has seen in the limestone country of Papua, has descended from a freak pig which by interbreeding had produced a static species. According to local accounts the breed has been there for centuries and although there has been much controversy as to whether the Papuan pig came from Sumatra or is a modified form of European domesticated pig, there is no doubt about the part played by the animal In the social life of the Papuans.

Pork, says Mr. Austen, is considered the most delectable of all flesh —except here and there where human flesh occasionally forms the piece de resistance —and even when sago-grubs abound, pork is considered the best food for warriors and elderly wise men.

Flying Wedding

SOMETHING of a world’s record must have been created when a complete wedding party arrived in Norfolk Island by the Skymaster service at the end of September—they had flown 900 miles so that the ceremony could be performed in the beautiful old Melanesian chapel here.

The party consisted of the bride, Miss Norma Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bailey (formerly of NI); the bridegroom, Mr. O.

Judd, of Sydney; the best man, Mr.

Micky Bailey; groomsmen Baker McCoy and Bernie Bailey, formerly of NI and now of Sydney; Miss Ruth Christian, bridesmaid; and the bride’s mother, father and younger brother Leonard. —G.

No Glass Beads, Please

THIRTY members of the NZ Rugby League football team complained bitterly when they found that oranges in Pitcairn Island —where they called en route for England—were threepence each.

Bananas were eight-a-shilling.

They said that they were “staggered” and had expected to buy oranges by the case and bananas by the bushel “more or less for nothing.”

Probably none of the 30 footballers have ever grown any kind of fruit, tropical or otherwise, and lived under the delusion that one can buy anything in a distant land for a few glass beads.

The footballers were surprised that the islanders not only could all speak English but were aware of the value of money.

It is said that more Pitcairners now reside in NZ than on their island so maybe neither accomplishment can be regarded as surprising.—AJS.

The Murrays Of Papua

A SYDNEY writer recently commented on the fact that four Murrays have been prominently connected with Australia’s tropical territories.

Sir John Hubert Murray was the distinguished Lieut.-Governor of Papua—he died “with his boots on” in 1940.

His nephew, Mr. Hubert Leonard Murray, was his successor in Papua until the Japanese invasion forced evacuation in 1942; and he was later prevented from returning to his office by the Socialist Minister, Ward.

Mr. George Murray was in the Papua service before he became Director of Agriculture in New Guinea. He was in Rabaul when the Japs invaded, and he lost his life in the Montevideo Maru.

Mr. Jack Keith Murray, a formei Queensland Professor of Agriculture, was appointed by Mr. Ward tc be Administrator of the combined Territories of Papua-New Guinea and he is still at the head of th( Administration. 35-Yeors-Old Memories of Seeadler, Raider THE story of how Count von Luckner, early in World War I, lost his raiding vessel Steadier in the lagoon at Mopiha (most westerly island of French Oceania), and was himself captured in Fiji, has been told many times; but these photographs have never before been published.

The Count took the Seeadler, for careening, into the shallow lagoon in the lonely and uninhabited atoll of Mopiha; but was blown ashore in a sudden storm. So the Germans practically destroyed the ship and took to the boats.

Von Luckner and four others turned up on Wakaya (in the Koro Sea, Fiji), many hundreds of miles to the westward, and told a plausible tale to the lightkeeper and others. One of the latter was suspicious, and carried his suspicions to Levuka. Levuka thought he was mad. and officialdom acted with great reluctance. But later, by a smart subterfuge, they captured the resourceful Count and his companions just as they were on the point of seizing a schooner and making their escape.

Mr W. Hansen, of the Economic Controls Office, Suva, and then an Army man, had charge of Von Luckner for a time, until he was sent to Auckland. Twenty years later, in Auckland, Count von Luckner (then on a lecturing tour) recognised Mr. Hansen from across a street, and rushed across and greeted him warmly. He was that kind of a man.

When the capture was made on Wakaya, the Navy decided that the Seeadler must be somewhere around, and a cruiser was sent to look for her.

The lower photograph shows the raider, as they found her on Mopeha reef.

The top one shows the complete destruction achieved by the Germans before they abandoned the ship.

These photographs, part of a unique set in the possession of M[?] Hansen, were taken by the Navy i[?] 1916. Mr. Hansen died in Suva r[?] cently. See elsewhere this issu[?]

Rehabilitation of A Citizen p|NE day—on August 21, 1951 —a L/ messenger came to the door of Oscar Nordman’s residence, jverlooking the harbour, in Papeete, rhe presence of Monsieur Nordnan was requested, immediately, at he head office of the Adminisration.

Oscar looked speculatively at his rife. “I wonder what this can be, Margot,” he said. “More trouble, h?”

Oscar, on occasion, had found ligh officialdom difficult. There iras a recent occasion when, called o the office of the Government Secretary, he had been sternly colded, and accused of being false o his French citizenship, because f an article he had written for the T Monthly about the French colonies. They would Lot accept his assurance that he ;as not the author. Yet Oscar poke the whole truth. (I know, ecause I wrote the article.) Slowly—for he is getting on in ears—Oscar made his way to headuarters. On every hand, he was reeted cordially by Tahitians, Jhinese, Europeans. He is known or his simple kindness, his love f children, and the endless ospitality of himself and his harming wife.

A commissionaire ushered him traight into officialdom’s largest ssembly-room. Gathered there /"ere most of the departmental Leads, leading citizens, the judges— veryone of importance, except the rovemor himself. Oscar’s natural larm faded, when he saw in their aces only friendship and goodwill.

Oscar was led before the judges, n a simple, but impressive public eremony, he was given civil re- .abilitation. [>ACK 25. years, to the late 20’s, [j A little gang of unscrupulous gentlemen concocted a plan to lake some quick, easy money. They fere to get possession of a large, Id schooner which lay in Papeete, quip and load and clear her for larotonga, insure her heavily, and hen make of her a total loss under uch circumstances that it would ppear to be an accident.

To round out the plot, they ceded a representative in Papeete, nd an approach was made to lordman. Nordman had just reired after a couple of decades at ea most of it as a purser on Trans-Pacific liners. He had a young business, an attractive wife, three young children.

Nordman accepted the commission.

He was not in the plot. He did suspect that there was something wrong somewhere, but he foolishly carried out instructions —transmitted to the crew certain orders which were sent to him from Rarotonga.

The plan to cast away the ship misfired completely. She went ashore in Raiatea, in circumstances which clearly showed it was a case of barratry.

Oscar was arrested, put on trial, convicted of barratry—and sentenced to 20 years’ hard labour. It was clear there were others in the crime—but Oscar closed up and would give no information. As the waterfront expressed it: “Nordman took the rap for the Rarotonga gang.”

Very strong representations were made to Paris. The 20 years’ sentence was reduced to 5 years; and then a new Governor, who made his own inquiries into what he regarded as a peculiar case, was instrumental in getting the sentence cancelled at the end of three years, and Oscar was released.

OSCAR resumed his business and familylife in Papeete, where it had been interrupted on his arrest.

Generally, people were as kind and as friendly as ever. He prospered.

He did his duty and more than his duty, as he saw it, by the community. The circle of his friends grew ever wider.

But the stigma remained. Officially, he was a man who had been convicted of a crime. Important personages did not receive him socially. He was denied certain privileges of citizenship— the vote, for instance.

When a prominent man in Paris offered marriage to one of his goodlooking and charming daughters, the girl replied: “Maybe you had better first inquire about my family—my daddy has been in gaol.”

Oscar himself said nothing, and carried on. But, among prominent men in Tahiti, The document that makes it legal.

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it was said that this clearly was a case for “rehabilitation.” Whether or not Oscar was guilty of the crime, the fact remained that since that time, by an exemplary life and good citizenship, he had won the esteem and respect of his fellows. Influential men took the matter to the Governor, A ND so, on August 21, 1951, a Decree was placed in the hands of Oscar Nordman. He brought the document to Sydney with him in September, and we photographed it, and it is reproduced on the previous page.

This “rehabilitation” is a French institution which might very well be copied into English law.

In British countries, a man who is convicted of a crime is for ever damned. If, fifty years afterwards, he is again in trouble, and no matter how blameless in the meantime his life has been, his early conviction can be brought against him.

But in France a man, by good conduct, can rehabilitate himself and restore himself to full citizenship. As is shown by the line drawn across the face of Oscar Nordman’s Decree, the slate is wiped clean.

His name is expunged from the criminal records. The Decree is rarely issued; and, when it is, the French public accepts it completely —that man is re-established in their minds as a worthy fellow-citizen.

Every man in that assembly-room rose and walked over to Oscar, and shook him warmly by the hand, and .embraced him. There was far more in this than an official decision.

I tried to make Nordman tell me ■the names of the men for whom he “took the rap” over 20 years ago.

But he would not discuss it, no more than he would discuss the character of a plausible rogue who robbed him of a large sum in Sydney, in 1949. He waved his hands in the French manner.

“There is a God up there,” he said. -“.They will be punished.”

OSCAR thinks that Tahiti is the finest place, not only in the South Seas, but on the earth.

When the Chungchow was pulling out from Sydney wharves, in the evening of September 26, he stood at the top of the gangway, and played “Aloha” on a large mouthorgan-like instrument. When he had got the full attention of the crowd, he leaned across the rail and, in some picturesque phrases, described the beauty of Tahiti, the hospitality of its people and the charm of life there. “Vive Sydney— Vive I’Australie—Vive Tahiti!” he concluded.

“Come to Tahiti—soon,” he cried, as the ship moved away; his enraptured audience cheered him to the echo.- R. W. ROBSON.

TAHITI—Then and Now THESE two photographs by Mr.

F. H. Simpson (who has returned to Tahiti after 3i years in America) illustrate the changes that have taken place in the South Pacific in the last century and a half.

One is a photograph of a painting by Gaston Alaux, now in the Tahiti Museum. It is the artist’s reconstruction of the scene on the waterfront on April 6, 1768, when the ships of the Comte de Bougainville (La Boudeuse and L’Etoile) entered the Bay of Hitiaa, in Tahiti, not far from Papeete.

Wallis was the first navigator to find Tahiti, in 1767. Bougainville was only nine months behind him.

Captain Cook was a year behind Bougainville (April, 1769).

To these early navigators the Tahitians gave a welcome which echoed through history, and still colours with romance even today’s records of life and conditions in French Oceania. Alaux’s painting conforms to the early navigators’ descriptions of what they found.

The other photograph shows Papeete waterfront, as it was a few weeks ago—lined with pleasure yachts and trading schooners.

Tahiti has become a rendezvous for wealthy yachtsmen from all the (Continued at foot of Page 67) 66 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Continued from Previous Page) even seas. It is especially popular ith rich Americans, who sail to tie West Indies, and thence tirough the Panama Canal to ’ahiti, before going north to lawaii. In this picture, Millionaire iornelius Crane’s yacht Vega is in tie foreground.

The New Telephone

By Rosa Moore 1 NYTHING might have come \ out of the jungle—out from under those curious bush trees nth their random scarlet leaves, nd the prim little kapok tree, and tie berry-laden bushes which, a loment before, were heavy with :ealthily swinging fruit doves, and le trees with the perfumed green owers—anything at all, after the iirious chopping noise, the trampng and the shouts heard for the ast half-hour, coming nearer and earer up the steep hill, Mrs. Gordon, leaning on the erandah rail, listened to the aproaching sounds in a state of invested diagnosis. It was a typical ruadalcanal day: frying-pan sun, ;eamed pudding ground, jellied lue sea, clouds like meringues.

Down below, the leaf-roofed Govrnment buildings positively wagled in a haze of heat.

Her cookboy joined her, quite relectfully, polishing a glass with a Lngy tea-towel to show her he was o mere sightseer. And at that loment, out from the trees, there acked a heated party of six Sololou Islanders struggling with what ppeared to be a particularly uni-operative python.

They swayed on the brilliant reen clover lawn, the sun beat own on torsoes glistening with veat; and what they carried beveen them was a gigantic reel of ire.

“Me think,” said the cookboy, ith a rare flash of perception, altogether make ’im telepone come ow.”

“Ah, the Messrs. Bell,” murmured [rs. Gordon.

Four Messrs. Bell sat down sudenly and heavily on the writhing ire. Two Messrs. Bell gathered up ae slack, fell down into the jungle nd then re-appeared on a higher ivel among the violent greenery, here they hung sundry little garmds of wire and nails and optim- ;m on to handy trees.

An anxious cry, full of question, rifted up from below. All lifted leir heads and gave triumphant mgue: “HIM NOW!”

And Mrs. Gordon heard the tidings dropping down the hillside, relayed from boy to boy, until the merest whisper from the valley below seemed to indicate that the news must have finally arrived at the office, where presumably Captain Gordon sat in state, awaiting the happy moment when he could demand at a moment’s notice a thermos of tea or the file of papers in the left-hand top drawer in the dressing table from his dutiful spouse.

AND now the subdued and amenable wire was dragged slowly towards the house. Up three ladders darted three Messrs. Bell, and the leaf roof rustled furiously as the line was hauled around the eaves and on to the gallery.

It was a tricky business, persuading it to climb up over the showerroom wall, around the corner past the verandah door and along the wall to the gun cupboard, without leaving any loops to choke door hinges or catch unwary heads.

Triumph: Everybody congratulated everybody else. Diminished triumph. Nobody had remembered to bring the telephone itself.

The smallest expert was bundled off down the hill to fetch it, while the others sat down on the grass and held a departmental conference until he came gasping back.

Then came tattooed Toleoli’s big moment. Nonchalantly hitching up his calico, he stepped into the house with the make-talk box. He set it on the floor and, calm under a battery of saucer eyes, he squatted down beside it and somehow crocheted loose ends of wire on to suitable spots.

Solemnly he turned the handle and, picking up the handset, he shouted, without preamble, “You hear ’im me? You stop, eh? You hear ’im me good fella? You stop, eh?”

Results were apparently disappointing, “Him’e no stop,” he announced, cranking briskly and pressing the earpiece to an ear like a soup plate.

“Me talk now,” he bellowed. “You talk more. Me listen.”

No sound from the ether.

Toleoli tried cajolery, “More better me listen first time, you talk long me,” he wheedled. (Speak, oh speak, beloved).

AS long as fiddles were the faces round him. But reluctant science could be dealt with yet.

To the edge of the jungle sped an enterprising Mr. Bell. Leaning over into the valley, he uttered at length to the effect that Toleoli’im’e wait now long telephone—and again Mrs.

Gordon heard the message dropping and fading down to the office in the valley.

Sensation! The telephone gave a delicate but unmistakeable tinkle.

“You stop now, eh?” Toleoli roared menacingly, cross-eyed with the effort to hear. “You hear ’im me goodfella?”

A small squeak from the telephone.

“Talk more strong,” urged Toleoli anxiously. “Me hear ’im little bit no more.”

A loud bark from the telephone.

Toleoli recoiled and rubbed the operative ear.

“All right, all right, now me try ’em bell-o.” he cried. “Shut ’im up and listen more.”

Somehow, that broke the magic spell; the telephone went to sleep.

The experts buzzed like flies and shouted their distress down to the valley. Toleoli grew into a household fixture there on the floor, while houseboys dusted round him and Mrs. Gordon accepted, as part of the morning, his anguished, pleading, threatening conversation, broken occasionally by tired little rings from the telephone.

“II faut souffrir pour etre Mr.

Bell,” she thought irrelevantly.

But slowly, slowly, coherence crept into Toleoli’s monologue.

“Him’e sing out good now, eh?” he declaimed at last. “You hear’m me time me talk all the same? Yes, me savvy everything something long talk belong you. Me think telephone number one now. Tha’ ’s all.”

HE hung up with a triumphant grunt, hauled down his calico, and with a glorious flourish lifted the telephone to the top of the cupboard.

“I now declare telephonic communication between home and office formally established,” was what he conveyed in his final leave-taking phrase of “Him now.” Away filed the glowing Messrs. Bell, and the crashing in the jungle died away behind them.

Mrs. Gordon wondered briefly whether to ring Captain Gordon with the cheering news that the gap of half a mile had now been bridged between them. But she decided against it, picturing him purple and growling after trying to work in an atmosphere racked with such suspense. Time enough for the telephone to ring when it had to, she thought, and went back to her letters.

Next day, Mrs. Gordon was surprised to hear more curious chop- (Continued on Page 71.) 67

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Milne, who is a trained teacher, is engaged in educational work. The doctor was a medical missionary in China for five years. The European population welcomes a qualified medical man to the Island as there has been no permanent resident doctor there for over two years. ng noises down in the jungle, ben there was a sinister creaking und, a chorus of yells, a shatterg crash and, finally, a horrifying nding, tearing and thumping all >out her, while the house swayed otestingly and the leaf roof ipped like a banshee.

Out skittered the houseboys to vestigate and Mrs. Gordon ixiously trailed behind.

Away from the house, like hairs gged from a head, and away from e trees had been pulled all the lephone wires, supports, nails and latnot. And the new and still iused telephone lay sombrely on e coral path.

The omnipresent cookboy brought b explanation in five minutes flat. \ rival gang, clearing scrub for b new water scheme, had oughtlessly felled a tree smack to yesterday’s masterpiece. 30, soon after, there backed on the clover lawn a party of six lomon Islanders struggling again th what appeared at first glance be a particularly unco-operative thon, \nd this (Mrs. Gordon pictured j Messrs. Bell sadly murmuring) where we came in . . . 71 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Bougainville Notes mHE new road on Small Buka grows apace, and is now up to Ahila Mission and it has been inspected and praised by high officials. They travelled by jeep to near Malasang, in order to get a true picture of the job ahead of Roadmaster John Cox. They als visited and inspected ground a Ramun Bay, with a view to th establishment of a wharf and copra depot there.

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BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY. course—and that is becoming a ge industry in Fiji these days—it ?ht be considered the business the Fiji Government also.

To tourist is going to be favoury impressed if he arrives in the all hours of the morning and has spend the first hours of his stay the country sitting upright in a tir awaiting daylight!

Tiere are, of course, two hotels hin 20 miles of the airport; but se cannot always take guests at rt notice. b is hard to believe that, in these s of overcrowded travel, any rist would get himself into a ition whereby he lands unlounced in a strange country at im and has no arrangements 3e for accommodation. But arently some still do. nd, of course, there is no way telling just how many dollar fists have scrapped the idea of >ping off at Fiji just because V arrive in the early hours and then faced with a long car e. ossibly bure type accommodation id Pan American’s own chief at li lives in a very special bure— Id solve the difficulty for both ines and tourist authorities in lIS is a matter on which the air companies and the Fiji Government could probably together for their own good. The e sort of problem of transient travellers occurred in Lae, in T Guinea. Qantas, who are the rnational operators in that Itory, solved it in their own way milding an establishment which rs admirably for these passers. fail to see why Nadi accomation is the concern of the NZ ernment which through its tive air department is the ating authority for the Governts of Australia, NZ and the UK aspect of Nadi international airtraveller northbound from Mel- •ne to Fiji, arriving early at cot, Sydney, for a midnight off, does not expect the Ausan Department of Civil Aviation rovide him with a bed. id, incidentally, the overseas terminal at Mascot—a huge tin I— is about as uninspiring as ialdom can make it. With luck might get a cup of tea or Je. But there certainly is no and. if you want to buy a ir or a book, you must walk ig way to the terminal buildings NA or TAA. ae Mocambo, however, is not rely faultless, and attention to small details would make for more comfort.

Refreshment service could be improved. It functions only when planes are there. Surely people who have come from Fiji towns, to join planes, should get refreshment while waiting.

Tea-makers should be taught how to make tea. The concoction now handed out, as tea, tastes like the witches’ brew once given children for their bodily good—Senna tea.— JT, at Nadi, 3/10/51. 73 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951 Defence of the Mocambo (Continued from Page 55)

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More Thimbu’ Areas Opened to Recruiters From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, Oct. 3.

THE Central Highlands area from from which natives can be recruited for coastal jobs, has now been extended to the central section of the Waghi Valley, around Minj.

Previously the main sources fronn which recruits were drawn wem Goroka, Bena Bena and Chimbu-i- -they are known generally as Chimin bus.

Right now, the Chimbus have nor. time to spare for work, as the aUx important sing-sings are either ini progress or the villages are juste recovering from the effect of thesis energetic celebrations.

So the middle Waghi and Mtil Hagen sub-districts have beens opened for recruiting. there are very large numbers o:o Minj natives eager to try their lucH in the world outside the valleys, anor it is believed they are of the righ|ri type.

Central Highlanders have made i very big difference in the labouiu position throughout the since they became available to em-n ployers two years ago.

Some groups have proved verji satisfactory; but others have wrunjn tears of anguish even from planter, 1 e case-hardened to the vagaries od native workers. However, that is noo dissimilar to reports on European employees today, or of any day foe that matter.

But good, bad or indifferent thd Chimbus’ addition to the labour force has helped to overcome thid acute shortage.

It will be interesting to see if thd Minj boys put up any records wheie they get to grips with that hithen to unknown quality, steady worM'

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HANUABADA Hanuabada Native Village Coumi cil celebrated the first anniversary of its establishment under the nets Ordinance on September 15. Several thousand villagers and a considers able number of Europeans gatherer at Hanuabada for the occasion, ann the Council staged an excellent programme to mark the anniveno sary. The Administrator (Colomn Murray) and the Assistant Admimi istrator (Mr. D. M. Cleland) headed the official party, and were enters tained at the Council hall ancu taken on a tour of the village.

These were colourful natiwi: dances and a grand parade o scouts, rangers, cubs, girl guideb and other village organisations t the cricket ground for the Adminf istrator’s speech, and the Ceren monial Retreat staged by the polioli force band.

The Councillors had taken painf to have the village cleaned up fof the occasion, and its cleanliness ann tidiness might well have sia a standard for the whole comic munity.

The first Council with a village tax of £2 on every man raised £1,225. and so employed two village cono 76 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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[tables, labourers for hygiene and ■oad maintenance work, a village souncil clerk; paid for the fittings )f a Council Hall; allocated land or a village school and initiated dans for using land at Laloki for bod gardens.

It is considered that this experinent in a new type of Village Council has worked out well, and s a concrete step towards teaching he natives to assume responsibiliies in a democratic organisation.

Similar Village Councils, with tatutory powers, have been estabished in New Britain and Manus, md others are about to be set up n the Milne Bay area.

’Plane Accidents

After a long accident-free period, Jew Guinea aviation has had a lumber of serious accidents lately.

A Qantas Dragon aircraft, piloted iy Flight Officer Frederick George Jarlogie, crashed at Karanka, in he New Guinea Highlands, on September 21. The pilot, the only iccupant, was killed. He encountred bad weather, and a wing truck trees along the top of a idge, sending the machine crashing nto a gully.

On October 5, Gibbes Airways’

Jorseman made a crash landing iear Madang. Mr. Gibbes, who was he pilot, was unhurt, but the plane /as damaged.

Public Halls Available

The Port Moresby Library Institute Hall, on Douglas Street, has been extensively renovated. The Trustees have spent about £3,000 on repairs and alterations to this pre-war building, which now will be available for public functions.

This gives the town t\yo public halls, as the Red Cross Hall was completed a few months ago.

It was not easy for either the Red Cross or the Library Institute to get these buildings erected, for today any construction work in the Territory means a battle for supplies. Slowly, even if the pace at times slows to almost a standstill, 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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be town is developing, and over the ast two years a lot of hard solid rork has been done.

Another “Spleen” Case

A plantation assistant, James Jlen Swallow, 26, was acquitted in be Supreme Court on a charge of aving killed a Chimbu plantation worker.

Evidence showed the native, rawale, had not been well on the ight of July 16, and next morning r as carried from the native uarters, on an Abau plantation wned by Robinson River Plantaons Limited, to the sick line. Two atives who carried the sick man lleged that Swallow kicked him in le stomach. Swallow denied this, nd said he had immediately re- Dgnized that the native was very 1, and arranged for him to be iken to the hospital. He died bortly after. The post-mortem lowed that Gawale’s death was ue to a reupture of the spleen, and lere was no evidence from the ledical examination that he had een kicked.

Passing judgment, Mr. Justice lelly said that as the post-mortem filed to indicate that the deceased ad been kicked, he was not entled to find that any kick had een given, and he found Swallow ot guilty.

Lore Red Cross Branches

WANTED The Papua and New Guinea bvision of the Australian Red ross Society is launching a memership drive and an appeal for mds. At the annual meeting, on eptember 24, the chairman, Mr. J. [. A’Hearn, expressed disappointlent at the Territories’ low memership and lack of branches.

The Society has 550 members in apua and New Guinea, and one ranch, which is at Wewak. The ew headquarters building at Port loresby, which cost nearly £9,000, as emptied the Society’s cash box. nd the raising of funds must now e a major task to carry on Red ross work and prepare for any tnergencies which may arise.

The Wewak Branch, with a memership of 40, in a small community, as set an excellent standard for ther centres. It is hoped to have ranches at Lae, Rabaul, Madang nd other areas.

The native Red Cross movement ow has five Junior Red Cross ranches. The Hanuabada group as the largest membership, and is oing an excellent job.

Appeals For Funds

The committee in charge of the PPeal for funds for a memorial to ie late Sir Hubert Murray cornrises Mr. Justice Gore (chairman), Ir. E. A. James (deputy chairman), ir. J. H. A’Hearn (secretary), Mr.

C. L. Anthony (assistant secretary) and Mr. W. N. Chester (treasurer).

The form which the memorial will take depends upon the amount subscribed. A request has been made for suggestions from the general public.

Mr. H. M. King, Brisbane, who will be president of the Queensland Congregational Union in 1952, is the son of the late Rev. Joseph King, who was a missionary in Samoa in the 1860’s, and for 22 years was general secretary of the London Missionary Society for Australia and New Zealand. The president-elect is 71, and served in both World Wars.

By next year it is expected that passengers in Canadian Pacific Airlines planes on the Pacific service will be able to travel between Sydney and Nadi in about four hours. CPAL expect to introduce Comet jets to the Sydney-Hawaii service. These travel at 500 miles per hour—2oo mph faster than the fastest of the present planes in use in Pacific services.

Now that the NZ elections are over, increased numbers of tourists are arriving in Norfolk Island (says our correspondent). There were 39 on last Sunday's planes—all glad to be in the warmth and sunshine after experiencing New Zealand’s coldest winter. 79

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IN a beautiful setting of flowers in r the Masonic Hall, for which r Mrs. Normoyle and Mrs. Black- ford were responsible, Mr. Normoyle s gave away Miss Pamela Palfrey-man in marriage to Mr. John Best, our new resident vulcanologist. Best j man was Mr. Tony Taylor (whop previously held the position of vul - canologist here).

The bride’s lovely gown of i Parisian simplicity was designed for i her by her mother, late of Rabaul. J Nearly 100 guests assembled at the 9 reception at the Women’s Club.

Miss Jacqueline Palmers

was married to Mr. Roy Park,.; of the Royal Papuan Constabulary, on August 31, at thes Masonic Hall. , , , Jacqueline was a beautiful brides in ivory embossed satin with as three-quarter length veil. She wassj attended by Miss Valerie Lange;and groomsman was Sub-Inspector 1 Holloway. The bride was given a away by her father. Inspectors Palmer.

This happy snapshot was taken at the wedding in New Zealand recently of Miss Anhe Pamela Page (daughter of Mrs. Ann Page and the late Mr. Harold Page, of New Guinea), and Mr. J. W. B. Stevenson (son of Mrs. Stevenson and the late Mr.

N. B. Stevenson, of Upcot Station, Blenheim, New Zealand).

Old residents of New Guinea will remember Pam Page, the pretty second daughter of their Government Secretary.

Harold Page was one of the hundreds of men who, through official blundering, were left in Rabaul in January, 1942, without arms or resources, to face the Japanese invasion. They became prisoners of the Japanese, and a few months later, when being sent to Japan, they all were lost on the Montevideo Maru. Mrs. Page now is a resident of Neutral Bay, Sydney. 80 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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AEPS [?] From the Cooks From Our Own Correspondent AUCKLAND, Aug. 20.

FOST of Auckland’s Cook Islands L community met the Maui Pomare from Rarotonga, when berthed in Auckland on Sunday rning, August 12. [er passenger list included reng Resident Commissioner Wiln Tailby and Mrs. Tailby, and mlar Don Read and his wife and lily.

Ir. Read, for a good many years retary to the Resident Commisler at Rarotonga, has more retly been serving in the same acity at Niue. He now quits the mds —temporarily, it is hoped— a position at Islands Territories lartment, Wellington.

Iso aboard were the two sons of ;ran Cook Islands skipper Andy jmson—long associated with the nd schooners Tagua and Tiare >oro, and now master of A. B. lald’s latest acquisition, Chare Donald. Tony, war-time naval itor, has, like his younger ther Sammy, been following in father’s footsteps since the war, t in the Tiare Taporo, then on NZ coast, and lately in his ler’s present command. He now Les to Auckland to attend the igation School and sit for his ;e’s ticket. Meanwhile, Sammy is getting in his time in the “Maui Pomare” as AB—and getting some free trips back home!

The Eldorado Consolidated (New Guinea) Options Co. has been formed in Melbourne to acquire an option over a dredging and sluicing lease at Edie Creek, New Guinea.

British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, which operates an important service between North America, Australia and New Zealand, reported rapidly increasing business in the year ended March 31, 1951. Passengers carried across the Pacific totalled 13,976.

The Co. had an operating profit of £26,470. 81 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— OCTOBER. 1951

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Customs offices, holding sheds, cargo sheds and other offices are This photograph (kindly loaned by Miss Leeson) is a memento of the Pacific’s t famous literary partnership. It shows [?]hoff and Hall at the top of their t success—after the Bounty trilogy been published, and during the film- [?] of “Mutiny.” [?] the left is Charles B. Nordhoff, who died in California some three years ago.

In the centre is Frank Lloyd, famous producer, who came from Hollywood to direct the Tahiti section of the extraordinarily successful film. On the right is James Norman Hall, whose unexpected death in Tahiti, in July, was noted with regret throughout the world. The photograph was taken about May. 1935, in Papeete. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Telephone; LA 2828 (6 lines). included in the plans. Santo’s piers now are a shocking mess, and the rotten timbers, which fall from the decking at regular intervals, leave gaps which are a menace to both man and vehicles, particularly at night. It is also reported that Santo will have a telephone service. This is much needed —it will link the township, which straggles over almost the entire length of the Segond Channel.

SHIPPING: The Sagittaire is loading copra for France. The Morinda has been in, and it seems that she will make her last visit here early in the New Year. She probably will be replaced by another of the Company’s ships.

PERSONALITIES: Mr. and Mrs.

Don Gubbay recently arrived back from a world tour, mostly by air, which embraced Australia, France, England and America. Mrs. M. and Miss D. Morris will leave shortly for Australia. Mrs. D. Hooker and Miss V. Whitford are to visit Norfolk Island.

SOCIAL OCCASIONS: To mark the twentieth anniversary of theini wedding, Commandant of Britishl Police, Mr. P. Colley, and Mrsa Colley entertained a large gathering of friends at a dinner-dance' at their residence in Vila. They received innumerable congratulationsa Before coming to the Condominiums Mr. Colley served in the Solomonsa The Resident Commissioner fore France, and Madame Anthoniozs recently were dinner guests at thei Burns Philp bachelors’ mess in Vilas Joint hosts for the occasion were: Messrs. Hoey, Chisholm, Higginss.

Bender and Christmass.

Mr. Dick Camithers, of I. IK Carruthers, general merchants oo Apia, and his wife, Tina, returnee to Western Samoa recently, afte9 a holiday in Australia. Other wellL known residents of Apia who wen in Sydney at the same time wen Mrs. Aggie Grey (proprietress o: one of the Itwo main hotels iii Apia) and Mr. Fred Fairman.

Mrs. Keith Winters, wife of t meteorological officer on Nauru; told Melbourne newspapers lass month that she has 30 Nauruax* girls, aged 3 to 12, in a dancinjr class. Before her marriage she wa£ Miss Moya Dunn, a Tivoli balles girl. She praised living condition!: on Nauru. 84 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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BMII-51 World Demand For Nickel Soldiers Go To Mine In New Caledonia From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Aug. 28.

JJOME little perturbation was 3 caused in New Caledonia when it was officially anlounced that the Army, under the jommand of Colonel Vandeniroucke, had been ordered to work he nickel mines at Thio.

The High Commissioner’s Chief if Cabinet, Mr. Gavarry, explained hat owing to increasing demands rom the US and France for more lickel, work had to be accelerated, le said that the soldiers would be jailed back to their barracks in Noumea as soon as a projected :arrier for the ore could operate.

Between 40 and 50 soldiers have leen sent to Thio.

The Nickel Company’s smelters in Noumea expect to produce more han 10,000 tons of nickel by the end if 1952. New equipment is being nstalled, principally in the smeltng plants.

Large Sums Involved

3NE American, Mr. Patterson, who has important interests in the newly formed “Societe Caleonienne des Mataux” has opened lis offices in the new building of 4r. Pentecost, Rue de I’Alma, Noumea.

At the same time an official dislatch has announced ECA’s loan of ome 857,000 dollars to the “Societe laledonienne des Metaux,” to pronote the production of chrome in he Caledonian mines. The “Societe )aledonienne des Metaux” will also >e assisted in Metropolitan francs, md a sum of 146 millions has been >ut at its disposal. The company sail reimburse this by exporting hrome to the United States. It vlll pay 4 per cent, interest. The unds in dollars and francs are beng made available through the nedium of the “Caisse Centrale de a France d’Outre-Mer” (Caifom).

Anxiety In Britain

USERS of materials containing nickel will be “hard hit” by the increasing scarcity of the netal as the result of a great ex- >ansion of demand, said the manner of a Birmingham company at he conclusion of a six-weeks’ visit o Australia.

He said that large quantities of lickel and nickel alloys were needed or defence, while at the same time -here was a growing demand for ommercial and domestic uses.

Taro For Aucklanders

PROMINENTLY displayed in many Auckland fruit and vegetable shops is Island-grown taro, at 1/- per pound.

This indicates some effort being made to cater for the several thousand Cook Islanders, Samoans and Niueans now resident in New Zealand. The price seems high, in comparison with various wellsubsidised NZ foodstuffs.

Most Auckland greengrocers are Chinese who probably will let the taro rot (as it will, after a while) rather than lower the price.

Pawpaws of modest size can be bought in Auckland for 3/6d and 4/6.

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Mr. Angus MacDonald, head of the Apia agency firm of A. Mac- Donald Ltd., Western Samoa, who was in Sydney recently, returned to the Territory by air, via Fiji. 85 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Old Samoan Families United On August 14, in the SDA Church in Apia, Western Samoa, Miss Isabella Louise Stehlin, of Apia, was married to Mr. Jack Patrick Ryan, of Lalovaea. Thus, two of the oldest families in modern Samoa were united.

BSI Mission Still Seek WD Compensation THE Rev. A. H. Scrivin, general secretary of Foreign Mission Board of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, travelled to the Solomon Islands in mid-August to appeal to the Rt. Hon. John Dugdale (British Minister for Colonial Affairs) concerning his Mission’s war-damage claims. The Mission lost all its buildings on the islands of New Georgia, Vella Lavella and Choiseul (as well as in Bougainville and Buka, which are in TNG).

The NZ Methodist Times of August 25 said the Mission’s wardamage claims “have so far met with no response as far as the British Solomon Islands are concerned.”

Owing to his overcrowded programme in Fiji, Mr. Dugdale could not see Mr. Scrivin in Suva.

AJS.

Top: The bride and bridegroom, with Pastor Christian, who performed the ceremony.

Lower: The bride, with her attendants, enters the church with her father, the well-known Mr. Edmond Stehlin. Mr. Stehlin has been a member of the Samoan Government service for 30 years, and has been closely connected with Station 2AP, where he is chief announcer. —Photos by Superflash Studios. 87 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19f5 1

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Yacht Ordered Back To

TAHITI Prom Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, Aug. 10.

THOUSANDS yearn for a yacht and the open sea and freedom from war scares, food shortages, taxes and all the other horrors of civilisation. But Captain Ronald J. Frost has discovered that even blue-water yachtsmen are not entirely free—there are rules to which they must conform.

When Captain Georges Bailly, harbour-master at Papeete, arose on the morning of August 2, he noticed a blank where, the previous night, there had ridden, in the harbour, the British 8-tons yacht Axelle, registered in London —and sailed out to Tahiti by her ownerskipper and his brother, via Cowes, Madeira, Barbadoes, Saint Lucie, Panama, the Galapagos and the Marquesas. They had gone without clearance.

Captain Bailly called the pilot boat, and went out to sea. Ten miles away, he overtook the Axelle.

He ordered the yacht back to -port —and the Frost brothers obeyed.

They were dealt with promptly —fined 200 francs and forced to conform with the international law, which affects all ships. Before leaving a port, a voyager must notify port authority, health department, post office, customs officers and the national consul concerned.

But, three miles out, he is free. (The yachtsmen (Messrs. Frost), who are now in Suva, have quite a different story to tell. See their statement elsewhere in this issue.) Mrs. Flora Stewart, owner of the fine new Hotel Cecil, at Lae, New Guinea, left by air for Europe and America, in August. She is seeking a change, after two very strenuous years—and also seeks new ideas in decoration and management for her hotel, which should be open for business by the end of the year.

British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Ltd. have now opened their own office in Suva, Fiji. Previously BCPA worked entirely through travel agents in Fiji. 88 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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COLYER WATSON (oSSLJ LTD. © RABAUL MAOANG KAVI E N G Rawhiti Will Go To Great Lakes WHEN the LST Rawhiti, owned by the Roose Shipping Co., of Suva, berthed at Roselle Bay, Sydney, on August 20, with 170,000 :eet of sawn timber from Tauranga, tfZ, it was soon known that his would be her last appearance in he Pacific trade. An American >uyer has secured the handy 3,600ons landing-craft for the iron ore rade in the Great Lakes.

The Rawhiti and her skipper D. K. Matheson, formerly )f the NZ Government-chartered ;chooner, Tagua) are well known in he Islands. Since the Roose Co., vith headquarters at Mercer, NZ, mrchased the ship in Hawaii after he war, she has been seen in the Solomons, New Guinea, and Microtesia, variously engaged as a livetock transport, a carrier of war urplus, or, latterly, on the transrasman timber trade. She carried r gently needed general cargo from Luckland to Suva during the NZ waterfront tie-up.

Her Chief Engineer, Mr. Sugar, is well-known to the various port Justoms officers who, glancing own the lists of Declared Items, ave always found opposite his ame “live fishes” and, investigating urther, have discovered his cabin ) be a veritable floating aquarium, ith all kinds of tropical fishes ivimming leisurely among the fresh reen plants which decorate the big lass tanks in his cabin.

The Rawhiti arrived back in uckland late in September. She ads immediately for San Francisco, here she will go into dock. Her big )w doors will be permanently elded shut, and the big steel imp which poured tanks ashore i a Normandy beach-head and jain in the invasion of Italy, id which has since felt the tramp : cattle or the weight of big timber ucks driving inside with their ads, will no more go down.

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HONIARA, Oct. 1.

IENARU TIMBERS LTD., a company planning to utilise some of the forest area near Dniara, has already started shipng operations and seems likely to ! of great value to the BSIP. The nber at present being cut, while secondary importance to the trees tat will be accessible later, has ■eat commercial possibilities. It a lightcoloured wood with darkown markings, very well suited to plywood veneers. A small mill arrived for the company by September Morinda, and it is announced that 120,000 super feet of timber was shipped by Muliama to Sydney on September 30.

Prime movers in the company are Mr. Norman Wallis of Sydney, and Mr. R. Dethridge and Mr. K. H.

D. Hay, of Honiara, and keen local interest is being taken in its progress.

The survey sloop HMS Challenger —namesake of the first survey ship to visit Fiji waters in 1874—visited Fiji on September 4, and went on to Funafuti. G.&E. Colony. She is commanded by Commander G. S.

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Current London market prices will be paid for all clean usable material.

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We can supply you with heavy-duty multi-plate batteries in 12V, 32V, 50V or 110 V—every one guaranteed for four years. All Islands Electric Co. batteries are supplied fully charged and ready for immediate use. All necessary materials and lamps for electrical installations are on hand, and full wiring information is supplied free of charge.

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Eastern Pacific Notes I7ISITORS to Auckland from ▼ Tahiti are liable to be pleasantly surprised these days on liscovering that the face through he cross-harbour-ferry ticket-office hndow is that of Mr. Karl Charlie) Swenson, who for many ears, and until recently, was ttached to the staff of Etablisselent Donald, in Papeete.

New Era For Nassau

Mr. H. E. Maude, formerly of the administrative staff of the Western acific High Commissioner and now member of the South Pacific Comlission’s Research Council, in NZ i July, prior to his departure for assau, Northern Cooks, where he rganised another self-supporting 3lony, similar to the Commission’s tperimental project in Fiji.

About 100 settlers were transferred ) Nassau from Pukapuka by the ook Islands Administration last ;ar. The Island had been abanmed since the Coastwatchers were ithdrawn at the end of the war.

Prior to the Japanese entering the ar, Nassau had been operated as copra plantation by Burns Philp, om Apia, for many years. Captain r illiams, now Union Steamship Co. evedore at Apia, managed the land during that period—and reared a fine family on the 300acres outpost.

It is understood the Cook Islands Administration intends establishing a radio station at Nassau at an early date, this now being the only inhabited Island of the Group without radio communication. A new station recently came into operation on Manuae.

Another Ship For New

HEBRIDES , According to a news item from Radio New Zealand on August 27, the well-known New Zealand coaster, “Holm Glen,” of the Holm Shipping Co., Wellington, has been sold to a New Hebrides shipping company, and was expected to sail for Vila early in September.

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DRIFT Sydneyites, hurrying down George Street past the GPO, probably little realise that the candid-camera man who operates there is none other than Mr. “Screwball” Johnson, whom PIM readers will recall figured in a remarkable 4-months’ drift voyage from just south of Hawaii to near destruction on the reefs of the Fiji Group in late 1947.

The story was told in an issue of PIM early in 1948, under the title, “Operation Screwball.”

Towed into Suva by a British ship which picked up the derelict warsurplus sub-chaser to windward of the Fiji Group, Mr. Johnson had her fitted out and converted to trading requirements. Later she was sold to W. R. Carpenter & Co., present owners, and Mr. Johnson, coming to Sydney, purchased a cruising yacht, aboard which he now lives in Sydney Harbour.

Asked whether he. is planning further “operations screwball” Mr.

Johnson was nonchalant, but suggested that this may depend upon just how many of his George Street customers return with those little paste-board slips to collect their photographs.

Weather Man Moves On

Cook Islands residents will be interested to know that Mr. Jim Harper, former meteorologist at Rarotonga, has lately been promoted from his position at Ohakea Airfield, NZ, to take charge of the Weather Office, Hokitika. Jim sometimes pines for a return to the 91 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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A Boom In Shell

The islands of Manihiki and Penrhyn, in the Northern Cooks, have been experiencing a wave of prosperity, with the price of mother-of-pearl black-lip shell constantly on the increase, since operations resumed after the war. The price paid on the beach has risen in the past five years from 4d to as much as 1/8 per pound. Several diving machines are now operating below the minimum 15-fathom line permitted to machines—and every able-bodied man and boy is skindiving the shallower water.

No Tanker: So Australian Taxpayer Pays SOMEONE who blundered in 1947 cost the Australian Government over £3,000 for damages.

In March, 1947, Commonwealth War Disposals offered for sale by tender a tanker, lying on Jourmand Reef, near Milne Bay, north of Samarai, Papua; and Edward and Keith Mcßae got it for £285.

The Mcßaes sent an expedition to investigate their purchase. They found there was no reef thereabouts called Jourmand. Eleven miles from the position indicated they found a wrecked barge, which was not a tanker. They sued, and the High Court awarded damages. It said the officials had been reckless and irresponsible in wording their advertisement.

French Government Costs NOUMEA, Aug. 31.

THE French Ministry of Overseas Territories has sent the sum of 42,970,000 metropolitan francs (£A45,000), representing France’s share in the budget of the New Hebrides for the 1951 financial. year.

The budget of the Wallis and: Futuna islands has been established: for the financial year 1951 at.: 5,690,000 Pacific francs (£A42,500).> FD. 92 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!!

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NZ Wants Jamaica Oranges Now Islands Fall Down on Job of Providing Fruit SUVA, Sept. 18.

EW ZEALAND’S search for tropical and semi-tropical fruit has now extended to the st Indies. n September, a representative of NZ fruit distributing company ich has succeeded the Govemntal Internal Marketing Division, 5 in Suva, en route to Jamaica to to buy oranges for the Dominion, pparently, the Cook Islands cansupply them in quantities to ftl the NZ demand the whole r round. Norfolk Island does grow sufficient to take up the ;k—and shipping facilities are dequate. NZ is so afraid of imting fruit-fly that it will not r e Australian coastal fruit, and •roved fruit from the Murray gation Area is said to be too r —in special export packs, about - per case, Sydney, lollar troubles prevent the imtation of Californian oranges, ch found a ready market in NZ :he days before currency restricis. 0 one but an economist or a nner could see sense in the essity of importing fruit from as away as Jamaica when the ninion is surrounded by countries able of producing excellent nges. ew Zealand’s fruit problems are :ely the outcome of the post-war ra boom. Copra is an industry t suits the average islander Lething that can be done when spirit moves him, or left coniently until the following week. it, on the other hand, has an ortunate habit of becoming over- -1 if left on the tree too long.

Falling Banana Production IE September Matua left Apia with 2,000 cases of bananas fewer than provided for; Fiji • was 1,000 cases down on its ta. he long spell of dry weather is i partly responsible; but it ns certain that if the Islands t industry is to benefit by the ition of the Union Steamship s new Tofua to the south Pacific ie at the beginning of next year, Lething will have to be done in a ry to boost banana production, ofua and Matua will run itical services except that one them will go to a NZ South nd port to discharge fruit. At sent the Matua’s terminal port Auckland and all fruit has to be isshipped there. 11 Islands fruit production has fallen drastically since the war. If they cannot fill one ship now it seems unlikely that they can fill two in three months’ time.

The theory is that once the islanders know that regular shipping is available they will tum-to and produce more fruit; but, while copra and cocoa are bringing such high prices, this seems unlikely— except in Fiji, where a banana planting campaign was undertaken some months ago.

Fruit Juice Industry FRUIT juices and preserved pawpaw for the New Zealand cordial trade are manufactured in Fiji and Vavau (Tonga) by Fix Plantations of Fiji.

The fruit is pulped and shipped in four gallon cans and, potentially, should be profitable to the proprietors and of much assistance to fruit-poor New Zealand, which will take all it can get of these products.

However, like most potentially good industries these days, this one has its problems the tin plate shortage being one of them. 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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CALEDONIA From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Sept. 1.

EGN of New Caledonia’s post-war prosperity is the number of cars in the Noumea streets d the week-end procession out of vn. To this number, 222 vehicles re added during the first six inths of 1951 —145 of them from a,nce and 76 from the USA. [he Siamese Government has ight one of the three planes of i Trapas line of Noumea, now le out of service. A Siamese w, headed by an American pilot, ik delivery at Tontouta airport.

Dn his return from a first visit the Loyalty Group and a tour lund New Caledonia on the sloop, ire, the Acting Governor (M. rdarier) said he thought Austrais would find New Caledonia an al place for a camping holiday hat is if they came prepared to ke their own arrangements. He ike enthusiastically of the coast 1 mountain scenery, and the rk of the Catholic and Protesit missions among the natives, ose patriotism, intelligence and ndard of life he warmly praised. /L. Paul Pascalon, visiting French hitect and town planner, finds iimea too spread-out, having regard to the number of inhabitants.

He expects the town to grow, but says that one of the finest sites in the world is being spoiled by haphazard and unregulated building by commercial interests.

Two big warehouses are in course of construction at Noumea wharf— one for goods imported from overseas, and the other for goods arriving from other parts of the Colony and its surrounding islands.

In Paris, M. Lenormand, recently elected deputy for New Caledonia, has been appointed a member of the committee of the National Assembly studying matters relating to the Press.

The new French track-cycling champion is Andre Beyney, of Noumea. In honour of his numerous victories in Europe, New Caledonia has voted him a substantial sum to add to his prize winning achievements.

A party of American archaeologists, led by Professor Gifford, from the University of California, is expected in New Caledonia in February.

At the suggestion of the Colony’s Economic Affairs advisers, and in agreement with the Noumea Chamber of Commerce, the New Caledonian General Council has agreed that certain goods from Japan should enter the island at minimum customs rates.

New Caledonia is introducing the 40-hours week (173 hours per month) for workers. It seems likely tnat most employers will adopt the five days week system, with weekends free. Up to 44 hours a week overtime will be paid at normal rates after that 25 per cent, higher.

The Yorkshire Insurance Company is extending its activities to New Caledonia. Noumea representative is Mr. Yves Mortensen. 95 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19 51

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A Sydney Morning Herald writer says that the new High Commissioner for Western Pacific, will suppress the “Marching Rule” or “Marxian Rule” movement in the British Solomons. He says that the correct name is “Masinga Rule,” and that masinga is the local word for “brother.”

New Air Services Expected In The West Pacific PLANS were announced during the month for two new air services which will affect the Western Pacific countries—one from the Netherlands and one fro*< Japan.

KLM, Royal Netherlands Airlines will begin a regular weekly ate service between Sydney and Amr sterdam, in November.

An agreement between Australll and Holland provides for reciprocsc services by Netherlands and Ausi tralian airlines —between Holland and Australia, Australia and Dutch New Guinea, and Dutch Ne’e Guinea and Papua.

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KLM ran a well-known servioi between Holland and Australia, vh Batavia, before the war.

A writer in the Sydney Sun o August 26 said that the Japanese are planning a regular air servioi to Indonesia as part of a world aiii way system, once the peace treatb is signed. They hope that this wih bring them within striking distanoi of a service to Australia and, uk timately, reciprocal flying rightr with Australia.

Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Cole and Mist J. E. Cole returned to Fiji in Sen tember from leave spent in the UH 96 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ

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Architectural metalwork * li IN BP.ONZC - ALUMINIUM • STAINLESS STEEL • ETC W. Samoa Spurns Legalised Labour Recruiting From a Special Correspondent APIA, Sept. 18. rHE manpower shortage in New Zealand, nlus the fact that the Western Samoan population is acreasing faster than certain kinds f jobs, has opened the way for nigration from the Territory to he factories and industries of the )ominion.

This has suited the NZ employer nd also the part-European youngters and the more adventurous amoans who find it easier to make niche for themselves in NZ than i the Territory.

It has also suited a few Territory itizens who set themselves uo as Drt of labour recruiters for' NZ mployers and made a pound or vo for their efforts (£5 a head has een suggested as the recognised bruiting fee). )URING the recent session of the local Legislative Assembly, a Bill was introduced to legalise iis recruiting and for the licensig of agents—the purpose of the gislation being to safeguard those idertaking to work for a specified Z employer.

However, the bill had a hostile sception from most of the ssembly members who held that hour recruiting was a retrograde ep much too reminiscent of the lackbirding days to find an moured place in the legislation of freedom-seeking country like imoa. Therefore, after numerous nendments. the Bill actually ided as legislation to prohibit the cruiting of labour in Samoa for u.

This does not, of course, prohibit e youth of Samoa from going to 2 to work. It simply means that ey must, officially at any rate, go ider their own steam and in the •pe that the laws, migration and herwise, of both countries will re them the necessary protection )m exploitation. indentured labour and recruiting labour have, merely as terms, tfered such criticism, often united, that it is surprising that yone ever got as far as introducs the matter to the Assembly. ■t, if members had been able to 3rcome their dislike of the whole smess of recruiting, it probably uld have been no bad thing for 5 young people of Samoa. Most ahsed forms of recruiting give • more protection to the em- »yee than to the employer.

With the programme the 80 000 moans have mapped out for imselves, there is little future in Western Samoa for the majority of those people of mixed parentage who wish to live as Europeans.

They are landless, and the sort of jobs they want to fill are strictly limited. Their best chance of a place in the sun seems to lie in migration and in this they have been helped considerably in recent years in the fortuitous fact that NZ has been short of manpower.

Mr. Tom P. Byrne (Chief of Customs) was injured in a jeep accident at Port Moresby on September 19. When driving a jeep from, the driveway of his house on Paga Hill the vehicle swung off the main road on the turn, and tilted over the edge. Mr. Byrne suffered a fractured leg, shock and injuries to his chest and nose, and was admitted to hospital.

The Fiji Amateur Sports Association will hold a championship meetng at Albert Park, Suva, on Monday, October B—Cession Day— which is a public holiday throughout the Colony. 97 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19>5 1

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SUVA, Sept. 20.

LTHOUGH it has had all the L normal hold-ups in the supply of building materials, the new iglican cathedral in Suva is now pidly taking shape.

Next operation is the putting on the roof and, according to the iditions of the country, a feast r the workmen was held this ek to celebrate the event—which rhaps could be said to indicate b success of the apneal for the ilding fund. In more “advanced” mtries, by the time the roof is idy to go on, the owner is look- ; somewhere for a second mortand is not interested in the dal habits of his plutocratic rkmen. however, although the building id appeal has been successful. i amount received is still over 000 below the £IQOOO target, and ; task of raising this amount falls istly on the comparatively small glican community of Fiji. particularly valiant effort is ng made by Mrs. Kempthorne, e of the Bishon in Polynesia, o rims a second-hand clothes .11 in Suva markets. Her stocktrade she gathers from friends far afield as Honolulu and the ited States.

Fhe Anglican Church has few missionary activities in Fiji and Polynesia and is thereby financially handicapped. But the new cathedral will be a Suva landmark and an object for civic pride and is therefore also the business of everyone who is not necessarily a member the church.

It is expected that this first stage of the building will be completed by Easter and that it might be far enough advanced when the Archbishop of York arrives here at the end of the year for some ceremony to be held there.

IN the meantime, farther down the hill, the small wooden Pro- Cathedral continues to serve the community as it has done for photograph taken of the workmen outside the building on September 14. In front [?]w, third from left, is Mr. W. Wise, who has given technical advice. Next him is [?]e Rev. H. W. Figgess, Rector in Suva. The Bishop in Polynesia, the Rt. Rev. L. S. [?]empthorne, is shown in dark coat, and next to him is Dr. R. H. Beattie, Secretary of the Chapter. 99

Ici F I G Islands Monthly October, I'Ssi

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Cable Address: “FRESHET,” SYDNEY. 65 years. A fussy little grandmother kind of a building, she seems to look up at the new cathedral and say, slightly disapproving, ‘‘Well, I was considered elegant in my day— and I cost only £600.” _. ~ , _ Since then a tower has been steel** stays "Sd Tady together. She is the enduring kind —like most pioneers in Fiji—and even when the new cathedral is functioning her useful life will not be over. Part will be removed out to Suva Point to carry on the good work there.

A DANCE and “social evening” was held in the Parish Hall, on September 18, to celebrate the 65th birthday of the church—it was established in Suva just four years after the transfer of the capital from Levuka.

Church members came from every community European, Chinese, Fijian and Indian —and under the direction of the indefatigable Charles Stinson and his sister, Mrs.

Lester, all thoroughly enjoyed dancing and singing together.—JT.

Census of W. Samoa From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Sept. 22.

A CENSUS of the whole population of Western Samoa will be taken on September 25.

The figures may show a total population of about 85,000 people against a total of 68,197 in 1945 when the last census was held and 37,157 in 1921.

The number of persons of European status is estimated to be about 5,500 and that of Samoans at about 80,000. 100 TROUBLE-FREE FLIGHTS NAC’s Fine Record in South Pacific WHEN the New Zealand National 1 Airways Corporation’s twin- engined Dakota “Poaka” made? its accustomed run in the South i Pacific in the early part of September (Auckland-Norfolk Is.-Fiji-- Western Samoa-Cook Is. and return) it actually was recording thee Corporation’s 100th flight in thiss area.

Accordingly, there were celebrations. There were pleasant social!, functions; the plane’s crew were decorated in Aitutaki and with leis by pretty dancing girls off the Cook Islands; Commander RJ C. Barclay and Engineer Aspreyj were photographed under conditions in Western Samoa ancfe formally congratulated in the Cook Islands by Acting Resident!

Commissioner Walker; and NAC received many compliments on the. record of 100 flights without anY .serious accident, cancellation or interruption.

The New Zealand Air Force actu-i ally pioneered the routes referred' to; and NAC took over in November! 1947 —tw0 Sunderlands running thei service between Auckland and Lau-i cala Bay (Suva), and landplanes! opening the two routes Auckland-£ Norfolk Is., and Auckland-Fiji-i Samoa-Tonga-Cook Islands. was cut out only recently).

These services have been exceed-£ ingly valuable to the Islands Terri-! tories concerned. It is not knowin at this stage, whether the new TEAL service along the same route, buu extending from Cook Islands t»f Tahiti, will supplement the NAC. service, or will take its place. NAO. already has a big job in carrying on all the numerous and growing internal air services in New Zeac land.

Teal Survey Flight

A second survey flight over thri proposed route of the new TEAI/ service (Auckland-Fi j i - S amoas Cook Islands-Tahiti) was carries out during September by a 363 seater Solent. A new Solent, names Aparima, arrived in Auckland from Britain in mid-September, for thl TEAL services.

It is expected that the flying-timr between Suva and Apia will be cu: down by the Solents to 4 homri eastbound and 3 hours westboum. (the latter flights being helped fcf the tradewinds). 100 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISL*NDS MONTHI,

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Happy Wedding Party in Vila exports of gold and silver bullion ELV 010n y of Fl J* have been .mpted from the payment of the rt and Customs Service Tax of 3 per cent.

Ratu George Cakobau has been selected to be a Fijian member of the Legislative Council in the place of the late Ratu George Toeanivalu OBE George lOganivalU, The New Guinea Administration recently bought two Port Moresby residences, in at attempt to solve its staff housing problems—the Ela Beach residence of Mr. Tom Nevitt (retired to Australia) for £9,000, and the Lawes Road residence of the late Mr. A. K. Edwards, for £6,250. [?] New Hebrides romance, which had its [?]inning when a French cruiser called at [?]t Vila, Santo, in 1947, was advanced [?]further step on September 19, when [?]lle Irene de Laplane was married, in [?]a, to M. Maurice Binnvenu. The [?]degroom, in 1947, was an officer on [?] warship, and the meeting with Mdlle [?] Laplane, then on the Vila staff of the Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles Hebrides, meant love at first sight. The photograph, by John Sang Studios, shows the happy party which assisted in the ceremony—notable, incidentally, for the good looks of the young women of Port Vila. M. and Mdme Binnvenu plan to make their future home in France. 101

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Football is Popular in New Guinea [?]I three communities in New Guinea (Europeans, [?]ese and natives) have developed a healthy interest football. On this page seven photographs, by C. H. [?]n, of Rabaul, show seven teams which, in the [?] on just ended, more or less distinguished them- [?] es. They are:— [?]P LEFT.—Rabaul, No. 1 Team. MIDDLE, LEFT.— No. 2 Team. LOWER, LEFT.—Lae, No. 1 Team. [?] P RIGHT—Elementary A School Team, Rabaul. [?]OND FROM TOP, RIGHT.—Rabaul No. 2 Team. [?]RD FROM TOP, RIGHT.—Black Dragon Team, [?]aul. LOWER, RIGHT.—Matupi Village Team, [?]aul.

Mr. William Smith, who has spent 28 years in Tonga, left Nukualofa on the September Matua and will settle permanently in New Zealand. He has been interested mainly in the meat business in Tonga and before that was cattle raising in Fiji for the late Sir Henry Marks. 103 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY- Q C T O B E R . 1 951

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Phone: BU 2521 Cables; “Berbl” Sydney m Tahiti Accused of Hounding Tourists More About the Frost Case THE report on page 88 of this issue, of the Affair Frost, which caused a teacup-storm in Papeete, seems to bear only a slight resemblance to the story told me recently, in Suva, by the brothers themselves.

Ron and Don Frost, in their 30-ft yacht Axelle, are now in Fiji prior to sailing on the last lap of their journey to New Zealand. They are migrating to the Dominion from the UK the hard way. When they get there they expect to sell Axelle and become farmers.

Their version of their Papeete adventure is substantiated by Mrs.

Russel Foreman, who was Renne Beveridge and who, at the time the Frosts were in Tahiti, held an official position with the Tahiti administration and, in the line of duty, had a deal to do with tourists and visitors to the colony. She and Mr. Foreman, a well-known artist, were passengers from Papeete to Suva on the Thor in September and were married by special licence in Suva.

THE brothers say that when they ' arrived off Papeete they were < left to themselves to negotiate < the dangerous “pass,” but that, once i inside, they had to take on a pilot; who directed them to tie up alongside a copra boat. They asked if 1 they could not anchor at some more i desirable spot—but no, they mustJ stay where put.

Apparently they were given litera- ture which said they must get ai permit and a clearance if they wished to leave Papeete Harboum for any of the outer islands, buW there was no indication that they\ could not move about within thee harbour.

LATER, they met a friend whoc lives some miles out of thes town —but still inside the reef! that forms Papeete Harbour. He 9 asked them to come out and anchon off his place and, as they had noo liking for their berth next the coprae boat, and as it did not entail puttings out to sea, this they decided to do.c When half way there, to them, amazement they found that thejj were being pursued madly by th©j port launch. Some argument en-j sued, during which the official! launch forced the bows of AxelleJ around and the brothers werechased back to the old anchorage.

Thereupon they were visited bye Customs men who, in an effort toe find non-existent contraband, “al-I most took the yacht to pieces.”

Later, they were charged with; some breach of harbour regulation!! —presumably, moving from their allotted mooring without permission —and fined 200 gold francs.

It seems that a “gold” franc about as much existence in fact as a British gold sovereign. It is i means of anchoring the currency in terms of gold, and ii worth at present about 11 Pacififl francs.

The Frost brothers did not pae their fine, anyway, in gold francs od in any other. An unknown benedj factor, who is interested in fosterinn the tourist business in Tahiti, paili it for them.

THIS happened in July. Tw# months later, in Suva, tW, brothers were still seethim about it. As far as one may judg! in one interview, I should say thsx they are perfectly decent youmj men, quite unlikely to run agaimn authority for the sake of it; am. that if they had, unknowingly, rur foul of some local regulation it wsv not deliberate.

No one disputes the right of tMd French administration to take sonn precautions against the beacHc comber type. But the unfavourabd. reaction of practically every tourin or visitor to Tahiti from soft cu.tr rency areas who has been hounds OCTOBER. 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ

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The action of the authorities in basing these men around Papeete larbour, and then going to the ength of fining them for some riinor breach of some misundertood law, appears to me to be sheer ysteria.

In Suva they were treated as me and respectable by both offiialdom and private citizens. Suva Iways has a welcome for these ardy adventurers who sail around le world in little ships.

Neither does authority come down id scream at them that they must )end the equivalent of 200 dollars month in the Colony, or get out. there is some way to make them )mfortable, or to save them a lilling or two, Fiji citizens are all ir it.

When Tahiti began, after the ar, to make things difficult for sitors to that Colony, I undersod that it was in order to save e Tahitians.

I should very much like to know >w, if in the past all the deuchery of the Tahitians was done Englishmen, Australians and Jw Zealanders who only have unds, shillings and pence to end; or whether Frenchmen and 0-dollars-a-month Americans ght not also have had some hand it.- JUDY TUDOR.

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[?]TTLES [?] ERROMANGA rELBOURNE Argus is responsible I for the report that the island of Erromanga, in the Southern e hrides, 70 miles southwards Vila, has been “bought” recently a young widow, Mrs. D. Sawyer, South Yarra.

Sorting out the definite statetits from the typical blurb and psody of the newspaper writer— >me’s a tropical island, with ite beaches, oysters, fish, wild eon, tropical fruits and all” ppears that, before the war, Mr.

I Mrs. Pete Sawyer bought an fishing schooner, Henrietta in erica, and sailed her through the me Islands to Australia. Three r? /go. Mrs. Sawyer and her ill daughter voyaged through the 7 Hebrides in a 60 ft. schooner, s and called at Erromanga er i n s ™ e bou S ht the island, i 1,000 wool-bearing sheep, a lestead on a hillton, and 400 [yes; and has gone to live there, bat is the newspaper story. What lably happened is that Mrs. has bought the 11,000-acres lerty on which sheep have been ed for the last couple of decades : nati of Erromanga, which tains 700 square miles, killed so many missionaries in the early days that it was called “the martyrs’ isle.” It is exceedingly well-watered and fertile.

Lean Period for Niue Home Industry From Our Own Correspondent NIUE, Sept. 7.

THE Niue plaited ware trade (baskets’and hats) has had a bad year largely due to the shipping strike in NZ which resulted in no ship calling for five months.

The Maui Pomare lifted over a 1,000 bags of parcel mail on her August trip but since then the Matua has taken over the call to Niue and she will only take 200 bags of parcel mail.

One local firm has orders for 35,000 baskets but has been unable to ship more than a fraction of that number.

It is hoped that with advent of the Tofua next year the position will improve and the wholesale buying* of baskets will recommence.

On September 6, Miss June Burbury, of Vaucluse, Sydney, was married to Mr. Clyde Johnston, who Is a pilot officer with Qantas Airways. They will live in New Guinea. 105 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shiping lines running on regular time-tables i the Pacific Islands. The following timeiDies are only approximately correct— ley are subject to much alteration at tort notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America Canadian-Australasian liner Aorangl 7,500 tons) maintains regular twoonthly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suvaanolulu-Victoria-Vancouver, and return.

Rms Aorangi

fd. .. Sept. 6 Nov. 8 Jan. 10 tick. .. Sept. 10-11 Nov. 12-13 Jan. 14-15 iva .. Sept. 14 Nov. 16 Jan. 18 'nTu . Sept. 21 Nov. 23 Jan. 25 ict. .. Sept. 27 Nov. 29 Jan. 31 me. . Sept. 28- Nov. 30- Feb 1-7 Oct. 4 Dec. 6 ct. .. Oct. 4 Dec. 6 Peb. 7 nTu ..Oct. 11 Dec. 13 Feb. 14 iva .. Oct. 20 Dec. 22 Feb 23 ick. .. Oct. 23-25 Dec. 25-27 Peb. 26-28 'd. .. Oct. 29 Dec. 31 Mar. 3 Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about jry six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbymarai - Lae - Dregerhaven - Rabaultnarai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. *ext departure from Sydney indefinite mg to serious fire aboard.

JV Malaita, freighter with some corntable passenger accommodation, sails varied schedule about every seven sks usually Sydney - Samarai - Laedang-Manus-Rabaul-Samarai-Sydney. jailed from Sydney, October 6. ill details from Burns, Philp & Co., Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-T onga imall modern MV Matua, carrying 100 isengers, runs about every 4-5 weeks: :kland-Suva-Nukualofa and Vavau mga) - Niue - American Samoa - Apia estern Samoa)-Suva-Auckland. details from Union SS Co.

Zealand-Cook Is.- Niue-Samoa Id MV Maui Pomare (40 passengers) ntains fairly regular service between kland and Rarotonga (Cook Islands), i alternative calls at Niue and Apia Samoa). etails from NZ Government Shipping dney-Norfolk Is.- N. Hebrides-Solomons .earner Morinda, 40 passengers, runs about 6 weekly intervals: Sydneytolk Is. (alternative)-Vila and N rides ports-Honiara (Solomons), and rn direct to Sydney. etails from Bums, Philp & Co., Ltd. ydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Jssels of Messageries Maritimes Line, mg from Marseilles, via West Indies Panama, call about every six at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), mea and Sydney, and return by same is De tails from Messageries Mari- “alL m °t° r -shi ps Polynesien (Messaand Neo Hebr idais (H.

Ltd,) m »intain fairly regular ice between Noumea and Sydney.

Airways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths Thur. and Sun.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji) - Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattle- Portland.

Sun. and Wed.—Return via same route.

Twice weekly.—PAA run shuttle service DC4 between Nadi (Fiji) and Auckland.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Every 4th trip terminates at S. Francisco.

Mon. and Thur.—Dep. southwards, same route.

Tues.—Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Fri.—Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco alternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) Alternate Wed.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Alternate Wed. —Return by same route. 107 °IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1951

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PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 pm Bris., 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am Moresby, 7.36 am Lae 8.30 am Connects here with DC3’s for Lae and (Wed.) Wau, Bulolo; and (Sun.) Rabaul, direct.

Mon., Thur., Fri. (DCS’s) Sydney, 8.15 am Bris., 11.15 am Brisbane, 12 noon Rock’ton, 2.20 pm Rock’ton, 2.40 pm Town?., 5.15 pm (overnight) Depart: Arrive: Townsville (Tues., Pri., Sat., 5.20 am Cairns, 6.30 aim Cairns, 7 am Moresby, 10.30 amo Moresby, 11 am Lae, 12.20 pm On Tues., connects here with DCS to.

Madang.

SOUTHWARDS Tuesdays (DCS) Madang, 3.45 pm Lae, 5 pm Wednesdays (DCS) Wau, 11.30 am Lae, 12.35 prar Saturday, Thursday (DCS) Lae, 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 aim Moresby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.15 pm Via Cairns, Towns., Brisbane.

Monday (DCS) Rabaul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 amr Moresby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm j Cairns, 3.10 pm Towns, (overnight), 4.30 pm Towns., Tues., 8,15 am Brisbane, 1 pm i Brisbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) Lae, 10.30 am Moresby, 11.40 aim Moresby, 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pnn Bris., 8.25 pm Sydney, 11 pim 2A. Sydney-N. Guinea Service by Trans Oceanic Airways With Solent Flying-boat Sundays and Wednesdays Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.15 pm Bris.. 10 pmi Bris., 11 pm Moresby, 6.30 am, Mondays and Thursdays Moresby, 9.30 am Bris., 5 pm Bris., 6 pm Sydney.. 8.30 pm This service connects at Moresby with the planes of Mandated Airlines, which provide service to all points in Neis Guinea. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday.

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MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Wana Kikori, L. Kutubu.—Every alternaa Wednesday: returning same day.

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina) Alternate Monday.—Dep. 9 am-Abatis Samarai-Esa’ala-Losuia (overnight).

Alternate Tuesday.—Return to Moresbd same route (except Esa’ala), callings Deboyne Lagoon.

MORESBY-NEW BRITAIN- BOUGAINVILLE In Alternate Weeks, by Catalina Alternate Monday.—Moresby- Mmu-Saimn rai-Esa’ala-Losuia-Rabaul.

Alternate Tuesday.—Rabaul-Q. Carola Hae bour-Buka-Kieta - Buin (BougainvilKl and return. Inus optional.

Alternate Wednesday.—Rabaul - Talases; Moewe-Jacquinot 8., and return. Linde.s. hafen optional. .

Alternate Thursday.—Rabaul ala-Samarai-Abau-Moresby.

Moresby-Ne Papua

Tuesdays and Fridays Moresby (7.30 am)— Kokoda (8.20 am)(r Popendetta (8.55 am)—and returns Moresby 10.15 am. 108 OCTOBER. 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Tuesdays.—Madang (7 am) to Goroka, Kainantu, Aiyura, Arona, as required Returns to Madang (noon).

Thursdays.—Madang (7 am) to Wabag.

Baiyer R., Hagen. Optional: Kerowagi, Chlmbu. Returns to Madang (noon).

Fridays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, Aiyura, Kainantu, Benna Benna, Goroka. Chimbu, Kerowagi, Kup, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Hagen, Ogelbeng, Baiyer, Wabamunda. Return to Lae.

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LAE-WAU-BULOLO (Drover) Dep. Lae.—Tues., Fri., Sat.

Dep. Wau.—Tues., Fri., Sat.

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Wed. —DC3 from Lae to Wau, Bulolo, and return.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company •uns regular services for passengers, freight and mails to all New Guinea lettlements. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DCS Veekly service, between Darwin and Biak. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons Operated by Qantas ■lternate Monday (DC3).—Lae (dep. 6 am) - Finschhafen - Rabaul - Torakina (Bougain.) - Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara (BSI) (arr. 4.25 pm).

Iternate Tuesday.—Honiara (dep. 7 am)- Yandina - Vellalavella-Torakina-Rabaul- Finschhafen-Lae (arr. 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

DC4 (Skymaster) dep. Saigon every 28 days for Jakarta - Darwin - Brisbane- Noumea, and return.

Australian agents: Messageries Maritimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyingboats Regular twice weekly service. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymaster Alternate Thursdays; returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying-boat Frequent non-scheduled flights, thus;— Syd., dep., 9.30 pm Noumea, 5.30 am Nou., dep., 8 am Vila, 10.35 am Vila, dep., 12.05 pm Santo, 1.20 pm Santo, dep.. 6 am Vila, 7.15 am Vila, dep., 8.15 am Nou., 10.55 am Nou., dep., 2 pm Syd., 9.15 pm 109

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By NZ National Airways, with DCS’s Sundays.—From Auckland, returning same day.

Alternate Sundays.—One additional service, same day. See also table No. 8. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney, Mon., Fri., 11.59 pm; Thur., Fri., 8 am.

Dep. AK, Tues., Wed., Thur., Sat., 9 am.

Av. crossing time, 6V2 hours.

Australian bookings: Qantas or TAA. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney, Tues., Wed., Thur., Sun., 10.30 pm.

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Samoa), Aitutaki (Cook Is.) 110 OCTOBER. 1951-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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By Tasman Empire Airways, with Flying-boat )nce monthly, from Auckland and Wellington, from October until April. 18. Tahiti-Cook Islands By Tahiti Airways, of Papeete )nce monthly, from Papeete to Aitutakl (Cook Is.) with mails and passengers, returning same day. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using ■engined amphibious Catalinas. run reularly to Koror (Palau). Yap (West arolines), Truk (Central Carolines) onape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) ad Saipan (Marianas). Details from rans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Lockheed Rapide Twice daily service between Nausori (12 iles from Suva) to Nadi and Lautoka id return.

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[?]Ow A Tahiti Merchant

LOST £750 i N Australian showman, Barney I. Bergin, was charged at the Sydney Quarter Sessions, in jptember, with having received oney from Oscar Nordman, of ahiti, and with having frauduntly omitted to account for'same, fter a four days’ trial, the jury und him not guilty.

Police evidence showed that brdman, in 1949, sent to Sydney 50 as first payment on certain nusement-park equipment selecd for him in Sydney by Mr. snderson, who then was British msul in Papeete. Bergin received e money but failed either to ship e equipment that had been dered by Nordman, or to return e £750.

Die defence was that Henderson i not order any particular ichme, and that Bergin offered ship a machine which he claimed with specifications, and his witnesses flatly tned this; but the jury apparently :epted Bergin’s argument.

Bergin, last year, was charged f r 3 uc *’ i* l that he accepted bstantial money from another awman, on an undertaking that he would provide the showman with two specimens of wild jungle men from Borneo. He was acquitted on that charge, also.

Pacific Islands Society

A NUMBER of interesting films, mostly of Pacific subject, were shown at the September meeting of the Pacific Islands Society.

On the evening of October 24, the members will be addressed by Mr.

Loring Hudson, a well-known scientist and an executive officer of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Mr. and Mrs. Loring Hudson have been in Australia for several weeks, and have made a visit to Singapore.

The Society, in November, will hear an address by Mr. Lex Halliday, who is organising the production of film “shorts” dealing with Pacific Islands subjects.

Christmas Cocktail Party The Society’s Christmas cocktail party will be held in History House, 8 Young Street, Sydney, on Thursday, December 13, between 5.30 and 7.30 pm. All Islands visitors in Sydney are especially welcome. 111 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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AI Films, who specialise in the production of “shorts” for educaional and cultural institutions, propose to make a series of 8-minute •ictures, with sound track of course, iving typical glimpses of life on the *acific Islands—village life, educaion of natives, industries, Islands istitutions, Islands practices, georaphical description, history, native msic, native mythology, and nature .udies (animal, bird, plant or sea fe).

AI Films invite Islands people to ibmit scripts, on which such films lay be based. Mr. Halliday has rawn out a list of hints to pros- -ctive writers, indicating how they lould set about the preparation of film.

The scripts will be judged, for ent, by a special panel, and special 'izes will be awarded the best of r €l But any scri Pt which the I Films producer thinks may be Drth “editing.” with a view to prowill be bought from the ithor for £lO. Especially good horts, ’ based on the best of these npts, may go, not only into AI Ims customary channels, but also to general and world-wide circubion.

The list of prizes offered, and all tails governing this new compelon for Pacific Islands scripters > Will be published in Noviber PIM. Anyone interested may the meantime, obtain particulars wntmg directly to the Producer istralian Instructional Films. Tura, Sydney. (Advertisement on is page.) NZ Warship Visits Apia Prom Our Own Correspondent trri «. APIA, Se Pt. 22.

HE New Zealand warship Kamere, now on a Pacific cruise, paid a short visit to ia from September 16 to 19 She under the command of Lieut.ni cSS? er Ross > and with , s ® ni ° r Officer of the New ll^ n ? Squadron, Captain G. V Dolphin, on board, carried a iplement of 127 men. n Apia there was a full promme of entertainment and sf n _ mcl udmg a special race -tmg, a ball for the officers at lima, the residence of the High nmissioner. a dance arranged bv Mothers Club and sporting fix-

Retirement Of

Well-Known

Santo Missionaries

T HE An ,f p e r Y nn and .„ Mrs - William Ande .r sor i soon leave Thev^ tU t NeW . “* es * to „ Ashburton, «vdnev Island ’ New Zealan d, via Sydney.

After over 50 years in the group as a Presbyterian minister, Mr. £ nd S rs^ n is affectionately known to hundreds of people as just plain BI JJ, and his departure is recorded with regret.

He can relate many interesting experiences of the old days but, being a modest man. is reluctant to hls u remarks publicised. He did tell me, however, how they used to JSSnfrt Hog to row a whaleboat laden with stores > a “ d whenlcontemplatethe distance, I find a considerable amount of truth in the saying that the oldtimers were tough They needed to be.

The Andersens will leave numer ous friends who wish them well and none will deny that their retirement is very well earned —Vernon Wheatlev. vernon 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT-O CT OB U, m ,

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Council RABAUL, Sept. 30.

THE Rabaul Chamber of Commerce has resolved that it will take no part in nominating or supporting a candidate for election to the new Legislative Council, as a protest against what it calls the very undemocratic constitution of the Council.

When the Minister was here recently, the Chamber urged a reconstitution of the Council, on the ground that it was useless to elect three European members to a council of 29, when 26 of the members were either Government officials or nominees.

Mr. Hasluck told the Chamber that he could not hope to amend the Papua-New Guinea act (which defined the constitution of the Council) within two years. He said the Government must have some experience of the working of the Council as now constituted before it could propose any alteration. He also argued that the election of 3 members to the Council would give non-official Europeans a chance to express their views.

The Chamber, however, insisted that a Council comprising 26 officials and official nominees, and only 3 elected persons, was fundamentally undemocratic and, from its inception, an instrument of the Administration. It argued that as the Australian Socialist Government which planned such a Council had been thrown out of office in Australia, the present Australian Government would be justified immediately in revising the constitution of the Council.

As no official action was proposed in this direction, the Chamber cided to hold itself aloof from the Council election.

Destruction Of Cargo

rE Advisory Council at its September meeting, urged that, there should be a public inquiry into what it called the wanton; destruction of cargo during the unloading of vessels at the Government wharf. The Council thinks that the inquiry should be made ur public and treated as a matter oft urgency.

Watch On Volcanoes

fIIHE apathy of the Administra- J[ tion in relation to the con-, struction and equipment of s building, wherefrom the vulcanolo- < gist stationed at Rabaul may watch the volcanoes were strongly con-i demned by the Advisory Council in September.

The Council said that owing W the absence of an observatory building, chemical equipment was at present lying idle in Rabaul arm other essential equipment, availably in Australia, was also lying idle. the maintenance of such an obseri vatory is considered essential to the safety of Rabaul, it is felt that thru is a matter of some urgency.

It was subsequently announces bv the Works & Housing that thee had accepted a tender for the erect tion of an observatory building ana residence on a site overlookinn Rabaul.

Wharf Relief Promised

Plans have been drawn' for tfcT construction of a small wharf ao jacent to the copra wharf, exclm 114 __ IQ ., pacific islands monthl OCTOBER, 1951 r A v

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Wharfage facilities in Rabaul have been totally inadequate for rears. The pontoon wharf, known is the Customs Wharf, is continuilly in need of repair, while the BP vharf at Malaguna is practically inusable.

The Administration has made use if a Japanese wreck to serve as a eceiving wharf for copra from nter-lsland vessels and these oastal vessels simply await their urn in berthing at this or the Customs wharf.

NEW W & H MESS Many residents wonder whether ley will be required to move to le proposed township at Rapopo hey are impressed by the erection : a new mess for Works and Housig employees. This building, when nished. will accommodate 150, with nple refrigeration and cooking icilities and quarters for native irvants.

Kokopo Celebrates

An annual event held pre-war was -instated on Commemoration Day by the residents of Kokopo, in the form of a Gymkhana. Since the war years, a sports day such as this has not been held at Kokopo, so it was decided by the Committee of the Sports Club to again hold this event annually, which they hope will become as popular as pre-war. This year’s Gymkhana was a great success.

Jap Mine Exploded

Residents, on September 26, heard a loud report, like a bomb explosion. A very severe storm during the previous week-end had caused , Japanese nune to break away from . moorings on the harbour floor and seen floating near the ?}?? th . of H l6 harbour by natives off Harbour Master Copeland and Police officials found it was a mine and it was sew d wreck outside the harhour Then a bomb disposal squad went out and exploded it. ~ i u» NO am. ssssr- » 115

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Socialists And Bsi

AGREEMENT Why Gold Search Was Terminated Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, Sept. 30. a search for empty oxygen bottles, Mr. J, Cramer-Roberts, who last visited the Protectorate 1947, arrived in Honiara by Qanin September. Mr. Cramer- )erts is Mines Superintendent of Associated Mining Companies Fiji. But, although there are asands of oxygen cylinders near liara, very few serviceable ones Id be found. efore the war, Mr. Cramererts was in charge of prospectoperations for the late E. G odore who, at that time, had ices covering 750 square miles Guadalcanal, from coast to it. ider the agreement (signed in between the BSI Government Mr. Theodore) the area was to ystematically prospected in five s, at least £lO,OOO a year being t. Work had only just begun \ Jap invasion caused the drawal of the company’s emjes. i their return in 1945, under a Colonial Office policy the agree- : was terminated, so that the e permitting prospecting for iious metals and minerals” was a to read “precious metals e were bound, under this pro- -1 agreement,” said Mr. Cramerrts, “to report findings of other rals, without any assurance of granted leases for our comto exploit them. We had fore no alternative but to raw. All equipment and buildvere sold, and since then there been no effective mining tions in the Solomons.” view of these conditions, he there was no likelihood of his imes resuming operations in ■roup. editorial note foregoing is typical of the atof the average Socialist Gov- ■nt towards private enterprise towards agreements, s well known that there is y-mineralised country, with of substantial gold, in Gua- Lcil, and had the powerful ore interests been allowed to and develop them, as sen proposed, the effect upon j Solomons archipelago calied the Cinderella group ! South Pacific) would have acaiculabie. Now, there is no 3od of the islands’ mineral wealth being opened up, and the economic outlook for the Solomons is dismal indeed, BriSSTS 1941 alld 1945 - the British Government passed under the control of Socialists; and the Empire, financially and in prestige has been going downhill ever since.’

Valuable N. Guinea

TIMBER SOME very fine cedar and pine timber is being produced by Mr. A. L. Malcolm and Mr. Joe Bourke, of Wau, New Guinea, from va?S Se u B l acres in the Bulolo Valley which they recently acquired.

This lease was pegged by Harry Wormald before the war. It is small but it carries a valuable stand of cedar. he ?f timber properties are very difficult to get. The New Guinea Administration is .guarding them jealously and trying to compel all timber-getters to plant as many trees as they remove. ! s intention of Messrs.

Malcolm and Bourke to try to induce the Administration to permit the settlement of ex-Servicemen as coffee-growers, on this 88 acres lease, when they have removed the timber.

Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm were visitors to Sydney at the end of September. H 117 ,p IC ISLANDS MONTHLY-OCTOBER, 1951

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Siren Lost: Another

Cook Is. Mishap

AUCKLAND, Oct. 6.

HARD on the hews of a mishap to the Ornant, at Rarotonga, in July (Sept. PIM), followed by the loss of the NZ freighter Alexander on Aitutaki in August, comes word from Rarotonga that the 43-foot trading ketch Siren, whilst anchored off Avarua awaiting favourable weather to enter the Passage after a voyage from Pukapuka, suddenly parted her cable on the afternoon of October 4; and, before the motor could be started or sail made, she struck the reef stern first.

Despite immediate efforts to save the vessel— including an attempt to haul her shoreward across the reef and clear of the pounding surf with the aid of a PWD tractor—the ketch quickly suffered serious damage and is exoected to become a total loss. The copra cargo was mainly saved. .

The Siren, built m Suva m 1946 for Captain Grey, is well known m Fiii waters. , , .

She has for a time been on charter to Messrs. Ken Windsor (skipper) and Gordon Knight of Auckland, and has proved an extremely useful type of vessel for the Cook Islands trade, carrying upwards of 20 tons of MOP shell—the trade in which she was mainly engaged.

Though insured against total loss, her loss will not only be a heavy blow to Cook Islands communications in general but also to her Charterers who have of late been competitors in the pearl shell trade.

Only recently they despatched a diving machine to Penrhyn to exploit their newly acquired machine diving licence granted by the A* ministration.

The loss no doubt will also ti felt keenly by Captain Grey (not resident on Kawau Is., near AucW land), who made the little ship hr home for a number of years.

Small Ships News

AUCKLAND, Oct. 6..

THE well-known 94 ft. ketch Nes Golden Hind, originally buii for Mr. H. R. Jenkins, « Auckland, and since owned succes sively by the NZ Works Depan ment and then Messrs. A. Rusdel and R. Baker, of Auckland, wv recently acquired by a Chines syndicate in Papeete, under Mae shall Aid, at the reported price $26,000 US—not excessive at pn sent-day values.

The New Golden Hind thus g® to join the schooner Tagua in tlf French Oceania inter-island traoj Both vessels, in Government se; vice during the war, wandered ! over the South Pacific-; —taking su/ vey parties to isolated islands, lann ing Coast Watchers in the RNa controlled area, taking supplies lonely weather stations, and finalh transporting the bodies of soi< from such lonely islands back central military cemeteries. M very long ago the ashes of Cole, Master of the New Gold) Hind through most of the w years, were scattered off the madecs by a vessel of the RNS It is fitting that the graceful HU should go to join her war-tn: companion in Papeete, one of t last havens of the auxiliary sail:! vessel in the Pacific.

The loss of the Pacific tram freighter Alexander and the C( - Is trader Siren, in the Cooks centlv, is happily offset by ner that Mr. W. Thomas, of —formerly owner of the Huia, i in New Caledonian waters so; months ago—is now en route s New Zealand with the 350-ton J.

Lolk, from Denmark. It is belies, that the vessel—to be re-nam T lir ie mav be seen round Islands in the not distant futurx From Wellington comes word tf Mr. Willie Schutz, lately Seco; Mate/Radio Operator m the M and then the Alexander, is i preparing the 40 ft. ketch Soubrx for delivery to the Cook Is. whl it is understod, she will enter , inter-island trade and pern, partly fill the gap left by the of the Siren. , .

The Soubrette spent a short t in the Cooks, two years agcttto the ownership of Mr. Don W. formerly of the Weather OtC Aitutaki, and now of Cerrs Weather Office. W elll^i^ tended abandoning theWeasj Office to enter island later changed his mind. 118

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Prom Our Own Correspondent [R. and MRS. JIM HOILE, of I Wau, NG, on September 8, gave a delightful birthday ty for their daughter lone, to ibrate her coming-of-age and engagement to Mr. Gordon ith, a local Cadet Patrol Officer, ioned in Wau. Miss Hoile was first European girl baby to be i in the goldfields area. r au Golf Club Championships the year were completed at the of September, The holder of title, Mr. Alex Couper, defeated ) President, Bill Seale 3/2 after exciting 34 holes. Mr. Vince Bin defeated Mr. Keith Cariael on the 36th hole for an illy exciting match in “B” e. rs. Cyril Ellred, with daughter icrine, returned to Wau in Sep- >er after a brief visit to Sydney medical treatment. She claims she has returned to Wau to recuperate from city life “short- Mr. and Mrs. Alex Malcolm left Wau on September 10 for a well earned rest - They travelled by Charter’s Anson and will visit their children at All Souls, Charters Towers, before going farther South. ... K . n f veteran miner X* Creek and known to all residents as “Auntie qlnf 6 ’ i!SL s m Po F t Moresby in late September on a business trip.

Mr. Norman White Senior, our local Chairman of the Wau Advisory Council, underwent an operation in Moresby in September.

He ha s returned to his home in Wau to recuperate. „ " . Mr - A. E. Cndland, one of the best known old-timers of North-eastern Papua, who has been spending a long spell at Manly, NSW, returned to his property at Kofili, Cape Nelson, by the October Malaita 119 ~c 'SLANDS monthlt-october. ,» S1

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Outh Pacific Commission

Scientists Planning Better Food for Atolls JWO scientists, Dr. and Madame L. R. Catala, who have spent six months investigating the ology and economic development Pacific atolls (including ways of oducing more food for their inbitants) returned this month >m the Gilbert and Ellice Islands the headquarters of the South cific Commission at Noumea, New ledonia. rhis project is one of high priority over forty comprising the work Dgramme of the South Pacific mmission in the fields of health, momic development, and social /elopment. It was undertaken to list administrations in improving i economic stability of about 1,000 people living on several hun- Jd coral atolls—mostly in the Ibert and Ellice Groups, French eania, Cook Islands and Fiji, inhabitants of atolls are most in id of help because of their limited ources to produce food. Gen- -lly, their arable land is small and ! soil poor. following consultation with mested Administrations, the Comssion laid down certain lines of earch to provide for; — l programme of coconut palm imivement designed to increase Ids and resistance to pests and ease; l food plant programme, includstudy of the breadfruit tree, the elopment of wet land taro, the reduction of bananas, the pro- ;tion of other foodstuffs, esially those requiring additional :ility such as sweet potatoes, etables and citrus fruits; Tie supplementary nutrition of s; he improvement of poultry in ght, egg-laying capacity and ;dom from disease; he development of shell fisheries planting trochus and pearl shell, I investigation into the possibles of sponge cultivation; survey of handicrafts with a v to their development as a rce of income. pproved subsidiary investigais included the use of solar stills the distillation of water from vater, and exploration of the sibilities for atolls of hydroics (the growing of food plants vater charged with chemicals), 0 conduct preliminary investions, Dr. and Madame Catala blished their headquarters last *ch at Tarawa. With them was R. R. Mason of the Fiji De- ;ment of Agriculture, who partly sted in soil and agricultural filiations, and studied a pro- ;d site for a small agricultural ion on Tarawa Island.

It is anticipated that the report on this investigation will be ready early in 1952.

Housing Expert on Pacific Survey

Pofessor J. P. Thijsse, Of

the University of Indonesia, who is an authority on tropical housing, is at present engaged in making a building survey of Islands Territories for the South Pacific Commission. He has been in Rarotonga and Samoa and is now in Fiji. Thence he goes to New Caledonia, Papua and New Guinea, and Netherlands New Guinea.

The survey is to determine those types of native dwellings and public buildings most suitable for the widely varying climates and conditions of the area. Investigations take into account such factors as availability of materials and labour, and costs, and furniture needs.

The survey may occupy 8-10 months, and the report will be supported by plans and photographs.

Where his recommendations involve a change of design, possibly incorporating ideas and practices from other tropical areas, Professor Thijsse will endeavour to retain 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1951

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Deaths Of Islands People

DR. N. B. WATCH fTIHE death is reported from Syd- JL ney of Dr. Norman Bennington Watch. He was 68 and well known in New Guinea between 1921 and the Second World War.

He practised in Tasmania and Western Australia before enlisting in the 1914-18 war. In 1921 he was appointed to the medical service in New Guinea but subsequently resigned to go into private practice in Rabaul.

He was awarded the MBE for service in the 1937 eruption, became MO of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, was captured by the Japs in 1942 and was one of the few European survivors of the invasion period—he was sent to a POW camp in Japan but not on the ill-fated Montevideo Maru.

After the war he went to Uganda and practised there until failing health took him back to Australia.

Mrs. Theresa Symons

THE death occurred in Brisbane, in September of Mrs. Theresa Symons, widow of the late Harry Symons.

Both were pioneers of* Papua in the early days when Mr. Symons was first with the Customs Department then a Resident Magistrate.

After his retirement from the sen vice he was associated with a partner in a cotton growing property ii the Rigo District.

Mrs. Symons is survived by large family of daughters and son and grand and great-grandchildren One of her daughters, Amy, is nox Mrs. E. E. Washington, wife of ttl Under-secretary of Lands in Pox Moresby.

MRS. R, A. PUXLEY Mrs rose alice puxley, former resident of Papua, die in Brisbane, Queensland i September.

She and her husband, who die some time ago in Mackay, Qloi were pioneers of Papua’s Gul country long before the First Work War—they built up a coconut plan, tation on the Vailala River.

Both of Mrs. Puxley’s daughter died before her.

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Mrs. Ann Bentley

IE death occurred at Vatakoula, Fiji, in September, of Mrs. Ann Bentley, widow of the late tries Bentley who died last year, t the time of her death she was ig with her daughter, Mrs. Will •rison, of Vatakoula, but before death of Mr. Bentley they had i in Suva for many years. It in Suva that they celebrated r golden wedding in 1948. rs. Bentley ran a large nrivate Dital there for many years, le is survived by her daughter, . Morrison, and by four sons— lard, Bruce, John (of New Zeai) and R. v. o. Bentley, of :aya Island.

Mr. William Hansen

R. WILLIAM HANSEN died suddenly in Suva on September 30, aged 64. i was in the military forces in during World War I and in capacity came in contact with Luckner (see Magazine Secthis issue). t many years he was in charge le grocery department of Sturt, me Ltd., and when that com- -7 closed down, joined W. R (enter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd. 1947, he joined the staff of Price Control Office, where he employed at the time of his n. ■ is survived by his widow, two rs and a brother.

Mrs. Ina Pryke

E death occurred in a private hospital in Sydney on October 6 of Mrs. Ina Sarah Pryke, who the widow of Mr. Frank Pryke, known for many years as a eer of the New Guinea gold stry. The late Mrs. Pryke lived her husband in Papua and New tea, but has been a resident of ee, Sydney, since the 30's. She xvived by their daughter, who is Mrs. Madge Blanden, wife ie warden at Wau, New Guinea.

MR, H. I. MOORE E death took place recently of Mr. H. I. Moore, superintendent of the Australian Coastal o Service. Although he had actually lived in the Islands, rork took him frequently to the a-New Guinea area and he was Durse well known to the perel of all radio stations in the ; em Pacific. He gave distinled service in World War I and, as a result of injuries received there, he suffered a chronic heart t a h U p m^ivW^ h n ? a ?n S€d “ S death at the early age of 50.

MR T H t paver j. ±i. LLAVtK Mr. James Hugh Leaver, a retired employee of the Fiji Public Works Department, died in Suva last month, aged 76.

He went to Fiji f rom New Zealand in iggg, and was employed by Public Works and by Pacific Oil Mills, Ltd.

He retired two years ago. He is survived by his widow, five daughters and one son. 123 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19 51

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WRITE TO:— BOX 2668 X, G.P.0., MELBOURNE FILARIASIS first World Conference Held In Papeete rS associated diseases of filariasis and elephantiasis are common in the Pacific, but heir incidence and malignancy are ighest in the eastern Territories f French Oceania, Samoa and Fiji, 'hey are rarely fatal, but they are ariously debilitating and, in ex- ■eme forms, disabling and disfigring.

Systematic scientific research into lese mosquito-borne diseases really ammenced after World War n, hen they were frequently found tnong European troops in the outh Pacific.

The French Government founded scientific organisation to combat lariasis in 1947-48, when the Initute of Medical Research of rench Oceania was opened in apeete, and a crusade launched, his was strongly supported by a ;partment of Southern California niversity. Several hundred Tahiti sidents provided finance through le Anti-Filariasis Association of ahiti.

The campaign now has been oadened and strengthened be- ,use it has been taken over by the mth Pacific Commission; and tat body organised the first international conference on filariasis. held in Papeete between August 21 and September 1, and attended by 19 medical men and scientists, representing six nations, and all the Territories of the South Pacific.

The three objectives of the conference were: To define the various problems raised by filariasis and elephantiasis, especially in the South Pacific; to determine the research work to be continued or undertaken in order to solve these problems; and to recommend appropriate measures to be taken for the control of these diseases, taking into account the social and economic conditions existing in the area.

Dr. Emil Massal, Executive Officer for Health of the South Pacific Commission, was chairman.

THE conference strongly recommended that the South Pacific Commission should act as a focal point for the area in the collection, collation and dissemination of technical information relating to filariasis.

It considered that techniques for controlling filariae-carrying mosquitoes now in use in South Pacific territories should be reviewed and their wider application considered, using specially-trained native personnel. The measures being applied, including sanitation, the use of insecticides, biological controls, and rat control by methods which should include banding of coconut trees in areas where rat-eaten coconuts provide a source of mosquito breeding, were all considered useful. However, these should be selected to suit the conditions prevailing in different areas.

Control of both diseases by drugs was also considered by the conference, and it was recommended that

%Ci F I C Islands Monthly October, I 9Sa

TENDERS ESTATE GLADYS HENRIETTA LOVE- DAY BAKER, DECEASED, “LanguWitu, New Guinea. —Sealed tenders, endorsed, “Estate G. H. L. Baker,” are invited, and will be received by the undersigned until 5 p.m., November 30, 1951, in respect of Langu Copra Plantation.

The property is well-known and is at present subject to a Lease Agreement which expires on December 31, 1951. The average copra production is approximately 30-35 tons per month, but it is believed that if this property is properly maintained it should average in the vicinity of 35-40 tons per month.

Share Farming.—The successful applicant will be required to enter into an agreement with the Trustee that he will work the plantation assiduously for a period of three years, commencing January 1, 1952, subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of Papua-New Guinea, and that he will give an undertaking, subject to force majeure conditions, that the average minimum production will not be less than 30 tons per month. The tenderer to state the percentage of gross proceeds of produce which he is prepared to allow the Trustee to retain during the sharefarming period of three years.

Alternatively:— For Sale. —As an alternative to sharefarming, Langu Plantation is offered for sale, and the successful tenderer, if he so desires, may take over the liability to the Custodian of Expropriated Property and pay the difference in cash to the Vendor.

On acceptance of tender, 10 per cent, of tender price to be deposited and the balance is to be paid upon the execution by the Trustee of a Conveyance of the Property or such other Document or Instrument as the successful tenderer may reasonably require to evidence the sale in the absence of a registerable transfer.

Title.—The successful tenderer shall accept such title as the Trustee of the Estate now has and without further investigation.

Area.—Approximately 254 hectares, soil rich black loam.

The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Burns Philp Trust Company

LIMITED, 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney, October 4, 1951.

Estate C. P. Parkinson, Deceased.—

Sealed Tenders endorsed “Tenders Waldow and Cape Palliser” are invited and will be received by the undersigned until 5 p.m., November 30, 1951, for the purchase of the following;— (a) Residential Site.—Freehold land known as Waldow, Vunagogo, via Kokopo. (bi Virgin Land. —Approximately 100 hectares of virgin land at Cape Palliser, held on agricultural lease for 99 years from approximately 1926, and situated between Sum Sum Plantation and the Aar River.

Title.—The successful tenderer shall accept such title as the .Administrators of the Estate now have and without further investigation.

Terms. —The properties will be sold subject to the consent of the Administrator of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.

On acceptance of tender, 10 per cent, of tender price to be deposited and the balance is to be paid upon the execution by the Trustees of a conveyance of the property or such other document or instrument as the successful tenderer may reasonably require to evidence the sale in the absence of a registerable transfer.

The highest or any other tender will not necessarily be accepted.

Burns Philp Trust Company

LIMITED, 7 Bridge Street. Sydney.

Administrator of the Estate of C. P.

Parkinson (deceased).

Sydney, September 17, 1951.

FOR SALE

Attractive Property In Papua.—

Amongst friendly people, in a delightful J climate. Your chance to invest in Real J Estate and know and feel you have < security in a Tax-Free Country. Daily air i services to and from Australia, only few • hours away.

COME—follow the sunshine. ESCAPE the ; cold winters.

INVEST safely before INFLATION strikes I i you. YOU can’t go wrong.

OFFERING to you: Three modern, fully furnished flats, electric power, water, . refrigeration, septic system. Also on j same property; Detached Cottage—con- structed with best materials, double lined f throughout, fully equipped and furnished. .

Situated in ideal surroundings in Porti Moresby’s newest European suburb, and! designed for comfort in every detail..

Handy to all buses and shops. Price: : £6,500.

Inquiries answered promptly—so air-maill or cable: N. T. Corbett, c/o G.P.0., Port-t Moresby, Papua.

NORFOLK ISLAND.—If you want FREE- DOM from irksome restrictions —come too NORFOLK IS. and live with delightful,,l friendly people. The climate is ideal I (50° to 85°), mainland and tropical! flowers and fruit all grow profusely. .

There are NO TAXES of any sort. Now v available: 17 acres, freehold, very central, , near shops and school, beautifully woodedb —only £65 an acre. Great potentialli value. Build four cottages on this pro~< perty, let them to all-the-year-roundb visitors and enjoy an easy income.— Peter Goddard, Norfolk Island.

RADIO EQUIPMENT—We can supply new# and reconditioned transmitters and re-‘ ceivers for low powered marine and shoreinstallations at a reasonable price..e Crystals supplied to specified Inquiries answered promptly. Writer Liverpool Trading Co., 23 George Street,,} Liverpool, N.S.W., Australia.

In The Territory Of New Guinea

certain agricultural and coconut palm: leaseholds, terms being residue of 92€ years, dating from 1929, 1936, 1937, 1938.

Situate on the western end of Djaao Island, Kavieng District, and at Mail!

Island at Kolipina Harbour, and known as Kolipina Sukuru, Banrami, and Bat-t nela, portions the approximate area 90r acres. A j Certain structures and palm trees fapq proximately 30,000, ages IVa to 7 years,a were Standing on the land in Novembers 1941, but the property was damaged awti has not been developed or conducted as s result of World War II and no warranty is made as to the number or conditioio of the plants or structures growing oo standing on the properties as their conn dition is unknown and the sale is madb on that basis.

Form of contract may be inspected at oun office Price, £2,000, or near offer.

NICHOLL & HICKS, Solicitors for Vendor:,: 56 Hunter St.. Sydney. BW 8511.

BOOKS SOOK BARGAINS.—Send for list of re*o jargains from 2/- upwards. State you/c nterests, please. I also find out-of-print Unglish Books. Mention “PIM.” Near,-:: 100 customers in the area where “POM drculates. —Philip Boulton, Bookselleel Westbury, Wilts, England.

STAMPS 2ASH PAID for used stamps from ofihfl: nail, stamp collections, duplicates an* iccumulations. Write by airmail t. 3Hobe Stamp Company, 81 Gladstone Detroit 2, Mich., U.S.A.

Classified Advertisements

Positions Wanted

Two Clerk-Typistes-Telephonists

desire positions in the Pacific Islands.

Reply: Misses Hayes & Tregear, 1 C.O.S.D.

Colmslie, Brisbane, Queensland.

AGRICULTURIST, 30 years of age, with excellent practical experience, as well as good theoretical knowledge, seeks planting or commercial position in one of the Pacific Territories. Ex-serviceman, used to tropics and in perfect health. Reply to: “Masta,” c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

RETURNED SERVICEMAN (ex-Paratroop Battalion), 30, married, wishing to settle permanently in Pacific Islands, desires position of trust. Healthy, strong and capable—expert knowledge of cars and trucks, also familiar with storekeeping, but willing to fill any position offering chance for advancement. Definite asset to any employer. Excellent references. Reply to; Frank Pages, 5 Cross Street, Waverley, N.S.W., Australia.

YOUNG MAN available as a plantation assistant, Island store hand or clerical worker; aged 22, single, well educated (former law student); willing to learn any trade or assist in agricultural project; can drive cars and trucks, has knowledge of diesel engines. Replies to: “Ambitious,” ■c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

AMERICAN, speaking fluent French, with Prench/Engllsh spoken wife, wishes to obtain a position as plantation manager in the Pacific Islands. Highest credentials.

Apply: F. R. Davis, c/o Poste Restante, Papeete, Tahiti.

YOUNG MAN, single, 24, desires position as plantation assistant in Pacific Islands.

Healthy, good knowledge of trucks, tractors, welding, and typing. Not afraid of work, either manual or administrative.

Must be position which offers security and advancement. Able to leave Sydney any time required. Excellent references.

Beply: Olsen, c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

ACCOMMODATION SYDNEY. —Furnished, serviced flats, with private bathroom and kitchenette, morning trays, situated in heart of the city.

Double and family flats available —reasonable rates for Pacific Islands residents.

Wyobe Court. 52-54 Phillip Street, Sydney.

Gable address: “Yarap,” Sydney. Telephone: BU 1376.

Attractive Accommodation For

tourists, with children. “Tanglewood,”

Clayfleld, Brisbane, Queensland. ’Phone M 5656.

Wanted To Buy

BRITISHER, healthy, active. 60, lifetime in Asiatic countries, fed up with their political and economic troubles, desires transfer tropical land, where law and order prevails and life secure under congenial conditions amongst friendly people.

Contemplates purchasing small, successful going concern, such as copra plantation, Island trading, trocas fishing or ether suitable activity. Would consider interest in larger business, provided may take useful part in management and administration. Competent, experienced business executive, skilled accountant, strictly temperate. Interested in genuine proposition offering scope for happy, •mutual co-operation. References exchanged. Confidential. H, Stephen, c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney. 126 OCTOBER, 1951 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Agents for Pacific Islands Monthly (Holding supplies for Cash Sale and authorised to receive annual Subscriptions.> In Pacific Islands Generally: All Branches of: Burns Philp & Co., Ltd.

Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co.. Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom, Ltd.

W. H. Grove & Sons, Ltd.

Papua-New Guinea: Burns Philp (NG) Ltd.

Steamships Trading Co., Ltd.

Colyer Watson (NG). Ltd.

New Guinea Co., Ltd.

A. H. Bunting, Ltd., Samarai.

Mrs. Jean Fraser, Lae.

Wan Jin Wah, Lae.

R. P. Smith. Rabaul.

O. H. Meen, Rabaul.

Kriewaldt’s Stores. Port Moresby.

Fiji: Steele’s Central Store, Suva.

Fiji Times & Herald, Suva.

Adams Pharmacies, Lautoka.

Western Samoa: A. M. Gurau, Apia.

Cook Islands: Cook Islands Trading Co., Rarotonga.

New Caledonia: Eld. Pentecost, Noumea.

Societe Gubbay Kerr et Cle, Noumea.

Thursday Island: P. H. Mendis. N. Mendis.

Norfolk Island: Mrs. Moltke’s Store.

Nauru: T. Daingarob.

Tahiti: O. G. Nordman, Papeete.

Rodolphe Kllma, Papeete.

New Hebrides: Burns Philp (NH) Ltd., Vila, Santo.

Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Market St.

Cordingley’s Bookstall, next G.P.0., George St.

Tyrrell’s Book Shop, 281 George St.

Swain’s Pty., Ltd., 123 Pitt St.

Dymock’s, Ltd., 424 George St.

Uneeda Newsagency, 18 Bond St.

Melbourne: McGill’s Newsagency, 183 Elizabeth St.

Collins Book Depot, 93 Elizabeth St.

Myers Emporium. Ltd., 314 Bourke St.

Queensland: Mac’s Casket Agency, 289 Queen St., Brisbane.

J. Thomson, 311 Queen St., Brisbane.

Vernon E. White, M.Q.1.5., P.R.G.S., Cocrparoo, Brisbane.

Gard’s Bookstall, 102 Flinders St., Townsville.

Darwin: Burnett’s Newsagency Pty., Ltd., Darwin.

C. J. Cashman & Co., Darwin.

Auckland, NZ: A. G. Sims, Waverley Bookshop. 18 Queen St.

W. H. Grove & Sons, Ltd., 16 Fanshawe St.

Gordon & Gotch (A/sla), Ltd., 6 Gore St J. P. Shortall, 41 Grange Rd.. Mt. Eden„

The Scots School

BATHURST Presbyterian Boarding School for Boys Primary to Leaving Certificate Standard.

Boarders admitted at seven years.

Bracing inland climate, 135 miles west of Sydney, N.S.W.

Possesses own dairy herd, poultry, vegetable garden.

Limited vacancies 1952, owing to expansion.

For Prospectus, apply Principal: A. E. McLucas, M.A., B.Ed. research now being carried out on iiis aspect in Tahiti, Eastern Samoa and Fiji be continued or inensified.

The Commission was further reluested to establish a filariae colection comprising specimens of idult worms, development stages of ilariae in the mosquito, and of nicrofilariae in human blood amples, and to arrange for the tudy of this material by parasitologists, whose findings should be circulated throughout the area.

The importance in any control programme of educating Islands peoples in prevention methods was stressed, and it was recommended that the Commission should act as a clearing house for posters, pamphlets and other educational material designed for use in the intensified campaign against filariasis.

New Guinea Highlands Notes I/|R. PRANK BALLAGH, Medical tx Assistant from Kerowagi, proceeded to Victoria recently idth Mrs. Ballagh to spend their urlough. He has been relieved by Ir. Ray Keyes.

Members of the Department of Jivil Aviation have been installed t Kerowagi, and expect to be there )r some time.

The popular ADO of Mount [agen, Mr. Allan Timperly, and his imily, have gone South on a wellarned leave. Mr. R. Coles has reeved Mr. Timperley at Mount Agen.

Mr. Brian Corrigan, of Minj patrol ost, recently returned from Aus- 'alia looking nt and well. But, from a patrol which inuded the Jimmi River area, he ►ok ill and had to seek medical Mention at Lae. He is now back . his post, a little thinner but quite covered.

A recent addition to the European filiation of the Highlands, is Miss amara Randmae, sister of the >pular Anti-TB medico Dr. George andmae, whose headquarters are Kundiawa. However, the doctor’s work takes him up and down the valley with his capable wife as assistant, so Miss Randmae is able to look after young Tina Randmae in their long absences.

Dr. John Gunther, Director of Public Health, made an epic tour of the Highlands recently, most of the way on his motor cycle. Unfortunately, the rain has come early to these parts, and the roads were not all they should have been, so Dr. Gunther had quite a lot of pushing to do. But he completed his tour of inspection.

Mr. John Womersley accompanied Dr. Barnard (of Canberra) and Mr.

L. Webb (of Brisbane) on a recent tour of the Highlands. Messrs. Barnard and Webb are plant biologists who were making a survey in New Guinea.

One more RTC Station has been added to the Highlands circuit. This is at Yani SDA Mission, in the Chimbu area, and is operated by Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore.

Mrs. V. B. Pennefather, wellknown in the New Britain district recently paid a visit to her relatives] the Ken Jones, of Kundiawa. *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY- O C T O B E R . I»51

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S3/11 b4/b3/8 Oriomo Oil . . b5/b2/b2/- Papuan Apin. b4/ll bl/6 bl/6 Placer Dev. . b68/6 b317/b371/-\ Sandy Creek . bl/5 b6d sl/- Sunshine Co. b6/5 b5/6 s4/- Price of Gold. —Commonwealth Bank': fixed price for gold is: Pine ozs £A15/9/10; Standard oz. , £ A14/4/-.

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Islands Produce

< Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA Papua-NG.—Production Control Board price: Main ports, Hot-air, £57 per ton (Kokopo, £55/12/6); Smoked, £56/7/6 (£55). Sydney crushers pay: Hot-air, £74/15/-; Smoked, £74/2/6. Australia has 9 years’ contract with UK, based on £53/15/- Stg. ton.

Fiji.— £FS9/10/7 per ton, f.0.b., Suva— producers get £FS4/10/6 ton, plantation grade, Suva or Levuka; £FS4/5/-. FMS; £FSI- £ 53, other. Fiji has 9 years’ contract with UK Pood Ministry.

New Hebrides.—At Vila and Santo: approx, £ABO per ton.

Samoa. —Producers receive £S4S/11/- (par with Stg.) per ton, f.0.b., Apiabased on MOP rate of £ Stg.s3/19/- (less £SS/7/ll Duty, £S3/0/l Stabilisation).

BSI. —Growers get £ASI per ton, f.0.b., Honiara or Yandina (based on £Stg.s3/15/- MOP price).

Tahiti.—Merchants pay 14,900 Pacific fr. per 1,000 kilos (about £AIO6 per ton).

COCOA Islands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W. Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on October 3 was £Stg. £252/10/- (£ A315/12/6) c.i.f.

Pacific cocoa was quoted nominally on Sydney market in October at: — New Guinea.—£A3os per ton, ex wharf.

New Hebrides. —Nominally £A3I0 —supplies unavailable in Sydney at present.

Samoa. —Sydney agents in October quoted Samoan cocoa at £S26O (£A325) f.o.b. per ton. first-grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.) COFFEE New Caledonia. —Production exported to France at nominal equivalent of £A4SO per ton. Arabica; £A4OO, Robusta.

Papua-NG.—Nominally £375 to £425 per ton (c.i.f.), according to quality.

RUBBER Sydney firms use London and Singapore rates as basis to buy Papuan rubber.

Oct. 8: No. 1 grade. RSS (sellers) Spot 46d Stg. lb., c.i.f., London (57V2d. Aust. lb.); Singapore, RSS No. 1, 156y 2 cents lb., f.o.b.

Vanilla Beans

Papeete merchants recently quoted 325 Pacific francs per kilo for Tahiti vanilla beans. Sydney quotation; White Label, 18/-. Yellow Label. 18/-, Green Label, 16/8 per lb., c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed in May at £6O per ton, f.0.b., White, Unpolished and Brown. (On plantation in Papua-N.G., approx. £85.)

Trochus Shell

Market for trochus shell in Sydney is unsettled at present—most agents are not interested in buying until prices firm. It was reported recently that, because of 3 labour shortage, Sydney importers weres insisting that shell be sorted before ship- ment; the Western Pacific shell price was e quoted at approx. £175 per ton on wharf,, Sydney.

Green Snail Shell

Nominal quotation is at £l5O-£l6O pen ton, on wharf, Sydney.

Pearl Shell

By a contract between Gerdau Co-c (USA) and majority of Torres pearlers,.< TI shell prices were fixed, 1949-52, at:j, Sound grades, £A325 per ton, f.0.b., TT* “D” grade, £A225; “E” grade. £AI25 — all plus bonuses. Independent pearlers' are selling at around £ASBO for Sound) grades; £A465, “D” grades; £A34O, “E’" grades.

London Prices

LONDON, Aug. 23.

The following are to-day’s quotations: — Copra, c.i.f., Continental ports, per; FM Straits/Mixed DEI .. .. £93/15/- Stg.g Ceylon £BB Stg.s Philippines $ 2lO ue Coconut Oil, c.i.f., bulk: — FM Straits £139 |tg S Ceylon £143 StgS Cocoa, c.i.f.. Continental ports, Stg.:— Accra, 290/- per cwt. in bond.

Accra, 255/- Stg., Nov.-Jan. shipment; per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Amsterdam.

Bahia, 285/9 per 50 kilos, f.o.b.

Islands Mining Shares

Exchange Rates

The following exchange rates exist t Sydney in October:— FIJI. —Through Bank of NSW and Bam of NZ.—Australia on Fiji basis £H Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £AIII Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: Buju ing, £lll/2/6; Selling, £ll3.

SAMOA.— Through Bank of NZ.—Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samotc Buying, £AI23/12/6; Selling. £AI24/10/\ Samoa-London, basis £ 100 London Buying, £lOO/7/6; Selling. £lOl/10/-.

Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: Buyinn £100; Selling, £lOO/10/-.

Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: Buyinni £111; Selling, £llO.

PAPUA - NG.—Commonwealth Bar* (branches P. Moresby, Lae, Rabau : Madang) and Bank of NSW (P. Moresby Lae, Rabaul) quote exchange rate Aun. tralia-Papua-NG as 10/- per £lOO.

FR PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific franco most valuable of the three franc groujn in French Union, are used in N. Calls donia, N. Hebrides, and Fr. Oceamcn French Bank in Sydney quotes (nomilt allyi: 141.75 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 178.,.): Pac. fr. to £Stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $. as-sssfjy^s s

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