Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXIII, No. 2 ( Sep. 1, 1952)
1952-09-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly SEPTEMBER, 1952 Vol. XXIIL No. 2.

Established 1930. for transmission by post as a newspaper ] PAPUA-NEW GUINEA STAMPS: The 15 stamps that comprise the first post-war issue of Papua-New Guinea postage stamps. Denominations range from id to £l.

They will be on sale in P-NG post offices on October 30. (See page 45 this issue for details).

So much for your money when you fly by QANTAS Islands Air Services Linking over 60 points (listed here) in New Guinea and the Islands with Australia—no change of airline.

Fast express, twice-weekly Skymaster service from Sydney to New Guinea, also thrice weekly DCS service via North Queensland towns linking with New Guinea internal services.

Regular services linking Norfolk Island, Noumea, Vila, Espiritu Santo, Suva with Sydney.

Save days and weeks of travel.

Enjoy de luxe cabin service on all main routes, with experienced stewards or hostesses. Delicious complimentary meals and drinks.

Books, magazines, everything for your comfort. Special facilities for children.

Over 31 years' tropical flying experience are at your command when you fly Qantas. Veteran crews with many flying hours on Qantas’ over 40,000 miles of air routes ensure that your air trip will be a truly enjoyable experience. 6 I Enquire at any Travel Agent or Qantas Office.

Qantas Empire Airways Limited

Served By 9Antas

Aitape • Aiyura Angoram • Arena Awar • Baiyer River Banz • Bena Bena Brisbane • Buin Buka • Bulolo Cairns • Chimbu Dumpu • Espiritu Finschhafere Garoka Daru • Esa'ala Santo • Garaina Gusap Honiara • Inus Jacquinot Bay Kaiapit • Kainantu Kavieng • Kerema Kerowagi • Kieta Kikori • Kup • Lae Lake Kutubu Lake Murray Lindenhafen * Losuia Madang • Manus Maprik • Menyamya Minj • Moewe Harbour • Mount Hagen • Nadzab Nondugl • Norfolk Is.

Ogelbeng • Port Moresby • Queen Carola Harbour Rabaul Rockhampton Samara! • Suva Talasea * Torokina Townsville • Vella Lovella • Vila Wabamundar Wau • Woodlark Yandina Wdbag Wana • Wewak Island • Yule Island (In c.

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1 pacific islands monthly September, 1952

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Agents—South Pacific PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti APIA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des Nocvelles Hebrides

Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shipping lines running on regular time-tables in the Pacific Islands. The following timetaoies are only approximately correct— they are subject to much alteration at short notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America Canadian-Australasian liner Aorangi (17,500 tons) maintains regular twomonthly sailings-r-Sydney-Auckland-Suva- Honolulu-Victoria-Vancouver, and return

Rms Aorangi

Syd. .. Sept. 25 Nov. 27 Jan. 29 Auck. .. Sept. 29-30 Dec. 1-2 Suva .. Oct. 3 Dec. 5 Feb. 2-3 H’n’l’u . Oct. 10 Dec. 12 Feb. 6 Viet. .. Oct. 16 Dec. 18 Feb. 13 Vane. . Oct. 17-23 Dec. 19-24 Feb. 19 Feb. 20-26 Viet. .. Oct. 23 Dec 24 H’n’l’u .. Oct. 30 Dec. 31 Feb. 26 Suva .. Nov. 8 Jan. 9 Mar. 5 Auck. .. Nov. 11-13 Jan. 12-15 Mar. 14 Mar. 17-19 Syd. Nov. 17 Jan. 19 Mar. 23.

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about every six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby- Samarai - Lae - Madang - Rabaul - Samarai-Moresby-Brisbane-Svdney.

Next departure from Sydney about Sept. 16.

MV Malekula will leave Sydney about Sept. 8 for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus, Madang, Lae, Samarai and return to Sydney.

Details from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga Motor vessels Tofua and Matua, from New Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukualofa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago Pago (American Samoa), Apia (Western Samoa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any or all of above ports at approx, five weeks intervals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners. (Owing to hurricane damage to Fiji banana plantations, Matua was withdrawn from service in March and will bt employed elsewhere until November when she will replace Tofua which withdraws for annual survey. Matua not expected permanently on Islands service until January.) Tofua scheduled to leave Auckland on next voyages early Sept, and in early October.

Details from Union SS Co.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare has been scheduled to provide a regular monthly (approximately) service between Auckland and the Cook Islands subject to requirements of trade.

This vessel carries 30 passengers.

Details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories )r to USS Co. which acts as agents at some ports.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita will make a round trip at about 2-months intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - Rabaul - Samaral-Sydney.

Next sailing from Sydney mid- September.

Details from Burns Philp & Co., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Maritimes.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Messageries Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (H.

C. Sleigh. Ltd.) maintain fairly regular service between Noumea and Sydney.

N. America-Fiji-N. Hebrides Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carrying cargo and passengers maintains a regular service between North American ports and French Oceania, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St., San Francisco.

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 Mon. —Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)- Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattle- Portland.

Sun. and Thur.—Return via same route.

Sat. - Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-8.

Fran.-Seattle-Los Angeles.

Tues. —Return by same route.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

Wed. and Sat. —Sydney-Nadl (FIJI)-Canton Ts.-Honolulu-S. Prancisco-Vancouver.

Mon. and first Thur. —Dep. southwards, same route. On second or alternate 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Represented in Suva, Fiji, By COLONIAL MOTORS.

Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco. fyes.—Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vahcouver. pri— Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco alternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) Uternate Friday (Sept. 12, 26, etc.) —Sydney-Auckland-Nadi (Fiji) -Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Alternate Friday (Sept. 19, Oct. 3, etc.) —Return by same route.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 pm 3ris., 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) Moresby, 7.30 am Lae 8.50 am i. Connects at Lae with DC3’s for Wau.

Julolo (Wed.); and (Sun.) for Rabaul.

Mon., Thur.,* Fri. (DC3’s) lydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.30 pm irisbane, 1.30 am Rockhampton, f Tue., Fri.,* Sat. tockhampton, f Townsville, 4 am pownsville, 5.30 am Cairns, 6.30 am Jairns, 7.40 am Moresby, 11.10 am loresby, 11.40 am* Lae, 1.00 pm .ae, 3.00 p.m. (Tue.) Madang, 4.15 pm ; * Cargo service only. This departs loresby at 12.10 pm Fridays and arrives a Lae at 1.30 pm.

It Optional call.

SOUTHWARDS Wednesdays (DCS) Madang, 7 am Lae, 8.15 am Wednesdays (DCS) Wau, 11.30 am Lae, 12.35 pm Wednesday,* Thursday (DCS) Lae, 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 am Moresby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.15 pm Via Cairns, Towns., Brisbane, with optional call at Rockhampton. ♦Cargo service only, Monday (DCS) Rabaul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 am Moresby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm Cairns, 3.10 pm Towns, (overnight), 4.30 pm Towns. (Tues.), 8.15 am Brisbane, 1 pm Brisbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) Lae, 10.30 am Moresby, 11.40 am Moresby, 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm Bris., 8.25 pm Sydney, 11 pm 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday.

Dep. Lae, 8 am; Finschhaven, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus (3 pm).

Returns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Kavieng and Rabaul; optional call at Pinschhafen; arr. Lae. 2.45 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Sandringham) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikorl, L. Kutubu. —Every alternate Wednesday; returning same day (Sept. 17, Oct. 1, 15, 29, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham) Alternate Monday.—Dep. 9 a.m.—Samarai- Esa’ala-Losuia (overnight) (Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 13. 27, etc.).

Alternate Tuesday.—Return to Moresby, via Esa’ala and Samarai.

MORESBY-NEW BRITAIN- BOUGAINVILLE (Sandringham) In Alternate Weeks. (Sept. 22, Oct. 6, 20, etc.).

Alternate Monday.—Moresby-Samarai-Esa'ala-Losuia-Rabaul.

Alternate Tuesday.—Rabaul - Talasea- Moewe Hbr.-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul with optional call at Lindenhafen.

Alternate Wednesday.—Rabaul-Q. Carola 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Alternate Thursday.—Rabaul - Losuia-Esa’ ala-Samarai-Moresby.

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Native traffic, not recommended for Europeans.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (Drover) Mondays.—Madang (8 am) to Goroka, Kainantu, Aiyura, Arona (optional i, then returns to Madang (10 ami.

Fridays.—Madang (8 am) to Wabag (optional), Baiyer R., Hagen. Kerowagi. Returns to Madang (10.10 ami.

Fridays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of; Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, I Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Kerawagi, Kup, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelbeng, Baiyer R., Wabamunda, Wabag. Return to Lae (6 pm).

Lae-Garaina (Dhb4)

Tuesdays.—Departs 7 am; returns 9 am.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dhb4)

Dep. Lae.—Tues., Fri., Sat. —3 pm.

Dep, Wau. —Tues.. Fri., Sat.—Direct to Lae. Arriving 5.05 pm.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company runs regular services for passengers 'freight and mails to all New Guinea settlements.

Madang-Mt. Hagen

Thursday.—Madang (8 am) to Mt. Hagen. [ Returns direct to Madang arriving [ 10.50 am. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DC3 Weekly service, between Darwin and Biak. : Also, new KLM weekly service, calling at Biak, on flight between Manila and Australia. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons Operated by Qantas Each Monday (DCS). —Lae (dep. 6 am) - Pinschhafen - Rabaul - Torakina (Bougain.) - Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara (BSI) (arr. 4.25 pm).

Each Tuesday.—Honiara (dep. 7 am)- Yandina - Vellalavella-Toraklna-Rabaul- Finschhafen-Lae (arr. 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

DC4 (Skymaster) dep. Saigon, October 12 and every 23 days thereafter ior Labuan-Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, and return.

Australian agents: Messageries Maritimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyingboats Six services per month 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymaster Alternate Thursdays, (Sept. 25, Oct. 9, 23, etc.) returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying Boats: (July 8, 22, etc.) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Alt. Tue., 6.30 am Noumea, 3.30 pm (nightstop) Noumea, Alt. Wed., 8.00 am Vila, 10.35 am Vila, 12.45 pm Santo, 2.00 pm Santo, Alt. Thu., 6.00 am Vila, 7.15 am Vila, 8.15 am Noumea, 10.55 am Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.45 pm 7

Pacific Islands Monthly- September, 1952

£ X An Ageless Executor Must Safeguard Your Family If you have appointed a private Executor, now is the time to reconsider your action. Is it fair to impose additional worry on a friend who already has his hands full? What will happen when he retires?

If he should be unfit to carry out his duties, who will replace him?

How can you be SURE that he will prove efficient, prompt and pruuent?

Frankly, no one man can guarantee that he will be a capable and tireless Executor. Your family’s future piotection should become the responsibility of Burns Philp Trust Company Limited. In this way, your affairs will be managed by an experienced, ageless and soundlyfinanced institution.

“Hands That Never Leave The Wheel” fully explains the Company’s services. You can obtain a complimentary cony cf this most useful booklet from any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Bums Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or direct from the head office of this Company.

DIRECTORS; James Burns. Joseph Mitchell.

P. T. W. Black. Eric Priestley Lee.

MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.P.I.A.

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Executor • Trustee • Attorney Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Tel.: BU 5901 Box 543, G.P.O.

N.S.W. Country Agencies at Armidale, Kempsey, Orange and Tamworth.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby {Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides ). 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suvi By Qantas with Sandringham Flyl Boats—Weekly.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Thur., Noumea, 3.30 6.30 am (nightstop) Noumea, Fri., Suva, 3.00 8.30 am Suva, Sat., Noumea, 10.30 6.00 am Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.45 11. Auckland-Norfolk is.

By NZ National Airways, with DC?

Sundays.—Prom Auckland, returning s day.

Alternate Wednesdays.—From Auckh returning same day. See also ti No. 8. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney Wed., Sat.. Sun., 12 milnii Wed., Sat., 7.30 am.

Dep. Auckland, daily, except Wed.

Sunday, 8.30 am.

Australian bookings: Qantas or TAA. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney, Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri. 10.30 pm.

Dep. Wellington, Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat 10.30 am. 14. Melbourne-Christchun Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skyma Thurs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch' 8.15 am next day.

Fri—Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., { pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman E. Airways, with Solents.

Dep. Auckland Aug. 2, 12, 16, 26, 30 j 9, 13, 23, 27 Sept. 7, 11 Oct., etc.

Return to Auckland on following d) Depart: Arrive: Auckland, 7 am Suva, 2 Suva, 8 am Auckland, 3 16. Auckland-Fiji-Samoa- Cooks By NZ National Airways Corporatio Alternate Sundays by DCS, via Norl Island, Nadi (Fiji), Faleolo (W. Same Aitutaki (Cook Is.).

Depart: Arrive: Auckland, 9 am. Norfolk Is., 12.55 Norfolk Is., 2 pm Nadi, 8.40 Nadi, 9.45 am Mon. Faleolo, 3.30 pm S Faleolo, 11 am Mon. Nadi, 2.45 pm Ti Nadi, 9.45 am Wed. Faleolo, 3.30 pm Ti Faleolo, 8 am Wed. Aitutaki, 1.50 Aitutaki, 2.50 pm Rarotonga, 4.05 Rarotonga, 8 am Fri. Aitutaki, 0.15 Aitutaki, 10 am Faleolo, 3.15 Faleolo, 7.45 am Sat. Nadi, 11.30 am S Nadi, 5 am Mon. Norfolk Is., 10.55 Norfolk Is., 12 noon Auckland, 4.50 Mon.

All times local standard time. 17. New Zealand-Chatham During the coming summer send between Auckland and Waikato H Chatham Is., via Wellington, will operated on the following dates; November 6, 1952, December 3, D! ember 15, 1952, January 28, 1953, Mai 11, 1952.

Solent flying-boats will leave Auckls on these dates at 3.30 am, arrive Wellii ton, 5.30 am, dept. Wellington, 7 s arrive Chatham Is., 10.30 am. Ret;, by same route, arriving Auckland 7.30 same day. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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TEAL service, Auckland-Suva-Aitutaki- Papeete, is operated with Solent flyingboats once every two weeks. Depart Auckland, Tues. 7 am; arrive Suva, 2.00 pm. Dept. Suva (Wed.), 10 pm; cross International Date Line; arr. Aitutaki, 7.20 am Wed. Leave Aitutaki 9.20 am; arrive Papeete 2 pm. Return by same route every alt. Friday, leaving Papeete, 6.00 am.

The next flights leave Auckland September 2, 16, 30, October 14, etc.

Pending provision of necessary facilities, the call at Apia (Western Samoa) is being omitted. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using 2-engined amphibious Catallnas, run regularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) and Saipan (Marianas). Details from Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides Suva-Nadi & Lautoka: —Twice daily service.

Suva-Labasa:—Daily except Wednesday.

Labasa-Suva: —Daily except Sunday.

Nadi & Lautoka-Labasa:—Every Wednesday.

Labasa-Nadl & Lautoka; —Every Monday.

Mr. G. S. Banavalikar arrived in Suva from India recently to take up the post of Assistant Registrar in the office of the Commissioner for India. Fiji just now is without the services of an Indian Commissioner and until a successor to Mr.

A. K. Sen is appointed, Mr. Banavalikar will be in charge of the Suva Office.

Wau Golf Club (New Guinea) held its 6th Annual Meeting on July 29. Mr. H. P. Seale was reelected as president; Mr. J. M.

Bourke re-elected as vice-president; Mr. Alec Couper, Club Captain; Mr.

Norman McKay, honorary secretary; and Mr. Gil Bayley, as honorary treasurer.

Mr. F. C. Stephen, well-known Sydney barrister, has been appointed to the Bench of the District Court of New South Wales.

Judge and Mrs. Stephen have many friends in the Pacific Islands — especially in Papua, Solomons, New Hebrides and Fiji. 9 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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A & N.Z. Bank 126 Achun. G. . . 131 ' Akta-Vite . . 110 Aluminium Ltd. 64 Amplion Pty. . 61 Anderson, A. J. 116 lAngus & Robert- I son Ltd. . 27 lArcon Bldgs. . 60 Aspaxadrene 23, 122 Aspro .... 62 Aywun Farm . 114 Bambridge, T. . 41 Bank of NSW . 87 Bank of NZ . 125 .Berry’s B. B’d. 125 Bethell, Gwyn . 3 Blaxland Rae . 131 Blundell Spence 130 Borthwicks Pty. 83 Bovril Ltd. . . 45 Brasso . . . 123 Bray & Holliday 76 Braybon Bros. . 2 ißreckwoldt, Wm. 103 ißritstand Co. . 120 ■ Broomfields 129 Brunton <fe Co. 133 Bunting, A. H. 105 [Burns. J. & Co. 5 B.P. (NG) . . 73 B.P. (NH) . . 97 B.P. (SS) . . 128 B.P. Trust Co. . 8 |Cadbury-Pry . . 40 [Caine’s Studios 51 [Carpenter, W. R.

I & Co. 44, cov. iv [Carpenter (Fiji) 95 iCarr Pountney 38 [Clae Engines 9 [Colgate 56, 96. 113 Colman & Co. . 93 [Colonial Meat 112 [Colyer Watson I (NG) . 33. 55, 81 Columbia Plc- |_ tures .... 10 fcorrie & Co. . 39 Crammond Co. 104 Cunningham, R. 38 fcystex .... 81 Dad’s Cookies . 78 Dangar, G. & M. 11 Donaghy & Sons 45 Donald Ltd. 54. 90 Donovan, A. . . 5 Douglass. W. C. 39 [Dunlop Rubber 25 Frskine Stamps 134 Et. Donald . . 94 Ferrier, Dicken- I son and Co. . 32 Ford Sherlngton 37 Forsgren, H. . 105 Frisch & Co. . 134 Garrett, D. M. 136 Garrick Hotel . 121 Gilbey, W. & A. 53 Gillespie Bros. . 42 iGillespie Robt. . . 1, 77. 91, 99 Gillespie NG 57, 109 Gillette Ltd. . 108 Gordon’s Gin . 94 Gordon Vale 63 Gospel League . 61 Gough & Co. 106 Grahame Books 9 G.P.H. (Suva) . 12 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 29, 86 Hemingway & Robertson . . 23 Halvorsen Sons 123 Hardman & Hall 46 Hawley’s Pty. . 124 Heinz & Co. . . 58 Hellaby, R. & W. 51 Hercules Co. . 43 Hill & Son . . 41 Herco Pty. 86, 102 Horlicks Ltd. . 32 Humphreys &: McConnell . .79 Hygeia Co. . . 98 Hytest Pty. . 133 Invincible Motors 129 Is. Industries . 59 Jackson, S. W. 135 Karp, Talk Co. 42 Kendon Homes 30-31 Kennedy ... 127 Kerr Bros., Ltd. 83 Kerry, M. Pty. 27 Kodak (A/asia.) 54 Kolynos Inc. . 80 Kopsen & Co. 115 Kraft Foods . 119 Lillis & Co. . . 52 Macintyre, T. . 57 Mac Robertson’s 74 Manning & Osborne ... 26 Mcllrath’s Ltd. 35 Mendaco . . . 126 Millers Ltd. . . 74 Morris Hedstrom 22 M. H. (Aust.) . 75 Mungo Scott . 121 N. & R. Ltd. 7, 50 Needham & Co. 37 Nile Products . 36 Nirex Pty. Ltd. 11l Nixoderm . . . 118 Nordman, O. . 109 NZNAC .... 6 Oceania Agencies 135 Oliver Britstand Distributors . 28 P.A. Airways . 24 Pac. Is. Transport Line . . 3 Pierre, Jean 117 Pinkettes ... 49 P.I. Society . . 99 Qantas . . cov. li Qld. Insurance . 25 Quirk’s Co. . . 88 Ransomes Co. . 110 Refrigerator Installation Co. 89 Reed, Wm. S. 127 Riverstone Co. 100 Robinson, G. H. 49 Rohu, Sil. . . 47 Scott, J., Ltd. . 90 Seward Ltd. . 59 Shell Co. . . . 47 Sherwin-Williams llB Simpson Bros. . 32 Sims, A. G. . . 4 Smith Copeland 84 S.M.P. Co. . . 48 Spruso Co. . . 29 S. Ltd. . . 93 Stewart-Lloyds 106 Sthn. Pac. Ins. 89 Stinson (Fiji) . 50 Stone, R. G. . 119 Strang, David . 85 Sullivan. C.. Ltd. 98 Tait, W. S. . . 62 Taylor & Co. . 77 T. . cov iii Thornycroft Co. 78 Tilley Lames . 97 Tillock & Co. . 34 Tongan Photos 43 Tooth & Co. . 114 Turners Supply 101 Tusculum ... 26 Tyneside Eng. . 107 Vacuum Oil Co. 132 Valiant Rum . 85 Ventura Co. 102, 136 Vincent’s APC 122 Vi-Stim ... 7 Warnock Bros. . 46 Williams’ Pills 35 Wills, Ltd. . . 92 Wise Bros. . . 58 Wrigley’s Ltd. . 113 Wunderlich . . 103 Yorkshire Ins. . 53 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 19 5 2

at stay * H m* D elh sspxs?* u. „ Q 1 Fiji *** is th~ foe f pe ciaij y social f r °Pics „ Gesif: *o^ ****** . tor *< Z L tro m oc . c _ tr a^ erf at. da/ 35/ - au£**at . **«. ■' ,an cw £■***«, 60CW - S^i-orX;^ to\°' by >V 8 <de direct “ y V%“ IN THIS ISSUE: Editorials: New Guinea’s Place in South Pacific Defence :: Who Will Get the Nauru Administratorship 13,14 Nauru Head Resigns Post 15 Not Enough Good Land in NG Says Expert 15 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Native Policeman Murders Chief in Mangaia 17 Tahiti’s Most Vital Problem . . 18 Do You Remember? 18 Territories Talk-Talk 20 BSI Tax Power Challenged —Whole Structure May be Altered 21 The New Timber Industry Around Rabaul 27 Local Beer for Papua Soon— Price of Imported Beer Falls 29 The Japanese in the South Pacific 33 War-Torn Britain—Some Plain Aspects of Sterling-Dollar Problem 37 Improvidence of the Fijians— Sukuna Speaks Plainly to the Chiefs 41 Thorsisle in Trouble on First Run 42 Beef Cattle Project for BSI . . 43 Passion Fruit Industry in NG Highlands 43 New Stamps for Papua-New Guinea 45 Reviving Norfolk Is. Banana Trade with NZ 46 Rugby Team’s Triumphal Return to Fiji 47 TEAL’s Stopping Place in Cook Is 49 Value of British Consulate in Tahiti 54 How Self-Government Works in West Africa 55 Tikopia’s Population is Increasing 56 Liquor Control in Western Samoa 57 Britain’s Share in Pacific Aviation 59 SDA Hold Camp Meeting at Goroka 62 900 Gone, 1,000 going—Exodus of Eastern Samoans 63

Magazine Section—

Tropicalities, 65; Crossquiz, 66; When the Kuni-Maipas Saved 10 Yanks, 67; More About Mapia, 68.

Pelicans Blown into Solomons 78 All Drover Planes Grounded . . 79 Agricultural Development in Morobe Area .... .... 79 38th Anniversary of Bombardment of Papeete 81 TEAL May Save NZ Taxpayers £40,000 on Islands Services 83 Nauru’s Education is Responsibility of P-NG Director . . . . 85 The Monarch and Islands Mamp Issues g Niueans Do Not Want Mormons 8 Is NG Copper Valuable Again? 9 What the Colonial Development Corporation is Doing in Africa and Elsewhere 9 For Pacific Radio Amateurs . . 9 TEAL Makes Substantial Profit 9 Much Building at Rabaul .... 9 Cook Island Orchardists Try Modern Methods . . . . 9 Australian Newspaper Excitement Over Sepik Oil Patches 10 Margarine and the High Price of Butter jq Planters’ Leader Likes NG Village Councils 10 Fiji Missed on Sheep 40 Years Ago ii Sects Clash Over Village School in NG |i The Bailey Family 7 Wartime Scrap Planes Worth Millions 11 Suwarrow’s Lone Philosopher . . 12 News of the Small Ships . . . . 12 OBITUARY: Mr. G. L. Peeks; Mr. C. A. W. Bailey; M.

Ronnie Mitride; Mr. B. D.

Martin; Mr. T. A. Fox; Mrs.

P. Gordon; Barbara Ewins; Mrs. R. K. Caldwell; Mr. F.

Krone; Mr. Edwin Berry; Fr.

Jules Dubuy; Capt. A. T.

Norton 133-13 Commercial, Markets 13 12

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New Guinea’S Place In South

Pacific Defence

IN a political and international sense, New Guinea to-day is one of the most uneasy places in the world. Not only has it local problems which are embarrassing: It also is very sensitive in relation to all Asiatic affairs which may affect the South Pacific area.

The map suggests that Fiji, or Tahiti, or Samoa—surrounded by thousands of miles of empty ocean — is happily isolated against world unrest. But the residents of those countries, who may examine the map against a background of world news, will note that New Guinea lies in their northwest like a stopper in the neck of a funnel; and the base of the funnel rests on the southeastern mainland of Red, overcrowded Asia.

What happens in New Guinea, and all points immediately westward thereof, is of vital concern to South Pacific countries. If an unfriendly Power ever occupies New Guinea, the days of the Europeans here will be numbered.

The events of the past month are significant. Australia now appears determined to use New Guinea primarily as a defensive barrier against Asia; and, in doing that, Australia assumes (under United States) the role of chief protector of the South Seas.

TN this connection - and despite 1 American reas ™^ nce ,^ us f S theTapaneT “are* l aggressive people; Japan, typical of Asia, is overcrowded to the point of hunger; Japan literally must find new countries into which she may spill her surplus population. The southwest Pacific Islands are almost empty, and very fertile.

We imagined, when Japan surrendered unconditionally in Tokio Bay on August 15, 1945, that that menace was removed for a couple of generations. The Australians see it already at their gates, again. That is because the threat of world Communism is much greater than the threat of any one nation; and the Americans have freed Japan so that Japan may align herself with the Westerners in resisting the Muscovite bloc.

But will Japan resist the Reds?

Russian and Chinese political emissaries already have penetrated Japan deeply, trying to cripple, in advance, any anti-Communist military organisation that Japan may plan.

A Communist or neutral Japan will certainly demand entry to the South Pacific countries. But even a Japan that aligns herself with us in resisting Red Asia will not expect to go territorially unrewarded.

Discussions which have taken place in Australia during the month in relation to New Guinea have been nervous and pointed. The few real thinkers in the national Parliament say, unequivocally, that if the Europeans do not themselves occupy this vast funnel-stopper of a New Guinea, the Asiatics will. And “native rights” will not trouble the Asiatics.

New Guinea residents insist that large submarines, with Russians and Chinese aboard, have been seen in New Guinea waters. Australian officials deride the reports. Whether the Territorians imagined it or not does not matter. We can be quite certain that Red submarines from the north of Korea have been having practice runs in the South Pacific.

INDONESIAN leaders—who were placed in position by the Japanese in World War 11, and permitted by the bumble-footed Socialist Governments of Britain and the Netherlands to dispossess the 350-years-old Dutch Administration—have again been going through their bag of political tricks. President Soekarno, in the name of humanity, demands that Dutch “colonialism” be removed from Western New Guinea, so that the enlightened rule of Indonesia may be imposed there. Racially, geographically, historically, the Indonesians have no more right there than the Dutch; but in sight of the humourless Soekarno the rule of the Indonesians is beneficient and in

spired, whereas the Dutch are mere “exploiters.”

Australia grimly informed Indonesia that she would not regard with equanimity the substitution of Indonesian for Dutch rule in Western New Guinea. Whereupon the incalculable Mr. Soekarno said that he could not understand why: Indonesia felt warm friendship towards Australia, and had not the remotest thought of taking over Eastern New Guinea from Australian rule.

We cannot guess what Netherlands will do, eventually. Their new Parliament seems to be more or less under Socialist influence; and, as Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France and Italy have shown, in the past five years, Parliaments dominated by Pinks will never do anything effective to stop the Reds.

But Dutch officials at present are showing great energy and wise planning in opening up Western New Guinea, studying the, as yet, uncounted population, encouraging the right kind of immigration, and organising important new industries— especially the development of their oil wells in the Vogelkop area. In the Nimboran Plains—behind Lake Sentani, at the back of Hollandia— they are preparing an agricultural area of between 2,000 and 5,000 acres, where natives will be instructed and trained. The Dutch show no signs of an early withdrawal.

T^IEAN WHILE, as an indication of what our shrewder planners think of future conditions in Southwest Asia and the Middle East, Australia at the end of August inaugurated its new international air service, to provide an alternative connection with Britain. A big passenger plane, operated by Qantas, has flown from West Australia to Johannesburg, via the new airfields on Cocos Island and Mauritius; and in South Africa it links with the regular air services to Europe. Now, if nationalist disturbances in Indonesia, Malaya, India, Persia, Iraq, Egypt, and similar restless countries should break our main air-line connections, Australia can promptly switch to the Indian Ocean- Africa route.

Even in the remote South Pacific there is no complete security— not while Red submarines can thrust southwards from Vladivostok, or Red planes come down across the archipelagoes of Indonesia and New Guinea.

Who Will Get the Nauru Administratorship? rFHE post of Administrator of Nauru is to be filled some time this year by the Australian Government. Another minor Administratorship, that of Norfolk Island, also is due for consideration by Australia.

Is the vicious system of posting political job-hunters and superannuated soldiers to these places to be continued?

Ever since it was established, 22 years ago, the PIM has been protesting against the Australian method of selecting men for these exceedingly pleasant Islands jobs. We say that the positions should be allotted, as recognition of meritorious service, to the best of the Administration officials in Papua and New Guinea. Instead, they are handed out by Ministers and bureaucrats on a system of favouritism, to people who usually lack the essential qualifications— namely, practical experience of tropical administration, and knowledge of the machinery of administration, Only once in those 22 years was an appointment made along the lines we advocate—that was when Mr.

C. R. Pinney, a senior member of the Papuan service, was appointed Norfolk Island, It is a waste of tin to describe again the kind of a pointments that were made. T last two will suffice.

Mr. Wilson, who was sent to Ne folk Island by the Socialist Cover ment, had been a non-Labour mer ber of Parliament. He changed 1: party vote at a critical time, and ; allowed the Socialists to get in power—for which, presumably, tl Socialists were very grateful. Heav< alone knows why the Australu Socialist Government selected M Richards for the Nauru job, beyoi the fact that Mr, Richards was tl Leader of a State Labour Party, h doubt, both Mr. Wilson and M Richards will assert that they had r difficulties in filling the Administr torships. Actually, the jobs are sinecure—a light task under excee* ingly pleasant conditions. But th< carry good salaries, with certain a lowances and quite substantial pri\ leges; and why should they be r served for undistinguished politician or for non-professional soldiers wt find themselves job-less at the er of a war?

The work of the Administratic officials in Papua-New Guinea—e pecially those on field duties— much more arduous; and there, ; in most professions, it is usually th best who get to the top. When the reach the rank of Department; chief there is nothing much to 100 forward to, except retirement. Th P-NG Administratorship never y< has gone to the best man among th Departmental heads and, agaii Heaven alone knows why.

But if those Departmental chiel knew that one of them would go t the vacant Administratorship i Nauru or Norfolk or Northern Terr tory, all would feel at least that ir centive was recognised, and th£ there was some sense of justice ii Canberra.

Passengers from Auckland for Tahiti per the Waitemata late in August included: (left to right):- Mr. W. Stuart, formerly of Tahiti, was seeing Mrs. Stuart and the children, Leone and Paul, away on a holiday visit to Tahiti.

Mrs. M. Philipps and her daughter June returned after eight months hliday in New Zealand.

Miss V. Rule, of Auckland, was making her second visit to Tahiti visiting relatives.

Mrs. and Mr. M. Barrier returned from holiday in Auckland. They were farewelled by Mrs. Barrier’s sister (right). 14 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Nauru Head Resigns His Post JITHEN he arrived in Adelaide on ■ ? a phosphate ship late in August. Mr. H. S. Richards formally resigned his post as Administrator of the Trusteeship Territory of Nauru, on the ground of ill-health.

He will retire at the end of three months’ leave.

Mr. Richards, who was a Labour member of the South Australian Socialist Parliament, was appointed to Nauru by the Australian Socialist Government in 1949. At the time, the appointment was strongly criticised by this journal, on the ground that it reeked of political favouritism. Mr. Richards had never had one hour’s experience of tropical islands administration. He worked hard and conscientiously while there, however, and the Minister has braised his services. [ A reference to the system of filling jhese positions will be found on page 14.

Why Not Make

PAPER AND

Pulp In N. Guinea?

Letter to the Editor IN all the discussions of possible industries which might be established in Papua-New Guinea there |s one which has not been mentioned, and yet all the conditions here are in its favour—l refer to the manufacture of pulp and paper, f Ample timber and ample water are the two basic items for pulpmaking. The Territories have both, in abundance. Our great rivers can provide not only the water, but the pecessary power. They are as yet unharnessed, but they have a tremendous industrial potential.

While the initial capital outlay on 1 pulp and paper mill project would lot be small, and would largely depend upon the ultimate planned yearly production capacity of the mill or mills erected, the profits from he finished products would more than justify their construction—see he annual financial reports of any nilp and paper organisation.

World demand for Pulp and Paper is now somewhat in excess of the maximum production capacity of all he mills now in operation, and a 'eady market for Territory-produced onnage would be assured.

Rabaul I am etc., H. K. RICHARDSON

Expert Says There Is

Not Enough

Good Land In Ng

AMID a chorus of persons who believe that the Central Highlands of New Guinea offer great possibilities for European settlement comes the dissident voice of Dr. K.

E. Read, a Research Fellow of the Australian National University, who has just concluded two years in the Goroka area of the Highlands.

In an article in Sydney Morning Herald in early September he claimed that, among the vast areas of attractive-looking land in the Highlands there is a very high proportion of soil of poor quality, and broken country; and he thinks that most of the first-class land is needed for the Highlands’ half-million natives.

He believes that the native population will increase, and he argues that the disadvantages of introducing Europeans will far outweigh the advantages claimed. The high cost of the only available transport (air) rules out most European farming and planting, except perhaps coffee: but coffee will not come in under 3f years. A settler would need a minimum of £5,000 of capital.

Praising Dr.

Read’s article, Mr.

J. T, Bensted, a retired Departmental head with long experience in Papua, said the most logical longrange policy for the development of these Territories appears to rest in native training under European management (both private and official), supplemented by the existing system of native plantations and co-operatives, together with technical education and manual training.

Australia’S New Guinea

Army Badly Housed

AS part of her task in preparing the Southwest Pacific region against aggression, Australia is rapidly creating in New Guinea a military organisation, in which specially selected natives are being intensively trained. As was demonstrated in World War 11, these people can be very useful in certain classes of warfare.

A plea was made in Canberra in September that better accommoda-, tion be provided in Papua-New Guinea for the many officers and non - commissioned officers now stationed there; some of the housing was described as shockingly bad.

Army Minister Francis agreed that the provision of suitable housing for Army personnel was “vital and important,” and said he would go personally to New Guinea and examine the situation.

Mons. B. C. d’Hauteserre, Director of the Meteorological Department of French Oceania, was on holiday in New Zealand in September.

HC for WP AT VILA The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr.

R. C. S. Stanley, with his wife, daughter and official party, spent five busy days in Vila, New Hebrides, in August. Top photograph shows the High Commissioner at Pagoa; lower photograph, the party among school children at Mele. —Photos by Fung Kuei. 15 pacific islands monthly September, 1952

The Editors' Mailbag

Old Papuan Located The Brisbane reader who sought the address of Mr. W. T. Hughes, formerly of Samarai, probably could get news of him by communicating with his niece—Mrs. Wilma Herriott, of Mumeng via Lae, New Guinea.

She says her uncle, “Bert” Hughes, was at Mudau over 30 years ago. He went to Melbourne when the Japanese invasion forced evacuation in 1942, and he still lives there, in good health.

Up Yonder Greets Down Under “Here I go on my seventh year with PIM,” writes former Colonel C. B. Wales, from San Antonio, Texas. “I very much enjoy the news from the South Pacific. Here in my little office, built into my garage, I have rugs from Tarawa, and a lamp from Bora Bora, and I am surrounded by artifacts from Munda (BSI), Fiji, Luzon (Philippines) and Hawaii. I can’t realize it’s been six years since I left the Pacific for home —your PIM keeps me in touch. Best regards to all your wonderful people out there and best wishes for your (and PlM’s) continued success!”

We get quite a number of such communications from the friendly Yanks we met in World War 11.

Only a few weeks ago, we were surprised and delighted to receive a radiophone call direct from Cleveland, Ohio—it was Attorney John R. Crossen, who held a high commission down here in 1943-45, making a casual inquiry about a matter of mutual interest. In a subsequent note, he said he first met the PIM in the Tailevu Hotel, in Fiji, and he proceeded: “Thinking back on those days, I wonder if Mr. Gatwood still runs the place, and has the same Chinese cook; 1 wonder about Ryan, the newspaperman in Suva; I am indebted to you for putting me in touch with the Rev. Goldie of Munda (where we once fought quite a battle); it was through PIM that I learned of Father Wobkin at Cawaii, Ovalau, and then visited Malakai, the leper colony.”

Mr. Gatwood Snr. who owned the old Tailevu Hotel, died within the last couple of years. The new hotel, on a different site, was opened re cently. We published a photo of it not then completed, about last November and there is another elsewhere in this issue. The old Gatwood Hotel was a rendezvous for American servicemen during the war.

Auckland’s French Clubs To acquaint visitors from French Pacific Territories to Auckland of the existence of French club activities there, we published some information in July PIM, p. 89.

Mrs. Germaine Matthews, secretary of “L’Amicale Francaise” points out that part of this paragraph, dealing with the monthly meetings, refers not to her club, but to the rival “L’Alliance Francaise.”

“L’Amicale Francaise” is the less staid club—most favoured, it seems, by the younger set in particular and apparently in the main by Islands visitors. It meets at the Auckland YWCA building, on the 3rd Wednesday of each month: Mrs. Matthews, Telephone 42.860, will tell you about it.

Beetling in Vavau Mr. H. Hunter, of Citrus Products Ltd., Auckland, suggests an explanation for an article about “beetle day” at Vavau (p. 82 of June PIM).

Mr. Hunter says that the “beetling” is not at the employer’s expense, though employers of labour, of course, lose the use of their labour on that day. It was not intended to belittle the efforts of the Government of Tonga in organizing this beetle drive. It has, in fact, been highly successful. When the campaign was commenced, last March, from 800 to 1,200 beetles were probably being caught per person, per day. But latterly the catch has been only from 10 to 50 beetles; so that a day’s beetling does now amount to a picnic.

Fed Up!

AN old NG friend, writing “from a full heart and a wheezy typewriter,” says: “I am fed to the teeth with plantations, native labour, copra and the whole box and dice.” (Ever felt that way, gentlemen of the “Isles of Romance?”) He discusses the miseries of life in an isolated tropical place, and proceeds: “I once came across a diary, kept by a city gent who, in the Expro Board days, got marooned out in the Ninigoes as an overseer. He was out of the main food items and, had had fever, wanted his mail, had his life threatened by the native 1 bourers, and a small tidal wave hs been over one part of the islai (the highest part was three fe above sea level). He wasn’t hapj —not a bit. One item in diary w a quotation which seemed to be a plicable to his sad lot and wen In prison cell 1 sadly sit, A most crestfallen chappie ; And own to you I feel a bit, A little bit — unhappy!

“That verse leapt at me, becaui I knew its origin. It was written I Harry Morant (The Breaker), in h cell at Pretoria Gaol, the night b fore his execution, by British Mil tary heads, for shooting Bo< prisoners. You probably know tl story? Morant was well-known : the part of Queensland where I wj reared, as a reckless liver, a wonde: ful horseman, and for his poen under the name of The Breake Funny I should come across th verses in the Ninigoes.”

Home for Chandos Bar The bar counter from the Char dos Hotel, London, on which tw generations of Fiji servicemen carve their names, has arrived in Suva an is on exhibition before being give a permanent home in the Defenc Club. The PIM, last year, told ho> Mr. L A. Lawlor, of Suva (himsel a World War I veteran) learned b chance on a recent visit to Londoi that the old Chandos bar was bein dismantled; and, when he disclose* his interest in the carved names, th owners of the Chandos Hotel ol fered him the relic, if he could find ; place for it. The Committee of th* Defence Club co-operated with Mr Lawlor, and the counter was dub shipped from London.

A Fighter’s Grave I was at Kieta recently—it’s j real South Sea place now, and ven quiet (writes Fred Archer, veterai NG planter). I went to see J. W Campbell’s grave. The marker ha: gone, and it’s just enclosed by stones but the red lilies that Amy, his wife planted on the grave still have then descendants there. It seems strange to think that “after many a foughter fielde” JWC should be lying there so quietly. He was in Boer War Great War and fought in some African turmoils—besides many private wars of his own up here! Well, he was a pioneer hereabouts and now lies in an unmarked grave. I must see if we can alter it—we who ate of his salt and slept under his roof. 16

September, 1952 Pacific Islands Monthly!

£3.100 IN SIR HUBERT MURRAY

Memorial Fund

ABOUT £2OO for a Sir Hubert fv Murray Memorial Fund had een raised when, in 1942, the Japs ivaded New Guinea and the Terriories were evacuated. Last year, tie appeal was revived, and aditional subscriptions in Moresby md Sydney brought the fund to 1,100. [Nothing need be said here to emhasise the worthiness of the moyenent. As Minister Hasluck said: Sir Hubert Murray rendered outtanding service to the people of >apua and of Australia, and his atient, wise and sympathetic work dded to the brightness of the Brit- >h colonial record.” [The Commonwealth Government las added £2,000 to the Fund, which iow has reached £3,100. [The Memorial Committee will deide the form of the Memorial, lumerous suggestions have been aade, ranging from stone or bronze aonuments to libraries, schools and cholarships. The Moresby Memrial Committee includes Mr. Justice lore (chairman), Mr. E. A. James Deputy Chairman), Mr. J. H. thearn (Secretary), Mr. A. Anthony [Assistant Secretary) and Mr. W. N.

Chester (Treasurer). The Sydney Auxiliary Committee: Messrs. J. T. lensted (chairman), C. D. Rowley secretary), E. Taylor, R. Melrose, I. M. Bastard, S. A. Greenland, H.

V. Champion and R. W. Robson.

Prince Tungi In Nz

Prince Tungi, Premier of Tonga, md heir to the throne, went to New Zealand by TEAL Solent from Fiji m August 10. His visit was unofficial, but he was entertained at unch by Prime Minister Holland in Wellington, and afterwards given a eat to the left of Mr. Speaker in reserved for distin- -suished visitors. Queen Salote will risit New Zealand in November.

By means of a general knowledge |uiz contest and talent quest, now preceeding in Papua-New Guinea, the P-NG branch of the Country Women’s Association is raising funds for the establishment of a rest-home in Port Moresby for expectant mothers, and for women ind children from outlying districts iwaiting hospital treatment in Moresby. Quiz teams have been organised and the winners will get a trophy. Entrance fees go to the good cause. Organisers are Mesdames Grove, Hunter, Nolan and Watkins, all of Port Moresby.

Native Chief Murdered

By Policeman

At Mangaia, Ci

MANGAIA, COOK IS., August 1 THE customary peace and quiet of Mangaia Island was shattered in the early morning of July 8 by the discovery in an empty hut at Kaumata Village of the body of Angareu Okirua, a chief of Veitatei District.

This is the first murder here for at least six decades.

The crime was eventually traced to one of the local policemen, Atatoa Tamarua, who was charged in a local court convened by Mr. Justice McCarthy who came from Rarotonga with Police Chief O’Halloran.

There was a jury of seven assessors, including one European.

The trial occupied two days.

The accused admitted that he had on the night of July 8, intervened in a bush-beer party, but that after having “taken names” he himself joined the party. He later left it with his victim, Angareu, and alone they drank in Atatoa’s house where they eventually quarrelled. Atatoa alleged that Angareu attacked him with a knife whereupon he threw him down upon the floor where his head struck a bedstead breaking his neck and killing him.

Atatoa said that he had no intention of killing Angareu.

Evidence for the prosecution was mainly circumstantial, there were no witnesses and the only account available was accused’s own statement. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter. He was sentenced to five years hard labour at Rarotonga prison.

Fiji’S New Governor

Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG, with Lady Garvey and family, will arrive in Auckland late this month, and are expected in Suva on Tofua early in October.

TAHITI CELEBRATES Tahiti’s celebration for Bastille Day (July 14) - which lasts a week - were as exciting as ever this year. As shown here, ferris-whee's, merry - go - rounds, dancing and competitions were popular. These photographs are from T.E.A.L. who flew tourists from NZ for the occasion. 17 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

Fiji’S Most

VITAL PROBLEM Growing Population and Indian Demand for Land From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 1 OROBABLY the first open Indian * suggestion that the British pledges to preserve Fijian land for the Fijans should not necessarily be regarded as sacrosanct was made on August 22. The Pacific Review, an Indian weekly printed in English and Fijian, published an editorial which stated that the increase of population and post-war changes have completely transformed the food situation in Fiji.

It added: “If the land laws have to be readjusted in order to make it attractive and worth while for the tiller of the soil to work on the land and produce food for himself, his family and the inhabitants of the Colony—well, that must be done.

Will the Government take heed betimes?”

Theoretically, and at face value, the argument looks all right. But the Pacific Review also says that if “certain fundamental principles on which the development of the Colony has been carried out so long get a jolt, well, that cannot be helped”; and “if a readjustment of the balance as between commercial and food crops has to be effected, well, it has to be done, whatever be the interests that might be affected thereby.” This is apparently a proposal to reduce the area of sugarcane land.

In the canegrowing areas of Fiji there is at present a great deal of talk among the Indian farmers’ unions about increased land rentals recently announced by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. There have been protest meetings at which “direct action” has been urged, wordy press statements, and a memorial presented to the Acting-Governor. The basis of the whole campaign is the bracketing of the CSR with the Native Land Trust Board as joint monsters of iniquity bent on exploiting the Indian canefarmer.

At no time has the Indian propaganda mentioned the fact that in many cases of long standing the rents paid to the Fijian owners of caneland were so trifling as to be absurd. Farmers’ Union statements have alleged that the increased cost of living has cancelled out the bene- * aftsWf pricfotTre! receiving fantastically low rente JSd a m s a re y g a y rthe 8 :a"oni!-„ e g Same ~F^~ As yet this minor flare-up is no more than an illustration of Fiji’s increasingly precarious balance on the land question. In 1949 Sir Brian Freeston told the Legislative bacT C on' h tL th fi r , t ml°h d b H no . B °.' n , 8 back on the firmly-based principle that Fijian land belongs to the Fijians and may not be taken from them by legislative or other changes And that is precisely what Indian politicians, behind a wordy smokescreen, are demanding should done. , Incidentally, Fiji has less th 1,000,000 acres of land suitable f grazing or arable farming. On tk basis, an official statement in 19 maintained that the Colony’s dangt point in population increase w about 400,000. At the present ra of increase (predominantly Indiai the danger-point will be reached a comparatively few years.

Captain Smith, Harbour Mast at Christmas Island, prospha source in the Indian Ocean, was c sick leave in Australia in Augm Captain Smith was evacuated fro; Christmas Is. before the Japane; occupied it in 1942. He then becan Harbour Master at Makatea, bi returned to Christmas Is. whe phosphate working was resume after the war.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

TF you think that Communism in A the southern hemisphere is a post-World War II manifestation you will probably be surprised to know that the Comrades were busy pushing their wares back in 1932.

Our issue of September, 1932, seems to indicate so, at all events.

For the rest, that issue goes to show that Pacific Islands affairs have a habit of repeating themselves and that the problems of to-day were no less so in those days.

We reported that New Zealand Communists were showing an interest in Western Samoa “probably on account of the Man unrest”. Letters had been received by two residents hard hit by the prevailing depression. They were urged to start some Communistic agitation among local Europeans.

The Comrades, however, appear to have had little success as the letters were handed over to the Government. * * “Mr. lon L. Idriess, well-known Australian author, is at present engaged on a book which will tell the fascinating story of the discovery and development of the Morobe goldfields. New Guinea.

The book will be published early in 1933 and will be called ‘Gold Dust and Ashes’.” * # * The men and interests which had established the highly successful Guinea Airways, Ltd., in New Guinea were reported to be thinking of extending their operations to Fiji and forming a company called Fiji Airways, Ltd. A director of G’alr, Mr. George Jeffreys, and the company’s NG manager, Mr. Alan Cross, were leaving for Fiji to make investigations on the spot. * * * The death of Captain Les Holden was reported. He was one of the p!r pioneers of New Guinea and the man who found Kingsford-Smith. Ulm and crew when N W W £tJ°u in „‘ h * Cross : N-W Australia. He, with two friend was on his way in a small plane on Barrier Reef fishing trip when the plai crashed near Lismore, NSW. * * * on A h?rTT nden t p,eaded that the ba on bird-of-paradise shooting in Ne Guinea should be lifted on the groun, tha t (apart from the fact that skins wei f /-° m £5 to £so > the prohibits ° * h was causing the birds to d out. His theory was that the male bii develops full plumage only when h Thprwft aS U b s reeder was on the wan Thereafter, he simply went around annoj mg younger males and interfering in tl domestic affairs of more marriageab birds. It will probably surprise th amateur ornithologist to find that S years later. New Guinea BOP, thoug still unhunted, show no signs of havin died out (ask Sir Edward H.). * * * sh *P Ma taram left Sydney durin September, 1932, with 203 crates on boar containing one complete church for th South Sea Mission at Fui, BSI. It ha been donated by Mr. Alfred Sage c Melbourne, Victoria, as a memorial to h son When erected, the church would t 85-ft. long by 58-ft. wide and it wa claimed that it was the biggest in th Pacific. Two carpenters went along witl * * * An amendment to the New Guinea Ao was before the Australian Parliameui whereby it was expected that New Guinewould be given its first Legislative Council and Executive Council. Tht Legislative Council was to consist of the Administrator, eight officials of the Terri tory service, and seven unofficial memben nominated by the Administrator to repres sent planting, mining and commercia; interests. The Executive Council was tl consist of nine members appointed by th!

Governor-General, and its purpose was tl advise and assist the Administrator Thus was New Guinea given its firs' somewhat muffled voice. 18 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Suva'S Hotels

Old Club Relic Goes Into Films ► When the rubble of Suva’s old •Club Hotel irretrievably damaged in the January hurricane was -cleared away, this fine old staircase awaiting removal.

The staircase was noticed by an executive of Warner Brothers film production unit, now making “His Majesty O’Keefe” in Fiji; and he promptly rented it for £2O per month. It is now one of the properties of the huge sound stage erected .about two miles east of Deuba, where interior shots are being filmed. (Photo is by Jack Thornton).

There are indications that Morris Hedstrom Limited will go ahead with the erection of a fine modern hotel on the site of the demolished ■Club Hotel. The big Co. has made no formal announcement, but reports in Suva (which naturally is •deeply interested) say that the hotel will have at least five storeys —two floors of shops and offices, one floor of dining-room and lounge, and two floors of bed-rooms.

Travellers say “the sooner the better.” The accommodation position in Suva—the natural centre of the growing traffic of the South and Southeast Pacific —is becoming steadily worse.

Captain Allan McNicoll, new commander of HMAS Australia, is one of the distinguished sons of the late Sir Ramsay McNicoll, Administrator of New Guinea before World War 11. He specialised in submarines and torpedoes and saw very tough service in the Royal Navy during the war. For delousing some Italian torpedoes—a job which calls for superb courage —he was awarded the rare George Cross. Another son of Sir Ramsay is David McNicoll, notable Sydney journalist.

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THE Union SS Co. has announced that, due to the unprecedented dry spell in the Fiji banana-producing areas, the banana crop is behind expectations. Consequently, to carry the Fiji bananas to NZ, it will not be necessary to employ the Tofua and Matua together until January.

Under a rearrangement, Tofua will leave Auckland, northbound, about October 2, November 20, and December 23. On return from the October voyage she will undergo survey. Matua at present on survey in Auckland, will make a cargo-and-passenger run to Melbourne, leaving Auckland not later than October 1. Then, on return to Auckland, she will make an Islands trip while Tofua is on survey, sailing from Auckland October 30.

The vessels will call at Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, and Suva on each of these Island voyages.

Matua As A Ferry

Some good-natured criticism of the Matua, as a passenger ferry employed between Wellington and Lyttelton, NZ, was published in July PIM. The Matua was built for the Auckland-Pacific Islands services, and usually runs there; but the simultaneous arrival of the Tofua and the January hurricane rather dislocated shipping plans, and the Matua was temporarily diverted to other duties.

It was reported that NZ travellers were clamant in their dislike of her.

The Union SS Co. advises that both its Wellington and Christchurch branches report no dissatisfaction with Matua’s service. On the contrary, passengers spoke well of her amenities and of the spaciousness of her public rooms. The fact that she had to start a little earlier than the regular ferries was well advertised, and caused no inconvenience to passengers and mails.

A photograph taken after the recent marriage in Nukualofa, Tonga, of Miss Joyce Georgina Violet Cocker to Mr. Selwyn Percy Jones. The wedding was one of the social events of the year in Nukualofa and a large reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents. The photo shows (back row from left): Mr. Adolph Johansson, groomsman; Miss Ida Cocker, sister of bride; Miss Ruby Cocker, chief bridesmaid and sister of bride; Mr. Karl Riechelmann, bestman. Second row, from left: Bridesmaid Naina Cocker, sister of bride; bride and bridegroom; bridesmaid Charlotte Cocker, cousin of bride. Seated in front is bridesmaid Irene Cocker, another sister of the bride.

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala Liquor Inquiries seem to be the vogue these days. Late reports from Moresby describe contemplated action by the Town Advisory Council into native drinking and the need to ascertain the source of supply to natives of intoxicating liquor. That should not present such a problem —providing it is not home-brew.

Another matter of civic importance to be investigated by the Moresby TAG is the strength of the police force, which is stated to be well under-staffed.

In comparing present conditions there with pre-war Rabaul, one of the Councillors mentioned that there was always an armed European officer on patrol at night and he was called a “sut” man. What he was actually called was a “shoot-man” and it was derived from the old German word “Schutzmann” (a policeman).

And talking about old times and old timers in Rabaul reminds me of an interesting article I glimpsed recently in the “Christain Science Monitor,” all about Mrs. Rhoda Coote and her son Peter and daughter Diana, and the work they are putting in on their plantation on the North Coast, out of Rabaul.

Unlike a lot of US papers’ ballyhoo in regard to NG, it paints a life-like picture of conditions and the job of work carried out by the Coote family. I “dips me lid” to them, and to all those other brave women in NG who have staged a comeback after losing everything, and at a time when the going was rough for the white planter. Good luck to them!

Apropos of US papers, an American friend sent me a clipping recently from a six-year-old issue of the “St. Paul Dispatch.” It is headed “Blarney Opposes US Hold on Isle,” with a Melbourne date line; and it says that Sir Thomas Blarney, former Australian Army commander, declared that “Australia, not the United States, should control the big naval base built by the US on the island of Manus . . . Australia is the only country in the Pacific which would be menaced if Manus were out of her control.” He added, cryptically, that “history shows that nations with great power have great difficulty in restraining themselves from using it.”

So now we know. At least, we know what some of the Yanks thought.

Old TNG residents will be sorry to hear of the death of Tom Fox, who, with his brother, back in the 20 s was an Exproboard overseer in the Kavieng district and, in after years, made a name for himself (with his brother) in opening up sections of the Highlands area. He has gone to his well-earned rest. 1 notice that Minister Hasluck is showing interest in the preservation of old brick buildings on Norfolk Island. Paul Hasluck has a natural penchant for matters historical. I mentioned before he was lecturer in history at the WA University at one time, and for over six years was Hon. Sec. of the WA Historical Society. I’d like to see him start some move in NG to preserve old historical landmarks and do something about recording NG’s history for future generations, instead of leaving it until it is too late to collate reliable information.

Should we call it MANZUS now?

Anyway, Minister Casey’s action at the Honolulu Conference in patching up the damage, done by his opposite number in the Chifley government over Manus, did a lot to raise the morale of the average Australian. What we want now is action, not words.

Seems to me that history is repeating itself. Once again we read of unidentified submarines and shellpoachers in northern waters; once again Emirau comes into the news.

That was the island on which German raider dumped its prison which were later collected “Nellore” in ’4l. And once aj officialdom is trying to brush whole thing off. Or at least appears to be doing so. ( Ministers have an unhappy knack objecting to unpleasant truths be made public by other than their c officers.

We had the same old story in T 1 twelve years ago and were cau napping by the Nips.

There should be little wrong v George Whittaker’s eye-sight. He been a qualified optician for mi years.

Even the announcement by GOC Northern Command of “t army outposts on the North Co of New Guinea” is not reassuri but one must naturally expect— £ hope—that all defensive measu are not publicised for the world large to read. It would be nice know we had Eric Feldt and Coastwatchers, or some such seton the job again—though I’m afr they would not find the same loya amongst the natives as displayed the last war.

News items concerning the ar Indonesian movement up in our N< North brings to mind the wide gi which separates the Javanese frc such smaller Island folk as the A boinese. Most of the Mala originally brought to TNG were frc Amboina, and had little in comm with the Javanese. A mark difference in treatment was me apparent by the Japs when occup ing Rabaul during the last wj Javanese POWs were treated pra tically as their allies and strutt around in their natty green unifom wearing side-arms, while POW’s fra Amboina and the Celebes receivi true Jap POW treatment.

Australian students of foreii (Continued on Page 117) Popular British Public Servant Retire[?] After nine years in the British service in the New Hebrides— latterly as District Agent CDI and Commandant of Constabulary Mr. Peter Colley has gone on pre-retirement leave.

Mr. and Mrs. Colley were popular. and this photograph shows them being entertained at a farewell party in Port Vila. From left to right: Mrs. Colley, Mr. Colley, Mdme.

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Love. 20 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

Bsi Tax Power

CHALLENGED Whole W. Pacific Structure May Be Affected ACTING on the advice of one of c\ Australia’s leading constitutional fcwyers, a number of persons have leclined to accept the taxation asessments on their incomes made by he government of the British Solonon Islands Protectorate (BSIP). [The whole administrative structure jf the Protectorate is affected by he move.

A Sydney solicitor has lodged in tloniara the formal notices of appeal, [be latter probably will go to the Jupreme Court in Fiji, which is the thannel of appeal for the Territories mder the High Commission for the Western Pacific.

Eminent counsel contends that the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (HCWP) has not the power 0 make assessments. He says that ting’s Regulations Nos. 12 and 13 )f 1947, on which they are based, ire ultra vires the law making the lowers conferred on HCWP by the *acific Order in Council, 1893. The aws made in 1893 became the Contitution of both the Solomons and he Gilbert and Ellice Colony; and, f the challenge now made to the 3SIP assessments is successful, the ihole of the taxing powers of the ICWP will be thrown into the meltng-pot.

It is possible that the laws affectng the collection of import and ex- >ort duties, and the constitution and lets of the Copra Board, will be affected. Counsel’s opinion, that all hese Regulations are invalid, is most iefinite. The BSIP’s right to sell or ease land might be affected.

The constitutional history of the British Solomon Islands has been carefully examined. It appears that, n the ’Nineties, owing to the expandng colonial ambitions of Germany, 1 scramble for new lands was going )n all over the world. Britain was mxiously safeguarding her colonial ights—especially in areas where her claims were ill-defined. Consequently, »me nations were angrily accusing he British of “land-grabbing.”

Therefore, the British were proceding with care. As was shown in the article in August PIM on Sir Peter Scratchley, there is a substantial difference between annexation, and a Protectorate. A Protectorate goes only part of the way. In the :ase of the Solomons, Britain probably decided to claim only the Protectorate, and confirm her title by annexation later.

But the Boer War and the tense situation preceding World War I intervened. There came into power a new generation of statesmen who did not have the same affection for expanding colonial power. The BSIP set-up was more or less forgotten.

From then until now there has never been a challenge.

Learned counsel points out that there is a considerable difference between a Protectorate and a sovereign State.

The Order in Council of 1893 gave power to the High Commissioner in five directions, namely—control of prisons; control of immigration; power to compel the lodgement of returns of imports and exports; observance of treaties; power to legislate for peace, order and good goveminent.

It is the latter power which is under challenge. How far can that power be interpreted as giving the right to tax?

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THE BSIP Government certainly has brought what it regards as taxing powers into operation in the years since World War 11, The only industry worthy of the name in the BSIP is copra production. An import duty of 17i per cent, ad valorem on Britsh goods and 35 per cent. on non-British is imposed, for a start; then an export duty of 15 per cent, is imposed on copra; and after that incomes are taxed—l/3 in the £ on the first £1,500, 2/6 in the £ on remainder, plus a general surcharge of 5/6 in the £; so that an individual showing an income of £3,000 or £4,000 loses about one third of it in income taxation. Although it costs a great deal of money to bring a coconut plantation to profitable bearing, and such a plantation does not last much beyond 40 years, there is no provision at all under which depreciation of plantation can be set against income, as in any other industrial enterprise.

It is notable, also, that only PineaDDle Cup, 1952 Series Fiji’s big singles bowling event—for the Pineapple Cup—took place in Suva on August 4. Twenty-five players entered for the event which was won by J. Taylor of Rewa Club from runner-up W. Thompson of Suva. The photograph shows the [?]resentation of the cup and (from left to right) Mr. Noel Levy, Mr. M. Brodie, the [?]cting Governor, Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart, Mr. L. F. Garnett, Mr. J. Taylor, Mr. W.

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In October, Number 78 Photographic and Reconnaissance Squadron of the Australian Air Force will commence the task of surveying and mapping in New Britain and New Ireland. It has just completed the photo survey of 300,000 square miles in Central Australia. A detachment also has completed a similar survey in Fiji. The planes work from fixed bases and generally fly at around 25,000 feet.

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Plans For Progress

In New Britain

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Aug. 28.

“ r T'HAT areas of up to 100 hectares L in different districts be made available to Chinese residents of the Territory for planting and farming;” and “that the establishment of an apprenticeship system be set up for the Chinese were resolutions unanimously carried j the recent meeting of the New Brlta District Advisory Council presided ovi by the District Commissioner, Mr. J. ] McCarthy. Other resolutions included:- “That this Council considers that tl Territory of Papua and New Guim should be administered by a Lieut Governor.”

“That all possible steps be taken 1 preserve and encourage native hand crafts and that a museum of native ai be established in the Rabaul Botanic: Reserve—funds to be provided h Central Administration.”

“The future expenditure on roads an bridges in the New Britain District b directed towards permanent construe tions.”

“That the Administration should tak steps to either acquire or resume, on just basis, what is considered to be sufficient area to satisfy the Kokop District’s needs for some time to com within the town area.”

“That casual labour should not be cm ployed outside the native’s district unles permission is granted by his Distric Commissioner.”

“That the broadcasts of court new: over OPA, particularly cases of an un savoury nature, are undesirable am should be discontinued forthwith.”

Mr. B. Bembrick has been appointed Lae, New Guinea, repre sentative of the Queensland Insurance Co., Ltd. He was formerly with the company’s Hurstville NSW, branch. 26 S E P T E M B E R, 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH! Y

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New Timber Industry Around Rabaul

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, September 1 IT is estimated that some 10 million su. ft. of timber will be required, over a 5-years period, for Rabaul’s rebuilding projects; but that, with present commitments and at the present rate of production, it will take three years to catch up with requirements.

For the year ended June 30, 1952, 5,048,625 su. ft. of timber was logged in the Gazelle Peninsula, more than half of it going through the Administration sawmills at Keravat. J. L. Chipper’s leases at the Warangoi Valley produced approx. 1,300,000 sq. ft. of logs, and New Guinea Forests Ltd., Powell Harbour, some 1,374,087 su. ft. of logs.

The Chinese-owned United Services Co. have installed a new Canadian-type circular saw and can now cut 660,000 su. ft. per annum, but are perturbed that no suitable timber lease has been granted. Another Chinese concern, the ABCT, (also operating on privately-owned property at Keravat) has an annual output of 660,000 su. ft. of logs.

The Chipper interests are constructing roads which will give access to the head and middle waters of the Warangoi River, and are being built to carry loads of up to 15 tons. They have under order from USA a caterpillar road patrol which they plan to use to maintain a road from the Warangoi area to their rafting stage at Kokopo. The logs will be loaded from Warangoi to Kokopo, then rafted. The rafts will be towed by the Co’s tugs to Rabaul, where export quality logs will be shipped to Australia, while mill quality logs will be used here.

Mr. Chipper’s plans at present include the installation of a breaking down saw capable of handling 16 ft. logs and a kiln dryer for timber for local use. A modern 4-header planing machine is now being installed.

New Guinea Forests Ltd. have a timber lease over nearly 60 sq. miles at Powell Harbour, where they log for export to Australia and have two sawmills cutting timber for local use.

Logs are drawn out by tractor to the beach, where they are barked, creosoted and cut into lengths for shipping. They are then rafted to the harbour to await shipment, usually by ships from Japan en route to Australia. Over a million super feet are shipped each year.

The species most used for plymaking is Taun and Calyphyllum whilst walnut is sliced for veneers or cut into flitches and shipped to America.

An announcement was made in Rarotonga on August 15, that the NZ Government had approved the payment of 7/6 per week assistance to the veterans of the 1914-18 war, in the Cook Islands and Niue, who are unable to work. A committee has been formed, consisting of the Chief Medical Officer, the President of the Cook Islands Returned Services Association, and a representative from the Resident Commissioner’s office. The committee will consider all applications. 27 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Copra Piling Up In Cook

OINCE Abels Ltd., of Aucklai who handle all copra coming ir New Zealand, announced at the e of June that their requirements f the local market are fully met for t present year, copra congestion h developed at Rarotonga and Niue.

Early in July the NZ Islands Ter tories Department announced that had asked the British Ministry Food to arrange shipment of all su copra to the United Kingdom, un further notice, as provided in t present agreement.

The British MOF is naturally i luctant to send a vessel to the Coo for a comparatively small shipmei but the 500 tons which had accum lated in Rarotonga alone by mi August was causing considerable i convenience, due to limited stora] facilities.

The Rarotonga traders feel th it is up to the NZ Government to c vert Maui Pomare to Apia or othe wise arrange shipment of this cop; to a point where a MOF vessel im load it along with other copra. 5 long as it lies in the Cooks tl traders are penalised, as payment i them is on an f.o.b. basis. At tl same time they are expected to coj tinue purchasing copra from pr< ducers and holding it in store uni shipment is arranged.

Rarotonga m late August, sai that unless the accumulation is soc shipped they will cease buying.

Later—announced in Sydney ear , September that British ship going ■< once to pick up Cook Is. copra.

Wasp Swarm Causes

Strange Accident

PAPEETE, August, 11 AN extraordinary fatality occurre here on August 7. M. de Vu pilleres, agent here for Messagerii and a well-known and popular mai was driving his car across the Fai taua Bridge, about noon, when sue denly a swarm of flying wasps cam through his opened wind-screen an blinded him, so that he momentaril lost control of his car.

A Tahitian man was standing £ the side of the bridge. The swen ing car struck him and knocked hiii over the side, and he fell into th stony riverbed, 20 feet below. H was picked up unconscious, and die later. M. de Vulpilleres, who r<* gained control quickly, and remaine on the bridge, was deeply shocke: by the unfortunate accident. 28 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

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PAPUA Imported Lines at Low Prices Prom a Special Correspondent PORT MORESBY, September 2 NO one knows whether the development is the result of the “Maxwellitosis” which has hit the night-life of Sydney and made incalculable quantities of beer availible for the normal market, or whether the pending appearance of ‘Joe Burke’s Moresby beer” has upset merchants’ calculations —but the [act remains that the beer market n the Territories is in a condition )f profound disturbance. [“Unlimited quantities of Australian beer” are announced by the big ustributors Victorian Bitter by Carpenters, Fosters by Burns Philp ind Richmond by Colyer Watson.

People who have seen very little Australian beer of any kind for many years, and have been cornjelled to drink foreign bottled beers it high cost, now are literally lickng their lips in anticipation of really :ompetitive prices.

I Steamships Trading Co. have heightened their hopes. Steamships have announced unlimited quantities of a well-known Scottish beer, in case lots, for a price equal to 1/3 per bottle —which, in these days of depreciated currency, is practically giving it away.

The other big firms also are carrying big stocks of foreign beers, which they propose to unload as quickly as possible. The Burns Philp offerings will work out at around 1/8 per bottle.

The Australians in New Guinea, like Australians generally, are mighty 29 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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P. MORESBY, Aug. 27. nHHIS Territory is likely to enjc increased supplies of beer soo when the new local brewery is i production and BP’s are handling a increased quota of Australian bee South Pacific Brewery expects 1 sell beer in Port Moresby by the er of October. It will distribute bot bottled and draught beer, in prc prietary bottles and 10 gallon staii less steel kilderkins, both made i Australia, Mr. Meier, manager of Sout Pacific Brewery, estimates his bee will sell at roughly 2/6 per botth but he cannot be definite until th excise position is known. At preser there is no excise on beer brewe in the Territory, but Governmer Secretary Steve Lonergan says “i may be anticipated”.

Mr. J. S. Bell has arrived in Fii to become manager of the recent! opened Labasa branch of the Ban! of New Zealand. During the wa: years he was on the staff of th Suva branch of the Bank 32

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Japanese And The South

PACIFIC Various Incidents and Australian Sensitiveness Although only six mouths have passed since the United States freed Japan from the shackles imposed upon her in 1945—when, after a bitter war, she was forced to unconditional surrender in Tokio Bay—the Japanese are beginning to make their presence felt again in the South Pacific. Following are a number of incidents reported during this month.

“SOMETIMES I feel trepidation O because we Australians have done( little or nothing to develop New Guinea” said the late Administrator, Colonel J. K. Murray, in Brisbane, on August 25.”

“If the Japanese had captured New Guinea there would be a great number of hydro-electric plants there today, developing millions of horsepower.” He said that lack of finance was “one of the things that crippled New Guinea.” Of course, this comes strangely from Colonel Murray.

While he ruled, Australia gave New Guinea from three to six million pounds per annum, whereas before the war the country was self-supporting; he was responsible for scattering huge sums among the natives, under the heading of war damage compensation; and it was the ferocious Socialism of the Ward-Murray regime that did so much to discourage private enterprise in the Territories.

Nonetheless, what Colonel Murray says about the Japanese is perfectly true.

About the same time, in the Australian Parliament, Mr. W. M.

Hughes was pointing out that Japan simply must have extensive new territories for her expanding population and, if Australia cannot develop New Guinea, then some Asiatic powermost probably Japan—certainly will.

Fate Of Jap Convicts

JAPAN now is making urgent representations that the terms of imprisonment imposed upon war criminals should be cancelled —wartime crimes to be forgiven and forgotten.

Australia does not take kindly to the idea. An Australian Court spent about a year in Manus trying Japs charged with war-time crimes, and_ hundreds of them were sentenced to punishment.

The Japanese committed horrible crimes all over the South Pacific— the massacres in Tol Plantation (New Britain), in Ambon, in Tarawa; the cruel murders of missionaries in New Guinea; the terrible sufferings imposed upon Australian POW’s in Burma and Borneo —these are among incidents which come immediately to mind.

There are over 200 convicted Japanese war criminals now engaged in hard labour in Manus. Tokio is asking that they be sent home.

Shell Fishers Are

Australia’S Problem

THE Australian Minister in charge of Fisheries announced at Canberra on August 27 that Australia had asked Japan to negotiate a fishing agreement. The Minister denied any knowledge of rumours that the Japanese are at present preparing a large pearl-fishing fleet with motherships, similar to a whaling expedition, with the intention of fishing the waters north and north-west of Australia, outside territorial waters. 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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It will be recalled that the Au tralian House of Representatives, o March 6, passed the Pearl Fisherh Bill and the Fisheries Bill, both c which empower the Minister to prc claim waters beyond the three-mi] limit, with the clear intention of ei eluding Japanese pearl-fishermen i particular from some of the be: shell beds which lie outside Au: tralia s present territorial waters.

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As Australian fishermen are mos unlikely to want to fish in the vicin ity of Japan, it will bk interestinj to see what Australia has to offe Japan as an inducement to keep ou of the lucrative—and at presen unfished pearling grounds beyoni Australia’s three-mile limit in north ern waters, but within the Austral ian continental shelf’s 100-fathon line.

Red Submarines?

A LTHOUGH Japanese vessels an being more frequently reportec among the South Pacific Islands, th< submarines which are said to hav( been seen in New Guinea waters ir recent months are thought to b< Russian—not Japanese.

Addressing a Returned Soldier; League in Australia in late August Mr. George K. Whittaker, well known Lae resident, said that Russian submarines—some carrying Chinese—had been seen on a number of occasions in New Guinea waters.

His statement was given prominence in most Australian newspapers; but Canberra politicians ‘‘played down’ the report.

The Muscovite Power has assembled a fleet of powerful, long-distance submarines in Manchurian and Chinese ports and, if World War 111 comes, they surely will be used! against all Western shipping in the Pacific. It is equally certain that those submarines are being sent outi on long practice cruises.

The Australian Parliament was assured, in late August, that the reported presence of unidentified submarines in the vicinity of Emiraui (northern end of New Ireland) was; a figment of someone’s imagination., Such incidents always are attended! by a certain amount of hysteria. 34 SEPTEMBER. 1052 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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IUvIL/lln I n >3 Wl 11b JU 1 Urn Cable Address: “Rotunda,” Sydney [ It would not be surprising to see Led subs in the South Pacific, neverleless. It is worth noting that there re good air-strips—made in World Par ll—on isolated New Guinea lands such as Emirau and Nissan, hey are completely abandoned ow; but an old NG planter who extnined the Nissan strip in June in- )rms us that it is “practically as X)d as ever.”

Fleet Of Jap Whale

CHASERS One dark night in May, when the iter-island vessel Maimuna, en route ) Rabaul, was half-way across the ondred miles stretch of water beveen north end of Buka and south ad of New Ireland, it suddenly mnd itself surrounded by lights. A lan aboard counted seven lights, ad the vessels carrying them seemed > be headed generally for North uka —small ships with a single lasthead light. Later in the night, le Maimuna passed a single big lip, going the same way. The skipir knew nothing of any big ships ;ing in that area.

Later, in Rabaul, it was ascertained that they were a Japanese whaling fleet—mother-ship and chasers; and they had omitted to notify anyone of their presence.

About August 25, the Rabaul trading ship Polurrian noticed a large ship, about 12,000 tons, in the vicinity of the Carteret Islands (50 miles northeast of Buka). It later was ascertained that she had been thereabouts for two days, and the natives reported that What appeared tO be Japanese had been ashore buying bananas, etc.—apparently they Were whale-men. They were near Nissan, where there is a very good air-strip.

It does not appear that such casual visitors, when sailing through an archipelago, are obliged to identify themselves to officialdom ashore—although it is customary. But it is an entirely different thing when the voyagers go ashore and make con- (Continued on Page 101) 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1652

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WAR-TORN BRITAIN: Some Plain Aspects of The Sterling-Dollar Problem By R. D. Blandy, CMC, OBE rHROUGHOUT the South Pacific area, particularly in Australia md New Zealand, one frequently lears opinions expressed against the >fficial policy of channelling trade to md from the Sterling Area at the expense of trade with the Dollar (or lard currency) Area. “Why should VE be made to suffer because of the }ld Country’s economic troubles?” s a typical protest. To acquire a nore sympathetic understanding of British policy it is necessary to ixamine the causes.

The causes of the critical economic md monetary sickness from which he Sterling Area is suffering are egion and include the fact that trade, like War and Peace is now tactically “indivisible”. However, he progressive reasons may be briefly ummarised as follows.

Britain created the Sterling Area >etween two World Wars to protect Sterling Currency and its Satellites from economic effects deriving from World War I.

Britain is the fountain-head of the Sterling Area and, this being so, Sterling and its Satellites stand or fall by Britain. But, owing to Britain’s steadily multiplying economic troubles, she can no longer “carry” the Sterling Area as formerly; and the other component parts thereof, particularly the British Commonwealth, must now take a greater share and responsibility in the protection of the system from bankruptcy. This means that concerted economic planning and co-ordination have become of the utmost urgency.

The basic origins of the troubles now affecting the Sterling Area are broadly and progressively as follows: — • The loss of the American Colonies, which under British Sovereignty would to-day have provided the Sterling Area with huge markets and sources of raw materials (as well as huge British defence potential) • The building up, under conditions of “export prosperity” of a top-heavy population in Britain. • World War I, with its heavy loss to Britain of treasure and of the ex- *Mr. Blandy, now retired, was British tesident Commissioner in New Hebrides or several years. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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The alternative is to reduce he population to an “economic” leve and thus become a second-rate Power with all that that implies to “Westen Civilisation” and to the Common wealth. It is, then, clearly imperativi that we save Britain from this lattei course.

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EDITORIAL NOTE .

British-American Relations in the Future We endorse every word of our »ntributor’s lucid argument. The ilternatives before Britain, and the British Commonwealth, are too plain o be ignored; and the urgency of the ;hoice cannot be denied.

But we would carry the argument farther than Mr. Blandy has done, [he Commonwealth countries, by naking a united British Front, wobably can save Britain. With LTnited States help, Britain surely can )e saved.

Will the Americans help? We think hey will. It is a matter of self- >reservation. Despite her enormous itrength, United States alone may not )e able to overcome the deadly hreat she faces to-day. But in mrtnership with a united British Commonwealth, United States surely :an achieve international leadership for the peace, orderliness and good government of a free world.

Even if it were not a matter of elf-preservation, the Americans will lelp in the economic re-establishment )f Britain, because the strongest ingle national sentiment in USA tolay, apart from domestic issues, is goodwill towards the British people.

The British Commonwealth—and (specially war-exhausted Britain— loes need American help. America leeds British help, not only in the mmediate task of defence, but in >rder to provide more room for her (normously expanded and expanding (conomy and population.

The engagement has been anlounced of Mr. Graham Evans, of ;he CSR Co., Labasa, Fiji, to Miss hidith Ryan, of Sydney.

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He said “that last year when tenders were called for the purchase of trochus, by the Island Industries Board, the highest tender was not accepted. He said that the shell was purchased by the agent for an American company and that this year the same agent has again purchased the trochus, this time without tenders being called at all.

Mr. Wordsworth wants a Parliamentary committee set up to investigate the “whole of the activities going on on the island.”

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Improvidence of the Fijians Sukuna Speaks to the Chiefs ATU SIR LALA SUKUNA, Secretary of Fijian Affairs, who has no delusions about the frailties of his own people, spoke to the point when he addressed the meeting of the Council of Chiefs in Suva recently.

He said that the immediate desires of the Fijians were for “evanescent trifles” and in this way they wasted their money. He inferred that they therefore had to be saved from themielves —as with the Fijian Development Fund which makes a levy on Fijian-produced copra, and he hinted that similar levies might be made on sugarcane, bananas and yaqona, and for the same reason.

He said “To-day we are living in difficult times. We are no longer the most numerous race in Fiji; we have too few births and too many deaths.

With regard to food, there are many of our people living either within or near the larger towns who live on a poor diet; as to money, the criterion of power to-day, not only do we possess very little of it, but that little slips easily through our fingers. With every year that passes our strength declines because while our numbers are increasing, the amount of marketable produce we grow remains comparatively small. For these reasons you Chiefs, together with members of the Fijian Affairs Board, have a formidable task in endeavouring to find ways of raising the standard of living of Fijians.”

He said that to June 30, £130,000 had accumulated in the Fijian Development Fund from levies on copra —and that would have been £200,000 if green copra had been included in the scheme. It was the intention, when the Fund was large enough, to build schools, hospitals and water supplies and generally to give the producers something of permanent value that would ensure that they lived comfortable and happy lives.

If the copra producers continued to waste their money during this period of high prices, then they would have nothing but poverty to look forward to when lower prices again prevailed.

Speaking of education, Sir Lala warned the Chiefs what had happened in India where academic education had bred a dissatisfied class of white-collar workers. He said that Fiji was primarily an agricultural country and that most Fijians must expect to make their living from the land —that comparatively few could expect highly-paid posts based on high educational qualifications.

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The regulation, it is stated, has been made in the interests of the Fijians some traders have apparently been paying them less than the green copra was worth.

Mrs. Barbara Price (nee Langndge) arrived in Sydney for medical treatment in August. Formerly of Port Moresby, she is now a resident of isolated Vanikoro.

She made the passage from Vanikoro to Santo, NH (where she connected with a Qantas ’plane), in Mr. Fred Jones’ cutter.

Thorsisle in Trouble on First Run riIHE Pacific Islands Transp( Line’s vessel Thorsisle of 6,3 tons, on her first run south, frc the US Pacific coast was unfortu ate in fouling her propeller on t reef at Canton Island during Augu The vessel, it is understood, h made a special call there with av tion gasoline. Three blades of tl propeller were badly damage greatly reducing her speed ai causing heavy vibration for the r mainder of the voyage.

In late August it was indefini whether the vessel would proceed Australia or New Zealand for dr docking or whether she would co tinue her normal schedule at reduc< speed back to San Francisco.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Standen the Bamu River Mission, Papu (The Mission in the Mud) translated the Gospel according i St. Mark into Bamu River dial© and this has been published by tl British and Foreign Bible Societ 1,000 copies of the translation wi be published—there are only 5,0( Bamu River natives and this Is tl first time their language has bee put into writing. 42

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The cattle that existed on the island before the war were all eaten in 1941-45, and a start has now been made to re-establish the potential meat supply. . f. The Government vessel Kunmarau, left Suva in August with sufficient cattle to start the scheme. Two Hereford bulls have been obtained from New Zealand and a Zebu bull is being sent from Fjii. Over 40 Hereford heifers have been bought from the CSR Company’s estate at Yaqara, Fiji.

The cost of establishing cattle in the Pacific Islands is enormous these days—transport costs alone from Australia or New Zealand usually are around £lOO per head without the cost of the beast.

As far as Guadalcanal is concerned, it is hoped to establish a Hereford-Zebu cross which will do well under tropical conditions and which will have good beef-producing qualities.

Passion Fruit

New Industry for NG Central Highlands THE announcement that the wellknown Australian firm of Cottees Fassiona Ltd. is installing a pulping and freezing plant at Goroka, in New Guinea’s Central Highlands, has a double interest.

The Highlands people—perhaps natives, as well as Europeans—are going to grow passionfruit and tomatoes for this installation, and the frozen product is to be flown to Australia. • This may be the beginning of an important industry, for which these great plateaus are admirably suited.

The other factor is that this Cottee enterprise is under the direction of Mr. George Greathead, who achieved so much success as District Officer in charge of the Central Highlands, and who resigned from the Administration this year to back his belief in the district with his own money and tireless energy.

Mr. J. Little has arrived on Niue Is. to take up duties as Radio Operator.

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PORT MORESBY, August 22 THERE was much interest, last week in the exhibition here of week, m me ejmiDmon ncrc u 45 paintings by Captain Brett Huder, well-known skipper of Burns Phi Ip ships. During the 3-days’ exhibition, numerous people made a call, and no less than 21 of the paintings were sold, realising well over £2OO.

Captain Hilder is becoming wellknown as a painter of heads of all types of Pacific Islanders.

M „ y T g x, U ~4~Z Mr. W. J. S. Brabant has accepted a transfer to the Western Pacific High Commission as Accountantg-| r r f “nd E C ii~ands C ": He is at present Deputy Accountant- General, Fiji.

Mr. Bruce Bembrick, formerly of Hurstville, Sydney, has gone to Lnc» New Guinea, where, as a member Qf the Burns philp establishment, he will handle the business of the Queensland Insurance Company. 43 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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“New” Reef-Passage

AT FIJI AN important development for overseas shipping loading in Fijian waters was the recent “discovery” of a new passage through the reef near Port Ellington, northpastern Viti Levu.

I Although newspapers have used the term “discovery” there is little doubt that the passage was largely well known to local small craft; but k was not until recently that it was properly surveyed by HMNZS Lachlan, a RAN vessel which was an loan to the NZ Navy, which returned to Wellington late July.

The survey made by Lachlan has nade it possible for sugar ships, ravelling between Suva and Port Ellington, to save four hours and 50 niles of steaming. Vessels travelling ria the former passage were unable o safely anchor. Using the new oute, if for any reason the ship is lelayed—through engine trouble, for sample—she may safely anchor in !0 fathoms.

Dr. J. Dovi, a Fijian who received as medical training in New Jealand, returned there on leave a August from the Solomon Is., there he is attached to the Adainistration Medical Staff.

New Stamps For P-Ng

pAPUA-NEW GUINEA’S new issue of postage stamps—since the war they have been using Australian stamps— will be available on October 30.

There are 15 stamps in the complete set, from a denomination of ltd to £l.

All the stamps are shown on our cover this month.

Orders for unused stamps in bulk quantities or sets (full set is Australian currency) and for first-day covers should be sent as soon as possible to the Chief Postmaster, Port Moresby, Papua.

Arrangements have been made to desbatch first-day covers, (1) with stamp affixed at a cost of 4d; (2) with stamps of Id, 2d, 2t£d and 3d affixed at cost of 9d; or (3) with such stamps affixed as are desired by the purchaser, for which the face value of stamps plus \bd will be charged. Pre-addressed envelopes will also be stamped and despatched in accordance with purchasers’ requirements.

All orders should be sent to the Chief Postmaster as soon as possible. Airmails leave Sydney for New Guinea almost daily and there is surface mail about every three weeks.

The designs of the stamps are as follows: }fcd, tree-climbing kangaroo (printed emerald green); Id, Buka headdress (light brown); 2d, native youth (blue); Bird of Paradise (orange); 3d, native policeman (dark green); 3»,fcd, Papuan head-dress (red); Kiriwina Chief house (purple); Kiriwina yam house (blue); 9d, copra making (brown); 1/-, trading canoe (medium green); 1/6, rubber tapping, (dark green); 2/-, Sepik dancing mask (dark bine); 2/6, plumed shepherd (dark red); 10/-, outline map of P-NG (medium blue); £l, native spearing fish (chocolate brown).

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lander have left Norfolk Island for the New Hebrides where they expect to live In future. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 19 52

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These natives did a good job in the war, in close association with Americans and Australians, especially in the Buna campaign.

A NZ Department of Civil Aviation Dakota flew the Coral Route circuit to Bora Bora in August, checking all airfield and navigational facilities, including radio aids. Mr. A. Hewitt was the pilot.

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AN Auckland land agent, Mr.

R. Richards, who has been livi on Norfolk Island for the past thi years, was in New Zealand in Augi trying to arrange with the Mark ing Division for the purchase Norfolk bananas at a payable pri( Mr. Richards points out that one time Norfolk shipped 2,0 cases of bananas per month to N< Zealand. A trial shipment, sent Wellington in 1948 on a Ho!

Shipping Co. vessel, arrived in go order but the Marketing Divisi pegged the retail price at an unps able level.

Mr. Richards is convinced that t public is prepared to pay the pri now asked. He says that the Ho Shipping Co. would again be p pared to supply the necessary sh ping connection. The NZNAC I also offered a special air freight r; on bananas if the trade is reopen* Norfolk islanders are interested replanting, provided that a marl is assured. It would take some th to re-establish the plantings.

A son was born to Dr. and IVI Brian Scott, of Rarotonga, August 24. Dr. Scott is Ch Medical Officer of Cook Islands. 46 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH U

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Rugby Team’s Triumphal Return to Fiji SUVA, August 18.

BACK from Australia, the Fijian Rugby team quietly disbanded yesterday after a round of continuous feting since it arrived at Nadi on the night of August 13.

The ceremonial welcome and feast provided by the Fijian people of Nadi lasted most of the night, and next day the 21 players (the captain, Apakuki Tuitavua, having stayed at Sydney for a technical course in meat inspection) and three officials made a triumphal tour from Nadi to Suva, where a substantial part of the population waited to welcome them at 4.30 p.m. ■ Flags were flying and a combined Police and Army band was at the main bus station to escort the team on a march through the town to the Town Hall, where the Mayor (Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane) gave the travellers a civic reception. The Pown Hall was filled to overflowing, md hundreds had to wait outside, i Fijian groups at Suva kept up the pressure of entertainment until it vas something of a mystery how the earn managed to beat the Rest of Fiji (an excellent team) 16-14 on August 16. After that there was nore entertainment, followed by a [inner at the Grand Pacific. [ On Sunday there was a special lervice at the Jubilee Methodist Church, after which the 1952 repreentative Rugby team officially bided up.

The tourists brought back two landsome cups for competition in 7 iji. One was presented by the iroprietor of the Gresham Hotel, lydney, where the team stayed—it iras a tribute to their friendliness md courtesy while guests of his otel.

The other cup was from Mr. K.

L Sands, formerly of Fiji, now of ISW, who travelled with the team n Australia as Australian Rugby Inion liaison officer.

Nz Soccer Team For Fiji

I NEW ZEALAND representative * soccer team will arrive in Fiji n August 30.

They will play seven matches gainst Indian teams—including three st matches—before leaving for ahiti on September 17. The latches will be played at Suva and i Lautoka.

In Fiji, soccer football is an Indian reserve, just as Rugby is left exusively to the Fijians.

Two girls from Fiji are residing in Feilding, a small sheepfarming centre in New Zealand. They are Miss Joy Stinson and Miss Kerkham, both well known in Suva.

Miss Stinson plans to return next February, but Miss Kerkham, engaged to a local farmer, will become a permanent resident.

The NZ Government has sent four goats to Niue Island in ordeij to supply milk to Hospital patients;.

The goats are pure bred, and werepurchased from a breeder at Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. 1$ is hoped that they will be a much more profitable source of milk than the cows at present on the island. 47

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PASSENGERS flying the TEAL Coral Route to Tahiti are enthusiastic about the brief fuellingstop at Aitutaki, Cook Is.

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I While the aircraft refuels at its buoy the passengers land on a little islet at the south-east corner of the lagoon, completely remote from the main settlement and from the land lirbase. Here Mrs. P. McVeagh gives them a wonderful welcome.

Beside the white sand beach, nestling imongst the palms, is a large nativematerial reception house where refreshments, including the iced juice 3f local oranges are provided.

Showers are available, and many passengers take the chance to have i swim in the luke-warm water of he lagoon and a stroll through the ;oconut groves to the ocean side of ;he islet.

Many passengers wonder why some enterprising person has not established a hotel on this islet so that those who wish—and there are many, it seems—could remain here for a few days’ restful holiday, and pick up an aircraft a few days later.

For a restful holiday in the winter months there could be no pleasanter place than Aituttaki’s sleepy lagoon. (A photograph of the islet referred to was published on the front cover of August PIM.) New Radio Station for Dutch New Guinea A FIVE-KILOWATT broadcasting station will shortly be opened at Sentani. near Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. The station will operate on the 49-metre band on 5090 kc/s and its musical programmes should also provide alternative entertainment for listeners in the remainder of New Guinea and on neighbouring islands.

There is already a low powered Forces Station operating on 7126 kc/s from Hollandia but it does not have a very great coverage. The new station should prove considerably better in this respect.

Net proceeds from the screening of the Cook Islands’ movie film, “Moana Roa”, which was made at Rarotonga and Aitutaki by the New Zealand National Film Unit several years ago, are being shared between two Cook Islands institutions—the Crippled Children’s Society, and Makea’s Makogai Fund for leper patients.

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Complete cures of leprosy are rarely claimed; “arrested” is the usual term employed.

The claim was made by Pastor C. E. Mitchell who was recently in Melbourne on furlough. He has been in New Guinea since 1927.

Economic Troubles

ON NIUE From Our Own Correspondent NIUE ISLAND is undergoing difficult financial period present.

No copra is being bought by tl traders on the island owing to tl fact that New Zealand cannot tal any more copra this year, and thi with the decline of the basket trad is a severe blow to the island economy.

The natives now have no cash cro apart from a few hundred cases < bananas and bags of kumera export* to New Zealand and as these con from only part of the island, mar of the people are without means < obtaining money.

The traders have a large quantil of copra on hand and cannot fir storage space for more. It is hope that the Administration will be ab to arrange for a ship to call an transport the copra to Fiji or els< where to await shipment to Englan so that buying may be resumed.

Following his visit to the Norther Group Islands in July, Mr. ( Nevill, Resident Commissioner ( Cook Is., accompanied by Mr Nevill, travelled from Rarotonga t Mangaia by the August Mat Pomare on an official visit. 50 SEPTEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Fijians to Provide Mats For Malaya Battalion SUVA, August 18 THE Fijian people have been asked to provide two new sleepingmats for each of the Fijian soldiers in Malaya. This means a total of nearly 1,800 mats, and anyone who has seen the work that goes into the {Collection of material, preparation and weaving of a Fijian sleeping-mat, knows what this order will entail for Fijian women in the villages.

The order has brought up again the hotly-debated question of why the burden of the Malaya expedition should be carried by the Fijians exclusively. They have not only provided the men, but they continue to provide most of the essential incidentals. Other races in Fiji do not even contribute to the basic cost of what is described as a matter of Imperial defence. Most of that bill is met by the United Kingdom.

It would be fairer, in the Empire sense, if the cost of sending and maintaining the Fijian battalion were met by increased taxation on Europeans and Asiatics in Fiji. But if that were the case there might not be any Fijian battalion in Malaya.

When the battalion went away a handful of European firms and individuals made modest contributions to canteen funds. Since then, mighty little, if anything, has been done apart from the Rabi Banabans’ generous gift of £1,500.

Fijian mats do not last long in Malaya, and that is why the new consignment is required. But why should the non-Fijians not raise a fund to buy more serviceable sleeping-equipment—especially at a time when many Fijian villagers in eastern Viti Levu are still hardpressed as a result of the January hurricane?

French Deputies on Tour IN the course of a “tour of information” four French Deputies, representing the four main political parties, visited French Territories in the Pacific in August-September.

Led by de Gaullist M. Max Brusset, the party includes also M.

Deffere (Socialist), M. Laforest (Radical Socialist), and M. Bettencourt (Independent Republican).

The Deputies travelled by air from Australia through to Tahiti, and were to visit New Zealand on the return flight.

Many Pearls At Penrhyn

FROM Penrhyn in the Northern Cooks in August it was reported that a large number of “rare and beautiful gems” have been taken from the lagoon in recent pearling operations.

Most are from the little Pipi mollusc, which has a diameter of only one to two inches, but produces surprisingly large pearls, usually of a pink or yellowish colour.

Pearls of up to 7 carats, say 3/8 of an inch in diameter, have recently been fished, according to the report, which stated that over ten thousand carats of pearls are at present available to buyers.

One of the two Qantas Catalinas which have been familiar around Port Moresby for some years went South permanently In August. Now that QEA is operating Sandringhams on former Catalina services one of the Cats can be dispensed with. Captain Fox and two crew members went with her. The other Catalina will remain based on Moresby, principally for charter use for AFC and the Administration. 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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The Ladies Guild of St. Augustine’s Church of England, Wau, NG, held another very successful market day on July 28, and thereby raised over £3O for church funds.

Dr. C. A. Moody, who has been practising* in South Australia for the past 12 years, has accepted a position as medical officer for the BPC on Ocean Is.

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carr left Auckland by the July Tofua for Suva. Mr. Carr, who recently has been editor of a NZ country newspaper, was to take up an editorial appointment with the “Fiji Times”.

Papua N. Guinea

FOOTBALLERS Although Papua- New Guinea cannot be said to have the orthodox climate for it, football - both Soccer and Rugby League—have become very popular there since the war. On August 3, in Port Moresby, matches were played between teams representing New Guinea and Papua. These two teams are from Papua. and they beat the NG representatives. At top is shown the Papuan reserve team, which defeated the NG reserve. Bottom, the Papuan representatives who defeated the New Guinea representatives. —Photos by Papuan -Prints. 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Letter to the Editor T AM an Australian business man and, not long ago, I visited Tahiti, with plans for the expansion of my trading to French Oceania. In that connection, I wanted son official guidance; and when I foui that there was no official Australh representative there, but that the was a British Consul. I natural sought assistance at that Consulal I got no welcome at all—in fa< I was made to feel that, as an Au trahan, I created a bad smell in tl lofty British nose. The highest offici I was able to see there was n friendly to Australia and, when produced my credentials, bearing tl Prime Minister’s signature, he aske “And who is Mr. Menzies?”

Why does Britain maintain Consul there, if not for the help .

British people? Most of the re British business in French Ocean nowadays is done by New Zealai and Australia, and less and less 1 Britain. United States withdrew h Consulate from Tahiti some yea ago. It seems to me that Brita: should do the same, and that a con petent New Zealand or Australis Trade Commissioner should be place there.

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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Axientu and two small daughters returne to Wau, NG, from Australian lea? in early August. 54 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Self-Government In West Africa I Transferred from the British South Pacific Administrations to West lAfrica, Mr. G. L. Barrow found some striking contrasts; and he writes of them most interestingly in the July Corona. Here are some extracts that can be read with profit : PORT HARCOURT (carved out of the jungle, far up the Niger) is a modern town, not only in its streets and its port but also in the people who live there.

One expected to find Africans doing most things in Nigeria, but it was still a surprise to find just how much they do—in banks and shops one never sees a white face unless one penetrates to the manager’s office, and by no means always there.

In public offices the senior official is [generally a European, but very often he too is an African. It is surprising to find the extent to which the judicial system is in the hands of African judges and magistrates, but after seeing them work one is soon ashamed of having been surprised.

Then, in this continent of contrasts, one realises that in the swamps only a few miles away a long-standing feud flared up last year with the cold-blooded massacre of over a hundred innocent fishermen, and the tribes concerned still glare sullenly at each other across the mangroves and would be impatiently fingering the butts of their rifles but for the fact that they are forbidden to possess any. . . .

And when one speaks of self-government one realises with a slight start the extent to which they are already well able to cope with the everyday business of administration.

Where they fall short is rather in the intangibles—the sense of civic duty and public service which is so inbred a part of British life that we tend to forget what a rare and valuable quality it is; the national outlook which overrides local tribe loyalties but which in the last resort will bow to the higher dictates of humanity and moral law; the belief in integrity and justice for their own sake and not merely because they pay better in the face of a vigilant police force and an efficient legal system; and above all respect for human rights, rights which people generally are much readier to scream for on their own behalf than to grant to others.

The TEAL east-bound night to Tahiti early in August carried 105 cases of tangerines and a further consignment of fresh tomatoes from Aitutaki. The tangerines were the first ever to be air-freighted to Tahiti, and sold readily on the Papeete market.

Two students of the Takimoa LMS theological college. Rarotonga, were ordained in August and have been appointed pastors in the Group. Pastor William Masters has been assigned to Titikaveka, Rarotonga, and Pastor Samuel Samuela to Puka Puka Island. 55 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Dr. Firth said that Tikopia ha< been hit by the January hurricane and food as a result was at presen scarce. The Kurimarau recently tool a cargo of rice to the island to sup plement the coconut-and-fish diet.

Dr. Firth was suffering from in fluenza when the ship called for hin in August and spent some time ii hospital at Vila and later Sydney a: a result.

His research companion, Canadiai Mr. J. Spillius, is remaining on Ti kopia until next February to com plete the research project coverin] 12 months.

Northbound from Auckland The Second Annual Catholic Ball w T as held at the Wau Club, New Guinea, on August 16. Proceeds go to St. Francis Church at Wau.

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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Aug. 20.

THE system of liquor control in Western Samoa, which has not been changed materially since New Zealand took over the Territory over 30 years ago, and which has been many times criticised, is now under review by a Royal Commission appointed by the NZ Government.

Mr. L. G. H. Sinclair is here to investigate the whole position as [Commissioner, and Mr. A. D. Mc- Gregor, a NZ barrister, is here to assist him. The latter already has lined up a lot of European and native evidence.

There are no licences issued here for the sale of liquor. The Government keeps a store of all kinds, and originally persons who wished to obtain a supply had to see the Medical Officers and get a certificate that, in the MO’s opinion, it was desirable that they be given liquor; and then they solemnly went to the store and purchased it. In a general way, liquor was not available to natives.

This was later modified by a points system.

There has been much discontent for years among the European and the growing Euronesian communities; and the Samoan people themselves, now becoming literate and taking an increasing share in government, also seek reform, The Commissioner will examine all angles before making his recommendations.

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Public opinion seems to be against the sale of beer and liquor by private interests. Samoans particularly oppose the open sale of beer to the public as in American Samoa, Fiji and other places.

The Chief of Police, Niue Is., Constable D. Claasen, has returned to New Zealand and he will be replaced by Constable Williams.

Magnetic Survey to Correc Pacific Charts AN event of interest to navigate] in the South East Pacific wj the departure from Auckland i August of Mr. A. L. Burrows of th NZ Department of Scientific and Ii dustrial Research, on a magneti survey trip to Norfolk, Fiji, Samoj Aitutaki, Rarotonga and Bora Bon At each of these places Mr. Bin rows will set up portable equipmer to determine the present magneti variation. Through the years this ha a slow but irregular rate of chang and it is necessary, from time t time, to take new readings. Th information is entered on naviga tional charts so that sea and air navi gators may make due allowance when steering a compass course.

At certain of the points to b visited, no observations have beei taken since 1906.

The Rev. Father D. Hurley, o Victoria, has left for Fiji where h will join the new St. Columbai Fathers’ Mission Society. In Fij he will meet his brother, the Re\ Father Gerald Hurley, who went b the Colony early this year with 1 other priests for the new mission A third brother, the Rev. Fathe Patrick Hurley, is already workin] with the Society in the Philippines 58 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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ris believed by some that Britain, seeking to get rid of some of her [more cumbersome overseas invest- Lments, has asked Australia and New [Zealand to take over her share of [Tasman Empire Airways, Limited, and British Commonwealth Pacific I Airlines. i These big air transport concerns [were formed or taken over by the three Governments a few years ago, [when all three were being run by the [Socialists and there was naturally a [wave of sentiment against private [enterprise. Each represented a large capital cost in which the three participated thus;— TEAL, efficiently managed by New Zealanders, has a fine record of service, is expanding healthily ,and showed a profit last year of £31,812.

BCPA has been operating at a loss, which has to be made good by the member Governments. TEAL operates the Australia-NZ, NZ-Fiji and Fiji-Tahiti services. BCPA runs big aircraft trans-Pacific between Australia, New Zealand and North America.

All three countries were represented at an unexplained conference in Canberra late in August, to deal with these matters. It may have been the result of the new tie-up between United States, Australia and NZ on Pacific defence. One reason for Britain originally coming into Pacific aviation was connected with defence. Since then, the United States, to a large extent, has taken the place of Britain in plans for Pacific defence.

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TITHES' Sister Heather Reid returned to ** Hamilton, NZ, in August, after two years of service at Honiara hospital, she described the conditions suffered by staff and patients in the remains of an American war building.

During operations, native spectators have to be driven from the wire-netting walls of the open-air operating theatre.

The roofs leak. Plumbing and sanitation do not function. All water has to be carried. It is impossible to isolate infectious cases.

When a patient is admitted, the whole family moves in with him, and often tries to use the one bed. The patient, in bed one minute with a temperature of 105, will be found on the beach with his friends a few minutes later. with a food allowance of 7/- per day, and with canned butter at 7/- per ib, fresh mutton at 4/6, and other food prices proportionate, the staff does not uve in luxury.

The Courrier Australien, in reporting the arrival of a shipment 0 f 35 jeeps from America recently, notes the great popularity Of this little vehicle in New Caledonia, especially in the country districts. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

S' (I) Here you see an upright of the ‘ Arcon ’ framework being raised into position. It takes little more than seven hoursfor seven unskilled men to assemble a 3-bay unit. (2) Once the roofing is fixed, the walls can be constructed from inexpensive local materials —in this case unfired brick. and best for the job feat When a major oil Company decided to go ahead with a large-scale housing programme in Persia, it chose ‘Arcon’ because it exactly fulfilled their requirements. The labour at their disposal was able to assemble the framework, roof it, and complete the walls in a matter of hours, and the finished accommodation was ideal for the housing of Company personnel and families in such a climate. The buildings are strong, fire-proof, termite-proof and almost indestructible, and they can easily be extended when necessary simply by adding extra ‘Arcon’ bays. The special heat-insulated interior roofing keeps the dwellings cool even during the hot season, and this factor, together with ‘Arcon's’ spaciousness and cleanliness, ensures the best conditions for employees and their families.

A Hospital Recently Erected In Fiji Using Arcon’

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A son, Desmond Arthur, was born, on August 8, to Henry and Flora Krone, of Casala Plantation, Upolu, Western Samoa. Mr. Krone, who was for 29 years a member of Burns Philp (SB.) Co.’s staff, is now a successful cocoa planter sharing in the prosperity from Samoa’s gilt edged crop.

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HE annual camp meeting of the North-east New Guinea Mission of Seventh-day Adventists was held July 21-26 on the grounds of the New Guinea Highlands Missionary School, Kabiufa near Goroka.

Australian delegates were Pastor Petersen, Youth and Education Secretary, and Dr. Harrison of the Sydney Sanitarium. Pastors White and MacFarlane and Mr. Ellison repre sented the Coral Sea Union Missioi (Lae).

Headquarters staff and missioi directors with their families fror Omaura-Kainantu, at the one end o the Highlands, to Wabag, at th other, attended, besides hundreds o native missionaries, students am native lay members.

Educational and religious film attracted a nightly audience of mor than 2,000, but the highlight of th evening meetings was Masive’s elo quent description of his recent tou of Australia and New Zealand; hi large audience listened with rapt at tention throughout.

On the last afternoon a large am greatly interested crowd gathered t( witness the baptism by immersion o 32 converts in a font especially mad( for the occasion.

Of the stories told by the nativt missionaries, perhaps the most inter esting were brought by natives of th cannibal Fore area of the Kainanti district. One man told how he am his wife were surrounded by arme< cannibals who demanded their beau tiful, plump child to eat. A 1 missionaries from that area repor that many are already giving uj cannibalism. 62 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Ryde 30. fales. Head Office. Martin Place, Sydney 900 GONE, 1,000 GOING Exodus of Jobless American Samoans THE biggest migration of Samoans —at least in modern times [—happened in July when 921 American Samoans sailed from Pago Pago for Honolulu. They were carried in the transport President Jackson.

About 350 of them were dependents of the 100-odd members of the Eastern Samoan, now-disbanded Fita Fita Guard who are now serving with the US Navy in Hawaii. The rest of the passengers were there on their own initiative, at their own expense and had been vouched for by Hawaii citizens—mostly other Samoans now living in the Territory. ■ The Samoans spent almost the whole of the first day in their new jand-of-promise, cooped up on the transport while they were bloodtested, X-rayed and examined by immigration officers. Apparently they iad been X-rayed before they left Pago but the films had been left belind. And many of them had put heir Christian names on the passenger list and then signed entry papers rith other native names. The result vas a mix-up we usually attribute o the muddling British rather than o the organised Yanks.

Navy dependents will be housed n Navy establishments but the idea >f most of the young men who miprated under their own steam seems o be to join the US armed forces, n the first few days after the arrival »f the President Jackson an average ►f 75 Samoans per day were crowdng Honolulu army-air force recruitng centres.

Since the Navy pulled out of American Samoa in mid-1951 ecolomic conditions in the Territory ave been bad. For almost 50 years le Sanjoans had relied on a Navy conomy and when this prop was uddenly withdrawn it was found lat the small amount of land in the ’erritory could no longer support le much increased population. Many f the Samoans who had served in le Fita Fita Guard and in Navy )bs had been so long away from illage life that it was difficult for lem to adjust themselves to altered editions.

Much of the time and energies of ie first civil Governor of Ameran Samoa, Mr. Phelps Phelps, was iken up with this problem and in ying to get additional grants to de the Territory over the first shock I Navy departure—as reported sveral times in PIM in the last year.

A contributing factor to American Samoa’s troubles has been lack of communications—there is no regular shipping service between the Territory and other American possessions and there is no plane service. The only regular shipping call is by the Union Company’s Tofua which carries passengers to Apia (Western Samoa), Suva (Fiji) or Auckland where regular plane and shipping services for America can be picked up; and by small inter-island boat from Pago Pago to Apia, Quite unconnected with the President Jackson exodus, an official of the US Territorial Employment Service spent three weeks in American Samoa in July where he registered 1,074 Samoans for possible employment outside the island group—-in Guam, Hawaii and the US Pacific Coast—when jobs can be found for them and when transportation is available. The official described economic conditions since the Navy pulled out as “very bad.”

He said that of the 1,000-odd Samoans he had registered for employment, if and when, 700 had had agricultural experience, 80 were carpenters, 41 motor mechanics, 20 riggers, 12 electrical repairers, 11 welders, 11 bulldozer and crane operators and there were also other skilled men. The Pearl Harbour Navy Yard could use about 100 of the skilled men immediately but the problem was to get them there. 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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Magazine Section

Tropicalities

How To Stop Express

TRAINS THE pitfalls that await Fijian visitors to foreign parts is illustrated by the following:— When the Fijian Rugby team was travelling from Sydney to Brisbane in July, the captain, Apakuki Tuitavua, had reason to visit the washroom. There appeared to be no buttons to push, or levers to pull, so he pulled a small chain. The Brisbane express promptly made an unscheduled stop nowhere in particular.

In the ensuing confusion it was apparently decided to overlook the £lO fine with which travellers are threatened if they pull the communication cord without good reason.

The “communication cord” in Australian trains is about four inches of chain—and most washroom chains are there to be pulled, anyhow.

Fijian Money Spinners

SOMETHING between £9,000 and £lO,OOO profit was made during the short tour of the Fijian Rugby Union footballers who recently visited Australia—£2,ooo of this went home with the Fijians and the rest goes to the previously almost bankrupt Rugby Union in Australia.

As far as Australian Union goes, the Fijians were the best moneyspinners for a couple of generations and officials who, a few months ago, were taking a very dim view of the proposed tour are to-day wondering how soon Australia can have the Fijians back again.

No one has been able to pin down with exactitude, the secret of the visitors' success. Their tackling was poor and their opponents often looked better combinations—but results speak for themselves. Possibly it was their amazing speed once tfiey got possession of the ball and headed in the right direction.

Jo Levula was the idol of the crowds who screamed with excitement everytime he came within yards of the ball, but if any prizes are being given out we would like to nominate full-back Taniela Ranavue who consistently played excellent football and who, probably more than any other player, tipped the balance towards victory.

A Little Lesson In

Insurance Lapses

FOR 25 years, the Port Moresby Institute regularly paid the premium on the insurance against fire on its Twilight Cafe premises. The insurance (£1,500) expired in July.

The Institute did not immediately renew. It wanted to increase the insurance to £5,000, but funds were a little low, and a delay occurred. The building was gutted by fire on the night of August 17. The members since have been looking hopefully towards the Queensland Insurance Company, wondering if their lapse after 25 years can be overlooked.

But, even if it is, the insurance would be regarded as £1,500 —not £5,000.

Legally, there is no doubt of the position—the insurance had expired and the Co. was not liable.

Moral: Never neglect that insurance premium.

Stop Press : Q'land In see Co., as act of grace, will pay £1,500.

Threat To Bsi Liquor

SUPPLIES THIRSTY Honiara residents, completely out of beer, might have received a severe setback lately when a public-spirited resident very properly reported to the authorities that he had a large order arriving by the Malaita, packed, as is usual with beer, in straw.

In view of the recent concern over the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Canada, he thought it only fair to report the arrival of the straw packing.

Telegrams were hastily sent hither and thither, with the result that straw as packing has been declared a prohibited import into the British Solomons, and Customs Officers or other authorised persons may now require goods packed in straw to be unpacked on the ship and the straw not landed.

The story of the beer consignment, however, had a happy ending, as the beer was admitted, the consignee undertaking to burn all straw as each case was unpacked.

'T'HIS sketch is of Mr. Rod Fowler, one of the latter day pioneers of New Guinea. He joined the NG Health Department as a medical assistant in 1941, having previously qualified as a male nurse. He was transferred from Rabaul to Lae not long before the Japanese Invasion and when that happened, he walked from the coast to Kainantu in the Central Highlands.

At Kainantu he met the Rev. Father Glover, a Roman Catholic missionary who was performing miracles evacuating refugees who were gathering in the Highlands from all parts of the mainland.

When Father Glover crashed and damaged the propeller of his plane beyond repair, it was Fowler who nonchalantly walked 160 miles to Madang and hack through the toughest country and the most unco-opetative natives to get a spare propeller which enabled the missionary to carry on his rescue work.

In that same year, 1942, a bomber crashed at Kainantu and the pilot sustained a badly fractured leg. Fowler manufactured a Thomas splint out of an old pram wheel and managed to set the leg. Months later, when it was possible to get the pilot out to a doctor, it was found that the broken leg had healed perfectly.

When ANGAU was formed he began 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

to train natives for orderly duties in native hospitals and In 1946 he began the job that still occupies him to-day he Commenced training native medical assistants at Lae. Over 200 natives have graduated under his guidance in the past six years. During this time he has compiled a reference book in Pidgin which he has illustrated himself.—DLC.

Mysterious Trunk

ORIOR to sailing from Auckland f° r Suva as navigator in the scow Scot, at the end of July, Captain Jack McK. Arnot told of an amusing prelude to his yacht voyage from England to New Zealand.

Captain Arnot, on Boxing Day, 1950, was lying off the Yacht Club at Chichester, when a heavy step sounded on deck, and a large man in a bowler hat appeared in the companion-way of the Kimbala.

It was at the height of the missing Coronation Stone incident; and, when the visitor politely announced that he was from Scotland Yard, Captain Arnot jokingly remarked: “Oh, it’s alright, I haven’t got it!” Whereupon the large man said suspiciously: “Then you know what I’ve come for?”

“We’ve had a report that you were seen shifting a large metal trunk aboard last evening” the Yard man continued, looking significantly at the offending trunk in a corner of the cabin.

The trunk contained nothing more interesting than yachting gear. But, as Captain Arnot remarked, the Yard was certainly leaving no possible escape avenues open at the time. Kimbala sailed according to plan.

Why Suva Cyclists

Look Hunted

Suva cyclists, except the very young and light of heart, are usually distinguished by their hunted expressions and the furtive way they hug the roadside, as if they had no right to be there. This is caused partly by Suva motorists (who regard cyclists as something to be eliminated) and partly by Suva pedestrians (who often have no footpaths and consequently dodge sc many cars that they have no time to notice stray bicycles).

Thus it happens that a certain European-owned bicycle, kept ostensibly for the illusion of pleasant, healthful exercise, is usually ridden by anybody except the owner.

Various Fijian members of the police force have the disturbing habit of referring to the machine as “our baisikeli”. Accordingly, it is formally borrowed for half an hour and may, or may not, return several days later —always with a , watertight reason for the delay. For three years it has been officially registered in the name of whatever policeman happened to have it when registration became imperative. The owner, however, had to find the 2/6.

Between police journeys, the bicycle becomes the quarry of various Government messengers whose departments, always on the brink of destitution, have failed to provide such transport. All this goes on until something gets punctured or broken.

Said a police sergeant to the owner: “You could call it a paying concern—the owner pays the repair bills.”—J. K.

A Highlands Wedding

WHEN former Rabaul schoolteacher and Queensland beautywinner Jean Barnes wedded Patrol Officer Bruce Burge at Goroka, Central New Guinea, in August, her mother flew from Brisbane for the ceremony.

Once upon a time, a matron might be expected to spend weeks in travelling from an Australian metropolis to a station in the mountainous centre of New Guinea, and back again. Mrs. Barnes left home on Wednesday night, and was back in the family homestead on Sunday.

Miss Barnes went from Rabaul to open the new European school at Goroka—mark of continuing white penetration of the lovely New Guinea Highlands—but she reigned only six months. Education Director Groves has given a grim instruction that, in future, beauty contest winners shall not be selected for outpost stations. However, if the school has lost an efficient head, a lonely Highlands outpost has gained a charming hostess.

Bully Is Murdered Again

Sydney Morning Herald of August 23 gives much space to a writer who thinks that the film now being made in Fiji by Warner Brothers, His (Continued on Page 71) Crossquiz — No. 33 (Solution on Page 74).

ACROSS 1. —What indicates the limit for loading of a ship? 2. —Which famous song was composed by Arne on the words of James Thomson? 9. —Whose seven sons were kiUed by Apollo’s darts? 10. —What do you do when you write your name on the back of a cheaue? 11. —ln which metrical foot is the first syllable short and the second one long? 13.—T0 what kind of soldier Is attributed the success in the battle of Aglncourt? 15.—What extracts can be gained from sheep's wool and used as basis for ointments? 17. —ln what downpour Is a raw hide hidden? 18. —According to a irery popular French song which is the city vhere people are dancing on the bridge? 21. —ln their wars against the gods vhlch mountain did the giants place on he Pelion? 22. —On which plains did Miltiades win ils great victory over the Persians?

DOWN . —What type of plants last more han two years? 2. —Of which part of Great Britain is louglas the chief city? 3. —ln heraldy which fur represents lack colour? 4. —Which is the largest river of France? 5. —Who was the lover of Hero? 6. —Where is Funchal situated?

B.—ln what tobacco-pipe does the smoke pass through water? 12.—What is the name of the quantity a vessel lacks of being full? 14.—1 n which Portuguese possession is St. Paul de Loanda the capital city? 16.—Who succeeded Washington as the president of the USA? 19. —What smell tool is used for boring? 20. —What is it that is used much by Shakespeare and is all about nothing? 66 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

When The Kuni-Maipas Saved Ten Yanks The following article was pub- I lished in the June issue of The Papuan Villager, the monthly journal compiled by the Papua- I N Guinea Education Department I for the natives.

IN October, 1943, a 824 Bomber left Port Moresby to bomb the [Japanese in Rabaul. In the bomber there was a crew of ten Americans, i But one of the important ments in their aeroplane was not working properly. Near Lae, the pilot and navigator realized that the broken instrument had done a great deal of damage to the engines. They decided it would be impossible to get to Rabaul and back.

So they flew out over the sea and dropped all their bombs into the water where they could do no harm.

Then they began to try to get the damaged aeroplane back over the mountains to Port Moresby.

The engines became worse. Mount Yule was somewhere in front of them, but heavy rain clouds made it impossible to see.

The bomber was losing height.

Suddenly one engine caught fire.

Flames streamed out behind. The pilot swung the plane desperately to the right. Another mountain loomed out of the mist.

The pilot gave the word, and one by one the ten members of the crew, wearing their parachutes, jumped.

The pilot was the last to leave. Three or four seconds later the plane crashed into the mountain and burst into flames.

On the ground, one American airman had a broken back, but he was still alive. Some had broken ribs.

Three were missing.

This was in the Kuni-Maipa area.

Friendly natives soon arrived, and the Americans stood ten sticks in the ground. Each of the seven men then sat down beside a stick. In this way, the pilot was able to make the natives understand that three airmen were still missing.

They began to search and soon came back with the missing three men. The natives brought food, but the airmen would not eat it, thinking that it might be poisoned.

They kept on asking if there were any Europeans in the area. Always the natives made the same reply: ■“Babe, Marne, Puppapoo.” The Americans practised the words, but they did not mean anything to them.

They did not know that the Kuni- Maipa Natives were trying to say “Father, Sister and little Father.”

THEN the three strongest Americans decided to go with the natives. One quick-footed Kuni- Maipa woman went ahead and reached Father Wendling, at Kerau Mission outstation, three days later.

The three Americans reached Father Wendling shortly afterwards and a search party was organized.

Father Wendling, two native Sisters and a crowd of carriers got back to the remaining airmen in 2\ days, with food and medicine. The man with the broken back was very ill and the others were weak from lack of food.

A rough stretcher was made for the injured man and the party started back for Kerau., They had to climb Mt, St. Mary, 12,000 feet high.

After eight days, the whole party reached Kerau, where they lived for more than a week, feasting on the green vegetables, meat, milk and butter that are produced there in plenty. They then set out for Tapihi, From Tapini, messages by radio were sent to American Headquarters.

American aeroplanes very soon arrived over Tapin, but they could not land on the tiny airstrip. They dropped plenty of medicine and hundreds of tins of cigarettes— enough for the Mission for three years. Then the planes flew back to Port Moresby. Next day, a Tiger Moth plane arrived and began taking the airmen one by one back to their base.

To Father Wendling and his Mission helpers, the 2i days walk from Kerau to Apoloto, and the eight day struggle back across mountains 12,000 feet high was all part of their ordinary work; but the Americans have never ceased to be grateful to Father Wendling and the Kuni- Maipa, Tauade and Goilala Natives for .their kindness and care.

After their return to America, they formed a club and sent a message to Father Wendling, telling him that when he had finished his ten years in Papua and was returning to France for a holiday, he must come first to them in America where they would look after him. One of the airmen is a rich man. He sent 1,000 dollars (£437 10s.) to pay Father Wendling’s fare.

The ten airmen are now thinking about sending a gift of a helicopter (a plane which needs no airstrip) to help in the work of carrying supplies across Mount St. Mary, 12,000 feet above the sea.

PATHOS IN 1936 This pathetic reminder of hardships in the Western Division of Papua, a long time ago, was discovered lately in an old file. The doggerel is signed "Chldested”, and it apparently is the joint camposition of S. H. Chance, Noel Hides and Bensted, three men who considered themselves to be more or less forgotten men in Kikori.

The date was November 23, 1936.

Away out here where there’s no beer, The joys of life are few, We sit and dream of cakes and cream, And things we’d like to do.

The boat is due; with eyes askew, We sit and gaze and gaze.

A siren’s wail! At last the mail!

The first for thirty days!

With eager hands we tear the bands.

And scan the sheets for news Of world affairs, of sons and heirs; And then our Stores abuse!

The invoice sheet is not complete; Our RUM they have forgot; A flask of gin, Its sides bashed in— This leaves us not at tot.

Our bills are due, our pounds are few; Of service we have none, So wail we must, while boats go bust, Out on the Western run.

Our sorry plight, of which we write, We hope will meet your eyes, And in due course, you’ll feel remorse, And with us sympathise.

The clamour’s o’re; the boat’s no more.

We’ve spuds for twenty feeds; And as for spots, we’ve always lots Of lime-juice for our needs.

We say Adieu! and trust that you Towards the rising sun, When drinking port, will give due thought, To Western chaps with none!

“CHIDESTED”.

Kikori, 23/11/36.

The Unforgiving Minute

ANEW GUINEA Administration Officer recently received a memo from the Public Service Commissioner to the effect that sick leave had been approved for 17 days five hours 27 minutes!

Mr. Hamilton Huntley, who for the past 16 years, has been on the staff of the Fiji Broadcasting Company. has been appointed Assistant Manager of the Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Station, 380 Bendigo. He has been closely associated with broadcasting in Fiji since Station ZJV was first opened. 67

Pacific Islands Monthly— September, 1952

More About Mapia, Outpost of O'Keefe's Kingdom IT is evident, from a perusal of Lawrence Klingman’s and Gerald Green’s biographical novel on the life of the Irish-American, David Dean O’Keefe, that John Riedel’s inquiry to us regarding Mapia atoll (PIM, April, p. 63) was almost certainly prompted by the appearance of this book in New ‘ York in 1950. It has just now appeared in an Australian edition—and, of course, a film about O’Keefe is being made in Fiji, From further interesting information supplied to us by Mr. H. C. Davenport of Auckland (PIM, July, p. 69 > it is very evident that the book is quite inaccurate —perhaps intentionally so—in certain important respects. It also makes no mention whatever of O’Keefe’s third family branch on Mapia atoll, and, indeed, only the barest mention of Mapia, though this was evidently a major outpost of the O’Keefe kingdom. If ever a book should have dealt with the history of Mapia this was the book, but instead, perhaps to simplify the complex life-plot, parts of the Mapia story have been grafted onto the story of Yap. But for Mr. Davenport seeing mention of Mapia in PIM, we would, at least for the present, have remained in the dark as to the true story in so far as that island is concerned.

The present article gives the Mapia angle, as well as other interesting particulars.

IT is necessary to briefly recount the story as given in His Majesty O’Keefe. This tells of O’Keefe being wrecked on Yap, sole survivor of the Belvidere, in 1872, and being taken from there to Hongkong some time later by the Godeffroy & Co’s schooner Oceania.

In Hongkong O’Keefe entered partnership with a Chinese dental surgeon, Sien Tang (who remained a sleeping partner). Equipped with a 70-ton junk, which he renamed Katherine after his wife back in the States, O’Keefe sailed on a pearling cruise to the Philippines, East Indies, New Guinea, Admiralties and Solomons. From there he headed for Nauru.

At Nauru (this is all according to the Klingman and Green story) he found an escaped Australian convict named Harris as “King” of the island and married to a Nauruan woman. Harris’s eldest daughter, Dalabo, sailed with O’Keefe and they were married in Hongkong.

From the profits of this voyage, O’Keefe bought out Tang and headed for Yap. There, on the tiny islet of Tarrang he set up headquarters, gained a monopoly of the stonemoney wealth of the neighbouring islands, and made considerable real money in beche-de-mer, copra, and shell sold to the outside world.

By his first wife in America he had a daughter Louisa, who eventually became Mrs. Butler. Of this side of the family we hear no more until O’Keefe’s will is read. O’Keefe never set eyes on this wife or daughter again. The story tells of the wife Dalabo, and the two sons and three daughters borne by her to O’Keefe.

So much for the modern American version.

TI/IR. DAVENPORT shows that, in actual fact, Dalabo was a Yap woman—almost certainly of pure native blood. Whether or not there ever was a “king” of Nauru named Harris does not matter. In real life, O’Keefe did marry also a half- Nauruan girl, the daughter of Captain Henry Terry—an English Master Mariner well-known and respected in the Western Pacific at this time—and not the daughter of a man named Harris.

Lottie Terry went to Mapia with O’Keefe at a time when Nauruan labourers were employed there. She had a son, Harry, and two daughters, Nellie and Janie, by O’Keefe.

Nellie, the second daughter, eventually married a Dutch Resident Agent on Mapia with the English name of Lawrence—though perhaps not spelt that way.

Janie, the eldest daughter, married an English merchant-navy engineer named William S. Brown, at Hongkong, where she was sent to be educated. Brown took over the management of Mapia from Mr. H. C.

Davenport’s father, Henry Davenport, in 1907, but died in Hongkong about 1920-21. There were no children of this marriage, but Mrs. J. S.

Brown is undoubtedly the person to whom Mr. John Riedel referred as managing Mapia prior to World War Mr. William S. Brown, and the good-looking Mrs. Brown (Janie O’Keefe). This photograph was taken in Hongkong about 1910. 68 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

'II We believe that Mrs. Brown is Ijagam in residence there, now. f The Davenport family’s association with O’Keefe would fill a book and provide a story no less interesting than that of O’Keefe himself.

Here, unfortunately, we may give Eonly the outlines.

H. C. DAVENPORT'S father, Henry Davenport, was born in London in 1862 and his parents took him to Christchurch, NZ when he three. Given a business educa tion he was engaged with his father in a tea business there, until going to Fiji to work for Henry Cave in the :1890’s. On that firm’s store being burnt out, Henry Davenport went into trading business on his own account. He married and Mr. H. C.

Davenport was born at Wainibokasi in 1898. There were two other sons —one still in Fiji and the other in Auckland.

About 1900. business not being good in Fiji, the Davenport family shifted to the Carolines, where Henry Davenport went into partnership with a retired British Army captain named Bishop. The partners owned the large schooners Louisa J.

Kelly , and Hetty Smith, and the ketch Frolic. The schooners, built on the Pacific Coast, traded to ’Frisco, Hongkong, Sydney and elsewhere and Henry Davenport, who had mastered navigation, was skipper of one or other of these vessels. However, little more than a year later Bishop became seriously ill and died in Sydney. The Ponape business was disbanded —Burns Philp. incidentally, purchasing the Louisa J. Kenny.

At this time Captain Henry Davenport was evidently well known to O’Keefe and his Yap family, for in May, 1901, at about the time of Bishop’s death, when O’Keefe and his two Yap sons David (or James) and John were lost at sea, the Yap family immediately called upon Henry Davenport to assist them in establishing claim to the properties in the Marianas, Palaus, Hongkong, Manila and at Mapia.

It will be recalled that during the 30 years of the O'Keefe reign great political changes had taken place in the Western Pacific.

Yap had changed from a kind of Spanish no-man’s-land to German territory. Claims had thus to be settled in courts of German, British , , , • jand Dutch jurisdiction.

According to the book, O’Keefe had remitted money to his first wife from time to time, and it is evident that the Yap family were aware of her existence —as they also were of the Mapia family—because, on the death of O’Keefe (aged 73) one of Dalabo’s sons-in-law, a Britisher named Scott, who was managing the Yap interests, notified the first Mrs.

O’Keefe of his death. She despatched an attorney from America.

O’Keefe’s will was opened two years after his presumed death and— again according to the book—was revealed to leave half the O’Keefe property and interests to Dalabo and the other half to Mrs. Butler, daughter of the first Mrs. O’Keefe.

However, if this was the case it is evident, according to Mr. H. C.

Davenport, that the final settlement was on more complex lines than this.

Mrs. Butler eventually sold her interest to the Hamburg Trading Co. for the price of $lO,OOO per year for 50 years. Due to World War I the agreement was never honoured in full The book gives the subsequent history of the Yap family and interests, We are concerned with Mapia.

Henry Davenport represented Dalabo and Lottie (O’Keefe’s wives on Yap and Mapia, respectively), in court proceedings at Hongkong and later at Batavia. The negotiations were protracted, with Scott apparently endeavouring to gain control of the Yap business. By about 1904, Henry Davenport had completed the settlement of the Mapia interests in the court at Batavia, the assets and earnings being divided into six shares. one each for the rajah, Lottie O’Keefe, her daughters, Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Lawrence, and their brother Harry, and the final share for Eugenia, eldest daughter of Dalabo on Yap—the wife of William Scott, Above: Mr. H. C. Davenport, now living in Auckland, who supplied the information for this article. He lived on Mapia for a number of years with his parents and two brothers.

At right: A photograph taken about 1918-19 on board a KPM ship that regularly called at Mapia. Left to right, a travelling Customs officer; the ship’s chief engineer; Mrs. Brown, then leaving on a trip to Hongkong and Captain Henry Davenport, then manager at Mapia.

Mapia Is., showing surrounding reef, and the islets that comprise it. 69 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

who, incidentally visited Mapia for about a year in 1918-19.

Mrs. Brown and probably all three children—certainly Harry— also had shares in the Hongkong business— Harry selling his for $20,000 (Hongkong) when affairs were finally settled at the end of the first war.

He died in the early 1930’5.

Lawrence, who was originally sent to Mapia by the Dutch authorities to establish their rights to the atoll which is at the mouth of Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea, when Germany purchased the Marianas etc., seems to have tried to gain control of the O’Keefe business there on his own behalf, but he and his wife left and settled in Ternate (Moluccas) about 1905-6.

About the time that Lawrence, who had been living on Bras islet, (see map of Mapia page 69) departed, a man named Ellis, who had been Mate in one of O’Keefe’s schooners, the Tar rang, settled there as an overseer and married a relative of Paul, the rajah. There were two boys and a girl of this marriage.

Ellis leaving to go to the First World War about 1915, the family remaining. Of Ellis we hear no more.

Henry Davenport

family left Mapia in 1907 and went to the Philippines, remaining there until the outbreak of the First World War, when they sailed in their own 54-foot yacht, the Haidee, for Fiji. Calling at Ternate they met Lawrence who asked Henry Davenport to return to Mapia and endeavour to settle certain claims against Brown (the island being more or less on the Davenport route).

William Brown was in poor health at this time and Mrs. Brown again persuaded Henry Davenport to remain as manager. Brown spent the latter part of his life in Hongkong, dying there around 1920-21.

The term “rajah” applied to the native chief of Mapia does not imply that the natives there had any affinity with the people of the East Indies.

Mr. H. C. Davenport emphasises that, contrary to the Polynesian Society Journal extract published in our April issue (p. 63), the original people were Polynesian—not Melanesian—as they were also on Tobi Is. 200-odd miles to the north-west—and still are on Kapingamarangi and Nukuoro to the eastward, in the southern Carolines. The term “rajah” was introduced by the Dutch.

Older editions of the Pacific Islands Pilot point out that the Dutch Government long ago supported the claims of the Sultan of lidore to control certain communities at the extreme western end of New Guinea as well as certain islands, including Mapia. The rajahs of Mapia were appointed—or approved—by this Sultan.

According to Mr. Davenport, when O’Keefe first began trading to Mapia, the population was entirely Polynesian, but at some period during the latter quarter of the 19th century natives from the New Guinea coast raided the islands and massacred the population with the exception of the occupants of two Mapia canoes which escaped to sea. These canoes remained out of sight of the island during the day and came in at night for food—until the marauders from New Guinea departed. Of these people, only the so called rajah, Paul, remained alive as a surviving Polynesian at the time of the Davenport residence there.

Following this incident, O’Keefe introduced labourers variously from Nauru, Sonsorol (S. Palaus), Ternate (Moluccas) and Biak Is. Latterly the labour has come from Biak.

In 1917, Henry Davenport and his sons, and Harry O’Keefe made a trip in the Haidee to recruit labour from Sonsorol —which island was considered to provide the best labour. There they found a Japanese Naval Administration had taken over from the Germans. Permission to recruit labour was refused and Henry Davenport was given four days to depart.

Mr. Davenport also points out that, contrary to the official Pacific Islands Pilot, it is possible for vessels drawing up to 7 feet to enter the Mapia lagoon. The Haidee anchored always within.

Even at this time the KPM Line maintained a regular 8-weekly service to Mapia from the Moluccas, picking up the sun-dried copra which was the main export.

Mr. Davenport believes that the terms of the settlement with the Dutch Government in Batavia gave Mrs. Lottie (Terry) O’Keefe and her descendants, the trading rights to Mapia for 99 years from about 1904.

During the Davenport’s second sojourn at Mapia there was also an assistant manager living on Bras islet named Van Hassalt, a Dutchman whose father was a missionary at Manokwari. This man handled all correspondence in Dutch, the principal business language.

The Davenports again left Mapia in 1922 for Fiji but this time, beset by strong head winds when heading for Rabaul, they were forced up into the Carolines, calling at Lamotrek, Truk, Namoluk and finally Nukuoro —where the Haidee was wrecked in the lagoon passage. From there Japanese steamer returned them t Ponape.

At Ponape Henry Davenport r< mained to manage the trading bus ness of a half-native chief name Nanope for 18 months, thence t Rabaul for some years. A fade newspaper cutting shows that whe Henry Davenport died in Hongkon in 1928 his funeral was attended b many people well known in Honf kong shipping circles and by Mrs. : S. Brown of Mapia, and the daughi ers of Dalabo of Yap, Mrs. Williar Scott and Miss Daisy O’Keefe.

After the Haidee wreck the enport boys and their mother n turned to Fiji. From Ponape the got to the Marshalls, where Burn Philp’s schooner Manuo took ther on to Tarawa, thence by the Joh Williams IV to Sydney, and on b regular passenger ship.

Mr. H. C. Davenport believes tha much of the early history of Mapi was in the hands of a friend of hi father, a Captain Miller of Hong kong, with whom Henry Davenpoi lived at the time of his death.

The date of Mrs. Lottie O’Keefe’ death is not known. She was stil alive in the early 1930’5. Harry, he son, died about 1933. Mrs. Law rence was known to have two son and a daughter. She is probabl still living in the East Indies.

Mapia lies very close to the ai route from Biak to Manila but th weather observation station then during the late war has apparent! been abandoned.

It remains for Mr. John Riedel U tell us something of what went oi there militarily during the Pacific war.

CORRECTION In the Mapia story, July, P. 69, thi lower photo was wrongly captioned. Thi names of the two Europeans should havi been reversed. The error was Mr. Daren port’s.

The European in the top right phob on page 69, July, whose name we did no know was an American tourist—they ha< already arrived at Mapia in those days— whose camera took the photos. Thi negatives of these and many other photo; of Mapia still possibly exist in America Mr. Marshall Clifton, a Perth WA, architect and artist, has left for Norfolk Island under instructions from the Department ol Territories. He will examine ole colonial buildings there—which are now considered unique—with a view to their restoration and preservation for the Australian nation. The buildings were built between 1827 and 1850 when Norfolk was a penal, settlement and although many are in ruins, they have not been spoiled by modern additions. 70

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Majesty O’Keefe, is the story of the famous old Pacific buccaneer, Bully Hayes. Then he proceeds to tell the story of Hayes, and produces I most remarkable farrago of nosense. Scores of so-called writers liave told what they allege to be the story of Bully Hayes; each has copied his facts from the other; each jxaggerates a little; until their history of the old pirate no more resembles the real truth than it resembles the story of O’Keefe. It is i pity; because the true story of iayes is one of the most dramatic ind colourful in the annals of the uneteenth century. He was murdered >y a sea-cook in 1877; and ever ince then, every year or two, he las been murdered in a literary sense sy more or less undeserving writers.

Fatoa In The News Again

pRAVELLERS reported in August P- that a court action is pend- Qg between the alleged owner of ertain salvage rights on Vatoa Isand, in the Southern Lau Group, pji, and the Royal New Zealand ur Force which it is reported, reently used the island as a practiceombing range. The sum of £15,000 ras mentioned as damages claimed •om the RNZAF.

It will be recalled that three unerican vessels were wrecked on r atoa during the late War.

Vatoa first came into the news lore than 170 years ago. It was le only island of Fiji sighted and harted by Captain Cook, on his rst voyage.

Rom Copra To Carnations

J’OT many people have switched ’ from growing copra to growing amations for a living. But Mr. and Irs. George Purdy, once of Aoba, lew Hebrides, are doing just that at amborine Mountain, 36 miles from risbane.

The carnations are no ordinary looms; they are from imported iiropean stock and many of them e five inches across the flower and ith stems 2 ft 6 in. long. They are 1 highly perfumed.

The project has not been all plain iling, however. The two acres now )wering have been in full proiction only seven months. There ere difficulties with windbreaks and rigation and too much rain in 1951 lied off a lot of the plants.

But the Purdy blooms are in !mand by high class florists roughout Australia and recently ustralia’s most popular periodical.

Women's Weekly, devoted a full page in colour to the Purdys and their exotic blooms.

Kava In Malaya

JUDGING by some recent press photographs of General Sir Gerald Templer, he must feel that there are stranger things than terrorists in Malaya.

The occasion was the presentation to him by the Fijian Infantry Regiment of a Tabua, or whale’s tooth, followed by the traditional yaqona ceremony. The General looks into the flowing bowl with what seems to be some trepidation—as well he might. One acquires, by degrees, a taste for yaqona, or kava.

The Fijians who took part in the ceremony, discarded jungle green for the occasion, and wore traditional Fijian costume.

Scots With A Jap Accent

THE first Japanese shipping service with Australia since the war began in July with the Osaka Maru, a 6,600 tonner of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Line.

The officers and crew were most amiable although they ran against the full quota of Aussie prejudices and hates—it will be a long time before Australians can accept Japanese as blood-brothers.

Agents for the OSK are Mc- Ilwraith McEacharn, Ltd.—it is said that the polite Japs broke out in a sweat every time they had to pronounce the name.

Of Moons And Lagoons—

And Hotel Accommodation

A LUSH romantic setting, with tropical palm trees, moonlight over blue lagoons, etc., and six pretty girls being rushed off their feet by 81 men. (What fun!) Recognise it? It is the Sydney Morning Herald’s description of Deuba Hotel, Fiji, where Warner Bros, are filming His Majesty O’Keefe. It is reported that the men in the company are queuing up to make dates with the girls. What has happened to the local talent, one wonders. There are more than six pretty girls in Fiji and Deuba cannot be said to be exactly off the beaten track.

The whole of the Deuba Hotel is being occupied by the film company.

This hotel was opened last year by the Philp brothers as something different in tourist resorts for Fiji and it was expected to be in full operation this year. Although the film company is bringing extra money to Fiji, the withdrawal of Deuba from the ordinary tourist trade must be a blow to those whose job it is to find accommodation for Fiji’s overseas visitors during this the tourist season.

Accommodation is always a problem in Fiji but this year two Suva hotels were demolished in the January hurricane and Deuba is monopolised by the film makers.

Long Live the War! (Written during World War n by a wellknown resident of French Oceania.) Squandermania and Graft being the order of the day, obviously the worst disaster that can befall Tahiti would be Peace. “Never in history have so few (Fonctionnalres) made so much (money) In so short a time”.

PRAYER From Peace and Poverty, O Lord, protect ns!

Grant us this day our dally Graft!

Let not the quizzing Tanks detect us.

Raking the suckers fore and aft.

Grudge not, O Lord, our little pleasure!

Let not the Wowser dim our way; Women and wine allow full measure— And let the other silly blighter pay.

Say, Lord, what is this cry “Austerity”?

Would they deprive us of our cheering cup?

Enjoy the present and to hell Prosperity— Thank God, we’ve sold the Yanks a pup!

God Speed the Yanks! We do not like them with us: They cramp our style and spoil our jolly mood.

Let ns return to Lafayette and Lido,* And drink damnation to the hated brood!

PUNCO Tahiti, 6/4/43. * Lafayette and Lido are two of the leading “honkytonks”.

Only the Sword He Stood Up In VXf E wonder what the story is behind this intriguing advertisement (from a recent issue of Corona): “Wanted, Quickly, white tropical Civil Service uniform, complete, approximately to fit officer (height 5 ft. 8 in., waist 40 in., hat size 7i) who has lost everything except wr ; te (a»>mail from Colony) Box 38, Corona .”

Mr. ,f. W. W. Graham, after 26 years in education work in Cook Inlands, was officially farewelled in August. After leave in NZ. be will retu v n to become Resident Agent at Mangaia. 71 TROPICALITIES (Continued from Page 66) ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI SEPTEMBER. 1952

Legends of Navigation By William Burrows IN the days when the large double and single outrigger canoes of the Polynesians ranged the Pacific, the navigators had no modem appliances to assist them.

Nor was there a written language in which to record the experiences gleaned by those who set forth on their remarkable voyages and returned.

But a record of items of information was kept by the remembrancers, or tale-tellers, who translated them into legends. Thus a useful story, kept alive in this manner, provided data for the navigators on their voyages.

The heroine of many of the legends is Sina (Hina or Tna, varying according to the dialect) who was the Moon Goddess. Among her many roles she was the mother of the lunar months, and the mother of Maui, the Polynesian demigod, who lifted the sky off the earth at the creation of the world. It was Maui also, who produced islands by hauling them up from the bed of the ocean with a fishing line!

At one time Sina was carried from island to island on the back of a turtle, and she made many marriages with demigods, birds, and even a lizard. In one legend, told in the Tokelau Group, she became pregnant by standing on the edge of the reef each morning as the sun came over the horizon. In this case she named her son “Kalokaloo-le-la,” an interpretation of which is “Star of the Sun”.

In fact, she is symbolical of the birth of all living things.

A LEGEND of Sina, told in the island of Fakaofo, has a definite connection with star navigation used by canoes proceeding from that island to Samoa. A short veislon of this tale is as follows: Living in Fakaofo were two brothers. Kupenga and Kakau, of whom Kupenga was the elder.

Each had two sons; but those of Kakau were fine strong lads, whereas Kupenga’s boys were weaklings.

Kakau also had a daughter, no other than Sina herself, but she had run away and her father did not know what had happened to her.

Kupenga was jealous of his brother’s family and decided to kill the two boys by a trick. His plan was to feign sickness and he asked his brother to send the boys, whose names were Filo and Mea, to catch a certain dangerous fish called Sumu. The flesh of this would, he said, cure his sickness.

Kakau agreed; but his sons were good fishermen and the plot failed.

The fish was provided for thenuncle, but he complained that he was not cured. He then told the boys that he wanted the flesh of a certain bird. This was the famous Matuku, the man-eater.

Filo and Mea were undaunted and set off. one with a club and the other with an axe made from the shoulder-blade of a turtle, for the home of Matuku.

On their arrival they found he was not at home but to their surprise their lost sister, Sina, was there. She told them that she was married to Matuku, but was tired of him. She expected he would return to the house at any moment.

The two hid, Filo with his club in the low rafters of the hut’s roof, and Mea with his axe under a mat on the floor. They told Sina to give Matuku, when he arrived, a drink from a coconut bowl, but to only fill it half full. Sina agreed to do this. Presently Matuku arrived and sat on the floor; but, in order to drink from the half-filled bowl, he had to throw his head right back.

This gave the boys their chance.

Filo hit his forehead with his club from above, and Mea cut his throat from below.

The two brothers and their sister then decided to return to their father’s house. The path they took was across the reef, Filo carrying the dead bird, and Mea helping Sina.

There was a deep fissure on the reef which they had to cross, and the sea was swirling dangerously when they made the attempt.

Filo, carrying the bird, went first and was soon in difficulties. Then Mea jumped in to try and save him; but, before doing so, he called to Sina that if they were drowned she had only to look into the skv by night when she would see in the direction of Samoa not only her two brothers but Sumu and Matuku as well.

Sina was the only one of the three who reached her father’s house.

THE most favourable period of the year for a canoe passage from Fakaofo to Samoa is during the months of December, January and February. It is during these months when favourable winds from the north and north-west may be expected.

Of interest is the fact that both Kupenga and Kakau are Maori star names and Hamu (Sumu) is a constellation at Hawaii.

For the voyage from Fakaofo to Samoa the month of January may be taken as a probability. Samoa lies 191 deg. true from Fakaofo, and it is clear that stars with an azimuth of 180 deg.-215 deg. only, (Continued on Page 74)

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Readers are invited to send in the favourite recipes for publicatioi Ten shillings will be paid for eac one published. They should be rec pes using local Islands ingredient or ingredients readily obtainable i the Islands.

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Ice Cream No. 1

1 tin evaporated milk. 2 tablespoons sugar. 2 teaspoons powdered gelatine.

Vz cup boiling water. 2 teaspoons vanilla.

Dissolve gelatine in the boiling wate and also the sugar. Add the vanilla ar milk and stir together. Leave in n frigerator trays overnight. In the mon ing take out and beat until light an fluffy. Freeze again.

Ice cream is very easy to make an these recipes are old family favourite The secret of success is in thorough] dissolving the gelatine, and in beatii the ice cream until light. If only or tray is used, it is necessary to beat tl remaining tray again on the day th{ it is to be eaten.

Ice Cream No. 2

4 heaped tablespoons full-cream pou dered milk.

Vz tin sweet condensed milk. 2 teaspoons powdered gelatine. 2 teaspoons vanilla. 1 lemon. 1 cup hot water. 1 cup cold water.

Dissolve the gelatine in i cup of boil ing water. Whip the milk powder up i the cup of boiling water and curdle wit the lemon juice. Add the sweet mill vanilla, cold water, and dissolved gelatin) Beat together and leave overnight t freeze. Beat well in the morning an freeze again before serving.

Ice Cream With Coconut Cream

Make the first ice cream recipe, but us half tinned milk and half coconut cream Serve the coconut ice cream with dish of freshly grated coconut, and fo a special party, serve it in polishes coconut shells.

For a children’s party, colour the ie cream pink, and order a carton of icei cream cones. Over a hundred cones cosi about three shillings, and the childrej enjoy them much more than ice crean in a dish.

Hot Chocolate Sauce For

ICE CREAM 1 cup brown or white sugar. 3 4 cup milk. 1 tablespoon cocoa.

Vanilla flavouring. 1 teaspoon butter.

Boil all together fast for five minutes? then stand on an asbestos mat to keej warm. Serve hot in a jug to be poured on the served ice cream. 72 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Hinchey is to be Financial Secretary. He went to Fiji 12 years ago on secondment from the Bank of New South Wales, to organise the Colony’s wartime exchange control.

He later became an Administrative officer and in 1948 was transferred to the Western Pacific High Commission as Financial Secretary, at some period of the night, need to be considered; also, that stars of an altitude of over 60 deg. would be too difficult to observe correctly without some mechanical device.

After darkness set in, the pilot would look for a star on the h £ riZon 4 . find 4 : Sun } u » for which he would steer for the nOX^T\/r^ e i e 10U^p- e . wou see Matuku and steer for it until it sets four hours later. He then sees Filo, and steers for it for three hours, when he picks up Mea which SSf ™ daWn ' Pr ° m tWs 11 appears „ , oiimu is Achemar.

Matuku is Canopus. * s Acrux.

Mea ls Ri § el Kent, 1 am indebted to Pilot Officer B.

Challis. of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, for his help in verifying the position of these stars. 74 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Legends of Navigation (Continued from 72) Solution to Crossquiz from page 66

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BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. 100 YEARS OF ISLANDS SHIPS Famous Builder Passes On I From Our Auckland Correspondent.

WHEN, on August 27, Charles Bailey Junior died at the age of 87, in Auckland, a family association extending over nearly a century, and of much interest to the South- East Pacific, came to an end.

Up until about 15 years ago, Mr.

Bailey had been actively engaged in ship-building for years—and his father before him. From the Bailey yard, a thousand sailing or auxiliary craft had gone forth, during the lifetime of Bailey Jnr. alone. Many were Islands traders; everywhere in the South Pacific the name of Bailey stood for a well built vessel. Many are still actively engaged in trade— especially out of Papeete. Others, lost on some reef or other, have been associated with interesting events or people long since dead.

There was, for example, the Strathcona, buiit for the Pacific Cable Board and lost on her maiden voyage; and the 55-foot yacht Onelua, built for King Tubou II of Tonga; or the Vaiete, originally built for that legendary figure, Captain Thomas Harries, of Rarotonga, as the Vaiete —cast up on the same Raroia atoll as that on which the famous Kon Tiki raft ended its Pacific drift—salvaged, and four years later recommissioned under her present name, still trading out of Papeete; or again the Tereora, lost in a storm with all hands somewhere between Tahiti and the Leeward Islands, during the late War. One might imagine the late Charley Bailey speculating, each time he sat at the drawing board of a new schooner, just where SHE would end her days.

His death can almost be said to mark the end of the schooner era in the South-East Pacific. The New Golden Hind, though not built by the Baileys, was probably the last Bailey-designed Islands trader to go forth. Actually built as a yacht, she has spent most of her life as a working craft, and it seems unlikely that any other trading vessel of this type and size will ever again be built.

Large spreads of sail have probably gone for ever; but Charley Jnr. was responsible for many of the vessels of this type that still are active in the Islands. Wherever there are sailing craft in the Islands, his death will be mourned.

Mr. Grattan’s Appointment is Popular APIA, August, 17 THE appointment of Mr. F. J. H.

Grattan, to the position of Secretary to the Samoan Government in succession to Mr. J. B. Wright, has found general approval in the Territory.

Mr. Grattan has occupied the position as Secretary of Samoan Affairs since October 1943, after having gained administrative experience in various Government Departments in Samoa from the time of his arrival in the Territory in 1929.

He is the author of the valuable book of reference “An Introduction to Samoan Custom” (Reviewed some years ago in PIM).

He was one of the passengers of the Catalina aircraft which crashed at Satapuala Airport in 1950, when 7 of the New Zealand aircrew were killed. Mr. Grattan suffered severe shock and injuries on this occasion.

Royal NZ Air Force Headquarters Lauthala Bay, Fiji, have made arrangements with Mr. G. Ashley, proprietor of the Royal Hotel at Levuka, to provide recreational facilities for Air Force personnel.

Airmen who so wish will be able to take annual leave at Levuka at very little expense. The Royal Hotel will provide accommodation for parties of 10 at a daily rate of 6/- per man, exclusive of the cost of rations which the party will bring with them. 75 Pacific islands monthly September, 1952

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Maui Pomare Passengers Northbound | North-bound from Auckland in August, Ihe Maui Fomare carried the following passengers (left to right):— MRS. B. LUCY and daughter ELIZA- BETH, whe returned to Rarotonga after i month in New Zealand—Mr. and Mrs.

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Mr. and Mrs. Ron Curtis have reurned to Lae, New Guinea, after eave spent in Australia.

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RAROTONGA The Tere party a profitable source of income for local shipowners. and a regular feature of Cook Islands life—was manifesting itself again late in August.

After weeks of practising song and dance, a party of 70 people boarded village will play host to the visitors, the Charlotte Donald, replete with supplies of arrowroot, kapok, fruit, hats, fans and necklets, as gifts for their Rarotonga hosts.

Arriving there on August 24, the party was rushed off to a major utmikai of steaming porkers, fish and all the etceteras, at Arorangi village, first of many on their slow circuit of the 21-miles-round island. 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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PELICANS Blown Into the Solomons From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, Aug. 20.

PELICANS have been seen this year in the British Solomon Islands. ° ne Eur °P ean resident of many years’ residence remembers having seen a pelican pn Ysabel many years ago. Natives then were puzzled and a little frightened at the sudden appearance of a bird completely unknown to them.

The birds appeared at Gatukai (Western Solomons) shortly after the big wind which caused so mu< damage early this year, and it suggested that they were blown awj from their homes, possibly in Ne Guinea.

Later, a dozen were reported at photographed on Kolombangara in tl New Georgia Group, and a scoi sighted some weeks afterwards on tl Lunga Group, on Guadalcanal.

Some years ago, after a gale, single sparrow arrived at the Severn Day Adventist mission at Batuna.

Similar instances of birds whit are not normally migratory havir been carried into new regions b strong winds have been recorded. A outstanding example was the intn duction into New Zealand of tl Australian Silver-eye, a small find which was thus introduced when flock of them was blown 1,400 mil< across the Tasman Sea during violent storm.

The August Tofua lifted 3,0( cases of bananas from Apis Western Samoa—the largest cor signment from any of the islan ports but far below New Zealan requirements. It is anticipated thg towards the end of the year, hovs ever, banana shipments from a ports, including Suva and Aph should increase substantially an that the NZ demand should b close to satisfied. 78 SEPTEMBER, 195 2 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Propellor Fault Suspected THE Australian Department of Civil Aviation grounded all Drover planes in early August. Inspection will be made for a suspected fault in the threads of some of the propeller hubs.

The order affects Drover planes operating in Papua-New Guinea and the Northern Territory as well as in Australia.

The two operational mishaps to Drovers have occurred in New Guinea. In April, a Drover crashed and sank off Wewak, Northern New Guinea, and three men on it spent 10 hours in the open sea in a small rubber dinghy. The pilot of this plane, Captain C. R. Hibbert, said that the port propeller fell off before the crash.

Last year, another Drover plane awned by Qantas crashed into the sea off Lae and the pilot and five passengers were killed. The cause of this crash is not known.

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Mr. T. Shanahan, manager of Wau Estate, now has the plantaion in full production and anticipates harvesting 35 tons of coffee his year.

He has installed new, modern nachinery in the factory at a cost of -3,000 which will improve processng, and has planted up a new area )f approximately 100 acres, which should be in production in from bur to five years.

New Arrivals in NZ from Cooks Passengers arriving in Auckland from the Cook Islands on the Maui Pomare early in August included the following: (left to right): MISS K. MANUELA.

MRS. C. J. MACCULLOCH, of Auckland, home from an air and sea Islands’ holiday, who was met by her daughter.

Karotongan residents of Auckland who were down to meet friends arriving.

MISS NANCY MAKI, who came down from the Cooks to go to a Job at Masterton. MISS OKI TOKA, who was visiting New Zealand for the first time. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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The Bombardment Of

PAPEETE Exactly 38 Years Ago AT 6 a.m. on September 22, 1914 —6 weeks after the outbreak of World War I and exactly 38 years igo —people in Papeete saw two arge warships approaching through he morning haze. Allied vessels vere expected. A large crowd lathered on the waterfront. | Doubts arose when the approach- Dg ships showed no flags. A small french fort, on the hill behind the bwn, fired some warning blanks, [he ships—now identified as hostile h-went on out of sight to the eastward. They came back at 7 a.m., ,nd signalled a demand for coal and lores.

Papeete did nothing. The ships fired 10 blank shots. The Governor saw what was coming, and rdered an immediate evacuation of le town into the valleys of the hills ehind.

The ships fired about 30 shells into le town. They did little damage, he little fort fired shells—which fell iort —and the little gunboat —Zelee earned outwards. Her commander lanned to block the entrance by sinking her there.

The German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau then apparently decided that neither the fuel nor food was forthcoming. The bombardment began in earnest. The Zelee was sunk before she had gone 200 yards.

Buildings began to crumble.

The little French garrison of 250 stayed there, helpless. There was growing panic among the Chinese and Tahitians, as they made for ihe valleys.

The garrison set fire to 2,000 tons of stored coal. It was still burning when the first overseas ship (the Matai ) arrived 10 days later.

The two German ships battered the little French town with about 100 shells. Destruction of buildings and contents was general, and severe.

Two men—a Chinese and a native —were killed. No one else was injured.

Firing ceased at 11 a.m., and the enemy ships departed. Hours later, the populace returned. There were many alarms after that. The Chinese panicked again, and removed supplies to the valleys, and many were still camping there when the Matai arrived.

The French had a big job in restoring Papeete. They said there was poetic justice in the fact that they made the crew of the German freighter Walk lire (captured on the outbreak of war by the Zelee ) toil for many weeks on the work of repairs.

WHEN war came on August 4, 1914, the German squadron in the Pacific comprised the powerful battle - cruisers . Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the small cruisers 81 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Nurnberg and Leipsic. British French warships sought them; 1 in those non-radio days, they ea eluded pursuit.

The New Zealanders occuj Western Samoa late in August, the two battle-cruisers sudde appeared off Apia, and Mulifu plantation (18 miles west of Ap: on September 14. In each case, though a NZ force was in occupati German residents went off to Scharnhorst and, it appears, the C man civilians told the German N men that they were being very n treated. The German comman said that he had no quarrel v civilians and, after a short stay, ships left without any hostile dem stration. They were next heard oi Tahiti.

Nothing was known of bombardment of Papeete until ab October 2. The cable station Papeete had been completely c troyed.

By then, the Germans had ■ appeared again. It is now knc that they went around Cape He Off the Falkland Islands they j a superior British squadron un Admiral Craddock; and all f< German ships were sunk in Battle of the Falkland Islands, January, 1915. A couple of hund men were saved from the Gneisen but most of the men on the otl ships were lost.

Cane Production by Fijians at New Pe SUVA, August, 18 THE reason usually given for i introduction of Indian indentm labour to Fiji 70-odd years ago that the Fijians declined to let their communal lands to becoi cheap labour. Consequently Fi key industry—sugar—became a still is the principal Indian preser But times have changed. In 19 native Fijians, working their o 1 land, are likely to produce 60,C tons of sugarcane to be sold at a ton. This is an all-time Fiji record, the previous best bei 36,500 tons in 1936, when the pr was a fraction of that paid to-day Although Fijian sugarcane p] duction is still only 6 per cent, the total, the steady progress ma is encouraging.

Mr. Fred Stevens, with his famii is now in Australia and expects be absent from the New Hebric for some time. Mr. M. Havet leasing his plantation on Sol Santo. 82 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL.

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TEAL May Save NZ Taxpayers £40,000 IT is estimated that the New Zealand taxpayer will benefit to the extent of £40,000 per annum when TEAL takes over the service to Western Samoa from NAC, and Includes it in the Auckland-Fijifahiti service, now running.

In 1950-51 the loss on the NAC Dakota service was £41,680 —or E 82,000, if the Sunderland service, A.uckland-Suva, discarded in that (rear, is taken into account.

Due to the heavy reserve load of gasoline which the twin-engined Dakotas have to carry on the long Kean hops, their payload is small.

When the TEAL Solents take over he Samoa sector a substantial >rofit is expected on the Coral Route service which should then cost the axpayer nothing. | No provision, it seems, is being nade for air contact with Rarotonga, ifter the Satapuala seadrome is >pened for the service to Samoa, the Coral Route Solents call only it Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands.

New Seadrome in Samoa I ATER in August, TEAL reported that they now expect to make a ”P rov ‘ n g flight” to Satapuala seadrome, Upolu, Western Samoa, late in Se P tember and that, subject to this flight being satisfactory, the inaugural flight through to Tahiti including Samoa should follow in mid-October.

Most of the work at Satapuala has been completed. Coral heads have been removed to provide a runway of 21 miles, with a minimum depth of 8 feet.

Satapuala is adjacent to Faleolo, near the western end of the island, and 20 miles from Apia. „ „ , . . TT .. his half-yearly to* Santo,’ New Hebrides, in his cutter in August, He then went on to Sydney by air. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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Responsibility of P-NG Director REVISION and extension of education work on the Trusteeship island of Nauru will follow the recent official visit to Nauru of Mr.

W. C. Groves, Director of Education in Papua-New Guinea. In future, Responsibility for the Nauru education system will lie with the Papua- New Guinea Director.

Mr. Groves spent seven weeks on the job (four of them travelling on British Phosphate Commission ships) and arriving in Australia, en route to Port Moresby, late in August. He was keenly interested in this inspection, because he was in charge of Nauru’s education system in 1937- 38, and was able to examine the results of his work, 15 years afterwards.

At present, lack of direct communication between New Guinea and Nauru might make supervision from Port Moresby difficult. But there have been indications that the occasional air service, run on charter by Qantas, between Lae-Honiara- Nauru, with planned extension to Tarawa, may become established and regular.

The small native community in Nauru—generally Polynesian in character—is probably the best educated in the South Pacific. The natives are well endowed by the royalties from the Nauru phosphate workings, and this wealth is freely used in both primary and secondary education.

Praise for Cook Is.

Education System MR. D. B. Roberts, head of the South Pacific Commission’s literature bureau, on returning from a visit to the Cook Islands in August, said that he had noted that there was a “vigorous schooling system, a literacy rate of 95 per cent., and 30 per cent, of the annual budget being spent on education.”

He believed these figures compared favourably with efforts being made anywhere in the world.

He considered the Further Education system as “one of the most promising examples seen anywhere of helping people to make practical use of what they had been taught at school, to meet the problems of adult life.” This scheme, Mr. Richards said, was the first of its kind in the Islands and was creating considerable interest elsewhere.

A press report that Russian submarines had been seen in the coastal waters of New Guinea reached New Zealand on August 28, but evidently was not taken seriously, “They Had Snow on Their Periscopes” was the heading put on the item by New Zealand Herald. 85 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Tomatoes!

T'HE Mauri Pomare took the season’s first shipment of Cook Islands tomatoes to Auckland in July. Marketed by the growers through their agents the shipment realised about 22/6d per 20 lb case in the Auckland market. But, on sale retail, they were priced at 4/- per pound. Even then, they sold readily.

Father R. Nowak, of the Society of the Divine Word Mission, Alexishafen, NG. has retired from active mission work after spending 40 years in the Territory.

Queensland Defeats “Bunchy-top”

A N announcement of interest t all banana growers was mad by the Queensland Department c Agriculture in August. Th announcement raised the ban whic has been in force for many yeai against the growing of bananas i unregistered “back-yard” plantation: Early in the 1920’5, Queenslan banana plantations were hit by th disease known as “bunchy-top,” an by 1925 only four of over 100 plar tations remained in productior Strict measures were taken by th Department to control the disease Research eventually revealed tha the disease was a virus carried b the black aphid. Bunchy-top de veloped about 24 days after th aphids fed on the banana palm.

The present announcement mark the end of a prolonged and success ful eradication campaign which re moves bunchy-top from the list o uncontrolled banana diseases.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Boucher, o Auckland, returned in earlv Augus highly enthusiastic about thei month’s holiday in Tahiti. The' travelled by TEAL. Mr. Bouche is managing director of Speddings Ltd., Auckland. 86 SEPTEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

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By K. Norman

THE untimely death in February of His Majesty, King George VI, has created intense interest in the many issues of Empire postage stamps that carried his likeness, f Since his accession to the Throne in 1936, the Territories of the Pacific have included his portrait on a number of contrasting issues. [ As it will be some time before the portrait of the new ruler, Queen Elizabeth H, can be incorporated on new stamps, we may reflectively consider the Pacific Islands stamps honouring His late Majesty.

Nauru, in company with New Guinea and Papua (the latter two then separate stamp-issuing entities), circulated four stamps each on the occasion in May, 1937, of the late King’s Coronation.

All stamps depicted the King hatless, his head facing in the left direction, set on a plain background.

The British Solomons, Fiji, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Pit- :airn Island produced stamps in connection with the 25th anniversary of the wedding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The design was :ommon to all the British Crown Colonies. The celebrations took place in April, 1948 and depicted he Queen (Mother) in evening dress, he late King in Admiral’s uniform, facing to the right.

The Crown Colonies’ “Victory” ieries of 1946, showing the Houses )f Parliament in London, additionilly displayed a portrait of the late SCing at the right, in a full face fornat.

The Fijian pictorial stamps of 1938, included a portrait of he King on them, half turned to the eft. A medallion portraiture was ised in different values, in left hand md central positions.

The initial Fijian “Health” stamps )f September, 1951, also had permits of King George VI, at the ight hand corners of the two tamps.

In September, 1938, four stamps I'ere printed by Papua to mark the ; oth Anniversary of the declaration if the Territory as a British Proectorate, a small representation of he King appearing at the right of he stamp, facing to the left.

Another inset portraiture of the Cing in Admiral’s uniform figured m the five stamps of the pictorial eries issued by Papua, in September, It was in January, 1939 that the Gilbert and Ellice Islands stamps appeared, this interesting pictorial sequence taking a portrait of the head only of the King as part of the design. The head faced to the right.

The same likeness was used for the 1939 pictorials.

The portrait of the King shown on the Cook Islands stamps of May, 1938, were identical with those used on the stamps of New Zealand, the 1/- of the former series carrying a striking full-face representation.

Three portraits of the King on the October, 1940 series from Pitcairn Island were seen in the centre of the pictorial series, the remainder showing his likeness at the left of the formats.

I feel sure stamp collectors would support any move amongst the Ter- 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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All enquiries through your Island Trader will receive our prompt attention. pitories of the Pacific to produce Fmemorial” stamps in honour of our late King at some appropriate future Hate.

I King George VI was deeply in- Urested in stamps, and possessed one of the most complete collections in the world. It was started by his late lather, George V, recognised universally as ‘The King of Philatelists.”

I The “Royal Stamp Collection,” as it is now known, is said to contain more than 600,000 stamps from all corners of the world, and is conservatively estimated to be worth £1 million.

Maori Missionary for Polynesia THE Reverend John Tamahori, lately of Wairoa, NZ, will shortly leave New Zealand for Nukualofa, Tonga, to take up duties at St. Paul’s Anglican church and St.

Andrew’s School there.

Mr. Tomahori was ordained in 1940, and has been stationed mainly at Maori centres in New Zealand since then. He will be the first Anglican Maori missionary to go to the Polynesian Diocese—although others have gone to Melanesia previously.

Niueans Do Not Want

MORMONS From a Special Correspondent A PETITION signed by 2,000 adult Niueans has been sent to the NZ Minister, the Hon. Mr. T. Clifton Webb, asking that Mormon elders be removed from the Island.

The Niueans have been greatly annoyed at the advent of the Mormons, largely because they were brought in without the islanders knowing of their coming. Niue has been a “One Church Island” (London Missionary Society) for 106 years and although attempts have been made to establish other faiths in the past they have failed. So almost the whole adult population has made its protest in the only way open—a petition to the New Zealand Government.

Apia Has Electricity

SHORTAGES APIA, August 17 OWING to abnormally dry weather recently, the hydro electricity plant that supplies Apia, Western Samoa, with light and power has had to curtail output. Two blackout periods are being observed—midnight to 5 am and 1 pm to 4 pm but appeals to the public to save electricity at other times has met with no response.

A new 300 k. w. diesel generating plant is on order from the UK and a 1,000 k. w. generating plant at Avele on the Vaisigano River is under construction but until these two projects are completed, supply of electricity must remain uncertain. 89 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Nassauans Take a Holiday LATE in August the population of Nassau Island, Northern Cooks, was planning a mass holiday to neighbouring Puka Puka, 45 miles away.

It will be recalled that the Puka Pukans purchased Nassau several years ago from the Administration and that about 100 of them were then settled on the island which had been uninhabited since the war.

They plan to avail themselves of the first shipping opportunity and will remain at Puka Puka for a couple of months, before returning to their new home.

Whale Oil Rival To

COPRA THE 17-nation Whaling Commi* sion reported June 6 that tofa Antarctic whale oil productio for last season was 2,328,869 barrel produced by factory ships. Lan stations brought the world total u to 2,473 681 barrels. This was total increase of 169,991 barrels ove the previous season.

The total allowable catch for nex season was again fixed at 16,00 “blue whale units.” For purpose of computation, one blue whale i reckoned to equal two fin whale* two-and-a-half hump-back whale and six sei whales.

The season again opens oi December 22, and nominally close on April 4, 1953. But if the allow able catch is taken earlier, th season closes accordingly. English Norwegian, Dutch, Russian an< Japanese factory ships will agaii take part.

Whale oil, which is number on< rival of coconut and other vegetabl) oils, was recently down to £BO stg per ton in Europe.

The touring Fijian representative* are not the only ones to play Rugbj in Australia this season. M. Sealolo who is a student at Gatton Agricultural College, Queensland, playec for Toowoomba against Brisbane or June 14. 90

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COPPER

Valuable Again?

WHEN Dr. Srinivasan, an Indian scientist doing research work in Melbourne University, was in Queensland in August, he told newspapers there that recent discoveries made possible the exploitation of Fseveral million tons of heavily oxidised copper ore in New Guinea.”

A plant capable of treating the ore would be established in New Guinea by the end of 1953, and the ore would be concentrated and shipped to [Australia for smelting.

If there is anything in this, it is important news. Copper is valuable, and becoming more so. But where in New Guinea are these millions of tons of ore?

There are huge deposits in the Port Moresby area of Papua, between Bootless Inlet and Rouna Falls; but the companies which originally sought to exploit them gave up many years ago—the ore was too expensive to dig and handle. A new discovery in the treatment of copper ore could easily bring these deposits into the dividend-paying class, with important results for the economy of Papua and Australia.

A few weeks ago, the newspapers made several references to a discovery of a new revolutionary method of handling ores, made in Melbourne by an Indian scientist.

Papeete'S New Hotel

FORMERLY intended to be called Hotel Motuta but now renamed Grand Hotel Faugerat, Tahiti’s largest (3-storey) and most modern hotel opened for limited business early in August.

Monsieur Faugerat, the proprietor, in announcing that 8 rooms of the building are available for immediate use, said also that it is expected that the remaining rooms will be opened in October. At present only breakfast is provided, but by early next year there will be a restaurant and bar in operation.

When completed, the hotel will be air-conditioned throughout, will have private bathrooms for each bedroom, and will be provided with an elevator.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johns are making a visit of several months to Wau, NG. Mr. John was a pre-war employee of Bulolo Gold Dredging, and has recently sold his hotel at Broken Hill.

West Samoa Exports

Western Samoa’s Annual Report, published in Wellington in mid-August, gave the Territory’s imports for the 1951 financial year as £1,200,000 —£100,000 up on the previous year—with exports up by £418,000.

The 14,000 tons of copra exported in 1950 was this year exceeded by 600 tons, though shipping, rather than increased production, was responsible for this.

Cocoa exports were up by 1,300 tons on the previous year’s 1,900 tons exported, and exceeded the previous all-time 1949 record by 318 tons.

Deepest ocean deep has recently been discovered off Guam. It is seven miles down. 91 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Other Groundnut Schemes in Africa and Elsewhere What the Colonial Development Corporation is Doing ALTHOUGH Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission territories have had some assistance from the Colonial Development Fund since the war, these schemes are very small potatoes in contrast with what the Colonial Development Corporation has undertaken in Africa and elsewhere. Some of the projects are showing a profit but many of them are by way of being minor ‘groundnut schemes” and will be a drain on the unfortunate British laxpayer for years to come.

The projects of the Corporation ire, of course, just not a matter of Raking profits—but it is quite ap- >arent now that many of them were he brainstorms of Whitehall planters and that they would have had nore chance of success if the Euroleans. With long experience in the •espective countries had been conulted.

Here are some of the projects the Corporation has engaged in, and the results—all money quoted is Sterling —(condensed from New Commonwealth of June 9).

EAST AFRICA: A profit of £36,000 was made from the edible oil refining: plant.

The sulphuric acid plant has been closed down. Investigations are proceeding as to the commercial possibilities of ramie fibre. Consignments of rootstocks from America have been planted in Kenya and Tanganyika.

Tanganyika road transport company has been reorganised during the year. Unservicable vehicles have been replaced by new ones. Nett loss for year, £34,401.

Good progress has been made with the wattle scheme; further areas cleared and planted (no other details of this project).

In Uganda, Lake Victoria Hotel, Ltd. (in which the Corporation has a controlling interest), made a profit for the year of £3,248.

The Northern Rhodesian Cement works came into production and it is proposed to build another kiln which will treble production by 1954.

Corporation reviewed the tung oil experiment which they took over from the Nyasaland government in 1948. Nearly £SVz million was estimated for carrying the scheme to full development under the original plan. It has been decided to limit scheme to 5,000 acres of tung, which should be developed with the £1,410,000 already approved. Crops have failed on the adjacent rice farm (which was to feed the tung workers) for the third year in succession. It is concluded that “mechanical production of staple cereals with European skilled staff and 93 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Lloyd S Agents New Zealand; A. B. Donald, Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook lslands; Dominion Fruit Co., Suva, Fiji.

Agents and Distributors for: FRANCE: Hennessy Cognacs; Marie Brizard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Heidsieck Champagnes; Perrier Water; Gruber Beer.

NEW ZEALAND: Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd.. Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves.

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown & Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes: Lucky Strike, Wings, Old Gold; Champion Spark Plug Co.; Rainier Beer.

ENGLAND: Reckitt & Colman (Overseas), Ltd.; Phillips Bicycles; The Bank Line, Ltd.

Sydney Agents; BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURNS- PHILP CO. OP SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents: BURNS. PHILP & CO- LTD. Agents in France: HARTH & CIE, PARIS; A. BICKART, MARSEILLES.

By Appointment Gin Distillers to the late King George VI Tanqueray, Gordon & Co. Ltd.

Although imports of this world-famous London Gin are restricted, limited quantities are still available to connoisseurs.

Gordon’s Stands Supk&mA attendant overhead is unprofitable in Nyasaland”.

WEST AFRICA: The first village in a Nigerian peasant settlement scheme has been settled with 78 families and farms.

"While the social and political progress has been satisfactory, it will be more difficult to make a scheme of this kind pay than was originally expected".

On expert advice a sack-making factory and cotton spinning project for Nigeria has been dropped.

Nearly £17,000 profit was made for the year on the operations of the Omo Sawmills of Nigeria, Ltd.

Results from West African Fisheries and Cold Store were disappointing—there was a trading loss for the year of £27,717.

The catches of fish were not big enough.

In Gambia, results from the rice farm were again nil, but a mission sent the in February—although critical of costs recommended continuing the experime on a smaller scale. An epidemic of Ne castle disease wiped out the Gambi poultry farm flock in 1951 (this was t scheme to supply cheap eggs to Britai but an experimental farm is bell established elsewhere. The total loss < the Gambler egg experiment, to dal is £BOO,OOO.

The Bechuanaland Cattle Ranch w need an extra £200,000 capital in 19 and it is, expected that receipts from sal of cattle will not become substantial f four or more years.

The Corporation has plans for i abattoir and cold store for Sou Bechuanaland and a 108,000 acre i afforestation plan for Swaziland.

FALKLAND ISLANDS (South Atlantic The abattoir and freezer being built Falkland Is. should be finished by 191 but "heavy over-expenditure” has reduc its commercial prospects. The fin capitalisation is estimated at at lea £450,000. The Corporation is now 100 ing for partners and managers with loc experience.

The Corporation made a loss of £23,4 last year on the South Atlantic Sealii Co. They do not expect a profit for ti more years.

Mr. Don Beachcomber, wel known Honolulu restaurant pr< prietor, made a business visit i Tahiti in August, travelling 1: TEAL from Fiji.

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Notes Of Interest

This month, Vincent Fonsagrive, FUBAC, mpplies interesting details from New lebrides and New Caledonia. Here in ►art is his letter:— “The FKB’s are very active, especially TCBAB, FKBAI, and FKBAN, who work fenerally DX on 14 and locals on 7.

“As to FUB’s, the list is very short: TJBAK, Andre Thevenin on Pentecost, TJBAB, Marcel Nicolas, and FUBAC, iiyself”, the latter two both in Vila. . “FUBAA will soon complete a powerful tation of at least 100 watts. He is now n 7 almost every Sunday morning.

TJBAB is very busy on the Government tation and is therefore not very active. am on 7.1 every Sunday morning at 100 Z, working a poor little 10 waiter, [tal controlled, phone. I hope to soon o on 14 . . , with VFO and more power . . and shall welcome calls from Pacific tations.” * * * According to “Amateur Radio” for ugust, a new Nauru station has been losing considerable excitement on 20 letres. No name is mentioned but the tory goes like this. The Ham, formerly (M3DOJ of Scotland, applied for a license t Nauru but was vetoed or stalled ff by the Post Master. He then pplied over the head of the Post Master, resumably to Australia, and was issued Ith the call VR7AB—a prefix never efore released—and forthwith got on the Ir, with devastating DX results. His requency reportedly was completely locked with W’s and K’s either calling, orking, or just jamming him, declaring lm to be a pirate.

The Post Master, according to the *>ry, has been returning all cards sent ► VR7AB, declaring there to be no such atlon. Until the matter is cleared cards lould go to VK2YC, the NSW QSL anager.

The station apparently first appeared June, but nothing has been heard of im in Auckland during periods when icific stations have been well received the evenings in August, so possibly the >st Master is temporarily in control! * * ♦ Stations active during the month eluded: KB6AQ/Al/AX, KC6QY/DX, E7RW, KG4AF, KG6AL/ADR/BJ/FAA, I6AP/AR/AW, KX6AX/AM, VKIEM/YG, K9FN/GM/GW/HI/RC/WK/XK, VRIB, S.2AS/BK, VR3C, ZKIAB/BC/AZ, ZK2AA, *6AA/AC.

ZM6AA, at Apia, is a reallotted callin. The former owner left Samoa last (vember, and the present owner acquired e call several months ago. The KJ6’s Johnston Is. have been very active and amongst the strongest signs in Auckland.

Notes on stations active would he appreciated from Fiji, Samoa, French Oceania, and the North Pacific boys.

Future DX prospects are interestingly discussed in an article in the current “Radio & Hobbies’’ using information originally published in “QST”. In short, the findings are as follows: As from the summer of 1951-53, all F 3 DX on 28 Mc/s should disappear until the summer of 1955-56, the band becoming purely a local-contact one except for rare Sporadlc-E contacts of a few hundred miles. On 14 Mc/s some DX will continue to offer on a few days of the month for very short periods through the 1954-55 sunspot minimum. 7 Mc/s will prove the best DX band and those who chase it are advised to interest themselves in 7 Mc/s ground-plane antennas—if there’s no room for a fixed beam or two in strategic directions.

Radio Notes for Yachtsmen With many cruising yachts of many nationalities at present cruising the Pacific the following radio information is likely to be of assistance to some.

Voice Weather Broadcasts

Hawaiian Area

These are made twice dally on 3698 kc/s from station NMO at 0900/2100 GMT and concern the ocean area within a 600-mile radius of Oahu Island. In addition, 95 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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Regular size, Economy Bath Size, PI/161 actual conditions at a number of poii in the area are broadcast every ho from Honolulu Overseas Aeradio on 6S kc/s at 15 minutes past the hour. Th broadcasts give details from Honoln Lehue, Barber’s Point, Puhunene, Hi Midway, Wake and Canton Is.

Yachts bound from there on to S Francisco may also hear useful infc mation from Ocean Station “Uncle” 5165 kc/s (and probably other frequence working with trans-Pacific aircra “Uncle” is located at 38 N, 145 W.

Ocean Station “Nan” on the sai frequency, located at 33N, 135 W, althou not recently heard, may be temporary off station.

Voice Weather Broadcasts Pc

THE CALIFORNIA COAST are made follows: South to Point Aguello, fro Eureka-KOE, on 3506 kc/s at 0500/11 GMT. Point Arguello south to S: Diego, from Long Beach NMQ on 3698 kc at 0500/1700 GMT and from San Pedro-KC on 3566 kc/s at 0400/1600 GMT.

From material given in early issues PIM this year, yachtsmen now ha details of all the main voice weath broadcasts along the usual yacht crnisii routes. Groups NOT so covered are t) Marquesas, Cook Islands, Tonga, Gilbc and Ellice, South Solomons and Micr nesia. AH other main Groups have ns ful voice broadcasts.

Next month we will summarise tl transmitter frequencies required by yacht planning an extensive Pacific cruls if contact with all Groups visited desired.

Substantial Profit

BY TEAL TEAL’S Chairman of Director Sir Leonard Isitt, at the annu general meeting of the company : August, reported that a nett prol of £31,812 had been realized on o] erations over the past financial yea Sir Leonard expressed the cor pany’s keen satisfaction with the e tablishment of the new Coral Rou service to Tahiti. The opening < this serivce was the most imperial development in the company’s hi tory. “It is already apparent” sai Sir Leonard “that the Coral Roui to Tahiti will quickly become in mensely important to New Zealam especially as a dollar earner.”

The Coral Route service and tfc establishment of the service betwee Christchurch, NZ, and Melboum had almost doubled the route-mill age of the company.

The next major development fc TEAL would be the opening of th service to Western Samoa “the con mencement date of which would t announced shortly” Sir Leonard r« ported.

M. George Forestier left Norfol Island for Sydney in August e: route to Vila. New Hebrides, whers he expects to do some trading.

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From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Aug. 20.

JO much publicity has been given 5 the shortcomings of “Works and trks” that the amount of work ompleted during the year ended last line 30 comes as a surprise. [This (the Islands) Region of the /orks Department is administered \ Regional Works Officer George lacLennan (a before-ite) who, with is European technical and clerical aff, is responsible for carrying out 11 construction works required by iepartments of Army, Air, Civil viation, Copra Board and praccally all works for Civil Addnistration in New Britain, New Trend and Bougainville.

In the past twelve months, at an proximate cost of £353,925 icw, £149,636, repairs and mainnance, £204,289) Mr. MacLenm’s organisation has carried out ir the Departments: ARMY: Drill Hall and Administrative eommodation for PNGVR.

CIVIL AVIATION: Station store and ildings; regrading of Rabaul airstrip id clearing and levelling adjacent land; nstruction of coranous surfaced airstrip Kavieng.

COPRA BOARD: 3 permanent 2-bedroom residences at Rabaul; single officers’ quarters at Rabaul; storage for additional 3> 500 tons of copra at Kavieng; Jetty and 2 ’ ooo tons co P ra store and weighbridge at Kabakaul.

WORKS: New mess hall and kitchen for 150 persons at Rabaul; 2 permanent 2-bedroom residences at Rabaul; 1 ditto at Kavieng.

For Civil Administration I

Thr.e temporary 2-bedroom residences; Two cargo sheds each 4,000 sq.ft, floor space; „ ° ne bnlk medical store of 4,000 sq. ft. floor space; New permanent operating theatre and maternity block at general hospital; One permanent residence and administrative building for Vulcanological Observatory, with water supply and power; Construction of two wharf approaches at Kavieng, which enable “The Firm” to make Kavieng a port of call for its ships; Complete hydrographic survey of new wharf area at Rapopo (now happily abandoned by Civil Administration); Alaintcnance and reconstruction of over “a'vel tO ° mUes "fri’m““eTthl?

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Practically the whole of the electric power lines in Rabaul have been reconstructed and Rabaul, despite (or maybe because of) its Japanese powered and manufactured alternators, is blessed with the most uninterrupted power supply in either Australia or its Territories. This is due solely to the efforts of Electrical Engineer Scope and Mechanical Engineer Berkefeld and their skilled helpers who have had to search for, scrounge—and, I suspect, steal—bits and pieces to keep the show going.

The Departmental machinesshc in Rabaul carry out all repairs on machines and equipment for be themselves and Civil Administratic and its joinery shop has manufj tured furniture etc. for Manus.

As those in business realise, t difficulty, to date, of obtaining stoi such as spare parts, hardware, ceme and building materials, has be almost insuperable; yet the Depa mental stores have been able supply materials for almost all jo required. Although they do not cat for other than their own requu ments, they have been happy whe possible to assist private individua

Cocoa Price Falls

APIA, August 17 YJfORLD market cocoa prices ha ** lately shown a falling tenden and Samoan cocoabeans have be quoted as low as £240 stg. to £2 stg. per ton for Ist. grade.

According to American market ] ports, the future development of t market will greatly depend on t next incoming cocoa crop in W< Africa and in the meantime no gn fluctuations of prices are expech The cocoa crop in Samoa has ji begun and promises to be a go one. 98 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islands affairs, are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at History House, 8 Young Street. Sydney, on the fourth Wednesday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:— THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY, Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

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Director of Agriculture, tells in I recent South Pacific Commission bulletin, of the gradual education of the Cook Islands citrus growers to modern methods.

I Because, in years gone by, the Cl )range crop was a heavy one without nvolving cultivation or special plantng methods to produce it, many of he islanders would not accept the dea that this should not still be the iase, says Mr. Baker. | Gradual failure of the crop was iccounted for by the people as due d some poison in the soil, and not hrough the soil being worked out trough years of overplanting withut the use of cultivation or fertillers.

But Administration plantings have radually convinced the people of le efficacy of modern agricultural lethods until to-day the Department I receiving constant requests for irther extension of the Administraon-assisted plantings.

The orange now receiving most atmtion is a local strain known as arotonga Seedless. Its existence as discovered by the Department hen it was found that men travelled ) into the mountains to obtain this irticular fruit for the making of )ush beer, rather than use the eded varieties close at hand which volved much straining.

Otary Aid to Fiji Makes Impressive List me c n SUVA > August 18. ’HE Suva Rotary Club, in an official statement, has just disclosed at the Rotary clubs of New Zeaid contributed £1,250 in cash and i tons of clothing for post-hurrine relief in Fiji. Suva Rotary stnbuted about 22,000 garments.

Examples of how the money was ;nt are: ) for the Fijian officers at 5 Yasawa Meteorological Station o lost everything when the station s wiped out: (2) £l9 for out- [ng a Fijian schoolgirl who had aimed for entrance to the Adi kobau School but could not attend >ause her father had lost every my in the total destruction of his lana plantation and could not pay her outfit and uniforms; (3) 100 towards the erection of a tool at the new village of Nabua, nabula. The village has been established to accommodate some of the Suva Fijians who were left homeless by the hurricane.

New Zealand Rotary has also given £5O for games equipment and other amenities at the Nasinu Teachers’ Training College, while the Suva Rotary Club has fitted out a St. John Ambulance room at Buckhurst Park, Laucala Bay, and has given another £5O as a Christmas gift to the patients at the Tamavua Tuberculosis Hospital.

According to a press message from Rarotonga, the value of MOP shell exports from Manihiki and Penrhyn lagoons for the last financial year amounted to £115,019. This is the highest on record. The value in the previous year was £80,128. 99 ‘CIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-SEPTEMBER, 1852

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HOT PACKS 16-oz. Braised Beef Steak Stew. 16-02 Steak and Kidney Pudding. 16-oz. Sausages and Vegetables. 16-oz, Steak and Tomato. 16-oz. Irish Stew. ★

Cold Meats

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Condensed Milk

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Canned Fish

8-oz. Flair Fish Cutlets. 12-oz. Flair Fish Cutlets. ★ Norwegian Sardines.

Sweet Puddings

16-oz. Plum Pudding. 12-oz. Jam Pudding. 12-oz. Chocolate Pudding.

Tomato Products

8-oz. Tomato Soup. 16-oz. Tomato Soup. 10-oz, Tomato Sauce. 13-oz. Tomato Sauce. 28-oz, Peeled Tomatoes. ★ SAUSAGES 16-oz. Beef Sausages. 16-oz. Oxford Sausages. 16-oz. Cambridge Sausages. 16-oz. Pork Sausages. 10-oz. Vienna Sausages. ★ TONGUES 12-oz. Sheep Tongues. 12-oz. Lamb Tongues. 12-oz. Calves' Tongues. 2-lb. Ox Tongues. ★ MARGARINE 56-lb. boxes Cake Margarine. 56-lb. boxes Pastry Margarine. ★

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Canned Fruits

16-oz. Grapes. 30-oz. Peaches. 30-oz. Pears. 30-oz. Apricots. 16-oz. Raspberries. 30-oz. Raspberries. 16-oz. Loganberries. 30-oz. Loganberries. 16-oz. Gooseberries. 30-oz. Gooseberries. 30-oz. Cherries. 16-oz. Strawberries. 30-oz. Strawberries. ★

Canned Jams

12-oz. & 24-oz. Gooseberry. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Blackcurrant. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Loganberry. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Plum. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Raspberry. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Apple Jelly. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Quince. 24-oz. Quince Jelly. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Marmalade. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Sweet Orange. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Strawberry. 24-oz. Redcurrant Jelly.

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"Flair'’ Canned Fish.

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"Gartside" Canned Vegetables.

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"Jersey Cow" and "Mont Blanc"

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"Cameo" Custard Powder.

Bernard Jones (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., N.S.V "Zippy" Liquid Starch.

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[Apan And New Caledonia

k REPORT from Tokio, that t*- France has invited Japan to lend 2,000 single men to New Caleionia, to work in the nickel and ihrome industries, has been received pith misgivings in Australia. Minisers said at the end of August they yere seeking further information. [ The efforts of French New Calelonian industrialists to provide themelves with foreign indentured labour lave been viewed with apprehension iver the years by Australia, which is measy about Asiatic settlement close 0 her shores. For many years, Tench interests in New Caledonia nd New Hebrides used indentured ibour from Java and Indo-China. hiring World War 11, the repatriaon system broke down, and the laourers could not return. Some of le Javanese since have gone home; ut it is estimated there now are ermanently settled in New Caledoia and New Hebrides between 6,000 nd 8,000 Tonkinese and Indonesia. They have been permitted to ring in their women, and their numers are increasing steadily.

Before World War 11, there were ist over 1,000 Japanese settled in lew Caledonia. They had interests 1 the metal industries and a firm old in the distributing trade; but ley were repatriated after the surender of Japan. Because of its lineral riches, New Caledonia is )veted by Japan, and as the French )lony is only a few hundred miles om the Queensland coast, Australia keenly interested in developments lere.

Islanders In Nz Behave

WELL The NZ Islands Territories Department, its Annual Report, says that the health id behaviour of the 2,000 Pacific landers now resident in NZ are cellent.

About 70 per cent, live in Auckland and per cent, in Wellington—the Samoans d Niueans tending to remain in the rth. The Cook Islanders are more ittered; many work in timber camps d on farms, or as domestics, as far ith as South Island. fhe Islanders are well cared for. The •vernment subsidised welfare activities the extent of £BOO last year.

Film of P-NG War Cemeteries PORT MORESBY, Aug. 29.

A FILM of the Papua-New Guinea’s War Graves is being made by Brigadier Athol E. Brown, Secretary-General of the Imperial War Graves Commission, who visited main centres in Papua and New Guinea this month.

The film will be previewed in London in a few months’ time.

It will depart from the pattern of previous War Graves films by including scenes of localities and the everyday life of people in the Territory, as well as shots of the Cemeteries.

Brigadier Brown, who is Secretary- General for the Pacific region of the Commission’s work, said that the film would be of interest to English people as well as to Australians. There were 387 United Kingdom war-dead buried at Bomana.

Families in England and Australia who could not afford a pilgrimage to the Territory would be able to see local cemeteries in the film, and at the same time learn a little of the country where their relatives were interred.

Commenting on the Bomana (Moresby)* Lae, and Bita Paka (Rabaul) War Cemeteries, Brigadier Brown said he was impressed with their natural beauty.

Improvements still to be made at Bomana, include: new lawn surfaces, a new approach road, the “Cross of Sacrifice’’, the “Stone of Remembrance” and a directing table pointing to the battle areas. 101 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952 The Japs in the Pacific (Continued from Page 35)

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Fall In Apia Petrol Price

(To 4/9 Sterling) APIA, August 17 t*OR the first time in recent years, * petrol price has fallen. Some time ago it reached the peak price of 4/11 per gallon but recently it has been reduced by 2d a gallon.

The prices of petroleum products in the Territory are at present the subject of an investigation by a Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly. It must be remembered that Samoan currency is the same as Sterling—that is, in Australian currency we still pay the equivalent of 5/1H per gallon.

A Sick Child Goes to Hospital in Papua PORT MORESBY, August 29 THE sick child of a missiom doctor near Romilly, Papua, v brought into the General Hospit Port Moresby, recently by the co: bined efforts of five organisatior Qantas, the Health Dept., Air Rad Australasian Petroleum Co., and t MV Motorina.

The Motorina sent the origir message that the child was a si pected appendix case. Air rac then relayed a Health Departme request to Qantas Catalina VH-EE to pick up the child. The Catali could not be put down on the ri\ at Romilly, so APC arranged transport the missionary doctor, (E Anderson), his wife and child Ivo River where they were pick up next morning by another Qant Catalina.

Anticlimax: The child was lat diagnosed as having acute dysenter Mrs. F. de Burgh Thomas, w] spent some years in Tahiti, w guest-speaker at the Workshu Theatre in Wollongong, NS) recently. She illustrated her ta with records of Tahitian music ai photographs. 102 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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XCITEMENT

Ver Sepik Oil Patches

iUSTRALIAN newspapers in August made much of the fact that European living in the Sepik Dist- :t of New Guinea had found oil (tches on water in a part of the strict outside the oil-search permit ea of any company now prospectg for oil in the P-NG Territory.

Some papers headlined the story reported Oil Find in Sepik River.”

The Sepik River District, of which ewak is the headquarters, takes in very large area and the name is 5 only thing that connects much it to the mighty Sepik River. In t years immediately before World ar 11, Oil Search Ltd. had numers geologists in the field in that strict and behind Aitape, further rth. Work was suspended during ; war, of course, and since then thing has been done in this district.

As far as the oil patches are conrned—everyone who has lived in s district has seen the oily patches wet and swampy land and knows it of themselves they do not indite the presence of petroleum bev. If this is all the un-named iropean in the Sepik has recently covered then we are probably no arer finding oil “in the Sepik ver” or anywhere else in NG.

Tofua Arrivals in Auckland Passengers arriving in Auckland by the August Tofua included (left to right): MR. and MRS. A. D. EDWARDS of Fiji —Mr. Edwards is a former Commissioner in the Fiji Administration.

MR. and MRS. A. J. PATTERSON of Parua Bay Hotel, Whangarei, NZ, who returned from an air-sea holiday tripround vhe islands.

MR. and MRS. L. NOERR, formerly of the Regal Theatre, Suva, who came south on holiday.

MISS JILL PROCTER, who returned after a year’s service with BP’s in Suva. 103 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952

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Baldwin-Corlis Wedding Fiji and other British colonies i the Pacific will have a special ironation postage stamp next lar. A uniform design is to be ;ed for all the stamps, but each colony will have its name and the local currency on its particular stamp. Fiji’s stamp will be of 2id denomination and will be printed in black and green.

Mr. Ross Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Johnson, Mill Superintendent of New Guinea Goldfields, has been appointed Cadet Patrol Officer, with the P-NG Administration and left for the School of Pacific Administration, Sydney, in early August, for an orientation course.

Sub-Inspector and Mrs. Maxwell Francis Corlis at the reception which followed their [?]arriage in Ela Protestant Church, Port Moresby, recently. The bride was formerly [?]is Dallas Baldwin, a third generation Territorian. Her father was christened at [?]e church in which she was married. Her mother, formerly Miss Grahamslaw, and member of one of Papua’s best-known families, went to Port Moresby with her arents in 1911. The bride wore a wedding gown of white broderie anglaise over faille, [?]er bridesmaid was Miss Diane Leech. Police Inspector V. B. McNeill was best man. 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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On the Pacific Movie-Front TN shooting a scene for “His Maj- * esty O’Keefe” off Naitonitoni beach, Viti Levu, Warner Brothers had an expensive Technicolour camera submerged for some minutes. A replacement had to be flown down from Hollywood.

The accident occurred in mid- August when shooting a scene aboard a large double canoe. In returning ashore through the surf the canoe was capsized.

In W. Samoa the filming of “Mr.

Morgan” is under way, with a number of local people featuring in the scenes as with the Fiji film.

Luckiest of the locals is 21-yearold part-Samoan Moira MacDonald who plays a leading part as Ti with Gary Cooper, who, in the f is her father.

Other locals taking part are E Kruse, Mrs. Kathleen Newick, B McEwen (of the Education Dep ment), and many others in le roles.

In addition to Gary Cooper, leads are played by English a Barry Jones as the missionary C bett, American actress Rob Haynes as Maeva, mother of Tii and John Hudson as an Ameri air pilot who falls in love with Tu Local people in the more imp ant speaking roles are earning fi £5 to £7 per day. Altogether Samoa is expected to reap $5OO, from the film. Gary Cooper’s sh is a mere $250,000.

The technicians and princi stars are living in Apia and tn daily 27 miles across the island the filming location at Safata on south coast of Upolu Island.

The new Port Moresby wh will have reinforced concrete de* ing instead of timber. It is i pected that this will cost no m than Australian hardwood. There enough cement on hand to d( the wharf without any delay: tons of cement will be needed a 100 tons of reinforcing. 106 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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White Man Punished Under Native Law Spanked Girl: Fined £100 HHE remarkable case of James L Herbert Jeffrey who took a King European girl out for a ride i his car in Port Moresby one eveng, and ended the party by laying tr across his knee and spanking her lundly—may have had its amusing atures; but it does direct attention ► the need for some revision of the w that was invoked.

Both the parties are very young— ffrey in his twenties, and the girl I—and the incident seems to have sveloped out of a flirtation that >t itself side-tracked. The angry rl complained to authority; and the w under which the police had to t meant that Jeffrey was charged ith indecent assault.

Jeffrey was found guilty; and then r. Justice Kelly found himself ced with the provisions of the bite Women’s Protection Ordinice. This Ordinance was framed r the protection of women against tacks by primitive natives —of iich there is always a risk—and e penalties are very severe. The aximum for an indecent assault is e imprisonment.

The Judge had to decide whether e spanking administered to the mng lady constituted an indecent t. He seems to have had no option. ; said that an interpretation of the )rd indecent, based on the circummces admitted by the defence, ade of it an indecent assault.

Obviously, he could not take into nsideration any provocation by the mplainant, which had been adnced by the defence in mitigation the “crime.” Obliged to administer Ordinance that was never framed meet a case like this, the Judge ade the best decision he could by ting Jeffrey heavily—£loo.

Because of the steady increase in 5 European population in this very •ge Administration, it seems desirle that there should be revision of ?al procedure, if not of the actual vs, so that the habits and practices the European community should t get tangled up with the laws obmsly framed for the control of the tive community. rhe NZ Government - owned lands ship Maui Pomare made a s of only £34,245 on last year’s •vice to the Cook Islands, as tnpared with a loss of £55,109 in e previous year.

One Saturday in Rabaul OATURDAY’S dawn was fair enough to please any baseball fan. The catcher of the Red Sox (Chinese) team was out; but so also was New Guinea’s shortstop.

Business transactions were but incidental to sporting prognostications. The lunchtime gathering at the New Guinea Club was bigger, brighter and more corporate than was usual with these bearers of the white man’s burden.

When, several schooners later, they entered the baseball arena, their Club’s banner proudly waved greetings and defiance: ’twas its first airing on a field of battle.

Wives, sweethearts, children and wellwishers packed the grandstand. Cars, trucks and jeeps arrived until the playing field was ringed with » cheeringjeering mass of humanity, voluble in either ecstasy or despair—a thousand self-appointed umpires!

So was the stage set for a mighty tussle between the undaunted New Guinea Club and the undefeated Red Sox. Three cases of Australian beer awaited the Club’s victorious return.

SCORES: 23-6 in favour of Red Sox.

ANTI-CLIMAX: The following Saturday, almost by accident. Cubs defeated Red Sox, 20-16.

Darwin will have deep-sea berthage at a sound timber wharf before the end of 1952. The port has been in a condition of decrepitude ever since it was bombed bv the Japs in 1942. 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1652

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On August 27, Melbourne y sharply criticised the Victorian G ernment for refusing a larger qu of margarine for that State. It poin out that the New South Wales qu of margarine has been doubled, j that of Queensland trebled, beca of scarcer and dearer butter, j says it is completely wrong that \ torians should be denied larger s plies of the “supplementary” fo stuff.

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The proposed Ordinances were kil because they either appropriated revel for purposes not defined, or gave Minister too much general power o the marketing of Territories products It evidently is not intended to mi the path too easy for the Socialist . ministration that is expected to resu power in Papua-New Guinea after next Australian general elections.

Mr. H. A. Ragg, Deputy Dired of Public Works, Fiji, is on lea in Australia. During his absen Mr. J. H. Common is acting Deputy Director, 108 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Planters’ Leader Gives Warm Praise From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, August 31 rHE establishment of the system of Village Councils, sometimes mder criticism by “old hands” in few Guinea in recent years, has [Hind a warm supporter in Mr. Don larrett, a leader of the planters of ’apua-New Guinea, and a member f the Legislative Council, i The following is a summary of a tatement made by Mr. Barrett at a scent meeting of the New Britain idvisory Council: “Since this Council last met, the funamami Village Council in the [okopo area has been opened and, t the invitation of the District tommissioner, (Mr. J. K. Mc- Carthy) I attended the opening ceretony. Through the kindness of the •istrict Commissioner I was able to idress the natives.

“Quite a lot of fears I previously itertained have been removed trough the District Commissioner’s ►resight in requesting me to address tat Council.

“I might state that at the present time there is not a week B oes by but representatives of one or other of the Village Councils in this distr ict come to discuss their problems with me.

“Due to the close attention which the District Commissioner and his Native Affairs Officer, Mr. Orken, J“£ i "J 8 , xhe Vunamami Council has a h , wh h is on agri . 6 culture and that, I think, is what we should aim for.

“The Village Council system is to be encouraged and I should like to record my appreciation of the work which has been done in that direction by the DC and Mr. Orken.” _■ *• and Mme. R. Charon, who went to Australia from Tahiti last a *S to'ftSoe'ta s t 6U ° l, 109 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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BOTTOMS When one thinks of the spread of pests across the world by travellers, one naturally thinks in terms of land. Rut two Australian scientists, lately, have shown that similar things can happe the sea.

Two small Jap vessels were capl early in the war, and anchored Watsons Bay, Sydney. They remt there for years. Now the whoh Sydney’s harbour is more or less fouled by an encrustating growth that not there before the war, and wh!c well known in the Far East, doubtedly, the pest came from the on those ships.

Scientific inquiries show that this of thing has happened many times. ! marine growths on ship’s bottoms endure through a three months’ c in hot, temperate and cold water, festation does not happen readily ' the ships keep moving, or remain a : time. But a long wait simply n that the foreign marine growths time to take root in the waters of strange port.

French Visitor Injure

When M. Gaston Deferre—one of four French Deputies who have making a quick visit to the Fi possessions in the Pacific—reached Ca Island late in August, on his way 1 by Trans-Pacific airliner, he climbe< top of a water-tank to get a panor photo of the island. The ladder b and he fell heavily, and broke both An airliner took him to a Sydney pital, where his legs will have to re in plaster for two months. 110 SEPTEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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40 YEARS AGO By K. P. Wright, of Lomani, Quirindi, NSW.

N 1906 a number of wealthy men from New Zealand went to Fiji eking investment—among them a r. Studholme, who invested large ms in rubber at Qara-ni-Qio. [Among those who came (and went ray) was a Mr. Mason Chambers, io had a large sum for investment, id wanted a compact area of 40/ [,OOO acres of grazing land, and was epared to erect freezing and canig works.

The Fiji Government at that time d a considerable area of such land ailable on Vanua Levu, which it d leased from the natives at, I beve, 3d per acre per annum, for [years. Their terms for a sub-lease re too exacting, however, and Mr. lambers hired my services (I was ;n 23) to obtain land direct from 5 natives at Sigatoka, under an old itute which enabled a European idraw up a contract, with native tiers, giving him “the exclusive SE’ ” of the land. The contract i to be written in English and ian, and taken to the Stipendiary igistrate for his endorsement, ich made it binding on both par- 5.

Fo cut a long story short. I obned the necessary areas of land 3ne area of 4,000 acres, at Rasibe, on the Sigatoka, and a further 000, known as “Conua,” lying be- ;en the Sigatoka River to the west i VatuKarasa and Sovi, on the ist, to the east. These agreements re ratified by the local magistrate, 1 became binding.

Fwo weeks later I came in with an ■cement for another 25,000 acres Bemana, higher up the Sigatoka rer. rhe magistrate said he was sorry t he could not ratify the document, e Governor had heard of my ivities and had called a meeting the Executive Council, and nulli- -1 the old law so that the magiste now had no power and the :uments had to go before the vernor in Council. I paid a call the Governor (Sir Everard-im- Jrn) but he was adamant. He i thart if Chambers wanted land, should take what the Government 1 offered him, either at Vanua 'U, or 44,000 acres lying between Sigatoka and Momi, to the west, dr. Chambers then withdrew, and k his money with him. He was ery fine man, and he financed me en a penniless youth) so that 1 could import sheep, and try out the industry. This my father and I did; and, on January 21, 1908, we landed 1,300 ewes at Rasikulu.

We did not, however, have sufficient capital to handle the big undertaking properly, and eventually we sold out to Messrs. Bryce & Howard, of Brisbane, in 1917.

There was a sequel to that. About 5 years ago a man who is in a big way in Queensland told me that he had met there the late Governor of Fiji (Sir Brian Freeston) who had endeavoured to interest him in the establishment of a meat-freezing Newly-shorn sheep leaving the shearingshed at Rasikulu, Fiji, in 1914. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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The idea behind this plan, I beve, was to establish the business the lines of the Tanganyika peats scheme—but to finance private terprise to do the actual work. The itish Government would provide ‘ cash, and the beef would go to itain. Thus, 40 years afterwards, attempt was being made to do tat Mr. Chambers and I were anxious to do in 1906.

During World War I, when I was in England in 1915, I called upon Sir Everard-im-Thurn, who had rejected my agreements with the natives. Sir Eve.rard was extremely nice (he always was) and told me he “deeply regretted” having done as he did; but it was too late.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hohnen, and their four small children have returned to Wau, New Guinea, after three months leave spent at ’ Burleigh, Queensland. Mr. Hohnen is general-manager of New Guinea Goldfields at Wau.

There were no roads in the Sigatoka district of Fiji, when Mr. K. P. Wright tried establish the sheep industry there 40 years ago. This old photograph shows his [?]ughter being carried to a vice-regal reception (Governor Sir Ernest Bickham veet-Escott) in a basket. 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

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APIA. August 17 Legislative Assembly’s second session for 1952 will commence at Mulinu’u, Apia, on August 20.

The business before the House ineludes discussion on the Supplementary Estimates, an ordinance initiating a Co-operative Movement in the Territory and the Local Government Bill which aims to decentralise Government and give greater authority to District and Village Councils.

It is expected that the session will last into September.

Special Broadcast from Johnston Is. /V T 1630 GMT on October 11—ths to say, on the morning of Ocl 12, local time in the Pacific Islands- American Armed Forces Radio Statioi Johnston Island intends carrying oi special test transmission for Ps Islands listeners.

The station—WVTV—is of rather power, 250 watts, and operates on kc/s in the broadcast band, the < frequency as used by the Dubbo all-r station 2DU in NSW, the Auck station IYD, and the Port Mor station 9PA. Of these three stat only Dubbo would be on the air at time. Arrangements have therefore made by interested parties for Dubb leave the air for the half-hour dura of the programme so that every op tunity will be given for Islands liste to receive the broadcast free of ir ference.

Johnston Island is located appi mately <OO miles south-west of Horn and 1,200 miles north of Canton.

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Early in June, a branch of International Red Cross was officii established in W. Samoa. At inaugural ceremony 300 child from five schools paraded members of the Junior Red Cr< 114 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Sects Clash Over Village

SCHOOL Interesting Development in New Guinea From Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, Aug. 25. rHERE has been an extraordinary kind of war going on in a Papuan South Coast village between ival church factions.

Although Hisiu Village is near fule Island, old-established head- [uarters of the Roman Catholic Mission, Hisiu villagers are mostly dherents of the London Missionary bciety, which has had a school there Ince 1890, In 1951, a minority of villagers, dherents of another Church, began d erect a building for another lission school. Other villagers emonstrated against this plan; but le minority group persevered. They 'ere holding a prayer meeting in the artly-erected building when other illagers attacked and demolished le building.

Arising out of this, six natives ere charged with unlawfully damagig a house valued at £3. One of the :cused said in Court; "We like to ave only L.M.S. Mission in our illage and we don’t want to have ay other. That is why we took this inkling down”.

The six were convicted. Two were ned £2 each, and the others senneed to 10 days’ hard labour. The fagistrate ordered them to restore ie partially-built house, but this rder was later quashed on appeal to ie Supreme Court.

The Hisiu Village Council meanme had gone ahead with plans to hid its own, secular school. They ere delayed by difficulties in getting aterials, but eventually they erected ie building.

They were quite unaware that, in fay of 1952, the Government azette carried a proclamation tcising five acres from the Hisiu ative Reserve, for mission purposes, id that one of these acres had been ased to the Roman Catholic fission.

Naturally, there was consternation hen it was discovered that within is one acre was the site of the Hagers’ new secular school buildg. The Mission denied them the ;e of the building, but said they mid remove the materials.

A deputation of 11 Hisiu villagers, eluding four councillors, came to foresby this month and protested tterly to the Government. They tinted out that they were not readers of the Gazette —otherwise they would have appealed against the alienation of that particular area.

Government was sympathetic. It now has sent the,trawler Arawe, with a load of building materials, to Hisiu. With it has gone Patrol Officer J. Griffin, to site the school and start the building operation, and Ila Sam, an experienced native teacher, to take charge of the new school as soon as possible.

The Administration has taken this step to preserve native confidence in self-help (secular) schools which, under official encouragement, are now appearing in various native communities, especially in the Highlands. The cost of staffing and equipping such schools must be borne by the Education Department.

Hitherto, most of such duties have been undertaken by the various Mission bodies, free of all cost to the Administration.

Honolulu newspapers lately have been making a fuss over “Leeteg of Tahiti”, an artist who has won world fame by developing the practice of painting on black velvet.

He is described as a 49-years-old American who went to live in Tahiti 20 years ago and one of whose chief interests is building and designing homes. 115 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 1952

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There has been considerable publicity given to the exclusion of a certain anthropologist from entering NG, and Minister Hasluck received some adverse criticism over the ban he imposed on P. M. Worsley, more from the A.N.U. Students’ who look upon the whole affair as an attack on “the liberty of inquiry.”

Poor old Liberty! What alibis are laid at your door! [ At one time there was a very comprehensive screening of all arrivals in NG, and one of the reasons was to keep the White—unsuitable for making black contacts—out of the country. But this cautionary measure has been neglected, especially in the artisan class; and it was impossible to maintain with military personnel in the two wars.

Personally, I don’t suppose Scientist Worsley is such a danger let loose amongst the natives as some of the ardent Unionist technicians roaming the country, many of them with a modicum of Government authority behind them. Most natives look upon the intinerant anthropologist as a crack-pot, anyway, and living on a shoe-string; whereas the technicians invariably throw their money about.

Many Oranges Visualised Big orange shipments from the Cooks are visualised by Mr. Ross Walker (of Fruit Distributors Ltd., the firm marketing all citrus imports in New Zealand) who toured the Cook Islands orchards in July.

He predicts that, subject to the absence of hurricanes, the Cooks should be exporting 163,000 cases per annum by 1960. Rarotonga alone this year exported 4,400 cases—the nost for 18 years. He urged use of he latest equipment for washing and trapping, so as to get the oranges ;o market in a more attractive conlition.

Mr. P. N. NIGHTINGALE, who las spent 22 years in Fiji in the colonial Service will shortly leave : he Colony with Mrs. Nightingale or Zanzibar where he will be financial Secretary. In Fiji he has ierved as District Commissioner in nany parts of the Colony and ecently has been a senior Secretariat officer. At present he is acting Colonial Secretary.

Hurricane Effects

Reported By

The Nz Air Force

WHEN the hurricane hit Suva in January, two Catalinas were lying at the New Zealand Air Force base at Lauthala Bay. They were prepared for removal and, when the hurricane reached its height, the order to take off was given. They had to make no run at all. The force of the wind was so great that the huge machines made an almost stationary take-off—they rose straight up, like sea-gulls on a windy day.

Repairs to the base installations, estimates Sq.-Leader A. C. Anderson (in charge of the works) will cost around £30,000. Replacement of the half mile of breakwater is the most expensive item.

To provide stone for the breakwater, five tons of explosives are being sealed in with concrete at the end of a 60 ft tunnel, in a wartime quarry. It is believed that the resulting blast—which should be something to remember—will make ample supplies of stone available.

Captain N. M. Gordon recently took over the position of Assistant Harbour Master at Makatea phosphate island, French Oceania, replacing Captain I. K. S. Adams r who had completed his term there.

Both are Australians. 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1952 Territories’ Talk Talk (Continued from Page 20)

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Wartime Scrap Plane Worth Millions Curious Development of Cold War WE imagined that all the treasi trove left in the Islands in 1! as war wreckage and abandoi equipment has been gathered long ago. Mr. Earl T. Reinert, years-old American engineer, just shown us how wrong we i He was in Australia in Septeml concluding a 3-months South Pac tour. He came out to seek ab doned aeroplane equipment, and has had amazing success.

In New Guinea, literally grown by jungle, he found 50 i Pratt and Whitney motors, still wrappings and crates, and wortl small fortune. He says that he kn< where there are 1,000 Pratt ; Whitney engines in New Guinea i the Solomons. These, with ol equipment located in Hawaii. 1 New Caledonia, Queensland and Wales could be worth £1,500,000. found 150 abandoned heavy Lil ator bombers at Tocumwal. NS their 600 engines could be wc £200,000.

In several places—Moresby 1 one—he found large numbers plane engines which had b smashed up by metal-seekers; t would have been worth large sum The secret of it is that, owing Cold War preparations, the am pated rapid advances in commer aviation have not taken pi; Thousands of planes of the t 118 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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“It all looks fine for me at the omenC said Mr. Reinert. “But I ill have to get those plane parts Lit of those places—and make a •ofit.” He is president of the Merian Aircraft Company of Illinois.

During the height of the Fall of istille festivities in Tahiti, in lly, Captain Joe Pommier, of Air ihiti, had an accident in the mpany’s small plane. He ran it of fuel, could not make the airrip and landed in shoal-water off e island of Motu-uta. He spent me time in hospital.

Tofua Passengers

August in Auckland per Tofua in August included: (left to right):— Mr. W. F. Ponder of the New Zealand Ministry of Works, returned from an inspection tour round the Islands.

Mr. C. St. Julian, of Suva, came south to spend a holday with his son.

Mr. Niutolu, of Niue, intends to reside in New Zealand.

Mr. C. E. Sage, of Auckland, made the round trip on leave.

Mr. C. W. Collett, of Campbells Ray„ Auckland, returned from a holiday trip. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER. 1952

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Suwarrow’S Lone

PHILOSOPHER Tom Neale and Tom-Cat Take Up Residence From Our Auckland Correspondent. jIfHEN the Cook Islands trading ™ vessel Mahurangi moves out f Avarua Passage, Rarotonga, bound orth, sometime in September, the assenger list will include Tom Jeagle and a tom-cat off to re-settle lie storied isle of Suwarrow (Norlern Cooks).

It seems that Tom Neale, welloown in Tahiti and in the Cook [lands, has, for some considerable me, cherished an ambition to live lone on the Cook’s loneliest atoll.

Lately the Administration granted im permission to go there, at his wn risk, and accepting no retonsibility for the hurricanes, ghosts, sritonitis, and home-sickness that ay beset the lone philosopher.

There will be no means of comunicating with the outside world, cept by smoke signal; and iwarrow’s nearest neighbour, Maniki, lies over 200 miles away.

It is said that boobies have been ained as message-carriers. As iwarrow has a rookery where veral millions of boobies are >miciled, along with an even larger imber of terns, and as Tom will ive time to spare, he may be able work out something along those tes, if need be.

Well-wishers down at the Raronga jetty, speeding the new unncial Resident Agent on his way, ill tactfully avoid the subjects of urder, shipwreck and hurricane, all which are closely associated with e history of Suwarrow; and, Inead, confine the conversation to e possibility of finding doubloons or ests of Mexican dollars, some ousands of pounds’ worth of which ve been harvested from Anchorage let in the days of long ago.

As told in PIM (February, p. 41), e NZ Meteorological Service withew its three-men native observeriio operator staff from the atoll k'eral years ago, owing to the avy cost that would be involved erecting a new hurricane shelter =h enough above sea-level to safely rbour the staff.

Islands vessels bound for Raroiga to Pukapuka can conveniently 11 at the atoll, if they have obtained ior permission from the Resident •mmissioner in Rarotonga.

That permission was given for a tom-cat to settle there seems strange, in view of the fact that Suwarrow is a declared bird sanctuary. However, one cat doubtless will make only slight inroads on That enormous bird population. 121

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SOLOMONS From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, August 20 Protectorate Governmen 66-foot vessel MV Betua sail from Honiara on August 20, f Espiritu Santo, arriving there on t! 25th.

In the absence from the Protee orate of the Marine Superintende (Capt. G. J. Webster) the Actii Secretary to Government, Mr. A.

S. Davidson, who is an ex-Nav Officer, acted as Master of the Beti to bring the High Commissioner f the Western Pacific (Mr. R. C.

Stanley, CMC, OBE) to the Sol mons. His Excellency was accom anied by Mrs. R. C. S. Stanley ai Miss Stanley.

The Betua, with the official pari left Santo on August 27 for Tikopi Vanikoro, Santa Cruz, and San Anna, San Cristoval, where His E cellency will be met by the Actii Resident Commissioner, British Sol mon Islands (Mr. P. A. Richardson They will then visit the Governme station at Kira Kira (San Cristova and then sail for Honiara, whe they are due on September 5.

Captain R, N. Bein, owner of tl Islands trading ship Vila Star, introducing a new type of pr fabricated home to the Pacific several now are being erected Vila and Noumea. Manufacture in Austria, the units embody ne Continental features in insulate panels and nail-less aluminiu roof, and are reported to be easi erected by unskiled labour. 122 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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DUPLICATED ON two occasions within 18 months, the Sisters of the LMS Hospital at Orokolo, in the Gulf Division af Papua, have reported a set of native triplets—a record probably unique in the vital statistics of the South Pacific. Triplets are a very rare event among Papuan natives.

Sister Margaret Woodland reports that the first triplets—2 boys and 1 girl—were born in Aridava village on April 15, 1951, The mother died, but the three children are very well. The second triplets arrived in Kavava village on August 12, 1952 and, says Sister, “the mother and her three daughters are making excellent progress.”

In the first case, Sister did not arrive until after the birth; but in the second case the Sister was in attendance.

Mysterious Waves in Eastern Tahiti PAPEETE, August 3 MYSTERIOUS washes or tidal . waves have occurred in recent imes along the east coast of Tahiti.

The latest visitation was about July 12. when the water rose over the land in the east coast districts of Papara, Paea and Punaauia. Residents of Papara report that the swirl of the waters, which entered their houses and compelled them to move their furniture, carried away about ten feet of the beach. The waves seem to affect only these eastern shores. Some of the people believe that atom bomb experiments in the northeast Pacific have caused these extraordinary water movements. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-SEPTEMBER. 1952

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Two insurance assessors, Mr. H.

L Warkman of Vancouver, BC, and [r. Bruno Schauman of New York, isited Tahiti by TEAL early in ugust to survey damage sustained st November by the luxury yacht ega (reportedly renamed Te Rame).

Mr. Cornelius Crane registered a fmpany in Tahiti last year under ic name of Compagnie Generate b Voyages Polynesiens, to establish , regular passenger service between ipeete and Honolulu. Some hours ter clearing Papeete on November 1, on the maiden voyage of the new rvice, the vessel was dismasted and [tensively damaged in a squall.

MM, Dec., P. 127). Since then ihe g steel yacht has lain idle in ipeete awaiting insurance settleent.

E Aroa Finally Wrecked

Ending her unhappy career as an ands trader, the former American icht Te Aroa, belonging to Messrs, gger & Harvey, Ltd., of Raronga, was wrecked on Mauke Island, the Lower Cooks, on August 8, The 12-tons schooner went ashore the Tanganui landing in an onore breeze. It is believed that her engine was not functioning at the time and the vessel was under sail alone.

Captain Donald MacLeod and his crew got safely ashore but efforts to haul the vessel off the reef were unsuccessful and she rapidly broke up.

The Te Aroa (formerly Ornant ) had been frequently in the news since she was acquired by her present owners some two years ago.

Late in August heavy seas swept the wreck right across the reef, depositing the remains in the shallow coastal lagoon. A member of A.

B. Donald & Co., Rarotonga, representing Lloyds of London, travelled to Mauke Island in the lower Cooks per Charlotte Donald to view the wreck ¥

Miru Reaches Peru

The yacht Miru, owned by Dr. T.

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The 48-foot ketch is believed to have sailed from Rapa on July 12. (See PIM July, p. 125).

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Santa Teretia Lost In Fi

The Catholic Mission in tl Gilbert Is. suffered a severe loss c August 2, when its vessel San , Teretia struck the Vuna Reef, c south-western Taveuni, and becan a total loss.

Santa Teretia was under commar of Brother Gautier, MSC, and h£ just undergone a two-months’ rel in Suva. She had sailed with a fu cargo and passengers for Tarawa c August 1.

Burns Philp’s Yanawai went to tl assistance of the vessel, but was ui able to do more than take c passengers and crew.

Santa Teretia was purchased Sydney two years ago, replacing former vessel of the same name.

New Hebrides News

M. Charles Graziani had the mi fortune, recently, to lose his sh on the reefs on the northern sho; of the island of Aisse.

Close inshore, the ship did n have much of a chance when h engine failed suddenly. M. Grazian; vessel was one of the better types t small ships here, Mr. Tom Lowe now has the Ai wave in good running order. Th ship was blown ashore during tl Christmas 1951, hurricane, cornu to grief at Craig Cove. Mr. Lov bought her as is, and found tl damage to be less than expected.

A twin screw vessel, she is vei comfortable, being equipped wil refrigeration, hot water, showers ar 126 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Hu11.—57 ft., make good aux. cargo carrier, £1,750.

D.E. Workboat.—3o ft. xlO ft. x 3 ft. 3 in., Parsons Kero., £l,lOO.

Several Cheap Diesel - powered Passenger Launches.—Suit conversion, 36 ft. to 45 ft., £750 to £1,500.

Aux. Ketch.—sB ft. xl3 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 6 in., Ailsa Craig diesel, completely fitted long distance cruising, £5,500.

Many others larser and smaller.

Details on r eonest.

BUYING DEPT. Complete wholesale buying service to Missions and Merchants.

ISLAND PRODUCE Highest prices obtained for your produce. Sold on commission basis.

AGENCY DEPT. Election Watches, Coventry Victor Marine Diesel Engines, Crammond Radio. be usual conveniences found in a lodern home.

The El Retiro is again due to leave for Cairns, Queensland. She left at 4 a.m., August 17, but returned before she cleared the Segond Channel owing to a heating main bearing.

The Sydney yacht Jay is due to sail for Port Vila via Pentecost, Ambrym, Epi and Paa-uma Islands.

It may then go on to the Solomons.

Isa Lei Joins Navy

The former bait vessel Isa Lei, of the now defunct South Seas Marine Product Ltd., of Suva, was purchased in August by the Royal New Zealand Navy for use as a dock-yard ammunition carrier and dumping vessel in New Zealand waters. She replaces Endeavour, which will become a (Continued on Page 139) The luxury converted Fairmile launch [?]HILANTE II, with square sail rigged, [?]hich arrived at Papeete from England [?] July (see July “Smallships”). This hoto was taken from ship’s launch while [?]00 miles from Papeete. There is a [?]umour that she may be bought for Government use in French Oceania. 127 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

BURNS PHILP (SOOTH SEA) CO. LTD.

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Code Address: “BURNSOUTH.”

General Merchants And Shipowners

BRANCHES: F* • • iji:— Suva.

Levuka.

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Samoa Apia.

Pago Pago.

Niue Island.

Tonga:- Nukualofa.

Haapai.

Vavau. © Agents for:— Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd. • Qantas Empire Airways Shell Company (P.L) Ltd. • Burns Philp and Go. Ltd.

ALSO Stewarts & Lloyds (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd.

Ardath Tobacco Co.

Charles Hope Ltd.—Cold Flame Refrigerators.

Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Associated British Oil Engines.

Ferguson Tractors (Exp.) Ltd.

Standard Motor Co.

Voigtlander-Photographics.

Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

International Harvester Co.

Mullard (Overseas) Ltd.

Helena Rubenstein's Cosmetics.

McLeay Duff & Co. (Whisky). & Marie Brizard Cr Roger (Liqueurs). • Slazengers Ltd.

Shipping, Customs and Forwarding Agents Shipping Agents for SHAW SAVILL. 8.1.5. N.

BANK LINE. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

Agents Throughout The World

128 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Captain W. L. Kennedy

(Established 1931).

Shipbrokers, Business & Real Estate

63 Pitt Street, Sydney. ’Phone: 8W6461. Cables: “CAPKEN/' Sydney.

LISTING: CARGO STEAM SHlP.—About 500 tons dwt., classed Lloyd’s, delivery Pacific. £15,000 Sterling. 75 FT. STEEL CARGO VESSEL.—IS 2 h.p. Gardner L 3, commissioned one year, In survey and ready immediate work. £16,000. 50 FT. AUXILIARY YAWL.—Suit cargo, sheathed, excellent 40 h.p. diesel, first class throughout. £ 5,000 40 FT. FLUSH-DECKED WORKBOAT.—Sheathed, 44 h.p. Ruston marine diesel. £3,150. 36 FT. LAUNCH.—3O h.p. Lister marine, sheathed, 4 years’ old, engine recently overhauled, excellent throughout. £3,250. 30 FT. LAUNCH.—3O h.p. Lister, 2 years’ old, well maintained. £2,200, 18 FT. HALF-CABIN WORKBOAT.—Twin cylinder marine, like new. £4OO.

To Island owners who may have vessels for sale . . . We would be pleased to have particulars, as we have enquiries for commercial vessels of all types.

WE ARE ALSO AGENTS FOR MOST MAKES OF MARINE DIESELS.

Inquiries Invited.

Through our Business and Real Estate Branch, we can offer a wide variety of Sydney and N.S.W. properties. All Island inquiries promptly and satisfactorily attended to.

J “BERNARD” air-cooled MARINE MOTORS, single cylinder, four cycle, 64 m/m. bore, 62 m/m. stroke, developing 3 3 A B.H.P. at 2500 R.P.M. Equipped with Magneto Ignition, “Zenith” Carburetor with Air Cleaner, Clutch with 2:1 Reduction Gear. Weight 125 lb. The Brass Fuel Tank holds 6/9 of a gallon of petrol, allowing 3 hours’ running at normal speed. Supplied complete with 11 in. Bronze Propeller, 4-ft. of % in. Propeller Shaft, Stern Bearing and Stuffing Box with three feet of Stern Tube, also Muffler. The Unit is fitted in Waterproof Sump.

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Smack From Norway

Captain and Mrs. A. Finseth and Mr. O. Jensen plan to sail from Oslo in September, for Panama, San Francisco and Hawaii, for New Zealand.

Their vessel, a fishing smack, is of the well-known Colin Archer doubleender 41 foot cutter type, similar to Erling Tambs’ Teddy. They plan to reach Auckland, where they may settle, by next June.

Captain Savoie Buys

ANOTHER The Northern SS Co’s 290-ton steel motor vessel Hauturu became, in August, the third of that NZ company’s coasting veterans to be purchased by Captain Emile Savoie, of Vila, in the past three years.

First was the Kapiti, which Captain Savoie renamed El Retiro and sold to another New Hebrides firm last year. He then purchased the Margaret W, and renamed her Maria del Mar, and now operates her betwen Sydney and New Caledonia/ New Hebrides, himself in command.

Hauturu, built in 1927, will no doubt also be given a Spanish name in the interests of Condominium neutrality. She is unusual in that her after hollow steel mast is also used as a funnel—or exhaust—for her diesel motor. She will probably undergo a refit before entering the Islands trade.

The Tiare Taporo

Due to the absence on refit in Auckland of the Makatea Phosphate Crew of English yacht STORTERECKER III, Frank Jensen of Norway, Aucklander R. Lamb, who has now joined the company, and Dr. John Franklin-Evans, owner.

Captain Savoie’s latest acquisition HAUTURU on the Auckland slip preparing for her new life.

The Rev. Father J. Wall, MSC, master of the Solomons Marist Mission vessel HAMBIA, on leave in New Zealand in August. Captain J. McKenzie Arnot, Irish Sweepstake winner, who now goes to command MB’s recently purchased ALTAIR at Suva.

The ex-Brixham trawler INSPIRE which arrived at Rarotonga via Nukualofa from Sydney on August 24. 129 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

Paint It With

PAMMEL unique enamelised paint for tropical conditions P/JMM6L Pammel was first made in England by Blundell Spence 75 years ago. Blundell Spence are makers of the famous B & S Super Prepared Paint already so wellknown. Pammel is famous everywhere for its amazing protection of exteriors, and now it is specially made for tropical conditions by Blundell Spence (Australia).

Pammel is by far the most easily applied enamelised paint for exteriors and interiors —dries with an intensely hard tile-like gloss. Pammel is washable and resists heat and steam. Companion product of Pammel is PAMMATT Pammatt is an interior matt finish, and dries with a rich velvety finish so desirable in artistic interiors. Pammatt flows evenly from the brush, and has excellent spreading and obliterating properties. Pammatt like Pammel is washable, durable, and economical.

Ask For Pammel And Pammatt

From Your Local Storekeeper

Or Write For Details And

Colour Cards To The

81U N £>£ U L’S pammatt ; ; stats* \y Agent for Pacific Island r; KERR BROS. Pty. Ltd. 255 a GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

B. &S. BLUNDELL B. &S.

Co’s schooner Oiseau des lies, Co. in August chartered the schoo Tiare Taporo from Etablissemc Donald, Tahiti, to repatriate labc ers to Mangaia (Lower Cool Tiare Taporo made her first visit Rarotonga, her former home p after several years’ absence. A 1 ations have been made to her accc modation since she left the Coc to fit her for the Tuamotu trade fr Papeete.

Islands-Cruising Yacht

The Auckland ketch WAKAYA, ow by Mr. “Teddy” Hayes, was scheduled clear Suva for Tonga and the C Islands in mid-August. WAKAYA Auckland for the Cooks earlier in year but, meeting fresh contrary wii decided to square away for Niue. Fi there, she went down-wind to Suva.

Mr. Edward Sheehan has been awaii a navigator to bring his LADY STIRLI (PIM, June, p. 131) back from Suva Auckland. The yacht had been on li to the Catholic Mission in Fiji si May. Equipped with an excellent ra transmitter, she was frequently he: working direct from Fiji with NZ telephony.

The very attractive English-bi schooner PITHEACH BAN (White Lad owned by retired Captain Watchlin, Auckland, was in Suva in August, on leisurely voyage to NZ. With Capt Watchlin is his niece Laura, and i Italian crew members. PITHEACH B was three years cruising in i Mediterranean before heading for 1 Pacific via Panama. The yacht is 52 tons gross, 83 feet overall and with beam of 14V2 feet. She carries a squa sail yard on the foremast and is cquipj with automatic steering, power for 1 latter—installed at Panama—is provic by two small generators operated fn the propeller shafts. These are allowed rotate as the vessel runs under ss Captain Watchlin is reported to be higl pleased with this gadget as a ere saver.

After acting as navigator on the Auc land scow SCOT’S delivery voyage Suva, Captain J. Arnot returned by i to arrange the sale of his 40-foot ket KIMBALA, before again returning Suva late in August to take over t command of Morris Hedstrom & Co recent acquisition, the ALTAIR.

The ALTAIR is an American-design war-time built cargo vessel of a ty known as a “powered lighter”. Carry!] 300 tons of cargo, a crew of 14 and fo officers, she is 135 feet overall ai powered by twin 140 hp Fairbanks diese Cargo handling is by electric winch< The vessel was recently purchased fro a New Hebrides firm.

From Sydney the converted Brixha trawler INSPIRE sailed, early in Jul for Rarotonga. Intermediate calls wou depend on how the winds served, h owner Mr. H. Williams reported. C deck, when the yacht sailed, was z ancient Austin Seven. The crew include three Cook Islands boys who had be< with the yacht since she left Rarotong 130 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Blaxland - Chapman

Marine Engines

Pumping Units (

• Wonder Launches

Engineering Products

Island residents can rely on immediate attention to their enquiries for Blaxland-Chapman Products from Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd., Sole Pacific Distributors for Blaxland- Rae Pty. Ltd, Chapman Wonder Launches, unequalled for seaworthiness, comfort and workmanship. 16 ft. open and half-cabin and 18 ft. half-cabin models.

Enjoy long, trouble-free service with Blaxland - Chapman marine engine.

Eight models from 2i H.P. to 20 H.P.

Illustrated is 5/7 H.P. Blaxland Twin, Model “TXRR”, featuring new improved "BOUNCE” start magneto, providing reversability of rotation for running ahead or astern.

Full Information from KERR BROS”: 255 a George St., Sydney. Box 3838, G.P.O. Cables: “Carefulness”, Sydney.

Hygienic • High-Class • Healthful

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Proprietor; GABRIEL ACHUN. Telegrams: “GABRIEL ACHUN,” RABAUL.

I route from England to Sydney late ist year. (Later: Inspire arrived Earning a August 24).

From Auckland, late in August, sailed ie beautifully kept German-built yawl rORTEBECKER 111, for San Francisco, lie had been in Auckland since she nne down through the Islands from mama to NZ in 1950. Her owner, Dr. dm Franklin-Evans, and his Norwegian unpanion, Frank Jensen, have now been lined by an Auckland yachtsman. Dr. ranklin-Evans, between periods of work l a doctor in Auckland, found time to f back to England—and Frank Jensen i Norway.

Another yacht to clear New Zealand r the Islands in August was the 88-foot oop MANU MOANA, owned and crewed r Mr. W. S. Holder and his son, H. J. older, former resident of Kaitaia. r. Holder Jnr., plans to fly back from iva, but his father will gather a crew i Fiji and carry on.

Faith In Ng Cocoa

JJIGNS of the goodwill of Aus- ' tralian manufacturers towards lipments of Papua-New Guinea )coa were seen recently when Mr. . W. Mansell, head of the young rm of Mackay Kerry Ltd., anjunced that he has acquired a 100- :res leasehold in Morobe, for •owing cocoa.

Australia generally has preferred le West African product; but folding a report recently published y Cadburys, that portions of Papuaew Guinea were more suitable for ie growing of cocoa than some of ic better-known overseas areas, and lat the Gold Coast product is suf- :ring from a virus disease, there is 2w interest in the New Guinea jan. Further, NG cocoa production not controlled by a board, but by ipply and demand, and demand apsars to be ever increasing. Mr lansell’s firm proposes to plant a ybrid, a cross between the Samoa id Colombo beans, which should ve a smaller but hardier and heavr bearing bush. This crop should ; ready in about two years. 131 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1952

Around the world, more cars are protected by Mobiloil than by any other oil!

M 27 VACUUM OIL COMPANY PTY. LTD. (Inc. in Aust.) 132 SEPTEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

SELF PLAIN AND RAISING FLOUR.

CUk M. M/ ESTABLISHED 1868 Agents for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

All Set For The Job I Order Your HYTEST Axes and Forged Steel Tools for

Prompt Deliver

Hytest Axes, Three-Quarter Axes, Hatchets (Tomahawks), Canoe Adzes, and many other tools are ready for immediate delivery from any Australian Island Merchant. • HYTEST Green Axes are forged in one piece from specially-developed alloy steel. 3V 2 , 4, 4y 2l and 5 lb. sizes. Heads only (Ref. 1011 AA) or with green-tipped Handles —Hickory (Ref. 1011 H.H.) or Australian (Ref. 1011). • THREE-QUARTER AXES. 2% lb. head (Ref. 1007 A) or with 28-inch green-tipped Handles (Ref. 1007). • TOMAHAWKS. iy 2 lb. head (Ref. 1001 A) or with 16-inch green tipped Handle (Ref. 1001).

Full list of Hytest Products will be forwarded from:

Hytest Axe & Tool Pty. Ltd

Collins Street, Alexandria, N.S.W., Australia.

Deaths Of Islands People

MR. G. L. PERKS Mr. George Leonard Perks died the Colonial War Memorial Hostal, Suva, on August 31, aged 67.

He was manager of Walter Horne id Company, a well-known Suva rapery firm, with whom he has sen since he came to Fiji in 1920. e had many frends throughout the olony.

He was born at Manchester, UK, id spent some years in Australia, here he married. In his youth he as a keen amateur boxer and cyclist it in Fiji was best known for his ill at bowls. He was a foundation ember of the Suva Bowling Club, id a Pineapple Cup winner.

Mr. Perks is survived by his wife id by one son, Ken, who is on the aff of the Western Pacific High ommission.

MR. C. A. W. BAILEY The death occurred in Auckland i August 27 of Mr. Charles Arthur Viliam Bailey, Junior, aged 87. He as a famous builder of small ships, he story of his achievements is told an article elsewhere in this issue.

M. Ronnie Mitride

The death occurred in Santo, New ebrides, on July 28 of M. Ronnie [itride. He was 45 and had been in ill health for some time.

He was on the staff of Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles Hebrides and had a large circle of friends.

Mr. Daryl Martin

The death occurred in Brisbane in August of Daryl Martin, 23 year old victim of Papua’s Mt. Lamington eruption who was flown to Brisbane in July in a special Qantas Dakota.

In helping to rescue native victims of the eruption, Martin strained his heart and was in Port Moresby hospital for many months.

There was some comment early in July when Captain Rotherey of MV Bulolo refused a passage to the sick man from Moresby to Brisbane. The story was published in August PIM.

MR. T. A. FOX, A PIONEER One of the pioneering Fox brothers, Thomas Alston Fox, died in hospital in Port Moresby, on August 15.

Two teams of brothers, the Foxes and the Leahys, were the earliest

STAMPS ALBUMS, CATALOGUES AND ACCESSORIES.

RECENT ARRIVALS (All Mint).

BAHAMAS: Vzd, 2d, 3d new colours .. 9d BARBADOS: Stamp Centenary .. .. 3/6 BRUNEI: New Defin. to 50c 5/9, $1 4/-, $2 8/-, $5 20/-.

CANADA: 2c olive 4d, do “G” 4d, do coil 4d, 4c vermil Bd, do “G” Bd, do coil Bd, 20c Forestry 3/6, do “G” 3/6, 4c Red Cross Bd.

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ST. VINCENT. 1-3-4-6-lOc new colours 2/- SEYCHELLES: 1952 to R 1 8/6, R 1.50 3/9, R 2.25 5/6, R 5 12/6, RlO 25/-.

SINGAPORE: 1c new perf Id ZANZIBAR, new to 1/- at 5/6, 2/- at 3/3, 5/- at 8/-, 7/6 at 12/-, 10/- at 32/-.

PRANCE; Bir Hakeim 1/6, Narvik 1/6, Council of Europe 1/6, Chambord 1/-, Vaucouleurs 7d, Da Vinci 1/6, Viaduct 9d. Mil. Medal 9d, Abbey St. Croix 9d.

GERMANY: New Numerals 80p 3/3, 90p 3/9, Cycle Race 3d, Olympics 1/6, Otto 1/3.

ICELAND: New I.BOK 1/10, 2.50 K 2/6, 3.30 K 3/4.

ITALY; Parma/Modena Stamp Centy 8/9 NETHERLANDS, Postal Centy 2/-, ITEP 7/6.

SWITZERLAND: Pro Patria 1952 .. 6/- U.S.A., Reconstruction 6d, Lafayette 6d, NATO 6d, Automobile 6d, Railroad 6d, Mt. Rushmore 6d.

Forthcoming Papua - New

GUINEA Set.

To 1/- at 6/- (6/6), 1/6 at 2/- (2/3), 2/at 2/9 ((3/-), 2/6 at 3/6 (4/-), 10/- at 13/6 (14/6), £1 at 27/- (30/-), complete set to £1 55/- (60/-). () denotes used.

The stamps listed above are, of course, only a small selection from those available. Many others, mint and used, current and obsolete, British Empire and Foreign are in stock at attractive prices.

NEW ISSUE SERVICE.

Mint new issues of British Empire countries, including latest printing varieties of shade and perforation, also of Foreign Countries, can be supplied against prepaid standing orders at concession rates. Send for full particulars and application form, and be in this to receive all new Queen Elizabeth issues.

WANT-LIST SERVICE.

Naturally, we cannot have every stamp asked for, but it is our service to supply your needs, and we shall, if you give us a firm order, try to obtain for you any we lack, at the best possible prices.

All prices are in Australian Currency.

Postage extra on all stamp orders under 10/-. Albums, Accessories, Catalogues, etc., Post Free. Air Mail Extra. Stamps to the value of £ 1 or more registered, unless otherwise instructed. Registration extra on orders under £3.

We are buyers of used Pacific Islands stamps, on or off paper. Offers invited. 53/- 37/6 32/- 77/9 53/6 35/6 66/6 53/6 64/- 48/- 32/- ALBUMS.

SIMPLEX Standard, 11% x 9% SIMPLEX Medium, 10% x 8% SIMPLEX Junior, 9% x 7‘/ 4 SENATOR De Luxe, 11% x 9% SENATOR Standard, 11% x 9% SENATOR Medium, 10% x 8% UTILE Standard, faced leaves ..

UTILE Medium, faced leaves NUBIAN, 11 % x 9% black, faced EXETER, Peg Pitting, 10% x 9% ACE, Springback, 93/ a x 714 S.G. MINOR, Springback, 6% x 5% 15/3 SWING-O-RING, Spiral, White or Black 47 /q NEW AGE, 1936-40 Popular 75/-, De Luxe 95/-, 1940-46 Popular 84/6, De Luxe 115/-, 1946-49 Popular 84/6, De Luxe 115/-.

NEW IMPERIAL, Antigua-Malta .. 85/- Mauritius-Zululand 85/- ALBUM LEAVES (All per dozen).

SIMPLEX De Luxe or Standard 3/-, Medium 2/9, Junior 2/3.

SENATOR De Luxe or Standard 3/3, Medium 2/6.

ACE 1/6, EXETER 2/9, S.G. MINOR 1/4 UTILE, Linen-Hinged, De Luxe or Standard Plain 7/-, Faced 9/-, Medium Plain 5/9, Faced 7/6.

NUBIAN, Black, Faced 6/-.

SWING-O-RING, White or Black 6/-, NEW AGE 2/-.

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Transparent Interleaving Sheets, per 100 IVA x 10 9/6, 11 x 9% 10/6, 10 X 8% 7/6, 91/4 x 71/4 5/3.

Hinges, 1,000 Medium in Packet 2/6, 2,000 Medium in Tin 7/6, 1,000 Large in Tin 4/6.

Titles of Countries, Whole World, White Paper 5/-, Black Paper 6/3, British Empire, White Paper 6/3, Black Paper 7/-, Commonwealth of Australia 2/-.

Folding Magnifier 13/6.

Perforation Gauge, Instanta Transparent 6/-, Ivorine 2/9.

Tweezers, 5” Spade Ends 6/-, 5” Stainless Steel 4/3, 3%” in leather sheath 3/9.

Transparent Envelopes: per doz. per 100 6V4 x 5, Tri. Flap . .. 1/3 9/6 4 3 / 4 x 3% ~ 1/- 7/6 4% x 3% Square Flap . lid 6/6 33/4 x 3% ~ „ .. lOd 6/- 2% x 2% ~ ~ .. 9d 5/- 2 x 13/4 „ ~ 7d 4/- .r

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HANDBOOKS.

“AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH POST- AGE STAMPS”, by H. Marshal Cummins.

A fully illustrated handbook, describing and classifying Commonwealth issues 4/6.

Orlo-Smith’s “Commonwealth Specialists’

Catalogue”, 1952 7/9.

Stanley Gibbons; — Part 1, British Empire, 1953. 30/- B.

E. King George VI, 1952, 7/9.

Part 2, Europe & Colonies, 1952. 40/-.

Part 3, America, Asia & Africa, 32/6.

U.S.A., 1952, 4/6.

Simplified, Whole World, 1953 (due Nov./Dec.), 35/6.

Pirn’s New Zealand. 1951, 24/-.

Yvert & Tellier, 1952, 65/-.

Annual Subscriptions:— Australian Stamp Monthly, 9/6.

Gibbons’ Stamp Monthly, 9/6.

“How to Arrange and Write up a Stamp Collection”, by Phillips & Rang, 11/6.

AGENTS WANTED for John Harvey Insfrume ★ Scheelite Detectors £42-£6O. ★ Uranium Detectors £44/10/- - (Geiger Counter) ★ Magnetometers l £195. ★ R. FRISCH & CO. 26 O’Connell Street, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

Erskine Stamp Service

P.O. Box 9, Beecroft, N.S.W., Australia. non-Administration people allowes into the then “uncontrolled” area o the New Guinea Highlands.

Although they were primarili interested in prospecting, these tw* parties did valuable exploration won' in the “20’s”. They took smas contingents of armed natives witli them to assist them against possible attack, and were trusted by th Administration not to abuse thee privileges.

Thomas Fox, who was an oversea for the Department of Agriculture : Aiyura in recent years, sustained as accident in the Highlands and wa flown to the Lae hospital. He wa admitted with a fractured spine, am later was sent to Moresby for X-Ran His death from pneumonia follow© the application of a plaster cast It correct the spinal injury. The funern was held on August 16, at MoresW Cemetery.

Mrs. P. Gordon

The death occurred in August o Mrs. Peter Gordon who was bon in Levuka, Fiji, 78 years ago.

She was the step-daughter of thi late Captain David Robbie of Levubi and Wainunu. Her husband was cane planter in the Rewa district am on his retirement they went to Audi land and lived there until his deatH: Mrs. Gordon is survived by twv sons and four daughters. One o her sons is Mr. David P. Gordon* Manager of the Nasinu Approves School. dr. m. l. McCauley Dr. M. L. McCauley, aged s*< died suddenly at Labasa, Fiji, oo August 8. He had been a medics; officer in Fiji since 1927. He server at many centres in the Colony im 134

September, 1952 Pacific Islands Monthly?

Position Wanted

DUTCH PLANTER, experienced in tea, rubber, cinchona-bark, and rice production and management, seeks position in South Pacific. Good testimonials. Certificate, College for Tropical Agriculture—at present book- and store-keeper, cattle station, Nth. Australia. Married, 2 children.

Reply to: P. Uythoven, Ord River Station, W.A., via Darwin.

FOR SALE NORFOLK ISLAND.—Four hours from Auckland, five hours from Sydney, NI is the ideal place for retired people—ap equable climate (50° to 85°), friendly residents, golf, bowls, tennis, swimming and fishing. Bounteous crops of subtropical and temperate zone fruits and vegetables easily grown. No income tax or rates. Cosy modern home, well furnished (Electrolux refrigerator, etc.;, small garden—£l,soo (or near offer). Apply: Peter Goddard, Norfolk Island.

BOOK BARGAINS.—Send for list of real bargains from 2/- upwards. State your interests, please. I also find out-of-print English Books. Mention “PIM.” Nearly 400 customers in the area where “PIM" circulates.—Philip Bouton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts, England.

Cars For Hire

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: B 3375.

Enquiries invited.

™L Oceania Agencies Company ™!

Tolo Building, P.O. Box No. 284, Suva, Fiji Islands.

Manufacturers’ Representatives, Indentors, Exporters and Distributors, representing British and Colonial Manufacturers.

Exporters of Textile Piece Goods, Made-up Textile Goods, Tortoise-shell and Filigree Jewellery, Leather Sandals. Peanuts, Ginger, Rice, Bran, Island Curios, Mats, etc.

Cables: “Oceanage”, Suva. ’Phone; N 0.349 (3).

Announcing Return Visit . .

S. Wentworth Jackson

(F. 1.0. SYD.) Optometrist & Optician 185 ELIZABETH ST., SYDNEY Represented by MR. BARRY W. JACKSON, A.S.T.C., F. 1.0.

Consultations: PT. MORESBY.—Oct. 27-Nov. 1.

SAMARAI.—Nov. 3-6.

WALL—Nov. 8-11.

LAE.—Nov. 11-12.

MADANG.—Nov. 13-17.

MANUS.—Nov. 17-20.

KAVIENG.—Nov. 20-22.

RABAUL.—Nov. 22-29.

Have Your Eyes Examined. Make an Appointment Now.

Telegraphic Address: “Sphere,” Sydney. ding Suva, Labasa, Taveuni, Savuu, Levuka, Ra and Colo East. \t various periods he was a Distt Commissioner in addition to rying out his medical duties. He survived by his wife and by three Idren, all of whom are at school Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Barbara Ewins

Barbara Ewins, 13-year-old daughof Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ewins of /a, died on August 11 in the Colal War Memorial Hospital, Suva, lowing a fall from her bicycle.

Mr. W. E. Robinson

Vlr. William Eli Robinson, a memof the staff of Burns Philp (SS) ~ Ltd., in Suva, died in Suva on gust 5, aged 59. -Ie was the son of the late Mr. 1 Mrs. R. W. Robinson of Levuka 1 was for many years in charge the Grocery Department at ms, Hedstrom Ltd’s Levuka nch. dr. Robinson’s wife died in 1949; is survived by six sons and one ighter.

Mrs. R. K. Caldwell

drs. Rachel Kamala Caldwell d in Suva, Fiji, on August 4. She it to Fiji 46 years ago with her band the late Mr. W. Miller [dwell, who died in 1930. Her ler was a minister of the Preserian Church and an elder ther, now retired, is Sir Samuel tiganadan, a former High Comisioner for India in London. >he is survived by 5 sons, 7 ighters and a number of grand I great-grandchildren.

Mr. F. Krone

sir. F. Krone, formerly a dentist Suva, and latterly practising in mka, died there on August 2.

Mr. Edwin Berry

Vlr. Edwin D. Berry, proprietor the Berry Engineering Co. of /a and Ba, died in Palmerston rth. New Zealand on August 10. iis wife had died only a fortnight viously.

Father Jules Dubuy

rhe Rev, Father Jules Dubuy, who 30 years was a missionary in ma, was killed by a landslide on gust 6. There are no details, her Dubuy was deeply devoted to work, and he built up the Onon- -5 mission station, situated high in ranges of the Central Papuan untains.

Captain A. T. Norton

Captain Albert Thomas Norton d in Wellington, NZ, aged 76, on gust 30. He was born in London, and was employed as a master mariner by the Union SS Co. from 1910 until his retirement in 1939.

He commanded the Katoa, Paloona, Mokoia, the first Monowai, the first Wairuna, the Maheno, Moeraki and Tahiti, and will be remembered in Islands ports. He is survived by his wife.

Memorial Windows

The memorial to the Rev. Henry Matthews, the late Rector of St. John’s Church of England, Port Moresby, and his wife, Ellen Matthews, which takes the form of two stained glass windows in the east end of the Church, is now an established fact. The windows will be dedicated by the Bishop of New Guinea on Sunday, September 21. Total contributions to the Fund were just under £4OO.

Bond-Stewart Wedding IN Rabaul, NG, on August 18, Miss Jean Stewart of Orange, NSW, was married to Mr. Barry Bond. They met originally in Fiji where Miss Stewart was on holiday.

Mrs. Betty Fenwick was matron-ofhonour and Mr. Neville Holland, bestman. A reception was held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Mr. Bond is plantation inspector for Colyer Watson (NG), Ltd.

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(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA Papua-NG.—Copra Marketing Board price: Main ports, Hot-air, £70/5/- per ton; FMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £68/5/-.

Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air, £91/15/-; FMS. £90/15/-; Smoked, £ 90/2/6. Australia has a 9 years’ UK contract (based on £Stg.59/15/-, 1952).

Fiji.—At Suva and Levuka, 1952: Plantation Grade (60 points and over) £F65/0/6 per ton; FMS (45-57y 2 points), £F64/15/-; Lower Grade £F61/10/- min.

Samoa.—MOF contract is at £65 Stg. per ton Western Samoa; producers recelve about £10 less.

BSL—Growers receive £A63/10/- per ton, delivered Honiara or £A63/15/-, Yandina under MOF contract.

Tahiti.—Recent price for Papeete copra: Dry, 7.80 Pac. frs. kilo (£ASS/4/- long ton); Super dry, 8.20 Pac. frs. kilo (£ASB/11/- long ton).

COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on Sept. 1 was £Stg.2so (£A3I2/10/-) c.i.f. Cont. ports, Pacific cocoa was quoted in September at:— N.G.— £ A2BO approx, per ton, ex wharf, Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Marseilles recently quoted: Superior, 280-285 M. fr. kilo (approx. £A36I/9/6-£A367/15/- long ton); Nominal, 265-270 M. fr. kilo (approx. £A34I/18/9-£A34B/7/9 long ton), in bond.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in September quoted Samoan cocoa at £S27O (£A337/10/-) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.!.

COFFEE,—lslands prices ruling in Sydney in September:— Papua-NG.—lst grade, approx. 7/3 lb. ex-wharf Sydney (£789 per ton).

New Caledonia. —Crop mainly exported to Prance. Marseilles recently quoted: 376-378 M. fr. kilo, ex-store (£A4BS- - long ton).

RUBBER.—Australian Rubber Pool quotation for September shipment.—Papua- NG: 23-11/16d Stg. per lb., c.i.f. Sydney (29-9/16d Aust.) —Papuan rubber is allowed in primage-free (10 per cent, from elsewhere). Singapore rate (used by Australian firms as basis for buying Papuan rubber), Sep. 5: No. 1 grade RSS (sellers), spot, 76c. lb., c.i.f. (2Sd Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.); White Label, 19/-, Yellow, 19/-, Green, 18/- per lb., c.i.f., Sydney.

RlCE.—Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed in October, 1951, at £75 per ton, f.0.b., White, Unpolished and Brown. (On plantation Papua-NG approx. £100). New price expected late September.

DESICCATED COCONUT. Sydney agents quote Ceylon, lb. spot, delivered to store, Sydney. New Guinea: 2/5Va lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1952 are: AA/A/B grades 85 cents lb. (£ABSO, approx, per long ton); C, 80c. Ib. (£A800); D, 55c. . (£ A 550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE, lb. (£A3OO) —all c.i.f., New YT Cook Is.—U.S. buyers have offered to I chase 12 months’ output from indivioi shippers at firm guaranteed prices aroo' 35 cents U.S. per lb., c & f, RarotoD, (£A3SO per long ton).

TROCHUS SHELL.—Owing to a pam of shell in Sydney, buyers’ interests trochus livened during August/Septemrr NG/BSl.—Sydney agents quote £A/ £AIIO per ton, as a fair average pic New Hebrides.—Recent sales in Sydney; £ A 95 per ton, delivered.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney ag<;s quote, as a fair average price, £AI6O ( ton, for NG-BSI shell on wharf. I Hebrides.—Recent quotations in 3yd) at: Ist Grade, £AIBO per ton, 2nd Grn £ Al4O per ton.

London Prices

LONDON, July 11 Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, tore New Hebrides, Metrop. francs .. 700 Tahiti, Metrop. francs 72S FM Straits/DEI £64/5/- !

Ceylon, FMS Nomir Philippines, bulk $146 8 Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton: — PM Straits, bulk £B5 !

Ceylon, 1% bulk, resellers . .. £B7 £ Philippines, July-August $220 0 Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. CD tinental Ports, Stg.:— Accra, July/Sept. 307/6; new crop, OC Dec. 280/-. Nov./Jan. 270/-.

LONDON, July 21S Bank of New Zealand’s Produce 1 partment reports:— Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, tom Philippines, Aug./Sept $135 FM Straits £6l/10/- 8 Ceylon, FMS £7O 8

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FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW as BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji, bac £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selliil £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Londob B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £.S NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA,— Through BANK OF I Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samio B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samm London, basis £lOO London: £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-K- -basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10)J Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ll S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.—Commonwealth Baii

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Rabast Madang) and BANK OF NSW (PtS Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) quote excham rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £ll BSL—COMMONWEALTH BANK (branti at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Af/ tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific franu most valuable of the three franc grouo in French Union, are used in New CaA: donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oceana FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natioito D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quoio (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; I Pac. fr. to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $.

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ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC : IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, J. R. Clay & Co. Ltd , W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

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