Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXIII, No. 4 ( Nov. 1, 1952)
1952-11-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly November, 1952 Vol. XXIII. No. 4. fdfdfdf f° r transmission by pest as a newspaper] FIJIAN girls of Somosomo on Taveuni, perform a meke. This dance was part of the celebrations accompanying the naming of the vessel Al Sokula.

So much for your money when you fly by QANTAS Islands Air Services Unking over 70 points Uiated here) in New Guinea and the Islands with Australia—no change of airline.

Services linking New Guinea with Sydney include fast, express Skyinaster flights twice weekly via Brisbane; five DC3 flights fortnightly via North Queensland towns and one by Sandringham fortnightly from Moresby via Cairns and Brisbane. All New Guinea and Papua internal services are linked with the above. Regular services linking Norfolk Island, Noumea. ila. 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. 32 years' tropical flying experience are at your command when you fly Qantas. \ eteran crews with many flying hours on nearly 50.000 miles of Qantas routes ensure that your trip will be a truly enjoyable experience.

Qantas Empire Airways Limited

(Inc. in Qld.) in association with 8.0.A.C. and TEAL

Served 8 Y Qantas

Aitop* • Alyvra Angoram • Aroma Awar • Baiyer River Ban* • Beno Bena Brisbane • Buin Buka * Buioio Cairns • Chirnbw Cooktowa • Doras Dumpu * Esaala Espiritu Santo Finschhafen Garaina * Garoka Gusap * Honiara Inus * Jacquinot Boy Kaiapit • Kainantu Kavieng * Kerema Kerowagi * Kleta Kikori * Xup * Lae Lake Kutubu Lake Murray Lindenhafen * Losuia Madang * Manus Maprik • Menyamya Minj * Moewe Harbour • Mount Hagen • Nadzab Nondugi • Norfolk Is.

Noumea • Ogelbeng Port Moresby Queen Carola Harbour • Rabaul Rockhampton Samarai • Suva Sydney • Talasea Torokina • Townsville Vella Lavella Vila • Wdbag Wabamunda * Wans Wau * Wewak Woodlark island Yandina • Yule is.

PH PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1952

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Nov.

RMS 27 AORANGI Jan. 29 Apr. 2 Auck. ..

Dec. 1-2 Feb. 2-3 Apr. 6-7 Suva ..

Dec. 5 Feb. 6 Apr. 10 ffnTu .

Dec. 12 Feb. 13 Apr. 17 Vlct. ..

Dec. 18 Feb. 19 Apr. 23 Vane. .

Dec. 19-24 Feb. 20-26 Apr. 24-30 Vlct. ..

Dec 24 Feb. 26 Anr 30 H’nTu ..

Dec. 31 Mar. 5 Mav 7 Suva Jan. 9 Mar. 14 May Mav 16 Auck. ..

Jan. 12-15 Mar. 17-19 19-21 Syd. ..

Jan. 19 May 25

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New Zealand

Represented in Suva, Fiji, by COLONIAL MOTORS

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 Aomngl (17,500 tons) maintains regular twomonthly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suva- Honolulu-Victcria-Vancouver, and return Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about jvery six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby- Samarai - Lae - Madang - Rabaul samarai-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney.

Last departure from Sydney October 31 MV Malekula left Sydney on October 31 :or Samarai. Rabaul, Manus, Madang, jae, Samarai and return to Sydney Details from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd 7 Bridge Street. Sydney.

MV Shansi and MV Sinkiang, modern ,000 tons vessels, will leave every six reeks approximately (making a threereekly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port loresby-Madang-Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney. Shansi departs December 2 on inaugural trip; Sinkiang follows on December 19.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (G. S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., 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 Dec.-Jan.).

Tofua leaves Auckland on next voyage November 20.

Matua scheduled to leave Auckland 3

I Ci F I C Islands Monthly November, 1952

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

Tahiti Samoa Fiji New Caledonia

New Hebrides

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, LTD.

General Agents 432 California Street, San Francisco 4, Calif., U.S.A.

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

SUVA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des NouveUes Hebrides New Guinea Australia Line

Regular Three Weekly Service

To

Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, And

Rabaul, Via Brisbane

With The Modern Motorships

“Shansi” “Sinkiang”

Agents for PAPUA: Agents for NEW GUINEA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD. COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA LTD. „ General Agents: G. S. YUILL & CO. PTY. LTD. »*_. .W 6 BRII,GE CM, -V.IILL- BU 6313 (Freight only) .. on special voyage to Suva, December 18.

Details from Union SS Co.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckland in November, December, 1952, and in January, 1953, for Rarotonga and other Islands in the lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd., which Company acts as Agent for this vessel at some ports.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita will make a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - Rabauli Samarai-Sydney.

Last sailing from Sydney November Details from Burns Philp & Co., Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Lin coming from Marseilles, via West Indl and Panama, call about every s: weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides) Noumea and Sydney, and return by san route. Details from Messageries Mar times.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Messs gerles Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (1 C. Sleigh. Ltd.) maintain fairly reguls service between Noumea and Sydney.

N. American-Fiji-N. Hebrides Etc.

Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carrj ing cargo and passengers maintains a regt lar service between North American porl and French Oceania, Samoa, Fiji, Ne Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Co; poration Ltd., 432 California St., Sa Francisco.

Airways Time-Table

Trans-Pacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperette and Berths Thur. and Mon.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattl Portland. 4

November. 19 5 2 -Pacific Islands Monthl

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'ANZ 49 - 16 ' Sun. and Thur.—Return via same route.

Sat. - Auckiand-Nadl-Canton-Honolulu-S.

Pran.-Seattle-Los Angeles.

Tues. —Return by same route.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Mon. and first Thur.—Dep. southwards, same route. On second or alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco. fues. —Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Frl. —Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco alternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) Alternate Friday (Nov. 21, Dec. 5, etc.) —Sydney-Auckland-Nadi (Fiji) -Canton Is. Honolulu-Vancouver.

Llternate Friday (Nov. 28, Dec. 12, etc.) —Return by same route.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: ydney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 pm iris., 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) [oresby, 7.30 am Lae 8.50 am Connects at Lae with DC3’s for Wau, ulolo (Wed.); and (Sun.) for Rabaul.

Mon., Fri. (DCS’s) rdney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.30 pm risbane, 11.30 pm Rockhampton * Tue., Sat. ockhampton * Townsville, 4.00 am Jwnsville, 5.00 am Cairns, 6.15 am tirns, 7.00 am Cooktown, 7.55 am ioktown, 8.15 am Ft. Moresby, 11.10 am :. Moresby, 11.50 am Lae, 1.15 pm le (Tue. only), 2.30 pm Madang, 3.45 pm SOUTHWARDS Wednesdays (DCS) adang, 7 am Lae. 8.15 am Wednesdays (DCS) au, 11.30 am Lae, Via Bulolo, 12.35 pm Thursday (DCS) ie, 5,45 am Moresby. 7.05 am oresby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.30 pm Via Cairns, Towns., Brisbane, with tional call at Rockhampton.

Monday (DCS) ibaul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 am Jresby, 10.50 am Cairns,' 2.10 pm lirns, 3.10 pm Towns, (overnight), 4.30 pm •wns. (Tues.). 3.15 am Brisbane, 1 pm isbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) e, 10.30 am Moresby, 11.40 am jresby, 12.40 pm Br?.. 7.10 pm is.. 8.25 pm Sydney, iI NORTHWARDS Alt. Saturdays (Sand; ingbamj (Nov. 8, 22, Dec. 6, 20, sic.), dney, 6.00 am Brisbane, 9.20 am isbane, 10.20 am Cairr.s, 4.35 pm (Night stop) urns, 8.00 am Ft. More.:- 1i,50 am Alt. Sunday) Alt. Fridays (Sandringham). (Nov. 7, 21, Dec. 5, 19, etc.). • Moresby, 6.00 am Brisbane. 3.00 pm isbane, 3.45 pm Sydney, 7.05 pm 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET.

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Specialists in South Sea Fire, Marine & Accident Insurances Apply to;— FlJl.—Branch Office: J, F. Drury, Manager.

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Comptoirs Prancais Des Nouvelles .Hebrides.

NOUMEA.—L. & W. Johnston.

NEW GUlNEA.—Manager for the Territory of New Guinea and Papua, W. A. Anderson.

Resident officer at Lae, B. Bembrick.

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Suva, Fiji

1,11 1 life li This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva’s main business quarter :: Modern accommodation provides comfort in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

Telephone; 80. VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor. 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), Kikori, L. Kutubu. —Every alternate Wednesday; returning same day (Nov. 12, 26, Dec. 10, 24, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham) Alternate Monday.—Dep. 9 a.m.—Samarai- Esa’ala-Losuia (overnight) (Nov. 10, 24, Dec. 8, 22, etc.), klternate Tuesday.—Return to Moresby, via Esa’ala and Samara!.

Papua-New Britain

(Sandringham) Ut. Mon. (Nov. 3, 17, Dec. 1, 15, 29, etc.) — Pt. Moresby-Samarai-Esa’ala-Losuia- Rabaul.

Ut. Thu. (Nov. 6, 20, Dec. 4, 18, etc.) Rabaul - Losuia - Esa’ala - Samara! - Pt. Moresby.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

Lit. Tue. (Nov. 4, 18, Dec. 2, 16, 30 etc.) —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-*Lindenhafen- Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul.

N.B.—The direction of operation changes hth each service, i.e., each alternate ervice operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe [arbour - *Lindenhafen - Jacquinot Bay iabaul.

Optional Stop.

New Britain-Bougainville

It. Wed. (Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, 17, 31) Rabaul-Queen Carola Hbr.-Buka-*lnus- Kieta-Buin.

It. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-*lnus- Buka-*Queen Carola Hbr.-Rabaul.

Optional Stop.

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Kavieng-Rabaul General

SERVICE ?ery Monday and Thursday by DC3.

Native traffic, not recommended for Europeans.

Central Highlands

(Drover) bndays. —Madang (8 am) to Goroka, with optional stops at Kainantu, Aiyura, Arena, then returns io Madang 10 am). ridays.—Madang (8 am) to Wabag with optional stops at Baiyer R., Hagen. Kerowagi. Returns to Madang 10.10 am), liursday.—Madang (8 am) to Mt. Hagen.

Returns direct to Madang arriving 10.50 am. ridays. —Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, 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)

tesdays.—Departs 7 am; returns 9 am.

Lae-Bulolo*-Wau (Dhb4)

ep. Lae.— I Tues., Fri., Sat.—3 pm. ep. Wau.—Tues.. Fri., Sat.—Direct to Lae. Arriving 5.05 pm. ♦ The airstrip at Bulolo is closed tem- Tarily and therefore traffic can not be cepted to Bulolo until the strip is refined for use. «f.fw V l CES BY mandated airlines With headquarters at Lae, this company ns regular services for passengers, eight and mails to all New Guinea ctiements. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DCS Weekly service, between Darwin and Blak.

Also, new KLM weekly service, calling at Biak, on flight between Manila and Australia. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons Operated by Qantas Each Monday (DC3). —Lae (dep. 6 am) - Finschhafen - Rabaul - Toraklna (Bougain.) - Vellalavella* - Yandina - Honiara (BSI) (arr. 4.25 pm).

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

DC4 (Skymaster) dep. Saigon, November 21 and every 28 days thereafter for Labuan-Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, ana 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, (Nov. 6, 20, Dec. 4, 18, etc.,) returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying Boats: (Nov. 11, 25, Dec. 9, 23, etc.).

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Alt. Tue., 6.30 am Noumea, 3.05 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, 7.30 pm (Additional flights operate subject to approval of Government concerned.) 7 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R , 1952

Grow “Rusty”

It may be many years before your Executor takes up his duties. The middle-aged friend who seems dependable to-day will be old and tired.

If you choose an inexperienced young man, how can he guarantee that he will prove efficient, energetic and trustworthy?

On the other hand, the appointment as Executor of Burns Philp Trust Company Limited provides every possible safeguard for your beneficiaries.

Your family will be protected by a permanent institution specialising in tLe prudent management of estates, large and small. Full details are given in “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel”. / A complimentary copy of this 20-page booklet can be secured from any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or direct from this Company’s head office.

DIRECTORS: James Burns. Joseph Mitchell.

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

MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

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

Bums Philp Trust

Company Limited

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

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

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

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Thur., Noumea, 3.05 pr 6.30 am (nightstop) Noumea, Fri., Suva, 3.00 pi 8.30 am Suva, Sat., Noumea, 10.30 ai 6.00 am Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.30 pc 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

By NZ National Airways, with DCS’s Sundays—From Auckland double servn returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents I>ep. Cydney Tue., Fri., 7.30 am; Tut Fri.. 12 midnight.

Dep. Auckland Mon., Wed., Thu., Sue 8.30 am. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney Mon., Wed., Thu., Sun. i 10.30 pm.

Dep. Wellington Mon., Tue., Thu., Fi (except 8/12) at 10.30 am. 14. Melbourne-Christchurcl Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymasti Thurs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch’cl: 8.15 am next day.

Fri.—Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 5.1 pm.

Additional flights on 24/11, 22/12. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland 18, 22 November; 2, ( 16, 20, 30 December; 3, 13, 17. 27. 2 January.

Return to Auckland on following daj (except 10 November, 8 December, January which leave an extra 24 houi later).

Depart Arrive Auckland, 7.00 am Suva, 2.15 px Suva, 8.00 am Auckland, 3.15 pi 16. Fiji-Western Samoa SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dept. Suva 7 December, 4 January, February. Return to Suva on same daj Depart Arrive Suva, 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sal Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva, 4.35 pm Sue 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is During the coming summer service between Auckland and Waikato Bay Chatham Is., via Wellington, will b operated on the following dates:— December 3, December 15, 1952, Januar; 28, 1953, March 11, 1952.

Solent flying-boats will leave Aucklam on these dates at 3.30 am, arrive Welling; ton, 5.30 am, dept. Wellington, 7 am arrive Chatham Is., 10.30 am. Retun by same route, arriving Auckland 7.30 pn same day. 8 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Friday, leaving Papeete 6.00 am. > The next flights leave Auckland 11, 25 November; 9, 23 December; 6, 20 January; 3 February. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using l-engined amphibious Catallnas, run regularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) ind Saipan (Marianas). Details from ITans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides (Effective Ist November) Suva-Nadi & Lautoka: Mornings—Daily accept Monday and Friday. Afternoons— )aily.

Suva-Labasa: Daily except Thursday rod Sunday.

Labasa-Suva: Daily except Tuesday and Thursday.

Nadi & Lautoka to Labasa: Every lunday.

Labasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Every Wednesday.

Mr. & Mrs. G. Shepheard and son Warren came to Auckland by October “Maui Pomare” from Rarotonga, where Mr. Shepheard has been Organising Teacher. After leave, Mr. Shepheard will become Head Master of the Niue Is. schools.

Because of need for retrenchment. the Indonesian Government has decided to sell 500 motor-cars out of the 1,700 it has been using in Djakarta (the capital), while 2,500 of the Government cars used outside of Djakarta also will be sold 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1952

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A. & N.Z. Bank 5 Achun, G. ... 61 Akta-Vite ... 101 Aluminium Ltd. 136 Amalg. Dairies . 32 Amplion Pty. . . 89 A. & R. Ltd. . . 35 \ Arcon Bldgs. . . 132 Ardath Co. Ltd. 42 Armstrong & Springall ... 40 [ Aspaxadrene . . 23 [ Aspro 66 Bank of NSW . 91 Bank of NZ . . 78 : Berry’s B. B’d. 123 Bethell, Gwyn . 3 B. 33 Blaxland Rae . 79 Blundell Spence 80 Borthwicks Pty. 65 Brasso . . . 106 Braybon Bros. . 60 Breckwoldt, Wm. 81 Bristol-Myers . 103 Broomfields . . 121 Brunton & Co. 105 Bunge Pty. . 27, 38 Bunting, A. H. . 94 Burns, J. & Co. 3 B.P. . . 65, 77, 116 B.P. Trust Co. . 8 Cadbury-Fry 104 Caine’s Studios 47 Carpenter, W. R. & Co. 44, cov. iv Carpenter (Fiji) 59 Carr Pountney 138 City Electric Light Co. . 140 Clae Engines . 123 Classified . . 142-3 Colgate 11, 64, 139 Colman & Co. . 23 Colonial Meat . 120 Colyer Watson (NG) 34, 57, 115 Cooke Bros. . . 85 Crammond Co. 84 Cunningham, R. 86 Cystex .... 135 Dad’s Cookies . 27 Dangar, G. & M. 10 Donaghy & Sons 41 Donald Ltd. 46, 102 Donovan, A. . 129 Dpuglass, W. C. 51 Dunlop Rubber 9 Sllerker, A. J. 125 S.M.I 36 Erland Blomqvist l3l Jrskine Stamps 134 St. Donald . .114 Excel Trading . 63 ’’arnham, J. . 34 ’errier, Dickenson & Co. ... 109 ’ord Sherington 49 'orsgren, H. . 63 larrett, D. M. 144 Jarrick Hotel . 7 Jilbey, W. & A. 41 rillespie Bros. 50 rillespie Robt. • • 1. 87, 107, 141 rillespie NG 54, 113 illette Ltd. . . 118 rordon’s Gin . 93 rospel League . 89 frahame Books 37 r.P.H. (Suva) . 12 (rove Ltd. 30, 90 Castings Diesels 52 [. & R. . . .25 Calvorsen Sons 126 Cardman & Hall 127 Cawley’s Pty. . 124 Ceinz & Co. . 102 ellaby, R. &w. 47 Cercules Co. . 43 Herco Pty. 38, 82 Hill & Son . . 97 Holbrooks Ltd. . 94 Horlicks Ltd. . 108 Hygeia Co. . . 86 Hytest Pty. . . 130 Is. Industries . 95 Karp, Tulk Co. 58 Kasper Refrig. 133 Kennedy ... 122 Kerr Bros. Ltd. 109 Kerry, M. Pty. 35 Kodak Ltd. . . 110 Kopsen & Co. 119 Kraft Foods . . 114 Leston Mfg. Co. 137 Lillis & Co. . . 112 Long, A. G. . . 67 Macintyre, T. . 126 Mac Robertson’s 62 Manning & Osborne . . . 105 Mcllrath’s Ltd. 129 Mendaco . . .119 Middleton, M. R. 68 Millers Ltd. . . 110 Morris Hedstrom 22 M. (Aust.) . 11l Mungo Scott 67 N. & R. Ltd. . 49 Needham & Co. 42 NG Aust. Line 4 Nile Products . 88 Nirex Pty. . 25, 45 Nixoderm . . . 11l Nordman, O. . 29 NZNAC .... 6 Oceania Co. . 115 Oliver Britstand 28 P.A. Airways 24 P. I. Tr. Line . 4 Pinkettes ... 93 Qantas . . cov. ii Qld. Insurance . 7 Quirk’s Co. . 31, 48 Ransomes Co. . 62 Reed Wm. E. 127 Refrig. Inst. Co. 98 Riverstone Co. 92 Robinson, G. H. 53 Rohu, Sil. ... 95 Scott, J., Ltd. . 90 Seward Ltd. . 143 Shell Co. . . . 55 Simpson Bros. 138 Sims, A. G. . 2 Sleepmakers Pty. 26 Slim Ltg. Co. . 117 Smith Copeland 96 S.M.P. Co. . . 56 Spruso Co. . . 30 Stamps for Sale 26 S. Ltd. . . 82 Stewart-Lloyds . 50 Sthn. Pac. Ins. 101 Stinson (Fiji) . 46 Stone, R. G. . 139 Strang, David . 53 Sullivan, C. Ltd. 97 Tait, W. S. . . 66 Taylor & Co. . 33 T. . cov. iii Thornyeroft Co. 122 Tilley Lamps 83 Tillock & Co. . 39 Tongan Photos 51 Tooth & Co. . 58 Turners Supply 99 Tusculum ... 9 Tyneside Eng. 135 United Radio . 85 Vacuum Oil Co. 128 Ventura Co. 106, 144 Vi-Stim ... 131 Warnock Bros. . 54 White Star . 142 Williams’ Pills . 37 Wills, Ltd. . . 100 Wise Bros. . . 78 Wrigley’s Ltd. . 98 Wunderlich 29, 81 Yorkshire Ins. . 45 11

Ac Ifi C Islands Monthly November, 1 952

3 KS * CO rA 2 tJp Cl 2 50 HI ft I •I * V tv tv V) a e-> & e-» 9 ° £ °> Z: t» £S* fill * * p 3 g K- O, *°s-£g C ‘ mi §9 i; Ba ® ft O o, fij £ o n •o 10 g O -fi "o 5* to £ o a. ii*9& * to Co *7 TJ to to Oi 63 ® .S ftj' Co £- Sl|| a to: a £ to s**#| - 0 to to to O to fi- £ to £r to- to *- 5’ • s 'l ? ’f. hS*.® 9 & p H* *,, I ® § <? ® £ 51 g- *** s | . a o 6? to to oo o' £ to £• F #£ to S c 5 © to o to _ «j? 5 - IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial: Grave Events are Pending 13 NG’s Irresponsible Critics —Red Crocodile Tears Over Natives 14 Pacific Races for Yachtsmen . 14 Copra Price Higher—MOF Rate May Now Hold . . . 15 Papua’s Rubber Industry in Danger 15 Dutch Say They Will Not Give Up Western New Guinea . . 16 Moresby Will Have Local Beer On November 26 17 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 New Shipping Service to NG Begins in December . . .. 18 Japs to Pay Compensation to NG Widows 18 BSI Constitutional Challenge May Go Direct to Suva .. 18 Rhino Beetle Threat to NG Plantations 19 Territories Talk Talk .. .. 20 Australia’s Great Rice Mystery —Grower Receives £3O, Consumer Pays £lOO 25 Gale Plays Havoc With BSPs Unprotected Shipping ... 27 Mr. Ragnar Hyne is Fiji’s New Chief Justice 28 TEAL’s New Coral Route Will Develop Trade and Tourism 29 Storm in a Teacup: Four VlP’s Watch Spanking of Papuan Child . . .. 33 From Notes Made in the Pacific by R. W. Robson . 35 Hotels and Headaches in Suva —Some Problems of Fiji Tourism 41 Primitive Man in New Caledonia 46 Cocoa Possibilities in S. Pacific 51 Mauritius is Another Fiji . . 55 Local Honiara Residents Run Broadcasting Station . . . . 57 Decline in Pacific Copra— Expert Survey .. .. .. 59 Fighting Hansen’s Disease in NG Highlands 61 Rabaul’s Town-Planners Clash With Administrator .. .. 63 Blackouts for Honiara .. . . 65 Aluminium Industry for P-NG —Maybe 67

Magazine Section—

Tropicalities, 69; Crossquiz, 70; Pat McGusty Comes Home, 71; Green and Pleasant Land, 73.

Fiji Seeks Parasite for Banana Pest 78 Cheap Money for Settlers in Fiji 79 Niue Mills Own Timber ... 82 Is Rabaul Area Subsiding? . . 83 Uranium from Phosphate Rock 83 For Pacific Radio Amateurs . 85!

What Becomes of W. Samoa’s Large Surpluses? 87' Walpole Guano Not Wanted . 901 Planning Primary Industries in P-NG 91 Some Doubts About the Fiji Broadcasting Commission .. 931 £66,000 Still in Fiji Anti-TB Fund 95i Men on Pitcairn 14,000 Years Ago? Discovery of Ancient Implements 99( Wanderlusting Niueans Stranded In Samoa 102 Revealing Debates in P-NG October Session of Legislative Council 107 Rabaul Chamber of Commerce Meeting 11C News of the Smallships . . .. 121!

New Era in BSI—Mr. Stanley Completes Survey .. .. 129 OBITUARY: Mrs. A. Bretag; Mr. F. I, T. Corbett; Mr.

A. D. Olsen; Mr. W. J.

Candler; Mrs. Mabel Morrison 132 New Guinea Notes 134 Missions and Native Education Conference in Moresby .. 13f S. P. Commission’s Year of Hard Work 138 BSl’s Copra Board Considers Last Year’s Accounts .. .. 141 Commercial, Markets, Etc. .. 14^

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Grave Events Are Pending

'HE future shape of international affairs should soon be seen. It is likely that the free world will erate much longer the tension, uniness and economic dislocation that s been forced upon it for six years the Muscovite conspirators.

United States has been leading the rid. But a year ago, USA suspended dership, because no man knew the licies which would give shape to icrican plans in 1953. Now, the lerican people have spoken. Their ection to their chief executive is t they want an early end to the mmunist arrogance which is underling our morale, and to the Comnist machinations which threaten destroy Western civilisation, enhower may be expected to carry their wishes. aking advantage of the Socialist plessness in Britain and France, I the dithering weakness of the man Administration in America, Muscovites manoeuvred the stern Powers into a ridiculous ation. Powerful Western forces e been committed to the endless : of fighting Chinese hordes in ea, Indo-China and Malaya, while control of Governments and of /eminent instrumentalities throughthe Western World have been left ely to the world’s most remarkable ection of idealists, dreamers, Jaucrats and plain “ratbags.”

But, within the year, the British and Americans have cleared out the wreckers and compromisers, and elected to office people with at least some strength and ruthlessness, with trusted leaders; and France, while still cluttered up with Socialists, appears to have returned to realism.

Everything indicates that the stalemate of 1952 is about to end.

As the Korean War is being fought through the United Nations Organisation, the first changes probably will come there. Already, since Eisenhower was elected, Trygvie Lie has resigned from the chief executive office, and Russia, spitting and snarling, has rejected one plan which might have made an armistice possible. Another plan is being prepared. .

AN effort will be made to preserve ** at least the facade of UNO, but already its doom seems to be sealed.

It is hopelessly split between the Westerners and the Reds; and, of the 60 or more non-Red countries in the organisation, not a dozen of them have contributed men or materials to the struggle in South-east Asia.

Peace and security will return to the world only when the two greatest Western Powers, USA and British Commonwealth—with, it is hoped, the support of France and Western Germany—take charge of international affairs, and really police the world. They may do it through UNO, as America has tried to do; but, with or without UNO, they can achieve nothing until the evil power of the Russian bloc is finally broken.

There now is increasing evidence that this viewpoint—which is the viewpoint of realism, completely justified by the 1920-1940 history of the League of Nations—has been accepted by the real leaders of the Western world; and an overall survey of the coming events of 1953 will surely show that an attempt is being made to implement it. Events will move slowly, and the efforts of our leaders to really achieve something will almost certainly be disrupted from time to time by the activities of the clamorous little people who direct the Socialist Opposition parties.

The intelligent observer must have patience.

It is a maddening thought, however, that if the Western world were completely united, instead of being divided so irresponsibly by the Socialist leaders and the Communist plotters, it might be possible to end this intolerable international situation by negotiation, backed by firmness and strength.

As it is, there is very real danger of war. Rather than retreat from the positions they have taken up since 1945, the Reds may decide to put everything to the hazard; and the Western leaders cannot avoid that challenge and preserve freedom. We who remember World War I and II

literally shrink in horror from the thought of World War III; yet that would be preferable to Communism.

The explosion of the British atomic bomb in West Australia and of the American hydrogen bomb in Eniwetoks, in October, was not accidental.

These things are part of a pattern.

Ng’S Irresponsible

CRITICS Red Crocodile Tears Over Natives CAPTIOUS criticism of Australian activities in Papua-New Guinea recently have aroused resentment in both official and non-official circles.

It is difficult to follow proceedings in the United Nations and its Committees. Apparently, Australia’s official reports on Papua and New Guinea have been tabled in these places, whereupon irresponsible and ill-informed gentlemen from the Communist nations and from small and unimportant countries have launched all sorts of strange criticisms upon Australia, and other Powers administering Trustee Territories. The line generally taken is that we are guilty of the monstrous sin of “Colonialism”, and are callously “exploiting” the natives.

It is all part of the propaganda let loose upon the world since the end of the war by two classes of people— Communists who will use any method available to discredit Western countries and create confusion in the minds of their people; and reformers of an erratic type —the word “ratbags” best describes them —who imagine that they have a special mission to save the downtrodden coloured races from the cruelties and exploitation of Capitalist whites.

On October 20, before a plenary session of the United Nations, Mr.

R. G. Casey, Australian Minister, defended the Western nations against charges of this character, showed that such propaganda was designed for purely political purposes, and then carried the war into the enemy camp.

“Their specious plea is designed to identify Communism with nationalist aspirations. But for these people Communism offers only the kiss of death—the mortgaging of freedom before freedom itself is attained.

Fortunately, nationalist leaders have been forewarned. While Colonial powers have, since the war, brought to nationhood an important number of countries —many represented here t O -day—the Soviet Union. has destroyed the independence of no less than seven nations.”

A few days later, on October 29, before another section of UNO, Mr.

W. D. Forsyth, representing Australia, made a similar outspoken speech, denouncing the machinations of the Soviet spokesmen and defending—by figures and proven facts— Australia’s record in Papua-NG.

Bishop Strong Again

Such attacks by Red emissaries are to be expected; but it came as a shock to the Australian public to learn that the Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, Right Rev. P. N.

Strong, at the opening of the Mission Conference in Moresby on November 10, declared that some commercial interests were riding roughshod over the natives of Papua-New Guinea; that they brushed aside reminders of the natives’ war work as “sentimentality”; that subversive organisations existed among the natives; and that “these elements will become stronger if private enterprise is allowed to pursue its policy of native exploitation”. He also said that we should face another Kenya in N.

Guinea if these things were permitted.

On the invitation of leading Australian newspapers and broadcasters, the editor of the PIM commented upon Bishop Strong’s statements. He said that the latter were “irresponsible, dangerous and absurd”, and that he was amazed that Bishop Strong should in this way align himself with those irresponsible Communist critics who had been making such a nuisance of themselves at the Trusteeship Council. He said that the suggestion that Europeans were exploiting natives in New Guinea was silly and that the charge that another Kenya might develop against Australia in the Pacific Territories was simply fantastic.

Nevertheless, the reverend gentleman will find his views quoted with gusto in Pravda and Isvestia.

Pacific Races For

Ocean Yachtsmen

IT is likely that the Los Angele Honolulu yacht race —which tab place every two years and which wi start from Los Angeles Harbour ♦ July 4, 1953—wi1l in future be sn plemented by another yacht rao from Honolulu to Tahiti, which w* follow shortly after the conclusiii of the Los Angeles-Honolulu event The Honolulu-Tahiti race (2,5<1 miles) will be a tough one, and tJ sponsors will check the seaworthine of yachts which desire to enter.

There will be substantial trophi* and the Government and people Tahiti, eager to promote the conte already have promised,the competii yachtsmen some royal entertainme in French Oceania.

Persons interested should con municate with the Secretary of t!

Trans-Pacific Yacht Club. 210 W<' 7th Street, Los Angeles, USA.

Sydney-Noumea

To celebrate the 100th Anniversa of the foundation of New Caledon (September, 1953) the French autlu. ides in Noumea are making pla for a yacht race at about that tirr from Sydney to Noumea. We known South Australian yachtsm*.

John and Frank Livingston, flew Noumea this month to advise t French Government on the plan. T 1 latter proposes to donate substanll trophies for the race.

Auckland-Suva

In October, the Royal Akara Yacht Club of Auckland was co sidering a suggestion that an anm cruising yacht race between Aucklae and Suva be promoted—it v< thought that such a race would more popular than the diffic: trans-Tasman race. The Auckland! recognise one difficulty—that so South Pacific races must be organif in the Southern winter, otherw; contend with Fiji’s hurricane seas*; Passengers per Union SS Co. vessels arriving and departing from Auckland October included:- Miss Patricia Borrowes of Christchurch returning from Fiji after a period employment with Warner Brothers film unit. Miss Sesa Mauu returned to W. San after three years at Wellington. Mrs. E. M. Cumming and Mrs. V. Diamoo respectively sister and mother of Mr. B. Diamond of Industrial Builders. Lautoo went north to Fiji. Miss May Howell who was bound for Suva and Nadi. 14

November, 1952 Pac If Ic Islands Month U]

_ To A ust. To Britain From Papua— £ £ Brass 68,641 60.509 Aluminium .. 13,704 Bead 6.476 3,872 Copper 14 213 From New Guinea- Aluminium .. 165,421 ? rass 87.919 1,950 Copper 34,419

Copra Price

HIGHER MOF Rate May Now Hold INHERE has been an improvement *■ in the world copra price, which ad sagged in recent months to around 60 Sterling. It is now (November 1) at about £75 Sterling per ton, iuropean ports.

The main cause of the slump was le arrival in the markets of large uantities of Indonesian copra. The etter price is due to belief that idonesia is going to produce in the nmediate future about 200,000 tons ss copra than was anticipated. There also reduced production in the iilippines; and there is an unpected shortage of whale oil, the arket price of which has increased om £66 Sterling per ton to £BO.

The last official London price, £77 g. per ton on November 4, is about [ual to £96 Australian, in Euroan ports.

This is helpful to both the MOF crests (which now are buying for out £7O Australian per ton copra lich is worth over £9O Aust. in irope) and to the Australian inter, who now has reason to hope it the expected 10 per cent, cut in ; MOF contract price for 1953 will t materialise. If the market holds over £7O Stg. per ton until the J of the year, the British MOF ce should not be further reduced.

Popular Governor Returns PAPEETE, October 30. f PETITBON, regarded as the 1 best Governor that French iania has had in many years, reicd from Paris by plane on Ocer 29, and was very cordially eted. It was feared that, when Governor was summoned to is in September, a transfer was icated. Leading officials greeted Governor at the dockside, the pie cheered, and a band played the arsellaise.” win daughters born recently to . and Mrs. Colwyn Parry repret the second generation of Parry n in the Trust Territory of New nea. Colwyn Parry, now Subsector of Police in Rabaul, was n in New Guinea, and he was the of Mr. Arthur Parry, who was sng the Rabaul citizens lost on Jap ship Montevideo Maru.

‘O’Keefe’ In January?

After creating remarkable scenes one week-end in the streets of Suva— which were cleverly shaped to represent scenes in old Hongkong—the makers of the “O’Keefe” film in Fiji finished their job in November, and the Fiji organisation has been disbanded.

It is expected that the film will be ready for release early in the New Year and that it will be showing in London during the Coronation celebrations.

Island Disintegrated By

H-BOMB News that an atoll island in the Marshall group simply disintegrated and disappeared in flames after the Americans exploded their hydrogen bomb there in November, has awakened fears in the minds of old voyagers in the Line Islands that atom bombs may completely destroy those structures.

Atolls are merely giant coral heads, built up in the course of ages by the coral insects, from rocks lying at great depths beneath the sea. It is recalled by Mr. Neville Chatfield, who knew the Line Islands 50 years ago, that, the famous Australian scientist, Sir Edgeworth David, wenl to Funafuti in 1899 with a steamdriven drill, to ascertain the depth of a coral island. He put down a bore to about 3,000 feet, but failed to reach the basic rock—thus proving Darwin’s theory that as the sea rose, or the land subsided, the coral insects kept on building to sea-level. These coral structures are generally shaped like a mushroom, and probably could be shattered easily by an atomic blast.

Valuable Salvage From

P-New Guinea

In the year ended June 30, 1952, the following salvage or scrap metals were shipped from Papua and New Guinea:— The salvage industry still is going on actively in the Territories. Australia has decided to continue, for another year, the arrangement under which salvaged materials from the Territories are allowed in duty free.

Papua Rubber

Industry’S Danger

Plain Issue for Australia OTRONG representations concerning the future of the rubber industry in Papua were made by Planters’ Association delegates, Mr.

B. Fairfax Ross and Mr. Colin Sefton, when, in Sydney on October 31, they met representatives of the Australian Cover —ent and the rubber manufacturers. Mr. Lambert (Secretary of Territories Department) presided.

Because there has been a marked fall in demand in Australia for goods manufactured from rubber, the manufacturers have ceased to buy raw rubber, and have indicated that they are not particularly interested in the future of the Papuan industry.

Further, they do not wish to pay first-grade prices for first-grade Papuan rubber; they want to retain freedom to buy rubber wherever they like; and they do not wish to indicate any particular time when they will resume buying rubber.

The planters retort that the responsibility is on the Government which in turn should compel the manufacturers to conform to national needs. They have left the Australian Government to accept one or two courses—either to accept financial responsibility for the rubber being produced in Papua, or to impose on the importation of raw rubber such controls that the Australian manufacturers will be compelled to use rubber from Papua before rubber from elsewhere. They made it plain that if Australia will not take either course the Papuan rubber industry— the second most important agricultural industry in Papua-New Guinea —will collapse.

Many details were threshed out between the interests concerned—but the foregoing is the overall picture.

The matter is now under consideration by the Australian Government and an answer to the planters’ case is likely jo be made very soon.

Oil Bores Down 2 Miles

test bore for oil, made by Australian Petroleum Co, and Islands Exploration Co. at Omati, in Papua, had reached a depth of 10,525 leet (almost exactly two miles) on November 9.

Sandy Creek Returns O ANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING, LTD., advised on October 9 that during September, 1952, approximately 87 ounces of gold were recovered from 12,660 cubic yards of material treated. 15

C If I C Islands Monthly November, I 952

Dutch Firmer

They Will Not Give Up West N. Guinea THERE was a significant development in the Netherlands-Indonesian struggle over Western New Guinea on October 30, when the Dutch Government announced that it would not resume its discussions with Indonesia and that it had no intention of relinquishing or limiting its sovereignty over Western New Guinea.

This controversy has been going on since 1949 and it seemed at times that Holland would surrender to the Indonesian demand.

The attitude of Australia had a strong influence on the situation.

While the Socialist Dr. Evatt was Minister in charge of Australian overseas affairs, Indonesia was encouraged to pursue her struggle against the Dutch; but as soon as the non- Socialist Government took office in Australia it became apparent that Australia, in every possible way, would resist the surrender of Western New Guinea to Indonesia or to any other country which might open the East Indies islands corridor to the hordes of Asia.

Since the Dutch announcement, Indonesian President Soekarno has re-acted bitterly against the Western powers, and there have been anti- Dutch demonstrations in Java.

High School for Wau?

It is reported that when P-NG Acting Administrator, Mr. D. M.

Cleland, visited Wau, on October 22, he spent the latter part of that day visiting different sites around the township suitable for the location of the Wau High School and finally deciding on a site in the township area, near Kunai Creek. With him were Dr, J. Gunther, Messrs. G. T. Roscoe, D. J. Rooney, and District Commissioner from Lae, Mr. H. R. L.

Niall. Dr. Gunther said that his department hoped to build a new modern hospital in Wau during the next financial year.

The plan to build a high school at Wau, was abandoned—or postponed —a couple of years ago. Since then the Administration has made an annual grant to parents of children who attend secondary schools in Australia.

Mr. Ata, Minister for Police in the Tongan Government, arrived with his wife in Sydney on holiday on November 4. He told reporters that there was little crime in the Kingdom, and that, under a new system, 500 permits to buy liquor had been granted to the better educated Tongans.

Rabaul Chinese Remember

Sun Yat Sen

From Our Own Correspondent.

RABAUL, October 20.

WHATEVER it is that the Chinese in China might be currently celebrating, the Chinese of Rabaul, on October 10, celebrated something quite different —the founding of the Chinese Republic, of which Dr. Sun Yat Sen was the first President.

Chiang Kai Shek’s message to his followers this year included an instruction to entertain representatives of friendly governments to show that Nationalist China was behind those nations prepared to resist Communist aggression.

After a day of meetings, sports carnivals and picnics, Rabaul Kuo Min Tang leaders gathered under a specially erected Celebration Arch to welcome prominent Administration Officers and conduct them to a typical Chinese feast, beginning with the traditional bird’s nest soup. Local president, Mr. Seto Soon, welcomed the guests.

Toasts were drunk to Her Majesty, the Prime Minister and Commonwealth of Australia, President Chiang Kai Shek, members of the Kuo Min Tang and Nationalist China.

Nh Tribal Brawls

SANTO, Nov. 2.

Inter-tribal brawling on the east coast of Espiritu Santo resulted in the death of one native. The trouble started on property occupied by M.

Chaverot, and warranted investigation by the Candominium authorities.

M. Chaverot, a popular planter in the Group, reported the incident, sending word down by launch.

Carpenters Wanted on Norfolk Is.

October 21.

ALTHOUGH we are told that carpenters and other building tradesmen are finding it hard to get jobs in Sydney, there is a shortage of these workers on Norfolk Island.

Notwithstanding rumours to the contrary, the Works and Housing Department continues to function and is absorbing all available labour.

Local tradesmen invariably have bean crops to attend to periodically and it is difficult to get jobs completed.

Memories of RLS Newspapers around the wori< commented on the death oc Austin Strong, grand-stepson ot Robert Louis Stevenson, and praise* his achievements as writer, architec and playwright. He was with RLS ii Samoa, and died in USA recently aged 71.

Curiously, none seems to have men tioned that his mother—who wai RLS’s stepdaughter and secretary and was with him in Samoa—is stil alive. She lives in Santa Barbara California, and she was 94 years oh on September 18, the day after he; son died. She is Mrs. Isobel Fieh (formerly Strong) and she keeps ii touch with her beloved Samoa (whici she left 60 years ago) by reading thi PIM, and writing the PlM’s editoc a cheery note a couple of times ; year. Mrs. Elsie Noble CaldweL writing us from Los Angles o< October 15, says Mrs. Field is well but shaken by the death of her son RLS married Mrs. Fanny Osborne who had two children by her firs marriage, Lloyd and Isobel. Lloy' Osborne and Isobel’s son by her fin marriage, Austin Strong, collaborate; in the production of plays. Austii attained the greatest success alom however.

CHINESE BUY BECHE-DE-

Mer, Fungus, Shark-Fins

COMMUNIST China, unable no< to import strategic material from Hongkong, is taking beche-dl mer, fungus and shark fins in e: change for silk, antiques and chin;i ware.

These products of the South Se: are developing into the most impon ant trade from Hongkong, being on of the few ways whereby Communi China is permitted by Britain to ui up her sterling balances there.

Some time ago we drew attentio to a renewed interest by Australis business houses in these Island pn ducts.

One battalion of New Guinn natives is under training in the Ta ritory, the Army Minister told tJ Australian Parliament on October Z He was considering requests that t] number of natives in training shoa be increased and that the border b tween Dutch and Australian N© Guinea should be patrolled.

Mr. T. H. Parker, Collector Customs, Bermuda, is to be tran ferred to Fiji as a Senior Collect! of Customs. He will arrive about tt end of the year. 16 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Moresby Will Have Local Beer On November 26 Joe Bourke’s Dream Comes True November 26 win be a big occasion for residents of Port Moresby. On that day they will be able, for the first time, to buy local lager, product of the South Pacific Brewery—bottled, or in draught from stainless steel containers.

The privileged few who have ilready sampled the brew say that it is “very good.” If local connoisseurs put their seal upon it, the success of South Pacific lager is assured, fhat, of course, is the chance that he promoters took when they began he enterprise—Australians have their )wn fixed ideas about beer—it is lither “good”, or it’s “crook.” If it s, in their estimation, good, they will »uy it; if it is crook, it’s out. In ecent years, P-NG residents have imlorted their beer from everywhere rom Edinburgh to Hongkong, but hey got very little Australian beer mil recently when this suddenly beame available once more.

A couple of years ago, the South acific Brewery was little more than n idea of Mr. Joe Bourke, of Wau, JG. He secured in Port Moresby a uilding that had been a laundry, nd the rest of the enterprise has een built around that. Most of the apital was subscribed in Papua-New luinea. Messrs. P. A. and Tom toemans (who with Mr. Bourke are le directors of the company) suplied the enthusiasm, and Mr. J. F. toward, a Sydney brewery engineer, id Mr. R. Meier, European brewer id chemist, the know-how.

Building of the brewery commenced lout 15 months ago, at a time when hiding supplies and raw materials ere in shortest supply. The laundry mains the nucleus of the establishent, but a great deal of other buildg has been done. The brewery derates its own electricity and there extensive plant for water purificam and refrigeration of stored supies.

Beer production began about two onths ago but none has been sold— stly, so that the beer could mature, condly, in order to build up stocks.

Mr. Bourke’s original inspiration as due to the fact that beer in postar P-NG costs about 4/- per bottle, e thought that local beer could be oduced for almost half that. Actual ice of South Pacific lager when it goes on sale on November 26 will be 36/9 per dozen, less 3/- refund on one dozen bottles. (Australian beer, in Australia, is 30/- per dozen—when you can get it). Over the bar it will probably cost 1/1 for 7J oz. glass.

This price includes excise at 3/6 per gallon, legislation for which was passed by the October session of P-NG Legislative Council. Mr.

Howard says that this rate is “about what they expected”—but he does not agree that this will give them 1/6 per gallon preference over imported beer, as was stated when the Bill was introduced. Although excise duty on beer is lower by this amount than customs duty, the local brewery has to pay customs duty on all the raw materials that it imports.

Mr. Howard will not say what the present capacity of the brewery is— but the Administration is piously hoping that it will produce £lO,OOO worth of revenue for them in 1952- 53, which means about 57,000 gallons of beer, A lot of beer, even in Port Moresby dialect,

Beer Will Be ‘On The House’

Almost the whole of the present production of the brewery will be absorbed in Port Moresby by Burns Philp, Steamships Trading Company and the two Moresby hotels. Only a small amount will at first go over the border into New Guinea.

The brewery does not plan any festivity for November 26—but on a day yet to be fixed early next year, when sufficient stocks have been built up, beer is going to be on the house.

On that day, all comers will be able to drink as much South Pacific as they like—for free.

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago. fFHE topics of the day in November, 1932, were not a lot different from those of November, 1952. Copra was “slightly easier.” Government ships were losing money; there was the question of a lingua franca for New Guinea; mysterious vessels, thought to be Jap, were poaching in North Australian and Territory waters. One big difference, of course, was that in those days a £ was worth 20/-. Now it is worth about 5/- —but then people had fewer of them.

This was the news as we saw it, in November PIM of 1932: A reader was of the opinion that the Mandate of Western Samoa should have been given to Australia, and the New Guinea mandate to New Zealand.

“Australia with her super-sensitiveness about the rights of subject peoples and her willingness to let any fool get up and bawl his opinion in the marketplace, would have got on splendidly with the Mau. While swashbuckling New Zealand, who apparently believes in governing Pacific Islands communities on a basis of strict discipline, with plenty of snap and polish, would have been popular in New Guinea”. * * * Another reader pleaded for Pidgin English as the language of New Guinea.

Teaching plain English was hopeless, he insisted, and “nothing but pig-headedness on the part of the Adiminstration and Education authorities hold Pidgin’s official progress back”. * * ♦ The cost of running the Government vessel Maui Pomare was also declared a hopeless case. Loss on the vessel for ’3O-’3l had been £20,000; loss for ’32-32 was expected to be £4,500. A report from a special commission advised the Government to dispose of her at the earliest possible moment. (Maui Pomare is still in operation, still piling up losses and still the subject of reports and dire predictions). * * * London price of copra was £l4/5/- per ton and had remained around that figure for several months. To quote: “Best informed opinion is that the trend of prices is upward but it is very gradual and desperately slow”. * ♦ ♦ A Labour member in the Australian Federal Parliament asked in the House why the 900 Chinese employed on the phosphate workings on Nauru could not be dismissed and their jobs given to 900 Australian unemployed. At the same time he complained that phosphate from Nauru was costing NZ and Australian farmers too much. * * * There were howls of rage from NSW and Queensland banana growers over the “concession” made by Australia under the Ottawa Agreement whereby 40,000 centals of Fiji bananas were to be allowed into Australia at a reduced duty. Politicians, fearful for votes, tried vainly to explain that Fiji had made concessions also, and that Australia, In order to try to get back Fiji trade worth £750,000 per annum was to admit 50,000 cases of bananas to a market that consumed 2,000,000 cases per year. * * * On her maiden voyage from Sydney to the new Hebrides, the Anglican Mission vessel Southern Cross VI, of 200 tons, was totally wrecked at Aneityum. The vessel had cost £25,000. * * * As a sign of the times it was reported that native people in the Cook Islands were going back to candlenuts for lighting purposes. Kerosene and petrol being too dear for the empty purses of 1932. * * * There were no less than seven anthropologists doing field work in the SW Pacific. Miss Camilla Wedgwood was spending a year at Manam, off the Madang-Sepik Coast, NG; Dr. lan Hogbin was in Guadalcanal; Mr. J. H. Todd was in the Gasmata District, New Britain; Dr. Gregory Bateson was up the Sepik River; Mr. W. C. Groves was in Kavieng, New Ireland and expected to move on to the Huon Peninsula; Dr. R. Fortune and Dr Margaret Mead (then man and wife although later divorced—Dr. Mead then married Gregory Bateson) were at work in the Wewak District, NG. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

Ng Australia Line

New Shipping Service Next Month COMMENCING December 2, a new shipping service known as the New Guinea Australia Line and operated by G. S. Yuill and Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney, will provide an additional three-weekly link with Papua-New Guinea.

Two modern motorships, Shansi (3,147 tons, built in 1947) and Sinkiang (3,019 tons, built 1946), with accommodation for 21 and 14 passengers respectively, will maintain the service. Cargo capacity of each is nearly 4,000 tons, including refrigerated space. Both are well appointed, and carry heavy lift gear.

They will call at Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang and Rabaul, returning to Australia via Pt. Moresby.

Shansi will inaugurate the service on December 2, followed by Sinkiang on December 19. Fares and freights will be similar to the existing Burns Philp line rates.

Owned by the English-controlled China Navigation Co., Ltd., both vessels until recently were on the Hong Kong - Japan - Saigon run, operated by the large Far East shipping, aviation and insurance concern, Butterfield and Swire.

Agents for the new line are: Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., in Papua, and Colyer Watson (NG, Ltd,, in New Guinea.

Japs to Pay Compensation to NG Widows WIDOWS of men who were civilian internees of the Japs in Rabaul and elsewhere in New Guinea, will be entitled to compensation under the recently announced prisoner-of-war reparations payable by Japan. Each serviceman who was a POW of the Japs will receive something like £35 by way of compensation—apparently to be paid from Japanese funds “frozen” during 1941-1945—but at the time of the original announcement no specific mention was made of widows of civilian internees. The POW and Relatives Association and the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney have now ascertained direct from Prime Minister Menzies that payment will be made to them, in due course.

As civilian internees are distinct from POWs, a special regulation has to be passed by the Commonwealth Government to cover them. It is presumed that an announcement will be made later telling widows when and how they are to apply for the payment. The NG Women’s Club is watching the situation.

There has been no information forthcoming on the position of the handful of civilian internees who were kept in New Guinea by the Japs and who were subsequently liberated by the Allies.

Mr. T. P. Makea, secretary of the Cook Islands Industrial Workers’

Union, arrived in Auckland by the October Maui Pomare on a business visit.

Fijians in New Area in Malaya IN its first encounter, after being transferred from the Kuala Pilah district of Malaya, to the notorious area of Patu Pahat, in North Johore, the Fiji Battalion bagged three ban- Jits. £ strong gang of terrorists ambushed a party of Fijians, but got much the worse of the ensuing fight.

No Fijians were hurt.

Since entering Malaya, the Fijians have killed over 20 bandits. The people of Kuala Pilah, where they were based for many months, loaded them with farewell presents.

Bsi Constitutional

CHALLENGE Cases May Go Direct to Suva HPHE challenge to the constitutionaj authority of the Solomons Island;- Government, brought about by the resentment of the planters in being assessed for income tax at high rates (see PIM of Sept., p 21) may pos-; sibly come before the Supreme Court in Suva before the end of this year; Mr. R. C. Symes, president of the BSI Planters and Commercial Association, will be the nominal de fendant in the claim for income tax. and Mr. Joe Bryan, of Guadalcanal Plantations, will be the nominal plaintiff in the challenge against the BSI Copra Board.

The Association’s legal representatives, in an attempt to save unnecessary expense, are trying to arrange that both actions be heard at the same sittings of the Fiji Court. It is hoped that by consent the hearings at the lower court in Honiara will be cancelled, and the cases taken to the higher court direct because, whichever! side wins, the loser will certainly, appeal. Probably, the cases will go ultimately to the Privy Council.

The Association’s legal advisers in- Sydney have asked the Suva legal firm of W. Scott & Co. to act as their legal agents.

Although several persons in BSI refused to pay their income ta» assessments, the BSI Government has not acknowledged receipt of thein notices of objection. However, it appears that an extension of time toe pay without penalty has beeir granted, although no application fon such was made. The BSI Government, presumably, is making a careful examination of the position.

In the article which was published ont page 21 of September PIM, headed "BSE Tax Power Challenged”, there was at reference to the exemption from capitatiom tax which may be granted certain classes; in the Gilbert and Ellice Colony; and anr inference that such concessions might) extend to the Solomon Islands. It should! be made clear that there are no sncht exemptions in the Solomon Islands.

Mr. Michael Ramsden, son oft well-know writer on Polynesian* affairs, M.r. Eric Ramsden, travelled north to the US from Sydney in* October on “Aorangi” and goes to: a job with Reuters’—A.A.P. Bureau, in Washington. He recently returned from service as a war correspondent in Korea.

MV Shansi. 18 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

STC Has Big Profits and Big Reserves | TAVING added the profit (£92,999) for *■ -*■ the year ended July 31 to the balance irought forward, the Directors of Stcamihip Trading Co., Ltd., Port Moresby, bund themselves 'with £163,153 for disribution. After paying a dividend of [0 per cent. of their £50,000 of •references, and IStfc per cent, on the £ 408,449 of Ordinaries, they have carried m into next year’s accounts a total of £107,097.

The annual balance-sheet shows assets f £1,533,416. These are financed by ssued capital of £453,449; over £lOO,OOO n the P/L account; £128,931 of bank verdraft; about £lOO,OOO of trade reditors; and no less than £684,070 of eserves. As the Directors indicate in heir report, some of these reserves are ow regarded as unnecessary, and some nbstantial bonus issues have been foreast.

This company might be wise to be autious. For years, Australian Governlent funds of from £5 to £7 millions nnuaUy have been poured lavishly into apua-New Guinea, and the oil search tpenditure takes another million or so ito the country; with the result that all sneral traders have been “sitting pretty”, at Australia may at any time tell apua-N. Guinea to spend within its irned income, or the oil search people ay toss in the sponge. Any trading stitutions then will need all the reserves can command to cushion the blow.

Later: The company proposes to make bonus issue of 1 for 4, and to offer new tares, for cash, on a 1 for 4, basis.

Ld Morinda

[?]STILL

[?]Sydney Harbour

pHE old Burns Philp steamer L Morinda, which some months ;o was sold at the surprisingly low ice of £3,100 to a representative of e Henderson-Trippe Shipping Co., Manila, Philippines, is still lying a bay of the Parramatta River, in dney Harbour.

It was thought, at one time, that i attempt would be made to tow e vessel to the Philippines, but it pears that her fate has not been cided. As only £3,000 is involved, r new owners are not greatly conrned with the present position. In ;tober they were busy refurbishing other ship which they own, at Coffs irbour, NSW.

The new owners have had remarkly good offers for the old Morinda d it is quite possible that ownerip will change before she leaves dney Harbour. The boilers were t in good order before the Morinda is sold and it is thought that she capable of giving good service still Indonesia, or South-East Asia.

Rhino Beetle Threat to NG Plantations?

Another Legacy of the Japs fpHE first consignment of Mauritius wasps arrived in Rabaul, NG, in early October and were taken delivery of by Mr. C. H. Barrett. They will shortly be released and, it is hoped, will commence to feed on the larvae of the rhinoceros beetle that is believed to have been introduced by the Japs during the war, and which is causing damage in New Guinea coconut plantations.

Rhinoceros beetles were not unknown in NG before the war, but they appeared to be of a comparatively harmless variety and did small damage. Although great publicity was given to the other Jap-introduced pest, Giant Snails, nothing has been heard until recently of the rhinoceros beetle which the Japs are now alleged to have introduced. If the Japs allowed these pests in from the Marshalls or Marianas, their former mandated territory, then the beetles are likely to be a far more serious problem than the snails. Some of the Marshalls and Mariana islands have been completely wiped out as copra producers by a variety of rhinoceros beetle.

Reparations from our former enemies are among those things nice people don’t talk about these days.

But this seems to be one of the times when the Japs should pay for their pleasures.

They should pay the cost of removing the threat to New Guinea plantations.

In the meantime, it would be interesting to know just how serious is the threat. In the face of the publicity and the frantic efforts of the authorities to keep the beetle out of Tonga and Fiji, every time there is the remotest possibility of the pest being introduced there, the calm acceptance of the fact that the beetle is already in New Guinea and has been there for the last 10 years, is amazing. (See Tolala’s comment, page 20), New Guinea Women's Club of Sydney CHRISTMAS PARTIES: This year the annual Children’s Christmas Party will be held on the afternoon of December 15, at the Feminist Club Rooms, 77 King Street, Sydney. Past and present NG parents, if your children are under 15 years of age and will be in Sydney on that date, send In their names, ages and Sydney addresses so that the necessary invitations can be sent. This is always a joyous occasion.

The Christmas cocktail party for older ex and active residents of the Territory will be held at the same address on December 19, commencing at 6.30 p.m.

Two pre-wedding morning tea parties have been given at the Club recently. The first was for Miss Noreen Northam, who is now married to Mr. Kevin Parkinson: the second for Miss Margaret Elizabeth Clark (daughter of the late R. L. Clark of Rabaul and Mrs. Clark) who is now Mrs. Stafford Grimes.

Mrs. N. H. Foxcroft, president of the Club, gave a luncheon party for members at her home in Sydney on Melbourne Cup day (November 4).

Mr. and Mrs. Jock McLean, with Miss Isobel McLean, of Rabaul, are on Australian leave.

ADMINISTRATOR IN HIGHLANDS The Acting Administrator of Papua- New Guinea, Mr. D.

M. Cleland, Mrs.

Cleland, Mr. N.

Blood and Susan Blood. The photograph was taken at Nondugl, New Guinea Central Highlands, during a recent visit there of Mr. and Mrs. Cleland. 19 MBER, 1952

Acific Islands Monthly Nove

Suva’S New Councillors

SUVA, Nov. 4.

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA’S first Town Council elections since the extension of the town boundaries to include most of Suva Peninsula in three wards were held on November 1. What little electioneering there was was carried out almost entirely by the Indian candidates. Results:— SUVA WARD Elected, European:— J. B. Turner 121 D. M. N. McFarlane 108 R. Spowart 99 Not elected: R. L. Munro, 98; L. F.

Garnett, 66; C. D. J. Palmer, 63; A. E. T.

Corrie, 30; A. L. Titcomb, 14.

Elected, Indian:— Dr. C. M. Gopalan 273 P. K. Bhindi 240 Gurudahal Saharma 183 Not elected: S. M. Bidesi, 183; A. I. N.

Deoki, 181; Shankar Pratap, 128; R. P.

Maharaj, 73.

Samabula Ward

Elected, European:— W. E. Goodsir 40 C. A. Stinson 28 Not elected: Harold Gatty, 22.

Elected, Indian:— R. D. Singh 200 Dr. Ram Lakhan 171 Not elected: M. S. Tikaram, 170; S.

Balgovind, 98; K. C. Gajadhar, 89; S.

Masih, 72.

Muanikau Ward

European:— W. G. Johnson, unopposed.

Indian: — C. P. Bidesi, Jnr., 54 beat Mohandas, 29.

Nominated by Governor: J. Judd; C.

L. Cheng.

On November 7, Mr. McFarlane and Mr. Turner were nominated for the office of Mayor. Mr. McFarlane was re-elected, 11 to 3.

First Service In Suva’S

New Cathedral

FIRST service to be held in Suva’s new Anglican Cathedral is set down for November 16. The sermon is to be preached by the Bishop in Polynesia, the Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorne, who is expected to return to Suva that day from Tonga, where he has been since early October.

The January hurricane seriously delayed the completion of the first stage of the Cathedral—it was originally intended that it would be opened about Easter, 1952. However, the official opening is now expected to be early in 1953, when it is hoped that the Archbishops from Australia and New Zealand and the Bishop of Melanesia will be present.

Radio-Nz —A Further Change

Radio-NZ notifies that as from November 14 (NZ date), the Islands Service will be as follows: 1800-2015 GMT in 11.81 mc/s., 2030-0645 GMT on 15.28 mc/s. and 0700-1045 GMT on 11.78 mc/s.

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala THE inauguration of another shipping service to NG should be welcomed by Islands residents, even if the passenger accommodation is only limited. There always has been a tendency up in those parts for a monopoly in shipping. Round about the early 1900’s the NDL received a monopoly throughout the old German colony and BP was ousted. The old Moresby was the last ship to call at Rabaul when the ban was applied.

Incidentally, she was the first British merchantman to call in to Rabaul after the Fritzes were beaten.

Another monopoly held by the NDL was the freehold land in Rabaul township, given by the German government to the Company for starting the township, when it was decided to move the capital from Herbertshohe (Kokopo).

It was not until the early thirties that a German ship returned to the NG island trade, and that was the old Bremerhaven, sailing out of Hongkong. That started a bit of a freight war, but nevertheless was welcomed by many a transport-hungry planter.

Healthy competition is essential in transport—especially in the Islands — and there is no doubt the Government shipping set-up (which was a supermonopoly) following the last war, was responsible for much of the commercial retrogression. It will be interesting to watch the progress—if any—of this newly-installed shipping line.

And talking of German shipping reminds me of a letter I received some time ago from the skipper of the Bremerhaven, Ludwig Klugkist, who is now first officer in the Dusternbrook, which called at Australian ports this year. On board was a NZ journalist who had a copy of the Robson-Tudor, “Where the Trade Blow.” A fit of nostalgia, after reading it made the old skipper write me from Port Said. He asked after many folk; but most of them have gone to their rest. He was a nephew of the skipper of the old Coblenz on which I travelled first to NG in 1911.

To read these days of the importation of cattle into NG would give one the impression that the country never had any “bulamakaus” before the war. Old figures show, however, that in June, 1939, there was a total of 20,565 beasts in the TNG. The greatest number (6.464) were in the Madang district. I remember that CPL plantations, down in Bougaim ville, for many years before War I fed most of its labour with fresh meat It will be a happy land when th* principal native rations—rice, mea and tobacco—are locally grown. Thi Japanese army of some 60,000 ii Rabaul lived off the land and sea fo over a year in 1944 and, as I’ve men tioned before, had many acres of hil rice growing.

Talking of the Japs reminds me o a news item in a Brisbane paper lay ing the blame on the Japs for the in troduction into NG of the Rhinocero beetle! Outsizes in snails and a gian red-eyed fly, yes; but such pests a the dynastid tribe, definitely NO “Monkey” lines had been collectinj “binatangs” in TNG systematically ever since 1914, when planters be came pest-conscious following th< policy adopted by the BP plantation; in Bougainville.

Jim Campbell was the first to wag< a war against the Brontispa froggatti knowing the havoc it had wrought ii the BSI. That pest is named aftei W. W. Froggatt, who first went t< Papua in 1885 with an expedition He was for years NSW Governmen Entomologist. His son, J. L., followec in his footsteps and was Entomologis with the NG administration both be fore and after the war.

It’s to be hoped the “binatang” line doesn’t go into the discard, though ' suppose increased wages have a tend ency to encourage such unwis* economies.

An old correspondent of mine fron TNG writes: “Should you approacl the average plantation manager to day and ask him what number o boys he has on the “bintatang” line he would just gape and remark to hi: neighbour, “More senseless uttering: of a B 4.!”

I think in these days we are in dined to depend on Government re search-men too much, which kills th< personal incentive so notable in th« B 4 days, an attribute which pulled u: over the stoney pioneer pathways, hope ’tis still a Brave New World.

It’s all a bit puzzling, though. By the same mail I received an air-maii envelope addressed to a Matupi ladl working on a plantation, and it bort the native’s name, with “Esqr.” tackeo on to it, and addressed in care of Mr So-and-So, the plantation owner. Whai (Continued on Page 23) 20 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Impressions Of Four

Big Territories

Gained In An

Airways Tour

By R.W. Robson

New Caledonia Fthis, the most disunited and cheerless Territory in the Pacific, a contest is going on between interests and classes which is not the less bitter because it is mostly out of sight. If it is possible to classify this heterogeneous community, it might be shown in five sections:— • French officials. They are cold and aloof, glued tightly to remarkably high salaries and allowances (the Governor is said to receive a sum equal to £600 Aust. per month), and they. deal with NC as it is, rather than on a basis of what it might be. • European Business Tycoons.

These constitute a hierarchy apart.

The structure is based on chrome and nickel—and, under the tolerant administration, it has virtually ruled NC for so long that it cannot imagine NC under any other set-up. • The poor whites. The convicts sent from France eventually were Freed, to establish themselves as colonists (Colons). They intermarried freely with NC Melanesians, rhey now are the largest community in NC. • The new-rich of World War 11.

Jap occupation of the Solomons caused the Americans to establish an enormous base in NC. Almost overnight, millions of US dollars lifted NC’s shrewder traders from the hopeless poverty which followed France’s 1940 collapse, to the edge of the Tycoon class. • A racial hotch-potch of Melanesians, Indonesians, Polynesians, Chinese, Japanese—some holding together in little racial cells, but very many cross-breeding without fear, favour or plan.

The sections overlap in all directions. Some new-rich are accepted by the Tycoons. Some Tycoons have gone the way of much Pacific flesh, and are with the beachcombers, in the lowest class.

Political Melting-Pot

NC went along without much social disturbance for over a halfcentury. Then it was convulsed by a series of rapid events—France’s surrender and the Vichy-de Gaulle split; wartime controls and Yankee dollars; the advent in Paris of Socialist planners, who support a common roll; and the settlement in NC of Indonesians and Tonkinese.

Now the big Colony, politically, economically and socially, seems to be in the melting-pot. The lower classes—especially the Colons and the racial hotch-potch—are fighting hard for the common roll, in the belief that if they once can get control of the Council-General, they will get sweet revenge upon the Tycoon section (usually called the Nickel Combine) for the economic oppression which they think they have suffered for many decades.

The Tycoon section fears for its properties and privileges, and is resisting the proposed changes with everything it has. It seems certain that if the common roll is established, so that political power is given the poorer classes, income taxation will be introduced.

In a way, it is the old struggle between the Haves and the Havenots, between Capitalism and Socialism. But here it is more directly concerned with local history, hates and prejudices than with the ’isms . . . It is a depressing picture.

For the casual traveller, NC has unusual interests, some old French charm, much lush tropical beauty on its northeast side. NC would welcome tourist revenue. But there seems little hope of tourist traffic while the politico-economic fight is unresolved. n • • • ri j i FIJI’S broad smile of welcome is irresistible. After comfortless journeyings, I always go to earth in the well-run GPH with vociferous pleasure—endless hot water, deft and soft-footed Indian servants, food that is not too imaginative, a telephone service that really tries to do its best.

Suva is as deceptive as her exotic tropical beauty implies. She has been telling the world about her dreadful hurricane, and you go in looking for debris, derelict palms and smashed buildings. Actually, Suva is cleaner, tidier and more lovely than I ever have seen her.

The big wind blew away all the rubbish—the old fences and buildings and trees, the dead fronds of the palms, and the people have done a marvellous job of cleaning up. As so often follows a disaster, Nature is working overtime. The vegetation is more luxurious and greener, the colour of the abundant flowers more vivid. Even the impudent mynahs are chirruping on a brighter note.

The New Governor

Up to my departure on October 22, all classes and sections were praising the new Governor and his pretty and charming wife. In two weeks, they had made a wonderfully good first impression. I did not like it. Suva, as with all the perverse and lovable ladies of the tropics, is happiest when she has something to squabble about: this unanimity (about the Garveys) may start unreasonable criticism, merely for the sake of being different. But, so far, all is very well with them.

Sir Roland Garvey is confronted immediately with two first-class problems—economic and racial. Fiji’s overseas trade balance is too deeply in the red to be comfortable. The growth in the Indian population is providing headaches at all levels and in all directions.

But Sir Ronald starts off with an initial advantage enjoyed by no other Governor. He is almost completely au fait with Fijian affairs, and the background of the Colony’s administrative and personal troubles. He need not waste a year or two “learning, the job”—he is equipped to (Continued on Page 113) Fiji's New Governor A formal photograph taken in London [?]f Fiji’s new Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, [?]CMG. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Its FINE 4 ■* ■ Is There Really and Truly a Father Xmas ?? ?

Jings, what a question to ask—of course there is: do you know that if your mother and father paid men to watch every chimney in the world they would not see Father Xmas, because he 7 a sort of as Purely as he does eXist really and truly - Just as surely as your mother s love, charity, Angels, and all sorts of things that you really can’t see; the most real and lasting things in the world are those that you cannot see in the same sense that you can actually see another little boy or girl- you might as well Slt^coo 0 Se-d CVe * n P ?' r ‘ es What Peter “In think o"

Sln lv 50 ™ uch he would P eter out < almost, anyrate); o go to bed on Xmas Eve, after saying your prayers and in the the^hine-^vn 11 Pather Xmas will have left’ you lots of if you asked for—not all ’cos there’s sure to be a shortage of something. Hanov and a Holy, Xmas to you all. The discoverer of— aspaxadrene Reg. under Vic. Health (Pat. Med.) Act 1942.

US £ against Asthma), wrote a lot of this, but the original idea—much fuller—has been published by the New York vL Un p.f7i?I y Y maS fol j the past 36 years - Hopalong Cassidy believes in Father Xmas and so do I—ever since I was a little boy and that s not so long ago as you think.— “Cheery-bye” social distinction! All a bit cock-eyed and shows that sophistication does not carry a true sense of values or ethics.

But we all know that. It is our own fault that such situations are made possible.

Kenya natives are staging a fullscale “cargo” blitz, and it is surprising to me that some enthusiastic philologist has not attempted to link up the African Mau Mau with the Mau disturbances in Samoa over 20 years ago. The happenings in Kenya just show what can transpire with welltimed subversive organisation. Little doubt that the brains behind the movement come from Moscow. It was in ’3B (as far as I remember) there was a somewhat similar move to oust the Whites over on the New Ireland coast, but tactful District action ironed out the trouble and it went murmuring underground. One day history will explain many of these native movements which seem difficult to understand now.

Seven Day Pastor Mote started iomething last month when, arriving n Sydney from a conference in Washngton, he told Pressmen a good itory of a NG tribe in the Highlands vho used to eat everybody from >abes to old chiefs. Retired RM Alex lentoul rushed into print to express lis doubts on the story. The next equence was an announcement, a few ays after, by Sydney Anthropologists, dr. and Mrs. Berndt, that they were eaving for a six months’ visit among hese Highland cannibals, making heir headquarters at a place called Logu, 2i days in from Kainantu, in tie Eastern Highlands.

And talking of cannibals, there was nother story of “Miss” (I quote) dice Wedgegama, who is one of the our Papuans attending the Moral Rearmament Conference at Colombo, he is credited with having told the issembly how she, with some other lembers of the Movement, had sloped two tribes in Papua from practisig their favourite pastime of headunting. “The government was unble to stop it,” she said; but she ad gone into the jungle and perladed the chief to cease the practice.

That’s the type who should go up • Korea and arrange the long-sought Jace.

Henry Hedges, a retired Chicago isinessman, is District Adminisator of Saipan, up in the Marianas JS Trust Territory) and, accordg to a recent report, he is making big progress in Saipan by by-passing officialdom, and applying businessman methods. Canberra please note.

According to reports at the end of last month, Port Moresby and Rabaul are snarling at each other again, and Administrator Cleland pulled no punches in his remarks about his critics in Rabaul. That’s better, anyway, than releasing inconsequential nothings, wrapped up in officialese.

At least the Rabaul chaps know where they stand, and will probably get what they want in the end. They have to live there.

Bits and Pieces: Died in Adelaide on September 23, Dr. Arthur George Schroeder. A Before Medico and a good cove. . . . Engaged: Kim Pennefather (son of Vic.) to Jean Golsby, of Rockley. . . . Melbourne High Court has granted William Mervyn Creighton leave to appeal against his conviction for a criminal offence against a native woman. ... A bit of old Rabaul days came over the air from ABC (Sydney) not so long ago when Colin Simpson, in an interview by Frank Legg, turned on a wire recording of Gilbert Benton up in Rabaul reciting his old favourite, “ ’Arold at ’Astings.” It was as good as ever. 23 Territones' Talk Talk (Continued from Page 20) ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Autralia’S Great Rice Mystery

What Becomes of £30-£40 Per Ton of Rice Sold to the Islands?

IT costs over £lOO Australian to deliver a ton of Australian rice at any -■ point in the Islands. The Australian grower is now (November) I getting £3O per ton. Who gets the balance? That is the unsolved mystery of South Seas commerce, at the moment.

AST month, in an unguarded 4 moment, PIM said that the hole sale price of rice was £25 for )me consumption and £34 for ex- )rt. This was patently wrong. This as the grower’s price. The wholele price is £75 per ton.

The violent protests from the wholelers stirred PlM’s interest. If the ower gets only £3O per ton, and the holesaler pays £75 per ton for rice r the Islands, what becomes of the fference between £3O and £75 per n —that is, £45 per ton?

The further PIM followed the trail, 5 more it found of evasion, a snarll mind-your-own-business attitude, d plain babbling. The more imrtant the executive interrogated, the >re baffling the smoke-screen. The K>le attitude of these people sug- >ted a “racket.”

Finally, after many inquiries, PIM ve it up. But the conviction relins with us that, in the sale of istralian rice to the Islands, there deliberate and ruthless profiteering, show that that belief is wrong, it 1 be necessary for the Australian crests concerned to produce to Vl —and to the Canberra Departnts to which this article will be >mitted —some evidence that the stralian gents who control the rketing of rice are not profiteering on Islanders' needs in a fashion peculiarly damnable. rpHE padi rice apparently goes from A the growers to some mysterious milling organisation. The millers pay the growers £3O per ton at present for the unhusked grain. The millers claim that when they husk the rice, they lose 34 per cent, of it, by weight —or one third. Some folk who know something of rice-growing declare that this claim is ridiculous—that the loss is not more than 25 per cent.

They may be right—but let it go as 34 per cent.

Milling of rice is a very simple operation. All over rice-growing countries, like Fiji, one finds homemade contraptions which de-husk the rice, operated by Indians with man or horse-power.

There is a difference between growers’ price and wholesalers’ price of £45 per ton. Shrinkage, 34 per cent., may account for £l5. That means that the miller, for milling and bagging and transporting the grain to the wholesaler, gets at least as much as the grower—a good deal more, if the shrinkage is only 25 per cent, or less.

Information is that the milling process includes the following: Grain is first husked, then some is 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Small and broken grains are turned into rice starch, and flour, or into porridge meal and stock food or into a material used in brewing. A byproduct is gluten, which is used to enrich foodstuffs naturally deficient in protein. In short—mighty little of the unhulled rice grain is wasted.

One snarling gentleman who told PIM not to “blot its copybook” over rice declared that, if the millers made profits, the profits went to the pn ducers because the producers own the mills. That is not in accord wi our information. We are told th the milling interests are very hurt ai very, very angry because the Murrui bidgee rice-growers have lately i stalled their own mills.

PIM editor informed the gent: man that rice-buyers throughout t South Pacific were cursing Austraj daily for the huge prices bei: charged. The gent replied that thi ought to thank Australia, becau Australia actually is selling her rii to the Islands at at least £lO und world parity.

Which may be true. But it st does not convince PIM that certa Australian middlemen are not wallo ing in a first-class racket.

The gent said also that “if a: racket is being worked, it is by t wholesalers, who lift the price fra £75 per ton in Australia, to ov £lOO per ton in New Guinea.” other words, profit plus freight, pll charges, lifts the price about 33 p cent. But the millers’ profit, pll shrinkage, plus bagging, plus trail port, lifts the price at that stage I well over 100 per cent.

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SUDDEN, sharp first-of-theseason nor’-westerly blow caught miara on the evening of October Three ships were anchored at tint Cruz—the MV Malolo, owned South Pacific Traders, who are re- Dving scrap metal from the Prodorate, under the direction of Sir Ibert Dyett, who is at present stayl in Honiara, the MV Maroxo, med by the Fairymead Sugar Comny, Yandina, and the AV Tulagi, Tied by a Chinese syndicate.

The Malolo’s anchor dragged and r master (Capt. Adams) endeavred to get out to sea; the Marovo d the Tulagi were soon in trouble d temporarily out of control, and th collided with the Malolo under : force of the wind. The Marovo d the Tulagi succeeded in getting t to sea, but the Malolo, hampered the other vessels, went up on the ich broadside on, in spite of considible skill exercised by her expended master. Efforts to get her off der her own power next day were successful and she was finally lied off by the AV Miena (Capt.

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Fhe Malolo suffered considerable nage.

Fhe MV Ambon, owned by R, C. lies Pty. Ltd., sailed shortly bee the blow for Ulawa, under irter to the 8.5.1. P. Government ide Scheme, to tow the Trade Scheme’s 66-foot MV Biliki to Tulagi for engine repairs. The Ambon was caught by the storm and went up on a reef near Rua Sura, off the Guadalcanal coast, but owing to the skill of her master (Mr. T. Elkington) came off the reef and proceeded to Ulawa..

Meanwhile a small launch, owned by Mr. A. M. Andresen, of Mandoliana, near Tulagi, had broken down on its way to South Malaita and drifted for 2J days, with Mr.

Jack Andresen and a native crew on board. The Mandoliana launch drifted towards San Cristoval, where it was sighted by the Swedish vessel Lidvaro, which was passing en route to Tarawa. The Lidvaro eventually cast off the launch in the most favourable position for it to drift down on Ulawa. Sighting the Mandoliana launch, Mr. Elkington, who had by then arrived on Ambon, managed to get a line on board before she could hit the reef, and the Ambon towed both the Biliki and the launch safely back to Tulagi for repairs.

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Mr. Ragnar Hyne is Fiji New Chief Justice From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Oct. 19.

MR. RAGNAR HYNE, Puisr Judge in the Gold Coast, h; been appointed Chief Justice of F; in succession to Mr. J. H. Vaugha: who has retired.

Mr. Hyne is well known in tl South Pacific. He was born i Norway in 1893 but was educated i Australia. He was attached to tl Queensland Education Service unt he joined the Army in the Fir World War.

In 1920 he was appointed Directs of Education in Tonga and in 192 was called to the Queensland Ba After a period as Chief Polw Magistrate and Legal Adviser in tH British Solomons, he returned 1 Tonga, where he held senior judic; posts and was secretary to tl Premier. In 1938 he was appoints Chief Magistrate and Legal Advis* in the British Solomon Islands Pr< tectorate. During World War II li acted for a time as Resident Magii trate in Fiji and in 1943-44 he w; on war service.

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WHEN did the French have an interest in this country?” sked an alert NZ journalist, when e stepped ashore at the new atapuala seadrome, 20 miles west of ipia, in Samoa, on October 14.

“The French were never here,” he ras told. “Those signs which you ?e around, in English and French, :ill smell of wet paint. They have ist been put up by TEAL”.

TEAL now are running the reguir air service from Auckland to Fiji, amoa and Tahiti, and the new signs re the evidence of their thoroughess—they are catering for both nglish and French travellers.

Further evidence of forethought id planning was seen in the organiition of the press party on the augural flight (“inaugural” beluse, although the TEAL planes ive been going to Tahiti since muary, they included the Samoa ill only as from October 13).

The chairman of TEAL, Sir jonard Isitt, led a party of 14 ustralian and New Zealand writers, eluding three women, from Aucknd to Suva (Fiji), Apia (Samoa), itutaki (Cook Islands) and Papeete Tahiti), in October—and it was a markable experience. Greeted and ted by all classes, decorated with s by the prettiest Euronesian girls Samoa and Tahiti, wined and led by friendly Administrators, acmmodated in luxurious hotels and tertained at picnics and excursions shapely dancers and skilled native Lists, the writers could scarcely fail give maximum publicity to the mber and variety of tourist ractions along the new Coral mte.

The features likely to fascinate ;asure-seeking travellers always ve been there, in Fiji, Samoa and hid—all that is needed now are »anisation and publicity. The new ng in the situation is this TEAL ■vice.

U PERL ATI VES are needed to describe the seaplanes and the •y they are operated. From Auckid back to Auckland—many msands of miles—the Solent on lich we travelled ran like a firstiss railway train, with security, mfort, amenities and a timetable :urate to the minute.

These planes leave the water at a fixed time. It is announced that they will fly over certain islands during certain minutes; that they will descend onto the water at a nominated time; and in all the 12 days we were with the service, the timetables were never altered.

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THERE has been controversy a between sea and land planes fo this important TEAL service througl Polynesia. TEAL is committed t< seaplanes—with the result tha Western Samoa had to waste nin< months in the construction of a sea drome; and that Rarotonga and Pag( Pago, which cannot provide sea dromes, are now completely shut of from air services.

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But the situation may change. It is announced that TEAL cannot get seaplane replacements for the service, any more—so the big company will presently have to turn over to big land-planes. Land-planes could go to Rarotonga, Samoa, Tonga and Pago).

But there would be serious complisations in relation to Suva and Papeete. The strip nearest to Suva is at Nausori, 12 miles away, and it is not suitable for the largest planes —they must go to Nadi, 100 miles iway. The strip for Papeete is at 3ora Bora Island, a long way off. it is proposed to construct a strip >n an island alongside Papeete Bay, Hit that will be a big and very :xpensive job. Suva and Papeete are he two largest towns served by the PEAL Coral Route, and seaplanes in ;ach case come practically into the owns.

The substitution of land-planes nay solve some problems, but it yould create others more serious in haracter.

OLANES on TEAL’s new Coral t Route go 3,000 miles out eastwards of Fiji, and come back along he same route. Papeete is a dead nd. It seems unlikely that it will emain so. It is probable that this ervice will continue from Tahiti orthward to Hawaii, or northeast irto Central America, West Indies nd on to Europe, via the northwest oast of Africa.

The Australian pioneer aviator, 'aptain P. G. Taylor, expects that he latter route will connect with 'entral America or perhaps South mierica via Clipperton Island, a line lat he surveyed personally a few ears ago. He says it is quite racticable.

TEAL, Pan American Airways and dr France are all watching developlents: each would like to put in the nk that will connect Tahiti with the Americas. Unfortunately, such a link ould have to be subsidised, because iere is nothing even remotely ;sembling traffic to be picked up nywhere between French Oceania nd Hawaii, or America. In time, no oubt—such is the tourist fame of ahiti in USA—any airline connectig French Oceania with North America will get substantial tourist traffic.

An airline from Tahiti, through Clipperton Island, Central America, West Indies and Northwest Africa to France would give an almost straight line, across the globe, from Sydney to Western Europe.

Mr. Austin Brodein of Raiatea, Mr. Joseph Bunton of Newcastleupon-Tyne, and Mr. B. W. S. Wilson of Auckland were passengers in “Waihemo” from Tahiti early in September. Mr. Bunton left England in the yacht “Inspire” and left that vessel at Rarotonga in 1951 after falling in love with Jeanine Ceran of Tahiti. Miss Ceran went to Rarotonga, they were married, settled in New Zealand. Mrs. Bunton returned to Tahiti on a visit some time ago—and will soon bo returning to Auckland with a daughter. Mr. Wilson, of Auckland, was returning home after a period of interesting seafaring. He left Auckland as a member of the crew of “New Golden Hind” in April, 1951. When that vessel was sold in Tahiti, he was one of four who went to England to bring the Fairmile passenger vessel “Philante II” back to Tahiti. It is expected that the vessel will also be sold there. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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It seems the boy was guilty of hat is technically called an “inecent assault” on a native child of yen tenderer years. In solemn conave, the Court decided that he lould have five strokes with a strap, his fearful punishment was carried nt in the presence of the magistrate, medical officer, an assistant district Eficer, a police inspector and the yo guardians of the child.

If the child does not now feel that ; is a mighty important being, then iere is nothing to child psychology, he proceedings no doubt will be ported to the next meeting of the N Trusteeship Council for the lification of the Russians in whom the milk of human kindness runs so deeply.

A veil was drawn over what the dirty little boy actually did to the little girl—nonetheless it seems to be an absurd fuss over very little. If we can believe Malinowski, whose Sexual Life of Savages used to be set reading for budding anthropologists, what is called indecent assault in European communities was regarded with about the same degree of tolerance in some Papuan communities as our teenage wolf-whistle.

Most Australian newspapers ignored the incident and the Canberra explanation, but the fiercely Pink Melbourne Argus headed their story, “Native Boy Lashed”.

Miss Nona Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Rice of Ba, Fiji was married early in October in Melbourne to Mr. David Murray Hull.

Pacific Islands Society Reorganised The Pacific Islands Society, which has had a struggle to survive against ever-mounting costs, now has been reorganised under the presidency of Major C. A, Swinbourne, and the monthly meetings will be continued, as from November. The members in future will meet in the Feminist Club rooms, at 77 King St., Sydney, and coloured films illustrating Islands subjects will be shown at the November meeting (Friday evening, November 21).

The Society has been in existence now for nearly 20 years; and many distinguished visitors have addressed the members—who mostly are Sydney residents with a cultural or social interest in the Islands.

Mr. George Yates, newly appointed Registrar of the Fiji Supreme Court, has arrived in Suva from the United Kingdom. 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Mr. R. N. Caldwell, CMG, MC, Deputy Secretary for Fijian Affairs, has retired after mare than 45 years in the Fiji Public Service. He served as a District Commissioner in nearly all districts of Fiji, and has an exceptional knowledge of the Colony and its peoples.

P-NG Agriculture Chief Mr. J. R. Hall has taken over th management of the Rabaul Branc of the Bank of NSW, in place o Mr. F. G. McMullen who has re turned to Australia.

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THE breakfast waiter in the Noumea restaurant waved a card in front of me and said “Feesh”.

“Yes, please, fish”, I said, mentally thanking the high gods for fresh food.

The waiter stared, and answered, ‘‘Feesh, s’H vous plait”. The man sitting opposite (whom I afterwards knew as Dr. Black, of the Sydney School of Tropical Medicine) had a kind of convulsion.

“He wants you to fill in a form,” he explained, when he recovered.

I looked at the form. It was leaded “Fiche”. Before I could eat, I had to supply the high panjandrums of the French Colony with my name, address, birthday and the maiden name of my mother.

I complied, wearily. Travel in the Pacific to-day, especially when crossing international lines, is just one long orgy of form-filling. ♦ « * DR. BLACK, a keen young Australian specialist, was en oute to the New Hebrides, on a nalaria quest for South Pacific Comnission.

Every year these research men are getting their fingers further around he windpipe of the malaria bug; and oon they will have it under control, fhey attack it now from two sides— >y drugs, which kill the bug in the luman body; and by destroying the •ug’s host, the Anopheles mosquito. 1 was most interested to learn that hey now are concentrating on “the nystery of Longitude 173"—why nalaria infestation reaching from Africa and Asia eastwards across the stops dead on the line of the olomons and New Hebrides. Twenty ears ago, the PIM was asking why here is no malaria in Fiji, and the rchipelagoes eastward.

Mr. M. Laird, a skilled entonologist, is now in Fiji, examining gain the Fijian mosquitoes. Other are giving attention to the Inopheles along the eastern coast of Australia, where there ought to be nalaria, and isn't. If they can find nmething peculiar to Fiji and Eastern Australia, the anti-malaria work ould be helped very much. * * * PRONUNCIATIONS cause same - trouble in Suva. The well-krtown lotor-ship Thor was usually called Tor” —which is substantially correct -but her successor, the Thorsisle, has ot even the careful ones bothered. 1 heard a respectable merchant refer to her this morning, when she arrived, as “The Thorzizzle.”

The gentleman in charge of a broadcast, on the day Sir Ronald and Lady Garvey arrived, referred to them as “The Governor and Governess.” * ijc * HERE in Suva, where the huge mills of the Carpenter group now prepare for the market all the finer products of the coconut, it is surprising to find some stores offering 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Some of the shipping agents there y that often it suits them much tter to pay for service and supies in francs, and they and the shipng companies get whatever benefits ere may be in the exchange adjustent—a perfectly legitimate comercial transaction. But a Socialistic ireaucrat naturally will argue that e Government should grab at all change advantages—and there are me very Socialist gentlemen in the ench administrations.

In Noumea, as in Australia, cerin of the wartime controls over ide and industry are maintained; id, of course, the black markets flourish accordingly. * * * along, one has news of two former NZ Administrators of Western Samoa.

Colonel F. W. Voelcker, that energetic man, went under his own steam to Korea, where he now is doing a good job as officer in charge of the various instrumentalities created by the United Nations for reconstruction and rehabilitation in South Korea.

Sir Alfred and Lady Turnbull now are living in Stamford, Conn., USA.

Their daughter, in wartime, married an American airman, who later was killed at Okinawa.

'EM! I is very hopeful that the Warner Brothers film production—which has brought hundreds of thousands of pounds of new money into the Colony—will be followed by a Paramount production.

But nothing has been settled yet, and Paramount will not come unless Warners leave the basic equipment here for them. Warners are not happy about that; and some sophisticated landlord is to blame.

The Warner studio was built on two acres of agricultural land, worth £5 or £lO per acre. When further enterprise was suggested, Warners thought they might buy the two acres, and leave the studio and equipment there. 37 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1952

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They approached the landlord, expecting to be kindly received and asked to pay the fair value of the land.

The landlord asked a sum running into three figures. Warners “Well it is not agricultural land,” said the landlord. “You have given it another classification. It is now much more highly valued.” Warners, who have never niggled at heavy expenditure here, merely cursed and withdrew.

Even millionaire shows can be sensitive in these matters. * « * Mixed up among sweating technicians, masses of leads, snoozing folk in costumes, and odds and ends of furniture, we stood around for two hours in the Warner Brothers’ hastily-built studio at Deuba an watched the filming of His Maiesi O’Keefe.

All around us was a kind of mau ness. Engines chugged, Fijian helpe; yelled, gentlemen in highly coloure shirts swore horribly in an America accent, all kinds of nondescript fol< rushed here and there. But right u in the middle, in a Hongkong roor under intense light, there was ord* and method.

A little group of players wen through a scene again and again an again, until one could have screameo Finally, a quiet voice said: “OKthat will do. Good work, fellers, and then they began unscrambling thr set.

The bit of film that thus was achieved, after a day’s work by in numerable people and incalculabll equipment, will be run off in the fins production in about 30 seconds. * * * OV chance, I found myself stand 13 ing near the set beside Mis Joan Rice, the star—young, slim an<i very pretty. She stood on one leg and wriggled her bare toes. (At thii stage in the story she is a bare-fooc wench, picked up by the O’Keefe to be made mistress of his empire.) “Pretty tough on bare feet, I shoulo think,” I remarked.

I had struck the right note. Mis;.

Rice was most eloquent on the effec 38 NOVEMBER, 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLV

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: South Seas coral on feet trained i the pavements of Hollywood, Lon- )n and New York. She ended her »eech with the opinion that her irned soles apparently were never >ing to get tough enough to withand the unpleasantnesses in the soil : the Deuba locations.

Someone else told me of the charge : the bank brigade. The Warner anagers engaged a hefty bunch of iva bank clerks to week-end at euba, and play the part of a pirate mg which creeps up a beach Upon a jeping village, and engages boisterisly in rape and allied entertainent.

They rehearsed in shoes. All went ell, and they prepared for the ake”. Like any youths on a welllid holiday, they howled like wolves they landed on the beach and preired to rush upon the promised itertainment.

“Bare feet for this one’’, ordered e director. They removed their oes and, at the word, charged up e beach. Next minute, all sugges- >ns of rapine were gone. The oodthirsty pirates were sitting on eir sterns, whimpering, and trying remove the coral splinters from eir feet. It was that kind of a ach.

Tyranny Of Rice

What a New Guinea planter called e “tyranny of rice” is manifest over ! these Polynesian territories. They 1 want more rice, and howl because ey cannot get it. Samoa says it ould have far more than the ggarly 240 tons p.a. it has had tely.

These people were not exactly irving when the Europeans introiced their economy over a century o, and rice was unknown. Even if ey cannot return to the ancient ods, why do they not try to grow eir own rice, instead of paying this liculous £lOO per ton? Rice can ; grown easily in any of these lands.

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Seeking further material for a book i Queen Emma of New Guinea, I id amazing luck in Samoa. At atautu Point, near Apia, I called •on a charming old lady, Mrs. R. avidson, youngest of all the many iters of the famous Emma; and ere, on the wall of her big and xurious lounge, was hanging a large lotograph of the late Jonas M. Coe, aited States Consul in Samoa over century ago, and father of Emma dof very many other Coes. Mrs. avidson was more than kind—she ve me a lot of family history, and lowed me to bring away that preci- 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1952

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Shutting Coral Heads

Clearing coral heads out of lagoon, to permit navigation, usualll is a long, laborious task, based oc the complicated process of under water blasting. But Alan Pritcharo who prepared the seadrome at Sate Puala. Western Samoa, for TEAL 1 , service, developed a new and effectivv technique. He went to each cora> head with a big float and a powerful winch; attached a wire rope to thi mushroom-shaped coral; and thei; winched until the head came off. Thei; the head was towed into deeper waten The method was quicker ami cheaper, and now the big seaplanes have miles of clear waterway. Bul the float and the winch are still handy. Coral heads never cease theii slow growth.

Always Fresh Water

All around the lovely island ox Tahiti there are water-supply system:! —some private, some public. As in so many of these fortunate Polynesian islands, the high central mountains ol< Tahiti begin to rise only a mile or so inland, Thjsir tops are always in con i tact with the rainclouds, and the water runs down to the foot of the hills.

I found water under pressure on the wide lawns of my friend Oscafij Nordman’s lovely house at Papara.f “High water rates?” I asked.

“No rates at all,” he said. “Govern-i ment provided the pipes, and we sup-< plied the labour, and we maintain! the line.” It is a system I commendb heartily to many other communities..;

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In the same area, I examined thes water and power supply of Mr. H. WJ Kinney, a once-famous Americans journalist, now happily retired. His 2 installation will interest man y \ Islanders especially in New Guinea..!

A few hundred yards from his house,. 80 feet up the mountain-side, a little t stream is dammed. A 3-inch pipes comes from the dam to a No. 16 Pel-ton wheel in Mr. Kinney’s backyard.. (Continued on Page 105) 40 NOVEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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SUVA, Oct. 20. f was one of those unpleasant mornings in Suva. There was no dside tea and, when I snarled at ; anxious Indian room-waiter, he plained that the milk had not •ned up.

I sat in at breakfast and ordered sh pawpaw, one of life’s comnsations in Fiji. “No pawpaw to- Y,” said the waiter. I compromised prunes—which had been gallant ling plums in NZ long years ago and ordered fresh fish. When the i came, it was mostly batter. I ust it aside, and opened my heart the sternlooking man opposite. ‘What a menu!” I moaned. “What breakfast! I’ve been coming here ■ 20 years. It hasn’t changed.” d more to the same effect.

He wasn’t co-operative. In fact, seemed to resent me. “What uld you suggest?” he grumped. ‘Local fruits and vegetables—and ne imagination,” I said. I spoke length, and felt that I was doing well. But my neighbour was unimpressed, and sour.

“Good morning—good morning,” said a bright voice—and there was David Butler, Fiji manager of Union SS Co. “May I introduce Mr.

Woods, our Islands manager—just here on a visit, to look us over.”

I sank slowly into a state of horror. The man whom I had been addressing bright remarks on the breakfast menu of the Grand Pacific Hotel was the Islands manager of the Hotel’s owner, Union SS Co. of NZ. I drew a veil over an embarrassing incident.

But there was a sequel. Next day, at the GPH, I was one of a luncheon party arranged by Mr. Woods. We had soup, fish, beefsteak with three vegetables, a sweet, Brodie biscuits and cheese; and my courteous host pointed out, in a casual aside, that everything on that table was a product of Fiji.

Actually, the old GPH (established 1914, according to the foundation stone) is very well managed; but distressing accidents occasionally do happen to supplies. The accommodation problem in Suva is as acute as ever. If Suva had half a dozen GPH’s, Fiji could cope with the rich tourist traffic that is available, and that Fiji deserves.

Encouraging Visitors

Reference to tourism leads to to another faux pas story. I was decanted from a plane at Laucala Bay, and lined up for Customs inspection.

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It was no use. “Open it, please,” he ordered.

I had got it open, with wes phrased and very audible commer when there was a kind of stranglJ yelp behind me. It was Len Ushe Public Relations Officer, who h;j come down to meet me.

“God Almighty,” he wailed. “V, spent all Tuesday on the Tourf Conference, discussing all the waf in which we can make the; formalities less irksome to traveller and now I come and find you this state.”

I laughed and forgot it. But do remember that only last yea when PlM’s assistant editor arrive in the same Customs shed, she wr taken out of the queue, and uij ceremoniously thrust aside, to awa official attention later, because sH had no return ticket. It was onlj after the furious lady had produce to them her authority to operau upon our Suva bank account th;j they let her in, satisfied that aft© all she had not come to Fiji to fao a fate worse than death.

Fiji, like other Territories, is eag© for tourist traffic. Fiji, like th others, will have to learn that ai though petty officialdom loves tt herd travellers around as if they wen sheep, the travellers hate it am react accordingly. The few shilling 42

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Problem Of Hotels

PHI’S departmental heads and commerce chiefs met in formal onference early in October, to find /ays and means to stimulate tourist raffic. Fiji has an enormous uneveloped industry in her tourist ttractions; and Fiji, through causes diich need not be described here, as been “running in the red” for bout two years. Fiji must sell at last another £2,000,000 worth of roduce per annum, to maintain the ght balance; and there is no product f Fiji easier to sell to Australians ad New Zealanders than a holiday ;re.

The key to the whole Fiji tourist tuation, of course, is the hotel ac- >mmodation. In Suva, since the muary hurricane crippled one hotel id wrecked another, there have not :en enough hotel beds to meet the >rmal demands. The kind of urism that really would make the jian purse bulge would require at ist a couple more modern hotels Suva.

The three main hotels—Grand icific, with Garrick and Metropole second place—provide excellent commodation; but none seems to ve any plans for extension.

GPH, now the mecca of most ivellers, ought to extend; but PH’s owners, the cautious Union Co., will promise nothing. GPH’s lited capacity (60 guests, or so), is to-day’s fantastic wage rates, is the fact that GPH’s distance >m town robs the hotel of ihe lal profitable bar trade, makes it ficult to wring profits out of the ;erprise. But 150 guests, under the ne overhead umbrella, would give 'ery different set of figures. |NE bright suggestion at the Tourist Conference was that, as Government is most anxious to nulate the tourist traffic, the •vernment should take over the 'H from the Union SS Co. imour hath it that the Co. would for £80,000) and extend it, and i it for tourist encouragement tier than immediate profit.

Whereupon Morris Hedstrom aited —who have just commenced aping the rocks off the site for new Club Hotel on Victoria ade—sat up in amazement and ror. “What!” said they. “Invite Government in, to compete against us in the hotel business, with public funds? Not on your life! No more construction on the Club Hotel until this position is clarified!”

That is one of the minor headaches now facing the new Governor.

It seems clear enough that there cannot be a worth-while tourist trade unless there are more first-class hotels in Suva. In these unhappy days there can be no new hotels built without the real co-operation and support of Big Business.

Pan American Airways have placed an order for three Comet 111 jetliners with an option of seven more.

These advanced models are not due for delivery until 1956. Engines are similar to the Canberra bomber, one of which crossed the Atlantic recently in 3 hours 25 minutes.

Hindu scientists have developed synthetic rice to help combat the food shortage in India. The synthetic grain, which is produced from Tapioca and peanuts, will be massproduced at a new plant in Madras, in western India.

Three properties on Sudest Is., Eastern Papua, formerly owned by the late Mrs. Elizabeth Mahony, are offered for sale by advertisement in this issue. 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1952

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RABAT!! <?pnt 97 tl'\ ss. at caused a flutter among ibaurs public servants who view ih dismay the coming of another wet season with their borer-ridden paper shacks nine months more the at taff The Rev. and Mrs. G. Bergmann of the Lutheran Mission at Boana, near Lae, New Guinea, with their three youngest children, reached Sydney in the Nellore at the end of September. They will be joined there by their five other children and the whole family will go on to Germany for 12 months leave.

None of the Bergmanns has been in Germany for 23 years.

A wedding of interest to Samoa took place in Auckland on October 4, when [?]aumua Tamasallau Fuimaono, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. Fuimaono Taala, was [?]arried to Toalua Sa Tulasau at the Pacific Islanders' Congregational Church, Newton, [?]z. The photo shows, from left to right, Mrs. Fuimaono, the groom and bride, and [?]r. Fuimaono. 45 ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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After a year’s quarantine, about 80 varieties of sugar cane brought back from New Guinea by the expedition of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations was planted experimentally at the Mackay, Queensland experiment station in September.

Mr. Dick Greaterix and Mr. Peter Huret returned to Wau, NG, on the September Bulolo after leave abroad. Before settling in Wau several years ago, and making a beautiful garden and home there, they had lived in Tahiti and Dunk Island.

Primitive Man In New

CALEDONIA HAVING spent six months in Ne; Caledonia the University o California’s Archaeological Exped tion, led by Professor E. W. Giffor' completed its work at the end c August, and returned to USA wit large quantities of material for studl 52 sites were examined—ll of ther by excavation.

The scientists collected potsherd! charcoal, ground and polished ston implements, chipped stone impk ments and things made of she!

Laboratory examination of thes will show the age of the culture; and some of the conditions unde which the people lived.

The material gathered, apart froi potsherds, was not abundant. Pr« liminary survey suggests that the ii digenous population of New CaM donia was of Melanesian type an came from overseas rather later tha the settlement of Fiji. The scier tists found no pre-pottery culturr level. The first arrivals appear t have been in the Neolithic stage.

The expedition had the approve of the Pacific Science Board of tE National Research Council, Washim ton, DC. 46 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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THE tour of the Fijian Rugby football team in Australia this year yielded a profit of £10,419.

The Fijian Union share is £2,083.

NSW Union gets £4,500; the Australian Union, £810; and Queensland, Newcastle, Armidale and Dubbo share the remaining £3,026.

The Fijians grossed over £25,000 in gate money, but expenses were leavy. Entertainment tax swallowed ip £5,000; plane fares for the Fijians vere £4,000 and hotel expenses ■2,500.

Fijian As Captain Of

Sydney Team

Apakuki Tuitavua, captain of the isiting Fijians, who remained behind a Australia to take a course in meat aspection, captained Drummoyne Jam against Canberra in September.

Tiis was the last match of Drumloyne for the season and Apakuki ras presented with the club’s blazer ) mark the event.

Big Offer To Levula

It was reported from Fiji in Sep- :mber that an English League club ad made an offer of £2,500 plus anuses to Josef a Levula, Fijian ar forward, for a season in Engind. Levula, in accordance with ijian custom, had referred the atter to his Chiefs for their advice.

Jo, as he was affectionately called, iptured the hearts of Australians— id the previous year, of the New salanders. If his fans had a choice the matter he would stay right ere with his team mates in Fiji, is unlikely that he would be par- “ularly happy in England without em —in spite of the big offer.

Tabua Returns To Fiji

Before the Fiji Rugby Union team :t Sydney for home in August a sua was presented to Ratu George ikobau by Mr. Basil Kirke, an istralian Broadcasting Co. executive.

This particular tabua once beiged to King Cakobau, grandfather Ratu George, and had been in r. Kirke’s possession since 1913 ten it was presented to him by tu Kadavau Levu.

Mr. Martin Returns To

AUSTRALIA Mr. Les' Martin, who managed the lans during their tour in Julyigust, returned to Australia on liday in September.

But first he went to New Zealand ere he saw the Australian team, n visiting the Dominion, play the ‘°nd Test at Wellington. Mr. irtin is a Victorian but has lived in Fiji for 10 years. All good Victorians are followers of Australian Rules football, but Mr. Martin apparently picked up the Rugby virus somewhere.

The archives of the Colony of Fiji containing thousands of original documents dealing with the events before and after the signing of the Deed of Cession, are being classified and surveyed by an officer of the Australian Commonwealth National Library. This officer will advise what steps should be taken to preserve them from deterioration. First attempts at adequate preservation were taken 20 years ago but war and post-war with its labour shortages interrupted the work.

The Suva firm of Bidesi and Sons has successfully tendered for the erection of the new automatic telephone exchange building and the headquarters of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission. Contract price for the telephone exchange is over £42,000 and for Broadcasting House, £24,858. They were the lowest tenders received. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Dutch NG Agricultural Experiment THE Dutch New Guinea Administration is opening up an area south of Lake Sentani inland from Hollandia. The area, known as the Nimboran Plains, will be used for agricultural purposes (specific details not available) in which the 2,500 native inhabitants of the area will take part. A road is being constructed from the lake to the Plains.

Produce will be brought to the lake by this road, across the lake by launch, then by road to Hollandia.

A. co-operative store has already been started for the people of the Plains irea.

The Rev. A. R. Tippett, Metholist Mission, Fiji, was on deputation work in Tasmania in November.

Recent arrivals in NZ on the Maui Pomare included (left to right):— Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith who returned from Rarotonga. Mr. Smith has for three years been in charge of the electric power station there.

Mr. Charlie Marii (centre) was met by Mr. Alex Napa (left) and Mr. Rangi Ngatae, all of Rarotonga, when he arrived.

Mr. Alf Bailey, Chief Surveyor of the Cook Islands, was South on a short business visit.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Orr returned after seven months in Rarotonga. He has been training the Administration printing office staff in printing techniques.

Some Islands Travellers 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Fiji Agents: BURNS PHILP (S.S.) Co. Ltd., SUVA FOR GILLESPIE'S Gillespie’s Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Australian wheats and is enfolded for purity. Its consistent high quality has made it the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour in the Islands. (Entolelion is a special new purifying process which reduces the risk of insect infestation).

NCHOR FLOUR GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY G. 1.97 The main east coast road, New Ireland, has been re-made and now reaches from Kavieng to Lakuramau Plantation; Works and Housing personnel are optimistic that the project will eventually be pushed through to Namatanai.

Total War On

Palmerston Rats

Since Tom Neale booked his second-class single berth for Suwarrow, loneliest island of the Cooks (PIM, September p. 121), the Mahurangi has been busy on more pressing chores. She finally expected to clea* Avarua for the western islands of thj group in early October.

Meanwhile, Tom and his tom-caE have been joined in the passenge: queue by a man with a set of rat traps, pockets abulge with rat-poisoi —and by still more cats, not necess sarily tom. This employee of thi Administration and an unstated numr ber of assistants are off on a rat blitz to Palmerston Island where thi population is being eaten out oc house and home. They plan to re main there while Mahurangi con tinues north to Suwarrow, Nassau Puka Puka and return. But the cat! —excepting always Tom’s tom —an likely to serve a lengthier tour oc duty on William Marsters’s island.

Somewhat apart and looking de cidedly superior is a group of well bred hens, again fares paid by thj Administration, which are expecteo to do their best towards improving the present impoverished poultr strain. But some of the cats haw been noted looking over them sig nificantly.

Other passengers will include Johi Numa, medical practitioner, making an official round, and meteorologies observer Toka off to relieve Johi.

Marsters for his annual leave. 50 NOVEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Expert Seeks Alternatives To Copra A N authority on the cocoa industry, ft- Mr. D. H. Urquhart, of Cad- )ury Brothers, has completed a lurvey for the South Pacific Comnission of the prospects for the stablishment or expansion of cocoa, offee and tea growing in the South *acific. He is now preparing a retort.

Mr. Urquhart several years ago, tudied at first-hand the possibilities or the growing of cocoa in Papua, Jew Guinea and the Solomons. In is latest tour he visited New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Samoa, 'ook Islands, Fiji and Netherlands lew Guinea.

Mr. Urquhart said that while cocouts must still remain the preominant crop in the South Pacific, le need for alternative cash crops as obvious. Most of the coconut [antations were developed in the tter half of the last and the early irt of the present century. As anting since 1914 had been small, e bulk of the palms were over 50 :ars old. A considerable decline in itput was inevitable.

Cocoa held a good deal of promise territories where soil and climate ire suitable, such as Western moa, Australian New Guinea, New sbrides, Fiji and Solomons.

A survey of Samoan plantations )uld reveal high-yielding trees, estern Samoa’s yield per acre of coa was about four times as great that of Trinidad, which was also ted for trees of outstanding merit, irthermore, the NZ Reparation tates had noted on their 1,565-acre :oa plantation near Apia, a tree ich showed remarkable resistance to ytophthora. As this disease caused asiderable reduction of the crop Samoa and was responsible for erious decrease in the yield where- ;r cocoa was grown in the world, importance of the discovery of tree which was resistant to ytophthora could not be overmated. rests were being made to see ether this tree (named Lafi 7 by NZ Reparation Estates) was •able of transmitting its diseaseisting quality through its seed. It 5 almost certain, however, that ; quality could be retained in terial vegetatively-propagated from i 7. n Mr. Urquhart’s opinion Samoa, with its high-yielding cocoa material and the prospect of combining this quality with Phytophthora-reslstani trees, offered better prospects for increasing cocoa output than any other cocoa-growing country to-day.

Mr. Urquhart said that coffeegrowing had been well established in New Caledonia, and that there were good possibilities of growing coffee in many other South Pacific islands where labour was available or native enterprise could be stimulated.

He considered that tea could be grown successfully in the highlands of Australian New Guinea and in parts of Fiji, and in other areas where soil conditions permitted. The prospects of tea-growing, however, were limited by lack of labour, especially the skilled labour necessary for its production, and in other cases by the inaccessibility of areas of suitable soil and climate. 51 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY_N O V E M B E R . i 952

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The Methodist Mission Board has urchased for the Papua District a new boat, the “Koonwarra” at a cost of £10,120.

Two brothers, priests from Pacific missions met in New Zealand in August. They were the Rev. Father Peter Wall, MSC, from Keppel’s Island, or Niuatobutabu, northern outlier of the Tongan Islands, and the Rev. Father James Wall, a seafaring missionary, skipper of the BSI Marist Mission vessel Hambia.

New Hotel for Suva Architect's drawing of the proposed South Seas Hotel, to be ereted on the site [?] the old Club Hotel (demolished by Janury hurricane) at the corner of victoria [?]arade 50 guests on the 4th and 5th floors. The second floor will be taken up with [?]unges and dining room. public bar and six shops will occupy the ground floor. 53 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY_N O V E M B E R . 1952

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LAE AND RABAUL Sea Passages Still In Great Demand T HE Union Steamship Company makes available to round-trippers, 20 berths on MV Tofua and six berths on MV Matua (when she runs on Islands service) but the eager interest of New Zealanders and others is such that the Company cannot now make bookings for these berths until sometime in 1953.

Probably during the New Zealand winter months, the Company could fill the whole of the Tofua and Matua accomodation with tourists anxious to escape the cold and make the popular Fiji-Tonga-Niue-Pago* Western Samoa circuit which is still the tourist bargain for travel in these parts.

Residents of the Island territories who feel that the USS ships are part of their scheme of things are always clamouring for passages and it falls to the Company’s lot to try to strike a fair balance between the demands of round-trippers and the demands of Islands residents.

Passengers from Apia whose numbers are always far in excess of the number of berths allocated that port, sometimes travel as deck passengers to Suva and complete the journey tc NZ by air.

If overseas shipping companies made ships available for cruises in the Islands, as has been rumoured, they would have no trouble in finding plenty of customers. Australian and New Zealand companies whc usually subscribe to the belief that passengers do not pay, do not and, in fact, cannot, show much interest) in developing the round-trip tourist) trade beyond present limits.

Lieut. Jim Ackland, son of Mr., and Mrs. A. B. Ackland of Suva, hast returned to Fiji from the UK where; he completed a course at the Royall Military Academy, Sandhurst. 54 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

your I esf e Tif Always use SHELL Motor Spirit and Oil The Shell Company of Australia Limited (Incorporated In Great Britain),

'Another Fiji’

Tragic Story of Mauritius THE opening of the new direct air service between Australia and South Africa, via the Indian Ocean slands, has brought Mauritius under mblic notice lately. The planes nake an overnight stop at the isands.

Mauritius has been compared with ? iji, The economy of both islands j based on sugar. In both places, odians provide labourers, artisans nd shopkeepers. In both British !olonies there is an acute political ituation, caused by the extraordinry speed with which the Indians re increasing, and their tendency > get possession of all commerce ad land. The population of the vo countries compare thus: Mauritius Fiji European 12,000 10,000 Indigenous 130,000 Indians 140,000 Chinese 3,000 Total 450,000 273,000 The chief difference between the jo countries lies in the indigenous jpulation. In Fiji, there is a virile id homogeneous native community, id the British are pledged to the election of its land rights. In Mauius there is what is called a Creole immunity—a fusion or the original rab adventurers, with subsequent cursions of Portuguese, Dutch, •ench and English. But these ople seem to have no fundamental »hts, and it is generally assumed at, in a generation or two, the Inans will be completely in possesm. As in Fiji, the Indians were troduced into Mauritius by the itish as sugar plantation labourers.

An Australian journalist says that ; Europeans in Mauritius sit with Ided hands, passively awaiting the y when India will take over.

Next Mt. Lamington Eruption: 1991 Mr. W. J. Langdon who for the t year or so has been keeping tch on Mt. Lamington, Papua, 5 on leave in South Australia in ptember.

He set up his instruments in a nana plantation at the base of mington in early 1951, and freently flew over the crater on pection.

He says that the volcano settled wn somewhat after 12 months, t will probably go on steaming another two years. If it runs true type it should not erupt again about 40 years.

NZ As Coffee Producer?

HPHE post-war shortage of almost all commodities has inspired many agricultural experiments. An executive of one of the largest tea and coffee importers in Auckland NZ, has recently announced that he is growing coffee at Keri Keri on North Auckland Peninsula.

He brought some seeds back from Samoa 2i years ago. They were planted in Auckland, germinated, and some of the plants were removed to Keri Keri. One of these plants has now flowered and shows signs of bearing a crop this year.

One coffee bush does not, of course, make a plantation—or a successful commercial enterprise, but it is pointed out that the climate of North Auckland Peninsula is mild and moist and not a great deal colder than Mangaia or Rapa Islands where excellent coffee can be grown.

Mr. Bert Covit, who has been a resident of Tahiti for some time, passed through Australia in September, bound for Manila, where he proposes to resume the work of film production. Mr. Covit, a journalist and film man, was in the Philippines when the Japs invaded, and so became an inmate of a prison camp there for four years. 55 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Local Residents Run the Broadcasting Station rHE new BSIP Broadcasting Station, VQO Honiara, transiting on 1030 kilocycyles in the ledium broadcast band, was opened n September 23 by the High Comnissioner for the Western Pacific Mr. R. C. S. Stanley) who broadast a short address to Protectorate steners.

Station VQO Honiara, which roadcasts nightly except Sundays ■om 0700 to 0800 GMT (6 p.m. to p.m. Solomon Islands time) is no rdinary station. It has been putting a an excellent programme of ;corded music, sporting and local jws, and “live” items from local jrformers but it has very few funds id is being run at present entirely i volunteer enthusiasm. The Chief 'ireless Officer (Mr. R. F. Calvert) ho built the broadcasting equipment rgely in his spare time, is acting announcer and the Assistant cretary BSIP (Mr. C. H. Allan) is ogramme Director. Mr. Allan is voting much spare time to general ogramme planning and talks of :al interest. The news and the ve” musical items, are also sparele jobs, and local residents are ming records until such time as j record library can be built up a self-supporting level.

Mr. F. Eastick of the Honiara idio Station has ably assisted the ief Wireless Officer in maintenance d technical problems.

As everybody concerned has a fullle job by day and is working der pressure owing to staff shortjs, one hour’s broadcast each day all that can be managed at present, t as soon as it is possible to do so onger programme will be given.

Sunday, September 21, saw the Sth and last of the series of halfir Sunday News Broadcasts, which ft been given as a point-to-point tismission over VQJ2, the Honiara vernment Radio Station once a sk for almost five years. •Vhen HMS Challenger arrived :k in England some time ago )fessor Gaskill, scientific officer >ard her reported that a shorted albatross—first of the species be reported for sixteen years— I been positively identified in the -ific. He said that the bird had n thought to be extinct and that identification of one was of conirable ornithological interest.

Mr. W. H. Cumines, representative of one of Australia’s largest islands exporting firms, is of the opinion that the South Pacific market, once the preserve of Australia, is being lost because Australian goods are too dear. He recently visited Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti and his impression is that goods from Japan, America and even New Zealand are replacing Australian products. He believes that only increased production and lower prices will save the day.

Mr. and Mrs. John Kuder, of the American Lutheran Mission, Lae, New Guinea, returned there recently after 18 months leave in Niagara Falls, USA. Their 12-years-old son James was with them. 57 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Ships make fast to the main buoy by means of a bridle and a quick tripping safety device which permits the ship to release instantly in the event of a sudden onshore wind endangering her.

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Fijian Boxer's Victory in Singapore Fijians are gaining: fame with the* boxers as well as with their footballer In Singapore in mid-October, Sgt. Isimes Radradro, of the Fiji Infantry Battalioc now fighting terrorists in Malaya, knocke out the Australian light-heavyweight con tender Jim Woods in the 9th round o a scheduled 10-round fight.

Over 100 of Isimeli’s Fijian Battalia) friends travelled 200 miles from thek camp to see the fight. At the end of th contest they all tried to get into tU ring to celebrate the victory with a wa dance. 58 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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UIGOROUS measures to restore and * expand the coconut industry in r iji, Western Samoa, American Samoa nd the Lower Cook Islands are beng taken by the authorities there, ccording to Mr. W. V. D. Pieris, opra specialist to the South Pacific Commission. He has just returned ) Commission headquarters here her a two-months tour of the terri- >ries named, as part of a Pacific jconut industry survey.

“In the South Pacific, coconut ield from plantations and village oldings is steadily declining”, said [r. Pieris. “At the same time the jpulations of most territories are creasing. As coconuts are their ain source of food and income, the oblem is a serious one”.

The main reason why yield was dining was that most of the icific plantations were well over 60 sars old, and the palms were apoaching senility. Other contribuig factors were the presence of ngerous pests in certain areas and neral uncertainty about the future the industry.

“The gravity of the problem is lly understood by administrative d agricultural officers in the four ritories I visited”, said Mr. Pieris. n Fiji and Western Samoa, for ;tance. rehabilitation campaigns ve been started already, and [filar campaigns are to be ingurated shortly in American moa and the Cooks. The improve- ;nt of copra quality is also receiv- ; attention.”

At the request of administrations 1 interested private organisations, '■ Pieris attended a number of iferences. These were convened discuss the development of the :onut industry, involving not only stepping up of production from sting plantations by improving nagemenl practices, but also exsion of coconut cultivation where table land was available.

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iome interesting information about don s coconut industry was given PIM in Suva by Mr. Pieris. Mr. ris is a brilliant Cingalese—he k the degrees of MA and BSc in idon, and he was for some time in command of the Coconut earch Institute of Ceylon, where world’s best copra is produced, here are a million acres under onuts in Ceylon, but 60 per cent. of plantations want re-planting. This is done by establishing well-fertilised young palms between the old palms, and then gradually removing the latter. The old timber must be entirely taken away, otherwise it harbours the larvae of the Rhino beetle. The beetle has been there since time immemorial; but, owing to some parasite, or fungus, or birds, it is not as serious a pest as in other places.

When the Ceylon expert was in Aitutaki lagoon, he found an accumulation of copra that had been awaiting shipment there for four months. He said it was “full of blue mould and crawling with insects”— yet, to his horror, it still was seriously regarded as a foodstuff. We told him about other accumulations of store-bound copra we had seen in New Guinea and its condition. He said gravely that such things are not tolerated in Ceylon.

Dr. R. W. D. Maxwell of the Fiji Medical Services has been promoted to the post of Deputy Director. He was born in Fiji, graduated in medicine and surgery at Otago University, NZ, and joined the Fiji Medical Service in 1934. He has served in hospital centres all over the Colony and since the absence of the Director, Dr, J. M. Cruikshank, on leave, has been Acting Director. 59 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Fighting Hansen’S Disease In Ng Highlands

(Contributed) A milestone in the establishment of the Hansenide Colony near Mt.

Hagen, NG, was passed on September 25 and was marked by a special junction—loo of the 212 Hansen’s disease patients, or lepers, moved into permanent, sawn-timber dwellings that had just been completed.

They had previously been treated in native-type dwellings built of round timber, plaited bamboo, and thatch.

' Visitors present on this occasion Included the District Commissioner of the Western Highlands District, Mr. R. R. Cole and his wife, Mrs.

P. Robb, wife of the Assistant District Officer, and Mr. R. W.

Collins, Instructor at the Mt. Hagen Votive Medical School. In the afterwon, the Assistant Director of °ublic Health, Dr. A. 1. May, arrived I rom the Sepik with Dr. J. C.

Mclnerney in the latter’s private done.

The new hospital buildings and European quarters represent 110,000 super eet of timber which were cut by Mr. ’. L. Aveling at his sawmill which is t an altitude of 7,000 ft. The sawmill as been operating for only 16 months, nd Mr. Aveling’s resourcefulness was aulked by nothing.

The completed quarters consist of two 9 ft. x 20 ft. wards and eight 28 ft. x 5 ft. wards. A large clinic with office od routine examination room is also sady for use, while a 60 ft. x 25 ft. lilding, containing theatre, main office, icdical store, dispensary and laboratory as been is use for several months. Mr.

K. Aitken has been responsible for ganising the building programme.

The building programme is not cometed, as the target is a 500-bed ispital. This should be capable of eating all Hansen’s disease patients in e NG Highlands area. An area 10 iles in radius from the present leper l°ny has been cleaned up as most of e 376 cases treated or being treated have walked in voluntarily from this area; 164 cases have been already discharged and 212 cases are now under treatment.

The leper colony is Government owned, but operated by the Mission Board of Seventh-day Adventists. All of the staff are members of the Mission.

The nursing Sisters have accomplished an enormous amount of work under trying conditions. There was the continual frustration of keeping wards and clinics clean when the floor was made of plaited bamboo; and the kunai roofing dropped Top shows group at function (left to right): Mrs. P. Robb, Mrs. L. H. Barnard, Mr. R.

W. Collins, Mrs. C. R. Staƒord. Mr. F. L. Aveling, Mrs. F. L. Aveling, Mrs. R. R. Cole Sisters G. M. Long, O. Y. Pearee, Mr. L. H. Barnard, Dr. A. J. May, Dr. J. C.

McInerney, Mr. R. R. Cole (hidden) and Mr C. R. Stafford.

Lower: New buildings at Hansenide Colony. Office-clinic on left with quarters lining either side of road. 61

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They deserve the improved working conditions they now have. Sister Olive Pearce has been with the colony for over two years and her laboratory experience has been invaluable to the hospital; Sister Gwen Long arrived this year from the Amyes Memorial Hospital in the Solomons bringing her wealth of experience with her.

The new drug. Diamino Diphenyl Sulphone, usually known as DDS, has many advantages over former treatments —particularly in its lack of bad toxic reactions even when given for long periods.

Its effect is not dramatic and many cases will require several years’ treat; ment before their condition is arrested but, if cases come in early, there is littlJ chance of the disease progressing whili under treatment. This is bringing nev hope to sufferers who, formerly, could d<> nothing to arrest the mutilating and disc figuring progress of this most feared o< all diseases.

Native visitors return to their village: and add to the stories of returnet patients and thus spread good report: of the effects of the treatment and 01 the hospital.

An English entomologist, Mb Brandt, was making a collection o; moths and butterflies of NG, ii November.

Mr. P. Hughes, accompanied b 3 Mrs. Hughes, returned to BSIP on October 6 by Qantas airliner. He ha: been on leave in the United King; dom but has now resumed duty a; Acting Resident Commissioner untii the arrival of the High Commisi sioner for the Western Pacific in Honiara to take up permanent resii dence. Mr. P. A. Richardson who has been Acting Resident Commisi sioner during Mr. Hughes’ absence on leave, has resumed his substant; ive appointment as Secretary to Government. 62 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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THERE has been a lively interchange of arguments and compliments between the Acting Administrator (Mr. D. M. Cleland) and representatives of Rabaul interests, concerning the planning of the new town of Rabaul.

Wartime operations obliterated old Rabaul. Postwar Administrations said that the new town should be built much further away from the volcanoes. While Canberra, for six years, dithered with the question of where to build the Islands’ capital, Rabaul private interests did a lot of building, in a jumbled pattern and iccording to no plan.

After six years, Canberra decided hat Rabaul should be rebuilt on the )ld site. The Rabaul District Comnissioner, the Town Advisory Council, the Rabaul Chamber of Comnerce and private interests generally hen were encouraged to assist Port Moresby in making a plan of remilding which would take cognisance of various important local coniderations.

Port Moresby was friendly to the Jea. There was set up a Town Planing committee comprising Messrs. . K. McCarthy (District Commisioner), J. Murphy (District Officer), j. McClennan (Works Officer), J. dchards (representing Custodian), . L. Chipper and B. Ryan (Chamber f Commerce), J. Koefod (Valuator), nd D. Barrett, MLC.

The Committee worked very hard n the plans, and finally made a series f recommendations to Port Moresby, i party of Departmental heads, consting of Messrs. D. M. Cleland Acting Administrator), Jones (Disict Services), Lonergan (Governlent Secretary) and Dr. Gunther Public Health), proceeded to Rabaul nd conferred with the Committee nd examined the recommendations n the spot, with the following result: Area to be allotted to Chinatown -Accepted.

Area to be allotted to Botanic wardens and recreational reserves— ccepted.

Native hospital and native labour impound should be located at apindik—Rejected. Decided that itive hospital shall be at Nonga orth Coast area (5 miles from abaul) and Native Labour com- )und shall be in the Sulphur Creek oad area (about 6 miles from native ispital).

Recommended that area now :cupied by native education centre (between Malaguna Road and the harbour side) should be used by Works Department workshops and bulk stores—Rejected.

Recommended that area on northern side of Malaguna Road, rising to the hills, should become a European residential area—Rejected.

Port Moresby decided that the area, partly occupied by Works Department and Education Department should remain where it is.

Recommended that, for accommodation of 200 small ships registered in Rabaul, wharf, slipway, and bargelanding facilities be placed in the sheltered portion of the harbour, from a point adjacent to pre-war OTC site, westward to the present small ships’ wharf.—Rejected. It was decided to retain this area as a boulevarde and to place most of the shipping facilities at the northern end of Malaguna 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Some members of the Town Planning Committee were angry and indignant at the rejections of their plans and, through press and radio, a subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce (Messrs. J. L. Chipper, D Gow, J. Koefod and M. W. Fishwick) made a sharp attack upon Port Moresby officialdom. They said: “Port Moresby representatives had come to Rabaul to put into effect their own preconceived decisions, irrespective of the recommendations of the local planning Committee. . ..

This was very obvious from the attitude of at least one member of Port) Moresby, when he continually gazed into space during the Conference. . .

Why should Departmental directors from PM make decisions whichi countermand the requirements of the residents of Rabaul, having apparently no thought to the inconvenience to be caused these residents, butl merely desiring to be the overlords; from a faraway seat of office in Port!

Moresby?”

A copy of the sub-committee’s communication was received by the: Acting Administrator on October 22;; and that evening a condensation of; the letter was broadcast. However,, Mr. Cleland went immediately intoi action. He telegraphed: “I regret; Chamber’s attitude. Statement is illconceived. Full reply being posted! to you.”

In his reply (posted to Rabaul om October 27) Mr. Cleland surveyed! the sequence of events and said that; he and his Departmental heads were; not idle during their visit to Rabaul! but had gone out and examined each; problem in situ, and had walked over 1 large areas of rough country; and that; finally the decisions were made, not; by the Port Moresby officials but by Mr. Cleland, himself—and he stood! by them. He then set forth his; reasons for each decision. • The Rapindik area was rejected! as a site for hospital and compound! because it was situated right in the; heart of the volcanic danger zone; it; did not provide ready access to the i sea as a means of escape; location of both hospital and compound there would have been wrong in principal.

The Sulphur Creek site was on good, high ground, was nearer the town,, and gave ready access to land and sea escape routes. The erection of’ the hospital in the Rapindik area i would have meant that it would have been totally useless if affected by an eruption. The site at Nonga provided greater safety, and was close; to the evacuation centre—a most desirable aspect. (Continued on Page 81) 64 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, Oct. 10.

THE power-plant of Honiara, BSI, which has been limping along for the last five years, finally reached danger point early in October, and in order to avoid a complete breakdown (which, among other things, would have left the township without a water supply) each householder was given the choice of retaining either his electric light, or his refrigerator, the fuse for one or the other being removed by the Public Works Department according to the householder’s decision.

Most residents decided to keep their refrigerators going, largely bemuse the first fresh meat and eggs for many weeks had arrived just jreviously by the Malaita.

There was a rush on the Governnent Trade Scheme store and Chinaown for candles and hurricane lanerns, candlesticks being improvised >ut of anything available, from bowls »f frangapani to beer bottles and [lasses. The blackout is expected to ontinue for some weeks.

Two engines for the new power ouse arrived on the Malaita. As the enerator for one had arrived preiously, there is now in Honiara one omplete new 220 KW generating set, plus a second engine, for which another generator is expected. When the new power house is completed and the new engines installed, Honiara’s electricity supply should be a good one. Meanwhile we await spare parts to keep the old powerplant going.

Monsieur J. Djaban, who has been visiting Auckland for some months, returned to Papeete by TEAL on October 28.

Cattle Airlift for NG BETWEEN October and the end of December, Mandated Airlines of New Guinea expect to fly 300 head of cattle from Cairns (Q’ld.) to Moresby and Lae.

The Lutheran and Roman Catholic Missions, as well as private plantations, are importing them. The cattle are mostly Illawarra Shorthorns, bred on the Atherton Tablelands, Nth. Queensland. 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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There was some interest in European! music, especially band music, choral! music, negro spirituals, and, of course,.

Hawaiian music. But top priority wasaccorded broadcasts by Samoan village: choirs. Sacred choir music was especially popular.

In addition to these programmes, Apia* gave excellent morning educational! broadcasts to schools.

Niue Sports Club General Meeting At the annual meeting of the Niue' Sports Club, on October 4 trophies were presented by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. C. H. W. Larsen to the; winners of golf and tennis championships..

Mrs. C. H. W. Larsen and Mr. Randolph.

Heke were presented with silver cups as; winners of the women’s and men’s; tennis singles championships. The tennis; doubles championship was won by Mrs., R. Daune and Mr. Randolph Heke.

The ladies’ golf championship was worn by Mrs. R. Slaven and the men’s by Mr..

J. Empen. The Burrow Cup for alternate: stroke play was won by Mrs. C. H. W..

Larsen and Mr. A. Jacobsen.

At the annual meeting. Dr. Graham i A. Milne was elected president of the: Club and Mr. Peter Church, secretary.

Club’s finances are in a healthy condition and it was decided to reduce the subscription to £ 1 per year. 66 NOVEMBER, 1952—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mr. Gordon Hayward, former popular member of Rarotonga Radio staff, has recently been appointed Radio Inspector at Greymouth, NZ.

A wedding of interest to old Rabaul [?]esidents took place on October 4 at St.

Phillip's Church, Church Hill, Sydney, [?]hen Margaret Elizabeth Clark, only [?]aughter of Mrs. Gladys Clark, of [?]rtarmon, and the late Hon. R. L. Clark, [?]as married to Mr. Stafford Grimes, of [?]ydney. The bride wah given away by [?]er brother, Mr. John Leuwin-Clark, and cousin of the bride, Miss Wendy Clark, cted as bridesmaid.

After the ceremony a reception was eld at “Mandalay”, Lane Cove, where number of old New Guinea residents [?]ined in wishing the happy couple every [?]rosperity. Many congratulatory messages [?]ere received from New Guinea and [?]ngland.

Photo shows Mr. and Mrs. Grimes sign- [?]g the Register. 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Blue Bags For Big Bananas

QUEENSLAND and NSW banana growers are experimenting with plastic bags tied around growing banana bunches. They say that it produces bigger and better fruit—to which consumers report that anything is worth trying if it will improve the inferior fruit sold in Australia as bananas and currently cosing about 7d per piece.

The bags are made from the sort }f plastic used for shower-curtains jtc. Red, green, white, blue and yelow have been tried but the blue )lastic gives the best results —no one mows why. The bags are drawn m over the bunch of bananas and ied with a drawstring to the stem.

Mr. Sydney H. Chance, former *apuan RM commenting on this new lotion comments: “Perhaps our Papua-New Guinea oons are not so primitive after all; ill old Territorians know how the latives wrap certain types of broad saves around the bunches of bannas and what delicious fruit they reduce—so different from the nearawdust fruit that is sold in Ausralia. I do not think the natives ■rap it solely to keep off the fruitats—l have seen them wrap it in reas that are free from these pests.” rHERE are lots of Papuan and NG old-timers around Brisbane but ne sees little of them, George Christie—looking younger than ever -Charlie Wurth and O. D. Shafer ave been sighted recently; but Peter ianta and Ned Rowlands seem a be in seclusion. Readers who relember one-armed Bob Corney dll be pleased to hear that he is nding his days very peacefully and omfortably at the Eventide Home Sandgate (writes an old Territorian, ow a resident of Brisbane).

When last visited (22.9.52) old !ob, though very deaf and nearly lind, was able to tell of the days f the late nineties, when he was fading and recruiting. Now 87, he oes not think much of our copper or gold: “Maybe there’s lots there, but I never found any of it. But they were a great crowd up there.

You only had to show you were a little bit crook, and out you went.”

Don’T Let’S Be Realist

JAMES A. MICHENER who (although he says he has not) is believed to have made a fortune out of Tales from the South Pacific, the musical based on it called South Pacific, and Return to Paradise recently visited Korea, Japan, Hongkong, Formosa, India, Pakistan, Malaya, Thailand, and Indonesia.

His new book, Voices of Asia has emerged from this last visit.

He makes his a realist’s approach —i.e. that the old Asia is finished and the best we can do is to enlist cooperation. In his realism he says that since Australia can neither populate nor develop New Guinea, we should let the Japanese in, “treat them decently, and pray that in time of trouble they will remain loyal.”

Few Australians allow their realism to take them as far as this. They may have no solution to the New Guinea mystery but as far as Japs are concerned the whole eight million of them mutter “Over our dead bodies”— and mean it.

Michener sees the rise of Asia and the eclipse of the Western world.

In 50 years, he thinks, Great Britain will be remembered affectionately for her glorious past and the United States will be a museum relic like Greece.

He may be right at that. Unfortunately the ordinary individual who has been written at more in this age than in any other, is more concerned with living in this world than reforming it. It is nice, occasionally, to toy with the idea of a world sans commentators, observers, realists or theorists.—MAC.

Churchman Looks At

MOVIEMAKERS IN the Diocese of Polynesia Church Gazette, the Rev. C. W. Whonsbon-Aston (Apia) makes his usual amusing contribution—this time an observation of movie-making and movie stars: “The whole of Apia is agog with excitement over the Aspen film production, “The Return to Paradise,” in which Gary Cooper and Barry Jones figure as the stars proper. It is interesting to know that some of the most staid members of our congregation will appear in the cast.

Susan Blood of Nondugl, New Guinea Highlands, nurses one of the first black sheep there. At the fourth Nondugl lambing, three black lambs were born and created a stir among the natives who, having become acquainted with sheep only recently, had assumed that there were only white ones. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

The picture should be an interesting one. for we gather that it deals with a missionary who is an enthusiast in protecting the morals of his flock, and a kind of beachcomber whose past has not been all it might have been, but who was looking for a Paradise where there would be but one beach, one moon, and one “dame.” The beachcomber, apparently, made good, and the lion and the lamb sported together in the end.

Those who see the film will also see something of Samoan life. I may add that the principals of the company from the States have given us a new idea of such professionals and are welcome visitors to our community.”

The Perils Of English

THIS one is told in the October issue of the Southern Cross Log.

The Bishop of Melanesia (The Right Rev. S. G. Caulton) and a member of his staff were visiting a district school on Santa Ysabel, BSI. and were browsing through some exercise books to see how the pupils were getting on. One exercise in English was “Give the masculine of” —and there followed a list of feminines. The first was “hen”, and the answer, of course, was “cock”—and so on.

The last one was goddess, and the masculine of that, according to the Santa Ysabel schoolboy who wrote it, was “cock-goddess.”

Bounty Relic Goes Home

WHEN Mr. F. H. McCoy, greatgreat-grandson of the original McCoy of the Bounty, returns to Pitcairn Island soon with his wife, he will take with him an iron axehead which he had taken down to New Zealand from Norfolk Island.

The axe was one of the articles salvaged from the Bounty before she was burnt by the mutineers in 1790. It was taken to Norfolk Island in 1856 when a part of the Pitcairn population was transferred there: and has lately been in the possession of Mrs. Nash Christian of Norfolk.

The axe will be deposited in the Pitcairn museum, along with other Bounty relics, which are gradually being reassembled.

A Bulldog For Biesel

late a good looking young Dutchman has been seen flitting from dog-kennel to dog-kennel ini Auckland, casting a speculative eye over the city’s bulldogs.

The Dutchman is Jan van Duivenboden—TEAL’s “Flying Dutchman”* now well known along the Corall Route. Normally an air traffic officer for the company in Auckland*, Jan, an ex-KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) man, travels as interpreter and factotum aboard the big Solents from time to time, and in the process finds himself charged with some strange commissions for people along the way.

Latest of these is to purchase a bulldog for Papeete’s chief of police,, M. Biesel and late in October it was said that the Flying Dutchman now has at least a nodding acquaintance with every bulldog north of Handle ton. An aggressive looking twentyfive guinea model is at present the hot favourite for the flight out of Auckland on November 11.

Monsieur Biesel already has a reputation for astuteness in criminology. Shortly after arriving in Papeete he tricked out some of his male staff in Paris models and sent them aboard an overseas ship, thereby making some clever arrests for smuggling.

Now along the Coral Route they’re wondering whether we will soon hear of some equally clever arrest by means of a bulldog, arrayed in bonnet and bib, operating from the latest in Paris prams.

ETIQUETTE THE late Sir Hubert Murray, of Papua, did not like his officers to scrape to him all the time. 1 found that if 1 gave him a “Your Excellency” the first time I met him all that was required the rest of the day was an odd “Sir” now and again!

Once, travelling in the Laurabada with him, whilst we were partaking of the usual after-dinner-cocoa, he amazed me by telling me this hither- (Continued on Page 75) Crossquiz — No. 34 (Solution on Page 75) ACROSS I.—Which is the element discovered by Peter and Marie Curie? 4.—What is the name of the African region the Anglo-Egyptian part of which has Khartum for its capital? 8. —What was the name of the King of Caria whose tomb was erected by his queen Artemisia? 9. —What is the large salt lake in Asiatic Russia? 10. —Who was the French 18th century philosopher who was the editor of the first French Encyclopaedia? 13. —Who wrote the famous poem “The Raven”? 15.—What is the name of the town in Bavaria near Nurnberg situated on the river Eger which was once an Imperial city? 18. —What is the impressions made on deeds as evidence of payment of tax? 20. —Which Rumanian king twice abdicated his throne? 21. —At which place did ancient people consult their deities? 22. —What large European animal is called a moose in America? 24.—What is the small British colony near the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb?

DOWN 1. —During which Mohammedan month is rigid fasting observed? 2. —What was the term for an ancient Celtic priest? 3. —Which is the international association of which Mr. Trygve Lie is the Secretary-General? 5. —Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia? 6. —What is the musical expression meaning “leisurely”? 7. —What is the term for the wild horse of Mexico and California? 11. —How would you express with one word “peculiar to a people or to a district”? 12. —What is the musical expression for “with gradually increasing volume”? 14.—What is the adjective which, with number one, signifies the Devil? , 16. —Which is the smallest of the Great Lakes? ... 17. What is a more poetic name for the East? 19.—What is the term for hail or snowmixed with rain? 23. —Where are the Royal Botanical Gardens, near London? 70 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Pat Mcgusty Comes Home

A COUPLE of decades ago, in a collegiate school for young girls, n Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, there vere two teen-age lasses from Fiji, Patricia McGusty and Elizabeth Hennings.

Blonde and brunette, they were dike only in that they both were mall, vivacious and pretty. And they were close friends. One was the laughter of Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, Director of Medical Services in the Colony, and the other the daughter )f Mr. Gus Hennings, one of the )est-known and best-loved of Fiji’s dd-time planters.

In due course, both returned to *iji, and were members of the Colony’s smart Younger Set. Pat vas a prominent figure in Suva; but Elizabeth and her sister spent much )f their time on their father’s planation on Naitamba Island, in the Lau irchipelago.

At Government House parties, Miss McGusty met Ronald Garvey, me of the promising young officers >f the Western Pacific High Comnission; and they who saw the meetng correctly forecast wedding bells.

Among those who attended the wedding reception in the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Suva, in the Thirties, was Ratu Sukuna, a cousin of Mr. Gus Hennings, and now the distinguished Sir Lala Sukuna.

For several years, Ronald Garvey was an increasingly important man in the South Pacific: He and his young wife moved from place to place, always on promotion.

December 6, 1941 (Pearl Harbour) found him on isolated Ocean Island, as Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Colony. Fortunately his wife and their two small children were in Suva. Five months later, Mr.

Garvey and the Administration staff were taken off Ocean Island, under the noses of the Japs, at midnight, by a very fast French destroyer.

Soon after that, the Garveys left the South Seas they loved so much— he was transferred to an important post in Central Africa; thence to an Administratorship in the West Indies; and then, five years ago, he was appointed Governor of British Honduras, and created KCMG. Sir Ronald and Lady Garvey had a full term there, in one of the least comfortable colonies in the Empire.

In 1951, the British Colonial Office sought a man to fill another uncomfortable Governorship—that of Fiji—uncomfortable because of a racial problem created by the abnormal growth of the Indian population. They wanted someone who had strength, wisdom, patience and who kept his head in a crisis.

Sir Ronald Garvey had disclosed those qualities in some ticklish situations in Central America; and he had a close personal knowledge of Fiji conditions, and the Indians. His appointment to Fiji was inevitable.

The appointment took Fiji somewhat by surprise. British Colonial officials come and go ceaselessly, and Garvey had been half forgotten.

When Suva realised that “young Ronald Garvey” and his attractive Suva-born wife were coming back, to occupy the big house on top of the hill, it hastily revived its memories of the pleasant young couple who were part of its social life in the Thirties. It liked what it remembered, and the new appointment was immediately popular . . .

AND so, on one of those rare mornings when Suva is bathed in hot golden sunshine, and the kindly trade-wind blows coolly out of the southeast, Pat McGusty came home. All Suva stood around eager to greet her, but waiting anxiously.

The little teen-age lass with whom they had danced and tennised and frivolled nearly twenty years ago was now Her Excellency. How formidable would she be?

She came down the gangway holding the hands of her two lovely little daughters, and there was no mistaking the delight with which she stepped onto the shore of her own home-land. They declared that she “had not changed a bit” since she went to Africa, and they loved her.

Sir Ronald Garvey followed, soon after, and again Suva devoted a moment of serious study to an old friend. Unlike his wife, he had put on some weight; but he had put it on in exactly the right places, and he looked every inch a Governor.

As the ceremonies proceeded, Suva relaxed, and cheered. All three communities, with the Europeans smiling happily and the Fijians Lady Garvey, wife of the new Governor of Fiji, with her two youngest daughters, descending the gangway of the Tofua, in Suva, October 6, 1952.

She is the first Suva-born girl to be the wife of a Governor of Fiji. The head of the Customs Department, and the Harbourmaster (obscured) are at the left of the picture. On the right, one of her small daughters takes her first interested look at a big Fijian police official. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Stoddart, who has acted as Governor for a year, is behind Lady Garvey. —Photo by Rob Wright. 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

vociferous, approved very definitely of their new rulers.

The day’s ceremonies concluded with an evening broadcast, and the broadcast ended on the happiest note of all. There was an address by His Excellency, and a brief greeting by Lady Garvey; and then, quite unexpectedly, Lady Garvey said this: “I feel impelled to end my greeting to you all, whatever your creed or race, in the tongue, so little used for many years, in which I first made known my wants:— “Au sa mar an vakalevu sara, e na bogi edaidai, n’iu sa kunei au tale e na kemuni maliwa oi kemuni na wekaqu bibi, ni vanua lomani k’au a sucu kina. Me vakavulai keda kece ko koya na Kaloulevu mai lomalagi.” (Freely translated: I am very happy indeed this evening, to be back in the land where I was born, and to be able to greet you all. My best wishes to you all, and may God bless you.) I wish Her Excellency had been at the receiving end of a radio, where I was, among Fijians, and seen the delight of those people, as they heard her speaking to them in their own tongue.

Story of Elizabeth Hennings AND now—for there is a singular coincidence here—we return to Miss McGusty’s school-friend, Elizabeth Hennings. What has become of her?

In the late ’Thirties, the two Hennings girls, Elizabeth and Sophie —well educated, clever and very attractive—decided that plantation life in Fiji held too few opportunities.

Their father gave them some funds, and they set off to look the world over and see what they could make of life.

On the liner Mariposa, in the United States, and in London, they stuck together, fought off the wild wolves and ultimately got themselves jobs. Elizabeth (Liz to her friends) turned to good account a remarkable talent for drawing and designing.

The war came, and both girls held war jobs.

Sophie (Beau to intimates) became an efficient pilot of planes. She was a passenger in a plane which ran into a London balloon barage, and she had a miraculous escape.

After the war, she married an Englishman with a double-barrelled name, and lives in England.

Liz followed on with designing, and had remarkable success with theatre commissions. As a measure af that success, it may be noted that she was closely associated with the Oliviers, in the design and presentation of their more important costumes.

By a happy chance, she was home in Fiji, for a spell, when the Warner Brothers sent their scouts out there to consider the production of “O’Keefe”. They planned to bring dress designers from Hollywood.

They were interested but not impressed when Miss Hennings sought them out, and suggested she do the O’Keefe costumes. She was a striking personality—pretty, petite, selfassured—but, after all, she was only a local girl. However, they said they would consider any drawings she submitted.

Liz went to work. Day and night, she dredged through old records of the O’Keefe period and places (50 years ago, in the Carolines and Hongkong and thereabouts) and then she did her sketches. I have seen the portfolio, and there is little wonder that they bowled over the Warner executives.

On top of the genuine old costumes, Liz put the product of her own artistic skill and vivid imagination; and the resulting designs must help much in the success of this film. The public will see them, in due course.

Warners “canned” all other plans, and took Fijian-born Elizabeth Hennings and her designs to their heart, and literally give her carte blanche.

Sir Lala and Lady Sukuna put their Suva house at her disposal; she assembled a large staff of assistants” scoured Fiji and the adjoining: islands for materials; and as the film: unit settled into Deuba and began: its six-months’ task, a mass "of; costumes began to move out fromi Miss Hennings’s work-rooms to the; studio. One has to see the huge task,, and the results, to appreciate the: qualities of this remarkable young: woman.

From what I have seen, I believe; that the O’Keefe film will be a complete success, and the name of Elizabeth Hennings will be associated with that success.

Early in October, the Tofua brought Miss Pat McGusty home to Fiji, to preside over Government: House, on Suva hill, as Her Excellency. Early in October, as the Warner Brothers film unit began to put the finishing touches on its film achievement, the artistic triumph of Miss Hennings was being widely recognised. It was a remarkable coincidence that those two Suva ladies, who were friends together in that NZ school 20 years ago, and whose paths diverged so widely, should both have come back to Suva, the same year, to enjoy the happiest stage: of their successful lives.- RWR.

Confidence Requires Pants The O’Keefe film is reported to have brought about a quarter million pounds to Fiji but it has also brought some high-coloured publicity. A Sydney daily recently had this to say: The company flew 278 pairs of bloomers to the Fiji Islands to induce native girls to perform hula dances.

“Girls wearing grass skirts must have some sort of bloomers underneath to give them confidence,” explained a leading tribal chief. An urgent cable to Hollywood produced a supply of nylon pants—and the seductive hula scenes were filmed.

There may be some basis for the story—but no one would recognise what it is after the publicity men have dressed it up.

Fijian girls do not normally do hula dances, seductive or otherwise, and usually look out of place and far from happy when they attempt it. Their Mekes consist mainly of hand and arm movements and a little feet-shuffling. For their dances they are usually clothed completely from neck to ankles—look at our cover picture this month.

Anyway, O’Keefe’s Caroline Islanders, although they wore grass skirts, probably did not dance hulas either. That form of dancing seems exclusively Polynesian.

A snapshot of Miss Elizabeth Hennings, on the balcony of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva. 72 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Green and Pleasant Land (Photos by NZ Tourist & Publicity Department.!

JOUTH Pacific Wonderland—that’s w hat the NZ Tourist & Pub- :ity Department call their domain, ost important of all the South icific island groups. And that’s tiat they, and Tasman Empire irways jointly set out to prove to party of Australian press men enute from Sydney to Tahiti along e Coral Route in October.

The trip was a fast one, through rt of the North Island of New aland and PI M’s representative :nt along to cast an eye over just iat this Wonderland has to offer ; sun-baked planter, the jaded bhc servant or the browned-off ands business man dreaming of >se precious weeks or months of rlough ahead, eager to put the •pics as far as possible behind him, the shortest possible time and at : lowest possible price, rhe untravelled New Zealander npletely fails to appreciate just w well endowed is his countryscenery, climate, recreational fac- Hides, transport, accommodation and in food. Many countries have one or other of these things in good measure but few indeed are so bounteously provided with all of them and, this especially, within so small a compass.

This wonderful compactness is one of the most attractive features of a furlough visit to New Zealand.

Based at say Rotorua in the heart of the North Island, or at Christchurch in the South, the visitor is within easy reach of numerous and varied attractions.

What other country could offer the possibility of catching swordfish off the coast, a trout in some quiet fly-stream, shooting deer on the edge of some stand of native bush, making a ski-run in the mountains, swimming in a thermal pool or off an ocean beach, visiting a glowworm cave, a sheep-farm as good as any m the world, and a commercial orchard—and eating three good meals in three separate hotels, all in one day? All these things and more are within two hours driving or less from any one of a number of excellent hotels in Rotorua.

What other country, too, within easy reach of the Islands resident, can offer a countryside of such sheer delight and ever changing vista? In spring, the whole land is richly dressed in every shade of green—• the amazingly green grasslands, the paler shades of weeping willow overhanging every stream, the poplars all in leaf, and the darker hedges; or the gorse-clad hillsides spangled with dull gold blossom along the roadsides, the whole set off with fat, sleek cows, and sheep heavy with wool, lambs at foot. Never is there a dreary, long straight road. The main highways are well surfaced, signposted and easily graded. Always is there some snow-capped peak or mountain range in sight.

Always the over-riding impression is one of lush fertility and natural wealth, of ever pleasing landscape. [?]ypical Farming Land. 73 iCI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY_N O V E M B E R , i 952

whether in cruising by the excellent bus services or flying the network of airways that cover both main islands and extend to the distant Chathams and to Stewart Island in the south.

Despite some American criticism of New Zealand hotels the Australian Press Party was unanimous that the standard was generally higher than in the average Australian hotel.

Only the super-luxury class of hotel is in short supply. The food is excellent. Butter is 1/8 per lb in New Zealand—and milk 4id per pint— and both are available without the least restriction in every eating house in the country, all the year round.

For those who wish to avoid hotels, who hire a car and set forth to explore the country by caravan, there are numerous beautiful campsites, many with modern facilities, others, more secluded where, beside some quiet stream restful fishing, swimming and sun bathing can be enjoyed all through the summer— with sorties to the nearest city as desired. New Zealand’s gifts to the visitor are essentially those of the outdoors.

Not all visitors from the tropics seek the bracing climate of the south. Those who do can visit and even walk upon the only accessible glaciers in the Southern Hemisphere with scarcely any climbing. By arrangement they can enjoy one of thes most moving experiences that thea Southern Hemisphere has to offer— the approach to the inner basin oft Milford Sound from the sea; a truly'< awe-inspiring experience. The largest!, ships can enter this world-apartt through the great two-mile deepq water rift in the coastal wall. With-i in, completely surrounded by moun-j tain peaks towering above to 6,0000 feet, snow-covered to their very feed in winter, nature displays itself inn its most impressive form. Hardlyy less impressive is the landward ap-( proach via a road surely as scenic as?; any in the world.

In contrast, the all-year-roundb Big city, or remote, flower-bordered mountain lake is yours for the choosing. (The city is Wellington, NZ capital).

Hot or Cold? On the left, visitors look down into some of the thermal pools at Rotorua. In the centre they explore a South Island glacier.

Trout like those shown at extreme right, may be caught in a thousand NZ streams. 74

November, 1952 — Pacific Islands Monthlyt

to unpublished story, very much of human interest: “You know, Sanasi, when I was in London last year, I was at a very posh dinner when, all of a sudden, I noticed several old dowagers looking at me, rather strangely, with raised eyebrows. To my embarrassment and horror, I found that I was cleaning out non-existent whiting from between the prongs of my forks.’’

Those who have had experience with Papuan “cookies’’ will quite appreciate the point!—SANASI. Q’ld.

The Irony Of It

A memorial service for the late Rev. John Barge, murdered by the Japs in New Guinea, was conducted by the Right Rev. David Hand, Bishop of New Guinea, in Toowoomba, Q, on November 2.

The Rev. John Barge was a missionary in New Guinea in 1942, and he elected to remain with his people when the Japanese invaded. He was left alone, at first; but when the Americans and Australians began to force the Japs out of the Territory, the latter took the missionary aboard a destroyer, landed him on the coast some distance westwards, and shot him.

Mr. Barge was only one of many Europeans cruelly murdered in the Islands by the gentlemen of Japan between 1941 and 1945. Yet—such is the irony of international events —we now are becoming friendly with the murderers again, because we do not like the shape of Soviet Asia!

The Power Of One Kiss

Fiji residents who have not forgotten their “pocket battleship” Viti will be interested to know that she is still having adventures. She was sold after the war and became a freighter, performing the usual mixed chores in New Zealand and Australian waters.

Recently when leaving Sydney, a motorman on the ship leaned over the guard rail to kiss his girl friend good-bye and, because of misjudged or prolonged timing, fell overboard.

He could not swim. Six of his friends jumped in to help him and in a matter of seconds were in difficulties. A police launch had to be called. The seven were rescued, pumped out at Sydney hospital and allowed to leave. But Viti sailed three hours late. dimate of the North Auckland pennsula is mild, frost free even in vinter, and, to the New Zealander, )ften oppressively hot in the summer. Many former Islands residents lave made their permanent homes in he lovely Bay of Islands, finding he climate ideal after years of trop- :al residence. Here is the yachtslan's paradise, the Big Game Fishrman’s stamping ground, where ranges and other sub-tropical fruits row. Even better endowed with ours of sunshine per annum is that ther yachting and camping paraise, the Marlborough Sounds at the orth end of the South Island. Here tie may spend weeks exploring the (numerable bays, reaches and isnds that form these miles of shelred waterways. This is Wellington’s uliday playground, from whence, :ross Cook Strait, people flock by icht. launch and ferry steamer all rough the summer.

With the establishment of the EAL Coral Route service to Auck' nd. New Zealand is now accesile by direct service to most southst Pacific residents, and to all the astern Pacific residents, via Nousa and Suva, or via Australia. All diday arrangements should be ade well in advance.

Recipe Corner

READERS are invited to send in their favourite recipes using Islands ingredients or ingredients easily obtainable in the Islands. Ten shillings will be paid for each one used.

Desserts In A Jiffy

Banana Cinnamon Toast

Peel and slice a thick layer of bananas onto hot buttered toast. Sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon and brown under a griller or in top of oven.

Serve piping hot with canned or fresh cream, sweetened and flavoured with vanilla.

Banana Cream Whip

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Mr. J. W. Cittins, at present on leave in the United Kingdom, will shortly resign from the Fiji Government service on medical grounds.

He has spent 22 years in the Colony, firstly as a Cadet then as a District Commissioner in many districts. Before going on leave last year he was Assistant Colonial Secretary.

Solution to Crossquiz from Page 70 R. KEITH CUMMINGS of Rabaul, ted and indefatigable President of the [?] Guinea Club, which he is bringing [?] to its pre-war standards, even at expense of his own business interests [?] Rabaul Town Taxis and Town [?]nsport enterprise. —Drawing by Brett Hilder. 75 TROPICALITIES (Continued from Page 70)

Cific Islands Monthly November. I 952

On the Road to Penrbyn By J.P.S.

CAPTAIN ANDY poured himself another generous tot of Johnny Walker and eased his sturdy form back on the cushions behind the cabin table.

“Belay there on the whisky, Mike,” he growled. “That rum’ll take care of an uncultured palate like yours, m’boy!

“Where were we. Coincidences, was it? Now, listen! Here really is an honest-to-gawd case that shows facts are surely stranger than fiction.”

Captain Andy squinted up through the skylight at the easy curve of the Tiare’s mainsail, and resumed.

“When I was 15 I shipped out in the Boston barquentine John Grant Jnr., Pensacola, for Melbourne.

Down in the South Atlantic Trades we overhauled an English barque and sailed in company with her, maybe two cable-lengths apart, the skippers exchanging news.

“Next day, still in company and the wind falling very light, the English skipper invited our Old Man over for dinner. He accepted, “Now here’s the coincidence, sohelp-me. Our ship’s company included an English boy who had been away from home for several years —and he was allowed to help man the dingy to row the Old Man across.

And, whadd’yaknow, when they pulled alongside the English barque there was this boy’s own brother looking over the rail. And that’s the TRUTH” said Andy, with a heavy pound of the saloon table which finished up with his hand in a strategic position in relation to the whisky bottle.

“And that’s not all. This is absolute gospel. We were still becalmed or in very light airs next day —just drifting together, kinda—so our Old Man invited the Englishman aboard. That’s just by the way.

We got a breeze that night and separated. They squared away for the nor’ard and we laid a course for the Cape.

“But, here’s the point—she was bound home for Newcastle-upon- Tyne from Adelaide. Two weeks after we arrived at Melbourne she was wrecked on the English coast with the loss of all lives—except our English boy’s brother!

“But, hold it, this yarn’s not clewed up yet. No, sir! Years later I met that same survivor in an Alabama pub. He’d been in two more wrecks—and now they wouldn’t sign him in an English ship. Said he was a Jonah. Well, whadd’yaknow!

“Mike, lay off that stuff! That’s got to see me to Penrhyn and back, son. Yes, sir! I’ll say he was a Jonah alright. We’ll, here’s to this breeze holding steady, gents!”

Mr. R. B. Carpenter, vice-chairman of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., of Sydney, and Mr. Jack Bailey, general manager of Southern Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd., made an official visit to Fiji in October.

The crushing mills established in Suva by the Fiji branch of the Carpenter organisation now handle a large proportion of the Colony’s copra output.

In Suva...

Shortly after Fiji’s new Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) arrived in Suva in early October, the Fijians welcomed him in traditional manner with Kava drinking and other ceremonial. Ratu George Cakobau is shown here presenting a Tabua or whale’s tooth to the Governor. —Public Relations Office Photo. —Photo by Hettig.

In Tonga . . .

The new Wesleyan Church at Nukualofa, Tonga, which was opened by Queen Salote on September 27. The opening was followed by a week of feasting and dancing. The Church is probably the largest in the South Pacific Islands and has been several years building. Cost was subscribed by the Tongans. There were numerous Australian and New Zealand visitors at the opening. The Rev. H. G. Secomb, an ex-President- General of the Methodist Church, preached the first sermon. 76

November, 1952 Pacific Islands Monthly I

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THE Government of Fiji is seek-: ing to control the banana scabd moth—one of the worst pests oft' the industry in the colony—by mtro-< ducing a parasite from New Guinea.i The scab moth causes unsightly* scarring of the fruit, which if ex-; tensive, debars the banana froim export.

The life history and habits of the New Guinea parasite are not well known and the senior Government: entomologists, Mr. B. A. O’Connon has gone to study it and attempt Un take a consignment back to Fiji.

Fiji’s banana industry, which is maintained by Fijian native growers,« is making a rapid recovery after be-: ing wiped out by the January* hurricane. It is hoped that next: year’s exports to New Zealand will total 400,000 cases.

The Malaguna Players, of Rabaull New Guinea, farewelled Mr. and) Mrs. C. Showman recently and pre-j sented them with a travelling case im recognition of their services to NGE amateur theatricals.

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)THER Pacific Territories, where the emphasis is on new developlent, will be interested in the Fiji igricultural and Industrial Loans oard, which has just begun to mction.

The Government has provided the oard with £150,000 (“for a start”), id the object is to finance any poor at deserving man, European and idian especially, at a very low rate I interest, in establishing himself as producer.

As Government straightens up the nd situation—on the basis that the itive owners must lease, for foododucing purposes, lands which they ) not personally require—land will ;come available for new settlement, overnment likes the idea of settling rge numbers of small farmers, ich people, usually without reurces, frequently become victims of mey-lending sharks—and they have me rapacious types in Fiji. The ivernment proposes to charge very w interest, while taking risks that ither banks, commercial houses r sharks will take.

The job requires men with a owledge of the country and its sources, and of the character and mutation of the applicants for aid. seems to have got such men in the w Board—H. W. Davidson, asurer, chairman, and Messrs. F.

Dunstan, C. Israel, S. Balgovind, i S. A. Tetzner. They work witht fees. The Board’s office is in the ntral Buildings, Suva, and the xetary is Mr. W. F. Stevenson, -heap money made available with e has worked miracles in new mtries in the past. It should have perceptible effect in Fiji, as soon sufficient lands become available. [?]erving NZ Meteorological Stations HE NZ Government has let a contract to the Holm Shipping of Wellington to provide a twicerly service to meteorological ions at Raoul Island (Kermadecs), 1 Campbell Island.

"he company will use the vessel Imburn which made its first run Raoul under the new arrangement late October.

Captain Thomson took up duty in tember as Rabaul’s Harbour ster m place of Captain Copland 3 is to go on leave. tribe to make use of its name in naming the ship.

This handy vessel, the Ai Sokula, introduced to the Fiji trade by Carpenters, is now running regularly between Suva and the Colony’s ports, bringing in copra. She is 555 tons gross, 171 feet long, is equipped and engined to serve as a tug, and can carry 250 tons of copra. This photo was taken at Somosomo, Taveunl, during the ceremonies in September last, wherein the ship’s owners were given formal permission by a paramount Fijian 79 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1952

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An Appreciation Of

Arthur Ernest Eveneth

A RTHUR ERNEST EVENETT, whose; sudden death on September 27 was; reported in October PIM, was 61. Fot« many years he had been prominent im the Samarai district of Papua and his; death came as a great shock to the whole community.

Arthur Evenett was a man who had) literally pulled himself up by his owm boot straps through hard work and as keen business sense. His education! sketchy and his family poor, he wenfcj to Papua many years ago, sailing as cutter from Cooktown. After some yearstrading and running boats for others,; he took up trochus shelling and beche-de-; mer fishing, later becoming associatedb with A. H. Bunting, Ltd. Arthun. looked after the shipping end. His boats, could be found all over the fishing areas,; taking many thousands of pounds worthd of marine products from the sea. Rejected for the first war for health reasons he piloted boats for the Allied forces: during World War 11.

Since the war he had not replaced the* boats lost, only doing enough work too keep himself interested—which was a lob more work than many a younger mann could do. Any person who showed) energy and promise stood a good chance* of being helped by Arthur but he could; not stand anyone who sat around waiting for opportunity to come.

His knowledge of boats, natives and the* local waters was extensive and irreplac-: able. His death turns aother page inn the book of Time—there are not veryy many pages left which have the names of living ‘old-timers’ on them.

A man who refused to let circumstances beat him, who lived a hard life? and could not enjoy any other, who wasa a good husband and father and whoo helped many a lame dog over a stile,.? often anonymously , . . Kaioni, Arthun Evenett.—J.

D. WILKINSON.

School for Honiara’s Chinese Children MR. FUNG SHIU KAT, froirm Hong Kong, arrived in thes British Solomon Islands in July andfc is now on the staff of the Melanesiano Mission. His job is to teach the 400 children of the Chinese residents off Honiara—ordinary school six bourse a day and on Saturday mornings, andb Sunday School on the seventh day.

Some months ago, at the request! < of the Chinese residents, the Bishopq of Melanesia wrote to the Bishop oft Hong Kong for a teacher and Mr., Fung was chosen. The Chinese community pays his salary.

This is the first venture of thes Mission into work among thee Chinese of BSI. 80 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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BECK’S “K.v” n AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC ISLANDS FOR: ™ HAND Hurricane ,a - B ™ Knives. "K? - ___ enquiries invited Brand Perlon Fishing Brand Briar Tobacco • The claim that the Education )epartment’s site had been recomlended for use by the Public Works challenged. The proposal was nly made on the understanding that le Education Department did not ant the site. The Education centre ad to remain where it was—there as no adequate reason why it should ; moved. He gave several reasons r the final decision regarding Educam and Works site. He also linted out that the eastern and larger )rtion of the areas referred to were tained for residential purposes and at extensive additional land in that ea would be available for residential irposes. • Mr. Cleland emphatically chained the sub-committee’s statement ncerning small ships—it was misiding and the facts were wrongly ited. He traversed the statements ide by both sides regarding the of facilities for small ships d concluded: “Notwithstanding it the proposal was not placed here me earlier, I am quite prepared consider the practicability of proling facilities for small ships in the leral area mentioned .... and I not consider that the existence of vehicular esplanade in the area will went provision of these facilities.”

Mr. Cleland pointed out that he 1 accepted the following recomndations of the town planning mmittee: European hospital to remain on its sent site. preservation of all reserves for ir original purposes. of additional residential as over and above those already jrred to.

Revision of additional business s.

Restriction of police and prison a to make more land available, ’revision of adequate escape tes.

Provision of essential equipment in the Vulcanological Observatory.

After reminding the sub-Committee that the decisions complained of were his own, Mr. Cleland said: “I desire it to be clearly and unequivocably known that, whilst I have the privilege of administering the Territory, pressure and/or publicity tactics, wherever originating, will not prevail. Those tactics are not the way to progressive and constructive development, and mutual co-operation.

“I am always ready to reconsider a decision in the light of new' circumstances and new facts. Whether a decision is altered or not, depends entirely upon the merit and genuineness of the subsequent facts which are advanced. Subject to those considerations, I say quite frankly that pressure tactics, whatever their nature, will not swerve any of my officers or myself from decisions which are honestly and impartially taken.”

At Wau, NG on October 15, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Norman McKay. 81

Rabaul Town-Planners Clash With Administrator

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The Scouts Jamboree Fund benefited by almost £.lOO as the result of a Boxing Tournament held at Xavier Hall, Rabaul, NG, in September. Europeans and Asiatics mixed it vigorously but the threerounder between Ben Pappu and Andy Coehn—diminutive Boy Scouts —stole the show and netted them a “shower” of about £4, half of which they promptly donated to the Fund. District officer John J.

Murphy and Mr. Norman Lee were the referees.

Monsignor Doggett was invested as Prefect Apostolic of Aitape (NG) at the Morning Star Home, Mornington, Victoria, on October 12. He was formerly superior of the home but has spent the past six years in New Guinea.

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The mill is proving a valuable asset not only to the Administration* but to private individuals who ar times can have their timber milled!; Niue has fairly large resources in ex? tremely good varieties of timber ano much of it is excellent for buildingj and furniture-making. Unfortunately! the best timber is almost impossible l to get out of the bush owing to thoj rocky terrain of Niue’s inner areas which is the most heavily timbered!

When TEAL’s Solent took ofi from Auckland on October 21 on* the first regular flight to Samoa* Miss Mavis Rivers, well-known “torch singer” of NZ night-club ano radio, had the distinction of beingi the first and only Samoan aboard!

She will spend several months as home at Apia before returning to Auckland. 82 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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From a Special Correspondent RABAUL, Nov. 6. )N November 5, in the early afternoon, a series of waves appeared ) enter Rabaul Harbour; and water )se over the retaining walls, and x>ded the Burns Philp bulk store, beind the main establishment, to a spth of eight or nine inches. Similar codings were reported elsewhere ong the waterfront. It is believed tat these were tidal waves, from the eat submarine disturbance reported the Northern Pacific a couple of lys before.

This occurrence directs attention to hat may be a serious phenomenon, Fecting the town of Rabaul.

There seems to be no doubt that i water along the harbour foreshores now about three feet higher than it is before World War 11. This is oved by marks on the foreshores ar the town; and that it is general also suggested by markings at the alaguna side of the port.

This harbour-bed is subject to big owing to the proximity of s volcanoes. But such movements >uld not account for the higher seafel. It seems to be indicated that 2 whole area on which the town is uated, and around the port, is subling.

As this tidal wave flooding indites, the port water level is much arer the top of the embankments m it was 10 or 15 years ago.

It may be a false alarm: but there ;s seem to be something here which Is for examination and explanation experts.

Effect In West Samoa

\ tidal wave from the great North dfic earthquake caused disturbance Apia Bay, West Samoa, in the ernoon of November 4. The °on emptied, exposing coral reefs, wrecks, etc. Then the sea surged :k, foaming over the breakwater i flooding low-lying areas along the eshore. Four times the water ved back and forth, depositing •ris on the waterfront road and ering portions of the main wharf, all coastal craft dragged their ;hors. Little damage was done.

Hr. Richard Paris, superintendent stations for Hawaiian Airlines, i in New Zealand in October to l^ er . ."'dh New Zealand airline horities “on operational proceds and matters of common inter- Uranium from Phosphate Rock OF interest to Nauru, Ocean and Makatea Islands is the announcement from the US Atomic Energy Commission that a plant for the recovery of uranium from phosphate rock has been opened in Illinois.

Few details are given. The plant is operated in conjunction with a normal superphosphate manufacturing works, the phosphate coming from Florida.

Governor Petitbon and Monsieur Pouvana Oopa, Deputy for French Oceania, returned to Tahiti on October 29 by TEAL aircraft.

SIGN OF THE TIMES: The ban on the export of new cars from Fiji has been lifted. The ban was imposed last year when some Fiji residents began taking their cars to New Zealand and selling them at high prices. Cars were easily obtainable in Fiji and almost unprocurable in NZ, Some residents were able to sell their cars in NZ, return to Fiji, buy another new one and still make a handsome profit on the deal. The ban was enforced when the war stockpiling in UK began to affect Fiji supplies also. Now. however, the position has improved considerably—both in Fiji and NZ. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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This month we regret to record the recent death of Pat Spry, formerly ITRSGA,l T R5GA, well-known in the Public Works Departments In the Cook Islands, Tonga ind Fiji. Pat returned from Tonga last rear and was recently operating under fie call-sign ZL-l-AJL from Auckland. iVe believe that he was the last active imateur station to operate from Tonga.

According to Radio & Hobbies, during a ecent DX contest at least 12 VK9 stations rere heard in action—some on the new 1 M c band which was open between few Guinea and Australia at the time.

Ve look forward to at least one of the 2 giving us an up-to-the-minute summary f what goes on up there, including a urrent list of active VK9’s.

During the October DX contest ponsored by CQ Magazine many KA-2 tations were heard in Auckland. In this onnection it is interesting to note that J Japanese stations have recently been censed, in addition to the American tations operating there. The call-signs hotted are JA-I-AA to JA-l-AL, JA-2-AA ► JA-2-AD, JA-3-AA to JA-3-AF, JA-5-AA, \-6-AA to JA-6-AC, JA-8-AAAB, JA-l-WA V-6-AA to JA-6-AC, JA-8-AA/AB, JA-WA id JA-2-WA—all inclusive. Note that no \-4 or JA-7 call signs have been allotted.

Athol Smerdon, ZL-l-GI, made a round •ip in the Tofua in October, during hich he made himself known to the ams at Suva, Apia, Niue and wherever Ise they were to be found. Back in uckland he reported that ZM-6-AA, Pat enior, o.i.c. of Apia Radio, was fortunate i acquiring a Johnson “Viking” translitter from the American film unit which scently completed the shooting of “Mr. [organ ’. The film company had been sing the set for communication between te filming location and Apia. Pat and M-6-AC, Arnold, are the only active ams in W. Samoa at present—and both e annoyed that their calls have not jpeared in the latest edition of the merican international Call Book.

In Pago Pago there was no sign of KS-« Ham—the last one departed in ugust. Down on Niue the roll call nsists of two ZK2’s only—ZK-2-AA, Bill, charge of the local communications ation, and ZK-2-AB, Charles—both very stive.

A visit to the radio station at Tonga niirmed that there are at present no R-s’s on the air.

A recent edition of the RSGB Bulletin, mmenting on the persistent encroachent of commercial stations into the im bands, puts forward a bright sugstion which may or may not meet with e approval of Rl’s everywhere. A riter tells how, finding a CW commercial net operating on his favourite crystal frequency in the 20-metre band, broke in on the net and, much to his surprise, found that he got a response. To test them out he asked for some “fills”— which they promptly supplied. He then told the whole net to QRT and shift to another frequency—which they promptly did, apparently taking him for a senior control station!

This writer considers that Hams often quite mistakenly conclude that they haven’t a chance of competing against some of the more powerful commercials.

He suggests that frequently the Ham’s sigs may be better received than the offending commercials’ and that a little deliberate and judicious jamming of some of these CW commercials may have the desired effect of shifting them to an alternative frequency, which they could use if necessary.

The RSGB writer puts forward the following three-point programme:— (i) Seeking out frequencies occupied by unwanted transmissions and using them—not being discouraged by some unanswered CQ’s. (ii) Making any necessary tests or local contacts on these frequencies. (iii) Bringing this line of attack to the attention of overseas amateurs.

Well, at least we are taking: action on point (iii)!

Radio Australia’s “Australian DX’ers Calling:”, which often contains items of interest to Hams, has recently been shifted to Summer schedule times, and may now be heard as follows: Sundays, 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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During October the 20-metre band was particularly good at times, especially during the fourth week-end during the "CQ” DX contest, when many European and African stations were heard coming in well In the early morning. North Pacific stations were the best of the Pacific boys heard in Auckland—the Oriental Net, collecting and passing traffic to the States, being notably present, Of these we heard KA2HP/IM/JS/JW/KW, KA3RR, KB6AL/AO/AX, KR2KS/LP, KR6CA/HW/IY/JA and KA-O-IJ.

Others heard at various times in restricted early morning and evening listening included KASHM, KA7LJ/OK/RC/SL.

KG6ACG / AEX / AAY / HL, KJ6AW KR6HH/KO, KJ6AW, KX6AR, VR2CG and ZK-l-BC.

Other stations reported active in the latest issues of sundry Ham publications included KC6QY, KG4AF, VR2CO' VK2LN (Lord Howe), and FUBAC. Ot the VK9’s FN/GW appear to be the most active boys, though unheard in Auckland.

Dr. Tom Davis and the yacht Miru were creating considerable interest among American East Coast hams late in October. What call-sign the yacht is using we do not know, but he was reportedly in radiophone contact with Boston hams and others along the coast, so may be also active on DX bands.

As usual we look forward to notes of Ham interest from any quarter of the Pacific.

Mrs. A. E. Gordon, of Brisbane, left recently by air for Rabaul where she will stay several months with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Backhouse.

The world headquarters of the Seventh Day Adventist movement reported from the United States in October its intention of assigning $25,000 to hurricane rehabilitation in Fiji and $500,000 to missionary work in New Guinea during the coming year. 86 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY’.

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PEOPLE who understand national economics insist that the New Zealand Government, or instrumentilities which it protects, are getting rery substantial benefits out of Western Samoa.

Every year since the war, there las been in the Territory an excess »f exports over imports ranging from :200.000 to £500,000. What becomes if these accumulated credits? There ire no bank statistics. The Bank of Jew Zealand operates in Samoa, and ome of the big mercantile houses if Australia, New Zealand and Fiji iave branches there. Presumably, JZ gets most of whatever benefits ccrue from the accumulations.

The last official report shows that, very year, there is a surplus of govrnmental funds, and the accumulate there, since the war, up to the nd of 1950, was £733,000. Of that, 664.000 was “invested in New Zeaind.

The NZ authority runs the old Gerlan properties as New Zealand Rearation Estates, at a profit, for the enefit of the Samoans. Every year, aything from £lO,OOO to £50,000 is anded back to the Samoans, mostly )r education and public works—a 'ocedure which cannot be too highly raised.

Samoa is a very happy, healthy id well-fed country. Nonetheless, is not surprising that some indigent Samoans point out that icy could be even better off if they ceived all the rich revenues which teir country earns under present mditions.

Money Raised for Lepers and TB Patients Niue Administration recently sponsored the showing of the m Moana Roa which was taken Rarotonga by the NZ Film Unit. ie proceeds were sent to Makogai purchase comforts for the Niuean )ers resident there and also to >ist the two lepers at present waitl transport.

In spite of a shortage of cash due copra being unsalable at the time, J people responded well and a isiderable sum was raised.

Recently the Rev. M. G. Check >wed his collection of 35 mm •dachrome slides to a small group Europeans and on a request for lations some £3 was handed to Matron of the Hospital, Miss N. rtliff, to purchase sewing materials the patients in the TB ward.

Pitcairn Personal Notes The publicity given recently—especially in NZ—to Floyd McCoy, of Pitcairn Island, and Mr. McCoy’s tendency to expand in the limelight, have annoyed some people who know Pitcairn well. They say they challenge his right to call himself “mayor of Pitcairn”; and they resent the description of “Administrator” applied to him when he paid a visit to Norfolk Island. However, Mr. McCoy seems quite happy and, no doubt, will settle in at his proper level when he returns to Pitcairn.

Mr. Parkin Christian, who has been living with his son in Sydney for about two years, has gone to New Zealand en route to Pitcairn.

Thomas Christian, a lad from Pitcairn Island, has come to Wellington, NZ, to study radio technique.

Mr. Sanders, NZ teacher on Pitcairn, will return home soon and Mr. George Allen, of NZ, will replace him.

Mr. Vernon Young, of Pitcairn, has returned from England. He visited, in London, the tomb of Admiral Bligh, once captain of the Bounty.

SDA Pastor Norman A. Ferris will sail by Rangitoto on November 29 for Pitcairn, to spend 12 months.

Pastor and Mrs. F. P. Ward, formerly of Pitcairn, are now residents of Sydney, where Mr. Ward is engaged in the work of his Church. 87 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Phe Council will consist of the High Commissioner, the two Samoan Fautua, three official members, three of the Samoan members of the Legislative Assembly, and one European member of the Assembly, The function of the Council will be “to confer with and advise the High Commissioner.”

The Bill, in addition, incorporates several clauses covering the superannuation rights of public servants seconded from New Zealand to the Samoan Public Service, The citizens of Kavieng raised £ll4/0/4 by appeals and a Ball for the Services Comfort Fund, Port Moresby.

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Walpole ceased exporting guar to New Zealand, its only importai market, early in 1940 (PIM, Novec her 1940, p. 63), after nearly 2 years of activity, though, after ear 1936 when a two-year contract wil a New Zealand firm ended, only o casional shipments were made, was reported in 1940 that an esl mated 100,000 tons of alluvial guar remain on the 300-acre island, at about 4,000 tons heaped ready f< shipment. Sixty to a hundred labou ers formerly worked there.

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The purpose of Baiyer River (near Mount Hagen) is to breed beef cattle for distribution in the Highlands Districts, and to establish foundation herds for coastal areas. Goroka is investigating and demonstrating methods of a permanent agriculture 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1 952

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'HE Report of the Fiji War Memorial Anti-Tuberculosis Fund for the year led December 31, 1951, was issued in ra at the end of August and reached early October. t shows that in the year under review, Fund received £644 in donations and 30 from investments and deposits, and d out over £10,600 for equipment for Colony’s TB hospitals.

'ver £9,000 was spent on building and ipment for the Colony’s TB annexes 1 hospitals; £9OO went for furniture Tamavua Hospital, Suva; radio ipment for same hospital took £lOO. sre were some minor expenditures, quipment and materials ordered durthe year (but not delivered and not ! for) amounted to approximately 1,000. he Fund, at the close of December, a credit balance of about £66,000. antoux testing and BCG vaccination extended to country areas of Viti a during the year, the cost of the ;ine being met from the Fund. Two drovers, previously provided by the stees of the Fund have been employed this work. aring the year a TB clinic was esished at Lautoka, and at Labasa the has been levelled for the erection of J-bed TB unit adjacertt to the existhospital. iroughout the year, the Trustees of Fund again experienced difficulty in ining essential materials and as there in consequence, Uttle drain on Fund eys, a second appeal for the Fund not made. ijl’s Anti-Tuberculosis Fund is the ny’s World War II memorial. The i was opened in August 1949 and all ons of the community supported it usiastically. As a result, something £60,000 was raised and to this the srnment added £20,000. As can be by the 1951 report, the greater part his Fund still remains intact. Many lents of the Colony would like to seen more spent but the Trustees he Fund say that they have had ulty in getting the materials and >ment needed. It had been intended lake annual appeals to augment the 1, but due to the difficulty of spendthe money originally subscribed, this been deferred.) Favour Among Teachers September Mr. and Mrs. Floyd H. McCoy were in Wellington, aring to return to Pitcairn Island e Mr. McCoy (last blood- desant of the original Bounty Mc- ), is a jack-of-all-trades—radio ator, police inspector, meteorist, mechanic, and public relaofficer to the 130 inhabitants. 5 reported that Pitcairn has no )le in finding a teacher for its jpils school. When the position recently advertised in New Zeathere were 50 applicants. Reagiven was, “No income tax, a house, and nothing to spend jy on during the two-year term.” has great difficulty in staffiing >wn schools.

NZ Soccer Team Completes Tour When the New Zealand Football Association’s touring soccer team returned in October from its first Islands tour of Fiji and Tahiti all members were enthusiastic about the hospitality shown them on their successful tour.

The Association is considering an invitation to a team from Fiji to visit New Zealand next year. Also under consideration is New Zealand’s participation in the planned Pacific soccer tournament at Noumea next season. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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A lorry left in reverse gear and unended ran back and crashed into VAC plane which was on Norfolk and aerodrome on October 19. e fuselage of the plane was damaged, passengers were off-loaded and the plane returned to NZ empty.

Koro Wrecked Luck of a Chinaman: Five out of the six prizes in a recent raffle held in Rabaul, NG (for the Sacred Heart School) were won by Chinese residents of the town. First prize p valued at £.960, went to Chan Yin Siu. The only non- Chinese prize winner was J. Myers (third prize—a radio set).

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The Papuan Co-operatives grew out the desire of the native people for “new way” of life. It began as a spoi taneous movement throughout the Ter tory soon after the war.

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The present Government is reluctant help in the extension of the work, i Co-ops are an obstacle to cheap laboi The dismissal of Colonel Murray Administrator is a sign of the tinn Here is what a Missionary has to sa “So the axe has fallen and good J.

Murray is sacked because he loved t: Papuans too much and the dividends Burns Philp and all the other less money-grabbers too little. We’ must realists—money rules. Meanwhile tl chap Cleland who I suppose will be 1 successor, is reputed to be a nice cha goes to church regularly and gets thin done”.

Papuan Co-op. leaders have been se to jail for telling their people not to to labour, but to remain with, and bui up their own Co-ops.

A “Papuan Co-operative Fund” h been established and is registered und the Charities Act. It is my purpose help establish in this Northern Area Co-operative Training School—to tra Papuans for Co-operative Leadershi Co-op. farming and Co-op. enterpri: The training has started. We must e tend and meet the threat of big busines Will you protest to the Federal Gover ment against the alienation of nati lands and will you support financially t Papuan Co-op Fund, and help tra Papuans to a higher standard civilisation the co-operative way?

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA Oct. 19 PITCAIRN ISLAND, geographically one of the loneliest of the rth’s inhabited places, has a habit keeping itself in the news. Since 108, when the American whaler >paz discovered by accident the 18ars-old secret hiding-place of the •unty mutineers, the island has dom dropped out of the world’s erest.

Now comes the possibility that cairn was inhabited in the Late laeolithic Age—the dim period of : first true men—and archaeologists : showing keen interest.

Implements which authorities of le experience believe are of laeolithic origin have been dug up Pitcairn. Five of them—two ses, two borers and a mallet—were mght to Suva by an Indian builder ned Rami who found them while was working on the new Covenant school building job at Pitcairn, ami is now building foreman on new Anglican Cathedral at Suva), n Suva the implements were en to Dr. I. Hamilton Beattie, an haeologist of wide training and >erience. After close investigation, Beattie is satisfied that the pped stone implements indicate aeolithic culture at Pitcairn. If ; assumption is correct, it sets the ith Pacific record back far beyond earliest known traces of lanesian, Micronesian and Polyian occupation.

"he earliest known cultures in the nds were of Neolithic (New Stone s) origin. One of the differences veen Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Neolithic men was that the ner had only chipped implements, le the latter had learned to polish grind stone implements. Melaans, Micronesians and Polynesians developed their cultures on a )lithic foundation, he nearest place to Pitcairn where i alaeolithic culture is known to e existed is Tasmania. Nobody ws why Tasmania should have palaeolithic people while the tralian mainland has so far del no traces of anything earlier i the Aboriginal culture, which is early and primitive form of •lithic. But now an even greater tery lies behind the question of Palaeolithic people reached aim. The discovery may support theory that Pitcairn was once part of a large land mass—perhaps a continent—and that Old Stone Age people were living at Pitcairn well over 14,000 years ago.

TT is believed that west-east Polynesian migrations into the Pacific began about 2,000 years ago. Pitcairn was uninhabited when a British warship sighted it in 1767, but it contains many solid proofs that at some time it was the home of Polynesians, who may have reached it from the Tuamotu atolls (east and south-east of Tahiti). Why the Polynesians vanished is one of the tantalising mysteries of the South Seas—and now comes this new 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1952

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In Auckland, however, Mr. V. F. sher, of the Auckland Museum, in pimenting on the Suva report, licated that he was not at all imsssed.

“Where amateur archaeologists en fall in is that they forget that, make a Neolithic implement, the iker has to go through the Palaeolic stage first,” Mr. Fisher is >orted as saying. ‘ln New Zealand we have found f -completed Neolithic implements iring a strong resemblance to those the Palaeolithic age. What has opened is that the Maori lost the plement or broke it during its nufacture, and threw it away. The ae thing happened all over the rid —including Pitcairn.” to emphasise his point, Mr. Fisher nted to dozens of adzes and ■ers of Pitcairn origin in the scum’s collection. Although all olithic in origin, there were many resemblances to the Palaeolithic— but, in so far as the Auckland Museum is concerned, these are all Neolithic—that is, of about 10,000 years more recent origin than Palaeolithic.

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From Our Own Correspondent NORFOLK IS., Oct. 21.

TWO inches of much-needed rain filled water-tanks and freshened gardens on Norfolk Island in mid- October. Bean crops benefitted considerably.

Interest is being taken in the cutflower trade with New Zealand. Good prices are being realised in Auckland for air-freighted Norfolk Is. gladioli, amaryllis, gerberas, etc. An Auckland florist has been over here making contracts with growers and was enthusiastic about prospects.

The NZ Director of Agriculture is expected here for the Annual Show on November 4 and will probably investigate our fruit-growing potentialities.

New Zealand has been importing oranges from Jamaica, South Africa, etc., yet could get better, fresher fruit at her own back door if transport were made available.

Dr. Roy Edwards, formerly of Perth Hospital, WA, with Mrs. Edwards has left for Suva, Fiji where he will take up private practice. 101 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1052

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From Our Own Correspondent NIUE, Oct. 9.

SHIPS’ passages to New Zealand are hard to come by for Niue natives as there is a long waiting list.

Most of the six berths available for the Island are taken up by Europe;; The Niueans have now discove that it is comparatively easy to passages to Apia and Suva, and more affluent are taking deck passs to these points and then going on Auckland by air.

Many Niueans are stranded Apia and Pago-Pago and are uns to get passages home either via S 5 or direct. With a few Niue: travelling deck to Pago-Pago every trip of the Tofua the probl* is becoming serious. So far the A ministrations of American Samoa i Niue have taken no steps to restl travel and the result is that famii of the Niuean wanderers are s jected to pleas from them for mo:< and food to support them American Samoa, where work : food are hard to come by. (Ed. Note: There seems reason—outside of unbridled wane lust—why Niueans should go Pago. Recently 900 Amerii Samoans migrated to Hawaii becaf of economic conditions in their ha Territory; and 1,000 more skil workers are waiting to migrate soon as jobs and transport can found for them.) Mrs. L. Searl, of Talasea, N Britain was visiting her mother Sydney in October. 102 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH II

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From the Islands standpoint, some >f the NZ reporters with the TEAL >ress' party in Polynesia in October vere a trifle unconventional in dress, n connection with which a friend n Suva told me a funny story.

Mr. Stanley, High Commissioner or Western Pacific, returned to Suva rom a gruelling 10 weeks’ trip on small ship through his new ominion at noon on October 22, dth only one pressed suit. He had vo engagements—to see the press arty at 2.30, and attend a Governicn House cocktail “do” at 6.30. irst-class sartorial problem arose: hould he wear the pressed whites )r the press, or reserve the suit for rovernment House, He decided to ear the formal clothes for the press, id thereafter hope for the best.

Imagine the feelings of His Ex- :llency when half the reporters who were presented to him at High Commission headquarters wore very highly coloured Bula shirts, and shorts!

Washing always is a problem in Islands travel—especially so now, when most of the lads who formerly were good wash-boys aspire to white collar jobs and scorn the lowly laundry. Consequently, an increasing proportion of Europeans go around the Islands airlines looking like ungroomed hobos.

The Indian Rope Trick

Two Indians went into a hardware store in Fiji, and ordered a length of rope. The storekeeper measured off the length on his floor, and then laid the approximate end of the length against a mark on the floor. This was where the rope was to be cut off the main roll.

Then he discovered that he had no knife. He explained to his two customers—who had followed proceedings with interest—that he would 105 From Notes Made in the Pacific (Continued from Page 40) ’ACIFIC ISLANDS monthly NOVEMBER. 1952

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The Indians did not lose the opportunity. They quickly pulled a few more yards from the main roll of rope into the heap measured out for them, and then laid the rope down as before, to be cut.

The merchant returned, cut the rope, placed it on his scales platform, made out the bill. The Indians paid without a word, and hurried away with their rope. They thought that they were charged for rope at the rate of so much per foot. But th» merchant —a man wise in the way' of Fiji—was quite happy. He alway' sold his rope by weight. It was no his first experience of the Indian rope trick. (Notes Continued in Next Issue Returning to the Islands The engagement has been announced of Miss Greta Lennarty tc Mr. Gordon Ashwood of Rabaul.

Island travellers from Auckland ir[?] October included (left to right): Mr. R. C Kirkham. Secretary and Director of BI[?] (SS) Co., Ltd., Suva, returning then after five weeks in New Zealand, during[?] which time his daughter was married t[?] a Taranaki farmer.

Mr. J. Latimer, formerly well-known i[?] Army circles in Fiji and Tonga, paid [?] visit to Fiji. 106 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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THE Legislative Council of Papua- New Guinea commenced its second session for 1952 on October 6. and sittings ran into a second week. During the session, several new' bills were introduced and the estimates for 1952-53 tabled. Members discussed subjects ranging from rubber production to a local state lottery. Some points of interest to all Territorians were that:— • The Administration will have somewhat more to spend in ’52-53 ban in ’5l-52; • The Administration confidently ;xpects the new Moresby brewery [which has not yet commenced to ell beer commercially) to provide ;xcise revenue of £lO,OOO p.a. • Works carried out by the Detriment of W. & H. for the Administration are subject to a costdus charge on labour of over 41 ►er cent. • Taxation (all indirect) has mounted to £9O per head for every European man, woman and child in be Territory. • Drinks and smokes will be earer—spirits by 1/2 a bottle, beer y about 1/- a dozen bottles, tobacco y about 2d per ounce and a 50-tin f cigarettes by 41d.

ESTIMATES FOR 1952-53 P-NG Treasurer, Mr. H. H. Reeve, ibled the estimates for the current year, otal expenditure is expected to be 7,697,400. The Commonwealth will prode. by way of grants. £5.470,000 £170,000 more than last year); and venue collected within the Territory will ! £*227,000.

Two biggest allocations go to Public talth—£l,426,ooo, which is about £40,000 ss than last year; and Works, Services, c., which will have well over £325,000 ore to spend than in 1951-52.

The following departments received ineased allocations Administrator’s, easnry, Agriculture. Lands, Crown Law, orks and Forests. But the Government cretary’s Department. District Services, lucation, Customs, Marine, General aintenance will have to make do on »aller budgets.

REVENUE Vlr. Reeve expects that import cuts II reduce Customs revenue in the coming »r from about £1,580.000 to £1,483.000. the same time, export duties will obably bring In less, due to falling Ices of commodities such as rubber hich has now sunk below the price ere an export tax is levied). It is ?ected also that when the MOF Copra reement is reviewed in January, the price of copra will fall by 10 per cent but increased production in 1952-53 will probably counter-balance the effect on revenue. “Revenue from excise duty on locally brewed beer,” said Mr. Reeve.

“can be estimated at £10,000”.

Excise was fixed at 3/6 a gallon for locally brewed beer—Mr. T. Grahamslaw, who introduced the Bill, said that this was 1/6 a gallon less than the duty on imported beer and should afford adequate encouragement to the local industry.

The Treasury confidently expects that P-NG’s new stamp issue will yield an extra £40,000 of postal revenue this year. bringing’ it to about £lOO,OOO. Licencefees of various sorts will bring in £4-J,OOO.

More money is expected also from gold royalties and telephone rentals.

Burden On European Community

In the debate that followed the tabling of the estimates. Mr. E. A. James, elected member for Papua, said that it was time the Administration stopped carrying out its projects at such times and in such circumstances as best suited the Commonwealth’s purse, and made a 10-years plan for steady development. He thought that too much expenditure was haphazard and unplanned, and too little was spent on things that mattered. He suggested that the Administration should raise a loan within the Territory to carry out essential works. Mr. James suggested 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1952

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Mr. James said that the greatei proportion of the revenue raised inside the Territory came from the European community—they provided something like £9O per head which actually was a higher per capita taxation than in Australia where numerous social services were provided for.

Native War Damage

Mr. J. K. McCarthy, District Commissioner Rabaul, defended war damage compensation to natives and the methods of assessment when both were attacked by several unofficial members of the Council. He said that adequate measures were taken to guard against false claims and.foolish spending, and that the natives were already helping themselves to the education and social benefits upon which; some members felt the Administration should have spent native war damage money.

Mr. H. H. Reeve (Treasurer) said thali over £9,000,000 had been paid to Europeans for war damage. No one questioned! how they should spend it, although some of the money undoubtedly had been “misapplied”.

Native Development—And Native!

RECRUITERS Slmogun, native member for NG Mainland, who speaks only Pidgin and has an interpreter, said that considerable trouble was caused in his district bjn native recruiters who made false promises to prospective labourers by telling theme that they could earn up to £8 per week..

He said he wanted only European; recruiters in his district. He was anxious also that native development) should be speeded up—if not by thea natives voluntarily, then by compulsion..

Mr. D. Barrett (New Guinea Islands)( supported him—if voluntary efforts did! not have the desired effect “a little gentles persuasion should be used”.

Simogun said that many natives of the) Sepik were anxious to play a part inc the agricultural development of the) country—they wanted to buy tractors andc agricultural implements for rice-planting, etc., and some villages had already subscribed considerable amounts. However,' their trouble was lack of skilledf mechanics?. and there were no skilled! mechanics because there were no technical schools. He said that roads also were necessary and that District Service* should organise the agricultural development of the districts—deciding what) should be planted and where—and seeing® that the projects were carried out. “Enforcement would be of real andE lasting benefit to my people”, COST OF W. & H. LABOUR In reply to questions by Mr, D. Barrett,,.

Treasurer Reeve said 41-2/3 per cent., was? added to labour costs by the Department! 108 NOVEMBER, 185 2 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Air Services Subsidy

Subsidies paid by the Administration for lantas flying-boat services in Papua, New ritain and Bougainville will jump from ! 18,000 in 1951-52 to £75,000 in 1952-53. he increase has been agreed to by egotiation in Australia. Reason given by le Treasurer (Mr. Reeve) for the steep icrease was that the Catalinas formerly sed had to be replaced by Sandringhams.

Other Business

Bills introduced and debated were the seise (Beer) Ordinance Bill which proides for the collection of excise on beer rewed locally, and licence fees for •eweries; Motor Vehicles Third Party isurance Bill; the Copra Bill, which aims raise the standard of P-NG copra id to licence copra dealers; a Bill to nend the 1946 Trading with Natives rdinance, an Education Bill, providing r inspectors to visit mission schools, id a Bill controlling the sale of drugs id poisons.

Samoan Cocoa Market OFFERS for Samoan cocoabeans reaching Apia in October ranged from £2OO to £240 per ton f.o.b. for first grade sun-dried and hot air dried.

There is at present a good crop being picked but planters and merchants seem inclined to hold out for better prices.

Probably the oldest voter in Suva T°™ 9? unc JJ e l! ct^ ns on November M T . r * *. *. a '' ua ) Johnson, Johns °n; who is 90, was himself formerly a Councillor and for a time ac * e( * as Mayor of Suva. His son » Mr. W. G. Johnson, was elected unopposed to the new Town Council. 109 acific islands MONTHLY_N O V E M B E R , 1052

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NZ Trout Thriving in NG According to Mr. W. Hudson Fysh, managing director of Qantas Empire Airways, an experimental shipment of trout ova from New Zealand, which was introduced to New Guinea Highlands streams a couple of years ago, promises to be a success. The ova have developed with only 19% loss, which is considered excellent.

His Lordship Bishop Octavius Terrienn[?] MSC, Vicar Apostolic of the Gilbe[?] Islands, who recently passed throug [?] Sydney on his way to Rome. This w[?] his third visit to Sydney—his first as Bishop. He was last there in 1938 whe[?] he was on his way back to his hom[?] land, France, where he was consecrate as a Bishop at Nantes. His Vicaria extends 2,500 miles. from Nauru Christmas Island. While in Sydney [?] arranged for two Australian nuns to [?] to work in the Gilberts and while [?] is in Europe he will try to secure m[?] missionaries for work in the area. —Photo by courtesy Catholic Weekly 110 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Nauru Notes

Prom Our Own Correspondent PLANS for the establishment of a European - Nauruan Volunteer Defence Force within the next three nonths are well under way.

A small contingent of ARA officers, nd NCO’s under the command of dajor R. J. Dick, who paid a visit d Nauru in September for a prelimlary survey, is expected to arrive rom Australia shortly. Major Dick ; of the opinion that whereas durig the last war Australia was pposed to a strong maritime force i the form of the Japanese navy, i the event of another attack, it was enerally acknowledged that the igical enemies were by no means a reat sea power.

Because of the strategic situation f Nauru, it was therefore argued lat if an attack was made, it would : made by a small, compact, hardtting Commando unit. It was, erefore, necessary for the island to epare to repel such a move, with an [ually compact and hard-hitting rce.

A successful carnival organised by e Nauru Recreation Committee for nds for the Melbourne Branch of e Aged and Infirm Blind, was held re in mid-September. Later, a prentation of a cheque for £175 was ade to Mrs. T. Stanley-Smith, who the Honorary Auxiliary Organiser r the Victorian institution, and who is visiting Nauru as the guest of *. and Mrs. G. M. Hayward.

Miss Nina Poison, of New Zeaad, is completing her nursing traing in Sydney before she goes to iw Guinea for the Unevangelised elds Mission.

Mr. H. Hardie, veterinary offfcer of the Fiji Department of Agriculture, arrived in Suva recently from the UK. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University and after war service in the RAF was in private practice in Cornwall. He will be posted to the Lautoka district.

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I was deeply interested in observig the attitude of the Indians to leir new ruler. The old Indians remed as “Dead Pan” and inscrut- )le as ever, but the young indians -born in Fiji, English-speaking, alert id intelligent—appear to me to be oking to this young Governor with iendliness and real hope.

Shortly, in this journal, 1 am gog to discuss the future of the dian people in Fiji without any servations, and 1 cannot here atmpt to deal with such a vexed bject. But 1 believe that the ji-born Indian can provide the iswer to the problem the Indian [plantation created, and that there n be a peaceful and happy future r all races in this lovely archilago. The Fiji-Indian, with help, n provide the answer to to-day’s Acuities; and the Fiji-Indian thus n earn his share of the future’s eet rewards. But the emphasis is Fiji-Indian —the man born in the untry.

Western Samoa HATE that word “Paradise”—the Americans, trying to sell books d films about the Pacific, have wlderised it to the point of surdity. But I have seen practically the South Pacific islands, and if i one of them is entitled, on the •res of tropical colour, happiness its people, cleanliness, freedom m economic and political worry, lerous hospitality to the stranger hin its gates, and general at- :tiveness, the title of “Paradise” •uld go to Western Samoa. have known the Country for 20 rs, I have as good a knowledge any of its history. On that basis, ive the credit for Samoa’s happis to-day to the German colonists 1890-1914, and the New Zealand ialists of 1935-50. By establishthe cocoa industry, the Germans de the Samoans rich. By rooting the Chinese, and giving the noans an increasing measure of -government, the New Zealanders ured their economic security and social welfare of the Samoans, he 20-miles drive from the new apuala seadrome to Apia, through alu’s richest territory, is a sheer ght. The swarming villages are neat, the people so healthy, the abundant plantations so prolific, the lack of any sign of poverty so marked. Everything, from the medical statistics which show a population of 100,000 close at hand, to the Customhouse figures which indicate a growing surplus of wealth, and the education figures which point to a rapidly increasing percentage of literacy—all pay tribute to the good work of the caretaker nation (New Zealand).

Call For Discipline

All is not well, of course—it never is. Overdoses of wealth and freedom have gone to the heads of the young Samoans, and there are disturbing stories of increasing village hooligan ism, and a positive pestilence of petty theft. One may not too hastily allot blame; but one gets the impression that the police system has been—and still is—far too easy and not very efficient.

There is reasonably good cooperation between NZ Administration and the Samoan high chiefs. If the Samoan leaders are wise—and they have not lacked wisdom in the past —they will take early and drastic steps to impose a greater measure of social discipline in the villages. If 113 Some Impressions of Four Pacific Territories (Continued from Page 21) CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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If Samoa wanted more wealth— and I doubt if more wealth would be good for her—she surely could get it through organisation of the tourist traffic.

The three South Pacific countries which can develop an enormous tourist industry are Fiji, Tahiti and Samoa—and Samoa need not be in second or third place. Each has very special attractions to offer; each has its distinctive charm; and Samoa is completely different from all the other big archipelagoes in that it has no Asiatic community—it is the only big Pacific country without major racial problem.

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One side of the main street in both pia and Papeete is the water-front; it whereas Apia’s waterfront is half ilderness, Papeete’s is a dock-side, here ships from the seven seas are oored end-on. As you walk along ipeete’s waterfront, you have the isy shops on the one side, and on e other scores of little gangways, iding from the side of the street ;ht onto the decks of innumerable ips.

Right behind the quay is a maze little streets, packed with Chinese ires; behind that the residences, ried in lush and colourful gardens; d. behind that again, steep, bare, m-looking mountains, out of which mes the little town’s abundant ter-supply. It is one of the most ractive and lively little ports in ! world.

Sin In Papeete

By reputation—supported by one’s t impression—Papeete’s chief in- >try is Sin. An extraordinary peritage of the street population comses pretty French-Tahitian girls; 1 a notable percentage of them e the stranger a roguish glance, I wriggle self-consciously. The nderer from colder climes soon Is that he is expected to adjust his t to the inescapable rhythms of the ned music, and put a Tahitian ver behind his ear (the customary t of a love-quest), otherwise he is tten down as a dull dog, and irofitable.

Quinn’s Bar, a bamboo-like icture in the centre of the town, famed for its lively and uncontional atmosphere, and for the ius of the Yank-Tahitian tunes iposed by its manager, Eddie id; and the tempo of life in the t area generally seems to be erned by Quinns. The half-dozen :s and dance-halls give the place air of determined gaiety; and they ly get going on Saturday and day nights.

Jnlike the English-speaking Terries, Tahiti places no restriction itever upon the sale of liquor to itians and part-Tahitians; and the izy created by furious music, lal urge and alcohol frequently Is to scenes which spectators rwards describe with no lack of gination, in smoke-rooms and castles around the world. This, 'be, has given Tahiti a fame -h Tahiti really does not deserve, ome cf the Tahitian solo dancers are great artists. In the front rank, at present, is Augustine. No entertamment is complete without this lovely and lively little creature, and her troupe of assistant dancers. Her hula—an extraordinary circular wriggling of the body, described by the visiting journalists as a “belly flop'’ or an "abdominal snap’*—nas to be seen to be believed Probably it is completely based in sensualism! but it is nonetheless an artistic achievement,

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116 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Fetter Diesel

Generating Sets

i

Now Available

10 KVA British Sets. 415 Volt, 3 phase, 50 cycle, 4 wire. This set will supply sufficient power for approx. 100-75 watt globes and will drive 3-phase and single phase motors up to approx. 5 h.p.

Write for plant specification.

SLIM LIGHTING CO. PTY. LTD.

Lighting Engineers. 491 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. lore to Tahiti than Quinns and the abdominal snap”—although the asual traveller is liable to be imlersed in those first impressions.

In a population of 60,000 there are erhaps 40,000 Tahitian villagers, ving quietly very close to the soil; ?out 10,000 Chinese traders and rtisans, who control most of the )mmerce that is worth while; and a rge community—their number can- )t even be guessed at—of Europeanahitians, who fill a definite place itween the official French adinistration, and the rest of the jpulace.

Nothing much is said; but some- >w one senses an antagonism beeen the official French and the iding Tahitians and part-Tahitians. le latter, like their counter-parts Samoa, Tonga and other Polysian countries, would like to govern imselves, and be free of the white icial whose orders come from over ; seas.

Under French law, of course, all jse folk—Tahitians, part-Tahitians, hitian-born Chinese, and any izen of mixed blood—have equal tus. They are French citizens, and jy have exactly the same rights, d they can move around anywhere the French Empire with complete edom. That is the basis of the le ration created years ago by ance, called the French Union.

There may be much in a name; t it does not provide the solution the not-very-aggressive nationalist itiment of this country. The hitians and part-Tahitians have two lings; they hate the Chinese, and :y want to govern their own antry. The fact that the French zern them well and conscientiously. 1 pour a surprising amount of mch funds into public works, for good of the whole community, 2s not seem to alter the basic itiment of their hearts. They will you, in idle moments, of the high ces the Chinese pay for Tahitian gins, and of the large salaries rezed by the highest fonctionaires of Tahitian administration. :ahiti generally happy }n the whole, however, it is a >py-go-lucky community, without r serious problem of politics to p the fonctionaires awake at hts. The worst headaches are ial. fhere is too much disease about— erculosis, filariasis, and venereal. :ombination of French and Ameriinterests is making a splendid >rt to rid the country of TB and riasis; but there is not much chance of dealing effectively with the other thing while every barrier against freedom of sexual intercourse is discounted.

The country has four main sources of revenue; Vanilla exports, copra exports, phosphatic rock from Makatea, and the funds sent from Paris to pay for the administration.

Makatea is nearly worked out. This seems to provide a precarious kind of a budget; and high officialdom evidently is sensitive on the point, because it is very anxious to stimulate tourism. The opening of the TEAL service is therefore an event of the highest economic importance.

There are good hotels there—Les Tropiques, Royal Tahitian, etc.—and now there has been opened a most excellent hostelry, right on the waterfront at one end of the town, the Grand, and Papeete now can accommodate and entertain a large number of visitors. The latter will get all the beauty and charm of the South Seas in Tahiti, plus something that we may call Extreme Sophistication.

There are some ugly things under the surface; but the average tourist, being satisfied with the superficial, may easily be induced to leave with the conviction that he has had his 117 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

All Over The World

Good mornings begin with Gillette When Blue Gillette Blades shave the gay Spanish face They clearly reveal the world's handsome race, So now every male looks smoother and neater, A joy and a boon to the fair senorita.

BLUE Gillette BLADES The up-to-date, wellgroomed men of Spain, in fact men all over the world, know that Blue Gillette Blades ensure the smoothest and most comfortable shave. And because they last so long, they are moneysavers too. Use a Blue Gillette Blade in a Gillette Razor they’re made for each other.

Blue Gillette Blades money’s worth.

Maybe, I had better stop here: and say no more about money, got 140 francs for my Australia £ and the price of goods and service in Papeete, on that basis, literally rocked me. Fifty-five francs for a 300-yards taxi-drive; 750 francs for a dinner for one, plus wine and s solo dance by Augustine—Tahiti i; no place for folk who value the bawbees. But Tahiti surely will be: increasingly, a playground for the rich; and it is being well organised! accordingly. Its friendly and very hospitable people deserve all that a big and growing tourism can give them.

Another Expert Visits Papua-New Guinea 1%/f ISS JEAN ADAMSON, pre: school officer of the Australian Department of the Interior, is visit: ing Papua-New Guinea to help anc advise Play Centre Groups in tht Territory.

A Ministerial press handout say: that there is considerable interest in the pre-school movement in P-NG townships and that Mrs. D. Ml Cleland, wife of the Acting Admim istrator, is taking a leading part in stimulating local interest. Presumi haly these play-centres, etc., are foi European children, but this is no; clear from the report. It would be a waste of energy and money to pro* vide such centres for native infant; when the need for village schools i: so urgent.

No vessel sailing out of a NZ por provides such regular headlines a; the Island Territories’ Maui Pomar* —“Propeller damaged at Aitutaki”' “Doors stove in by heavy seas,” “De; laved 14 hours by missing greaser,* etc. Latest is “Delayed by engine trouble.” Maui was due to clear Auckland for Rarotonga on Novemi ber 6, but rain delayed her. Them when Captain Boulton rang for “astern” the only thing that wem astern was the handle of the bridge telegraph. Sailing postponed untii next day!

Mr, Tom Lashmar, Marine Mam ager for Thornycroft (Aust.) Pty..

Ltd., will leave Sydney early in Jam uary by the Malaita on a business tour of Melanesia to call on 010 friends and new. His itinerary wilil include Norfolk Is., New Hebrides (Vila and Santo), Solomon Is; (Tulagi, Honiara, Gizo), New Guim ea (Bougainville), and Papua (Pt,3 Moresby, Samarai). 118 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

Simplex Launches

14 ft. Open 3 H.P. Engine 16 ft. Open 3 H.P. Engine 18 ft. Cabin S H.P. Engine 22 ft. Cabin 10/12 H.P. Engine 22 ft. Cabin 20 H.P. Engine S « built, seaworthy motorboats for seawater use. A.ll powered with the famous Simplex Marine Engines giving rugged power and maximum speeds. Available for prompt delivery at reasonable prices.

Ask for illustrated details and price list

Kayen Kerosene Lamps

Two Models. All purpose lantern as illustrated and a I handsome tall table lamp.

Provide a steady 300 C.P. light. Burn for 64 hours on 1 gallon of Kerosene. Not ; affected by wind or rain.

Doubly supported mantle, I insect proof, pyrex globes, j removable pump. Spare i parts always available.

Anzani, Britannia, Penta, Verity. U H.P., 4 H.P., 12 H.P. AH available from stock under bond. Ask for specifications and prices.

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W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD. 376/382 KENT STREET, SYDNEY.

Tel.: 8X6331 (II lines). Cables: “Kopsen, Sydney.”

GormsrDw HAH’f lAf • Don’t Jet coughing sneezing attacks of Asthma and Bronchitis poison your system htoiM, your j ener By> ruin your and weak en your heart.

Mendaco, a famous new American scientific medicine. ?hrmf«»! l3 !l5 le l , i ate J y t 0 circulate through the blood, quickly curbing the attacks. The very first ?oivPrt he th thlck phle S m is dissolved, thus giving free easv breathing and letting you sleep through in peace and comfort. Get Mendaco from vour chemist or store to-dav under guarantee to stop your vm l i h f> a cou B hin g and to give dav breathing the first oay or money back.

Passengers to P-NG

Nz Trout Released

AT BULOLO Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, November 3. )N October 1, approximately 10,000 Rainbow Trout ova, consigned Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., dved at Bulolo from New Zealand i Sydney by air.

They were taken to a special hatch- -1 box in the Company’s Upper iune Race.

Hatching commenced on October and had been completed by the 7th.

On a check on October 22, it pearcd that 20 per cent, had been t, but that about 8,000 of the Ling fish remain.

It will be interesting to see what ppens to the remaining young fish whether they reach maturity—or Passengers to Papua-New Guinea on the te-October Bulolo included (left to fht): Mr. M. R. Bruce and his brother [?]r. Trevor Bruce, who is well known in [?]e Territory as the manager of Abu [?]antation, West Papua. Miss J. Oldroyd- [?]irris, who was en route to Port Moresby [?]ter spending three months furlough in Tasmania. Mr. L. Kung, of Port Moresby, who was returning home after a short stay in Sydney. Mr. Kevin Esposito, who has joined Papua-New Guinea Supply Co..

Lae, New Guinea—he was in the Islands during the war as a Navy-commando. 119 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Canned Meats, Hotmeals And Soups

Available in 12 oz. and 1 lb. sealed cans in the following appetising flavours and combinations'. • Corned Beef Loaf With Cereal • Braised Steak and Onions • Boiled and Roast Beef • Beef Steak Pudding • Mutton and Peas • Steak and Onions • Chili Con Came • Curried Mutton • Curried Beef • Irish Stew • Mulligatawny Scup • Vegetable Soup • Mutton Broth • Tomato Soup • Camp Pie "BRONTE" Brand high-grade products are made from the finest fat stock and the richest vegetables in Australia, deliciously flavoured.

The Colonial Wholesale

MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

Canning Factory: State Abattoirs, Homebush, Sydney, N.S.W.

Phone: UM8436. Cables: “WOOLMILL,” Sydney. ■m- -0 isjAMP P %***_ , ' 120 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

BROOMFIELDS Ltd.

Suppliers of BUILDING HARDWARE,

Ship Chandlery, Paint Materials

WRITE DIRECT TO: BROOMFIELDS LTD., 152 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY.

We have pleasure in offering Latest Type

Full Diesel

Skandia Engines

Marine And Stationary

5 H.P. 450 H.P.

Rapid Starting from Cold. Starts and runs on lowest grade fuel

Early Delivery Competitive Prices

Particulars from: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD. 12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Cable Address; ‘TVAN,” SYDNEY.

News Of The Small-Ships

Irmen To Sail Own Yacht

TO FIJI Warrant Officer Gordon Kells, of e RNZAF, on transfer to Fiji 3m Auckland, sailed his 32-foot >op Temptress there in November. :companying him on the voyage 11 be Sergeant Peter Joll, Flightrgeant Bill Lewis and Mr. Rob irlyne an Auckland yachtsman, le crew will return from the decry voyage by air.

Temptress is a modified type of the 11-known American H-28 design, ;ently completed after 5 years of ire-time work by W/O Kells. She s a 11 hp. auxiliary, the cooling iter for which circulates in the How cast-iron keel—a desirable iture for tropical service.

She was to be the subject of an location trial by No. 6 Squadron the RNZAF, When the yacht was Dut 300 miles north of New aland a Catalina was to take off m Hobsonville and try to locate ■ by means of radar. To aid in the lar location, the yacht was proed with a metal reflector device ich would greatly increase the active reflection range. If this •ves as effective as hoped all ocean ng yachts may be encouraged to ry such a device.

V. NZ National Film Unit cameran was expected to travel in the aircraft.

Temptress was also equipped with a low-power radio transmitter for the voyage.

Estrella Del Mar

Captain Emile Savoie’s recently acquired twin screw cargo vessel Hauturu, completely reconditioned, with a large tricolour floating over her new name (Estrella del Mar ) andi port of registry (Noumea), and with the white Savoie house-flag with its. six blue stars at the masthead, cleared Auckland for Sydney and the Islands on October 15.

Chief Engineer for the delivery voyage to Noumea was Mr. George Beeston, of Auckland, who served in. the vessel under her former owners,.

Northern Steam Ship Co.

The ship has been fitted with a 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

Captain W. L. Kennedy

(Established 1931).

Shipbrokers, Business Cr Real Estate

63 Pitt Street, Sydney.

Phone: BW 6461. Cables: “CAPKEN,” Sydney.

LISTING: MODERN DIESEL CARGO VESSEL.—72O tons dwt., Classed Lloyd’s, built 1946 £60,000 Stg.

NEW 80 FT. CARGO VESSEL.—Twin diesels, sheathed, ready for sea. £22,000. 76 FT. STEEL CARGO VESSEL.—BuiIt 1944, twin diesels, large hatches, diesel winch, recently passed survey. £7,000. 50 FT. DIESEL TRAWLER.—Specially built to carry large load, 80 h.p. diesel £6,300. 45 FT. WORKBOAT.—IOO h.p. diesel placed aft, aux. sail, professionally built 1948. £4,000. 36 FT. WORKBOAT.—3O h.p. Lister with reduction, sheathed, recent build. £3,200, AUX. KETCH.—34 ft. x 11 ft., solid vessel, built 1948, Kelvin marine engine. £ 1,500. 26 FT. FLUSH DECK LAUNCH.—Launched 2 months, 30 h.p. Ailsa Craig diesel with reduction. £1,155.

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 properties. All Island inquiries promptly and satisfactorily attended to.

MODERN.

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MARINE ENGINE Complete with oil operated selfchanging reverse gear.

Simple to operate.

Patent single lever control.

Excellent spares and service facilities available.

Enquiries; Agents for STUART Marine Motors. l«-8 HJ».

Generating Sets. 300-3,000 Watts Pumping Sets.

Stationary Engines.

THORNYCROFT (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Cables: “Thornmotor”, Sydney.

Consult us on your Marine Propulsion and Generating Sets Problems. 6/10 Wattle Street, Pyrmont, N.S.W. modern twin-channel radio telephone set which contacted Noumea direct from Auckland in daytime. Captain Savoie hopes to keep in constant contact with his Maria del Mar, at present under the command of Captain J. C. Depoortere, of Noumea, who recently returned from France with his Master’s Ticket.

Captain Savoie purchased the wreck of the ill-fated Lolowai some time ago and from it salvaged the electric winches and derricks which have now been installed in Maria del Mar.

Break Of Day For New

Hebrides Mission

The Presbyterian Overseas Mission in Auckland purchased the 32-foot motor-sailer Kotaretare in Octofc and renamed her Break of Day The boat was dedicated at a servi at an Auckland wharf and left the on October 16, manned by three we known yachtsmen, bound for tl New Hebrides via Norfolk a: Noumea. She will replace a vess lost in last summer’s hurricane.

The yachtsmen manning her a Mark Anthony, former owner of t; yacht Rangi, lost on Norfolk ear this year, Mr. S. Smith, a crew mei ber of that yacht, and Mr. H. Poi of the well-known Auckland yacl Sea Wolf. They will return by aii The Mission has purchased anoth small vessel for the Hebrides—c livery later this year.

Phil Ante Ii For Honoluli

Philante 11, the Fairmile pa senger vessel which arrived Papeete from England in July, le there for Honolulu on September 2 It is understood that, contrary earlier reports, a sale could not I arranged at Tahiti. New Zealai owner Athol Rusden was in coi mand when she sailed. Others the original crew had returned New Zealand earlier.

Another Schooner For

TAHITI?

According to reports from Papeet Captain Fraud, former Master I 122 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

G. L A. E,

"Fisherman Six"

6 Hp Marine Engine

The “Fisherman Six” is undoubtedly the most popular marine engine of 5/6 HP with professional fishermen and pleasure-boat men alike.

The fact that it is used by 90 per cent, of Australian fishermen is testimonial enough.

Famous for solid construction, amazing fuel economy, low idling speed, ease of maintenance, the “Fisherman Six” engine is available in four models—direct drive, one-way clutch, reverse gear, or with reverse and reduction gear. Other CLAE models to suit boats to 35 ft.

Write or cable for catalogue.

C.L.A.E. ENGINE PTY. LTD. 31-35 Hoskins Avenue, Bonkstown, NSW Telephone: UY 3445 Islands Distributors: Papua-New Guinea.—Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

Fiji. Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Suva, Levuka, Lautoka.

“Precision Built Since 1918“ “Fisherman 6”, with Reverse Gear.

Erry’S Bay

50ATYARD J. Halvorsen—Manager) cialists in Island vessels. kinds of boat-building and firing. v and used boats and ines for sale.

Nations and estimates free.

Erry’S Bay Boatyard

i Street, North Sydney. N.S.W : CFPO schooner Oiseau des lies, II shortly bring a vessel from ance —said to be a large schooner. ) details are yet available, except it the vessel would be used by a peete company in the general intermd trade.

/Sea U Des Iles For Sale—

At A Price

fhe Campagnie Francaise des )sphates de I’Oceanie’s 400-ton :1 3-masted schooner Oiseau des , which recently returned to Maka- Island following an expensive rein Auckland, was reported in ober to be on offer through an tlish ship-broker.

Tie recent refit was estimated to e cost £30,000, so the acceptable e is likely to be a high one.

Aoniu For Refit

he Tongan Government vessel in was expected in Auckland early 'ember for refit and repairs. The el. which was acquired in Fiji in 0, recently touched a reef in the pai Group, but was also due for •haul. was expected that Captain Carl ison, Master of the Hifofua, Id bring the vessel south and reto Tonga immediately. The kland Agents for the Tongan eminent were advertising for a master for Aoniu early in )ber.

End Of The Koro

lie small vessel Koro, sunk, raised reconditioned near Vila, is now more. She came to grief on a Left to right: Captain Emaile Savoie's Estrella del Mar enters the Islands trade.

Captain Joe Spring, who returned to Auckland after sailing as Cheief Officer in the Oiseau des Iles. Wanderer II Iying in Papeete harbour-soon to sail for Sydney via ports. 123 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

Coventry VICTOR The Low Weight DIESEL Only 358 lbs. ideal for Marine Propulsion and Auxiliary Us< MADE BY COVENTRY-VICTOR.

The lowest-weight Diesel with the best power-weight ratio for craft up to 22 ft. as main propulsion engine.

Victor Cold Starting, totally enclosed Di« fitted with “0.K.” epicyclic type FORWA AND REVERSE GEAR BOX with 2 to redaction at rear of box and including: 5/7 H.P. . . £338 WEIGHT ONLY 358 LBS. • Variable speed governor with control engine. • Victor gear type water pump fitted s piped up to water circulating system. 7/9 H.P. . . £365 • Water cooled muffler.

F.O.R. Brisbane, including packing. 12-volt starter and generator, £5O extra.

Provision exists for fitting self-starter s generator.

Order now for immediate delivery, write for full details.

WEIGHT ONLY 378 LBS. 17^8

Fitted On Either. Side Filter.'

OF GEARBOX AS R.EQ'O.

DECOMPRESSOR. 12V STARTER 6. DYNAMO

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Z'-A VARIABLE sgj GOVERNOR CO CM A- OIL FILLER. 5- DIPSTICK. c* N w n

Water Pump

6S‘ s^B V - HOLES FOR S /Q O IA. HEX. HD.

BOLTS 12 ,/ S CRS. ftVo 221 is 7 /a" 10*4

44 W Approx. Overall Length

'°^ D starting •NJ Ector.

Direction Of Rotation

Viewed In Direction Of Arrow *A #

Normal Rotation Ahead 18

CLOCKWISE DIESEL MARINE ENGINE WITH "0.K.” (2:1 REDUCTION/REVERSE) GEARBOX IN UNIT CONSTRUCT!* NEWMAN TRACTOR USERS—Standardise on Coventry-Yictor for all your other power requirements.

HAWLEYS PTY r ' 1 * 52 BOWEN ST., BRISBAI LTD. Telegraphic: “COVIC” Brisbai Diesel Engines (Marine and Stationary); Lighting Plants; Pumps; Reversing Propellers, etc. 124 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

FOR SALE

Auxiliary Motor Vessel

Dimensions: 107 ft. x 25 ft. x 8 ft. 5 in.

Tonnage: 247 gross, 174 nett. 170 tons d/w cargo, with full fuel and water tanks.

Engine: Crossley 330 H.P. diesel, speed 8 knots.

General: Passenger accommodation for 8, in 3 cabins.

Equipped with Commonwealth Navigation Certificate.

Built of wood in 1938.

Vessel fitted with auxiliary sails. Is of a type ideally suited for Island trading purposes.

Generally in excellent order.

Price, full particulars, etc., from — A. J. ELLERKER Importers and Shipbrokers Est. 1915.

Valuers to Commonwealth Govt., State Governments and leading commercial ship-owners.

63 Pitt Street, Sydney

Cables; “Hipex—Sydney” eef in New Caledonia and became total loss. (See elsewhere this issue).

Bsip’S Hygeia At Samarai

The BSIP medical vessel AV iygeia left Honiara on September for Samarai (Papua) for slipping.

Tie Hygeia is the first Protectorate essel to use the Samarai slipway.

Break Of Day Ii

The 32-foot launch Break of Day r , purchased in Auckland by the ‘esbyterian Overseas Mission, arrived ifely in New Hebrides on November Equipped with only a low-powered iotor and very small sail area, it ade an excellent passage via Norilk and Noumea, in charge of Aucknd yachtsman Mark Anthony, havg sailed from Auckland on October ). Two days were spent at Norfolk land making certain engine repairs.

The launch replaces Break of Day, st a year ago in a New Hebrides irricane.

The Te Aroa

Messrs. Jagger and Harvey’s grace- -1 topsail schooner Te Aroa, which ;nt on the reef at Mauke Island i August 8, was some time later ttered by heavy seas and carried r up into the shallows, beyond any pe of salvage.

STORTEBECKER 111 PAPEETE, Oct. 30.

The 33 ft. yawl Stortebecker 111, ned and skippered by Dr. Franklinans, late of the Indian Medical ■vice, on a wandering voyage from w Zealand to the Tuamotus, spent couple of weeks in Papeete in tober. Calls had been made at pa and Raivavae, where the three wagers (Dr. Franklin-Evans, Frank isen and Ron Lamb) were kindly eived and hospitably treated by French officials. Stortebecker 111 ae out from London in 1949-50, 1 has been cruising in and around ynesia ever since.

White Wings

-ying in Papeete harbour, Tahiti, October, in charge of Captain ber, was the beautiful and luxurily-appointed American yacht ite Wings, owned by Mr. Richard Reynolds, an American tobacco lionaire. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds yed in Papeete by TEAL plane October 29, to join the yachting ty in a leisurely cruise in Polyla.

'Aurabada For Ng Sea

SCOUTS .aurabada, the famous old Papuan patrol vessel, which was uited into the RAN during the war and has been lying idle in Port Moresby for the past year, has been handed over there for the use of local Sea Scouts.

Nolan Luggers On Ng

COPRA JOB Former pearling luggers, the 65-ft.

Ellen and 56-ft. Gwen May, are now engaged in carrying copra between Wewak and Madang, New Guinea.

Both luggers formerly belonged to the late John Nolan, who died during diving operations off Samarai about two years ago, shortly after he began trochus and shell fishing in the area.

The luggers spent 18 months tied up in Townsville following Nolan’s death, and sailed in convoy for NG under the command of Mr. A. T.

Frodsham some time ago. A third Nolan lugger, Josey, was expected to join the other two on NG copra work early this month.

News Of Cruising Yachts

Ngataki, home-built yacht in which Aucklander Johnny Wray cruised to the Cook Islands and Tonga in the 30’s, before disposing of her to build himself a roomier motor - cruiser, recently changed hands in Auckland. Through the Agency of Andrew Donovan, a leading ship-broker, Mr. J. May, late owner, has sold her to Mr. and Mrs.

A. C. Brown who at some future 125 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R , 1952

fit mmm y 3 pmi \i PINT ■ 54 GALL 54 CALI I BAIL

Marine Engines

MORRIS "VEDETTE" 4 Cylinder 6/12 h.p. Petrol or Kerosene MORRIS "NAVIGATOR" 4 Cylinder 12/24 h.p. Petrol or Kerosene MORRIS "COMMODORE" 6 Cylinder 20/40 h.p. Petrol or Kerosene CHRYSLER "CROWN" 6 Cylinder 45/102 h.p. Petrol CHRYSLER "ROYAL" 8 Cylinder 55/132 h.p. Petrol LEYLAND DIESEL MARINE 6 Cylinder to 125 h.p.

American Sterling And Superior Diesels

<7 Further ■particulars from the distributors: LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

Waterview St.. Ryde (

Sydney ) * H.S.W.

Telegrams: Haivorsens, Sydney. ’Phone : Ryde 705

« Large Range Of Boat Fittings

Builders Of Halvorsen Boats

date, intend making a Pacific cruise, Chiqiiita. 35 foot Auckland cutter whose arrival at Honolulu from Papeete was reported last month, departed for Los Angeles in mid-October. Owner-skipper Jack Campbell expected to complete the trans-Pacific crossing early in November.

At San Francisco the almost-new reversesheer yacht will be put up for auction.

Mr. Campbell and his companion, Donald McLean, have been accompanied since Papeete by Mr. Oliver, an English schoolteacher.

Apart from a scare in the Tuamotus, when they began drifting at night without wind or motor in the vicinity of reefs, the passage from Papeete was excellent, the 2,800 miles being covered at an average 130 miles per day.

Miru, with Dr. Tom Davis and famill of Rarotonga aboard, was reported at St Simon’s Island, Georgia, on October 18 after a good passage up from Callao an: through the Panama Canal to Miami, Fla Heavy weather was encountered on thi next leg of the voyage which has ended a Boston, and an over-enthusiastic radii amateur at Dayton Beach alerted th Coast Guard when he heard mention fror the yacht’s radio that they were bein buffeted. However, Miru arrived safel at St. Simon’s and the remainder of th voyage via New York was throug: sheltered inland waterways. Miru lei Wellington on May 31 and Callao, Per* on September 12.

On November 3 the ketch reache Boston—lo,ooo miles across the Pacific I five months. Dr. Davis, CMO of Cook Is was late for his post-graduate course o: Public Health at Harvard University. Fo this he blamed five storms encountered o the voyage.

The name Forerunner will not ring bell in the Eastern Pacific—but Springbo certainly will. Under that name thi little 26-foot-overall yawl, then under th South African flag, came down through Panama and arrived in NZ waters vi Island ports about 1948.

In Auckland Springbok was purchased b Mr. D. Wing, and given again her origina name of Forerunner. He used her fo local cruising until early 1952. In Marc!

Mr. G. Douglas, lately of the Blue Funae Line and holder of a foreign-goin Master’s ticket, arrived in Auckland, me Mr. Wing, and sold him the idea of 126 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LI

SIMPLEX 300 WATT

Generating Set

This set comprises a 300-watt ballbearing generator belt coupled to a li H.P. J.A.P. Engine and is available in two models either 12 Volt or 32 Volt.

It is a sturdy battery charging set and is ideal for lighting, say, 7-40 watt globes, or 10-25 watt globes, using either 12, 24 or 32-volt batteries. Set is started by pressing button on panel.

Weight: 76 lb.

Price: £75. plus Sales Tax in Australia.

This Is a standard line made oy the manufacturers of Simplex Marine Engines and Trade enquiries are invited. - . wujuilico ai c lllvlVtJU.

HARDMAN and HALL 44 Missenden Road, Newtown, Sydney, Australia.

William E. Reed (Est. 1913) Consulting Ship and Yacht Brokers. 145 a GEORGE ST,, CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY.

Specialising in Vessels of all types suitable for the Island trade.

Our MONTHLY CATALOGUE of selected vessels will be sent on request to bona fide enquiries.

WRITE NOW FOR INCLUSION ON OUR MAILING LIST. delive^y 00 ' Contractors will a firm figure for sea Small craft cradled and loaded aboard ship.

LANDED COST ESTIMATES AVAILABLE.

EW VESSELS. Our NORTHERN BUILDERS can quote for cargo vessels from 10 to 100 tons copra capacity with early delivery.

The SERVICES OF OUR SURVEYOR, a Naval Architect with long practical experience, will be available to bona fide buyers. Insurances with Lloyd’s effected.

WRITE OR CALL IN WHEN SOUTH.

Cables: “Wilreed, Sydney”

Phones: BU 1968. BU 3203. BU 4938. acific cruise. Buying a half share Mr. louglas moved aboard, and the little raft slipped quietly out of Auckland ist May 15, with a proper clearance, for hkualofa.

Between then and November 3, when le yawl arrived back in Auckland, the fo men visited Haafeva, Haapai, Vavau, iva, Matuku, Totoya, Lakemba, Vanua balavu, Wakaya, Makogai, Levuka and fain Suva, sailing from there on ctober 16. At various times they met » with Fitheach Ban, Viator. Wakaya, anu Moana and Omoo, similarly engaged i lolling round the Islands. Omoo, a eel Belgian-owned vessel, left Suva in igust on her voyage round the world.

Forerunner is now back at her moorings the Tamaki River, Auckland.

Manu Moana. 38-foot New Zealand ►op, which has been in Fiji waters for feral months (photo October), left Suva tober 28 on the return voyage to Bay Islands. fhe crew for the south-bound passage ;luded owner Holden, K. Rowe of ►llington, J. Keniedy. an Australian d Bob Narahu, a Gilbert Islander ning to New Zealand to train as an ctrlcian. trthnr Rogers, Mr. Tom Hepworth’s ► verted Brlxham trawler, will remain Papeete until at least next April. » continue on to Auckland. The ner is prepared to take four paying ;sts for the last leg of the voyage, bably via the Cook Islands, he American luxury yacht White ron, the Australian-owned Wanderer and John (Desperate Voyage) Cald- -I’s Tropic Seas are still reported at Tahitian capital. There has been an lition to the crew of Tropic Seas :e arriving in port—as Mrs. Caldwell Jntly gave birth to another child (sex eported) aboard the yacht “without lical assistance of any kind!” kaya, Auckland staysail schooner, t oresent at Nukualofa, and reportedly nng some volunteer yachtsmen to st on the passage back to Auckland. [?]acific Scouts for Sydney Jamboree the belief that Scouting advances educational work in the Pacific Terries, the Australian Government is prong generous financial assistance for ua-New Guinea and Nauru Scouts to nd the Pan-Pacific Jamboree in ney between December 29 and aary 9. acre will ..he 24 Scouts from Nauru, wiU travel in the BPC ship Triona.

P-NG contingent will probably have fly for want of suitable shipping.

Government will pay the fares of 22 its, including two Europeans. But In Territory the Local Association is ag to raise the expenses of 28 more. / fr. J. F. Griffiths, Assistant Acntant, Nyasaland, has been apited Deputy Accountant-General, • He is expected to arrive early he New Year.

Mr. J. Kruitsclmltf, managing director of Mt. Isa Mines and man- * ire ?° r of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., spent 10 days in Wau, NG in October. He was accompanied by Mrs. Kruitschnitt and by Mr. George Fisher who will take over the management of Mt.

Isa when Mr. Kruitschnitt retires at the end of the year. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1952

Ik refri S*« s f " Wirrf X «r- -k t3m £S3SSSSSSS^ l±Et LAUREL The DEPENDABLE Kerosene Always insist on Laurel for all your smell and wick char. Use Laurel kerosene - burning appliances. also in the home for all cleaning Laurel is pure, free from all those jobs baths, basins, tiles, linos, impurities that cause soot, smoke, windows, metalware. 128 NOVEMBER. 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Andrew Donovan

217 Second Floor, Victoria Arcade, AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Phone: 44-534.

Ship Broker, Marine

INSURANCE BROKER.

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MARINE ENGINES (Petrol and Diesel) AND EQUIPMENT.

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All types passenger and cargo vessels offered at reasonable prices. Also fishing boats, keel and centre-board yachts, launches, sailing dinghies, runabouts and outboard motors.

New Marine Engines, Eco Pumps, Reverse Gears, Propellers, and all classes of Ship Chandlery always on hand.

McILRATH’S For QUALITY Groceries

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Australian I.A. SUGAR, 70 lb. Single Hessian Bags Choice DESSERT PLUMS, 29 oz. tins (usual price 30/6 doz.) Choice Clingstone PEACHES, 30 oz.

Choice BARTLETT PEARS, 30 oz. . .

Choice Preserved APRICOTS (Halves) 30 oz SOLID PACK APPLES (for pies, stewing, etc., no waste) 14 oz. (usual price 24/-), 22/6 doz.; 28 oz. (usual price 43/6 doz.) Mcllrath’s “Rosa” JELLY CRYSTALS, pint pkts., 12 Popular Flavours .

Mcllrath’s “Rosa” CUSTARD POW- DER (made from best ingredients —none better), 16 oz. cartons “1.X.L.” GOLDEN CORN, 8 oz. .. 49/3 bag. 21/- doz. 39/- doz. 39/- doz. 35/6 doz. 36/- doz. 10/- doz. 29/6 doz, 17/6 doz.

Choice MARMALADE, 12 oz. (usual price 14/6) 10/6 doz.; 24, 0 z. (usual price 25/-) K.R. BONELESS COOKED HAM, 16 oz

K.R. Cooked Bacon Rashers

16 oz Choice SLICED BEETROOT, 30 oz. (usual price 30/-) “Heinz” English MAYONNAISE, 7 oz. (usual price 3/9), ....

Choice PLUM PUDDINGS, 12 oz. 25- doz.; 16 oz Canned ORANGE SLICES (citrus fruit), 16 oz. tins (usual price 24/-) “Heinz” GREEN PEA SOUP, 16 oz. (usual price 27/6) “Gartsides” ASPARAGUS SOUP, 16 oz

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“OROS” (Orange cordial) “LEMOS” (Lemon cordial) “HALF & HALF” (Orange and Lemon) . . . ’ .

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A full range of - Lever Lid tins for Jsland Customers brands of Scotch Whisky. Rum3?n4/9 bottle. Also leadin, No additional charges tor buying commission*’ etc? All pSJ“Swwfto'SSS S" Kr«.£ P ’° J ’ Sydney McILRATH’S PTY. LTD, 202 Pitt St., Sydney, Australia.

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New Era In The

SOLOMONS Mr. Stanley Completes His First Survey l LTHOUGH just off a comfortless little ship, after ten weeks spent a preliminary survey of his wideread kingdom, the new High Comissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr.

C. S. Stanley, was determinedly timistic when he met newspaper porters in Suva on October 22.

He had had a quick look at New ;brides, Solomons and Gilbert and lice Islands; but he did not have ich to say about the smaller groups, s interest and imagination seemed have been stirred by the Solomons; d he insisted that, with unity and operation, much can be done there.

It is not generally realised that, one leaves out New Guinea (the dd’s biggest “island”), the British lomons comprise the largest Ter- Dry in the South Pacific—l4,6Bo Liare miles, or twice the area of ji. Yet in the Solomons there are ver than 500 Europeans and less than 100,000 Melanesian natives.

The archipelago is tragically undeveloped. Under competent help and direction, it could become as valuable economically as Fiji, Samoa or French Oceania. Yet it has only a few score white residents, apart from officials and missionaries; and its only notable product is copra— about 12,000 tons per annum.

For the first time in history, BSI has an Administrator of its own —it is no longer an unwanted appendage of Fiji—and its new chief has impressed everyone as a man of strength and resource. He appears to have definite plans for creating a new era in BSI; but obviously he can do little without (a) vigorous co-operation from London and (b) success in at* tracting private enterprise into the archipelago.

BSI always has been a Cinderella among South Pacific Territories. For fifty years, prior to World War 11, the British Colonial Office seldom gave it a thought. For three years it was a bombed and battered battleground between Americans and Japanese. From 1945 until now, it has been notable mostly as a place reached by a few echoes of the policies of the British Socialist Government—seen in the coddling of the primitive natives and the discouragement of private people contemplating new enterprises there. (Continued Page 131) 129 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

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Collins Street, Alexandria, Nsw, Australia

130 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Without Operation

If you feel old before your time or suffer from nerves, brain and physical weakness, you will find new happiness and health in an American medical discovery which restores youthful vim and vigour quicker than gland operation. It is a simple home treatment in tablet form, discovered by an American doctor. Absolutely harmless and easy to take, but the newest and most powerful invigorator known to science. It acts directly on your glands, nerves and vital organs, builds new, pure blood, and works so fast that you can see and feel new body power and vigour in 24 to 48 hours. Because of its natural action on glands and nerves, your power and memory often improve amazingly.

And this amazing new gland and vigour restorer, called Vi- Stim, has been tested and proved by thousands in America, and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vi-Stim from your chemist to-day. Put it to the test. See the big improvement in 24 hours. Take the full bottle under the guarantee that it must make you full of vim, vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 20 years younger, or money back. luuAicy ua.UK..

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Diesel And Petrol Generating Sets

New and Secondhand, Ex Stock Delivery NEW DIESEL CRAWLER TRACTORS, Drawbar, H P. 34, Ex Stock Delivery £2,600 F. 0.8. Sydney Full Details on Request Send us your enquiries for all classes of Engineers’ and Contractors’ Stores including Diesel Engines, Electric Motors, Electric Hoist-blocks, Hand Pulley Blocks, Engineers’ Tools, Sacking Needles, Bolts, Nuts, Screws, and Rivets, etc.

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Cables: Armex Sydney. Telephones: BW 6398, BU 6347 1/fR. STANLEY told the reporters ” that a building programme for loniara was being pushed on rapidly nd, even if the work were not comleted, he would try to remove the icadquarters’ staff from Suva to loniara in January.

He would not enter into the old ontroversy about Honiara and Tulgi. He admitted that war-shattered ulagi had a good harbour, whereas loniara is only partly sheltered; but e pointed out that the new capital n Guadalcanal has a fine hinterland, hile Tulagi has none. It was hoped ► overcome the lack of a good over- ;as wharf at Honiara by encouragig private enterprise to establish an ficient lightering service.

He admitted that probably the erritory’s first need was more proaction; and, if there was to be an icreased copra output, or developent of new industries, there must : a larger labour supply. He did not dicate the source of this; but he a hope that he could de- ;lop better relations with that large ction of the native population which id been associated with the Marchg Rule movement.

Mr. Stanley would not comment i the report that a transfer of the Dmmission’s large fleet of little ships the control of private enterprise is contemplated. For both adminration and development, adequate communications were essential; and he said that many matters connected with both air and sea transport were under consideration, Mr. Stanley said that the Gilbert and Ellice Colony had made a good recovery from wartime devastation, and all public services were being paid for out of revenue. (This, of course, is not surprising, because, through a system of Islands Councils, communal public works, and cooperative trading societies, the Colony is largely run by the natives themselves, and private enterprise by Europeans is entirely absent, since the war).

Advance Party

ur .. IIAn A . HONIARA, October ..5.

T'HF advance party of the WPHC A headquarters on the move to the Protectorate, will consist of the High Commissioner (Mr. Stanley), Mrs.

Stanley and Miss Stanley, the Financial Secretary (Mr. A. M.

McLeod Smith) and Mrs. McLeod Smith, and the Assistant Secretary (Mr. H. Russell) and Mrs. Russell, Mr. Russell served here previously, The Chief Secretary (Mr. R. J.

Minnitt) will remain in Suva for a time being as Assistant High Commissioner. Although there is still an acute housing shortage, it has been possible to find suitable housing for the advance party. 131 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

and best for the job (I) Here you see an upright of the ‘ Arcon ’ framework being raised into position. It takes little more than seven hoursfor seven unsk Hied 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. £ ~n mm 0) This is part of the housing programme recently planned for a major oil Company in Persia. The ‘Arcon’ building is cool, spacious and hygienic, ideally suitable for the purpose.

Taylor Woodrow (Building Exports) Ltd

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’

TROPICAL ROOF CONSTRUCTION SURVIVED THE APPAL-

Ling Hurricane, Which Hit The Fiji Islands On

January 28Th, With Only Minor Damage Although

Many Buildings In The Area Were Completely

Destroyed. Wind Gauges In This Hurricane Went

OUT OF ACTION AT 135 m.p.h. AND SOME GUSTS OCCURRED WHICH WERE ESTIMATED AT 200 m.p.h.

There is no end to the uses of ‘Arcon’ Structures. Perhaps we may have the pleasure of sending you our free brochure giving further details.

Write to

The Fiji Trading Company Ltd

Victoria Parade, Suva, FIJI ISLANDS or

Utility Buildings Pty. Ltd

St. James Building, 107-109 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

41 Welbeck Street - London W.L • England

132 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Ice-Cream Making Units

For The Islands

KASPER Ice Cream Making Machines, specially designed for tropical conditions, feature new stainless steel welded surfaces and chrome-plated fittings. They’ll last a lifetime. For appearance, for convenience and dependability, for low operating costs, and for profit-making power, Kasper Units stand supreme in the Islands today.

O “ Kasper” units for the Islands are made in 8- Hole Models (illustrated) or 4-Hole Models.

ISLANDS STOREKEEPERS AND TRADERS! Increase your sales and turnover DURING THE WARMER MONTHS by installing one of these modern Ice Cream Making and Dispensing Cabinets — specially insulated for the tropics and self-contained with refrigerator unit and electric motors (to suit your local power supply).

Order now from your Islands Agent and avoid delay.

KASPER REFRIGERATORS PTY. LTD. 77 Railway Parade, Erskineville, N.S.W., Australia Telephone LA 1326

Deaths Of Islands People

MRS. A. J. BRETAG Ihe death occurred in Lae, New inea, on November 3, of Mrs. ne Bretag, wife of Mr. A. J. stag, one of New Guinea’s best- )wn and highly respected residents, ■s. Bretag, who was aged 51, joined • husband in 1934 in the Bulolo a, where he was gold mining; and y and their sons—John, Brian, and ties —lived in Wau and Lae until Japanese invasion. Mrs. Bretag limed to the Territory after the r with her husband and re-estabed her home, and has been closely Delated with the community ever :e.

MR. F. J. T. CORBETT dr. Frederick J. T. Corbett, a re- ;nt of Fiji for 65 years, died in aon October 22. He was 83. le was born in New Zealand and 1888 joined his brothers, Bowyer I Ernest, in Fiji. In 1901 he had ►utchery business in Suva, but in 6 started cattle raising and banana wing in the Tailevu district. He r acquired several blocks in the va valley, where he extended his le raising and began growing arcane. le retired from active business in 9. He is survived by seven chila, 29 grandchildren and 15 greatidchildren.

MR. A. D. OLSEN dr. A. D. Olsen died suddenly at ina, his plantation near Honiara, adalcanal, on October 8, as the ilt of an accident, le arrived in the Solomons early century and apart from the war rs 1942-45, and occasional visits Australia, had lived in the Proorate ever since. is a young man, he is said to e sailed as a crew member of a ber ketch which was wrecked r the New Hebrides, and to have ved in the Solomons by raft after shipwreck. Later he engaged in ing and recruiting in the Group, rentle, unassuming, incurably srous both in good times and > and with something of a gift for ng stories of the early days, he left many friends in the Solois and another gap in the ranks he “old-timers”.

MR. W. J. CANDLER he death occurred on October 30, he Royal North Shore Hospital, ley, of Mr, William J, Candler, for very many years was a corneal traveller in the South Pacific ids. His principal line was aspic’s flour, and in the course of s, Bill Candler and Gillespie’s product came to be known very well in all the Islands’ distributing centres from Port Moresby to Rarotonga. He had personal knowledge of most Islands residents, and was famous for his fund of anecdotes relating to Islands people and Islands affairs.

He retired from active work only three or four years ago, and was 78 years old when he died.

Mrs. Mabel Morrison

A well-known resident of Rabaul, Mrs. Mabel Morrison, died at Wangaratta, Victoria, on October 16 after a very short illness.

She was the widow of Major Bill Morrison, who served with the Post and Telegraph Department in RabauL Major Morrison had a fine war record, and was for a long period prisoner of war in Changi.

Mrs. Morrison took an active interest in all sporting activities in Rabaul and in the Boy Scouts’ movement. She is survived by thre& children—two married daughters in Wangaratta, and Mr. lan Morrison, an employee of the Administration at Kokopo, NG.

Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Fulton of Makurapau Ptn., New Britain, with and Elizabeth, were southbound passengers on the MaL aita in October. 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1952

—STAMPS ALBUMS, CATALOGUES AND ACCESSORIES.

RECENT ARRIVALS (All Mint).

BAHAMAS: Vzd, 2d, 3d new colours .. 9d BARBADOS: Stamp Centenary .. .. 3/6 BERMUDA: 2/6 shade variety .. .. 4/3 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.

JAMAICA: Scout Jamboree 1/6 MALAYA: 5 new cols., ea. 12 States 37/6 N. ZEALAND; 1/3 wmk. up. 2/-, Health 8d PAPUA-NEW GUINEA (issued Oct. 30 1 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.

N. BORNEO; 15c shade variety .... 9d 50c Jesselton re-spelt g/_ N. RHODESIA; V 2 d, Id, 2d, 3d new colours 1/-, 4V 2 d, 9d new values 2/- ST. KITTS, new to 24c 4/-, 48c 3/3, 60c 4/3, $1.20 8/-, $4.80 32/-.

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/-.

S. AFRICA: van Riebeck 3/6, Exhib. 9d S. W. AFRICA: van Riebeck .. .. 3/6 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, Reconstruction 2/-, Musicians 1/-, Luther 6d, Museum 9d, Famous Men 1/6 ICELAND: New I.BOK 1/10, 2.50 K 2/6, 3.30 K 3/4.

ITALY: Parma/Modena Stamp Centy 2/9, Venice 9d, Padua 9d, Trieste 9d.

NETHERLANDS, Postal Centy 2/-, ITEP 7/6, van Riebeck 3/-.

SWITZERLAND; Pro Patria 1952 .. 6/- U.S.A., Reconstruction 6d, Lafayette 6d, NATO 6d, Automobile 6d, Railroad 6d, Mt. Rushmore 6d, Engineering 6d, Women’s Services 6d.

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. N.Z. Postal Notes or Money Orders payable Wellington acceptable.

We are buyers of used Pacific Islands stamps, on or off paper. Offers invited. 95/- 53/- 37/6 32/- 77/9 53/6 35/6 66/6 53/6 64/- 51/- 32/- ALBUMS.

SIMPLEX De Luxe, 11 y 8 x 9% SIMPLEX Standard, liy 8 x 9% SIMPLEX Medium, 10% x 8% SIMPLEX Junior, 9% x ?y 4 SENATOR De Luxe, liy 8 x 9% V.

SENATOR Standard, liy 8 x 9% SENATOR Medium, 10% x 8% UTIL*, Standard, faced leaves ..

UTILE Medium, faced leaves NUBIAN, liy 8 x 9% black, faced EXETER, Peg Pitting, 10% x 9% ACE, Springback, 9% x 7>/ 4 a/i/ .

S.G. MINOR, Springback, 6% x 5% 15/3 SWING-O-RING, Spiral, White or Black, faced leaves 51/_ NEW AGE, 1936-40 Popular 75/-, De Luxe 95/-, 1940-46 Popular 95/-, De Luxe 115/-, 1946-49 Popular 95/-, De Luxe 115/-.

NEW IMPERIAL, Antigua-Malta .. 85/- Mauritius-Zululand 85/- ALBUM LEAVES (AH 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, Paced 7/6.

NUBIAN, Black, Faced 6/-.

SWING-O-RING. White or Black 6/-.

NEW AGE 2/-.

ACCESSORIES.

Transparent Interleaving Sheets, per 100, liy 4 x 10 9/6, 11 x 9% 10/6, 10 X 8% 7/6, gy 4 x ?y 4 5/3.

Hinges, Packet 1,000 Medium 2/6, Tin 2,000 Medium 7/6, Tin 1,000 Large 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.

Perf. Gauge, Instanta 6/-, Ivorine 2/9.

Watermark Tray 3/-.

Catalogues And

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: — i*art 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.

Erskine Stamp Service

P.O. Box 9, Beecroft, N.S.W., Australia.

New Guinea Notes

The managing director and cha man of the New Guinea-Borneo Ms grove Company, Mr. R. C. Dolb« told pressmen in Australia in Octob that his Company now planned establish its works in the delta of t Kikori River, in Western Papua. T!

Company extracts cutch (used in ta ping) from the bark of the mangrc trees. This is an important additii to the industries of P-NG. * * * Ihe London Salvage Association party of divers, under Captain I. T Herd, has now definitely located aj marked the spot where the Drov aircraft crashed into the sea, thn miles south of Lae, New Guinea, - July 16, 1951. The divers have df covered parts of the wreckage of ti plane, and some passengers’ luggag and they hope to find at least son of the Bulolo bullion the plane wi carrying, estimated to have be: worth £30,000. The water is aba 100 feet deep. The pilot and s passengers were lost. =i= * * Following the arrival in Papua four senior officials of the Vacuu Oil Co., it is believed that the fc oil interests which have been pn ceeding with the oil search in tH part of New Guinea for many yea will either announce soon that t: prospects justify them in continuii the search, or that the enterprise w be abandoned.

It was announced in October <> behalf of the Government that Au tralia had not given serious consi eration to the suggestion of the pu sident of the Returned Soldi©: League that Australia should try buy New Caledonia from Franc New Caledonia has been a unit the French Empire for a century, ai Ministers said there was no indicate whatever by France that the To ritory was for sale. Similarly, suggestion that Australia should pu chase Western New Guinea frot Holland has not been actively pursue ••:< * « A Medical Department officii William Mervyn Creighton, who ws sentenced by a New Guinea court ? 4\ years’ gaol for criminal assail upon a native woman, while in An bunti hospital (Sepik River) will a* peal to a higher Australian Courtl Messrs. Tom and Dan Leaht young men in their twenties, ait nephews of the famous Leahy brother who pioneered the New Guinea Higs lands; have taken up land in tl: Markham Valley area of N© Guinea. They are now planting the first crop of 100 acres of rice. 134 NOVEM- BER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

fads and figures about

Chula Uopita Drying

The grower has a choice of a wide range of machines, of varying output, from h ton of high grade copra every 24 hours, which is the output of the smallest Natural Draught dryer, to 2 tons the daily output of the largest Power Driven Model.

I

Chula Copra Dryers

VMTH

Outputs Per 24 Hours

Model VND iil 2,000-2.500 nuts Model NDO till 3,000-3,500 nuts If you would like to know more about Chula Copra Dryers and other machinery for the plantation, please write to us Model BDO ■•••■ a 6,000 nuts.

Agents: Papua: The B.N.G. Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

New Guinea : Rums Phi/p /New Guinea) Ltd., Rabaul. La■>, Madang and Kavieng.

French Islands in South Pacific: Leve:qut Freres.

Papeete, Tahiti.

Fiji, Samoa, Tonga: Morris Hedstrom, Suva, Fiji.

Tyneside Foundry

& ENGINEERING CO. LTD.

Established 1898.

Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.

Telegrams <k Cables: " Foundry, Newcastle-on-Tyne."

Codes: ABC sth dk 6th Editions.

Model BDI ■ •■■a aaaaa 10,000 nuts Are you growing RUBBER?

If so, let us supply you with the latest Huttenbach Rubber Machinery as supplied to Malayan Rubber Estates.

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EDUCATION An Important Conference Prom a Special Correspondent P. MORESBY, Nov. 10.

NE of the most important developments connected with the prom of native education in the South :ific Islands took place on Nonber 10, when there assembled e, at the invitation of the Admination, delegates from 26 Christian ssions operating in Papua and New inea. Matters relating to native ication took first place; but the iference also considered numerous er matters affecting contact be- :en the activities of the Admination and the Missions. ’radically ever since the arrival of opeans in the Islands, 150 years , the Christian Missions have asled responsibility for native educai and health; and the Governits generally were content ta leave t that. It is only in the last 40 or years that the Governments have epted an increasing responsibility both the fields of education and licine; and thus there has been an •easing overlap as between Govment and Mission activities.

'his overlap has created sharp blems in education, because the vernments generally wish native cation to adhere to one system, jreas each of the many missions developed independently its own em of native education. This, of rse, has led to much argument, occasionally to bitterness.

THE need for co-ordination in the field of education has been emphasised in Papua-New Guinea— first, because among the H million of native population there, there are scores—perhaps hundreds—of separate languages; and, second, because the Administration itself, the Trusteeship Council which directs it, and the South Pacific Commission which advises it, have all in recent years developed a lively interest in the problems of native education, and the need for coordination of effort in relation thereto, and have turned scores of secular education experts loose upon its several problems.

The Acting Administrator, Mr.

D. M. Cleland, who is largely responsible for this Conference being called, opened the proceedings to-day, and discussed the problems before delegates in a frank and forthright way; and then he handed over the chairmanship to the Director of Education in Papua-New Guinea, Mr.

W. C. Groves.

In a statement expressing cordial goodwill towards the Missions, Territories Minister Hasluck said that since the war Australia has given increasing financial aid to them— -1946-47, £.33,000; 1948-49, £l5O, 000; in 1951-52, the grants totalled £193,000, and the estimated grant for 1952-53 is £239,000. 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1952

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Many Plans and Projects for Islands Administration MANY of the decisions taken by the South Pacific Commission, in a hard-working session extending from October 6 to 16, are of considerable interest to all of the South Pacific Territories. The NZ High in Western Samoa, Mr.

G. R. Powles, was chairman. The Commission is engaged on 43 projects “affecting the economic and social development of non-self-governing territories and the welfare and advancement of their peoples.”

Dr. A. H. J. Kroon, a Dutch agri- •cultural scientist with many years of experience in Indonesia, was appointed Executive Officer for Economic Development on the Research Council, which is a small body of experts, permanently employed to advise the Commission. The office was vacated by Dr. McMillan last year.

The next South Pacific Conference (an assembly of mostly native delegates from all South Pacific territones—there were 60 delegates from 17 territories in Suva in 1950, at the first Conference) will be held in Noumea in April, 1953.

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Including plans for the introduc tion and distribution of economl plants, improvement of tropica pastures and of stock, survey of lan« uses, control of pests, diseases am weeds, the Commission considered 1; major projects in the field of economl development.

A survey of the possibilities of ex panding the cocoa and coffee indus tries in various territories has beei completed; a survey of the coconu industry is proceeding. Plans to as sist rice production are being made.

The SPC wishes to assist Island people generally to make greater usi of their fish resources. Following ! conference of experts in May last, i has decided to give assistance to al institutions engaged in this form o research, especially in French Oceania An official announcement says: Other projects approved by tlt, Commission included an examinatioi of financial and commercial relation as they affect the economic develop rnent of island people , the study o the possibilities of participation o native people in industrial develop ments; and the initiation of at economic survey in Western Samoa The Commission also decided to b* associated with a statistical analyst of a sample agricultural census o Papua and New Guinea.

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Under the heading of “Social De velopment” there appear to be, ii process of planning or execution, ; considerable number of projects con cerned with the education of th« Islanders—especially the backwan peoples of Melanesia.

Since it was established five year ago, the SPC has learned that, befor the “advancement” of Islanders cai be achieved, they must be instructed and before they can be instructed they must be in some degree literate and before they can become evet slightly literate there must be pro vided for them trained teachers ant some medium for teaching. As then are many hundreds of differed languages among the li million prim itive folk in Melansia, the SPC hat become increasingly concerned wit) the problem of literacy.

These projects therefore cover i wide variety of literacy studies ant instruction techniques—but there stil is no indication of what medium thi experts favour for teaching in thi village school —the vernacular, or thi most common Territory languages or Pidgin, or the inculcation, at thu lowest possible level, of simple Eng; 138 NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The Commission, however, has stablished a Literature Bureau to reduce and distribute simple reading latter for Islands people; and that ureau has given authority to produce quarterly magazine for the use of ic literate Islanders. This will meet real need.

Co-Operative Movements

Having been informed that there a growing interest throughout the luth Pacific in the formation of coicrative societies among Islanders, e Commission has decided to range “a technical meeting” of -operative organisations with a view fostering the movement.

The official statement says the movement is “a means of promoting social and economic advancement.”

The subject should be examined in a thoroughly practical way before the SPC commits itself to furtherance of the movement. The general impression is (a) native co-operative societies rarely are efficient and economically sound except under European management and (b) the movement is frequently encouraged by administrative officers of advanced Leftist views as a means of expressing their hatred of private enterprise.

The Commission has decided to assist welfare centres and community development projects in various territories by grants and in other ways.

Papuans Attend Asian MRA Talks When the First Asian Assembly r MRA (Moral Re-Armament) — out 500 people from 30 countries assembled in Colombo on October , those present included the follow- ; delegation from Papua-New linea, selected and sent to Ceylon the Australian Department of rritories:— . Merai Dickson, Papuan Member of he Papua and New Guinea Legislative Council. i. Vera Dickson, wife of Merai Dickson, nd a school-teacher, is Alice Wedega, Papuan Delegate to le Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in few Zealand in 1952.

Penueli Anakupu, editor of the apuan Times, an English newspaper sr Papuans.

MRA is the movement launched ginally as the Oxford Group, and w led by Dr. Frank Buchman. Its purpose is to bring about such a change in economic and social conditions—on the part of both capitalists and communists—that the present tendency towards inter-racial and inter-class struggle will disappear.

The press reports that notable speeches were made in Colombo by Mr. Dickson and Miss Wedega.

Jungle War In Papua

A REMINDER that the natives of New Guinea are only a couple of generations removed from savagery was given early in November in Papua, when about 100 men, with all the paraphernalia of jungle war, fought furiously with spears and clubs in the Rigo district, not 'far from Port Moresby. It was a quarrel between villages over land and other petty matters. Before the administrative officers could get there and check the fighting, two men were killed and about a dozen wounded. 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R , 1 952

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HONIARA, Oct. 30.

AT a recent meeting of the British l*" Solomon Islands Copra Board, indited accounts for the year ended )ecember 31, 1951, were presented md were accepted and approved by nembers. The Board hopes that now laving the services of a permanent md full-time Secretary-Accountant Mr. E. V. Lawson) balance sheets wll be available each February.

Accumulated funds as at Deember 31, 1951, were £65,374/0/2 nd there has probably been some jrther increases this year. Howver, as the Board’s monthly comlitments necessitate the use of overraft facilities from the Bank, all vailable accumulated funds must be sed in the Board’s business.

The possibility of establishing a tabilisation Fund was discussed by lembers of the Board, who were all i favour of the idea but expressed Dubt as to whether the industry mid stand any substantial deductions >r stabilisation at this stage. The oard decided to refer the matter to e Solomon Islands Planters’ and ommercial Association for their Dinion as to how much per ton mid be deducted next year.

The opinions of planters are wel- >med by the Board.

Editorial Note

The BSI Copra Board consists of ree government members, two itive members representing native >pra producers, one member reprenting missions and two Europeans presenting European planters. All e nominated by the Government, te Board has appointed the Trade :heme as its buying agent and, after me pressure, the Fairymead Sugar Mnpany, at Yandina, as sub-agent.

BSI planter, who is at present in r dney, when asked to comment on e above report, said that since the ipointment of Fairymead as subent many planters have preferred to nd their copra there although it is rther away than Honiara. The ason is prompt payment, which, he ys, they do not get from the rade Scheme. He says that the )ard, and through it the Trade beme, was allowed an overdraft om a Sydney bank of £20,000 to eet copra purchases. As they have buy something like a £1,000,000 orth of copra per annum this is tally inadequate and the gap is made 5 by the Trade Scheme “waiting itil a ship is sighted on the horizon”

Tore weighing and paying planters •r their copra. When asked to accept the Board’s invitation and give his opinion on a stabilisation fund, the visiting planter used a lot of rude words.

Travellers to Port Moresby on Bulolo which left Sydney, October 31, included (left to right): Mr. S. Armstrong and daughter Noelle, who were returning to Moresby after a holiday. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Eginton and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Eginton, wellknown in Moresby business circles. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1052

Classified Advertisements TENDERS ESTATE ELIZABETH MAHONY (Deceased).—Tenders endorsed “Estate E.

Mahony” are invited and will be received by the undersigned until 5 p.m., December 31, 1952, for the purchase of the following LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES either wholly or in part:— 1. —Agricultural lease No. 485, comprising 32 acres 1 r. 20 p., situated Dunvara, Rossel Island, South Eastern Division, Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Improvements consist of approx. 30 acres planted with coconut palms aged about 22 years. 2. —Pastoral lease No. 256, comprising 999 acres 3 r. 27 p., situated Moguiva Point, Sudest Island, S.E.D., without improvements. 3. —Pastoral lease No. 257, comprising 700 acres 22 p. situated Griffen Point Sudest, without improvements. 4. —Pastoral lease No. 258, comprising 5 acres situated Griffen Point, Sudesi without improvements. 5-—Pastoral lease No. 259, comprisin' 2,008 acres, situated Sudest, S.E.Di without improvements.

The successful tenderer shall accept sue: title as the administrator of the estati now has and without further investiga tion.

Terms.—All properties sold subject to thi consent of the Administrator of the Terri tory of Papua and New Guinea. On ac ceptance of tender, 10 per cent, of tende price to be deposited and the balance t: be paid upon execution by the Adi ministrator of a conveyance of th property or such other document or ini strument as the successful tenderer ma; reasonably require to evidence the sal, in the absence of a registerable transfer The highest or any tender not necessaril; accepted.

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TENDERS Sealed Tenders endorsed “Tenders purchase Kyllert Estate” will be received by— PERPETUAL TRUSTEE COMPANY (LIMITED), Trustee of the Estate of the late Petrus Laurentius Kyllert at its office 33-39 Hunter Street, Sydney, until 5 p.m. on the 16th day January, 1953, for the purchase of the following Copra Plantations in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea: 1. “STOCKHOLM”, Bainings District, New Britain 474 hectares, 99 years lease from 7/2/1930.

Formerly, 282 hectares planted 40,000 palms and also 3,500 interplanted cacao. Now, about 250 hectares with about 35,000 palms.

Palms are good. Potential about 200 tons.

Plantation mostly clean. 2. “LONDOLOVIT”, Lihir Island, New Ireland. 290 hectares, 99 years lease from 27/10. 1926.

Formerly, whole area planted 40,000 palms; now, about 270 hectares about 36,000 palms.

Recently averaging about 20 tons per month.

Plantation mostly clean.

Subject to share farming agreement expiring 1/7/1954. 3. “MARAGON”, Simberi Island. 294 hectares freehold.

Formerly, whole area planted about 23,000 palms. Now, scattered areas of about 60 hectares—about 7,000 palms.

Plantation generally run down.

All properties sold subject to the consent of the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

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REFlNERS.—Purchasers and Refiners of Bullion, Scrap, Mining By-Products, and Trade Residues of every description carrying Precious Metals.

Garrett, Davidson &

MATTHEY PTY., LTD., 824 George St.. Sydney. Works: Surry Hills & Chippendale, N.S.W.

Official Assayers to Bank of N.S.W.

Gazetted Agents of Commonwealth Bank, under the Gold Regulations of the National Security Act.

Consign Your Shell To VENTURA TRADING CO. PT¥. LTD.

26 Bridge Street, Sydney

We can offer highest prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

Islands Produce

otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA Papua-NG.—Copra Marketing Board -price: Main ports, Hot-air, £69/5/- per ton;, FMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £6B/5/-.

Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air, £9l; FMS, £9O/15/-; Smoked, £9O/2/6.

Australia has a 9 years’ UK contract (based on £ Stg.s9/15/-, 1952).

Fiji.—At Suva and Levuka, 1952: Plantation Grade (60 points and over) £F6S/0/6 per ton; FMS (45-57V 2 points), £F64/15/-; Lower Grade £P6I/10/- min.

New Hebrides.—Recent quotation at 81 Metrop. francs kilo, c.i.f. Marseilles, (approx. £AIO4/10/-, long ton).

Samoa.—MOF contract is at £65 Stg. per ton Western Samoa; producers receive about £lO 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. —Islands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on Nov. 1 was £Stg.23o (£ A287/10/-) c.i.f. Cont. ports.

N.G. —Recent quotation: £A26O per ton, ex. wharf, Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Recent shipments to USA brought $548.50 per ton (£A22B/10/- per ton).

Samoa. —Sydney agents in November quoted Samoan cocoa at £ 5tg.235 (£ A293/15/-) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—lslands prices ruling in Sydney in November: — Papua-NG.—lst grade, approx. 7/- lb. ex-wharf Sydney (approx. £760/10/- per ton).

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to France. Marseilles recently quoted; 376-378 M. fr. kilo, ex-store (£A4BS- - long ton).

RUBBER.—Australian Rubber Pool quotation for November shipment.—Papua- NG: 20 5/16d. Stg. per lb., c.i.f. Sydney (approx. 25V2d. 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), Nov. 1; No. 1 grade RSS (sellers), spot, 79c. lb., c.i.f. (approx. 29 3 /4d.

Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS. —Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): White Label, 22/-, Yellow, 22/-, Green, 21/- 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).

DESICCATED COCONUT. Sydney agents quote Ceylon, 1/7V 2 lb. spot, delivered to store, Sydney. New Guinea: 2/5 V 2 lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed betwee Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerda Co. (USA) for 1952 were: AA/A/B grade 85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, per lon ton); C, 80c. lb. (£A800); D, 55c. It (£ A 550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE, 30c lb. (£A3OO) all c.i.f., New York. Coo Is.—American market has recently show increased interest, with quotations in es cess of 35 cents U.S. per lb., c. & Rarotonga. Current production is abot 50 tons per month.

TROCHUS SHELL.—Sydney agents r« cently quoted: £AI3S per ton for 8.5.: shell. New Hebrides: Recent sales i Sydney at £A9S per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney agenl recently quoted: Ist grade, £AIBS pt ton, 2nd grade, £AI4O per ton for 8.5.: shell.

London Prices

LONDON, Sept. 18.

Copra, c.i.f, Continental Ports, ton.— New Hebrides, Metrop. frs 69,0( Tahiti, Metrop. frs 72,0 C FM Straits/D.E.1., nominal .. Stg.64/10/ Ceylon, F.M.S Nomhn Philippines, bulk, Oct.-Nov. . .. US SIS Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton.— FM Straits, 3V2% drums .. .. £Stg.£ Ceylon, 1% bulk, Oct.-Nov. .. £Stg.J Philippines US $22 Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. Cor tinental Ports, Stg.— Accra, Oct.-Dec., 247/6; Nov.-Jan., 242/1

Islands Mining Share[?]

Exchange Rates

FIJI, —Through BANK OF NSW, AN BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £ All 1/2/6; Selling £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £ld NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF N 2 Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoa London, basis £lOO London: B £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-N2 basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/- Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £lll S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.—Commonwealth Bani

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul Madang) and BANK OF NSW (For Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) quote exchang« rate Australia-Papua-NQ: 10/- per £lOO BSL—COMMONWEALTH BANK (brand at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Australia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs most valuable of the three franc groupi in French Union, are used In New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oceania.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quotes (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 17S Pac. fr. to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $.

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney. (Telephone: BW 5037.) Wholly set up <and printed In Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 7101.)

s;a % APW« distance t»Y UM On fast and frequent schedules four-engined TEAL airliners now operate over 8,000 route miles. Flying with TEAL you enjoy' finest service and delicious fresh-cooked meals.

There are two flight stewards and a flight stewardess on every flight. Free baggage allowance 66 lb, Australia, New’ Zealand and the islands of the South Seas are nearer by far by TEAL.

Book through TEAL offices at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Suva or your local travel agent. ■v AIR Ro^r, the soirc*^ w MfL c HWSTCHUtC”

TEAL

Tasman Empire Airways Limited

in association with QANTAS and 8.0.A.C.

Vuckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Chatham Islands, Sydney, Melbourne, Suva, Samoa, Cook Islands, Papeet NOVEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

Capitol £1,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” 8W4421. G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney.

In London: W R. Carpenter £r Co. (London) Ltd., 4 Lloyd's Avenue, London, E.C. 3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, .1. R. Clay & Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) RabauL Lae, Madang. Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd.. Sm-a.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1852