Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXIII, No. 11 ( Jun. 1, 1953)
1953-06-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly JUNE, 1953 Vol. XXIII. No. 11 hjtghgh * or i by post ns a newspaper ] THE WEALTH OF THE SOUTH : This young Samoan lass is dressed for the climate and surrounded by one of the South Pacific’s most valuable commodities—Copra.

32 Years of Tropical Flying Experience

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Experienced travellers say that “B\ Q ANT AS” is the only way to travel in the Tropics. Over 60 points in New Papua, S.W. Pacific Islands are now linked with Australia by Qantas Islands Air Services.

Time saving, relaxing! \ou enjoy superb comfort with every thought for your welfare, including complimentary fine food and cooling refreshments. Qantas makes sure that you arrive at your destination refreshed and ready for business or relaxation.

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED in association with 8.0.A.C. and TEAL i 1 PIS PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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PEACOCK & BUCHANS’ ENGLISH READY- MIXED PAINTS. yi ‘W s "asafc-*— New Guinea Australia Line

Regular Three Weekly Service

To

Port Moresby, Samara), Lae, Madang, Kavieng

And Rabaul, Via Brisbane

With The Modern Motorships

44 SHANSI 55 44 SINKIANG 55 Agents for PAPUA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD.

Agents for NEW GUINEA: COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

General Agents: G. S. YUILL & CO. PTY. LTD.

Telephones: 8W2731 BU 6313 (Freight only)

6 Bridge St., Sydney

Cable Address: “YUBLL”

Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shipcpmg lines running on regular time-tables in the Pacific Islands. The following timelaoies are only approximately correct they are subject to much alteration at .short notice;— Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about tvery six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby- Samarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul - Samaral-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney.

Next departure from Sydney about Uuly 11.

MV Malekula will leave Sydney about July 5 for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus. Wewak, Madang, Lae, Samarai ind return to Sydney.

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

MV Shansi and MV Sinkiang, modern •,000 tons vessels, now leave every six veeks approximately (making a threereekly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port Uoresby-Madang-Rabaul, Port Moresby lydney. Shansi due to sail from Sydney n June 26. After this trip, it will be fithdrawn for refit, being replaced by ioocho w which will sail from Sydney bout July 26. Sinkiang will sail from ydney about July 16.

Retails from New Guinea Australia Line S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge t.. Sydney.

I. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga Motor vessels Tofua and Matua. from ew Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukuafa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago igo American Samoa). Apia (Western imoa) Tofua leaves Auckland for any all of above ports at approx, five weeks tervals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ). Lautoka (Fiji) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

Tofua leaves Auckland on next voyages about July 7 and August 4.

Matua on arrival at Auckland at the end of June is temporarily withdrawn.

Details from Union SS Co.

N. Zeaiand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckland every month for Rarotonga and other Islands in the lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers and will provide, for the next several months, a connection between Rarotonga and Aitutaki for the benefit of passengers travelling on TEAL Coral Route.

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.

III ISLANDS MONTHLY JUKE, 1 953

TAHITI To Shipmasters and Visitors When calling at Tahiti, and seeking SHIPS SUPPLIES and FRESH PROVISIONS, see —

Oscar G. Nordman

Supply Agent for Messageries Maritimes. Union S.S. Co. of N.Z. Ltd., Matson-Oceanic Line, United States Line, General S.S. Corp., Etc.

We supply General Service Act as Shipping Agents Address all inquiries to the Tourist Bureau.

OSCAR G. NORDMAN, Ship Chandler PAPEETE, TAHITI.

Wire before your arrival to “OCEANIC. PAPEETE”-Our registered cable address. <c

London ■ Suva

DIRECT Sfi# .'Cs vi* < c PANAMA For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To: —

Bethell, Gwyn & Co., Burns Philp (South Sea)

138 LEADENHALL ST., CO. LTD., LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FIJI.

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway - M.V. "THORSISLE" - 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.

PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

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

Next sailing from Sydney about June 20.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Maritimes. Tahitienne leaves about July 5.

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

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

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.

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

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

Airways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths Thur. and Mon.—Sydney-Nadl (Fiji)' Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattle- Portland.

Sun. and Thur. —Return via same route * Thur. and Mon. —Auckland-Nadi (Fiji) * Wed. and Sun.—Nadi (Fiji)-Auckland! * Connecting with Strato Clipper at Nadi

By British Commonwealth Pacifu

Airlines (Bcpa)

Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadl (Fiji) -Canto: Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Mon. and first Thur. —Dep. southwards same route. On second or alternat: Thursday, flight commences at S Francisco. rues.—Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honc lulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Frl.—Dep. Vancouver and S. Franclsc alternatively: thence same route t Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) (With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Tuesday—Sydney - Auckland - Nad (Fiji) - Honolulu - Vancouver.

Every Friday—Return by same route.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 p:< Bris 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 a;j (Wed., Sunr Moresby. 7.30 am Lae 8.50 at Connects at Lae with Drover for Bulo]( IV JUNE, 1 9 5 3 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Australia • Indonesia • Malaya Hong Kong • Japan • Ceylon • India Pakistan • Middle East • Africa • Europe Great Britain • U.S.A. • Canada Central and South America • Bermuda A39/AU BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION WITH QANTAS, TEAL AND S.A.A. ; and Wau (Wed.); and (Sun.) with DC3 : for Rabaul.

Mon., Frl. (DCS’s) l Sydney, 7 pm Brisbane, 10.15 pm ; Brisbane, 11.15 pm Rockhampton • Tue., Sat, I Rockhampton * Townsville, 4.00 am •Townsville, 5.00 am Cairns, 6.15 am • Cairns, 7.00 am Pt. Moresby, 10.30 am : Pt. Moresby, 11.30 am Lae, 1 pm [Lae (Tue. only), 2.30 pm Madang, 3.45 pm * Optional stop.

SOUTHWARDS Wednesdays (DCS) Madang. 7 am Lae, 8.15 am (Wednesdays (Drover) Wau, 12 [3O pm Lae, 1.05 pm Thursday (DCS) Lae, 9.00 am Moresby, 10.20 am Monday, Thursday (DCS) (i.e. Monday only Rabaul-Moresby and Monday and Thursday Moresby-Sydney.) [Rabaul, 7 am (Mon.) Moresby, 10.20 am [Moresby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm (Mon., Thu.) iCairns, 3.10 pm Towns, 4.30 pm (night stop) 'Towns. (Tues., Fri) 815 am Brisbane, 1 pm Brisbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) Lae, 10.30 am Moresby, 11.40 am Moresby, 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm Bris.. 8.25 pm Sydney, 11 pm NORTHWARDS Alt. Saturdays (Sandringham) (July 4, 18, etc.) Sydney, 6.00 am Brisbane, 9.20 am Brisbane. 10.20 am Cairns, 4.35 pm (Night stop) Cairns, 9.30 am Pt. Moresby, 1.20 pm (Alt. Sunday) SOUTHWARDS Alt. Fridays (Sandringham). (July 3, 17, 81, etc.) Pt. Moresby, 6.00 am Brisbane, 3.00 pm Brisbane, 4.00 pm. Sydney, 7.20 pm. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday.

Dep. Lae, 8 am; Pinschhaven, Rabaul, Kavleng, Manus (3 pm).

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

MOEESBY-DARU (Sandringham) IHa Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikori, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate Wednesday; returning same day. (June 24, July 8. 22, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham) Alternate Monday Dep. Moresby 9 a.m. arr. Samarai 11.00 am. June 22, July 6, 26, etc.

Lltemate Tuesday (following day) dep.

Samarai 9.00 a.m. arr. Moresby 11.00 a.m.

Papua-New Britain

(Sandringham) Lit. Mon.—Pt. Moresby-Samarai-Esa’ala* Rabaul—June 29, July 13, 27, etc. lit. Thu.—Rabaul - Esa’ala - Samarai - Pt.

Moresby—July 2, 16, 30, etc. * Calls Esa’ala monthly only.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

ilt. Tue.—Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-*Lindenhafen-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul —June 30, July 14, 28, etc.

N.B.—The direction of operation changes hth each service, i.e., each alternate ervice operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe [arbour- - Lindenhafen - Jacquinot Bay labaul. * Optional stop. 1 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Flats and fiatettes also are available. Write or cable for reservations.

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New Britain-Bougainville

. Alt. Wed. —Rabaul-Queen Carola Hbr.- Buka-Inus*-Kieta-Buin—July 1, 15, etc. . Alt. Wed. (same day) Buln-Kieta-Inus*- Buka-Rabaul. • Optional Stop.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANGS-

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SERVICE I Every Monday and Thursday by DC3.

Native traffic, not recommended for Europeans.

Central Highlands

(Drover) [Fridays.—Lae (7.00 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kialpit, Arena, Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Kerowagi, Kup, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelbeng, Balyer R., Wabamunda, Wabag. Return to Lae arriving 6 pm.

LAE-BULOLO -WAU (Drover) IDep. Lae.—Tues., Sat. —3 pm.—Mon. 7.30 am.

Dep. Wau.—Tues., Sat. 4.30 pm—Mon., 9.00 am—Direct to Lae in 35 minutes.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company runs regular services for passengers, freight and mails to all New Guinea settlements. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DCS Weekly service, between Darwin and Blak.

Also, new KLM weekly service, calling at Blak, on flight between Manila and Australia. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DC3 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, Mon. (June 29, July 6, 20, 27, etc.), Lae (dep. 6 am) Finschhafen Rabaul Torokina (Bougain.) Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.25 pm).

Fue. (June 30, July 7, 21, 28, etc.), Honiara (dep. 7 am)—Yandina —Vellalavella Torokina Rabaul Pinschhafen Lae (arriving 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft dep. Saigon, July 12, and every 28 days thereafter for Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, and return.

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

Jy Ansett Flying-boat Service, with Sandringhams and Hythes.

Six services per month, return same lay. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters.

Alternate Thursdays (July 2, 16, 30, etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying Boats: June 9, 23, etc.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Alt. Mon. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Irisbane, 12.30 am (Tue.) Noumea, 7.20' am ioumea, 9.20 am Vila, 11.55 am r ila, 1.25 pm Santo, 2.40 pm (Night stop) lanto, 6.30 am (Wed.) Vila, 7.45 am r ila. 8.45 am Noumea, 11.25 am roumea, 1.00 pm Sydney, 8.00 pm (Additional flights operate subject to pproval of Governments concerned.) 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly.

Depart; Arrive: Sydney, Thur. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Brisbane, 12 20 am (Fri.) Noumea, 7.20 am Noumea, 9.20 am Suva, 3.50 pm Suva, Sat. 6.30 am Noumea, 11.00 am Noumea, 1.00 pm Sydney, 8.00 pm 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

By NZ National Airways, with DOS’s Sundays—From Auckland double service returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Wed., Sun. —Dept. Sydney 12 midnight arr. 8.45 am following day.

Wed., Sat. —Dept. Sydney 7.30 am, arr. 4.15 pm.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 am, arr. 1.45 pm Mon., Tue., Thur., Fri. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney 10.30 pm Mon., Tue., Thur., Fri., Arr. 7.30 am following day.

Dep. Wellington 10.30 am Tue., Wed., FrL, Sat. arriving 3.45 pm. 3 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y J U N E . 1953

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in which arc merged Bank of Australasia The Union Bank of Australia Ltd. (Established 1835) (Established 1837) Over 720 Branches and Agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand, in Fiji, and in London. Agents throughout the world. >ANZ 70-16* 14. Melbourne-Christchurch Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymaster Thurs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch’ch., 8.15 am next day.

Fri.—Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 5.3# pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland—June 30, July 4, 14, 28, August 1, 11, 25, 29.

Return to Auckland on July 1,6, 15, 29, August 3, 12, 26, 31.

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

Tasman. Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland, June 20, July 18, August 15.

Depart Arrive Auck., 7.00 am Sat. Suva, 2.15 pm Sat.

Suva, 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sat.

Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva 4.35 pm Sun.

Suva. 8.00 am Mon. Auck., 3.15 pm Mon. 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

Six return services are operated by the Solent Plying Boats during the summer months. Next service, November, 1953. 18. New Zealand-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents TEAL Service, Auckland-Suva-Apia- Aitutaki-Papeete, is operated with Solent Flying-Boats once every two weeks. Dep.

Auckland, Tuesday, 7.00 am. Arr. Suva 2.00 pm. Dep. Suva (Wednesday) 7.00 am, cross International Date Line: Arr.

Apia 11.55 am Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.00 am Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.10 am.

Dep. Aitutaki 9.10 am. Arr. Papeete 1.45 pm. Return by same route every alt.

Friday, leaving Papeete 7.30 am.

The next flights leave Auckland July 7, 21, August 4, 18. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using 2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run regularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E, Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) and Saipan (Marianas). Details from Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviiand Rapides (Effective December 1) Suva-Nadi & Lautoka and return: Mornings—Daily except Tuesday. Afternoons—Daily except Friday.

Suva-Labasa: Daily except Sundays.

Labasa-Suva: Daily except Sunday.

Nadi & Lautoka to Labasa: Every Thursday.

Labasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Every Tuesday.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva; Monday, Wednesday, Saturday. 4 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

R *Rom Sydney To—

Table single Keiurn IMO. tresby . £46 11 0 £83 16 0 2, 2a. :j . . . . 55 7 0 99 13 0 2, 3 rbaul .. 64 10 0 116 19 0 2. 3 miara, 3SI .. 80 7 0 144 13 0 5 a. N.

Hebrides 51 9 0 92 13 0 9 jumea, ffC . .. 43 3 0 77 14 0 10, 9, 6 rfolk Is. 25 0 0 «3 0 0 8 [Howe . 12 8 6 24 17 0 7 1a d 1 PUD . 60 10 0 108 18 0 u v a Fiji) . 64 2 0 115 5 0 :kland 47 5 0 85 1 0 12 lllngon , .. 47 5 0 85 1 0 13 ristch.

Irom telb.) . 52 18 0 95 5 0 iclulu . 225 9 0 405 16 0 1 Pran’co 279 1 0 502 5 0 acouver 279 1 0 502 5 0 1 aeete via Suva Irect) . 129 18 0 233 17 0 19 ROM AUCKLAND (NZ Currency) TO: Table Single Return No. •f. Is. . £15 12 0 £28 2 0 11 I, , . 35 15 0 64 7 0 1 16 aoa . . 47 2 0 84 16 0 16 itakl . 67 11 0 121 12 0 18 >eete . 82 10 0 148 10 0 18 y °Uf ty/s ¥ e$f ~S rr Always use SHELL Motor Spirit and Oil The Shell Company of Australia Limited (Incorporated In Great Britain). approximate Airways Fares The following figures are not guaranteed surate, but they are approximately ■rrect. Details should be obtained from Air Company named in the Table, [less otherwise indicated, figures are in jstrallan currency.

Fenders Called for Rouna Power Project PORT MORESBY, May 26.

HREE local and five Australian contracting firms have tendered for the engineering rks portion of the Rouna Hydro- Ctric scheme.

The eight bids submitted were de by: Homibrook Construction lited, of Fort Moresby; C. L. •ge, of Port Moresby; John :bbs & Sons (Papua) Limited, of t Moresby; Dayal Singh Conictions Fty., Ltd., Lismore; Conictors (Engineering and Indus- .l) Ltd. of Sydney and Brisbane; ciern Constructions Ltd., of Ipsh, Qld.; Sir Lindsay Parkinson itralia Ltd., of Sydney and Lon- .; and T. J. Watkins New Guinea ~ Ltd., of Cairns, he Works Department antici- “s that the tender will be let )re the end of June.

[?]H Cargoes From Samoa

JRING April, some 250 tons of Samoan cocoabeans were shipped to England and 350 tons to i, and about 2,600 tons of copra the British Ministry of Food, r 20,000 cases of bananas went few Zealand. The price of cocoa been rising lately and enquiries ; been received from Australia, and USA.

Pacific Islands Lepers

LARGEST national group among the patients at the Makogai Leper Hospital, Fiji, is provided by Indians, according to NZ Leper Trust Board statistics. There were 224 of them at the end of last year (168 men and 56 women). Fijians were the next largest group (74 men, 52 women). The Gilbert Islands sent 64 men and 38 women and Western Samoa, 53 men and 32 women.

Nearly twice as many men contract leprosy among Pacific Islanders as women. At the end of 1952, there were 455 men and 232 women at Makogai. Seventy Islanders were admitted in 1952 and 39 men and 18 women were discharged as cured.

Waria Syndicate Claim r[E claim which has been made by former members of the Waria Syndicate (German) in respect of an area in New Guinea (see May PIM, page 17) to have been heard in Port Moresby on May 25, was adjourned, for hearing, until July 9.

U Mr. W. T. Charles, Judicial Commissioner, British Solomon Islands Protectorate since 1946, who has accepted a transfer to Hong Kong, travelled to Australia on leave in the May Malaita with Mrs. W. T.

Charles and two children. He will take up his appointment in Hong Kong at the end of his leave in Australia. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1963

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Ce dfr e IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial; Another Elizabethan Age—Perhaps 9 Islanders Celebrate the Coronation 11 Suva Says Farewell to Aorangi 12 Free Copra Price Down £lo— Move Against Smoke-Dried 13 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 13 The Anti-Beetle Campaign in Fiji—And in New Guinea .. 14 Fiji Prepares a Welcome to Royalty in December 15 Rightist Council for Noumea— May 3 Elections 15 The End of TO A 15 Significance of the Raluana Scuffle 16 Samoans Cool and Courteous to UN Party 17 Housing Loan Scheme for P-NG 18 Editors’ Mailbag 21 Key Men at SPC 27 New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney 28 Territories’ Talk-Talk 29 Suva’s Town Bosses Do Like Trees 33 Stock Exchange Stir Over Papuan Oil Search 34 Naruta Passed in At Rabaul Auction 35 Tonga Again to have Airservice 37 Help NG Servicemen Before S-E Asia —Plea by Legislative Council Member 38 The Indian Claim to a Home in Fiji 42 “Verbosity”, Says Mr. James— The Absurd Business of “Permits” 45 Near-Tragedy at Pitcairn .... 47 Henderson Field To-day 49 Japan Declares War On Fiji’s New Button Trade 50 Lighters for Honiara 51 Lake Wisdom Eruption—Long Is. Again Deserted 53 Another Political Visitation for Nauru 55 Japanese for New Caledonia — Social Aspects of the Problem 56 Help for Cl Citrus Industry .. 57 Rabaul’s Toads and Snails — They Smell! 59 G & E Officials Visit BSIP .. 61 Export Duties on P-NG Produce 62

Magazine Section—

Tropicalities, 65; Honiara— Dwelling Place of Bods, 68; More About the O’Keefes, 71.

For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 77 Half-million Pound Strip for Nadi 79 More Amendments to Papua- New Guinea Native Labour Ordinance £ These Were the Answers — Question Time in P-NG Legco 81 Islands that Come and Go .. 8' Some More Roads—and some Criticism—for P-NG 8!

Chimbu Labour—Shorter Term, Higher Cost 9: Hospitals for Lae and Moresby Still at Talking Stage .. .. 9‘ Relics of the Bounty are Widely Scattered 9!

Unreliable Waterfront Labour in New Guinea 10 Kenaf To-day and, Perhaps, Tomorrow 10: Status of Chinese in New Guinea Hi Small Ships of the Pacific .. .. 11: Frantic Headlines for New Guinea Occurrences 12 OBITUARY: Mr. F. Sturt; Mr.

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Liais; Mrs. Amy Christian; Mrs. J. F. Hutchison; Mr. A.

Lyall 12 P-NG and the 5-Days Week .. 12 Pearl Shell Research 13 MV Pallurian in Brisbane for Overhaul 13 Australian Representation in French Oceania 13 Priceless Record of Bird of Paradise in National Geographic Magazine 13 Commercial, Markets, etc 14 8 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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JUNE, 1953 PRICE: 2/- Per Copy.

Another Elizabethan Age’—

PERHAPS! pT has been a month of great events. 1- A young woman of outstanding haracter and charm has been rowned Queen of the British Comlonwealth, with amazing pageantry opied from centuries-old ritual. The ime people who so gallantly fought ff disaster in the London Blitz stood 11 day in the cold and rain, to cheer ler Majesty.

While British Commonwealth saders were dealing with world roblems, and strengthening Anglomerican friendship, Russia was takig steps to end the Cold War.

A New Zealander in a British Party n Mount Everest became the first lan to scale the world’s highest sak.

Other examples of individual merit id achievement crowded the newsapers. Yet, because human affairs 3w are mostly in the hands of jppets controlled by uninstructed lasses, the overall picture is one - uncertainty and fear, faintly aged with hope.

Let us look around us, here in e South Pacific. i TENDENCY in South Pacific L trade and commerce, interesting but disconcerting, was made ear by the chairman (Mr. James Burns) at the annual general meeting of the shareholders in the main Burns Philp Company, in Sydney in May.

Mr. Burns pointed out that, although the Co.’s net rate of earning was substantially maintained, most of the profit came from the Co.’s merchandising business, and from its chains of country stores, which continued to prosper and expand. But the earnings from the Co.’s shipping lines, even at increased freights, did not provide enough profit to allow the Co. to build the new ships needed to replace wear and tear on the old ships—especially after the Co. had been obliged to pay the tax collector 12/- out of every 20/- profit earned.

To build new ships, the Co. has to go for funds to other profit-earning departments.

As it was originally, Burns Philp made substantial profits out of its Islands shipping lines and its stores; and thus big revenues from the Islands flowed in through 7 Bridge Street, Sydney, for the general enrichment of a lightly-taxed Australia. Then came the era of Socialist administration, followed by the 40-hours’ week, and the terrific costs imposed by undisciplined and lazy labour in the ports; all to be followed, inevitably, by crippling taxation. . But by the time the full blast of it hit the Islands services, the Co., whether by accident or design (if it was designed it showed truly remarkable foresight) had gradually transferred its major interests from Islands trading and shipping to mainland merchandising; and with this control over distribution it can meet every new Socialistic impost by simply raising rates against the public. Which is perfectly just, seeing that the public has tolerated for so long the economic lunacies which to-day masquerade in the shape of government.

Meanwhile, the Islands services are dwindling, and will continue to dwindle. Even as Chairman James Burns was speaking, the Islands motor-ship Malaita was lying at a New Guinea wharf, counting the idle and costly hours, while helplessly awaiting the native wharf labourers whom High Authority had promised would be available, but who had decided, for some obscure village reason, to have a holiday.

WHETHER in the Islands, or Australia, or Timbuctoo, the economic situation necessarily is dominated by the same simple economic factor—namely, the willingness or unwillingness of the individual to work. The Australian creed—which is to scrounge every possible shilling out of the State, and avoid labour—has reached some of the Islands and is killing private enterprise, as seen in declining services, reluctance to plant up coconut areas, and so forth.

There has been a significant change in the operations of the three big concerns which were the

leaders in Islands trade and shipping in the ’Thirties—Burns Philp, W R. Carpenters and Morris Hedstrom. Carpenters have largely changed the character of their operations, and transferred their interests to manufacturing and overseas shipping. Burns Philp also have shifted their more valuable eggs to another kind of basket.

Morris Hedstrom, being free of direct Australian controls, have not changed much in character; but even they have not expanded under those post-war conditions, and a large proportion of their capital is idle, or limited only to gilt-edged investments.

SOME people may challenge the logic of all this, and point to the apparent enormous prosperity of Australia to-day—abundance of money in circulation, no unemployment, the leisure enjoyed by the working masses. It is a piecrust prosperity—and the pie-crust Is provided by the extraordinary prices being paid for all pastoral products. The falseness of the economic set-up is seen in the increasing difficulty of Australian manufacturers in holding their overseas markets: their unit of labour cost, as the result of the 40hours week, and organised laziness, is too high, and is increasing.

While there is nothing in sight, at the moment, to indicate that the world will be unable to pay those high prices for wool, meat, etc., the position is developing against Australia, because Australian internal prices obeying the inescapable laws of economics—are moving steadily upwards. If anything should happen to upset world prices for wool and wheat, the collapse of the Australian pie-crust will be — well, spectacular.

Meanwhile, three cheers for professional politics, and on with the dance!

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA, like Australia, is similarly enjoying a boom based on a pie-crust economy.

But that pie-crust is formed, not out of high prices of primary produce in a free market, but from fantastic Governmental spending of millions provided by Australia; from the British Ministry of Food’s copra contract; and from the overseas companies’ gamble on finding oil in Papua. Two out of those three sources could dry up at any time; and the planters’ own estimate of the permanence of their copra revenue is seen in the fact that, for several years, there has been no new coconut planting in Papua-New Guinea.

NO one likes to croak—least of all, this writer. But one might as well deny the sunset, as deny the operation of basic laws.

It is a fundamental rule of nature that a man—or the corporate state which men create so as to permit their communal existence —cannot live in accordance with a “civilised” standard unless a certain definite amount of work or service is given in return.

While free Parliaments ruled, and the law of supply and demand operated without restriction, that minimum of work was easily ascertained. National budgets balanced; the individual was safe; human progress was assured. But since Parliaments have become merely a hollow shell, and the functions of government have been usurped by the caucuses of political machines (directed mostly by professional politicians, trade union theorists and sociological cranks), the law of supply and demand has not been permitted to operate; and the economic and sociological structure of the Western world is in everincreasing confusion.

Thousands of people recognise and understand these plain and simple facts, and are desperately eager to apply the remedies. They know that, unless drastic and farreaching changes are made, the Western world must slide into economic collapse—not immediately, perhaps, but inevitably.

But they are only a minority.

The great Australian majority, for example, uninstructed and careless, will not believe that the conditions they so much enjoy to-day cannot continue indefinitely; and so they turn snarling upon any man who offers a warning.

ELIZABETH has been crowned, under the happiest auspices.

Emphasis has been placed upon the strength and resources of the British Commonwealth, both as a factor in world economics and an insurance against another war.

Phrase-makers have shouted, for weeks, about “another Elizabethan Age.”

But the wise old Times, of London, has pointed out (in an article on June 3) that it is high time the British nation ceased its wishful babbling, and asked itself how 45 million people are going to support themselves in the British Isles under present-day conditions, without some practical industrial pioneering and really hard work.

Is British leadership strong enough and wise enough to convince the industrial masses of Britain that their socialistic orgy (launched by the Attlee Government under the protection of American Lend-Lease aid) is at an end?

Our few more able leaders, like Churchill of England, Menzies of Australia, and some of the American Republics, recognise the danger, and are ready and willing to apply the remedies. But will the people follow?

GREAT and possibly rapid changes are pending. Now that Stalin is dead, and the Anglo-American world is armed, it looks as if Stalin’s Cold War is to be called off. Quite possibly, Russia will make a great gesture of disarmament and friendship in the belief that the Western Powers will follow suit.

Will that be followed by a cessation of Communism’s thrust across the Western nations? It depends entirely upon the Common People of the Western nations. Russia is pretty confident now that our socioeconomic structure has reached a state of such demoralisation that the process of our destruction will be completed by forces within, without much help from their Iron Curtain friends without.

With some sort of a moral or spiritual awakening (not a religious revival, but a simple acceptance by the average man of his obligations as a citizen, as a cog in an organised community) the peoples of the earth could now enter upon an era of great progress, wellbeing, security and happiness —an “Elizabethan Age” which would shine out as one of history’s most glorious pages.

We can but watch hopefully the events of the next two or three years. So far, there is no sign of a change in public thinking. The morale of the nations seems ta have been destroyed by three wars (two hot and one cold), and an indescribable plague of sociological cranks.

P-NG: Look Out for Big-Game Hunters!

THE directors of Albertsen Cruise - Tours, of Los Angeles, USA, have written to the Australian Information Bureau, New York: “We have been in business for 44 years specialising in hunting safaris and shikars.” (A shikar is an Indian safari).

“We have sent several hunting trips and jungle excursions to South America. Now we are interested in extending our tours to Papua and New Guinea.”

They sought details of wild life, food supplies and expedition facilities in New Guinea.

They were informed that “photographers might get some wonderful shots,” but big-game hunters would have little excitement, unless they cared to stalk crocodiles.

Papua-New Guinea has a few. birds, a few wallabies and a lot of crocodiles. Its wild life is confined to exasperated officials; and they, are protected by law against oversea sportsmen—only newspaper men are allowed to have a shot at them,. 10 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Islanders Celebrate The

CORONATION EVERY South Pacific Islands community which flies the Union Jack entered with zest into the celebration of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June 2. Early reports in from the different Territories describe notable speeches by Governors and Administrators, solemn church services, colourful processions, much ceremonial at the schools, and happy feasting and playing by all the different communities.

Papua-New Guinea With £lO,OOO made available by the Government, and under the direction of Administrator D. M.

Cleland, every centre in the two big Australian Territories staged a celebration. Common to all were native feasts and dancing, and large-scale tree-planting.

PORT MORESBY More than 2,000 Europeans and natives, reppresenting Services and civilian organisations, marched through town in finest peace-time parade ever seen in the Territory, salute being taken by Administrator. There were tree-planting, native dances at Ela Beach, a Government House reception by Mr. and Mrs. Cleland, and fireworks.

RABA UL —Church services, large parade, tree-planting, an official reception, all under leadership of District Commissioner J. K. McCarthy and his wife. Features; Mass singing by the Methodist and Catholic choirs, each of 1,000 voices; colourful pageantry by the Chinese community; reading of the Act of Loyalty in three languages; fine native dancing displays.

LAE —Fine procession, notable for displays by Chinese and natives; field sports, official reception, a very successful Coronation Ball, and fireworks. Lae’s parade of decorated floats was up to big-city standard.

MADANG —Parade, Act of loyalty, massed choirs, tree-planting, formal reception, notable dances by natives.

Roads to Madang were choked with natives, and 5,000 who staged a native sing-sing provided finest display of tribal regalia ever seen in New Guinea.

Similar celebrations in other centres included the opening of a new school at SAMARAI, and at GOROKA (Highlands) the lighting of a great ring of bonfires around the mountains. About 16,000 bedecked Highlands natives marched in procession at Goroka.

Fiji The outstanding feature of the Coronation celebrations in Fiji was the way in which all communities (European, Fijian, Indian and Chinese) united in religious and official ceremonies, and public demonstrations to show loyalty and happiness. Asiatic peoples have a genius for colourful pageantry, and this was shown strikingly in Suva, where displays by the Chinese and Indian people took first and second prizes.

All Fijian towns and villages recognised the Coronation in various ways; but the centre of it all was seen in Suva, where, in fine weather, after early religious services in all churches, all four communities met and mingled under the happiest conditions, under the leadership of the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady Garvey.

More than 10,000 gathered early in Albert Park to see reviews and dances; there was a parade of 50 decorated floats through the town —all ingenious and colourful, some strikingly artistic and some very amusing; and the evening was given over to dancing and singing, and fireworks displays. Their Excellencies entertained about 600 people at Government House, at a Coronation Ball.

The Governor and his party, with the Mayor (Mr. McFarlane) watched the afternon procession from a raised platform; and His Excellency adjudged one of the three Chinese floats, entitled “Royal Gloriana” the best decorated. Prize for most original went to Toorak Boy Scouts, with their “Royal Coach.” Amongst the most amusing exhibits was a huge dragon which the Chinese community had borrowed per favour of Pan American World Airways, from the Honolulu Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Its passage was marked by fire crackers as it cavorted in exhausting fashion, with the aid of about 50 young Chinese in bluesashed white uniforms, operating in relays.

Other amusing exhibits included the Governor’s “Public Enemy No. 1” —a realistic rhinoceros beetle; the Defence Club float, illustrating the supposed habits of its members; with Captain Hay, chained in a dog kennel. The Fire Brigade outstanding exhibit, “Rhinoceros Beetle’s Paradise,” depicted a rum-swilling planter lolling in his hammock under palms, fanned by pretty South Sea (Continued Next Page) The photographs give some glimpses of [?]e celebrations in Suva on June 2. [?]ading downwards:— The Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) and dy Garvey and their two daughters arrive early at Albert Park, to witness display by school children.

The float, made by the Chinese community, which won first prize.

A striking float, made by the Indian community, which also won a prize.

The Governor’s Entry: A car made up to represent a Rhinoceros Beetle, and labelled “Public Enemy No. 1.” 11 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

maidens, while (presumably) the beetle destroyed his plantation.

British Solomons Coronation celebrations in Honiara included special Church services, a ceremonial parade by the BSI Police, a series of tableaux depicting historic scenes in the Solomons, a fireworks display and a torchlight procession. Bonfires were lighted from Cape Esperance along the coast to Point Cruz. There was a native feast. The High Commissioner and Mrs. Stanley gave a ball at Government House.

Notable Native Display in Northern N. Gninea MADANG, June 9.

OUR festivities extended over four days—the most hectic week we have ever known.

The Coronation Day (and night) displays by the natives of this district (at least 10,000 assembled) surpassed anything of the kind ever seen by Old Territorians.

The Madang Oval was packed with natives in the most colourful, beautiful and fascinating regalia imaginable. Enormous head-dresses, 20 to 30 feet high, constructed of bamboo, highly coloured laplap or tapu cloth, and feathers, presented b most remarkable spectacle as they swayed and dipped in perfect rhythm. Many of these headdresses were of rare beauty and masterly workmanship, and depicted such things as aeroplanes, fish and birds.

The Oval at one stage was a sea of Bird-of-Paradise plumes, worth many thousands of pounds.

Beautiful Tapu cloth, which is rarely seen since the war, was displayed in loin cloths, cummerbunds, and capes. The sing-sing continued throughout Tuesday night, ending as dawn was breaking.

Tributes to Queen Salote Representatives of the native peoples of every one of the British Territories in the South Pacific -Papua-New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Colony, Fiji, Tonga, and Cook Islands— were present in London at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, as official guests.

All were greeted warmly by the people, especially when they appeared in the great procession which followed the Queen through London’s streets, after the crowning ceremony.

But the limelight went especially to Queen Salote. All the commentaries and photographs show remarkable public interest in Tonga’s handsome, smiling monarch.

In spite of rain, she travelled in an open carriage. Says one reporter: “Rain bounced off her, cold wind lashed her. but her smile dazzled thousands and brought a great, welling cheer and a storm of clapping. It was the same all along the route . . . She waved incessantly, with a gaiety unmatched by anyone else all day. . . . She did not lack dignity, but she did what no one else could do. She combined quality and friendliness with all the pomp and ceremony.”

It was the same whenever Queen Salote appeared, at the numerous functions: she stole the show.

There was flattering attention also for Lady Maraia, wife of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, of Fiji. This modest and charming lady was featured in some newspapers as “the first Fijian woman to be at Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of a British Sovereign.”

Behind The Coronation

Day Scenes

In Port Moresby

This is a private letter, written to the Editor of the PIM, and not for publication. It is published because it gives a very interesting behind-the-scenes glimpse of Coronation Day events and atmosphere in Port Moresby.

Save me from more Coronations!

The pace here was quite as hectic as in London; but I must say that a splendid job was done by everybody.

This was the result of long and careful planning by voluntary District Coronation Committees and the close co-operation of the Administration and private citizens.

I think the week’s programme has done a lot of good; and certainly our native population now knows that though we are sober people in many ways, we can certainly put on our own form of “sing sing” for the crowning of a Sovereign.

As I’ve mentioned, the Port Moresby parade was tremendously encouraging. Many people who have spent their lives here said: “Well, we’ve often wondered if we were getting anywhere with the natives, or really achieving anything, and to-day has shown us that we are.”

And it really was so. I felt terrifically encouraged myself to think that the native people here had come up to such a standard.

I watched the parade from among the native spectators, right in the middle of them, and they behaved with dignity, and appreciation of the significance of the ceremony. Even the babies were hushed when they cried at the wrong moment.

The people were clean, surprisingly well dressed, courteous and very attentive.

Never at any other ceremony here have I seen such marked improvement in the general standards of the natives; and I’m sure that many of them understood the significance of the occasion, and appreciated it.

The Administrator and his wife did a fine job too, and I’m convinced it enhanced even more his standing with the community. He was the right figure for the ceremonial parade inspection and salute; they are both excellent hosts at the Government House social affairs. He dashed off on visits to the Native and European Hospital; over to the TB Hospital at Gemo; kicked off at a Native Rugby match on Saturday; and generally was in everything and anything. They must be dead beat to-day, but they both were very much a part of the community, and can be that without losing any of the Government House dignity.

If the forthcoming Labour Government makes any change in the Administratorship, it will be a sad day for the Territory.

Honours for Fiji The following Coronation Honours were awarded to residents of Fiji: Commander (Civil Division ) of Order of British Empire: The Right Reverend L. S. Kempthorne, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese in Polynesia during the past 30 years. 0.8. E.

Ratu George Cakobau, Roko Tui of Nadroga and Navosa, whose father was leading chief in Fiji at the time of cession to British Crown in 1784; Mr, H. M. Watson, Director of Audit; M.B.E.

Dr, Dorothy Delbridge, Medical Superintendent, Methodist Mission Hospital, Ba; Dr. W. W. Warden, a leading resident of Taveuni, veteran of World War I, manager of Soqulu and Ura Estates, and a leader in patriotic and charitable enterprises.

Honours for P.-N. Guinea Commander, BE — Mr. Justice; Gore, a judge of the Territories’

Supreme Court for many years (in.

Papua since 1928).

Officer, BE —Mr. Ivan Champion,, Chief Native Lands Commissioner,, who has given a lifetime of service; to Papua.

Member, BE —Squadron-Leader E. C. Saunders (Manus); Captaim S. T. Bendall and Staff-Sgt. E. W..

Needham (Port Moresby); Flight- Sgt. J. R. Bromage (Manus;.

If Mr. W. E. Dunk, the Chairman* of the Commonwealth Public Service Board, paid a ten day visit to: Papua-New Guinea during thelatter part of May and early June,; to enquire into staff conditions oft Commonwealth officers in Papua* and New Guinea. 12 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Free Copra Price is Down About £10 LONDON, May 17.

THERE has beep a fall of about £lO Stg. per ton in copra and coconut oil quotations during ;;he month.

Since mid-April, copra has fallen from £94 Stg. c.i.f. European port ,:o about £B5. Philippines copra has Tallen from 275 to 210 US dollars.

Coconut oil, top Ceylon grade, is iiuoted from £l2B per ton, May- Uune shipment, down to £llB for Straits oil, in bulk. Quotes for these .ines, a year ago, were £9B and £B5 :3tg. respectively.

Under the MOF contract the South Pacific planters are getting !i65 Stg. per ton f.o.b. (less local deductions) —which is equal to about ;78 Stg. per ton, c.i.f.

P-Ng Stabilisation Fund

Everyone apears to have forgotten ibout the Papua-New Guinea Copra Stabilisation Fund, built up by the Australian Government out of commlsory deductions from sales of :opra made by planters in Papua md New Guinea. Those deductions till are going on, and the fund low is well over £1,500,000. Under danters’ pressure, the Australian Minister indicated months ago that le will give some indication of rtiat is to be done ultimately with he Fund, but there has been no tatement.

Some legal opinions hold that the loney is the property of the plantrs who produced the copra, and le Government legally cannot withold it from them.

FIJI, TOO The Fiji Government takes £lO er ton from the proceeds of copra 'oduced by Fijian natives, and puts i into a Fund, to be used on any jvelopment or welfare project for ie Fijians that is approved by a evelopment Fund Board. The und, in May, had reached £217,216.

Australian Move Against Smoke-Dried BECAUSE of oversea complaints p against smoke-dried copra (from which it is practically impossible get an edible oil), Australia has vised the prices payable by the >pra Marketing Board at all ain Papua-New Guinea ports, as am July 1, thus (per ton): r ow Dried New Rate Old Rate Hot Air .. £7O .. .. £69/5/- 3un (FMS) £69/5/- .. £69/5/- Smoked .. £66/10/- .. £6B/5/- Hates at Kokopo are 17/6 less.

Hot-air-dried thus is raised 15/r ton, while smoke-dried comes wn by 35/-. :t is probable that a similar move ainst smoke dried will be made in ler Territories.

Record Cold in Port Moresby Prom Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, June 1.

ON the morning of May 28 the temperature in Port Moresby dropped to 58.1 degrees, an alltime official low for the district. It was 17 degrees below the normal for Port Moresby.

The recording was made a few minutes before 6 a.m., and cold water showers were not popular that morning.

There was a foretaste of cool weather earlier in the week, on May 26, when the early morning temperature slipped to 61.6 degrees.

Both were a fair way below the previous cool weather record of 64 degrees on June 11, 1923.

Up in the hills at Koitaki a resident reported the recent May 28 temperature as around 49 degrees.

II Father P. Pingleton, of the Roman Catholic Mission in Guadalcanal, Solomons, returned recently to his station, after furlough. He is a brother of Jack Fingleton, former cricket star.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

A DULL month in many respects, June, 1933, although politically it was interesting in that Germany had renewed howls for the return of her former colonies. Germany claimed that the League of Nations had power to return these to her, while the current holders of the territories in question said that the Treaty of Versailles had taken them from her finally and irrevocably.

The demand did not make residents in such places as Western Samoa and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea happier—this was the beginning of the era of appeasement in Britain.

Some extracts from PIM of June, 1933: Fiji Airways (not to be confused with the present company of the same name) had its first mishap when a plane taking off from Suva Harbour was turned over on its back by a gust of wind. The pilot and two passengers escaped but the plane was considerably damaged during rescue operations by a PWD launch. The company’s planes, we reported, were making it possible for people to travel between Sigatoka River and Suva in 60 minutes.

The trip between Suva and Levuka took 85 minutes and cost 36/-. * * * New Guinea copra planters had a new pest to contend with which was causing almost as much excitement as Rhino B. does now. It was a large tree locust, commonly called a grasshopper (Sexava sp. belonging to the tettigoniidae family).

At times the attacks were so severe that all the leaves but the central spear, which apparently was immune, were stripped.

The grasshopper was being attacked by tanglefoot mixtures placed on the trunks of the trees—to catch the grasshopper at the nymph or wingless stage; by trying to destroy the eggs before they could breed in the earth near the palms; and by picking the mature ’hopper out of the trees or, in extreme cases, burning or smoking it out with fires lit under the palms.

Mr. J. L. Froggart (of whom Tolala wrote in May PIM) was sent to Amboina, NEI, to get a particularly minute wasp which was said to feed on the grasshopper’s eggs. (What happened to the grasshopper pest? Were Mr. Froggart’s wasps successful or did the ’hopper just naturally become discouraged?) * ♦ ♦ We reported: “When the Minister in Charge of Territories (Major Marr) passed through Port Moresby last month he made a slight tactical error when addressing a gathering—he warmly praised the Public Service of the Mandated Territory. In consequence. Port Moresby seethed. Within a few hours there was an unofficial meeting of the men of Papua and it was seriously proposed that the Public Service Assn, should have a special session to pass a formal resolution on the matter. Wiser counsels prevailed.” * * ♦ The Coconut Planters’ Union of Fiji asked the Fiji Government to take steps to induce the English manufacturers to discontinue the substitution of soya bean oil (“which is largely the product of Manchuria”) for coconut oil. * * * “Mr. O. F. Nelson has returned to Western Samoa after five years of exile.

He was accompanied by his family, Judge F. W. Gur r and Mr. G. Westbrook. Their welcome by the Mau was enthusiastic, but in accordance with a wish expressed by Mr. Nelson there were no demonstrations.

He was met at Apia by 3,000 members of the Women’s Mau, in uniform, and about 4,000 other Samoans and Europeans.” * * * An ADO of the Morobe District, New Guinea, Mr. lan Mack, died that month in Salamaua hospital from wounds received in an encounter with natives in the Upper Ramu. * ♦ ♦ Fifteen New Guinea goldmining companies were listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange. BGD shares were £4.5; Placer £l2. (Placer to-day are about £17.5 which made them definitely more valuable, in terms of real money, in 1933). * * » Some Sydney market quotes for that month: Coffee (Robusta), £46 per ton. (Arabica), £72; Java kapok, 5%d per pound; cocoa about £33.10 per ton. 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

Enemies Of

The Beetle

Aspects of New Campaign in FiJi THE possibility of controlling Fiji’s newly-arrived Rhinoceros Beetle by parasites has received much consideration lately.

The Zanzibar wasp is regarded with hope by some people. But the experts say that the Fiji infestation is so light that the wasp, if introduced, probably would die from starvation before it could be established. It feeds on the Beetle’s grubs.

Others suggest that Fiji’s old friend, the giant toad, might be useful. The toad was introduced originally to clean up certain pests which threatened the sugar r cane; and it did a satisfactory job. These pests are well under control; but the toad now roams the countryside in thousands, without a job.

The experts think the toad might eat the larvae of the Beetle; but can the toad find the larvae under compost and rubbish heaps and in rotting logs? Only time will tell.

Other possible enemies of the Beetle are the mongoose (brought in to deal with rats, and now very numerous in Viti Levu) and the two predatory insects introduced for the control of the banana borer and the common fly.

The entomologists of the South Pacific Commission’s team, which is to take over the war against the Beetle in the South Pacific, are expected to deal with these and similarly interesting questions.

The newly-established Rhinoceros Beetle Eradication Board members were announced in Suva in mid- May. They are the director of Agriculture (Mr. C. Harvey) as Chairman, Mr. H. B. Gibson, Mr.

J. M. Hedstrom, and Mr. W. G.

Johnson.

The Board will be financed in its work by the recently announced copra tax of £2 per ton, plus 1/8 per ton on copra bought by local millers, with a £1 for £1 Government subsidy.

The Board will direct anti-beetle measures, and keep in close touch with the research work now being organised by the South Pacific Commission.

The total “catch” of the pest in Fiji up to mid-May was 42 beetles, 33 pupae, 564 grubs and about 150 eggs.

When the Board held its first meeting in Suva on May 24, one of the first subjects discussed was the possibility of reducing to “an essential minimum” all contact between Viti Levu and other islands of the Fiji group.

The Board considered the total prohibition of export of all root vegetables from Viti Levu; quarantine methods within the group and from overseas; the South Pacific Commission’s programme of assistance in the emergency, with particular reference to biological control.

Among outstanding performances by Coronation Day voluntary committees must be noted the printed programmes produced by the Publicity Sub-Committee of the Suva organisation. The cover s—most artistic productions in blue, red and gold—were printed in London, and brought out by air; but the actual programmes—for the day’s proceedings, and the Government House Ball—were the work of Suva business men and the Fiji Government Printer. Nothing better could have been done, in design, lay-out and printing, in the Empire’s capital cities.

Rhinoceros Beetles at Work in New Guinea These two young palms in the grounds of Kerevat Experimental Station in New Britain, show something of the destruction wrought by Rhinoceros Beetles in that district. The two palms were planted at the same time. For some unexplained reason, the beetles attacked the palm on the left, and left the palm on the right alone.

The Rhino beetle that is at present playing havoc with coconuts in New Britain and New Ireland is not the same variety that was present in the area before the war. This new variety, thought to have been accidentally introduced by the Japs, is the type that has caused widespread damage in Western Samoa. The pre-war Rhino beetle was comparatively harmless to NG coconut plantations.

The brand of excitement over the pest manifested by government officials and planters in Tonga and Fiji is absent in New Guinea—which probably is a great pity. Private planters appear to be doing nothing to help eradicate the beetle; Administration seems to be doing very little more.

The pest, like Giant Snails, is accepted with amazing calm. The attitude 's a shrug, and the question: “What can we do?” In the Eastern Pacific they are doing plenty, both in money grants and in organising the people in an active fight.

One of the first instructions sent out by the Fiji Government when the first two beetles were discovered in Fiji recently, was that old coconut stumps and fallen palms should be completely destroyed— these, it was said, were number-one breeding places for the beetle.

Out of Rabaul, and out of Kavieng, New Ireland, in the villages, along the beaches and in old plantations there are hundreds, probably thousands, of decaying coconut stumps and fallen palms. This is a job of cleaning up in which Government, native and European residents could all help.

If they can’t all combine to fight a public enemy that threatens the chief economic asset of the Territory, then there is obviously a community weakness somewhere.

The fight against the beetle, so far. has consisted of importing a whole 250 wasps from Zanzibar and setting them free somewhere around the Kerevat area.

In another 12 months or so, with luck, the officials will know whether the wasps are breeding thereabouts. In the meantime the wasps have gone bush and it is just a matter of wait and see. They could all be dead, now, for all that anyone knows.

Although coconuts are still the economic lifeblood of New Guinea, it is an extraordinary thing that there is at present not one agricultural station in the Territory’s 20 odd stations that is devoted to the cult of the coconut. There are stations looking into aspects of beef, sheep, goats, cocoa, coffee, rice, kenaf and other things—but nothing for coconuts. A coconut experimental station is planned for Orangerie Bay, near Samarai, Papua, where the beetle has not yet appeared, but nothing is being done at the moment.

One reason for this is the extreme difficulty of getting an agricultural scientist who has specialised in coconuts; and another, the great length of time necessary for coconut breeding. An excellent start had been made in breeding and selection and the study of coconuts generally at Kerevat before the war but around 1942-44 the Japs decided that these were the very coconuts that could best be cut out. Consequently, a couple of generations of work in the coconut field has been completely lost.

Fiji Prepares to Welcome Royalty in December SUVA, June 4.

APPETITE whetted by Coronation celebrations, the people of Fiji now have turned with enthusiasm to make adequate preparations for their welcome to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, due to arrive in Suva in the Gothic at 10 a.m., on Thursday, December 117 (and to sail for Nukualofa, Tonga, at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 19).

Meanwhile, the Governor has appointed the following gentlemen to set up committees to deal with the various indicated matters connected with the Royal visit: Finance.—Mr. H. W. Davidson (Acting Colonial Secretary).

Accommodation of Visitors. —Mr. H.

Maurice Scott.

Entertainment of “Gothic” and naval escort companies.—Mr. W. G. Johnson.

Fijian Ceremonies. —Mr. G. K. Roth (Acting Secretary for Fijian Affairs).

Press and Photography.—Mr. L. G. Usher (Public Relations Officer).

Decorations.—Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane (Mayor of Suva).

Public Works. —Mr. H. A. Ragg (Acting Director of Public Works).

Transport, Traffic and Security.—Mr. E.

K. Laws, (Commissioner of Police) and Col. C. L. Pleasants (Commander, Fiji Military Forces).

State Ball.—Mr. D. A. Butler.

Presents for Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.—Mr. J. W. Sykes.

The End Of Toa

THE last of the assets of Trans Oceanic Airways has been purchased by Ansett Airways of Australia; and Ansett Airways will in future operate the air service between Sydney and Lord Howe Island, in conjunction with its Australian east coast and Barrier Reef services.

TOA, a few years ago, was operating several air services in the Southwest Pacific Islands with flying-boats; but it succumbed to a combination of keen competition and bad luck. Its two Solents were sold a few weeks ago to Americanbacked South Pacific Airways, to run a new service between Honolulu and Tahiti.

TOA was established soon after the war by Captain Brian Monkton, ivith a small group of ex-services Sunderland flying-boats, which he bad purchased cheaply. Captain Monkton is now prominent in the new concern. South Pacific Airways.

Rightist Council In

NOUMEA Political Situation Still Tense From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, May 25.

ONLY 2,062 of Noumea’s 7,106 enrolled voters went to the poll for the election of a Town Council on May 3. The poll resulted in the election of the candidates of only one party—the Union Party, a Rightist group, led by Mr. Daly and Mr. Laroque.

This will not ease the present political situation here, as the Council General (which serves New Caledonia as a whole) is, since the introduction of the new system of voting, dominated entirely by the Leftists.

M. Henri Sautot —who in 1940-45 led the South Pacific French rally to De Gaulle, and was prominent as Governor of New Caledonia —was not re-elected to the post of Mayor of Noumea, which he has held for a considerable time. He returned to NC, and became a resident of Noumea, after he retired from the French Colonial Service.

The other towns of New Caledonia will next year elect their councils under a new law, which is now being studied.

Hand-in-Pocket Dept.:

Stamp-Duty Comes To

Papua-New Guinea

FROM July 1 it will cost Territorians 2d every time they write a cheque. This is the first time that stamp duty has been payable in Papua and New Guinea.

Two-penny stamp duty will be required on all receipts of £2 and more and there will be stamp duty on Bills of Exchange, memoranda and articles of companies, transfers of property (leasehold and freehold), promissory notes, deeds of gift, and transfer of shares.

In short —one by one all the privileges of living in the Territories are being whittled down.

Legislation providing for stamp duty was passed by the P-NG Council about a year ago.

New Seadrome Opened Near Brisbane THE new flying-boat base which was opened at Redland Bay, near Brisbane, in early June, allows stops to be made there on the Qantas Sydney-Noumea-Suva and Sydney-New Hebrides services.

Formerly these services flew from Sydney direct to Noumea.

Flying-boats on the New Guinea service which formerly used Hamilton Reach, Brisbane River, will also use Redland Bay.

Landing facilities were limited at Hamilton Reach. Several accidents and near-accidents involving aircraft and ships have occurred there in recent years.

P-NG LEGISLATIVE CCL.

WILL MEET

Twice Again This Year

PAPUA and New Guinea’s Legislative Council will probably meet twice again in 1953 —in July, for about a week, and again in September or October for the Budget session. (This will closely follow the Budget Session of the Commonwealth Parliament).

These meeting dates were suggested in the closing stages of the May session of the Council in Port Moresby, by the Administrator, Mr.

D. M. Cleland, who acts as the President of the Council.

Getting Quicker Canberra

ACTION In a short closing speech, Mr.

Cleland said that he was not unmindful of a certain matter brought up during the session by private members —the apparent hamstringing of works and requisitions in the Territory by inter-departmental committees.

He said that he was doing his utmost, at Ministerial level, to have the whole thing simplified so that when the Commonwealth Government granted the Territory so many millions, the spending of it should be left entirely to the Administrator and his own Director of Works, without any further reference to Australia at all. 25 Years Since ‘Smithy's”

Wizard Fiji Landing rE 25th anniversary of the arrival of Kingsford Smith’s three-engined Fokker aircraft Southern Cross, at Albert Park, Suva, on the famous first Transpacific flight, was celebrated in Suva on June 5, by the broadcasting of a special programme from ZJV, in which Mr. W. Caldwell and Mr. R. Farquhar (men who were intimately associated with the flight) took part.

Smithy’s feat in bringing the big Fokker safely to earth in tiny Albert Park, after his record-making overseas flight from Honolulu to Fiji, is one of the outstanding events in the history of pioneer aviation. 15 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

Raluana Scuffle

Significance of Recent Assault on New Guinea District Commissioner From a Special Correspondent RABAUL, June 2. rE Raluana affair, wherein the District Commissioner and his officers were savagely assaulted on May 21, is the culmination of a long and bitter argument.

Most of the people in the Tolai tribal group (eastern end of New Britain) have accepted the village council system; but the Raluana village, and a couple of other communities, have refused it. They believe they have the right to do so: the Administration has usually described it as a “voluntary” system.

The Raluana folk, energetic, aggressive and defiant of authority, have a reputation as “bigheads.”

They are led by some semi-educated natives. They have a communal Committee, and the latter has organised a Co-operative, and opened a native restaurant at Kokopo; and it has imposed and collected taxes.

In March, the Native Councils of this area complained to Mr. Cleland, when the Administrator visited them, that because they had carried out official wishes, and formed Councils, they had to tax themselves in order to pay for schools and medical posts; whereas the Raluana and other villagers, who defied authority, got schools, etc., without paying for them, and spent their illegally-raised taxes as they pleased.

Probably, that was why District Commissioner J. K. McCarthy went out officially to Raluana on the 21st.

With him were Messrs. D. M. Fienberg (Senior Native Authorities Officer); Ivan Champion (Chief Native Lands Commissioner), W. J.

Read (Native Lands Commissioner), Ken Williamson (Native Authorities Officer), J. F. White (ADO at Kokopo). En route, they picked up Nason Kiala, former paramount Luluai of Raluana, and now president of the Vunadadir-Toma Village Council.

About 1,400 people had assembled at the Raluana school grounds.

They squatted, grouped closely around a large table, where the officials were seated.

MR. MCCARTHY said he had called them together to explain a proclamation which was about to be made, whereby the Raluana Village group would become part of the area under the Vunamami Village Council. They would be asked to elect six members of the Vunamami Counciland they thus would have a voice in the making of the Council’s laws including taxation laws, which they must obey. He emphasised the benefits of the Council system, now adopted by the great majority of the Tolais. He thanked them for attending, and for their donation of £l2O towards the Park Fund in Rabaul.

There was complete silence as Mr. McCarthy sat down.

Then one of the Raluana leaders, a crippled school teacher named Tuvi, who was in the front row, stood up and shouted: “You are our father, but we will never enter a village council. We will not pay taxes.”

He then turned and faced the natives, many of whom were rising excitedly.

Six or seven natives rushed at Nason, who was seated on McCarthy’s right, and began to punch and kick him.

The District Commissioner sprang immediately to the old chief’s help, and himself received some of the punches. The other officials hurried to McCarthy’s aid, and the natives fell back.

Mr. McCarthy then led Nason to his car, and arranged that he be sent immediately to Kokopo. The younger natives now were circling around, waving their fists and threatening the party. The latter stood quietly in a group. Most of them, like McCarthy, have had very many years’ experience with natives, and they were not upset by the demonstration. The village elders were trying to calm the “bigheads.”

Mr. McCarthy naturally was very angry over the attack made, and the insult to Administration authority. After a word with his officers, he pushed his way through the yelling crowd towards the leader, Tuvi.

Tuvi saw him coming, and waved him back.

McCarthy went up to him and said, sternly: “This must stop. Come with me to my car.”

Tuvi insolently waved him off.

The DC insisted, whereupon Tuvi took his crutch from under his arm, reversed it and, using both hands, aimed a blow at McCarthy.

McCarthy was struck on the left side of his head, and his ear was cut.

Other natives then attacked McCarthy, while the other officials came running to the aid of the DC.

Williamson was knocked down and kicked. Read was felled to the ground. Fienberg and others got alongside McCarthy, who was fighting like the old soldier he is and, in a few minutes, the officials drove off the howling mob.

They were without weapons and in a difficult position. They kept close together and made it clear that any hoodlum who came near them would be rather roughly handled. The mob circled around them at a respectful distance.

Ninety minutes passed before the first police arrived, and they began to get the situation under control.

MEANWHILE, the bush telegraph worked swiftly. A wave of excitement spread through the Tahiti Politicians for France Mayor Alfred poroi, of Papeete (top), head of the Centre and Right-Wing Coalition parties of French Oceania; and (below) a political rival, Monsieur J. B. Ceran-Jerusalemy (right-hand man to Pouvanaa a Oopa, who heads the Left-wing Tahitian People’s- Democratic Assembly) passed through Suva at the end of May, err route by air to Paris.

Neither was prepared to go into: details regarding his mission; butr it is understood that it is associated: with the political situation hr French Oceania, which is almost as disturbed in recent months as that in France itself. 16 JUNE, 1963 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY:

Jllages. The Nangananga tribe iished to their trucks, and were ii their way to avenge the insult their District Commissioner and iieir chief, Nason, when the official jirty met them and Mr. McCarthy jrsuaded them to return to their illages and let the law take its mrse. ; But there is strong and bitter ►eling throughout the districts, and .ie police have had their hands full, i prevent inter-village fighting, he arrogant Raluana villagers are ;Dt loved, and the other villages :ould be very happy if allowed to iipe out some of their institutions, jpecially the Kokopo restaurant.

Police have been to Raluana and ave arrested most of the ringladers. All except Tuvi have been mtenced to imprisonment. Tuvi as been charged with assaulting !r. McCarthy, and has now formily charged McCarthy with assaultig him; and the cases have gone > the higher court for trial.

It is an awkward situation for le Administration. Presumably, the reclamation bringing Raluana into le village council will be postponed util the district is calmer.

It is felt that Mr. McCarthy andled the affair itself with rength and courage. But most of le “old hands” are inclined to be ;ry critical of the post-war Adlinistration which, with its velvetlove handling of native affairs as permitted and even encouraged le growth of insolent and disloyal immunities like that of Raluana.

Such things would have been imassible under the Wisdom and riffith regimes,” said one pre-war isident. “They opened the way to .1 this nonsense when they started leir new policies after the war.” (See also article on page 127.) Trophy for Yachtsmen

Samoans Are Cool And Courteous To

Un Mission

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND ENT. rjTHE long-expected visit of a UN JL Trusteeship Council Mission to Western Samoa took place early in May, just six weeks after the New Zealand Government had made known its proposed policy for farreaching changes in the political, social and economic structure of the Trust Territory.

The Mission consisted of the chairman, Mr. Enrique de Marchena (Dominican Republic) and Messrs.

Najmuddin Rifai (Syria), Leon Pignon (France) and W. A. C.

Mathieson (UK), with Mr. H. A.

Wieschoff (USA) as chief secretary.

It visited NZ before going to W.

Samoa, and met responsible Ministers.

In Samoa it spent 12 days. An official Kava ceremony was held, followed by the usual speeches. Dr. de Marchena expressed the hope that at future debates on Western Samoa a representative of the territory would be present at UN headquarters.

An impressive Ta’alolo was given to the visiting Mission at Mulinu’u, by three Upolu villages. Samoan sivas, songs and speeches were followed by presentations of food and artifacts to the Mission. There were many meetings with members of the Council of State, the Executive Council, the Legislative Assembly and the Fono of Faipule.

When the Hon. Tamasese addressed the Mission he pointed out that the people had had no time to consider the far-reaching suggestions and recommendations of the NZ Development Plan for Western Samoa and that, in accordance with traditional Samoan courtesy, it therefore would be improper and discourteous to discuss the details with the visiting Mission.

After due consideration, they would communicate their decisions to the NZ Government and the Trusteeship Council.

The Hon. Tamasese suggested that the Mission might help the Territory in creating a “United Nations Library” in the interests of education of Samoan adults and children. He pointed out that any future self-government must be formed in accordance with Samoan tradition and not just based on European ideas. The Samoans, he said, believed their political ideas were truly democratic.

The Hon. Tualaulelei addressed the mission on the control of the Samoan public service, and the Hon.

A. M. Gurau brought up the question of the abolition of the Preferential Tariff in favour of British Empire imports into Samoa.

The Mission visited the Poutasi and Sa’anapu districts on the south coast of Upolo and various districts on Savai’i.

The Mission received submissions from public bodies and persons who wanted to present their views.

Among others, the Mission gave audience to a delegation from the “Democratic Party,” which submitted some political opinions divergent from the views of the majority of Samoan leaders.

There was a noticeable absence of special social functions for the visiting Mission, though the Mission participated in several parties given to farewell the Hon. and Mrs.

Tamasese on their departure for the Coronation. The Mission left by special plane on May 8 for New York, via Suva, and Honolulu.

A Norfolk Island Re-union AIR Marshal Sir Basil and Lady Embry spent a few hours on Norfolk Island recently while flying from New Zealand to England. While at Norfolk Island, Lady Ambry met Mrs. Simpson, wife of Judge Simpson, who was visiting the Island to preside over the local court and administer the oath to the new Administrator. Lady Embry is the daughter of Captain Elliott, RN, who was Administrator at Norfolk Island when Lady Embry was a child. Mrs. Simpson’s father was at the cable station during her childhood; and the two ladies had not returned to the island since those distant days.

At the Neptune Ball on May 22, in Port Moresby, the Administrator, Mr. D. M. eland presented trophies to Sailing Club members who had won them during the past ason. Here, on left of Mr. Cleland, is F. Thomson, skipper of Rebel, with team ates J. Kemp and Norman Walmsely. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JUNE, 1913

Thefts In Tonga

rERE has been another wave of lawlessness in Vava’u, Tonga.

Chief victims this time were the Neiafu branch of Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., which was broken into and robbed of over £lOO worth of tobacco and miscellaneous goods; and the Neiafu Club, from which 18 cases of spirits were stolen. Local police are holding two youths for questioning— Own Correspondent.

Fiji Troops Come and Go Forty-four officers and men of the 1st Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, returned to Fiji by air on May 21 and 41 others left by the same aircraft for Malaya.

Led by the Battalion’s band, the returned men headed a detachment, which included recruits soon to go to Malaya, in a march through Suva’s main streets on May 28.

Forests in Embryo The Bill That Means What It Says Housing Loan Scheme for P-NG EVEN the name meant what i said, said Mr. H. H. Reeve Treasurer of Papua-New Gui nea, when introducing the Housin Loans Bill at the recent session o the Legislative Council of th Territory. Its simplicity should als please the member for Papua (M] E. A. James, who had complainei about the amount of legislatio] being churned out by the Counci and the verbosity of ordinances am regulations generally).

Mr. Reeve described the bill as ; new type for the Territory. It wa essentially an enabling one in tha it created the machinery whereby j Commissioner of Housing could b appointed. Through him the Ad ministration could assist resident of the Territory to own their owi homes.

The Bill did not set out a de tailed scheme for home loans—tha would come later—but under th plans envisaged it would be possibl to borrow 90 per cent, of the valu of a home or £2,750, whichever wa greater. It was likely that, to b eligible, a person could not own ! house in the Territory and wouli live in the house acquired unde the scheme. Time for repayment o the loan would probably be be tween 25 and 35 years, to be repaii in the form of rent which coverei both principal arid interest.

The Administration itself woul< borrow the money to be loaned anc as the circumstances of borrowini and rates of interest might var; from time to time, provision wa made in the bill to publish detail of the scheme in the Papua am New Guinea Government Gazett from time to time rather than in corporate them in legislation.

The bill had the general suppor of members, private and. official Mrs. D. Booth hoped that it wa just a preliminary to advancing money to men who wished to go o: the land. (The ordinance is a new one fa P-NG in that it seeks to give some; thing to the people, rather than tak; something from them. It will bene; fit private individuals more tha.

Public Servants. Housing (som good, some bad) is provided fo; Public Servants and as these peopE never stay in the same district fc more than a few years before beim moved on elsewhere, it is unlikeE that they will be encouraged tl build a home for themselves.) The timber indutry in the Bulolo Valley, New Guinea, to be worked by Commonwealth Timbers in which the Commonwealth Government and Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., are partners, will go in 50-year cycles.

Re planting of the P ine forests under the supervision of Forestry Department officers will keep pace with the cutting of the local pine to feed the plywood factory. By the time the original forest is cut out, a new forest will have grown up and be ready The top photograph shows of the young pine trees that have already been planted around the Forestry Station near Bulolo. Below: Under these shade frames on the same station are millions of seedling Klinki and Hoop pines which will be used 18 JUNE, 1 S> 5 3, P A C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHL

Suva Visitors A dance organised by the Parents’ ssbciation in Honiara, BSIP, was ven at the Woodford Hotel on [ay 8, to provide funds to purchase irniture and equipment for the uropean Children’s School in oniara. Various items were auconed during the evening and more lan £lOO was raised.

Improvements at Kerevat Agricultural Station At top, the very fine new laboratories which in April were nearing completion at Kerevat Experimental Station, about 30 miles from Rabaul, in New Britain. The building will also supply office accommodation for the station.

The building is well designed and was being built by a Chinese contractor. An architectural error appeared to have been made, however, in specifying a corrugated fibro-cement roof. A Force 5 earthquake that was experienced in early April had cracked some of it and was letting in the rain; the Force 7 quake that followed later that month probably did not improve the position, although possibly some modification in screwing on the roofing sheets might have solved the problem.

Below: A new revolving hot-air dryer for coffee or cocoa that has recently been installed at Kerevat. It is made of aluminium, or a similar metal, and cost about £2,000.

Street’s New Name A STREET in Papeete has been named Rue de Chef Teriierooiterai. It is a little difficult for newly-arrived Europeans to pronounce; but the Tahitian authorities insisted that in this way they should do honour to the late Chief of Papenoo, who was very highly respected and who was the senior of all Tahitian chiefs. He died in July, 1952. This photograph was taken soon before his death. fl The engagement was announced in Rabaul, NG, recently of Miss Mavis Lamerton, to Mr. Robert Graham Matheson. Mr. Matheson, a Surveyor, has been stationed at Rabaul for some time and Miss Lamerton is Secretary to the District Commissioner.

A new Catholic Church will soon be built in Samarai, Papua, A feature of the wall construction will be alternate panels of fibro-cement and glass louvres.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barnfather made a ief business visit to Suva from Honiara, [?]I, in May, and, below, some Suva people [?]o went down to see the Kurimarau sail [?]om Suva: left to right, Mrs. E. Goulding, [?]ptain E. Low, Mrs. V. Greene, Captain [?]mpson, of Ai Sokula, and Miss Marie [?]riitehau.

Bottom: The big 120-ton two-masted San [?]ncisco schooner Ramona, owned by illiam A. Pomeroy, in Papeete.

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ISLANDERS Work of SP Commission PROBLEMS relating to the economic and social welfare of Pacific Island peoples are being discussed this week at the fifth annual meeting of the South Pacific Commission’s expert advisory body, the Research Council. The meeting extends over 12 days until June 20.

The Council comprises 22 members (four permanent officers of the Commission and 18 appointed each year by the six member Governments) . Most of them are economists, doctors, agriculturists and educationalists actually working in Pacific territories. This is the full list: Dr. E. M. Ojala (Deputy Chairman of Research Council).

HEALTH Dr. H. J. T. Bylmer (Director, Public Health Department, Netherlands New Guinea).

Medecin Colonel P. Filippi (Director of Health Services, New Caledonia, and of Army Health Services, French Pacific).

Dr, J. T. Gunther (Director, Department of Health, Papua-New Guinea).

Dr. T. C. Lonie (Director of Health, Western Samoa).

Dr. E, Massal (Executive Officer for Health, SP Commission).

Dr. R. W. D. Maxwell (Acting Inspector- General, South Pacific Health Service).

Dr. Clark Richardson (Director of Public Health, Truk, Micronesia).

Economic Development

Mr. Homer Baker (Director of Economic Affairs, Trust Territory of Micronesia).

Mr. D. R. A. Eden (General Manager, NZ Reparation Estates, Western Samoa).

Dr. A. H. J. Kroon (Executive Officer for Economic Development, SP Commission).

M. M. Legand (Acting Director, French Institute of Oceania, N. Caledonia).

Mr. B. E. V. Parham, OBE (Deputy Director of Agriculture, Fiji).

Dr. A. Perk (Director of Economic Affairs, Netherlands N. Guinea), Mr. J. E. Willoughby (Assistant Secretary, Department of Territories, Australia).

Social Development

Dr. Homer G. Barnett (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, USA).

Dr. Ch. J. Grader (Director, Breau for Native Affairs, Netherlands N. Guinea), Mr. W. C. Groves (Director, Department of Education, Papua-N. Guinea).

M. J. C. R. Guiart (Ethnologist, Institute of Oceania, N. Caledonia).

Mr, H. H. Hickling (Education Officer, Cook Islands).

Mr H *r. ™ande. OBE ( p xe „ ut!ve officer for Social Development, SP Commission). - ii , _i\, Dr. A. J. Patterson (World Health Organisation).

South Pacific Commission

Sir Brian Freeston, KCMG, OBE (Secretary-General).

Mr. John Ryan (Deputy Secretary- General). J Future of Western Samoa An economic stock-taking of Western Samoa is now being carried out for the South Pacific Commission by Mr. V. D. Stace, an economist of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, whose services have been loaned to the Commission.

This, the first stage of an economic survey, is being made to facilitate development of the Territory’s resources. This is a major need of the increasing population, which has grown from 33,000 to 86,000 in 30 years.

Results of the survey should interest other South Pacific Territories faced with similar problems of expanding populations.

Practical Advice on Coconuts A series of leaflets on coconut cultivation and plantation management is being prepared by Mr, W. V. D. Pieris, copra specialist to the South Pacific Commission. They are practical, well-illustrated, and written in non-technical language, and will be available later this year.

Mr. Pieris, formerly Deputy Director of the Ceylon Coconut Research Scheme, has recently investigated coconut production in Fiji, Western Samoa, American Samoa, the Lower Cook Islands, Lifou and Uvea (Loyalty Group), New Caledonia, Guam, the Eastern Carolines, and Marshalls. He is going to French Oceania this month.

Governor Of Micronesia

MR. FRANK E. MIDRIFF, 65, a Hawaii resident of considerable academic, military and commercial distinction, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr.

Elbert D. Thomas as High Commissioner in charge of the American Trust Territory of Micronesia.

Mr. Midkiff spent most of April and May in a tour of inspection.

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AIRLINE SOME little time will elapse before the inauguration of the new seaplane service between Honolulu and Tahiti, which is being organised by an American group, in which Captains P. G. Taylor and Brian Monkton are interested. (Page 111 of May PIM) The two Solents, bought by the new Company from Trans Oceanic Airways (which ceased to function on May 25) are now undergoing overhaul in Sydney. Captain Monkton flew to Honolulu early in June, in connection with the new organisation, and Captain Taylor is on a visit to England. The chief preparatory work includes fuelling arrangements on Christmas Island, an isolated atoll near the equator.

Newspaper statements that the new service will run between Honoand Tahiti are incorrect.

The planes will fly directly between Honolulu and Papeete, via Christmas Island.

Indonesia At

A CRISIS Collapse Could Threaten S. Pacific rfTHE Indonesian Government rei signed on June 2. A stop-gai set-up is carrying on, planning a general election. But the wholt Territory is in a state of political and economic confusion, close tc chaos and complete collapse.

This has been inevitable since the United States and British Governments, in 1945-46, failed to support the war-exhausted Dutch, anc allowed the Netherlands East Indies to fall into the hands of gangs oi Jap-trained political adventurers who set up the pathetic “Republic of Indonesia.”

The United Nations, with the blessing of the Australian Socialist Government, used its influence tc create a Dutch-Indonesian Union the Indonesia part of which was to be a Federation of all the little semi-independent States in the archipelagoes. But, within twe years, the unscrupulous Javanese politicians had destroyed all the other little Governments, so tha 1 Java now is supreme, and there now is no Federation, and no Unioi with the Dutch.

There has been a succession o: so-called Governments. The last led by Wilopo, was mostly a combination of the PNI (Parta Nasional Indonesia), which is nationalist, and Masjumi, which ii Moslem, and both are Leftist; bu there is an indescribable welter o other political parties, and non* conforms to the rules, as understoo* by Westerners. The Territory a. present is influenced by the follow ing conditions:— Political organisations are divide* between moderates (some slightl: pro-Dutch) and extreme Leftists. ’

The army of about 200,000 is splii between moderates, who have sorm. semblance of order, and dissidem units, who are tending towards % guerilla organisation.

Trade and industry are in ap( parently hopeless confusion.

The 3i million Chinese there an' now strongly influenced by then connections in Communist China Communist penetration of tin country is steadily increasing.

To appreciate the vicious inj fluences at work, and understand something of a most confusing becko-round, persons interesteo should read the new book Challeng\ to Terror, written by Tur/ Westerling, who led a revolt in Javi soon after the war, and nearly overthrew the “government.” It ii on sale in Australia, at 18/9. It ii a lively and readable story or adventure, and it gives the full (Continued on Page 133) 20 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

The Editors' Mailbag

tribute to Officials “I know that your February par bout me was not intended seriiisly,” writes Artist Charles IcFhee, from Rarotonga, “but I do x>pe it is not regarded as evidence ’lat I claim bad treatment by the ahiti Government. On the con- -ary. I received always the utnupst Durtesy, tolerance and hospitality t the hands of all officials in ■ahiti, and I cannot blame them in ny way for the fact that I could ict obtain the permanent residen- .al qualification.

“May I pay special tribute to lonsieur Beisel, chief of police and taff; Monsieur Trammler, of the olitical Bureau; Mrs. Muriel Goodng, of the Tourist Bureau; Monieur Juventin, manager of Donald’s stablishment, all of whom conributed to making my sojourn in "ahiti, the Painters’ Mecca, one of mg-remembered happiness.” r iji Misrepresented Mr. James Stewart, who was . very active member of Suva’s rt circle while he was there— e produced some amusing sketches nd paintings of local characters — as been back in Sydney for some me. Here he has had an unforinate—but by no means uncommon -experience with a local magazine d which he sent some articles for üblication.

He has written sadly to tell us tie story and to apologise to Fiji i advance —he feels that the magzine in question will surely find its ray to the Colony in due course, nd then, because of the way his laterial has been twisted about, ut and rewritten, his name will be £ mud among the people with r hom he spent such a pleasant ime.

“I have read articles of the same me before,” he writes, “and have Iways thought that the author idn’t know what he was talking bout—but now I am inclined to blnk that they have experienced happened tot"' **“* haS h h h a a d Ve some M 2 article, will be indignant with Justification. To these I apologise.”

Over 20 years ago, Pacific writers were demanding a law to suppress irresponsible presentation of Islands stories. But to a certain type of paper only two things are jouiiniistically supposed to come oiu of the Pacific — a laugh or a sensation.

Caravanners* Request Does any Islands family wish to receive an interesting couple as paying guests in January and February 1954? If so, write by airmail to Mr.

Gerd Joachim Roos, 106 Gooden Drive, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England. Mr. Roos is a Danish writer and Mrs. Roos is a distinguished landscape and portrait painter.

This couple departed from England in September, 1952, and have caravanned leisurely through half the countries of Europe and through Turkey, Syria and Lebanon, and they are now in Jordan, at the back of Palestine. They expect to reach (Continued on Page 24) Queen Salote Leaves For UK Departure, from Nukualofa, of Queen alote, of Tonga, to see the Coronation in ondon of Queen Elizabeth II.

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LOWER: A section of the Crowd who atched their Queen’s departure. —Photos by Hettig. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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This is Where the NGVR Fought in 1942 An Administrative Conference, ttended by all District Commisioners, was held in Honiara from tay 8-12. The High Commissioner (Mr. R. C. S. Stanley) opened the Conference and discussea Native Administration matters with District Commissioners.

This plain pillar of concrete, plus sorted junk that has been dumped [?]ere (a discarded water tank can be seen the left), marks the spot where the abaul detachment of the NGVR resisted [?]e Jap landing on the shores of Blanche [?]ay, New Britain, in the dawn of January [?], 1942.

In April, 1953, when this photograph as taken, the spot was a scene of [?]mplete neglect. It is impossible to get user to the pillar than this because of aist-high grass, and the uninformed sitor, in the unlikely event of his ever [?]ing down the overgrown track that ads to it, would imagine that it was only lother piece of war junk.

There is nothing on the hunk of cement show what it is, and some months ago, [?]e are informed, it was hauled out of the a where it had toppled, by a public spirited Rabaul firm and placed where it is shown in the photograph. A small metal plaque affixed to the pillar, describing something of the events of January 23, 1943, would be in order. So would a little periodic grass cutting. In its short life, the Gazelle Peninsula has acquired an extraordinary amount of history— sufficient anyway for an embryo Historical Society. Failing this, perhaps a committee of the Town Advisory Council might take on the job of marking historic spots and keeping them in order.

In Sydney, relatives and friends of the New Guinea men who were lost from New Britain sedulously keep all anniversaries. And someone in Rabaul apparently thought sufficiently of the NGVR’s effort to put the cement pillar there in the first place. Why then does not Rabaul carry on the good work by making the spot at least accessible? 23 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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P-NG and Political Prophecy A CORRESPONDENT who signs himself “Your Political Spy”, writes from the North: You may take it as certain that Papua-New Guinea has not heard the last of Colonel J. K. Murray.

He is residing in Queensland, and he takes a keen interest in political affairs generally, and Territories in particular.

I am assured that the Labour Party has a safe seat earmarked for him; and that, if and when it returns to power in Canberra, the portfolio of Minister of Territories will go to JKM.

So far, I think we are on safe ground. But some prophets go further. They say that, as soon as this new Minister takes control , he would expect soon to have a vacancy in the Administratorship; and that he probably would offer the position to Mr. E. J. Ward.

Me, I don’t support it—l pass it on for what it is worth.

It is not worth much. “Eddie”

Ward has a seat (East Sydney) that is safe for him as long as his name is Ward. Why should he give up that comfortable life, with its possibility of a portfolio (he has even raised his eyes to the Prime Ministership), and its assurance of a liberal pension, for that exceedingly uncomfortable job in P-NG? Unless, of course, he has a yearning to reside in the timbered highland and sniff the never-to-be-forgottei aroma of Bulolo pines.

Matter of Psychology That paragraph in February PIM jeering at the expensive am elaborate arrangement under whicl the American Administration of th 24 JUNE. 1853 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Editors’ Mailbag (Continued from Page 81)

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BMI-53 [ 'rust Territory of Micronesia had esnt a functionary from Honolulu official cheerer-up to the deiressed and melancholy natives of :he Korror Islands, has left the territories’ high officials “startled md taken aback,” according to a Tiendly letter from the Territory’s Headquarters.

The data on which the para was vritten was a newspaper extract; vhereas the full official details ihow that Mr. Powlison was sent ;o Korror not only as a director of lecreational activities, but also as :n organiser of social projects, in vhich he has had world-wide ex- •erience.

Although only a few months have •assed, rather remarkable success las been achieved. The native »eople, formerly aimless and evincing little public spirit, now are .ctively supporting young people’s .gricultural clubs and leadership raining classes, and have demontrated their interest by themselves recting a large building as a centre or their communal activities.

In the view of the American adninistrators, the psychological care >f trusteeship peoples is just as mportant as their physical welfare.

Exasperated “If Mr. K. R. Bain represents the ittitude of Fiji officialdom towards he population problem in Fiji, then t’s God help the Fijians,” writes , London resident who heard an address given by Mr. Bain to a ection of the Royal Empire Society.

Our correspondent says that the ecture itself was non-contentious; lut afterwards the lecturer skilfully ide-stepped questions about the ndian over-population threat to he Colony’s food supply, and whether the Indians were coiperating in seeking a solution of he problem. London observers were ager for information.

“His attitude appeared to be, sufficient unto the day’; in the [leantime, drift along as easily as ►ossible; things will come out all ight in the end,” says our friend.

He had nothing to say about the **iji Council’s recent request to the Jritish Government to set up a ommission to consider the Colony’s uture, in relation to population . . Such people are an exasperaion.”

Censor, Ahoy!

Mr. Sydney Chance (formerly >apua), briefly in Sydney town in iday, writes in a way which indiates he was peeved because the LBC has not yet broadcast the folowing story sent in by him; A young Patrol Officer from New Juinea, lonely and very fed-up, itting in a Sydney lounge, caught - smile in the eye of a lass not ar away. He sent a polite message »y a waiter and the lady joined him. They spent a pleasant afternoon together out in the country and then, as the returning car neared the city, the New Guinea man said: “Well, don’t let us part so soon. What about a little kaikai?”

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“I don’t mind. But don’t you think we might have something to eat first?”

Report Exaggerated “I still don’t believe it,” says Hugh Hickling, writing from Rarotonga, and enclosing a cutting from PIM. which reads: “Mr. Lewis Hirshon, a 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

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Hickling, in a PS, says that he was turning over some old copies when he came upon the announcement, and felt he must do something about it. The only person deeply concerned in the matter, who has not protested, is Mr. Hirshon himself.

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Montevideo Maru Sinking

A memorial service will be held at the Sydney Cenotaph, Martin Place, on Sunday, June 28, at 3 p.m., this being the Sunday nearest July 1, on which date, in 1942, the illfated Montevideo Maru sailed from Rabaul, NG, with several hundred European residents of New Britain on board. The ship was sunk near the Philippines and the men were lost.

The Rev. C. F. Gribble, General Secretary of the Methodist Overseas Mission, will conduct a short service.

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MASTERS, who runs the North Queensland Scout Training Centre at Magnetic Island, near Townsville, has been visiting Papua and New Guinea to conduct intensive training courses for Scout Leaders. His itinerary covered visits to Scouts in Samarai, Yule Island Madang, Rabaul and Port Moresby!

It is expected that the movement in the Territory will receive great impetus from these visits. if Mr. H. D. Powell who has be accountant with the Works Depai ment at Port Moresby for sever years left during May to ta over as accountant on the staff the Australian Atomic Energy Cor mission in Sydney. 28 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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By Tolala ’ ONG ISLAND’S volcanic outll burst was by no means its first.

Turning over the pages of an 11 Pacific Islands Year Book jout 1936; I should say, for the virer is missing—l came across an ;;eresting description of Long sand, penned by Patrol Officer Nurton, following a visit he made ick in 1932. He describes volcanic h thirty feet deep, under which tre “the remains of a charred rest, wonderfully preserved.” The nsus of the Island population at ;e time was 92 males and 72 ma l es A few years after this patrol, irton struck a bad patch over in the ,idor district on the mainland (I link it was) and collected a spear imnd, after which he retired from e Service.

Talk about volcanoes reminds me a letter to hand from Doc. sland, whom I quoted in April 7alk Talk,” concerning his rearks on the Rabaul quria on Anzac e, questioning his qualifications as i expert. I now learn that ilcanology is one of his hobbies, f this I was unaware: and if my marks appear unfair then I nder my apologies to the worthy oc—but maintaining my original unions regarding Rabaul. ’Twould 5 a sad world, indeed, if we all jreed.

The Doctor quotes from Dr. ;ehn’s original roneo report (p. i): “We can see no reason whater for believing that volcanic stivity may not occur here at most any time,” and then recomends the evacuation of Rabaul as ic main administrative centre, but ates that commercial developed is outside his scope.

The “we,” presumably, would be r. Woolnough and himself.

I remember well speaking to Dr. ;ehn after he and Dr. Woolnough id made their surveys in 1937 and ie former did not appear in any ay apprehensive about the safety Rabaul, providing adequate warng measures were introduced, oming from Java, where there is » much seismic disturbance, one in readily understand Stehn’s attude as compared with that of r. Woolnough, who, coming as he d from undisturbed Australia, was Dt at all happy about Rabaul’s iture.

Incidentally, Doc. Deland, ending is letter, quotes from an Australian swspaper; “That perverse affection >r their environment that seems > possess dwellers on the slopes of Dicanoes.”

Quite true. But who is not livig on the slope of a volcano these ays—with atom bombs and iron urtains all about us?

The Mendi clash in New Guinea last month is what is to be expected in such an uncontrolled area when tribes want to fight out their differences, (What goes on in Korea to-day?) . . . But the Raluana affair should cause greater concern, for the assault comes from a community which has had contact with Europeans for over seventy years, and the Raluana native is amongst the most sophisticated in TNG. It would seem that the adoption of the village council system—the thin end of the wedge for native self-government—is not unanimously approved by the native himself, despite the efforts of the UNO, and the fact that it was first experimented with in TNG back in 1936. This opposition has been apparent, or at least existent, for some years in this particular area.

The court proceedings arising out of the Raluana incident should make interesting reading—and also give the anthropologists and sociologists something for consideration.

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Sophistication really started to »me in around Rabaul about the iddle of the thirties, when the mng bloods of a village thought ieir old-time _greeting was too rimitive. It consisted of a peculiar iroaty sound something like “u-uki”, id was used day or night; and a iendly hail it was. Not satisfied, Dwever, the younger generation ad to mimic the European with ie native equivalent of “Good Lorning,” “Good afternoon,” and > on, and so their greeting became 3ona milana,” “Bona ravien.” It [ways lacked the peculiar sincerity f the old-time “u-uki!”

It was about this time, too, that ie Chinese residents took exception > the pidgin-English term “Kongbng” being applied to them, and lugged for the more civilised Uhinaman” being used; a word not isily pronounced by the native.

Time marches on. The European Mister” seems to be handed out ) all and sundry. In the Blanche ;ay dialect “To” as a prefix to a ame signifies the male, and “la” ie female.

At a dairy industry investigation recently, in NSW, a dairyman complained of the need to protect butter from competition by margarine. He claimed “copra planters in NG hire labourers “at a basic wage of 15/- a month, plus free board and lodging,” and do not pay income tax, and the dairyman thought he should be entitled to the same privileges. And then “A tariff wall was needed to keep out products not produced by labour paid on the Australian standard.”

The same antagonism towards margarine (or oleo, as it is called in the US) was rampant nearly thirty years ago in the US, as I mentioned a few months ago. Anyway, how many NG employers nowadays get labour for 15/- per month—or many times 15/-?

And so the production snarl goes on. What a happy world we live in!

A party wrangle is at present being carried on in political circles over Australia’s defences in the “Near North.” Labour decries their inadequacies, while the Government bravely attempts to justify the absence of any material preparations—or, rather, the position as it is to-day, alleging that “northern defences can be assessed not by counting the number of ships or the disposition of forces at any given point, but in relation to defence preparedness in general.’

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At the Manus base (which, it is reported, will be complete in three or four years’ time) servicemen meanwhile are an unhappy crowd (if one can believe the because they are taxed on their phenomenally high pay, and have also to pay heavy import duty on canteen goods, while other Territories residents escape income taxation.

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I’m glad to see E. A. James, MLC, at Moresby, is having a word to say anent the number of ordinances passed by the Local Legislative Council (PIM, May, p. 14). As in the past, the fault, no doubt, lies at Canberra, where with bureaucratic aptitude the bullets are made for Moresby officials to fire.

Pioneer Missionary Goes Home Leasing of P-NG Native- Owned Land Suggested From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, May 28.

AT the May meeting of the Eastern Highlands Advisory Council at Goroka, New Guinea, members suggested the leasing of native-owned land.

Mr. Jim Leahy said leases for pastoral land should be granted for a minimum of 15 years, and that leasing would improve the land for the native owners.

Mr. A. Schindler of the Agricultural Department, Aiyura, said that leasing for short term crops would also be useful.

Meanwhile at Port Moresby the Central District Advisory Council also discussed the possibility of developing native-owned land by a leasehold system.

The Rev. D. E. Ure urged that the legal aspect of leasing land should be more fully explained to native owners—if this was done there was a good prospect of unused native land being made available for development. He stressed that this would allow land to be used while preserving native ownership.

The Most Rev. Alburtus F. Blanc, DD, SM, who recently retired due to ill health and returned to France after 52 years service in Tonga, the last 40 as Vicar Apostolic.

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SUVA, June 1. [IUNG by PlM’s February headline that “Suva’s Bosses don’t like trees,” Suva’s Mayor Mcirlane, proud of his Parks and irdens Committee, showed a PIM oresentative in May just how long the headline was.

Admitting that the Town Bosses not like the three very tall, unicorative coconut palms that rmerly stood in the Triangle, or other decorative but troublesome ie that interfered with traffic, lephone lines and caused expense damage to the Post Office roof, r. McFarlane pointed out the coniierable volunteer tree-planting id public gardening activity that currently taking place in and ound the Fiji capital.

Partly due to the coming Royal sit, partly to the Coronation lebrations—but mainly because e Town Bosses feel that a great ;al can and should be done, in e ordinary course, to beautify iva—the Fiji capital is beginning look more attractive than ever.

Area Committees, donating their ne and money, have taken over e beautification of their own jighbourhoods. Vacant lots in the wn and suburbs, with permission owners, are being planted with )wers and shrubs. Suva’s 25 miles ’ roads are being planted with jcorative trees.

Last year flamboyants were anted in Victoria Parade, between rammar School and GPH; others . the area of the new market and is terminal.

The Mayoress and ladies of the wn have planted 21 trees along ie Marine Drive —which it is >ped will be renamed Queen Lizabeth Drive—beyond the GPH wards Suva Point. Eventually ees will continue right around the )int to Lauthala Bay. Tar-sealing ' this road will provide Suva with most attractive drive.

The Triangle planting project is i the care of Mr. Harvey Hunt, e plans to make of it a tropical impler, where the visitor from >oler climes may, without moving it of town, see bananas, sugar me, and tropical fruits actually •owing. Dwarf coconuts are beig planted and the whole surjunded by red-leaved caladiums id other plants or shrubs with >loured leaves.

The three veteran coconuts have srtainly gone—but the Bosses say lere will be something far better ) replace them soon.

Tree-planting on a much wider sale in Fiji, with a view to meetig the erosion problem, is at pre- ;nt the subject of a campaign by aster, film, and lecture. 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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The official bulletin says that “the circulating mud fluid became gascut, with development of pressure at the surface and, subsequently, the hole caved in, causing the drill pipe and bit to stick.” The Co. added: “After the drill-pipe has been recovered, operations will be undertaken to establish the significance of the occurrence.”

To the man-in-the-street, this was more or less meaningless. But it apparently meant a great deal to the many speculators who have been feverishly watching the expensive oil search over the years.

Within a few hours of the announcement, the shares (nominally 5/-) of Oil Search Limited (which has a modest interest with the big overseas oil companies in the enterprise) began to jump. They had been around 2/-; within a week they were quoted in Sydney and Melbourne at 4/-, and still rising.

As the years pass without success, and the big companies pour more and more millions into the enterprise, the share of Oil Search Limited in the total capitalisation becomes relatively less—hence the market quotation for Oil Search shares has slowly declined. It was 5/- in December, 1949.

IT P l '- J. Austin, who retire alter long service as medical supei intendent, Makogai Leper Static] has been appointed a member c the Lepers Trust Board, which dis tributes funds, raised by publi donations in New Zealand, amon French and British leprosy hospi tals in the South Pacific 34 JUNE, 1853 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Naruta Passed in at Rabaul Auction it/HEN the 10,000-ton former Japanese oil-tanker Naruta (recently refloated at Rabaul) ■as put up for auction at Rabaul n May 16, the highest bid (said □ be £25,000) was not accepted.

It is believed that the ship will iow be sold by private treaty, Btensibly for scrap but to be towed verseas, repaired and used again is a tanker.

Naruta (not to be confused with merchant ship called Naruta tiaru, built in 1935) was built in ;apan for the Japanese Navy about 928- she had a considerable amount f American equipment, and her •lates are about 50 per cent, heavier han normal.

Either before or during the war, .dditional equipment was added to ler heavy winch gear, metal ;hocks and platforms—which concerted her for use as a midgetubmarine motor-ship. During the *rar, in Rabaul harbour, she colected two bombs and a Naval shell -all aft so that only the engine ’oom portion of the ship was damiged. Her oil tanks and 80 per ;ent. of the rest of the vessel are still in good order.

After the war the Allied navy ised her as an oil storage —she was ;owed round the harbour to discharge her oil to Navy ships as rejuired. When she had outlived her isefulness she was towed to a point iff the old burnt wharf in Rabaul md there the curious, or hunters >f non-ferrous metal, then got busy in her and were evidently careless pith valves, etc. She sank until jnly her decks were awash.

At one stage she was bought by J L. Chipper and Co. and then later resold to Andersons Pacific Irading Co., Ltd., who were the vendors in the May auction.

In recent months she has been pumped out and refloated.

One estimate is that there is £75,000 worth of scrap in the vessel, including about £3,000 worth of copper.

William E. Reed, of Sydney, were agents for the vessel and Captain Whitty, now returned to Sydney, acted for them in Rabaul. He says that because of her good coating of oil, little damage has been done by her immersion in the harbour. (Although all Japanese merchant ships have Maru added to their names, Japanese Navy vessels apparently do not —hence Naruta Maru, the merchant ship, and plain Naruta, a Navy oil tanker. It appears that Maru in Japanese means castle and that the term is derived from the fact that the first foreign ships the Japs saw were of the galleon type which seemed to them like castles. When they themselves began to build large ships they called them maru to distinguish them from the small primitive craft they had hitherto built, and the term has been in use ever since). (I Miss Veia Love, member of a leading Cook Islands family, was married on March 23, at Alberta, Canada, to Elder T. G. Lowry, of the Mormon Church. Elder Lowry was formerly stationed at Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Miss Love flew to Canada for the marriage.

Photograph of Naruta, taken in April. 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1983

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SUVA, May 25.

TASMAN Empire Airways, at the request of, and subsidised by the Tongan Government, made proving flight from Suva to akualofa on May 20, with a Solent rcraft carrying NZ Civil Aviation id TEAL officials, and a dozen lying passengers.

Subject to a license being issued ' Civil Aviation, TEAL announced ter that it plans to operate twelve ghts per year—two per month, r ery second month. First regular ,ght is planned to take place >out early July; and the fares, iva-Nukualofa, will be £NZI3-13 ngle, and £NZ24-12 return. The turn flight will be made in a single ly, with a two-hours stop-over in ukualofa.

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The exact dates of the flights will, wherever possible, be timed to fall between the visits of the Union Go’s ships’ regular calls at Nukualofa, so that an airmail connection will be provided between the surface mail outlets.

Discussions are still continuing with the Tongan Government and Civil Aviation regarding moorings, Customs clearance, radio, and other facilities. However, it is not expected that there will be a hold up in the commencement of the service. (New Zealand National Airways Corporation included Nukualofa in its service from New Zealand to the Pacific Islands until the end of June, 1951. The call was then cut out. The local aerodrome, Fuamotu, near Nukualofa, was maintained by the NZ Department of Works and they wished to charge Tonga £lO,OOO per annum for its upkeep.

The Tongan Government said that the Kingdom could not afford that amount, particularly as the air service was of small benefit to the Tongans themselves—it merely benefited a few European merchants and Government officials. It was suggested then that a flying-boat service would suit Tonga better as such craft could use the lagoon and expensive upkeep of an aerodrome would not be necessary). fl Mrs. R. J. Lotze, whose husband is manager of the BSIP Trade Scheme, paid a short visit to Suva in May, making the round trip in the Kurimarau. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNK, 1953

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He said that he had been advised that the matter was “receiving some attention’—but that had been said of the Land Titles Restoration Ordinance, which took a matter of six years to be enacted.

Soldier Settlement in Australia was a States matter, but in P-NG it surely was the responsibility of the Commonwealth: and, to his mind, the securing of the friendship and loyalty of returned men in the Territory was as important as contributing to a Colombo Plan, and probably such friendship and loyalty would be more sincere.

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Letter to the Editor )URING my sojourn in the Islands I have heard of many cases of mental telepathy; but nis is the first occasion on which have been an interested spectator, •.ere are the facts: The BSIP’s Kurimarau was enaged in repatriating labourers i*om Honiara to northern Malaita prts—Malu, Makwana and Tai (.goon. Leaving Honiara, we called rst at Tulagi, to take on diesel iel, leaving there again at 9 p.m. :i April 24 to make an overnight m east of Gela, up Indispensible trait, to Cape Astrolabe.

At 11.30 pm. the head boy came • the bridge and reported: “One :>y Mailesi b’long Makwana him e finis.”

I proceeded to the lower deck id satisfied myself that death had jcurred and that there were no arks of violence on the body. I Id the head boy I would go to akwana first to land the body.

We came in sight of Makwana at 15 am; most of the labour on the wer deck having breakfast of tea id biscuits at the time. There was » waving of hands or calicos; there is no shouting—and I did not have any flags flying. Yet, when I dropped anchor, five small canoes stood off about 20 yards and a big canoe came straight alongside the ship and asked for the body. In the bottom of the canoe was a piece of plywood fitted to keep the body clear of the bilge water, and a folded white shroud.

My Mate, Henry Wilder, came to me and said: “Hey, Skipper, that’s funny! How did they know there was a dead body aboard?”

I said to him: “Well search me, Henry, I don’t know!”

Probably some PIM reader can tell me, I am, etc., N. W. MACDONALD, Master MV Kurimarau.

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Suva Merchant Argues that Inter-Racial Harmony is Possible Written for Pacific Islands Monthly by SHANKAR PRATAP rr\HE article entitled, “Some Brutal 1 Facts about the Indian situation in Fiji and Elsewhere,” in the December issue of Pacific Islands Monthly casts an unmerited slur, not only upon Indians who have made their permanent homes in Fiji, but upon the continent of India. There is much that is exaggerated and misleading. Mr.

Robson makes many statements with which I cannot agree.

I would like to take readers back to 1918, when Rev. C. F. Andrews paid a visit to this Colony and, in his report condemning the indenture system, opposed recruited immigration in any form from India. The then Governor, expressing his opinion, said:— “7 refuse to believe that it is impossible to devise some scheme of immigration from India, which shall assist the industrial development of this colony, and at the same time provide for immigrants, in the first instance, congenial employment under favourable conditions , and, ultimately, a prospect of settlement and advancement far more attractive than any prospect which their own Country offers them.

“7 have not been here long, but I have already seen something of the industrial and agricultural possibilities of the Islands, and I do not hesitate to say that the man who makes the errors of the past a pretext for closing the door against immigration from India in the future, will be doing a lasting disservice to our fellow-subjects of that Empire.”

I am glad to note that Mr, Robson also reflects the same thoughts when he says: “Such a remedy (to deport Indians) is politically impracticable, and would bring about the economic collapse of one of the most prosperous of Britain’s smaller colonies.”

“The Indian is a ceaseless toiler” (in the words of Mr. Robson) and as such he has already become an integral part of the Colony. What more does the writer want? Would he expect Europeans, for example, to start wearing a Sulu instead of The Editor of PIM, in an article in December, surveyed the Indian settlements in British territories in and around the Indian Ocean, and in Fiji and commented upon their prodigious growth.

He could not see a future for any race, except the Indians, in those lands; and he expressed grave concern for the wellbeing of the Fiji natives, whose land rights were guaranteed by Great Britain in the Deed of Cession. There are now 150,000 Indians and 130,000 Fijians in Fiji, and the Indians are increasing more rapidly.

A large and increasing proportion of the Indians in Fiji are Fiji-born and educated, and perhaps the future of the Colony is in their hands. Mr.

Shankar Pratap, thoughtful and cultured, speaking perfect English, is typical of this new class.

At our invitation, he wrote this forceful reply to our article. trousers; to sing mekes and play the ukelele in place of orchestral music; to discard beer, rum and whisky in favour of Yangona; to live in bures instead of in concrete buildings; to adopt Fijian manners and customs and ways of living? If he does not ask that of Europeans, 42 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Even if wholesale deportation took [ace, and Fijians were left to them- Jlves in this Colony, with their ‘sources undeveloped, a day would come when the Colony would not be able to support its increasingpopulation. Would our Australian friends then throw open their vast unoccupied territories for our loyal and fine race of Fijian people?

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OUR experienced writer should use a little caution when making suggestions and using slogans, as they can have remarkable psychological results. Irresponsible phrases such as “There is racial antagonism between Indians (Continued on Page 93) Mr. Pratap. 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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MR. JAMES The Absurd Business of Permits Extraordinary complexity and verbosity were a feature of all laws and regulations in the territory of Papua-New Guinea, aid Mr. E. A. James, member for sapua, at the Legislative Council neeting in Moresby in May. To irove his point he quoted a form lat now must be filled in by anyne requiring a permit to enter 'apua.

He said that it was necessary to ive name, occupation, date of birth, lace of birth, nationality, the date f arrival in Australia from somehere or other, where he had been uring the past five years, marital :ate and, if married, name of Douse, his or her present address nd names of children. He said lat until recently, all the permit lat had been necessary for a bona de resident of Papua was a simple >rm issued by the Customs.

The Chief Collector of Customs, jplying, said that the new regulaons were designed only to bring apuan regulations into line with ew Guinea. Moreover, Mr. James mfused “Permit to Enter the Tertory” with a “Permit to Re-enter.”

Permits to Enter are issued in Australia to persons who are going to the Territory for the first time.

Permits to‘ re-enter the Territory are issued by the Customs Department in the Territory either on written or oral application of the residents concerned. There never had been any necessity to fill in a form for a re-entry permit.

Residents travelling from Papua to New Guinea or vice versa, are not required to fill in any form.

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The assurance that the regulations in question were just to “bring Papua into line with New Guinea” is not likely to placate Mr. James —or any pre-war resident of Papua to whom this now oft-repeated phrase is like a red rag to a bull. In spite of the Chief Collector’s explanations there still are many mysteries in the permit field.

In February, I filled in the form described by Mr. James and finally received a “Permit to Enter.” I put it carefully away in a folder, and there it still is, although in the meantime I have travelled a few thousand miles around New Guinea and back to Australia. No one inquired tenderly about it, or wished to look at it, or put a rubber stamp upon it —which, of course, was all very disappointing.

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I gathered that the European medical assistant at that port had come out prepared to do his duty, but that about 50 natives from Kieta, on their way to Rabaul, had beaten him to it and had simply walked on board and mingled with those already there. Hence any state of quarantine in which we were supposed to exist had already been broken. Anyway, that was one passenger’s theory—but it might be that they don’t have inspections there.

When I got to Rabaul I decided to go on in the ship to Kavieng.

I found a Customs officer in a wharf shed, acquainted him of the fact and asked if he wished to see my baggage. He wanted to know where it was and when I said, “On the ship,” he said that was OK. At Kavieng, complete with luggage, I got off the ship; and I returned by plane.

In Lae, when I finally left for Port Moresby, someone asked my name and address. In Moresby, an hour later, I was again asked the same thing, and ticked off on a list.

Ten days later, when I left for Australia, I found that all I had to do was to pay my airways fare.

There were no clearances necessary; no permits. This really shook me, because never before have I managed to get out of any country without filling in at least one form. I scarcely believed it and until the moment the plane took off, expected to be thrown off it for not having complied with some regulation or other, When I inquired, privily, of a Papuan resident what the score was, I was informed that if you leave Papua for Australia no permit or papers are necessary; but if you leave from New Guinea, you have 46 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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In Brisbane, apart from demanding to know if I carried any firejarms, and looking coldly at the souvenir butter-knife I had acquired jin Port Moresby (P-NG takes the jprize for the country most devoid ;of souvenirs likely to be collected hy travellers) Authority passed me (through without formalities.

There were, as well, the minimum :of formalities in the Hebrides and (the Solomons. This all leads to the (conclusion that travel in the Southwest Pacific is bureaucrat-free; a (delightful change from the other •side (Fiji, Samoa, etc.) where since Ithe war Officialdom has had a positive rush of form-filling to the head—J.T.

Nearly A Tragedy

70 MILES FROM

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CLANG-CLANG-CLANG three sharp notes from the Pitcairn Island bell, the signal to assemble for public work.

It was Saturday afternoon (April 4), a time usually reserved strictly for rest. But there was something urgent in that call, and the people hurried to the cliff overlooking the boat-harbour.

There, coming in, was one boat.

Where was the other?

Two days before, on Thursday, two boats had departed for one of Pitcairn Island’s most popular picnic cruises—a visit to uninhabited Henderson Island, over 100 niles away. There were 16 young nen and two girls, all in charge )f 75-years-old navigator George Warren.

The breeze started them off at 5 mots; by Friday morning it had ncreased to lh knots; and, by log, lenderson should have been in light. But, as sometimes happens, l drift or unusual current had put hem off course. After vain searching around, they left on the return o Pitcairn at 3 pm.

The sea got rougher. Closeeefed, and doing 6 knots, the boats :ept close together. At 10.20 pm, he second boat, 50 yards astern, arrying 8 men and one woman, /as caught by a big wave, and urned right over.

Within five minutes the leading oat had her sails down and was owing back to the rescue. Forunately, it was moonlight, and all ine persons were found and taken board. The second boat had disppeared.

They were 70 miles from Pitcairn, nd the‘overloaded boat was taken long under jib only, until after aylight. Then they used more sails, to get home before dark. — Specially contributed.

Natives in employment in Papua- New Guinea, at the end of March, 1953, totalled 61,750. Of these, 46,942 were working for private enterprise —25,389 under agreement and the rest casually—and 14,808 were working for Government departments and Police.

The Messageries Maritimes proposes to replace the Polynesien in the Australia-New Caledonia-New Hebrides service, with a vessel of 2,400 tons, due for delivery in August, 1955. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Shareholders, of course, lose everything. fl Mr. R. H. McEwin, manager of the Vanikoro Kauri Timber Co’s undertakings on Vanikoro, Southern Solomons, travelled to Suva in May per Kurimarau and, from there, flew on to Melbourne.

This is the once-famous Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, not far from Honiara, BSI.

Much American Marine blood was spilled around here in 1943-43, and Americans perfected this and other bomber and fighter strips in the vicinity. The Japs started Henderson Field in what was once a coconut plantation, and the Yanks moved in [?]hen it was near completion. In April this year its hard-packed coral surface was tingeing re-conditioned. The local rumour was that is was to be used by Skymasters [?]n a service to Nauru and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Henderson Field has not [?]een used in recent years. The regular Qantas DC3 service uses a fighter-strip rearer Honiara. 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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SUVA, May 25.

MR. A. F. KULENKAMPFF, representative of a German firm manufacturing shell buttonmaking machinery, and large importers of shell, was in Fiji in May, conferring with Mr. A. G. McCown, of Pacific Pearl Shell Products (Fiji), Levuka. The latter’s factory, about to commence production of trochus buttons, is equipped with the Kulenkampff machinery.

Mr. Kulenkampff was also in conference with Mr. B. D. Lakshman, an Indian business man of Lautoka, who has also been recently granted a license to establish a trochusbutton factory.

Mr. Lakshman, a former member of the Fiji Legislative Council, hopes to have his factory ready for production by early 1954. Mr. S. Pratap, of Suva, when recently in Australia, investigated the button market on behalf of Mr. Lakshman and reported favourably on market outlets in that country, New Zealand, the US, and in Europe.

Mr. Kulenkampff indicated that the Japanese appear to be making an all-out drive to capture the world shell-button trade. Although America, most important consumer, levies a 70% import duty on finished shell buttons from foreign sources, Japan can still land buttons cheaper than the American-produced product, and cheaper, too, by far, than buttons produced in the Philippines, which are not charged the 703 import duty.

Mr. McCown stated that he ha! lodged a strong protest with th( Australian Government agains what he regards as almost fre< Japanese access to the trochus ant MOP beds on continental-shel waters around northern Australii and New Guinea. A well-equippet 50 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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It is also known, he says, that :ochus fishing is being combined iith ordinary line-fishing by such *ssels as that recently arrested in :ew Britain waters. 1 T the moment, representatives \of Japanese shell-buyers are keenly bidding in Fiji for ;ochus. Recent prices are reported be as high as £lBO or more per :n, and this is regarded as an atck against the appearance of a itton industry in Fiji. It is coniently expected, however, that the ji Government will shortly place i export ban on all trochus except tat in excess of the local industry’s quirements.

Mr. McCown is confident that his inpany will be able to market its •oducts satisfactorily.

On the surface, it would appear tat the only answer to Japan’s leaper production methods is to my her the main sources of shell, I reserving them for the use of cal industry. Thus Australian icll might be processed into butns, say, in Papua, under cheaper bour conditions—the industry beg largely financed by the big overas buying concerns in America id Europe. There is every indicam that these concerns are inrested in such propositions, ready, shell imported into America being exported to Puerto Rico for ocessing and then returned as ittons, manufactured with cheap bour, duty free.

Mr. Kulenkampff left Fiji for r dney where his company has a anch, and thence for the shell ntres— Thursday Island, Darwin id Broome.

Messrs. Hyne and Son Pty. Ltd., wmillers, of Maryborough, Qld., ported 50,000 super feet of timber Honiara, BSIP.

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Cargo sheds recently constructed at Tulgai are now of little use there and will, presumably, be removed to the Honiara port area, 24 miles away, on Guadalcanal.

Tenders for Rabaul Wharf TENDERS have been called for a new steel and concrete wharf at Rabaul, NG, to replace the present fast-disintegrating pontoon wharf that serves the busy Rabaul district. The new wharf is to be 400 feet long, 40 feet wide and have three approaches. It is to have cargo sheds measuring 350 ft by 100 ft.

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The eruption occurred (and the cone continues to erupt) in Lake wisdom, a crater lake maybe seven miles by seven miles in the centre of the 12-by-19 miles island. The lake is surrounded by hills, one of which is 1,000 feet high, and none of which is less than 500. The two main villages, and a small breakaway group, were situated on the foreshores of the island and well out of sight of the lake—which accounts for the fact that they did not know of the eruption.

The history of Long Island follows a familiar pattern—the story of a marine volcano that eventually formed an island, then resumed volcanic activity towards the end of last century, culminating in a Pre-war photos of Lake Wisdom (right) and its outlet. 53 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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The present volcano, when inspected on May 11, was of no great size—a horseshoe shape, with the lake waters lapping into the open side, and about 100 feet high. Steam clouds rose to normal cloud level and eruptions of pumice and rock fragments were being thrown two or three hundred feet. This is not the first cone that has erupted in the lake —a small one was sighted and photographed during the Pacific War, but it was not visible when inspected by a vulcanologist last year.

On May 10, the day after the eruption was reported by a pilot of Qantas Empire Airways, the Madang District Commissioner. Mr.

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A government party consisting of the Administration’s senior geologist and the Acting Director District Services, flew from Moresby on May 11 and, with Mr. Bates, that day made another inspection. The party, with Mr. J. Best, Rabaul vulcanologist, made a final inspection on May 12.

THE natives apparently did not mind leaving the area and it has been suggested that the Administration acquire land for them near Saidor, on the mainland coast, where they can settle permanently. Although they have lived on Long Island for many years they are apparently not a seafaring 54 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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[?]ICNIC [?] OR NAURU rRUSTEESHIP Council control over Pacific Islands Territories generally is a useless, negative astern; but it at least does provide eserving politicians with pleasant >lands jaunts at the public expense.

A party of nearly a dozen politicins and officials has just concluded Pacific Islands tour embracing New Guinea and Western amoa; and now another visitation i being arranged for Nauru.

Nauru is hard to find on the map -a pin-point near the equator, orth of the Solomons. It has only few hundred natives, but its hosphate is worth many millions. ; is in the joint care of Australia, ritain and New Zealand, under rusteeship.

A party of 6 Australian politicians I Government, 3 Labour) is being (ranged under Senator Laught’s adership to proceed to Nauru in ily to “inspect.” They will be dned on the phosphate ship rienza in June by similar parties om NZ and Britain. They will be vay for at least a month. (Any stive man could inspect Nauru in ae day).

Broadcasts from 9PA Broadcast times from !)PA Port Moresby id Shortwave station VLT as from ay 8 are: (On 6130 Kcs.) Monday-Friday: 6.45 a.m.-9.30 a.m. 11 a.m.-12.45 p.m. 4 p.m.-10.45 p.m.

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An extension of Cook Islands trus plantings by 500 acres, from le present 325 acres, has been jproved by the NZ Government, nder the plan, the fruit yield tould reach 300,000 cases per mum by 1968.

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The Fiji Trade Summary shows that the Colony exported 222 tons of trocas, valued at £28,828, in 1952. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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In the past, NC has gone to Java and Indo-China for this labour] To-day’s post war political troubles have shut off both sources. The fen Javanese left in NC are being callee home. The Melanesians of NC anc the Loyalties, in the French view are neither numerous nor depend] able as labour. The employers musi go, therefore, to China or Japan.

Apart from the facts that Au& tralia is only 700 miles away, anc there is much trade between NC and Australia, Australia has m voice whatever in NC affairs. But knowing Australia’s extreme sensi. tivity in relation to Asiatic settle/ ment, NC is tactfully consultirtj Australia.

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Help For Cook Is. Citrus

INDUSTRY SUVA, May 30. r[E Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, Mr. G. Nevill, returning to Rarotonga after jonsultations with the NZ Governnent, reported that approval in principle has been granted for a .arge extension of the citrus replanting scheme in the Lower 3roup. The expenditure has yet to pe approved by Cabinet. Expendi- ;ure of £ll,OOO on a new cool store hr fruit at Rarotonga has been approved. The money will be granted is a loan, half to be interest-free :or five years.

Cottage Hospital at Goroka A SMALL Cottage Hospital has been built at Goroka, and is the first hospital to be erected in the New Guinea Highlands for treatment of European residents.

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More Gold In Fiji

rpHE shares of Fiji’s Emperor JL Mines reacted sharply to the announcement that recent exploration there has proved the existence of additional big and rich ore bodies, alongside the area being worked.

The new goldmines town of Vatoukoula seems assured of a long and prosperous life.

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I f * P m Pfc to :A % Mr. C. N. Nettleton, Government Architect in Fiji since 1946, has been transferred to Sarawak.

He designed the new Queen Victoria School, the new Suva automatic telephone exchange, the Nausori and Ba police stations, the nurses’ home in Suva, the Indian Technical School at Labasa, and many smaller buildings.

Tahiti residents in London for the Coronation included Mr. I. E. (Ickie) Walker and his daughter Colette —recently nursing in New Zealand —and Miss Anatila Nordman, daughter of Mr. Oscar Nordman.

IF The Rev. W. R. Hill, Methodist missionary at Savu Savu, Fiji, and Mrs. Hill returned to Fiji in June, after long leave in Australia. They were entertained in Perth, before departure, by a large gathering representing mission organisations.

Bound for Tonga per May Tofua from Auckland recently: Governor Ahome'e and Miss E. Ahome’e who returned to Vavau after leave.

Mr. and Mrs. T.

F. Taumoepeau had been on leave in Sydney and had placed their son at Newington College there. Mr. Taumoepeau is Collector of Customs and Post Master at Vavau.

After six months leave in New Zealand Mr. H. W. Cocker.

Foreman of Works in Tonga, and Mrs.

Cocker, returned to Nukualofa.

Mr. C. E. D’Ath, of Auckland, joined the staff of the Treasury at Nukualofa; and attractive Miss Marlene Sehaumkel, Lady in Waiting to Princess Mataaho (who journeyed to the Coronation with Queen Salote) returned to Vavau after accompanying the Princess as far as New Zealand. 58 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Rabaul’S Toads And

SNAILS And Other Pests From JUDY TUDOR KABAUL smells these days, in fact as well as metaphorically. Of squashed giant toads and giant •snails toasting in the sun, and of Jlavatories. No septic tank exists in :the whole area, maybe because IRabaul has so lately given up being “‘temporary”—maybe through some whim of local health department authorities.

The sanitary arrangements are therefore of the type you usually Ifind stuck half a mile down the back yard in Australian country towns. But for some reason, Rabaul has brought the contrivances right inside the houses with them. This may save many a long damp trek; but no one need imagine they don’t nake their presence felt —especially during periods of prolonged wet (as recently) when all smells are intensified.

The toads—which range in size from that of a puppy-dog to that or an ordinary frog—were introiuced just before the war, and have spread all over the Gazelle Pennsula, maybe further. They were Drought in to catch insect pests— is were those in Queensland and Fiji—but in NG they still remain, is yet, giant. They come out in ;housands at night and hop about nside the houses, in the garden or lown the roads where the wheels of eeps and cars and trucks explode hem with a loud pop. In the next lay’s sun their mangled corpses lend forth a fine stench.

Much the same effect can be got rom squashed giant snails, which ilso swarm across the roads in the light, or when there is sufficient lamp to attract them. Any car ourney is accompanied by the coninuous scrunch of snails.

It has been said, for several years low, that the giant snails introluced by the Japs are far less of - nuisance than immediately after he war. But they are less of a pest »nly in degree. They still eat the oung cocoa plantings at Kerevat nd are a menace to domestic ardens. They can be kept at bay nth commercial snail-bait; but his is expensive when the snails re large and in millions, and the •ait can be washed away by heavy ain.

' They are still spreading in the Jazelle Peninsula; and, as no effort 3 made to stop them, it is imtossible to say how far they will :o, eventually.

Anything likely to introduce the nails is tabu in the Highlands of he mainland.

Gathering In The Dogs

On the main road in Rabaul any vening you are likely to meet a procession of police-boys, one trundling a mesh box on small pneumatic tyres, with sundry helpers in the van, and flanked by a couple of other PB’s with stout, long-handled nets.

They are off, they will tell you, to the other end of the town where “planty too much dog he stop.”

They are the town’s dog-catching outfit.

There is a dog tax, but plenty of stray dogs, still. Imported labourers usually acquire one or more dogs while working in the area. When due for return to their villages, they bring the dogs with them to the transit camps and tether them there by the dozen. As virtually all labour is transported by air these days, embarkation day is literally D-Day for the unfortunate pooches.

A few, by some means, are got on board; but generally the air companies refuse to carry these dogs.

They are loosed on the town —hence the dog-cart and the dog-netters.

If Mrs. Lucy Brodie, an old resident of New Guinea, left for Europe on May 29 on the MV Australia. She plans to reside indefinitely in England. Three of her children are in New Guinea —Mrs. Marjorie Shields, of Madang (whose husband died last year); Mr. Ken Brodie, who is in the Army, and stationed near Wewak; and Mrs. Joan Wilmott, of Rabaul.

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Visit of G&E Officials to BSIP Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, May 16.

F[E Resident Commissioner, Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony, Mr. M. L. Bernacchi and Mrs.

Bernacchi, with the Accountant- General, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Mr. W. H. Brabant, the Secretary so Government, Mr. I. G. Turbott and the Co-operatives Officer, Mr.

K. Nicholson, left Honiara, BSIP in :he Colony vessel M. V. Nareau for Tarawa on April 20, after a fortnight’s stay in the Protectorate.

Mr. A. J. Carstairs, Assistant Superintendent of Police, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, also ravelled in the Nareau to Tarawa. 3e will act as Superintendent of Police in the G & EIC during the ibsence on leave in England of Mr. 7 . C. Moore.

Mr. Bernacchi and his staff dismissed Colony problems with the iigh Commissioner, Western Pacific High Commission (Mr. R.

Z. S. Stanley, CMG, OBE) at loniara.

This is the first visit ever made o the Solomons by a Resident Commissioner of the G & EIC.

A new boat (“Simbung”) for the lUtheran Mission, New Guinea, was edicated and launched at Brisbane i March and expected to sail for Few Guinea in May.

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SUVA. June 1.

MR. JAMES A. EWING, recentlyretired Governor of Eastern Samoa, who has been big-game fishing out of Suva for some weeks past, successfully landed a 374-lb silver marlin, first of this variety to be taken on sporting tackle, on May 6.

The fish was hooked within sight of Suva and, with others that have been seen but not hooked, is solid evidence that there are big-game fish right at Suva’s front door. The problem seems to be capturing them.

The weather has not been good during most of Mr. Ewing’s fishing, * but this does not seem to account for the fact that big ones are not readily hooked. Mr. Harold Gatty’s now defunct South Seas Marine Products commercial fishing venture, using rod-fishing methods, had the same experience. Most probable explanation would seem to be an abundance of food fish, which causes the big game to be “choosey” in what they take.

If the secret of hooking the big fellows could be discovered, the accessibility of the fishing grounds to Suva would undoubtedly prove an attraction to overseas fishermen who habitually visit New Zealand, New South Wales and other southern big-game waters during the season.

Valuable work in the propagation of new and improved types of sugarcanes is being done at Meringa experimental station, in Queensland.

Experts gathered the canes in New Guinea, where a wide range of types is indigenous. It is believed that New Guinea is the original home of the sugar-cane. 61 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Barrett, member for New Guinea Islands, that no export duty be paid on the first 50 tons of cocoa produced and exported by any one grower, was defeated in the May session of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council.

The proposal was made as an amendment during the debate on the Customs (Cocoa Export) Tariff Bill, which was introduced by the Treasurer of P-NG, Mr. H. H.

Reeve.

Mr. Reeve said that the amendment was unacceptable to him— that it would be impossible, under the present set-up and with a spate of native cocoa holdings now coming into production, to ensure that each planter would get the benefit of the first 50 duty-free tons.

He said that his Department had arrived at £llO as being the cost of production of a ton of cocoa and as export duty was not payable on cocoa until it had reached £l5O a ton, this gave at least £4O margin; his Department felt that in this there was no hardship even for the new grower and that he did not at this stage need further assistance.

The bill provides for the following sliding scale of export duty:— An amendment by Mr. Barrett ! that duty in the higher brackets be lower (i.e., £lB/15/- to become £l7/10/-; £22/10- to be £2O/-/-; 62 JUNE. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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As cocoa is not sold by forward > contract—that is, at a predeter - [ mined price—as is copra, but is ssold by planters themselves, as and [how they please, provision is made :in the bill for the assessment by r the Customs Department of the value of the cocoa or derivative of »cocoa at the time of its export, and i duty is to be paid thereon. If the [planter or exporter receives more ►or less than has been assessed, then the matter has to be adjusted as ’between planter (or exporter) and the Chief Collector of Customs.

'This part of the Bill obviously ►caused some private members misgivings as they foresaw a continual istream of correspondence between planters and Customs Department >on the matter of refunds, etc.

During the debate on the bill, Mr. E. A. James, elected member for Papua, and Mr. B. E. Fairfax- Ross, a nominated member for the isame area, went on record as objecting in principle to export duty: it was, they said, a sectional tax levied only at producers.

Rubber Tariff Bill

A SOMEWHAT similar bill was that to amend the Customs (Rubber Export) Ordinance, 1951, which was introduced by Mr.

Reeve at the same session.

The amendment arose because, when export duty on rubber was first introduced, the price of Papuan rubber was based on the price then ruling in Singapore, and it was simple to calculate an F. 0.8. declared value on rubber exported from the Territory. More recently, however, Papuan rubber planters have had to make other arrangements for the sale of their rubber in Australia, and there is now no hard and fast method of predetermining the final price.

Therefore, the Treasury proposed the same methods as with cocoa— a provisional declared value and a final adjustment.

Papuan rubber price is now below the dutiable point. If the value is not more than 2 6 per pound, no duty is payable, between 2/7 and 3 - the duty is Id per pound; and it thereafter rises by approximately Id for each sixpence increase in price—when the price is between 5 I and 6/- per pound, the duty will be 6d per pound. r Mr. M. J. Bernhardt, Chief Clerk, Western Pacific High Commission, retired in May after 25 years’ service with the BSIP Government.

He was Chief Clerk, Resident Commissioner’s Department, BSIP until the arrival of the High Commission staff in Honiara last December. He lived in Tulagi for many years before the War. He travelled to Sydney in the May Malaita and rejoined his wife and family in Australia. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Magazine Section

Tropicalities

Coronation Interlude

[N a certain high school, which shall be nameless, the pupils, to stimulate interest in the Coronaon, ware told to write an essay :x)ut the first Queen Elizabeth.

Ihis was one effort: “On a beautiful evening in August, •82, Queen Elizabeth entered the icient town of Coventry, and [vesting herself of her clothing, ounted a snow-white stallion and >de through the principal streets r the city. On her way she met lt Walter Raleigh, who, observing er naked condition, threw his coat aout her, crying, ‘Honi soit qui al y pense!’ which, being transted, means: “Thy need is greater ian mine!’ The Queen graciously sponded, ‘Dieu et mon droit!’ hich translated means, ‘My God, >u are right!’ This incident is died the Magna Charta.”

Those Village Receivers

N W. Samoa, the Government has supplied each village with a simple type of trouble-free radio ceiver, fitted only with a switch id a volume control. Permanently med to the local broadcast station, icre is no need for a tuning knob.

A radio technician back from imoa reports, however, that some the local village radio experts ive made an interesting discovery. y gouging a hole in the case, inrting a screw-driver and turning little screw, it is possible to shift om a dry debate in Apia’s Parliaent to a lively hula from Honolu, on a frequency close by.

Others, not knowing that trick, ive put an axe through their llage receiver when the Opposition emed to have gained a talking lint.

Later models may be in plougheel cases.

Time Limit On Truth

HAVE a native skipper who is quite a philosopher in his own way. The other day I was disissing another native with him id referred to this second native a lying B .

My skipper replied: “Yes, he Iks too much so he must be a ir.”

On asking for his reasons for this i said that no native can tell the nth for too long, and that the ager he talks, the more lies he nst tell.

I have told the above to several iropeans of the more talkative .. . „ - 01 . type, mentioning in the telling that there is nothing Phonal meant. It is surprising how quiet some of them after ey hear the story - Lj±lwtttta’c mm

Eua S Gold-Strike

BACK in February (p. 109) we reported a “gold-strike” on Eua, Tonga’s southernmost inhabited island. Coconut radio reported the strike as rich—a solid chunk of several ounces.

Weights were correct-only it turned out to be a piece of an old church candlestick or something similar—and it happened to be bronze. So Tonga s gold-rush is on for the moment.

MEND-AND-MAKE-DO DEPT.

MEET a man who is one of the few who have, literally, signed their own death certificate. He is Robert Kerr McLaren whose Scots accent belies the fact that he has been a long time away from his native land. At present a veterinary officer of the P-NG Administration, he spends a lot of his time in the New Guinea Highlands—and has, as well, the distinction of having successfully operated upon himself for appendicitis with the aid of a mirror, a razor-blade, a pair of forceps and a pair of scissors, but without the aid of anaesthetic.

At the time of the operation (1944) he was on the run behind the Jap lines in the Philippines where he had been dropped to do intelligence work. He had been in agony for some time and it was either operate, or else. A couple of old Filipino midwives mopped the swea t from his brow occasionally, and helped around. Otherwise he had no £ sslstance ln the operation which lasted 4J hours. The Filipino men of the party were ido scared— that is wh y the y had Prevailed upon him to si g n heath certificate before he began. They were determined that there should be no reason for reprisals against them should they be found with a European corpse on their hands, He sewed up the wound and tied it off with manila hemp and that night was walking around. There followed immediately three days on the run from the Japs. Fost-operative shock? None. Only relief from pain. “Mind you,” says the still over-lean McLaren in that accent no self-respecting Anglo-Saxon typewriter could hope to reproduce, ‘J was carrying no weight at the time, and that helped. And I didn’t cut muscle. Just spread it out as though I were speying a bitch.” ~TTn MTr Tnww HOME TOWN BOY . . . ]Y/|EMBERS of the Fijian Infantry If 1 Regiment’s football team, who recently returned home from Malaya, reported that when they Saturday Night at the Pictures . . .

This notice was standing outside a mission meeting house beside the Rabaul- Kokopo road early in April. It says (translated):— Come! Come! Man, Mary. Piccanin ny! Altogether come! • Lookim picture. • Hear’im talk. • Good tella music. Altogether belong Book Tambu (the Bible). 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L Y JUNE. 1953

visited Hongkong early this year they were entertained there by Mr.

Fong Wing Fook at a 12-course dinner. Mr. Fook said grace in Fijian, and conversed in that language throughout the evening.

Explanation: Mr, Fook left Vanua Levu 27 years ago, after earning enough money as a hawker to pay his passage to Hongkong. He has had much success, but has never forgotten the old home town.

He Was Indisposed

fJ\HE Cargo Cult leader Paliau, 1 who has been a considerable |nuisance in New Guinea since the war, was the subject of a special article in a Melbourne newspaper in May. The writer, however, said that Paliau has lost most of his influence. Paliau had hoped to see the United Nations mission in April, but was indisposed. Paliau, who has very liberal ideas on the relationship of the sexes, and has had many wives, had ordered a woman to divorce her husband, then he married the divorcee, then the bereft husband broke some of Paliau’s ribs with a tomahawk, and Paliau then had a spell in hospital.

Has It A Familiar Ring?

“Properly managed, Papua and New Guinea, with their wonderful vegetation, their oil and mineral deposits, and their huge agricultural population, might become a prosperous and wealthy country, for they could produce cheaply so many things that are necessary to us.

“But it will not happen. Australia cannot manage her own affairs. Her policy is to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

It needs statesmen, honest and fearless, to develop this country. Look at Fiji and Samoa.

“In Papua, a black man’s word is taken before a white man’s. When the Administrator returned from his trip down South, he shook hands with his black staff before greeting his white officials.”

Reads like something written very recently. Actually, it is from page 175 of A Woman’s Impressions of German New Guinea, written in 1920 and published in 1923!

“Tidal Wave,” He Said

NOW that Rabaul’s famous Force- -7 earthquake is safely over (until the next time), residents can see the funny side of it.

There was, for example, the man who found a tidal wave in his kitchen. The nervous type, this one, he jumped out of bed wearing very little and ran into the kitchen.

There he was met by a wall of water —the tank just outside had upset or burst and flooded the floor.

But he howled, “Tidal wave!” dashed into the bedroom, put on a pyjama coat, flew outside and got into his jeep and drove to a neighbour’s house, still yelling but neglecting to notice that the tidal wave seemed mysteriously to have ended at his kitchen door.

On arrival he was still trembling, wearing little but the pyjama coat, and discovered that he had left his wife back home in bed.

In Rabaul now there is talk of building 40 new houses this financial year instead of the scheduled 19.

In many of the present white-antand-borer-riddled, temporary Administration houses, everything acts like a quria every time one of the occupants move.—Me.

When The Terrorists Run

PART of the success which the Fijian soldiers have had in chasing Communist terrorists out of the Malayan jungles is attributed to the report, spread assiduously by Malayans, that the massive Fijians eat any terrorists they can lay their hands on.

The terrorists, who take the soldier’s usual risk of death, seem to have a particularly strong objection to the combination of death plus stew-pot; and, when they hear that a Fijian patrol is out after them, they take to their heels and the high hills and the heather— or the Malayan equivalent thereof.

The Fijians don’t mind—it helps on the good work in Malaya.

Another Kododa Trail Epic

MR. lAN McGOWAN, 21-yearold son of Mr. W. L. McGowan, Assistant Director of Works, P-NG, recently got into trim for resuming his medical studies at Just Nuts This is Dr. Wm. Armstrong, here sketched by Brett Hilder. He was born at Bendigo in Victoria, graduated MB, BS, at the Melbourne University in 1924 and was appointed in charge of the Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Lenakel on the Island of Tanna in the New Hebrides.

After two years he retired because of illhealth, and spent 10 years in private practice before going back to Tanna. He went on leave to Australia in February with Mrs. Armstrong and their adopted Tannese daughter Rachel.

These strange objects are not members of the New Britain duk-duk society but stands of peanuts set out to mature in the fields where they were grown on part of the Common at Wau, New Guinea. If they were not set to mature thus their keeping properties would be impaired and flavour might not be all it should be.

Wau Common was set aside as a reserve in the early days of the Morobe Goldfield, but little use was made of it for many years until Messrs. White and Baker got permission to use it for peanut and vegetable farming. The possibilities of this wasteland have now been proved and it shortly will be cut up into a number of agricultural blocks. 66 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Queensland University by walking KjO Kokoda and back.

Accompanied by a young Rigo native, he did the walk from Port Moresby to Kokoda and then back • ;o Rouna in 12 days, 5 hours, walking time. Trudging from Port Moresby to Sogeri he blistered his neels so badly that it was impossible to wear boots, so he did the whole trip from Sogeri to Kokoda □arefoot. It took him 8 days 2 nours from Moresby to Kokoda, and Jl days 3 hours on the walk back to Rouna.

He had intended to walk right to [he McGowan home in Port Moresby, :iut the family was apprised of his imminent return and motored out and picked him up on the last lap.

He carried his own gear and food, .{trained a knee muscle at the start Df the trip, got bitten by a scorpion, dept in hastily rigged bush shelters, got bushed a couple of times, and "eturned home with badly cut and iwollen feet (although he managed n wear boots on the return walki.

His young native companion had lad enough before they got back to Sogeri, and lan then carried the joy’s pack as well as his own.

He got in a little medical experience in treating villagers for tropical ulcers and malaria. They in their turn were generous with gifts of native foods. He lost eight pounds in weight on the trip.

Talking Points

YOU’LL he sorry to hear that the Hotel Mocambo, at Nadi, Fiji (which is the airlines’ diningroom and guest house) has taken down the island scene of naked native girls which an American GI painted during the war.

In its place is a very ordinary piece of mottled woodwork.

Why do we do things like that?

That bar decoration, though it might have offended a very few, gave the place a “talking point” — something to bring Nadi to the mind of any travellers who ever saw it— and Nadi’s a joint with very little anyone wants to remember. (From Sydney Telegraph Columnist David McNicol, who was on his way to the Coronation).

If Miss Daphne Lucas, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Lewis, of Port Moresby, has announced her engagement to Mr. Max Law, of Port Moresby.

Pim Crossquiz No. 41

page TO) (Solution on ACROSS I. —What is the name of one of the icwest methods used in third dimensional novies? 7. —What adjective could mean “ihixperienced” or “chilly and damp”? 8. —Who distinguished himself for his travery and cunning in the Trojan War? 9. —Who was Australian Labour Prime Minister during World War II? 10. —What well-known ship on the Gasman run was lost in the English lhannel during World War II? 11. —What term is used in North America o denote a jagged ridge of mountain leaks? 12. —What does one do when taking in anothers cattle for grazing for a sum ol money? 14. —The light from which body takes eight minutes to reach us? 15. —What is the term for the supreme head of the Ottoman Empire? 17. —What is the surname of the comical drunkard in “Twelfth Night”? 19.—What bone of an ass was used by Samson? 21.—What part o$ London did Sir Philip Gibbs call ‘the street of adventure’?

DOWN 1. —What is the capital of Venezuela? 2. —Which American city is noted for its decorated iron-work on the verandahs of its old buildings? 3. —What was the favourite haunt of Toulous-Lautrec? 4. —What is the name of the mysterious ‘city within a city’ in Algiers? 5. Which Italian film star portrayed “Teresa” on the screen? 6. —On what island is New York built? 13. —Which Jewish maiden rescued her compatriots from destruction by Haman? 14. —What is the term for the horizontal crossbar of printing type? 16. —What was A 1 Jolson’s real Christian name? 17. —About which creature did Maeterlinck write the life story? 18. —What is the plural of “the” in French? 19. —Which engine was invented by Frank Whittle? 20. —What is a peruke?

Pacific Verse

On Leaving Papua

FAREWELL, dear lovely isle of ease; Now must I leave thy verdant shores, For time is swift and fate decrees I dwell in other climes than yours.

No more thy hills and clouded vales Shall echo with my joyous song.

No more I’ll seek the shaded streams That run thy sun-kissed hills among.

How oft I’ve loved to wander there Where tropic glades with beauty glow, And listen to the bubbling streams, Whose secret I shall never know.

No more to watch the frigate birds Hang motionless against the sky, Or watch the lazy lakatois As they go slowly sailing by.

That wondrous hour before the dawrr When feathered songsters stir the trees, And fill the air with sweet, glad praise Harmonious in their melodies.

Those sunset hours, when glorious skies Made of the earth a hallowed place.

Alas! Those lovely charms must fade But memory time can ne’er efface.

Dear land of sunny golden days Bathed ip the blue of tropic seas.

Forever will I sing thy praise And love thy solitude and peace.

PAULINE HODGE. 461 Riversdale Road, Surrey Hills, E.lO, Melbourne.

South Seas Island

TO-DAY a calm spreads o’er the glassy sea, And sunshine bathes the palms beside the shore; The voices from the church sound pleasantly, Where battle cries rang out in days of yore.

The copra cutters anchored in the bay, Now trade where once sailed pirates brave and bold, And natives in their garish sulus play, Like carefree children long before they’re old.

What hidden secrets lie in slumber here Held furtively among the steep hills’ breasts?

What beauty infinite, and treasure dear, Are stored in this Isle’s treasure chest?

Auckland

Vegar N. Rea

In Rabaul, New Guinea, by mid- May, subscriptions to the Queen Elizabeth Park Fund had passed £2,000. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

Report on Honiara—Dwelling Place of Bods

By Judy Tudor

Catchwords, when they get loose in an isolated community are about as deadly as a new germ. In April, the epidemic word in the British Solomons was “bod”—short for body, and meaning person. It is used, on occasion, further around in the SW Pacific but in Honiara everyone from the High Commissioner to a house-boy is a bod of some sort or another; with its suitable qualifying adjectives, it is used to describe every kind of human there is in the Solomons—and that is quite an assortment. Maybe this particular word is endemic to the Solomons; on the other hand it may have already passed its popularity peak.

WHEN High Authority, right after the war, decided that it was the site for the future capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Honiara was not even a name upon a map. No mention is made of it in the 1944 edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book, although the Americans had put the locality—we usually thought about it as Henderson Field—into the history books a good two years before that. Early editions of the Year Book tell of the good plantation country round Lunga Point and that Aola (much further to the South East) was the government station for the district; but of Honiara, nothing.

Even now, why it was called Honiara, and not Attleeville (or after some other ruling deity of the immediate post-war years) is a minor mystery. Perhaps Honiara, in local dialect, means “junk-heap”; maybe it is the name of a native village.

At the end of three years of war in the Pacific, virtually nothing remained of the pre-war civil installations at the former BSI capital on the small island of Tulagi, while a long strip of Guadalcanal facing Tulagi across about 24 miles of water, contained Henderson Airfield, plus numerous other landing strips, mile upon mile of hutments, workshops, clearing stations, hospitals, roads, bridges, wharves and piles of miscellaneous junk. Some of these things were defunct; some were still functioning. All had been or were about to be, left behind by the homeward-bound Americans. It probably seemed sensible to abandon small, cramped Tulagi nestling beneath larger Florida, for the comparative breadth and scope of that spot on the coastal plain of Guadalcanal, soon to be called Honiara.

And those were the days when, not conceiving of the stringency of post-war supplies, we thought in terms of rapid expansion—and in this regard, the comparatively flat, well-watered coast, south of Honiara, from which the Americans had cut the coconut trees and where, 12 or so miles out at Ilu, they had had a very large vegetable farm to supply their forces, seemed the answer to a theorists’ prayer.

There was no lack of people who saw nothing but dire disaster in the choice of Honiara —a hitherto nameless spot on an unprotected coast which could never have a harbour without the expenditure of millions. And to a degree, their direst predictions have been correct. Honiara still has no harbour.

The wharves the Americans left soon fell into the sea and until re- Where the stream runs into the sea at Rovi. Police labour has made this a pleasant spot for the town’s children and their mothers.

Tudor Village.

Pumpkinville.

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a ntly overseas ships continued to se the war-time wharf at old “ulagi the goods then being ghtered across to Honiara at £2 er ton Within recent weeks, a Bank line lip administered the coup de grace ) the Tulagi wharf; ships will now have to discharge their cargoes into lighters at Honiara when the weather is calm. When it is rough, during the north-west season, this cannot be done.

Nor (while we are still on the debit side) has the expected expansion of agriculture occurred along the Guadalcanal Coast; Ilu Farm which produced mightily for the Yanks has produced mighty little for Honiara officialdom. And Henderson and other associated airfields, apart from being at the end of a very expensive air journey from Sydney, have produced few dividends At left a Solomon lands native policeman his full ceremonial [?]ess. All police uniforms are made at a sailor's-shop within the gaining School grounds, his policeman is from [?]e BSI Lord Howe land, and behind him [?]n be seen portion of [?]e club rooms and canen which also houses small chapel.

At right, top, the trance to the Depot [?]d Training School, [?]e crest is hand carved [?]m native wood and laid with mother-ofearl. A somewhat milar crest, carved by [?]e of the native policeen, has been sent to []ndon Police College in e UK where two BSIP live policemen recently derwent special trainer. On the lawn to the [?]ht of this entrance is Japanese field gun []eserved as a memorial one of the very few the whole S.W. [?]rific area. The fashion setting captured emy guns up in public [?]ces seems to have [?]ed out.

At the lower right is portion of the police gardens bananas, tomato trellis and mbing beans.

Point Cruz, the most prominent part of a harbourless coast from about the region of Pumpkinville.

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in the transportation field-transport in this part of the world must essentially be a matter of large and small ships.

The war scrap and the war junk must come to the credit side of the ledger; it provided building materials when building materials were almost impossible to obtain from regular sources. It has provided fortunes for some shrewd operators and profit to the Government in a percentage rake off.

BUT all that is past history.

Whether it is good or whether it is bad, BSI residents are stuck with their capital city—so much money has been poured into it now, it certainly will not be abandoned, even if that were desirable.

Coming from the untidyness of Vila and Santo in the New Hebrides, Honiara looks clean, neat and wellplanned. Considering the facts that all material assets in BSI were wiped out during the war, that there was no war-damage compensation as in Papua-New Guinea, that the whole set-up was subjected to the whims of Socialist theory, that the native labour force is totally inadequate, and skilled artisans few, that shipping until the last few years was poor, then one must concede that Honiara in 1953 is far, far better than one has a right to expect.

Many new houses have been built and are being built along the high ridge behind the town and although this area is as yet something of a treeless waste, I am told that at night a fine breeze from the land cools the fevered brows of those that dwell thereon. Personally, I cannot vouch for these cooling breezes of Honiara, at night or at any other time. During the four days and nights I spent there, I sizzled like a hamburger on a griddle, 24 hours out of the 24. This may have been just bad luck in weather or the fault of the topography of Honiara’s lone pub, but as far as I am concerned, Honiara is the Pacific hottest spot —the prize for which I have hitherto given to Ba, Fiji.

HONIARA is largely a government town and most of its institutions are therefore government institutions. Photographs of three types of government housing appear on previous pages and give some idea of what is provided. The first of them, sort of Tudor thatched cottages, some with an exterior of Solomons matting over the plain fibro cement, are single quarters for Administration personnel, male or female. They have a lounge, single bedroom with bathroom and toilet, a kitchen and sufficient ground to make a garden if the occupant is so inclined. This particular group of houses is right on the beach and quite attractive. A refrigerator and some basic furniture is provided.

The second photograph shows a new type of house which is being built quickly for new officers who came from Fiji in recent months.

Externally they are Quonset and look something like a group of pumpkins, but, internally, they are well finished and there are no visible signs of their origin.

All linings and fittings are of new material and looks attractive, although the outside walls are, of course, from salvaged quonset buildings. They are two-bedroom units.

The last photograph shows one of the larger permanent houses on the top of the ridge. These are usually “L” or “U” shaped houses, of fibro, with push-out shutters and wide eaves. They will look more attractive when their occupants have had time to plant shrubs and trees and some sort of garden.

None of these houses has guttering—apparently the rain water just runs off the roof into the garden.

Water for household and drinking purposes is reticulated from pressure tanks on the highest point above the town and comes from a small, clear stream that finally finds its way out to sea a mile north of the town at Rovi.

As well as these houses there are the older, less permanent variety with thatchad roofs—Government House is one—but these have been made exceedingly comfortable, most of them with interiors of imported materials.

Honiara enjoys a 24-hours electricity service, now that new machinery has been installed at the new powerhouse which is tucked away in one of the valleys that ran up towards the ridge.

The town has a club —members subscribed the cash to build it; a hotel which manages as best it can with exceedingly limited facilities but which is the hottest spot this side of hades; a half-completed picture theatre, and the Trade Scheme.

The Trade Scheme is usually referred to by the populace as the Trade Shame. One reason for this you can see for yourself by looking at the photo, page 69. The first building is a T.S. bulk store; the building beyond that and behind the utility truck is the retail store— Honiara’s one and only emporium.

Apart from the shops of Chinatown, about three miles from the centre of Honiara, there is not another place but this where the resident can buy his groceries or chemist’s lines or a tube of shaving cream or maybe a box of face powder or a stray pair of sox. Business inside this tumble-down shack is carried on on cash-and-carry lines. You wander around, choose your own merchandise and then carry it to the cashier to be charged.

The Big Firms have shown no interest in opening retail business in BSI since the end of the war. The Trade Scheme began, it is said, as a stop-gap measure, still inadequately carries on. As well as retail selling it has other functions—such as buying copra and running lighters— and although it is perpetually up for sale, no one yet has relieved the Government of the responsibility.

In the last year, Fairymead Sugar Co., through a subsidiary company, contemplated entering the retail field in Honiara in opposition to the TS. To the regret of Honiara residents, this scheme now seems to have been scrapped in favour of the Company taking up sugar land near Bundaberg, Qld.

COST of living for Honiara residents is probably about half way between that of the New Hebrides and that of Papua-New Guinea. It is about 40 per cent, higher than Sydney.

Butter in Honiara is 7/6 as against the NH 9/-; eggs are 10/ J per dozen, against NH 12/-. A bottle of beer has shrunk from the 6/- of the NH to about 5/-: soda or orangeade, etc. (pigmy-sized bottle) from 3/6 in the NH to 2/6 in Honiara —but Honiara has an embryo lolly-water factory which should soon go into operation.

The two extremes of Honiara government institution happen at the two extremes of the town—the hospital, when you are heading south; the Police Depot and Training School, when you are heading north.

The hospital first: This is a huddle of old American army buildings under the palm trees near the coast. Native and European hospital are in the same group of buildings and you can tell the European ‘portion because this particular hutment is painted. The others are of plain tarred paper.

The treatment inside these buildings probably is the best possible.

Externally, they are the only hospital buildings in the SW Pacific which make the European Hospital at Lae, New Guinea, look good. (Continued on Page 74) 70 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Solution to Crossquiz from page 67

Pacific Nature Notes By Raimanu

Mow Do Migrating Birds

Find Their Way?

Rwtilliam Cullen Bryant

V? wrote of the birds taking “their certain flight . . . from ;one to zone. . . ” But so far we rill don’t seem to be quite sure how ney do this. The problem is being ;udied by scientists in both Europe ;nd America, and maybe there will :e an answer some day.

In the meantime, that there are uch phenomenal flights north and outh across the equator is a matter I continuing wonder to students.

Ir. A. Allen, of Cornell University.

SA, did a fine bit of bird study 'hen he led a party to Alaska, in 1)48, and there discovered and hotographed the nest, eggs, and Dung of the Bristle-Thighed nrlew. The bird has been known /er since Sir Joseph Banks colicted specimens in Tahiti in 1769.

Whether the curlew, and other tigratory waders from the eastern acific which travel via Hawaii, *oss over to the west of merica or take off direct across le ocean to Alaska, has not yet een solved.

What about the island groups in le western Pacific? We’ve been earing in PIM of the godwits from ew Zealand and the Snipe from ustralia which breed in Siberia, it what is their route? Even using le available islands there are still ►me very long hops over the ocean.

In 1951, when the British Research lip HMS Challenger was in the irth Pacific, one of the small aders flew on board. It seems to ive been a Tatler. The commander the vessel fixed the position at 0 miles east of Japan. That is mighty long way for a small bird ce that to fly over water.

Perhaps they can land on the ater and take off again, and so it a rest. But in the absence of ;bbed feet and such assets of the rimming birds, it is difficult to see )w they could do that.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Derrick have turned to Suva after six months’ ►liday in Australia and New Zeand. He now takes up his appointent as Director of Fiji Museum.

The O’Keefe Story:

Mapia-Another Page

From John Riedel , of Washington, DC, whose inquiry set off the voluminous story of Mapia Island a year ago, comes, very briefly, the war-time story of the island as he knows it.

A large number of Japanese Marines from Palau had taken the islands, and were well entrenched on Bras and Pegun islets (see map September, 1952, p. 69). I arrived several days after an American infantry unit had landed, taken the islands, and left.

We were told that 25 to 30 Americans had been killed. We found that the Brown house had been demolished by Air Force bombing and Navy gunfire. About the only identifiable object was the remains of a piano. But there were 20 to 30 natives still there, some from New Guinea. One old gentleman who seemed to be a leader spoke English well and said he came from Yap and that he had been a cabin-boy on an American vessel.

We camped on the north tip of Pegun islet and established a Loran station —a weather reporting station of which I was in charge—and a communications station. In all, about 25 men were stationed there after the initial occupation. There was no airfield at Mapia. (The Loran station —Loran stands for “long range navigation”—was one of a Pacific network employed in a system of radio navigation established during the war. All except a chain across the North Pacific have since been dismantled.)

Tragic State Of O’Keefe

LADIES WITH Hollywood probably on the verge of a rich financial harvest from the about-to-bereleased “His Majesty O’Keefe,” it is of interest, if sad, to hear that two of “His Majesty’s” nearest surviving descendants are to-day living in very poor circumstances, almost on the charity of the Dutch authorities, in a quonset hut on Biak Island, Dutch New Guinea.

They are Mrs. Eugenia Scott, closest living descendant of the O’Keefe Yap family (heard of most in the film) and Mrs. Janie S.

Brown, head of the Mapia branch —both grand-daughters of O’Keefe.

With the O’Keefe Yap interests disbanded long since, Mrs. Scott had been living with Mrs. Brown on the Mapia Island property when World War II came—destroying all.

After the war, the O’Keefe descendants endeavoured to obtain financial indemnity from the American Army authorities, as all damage had been caused by American forces in reclaiming the island from the Japanese. They were given a sympathetic hearing, but as the territory was Dutch, no financial recompense.

The matter was then taken up with the Dutch authorities but they, too, are not prepared to pay war damage.

So to-day Mrs. Brown and Mrs.

Scott, now ageing, their former home gone, and with insufficient financial backing to re-establish the plantation, live in very poor circumstances on Biak.

Mrs. Brown recently stated that though she had heard that a film was to be made on the life of O’Keefe she knew nothing of the book by the American authors, Klingman and Green, and—most surprisingly—she had never been approached by the authors for any information on the life of O’Keefe, The book, in fact, as mentioned in PIM (Sept., 1952) makes only the barest mention of Mapia, which in (Continued on Next Page) Two Governors (At right) The new Governor of Dutch New uinea, Dr. J. van Baal, entering s official residence shortly after s arrival in Hollandia. —Photo by van Leuven.

The new Governor of Eastern [?]moa, Mr. Lawrence Judd, in Pago [?]go, accepting the oath of office as ministered by Mr. Justice Morrow. [?]. Judd was formerly Governor Hawaii. —Photo by A. Vercoe. 71

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later years was the only surviving fragment of the once great O Keefe kingdom. „ ~ Perhaps, if the film reaps the fortune expected, Hollywood might srive the aged ladies a charitable grant, where the Army, though willing, was unable to do so.

Recipe Corner

READERS are invited to send in their favourite recipes using Islands ingredients or ingredients readily obtained in the Islands. Ten shillings will be' paid for each one published.

Occasionally we get a recipe from a male reader—why not, men appreciate cooking more than women—and this one comes from Mr. Seymour Gates Pond, all the way from the Explorers’ Club in New York city. He says that once having sunk your teeth into THIS pie, you’ll be satisfied with no other.

Coconut Pie

Filling: 34 cup sugar. 3 tablespoons cornstarch. 2 cups milk.

Peel of 1 lime cut in one piece. 2 egg yolks, 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1 coconut grated.

Meringue: 2 egg whites. 2 tablespoons sugar.

Mix sugar and cornstarch. Add milk, ?gg yolks, grated coconut and lime peel.

Cook until mixture thickens. Remove peek Add vanilla and put filling in a previously baked pie-shell.

For the meringue beat egg whites, add sugar and beat till stiff. Cover pie with meringue and bake to light brown.

Baked Bananas

6 firm ripe bananas. 2 tablespoons sugar.

Juice Vs to 1 lemon or lime.

Slice bananas In pie-dish. Sprinkle sugar on top, and squeeze lemon juice over all. Bake in hot oven till brown and crisp on top.

Serves four. —Mrs. L.J.8., Inus, Bougainville.

Mock Whitebait

Grate 2 medium sized white Kaukau (sweet-potato) and, add about a cupful of chopped shallots (some of the green is nice, too), salt.

Beat three eggs and add to potato, shallots and salt. Fry tablespoons-full of the mixture very quickly until brown.

Mrs. R.P., Kavieng, NG.

In May the Bank Line ship Eskbahk lifted a full load of smokedried copra from New Guinea, for the first time in the Territory’s history. Rabaul supplied 4,500 tons of it; Madang 900 tons. From Rabaul over 1,000 tons of coconut oil were also shipped and approximately 600 tons of coconut meal.

U Mr. G. G. Bailes, proprietor of Rabaul Metal Industries, has successfully tendered for land in Malaguna Road and intends to build a large and modern workshop there shortly. He will expand his business to include general roof and pipe plumbing, including copra dryer flue pipes.

What to Do With Duruka (And, Maybe, Pit-Pit) (It seems likely that Duruka, described here by the Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service from Suva, Fiji, in a broadcast on April 16, is what in New Guinea is called “pit-pit.” While visiting Kerev at Experimental Station outside Rabaul, recently, the wife of the officer in charge told me how she had used the flower-bud of pit-pit in somewhat similar fashion to asparagus, and that it was delicious. While at this home I sampled, too, the nicest soft drink I have ever had in the Islands —a ripe grated paw-paw and a ripe grated pineapple mixed with a bottle of ice-cold lemonade. — JT.) DURUKA Duruka is a type of grass or cane closely related to sugar cane and grows well in damp places. The part we eat is the unopened flower-bud which, like corn on the cob, is protected by a sheath.

The flower buds do not open and so no seed is produced, but the stem will quickly root. Take cuttings of the stem with three or so knobs, and plant in prepared soil three feet apart and keeping three feet between the rows. Moist weather is the best time to plant as the cuttings soon root and form clumps. Weed around the clumps and draw more soil around the base to encourage the later shoots to grow well.

The main stems extend and in about six months from planting, produce the swollen flower heads. In some places the same patch of duruka is still producing after six years.

When duruka is on sale, it closely resembles very long, pale green pencils, the pointed ends being tied together.

Cooking Duruka

Duruka can be cooked in the open fire, as corn on the cob. After about five minutes, neel off the charred sheath, and serve with butter, salt and pepper, or alternatively roast whole duruka in the oven. For cooking without the sheath, cut about an inch off the base and with the fingers gently unpeel the outer covering being careful not to damage the flower bud in the centre. Lift this out carefully, wash and use as required.

Boiled Duruka

Prepare the duruka as above. Tie firmly in bunches for serving and stand upright in a deep pan. Add boiling water to cover about two inches of ends, place the lid on the pan and cook for 10-20 minutes, or until tender. Lift the bundles from the pan, drain, untie and serve hot, stalks parallel, with salt and pepper and melted butter.

Duruka Savoury

Boil or bake the duruka, remove the sheath, and place in a pyrex dish. Have ready a coconut sauce, pour over the duruka and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Brown the top under the griller and serve.

For the Coconut Sauce Grate a coconut and squeeze the cream out into a small pan. Do not add any water. Add a little finely chopped red chilli, a teaspoon of butter, pinch of salt and a little cornflour to thicken.

Made in individual dishes this makes an attractive lunch or supper lunch.

Mexican Duruka

2 green peppers, chopped finely. 1 clove garlic, chopped. 2 tablespoons vinegar.

Hot cooked duruka. 1 large onion, chopped. 6 tablespoons oil or butter.

Vz teaspoon salt. 1 poached egg per person.

Toss green peppers, onions and garlic in oil until browned. Add vinegar and salt.

Arrange hot duruka and eggs on a dish or individual plates and pour sauce over.

Duruka Loaf

2 eggs, well beaten. 1 cup thick white sauce.

Vz cup chopped cooked chicken, sweetbreads or bacon.

Duruka.

Add the eggs and chicken (or sweetbreads or bacon) to the white sauce.

Turn into a baking dish that has been lined with duruka, place the dish in a tin of hot water and bake in a slow oven (300 deg. Fahr.) until the centre Is firm —about 20 to 30 minutes. Garnish with parsley and serve hot.

This dish will give sufficient for about four servings and is suitable for lunch or supper.

Other Ideas

Use cold cooked duruka in salads, or instead of asparagus for asparagus rolls.

The next time you have pikelets or dropped scones, pile on a mixture made by adding finely chopped duruka to a well seasoned thick white sauce.

Met At The Dogs!

WHEN Mr. Vince Costello, of the well-known Garrick Hotel, Suva, returned late in May, after vacation in Australia, he told of a surprise encounter at a dog meeting somewhere back in the cactus, behind his home town of Maryborough, Q.

Intrigued at the way his countrymen evade the law which forbids mechanical hares, by towing dummy hares —footballs with wool tales attached —behind galloping horses, he was even more interested to see a face that seemed vaguely familiar.

Presently its owner, in a doublebreasted suit and a French beret, presented himself.

“Well, don’t you know me?” he inquired.

Vince looked him over, then whipped off the beret to reveal Captain Jimmy Richmond, of the little ship Miena, in Maryborough loading timber for the Solomons.

Miena and Captain Richmond are known in the vicinity of every hostelry between Wailangilala Lighthouse and the Australian mainland.

Dog meeting over, and the dozen or so official bookies on the way home with their takings, the Islanders sped to the Maryborough equivalent of the Garrick, to comn pare notes.

If Mr. F. J. H. Grattan, Secretary to the Western Samoan Government, paid a short visit to New Zealand recently. 72 JUrN E . 195. 3 P'A.Cfl FI G , I S LAN DS; MONTHLY

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But out at Rovi, on the other sidd of Honiara, beside the small! bubbling stream that in its highefl reaches provides Honiara with its water supply, is the Police Depot where the native constabulary are trained; and beyond the Depot is the native gaol.

Running beside these two establ lishments, and round and about tha bends of the creek, is about eight acres of garden—bananas and pine-4 apples, citrus fruit and beans! tomatoes and lettuce and still more beans —that provide the whole establishment with its greengrocer! needs.

Native prisoners are taught to| make cane furniture, axe handles! police batons, and do other wood! work and to make the bread thal supplies the police establishments and the hospital.

THE Depot and the Honiara Polica Station, right in Honiara town, are something right out of the South Pacific World. I daresay tha European police officers in Honiara number half a dozen or so. In tha interval since seeing the fruit of their toil, I have pondered occasion! ally on their methods —discipline, the tactics of a nagging wife] psychology? Knowing something o£ the Pacific islander, none of thesa methods seems to be likely to havd produced the effect that it has.

At the depot, the lawns and tha paths look as if they are groomed twice daily by half a million brushes and combs. The interior of the barracks are so neat and tidy thal you look instinctively to see if yoifi have dust on your shoes. The messl halls have tables covered with plastic tablecloths, with a bowl of flowers in the centre of each. Tha kitchens are shining clean —I’d lika to bet that they are shining-estj cleanest kitchens in the whole South Pacific, bar none.

The trainees and native police! men have a club house and canteen on the other side of the parade! ground that is far superior to tha European Club in Honiara.

But these words can give only an outline. To get the degrees of efficil ency, shinyness, neatness and clean! liness you have to see for yourseln A British Guards Regiment mighj have managed something of the sort* —but Islanders! The wonder is that! they can go on living like this and not break out in a rash througll suppression of all their native in! stinct for dirt, disorder and lazii ness.

ALTHOUGH many of the roads the Yanks left on Guadalcanal are overgrown or useless because* of bridges that have fallen into dis 4 repair, the roads in Honiara itself are good, hard-packed white coral;, 74 Honiara—Dwelling Place of Bods (Continued from Page 70) JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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IRabaul, once a town in a beautiful zopical garden, started after the nr, like Honiara, as a military ink-heap. Rabaul is still a junk sap—untidy, unsewered, its roads jsintegrating in the wet, its ternwary buildings still far outumbering the permanent. With all i> tribulations, its straitened cirimstances, its lack of labour and aterials, its frustrations, Honiara is done better than this. ’THE European population of Honiara is small —probably not more than 150, even with the :;w influx of Colonial Service permnel which occurred early this ;ar when Honiara became the jadquarters of the Western Pacific igh Commission.

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En many respects, this last division, is like a Polynesian migration that has spread out too far: Honiara is at the end of the line, therefore the most useful elements of the wave have stopped off along the way at Port Moresby and New Guinea and Rabaul. Honiara got what remained.

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Although the proportion of teeal residents is small in any Kcific Island, Honiara is the only ace where I have seen a civil sermt the worse for liquor in the iddle of a working day; and the lly place where I have seen female 11 servants regularly drink to ex- « in a public bar. Maybe there not a bigger proportion of dipoianiacs in Honiara than elsetere —maybe it is because they s less fussy about the business at there seems to be more. The naviour of some of these people luld not be tolerated elsewhere ere deportation is still an effective apon in the hands of the Adminration, and probably it will not tolerated much longer in Honiara. }ne woman resident is alleged to ve said that she could not afford eat and drink—so she drank, and >k vitamin pills.

Chere is little public entertainnt in the town; most of it of the jp-for-a-chop (or maybe I >uld say, a whisky-for-a-whisky) lety takes place in the people’s n homes. Although they inidually deplore the expense, ich is considerable, Honiara »ple are proud of their entering—which they lump together 3er the one term, “parties,” and lect as other less energetic folk lect postage stamps.

ROBABLY born of the long years of post-war frustration in the Solomons, the arrival of the ;h Commissioner for the Western lific to make Honiara his headirters has given a boost to BSJP rale that was sadly needed. So day, in spite of the cost of ng, the crippling expense of havto send one’s children away to 001, the disadvantages and even Jomforts of living in Honiara, isolation, the stultifying effect continued frustration on those n for progress—there is a feelof optimism amongst that tion of the people who really ;ter. Much is expected of the i administrative set-up, simply of desperation and not because my firmly-based economic facts. iey,” you are told, simply must something about the Solomons rtly; the Solomons “must come he whole Solomons problem bethus placed firmly in the lap the High Commissioner and his r departmental chiefs, we can wish them well. They will need best wishes and our prayers if 7 are to become the miraclekers that their wishful “bodies” ;he BSIP expect.

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News coverage is this month restricted, due to the writer’s temporary tranfer to Suva. However, a few interesting morsels are to hand.

First from Fiji. A 1 Akin returned to Suva per May Tofua and expects to be on the air again with his former Nandi call, VR2AP, some time in June. Also licensed and on the air from Lauthala Bay, where he is attached to the meteorological office staff, is Laurie Price, with the call VR2CT. Equipped only with a ZC-1 disposals rig, he is restricted to 40 and 80 metres at present. Across the island at Nandi is Noel Finch, ex-ZL2AMW, who recently joined Aeradio staff there as an operator. At the end of May his equipment was still in Customs bond, but he should have appeared on the air with a small semi-portable rig by the time this is in print.

Your scribe, normally ZL-l-AIK, plans to appear on 40/80 CW; but Suva city’s DC mains have delayed the event. An accumulator and vibrator unit are indicated.

VR2 Hams were recently granted permission to use phone on the 21mc/s band. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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A mid-day run across 20-metres with VR2AS’s receiver seemed to indicate that conditions on that band are vastly better in Fiji than in Auckland, where few signals are heard other than VK at that time of day. KHO's and W’s were plentiful, some at good strength, on this particular occasion.

A W-visitor to Suva in May was Robert E. Thompson. W-l-WM, radio officer aboard the big Woolworth motor yacht “Elpetal”. He is restricted to 10-metres by regulations governing mobile Hams; so. with conditions as they are to-day, does not make a lot of contacts. However, throughout the present voyage, he has listened to a round-un of news from his home-town broadcast by another station hearing FGBAI, Jack Wheeler in the yacht “Gemini”, with a powerful signal, and very active in the afternoons. Jack sailed from Papeete, May 8, for a local cruise to Moorea. Huahine, Bora Bora and return, and is using the FOB call while in port at those islands.

Amateur Radio reports VK9YY as very active; and he has also acquired a wife recently. Whether this means an end to Ham Radio remains to be seen. No new listings for New Guinea, and no cancellations.

BERS-195, Victoria’s listener who never sleeps, writes in with a few notes and corrections. He corrects our error of April re VK-l-RG/VK-l-EM—bound from, not to. Macquarie Island. VK-SAF, now VK-l-AF, went to the island. On Heard Island Ken Dalziel, with the call V£-1-SK, should be active by now. Eric also reports hearing Doc Black. VK2QZ/VK9. on one occasion since his return to the Trobriands. VK9RC he says also puts a good signal into Victoria. Eric also says that a newcomer to 40 metres is FKBAO— ex FQBAE —heard being contacted by FKBAB. Also reported active on 40-metres phone is FUBAB.

Eric has news of those elusive Easter Island stations mentioned here in recent months. His information is that CE-O-AA would not appear on the air until May 28 —then only for a few days—on 10/20/40/80 metres. Transport from the South American mainland seems to have been the hold-up.

Also frequently heard—and usually un answered—is the Wake Island 40-meti CW man, KW6BI. CW is certainly at discount these days.

Another rare country is actively repr« sented to late by VK9GM, George Meatoi on Norfolk.

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I lie. at Waitangi, and ZL3SC, N. Mac maid, at Owenga. Raoul Island (Keriidecs) has one—ZL-l-AJG, R. T. Jensen. :K2AA, Bill, on Niue, was heard to say ' May that he will be finishing up and Doming to New Zealand in November aer seven years’ service there, i-ast month mention was made of the II ZK-l-AC being pirated by a Mexican ition. This was in error—the call is —I-AT. Two misprints also crept into FOS notes—Joe Bourne, not Bourke, [tplying same. FOSAH’s location is tbuai Island. lams accustomed to working 80 metres 11 have found the Suva broadcast ition’s new shortwave outlet settled on 10 kc/s since mid-May. The Radio ;yineer reports that the transmitter will nost certainly be held on the channel, ;er testing on various frequencies over past two months, s from June 1 ZL stations were to lose t portion of the 80-metre band above 10 kc/s, and this regulation will isumably also apply in New Zealand md Territories. . final note: While spinning the dial, ms, might care to check on sigs from new Samoa short-wave outlet on 0 kc/s or 3241 kc/s (May, p. 38) and p a line to ZM6AA, Pat Senior, in .rge of the station. Box 23, Apia, will 1 him.

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SUVA, June 1.

WIDE programme of measures . to combat the serious problem of soil erosion in Fiji—to which ; present Governor, Sir Ronald rvey, drew particular attention •n after his arrival in the Colony t year, is now under way.

Measures planned or already immented, include special courses 3 pamphlets for study by schoolchers who, in turn, will explain i causes and cures for erosion school pupils. Special films will shown to Young Farmers Clubs mobile film unit, and to the )lic through ordinary picture satres. Window displays and iters and articles in the press 3 Journal of Agriculture will ther educate the public. A vernment soil survey will guide d-settlement schemes. ’here will be stricter control of, 1 heavier penalties for those rensible for grass fires. Contourtivation and planting will be led for in areas subject. to sion. Tree planting by the puband arbour days for schools, I be encouraged.

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SYDNEY Rugby Union team will make a tour in Fiji in August, and will play clubs resenting Fijian clubs and Fijian vinces. Members will pay their i fares to Fiji, but their exses while in the Colony will be 3 for them.

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SINCE jet aircraft soon are to be seen on the trans-Pacific route, a re-survey of landingfield facilities has become necessary; and this has shown that Nadi airfield, in western Viti Levu, chief Fiji station on the international routs, is not big enough. It is too short to provide fully-loaded airliners with a safe take-off.

This was the chief subject dealt with at the Pacific Air Transport Conference in Suva last month. It was decided to spend £500,000 on a larger air-strip. Australia whl pay two-thirds; Britain and NZ will provide the balance. 79 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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After testing unsuccessfully on the 31, 41 and 49-metre bands the short-wave transmitter was placed on 3,980 kc/s (75 metres) in mid| May. This frequency is giving the best results to date within the Fiji Group and is reported as well received in New Zealand and othel Islands areas. The intention not is to remain on this frequency, j If A public welcome was extender on April 27 to the Rev. Alberi Kroenert in Central Baptist Churcft Sydney. Mr. Kroenert is a pionei Bantist Missionary in New Guinea If Miss Jean Lawes, on furlou® from New Guinea, addressed th: Baptist Women’s Missionary Unioi' in Sydney on April 28.

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On instructions from the Mayor, !hief of Police Biesel made a swoop i mid-May and rounded up what rur Correspondent calls “a famous mg of gamblers.” Thirty-six were aoled. Now, in the sights of the olice chief, are “some opium dens, Ithy residences,” and other centres f vice.

A turtle, estimated to be twelve jet long and about the same across be back, was seen in Penrhyn igoon, N. Cooks, recently. One ;ven feet in length was caught iere a few years ago. 81 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Even greater amendments are contemplated. At the May session, the Chairman (the Administrator, Mr. D. M. Cleland) said that the Director of District Services would, by the end of May. submit to the Minister for Territories a review of the whole basis of the Ordinance and policy in regard to native labour generally. The review and Ministerial recommendations would then be further considered by the Administration and by the time the Legislative Council met again this year, they should have a consolidated Native Labour Ordinance.

The amendments before the Council at the current session had been approved by the Minister and agreed to.

Mr. D. Barrett, member for New Guinea Islands, proposed to introduce a bill at the May session which would amend the Ordinance so as to curb the native who walked out on his labour agreement.

However, Mr. Barrett did not bring forward this legislation. Instead, Mr. J. R. Foldi (Acting Assistant Director of District Services) submitted a bill to amenc other aspects of the 1951-52 Ordinance.

One amendment concerned thi place of final pay-off of nativ< labour. The 1952 Ordinance specifie< that this must be in the Distric of employment. The new ordinanci made the place of final pay-off j 82 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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?This was generally welcomed by iivate members; but Mr. Barrett iid that, otherwise, the wishes of Lost employers in New Guinea had )en completely disregarded.

IHe later sought unsuccessfully to tve several amendments made to re proposed legislation. He said jat, in 1952, there were 600 native hour desertions in New Britain :one: some of these natives quite wiously had intended to desert tfore they left their home village, s suggested that similar conditions iculd apply to native labour as [•plied to Europeans who came to ■e Territory to work under a conact. That is, if they returned home left their employment before 12 onths they could be compelled to Iturn their forward fare to their iployer—or, their employer could s them for it.

He said that in New Britain, an tempt had been made to bring me native offenders to book by arging them with not working the urs set out in the Ordinance. A nviction was secured in the Lower •urt; then an appeal was made the Director of District Services d the decision reversed, com- ;tely nullifying what they had set t to do.

Mr. Fairfax-Ross, nominated miber for Papua, said he appreited what Mr. Barrett was seek- I. But, if one did sue a native, d got a verdict against him, how •uld one set about getting money t of him? He could not be thrown ;o gaol, or a debtors’ prison.

Mr. Barrett was supported by nogen, native member from jwak, TNG. Through an intef- Jter, Simogen said that native ►our affairs in Rabaul, which he d recently visited, were far from 11. There were many Sepik men. d men from the NG mainland jre who had originally gone under reement, and had deserted for good reason that he could see. would like to see a law enacted it would compel a native labourer work if he had entered an agreent to do so—and we would like see that same law insist that the ourer be returned to his village er the agreement had expired, f a man did not honour his •eement, and deserted, said Simoi. he became as a wild man. mtually he had no money for his e home, and the district suffered > of him. Many men comted an agreement or deserted m it, and did not return to their ages; instead they entered into at was called “business work,” unofficial agreement with an ployer on a plantation whereby y given a certain area of property to work, or from which make copra. n the clause relating to the repatriation of a native employee and his dependents, Mr. Barrett moved that the words “until such time as he or they desire to return home” be replaced by “for a period of three months, at the expiration of which time, if (he or they) have not returned home, the liability of the employer ceases and he is entitled to a refund of any amount deposited under this subsection.”

His motion was not carried.

En route to the Coronation as representatives of Fiji, Hon. George Cakobau, MLC, and Hon. H. Maurice Scott called on Rugby officials in Canada, to discuss Fijian oversea tours. Depending on results of these talks, a Fiji team next year will tour either Canada or Australia.

Two men, over 100 years old, died in Fiji about the end of May. Mr.

Shandra Maharaj, of Suva, was one of the earliest immigrants under the indenture system. The other, Atunaisa Camaibau, was a Fijian of Tamavua-i-Wai. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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And Will Be Available In Rabaul

[Thirty residential allotments will shortly available for tender in Rabaul (north Malaguna Road). In addition there 111 be seven business allotments available Ithin two months; and probably four ,iter-front allotments in the industrial lea within the same time.

The next sitting of the New Guinea nd Board—which will, for the first time, jlude a local member—will be in Rabaul the end of June. (Question asked by *. D. Barrett of Secretary of Lands).

Png Timber Imports

In the nine months to March, 1953, 11,874 worth of timber as pre-cut ildings was imported into the Territory PNG in addition to 190,782 super feet sawn timber valued at £11,002. Papua got 168,644 feet of it; New Guinea the rest. (Question asked by Mr. Barrett of Chief Collector of Customs).

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When the Administration returned to P-NG after the war there were considerable areas of forest held by persons who had obtained permits before the war. The Administration policy was to encourage these permit-holders to return and produce timber for local rehabilitation. But these permits had been granted primarily for the production of logs for export and there was no way of enforcing production for local requirements, although the Administration maintained its attitude of encouragement. The Administration then acquired and brought into production the two Army sawmills at Yalu and Kerevat and granted 24 Emergency Permits, 13 in Papua and 11 in New Guinea, in each of which there was a clause for a minimum cut for local consumption. Some of the pre-war permits were also reorganised and a minimum cut clause inserted.

Administration sawmills have constantly tried to increase their efficiency and production. In 1951 they produced IV2 million super feet of sawn timber; and in 1952, 2.4 million super feet. Processing of large areas of timberlands to the stage where they can become timber-producing takes a long time but the Administration has processed two large blocks to the stage where they can be offered to tender should conditions warrant and in addition is developing a road to Brown River timber area (near Moresby) so that there will be the minimum delay between the acceptance 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1053

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In Papua-New Guinea the Department of Agriculture maintains nine pastoral properties (including a quarantine station) with a total area of 39,300 acres. The largest of these is the Baiyer River station of 12,000 acres.

In the last six years, 53 stud bulls and 1,319 heifers have been imported by the Department. About 150 of these animals were for sale on arrival and about 1,000 of them have been imported in the last two years. The natural increase has been «56; 152 cattle have been acquired within the Territory; 102 have been sold and 121 have been sold for meat. The Department now owns 263 male and 1,544 female cattle.

There are three qualified veterinarians employed by the Department—one Australian graduate and two from European universities, one of whom is employed fulltime in connection with the Pakistan cattle which were imported some months ago and which still remain in quarantine «n the station outside Port Moresby. (Question asked by Mrs. D. Booth of the Director of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries).

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There has been much speculation in the Territory as to why a Queensland timber firm which successfully tendered for the Trans-Busu timber permit area near Lae, later asked for the permit to be cancelled. One suggestion, made in New Britain, was that the soil was full of silica which made the timber inordinately I hard, and therefore difficult to mill. The reason, however, appears to be purely economic. The tenderer said that as Queensland plywood of the type that would come from the Trans-Busu area was already unsaleable in Australia, exploiting the Busu area, as well as his, Queensland timber leases, would put too much of a strain on his resources. 86 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Banking In The Territory

No Government can force a Bank to cpen branches where it does not wish to. the Administration is satisfied that Banks ire watching the development of the territory and that full branch facilities iill be provided by them in centres that iarrant it. In 1931 the Commonwealth sank and the Administration arranged iith all its Savings Bank Agencies to ccept deposits to Current Accounts and a it is the practice in the Territory to ;ttle by cheque, it is considered that very ;ttle inconvenience is experienced by sople in centres not enjoying the services : a full branch of a Bank. (Question K Mrs. D. Booth to the Government scretary).

Native Land Titles

Since the creation of a Native Comiissioner, six applications have been iceived from natives in the Port Moresby •ea for Titles to land; two have been uproved; one rejected and three are still uder investigation.

In the New Britain district, eight itives have asked for land titles; all aims are still being investigated.

More Native Land Commissioners will be (pointed shortly and this should expedite e issue of Titles. (Question by the Rev. . E., Ure to Chief Native Lands Comissioner).

Cost Of Running New Guinea

Total amount of public revenue raised the Territory of New Guinea for the ar ended June 30, 1952, was £1,486,375 id this, in accordance with section II the Papua and New Guinea Act, was pended on the administration, welfare id development of the Territory. In dition the Commonwealth of Australia ide a direct grant of £3,126,059 for the me purpose—total expenditure for the )ther Side” therefore being £4,612,434. [uestion oy the Rev. F. G. Lew's to e Government Secretary).

“Islands” That Come

AND GO IOR over six years, ships passing through a region about 17 miles south of New Georgia (BSD ive reported seeing flashes of light Dm the sea. Captain Adams, of e Malolo, who was there in day- :ht during 1951, was the first to port an island—loo feet long, 20 3t broad and about 15 feet high.

The BSIP Marine Superintendent at the Kurimarau to pin-point it but found only boiling water.

Last March, Captain Macdonald Dk the Western Pacific High Comssioner through the New Hebrides Kurimarau. Going down beeen the islands, and west of nbryn, the ship passed through sea of pumice 10 miles long, 2 les wide and about 9 inches deep, lich had evidently come out of abryn the previous day. It was so ick that it banked up and took the paint off the hull for about foot above the waterline.

Hail Storm In Tahiti

PAPEETE was hit by a very rare phenomenon, a hail-storm, on the evening of May 9, when a heavy squall struck the town.

Many small children, who had never seen hail—or heard it on the roofs—rushed outside to pick up the hail-stones. Our correspondent recalls that his mother told him of a heavy hailstorm being experienced over the whole of Tahiti about 80 years ago. The last remembered in Papeete was some 15 years ago.

Hail-storms are invariably associated with the big towering cumulo-nimbus clouds common in the tropics—but usually the hailstones melt before they reach sealevel, and only heavy rain is experienced.

A Shotgun Mishap

A PROMINENT resident of Daru, Papua, Mr. L. Luff, was admitted to Port Moresby Hospital on May 14 suffering from gunshot wounds in the back of his head. A special plane, chartered by the Administration, got him to hospital, and a doctor and nurse made the round trip to attend him.

He was working under his house when a loaded shotgun fell from a shelf and discharged pellets into the back of his head. 87 &CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JQNE. 1953

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Madang-Bogia

he coast road from Madang to Bogia, Ich was built by the Army, is to be reined by the District Services Departnt, and assistance has been promised the plantations along the road.

Sepik District

big road building programme is to be iertaken by the Administration in the ik District. The first objective is to instruct the old road between Marui Maprik, and then to continue the i from Maprik to Wewak. Work will then begin on re-opening the Army jeep track from Wewak to Aitape. The job is to be done by the recently-formed Administration Works Section, and two road-overseers have been appointed for the Sepik District.

These roads will be of value in the encouragement of rice growing in the Sepik District. The Dagua villagers (out of Wewak), under the energetic leadership of Simogun, MLC, are producing cash crops and over a year ago asked for Administration assistance in getting a road through to Wewak.

KIETA-IWI In Bougainville, tw'o Works Department gangs are building bridges for the Kieta- Iwi Road, and the Administration has allocated another £15,000 for this roadrebuilding job. Two Bailey bridges are to be erected, and about twenty small timber bridges.

The rebuilding of the road itself will be done by the District Services Department, and when the project was first broached, offers of assistance were made by planters and missions in the area. (See April PIM.)

Kerema Area

In the Kerema district, Western Papua, the District Services Department, with the co-operation of local residents, has built nine miles of road from the Station to the plantation of Kerema Rubber Limited at Epo. This has been done as a departmental job and community project with no special allocation of funds.

Lae-Highlands

An aerial reconnaisance has been made of the country between Lae and Gusap by the DO at Lae and a civil engineer from the Works Department, particularly in regard to the five rivers draining into the Markham on the northern side of the valley. It is considered that four can be bridged, but at the Maning River, three miles from Kianit, a causeway and ford will be necessary. A survey is being made of the old army road from Nabzab to Gusap across the Erap, Ramu, Leron and Umi Rivers. This will show what road reconstruction work is needed, and whether bridges or fords are required at the river crossings. (Over) 89 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLT J U N E , 1953

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This is a major crossing over the Nambuti River. There is a total of 58 bridges along the East Coast Road.

Port Moresby District

In the Central District, 5Vz miles of road are to be built from the head of Bootless Inlet towards Rigo. and as the old Army road from Taurama to the head of Bootless was reconditioned last year, the combined section will make a good start on the future road to Rigo.

Near Port Moresby the Works Department is constructing four miles of road from the Laloki Bridge into the timber area of the Brown River country. This is the first stage of a long-range administration nlan to get a road right through to connect with the road network in the Kanosia district. Immediate benefit, however, will result from the first four-mile section as this will open up extensive timber stands. Mr. Tom Flower of Port Moresby will be setting up a mill there as soon as the road is ready, and this should help greatly in relieving the severe shortage of timber at Port Moresby.

LABU-WAU A new steel bridge is to be built at Pine Tops on the Wau-Labu road to replace the old swing structure which is now in poor condition. Most of the component parts for the bridge are in stock at Lae, and construction will start as soon as the design is approved.

Urges New System for ‘Appalling’ Roads SPEAKING at the Legislative Council meeting in Port Moresby in May, the member for NG Islands, Mr. D. Barrett, said that he was appalled at the condition of Territory roads.

In New Britain alone, he said £40,000 was being spent annually on maintenance, and still the main arterial roads in the coastal area are in poor condition—frequently, planters coming to Rabaul on business are unable to return to their homes if a small amount of rain has fallen in the meantime. In Kavieng, the East Coast road was 90 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Ihe Regional Works Director in ’vieng had informed the District mmissioner that he was waiting spare parts; the Regional Works rector in Rabaul said the same mg; the Territory Works Director 0 said the same thing—they were waiting for parts.

Work on the Iwi-Kieta road in ugainville, continued Mr. Barrett, o appeared to be at a standstill vhy was not clear.

A.y. Barrett suggested a complete lew of the Administration’s icy in relation to roads. The ersion of as high a proportion as jsible of funds earmarked for ds to permanent construction of tie would greatly reduce annual intenance costs; and he believed it District Services should take t road maintenance from Works, is system was apparently workwell in the Highlands—but for le reason it was not used at all in New Guinea Islands area. Mainance by Works, with the high t of running mechanical equipnt with European operators, was nifestly much more expensive n using native labour and native ck drivers. [?]ective Cooler Causes Heavy Banana Loss Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, May 25.

ECAUSE a fault developed in the cooler equipment of the USS Go’s Matua in mid-May, ;r sailing from Apia, and bese it could not be rectified nigh an expert was flown from :kland to Suva) the vessel was nted to Auckland to discharge Samoa-Fiji banana cargo, ler than carry on to Lyttelton, he fruit, however, was already r-ripe at Auckland—especially Samoan bananas, of which some 0 cases, valued at about £17,000, to be dumped, and a great deal ■e was sold in poor condition, at ut the price of the crate, he New Zealand importing misation, or insurance comies—not the growers—stands the

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FROM July I, Papua-New Guinea employers will have their High-f land labour for a shorter period! and it will cost them more.

Maximum period for which a Highland native will be able to enter into a labour agreement will be 18 months as against the present two years: and a “handling fee” of 10/- will become due in respect of each native signed on. The reduction of the term of agreement is because “of the present effect on native administration of the High! land Districts resulting from prolonged absence of natives from the area.”

After spending three months in his village, the native, however, will be available for re-engagement. 1 The handling fee is to partly offset the cost to the Administration of rationing, etc., while native labourers are waiting to go to their employers, or after they have returned to the Highlands.

Editorial Note

Highland labour is on the whole not popular. Although it is conceded that the availability of Chimbus (as Highlanders are generally called) has considerably eased the pressure on the labour market, these Highlanders are regarded as second-best. Employers say they are “dumb” (hard to teach) or lazy.

As they must do all their travel! ling from the Highlands by plana and as there is a time lag befoul they adapt themselves eveij partially to regular work, they are expensive labour.

From July 1, employers will get at most, about 12 months’ effective work from them —then they must fly them back to the Highlands. In the circumstances, it will be small wonder if employers feel that the six months now clipped off the conli tracts would be of much more use to them than to the Highlanderlj returned prematurely to their native heath.

The press hand-out, which speaks baldly of “present effect on native Administration,” needs clarification As the natives are to be permittee* to re-engage in employment aftefi three months at home, the effect of “prolonged absences” surely cannot be lessened to any great degree. In effect, all the new legislation seem* to do is to give the Chimbus thre# months’ holiday at home every 18 months, instead of every 2 years* and NG industry pays.

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“It was the Sikh soldier who bore the honourable part in the conquest and pacification of these East African countries. It is the Indian trader who, penetrating and maintaining himself in all sorts of places to which no white man would go or in which no white man could earn a living, has more than anyone else developed the early beginnings of trade and opened up the first slender means of communication.

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“The Indian was here long before the British official. He may point to as many generations of useful industry on the coast and inland as the white settlers, especially the most recently-arrived contingents from S. Africa (the loudest against him of all) can count years of residence.

“Is it possible for any Government, with a scrap of respect for honest dealing between man and man, to embark upon a policy of deliberately squeezing out the native of India from regions in which he has established himself under every security of public faith? Most of all must we ask, is such a policy possible to the Government which bears sicay over three hundred millions of our Indian Empire?”

Does the above quotation not fit in with the present set-up in this Colony? Should we not take a lesson from it and plan for the future with the same understanding?

The PIM writer has suggested many things which the Indian leaders had not even dreamt of. I would like to sound a note of warning to him against the use of such phrases as: “There is racial antagonism between Indians and Fijians”; “Each race holds the other in contempt”; “The influence of India is anti-British.”

IF that writer could stay in the Colony for a longer period, he would see with his own eyes how Indians and Fijians mix freely and invite each other to their social functions. It is a pleasant sight to watch Fijian and Indian guests sitting together, enjoying meals and conversing amongst themselves.

Such occurrences are rare with Europeans. They also attend such functions; but very rarely do they reciprocate by inviting non-Eurol peans to their functions.

Europeans freely express view| against Governments, as Mr. Robson has done against the Attlee regime! but it is a sin for a non-Europea| to express himself with similar free! dom, and he has to be on his guana for fear of being designated anti* British, as soon as he opens his lips to utter even a polite and harmless word to express his disagreemerl with the views of the Government.

Articles such as that in the Pacific Islands Monthly do more harm than 94 JUNE. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Box No. 2530, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “MOESTEOM.” Sydney BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY. :d in trying to solve the problem. ;t is simply a creation of this iter’s imagination to say that nans now dream of the day when iia will dominate the Indian ;ian—for the simple reason that IFiji-Indian leader has ever given session to such views, either tlicly or privately, to any irnalist. ; may be remembered that when Indian Parliamentary delegaji to Australia visited Fiji, and lied to the welcome given them the Grand Pacific Hotel, the Her of the delegation, Seth findas, told the Fifi-Indians that was their home, and India ited them to do all in their power make this Colony prosperous, . to assist in improving their udard of living.

Ihe Government of India, time again has advised the Fijiflans not to look to India for kind of moral or material supt, but to regard Fiji as their dierland, and to work for its sperity and happiness.

IE future of this country rests with the three communities of Europeans, Fijians and Indians, opeans brought the wealth and ie: Fijians provided the land; the Indians gave of their sweat develop this Colony to what it 3-day. !y people came here from India dll the soil of these islands and j have brought the agricultural Is to their present state of depment with attendant benefits, as born in Fiji and this is my ie, as it is also the home of the tiger generation, ur policy always has been, and be, to live in harmony with ?r races, and to strive for the i of this Colony as a whole, t we may go forward together in mony is the sincere wish of all people who have made Fiji their nanent home. i conclusion, may I be permitted luote the last sentences of the ;ch delivered in the Legislative ncil in July, 1946, by the Honouri Indian member for the North stern Division, when speaking the motion relating to the Deed Cession concerning the saferding of the Fijian Race: \ly Honourable colleague, the opean member of the Eastern ision, wanted some sort of deation from us that could allay fears and suspicions of the Fiji imunity.

Veil, the assurance I am preid to give on behalf of my people our Fijian neighbours in this my is that we have all these ’s lived in this country, as sugar milk, and we shall always live the same as we have done in past. It has never been our re to dominate over anybody; let it be remembered that we will not tolerate any domination from others as well.

“As our previous Governor mentioned in this Council, Tn God’s eyes all men are equal.’ We sincerely believe in it: we shall live up to that maxim and we shall make every endeavour to make others live up to it, too.

“It is the only assurance that I can give, and I hope that you will accept it with the same sincerity with which it is being given this evening Seisomograph for Rabaul ANEW seismograph was delivered at Rabaul, NG, from Brisbane recently, just over a decade behind its scheduled delivery date.

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Since then it has been in use at the Queensland University, and is now ready to do its job of charting the Rabaul earth tremors.

H Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hayden left Suva on May 25, for Trinidad, where Mr. Hayden takes up the post of Director of Education. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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The skill and attention of the medical staff are, no doubt, all they should be; but a sick person in that country needs more than medical attention if he is not to sink into the depths of tropical depression.

For inducing depression, Lae hospital takes the million-dollar prize.

Its medical staff must be filled with a missionary zeal —there seems no other reason why they should remain to work in such conditions.

Moreover, the hospital itself refutes the theory that sufficient publicity will always win out—Lae hospital in the last six years has had more adverse publicity than any other New Guinea institution, and apart from a few minor temporary improvements, the results have been nil. Yet while officialdom has procrastinated in the matter of providing this top-priority amenity in the way of a new building, others have not been idle.

BECAUSE the hospital is officially “temporary,” a new Catholic church, now building, encroaches upon it on one side; and a most elaborate cinema, complete with a dozen or so shops, all of which will cost about £70,000, is now nearing completion, close up against it, on the other.

Further away there is a RSSAILA Club that must have cost real money, a hotel that cost £lOO,OOO. the large establishments of Qantas Empire Airways down on the flat and up on Namanula that probably cost a similar amount, just these few items of Lae real estate add up to a considerable sum —and one is sometimes tempted to wonder from whence comes the faith to back the outlay; for Lae, like 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

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SPEAKING at the P-NG Legislative Council’s May session, Mr. E. A. James, elected member for Papua, said that in the first nine months of 1952-53, only £751,955 of the estimated £1,601,000 for capital works for that year had been spent.

He gave as an illustration the £64,000 that had been estimated would be spent on hospitals in P-NG; in the first nine months, he said, only £10,803 had been spent. (This amount in P-NG would pay for only two very modest cottages).

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By “TOPAZ” f THINK that any museum in the world would like to possess this rusty old cannon, which rests :n a slab of stone outside the Nor- *ik Island post office.

It is the Bounty gun, which was rought from Pitcairn Island in 856 on the Morayshire, the ship rovided by the British Government to remove the 194 inhabitants : Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island.

On January 23, 1790, in Bounty say, Pitcairn Island, the mutineers amoved everything available from ne Bounty —masts, nails, even the tanks. Then, after burning her .all to the water-line, they sank 3Y. Her guns went down with her.

After they had lain for more than alf a century, fathoms deep in the ;a, two of her guns were fished up. me had been spiked and was usess.

The other was used on special jcasions for firing salutes, until ie visit of HMS Virago in January, S 3, when an accident put an end this custom.

In firing a farewell salute to the ; rago Chief-Magistrate Matthew cCoy was fatally injured—his arm is shattered above the elbow.

After the funeral of McCoy, iptain Prevost, of Virago, got the nsent of the Pitcairners to spike e Bounty gun, thus avoiding rther risk. It was found that a ►use rafter, which happened to ive a nail in the end of it, had en used as a rammer.

Matthew Folger, who commanded e American trader Topaz, and is the first to contact the Pitirners in their island retreat, was ren the chronometer and comss of the Bounty by Alexander nth. Smith was the only surror of the mutineers when the Vaz found them. Smith then anged his name to John Adams, rhe chronometer had been used ice by Captain Cook on his and, later, was supplied to igh when fitting out the Bounty. was taken from Captain Folger the Governor of Juan Fernan- -2; and later was bought by Sir omas Harbut, in Valparaiso. He jsented it to the United Service iseum, Great Scotland Yard, ndon. rhe anchor of the Bounty may seen in the Auckland Museum. me Bounty relics are widely ittered.

Fohn Adams became the old triarch, who taught the young >ple to read and write, using the y book available, the Bounty )le, and a prayer book. He also re them the religious and moral mmg that afterwards made the le community an example to the iside world.

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Survey of the Industry in Papua and New Guinea THREE viewpoints about kenaf as a commercial proposition in Papua-New Guinea: Rabaul— no darned good. Markham Valleycautious. Port Moresby.— enthusiastic.

Among individual Territorians the viewpoints do not stop at three, of course. But the above are interesting, if only because they are sectional.

At Kerevat Experimental Station, about 30 miles from Rabaul, they will wave their arms vaguely at some forlorn looking scrub growing in a paddock and say that kenaf. has already served its purpose, anyway, in that the price of jute has fallen by half since kenaf came into the picture, and bags and sacks to almost one-third.

Kerevat, of course, is devoted almost 100 per cent, to the cult of cocoa. Little else interests them — one reason being that cocoa is suitable to local soil conditions. The Gazelle Peninsula is basically pumice, with an unfortunate tendency to float off in heavy rain.

Annual cropping, or any agriculture that requires t.he continual disturbance of the soil, is therefore regarded as suspect as it is believed that this will lead to widespread erosion.

Cocoa trees growing in quiet shade, dropping their leaves to the fores! floor to make, eventually, a layer of leaf-mould provide the ideal crop for the locality.

AT Bubia Experiment Station] about seven miles up the Markham Valley from Lae, a coni siderable amount of experimental work with kenaf has been under- 102 JUNE, 1 9 5 3 - PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L t

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It is believed there, too, that for maximum fibre strength with maximum fibre content, the ideal growig period in the Markham Valley about 135 days—this in comarison with the original conten- :on around Port Moresby that the •op was ready for cutting in from to 90 days. However, as the :sidue of gums in the decorticated lore is greater with older kenaf, •me modification of Bubia’s ideas . this direction may be necssary.

Manila Hemp

Agricultural officers at Bubia are enthusiastic about the possibilities 0 f ma nila hemp, of which they have a t present about 8,000 young plants grown from seed.

Manila hemp is a species of banana; it bears hard, woody fruit which, unlike the commercial banana, still contains seeds. At maturity, the steam of the plant is about 12 feet high and it is from this that the fibre comes. The stem is cut i n t Q three segments and the fibre stripped from this—the best fibre coming from the inside of the segment, and falling in quality towards the outside.

Experiments in manila hemp were undertaken by the New Guinea Department of Agriculture before the war, with stock grown from imported suckers. However, the disease, bunchy top, had been imported with the suckers although it did not show itself in active form and after the war, manila hemp plants which Top: Kenaf growing at Schwimmer Drome-an Agricultural Department fibre [?]erimental centre just outside Port Moresby. The crop is in flower.

Below: A native working at one of the decortixating machines at Eraima Estates, hanging up t othe right of the boy. 103 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY J U N E , 1953

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JT it is just outside Port Moresby that one sees kenaf growing in large stands; it is round here, Eriama Estates (previously a ai owned by Mrs. Ruth Sefton). jre it is being worked on a small t testing scale, the fibre extracted I packed into bales and shipped Australia; and it is in this area t you find, in spite of the intry’s teething troubles and active ipetition from jute, faith in the ire of the product, rowing, kenaf is an unspecilar crop. It is sown closely and stalks grow up straight to a ;ht of nine to 11 feet. It a white nondescript flower with ;d centre—more like a hollyhock r er than a hibiscus, to which ily it belongs. leally, it is harvested mechanicby a machine similar to that vn on page 107, which throws a bundle of stalks about a foot k. neatly tied with string, lally the area to be harvested prayed a few days beforehand i a defoliator—this makes the r ester’s work easier and does not lage the stalk or fibre), le kenaf is then ready for the decorticator. At Eriama Estates there is a battery of six or eight of these small double machines shown in the illustration. Two natives work at each, feeding in the stalks of kenaf, three or four at a Top: Decortixated and washed kenaf fibre in the sun at Eriama Estates, near Port Moresby.

Below: A bale of kenaf ready for export to Australia. 105 3IF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

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Telephone: MA 4806. time, between the corrugated steel rollers They do not let the stalks go right through the machine but pull it back and forth against tne pressure of the rollers until all the ■outside matter is removed and there remains a handful of long fibres— several strands of the freshly decorticated fibre can be seen hanging up near the operator in one of the pictures herewith.

The fibre is then washed, hung out on wires in the sun to dry (see photo) and then pressed into bales for shipment. Some bundles of the dried fibre are harsher to the touch than others, due to the presence of gum, etc., which has not been adequately washed out. This may be one aspect in which the jute of Pakistan is superior to Papuan kenaf—due to the more thorough washing methods of the Pakistani women in comparison with those of the Papuan workers. Before manufacture into sacking, etc., the kenaf fibres are softened with oil.

A very large decorticating machine is now on order from overseas for Eriama Estates; as well as extracting the fibre, it will give it its preliminary washing.

Behind the drying kenaf in one of these photos, can be seen stands of kenaf—this will not be harvested as the present battery of decorticators cannot cope with all the kenaf that has been grown this year on Eriama.

IN recent months, a lease of 15,000 acres has been granted to Eriama Estates in the Oro Bay area of Papua and it was announced about the same time, by the Commonwealth Government, that some hundreds of thousands of Government money would be spent in opening up the area by providing access road, bridges, and port facill ities at Oro Bay.

Government help also includes provision of technical aid to growl ers, agricultural research, making land available and providing plant! ing material.

At the end of May, Eriama (Holdiiags) Ltd. was registered in 106 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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Mr. R. A. Colyer, of Colyer Watn (NG) Ltd., has been interested the kenaf experiment since its ception. The new company, has, well, the backing of a strong oup of leading Australian indusal and pastoral companies.

Kenaf, in short, is receiving more eking from Government and from I money interests than any other :w Guinea industry, new or old. >on this, therefore, is based the rrent Port Moresby man-in-the- ■eet’s opinion that kenaf is a 3od thing.” With these interests idly behind it, he says, then Piously the industry must suced. ft has been proved that kenaf re is just as suitable as jute for i production of wool packs, wheat gs, sugar bags, copra sacks and lilar containers. Twine and ing can also be made from it. can be woven on machines eady existing in Australia for jute )ducts. Little if any adjustment these machines is necessary.

Phe strength of the decorticated re from the 1952-53 crop is well >ve that of high-grade retted jute. ( NLY cloud on the kenaf horizon is the obvious one—competition from jute. To date, production Papua and New Guinea has been le more than small-scale experintation from which it has been luced that, on present prices, jute has the edge on kenaf. When, however, large-scale completely mechanised commercial production is in full swing in the Territory the cost of production of kenaf could equal or be less than jute.

But competition from jute should not be underestimated. Jute is the economic life-blood of Pakistan and to only a lesser degree, of India.

These countries will fight savagely to preserve their valuable markets in Australia, which is also the legitimate outlet for P-NG kenaf products. Nor, in this present-day world of involved trade pacts, overseas markets and economic dealings as between country and country, will the fact that P-NG is Australian territory entirely temper the wind in home-produced kenaf’s favour.

P-NG kenaf is a valuable insurance against the type of bushranging that took place in the jute industry in recent years and, as such, is worthy of Government encouragement and protection. Beyond this point of insurance, however, Australia’s valuable trade with India and Pakistan becomes a factor and from thereon kenaf must stand on its own economic feet. It is obvious that Eriama Estates feels that this it can do.

It was generally understood that Paul Gauguin, famous French painter, who died in Tahiti exactly 50 years ago, left no part-Tahitian children. Recently, however, a 60years-old man of Paea said that he was Gauguin’s son, and he has made formal claim to some portion of the fortune realised by Gauguin’s paintings.

This is one of 25 kenaf harvesters made the United States during the war by [?]e combined efforts of International harvester and John Deere. Drawn by a attractor it cuts the kenaf, and ejects it atiy tied into bundles about a foot ick.

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[?] [?]UTCH N. GUINEA HWO concerns have applied to the Dutch Government for exploration and exploitation con- 5-ssions for chromium and nickel Netherlands New Guinea. lA ship repairing yard is being Itablished at ManoKwari. The lasting trade will be expanded. A tncession has been granted to LM (Royal Dutch Airlines) for the Hand aviation.

Queen Salote, of Tonga, was irmly received in London when, tending the .Coronation, she made ir first visit to Britain. She spent ir first day in London at Lords, itching a cricket match; and she d an honoured place in the conation ceremonials. She was a tie indignant with the newspapers 10 said she was 6 ft 3 in. tall, tually, she is 5 ft 11 in.; and that not tall for Polynesian nobility, tich usually is built on high and issive lines.

French Priest Honoured a Vila, New Hebrides, recently the »ix de I’Honneur was presented to e Loubieres by the French Resident nmissioner, Monsieur P. Anthonioz. e Loubieres received the decoration for his devoted services to the Catholic Mission in the Hebrides during the past 55 years. The photograph shows the Resident Commissioner making the presentation. —Photo by Fung Kuei. 109 OIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT J TJ N E , 1013

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Status Of Chinese In

N. GUINEA Plea for Clarification A STRONG plea that the Australian Government should clearly define the status and, if possible, indicate the future of the Chinese people in New Guinea was made at the May meeting of the P-NG Legislative Council by Mr. D.

Barrett, of Rabaul.

It was pointed out that there are now between 2,000 and 3,000 Chinese in New Guinea; that at least 700 Chinese children now are attending schools in the Rabaul area; that these children, and very many more beyond school age, who had been born in the Territory, have the status of “Australian Protected Persons”; that scores of young Chinese are sent from New Guinea to be educated in Australia, where they have equal status with Europeans; but that, when they return to New Guinea, their status is not clearly defined, and they often are not treated as the equals of Europeans.

Mr. Barrett praised the qualities of citizenship of the New Guinea Chinese. He urged that Australia should ensure their good service and loyalty, as future residents of New Guinea, by defining their status. He advocated the inauguration of a land settlement plan for young Chinese, and that the apprenticeship system, under which young natives are taught trades, should be extended to the Asians.

On the same subject, Mr. Salin (native representative from New Ireland) presented another angle.

He pointed out that in New Ireland there were many coconut plantations, apparently abandoned. He had asked the Administration to permit the native co-operatives to work those plantations, while thed were thus idle, so that the villages could get the benefit of the copray but the Administration had ignored] his letter.

Now, said Mr. Salin, half ihq plantations on New Ireland, include ing two big ones, were owned 110 JUNE 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLt

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2 Burns Philp Buildings, SUVA « Chinese, and the Chinese mership of plantations was being tended. The natives had fought ainst the Japanese during che ir, but the Chinese had not cared : raise a hand against the enemy. considered that in this connecm the natives had been treated ry unfairly.

Jssion Estimate Of Chinese

IHE following are extracts from an article by Rev. A. A.

Whimpey, in the Methodist ssionary Review of May, 1953: Sefore World War 1, when New .inea was a German Colony, iinese were brought to Rabaul as lentured labourers, just as Indian »ourers were taken to Fiji. In 18, however, New Guinea came der the jurisdiction of Australia; :i no more Chinese labourers were •ught to Rabaul. Those brought re by the Germans, and still there 1914, were not sent back to China, eir number has increased since 4 from about 400 to over 2,500. luring World War 11, Rabaul was ipletely devastated. After the the temporary authority, GAU, established the Chinese at south end of Rabaul, where they It makeshift homes of old corrued iron, arc mesh, and bush her, with floors of natural earth, ny still are crowded together in n conditions, with the children ying in the unmade streets; and out of these unpretentious ries there comes a charming set young people; the young women Jht, happy, and beautifully ssed, usually in western frocks, I the young men reserved and ustrious. he impact of the West upon the nese of Rabaul is very strong, the local Administration school most important teachers are n Australia, and they follow the jensland school curriculum. The Idren are urged to speak only ;hsh while they are at school, rt from half an hour a week ;n they learn Chinese reading writing. Very few of the chili can read Chinese well before 7 leave school. bout thirty or forty young nese go to Australia each year further education, and these beie a strong Westernising influe in the town. srhaps the most important and most dangerous influence is the lern dance hall and the theatre.

Chinese have not been accused to the easy familiarity bem the sexes that these pastimes mrage. Before the war Chinese } seldom went out at night; but, , some are seldom home. There ilways the danger that a new xicatmg freedom will be allowed run to licence and we, as a irch, must give Chinese youth opportunity of enjoying wholee social intercourse in our clubs societies.

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The Islanders can get much higher wages in NZ, which is a general attraction; and a special reason for their seeking a home in NZ is that numbers of them now are getting good secondary and technical education in the Islands. and there is no place there lor the employment of their acquired skill.

Although the Islanders are Polynesians and first cousins of the Maoris, they do not mix much with, the NZ natives, but tend rather to group themselves in their own little communities.

There are more than 2,000 of them in and around Auckland, and the Rev. R. L. Challis (welfare officer employed by the NZ Department of Island Territories) reportsthat a “community centre” has been built for them in Auckland city. tl Mr. F. W. R. Godden, managing director of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., made an inspection visit to the Company’s New Guinea leases in April-May. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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HAPTAIN N. W. Macdonald come v/ ashore from the BSIP’s flagship Kurimarau on arrival in iiva in mid-Ma T '. He will be on iave in New Zealand and Australia catil September. His place was Iken by Captain E. G. Lindstrom, no recently returned from Sweden jid a period in NZ. lOn Captain Macdonald’s return, aptain Lindstrom will probably go the Nareau for some months, >en to Kia Kia to relieve Skipper Schultz, who will proceed to Z to sit for his Mate’s ticket. la Kia was en route to Honiara ;)m the Gilberts for engine repairs, mid-May.

Advice from Solomons indicates iat all BSIP and Gilbert and lice Is. vessels will in future refit, Honiara, instead of at Suva. A nail slip is to be provided, capable of handling most of such vessels.

Facilities there are in charge of Mr. Moescoepps. Mr, E. D. Horton, WPHC’s shipping superintendent, shifted headquarters from Suva to Honiara in May—last Government department to go to the new headquarters.

By the same sailing from Suva went six 23-foot wooden lighters built by Millers Ltd. to serve the Honiara roadstead port. Others will follow later. These well-built (and reasonably-priced) doubleender flat-bottomed lighters were built in record time, due to the loss of the Tulagi wharf, demolished by Eskbank in March, causing all cargo handling to be done by lighterage.

Luxury Yacht Elpetal

Probably by far the largest and most luxuriously appointed private yacht to cruise the South Pacific since World War 11, Mr. Norman B, Woolworth’s twin screw 1,080-ton, 13-knot motor yacht Elpetal, made a quick run through Polynesia in April-May.

Elpetal was commanded by Captain Edward Fluhr, a former US Navy commander, who saw service in the Fiji area and elsewhere during the late war. He had a crew of Elpetal, Mr. Norman B. Woolworth’s 1079ton motor yacht at present cruising the eastern Pacific. 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1853

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The vessel, naturally, caused considerable interest during her brief calls (one or two days) at Islands ports.

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Melanesian Sold

Mr. Hugh Frewen (April, p. 35) sold his trading vessel Melanesian to Kadavu Island owners before departing recently for London and the Coronation. The price was reported as £6,000 Fijian.

Tui Cacau For Leper Trip

Morris Hedstrom’s 130-ton wooden motorship Tui Cacau was scheduled to make a special charter voyage from Suva in June, bringing leper patients in to the Makogai central leper hospital. Ports scheduled were Apia, Niue, Rarotonga, Mako*l gai, Rarotonga, Rakahanga, Niue] Makogai—in that order. Hifofuca recently cleared the Tonga patients] when en route to Auckland via Suva for refit.

Another Tramp Coming

When Morris Hedstrom’s Altail was withdrawn for survey in Suva 114 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Tel: BX 6331 (II lines) Cables: “Kopsen, Sydney.” »;e May, Captain J. McKenzie mot relinquished the command )d was understood to be heading " Cyprus to command the small O-ton motor vessel San Michele, cely purchased there by a syndicnamed South Pacific Shipping .. and headed by Mr. Lew Graham, Auckland. Others in the syndics were said to be Mr. Cec. Harri- :a (a former shareholder in the vxander with Mr. Groham) and t. J. Turner, of Suva (who rently purchased the small scow :ot from Mr. Graham).

San Michele, due to clear Cyprus early June, will be registered in Suva and will operate possibly to the Far East and Australia. She is understood to be a wooden craft, somewhat similar to Tasman Steamship Co’s Ada, mentioned last month.

New Radio Facility At Suva

The Harbour Master at Suva reports that his office and the launch Ceniceva are now equipped with radio transmitters and receivers.

When it is known that a small craft is expected from overseas, watch can be maintained on the vessel’s specified frequency, and replies made on 6200 k/cs. voice. Use of this facility may speed a vessel’s entry and clearance by the port [?]ptain N. W. Macdonald, on leave, ded command of Kurimarau over to tain E. G. Lindstrom, and below, [?]imarau sailing from Suva for mons. r. E. D. Horton, WPHC’s shipping [?], shifted headquarters from Suva to tiara per Kurimarau—last WPHC Dement to transfer: and, right. Captain [?]r of the luxury motor-yacht Elpetal. [?]e Tasman Steamship Co’s, new Ada, arrival at Auckland. 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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What Was The Avie More?

Oscar Nordman, of Tahiti, sends along a photo of a painting—said to be about 90 years old —of tha British three-masted square-riggei Avie Hore clearing Sydney Heads!

Unfortunately, the photo has in-l sufficient contrast for publication!

The painting belonged for manj years to the Adams family, of Tahiti, and the vessel was presumably known in the Islands long ago. Any information about this vessel would be of interest.

Captain J. Webster Trans-J

FERRED Captain J. Webster, lately Marina Superintendent for WPHC, with headquarters at Honiara, left tha Solomons in May on transfer to Gambia, W. Africa, where he takes up a new appointment as Harbour! master and Chief Pilot. His sucj cessor had not been announced at the end of May.

Captain Webster is very well known throughout the archipelai goes of the Central Pacific, where he has had charge of various Govl ernment-owned small ships durini the last 15 years.

The El Retiro

Prospects of salvaging the El Retiro, 150 tons, seem poor. She ran aground when salvaging war material from the sea off Million Dollar Point, in the New Hebrides.

Another Battering

The 400-tons motorship Maria del Mar, rescued from foundering and towed into Noumea in April, set off for Sydney, and an overhaul, on May 13, with Estrella del Mar and Polynesien to keep watch over her; With her usual luck, she got a terrific battering from westerly gales, but Captain Emile Savoie finally got her into Sydney harbour on May 22, and she was in dock in Balmain at the end of May.

Dick Brown Buys Rannak

Mr. D. C. Brown, of Rarotonga who journeyed to Europe some months ago in search of a refrige* ated vessel for use in the CooK Islands, and between Rarotonga and New Zealand, announced on his return to NZ by air late in May that he has purchased the vessel Rannahi from Richardson & Co., of Napiers NZ. First information that ttiifij ship was for sale was received by Mr. Brown from a London brokers Rannah is a standard type of 30( tons, similar to A. B. Donald & Cor Charlotte Donald and to a number of similar vessels operating in Ne* Guinea waters. Built in Tasmanfij in 1944, Rannah is 117 feet overall! 24 feet in beam, and draws 11 feet She is 304 g.t., 141 nett, twin screw* 116 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLV

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Cutter Yalewa Lost

BP (SS) Co’s 10-ton cutter i alewa capsized and was abandoned !t sea during the night of May 25, iiree miles south-west of Wakaya ♦land, Fiji. The 8-man crew .nded by dinghy on the Ovalau Dast.

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HMNZS Lachlan, which did sur- “y work in Fiji waters last winter, ft Auckland May 25 to sound and !-chart the approaches to Apia V. Samoa) and the waters be- /een Upolu and Savaii. This task urgent. Apart from some limited ork by the US Navy in 1942, prent charts are based on a German irvey before World War I.

Vynvale Strikes Trouble

In April PIM, Wynvale, a 50-tons nn-screw craft, was reported lading for New Guinea.

Wynvale arrived at Maryborough, >rth-bound from Sydney, early in April, under command of one of the volunteer crew members. The owner, John Allpass, had left the vessel, through violent seasickness, at Coffs Harbour. She had one engine out and the other in poor shape—and others of her four-man crew were seasick or exhausted.

Being without funds, the crew told their tale to the police. The latter thought a description of John Allpass was vaguely familiar A photo from the police archives marked “Howard Ney Smith” seemed to tally exactly. Mr. Smith happened to be wanted there in connection with several little matters The boat was immediately impounded.

One of the crew thus innocently 117 ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

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Telegrams: “Halvorsens, Sydney.” ’Phone: WY 3248. involved was American Bob Magel, who helped sail the Sydney yacht Corsair to Auckland a few months ago and then flew back to Sydney for some more adventure. Cleared of any complicity in the Wynvale complications, Magel is now associated with a pearling venture further north.

Aitutaki Moorings Gone

While the NZGS Maui Pomare was lying at the buoy off the Arutunga Passage at Aitutaki, Cook Is., in May, the chain parted, and the buoy drifted out to sea.

The Americans established two buoyed moorings there during the Pacific war. One sank about 5 years ago. The other had been used ever since.

The buoy was recovered, but it probably will be impossible to pick up the moorings, which have not been serviced since the Americans departed.

Dove For N. Hebrides

Manned by the same crew of three Auckland yachtsmen who delivered the Break Of Day last October, the Presbyterian Overseas Mission’s new 30-foot launch Dove was scheduled to leave Auckland for Noumea and Vila May 5 on delivery to the New Hebrides.

The vessel, which replaces one of the same name lost in the 1952 hurricane, was dedicated in Auckland on May 3.

The delivery crew—Messrs. Mark Anthony, H. Pope, and S. Smith.

Vega May Be Sold

Reports were current in Papeete in May that Mr. Cornelius Crane’s big steel yacht Vega, lying dismasted in Papeete since her illfated inaugural voyage on a proposed passenger run between Papeete and Honolulu two years ago, may soon be sold.

Mr. William A. Pomeroy, owner of the schooner-yacht Ramona at present in French Oceania waters from San Francisco, was said to be negotiating the purchase of Vega on behalf of Pacific Micronesian Lines, with which he is associated.

It will be recalled that Pacific 118 JUNE, 1953—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Micronesian Lines, the semi-gov- [;rnment-owned organisation which provides sea transport within the American Trust Territory, purchased the 140-ton, 2-masted steel r.uxiliary vessel Milleeta and the 30jon steel ketch Frela from Australian owners a coupie of years [.go. The latter vessel was to be converted into a hospital craft for use in the Trust Territory.

Before Vega can be commissioned Ihe will have to be remasted and te-rigged, but she could proceed :.nder engine power to Honolulu for Ihis purpose.

Mr. Crane is now in New York.

News of Cruising Yachts Movements of yachts already mentioned in these notes are reiorted from Papeete as follows: • Gemini , American, left May 8 or local cruise to Moorea, Huahine, iora Bora and return, before headig north again for Honolulu. • Ramona, American 122-ton, twonasted schooner from San Franisco, arrived May 1. Will head lence for Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Rapa. • Sobrina, American 15-ton ketch, ot previously listed, arrived May Owned by Colonel Frank Royce, SA (Retd.). Cleared Honolulu pril 1, coming direct. Only other erson aboard is Mrs. Royce. Plans 6-months’ cruise in French •ceania waters. • Novia, arrived May 6, having eared Panama February 12 for •alapagos, Marquesas, Takaroa. • Moonraker, English, owned by r. Peter E. A. Pye and wife, rrived from Taiohae May 14— 3Stination Vancouver. • Our Tahiti correspondent instigated a “coconut radio” rumour lat retired French naval officer hnsieur F. Faye, was preparing a icht at Fareute, Papeete, for a orld cruise. He found owner Faye isily painting the cutter La orrigan, formerly owned by M. an den Broek d’O’Brennan, of ahiti, and sold by him to Dr. ademar, from whom she was squired by the present owner. M. aye was non-committal as to his tentions. The yacht is already all-known as a world-cruiser, • Sundance and Leda, out from ickland, both arrived at Nukualofa . mid-May. • Bounty cleared Auckland May for Tahiti. • Another Auckland boat, Skyie, was reported preparing for a te-May getaway. • Flamingo, mentioned here rently, and now in Tauranga, NZ, ans to clear for Great Barrier ;ef waters late June, and not for )lynesia this season. • Defunct for many a year, its le-time meeting place now a pular Papeete restaurant, the ihiti Yacht Club was revived on )ril 27 at a meeting held in the Polynesien Club. There M. Martial lorss was elected President, and Governor Petitbon Honorary President. So far without a home of its own, its first task will be the organisation of the reception of yachts taking part in the Honolulu- Papeete race this July-August, Our correspondent sends along an interesting and truly nautical old 119 A C.I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Cable Address: “IVAN,” SYDNEY. ;mu, printed on a piece of heavy .il-canvas, of a Tahiti Yacht Club fleers’ dinner, dated October 10, 528. Attached to it is a miniature •3 burgee with broad white horintal band and the letters TYC iposed thereon—the Club’s burgee. [Judged by the number and iriety of cruising yachts that call Tahiti the yacht club there uld well be the most interesting uising club in the world. The Iginal club was formed by Ameria Eastham Guild, whose wife rote Rainbow In Tahiti. » Our reference last month to rger Bryhn’s first yacht, Ho Ho, s been corrected by a correondent. Although Ho Ho was ecked on Norfolk Island, she was waged and resumed her eastund voyage. Very few yachtsmen empt the east-bound circumvigation with its contrary winds high-latitude sailings. * Steve and Brita Holmdahl, in ;ir 8-ton yawl Viking, arrived at va on May 27, a month out from peete, in continuation of their rid cruise from Gothenburg. ► According to Seven Seas Cruis- Club, the Seattle yacht Mariner ns soon to cruise to New Zealand 3 Australia via the Islands. riner is a 34-foot yawl owned by i Robinson and George Karl. * Captain John L. Ozanne, who ppered William A. Pomeroy’s 118-foot schooner Remona to Tahiti via Honolulu from San Francisco lately, returned by air to the States at the end of May. The yacht is now cruising the Leeward Group under command of Captain Louis Carlson, Papeete’s chief pilot on holidav noimay.

Captain Ozanne, who skippered the big Vega on her 1934 Pacific cruise, has been with Pacific Far East Lines of San Francisco for tne past seven years, before joining * amon “ December. He now hopes to obtain command of one of the yachts on the Trans Pacific Race scheduled for July A new master may join Ramona for her voyage on to Fiji and north to San Francisco. . m ... rhvblm f He PWorth s trawler-yacht, may be heading for San Francisco mstead 0 f New Zealand if present negotiations eventuate. At present at Bora Bora, with Mr. and Mrs. Hepworth and Frank McNulty (formerly of Wanderer II) aboard, the yacht mav be chartered by Tahiti interests to transport a Tahitian crew to the States to deliver a trading vessel to Tahiti.

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Unlike most, owner Marcel Bardiaux chose to make the voyage round the Horn instead of via Panama.

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Bardiaux has issued an expensive and beautifully produced booklet containing 31 illustrations and two maps. One map shows the route of a voyage which he made from Marseilles through the canals and rivers of France, Germany and Australia through to the Black Sea, Odessa, Istanbul and Athens in a small canoe: and the other shows the proposed route of the present voyage. There are plans and photos of the yacht which M. Bardiaux himself built. He is sailing lone handed and should be seen in the Western Pacific later en route to Torres Strait.

M. Bardiaux voyage, by way of the Horn single-handed, must be acknowledged as a notable one, especially if the circumnavigation westbound via Cape of Good Hope is completed successfully. • Claude Worth, noted technical yachting writer of London, also arrived in Papeete May 25 with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Taylor aboard the 15-ton cutter Beyond, having left England last August.

They planned to continue the voyage in June—destination, London. • White Squall, 28 days out of Auckland, arrived in Papeete in good shape in May. After about a month at that port the New Zealand yacht will head west towards Fiji, thence home. • Ghost, of the same home port, cleared Papeete May 19 for the Marquesas and possibly Honolulu in continuation of the Winter islands cruise.

Some of the host of yachts recently in Papeete. Left to right: Colonel Royse’s Sobrina, Jack Wheeler’s Gemini, Ken Brown’s Ghost, and Holmdahl’s Viking. 122 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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New Guinea Occurrences

Australian Newspapers Reduce News Presentation to Absurdity "EW GUINEA, during the month, has been the Land of Front Page News. tn he great majority of Australian ily newspapers now have reached it stage of sensationalism when nr chief object in life seems to to out-scream each other. From >s angle in their scheme of things \w Guinea is a godsend. i t is near enough to Australia to \ke events there of some importce; yet so far away that the Unary reader cannot check up the accuracy of the newspaper’s mentation of the “news.” There no kick-back when occurrences little significance are head-lined if they were events of great imrtance. n he following are recent occur- ?es in New Guinea which have n scare-headed by Australian vspapers to the point of comte absurdity: [abaul’s April Earthquake HIS was a very severe shake, but it was nothing beyond that to which Rabaul is well accustomed, wever, one broadsheet flew a mer headline; and within 24 irs the whole pack was in full Rabaul, they insisted, was f-wrecked and in imminent, -dly danger; evacuation was most :essary; the Government which I permitted the rebuilding of the r n on the old site was monmsly irresponsible; and so forth, tolonel J. K. Murray was located, and allowed to tell the world that his plan of rebuilding at Kokopo should be immediately reverted to.

No one took any notice. Within a week the quake was forgotten.

Indonesian 'lnvasion’ of N. Guinea THIS really rocked them. It was announced that a contingent of fully-armed Indonesians, with machine guns, on May 11, landed on the southern coast of Vogelkop (the extreme westerly section of the Territory—an isthmus, that sticks out like a bird’s head). Dutch troops immediately rushed to the place.

Shots were exchanged.

The shrieking newspapers reported that “Dutch military forces started a counter-attack the same day, and by May 15 the Indonesians were rendered harmless. Among the booty taken by the Dutch were a small boat, a mortar, Bren guns, rifles, hand-grenades, and mortarshells.”

On May 19, with shouting headlines, the newspapers reported that “Holland had protested to Indonesia against the attempted infiltration of Dutch New Guinea by armed Indonesian troops.” (Over) 123 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y J U N E , 1953

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A few days later, the politicians joined in. The leader of the Pari liamentary Socialist Party, a verjl noisy gentleman named Calwell, in-} sisted that the invasion of Dutcli New Guinea showed the horribli weakness of Australia’s undefended northern coast-line; that the whole Australian nation lay open to advance of hungry Asia; that Prime Minister Menzies should be dragged back from the Coronation by hia donkey-like ears, and compelled by an indignant populace to immedil ately order all Australian forces td man the coast-lines of Northern Australia and New Guinea.

Every leader-writer in Australia dealt passionately with the “Vogell kop invasion” most of them apparently could not find Vogelkofl on the map, and decided it was a town or port. No one took ana notice when the Indonesian Govl eminent declared that the invasion was all imagination.

Asa matter of fact, it was mostla imagination —an insignificant ini cident magnified by the sensational press into a disturbing international development.

A small craft, carrying a handful of Indonesian soldiers—there werei “about a dozen,” and certainly not more than 20—came ashore, for some unexplained reason, on an unj disclosed part of the VogelkoJ coast. The indications are that the;: party was lost, and was seeking supplies. Perhaps they were free! booters—there are thousands of such irresponsible people wandermi around just now among the island! of Indonesia, which is very closa to administrative and economic coll lapse, Dutch guards—probably territorial police—were hurried to the spot! the Indonesians tried to escape, ami shots were exchanged; and aftel some skirmishing, the whole dozen —or score—were rounded up ami imprisoned.

And this, ladies and gentleman! carried banner headlines as if it were an outbreak of war!

'Horrible Fighting in Interior of N. Guinea!’

It is a pity that Papua-New Guinea residents could not haveseen the great black headlines across the front page of an Australia]! metropolitan newspaper on May 211 “Savages Attack New Guinea Patrol —4-days’ Fight”—all embellishe® with photographs, a map, and typo! graphical shrieks. And what did it: all amount to?

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Usually, after a show of temper >d considerable palaver, the lusty Ihters return home. But on this :casion, for some reason, they Tnsd upon the patrol officers, and tacked. The two officers, with sir native police, took up position a defendable ridge; and, when :e natives surrounded them, and gan to shoot arrows at them, they »ed, and killed a couple of them, .and the attackers fled.

The young patrol officers held leir position there for a couple of ;ys, and sent a runner to Mendi report the incident. District •mmissioner G. W. Toogood, at Bndi, immediately took all necesry measures. He reported the uation to Port Moresby, and he mself set out with . additional lice, to assist the patrol officers, rt Moresby alerted Mount Hagen cting District Officer Robb) in the rth, and also arranged for a plane fly over the scene, and give any Ip needed.

The natives made one or two more demonstrations; but ‘ the officials soon had the situation under control. They did not leave the area (four or five miles from Mendi in 6,000 ft. ranges) until they had pacified the very excited villagers.

Meanwhile, the hardworking typographical artists made the most of it.

There have been a number of such incidents during the past year or so. They are part of the 125 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1853

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Terrible Eruption off NG Coast [’he decision of the Long Island imlin to blow his top on May 9 tainly came opportunely for the vspapers’ display artists, who just in were rather desperately trying find “anew angle” wherewith to shen up the monotonous stream (Coronation stuff from London, "he line of volcanoes which utches from Indonesia through v Guinea to the Solomons is liergoing one of its periodical ists of activity. There have been ptions of varying degrees of in- ■sity all along the New Britain Dion in recent months —the exits are watching these manifestais carefully, but do not appear duly anxious. *ong Island is really a vast old ter. Its peculiarity lies in the t that the crater is full of fresh ;er, the surface of which is some feet above sea-level. On May there were two vents, erupting 1 or three times a minute. The 7 activity has taken the form of eruption in the middle of the 2 (Lake Wisdom), where a little ter has appeared. Every so often water of the lake spills over edge of the new, little crater, I pours into the volcano, with ,rp results in the way of exsions and steam, t is not yet a disaster —only a 3anic manifestation, of a kind imon in New Guinea ever since was first placed on the map. ; the headings-hungry newspapof Australia insist that it is a y distressing calamity. ‘Dangerous Savages Attack DC ERE, again, the panting headliners in Australia magnified a minor incident of native adlistration into “a native revolt inst the Australian authority in v Guinea.”

Then Australia took over in 1920, carried on much of the old Gera system. The Germans divided country into small districts and iges; two natives were selected jxercise local authority—a major dal (luluai) and a minor (tultul). ince World War 11, the Ausian authority has been trying Tain the natives to accept some >onsibility for local government, ong other things, it is setting village councils in place of the ai-tultul system. Generally, the Ives approve. But in some places 7 disapprove sharply—especially as the native councils exercise their right to impose local taxation.

On May 21, some notorious “bigheads” at Raluana village (near Rabaul) had a sharp scuffle with officials. (Details on p. 16.) _ „

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Five native councils in the Rabaul-Kokopo area met in Rabaul on May 27 and, on behalf of 27,000 natives, declared emphatically that 96 per cent, of the Tolai people (the tribal group in eastern New Britain) supported the Administration’s policy of creating native councils, with power to tax.

The meeting emphasised its loyalty, and demanded strong action against the Raluana malcontents.

The meeting declared: “Raluana and its associated villages number only 4 per cent, of the Tolai tribal group. The Raluana natives are under the influence of disloyal, educated men, including a Police NCO, and some Raluana-born Government and Mission teachers, about whom the five Councils have previously complained to the Administrator and the United Nations Mission.”

The resolution was signed by John Vuia, Nason Tokiala, Tolonkoma, Tovin, and Topaulius, presidents of the five Native Councils. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1953

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Mr. Fred Sturt

Mr. Fred Sturt, a well-known resident of Fiji, died in Sydney after a short illness on May 28, aged 75.

He was born in Levuka, Fiji, and was one of the six children of the late William Thomas Sturt, a partner in the once well-known Suva merchant firm of Sturt, Ogilvie & Co. This firm was absorbed by Morris, Hedstrom Ltd. about the time of the outbreak of World War 11.

William Thomas Sturt was an Englishman who arrived in Fiji in 1869 and began cotton planting at Tailevu. Later, he was a partner in schooners engaged in labourrecruiting in the Hebrides and other groups. In 1872, he took over the Levuka Hotel and in 1882 transferred his interests to Suva and purchased the Suva Hotel.

When this was destroyed by fire in 1891 he built the Club Hotel in Victoria Parade.

The hardware, grocery and general merchant business of Sturt, Ogilvie & Co., was established in Suva in 1895.

During the time when the Sturt family was interested in the Club Hotel, Mr. Fred Sturt sustained an accident which resulted in his being a cripple for the rest of his life.

He did not marry. He is survived by his brother, Mr. A. E. Sturt, of Sydney.

Mr. S. V. Mackenzie

Mr. Samuel Vernon Mackenzie died in his 90th year on April 21, after a short illness. He was the oldest European resident in Western Samoa, where he had been a trader and merchant for very many years.

Mr. Charles J. Peterson

An old resident of Samoa, Mr.

Charles J. Peterson, of Apia, died on May 8, in his 72nd year. He traded for many years in Futuna (Wallis Island) before going to Samoa.

Mr. Emmanuel Liais

Mr. Emmanuel Liais, until recently known as “King of Motu Tahiri,” died at Faaa, Tahiti, on February 25 last, following an operation.

Mr. Liais purchased Motu Tahiri, a little island off the Faaa coast, some 30 years ago, from the Vincent family for 40,000 francs. A year a |°> Government, having ideas of building an airstrip on the islet, purchased it for 2,000,000 francs. But Mr. Liais, a hard working man, survived only a few months after receiving the money. He is survived by a widow and four daughters. • A., causeway has recently been the islet with the mainland and Vacuum Oil, through the Agency of Et. Donald Tahiti, has commenced construction of oil tanks and landing strip.

Mrs. Amy Christian

A well-known personality of Norfolk Island, Aunt Amy Christian, has died at the age of 93.

She was one of the first children born in Norfolk Island after the arrival of the Pitcairners, in the middle of last century.

Mrs. J. F. Hutchison

The death of Mrs. J. F. Hutchison, aged 70, occurred on April 26 at her home in Neifau, Tonga. She was one of the most respected and best-loved members of the Vava’u community. She is survived by hej husband, well-known both in Tongd and in Auckland and by three children—Ela, Mizpah and Jack, al residents of Auckland.

Mr. Archie Lyall

An “old-timer” of the New goldfields, Mr. Archie Lyall, diet suddenly on May 26 in Canberra where he and his wife had beeij residing for some time. Mr. Lyalj was well known and highly regarded on the Edie Creek field, in the tough pioneering days. 128 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

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P-NG and the 5-Days Week [?]ome Opposition to Current PSA Campaign D|R. COLIN SEFTON of Koitaki, jfl Papua, who is a member of the Central District Advisory Council, fears that if the Public )ervice Association is successful in current campaign for a fiveays week, then eventually this nay mean a five-days week for Jlantation labour.

At May meeting of the Council ie said this could have a very serins effect on the Papuan rubber ndustry. Already, on the present 7stem of tapping rubber 280 days year, Papuan rubber planters iere at a great disadvantage comared with Malaya, Ceylon and idonesia where rubber was tapped 30 days a year. A five-days week )r plantation labour would lop anther 50 days off the Papuan total.

Ir. Sefton said that the resulting iicrease in production Costs would e very grave for an industry which Iready had little, if any, profit largin. (The request made to the Adlinistrator by the Public Service ssociation is that the present orking-week of 36i hours be orked over a five-day period in- «ad of 51. The PSA was informed lat the matter was still under Dnsideration.)

Rabaul Opinion

Rabaul Branch of the PSA in tid-May rejected Moresby’s motion ) exclude non-members from benets and privileges obtained by the SA and to have legislation en- 3ted which would make it compul- )ry for all Administration officers ) join.

It was resolved to ask the Adlinistration to bear the extra loadig on insurance of personal effects gainst damage or loss by earthjake or volcanic disturbances.

A lively debate on the 5-days eek ensued and it was decided to gain circularise members for their Brsonal views.

-Ng Likes 5-Days Easter

The Public Service Association of -NG has protested against the ition of the Legislative Council in (moving Easter Tuesday from the 3&cial list of Public Holidays.

The PSA has requested the Adlinistrator to forward the protest > the Minister for Territories. (At the May session of the P-NG egislative Council, an amendment 7 Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross to the ublic Holidays Bill, cut out the uesday following Easter from this jcepted 5-day break. This amendent was accepted by official memjrs. See May PIM, page 116.) 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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In NZ from Islands From TNG to UNO Mr. R. K. Walls, who has many riends in New Guinea —he will be r ell remembered from AIB days— as commenced practice as a soliitor in the Australian border-town f Albury; and old Territorians, uotoring through, like to call on im and test his boast that Albury’s excellent hotels carry the ight type of liquid refreshment.”

A few months ago, Mr. Walls was laking a tourist’s inspection of the lagnificent United Nations buildig in New York, when he came pon an old friend in an official ustralian-United Nations repremtative, Lieut-Colonel Townsend, etter known to pre-war Terri - >rians as a popular public officer i New Guinea. Walls had been listning to a fine performance in ituperation by the Russian delete; but friends told him that they new of a much better ’ole than lat, and so he found himself one I a very happy party at the flat r Colonel and Mrs. Townsend, who appened to be celebrating their Iver wedding.

The Townsends are held in high ;gard in a happy official circle in ew York; but, says RKW, their iquiries after mutual friends indiited that some of their heart retains still in New Guinea.

Eddie Lund Injured JTR. EDDIE LUND, Tahiti’s wellrl known composer and dance band leader at Quinn’s, suffered painful accident in May, and was ill in hospital early June. As a jest of the owner of the yacht amona, he was taking a photo “om the upper verandah of the 3me of Monsieur Kellum, on ioorea Island, when the railing ive way, and he fell heavily, and semed to be badly injured.

Ramona immediately sailed for ipeete, where Mr. Lund was rushed ) hospital. His condition is now sported as not serious, however.

Recent arrivals in Auskland from the Islands included (left to right): Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomsen and family—Mr. Thomsen is on the staff of Morris Hedstrom & Co., Apia. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Denny and family, and Mrs. Berking—Mr. Denny is manager of Bank of NZ, Nukualofa. Mrs. T. Helg (second from left) met by members of her family, and Miss P. Naioti (from Western Samoa). 131 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Telephone: LA 1326 Passengers on May Bulolo Among those who went north to Papua- New Guinea on the May Bulolo were (top to bottom): Mrs, Grace Thomas, of Rainu Plantation, Kokopo, who had Just completed six months holiday in Perth, WA. Mr. Rodd Hart, Anglican missionary, who received the OBE for his work in the Mt.

Lamington disaster, who was returning after three months leave in Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. O’Neill, who have been in the Pacific for 20 years, were returning to Port Moresby. Brother Roleff, who has joined the Catholic Mission at Rabaul.

Two old-timers, both associated with mining enterprises in New Guinea, Mr.

J. Harvey, who has been 22 years in New Guinea, and Mr. A. Whitbroune, who has seen 44 years in P-NG. Mr. Harvey was returning after a business trip and Mr.

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Sister Pat Durdin, of the Anglican Mission, Papua, left Adelaide to return to New Guinea early in April. 132 JUNE. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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For people of the South Pacific, Indonesia is not just another Asiatic country in turmoil, and surrendering to Communism. Indonesia is lined up with New Guinea as part of our most vital barrier against overcrowded Asia. If Indonesia collapses—and collapse is inevitable, unless some strong force intervenes —it could spell peril for the South Pacific.

Indonesia is a striking example of the post-war folly of encouraging nationalism among races who are incapable of self-government without a period of preparation— and whose blunderings are a menace to their neighbours.

MORESBY WEDDING fl Mr. Mani Ram Anganu, headmaster of the S. D. Rishikul School. at Nasinu, Fiji, departed from Suva per Aorangi en route to India, to take up a scholarship awarded by the Government of India. Mr.

Anganu, who has been prominent in Rewa’s sporting and scouting activities, was farwelled by a large gathering of parents and teachers. secticide Suggested gainst [?]e Rhino Beetle WELL-KNOWN resident of : Western Samoa, Mr. R. P.

Berking, who is a planter, with interest in science, suggests that Rhinoceros Beetle might be ight with a newly-developed rman preparation which, it is imed, can poison all insects that j on the juices of plants, n different forms it is called ;tox, E 605, Follidol E 605, and stox. It is fed to the roots of bs, and is taken up in the sap.

Is claimed that it saved the West lean cocoa plantations, threatid by the mealy bug in 1948-50, i the Japanese rice crop in 1952, eatened by a borer which lived the rice stalks. The flowers and it of the plants are not affected.

OOTNOTE: Follidol and E 605 r e been used extensively as agribural sprays in Australia for at 5t two years; but there it is ayed on the trees or plants, and fed to the roots. E 605 has proved st effective in certain cases where jets are naturally immune to T, or for such pests as eel-worms jre insecticidal penetration of the res and stems is necessary. But itralian farmers are of the nion that for general agricultural purposes it is no more effective than the older DDT preparations. It is believed to be toxic to humans and agricultural workers are warned not to inhale the spray or let it remain in contact with exposed skin. Spraying of vegetables with E 605 should be discontinued three or four weeks before they are likely to be eaten.

However, it seems likely that the SPC team will investigate this as an angle of the war on the Beetle.

Suva Says Farewell To ‘Aorangi’

FIJI’S plan to say a warm public farewell to the RMS Aorangi, when she called at Suva on May 30 on her last trans-Pacific voyage, after 28 years’ service, was cripppled by the twin circumstances of rain, and an arrival at 8 p.m. (followed by a 6 a.m. departure) .

However, a band played on the wharf, and the honours were done by an official party which called upon Captain W. Whitefield. The Mayor (Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane) led the party, which included the Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. W.

Davidson) and his wife, the President of the Suva Chamber of Commerce (Mr. J. Trotter) with his wife and daughter, the Secretary of the Fiji Visitors Bureau (Mr. R. Hewlett) with his wife, Mr. R. Wright (official photographer) and Mr.

D. B. Butler (Fiji) manager of the Union SS Co.) The liner arrived in Sydney from Auckland on June 10; and now is destined for Europe and the scrapheap.

There now is no regular transpacific shipping service between Australia and North America—and no sign of one.

Photograph taken outside St. John’s Church, Port Moresby, on May 22 when Miss E. Eardley was married to Mr. J. Death. Shown here are the bride and groom with Miss M. Elliott-Smith who was bridesmaid.

Both the bridegroom and his best-man, Mr. J. McLennan, are cadet patrol officers who have recently completed their training in Port Moresby. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

Indonesian Crisis

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THE vessel Pollurian was take! over several weeks ago by th Bougainville shareholders, und< arrangement with the former Eng lish owners and, based on Rabaij she is to carry on the traffic fc which the Co. originally was forme —namely, to take supplies out I the south-eastern islands of Nei Guinea, and carry back their coprj Meanwhile Pollurian has bee taken to Brisbane for survei Mr. J. M. Joyes, on behalf of tli Bougainville shareholders, has bee in charge of the ship and of th Co.’s affairs.

Captain Coyne, who was origin ally responsible for the Polluria coming out to New Guinea, and wh was manager in Rabaul until th end of 1952, has been living nea Rabaul, and has been engaged i trading. Litigation between M] Joyes and Captain Coyne was sti pending in May. - —■ - ■ if Mr. Tom Flower, well-known re sident of Papua, has been having] spell in St. Luke’s Hospital, Sydnej where he has undergone a coup! of severe operations. He is makin a good recovery.

PM Bowling Club Opened In the foreground is the site where a new branch of the Bank of New South Wales will soon be erected in Port Moresby. Work was begun there in April. In the background can be seen the galvanised-iron hutment where the Branch at present carries on its business. There are, as yet, no permanent bank buildings in Port Moresby. The Commonwealth Bank is also in temporary premises. The newest comer to banking in Moresby, the ANZ Bank, seems likely to have the first permanent premises; a new building, near the new Steamships Trading Co. store, was well on the way for ANZ in May.

Mr. H. H. Reeve, president of the Port Moresby Bowling Club, watches as the Administrator, Mr. D M. Cleland, officially opened the Club on May 2 by bowling* the first ball. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 134 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHIi

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PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK 1950 By R . W Robsorx PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK, 1950, the South Seas’ most valued reference book, is available at all leading Booksellers in Australia and N.Z., the main Pacific Islands stores, or direct from the Publishers.

In addition to providing reliable information relating to Administrations, Geography, History, Industries, Commerce and Trade (full statistics). Tariffs, etc., the 1950 (Sixth) Edition of the P.I. Year Book has many Special Sections, such as; History and Chronology of War in the Pacific, 1941-45; Lists of Public Servants in each Territory; Description of Air Transport Organisations serving the Islands Complete Directory of Missions; Detailed Index of Place Names in the South Seas. etc.

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[?]Rench Oceania

Letter to the Editor KNOW nothing of the merits of a recent discussion about the help given, or not given, to Ausalian business men by the British onsul in French Oceania; but I :i quite convinced from my own nervations that Australia should ive some form of representation Tahiti, either by way of an estab- Ihed Consulate, or per medium of Trade Commissioner’s office.

As far back as March, 1952, I -ote to the Secretary, Departent of External Territories, sugsting that consideration should given to the appointment of such . officer. Summarised briefly, my ggestion was based upon the folding reasons: (a) Trade between Australia and lench Oceania is steadily increasg, and its full possibilities have t as yet been properly exploited. (b) The tourist trade between istralia and French Oceania is sadily increasing—largely as a re- It of improved shipping and air •vices now offering. It is reasonle to assume that ultimately istralians visiting those islands U require some form of guidance. (c) Australia must do all within r power to maintain the harmonis relations with those Territories lich resulted from mutual coeration during the dark years of b last war. France herself has tnowledged the difficulties of listing her Pacific Territories, and ihould not be surprised if, in view Oceania’s increasingly weakenl ties with that country, closer ations with Australia are not imately sought. We must realise i importance of promoting good ations with those Territories. !d) The establishment of a repreitative there would result in an Teased prestige. It is significant it Norway, Belgium, and China ve recognised the necessity for a nsulate in Papeete, e) The cost of such an estabiment need not be unduly great, ssibly, New Zealand would be ‘pared to contribute towards the its of upkeep, in return for equal jresentation. rollowing upon my letter, the cretary of the External Affairs partment wrote me on April 9, rising that while the suggestion s appreciated, Australia relies an her Consul in New Caledonia, d the British Consul in Papeete r any general dealings with inch Territories.” Reference was o made to the effect that Auslia is now “better acquainted h the affairs of French Oceania” a result of her membership of : South -Pacific Commission, am still firmly convinced that should establish an Australian representative in Tahiti, and recent statements in PIM would appear to support that contention.

I am, etc., N. J. JONES.

Roy St., Auchenflower, Brisbane.

II A new pulpit has been presented to the Rabaul Methodist Church by Mrs. Pearson, mother of the late Rev. H. Pearson, who lost his life on the Montevideo Maru. A Memorial Service and Dedication was recently conducted in Rabaul by his fellow-workers, the Rev. F.

Lewis and the Rev. Roger Brown.

Mr. Pearson was stationed at Vunairima when the Japs invaded New Britain in 1942. Mrs. Pearson flew from Adelaide to be present at the Ceremony.

New Guinea canes collected in 1951 were shown to visitors at Meringa Sugar experiment station near Gordon vale (Q) on May 14. The canes spent a year in Brisbane, and are now being propagated. kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Priceless Record Of Bird Of Paradise

Thomas Gilliard’s Pictures in National Geographic Magazine A PRICELESS record of one of our most remarkable creatures, the Bird of Paradise, and of the little-known areas of New Guinea where it is found, has been compiled by Mr. E. Thomas Gilliard, Assistant Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History and one of the world’s leading ornithologists.

He visited Central New Guinea in 1950 (under the guidance of wellknown Mr. N. Blood) and again in 1952, and in each case he was assisted by the National Geographic Society.

His record is directed mainly to the birds but, incidentally, in the finest series of coloured photographs ever taken in New Guinea (and faithfully reproduced in the National Geographic Magazine ) he gives us also a description of the primitive men of the New Guinea Highlands.

The first part of the record was published in the National Geographic Magazine of November, 1951. The second, and more important section, is in the Magazine’s April (1953) issue—6s pages of magnificent pictures and exciting letterpress.

The leader of the 1952 expedition was Armand Denis (producer of many fine films). Gilliard was the general manager, and the other members were Robert Doyle, an Australian explorer; Robert Carmet, a French photographer; and Henry Kaltenthaler, a Philadelphia botamst. Mrs. Denis and Mrs. Gilliard, both veterans of expeditions in other parts of the world, accompamed them. i"|F particular interest to this exv/ pedition was the most spectacular of all the Birds of Paradise—the King of Saxony. Only one specimen had ever been taken alive to a zoo (to die almost immediately), and no still pictures of it in its native habitat had been made. With movie film and with sound recordings the love-dance of the King was recorded.

Altogether the expedition photographed more thai 100 species, most of them never filmed before, ineluding the rare river duck, Salvadorina, and the little mountain parrot, Psittacella picta, discovered by the 1950 expedition. Scientists recognise 42 species of Birds of Paradise; in New Guinea there are 20 known ornamented species. Of these the expedition observed 16 and filmed 12 in colour, Particularly entrancing was Blood’s Sicklebill Bird of Paradise.

Mr. Gilliard built a pandanusthatched shelter near the, bird’s mating tree, 7,300 feet up Mount O- Mar, and one frigid morning watched its performance, which he thus describes: “From its perch the Sicklebill would loose a machinegunlike burst of bass notes. Then, as the sound died away into the cathedral hush of the forest, the bird would begin to drum like a grouse, beating its wings against its sides and making loud, crackling reports which quite mystified us.

It seemed impossible that wings alone could make such a fuss.”

Just as bizarre, in a different way, was the dance of the Princess Stephanie Bird of Paradise. The bird has a quiet, mewing call and perl forms its dance on trees cloaked irj moss and decorated with ferns and orchids.

The expedition went to Moun] Hagen in search of the elusive Ribbontail and the Golden-crowned Bowerbird, but they were not to be seen.

Then the Magnificent Bird o| Paradise was photographed and at] temps were made to secure picture! and recordings of the Blue Bird of Paradise; but deforestation is wipj ing out its home and the bird is now gravely reduced in numbers!

CAN anything be done to checlj these ravages? asks Mr. GilliarcJ What is needed, he suggests, is a Bird of Paradise reservation, rather like Africa’s Kruger National Park, in which primitive man can be taught to live side by side in harmony with those treasures of Nature that can be found in New Guinea alone. It should not be tod difficult to administer such an area through the Government’s districj officers, who are much respected by the highland natives.

One of the prime objectives of the expedition to New Guinea was to settle whether MacGregor’s is a Bird of Paradise or a bowerbirq The chief difference between the two is that bowerbirds usually deal a bit of ground and build theil courtship chambers there, while Birds of Paradise customarily per] form their love dances in trees. I One of these birds was captured alive and from a close study of it and the natives’ positive assurance] that these birds do not build court] ship chambers on the ground, Mr.

Gilliard says he is willing to take the verdict of local experts that MacGregor’s is a Bird of Paradisa THE latter days of the expedition were spent in filming the Stonl Age natives. An elaborate singl sing held in the realm of a chief named Boma afforded ample oppor* tunities for taking photographs and studying the natives at close quarters.

On the northern slopes of the Gambia region few natives had ever seen steel. This was true Stone Age territory. Besides their low little grass huts lie their own tools —stone axes ground in the age-ol| manner on a dampened sandstone!

Stone for the best of the work axes is quarried from the Jimrafc River, but only the old people seem: to know how to fashion them into: blades. It takes almost three month! of constant toil to make a good stone axe, and another week to complete a woven stock and handle fori it. Other stone implements are; not common in the Kubors, but they can still be found —clubs, knives,; emblems, “money,” pestles, mortars and even carved birds.

Mr. Gilliard thinks it will not be many years before the ancestral sound of stone upon stone is stilled: for ever. 136 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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S25/6 b25/b27/3 PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo G.D. . bl24/b60/b65/- Mandated All. b3/8 s3/s2/- N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 bl/HVi sl/11 Oil Search . .

S3/11 s2/4 b3/10 Orlomo Oil . . b5/slid b2/- Papuan Apin. b4/ll b9d b9d Placer Dev. . b68/6 b336/b345/- Sandy Creek . . bl/5 s6d s6d School For Girls BRAEMAR COLLEGE, Eastwood, Sydney. Boarding School for Girls from seven years to Intermediate Standard. Full Staff of Qualified Teachers. Fresh, airy dormitories.

Two vacancies. Apply: Principal (Mrs. A. Barnett), Braemar College, 4 Auld Avenue, Eastwood, Sydney.

Phone: WL 2085.

Vessels For Sale

General Purpose Vessel, 66 Ft. X

18 ft. x 5 ft. 6 in., Superior 200 h.p. diesel, plenty deck accom. Ideal recruiting and cargo. Owner will negotiate.

CANOE-STERN TRAWLER. 45 ft. x 13 ft, 6 in. x 4 ft. 6 in., 40 h.p. Russell-Newberry engine. £3,500.

Bermudan-Rigged Cutter, 54 Ft. X

15 ft. x 7 ft., Kelvin 36 h.p. aux. Exc. cond. Tasmanian-built 1952. In Sydney Harbour. £7,500.

HEAVILY-BUILT GAFF SLOOP from Tasmania, 45 ft. x 13 ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. 3 in., 30 h.p. aux. Recently arrived Sydney. £ 1,850.

AUX. SLOOP, 24 ft. x 9 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft., 2 bunks, Blaxland-Rae, with clinker dinghy. £625.

TWO BOMB SCOWS, 32 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft. 3 in., hold 250 cu. ft., never launched, £9O each.

DOUBLE-ENDED WORKBOAT. Norwegian lifeboat type, launched 1949, 30 ft. x 9 ft. x 3 ft. 3 in., 14 h.p. K. & L. diesel, Huon pine built. £2,000.

WM. E. REED, 145 a George St., Sydney, N.S.W. Cables: “Wilreed”, Sydney. 'Phone: BU 1986 (continuous service).

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OLIVOL CREAM for your hands ♦ beauty and protection • Keeps your hands alluringly silky soft. • Protects against redness, roughness, dryness and windburn.

Stocks available at your usual WHOLE- SALERS or BURNS PHTLP and MORRIS HEDSTROM, Suva, Fiji.

Plywood To Replace

Gold Dredges

OY the time the plywood mills & were operating, early next year, and despite the fact that =e number of dredges is being renced, the population of Bulolo wnship, in the Morobe district of ew Guinea, would be 450 Eurosans and 1,400 natives, the manring director of Bulolo Gold “edging Ltd. (Mr. F. W. Godden) Jld the Brisbane newspapers in ay.

The Co. will commence sluicing, addition to dredging, in the :iley soon, he said. The life of the jldfield, however, is not calculated more than 10 more years. Proiction and profits from gold min- ;g will decline from June next, iree dredges are expected to close the next two years, but two large •edges should operate until 1962 1963.

Oil Fuel Distribution

In Islands

THE distributing organisation of . the Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., in the Islands —especially in ipua-New Guinea and Fiji—is :ing inspected in June and July r Mr. J. D. Rogers, a Director of ie Co. whose special responsibility the Islands marketing.

The Co. now has bulk ocean rminals at Fort Moresby and Lae; id in Fiji it has practically cometed (at a cost of £122,000) the instruction of a bulk ocean terinal at Vuda Point, from which ill come over 1| million gallons mually for the planes using Nadi ternational airport.

Mr. Rogers served in both wars, e was General MacArthur’s first ustralian Liaison Officer and later i became Director of Military Inslligence of the Australian Forces. e has been for some time in New brk and is now making his first isit to the Islands since the war.

Tropical Health Lectures pHE School of Public Health and L Tropical Medicine announces that a course of lectures entled “Tropical Medicine and [ygiene,” will be held from June to August 7, at the University of ydney. The course is designed to ieet the needs of missionaries, urses, planters and other nonrofessional persons who expect to ve in tropical areas. Lectures are eld on Mondays, Wednesdays and f-idays from 2 to 3 p.m. and are •ee.

Mr. Les Hack, who has been on le staff of Rarotonga Radio for the ist three years, returned to New ealand with his wife and child in [ay.

Small Coaster Lost

NOUMEA, June 4. mHE French coastal vessel Jeanne J. d’Arc, of 100 tons, owned by Mr.

Reuter, of Noumea, and commanded by Captain Redan, went aground on rocks at Saint Hilaire Point, UVEA, Loyalty Islands, in the early morning of June 3. She is a total loss. There was no loss of life.

The vessel’s engine broke down and she drifted ashore. This is the third ship lost by Reuter’s in two years. fl A happy holiday was spent in Sydney after the Second South Pacific Conference by Ratu Tiale Vuiyasawa and Mr. Ben Jannif, Fiji-Indian member of the Legislative Council, who were delegates from Fiji. They travelled together, and Mr. Jannif told the newspapers that their friendship was an indication of what might be the ultimate solution of the community problem in Fiji-close friendship between the races. They left Sydney for a fortnight’s stay in New Zealand.

Islands Mining Shares

137 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953

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Cars For Hire

DRI\ E YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: B 3375.

Enquiries invited.

“COMING TO BRITAIN?”—I9SI/1952 8 to 18 h.p. cars to Drive Yourself, from £35 to £5O monthly. Delivery anywhere, Southampton free. Special Winter terms.

Martins Selfdrive Service, High Street, Winchester, England.

J.A.F. ENGINES Just landed small shipment of 4/3 model. Weight 88 lb. 1.7 BHP at 1,600 Rpm. 2.25 BHP at 1,800 Rpm. 3.5 BHP at 2,400 Rpm.

Price: £75, plus tax.

HARDMAN & HALL, 161 Missenden Rd., Newtown, N.S.W. ’Phone: LA 3597.

In Memoriam

ALLEN, Frank Gregory (Barney), late Manager, Bank of New South Wales' Rabaul, New Guinea. 1926/27. Passed away in Brisbane, Q’lancL, June 21, 19521 “He was a white man.”

Inserted by his friend, N. A. May.

BOOKS v?° MATTER^ where you have tried foj that English book you want, I can find it if anyone can. Booklet of testimonials free on request. To save time on both sides, I need a deposit before I commence!

This deposit must NOT be posted to U K I but paid into my account at the Bank of New South Wales, either at King’s Cross Branch, Sydney, N.S.W., or at Lambtoh Quay, Wellington, N.Z., as you prefer. Be sure to airmail me counterfoil and write name and address on the back. Full re-3 fund if no success.—Philip R. Boulton Westbury, Wilts, England.

Wanted To Buy

USED STAMPS. Will buy lightly cancelled!

New Guinea, Solomons stamps in sets one ; each y 2 d to 10/-. Pay 10/- plus 5/- fo? single £1 stamps any quantity. Also N.Z.J any Pacific Islands, and large AustJ denominations 2/6 upwards. Also ex-J change. Please mail to: A. Hartley, Box,. 81. Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea.

Meadows 4 Cyl. Marine

CONVERSION 25-50 H.P. Petrol/Kerosene Motor in first-class order, fitted with new Simplex heavy-duty plate clutch reverse gear, Flexivane water pumo,; with ball bearing drive, Scintilla impulse starter magneto, Zenith, carburettor, hot spot manifold, full pressure lubrication. The ideal i engine for heavy, pleasure, fishing or work boats.

Price: £285, plus sales tax.

HARDMAN & HALL, 161 Missenden Rd., Newtown, N.S.W.. ’Phone: LA 3597.

KASSEL'S WINES PTY.

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Wish to introduce their products already well-known throughout N.S.W. to the residents of the Pacific Islands.

We are makers of Liqueurs, Sparkling Wines, Sauternes, and Vermouth, bottlers of all Wines, Gin, Rum, Brandy, Scotch and Australian Whisky. Orders promptly attended to.

Distribution rights for certain areas available. Please write to : F. & N. KASSEL PTY. LTD. 80 Wentworth Park Road, Glebe, N.S.W.

Telegrams: Kasselwine, Glebe.

Syphoning Without

SUCKING Ingenious self-syphon unit, with patent engineered enclosed brass valves.

Kept in end of syphon tube, starts syphoning without dangerous mouthsucking—simply squeeze with fingers and syphoning starts immediately.

Ideal for drawing petrol, kero., solvents, spirits, etc., from drums or tanks of any size. Invaluable for draining fish tanks, coppers, blocked sinks, etc.

Unit is simply pushed into any V 2 inch hose or tube.

As supplied to Department of Defence.

A necessity for Islands yachtsmen, plantations, garages, warehouses, homes, etc.

Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. 20/- including prompt air mail postage anywhere in the Islands, etc.

CHELSEA DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, Mail Order Specialists.

Box 5167, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

South Seas Books Worth Reading

A PATTERN OF ISLANDS (Arthur Grimble).—A remarkable story of those dramatic and romantic atolls in the Central Pacific, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, woven into a travel-autobiography of the author. £l/2/6. Post 1/3. ° F t> T ? E ® UNRISE (Sir Peter Buck). An attempt, by the outstanding authority on Polynesia, to make known some of the romance associated with the settlement of the Pacific Islands by a Stone Age people, who were probably the greatest navigators the world has seen. Native traditions and sagas grew up about famous canoes, their commanders and navigating officers. 58 illus. £2/11/6. Post 2/-.

Free lists of Australiana and Pacific items, new and secondhand. Thousands of books in stock. Also Microscopes from £2 to £l5O. Surveying instruments, Binoculars, Magnifiers, etc. Lists on application. Write for our list of PENGUIN titles: Biography Crime, Fiction, Plays. Travel, World Affairs, etc.; also famous KING PENGUIN series.

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Announcing Return Visit . . .

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Optometrist & Optician 185 ELIZABETH ST., SYDNEY Represented by MR. BARRY W. JACKSON, A.S.T.C., F. 1.0. (Syd.) Now is visiting Popuo-New Guinea: Appointments KAVIENG Hotel Kavieng RABAUL Cosmopolitan Hotel Hove Your Eyes Examined.

Consultations Dates Hotel June 22 Kavieng Cosmopolitan June 22 to Hotel July 1 Moke an Appointment Now. 138 JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ACCOMMODATION DR. AND MRS. H. L. ZIELE, New Zealanders, wish to announce they have opened their home, centrally situated in peaceful surroundings at Double Bay, for Pacific Islands and Interstate guests, for bed and breakfast. Laundry facilities; adjacent to excellent restaurants at Double Bay; 10 minutes from City.

Under the personal supervision of Mrs.

Ziele, 37 Manning Rd., Double Bay, Sydney. Phone: FM 2761.

FLAT at Manly, Sydney.—Available winter and summer, luxury furnished, refrigerator, hot • water, phone; accommodates 5; only 5 minutes from ferry, surf, pool, views. “Manly Holiday”, C/- G.P.O. Box 417, Sydney, N.S.W.

ACCOMMODATION SYDNEY

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Phone: FA 8942 Fully serviced, exclusive and beautifully furnished modern FLATS available for short or long terms. Accommodate 2-3 persons. Meals served if required. Phones all flats. From £l2/12/- p.w. or daily rates. All services inclusive.

Positions Wanted

CHANIC, 29, married, Ex-Service with ends experience, seeks work anywhere, iressive personality and forceful •roach. Good general mechanical wledee and adaptability. Wife —office rarience. What offers? Write “Gordon”, 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., iralia.

ALIFIED SECRETARY. —Army Officer s ;ow, British, seeks position in South :ific as Secretary/Housekeeper. Shortid and typing good speed—at present ifidential Secretary to general manager large steel works. Seeks change; no umbrances; pay own passage. Reply: ~ N. Gwynn, C/o The Indian Iron & id Co., Ltd., Burnpur (West Bengal), :JNG NEW ZEALANDER, aged 27, res position in Pacific Islands, New nea for preference. Tradesman career. with good all round knowledge of ihinery and supervising men. Willing undertake any type of congenial ipation. Reply to: M. Newland, 806 ram Rd., Hastings, New Zealand. tPENTER, joiner, wide experience nds building, seeks position self and lOgrapher wife, also Islands experience, lies: “Carpenter,’’ c/- Box 3408, G.P.0., ney.

INTER, Dutch, with thorough know- ;e field extension and investigational k. organising and control, technical isory work in agriculture and crop bandry; 20 years’ experience in onesia; married, no children; can -e car, truck; references. Replies: l, c/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

ENTY-FOUR years’ old German, two rs in Australia, single, in sound canon, speaking fluent English and a .e French, wishes to obtain a position where in the Pacific from December t. I have had no previous experience cerning plantation work, but I am ing to learn and if I get a good ortunity I shall settle there perlently. Reply; Arno K. Koernig, Box Port Adelaide, Sth. Australia.

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2-Drawer Filing Cabinet

The main features of this Cabinet are: runners on each • Has suspension drawer. • Can be fitted with the famous Vetro- Mobil Filing System. • Individual Locks on each drawer. © Is 24” deep x 25” high x 18” wide. • Finished in an attractive Grey duco.

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Islands Produce

<Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA (The following are based on the MOF contract prices for 1953 in the Territories named.) PAPUA-NEW GUINEA.— Copra Marketing Board rates: Main ports, Hot air, £7O per ton; FMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £66/10/—at main ports (except Kokopo, where rates are 17/6 less). Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air; £9l; FMS, £9O/15/-; Smoked, £9O/2/6.

FIJI. —At Suva and Levuka, 1953: Plantation grade (60 points and over) £F66/5/6 per ton; FMS (45-57V 2 points) £F66; other grades from £F64/15/-, down to £F62/15/-. w. SAMOA.—MOF contract is £Stg.6s per ton, f.0.b., Western Samoa; producers receive about £lO less.

BSl.—Prices based on MOP contract of £Stg.6s, per ton, f.o.b. Rates to producers are: £A62/3/4 per ton, delivered Honiara; £A63/3/4, delivered Tulagi or Yandina; £A62/18/4, delivered Gizo.

NEW HEBRIDES.—Recent quotation: 94 Metrop. francs per kilo in store, Marseilles (£AI2I/5/10 approx, per long ton).

FRENCH OCEANIA.—Tahiti: 10.25 francs per kilo (£A74/6/- per long ton); Tuamotu 10.80 francs per kilo (£A74/6/per long ton).

COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on June 6 was £Stg.272/10/- (£A34O/12/6 approx.) c.i.f. ton, Cont. ports.

N.G.—£A2BO approx, per ton, in store, Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Sales to Prance recently brought: 250-255 Metrop. francs per kilo ( £ A322/11/ 7- £ A 329 approx, per long ton) for Superior grades; average grades, 240 Metrop. francs per kilo. (£A3O9 approx, per long ton).

Samoa.—Sydney agents in June quoted Samoan cocoa at £Stg.2so (£A3I2/10/-) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.— lslands prices ruling in June were: Papua-N.G. —Little interest in Sydney lately owing to off season.

Market likely to liven in Oct.-Nov. when new season’s crop becomes available. Last price was at 7/6 approx, per lb. (approx. £B4O per ton), which was abnormally high.

New Caledonia. —Crop mainly exported to France. Recent quotation was 398 Metrop. francs per kilo (£ASI3 approx, per long ton).

RUBBER. Papua-New Guinea. —Market fluctuates from day to day, based on price ruling in Singapore. Quotation on June 8 was: 31-15/16d Aust. lb. Singapore rate June 8 No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 66 7 sc lb. c.i.f. (approx. 29-l/16d Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS. —Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk <fe Co.j; White Label, 26/- per lb.; Yellow, 26/- c.i.f. Sydney.

Green, unavailable in Sydney at present.

RICE. —New season’s (1953-1954) price: Papua-N.G.—Dry brown £9O per ton!

Dressed £96 per ton. All other Pacifil Territories, excluding NZ Dependancie# £96 per ton.

DESICCATED COCONUT. Sydney agents quote Ceylon, l/7y 2 Stg. per lb. spot, delivered to store, Sydney (2/0 Aust. per lb.). New Guinea: 2/5% lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdaa Co. (USA) for 1952-53: AA/A/B grade! 85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, per long ton); C, 80c. lb. (£A800); D, 55c. lb. (£ A 550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE, 30c. lb. (£A3OO) —all c.i.f., New York. New price expected shortly. Cook is.— American market firm at 35 cent!

U.S. per lb., f.o.b. Rarotonga. Pro! ducers currently receive 1/8 lb. Aust. (approx. £lB7 Aust. long ton). ManihikH blacklip; Divers receiving l/4d. NZ per lb. ( £AI79 per long ton). Tuamotu blacklipl Divers receive 47 Pac. fr. per kilo (£A336 per long ton) on beach.

TROCHUS SHELL.—No interest beej shown in shell in Sydney lately. Recent quotations were: 8.5.1., £AI3S per ton; New Hebrides, £AIBO approx, per ton; N.G., £ A205-£ A2lO per ton. Fiji, Japanese reported offering £FIBO per long ton during May.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney agentl recently quoted: N.G.—£22o per ton] N.H.—£22o per ton. 8.5.1.—£200 per ton} PEANUTS.—Papua-N.G., No sales in Sydney at present owing to competition from superior Australian grades. Lastprice was 2/- per lb.

London Prices

LONDON, May 9. .

Copra, c.i.f., Continental ports, ton:— New Hebrides . .. 88.000 Metrop. franc] (£ AllB approx. 3 Nominal FM Straits, April-May £ Stg.93 (£ All6/5/- appro*. )j Celyon, FMS Nominal Philippines, bulk, April-May .. US$255 (£AII2/18/- approx.) Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton:— FM Straits, 3%% drums .. .. £Stg.l3l (£AI63/15/- annrox.) Ceylon, bulk £ Stg. 128 ( £ A 160) f Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth Con-1 tinental Ports.—Accra, May-July, £Stg.-l 12/10/- (£A2SO approx, per long ton).

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London:' B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF NZ.

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-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-] Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Madang) and BANK OF NSW (Port- Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO.

BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (branch at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Australia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs, most valuable of the three franc groups in French Union, are used In New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Pr, Oceania.

FRENCH BANK (Comptolr National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quotes (nominally); 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 175 Pac. fr. to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $ and Printed in Jt T P-’ Union House, 247 George Street. Sydney. (Telephone: BW 5037.) Wholly set up yi e Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 7101.)

one deaf aid 0 y or one ton of fruit , * & K send it by TEAL Air Cargo Whether you want to speed a deaf aid to a wealthy aunt in Samoa or a bulk consignment of tropical fruit to the New Zealand market, TEAL will provide the transport.

TEAL air cargo services operate fcr your benefit along the Coral Route — Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tahiti.

Wise people use it for personal presents because they can be sure their gifts will arrive in good order and in good time.

Wide-awake commercial enterprises freight by TEAL air cargo and bring their customers the latest goods quickly—ensure minimum delay in restocking popular lines, in meeting special orders.

Special commodity rates for bulk commodities, such as meat, butter, fruit, shipped regularly.

For personal satisfaction and better business, use TEAL air cargo. For quicker delivery of inward goods specify TEAL air cargo. * -« AP43 Enquiries and reservations from TEAL offices and Cargo Agents at all TEAL route points. (See below).

Tasman Empire Airways Limited

in association with QANTAS and 8.0.A.C.

Suva (Fiji)

AITUTAKI

(Cook Islands)

MELBOURNE AUCKLAND PAPEETE (TAHITI)

Wellington • Christchurch

JUNE, 1953 PACIFIC- ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

m « Copital £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, MO 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.” BW 4421. G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney.

In London : W. R. Carpenter Cr 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, J. R. Clay & Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1953