Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXIV, No. 6 ( Jan. 1, 1954)
1954-01-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly 1954 Vol. XXIV^NoeT If shed 1930. jH at transmission by post as a newspaper j QUEEN IN SUVA: When Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Government House, Suva, for luncheon on December 17, every member of the household staff was drawn up at the entrandce to W elcome them. Lady Garvey, wife of Fiji’s Governor, is seen on the right. —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.

"By QANTAS is the ONLY way to enjoy Tropical Travel" ny (Tmk'mi

Islands Air Services

Travel in the Tropics is timesaving and a pleasure when you fly by QANTAS —Australia’s Overseas Airline with 33 years of flying experience.

Over 50 points in the S.W. Pacific Area are linked with Australia by fast, regular QANTAS services shown below.

Norfolk Island

SERVICE Sydney • Norfolk Island • Sydney.

Suva Service

Sydney • Brisbane • Noumea • Suva • Noumea • Sydney.

New Hebrides

SERVICE Sydney • Brisbane • Noumea • Vila • Espiritu Santo • Vila • Noumea • Sydney.

Trobriand Service

Port Moresby • Samara! • Esa'ala • Rabaul • Samarai • Port Moresby.

BOUGAINVILLE SERVICE Rabaul • Buka • Kieta • Buin • Kieta • Buka • Rabaul,

Papua West Service

Port Moresby • Yule Island • Kerema • Wana • Kikori • Lake Kutubu • Daru • Kikori • Wana * Kerema • Yule Island * Port Moresby.

Solomons Service

Lae • Finschhafen • Rabaul • Buka • Vella Lavella • Yandina • Honiara • Yandina • Vella Lavella • Buka • Rabaul • Finschhafen • Lae.

Bismarck West

SERVICE Lae • Madang • Wewak • Manus Island • Kavieng • Rabaul • Madang • Lae.

Bismarck East

SERVICE Lae • Finschhafen • Rabaul • Kavieng • Manus Island • Kavieng • Rabaul • Lae.

"GOLDFIELD'S"

SERVICE Lae • Bulolo • Wau Lae.

N.G. HIGHLANDS SERVICE Lae • Nadzab • Kaiapit • Arona • Kainantu • Bena Bena • Goroka • Nondugl • Banz • Minj • Mt. Hagen • Ogelbeng • Baiyer River • Wabamunda • Wabag and return.

New Britain Service

Rabaul • Jacquinot Bay • Moewe Harbour • Talasea • Rabaul (alternatively fortnightly) • Rabaul • Talasea • Moewe Harbour • Jacquinot Bay • Rabaul.

Hollandia Service

Lae • Madang • Wewak • Hollandia and return.

Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. (Inc. in Q'land) In assoc, with 8.0.A.C. and TEAL Austral!as Overseas Airline Pl 6 PAC.FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JANUARY, 1964

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CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

William E. Reed

(Est. 1913) 145 a George St., Circular Quay, Sydney. 4ft. r 1 Folio 914. 40 ft. x 15 ft. x 5 ft. Lister Diesel.

Folio 918. 44 ft. x 14V 2 ft. 5 ft. 3 in. Lister Diesel.

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Folio 836. 28 ft. x 9 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 4 in. Perkins Diesel.

Folio 906. 40 ft. x 12 ft. x 5 ft.

Caterpillar Diesel.

A selection of our heavily constructed vessels, particularly suitable for Island conditions, offered for sale. for W 6 • 6d !* lpped dea * with all enquiries regarding the purchase of any type or class of vessel vi hntv. 6 f ll v. the * sland trade - We act as consultants to purchasers and can offer sound expert adm • e^ nmcal s and commercially, to bona fide purchasers. Send us details of your requirenttpnHrm boats, engines, or gear and you are assured of prompt and efficient Quotations obtained for either sea delivery or cradled and loaded for shipping. suggest that the question of new vessels might often be advantageously conniPi-P cnonifi W f- are m a position to be of practical assistance to bona fide enquirers and to obtain com- Tnsiimnppc prices from the best small ship builders on the East coast of Australia.

Insurances with Lloyd’s effected,

Write Or Call In When South

Cables: “Wilreed, Sydney.”

Phones; BU 3505 (3 lines) II JANUARY. 1854 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHU

London - Suva

O \RE.CT s £/?p- AV via K/ C> V PANAMA V For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To:

Bethell, Gvvyn & Co. Ltd., Burns Philp (South Sea)

„ 138 LEADENHALL ST., CO. LTD., LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FIJI New Guinea Australia Line Regular Three Weekly Service to PORT MORESBY, SAMARAI, LAE, MADANG, KAVIENG,

And Rabaul, Via Brisbane

With The Modern Motorships

“Soochow” “Shansi”

Agents for PAPUA: Agents for NEW GUINEA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD. COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

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

Telephones: BW 2731 BU 6313 (Freight only)

6 Bridge St., Sydney

Cable Address: “YUnX*

Hipping Time-Tables

[here now are comparatively few shipig lines running on regular time-tables the Pacific islands. The following timeties are only approximately correct— ly are subject to much alteration at trt notice:— Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea IV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ry six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbyaarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul naral-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. (ext sailing approximately February 6.

IV Malekula will sail from Sydney on tuary 26 for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus, wak, Madang, Lae, Samara! and return Sydney. )etails from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., 7 idge Street, Sydney.

IV Soochow and MV Shansi, modern )0 tons vessels, leave every six sks approximately (making a three- *kly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port resby - Madang - Rabaul - Pt. Moresby, Iney. Next sailing Shansi, February Next sailing Soochow, about February At end of March, Sinkiang which was tidrawn for refit some months ago, resume in this service. Sinkiang will ude Melbourne in her itinerary. •etails from New Guinea Australia Line S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge Sydney.

Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga totor vessels Tofua and Matua. from v Zealand, serve Suva (FIJI), Nuxua- > and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago o (American Samoa), Apia aoa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any Ml of above ports at approx, five weeks srvals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ), Lautoka (Fiji) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

Tofua’s next voyages are scheduled to leave Auckland January 18 and February 15.

Matua will leave Auckland on her next voyage February 6.

N. Zealand-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; her next departures from Auckland are Nov. 13, Dec. 10, and Jan. 7. On her return to Auckland after January voyage will withdraw for annual survey, expected to take about 2 months.

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

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita makes a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides III CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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 POET VlLA—Comptoirs Franoais des Nouvelles Hebrides

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

jl ■* I & till U " k 4™ H ™ el 15 centr ally situated in Suva’s main i^n 65 ! 8 - qu * rter : j Modern accommodation provides comfort in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

Telephone: 80. VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor.

Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - Rabaui - Samarai-Sydney.

Next sailing from Sydney approximately February 5.

Bndge l ‘stri r t m sjS s Pt ‘ Up & c °" ’

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritlmes 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 Marltimes. Luxurious new liners Caledonian and Tahitien recently added to this service.

Small motor-ships Polyneslen (Messagenes Maritimes) and Neo Hebrldais (H.

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

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.

Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carry- * r6g^ iar ser vice between North American porta 1“' FlJl ’ iNew C « 1? “ Q b id £ • T 0 N * xt from San Francisco Jan.

Pa P® et K e - 23 > N £ k " al ° fa ’„.f an ' 2 £’ f 0 uva ’ Feb ‘ 5 ’ Lutoka Feb. 9, Vila Feb.

Noumea, Feb. 16, Apia, Feb. 22. (Dates approx, only).

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St., SE Francisco, U.S.A.

Airways Time-Table

Trans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettl and Berths Tues. and Fri.—Sydney - Nadi (Fiji], canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Franclsco-Seatr Portland.

Tues. and Sat.—Return via same rott • Tues. and Fri.—Auckland - Nadi (Fii. • Thurs. and Mon.—Nadi (Fiji)-Aucklai, • Connecting with Strato Clipper at Naa

By British Commonwealth Pacii

Airlines (Bcpa)

(DC-6 All-Sleeper Service) Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadi (FijD-Can’i Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.’

Mon. and first Thur.—Dep. southwan same route. On second or alterm Thursday, flight commences at Francisco.

Tues.—Dep. Auckland-Nadl-Canton-Hor lulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Prl. —Dep. Vancouver and S. Francll alternatively; thence same route Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines)

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

Every Friday return by same rou

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays and Saturdays (Skymastersg Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.15 Brisbane, 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 (Wed., Sun.j Moresby, 7.30 am Lae, 8.45 Connecting services north of Lae Drover to Bulolo and Wnu.

Sundays and alt. Wednesdays (Sandringhams) Depart; Arrive: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 Brisbane, 12.20 am Cairns, 6.35 (Thur., Mon.) Cairns, 8.05 am Moresby, 11.55 (Night stow Moresby,* 8.30 am Samarai, 10.30 (Tue.) Samarai, 11.00 am Esa’ala, 11.40 ■ Ait. weeks*; Esa’ala, 11.55 pm Rabaul, 2.55 ; The alt. Wednesday Sandringham fn Sydney terminates at Port connection north to Lae on the follows uay at 9.00 am being by D.C.3. * The Sunday Sandringham from Sytbf: arrives Moresby Monday and after a nih stop then goes on to Rabaul via Samas etc., on Tuesday.

SOUTHWARDS Sundays and Wednesdays (Skymasteis Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.25 am Moresby, 11.40 C Moresby, 12.40 pm Brisbane, 7.15 Brisbane. 8.45 pm Sydney, 11.30 ( Connecting service from Wau by Dro T o Arrives Lae 9.35 am Saturday.

IV JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Protect Your Family In Time HANDS

That Never Leave

THE WHEEL man who appoints Bums Philp Trust Company Limited as his Executor is taking no risks. He is determined that his hard-earned assets can never be at the mercy of incapable or incompetent individuals. He is determined that one man’s poor judgment shall never jeopardise his family’s future. He is determined that his family will be protected at every turn by an efficient, enduring, soundly-financed institution.

In case you have not yet taken this practical step, you will find “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel” most helpful. This free 20-page booklet is obtainable from any branch of Bums Philp (South Sea) Company, Bums Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Bums Philp (New Hebrides) Limited or direct from this Company's Head office.

DIRECTORS: * James Burns. Joseph Mitchell.

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

MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.A.S.A.

Burns Philp Trust

Company Limited

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

Telegraphic Address: “Burnstrust” Box 543, G.F.O.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides ).

Thursdays (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive: Rabaul, 5.30 am R.45 am Bamarai, 9.15 am Moresby, 11.15 am Moresby, 12.15 pm Cairns, 3.40 pm Night stop.

Jairns, 8.30 am Brisbane, 2.15 pm (Fri.) Jrisbane, 3.45 pm Sydney, 7.0 pm Alt. Saturdays (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive; Moresby, 6 am Cairns, 9.25 am Jairns, 10.55 am Brisbane, 4.40 pm Jrisbane, 6.10 pm Sydney, 9.30 pm A connection from Lae, with a DCS, o pick up Saturday Sandringham, arrives a Moresby on Friday at 8.20 am. 3. N. Guinea internal Services Operated by Qantas AE —HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) very 4th Monday (Jan. 25, Feb. 22, etc.) departs Lae 8 am, calls at Madang and Wewak. and arrives at Hollandia 1.5 pm. Every 4th Tuesday (Jan. 26, Feb. 23, etc.), departs Hollandia at 9 am, and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.5 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday. ep. Lae, 10.45 am; Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus (5.45 pm) ieturns Saturdays (dep. 8 ami, via Kavieng and Rabaul; optional call at Finschhafen; arr. Lae, 2.45 pm.

MORESBY-DAEU (Sandringham) la Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikorl. L, Kutubu.—Every alternate Friday, returning same day. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

(Sandringham) t. Wed.—Rabaul-Jacqulnot Bay-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul—Jan. 27. Feb. 10, 24, etc.

N.B.—TTie direction of operation changes Ith each service, 1.e., each alternate rvlce operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe irbour-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul

New Britain-Bougainville

(Sandringham) t. Wed.—Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buin —Jan. 20, Feb. 3, 17, etc.), t. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Buka- Rabaul.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul General

SERVICE (DCS) )n., Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang arr. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., Kavieng, Rabaul arr. 3.35 pm. e. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am, direct Madang arr. 11.00 am, Lae arr 12 35 pm.

Central Highlands

(DCS) .days. —Lae (8.30 am) to Wabag, calling any of: Nadzab, Kialpit. Arona.

Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Wabag. Return to Lae arriving 6 pm.

LAE-BULOLO -WAU (Drover) p. Lae.—Tues. 3 pm.—Mon. & Sat 7.30 am. ?. Wau.—Tues. 4.30 pm—Mon. 9.00 am —Wed. 12.35 pm. Direct to Lae in 35 minutes.

LAE-FINSCHHAFEN (Drover) Jry 4th Tuesday, leaving Lae 1 pm, returning same day. (Jan. 26, Feb. 23, etc.).

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

lays.—Depart Madang 8.25 am, arrive 1 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

There's so much to do

New Zealand

Imagine a holiday in this land of breathtaking beauty!

At any time of the year there’s so much to do watching geysers play in wondrous thermal regions .. .- >v fishing in placid lake or swift-running stream or spectacular big-game waters . . . climbing in the towering Southern Alps . . . deer shooting in virgin forest . . . slaloming on perfect ski runs . . . swimming and boating in fascinating fiordlands! flying gives you so much more time Air travel will save you days in which to play, let you see so much more of this scenic wonderland.

And it’s so much more comfortable.

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US —Our New Year's Resolution is to continue to provide Islands' Residents with the Best Possible Attention and the Keenest Buying Service in the Southern Hemisphere.

YOU —Why not treat yourself to the happy Resolution of entrusting all your Buying Requirements and Produce Sales to the progressive firm that keeps faith, Mackay Kerry Pty. Ltd.? You'll never regret it* MACKAY KERRY PTY. LTD.

Islands Merchants and Traders 215 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY Cables; “Marnikay”, Sydney.

BRANCH: Papua-New Guinea: Lae, N.G.

Agents in the Pacific: . AGENCIES CO., BOX 284, SUVA, FIJI

A. Macdonald & Co., Box 14, Apia, Western Samoa

Goroka 9.00 am, returning same day; depart Goroka 0.30 am, arrive Madang 10.5 am.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company uns regular services for passengers, relght and mails to all New Guinea sttlements. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

A weekly service with Constellations etween Sydney and Amsterdam with a ill at Biak, DNG, and Manila, Philippines.

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, jrong, Merauke and Tannah Merah. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, on. (Jan. 18, Feb. 1,8, 15, etc.), Lae (dep. 6 am) Pinschhafen Rabaul Buka Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.30 pm). ie. (Jan. 19, Feb. 2,9, 16, etc) Honiara (dep. 7 am) Yandina Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Finschhafen Lae (arriving 3.30 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France. Monthly, installation aircraft dep. Saigon, Jan 9 and every 28 days thereafter for Darwln-Brisbane-Noumea, and return, istralian agents: Messageries Maritimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is. * Ansett Flying-boat Service, with Sandringhams and Hythes.

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

By Qantas, with Skymasters. ternate Thursdays (Jan. 14, 28, Feb. 11. 25, etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas. with Sandringham (Weekly Flying Boat Service) Part: Arrive: dney, Mon. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Isbane, 12.20 am (Tue.) Noumea, 7.00 am r Ca ’ 8 .3° am Vila. n. 05 am ia, 12.35 pm Santo, 1.50 pm (Night stop) nto, 6.00 am (Wed.) Vila, 7.15 am “* B ’, l5 nA am Noumea. 10.55 am umea, 1.00 pm Sydney. 8.40 pm 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva ly Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly. h , * Part: Arrive: dney, Thur. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 nm Isbane, 12.20 am p (Fri.) Noumea, 7.00 am umea, 8.30 am . Suva, 3.00 pm ' a , Sat. 6.30 am Noumea. 11.00 am umea, 1.00 pm Sydney, 8.40 pm 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is. iy NZ National Airways, with DCB’s tdays—From Auckland double service returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckiand Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Tue., Sun.—Dept. Sydney 12 midnight arr. 8.30 am following day.

Thur., Sat., Sun. —Dept. Sydney 7.30 dm, arr. 4 pm.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 am, arr 1.30 pm Mon., Tue., Wed., Thur., Fri. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney 10.30 pm Mon., Tue., Wed., Thur., Fri. Arr. 7.30 am following day.

Dep. Wellington 10.30 am Tue., Wed., Thur., Fri., Sat., arriving 3.45 pm. 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., 8.38 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland—January 26, 30, February 2,9, 16, 23. 27.

Return to Auckland on January 25, 28, February 1,8, 11. 22, 24.

Depart Arrive Auckland, 9.30 am Suva, 4.30 pm Suva. 9.00 am Auckland. 4.15 pm 16. Fiji-Western Samoa SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland, Jan. 30, Feb. 2, 16, 27.

Depart Arrive Auck.. 9.30 am Sat. Suva, 4.45 pm Sat, Suva. 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sat.

Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva 4.35 pm Sun.

Suva, 9.00 am Mon. Auck., 4.15 pm Mon. 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

In the 1953-54 season, Solents will make flights to the Chatham Is. as follows: January 27, March 11, April 8. Departure from Auckland 3.30 am, dep. Wellington. 7.30 am, arr. Chathams 10.30 am. Dep. 2.30 pm, same day for Auckland. 18. New Zealand-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents TEAL Service, Auckland-Suva-Apla- Aitutaki-Papeete, is operated with Solent Flying-Boats once every two weeks. Dep.

Auckland, Tuesday, 9.30 am. Arr. Suva 4.30 pm. Dep. Suva (Wednesday) 9.00 am, cross International Date Line; Arr.

Apia 1.55 pm Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.00 am Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.30 am Dep. Aitutaki 8.30 am. Arr. Papeete 1 pm. Return by same route every alt.

Friday, leaving Papeete 7.30 am.

The next flights leave Auckland January 19, February 2, 16. 19. Fiji-Tonga Tasman E. Airways with Solents.

Dep. Suva January 27, February 10.

Depart Arrive Auckland, 9.30 am Suva, 4.45 pm (Tuesday) (Tuesday) Suva, 7.00 am Nukualofa, 10.20 am (Wednesday) (Wednesday) Nukualofa, 2.00 pm Suva, 4.10 pm (Wednesday) (Wednesday) 3 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Suva, 9.00 am Auckland, 4.15 pm (Thursday) (Thursday) 20. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using 2-englned amphibious Catallnas, run regularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) md Saipan (Marianas). Details from rrans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 21. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Havlland Rapides Suva to Nadi & Lautoka* and return: dornings—Daily except Thursday. Afterloons—Daily except Monday.

Suva-Labasa: Dally.

Labasa-Suva: Daily.

Nadi & Lautoka to Labasa: Friday [direct).

Labasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Wednesday [direct).

Suva-Savusavu: Mon., Thur,, Sat.

Suva-Taveuni: Tues., via Labasa; Thur., la Savusavu; Mon., Wed. (direct).

Nadi-Taveuni: Mon.; via Nausori, rue., ia Nausari and Labasa, Thur., via fausori and Savusavu, • No caU on Sundays.

Approximate Airways Fares The following figures are not guaranteed ccurate, but they are approximately arrect. Details should be obtained from ae Air Company named in the Table, hless otherwise indicated, figures are in ustrallan currency.

Mr. J. A. Marais, the Postmastereneral of Fiji, has left the Colony i vacation leave accompanied by s wife and family. During his >sence Mr. L. C. Grant will act i Postmaster-General.

Famous Ship And

Old Rabaul-Ite

TRADING between Eastern Australian and New Guinea ports are a ship (the Wongala ) and a first mate (Captain C. J. R. Webb, RAN) who both have an interesting history.

The Wongala was formerly the American Antarctic exploration ship Wyatt Earp. She was built in 1919, and in the thirties she was acquired by the late Lincoln Ellsworth, famous explorer, for work in the Antarctic, Thenceforward, she was often in the news—especially in 1936, when Ellsworth and a companion crossed the Antarctic polar cap in a plane, and then disappeared. Two months later an Australian expedition found them holed up under deep snow at the Bay of Whales, a few hours before the Wyatt Earp also arrived. Wyatt Earp became a Naval vessel during World War 11.

Captain Webb was harbourmaster at Rabaul for 15 years, escaped from the Japs in 1942, and subsequently rendered distinguished service as a ship’s commander under the Navy—especially in convoy and salvage work. tl Mr. H. R. J. Lewis, the newlyappointed Crown Counsel, arrived in Suva on January 5. He is 28 and a Barrister at Law (Gray’s Inn). tl Dr. A. C. Smith of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, who is a world authority on Fiji plants, is now completing his third collecting visit to the Colony during the past 20 years. On this present 9months’ visit, Dr. Smith has been collecting plant specimens on Ovalau, Taveuni, Gau and in the Namosi hills and has found that there is a close connection between plants found in Indonesia and those obtained here, suggesting a possible land connection in a bygone age.

There are no such similarities of plant relationships between Fiji and Australia and New Zealand. 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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at M^etv stay '■m* m* 0991 m* *&,*§***■ Z****isC& desh <icf' y Ce otn Signed te otiv e , A £ *c /or “■a/ters / v, ce iy ' c Ws/ (A e frofu <m, a ° d ,/ ''■ained , at- ** <O/ - «W 0 er > W, s? r ° u gb mi >y G ra^ e Aofc, a ° iV.£° lr ess: IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial: Native Education in P-NG—Australia Talks and Boasts and Does Nothing .. 9 Knighthood for High Commissioner of Western Pacific — and Other New Year Honours 10 and 26 Higher Copra Price Expected .. 11 New Impetus in P-NG Oil Search 11 Indian Mission in Fiji 11 Internal Air Service for New Caledonia 12 Royal Visit in Outline 12 Territories’ Visitors to Canberra for Royal Visit 12 Hurricane Close to Fiji .. .. 12 Highlights of Royal Visit to Fiji and Tonga 13-17 Royal Visit Honours 18 The Administratorship of Nauru 18 Sugar Price Down £1/6/8 per ton 19 NG-Australia line to Add Third Ship 19 Do You Remember?

Extracts from the PIM of 20 Years Ago 19 Cocoa at £400 Stg, Per ton .. 20 Orient Liners on Pacific Service 20 Territories Talk-Talk 21 New Year Honours for Pacific Island Residents 26 Fijian Lost in NZ Train Disaster 27 News Items from Our Correspondents in Papu a-New Guinea 29 More Ships for Western Samoa 43 Wild Weather at Nauru .. .. 43 New Guinea’s Little Ships Lost £727,000 in 6 years 44 Spontaneous Tribute to Our Young Queen 45 No Praise for W. Samoa from Visitor 48 A Resident of Tonga Answers Mr. Pawson 49 Fiji Indians for New Caledonia 53 War Damage in the Solomons Not for Planters 57 Home-Brew Is On In Apia— Only Legal Brew Is Restricted 58 Fiji Was Green Again for the Queen —Drough Breaks .. .. 63 Wau’s Record Rainfall—and Moresby’s Record Dry .. .. 66 Awards for Disposing of BSI Bombs 68 Pacific Nature Notes 69 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 73; Charlie — Down South, 75; By Launch Through the Rewa Delta, 76; For Your Bookshelf, 77; Crossquiz and Recipes, 80 Origin of Torres Strait Pearling Industry 93 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 97 News from the Gilbert and Ellice 99 News of the Smallships .. .. 107 Conflicting Opinion on Samoan Currency 114 New High Court Judge for Cooks 115 Policy for Field Officers in New Guinea lie Samoa’s New Deal to be Discussed at End of 1954 .. .. 11"

Record Shipments of Samoan Cocoa ii?

The Islands Sent a Singing Delegation to Meet the Queen 112 NG Land Board Allocates 20,000 Acres 122 NZ Should Inquire into Niue Mission, Govt. Set-up ..

How to Keep Track of That Hurricane 122 Impressive New School for Madang Natives 132 Fiji Indians and the Royal Visit 132 Bridges Are Priority Road Problem in NG .. .. .. .. 13S The Royal Visit to Fiji in Retrospect 13"

Editors’ Mailbag 14!

OBITUARY: Mr. Arthur Lorraine; Mrs. Lucie Langdale; Mrs. W. Gibbins; Mr.

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Emile Terii Martin; Jnr.; Capt. Fletcher Quintal; Mr.

C. D. Bates; Mr. Colin Mclntosh, Mrs. A. B. Edwards; Miss Bertie Hilton; Mr.

Frederick Carr 145-14!= Duke of Edinburgh’s Role .. 15l< Menace of Our Near North— Political and Economic Conditions in Philippines and Indonesia 152< From Native Hut to the Priesthood 15S.

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Native Education in P-NG: Australia Talks and Boasts and Does Nothing lISTORY has told of the earnest person who erected a steamhammer wherewith to crack nut. You can find his counter irt in the South Pacific, in the istralian Administration which is ending at least six million lunds per annum of Australian xpayers’ money in Papua-New ainea.

In Papua-New Guinea to-day ere are platoons, companies and tttalions of earnest and sincere ople (administrators, medical icials, co-operative advisers, hour inspectors, missionaries, bool teachers) very busy on a cossal job—and wasting much of eir effort because they are misrected, and working at the wrong d.

Here are li million native people, small minority, having been in ntact with Europeans for a few cades, have improved their man status; but the great ijority, including many who have own and observed Europeans for long time, live very close to the rth, just a few degrees above the ing standards of superior anitls.

Fhese native people are primitive, t not unintelligent. Here is what irgaret Mead, writing in Sydney lily Telegraph on January 7, said them: As an anthropologist, the most imtant result which I will bring back m this return to New Guinea is that we have underestimated the speed with which very simple people can grasp the important ideas of our world.

“Because their technology was so simple, because they had bones through their noses and no way of getting more than 500 people to agree on anything, we overestimated the time it would take to turn them into money-using, tax-paying, school-going, medicine-using, responsible citizens.”

But Dr. Mead has lost the chief point. How are we going to turn them from primitive savages into responsible citizens? The crux of the problem is in the answer to the next question. Europeans have been in charge of these countries for 65 years—Australia has been responsible for them since 1914. Why, then, are the Papua-New Guinea natives, in the mass, still so ignorant and backward?

The answer is very simple. These are multiple-language countries — there is a different tongue in every valley system. Probably, nowhere in the world, in an area similar to Papua-New Guinea, is there such a Babel. Because of the absence of a common means of communication, it is impossible for even the best-intentioned Administration to deal with these people as a whole to instruct them in the simplest forms of good citizenship.

TO-DAY, in Papua-New Guinea, there is an Administration almost painfully eager to do something noticeable in raising the standard of native life. But today—after nearly 40 years of Australian control—in the realm of native affairs, the Administration can accomplish little more than vast, heavy, unco-ordinated movements, at startling cost, which accomplish very little in native advancement, simply because the Administration cannot reach the minds of the mass of natives. There is no common tongue, except the deplorable, utilitarian Pidgin— fatally easy to use, but practically valueless as a medium of worthwhile instruction in technology and self-government.

If, as Minister Hasluck says (see his address to graduates of the School of Pacific Administration) Australia’s major consideration in Papua-New Guinea is the advancement of the natives and the winning of their loyalty and friendship, surely the Administration’s primary job is the earliest possible establishment of a common means of communication and instruction.

These natives cannot be treated as one united people until they can talk to each other. They cannot be taught the simple rules of orderly and decent citizenship until they can talk to us. At present, after 65 years of European contact, and 40 years of Australian administration, they can do neither.

It would be easy to rake over the Between-Wars records, and find out why little or nothing was done then to introduce simple English to these li million primitive natives. There would be several reasons, some of them ugly. But why waste time on the errors of the

past, except to seek guidance for the future!

HOWEVER, it is reasonable to ask why so little has been done since 1945, when peace came to these Islands, to cope with the Territories’ major problem—the lack of a common tongue, for communication and instruction. Today, one may go from one end of the Territories to the other and, unless he is facile with the bastard Pidgin, he can talk only to a few groups of semi-literate natives in the coastal towns.

The official figures on native education are baffling. They say that less than 100,000 children (out of an estimated 418,000) are under some form of instruction; but from 80 to 90 per cent, of these are receiving simple tuition from the Christian Mission organisation— the total being taught in the schools of the Administration, which Australia subsidises to the extent of £6-7 millions per annum, is very small.

No one can have anything but praise for the Missions’ effort; but the man taking the over-all view is a little dismayed to find that, in the matter of establishing a common tongue, each Mission goes its own way—some use a native language, some instil simple English, many have officially adopted Pidgin. Missions’ education is administratively of little value.

An examination of the Territories’ annual reports on native education is enough to bring tears to the eyes of the people who, like Dr. Mead, believe these natives are capable of a quick lift in human status, and who know that no advance worthy of the name can be made until the mass of natives can be reached through a common language.

We have heard that a score of native scholarship winners are to be sent each year to Australia for instruction; that impressive school buildings are going up in some of the bigger towns. Those things may have their place in the ultimate plan; but, at this stage, they indicate faulty thinking and official fumbling.

THE Territories’ outstanding need, apparent for years, is a carefully-designed plan which must be persisted in with patience and confidence—under which selected natives will be trained as teachers in sufficient numbers to allow them to go out to the village schools, and begin tuition of the children, including the inculcation of a knowledge of simple English at a very early age. Eight years have passed since 1945, and if Australia had been really doing its job in Papua-New Guinea, there now would be in those Territories a number of large training schools from which hundreds and maybe thousands of young native teachers would now be going out into the villages, to commence their important task as close to the ground as possible. Instead, so far as we know, there are no such institutions, on any worthwhile scale.

There is not even machinery for the planned training of teachers (presumably European) to undertake the task of training the natives to be teachers.

The Papua-New Guinea Administration learned, long ago, that it cannot seek guidance in its native education problem from other South Pacific countries, like Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti. Those are onelanguage countries. It is a simple task to train selected natives to take charge of the village schools, and to begin the inculcation of a European language as early as possible. But that is not necessary, anyhow. In those countries, most of the trained officials learn the native language, and can communicate directly with the natives.

It is quite different in Papua- New Guinea. It is impossible for the officials to learn the multitude of primitive tongues. It is impossible to train, entirely as one body, the native teachers who ultimately must go out to introduce simple English among the village children —the native teachers themselves must first be selected according to a system which will provide for each lingual district a trained teacher familiar with that language and, after that, he himself must be taught to teach simple English —a truly colossal task.

IT is sheer waste of time and exuberance for Australia to give all these public assurances about raising the standard of native life, and training the natives to become good citizens, while the major problem of how to communicate with the natives—and especially the young natives in a formative state —has not only not been solved, but has not been seriously tackled.

Apart from the earnest, but unco-ordinated Mission work in village schools, there is no native education systefrn worthy of the name. Native scholarships, a few technical schools, the training of a couple of scores of native teachers at Sogeri and elsewhere —these may be worthy in themselves, but they can be of real value only if they supplement a broad-based scheme pf native education. Of that, there ls . *|o sign. Until there is something of the sort, there is little justification for the expenditure in Papua- New Guinea of Australian subsidies at the rate of six or seven millions per annum. tT Lieut-Colonel A. O. Baldwin, MC, a distinguished Australian Regular Army officer, has arrived in Papua- New_ Guinea to take command of the Pacific Islands Regiment, which nas been licked into good shape in the last couple of years. His wife and two children will reside in Port Moresby.

France May Get

New Hebride

Effect of Secret Talks No[?] Going On SECRET discussions between tlr highest British and Frenct officials in the Southwes Pacific, now in progress, indicat that Britain is likely to withdra\ from the Condominium, leaving tlr New Hebrides entirely to France.

In the latter half of last centur: when Western European countrie were eagerly seeking colonies, botl Britain and France laid claim t the New Hebrides (80 islands, 5,70 square miles, about 45,000 natives] They ruled the group jointly fc means of a naval commission fron 1887 until 1906, when the presen Condominium was established. I has been called “Pandemonium.”

British interests there (repro sented mostly by Burns Philp & C»!

Ltd., and the Presbyterian Missioc —both Australian) have merely hel on during the last 50 years. Mosi of the group’s settlement and ire dustry is French. Most of the noir French trade (perhaps 50 per cem of the total trade) is with Australia After the war, a plan that Aus tralia should take over the Solomom and Britain’s share of the Ne T !

Hebrides from Britain, was discusses in London and Paris. Britain, tires of paying out endlessly on thes two unprofitable territories, ws agreeable; but the Australian Gow ernment turned down the planthey said Australia had all tlr Islands’ expense and bother shl wanted in Papua-New Guinea.

When Sir Robert Stanley becarm High Commissioner for the Westen Pacific, in 1952, he applied himseis to a solution of the economij problem. (Solomons, New Hebride and Gilberts are in his charged Evidently logic and hard facts haw led him, step by step, to the pr© sent proposal. Australia does no want the New Hebrides; Britaii has failed completely to do anythim with them, and is weary of the ex pense; so let France have them He has had several talks with thi French. Just recently he sent BS Treasurer lan Mackay to Vila oo “a highly secret mission.”

It has been arranged that thi French High Commissioner for thi High Pacific, whose headquarter are in Noumea; the British anc French Resident Commissioners fo the New Hebrides, from Vila; ann certain other high officials, shae meet Sir Robert Stanley at thi latter’s headquarters in Honian (BSD early in March. They wir make certain recommendations.

Australian interests are closed affected. Half NH trade is witf Australia. Australian shipping ana air lines run to NH ports. Ausj tralia owns at least 100,000 acre' of first-class land there —a gift from the late Sir James Burns. 10 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

[?]Igher Copra

Price Expected

LTHOUGH no official announce- L ment had been made at mid- January, the expectation was neral throughout the British *rritories of the South Pacific at the British Ministry of Food ntract price of copra would be sreased by 10 per cent, as from nuary 1.

Fhe 9-years contract provides at the price shall not rise or H by more than 10 per cent, in _y one year. As the open market ice of copra during most of 1953 md especially at the latter end vas more than 10 per cent, above s contract price, a general rise is afidently anticipated. [n mid-December, the market otation in London for FM Straits s around £9O Stg., c.i.f. European rt. The report said; “The deind still appears to exceed iply, and there seems to be no akness in prices.”

Price Of Whale Oil

Norway’s nine whaling fleets lich are operating in the Antarcthis autumn have already sold >st of their anticipated catch of at prices ranging from £67/10/jrling to £7l per ton. The average ce of £6B/5/- Stg. this season dws a fall of £3/5/- on the srage price of last season’s whale . The Norwegian fleets’ catch of tale oil—which this year will be out 160,000 tons—is now an imrtant factor in the vegetable oil irket.

Mv Kurimarau

HE 300-ton motor vessel, Kurimarau (from Solomon Islands and Fiji), has been berthed at Hina Slipway and Engineering mpany’s wharf (NSW, North ast) Since October 25. It is bered that the Kurimarau will rein at Ballina until she is sold.

New Impetus

IN

P-Ng Oil Search

AFTER a hold-up extending over several months, operations should soon be resumed at the Australasian Petroleum Co.’s Omati No. 1 bore in Central Papua, where a drill collapsed and jammed just after the bore had reached a depth of about 2i miles, and reported extreme pressure of gas.

New equipment from America is now arriving at Omati and the Co. reports it “expects to change the well-head early in February to enable resumption of operations for recovery of the stuck drill pipe.”

A road has been built to another Omati location (No. 2) and a site for drilling another bore is being prepared.

The discovery of oil in West Australia has sharply re-awakened interest in the Panua bores. Although nothing much has happened in Papua for months—except of course an important extension of surveys by air operations—the shares of Oil Search Ltd. (one of the APC partners) have risen quickly in value; and even the shares of the once little-thoughtof Papuan Apinaipi Co. have come in for flattering attention.

Coffee In Samoa?

APIA, Dec. 31.

IT is suggested that coffee-growing be expanded here. Coffee of excellent quality is grown in Samoa, and there is a large and growing demand for this product in New Zealand and Australia. Our present production is barely sufficient to supply the local demand. if Miss Leone Skelly, youngest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr.

E. C. Skelly, of Samarai, has announced her engagement to a young Brisbanite, Mr. Collingwood Row.

Indian Mission In

FIJI A Formal Welcome THE new Commissioner, who has been sent to Fiji by the Government of India to maintain contact with the Indian community in Fiji, Dr. N. V. Rajkumar, was formally welcomed in Suva on December 28 by the Indian Association of Fiji. He holds the degrees of MA, LLB, and PhD.

The vice-president of the Association, Mr. A. I. N. Deoki (who was chairman) and the general secretary, Mr. Shankar Fratap, and Messrs. Bakshis Singh, Bhukhan Jagjeevan and Hari Charan delivered formal speeches of welcome.

Dr. Rajkumar. addressing the gathering, described the remarkable progress made by India since she attained independence 61 years ago; and he then made the following references to conditions in Fiji; “This is not the occasion to harp upon the difficulties you have here and on your needs and requirements. That, primarily, is a matter for the Government of Fiji and I am confident that the authorities here have your interests at heart and will do all that is possible to redress your grievances.

“A great majority of you are Fijiborn and are British subjects. You have no interest or interests in India except in a cultural sense or by way of trade or business. Your future is tied up with the people of local origin: and let me tell you they are a fine people. In no field of activity do your interests conflict with theirs.

“All of us are Asians and we have a common way of life. Let us therefore help each other and work with each other—not for the sake of opposing any other group, not for the purpose of encouraging racial separation, but to strive unitedly with others for the establishment of human solidarity and world peace.

“The Indian Mission is here to help you in all ways open to it as a diplomatic centre and we expect your support and co-operation in the task we have undertaken. You are always welcome in our office.

“We shall be glad to render you any service or assistance we can and we hope you will avail yourselves fully of the library and other cultural facilities that we have provided for you and hope to develop for you in future.”

Photograph at welcome In Suva to New Indian Commissioner. Mr. Shankar Pratap is speaking; and beside him, from right, are: Mrs. Deoki, Dr. Rajkumar, Mr. Deoki and Mrs. Rajkumar. 11 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

Internal Air Service For New Caledonia MR. SYLVESTRE LECONTE, described by Sydney newspapers as a rich mine-owner and planter from Noumea, was in Sydney in mid-January seeking the purchase of a 12-passenger Avro Anson, with which he proposed to establish an airways service within New Caledonia.

He said that the new service would use the various district airfields built by the Americans in New Caledonia during the war, and that he anticipated the plan would be financially successful because “most of the passengers will be natives and they have plenty of money these days.”

He was seeking an Australian pilot. ("Editors’ Mailbag” appears this issue on page 141)

January 23 Ceremonies

In Australia

MEMBERS of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney and the Ex-Servicemen’s Club and friends will meet in Martin Place, Sydney, at 8 a.m. on January 23, to place wreaths on the Cenotaph.

This is an annual ceremony in remembrance of the men who lost their lives as a result of the invasion of Rabaul, New Guinea, by the Japanese on January 23, 1942.

Arrangements are in the hands of the Ex-Servicemen’s Club whose headquarters are at the Hunter Club, George Street.

Melbourne Ceremony

Members of the New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne will join, on January 24, with members of the 2/22nd Battalion, AIF in a service at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, in memory of New Guinea fallen.

The 22nd Battalion, which was the garrison battalion in Rabaul at the time of the invasion, lost heavily of its men on January 23, 1942, and subsequently.

The well-known 6,000 tons liner Merkur was taken over by a Japanese crew in Singapore in December. She goes to Japan to be broken up. She was built by the Germans in 1924, bought by Burns Philp in 1935 and—except for war service in 1941-45—she has been mostly on the Australia-Malaya run.

Islands Delegations To Meet Queen In Austral’n Capital THE whole of the delegations from Papua-New Guinea, Nauru, Northern Territory and Norfolk Island, at the invitation of the Australian Government, will meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the following functions in Canberra: Sat., Feb. 13 —Official welcome on arrival in Canberra.

Mon., Feb. 15 —11.30 a.m.: Reception of Territories Delegations at Government House. 2.30 p.m.:Opening of Parliament.

Wed., February 17—11.30 a.m.: Presentation of colours at Duntroon Military College. 4 p.m.: Garden Party, Government House.

The Administrators only will attend some other functions, such as the State banquet and the State Ball; but, if accommodation permits, the whole of the Delegations will be invited to the State Ball on the evening of the 17th.

Names of delegations have been published. Two natives have been added to the P-NG delegation. A special plane will take 20 native police to Canberra on January 31.

Nauru will be represented by the secretary of Nauru Local Government Council, Head Chief Gadabu and a party of Boy Scouts.

Hurricane Close to Fiji A HURRICANE which passed close to Fiji in mid-January then passed off down towards the New Hebrides and New Caledonia without causing more than normal storm damage to Viti Levu. The Yasawas were near the centre of the storm. Fijian and Indian fishermen have been reported missing.

Strong winds and rain, at the edge of the hurricane caused widespread flooding in Viti Levu and other parts of Fiji. Road and air transport was held up.

Rush of Indians to New Caledonia Not Expected AS a first move in the possible employment of Fiji Indians in New Caledonia mines and plantations, a Labour delegation visited the French Territory from Suva m December. (See also De- PIM and page 53, this issue),. ~ . delegation consisted of the commissioner of Labour, Mr. C. S. 5R*. Ami Chandra, president 2L? 16 FlJ * industrial Workers’ Congress, and Mr. B. Raghvanand.

Delegates found cost of living to oe much higher than in Fiji, thus offsetting the seemingly attracts rates of pay.

It is believed that a small groo of labourers might accept emplo, ment in New Caledonia on a trh basis before there is likely to any major transfer of labour.

Royal Visit to Fiji and Tonga in Outline Dec. 17 (Thurs.) — Gothic anchor at 8 a.m .in Suva Harbour. Quei Elizabeth and the Duke of Edii burgh went ashore an hour lab; and entered upon a very full pn gramme (see details in Novemb PIM), which kept them engage until 11.30 p.m. They slej aboard Gothic.

Dec. 18—After a ceremony in t: Legislative Council, the Ros couple went by flyingboat Lautoka, where they spent aj other full day of ceremonies ai entertainment. They slept agaaboard Gothic. (At this stage, the original pr gramme was altered . It had pr vided that, on the morning of So c urday, December 19, the Goth should leave for Tonga, where U Royal couple would disembark i Sunday morning, to spend a ft hours ashore with the Queen Tonga. But, in October, wh< Queen Elizabeth learned that h arrival on Sunday morning wow embarrass the Tongans —wK wished to celebrate the Roy couple’s arrival with tradition feasting and dancing, but were n luctant to engage in such mern making on the Sabbath — she n quested that the itinerary be altera Accordingly, on Saturday mornn the Queen and the Duke left ti Gothic and went by flyingboat Nukualofa, to which port the Gotl followed them.) Dec 19 (Sat.) —The Royal coun arrived by flyingboat in Nuku) lofa at noon, and were greeted the wharf by Queen Salote a s the Tongan leaders. There was colourful programme of cen monies and entertainment in ti afternoon when the Royal Pan was entertained at huge nativ style feast on malae, alongsr; palace; later, from a dais, thri watched dances, songs, welcoit ceremonies, presentations. Afte wards, Queen Elizabeth rested . palace, while Duke swam lagoon. In the evening there w i a dinner party and dance at ti home of the British Consul (M and Mrs. J. E. Windrum). Qu© Elizabeth’s party spent the nig? in the Royal Palace at Nuki alofa, especially prepared for ti occasion.

Dec. 20 —There were some furtH; ceremonies, but the Royal coup spent a quiet and restful day wv Queen Salote. In mid-afternoo they embarked on the Gothic : Auckland, NZ. 12 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

Highlights Of Royal Visit

To Fiji And Tonga

For five successive days, Fiji and Tonga held the front pages of Australian newspapers, with tens of thousands of words from special :orrespondents, press associations, feature writers and sob-sisters.

The following are some of the highlights culled from this very mixed mass of reports.

Her Majesty’S Smile

“In the first day of her Suva visit he Queen won the hearts of all. rhose who saw or met Her Majesty or the first time to-day found all heir expectations more than realised. ‘She is a lovely woman,’ one aid. ‘And she has more than ieauty—she has grace and charm.’

Jut she will be best remembered in >uva for her smile —a smile that ights up her whole face, adds a winkle to her eye and sets everyne smiling in return.” — Sydney lorning Herald.

The Bamboo Curtain

“Organisers in Suva have gone ut of their way to please the Jueen. They have used 30,000 amboo poles up to 30 ft long in alisades to hide the city’s eyesores, r hich were caused by the disstrous September earthquake. They bought the Queen might be sick nd tired of red, white and blue unting flags everywhere, and so ave tried to keep the decorations epical of Fiji life and customs.” — unday Sun.

Fiji’S Distinguished Chief

“In a Legislative Council ceretony, leading Fijian chief, Ratu ir Lala Sukuna, who was educated i England, formally welcomed the •ueen to Fiji. The Queen paid ose attention as Sir Lala—of strikig appearance, with grey hair and ishy eyebrows—read his address i a cultured English accent.”— ydney Daily Mirror.

In the; recorded version of the oyal visit, broadcast in Australia few days later, the most im- •essive feature, next to Her [ajesty’s speech, was Sir Lala ikuna’s delivery of this address, is voice was strong and resonant, s emphases just right, and his :cent perfect.

Hula Girls In Tears

“Hula Girls Unhappy At Royal Dur Upset—Their dance, to be a ghlight of the State Ball, was canned. The dancers were in tears... aurice Scott, DFC, goodlooking irrister, who trained the girls, ught ‘stiff shirts’ to have the hula mce put on the programme. . . r. D. A. Butler, one of the comittee, agreed that when the Gothic rived and the programme was bmitted, someone blue-pencilled e hula girls’ dance, which was e only entertainment of the eveng. . . The hula girls’ appearance had been hotly debated for two months. . . Lady Garvey, who personally met the girls, said: T think the idea is very imaginative, and the dance is very nice.’ ” — Sydney Daily Telegraph.

The girls were Polynesians mostly Samoans. The hula is interesting and even exciting for casual tourists, but probably is not sufficiently decorous for a State ball, with Royalty present. However, most of the visitors—including some of very high rank—did see the dance, though not in the GPH ballroom.

Bearers Of Flowers

“First to greet Her Majesty (at Lautoka wharf) was 9-years-old Subadhara, a pupil of Drasa Indian School, who was chosen by a system of intelligence tests and knowledge of English to present a bouquet to the Queen .’’—Sydney Daily Telegraph.’ ’ . . . When the Queen stepped onto Suva wharf, 4-years-old Mei Kainona Ganilau, daughter of Major Ratu Penala Ganilau, second-incommand of the Fiji Battalion in Malaya, was waiting. Slowly the little girl, her eyes fixed unblinkingly on the Queen, came forward carrying a bouquet almost as big as herself. She presented the flowers . . . and stepped back three slow deliberate paces, sank to the ground and clapped her small, cupped hands three times, to show the traditional form of respect. The Queen turned to the Governor and said, ‘How lovely!’”— Sydney Daily Telegraph.

“While the band played the British National Anthem, Queen Salote’s tiny grand-daughtsr came forward to greet Queen Elizabeth.

Curtseying, she presented the Queen with a shell basket, brimming with tropical flowers.”— Sydney Sunday Sun-Herald.

Her Majesty’S First Kava

“The Queen and the Duke watched the preparation (of kava) intently, and the Queen frequently turned to Sir Ronald Garvey . , . obviously asking for information about the ceremony: and some of the Governor’s replies made her laugh. . . When all was ready, they poured some into a coconut bowl, and this was taken with great ceremony to the Queen. Her Majesty held out a smaller bowl and, when it was filled, she drained it—upon which another great sigh came from all over the ground. . . The Duke (Continued on Page 16) In Nukualofa, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected Tonga’s returned servicemen. —Photo by Hettig. 13 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

The Queen in Tonga (Above) and Fiji (Right) The photographs on this page were ta Ton l i n ff T °n ga ° n December 19 and 20.

Top left shows an informal groun the private picnic luncheon given to Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin burgh by Queen Salote, at her country home out of Nukualofa, on Sunday 7 December 20. Princess Mata’aho, wife of Crown Prince Tugi, is fastening a Tongan Id around the neck of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Melainaite, wife of Prince Tmpelehake, performs a similar service for the Duke.

Top right shows the two Queens entering the Wesleyan Church, Nukualofa for morning service on December °0 Lower left—Some of the Tongans who ited in the Public Park at Nukualofa, December 19, to welcome the Royal ■ isitors. w Lower right Farewell to Tonga, rincess Mata’aho makes her curtsey to leen Elizabeth. It was noted that, hough Queen Salote had been laughing and gay throughout the two days’ visit, the Royal barge pulled away from ' ukualofa wharf she looked very sad. and close to tears.

The Photographs On Page 15

ARE: Top row: The Queen, accompanied by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, steps ashore at Suva. At right, the Duke shakes hands with one of the students at the Central Medical School, Suva, shortly after the Queen had openedb the new building, on the afternoon ofh December 17.

Centre—The Royal Party arriving atlj Albert Park, Suva, for the Fijian cere--; monies. The Queen is followed by Ratuo Sir Lala Sukuna, the Duke, Sir Ronaldb and Lady Garvey.

Lower—ln morning coat and sulu, Ratuti Sir Lala Sukuna, Secretary for Fijiann Affairs, presents to Her Majesty thesj Colony’s address of welcome. Thes ceremony took place in Fiji’s Legislatives Council Chambers on the morning oft< December 18. —All these photographs by Rob Wrighfeh of Fiji Public Relations Office. 14 January, 1954 pacific islands monthly^

15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

(Continued from Page 13) drained the shell, amid further cries of approval.”— Sydney Morning Herald.

The Royal visitors had been warned that, while Europeans can in time become quite fond of this famous Polynesian beverage, the first taste is somewhat shocking; but that the kava bowl, like the tabua, is interwoven deeply with Fijian tradition and ceremony, and must on no account be treated lightly.

Whence Came This Ancient

GENT?

“Greatest attraction for the Royal visitors to Tonga probably is the tortoise presented to the King of Tonga in the 1770’s by Captain Cook. It ranks with Tongan nobles, and is by far the oldest inhabitant of the kingdom, as well as the only one of its kind in the Pacific.” — Melbourne News Pictorial. Interesting query not answered: Where did Captain Cook get the famous tortoise?

They Said It With Flowers

“Tens of thousands of Fijian and Indian people, from the canelands of northern Viti Levu and the rich goldmines of the Tavua field, pouring into Lautoka to welcome the Royal visitors, brought with them flowers by the truckload and greenery by the ton. The whole of the Royal path was decorated, so that the Queen and the Duke passed under flower-laden arches, alongside suspended baskets of crimson flamboyant blooms, placed every few yards along the roads. . .

Orchids of all types were used in decorations. One group of 50 choice blooms was sent by air to Lautoka as a gift from the people of Hawaii.”— Reuter.

Over-Coloured Report

• “Royal Ball Was a Dismal Failure —Tired Queen Left Early—The Costly State Ball at the Grand Pacific Hotel was a dismal flop. The tired Queen didn’t enjoy herself, nor did anybody else. Her first day in Fiji had been too long and too hard a typical example of an overfull programme. . . She didn’t have one dance and took a quick look at the sumptuous supper, but didn’t ea £ - * LIS P- m -> well before schedule, she left the ball by slipping through a side entrance. This is always a sure sign that the Queen is not enjoying herself.”— Sydney s u?}- .The Sun also published an editorial headed, “Strain on the Queen.”

None of the reports in other newspapers, however, suggested that the ball was a “dismal flop” or that the Queen was unhappy or resentful Their reports indicated that Her Majesty was tired, at the end of a long and strenuous day. She did not dance; but she chatted, with obvious interest, with the manv nromment people of the four commumties—European, Fijian, Indian and Chinese—who were presented to her at the GPH ballroom.

Quick Broom-Work

“The Queen and the Duke then visited the new Anglican Cathedral in Suva. They were met by the Bishop in Polynesia, the Right Rev.

L. S. Kempthorne, whom a few minutes previously the Queen had invested with the CBE.

“There was some consternation when, within a minute of the Queen’s approach, it was noticed that a watertable near the pathway, where the Queen and the Duke would alight from their car, was full of leaves.

“Hurriedly, an immaculately white-clad missionary dashed into the cathedral, found a broom, and did some fast sweeping up. He returned the broom and then took his place in the line of clergy assembled: to meet the Queen. It was touch and go as a few seconds later the Queen’s car stopped and she alighted.”—Sydney Morning Herald\

Thrill For The Hennings

“This evening (Dec. 16), while the ships lay in the lee of Naitambs Island, the Queen and the Duke ot Edinburgh, from the Gothic, visited the escorting NZ cruiser, BlacK Prince. Maori members of the BlacK Prince’s crew gave a haka.”—Melbourne Age. This appears to have been a bright incident in the history of Naitamba, which is the family home of veteran planter Mr Gus Hennings.

Queen's “Lovely Day" at Lautoka The Queen and Royal Party flew across Viti Levu to Lautoka, the sugar-canoi capital of Fiji, on December 18. There, there was much more informality than therehad been in Suva. The Queen said, on leaving, that she had had “a lovely day."

Photograph shows Her Majesty shaking hands with Mr. C. A. Prashad, of Lautoka.s The Duke and the Mayor of Lautoka, Mr. C. A. Adams, look on. —Photo by Prasad’s Studios (Lautoka). 16 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY*

Reds In Fiji?

“Fiji—an Isle of Beauty with a Problem” —Melbourne Age. A fair review of the very familiar racial problem. This paragraph is interesting: “That there is violent inti-British, pro-Communist agitation in Fiji no one can or would ieny; but there is little agreement )n whether the Communists constitute any potentially serious nenace to the Colony.” We should lave thought that there was general agreement that they do not.

On Nukualofa Wharf

“An historic meeting between wo Queens —petite Elizabeth II of England, and tall Salote of Tonga -took place in steamy heat at Nukualofa wharf at noon to-day December 19). Queen Salote, 6ft : in. and weighing 18 stone, ruler if the world’s smallest monarchy, owered over the delicate figure of Jueen Elizabeth, 5 ft 4 in., ruler if the world’s largest monarchy. . . rhe wharf, 400 yards along, was overed on both sides with tapa, leads, skirting and woven bags— recious possessions of the Tongans, eadily loaned for this important ccasion.” — Sydney Daily Mirror. (The newspapers subsequently reorted that a large portion of the recious Tongan decorations, along tie wharf, were “souvenired” by tie crews of the Gothic and Black ’rince . The latter, presumably, did lot realise the value, actual and mtimental, of the artifacts).

From Pitcairn

A large basket, made specially for ’rincess Anne by the women of Pitairn Island, was presented to the Jueen in Suva by Mr. and Mrs. ohn Christian, who were special uests of the Fiji Government durig the Royal visit. The Queen was iterested to meet a direct descendnt of Fletcher Christian, leader of le Bounty mutineers, 150 years ago.

Salote As Royal Hostess

“The Queen of the Friendly slands has taken charge personally f the whole programme of Queen lizabeth’s two-days’ visit. Wellnown to her people as a poet and mg writer, she has composed a mg of welcome called a lakalaka, )r the men and women of Tonga ) sing to Queen Elizabeth on Satrday. She has designed the tapa loth decorations for the wharf, had le whole palace repainted (she has erself moved into a nearby angalow), she has lined the garden eds with huge clam shells vividly ainted with the British Royal rms, and local fish and flower degns, and has supervised rehearsals f the dancing. . . She has taken irticular care over the Queen’s Brsonal likes and dislikes—no wired owers, no magenta colouring, and ouquets to be presented by chilren, and not by adults.”— Sydney lorning Herald.

At Nukualofa Party

“The Royal party stayed at the ance (in Nukualofa) until about 1.30 p.m. The Queen received all the guests, but she did not dance.

She sat out as a gesture of courtesy to Queen Salote, who does not dance. The Duke danced with his hostess (Mrs. Windrum) and the Princesses Mataaho and Malenaite, who are the wives of Queen Salote’s two sons.” —Sydney Daily Telegraph.

J. Arthur Rank Colour Film

Newsreels covering the Royal Visit to Fiji and Tonga were showing in New Zealand and Australia —and doubtless all over the world —by Christmas. The camera work could not be faulted—but there were some glaring errors. Most obvious was a splendid series of shots of singers entertaining the Queen and Duke at Nukualofa—but the music, apparently dubbed in, in the studio, was Fiji’s national song, Isa Lei.

Tongans and Fijians might well feel disgusted with the musical error in this film.

The J. Arthur Rank colour film (made in Association with NZ National Film Unit), shown in Australia in the New Year, was excellent. It gave intimate closeups of the Royal Party’s progress through Fiji and Tonga—and made it quite obvious that the general public will see much more of the Queen and Duke through the medium of the film, than by standing in packed crowds in the street.

Those Cancelled Dances

NO word of official explanation has ever been given about the removal of Polynesian dancing from the programme of the State ball at Suva on December 17, after it had been approved.

It was originally announced that dances would be given by girls from Islands groups not included in the Royal tour. Criticism of that plan was based on the fact that during the limited time the Queen and the Duke would be at the ball they would be on the Grand Pacific Hotel balcony for 15 minutes, during which massed Fijian choirs would sing outside; and that hula-dancing in any form would not fit into the Fijian pattern, or, for that matter, into the formal pattern of a State ball.

It was also argued that, if anything of the kind were attempted, the first non-Fijian claimants should be from the Western Pacific territories, leaving out Western Samoa and the Cook Group, which are New Zealand’s concern anyway.

There was a strong European feeling that the Fijians had more than earned the right to first place during the Royal visit to Fiji, and when it was rumoured that the proposed floor-show was strongly tinged with Hawaiian-American ideas, with possibly a flavour of Tahiti, opposition hardened.

A Sydney paper has alleged that official Suva rejected at least some of the proposed dances as “too erotic”—and, for once, Sydney allegations about Fiji may be right.

Night Guard for Elizabeth II Around Tongan Palace IN order to avoid transgression of the Tongan Sabbath, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on Saturday, December 19, flew directly to Nukualofa from Suva (instead of going on by the Gothic, arriving Sunday morning, as originally planned). Thus, the Royal Party had to spend one night (Saturday) in Nukualofa.

For their accommodation, Queen Salota vacated her famous old wooden palace in Nukualofa, and it was specially refurbished and decorated for the great occasion. The palace, while it housed the world’s greatest monarch, was placed under an all-night guard; and this is how the Fiji Public Relations Officer described the remarkable scene: WHEN the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh had retired, Tongan men sat in groups all night round little fires, to guard them. Dry coconut leaves had been bound in long bundles to form torches, and four men sat round each fire, keeping each torch alight Queen I Kamap THE Pidgin newspaper Rabaul News of December 19, announced the arrival of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in Fiji and Tonga in this fashion: DISPELA wik Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II i kamap Fiji na Tonga.

This is how later Fiji proceedings were described: Bihain tupela igo malolo na kaikai long Government House.

Long avinun oli presentim Queen long wanpela ring pearl. Duke long sitik bilong wokabaut, Prince Charles long wanpela liklik kanu na Princess Ann long wanpela doll. Long nait Queen na man bilong em tupela i kamap long bigpela danis long Suva.

The first sentence means that: This week the Queen arrived (came up) at Fiji and Tonga. The rest says that: Later the Queen and the Duke (tupela or two-fella) rested and ate at Government House, then, in the afternoon, the Queen was presented with a pearl ring, the Duke with a “stick-walkabout,” Prince Charles with a model canoe and Princess Ann with a doll. At night, the Queen and her husband (man bilong em) went to a big dance in Suva.

As others have pointed out —if they ever intend to teach the natives of New Guinea straight English, feeding them the peculiar lingo that written Pidgin has now become seems a strange way to go about it. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

at the fire. As one torch burnt out another was taken up and lit.

The scene just before dawn was one of utter peace. An enormous full moon was just setting beyond the Norfolk pines and casuarinas around the palace. The guards sat in silent vigil round the building w r here their Queen’s guests were sleeping.

The cocks began to crow and then church bells rang briefly; and, just as the sky began to glow in the east, a chorus of crickets broke the silence.

Then, blended with these sounds, came the plaintive tones of four nose flutes, blown by Tongan men seated on the verandah below the Royal bedrooms.

As day came more fully, suddenly the fires were put out and the night guards disappeared and the ordinary palace guards in white uniforms took their place. Garden boys appeared and began to pick up leaves. There was a general air of stirring.

The second day of the Royal Visit had begun.

After breakfast, Queen Elizabeth spent some time in the palace grounds photographing the ancient tortoise, Tui Malila, which Captain Cook left in Tonga. Then the two Royal families drove to service at the enormous Methodist Church in Nukualofa.

There was little feasting or ceremonial on the Sunday.

After the church service, the Royal Party went 12 miles out to Queen Salote s country estate, at Kauvai, where a leisurely picnic luncheon was taken before they returned to Nukualofa, and embarkation on the now waiting Gothic. The Gothic sailed soon after 3 p.m., amid remarkable demonstrations of affection and farewell.

The bonds created on two notable occasions in 1953, between the Royal W } U i SOr ’ of En Sland, T^ bou > °1 Tonga—the largest and the smallest monarchies—will vSiTfSH forgotten. The occasions were the Coronation, and the Pacino Tour of Queen Elizabeth II; and the V%?j dent Jj w . ere inspired by the goodiv^Li 0 ,r ith (More About Royal Visit on pages 133, 137, etc.) Two prominent Christian leaders expected to make separate visits to Fiji next year:—Dr. Rajah Secretary for Asia for the World Council of Churches in mid-June, en route to America after visiting Australia and New Zeai a r n & o then , in July, the Rev. Dr W. E. Sangster, prominent Methodist minister of England, will spend a week in the Colony p a

Royal Visit

HONOURS WHILE in Fiji, Queen Elizabeth conferred honours upon the following persons: Knight Commander Victorian Order —The Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG.

Commander Victorian Order —Mr.

J. W. Sykes, Tour Manager.

Member Victorian Order —Messrs.

E. K. Laws (Police Commissioner) and H. G. R. McAlpine (Western District Commissioner); and Captain J. McGrane (pilot of the Royal aircraft).

Royal Victorian Medal —Usaia Tiko (Queen’s chauffeur), Mr. D. Wright (Lautoka Public Works), Ratu Rusiata Tauriiwai (Queen’s Matanivanua—ceremonial spokesman for the Queen).

IN TONGA Knight Grand Cross of Royal Victorian Order —Queen Salote.

Member Victorian Order —Mr. J. E.

Windrum, British Consul.

Special Honour For

Sir Lala Sukuna

Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George —Sir Lala Sukuna, KBE, leader of the Fijian community.

MEDALLIONS Commemorative medallions for services in connection with the Royal Visit to Fiji were awarded to the following:— Mrs. A. Koster (housekeeper, Government House); Mr. E. Haddock (gardener, Government House); Mr. N. Prasad (chauffeur. Government House).

Lieut. Commander G. R. Woods (hon.

ADC); Captain W. G. Cox (hon. ADC); Fit.-Lieut. G. C. Benseman (hon. ADC).

Mr. F. H. Beckett, Mr. D. A. Butler.

Miss F. Charlton, Mrs. R. Collingwood.

Dr, T. A. Doran.

Mr. A. J. Elphick, Supt. H. Halstead, Miss N. J. Hunt.

Mr. W. G. Johnson.

Mr. W. G. Knapman.

Mr. A. L. Lambourne, Mrs. D. M.

Lonngren.

Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane, Mr. H. A.

Mitchell.

Mr. H. M. Scott, Supt. H. S. Sell.

Mr. L. G. Usher.

Mr. R. Whidborne.

A replica of the Coronation Bible Will be placed in the Anglican Cathedral at Dogura, Papua, in memory of a missionary and his family who perished in the Mount Lammgton volcanic disaster of January, 1951. The copy (only 25 were printed) was bought by bamarai business man, Mr. R. S.

Bunting, who presented it to the Secretary of the New Guinea Mission, Rev. E. L. Francis, in London, in November.

The Administrator Of

NAURU IT appears that the Australian Government has no intention at present of filling the position of Administrator of the Trustees Territory of Nauru, which became; vacant in 1952 through the retirement of Mr. Richards.

When Mr, Richards departed, Mr..

J. K. Lawrence, a Commonwealthi public servant, was in Nauru engaged on some special task connected with the Territory’s accounts; and, as he knew a good deal! about the official organisation there,, and it was desirable, in view of aj pending Trusteeship Council delegation visit, that the head positionj be filled, Mr. Lawrence was appointed Acting Administrator.

Subsequently, Mr. Lawrence’s; term was extended to June 30, 1954..

It is not known whether he now is; Administrator or Acting Administrator—no official announcement; has been made by the Minister.

Mr. Lawrence arrived in Sydney 1 at the end of December, from: Nauru. Mr. K. A. Read, Official.

Secretary, is acting as Administrator ■ in his absence.

Assistant Administrator, P-NG ALTHOUGH, in response to an. advertisement, a large number ■ of applications for the post of : Assistant Administrator in Papua- New Guinea has been received by ■ the Australian Department of Territories, an early appointment is i not very likely. The present Administrator, Brigadier Cleland, , is heavily over-worked, and in need , of assistance; but, in the opinion . of those considered most competent • to judge, the calibre of the applicants for the position of Assistant ■ Administrator is not what was expected or desired.

To Fight TB at Pago Pago npHE ladies of the Welfare J. Organisation of American Samoa have launched an ambitious project. They plan to raise $25,000 to instal a new wing in the Pago Pago Hospital, due to the alarming increase in people afflicted with tuberculosis. When the Navy left Samoa in 1951 there were 54 bed patients; now they total about 100.

In a drive for funds, a public dance was given (in which several Government employees personally volunteered their musical talents) and a starting sum of $460 was raised. Mrs.

B. F. Knuebuhl is President; Mrs.

Mary Hunkin, Vice President; Mrs.

Mary Pritchard, Treasurer; and Mrs. E. W. Johnson, Secretary.

Sugar Down £1/6/8 Stg.

First Post-War Fall FOLLOWING recent negotiations in London between the UK Ministry of Food and represenatives of British Commonwealth ugar-producing countries, the price or sugar for 1954 was fixed at £4l tg. c.i.f. London.

This is a drop of £l/6/8 from the 953 price—the first fall since the British Commonwealth sugar agreenent began operating.

The price to be paid to millers of ugar in Fiji—and the price paid or sugar-cane which varies with be price received for raw sugar— -5 not yet known. The price of ane will most likely fall a few billings. In 1953 when the price ose by £3/16 8 per ton over the 352 price, Fijian cane farmers oblined about 9/- more per ton for leir cane.

Fiji Stabilisation Fund

Fiji’s sugar stabilisation fund is round £1,500,000 now. The Fund as started in 1946 with the intenon of providing an economic iffer to millers and growers alike lould the price of sugar fall below certain level. The price will, of mrse, have to fall a great deal irther than at present, before the und is called upon to fill the gap.

The fund is made up of the 35/rijian) Government deduction on ich ton of sugar exported from Lji. The accumulated funds are eld in London where they are invested.

There has been a certain amour in Fiji for a redistribution ' the fund. However sensible they •e in theory, stabilisation funds •e looked" upon with a certain nount of suspicion by producers r ery where.

Both New Guinea and Fiji are rvered by stabilisation funds for teir main exports—respectively ipra and sugar. But in neither mntry is this insurance regarded ith total approval by those most mcerned. [?]au-Labu Road Open Again The Wau-Labu Road was open r traffic again on January 5, ter being closed for several weeks, le road was blocked by washaways bich undermined it at the Edie :eek junction. (See page 66, this me.) After the road was re-opened, immonwealth Works Department Bcials said they would investite the possibility of the Edie •eek weakness being permanently rrected by detouring around the ction, if they cannot strengthen e section itself.

Any detour is likely to be a major ieration, however, as the road in is section is a narrow ledge runng around the foot of a deep rge.

The Queen’S Thanks To

FIJI In conveying to the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady Garvey the Queen’s warm thanks for Fiji’s welcome and hospitality, the Queen’s private secretary wrote: “TT was indeed a most absorbing i-two days; and it was certainly a tour de force on your part and on that of your Committee to compress so much variety and interest into such a short time without making the visit the least exhausting.

“I can assure you that not only the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, but every other member of the party, wish they could have stayed very much longer in Fiji.”

IF Judge and Mrs. R. T. Gore, of Port Moresby, Papua, left there by air on December 2 for leave in Australia. In Canberra, in February, they will join the official party of Territorians who will be gathered there to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

NG-Australia Line to Add Third Ship FROM the end of March, the New Guinea Australia Line will have three vessels on the New Guinea service: Sinkiang, which was withdrawn some time ago when Soochow came onto the run, will by then have returned from refitting in Hong Kong. While Soochow and Shansi will continue to terminate their runs in Sydney, Sinkiang will terminate in Melbourne. This should be popular with Territories folk whose allegiance is with the Southern State rather than with NSW and Queensland.

Since entering the Australia- PNG trade a couple of years ago, these ships have become very popular with PNG travellers. Although they are only 3,000-tonners, the standard of service from their Chinese crews is something that passengers on ships on the Australian register have forgotten about.

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

A LOT of worthy people in the Pacific Islands—and particularly the planting fraternity— said that they were glad to see the end of 1933 which had been one of the most unhappy years in the economic history of the Islands. Although 1934 did not look any more promising, they felt that it could not be any worse. If conditions did become so, then they would have to go native and live off the country in the approved style of Hollywood fiction. These are some extracts from our issue of January, 1934; Rabaui’s famous Chinese hotel-keeper.

Ah Chee, died. We said that men all over the Pacific would remember the help given them by this big-hearted man— usually at a time when they were down on their luck, and spurned by other Europeans. Twenty years later, Ah Chee and his hotel—which later became the Cosmopolitan—are remembered by New Guinea old-timers. * “ ♦ We reported, once again, that the copra market had crashed. In mid-January of that year it had reached an all-time low in London of £7/12/6 —and further falls were expected. A Sydney merchant was confidently predicting that the next two years would be “the blackest in the industry’s history.” Blame was attributed mostly to over-production of whale-oil, peanut oil, and soya-bean oil—and cheap butter which was taking the place of margarine. This is one picture that has changed a lot in 20 years.

Price for copra, assessed in Rabaul for export purposes, was £4/13/1 per ton.

The NG Administration graciously decided that from November 1, 1933, no export duty would be levied on copra, when the price fell below £lO per ton in London.

The export tax had already been gradually lowered from 25/- to 2/6 per ton. ♦ * ♦ Loud groans and moans were coming from Samoan cocoa producers also. They were being offered £l2/10/- per ton for their cocoa beans by some merchants, although we carefully pointed out that Sydney quotations were still £25 to £3O per ton. * * * But at the other end of the scale—our Rabaul Correspondent reported that the NG Administration had recently purchased rice by tender at £B/8/9 per ton; and canned meat at 4/4tfc per dozen tins. ♦ * ♦ “A new government station is being started on the Sepik River (NG) about 40 miles from the mouth. This will do away with the old Marienberg station.

The new site is Angoram and was used during the German days as a depot.” * * * A letter from the Second officer of the S.S. Montoro (“Bill” Wilding, who is now skipper of BP’s Bulolo) said that two-fifths of the steamships subscriptions to the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of NSW came from passengers who had travelled on the island ships Montoro, Macdhni, Mataram. and Morinda. The donations were made up of small percentages on race game winnings, daily runs and deck sports. * * * The Governor of Fiji, Sir Murchison Fletcher, planned a visit to New Zealand and Australia to discuss trade with Fiji —particularly the entry of bananas into Australia. ♦ * ♦ The trial of Mr. O. F. Nelson for his part in Western Samoan Mau activities, was suspended when he became ill and the Judge was taken to hospital with blood-poisoning. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

COCOA AT £400 STG.

PER TON More Revenue for the South Pacific AS the result of persistent adverse reports about the West African cocoa crop—it is either short, or again affected by disease — the cocoa quotation in London on January 5 reached the all-time high of £4OO Stg. per ton, cif. This is a rise of about £lOO per ton in less than a month.

Western Samoa is the chief South Pacific country producing cocoa— and that Territory already is passing rich on the prices which have ruled in recent years. If the new price holds, cocoa could return Western Samoa about £1,500,000 per annum, compared with a third of that sum six or seven years ago.

There has been a good deal of cocoa-planting in New Guinea since the war, and the export is steadily increasing. This industry is being actively encouraged by the Administration. About 500 tons were exported from New Guinea in 1952.

If the export is now 1,000 tons per annum, the net return to New Guinea, with the exchange advantage, could be close to £500,000 per annum, putting cocoa into third place, after copra and gold, among the Territories’ exports.

New Hebrides has been growing cocoa (up to 2,000 tons per annum) for a long time but, in recent years, production has tended to fall because of the difficulty of getting suitable labour. If any planting interest could solve the labour problem, it could start a profitable industry in the New Hebrides, because land is available there, a good quality can be produced, and there are few if any of the harassing restrictions imposed by the Administrations of other Territories—in fact, the New Hebrides Government probably would be glad to encourage, white enterprise in everv possible way, J

Good Outlook In Samoa

Mr. D. R. a. Eden, general manager of NZ Reparation Estates, m W. Samoa, just back from the Pif )C s )a^ Conference in London, says that the outlook for Samoan cocoa producers is bright. World demand is likely to exceed supply for some years. Any buyer resistance to increased prices of manufactured chocolate is less likely to affect oamoa than many other producing areas, because Samoa produces a luxury grade of cocoa.

Mr. Eden also noted on his return that now is a most opportune time lor Samoa to develop a coffee industry. With future supplies of tea threatened, the demand for coffee is increasing, and disease and other factors tend to reduce Brazil’s coffee output. There is a good demand for coffee in New Zealand, and Western Samoa is the obvious Territory to supply it.

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APIA, Dec. 31.

The film Return to Paradise, made in Western Samoa last year, is now showing to Samoan audiences in Apia. Unfortunately, many interesting scenes, taken in Samoa with Samoan actors, have been cut out; and this is certainly disappointing to the local people.

Islands Christmas Parties In Sydney SUCCESSFUL pre-Christmas parties were held in Sydney again this year.

Members and friends of the Pacific Islands Society met at a very happy sherry party in the Feminist Club Rooms, Sydney, at the end of November.

About 100 people were welcomed by the president of the Society, Major C. A. Swinbourne, and Mrs.

Swinbourne.

The New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney held two parties in the Club rooms—one for the children in mid-December and the sherryparty for adults on December 18.

B „°th, under the capable guidance of the president of the Club, Mrs.

N. H. Foxcroft, and her hard-working committee, were a tremendous success.

Over 100 attended the sherryparty—a large proportion of them residents of New Guinea who were on leave.

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MELBOURNE A similar number of guests were entertained by the New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne on December 5. This year the cnnstmas party again took the *° rm , of a buffet tea provided by members and organised by the secretary, Miss Valda Youlden and trea surer, Mrs. Farnsworth.

Mrs. Alan Green, president of the Association, received the guests wno included many now living permanently in Victoria and others down there from NG on leave.

The following promotions in the Papua-New Guinea Public Service were announced (subject to appeal) in the PNG Government Gazette of December 31: Trevor Stuart J°n o s from clerk to examination training officer in the Dept.

I, Public Service Commissioner.

F. N. W. Rolfe, clerk to a higher position_ in the same category in tne Public Service Commissioner’s Lily Whitechurch, Education Officer Class IB to Class 1A in the Department of Education.

Orient Liners on Pacific Service RESUMPTION by the Orient Line of a regular Pacific service will depend on the success of three test services from Sydney to Vancouver and San Francisco this year Oronsay (28,000 tons) left Sydney on the first service on January 1.

She was to call at Auckland (January 4), Suva (January 7) and Honolulu (January 12). She will leave San Francisco for the return run on January 21, calling at Honolulu on January 26 and Suva on February 2.

Oronsay will also do the second test voyage, leaving Sydney on May 21.

Orion will do the third, on September 17.

The Orient Co. is expected tc make an early announcement as tc whether or not it will continue on the Pacific route which has, for the first time in 90 years, been without a regular trans-Pacific passengen service since the Union Steamship; Co.’s old Aorangi was withdrawn a year ago and sent to the shipbreakers.

In spite of the perennial rumours to the contrary, Matson passengen liners have not yet made a postwar appearance in the transpacific trade. The new experimental Orient service has been designed with the primary object ofi attracting dollar tourists to the South Pacific and Australia. TheE Company has gone to great lengths to study American likes and dislikes and the sort of service required.

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Port Moresby on December 9 fon leave in Australia. 20 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY"

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By Tolala SERE’S wishing Peace and Contentment to all PNG residents —past and present—for the oming year of 1954.

Missionaries in New Britain refer o the “Peace of God” as “Warilari kai ra Kalou.” “Warimari”

Iso means Love. That’s the peace mean. 5-S sic !(C In November I mentioned the mate memorial at Bogadjim. I ras pleased to receive further in- Drmation from an Old-Timer who fils me that it was in memory of fount von Hagen, a one-time Adlinistrator of the Neu Guinea bmpagnie, after whom Mount [agen was named, and who was lot by a Buka boy employed on Ogadjim. Von Hagen was buried t Bogadjim and an obelisk, of the ime fine marble, stands over his rave. The Buka Boy was eventully killed by some local natives ith arrows when he climbed up a >conut tree to secure some kulaus. * * * Bogadjim (or Stephansort) was k one time the capital of German eu Guinea, when the N.G.C. held mtrol. It was the third capital te. Karawara Island, in the Duke [ Yorks, was the first, followed by inschhafen; after Stephansort rederich wilhelmshafen (Madang) as selected; and then came erbertshoehe (Kokopo), which was epla c e d by Simpsonhafen labaul); and then Lae was beared during the war in 1941. After iving had seven capitals, New uinea, now finds itself without le! sfs $ Jic The same Old-Timer, in writing »out the Blanche Bay shell money Iso referred to by me in Nov. sue) says that he was at Talasea r the first six months after the ir with the Japs, and described a eat influx of Tolais to Talasea to itain the shells, most of which e collected from the North end Willaumez Peninsula. Native )men performed the greater part the work of boring and stringing e shells. * * * And talking of native industries, I tice that a Sydney columnist is recently rather caustic in his tnments on the cost of Buka skets: “Made by Buka natives ten bob; fetch a fiver at Port jresby and a tenner in Sydney.” meone —not a native—is making good thing, certainly; but then ’ve grown accustomed to that sort thing these days.

Incidentally, they do not come from Buka, but from down Buin way, in Bougainville; and that same locality, some years ago, was the source of rare butterflies and the highly-prized king spears, which were most artistically covered in plaited coloured fibre. The story goes that one Missionary there built a very fine church from the proceeds of the sale of butterflies. * * * The only export line from Buka that I know of is the clay pipe, made from good kaolin, found in the Solos district of Buka. * * * I’m glad to see that Alan Roberts has reached the goal of every District Services officer and now occupies the chair of Director. Really, it’s one of the most unenviable jobs in the Service, with Canberra on the one hand and the people on the other. But Roberts should make a job of it.

TNG’s first Protector of Natives was Harry Cardew, who gained his experience of tropical life first as a mate on a government ship in Papua, and later as an ARM, before he was attached to the Military Occupation Forces in NG. He was DO, Kieta, when he was appointed to the Protector job.

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Chinnery. He started as O/C Native Labour for a Papuan mining company and, later, was a Magistrate in Papua, before becoming anthropolgist and later DDS in TNG.

Another Director—Bob Melrose —started with the AN&MEF as a wireless operator in 1915 or thereabouts. Bert Jones’s first experience was with the Public Health Dept., before transferring to District Services. * ♦ * In my opinion it is a good idea for potential District Officers, Commissioners—or any D.S. officer in fact—to have some experience in PNG as ordinary individuals, not enjoying the Divine Right of Kiaps, 2nd thus be able to realise some of the difficulties which planters and others have to face without the power and prestige of position, or the presence of police-boys to implement instructions.

D.S. cadets could, with advantage, spend a year on a plantation incognito. It would make them more human and understanding. * ♦ ♦ And while I am making suggestions, I would like to see tried out the system of posting a cadet to one particular station, and him to remain there for at least ten or twenty years, during which time he would acquire a thorough knowledge of local language, customs, lores and of the natives themselves.

He would reach the stage of being accepted by the natives and that, to my way of thinking, is one of The Red Sox, Again!

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Vic was D.O. with the AN&MEF md stationed at Namatanai. He uccessfully tendered for the Expro- »oard property Tokua, where he ,has esided for the past 27 years.

Tex was in AWA, attached to LN&MEF. and about 1920 he started , taxi business and garage in labaul. Later, he acquired plantaion interests in the Bainings and [own the South Coast of New Britain.

As runners-up I should say Mrs. lawnt and daughter Marjorie (now Irs. Blake). Mrs. Dick Moore, [alien Evans and Tom Ellis were rell to the fore. They all arrived i 1920. Another arrival about this ime was Gilbert (How’re yer late?) Renton, who from a plumer in the Public Works at Rabaul as become one of the most ffluent of TNG residents, when he is not flying off to the Old Dart or some other part of the world. ❖ * It is certainly time that the First Gentleman in PNG should receive a more senior designation than Administrator, a title which always reminds me of intestate estates. In this regard both Papua and New Guinea have retrogressed. Sir Hubert Murray was Lieut.-Governor; and, in the German time, Dr.

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German police-masters, when on patrol, used to halt near native villages after a long march, to enable the police-boys to clean up and for the PM himself to change from soiled khaki to spick and span white drill, for a ceremonial entry into the village. Mere windowdressing, but it paid a dividend and earned respect. Difference now is we window-dress for UNO, and pay little attention to personal appearance.

And while on the matter of titles: Why has “Honourable” been dropped from the P-NG M’sLC? ♦ ♦ ♦ The sudden death of Bill McGowan, of the PWD in Moresby, means the loss to P-NG of a good man. Many landmarks in both 23 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1954

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Territories stand to perpetuate his memory. An outstanding one is the First War Memorial at Bitapaka. which he designed at the request of Administrator Tom Griffiths; it was unveiled in 1934, and still stands. One of his most artistic designs w r as the Automobile Club of NG badge, of which I expect very few remain now. * * * Missionaries somehow invariably (and I repeat invariably) manage to get the best publicity plugs out of press interviews and keep the loud pedal down on such themes as cannibalism, head-h unters, jungle and the hardships to be faced in working in God’s New Guinea Vineyard. * ❖ * The palm this month goes to the “Sydney Woman” who helped to establish the first school at Vunairima, out on the North Coast, from Rabaul It was the year 1925 and “she lived amongst the Kunua tribe”; some of her pupils had been cannibals and head-hunters.”

Cannibalism was still practised on New Britain. There was no dictionary from which she could learn the language and she had been presented with a “Chieftain's Medal given only to people especially honoured by the native chiefs.”

Shades of Dr. George Brown and the Reverends Rickard and Benjamin Danks, who had worked amongst those natives about fifty years before! They certainly would not appreciate the remarks about there being no dictionary of the Blanche Bay dialect.

Then there was an arrival in Brisbane from Papua “who had lived 32 years in the jungle”. . .

Another who had a mission teacher who stopped canibalism with Bible pictures; and another who received typewritten reports and detailed financial statements from native mission secretaries. . . Words fail me.

I do not belittle the work done by missionaries in NG. Many have done—and are still doing—a good job; but I do think they overdo the cannibalism-headhunter angle to an exaggerated degree, possibly with an eye on the Foreign Mission money-box perched up on the Australian mantel-piece.

The death on New Year’s Day, in Sydney, of Charlie Bates, takes away from PNG a fine officer and a good friend of many. He had been suffering indifferent health for some time. Transferring from the T-NG Police to District Services in the early Thirties, he did excellent work on patrols and for several years was ADO in Rabaul.

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Well, that’s one way to police :he Law!

A n oth e r Administration official laid, during the same debate: “We nust realise that conditions are ;onti n u a 11 y changing in the :ountry.”

No one will dispute that statenent. The question is: Are they ihanging for the improvement or otherwise of the country? * * * Another liberty being permitted n T-NG which is of doubtful lenefit is the use of shot-guns by latives (as mentioned in Dec. PIM, > 39). It may have dangerous re- >ercussions. In 50 years in Papua, t is stated, only one attempt at nurder was made by a native with i permit. It is different in T-NG, /here there have been several nurders by natives with shot-guns /ithin that period, not the least if them the St. Paul massacre.

Shoot-boys in T-NG were always upposed to bring back the disiharged shot-gun cartridges after hooting, and it was a wise preaution. . . Yes, conditions are hanging, allright.

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New Year Honours For

TERRITORIAL MR. G. R. POWLES, CMG NEW ZEALAND’S High Commissioner in Western Samoa, Mr.

G. R. Powles, received a CMG (Commander of St. Michael and St.

George) in the New Year Honours, in recognition of distinguished service in Western Samoa. He has been in charge there since 1949; and, within that period, there has been very remarkable constitutional and political development.

Dr. John Gunther, Obe

The Director of Medical Services in Papua-New Guinea, Dr. John Gunther, was awarded an OBE an. the New Year Honours. It is a welldeserved acknowledgment of long years of hard, constructive work in a large, primitive country whose slender 1940 economy was blown topieces in 1942-45. Dr. Gunther took charge of medical services in New Guinea in 1946, and, owing to lack of skilled assistance, faced an appalling task. He partly solved it by enlisting in his services the Nevr Australian doctors who came from Europe with diplomas which were perfectly good, but which were not recognised in Australia by the allpowerful British Medical Association. Dr. Gunther has introduced an efficient organisation, the growth of which is now limited only by lack of trained personnel and lack of hospital buildings: and he has represented Australia at many overseas conferences. In actual fact, he has earned a higher award than the OBE.

Honour For A Mcnicoll

Among the New Years Honours was an award, the OBE, for Captain Ramsay McNicoll, an officer of the Australian Navy, who performed notable service at the Monte Bello atomic tests a year ago. He is a son of the late Brigadier-General Sir Ramsay McNicoll, who was Administrator of New Guinea before the war. Another distinguished son is David McNicoll, who became Editor-in-Chief of Sydney Daily Telegraph a few weeks ago. Lady McNicoll, who is a Scandinavian noblewoman in her own right, and a lady of outstanding personality and ability, now resides in Sydney.

Awards in Auckland by Queen AWARDS made by the Queen at an investiture in Auckland on December 29 included a number of interest to people in the Islands: CMG—Mr. John Hector Luxford, Mayor of Auckland and former magistrate in W. Samoa.

CBE—Mr. Harvey Turner, of the well known fruit-importing firm of Turners and Growers Ltd.

OBE—Mr. George Bruce Bolt, head of TEAL’S engineering section.

MBE—Miss Thelma Ruth Faul- 26 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Fijian Lost In Nz

DISASTER PVINING at the Marton railway \J station, en route to spend Christmas with his family, our few Zealand Representative noticed , Fijian boy also in the dining oom. He was about to speak to im when the warning bell sounded, nd the two trains moved off —one dth Aisea So Vakalala, north ound for Auckland, the other euthbound. Soon afterwards there ccurred the worst railway smash i New Zealand’s history, as the lorthern express nlunged to deduction in the Tangiwai River, akalala, 20-years-old, popular and remising student at Palmerston forth Boys’ High School, went to is death with over 100 others.

Aisea was the son of Sisa Vakaila, a Fijian magistrate stationed t Navuso. and his home was at favuievo, Bua. He was on his way ome for the holidays.

Mr. W. Gordon, of Koronivia gricultural Station, Fiji, and Mrs. ordon, left Fiji for New Zealand irly in January on pre-retirement iave.

Miss Daphne Jane Fullan Qf uckland was married to Mr.

Btefano J. Stephen Schwalger of Western Samoa at the Pacific danders’ Congregational Church, uckland, on November 6. A large amber of Western Samoa people ere afterwards entertained at reception and sivasiva, given bv le bridegroom’s uncle and aunt, fr. and Mrs. K. P. E. Fuimaono aala.

Arrivals in Auckland from the Cook [?]lands in December included: Mr. and Irs. Wakefield and family, who returned o NZ after Mr. Wakefield completed his erm at Rarotonga as Official Secretary; e now goes to Air Department, Welling- [?]n, after leave. Mr. Maurice Baker, [?]irector of Agriculture in the Cooks, on acation. Mrs. Temutoto and Mr. M. e from Rarotonga. Mr. and Mrs. oster and Miss Daisy Coster. Mr. Coster as formerly manager for Union Steam hip Co. at Papeete, he has now retired. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Current News Items From Our Correspondents In Papua-New Guinea

Modern Department Store

For Rabaul

The new Rabaul premises of Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., one of the most nodern departmental stores in the rerritory of Papua and New Guinea, vas officially opened in Rabaul on December 10.

Mr. R. A. Colyer, governing iirector of the firm, flew from Sydney for the. occasion. The store, phich is situated in the main msiness section of Rabaul, is an mpressive, two-s t o r i e d building ?hich has been designed especially or tropical conditions.

The opening is a milestone in the jommercial post-war history of labaul after the long period of inlecision as to the future site of the own.

Features of the building are nodern lighting arrangements, lative trading department, the luge space for deep frozen foods, ,nd the cool and pleasant suroundings for office staff. The building has been designed for maximum ir circulation and painted throughut in shades of green, to elimin- ,te all glare.

Gifts of propelling pencils and ens were given to all customers on pening day, and complimentary refreshments were served at all hotels and clubs between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Dec. 10. The governing director, local manager aAd staff later entertained 300 of Rabaul’s prominent citizens at a cocktail party at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

The Place Of Kenaf In

Australia’S Economy

In his speech at the opening of the new store in Rabaul, Mr. R. A.

Colyer spoke of his and his business associates’ interest in P-NG’s new kenaf industry.

He said that some years ago he had been approached by leading wool interests in Australia and asked if a fibre could be produced in Papua-New Guinea which could, if necessary, make Australia independent of jute for wool-packs.

He decided to concentrate on kenaf, and he invited his listeners to examine a piece of material woven from Papuan kenaf from the 1952- 53 crop.

He said that a large decorticator with an output of U tons of dry fibre per hour was then being installed at Eriama, near Moresby; with this will be follow-on washing and squeezing equipment. He said 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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•do-i: that his job had been to prove that fcenaf could be grown successfully n the Territory, and that another *roup which included some famous Australian commercial institutions, )lus Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., vould carry on from there. “It is i national undertaking,” he said, ‘not influenced by the thought of jain but for the specified purpose )f ensuring that Australia’s wool ;rop, in case of need, can be packiged.”

Mr. Colyer said that at that noment, Mr. P. D. Forrest, a wellmown West Australian agriculturist yho was responsible for the sucicssful pioneering of the flax inlustry in that State, was at Eriama a an honorary capacity, supervising he work currently being carried ut there.

Rabaul Children Win

SCHOLARSHIPS The New Guinea Club’s scholar bips, which are awarded each year nd are open to children in the 'erritory, have been won this year y two Rabaul children, Hilary lahon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

V. C. Mahon; and Marcia Searle, aughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Searle.

Both children have been attendig the European school, Rabaul.

The scholarship provides them Ith £5O a year for 5 years. It is the first time the scholarships have been won by two children from the same school.

Rabaul Has Native Co-Ops

The New Britain Societies’ Association has been formed and 19 new co-operative societies have been started in the Rabaul-Kokopo area.

Mr. Claude Smith is the new Assistant Registrar for the district, and Mr. Harry Thomas has been appointed Co-operative Officer.

Two new retail stores have recently been opened by the Co-ops., one at Matupit and one at Vunumbau. Two native girls have been trained to run the store at Matupit and several others for the Vunumbau store. Both stores carry a wide range of all goods, attractively arranged and with prices shown. On opening day the buildings were packed with customers.

Cash sales for the first day at Vunumbau amounted to almost £l,OOO.

Another co-operative store is being opened at Toleap.

New Commonwealth Bank

QUARTERS About 300 guests were entertained by the Manager and staff of the Commonwealth Bank, Rabaul, on December 12, when the new staff quarters were officially opened. Much Interest was displayed in the new building which provides modern and attractive quarters for staff.

Remains Of War-Time Plane

DISCOVERED There are still many unsolved, war-time mysteries in the jungles of Papua and New Guinea, but one of them looks as if it will be solved, following the discovery of the wreckage of an American aircraft in the Warangoi River area of New Britain, not far from Kokopo.

The wreckage was first seen by

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Martin found two lots of bones at the site, but couldn’t find the third, and it is assumed that if there were a third he could have parachuted out. One of the sets of bones had an identification disc, reading; KENNETH NONE GUNDLACH Ist Lt. Tll/43 USMCR-A The Identification disc has been forwarded on to Australia, where, no doubt, the Americans will check it with their files.

New School Teachers

Nine new school teachers arrived in the Territory in January.

They will teach in various centres throughout P-NG, in European, Asiatic and native schools. The centres include Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Goroka and Mount Hagen.

Before Arriving at Port Moresby, the teachers underwent a 4-months’ special course at the School of Pacific Administration in Mosman.

Another party of teachers will arrive from Australia about June.

Customs Summonses

In January, the Customs Department in Papua-New Guinea was considering issuing summonses against people who had failed to register as Aliens.

Registration is compulsory under the Aliens Registration Ordinances which was put into effect on November 1. Aliens anywhere in thes Territory had to register within 3(K days, but apparently some of thenn haven’t done so. 32

January, 1954 Pacific Islands Monthl Y'L

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New 9Pa Manager

The Australian Broadcasting Commission has a new manager for *apua and New Guinea. He is Mr.

I. S. Sibary, who for some time las been the ABC’s Federal Pro- :ramme Executive in Sydney.

Mr. Sibary said on arrival in Port doresby that there were plans afoot or developing local ABC pro- :rammes, and there was also a posibility of sending more Territory aaterial to Australia for use there.

Sth. Pacific Commission

An officer with the South Pacific Commission secretariat completed a nonth’s tour of New Guinea in anuary.

He is Mr. R. S. Hancock; his job ras to collect information on the ’erritory’s economic progress to be eported in the Commission’s uarterly Bulletin.

There are plans in hand, he said, a increase the circulation of the bulletin and widen its interest mong peoples of the Pacific.

During his tour of the Territory e had been impressed by the adancement of the native co-opertive movement.

Bulolo Plywood Factory

Commonwealth New Guinea 'imbers big plywood factory at lulolo will be officially opened on anuary 26. Defence Minister, Sir 'hilip Mcßride, and the Minister )r Territories, Mr. Hasluck, will y from Australia for it.

They will be accompanied by Teritories Department officials.

NEW BANKS There is plenty of activity in ianking circles in Papua and New Guinea these days.

One of the latest is a new branch f the Bank of New South Wales t Samarai, opening early in Janury, and there will be a new branch f the Australia & New Zealand ank at Rabaul early in New Year, 'he ANZ’s first branch at Port [oresby was opened only a few tenths ago,

South To See The Queen

Territory people, like everyone se, are anxious to see the Queen mng her Australian visit. Qantas as already felt the effect of it, ith heavy bookings south-bound tiring late January and February.

There are also heavy bookings a the Sandringham service, which ills at Cairns. The Royal party ill visit Cairns on March 13.

The Territory will be represented ficially at Cairns by a party of )out 30 selected natives and Asians, hey will be led by the Director District Services, Mr. A. A. oberts, accompanied by Mr. R. B. rennan, president of the Territory üblic Service Association.

The party will stay several days l Cairns, travelling by special airaft from Port Moresby. The Mayor : Cairns has arranged for their itertainment.

Madang’S Successful

Agricultural Show

Reflecting the trend of presentday and future economy of the Territory are the Agricultural Shows that have been held in various centres in P-NG. Shows at Sogeri (Papua) and Wau (NG), have been followed by a vary successful effort at Madang at the end of November.

Entries totalled over 1,400 and exhibits came also from the Morobe District, the Highlands and New Ireland. The diversity of the competitive and non-competitive exhibits illustrated how far NG has progressed from its gold-and-copra economy of the post-war period.

Garden, farm and plantation produce was shown as well as handicrafts, cattle, poultry, pigs; there were exhibitions of pottery and sago making from local natives and full evidenceMadang District’s present £BOO,OOO income from copra shortly be augmented by revenue from cocoa, peanuts and coffee. There was ample evidence also, that the District s natives are staking their economic future in cash returns from rice and peanuts, Samples of kapok, cotton and fibre were also shown, and Saidor Subdistrict had a display of high-quality English potatoes, It was estimated that Madang District’s entire European population of 600 and 5,000 natives—some of whom walked 14 days to be there —attended the show. (Over) 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Victoria Parade SUVA and twelve Branches in Netc Zealand Officer-bearers of the Society are; President, Mr. J. R. Vicary; Vice; President, Mr. K, W. Burstom Secretary, Mrs. T. Ellis; Treasure!

Mr. A. Hansen; with Mrs. C. Bates Mrs. G. Clarke, Mr. L. Winters, Mu W. Giles, Mr. R. Bentinck, the Rev Father W. Saiko, Mr. T. Stanley Mr. G. Munckley, Mr. W. CahillJ Mr. A. Reynolds and Mr. T. War' burton, on the committee.

Cash prizes of 10/-, 5/-, and 2/6 wenawarded with Certificates for all classes and trophies were given to the moss successful exhibitor In each section. Thu trophy winners were: Livestock (New Guinea Co. Trophy), Mr, W. Cahill; Farm and Plantation produce (H. Longmon Trophy), Mr. K. Burston; Vegetables anti Fruit (Qantas Empire Airways TrophyX Highland Vegetable Growers; Flowen (Burns Philp Trophy), Mrs. R.

Children (Commonwealth Bank TrophiesX Girl, Miss Beverley Vicary; Boy, Mastes Rodney Brunton; Women (Colyer Watson Trophy), Mrs. W. Cahill; Native group exhibit (Commonwealth Bank TrophyX Pau Rural Progress Society; District am. sub-district group exhibit, Bogia Subc district; Arts and Crafts (J. Browr Trophy), Mr. D. Wirtz; 100 yards Opel- Championship of Papua-New Guine:: (New Guinea Estates Perpetual TrophyX Mr. J. Grieves; the most successful exhibitor in the Show (C. Bates TrophyX Mrs. W. Cahill.

Scrap From Rabaul

HARBOUR The Australian diver, Mr. John Johnstone, who worked on the re; covery of gold from the Niagara j spent a short time at Rabaul ir.

December, investigating the pose sibility of salvaging wartime wrecka in Blanche Bay. It is believed thai there are over 200 wrecked ships ill. the harbour.

Johnstone will go to Fiji to picK; up a salvage ship for the Rabaul job, returning to Rabaul in January or February.

Some of the underwater salvage rights in Rabaul Harbour whiclf were previously sold by the Com-i monwealth Disposals Commission! have been acquired by Gilberts Aus-c tralian Agency, which has its head! quarters in London. Mr, Johnstonu and J. L. Chipper, of Rabaul, have, an interest in this company. Thu company will spend £50,000 on< salvage ship and equipment, anoi expects to get 100,000 tons of scraps MOUNT LAMINGTON MEMORIAE.

PLAQUE The permanent bronze memoriae plaque is now installed at the Mtt; Lamington cemetery at the Popon r detta Government Station. Th(u bronze plaque replaces the tem-r porary one which was unveiled bje the Minister for Territories, Mri Paul Hasluck, on November 24& 1952, in memory of those who losta their lives in the Mt. Lamingtom eruption on January 21, 1951.

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And it means more Scotch, more igarettes and more luxury items enerally, for the Ordinary Type, t now looks as if there will be a eturn of the kind of pre-restriction rade in main Territory centres— bat is, there will be a wide choice f footwear, glassware and crockery, ontinental radios, fancy foodstuffs nd cheaper Swiss watches.

Best news for smokers is that the gpeated Territory cigarette shortges will end just as soon as first rders can be placed for English igarettes.

Beer supplies will not be affected, ecause the Port Moresby brewery as been the means, directly and inirectly, of a plentiful supply of eer in most centres —the big stores rere forced to bring in large quanities of Australian interstate beer 3 withstand the competition. The 'erritory had plenty of beer for Christmas —and in that it was ickier than Sydneysiders.

The relaxing of the restrictions ill also affect import of cars into le Territory. Small English cars, hich are cheaper in the Territory lan in Australia, have been hard ) get. Now they will be unlimited. : you want one, just order it.

There will also be a flood of goods from Hong Kong, according to the traders. There has always been a good range in the Chinese stores at Rabaul, but in Port Moresby any shipment of Hong Kong goods is rushed within minutes of being put on sale.

The restrictions were imposed in March, 1952. The decision to relax them is understood to have been because Territory trade is hardly large enough to affect Australia’s economic situation; and the increase in trade would help the P- NG Customs revenue, Whatever the reason, nobody in the Territory, for once, has any complaint,

No Dc6 Service Ykt

Qantas Empire Airways planned a regular DC6 service between Sydney-Port Moresby-Lae starting from November, but the scheme was short-lived. The DC6 was to replace the regular Wednesday Sky- 35 fcCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1954

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ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD. 89-93 CASTLEREAGH ST. SYDNEY. 66-68 ELIZABETH ST. MELBOURNE, C.l. master, cutting an hour and a half each way off the timetable.

Only one DC6 made the trip.

Then the tragic BCPA crash of a DC6 at San Francisco a few days later caused BCPA, which w T as chartering the aircraft to Qantas, to withdraw its aircraft to keep the Pacific service operating.

Police Officers On Perjury

CHARGE In the Supreme Court at Port Moresby on December 21, two senior police officers were committed for trial on charges of perjury.

Their cases are expected to be dealt with at the end of January.

The officers are Inspector Colin Evans, and Sub-Inspector Ernest Young. Both are members of the CIB in the Territory where Evans was acting officer-iri-charge.

The unexpected charges arose from a case in which John Theodore Mumford, 38, was charged with indecent assault on a native woman.

Mumford was to come up for judgment on December 21. He had said earlier, in evidence, that both officers had beaten him until he signed a confession.

The police denied this.

On December 21, the Crown Prosecutor, Sir Coleman O’Loghlan, asked the trial judge, Mr. Justice Bignold, for leave to re-open the trial.

He said he had been instructed that additional information which was favourable to the accused had been brought to the attention of the Crown Law Officer and the Acting Police Commissioner.

The court then heard evidence of two native constables, one of whom alleged he had seen the two officers assaulting a man.

After hearing the evidence, Mr.

Justice Bignold acquitted Mumford! of the charge. He committed bothi officers for trial, allowing them bail.

Mr. Justice Bignold said that as feature of the allegations was that! 36 JANUARY. 19 54 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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P.O. Box 9, Beecroft, N.S.W., Australia. the additional evidence had been put before the court through the diligence of the Acting Police Commissioner, Superintendent C. Normoyle and the Crown Law Officer.

Evans and Young were later suspended from the Police Force pending the result of the trial.

Scout Leaders Visit

TOWNSVILLE Two native scout leaders—the irst to receive Scout training in Australia —flew to Townsville from Port Moresby on Christmas Day.

They did a ten-days’ course at he scouts’ training camp on Magletic Island. The scouters are ■’rancis Hau, of Yule Island, and *eter Pako of Porebada, both of idiom speak fluent English.

The idea is for the scouters to asist Territory scout commissioners ti advanced training when they reurn.

New Air-Navigation Aid

A new navigational aid for Papua nd New Guinea will be installed arly in 1954. It is DME (Distance leasuring Equipment) and will be istalled at Port Moresby, and later ae.

The equipment arrived from Aus-. :alia at the end of December.

The new aid enables a pilot to sad, off a dial, the number of flies he is from a point on the round. It will be a second navigaonal aid for Territory pilots.

SOME IDEAS ON P-NG LEGCO.

The committee formed at the bvember session of the Legislative ouncil, to investigate and report a the composition of the Council as been busily gathering informaon.

Its report is due to be placed in le hands of the Administrator, rigadier D. M. Cleland, by muary 31, although what happens i it then is not clear as Brigadier leland goes on leave in early Feblary and will not return until ister.

The committee made it known iroughout the Territory in Deimber that it wanted views of inviduals and organisations on the sxt Council’s composition. It met - Rabaul on December 30 to give ie Rabaul people a first-hand op- )rtunity to put their views. Adsory Councils at most centres have ready stated their opinions and icy appear to follow a surprising ie of uniformity. Many would ie to see one native from each jrntory district placed on the uncil as an observer. The natives )t to have a vote, the idea being give them a chance to see how Council is run.

Another suggestion which has en popular is that the Council °uld comprise 50 per cent official embers and 50 per cent elected non-official members, the Admistrator, as the President, to ive the casting vote.

NEW C.O. for PIR Lieutenant-Colonel A. O. Baldwin, a veteran of the New Guinea campaign, in which he won a Military Cross, became Commanding Officer of the Pacific Islands Regifrom* ta Li?uten”n!fbolonel to0 H °T Sabin, who is to go to London for two years with the Australian General Staff.

The official handing over ceremony was at the Taurana Barracks, Port Moresby, on December 16. The full PIR strength at Taurana—4so men at that time—was on parade as Colonel Sabin passed over the ceremonial sword to Colonel Baldwin.

Colonel Sabin has done fine work with the PIR during his two years as CO. Its strength increased from 12 0 to 600—about 150 of whom are stationed at Vanimo.

Not So Much Fuss With

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The Commonwealth Health Department in Sydney, from that date, was given authority to pass peanuts entering the port, without having to go the roundabout way of referring shipments to Canberra.

According to P-NG growers, they (Continued on Page 40) 37 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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AT RIGHT: A photo taken by Sub-Inspector F. G. Hoeter after the marriage of Miss Rosemary Grant to Mr. Ken Brown at Kwato Mission, Samarai, on December 12.

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PARACHUTE At Kerema, in the Gulf District of Papua, Christmas dinner was received by parachute this year.

About 300-lbs of Christmas cheer was dropped in a storepedo from a Qantas Catalina under charter to the Australasian Petroleum Company on Christmas Eve. The goods should have arrived on the regular Qantas Sandringham doing the Gulf run, but one of the markei buoys on the landing area was washed away, and Qantas decided not to risk putting the Sandringham down.

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Pre-School Committee

SET UP A committee has been set up in the Territory to advise the Administrator—Brigadier D. M. Cleland—on the welfare of pre-school children. The move follows a meeting of pre-school experts held in Port Moresby in November prior to the appointment of a pre-school officer to the Territory.

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The noted anthropo i 0 . gist, Doctor Margaret Mead, whcc wrote Growing Up in New Guineas 25 years ago, has just left the Admiralty Islands where she has, been living for seven months among the natives in a small village named: 40 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY?

News Items From Our Correspondents In Papua-New Gumea (Continued from Page 37)

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Peri, on Manus. This is the same village in which she lived for six months in 1928 and which she used as a basis for her book.

The children she wrote about 25 years ago are now adults, but they recognised Dr. Mead immediately and gave her a warm welcome, calling her by her native name of “Piap”—“Woman of the West.”

Dr. Mead said a sequel to the book would follow in about 18 months. Her recent trip was the most successful in her long experience as an anthropologist.

The population of the village had Increased from 210 to 360; much progress had been made and big social changes had taken place.

Ihese included the abolition of nany old tabus. The fact that the ijirls were now allowed to marry for fove showed that the village now regarded the individual and his happier home life a more important factor than trade.

Twenty-five years ago the village Df Peri was a primitive Venice, its streets were waterways, and its people went everywhere in canoes, fo-day, the village has moved from stilts above the sea to dry land.

Dr. Mead said the war was responsible for accelerating changes vhich would have been slower. She said that what had happened to J eri in 25 years was an indication of he advancement among many Pacific peoples, and proved the imjortance of her recent studies.

While in Port Moresby, en route o Sydney, Dr. Mead addressed the J apua-New Guinea Scientific Soiety, and recorded a 15-minute talk n Pidgin which was later broadcast »ver the Native Peoples’ Session rom 9PA.

Growing Up in New Guinea has old more than a million copies and las been translated into many anguages.

Jew Guinea Student Meets

Queen In Suva

The distinction of being the first Jew Guinea native to be presented o the Queen and the Duke of Edinlurgh goes to Kahu Sugaho, . native from Lae.

Kahu Sugaho is a second-year aedical student attending the Suva Central Medical School and was seected to represent the Territory.

Frank Nohi Aisi, a graduating tudent from the school who reurned to Fort Moresby on Decem- >er 21, also witnessed the celebraions at Suva. He said: “I shall lever forget the sight, nor the big rowd of enthusiastic people.”

Juring The Wily

Professional To F-Ng

Under a scheme to obtain muchleeded professional staff, the *apua-New Guinea Agricultural >epartment will commence train- Qg cadets in Australia this year.

The plan, which is already being >perated by seme departments in Australia, involves the Government paying the fees and expenses of students attending Australian universities on condition that graduates go to the Territory, when they have completed their courses, and work for the Department for a specified period.

It appears that under normal circumstances New Guinea does not hold out sufficient inducements to the young men of 1954.

It will be a few years yet before the first of the graduates are ready for work in the Territory.

HARBOURMASTERS Madang has a Harbourmaster at last; and Port Moresby has a new one.

In Port Moresby, Captain Steve O’Donoghue, formerly Chief Officer with the Australian Shipping Board, takes over from Captain G.

Hawley, the OIC Marine Branch, who has been doing the dual-job of OIC and Harbourmaster for about ten months.

At Madang, the new man is Captain Stan Aldridge, a war-time Merchant Navy officer with plenty of experience along the China coast.

Although he will be stationed at Madang, he will also be responsible for Wewak and Lae.

It’s getting to the point where children may have to be educated to realise that “damn” and “taxes” are two words. 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Wild Weather At

NAURU NAURU, Dec. 23. fPHE westerly gale, which comes to JL us almost regularly every December, this year forced seven phosphate ships to lie off the Island for varying periods—in some cases, the wait for calmer weather lasted for weeks The vessels were Triadic, Trienza, Vesteroy, Edenbank, Vilja, Fernmore, an d Earl Bedford, with an average tonnage of 7,000.

With abatement of weather on December 22, loading was commenced, although one of the mooring buoys has been washed ashore by the westerly. While manoeuvring, one of the ships’ hands fell into the wild seas, but was eventually rescued. 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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a New Guinea's Little Ships Lost £727,000 in 6 Years SPOKESMAN for the Australian Parliamentary Socialists, Dr.

Evatt, is howling because Australian Territories Minister Hasluck has sold more of the 20 little ships which the Socialist Government, in 1946, bought for the New Guinea coastal trade at a cost of nearly half a million —by June, 1952, they were written down to £372,000. (See Smallships News, this issue).

Last year, the Minister sold seven of them, and now he has sold another 11—and he expects soon to get rid of the remainder. Complete figures are not disclosed—the total return from the sale may be £300,000.

Evatt calls this “a deliberate act against the interests of Australia and the assets of Australia.”

In 1951-52 the line made a loss of £202,485. This made the total loss on the operation of the line to June, 1952, £727,065. Little wonder the Minister was happy to get rid of it!

The way in which Socialist Governments rush into this kind of enterprise is something at which sane business men never cease to marvel. It has just been disclosed that the British post-war Socialist Government, in partnership with the Queensland Socialist Government, squandered altogether some £2,500,000 on the Peak Downs foodproducing scheme A which, like the infamous East African peanuts wa // e ihe T^ re PCl rn o£ n nublic a cS; n . tne directors oi public com- P® 11165 were guilty of such conduct, they probably would be gaoled, or tor n a P art b >' the shareholders. But Ministers can get away with it. The taxpayers just pay, and pay. flThe Rev. Henry Robinson, one of the best known Methodist Ministers in Papua-New Guinea before ft. Z he has been minister at Deniliquin, Nsw M Rnhinsnn wn* pvnrMintpd Mr. Robinson was evacuated during the war but returned as an Army Chaplain. On his return to the Territory he will take charge of the Dobu area, Papua. 44 JANUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Spontaneous Tribute To Our Lovely Young Queen THIS is an extract from a letter that was not written for publication. It is a private letter to the Editor, from a cynical and somewhat sour gentleman who saw the Queen in Fiji. He is beyond the impressionable age—he is a grandfather—and, when we saw him last, tie was inclined to jeer at “all of this official blah-blah.” It is a spontaneous tribute, as well as an nteresting sidelight on how young Elizabeth 11, who has assumed the ;errifying duties of the Western World’s oldest and greatest Monarchy, impressed a casual observer : SHE is—Queen or not—a very lovely woman by any standards; she seems so poised and groomed ind cool and remote (but warmly, ;lowingly so) and dainty even under he conditions of this tropical climate n December. You just can’t magine her putting a foot wrong— >r making the humblest of us feel 11 at ease—or having one smooth lair out of place at any time, under my circumstances. . . You will agree nth me later—that she is, without seing beautiful, one of the loveliest ramen you have ever seen or come inder the spell of —something far seyond anything you expected or irtiat has ever been said or written -bout her.

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Coastwatchers' Memorial Now Over £3,000 PHE Fund for the memorial to be erected somewhere in New Guinea members of the Coastwatchers organi- .tion, had, at the beginning of December, ached £3,100.

Of this amount over £7OO was subribed in the Territory.

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As well as from New Guinea and Ausalla, donations have come in from the lomons, New Hebrides, United States, alaya, Cyprus, Gold Coast and even e Bahamas.

The fund will not close until sometime February.

Compulsory Arbitration for Fiji A Bill for compulsory arbitration in disputes in essential services will be introduced at the next Fiji Legislative Council meeting.

The Bill defines essential services as water, electricity, sanitation, health, transport necessary to the forementloned services, telecommunications, meteorology, air-traffic and crash fire control, and civilian services maintained by the RNZAP at Lauthala Bay for air/sea rescue.

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Millaud and son, Miss Maeva Palmer, Miss Yolande Hoata and Mr. Tamatoa Brander. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1954

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Apia, as the capital of an important group, is a quite incredible dump. The waterfront is an unbelievable procession of churches, ranging from tintabernacles and carpenters’ Gothic to one excellent modern building.

Eight of them, I think, to say nothing of many others inland.

The multiplicity of sects is commendable, and more would be welcome, including Hindu and Buddhist and Moslem, in that the more sects that exist, the less risk there is of any one of them gaining temporal power and inflicting its ideas on the community, as is the case in Tonga.

Samoa is fortunate in this respect, avoiding (for example) the ridiculous missionary-imposed compulsory shirts for men, and the policecontrolled strict Sunday observance of Tonga.

Dozens of churches; but not a single bookshop (in startling contrast tq Suva, an unexpectedly cultural city) and not even a chemist's shop—this, according to local residents, so that the income of the Government Hospital may not be lessened.

It is useless to write of tourist traffic in Western Samoa, since that is officially discouraged by all ... , means, starting with the deposit of £75 demanded from every visitor (whereas Fiji and Tonga are content with a steamer or plane ticket, to make sure that the visitor shall not become a charge on the community) .

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The explanation of the hotelkeepers is that foodstuffs have to be imported, and tourists are few.

But Vava’u also has to import much of its food, and certainly tourists are rare there. Nevertheless, for accommodation at Vava’u, little inferior (if at all) to that at Apia, and food definitely superior to Apia, the charge was 12 - a day, as against Apia’s 28 -.

A Resident of Tonga Answers Mr. Pawson Letter to the Editor pvVER the past few years, there have been numerous cases of disgruntled Europeans who, for one reason or another, found it desirable to give publicity to ;heir distaste for Tonga. The latest, that »f K. Pawson, published in the October, L 953, issue of PIM, is milder in tone than tome of the former outbursts, but it is such a web of half truths and general 11 nature that I would like to nut on "ecord my own reaction to Tonga.

He outlaws the opinions of people who lave been in Tonga only 20 days and, m the other hand, those of people who iave been here for 30 years. I am just ;ompleting my fifth year here; so pertaps he would grant me leave to speak.

I, like Mr. Pawson also, tried to find >ut about Tonga before I came here. [ read the best books I could find— Hariner’s “Tonga”, Basil Thomson’s ‘Diversions of a Prime Minister”, and he Bishop Museum Collections of Tongan nyths and Tongan poetry. From them I gained a picture of a kindly, poetic >eople whose pride in their own country sprang from no shallow arrogant feeling, >ut from a deep love of their beautiful stand home and from a very real sense >f the value and dignity of human life n general. Five years of living and tvorking among the Tongans has not iltered the picture.

Mr. Pawson stoops to the folly of Titicising the physical features of Conga. Tongatapu whose “dismal, nonotonous” appearance he so deplores s pretty much like hundreds of other iat Pacific islands—the simple fact is hat one either likes the islands or one loes not. If one does not, the best thing o do is to get as far away from them is possible and stay away. In the usual »etty way of the disgruntled, Mr. Pawson •emarks that Vava’u harbour is not so Impressive “as people who have seen ittle else will have you imagine”. I rave seen a good number of the world’s jorts and I was born in a city whose larbour in generally admitted to be one >f the world’s most beautiful San Francisco. But I know no sight more vonderful than sunset on Vava’u harbour —and there are plenty of others who igree with me.

But my quarrel with Mr. Pawson and >thers like him is not so much because of his unfortunate inability to appreciate scenery, but because of his complete unawareness of the Tongan people.

He speaks of the thieving ways of the Tongans. I have lived in both British and American countries and it has always been essential in both to keep my house securely locked. For over four years my husband and I have been the only white residents of the Vava’a village of ’Utulei. During that time, we have rarely locked our door. We have lost nothing.

He speaks of “inquisitive and cheeky” children. I believe that a child who is not inquisitive is stupid. During my first year in Tonga, I taught in a school for Tongan girls. I was constantly amazed by their politeness and quiet, gentle behaviour.

Like children everywhere, they are capable of being: naughty, but their basic manners are far above the average found in children in Anglo-Saxon countries today. It is true that, when we have strangers visit us, our fence is lined with village children peering in to have a look at them. Fortunately, most of our guests realise that THEY are novelties and that the children are doing no more than satisfy a very justifiable curiosity.

For the few who can’t face children’s eyes, the solution is simple: I ask the children to go away and they do so without the slightest bit of protest. Mr.

Pawson singles out the children of Neiafu and those of Nuku’alofa as being particularly offensive. Both these towns are ports and both are like border-towns in being full of half castes. There are some children there whose parents neglect them and let them run uncared 49 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1954

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We Live to Serve and Serve to Live for throughout the streets; but, has Mr.

Pawson ever seen the children around Circular Quay in Sydney, the young ones of Hell’s Kitchen in New York, or the street children of Manila?

Mr. Pawson says that “judged by European standards they (Tongans) often appear to be lazy.” The remark exposes one of the most frequent follies of white critics of Tonga. They imagine that European standards are the only basis for judging any people; whereas if people are to be judged at all, they must be judged within the limits of their own culture.

The majority of the Tongans are well fed. For them to be so, the men have to clear tropical bush and plant and care for their gardens. When their crops are ready they must be harvested—and anyone who has ever seen a Tongan yam or taro knows that a thoroughly lazy man could never get up enough energy to dig one up, much less carry it home and prepare it for eating.

Tongan women spend whole days on the reef searching for shell-fish to add needed vitamins to their family diet.

Other days they spend at the backbreaking jobs of beating out papermulberry bark to make tapa, or weaving pandanus leaves into mats. If a passing white-man catches them napping under a coconut, need he conclude that they are story book islanders waiting for their dinners to drop from heaven into their mouths?

'T'ONGA, like other parts of Polynesia, is in a state of transition to-day.

The old caste system is crumbling and a new way of life is evolving. v At present the country has, as Mr.

Pawson quite accurately said, a parliamentary system, yet it retains a semifeudal set-up. No one can deny that some of the nobles who, with the crown, are the only owners of land (all other people —Europeans and commoners among the Tongans—have their land on leasehold only) abuse the power that is theirs: Some of them may remember their privileges and forget their duties.

It is likewise true that many opportunities in life are open to young nobles only. It is a great temptation for people who come from any of the modem democracies to pick flaws in Tongan government and social life. It is well to remember, however, that a trained anthropologist. Dr. Felix Keesing, of Stanford University, points out that cultural change is, and must be, a gradual thing. To force the people of one culture to adopt the way of another culture is to destroy them.

Queen Salote has often said that she hopes her people will preserve the best features of their old Tongan life and add to them the best of European life.

As I see it, the place of a white man in Tonga, is to help his Tongan neighbours and friends to know the best of European ways, to give what help and technical advice he can, and then to leave to the Tongans themselves the final choice of adopting or rejecting what they will.

Mr. Pawson finds the over-emphasis on religion in Tonga “annoying,” and labels the extent of Sunday observance practised here "ridiculous.”

The majority of white islanders agree with him. However, insomuch as the religious life of Tonga is, in the main, dominated by a small group of Australfan Wesleyan missionaries who keep a tight hold on the purse and the power of the church, any criticism of Tongan religion must be a criticism of the missionaries.

Since it is not against white men, but only against the brown that Mr. Pawson speaks, this is not the place to enter into discussion of the missions. (OVER) 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Mr. Pawson is distressed over the fact that religion in Tonga has become competitive and mourns because “many Tongans will often reduce themselves to near-poverty to give a little more than their neighbours.”

It is quite true; but is the Tongan (who “gives his money to God” as many Tongans express their church contributions) more to be blamed than the Anglo-Saxon who risks his financial security for the purely worldly joy of keeping up with the Joneses?

Mr. Pawson says condescendingly that “some of the boys” who worked for him could have held their own with the best anywhere. Grown Tongans resent being called “boys” and they resent the inference that the white man is always their superior. And why shouldn’t they?

Scientists have disproved the white theory that intelligence rose as skin tone lightened. IQ’s high and low are sprinkled pretty evenly through all the races of mankind. In Tonga, as elsewhere, there are brilliant people and there are stupid ones.

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Major r. haven-hart of ceylon, a well-known British traveller, writer, and anthropologist, has just concluded several months’ study in Vava’u where he investigated cultural change in terms of music.

Selecting a group of well-known English tunes—hymn tunes, rounds, and popular music—he traced the variations which have been made in them by native Tongan musicians.

As might have been expected, he discovered a definite “Polynesianisation” in all the music with some most interesting results.

Major Raven-Hart expects to publish his work as part of his thesis for a PHD degree from London University.

Noel Baylis, head of the accounting department of Burns Philp, Neiafu, is back in Vava’u after a brief leave in Australia.

Robert Leyden has recently taken over the managership of the Neiafu Club.

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Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Baker of Rarotonga, left by Maui Pomare early December to spend furlough in New Zealand. Mr. Baker is Director of Agriculture in the Cook Islands.

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“It would not be in accordance with these conditiohs to use the :unds available to the Protectorate :or the partial satisfaction of war iamage claims which amount in ;otal to a sum greatly in excess of ;he funds available. The payment pf war damage claims to certain ndividuals would not promote the naximum benefit to the greatest lumber since the benefit would be confined to a comparatively narrow lection of the community and would lot be related to the moral and social aspects of rehabilitation or to the general economic advancement of the Territory.

“Plans for the utilisation of these funds are now being considered and it is hoped that they will prove of benefit to all, including those who suffered damage during the war, and who continue to take an economic interest in the Protector ate.

“While, as stated, it is not possible to reopen the question of war damage compensation, I am to say that His Excellency is nevertheless prepared to examine the circumstances of any individuals who are now in severely straitened circumstances, amounting to real hardship, from losses suffered as a resuit of the war in the Protectorate, with a view to affording them some measure of relief. Consideration is being given to the establishment of suitable machinery for the investigation of any such cases, and a statement on this subject will shortly be issued.”

EDITORIAL NOTE: Judging from letters arriving in this office, the High Commissioner’s decision has not been kindly received by the majority of BSI planters. . . Much might be said, pro and con: but the ultimate test will be found in the way in which the £500,000 is spent in the Solomons. If the New Guinea fashion is followed, and 57

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Home-Brew Is On In Apia!

Only Legal Liquor is Off EDITOR DUNLEAVY, of the Samoa Bulletin, home from s mid-November pub-crawl of the innumerable illegal “liquor joints" in Apia’s environs, with a dozen sample bottles from as many different brewers under his coat, surrendered the potent cargo to the Health Department for analysis* What they found was both interesting and disturbing.

The “legal” beer, sold and controlled by the Government, has an average 5-6 per cent, alcoholic content. The illegal fa’amafu assayed] as low as 7.2 per cent, in one cases but ran up to 19.6 per cent, from one of the “better” houses —and was being sold freely to anyone.

The Bulletin estimates, conservatively, that at least 125,000 bottles: of illegal grog are being consumed] per annum—as compared wit hi about 100,000 bottles sold through! legal channels. A boy of under 21 admitted that he drinks an average of 20 bottles per week.

Private brewers near Apia are turning out the local poison at frorm 20 to 100 bottles per day and selling it at 2/- per bottle. Widows and others are making a living fromn the industry.

This refutes utterly the claimn made by certain MLA’s during th© recent debate on liquor control im the Western Samoan Legislative Council, and shows that drinking§ is widespread amongst Samoans.* The Bulletin urges that, as inn Eastern Samoa, the people be givenn free access to a properly brewedb beer of low alcoholic content, thus killing the illegal trade.- JPS.

An Apia businessman, commenting on Mr. Dunleavy’s discoveries** describes them as exaggerated. Hee said that there is no serious liquon problem apparent in Samoa, nor ise there any evidence of serious crimes which may be ascribed to overindulgence in home-brewed beer..: Figures supplied in the report aree wild guesses without any foundation in fact. Court records* show a very low incidence of alcoholic excesses. Police authorities ares taking energetic steps to keep thes brewing and sale of home-brewunder control. 58 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL II

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YEAR rS Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji, had a record number of graduates last year—2B medi- ;al and two dental finalists, from welve Pacific Territories. This was reported by the Director-General )f the South Pacific Health Service, Dr. J. M. Cruikshank, at the annual graduation ceremony held in Suva lome days before the new Medical School was opened by the Queen.

The Governor of Fiji, in his adiress to the graduates before presentation of awards, said that jresent enrolment included 122 nedical and 23 dental students, as veil as 19 others studying sanita- ;ion, five pharmacy, two X-ray, and me taking a laboratory course.

Two Gold Medals in Surgery were iwarded this year. No award had >een made last year. The recipients >f the British Medical Association iward this year were Harnam Singh Pulsi and Jona Baravilala Seniagakali, both of Fiji. Sir Alport Barker’s Gold Medal in Medicine vent to Harnam Singh Tulsi also, rhe Forensic Medicine Prize was iwarded jointly to Jona Baravilala tenilagakali and Samuela Fonua of tonga. Dr. A. S. Frater’s Gold iledal for Head Student went to lamam Singh Tulsi, and Mrs. A. >. Frater’s special prize for most onsistent application to studies was iwarded to Lanuola Sagale of W.

Samoa.

Dr. A. T. Doran, principal of the chool, was able to report that there vere no failures this year amongst hose taking the final examinations ,t the end of the four-year course.

Island Trading Company—the coperative handling US Trust Terri- )ry produce sales —reported in Oc- 3ber that there had been a heavy ecline in copra export despite le fact that the price to producers jcently rose. ITC also reported, in s survey of the copra market, that le Philippines exported 68,000 tons I copra in October—highest figure cached in any month of this year o that date.

Temnorary Cool-Store for Suva Fruit UNDER an arrangement with an Auckland firm, refrigeration nnmfra n waiting: porary cool-store for fruit awaiting exjort from Fiji. The machinery will be on loan for several years— until the new port facilities are established on the site north of Walu Bay creek.

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Kandava Again Ships

BANANAS Late in November, 700 cases of bananas were shipped from Kandava Island> Fiji, as the first to be exported for some years. They were loaded in Suva by the Matua. En- «£ ?e™steSshment of P banana plantings on islands other than Viti s' \ f th nrp«?pnt £evu so ™ ®fmwine centralised cron P le teiy wipe out a centralised crop. _ A „ A ™ „

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With an eye to the possibility of utilising bananas that cannot be shipped for export, interests in Fiji are understood to be investigating the establishment of a small banana-flour industry in the Colony. 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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The vessels were Orcades, Wave Laird, Coral Stone, Lossiebank, Union Power, Stanley Angwin and Le Phogue, and, in addition, other small ships on the local register.

Port Moresby’s new Aquatic Club building which was opened by the Administrator, [?]rigadier D. M. Cleland, on December 12. Beyond the new building is the old Club [?]hich sustained considerable bomb damage during the war. The Club was first [?]ormed in 1923 when it had a few canoes; now it is one of the most popular and [?]ctive clubs in P-NG and has power-boats as well as sailing boats competing in races [?]ach week-end. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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U Arrivals in BSI by QEA on November 23 included Mr. L. C.

Thomas (Managing Director of Lever’s Pacific Plantations), and Mrs. Thomas, for Yandina, and Messrs. R. Dodd and W. Parkes for Honiara. The Protectorate Accountant-General (Mr. I. V. G.

Mackay) returned from an official visit to the New Hebrides. Outward, passengers for Sydney by Qantas; on November 24 included Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lotze, Mrs. E. V. Lawson, Mr. R. Stubbs, Mrs. W. Barley,, Mr. and Mrs. R. Barnfather, Mr..

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rHE first week-end in December saw the breaking of the record drought which had gripped nost of Fiji for nearly five months md had caused substantial losses n the sugarcane areas of western Viti Levu.

On the night of December 4, had 16 inches of rain and Bigatoka, Lautoka and Ba had 10 nches. The “wet side” of Viti Levu had only two or three inches, 3ut this, with earlier showers, was mough to ensure that Suva was jreen again when the Queen arrived.

The rain held off on December I when the cruising liner Orcades irrived at Suva for a two-day visit before calling at Noumea on the ?ay back to Sydney. Despite Suva’s jreoccupation with the Royal visit Reparations, the usual round of ourist entertainments was arranged, ncluding visits to Deuba and Koroevu beach resorts.

First Bsi Priest

FATHER Aloysius Tamuka was ordained a priest at Buin, Bougainville, in December—the irst Solomon Islander to achieve his distinction. He was a student it the Bougainville missions for leveral years, and while he was in i Japanese prison camp.

Sister K. Joubert, matron of the Va u European Hospital, New Juinea, left on recreation leave tarly in January and will be reieved by Sister Cash, from Port Moresby.

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Donations to the Fiji Boy Scouts’

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Kava for the Governor American Samoa’s new governor, Mr.

Richard Barrett Lowe, drinks a bowl of Kava at a ceremony in Pago Pago in November in honour of visiting US Senators. Senators Gay Gordon and Milton Young look on with interest. —Photo by Mina Kellner Spencer. 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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A photo taken after the wedding in Lae, NG, on December 10, of Miss Mary O’Neill of Station 9AP, Port Moresby, to Mr. Renius Zuydam, well-known Territorian. —Photo by Island Arts, Lae. 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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TITORRENTIAL rains in early De- J. cember washed out the town roads of Wau, NG, and also the road between Wau and Bulolo at the mouth of Edie Creek. At this point, for a distance of approximately 200 yards, the road ledge was completely washed away and it is expected that repairs will take some time.

The effect of this road closure is that all cargo for Wau must now come in by air, at increased costs to the consumers However, the Administration Is co-operating by arranging charters to bring in the cargo at road-freight rates and New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. are backloading timber.

Some concern is felt by local residents at the unsatisfactory progress being made in the restoration of the road, and two Public Meetings have been held to protest strongly against the unsatisfactory position.

It is now expected that a jeep track will be available along this portion of the road by early in January.

Rainfall for Wau during 1953 totalled 9,323 points and this is the highest yearly rainfall ever recorded over the 19 years in which records have been kept. The next highest yearly rainfall was in 1934 and the yearly average is 7,368 points.

Port Moresby Has Record

DRY YEAR Port Moresby, on the other hand has had a record dry year—up till December 23, only 26 inches had been recorded at Jackson’s which is 15 inches below the previous lowest annual rainfall.

Since then the position has been relieved somewhat by pre-wet season showers.

Local weather bureau officials said that the wet-season was late this year—the inter-tropical weather front that brought seasonal rain was still up around the equator instead of being in the Bismark Sea.

Moresby meteorologists were not expecting Moresby’s wet to begin therefore until mid-January. 66 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Active work by the Disposal Section continues in the BSIP. Beween November 25-27, 60 tons of lombs were taken from Hell’s Point, lear Honiara, and dumped at sea.

Some Tongans were Missing PROTESTING against a fine of £5O in an Auckland (NZ) Court for being caught in possession f 704 toheroas which is 654 oheroas above the allowable maxiaum to be taken from a beach in ne vehicle —Colin Jarvis, market ardener, made a bitter plea. He had tad a party of Tongans with him, aid Jarvis, and they had said that if here should be any trouble they fould take the responsibility—as hey very much liked toheroas. *ut when the trouble started, and he fisheries inspector arrived, there fere not any Tongans in the leighbourhood.

Still protesting, Jarvis was led ut of Court to the tune of the aagistrate sternly announcing, That will do! That will do!” while Isewhere in town, presumably a arty of Tongans laughed and aughed! fl Due to the death of his father Id France, the return of Governor Petitbon to Tahiti has been delayed, but it is understood that the popular Governor will be back in French Oceania during January.

These Islands residents were in New Zealand in December (left to right): Major Willoughby Tottenham of Suva. Mr. and Mrs. W. Scarborough returned after seven pears at Niue, where Mr. Scarborough was Post-Master and officer in charge of Radio Station. Kitione Lave, after vacation in Fonga, returned for some further ring encounters. 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Pacific Nature Notes

By Raimanu FRIGATE BIRDS. As I sit down to my typewriter this morning, the rain is falling outside in gusty showers. It is the kind of weather Frigate Birds like. On another island where I lived, on a bluff overlooking the shore, one could go out first thing on such a morning and be almost certain of seeing some of the great birds go by, flapping and gliding along over the coast.

I first remember seeing the Frigate Birds soaring high over the coast of Tarakan in Borneo, during the 1945 campaign there. Since then I hav« seen them many times, both high and low, over a number of islands of the southwest Pacific. But that first sight over the coast of an embattled island reminds See article page 77 this issue. me of two things, and both of them are mentioned in Harold Gatty’s famous “Raft Book” which was standard equipment in combatant aircraft during the war. • First, the value of these oirds to airmen who came down in the sea in trouble, or, for that matter, to the survivors of torpedoed ships, too. For this is essentially a land-based bird, and to see him means that land is not very far away; while to watch the direction >f his flight in late afternoon is an ilmost certain indication of the direction n which land lies, for he does not spend he night at sea. • Second—and this arises out of the first—the general, but erroneous belief, that the Frigate Bird is of the open sea far from land. My encyclopedia, for example, perpetuates the error. But to quote Gatty: “Walt Whitman probably Bowlers Win Prizes At Port Moresby Bowling Club, trophies were presented at a Christmas Party on December 19. Photo shows Mr. J. Chatfield presenting Mr. A. Britton with his trophy.

At extreme right of photo is Mrs. W. Murray, who also received a trophy. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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You are likely to find one or other of the several different species of this bird anywhere over the warmer oceans of the world. But here in the south-west Pacific there seem to be two types commonly seen, one larger than the other. Opinions appear to differ among those who have written on the subject, but it looks as if the Great Frigate Bird is most often seen out in the island groups, while the Lesser Frigate Bird is more likely to be met with as you get nearer to Australia.

To those of us who have not been in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands it must remain something of a mystery how these birds can be be trained to carry messages from island to island. But their ability to do so is well known, and is commemorated on one of the postage stamps of that Group—the Vzd stamp of 1939.

The same practice has been reported from Samoa, but has perhaps died out before this.

The natives of Fiji make no such use of the bird, but do place some faith in it as a barometer. To them it is invariably the “Storm Bird,” and its appearance is taken as a sure sign of bad weather to come. After several years of observation, I feel that they may be right. But more often than not, so I’ve noticed, the bad weather is virtually with us before the birds make their appearance.

Another Fijian tradition is that all the storm birds in the Group have their home in the same place at Qilaqila Point, on the north-western corner of Vanua Balavu, and thither they repair every evening, no matter in what part of the islands they may be. The situation is probably this—that Qilaqila is one of their regular roosting, and perhaps nesting, places. But there are others, and my inquiries point to Ono-i-lau, Gau, and Yadua as such places.

One writer has mentioned how these birds “glide effortlessly through the air, sometimes for hours without a wingbeat, the deeply forked tail opening and closing like a pair of scissors.” I have never had time to watch them for hours to check this, but their build is so specialised for gliding and soaring that it may well be true. They have the reputation of being the lightest in weight of all birds for their size. Specimens with a wing spread of seven feet have been found to weigh just oVer three pounds. 70 J A N n A R Y , 195 4 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Tropicalities

From Brede Place To

MELANESIA CAPTAIN Hugh Frewen, who is well known in Fiji waters, where he does some smallships trading in the Melanesia, returned to Australia at the end of November after nine months in the United Kingdom.

At one stage of his career, about 30 years ago, he worked as a journalist on the Adelaide Advertiser, and when he passed through Adelaide in November, the Advertiser printed a long article about the Captain—all very Debrett.

Captain Frewen’s daughter-inlaw, who is Lord Selby’s daughter and Anthony Eden’s cousin, was mentioned—plus Sir Eugene Millington-Drake, a retired ambassador, the Swedish Ambassador, the King of Libya, cousin Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Churchill, a youthful Spanish Don, another cousin, Sir Shane Leslie, and his sculpturing sister, Clare Sheridan, who lives in an oasis in the Sahara desert.

During his stay in England he revisited Eton and the ancient Frewen family manor, Brede Place, in Surrey, which is now owned by his eldest son. At present Captain Frewen is at his home in Dorrigo, NSW. but he expects to return to Fiji in the New Year.

More About Coconut

PEARLS DO Pacific Island residents ever come across coconut pearls?

They’re rare enough to be priceless: in fact too rare to be of any commercial value. The first one was discovered in 1741, and more than a hundred years passed before another one was found. A few have been found in Fiji; one or two in the Torres Straits, and about 30 years ago ona was found in Tonga. It was a tiny pearl and clear amber in colour.

In Java and the East Indies the vegetable pearls, sometimes as large as cherries, are found in the joints of the bamboos and occasionally in the wood of the teak and pomegranate trees. They are probably formed by an excess of calcareous and siliceous matter in the plant.

They do rank as real pearls, since they consist of almost pure carbonate of lime, which goes to make up the oyster pearl.

In the coconut the pearl is caused by the seedling being unable to escape through the three soft dents for that purpose in the end of the nut. When these dents become as hard as the rest of the nut, the imprisoned seedlings cause a growth of carbonate of lime which forms the pearl in much the same way as the oyster pearl is formed.

In the East Indies they are valued very highly as charms, and the owner of one cannot be induced to part with it as he believes himself immune from all evils while he retains possession of the pearl. Anyway, he will not in a lifetime be likely to find another one to match it.—GLENN MacGREGOR. (PIM published numerous articles on coconut pearls about two years ago—at first and until corrected, taking the view that the whole thing was a fairy story).

LIGHTNING STRIKES DIFFER-

Ently In The Bsip

SEVERAL readers have sent us, with suitable comment, an article which appeared some weeks ago in the Melbourne Herald and came from the Herald Special Service in London.

The'article says, in part: Nowhere else in the South Pacific does lightning strike with the same fearful force as in the Solomons.

Until the eve of the war, planters in the Solomons crossed their fingers when the clouds banked and blackened and tropical lightning seared the wet sky.

By the end of 1936, the books of Levers Pacific Plantations Pty., Ltd., listed 110 acres of coconut palms lost by lightning since Levers started planting in 1905.

But on the eve of the war, tropical agriculture researchers supplied the answer. Now new planting is confined to country where the soil contains ironstone—which seems to disperse lightning strikes.

There are three columns more of the article —dealing with everything from the American invasion to the founding of the Protectorate—and most of its sounds like a good leg pull of some innocent, visiting journalist by some wicked resident of the BSIP.

In regard to the beneficial effect of ironstone —we have paused to shed a tear for the owners of the thousands —maybe millions—of acres of coconuts planted in the South Seas in just plain coral.

When I was in the Highlands of NG last April, one of the local residents pointed out a spot some thousands of feet above, which, he said, was famous for the ferocity of its electrical storms. The reason: the whole darned place was composed of ironstone, which attracted the lightning!

Some of these Territorians will tell you anything.

JT.

Case Of The Neuter Cats

WRITING to the Sydney Morning Herald recently, with considerable feeling and a certain refinement, a Sydneysider had this to Say: (Over) Soft Island Music—From Hanuabada This is the Hanuabada Native Orchestra, Port Moresby, which made its first public appearance in Moresby in November—at a dinner-dance for the Red Cross.

The orchestra and its music were a wild success, —Photo by Papuan Prints. 73 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

Five months ago I went to Suva with the intention of settling there and I took two treasured pals—a Siamese cat, aged nine years (neuter male), and a younger black cat (neuter female).

I have found it necessary to return to Australia, but I am not allowed to bring back my pets. Not even for quarantine.

I am told that if I take them to England for six months’ quarantine I may then bring them to Australia for quarantine. 1 cannot afford to do this.

I have it from the Government veterinary officer in Suva that there are no cat diseases in Fiji that are not already in Australia.

Does it not seem unreasonable not to allow healthy neuter cats to return and be placed in quarantine for observation?

Although, traditionally, people who make a fuss about cats are looked upon with tolerant amusement (while a similar fuss about dogs is supposed to indicate a fine character), it is a fact that the regulations governing the re-entry of cats and dogs into Australia from the Islands are patently absurd.

People who take these animals, de-sexed or otherwise, from Australia to Fiji or Papua-New Guinea (and we presume elsewhere in the Pacific) are warned that they cannot bring them back, although there are no cat or dog diseases, in P.NG or Fiji that are not already present in Australia. To our knowledge, there has never been a case of rabies amongst dogs in these Pacific territories; yet animals from Europe, where this disease is present, are admitted to Australia after the usual period of quarantine.

And, as the SMH reader points out, if the Fiji or NG owner likes to send his pet to England for the necessary period of quarantine he can then bring it into Australia.

There is a branch of the RSPCA in Fiji. Perhaps they could bring some pressure to bear in the right places,

She Spurned The “Samoan

THRONE”

ONE of the two movies made in the South Pacific last year is currently being released in Australia. It is called Return To Paradise— from a story by James A. Michener, and was shot in Western Samoa. Hollywood stars, Gary Cooper and Roberta Haynes, take the leading roles and this is what Melbourne Argus reported about Roberta’s sojourn in Samoa, in some preliminary blurb about the film: The Upolu Islanders accepted her as one of their own, and taught her how to make the native drink of kava, how to dance the papio and to wear the lava-lava, which is more, maybe, than Dotty Lamour knows about the South Seas.

She even had a chance to marry Samoan royalty and to become a queen of the South Sea island she was on.

“Prince Mata’afa, the only unmarried chief on the island, dated me three times,” she says. “I think his intentions were serious Anyway, he introduced me to his folks.”

Spurning the throne, she returned to Hollywood, where she is right now, doing very well indeed.

Wonder what the Mata’afa family thinks about that!

THROUGH the initiative of New X Zealand writer Ronald Syme, • has spent some months 9? ok Islands, singers at the T?fS5? nglla • Community Centre, Karotonga, will entertain New York radio listeners in the well-known Hands Across the Sea” programme from station WMYC.

Mr. Syme recorded, on tape, a programme “Songs of Rarotonga"

S S T? n if to an a S ent in America. fSfo- 4 lf " 1 ?? ur P ro § ram me was enthusiastically received, in the recording each item is introduced by f a £ nl P’ a leading chieftainess of the Cooks. Requests for similar programmes have been received from America and from the BBC.

A Band Visits Pitcairn

ISLAND Returning home on the Mataroa, the New Zealand band that had been to the Coronation arrived at Pitcairn Island on October 16. You should have seen the islanders as they watched and listened in wonder when the band played!

Usually, when the islanders leave the ships on which they have been trading, maybe some miles out at se a they sing hymns as a farewell to those on board. And very touching it is to see the tiny boats standing off there, sometimes in the darkness, and hear the beautiful songs coming over the water.

But the band brought to the people of Pitcairn music such as they have never before comprehended because the gramophone is a poor substitute for the reality.

How they listened spellbound and longed for the beautiful recital to continue! Long will they remember the visit of the New Zealand band. —MYRTLE L. WARD.

What Makes Hermits Tick?

MR. TOM NEALE, from his lonely outpost on Suwarrow atoll, Cook Islands, has indicated that he is not particularly pleased with the publicity that he and his tom-cat have had since they took up abode there a year ago. Firstly, the facts were all wrong—there were other cats besides the famous Tom; nor have the cats been out of place in that bird sanctuary. They have left the birds strictly alone and have cleaned out the rats which were feeding on the birds’ eggs.

With hqrmits in very short supply Mr.'-'Neale must expect himself to be news while in his present location. That he is news is revealed in letters to friends reporting on the extraordinary mail that arrives by the occasional boat from Rarotonga. Recent mail included a lengthly questionnaire from a learned psycho-analyst or ’ologist of some note, bent on discovering what makes Tom tick.

Yachtsmen are welcome,- we understand, so long as they first obtain permission from Rarotonga to make the call, and are prepared to bring in a fresh supply of interesting mail —and get out again within 24 hours so that Mr. Neale can get on with his gardening.

Robin McKay, of Aropa Estate, Bougainville, first arrived in New Guinea in 1935, and worked the Burns Philp plantations of Kulon, Raluat and Kiep until the war came. He enlisted early in 1940 and went to the Middle East with the 6th Division AIF. He served a s a Ser geant in the various campaigns of North Africa, and on returning to Australia was transferred to the AIB for their nefarious work behind the Japanese lines in New Britain.

He was then commissioned in the field as a Lieutenant, and landed in the Sepik a cloak-and-dagger unit called Mosstroopers (nicknamed Mousetrappers) from where they walked all the way to Ml. Hagen.

After his wartime adventures, Robin went back to Rabaul in 1946 with the first civilians and opened up Kulon plantation again. i n 1947 he bought Aropa copra plantation where he is developing cocoa, like most New Guinea Planters. He is a director of the Bougainville Company which runs the "Pollurian" and the current president of the Bougainville branch of the Planters Association. Robin was born in Melbourne in 1917. He has a wife and three daughters. — BRETT HILDER. 74 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Old Bill Charlie - Down South

By Bill Gill

POOR old Charlie was breasting the human maelstrom on Wynyard ramp when I glimpsed him. “Why,” I cried, delighted to see him after all these years, “how are you, < you old hyena?”

“I’m all right,” said Charlie in his aloof, confident way. “Why?”

“Oh, just wanted to know. I ”

“Did you ever see me any other way than all right?” he interrupted.

“Remember that time when we couldn’t give copra away? You plunged for rubber, in spite of me saying that copra would come again.

Right that time too, wasn’t I?”

I ruefully admitted that he had been right that time, but privately remembered other prognostications of his which were not so accurate— notably his conviction that the oldtime cylindrical gramophone records and the tin horn models (even with the spring broken) would return to oust the ridiculous flat discs.

“I’m camping out at King’s Cross,” he informed me with a sweeping eastwards gesture which drew black looks from the hurrying crowd.

“You climb that ridge, down the gully and up the other side. You'll find me there most any time.”

“We must have a long yarn together,” I said. “How about coming out to my place for the day next Sunday?” And I gave him my address.

“All right” he agreed, “why not?

I know that suburb; take a train to Strathfield, don’t you, then hire a camel or something?”

I told him things were not quite that bad and, after directing him by a simpler route, we parted. * * * THE following Sunday he arrived on time and soon afterwards MacDougall pulled up at the front gate in his brand spankingnew, model sedan.

“You remember Mac.?” I said to Charlie, re-introducing them.

“Why, yes, a General or a Colonel or something in ANGAU wasn’t he?”

“Oh, no,” laughed Mac, “not that bad! Same as everyone else, a WO two.”

“There certainly were plenty woes of all ranks in those days,” said Charlie reflectively. “T h e worst infestation we ever had. The rhinoceros beetle was a gentleman compared with some of them.”

After a few more pleasantries, Mac invited us out to admire his new car.

“Don’t look so good to me,” said Charlie, flatly, “where’s the running board, for instance? And if that cap on the after mudguard is where you fill the petrol tank, how’re you going to get a stick in to measure the juice in her?”

“Hey, wait a minute,” cried Mac.

“What d’you mean, running board?”

“It’s a kind of sponson,” Charlie explained patiently, “where the acetylene tank goes for the lamps.

Where the tool box sits. Where the spare tyre is strapped. Where the kids stand to ride holding on to the awning. Where ”

“Okay,” said Mac, “I remember now. We don’t have ’em any more.

You haven’t had much to do with recent models, have you?”

“And where’s the little red thermometer thing that screws atop of the radiator to tell you when she’s boiling? And ”

Mac gave him a sour look. “If you mean the temperature gauge,” he said, “it’s inside on the instrument panel.”

“You mean beside the magneto switch on the dashboard, I expect.

That’s a rum place to have it if you like!”

Mac pulled the door open, “Hop in,” he directed. “Pipe that upholstery. See that rug? Get a load of these foam-rubber cushions. Ever see anything like that before?”

“No,” Charlie admitted. “And I’ve never seen a motor without a horn before, either. How can you get past anybody without a horn to toot?”

“The horn is on the steering wheel,” said Mac savagely.

Charley craned his tortoise-like neck. “The horn may be,” he said, “but the spark and fuel levers aren’t, and where’s the bracket for the windshield to swing open on?

And look at this rug,” he continued, tugging at the floor covering, “glued fast, as I’m alive! How do you get (Continued on Page 85) -Even with the spring broken . . .

“- and where’s that little, red thermometer thing?” 75 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

By Launch Th ough the Rewa Delta BY JPS ONE of Fiji’s most interesting attractions—and one of the most accessible from Suva — is a launch trip through the tortuous waterways of the Rewa Delta.

The reason that it is not included in the regular scheduled trips arranged by the enterprising Fiji Visitors’ Bureau is because the journey is governed by state of tide and the availability of a suitable launch. A day trip could be made only about once per fortnight, and the trip, to be fully enjoyed, should occupy two days—and launches are not readily available to meet this latter requirement.

The Storck brothers’ privatelyowned Joysea is such a launch and the accompanying photos were taken from aboard her during a recent enjoyable week-end cruise.

With all stores aboard we cleared Top to bottom centre: Launch Joysea and skipper Mike Storck at the wheel.

Left row. top to bottom: Nailili Catholic Mission on the banks of the Rewa, (2) typical Fijian villages, (3) an Indian farmer’s home, (4) every village has its water-landing, (5) the Wamibokasi hospital, (6) and a country school.

Right row. ton to bottom: (1) A typical delta Indian fishing launch, (2) the children enjoy every minute of the trip, (3) watching the view from the cabin top, (4) look-outs on duty, (5) homeward bound down the Rewa again.

JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Suva wharf at the crack of dawn on a clear fine tropical morning, put out the trolling lines, and sailed south round Suva Point and the just-awakening suburbs, with the odour of a tasty breakfast floating up from the galley. We ate it with Lauthala Bay and its flying-boats abeam to port and the largest of the Rewa’s five mouths opening out ahead, the tide hurrying us along.

Visitors from overseas are always surprised to discover such large rivers in an island of the comparitively small size of Viti Levu, and the Rewa is, in fact, the largest river system anywhere in the Pacific Islands with the exception of New Guinea. Roughly a hundred miles long, its lowfer reaches are extremely tortuous, a fact which can only be fully appreciated from the air. The lower delta consists of huge areas of tidal mud-flats densely overgrown with mangroves, and intersected by numerous narrow water channels. It is an unpleasant place of steamy heat and objectionable odours. But a little further up, these shoals become dry land, the main banks of the river fall sheer, standing ten feet above the normal river level, with miles of waving green sugar cane approaching to the very edges and separated from the river only by the narrow foottracks that connect the Fijian villages and Indian homes along the banks. We pass the Nailili Catholic mission station away on our ■ight and the hulk of the old Tui \auvaro stranded against the bank m our left, then take a sudden 'ight turn into the narrow Wainibocasi creek—which is nothing but me of the outlets of the Rewa.

Then for an hour or two the rip is full of interest—and skipper Hike very fully occupied—as the ide sweeps us round sharp curves vhich form three-parts of a circle it times. At some of these bends ye gently nose the bank, go astern, inship a long bamboo pole and ease •ur bows round while swarms of ittle Fijian boys, with tummyength shirts but no trousers, yell nth delight and heave lengths of ugar-cane aboard, then dash across he isthmus to meet us again for a epeat performance as we almost omplete a circle. Down in the fater, Indian women, busy at their sundry, pause for a moment as our '.ash sweeps by but, as is their wav ive neither a wave nor a smile We pass the old Wainibokasi ospital, where most of the atients rush from bed to the verndahs to cheer us on our way. At itervals the dense cane opens out d make room for a Fijian village f the unattractive home of some adian squatter with its few cocout palms or breadfruit overhanging , and the inevitable, long, flatottomed boat tied nearby to the ank. Occasionally an Indian lunch, loaded to the gunwales with men and gear, chugs back against the current from a fishing expedition.

Then the cane is left behind again, the channel is back in the mangrove swamps and presently we are out on open water with a line of beacons pointing away to the north on the sheltered behind-thereefs path to Ovalau Island. Out here there are anchorages in ideal fishing spots amongst the reefs that encircle the pretty little Robinson Crusoe island of Leleuvia, its neighbours Caqalai and Nasautabu, or any of the others towards Ovalau A launch can lie snugly at anchor here all night, with all hands busily hauling aboard a variety of fish to provide dinner and breakfast—then home next day on a fair tide, back through the delta—by another route if desired.

Book Reviews:

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The Frigate Birds Were All at Sea THE worth of our civilisation can be gauged only against the lengths to which men will go to prove their theories: Most new ventures seem crazy in prospect; some infinitely more crazy than others. When ventures fail, their perpetrators are written off as cranks. When they succeed—presto, they are heroes and another small step forward in human progress has been made. The Bombard Story is an example of this human cussedness.

When a young French doctor of medicine conceived the idea that the sea contained adequate food and drink to support the shipwrecked mariner for an indefinite period, it seemed crazy enough: when he proposed to cross the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy to prove his theory, it was regarded as suicide.

Conducted by the Assistant Editor Laboratory tests proved to the doctor that raw fish and plankton could supply him with sufficient food to keep him alive and in reasonable health. Water was another matter, and on this he got across all the accepted seafaring tabus. He could, he believed, get sufficient fresh water from groundup fish—the percentage of water to weight of fish varies, according to variety, from about 50 per cent, to nearly 80 per cent. In addition, he believed that this fresh water could be supplemented by drinking specified amounts of salt-water.

This last idea was contrary to all the sacred beliefs of all the generations of mariners that there have ever been: drinking salt-water, it is believed, can cause anything

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from madness to dysentery. Bombard believed that the danger in drinking sea water, in the past, lay in the fact that castaways had consumed it only after several days of thirst when the process of dehydration of their bodies was far advanced. He believed that the intake of salt-water should begin af; once, and that anything up to a pint-and-a-half a day was permissible up to a limit of five days before the danger of nephritis became acute. In those five days, sufficient fish should have been caught to produce adequate fresh water for the body’s requirements.

All these things he could prove in the laboratory to his own satisfaction and that of other scientists.

But it was another thing to overcome the prejudices of tough seamen. The doctor decided that there was only one way to do it: by various means he procured an inflatable rubber dinghy, about 15 feet long and six wide, with just sufficient space inside the floats to lie down, and set out alone across the Atlantic. With him he carried fresh water and food in sealed containers, as emergency rations. They were still sealed when he reached his destination at Barbados.

When Bombard leaves the laboratory and takes to the sea, he leaves also the realms of deduction and science and his story becomes one of thrilling adventure— a human story of a man who deliberately pitted himself against the relentlessness of a mighty ocean and on which survival was not merely a problem of finding sufficient to eat and drink—but a psychological matter of considerable magnitude. Why, Bombard had wondered, did one hear of men becoming crazed a few days after being cast away from foundering ships? After the 65 lonely days and nights it took him to sail from the Canary Islands to the West Indies he had an adequate answer.

As a navigator, Bombard was a good physician. It took him twice as long for the crossing as anticipated, and at one point he was 600 miles out of his reckoning. As part of the castaway’s equipment, the doctor had Harold Gatty’s Raft Book, a notable compiliation published during the war to aid castaway seamen and airmen. Let us say frankly that Dr. Bombard does not see eye-to-eye with Mr. Gatty on the matter of signs and portents' of approaching land —and particularly does he disagree in the matter of frigate birds which are supposed to indicate that land is not more than 100 miles distant.

After he had discovered his disastrous navigational error, Bombard had this to say: I had now made up my mind on the value to be attached to the books written for 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

the benefit of castaways, with all their hints on navigation, signs that land is near and all the evidence of floating timber, butterflies, gossamer threads and flies and birds.

Do not take it too hard, dear author of the “Raft Book”; whether the frigate bird can spend a night at sea or not I do not know, but it is certainly to be found 1,500 miles from land. It is also incorrect to say that it does not catch its own fish, as I have seen them swoop on the flying-fish chased out of the sea by the dolphins. (See article on frigate birds on page 69 of this issue).

It would be interesting to hear a debate between Mr. Gatty (who now lives in Suva) and Dr. Bombard on the whole question of being cast away at sea. And this is not an impossibility, either: It has been suggested that the doctor join the magnetic survey in the Pacific which is shortly to begin with the blessing of the British Admiralty (see Smallships News, December PIM).

In the meantime, The Bombard Story will provide you with an interesting theory and its thrilling solution. (Published by Andre Deutsch, London.

Our copy from Collins, of Sydney: Australian price, 15/6.) Murder in the Mallee IF you are a connoisseur of Whodunnits, you have permission to add Arthur Upfield to your reading list. He has a respectable list of thrillers to his credit —but his newest, Murder Must Wait, is the first to come this way. Read in the line of duty, Mr. Upfield may now step up beside the ladies—the Misses and Mesdames Marsh, Christie, Wentworth, Heyer, Rhinehart, etc. (Women, generally, write better mysteries than men).

Upfield writes against an Australian background, but his books are published by Heinemann, of London, and are top-standard if the latest is any criterion.

Chief character is Detective- Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (“all my friends call me Bony”) who has sapphire-blue eyes, dresses like something out of the Tailor and Cutter, speaks as pedantically as a University professor should (and does not,) is part-Aborigine and never forgets a foot-print. Ridiculous? No more so than Christie’s Hercule Poirot and his moustaches and little grey cells; or Wentworth’s aged spinster who, when she is not slaying crooks, is knitting interminable singlets for her niece Ethel’s offspring.

Scene of Murder Must Wait is the country town of Mitford, in one of the irrigated stretches of the Murray River Valley. Five boy babies have been abducted and a murder committed when Bony is called into the case. In his turn, he enlists the aid of Policewoman McGorr, who learnt her crime from the ground up: her father having been a famous safe-breaker in his time. She also knows a lot about babies.

Bony, with the help of Policewoman McGorr, inevitably and satisfactorily solves the mystery that has baffled all the other CIB experts. But apart from its merit as a straight Whodunnit, considerable amusement can be derived from Upfield’s portrayal of the typical small Australian town where the creme-de-la-creme of society is formed by the local bank managers and the doctors and where the highlight of social intercourse is the sherry party—or as Policewoman McGorr (who has no delusions of grandeur) puts it, a plonk party.

Upfield. no publicist for Australian sherry (which he describes as having a similar digestive reaction to the oil in sardine cans), has his characters eat half-a-pound of butter a-piece as a fortification when called upon, in the line of duty, to indulge in one of these social binges. But his scenes and his people have the ring of truth.

If you happen to know the Murray Valley, where its towns and villages are veritable oases of irrigated vines and citrus in a desert of mallee scrub, you will have no difficulty in recognising Mitford. And, apart from Chief Inspector Bonaparte, who is supposed to be eccentric, anyhow, the characters act like Australians. The idiom of some of them is, therefore, likely to be incomprehensible to overseas readers but to an Australian it sounds authentic.

Even our Number I pin-up Whodunnit writer, Ngaio Marsh, who hails from just across the Tasman, falls down in this department when she attempts to write Australianese.

Two things in this world should be left strictly to Australians. One is wearing a Digger hat; the other is all attempts to transcribe their language. When outsiders attempt either the result is unadulterated caricature. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd.; Australian retail price, 10/6.) A Little Nonsense Now and Then TALL tales are not everybody’s meat, but if you are in the mood. Dal Stivens’ Gambling Ghost and Other Stories can be recommended for a little incidental reading. . Now making a living from writing in London, Stivens arrived there from Australia via Sydney Consolidated Press, the Army Education Service, the Department of Information and Australia House. He is a contributor to many leading UK newspapers and magazines and his stories have been broadcast over the BBC. This is Stivens’ first excursion into fantasy of this sort, but if you are in need of a half-hour of entertainment you can learn all about the shooting capabilities of Cabbage-Tree-Ned, the race-horse that could understand English, Ironbark Bill, and the wonderfully intelligent sheep-dog which belonged to a drover whose sheep grew multi-coloured fleeces which ended in a piece of Campbell of Breadalbane tartan four miles wide and seven miles long.

These nonsense tales will give you some laughs; you will find, as well, beneath the robust wit, some very pointed satire. (Published in Sydney by Angus and Robertson. Australian price, 13/6.) In the Beginning—Through Aborinine Eyes OVER 50 years ago, Mrs. K.

Langloh Parker, who had grown up and always lived amongst the Australian aborigines on station properties in the New South Wales outback, collected and had published in London, five volumes of aboriginal legends.

These volumes have now been put of print for two generations but recently, H. Drake-Brockman, who is a well-known writer in her own right, has selected the best of them which have now been published by Angus and Robertson under the title Australian Legendary Tales.

The result is a fine production, admirably illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Durack, who is justly famous for this type of work.

By and large, the legends of native people are incredibly boring to the general reader. These aboriginal stories are, however, away above average: they make more sense than the usual fantasy that passes for native legend. There are probably two reasons for this—one, in the way they have been written by Mrs. Parker and presented by Mrs. Drake-Brockman; and two, in the fact that although the Australian aborigines were poorest in , environment and material culture, , amongst the natives of the Pacific : area their spiritual life is acknowledged to be far superior.

Apart from the usual as-it-wasin-the-beginning angle to these ; tales, the stories reflect the attitude ■ of the aborigines to their life and i circumstances and environment. , For this reason some of them can j be classed, on our standards, as ; cruel or brutal and perhaps there- ■ fore, the Legends are best read to < youngsters, rather than read by i them—particularly if you have the 6 kind of offspring who can be moved i to tears by the tribulations of the ‘ heroines of the Brothers Grimm.

Apart from its interest to students e of native lore, it is an admirable ‘ presentation volume for some special I child who already has been taught d appreciation of good books. In this e field it lately has been a favourite $ with Christmas-gift seekers. (Our copy from Angus and Robertson. , Sydney. Australian price, 25/-.) The second day of a diet isn’t too c hard —because by that time you’re s off it. —Mrs. Earl Wilson. 78 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

A Womens Mission By CHARLES BROWN, Jr. r[ERE was a time, in 1918, when the Society Islanders died from influenza faster than their bodies could be buried or burned.

From Tahiti to remote Maupiti— everywhere—the scourge smote the seven islands like the wrath of Revelation. Verily, wailed the brown islanders, God had commanded the seven angels: “Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.”

Now, at that time, Outside Heaven, the native pastor of Maupiti, had voyaged with Raiata, his wife, to Uturoa, in Raiatea, which is the French Administrative seat of the Leeward Group of the Society Archipelago. He had gone to ask the Reverend Charles Vernier, director of the French Protestant Mission’s pastorate in this region of French Oceania, for a bronze bell to suspend from the patriarchal tree beside his church on Maupiti beach.

While this weighty matter was discussed, Raiata visited in her childhood home.

Two days after arriving, she was smitten with influenza. Her condition rapidly worsened. On the fourth day she died.

The burial of Raiata accomplished, Outside Heaven hastened home to Maupiti. Here, in that Dhristmastide, he conducted 43 funerals.

Very forlorn now was the hillside parsonage. And deeply touched ve r e the Maupitians by their ninister’s melancholy impress of ?rief; they wished they could dissipate it.

How slowly passed time as he nourned! As slowly as grew the emale coconut-palm he planted in ;he parsonage garden in Raiata’s nemory.

PASTOR Charles Vernier sat on the parsonage verandah, atop Mission House Hill, at Uturoa, lis short, white-clothed body in a dicker chair. Through the coconut •alms, he saw ascending the mission »ath four bare-foot, brown women Iressed in overfull, outmoded black :arments, their faces shaded from he mid-morning sun by widerimmed hats made of plaited white •andanus strips.

Who could they be? he wondered.

Vhy were they coming?

Presently, he recognised them: laupitian church members. One, be fat woman climbing behind the thers, was Tiare Teatua, Flower of Jod: a deacon’s wife; the wizened [Oman, her mother, simply called 'lower of God’s mother, was a tible-class teacher. The two other romen, fairly young, were humble ibourers in the Lord’s coconut rove.

“I or ana otou! (Good day all.)” A smile lighted Monsieur Vernier’s earnest face and direct brown eyes as he greeted them on his verandah.

Flower of God, panting hard, said in Maupitian, “We have just—arrived in —t he H eliotr op e —to acquaint you—with the object—of our visit.”

Monsieur Vernier invited them into his chair-lined study. “Will you have something to eat?”

“Don’t bother —about us.”

Flower of God seated herself before his desk. “We had bread—and coffee —at Ah Sin’s shop. Our visit is —more important—t ha n food of the table. We seek —spiritual food.”

Whereat, Flower of God’s mother g r a y-h aired, copper-coloured, with quiet, serious face and wide-set dark eyes—stood before Monsieur Vernier, who sat with hands folded on the desk. She said; “Savant of God, be saved forever. . .

This is the purpose of our visit: We seek a wife for our Minister, and a mother for us all. You know Outside Heaven lost his wife three years ago, and that the Lord God has said: ‘lt is not good that man should live alone.’

“On Maupiti, we cannot find a suitable woman. But on Tahaa and Raiatea are two women who will do; and we were led here by the spirits to see if one of them will consent to marry our minister. He knows nothing about our reason for coming here.

“The first woman is Itae—White Bird of the Sea; she lives on Tahaa.

She is a respectable widow —a church sister. She knows her Bible, and is capable of teaching the women and children’s classes.”

Flower of God’s mother sat down.

“I approve of your voyage.”

Monsieur Vernier praised them for coming. He stood up. “Go immediately and speak with Itae.” he added, with eager interest.

After praying for their undertaking he showed them to the verandah, and watched them descend to the beach.

“There are no men with you?” he called down the path.

“None, except our crew,” Flower of God cried back. “We are on a women’s mission; not to sell copra and arrowroot. If we don’t succeed, we’ll return and tell you the second woman’s name.”

“I’ll look for you to-morrow morning.”

BUT all the next day he looked without effect: all the lagoon lay becalmed. Not until the second morning did he see the women return.

“Did you succeed?” he shouted down the path.

“Oh, no!” they cried up to him.

In the study, Flower of God’s mother, her face reflecting chagrin, said: “We saw Itae. She gave us food, cushions, and sleeping-mats.

At supper and after supper, we talked of everything but our visit.

Not until near bedtime prayers did we ask her to let us tell why we had come. She listened, and cried.

“ ‘Aita e peapea —it does not matter,’ she said. But her way of speaking showed that it mattered very much. T will think it over.

Your visit pleases me. Remain for my answer. I will give it to-morrow morning.’

“Itae talked with us till midnight,” continued Flower of God’s mother, her brow scored with deep furrows of vexation. “Just before we fell asleep, we heard her go out to ask her relations for their opinion and advice. At daybreak, she brought her answer.

“ ‘Eiaha e peapea —don’t trouble yourselves,’ she said, crying. T cannot accept; Outside Heaven and I are related through the marriage of a distant ancestor. Don’t feel bad.’

“But we knew Itae’s mind; Maupiti is a ghastly island —where our heathen ancestors’ ghosts cry at night. She has changed since (Continued on Page 86) Outside Heaven and Tetuanui. 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1954

What Not To Eat In The

PACIFIC (Extracts from talk broadcast from ZJV by the Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service ).

FOOD poisoning is a fairly common ailment and it is also one of the most widely misunderstood. Fears about food poisoning usually revolve round the word “ptomaine”. It is thought that a mythical organism called by this name is the cause of a variety of gastric upsets. Modern research workers have not been able to find such a thing as a ptomaine organism, and it is a wellknown fact that old foods such as the Chinese rotten eggs, the fermented breadfruit, taro and coconut of the South Pacific and the “high” game of the Englishmen, have been eaten for hundreds of years with no ill-effects to the consumers.

Food poisoning is caused by the presence of poisonous substances in the diet. Food may be either contaminated by a poison which is present or by toxins which are formed through the growth of bacterial organisms in the food.

The first type is usually caused by a mistake—such as bottles of medicine or insect powders being used instead of essences and spices in cooking.

In the early days of food manufacturing, a number of injurious chemical substances were used in essences, baking powders and for improving bread.

Nowadays, all chemicals used in the food manufacturing industries of the larger countries are carefully controlled by Health Departments. In spite of this, a number of imaginary fears still exist.

One of the most common concerns the use of aluminium ware for cooking.

For years these saucepans and utensils were believed to shed aluminium into the food which was cooked in them, and this was thought to cause anything from a stomach-ache to cancer. It has been proved that only minute amounts of aluminium escape into food cooked in these utensils and this has no injurious effects. In fact, aluminium is an important part of some of the medicines which are used in the treatment of gastric complaints.

There are few poisonous plants in the Pacific Islands, but two common foods which may cause trouble should be mentioned. These are taro (or dalo) and cassava. Taro roots and leaves contain salts of oxalic acid which are known as oxalates. There are larger amounts of oxalates in the more mature leaves and roots and in the coarser varieties. When the food is cooked, the oxalates break down and dissolve out in the cooking water. The water that taro roots or leaves have been cooked in should be discarded; this is specially important if the leaves or roots are old.

If taro is not properly cooked, the needlelike oxalates irritate the lining of the mouth and throat causing a “stinging” sensation. The Pacific Islanders often refer to taro which contain a lot of oxalates as “strong” food. This seldom poisons the eater, but it may cause discomfort and will sometimes upset small children. If roots and leaves are properly cooked no harm should result.

Some varieties of tapioca, which is also known as manioc or cassava, contain an acid. This is poisonous and may cause sickness if large amounts of the roots containing acid are eaten. Poisonous roots can usually be distinguished by their sour taste.

The quantity of acid in a tapioca root depends on the type of soil in which the plant has been grown, the climate and in the method of manuring. Any variety of tapioca may be safe to eat in one place and poisonous in another. Most of the acid is found in the skin and to prevent this being absorbed into the food, peel, wash and cook immediately. The amount of acid in a root increases rapidly if the root is bruised or kept in a warm place for several hours. It is wise to discard bruised roots and to always use fresh undamaged roots.

Tapioca should be cooked in plenty of water with the lid off. The cooking water should always be discarded.

Probably the best way to prevent poisoning is to note exactly where the troublesome plants are grown and to use this land for a different crop. Tapioca poisoning is uncommon in Fiji, but it (Continued on Page 82)

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Another Way Of Using Pawpaw

Make a syrup of lemon, lime or orange juice and sugar.

Peel and remove seeds from a firm, ripe pawpaw.

Cut into pieces with an eggcup, andE simmer in syrup until soft.

The cooked fruit resembles stewed apricots in flavour. —Mrs. E. J. L., W. Samoa.

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Take six ripe bananas, mash them im a basin. Take an equal quantity of flour to which has been added IV2 to 3 teaspoons baking powder. (Two tablespoons dried milk may be added if desired).

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Pim Crossquiz No. 47

Solution on Page 83 ACROSS I.—Which English pilot holds the world’s air speed record? 7. —Who was the Greek god of pastures, flocks and woods? 8. —Which 86-year-old Italian conductor is still conducting the world’s leading orchestra? 9. —What is the Hebrew name for God? 10. —Which Australian artist painted the highly controversial portrait of Joshua Smith? 12.—What is the Christian name of the star who played Julie in the latest film version of “Showboat”? 13.—T hrough which London suburb, famous for its observatory, does the 0 degree of longitude pass? 15. —Who was the muse of lyric poetry? 16. —Who was the father of Cain and Abel? 18. —W hat argillaceous material splits easily into thin layers? 19. —What is the surname of the Italian painter who painted “The Last Supper”? 21. —What is the woolly substance on the surface of cloth called? 22. —What violent storms occurring in the Indian Ocean are called hurricanes in the Pacific and typhoons in the China Sea?

DOWN 1-—Which famous Paris Cathedral is described by Victor Hugo in one of his books? 2 —W h i c h Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route to India via Cape of Good Hope? 3. —For what is the Italian town o:< Pisa famous? 4. —Together with the lion, what otheif animal supports the English shield? 5. —What was the Black Death? 6. —Which creature lays its own tracK; before proceeding? 11. —What is the science of armoriae bearings? 14.—What was the name of the cabirj boy in Treasure Island? 17. —On what do blacksmiths do mosa of their work? 18. —“The wages of ... is death”. 20.—What has June Haver become? 80

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In warm, moist climates, bacteria grow more rapidly and it is therefore very important to take extra precautions.

This can be done if the following rules are followed carefully:— • Food should never be handled by anyone who is suffering from a sore throat, boils or septic cuts as bacteria may easily spread from the infected person to the food. • All prepared foods such as soups, sausage meats, cooked fish and meats, white sauce, salad dressing, cream, gelatine and milk puddings and ice creams should be kept in a cool place.

It is very important that foods are cooled quickly and kept covered when in the open. • All left-over foods such as soups, meats, fish and savouries made with white sauce should be heated to boiling point and cooked for 10-15 minutes or better still, heated in a pressure cooker, before serving. This is particularly important if the food has not been stored in the refrigerator. • Do not use foods made from milk, eggs, cream or gelatine if these have become warm in a defrosted refrigerator, and never re-freeze ice cream or any frozen milk food which has melted. • Make sure that any food which develops an unusual odour during storage is not used. • The following foods have a bad reputation for causing food poisoning if not properly cooked and stored, and should be watched carefully: Gelatine savouries and puddings; salad dressings made with eggs and milk; white sauce dishes; meat, fish or milk soups; potato salad or any salad mixed with mayonnaise and kept for another day; cream cakes; re-frozen ice cream.

Food poisoning should not occur in households where food is selected and 82 What Not to Eat in the Pacific (Continued from Page 80) JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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" ‘Aita e pea-pea —all right,’ we said to her. ‘The spirits have not agreed with this proposal.’

“We have returned,” concluded Flower of God’s mother, “to tell you the second woman’s name.”

“We shall not look behind,” Monsieur Vernier smiled encouragement; “We are still looking forward. We will make a new beginning; and God will provide for the ending.

Who is the second woman?”

Flower of God stood up. She answered; “Tetuanui —Praised Woman—the widow of the pastor at Avera—here on Raiatea. Her husband died three years ago in the plague.”

“Tetuanui is well chosen; but she is from Rimatara, in the Austral Islands.” Monsieur Vernier was outspoken. “I know three things about her: she will not marry again; she intends to return to Rimatara, where she has children; and a deacon of Avera would marry her.”

“This will be difficult,” agreed Flower of God’s mother. “We put the matter in your hands.”

“Go, then, to Tahi Vahine on the beach; remain with her until I send for you. Say nothing about why you’ve come here.”

TWO evenings later, responding to Monsieur Vernier’s note, Tetuanui came to the parsonage. Tall and queenly, her eyes deepest brown, she wore a black silk gown, with her braids of glossy blue-black hair hanging to the waist. Never before had Monsieur Vernier seen her so lovely to look at.

After their dinner, Tetuanui followed him into the study. When she heard why she had been sent for, she cried. Finally, she answered: “You are our father. You know everything about us and what is 86 JANUARY, 1 954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY A Women’s Mission (Continued from Page 79)

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Monsieur Vernier thanked her.

He dispatched his housemaid to fahi Vahine’s house.

Again, the black procession ntered the study, with heads bowed.

Greeting Monsieur Vernier and ?etuanui, the women sat down, and waited to hear him.

After looking solemnly at them, le snapped the tension. “Tetuanui ias consented to marry your minster. She is happy that she will gain be a minister’s wife, with new lothers and children to guide.” ’hen, he asked God to be always ind to Tetuanui and Outside teaven.

The four women cried with great jy, embraced and kissed one anther. When they kissed Tetuanui, ley affectionately stroked her arm, fter native custom.

“la haamaitai te Atua i ’a oe. ■od bless thee,” said Flower of rod’s mother. “Ever dear to our linister and us wilt thou be.” * * * Sunset was shooting red and gold :rows among the palmtops of !aupiti the following evening when, dling alongside the coral jetty ard by the white church with the id roof, the cutter Heliotrope opped anchor in the water reflectg the stained-glass sky. Immedi- ;ely, her four passengers climbed to te thatched-roof, bamboo-walled irsonage, directly above the church.

The stocky, prematurely grey, sadced pastor greeted them with an quiring gaze in his study. “You’ve 1 been to Raiatea? Was your visit iportant?”

“Yes—a women’s Mission.” Flower God’s voice was sweet as orangeossom honey.

“Was it favoured?” ‘‘Yes;the spirits have agreed with Whereat, Flower of God’s mother iscribed their mission. When she as finished, there was no sound in ie room, except Outside Heaven’s •eathing; anybody on the beach uld have heard that. He looked ; though he doubted his having ;ard correctly.

At length, he collected himself. l women’s mission it was indeed, know Tetuanui well. She’ll make e a faithful wife. And a good etua to you and your children.” ad, looking pensively out at the conut palm he had planted in aiata’s memory, he mused, laiata’s spirit will understand my arrying Tetuanui.”

Diane Cilento, daughter of Sir aphael Cilento, formerly medical ficer in New Guinea, was signed ) in London in January, to make <■ films for Sir Alexander Korda, le is very young—born in New uinea 21 years ago—but already e is a famous beauty and a sucssful London actress.

Disquiet Over Fiji’s TB Situation From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, December 12.

AN Auckland tourist who wandered from the tourist track to comment tartly on the Tamavua Hospital (November PIM) could have wandered further to advantage.

Complaints about the hospital— which appears to suffer from chronic understaffing at key points—are common among the people most concerned with Tamavua—that is, the Fijians. Occasionally, these complaints spill into the local press and cause a minor rumpus, but usually there is reluctance to make a fuss because of a fear that a commotion might rebound on to the heads of the wrong people.

It may be remembered that in 1949 the war memorial campaign raised £6o,ooo—of which the Fijian people contributed an enormously disproportionate share and to which the Government added £20,000.

That was the nucleus of a fund in J ~ Yet as far as anybody outside °® c . ia4 circles knows, the progress of the campaign is anything but t £ y Fljians but t"^!® not one official word has been said t° .indicate how far the alarming incidence of TB among the Fijians as been curbed, yet alone arrested, The first semi-panic over Fijian TB started after discoveries were made when thousands of the finest young Fijian men were medically examined for Army purposes in 1942-45. Nothing has been said of what the medical examinations of recruits for Malaya may have revealed. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Practically the whole population, European and native, attended the farewell 90 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Work has begun on construction f a new concrete bridge over the lulivai River in the centre of Apia, Vestern Samoa. It will be a singlepan structure, 50-ft. wide and proving for a 30-ft. roadway and two ootpaths each 10 feet wide.

In Auckland, in December, were the olio wing Islands residents:— Mrs. G. R. Powles, wife of the High Commissioner of Western Samoa.

Chief Magistrate and Mrs. Christian, At the Port Moresby Catholic School id-of-year Concert on November 35, Mrs. leland, wife of the Administrator, chats [?]ith Father Eather (Parish Priest) and [?]ishop Sorin. Bishop Sorin leaves for ranee early in January for approximately 5 months leave. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

The Rev. Tariu Teaia, of the Pacific Islanders Congregational Church, transferred to Wellington after 10 years In Auckland. He regularly met Islanders arriving by ship and aircraft at that port. of Pitcairn Island, enroute to meet Queen Elizabeth at Suva.

Artist Charles McPhee and Mrs. Mc- Phee, well-known in the Eastern Pacific.

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Pearling Industry

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Quick Thinking By Kanaka In 1869 It is about 84 years since Captain William Banner, trading to Torres Strait for beche-de-mer in the schooner Bluebell, from Syd ney, helped to make the momentous discovery which transformed the area between North Queensland and New Guinea into rich pearling grounds.

Banner had set up an establish nent on Warrior Island, known to ;he natives, as “Tu-Tu” or “Toot”, )ut receiving its English designation Tom the attack made by its canoe oads of fighting men on William 31igh, when he sailed through the Strait in Providence and Assistant n 1792. Captain Banner took pos lession of the nor’west side; and, >efore long, a mixed community of Forres Strait people and South Sea islanders were working together, lore or less amicably, collecting repang for the white man’s enter >rise.

While the Captain was taking a argo of cured fish to Sydney, early n 1869, he left the station in charge if a Kanaka a man who had erved in various ships, including IMS Leopold at the seige of Sebas opol. During the skipper’s absence, ome of the Tutu men showed the Kanaka-deputy where they obtained the pearlshell to make the hand some neck and breast ornaments they wore.

That was the beginning of the activities on the famous Wappa Reefs.

When Banner returned, he was surprised to find that his trusty henchman had six tons of shell waiting for him. Straightway he took it to Sydney, as a sample.

“Plenty more where that came from!” he told the firm of Merri man. “The natives declare it’s lying there thick, just like putting vour hands one on top of the other.”

And so the beche-de-mer fishery was abandoned for the more cleanly and lucrative pearl-shell trade.

The brig Pakeha was sent to help the Bluebell. In the next six months, another 50 tons of shell had been collected and despatched to Sydney.

Seven boats built by the Sydney firms of Macbeth, Russell, and Stephens were employed to assist in gathering shell, fetching wood and water from neighbouring islands, and so on. They were sturdy craft, about 30 feet long, with an eight foot beam, bow and stern alike, fur nished with two standing lugs, and they stood up to the weather well, carrying four tons of shell. With masts, sails, oars, anchor and chain, etc., these little-maids-of-all work cost only from £6O to £7O each, all ready for sea. It is interesting to compare boat-building prices to day!

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Warrior Island pearling statipn shortly after it started off on its new industry. He furnished some reports which provide a picture of the set-up.

About 70 Kanakas, in Captain Banner’s employ, were housed in grass buildings; the captain himself occupied a corrugated-iron structure. Each of the smaller boats referred to had its captain, and considerable rivalry existed concerning both the sailing qualities of the craft and the amount of shell picked up.

The boats started for the reefs on Monday morning at daylight, remained out all the week, and returned on Saturday night, guided to the island by large fires kindled as heacons. The largest take in one week was 2,500 pairs of pearlshell.

The oysters were found in from six inches to three fathoms. Opened as soon as landed, the shell was left to dry in the sun for 24 hours, after loose pearls had been removed, and was then stacked. Some of the shell weighed up to thirteen pounds; but the average weight was four pounds a pair.

Chester records that Captain Banner was treating his men well: “The maize-meal flour and molasses issued to them was of good quality,” and there appeared to be no discontent.

On a later occasion Lieutenant Chester himself did some shell bartering with natives of Jervis Island, and mentions that the rate of exchange was 10 pairs for a small knife or tomahawk, and 5 pairs for a piece of iron to make a fish s P ear - Shell was at that time £l6O to £245 a ton in the London market. It was no doubt, possibilities of good profits such as this, led him to try and form a, “Queensland Fearl shell and Fishery Company” in Brisbane in 1872. An old prospectus, announcing 5,000 shares at £1 each, suggests that investors would get 100 per cent, on their outlay; but the project was still-born.

Wading and swimming on the reef at low tide was the earlier method of collecting shell in the Strait. Native women worked with the men; but skin-diving methods 94 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mr. M. E. Wells completed his erm in Suva as representative for ICPA and returned to Sydney in December. His place has been taken y Mr. J. R. Webster, Mr. A. H. Davies completed a hree-year term as manager of the lank of New South Wales at Suva i December. He will shortly ransfer to Australia to become issistant Inspector for Victoria. Mr.

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Butter Now Luxury in Apia WITH the recent removal of the Government subsidy on butter in W. Samoa, the price rose from 2/6 per pound to 4/3 at the beginning of November.

Butter is thus now a luxury in W. Samoa, though probably no more so than in many other Island areas —notably the S-W Pacific where it is about twice that price. tl Mr. J. H. Luxford, recently elected Mayor of Auckland, NZ, was formerly Chief Judge in Western Samoa.

U Judge A. McCarthy, who recently reired as Judge of the High Court and Chief Judge of the Land Court in the Cook Islands, has accepted a relieving appointment as Acting Chief Judge, Western Samoa, in the absence of Chief Judge Marsack, who is on furlough in New Zealand.

Judge McCarthy arrived in Apia late in November.

H Fernando Malevitch has been elected King of Ulithi Atoll, in Micronesia, in succession to King Ueg, who recently died.

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As if to celebrate the Column’s second irthday a flow of interesting news has ome in from a variety of directions.

As a follow-up to VK9HI’s November Ist of licensed VK9s, Geoff, VK9GW has nrned up trumps with a summary of tations which he knows to be active or reparing for action. For the sake of eady reference we have dissected his etter and sorted the notes into Iphabetical order hereunder: VK9AB (old ZL-l-BB): Alf came on ud-December, after several years’ bsence, using IOOw. to 813 and, at resent, a long-wire a few feet off the round; Doug VK9DB, brand new bandvitched vfo, mainly on 20/6 metres, sing long-wire but planning BJK. Uses iparate rig and 4-el for 6 metres; Frank K9FN, just left for VK4 on leave, but ormally active with a GO-9 and IOOw. ► a vertical, mainly on 20 metres, eceiviers, Superpro and HRO; George K9GV active 20 metre phone, no details f rig; VK9GW Geoff, vfo and pair 807 s i final, 100 w., rotary BJK of bamboo, ire perspex—and faith, mainly on 15 ictres, also 20 and 10. VK9KT just burning after long absence; VK9RG, on, over at Rabaul, active when at »me, using an AMT-150 and an HQ- !9X receiver, with a two-section BJK luirting E-W. Another will soon point ; the States. VK9RM at Nadzab active i 20, but gear unknown; VK9WG, using »llins 32V2 and Eddystone receiver, with ng-wire. Active 20 metres and possibly her bands; VK9YT active 20 metres id also heard being called on 15.

Geoff-9GW goes on leave in February March for nine months. He says that ere are no round-tables operating in e New Guinea area. QRM/QRN bad on w-frequency bands, and most of the boys i 20. His letter did not mention 9GV, ho has been heard in Auckland with good 20>-metre phone sig since it was •itten. There are possibly some other NG stations active and not mentioned *re —most of these being located near •rt Moresby, Papua.

Geoff reports that to end of September nditions were very good on 21 mc/s, th Europe and Africa coming through r several hours each evening. Since en there has been a decline, though the nd is excellent for VK/ZL contacts.

There is a letter in from Jean Duplat, CBAB, with a summary of FKB/FWB tivities: FKBAC seldom on, BAE with iv. tries his luck on DX, BAJ completing PA with p.p. 807’s; BAO very active V/phone—using FM phone. (Heard in - on 3520 kc/s CW lately). FUBAA, back me from Vila, active on DX bands; FUBAC, no news. FWBAA, at Wallis, on fairly often with T 8 CW note —usually on about 14,100 kc/s.

Jean sums up conditions, as noted from Noumea; “DX on 7 mc/s is little heard, 21 is silencious and 28 desert. None of us on 3.5.”

News from Niue: Bill ZK2AA arrived in Auckland in mid-December, ending his term on the island. He reports that the other Bill. ZK2AB, quits his present job to become a trader on the island so will be keeping Niue on the map, together with the new arrival reported last month who took 2AA’s place.

From W. Samoa: ZM6AC, Arnold is expected to depart for ZL shortly.

On the day that ZK2AA arrived back in Auckland ZL-l-AGR, formerly ZM6AF, was spotted on the wharf. Percy works for a local radio concern.

“Radio & Hobbies” reports an interesting mobile heading our way—the German motor-yacht “Xarifa,” Dr. Hans Haas, on an undersea photographic expedition to the Pacific. At present working in the Caribbean, the yacht will soon enter the Pacific to head for the Galapagos.

The call DI-9-AA will be used at all times and, the Ham station aboard is now active with a IOOw. vfo on CW and phone, mainly on 3530 and 14,030 kc/s CW and 3700 and 14,150 phone. The expedition has the backing of the German National Society and Hams are requested to co-operate.

The station will also appear on 28 mc/s with a separate transmitter, but no details of power or frequency are available for that band.

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Ham bands, is Terry Hammond, aboard the big Brisbane ketch “Coongoola,” which arrived at Papeete westbound, December 6, on a round-the-world voyage (see SMALLSHIPS). Terry, formerly ZLIOE, has done a lot of mobile work in Tasman races and elsewhere during recent years.

From Pitcairn comes glum news: Floyd VR6AC, though on the air last with the island’s commercial rig, which contacts Rarotonga, seems unlikely to appear in the near future on the Ham bands, though he could now put a signal on 10 and 20 metres when time allows.

Floyd hoped to offer the DX men something a year ago, but struck various trouble with his gear.

Following reports that ZL3JA is soon to go to the Tokelaus and will appear on the air there, probably with a ZM7 call, and that W7FNK (late F08AI) will appear again soon as VR3, we have instituted some inquiries and hope to have news next month.

Some who thought that JZ-O-KF was a phoney may relax. The prefix is official—and VK9YY can expedite QSL’s.

“Box 13, Lae, New Guinea”, reaches Alan.

Another new prefix recently active is XW®AA—located at Vietiane radio station, Laos. This is a country which most British Hams are forbidden to contact at present. Former prefix was FI-8.

A new listing, according to “Amateur Radio”, is VK9WZ, F. G. Anear, RAAF Base Squadron, Momote, Admiralty Is.— former call VKSWZ.

Islands Boxers In Action

SINCE Kitione Lave, of Tonga, caused a boxing sensation in New Zealand several months ago, outside interest in the potentialities of Island boxers has been stimulated. Another Tongan, Naufahu, who has never been knocked out by Lave, easily won his first fight in Auckland on December 17 against Peter Day, a local.

Two American boxers who had been fighting in Australia, Freddie Dawson, light-weight, and Chappie Godfrey, heavy-weight, travelled by air to Tahiti a few days earlier tc fight, respectively, Ernest Ganivet and Charlie Cowan, in a contest at the Fei Pi stadium, Papeete. 98 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The Resident Commissioner, Mr. M. L. ernacchi and Mrs. Bernacchi travelled n furlough to New Zealand during lovember. They left Tarawa in the Ja Kia, joining the phosphate vessel ilja at Nauru.

Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Kester and Mrs. . T. Bell and son also travelled by the ime vessels from Tarawa to New ealand.

'Dr. W. H. Rees returned to Tarawa ■om Suva by John Williams and [aureen late November. Dr. Rees had sen relieving at Nukualofa for a period, [r. and Mrs. P. Child also returned om vacation.

The RCS Kia Kia transported leper itients from the Colony to Makogai sntral leper station, Fiji, during ecember. Sister Fitzgerald of the [edical Service, having completed her Tin, also travelled south to Suva in Lis vessel. Her place at Tarawa was iken by Sister Davies who arrived from iva by Te Matapula recently.

The new Te Matapula was to make a rcuit of the Phoenix Islands (Canton, rdney, Hull and Gardner) during ecember, via the Ellice, returning to arawa at the end of the month.

Mr. H. A. L. Gray has resigned from ic Colonial Service and left Tarawa by nvalu for Ocean Island to connect with phosphate ship late November.

Other recent movements of local resimts included Mr. and Mrs. C. R. halley and daughter back from leave New Zealand. Mrs. W. J. Brabant id daughter also returned from leave, r. C. A. Walch departed for Australia i furlough.

Tahiti’s Old US Consulate To Go New Commissioner for India in Suva DR. RAJKUMAR, recently appointed Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji, arrived in the Colony in mid- December with his wife and family.

He was welcomed at Nadi Airport by a group of prominent Indian residents.

A new broadcast station to provide coverage for the Marshall Is. (also probably well received by night in the Gilberts) was opened at Majuro on October 12, with the call-sign WSZO. Broadcasts will be mainly in Marshallese, but with general musical programmes also.

H Mr. Maynard Neas, Island Affairs Officer at Majuro, Marshall Is., was to visit the Gilberts during January to study administration methods in the British colony. Mr. Neas was to travel aboard MV Baker, which was bound for Suva with medical trainees for the Central Medical School.

The US Trust Territory’s annual report for the year ending June 30, 1953, shows that the Angaur Mining Trust Fund amounts to $777,867, received as royalties on the export of phosphate from that island. The Fund will be distributed annually to the clans who own the land, part to clans not owning land on which mining operations are proceeding, and part to the municipality for civic purposes.

The old United States consulate build- [?]g in Papeete is to be demolished [?]cording to a recent notice appearing in [?]e Journal Officiel of Frenph Oceania [?]lich lists a number of over-age build- [?]gs that will soon disappear.

The Consulate building, which faces the -called Broom Road encircling Papeete’s [?]iterfront, was built in 1906 on land [?]nated to the United States by Queen mare IV in 1832. The present building, own above, replaced one demolished in hurricane in 1906.

Since the American Consul was with- [?]awn from Tahiti October 31, 1948, the [?]operty has been leased to Mr. Oscar [?]irdman as a residence and offices. 99 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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News Of The Small-Ships

IT HAPPENED IN THIS MONTH; -It was in January, 1867, that the nission ship John Williams II was wrecked on Niue Island. The wreck pas sold to the infamous Bully layes, who happened to be there ,t the time. Hayes transported the rew of the wrecked ship to Samoa n his vessel, Rona. Also in January here was the wreck of the brig Chatham on Penrhyn Island—that ras in 1854; and in January, 1806, he vessel Argo was lost on the reef rhich now bears its name, east of lakemba, Fiji, the crew reaching ’ongatabu, where all but two were illed, the survivors being rescued everal years later.

VATULELE LIGHT:—This new iji light is now in full operation, teact position is given as 18 deg. 5 min. 26 sec. South, 177 deg. 36 lin. 59 sec. East. The light is 136 ;. above sea-level and has a range f 16i miles. It flashes white every ;n seconds and is visible from 051 egrees through east and south to )4 degrees. It is partly obscured ■om 304-317 degrees and from 355- )7 degrees, and obscured on other Barings.

PORT MORESBY LEAD:—A new 1,000 candle-power rear leading ght will come into operation at ort Moresby on about February 8. ocated about 100 ft distant from le existing rear light on a bearing of 234 deg., the new light will have a range of 24 miles, being located 294 feet high.

The light will bear 054 deg. from the front lead and will be visible from 309 deg. through north and east to 101 deg. and at short range to 116 deg. except where obscured by land. It will give a one-second white flash followed by a threesecond eclipse.

GAUALOFA SUNK:—O. F. Nelson & Go’s small motor vessel Gaualofa, of Apia, struck a submerged rock between Lata and Salailua on the south coast of Savaii, W. Samoa, early December, later sinking at anchorage at Salailua. Only six feet of her mast is showing. The vessel was empty at the time. It is hoped to salvage her.

Le Phoque For Fiji:—The

well-known Noumea coaster Le Phoque (The Whale ) has been purchased for use in the Fiji interisland trade by Morris Hedstrom & Co., Suva. Built in 1937, at Gendt, Le Phoque, of 188 gross tons, was brought but to Sydney on the deck of the German heavy-lift vessel Stassfurt, which was well known in Ausralian and New Zealand waters pre-war. Le Phoque was lifted into the water at Sydney by a floating crane in one of the heaviest lifts ever to have been made there up to that time. The vessel was stranded but successfully refloated again several years ago. Lloyds gives the dimensions as 104.2 ft by 21.1 ft by 6.2 ft, with a 34-ft poop and 14 ft fo’csle. Displacement 117 tons, nett tonnage 99. She has accommodation for nine cabin passengers. A 200 HP Deutz diesel 101 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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STANLEY ANGWIN MOVES ON: —The cable ship Stanley Angwin, completing repairs to the earthquake-damaged cables in the vicinity of Fiji, moved south in December to carry out work in the vicinity of Norfolk Island.

GEIC SHIPPING:—Captain Stan Brown, with his wife and child, arrived in Suva aboard Kia Kia early December. He is on leave from the Gilberts vessel Tungaru, and will holiday in New Zealand.

Captain Tom Milner was to take over the command of Tungaru. The Colony vessels Nareau, Maureen and Tuvalu were expected to undergo refit in January-February. Nareau was to go to Ballina, NSW, the others to Suva. It is understood that Nareau has had certain trouble with her engine bed recently. Tungaru will head south to Suva for her oyerhau! in February. Kia Kia, after bringing leper patients to Makogai, returned to the Colony during December.

Navigational Changes •

Recent developments of interest to Island navigators are summarised herewith. Details should be obtained from the relative Admiralty Notice to Mariners, the number in each case being given; l nl?/i S QIl tab l ished at Honi ara; 1045/1054/1353, changes to soundings in Fiji waters: 1603, Vila Harbour light altered and buoy established: 1602, New Caledonia— Port de Goro light alteration, and He Amedee light buoy established; 1769, New Caledonia, Baie du Prony, pier and buoy established; 1772, Fiji, shoal west of Moturiki; 1874, Canton Island, Ught established; 1875, Tonga, bank NNE of Fonualei; 2083, Dutch NG, Humboldt Bay mooring buoys removed 3410, Lae, wharf lights; 2142 Palmyra Island, alterations t e lights; 3348, Fak Fak, NG, Ugh; aleration; 3402, Madang, NG wharf lights; 34Q0, Hollandia, D-NG light established; 4772, Ocean Island, light and beacon; 2494, Nev Hebrides, volcanic disturbance neai Epi; 2511, Noumea, leading light. 102 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Earlier this year we reported that a light was to be established on Mama islet, Aitutaki, The light was expected to be ready for ser- Vice by the end of 1953 A light was established at the back beacon, Avarua leads, Rarotonga, early this year and has not previously been reported here. ™ VT SERVICE FROM HOLLANDIA: Hollandia, D-NG, has established a radio telephone service for smallships. JZS listens on weekdays only from 0100-0200 GMT on the frequency band 8195-8265 kc/s, and replies on 8776 kc/s. Power is 150 watts.

LAE R/T CHANGES:—Lae, NG, call-sign formerly VJY is now MIL, and times of service have been recently changed: Monday to Friday, 2200-0200 GMT, 0400-0615 GMT; Saturday, 2215-0300 GMT; Holidays (except Sunday, no service) 2230- 2330 GMT. Lae listens on 6280 and replies 6405 kc/s as previously, J

Ng Government Fleet

SOLD:—Thirteen small vessels owned by the Australian Commonwealth Government and operating in New Guinea waters were put up [?]rohn Bolton (left) and skipper Bob [?]rcy and son Mark at the stern of [?]lei, first of two 18-footers to arrive Auckland. [?]hree yachts in Papeete, mentioned last [?]nth: the revolutionary Beatrix of [?]tnp-backed design, Venturer from the [?]States, and Anna Elizabeth like [?]itrix from Holland. 103 t C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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ENGINES 24 to 150 BMP LW & L 3 Series Many Sizes in Stock Others Early Delivery or tender in October as part of the government’s policy of disposing of ts war-time built fleet and 11 of hem have now been disposed of. The r essels involved were Daria, Duali, taru, Kulu, Kelaua, Katika, Kokoda, Vtaimuna, Mainiro, M alak au, Marova, Matoka and Nusa. It will >e recalled that seven others, doturina, M uniar a, Manugora, turra, Kina, Kano and Doma were old a year ago by private treaty o Steamships Trading Co. The ale caused some comment at the ime as the ships were not put up or tender, as is usual. Those essels were a standard type of 300onner built during the w a r— ientical to Rannah and Charlotte )onald operating at present in the took Islands. The vessels recently old by tender are 300-tonners and 5-footers.

The eleven vessels have been sold o six different purchasers and the otal purchase price received was 147,705. This is regarded by the rovernment as being highly satisactory, having regard to an inependent valuation received some ime ago. The vessels sold range in ize from 112 tons gross to 308 tons ross. They are all being used in tie coastal trade of the Territory nd the contracts of sale provide tiat the vessels shall not, without tie consent of the Commonwealth, e used other than in the Ternary trade.

The sale means that private nterprise will, in future, operate all except two of the vessels formerly owned by the Government Inter- Island Shipping Service, and conditions of sale should ensure that the requirements of the coastal and inter-island trade of Papua and New Guinea are efficiently served.

Santa Teretia Breaks

DOWN:—When the Catholic Mission vessel Santa Teretia had a serious breakdown in the Gilberts during November she had to be towed 200 miles from Tabiteuea to Tarawa by the RCS Maureen (Capt. Gerry Douglas) for repairs. Santa Teretia was last in the news when she stranded on Vuna Reef, Fiji, August, 1952. She was salvaged and repaired in Suva and has been in continuous service under the command of Rev. Brother Gautier ever since.

Narea U Drydocking: —The

GEIC’s RCS Nareau was drydocked at Ballina, NSW, in January.

While the vessel is on survey, Captain Farrell is to go on leave.

Captain Eric Lindstrom, lately of the BSIP vessel Kurimarau, is to take command of Nareau for the time being.

GEIC FLEET:—We have occasional inquiries as to just what vessels operate in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands inter-island services.

So far as we know there are no vessels operated by private trading concerns. The Colony Government operates two moderately large and four small vessels under the Trade Scheme co-operative. Tungaru and Tuvalu, square-bilge steel converted barges, wartime built in Australia, each carry some 200 tons of cargo. Maureen is a standard wartime-built 66-footer, Kia Kia, Hongkong-built as a medical patrol vessel, is a 75-foot auxiliary ketch, Nareau is about the same size. These three each carry only ten tons or so of cargo and are mainly personnel transports. Te Matapula, new 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Suva-built auxiliary ketch 86-feet overall, recently described here, completes the Government fleet.

The Tangitang, another co-operative, based on Tarawa, owns two small auxiliary vessels, Ara Toha and Ara Karimoa, each carrying 10- 20 tons.

Only other craft of any size in the Colony are Santa Teretia, owned by the Catholic Mission, Fetu Ao owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, and the 419 GT John Williams VI of the London Missionary Society. These mission craft are used to transport mission personnel and cargo but also carry Government officials when required.

John Williams VI, though spending a large part of her time in the Colony’s waters, is based on Suva and makes circuits to New Guinea, Samoa and the Cooks at regular intervals.

Shipping headquarters for the Colony, repair facilities, and Club for personnel, is at Betio islet, Tarawa.

Medical Patrol Craft:—

Further details were made available in December of the four vessels which will soon be built in New Zealand primarily for use as leper relief vessels, but also as general medical craft in the Western Pacific Estimated to cost £NZIS,OOO each, they will be 55-foot wooden, ketchrigged craft carrying sufficient sail area to make reasonable speed under sail alone, though they will of course, be powered. They will have a beam of 16 feet, slightly raked stems and eliptical sterns. As previously reported, they will be made available by Lepers Trust Board funds to Anglican, Methodist and Catholic missions in the Solomons and the Presbyterian mission in the New Hebrides.

NEW NAVUA: —Reintroducing a name well remembered in the Eastern Pacific, the Union Steam Ship Co. has decided to name its new freighter (which will be built for the Islands banana trade) Navua. The old Navua ran for years on the Sydney-Fiji-Tonga- Samoa-Auckland run, together with Atua and the first Tofua.

Salvage At Canton:—The

140-foot diesel motor-yacht Caronia, owned by three Americans from Portland, Oregon, is the base vessel from which salvage operations have recently been proceeding at Canton Island on the war-time wreck of the President Taylor. A Honolulu 106 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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BUILDERS newspaper reports that the men spent four years in preparing Caronia for the task. They hope to refloat and sell the big trooper.

Work has been under way since mid-September.

Families of the salvage team are living aboard Caronia.

Pml Vessel For Fiji:—To

bring Micronesian medical students to the Central Medical School and take others back home, Pacific Micronesian Line’s vessel Baker was expected in Suva from the Marshalls via Tarawa during January. Shipping connections between the American Trust Territory of Micronesia and the South Pacific are very rare, though several voyages have been made since Micronesian students have been attending the Suva medical school.

PERSONAL: Professor Hans Pettersson, leader of the Swedish oceanographic expedition that made ocean soundings through the Pacific m Albatross several years ago, paid a, 10-day visit to Suva during December.

Captain E. K. Anderson, formerly of the China Coast, who took comnand of Morris Hedstrom’s Fiji ;rader Altair in August, resigned the position early December.

Mr. W. E. Smith, recently chief engineer in W. R. Carpenter & Go’s Ai Sokula in the Fiji trade, left he company in November and made i relieving voyage out of Auckland is fourth engineer in Maui Pomare ;o the Cook Islands. Unknown to lim, Captain Simpson, former naster of of Ai Sokula, was also on i voyage to the Cooks as a deck )fiicer in Rannah. They had a surmise meeting in Rarotonga.

OUT OF BOUNDS:—Though Japanese fishing vessels have, in ;he main, kept outside territorial vaters since they commenced postvar fishing activities in the Pacific, iome skippers have taken a chance.

Uong with reports of recent landngs in the New Guinea-Solomons irea, come others from Micronesia, rhe US Navy recently announced hat it intends to strictly enforce ion-violation of territorial waters.

Most violations have occurred in he Bonin and Palau groups. Gener- Left to right: GEIC’s RCS Kia Kia with her shortened rig mentioned in recent notes. Morris Hedstrom’s latest acquisition Le Phoque, formerly of Noumea. Stanley Angwin, cable ship, completed a lengthy repair job in Fiji waters following the earthquake. 107 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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R ANN AH:— Mr. D. C. Brown’s a mnah seems likely to remain in e Cook Islands. Some of her iropean personnel have been rerned to New Zealand. En route om Auckland in November a ;xible coupling on the port reducm gear sheared when the vessel is 850 miles out of Auckland. No mage was done and the motor was rviceable but repairs could not be fected until arrival at Rarotonga, le voyage took 12 days from Auckod.

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MG CO-OP VESSEL:—Typical of number of native co-operativened coastal vessels in New Guinea waters is the 60-foot Moutuana, a motor vessel with a carrying capacity of 34 tons, which a Papua correspondent reports as busy, in mid- December, running Christmas cargo to outports. Moutuana is skippered and manned entirely by native Papuans. Operating out of Samarai the vessel runs general cargo out to the owner-Societies and brings back their copra and trochus.

NUKULAU AT LAST:—South Pacific Shipping Co’s Nukulau (Capt. McKenzie Arnot) called at Port Moresby just before Christmas and was expected at Suva, her ultimate destination, on January 7, thus completing a lengthy delivery voyage from Cyprus, which began in September, after delays in transferring to British registry.

LOSS OF MON IQ UE : —Our Tahiti Corespondent, referring to the loss with all hands of the coaster Monique, of Noumea, some months ago, suggests that the cause might have been a freak sea due to some submarine upheaval. He recalls that, in perfectly calm weather, the liner Sonoma, in which he was serving, struck such a sea in the vicinity of Tonga in 1913. The ship took a terrific roll, shipping a sea from bow to stern, but righted herself without major damage. He suggests that the same could have happened to Monique.

There are many volcanoes and submarine disturbances in the general New Hebrides-New Caledonia-Banks Is. area, but there is no record of such a sea having swept up on the beach in this area at that time.

News of Cruising Yachts • COONGOOLA, 74 ft., 63-ton twin screw Brisbane ketch, arrived at Papeete December 6, in the coarse of a roundthe-world voyage. Owned by Mr. G. H.

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CABLES:—"VENTURA" SYDNEY. aboard, the yacht left Brisbane November 22, 1952, journeying by way of Torres Strait, Dili, Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Alexandria, Cyprus, Rhodes, Athens, Messina, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Las Palmas, Trinidad, Curacao, Panama, the Galapagos, Nukuhiva, and Ahe. Skippered by Terry Hammond, wellknown Auckland yachtsman, the big ketch has made a comparatively smart circumnavigation to date. From Papeete she will head for Borabora, Rarotonga, Nukualofa. Rabaul, Auckland, and Lord Howe back to her home port.

Terry Hammond, her skipper, has been radio operator and navigator in a number of craft round the Islands in recent years. • XARIFA (Dr. Hans Hass) which left Hamburg last August and has lately been in the West Indies area, is expected soon to be in the Panama Canal and head for the Galapagos, where Dr. Haas, wellknown under-sea protographer, will spend some time working. Other details lacking, but she is equipped with an amateur radio station (see radio notes). The yacht is understood to be heading for Australia so is likely to be seen in Pacific Islands. • Following last winter’s successful Island cruising by some Auckland yachts, others are expected to venture forth next Autumn. Two probable starters are a new yacht being built by Mr. Mark Anthony, who, with companions last year delivered two mission vessels to the New Hebrides from Auckland; and IMATRA, 54-year-old, 72-foot Auckland ketch which came out from England via Panama and Eastern Pacific Groups several years ago, but has since changed hands twice. e After a lengthy sojourn in Tahiti waters NOVIA (Lee and Anne Gregg) and CALYPSO (John and Gene Litton) cleared Papeete for Honolulu via Island ports November 38. NOVIA had been in Papeete since May 6, 1953, CALYPSO since July 30, 1953. Both yachts fly the American flag. The Greggs have them five-year-old daughter with them. • STORTEBECKER 111 (Dr. Franklin- EVans) of England is edging south down the Canadian coast for & return voyage to Auckland next year. Norwegian FranU Jensen remains in Canada this year, his place being taken by Donald Tififin. The German-built 33-foot yawl, which we re- 110 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD. 376/382 Kent Street, Sydney Tel: BX 6331 (11 lines) Cables: “Kopsen, Sydney.” rted frequently last year, should reach w Zealand waters next December. » NELLIE BRUSH (Forrest Nelson and b Kingett), Miami ketch, after heading stward as far as the Galapagos went rth to San Diego, where she safely ■ived some time ago. This yacht was K>rted last year to be heading for hiti. » FLAMINGO (Warren McCarthy and upanions) of Auckland, reached Coil’s rbour, NSW, December 15, after a 15r passage from Russell, NZ. The 30ter may be entered in the Sydneybart Race —and possibly the Trans iman late January. » TE RAPUNGA (Capt. George Dibbern 1 all-woman vrew) cleared Hobart jember 12, for Auckland via south of v Zealand and the East Coast, and I enter the Trans Tasman Race which ibern won in 1934 in the now-30-yearsketch. Dibbern, now 64, hopes to re all the work to his three-woman w on the east-bound passage, and for race will add a further two Wellinggirls. Dibbern, Eileen Morris and Id, are well known in the Eastern sific, their last ocean voyage having n to the Cooks three years ago. » A Fijian sailing canoe race was to e place on Suva Harbour December 20, t such race since 1911, the event that r being won by the canoe of the n Governor, Sir Everard im Thurn. b contestants this year are canoes ch were specially built or reditioned and sailed from the outer nds to welcome the Queen on her Ival at Suva. It is hoped that the at might become an annual one again, i In Rarotonga an attempt is being ie to revive the activities of the ling Club there. All craft sailing there Ngatangiia Harbour are European-type rigger canoes. Centre-board yachts, to the very shallow water, would be :ricted to a very small area of the hour.

CHELAN, owned by Vera Hideout, i to clear a California port during ember on commencement of a world Ise. Vera is said to have been preparfor eleven years to make the voyage the 25-foot ketch. If all goes well should be seen in the Islands this r.

LANDFALL II (Dr. William F. combe) is heading for the Islands in from the States. Itinerary for the 'oot schooner is said to be Marquesas, motu, Gambler, Pitcairn, Societies, 10a, Fiji and Auckland. The doctor ully equipped with dental forceps and is to pull his way through the Islands ch he last visited several years ago.

TALEI, one of two Suva repreiatives to contest the J. J. Giltfnan rnational 18-footer yacht title, arrived Auckland in mid-December aboard ''UA, accompanied by skipper R. :y. The other entrant, TARUA, and aining crews of both boats will arrive January before the event. Fourteen its are expected to cross the starting —three each from Sydney and bane, two from Suva and the render from New Zealand clubs.

GESTURE, a Wangarei, NZ, yacht a past Trans-Tasman Race competitor, left that port December 23, on an extended cruise—first port Lord Howe Island. The yacht was recently acquired by Mr. R. Mcllvide, who has crewed in several Trans-Tasman races. With him is his wife and three crew men. W. Sirl, B. Barnaby and B. Bruce. • COONGOOLA, mentioned page 109, evidently wasting no time at ports of call, cleared Rarotonga December 23, for Nukualofa. She left Tahiti December 12. • TONGA, a 30-ft. Colin Archer ketch, dropped in to Samarai, Papua, in mid- December, and is likely to remain in that area for a while. Owner W. A. Crack, of Sydney, is a diver by profession and plans to engage in trochus fishing. The ■voyage from Sydney was made by way of Queensland ports and Port Moresby where a native crew boy was signed on.

En route to Samara! Mr. Crack did «■little coastwise copra trading. name may be incorrectly spelt here—wesuspect TONKA.) • CARIAD I, A. W. Flitton’s big 89foot schooner yacht from Cape Town, which passed through the Pacific last year in the course of her second cruiseround the world, was in Sydney in December. • NAITAMBA, owned by a former US navy man, R. K. Smith, is still in Los Angeles after several attempts to get her to New Zealand where her owner has now lived for six years.

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NAITAMBA is a 34-ft. ketch, and is quipped with everything from a deepreeze unit to a radio-telephone and an lectric winch.

Mr. Smith left the ketch in Los Angeles rhen he began his wartime service. All ttempts to sail her to NZ have so far een abortive although he has visited be States three times in the last six ears for that purpose.

We wonder how the ketch got her ame. Naitamba is the island in the au Group of Fiji owned by Mr. Gus [ennings and family. • Our Norfolk Island correspondent sports an unusual sight from Emily Bay d that Island where the NZ yacht [ERERU managed to get through the ery narrow entrance to the reef at full de on New Year’s Day and is now safe t anchorage. Very few boats larger tan a row-boat get through Norfolk •land’s reef.

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Miss P. Brokenshire, now living i New Zealand, but a pioneer in re Methodist educational field in iji paid a visit to the Colony remtly. ti Mr. D. J. McDonald, formerly postmaster at Port Moresby, has oeen transferred to Lae. Mr. R. W.

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Conflicting Opinion About Samoan Currency From Our Own Correspondent APIA, December 15. rpHE move to establish a separate JL Samoan currency which may have a different value from the New Zealand £ was severely criticised in the New Zealand Parliament recently.

There is also some strong opposition to the move in Samoa, as many believe that it is to the economic advantage of the Territory to leave Samoan currency connected, as at present, with the New Zealand £ and Sterling. A separate currency would involve certain risks for a small and economically weak country like this Territory.

However, the select committee, set up some time ago, has recommended to the Samoan Legislative Assembly that W. Samoa establish an independent currency and banking system under a Currency and Exchange Board of Control.

The Select Committee included the Hons. Tamasese, Malietoa, Anapu, Tualaulelei, Aiono Tifaga, E. F. Paul, L. M. Cook and, as adviser, Mr. V. D. Stace of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Its report waII be debated at the March session of the Legislative Council.

It says that “in view of Samoa’s desire for self-government . . . the only way by which the economic future of Samoa can be, to some extent, safeguarded . . is by maintaining control as far as possible over the economic state and relations of the Territory.” Under the present financial integration with New Zealand “the interests which will be considered will inevitably be those of the New Zealand producers and consumers.

These are not necessarily similar to th« interests of Western Samoa”—and thti Report goes to some length in explaining why.

The Committee concludes that s Currency & Exchange Board of Controc should be empowered not only to establish a separate currency, coinag* and legal tender, but be permitted to 114 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY?

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Mr. Stace has recommended that a imoa Bank be owned jointly by the imoa Government, the Reserve Bank New Zealand and the Bank of New saland in the proportions of £70,000, 15,000 and £ 70,000 respectively. The ink would have at its disposal 3,000,000 in Sterling and overseas funds.

The Report notes the great success of e Bank of American Samoa in a rritory of considerably less potential ialth; and considers that without the tablishment of such a Bank in Western ,moa, complete government of the srritory by the people of the Territory »uld be impossible. At the same time stresses the fact that such a bank nld only operate successfully if it had e complete confidence of business at ime and overseas. This could only come out through wise and capable direction experienced men. Until Samoans are lined to occupy those positions New aland would have to provide the key iff.

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IHE newly constituted native , Guadalcanal Council was opened on November 19 by the High jmmissioner of the Western icific, Mr. R. C. S. Stanley.

Mr. Stanley, in his opening adess to the Council, expressed his easure that the people of Guadalnal had decided to have one mncil for the whole island instead numerous small sub-district uncils, and emphasised that proess could only be achieved by the K>ple of different areas and nguages joining together in a Drk which would be of benefit to 1.

He reminded the Council of the ,lue of the advice that could and Duld be given by the Heads of overnment Departments. His Exllency also pointed out that the uncil could do little without oney, and it was the Council’s ity to assist the people in imoving the quantity and quality of pra production, and in the estabihment of other crops as a source income.

After the High Commissioner’s parture and a brief adjournment, e Council proceeded to the rest the agenda. Headman J. C. >uza, GM, was elected Vic eesident of the Council.

Proceedings continued on Friday id Saturday and included disissions on the establishment of ie Council’s headquarters, the ipointment and pay of Council Iministratfve staff, Native Courts, sistance in medical affairs includl g the establishment of leper dages, agricultural affairs includg the improvement of copra and ie encouragement of cocoa and getable planting.

New High Court Judge

FOR COOKS MR. R. V. KAY, of the Maori Affairs Department, Auckland, has been appointed Judge of the High Court and the Native Land Court in the Cook Islands.

Mr. Kay was in W. Samoa between 1935 and 1938 as commissioner of the High Court, Crown Solicitor and Crown Prosecutor. He has since served as assistant solicitor at Lands & Survey Department head office, Wellington, before joining Maori Affairs Department.

Mr. Kay succeeds Judge McCarthy who recent retired, though remaining a resident in the Cook Islands.

Judge McCarthy has lately been relieving in Samoa during the absence on furlough of Judge Marsack, who returned to Samoa by December Tofua.

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Policy For Field Officers In New Guinea “T HAVE heard it asked, ‘What is 1 the use of going to the School of Pacific Administration?’" said Australian Territories Minister Paul Hasluck, addressing the 261 men who received their diplomas at: the School in Sydney in December., “I have noticed that many public; servants do not know exactly what; they are doing—their usefulness isi limited because they cannot understand how their task fits into the' general plan of administration,” he went on. “Well, it is essential that in New Guinea we should know what we are doing, in the broader sense. That is one of the objects of this School. We hope that the officers who pass through this School will have a broader awareness of our administrative problem.

“Some people have said that the Territories would be much betteroff if only our general policy were made more clear. There are a dozen ways in which one may indicate the broad purpose of policy: but that is not enough in itself—we want a general directive to guide us.

“Our over-riding purpose in New Guinea is the advancement of native welfare, and that is the measuring-stick which we must apply to all our major problems.

Our further policy is to secure the best possible future relations between, ourselves and the natives. Any further problems will be resolved in accord with those two major objectives.

“What really matters is not pronouncements in Canberra, but how the job is done in the field in New Guinea, by the men on the spot. The training which you have had here is designed to assist you in fitting your daily task into the overall administrative plan.”

The Minister said that all the 26 graduates already had served in the field in New Guinea; and they now were qualified to pass on to higher jobs. Their graduation was welcomed by all concerned, because such men were very much needed in the Territories. He warmly congratulated them on their success.

Old Papeete Buildings for Wreckers IN addition to the old American Consulate building in Papeete which recently was condemned by the city authorities (see elsewhere) two other well-known old buildings have been listed for wrecking.

One is the old home of the Miller family, built nearly 100 years ago; the other the 120-year-old Caisse Agricole. 116 JANUARY, 1054 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Samoa’s New Deal to 8e Discussed At End of 1954 FT was obvious from discussions at L the recent session of the Legislative Council of Western amoa that members and Samoan *aders are still undecided about le Development Plan proposals of iew Zealand. (This Plan, anounced in March, 1953, more or tss asked Samoa to design its own ;lf -government but proposed far- ;aching political changes and rerganisation of the present system [ government).

Samoan leaders are still not preired to commit themselves on the reposals. Particularly have they ressed that before the social and jlitical proposals of the plan can ; implemented, the Territory’s :onomy must be developed and exmded in order to provide a sound :onomic basis for social and polisal measures. This they believe all the more essential in view of le rapidly growing population of imoa which is expected to double self in the next 20 years.

It was also pointed out that, tough undoubtedly the country is a financially sound and prosirous position at present, this vourable position depends entirely i the continuance of the present gh prices for Samoa’s main prolets, copra and cocoabeans, and tat a price drop in the world martts for these products may have sastrous effects on Samoa’s onomy and seriously interfere ith the planned political and cial development proposals.

Members of the Council appear, >wever, to be unanimous about one ?m —that of universal franchise lich NZ suggested should replace esent traditional methods of vernment. All are against it on e grounds that it would conflict th the matai (chief) system lereby only the chiefs and family : ads, freely elected by their milies, have the right to represent their people. Samoan leaders claim that the matai system is democratic in principle and fully represents the whole population.

The whole development plan is at present under discussion by a special working committee appointed by the High Commissioner and composed of members of the Assembly, the Fono of Faipule and heads of Government Departments.

This Committee is to make specific recommendations to the Legislative Assembly at the next session in March, 1953.

A Constitutional Convention will be called at the end of 1954 to consider the political aspects of the Development Plan.

Bank For Samarai

rpHE Bank of NSW has re-opened JL a Branch at Samarai, Eastern Papua. Mr. B. F. Ferguson, from Brisbane, is acting as temporary Manager pending the arrival of the new manager, Mr. M. L Y.

Hobden, of Brisbane. The Branch was first opened in 1910, but was closed by enemy action in 1942. The “Wales”" is the only Bank with representation at Samarai and it now has eight branches and agencies in Papua-New Guinea.

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THE SS Maplehank in Apia, has loaded a record shipment of Samoan produce for the United Kingdom—about 3,900 tons of copra and about 800 tons of cocoabeans are to be shipped and the total value of the shipment is estimated to be in the neighbourhood of £500,000.

In addition, the motor ship Thorsisle, of the Pacific Islands Transport Line, in early December, loaded an additional 300 tons of cocoa-beans for the USA market.

These large shipments will probably clear Apia sheds before the end of the year.

Top price for Samoan cocoabeans was obtained a few days ago when a small parcel of Samoan Ist grade was sold to New Zealand buyers at £3OO per ton f.o.b. (In the New Year, cocoa rose to £4OO Stg. in London— an all-time record. See elsewhere this issue).

Eight Western Samoan Boy Scouts, in charge of Scoutmaster Williamson, attended a “jamborette” in Christchurch, NZ, in January.

The trip was financed by public subscription subsidised by the Government on a £ for £ basis.

Bad Accident In Fiji

FIVE Indians, including two married women and a small girl, were killed when an Indian taxi, after being involved in a collision with an Indian bus at Baulevu, Viti Levu, on January 3, plunged 30 ft. to the Rewa River, and sank in 20 ft. of muddy water.

The Fiji Methodist Church ii planning for next April the conn memoration of the centenary of tin conversion of Ratu Cakobau tJ Christianity.

II A son was born at NamanulJ Hospital, Rabaul, recently, to Mi and Mrs. T. Dixson, of the Departs ment of Works. 118 JANUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLH

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Che Islands Sent a Singing Delegation o Meet the Queen )ELEGATES of chiefs and leaders from Western Samoa, the Cook Is., Niue and the Tokelaus who ere invited by the New Zealand overnment to go to New Zealand i representatives of their Terriries during the Royal Visit, were so the guests of Island Territories epartment on an extensive tour of le North Island and part of the >uth Island during their stay.

Through the courtesy of Island srritories Department and the Blegations, a PIM Representative is allowed to travel with the party r motor bus on a part of the tour iring December.

The big Railway Department bus signed to the party was not very r on its way before it became very ident that the Island Territories id certainly sent a singing deletion to meet the Queen. The imoans, especially, not only made e trip pleasant by singing their ly across country with songs both rious and amusing, but also gave eat pleasure to their various guests stopping points along the route.

Though the delegates may not ve noticed it as they put their arts into their singing, many a rious farmer, far out in the untry, looked up from his task in rprise as the singers flashed by. re scarcely expects to hear Samoan isic in the outback of New Zeaid!

But if the Samoans were perhaps e most enthusiastic singers, the •ok Islands delegation was not at behind when it came to dancing, and Councillor Piri Maoate ised many a howl of delight along e route as he took the floor at e reception or another to shake ; considerable bulk in the hula, ok Islands version, when music suitable tempo was offering. Nor is Mrs. Malama Head slow in ning him—in a Niuean version the dance! [t happened that on the night it the party arrived at Russell, 3 well-known BBC commentator, pnford Vaughan Thomas, comite with recording equipment, in irch of background material for s Royal Visit to Waitangi across 3 bay, was also there. He took 3 opportunity to record some of 3 songs and chants sung by the legates at a Maori welcome given it evening. These were later to used by the BBC in conjunction ;h the actual Royal Visit to litangi due some weeks later.

Vherever the party travelled in w Zealand it was bound to come contact with Islanders who have tde that country their temporary or permanent home. Strangely, few seem to have settled in the north where the climate more nearly approaches that of Samoa, but the first such meeting of the trip took place on a country road near Keri Keri.

There the big bus passed a young woman on a bicycle. Immediately some of the Samoans called to the driver to stop. The Samoan girl, naturally astonished to meet the party under such circumstances, said that to her knowledge there are but two Samoan women living in the area north of Auckland.

Later, at Dargaville, the party was to meet Joseph Brown, young Samoan radio technician from Apia broad- At Opononl the Cook Islanders met Dr. Jim Rennie and family, formerly of Rarotonga, but now stationed at Kohukohu. Left to right: Mr. Piri Maoate, Dr. and Mrs. Rennie and children, and Makea Nuie Teremoana Ariki, leader of the Cook Islands delegation.

The delegates visiting a large citrus orchard at Keri Keri, Bay of Islands. The Cook Islanders were particularly interested.

At forestry headquarters in the heart of the famous Waipoua kauri forest reserve, the partywas escorted by Forester W. H. Jollife, who recently returned from the Cook Islands where he had advised the Administration on a forest planting scheme for the Lower Group islands. 119 THLY JANUARY, 1954

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Gordon's Stands Supk&m& ist station 2AP, gaining exarience at New Zealand radio ;ations. He is possibly the only lale Samoan living in the North uckland area. Mrs. Head also id a brief meeting on the roadde with a Niue family living in le north.

A number of the delegates had ;ver been outside their own Terriries before. Peato, the Tokelau presentative from Nukunono, and le Samoan speak little or no Eng- »h. For these the trip was, of urse, packed with interest.

The New Zealand Government is naturally hopeful that some of ,e forestry and farming projects icwn to the party would be of actical use to them on their rern to their home Islands.

The party consisted of the folding delegates: Western Samoa: alietoa Tanumafili 11, Mata’afa ulinu’u, Matai’a Europa, Tulele asoe, Jacob Helg, Lilomaiava To’lata, Gatoloai Peseta, Talamaivao.

Cook Islands: Makea Nui Tere- >ana Ariki, Piri Maoate, Tuaive ase, Tangi Trego Ariki, Mrs. Jane iraroa Ariki, Tihau Napara.

Niue: Mrs. Malama Head, Serant Tohovaka. lokelau Islands: Peato.

Ihe party attended several notions at Rotorua and Wellingi at which the Queen was present, ley were presented to the Queen Wellington.

What the Tourist Trade Can Mean AT about the same time that it was announced from Suva that work on the new South Seas Hotel would be halted at the second or third floor, Honolulu was opening a new 200-room wing on one hotel, and at least four new hotels of the unit type containing ten, fourteen, thirty-five and sixty units, respectively.

At the same time too, construction commenced on an eleven-storey 300-room hotel for Matson, a $15,000,000, 275-room luxury-class hotel to be named Waikiki Biltmore, and a 300-room hotel to be named The Reef.

When these are completed, Honolulu’s major tourist hotels will number 48—to cater for an overseas tourist traffic that numbered 80,000 in 1953 and will increase by 10,00(1 per year during the next three years, according to tourist experts.

Apart from these hotels, Hawaii has nothing that Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti or many other South Pacific groups have in greater measure.

H Mr. James Spillius, an anthropologist who was attached to the National University, Canberra, while on a mission to Tikopia, in the Solomons, left for England at the end of November, He will return to his post as research assistant to Professor Raymond Firth, at the University of London.

Mr. Otto Sanft, prominent merchant of Vavau, Tonga, has recently doubled the size of his Neiafu store. The old store will now be entirely devoted to clothing and fancy goods, etc., and the new section, in an adjoining building, will be given over to groceries. 121 SiCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1954

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The Board will sit in Wewak in February in order to deal with all outstanding applications in that area; and the Papua Land Board was expected to meet in early January.

The NG Board in its December sitting recommended these grants and tenders:

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Other minor leases were granted, and seven applications for agricultural and pastoral land were refused—some because applications were for agricultural leases tn areas classified as pastoral country.

The hearing of an application by New guinea Estates Proprietary, Ltd., for £2,000 acres of pastoral land around the Gusap airstrip was deferred on the request of the company. This was due to the illness of one of the company’s principals, and to permit representation before the Land Board.

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This has now been done; aptrently the original users of the nd will now have to go out of isiness or look for land elsewhere.

Rabaul Tennis npHE annual championships of the Rabaul Hard Court Association have recently been successfully concluded.

The outstanding players proved to be Mr. W. Drake and Mrs. F. Wilkinson.

Mr. Wl. Drake won the men’s singles and also the doubles partnered by Mr. W.

Campbell; Mrs. Wilkinson won the ladies’ singles and the doubles partnered by Miss M. Egan.

Others to show good form were Mr.

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A son was born to Mr. and Mrs David Wolff gram, of Villa, Vava'u, Tonga, on December 4. The newcomer, who has a sister, Lavena, has been named Victor Frederick. hese Islands residents were in Auck- [?]i during December:— [?]he Rev, Brothers Columbia and [?]urus from St. Peter’s College, Suva. [?]Irs. Kopu, Mr. Uriarau, Miss Taylor [?]Iding child), Miss Aue, and (front) [?]ere Kopu, from the Cooks. [?] J. Mannix and Mrs. A. Anderson, [?] were met by Miss Nia Petero, on [?]ival from Aitutaki. 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Srave is in the Sambarigi Valiev tich is under partial government itrol; the tribes have always en- ?ed in intermittent fighting with fir neighbours.

Patrol Post was opened there months ago and an airstrip is cv under construction. Until this completed the only access is overid from Lake Kutubu. it present Patrol Officer W. J. md is stationed at Erave, and 3ther Patrol Officer, C. E. T. Terl, has been instructed to proceed Erave from Lake Kutubu with ntional native police to help ied up work on the airstrip. he Rev. H. M. Bell has become Presbyterian minister in Newtle. The local newspaper said came “hot from the cannibal s of the New Hebrides, where served as a missionary for 15 ,rs.

A weďing of Suva interest took place recentl y at St. Aidans Chuch, Remuera, [?]ckland, when Miss Elaine Mae Frisby, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Royden [?]Isby, was married to Mr. Donald Stuart Mattson.

The bride’s parents have lived in Suva for the oast 24 years. Mr. Frisby recently [?]ired from the Civil Service there, and they are now living in Auckland.

The photo shows the bridal party (left to right): Mr. Don Jacoby of Auckland, [?] groom and bride, Miss Dorothy Ivels of Auckland, and Miss Margaret Frisby [?]ter of the bride.

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N. Zealand Should Inquire Into Niue’s Mission, Govt. Set-up NZ-ers Want Reprieve for Niue Murderers CONSIDERABLE public controversy developed in New Zealand both before and after the mid- December stay-of-execution which was granted to the three Niueans who murdered Resident Commissioner C. H. W. Larsen last August.

Generally, the public, churches and newspapers do not want to see the Nieueans hanged and there has been severe criticism of the NZ Executive Council which, on the same occasion that it refused an appeal for leniency for the Islanders, reprieved from the death sentence, a woman murderer of Napier, NZ. who had killed two people for monetary gain.

Appeals on behalf of the Niueans are being organised by the Auckland Branch of the Howard League of Penal Reform. Associated with this body in a public meeting in Auckland were several Ministers of non-conformist churches, labour unions and the Communist Party.

The interest of this last organisation is in the usual Communist tongue-in-cheek, propaganda pattern taut is probably unfortunate for the appeal itself.

In a letter to an Auckland newspaper, the Rev. M. S. Check, who w T as a London Missionary Society representative on the island until comparatively recently, said that unenlightened government policy was an indirect cause of the Larsen murder and that Islanders had been treated too harshly—he citec cases of youths being gaoled for li months for stealing £l, three month, for being drunk; being fined £5 fo: improper language which mam Europeans use freely in public, am similar fines for playing poker— which the Niueans know European, play frequently.

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Government officials, in whose nds the final decision lies, “rese to comment.” rhe whole Larsen affair seems w to have passed from a matter simple justice to a matter of lotions. But sufficient has been id on both sides to make it deable for a searching official iniry into the whole of the NZ adnistration of Niue. With the exjtion of Mr. Check and the LMS tid they cannot be said to be unised) the whole of the public lnicn expressed is uninformed on i subject of the Island. However, is obvious that some of the anders believe they have grievces. They may well be imaginary evances, on our standards—but, at i same time, be very real to the jeans. And, as Mr. Check has nself stated that the LMS fresntly clashed with the Governnt over native policy, the role of ; Mission on Niue should also be en a public airing.

Notes from Norfolk Island January 2, 1954. did not have packed guest-houses for Christmas—probably due to Her jesty’s arrival in Auckland from which come many of our holiday-makers, hree planes arrived from Auckland on ember 27, and the Sydney Skymaster, December 31, and now accommodation it a premium. feather conditions are ideal for aiming, sunbaking and sightseeing. * * * he New Year’s Day race meeting was 1 in sunny weather and was well snded. here were larger fields, and heavy * n B' up to £5O being on the .lisator for some races! Needless to no one won or lost a fortune. [?]In New Zealand from the Islands in cember were (left to right):— Mrs. R. Rex (centre) and children from [?]ae were met by Miss Emily Rex and young friend.

Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Jensen met by members of their family at Auckland when they arrived by air on holiday.

Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Bish (right) and Lois, Norma and Robert, were met by Mr. Jack Beatty when they arrived from Suva per Tofua. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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BY JPS I7ITH another hurricane season ? approaching, the time seems opportune to state a few eful facts on a subject of much terest to residents of the Southest Pacific. There are some inters regarding the behaviour of irricanes in this area which, once iderstood, provide Islands resimts without a barometer with lidance in determining whether not they are going to be struck, id how severely. [t seems necessary to stress that irricanes are not winds that sudnly spring up from nowhere, and en die down after doing their rndest in some particular area, le hurricanes that affect the New sbrides, New Caledonia, Fiji and e Cook Islands—the groups most bject to these visitations—are rn, usually, over a period of days, the vicinity of the Equator. rhey all have this general habit: ley consist of winds circulating rally, always in a clockwise direcn, inwardly and upwards round central “eye” which may be from reral miles to over 20 miles in imeter. The whole system will a couple of hundred miles in imeter —and, once formed, it lally starts to move, almost pays in some southerly direction. 3o here is the first pointer: If .ir radio reports a hurricane newhere hundreds of miles away the north, north-east or northst of you, be on the alert. If the rricane is centred anywhere south you, the chances are very small it you will be visited by the beast. 0 understand the wind-system of a hurricane and to predict ;h reasonably accuracy what its ection of movement will be, only d things are required—a map or irt of the general area of the ath Pacific within, say, 500 miles your location, and a piece of sue paper or celluloid.

Depending on the scale of the p, draw a circle with a diameter say, 500 miles on the tissue Der; then draw a spiral line, in clockwise direction, from the ;er edge of this circle in towards centre, so that, in thus spiralg inwards, it circles the centre if a dozen times. Draw little ow heads at intervals along this e, facing in a clockwise direction; 1 there you have, approximately, i wind system of the hurricane. fou must now realise that not y is the wind circling round the itral eye—which you can draw -but that the eye itself, and the ole thing, is almost certainly ving in some southerly direction anything from 5 to 25 knots.

The present meteorological facilities in the South Parific are generally inadequate to permit an accurate determination of the posi- Sfi}. ° f o *iJ5 w ce £ tr ,f f °on the hurricane very rapidly, if at all.

The predicted track may be, say, 30 miles to one side of the actual track taken by the storm. Therefore, it may well be that you, living on some outer island, will be much better placed to determine the true track in your region, than is the weather office the point where the forecasts are issued. And it may be taken for granted that you are interested in whether or not the full force of the blow is going to hit you.

IF you are, get outside smartly and note with reasonable accuracy the direction from which the wind is blowing, as soon as rumours of a hurricane are circulated—and continue to note at frequent intervals thereafter.

Let us suppose that you find the wind is easterly. By juggling that piece of tissue paper it will be at once evident that the centre of the storm can only be in one possible direction from you somewhere north, or a little west of north.

It will also be evident that if the wind continues to hold in the east, or in any direction from east to north, and gradually increases, it is an almost certain sign that the hurricane is heading directly 129 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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But it is a popular fallacy that most damage occurs in the uath cl the eye of the storm. A little thought will show you that the winds are going to be strongest on the right-hand (or eastern) side ol the hurricane’s centre—because, il the hurricane is moving south ati say, 15 knots, it is clear that those 15 knots will be added to the force of the northerly-quarter winds on that side of the whirling air mass —just as the 15 knots will be deducted from winds on the left (oi west) side of the storm.

Thus, if the eye (or calm centreX is ten miles in diameter, and the winds spiralling round it have a 50knot velocity, an island east of the centre will experience 75-knot winds while one, say, of fifteen miles to the west will experience only 35knot winds.

And here it may be noted that a place directly in the track of the above hypothetical hurricane would! after suffering a violent and increasing blow from east to north] have a calm respite for 40- minutes —while the 10-mile eye passed at 15 knots—and then, on the othen side of the storm, the winds would: strike with violence from south tcc west, gradually diminishing as the storm moved away.

Our piece of tissue paper will, clearly demonstrate this. It will, also clearly demonstrate that as hurricane does not approach fronr the direction of the wind—far fronr it —iust about 90 degrees from it.: in fact.

SO here are the cardinal rules fon the home forecaster. Once as hurricane has been reported: anywhere north of your latitude,; start to take frequent note of thea wind. ® If it remains in the sames direction and steadily increases, thea centre is heading towards you. e If it gradually moves round! from southeast through east, and increases, you are on the east on “bad” side, and the centre will passa somewhere close to the west of you. j • If, on the other hand, the windt moves from southeast through southr towards the west, and increases, thee centre is passing east of you andfc the blow will be less severe. • If the wind, after blowing veryv hard, suddenly drops, do not bee misled into thinking the blow isa over. You are clearly in the centres of the storm and the direction willU reverse and the force soon increases again, probably within an hour.

Those are the general rules. But„: once in a while, a hurricane playse tricks. Instead of holding its usuall, south-westerly, southerly or southeasterly course, it dives back on itse track, or runs off to the eastward!: for a while, or becomes Sometimes when the latter happensia it “deepens”—the central pressureb 130 JANUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

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The school is in 16 acres of former plantation land near Madang and has 34 buildings, mainly of native materials. The whole thing cost about £6,000, due to the co-operation of the Administration and local natives who supplied labour and some materials. The 83 pupils, the six native teachers and Mr.

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Instruction in the school is all in English and subjects taught include nature study, social studies, craft work, reading, writing, composition! arithmetic, spelling and dictation! 132 JANUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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By Frank Ryan

h Fiji, as also in other Islands groups of the South Pacific, there is a growing feeling of ritation and resentment at the isrepresentation to which Islands jople are frequently subjected by urnalists who, in their urgent ssire for a “bright story”, will sregard the ethics of their prossion and, in their exaggeration id misrepresentation, make a mentable return for the tradijnal Islands hospitality shown ,em.

A typical example was seen in the reless disregard of facts shown r some visiting journalists, when ey sent overseas a totally roneous impression of Indian m-co-operation in the welcome tended to Her Majesty the Queen.

In the past the Indian community Fiji has been accused—and, ssibly, with good reason—of Ihering too closely to Mother dia and of not entering more lly into the general life of the mmunity. But both during the ironation celebrations, and during e Royal visit, no accusation of is sort could be sustained.

Actually, the decision of the dian people, as represented by the dian members of Legislative •uncil, not to organise any special dian welcome but to join with e rest of the community in a neral welcome, was actuated by peal and very sensible motives. [t was understood that the ceremies of welcome were to be per- •med by the native race; and, >m the time of the ceremonial station to land, given on board ; Gothic, until the farewell song, lian ceremonies predominated, number of Gilbertese people who ne specially to Suva to see the ieen brought with them some mtiful costumes for their dances; fc this plan had to be forbidden wever regretfully, in order to e proper precedence to the lan people—a decision which s generally approved by all other nmunities in Fiji.

Consequently, instead of overding the programme with their n communal welcome, the nan people crowded the streets, ng with others, and thus helped isiderably to swell the thousds of onlookers at the Fijian emonies. hdian representatives attended ; State Dinner at Government use and also the State Ball, ring the Coronation celebrations, i also during the Royal Visit, iian shops were lavishly :orated.

In fairness to the Indian people it should be made clear that their decision to co-operate with the rest of the community, instead of demanding separate ceremonies, is a tendency which should be encouraged, and which is generally welcomed in Fiji. Apparently this was not realised by visiting journalists who had not taken the trouble to verify information mischievously given them.

The address of welcome to the Queen came from all sections of the community and was read at a special session of the Fiji Legislative Council by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, Secretary for Fijian Affairs; and, supporting him, were a European and an Indian member.

This spirit of unity was indeed a very desirable feature of the Royal visit. The desire of the Indian people to join in a general welcome seemed particularly appropriate when in her reply Her Majesty referred to the peaceful way the various races in Fiji worked together for their general advancement. 1953 was one of the driest years recorded in Samoa. The average annual rainfall is 112.89, but 1953 had only 76.23 inches. Only 1912 showed a lower rainfall—namely 69.50 inches.

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District Services is responsibi for roads in Madang District als? and is getting ahead as fast as tb peculiar difficulties of the counti will permit. Madang’s connectic with the Highlands will also B through Gusap, and the secticc they are responsible for will ope up the Gogol River where there a large area of pastoral and agr cultural land at present unproduo tive, and the Upper Ramu. Dk tance frfom Madang to Gusap is IS miles. The first 35 miles fron Madang to the Gogol River hs been completed.

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The Royal Visit In Retrospect

From Our Suva Correspondent. irHEN the Queen and the Duke f of Edinburgh left Laucala Bay for Tonga and New Zealand on ecember 19, Fiji, in a state borderg on emotional exhaustion, quietly ithdrew into a sort of hibernation, hristmas and the New Year have issed, and practically nothing has ippened.

Despite some agitation in one or 10 Australian newspapers, the oyal visit to Fiji was a time of unloyed happiness—and a letter om the Queen’s Private Secretary the Governor makes it clear that ie only regret for the Queen and ie Duke was that their time in Fiji is so short.

The allegation in a Sydney paper iat the State ball at Suva was a lop” because the Queen was tired it, and slipped away by a side door fore the scheduled time of detrture, was so far from the truth ,at it provoked an official letter of otest to the journal concerned, id a great deal of angry comment aong Europeans and Fijians, who Iped to make the ball, and the insdibly beautiful scene, during the >yal balcony appearance, probably e outstanding incident of its kind the Queen’s journey across the icific.

European Bad Manners

IF there was anything regrettable about the State ball, it was the lack of elementary good manners on the part of some European guests, who stared unremittingly at the Queen from close quarters; and a number who, after the Queen’s departure, caused disgust among many people by their behaviour at supper. No Fijians or Indians at the ball were guilty of any kind of bad manners—the culprits were a minority group of Europeans whose vulgarity suggested that they should never have been invited to that function.

Overall Organisation

NOW that it is possible to get the great event into proper perspective, it appears that, while Suva scored heavily with good organisation and the matchless pageantry of the Fijian ceremonies of welcome, and the quiet charm of the afternoon at the park-like Adi Cakobau School at Sawani, Lautoka’s comparative lack of formality and its spontaneous welling-up of happy excitement lent a balance that drew from the Queen at Lautoka the now-famous comment: “It has been a lovely day.” (Over) 137 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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It is easy to be wise after til event. But, before the Royal vis:, critics were pointing out that Suvs rigid determination to hold ever thing in full check—from pubi transport near the centre of tl city to the emotion of the tens thousands in the streets—went little too far.

The population of Suva on D* cember 17 is estimated at well ov 100,000, and the influx was predon inantly Fijian. But the events ■ the two days proved that no Fijis crowd would let itself be carrie away in the presence of Royalt On the other hand, there can I such a thing as too much restrain and it was the relaxing of restraii at the proper time that pleased tU Queen and the Duke at Lautoka.

In the final summing-up this our only small regret—that to tM Royal visitors, fresh from the di lirious welcome of Panama, Suva obviously sincere first welcome ma have seemed a little constraine: Nevertheless, it was a triumph ; planning a great occasion, withoi precedents or experience to guio us.

What The Fijians Did

IT was only to be expected that tH occasion would produce an in mense outpouring of Fijia loyalty; but comparatively few non Fijians realise that the great Fijia demonstration, and the temporal migration of tens of thousands i Fijians to Suva and Lautoka, in volved heavy financial and otm sacrifices for almost every indiw dual.

No one quite knows how almos the whole of the urban low-wag Fijian population managed t shelter and feed swarms of incorn ing people for several days; but was done somehow, and the sacn fice was made as willingly—as ws that of the people who gave moun tains of food for the formal pro sentation, knowing that, in accoro ance with Fijian custom (whio differs sharply in some respec; from the tradition of various othe.

Pacific Islanders) most of erffr food would go aboard the Gothu and the escorting cruiser Blao Prince.

If the Queen’s visit was pre 1 dominantly a Fijian occasion, must be remembered that tM Fiiians, far more than people o other races, willingly and withoir question made a costly effort to cb honour to the Sovereign.

On almost every occasion tM greatest crowds contained a btc majority of Fijians. Indian repre' sentation was very good: but, s the Indians had "officially decider to join with the other communitiej in a general welcome, there was m Indian demonstration to compaft. with the mass-migration of Fijianr Even at Lautoka it is doubtful : Indians were in an overall majority 138 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

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Emerson, manager of the company; J. Stubbs, manager of Cable and eless, Ltd., Suva; Mr. Matthew Whan: captain of the “Vasu”; Mr. J. rkson, foreman; Mr. W. Billington, stant foreman; and two Fijian staff.

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Letter to the Editor O one knows better than I that newspaper sub-editors work under pressure. But is that use for the blatant inaccuracies ich creep into Australia’s leaddailies? low is this for an insult to Fiji’s capital, Levuka, vide front page Ibourne Age, December 19? Head- ; reads: “Queen enjoyed herself Fiji’s former capital.” Text of ry says: “ Tt has been a lovely r ,’ she said, this afternoon before lung Lautoka, Fiji’s former cap- , 40 (sic) miles from Suva.” n another story, page 2 of the le issue, there is this gem: inga’s people, unlike the negroid ians, only 50 miles away, are it-skinned, with fine features...”

'hat same story makes reference the Tongans, alone of all the ;ific Islands groups, having reled their independence; yet on :e 5 of the same issue, in a pice caption, we find this: “Queen ote and her subjects are Britons the heart of the Pacific.”

I am, etc., R. C. MACPHERSON. ckay, Q.

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Recently, a police truck collided with a station-wagon transporting a number of schoolgirls; a fiveyears-old girl was killed outright.

In a second recent case, a bus left the road and crashed into a coconut tree killing three of its passengers. 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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50 Little Bits of Tahiti Friends of kindly Oscar Nordlan, of Tahiti, keep bobbing up i different parts of the world. The Id ex-sailor makes a hobby of oing little kindnesses for anyone i need of help.

A letter from a friend in USA dejribes how the American Georaphical Society of New York, 5-operating in the world-wide ‘arch for anti-biotic drugs, sought elp in obtaining 50 samples of ahiti soil. Someone gave the Irectors the name and address of tr. Nordman; and they asked him he could do anything.

Oscar waded into the job with Ls usual energy. He and his lend Captain Aitken, of the Bank me (there on a visit), went right round the beautiful island, re- Loved six inches of topsoil in 50 ifferent places, and from that level >llected 50 small samples of [other Earth, Tahiti variety, fithin a few weeks of the Society’s iquest, the 50 samples, travelling 7 air, were in the hands of the ew York scientists, with a written rayer from Oscar that some of lem might contain a special antiotic drug, of real Tahiti potency.

They have told Oscar that they ave a special medal waiting to be inned on him, when he makes lat long-considered visit to New ork.

Vhat Gold Means o Governments Looking at the accounts of Fiji’s mperor and Loloma gold-mines iblished in December, and noting le large sums which the Fiji •overnment gets out of their irnings, a correspondent’s mind aes back again to the extraordinry folly of the British Socialist overnment, which prevented the ctension of this successful enterrise to the poverty-stricken Soloion Islands.

The Fiji gold-mines have taken lany millions out of the Tavua ills since the late E. G. Theodore ad his friends launched that ensrprise in the mid-thirties. Last sar, in income taxation and gold >yalties alone, the Fiji Governient got just on £lOO,OOO from the vo mines; while in indirect taxaon it must also have benefited sry much. Emperor’s operating rofit for the year was £272,233; oloma’s, £169,789.

“Just imagine what gold would lean to the British Solomon Isnds, struggling along with copra reduction as its only means of irning overseas exchange,” writes ir friend.

“Yet, in one section of Guadalmal, the indications of good gold re just as strong as they were in Fiji before Emperor came in and proved the goldfield. In the late thirties, Mr. Theodore earmarked a substantial section of Fiji goldmines’ profits for exploration and development in Guadalcanal, and was proceeding with his plans when the war came.

“After the war, Emperor got ready to follow up the gold signs in the Solomons. Immediately, the Colonies Minister in the Attlee Socialist Government made it known that all laws which hitherto had operated to encourage goldseekers to take a long chance in spending their money in unknown places had been reviewed, and mining concerns would enjoy no privileges and be taxed as heavily as any other enterprise. Thereupon Mr. Theodore, after one spirited personal protest in London, cancelled the whole BSI scheme.”

Now, BSI is willing and ready to give any encouragement within reason to gold-seekers; but, so far, there have been no takers.

To Eradicate Peetles A German friend who lives now in Methler, Germany, and who was a prominent resident of Samoa until 1914, has sent this along for publication: “Ven I reed dem PIM I emm grately imbressed vit der Messers taken in der fiet agenst der Rinozeros peetle. Bleese gif mee a dschanz tru yuhr Montlee to meke der vay non how I eradiketet der peetle vit too bricks, ven I lifted in Samoa 40 jeers ago. I late one brick on der dinner-table, denn coht one off fem nasty peetles. I put him on der brick, denn I takes up der udder brick and hit der peetle vit it on der het. Denn i rupp der brick like a millstone four ten seckends, ent der peetle is dann stohnded.

“Bleese yuh dry deeze rezeepee on all dem peetles, larven, ant egs in der Sout-Sees ant somm day yuh will tank me—Yuhrs drooly, FRITZ—now in Dschermanny.”

Soviet Salmon for Pacific Islanders “In theory, this idea that Australia should help the poor old Mother Country by contributing dollars to the Commonwealth pool is beautiful”, writes an “Islands Trader”, nastily. "But it does not work out very happily in practice.

“For example, there is a big market in the Islands for canned salmon, and we in Sydney do our best to supply it. But what has happened? We are being forced by the Australian Government to buy Russian salmon, which we do noc like, and which costs about 60 per cent, more than Canadian 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Hotels and Robbers On the subject of hotels and robbers in Apia and Papeete (see recent issues), we have a persona!, letter from Henry W. Kinney, longtime resident of Tahiti, internationally-known journalist, and now settled in Honolulu. An extract: “We had a very pleasant trip— except for the fact that the hot© in Apia had only three beds in each room, and a wooden shelf, and absolutely nothing else. At that, we were lucky in being there, as at the other hotel a burglar broke in and stole the wallet of an airman, and his trousers—leaving them all empty on the road —and fellow travellers Bennet lost £l5, Donald £l7, and a young Australian couple £50.”

Which seems to add up to the facts that (a) Papeete is not (as Chief of Police Biesel has already pointed out) the only place with hotel robbers, and (b) the Apia hotels, in the eyes of American tourists, are no better—or worse— than we originally said they were; Growth of Scout Organisation in New Guinea[?] MR. ray galloway, wellknown business man of Rabaull New Guinea, has accepted appointment as Scout Commissioner! for the Rabaul area. His Commissioner’s Warrant was issued by the Chief Scout for Queensland and; the Chief Commissioner for Queensland early in December. He has been chairman of the RabauL branch of the Boy Scouts Association since its inception four years ago. This, the first appointment oft a Commissioner to the Rabaul area.j gives Mr. Galloway the same status in relation to the Rabaul District as Mr. Norman Sendy in Port Moresby/ At present the Territory functions as a Scout District within th© Queensland State organisation, th© Commissioner for the Territory being Mr. W. C. Groves.

U Ratu J. A. R. Dovi, a medicall officer in the British Solomonr Islands Protectorate, received th© MBE decoration in the New Yean Honours. 142 January, 1954— pacific islands monthly

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Knighthood for the HCWP i S was expected, the name of jl Robert Christopher Stafford Stanley, CMG, QBE, High ommissioner for the Western Pacific, was in the New Year [onours. He has been created a [BE —Knight Commander of the iritish Empire.

Sir Robert Stanley is the first xan to hold the office of High ommissioner for the Western acific by itself —hitherto, it has sen combined with the Governor lip of Fiji. So far as the public concerned, the position is that f Governor of the Solomon and •ilbert and Ellice Islands, and the ritish side of the New Hebrides ondominium.

Sir Robert Stanley was appointed ► his present office early in 1952. nd took up his duties there in ugust. The economy of both of is principal Territories (Solo- ;ons and Gilbert and Ellice olony) was destroyed in World far 11, and he has had a heavy tsk of rehabilitation.

Sir Robert Stanley is 52. He had ngthy service in World War II id subsequently served the Dlonial Office in Palestine, Africa, yprus, West Indies, etc.

Other Honours Granted CBE—Dr. C. J. Austin, OBE, who cently retired after giving 22 years distinguished service as Medical iperintendent of the Makogai jper Hospital, in Fiji.

OBE—Mr. G. K. Roth, Deputy jcretary for Fijian Affairs.

MBE—Miss H. M. Cleaver, who tired recently after 24 years of irsing service in Solomon Islands id Fiji.

MBE—Mr. Josaia Navoka, who is served for 32 years as an Assisnt Medical Practitioner in Fiji.

BME—Mrs. Lily Warren, of Pitirn Island, who has given many ars of service as a nurse.

BSI Advisory Council JHE following have been appointed members of the Solomon Islands Advisory Council, from January 1, 1954: Official: Mr. R. J. Minnitt (Chief cretary), Mr. P. N. Dalton (Attney-General), Mr. A. M. Macod Smith (Financial Secretary), r. P. Hughes (Senior Assistant cretary, Native Affairs).

Unofficial: Right Rev. S. G. Caul- I, Bishop of Melanesia; Mr. L. F. 11, MBE; Mr. K. H. D. Hay; *• Gr. H. Kuper, BEM; Mr. R. C. mes.

STatiye Members: Mr. Salana Ga’a talaita), Mr. S. Kodovavu Western), Mr. S. Sitai (Eastern), *• J- C. Vouza, GM (Central).

F’irst meeting will be held in Febiry. 143 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Arthur Lorraine

’he death occurred in Brisbane leral Hospital on December 6, of Arthur Lorraine, of Narakapor ntation, about 20 miles up the rkham River from Lae, New inea. [e was 68 and had been in New inea for the past 25 years. He i born in the United Kingdom, [e has been in ill health for some e and arrived in Brisbane for iical treatment on the December south of the Bulolo.

Mrs. Lucie B. Langdale

he death occurred in Auckland December 6 of Mrs. Lucie ,trice Langdale, the widow of the I Captain F. L. Langdale, who many years owned the island of kaya, Fiji. [rs. Langdale was born in uka, 72 years ago; she was nerly a Miss Morris, her grandents and her parents having n among the first settlers in uka and they were well known mghout the Colony, aptain and Mrs. Langdale also d at Somo Somo, Taveuni, ire Captain Langdale was Gov- Dr’s Commissioner in 1906. They r lived at Savu Savu, where he stipendiary magistrate. In I he retired and the family went ive in England. Captain Lang- ; died in London in 1913, and family returned to Fiji four rs later, but finally settled in ikland, NZ. [rs. Langdale is survived by her ghter, Mrs. Beaver (Auckland), her son, Captain M. V. Lang- ; (Sydney). The eldest son, F.

Langdale, died in Auckland in I, and Captain Geoff (“Bunna”) gdale was accidentally drowned Canton Island in 1949.

Mrs W. Gibbins

[rs. Winifred Gibbins, wife of • W. Gibbins, formerly of New- 'le, NSW, died at Honiara, Soloi Islands, on December 15. She her husband left Newcastle 2i rs ago to become missionaries iched to the South Seas Evancal Mission Society.

MR. L. T. TUDOR he death of Mr. Lionel T. Tudor, £ainantu, New Guinea, was re- ;ed from Lae on January 12. e was born in Tasmania in June, !, and first went to New Guinea .935 when he became a resident ihe Wewak district. Since the he has been in the Highlands, e is survived by his wife and children.

Mr. William Macgowan

be biggest funeral ever held in : Moresby took place on December 21, when Mr. William Lodwick MacGowan was buried.

“Mac” —as he was affectionately known throughout the Territory, where he was Assistant Director of the Commonwealth Department of Works —died suddenly on December 20. He was 51, and apparently in good health, and his death came as a surprise.

There were tributes and messages of sympathy from all over Papua and New Guinea. The Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) was among the hundreds at his funeral.

He described Mr. MacGowan as a man of integrity, imbued with a great sense of civic activity—a man who had given long and loyal service to the country which he loved.

Mr. MacGowan was born in London in 1902 and came to Australia as a boy. He went to New Guinea as an architect for the Administration in 1928, and remained until the Japanese occupation. He was one of those who escaped from Rabaul along the south coast of New Britain, and thence to Papua.

In Port Moresby, he was a member of the Town Advisory Council since its inception, and there were few exhibitions of arts and crafts with which he was not associated.

His work as a water colour artist was distinctive and attractive.

Mr. Lewis Hirshon

A very well-known resident of Tahiti, Mr. Lewis Hirshon, died in Lima, Peru, early in January, while on a visit with his wife and friends to South America. Heart trouble caused death.

Mr. Hirshon was an American, and born in New York; and he had been a resident of Tahiti for nearly 20 years. He was held in high esteem. He left Papeete, about three months ago, to travel in South America, visiting friends. He owned a very large estate in the district of Papara; a laundry business in Papeete, and a dairy farm.

Mr. Daniel Joseph Flood

Mr. Daniel Flood, a well-known entertainer and recently manager of the Victory Theatre, Green Lane, Auckland, died in Auckland early December.

Mr. Flood was one of a theatrical touring party which went to the Islands from New Zealand prior to World War I. In 1912 he was 145 (VCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Emile Terii Martin, Jnr!

Mr. Emile Terii Martin, aged son of the well-known Papee business man, Mr. Emile Mart died in Papeete on November after a long illness. He was marri to the former Mile. Piere 1 !

Ravereau of Rouen, France, w survives him, with a daughter, ag eight.

Capt. Fletcher Quintal!

The death occurred on Norfo Island at the end of December Captain Fletcher Quintal, aged ; oldest descendant of the Pitcairne on the Island.

He was a great-grandson of t original Quintal and a grandsi of the original Nobbs, Boun mutineers. His parents had arriv with the Pitcairners on Norfolk 1856 when there were still a fr Australian convict ticket-of-lea men and officers there as can takers of the old convict settlemeii Captain Quintal was a veteran the Boer War and World War He left the Island when he was and for a long time was a pubk servant in Sydney. When he n turned to Norfolk he held mau public positions.

He married a Miss Nobbs ai. they had two daughters—Mrs. FO Rodgers and Mrs. Westwood. TH photograph was taken by RIM editor when he visited NorfoD Island in 1948. Although then 8 Captain Quintal looked no moo than 60.

He was a highly respected mem ber of the community, and his dea i cast gloom over the Island’s Ne Year festivities.

MR. C. D. BATES One of Papua-New Guinea’s be known and highly esteemed Distrir Service Officers, Mr. Charles Dov son Bates, died in Sydney o January 1. He was a former Dir trict Commissioner at Madang, member of the Legislative Counco and one of the war-time heroes the Coast Watchers. He died : 146 JAKUABT. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Cff /lft» mcester House, while on sick ye from the District Services De- ■tment, in which he had served 20 years. Before that he was eight years in the Police. He ived in New Guinea in 1928.

Charlie” Bates was an Assistant trict Officer when the Japs ded in 1942, and he walked rland from the North Coast. He ame a major with the Coast tchers, working in New Britain, i it was there he won the itary Cross. yhen the Japs surrendered at Daul, he was with the first Adlistration body which entered town, and he took over there District Officer. He was responie for a lot of the early refutation of the town, firing 1953 he developed a conon which was later diagnosed as cancer of the lung, and he was sent South In July. His death on January 1 brought messages of sympathy and tributes to his work from all over the Territory, where he was known widely and well.

Director of District Services, Mr.

A. A. Roberts, described his death as “an extremely great loss.” He is survived by his widow and three children.

Mr. Colin Mcintosh

Mr. Colin McIntosh, a very wellknown resident of W. Samoa, died there in mid-November, aged 75, after 28 years’ residence. He was at first employed by O. F. Nelson & Co., but later was attached to the Public Works Department. He retired last year. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. M. Young and Mrs. A. Hoeflich.

Fiji’s New Beach Hotel These photographs (by Stinsons, of Suva) show guests at the opening of the new [?]olevu Hotel, about 70 miles from Suva, at the end of November. It is one of the [?]g chain of hotels and is built on the beach plan popular in Hawaii and Tahiti.

PIM for December). Top photograph shows (left to right): Mr. Hollander, Lady [?] the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, Sir Hugh Ragg (standing), Lady [?]ey, Mr. W. Clarke, Mrs. Hollander, Mr. C. D. Barford and Miss Kathleen Clark, [?]ower photo shows the view from the main buildings, looking towards the beach, Fijians who came for the opening ceremonies. 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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Mrs. A. B. Edwards

[rs. Sibyl Charlotte Edwards, b of Mr. A. B. Edwards, died in a recently. Mrs. Edwards was n at Taveuni, Fiji; her father, Albert Taylor, was a magistrate re in the 1870’s, he married in 1904; Mr. Edwards i then a junior officer in the Fiji 1 service, but through promotion became District Commissioner [ magistrate and served in many ts of the Colony. [rs. Edwards is survived by her band and a daughter and two s.

Miss Bertie Hilton

[iss Bertie Hilton, aged about years, died at her home at luruloulou, Fiji, recently. Born the Rewa district, Miss Hilton ; for many years a clerk in the jistrate’s court.

Mr. Frederick Carr

tr. Frederick Carr, a resident of , since 1893, died at Suva dur- December, aged 91 years. Mr. r was associated with Charles mings & Co., Levuka, Hugh tiro, and Morris Hedstrom Ltd., ing his years in the Colony. He red from the latter firm 20 rs ago. [r. Carr is survived by four ghters and one son. His wife, nerly Miss Message, of Levuka, ieceased him.

New Patrol Officers

PARTY of young men left Sydney by air early in January for New Guinea to train as patrol :ers. The will train at Port resby for six weeks, then will be ;ioned in various districts. The up include Max All wood (18), )ff Booth (23), Rod Noble (21), I Grant (23), Tony Redwood i, Max Duncan (18), Dave Cari (20), Len Bridges (18), Neil STamara (22), Paul Conroy (18), [ Des Fitzer (21). [r. Norman Pearson has been apited to succeed Mr. C. S. Reay Commissioner of Labour, Fiji.

Pearson, who is 47 years of age, ked in England until 1947 when went to Tanganyika in East ica as Labour and Welfare Offi- In 1952 he was transferred the Windward Islands in the st Indies as Labour Adviser. He xpected to arrive in Suva within next two months before Mr. y goes on leave. ieut.-Colonel Ratu E. T. Cako- , MC. has returned to civilian in Fiji after two years’ service i the Fiji Military Forces in aya. He has been appointed to as District Commissioner them. Mr. W. V. C. Baker has imed his appointment as District cer at Nausori.

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GUINEA Metropolitan Paper is Entertaining IN a lively, well-written article in the Sydney Daily Mirror of December 31 the absurdities and injustice of the Native Labour Ordinance, 1950, are effectively shown up. The title of the article is: “New Guinea Natives are exploiting White Men!”

The Ordinance, of course, is a bequest from the Ward-Murray regime, and the present Administration now is actively gathering data on the effect of it, so as to justify far-reaching amendments. But, in the opinion of old observers, irremediable harm already has been done, and the native labour force partly demoralised, by one of the most stupid and untimely measures ever introduced into native administration.

The Mirror writer deals mostly with the more obvious side of the absurdity—the fact that all penal provisions were withdrawn from the native labour arrangement, so that it became purely a civil contract.

It is easily enforceable against the white employer, but in practice it cannot be enforced against the native. Even if a recalcitrant native were fined, and did not pay, and a gaol sentence were imposed, the Ordinance achieves nothing because, as the Mirror says, prison means nothing to the native except good food and comfortable conditions.

The writer also entertains his readers with a, description (perfectly true) of the operation of the war damage compensation payments to natives —another absurdity perpetrated by the Ward-Murray people and continued, up to date, by the present Administration.

U Mr. Cumber, a New Zealand entomologist, passed through Fiji in January on his way to Western Samoa where he has been invited by the South Pacific Commission to undertake a study of chemical methods of controlling rhinoceros beetles. The results gained from this work will, in due course, be passed on to the various member governments which make up the South Pacific Commission. 149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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How He Impressed The Islanders IN all this “publicity,” not enoui has been said about the ps taken by the Duke of Edinburg in this unprecedented Royal vii to the South Sea Islands. Psych logically, his role has been of ir mense importance.

Traditionally, Islanders associa kingship with leadership, aj leadership with strength. They e pect their rulers to be big, stro< and dominating.

Queen Elizabeth II is slender a;, petite—a woman so lovely and we: poised as to bring gasps of admin tion from the crowds—but she only 5 ft 4 in, in height, and not t; Islanders’ idea of a ruler. Arnoi the big, uniformed men who most; greeted her in Fiji and Tonga s; appeared quite small.

Had she been alone, that migj have been an embarrassing fact*.

But, on practically every importai occasion, her husband was eith beside her or just behind her le shoulder. He is everything t: Islanders look for in kingship—tas splendidly proportioned, dignifii and, on native as well as Europe* standards, very handsome. He every way complemented the grao ous and attractive young Queenr together, in native eyes, they wes the ideal of Royalty. Elizabeth I with Philip, has been accepted witl; out reservation as their Queen.

The only complaint—if compiaii it could be termed —was that tl; people did not have more oppoc tunities of hearing Philip who, speech and subject-matter, is alma as attractive as the Queen. But I kept himself consistently in tl; background quiet, dignifiu amiable, and a perfect foil for tl; lovely little lady whom he so can fully shields and supports. He ga T j a clear impression of strength an character—l think the world hear much more of Philip in tH; future. —Special Correspondent.

Behind The Royal Visit To Fiji A PRIVATE resident of Fiji, wh attended most of the officii functions during the Visit, makes these comments in private letter to the editor: “I formed the opinion that tH Governor and his wife worked veitj hard indeed and deserved gresj credit for what they achieved hex on the recent visit of the Queo and the Duke of Edinburgh . . . : is evident now that the Queen am the Duke would perhaps have like: less formality and more informr. ality—they enjoyed Lautoka venj much for this reason—but theirs was little precedent and experience 150 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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I found the Queen and the Duke y and natural to talk to, and ,1-informed on world matters, h political and social. I also med the opinion that he is a rer of strength to her in the ivy task which she carries . . .

The Queen was rather tired at end of the day and no one Id blame her for having left the ,1 at 11.30 p.m. instead of midht. To say the Ball was a “flop’ > a grave exaggeration. The ;en was very gracious and quite lumber of people were taken up ler and presented, and she spoke ;ly to them. . . .

But this criticism is deserved: ; way some of the women simply red at the Queen for a long time [ just bad manners; and I don’t iw how to express in words my nion of the behaviour of many pie at the supper-table. It was super’ supper; but, apparently, le people, where food is conned, just cannot behave —vulgar I coarse to a degree.”

The French Will See the Queen When the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were about to arrive at Kaikohe airport in the far north of New Zealand, a shabby green English station waggon was noticed parked amongst official cars.

Security officers, puzzled, hastily investigated—and were even more concerned when they found that one of its two occupants could not speak English. The driver, a New Zealander, soon cleared up the mystery, however. His passenger was Monsieur Robert Vermont, a newspaper man from Vila, New Hebrides, representing the French Press and especially the magazine Voir. Somehow the two had omitted to equip themselves with the special passes issued to the Press. Not until M. Vermont had dismantled his camera tripod, and the contents of the van had been thoroughly examined by the Security people was the all-clear given—and M. Vermont permitted to remain and get his photos.

Successful Students in W. Samoa the School Hall, at the Aleisa Euroin settlement near Apia, W. Samoa, December 10, parents assembled at of-school-year festivities, and to see Mayor, Mr. E. W. Westbrook, present [?]lary school Certificates to the five [?]essful candidates—and to urge the [?]r pupils to work harder. [?]e headmaster, Mr. Collins, in a report [?]e gathering, thanked Mr. Westbrook his councillors for their fatherly [?]est in the school and extended his [?]ks also to Mr. H. W. Moors and Mr. [?] Gurau, M’sLA, and to Mr. Meiritz [?]donations for sports equipment; and [?]ishop Darnard, SM, for his unflagging [?]est in the school.

Mr, Collins asked parents to place more importance on their children’s future.

He said that although labour was at a premium and jobs easily come by, every effort should be made to allow children to continue their education. And steady progress at school could only be achieved by regular attendance, punctuality and diligence.

The photograph shows the five successful pupils with Mr. Collins: Standing (left to right): Myra Skelton, Robert Collins, Christina Harrington. Seated (left to right): Clara Harder, Mr.

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Bad Political and Economic Conditions In Philippines and Indonesia ONDITIONS in Philippines and Indonesia, which are two thickly-populated, independent tposts of Asia, are of much in- •est to the South Pacific countries, [f they maintain strong and ierly governments they can serve a protective barrier for the uth Seas. But if—as now appears be the case in Indonesia —they e their capacity for self-govern- ;nt, and begin to slide towards mmunism, they can become a mace to our future. rhe United States gave the llippines full independence after Drld War II; but, although the mtry still is under American inence, observers are not happy out what they see going on there, ministrative inefficiency and corjtion in high places are encourag- \ the growth of Communism, rhe Hukbalahaps (Philippines mmunist organisation) are supsed to have been broken up and ven into the remoter mountains, tually (say observers recently in 3 Philippines) vicious landlordism and almost incredible poverty tong the masses, are driving Dusands into the Huk ranks; and and influence, and Huk terrorism, j encountered as soon as one ,ves the larger centres. 7 was thought that, when Magsaysay was elected President a few weeks ago, there would be \ changes. Magsaysay may be nest and sincere; but he will have *at difficulty in putting through i necessary fundamental reforms, ainst the opposition of the comircial barons and powerful landds. \ great part of the arable land of 3 Philippines is owned outright a limited number of landlords, to mostly live in the big cities and ploit the peasants. They do not nt Communism—but neither do ;y want the land reforms which ; imperative if the peasantry are be kept quiet and contented and ay from Communism. \Jr. H. E. Maude, OBE, Member Social Development, South cific Commission, attended a conence in Manila recently, and took 3 opportunity of going out, far ;o the country, to examine some :ial project in which he is inested. He found the country so turbed —the result of poverty and iccntent —that he could not get ck to Manila, within the time 'anged, until he was assisted back police armed with machinens.

A friend on the West Pacific Line motorship Citos, recently loading timber in the Philippines, writes: “To my inexperienced eye, Manila is a mess. Beauty and the beast of poverty, cheek by jowl. The pesa (approx. 5/- Australian) is unacceptable outside of the Philippines.

The Manila Hotel (losing at the rate of 50,000 pesas a month) is always full of regally-dressed men and women, who pay a small fortune for a very ordinary meal. Yet at every street corner, with a double puard near the churches, you hear: ‘Please give me five pesas— I am hungry—l want five pesas to buy some bread.’ 25/- seems a lot of money for a hunk of bread!

“We loaded 430,000 super feet of logs at Kennedy Bay—a new concession being opened up by an American firm, the guiding spirit of which is 37-years-old Don Ayreton, who has come into prominence within the last few years. We took 55 hours for the job. Captain Killiman later remarKed that they had taken 11 hours at Powell Harbour to load 372,000 super feet, using the ship’s crew as stevedores, and with natives on the logs. Ayreton, who does the opening-up part of his Company’s timber concessions, had brought over a team of Filipinos, handpicked.”

MEANWHILE, conditions continue to deteriorate in Indonesia, where a ragtag-andbob-tail Government is functioning weakly. The nation is divided into three sections — the Javanese Nationalists, who provide the Republican government: the Moslems (who are themselves divided into Tahiti Retreat This jetty will be the Tahiti berth for Mr. R. J. Reynolds’ beautiful English built yacht ARIES, which is expected at Papeete in January.

The property, recently purchased by Mr. Reynolds, formerly belonged to American newspaperman Kinney, who has now settled in Honolulu. 153 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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The latter are the best organised and they are ruthless and always on the job—their influence seems to be growing steadily.

Early in January, the news agencies reported a growing tendency for the Indonesians to attack the Dutch, who still retain valuable interests there, especially in transport and shipping, it is believed that the Indonesians plan to pus the Dutch out of the country en tirely, and seize their property.

The Djakarta politicians are tn mg to divert the people’s attentie from the country’s tragic politic* economic condition by (a) threaten mg to seize Western New Guine from the Dutch and (b) encouragiri attacks upon the persons and pr« perty of the Dutch remaining in In donesia. A move to put an end t the Netherlands-Indonesian Unic (still officially in existence) is im mment. rOM what I could see, tM Dutch are themselves i blame for the way the Ind« nesians hate them,” said a his Australian official, recently in Dis karta. “The Dutch, in their rels ticns with the Indonesians, behax with the same high-handed am gance as in the days before Wor; War ll—they cannot understar that the whole Asiatic world hs changed—l refer especially to Indii Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, Chinaand that the Indonesian objec; furiously to being treated as a per son of inferior status. The Indo nesian attitude to Australians an Americans is quite friendly—vei different to the face they show t the Dutch.”

This traveller said that the stead penetration of Indonesia by Com munist influence can be seen i some directions. While he ws there, there was a meeting of filiJ people, to prepare for a Moticc Picture and Film Festival in Hon Kong. It was proposed that it W a rule that no Communist film U shown at that Festival. The In donesians immediately objectedthey said that they would not co operate if the proposal was accepter The discussion is still going on.

Moves are afoot in Djakarta t very considerably extend trade re lations between Indonesia air Communist China and Russia.

Rowley Garnett Wedding at Labasa All Saints’ Church, Labasa, Fiji, wa decorated with pink and white floweu when Miss Elizabeth Ann Rowley, oo December 5, was married to Mr. Alae Edward Garnett.

The bride is the elder daughter of Ml and Mrs. G. S. Rowley of Labasa, ana the groom is the second son of Mr, ana Mrs. L. F. Garnett of Suva. The marriage caused wide interest in Fiji, New Zealana and Australia.

The bride wore a beautiful gown o white embroidered organdie. In a silver holder, used by her grandmother and he mother at their weddings, she carried bouquet of white carnations and whits violetina.

She was attended by two youthful bridesmaids, Angela Daly and Christim Freeman. Best-man was the bridegrooms brother, Mr. Harvey Garnett. At reception later, Mr. and Mrs. Rowles received more than 100 guests.

The young couple will make their homco in Auckland, NZ. 154 JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Apply to “CORDIAL-MAKER," BOX 3408, G.P.O. SYDNEY From Native Hut to The Priesthood (Contributed) r is a long step from a native hut to the Altar of the Catholic Church, and st how long can be seen from the sent Ordination to the Priesthood of » first two native students of the »cese of Rabaul which comprises New itain, New Ireland and Manus. This ssion was established 75 years ago and administered by His Lordship, Bishop 0 Scharmach, MSC DD. ks the Catholic Church has only one ,ndard for its priests all over the world, 1 seminarians. To Bata of Malagunan J To Paivu of Topo, had to either ike that standard or quit, as many ve done before them. Actually both idents made it comfortably.

Jf the two Father Paivu was longer the road. Now aged 42, he his moling with the Native Sisters at Tapo, years ago. There was nothing nificant about his youth; he was not s son of a chief, a sub-chief, noted cerer or any other VIP. Senior thers of the Mission recall that whilst !y have had more brilliant pupils, none ild equal the youthful To Paivu in his ilication to work and determination to iceed. father Paivu was a student at the ssion Catechists’ School in 1926. By 2 he was back in his own village of [>o, which is a few miles from Kokopo, rking there as a Catechist whilst dying Latin privately under Father Jen. Then he moved on to the tchers School at Kinigunan, which oined Vunapope Mission, and there ■ing 1935 and 1936 he studied Mathetlcs, History, English and Physics. !ame the war, and the Minor Seminary h all other buildings at Vunapope, was ed to the ground. The Missionaries h their Bishop were imprisoned by the tanese, then removed to the combative safety of the Ramali Valley ere they eked out an existence until sased at the end of the war. During Japanese occupation, To Paivu rened to his village of Tapo and there Fed in his former capacity as Catechist, ii 1947, still with the determination to ch the goal of the Priesthood, To vu made application to join the Major ainary which had begun to function Torokina on Bougainville, in the cese of Bishop Wade. ly this time To Paivu was not alone his ambition. A younger man, whose eer had not been so checkered and » had the advantage of continuing his andary studies with the missionaries ing the years of internment in Ramali, > now ready to proceed with him.

Is new student was To Bata of lagunan. he course proper of major studies for priesthood comprises two years of losophy, with the attached subjects of ic. Psychology and Sociology, and with anced lectures in English and Latin.

The course of Philosophy is followed by four years in Theology, which covers the field of Moral, Dogmatic and Pastoral theology, Sacred Scripture, Canon Law, Liturgy and History. Much of these studies and many of the lectures are followed in Latin, the universal tongue of the Catholic priesthood.

In November came the end of all this mental striving for these studentseminarians. > Judged sufficiently knowledgeable by the Diocesan Board of Examiners, Fathers Paivu and Bata were ordained to the Priesthood of the Catholic Church, November 15, 1953. Monsignor Vesters, the retired Bishop of Rabaul, who first began the work of the Seminary and who was himself celegrating the Golden Jubilee of his own ordination, was the ordaining Prelate at Vuvu, and performed the ceremony that made George To Bata a priest.

At Vunapope, the headquarters of the Mission, Bishop L. raised the veteran Scharmach, MSC, DD, student To Paivu to the priesthood.

Immense crowds of natives, Europeans and Chinese attended both ceremonies crowds not measured by the thousand but by the hectare. It was the triumphal ending of a long marathon for two brown, barefoot boys. tl A new Supervisor of Technical Services for the Fiji Education Department has been appointed to succeed Mr. R. A. Derrick who retired from the post last year. He is Mr. Archibald Mac Neill who is at present the Organiser of Technical Education on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Mr. Mac- Neill, who is 51 years of age, has been a teacher of educational handwork and technical subjects since 1924. He is expected to assume duty in the Colony in about April, Bishop Vesters ordains the Rev. Fr.

G. Bata of Malagunan. 155 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1954

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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, £9l; Smoked, £9O.

FIJI.—At Suva and Levuka, 1953: Plantation grade (60 points and over) £F66/5/6 per ton; FMs (45-57 V 2 points) £F66; other grades £F64/15/- - £F62/15/-.

W. SAMOA.—MOP 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.

COCOA.—lslands prices are usually oased on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa i. quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on January 7 was £Stg.3Bs (£A4BI/5/- approx.) c.i.f., ton, Cont. ports.

N.G.— £370 approx, per ton, in store, Sydney.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in January quoted Samoan cocoa at £Stg.3so ( £ A437/10/- approx.) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samean currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—P.-N.G. remains firm at 5/per lb. Price is expected to ease owing to overseas competition now that coffee is no longer a restricted import into Australia.

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to Prance. Recent quotation was 398 Metrop. francs per kilo (£ASI3 approx, per long ton).

RUBBER.—This market weakened over the past month. Papua-New Guinea, —price based on Singapore figure which fluctuates from day to day. Quotation on January 9 was 27V 4 d Aust. lb.

Singapore rate January 9 No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 56%c. lb. c.i.f. (approx. 24%d Aust. lb.).

V A N I L L A BEANS.—Sydney nominal quotations (by Victor Karp. Tulk & Co.): Tahiti.—Sydney agents unable to quote.

Entire crop being sent to France at present.

RlCE.—Price for 1954. Papua - N.G.— Dry brown £9O per ton Dressed £96 per ton. Other Pacific Is., except NZ dependencies, £96 per ton.

Pc-ARL SHmLL.—Prices fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1954; AA/A/B grades, 85c lb. (£ AB5O approx, per long ton); C, 80c lb. (£ ABOO l . D, 55c lb. (£ASSO); E, 40c lb. (£ A 40 0 1; EE, 30c lb. (£A3OO) all c.i.f., New York. No change from last season. Manihiki blacklip.—American market firm at 35-37 cents U.S. per lb., f.0.b., Rarotonga; producers currently re ceive 1/9 lb. Aust. (approx. £AI96 lon ton). Tuamotu blacklip.—£Asoo fob New York; divers receive 47 Pac. fram per kilo. (£A336 per long ton) on bead; TROCHUS SHELL.— Market brisk 1 Sydney at present. NG, £2BO per tc ex-wharf less rejects, with mark* resistance due to very high price. Agem feel a sudden fall is imminent. Fiji, £H per ton f.0.b., Suva.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Little intere; in Sydney lately. NG., £2lO per ton e: wharf, less rejects. NH., £205 per tc f.e.b. BSI, No. 1 grade £l7O-£lBO, N 1 2 £BO per ton, both ex-wharf.

PEANUTS.—P.N.G.: Market still ven depressed. Improvement expected shortl owing to scarcity of nuts in Sydne until April. Price on January 11 wa 1/3 per lb.

London Prices

LONDON, November 26.

Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, ton:- New Hebrides . .. 92,000 Metrop. frano (approx. £ AllB/14/- Tahiti 93,000 Metrop. frano (approx. £ Al2O FM Straits, Nov.-Dec £Stg.B (approx. £ Alll/5/- Philippines, bulk US$24 (approx. £ AlOB/10/- Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton:— FM Straits, 3Vz% drums .. .. £Stg.l2 (approx. £ AI6S Ceylon, bulk, Dec.-Jan £Stg.l3E (approx. £ A163/15/- Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f.. North Cora tinental Ports:— Accra, Jan.-March .. .. £Stg.l4/17A {£ A297/10/- per long ton: ISLANDS MINING SHARE:

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANIi BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji oasis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Londom B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £10) NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF N 2 Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samos B £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoa* London, basis £lOO London: H £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NS basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-' Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £lll S. £llO.

Papua-Ng.—Commonwealth Bani

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng.

Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches: P( c Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai; agency: Wau) and ANZ BANI (Port Moresby) quote exchange ratf Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO.

BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (branch at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Ana tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FK. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francio most valuable of the three franc groupi in French Union, are used in New Gala donla, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oceania) FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Esoompte de Paris) in Sydney quote; (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 175* Pac. fr to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $.

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JANUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

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General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Evert Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Heod Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

In London: Telephone: BW 4421.

W. R. Corpenter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13

Associated Companies Throughout

IN NEW GUINEA: N » W l 9 uinea Company Limited, Kabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

IN PAPUA: Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

Postal Address: G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney.

Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

THE PACIFIC: IN FIJI: W. R. Carpenter Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.

Pacific Islands Monthiv

muNTHLY JANUARY, 1954