Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXV, No. 1 ( Aug. 1, 1954)
1954-08-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS MOnthly August, 1954 Vol. XXV. No. 1. toblished 1930.

T curly-headed village miss, of the Kuni area in the Central X District of Papua, with her pixy face, is perhaps not typical Avlll/* fuzzy-haired natives of Papua-New Guinea—but she U>maras an study.

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Airways Limited

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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

LI STOVES s

Made In England

These two Coleman Stoves are of the one burner kerosene type and are available in both silent and roarer models. Their dimensions are height 8i inches, diameter inches, approximate weight 2| lb. Both models have the same outstanding features.

Model No. 532 E

Silent Type

1. Full-Size Fount with Filler Plug of wing type. 2. Air release on side of Filler Plug. 3. Heavy Brass pressure-tested Tanks. 4. Fount and Burner firmly soldered together. 5. European-type pump. 6. Grate and Grate Supports detachable to reduce shipping space. 7. Spare parts interchangeable with similar European Stoves. Representatives for the Pacific Islands: Model No. 531 E

Roarer Type

54a PITT STREET SYDNEY

Robert Gillespie P T Jl T “

PEARCE & CO. LTD.

SUVA

For Fiji Islands

1 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Cord and Cutty Hunk Lines.

Fishing Nets and Prawn Nets. Rods, Reels, Hooks, Baskets, etc. Sea Toys and Rubber Water Playballs.

Table Tennis and Shuttlecocks. Dart Boards and.

Darts. Rifles, Guns, and Air\ Rifles. Rugby and Soccer Footballs. Cricket Bats and Balls. Tennis Rackets. Golf Clubs and Accessories.

Everything For The Sportsman

The Graeme Dolphin

THE BEST VALUE IN LIGHT GAME,

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This reel incorporates anti-backlash, free spool, star drag and heavy gearing ratio. Suitable for light game anglers as well as rock and beach enthusiasts.

Constructed of heavy brass highly chromed, the spool is fully guaranteed and is made of duralium anodised to prevent corrosion The reel is not too large, but has a line capacity equal to any reel manufactured in Australia. • Greater line capacity — 400 yd. 18 lb., 320 yd., 24 lb. • Complete with Dial Regulator. Anti-Backlash and harness fittings.

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BANKERS: BANK OF N.S.W., DRUMMOYNE. 2 AUGUST, 1 9 5 4 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1954-55.

ORION ORONSAY ORCADES ORSOVA Orion 1954 1954 1954/5 1955 1955 SYDNEY depart 17 Sep. 19 Nov. 17 Dec. 28 Jan. 25 Mar.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 21 Sep. 22 Nov. 20 Dec. 31 Jan. 29 Mar.

SUVA arr/dep 25 Sep. 25 Nov. 23 Dec. 3 Feb. 2 Apl.

HONOLULU arr/dep 1 Oct. 30 Nov. 28 Dec. 8 Feb. 8 Apl.

VANCOUVER arrive 7 Oct. 6 Dec. 3 Jan. 14 Feb. 14 Apl. depart 8 Oct. 7 Dec. 4 Jan. 15 Feb. 15 Apl.

SAN FRANCISCO arr 11 Oct. 9 Dec. 6 Jan. 17 Feb. 18 Apl. depart 12 Oct. 10 Dec. 7 Jan. 18 Feb. 19 Apl.

HONOLULU arr/dep 17 Oct. 14 Dec. 11 Jan. 22 Feb. 24 Apl.

SUVA arr/dep 25 Oct. 21 Dec. 18 Jan. 1 Mar. 2 May AUCKLAND arr/dep 28 Oct. 24 Dec. 21 Jan. 4 Mar. 5 May SYDNEY arrive 1 Nov. 27 Dec. 24 Jan. 7 Mar. 0 May <c

London - Suva

■O\P- ECT •s££. \V via C PANAMA For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To: BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD. 138 LEADENHALL ST., LONDON, E.C.3.

Burns Phllp (South Sea)

CO. LTD.,

Suva, Fiji

New Guinea Australia Line Regular Service from MELBOURNE, SYDNEY AND BRISBANE TO PORT MORESBY,

Samara), Lae, Madang, Kavieng, And Rabaul

“Soochow” “Shansi”

“SINKIANG”

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

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

6 Bridge St., Sydney

Telephones: BW 2731 BU 6313 (Freight only) Cable Address: “YUHL”

Shipping Time-Tables S There now are comparatively few shipping lines running on regular time-tables in the Pacific Islands. The following timetables are only approximately correct— they are subject to much alteration at short notice:— Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea HMV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about «verv six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby- Samarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul gamarai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney.

K Next sailing about September 14. ■MV Malekula sails from Sydney for gamarai. Rabaul, Kavieng. Manus, Wewak.

Klexishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai and xet urn to Sydney. Next sailing about August 31. ■ Details from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney. ■ MV’s Soochow, Shansi and Sinkiang, each 3,000 tons, provide regular service between Sydney and Papua-New Guinea ports: From July 19, Sinkiang will provide a fast service Sydney - Brisbane - Port Moresby and return by same route. tgoochow and Shansi will continue Sydney- Brisbane - Moresby - Samarai - Lae - T Madang - Kavieng - Rabaul and return, with calls at Melbourne as required. ■ Next Sydney sailing, Shansi: Aug. 26.

I Next Sydney sailing, Soochow. Sept. 14. ft Next Sydney sailing, Sinkiang: Aug. 11, iSept. 2.

E Details from New Guinea Australia'Line ifG. S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge ■St., Sydney.

Australia-New Zealand-Canada-USA 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

Regular Sailings Between New Zealand

And Island Ports

M.V. "VASU"

FAST TRANS-TASMAN SERVICES-Refrigerated and general cargo M.V. "VITI" S.S. "MADONNA"

Tonnage available for charter AGENTS FOR: ottft Lauro Line (Passengers and cargo to U.K. and Continent.) Edinburgh Assurance Company Ltd.

ISLAND AGENTS: SUVA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

APIA: A. MacDonald & Co. Ltd.

NUKUALOPA/VAVAU: Bums Phllp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

NIUE: Robert Rex.

Also represented throughout Australasia.

Tasman Steamship Stevedoring And Agency

Company, Limited

P.O. Box 2242, Auckland.

Telegraphic address: "TASVITI”

Pacific Islands Transport Line

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

Tahiti Samoa Fiji New Caledonia

New Hebrides

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, LTD.

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

PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti. APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francals des Nouvelles Hebrides.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga N^ O< ?L7 eS r 1S Tofua and Matua, from New Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukualofa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is.. Pago Am ® n . can ,S amoa '. Apia (Western Samoa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any ab °AT P° rts at approx, five weeks LvttelSn S tUa T Calls at Wellington and Zl, Lautoka (Fiji) and sup- Tof , ua ’ s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

A,w£ f 1 Ua i *} ext v °yages scheduled to leave Auckland August 31 and September 28 Matua will leave Auckland August 25.

N. Zealand-Cook Is. iMrJ he J* Z Gove mment’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckm ,r h , for Rarot °hga and other Islands in the Lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territones m Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd., which Company acts as Agents 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 Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports-BSI ports- Bougainville-Rabaul-Samarai-Sydney.

Sailing from Sydney about Sept. 17.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahifl Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Li, coming from Marseilles, via West Ino a ? d _ Panama - call about every six we: f Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noun and Sydney, and return by same rou Details from Messageries Maritim Luxurious new liners Caledonien a Tahitien recently added to this servi Sailing dates:— From Sydney, Northbound— Caledonii November 23, April 12; Tahitien: Aug; 19, January 7, mid-May.

From Papeete, southbound — Tahiti.: nrtT I It’ end April: Caledonii October 31, March 20.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Mesii genes Maritimes) and Neo Hebrides ) c. Sleigh, Ltd.) maintain fairly regui service between Noumea and Sydney.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifi» Ports-Sydney A service by Shaw Savill, with their n«, all-passenger liner Southern Cross w) commence from the UK early in 19|( Calls on maiden voyage will be made West Indies ports. Panama. Papee (Tahiti), Suva, Auckland. Sydney, Au tralian ports, South African ports, Canai Islands, UK.

Four round trips per year will be mai and direction of service will alternaE (i.e. the second voyage from UK will j South Africa about); about 1,200 one-clai passengers will be carried. Single, tw, berth and multi-berth cabins are avai able. Fares Sydney-UK are from £1 Stg.; Suva-UK, via Panama, from £K.

Stg.; via the Cape, from £132 Stg Papeete-UK, via Panama, from £ l( Stg.; via Cape, £151 Stg.

Tentative sailing dates for maiden voyage Papeete, April 22-23, 1955.

Suva, April 28, 1955.

Auckland, May 2-3, 1955.

Sydney, May 6-9, 1955.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, eb Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle. carr:' ing cargo and passengers, maintains regular service between North America ports and French Oceania, Samoa, Fix New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Coi poration Ltd., 432 California St., Saj Francisco, U.S.A.

Airways Time-Table:

Trans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

W'ith Strato Clippers, using- Sleeperettes and Berths* Tues. and Fri.—Sydney - Nadi (Fiji) Canton Is - Honolulu - S. Francisco Seattle - Portland.

Tues. and Sat. —Return via same route t Tues. and Fri.—Auckland - Nadi <Fiji)( t Thurs. and Mon.—Nadi (Fiji) - Auckland; t Connecting with Strato Clipper at Nadii

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service)* NORTHWARDS Sat. and Wed.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver — with every alternate Wednesday service (August 4, 18, etc.) terminating at San Francisco. 4 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Cordon Vale

Day-Old Clucks

From Blood Tested Stock: RHODE ISLAND REDS—AUSTRALORPS—WHITE LEGHORNS.

BOXES OF 50: Pullets, £7/15/-; Mixed (Pullets & Cockerels), £4/5/-; Cockerels, £ 3/5/-. Air freight extra.

Special hatchings of Chickens for the Islands are arranged to time with plane departures to ensure the shortest time from Incubator to Customer. All consignments accompanied by Government Health Certificate.

For further particulars and special prices for larger orders, write or cable:

Gordon Vale Stud Farm & Hatchery

Epping Road, North Ryde, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

Phone- Ryde 30. BANKERS. —Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, Epping, N.S.W.

WIDE WORLD RJ2 20 H.P.

Marine Diesel Engine with red. gear.

Enquiries Two well proven Island tested units.

Rtr4/Di 30 H.P. Marine Diesel Engine

W m n < - Excellent service and spares facilities available.

Installation equipment available to owner’s requirements.

STUART Engines, Petrol & Diesel, H to 9 H.P.

THORNYCROFT (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. B °* 2622 Gpo Telephone: FF4224. 4 Cables “Thornmotor,” Sydney.

Sydney SOUTHWARDS Mon, and alt. Fri.—Vancouver - San Francisco - Honolulu - Canton Is. - Nadi 1 (Fiji)-Sydney. Second alt. Fri. (Aug. c 6, 20, etc.) service commences at San ■ Francisco thence same route to Sydney.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

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

Every Friday return from Vancouver by same route.

W * Tourist Class Services are available on these planes at 20 per cent, less normal fares.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea ■ Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (Skymasters) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.15 pm Jißrisbane, 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Fri., Sun.) Moresby, 7.30 am Lae, 8.45 am Connecting services north of Lae by D C. 3 to Bulolo and Wau on Wednesdays.

Sundays and alt. Wednesdays (Aug. 4, 18, etc.) (Sandringhams) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm ■Brisbane, 12.20 am Cairns, 6.35 am I (Mon. and Alt. Thur.) ■Cairns, 8.05 am Moresby, 11.55 am (Night stop) ■Moresby,* 8.30 am Samarai, 10.30 am wTue.) Samarai, 11.00 am Esa’ala, 11.40 am (Alt. weeks) Esa’ala, 11.55 am Rabaul, 2.55 pm The alt. Wednesday Sandringham from Sydney terminates at Port Moresby. • The Sunday Sandringham from Sydney arrives Moresby Monday and after a night stop then goes on to Rabaul via Samarai, etc., on Tuesday.

Southw/ Rds

Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.25 am Moresby, 11.40 am Moresby, 12.40 pm Brisbane, 7.15 pm Brisbane, 8.45 pm Sydney, 11.30 pm Connecting services from Wau by Drover.

Arrives Lae 9.30 am Saturday. 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 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 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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QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated 1886 in Australia).

Assets Exceed £7,000,000 Head Office;

Queensland Insurance

BUILDING, 80-83 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

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

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

VlLA.—Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

Comptoirs Francais Des Nouvelles Hebrides.

NOUMEA.—L. &. W. Johnston.

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

Resident officer at Lae, B. Bembrlck.

Port Moresby—Samarai—Lae

—MADANG—KAVIENG—RABALL.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd, PAGO PAGO Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

O. H. C. Reid & Co.

Other South Sea Islands

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

% I, l! s h. m ii 4 .* This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva’s main business quarter :: Modern accommodation provides comtori in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

Telephone: 80. VINCE COSTELLO. Proprietor.

Thursdays (Sandringham) Depart; Arrive: Rabaul, 5.30 am Samarai, 8.45 am gamarai, 9.15 am Moresby, 11.15 am Kdoresby, 12.15 pm Cairns, 3.40 pm (Night stop) Hcairns. 8.30 am Brisbane, 2.15 pm B (Fri.) 3.45 pm Sydney, 7.05 pm Alt. Saturdays (Ang. 7, 21, etc.) (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive: ■Moresby, 6 am Cairns, 9.25 am ■Cairns, 10.55 am Brisbane, 4.40 pm ■Brisbane. 6.10 pm Sydney, 9.30 pm 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas H.AE—HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) ■Alternate Wednesdays (Aug. 11, 25, etc.) ■Departs Lae 10.30 am, calls at Madang ! and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia I’ 3.0 pm. Every alt. Thursday (Aug. 12, I 26, etc.), depart Hollandia at 9 am, I and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, I arrives Lae at 2.50 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

■ Every Wednesday. ■ Dep. Lae, 10.45 am: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 5.45 pm. ■Returns Saturdays (dep. 8 ami. via f Kavieng and Rabaul; optional call at I Finschhafen: arr. Lae, 2.45 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Sandringham) ■ Via Yule Is, Kerema, Wana (optional).

Kikori, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate Friday, returning same day (July 9, [ 23. Aug. 6, 20, Sept. 3, 17, etc.).

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

(Sandringham) |Alt. Wed. —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-Mbewe Harbour - Talasea - Rabaul July 7, 21.

Aug. 4. 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc.

I N.B.—The direction of operation changes ■with each service, i.e., each alternate ■service operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe Harbour-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

New Britain-Bougainville

(Sandringham) [Alt. Wed. —Rabaul - -Buka - Kieta - Buin —July 14, 18, Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8, 22. etc. [Alt. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Buka- Rabaul.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) |Mon., Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang arr. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., Kavieng, Rabaul arr. 3.35 pm.

I Tue. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am direct Madang, arr. 11.00 am, Wewak, Madang, Lae arr. 4.50 pm.

Central Highlands

(DCS) I Fridays.—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabag, calling at 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) I Dep. Lae.—Tues. 3 pm.—Mon. & Sat. 7.30 am.

I Dep. Wau. —Tues. 4.30 pm—Mon, 9.00 am —Wed. 12.35 pm. Direct to Lae in 30 minutes.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

I Fridays.—Depart Madang 825 am, arrive Goroka 9.00 am, returning same day; depart Goroka 9.30 am, arrive Madang 10.5 am.

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) f Fridays—Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen 1.0 pm, arrive Rabaul 3.10 pm.

Saturdays—Depart Rabaul 9.0 am, Madang 12.25 pm, arrive Lae 1.30 pm.

Services By Mandated Airlines

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

Scheduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka.

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul remaining overnight.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 am for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Thurs.; Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.; Depart Lae at 7 am for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 8 am for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Lae. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

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

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Sorong, Merauke and Tannah Merah. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Mon. (Aug. 16, 23, 30, Sept. 13, 20. 27, etc.), Lae (dep. 6 ami Finschhafen Rabaul Buka Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.30 pm i.

Tue. (Aug. 17. 24, 31, Sept 14, 21, 28, etc.i. Honiara (dep. 7 ami Yandina —Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Finschhafen Lae (arriving 3.30 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft depart Saigon 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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A 46 PIM August 16 for Darwin - Brisbane Noumea and return.

Australian agents: Messageries Maritim' 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Flying-boat Service, wii Sandringhams Eight services per month, return san day. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alternate Thursdays (August 12, 26, Sej 9. 23. etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly Depart: Arrive: Syd., Wed. 8.30 pm Brisbane, 1.50 p Bris., Thu. 1.20 am Noumea, 8.00 ai Noumea, 9.30 am Vila, 12.05 p Vila, 1,20 pm Santo, 2.35 p „ (Night stop) Santo, Fn. 5.45 am Vila, 7.00 aj Vila. 7.30 am Noumea, 10.10 ai Noumea, 1.00 pm* Sydney, 8.40 pi * Service allows connection, on alternai Fridays, with Noumea-Suva service—s< below. 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Fortnightly Depart: Arrive: Noumea. 11.10 am Suva, 540 pi Alt. Fri.* (Night stop) Suva, 6.30 am Alt. Noumea, 11 00 a' Sat.f * Alt. Fri. Aug. 13. 27, etc. f Alt. Sat Aug. 14, 28, etc. (Service allows connection at Noume 1 with Sydney-New Hebrides Service—se; above.) 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

By NZ National Airways, with DOS’s Single service each Sunday and retur: with double service alt. Sundays at follows: 2 services June 20, July 4 18, etc., but double services each Sun: day from Sept. 30 to Feb. 27, 1955. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with DC6 Aircraft; Tue., Thur.. Fri.: Dep. Sydney 9.00 am: arr. Auckland 4.15 pm. Sun. only* Dep Sydney 12.30 am, arr. Auckland 7.4;, am. Mon., Thu., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Auck: land 11.00 am, arr. Sydney 2.45 pmr 13. Sydney-Christchurch Tasman E. Airways, with DC6’s Dep. Sydney 12.30 am and arr. Christ-; church 7.40 am Tuesday and Saturday; Dep. Christchurch 11.00 am, arr. Sydnev 2.40 pm Wednesday and Saturday. 14. Melbourne-Christchurchr Tasman E. Airways, with DC6’s Tues.—Dep. Melb., midnight; arr. Ch’ch.. 8 am next day.

Tues.—Dep. Ch’ch., 10 am; arr. Melb., 2.3(i! pm. 8 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Single Return No.

Moresby . £46 11 0 £83 16 0 2, 2a Lae .... 55 7 0 99 13 0 2. 3 Rabaul . . 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 Honiara, BSI 80 7 0 144 13 0 5 Vila, N.

Hebrides 51 9 0 92 13 0 9 Noumea.

NC . .. 43 3 0 77 14 0 10. 9. 6 Norfolk Is. 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 L. Howe . 12 15 0 25 10 0 7 Nadi (Fijii . 73 5 0 131 17 0 1 Suva (Fiji) 70 12 0 127 2 0 10 Auckland 47 5 0 85 1 0 12 Wellington . .. 47 5 0 85 1 0 13 Christch. (from Melb.) . 52 18 0 95 5 0 Honolulu 243 6 0 431 19 0 1 S. Fran’co 301 7 0 542 9 0 1 Vancouver 301 7 0 542 9 0 1 Papeete (via Suva direct) . 136 8 0 245 11 6 18

Prom Brisbane

Noumea 36 5 TO; 0 67 5 0 6 FROM AUCKLAND (NZ Currency) TO: Single Return Table No.

Norf. Is. . 18 0 0 32 8 0 11 Fiji . . ■ 39 7 0 70 17 0 1. 15. 18 Samoa , . 47 2 0 84 16 0 16 Aitutaki . 67 11 0 121 12 0 18 Papeete . 82 10 0 148 10 0 18 STAMPS And All Philatelic Requirements STAMPS. —British Empire and Foreign—Mint and Used—Current and Obsolete. Large stocks. Competitive prices.

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A. H. GRUNDALL, Box 58, Prahran, Victoria. Aust, 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with DC6’s iDep Auckland every Wed. and Sat. ■ Return to Auckland every Wed. and Sun. pep Auckland: Wed. 10.15 am; Sat. 2.00 I pm. Arr. Nadi Wed. 3.30 pm; Sat.

B 7.15 pm. iDep Nadi: Wed. 5.00 pm; Sun. 2.00 pm. | Arr. Auckland; Wed. 10.25 pm; Sun.

I 7.25 pm. 16. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

V- Service does not run in Winter months. 17. Fiji-Tahiti I Tasman E. Airways Ltd., with Solents. ■ Services will depart Suva for Apia, lAitutaki, Papeete and return fortnightly [or more frequently if required. tDep. Suva (Mon.l 9.00 am, cross Inter- | national Date Line; arr. Apia (Sun.) [ 1.55 pm; dep. Apia (Mon.) 2.00 am; I arr. Aitutaki 7.30 am; dep. Aitutafci [ 8.30 am; arr. Papeete 1.00 pm. Re- [ turn flight dep. Papeete 7.30 am on [ Thursdays. [Next flights, northbound, August 16, 30, F etc. (Next flights, southbound, August 19, Sept, f 2. etc. 18. Fiji-Tonga Tasman E. Airways with Solents Dep. Suva July 30.

Depart Arrive (Suva, 6.30 am Nukualofa, 9.50 am (Nukualofa, 2.45 pm Suva, 4.35 pm 19. Micronesia I Civilian services, based on Guam, using :2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run re- [gularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshals) and Saipan (Marianas). Details from iTrans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with 3-engined Drovers Suva-Nadi: 3 flights on Wed., Thur. 2 flights on Mon., Fri., Sat., Sun. 1 flight on Tues.

Nadi-Suva: 3 flights on Wed. 2 flights on Mon., Thur., Fri., Sat and Sun. 1 flight on Tues. (Suva - Taveuni - Labasa - Savusavu - Taveuni-Suva: Tues., Fri.

Suva - Nadi - Labasa - Suva: —Thur.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva;—Wed., Sat.

Suva - Labasa - Suva:—Tues., Thur.

Suva - Labasa:—Saturday Labasa - Nadi - Suva:—Sunday.

Suva - Taveuni - Suva:—Wed.

Suva - Savusavu - Suva: —Saturday.

Approximate Airways Fares The following figures are not guaranteed accurate, but they are approximately correct. Details should be obtained from the Air Company named in the Table.

Unless otherwise indicated, figures are in Australian currency. (Tourist class accommodation available on trans-Paciflc services at 20 per cent, less).

FROM SYDNEY TO— Table Tonga is hoping to develop the export of mats to American markets.

The Premier, Prince Tungi, will take about 430 samples, each about 12 ft by 10 ft, to Honolulu in September and try to complete negotiations with American buyers. First of the samples were received in Nukualofa on July 15 from Haapai, centre of the Tongan mat-weaving industry.

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A & R. Ltd. . 27 A & N.Z. Bank 71 f A.M.L. & F. . .86 [Achun Co. . 45, 133 [ Akta-Vite ... 50 [Aluminium Ltd. 88 [Armstrong & [ Springhall . 118 [Arnett, Wm. .52 [Aspaxadrene . 9 [Aspro 65 [Assoc. Tr. Jnls. 29 |A/asian. Sales . 33 Baker, W. Jno. 73 Bank of NSW . 121 Bank of NZ . . 109 Barker College . 41 Barnes Milling . 32 Bethell, Gwyn . 3 Bieri, 0., Ltd. . 45 Blaxland-Rae . 110 Blundell Spence 40 8.0.A.C. 8 Borthwicks Ltd. 138 Braybon Bros. 129 Breckwoldt, W. 70 Breden, W. S. . 109 Breekveldt, G. . 99 Bristol-Myers . 28 Brunton & Co. 131 Bunge Pty. . . 149 Bunting, A. H. . 90 B. 31, 74, 85, 112 Burroughs Ltd. . 64 Caine’s Studios 144 Charmosan . . 156 C. of E. Schools 26 Clemens Pty. . 43 Classified . . • 158 Cole, Ed. . . • 141 Colgate 75, 125, 136 Colonial Meat 132 Colyer Watson . 72 Cooke Bros. . . 93 Crammond Co. . 92 Cystex 89 Dangar, G. &M. 10 Darling, J. Ltd. 42 Dettol .... 137 Donald Ltd. . 58 Douglass, W. C. 123 Doull & Co. . 50 Dunlop Rubber . 38 Electrolux . . 122 Erikson Pty. Ltd. 47 Erskine Stamps 9 Et. Donald ... 94 Eveready ... 99 Everyday Co. . 153 Farrer. Wm. . . 29 Ferrier & Dickinson Ltd. . . 105 Ford Sherington 103 Fraser, D. & Co. 46 Frigate Rum 65 Gamble’s Chicks 24 Garrett, D. M. 160 Garrick Hotel 7 Gilbey, W. & A. 126 Gillespie Bros. . 89 Gillespie, R. 1, 37, 57, 107, 117, 157 Gillette, Ltd. . 145 Goodall & Co. . 73 Gordon’s Gin . 62 Gordon Vale . . 5 Grahame Books 66 G. (Suva) . 12 Grove Ltd. 30, 120 Handi Works 55, 91 Harvey Trinder 108 Halvorsen, B. . 101 Halvorsen Sons 150 Hardman & Hall 110 Hart’s Agencies 87 Hawleys Ltd. . 116 Heinz & Co. . . 87 H. & R. ... 23 Hellaby Ltd. . 115 Hercules Co. . . 67 Holbrooks Ltd. 125 Holman Bros. . 74 Hutchison & Co. 30 Hygeia Co. . . 69 Intertrade Co. . 34 Is. Industries . 95 Is. Transport . 102 Jackson, B. W. 119 Johnson’s Wax 124 Jute (Exporti Co. 24 Kasper Refrig. . 59 Kennedy, Capt. 106 Kerr Bros. . . 114 Kerry, M. Pty. . 4?

Ketch for Sale 113 King’s Saddlery 154 Kiwi Polish . . 141 Kopsen & Co. . 100 Lillis & Co. . . 68 Macintyre, T. . 113 Macßobertson . 128 Marfleet ... 102 Mcllrath’s Ltd. 131 Mendaco . . . . 61 Millers Ltd. . . 126 M. H. Ltd. . 22, 127 Morgan Vernex 135 Mungo Scott . 139 N. & R. . 39. 106 Needham & Co. 53 NG Aust. Line . 3 Nile Products . 48 Nirex 60 Nixoderm ... 37 NZNAC .... 6 O’Doherty, A. 2 P. I. Line ... 4 Papuan Prints . 53 Partnership . . 105 Penfold. W. C. 144 Premier Watches 11 Presha Eng. . . 57 Qld. Insurance . 7 Qld. Milling . . 58 Quirk’s Co. . . 44 Ransomes Co. . 151 Reckitt’s Blue . 151 Reed, W. E. 41, 103 Refrig. Inst. Co. 98 Riverstone Co. . 36 Rohu. Sil . . . 69 Rolleiflex ... 49 Seppelt & Sons 96 Seward Ltd. . 147 Shaw Savill . . 76 Shell Co. . . . 51 Smith, Rees . . 61 S.M.P. Co. . . . 94 Spartan Co. 62, 130 Spruso Co. ... 26 S.T.C. Ltd. . . 66 Stewarts-Lloyds 90 Sthn. Fac. Ins. 97 Sullivan Ltd. . 54 Suva Motors . 134 Tait, W. S. . . 143 Tasman Ship Co. 4 Tattersall’s Pty. 159 Taylor & Co. . 49 Thornycroft Co. 5 Tilley Lamps . 11l Tillock & Co. . 142 Tongan Photos 149 Tooheys Ltd. . 148 Tooth & Co. . 114 Turners Supply 42 Tusculum ... 98 Tyneside Eng. . 35 Typewriter Eff. 34 United Radio . 93 Vacuum Oil Co. 152 Valiant Rum . . 46 Ventura . . 97, 160 Vi-Stim .... 147 Vincents APC . 25 Wakefield’s . . 146 Warnock Bros. . 54 Westfield Meats 56 Whitfield Const. 140 Wills, Ltd. . . 104 Wise Bros. . . 120 Wright & Co. . 101 Wrigley’s . . . 119 Wunderlich Co. 63 Yorkshire Ins. 143 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

at stay % * V I**“* , . *i B'®' ce a . b e**tif? u *ds „ Uate d j n % c tic % n . b .^boZ rloo^g is f/jl tbe r* o/ *o tel tb eB^s t^y Motive' B *Si BUed for *ro ters Se^/ Ce e w OQ3 40/ sL trai *ed r at ' ** A <**£%*■ Qii n ** S'" «« w IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial: The Reddish-Yellow Blaze on Northern Horizon .. 13 Commentary 14 Britain Avoids the Indian Problem 15 Zanzibar Assassin to Help Fiji’s Rhino Beetle War 16 Suva-Sydney Air Service Remains 16 Nominations for P-NG Legco Elections 16 The Man Who Stole Everybody’s Thunder and Entered “Shangri-La” 17 Good Crown Lands Available in Papua 17 World Copra Market Very Dull 18 Do you Remember?—From PIM of 20 Years Ago 18 New Governor for New Caledonia 19 Fiji’s New Broadcasting Commission 19 Editors’ Mailbag 20 Hawaii-Tahiti Airlink Continued Delay 21 Commercial Kenaf Awaits Govt.

“Go” Signal 21 Back to Your Water Carts, and Tanks, Rabaul 24 Prospects of Pacific Trade with East 25 Territories Talk-Talk 26 Mercy Plea for Telefomin Murderers 32 More Dollars for Western Samoa 33 Filaria Beaten—Remarkable New „ Dr ug 35 Beer and Bananas Short in Western Samoa 39 New Airstrip for Dutch New Guinea 42 More Fact-Finding Visitors to the Cooks 43 No MM Calls at Auckland .... 51 Peanuts—New Enemy of Dairy Farmers 54 Queen Competition Will Help Buy the Yagona 57 Old-Time Natives Dealt Dramatically With Over- Population 59 The O’Keefe Story 62 Gulf Crayfish Project Is On Again 63 Native First-Aid Training in P-NG 66 Notes Made Here and There In the Cook Islands 67 High Cocoa Prices Stimulate Search for Substitutes .. .. 73 MAGAZINE SECTION; Topicalities, 77; All Roads Lead to Goroka, 80; Umbu’una, 82; This Month’s New Reading, 83 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 93 Can Pidgin Be Used For Instruction In New Guinea? .. 95 News of the Smallships .. .. 99 The ALP Speaks On New Guinea .215 Fiji’s Football Post-Mortem .. 1 Current News Items From Our Correspondents In Papua-New Guinea 2 Japs’ Giant Base At Truk Now a Place Of Ghosts i New Guinea Planters’ Interest In Copra Machines i N ° Free Regulations In P-NG OBITUARY. J. D. Brown; John Trotter; B. L. Taylor; Mrs.

Vera M. James; T. Sanerive Mrs. Viotti Miller; J. c. M Scott; The Rev. H p Schlencker; Mrs. Alma Smith; Mrs. Katie Young; William Devo; Richard Jeffers; Geoffrey Ward Gelling; The Rev Bro. Clemens; Lord Midiae! Fitzroy; Eugene Gallett; Roger Smith, Alfred E - Baker 239-R P-NG Public Servants Act On 5-Days Week 2< 16,000 Indonesian Exiles In Holland Sensation Made Of 1 700 “Tonks” In New Hebrides 1£ Vale, T. L. Sefton! lg British Want To Know About Pacific Islands 25 NG Women’s Club Enters Its Teens Fiji Is Looking For More Revenue 25 Commercial, Markets, Etc. .. .ig 12

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The Reddish-Yellow Blaze On Our Northwest Horizon FRANCE’S decision to surrender to the Communists the Tonkin area of Indo-China (the world’s richest rice-growing area) [has startled a few people in the South Pacific. One wonders why.

It is a logical step in the chain of events which began in 1946 when Russia refused to disarm, and built the Iron Curtain across Europe. A challenge to the power of the United States in the Pacific clearly is part of the Muscovite conspiracy for the Communist enslavement of the world. t One must acknowledge the diabolical cleverness of the Moscow gang, and its extraordinary success, up to date. The Western Powers disarmed in 1946-7; then, finding the Reds not following suit, they began to re-arm in a politicoeconomic somersault which since has gravely strained their already war-torn economy; this, in turn, has created endless social unrest — unrest which might be dealt with by a Red dictatorship, but which ■cannot be controlled under the democratic system; and all this has been calculated and foreseen by the Reds, as part of their plan to increasingly weaken the Western bloc by creating internal discontent.

The Westerners’ plan to enforce International security and peace through the UNO has been deliberately sabotaged by Russia, through the veto system. Thousands of trained agents have been sent into Asia and Africa to stir up nationalist unrest and embarrass the Western nations represented there. And —most significant and dangerous move of all —China’s 400 millions have been harnessed to the Red bloc, as a conveniently expendable force to be used as the spearhead of the attack upon the Westerners, and especially upon United States.

All this has been done in less than nine years. The pattern is so clear. The logic of events so completely beyond challenge!.

Strongly opposed in Korea, the Reds agreed to an armistice; and then maintained the armistice, refusing any peace settlement, so that we are compelled to keep expensive armies in Korea —while they smashed the French in Indo-China.

And, now, the surrender of Northern Vietnam to the Reds —a firstclass Communist victory.

SOME argue that, as UNO came to the support of the South Koreans against the Reds in Korea, UNO should have supported France against the Reds in Indo- China. But the background is different.

The Western nations refrain from voicing their opinion openly and officially; but the belief is generally held that France now, as a Western Power and as a Colonial Power, is sick and undependable. She is so shot through with Communism at home, and under such Insistent and growing challenge in her important colonies, that she is an embarrassment rather than a source of strength to her associates in this gravest of all international crises.

If the Anglo-Americans were to assist France in Indo-China (which, incidentally, could mean the re-establishment there of French authority) they would expect a quid pro quo in strong and loyal support by France of the European Defence Community. As there is no prospect of that —on the contrary, the Anglo-Americans, as they lose faith in France, are putting more and more trust in a renascent Germany—the Anglo-Americans refuse to commit themselves in Indo- China. They have conceded the Reds the victory in Vietnam, so that they may keep more freedom in their hands for dealing with the larger problems of Red expansion elsewhere.

SEEN against the vast and sombre background of the Cold War, the surrender of Northern Vietnam may appear a small incident. But it is not difficult to envisage the problem which confronts Britain and America. With Franc'. 1 classed with the Latin nations as undependable, Britain and America now face the solid phalanx of Reds (Russia, all the Eastern European countries, and China) with only the Northwest European nations as sure Allies. Time must be gained while Germany and Japan (anti-Communist by character and tradition) are re-established as World Powers.

A strange twist in world affairs, of 'course; but evidently the argument

is that German or Japanese arrogance is to be preferred to souldestroying slavery under the Muscovite Reds. Those who experienced Hun beastliness and Jap brutality in the last 15 years may not accept the argument: but that does seem now to be the keystone of Western planning.

Britain and United States are not in complete agreement. United States, completely realist, knowing that armed conflict is inevitable, and believing that we have an advantage in atomic weapons, is prepared now to go to war, so as to smash the Red Muscovite conspiracy and establish world peace under UNO, before UNO collapses completely.

Britain, in terror of what guided missiles from Central Europe may do to her, and believing that the Red bloc sooner or later will be destroyed by internal revolt, tries to play for time.

But Britain and USA are completely united in the belief that the Muscovite cannot be placated and that, if we are to remain free, we must go increasingly armed.

NOT one man in one hundred in the South Pacific countries understands anything of these issues. Most have been very impatient with occasional commentators who have tried to warn them of the growing danger in Asia.

But the spectacular surrender of Vietnam has startled them. Suddenly, they realise that not only are hundreds of millions of Asian Communists glaring hungrily at them from Southeast Asia; they also become uncomfortably aware that, in spite of laws and contracts, there now are important implantations of Asians in the South Pacific countries of New Guinea, New Hebrides, Fiji and French Oceania, and that these Asians almost surely will react to calls on their racial and nationalist pride.

“Asian Communists, armed by Russia, have forced a surrender upon France and are only a few flying hours away from us,” cry the Australians, and New Zealanders and Pacific Islanders, turning aside from their horse-racing and petty politics. “What are we going to do about it?”

There is nothing they can do about it. They are beset by dangers created nine years ago, when the Attlees, and Trumans and Evatts, and other pitifully inadequate persons, took charge of the war-torn world, and permitted the Muscovite gang to establish the Iron Curtain and gets its international Red conspiracy into shape. The South Pacific’s hope of survival and liberty lies primarily in the ability of the United States to defend freedom in the Pacific, and ultimately in the strength which the British Commonwealth and United States may develop together, to check and destroy this Mongolian-based horror.

“Starry-eyed planners” arise in hordes, to embarrass us with their assurances that some way will be found to avoid the conflict—their panaceas ranging from compromise with the Reds (“co-existence,” it is called!) to a religious fervour which is to sweep across the world.

Our only hope of avoiding armed conflict between two utterly irreconcilable ideologies (Individualism and Communism) is that the scores of millions of freedom-loving people enslaved by the comparative f( dominated by the Muscovite gaj will rebel, and attack their maste; There are some signs of it—t nothing yet to give us hope.

There is nothing that we of t; South Pacific can do about it, e cept to assist the Anglo-Americ;: Powers in the wearisome, sickeni: process of once more re-arming; a: to watch this ever-growing reddis; yellow blaze on our nor.hweste: horizon.

COMMENTARY BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF.

Just When Is

It English?

THE importance Pidgin English has acquired in the post-war S-W Pacific—that is, the controversy as to whether it should be rooted out entirely or given official approval—h a s surprised most Islands old-timers who, before the war, accepted it for its convenience and cared not whether it was the mark of the slave or not.

What has always puzzled this writer, however, is where to find the merit in the “straight English” which is spoken in most Pacific Islands where Pidgin is infra dig.

From New Zealand, up through Fiji and on to Polynesia, half of the stock jokes are based on the Islanders’ mangled rendering of English.

Even in Papua, the old-time resident recoiled in horror at the Pidgin spoken across the border, and relied on Police Motu, although that itself was only a Pidgin version of the real thing. It is a guinea to a gooseberry that the number of post-war arrivals in Papua who have learned Motuan since their arrival could be counted on one’s two hands. These days they tell you that the natives understand straight English.

Recently we overhead a young Port Moresby matron of our acquaintance speaking to her cookboy. It was a sort of a cross between Pidgin and baby-talk. “Do these boys speak Pidgin, then?” we asked. ‘Oh, no, English,” we were told: then seeing our look of disbelief added: “But the boys and I have a language of our own. We get on fine.”

They did, too. But it was not in “straight English.”

The war and the post-war influx of new residents has spelled the doom of real Pidgin, too. Even before the war it was often said by old residents, who prided themselves on their ability to speak the language, that Pidgin was not what it was. Now most post-war arrivals make something up as they go along, and when they are not understood, tear their hair and shout.

If the post-war natives of Papi and New Guinea seem much mot sullen and stupid than their pr war fathers (and many of the do) it could be explained by tl fact that present-day Territoria take little trouble to learn how speak correctly to them.

The European who takes trout to learn the accepted languae Motuan or Pidgin, has the native immediate attention, and—\ would like to add—his respect.

Something About

VIETNAM As the surrender of part of IndJ China to the Reds has created threat to the future of the Soul Pacific, the South Pacific may lil to know more about Indo-China.

There are three States in Indt China—Vietnam, 23,000,000 peopll Cambodia, 3,700,000; and Lao 1.100.000. Each, to a degree, is sell governing, but France controls the foreign relations, their defences an of course, enjoys a monopoly ( their overseas trade. Self-govem ment is a recent development Th was a disunited group of quarre ling little States when France too over last century; and the Freno have introduced orderliness, an greatly developed the countrie resources.

Vietnam is a recent creation was formed by the French out ( three ancient provinces—Tonki:i Annam and Cochin China. Vie: nam is a long, narrow counfar paralleling the coastline of the at tual south-east corner of Asia. I] northern part, old Tonkin, include the Red River delta, and is part o the area surrendered to the Red: Some 13,000,000 out of the States 23.000. are in the surrender© area. Asa large section of tli people in the surrendered area ar French-trained, and Christian some millions now are trying to gc away from northern Vietnam, whio adjoins Communist China, befon the Reds take over; and the Frenci are trying to accommodate them i southern Vietnam.

West and south of Indo-Chim (Continued on Page 159) 14 AUGUST. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Britain Avoids

Indian Problem

Fiji's Plea for Inquiry About Over-Population From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. August 3.

CRITICS of the British official attitude towards Fiii’s population problem (created by the phenomenal increase in the introduced Indian population) will see in the published correspondence between the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) and the former Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Oliver Lyttelton) only another example of London evasion.

I The Governor, on March 3, 1953, sent to the Secretary of State a record of the debate (December 16, 1952) on the Legislative Council resolution calling for a commission of inquiry from the United Kingdom. The resolution asked for the appointment of the Commission [forthwith — “to inquire into and ad- ‘vise what steps should be taken to [ensure that this Colony will not suffer from over-population to the detriment of the standard of living of all races in the Colony.” [ “There is no doubt,” Sir Ronald [wrote, “that the majority of the unofficial members of the Council are gravely perturbed by the prospect of population outstripping the [resources of the Colony and, for [this reason, the motion was given Government support. It was made [clear by the Colonial Secretary, [however, that the word ‘forthwith’ in the motion was not to be taken absolutely literally. . .” [ The Governor also mentioned his [suggestion that the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development might be invited to undertake an inquiry into the economic potential of Fiji and to [make an objective study of its development requirements, with special reference to the growing population; this to be followed by more specific and detailed examination by industrial consultants and other overseas experts. \ The Secretary of State replied ithat he was not convinced that either suggestion would be the most helpful course at this juncture. “I consider that in Fiji there are at present too many unknown factors, such as the mineral potential, the forestry potential, the soil and ecology of the interior, and the basic data as to the development of hydro-electric power, for a mission of this kind (International Bank), which would stay in Fiji only for a short time, to be able to form definite conclusions. . . The same consideration applies to the appoint- ■ment of a commission of inquiry from this country. . . : “I consider, therefore,” the Secretary of State continued, “that the immediate need is for detailed surveys to supply the basic information about the economic potentialities of the Colony. . . and that these should be carried through before consideration can usefully be given to the appointment of a more general commission of inquiry.”

With the addition of some general observations on the desirability of agricultural expansion, where possible, these extracts give the gist of the London reply, which was dated May 25, 1954.

The protagonists of the motion in the Legislative Council in 1952 have, from first to last, been open to the charge that, with the laudable hope of avoiding a rumpus, they whittled down their proposal to innocuousness by omitting all reference to the crux of Fiji’s population problem— the steadily growing fear by non- Indians that the swamping Indian increase can result only in the virtual Indianisation of Fiji in the fairly near future: or —as what is claimed to be the only foreseeable alternative—an angry reaction by Fijians and others against the threat of Indian political and economic domination, overt or covert.

Editorial Note WE may take comfort in the fact that this Mr. Lyttelton now is gone from the Colonial Office.

The pity is that he did not go sooner —or that he ever was there—he was one of the feeblest Secretaries of State for the Colonies we have seen in decades.

The newcomer perhaps can be induced to hide his —that is, the average British Minister’s—terror of Nehru, and to deal with the Indian problem in Fiji on a basis of facts, racial justice and realism.

Mr. Lyttelton obviously decided to shelve the subject. There are enough sound men in the Legislative Council of Fiji, including the Indian representatives, to see that the difficult problem is not kept hidden away. It is capable of solution, if boldly faced. This is their opportunity. Only very rarely do they get a Governor like Sir Ronald Garvey, whose policy is based on a long personal knowledge of Fiji conditions and history, who has a keen appreciation of the racial qualities of Indians as well as of Fijians, and who is a realist.

Bill Gill’s comment on the situation of the rubber . ir i?.V l s^-,} n Vl is given a certain amount of acidity by the fact that Bill Gill himsel was, for some years, a rubber planter in Papua. 15 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

Zanzibar Assassin to Help Fiji's Rhino Beetle Another bug from Zanzibar might accomplish what no other predator has yet managed to do in the fight against the coconut’s number-one enemy, Rhinoceros beetle. rIS bug—the Assassin bug— attacks the adult beetle; which is the one that does the damage. Other predators have worked at the other end of the life cycle, destroying eggs or pupa.

The Colony of Fiji, which has waged vigorous war on the Rhino beetle since it was discovered there less than two years ago, will import some of the bugs. Some will be released immediately; others held for laboratory control experiments.

The success of a shipment of carabid beetles from New Zealand is doubtful. Some of these were imported by the Colony some time ago and released around Suva in the hope that they would eat Rhinoceros beetle grubs. It was thought that they would live about three months in Fiji, but it is doubtful if they have bred as no signs of the Carabids have been found.

Fiji will probably be called upon to contribute about £2,200 to the South Pacific Commission’s anti- Rhinq beetle campaign in 1955.

Certain funds were guaranteed the Commission when it began its campaign but so far all the work has been done in Western Samoa and S-E Asia. The SPC experts have been experimenting with chemicals which are believed to attract the beetles so that they can be trapped.

In Fiji there has been some experimenting with BHC compound m the crowns of palms and this has been found effective enough against adult beetles. However, the use of Insecticides or chemicals in large plantations or native groves would be a laborious business.

The easiest method is a predator —if an efficient one can be found.

A Six-Woman Crew A7O-ft ketch, Arthur Rogers, arrived in Suva from Tonga in July with owners Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Hepworth and a crew of six young women.

One of the crew is an English doctor, and two are nurses. Four are from Australia and one from NZ.

The ketch is on a voyage from Auckland and will call at New Hebrides and New Caledonia.

Suva-Sydney Air Service Will Be Retained Fewer Flights and More Inconvenience AS an outcome of the protests made in Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji, Qantas flyingooats will continue to operate from Sydney to Suva, via Noumea. It will not. however, be the direct service enjoyed previously and it will be available only once fortnightly instead of once weekly.

Under the new arrangement, which commenced on July 28, Noumea (New Caledonia) and Vila and Santo (New Hebrides) will continue to have a weekly service. But on alternate weeks, the plane will run a shuttle service from Noumea to Suva after making the Noumea- Vila-Santo-Noumea section of the flight.

Passengers to Suva will wait in Noumea from 8 am Thursday until 11 am Friday while the flying-boat makes the trip to the New Hebridesand passengers from the Hebrides, going to Sydney on that service, will then wait in Noumea from 10 am Friday until 1 pm Saturday while the aircraft goes to Suva and returns.

This arrangement allows Qantas to make more economical use of its planes and at the same time gives the Hebrides and New Caledonia their weekly link with Australia, and Noumea its link with Suva. The short break in Noumea will probably be acceptable to tourists but travellers who wish to reach Suva or Sydney quickly will find it a' considerable inconvenience.

Fiji Teachers’ Salaries npHE chairman, Mr. S. P. Ram, told a meeting of the Lautoka Branch of the Fiji Teachers’ Union, on July 17, that he considered the cost of living allowance previously paid to civil servants would have to be reintroduced, because living costs were soaring.

A proposed new scale of salaries for teaching grades was discussed. The meeting urged an early start of the interschool sports competition.

Mr. B. Sukh Lai was elected honorary secretary of the Branch.

Only Few Seek P-Ng

Voters’ Favou[?]

Interesting Contest Forecaster in New Britain WHEN nominations for t h Papua-New Guinea Legislatil Council closed on August these men had signified their intei non of facing the poll on October for the three constituencies in tl Territory; PAPUA Mr. E. A. James, public accoum ant.*

New Guinea Mainland

Mr. George K. Whittaker, plant, and optometrist.

Mr. Harry Starr, theatre pr« pnetor.

New Guinea Islands

Mr. Don Barrett, planter.* Mr. John L. Stokie, plantatia manager.

Before nominations closed it ws intimated that Mr. Sydney B. Bai ker, a dentist and miner of Wa had nominated by mail for the N» Mainland electorate; and Mrs Am Lumley, trader of Losuia, for Papu: But their nominations had not bee; received at closing of nominationi It appears, therefore, that M: James has been elected unoppose ll for Papua.

Registration of elec L ors closed o( August 2. There are 1,128 for Not Guinea Islands; 764 for NG Maim land; and 908 for Papua.

Mr. Stokie made his surprise am nouncement that he would stam some weeks ago; in May it wa rumoured that he intended leaving the Territory permanently. He is resident of long-standing. He live<i behind Jap lines in New Britain for 14 months during early stage: of Pacific war. With his nomination the contest in New Britain becomes very interesting—as high registrai tion of voters indicates.

Mr. Carl Jacobsen, who reprej sented New Guinea Mainland in the last Council, decided some week: ago, not to stand again.

Nominated members of the Coum cil, of whom there are 9, will b« announced later—probably aftes the elections. As well as thre.s elected and 9 nominated members there are 17 official members. * Sitting Member.

Tahiti Damages Claim PAPEETE. August 10.

The appeal by Captain Barnes against; the 3,000 francs (about £2O) fine (for am incorrect report about a Messageriesi- Maritimes liner) was rejected: but the MM Co.’s claim for one million francs; damages was reduced to one frano damages. An appeal to the Supreme Courts in France, has been lodged. 16 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLH

He Saw the Promised Land- The Man Who Scooped the Newspapers And Stole Administration Thunder THE man who beat the gun was Mr. John Zehnder, 28, a geologist with the Australasian petroleum Company, who entered the valley in May while on a fourmonths patrol of the Tari and Strickland area. Zehnder started off with another geologist, a field assistant, a large party of native police and carriers, and accompanied by Administration Assistant District Officer Clancy. | During the trip, Zehnder, a handful of native police and carriers, went off to have a look at the Muller Range area and later returned to the main party after having stumbled into the hidden valley, which Zehnder revealed the natives named Lavina.

This was just before the combined DCA and District Services survey flew into the valley, and reported itc pvistpnpp [ Following the announcement by the heads of these two Departments, (Australian and other overseas newspapers manifested extraordinary infterest. Most of them assumed that there were 100,000 people in one Valley—the one they named Shangri- La. This mistake was excusable as the official hand-out on the survey was not clear on this point.

It seems now that this one valley ? has a population of about 3,000; the other 97,000 people are estimated to be in the whole area surveyed by the aerial party in June. [ After the official announcement in June, PIM Sydney office was contacted by the representative of a London newspaper who wanted to •know how he could charter a plane to fly into the valley.

Other requests evidently were bnade to Administration headquarters in Port Moresby; another London newspaper is reported to have offered to finance an expedition to the valley—with exclusive etory rights for the newspaper. | The Administration has declined pall offers. A spokesman said in July that no one would accompany the first patrol, which would be a routine DDS affair, probably towards the -end of the year.

Meanwhile Zehnder seemed unimpressed by the furore over the valley or by the valley itself. Although one Sydney newspaper reported that he saw natives of 6-ft. 8-in. tall :<and that each male adult had seven wives) he said that the natives were about average size for the Tari area, or perhaps a little taller —at least a foot shorter than reported.

He saw very few women, and these appeared similar to others in the area. The people in the valley While the world’s newspapers were making a hullaballoo about New Guinea’s hidden valley of “Shangri-La” (first reported after an aerial survey in June) and while the District Services Department in Moresby was beating off those same newspapers who now wanted to accompany the first official ground patrol into it, a man returned to Moresby and announced that he had entered the valley weeks before. had contact with those outside, and they had also heard of white men, although they had never seen any.

That is not unusual in NG where hundreds of thousands in remote villages have had no personal contact with Europeans.

A few days after Mr. Zehnder returned to Moresby the Administrator made a statement in which he inferred that the whole APC party was in the area only by arrangement with the Administration and that no one had seen fit to mention that the party was escorted by a District Services officer and native police.

This is, of course, the case, and Mr. Zehnder never suggested otherwise. Like a thousand other men

Good Crown Lands

Available In Papua

Paper Co. Surrenders Leases NEARLY 40,000 acres of generally good Crown land have become available in the Northern Division of Papua, and there are indications that Australian interests may acquire some of it.

This land originally was acquired on lease by the British Australian Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd., in the ’Thirties. BAP, it will be remembered, was sold on the idea that a good class of paper could be made from kurukuru grass (kunai, in New Guinea), and a plan of some magnitude was built on it. However, a succeeding generation of directors abandoned the scheme, and now the leases have returned to the Crown.

They comprise: 19,000 acres at Wanigela. 9,500 acres at Sinapa. 9,500 acres at Kwagila.

All this land is in the Tufi area, and a considerable proportion of it is considered very suitable for the growing of cocoa and coffee. A team of experts from the CSIRO of Australia has been in Wanigela since June, closely examining the country; and the area also has been under survey by the P-NG Department of Agriculture.

The Wanigela block, which is considered specially desirable, is close to the coast in Collingwood Bay, 25 miles from Tufi; and is easily accessible by road, air (there is a landing-strip nearby) and sea (there is a good anchorage for large ships at Wanigela). There is millable timber on the land, which rises gently to 1,000 feet, and has an average rainfall of 10 inches per month.

Considerable sections of the Wanigela block have just been taken up by Mr. Kingsford Smith (a nephew of the famous airman) and by Mr. Moody.

Anyone interested in the area should lose no time in obtaining further information.

Mr. John Zehnder. —Photo by Papuan Prints. before him in New Guinea, he broke new country. He was not to know that that particular valley was to be selected by the newspapers of the world for a sensation. Now, so far as these newspapers are concerned, he is the first man to enter Shangri-La—and no one can change that! 17 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1954

World Copra Market

Is Very Dull

THE copra market continued somewhat sick during July and recent London quotations were in the vicinity of £7O stg., cif European port, for best Straits. This means that the South Pacific planters who get the benefit of the British Ministry of Food contract are enjoying an advantage.

No particular reason is given for the fall in rates—it appears to be a seasonal fluctuation. However, it is clear that, in the two Territories which really control the world market—Philippines and Indonesia —production tends to be heavy.

Indonesian production, which directly affects the Singapore price— the basis of the Straits quotation —is an unpredictable thing.

Politico-economic conditions in Indonesa go from bad to worse; and it is to be anticipated that the Indonesian masses, from time to time, under the sting of grim necessity, will bestir themselves to heavy production, irrespective of the ruling prices.

Asst. Administrator

On The Job

PAPUA and New Guinea’s new Assistant Administrator, Mr.

Rupert Wilson, commenced his duties in Port Moresby on July 22.

He had just completed a roundtrip on the Bulolo, in a personal capacity, to familiarise himself with his new Territory.

It is expected that when Mr.

Wilson has familiarised himself with headquarters’ matters he will be able to release the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, for more travel to other parts of Papua-New Guinea.

The Dogs Won’t Like it!

NORFOLK IS., July 14.

WELL-MEANING individuals in high places have sent suggested ordinances for the approval of the local Norfolk Island Council. One deals with proposed regulations for guest houses —the area of rooms, etc.

Generally speaking, the older type of Island home being used as guest houses here provide the best fare and atmosphere, and while lacking in some modern amenities are suitable for Norfolk. Regulations for new T guest houses are a different proposition, of course.

Another proposal is in respect of dogs. While the use of leashes in built-up areas may be admirable in cities, the Norfolk Island dogs may have different views.

FARE BILL—£60,000!

PASSAGE money paid to Fiji civil servants who went on leave in the 18 months to June cost taxpayers more than £60,000.

An Indian member, Mr. Vishnu Deo, was told this in the Legislative Council recently when he asked some pertinent questions on the subject.

He was informed that in 1953 and the first six months of 1954, 400 civil servants had been granted leave from the Colony. They were paid £98,063 in salaries while they were away, plus £9,491 cost-ofhving allowance and £60,609 passage money.

Fifty-eight of them went on leave to the UK, 122 to Australia and New Zealand and 220 elsewhere.

Service to Dutch New Guinea Every Two Weeks Communications bet w e • Australian New Guinea a.

Dutch New Guinea are faste Qantas Empire Airways, frc July 28, increased the frequen of their Lae-Madang-Wewai Hollandia service from once month to once per fortnight.

The Netherlands Ambassador Australia, Mr, Winkelman, pr dieted during his May visit to ba territories that the service wou be increased.

The decision does not, of coun mean that the service is a lucratii one for Qantas. It primarily is matter of developmental policy ai of arrangement between the V Governments.

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

NOTHING spectacular happened in this month in 1934—apart perhaps, from a prophecy from a London correspondent who said that there were signs that the copra market would revive and that it would therefore, be a good time to buy plantations. (We cannot record that there was a rush to follow his advice). Pacific trade generally following the world pattern, was very dull—Public Servants and goldminers being the only people not seriously affected by the financial breeze.

Here are some extracts from PIM of August, 1934: Who said that “Home Permanents” were a post-World War II development? In that August, 1934, we advertised the “Raywave curling set”—which guaranteed that the waves would last six to nine months. Failure was impossible—and the outfit cost 18/-, post paid.

In the same issue, a leading Sydney emporium advertised frocks, in cambric, voile and sheer linen from 11/6 to 25/11. * * H: “The struggle between Europeans and Chinese for the available native trade in the British Solomon Islands is becoming acute . . . It is deplorable that just at a time when the British planters are forced by the copra slump to turn more to trading than usual, the Administration has deemed it wise to offer all possible encouragement and facilities to the Chinese to engage in trading.” * * * Then as now, there were people who sailed around the world in little boats.

One of them was Alain Gerbault who had just arrived in Papeete. But as he "abhorred publicity” we were not able to publish much about him.

Kingsford - Smith’s famous partm Charles Ulm, had, at the end of Jui 1934, carried the first airmail from Au tralia to New Guinea and had return* expressing wonder at the conditions undi which flying was undertaken in tl Territory. During his visit Salamai drome was flooded following 43 inches rain in 35 days. Ulm was entertained pilots Ray Parer. F. T. O’Dea, On Denny and Jerry Pentlahd. * * * Appointment of General Ramsay M Nicoll as Administrator of New Guim was confirmed. * * * The deportation of a Captain MacartU Onslow from Norfolk Island was a sevo days wonder in Sydney newspapers whi were demanding Administrator Pinn;i head on a charger as a consequence.

Explanations ultimately followed in ft House in Canberra where Onslow w. described as a dipsomaniac by Priii Minister Lyons and a “nuisance wherev he went’’ by the Leader of the Oppositioi The newspaper campaign ceased abruptl * * * M. Henri Rey, of Tahiti (who produo a mechanical copra-cutting machine 1953). was evidently just as inventive 1934. He had perfected a secret methd of preserving bananas by drying thu and, marketed as “Banana confit naturel’’ they were finding ready buyr in France and England. (We suspect tM these were the forerunners of the “banas figs” which had such a vogue in Westa Samoa and elsewhere after World War What has happened to this industii incidentally?) * * * The Apia Chamber of Commerce asfel the Western Samoa Administration to I move the rusted remains of the “Adler” grim reminder of the 1889 hurricane; from the beach because it was an ey sore to tourists. (The Administratii; never did: the remains, diminished it true, still are there; tourists like photograph them.) 18 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

New Governor For

N. CALEDONIA From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA. August 4.

M, Raoul Angamarre has completed his three years as Governor of New Caledonia, and has departed for France. His successor has been announced —M.

Hoffeherr, formerly of the French Cameroons and reputed to be an able financier and economist, i Governor Angamarre leaves a fine reputation as an administrator behind him, but the problems facing his successor are likely to be considerable and his knowledge of finance will be necessary.

Chrome Industry Crisis | The chrome industry of New Caledonia is undergoing a severe crisis at present. The Tiebaghi Co. has announced a drastic cut in production this year; the Chagrin mine has completely closed down and other small mines have followed suit. \ The Tiebaghi Co. which owned the world’s largest chrome mine, has cut its staff by 140 and more are to go. Most of these are Italians who were brought out specially from Italy. They now are trying to migrate to Australia. The company has already a stock-pile of 30,000 tons of 54 per cent ore, and no luyers in sight.

I Main reason for the slump is the high cost of production of New Caledonian chrome, but as this fepresents about 87 per cent of the Colony’s exports, any sharp falling )ff must mean economic chaos.

IChrome exports constituted a re- »rd in 1943 —the greater proportion [ping to USA and the remainder to France. Now USA is out of the market. [France takes only about onehird of her chrome requirements rom New Caledonia. Local businessmen are urging that she take 11 her requirements—about 74,000 ons—from NC. It is believed that mly help of this sort will save the tolony from a bad economic slump.

Papuan Insurance Co.

Wound Up SEA INSURANCE CO.

J LTD., the private insurance instrumentality of Steamships fading Co. of Papua, is being ohmtarily wound up in accordance rith the decision of a special meetig held at Port Moresby on June 4. Mr. L. Tracey, STC accountnt, has been appointed liquidator.

STC are believed now to be placig their insurance business through [arvey Trinder Pty. Ltd., Lloyd’s epresentatives.

Fiji Broadcasting Commission in Control The new service of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, transmitting from the new Broadcasting House in Suva, commenced on July 1. It was the first time that broadcasting had been done in a British Colony under the control of an independent Commission.

About 120 peonle were present in the main studio to hear the special opening programme, which was provided mainly by local artists, interspersed with goodwill messages from overseas and within the Colony. (See lower photo, above).

Opening the new service, the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) said: “In placing full responsibility for broadcasting in the hands of an independent Commission, with the specific provision that the chairman and a majority of its members should not be Government servants, we are breaking quite new ground.

“I should like to correct any impression that the Commission is to be Governmentcontrolled or directed. It is not.

It will be its own master, in its own house.

“The Government of Fiji has handed over to the Commission, without any strings attached, the physical possession and full control of this building and its contents, and of the transmitters and receivers and other equipment bought for the new service.

It is now the duty of the Commission and its staff to use them in the best interests of all the peoples of Fiji,”

He expressed thanks for help given by the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission, and Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., which had operated the colony’s broadcasting service for the past 19 years. AWA had advised on the design of the new Broadcasting House, and provided and installed the equipment for the expanded service.

Members of the Commission are (top photo), Mr. K. L. Munro (Chairman), Mr.

K. G. Collins (manager of VRH), Hon.

Vishnu Deo, Mr. L. G. Usher (Public Relations Officer). Hon. J. N. Falvey (Deputy Chairman), Mr. W. W. Lewis-Jones (Director of Education), Mrs. I. B.

Chalmers and Livai Volavola. Mr. M. G.

Knapman, not shown, is also a member.

The modern design of Broadcasting House can be seen in lower photograph. —Photos by Fiji Public Relations Office. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

The Editors' Mailbag

Cut the Tobacco Issue, He Says!

AN old New Guinea friend, Pastor Louis T. Grieve, of the Wabag Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, finds much in recent scientific pronouncements on the harmfulness of tobacco to support his own views.

He recounts at length various medical opinions to the effect that smoking and lung cancer and heart disease are related, and then produces the startling proposition that NG authorities are guilty of grave misdemeanour by requiring that tobacco issues be made to native labourers.

Mr. Grieve concludes his letter: “The April issue of Papua and New Guinea Villager features an article concerning the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Gift Fund for mothers and children. Illustrating this article is the picture of a mother and child with the caption, ‘Healthy People—What We Do Want.’

“If the health of the indigenous peoples is on our conscience, it is incumbent on us to cease sponsoring and promoting the tobacco habit by legal means and do all in our power to secure a discontinuance of the iniquitous regulation requiring employers to supply native employees with tobacco, and thus, at the same time, enforcing an enormous waste of private and public funds, irrespective of whether we, ourselves, smoke.”

Rabaul Revisited From a correspondent who visited Rabaul recently: One of Rabaul’s less publicised industries is an attempt by the Reimber group of natives to go into poultry-farming business.

A minor official (who naturally wants to remain anonymous) speaking off the record said that it was a “bit before its time.” One gathers that the experiment has not been an unqualified success.

The natives imported day-old chicks from Australia, and initially the meal with which to feed them.

However, when the meal runs out the chickens are fed on village scraps and coconuts, and this does not induce high egg production.

But we are informed that Rabaul is not without a reasonably adequate local egg supply, from European sources. One European poultry farm out near Kerevat is doing very well with a Rhode Island flock. * * * ..

An officer of the Department of Agriculture attends the departure of planes from Rabaul. His job is to see thait unauthorised plants, etc., do not leave the District which has some wogs as yet unknown elsewhere in P-NG.

He did not ask to examine our baggage and said that his main job was to keep an eye on travelling natives.

I personally doubt whether natives are worse offenders than Europeans when it comes to carrying bits and pieces of plants and seeds about. But I haven’t the temerity to suggest that all baggage of travelling Europeans should be opened and searched —local Europeans would be fittingly infuriated if that were done. But I do think that the officer could interrogate each traveller and get his assurance that he was not carrying prohibited plants, etc.; and that a large notice to the effect that such practice is tabu could be displayed somewhere in the bus-stop-like shed that does duty as Rabaul’s air terminal.

I looked for such a notice— although not very carefully—but could see none.

Fate of Capt. Keller A reader who would not give her name, but described herself as “just an old-timer” (and she did not sound so old, at that), rang us end of July and said that she had met Captain Otto Keller’s wife in Brii bane in 1946 and had been told 1 her that the Captain had died dui ing internment in Singapore dm ing the Pacific war.

Captain Keller was well-knov in the Solomons area 30 or years ago and it was generally b< lieved that he had been dead man years. Our original inquiry for hii came from Germany.

Pamplemousse Again!

Various readers have been ii trigued by the name given the larg sweet citrus fruit, pamplemousse-: described on page 74 of May Pl' as “grown only in Tahiti.”

But the High Commissioner fi the Government of India in Fiji, M N. V. Rajkumar, challenges tH latter description. Here is the vei interesting letter he has sent i from Suva; “With reference to the item et titled ‘Pamplemousse from tl\ Jungles of Tahiti, in your May issu your readers might be interested ; hear that the type of large citrt fruit mentioned therein is availatu in large quantities in certain aret of South India.

“And, what is more interestim is the fact that in at least on Indian language — viz., Konkani — tl\ fruit is known as ‘Pamplemousst Isn't it, after all, ‘One World’!”

First of Fiji’s Drovers The first of the two Drover aircraft which have been purchased in Australia by Fiji Airways for their Fiji service.

The Drover is made in Australia, is an all-metal plane and has three engines.

A number are in use in New Guinea and are used by the Flying Doctor service in the Australian outback.

This group of well-known Fiji people was taken at Nausori after a trial flight in the aircraft. From left to right: Fly[?] Officer Evans, RNZAF, Mrs. Rob Wrighf Mr. R. A. Hewlett (tourist officer), Mt [?] C. A. Hunt (Hunt’s Travel Agency), [?] Harold Gatty (managing director of Fi[?] Airways), Sir Alport Barker (publisher [?] Fiji Times & Herald), Mr. S. G. Marsha:[?] (Fiji Government representative). I[?] cockpit, Chief Pilot. F. Ladd. —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office 20 AUGUST, 195 4 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Hawaii-Tahiti

AIR LINK No Explanation of Continued Delay DIFFICULTIES of various kinds have developed to delay the inauguration of South Pacific Airlines—the new service planned by Captains Monkton and Barnes to provide a regular air link between Hawaii and Tahiti. It was expected, last year, that the service, by now, would have been carrying American tourists into Tahiti.

The idea, originally, was that two ex-Trans Oceanic Airways Solents, re-conditioned in Sydney, should run the service, and it was reported at one stage that Dollar Line interests (American) would back it. [ Then international complications set in. Apparently, the line was to be under American register, and the Americans were not favourable So the exclusive use of flyingboats.

Ihe plan envisaged the use of Christmas Island atoll, exactly halfpay between Honolulu and Papeete, is a re-fuelling station; but it bpeared that Britain in this conlection was not well disposed, f Some of the troubles have been roned out; the Solents recently have seen under test; but it still is reported that land as well as seajlanes will have to be used. Howjver, there has been for several reeks a total absence of news about ihe proposed airline. We do not bow whether the Dollar people ire still interested.

I The net result is that any Amerians who wish to holiday in Tahiti p this pleasant weather still must travel via Fiji and the TEAL Coral Route (scheduled fortnightly, but running more frequently lately).

AN INTERESTING REPORT.

No one seems happy with the present arrangement; The French Government, because too few rich Americans are purchasing tourist service: the New Zealand Government, because there is no annual profit in the TEAL Coral Route; travel agents, because of that missing link between Honolulu and Tahiti.

It has been reported in New Zealand lately that there is a possibility of the over-all problem being solved by the formation of a New Zealand-American corporation, controlled by private enterprise (but using some Government funds), to take over the various interests involved, and run a first-class service through Polynesia by flyingboats.

The service (replacing the TEAL Coral Route service) would branch off from the regular Trans-Pacific (Sydney-San Francisco) service at Fiji; and run through Western Samoa, Cooks, and French Oceania to rejoin the main service at Honolulu.

This, it is argued, would solve everything—but no progress can be made in the plan until the goodwill and co-operation of four Governments (New Zealand, United Kingdom, France and United States) have been secured.

There is no confirmation of this report. But it does hold the outline of a reasonable plan—and it would explain the otherwise inexplicable delay in the establishment of the Honolulu-Tahiti air link.

It’s a Whale! 45-Hour Week in Dutch New Guinea INTRODUCTION of a 45-hour instead of a 40-hour week is one of the changes to be made under a three-year plan for Dutch New Guinea.

Other changes will be reductions in import duties (described as “important”), taxation reductions, and doubling of the coastal services by the KPM.

The Netherlands Parliament has voted £12,500,000 for its NG territory in the 1954 Budget. This is about double the amount set aside by the Australian Government for the P-NG Territory.

Commercial Kenaf Production Awaits Govt. “Go” Signal The production of fibre from kenaf is still in the experimental stage in Papua—and probably will remain so until large-scale production gets some form of Government assistance.

THE 15,000 acres of land at Oro Bay which last year were granted Eriama Estates Ltd., the private interests which have fostered kenaf growing in Papua, are still idle. The area planted to kenaf by the company is still restricted to about 300 acres near Port Moresby.

Mr. R. A. Colyer, who has done more than anyone else to establish the industry in P-NG, is at present in America. In an interview with PIM, published in April, 1954, he said: “I feel that I have done all that an individual can do. . . A lot of the onus must now be thrown on the Australian Government to ensure that this new industry is properly developed.” This is how the matter still stands, four months later.

Two of the Eriama directors left Sydney for Port Moresby in early August. They were Mr. H. J.

McCann, who is also general manager of Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd., Sydney; and Mr.

A. G. T. Carver, who is the Eriama director representing the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. They are expected to have discussions there on kenaf growing with the Administration and the Dept, of Agriculture.

The future of the kenaf industry will be discussed at high Government level in Australia soon. Preliminary talks were held some months ago before the Australian general elections.

About 3,000 wool packs made from kenaf produced at Eriama, near Port Moresby, have already been used in Australia. Some of them have been returned, refilled, and are back on Sydney wool floors for the opening of the new wool selling season on August 30.

Those that have been returned are in excellent condition, and satisfactory reports on their quality have been received from growers, brokers and buyers.

Another lot of new packs made from kenaf will also go into service this season.

The packs now in use have been released at the normal price of jute packs, 15/6 each, but that is well below the cost of production under experimental conditions.

Forty-two post offices in PNG handled 6,000,000 postal articles for the year ending June, 1954. More than half were handled in New Guinea post offices.

There was exctiement in Port Moresby [?]larbour on July 26 when a 35-ft whale [?]ound its way in through the reef entrance and swam about for the day.

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The whale, with a very scarred back, blew out streams of water and came as lose as 50 ft to the shore. Nobody could [?]emember a whale in the harbour before. [?]Ithough they can frequently be seen long the Papuan coast. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 21 pacific islands monthly —august. 1954

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Back to Your Tanks and Water-Carts, Rabaul The elation of Rabaul residents who thought they had permanent water supply has evaporated—like the" supply. Ther has been a great misunderstanding about the Burma Road wells upon which, as we reported in July, hopes were based.

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Mr. McCarthy stated that the Burma Road wells were believed to be ample for supplying the town with reticulated water and that only lack of funds stood in the way.

This must have come as a surprise to some members of the Council who went away, and during the following month, privily examined the Burma Road area and could see no obvious source of a town’s water requirements.

The bubble of hope was finally burst at the July meeting of the TAG when District Officer J. J.

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Johnson, who said that as far as his department was concerned it was not aware of an adequate supply of water anywhere in the vicinity of Rabaul, although investigations were preceding.

Mr. Johnson told the meeting th his Department’s pumps, operatii on wells around the Harbour, we working 24 hours a day to supj calling ships and any individi) who required it and provided t means of carting it. As far as knew there was no charge ma for the water itself.

Each dry season since the w. water-carts have been a comma place in Rabaul. A large sum money has been wasted in this ws Before the war, water-carting w. not unknown in exceptionally loi dry spells, but it was not usual as present. The reason was that ea, household was provided wi t adequate storage tanks.

This has not been so since t: war—due partly to the tempora nature of the housing, in the fir instance, and the shortage of gs vanised iron and tank-maki: materials generally. New Admini tration houses are now being pr. vided with about 6,000 gallons water storage. This, in genershould be adequate for Rabaul’s fe really dry months of each year.

Fish Expert at Noumea MR. H. Van Pel arrived Noumea from Holland la July to become fisheries offic to the South Pacific Commissia He will study ways of increasing fiJ production in the South Pacil and encourage the adoption modern catching, processing ar marketing.

He will work along the lines rj commended by the conference fisheries experts held under tl; auspices of the SPC in Noumea 1952. It was then found that whi fish was a major item in Pacit islanders’ diet, methods of catchir and distributing it were inadequat Mr. Van Pel had six years skipper of a steam trawler in tl; Atlantic and North Sea. He w.\ director of the Bureau of Fisherii in Indonesia and later, as a mem ber of the Food and Agriculture CK ganisation, he was sent to Pakists to design a fishing harbour Karachi. 24 AUGUST. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L T

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I He said that NG probably offered more scope for Successful development than any country in the world. The Ihings it needed most at the moment were capital development and overseas publicity. |lt had been proved, he said, that practically all tropical jplants could be grown successfully in NG. Any country with buch a great agricultural potential must have a bright future, provided it was opened up by capital investment. f NG also had tourist attractions which, if properly developed and publicised, could play a big part in Its progress.

I Mr. Gillespie travelled from Sydney on the Eastern Star, of the fcustralia-China Line, for which his NG company are agents. He pisited Manila, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Saigon and Bangkok, and returned on the Eastern Star, balling en route at Rabaul and Lae.

I He said that Japan and Hong Kong were looking to Australia and the Pacific for outlets for their manufactured goods. Japan in particular had an unlimited range )f trade lines, such as cotton prints, which she was anxious to place.

While in Hong Kong Mr. Gillespie saw the manufacture of buttons From shell procured all over the world, including Pacific trochus.

He said that if Islands shell were more carefully graded, greater advantage could be taken of the iiigh prices offering for first grade.

Button manufacturers, at least in Hong Kong, were not greatly interested in the lower grades.

At the same time, he said, the trochus price had climbed too high Jompared with the cost of synthetic materials which were rivalling the shell in the manufacture of buttons.

Mr. Gillespie said there was a Dig market in Japan and Hong Kong for raw rubber and—if it :ould be supplied—copra. It also Mr. Gillespie 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Mr. Gillespie said the odd situation in Formosa typified the strained relati<pns existing in the East. Australians were admitted freely to Formosa because of their official recognition of the Nationalist Government, but the British were prohibited because of their recognition of Red China. An Australian travelling on the Eastern Star with an English wife was admitted, but his wife was barred.

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By Tolala Administrator cieiand is calling upon Territorians to show a greater interest in local politics, and especially in the election on October 2 for the three members of the Legislative Council.

I’m afraid there will always be political apathy in the Territory while the present system of legislation functions. Territorians are suffering from frustration to a great degree where unofficial members of the Legislative Council are concerned. It has always been thus; and it’s an uphill battle—remi: iscent, somewhat, of the UNO Ge: eral Assembly—with Canberra hoi. ing the power of veto on ai measure not appetising to Au tralia’s general policy. If anyoi should know the ineffectiveness party politics it should be D I Cleland, with his experiences of tl Liberal Secretariat.

How Many Missions?

Listened to an ABC talk the othi evening by General Secreta.

Gribble, of the Methodists, who w plugging for the potentialities the NG Highlands and the grown of fruits up there, even stra\ berries! I remember visiting Wj in 1934 and Flo Stewart, then the Upper Pub., gave me a ve; dainty dish of strawberries grov in her own garden there.

It wasn’t Mr. Gribble’s stra\ berries that impressed me so muo as the fact that Methodists ai making a bid for the “enlightei ment” of the natives in that are It would be interesting to knc just how many Christian denon inations are making a bid to spres the Good Word amongst the: primitives. Nearly every sect, e; cepting the Salvation Army. An what a following it would have d: it cater for foreign missions, which it doesn’t, but is satisfi? to look after the needy in our ow Western cities. Just imagine ho popular it would become among; the NG indigines: Tambourines an big bass drums, with men i sweaters and girls in poke bonnet Such a set-up would surely appe to the native ceremonial comple Pigmentation, or What?

An article, which gives one • think, was recently published in til South Pacific Post, entitled “Racii Problem Is On Way,” dealing wit the local situation in P-NG whe the Australian-educated native r< turns to his home-land, and til attitude which will be adopted b the white population. The writt suggests an organisation to be si< up to “condition the European min to those students when they re turn.”

Personally, I think all the organ isations in the world will not maW it possible for the European re sidents to accept the native —how ever highly educated —as an equss Visiting scientists associate wit them out of curiosity, and in patronising manner, and thus collei; anthropological data (always remembering they do not have to liv amongst them permanently). A cer tain type of European accepts thei: for personal exploitation—economi or political reasons. But for tH 26 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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I There is another side of the picture, of which we seldom hear, and that concerns the natives who do not wish to be absorbed by our way of life, and have our culture forced upon them. The compulsory adoption of Western ideas is nothing short of political regimentation: and I contend that, if the native wishes to live his own life —providing it is healthy and not interfering with other cults —he should be allowed to do so. | Western evolution as at 1954, in my opinion, is anything but perfect.

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Paliau will probaoly take this as an indication of an extension of his territory by the act of God, and give him an opportunity of establishing another model village on the lines of Lipan-Mauk.

Anyway, who owns these newlycreated islands? Rabaul’s Vulcan a a f e ’ uncovered mass of volsome but' insight yearslt was covered with greenery.

Anthropologically Speaking Following in Father’s footsie; Murray Groves, son of Director Education W. C. Groves, is to ca. out a twelve-months field reseai in Anthropology in P-NG. He ca pleted a two-years’ course anthropology at Oxford, and sii has been serving as lecturer History at Melbourne Universe His father spent much time, dur; the past thirty years, in antlr pological field work in varic parts of the South-west Pacii Surely a second generation anth: pologist, who has lived in t country, should have the edge many of the imported variety fn overseas, whose interests are mer academic, as compared with t personal equation.

Anyway: Who is the P-NG Offic Anthropologist at the moment? pre-war years both Territor could afford one. It seems now have to depend on itinerant : vestigators from other countries, that fair?

Tribute to “J.F.G.”

And so John F. Goldie has gc to his well-earned rest after : many years of pioneer mission wc in the British Solomons for the I Methodists, and later extended Bougainville and Buka. He will remembered in the BSI as havi an astute, practical mind, and i the good work he accomplished a member of the Advisory Coum Visit to NG by Indian High Commission Mr. J. R. Foldi, who, in July, to up duty as District Commissioner, N[?] Britain, and General Carriapa, Indi[?] High Commissioner to Australia, w[?] visited P-NG recently.

The general took a keen interest everything he was shown in the Territo and expressed surprise at its progro As India frequently has been amo[?] Australia’s critics at United National Trusteeship Council meetings, perha[?] General Carriapa’s visit will do so[?] good.

He was presented with a set of pho[?] graphs of the graves of Indians buri[?] in NG war cemeteries. He said that would send them to the men’s next of k[?] who did not realise how beautifully k[?] were the P-NG war cemeteries. —Photo by C. H. Meis[?] 28 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHU

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He Knows It All [ln Four Months The latest anthropologist to get his views on natives in the news ■is Dr. Ward Goodenough (repeat Goodenough) of the Pennsylvania University, who after a four [months’ study of the Nakanai (New [Britain) natives reports that they resent having been exploited by [European traders. “Villagers,” he [says, “are also distrustful of the European, from what the European Ihas done in the past. . . . pay these days is much better than before the war.”

I wonder if the Doctor realises that pay for plantation produce also is far better now than before the war. Copra alone is about ten times better. And the question arises here: Have the natives been so informed, or do they think that higher prices for copra are due solely to the fact of the establishment of native co-operatives and that the Administration is more [than ever “Papa belong all”?

Incidentally, this is the same gentleman whom I heard over the ABC, being quoted as saying that “Cargo Cults” came into operation after War 11. Apparently he does not realise Cargo prophets were busy years before the Japs landed in 1942.

Four months may appear long enough for the Doctor to draw his conclusions on native opinions held in the Nakanai area; but to me it does not seem good-enough. It has the savour of the sort of observations made by half-informed members of the UNO Trusteeship Committee.

A lot of these touring anthropologists remind me of the story told by Sir Hubert Murray, who asked anew acquaintance; “And how long have you been here?”

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“And have you written your book on Papua yet?”

Rabaul and Its Volcanoes There is so much regimentation these days that John Citizen has “had” lengthily-worded edicts in officialese Such a situation comes to light in Rabaul, where detailed instructions for the evacuation of the town, in the event of an eruption, are claimed to have been circulated.

Yet (to quote Post report) out of 15 householders questioned “none had more than a- hazy idea” of the drill.

Much the same situation existed in 1937-38, following Vulcan’s eruption, when all sorts of emergency rules were laid down “in the event of an emergency.” Car tanks to be kept full; emergency rations to be handy, together with first- Rabaul Solicitor Weds Miss Joan Marjorie Wheeler was married to Mr. Dudley F.

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W. Esson. A reception for 50 guests, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bailey, followed the ceremony. —Photo by C. H. Meen. 29 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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But few, if any, of the residents observed the rules. And they were folk who had experienced the May ’37 eruption and knew the horrors of that Saturday and Sunday.

There still are many who remember the various plans devised prior to the Jap invasion of Rabaul— plans for this, that and the other.

What happened at the eleventh hour? A last-minute order from the Top Brass: “Every man for himself Anyway, Administrator Cleland has ordered an “investigation” into alleged ignorance of a plan prepared for the Rabaul residents and, in time, we shall probably hear the result.

From extracts of the instructions issued by VECCO (Volcanic Emerggen c y Command and Control Organisation) it would appear to me that theorists rather than practicians have been employed on the job.

Miscellany “Calling Capt. Keller!” Carlton Younger (“Editor’s Mailbag,” July) apparently has not accepted Capt.

Haug’s statement that Fehr and Keller met in NG in 1920. I suggest there might have been another Capt. Keller killed in Malaita. (See “Mailbag” this issue).

I am pleased that the memory of • H - L - Waterhouse, who did such fine educational work at Nodup before the War, is to be perpetuated. Late in July, the Waterhouse Memorial School was officially opened at Nodup by District Commissioner Foldi. During JHL’s term the Nodup school was always a show place for visitors, and an always pleasing item on the programme given by the small boys was the singing in English of some of the old-time ballads. He also trained a fine bugle band, which always attended the raising and lowering of the colours at sunrise and sunset. If my memory serves me right it was from amongst this bugle band that the first recruits ca: for the Rabaul Police Band The truest words from P-NG : a long time came from Gene; Cariappa, High Commissioner : India, on his departure fr« Rabaul recently. “It is a pity,” said, “that so little of the exc; lent work done here is not suffix ently publicised.” Actually, PNG h about the worse press in the woi when it comes to letting the peor know what goes on there. Seei to be a suggestion of censorst somewhere in the offing.

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Automatics for Fiji WORK has started on the installation of the equipment for Fiji’s new automatic telephone exchange.

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The exchange building is not complete, but is far enough advanced for the engineers to start. Their work will take from 12 to 18 months. 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Szarka).

It is not clear from reports reac ing us whether Mr. Justice Gore, Wewak, actually passed the dea sentence on the natives or “i corded” the death sentence. In a event, this is an occasion when t ACTU and the missions can safe leave the matter in the hands the officials on the spot.

In the past, punishment has be' made to fit the case. Some sophi ticated natives have been hang; for murder, but more frequent primitive people have been kept gaol long enough to learn abo civilisation and then sent back their villages to pass the messai on. With UNO looking on, the pr sent sensitive Australian gover ment is more likely than ever lean over backwards to be leniei The Labour unions and t churches are, of course traditio: ally anti-capital punishment, wii the result that, in Austral at least, it is virtually open seas* for murder.

In London Well - known residents of Britii[?] Solomon Islands, Mr. and Mrs. V. Hodgeis[?] photographed outside their hotel Marble Aroh, London, on July 22, wh[?] they were on their Way to the gard[?] party at Buckingham Palace. 32 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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IT is expected that dollar restrictions which have been in operation in Western Samoa as in other British countries, will shortly be relaxed.

Western Samoa sells most of its cocoa to the United States and thereby, in 1953, earned about £5tg476,601. In the same year, it imported only £Stg2o2,ooo worth of goods from dollar sources. The business community of the Territory has been restive about this state of affairs for some time. It welcomes the move for relaxation of restrictions. fl Mr. G. T. Roscoe, Assistant Director of Education, Papua-New Guinea, is doing a month’s educational survey of Eastern Papua and New Guinea.

The ordinance imposing entertainment tax in Fiji was repealed at the July session of the Legislative Council.

A recent photo of the Tongan Legislative Assembly, which was in session during July. Standing at back with Prince Tungi in centre, are the Ministers of the Government. The Tongan Nobles are in the centre row, and the people’s representatives in front. —Photo by August Hettig. 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1954

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In Paris for July 14 Delegates from countries forming the French Empire were invited to Paris for the celebrations of July 14 by the Minister of Colonies.

Below are two of New Caledonia’s delegates, Mr. Kowi Bouillant and Mr. Henry Naisseline.

Mr. Bouillant is a member of the Conseil General, Chief of the Poyes tribe, president of the Association of Natives of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands and returned soldier of World War I He is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honneur (the first New Caledonia native to hold the honour) and has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire.

Mr. Naisseline is Grand Chief of Mare Island and a great worker in the interests of his people.

Other New Caledonia delegates invited to Paris were Mr. Eschenbrenner, planter and member of the Conseil General; and Mr. Pidjot Rock, member of the Conseil General, Chief of the Conception Tribe near Noumea and president of New Caledonia Natives’ Union.

The Wallis Islands were represented by Mr. Victor Brial, son of the Queen of the Islands, Alausia. He was a volunteer in the last war and carries the Croix de Guerre. Medal of the Resistance, and the Colonial Medal with the citations of Lybie Bir Hakeim.

Kalsako. Chief of Vila, was the New Hebrides delegate.

The delegation left Noumea by Qanta* July 7. —Photos by F. Dunni An agreement between the US Canada and Japan on North Paciflt fishing grounds was ratified in Washington on July 15. 34 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Filaria Beaten

Remarkable Effect of Special Drug IT is officially reported from Tahiti that, if the civil population will give co-operation, the total elimination of the disease Filaria—long-established and very troublesome throughout Polynesia— is now possible, with the use of a drug called Notezine. The announcemeht was made recently in Papeete by the Papeete Institute of Medical Research.

This probably is the most notable advance in the war against disease in the Pacific Islands since the successful attack on hookworm 20 years ago. It also is a noteworthy achievement by the French medical officers operating in collaboration with the Health Section of the South Pacific Commission. An important Anti-Filaria Conference was held in Tahiti under the auspices of the Commission about four years ago, and the medical men then planned the campaign which has had this result.

Noumea’s Changing Skyline Seven districts in Tahiti were taken as test areas. In three of these a large proportion of the population—all that could be found to co-operate—were injected with Notezine. Prior to the treatment, from 10 to 36 per cent, of the total number of mosquitoes captured and dissected in these seven districts were found to be disease-carriers.

Afterwards, in the areas where the population was treated, less than 2 per cent, of all mosquitoes taken were disease-carriers.

By March last, over 75 per cent, of the total population of Tahiti was receiving Notezine treatment.

Tahiti, in the past, has been badly infected with Filaria. The work has also been extended to Moorea where, in some districts, up to 59 per cent, of all mosquitoes examined were found to be carriers of infected larvae, especially in areas close to the coast.

From results so far achieved by the Institute it is proved that Notezine is a most valuable weapon against this disease.

IT Mr. Lene Milo, a Samoan teacher at the Wesley High School, Samoa, recently spent a week at Jamestown, South Australia, as the guest of the Methodist Minister, Mr. G. Giles.

He gave several talks on life in Samoa.

A new building: in Rue Anatole France, Noumea, New Caledonia. It is next to Barrau’s department store. Qantas offices are on the ground floor and the Australian Consul’s office is on the first floor.

The higher floors are composed of flats.

Presence of the Qantas and Australian consulate offices in the one building is an added convenience for travellers.

Formerly, a traveller to Sydney had to go from one end of town to the other to complete formalities.

Mr. Maurice Mary, a well-known Noumea businessman, owns the building. —Photo by F. Dunn. 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT«XT AUGUST, 1954

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The US Trust Territory of Micronesia expects trochus prices to be better this year than for several years past. Bids for the expected 300-400 short tons that the Territory should produce have been received from Japanese and US button manufacturers. Diving commenced early May and will end about September.

Party at Goroka Two well - known residents of Goroka, Eastern NG Highlands, Mr. Jim Leahy and Mrs. Judith Downs, wife of the District Commissioner of the Eastern Highlands.

The occasion was the garden party held at the DC’s residence in honour of the Queen’s Birthday on June 14. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Mr. J. A. Schulz, second from left, was farewelled by Mrs. G.

Chou, Mrs. E. Lourie and Mr. L. La Fou. He will work with the Sacred Heart Mission at Vnnapope, New Britain.

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Travellers in the the SINKIANG on July ’O, shown lower photograph left to right: Mrs. R. H. Hewson (right), of Melbourne, left for Port Moresby to stay with her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Barker. Mrs. F.

Harrison was one of the friends who farewelled her.

Mr. R. Mellor, with the District Services at Goroka, returning after leave. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mellor, Miss Jackie Bennett and his sister, Jan, farewelled him.

Brother Lucian, returning to do mission work at Yule Island, 60 miles from Port Moresby, after two months’ leave. fl Mr. A. B. L. R. Tattersall has been promoted from Registrar tc Commissioner of the High Court ofi Western Samoa. Mr. F. J. Thomsen, former Deputy Registrar, has beem appointed Registrar. 38 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Beer and Bananas Short in W. Samoa From Our Own Correspondent APIA, July 15.

THERE has been an acute shortage of beer here in the last two weeks, accompanied by strong complaints from residents.

The shortage will be only partly relieved wfcen the Tofua arrives tomorrow.

It is hard to understand why the Government cannot keep sufficient supplies in hand to meet the increasing demand, especially as it is more desirable for the younger generation to take beer rather than turn to hard liquor.

Beer, like spirits, is a Government monopoly in “dry” Samoa. It is dispensed in quotas by the Department of Health, like a medicine.

But stocks of “medicine” should never be allowed to dwindle.

The Government seems to prefer to keep large stocks of hard liquor on hand. The last Matua brought a large shipment of whisky, gin, wines and liqueurs—about 1,000 cases.

Vips’ Visit

Diplomats and statesmen appear to have “discovered” Western Samoa.

Perhaps our present prosperity has something to do with it.

Recent visitors have been the French Minister to NZ, M. Henry: the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey; the Governor of Tahiti, M.

Petitbon; the German Minister to NZ, Dr. E. Boltze; and the French Trade Commissioner, M. G. Paul- Boncour.

Sir Herbert Hart, former Governor of Western Samoa, will pass through on the next Tofua, and Mr.

E. H. Norman, Canadian High Commissioner to NZ, is expected to arrive on the same vessel. The American Minister to NZ, Mr. R. M.

Scotten, also intends to pay the Territory a visit.

Bananas Suffer

As in Fiji and Tonga, banana plantations in Western Samoa have been affected by strong winds. Palm leaves have been lacerated and insufficient moisture has been absorbed to mature the fruit. The last Matua shipment was considerably less than the monthly quota for that steamer.

It is hoped that plantations will soon recover so that full advantage can be taken of the shipping space on offer.

Crime Wave In Nz

According to press reports there is considerable resentment in New Zealand against a number of Samoan youths who have been before the Courts charged with violence and misbehaviour, committed mostly when the offenders were drunk.

The publicity is damaging to the great majority of Samoans leading peaceful lives in NZ and contributing a useful share to industry there.

Some of the offenders are being sent back to Samoa. It is to be hoped that their passages will not be charged to the Samoan taxpayers; and that they will be made to work off the cost themselves.

There should be better screening of intending emigrants from Samoa to NZ.

Cook Is., Too, Has Beer Bother , „ .. .

NEW ZEALAND Truth , in another of its sensational despatches from the Islands, dedares that the bush-beer business prospers while the Administration refuses spirits or beer to most of the Islanders.

It says the Cook Islanders are bitter “that New Zealand, which prides itself on the equality between Maori and European, tolerates an Administration which permits nearly all Europeans in the Cook Group to have alcohol but few of the natives to have it.”

The facts, of course, are that the bush-beer business does prosper, but that restrictions on the sale of legal liquor are at the express wish of the elected and appointed members of the Cook Islands people. Moreover, permits are not refused to Maori residents unless they have a criminal record associated with 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Most Islanders do not apply fori permits for the simple reason that) bush-beer (fermented orange juice)i is very much cheaper to produce than the cost of the legal, imported liquor. While that situation exists there will always be a preference for the former.

Another reason for bush-beer preference is its higher alcoholic content. There is no doubt that some 1 of these brews are much more harmful and crime-provoking than imported beer with its controlled alcoholic content. Bushbeer making has been a favourite i occupation of Rarotonga for at; least 50 years.

The Government could reduce; the consumption of bush-beer by 1 taking a realistic attitude and easing the duty on low-alcoholic; grades of imported beers so that; they could be sold at a price comparable with the cost and trouble of making bush-beer. This would not reduce the total consumption of liquor, but it would result in less damage to health. It would, also result in howls from various pressure groups, including missions and elements of the United Nations Organisation, unaware of the situation.

Pacific Biscuit Company and Union Soaps Pty. Ltd. have sent their fifth gift to the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, in Malaya —a ton of biscuits and a ton of soap.

Neal-Moss Wedding Miss Miriam Neal and Mr. Frank Moss were married at St. John’s Church of England, Port Moresby, on July 10. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 40 AUGUST. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Biak is the first stop for KLM Constellations flying from Sydney to Manila and Bangkok.

The Manokwari airstrip was used by the Japanese during the war and was chosen by the Dutch for improvement as the first of a number of strips to be provided in North and North-West Dutch New Guinea.

A Dutch defence spokesman denied that the strips would be military bases. It has been reported that the defence of Dutch NG will become the responsibility of the Navy.

Fijian School in Malaya ANEW school for the 25 children of men of the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, has been built at Batu Pahat, Malaya, by General Headquarters Far East Land Forces.

The Battalion’s school master, Sergeant S. Narube, is being supplied with material by the Fiji Education Department and the Education Officer, Far East Land Forces.

Mrs. Tom Gilliard, at Goroka, New Guinea Eastern Highlands, in June. At the end of June, Mr. and Mrs. Gilliard returned to the United States after eight months in the Highlands collecting 230 different species of birds for the Museum of Natural History, New York. It was Mrs. Gilliard’s second trip to the Territory, Mr. Gilliard’s fourth. They plan to visit New Ireland in 1956—t0 look for Birds of Paradise which are not generally believed to exist there. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Much of the easy scrap in BSIP was removed and sold during the scrap boom.

The salvage operations at Rabaul are proceeding slowly. By mid-July a propeller worth £1,250 was recovered from a Japanese ship, and the value of others that were considered recoverable was estimated at nearly £30,000.

Of 45 worthwhile wrecks, 20 are in deep water and only 10 of these will be worked. Diver John Johnstone, director of operations, will not go below 180 feet unless he is after gold. The aircraft carrier Hie Maru will probably be beyond reach.

U Governor and Mrs. Richard Barrett Lowe, of American Samoa, gave a cocktail party for 140 on July 15 in honour of the Canadiai High Commissioner to NZ, Mr. E. H Norman, and Mrs. Norman; General Sir Leslie Hart and Lady Hart: ano three departing Government ser vants, Messrs. E. L. Davis, D. Cram and R. Greer. The first-mentioneo guests passed through on the Tofua 42 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'

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More Fact-Finding in the Cooks Minister Will Call Late August THE Cook Islands have had a number of official visits in recent months and another —on the ' Ministerial level —is planned for Al Th| t Secretary for NZ’s Islands Territories Department and two other Departmental men arrived in Rarotonga in June to discuss taxation, Public Service and Public Works matters there in the couple of days at their disposal. The local public servants were doubtless happy to discuss public service matters; but the matter of taxation naturally did not meet with any great enthusiasm. Three taxation experts spent several months in the Group and returned to NZ in July. ...

NZ’s Minister for Territories, Mr.

Clifton Webb, will lead another fact-finding government mission to the Cooks in August. A meeting of the Cl Legislative Council will be held while the delegation is in Rarotonga.

In addition to this meeting, Mr.

Webb will inquire into such things as taxation (again), the citrus replanting scheme, the coolstore, health and education services.

Cook Islands residents are flattered at the attention they have been getting from official New Zealand and hope that following the Minister’s visit some of their outstanding grievances will receive attention.

THE delegation to visit the Cooks in August will consist of the Minister, Mr. Webb, Mi’. S. W.

Smith (MP for Hobson electorate), the Secretary of Island Territories (Mr. J. B. Wright), the Director of Education in New Zealand (Dr.

C. E. Beeby), senior representatives of the Health Department and Ministry of Works, and the Chief of Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal W. H. Merton).

Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Merton will be included in the party which will leave Auckland August 9 in a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane.

The tour will occupy about a week.

U Mrs. L. E. Ashton, well-known resident of Lae, New Guinea, was guest-of-honour at a luncheon party given by Mrs. J. Peterson, also of Lae, at Romano’s, Sydney, on July 23. Other guests were Mrs.

N. Bergstrand, of Bulolo, Mrs. B.

Bunting, of Samarai, Miss Richardson, Mrs. I. Levy, Mrs. A.

McCutcheon and Sister E. Shepherd. Mr. and Mrs. Ashton will be returning to the Territory about August.

Not Popular!

The two New Zealand taxation assessors, left and right, who returned to New Zealand in June after an unpopular visit to the Cook Islands. With them is Mr. Ted Estall, of Rarotonga, who had the task of driving them round to their “victims”. 43 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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I Captain John Taylor said the cyclone which the Soochow encountered 100 miles from Brisbane on the run to Sydney from Port Moresby, early in July, was the worst he had encountered in his 35 years at sea. The 25 passengers were bruised and furniture was smashed in the 56 hours that the ship was buffeted by constant winds of 45-50 miles an hour, with gusts up to 65 miles an hour. Captain Taylor said he could not take a sextant shot for four days. Soochow arrived in Sydney a day late on July 14. .

These are the wonder African fish Tilapia mossambica about which people who have the welfare of underprivileged nations at heart become lyrical. Apparently it is only necessary to toss a few pairs of these fish into ponds for them to multiply out of all reason within a matter of months.

In Siam, 400 of these fish multiplied to 134,700 in a year when placed in a half-acre pond. They will provide a cheap source of protein, it is hoped.

About 50 of them, 2 inches long, were in a fish pond at Sigatoka, Fiji, some time ago. In two months they had increased to seven inches long and had begun to reproduce. These fish were said to be there for the benefit of some pigs which were installed in pens near the pond apparently pig pens near ponds cause algae to grow on the ponds, Tilapia like algae and the pigs like tilapia. However, there are a lot of people in the world who would just as soon take their protein straight from the tilapia, rather than via the pigs. Tilapia would probably be a welcome addition to the diet of inland New Guinea natives. Sir Edward Hallstrom and others have introduced trout to Highland streams with a view to providing edible fish in the future.

Tilapia may prove a sounder proposition. —Fiji Public Relations Office Photo. 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1954

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Smooth on the Palate Valiant PURE MM Is a very good rum indeed, as one sip will tell you Notes From Wau Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, NG. July 22. r r'HE District Court was busy in early A July.

A number of local people were fined for breaches of the Motor Traffic Regulations in that they parked vehicles in the street at night without having a tail light showing. Several of the convictions were for third and fourth offences.

John R. Estell. of Earlwood, Sydney, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge that, at Bulolo on or about May 8, 1954, he had in his possession without lawful excuse gold as defined in the Gold Buyers Ordinance, thereby contravening Section 132 A of the Mining Ordinance of the Territory.

Sub-Inspector Allen, of Bulolo, went to Sydney and arrested the defendant, who was brought to Wau.

It was stated that Estell found a cigarette tin containing approximately 4” ounces of amalgam on a ledge above the window in his room in Bulolo. The bullion content of this was valued at £ 220.

Estell was released on bail of his own surety of £5O and two bonds of £5O each.

Hotel Wau and W T au Golf Club were fined for selling liquor and permitting it to be consumed on licenced premises during prohibited hours at 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 4. The Hotel was fined £lO on each of three charges and the Golf Club £lO on each of two charges. A number of Wau citizens were fined £2 each for drinking on the premises.

On July 20 the Wau Golf Club Association held a dinner at the W r au Club.

The function was such a success that it is hoped to make it an annual affair at the close of each season. Members joined the ladies for coffee and liqueurs, and the dinner was followed by dancing.

After being in the doldrums for two years, owing to lack of interest, the Samarai Branch of the Public Service Association showed signs of revival with a meeting in June, Officers elected were: President, Mr.

D, Clifton-Bassett; vice-president, Mi\ A. T. Kelly; secretary-treasurer, Mr. N. B. Chester; committee, Messrs. C. Simkiss and D. Taylor. 46 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Island Merchants, Traders and Shipping Agents 215 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “Marnikay”, Sydney.

Or contact our Papua-New Guinea Branch at LAE, N.G. ( Manager: Ralph Albrecht.) We also buy, at guaranteed highest prices, your Islands Produce Cocoa, Coffee, Peanuts, Trochus Shell, Green Snail Shell, etc.

Apia Wedding of Note 21st Birthday fl Mr. J. Turner, well-remembered as former airport manager, Nadi, Fiji, has returned to that position after some years in New Zealand.

Mr. Graham Wallace has retired from the position.

The Junior Rugby Union Club at Petersham, a Sydney suburb, is raising funds for a visit to Fiji next year.

II Well-known writer, Willard Price of the United States, was visiting’

American Samoa in July, together with his wife. Mr. Price is understood to be preparing a book on the islands.

Margaret Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. von Dinklage, and Mr. Thomas Patrick Greene, a recent arrival from Ireland, were married In the Cathedral of Mary Immaculate, Apia, W. Samoa, in July. The Rev. Father E. C. jepson,SM, officiated. `The wedding group includes Mr. Andrew Power, best man, Mr. Frank Dinklage, and Misses Barbara Dunn, Matilda Dinklage and Louise-Marie Thieme who attended the bride. —Photo by Henry Forsgren.

Miss Clarissa Healy, grand-daughter of an old Territorian family, cutting the cake at her 21st birthday party at Port Moresby on July 10. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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An attractive range of Erin-Art sheets and pillow cases in all sizes; tea towels and brightly coloured bungalow cloths are offered by Nile Furthermore there are cotton prints suitable for lap laps or cotton frocks, as well as all sizes and colours in Nile jacquard towels, Nile beach towels and bath towels. NL2A 5? 48 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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In Auckland from Niue Helping the Crippled Children of Cl ARAROTONGAN organisation which deserves the highest praise is the Crippled Children’s Society. It is run by public donations and its officials are unpaid. The Society’s purpose is to send crippled Cl children to New Zealand for treatment.

In June an Orthopaedic clinic visited Rarotonga to examine all the Group’s crippled children. Members of the clinic were Mr. S. Morris, surgeon from the Auckland Hospital Board, Mrs. Choate, field officer, and Dr. Saunders and his wife.

Mrs. Saunders is also a doctor.

The 21 children brought for examination from the outer islands were boarded free of charge by local Maori families.

At a Committee meeting, Dr.

Saunders presented his report and recommendations. Accounts to the value of £577/12/6 were passed for payment. These costs were for the part-treatment of the five children at present in New Zealand, and the Committee advised that further funds of £9OO were available.

Dr. Saunders and his party were given a feast by the Maori members of the Committee, which was held at the residence of Queen Karika Ariki.—W. H. PERCIVAL.

A party of Queensland bowlers, accompanied by their wives, will leave Sydney on August 21 for a three-weeks’ tour of Fiji, which has been organised by ANA and Qantas.

For an inclusive return fare of £222, each member of the party will travel from Brisbane to Sydney by ANA Skymaster to join a Qantaa Constellation for Fiji. They will visit most of the major centres in the main island, staying at the best hotels and travelling by car. Besides playing bowls, they will visit villages and plantations.

Recent arrivals in Auckland from Niue included from, Mr - Paul Ikitule and Mr. Tavilitalana; Mr. G. Williams; Mrs. Niu and Miss Heupepe. 49 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE AT ITS FINEST:

Potatoes Onions Apples Fresh Fruits

VEGETABLES in season, and especially prepared and packed for tropical conditions.

Preserved Meats—Grocery And Merchandise

LINES Original Invoices Supplied Where Desired A. M. DOULL & CO.

National Chambers, 22 Swanson St., Auckland, N.Z.

Agents for Fiji, Tonga, Samoa: CORRIE & CO., Suva, Fiji.

Correspondents sought in New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Hebrides & Solomons.

Bankers: Bank of N.S.W., Auckland.

Cables: “ROWALLAN,” Auckland. POST OFFICE BOX 1778, Auckland, N.Z. -fta palatable vitamin supplement W aHhe family fop le&?> tKaiA Ar pop datj pep pefsci\ Each average dose (two teaspoonfuls) contains : Vitamin A Vitamin Bj Vitamin C Vitamin D 2000 International Units 300 International Units 300 International Units 1000 International Units Combined with calcium and phosphorus in tasty chocolate-malt flavoured granules.

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AE7O Research in Samoa Mr. Richard Gilson, who is doing manuscript and field research into historical and sociological aspects of political development in Samoa since 1830.

He arrived in Apia recently, and is working under a fellowship from the Australian National University. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He conducted field research in the Cook Islands in 1940-50. The present project is expected to take from three to five years. Professor J. W.

Davidson is also associated with it and was expected to arrive in Apia in July for about two months. —Photo by Jack Thornton.

H Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mackay, who were married recently at Ballma, NSW, will make their dome at Labasa, Fiji.

J, At the Chapter of the Maris Fathers of the Province of Oceania recently held in Sydney, the Yen Rev. C. Shivnan, SM, of Fiji, am Very Rev. J. Fotheringham, o Samoa, were elected Mission Dele gates to the General Chapter o the Society to be held in Rome ii September. 50 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ne difference hC£ makes to your with hC/ \^tr, Smoother S, "SS&®* •SX&SJSS& Now in Auckland Room For Improvement in Fiji Banana Packs ALTHOUGH Fijian bananas can be of good quality, packing and cases very often were not. (See June PIM, page 46).

This was the opinion of Mr. C. R.

Vasey, Produce Inspector of the Fiji Department of Agriculture, who recently made a tour of New Zealand banana distributing points at the invitation of the NZ Fruit Distributers Ltd.

Fiji cases fall to pieces, scattering fruit over ships’ holds and trucks. Case breakages are higher than with cases from other areas — notably Samoa. Samoan fruit, reported Mr. Vasey, are graded for size and better packed than Fijian lines. Fiji cases often contained thin scabby fruit in the centre of cases.

No MM Calls at Auckland ACCORDING to a recent report frnm Npw Zealand comnanies with l Tahiti P wSre negottltSf with Messageries Maritimes to make calls at Auckland with their east-bound trans-Pacific vessels. The calls would thus provide a direct link between NZ and Papeete.

Sydney agents for MM said late July that they had heard nothing about the reported negotiations, and that even if the company were approached it would be most unlikely that the Auckland calls would be made. The deviation from the established run would not be worth whde ’. ecause passenger accommodation was completely booked and the cargo that could be P icked to AuxUand would be com- P n aS raaeested a counle of ve ars ago that Elfinsshould Si a t luvr but therP sthl no of ’ this. ™ t U NZ exporters are interested in a cargo connection with Tahiti. At present the Union Steamship Company provides only three direct sailings per year. This is unsuitable for the perishable cargo trade, which is being steadily expanded.

Mr. Joe Meredith meeting his brother Uili from W. Samoa.

Alikina, Selda and Eva Purcell from Apia.

Mr. Fanele meeting Messrs. Tenari and dili from W. Samoa. 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

Qrnotts f* amoud Biscuits There is no Substitute for Quality The following varieties are now available for export in No. 8 size soldered tins (8 tins crated, 3 ft. 6 in. cu.) and i-lb. waxed packets in Cartons of permissible shipping weight (1 ft. 3 in. cu.).

VARIETY: Adora Cream Wafer Afternoon Tea Amelia Crunch Arno Shortbread Butter Oat Cake Cherry Ripe Cocoanut Creamy Chocolate Custard Cream Delta Cream Ginger Nut Golden Grain Jatz Cracker Lacto Malted Milk Milk Arrowroot Milk Coffee Nice Orange Slice Orange Tea Osborne Princess Raspberry Fruit Cream Sao (Carton 1 ft. 5 in. cu.).

Scotch Finger Shredded Wheatmeal Spicy Fruit Roll Tea Cake Thin Captain No. 8 tins Net wt. bisc. approx. 5 i lb. 6i Si 9i 71 6 5i 71 81 6 10 5i 5 o 5i 7i 7i 6i 8 7i 51 6 4i n 5 101 o 4i No. of i-lb. pkts. per carton. x 40 x 54 53 45 40 52 x 40 62 40 x 48 40 43 52 45 58 x 40 40 32 54 33 62 33 x o Not yet available in No. 8 tins, x Not yet available in packets.

Island Agents

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter Pty. Ltd.

Gollin & Co. Ltd.

Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd.

Lever’s Pacific Ltd.

Mackay Kerry Pty. Ltd.

Matthews Thompson (Overseas) Pty. Ltd Morris Hedstrom (Aust) Ltd.

Nelson & Robertson Pty*. Ltd.

Sargood Gardiner Ltd.

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

F. C. Tracy Pty. Ltd.

W. S. Tait & Co. Pty. Ltd.

William Arnott Pty., Limited

HOMEBUSH, N.S.W. 52 AUGUST. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

t NEEDHAM & GO. ■ 307-309 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.

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Importers - Exporters

Manufacturers' Representatives

Distributors for Leading Australian and Overseas Manufacturers.

Sole Agents'. Papua-New Guinea and Solomon Islands for Docke & Co., Bremen (Cardock Bush Knives, Hatchets, Axes, etc., including AH Trade Lines).

“Geo” Spanish Shot Guns.

Dominion Flour and Wheatmeal.

Sunnyside Canned Fruit.

Specialising in Piecegoods and Palm Brilliantine.

Ashby Bicycles.

Webster’s Biscuits.

“Columbia” Canned Fish.

Northgate Axe and Hammer Handles.

Inner Spring Mattresses, Pillows, etc.

Mosquito Nets for Native Issue.

TRADE ENQUIRIES INVITED—ALL TYPES OF MERCHANDISE SUPPLIED OVERSEAS INDENTS ARRANGED.

Tuna for the Feast If To replace Dr. W. H. McDonald, now on leave overseas, Dr. D.

Keating-Clay has been appointed Medical Superintendent, Makogai Leprosy Hospital, Fiji.

Royal Netherlands Navy forces serving in New Guinea waters will be reinforced by the destroyer Piet Hein which will leave The Netherlands for Hollandia mid-August.

Underwater-Glider

A DARWIN pearling company Is building an underwater glider which will speed up. the search for new shell beds. The glider, known as the Manta Board, is of French design and is similar to the one tested in the Mediterranean recently by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.

It is towed by the lugger with the diver strapped to its surface.

It moves in any direction underwater by the manipulation of ailerons and elevators, and will enable the diver to travel at eight knots in his search for beds.

Other people as well as Japs are catching tuna. Here is Resident Agent Rex Gladney, of Aitutaki, Cook Is., with the catch he made by ordinary trylling. The fish went to provide a feast for the Vice-Regal party and men of the HMNZS BLACK PRINCE recently. 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Telegrams and Cables: “CHASULL,” Sydney. Telephone: 8X6381 (# And at Melbourne, Victoria—Brisbane, Queensland.

Associated Companies : C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

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Peanuts—New Enemy

Of Dairy Farmers

AUSTRALIAN dairy farmers are apparently determined to go to any lengths to protect butter agamst competition from that detestable stuff, margarine. Some of them are now asking for prohibition on imports of peanuts.

They have declared that the nuts are used in margarine, and that if importation cannot be prevented it should at least be limited in the interests of butter. . Relatively few peanuts are being imported for margarine or anything else but the dairy farmers, quietened for a while by the Federal Government’s refusal last year to please them by placing an import tax on New Guinea copra are looking for anything on which to place a ban. i S, u t ensland farmers sent up a , wlien the Government fnrfw t S + tat !- recen tly placed a fnvi her / estrictlon on the manufacture of margarine, reducing the that may’be made* from tons to 4,236 tons a year. But S u lc ! - the , reduc tion was not half what it should have been iQ?i hey fought that double the 195! quota of 645 tons would be reasonable in the circumstances— the circumstance s being that Australian dairy products were being sold overseas at less than cost of production and that this situation had developed mainly since margarine quotas were liberalised.

M i> d -. L - Br own, a former Director of Public Works in Fiji, was recently transferred from a similar position in Cyprus to Kenya.

Local fishermen, using deep-li methods, were taking big hauls tuna and other fish in the Coc m May-June. In Mid-June th took 183 fish on one day, and Penrhyn, in two days inside t lagoon, some 5,400 Patuki we taken, most of them between 6 ai 12 lb. 54 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLTI

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Fiji’S £8 Mill. Public

WORKS ADDRESSING the Legislative Council at the opening of the June session, His Excellency the Governor said it was estimated that £8 million would be needed for capital works in Fiji between 1955 and 1960. | An effort would be made to raise [half of this by external loans, fmainly for the dock scheme and waterworks in Suva. Reading and -other schemes for which grants bnight be asked from Colonial Development and Welfare funds added up to nearly £2l million.

I A group of projects, including {credit for agriculture, industry, housing and local authorities, would [cost about £1.6 million. The Government hoped to find this money locally, either from Government [revenues or by borrowing.

Engaged PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954 Alarming Fall in Fiji Banana Exports NZ fruit importing interests are disturbed by the serious fall in banana exports from Fiji this year. Exports fell from 28,000 cases in April, 1953, to 17,000 cases in April, 1954, and from 28,000 cases in May, 1953, to only 14,000 cases this year.

Only about 13,000 cases were anticipated for June shipment—as compared with 35,000 cases last year.

Decrease can be accounted for partly by the very dry conditions of last summer throughout the Pacific, but the importers are not satisfied that this is the whole story. Further falls in exports could have an undesirable effect on shipping services to Fiji from New Zealand.

During the recent meeting of the Council of Chiefs in Suva, the Governor drew their attention to the fall. “I am confident, however, that you will see to it that the necessary extra effort required of banana-growers is made at once in order to maintain the high reputation of their fruit,” he said.

H Port Moresby parish Priest, the Rev. Father Father, is at present receiving a visit from his mother.

This is Mrs Father’s second visit to Moresby and while there on July 19, she celebrated her 87th birthday.

Miss Judith Ann Denny, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Denny, of Nukualofa, Tonga (where Mr. Denny is the Burns Philp manager), announced her engagement lately to Mr. S. P, Boulton, whose parents reside in Killara, Sydney. They expect to marry in Nukualofa in September. Photo (by Hettig) shows the young couple. 55

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Since Lady Garvey took into her ;own hands the urgent question of Ist Battalion gifts (there had been suggestions in New Zealand that the Dominion’s Patriotic Fund Board should look after the Fijians, as Fiji seemed unlikely to do anything about it), every penny of expenditure has been accounted for m regular and prompt public statements. . f The division of the competition finto groups—Commercial, Sports, Social, Services and Arts—has produced some amusing line-ups, all calculated, accidentally or otherwise, to provide red-hot competition for reasons of prestige.

For example, the three Big Firms (Burns Philp, Morris Hedstrom and Carpenters) are inevitably marshalled in the Commerce Section, but then the Indian Chamber of Commerce has entered this group with useful complications, and halfway through the preliminary contest its candidate is running a good second to Morris Hedstroms.

Another entertaining fight is going on in the Social Section, where the Defence Club will have to battle to the last ditch with a strong Indian organisation, the Stri Sava Sabha. On parallel lines, the Army and the Police are competing in the Services Section.

In its term of rather more than two years in the Malaya campaign, the Ist Battalion has probably accounted for nearly 150 Communist terrorists, but even the current total has not been announced in Fiji for months. (This may, or may not, be a reflection of the uproar caused by the system of “scoreboards” instituted by some Army units in Kenya).

Many people feel that the Fijian jungle fighters are forgotten men and that a little public interest is overdue.

On July 15, Colonel T. C. Campbell, Commander Fiji Military Forces, broadcast an appeal on behalf of the gift parcels fund and in doing so gave more information about the Battalion than has been available since 1952.

Col. Campbell said that despite the contributions made to the fund from time to time, and the gifts of biscuits, soap and cigarettes, there was a clear need to raise more money, particularly for yagona (kava).

“Nobody will deny the importance of yagona in the everyday life of Fijians”, he said. “If you could see the delight that it brings to the troops, either before proceeding on patrol or when they come in from a long and tedious patrol, you would realise how important it is to make this Fijian custom possible in a country 5,000 miles away.”

He added; “The Battalion in Malaya is second to none. They are probably our greatest ambassadors, and it behoves us all to make a contribution and positive effort to let them see that we appreciate the work they are doing.” 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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She has reported to the Leper Trust Board in Christchurch, NZ. a case in which six members of the one family were stricken.

A lad was the first to suffer after contact with an advanced case near his village. His mother cared for him and became infected, and the disease spread 1° his brother, sister, and grandmother.

The sister’s first baby was born with the disease but was cured with prompt treatment.

The excellent work of the Leprosarium and the kindness of its staff were typified recently when a lad in the New Hebrides who had been treated begged to remain as a work-boy after he was cured Fiji Filariasis Research MR. C. B. SYMES, for the past 6 years attached to the disease s ?ction of the Colonial omce, and with many years field experience in Africa, will carry out filanasis research in Fiji build i, n ?s in Brown Street, i l i. va ’ . aie being taken over as laboratory and administrative headquarters for the project, which is financied by a Colonial Development and Research grant. aimed at developing control of the mosquitoes concerned by means of insecticides. Before these can be used a great deal of res f earch is required into the habits of the mosquitoes inlved—th.ere a r.e 14 or 15 possible offenders in Fiji. _ Tha .Mosquito Control section the Fiji Medical Department wv Synges m collal:)0ration with M (See article “Filaria Beaten”, elsewhere J Mr. P Bolger, of Mandated Ah f!? e ** Ltdv Lae ’ New Gui nea, wo fourth prize of £5OO in a Queena land lottery on July 9. 58 AUGUST, 1 9 5 4 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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US Professor Makes 20th Century Survey T‘ HE American who wrote Fiji- Little India of the Pacific , during the war, is undertaking another Pacific population survey, f He is Dr. John W. Coulter, processor of Geography at the University of Cincinnati. And the 50 (people living on Pingelap, a ‘coral atoll two-thirds of a squaremile in area, have been chosen for the pilot studies.

Pingelap is in the eastern Caroline Islands, mid way between Honolulu and Manila. Dr.

Coulter went there at the end of May with joint instructions from the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Council, the US Trust Territory and the US Navy. He will map land use and land tenure for the first time on Pingelap, which is administered as a Trust Territory by the US for the United Nations.

Before leaving for Pingelap, Dr.

Coulter said that, traditionally, the native populations of the Pacific Islands were restricted to subsistence level by infanticide, abortion and tribal wars. But when missionaries arrived early in the 19th century they insisted that these practices be abolished. Physicians and nurses also arrived, and more and more children lived to grow up.

The result was serious overpopulation on some islands in relation to the available food.

Dr. Coulter said that before World War 11, the British Government took 2,000 underfed natives from the Gilbert Islands and settled them on vacant islands in the Phoenix Group.

“But the trouble now is that there are no more vacant islands that are habitable,” he said.

“Overpopulation is serious in American Samoa. When the United States occupied the Eastern Samoan islands in 1900, the native population was 5,000. It is now 14,000. In 1953, 500 young Samoan men were taken to Hawaii as a relief measure.

They are now working on sugar cane and pineapple plantations and in other jobs.”

Dr. Coulter was born in Ireland, the son of a Methodist parson.

WHO Considers Help to Suva Medical School PROFESSOR J. H. STRAHAN, Adviser to the World Health Organisation, recently paid a visit to Fiji to study the Assistant Medical Practitioner training scheme at first hand.

He said that WHO was considering financing two lecturers to the Central Medical School to aid in the training of AMP’s.

The lecturers would teach biology and physiology respectively. Professor Strahan, together with the Director of Medical Services, South Pacific Health Service, visited a number of hospitals in Fiji before leaving for New Zealand to attend an international dental conference.

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The Rev. D. C. Gribble, general secretary of the Methodist Overseas Mission, sard in Rabaul, NG, on July 10, that the George Brown College at Vunarima, which was wrecked during the war, would be rebuilt. Stewart hospital would also be rebuilt, and child welfare posts established in primitive areas. The Mission hoped soon to have nine triple-certificated nurses. Twentyfive mission houses had been built since the war.

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H Rev. Father Hugh Law, formerly of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, has been appointed Administrator of the Catholic Cathedral Parish of Suva, Fiji, and Vicar Delegate for a period of three years. He served as a RAAF chaplain in Borneo during the war.

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This news has come to us from Mr. Fred Ellis, who with other members of his family, has been associated with the O’Keefe family all his life. He is the son of a Welshman, who was mate on one of O’Keefes schooners, and the grandson of Radja Marwedi, of Mapia.

Ellis, with his brother and sister, were on the Mapia plantations with Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Eugenia Scott O’Keefe and Miss Daisy Q’Keefe when the Japs arrived in 1942. They were all sent by ship to Indonesia and spent the years of internment there.

During the war, about £30,000 worth of damage was done to the plantations and installations on Mapia but Mrs. Brown—the acknowledged head of the family— could get no compensation from either the Dutch or the Americans and the two elder sisters lived, since the war, in somewhat straitened circumstances in Biak.

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A Government -meteorological station, with Ellis in charge, has been installed at Mapia to supply weather notes for aircraft—Mapij lies directly on the KLM Biak Manila air route.

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WESTERN PAPUA may still have a cray-fish industry. Reports from Sydney and Terrigal, m NSW, and from Townsville, Qld., indicate that the Toyer family and its associates have not given up the idea of wealth from this source and are again on the eve of departure for Daru.

About 15 months ago, the venture got off to a blast of Australian newspaper publicity when the 112-ft, twin-screw launch C-Gull left Sydney for Daru with a large party on board. Included in the party were three women and half-a-dozen children. They said they would live on the ship until houses could be built for them ashore near Daru.

C-Gull got as far as Townsville and there she bogged down. The crew dispersed and the cray-tail Industry was heard of no more.

FROM Townsville, in July this vear, C-Gull was again reported to be making ready for the trip to Daru—they were waiting only for their company to be formed Into a £lOO,OOO public company and the arrival of the Cygnet, a freezer ship.

Meanwhile Cygnet was reported at Terrigal, NSW, where Captain Jack Toyer, his wife and six children (one more baby since they set off in the C-Gull 15 months ago) were filling in time waiting for some refrigerating machinery. When that was installed they expected to head for Daru, they said.

Cygnet is equipped to hold 9 tons of snap-frozen crayfish tails in its freezing room, a crew of seven who are all shareholders in the company, and Captain Toyer and his family.

Cygnet cost £30,000, but according to the captain can earn £l,BOO in a single day. Besides Cygnet and C-Gull, the company will take with them to Daru two small launches, Curlew and Cormorant. In Townsville a spokesman for the company said that they planned to build large freezing works ashore in Daru.

Captain Toyer is said to have been marine superintendent for Australasian Petroleum Co. in Papua before the war.

Residents of Papua will watch the activities of the Cygnet Company with interest. Some old residents of the Western District were sceptical when C-Gull first set out in early 1953. They said that in some seasons there were not sufficient crayfish to worry about in the Gulf area.

But sceptical old residents can be wrong; and frozen crayfish tails from southern Australian waters have learned a lot of dollars for Australia.

At all events, if the Cygnet Co. finally gets there and begins to catch crayfish, the PNG Administration will be ready: several months ago they filled a Government Gazette with the rules and regulations under which crayfish may be fished and frozen.

U Mr. W. G. Johnson, chairman and managing director of W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji), Ltd., has been appointed a director of the parent company, W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., Sydney.

II The Rev. Ambrose Fletcher, a Methodist clergyman who went to Papua as a missionary in 1894, celebrated his retirement from active duty and his ninetieth birthday with a party at his Sydney home on July 3. He said that when he went to Papua cannibalism was rife and “skulls were hanging up on the verandahs.” Traders paid for coconuts and bananas with tobacco twist. For the last 14 years Mr.

Fletcher has been a chaplain at Sydney hospitals. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1954

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The basis of the campaign was f® 4 by Mlss M - Higgins, secretary of the NSW St. John Ambulance, and Pastor R. E. Hare, former general secretary of the Australian division of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission.

Both say the natives are apt pupils, and are absorbing their first-aid training faster and more thoroughly than the average European.

It was decided 12 months ago to use mission stations as initial training centres, with the missionaries, who are trained in first aid doing the instruction. Classes have been started at what are considered strategic centres, such as Batikama on Guadalcanal, Kinailibissi on Malaiti Island, Batuna in New Georgia, and in Bougainville, Wabag and Mt. Hagen in New Guinea.

Pastor Hare envisages a training scheme covering the 12,000,000 square miles supervised by the Australian division of the Mission.

If Mr R, O. Ramage, CMG, accompanied by stenographer Miss O.

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THE Administration has a considerable programme of educational development in hand or projected and materials are already being assembled for the construction of the long-awaited Tereora Training College. But while work goes ahead, it is very evident that there is a great deal of indecision behind the scenes in New Zealand and in the Rarotonga education office.

There are those in the Group who feel that better educational facilities will solve the problem of emigration and contribute greatly towards the development of the Cook Islands. Others think that the very reverse will be the case, and that the exodus will be accentuated by the better-educated islanders looking to the wider horizons.

The difference between Maori and European scales of salary paid in Cook Is., is causing great discontent in the Group, and in the Education Department perhaps more than in any other Government Department. Recently the first fully-trained Cook Islands-born teacher to attain a teacher’s C-Certificate in New Zealand, applied for a Cook Islands position which was advertised. He was employed in a New Zealand school, on European rates, with other New Zealand teachers. The Cook Is. job was advertised at European rates of salary.

The Education Department at Rarotonga supported his application, but the Administration decided, however, that it would be impossible to appoint this local-born man at the European rate of salary, even though he was fully qualified, because he would thereupon become senior to a number of local Maori teachers who had been in the service a great many years and had, in fact, taught the man applying for the position.

To pay this young man a European salary would be to cause a general upheaval—at least, that was said to be the Administration’s attitude, though others felt that the older, unqualified men would not take that attitude at all. They would say good luck to this young teacher who had been given opportunities that had never come their way.

The applicant was then offered a salary of less than half of what he had been receiving in New Zealand but because he felt that it was his duty to return to the Cooks, and perhaps because he hopes that his acceptance will bring the matter to a head, he has accepted the appointment.

It is clear that, unless New Zealand decides to pay equal salary for equal qualifications in the Cooks, there will never be any headway towards a truly Cook Islands Administration by Cook Islanders. A decision will have to be made very soon, for already scholarship students, sent to New Zealand at the country’s expense, are refusing to return on completion of studies.

How can they be expected to return to a lower standard of living when there are plenty of positions available in New Zealand?

Sixteen Maori teachers with over ten years’ service resigned from the Cook Is. Education Department in the past 12 months—to take jobs at higher salary with local employers, or to go to various nonteaching jobs in New Zealand.

Two officers of the New Zealand Public Service Commissioner’s staff were visiting Rarotonga in June to discuss these matters. (Over) 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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POSSIBLY the most criticised man in the Cook Islands to-day is Mr. Win. Ryan, the energetic Works Chief, who has made his mark on the Cook Islands landscape during his term of office.

Most criticised of all is his huge Public Works Depot at Arorangi, several miles from the main settlement on Rarotonga. Whether the size of this establishment is justified, and whether Mr. Ryan made the decisions in regard to its size, are subjects that find ready discussion along the Rarotonga waterfront.

But behind the scenes a much bigger battle is being fought.

Mr. Ryan is unshakably convinced that coral lime cement is the answer to Cook Islands building requirements. He has coined the word “coralite” for this material.

However, the New Zealand Ministry of Works, which acts as consultant to Island Territories Department on all major constructional matters, having given coralite The attractive new four-roomed Nikao School, Rarotonga, the most modern school in the Cooks. Eventually it will accommodate 120-140 children, but is being used partly as a teachers’ training college until the long projected Tereora Training College is built. Cost of school was £ NZ8.3OO. 69 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Mr. Ryan claims that churches which have stood the test of hurricanes for the past century were built of coralite. MOW says not so —the old churches were built largely of coral blocks and large pieces of coral, not the pulverised material now used. MOW is waiting for a hurricane to see what happens to Mr. Ryan’s Public Works Depot.

Nothing may happen—but the coralite tests give no cause for optimism. Coralite may be, possibly is, much cheaper building medium than the approved concrete blocks. But proof is still required as to costs.

Also criticised is the recently completed Official Secretary’s residence which, according to Mr. Ryan’s figures, cost £7,364, made in his cora lite. (Photo of this house appeare< page 67, July PIM). It has a floo area of 2,700 square feet. Coo Islanders feel that this was a grea waste of money.

The Administration’s view is tha the Secretary—second in import ance to the Resident Commissione —should have a better-than-aver age house. It was built of coralit without MOW approval. Time wil AT LEFT: The MAUI POMARE lies offshore at one of the Cook Lower Group Islands loading oranges from surf boats.

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An average residence in coralite —as roomy and well laid out a house as anyone could ask for and built to a standard MOW plancosts about £l/10/- per square foot on Mr. Ryan’s figures—this is about half the cost, per ft. of the Official Secretary’s house (A 15square house would cost only £2,200 —which is cheap indeed). Concrete block construction costs more than twice as much.

Coralite cement, says Mr. Ryan, can be produced at £3 per ton in Rarotonga; imported cement costs about £2l per ton.

One senses that Ministry of Works in New Zealand is looked on almost as Public Enemy No. 1 in Cook Islands Administration circles —a deliberate obstructor in their inexpensive-building programme.

Meanwhile, in spite of the 35,000 square feet, £37,000 Depot facilities, it has been necessary to call in an outside contractor from New Zealand to undertake the complicated job of building the new freezer and fruit cool-store at Rarotonga. The contracting firm, Norman Calwell & Co., of Christchurch, are pushing ahead with the project at a great rate.

The freezer section, for storage of imported foodstuffs, will cost about £32,000 and will be completed in a few months. A separate contract will be let for the adjoining cooler, which is estimated to cost £116,000.

A cool-store for Rarotonga has been talked about for the last 30 years; now at last it is in sight.

Cheap Fertiliser For

Fish Poisoning

ONE of the services attached to the Administration Fruit Scheme (see July PIM) is to make fertiliser available to Maori citrus plot-owners at a reasonable price.

At first, little fertiliser was disposed of. Apart from the average plot-owner being too tired to use it, few had any faith in the growthpromoting properties of the stuff.

They just had not seen it before.

Now, however, its potentialities are beginning to be appreciated. It’s wonderful stuff, they say—for fish poisoning!

A bag of it dumped in a small stream will provide a feast of freshwater shrimps and nato —and speed up the total destruction of fish resources at Rarotonga, of course.

Poisonous plants and dynamite are also playing their full part in this destruction.

The annual shoals of ature that used to invade the reef waters along the foreshore at Avarua and Avatiu have almost disappeared over the past four years, and there appears to be no effort on the part of Administration or people towards fish conservation. Although the law has its remedies there is believed never to have been a conviction brought against a fish poisoner or dynamiter.

Who Makes The Profit

Out Of Oranges?

WHY are we receiving only 15/for a case of oranges when they are being sold in New Zealand for over £3” i* a Question constantly asked by Maori citrus growers in the Cooks. Many growers are convinced that “the Government” is making a profit at the expense of the producers.

Here is the cost of structure, as supplied by the Department of Agriculture on a U bushel, 70 lb case of ordinary oranges: The orchardist receives 15/- for the contents of the case. Handling from orchard to ship’s hold adds 11/8 to the cost to the consumer— the case alone costs 6/8 and other items are labour, cartage, debuttoning gassing, packing, inspection. shed levy (for maintenance of packing shed and equipment), manure levy, fruit control levy, re serve fund—making the FOB pr i C e to the fruit importers 26/8 per case Then comes freight to New Zealand> wharfage, inspection, cartage, supervision charge, bringing the pric ,e up to £l/14/7 delivered to the a “ ™ arts - M f Here they aie sold to the retailers. The auction mart collects (Continued on Page 89) 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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The search is mainly for a fat which will serve as a wholly satisfactory substitute for the all-important cocoa butter, or cocoa fat, in the craft of chocolate making.

Already there are signs, discouraging for the cocoa grower, that [the search is meeting with a fair amount of success in America.

Blumenthal Bros., of Philadelphia, have made a test-marketing of a new product, “choco-like,” which retails at about half the price of true chocolate. It has a vegetable fat basis as a substitute for cocoa butter and uses only two pounds of cocoa beans per 100 pounds of manpounds used in 100 pounds of regular chocolate.

Another American company, Curtiss Candy, is making a “chocolate” coating with two fats as a substitute for cocoa butter.

In no case has the nature of the substitute fat been divulged. That, under present grim trade conditions, is a well-guarded secret. Nor is it known yet whether the substitute products will be as unconditionally acceptable to consumers as true chocolate.

Imitation chocolate has been made before today, notably in Britain, where it was tolerated during wartime rationing, but by no means accepted happily. None of this earlier “chocolate” had the distinctive, universally-acceptable qualities of the real thing. The present intensive research is aimed at capturing these qualities in a substitute.

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Top left: Mr. M. Williamson, after three years teaching at Avele School, W. Samoa, returned to Timaru, NZ. Mr. Taimalelagi Paisa, of Matautu, W. Samoa, returned there after seven months in NZ.

Mr. J. Hunter, of NZ Reparation Estates, Samoa, and Mr. and Mrs. P.

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J. Gascoigne, Messrs. Leaso, Taigakifi and loane and Mrs. Fuimaono Ta’ala in back row, and Messrs Faaoso and Elisara and two friends in front. 75 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Tropicalities

Village Fashion Decrees?

IS it possible that London, Paris and New York will one day defer to some obscure New Guinea village as a world fashion centre? That a coterie of natives, wearing lap-laps and squatting on grass mats, will design the barbaric dresses which civilised women wear?

That the patterns of the fabrics from which they make their masterpieces will be inspired by the tropical village scenery?

The possibility, remote as it might seem now, has been raised by two separate news items.

One item announces that New Guinea natives are to be encouraged to enter a dress design competition in 1955, the scope of the competition having been extended in the hope that the natives will provide some fresh ideas for Australian frock designs.

The second item announces that a missionary couple, Mr. and Mrs.

Cecil Abel, are studying silk screen technique at East Sydney Technical College and will pass on their knowledge of fabric printing to the natives when they return to Papua.

The Christian Diors and William Hartnells of New Guinea are about to get their chance.

Another Tropical Premiere

FOLLOWING British and American practice of giving films their world premiere at the scene of location, King of the Coral Sea had its premiere at the Torres Theatre, Thursday Island, on July 17. It was seen by the lugger crews and natives who took part in the filming.

The film stars Chips Rafferty, Who also produced it for Southern International Films; Lee Robertson was the director.

It tells a story of pearling and smuggling in the Coral Sea and features underwater scenes photographed by Noel Monkman.

The film will appear in Sydney soon.

Triumph Of The Bush

ORANGE THERE was once a report in PIM that a former Cl Fruit Control Director had said, “with a grim smile” that the day of the native orange, which has grown uncultivated for over a century since Captain Bligh supplied the first pips, was over.

That official has been long out of the Group. The grim smile is today on the faces of those who view the dying-out of introduced Valencias and the continued productiveness of the Bligh-derived item. ~ _ Nothing can kill the old bush orange”, which, if a little coarser than the fancy imported fruit, retains all the virtues of its species.

We have had numerous crackpot prophets who predicted its disappearance—and what we saw was the vanishing of the prophets, not the orange!

The potentialities of Mangaia Island, visited by both Bligh and Cook (in what order is not clear), as an orange supplier are immense.

As things are, millions of the golden fruit go to NZ every season.

Multi-millions could be produced, even from trees sired by local pips.

The consumption, in the deep bush, of banned tipple has been the cause of immeasurable increase in the orange acreage—from thrownaway pips.—E.G.

Island Of Perpetual

HONEYMOON LAST, loneliest and most exquisitely apart in the Northern Cook Islands is the 300-acre isle of Nassau, 45 miles from over-crowded Pukapuka atoll.

A few years ago the Cook Islands administration arranged for the Pukapukans to buy Nassau to provide land for their overflow population. It had been a flourishing copra plantation in pre-Pacific-War days, but was then deserted, except for Coast-Watchers, for some years.

When the ship Charlotte Donald called at Nassau in May, 1954, the colonists there had 18 tons of copra, which took five days to get on board owing to a bad reef.

This is how the Pukapukans work their Nassau plantation, according to what they told the visitors: They send a party of young married couples over to Nassau about 40 at a time. These young people stay and make what copra they can; then another party comes from Pukapuka to relieve the garrison on Nassau. The Pukpukans rotate their Nassau settlers about every 12 months.

Commented a Cook Islands veteran: “This seems far from ideal. It would be better if some people stayed there permanently.

They could make the place a little paradise. They have eaten all the pigs that were there from before 1941. The pigs used to eat copra that was drying, and the people were not enterprising enough to make a large pig pen.”

Those Nice Green Nuts Are

Not For Sale!

BANG goes another South Sea island illusion (carefree plenty from Nature’s tropical abundance) with a Fijian Affairs Board regulation prohibiting the selling or bartering of coconuts by Fijians to any non-Fijian in areas which will be gazetted from time to time.

Nothing has happened yet beyond the fact that on July 7, the Legis- The Fish Shooter The original of the present P a P ua -New Guinea £1 stamp, and the original of the 9d stamp that was part of the first Prewar Papuan issue of pictorials. Sanasl. who sent us this photograph, says that at the time the Papuan Pictorials were issued, “some crank ' accused the designer of copying a British Guiana stamp. He says that this old photograph proves that this was not so — it was taken by Mr. H.

M Dauncey an LMS missionary, early IS this century. The Orokolo natives of Papua still use this method of shooting fish—the platforms being a mangrove sapling root, reversed, and sunk into the mud and sand of Western Papua beaches. 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

lative Council approved the regulation.

The purpose of the regulation is to close loopholes in the application of the law blocking the sale of green copra by Fijians. And that law is a sort of corollary to the Fijian Development Fund Ordinance under which £lO a ton is deducted from all Fijian-produced copra.—S.

Nuts. Drinking, For The Use

OF AS our friend says above, things are not what they were in the Pacific. Time was—or so we are told—when the hospitable natives rushed to get green coconuts for the refreshment of visitors as soon as they appeared in the village.

Personally I have never found it so myself, . . . getting a green coconut out of any native is about the hardest thing this side of entering the Pearly Gates.

I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, up above the Burma Road out of Rabaul, where an acquaintance had driven me to see the sights. We happened upon a native Co-operative store (they seem to be peppered around the countryside these days) and he suggested a bottle of lemonade.

The store was in a grove of native coconut trees, and, incautiously, I suggested a couple of green coconuts as a substitute.

We were in a tearing hurry and I was sorry as soon as I had said it —but the ponderous wheels of native life were already grinding, and the inexorable business of Buying a Green Coconut had begun.

A couple of Marys and a small boy had detached themselves from a group under a tree and gone off to the village from which eventually echoed much shouting and yelling and mightly little else.

“What in heaven’s name are they doing?” asked my companion impatiently. Somewhere out of the dim past experience prompted me to say: “Trying to find the owner of the trees.”

Sure enough, a sour looking gent eventually appeared, climbed a tree and threw down a couple of small nuts to the Marys.

More delay while someone flew off to the village again for a bush knife to decapitate the nuts. The nuts themselves cost my companion 1/ — just as cheap, of course, to buy a bottle of lollie-water, and much quicker.

The moral of this story, of course, it that the only way to assure yourself of an adequate supply of coconuts is to buy a plantation, and that it is a mistake to imagine that the coconuts and fruit you see growing along the Islands wayside are there for the picking. Someone always “owns” them and getting possession is as complicated a business as native cussedness can devise.

In Fiji, apparently, European wisdom has now added a further com- i Heating factor. The logical development of this, of course, is to issue permits for intending drinkers of green coconuts.—J.T.

Goings-On Among The

Blue-Bloods

The first wife of Captain Hugh Frewen well known in Fiji where he owned and operated the small Melanesia— has been in appears (according to f S y dne y .evening paper, anyway) ShL he i S t A at Maria Guinness, widow of the late Benjamin Guinness, of the Irish brewing family and millionaire half a dozen times over, who recently was described by two Swiss psychiatrists as a menace to society At this writing Mrs. Guinness is languishing in gaol—it appears that she has for years been systematically pinching the heirlooms and choice bric-a-brac of all the best famines in Europe, to whom she is related or on friendly terms.

Now Nemesis has overtaken her, but Maria is unrepentant she thought it was a good way of makmoney. She has also confessed (it is said) to having a long line of lovers.

Guinness was her third husband —he was living apart from her when he died and cut her out of his will. Captain Frewen was her first; in between times there was an Italian nobleman (and Maria herself seems to have been of noble Italian birth).

As Mrs. Frewen, she had one son, Roger, who is married to a daughter Viscount Selby, who is Anthony Eden s cousin. They live in the Frewen family manor, Brede Place Captain Frewen has lived in Australia for 30 years, but was in England last year visiting his kin.

He has, we understand, now reto his Property at Dorrigo, ■NSW.

Oh, For A Filet Mignon!

rNGA’S nature-man, Ta v i Kaufmann, who has been living entirely on coconuts, leaves and berries on his island in the Tongan group, was in Nukualofa in June to receive medical treatment for inflamed eyes.

It will be remembered that Mr Kaufmann, a Dane, has a theory that only by reverting to the stoneage can man cure his modern ills After building his house on lonely Hunga Is., he proposed to throw his 20th century tools into the sea.

He was not sure whether he would keep any books to read, either.

Latest report is that he has built two huts on the island to accommodate visitors and is at present teaching two Tongans mathematics.

Why? Surely mathematics come within the category of modern ills.

An American mining engineer, Mr.

M. Janitzke, visited Kaufmann recently. Janitzke, too, is looking for a Pacific paradise. But he has now crossed Hunga off the list of prospects.

MAJOR CHARLES A. SWIN- BOURNE, QBE, President of thes Sydney Pacific Islands Society, wasi oorn in Sydney and after being\ commissioned in the Australiam Military Forces, was appointed to( the Fiji Constabulary in 1909. He\ later became Commandant and } Aide-de-Camp to the Governor During World War I he trainedl the First and Second Fiji Con-ungents, their reinforcements, andl the Labour Contingent, before proceeding on active service himself ..

He was awarded the OBE (Military Division) in 1918, and after the war ■ was posted to administrative work in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.

He became understudy to Sir Arthur Grimble, and was relieving Resident Commissioner there for a total of three years. He left the Gilberts in 1938, and after serving in the Tokelau Group and Fanning Island he retired in 1941.

Major Swinbourne is now living at Manly, NSW, in very active retirement; he has held a surprising multiplicity of honorary offices in different clubs and societies but these are at present limited to the Manly Art Gallery, the Manly Swimming Club, and the Manly and District Historical Society, besides the Pacific Is. Society.

Major and Mrs. Swinbourne have five sons and two daughters, all of whom have lived in the Islands and some of whom were born there — their names, Gilbert, Ellice and Loloma indicate where. —BßETT HILDER. 78 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Charlie Loses a Farm Girl

By Bill Gill

“T ADY with goitre,” said Charley.

I a I examined the beautiful little glazed pottery figurine more closely.

“Goitre?” I said doubtfully. “The title refers to her ankles, I suppose?”

“It refers to the fiddle she’s holding,” replied Charley. “It’s written on the bottom.”

I turned the ornament over; a small paper sticker bore the legend in ink; “Lady with guitar, 15 gns.”

I whistled. “Fifteen guineas! Since when has your devotion to Art gone that far?”

Charley sighed heavily and laid aside the cut-throat razor with which he had been whittling down his left foot in a vain effort to get it to fit into the black patent leather shoe lying beside him.

“Art!” he said bitterly. “I wouldn’t give two bob for all the art in captivity. It’s that woman Pat —” and he shook his head.

“So that’s why you’ve been missing from your old haunts for this last fortnight? Say no more, old man, now I know the worst. At your age, too!”

“Wait on,” he cried anxiously, as I grabbed for my hat.

“Don’t go yet; I want you to meet her. A tomato blonde she is, pretty as a picture and smart as paint.

But sometimes I think she’s maybe a shade young for me—specially at them night clubs we’ve been infesting. Sit down and I’ll tell you The words froze on his lips and his eyes glazed as they turned to the door behind me. At the same time the reek of gin and stale tobacco in the room was overwhelmed by a powerful feminine perfume. Wheeling, I beheld the cause of his confusion.

She leaned nonchalantly in the doorway. Red hair, plunging neckline and a figure that put Miss Universe in the Mama Katzenjammer class. And she had those candid blue eyes! If there is a point beyond which candour should not go, those eyes were unaware of it. This is a virtuous journal, and has no place for the sort of things those eyes said about me. “Excuse me,” I mumbled and fled past her, down the stairway and out.

That same night I opened my front door in answer to a furtive rat-a-tat on the knocker, and Charley leaped in.

“Quick!” he hissed. “Close the door!” He slammed it to, and leaned against it, gasping.

“Boy, have I had a time!” he said, when he’d recovered somewhat.

I poured out a drink.

“Here, wrap yourself around this.

Then let your hair down and tell me all.”

“As you know,” he began, “I was never much of a ladies’ man. In the early days in New Guinea Sinabadas were as scarce as hen’s teeth.

“There was one took a fancy to me once; I was just back from the Yodda fields with a shammie like the fender on a tugboat. Tall she was, six foot two as the crow flies, with a mouth like a slot of a letterbox and a hat on her like the hanging gardens of Semiramis.

“I was a young fellow then and, as I say, women were scarce. So I entertained her of an evening explaining the Japs’ method of gutting fish, and how to skin a goat without using a knife.

“I made good progress until one night I offered to clip off the long hairs growing on a mole she had on her left cheek. She seemed to lose interest in me then, and last I heard of her she’d married the cattleman on Fall River, and was leading him a life of perfect misery.

“That was 40 years ago and since then I haven’t bothered them much.

“So it took the wind out of my sails, I can tell you, when this girl Pat prats her frame on the arm of my chair one morning.

“ ‘Where have you been all my life, honey?’ says she. (Continued on Page 81) A tomato blonde . . .

“Can you imagine a beast like that?” 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1954

All Roads Lead To Goroka r&IZS P ? s £ nd story hy Joan and Gordon Garter, of Papuan Prints, Port Moresby, who recently visited the NG Highlands THROUGH the drive of District Commissioner lan Downs and his young officers, the people of the New Guinea Highlands are getting roads to replace the wartime jeep tracks, and all of them lead to Goroka, unofficial capital of this whole mountain area.

Recently a grader was flown in to help the good work, but most °^. roa d work has been done by primitive natives with not much in the way of equipment but bare hands.

Recently, about three miles out of Goroka, we watched very primitive people doing a mighty job of road making, it seems that they come from the fringe of the uncontrolled area some way from Goroka but had heard of these wonderful roads that link the various outstations and villages, and wanted to be in on the scheme.

They sent a deputation to see why they could not have a road, and were told that they first would have to learn how.

Hordes of them then arrived to learn the art and were put to work These two bridges, at right angles to each other, span tricky mountain watercourses on the Goroka-Hagen Road.

Part of the Goroka-Kainantu section of the road.

Like a nest of black ants 80 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

“ ‘You’ve been passing me with your head in the air every day for the last fortnight,’ I tells her.

“ ‘Yes, but why wasn’t I told about all this long ago? My mammy told me about Rubber Barons, Tin Tycoons and Sugar Daddies, but I’ve never heard of Coconut Kings before. Tell me, is it true that you’ve got more mazuma than Tommo’s Two-up School?’

“She never paused to let me get a word in edgewise and, before long, I found myself shassaying all over Sydney with her on my arm.

Nightclubs, barbecues, carnivals and cocktail parties—she had to see them all. For a farm girl she had an extraordinary knowledge of where to find fun, and it nearly killed me.

“But, after you left this afternoon, she told me I could have the night off as she had to meet a friend who’d been away on business and detained longer than expected.

“That suited me fine, and I was just getting set for a good old snore-off when a large young fellah in a zoot-suit slid into the flat. He eyes me in silence for a while, and his eyes were like ice-picks. ‘Seen my wife around here?’ he asks; then, noticing my innocent gaze, he continues, ‘You wouldn’t,’ and helps himself to my whisky, sinking the plimsoll by four inches in one suck.

“ ‘lt’s pretty crook,’ he says, ‘that a man can’t turn his back for a few weeks at Long Bay without some motheaten old haybag starts getting fresh with his wife Can you imagine a beast like that.' and he gives me a vicious look. ‘“lt’s a terrible thing to say,' I answers, ‘but I know exactly wheie to lay my hands on the miscreant you’ve just described, and if you U wait here a jiff I’ll go and get him for you,’ and I ducked out of that flat pronto, and here I am.

“I want to see the shipping lists so I can catch the first boat north.”

“Did you say she was a farm girl?” I asked presently. -So she told me." cha . r , le y h “ ()t t e h d c “Said she kept the wolf from the door working in a pharmacy. improving a piece of the Goroka - Gusap road. They looked like a nest of swarming black ants as they scurried back and forth digging earth out of the side of a cutting.

As shown top left, opposite page, the road now goes 130 miles westward to Mt. Hagen; and 100 miles eastward to Gusap. From Gusap it is hoped that, one day, roads will lead down to the coast at Madang and Lae. (This roadside sign was recently erected at Goroka).

A considerable amount of tree planting has gone on along the roads and in years to come they should be pleasantly tree-shaded.

At present a great deal of the road winds over treeless ridges and mountains.

The greatest headache in reading the Highlands has been the construction of the numerous necessary bridges. Some of this work has been done by local contractors and although some of the bridges are hair-raising in appearance they fill the bill, and—so we were told— are much stronger than they look.

AT RIGHT: Pav day. Mr. Downs, at the Asa r o Road Centre, pays in shillings one of the native chiefs whose people helped build part of the Goroka- Hagen road. About a dozen chiefs participated in this pay out.

BELOW. AT LEFT: Mr. Downs inspects a new bridge being built across a gorge on the Goroka- Hagen road.

BELOW. RIGHT; One of the hairraising swing-bridges on the Goroka- Kainantu section of the road. This type of bridge undulates with the passing of the vehicle over it. 81 Charlie Loses a Farm Girl (Continued from Page 79)

OMBU'UNA

By Peter England

ONCE upon a time, said Wasau . .

Now, look, Wasau, I said, the lunch was excellent. The yam was done to a turn. The dried pig, if a little tough, was very satisfying.

I now propose to finish this horrible cigar which you so kindly rolled for me. After that I shall have half an hour’s nap before starting on the ten miles which we still have to complete before sundown. So, some other time . . .

Master, said Wasau, without even bothering to look at me, this is a very good story and a very true one and was told to me by my tumbuna ancestors. Now take out your little hook with the skin of the crocodile, and your pencil, and write it down with all the other stories. Now hear me, master. . .

Once upon a time, said Wasau, there lived a strong and handsome young man named Kapuma; in addition he was a cunning and suc cessful hunter. He had two hunt ing dogs named Tika and Ebom.

One day, when he had been hunting from early morning until late afternoon without success, his dogs finally started a fine big pig.

After a short chase they brought the animal to bay, and Kapuma killed it with one throw of his long polished limbon spear.

By now it was too late to return home, so he cut the pig up into small pieces, placed them on a rough rack made from sticks, and lit a slow fire underneath to smoke the meat. Then he looked around for a place to sleep, and soon found a large hollow log lying on the ground. So he called Tika and Ebom to him, and together they crawled into the log and went to sleep.

Now, while Kapuma and his two dogs were sleeping soundly in their log, it began to rain. It was not ordinary rain, but came down from the sky as if the gods had decided to pour all the water into the world on this one spot. The creeks rose, and before very long they over flowed their banks and the whole of the countryside became one vast river pouring down to the sea.

The hunter and his dogs, ex hausted after their day’s exertions, knew nothing of this until they woke at daylight the next morning.

When Kapuma put his head out he was surprised to see nothing but water; they had, in fact, been swept many miles to sea. They crawled out and sat on top of the log, and thus they drifted for two days and two nights, the log ever sinking lower and lower in the water. On the third day the log finally turned over and sank, and the man and dogs were thrown into the sea. Two sharks immediately appeared and ate the dogs. (The name of one shark, said Wasau, in parenthesis, was Ongta, and the name of the other was Kombawabogan), but the man swam on and on for a long time until eventually he reached the island of Ombu’una. Now, at this time the island of Ombu’una was inhabited only by women. There were no men. . .

Now just a moment, I said. You say there were no men on the island. Well where did the women come from?

Master, said Wasau patiently, I was just about to tell you.

The only other living things on the island were flying-foxes, and consequently the women were obliged to mate with these creatures And, as everybody knows, in such a mating only women-children are born.

When Kapuma landed on the island he was very hungry, but he followed a bush track until he found a garden with plenty of taro and yams and bananas and sweet sugar-cane. When he had had his fill he hid in the bush nearby, and made himself a little shelter of saplings and palm fronds. In this way, lying concealed during the day, and getting food from the garden late in the evening, Kapuma lived for several weeks. He knew that if he allowed himself to be discovered he might very well be killed by the inhabitants.

Now, the garden near which Kapuma was hiding belonged to two sisters named Yarak, the elder, and M'wana, the younger. The sisters lived in a house of their own. Yarak was a shrewd and thrifty housewife, and worked hard in her garden each day. M’wana too, helped in the house and in the garden, but sometimes when Yarak was busy she would run down to the beach, to a little hidden cove and gaze out to sea—for she was of that age in young women when strange, untamed, and disturbing things race through their heads.

Well, it did not take long for Yarak, who in addition to being a good housewife also had very sharp eyes, to notice that there were strange footprints in her garden.

And to notice, particularly, that the footprints were much larger than those that would be left by any of the women on the island.

So, one day, having sent M’wana

Pim Crossquiz No. 54

Solution on Page 86 ACROSS I. Who was a writer of fairly tales? 4.—Which adjective means contrary? 7. —What was the name of Don Quixote’s horse? 8. —How much is 45 inches? 9. —What is the term for a pair of trousers made of tartan cloth? 11. What measure is equal to 198 inches? 12. What is another term for a tuft hunter? 13. Who was one of the most famous of the German lyrical poets? 15.—What do the Italians call their capital city? 17. —What is the term for a small chimney? 18. In which land is it easy to fall asleep? 20. —Who wrote stirring stories of the Red Indians? 21. —What is the point where two straight lines meet? 23. What is a short acknowledgment of debt? 24. —What melted matter is discharged from a vol cano? 25. —What French word, used in recipes, means the burnt part?

DOWN 1. —Which is the highest order of knighthood? 2. —What is used for treating diabetes? 3. —Which is the most im port a n t wheat-growing province of Canada? 4 T Whi C h famous character was created by Perrault? i n 5 - F^ on i « e di d the pilgrims start in The Canterbury Tales”? 6.—Who were the members of the Par cfvTl B War? Party in the 17th Centup y 10.—Who was the author of “Story of an African Farm”? 14 . Who was the airy spirit whom Prospero released from imprisonment? 16. Who was the most famous Aus tralian singer? 19.—Which is the largest Continent? 22.—What falls to anyone as his fortune?

AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

home early to attend to the cooking of the evening meal, she laid in wait. Just before the sun went down Kapuma made his daily visit in search of food, but he had hardly set foot in the garden when he was confronted by a woman armed with bow and arrow. He was afraid.

“Are you masalai ghost or are you man?” asked the woman.

“I am man,” answered Kapuma.

The woman looked at him. Then she told him to get into her bilum net bag. She covered him with banana leaves, putting a light layer of taro on top. Then she swung the thong of the bilum on to her forehead and lifted it on to her bcick M’wana sat before the fire on the ground cooking the evening meal. As Yarak climbed the ladder up to the house, she called to her: “To-night you may sleep beside the fire. I am tired of having you sleep with me in the house.”

So that night, and for several moons which followed, M’wana slept beside the fire under the house, and Yarak kept Kapuma hidden. When she left in the daytime to work in her garden she barred the door strongly from the outside. She forbade M’wana to ascend the ladder.

But one day Yarak had to visit a distant village, on the other side of the island. As usual, she barred the door strongly, and in addition sprinkled ashes on the rung' of the ladder and on the ground down below. She cautioned M’wana to watch over the house carefully, but not to set foot on the ladder.

When Yarak had Mt, M’wana took a digging stick, and thrusting its sharpened point between two of the split-palm floor boards, she widened the gap until she was able to peer into the room above. When she had seen, she climbed up the ladder and opened the door. When she saw Kapuma face to face, she asked: “Are you masalai ghost or are you man?”

“I am man.”

Then all the strange, untamed, and disturbing things that used to trouble her when she gazed out to sea suddenly crystallised, and she said: “I am woman.”

And she went inside and shut the door behind her.

When Yarak returned she saw at once that the ashes on the ladder had been disturbed. She accused Kapuma and b-came very angry.

She called him many hard names and struck him and threw him down out of the house, and his neck was broken and he died. Then she cried out in a loud voice to the other women of the village, and when they were come .'he said to them: “You must cut my belly and take away what they found inside, and side.” And they did as she asked, and cut open her belly, and took away that they found inside, and Ysr3,k died But later, when the star of the new year rose in the sky, M’wana gave birth to a man-child, whose name was Lasika. And Lasika grew up with the woman-children of the island, and he played with them in the soft grass that grew at the margins of the gardens, and on the golden sand of the beaches, and soon many man-children were born in addition to women-children, and they became a happy race of people. + m Wasau paused. ‘7s that the end of the story?” I asked.

“Yes, master,” said Wasau, with a sigh—for he is a sentimental cuss —“it is finished.”

“And, master” he added, as he started stowing my mess gear away in a ruksak, “if you are sorry for me, you will give me two shillings so that I may buy some be~el nut.

Also, I have no tobacco.”

This Month’s New Reading (Conducted by the Assistant Editor)

Much Beating Round

The Tea Tree

POSSIBLY if I had read The Pea Pickers (which won the S. H.

Prior literary prize in 1941) I should be more fitted to cope with Eve Langley’s White Topee, just published.

White Topee is evidently a sequel to the prize-winner, the period is the same about 1927 and Miss Langley does not appear to have written anything in between.

For me, she might just as well have remained in seclusion.

For Topee, although it may be “brilliant” and “original”, to me epitomises everything I dislike most in Australian “clever” writing!—it is so infernally clever that it becomes incomprehensible.

Topee has no plot, which these days is, of course, not unusual; and it concerns a young woman called Steve. One gathers, but is never told, that she has Greek or Italian forebears somewhere along the line.

For some unexplained reason she dresses like a man (blue serge suit when not in breeches), acts like a man and divides her time between working like a man in the fields and writing and poetry. This —the earthy work plus the poetry —is supposed to make up a wholly satisfying Life. (Life spelled with capitals, if you please).

The setting is around Lakes Entrance in Victoria’s Gippsland— on a tea plantation. Tea plantation, mark you. It is news to me that tea was ever grown in Gippsland— but that I am willing to pass, apart from the observation that if it ever were, then that in itself is worth a story.

However, Miss Langley belongs to that school of novelist which does not pander to the reader who likes to be first orientated or have basic facts explained; she flings her statements into the brew she has concocted, and the reader accepts them as is, where is—or else.

For this reason, the story appears to have no beginning and no end, and the normal reader and I insist that the average reader is still normal in spite of much literary evidence to the contrary— finds himself in a perpetual state of asking why. The cumulative effect is much the same as a hangover.

Gippsland, as described in Topee is a cross between the burning heat of Sahara and the jungles of Sumatra which is far from my recollections of that neck of the woods, which I imagined I knew reasonably well. I quote: “Stiffened and paralysed by the great heat, we lay about in the shade; after 11 o’clock McLachlan said that there must be no more work in case of sun stroke or fevers.”

The heroine and another character suffer occasionally from malaria.

Perhaps if I had read Pea Pickers I should know where they had picked that up.

Most of the bit players are Italian; and Italy is Steve’s spiritual home. Such Australian characters as exist act like morons —although the book is described as “interpreting Australia and its people as no other writer has done”.

IF this is Australia, then I’m a chimpanzee; if this is art, then I, too, am a moron which readers of these columns probably have long suspected. But tackle it, dear reader, by all means—and see if you do not emerge acting like a wild-eyed steer; or beating your literary chest, ala Steve, and declaiming that the world is well lost for a poem.

The story (if I may call such an artistic compilation such) is heavily larded with verse. I found this, on the whole, much more tolerable than the prose that surround 3d it.

This fact, I hope, proves thac I, too, have a soul. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Australian price, 16/-.)

It’S Fun In The Sun

IN TAHITI Disappointment, disillusion— and then it grew on them.

That was Tahiti to the Huntingtons David, Fritzi and their young son Tod. (Over) PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

-mlL ha K P r £ babl y been Tahiti to many but David makes it sound convincing, in his Tahitian Holiday an entertaining account of their hve month 5 ’ sojourn in that Pearl Pacific which has had more highly technicoloured nonsense written about it than all the other Pacific islands put together.

Huntington had a beautiful wife a son and sufficient of this world’s goods (in dollars, of course) to please the French, who are antipeachcomber. Perhaps this was a better background than most from which to take a sane view of the more obvious pleasures of these islands.

The family adventures, and the shrewd observations of every (repeat every) aspect of life in Tahiti, make amusing and entertaining reading. & Although the lotus-eating aspect * s . stressed—quite the reverse initially—the book is not calculated to drive Tourists away. Even a crusty, other-islands dweller might be encouraged to feel that a little relaxation under the palms of Tahiti could be in order, and verv pleasant. J (Our copy from the publishers, Henry Hold and Company. New York. US price, $4.95.)

Brief Excursion

Among The Amazons

THERE is something of psychology m this story, Miss Pym Disposes, by Josephine Tey—the kind of psychology that one is likely to find in an all-female institution, which is, in this case, a physical training college. (We whip the psychology in for those who must have that ingredient in their present-day reading).

However, the story is not (thank God) designed to “make you think . It is just a pleasant sort of story to fill in an hour or two with the psychology aforesaid, and a mild plot, of sorts. After all, a large institution full of young women is bound to create static electricity of some kind.

Inside the jacket-flap (and I am peginning to have a profound distrust of jacket-flaps) it says that it is a “crime story of masterly elegance .

Perhaps that is gilding the lily— but it is good writing without being so clever as to be unintelligable.

It has humour and the characters are comparatively normal — which is, in itself, a literary achievement of no mean order these days.

A book you would not hesitate to give to your teenager to read; at the same time, you will probably enjoy it yourself. , (Published by Peter Davies. Australian c price, 13/3.) J

Facts About Pulses

(Beans, Peas And Lentils)

(Extracts from talk broadcast from ZJV by the Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service, Suva). pULSES are the seeds of the leguminous plant family and these are commonly known as peas, beans and lentils.

When the seed pod is young, it may be f^h£ Ped “ P a " d , eaten as a green vegetable, then, during ripening, the seed becomes large and the pod gradually "Sr eventua,l y il splits open and scatters its contents. This is the time when the peas, beans and lentils are ripe and ready to harvest.

Pulses keep well if they are really drv. and the best storage container is a closed tin or jar.

All seeds contain starches and proteins which provide the first food needed for the growth of the young plant. The seeds of pulses are particularly rich in starch and protein and for this reason they are an important food in many parts of the world. The protein does not have quite such a good body building value as that in animal or fish foods, but its value may be improved by mixing a little milk, fish or eggs with peas, beans and lentils.

Dishes like pea soup made with milk, cheese and dhal savouries, Chilli Con Came and baked beans and bacon therefore have a high food value. Several types of pulse commonly known as dhal are grown in the drier areas in Fiji.

These are Arhar or pigeon pea, Urd, Mungh, Giant and dwarf cowpea.

Green pulses make a good vegetable, and of greatest imuortance in the islands arc beans. As far as nutritive value is concerned beans are not such a good source of vitamins as green leaves and shoots, but they contain fair amounts of bone and blood building minerals.

They are better sources of protein than other green vegetables and this increases with the growth of the pod. Many people are in the habit of adding a small pinch of soda when cooking any beans but this greatly reduces the vitamin content, and is not a good practice.

French or butter beans are easily grown and a steady supply of this vegetable can be provided for by sowings every two-three weeks. Bean plants like an open, sunny position in good loose soil and plenty of water, particularly once the podding has started. These beans develop strings and need to be picked at just the right stage. However, if carefully prepared for cooking they make an attractive and appetising vegetable.

The long bean is one of the most useful and easily grown vegetables, and is in season all the year round. It grows easily and does not need particularly rich or well drained soil. Sow two seeds to each hole set 18 inches apart and let the vines grow un a fence or trellis of sticks.

The pods grow 2-3 feet long and are quite stringless. They are usually served chopped in Vi inch lengths and boiled, but a more attractive-looking vegetable can be prepared by cutting them in slices in the same way as French beans.

A bean which goes on producing for several years is the giant or sword bean.

This is a robust climbing vine which will grow to a height cf 15-20 feet, so needs a good strong support s’ch as a tall fence or tree. The pods are large and flat and need to be picked when very young. The beans then are very small and pink and the pods thick and fleshy.

If left too Jong the pods become too tough, although the beans inside are still good to eat. The simplest method of preparing this giant bean is to remove the string from each side of the pod and then slice it. Alternatively, pod i wat, s r a ";,,T 3 ,y t S PeaS anil C °° k in bo " in Another good bean is the Goa « ged^ea «"’. This has quite a distinctiv pod with flat sides and four thin gree wings and should be used when small are (Continued on Page 86)

Recipe Corner

13 EADERS are invited to send !i AV recipes using Pacific Islands ini gredlents or Ingredients readily obi tamable in the Islands. Ten shillings wll be paid for each one used.

Casserole Sausage

Canned food is often most uninteresting and unappetising, but it needn’t be. Thi« is one suggestion for those who are forced to use canned meat frequently. 1 can sausages. 1 small can tomatoes. 2 oz cheese. 1 onion.

Breadcrumbs.

Seasoning.

Fry sliced onion to a nice brown, poun off all but one tablespoon of the fat.

Add one tablespoon flour and mix. Add juice of tomatoes, some water and seasoning (a little curry powder if desired), to< make a tasty gravy.

Slice the sausages in rings or long; strips and cover bottom of casserole, coven with a layer of tomato and a grating ofl cheese, pour over part of the onion gravy..

Repeat these layers until ingredients are: finished. Finish with a layer of breadcrumbs. Put on casserole lid and placet m hot oven until thoroughly heated; 1 remove lid and lightly brown the breadcrumbs.

This dish does not need to be cooked I for long, as the ingredients are already cooked.

If working with a primus only, the other ingredients (except breadcrumbs) can be added to the gravy and heated thoroughly. If the mixture is then poured into a casserole and toasted breadcrumbs sprinkled over the top, the result is much the same. —Mrs. W.R.H., Savusavu.

Pineapple Pie

V*. lb butter. 2 tablespoons sugar. 1 egg. 2 cups of flour. 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Cream butter and sugar, add egg and finally flour and baking-powder. Press mixture into deep dish approximately 8 m. x 9 in.

FILLING 2 cups of fresh or one can of crushed pineapple. 1 dessertspoon cornflour. 2 egg yolks. 2 tablespoons sugar.

Put all ingredients into a saucepan and cook over a low heat until thick. Fill pastry shell.

Beat egg whites until thick, add 3 tablespoons sugar, beat again. Put on top of filling.

Bake pie in moderate oven until crust is cooked. Can be eaten hot or cold. —Mrs. R.J.T. 84 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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tender. These beans should be cooke no more than five minutes since tM delicate texture and flavour are readili destroyed by overcooking. A stout suppoi. is needed for the vines as they ai strong-growing.

There are various types of Indian bean available in the market in Fiji. Thos with straight roundish pods 6-8 inche in length are called Bhoda am Japhar. If the beans are fairly we< developed, remove them from the pod am cook for 15-20 minutes. This type of beai may be added to curries, meat, fish o vegetable dishes.

Dried pulses are important food in Fi' and especially for the Indian population The most common types are dried peai and beans, lentils and other forms oc dhal. The most common peas are thi blue pea and the marrowfat. There an dozens of varieties of beans available ii the world and some of the most commoi m these parts are dried haricot, lima am the red kidney bean.

"pVRIED beans and peas need soakini A-' before they are cooked. A goo* general rule is to place them in t basin, cover well with boiling water anc soak overnight. If the water is hard, ss little baking soda should be added. Us* Vs teaspoon of soda to one cup of dry beans or peas and measure it carefully for too much soda will affect both flavour and nutritive value. This helps to soften the seeds. In many parts of the world people use sprouted beans and these have a high food value. As soon as the sprout starts to grow vitamins are formed im the seed. Sprouted beans or peas make a useful substitute for green vegetables im times of shortage. The seeds should be washed and then put to soak in cold water for 2-3 days or after 12 hours soaking left to sprout on a damp sack.: Dried beans or peas need to be cooked slowly because rapid boiling causes thes skins to break and peel off. Cook fon about one hour in the water in whichc they have been soaked.

Dried peas and beans are better cookedl with some flavouring; a sprig of mint! goes well with peas; and onion, a carrot! or tomatoes and a pinch of dried herbs? or some bacon rind and a few cloves adds? to the flavour of beans or lentils.

Pressure cooking is a good method for’ preparing this type of vegetable but two* precautions must be observed: First, aj little fat is added to prevent the beans; frothing too much. Second, the cookeris no more than one-third full, otherwise* Solution to Crossquiz from Page 82 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Add meat and stir and cook slowly a few minutes. Combine all ingredients, season and simmer until meat is tender and flavours are blended—about 30 minutes.

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If using canned pork sausages, place them on top of the lentil mixture. For fresh pork sausages fry or bake them, cut into half inch slices and arrange these on top.

Push garlic cloves down into lentil mixture. Bake 30 minutes in a fairly hot oven. Remove garlic and serve.

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The mill is on the Navua river; logs are floated from felling sites upstream. The timber will be for general building. 87 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 195 4

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SOME interesting details of Manuae Island were brought into Rarotonga by Captain Andy Thompson, of Charlotte Donald.

Manuae, an atoll, is owned by an Aitutaki family and leased to a Sydney man. Managing it is Mr.

Carlo Andersen, a Danish engineer, who has been resident in the Cooks for a good many years. Carlo is a man who is very thorough in everything he does and he has some advanced ideas.

The Manuae coconut plantations are of the self-sown variety, the palms close together and with plenty of normal atoll undergrowth.

Carlo is taking the drastic measure of cutting out a heavy percentage of palms and completely clearing the undergrowth.

With copra at its present price, the onlookers winced every time they saw a palm fall, but Carlo is convinced that the treatment will more than pay off in the long run.

Everyone hopes he is right.

Meanwhile the place is being run with a military precision.

Everything is spic-and-span. The 30 labourers are well housed; there is a new tennis court and electric light. The island has undergone a complete transformation.

Carlo is in radio-telephone contact with Rarotonga every day—the radio equipment, having come out of the wrecked Alexander on Aitutaki reef. The population rises and goes to bed at the sound of the gong. Landing on the island, even for round-trippers, is by permit only. A most efficiently run South Sea island!

A WANDERER AT ANCHOR THE prettiest district of Rarotonga is on the Ngatangiia- Muri coast, with its lovely enclosed lagoon, sandy beach, and string of tiny islands out on the edge of the reef.

Mr. John Blakelock, of Suva, has 89 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954 Here and There in the Cooks (Continued from Page 71)

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The islet was an ancient burial ground and, as such, no Islander will live on it. Blakelock was warned that it was haunted; he would hear meanings and screams at night; stones would be hurled at him by the tupapau living there.

And that was exactly what happened. The meanings and screams were traced to birds, which roost there. The hurled stones were a tougher proposition, but it appears that after a hot, sunny day the stones were naturally very warm.

This may be followed by a very cool night, especially in the winter months. The sudden cooling probably causes the stones to fracture.

Anyway, that is the present theory, and the Blakelocks are sleeping peacefully on it while the stones pop and fly about harmlessly.

Blakelock seems to have settled in the Cooks after years of wandering around the world in such famous craft as the luxury yachts White Shadow and Kaimiloa. He worked for Zane Grey aboard his Fisherman, Tahiti, in the 1930’s—and he sailed back and forth across the Pacific in the old Beulah, which used to pick up copra in the Line Islands.

He was associated with the Tahiti rum-running trade in its hey-day It is whispered that he has his eye on a shore job in Rarolonga.

Hollowing approval of the Board of Education, a college is to be established in Fiji to train Catholic teachers for mission schools in Tonga, Samoa and other south-west Pacific areas. tl Mr. Don Greenough, of Guadal canal Trading Company, was passenger for Sydney by the M Muliama which left Honiara, BSIB on June 27. He will make his horn in Australia. He has been engage; for the past six years in the re habitation of the Company’s copr plantations, and leaves behind mam friends in the BSIP. 90 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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“We have shared £12,000 in the lottery. It’s fair dinkum. Catch first plane South.” This cable was sent to Mr. Rex Smith, overseer at Bali plantation, Vitu Group, via Rabaul, by a war-time friend, Mr.

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The Vikings, in the dawn of history, took from Northern Europe to Britain a special kind of poll cattle.

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Friesian cattle lately have been imported to Mauritius from South Africa, in an attempt to rejuvenate and improve the ancient strain.

The Japan Pearl Co. announced on July 4 that the Japanese fleet had taken 220 tons of pearl shell in the Arafura Sea by June 30.

Travellers on the TOFUA in July included, from top: Brig.-Gen. Sir Herbert E. Hart, DSO, CB, CMG, CDG, Administrator of Western Samoa, 1931-35. and Lady Hart. Now living in the Waiararapa, NZ, they paid a return visit to Samoa.

Mr. G. L. Edwards, Collector of Customs.

Fiji, with Mrs. Edwards and Widget, returned to Suva after furlough in NZ.

Mr. A. Nelson Duder, a director of the well-known NZ firms of A. G. Price, Ltd., and Wm. Cable, Ltd., with Mrs. Duder, paid a business and holiday visit to Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. 91 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1954

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(Address notes to P.O. Box 5179, Auckland, N.Z.) AS an opener this month we draw the attention of all Island Hams to a ■letter received from the Port Captain, Callao, Peru, advising that William Willis, 61-year-old American seaman who set out from there on June 22 to drift to Samoa on a balsa raft half the size of “Kon-Tiki”, is carrying a radio transmitter.

The set is a Marconi “Silvita-111/Type- [lllo-B” operating on the 500 kc/s and 8364 kc/s distress frequencies. No callsign is given, but Willis is, as far as possible, making signals daily at 1600 GMT and 2300 GMT, and has been received in Peru OK.

He apparently is also sending positions ‘—CW of course—at these times. They will be routine and will not indicate that anything is amiss—unless he says so.

Based on the speed of the “Kon-Tiki” (drift—42.s miles per day made good— this raft, “Seven Little Brothers”, should (enter Polynesian waters about October in the vicinity of the Marquesas and should [pass close to the Northern Cooks a month later—if all goes well and Willis can stay the distance on the diet of machica —made from wild corn and brown sugar—and fish!

There is nothing to indicate that Willis is a Ham. In any case no Ham communications would be possible on these frequencies.

Signal reports could be passed to nearest marine or radio communications authorities. It will be recalled that it was Gordon Hitch—ZK-l-AB who maintained final contact with “Kon-Tiki”.

Gordon was then in charge of Rarotonga Aeradio. “Kon-Tiki”, however, was a licensed Ham station—Ll-2-B.

Bers-195 draws our attention to the fact that, as mentioned in June notes, there should have been no annoyance in regard to SMBBZU not using the suffix M/M while in these waters. Eric correctly notes that the prefix SMB is assigned solely to Swedish mobiles. For example, if SM2AAA decides to go to sea he then is allotted the call SMBAAA. Incidentally VK’s most active listener has just logged his 150,000 th station! Listening com menced in 1928.

Other remarks from Eric: FKBAI at present on leave in Europe; FKBAC/AE/AL all very active; ZL-l-AJU who operated for a while recently as VK9OK on Norfolk Island has released a special QSL covering that sojourn during which he made 458 contacts in the two weeks’ stay; KG6AEX, ex-KP6AA of Palmyra, mentioned last month, is now going to Anchorage, Alaska and a KL7 call—to appear later this year; best time to snag VR3A—around 0300 Z on 14mc/s CW; Don Schroeder, ex VR-l-F of Canton now noted at Wewak, New Guinea, with call VK9DS; Doug—ZK-l-AB putting a consistently good 7/14 mc/s sig into Victoria; ex ZK-2-AA, Bill Scarborough, now contactable by mail at 68 Hobson Street, Wellington; ZL-2-ARB aboard a RNZN frigate active during recent cruise to Fiji, on 7 mc/s CW. Thanks, Eric. (Incidentally Eric Trebilcock’s brother, now at Canberra, used to be stationed at Rabaul.) Of interest to Hams in New Zealand Islands areas is news that the restriction limiting Ham language to English will shortly be eased. Thereafter Maori, French. Spanish, Italian and Dutch will be permitted. This was forecast by Mr.

E. H. R. Green, Chief Engineer of the P. and T. Department, addressing the June NZART annual conference. Mr. Green also forecast a possible further cut to the width of certain Ham bands.

The 7 mc/s CW men will be glad to hear that, in response to protests, Radio Pakistan on 7010 kc/s in the exclusively Ham section of the band, will soon shift frequency.

The gentleman’s agreement whereby ZL phone stations keep clear of 3500-3550 kc/s will probably soon be made mandatory.

There is also a similar move afoot in VK for total CW’ preserves.

There seem to have been no reports of activity by CE-O-AC and CE-O-AD on Easter Island as yet, though they have now been there a good many months. It will be remembered that CE-3-DG went out there earlier in the year aboard the Peruvian naval transport “Pinto” with the men who were to remain on the island— CE-O-AC as doctor, and CE-O-AD to be operated by Air Force men. During the two weeks that “Pinto” lay off the island CE-3-DG operated as CE-O-AA on Easter—then he returned home in the ship. No doubt one or other of the CE-O boys will be heard before long.

We hear that ZK-l-BD should soon be on 6-metres —probably ere this appears.

Ron Berry, ZM6AR, has been noted active, CW and phone on 80 metres, with a good sig into ZL. Also heard on that band lately is KC6AA.

Last month we mentioned the possibility of Palmyra Island showing u? again. Otto Hornung—KC6AC, has of of course been lone caretaker there fpr a number of years, but so far as we know he is very inactive—maintaining 3500 kc/s phone skeds once or twice a week with VR3C on Fanning, and possibly with a station in Hawaii. Otto is no longer a young man.

That spot frequency, incidentally, used for point-to-point communications on CW and phone between Fanning.

Washington, Christmas, at 1800 Z daily, and at other times, each using only about 145 watts input.

There’s news from non-Ham sources that Chas Adams—Vß-l-A, in charge of.

Gilberts communications, is now on leaver overseas. 93 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1954

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Letters from and photos of Island Hams are keenly sought for the column.

Oronp photos are most favoured, but singles will also find space. | Canon James Benson, a missionary y ea ]* s » arrived in Sydney on the Malaita on July 10 for longservice leave. Canon Benson, during the war, was reported killed by the Japanese in Papua but had, in fact, been taken prisoner. He was on a Japanese destroyer during the battle of the Bismarck Sea and his ship was the only one not hit. He spent the last 2i years of the war at a camp in the Ramale Valley, near Rabaul.

Two young Catholic Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary left Sydney recently to work in the Pacific. Sister Mary Dismas travelled on the Malaita to take up duty m the South Solomons, and Sister Mary Jacinta flew via New Caledonia and Fiji to Samoa. Sisters M.

Philothea and De La Salette, from the American novitiate of the Congregation, were also on the Malaita.

Pearl shell buttons to the value of £A2,285,152 were produced by 21 American manufacturers last year.

Total production was 4,612,153 gross, slightly more than in 1952 but less than in 1951. !L Pa £r or .. Kata Ragoso, president of the Western Solomons Seventh Day Adventist Mission, arrived in Sydney recently on his way home from a church conference in San Francisco. He is chief of the Marovo tribe, and is in charge of 4 000 parishioners, 56 schools and two hospitals.

Heavy rain soon after this season’ tomato crop was planted in tin Cook Islands resulted in a dis appointing number of cases beim despatched to New Zealand thl year. Many Cook Islands fruit growers depend on tomatoes for catch crop during the NZ winte months. 94 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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American Professor Presents His Case for Neo-Melanesian THE PIM pointed out to Professor Robert A. Hall, Jr., Professor of Liguistics at Cornell University, f USA, that Australia was under an international obligation to rapidly improve the living standards of r the natives of New Guinea; and that .this could not be done quickly unless tAustralia could get past the barrier Icreated by the multiplicity of different languages there, and bring literacy to the natives; and we asked \whether the Professor thought that l Australia could short-circuit the problem of native education by making use of Pidgin English. . The Professor has just completed a second tour of New Guinea and the Solomons, during which he has \closely examined the character and possibilities of the strange tongue Introduced by European and Chinese employers as a means of communicating with their native labourers, and which now is widely employed by missionaries, and is now very generally used in the Territories. The following is Professor Hall’s reply; “T|/|ELANESIAN Pidgin is . . . ifl not suitable as a medium of instruction,” declared the UN Trusteeship Council mission in July, 1953, and recommended that Australia eradicate the language from all instruction within the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

No statement could have been more at variance with the facts; no recommendation could, if carried out, prove more harmful to the wellbeing of the Territory.

Those who call for the elimination of Neo-Melanesian (or, as it has been called heretofore, Melanesian Pidgin) from education and who urge its replacement by English, do so on two basic assumptions: 1. That Neo-Melanesian is somehow an “inferior ” language, whose use harms or degrades its speakers; 2. That a Melanesian could learn to speak and write with equal ease in either Pidgin or English, given the same investment of time and energy on his part and his teachers.

We have already examined the first of these assumptions in a previous article* and have shown it to be unfounded. Neo-Melanesian is no longer primarily a “caste language”, and hence its use is in nowise socially degrading. It is a perfectly adequate means of expressing thought, with its vocabulary of over 1,200 words and their manifold combinations.

Of course, the Melanesian’s cultural horizon is bound to expand: and as it does, bringing new concepts, he can borrow new words from English as he needs (for instance, teritori for “Territory,” or maik for “microphone”); or he can make new combinations of already existing words, (e.g., leg bilong maik for “microphone stand”). There is, therefore, no real limitation on the vocabulary of Neo-Melanesian or its intellectual effectiveness.

BUT is not English just as easy as Pidgin for a Melanesian to learn to speak and write? No, it is not. It seems so to us, because English is our mother tongue, and we underrate its difficulty.

Actually, English is one of the hardest languages in the world for someone whose language is not related to it. Our syntax, especially— the combinations of words into phrases and sentences—is fiendishly complicated. So-called “simple English” is a chimera; even English restricted to a few thousand words * "Expert Urges Extended Use of Pidgin English”, PIM, XXIV, No. 10 (May, 1954), pp. 47, 49, 50. 95 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1954

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I At this point, the name of Pidgin makes a difference in our attitudes, [f we call it “Pidgin English,” we Ihink it merely a childish simpli- Scation of “pure” or “correct” English, which could easily be replaced by the “genuine article.” By calling it Neo-Melanesian, however, we a further important fact: that it is not a mere crude version )f English, but a language which, though simpler than English, has ilso many grammatical features carried over from Melanesian languages. [ Its simplicity and its nearness to native grammar make Neo-Melinesian much easier for one whose lative language is of the Melanesian 'amily. [ It has been observed that a native )f ordinary intelligence can come n from the bush and learn Neoilelanesian in six months, attaining in effective command sufficient for lim to begin learning such techliques as those of a “doctor-boy.” far him to acquire an equally iffective command of English, six 'ears or more would be necessary.

I Spelling, too, is much easier to earn in Neo-Melanesian than in English. In the Territory of New Juinea, a form of orthography is Jready widely used in which the ihonemes (significant units of ound) of Neo-Melanesian are fairly ccurately represented, and which a native can learn quickly, even as he picks up the language itself. Compare this with the spelling of English, which is a by-word for its complicated and irrational nature, and very hard to learn, even by those whose mother-tongue is English.

To become literate in Neo-Melanesian, the natives have not waited for extensive literacy programmes.

They teach each other not only the language, but its spelling as well. On a recent field trip to New Guinea, I was surprised to observe how widespread literacy already is, and the extent to which natives communicate with each other in writing, often sending letters over long distances.

With a language which is already widely used, and Excellently adapted to its function as a Territory-wide lingua franca, and with a simple, effective orthography already established, why deny the usefulness of Neo-Melanesian as an aid in education?

It already has been used successfully for manuals in such subjects as medicine, carpentry and store management—proof that the once-despised Pidgin is an adequate medium for conveying information on any level.

TO champion the use of Neo- Melanesian is not to set it up as an exclusive substitute for English. The more natives learn to speak and read English, the better.

For advanced instruction, it is clearly more economical to teach English to natives who reach that level, than to translate the necessary materials into native languages

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Largely as a result of this refusal to use Neo-Solomonic (as we may call BSI Pidgin), native education in the BSI is much less advanced than in New Guinea.

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If we throw away such a valuable means of instruction as Neo-Melanesian, we can be sure that our enemies will not. Nothing would please the Communists more than to have us reject Neo-Melanesian and hand it over to them gratis as a vehicle for anti-Australian, anti-European propaganda. (One wonders: Is this part of the reason for the Leftist and Russian attacks on our use of Pidgin—to try and get us to trip ourselves, jiu-jitsu fashion, over our own linguistic prejudices?) Here is Neo-Melanesian, 1 “linguistic cement” of the Territc admirably suited to the purpose elementary and intermediate edu< tion, in New Guinea, at our dispo; It offers the obvious solution to < need for a simple, easily access!! territory-wide medium of instn tion. Why are we hesitating? 98 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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A breeches-buoy was rigged, but ifficulty was experienced in using E; the sailmaker Jones was killed i a fall from the mast to the deck s the messenger-line tightened.

The remaining 26 men eventually ot ashore, many of them in a runken condition after broaching le ship’s liquor supplies following lie stranding. lOn August 20, the wreck was uctioned by the magistrate at neroa, on instructions of the [aster and sold for £ll/10/-. The irgo brought a further £l/2/6 and le lifeboat £6/15/-. The buyer in ich case was Mr. S. K. Bulkeley, manager for Cook Islands Trading Company at the island.

The survivors were taken to Auckland by Union Co’s Taviuni, and in the subsequent inquiry the Master was found guilty of negligence. (Next Page) Mr. Bob McKittrick, manager for Etablissements Donald Tahiti in the Marquesas, and a friend of every yachtsman to visit those islands over the past 30 years. He is holding two Marquesan stone tikis. 99 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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I EVENTS AT CANTON: —Belatedly comes news of a fire in the ashing camp of Madeiras, Izumi md Chee at Canton Island early ;his year. “MIC”, as the Hawaiian jompany is known, is one of two ishing organisations based on Can- Kin of which little is heard.

I MlC’s camp is located in the lorth side of the lagoon pass. Fishng is done mainly by netting in she lagoon, employing Gilbertese :rom settlements on other nearby Phoenix islands. MlC’s overseer is Hr. Bob Sutherland, formerly emjloyed in GEIC shipping and wellmown in Suva. Fish is airfreighted, it the special rate of 15 cents per jound, by Pan American Airways ;o Honolulu, where it is marketed irofitably. 1 It appears that fire broke out in he living quarters of the camp at light and the entire installation, which included ice-box, two generators, nets, motor truck, and other ;quipment, was destroyed.

The other Canton fishing organsation, operated by Skipper “Dusty”

Hiller, of the small vessel Joyita, ippears to have ceased operations ■ecently. It was reported from Honolulu some time ago that Capain Miller had trouble with some )f his Gilbertese. He later flew south to Fiji and was rumoured to ie planning to transfer registry from Honolulu to Suva, and his scene of operations from Canton ;o, possibly, Samoa and its apparently prolific tuna fishery.

Early June we heard from an- )ther source that Joyita was at Pago Pago.

Mr. Miller, like Mr. Sutherland, s also known in Suva. Both men served together in the GEIC vessel Last month we published a photo of SIREN, ready to be relaunched at Rarotonga. This is how she looked when Mr.

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STC MlSHAP:—Steamships Trading Company almost lost their auxiliary ketch Wotan on June 21 when she went aground in a heavy blow while bound from Samarai to Sariba Island. She was under sail with a load of copra. Assistance was successfully rendered in hauling Wotan off by Mr. E. E. Smith’s Cape Vogel and Mr. Harry Johnston’s crash-boat Belsana. Little damage was done.

Lehi Experiment Over;—

The Lehi drift voyage was shortlived. Described as a five-sided wooden raft, and similar in shape to a flat-iron, the Lehi was towed off-shore from San Francisco, July 4, and set adrift—destination Honolulu. The raft, 32-feet long and 16feet abeam at the widest part aft, has a low house, about 8-feet square and 4-feet high. Aft was a binnacle and wheel, with an auxiliary motor for emergency use. The men were to live, Bombard-fashion, entirely from what the sky and sea could offer. (Over) HIFOFUA, Tongan Government ketch, reported for sale. 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Earlier, radioman Don Smith had made appeals to the shore that he be taken off the raft, the others could continue if they wished.

Two vessels and a private aircraft were unable to locate Lehi, so three coastguard ships and two of their aircraft made a search.

One of the vessels located the raft and took off all hands. They reported catching only one shark and one salmon since sailing.

CHRISTMAS VISIT:—US Fish and Wildlife’s John R. Manning, miring a fishery research cruise to the Line Island in May-June, made a call at Christmas Island to service instruments maintained there by Pacific Ocean Fishery Investigation with the assistance of the local British District Officer and Gilbertese staff. An automatic seatemperature recording thermograph is m operation there. Regular samples of sea water are taken.

Samples of wood left in the water some time ago by Dr. Edmondson, of Bishop Museum, to study the effects of boring organisms were also recovered. A collection of hermit crabs was made at this and other Line Islands for the Universtiy of Hawaii, and other fish were taken at each island for despatch to Dr. Halstead, of California, who is making a study of poisonous fish problems in the Islands.

RADIO SEXTANT:—During July * . re Ported that the US Bureau of Ships has developed a radio sextant” which operates on the principle of receiving, through dor cover, radio “noises” from the sr and certain other stars. A high, directional, dish-type radio antenr is employed, together, presumabli with a small cathode-ray displaj tube of the radar-receiver type, ar probably a gyroscopic levellir systepi. A radio receiver must als be incorporated. 106 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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I Another Veteran Gone:—

Captain Emile Savoie’s January purchase, Jacques del Mar, ex-eight sarlier names, seems to have ended tier varied career on a reef near the north passage at Lord Howe Island, where she went ahsore in a heavy olow on July 20.

The 500-ton, twin screw, 29-year- >ld vessel was lying off the island awaiting cargo-handling at daytight when the blow struck at 5.30 a.m. She was anchored at the ;ime, with one motor running. The jther was started, but even with 50th motors pulling and anchor iown she was forced high on a •eef and will probably not be salvageable. The crew were taken >ff at 8 am by shore boats. It was jxpected that most of the cargo would be saved.

At one stage of her career, as ;he Marion Sleigh, this vessel was jperating between Sydney and Darwin—before going to New Zealand md being renamed Port Whangarei n the early 1930’5. Then, when the war extended to the Pacific, the ittle ship was renamed KG-28, with many other New Zealand toasters, joined the American anallships fleet in the Western Pacific islands.

As Holmhurn, she was sold by the ■lolm Shipping Co. in Wellington o Captain Savoie, of Noumea, this rear, operating between that port md Sydney with calls at Norfolk md Lord Howe at times. Captain Savoie has purchased in recent rears from NZ the following vessels: Wapiti, renamed El Retiro, and wrecked under other ownership in slay, 1953; Hauturu, renamed Istrella del Mar, and now owned n Brisbane: Margaret-W , renamed Maria del Mar; Hokitika, renamed Colorado del Mar.

Later - Tenders have been called n Sydney for purchase of Jagues del Mar as she lay on reef off Lord iowe.

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YANKEE’S TOUR: —Cap t a i n rving Johnson, of the brigantine YANKEE, thinks New Guinea is a laturalist’s paradise. He and most »f his crew of 30 paying members :re looking for lecture material.

Yankee has been in Lae on the current tour and expects to visit Madang and sail up the Sepik River.

Most of the ship’s company will fly in to the Highlands, and to Maprik from Wewak.

Yankee will call at Dutch NG, Borneo, Siam, Indo-China, Singapore, Java, Bali, Cocos Island, Mombassa, Zanzibar and other places before returning to America. the MV Kulu, which had the distinction of being the first ship to be raised by the new cofferdam in Rabaul harbour. With the aid of the cofferdam, the ship’s stern was raised while she was still floating: the propellers and rudder being ex-’ posed for repair of the “A” brackets, BP’S have now given Mr. Mike Morgan the job of changing the MV Katika’s brackets which have been condemned. Mr. Morgan built the cofferdam for 300-tonners.

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Box 104 P.O. Port Moresby Agents in all Main Towns Insurances effected at Lloyds of London found that only the engine ; mained on the beach where t vessel had grounded. The ship h completely disintegrated un d heavy seas that were washing o T her when she grounded in May The salvage party, Messrs. R Auld and Bob Paterson, of Aii Traders, who run their own bo the MV Airco, bought the Cham Star where she lay, less the ge that had already been salvaged, f £lOO. Within a few weeks they we to Jammer Bay but saw that ti Channel Star had apparently di appeared. They could not lai owing to a heavy swell, so pr ceeded further along the coast Sumsum, where they landed ai trekked the 30 miles back Jammer Bay.

They found only the engine « the beach, and even that was ne; to being washed back into the se They dragged it further ashore ai intend to pick it up later, take to Rabaul for overhaul, and inst it in the Airco.

REEF SHOOTING; —Mangaia: are planning to use a flat-bottome engine-driven boat for lighten], across the reef at Mangaia, Co< Is., and for ocean fishing as we The boat is now being built New Zealand.

The financial possibilities appe; to be good. Lighterage is no monopolised by a fleet of whaler operated by Polynesian muscll power, often under hazardous cor ditions. The charge is £4 per toe The incredible shortage of fit ensures a ready market for ar that are caught.

Nothing has ever been done wii any success to deepen the entrant to the reef channel, and the nerv\ racking shooting of the reef lip still being done by all incomii. and outgoing boats. Europeans car not see any great obstacle prevent ing the demolition of the reef to < depth of 20 feet, but the Adminii tration’s advisers insist that it impracticable.

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APIA he ( S SAMO U M A ’ LAUTOKA * LAB ASA. NADI and BA. (FIJI), and at Agenoes at NAUSORI. LAUCALA BAY AIRPORT and MARKS STREET. Suva Established throughout the Islands News of Cruising Yachts • E. W. Lamberty, of Holland, before jontinning his round-the-world voyage vith ANNA ELIZABETH, made a point of •ailing at PlM’s Auckland office to say a 'ew words in defence of French Oceania K»rt authorities—and a few words against ©me others. Unhappily, more complaints han praises have come from yachtsmen rlsiting French Oceania, but where praise g given we pass it along. Lamberty says hat though certain regulations exist, in practice he has found that the French authorities are lenient in enforcing them, specially in regard to correct Port of Intry, a great many yachtsmen meeting © reprimand when they make their first iort of call in the Tuamotu.

This is not the case in New Zealand’s look Islands, where a yachtsman coming rom the north or east must first call at larotonga to clear inward, then beat a reat distance back on his course to visit ny of the outer islands. He cites a case I which arriving from Honolulu with some t his rigging carried away and in anger of losing a mast, he was hounded at of Avarua Harbour when he ran in ithout awaiting a clearance.

It is evident that the yachtsman who »es not bother about correct procedures sually “gets away with it”, and that pplies particularly to French Oceania.

Last year, on the report of a yachtslan from Papeete, we warned yachtlasters not to land ships’ gear on the aterfront while cleaning ship, carrying it repairs, etc., without first obtaining permit from the Customs.

“Fantastic,” says Lamberty, ‘This is done every day of the week and the Customs interfere with no one in this respect.”

There was probably more in the case in question than met the eye.

Those who do “get away with it” naturally do not write us in praise of the local authorities, and, no doubt, they are in the vast majority. Those who strictly comply with the rules and regulations find life in almost all Pacific territories, American, British and French! extremely irksome. Certain regulations at present in force may be explained by the Rhinoceros beetle danger. Local epidemics sometimes account for others.

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Petitbon and Secretary General Diffre, of French Oceania, are interested in yachting and in seeing that yachtsmen are well treated. In this regard yachtsmen may now obtain a permit to remain in French Oceania waters for up to eight months, the three months permit being extended in two stages, subject to good behaviour.

It is also anticipated, that with an increasingly active yacht club coming to life in Papeete, the present pilotage and harbour dues payable by yachts will be relaxed, as in most other ports of the world.

In summary, Mr. Lamberty says in defending French Oceania that regulations do exist which look troublesome on paper, but the general experience is that the best policy to adopt is “let sleeping dogs lie”. In British and American territories the authorities observe the letter of the Jaw, rarely allowing any relaxation. It is the yachtsman’s business first to find out what regulations do exist, then decide his course of action.

No doubt if the various Administrations were approached by reputable yachting ■organisations, an easier attitude might be taken in regard to Ports of Entry for yachts. The trouble has been that an occasional yacht will spoil things for all by selling liquor to the local people in “dry” areas—most of the Islands—or otherwise smuggling goods ashore or trading illegally. • World-girdling yachtsmen and others with the necessary qualifications should be interested in the recently-formed Ocean Cruising Club, of England, which already has members of many nationalities. It was founded January 27 last, with English yachtsman Humphrey Barton as Commodore. Requirements for membership are an uninterrupted single-hop voyage of not less than 1,000 miles in a vessel of not more than 70 feet overall.

Evidence of such a voyage must be produced. The club, as it expands, should become a valuable aid to deepsea cruising men. A journal of club news is b< published. Fee, £1 Sterling per ann Address, Lymington, England. • ANNA ELIZABETH put to sea 24 after tarrying in Auckland, since 1 7, where most of the crew took tempo: jobs. Robert Tedcastle, 19, of Auckli has joined the crew. Ernst Lambe instead of laying a course for Nor 110 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH]

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2 Burns Philp Buildings, SUVA il*nd and Noumea thence westward, as huined earlier, headed back for Raro- ,nga There F. Gobrait, of Tahiti, will itnrn home and Miss Rebecca Frebault, I the Marquesas, long-time friend of liberty, will join the ship, which will ie n turn west for Noumea via Tonga. • MARCO POLO, 28-ft. home-built |ch. as forecast some months ago, lared Auckland July 18 on commenceent of a circumnavigatory voyage which »y take five years, if all goes well, ward with 21-year-old owner-skipper my Armitt, Auckland accountant, is ■yan Loe, 22-year-old farmer, of Wellingn. The voyage will be west-about with st calls at Norfolk Island, Lord Howe jlind. Barrier Reef waters and Torres tail. • BEYOND, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Worth’s ftal motor-sailer which passed through I Islands last year, was reported in and of Mahe, Seychelles, early May, headr for South Africa. • HAFF SAFE, amphibious jeep in lich Australian Major Carlin and his fe crossed the Atlantic several years D. is now preparing in England to sail f Australia via Panama, so this extralinary craft may be seen in the Islands gsibly next winter. • Manned by a German ex-Luftwaffe ot, Joseph Albrecht, wife Herta. and o children aged 7 and 1, a 53-foot cht, name as yet unknown, left Genoa, lly, for Australia recently. The route II be via the Indian Ocean and New linea. Albrecht built the boat in the istrian Tyrol, 120 miles inland. • Another unidentified, 22-foot yacht tnned by a German ex-U-boat officer, to Eichenger, and companion Herbert gffleitner, one time acrobat, is also lieved to be heading Pacificwards. • Yet another nameless craft cleared w York in June on a round-the-world page and will no doubt appear in the icific soon. It is a 20-footer sailed Intly by philosophy-student Jack Kidd d a friend, Bert Noble. • The auxiliary schooner LADY IRLING, under new ownership, arrived Suva from Auckland June 21 after rough passage.

Under the previous ownership of Mr.

Sheehan, she went to Fiji in May, 1952, loan to the RC Mission. Now owned Mr. M. Block, a Dutchman. » GLORIA DALTON, Chas. H. Otterin’s sizeable and attractive vessel sntioned last month, cleared Papeete ■ Ensenada, Mexico, June 2, but plans re to return to Papeete this year. • VEGA, Mr. Cornelius Crane’s big sel schooner which has lain in Papeete er since she was dismasted in the orea channel on her maiden commercial rage between Tahiti and Hawaii, has m purchased by Mr. Omer Darr, of nolulu, late owner of NORDLYS. dr. Darr formerly employed NORDLYS a charter-boat, and was to unite with GA in taking over the passengers night south from Honolulu by that isel once they arrived at Papeete, and show them round French Oceania.

Certain refitting work will be done in Honolulu.

It is understood that plans now are to shorten VEGA’S broken masts and rerig her. Then the big yacht will make cruises on the California-Mexico-Central American coast, with runs to Tahiti for the July celebrations each year. Paying or cost-sharing passengers will be carried. • LADYBIRD, first Auckland boat to head for the Islands this winter, arrived safe y at Pepeele Jure 23. After two months in French Oceania waters, Mr.

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She is a typical NZ type of cruiser-racer. • ATOM, with lone-hander Jean Gau in command, made Papeete June 10 from New York via Panama. Captain Gau, oir a circumnavigation voyage, plans to spend a year in French Oceania waters before continuing westward. The 7-tonner was sailing soon for Bora Bora. The name “Jean”, incidentally, is masculine in this case! • MAREVA, on delivery to Mr. James McConnaughey, of Tahiti and the United States, was another June arrival at Papeete, under command of Captain Walter Kupicc and hired crew. As earlier reported, the 55-foot motor sailer will remain based on Papeete. Calls were made at Galapagos, Naku Hiva and Takaroa on the run from Panama. • Schooner masters in French Oceania need not be shocked if some day, as they scan the horizon, they spot what seems to be a figure walking the waters. It will be retired Admiral Durand de Saint-Frond 111 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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I The Admiral, we hear, a man in his late llfties. has made remarkable voyages between Tahiti and Moorea and between Kirious Tuamotu atolls, out on the open icean. on this craft—or vehicle —since he W nie to settle in French Oceania several (ears ago. The pedal version of the craft I commonly for hire at many beach •esorts in Europe and America. There ire a few even in Papeete. But Admiral Jaint-Frond’s has, in addition to outward. been fitted with a glass-bottomed rax through which he can take colour- (botos of coral and fish. Even with a notor. a voyage on the open sea for in excess of 10 miles is no mean feat, and certainly not without risk. • The Tahiti Yacht Club was revived md reorganised last year. Headquarters re at present located in Stuart Hotel gilding, right on the waterfront, and he club has commenced operations with he international Snipe class, a member hving apparently imported six or seven I these from France and sold them to thers. Regular racing events are now Iking place with these yachts. • MANU MOANA, 38-foot sloop in fhich Mr. W. S. Holder, of Mangonui.

Z. visited Fiji between August and fetober, 1953, sailed again from Auckland, lily 6, and Mangonui. July 9, on a fourkonths’ winter cruise first port Nukualofa, with a possible call at Raoul (termadecs) en route. From Tonga the icht will head for Fiji. With the owner his son and two others. One of these I Mr, Bob Narruhn, originally of the Slberts, more recently of Suva, and itely employed with an Auckland Metrical firm. He went to NZ in this icht when it returned from Suva two sars ago. • MAKAI, 38-foot ketch owned and fippered by retired San Francisco lurnalist, Mrs. Constance Hitchcock, eared that port July 4 bound for Marquesas and Tahiti, where the owner is obtained permission to remain cruisg inter-island for two years.

MAKAI was built in 1937 and purchased r the present owner in 1941. Mrs. itchcock loaned the yacht in 1946 to iends who cruised to the Hawaiian lands. She has been planning the •esent cruise for six years. With her hen she sailed were Bob Anderson and ric Johnson, both experienced yachtsen. • KONA departed Rarotonga July 25 ter an 11-day stay. The Honolulu ketch id earlier called at the Australs and angaia. A call was planned at Aitutaki, icnce to Pago Pago. • MANDALAY, last reported westmnd from Papeete in March, seems to ive vanished behind the Coconut irtain. Friends in Honolulu, Tahiti and sewhere had no news of the 40-foot reenwich, Conn., ketch at mid-July, by hich date she should have been at Pago igo or further west. With owner J.

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He had left RONDA at Townsville, presumably to be cared for by local residents, but she was neglected and eventually destroyed. After the War he went to England and came back with PALMOSA, which is now tied up at Townsville. The dead Captain’s friends hope she meets a better fate than RONDA. • Ronald Johnson duly arrived in Sydney as a passenger on EASTERN ‘GLORY at end of July, complete with his new “yacht”—but the yacht turns out to be a Chinese junk. At the beginning of August, the junk (which had a lot of publicity from Sydney newspapers) was being held by Customs as a “prohibited import”.

Johnson was negotiating with them to release it so that he can use it as a home. He wants to anchor in Rushcutters ® a >’ —but make occasional cruises away. • In early August an American couple, Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen Peterson, were in Sydney en route to Papua to inspect the remains (if any) of a junk in which they were wrecked on Sudest in the Louisiade Archipelago in 1989.

At the time of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1987, they escaped to America in the 9 tons junk, the HUMMELL-HUMMELL. A Pacific voyage in 1939 followed, and ended on the reef of Sudest.

During July, a District Services patrol left Lae to investigate the wreckage of a war-time aircraft, tound in April in the mountains north of Lae. It was discovered during an air search for a Tiger Moth and its pilot, Mr. Ray Stockton, who crashed on a flight from Lae to Madang. Stockton got back to Lae, but the searching aircraft saw the wreckage of the other p: on a high mountain.

Mr x Shih - Fan g Tung, advise] the Overseas Chinese Commisi of the Chinese Nationalist Gov« ment at Formosa, visited Fiji New Britain recently to discuss problems and conditions of local Chinese. 114 AUGUST. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

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In July, the Executive considered n ALP report on the whole P-NG »t-up, and although only snippets | the report have been released, [seems to follow the usual Socialist ittern. [The ALP, on the instigation of ne or two disgruntled Europeans ho had spent some time in the territory, set up an “inquiry” tenths ago. Numerous people, most [ them with a grievance and all I the rat-bag type, gave evidence [fore it.

The ALP executive’s solemn conave in Canberra recently, is ndently the result.

The Executive warned that preait government policies in P-NG ould lead to unrest of the Kenya [au-Mau sort. fother points from the report ere: The Government deliberately iaintains the natives as unskilled orkers to their dissatisfaction. [ New Guinea is a potential area migration from overpopulated |sia.

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At the conclusion of their deaerations, the ALP Executive uried a resolution recommending iat there should be no further ienation of native land for private irposes and that that already ienated and unused be returned i the natives.

IHE report, as such, is a par- . ticularly futile document merely nphasising the general lack of Dpreciation, in Australia, of the •oblems and requirements of Papua id New Guinea.

The Government policy, which le ALP condemns, was, in fact, id down by the previous Labour iministration; there has been no wiation from it by the present iberal Government.

The point about population :essures from Asia is well-taken ■and nullified by the resolution lout alienation of land. There has ;en no brake put on native dejlopment since the war —in fact, le Administration’s prime function to push this development. But ative, revenue-earning production ill is an infinitesimal part of the erritory’s income-earning producon.

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BFire for development is still a ;ry fitful flame, and, so far as deilopment with a view to keeping the Asians out is concerned, can be said to not have been kindled at all.

There is no native land hunger in the Territory, and under the present land laws never will be. The obstacles put in the way of Europeans acquiring land in P-NG may be regarded as a good or a bad thing, but the fact remains that, if our paramount task is to keep that Territory safe from Asia, then vigorous European development will be a thousand-fold more effective than native development.

Only so long as Europeans concern themselves in the matter, is New Guinea safe from Asia. And this is not because we have left the native “backward”—the same holds true of every territory and colony in the South Pacific.

In every native experiment of this kind, the seeds of some type of Mau Mauism are there; whether they sprout and grow depends on the wisdom of the men actually carrying out the job of government, and on the art of compromise.

The Socialists oversimplify the matter in believing that “native development” (a nice nebulous phrase) is the cure for both internal strife and external threat. The real problem is that the solution to one of these problems could aggravate the other.

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It may be asked why all the combtion over one match at the end Ia string of brilliant successes in | exhausting tour. The answer is at the Fijian teams which toured kw Zealand in 1939 and 1951 [rried on the tradition of success lilt up by cricketers and athletes, id now—well, look what’s hapned! A large New Zealand crowd, ed by reports of the excitement [Australia, paid to see a crashing Rew Zealand Rugby people were f more staggered than all the ople in Fiji who spent the afteron of June 3 glued to their radios hear the new VRH Suva rebroadst Radio New Zealand. The dispointment tinged the team’s jmecoming next day—there was jt even the usual triumphal drive rough Suva, although that may fve been because the day was nday. There was a brief Fijian remony of welcome at Laucala ly and that was all.

Perhaps some members of the im felt and resented the curious • of reproach that seemed to lanate from some sections of their n people. (Nobody expected the (ian team to beat Auckland at the iw Zealand national game, but body bargained for such a imendous margin of loss and such poor showing by the tourists). At < events, the returned team, playl a Suva-Rewa team on July 6, nt down 6-9 after a deplorable hibition. knd that touched off the inmerable post-mortems and inests. For the failure of the team Auckland there was the sound cuse that the Fijian players were nuinely tired after 17 matches in o months in four Australian ites. Further, through an excusle oversight, they had only short rigs in their boots, and that meant lot of disastrous slithering in ickland ground conditions. Lastly, the words of Ratu George ikobau (coach and Government representative): “We were beaten by a much better team playing solid New Zealand Rugby.”

So far, so good, and if only the margin of points had been half what it was, there would have been little Fijian emotion over the defeat. But that does not get over the team’s debacle at Suva which, in a sort of chain-reaction, had caused a turning of inquiring Fijian eyes towards the whole Rugby Union setup.

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Some of those Europeans hold Fijian confidence at every point others do not. And of the others 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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There is also bitter comment the stress laid on the profit c sideration, with which is bound the claim that the unfortur Auckland match was due to error of judgment rising from handsome bait (£NZ500) offered Auckland.

Sourest of all sour notes has fc struck by the venomous commen a few Australian newspapers.

Sydney commentator has car more bitterness in Fiji than a body since another Sydney c« mentator alleged without foundat that the Queen left the State 1 at Suva because she was worn by her first day in Fiji.

There is any amount of evide at Suva, most of it contained letters written by independent A tralians, that the refereeing in A tralia was not always above proach and that such “incidents” led to press attacks on the Fiji had been caused by flagrant p vocation. This contention was c; firmed by Ratu George Cakobau.

July 4, when the team receivec civic reception from the Mayor Suva, and again when the team T entertained by the Rugby Union dinner at the Grand Pacific He On both occasions Ratu Gee used the word “provocation" v great deliberation. And on to occasions the team manager C W. E. Goodsir) said emphatic; that the Sydney press had made' exaggerated fuss over “incider and that most of the spite ca from a writer who was not invi to certain of the Fijian teai Sydney occasions.

Editorial Note—From th«.

Australian Angle It is hard for anyone outs Fiji to believe that a matter Rugby Union football could assu such an important place in scheme of things. But that is li it is in Fiji.

Nonetheless, it seems to us tl; if our correspondent’s views general, the whole matter is bef treated with undue sensitiveness particularly the Australian angle.

It is true that the Fijian tearm 1954 did not get such a good Pn as the tourists of 1952. There w* several reasons for this —the EngK League team was touring at t same time, and League, and r Union is the Australian game; t Fijians were no longer the teresting oddities that they weref 118 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!]

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I *#m 7 'CI 0 c *f «-/. 952 and (but this is only hearsay) ;he management were alleged not 0 have been so encouraging to iessmen in 1954 as in 1952.

None of the reports on the Fiji rames that we saw —and we thought ee read them all —could be called 'venomous” as such reports go. [Tiey were just the sort of thing hat one can read in the papers any iaturday evening during the footiall season —and mild, indeed, to he things that were said about the isiting Englishmen and the Ausralians who opposed botji Fiji and he UK teams.

'lt was generally agreed, in Ausralia, that when the Fijians became bugh or tough they had good Bason and that the Australians had >d the way—probably because they tad decided that it was the only ray of getting anywhere against he Fiji giants, anway. [The Australian people and the aistralian Press are tough nuts to rack; they can raise their idols of he moment to dizzy heights of dulation and then cast theip down nd dance on their necks: bouquets ne week; kick in the pants the jext. Anyone who has the slightest ensitiveness naturally finds this lard to take. [The Fijian tour in 1954 was enirely successful; the tourists left he country leaving the best feelings f goodwill behind them and with heir popularity unimpaired. Cerainly they are now regarded as Dotballers, rather than as “Fuzzyruzzy Angels”—a hangover from he war-time sentiment engendered y the natives of New Guinea. And rom the point of view of Rugby Ihion, this is probably a good hing. 1 There have been no post-mortems are. The Fijians came, they played good football, they provided entertainment for thousands of fans, they produced handsome profits for the Union. Everyone is happy. That is Australian sport, yesterday, today and alwaysfounded on the premise that you can dish it out, but you also have to take it. Not “nice?” Maybe not; no Australian ever pretended that it ought to be.

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AN invitation to send a team to Tonga has been accepted by the Australian Rugby Union, and a tentative programme of five matches agreed upon. Nineteen players and a manager, who will pay their own travelling costs of about £l5O each, will leave Sydney on September 7, and return on September 23.

The Tongan Rugby Union has undertaken to provide accommodation and entertainment.

The Australian team will be about Sydney first-grade club standard, Sydney officials said they were keen to build up the strength of the game in Tonga. Union was booming in Japan, which had invited an Australian university team to visit there next year. If the strength of the game could be built up in Japan and Tonga there 119 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Some months ago a house was acquired at Mataiea and this is being modernised and re-designed as dining and public quarters. Guests will be accommodated in about ten beach cottages nearby.

Mr. Nordman is being joined in the venture by Madame Lucienne Boshier, who will be hostess.

Madame Boshier has for some time reisded in Sydney, NSW, and her attractive daughter is a well-known dancer there.

The hotel will probably be named ‘Bougainville.”

An Extra Day in Papeete THE stop-over at Papeete on the Coral Route service will be increased by one day to 2?. days, TEAL announced recently.

Aircraft will now leave Laucala Bay, Fiji, on Monday, and leave Papeete on the return run on Thursday (i.e., Friday, Suva time), arriving back at Laucala Bav on Saturday afternoon.

On the Laucala Bay-Nukualofa service the stop-over time at Tonga will be extended from 3?> hours to 4i hours before the return flight is made on the same day.

The new arrangements are now in force. fi Sergeant Luke Sailada Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regirr Malaya, was awarded the Mili Medal in July for bravery and sistence in action at La\ Layang, Johore, on May 24, w he and his force annihilated a gi of terrorists. He killed four of terrorists after he had I wounded. 120 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTBL

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The potential yield is unknown, it wild-growing trees cover large eas of the island. Mangaia coffee is last exported in any quantity ifore World War I, the 1906 yield ling 27,000 pounds.

Preparations of coffee beans by fe Mangaians in the past has been laborious and wasteful hand press. Mi*. Syme has taken back th him a hand-operated pulper id a light husking machine which [procured during a recent visit [England.

If the Mangainas show interest, [is hoped to organise a coerative at the end of the first is on when they will have learned B new system of processing.

A well-known Auckland firm is fo interested in importing canned Heapple pulp from Mangaia, also beapple juice and tomato puree, [e firm has supplied pulping and ice extracting machinery to Mr. me for experiment. Depending pays on the co-operation of the Ingaians, it is intended next year i can sliced pineapple and fruit lad made from bananas, passion lit, oranges, pawpaws, mangoes d pineapples.

First samples of pineapple pulp d juice should arrive in Auckland out October in one-gallon and ir-gallon cans. Further operans will depend on analytical and ifer reports. fhere have in the past been rious ventures of this nature in i Cooks but they have always led for one reason or another, equently a proposition appeared rth while but failed when proce prices jumped once the people ilised that the enterprising orniser had no choice but to purase their produce. a co-operative effort there is reason why the new venture auld not be a success, given table supervision. If it succeeds, ;re is little doubt that it will ye a favourable effect in influenc- ; the organisation of similar cojratives elsewhere in the Cooks.

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Jiss Jane Lament, daughter of . and Mrs. N. Lament, of Suva, 5 become Fiji’s first Queen’s ide. Her certificate bears the yal Coat of Arms and the Queen’s nature. She joined the movent five years ago and was one the Guides’ Overseas contingent the Coronation.

Prof. A. P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University, left on June 25 to attend a conference in Hawaii on “Race Relations in World Perspective,” sponsored by the Ford and Mclnerny Foundations. The conference will consider the nature of race and race relations, the role of race conflict in nationalistic movements, administrative policies for race minorities, effect of Christian missions on race relationships, and inter-racial marriage and racial integration.

H Mr. R. Davies, Officer for Islands Education in New Zealand, was touring the Cook Islands Lower Group in July. He had attended the Research Council meeting of the South Pacific Commission in Noumea.

H Mrs. Maria Henderson, of Rarotonga, went to New Zealand in July to attend the conference of the Country Women’s Association, branches of which have recently been established in the Cook Islands. 121 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1954

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Archbishop Owen, Primate of New kaland, lodged the protest with the bipany mid-July.

Shaw Savili noted the protest, but fleeted it, pointing out that since 155 many other vessels had carried le same name as well as those | the Mission. The name had kver been reserved for Mission Issels. Furthermore, Mission fssels were registered as yachts id not as trading vessels and ere therefore not on the same gister as the new liner.

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Miss Margaret Blakey, formerly Port Moresby, has joined the staff Burns Philp (NG) Ltd. at imarai.

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Lag In Housing Loans

The Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, has promised that Housing Loan applications will be dealt with more quickly.

He was commenting on criticism by the Eastern Highlands District Advisory Council, that there was much delay.

At least one man, it was said, had given up the idea of an Administration loan and made other arrangements to build a house.

Another member of the DAC said that an applicant, a builder, had estimated that he could build the proposed house himself for half the price the Administration estimated that it would cost.

There have also been complaints in Rabaul where one of the few people there to take advantage of the Loan had had to wait months for payments.

New Wharves Help

COMMUNICATIONS Two new wharves have been built at Kerema, in the Gulf District of Papua, and the main wharf of more than 300-feet means that ships will not now have to anchor offshore and have their cargo ferried by canoes.

Both wharves were built by the Administration.

The contractors (Constructors Ltd.) who are completing the Kavieng wharf expect that it will be finished in October, five months ahead of schedule. This must constitute something of a record for the Territory.

Previous to their starting t last February, Kavieng wharf sisted of the two legs of the shaped structure—with one shorter than the other. This n the berthing of any ship exc ingly difficult.

Fires—Problem Of Thi

Dry Season

A strongly worded war: about the dangers of grass fires issued by the Administrator Papua-New Guinea, Brigadier E Cleland, in July. 126 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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It was directed mainly at Port fcresby people, but was also a genal warning to the Territory. The tiling was made after a parlularly black week-end in Port Sresby when grass fires kept fireen, including hundreds of native »lunteers, busy in all sections of se town.

Anyone making the trip from the {•strip into the town area would tve been shocked by the bald and ackened sight of the hillsides |ich, only in May, were greener an we had seen them for a long ne. [n his warning, Brigadier Cleland id the law would be vigorously forced against people starting es: he said that in most cases, ey were started by carelessness [by the desire of people simply I see fires burning—in other trds, “firebugs.” fie denied that the main reason I grass fires was the native habit [ lighting them for hunting, ropeans had been proved to be k culprits in too many cases.

Cheques That Bounce

the passing of valueless cheques Port Moresby caused the police p banks to unite in July in an bmpt to stop it. At the end of [ month they were able to report it there had been an improvefnt. during June, the three Port fresby bank s—Commonwealth, w South Wales and ANZ—had honoured between them more in 150 cheques, and according to B bank manager, most of these re written by people who knew •y well that they did not have i cash to meet them. He said it the number of valueless cques had increased tenfold in 5 last nine months.

Bank opinion is that In Port ►resby, as in other parts of the rritory, many people have been ng bank accounts who would not rmally warrant a reference in stralia. However, it is the normal ng for Territory firms to pay ges directly into accounts, which ans that many men who proby ought not to be trusted with cheque book are getting hold of !m. □lose who have been caught and o have had cheque books taken m them, often get around it by growing” a cheque form from ‘ nearest mug in the saloon bar. ey keep this up until they go ith and nobody catches up with im.

Che Territory has a law which ibles police to prosecute persons in though they claim they did not dw how much money they had the bank.

Chree Port Moresby men were lit with recently in the courts and each sentenced to three nths’ jail.

Territory On Tv

Representatives of a small Hollywood documentary film company— Film Productions International— are now in New Guinea making a colour documentary of the work of the Lutheran Mission.

They are Mr. D. Pedrick (director) and a cameraman, Mr. R. Smith.

The film will run for 45 minutes and will later have music dubbed in. It will give an overall picture of the work of the mission, and there is a possibility it will eventually be shown on television in America.

The Lutheran Church is the largest distributor of religious films in America.

Malaria Drug Kills Infant

The dangers of young children getting hold of the malaria suppressive, Daraprim, were underlined in the Territory in July following the death of a young child The child, aged 2 years and a months, had swallowed 16 tablets.

Since there have been other cases of children getting hold of Daraprim, the Public Health Dept, issued a warning to parents to keep the drug locked up when not in use. In normal doses, Daraprim is not toxic.

More Volcanic Activity

Following activity on the submarine volcano in St. Andrew’s Strait (south of Manus), on July 10, the crater became visible above 127 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Native Clerks Go Back

SCHOOL Almost 200 native clerks are r attending Administration classes English and arithmetic at I Moresby. The classes were star in June after some natives as for the tuition following bad eta ination results.

The classes are organised by Native Wages Board and the ] partment of Education. Stude: ages range from 16 to 45.

Native Labour Force

INCREASES More than 66,000 natives w employed throughout Papua 5 New Guinea in May—an increase about 500 on the April figure.

About 50,000 of this total w employed by private enterpr mostly under agreement.

ANTICIPATING THE LAE-

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In July, a Lae carrier, Mr. T Kelly, successfully drove a loa< four-wheel drive diesel truck fr Lae into Kaiapit, taking two da It was the first time a truck 1 been driven into Kaiapit from 1 since the war, and it was Kel. third attempt. He carried 7 tons material for the Lutheran Missi On his return to Lae, he sta that he would like to try to get Gusap, 30 miles further on, as t would prove of assistance to Hig land farmers who may now dr by jeep the 230 miles from I Hagen to Gusap. It is propoi that one day, roads will lead fr Gusap down to the coast at 1 and Madang. Bridges over the ma rivers are the greatest obstacles this plan.

On his trip to Kaiapit, Mr. Ke had no trouble with river crossin as has been the case when otf drivers have attempted it. But did get bogged in soft soil arou village gardens.

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ACROSS Work on the Markham Pt. brie near Lae has progressed w; since the photo (page 99, July) v, taken in May. Work is expected be finished by the end of the yeat It is now nearly half-way acr» the river and progressing well. Tl final shipment of piles is expect to arrive early August from Bn bane. The most difficult part the river has been bridged. Thr of the 17 spans have already be erected.

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The groups between them have applied for 5 different areas, most of them near or adjoining permit areas now held by APC, including the Omati area. [Another area includes part of the Eastern Highlands, in the Central Range district.

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Museum Expedition

[ Well known Territorian, Mr. Nep Blood, led a field expedition into the Jimmi Valley area of the Highlands in July. [ The party includes two experts from the Australian Museum, Sydney—Mr. Ellis Troughton, the curator of Mammals, and Mrs, Norman Camps, a preparator (or taxidermist).

A manufacturing chemist, Mr. G.

Hermon Slade; Dr. R. McFadzean, of Griffith, who is interested in orchids: Mr. Ederic Slater, a clinical photographer who is interested in wild life photography; and an orchid expert, Mr. York Meredith, made up the rest of the party.

The Museum members of the party will be looking for specimens for the Museum’s collection and hope to get some rare ones, including some birds of paradise.

Australian Museums get many of their specimens by courtesy of wellendowed expeditions from overseas, and the current expedition is unique for Australian museums. It is a pity —with the expenditure of more money Australia could put together some unique exhibits, instead of being in a position of getting most of its study notes and samples from other countries.

Bishop Goes Abroad

The Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. P. N. W.

Strong, left Port Moresby on July 25 on a world tour which will take him to America, the United Kingdom and parts of Europe over the next four months.

First he will go Minnesota, USA. where with representatives from all over the world, he will attend the Anglican Church Conference. This is the first Congress of its type and it will meet every ten years to discuss matters of world importance to religion.

Later, the Bishop will visit his mother at Oxford. He expects to return to Papua on November 28 after lecturing in America.

Another Native Death

The APC was unlucky again in July when a native labourer was killed and two injured following the fall of a tree near Kuru, in the Gulf District.

There have been several deaths by accident in Western Papua involving APC labourers in recent months.

More Administration Land

The Administration has bought 300-acres of native land in the town area of Port Moresby, behind Murray Barracks. It was bought from heads of the Korobosia village for a reported price of £l9 an acre—the average price for good land in the Port Moresby area, these days.

Light In Rabaul’S Darkness

A senior engineer from the Commonwealth Department of Works, in Melbourne, Mr. C. Rosenthall, visited the New Britain and the Morobe Districts in July to report on possible hydro-electric schemes.

In New Britain, he was looking for suitable sites to provide power 129 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1954

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Ng Participant In Redex

TRIAL Well known NG pilot, Mr. Maurice Crowley, owner of Crowley’s Airways at Lae, was forced down at the end of July on a flight between Lae and Cairns, Qld.

Headwinds caused him to land on the Iron Range airstrip on the Cape York peninsula. Two Lincoln bombers went out searching for him Crowley eventually turned up at Cairns.

He was on his way to Sydney in a Percival Gull to take part in the Redex air trial which began in August.

Civilisation In Outer Is

A limited degree of civilisation now being brought to the Mortla and Tasman Islanders of N Guinea. Hitherto they have be almost as remote as the recem located natives in the Tari valle in the Southern Highlands.

The 437 Mortlake and Tasm; islanders are blown away Pol nesians, although the nearest oft; islands is about 160 miles eastwa from the top tip of Bougainville.

The islanders live on a diet of fi and coconuts and because t islands will grow little they ha been left very much alone. Th are off the main inter-island tra mg routes and as the highest poi on any of the islands is 14 feet abo sea level, they have not been ea to find.

However, in the last two yea they have received increased a tention from the P-NG Distri.

Services department and a tradii vessel has now been induced to mal periodic calls there to buy copand trochus.

With the money earned from th trading, the natives are buying ric meat, sugar and other food to va: their restricted diet.

The islanders have lived isolation so long that the ship visits could be a mixed blessing i introducing common ills unknow there. But here, at least, civilisatic has benefited by past experience ar the crew of the vessel must have clean bill of health before landin The natives are anxious to ha - ? schools established in the Grouj and will send young men to Nei Guinea as trainees. The P-NG D« partment of Education is willing 1 co-operate—although it will mea another kink in the already knott problem of language. The Mortlafe and Tasman Islanders speak Polynesian language.

Forty-Day Patrol

ASSISTANT District Officer W. I Allen recently made a 40-da patrol through the coastal am inland section of the Gulf regioi of Western Papua. The part; covered the coastal region south west of Kikori, then 100 miles ui the Turama River by launch, over land toward the southern slopes g Mt. Bosavi, and back by raft aloni the He-Gigio River.

The country from Turama to thi He-Gigio was extremely rough, am the raft journey hazardous owini to strong current, narrow passages rock outcrops and swift shallows..

The whole area covered wai peaceful and only a few minor comi plants were made to Mr. A. Alien General health was good in the 2i! villages visited.

U Mr. M. L. Cody, chairman o; Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines N.L., ant a director of Emperor Mines Ltd! left Melbourne on July 22 to im spect the mines in Fiji, 130 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The Manners of Tongans!

COULD it possibly be said of you that you curu vakaitoga? If so, your manners surely need improving.

I This and 159 other Fijian idioms are contained in a neat little book recently published by the Oxford University Press in association with the South Pacific Commission Literature Bureau. It was compiled by a Suva Fijian, Anare K.

Raiwalui, and obviously will be of considerable assistance to those wishing to speak idiomatic Fijian.

Literal tranlsation of curu vakaitoga is given as “Go out of a house like a Tongan.” And it is said of 3ne who rises without excusing himself and leaves while some gathering is in progress—or while kava is being served. r This last, of course, is a particularly horrible offence —but we wonder what Tongan long ago )ffended to such a degree that his ,ack of manners became part of the Fiji language.

The booklet is called Na i Vosa- )osa Vakaviti e So. Its price is 3 6 n Fiji; approxixmately 4/- in Australia, where the South Pacific Commission’s GPO Box number is 1254, Sydney.

Mr. Brian Jones, Chief of Field Operations, Asian Regional Office of the UN Children’s Emergency Fund, has been visiting Fiji in connection with a campaign against aws disease. It is hoped that the S~?iS?i n ’ Q Tl?

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Papua-New Guinea residents bar? contributed about £9 000 to the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Trust Fund. Contributions that were still coming in after closing date (June 30) and the combined Common- Sf a £ d Administration grant of £3,000 should take the total to about £12,000. The fund will be used for mobile welfare clinics for mothers and babies. 131 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Japs’ Giant Base

AT TRUK flow a Place of Ghosts and Decay TEN years ago, Truk, in the Caroline Islands, was Japan’s bigm gest and most powerful base in the Pacific Ocean. Among the 245 islets, within the 40-miles-wide Jagoon, the Japanese built all kinds of airfields and workshops, mighty naval installations, safe harbours for a most powerful fleet, and accomjmodation for huge military forces.

I This was planned and started between 1920 (when Japan was given the Mandate over the Caroline and Marshall Islands) and 1932 (when Japan walked out of the League of Nations and annexed the Islands); but the major work was done between 1932 and 1941, when Japan hurled her forces upon all the Pacific nations.

I All Japan’s operations eastward of Indonesia and southward of the Philippines were based on Truk.

Habaul was Truk’s advanced subcase —the Jap communications with Southest Indonesia, New Guinea, Solomons and the Gilberts radiated from Truk. [ When the American forces, after Clearing the southwest Pacific, swept northwards towards Japan, Truk was isolated from Japan, and took a fearful beating; but the Americans did not actually land at the Jap headquarters at Dublon, and examine the base, until after Japan surrendered.

A recent visitor reports that, although much of the huge fortress and workshop still is intact, it is a deserted and decaying place of ghosts. Most of the concrete and stone structures are holding their shape; but all the machinery that has not been salvaged—like the giant unloading cranes—is rusting away, and its complete collapse is only a matter of time.

Academicians to Teach P-NG Public Servants PAPUA and New Guinea Public Servants should, in the future, be better fitted academically for their jobs—if the Public Service Commissioner gets the kind of men be is advertising for, into the Public Service Institute.

The Institute got under way in Moresby only last April with some night classes; now, if the call is successful it will have three permanent lecturers with University degrees and accountancy qualifications, other high academic training and ability to teach. Salaries will range from £1,500 to £1,700. fl Mr. C. A. Adams, Mayor of Lautoka, left Nadi, Fiji, on July 13 to visit Canada, US and the West Indies. During his absence, Councillor Nityanand will act as Mayor of Lautoka.

IT Mrs. Aggie Plowman, after 15 years as charge typiste for the Western Samoa Government, retired from the Public Service in July.

The Rev. Sau Faubula, Tongan missionary, preached during June in Methodist Churches of the Goulburn Circuit, NSW, and gave lectures on his country.

Coming of Age Mr. Owen Wardrop cutting the cake on his 21st birthday at Port Moresby on July 17. Mrs. A. Wardrop, his mother, is beside him.

Many old residents of Papua attended the party. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 133 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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On his way back to Califorr from Sydney, Mr. Marshall call in at Suva, and some further d monstrations were given there.

As a result of these trials, sor modifications will be made in tl machine before it is marketed, as to permit of closer co-ordinatic of the work of the operators. Nu can be split very rapidly under tl hydraulic system employed: ai operations thereafter must be arranged that the kernels can 1 removed at the same rate as tl splitting and under conditioi which will give the machine a cle; advantage over the old manu method of copra-cutting.

Mr. Marshall apparently is d< termined to get the machine rur ning efficiently and profitably : the South Pacific, before he taki it to the Philippines and Indonesi —where, if it can show an advanl age over manual cutting, it obvious] should have a big market.

Meanwhile, a number of units c the copra-cutting machine invente by Mr. Rey, of Tahiti, are reporte to be at work in French Oceani; The Rey machine differs material! from the Marshall machine in tb method of nut-splitting. It was re ported, at one stage, that tb owners of the Rey and the Marsha machines were in conflict ove patent rights.

Now Enough of Their Own AS from July 31, United Kingdor and Australian coinage cease to be legal tender in Fiji. Coin were imported in 1942 due to war-time shortage—when Id, 1/- ani 2/- bank notes were also printe: locally.

Some of the commercial firm and hotels also introduced thei own voucher currency at that timi —much of which was prompt!! snapped up by American service men as curios.

The Australian coins most in us were sixpences. These, accordio to Fiji exchange rates, will no* be worth about sd.

The Ocean Island Golf Club hau sent a cheque for £l5/5/- to th( Spastic Children’s Society of Via toria.

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Rene Teharuru about to kick Samoan boxer Suivai (shown on the mat) in a tough July contest in Papeete, which Rene won on points. The referee was later suspended by the local Federation for failing to intervene when the Tahitian used unclean tactics.

Samoan boxers Suivai and Pasitale and their manager Mr. Eugene Paul and trainer Rudolph David were warmly welcomed and hospitably treated during their July visit to Papeete, the event being marred only by the tactics during the fight described here.

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Front row: S. W. Lau, Paul Chang (cap.) Y. F. Lam and T.

Lau. The knock-out round trophy was also won by this team; and Paul Chang won the trophy for the most outstanding player.

Mr. R. Galloway, president of the Basketball Assn., presented the shield and the two trophies. —Photo by C. H.

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Australasian Petroleum Co. Ltc has acquired a new cargo vessel the Hanna Sven, to run betweei Port Moresby and Western Papua with Captain Mcßitchie as masteii The vessel was built in Denmarl in 1952 and has a cargo capacit: of 900 tons.

The above travellers were aboard th[?] TOFUA from Auckland in July. Fro[?] top: Miss Ngaio Carruthers and Mr;[?] Carruthers, now resident in Aucklan[?] were farewelled by Mr. J. Carruthe[?] when they returned to Suva on holiday Brother Adrian. Provincial of th[?] Marist Brothers, made an inspection roun of Island mission stations.

Mrs. B. Gibbons, of Hamilton. XZ [?] visited her daughter, Mrs. P. W. Harrap of RNZAF Station. Lauthala Bay, Fiji.

Mrs. A. E. Page, and (right) Mis[?] Niuola Moore, were farewelling Mrs. w[?] Jarvis when she returned to Vavau[?] Tonga. 136 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The corporal is wearing the uniform of the pre-war Royal Papuan Constabulary which was adopted for the whole P-NG native police after the w T ar. It has been suggested that the only reason for this was that there were some thousands of yards of blue serge in stock and it Sir John Rankin, British Resident ,t Zanzibar, has been appointed Governor of the Western Region of Jigeria. He was Assistant Colonial Secretary in Fiji, where he was born, rom 1942 to 1945.

Off to the Cooks from NZ in July Fiji Starlings Beware!

FIJI’S starlings are on their way out—maybe.

As reported last year, the Fiji Government decided that a colony of starlings on Ono-i-Lau, in the Lau Group, showed signs of becoming a potential menace to the Fiji fruit industry. An expert arrived from overseas and considered ways and means of eradicating the pests.

T^e ac^ ual work of eradication is now under way. A number of ground and nest traps have been constructed and will be used by local Fijians until the breeding season later in the year when another expert will be despatched to organise the slaughter on a more extensive scale. —Photo by Papuan Prints. vas decided to use it up. There [?]eems to be no other reason, for it [?]s obviously unsuitable for the [?]-NG climate. It is of heavy wool [?]erge, patterned after an early [?]Victorian bathing suit and (it [?]s alleged) was invented by the [?]ate Sir Hubert Murray for his [?]olice who patrolled in high moun- [?]ain country. The native police [?]miform in New Guinea, before the var, was khaki drill, with a safari [?]ype jacket, shorts or lava-lava. For [?]nountain patrolling they added a [?]pool sweater. It was neat and at- [?]ractive and more suitable for the [?]ropics than the Papuan outfit. The [?]umour is that when present stocks [?]if serge are used up, the whole of [?]he Constabulary will be equipped vith pre-war, NG type uniforms.

Left: Mr. Ronald Syme, destination Mangaia, where he planned to organise a produce export co-operative (see this issue). Right: Mr. Norman Caldwell (right), whose Christchurch, NZ, organisation is building the Rarotonga freezer, seen off by friends aboard MAUI POMARE. 137 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 19 5 4

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When Regulations are made, notice to that effect will appear in the Gazette—it will be then up to the subscriber to purchase same from the Government Printer in Moresby or the sub-Treasury offices in Lae and Rabaul. Cost of Regulations will be from 3d. to 3 3, according to size.

The measure is not designed as a revenue making one, however. It is to avoid duplication in printing which has been causing considerable delay in Administration publications.

The measure was discussed—and approved—at the May meeting of the P-NG Legislative Council. Nonofficial members pointed out that the new arrangement will cause inconvenience to outport dwellers who may have to wait weeks to obtain copies of important regulations from their nearest source of supply.

J After several years in the New Hebrides, the Rev. H. Bell has returned to Australia with his wife.

He is now rector of the Presbyterian Church at Waratah-Mayfield, near Newcastle.

Modern Store for Alofi ff When Matron C. J. Mcßae, principal matron of the RAAF nursing service, made a brief call at Port Moresby at the end of July she extended warm thanks to the Red Cross auxiliary comforts fund for their fine work of meeting service aircraft during the Korean war and providing them with refreshments.

U Mr. and Mrs. Keith Broadbridg and Mr. G. Peters left Fiji in Ju for Australia. Messrs. Broadbridg and Peters had been on the sta of broadcast station ZJV and the voices were well known over tl Colony’s air, until ZJV became VR on it being taken over by the ne Fiji Broadcasting Commission.

Burns Philp (S.S.), Ltd., new store at Niue Island. This attractive building r places the old shed-like affair where the company formerly did business at Alo One of the old “proverbs” of the islands was to the effect that the best buildine v could see from the ship when entering any Islands port was BP’s—but until Man this year, the BP store at Niue was the exception that proved that rule. —Photo by Jack Thornto 138 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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MR. J. D. BROWNE Mr. J. D. Browne, 89-year-old nember of a family which settled n Fiji 86 years ago, died in Suva in July 22.

The family arrived in 1868 and settled at Natukewai, on the Rewa Xiver opposite Naililili. They grew jananas and sugar cane and kept l store.

Mr. Browne eventually left Natusewai and was for many years a jlanter in the upper Rewa where le took a lively interest in disrict development until the became in invalid.

He is survived by three sons, jeslie, Tom and Cyril, of Suva, and w o daughters, of Townsville, Queensland.

Mrs. Browne, formerly Gertrude Jutbush, died in 1951.

Mr John Trotter

Mr. John Trotter, recently-retired eneral manager in Fiji for Burns >hilp (South Sea) Ltd., died sud- (enly in Auckland on July 28 at tie age of 66. His death came as [ shock to his numerous Islands fiends, particularly those in Fiji rhere he had lived for more than 0 years before his retirement.

Mr. Trotter, a graduate of [awkesbury Agricultural College, rent to Tonga in 1913 to establish n agricultural college there. After ervice in France in the 1914-18 war e returned to Tonga and became lanager of Burns Philp’s Ha’apai ranch.

He went to Levuka, Fiji, in 1933. n 1936 he moved to Suva, where e was appointed general manager ir Fiji and a director of the comany.

In the following years Mr. Trotter ecame prominent as a public figure s well as a merchant. He was a lember of the Legislative Council >r six years and president of the uva Chamber of Commerce when e retired.

He is survived by his wife and vo daughters, Miss Barbara Trotter nd Mrs. F. A. Hellaby.

MR. B. L. (“Bert”) TAYLOR Mr. Bert Taylor, a resident of Fiji :om the close of World War I un- -1 last year, died in Auckland on line 20. He was for many years ith A. H. Marlow and Fiji Buildrs Ltd.

He went to Auckland for medical reatment; he was living with his aughter, Mrs. Dorothy Hammond.

Mrs. Vera Muriel James

The death occurred suddenly in ort Moresby, on July 9, of Mrs. r era Muriel James, wife of Mr. . A. James, MLC.

Mrs. James arrived in Port toresby from NSW shortly after er marriage 34 years ago and since as engaged fully in the community m . , life of the Territory. She accepted philosophically the normal trials of the pioneer, and was possessed of a dry wit and the genuine friendliness of the true Territorian. She occasionally told of how, in their earlier years in the Territory Mr.

James and she found themselves possessed of the Papuan Courier and how soon afterwards Mr. James was taken to hospital and she was left for some weeks to bring out the Territory’s only newspaper herself.

In recent years, as the population of Port Moresby has grown from a few hundreds to a similar number of thousands, the community activities of both Mr. and Mrs. James have increased. At the time of her death she was president of the P-NG branch of the Country Women’s Assn.

She is survived by Mr. James and THE LATE MRS. JAMES. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Mr. T. Sanerive, born in Western famoa and for many years a ■esident of Fiji, died in Suva late n July, aged 85 years.

Mr. Sanerive was a missionary of he LMS Church for over 50 years, erving in Samoa until 1919. He reired from the mission in 1945.

He is survived by his wife, three ons and three daughters.

Mrs. Viotti Miller

The death was reported on July of Mrs. Viotti Miller, wife of Mr. ames A. Miller, of Baramata lantation, Papua. She had spent bout 20 years all told in the Terriary. where she was well-known nd highly esteemed.

As a girl she was a noted swimmer nd diver in Victoria and later, in ydney, was one of the first women [ take up surf-board riding. She as a prominent golfer, both in ustralia and in Port Moresby. In le latter club she won the Associte Championship in 1950 and was >past Vice-President of the Club. ‘She is survived by Mr. Miller; a In, Jimmy, who is with the Ausfalasian Petroleum Co. in Papua; nd a daughter, Mrs. Nancye pstein, of Melbourne.

Her ashes were taken to Papua nd on July 30 scattered from an Ircraft over Baramata, where she ad spent her happiest days.

MR. J. C. M. SCOTT News of the death in Sydney, on lly 1, of Mr. John Charles Mylne uott was received with great re- :et in the Solomons, and in all laces where he was known.

“JCM”, as he was known to all, as born in New Zealand, and irved in World War I. He went i the Solomon Islands for Burns hilp and Co., as manager of their aisi branch, in 1922. He was ansferred to Makambo about 128, where he was General Manner of all Burns Philp interests in the Solomon Islands. He was at Makambo until the evacuation of the Solomon Islands early in 1942 when he, with others, proceeded to Australia in MV Kurimarau.

During the war, Mr. Scott served the Australian Commonwealth Government in one of the war-time Departments; and, after the war, he joined W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. in New Guinea. His health failed there: and about three years ago he had a stroke and since that time had been practically bedridden.

During his residence at Makambo, “JCM” took a keen interest in all matters relating to the Solomons, and he was for some time a member of the Advisory Council. He was a keen sportsman, and was captain of the golf club. patron of thecricket club, and for several years he held the golf championship. Hewas one of the original syndicate, locally known as the "Big Six”, who commenced gold mining operations on Guadalcanal. He was a foundation member and a Past Master of Lodge Melanesia.

An old BSI friend of Mr. Scott says of him: His administrative experience, sound judgment and sympathetic understanding of the needs and best interests of Europeans and natives alike, won for him the confidence and sincere respect of all classes.

In 1942, he did not leave his post The late Mr. J. C. M. Scott, with his son Donald. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY A U GUST, 1954

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until Jap bombs rained down < Makambo, and made his positic untenable. With his staff and oth residents he had the nightmare e: penence of crawling from one pr v carious hideout to another, whi | helping to organise the eventu I getaway on a dark stormy night : I Lever Inter-island motor vess | Kunmarau, commanded by tl ■ late Captain Bill Rawson.

Mr. Scott died suddenly at h residence, 36 Manning Road, Doub Bay, Sydney, and his funeral, i the Northern Suburbs Crematoriur was attended by a large numb of old Islands friends. He is su; vived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabet Scott, and two sons. Donald (30) with Dalgety & Co., and James (If is a student at Sydney University

Rev. H. P. Schlencker

The Rev. H. P. Schlencker, a Cor gregational missionary in Papu from 1895 to 1927, died in Bris bane on June 22 at the age of 8' He trained at the Hackney Cor gregational College, London. E was Minsiter at the Congregations Church, West End, from 1927 t 1936. He then went to Woody Poir and remained there until his retire ment a few months ago.

He is survived by two sons an one daughter, MRS. ALMA SMITH.

Mrs. Alma Smith, widow of th late D. B. Smith and daughter o the late Mr. and Mrs. C. D. McCaig early settlers of Suva, died in th Home of Compassion, Tamavua, oi July 1. She is survived by a brothei Mr. Devon McCraig, of Suva, : sister, Mrs. A. S. Cox, of Auckland and a daughter and son, Aileen anc Barney, of Suva.

Mrs. Katie Young

Mrs. Katie Young, wife of Mr Andrew Young, of Pitcairn Is., diec suddenly of a heart attack oe May 17.

She was a daughter of the late Sanford and Ellen Warren.

She is survived by her husband two sons and a daughter and sever grandchildren.

Williams Devo

Williame Devo died in Suva or June 27 in his 52nd year. He was a well-known Fijian who had beer a Government servant for 34 years; and played a leading role in the Young Fijian Society and its associate organisation, the Matanisiga; These have their own hall and; hostel in Suva.

With his wife, Ana, he went tc Malaya last year to visit the Ist Battalion. Fiji Infantry Regiment: with which two of his sons were serving. One son is still there.

Williame Devo was himself a member of the Fiji Defence Force Band for many years. 142 AUGUST, 1054 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mr. Richard Jeffers, one of possibly the last 2 survivors of the crew of the British warship Calliope, died In Auckland early July, at the age of 82. ’ Mr. Jeffers was a signaller on Calliope when she made her dramatic escape from Apia, Western Samoa, during the cyclone of March, 1889. Six other warships, three American and three German, were trapped in the port and were either sunk or blown ashore. Many members of the crews were drowned. ; When the cyclone struck the seven ships tried to escape from ;he port, but Calliope was the only me that succeeded.

Hr. Geoffrey Ward Gelling

Mr. Geoffrey Ward Gelling, a 3ook Islands war veteran of World Var I, and for many years manner of Cook Islands Trading Comsany’s plantations at Titikaveka, fcarotonga, died in Rarotonga reently after a long illness. [He was the son of Mr. Frank felling, and was born at Mangaia island in 1897. He is survived by Lis wife.

! Rev. Brother Clemens

; Rev. Brother Clemens, of the staff if Sacred Heart College, Auckland, lied there suddenly in July, aged 56 years. A graduate of Auckland University College (MA with double first-class honours and a winner of the senior scholarship in French), Brother Clemens was attached to the staff of St. Felix College, Suva, prior to and during World War I.

He was a keen sportsman.

Lord Michael Fitzroy

Lord Michael Fitzroy, younger son of the 10th Duke of Grafton, disappeared on the night of July 15 while swimming from the AK Sorengana, near Somata, in the Russell Islands, BSIP.

It is not known whether he was drowned or taken by a shark.

He was mate of the Sorengana, an 80-tons Baltic ketch which arrived in the Solomons last March from the United Kingdom and engaged in inter-island freighting, principally carrying copra from plantations to main shipping ports.

Mr. Eugene Gallett

Mr. Eugene Gallett, who was associated with Mr. Ray Parer in one of New Guinea’s first airlines, was killed in a level-crossing smash in Cairns, Qld., on July 12. He was 66.

Mr. Gallett was a member of a Queensland pioneering family, his father having been one of the first cane growers there. He lived most of his life in that State, although he spent some time in New Guinea on copra plantations and in connection with the airline business.

Mr. Gallett was alone in his truck, when it was hit at the level crossing by a goods train. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a Son - (Over) 143 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Canadian-born Roger Smith, "well-known Aitutaki trader, died mid-May, aged 76.

Mr. Smith was a veteran of World War I. He was wounded in the attack at Vimy Ridge. He later lived and traded in the Islands for many years and was twice married to Aitutaki women, his first wife ■dying in NZ. For some time before his death, Mr. Smith was partially paralysed and he overcame this handicap with the use of a motor wheelchair.

Manager for the Cl Trading Company until his breakdown in health, Mr. Smith was one of the dwindling band of “old hands’’ who knew the pre-air age of island trading. He was a man of a handsome and distinguished presence when he returned from NZ with his second wife before the Hitler War.

Mr. Afred E. Baker

The death occurred in Sydney on August 7, of Mr. Alfred Edward Baker, formerly a well-known resident of Fiji, Mr. Baker was an Englishman and about 70 at the time of his death. He went to Fiji for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in 1906 and remained there in various CSR centres until 1937 when he was transferred to head-office in Sydney.

He retired from the company in 1945.

Since he has been living in Sydney he has taken an active interest in the Pacific Islands Society.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters of a former marriage.

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BOUGAINVILLE Resignation of Mr. C. H.

Maclean Friends of Mr. coiin Maclean, until recently, pop lar District Commissioner Bougainville District, New Guin were surprised when he resign from the Service in July.

Mr. Maclean is at present Rabaul and it is understood tt he will remain in the Territory a engage in private business.

Although still a young man, IN Maclean has been in the Territc for 28 years and in the Admii stration for 20. For the past f] years he has been in Bougainvi —the last two as Acting Distr Commissioner. He now retires 15 months leave.

Planters and residents of t District gathered at Sohana pr; to his departure to wish him fai well and present him with a cheq as an expression of their good w He is regarded as an able a ministrator and during his term the District it has prospered. He w highly regarded for this and for 1 pleasant personality. In the sporti and recreational life of Sohai also, his organising ability a willing co-operation have cont: buted to the success of varic local activities.

New Bank at Nadi New Guinea is to have its ow women’s radio session. Australia Broadcasting Commission’s Idi Elizabeth Jenkins will go to Po< Moresby in October to discuj arrangements with 9PA.

The staff of the newly-opened bran[?] of the Bank of New South Wales. Nad[?] Fiji. From left to right. J. R. Ferri[?] C. C. Macaulay (manager), J. W. Mitch and Fijian message-boy.

Mr. Macaulay was with the bank Rabaul, NG, 1934-36. 144 AUGUST, 195 4 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLK

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G '// kMf Blue Gillette Blades P-NG Public Servants Act on 5-Days Week DUBLIC Servants of Papua and i New Guinea who have been campaigning for a 5-days working week for some time took their demands a step forward on liily 31. lOn that day they served a memorial on the Public Service Commissioner, Mr. T. A. Huxley, in Port Moresby, asking that the pubic service arbitrator amend public iervice regulations to make their weekly working hours Monday to Friday from 7.45 to 12.00 noon and rom 1.00 pm to six minutes past our. [On August 2, a similar memorial iras served on the Administrator, Jrigadier D. M. Cleland, and a bird posted to the Minister for territories, Mr. Hasluck. ■ The Administration has 28 days rom serving of the memorials to 3dge an objection, and an arbirator will then call a conference f the parties. The arbitrator can lake a decision if no agreement is Bached. [No arbitrator has yet been apointed for the P-NG Public Serice, as this is the first time in the 'erritory that an appeal has been lade to the Arbitration Court. An ppointment will now be made by ie Governor-General.

[?]Uwarrow Is Abandoned

AGAIN 7JR. TOM NEALE, who has been rAthe target for good-humoured banter as the sole resident of uwarrow since October, 1952, was ithdrawn from the atoll at his own iquest when the inter-island vessel annah called there June 23.

He found living hard, and preirious in the hurricane season, igs played havoc with his crops itil he killed them off. His supies were also raided by shell vers who were stationed there om May to September last year.

The divers gathered only four ns of shell before they were ithdrawn by the two employers bo held licences to do exploratory ving.

Severe infestation by termites in le coconuts has prevented copra ■eduction at the atoll, and its ily use in post-war years has been 1 a weather reporting station— itil the observer-wireless operators sre withdrawn late 1950 because ie hurricane shelter was unsafe id the cost of replacing it not )rth the benefits. There are iserving stations at Palmerston to e south and Puka Puka to the )rth. 145 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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Fijian Way of Life (G. K. Roth) .—A first hand account of the Fijians at home that will serve as a valuable source of information for inquirers. Illustrated. £l/1/-, post, Social Anthropology in Polynesia (P. M. Keesing).—A survey covering not only the Polynesian region of the Central and Eastern Pacific, but also Fiji and certain adj Micronesian areas, the Gilberts and Nauru. Map end-papers. £l/7/6, post, 11a.

Primitive Heritage.—Writings in Anthropology and edited by o J^V^e®einoiSes and Nicolas Galas. This work comprises: Funeral Ceremonies in Australia, by Natives Converted to Christianity: Precautions during m New Gui , Marriage in Borneo; Aztec Human Sacrifice; Self-Mutilation; the Hebridean as an etc., etc. Available Soon—Orders Booked. £l/9/9, post, 1/6.

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Some of W. Samoa’s 100 Tennis Players Visiting Team in New Caledonia Transferred Poll Hereford Stud AN agricultural college beef cattle stud is to be started in New Caledonia. It will be stocked with Poll Herefords, a breed that is becoming increasingly popular there.

The good impression given by beasts imported from the Australian Pylara stud at Noumea’s first livestock show recently led to the choice of the breed for the new stud. Six Pylara heifers and the bull, Pylara Protecter, were selected by the chief veterinary officer of New Caledonia at the last Sydney Royal Easter Show.

Some of the [?]enthusiasts awaiting their turn at the opening of Apia Tennis Club’s season.

From nearest earner:.. they are Messrs. J.

Bryce, R. Heke (last year’s single champion). L. Mann, O.

Crichton (one of last year’s doubles champions), R. Ritey, Misses M. Helg, F.

Macdonald, R. Helg, Mrs. Tarlton, Misses A Bartley, V. Macdonald, J. Ah Kuoi, Mrs. Stehlin, and S.

Devoe.

A Tennis Association, under the presidency of Mr. G. 9. F. Betham, was formed this year to control activities beweon the six clubs with more than 100 nembers. They hope io send a team to Fiji next season. —Photo by R. F. lankin.

The Pt. Vila tennis team which visited Noumea recently, under Captain Reid he team was defeated 6-9.

Mrs. Jenny Wren, opular member of he Port Moresby [?]folf Club, who sVilf [?]e missed by other lub members. Her usband. Mr. Bob vren, transferred to [?]au in July to work with New Guinea fold, Ltd. —Photo by Papuan rints. 147 1 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1954

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Cable Address: “Bnngeco, Sydney.” 16,000 Indonesian Exiles in Holland One Angle of South Pacific's Defence Problem iy|OST people know that the VI bemused “Republic” of Indonesia was brought into being y United Nations dreamers after he war, when Britain and United Itates refused to assist Holland in estoring her sovereignty over her 50-years-old Netherlands Indies. *hey know, too, that the band of olitical adventurers who now call tiemselves the “Government of ndonesia” were, in the beginning, jlected and shaped for the job by le Japanese, who occupied the ’etherlands Indies from early 1942 > early 1946.

But how many know the allied ory of the South Moluccas—secon of the East Indies lying very lose to Australian territory, inabited by an attractive people. The ,tter have appealed repeatedly to ustralia for aid, but the unimagin- Jive and pawky Australian policians and bureaucrats carefully nore them.

When the Japanese over-ran the (dies, Javanese “intellectuals” colborated happily with the invaders, tie Moluccans did not. They ught staunchly with the Dutch jainst the Japs until nothing more uld be done; they formed a restance movement during 1943-45; id. when they learned that the utch would not return, they preired to run their own country he Moluccas) as a self-governing (it of the Indonesian Federation rich had been approved by UNO.

But the Jap-inspired Javanese, tiile paying lip service to the an of Federation, would have none it. By devious methods of ickery, the Javanese established emselves as the ruling state, and e so-called “Republic” of Indosia took the place of the proposed ideral Government. There never js been a general election.

The people of Molucca archipelo, and especially of South olucca, either had to accept this iuation. or leave, or face exterination. About 60,000 had served soldiers under the Dutch.

The majority switched to the donesian Army. Many were deabilised and disappeared into a lien but silent civilian popula- >n, which is ready at any time to >e against the “Republic” and e Jakarta job-holders.

The remainder, with their milies, totalling no less than ,000, were taken to Holland in 19-50. This was when Holland, serted by her former Allies, was liged to sign the 1949 Treaty, unr which she transferred rereignty of the Indies to the Indonesians —about two generations before they were ready for selfgovernment.

EVER since then, at a cost of some £2,500,000 per annum, Holland has maintained these exiles from Molucca (numbering now some 16,000) in a series of 60 camps. Their future is an outstanding problem, for which there seems to be no solution. The Dutch have handled the people with sympathy —trying to employ the men, educating the children, giving services of various kinds —and seeking always some means of transferring the people (mostly Amboinese) back to their own islands, under conditions which will ensure their future security and well-being. Under present conditions —Communist control creeping across the Indies, as the Javanese set-up deteriorates — there is no guarantee of either.

An Australian politician, Dr. H.

V. Evatt, was primarily responsible for the betrayal of the Dutch and the establishment of this present “Republic” of Indonesia. (During that period, Dr. Evatt was Chairman of the UNO Assembly.) Ever since then both Socialist and non- Socialist Governments in Australia have run for cover whenever they were asked to take a strong and definite line in relation to Indonesia, and the periodic appeals of the helpless minorities in the Indies.

It was Evatt’s Socialist Government which permitted the Australian Communists, operating through the waterside labourers’ union, to immobilise Dutch ships in Sydney harbour in the late ’4o’s, when the Dutch were trying to get supplies for the rehabilitation of Indonesia.

Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Communist power developing in Indonesia menaces the future safety of the South Pacific. And the Communists’ path to the South Pacific is the East Indies, which Australian and other kinds of politicians so weakly and stupidly left in the care of the Indonesians. Now, maybe, the claims of the Moluccans, and the half-million or so Dutch Indonesians so cruelly abandoned in 1946-49, will get a little consideration.

To Aid the Islands Housewife 'T'HE South Pacific Health Service (head- A quarters in Suva) which for the past year or so has supplied us with the interesting bulletins on preparing food in the Islands, and on nutrition generally, has now combined some of this information in a handy booklet called Tropical Food and Nutrition.

The first, No. 1, Volume 1. was issued in June, and presumably there will be other issues from time to time.

The first number contains many house hold hints valuable to the Islands woman, how to use certain tropical fruits and vegetables; there are interesting notes about coffee and rice and numerous recipes all of which are within the scope of the Islands housewife.

The cost of the booklet is 1/-, post paid (in Fijian currency, which is 12% per cent, higher than Australian, 12% per cent, less than Stg.). All correspondence should be addressed to the South Pacific Health Service, Box 13, Suva, Fiji. 149 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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In New Hebrides BY some strange chance a gentleman named Simmons, a reporter from the irresoonsible and sensational Chicago Tribune, lately got loose on Santo, in the New Hebrides, with the result that in July he fed to the world’s press, through the Tribune, an extraordinary story of snarling Tonkinese Communists creating a new and livelier Vietminh in the Condominium.

He said that the 1,700 Tonkinese on Santo are 90 per cent. Communist: that they hate the Europeans; that they drank champagne, flew Red flags and otherwise celebrated when the P’rench in Dien Bien Phu surrendered to the Reds; that their joyful activities were not suppressed until the British and French officials threatened to shoot them down; and that they maintain caches of arms for use some day against the Europeans.

Various Australian newspapers which consistently refuse to publish facts about the Anglo-French Condominium and its queer set-up, presented the Tribune rubbish under big headlines. They gave prominence to a statement made in Darwin by M. Brochet, described as “a New Caledonian mine-owner,” that there now are 5,000 Indo-Chinese in Hebrides, and 4,000 in New C donia, against 20,000 French!

“which means that there is air one Communist to every Frenchmen.”

There is a small sub-stratun truth in these reports, but morsel is exaggerated until it comes ridiculous nonsense.

When World War II prevei the repatriation of the Indo-Chi brought in under labour conti about 1,000 Tonkinese bee stranded in the Condominium; through the administrative bung so typical of the Condomini they were not sent back to Toi immediately the war was over, the beginning of 1949 they n bered 1,287; and now there n be 1,600 or 1,700 of them, me living in Santo as traders, bar! taxi-drivers and general labou —an undesirable Asiatic commu permanently planted within a hundred miles of the Austra coastline.

Similarly, there are several h dred Asiatics —mostly Tonkii and Javanese (although most of Javanese were called home by Indonesian “Republic” in rec years)—in New Caledonia, wt they have also become an est lished Asiatic community.

Although all these Asiatics v brought into New Caledonia ; New Hebrides as plantation ; mine labourers, their perman settlement has not assisted labour problem at all. As is alw the case, as soon as they v freed from their labour contra they mostly entered “parasitic occupations, and declined regi labour engagements.

Potentially, because of tl breeding habits, they are a polit danger. But, at present, owing their small numbers and lack spirit, they are only an irritat to the Europeans, who realise tl uselessness. They are more o; menace to the Melanesians (30, in New Caledonia and 45,000 New Hebrides) than to any ot class, because they are ready at times to supply liquor to the nati —if they can get past the offii guard. fl Mr. C. W. T. Johnson was to turn to Fiji early August as Ai de-Camp to the Governor, Ronald Garvey. He previously 1: more than 30 years’ service w, the Fiji Government, and y Assistant Colonial Secretary bef: going to Tonga as British Agent £ Consul in 1943. After living a time in the UK, he was appoim Government Secretary in St. Hele in 1952. The present Aide-de-Ca:. in Fiji, Asst. Supt. D. T. Saint, v return to duty with the Fiji pol when relieved by Mr. Johnson 150 AUGUST, 1 954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

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Suva, Lautoka, Ba. £ i i - -1 RANSOMES SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD., Ipswich, England Vale, T. L. Sefton, 1909-54! [?] ribute To A Papuan Pioneer By Tom Nevitt. r B OM SEFTON, who died at Port Moresby early in June, was a I pioneer of the rubber industry 1 Papua. He arrived there in 1909 rhen, with another officer, he was elegated to open a branch of the lank of NSW at Port Moresby, ut. in less than two years, early i 1911, he was at the Koitakinumu libber estate as gn assistant. He ion assumed the management; and e retained it until severe illness freed him to retire in 1949.

Tom’s early training no doubt repared him for his success as a lanter. He was born in the brthern Rivers District of NSW, id was a lover of country life and [perfect horseman. He was keen id determined, and big both iysically and mentally.

There were many problems conpnting the planter in those early prs. They were the days when ule teams were used for transport, id it was a week’s journey to folw the track from the Sogeri tablend to Port Moresby. But, despite te numerous difficulties, Koitaki, [ it is now popularly known, was jveloped into the largest rubber tate in Papua, and it earned a gh reputation for efficiency.

Koitaki also became one of the ost popular estates in the Terriry with native labourers. Many tousands of Papuans, recruited om villages far and wide, came ider Tom Sefton’s control. He ok a personal interest in the welre of all of them, and won their spect.

A true patriot of the land he had lopted, he played his part well as le of a group of pioneers who icouraged the natives to live more lalthily and to become skilled irkers.

Under Tom Sefton’s management, litaki was the first Papuan estate import selected seed from highelding Javanese rubber clones, 30 ars ago. Seed from these imrted varieties was eventually used plant up many acres in the more cently developed Territory plantains.

Blood stock was imported from ieensland and successfully destured during the pre-war years, irly sheep-raising experiments ;re also made on Koitaki lands; it it was found that the exssive rains caused foot-rot, and e project was abandoned.

IOM SEFTON’S energies were by no means directed to one purse. Busy as he was, he found tie to play a leading part in Port oresby’s civic affairs, even though had to face a tedious, full day’s journey by horse to reach the town.

He was a founder of the first Progress Association, Planters’ Association, Port Moresby Race Club and the Papua Club.

Through his generosity he became well known throughout Papua and New Guinea as the big-hearted host of Koitaki. He is well remembered by his numerous Australian visitors over the years, and by others from America who were in occupation during the war. He enjoyed company, and he was the perfect host.

He is survived by his wife, a son (Colin) and daughter (Mrs. Oakley).

All are living in Papua and are highly esteemed by those who have the pleasure of knowing them.

Colin succeeded his father as manager of Koitaki, so the name of Sefton will no doubt continue to be associated with Territory progress for many years to come. It will always be a reminder of the courage and spirit of optimism possessed by the departed pioneer —and still needed in those who follow.

A Mixed Bag for NG GEESE, draught horses, sows and goats, as well as blue-blood cattle, have been included among recent imports of livestock into New Guinea.

Tattersall’s Bloodstock Sales, of Sydney, advise that they sent 14 Shorthorn bulls, 2 Polled Hereford bulls, 108 heifers and 4 registered Jersey heifers to the NG Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries. The cattle arrived at Lae by the Nankin on July 21.

Previously, the company sent some geese and fodder to Mr. H. A Aiken’s Vaiviri Estate. Port Moresby: and draught horses and harness stud sows and a boar, and ganders and Emden geese to Mr. Graham Kingsford-Smith, of Goana. 151 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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British Want to Know About The Pacific Islands Conservative Party Study Group [N order that the Conservative I Party—the power behind the f British Governmen t—may etter understand some of the roblems of the overseas countries ver which Britain has control, the arty has set up a Conservative tommonwealth Council. The Counil plans to make contact with eople with a special knowledge of articular areas and promote in- |rmative discussions: and, for this lirpose, Groups are being set up, Ithin the Council, to deal with the ifferent countries. [For example, there is a Pacific lands Group. Its chairman is Mr. [ L. Iremonger, MP for Ilford brth, who was a District official 1- Fiji and in Gilbert and Ellice lands, before the war. The Group icludes members of Parliament, id persons with a special knowdge of the Islands, and of Ausalia and New Zealand. It already is produced a memorandum on ie racial and population problem . Fiji—which, incidentally, does )t appear to have yet been read r anyone in this benighted section the world. The Group invites mmunications from persons in the icific area who wish to discuss icific Islands problems. Correlondence should be addressed to jmmonwealth Council, Abbey ouse, 2-8 Victoria St., London,

Some Questions

The PIM is happy to oblige with lestions: Will the Conservative Commonjalth Council tell us why the relest of the Fiji legislative Council, November, 1952, that Britain iould make a formal inquiry into ji’s acute population problem, has sen ignored by the Colonial Office?

Does the Council think that the ilamented departure of Mr. rttelton from the Colonial Office .11 open a new era, in which the ore urgent problems of Britain’s lonies may receive attention?

Will the Council try to explain oat the British Colonial Office is y ing to do in relation to the High jmmission for the Western Pacific, lere a highly qualified Governor, the person of Sir Robert Stanley, is been given the hopeless and iartbreaking task of making a silk irse out of a sow’s ear—the silk irse being the potentially rich chipelagoes of Solomons and New sbrides, and the hungry atolls of e Gilbert and Ellice chain; and e sow’s ear being a fitting name for the insufficient resources at the Governor’s disposal?

Does the Colonial Office believe that private enterprise should be encouraged to go in and develop those three Territories? If so, why has the Colonial Office carried on the policy of the Attlee Socialist Government, which forbade the reentry of trading firms to the Solomons and the G & E Colony when the latter were recovered from the Japs, and created a glorified Socialist economy for the archipelagoes?

Wedding of New Britain Interest A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. John Chung, of Rababul, with their attendants, taken after their wedding at the Catholic Church on July 10. The bride was formerly Miss M. Seeto. A reception for 200 guests was held at the home of the bridegroom. —Photo by C. H. Meen 153 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

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'% oa * ptoffztfotnia)i i charmosa American Samoan Graduates Output of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. for the year to March 31, was 235,800 tons in Australia and 190,000 tons in Fiji. Crop prospects for 1954 were said to be good. Net profit for the year was £1,251,608.

Fossie Schmidt, Samoan heavyweight champion of the Pacific arrived in Sydney in July to fight under Australian Boxing Club control. His mission is to fight Tongan Kitione Lave, against whom he wants to defend his Pacific title.

NG Women's Club Enters its Tee ONE war-time institution in S; ney which shows every sign enduring forever is the I* Guinea Women’s Club. Although too, could have become a casua as so many war-inspired sociei did, a happy band of hard work and friendly women have can it on and its regular Thurs( morning meetings are a call place now for many present Tei torians who are down on leave Formed in late 1941, the Club ] been fortunate in the two preside it has had during that long per —first, Mrs. H. H. Page and tl Mrs. N. H. Foxcroft.

Although to-day it is mainly social club, as shown by the pre dent’s report (presented at Annual meeting on July 22) community work is by no mej neglected. The Club actively si ports any worthwhile Territory p; ject and is always ready to g practical assistance to New Guii widows who lost so much in i Pacific war.

During the year just ended, me bers of the Club continued th hospital visiting and in other ca flowers and “Get Well” cards hi been sent to Territorians in hospil Several evening functions tc place during the year—not the le; of which was the annual Christrr cocktail party which 120 Ter torians and their friends attend The children’s Christmas tree a party, a few days previously, v equally successful.

After generous donations to va ous causes and other miscellanec expenditure, the Club carried t substantial balance of £279 into t current year.

Unfair Criticism of Fiji Hotel is Claimed Letter to the Editor.

"V/'OU published, in May, an art signed “Y”, which criticised eve thing in Savusavu—including the h( there, of which I am the manager, facts were cockeyed—we do NOT sup Pilchards or “Bulimacau” for lunch dinner, or charge 5/- for a meal of t type. This we would call a “snack”, wo 3/-, which is fair enough considering price of bread, butter and tinned stu In point of fact, our lunches a dinners consist of salmon, salads (inch ing asparagus), tongues, or fresh m and fish when available; and freezer go< when available. Cheese, sweets and cof (Nescafe) are also provided, and i charge is 6/- for lunch and 7/- for dim —not excessive for a place where cateri is both difficult and expensive.

Police and medical services perha could be improved—but even here f implications were pretty venomous, i to say unfair. The medical service I ha found quite good. We (my wife and DSFDF 156 AUGUST, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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I i s our job to impress the authorities a Suva about what we think is necessary or a growing: community. But misrepreentation of facts will not help us to chieve this goal.

Tour magazine has a wide circulation, nd anyone reading that article would get far from factual picture of conditions ere.

When I write to the Press I always ign my full name. If I knew “Y’s” ime. I would see to it that he got othing but Pilchards or Bulimacau for inch the next time he came here, and I ould have pleasure in charging him 5/- >r it into the bargain!

I am, etc., W. F. M. RICHARDSON. [anager, Hot Springs Hotel, Savusavu.

Hold-up, No Uplift "EXQUISITE Form Garment Co. j of the United States which has !. been planning the establish- \ent of a foundation garment intstry in Pago Pago, American imoa, is reported to be still igotiating labour conditions and is not yet commenced operations.

It is understood that the products ould be mainly for sale in the nited States, not locally—in the me ivay as a clothing factory in x Cook Islands is operating for x New Zealand market. (Interesting. We know what the action of the Australian rag trade ould be if anyone suggested that x NG natives manufacture garents for the mainland trade. — i. PIM). [?]SS Evangelical Mission’s Jubilee 'HE South Sea Evangelical Mission in the BSIP celebrated its jubilee on July 11 with ecial services and festivities in ission schools and villages.

The Mission grew out of work gun in Queensland in 1882 when ere were 10,000 South Sea Islands working on the Queensland gar plantations. The Mission is then known as the Queensland maka Mission.

In 1904, two years before the leensland Government sent the itives to their island homes, a anch of the Mission was opened the Solomon Islands and the ission took its present name.

The name of Mr. Norman Deck 11 always be associated with the andation of the Mission in the lomons. He has now retired, and e head of the Mission is Mr. A. bbins, whose headquarters are on alaita. 157 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954

Classified Advertisements Per line, 1/9; Minimum, 6 lines.

TENDERS MARAU PLANTATION, NEW BRITAIN.

The owner of this plantation desires to sell as a going concern. Tenders are therefore invited for the plantation, on a “walk-in-walk-out” basis.

Situation.—The property is situated on the south coast of New Britain, New ■Guinea, approximately 108 miles from Rabaul.

Description.—An area of 234 hectares, approximately 514 acres. Approximately 170 hectares planted with 22,000 coconut palms. This area is suitable for cocoa and approximately 1,000 trees have been planted. Further cocoa is being planted at present.

Title.—Leasehold; the purchaser shall accept such title as the vendor has.

Application for a leasehold title under the Lands Title Restoration Ordinance has ■been made and the sale is subject to the Administrator’s Assent.

Buildings and Equipment.—Residential buildings are of native material with prefabricated steel construction hot air drier and a newly-renovated native labour quarters. Copra stores of galvanised iron roof and sides.

Hot Air Drier.—Capacity one ton, details as previously described.

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Agents Wanted

Reliable Retail Organisation wishes to appoint agents to sell Watches, Jewellery, Cameras & General Merchandise in S/W 7 Pacific. All Goods Fully Guaranteed.

Liberal Commission. Apply, with copy of references, to: MR. DAVIS, 43 Belmore Rd., Randwick, NSW Still Available

"Where The Trade

Winds Blow"

A COLLECTION of fascinating tales and sketches of the South Pacific Islands by R. W. ROBSON & JUDY TUDOR.

Well Bound and Profusely Illustrated Price: 7/6 (Posted 8/3 or $1 U.S.) Prom most Island stores or direct from— Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. 29 Alberta St., Sydney, N.S.W. (Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.) Plantation Tools.—To include all tools at .present in use on the property.

Livestock.—lncludes approximately 100 fowls, 3 bullocks.

Anchorage.—Pair anchorage, except in extremely bad weather in the south-east season.

Trading Licence.—Trading licence is held for the general area, also cocoa and trochus.

Trade Store Sales.—Average between £lOO and £l5O per month and could be improved.

Native Labour. —Native labour agreements for 20 contracts have 2 years to run from March, 1954.

Stocks and Copra on Hand.—Plantation stores will be sold to the purchaser, at cost, and cut copra on hand shall belong to the Vendor.

Production.—Average current production 13 tons per month and the owner considers there is a good possibility of increasing this by 25' ,, due to the property having been cleaned thoroughly over the last few months.

General.—This is a well and favourably known plantation and capable of economical management.

Terms of Sale.—ls'. of purchase price to be paid on the execution of Contract of Sale, balance on notification to the Purchaser of the Administrator’s Assent to the contract.

Tenders. —May be addressed to the undersigned in a sealed envelope and posted so as to reach them on or before September 30, 1954. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

Inspection of the property will be welcome.

SOUTH COAST ESTATES LIMITED, Managing Agents, Rabaul, New Guinea.

Wanted To Purchase

GUEST HOUSE or similar.—Middle - aged English couple, seeking semi-retiremetfl within next 12 months, desire purchase Guest House, or any proposition giving small income with easy life: sub-tropics.

Norfolk Island or similar climate. R.M.G., 151 Sea St.. Herne Bay, Kent, England.

AUXILIARY YACHT.—Wanted to charter or purchase for small scientific shell collecting expedition in Micronesia. Preferably divided rig, diesel auxiliary, 70 ft. to 100 ft. O.A. Moderate draft. Must be comfortable. Please send dimensions, details, and price to: E. Chamberlain.

Box 755, Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.A “PIM” (Sept., 1951).—American Museum requires a copy of ‘‘Pacific Islands Monthly”, Vol. xxii. No. 2 (September, 195 H, to complete its files. If anyone is willing to sell that particular number, please write by airmail to Archbold Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 1309, Lake Placid, Florida, U.S.A.

PENFRIENDS LAD, 19, seeks pen-friends from the South Seas, Tahiti, etc. G. O’Neill, 37 High St., Cheltenham, South Australia.

DON’T BE LONELY,—Men and women all over Australia are finding happiness through my Friendship & Matrimonial Correspondence Club. Someone wants to be YOUR friend. Select and confidential.

Write TO-DAY. No obligation. Locker P, Dorothy Pope Friendship Club (regd.), Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydney, N.S.W.

BOOKS ANY NEW BOOK (English), which Is print now, posted to you in a few da I also find rare and out-of-print bo to order. Large Pacific clientele. Wr; Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westb) Wilts, England.

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DRIVE YOURSELF CARS—At Jour I vice in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier I Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane. Edward Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: 831 Enquiries Invited.

IN SYDNEY.—Drive yourself—all Holde cheapest rates, N.R.M.A. road serv: Make the most of your leave. Sydi dale Wentworth) Drive Yourself, Wentworth Ave., or, 196 Elizabeth St., C MA 9204 (after hours, FM 3110).

Positions Wanted

BOOT REPAIRER, experienced tradesm wants employment in Papua or In Guinea; or. alternatively as storeman plantation assistant. Has had experie: in P.-N.G. Married or single acco modation, as suits employer. Reply: R.

George, 42 West St., Crows Nest, N.S.

GROCER, 24 years, single, desires posit: anywhere in Pacific Islands. Refs. V pay own fare. Please reply to: “Groce G.P.O. Box 1128, Sydney, N.S.W.

ACCOMMODATION SYDNEY.—Comfortable home offers he day flat or bed and breakfast, amenities. Large garden. Walking distal from Lindfield station. Easy access city, northern beaches and bushla: Alma Royall, 12 Milray St., Lindfield.

ETTALONG.—Visit beautiful Ettalong : your next holidays; 2 hrs. from Sydn Cottages For Sale or To Let; moderi rates. R. Lundie, L.E.A., Ettalong Bea< N.S.W. ’Phone: Woy Woy 259.

FLAT AT MANLY, Sydney, Aust.—s m surf, ferry, pool, shops, overlooks Man Ocean, Heads. LUXURY furn.. w. ; carpets, refrig., hot water, ’phone, gard & lawns. Accommodation: Dbl. 8., 2 S.l Day B. IMPORTANT: Due to difficu experienced in arranging date of arrr with vacant accommodation, I am inviti applications and ALTERNATIVE DAT! for after Dec. 4; also state period requin “Manly Holiday”, G.P.O. Box 417, Sydn< STOP, when in Sydney, at the Fren Pension beautifully situated in Doul Bay, within walking distance of t Cross: 10 minutes to the city.

ENJOY the large pleasant rooms, t convenience of having both breakfast a dinner, the cosmopolitan atmosphere a an opportunity to speak French as w as English.

WRITE or phone for reservations t Mrs. M. Laigle, 6 South Ave., Dou!

Bay, Sydney. Telephone: PB 3549.

DR. AND MRS. H. L, ZIELE, New Ze landers, wish to announce they ha opened their home, centrally situated peaceful surroundings at Double Bay, t Pacific Islands and Interstate guests, t bed and breakfast. Laundry facllitie adjacent to excellent restaurants Double Bay; 10 minutes from Cit Under the personal supervision of M; Ziele, 37 Manning Rd., Double Be Sydney. Phone: FM 2761. 158

August. ] 954 Pacific Islands Monthl

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We regularly ship to New Guinea. Tattersall’s have been the successful Tenderers for the supply of Aberdeen Angus, Polled Shorthorns, Polled Herefords, Jerseys and Pigs, also for the supply of Lucerne Hay (ex Canowindra), for the Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Port Moresby.

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Phones: BX 3333, BX 1468 (Private: FA 8524). are Siam, Malaya and Burma; and the Chinese Reds have been very busy underground in all of them.

. And The Farce

GOES ON I The Australian Minister at the United Nations, Mr. W. D. Forsyth (formerly Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission) had his periodical brush with the Reds and the irresponsibles on July 15, when a report on the Trust Territory of New Guinea was before the UN Trusteeship Council. [ The Russians challenged the administrative and legislative union wrought into being between Papua md New Guinea after World War [I: insisted that this was part of a nove under which Australia would mnex New Guinea; and declared ;hat conditions in the Territory vere exactly the same as when Australia took over from the Germans 35 years ago. [ Mr. Forsyth, very forcefully, [uoted facts and figures to disprove he Soviet charges, which he desiribed as “utter nonsense”: and a Russian motion against the adninistrative union was negatived by I votes to 3. It is noteworthy that he two nations which supported lussia were El Salvador and Syria, lyria is one of the effervescent new lations of the Middle East. El Salvador, presumably, is one of the ittle States of Central America.

It is to be regretted that the reort that Australia is planning to nnex New Guinea is, as Mr. Foryth said, “utter nonsense.” This bsurd situation, under which Saladores and Syrias and Soviets can iterfere with Australia’s control ver this Territory, should have een terminated long ago. Austraan control over New Guinea is ital to the defence of the South acific against Asia, and she should ave supreme authority there. But whenever any move to end the ■rusteeship is made, the bureaurats and politicians of Canberra in away from the discussion; and le farce goes on.

In July PIM we reported the enigement of Miss Patricia Woods • Mr. David Boys, both recently ' Rarotonga. We stated inurectly that Mr. Boys as an exabaulite. It was Miss Woods who as born there and lived with her irents at the Bainings for some jars.

Bishop Lehman, Vicar Apostolic • the Cook Islands, celebrated the )th anniversary of his ordination t the end of July. Born in Holland i 1887, he went to the Cooks in U 6 and was consecrated a Bishop : St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, i 1948.

Export Tax is on Again:— Fiji is Looking for More Revenue Although in the past, taxes on Fiji exports have been vigorously fought—and beaten—by unofficial members of the Legislative Council, it is obvious that official members have not entirely dismissed this method of raising revenue from their plans.

IN his review of Fiji’s finances at the recent session of the Legislative Council in Suva, the Financial Secretary indicated that he was in favour of the introduction of export taxes to bridge the gap of probably £200,000 between revenue and 1955 expenditure.

Mr. Davidson considered that any increase in direct taxation would be out of the question at present. He favoured the introduction of land tax on a graduated scale, as a longterm measure for the Colony, but said it was doubtful whether that could be introduced within the present decade due to the necessary time it would take to value ail lands.

Mr. Davidson noted that from £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO could be raised annually by adopting the recent Fiscal Review Committee recommendation to introduce taxation of dividends in the hands of shareholders. There were certain complications, however, which would have to be considered.

At present, said Mr. Davidson, the Colony has a dangerously high proportion of revenues coming from what are called elastic sources of revenue—personal income tax, ad valorem taxes on luxury items, and so forth, which are sensitive to sudden changes in economic circumstances. (The fact that they pay no export tax on copra, gives Fiji planters a higher price than planters in other British territories covered by the MOF Agreement. They receive about £4 per ton more than planters in P-NG. The latter, of course, pay no income taxation, although the higher cost of living in the Territory offsets that advantage to a great extent. Planters in BSIP are worse off than those in Fiji or P-NG as they pay export tax, like New Guinea, and income tax—as in Fiji).

Hundreds Want To Go

To Ng To Work

A T least one New Guinea firm is A having no difficulty in recruiting employees in Au c tralia.

When Commonwealth-New Guinea Timbers Ltd. advertised for men in Queensland recently, hundreds of applications were received.

The men are wanted so that three eight-hour shifts, seven days a week, can be worked at the big Co.’s new plywood factory at Bulolo. Nine types of jobs were offered. 159 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1954 Commentary (Continued from Page 14)

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(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA The official price paid by the British (Ministry of Food for copra produced in British Territories in the South Pacific (Papua, New Guinea, Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice, Fiji, Tonga. Samoa, Cook Islands) for the year as from January 1, 1954, is approximately £7O Sterling per ton, f.0.b., chief Territories ports. Each Governmental authority, handling and shipping the copra, makes deductions from the £7O Stg., such charges being different in each Territory. The following are the prices now being paid, per ton, to growers in different Territories:—

Papua And New Guinea

At Main Crushers, Ex- W. SAMOA:—No details—producers expect about £ NZSB in 1954.

SOLOMON IS. AND G. AND E. COLONY: No details —producers should receive about £A66/8/- delivered at main ports.

Currency Note: Compared with Sterling, Aust. £ is worth 15/-; Fiji £ is 17/6; NZ £ is 20/-.

COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson, Ltd., Sydney i for which on August 5 was £ Stg.49o ( £ A612/10/- approx, i c.i.f., ton, Cont. ports.

N.G.— £5BO-£590 approx, per ton in store, Sydney.

Samoa.— Sydney agents in August quoted Samoa cocoa at £S49O (£A6I2 10 approx.), f.o.b. per ton, first grade.

COFFEE.—P.-N.G. Recent overseas market increases have brought Territories Coffee to 7/9 per lb. All supplies assured of quick sale. MANGAIA (Cook Islands).—Robusta, green, unprocessed V- -2/- per lb. on plantation.

PEANUTS.—P.-N.G.:—Little change from last month. Stiff opposition from superior grade Australian nuts has made It Increasingly difficult to dispose of P.-N.G. nuts. Price: Kernels, 1/5; in shell, nominal, 8d or 9d.

RUBBER.—Papua - New Guinea: Price based on Singapore figure which fluctuates from day to day. Quotation on August 5 was 26%d Aust. lb. Singapore rate Aug. 5 No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 68V2C lb. c.i.f. iapprox. 24) 4 d Aust. Ib.i. t ANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotations by (Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): Tahiti.—Supulies still overdue owing to late curing: White 80/-, Yellow 80/-. Green 76/-.

RICE.—New season’s (1954-1955) price is: P.-N.G.—Dry brown and dressed £B3 f.o.b. per ton. Other Pacific Islands, including N.Z. dependencies, £9O.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed betw Torres Strait producers and Otto Gen Co. (USA) for 1954: AA/A/B gra< 85c lb. (£ABSO approx, per long ton); 80c lb. (£ABooti D, 55c lb. (£ASSO); 40c lb. (£ A 400) ; EE, 30c lb. (£A3OC all c.i.f., New York. No change from ] season. Manihiki.—£A3Bo c.i.f., Auckla TROCHUS SHELL N.G.: £290 nomii Market quiet. Fiji, £FI7O per ton f.c Suva.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Market dull Sydney at present. N.G., Ist grade £ per ton less rejects; Spotted £7O-i both ex-wharf, Sydney. N.H., No intei in Sydney. 8.5.1., No. 1 grade £1 £l9O, Spotted £BO ex-wharf.

London Prices

LONDON, July If Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, ton New Hebrides . . . . 77,000 Metrop. fra: (£ A99/7/- appre Coconut Oil, c.i.f. Continental Ports, ton (£ ABB/15/- appre Philippines, July-Aug $ ( £ AB2/7/6 appro Coconut Oil, c.i.f., Continental Poi FM Straits, Aug. shipment . . £Stg. i £ Al2B/15/- appro Ceylon, Aug. shipment .. .. £Stg. (£AI32/10/- appro Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. C( tinental Ports:— Accra £stg (£ A 625 approx, per long to

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Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, A!

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on F basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Sellii £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Londc B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £1 NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. An tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Same B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Same London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO/7, S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO N B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, ba £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Bap 1

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavien Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches: I Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madan Samarai: agency: Wau) and ANZ BAN (Port Moresby) quote exchange ra Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO.

BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (bram at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Am tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES —Pacific frani most valuable of the three franc grout in French Union, are used in New Cal donia. New Hebrides, and Fr. Oceans FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Nation: D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quot (nominally): 145.78 Pac. fr. to £Aus< 176.72 Pac. fr. to £Stg.; 64.70 Pac. to US $.

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