Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXVII, No. 8 ( Mar. 1, 1957)
1957-03-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly MARCH, 1957 Vol. XXVII. No. 8 fgdƒ Wmi^'lmf r yhe G PY> : n a newspaper] "Mum-they're laughing at me!" said the young man in the old school-tie and Dad's pants.

This amusing photograph of young Fiji came from Christopher B.

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Passenger and Cargo Liners Regular Services between AUSTRALIA and NEW GUINEA M.s. SHANSI Sydney Brisbane Port Moresby Samarai and return.

M.S. SOOCHOW .... Sydney Brisbane Rabaul Kavieng Madang Lae and return.

Sydney Port Moresby Samarai Lae Rabaul and return.

M.S. SINKIANG Melbourne Madang

Japan Hongkong New Guinea

New Monthly Service between JAPAN, HONGKONG and NEW GUINEA (Returning via Australia to Japan Direct) 5.5. FUNING "I Japan Hongkong Madang Kavieng Rabaul Lae 5.5. FENGNING J Samarai Port Moresby.

Calls at Kavieng are on alternate months, or subject to inducement.

Calls at Samarai subject to inducement.

Through bills to and from U.K., Continent, U.S.A. & Japan.

For further details please apply to agents, or refer to the weekly advertisement in the South Pacific Post AGENTS PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai. Cables: Steamships.

NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Cable: Colyeram. New Guinea Co. Ltd., Kavieng Cable: "Camohe”.

BRISBANE: WiUs, Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd., 400 Queen Street. Cables: Wilgllsand.

MELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shipping) Pty. Ltd., 11l William Street. Cable: Syndicate.

JAPAN: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable: Swire. , GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd., 6 Bridge St., Sydney. Cable: “Swireship . BUI7IJ. A EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire. 6 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTT

SYDNEY AUCKLAND depart arr/dep ORION ORCADES ORSOVA ORONSAY Apr. 30 May 3 May 28 May 31 July 13 July 16 SUVA arr/dep May 6 June 3 July 19 HONOLULU arr/dep Mar. 26 May 11 June 8 July 24 VANCOUVER arrive Apr. 2 May 17 June 14 July 30 depart Apr. 2 May 18 June 15 July 31 SAN FRANCISCO arr Apr. 5 May 20 June 17 Aug. 2 HONOLULU depart Apr. 6 May 21 June 18 Aug. 3 arr/dep Apr. 11 May 25 June 22 Aug. 7 SUVA arr/dep Apr. 19 June 1 June 29 Aug. 14 AUCKLAND arr/dep Apr. 22 June 4 July 2 Aug. 17 SYDNEY arrive Apr. 26 June 7 July 5 Aug. 20 inking the Pacific Islands with I Wes l i ndie f: N f w Zealand O " IUI [ Australia and South Africa * The Shaw Savill Tourist Class Liner S.S. SOUTHERN CROSS.

The 20,000 ton round the world tourist liner, Southern Cross carries no cargo and is a floating hotel devoted entirely to the needs of her 1,160 tourist class passengers. With air conditioning installed in every cabin, passengers rest in cool comfort even during the hottest weather. * Si/.

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TAHITI Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

Cable address: Donald, Papeete.

Snipping Time-Tables sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks. !ydney-Papua-N. Guinea r Malalta sails from Sydney for ane, Samarai, Rabaul, Lombrum, igau, Wewak, Alexishafen, Madang, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing approx. 2.

Malekula sails from Melbourne for ;y, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, mg, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, sy, Melbourne. Next Sydney sailing Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, iby, Samarai, Lombrum, Madang, Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next iy sailing approx Apr. 15.

Mangola, cargo only, sails from y for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby. Rabaul, 3risbane, Sydney. Next sailing: Mar. ills from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., dge Street, Sydney.

Shansi; Next sailing from Sydney 23 for Brisbane, Port Moresby and ■ai.

Slnkiang; Departs Melbourne Apr.

Sydney (Apr. 11), Port Moresby t). Samarai, Lae. Madang, Rabaul.

Soochow: Departs Sydney Apr. 16, for ne, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae. tils from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., Ige St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G. e weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silin- Sibigo and Sinabang carrying passengers and cargo from E. Australian ports to Hollandia and Sorong, DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next Sydney sailings: Sinabang Mar. 22, Silindoeng Apr. 19, Sibigo May 5, Sigli May 29.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines. 255 George St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia (Calling S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) SS Fengning; Sails from Japan Mar. 22, Hongkong Apr. 1, Madang Apr. 19, Kavieng Apr. 22. Rabaul Apr. 24, Lae Apr. 29, Samarai May 3, Port Moresby May 4.

SS Funing: Sails from Japan May 3, Hongkong May 11, Madang May 22, Rabaul May 25. Lae May 31, Samarai June 4, Port Moresby June 6.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Arcs, Cltos, Delos and Milos maintain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; southbound vessels call at Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, with bi-monthly calls at Gizo (opt.), Honiara and Vanikoro.

Milos; Southbound due Lae Apr. 17, Rabaul Apr. 19, Honiara Apr. 22, Vanikoro Apr. 24, Brisbane May 1, Sydney May 4.

Arcs: Southbound due Rabaul May 25, Lae May 27, Sydney June 3.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands agents (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, Rabaul; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Trading Corp., Honiara).

N. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa.

Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland; Apr. 16.

Australia - New Zealand • Canada - USA Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1957.

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners; Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "Thorsisle" and "Thorshall"

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

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New Hebrides New Guinea

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD- General Agents 432 California Street, San Francisco 4, Calif., U.S.A.

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

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des LAE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Nouvelles Hebrides. SYDNEY —Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

Australia-West Pacific Line

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THE A.W.P.L. FLEET now comprises the modern Swedish Motor Vessels "Aros", "Citos' "Delos" and "Milos" which offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Aui tralia to Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage calls at made at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney an Melbourne.

Bi-monthly calls are made at Honiara and Vanikoro on the Southbound voyage.

Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA; WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 63 Pitt St., Sydney. Phone: BU 63<e Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. ’Phone: MB 2840.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs. Bright & Co. . _ .

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd.; Honiara. British Solomm Islands Trading Corporation.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland: Apr. 6. e . „ Details from all offices of Union Steam Ship Co. of , NZ. , N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maui Pomare maintains a regular service between Auckland and the Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Mangaia).

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi, 10 passengers, usually on the Norfolk, Vila, Santo, Honiara, Lu:n Tenaru, Yandina, Loavie, Pepesala, G Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney left Sydney on a special recruiting to Gilbert and Ellice Is. and Line Islsl in January. She will resume her noic run from Sydney on April 8.

Details from Burns, Philp & Coo Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahit Vessels of Messageries Maritimes I coming from Marseilles, via West In] and Panama, call about every six ww at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Nour and Sydney, and return by same ror At present on this run are the moc ships, Tahitien, Caledonien and ReJ gent. Next sailings from Sydney: Tahri Mar. 27. Resurgent May 10.

MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritiii. maintains about monthly passenger ings between Sydney and Noumea the New Hebrides. Next Sydney saiL Mar. 29.

Details from Sydney agents: Messagg Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydni Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifil Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passee liner Southern Cross makes four rco the-world voyages per year, two t bound, then two east-bound, calling: Suva and Papeete every trip. Next vojc Tahiti Mar. 29-30, Suva Apr. 4; foliar voyage; Suva July 16, Tahiti July 2 N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, i Pacific Islands Transport Line’s v*v Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain regular service from Pacific Coast I American ports, with sailings over 8 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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Sydney-{or NZ)-North America ! four cargo vessels, Waihemo, ma, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned operated by the Union Steam Ship of NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly e across the Pacific, from Sydney incouver and USA ports, via Suva, ka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes Occasional calls are made at Fan- Island. They have limited passenger imodation. Next sailings: Waitomo, April; Wairuna, late May. The mata. from NZ ports, makes 3-4 yearly to Vancouver, via Rarotonga >apeetn IS-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia son-Oceanic Line of San Francisco ;es a regular five-weeks passengerservice from Los Angeles with the Ventura, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma.

Southern terminal ports vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Pago and Suva, depending on cargoes.

Next sailings from Sydney; Sonoma Apr. 16 (approx.), Sierra Apr. 30 (approx.).

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation is entirely First Class, two-berth cabins.

Next sailing from Sydney, June-July, with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu.

Details from American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney.

Honolulu-Papeete The 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, American-owned, operates a luxury passenger service to a regular schedule, with calls at Marquesas and Line Islands as required. Details from Darr Lines, c/o Theo. H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or Etablissements Donald, Papeete. (Over) 9

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H. America-Hawaii-Fiji-Samoa- Tahiti-N. Zealand-Australia Matson Line’s Mariposa and Monterey make round passenger trips from Pacific North Coast American ports to Australia, via Pacific Islands ports and New Zealand.

Monterey: In the Pacific due Wellington Mar. 25, Papeete, Mar. 29-31 Honolulu Apr. 5, Los Angeles Apr. 10, San Francisco Apr. 11.

Mariposa: Dep. San Francisco Mar. 23, Lcs Angeles Mar. 24, Honolulu Mar. 29, Papeete Apr. 4-6, Wellington Apr. 12, Sydney Apr. 15-20, Auckland Apr. 23, Suva Apr. 26, Pago Pago Apr. 27, Honolulu May 2, San Francisco May 7.

Details from Matson Lines, Berger House, 82 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Airways Time-Tables

Transpacific Services

1. Australia (or NZl-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America (First and Tourist Class available all Services.)

By Pan-American Airways

(With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Sun., Thur.; Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is., Honolulu, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland.

Tues., Fri.: Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is., Honolulu, Los Angeles.

Mon., Thur.: San Francisco to Sydney (same route).

Tues., Sat.: Los Angeles to Sydney (same route), • DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Kadi Sun., Tues., Thur., departing Nadi Tues., Thur., Sun. DC4 shuttle service every three weeks connects Nadi and Tafuna (American Samoa).

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues.*, Wed.*, Fri.* and Sat.*: Sydney, Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Francisco— with Sat. service extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS Wed*, Thur.*, Sat.*, Mon.*: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (Fiji), Sydney. Monday’s service begins at Vancouver on Sunday. (Note: Crosses date-line en route). • TEAL DC6 services between Auckland and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Fri. northwards; Wed. and Sat. southwards.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wed.: Sydney, Auckland, Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver, Amsterdam.

Every Sun.: Leaves Vancouver for Auckland and Sydney by same route. (Note: Crosses date-line en route).

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Skymasters) NORTHWARDS Mon.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 6.30 p.m. Brisbane, 9.10 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Tues.

Depart- Arrive: Townsville, 1.50 a.m.

Townsville, 2.50 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m, Pt. Moresby 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

Tnes., Wed., Fri., Sat.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m.

Brisbane, 11.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m.

Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Pt. Moresby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

Thurs.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 6.30 p.m. Brisbane, 9.10 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Fri.

Cairns, 2.45 : Cairns, 3.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 s Pt. Moresby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 8 SOUTHWARDS Tues.

Depart: Arrive:: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 i Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Townsville, 4.15 i Townsville, 5.45 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 i Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Wed.

Sydney, 12.50 i Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sun.

Depart: Arrive:;: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 : Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane, 7.5 ] Brisbane, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, 11.10 ] Sat.

Depart: Arrive:;: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 ; Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Cairns, 3.20 ; Cairns, 4.50 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 ; Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Sun.

Sydney, 12.50 3. P-NG Internal Service:!

Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Gulmr (DCS) Alt. Wed. (Mar. 20, Apr. 3, 17, etc.). .

Departs Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Maw and Wewak, and arrives at Hollas 3.30 p.m. Every alternate Thun (Mar. 21, Apr. 4, 18, etc.,), dejj Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and, with at Wewak and Madang, arrives Las 3.20 p.m.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Alt. Wed. (Mar. 20, Apr. 3, 17, etc.).( Dep. Lae, 8.00 a.m.; Pinschhafen, Rate Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 p.m.

Every alt. Sat. (Mar. 23, Apr. 6, 20, departs Manus 8 a.m. and with call: Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhu arrives Lae at 2.55 p.m.

PORT MOKESBY-KIKORI (Catalim Via Yule Is., Kerema, Vaimuru: Alt..; returning same day (Mar. 29, Apn 26, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-DARU (Catalina: Via Kerema. Kikori; Alt. Fri. retu:i Daru-Port Moresby direct same : (Mar. 22, Apr. 5. 19, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (Cataliii Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Pt. Moresby:: Tues. (Mar. 26, Apr. 9, 23).

PORT MORESBY-RABAUL (Catalimj Alt. Tues. (Apr. 2, 16, 30, etc.) Moresby - Moewe Harbour - Tall.

Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul, same ports (Apr. 4, 18, May 2,

New Britain-Bougainville S

(Catalina) Alt. Wed. (Mar. 20, Apr. 3, 17, Rabaul, Buka, Teopasino, Kieta, Returning same day.

Lae-Mad Ang-Wewak-Manus—(

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madangg 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, KaT* Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., dires Madang, arr. 9.25 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Mas Awar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rsi arr. 4.05 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kas Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, , 3.55 p.m.

Central Highlands

(DCS) Fridays: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wapenamc calling at any of; Goroka, Noic Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Balyes Kalnantu, Wapenamunda. Arrival* at Lae dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Fridays; Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka.js ing at any of Nadzab, Kalapit, O 10 MARCH, 19 5 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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AE-BULOLO-WAU (D.H. Beaver) Lae; Mon. 7.30 a.m., Tues. 11 a.m.

Wau: Mon. 8.55 a.m.. Tues., 12.25 a. Bulolo is omitted on return flights ich take 30 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Jllolo-Wau-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Lae Wed. and Sat. 9 a.m. via Wau, 1010 to Ft. Moresby, returning via ne route.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

ays: Depart Madang 2 pan., arrive roka 2.35 a.m., returning same day; jart Goroka 3 p.m., arr. Madang 5 p.m.

SEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN- BOUGAINVILLE (DCS) ts: Depart Lae 12.55 p.m., Finschten 1.45 p.m., arrive Rabaul 3.55 i. lays: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m. ys: Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen i.m,, Rabaul 3.10 p.m. ays: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m.. Pinschen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m. ■burs. (Mar. 28, Apr. 11, 25, etc.). ). Lae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Rabaul, i&. Rabaul, arr. 2.55 p.m. fours. (Mar. 28, Apr. 11, 25, etc.). ». Lae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Rabaul, . 11.5 a.m.

Wday (Mar. 22, Apr. 5, 19, etc.) I. Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang. Goroka, arr. 1.20 p.m. ri. (Mar. 29, Apr. 12, 26, etc.). Dep. >aul 8 a.m., Madang, Goroka, Lae, 1.20 p.m.

Fices By Mandated Airlines

eduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Depart Lae at 7.30 a.m. for Goroka. lang. Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— aining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 . for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, a, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Rabaul at 6.30 a.m. for lang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka. Lae.

Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka. l, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka. Lae. depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Madang, eak, Momote, Kavieng. Rabaul aining overnight. Depart Lae 730 . for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, I, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for ieng, Momote, Wewak. Madang, oka, Lae.

Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea y KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. (Super Constellation Service) Jekly service between Sydney and dam with a call at Biak (DNG) anila (Philippines). aircraft link Biak with Hollandia.

Merauke, Tenah Merah, Manok- Noemfoer, Ranslkl, Qenjem and 10.

N. Guinea-Solomons ty Qantas with DCS Aircraft, liree flights every four weeks) war. 25, Apr. 1,8, 22, 29, etc.) Lae 6 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul I, Vella Lavella, Yandina, Honiara ), arriving 5.25 p.m. r (Mar. 26, Apr. 2,9, 23, 30, etc.) ara dep. 7 a.m.: Yandina. Vella Ua, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arriving p.m.

Paris-Saigon-Noumea- Auckland nsports Aeriens Intercontinentauxaircraft depart Paris every week • 25, Apr. 1,8, 15, etc.) for Athens, ichi, Saigon, Darwin, Noumea, 11 1F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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Auckland. Leaves Auckland on return Mar. 29, Apr. 5, 12, 19, etc. 7. Sydney-lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., With Sandringham Flying-boats.

Return flight each Tuesday and Thursday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

Bv Qantas, with Skymasters Alt. Sat ; Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m arr NI 6.15 a.m. Sunday: dep. NI 5 30 p.m. same day for Sydney arr 9 0 n.m. Alt. weeks makes NI-Auckland- NI flight. (See table 12 below). 9. Sydney-Noumea By Qantas. with Skymasters (Three flights every four weeks) Thurs. (Mar. 28. Apr. 4, 18, 25, etc.).

Sydney dep. 11.30 p.m., arriving Tontouta, 7 a.m. Pri. (Mar. 29, Apr. 5, 19, 26, etc.). „ .

Pri (Mar. 29, Apr. 5, 19, 26, etc.) Tontouta dep. 8.30 a.m., arriving Sydney, 2.20 p.m. 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft.

Wednesdays: Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., arrive Santo 11.10 a.m., arrive Vila 1.45 p.m., depart Vila 2.15 p.m., arrive Tontouta 4.30 p.m.

Saturdays; Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., arrive Vila 10.20 a.m., arrive Santo 12.5 p.m., depart Santo 1.30 p.m., arrive Tontouta 4.40 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallis Is.

TAI With DC Aircraft (Irregular Service) Next flights: May 5, June 7, Sept. 1, Nov. 3. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Alt. Sun.; Return flight Norfolk (dep. 7.45 a m.i Auckland (arr. 11.30 a.m., dep. 1 15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.). iSee Table 8 above). 13. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Daily, except Sat.; Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr. Sydney 1.00 p.m.

Wed.: Dept. Auckland 6.15 p.m. arr.

Sydney 9.45 p.m.

Sat. only: Dep. Auckland 11.30 a.m., arr.

Sydney 3.00 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 a.m., arr. Auckland 5.00 p.m.

Daily, except Sat.; Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., arr. Auckland 10.00 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Sydney 12.30 a.m., arr Auckland 7.30 a.m. 14. Auckland-Wlelbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tue.: Dep. Auckland 11.30 a.m., arr.

Melbourne 4.15 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Melbourne 8 a.m., arr. Auckland 4.15 p.m. 15. Christchurch-Sydneyf Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Sun./Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 I arr. Sydney 8.40 p.m.

Mon.; Dep. Christchurch 7 p.m., Sydney 10.40 p.m.

Sun., Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 8.00 as arr. Christchurch 3.10 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 a.m., arr. CM: church 5.10 p.m. 16. Christchurch-AAelboun Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Thurs : Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m.,,.

Melbourne 9.30 p.m.

Pri.; Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., Christchurch 3.00 p.m. 17. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with c DC6 aircraft.

Tues., Pri.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 a.m.j Nadi 6.15 p.m.

Wed., Sat.; Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m.,,.

Auckland 3.30 p.m. 18. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, withd Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with flights as required.

Departs Suva Thurs. 9 a.m., crosses a line, arrives Satapuala (W. SiE Wed. 1.55 p.m., departs Thurs. 22 arrives Aitutaki (Cook Is.) 7.30 C departs 9.30 a.m., arrives PiS 12 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTT

FROM SYDNEY (Aust.

Single £ s. d. currency) Return £ s. d TO— Table . No.

Moresby . . . 46 11 0 83 16 0 2 Lae 55 7 0 99 13 0 2 Rabaul .... 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 Noumea . . . 48 15 0 85 15 0 9, 10 Honiara . . . 80 7 0 144 13 0 2. 5 Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 Lord Howe . . 12 15 0 25 10 0 7 Nadi 76 0 0 136 16 0 1 Suva 81 3 0 141 19 0 1. 20 Auckland . . . 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 Christchurch 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 Honolulu . . . 252 5 0 454 1 0 1 S. Francisco 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 Vancouver 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 Nukualofa . . 92 9 0 165 19 0 1, 19 Apia 97 7 0 175 3 0 1, 18 Papeete . . . 139 2 0 250 8 0 1, 18 Aitutaki . . . 119 8 0 214 19 0 1, 18 Biak 90 0 0 162 0 0 4

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Apia 53 0 0 95 8 0 17, 18 17. 18 Aitutaki . . , 77 14 0 139 18 0 Nadi . . . 39 7 0 70 17 0 17 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . 97 0 0 174 12 0 17, 18 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— Apia 25 0 0 45 0 0 18 Aitutaki . . . 48 17 0 87 19 o 18 Nukualofa 17 1 0 30 14 o 19 Papeete . . 71 12 0 128 18 0 18 at stay m* ceo^'fW/, 5* c i fi e Lj^bo.ff'ookin^Snir,, °f Fiji, Hotel ii pec 'ally 'eS've' fo Sef Wr- •° r de 5 . «“4 'ie® f as s °c/ a ; s }ra n</ Ce otre C e * ss/r h^l°^ K ~SQr\, I2S effe. $* eb 7fy cSS * p Ce of f l '- ,l ccteri r 6y ' Ae ( , 00/^f Fahiti) 2 p.m. Departs Papeete Sun. .30 a.m., arrives Aitutaki 11 a.m., jparts 12.30 p.m., arrives Satapuala 5 m., departs Mon. 8 a.m., crosses dateae, arrives Suva Tues., 10.55 a.m. es Suva Mar. 22. Apr. 4, 18. Leaves ipeete Mar. 24, Apr. 7, 21. 19. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Irregular Service.

Suva 6.30 a.m.. arr Nukualofa 9.50 m., dep. Nukualofa 2.45 p.m., arr. iva 4.55 p.m. flight; Apr. 2. 0. Fiji Internal Airways ji Airways, Ltd., Drover Aircraft. •Nadi-Suva: Mon., Tues., two flights ily; Wed., three flights; Thurs., one ?ht; Fri., two flights; Sat., three gfts; Sun., one flight.

Nadi: Tues., Thurs.. Fri. (additional the above return flights).

Suva; Wed., Fri., Sat.

Labasa-Suva: Daily except Sun.

Taveuni-Suva: Fri., Sun.

Taveuni-Savusavu-Suva: Wed.

Bavusavu-Taveuni-Suva: Thurs. !• Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva: es.. Thurs.

Labasa-Taveuni-Labasa-Suva: Fri.

Bavusavu-Suva: Mon., Tues. - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu ra: Sat., Sun. 1. French Oceania Inter- Island Service le Aerienne Tnterinsulair (RAI), with Amphibious Catalina weekly service to the Leeward mp.

Wednesday: Papeete, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete.

Friday: Papeete, Huahine, Raiatea, Papeete.

Booking agents in Papeete: Messageries Maritimes. 22. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens (TRANSPAC), with Rapide aircraft.

Noumea (Magenta), Lifou ( Chepenehe), Noumea: Tues. a.m.

Noumea, Mare (Tadine), Noumea; Tues, p.m.

Noumea, Mare, Lifou, Noumea, or Noumea, Lifou, Mare, Noumea, alternatively, Thurs. a.m.

Noumea, Koumac, Noumea (with conditional call at Plaine des Gaiacs): Fri. a.m.

Noumea, Lifou, Ouvea Is.: Wed. mornings.

Noumea, Poindimie, Noumea (with conditional call at Houailou): Fri. p.m.

Noumea, He des Pins, Noumea: Saturday and Sunday afternoons. 23. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airlines.

Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates a service throughout the Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the US Government. Details from Trans Ocean Airlines, A o ana, Guam.

Approximate Airways Fares Fares quoted are First Class. Tourist Class at 20 per cent, lower is available on trans-Tasman, Auckland-Nadi, Sydney- Nadi, and trans-Pacific services. Pares to points east of Nadi include air connection to Suva by Fiji Airways.

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 8. Vol. XXVII MARCH, 1957 Contents: EDITORIAL: Our View of SE Asia and Indonesia Grows Ever More Ugly .. 17 Fiji Leg. Council, 1956 (Photo) 18 N. Caledonia Mourns Death of Henri Bonneaud .. .. 19 More Capital For Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd 19 EDITOR’S MAILBAG .. .. 20 H.-Bomb Jitters—P aci f i c Countries Are Worrying .. 21 Copra—l9s7 Prices Not Yet Fixed—Unilever’s Buyer in Pacific 21-22 Dr. J. T. Gunther, Assist.

Administrator 21 New Caledonia Stirred —Will Fight Paris Over Loi Cadre 23 Sir Beaumont Phillips Retires 24 Value of New Guinea’s Indigenous Cane 24 New P & O Liner for Pacific 25 Islands Language Problems 27 Muddled Plan—New Liquor Tax in Papua and New Guinea 28

Territories Talk-Talk 33

From Gold to Timber—BGD’s Operations in N. Guinea .. 41 Rebuilding of Tontouta Airport, NC 43 Rearrangement of Papua’s New Cutch Industry .... 45 Wild NG Natives Clash with Patrol 46 SPC Tuition of Fisheries Students by SP Commission 50 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 57-63 Wakaya Reverts to Fijians 65 Neil Thomson—New Public Service Commissioner .... 66 Sidelights on New Guinea’s Primitive Men —By Norman White 69 MAGAZINE SECTION; Tropicalities, 77; Papua’s Pioneers (Chas. R. Baldwin), 78; Reluctant Consul —Glimpse of New Hebrides History, 79; The Day the General Came, 81; A Then and Now Story, by Amel; Smoke-Out Ended Anchorage Islet Siege, by JPS, 183; Another Angle of the Strange Picture, 83; Book Reviews 84 Fiji’s Lively Arguments About Wharves 99 Tally of Whale Oil From Southern Seas 102 Will They Take the Kinks Out of SP Commission? .. 105 What the Germans Gave New Guinea 113 Mr. Heyerdahl and Easter Island 119 Lost Plan for Reform of P-NG’s Leg. Council .. .. 121 TAl’s Proposed New Service 122 New Zealand and W. Samoa 123 S. Pacific Commerce and Industry 125 Lands Director Says More Areas Available in N.

Guinea 145 S. Pacific Interested In New West Indies Federation .. 147 The New Montoro Arrives .. 149 Move For Science Congress In New Guinea 151 “Jungle War” In New Guinea Is Routine for Patrols .. 153 OBITUARY —M. Henry Bonneaud; Two Mar is t Missionaries; Mr. C. McK.

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Editorial. ..

Ur View Of Se Asia And Indonesia Grows

Ever More Ugly

E future of the South Pacific is bound up with developments in least Asia and Indonesia. Ausns and Pacific Islanders naturally an interest in events there, ey may be pardoned if they find IE Asian and Indonesian events ry recent weeks hard to follow, even more difficult to get into attempt is made here to exthese things briefly, in relation ;ir own history, and in relation ch other. The picture thus ated, as it bears on our own 5, is not a pretty one. e is a list of the events which our present, and especially uture situation: esia Near Collapse . . . ;r years of political and mic deterioration, the “Rei of Indonesia” is close to se. rabble-rouser Soekarno (estabas President by the Japanese )45) proposed, at end of ary, to abandon so-called .mentary rule, and carry on a sort of Council representing •arties, including the Comts (who hold a quarter of the ment elected late in 1955). reactions showed that this t rule by Communists, he i ground rapidly, and now is to make an alliance with , Hatta is regarded as strongly led. nwhile, most of Indonesia is ondition of revolt—breakaway istrations, mostly of Army , rule Sumatra and all the n archipelagoes (Moluccas, is, etc.) right across to New a; and one is taking shape meo. carno’s set-up now controls lava.* )id Not Vote . . . iough Indonesia’s claim to rn New Guinea is only tactical mo thus has hoped to divert ational attention from his ling empire), the United is Assembly took it seriously: a move there against The rlands (inspired, of course, by est-hating Afro-Asian group) efeated by only three votes, voting was 40 for, 25 against (-thirds majority was needed), srnment collapsed on March 13 —whole thereafter under martial law. while 13 nations (including United States) abstained from voting.

The Dutch already had made it clear that they would not accept UN dictation in this thing. But the incident shows the uselessness of the United Nations (so far as the South Pacific is concerned, at any rate), and how the South Pacific could be let down by United States at any time.

Britain and Singapore . . .

A delegation from the Singapore Legislative Assembly (which is vociferously anti-British) arrived in London in March, to demand an early date for “independence.”

Britain announced last year that Singapore was one of the important world bases which could not be surrendered to any nationalist movement, and the Singapore Premier Marshall thereupon resigned, and was succeeded by a Chinese.

Conferences started in London while SEATO was assembling in Australia. There are indications that Britain, under American pressure, will make concessions to Singapore.

France is gone from Indo-China, Britain from India and Ceylon. If Britain goes from Singapore, and the Reds dominate Indonesia—as seems likely—there will be nothing left between Asia and Australia and the Islands.

As SEATO Sees It . . .

While the delegates to the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) were assembling in Canberra (and they included Mr. Dulles, of Washington), India (which is not a member of SEATO, although Pakistan and Siam are) was making humble apologies to London because of a filthy Indian newspaper attack upon Queen Elizabeth.

SEATO’S job is to create a defensive organisation for the East and South Pacific (American and European countries) against the Northwest Pacific (or, in other words, Southeast Asia). The defence, of course, is against the increasing thrusting power of the Soviets and Communist China.

The SEATO war-chiefs said quite openly that: (a) There is a steady growth of Red subversive propaganda among the non-Red countries of Southeast Asia; <b) There has been a marked increase in the number of Russian submarines which are roaming the Central and South Pacific. (Over) The Visiting Firemen Look On. (SEATO Conference is proceeding in Canberra as this journal goes to press.) 17 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH 1957

"VTOW let us look back over the f\ highlights of those developments and incidents, and ask ourselves as residents of the South Pacific, if there is anything there of comfort for us.

Excluding India, there are, nearly 1 >OO million people in Asia and Indonesia, compared with 12 million in the South Pacific.

And why should we exclude India’s 390,000,000 people? Every month, evidence grows that India hates the West and that Nehru, if ev .er he had to make a choice, would turn against us. . . However, leave India as a neutral, and count only the Mongoloids and Indo-Mongo- ]oids‘ and there still are nearly 1 000 million Asians prepared to march south and exterminate us, if they are allowed If they are allowed! What and who eventually will stop them?

Not Britain and France. They would, if they could—but their influence on the South Pacific situation is negligible, while the factors which create the Cold War remain.

The United Nations? What can we hope for, from that mongrel combination, where the votes of Salvador and Cambodia can cancel those of France and Russia? Look at its performance in recent months, in relation to the Middle East, Hungary and Indonesia!

The United States? The Americans saved us from the Japs in the Pacific War—but not because they loved us. Their attack south-about through Australia and the SW Pacific Islands, was the simplest and easiest way of defeating Japan.

We may not forget that the United States created Indonesia (throwing out the Dutch, after they had been there for 350 years, in order to establish the Soekarno regime); and that the USA, on February 28, refused to vote at UN when the Africo-Asian bloc tried to get the Dutch thrown out of Western New Guinea. What can we expect from USA if and when the Red Asians begin to thrust southwest upon us, through Indonesia?

IT is not a pretty picture, this that has been created for us in very recent months by the events of SE Asia and NW Pacific.

Consider those events in relation to the fact that Soviet Russia, within the same period, has turned cold and sour —in contrast with the hearty. B & K, back-slapping era which followed the Summit Conference at Geneva in 1955.

We are faced with stark realil We shall be asked soon to arm j selves much more heavily.

We may as well accept the that the only way in whichri Western people can retain our t dom and our culture—through the world as well as here inr South Pacific —is to build up c armaments to the point where*] can meet the Red Bloc on at 1 equal terms and put aside i United Nations and the Colol Plan and all other similar ideae conceptions for implements! perhaps at some later human evolution We do not do it for choice. H Western nation recognises war. the horror that it is and hat!, beyond expression. But the alt! ative to fighting is enslavement!] degradation.

One does not save one’s life iri jungle by laying down one’s and extending goodwill to the bd that creep upon one. Little uu trying to ensure peace and seo; by appeals to the better natuu the human beasts that murn thousands of Hungarians om few weeks ago. . .

The Southeast Asia-Indonn picture is very ugly. But reality THE FIJI LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF 1956...

BACK ROW: Miss S. B. Amputch (Hansard Reporter); Captain R. J. B. Ackland (ADC); Miss D. F. Kearsley (Hansard Reporter).

FOURTH ROW: J. H. Common; S. G. Marshall; H. G. R. McAlpine, MVO; W. W. Lewis- Jones; J. A. Marais, OBE; J. R. B. Angus; D.

T. Lloyd; Dr. P. W. Dill-Russell, CBE; N. Pearson; Jonati Mavoa (Clerk).

THIRD ROW: R. A. Emery; H. W. Davidson, MBE; W. G. Johnson; Semesa K. Sikivou, Ratu G. K. Cakobau, OBE; J. N. Falvey; G. K. Roth, OBE; C. Harvey, CBE; J. F. Griffiths.

SECOND ROW: H. B. Gibson, OBE; The Rev.

S. G. C. Cowled, OBE; A. I. N. Deoki; Ratu K. K. T. Mara; Ratu P. K. Ganilau, R Manu; J. Madhavan; Ayodhya Prase FIRST ROW: Vishnu Deo, OBE; H. M DFC; The Speaker (Ratu Sir Lala KCMG, KBE); His Excellency the Goves Ronald Garvey, KCMG, KCVO, MBE); Stoddart, CMG; Ratu E. T. T. Cakobld MC; A. M. Greenwood, MC. 18 MARCH. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTT

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Caledonia Mourns

Loss Of Henri Bonnaud

NOUMEA, March 6.

LE sudden death on March 2, of M. Henri Bonnaud, who was in Paris as a member of the gation appointed to fight nst Loi Cadre (see article vhere) came as a great shock he people of New Caledonia. , Bonnaud was only 49; but, by strength of character and his banding ability, he not only me the head of Ballande, but the outstanding leader of the Caledonian community, while a young man. entered New Caledonian ics immediately after World 11, and almost immediately me the head of the local mbly. Both privately and as a c man, he contributed much le Territory’s sound and rapid :ess.

Bonnaud was prominent ig those who believe that the :hise (upon which the nbly is elected) was widened far and too quickly, for the of New Caledonia. The ision of the vote to all classes, ding “literate” natives, brought Maurice Lenormand into the re as a rival to Bonnaud; and rmand succeeded, through of numbers, in assuming rship and gaining election as )eputy in Paris. ; M. Bonnaud had a bulldog sition; and, although partially red, he never ceased to fight diat he believed was best for Caledonia. His place will be hard to fill, both in commerce n private life.

W Hebrides Finances

January 31, 1957, there was n “above line” surplus on the '56 revenue account of £17.800 J New Hebrides Condominium, compared with a surplus of for the corresponding period i 5. fi receipts represented 70 per of the revenue estimate, and payments 67 per cent, of the aiture estimate. Considerable diture charges for 1956 have > be met, and it is expected when the 1956 accounts are end this month will be a small deficit.

O. E. Richards, of the iry and Customs Department, Hebrides, has returned from onths’ vacation leave in Aus-

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IN SAMOA!

“T ONG Live the Date Line!”

JLi radioed the captain of a destroyer which had just spent a whole day in Apia, Western Samoa, to the Acting High Commissioner, “We have never left a port so unwillingly. Your girls have something the others haven’t got.

Au revoir and thank you.”

The destroyer had been on her way from Auckland to Panama, and then found that no provision, in orders, had been made for the day gained in crossing the 180th degree of Longitude. High authority decided the crew could have the day to themselves, and so they spent it in Apia. And apparently made of it a real date-line.

No, sir—it was not an American ship. It was the British destroyer HMS Consort —which apparently has developed American ways.

Demand For New

Caledonian Nickel

SHIPPING traffic connected with the New Caledonia nickel industry has been so heavy recently that the ships cannot be loaded quickly. In several cases, Japanese ships have had to wait for weeks before they could start loading.

Central Pacific Beauty

Another ¼-Million

Being Raised

Bp’S Expand In

SOUTH SEA IT is not surprising that there was a stir on the Stock Exchanges when directors of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. announced that another 250,000 Ordinary Shares would be issued (making £1,000,000 altogether of subscribed capital), and that present shareholders could buy them at par—one for each three they held.

Up to that moment, the £1 shares had been selling in Sydney at around 49/- Australian. Within hours, buyers were offering 50/-; but the few sellers wanted 55/-, and the price rising.

This Company (about 37 years old, with headquarters in Suva), has for years been using about £1,000,000 of Reserves, as well as all its subscribed capital, in its large and growing business; has shown a consistent profit of well over £lOO,OOO per annum; and has paid a regular and cautious 10 per cent, divided.

The Company has an expanding and soundly-based establishment in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga; and recent balance sheets always have shown plenty of liquid funds. However, in the past year the Co. has committed itself to considerable building programmes in Fiji—especially Suva—and the time apparently has come for a rearrangement of the capital. It is said that the whole of the new Arcade which BP interests are building in Suva, was let before construction commenced.

There will be no difficulty about raising the capital. The lucky Ordinary shareholders are not going to miss purchasing, for 20/-, a share that, on present indications, should immediately be saleable at double that figure.

Rarotonga Begs Hospital

SUPPLIES IT was proposed at the Rarotonga Island Council meeting on February 11, that the various villages should contribute food for hospital and sanatorium patients.

Avana, Tupapa and Avatiu agreed, but other districts, including Arorangi (the most extensively planted and the wealthiest) were unwilling.

In the difficult years, the people of Rarotonga gave food generously to feed the hospital patients; but m the prosperous nost-war period, when subsidies from the NZ Government were increased, the practice ceased. £9 Cost of food in 1955-56 was near This is Rina, a pretty Gilbertese girl, who now is living on Fanning Island. Both her parents are teachers. Her father is an instructor on the staff of a Roman Catholic training college in Tarawa. (Photo by Ray 19 Inc ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1957

Whales Revive

Cl History

WHALES were sighted off Rarotonga in August last—a reminder that with new whaling stations recently established at Norfolk Island and Great Barrier Island, NZ, and investigations going on in Fiji, whaling might again prove a profitable industry in the insolvent Cook Islands.

Whaling was once a Rarotonga industry. The New Zealand Herald of September 27, 1865, printed this report from its correspondent there: Irvine’s Whaling Company caught a whale and a calf here on the 31st (August) which turned out about 45 barrels oil. These whales were the first that were ever caught here. They expect to get another to-morrow.

The despatch also indicated that the whaling company had just been formed.

Whether these were the first whales ever caught at Rarotonga is doubtful though this may have been the first commercial venture.

It must have met with some success, for ten years later —and possibly much later than that—quantities of whale oil were included in the cargoes of schooners arriving at Auckland from Rarotonga.

Here, for example, is the cargo of the 63-ton schooner- Blanche, Captain Harrison, inwards from Rarotonga on October 8, 1876: 15 tons whale and coconut oil, 45 bales cotton, 3,000 coconuts, 15,000 oranges.

The Herald of the day before the Rarotonga news despatch already quoted contained the following intriguing item: “We have been asked to contradict a statement that appeared the other day in a contemporary, which said that Captain Smith, of the schooner St. Hilda, at Rarotonga, was taking steps to disguise the vessel and change her name.

Our informant states that no such thing has been done, but that the St. Hilda is lying at Rarotonga just as she arrived at that place, and her captain was awaiting orders from Auckland; in the meantime he has engaged several boat crews of whalers and Kanakas and has entered largely into the bay fishing.

When the Victoria sailed from Rarotonga, Captain Smith (of the St. Hilda ) was busy cutting in a school of whales.”

Before Rarotonga interests rush into establishing a whaling factory, however, it is worth observing that although close observations of whale movements were made before the Great Barrier Island whaling station was established this year, the company has had an extremely disappointing season. Whales have just not been sighted.

The Editors' Mailbag

Here's the Answer Re Captain Chapman A few months ago, a reader asked, through “PIM,” if anyone could supply information about a Captain Chapman, and the ships he c(yrnmanded in the South Pacific . The following reply has been kindly sent by Captain Fred K. Klebingat, of 873 22 Street, San Pedro, California.

“Looking through my papers, I found the following in a scrap-book which had been kept by Mr. F. R.

Bowes, of Bowes and Andrews, 153 Steuart St., San Francisco: “Honolulu, May 30, 1907.—Benjamin Franklin Chapman, long a trader in the South Pacific, died in his home in Honolulu on May 24.

He was born in New London, Ct., in 1831. He came to California in the days of the Goldrush and, for a long time, was engaged in transportation up and down the Sacramento.

“In 1850, he sailed to Tahiti in the schooner Odd Fellow and, for many years, continued to sail between San Francisco and the Islands. He sent his children to the Islands to attend school there.

“In the Seventies he went to Tahiti and established the merchandise firm of Turner & Chapman, with which he was connected for 26 years. Most of the time, though, he was in command of one of the vessels owned by the firm. These vessels included the brig Tahiti, City of Papeete, Tropic Bird, and others.”

Anyone Know?

Mr. Alan J. Burke, of 3 Valley Street, West Hobart, Tasmania, writes: “I am most. anxious to get in touch with a war-time pal of mine, and wondered if you could assist me. He was in Tulagi, Solomon Islands, prior to the outbreak of war in 1939. His name is Clifford A. Wiseman. Any information would be much appreciated.”

If anyone knows Mr. Wiseman’s address, please write directly to Mr.

Burke.

The Duke at Norfolk Is.

Mrs. Madeleine Jones, of Norfolk Island (she formerly was Madeleine Grand, member of a well known Tahiti family), is direct, and to the point: Let us be fair! The writer of that article. “Socially-Riven NI Pleased with Duke,” in January issue PIM, himself lacks restraint and truth.

Those who wished to see or i the Duke on NI were given o opportunity at the Reception, w» was attended by between 450 to: people Elderly Islanders were g the first opportunity.

The writer suggests that “I daymakers and tourists seemed swell the ranks.” I failed too other than Island residents—uru of course, one wishes to dese members of HRH’s Staff and Hoi hold as tourists!

The sincerity of the people,,! the Duke’s delightful informs in no way made the Receptid “flop,” and the intermittent dif of rain did not dampen the peoi pleasure in the honour acco; them. Sincerity and comment restraint were the keynote ofi< day.

The NI Advisory Council pjc a resolution: “That His Ho. the Administrator, and Mrs. Non be thanked for the highly-succo; reception at Government IH and for His Honour’s co-operain that such a splendid opportf was given the residents to His Royal Highness.”

Coral Queen Island In PI M’s Shipping column off tember there was reference ti Auckland schooner named Queen, sailing from that po:o 1865 to load guano at Coral O Island.

A correspondent now attention to Edwin H. Bryanr valuable reference book Am& Polynesia, which lists Coral O Island as an alternative namn Starbuck Island, also knowv various times as Volunteer, Starve, Hero, and Barren.

It was discovered by Cas Starbuck, of an English whaLl. 1823, and named by him Volun It would be interesting to kntr just what date the present finally became stuck.

The Picture Again— From France YOU have read the Suva j of Mrs. Ruth Kempthrl Christmas-card, and the es ence of a Christ-like face frar apparently confused Chinese p graph of a snowfield (see past of January, and page 82 o:o issue).

Now, here is a note from oo friend. Brother J. Delabarre, oo Island Mission, Papua. He < us a print of what appears i the same photograph; and hr! (Editors’ Mailbag—Continued on Pas' 20 MARCH. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

Pcific Countries

[?] RRYING

H-Bomb Jitters

ACUATION of 37 adults, 23 ihildren and 500 British troops tom Christmas Island this th indicates that the time is ing close for Britain to explode first H-bombs “somewhere in Pacific.” jmewhere,” of course, is stmas Island and the “author- ’ insist that no menace to the tries round about is being ed. t H-bombs Jitters, which have ked most of the communities n 2,000 miles of Christmas remain unabated, fact, they have spread to land, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa and 2ook Islands, and even as far apan, where housewives are ng to stock their shelves with sd food, to be eaten as an lative to food “contaminated” dio activity. >anese fish retailers have adcustomers to register if they supplies of “radioactive free during March.

Vacuees In Gilberts

j civil evacuees were taken Christmas to the Gilberts, hat remained after they and soldiers left was a skeleton in population, including a >ean district officer, and key 3 staff. | 500 troops, most of them h Royal Engineers, constructed rodrome on the atoll.

Ssurance By British

the House of Commons, a ter of State for Foreign Affairs, >rmsby-Gore, said that Britain acting under established internal practice in warning shipto stay clear of Christmas I during the scheduled period 5 nuclear weapon tests, m March to August the tmas Island area will be closed ippmg. The Royal Navy and ;oyal Air Force will patrol the labour member had asked Mr. ny-Gore whether Britain was : under a treaty of interlal agreement in warning Japships to remain outside a large pf the open sea from March August 1.

Ormsby-Gore, in reply to er question, said closure was ed under international law. refused to accept a suggestion ishermen would lose £1,000,000 ; the closure period.

Other Expeditions

,R- G. Mason, a British Lst. will lead an expedition of eight American technicians to nearby Fanning Island next month, to study phenomena in connection with the International Geophysical Year.

A magnetic observatory is to be set up on Jarvis Island, which is the only land surface in the world close to both the magnetic and geographic equator.

Jarvis is a small, bleak, useless atoll, lying almost on the equator at 160 W. Long., and is now claimed by USA.

Fight Goes On

1957 COPRA PRICE THE battle between the British South Pacific copra producers’ organisations, led by high officials of Australia House, London, and the British Ministry of Food, who are trying to agree on a price for copra delivered under the MOF contract in 1957, still was going on in mid-March.

The MOF naturally seeks the full reduction of 10 per cent., which is permitted under the contract when the world price has fallen. The South Pacific men apparently have produced strong arguments in favour of a lesser reduction than 10 per cent., otherwise the argument would not have been deadlocked since the beginning of the year.

Settlement may be sought at high levels.

The European free market price on March 7 (sellers) was £67 Stg. per ton, cif European port. The 1956 MOF contract price was £5B/10 - Stg., fob Islands port— equal to between £7O and £72 per ton, cif—and that was, in turn, adjusted as a local price by local Administrations. That is why London is fighting for the full 10 per cent, reduction, which then would make the MOF contract price very close to the free market price.

No change has been announced in Australian Territories in the copra price, from the 1956 price of £62/10/- Aus. per ton fob Islands port (equal to £47 Stg.) ; but the P-NG Copra Board, and most of the other Islands Administrations now are paying a price equal to a 10 per cent, reduction on 1956, with the proviso that if the final MOF Contract price for 1957 is more, they will make adjustments.

The Fiji Copra Board announced late in February that the local buying prices, from March 1, at Suva and Levuka, would be: For FMS grade, £5O Fijian per ton, and for Plantation Grade, £5O/5/6. The Board says (a) this is a temporary price, pending MOF settlement; (b) there is a reduction of more than 10 per cent., because the Fijian 1956 price contained some refund to producers of savings made earlier.

DR. J. T. GUNTHER Assistant Administrator in New Guinea THE announcement on March 4, that Dr. John Thomson Gunther, OBE, Director of Public Health in Papua and New Guinea, had been appointed Assistant Administrator of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, caused about 20 per cent, of the residents of Port Moresby to say “What!” But the other 80 per cent, said that it probably was a very good thing.

They had always regarded him as a Medical Officer rather than as an Administrator, seemingly.

To have more than 80 per cent, of the population with you in this Territory is more than any reasonable man can expect.

Therefore, we can take it that the appointment was generally regarded with favour—and by the Public Service Association as a triumph for their campaign for “top posts for Territory men.”

On the “other side,” of course, the appointment caused fewer ripples on the pool There, all matters relating to Port Moresby, and the centralised administration generally, are regarded as an excrescence on the face of the Territory.

Most disappointment came from those who had believed that Mr.

S. A. Lonergan—who has been acting in the position of Assistant Administrator for the past five months—would be appointed to the position.

But Mr. Lonergan did not apply for the job last August, when Mr.

R. Wilson resigned; and, although his attitude has been that he would be available if required, it was probably expecting a bit too much from Canberra to suggest it would depart so far from official formulae as to tender a special invitation.

It may not have been “legally within the meaning of the Act,” either. (Continued on Next Page) Dr. Gunther. 21 1F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

t\r Gunther was born in Sydney I I in 1810, and was educated at King’s School and the Medical School at Sydney University His first job after graduation (and the usual hospital beat) was Medical Officer for Lever’s Pacific Plantains Ltd. in the Solomons, 1935- 938; and thus he began specialising in tropical diseases.

Between 1938, and enlisting in the RAAF in 1940, he was chairman of he Medical Board set up by the Queensland Government to investigate lead poisoning as it affected industry at Mt. Isa.

Most of his RAAF service was \n New Guinea —first in Milne Bay; later as malariologist; then commanding No. 1 Tropical Research Field Unit, whose chief job was research into scrub-typhus, with eadquarters at Bat Island (near Manus) which was a hot-bed of his disease (13 out of 17 RAAF radar personnel stationed on the island got typhus).

In April, 1946, Dr. Gunther was (ffered the job of Acting Director f Health, P-NG; he took up duty r July. The Acting appointment was confirmed in 1947.

Dr. Gunther was married in 1938 hut his first wife was killed in an accident in 1942. He remarried (to hiss Elvie Hodge) in 1943. He has ■ Free daughters (the youngest born i Port Moresby) and one son. He end his wife are personally popular, : both sections of the Territory. 117TTH the belated announcement ff of Dr. Gunther’s appointment, one 64-dollar-question has been answered.

But another remains: Why did Dr. Gunther seek the job?

It is believed by many Territcrians that Mr. Marsh (who was appointed Acting Assistant Administrator when Mr. Wilson resigned, but who left the Territory, reportedly ill, after only a few weeks in the Territory) had “taken one look at the mess and decided not to stick his neck out.”

It is generally agreed that Dr.

Gunther has made a really good job of reorganising the Territory’s health services. His new position will give him the opportunity of exercising his talents over a wider field.

But it is not as simple as that.

No man of commonsense and vision may leave the unpredictable Canberra set-up out of his predictions..

He assumed his new duties immediately. His first task was to preside over a conference of District Commissioners, which commenced in Port Moresby on March 4 and was expected to last out the week.

DR. GUNTHER’S new appointment leaves the Territory without a Director of Health. Dr.

R. F. R. Scragg is acting until (Continued foot of next column) other appointment is made. Dr. A. J.

May (who has frequently acted as Director of Health) is, it is understood, on pre-retirement leave.

The departure of Sir Beaumont Phillips, Chief Justice of the Territory, also leaves a vacancy in the Supreme Court. t A claim for libel, brought against the Samoa Bulletin by Hon. A. M.

Gurau, MLC, was heard in Apia in February; and judgment was reserved by the Court.

Unilever's Chief Buyer In S. Pacific (See also Article p. 155) rpHE chief buyer of oils and fats 1 for Unilever Limited, Mr. J. C.

A. Faure, was in Port Moresby in mid-March, in conference with the Copra Marketing Board of Papua and New Guinea.

Mr. Faure came into the South Pacific via America. Early in, March, he spent a couple of days in Fiji before he went on to Sydney. He proposes to return to Fiji about March 24.

In his position, and as the representative of a great international combine which, in the Between Wars period, strongly influenced the world price of copra, Mr. Faure’s visit has been of much interest to South Pacific copra producers.

Although the Unilever emissary’s conference in Moresby with the Copra Board was watched with considerable speculation, most people decided that Mr. Faure’s visit to the South Seas is mostly exploratory. There was no indication of any immediate plan under which Unilever will buy South Pacific copra under contract, when the MOF contract expires on December 31, 1957.

But there is little doubt that some such plan is in the minds of both Unilever (now meeting international competition in the field of buying) and the South Pacific Governments responsible for protecting the price of South Pacific copra after 1957, and that it will be considered from all angles during 1957, Apia Lashed by Heavy Squall APIA got a very heavy squall at noon on Sunday, February 17, and (in 24 hours) over 4 inches of rain.

The Matua anchored in Apia harbour and rode out the squall; but Messrs. Nelson’s motor vessel Sulimonio dragged her anchor and was driven on to the reef. The Harbourmaster (Captain Jones) pulled her off at 6 p.m. with the Harbour Department’s motor launch Pilot One.

Jap Tuna Fishersa Would Defy British Atom Test AUCKLAND, March r THE people who are the : directly interested in the s bomb tests in the ceis Pacific are the Japanese fishermen.

A measure of their feelings? the subject, and of their atttt towards the impending British t was heard in an announces from Tokio Radio early in MJ According to Tokio Ra« members of a Japanese tt fishermen’s association voted)' favour of sending a number “suicide boats” into the forbih Christmas Island area, to up* their rights to free navigatioic the high seas, and to obstruct.-: impending British tests.

British authorities then would i the choice of forcibly removing! fishing craft from the area, o accepting the consequencesa exploding the bomb and killing!

“suicide” crews.

Volunteer crews were avah to man the vessels (accordira the report) but the Japa Government had intervened, at the same time renewing! protest to the British Govermr The Japanese Government 3 the tuna-fishing organisation x however, send specially equo observation vessels to the horde! the closed Line Islands to check fall-out and radio-activity of sea water ~ fish. Thus, they would collect j own data and, if necessary, warnings to tuna-fishing w operating west of the tese ground.

New Caledonia

Pioneers Honor

ENGLISH pioneers of Caledonia received belates; cognition when the Nol Town Council gave names to s<a streets in the suburbs.

Those honoured were Pas* Higginson and Tindale. Padoi thought to have been the first d man to settle in New Calee The French found him well « lished when they arrived to Noumea. They bartered the of Nouville, where Paddon M trading station, to build the pq of He Nou.

Higginson was a romantic, . ing financial figure in the j nickel-boom days; and Tindall the man who set up the firsta works in New Caledonia. 22 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

Hack Magic in NC ITCH doctors and sorcerers still operate among the natives in New Caledonia. In a recent I, rival factions of sorcerers were ire the court, charged with ing disturbed the peace, le hearing lasted three days, was such a complicated one judgment was reserved. The ies found it necessary to employ ve interpreters. empt to Bring West N.

Guinea Area Under Control E Government of Netherlands 4ew Guinea plans to establish i permanent centre of adminis- Dn in the Baliem Valley, in the interior. A group comprising administrative officer (Mr. camp), a wireless operator and nembers of the Dutch New ea police, recently flew into the 7ey will establish contact with natives and seek sufficient :r to build a landing strip of feet. b Baliem Valley, or Great y as it is sometimes called, world-wide fame and was coml with an elusive Shangri La , in May, 1945, a C-47 Dakota, s American Air Force, with 23 )ers of the crew and passengboard, including an American in, crash-landed, with only survivors.

Malik-Bocker Wedding Political Stir in New Caledonia

All Parties Unite To Fight

Paris Over “Loi Cadre"

From Our Noumea Correspondent

There was a political development of great interest in New Caledonia in February.

Without warning, the French Chamber of Deputies, in Paris, passed the first reading of a revolutionary new measure called “Loi Cadre”. It soon was seen that the measure is likely to introduce a new kind of administrative control over certain French Colonies—among which New Caledonia is prominent.

The first reading of the proposed new law was supported by Metropolitan France Deputies members generally; and was resolutely opposed by Deputies representing the Colonies, The morning after this Bill was introduced and published, the Deputy for New Caledonia, M. Maurice Lenormand, caught the southwards plane out of Paris.

IMMEDIATELY after his arrival in Noumea, M. Lenormand called the public of New Caledonia to a general meeting. He published in his roneod news-sheet, L’Avenir Caledonien, a manifesto in which he declared that the Government of Metropolitan France, through Loi Cadre, planned to take from New Caledonia all the administrative concessions which New Caledonia had won with such difficulty over the years.

M. Lenormand announced that, in spite of promises repeatedly made by the French Minister for Colonies that the text of any new laws likely to apply to New Caledonia would be shown to NC’s Parliamentary representatives, he had known nothing of Loi Cadre until the text of it became available on the first reading of the Bill.

He said that Loi Cadre would deprive NC of the control over her own finances which she had exercised since 1946. The Colony also would lose control of the number of Government servants who could be sent from France to work in New Caledonia. Many other privileges would be withdrawn.

M. Lenormand stated also that under Loi Cadre, France would have the right to impose various new State Services upon New Caledonia, at New Caledonia’s expense—such as diplomatic and consular relations; cultural relations: civil defence; services attached to the Atomic Energy Commission.

No less than 35 new Services were named, any of which could be forced upon NC without NC’s consent.

One of M. Lenormand’s most startling allegations was that the French Government asked that 80 gendarmes be stationed in Noumea to keep public order, in addition to 12 Surete inspectors and a special brigade formed for the political surveillance of the Territory.

IN view of these revelations, public feeling in New Caledonia ran high.

The public meeting was very largely attended; and, as a result, a “Committee for Defence of New Caledonian Interests” was formed; and it includes representatives of practically every public organisation in New Caledonia.

An extraordinary development was that all war between the various parties—and especially between the two principal parties—was called off and, for the first time in New Caledonia’s history, there was complete political unanimity.

An observer says that even in the famous De Gaulle-Petain crisis of 1940 the people were not so united as they are to-day.

The new Committee immediately radioed Senator Ohlen, in Paris, asking him to place before the Senate a request that further debates on Loi Cadre be adjourned.

The Committee also sent a radio to the President of France (M.

Coty) and another to General De Gaulle, protesting against the applition of Loi Cadre to New Caledonia.

ON February 25, the Committee received a radio from the Minister for Colonies, stating that after his return to France, about March 6, he would be prepared to receive in Paris a delegation representing all the political interests in the General Council of New Caledonia; and ail available information about Loi Cadre would be communicated to this delegation.

The Minister added that the Government of France would not be opposed to any reasonable representations from the delegation in regard to the application of Loi Cadre to NC. (Continued on Page 129) weddmg took place in Taurama Chapel, resby, on February 23, of Mr. Jaroslav a well-known photographer of Port and Miss Inge Bocker, of Bremen, Mrs. Joan Carter was matron-ofand Mr. Gerald Smid was bestman. guests were later entertained at a at th e home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Photo: Papuan Prints. 23 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY M A R C H . 1957

Sir Beaumont

Phillips Retires

Wise Judge's Great In iluence on Australia's Territories THE record of Sir Frederick Beaumont Phillips, KBE, who retired in February from the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Papua and New Guinea, probably is unique in the South Pacific Territories.

He served the Islands Administration mostly as a judge (but in many other capacities, as well) for 32 years, and he never made an enemy.

He was held in universal esteem; and, on his departure, many people declared that “the Administration never would be the same again.

He was born in Victoria, 67 years ago, educated at Melbourne University; qualified as a barrister; and served in the RAF in World War 1. Immediately thereafter, in 1920, before he was 30, he went to the Solomons, where until 1925 he was a Special Commissioner, to inquire into law land disputes.

That was his introduction to the Islands life of that time. He called it a happy three-dimensional existence, among Administrators, Planters and Missionaries. He recalls that there he learned Pidgin English the easy way—from “old Jock Cromar.”

Australia’s great jurist, Sir John Latham, had had his eye on young Phillips: and in 1925 he was able to win Phillips away from the British (who had thoughts of making him a Colonial Office Judge), and instal him as a Judge in the then very new Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea.

THROUGH his work in New Guinea in the next 15 years, while closely associated with Administrators Wisdom, Griffiths and McNicoll, the wise and human Judge “Monty” Phillips probably exercised a greater influence on the conduct of the European people and the social development of the New Guinea natives, than any other single individual.

His broadminded tolerance, his understanding of the native folk (gained through his mastery of Pidgin and his study of them in all phases of their life), and his eagerness to assist the Australian achievement in New Guinea, made of him not only a great judge, but also an invaluable adviser to the various Administrations. Everyone, whether Australian Minister, humble Tultul, harassed Administrator, br cynical planter, trusted “Monty” Phillips, and turned to him for advice.

He gave proof of his quality in 1937, when he was Acting-Administrator at Rabaul, and Vulcan explod e d. Calmly and efficiently, “Monty” Phillips directed the evacuation of the ash-smothered town, and the escape of the terrified population from the erupting volcanoes. He more than earned the CBE with which his achievement was recognised.

In 1941, when World War II brought its peculiar paralysis to Administration affairs, Judge Phillips went off to his old love, the RAF in Britain. He was now too old to fly again; but he did valuable administrative work, and finished his service there as Group-Captain, in 1945.

In 1943, he married Miss Marie Briton-Smith, of New Zealand—she who gave him so much help and inspiration in his share of the job of re-arranging Papua and New Guinea as a new Administration, in the arduous years after the war.

Chief Judge Phillips became the first Chief Justice of Papua and New Guinea in 1953; and in 1955 his outstanding services were recognised by a Knighthood.

IN a special sitting of the Supreme Court in Moresby, on February 14, Sir Beaumont Phillips gave a farewell address from the Bench and, in a remarkably interesting address, he described some of the highlights of his 37 years’ service in the Southwest Pacific Islands.

Some of his observations, based on practical experience, were of a kind very valuable to young men entering the Islands services. He outlined some of the peculiar situations which the Administration had had to meet in the ’Twenties, when new gold and easily acquired Expro plantations drew eager young personnel away from the public services; and in the ’forties, when only remnants of the old Public Services could be assembled, after the Jap occupation had disrupted all civil organisation and demoralised large sections of the natives.

It is to be hoped that the records and lessons of those vital 37 T will be embodied in a book B Beaumont Phillips, for the gun. of young Islands officials, am instruction and entertainmee both Islanders and Mamlandb Indigenous Cone of N. Guinea

Factor In World

Sugar Industry

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA is unliii to have its own sugar-(industry within the forseeable fuir but it makes a valuable contribu' to the cane industry throughout!i world.

It has a variety of “chewv canes, most of which are usefu breeding better commercial varh of sugar-cane.

Since about 1896, expediti have been going to New Guinea collect indigenous chewing co for breeding better sugar-canea. other countries.

The latest expedition to comprises Dr. John N. Wai senior geneticist at the experini station of the Hawaiian S 5 Planters’ Association, and Mr.

O. Grassl, a botanist in the stu; crops section of the US Dejj ment of Agriculture.

They told PIM that t M expedition is twofold —to se« cane, and to make a scieis investigation into the origin; sugar-cane in New Guinea.

“We suspect that the n;r, had some type of cane almost from the time they err; the Islands”, Dr. Warner saidb “We do know that, as the no migrated throughout the P*3 they carried these chewing along with them, presumably v New Guinea. It is almost c«o that the sweet chewing originated in the New Gumeafi (Continued on Next Page) Sir Beaumont Phillips, when he directed Rabaul evacuation (eruption) in 1937.

The Investigators: Dr. Warner (left) Mr. Grassl (right). 24 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HH

we don’t know where, and we ’t know how.” f. Grassl said that the natives improved the cane themselves, ough they probably did not ise they were doing so.

I. WARNER said there was wild cane in New Guinea known as "pit-pit”, which was suitable breeding. hat is one group of wild •rial we are after,” he said. :y are useful for breeding, ig increased vigour and resistco disease in sugar-cane. But vill have to try it out first.” said that in the cane grown [awaii to-day was some which Vote from Tolala, from page 33: . . Calling Mrs. Eadie Huson, le time of Tulaen plantation, Buka way, and last heard of e living at Kings Cross, Syd- Margaret Campbell wants to ,ct her urgently, through the ITrust Co., Sydney, by March But perhaps a few days later make much difference. Come adie!” tided from cane collected by r expeditions to New Guinea, j realise the material we want won’t be useful as cane but it will be useful in ■cane breeding,’’ he said, nay find only one useful cane e hundred, but the potential i is enough to justify this tv ” v • cane collected in New uinea is sent to Washington, ter going to Magnetic Island, ►ueensland, for quarantine, aally, it ends up in the two collections of cane—at Canal Florida, and Coimbatore, in Jrn India. n these points it is available sugar planters in the world.

Jre is a very good interchange les throughout the world, for tig and commercial purposes,” arner said. the P-NG Territory, Dr. r and Mr. Grassl plan to ir the cane along the Ramu iepik river systems; in the .1 and Western Highlands: Port Moresby, Lae and I; in Dutch New Guinea; in the British Solomon I. r areas they may visit are nville, New Caledonia and lebrides. 4d and 7d Papua and New ■ stamps became available at iof January. The 4d stamp overprint of the bird of 2hd stamp, and the 7d an overprint of the trading I/- stamp. islands Tours by Luxury Seaplane THE luxury seaplane owned and operated by Sir Gordon Taylor will resume its South Pacific cruises in April.

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LE new copra grading scheme, introduced by the West Samoa Copra Board as from February is being opposed by merchants, trad6rs and Samoan producers.

There apparently is a conflict of competence between copra graders employed by the Copra Board, and agricultural inspectors employed by the Agricultural Department.

It is pointed out that an attempt to introduce copra grading in Fiji was abolished, due to strong opposition to the procedure.

In Tonga and American Samoa copra grading has succeeded because the purchase and grading of copra is entirely in the hands of the Governments concerned.

The matter will probably be discussed by the Legislative Assembly at the end of March.

Miss Adrienne Santos, younger daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr "• Santos, of Tonga, married Robert, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R.

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J Mr. H. F. Gibson, MLC, QBE, and Miss Fay Gibson, of Labasa, Fiji, were m Sydney in the early part of March. He was discussing a £200,000 electricity project for Labasa with interested Australian parties, and also was seeking to establish liaison with New Guinea copra interests, regarding marketing organisation to follow the expiry of the MOF contract next December.

L str ong complaints are voiced by the North Borneo News against Timorese infiltrating nto British Borneo. “They keep out Chinese because they may be Reds ” says the journal. “But may not abfe°r eSlanS b 6 equally objection- The foundation stone of the Teacher Training and Vocational Centre at Kukum (a worthy project for expanding educational facilities for Solomon Islanders, and training natives as artisans), was laid in mid-1955.

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king a Key to NG Language Problems >NEY UNIVERSITY has lublished a linguistic monoraph by an American onary in New Guinea which ins a modern technique for mg primitive languages to ig, in an exact and scientific ler. ; author is the Rev. Dr. Louis izbetak, described as a Divine missionary, linguist and opologist, who spent four years 'lew Guinea on language •ch. i monograph, second in a new stic series published by the rsity, proposes a “phonemic” * than “phonetic” alphabet, neans that orthography is based ly on the reactions of the i, on what he hears, rather what the European might Luzbetak claims that a mic orthography was recogby modern linguists as the iccurate, most economical and st way of writing a language, duced dialectal differences erably, thus making regional tges feasible. his study, “Middle Wahgi logy: The Standardisation of graphics in the New Guinea nds,” the author makes nendations for standardising thographies of the Southern, •n and Eastern Highlands of ruinea. aid his system of orthography tie added advantage of not g unwieldy symbols. The >le printing facilities were all e used.

Wahgi dialects, which the says are now scientifically writing for the first time, iken by about 40,000 natives n Hagen and Chimbu. rNOTE: Many, many ts to co-ordinate and y the languages of New (of which there are at >00) have been made, but tias had much success, as ditor. ■im that Islanders were belted and taken to Auckland alse pretences was made reby Cr. G. F. H. Forsyth at ■mg of the Auckland City • Old houses were being sold iders for small deposits, high rates of payment and high f interest. An Islander and tfid agent in the city were mg a “racket,” he said. The health committee is to in- ?ate overcrowding in old and make a report, if Fiji’s Language Problems WHEN members of the Suva Rotary Club debated the question, “English; The Compulsory and only Acceptable Working Language”, they voiced the opinion of many business people, and of householders who employ servants.

Although English is taught from the first year in every school, and from the fifth year becomes the only medium of instruction, there seems to be no diminution in proportion of young Fijians and Indians who do not understand it.

This may be largely because many Europeans, when speaking their own language, speak it quickly, just as Fijians rattle off their own language at a fast pace.

It was pointed out during the debate that time and materials were wasted in having to print public notices in three languages (English, Indian and Fijian).

It was remarked by the Director of Education (Mr. W. W. Lewis- Jones), in fairness to other races,, that in asking Fijians and Indians to learn English the European was expecting more of them than he was asking of himself.

Others pointed out that English is the language of trade and commerce, and that if young Indians and Fijians wish to succeed in this sphere they will have to become proficient in English. In addition, it is the language uniting the three races.

There is another difficulty, of a minor nature only as yet, and that is that the Chinese who do not speak English use Fijian as a common language when dealing with other races.

More inter-racial schools may supply the answer, for they encourage a good working knowledge of English. When the children get into the playground, English does become the common language.

Clearing Away The Debris

Japanese Return To

RABAUL THE Japs are back in Rabaul to assist in clearing up the mess made by their sunken ships in the harbour in 1942-45. For years, Rabaul residents have been complaining about the unsightly junk littered about the harbour and along the foreshores.

Nobody wanted to do anything about it. Now has come the realisation that the Japs are the only ones, anyhow, who can do the job on an economic basis.

The first contingent of the salvage men arrived by two chartered aircraft in the last week in February, and others were to follow.

Rabaul will have these Japanese for company for the next two years. It is expected that after clearing Rabaul waters, they will use Rabaul as a base for clearing away wrecks from elsewhere in New Britain, around the New Guinea mainland and Bougainville.

The compound now prepared for these Japanese workers is only a few miles from the spot where the Japs first landed when they invaded New Guinea in January, 1942 27 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1957

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What Canberra Has Done To P-NG's Liquor P. MORESBY, March j r[E new tax on liquor impoa by licensed hotels, std restaurants and clubs wase most controversial piece of legs tion discussed at the recent mee 1 of the Papua-New Guinea Legs tive Council.

It was the Council’s shoe meeting—opening February 25 ( ending February 27—and notable mostly for the fact many members, official and : official, were absent, v The Administration’s new LL.

Ordinance had already been paji and therefore proceedings into a battle of wits whereby : official members endeavoured) secure adjournments, during w they aired public displeasure ati new tax. r;E new tax is the latest b:c child of the P-NG who, egged on by Cantf apparently sits up at nn thinking of new methodss extracting an extra few shili from the Territory’s so-o “tax-free” residents.

Extra taxes on liquor are' course, traditional and usj accepted, but this particular tt so full of anomalies and inequsj that even the anti-liquor se; of the community sees justice in it.

It is a tax of 5 per cenr the purchase of licensed victusx In its original conception, . would probably not be very sei£ but under the system of I distribution in the will be a snowballing tax which the Treasury can gathri much as 20 per cent, tax in j cases.

Hypothetical cases are quoted, in which an importer! the first five per cent, on purchased; he sells it to agent, who also has to pay cent, on his purchase; wH turn sells it to a club, which r also pay the tax—4 per ceie this case (as an act of grar As profit is added to the a purchase price plus tax by \ party as he buys the liquo:c re-sells it, the final rake-off < Treasury can be something ss 20 per cent. r[E only people who stae benefit by the legislatioo those private citizens ? import their own liquor direct not being licensed vendors, o have to pay tax; and the bru which also is not licensed as a? —and is therefore not subj[( this tax either—althoughri When the halyard breaks and the balloon won't go up it pays to have a boy who can climb a coconut tree to signal to the starter that the tote is balanced and the race can start.-Photo: R. F. Rankin. 28

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Nticipatory Gloom

b seems reason to be worried in tropic jungle land, the day is close approaching ere the combines show their id. e falling price of copra we may discern the score, i the planter goes on rations, he did before the war. i are lots of blokes in Aussie a think a planter’s life te of ease, contentment, with er any strife. ne envy him in contrast—the ons treat him well, s got things so easy—well the ■ld could go to hell. ik that’s where we’re heading le writing’s on the wall— we’re bracing now in business our eventual fall, lave had it pretty easy, and pe stacked a few bob by; if it hits us suddenly, there’s of us can’t cry. we think the day is coming sn combines set the price lat we get for co£ra and what pay for rice. i are some things stand out rly and one thing most of all— t ready you mug planters, for ra’s bound to fall. rai.

L.H.W. ! Maria del Mar, recently sold stralian interests, began load- :rap iron at Noumea early this i for Japan. She is under the and of Captain Helme.

Chairman of the P-NG Copra ;ting Board, Mr. lan Maori, who had been visiting Austi centres, returned to Port by on March 14.

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Fiji'S Overseas Trade

E year 1956 was the second in mccession in which Fiji had an mfavourable trade balance. 1955, an excess of imports over rts amounting to £1,612,945 ed bad enough; but it is overawed by the figure of £5,166,192, 956. ere are some mitigating res. Floods caused sugar exports ill by £1,229,725; and banana •ts by £162,424. ara exports in 1956 fell subially—not compensated for by crease in the value of oil seed and meal exported. In producit was a good year, but values affected by the reduced price ■ the MOF contract, ich emphasises the point that ction in all domestic exports be increased to meet possible reductions, and flood and :ane damage ee significant imports were (£124,967), rice (£221,065) and r (£658,033) re is no apparent excuse for mportation of rice into a ry which produces good rice; with the further development ; dairying industry, it should e necessary to import ghee.

Lumber presents a problem, as imported Oregon is preferred by many builders to local timber which (it is said by builders) is not dried out as well as the Canadian timber.

Indian stores are overstocked with wearing apparel and general goods, and the bonds are glutted with these lines. Credit restriction has stopped the erection of many shops and flats and this should reduce imports of building material this year; but revenue will suffer in consequence.

The only answer is increased production in all agricultural industries.

Any severe drop in price or production of one major product could seriously affect the economic position of the Colony.

Although the population of Fiji is increasing rapidly production remains more or less static. It is a position which must be faced soon by high authority.

Annual Meeting PI Society THE annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney on February 28, was attended by 71 persons.

Mr. W. F. Trinick gave a screening of colour films of Lord Howe Island and the Solomons Islands, which he took on a recent trip on the Tulagi.

The following office-bearers were elected: Patron, Mr. R. W. Robson, FRGS; president, Mr. A. E.

Stephen; vice-presidents, Messrs.

N. B. Casey, MBE, N. H. Foxcroft, L. Howell, H. Sabben, QBE, and Dr. G. Mackeness, OBE; secretarytreasurer, Miss M. M. McGann; assistant-s ecretary, Mr. L. P.

Haynes; councillors, Miss E.

Courtney, Mesdames M. L. Foxcroft, M. Jones, E. Sabben, Messrs. R. J.

Christofferson, V. R. Trethewey and T. Wignall.

Good Service by Soldier Brothers Mrs. E. J. Williams has written to us from Suva about the Military Cross which was awarded to one of her brothers during World War I. PIM, a couple of years ago, stated that Mr. Francis Faddy, who had become a citizen of the United States, was a son of the late Mr.

Frank Faddy, of Fiji; was a member of the Fiji Contingent; and had won the MC and Bar.

Mrs. Williams says there were two brothers at the war—Frank and Norman. But it was not Frank who won MC and Bar: it v/as Norman, who died in Fiji, 1934.

But Frank gave fine service in those dark days, too. He rose to the rank of captain. In the final days of the war, and for a long period after the armistice, he served on the Indian frontier. 31 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY M A R C H , 1957

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By Tolala Eye For An Eye ere was a considerable amount ak spilled last month in the ey Press when 40 natives were i guilty of murder in a Wewak ; and had the death sentence ded against them. They were gned for murdering 28 natives nother tribe from the Yellow :. It was purely a local affair had no political significance; iven religious sectarian import. annot remember a case where I murder and/or killings ever brought the culprits to the vs. They have usually been put le “cooler” under comfortable tions, for a few years; ininated with the serum of grn civilisation; and sent back eir homes, wiser and happier to spread the good word igst their clansmen. ; protestations in the Press to be the people’s prerogative, first example I remember was Judge Wanliss sentenced some to death over the immolation dows down Gasmata way, in arly ’3o’s. A howl rose to high in —even from England—and the verdict was changed to a “recording.”

God-Speed, Sir Beaumont!

The resignation of the Chief Justice of P-NG at the end of Febluary is the biggest loss the Territory has suffered. Valedictory eulogies have become so clicheridden of late years that one searches for simple, sincere words to describe the effect upon P-NG of Sir Beaumont’s retirement from active work. The high ethical standards he maintained in his official capacity gave every resident, irrespective of colour, the greatest confidence in the dispensation of Justice throughout the Territory.

And that, in a country where the powers of judge and jury are vested in the one individual, is something to be proud of.

I always attribute his unqualified success to his great love of the country and its people; and that love was made possible by his extensive knowledge of the natives whom he had carefully studied for over 30 years.

The older residents particularly will miss not only the Chief Justice, Sir Beaumont Phillips, but “Monty’' Phillips the man, and a very good friend. I join in wishing him a 33 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1957

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Regional Librarian in Rabaul, Miss Anne Legge, returned last month from a leave which took her by Italian liner to Naples and then, after “doing” parts of Europe, to Old Britain, Scotland, Spam, and back to New Zealand via the Panama in Southern Cross.

Not every visitor from New Britain to Old Britain leaves behind a tangible memento in London Town, but Anne Legge had that distinction. Her portrait, painted by Fleet wood-Walker, RA, was hung in the Royal Academy.

The New Ack Ack And so, at long last, the Public Service plum position in P-NG has been filled. The appointment of a home-town official, in Dr. John Gunther, should mollify the local PSA, though whether such a loss to Public Health—the all-important “welfare” unit in the Administration set-up—will pay off or not remains to be seen.

The Territory could easily do without an Assistant Administrator, but not without an efficient Director of Public Health, with the high qualifications he is credited with by Minister Hasluck: “initiative, organising ability, imagination, drive, determination and great capacity for getting over difficulties.”

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;•. I: Bhaewan" 2 !' * C °paVuA an NEW GUINEA: Robert Gillespie (New Guinea), Ltd. Ho (“Natives Die European in Jeopardy”.) may assume that had a ; teletypiste made similar tions to the Press she would been promptly stuck in the i the Doctor, however, the veil-worn Public Service a is used for eliminating an , critical officer by the proof promotion to another of bureaucratic activity, wonders (again) whether, if irector of Civil Affairs had lied the Doctor by publishandid revelations of Canfrustrating tactics regarding partment, the same formula not have been adopted and Ack” job filled by the ■ Steve.

Minister Hasluck is reported ve said about the Doctor: is a great capacity of getting faculties.” If the new Assistiministrator continues to be tspoken of Canberra’s dees, where does he go from i luck to the Doc., anyway. I have liked to have seen him spot of leave before assum- ‘ Ack Ack mantle. He gives ch of his nervous energy to untry. 3rs Of The Past ing back into the Past, it me that most of the Directors ic Health in TNG have been f a pain-in-the-neck to both :al Administrator and Canifficialdom. Theirs is an exlb, and you can’t blame them r object even to Canberra jrats messing them about, lel Honman, TNG’s first and a carry-over from the 7, was a most outspoken ie fought tooth and nail for c amenities which he couldn’t get, and described the Administrator of that time (Brigadier Wisdom) as “too much general and not enough Wisdom.”

“Jock” Flood followed him and resigned because he could not get medical requirements.

Raphael Cilento (later Sir Raphael) was for ever plugging for bigger medical allocations in the Budget, and left in disgust. (He didn’t use the Press to further his claims, nor was there any Legislative Council in those days, where services could be publicly castigated.) Tom Brennan was another outspoken medico, deploring lack of support for his Department from Administration funds. Of course, TNG was living within its income then (and showing a surplus at the same time), so he did not feel too happy in demanding huge grants.

Australia had not then become TNG's Santa Claus.

A Target Date Once again UNO is attempting to put pressure on us over our New Guinea time-table, just about six months after its previous resolution.

To me it appears to be the voice a ceremony at the Pacific Island barracks, near Moresby, on February Administrator (Brigadier Cleland) pre- [?] e British Empire Medal to Sergeant 35 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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R.1.1688/4.2 ro but the hand of “Indonesia,” gh the Afro-Asian bloc, with pproval of Moscow. A wheel i a wheel for “Indonesia’s” of Dutch NG.

'thing can happen up there in days, and Soekarno, with his to the wall, yet may call on le Commo aid to overthrow the ns rebelling against Javanese lance. If that happens the fat e in the fire. Even Casey and olombo Plan cannot mitigate langer of the Red Threat in orth. for the “target date”; The ihing we can do is to tell the eeship Council to go jump in ike —Lake Success for prefer- Pieces ked the Duke of Edinburgh’s nee in his Mansion House i to the P-NG Administraeiforts to disarm the natives one-axes when the civilised s of the world were, at the time, toying with A- and H- There was certainly a moral for those who cared to read P-NG’s trade balance is over in the red. Not so hot, dethe increased trade figures of on last year’s, and the 222.5 mt. increase over three years ports . . . Gone West: C. W. C. as, on February 16, at West- NSW, a well known “Lik-lik

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Judith Anne Ives, only daughter of Mr. [?]rs. A. S. Ives, of Suva, was married in [?]rinity Cathedral, Suva, in mid-February, Lyle Norman Cupit, of Cabramatta, NSW. lona Cupit came from Cabramatta, NSW, to be bridesmaid; and the bride was also attended by Miss Carole Tomkins, of Nadi.

Coleen Dobbin was flower-girl. Mr. Stanley Ives was best man and Mr. Jack Shepherd was groomsman. (Stinson photo). 37 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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Bank in American Samoa Loses 30,000 Dollars PAGO PAGO, Feb. 26. fTSHE Bank of American Samoa I, was closed for five days (February 18-22), after bank defalcations were noted by the Manager, Mr. Alan D. Bigelow, who has held this office since June, 1956.

Accounts are still being checked and losses at first reported to be $15,000 have now risen to $30,000.

Four men were at first named as being under suspicion—Lopeti S.

Malepeai (assistant cashier, married, five children); Evile Tofili (head teller, married); Enose Matina and Fuauli Falo (both tellers, and single).

Acting Governor Alan D. Mac- Quarrie revealed that the first three named had made voluntary confessions. He said evidence indicated that embezzlement had been going on for three or four years.

A further check implicated two more employees, Sala’i and Emau and they joined the other four arraigned and all face court charges on March 18.

Governor Peter T. Coleman, of American Samoa, has been away in the US conferring with the US Congressional Appropriation Committee in regard to his 1958 Budget.

He was in San Francisco when he heard of the bank scandal. An additional State employee, Mr.

James McCabe, of the American Trust Company, is being assigned to American Samoa to assist Mr.

Bigelow, for at least one year. t Auckland City Council is coj cerned because some Islanders living there under overcrowded coc ditions. Chairman of the Propee and Health Committee (Cr. J.

Whittaker), heard reports from A. S. Wallace (medical officer) s arranged a conference with otf bodies affected. 38 MARCH 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HH

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ANT uicker and More Often To UK r hile it was in Sydney recently demonstration flights, “PIM” privileged to sample travel in IC’s giant turbo-prop Bristol annia Airliner. [E new Britannias went onto the Sydney-UK service in early March, cutting the elapsed time he journey to approximately 50 :s. Night stop in Singapore has i eliminated. }AC is using these aircraft on London-Johannesburg service plans to use them from London >an Francisco or Los Angeles, s weekly, to link up with bas. This link will give the iC-Qantas combination a nd the world” service, is Britannia is the largest turboeller aircraft in the world. It a wing span of 142 ft and its is 36 ft high. It is one of the aircraft fitted with a humidifier, h prevents skin dryness and eyes from the pressurising and onditioning. town as the “Whispering Giant” uises at 400 miles an hour, and carry up to 90 passengers in iltimate degree of comfort. )wds estimated at more than 0 waited for a chance to go the Britannia the day it ed in Sydney; they jammed > leading to Mascot airport, but majority were unable to get the aircraft.

February 18, the Britannia ; four demonstration flights Mascot, each of about an s duration. Those invited to 1 these flights were, in a matter minute or two, whisked away the grey clouds and rain in Sydcyclone “Clara” was approachbe coast) into the sunlight far ) the crowds. They were among ery small percentage of Sydney e who saw the sun that day. ze in the air the stewards finitely went into action to show smooth the aircraft was when : through “bumpy” weather. offered their guests cham- J, then filled the glasses to the With the aircraft still climbot a drop was spilt, vellers from Sydney to Europe low choose from eight services ik along the Kangaroo Route supplied by Qantas Super ellations, three by BOAC mias. tennias can carry up to 90 but those on the aroo route will carry 39 on the st class service, and 41 tourist 7 first-class passengers on the i class services t Following a successful excursion to New Zealand last summer, the New Caledonia Federation of Public Schools organised a similar holiday trip again this January, 48 persons arriving for a two-weeks visit on January 11, and leaving Auckland immediately for the Southern Alps.

Last year a number of the party expressed disappointment that they had seen no snow, so this year the trip has been organised with emphasis on that commodity. t Mr. Douglas Hardy, ABC-TV staff cameraman, made a quick trip to New Caledonia recently. He left Sydney at 11.30 p.m., on January 16, and returned to Sydney the following day with films of the ship San Antonia, wrecked on the Sarcelle (Teal) reef, 12 miles from the Isle of Pines, and about 14 miles from Cape Queen Charlotte.

The films were shown on Channel 2-ABN, the ABC television station, in Sydney, the same night. 39 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1957

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M GOLD TO BER [?]’s Impressive ange-over in N. Guinea )WLY and steadily—and pparently quite satisfactorily -the emphasis in the annual nts of Bulolo Gold Dredging s passing from gold to timber, the year ended May 31, 1956, fold and silver recovered by hree dredges from the Bulolo in New Guinea, were worth 588 Canadian Dollars, comwith 2,122,179 Dollars in the ms year—and an enormously ;r annual value from the eight es operating before the war. dge No. 4 will have finished Db this year, and will be ed. Dredge No. 7 capsized and last May, and the Co. 600,000 Dollars US from mce. Salvage is possible, but urther operation of No. 7 is iiy. 3 leaves only Dredge No. 5 :ing—but it is likely to me for several years. y entered into a partnership ;he Australian Commonwealth nment three years ago, ling Commonwealth New a Timbers Ltd. to produce Dd from the huge stands of ' pine. This business is ig and developing; and BGD dividend of £37,500 from it ie year ended June 30, 1956. y Ltd. recently purchased a timber proposition in the 1 area near Lae; and from it is proposed to produce ■s, market lumber and logs, lake material available to the Timbers Ltd., when required, was noted at the annual il meeting of BGD Ltd., in Vancouver in February, that Mr.

L. W. Bergstrand had retired as General Manager in November, 1956, and been replaced by Mr. A.

E. Gazzard; and tribute was paid to the many years of capable and loyal service rendered by Mr.

Bergstrand. Mr. Bergstrand now is a resident of Sydney. - Mr. B. B. Perriman, a director of W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., left Sydney for New Guinea on a business trip on February 20. He was expected back in Sydney on March 20. t Pastor J. P. Holmes, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in New Guinea, and his wife and family, spent part of their furlough with Pastor Holmes’ parent in Devonport, Tasmania. e Sabrina Building, recently built by the Lady Barker Estate Trustees at the corner of a Parade and Gordon Street, Suva, Fiji, was opened in February. It occupies the site old Fiji Times building. The new Fiji Times offices are just out of sight, in Gordon on the left; and the Sabrina Building, modern and attractively designed, extends away right, along Victoria Parade. The new Club Hotel, when completed, will occupy the other of Victoria Parade and Gordon Street, opposite Sabrina Building. (Stinson photo). 41 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1957

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American Airmen S

Remains Recovered

r[E remains of six Amerii' airmen, who died when tic plane crashed into a mountj peak in Papua’s Owen Stan ranges in 1942, have been sent!

America. Last month a RA plane brought to Brisbane ft] Papua six small, polished-w/ caskets, which held the airmen’s? mains.

Wing-Commander Keith Rum of Amberley air base, near Brisbu was in charge of the party wl went to Papua-N. Guinea to fino American B-25 Mitchell bomr posted missing in 1942.

Natives had reported the wreck to District Officer D. Andersonr Tapini, which is about an ho flight into the interior from I Moresby.

Wing-Commander Rundle, expert at finding jungle wre flew to Tapini’s hilltop airs? amid high peaks. Cadet Pat Officer Colin Prior, of Tas guided him on the four-days to the crashed plane. As earn they took a line of 30 nx prisoners and recruited labomu In the aircraft, with the rerm of the dead men, they found t wrist-watches and several cigae lighters, which also were sem America. The wreckage wax smashed and jungle-grown the took Rundle two hours to dis*? that it was a B-25. It shr great holes where Japanese gm had torn into it.

Wing-Commander Rundle ported that the party scaled se3 mountains —an altimeter shower height of one as 11,300 Most of the time they were shrer in cloud, and the temperature near freezing. 42 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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December 8, Mr. H. Napa and Miss M. plas were married at the Arorangi LMS sh, Rarotonga. In this group they are [?] with their attendants at the groom's where they had an Umukai; and, in evening, a ball and supper, with about guests. [?]m left to right: Miss T. Nicholas, Mr. apa, Pa Ariki, Mr. E. Cowan, the briden and the bride, Mr. A. Napa, Miss G. nan, Mr. R. Jonassen, Miss T, Napa; and flowergirls, M. Peyroux and T. Browne.

Photo: Marie Powell. 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1557

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Cutch Industry Has Troubles

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A Despatch From Judy Tudor

PORT MORESBY, March 1.

MOTE London control of Papua-New Guinea business has I another victim to an already sssive list. This time it is the Guinea Borneo Mangrove Co. which was expected to give the Division of Papua its first •tant industry. ; casualty appears, however, ive already been resuscitated; in the hands of new operators, yet turn out to be a winner. present the Aird Hill plant ng worked under lease by an alian financial organisation, ?uard, which has an 18 tis* option of purchase. Port >by rumour is that the option r £50,000 —which, if true, is bly about one-quarter of what sunk in the venture by its holders. ! parent company operated in o for many years, producing , a tanning extract made mangrove bark. It was then that supplies of sufficiently •e mangroves were running ti Borneo, and the Company tore proposed to set up a y in the Gulf Division of i, which produces mangroves little else) ad infinitum. project was put in hand five years ago. The job of ng a factory and equipment of the size and the complexity small sugar mill at Aird Hill, le swampy wastes of this ry, provided more headaches more delay than had been pated. erimental production began 2i years ago. Few experienced Icians or scientists appear to been employed, and few—if of the European staff had had us experience of the manue of cutch or even knew what »ked like in its commercial t each experimental batch complete, samples were to Australia for analysis, months were wasted waiting suits, or modifying equipment ke the “bugs” out of the s. • r year the product was daily pronounced up to andard, and export comd. r ever, by this time the Company had encountered circumstances which changed its policy; and the present arrangement was made with Mainguard Ltd., of Sydney.

Cutch exported from Papua to overseas markets is evaporated into a hard crystalline substance, set in moulds, and shipped in bags. There is little market for it in Australia (where tanners mostly prefer to use wattle bark extract), but it has a good market in overseas countries, including the United States and Japan (where it is used for tanning fishing nets).

It appears also that it will have a local market. It has been found that the liquid cutch (the stage before evaporation) takes the place of a material previously imported from India by the oil exploration companies to run into bores during drilling operations. The action of cutch on the mud, etc., through which the drill passes, facilitates the removal of the spoil from the bore.

It is believed, too, that liquid cutch may be the basis of a very good bonding material suitable for use in the manufacture of local plywood—now a big industry. fi Monsieur P. Huret and his wife and daughter have arrived in Vila, New Hebrides. Monsieur Huret has been posted to Santo as assistant to the French District Agent, Northern District. + Monsieur R. Pujol, Native Advocate, accompanied by Madame Pujol, has gone to France on vacation leave —his first absence from New Caledonia in 24 years. 45 IF, C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1957

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EVEREADY "Eveready”, "Nine Lives" and the Cat Symbol are registered trade-marks of Eveready (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Rosebery, N.S.W, Wild NG Natives Clash with Pan ANEW GUINEA police pattf 37 men fought a dayj battle with 200 screaming, j painted Mianmin natives im Sepik River district in Jam One native constable was inn and one native was ki I Sixteen natives were arrested!

The patrol left Telefomiii January 14 to investigate nun by Mianmin people. Miai bowmen had attacked a n bouring tribe, and murder©men, and kidnapped two woo The Administrator (Brigadil M. Cleland) said that the nn attacked the patrol two days a it arrived in the Mianmin The painted tribesmen leapea of the bush and sent a show barbed arrows into the patrol; Patrol officers ordered men to hold their fire, but cove manded this when a I constable was wounded in a The patrol opened fire anoj native was killed.

The attackers treated, with the patrol haii their heels, and 16 of themr arrested.

After the fight, the patrol 54 sets of bows and arrows 1 10 fighting shields within 70 ( of the battleground.

On moving deeper intro Mianmin country, in searen more murder suspects, the found a new ceremonial hove a village, with 35 skulls hs i on the walls and roof inside The patrol rescued one o kidnapped woman. The escaped back to her AtHc village.

One half of the patrol too< arrested men back to Teles while the other half searcher more murder suspects befoic turning.

The patrol was told thas.

Mianmin people had atf Atbalmin village to avengg killing of four Mianmin bd Atbalmin some time ago.

The region is one of the fel yet under Administration corr

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Catalogues and Price List Supplied on Request > members of the staff of the i Department in P-NG, Miss r Curtis and Mr. Glen Johnwere married in the Chimbu f the Highlands recently. They emain in their present posiat Kundiawa this year, when >lan to return to Australia and i Brisbane. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. N. G. Curtis, of Launceston, and the groom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Johnston, of Ipswich. t The 32-ton trading vessel Anaconda, owned by Holland Brothers, of Mae, went on the reef about two miles east of Erakor, on the coast of Efate, New Hebrides, on February 5, and became a total loss. Her cargo and engine were salvaged. + New Caledonia will have a military band shortly. Sixteen musicians are en route from Marseilles to form the nucleus of the band, which will eventually have about 35 members.

Married in Moresby From Rotuma to the AAAF RIGHT Mr. George Flint, formerly of Rotuma, now a pe r manent member of the Australian Military Forces, is shown here with his wife. The photograph was taken at a Paynes i a n Association gathering in Sydney.

Photo: Bayside Studios.

LEFT On February 12, in the Church of England, Port Moresby, Miss E.

Hill, of Melbourne, was married to Mr. N. Newton, who is well known in sporting circles in Papua.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 47 1F I C ISLANDS MONTFLY - M A R C H , 1957

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XPERIMENT [?]ke-Dwelling Africans As Guinea-Pigs TATIVES of the island of Ukara, I in Lake Victoria, 60 miles from Mwanza, in Tanganyika, are ting as “guinea-pigs” in a new periment, which is the first largeile attempt in Africa to eradicate ; disfiguring disease of filaria. rhe East African Medical Survey d Research Institute is adminjring a pill a month to each of DO island inhabitants. The pills i a specific against elephantiasis.

The small island was chosen for i experiment because of its h incidence of filariasis and phantiasis. Four or five per cent. the adult population have Dhantiasis. Because it is an ated community the people are ikely to move away and affect research, and there is less risk infected people coming in from er areas and upsetting the 4,000 >rds. n Ukara, filariasis is spread by Anopheles mosquito, which, ng an infected person, picks up the blood-meal small worms or rofilariae, which are in the blood only at night. The microfilariae grow in the body of the mosquito and are thus transferred to another bitten person.

The research team hopes that the drug, which will be given in the first place once a month for a year, will kill all the microfilariae in the population, so that the disease cannot spread.

The team experienced difficulty in persuading the people that a pill a month would do this, but cooperation has now been obtained.

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Filaria extends throughout the tropical region, and the eastern section of the South Pacific Islands is badly affected. t In an international professional boxing series at Papeete in February between Fiji and Tahiti, Semi Tovolea, middleweight champion of Fiji, heat Ernest Ganivet, middleweight champion of French Oceania, on points, over 10 three-minute rounds. Billy Trafton, former heavyweight champion of French Oceania, beat Henry Bray (Atunaisa Caimabau) former heavyweight champion of Fiji, on points over 10 two-minute rounds. The managermatchmaker was “Tex Gus” (Gustave F. Spitz), French Oceania boxing promoter. 49 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1957

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SPC Instructs 25 Fisheries Students Twenty-five Pacific island) last month completed a weeks South Pacific Commissi fisheries course at Noumea. TIT have now returned to their od islands to put to practical use wh they have learned.

The Secretary-General of SPC (Dr. Ralph Bedell) told F 5 that the main object of the com was to get more protein into Islanders’ diets. Another aim t to capitalise on their native site so that regular fish supplies w# assured.

This latter object involved gg husbandry, with regular replsJ ment of stocks, and also the velopment of fish suitable for palate. Dr. Bedell said that Islanders had always known how catch fish, both freshwater i marine, but had never been tarn the know-how on replacements.B The trainees came from as ■ afield as Netherlands New GuiLi in the west, to Tahiti in the es from Guam, the Carolines Marianas, north of the equaton the Cooks and Tonga, in the sac The course was held under direction of Mr. H. van Pel, Commission’s fisheries officer.

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The trainees were selected I their own Administrations, DR. BEDELL said he had nn seen students who were n interested or who applied tbl selves better to their task i these trainees.

The course, the first of its H was the culmination of two yy planning. It covered many asn? of fisheries, including boat-builli and maintenance, marine engg fishing equipment, net-m a k : navigation, fish-breeding, o;c culture, fish preservation, fishri management, the shell industryy protection of marine resources. ~ Dr. Bedell said that emplc on subsistence fishing had beie main object in the course. 0 mercial fishing would come latea a more advanced course.

Francisco P. De Leon, a j warden from Guam, echoed sentiments of all trainees whee said that they had gained ime able knowledge of fish culture..; the other 24, he plans to pasi what he has learned to his fee Islanders. (Continued on Page 53) 50 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHS

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Leal lessons in navigation were to them during short cruises le Orsom 111, the research which the French Institute of lia made available for train- They were also given practical ction at sea in handlining, g, trolling and settling gill Jtical lessons were given in I, drying and smoking fish. ■ fisheries management, they •iven a general introduction to ration, and to ways of organand managing a fishermen’s rative society. They were ; elements of marketing, and (iven lessons in bookkeeping.

Bedell said: “The Fisheries ng Course has made a remarkable contribution to better life in the Pacific Islands. The trainees have applied themselves and have learned what they need to help their own Islands people to have more and better fish to eat. The good work in fisheries done by the various Islands governments should be further helped by the trainees who have attended this course.”

[?]O-Chinese Insolence

In N. Caledonia

Caledonia could have a lous racial problem on its nds in a few years, neo news-sheet, published resaid that during the recent hinese fetes at the Tiebaghi American owned, Vietnamese among other things, a ic representation of the .11 of Dien Bien Phu, the t loss the French suffered in ar against the Reds in Indoauthorities (says a correct) might consider taking against those who don’t like v Caledonian way of life, beis too late. There have been ny examples, lately, of insolind “flashness” by young hinese who have been allowed e in New Caledonia, -years-old Viet (Tonkinese) sd in the New Caledonia smelters, ran into a packet 3le recently when he toured b of Noumea in a jeep with friends, singing Viet national t the top of his voice, of these was the Vietminh umst) national anthem, which are the words, “we ik the blood of our enemies.” irasian police officer asked keep the peace, but the Viet and insulted the officer. A sent him to prison for a Both the fish and the student looked equally unhappy when Mr. H. van Pel (Fisheries Officer to the South Pacific Commission) and a group of Pacific Islands trainees viewed a good catch at the fish markets, Noumea, New Caledonia.

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Conboy claimed that he had made a £l,OOO offer for a real fight between Lave and Valdes, but the Valdes camp did not seem inclined to accept.

Several American television companies had inquired about the availability of Lave to fight in their boxing programmes. Conboy was after that one because it would mean greater publicity, and a dollar income for Lave.

He said that Lave was at the top of his form. He and his charge hoped for much from an American visit. He had forbidden Lave to take any more sparring jobs.

“Lave is a future champion, not a sparring partner,” he said.

Lave, who had not long announced his engagement to a Sunday School teacher, said: “I need a fight quickly. I need money so I can get married. But it looks as if I shall have to go to Canada to look for fights—heavyweights in this country are afraid of me.”

It is a pity thus to see an uninhibited Islander, particularly from the Friendly Group, becoming “civilised.” (Continued on Page 103) members her war dead. TOP: Ceremony of Sacrifice, NZ War Memorial Ceme- Durail, New Caledonia. LOWER: Com- Leurchars, a visitor from the NZ Soldiers' Association, lays a wreath Memorial to the War Dead, Noumea, NC.

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Fiji, a week later, had a near hurricane of its own (officially, it came under the heading of “tropical storm”). The liner Orsova, coming south from San Francisco, berthed at Suva with difficulty at 8 a.m., February 26, and was to sail that afternoon. At 11 a.m., radio messages went out to passengers to return to the ship, as the master had decided to beat it out to sea, in case the storm worsened. However, the south-west winds had by then swung to north-east, and the big liner could not get away from the wharf. After repeated attempts, the move was abandoned and departure postponed until the following morning. The gale centre then moved off southwards, and Suva weather improved.

Oliver Mac Is Still Around

Oliver Mac and her tow, the old Loyaute filled with scrap iron, were still in Rabaul late February— although, when she left Noumea for Hongkong, in November, it was expected that she would be at journey’s end before Christmas. (PIM, January, p. 103).

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Joy It A Grounding—Formal

INQUIRY The Fiji Marine Board has recommended that a formal investigation be held into the grounding of Joyita on Horseshoe Reef on January 8. The recommendation will be forwarded to the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey).

The Joyita grounded about 4.35 am. while on a trip from Buca Bay ports to Suva. The passengers and crew abandoned her aboht 8.30 am. and took to the lifeboats. Burns Philp ship, Yanawai, went to the rescue and picked up the passengers and crew about 2.30 p.m. that day.

Joyita was towed to Nasova, near Levuka, and beached. She will be towed to Suva for repairs.

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ptain M. J. McGregor, master [V Busama, has explained why )portion of the numerous coastal around Lae prefer the little ered corner at Voco Point, a from Lae’s expensive port at irdhaven (Jan. PIM, p. 101). writes that small ships prefer ittle sheltered bay because the orage holding grounds at Voco - are much better than at the f area, and the water is not as Dtain McGregor adds that, cs to the enterprise of young ! Bray, who built a jetty, own- : all vessels, including the 300- ( usama, are allowed to use this when Bruce’s own trawler-type , Buka, is not working cargo, the small ships mentioned in anuary item have Lae as their port, although registered at ports.

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asked in January PIM (p. if La Curieuse took the ina epidemic to Tahiti after War I. In Papeete, Captain n took command of the 60- >ns vessel and, during the ina epidemic, was trading with :>etween Papeete and Calitain Brisson described in the is Magazine how every memf the crew developed the J well out at sea after a call liforma, and how, after some i, he got the ship back to :e the ’flu “spread out . . people and natives died like They recorded 3,010 deaths.”

'-a facie, it looked as though irieuse took the disease to - but a correspondent from e says that it was the Union khip Co.’s steamer, Navua was responsible. It would be JPg to learn the views of the USS Co.’s “old hands.”

Vaitiare’S Future

as been rumoured in Tahiti he Government proposes to (Continued on 6l) Miss Dorothy McKie, aboard the February "Malaita" from Sydney, was headed for Rabaul where she will begin a two year term as a nurse at Rabaul Hospital. It is Miss Mc- Kie's first trip to the Pacific area.

Mr. and Mrs. L. K.

Knight, with children Glenda (2½ years), Ralph (5), David ( 3½ ) and Bruce (6 months), returned to Lumi in the Sepik district, NG.

They returned to the Sola Fide Mission where they spent three years before coming to Sydney on furlough six months ago.

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About The Mariposa

A Wellington correspondent writes lat when the Mariposa visited the ew Zealand capital she flew a irsion of the NZ merchant ensign tiich could only have been dreamed > in Hollywood—a British Red asign with four white-bordered d stars on the fly. The correondent was regretful that he uld not see from wharf level aether the flag was upside down not.

Melbourne misses out on calls by e Mariposa because the ship rries so many round-trip passeng- -5 who want to spend some time fewer ports. But if the demand ises, Melbourne will be restored the itinerary, says the Australian maging director of Matson, Mr.

A. Johnson.

Louis Is Recalled

Louis Carlson, pilot of the Port Papeete, who was retired at the d of last year, has been asked rejoin the Port Pilotage Service • another couple of years, this le as Inspector of the Port of peete.

Phis decision was made after the urn of the French frigate, mont D’Urville from the French eania Islands. Louis piloted the vessel, and it is thought that the Commanding Officer noted the need for an experienced pilot and made a recommendation in Louis’ favour.

For Sydney-Singapore Run

Burns Philp’s new 3,700 deadweight motor-vessel, Montoro, was due to make her first arrival in Sydney on Tuesday, March 12 (Feb.

PIM, p. 98). She left Madang on February 28 for Rabaul, and sailed from that port on March 6 for Sydney.

BP’s shipping department has confirmed that the Montoro will go on the Sydney-Singapore run.

After More Speed

Two of the New Guinea Australia Line’s passenger and cargo liners, the Sinkiang and the Soochow, have been fitted with Costa propulsion bulbs. By the addition of this device it is hoped to increase the speed of the vessels by up to half a knot, and effect a saving in fuel consumption.

The device, which is fitted to the rudder, decreases turbulence, and enables ships to move more easily through the water.

The device will also be fitted to the Shansi, which was to go into dry dock in Sydney about March 12.

The Sinkiang, which was completely overhauled in Hongkong, set out on her return to Sydney early this month, via the South Philippines and Port Moresby, under the command of Captain J. F. Follett.

R/T Distress Watch

Further Extended

The South Pacific radio-telephone distress watch has made a further advance, with the establishment of a watch on the 2182 kc/s international distress channel by Rarotonga Radio as from January 1, 1957. An announcement from the Cook Islands Radio Superintendent’s office says that loudspeaker watch will be maintained on the frequency from 1700 GMT through to 1200 GMT daily.

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Lost Part Of Propellor

The Damadore del Mar, under the command of Captain Savoie, radioed after leaving Wallis Island last month with a cargo of copra for Noumea, that she had lost a propeller blade, probably after touching a coral head. The French naval sloop, Tiare, which was m New Hebrides waters, answered her call for assistance, and escorted her to Noumea, where she arrived on February 20.

Pagan Changes Hands

The English-built motor fishing vessel Pagan, which a group of Australians brought out to Auckland late last year, was sold in January to an Auckland fishing company.

South-bound from Papeete to Auckland, this craft was adrift with engine trouble for three weeks.

Skipper E. R. Barker has now returned to London.

Offer For San Antonio

WRECK Carr Enterprises Ltd., a Sydney company, has submitted an offer of 1,500,000 francs (more than £A10,000) to Lloyds for the wrecked San Antonio and its cargo. The ship, laden with 6,000 tons of scrapiron, is on the reef opposite the meat canning town of Ouaco, . the west coast of New Caledonisi The ship is lying on an even M with a slight list. It has 15 fti water in the forward holds, andb ft astern.

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Plantation House, 197 Clarence Street (near King Street), Sydney, Australia. undertake salvage of the cargo, iptain Helme, who has already d considerable experience in this rt of work, in Tahiti, proposes to I the holes in the ship and pump r dry. The cargo of scrap will ;n be loaded on to the Maria del ir, which the Carr company has light, for delivery in Hongkong h a cargo of scrap.

Dnce the ship is lightened by reival of the cargo, Captain Helme pes to be able to refloat it sufiently to bring it ashore six miles ay. There San Antonio will be ;up for scrap. The scrap will be ded on to an ocean-going vessel the nickel port of Nepoui, not far tant.

Tgnals From Tahiti Nui

Signals from the raft, Tahiti Nui, ich is drifting in the South ;ific from Tahiti to Valparaiso, being received in Broken Hill, Australia. Tahiti Nui is drifting the reverse direction from that the more famous Kon Tiki edition. he 50 ft raft is manned by se Frenchmen, a Polynesian, and Jhilean.

Broken Hill radio “ham” said t the raft probably would drift ) the Antarctic zone, if it tinued on its present course, should then be swept northds along the Chilean coast.

Fibreglass Runabout

)hn Barraclough and Richard :th, a director of Customcraft, josed to make a trip to Brisbane n Sydney this month in a 16-ft ble-skin fibreglass runabout. The t is totally enclosed, has a hard and fuel tanks are built in ig the sides, was proposed to fit the runit with twin Holden engines (in Is it was powered by a Ford cury engine with straight drive, h propelled it at about 50 miles hour), a TR radio and other guards. ley planned to make the ney at night, with a search- : permanently directed upwards, hat they could be located at time by many friends stationed r arious points along the coast, object of the trip is to prove t they claim is the astonishing igth and toughness of this new i of construction. lews of Cruising Yachts 'PEDA, of Vancouver, a 34-ft • .is at present in Papeete after hse which started at her home on July 2, 1956, Her last port ill was Takaroa. Jopeda, built •947, m Vancouver, had two vious names— Dawn W and She is 10 ft 9 in. wide, 6 in. deep, and has a gross age of 8.4 tons. e vessel is owned by Messrs. J. asley, p. Walmsley and D. Field, the master is Mr. J. Walmsley. owners are on a pleasure cruise which they hope will finish in Brisbane after calls at Bora Bora, Rarotonga and Suva. She expects to clear Papeete in April or May.

WHITE HART, a Canadian yacht, cruising back to Vancouver from Auckland, was at Papeete late January. On board was a crew of three young women, Misses Greta and Pauline Scott and Tino Varley who had trouble with the landing authorities because their visas were not in order. The trouble was straightened out, and they were allowed to land. They flew out of Tahiti on the TEAL Solent flyingboat. The owner-skipper, Tony Reeves, cruised from Vancouver to Auckland with his wife and 3-years- Old SOn.

MARCO POLO, Auckland ketch, westbound round the world, was at Jamaica in February, and plans to call at Island ports when homeward-bound from Panama this winter. With owner Tony Armit is Brian Loe. rr TJT „ oil .. . . „ , _ T .y LA *f> 31 lon £ b y 9 by 6 wlll cari T the German flag the Islands this winter. Joroslav N°vy> 37, and his wife, Bozena, cleared Hamburg last August 16, hound for Brisbane. The wellfitted and well-maintained steel craft, now in the Canal Zone, will sa fi I° r Tahiti, Samoa, and New Caledonia in early April. Captain Noy y is a professional seaman. (News of Small Ships Continued on P. 138) 63 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT M A R C H , 1957

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How the demand is being met As a major producer of primary aluminium the Aluminium Limited group has responded to this increasing demand with a programme of continuous development in various parts of the world. In Canada, the new expansion programme in Quebec will increase the ingot producing capacity there to over 700,000 tons per annum. At Kitimat in British Columbia, annual productive capacity is being raised to 330,000 tons by the end of 1959. In Jamaica, production of alumina (aluminium oxide) is being increased to 543,000 yearly.

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FIJIANS all Circle 117 Years r AKAYA Island, in the Lomaiviti Group of Fiji, has reverted to > Fijian ownership. ; was one of the first islands riji to pass from Fijian to Euron ownership. The present isfer in the reverse direction can uonsidered a sign of the times, tie Fijian Affairs Board bought island from Mr. and Mrs.

V. O. Bentley for about £45,000. board plans to use Wakaya to ruct Fijians in the management arge copra estates, le Fijian Development Fund rd assisted with finance towards shase of the island, akaya, about 10 miles easth-east of Levuka, covers an . of about three square miles, has between 600 and 700 acres ted in coconuts, and a small 7 farm. Red deer roam Wakaya, have become something of a since their introduction about turn of the century, leir only redeeming feature is they are a source of a regular ly of venison for the labourers he island. ikaya is a peaceful little island, y in the news. But it hit the headlines in 1917 when Count von Luckner, commander of the wrecked German raider, See Adler, landed there. A European police officer and six Fijian policemen, all unarmed, took the Count into custody.

The island was one of the first sold to Europeans by King Cakobau.

This was in 1840, and the buyer was a Mr. Houghton, owner of the schooner, Currency Lass. Later Wakaya passed into the hands of Dr. Brower, then United States Consul in Fiji. Brower had for him as partner in this deal, Mr. Robert S. Swanston, secretary for Native Affairs in the Cakobau Government.

Brower, the first to introduce cattle to Fiji, imported several cows and a bull in 1858.

David Whippy, a well-known figure in Fiji history, established a crude sugar mill on Wakaya in 1862, and, although his product was not sought overseas, there was a steady home demand for plantation issues.

Mr. C. de Mouncey bought Wakaya some time in the 1920’5, and in 1932 sold it to Mr. R. B. S. Watson. Mr.

Watson used Wakaya, apart from developing its copra potential, as a base for research into the habits of big game fish in Fiji waters.

On his death the island passed to his daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Bentley.

FOOTNOTE : It would be extremely interesting to know how much Mr. Houghton paid Cakobau for the island 117 years ago.

Donning Flippers!

Plans For Attack On Cooks'

Coral Reefs

PREPARING himself for a projected programme of harbour and reef-passage improvement work, the Cook Islands energetic Public Works Department chief, Mr.

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The Cook Islands plans call for the laying of explosives under water; and experience in the Cooks has shown that there is a great deal more in the procedure than meets the eye.

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CAREERIST A WELL-BUILT six-footer, with a soft and a quiet manner who has not wasted his substance on a chequered career but has been a public servant for the full 30 years of his working life —that is Mr. Neil Thomson, Papua - New Guinea’s new Public Service Commissioner.

He was born in Scotland 48 years ago but at the age of six arrived in Australia with his parents who settled at Maitland, NSW. He matriculated at the East Maitland Boys’ High School and in his last rear there was school captain, and also captain of the football and cricket teams. He has never lost the love of sport he developed at school, and now, although bowls is his favourite pastime, he still occasionally indulges in something more strenuous. He had been a member of the Maroubra (Sydney) Bowling Club for four or five years, and is a member of the Sydney Cricket Ground, The latter is one membership he will not relinquish while he is in New Guinea.

His first position in the public service was as a clerk in the courthouse at Cessnock, a mining town on the Newcastle coalfields. For the next 14 years he held appointments as clerk of petty sessions and clerk in various parts of New South Wales, and also did relieving work.

In 1939 Mr. Thomson completed his law examinations in the course of study prescribed by the Solicitors Admission Board in NSW, and in March, 1942, was admitted asi solicitor of the Supreme Courth New South Wales.

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Mr. Thomson and his wife sailed for Port Moresby in the Bulolo on February 25.

To Conserve Pearlshell

IT may be necessary to impose restrictions on pearlshell fishing m Northern Australian waters to conserve the beds, says the Australian Minister for Primary Produce (Mr. W. McMahon). He ?u Id T J£ at ex Ports of pearlshell to the US earned more than 1,500,000 ooHars a year for Australia, while shell worth £206,000 was exported t° non-dollar countries. The industry was a valuable national asset which should be preserved.

Work On Rarotonga

Fruit Cool Store

ENDING years of discussion, work finally started in January on the foundations of the central fruit cool-store at Rarotonga. But, according to the official Cook Island press news, “it will be some considerable time before any boxing or framework rises above the ground.”

Most of the freezing machinery was installed two years ago, when the Administration’s new freezer and fresh food store was built. The export fruit cool-store will operate from most of the same machinery, and is intended as a holding store for fruit which matures between the arrivals of export ships.

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Sidelights on Problems of Population Control and Gold-Seeking One of the Old-Timers of Papua-New Guinea, Mr. Norman bite, of Wau, has been undergoing health treatment in New Zealand tely. To fill in the weary hours, he has been writing about New uinea for the NZ newspapers. Here are some interesting extracts.

ERE is apparently little canlibalism now, but up until 25 rears ago it was common lice. The reason for it? Simply, cute shortage of meat, e various tribes, speaking many d and different dialects, have ;orial boundaries, over which a ibouring tribe (unless they : the same language) venture irilous risk. Trespassers found hing for game, robbing gardens uit trees, are immediately atd; and the victims of battle — !, wounded or taken prisoner— prepared at once for cooking, neither salt nor refrigerator le is available for conservation »ses, it was a case of “eat as : as you can when you can.” ‘ absence of salt, I think, was f the greatest handicaps to the nee of these primitive neolithic people prior to the arrival of the white man. Even now, in regions not yet under control, the same miserable condition exists.

The island of New Guinea, the largest in the world with the exception of Greenland, is the home of sugar-cane; and some of the numerous varieties, strange to say, produce salt when subjected to burning. This variety is “pit pit.”

The natives cut and stack great heaps of it and set it alight. The ash residue has a definitely salty flavour and all hands just eat it as is. To us it has a gritty, earthy taste and is distinctly unpalatable.

IN some localities it is possible for a strong party to make a quick trip to the coast, where they gather old coconut husks, dried fronds, old wood, etc., that has been soaked by the sea and impregnated with salt. They burn this rubbish and carry the ashes back to the village.

Until the advent of the white men they had not advanced sufficiently to know that a simple process of dehydration by the sun would produce all the salt they needed.

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Along the valley floors, there is fertile soil where plenty of food could be produced with but little labour; but there is death down there because the enemy can approach unseen. He must stick to the mountain-top where ; approaching enemy can be seenr. fought off.

The going is hard on the but there are no mosquitoes an. malaria is not the scourge it is* the coastal native. Garden are for the most part poor, and) country has to be constantly : available.

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No popular method has been red to keep the sexes apart: the ilem is just as acute on the litlve hill-top as in Paris or lloomooloo. The unwanted inintrudes and, for the public , must be disposed of. dike the early Egyptians, they ot wait for natural birth. They expert abortionists and have, the centuries, evolved methods •inging about the desired event ig early pregnancy, lence came this fuzzy-headed, n-skinned, likeable chap? far as I am aware, there is uzzy hair on the east side of ■led Sea. It is the birthright le Negro type now occupying lof Africa. But the Negro is me of the accepted early inants of that continent. They mown to have existed in the toum region sometime during Mesolithic period and that is inly a long time ago. ;y apparently interbred freely the Caucasoid people of East i and could have crossed over r estern Asia at a very early For a virile people of athletic ure, instinctively inclined to at the drop of a hat, the sy by easy stages from Cape Drin, in Southern India, to tra presents no great problem, :rom Sumatra to north-west Guinea is practically only a ig job. the variations of the human 1 they probably contacted the migration route I have >ted are faithfully represented my localities in New Guinea 7. black skin and protruding if the Negro are common ti on the upper Markham and other regions. The almost European appearance of the 1 Bukau’s, the large hook- •f the Semitic types are to be with the Simban, and other and in the jet-back classical 3S of the Indian on Bougainnd adjacent islands. 7 are all there, advertising incestry; and, common to all, fuzzy hair. ►e are the Melanesians, mg most of the islands of the vest Pacific. Because of the tity of crowded Asia, their now is inextricably linked urs. )LD prospecting party tries all ming streams. ery native (“boy”) carries a ipproximately 50 lb. weight, oaded with food (“kaikai”), with camping gear, clothing ankets for the masters, and with rice, meat, tobacco, etc., : “boys”, and tools and other tals. A well-equipped party ' prospectors would run to 15 or 20 “boys.” oming to an untried stream, are downed, a hole sunk to bed-rock if possible, the white men panning the gravels thrown from the hole as it goes down, searching for an indication of the precious metal they are seeking.

If the location where the trial hole is sunk is near the mouth of the stream, only very few particles are expected and bed-rock is difficult to reach on account of the depth and seepage. If the indication is there, up-packs and push on up-stream towards its source where the bed-rock is not so deep.

It is desirable to seek a suitable camping spot not later than 2 p.m. guards may be posted to protect camp during the hours of darkness.

Sleeping shelters are erected, beds and mosquito nets made ready for the masters, “kaikai” prepared for A clearing has to be made so that the evening meal, and a couple of “gun boys” sent out to hunt anything they may find in the way of fresh meat.

Should you make camp within a mile of a village there is no need to contact them. They will know all about you and your arrival and will contact you, without doubt, within a couple of hours.

If the women-folk (“Mari’s”) arrive first, and unaccompanied by the men, they will have garden produce to sell and presumably all is well. The men generally arrive about half-an-hour later, in time to join in the bargaining.

Should they bring their arms (bows and arrows, spears and clubs) you have a show-down on the spot.

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LIMITED iy. and a spoken command to r personal “boy” will find you pped with rifle and revolver in mple of seconds, tie “shoot-boys” do not leave p until they get the all-clear i the leader of the party. They i appear with their shot-guns, the others with bows-andws, in remarkably short time, village will not be a big one. If as you would not be so close to ithout knowing all about what 1 of a welcome you may expect i them.

ERE is always a leader of the native party. The leader of the white man’s party must step to this native leader and, if wing the principle I advocate, a shot over his head for propala purposes before ordering all ( to be grounded, is unlikely the order will be garded because they know full that when the white man’s ton speaks, a man dies; and the snt moment in broad daylight ot the time for a trial of igth. the same, it was a pity you to fire that shot. It was necesand did the trick; but it carried it an insult and these men, iors all, may prove to be in mood. The chances then are trading for the native foods brought by the “mari’s” is ou: of the question and you will be obliged to feed off your own precious rice supply.

But the women have more influence in council than one would expect and if they refuse to carry the stuff back to the village the trade will begin, with the men standaloof while the “mari’s” shyly do the bartering. With the men being in ugly mood, neither knives nor tommy-hawks will be used in this particular trade and the “mari’s” will have to be satisfied with salt, beads, money or whatever small stuff you may have that is attractive to them.

You get a lot of “kaikai” for a pound of salt and, although the initial cost of it was not much, by the time you lug it over mountains week after week, it steadily increases in cost value.

THE trading finished, the villagers gone, the routine of camp carries on apparently as usual—but only apparently.

There are other villages in the vicinity. If your camping equipment and supplies are sufficiently attractive to induce the leaders to organise a combined attack, you are probably due for serious trouble, not at to-morrow’s dawn but the one following.

Decision is soon made. The party has not the numerical armed strength to engage the neighbourhood and, even so, such action is forbidden by the Administration.

You are unwelcome and must retire. (Continued Next Page) 73 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1957

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The procedure is simple. They enrol every possible man—and they are all warriors at heart the approach to the camp is made in the dark; and, although you have sentries posted at the four corners of the square clearing, you have no possible chance of holding the assault, which is always at break of day.

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Next time, probably in company with an Administration Patrol. The Patrol Officer will see to it that everybody behaves themselves, including the white man.

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Do Not Disturb

NE of the funny stories of Mr.

Barry Philp (Hotel Mocambo, Nadi), told to illustrate the difilties of hotelkeeping in Fiji: t was 8 a.m. at the reception desk; I a very irate guest was demandto be told why he had not been led at 5.30 a.m., so he could make ilane connection, which he had sed. he Fijian boy on night duty exined, carefully and very politely: went to call you, sar; but you e asleep,”

Beating Bureaucracy

I a gathering at Usher’s Blue Room, on February 1 (see PIM, Feb.), when Mr. Len Kirkby, ney manufacturer, proposed the Ith of Mr. Alec Haworth, director Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd., who to leave for Tahiti on retireit, he surprised Mr. Haworth’s ness friends by bringing to light sides of the latter’s character it which they knew little, ne was that he had been an rnationally-famous art appraiser ire coming to Australia from UK the 1930’5; and the other that gallant military record entitled to wear the ribbons of the ) and MC. lese and other tributes brought response from Mr. Haworth • he had always tried to deal y and squarely with clients and chants alike, but that he had one occasion done a bit of lie-dealing. It was this way: obert Gillespie Pty. Ltd., like iy other firms, was struggling g during the war years, hogand hampered by miles of red and a hundred different “con- A valued customer in Suva a request that, come hell or water, he had to have two s of brassieres by the next ship. )w, that necessary article of nine attire had a small strip lastic across the back, where it ms; and an Australian warcontrol prohibited the export ibber—all rubber, up to and filing elastic in clothing, an’t you see, that that inch or of elastic strap contains rubber,” haughtily told Mr. Haworth, illations are regulations, so you can’t send them.” tiat to do? Mr. Haworth re- -3d on the subject of brassieres, aally, he sent up another application to the authorities by a flatchested young office girl, and her request for an export permit for shipment to Suva excited no comment. Visualising a series of neat, round net doilies edged with coloured beads, the Customs clerk banged down his rubber-stamp. And away went the brassieres The application had carried the simple description: “288 Milk Covers!”

The Mail Must Go Through

I WAS speculating on the means by which PlM’s Christmas card came. First, a mechanical sorter I suppose, then a modern aircraft to Lae and a not-so-modern DCS.

Probably then an inter-island ship to Sohano and (last scene of all) a two-man canoe brings a savage in serge topped by a black beret (the police mail runner).

He presents a damp mail bag which you untie and extract therefrom your mail, re-tie it and hand back to said runner. He looks at the weather and opines that he will be lucky to get to the end of his coastal trip without being upset.

“Dis bloody kanu, too bloody small,” —quotes he and spurns it with his foot! However, he finally girds up his loins and steps into the canoe, muttering that he must be off and that a policeman’s lot is NOT a happy one!

Last heard of him as he clears the beach is his command to the two canoeists: “You two fela blanks must pull strong now. No good big rain find im me fela. Makim savi now!”

We are greatly shocked by this outburst but gather up the mail and go back to the house to read it.

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Oh, For The Peace Of

PARADISE!

LIFE gets more and more complicated in a big city, therefore it is pleasant to read of a society where direct action can sometimes still get direct results.

I was intrigued by the following message which appeared in a pre- Christmas issue of the Daily News, circulated in Nukualofa, Tonga: In accordance with the powers vested in him by Section 81 (1) and (2), Acting Minister of Police would like to see all drivers of motor vehicles licensed to carry passengers and who are holders of Liquor Permits, at his office at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, December 18.

What I would like to know is: Was a word to the wise sufficient?

The above notice was followed by this -even more intriguing admonition : As the Christmas season draws near, the public is once again reminded of the provisions of Section 3 (17), (18) and (19) of Chapter 35 of the Laws of Tonga, 1928, and Section 6 of the Act No. 10/1953 in which shouting, beating any drum, tin or tank without just cause, making any loud noise, singing on a truck, playing any musical instrument in any public way are strictly forbidden. The Police are empowered to arrest, without a warrant, offenders under these Sections.

It sounds like that thing the Americans label Paradise. But what I’d like to know is whether the Police really enforced the prohibitions. In spite of the fable to the contrary, a Pacific island can be one of the noisiest places on earth.

Different noises from those you encounter in the Big City. But still noises.

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PARADISE EVEN on Palmerston atoll, one of the most self-sufficient and unspoiled islands in the Cook Group, disputes and squabbles sometimes break out among the 80 inhabitants, and now, for the first time in the history of the atoll and the Marsters clan, a member cf the community has been appointed Commissioner of the Cook Island Court.

The honour goes to Ned Marsters (pictured), the white-b ear d e d patriarch who for years has been Palmerston’s unofficial Resident Agent and the recognised head of the three Marsters families.

Palmerston has now been given a proper court and .legal procedure, and Ned will be assisted in maintaining law and order by three honorary policemen, each representing one of the families.

The policemen, Bob Marsters, Tutai Marsters, and John Dick Marsters, although unpaid, have the same powers as regular Cook Islands policemen. There is no jail at Palmerston but it seems unlikely that fines will prove inadequate punishment for future offences. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY M A R C H . 1867

Miss Hibiscus from Fiji U The Colonial Secretary of Fiji, Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart, who was to have gone on leave early in 1957, has had his departure postponed until July. This probably is concerned with the future movements of the Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG. Sir Ronald’s term of office in Fiji will expire in October; but efforts to retain his services for a further term in Fiji are being made (see Feb. PIM).

Mr. Stoddart has been not only the Governor’s Deputy, but also a loyal and helpful friend, and he also is held in high esteem in Fiji. It is expected, however, that he himself is due for promotion—he is regarded as now in line for a minor Governorship.

Memories Of Papua’s Pioneers

Mr. Charles R. Baldwin

By J. Nixonwestwood.

ONE of the early independent storekeepers to start business in Port Moresby was Chdrles R. Baldwin.

He was originally from the North of England and, like a lot of other Englishmen, he wandered out to Australia, on to New Guinea, and commenced business opposite the old B. P. place, next door to the Moresby Hotel.

He built up an excellent connection, but was (or appeared to be) unlucky in his choice of managers.

Finally, he was able to induce one of B.P.’s men in Thursday Island to take over the management.

From then on his business went ahead.

Mr. A. G. Smyth, the new manager, put Baldwin’s affairs in proper shape and helped build the trade considerably. They acted as agent for a good number of planters, traders and shipping firms.

In the latter capacity they did the whole of the work connected with the KPM ships van Linschoter and van Waerwijck. CRB also owned a schooner called Gleaner, as well as taking care of all Osborne Brothers’ Dubuna Copper Mine products and representing other men on the Laloki field.

WITH such a good manager, Charlie Baldwin was able to meet all and sundry at Tom McCrann’s pub. When he had “one over the seven” he became argumentative and difficult; and, being only a small man, he always ran the risk of “stopping one”.

But most of the frequenters of Tom’s knew Charlie and his ways; and, as soon as he got too talkative, someone, or Tom himself, would shepherd him home.

A recent arrival, who reached Port on the same steamer as that on which “Yorkie” Booth made his entry, was a Swiss (later to become a wellknown character), Harry Bakker, He was called “Handsome Harry”, but he was about as ugly as it was possible to be.

He was small and hefty, and could use his fists to good advantage, as “Yorkie” found to his cost. They both came per the Dutch boat from, so they said, Darwin. There —so Harry told the folk—he had had trouble over smuggling. Why he was allowed to land in Port is a mystery; but land he did and, being a handyman— engineer, etc. — he soon found employment. But he was too often in Tom’s bar, and changed his jobs frequently.

As a newcomer, he did not know of Baldwin’s ways.

HARRY was invited to join Bse win in a drink, and in mn drinks, until they got to discs sions; then to arguing; and finsi into holts. From gentle words tU started bawling each other o until the noise was too much even Tom McCrann.

He sent his stepson for European gaoler (Mr. Hon Hides), who brought the natit in-charge, Kimai, with him, help. As the two now excited m refused to be calm, Hides s Kimai did a thing hitherto unhee of, and took both culprits to gaol at Elakona and locked thl in separate but adjoining cells.

Horace felt that, if they spent night there, and were able to sleJ they would be all right next moc ing. He was really very sorry\ have to lock up a European, bui was the only solution.

No sooner were they in the bunks, than they both went intd deep sleep, and Horace and Kiii went their various ways.

Next morning, Charlie, not knc; ing where he was yelled out: “Hi Where in the hell is my tea?”

There was no response.

Again he bawled, and this tid he awakened “Handsome”, v replied: “You silly old b —, , won’t get any tea here. You in quod!”

Even then the fact did not dss on Charlie. He only yelled loucj Harry, being unable to stand i more of the racket said: “Shut you silly old geezer—tea is served in gaol”.

When Charlie at last understj what Harry had said, and know* that a man like Harry could nob his guest, he realised where was, and started to cry.

As soon as Hides came out, , let them both go; and at the ss time he told them (Charlie particular) that he did not likes do what he had done, but as ft) were both so quarrelsome, he I no option. He asked them to have themselves in future.

In his report to the Residt Magistrate Mr. Hides sugges that, with the influx of so mu Europeans the time had come? employ an official constable. To t suggestion both the Judge and Administrator agreed. Later, constable arrived.

Charlie must have been prop«( impressed, because from that t:d on, he was an admirable citize; t According to official informat, it is estimated that West) Samoa’s Satapuala airport, and operation of the TEAL air serw produced an estimated direct ; indirect revenue of approximau £37,000 for the year ending Octo 31, 1956. This revenue included £sc in taxation paid to the Governmu and money spent by passengers j crews plus an estimated amountj £3450 from the sale of postt. stamps.

Miss Liebling Hoeflich, Fiji’s Miss Hibiscus (whose fortnight in Australia last month was her prize for winning the Miss Hibiscus 1956 contest) spent an afternoon in Sydney doing the rounds of the Public Library, Art Gallery, and the Museum. In this picture she poses for the camera while sitting on a map of Australia in the foyer of the Public Library. A little later, it was announced in the Sydney newspapers that, on the eve of her departure for Suva, Miss Hoeflich had been induced to return to Sydney, later on, to undergo a “screen test”—view Hollywood. 78 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHK

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A Glimpse of Forgotten History By Lew Friday lIGHTEEN years before the Con- I dominium government took shape; eighteen years before » group could boast of any sort national or international entity art from the Joint Franco- Ltish Naval Commission’s shadowy ,e. the New Hebrides was the me of the most farcical appointnt in the history of the British nsular Service. for unlike Samoa, or Tonga, Fiji before coming a British lony, there was nobody who lid be called king or reign- ; chieftain to whom a Consul ild properly be accredited, ret in the year 1888, Hugh milly, CMG, who had been one Sir Arthur Gordon’s men in Fiji, I who was subsequently, to the naging of his health, Deputy nmissioner for the Pacific and t Acting-Governor of Papua (bee William MacGregor’s arrival), 5 told he had been appointed M’s Consul in the New Hebrides.

Jthough the news staggered him, appointment was made by the eign Office on the recommendai of the Colonial Office, which I been aroused by the tioeuvres of the French and the deeds of the blackbirders. [ don’t wish to go into the isular Service, I would rather na i n in New Guinea,” was nilly’s reaction; but he wrote to his mother that though the isular Service was looked on as efuge for the destitute, he suped he would have to put his le into his empty pocket, and *ptrrived at Bowen, Queensland, he told by Sir A. Musgrave that commission awaited him at Govnent House, Sydney, and there went. But it had not arrived at ney, so he set out for Fiji, to )rt to the Governor, Sir J. B. irston. A vain errand, and he to go back to Sydney to get Iter all. He was asked to pay expenses of his Fiji trip out lis own pocket. ut before the commission was in hands, he cabled the Secretary tate in London: “Am I appointed sul, New Hebrides? If so, to m am I accredited, where and am I to live, what means have visiting different parts of the rict, to whom do I report?” He already visited the group, where had found some four or five Jrable houses at Havannah bour, the calling place for ships before Vila was developed, and a missionary or two dotted about in other parts.

“Do they expect me to camp all alone in the swamps, as they did when they sent me to New Britain?” he wondered.

These questions were pertinent, yet London had no reply to them.

“To my cable,” he ruefully remarked, “I received no answer; and as I have heard since, the reason was that they did not know how to answer it. . . The only instructions I received related to fees, which fees in my then existing state I had no legal power of levying. Nor did the Inland Revenue stamps, by which alone a Consul is allowed to collect fees, reach me till December 27, 1889, on which date I also received telegraphic news of the abolition of the Consulate office.

The flags, stamps and seal, which were advised on July 10, 1888, were received seventeen months after that date—on November 30, 1889.”

Romilly’s caustic comment was: Hugh H. Romilly has left his mark on the geography of Papua—Port Romilly in the Gulf District —but few Territorians know anything of his story. In 1884 what is now known as the Territory of Papua was declared a British Protectorate (and four years later became a British Colony). Soon after the Protectorate was declared. Sir Peter Scratchley was appointed its first Special Commissioner and on board the small steamship "Governor Blackall" with him when he first proceeded to his new charge in 1885, was H. H. Romilly as Deputy Commissioner.

Sir Peter was in Papua only a few months when he succumbed to "New Guinea fever"; Romilly took over from him, in an acting capacity, but after about a year the Honorable John Douglas arrived and carried on until the arrival of Sir William MacGregor, the first Administrator of the new Colony of British New Guinea.

Presumably Romilly remained in Papua under Douglas until the arrival of Sir William, as his subsequent history is taken up from 1888.

Romilly's career makes one thing clear, however: the South West Pacific had not then divided into small water-tight compartments and men were moving around freely from Fiji to New Guinea or the New Hebrides.

“From these facts and dates it can be seen that the natural disadvantages and difficulties in the way of establishing a Consulate in this group are not greater than the artificial official impediments with which the Consul has to contend.”

What was Romilly—a conscientious man with a good record of service—doing during the year and 40 days of his Consular job? As there was no house available in the New Hebrides in which he could live in accordance with the traditions of Consular life, and as he did not wish to take lodgings in, and fly the British flag over, the house of any of the traders (where it was pretty certain that illegal practices, such as the sale of arms, ammunition, and alcohol went on practices he would be quite powerless to prevent) , he decided to live in Noumea, touring the Hebrides as occasion offered in any small inter island steamer available.

It was an uncomfortable decision; the French, anxious to grab the group for themselves, would obviously regard him as a spy, and in actual fact the Noumea news- A street in Port Vila 80 years ago. 79 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY M A R C H , 1957

papers expressed the view that he was there under suspicious circumstances and should be turned out of the country.

The French Post Office, he found, was opening and sometimes detaining his mail. There was, of course, a British Consul in Noumea accredited to the New Caledonian Government, the well-known E. L.

I.ayard, to whom Romilly could go for advice.

The Noumea in which he arrived, Romilly speaks of as “not a bad little place, but, of course it is only a vast prison, so the society consists chiefly of naval, military, and civil officials.” But soon he is saying; “I detest this place. There is not a decent Frenchman in it. They have invited me to their club, but as it seems to me only for the purpose of being studiously rude.

The Governor has taken no notice of my call, and, in fact, the whole situation is unpleasant.”

However, he found a sympathiser -—“my great, and indeed my only friend here is Count Lakerstein, the Italian Consul. He helps me with my work, and is a mine of information on every subject. Our friendship began on common grounds. He hates every one in the town but me, and I hate every one in the town but him.”

He was fortunate in finding a “nice little house” with an English landlady, but had no luck with servants, in fact one of them tried to kill the landlady, and then tried to kill himself.

Things improved for a while with the arrival of the new Governor, the rich Noel Pardon (who was to entertain Robert Louis Stevenson a few years later at Government House). At his first reception, Pardon treated the English with marked courtesy, almost ignoring the Germans and Italians, which made Romilly think, taking into account the cordial relations of the mixed Naval Commission in the Hebrides and the punitive operations they were carrying out together, that some new friendly step was contemplated for the protection of the group.

By February, however, Pardon was complaining of the British Government having committed a breach of faith, and Romilly telegraphed Lord Salisbury.

The wildest dissipation available in Noumea at this time was listening to the convict band which played three days a week. The band was conducted by a gentleman who had been a wealthy physician in Paris, who had murdered his wife’s lover and then his wife by cutting off their heads.

One of Romilly’s visits to the New Hebrides coincided with Christmas: “a fearful and wonderful sight.

Thank God it only comes once a year! The French and English had a pitched battle—luckily they were all too drunk to shoot straight.”

Port Sandwich, on Malekula, seems to have been the site of this Christian celebration. t Mr. C. A. Stinson succeeds Mr.

W. G. Johnson as chairman of the Fiji Visitors Bureau. Mr. Johnson resigned from the Bureau at the end of last year because of pressure of other business, and because he felt it was time new “blood” was given a chance. t Samu Bale, a young Fijian fisherman, had his right arm amputated after he was attacked by a shark. Samu was wading through the water carrying a speared fish when the shark attacked. It was the first shark attack in Suva area for more than 30 years.

SOCIALIST How gaily do my little boys Improve the shining hour, With putting coffee in the tea i And strewing round the flow* How busily they spend their To polish half a chair; And when they’ve done their W task They leave the polish there.

How happily I follow them And pick up this and that, To straighten tablecloths \ flowers, Or places people sat.

I quite enjoy my little tasks, I’m happy in my way, It’s just that I do all the work,, And THEY collect the pay!

Noelle Masom

t Discovery of an anchor recei; at Pitcairn by Commander Irv Johnson (of the famous Amerii ship Yankee ) led to a spates letters in the correspondes columns of Sydney Morning Her-\ It was claimed to be the ano of the Bounty. But Mr. Erie Wild of Palm Beach, Sydney, in the letter (when argument on the s ject was closed) advanced theory that the anchor was fij a ship which had anchored .

Bounty Bay, and then had had) slip cables and run for it when weather broke. Some argued tt Bounty did not take an anchor Pitcairn.

HMS "Miranda" (a patrol ship from the Sydney station) in Port Sandwich, Malekula, at the time of the Franco- British Commission. 80 MARCH, 1 9 5 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[?]gle Drums

Ie Day The

General Came

JRING the New Guinea campaign in the Markham and Ramu valleys in the last war, mtery broke out among the ves and, to some extent, spread he troops. However, great care strict supervision prevented its ad to any extent and all autions were strictly observed, ime the time when the native ur moved from Kumbarum to irea closer to the front line and Medical Assistant had six 5 of dysentery in the labour > send them to the base camp nt a possible spreading of the ise as the base was clear of the time, so he decided to take i with him to the new area.

I other personnel walked over i jeep and trailer were provided tie medical gear and immobile nts. The EMA settled his atients comfortably, with two y rice drums, well covered, to us sanitary cans for the trip i should have taken about an was unfortunate that General ey had chosen the same day ake a visit to the front time, brought with him sufficient to fill two jeeps. } road was narrow and on ig to the foot of the hill, the &1 jeep with trailer was ed by a flustered MP and 1 off the road. The General )n his way, stopping now and to speak to the troops lining oad. He got past OK but his jeep bogged in the road il hundred yards back.

The General’s jeep disappeared round the bend. The EMA waited, but the six poor patients could not. Regular visits to the drums and agonised expressions were the order of the day. At last, taking it that the lesser of the two evils of spreading the disease or getting into trouble for going on without permission, was to get into trouble anyhow, the EMA told the driver to get moving.

To say that the driver was anxious to get away was putting it mildly. He shot off rapidly, raising sufficient of a headwind to purify the air, but unfortunately the General had waited round the bend for his staff. On seeing a jeep, he went on but cast many enquiring glances back as did those who were travelling with him.

Then up came the staff jeep.

There was no room to pass but they ran very close to the trailer —for about two minutes —and then dropped back some distance.

Guards along the road sprang to attention and presented arms, the General saluting as he slowly moved along. The Medical jeep followed; the guards looked amazed and came to attention while the patients visited the drums very regularly. Then came the staff jeep, containing Brigadiers and Colonels, but they only got a wave or a shout of laughter, Past the camps and on to near Brigade HQ went the convoy, with the staff jeep dropping back further every moment. The turn off to the new labour camp came into view with a number of natives standing by to help with the gear. Seconds after stopping, the jeep and trailer were unloaded and shot off to became lost in the crowd at the nearby depot unseen by the staff or the General.

The matter of where the jeep went to was carefully kept from the “Visiting Firemen” but some months later the EMA received word that he had been mentioned in despatches and he is not sure to this day whether it had anything to do with the trip to the camp above Dumpu.

DAIKA Amphibious Career in the Big Firm GEORGE A. CLARKE, popular chief representative of the Borns Philp organisation in Rabaul, New Guinea, has had a long connection with Pacific islands although he is still on the right side of 50.

He was born in Manly, a Sydney seaside suburb, but as a very young child went with his parents to Mapia Island (made famous recently by the resurrected history of His Majesty O'Keefe), off the Dutch New Guinea coast, where his father was manager of a German-owned plantation.

There was no radio in those days, ships called from Sourabaya only every two months.

When war broke out in 1914 the Clarkes did not know for some time and then they returned to Australia.

Young George went to school at Drummoyne and at the age of 15 began his working life in the head office of Burns Philp and Co.

Ltd., at 7 Bridge Street, Sydney. Nine years later he decided to put to sea—as assistant purser in the old "Mataram", later graduating purser to serve in several BP ships including "Macdhui", "Montoro" and "Malaita".

After six years at sea he returned to dry land again—joining the Rabaul branch of Burns Philp where he remained until enlisting in the AIF in 1940.

The war over, it was back to Rabaul as shipping-manager of the new subsidiary, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. He became branchmanager at Rabaul about four years ago.

The amphibious Mr. Clarke is a keen follower of Rabaul sport—particularly football and baseball. He is one of the trustees of the New Guinea Club and of the RSSAILA.

He is married and he and the very charming Mrs. Clarke have one daughter. Miss Clarke is eight.— BRETT HILDER.

A Then And Now Story

For Those In Peril On The Sea BY AMEL A FEW years ago, to go from Suva to Savu Savu, 120 miles away, on the island of Vanua Levu, meant a somewhat arduous sea trip of anything from 12 to 24 hours.

Fortifying oneself with all known preventatives of seasickness, one stepped jauntily aboard the puddlejumper in Suva, and waved a fond farewell to all one’s friends on the wharf. Later—much later—having miraculously escaped the perils of the deep, one crawled miserably off the ship at Savu Savu, feeling like a sick cockroach, looking like Death warmed up, and firmly convinced that the best way to return to Suva was to swim.

Or to fly.

Today, the sea journey is'still available for those who love the sea in all its moods, but for those who don’t there is the Fiji Airways plane several times a week.

Belonging in the latter category, we looked up flying schedules, and we booked our seats on the next plane.

On the tick of 1.30 p.m., an Airways bus took us on a bone-shaking ride to Nausori airport. Time: 30 minutes.

At the neat airport building, bright outside with tropical shrubs, and flowers, and decorated inside with enticing travel posters, maps and photographs, we had a heartening cup of tea.

Then up came the Drover aircraft, shining silver with red trimmings, red upholstery with curtains to match; Fijian fans tucked beside each seat; and “Lifebelts Under The Seats”.

We boarded the plane, heavyweights in front. I sat near the tail, with old Fred for company.

It was his first flight.

The plane taxied onto the runway, and the pilot tested the engines, preparatory to takeoff . . . the first, the second and then the third.

Old Fred, who had taken a wee drop of something to keep out the cold, learned over and tapped me on the shoulder. “Doesn’t sound as if she’s goin’ to start,” he muttered, hoarsely.

“We’ll be 0.K.” I reassured him.

“The takeoff is so smooth, you won’t realise we’ve left the ground.”

“Realise it all right,” said Fred, moodily, five minutes later, cocking a nervous eye out the window.

“Ground’s way down there.”

The plane roared off into the cloudless blue sky, over the miles of shining sea, and the string of islands which marked the route to Savu Savu. Some of them were very small, darkly green, incredibly beautiful, surrounded by golden sand, glowing lagoon and a lacy collar of cruel coral reefs.

Among the large islands was Ovalau, seamed and craggy, with Levuka, the old capital of Fiji, nestling toylike at the base of the mountains. Old Fred had lived in Levuka for many years.

“Look!” I said to him, pointing down, “There’s Levuka.”

Fred stretched his neck, gave a quick look, and shook his head.

“No,” he said, decidedly, “ ’tisn’t Levuka.”

Ann, sitting in front of him, twisted round, jabbed a finger at the window, and yelled, “Hey, Fred!

There’s Levuka!”

Fred had a longer look, grinned at me apologetically, and said sheepishly, “So ’tis. Looks different from here.”

Halfway to Savu Savu, clouds obscured the sun, and a dark bank of rain pressed down on Vanua Levu’s high mountains, forming a backdrop to the magnificent panorama of Savu Savu Bay.

Feasting our eyes on it, we almost missed glimpsing Nawi Island, and the scattered township of Nakama, as the plane flipped up and over the hills, and landed gently on the airstrip. Time: One hour.

“Best ride I ever had,” declared Fred, happily. “Better’n a boat time. In a boat,” he mused, “ just be staggering past NaselsJ “Yes,” I added feelingly, we’d be turning our faces from j and drink, and the company o:( fellow-sufferers.”

Pim Crossquiz No. 84

Solution Page ACROSS I.—Who led the mutiny on the "Bounty"? 8. —Where was the last meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin? 9. —What is the title of a Spanish royal princess? 10. —What important German building was burnt by the Nazis in 1933? 12. —Which river of Somerset and Devon flows into the English Channel? 13. —What is inflammation of a narrow cavity of the skull leading to the nose? 16. —What fairy-tale character was given literary form by Charles Perrault? 18. —Who invented wireless telegraphy? 19. —On which lake did a naval battle take place between America and England? 20. —What is the correct name for a badger's burrow? 21. —ln heraldry, what means "on the left side"?

DOWN 1. —What is the main ingredient in chewing gum? 2. —Who founded the settle- J ment of Singapore? 3. —Which city was once called Yerba Buena? 4. —What is the term for letters that slope to the right? 5. —What is the term for an insect adult stage but still immature? 6. —What is London's "Street of Ink" 7. —What is the term for the southern of the continent of South America? 11.—What word describes invertebra e 14. —On which peninsula is Spairi Portugal? 15. —The Three Musketeers were Porthos and ? 17. —What is the longest river in R Miss V. Bradley and Mr. K. Connolly were married in Port Moresby at [?] Church, on January 24. (Photo: Papuan [?] 82 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

[?]gh Captain Defended His [ ?] to Suwarrow

Moke-Out Ended The Siege Of

Anchorage Islet

By J.P.S.

WARROW atoll a sprinkling of insignificant islets around 20 square miles of reef-studded on, and no indigenous popula- , Yet surely no comparable id anywhere has had such an aordinarily interesting history, probably no year of that history more eventful than 1876. lis is brought to mind by a ; just published in New Zealand ~ H. and A. W. Reed, a publishfirm which specialises in irical journals of New Zealand the Pacific Islands. Entitled, Mair Family, and written by Andersen and G. C. Petersen, luches on the Pacific wanderof Henry Abbot Mair, one ber of this interesting family, was on the scene when a part iwarrow’s colourful history was ted in September, 1876.

December, 1874, the Auckland of Henderson and Macfarlane a Captain H. B. Sterndale as mger in their 84-ton brigantine • (Captain Bower) to look over i trading possibilities in the s. Prospects seemed good and ain Sterndale, with his wife, a foreman named Peter Petersen, H. A. Mair and possibly others, remained at Suwarrow to set up headquarters there bn Anchorage Islet.

From a perusal of Auckland newspapers of the day it is evident that a difference of opinion quickly developed between Captain Sterndale and the firm, which looked on him merely as a manager. Captain Sterndale, as soon as he saw the possibilities, claimed that Suwarrow —which was not placed under British sovereignty until April, 1889 —was his and not Henderson and Macfarlane’s. The legal status of the island being what it was, the firm looked on the matter as a domestic affair and dealt with it in the manner of the day. More of that in a moment.

After landing at Suwarrow, Captain Sterndale and his party lost no time in erecting a substantial dwelling and a store. They soon had gardens and fruit trees of various kinds, also horses, sheep, goats, and pigs, established and thriving.

Late in 1875, the brand-new 36ton Auckland schooner Kriemhilda was chartered by Henderson and Macfarlane to recruit labour for Suwarrow at Manihiki, and seems to have remained in the area, based on Suwarrow, to at least September, 1876.

First excitement came on June 21 that year when the 223-ton American barque Onward, Captain J. S.

Black, with nine crew and a cargo of 257,000 ft of lumber, struck the reef—about 8.30 p.m. The vessel had been bound from Puget Sound to Noumea, the cargo being consigned to Higginson, Morgan and Co. there. The vessel, which was owned by Renton Holmes and Co., of San Francisco, soon began to break up.

Fortunately, the crew were able to remain with the ship until daylight, when they made a perilous landing on the reef in heavy surf with floating baulks of timber everywhere. They were greatly surprised to see a boat coming across from Anchorage Islet to pick them up, for they imagined that Suwarrow was uninhabited. The Ryno arrived the following day from Rakahanga, bound Auckland, and took the castaways off the scene. But the wreck gave Sterndale much valuable timber.

Two months later, on August 2, the Auckland schooner Peerless, recently purchased by Henderson and Macfarlane, also went on the atoll and became a total loss. This vessel had an interesting earlier history, having been seized from Colonel Steinberger, of Samoa, virtual ruler there for a while, by (Continued on Page 90) or Those of Little Faith... e accompanying drawing, if . over the Christmas card pubi on page 77, January PIM, show you what is claimed to le face of Christ—even if you not been able to see it your- ; “rough” for the sketch was ied by Mr. A. G. Shearer, PO 55, Suva, Fiji, who receives a fee for it. Mr. C. Pocock, of ?y, who was the first to send 3 correct solution, has his PIM ription extended by six months. eral other readers have sent elutions —but, alas, too late.

Christmas card was sent to us rs. Ruth Kempthorne, wife of Bishop in Polynesia, and the that went with the card was 3 effect that a Chinese photoer had taken a photograph of ig snow with black patches rth showing through. When eveloped the photograph he urprised to see in it the face rist. The problem was: Could 3e the Face?) 83 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

This Month's New Reading The Benevolent Occupants AFTER August 29, 1940, things were never quite the same again on Baressa. Even greater changes came at a still later date but that is to anticipate the climax of The Occupying Power (by Gwyn Griffin).

Baressa was a blow n-a way, Italian island colony, 600 miles out in the Arabian Sea from Italian Somaliland but existing on no map except that of the extraordinary Mr.

Griffin’s considerable imagination.

It is possible, however, that the story which he tells could have been founded on numerous benevolent victor-ships of World War 11.

In August, 1940, the British came to occupy Baressa and the bizarre and entertaining events of the next five years are woven into a story that grows upon the reader as it moves skilfully to its surprising ending.

The trouble with this small Occupying Power was that it had stayed too long on the island; it was, collectively, in the language of the AIF, troppo.

There was the British military governor, Euan Lemonfield, a barrister in private life, who began his reign as a plain Major and ended his career as “Your Excellency,” surrounded by native troops in white and gold uniforms: young Captain Kellermann, who in France had been given the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for something he did not do, and who wished for nothing more than to find sanctuary on the island; Sergeant Brinsmead, the Governor’s right hand man who kept pet shops in London (although he did not like pets); the young signalman who fell in love with Silvana; and the young engineer officer Paige (who was a Lord) who so closely identified himself with his duties as Police Chief that he contemplated changing his nationality—after the war.

But if the Occupying Force liked Baressa, Baressa liked the Force.

The island had never been so prosperous and both parties would have been more than content if the Occupation had gone on for ever.

But the years were not entirely without shocks. The first was when the General arrived about the end of the second year and for a week disrupted the normal serenity of the island by planning fortifications and playing soldiers. The second was the discovery of a German spy.

And the last was the arrival of a cruiser escorting troop ships which had been damaged in a freak storm.

The coming of the troop ships was the end of the idyll—but by then it was too late for those who had dwelt so long in the mirageworld of Occupied Baressa —and their reaction produces an extraordinary conclusion to the story.

This entertaining b(Dok would make an excellent movie. As well as an ingenious plot, its characters are just sufficiently larger-thanlife to suit the motion-picture medium. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 18/9.) You Probably Need a Dictionary HAVE you ever read a dictionary?

It can be done for diversion, as well as for occasional instruction.

Once, long years ago, this reviewer, marooned in the wilds of New Guinea, solitary and temporarily without current reading matter other than one pocketedition dictionary, learnt that the can make much better entertainment than reading the jam-tin labels (another traditional literary pastime under such circumstances) .

Since that time she has been seif-elected president of the Society of Dippers into Dictionaries.

Recently, among our books for review, there has come to us a New English Dictionary, published by Collins the large, great-greatgrandson of that small New Guinea pocket version.

How does one review a dictionary?

By employing the technique of the Dippers’ Society: We let the book fall open at will, and get page 786 amongst the “P’s.” Here we go: pterygoid, pterylosis, ptochocracy, Ptolemy, ptomaine, ptosis, ptyalin, pub. . . .

We imagine that few of our readers do not know the meaning of “pub.” But did they know that “pterygoid” means resembling a bird’s wing; or that “pterylosis” is the arrangement of a bird’s feathers; or that “ptochocracy” is a government of beggars?

Everyone needs a dictionary and everyone needs a new dictionary about every decade to take care of the new words, technical and otherwise, ,that are continually being added to the English language.

Collins’ New English has 1,200 pages of dictionary, a section devoted to common foreign words and phrases, a section of information about Australia and New Zealand (including a dictionary of colloauial terms), a coloured World Atlas, customary abbreviations, ceremo. forms of address, weights measures and a great deal of oo general information in si nr volume about the size of a large novel. (Published in Great Britain by CO Australian price, 31/-.) Preparatory Class AN episode in premature ao , hood is the theme of a novel by a young man cs; Douglas Fairbairn. A Man’s W is the teenage love story of G© Fox, a cabin-boy on an Amen millionaire’s yacht, and Chris who is forced to be a hostess im bar of her wicked aunt.

George finally goes back America and is sent to school by millionaire, but that takes up 11 pages in the last chapter, rest of the story takes place the French Riviera in an ate phere where sin, sophistication j unpredictable millionaires abou An entertaining enough piecs nonsense which leaves us won ing whether the author intendeJ for nothing more than a lit© hors d’oeuvre, or whether he acti: meant it as a piece of serious t ing. (Published by Wm. Heinemann, Ltd. tralian price, 13/3.) Picture Book of Scotland A BOUT 40 full-page colour pH graphs of Scotland’s sw beauty spots is the basis ofi Heritage of Scotland In Coloun There is an introductory se* and notes on the illustration!

John Kerr, and the picture bon printed in the Netherlands Angus and Robertson LtdJ Sydney.

It would make a suitable gifi a Scots friend, or would be of terest to anyone who had vi Scotland, or hoped to do so. 0 tralian price, 24/-).

Mr. Clune Goes Wandering Australian author f Clune has temporarily des* his bushrangers and gj Roaming Round New Zealand..

This is Clune at his most ebuli Apparently having digested » piece of tourist literature ever ten about New Zealand, he foe it up with three months intes travel and study and then spill! lot in 320 pages, plus photograf As complete a guide for tox in New Zealand as we have i 84 MARCH. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HI

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COMPLETE BAR - in every bottle don’t say GIN say- Gilbey’s written specially for Australians, , Australian, by an Australian (wv knows everyone by their ftf names).

You will also get complete statist* of everything Mr. Clune sees, hes; or smells, plus a plug for Holcb cars and Ampol petroleum.

There appears to be no way prevent Frank Clune from writir books of instructions for his fell!

Australians (or, as he would put; people from “the land of N' Kelly”).

Thousands of them like it, course. (Published by Angus and Robertson, I Australian price, 25/-.) A Little Business of Their Own ALL businesses seem good fr«the outside looking in. Butt small country newspaper, view from the same position looks b( of all. This is a pipe-dream i dulged in by crack newspapernr (and women) the world over —ai by others not so crack; just crack: Minding Our Own Business, Charlotte Paul, will probably appn to those who are fatally attract by ink and newsprint, more thr to those whose chosen metier selling groceries (for instanc« However, there are sufficient in tt former category to provide mo than an adequate number of read»J for this book.

When Charlotte Paul married Groshell during the war she w assistant foreign news editor of) Chicago newspaper and Ed w news editor for the same new paper. Five years later she had U come a successful freelance wrii of short stories and novels, he hr gone into public relations. Tb had, between them, a good incom no debts, two small children and farm. They also had a hankerii to buy their own business and “ their own boss.” (“Work when want, go fishing whenever like. . . ”) The business, of course, cov be of only one kind —a small, weef country newspaper.

They finally found what tb could get for the money they cov raise—if it was not exactly wh they wanted—in Snoqualmie, Was ington State. The climate was ve wet and the ramshackle old buu ing that housed the anc i e machinery that produced t Snoqualmie Valley Record (circ lation 1,800) leaked like a sieve.

Cost of the business was $30,00 on which they made a down-pa ment of $8,700 Five years lai they were still in business, althour they had not paid off their deb They had a new building and son new plant but they didn’t wo 86 MARCH, 19 5 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

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Cables: ROBERGILL 54a Pitt Street, Sydney G.P.O. Box 7011 ben they wanted; nor go fishing len they liked.

They were still working about 18 lurs a day, seven days per week, id they still had not been able put themselves on their own pay- -11.

Ed had learned to operate a lotype—to fill in when they were nporarily minus a regular erator; and also to work the printl press, to backstop for a machinist whom they were likewise as ■quently minus.

Charlotte doubled as office girl, jorter, subscription clerk and iture writer, and occasionally >ught off a welcome if erratic n-ary coup in the outside world, * proceeds of which helped pay ■ newsprint or the salaries of the ed staff. Even the two youngsters, iv 10 and nine respectively, bene part of the outfit, fhey were wiser, poorer but ppy. As their friends were fond pointing out: At least they were lir own bosses. it times Charlotte’s account of ir early years of minding their n business runs close to nestic bathos; sometimes it is arious but overall it is an extnely entertaining story of the uliar madness that afflicts most irspapermen: the madness of ating to own your own little mtry weekly. oblished by Heinemann, Ltd. ralian price, 22/6.) Old Friends in New Wardrobes THE small paper-backed reprint book is one of the modern literary inventions that has been a great boon to the reading public —particularly to the reading public of the Islands where expensive cloth-bound books need special care if they are not to deteriorate.

The best of the world’s books now appear in these cheap editions.

Passed on from hand to hand, each book has many readers. As the companions of long journeys, they can be left behind for the next wayfarer in plane, ship or hotel.

We have received from Collins this month, four new titles recently added to their Fontana Books; REACH FOR THE SKY: Paul Brickhill’s best seller about the legless Battle of Britain pilot, Wing Commander Douglas Bader. This remarkable story about a remarkable man has been made into a motion picture as was Brickhill’s earlier Dam Busters (which sold in 87 CIF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY _ M A R C H , 1957

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Sydney Agents : NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., Plantation House, 197 Clarence Street (near King Street) Ilions when reprinted in the per edition). Brickhill, an Ausilian, is regarded as the most sucssful non-fiction writer of the gsent day. rHE CROCODILE HUNT: First Wished in 1954 under the title, ocodile Fever, it is another nontion story of adventure. Written a Canadian ex-newspaperman ■ned book writer, Lawrence Earl, 3ut a young South African, Bryan mpster, who after serving in the ddle East and the Mediterranean ring World War 11, set himself f in business as a professional codile hunter on the Zambesi ;h below and above Victoria Falls, mpster told his story to . Earl in i latter’s flat in London, and Earl 5 probably been no closer to •ica than that, but he has folred Dempster’s story faithfully 1 has presented this part of ica authentically enough. Howr. we very much doubt whether npster was, as is claimed, the t professional crocodile hunter the world. The history of the 3 around Papua and New Guinea I the Northern Territory who duce the raw material for the iiry handbag trade seems to go k further than 1948.

He Murder Of Roger

KRO Y D. One of Agatha istie’s first Poirot mystery stories nd still probably one of the best. it published in 1926, when the eccentric Belgian detective had just retired to England (it has never been explained why), he seems not to have been much younger than the Poirot we are meeting to-day, 30 years later. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of Miss Christie’s plays to be dramatised and to have a successful West End run. This play incidentally gave Charles Laughton one of his first leading parts in the London theatre.

THE CLIMATE OF COURAGE: Australian author Jon Cleary’s wellknown novel of the Pacific war, in which he tells the story of a group of men of the 7th Division AIF, fresh back from the Syrian campaign, their brief stay in Sydney (which had already been taken over by the Americans), and the campaign in New Guinea. War and sex, with an Australian accent. (The price of the Fontana books is 37retail, with the exception "Reach for the Sky", which is 5/-.) t Passengers travelling from Auckland to Apia aboard Tofua at the end of February included Mr. G. R.

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C. A. Brew, Public Service Commissioner in Western Samoa; and Mr.

W. H. Kelly, General Manager of NZ Reparation Estates.

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He is relieving President Howard B.

Stone, who served in a similar capacity for more than four years.

In the last four years the Mormon Church has erected 17 chapels, four recreation halls, three school houses and other residential buildings in Eastern Samoa. It is planned to build a new college in American Samoa at a cost of 500,000 dollars.

Four other chapels and six additional smaller meeting houses have been approved by the First Presidency, and money appropriated for their erection. 89 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y M A R C H , 1957

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SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves; Elektrolux Refrigerators & Motors.

GERMANY: Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg; Beck’s Beer, Bremen.

Sydney Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURNS- PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & C 0...

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NCHOR FLOUR GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY G. 1.97 HMS Barracouta —b ut that is another story. The wreck, which contained little cargo, was sold on the reef to foreman Peter Petersen for £2O. She had been despatched from Auckland via Palmerston and Tongatabu and was on her maiden voyage for her new owners, under command of a Captain Metcalfe.

Reports in the Auckland papers suggested that these and possibly other wrecks were due in part to the atoll being wrongly charted.

Returning to the disputed ownership of Suwarrow. We find from the Auckland papers that Mr. H. W.

Henderson left Auckland in the Ryno on October 10, 1875, but it is not clear just when he arrived at Suwarrow —he may have transferred to the Kriemhilda in the Cook Islands, or he may have spent some time at another of the islands visited by the Ryno. But he was evidently there in September, 1876, with the object of ejecting Captain Sterndale and replacing him by a Captain Fernandez. This incident is related in the book, The Mair Family.

Henry Abbot Mair, a close friend of Sterndale, and by now supercargo in Ryno, arrived back at the Island to find Sterndale and his wife under siege in the house. They had retired there armed with a rifle and were holding off Mr.

Henderson, Captain Fernandez and others who, having no access to the house, were based aboard KriemhiLda anchored in the lagoon. The siege continued into October and Mair, known to be sympathetic towards Sterndale, was forbidden to land from the Ryno. But he sw 7 ashore one night with the ideaj reinforcing Sterndale.

While crawling up the beach j the dark he heard a clinking sout investigated and found a tuu scooping a hole in which to lay eg In the hole were some Spanish ccc 90 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH II

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low to be seen in the Auckland ar Memorial Museum). Further vestigation revealed a rusting etal chest. This incident has been eviously told in Annals of a New »aland Family, by Mrs. Howard ,ckson, a relative of Mair.

The chest evidently contained ins and jewellery, but this was an opportune time to take possession id Mr. Mair reburied it nearby. * intended to return at a later te but never managed to do so., hr does not seem to have given e Sterndales any useful aid, linly because the only sources of Inking water were picketed by ; Henderson team, Mter 16 days of siege, Captain jrndale was forced to make a bid • water. He promptly bumped 0 Fernandez and two other men. rnandez, who was wearing only pareu, reached into its folds as >ugh to draw a pistol. Sterndale ;d into the ground close to him i, according to Sterndale’s nunt, Fernandez dropped as lugh hit but made off at high ed in a series of crouching, frog- -1 leaps. Sterndale retired again the house, minus water. text came an ultimatum from nandez that the house would be on fire and that Sterndale was come out minus his rifle— erwise the beseigers would open on him. The Sterndales held on a while longer but eventually e forced out by dense clouds of king smoke from a fire built to dward of the house. The game ! up. he New Zealand Herald, of ober 30, 1876, reports the arrival the Ryno from Suwarrow with Sterndales, Mair, Fernandez, castaway crew of the Peerless, others of the Henderson and 3farlane team aboard. It said tain Fernandez intended to bring action against Captain Sterndale intent to kill. A couple of days r the Herald reported the court found that, because of the us of Suwarrow, it had no juris- ;ion in the case, which pralably was dropped. Mr. Henderevidently was left in possession ihe island which, however, was i abandoned.

Ithough the Henderson and :farlane firm still thrives to-day is Auckland agent for Matson other shipping lines), the flag the once well-known Circular Line has long since disappeared [i the seas. A full history of this pany’s shipping associations i the Pacific Islands will )ably never be written, for nothappears to be known to-day of fate of its old records covering interesting period and only ments can be gleaned from the ping columns of the early ckl a n d newspapers. So the France of this recent book will welcomed by all interested in Pacific, and especially Cook nds history.

School Named for Former US High Commissioner The Frank E. Midkiff school which was built with funds provided by the people of Leone Village, American Samoa, and opened there early January in the presence of Mr. Midkiff. Mr.

Midkiff was at one time High Commissioner for the US Trust Territory in the Pacific. He at present lives in Honolulu and arrived in American Samoa by special Coastguard plane for the school dedication ceremony.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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Shower of Rain at Kowloon: Late Back to Work HILE sitting on the sea wall * facing the Dewey Boulevard, in Manila, with my back to the [ng sun, I felt that I could do ething more useful than sitting ing that the next KLM plane Id not be fully booked or that rould have a Bangkok-Manila enger, which would leave a seat jit from Manila to Biak. id then it occurred to me that r Papua-New Guinea residents, ig advantage of the cheapest route to and from Europe (via ;h New Guinea) might be foreled if I pointed out a couple lags in this otherwise very deiful and interesting flight, ic trip as I made it was Madang, ak, Hollandia (by Qantas); Biak, Bangkok, Rangoon, LCht, Khartoum, to Rome, Amlam by KLM. Rangoon is not ys included in this flight but y case it was, and as my passwas not endorsed for Rangoon would have meant a fine of guilders had I landed there iut the necessary visa, vas not told about this until I had reached Eiak, and so had to spend the morning we were at Bangkok in a nightmare drive to the British Embassy where it was duly endorsed “Near East and Far East” by the Vice-Consul —which probably saved me another headache later on.

So, before you start, get your passport visa-ed for Rangoon, just in case you do go there.

Bangkok is a pretty place and the KIM hotel where you stay overnight is very pleasant with a very romantic pavilion with a central pond and mountain and murals of Siamese mythology overhead.

Nila work or Siamese silverware is very lovely and can be purchased at the hotel or the airport at prices comparable with those in the town.

The best place for Nila work and crocodile and snake-skin bags (which are much cheaper than similar articles in Australia and Europe) is net in the centre of the city but a couple of miles away from the city centre—in an area near the Post Office, ON the return journey from Europe back to New Guinea, don’t, if you are working to timetable and value your sanity, do as I did and indulge in any side trips—getting off at Bangkok and going to Hong Kong, for example. 93 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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Just stick to the old direct route right back to New Guinea because the weather controls your flight in, and therefore out, of Hong Kong— and if your plane does not get out in time" and you miss your connection at Manila you may have to wait some time as most of the flights are booked right through from Amsterdam.

To get into the Kai Tek airport at Kowloon (Hong Kong) you have to fly between two hills and drop right onto the run-way. This is difficult enough in fine weather but Impossible in bad weather. Once in, it is possible to get out by taking-off over the sea—but if it is raining your plane could not have got in in the first place, so went back to Manila.

So you miss your trip out, as well as your connection in Manila, and if you miss that it is anyone’s guess when you are going to get to Biak, and in any event you have missed the fortnightly Qantas flight from Hollandia to the Australian New Guinea Territory.

The thoughtfulness of the Vice- Consul in Bangkok probably saved me another headache because having missed my Manila connection I could no longer be called a transit passenger, but the Philippines accepted the “Near East and Far East” endorseme. had got in Bangkok.

As I sit writing to you—witll shoes off because they are after walking Dewey Boulevard,] my feet freezing because of the conditioning, I consider the of visiting Hong Kong: Loss salary through not arriving 94 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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SOLOMON ISLANDS; K. H. Dalrymple Hay Esq., Honiar time; loss of sleep worrying it the accommodation on the plane coming through; loss air, because I worry too much, low. And all because of a wer of rain” at Kowloon! art from this, I agree that I through Dutch New Guinea i ideal way for Territorians to si to Europe; but it must be t there and direct back—with ightseeing to Hong Kong; not is time does not matter to you. i your sightseeing to your light stop at Bangkok.

I am, etc. (CAPT.) J. H. EVANS. la, Philippines, 10, 1956. (But normally of Madang, P-NG)

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ST of the leading residents of the South Pacific Territories travel a good deal. Most of iravellers are heartily sick of ed-tape form-filling demanded ;m by the multifarious Adminions. rse of the lot is the Papua- Guinea Administration, which s on knowing the traveller’s maiden name and other Stic details before it reluctantly s a Permit to land in Port •by. i nuisance was roundly coned by the Pacific Area Travel iation when it met in Canearly in February. The tive Director (Mr. Mercer) bat this tendency for increased filling was the one downward in Pacific travel, mty-one countries in Europe t travel with only a landing and a passport; but, in most e countries, travellers need: sport, visas, extra photos, exe control form, currency deion, baggage declaration, tax nee, police clearance, disemtion card, and proof of onward Answer to Crossquiz on p. 82 Visitors to Sydney Recent visitors to the Polynesian Association in Sydney were (left to right): David Tatana from New Zealand, who plays the Spanish guitar and often entertains at Association functions. Capt. Carl Johnson, of Nukualofa, Tonga. And Mr. Keith Strachan, who is also at sea on the Australian coastal trade.

Photos: Bayside Studios. 95 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1957

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N. H. Foxcroft, president, onth made a presentation to easurer, Mrs. H. Carr, as a of appreciation for her 10 work as secretary and (later) isurer. bers planned to have a card >on. The last such function September, 1956. two European weddings ever have dace on Fanning Island, in the Central The second of them was celebrated ruary 16, when Miss Beverley Anne Id, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E.

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FOR a country well suited to rice growing, Fiji last year was a comparatively heavy importer of rice—2,99o tons of rice were imported, costing £221,065.

This was largely due to heavy rains and floods just before the harvest. But the importations also were encouraged by Government in order to break down the high prices being charged by growers, who took advantage of the shortage to make big profits.

The suggestion that much of the land in the Rewa Valley, now growing sugar-cane, could be used for rice when the Nausori Mill closes down has not been accepted with any enthusiasm by Indian cultivators. They complain that more rice production would cheapen the price.

Could Export Rice

People who handle rice in the .'arge stores claim that it could be sold at 9d a pound instead of 1/and 1/1 per pound as at present. At 9d, more rice (which is used by all sections of the community) would be consumed.

It might also be possible to export any surplus to other Islands Territories. There appears to be no necessity for importing rice each year into a rice-growing country.

Any idea that the cultivators will keep prices up by reduced production and a shortage may not work cut this year, as it is reported that orders for rice have already been forwarded to Australia and elsewhere.

Last year, 660 tons, worth £i were imported from Australia] tons (£86,503) from India; an tons (£77,782) from Siam.

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[?]s Lively Argument Over Wharves va's battle of the wharves aues to rage unabated. The ng factions come from different ms of the business community, the Government, which is to do the job anyway, sits on ide-lines and watches. ! subject has been a source of rgument in the Chamber of bmmerce meetings since it was mooted. From time to time, tmental spokesmen added their ntually the Government made m decision that Suva would new wharves, and has not receptive to suggestions that lans be modified. It appears the Government considers it eached the point of no return, is proceeding with its plans the verbal war continues. ! Suvd Chamber of Commerce, e odd vote in 25, at its last ng, recommended to the Govsnt that the Suva plan be irarily shelved. ling the attack was Mr. H. E. managing director of Morris rom, Ltd., and he was supl by Mr. P. Costello. recommendation also con- -1 a suggestion that the Lautoka work be started first, and the Government investigate er Suva wharf could be main- , in adequate condition for a of years.

SNELL contended that by uilding the wharf at Lautoka he tonnage handled by Suva be reduced. He also argued :he financial position of the 1 was such that it could not the expenditure of £4,750,000 ild the two wharves at the t time. said that the building of the y. and facilities for dischargilk oil from an anchorage in rbour, could be started in the uture.

Costello said that the Colony’s s in the last three years exexports by about £10,000,000. new plans were proceeded hey would cost an additional a week in interest. The ’ could not stand it.

W. G. Johnson, managing •r of w. R. Carpenter and 7 iji) Ltd., tried to bring a of reality to the discussion he said that members had our years to discuss the yet to-day they were still ? about it. said he was confident that the wharf would be built, and added that money had to be borrowed for development.

Mr. D. A. Butler, manager of the Union Steam Ship Co., said British shipping lines had increased their services to Suva, and American and Italian lines were also sending their ships to Suva. He said he disagreed with comment that tonnage was decreasing.

THE Chamber’s conflicting views apparently have had one effect in the city. Other businessmen seem to be unanimous in opposition to expenditure on new wharves.

One waterfront man said that if tankers could be catered for, away from the main wharf, the extra space which could become available would more than cater for berthing requirements for some years to come.

Mr. Costello stated in the debate by the Chamber of Commerce that the peak of imports had passed. He received a lot of support outside from people who claimed that the credit squeeze had stopped the completion of many buildings, with a resultant reduction in the importation of building requirements.

The “antis” say that when construction of the new wharf at Lautoka is completed much of Northern District’s cargo will go through that port, and this will lead to less congestion in Suva.

Mr. A. A. Ragg (a former Deputy 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY _ M A R C H . 1957

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Box 3838, G.P.O. sctor of Public Works) thinks if £500,000 were spent on the ent wharf it would serve Suva many years. lere are times when there is e congestion of shipping at i wharf, and the “antis” claim this could be avoided if there a separate berth for oil ships for vessels refuelling.

T whatever congestion there is, it is not to be compared with that of large overseas harbours, y days pass in Suva when there )t even a dinghy tied up. lamber of Commerce members itly inspected the plan of the wharves, and a shipping man ed that there was no more ling space provided there than 3 is now. ds brought from the secretary D. Aidney) the retort that 3 would be more efficient *ves. at is about where the matter is at present.

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ieems probable that, as a result >f a visit to Fiji, late in Febnary, by A. C. Clarke, general iger of the Auckland Harbour d, a new Port Authority organ- )n will be established in Fiji.

'• Clarke, who had a great deal txperience in the control of pean ports before going to land in 1952, inspected port ties in Suva and Lautoka, and • a good deal of time with Fiji owners and merchants, i trade has been growing ily since World War II and, in respects, heroic measures of tn now are called for.

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Mr. and Mrs. Garret Valentine, with their attendants, after their wedding at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, on February 9. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W.

Valentine, of Browne Street, Suva, and the bride is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Croker, of Juju, Rotuma. The bridesmaid was Miss Nina Sorby, and the best man, Mr. Alan Roxburough, of Vatukoula. The couple will settle at Vatukoula, where Mr. Valentine is assistant-paymaster at Emperor Gold Mines.

The groom comes from a family well known in boxing circles in Fiji. His father was formerly lightweight champion of Fiji, and his uncle, Ben, who now lives in England, was middle and heavyweight champion of the Colony. 101 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 19 5 7

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The season this year opener January 7, and will close t reports from the internatJ observers aboard each ven engaged show a total tally of I “blue whale units” by all na/s engaged in the baleen whalings There are already indicae that the oil yield will be downc year. Present estimates inch a total catch of 220,000 tonsj the 1957 season as compared 250,000 tons last year. Though same number of whales map taken, the whales are smaller*] thinner.

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Australian (mainland Norfolk Island) whaling year was worth an estimi £A2,232,620. All stations cas their quotas of whales.

The four stations on the tralian mainland and the onr Norfolk Island took 1,989 humn whales and one fin whale, Fisheries Newsletter. The estinn gross value of production from: 1,990 whales killed comprised I tons of oil (valued at approximn £A1,835,000) and 8,289 tons of w meal, solubles and meat (as food), valued at about £A397,62; The total value of produo gives each whale an estimated ’ of £1,120, compared with £1,06( 1955. The increase is dun higher oil prices and a gn average yield per whale for and solubles, due to improved eta ment, compared with 1955.

In 1956 the new station menced operations on No Island; and in Western Austc Nor’west Whaling Company, h?r purchased the Australian Whd Commission’s station at Carnae operated only from this statiom closed down the Point CIK factory.

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Lave denied that he had promised to marry the girl and that he was the father of her child. eton Island, Queensland; Byron , NSW; Albany and Carnarvon, and Cascade Bay, Norfolk id. The season on the maincommenced on June 8 at ny, and ended on September t Carnarvon. Operations - combed on Norfolk Island on August nd ceased on October 26. le 1956 oil production per whale ;ed at the four mainland ons increased from 51.77 barrels 1.99 barrels. Production on the ; Coast was slightly higher in but production on the East t showed a slight fall compared 1955. king Of Whales: Notable Results stralia’s CSIRO continued its e marking programme, ring the 1956 season, 520 marks fired, with a possible 421 hits, hundred marks were fired off ton Island, 12 off Norfolk d and eight off Albany. One, off Western Australia in July, was recovered from a humptaken in the Antarctic in lary, 1956. Three other marks in the vicinity of Moreton d were recovered there. One was recovered at Norfolk d only two days after firing, e average length of humpbacks i in 1956 was 41.1 feet, an ase of 0.3 over the 1955 figure. 4.4 decrease in females caught .956 could be beneficial to s in future. On the West ; the percentage of females in ake fell from 48.1 in 1955 to in 1956. :h improvements in factory ment, all stations are proig whales faster than in dus years. Byron Bay took 45 to obtain its 1956 quota, st 67 days in 1955. Moreton completed the season in 64 against 66 in 1955. On the Coast, Nor’west Whaling Co., ting from Carnarvon, took 103 to obtain their quota of 1,000 backs. In 1955, when two ns were operating on a quota 9 each, they took 80 and 85 respectively, a total of 165 tain the 1,000 whales.

October, 1955, Cheynes Beach mg Co. (Albany) commenced les of exploratory surveys to nine the commercial possibilif sperm whaling. In 1955 the my took seven sperm whales. 1956, when baleen whaling , the company began sperm ig. When it ceased in midiber, 61 sperm whales had taken. [m whale oil is different from back oil. It consists chiefly xes and not fats. sw Zealand's Catches "Jew Zealand, J. A. Perano, 3k Strait Whalers, took 127 fnpbacks (72 males, 55 2s) and two sperm whales.

They began whaling on May 5 and closed on August 15. Average length of humpback males was 40.4 ft., females, 40.9 ft., animals 40.6 ft.

The new Hauraki Whaling Ltd. station on Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, took 16 humpbacks (9 males, 7 females) and 14 sei (sperm oil) whales. It began whaling on June 15 and closed on October 31. Average length of humpback males was 38.5 ft., females, 42 ft., animals 40 ft. r Mr. F. W. P. Roe, who has been manager of Burns Philp (SS) Co.

Ltd., Vavau, Tonga, has been transferred to the Pago Pago (American Samoa) branch of the Company. 103 Tongan Boxer In Brawl (Continued from Page 55) IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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iERE is a good deal more behind next month’s meeting of South Pacific Commission in berra than has been permitted ippear in the daily press, audatory articles about the imission have been published; but plain fact is that the Commission been under a good deal of cism during the past year. ppeals for reform were made in ust and September to the tals of the six member nations id especially to London. Some least of the member nations have ordered their repreatives to meet in Canberra ence comes the biggest financial ribution to the Commission), in session planned to consider cism, review the procedures of last five years, and recommend rms. le meeting is not likely to have ceable results. The Comioners apparently are being d to become their own judge and jury. Naturally, they cannot see much wrong with the organisation and activities which they themselves have created.

But there may be significance in the fact that this meeting takes place soon after the SEATO Conference in Canberra, which is being attended by the Foreign Ministers of USA and France, and by a direct, if inconspicuous, representative of the British Commonwealth Relations Office.

The critics who last year appealed to the member nations had hoped that something definite would be done by the end of 1956, so that the Commission in 1957 could be carried on under somewhat different conditions. Nothing was done in 1956, however.

Apart from anything that may come directly from SEATO, the plain fact is that the six member nations are far too deeply occupied with major international developments and perils to care much about what is happening in the Sth. Pacific countries. (Continued Overleaf) History of the South Pacific Commission THE South Pacific Commission was formed in 1949 by Britain, United States, France, Australia, Nether* lands and New Zealand, at the instance of Dr. H. V. Evatt (then a prominent Socialist Minister in Australia) as a means of co-ordinating the thinking and the work of the six nations responsible for the living standard of the South Pacific natives.

It merely investigates, reports and recommends. It has no power of implementation.

A fundamental error was made in placing the headquarters in Noumea.

But that was the only place where suitable accommodation then was available; and, in any event, the French probably would not have joined the SPC if Noumea had not been selected.

The first Secretary-General was Mr.

W. D. Forsyth, a brilliant organiser from Australia, who did not remain long. The second was Sir Brian Freeston, a former Governor of Fiji. The third (and present) chief executive is Dr. Ralph Bedell, a United States Foreign Office careerist, whose term expires within a few months.

Most observers agree that, if the SPC is to have real value in the future, a highly qualified Director should be permanently in charge of the organisation, and the headquarters should be in a place more accessible and less expensive than Noumea. 105 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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They had the spectacle of six Commissioners, a couple of dozen alternate Commissioners, a number of Research Councillors, a Secretary-General and a large staff working away, year after year, investigating the lives and living conditions of South Pacific Islanders, and accumulating and printing and piling up a huge amount of data —and all to no discernible end.

The six nations subscribe the necessary £200,000 per annum (Australia providing the lion’s share) but most of the conception (which was the planning, co-ordination ana implementation of schemes for developing 15 South Pacific T tories and lifting the nas standard of life) appeared simp end in the bureaucratic pigeonli SOME apologists have arguedE the presence and activitm the South Pacific Commii have kept the South I* 106 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT!

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M representatives have been ng among all these Territories 25 years, and can say that, [>t in one place, there never has any nationalist movement h noting, and the SPC has not enced the people, in this regard, way or another, e exception is Western Samoa, ire the Mau organisation ished, and engaged in rebellion, then settled down peaceably 20 ; before the South Pacific Comon was heard of. the end of 1956, the SPC was q a state of suspended animaion. Most of the scientists and logists who had carried on the of the Research Council for ; with devotion and enthusiasm able among them being Mr. !. Maude and Dr. Ojala—had ne discouraged, and gone to fields. was stated in September, quite lly, that if the Commissioners, heir session in Noumea in 3er, did not revise and reige the Commission’s purposes nativities, it might as well fold md save a lot of effort and ise. 1 the virtual paralysis of the plan many of us blame the cians, from the ranks of whom the Ministers of the six ries responsible for the SPC. ;y have delegated their risibilities to bureaucrats and olders, who in turn con- ;iously performed their task in tea —but without imagination aspiration. It always has id to us, the observers, that Ministers and some Commers “could not care less.”

SPC "In a Coma of Formality"

The condition of the SPC was kindly, hut trenchantly dealt with by “The Fiji Times,” in an article on February 19, of which the following are extracts: WHILE the Conferences have been showing life and growth the Commission has been lapsing further into a coma of formality.

The writing of minutes and concern with the forms of administration have absorbed time and energy which should have been devoted to the lively purposes for (Continued on Page 109) 107 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT _ M A R C H , 1957

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Part of the coming enquiry may well be directed at the method of selecting executive officers. It may usefully be asked whether it has always produced the right type of officer.

The reasons for the loss of some able officers who undoubtedly were of the type required might well be studied, also.

Our hopes will be realised only if the enquiry is to be searching, thorough and honest, and conducted by people with imagination, knowledge and sympathy, able to realise the needs of the South Pacific territories and eager to see those needs met. t Sharp earthquake tremors were felt at Labasa, Buca Bay, Taveuni and Rabi, Fiji, on January 3. The seismograph at Laucala Bay, near Suva, recorded a slight disturbance at 12.45 p.m. and 2.20 p.m., the latter record closely coinciding with the time of the tremors felt in Vanua Levu. Labasa residents also felt tremors. No damage was done at any place, but at Buca Bay, palms showered down coconuts and the contents of buildings rattled. fl The Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey), with Lady Garvey, flew to Auckland at the end of February, to meet their young daughter Grania, who had arrived from England. They all returned to Suva by air on February 28. 109 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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CEDING to a sermon preached Rev. R. Porter, OBE, in Newstle Cathedral, NSW, in Feb- “many Europeans in Papua ew Guinea have an attitude id in which were the seeds racialism every bit as harsh ,t in South Africa.” is what Mr. Porter is reby Newcastle Herald to have long ago in one town it was ed to hold night classes for is in schoolrooms which were ;d by European schoolchildren the day,” he said. “Even lent and respected citizens of rritory joined in the cries of ; against what was described ‘outrage.’

Territory Education Departn some places allows mixedor half-caste children to atle same school as Europeans, ver this happens there are lowls of protest. It is greatly i credit of the Director of ion and his staff that there Bn no yielding on this point.”

Porter said that in the i of many whose views could lightly set aside, the world luffling into two camps, not ch the “red” and the nonbut the white against the lite. world certainly is “shuffling” ie two camps described; and to be regretted that the id gentleman failed to see he logic of facts calls for irent line of thinking from md from others similarly "shuffling” is not being done ropeans, but by the yellow lack and in-between races, the direction of misguided s. The Europeans must fight for their future exist- ' succumb. b are far more important '> to be dealt with in P-NG ie school-housing of Papuan alf-caste children—who are ugly well treated already by ia and Australians. it’s all this about a colour i Australia?” asked Mr. e Vula, a SDA Mission from Fiji, when he arrived -laide in February. “I am sonscious of my colour; and found Australians generally post charming, and friendly The Adelaide News pubthis report, together with a aph of Saimone wearing— tion to the usual habiliments y wide and friendly smile.

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'olala,” himself a pre-1914 New iea pioneer, revives a few cries.

TH the passing of the years, perspectives are corrected and war-time prejudices are add. When memories of War I fresh in TNG, and official pronda still rife concerning the il treatment of the natives by lan planters,” you seldom heard od word for the work of the Jerman settlers. the remarks passed at the ng of the Headquarters of the ;ers’ Association of NG in ul last January, by no other an ex-President of the Asson, came as a welcome indicaof a more mature mentality i greater appreciation of true s, transcending national dices. d the ex-President (J. C. ,ly, OBE, of the Light Horse ar I, and a Lt.-Colonel of the n War II) ; “ To-day , after the passing of many years, me can look back on the men (the former German planters) and analyse objectively what they have done. They were fine men and worked hard to open up this land. I mean it when I say that our success to-day can be traced back to the start these men gave the copra industry .”

And let me here add that those foundations were solid and substantial.

THERE were no hit-and-miss tactics when these systematic Teutons started carving out homes along the coast-lines of the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago or the mainland of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. The Big Firms extended to them generous credit and, in the majority of cases, the plantation homes were solid structures, the like of which has seldom since been seen. The reasons were that labour and material were plentiful and cheap, and the Germans loved their creature comforts, even in the most isolated spots.

Two houses I recall; both located on remote plantations—Singaua and Iboki. They were most elaborate structures of hardwood timber, well designed and erected for permanent use—so unlike the average Australian, who is quite satisfied with primitive housing and the minimum of home-comforts; desirous of putting it* all into crop production or “a trip South.”

This is very well up to a point, but it does not tend for homebuilding or permanency, which is how the Germans looked upon their NG homes.

JT was these same men who, when they returned to Germany after having been deprived of their properties, were defrauded by their 113 tc ISLANDS MONTHLY _ M A R C H , 1957

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G.P.O. Box own Government of their compensation for the years they spent in laying the foundations of the NG copra industry.

The story is a long and sad one.

In a nutshell: Under the Peace Treaty of Verseilles, they were “expropriated.

From the Expropriation Board m Rabaul they received a full statement and a valuation of their assets.

These values were credited to the German Government’s Reparations Account, on a gold basis. But when the planters applied to their Government for payment, they were paid in the deflated German currency. Result: Germany’s Reparations Account was credited by thousands of pounds for a plantation, while the owner received only a few pounds.

One can imagine how bitter (to put it mildly) present Australian owners of flourishing plantations would feel if, by a throw of the international dice, they suffered in a like manner.

Yes, the very least we can do for these old-time German planters is to accord them credit for the work they did in ex-German New Guinea.

SOME of the ex-German planters were more fortunate.

With typical British justice, there was set up an Appeal Tribunal for those expropriated persons who felt they had legal grounds of appeal and, with the juggling of the map of Europe following War I, some of them found themselves to be nationals of Powers friendly to the Allied Nations.

One such was none other than the Postmaster in Rabaul during the German regime. His appeal was upheld and he retained his property.

Others, married to Pacific Islanders, were also allowed to remain and retain their estates. Some, althoc expropriated, were allowed to main if they had adequate me of livelihood within the TerritoD ON the same subject, the good meat, into which t newly-formed Historical Soo of New Britain could get its t© in the “No Snakes in Herbertsho 114 MARCH. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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Refreshing' Delicious! y (Nov. PIM, p. 86). dually, the plan of small settlers in the Bainings, dreamed up r rederick Wilhelm von Ploennies le early 1900’s (which the article i “came to nothing”) was reid, as “Time eventually proved, hen the Exproboard, in 1921, over the Bainings properties, e was, without doubt, a closely ed community along the coastat any rate, from New Mobis- (at the top end of Ataliklikan • to Rangerere (the nearest tation to Cape Lambert). can recall 16 plantations, ining three inland estates (Gunt- Dehe, Lessul and Upper Seeberg) he time the Board took over the German settlers—most of m were German-Australians Queensland. The plantations sawmilling were well established the mining potentialities came , with the discovery of gold and ore near Rangerere. But these never developed to any exch names as the Bolten lers (sawmillers at Nambung), ;e at Neinduk, Werner at im, Batze at Lilinakaia, are all niscent of the German-Ausm settlers who came in the 1900’s and (if I am not mis- -0 were given special conms to take up land in this area ving the massacre at St. Paul’s Mission, in the Bainings, of » and natives, in 1904. lowing this massacre the Ger- ■. Government sent out a ive expedition, captured those ?cted with the massacre and ;hem on “calaboose” work on tfassawa plantation (belonging Neu Guinea Compagnie), ( the very intensive terracing of alls on that estate, it the Bainings are not a wellarea, as mentioned in the e, is, I think, due to the fact all communication with Rabaul has been, more or less, by sea. The hinterland of the Bainings has certainly been neglected. The coastal area, however, has been welldeveloped and some of the Territory’s best cocoa has been produced there.

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Cook Is. Youth Centres

YOUTH CENTRES, which are now springing up in the Cook Islands, will fill a need, because young Islanders rarely have a chance to engage in social activity, apart from a few dances and the cinema.

The first centre, with 27 young young men, was formed at Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, on January 25; then followed the Ngatangiia Young Women’s Centre, formed on February 4 with 15 members; Arorangi on February 21 with 12 members; and Tupapa, being formed, promises to have the biggest membership.

Each centre has four elected elder members who guide the activities, but are without voting power.

These suggestions come from the members themselves, and their present major interests are improving their knowledge of English, and learning carpentry.

Another popular subject, in which the girls are as interested as the boys, is bookkeeping. When funds become available the centres will buy sports gear.

At present it is felt it would be unwise at attempt to introduce youth centres to the outer islands because of communication difficulties.

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Sectarian Differences in Untutored New Guinea A BROKEN nose and two black eyes were sustained by a Seventh Day Adventist missionary, Roy Alec Harrison, when he led a Mission party to the small island of Unea, last November.

The Unea natives had long been in the care of Roman Catholic missionaries; and the attempt of the SDA party to enter and proseletyse apparently was resented by the local native residents.

Harrison told the Rabaul Magistrate, Mr. F. J. Winkle, that when he held out his hand to a native called Umbruiai, the latter grabbed his hand, pulled him off balance and smashed his face.

According to evidence, Harrison said his mission had a “vigorous” policy among the natives and it went to Unea knowing the visit might cause disturbances.

“We want to bring our message there and let those who hear decide,” Harrison said, Umbruiai was committed for trial.

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The studies will last about three years. The men selected are: Rev. Josese Koroi, of Fiji, who will do a post-graduate course at Leigh Theological College, Enfield.

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Another young New Guinea churchman, Mr. Saimon Gauis, will train for the ministry at Leigh College, under a scholarship financed by the native church in New Guinea. t A three-man team from the west New Caledonian town of Moindou won a recent skin-diving fishing competition. They caught 44 fish, of a total weight of about T The winner of the individual! for the heaviest capture cam tortoise which weighed 130 1W 118 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MOD

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Heyerdahl said that he and u were taken to secret caves and shown unique s, and thus there was 3 to him the simple but usly held secret of what the tatues meant. He says they icestral figures representing tiiefs.”

It is by inference only that Mr.

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There were less than a score of these inscriptions, on wood, anyway; and most of them have been long since removed, and are housed in the world’s principal museums —safe from the ingenious and indefatigable Mr. Heyerdahl and his guardian spirit.

Anyway, a typical book for the wonderment of the great American public seems assured.

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The plantations are Anchorites; Komulo; Lemacott (or Sogui); Mai, Allison and Awinn; and Pelleluhn- Heina. 119 FIC ELANDS MONTHLY_ M A R C H , 1957

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The present bureaucratic control of this Territory does not produce a climate in which any political consciousness is likely to flourish.

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Noumea opinion is that, later, a DC4 may be used on the service. t The New Zealand Government is to join a survey into the cost of building airfields in Western Samoa and Rarotonga. The NZ Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation (Mr, T. P. Shand) said that the flyingboat route from Fiji, through Western Samoa and the Cook Islands to Tahiti, was uneconomical, and could not continue indefinitely. t The Education Department in New Caledonia is arranging an exchange of school children between New Caledonia and New Zealand for the holidays at the end of the year. It has appealed to residents to act as hosts to New Zealand school children, and in return these people will be eligible to send their own children to New Zealand. t Last December, Captain Williams, of the Cook Islands < island trading vessel Melva, ported about 120 Islanders < Penrhyn to Manihiki, for shee ing. Only a few tons of shell brought up, however, and tf end of January about 50 o Penrhyn people were anxico return home.

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A AFTER Will Still Needed STERN Samoa wants local utonomy while still remain ng under the protection of Zealand, High Commissioner Powles said in Wellington lyaid that there had been some im that New Zealand was ig ahead too fast in grante Samoans independence, but far better to grant autonomy Dn than too late.

Zealand could be proud of its n policy. There would be r amendment to the Samoan lis year, and if everything smoothly the New Zealand iment would be prepared, by to establish a full Samoan t with a Samoan premier, t care had been taken with Dlitical progress of the ns and it was now time to trate more on economic This did not mean that onomy had been neglected, ire were many problems still olved.

Powles said he wished there ore private capital developn Samoa. Ons problem disng investment was the ree of the Samoan leaders to ireign capital poured into the s owles went to New Zealand Iks with the Minister of d Territories, Mr. T. L. laid, on Samoa’s future, and wit NZ Government experts mce, education and health

In Leaders “Strongly

DISAGREE”

AN leaders have expressed tnselves as being in diseement with Mr. Powles’ nt that the people of i Samoa did not want comindependence, but “local ny while still remaining ;he protection of New Zeatoa Tualaulelei, a prominent leader, when he heard of wles’ statement, called all members of the Executive including the two Fautua, emergency conference, f the meeting, the Acting commissioner (Mr. T. R. was called in, and is beo have been asked to cable iflrmation that the stateis made, and for clarification the meeting, neither of the ied Samoan leaders, Tupua Tamasese and M. Tualaulelei. would comment on Mr. Powles’ statement as published except to indicate their strong disagreement.

CONTROLLED BY 1954 CONVENTION Mr. Powles said later that his remarks may have been misunderstood in Samoa.

The situation as between NZ and W Samoa is governed by the Constitution Convention of 1954, unanimous resolutions of which provided that there shall be maintained, indefinitely, a special relationship between New Zealand and Western Samoa; and that this should eventually be based on an arrangement somewhat similar to that which exists between Britain and the Kingdom of Tonga, subject to the provisions of the UN Trusteeship. t The new Vicar Apostolic of New Caledonia, Bishop Pierre Martin, is expected to arrive in Noumea, by Qantas, on March 29. The Bishop, 46 years of age, was consecrated at the Cathedral of Fourviere, in Lyons, France; and succeeds Monsignor Bresson, who has been in illhealth for some years t The coastal motor ship, Havanah, recently took 31 leper patients from the Loyalty Islands for advanced treatment at Ducos Sanatorium, in New Caledonia.

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Uan Apinaipi Petroleum Co., Ltd

mpany expects to start drilling in Papua gust or September, according to the an (Mr. B. W. Graham, MP). Plant, ina National T 32 driller, is to be shipped pua. First drilling will seek oil at te depths.

Graham said last month that the base rt Moresby was nearing completion, and barges for sea and river transport it to drilling sites had been acquired, e under construction, igical and geophysical work preparatory cting drilling sites was near completion, rate of exploration has been stepped up of participation of Mines Administrair., Ltd., an associate company, following rangements completed last year with ted Australian Oilfields, NL, and Asso- Freney Oil Fields, NL. issue, which closed last October, was ul. A total of 3,007,841 shares was representing £751,960 when fully ddition the company acquired modern rigs which, at landed cost, would be at more than £600,000. were acquired from Associated Aus- Oilfields and Associated Freney for lid shares. directors made a first call of 1/- a i the whole of the contributing shares :ompany, making these shares 2/- paid, was due and payable on March 5. * * *

' Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd—The

return was about 39 oz of gold from 400 yards of mineral treated. * « *

Ra Plantation And Development

This company, the operating comr Sangara Holdings, Ltd., reported a it, subject to audit, of £33,310 for \ to October 31, after providing for ion and amortisation. Rubber prowas 475,000 lb, and sales brought Enough will be handed to the holding company to pay 6 per cent, on its preferences, and 6\ per cent, on the ordinaries, provide for staff bonuses, and carry £4,500 to reserves.

After a long and unhappy wait, Sangara ordinary shareholders now have reasonable hopes of getting 10 per cent, or better as the plantations extend, provided prices and costs maintain their present relationship, comments a Sydney financial writer.

Last year's earnings, allowing for pref. div. requirements, were equal to 13.1 per cent, on the holding company's ordinary capital.

The scrip is not yet listed. * * * TIMOR OIL, LTD.—An issue of 3,993,000 57shares at par vo prospect an oil concession covering most of Portuguese Timor opened on March 11, and is to close not later than March 29. The shares are payable in full on application.

Of the issue the vendors have reserved the right to apply for 200,000 shares: Oil Drilling and Exploration Ltd. has applied for 200,000 and CommonViealth Mining Investments (Australia) Ltd. ha. applied for 20,000; and shareholders of ODi have the right to subscribe for 500,000 shares and shareholders of Commonwealth Mining for 500,000 shares.

The underwriters, Charles A. Ord and Minnett, have reserved about 400,000 shares for public subscription and the remainder for clients.

The acting-chairman (Mr. K. A. Cameron) said that seepages of natural crude petroleum occur in several places in the area. Shallow wells drilled up to 1928 appeared to have had positive results, although they fell short of a conclusive test of the commercial possibilities.

Timor Oil will be the first deep test on sites scientifically chosen. The company has bought a drilling rig f.om ODE.

ODE will carry out, under contract, all field operations, including drilling. Operations will begin as soon as the equipment is available at the sites already chosen.

The Portuguese Government will receive about 10£ per cent, of the calculated value of any petroleum extracted. * * * W. R. CARPENTER AND CO., LTD.—An interim half-year dividend of 5 per cent., plus 2£ per cent, bonus (last year interim, 7\ per cent., including per cent, bonus) is payable on March 29. (Continued Overleaf) FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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Morehead test well in Papua has abandoned at 8,087 feet. The decisionabandon was made after the drill pipes came stuck and could not be recoveredb seismic velocity survey had indicated thatti bottom of the hole was already in proximity to the basement.

Construction of the base camp for Komewu location is well advanced and copters were expected to start flying inn drilling equipment early this month, helicopter is capable of carrying a 4,00 load. They will lift heavy drilling equipq across dense jungle from the company's bank wharf at Komewu to various sites..

The company is drilling at two other in Papua. Reports from these at the mrr of February were; KURU NO. 2. —The side-tracking holes been deepened 1,141 feet to 5,707 feet M ' 7-inch casing has been cemented at i feet to shut off the caving formating v caused difficulties in the original hole.

BARIKEWA. —16-inch casing has cemented at 1,470 feet and the hole has i deepened 1,139 feet to 2,720 feet. * * * BULOLO GOLD DREDGING, LTD —ln the months ended November 30, 1956, 17,09? fine gold were recovered from 2,555,600 dredged, compared with 8,647 oz fine from 2,873,800 yards dredged in the co ponding quarter of 1955. The return i 5U5598,395, against $U5302,645 in 1955,c the value in US cents a yard was 23.4 t the quarter ended November 30, 1956, a«( 10.53 in the corresponding quarter of For the first six months of current fiscal I (which opened on June 1) 25,936 oz fines have been recovered from 4,667,600 ' The value is $U5907,760, and the value ae is 19 45 US cents. .

Mr. J. D. Simpson, who presided ate annual meeting, said that profit fon current year should be approximately 500 Canadian dollars (£A238,095), against 39? dollars last year.

BURNS PHILP (SS) CO., LTD.—An issu 250,000 20/- ordinary shares at par is made to shareholders on the basis ofi for three shares held. The issue, whiii the company's first since its registratiii 1920, will raise paid capital to £1,000,00 Shares are payable in full, 20/- in currency (22/6 Aust.) on application July 31. J They will rank for the dividend oes in May, 1958, pari passu with existing s Based on the last sale price (March If theoretical ex-rights price of the shares be 42/4J, yielding 5.2 per cent. Pnoi the rights would be 19/10J.

The company's dividend is 10 per ces rate maintained since 1950. Discloses profit last year was £126,851 (up £l3 equal to an earning rate on capital of per cent. * * ❖ EMPEROR MINES, LTD —This, a holding pany, normally receives the bulk of its i from the wholly-owned Emperor Gold Co., Ltd., Fiji. Last term, however, the company's net earnings fell sharply, a £27,942 were £49,766 below the pie term's effort. Two-thirds of the parentr pany's £6,478 (down £94,351) incomes from a £75,000 holding of Custom Creis benture stock.

During the year ended June 20, 19E operating company treated 149,029 to; ore (down 7,019 tons) and, although thei was a little richer, gold production wass by 1,519 oz. There was little change reserves, which, at the end of the ternm calculated at 680,100 tons, of 8 8 dw* with another 265,000 tons (7.5 dw indicated ore. 126 MARCH. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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J r °n i * E^op e W. S. TAIT & Co. Pty. ltd. to the New Hebrides To New Caledonia * Spring Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia iceeds from the sale of bullion were down 119,933, but several other factors also ibuted to a big drop in mine earnings, ents a Sydney financial expert. The st season on record caused a large in- > in maintenance expenditure and the nsion of mining work for a week, while rt strike, increased wages and the large growing) ratio of underground ore to :ut ore all added to operating costs, in the last three years have risen from to 88/- (Fijian) a ton mined. iv..ne denent and exploitation also took an extra )4, at £166,748. ;n the books closed the subsidiary held t assets of £495,796, of which £294,420 ented stores. Current liabilities amounted 4,992. the first 24 weeks of the current term > oz of gold have been produced, as t 61,484 oz for the year to June 20, parent company showed a net profit of I (down £94,687) and no dividend was >n its 1,915,000 fully paid 1/- shares, ids of 1/- (100 per cent.) had been paid earnings from the three preceding terms. * * *

Erprise Of New Guinea Gold And

■ EUM DEVELOPMENT, NL— In January, is of development ore were treated for gold bullion. * * * RNATIONAL NICKEL.—The president said f that the world output of nickel jumped 27 million lb in 1955 to 450 million lb 6. International Nickel delivered 285 lb, Falconbridge 42 million lb, Sherrit 19 million lb, Nicaro, of Cuba, 30 lb, American Hanna Nickel 14 million the French Co., Le Nickel, 22 million Jnous small companies furnished 26 million lb, and most of this came from nickel ore exported from New Caledonia, principally to Japan. ❖ * * KEREMA RUBBER, LTD—This Papuan plantation owner is raising the dividend rate from 15 per cent, to 20 per cent, for the year ended December 31. A final dividend of 12£ per cent, follows an interim of 1\ per cent.

Last year the company paid interim 5 per cent, and final 10 per cent.

The rate was 12| per cent, in 1952 and 5 per cent, in 1953.

Profit for the year was £36,541, a fall of £1,618. Dividend requires £14,582 on the capital of £72,912. Earning rate on capital is 50.1 per cent., against 52.3 per cent, in 1955. ❖ ♦ *

Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd—A

return of capital of 15/- a share will be made. The repayment will involve £56,255 and will leave paid capital at £18,751.

The directors say that the company's resources will be satisfactory after the return.

Investments in Commonwealth loans and other companies would still be greater than the present paid capital of £75,007. * * * NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS, LTD.—January production: Golden Ridges Mill, 842 oz fine gold and 1,048 oz silver from 2,564 yards of material treated. Tributes, 87 oz fine gold Timber, 190,046 super feet. * * * f Mr. and Mrs. G. Bristow have left Vila, New Hebrides, on vacation leave in the United Kingdom.

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RESIDENTS of the seaside suburb of Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand, thought they had a first-class mystery with them last month. A dug-out Polynesian canoe appeared off the beach.

Newspaper headlines insisted that it was brought by gales and ’ currents thousands of miles from islands in the Pacific.

It was right side up, had shipped little water, and was cut out of a coconut log.

However, the explanation is simple. Quite a number of Islands canoes have been taken to NZ by Islanders and yachtsmen (as cargo). This one almost certainly drifted away from a NZ beach.

If some Pacific Islander has lost a canoe, and thinks the one referred to may be his, he could apply to the finder, young Philip Wright, of Sumner. t Miss Phyllis Rudolph, a Maori, of Towai, Auckland, has left New Zealand for final training before being posted to the Solomon Islands as a missionary. She is believed to be the first Maori appointed to a post at an overseas mission. Before joining the mission she will do a course at the George Brown Methodist College in Melbourne. 127 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1957

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ents Which Led to This Development > political development, while irtling for the residents of jw Caledonia, should not have mexpected. has been reported in this 1 from time to time over the ) years, the General Council has swung far round to the i policy, and in its practical ition. first development was almost sal suffrage—a vote being ed to all literate persons ctive of their colour, and the ion of literacy being very ndeed. , result, control of the Genbuncil was seized by people f not Red in politics, were ily very Pink. M. Lenormand, esent Deputy—who has held ost for some years—was regarded as something of an extremist in politics.

With this set-up, the General Council gained an increasing amount of local government control, and inevitably came into conflict with the powerful bureaucrats of the French Colonial Office. The General Council, by every means in its power, resisted the tendency of Paris to establish highly-paid Administrative officials in Noumea, at New Caledonia’s expense.

The o 1 d-established European families and commercial interests in New Caledonia did not like the new regime. To put it in a phrase, they thought that the General Council, under the new conditions, was too Socialistic in character.

LOI Cadre, apparently, is a new system designed to create a set of Administrative conditions, as between Paris and the various French Colonies, which will smooth away some of the post-war difficulties which have developed, as in the case of New Caledonia.

Naturally, M. Lenormand and the ruling section in the General Council of NC will oppose anything which is likely to disrupt the new political world which they have created in Noumea. But the report that all political parties there have dropped their differences, and have rallied behind M. Lenormand, suggests that the Government of Metropolitan France has gone a little too far in its plans for reform —as such Government always is likely to do.

Before World War 11. New Caledonia politically was far behind modern trends. After the War, the political pendulum swung to the other extreme. Now Paris is hitting back.

A new situation probably will be established which will be somewhere between the two extremes, and therefore most suitable for New Caledonia.

Loi Cadre may be a little too drastic for New Caledonia; but a little wing-clipping, as applied to the General Council, might be a good thing.

If The High Commissioner of Western Samoa (Mr. G. R. Powles, CMG) and Mrs. Powles returned to Apia at the beginning of March. Mr. Powles had been on an official visit to Wellington, to discuss policy matters with the New Zealand Government, tl A popular official, Mr. Norman Saggers, Director of Broadcasting and of Station 2 AP, at Apia, left Western Samoa in February, at the completion of his term of office there. He went there as senior technician and, later, became Director of Broadcasting, in which capacity he greately improved the local broadcasts. 129 Fic ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957 ical Stir in N. Caledonia ; (Continued from Page 23)

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Blue Gillette In packets of 5 blades O v- W?, o h w (K, m Always use Blue Gillette Blades in a Gillette razor. That’s the only way to get a really clean shave. You can buy a Gillette razor set for so very little. c.i that a confrere brought it d him from France in 1950. Thee with it was: An atheist girl was discussin ligion with a Christian friendj walking in the country. She sa and fell and, falling, presses shutter of her camera. The ; nician who developed her film j her where she got that bes picture of Christ. . . She bees: Christian.

“It took me a long time t that picture—but it is no diffi because of that,” writes Bh Delabarre. “I wonder how different stories exist aboutf picture, in other countries.”

Oscar Nordman's Sight Threatened Our old friend Oscar Norr writing from Tahiti, in Januan ported that the sight of his ; eye is gone and that some olt disease now is attacking his lei; and there is danger of his his eyesight completely.

He is under skilled treat! however, and his friends haw lost hope that he will retain j eyesight. He is only 65.

Oscar Nordman is one of thee known men in the Polyn section of the South Pacific. HI for some years a steward and h on American passenger shipsa long ago he settled down i:i home island of Tahiti as a chandler and providore, anb enjoyed considerable success merchant. He is a friendly who has helped hundred;! travellers —especially yachtsmes sailors. Probably few peoph French Oceania receive a I personal mail than he —letters « to him from most countries o world.

The Curing of Beche-de-mer A reader in Apia, trying to out how to cure beche-de-men failing in inquiries in Hong and Japan, asked PIM to heie Sydney merchants thought ‘ of the old-timers might know.”' could not find a suitably info old-timer in Sydney.

Finally, we directed an inqui Mr. T. C. Roughley, the W former Director of Fisheries New South Wales. He came stir back with the following answ “They are boiled in an iron for 20 minutes. After half ah j when cool, they are split lengthways with a sharp knife! gutted. They are then usuall;! in the sun for a time to dry, must be dried.

“They are kept open by pegs 130 Editors' Mailbag march. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

Why Let Executorship Upset Your Plans? (un No man or woman who appoints a private Executor—or agrees to act as one—can afford to feel complacent. Administration of even a small Estate is never easy; the private Executor’s new responsibilities force him to sacrifice more than working hours and leisure. Often his inexperience costs the beneficiaries dearly— and they are the last people he wishes to harm.

However, no Estate need be endangered by one man’s ignorance or folly. The transfer of all responsibility to Burns Philp Trust Company Limited is easily arranged by a Solicitor, freeing the private Executor to look after his own affairs. You will find the Company’s services and duties fully explained in a 20-page booklet, “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel.” Ask for your free copy, at any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or write to the Trust Company’s nearest office.

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Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby {Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides ). lenty of air and sun can get hen sufficiently dry, they are i. smokehouse is generally jular in shape, usually made vanised iron, and is fitted lie trays in the upper portion, he-de-mer are arranged on ays and a fire is lighted i." Smoke from the fire bakes she-de-mer. The wood most ;d for the fire is red manbeche-de-mer are usually [ for about 24 hours. At i of that time they are hard rivelled. After that they are itly placed in the sun again e sure they are quite dry. hey are not quite dry they seep; but if they are quite ;y will last forever. Getting ry is the essential factor.” ! Education and ive Papuans n I look at the education of this country I cannot i what our future is to be,”

Fohn D. Wilkinson, of Sideia (near Samarai, Papua), ar as teacher standards go, ir in advance of its time, ir better to have a lot of get some education than a a lot. In time, all would )t. [ not mission-minded, but I edge that missions have i the natives to their premdard, with the exception few turned out in the last irs by the Administration which took over where the i left off. ■op in the price of copra save most of the native coes ripe for Communist s —some fellow-travellers of rowd are already in the cois a nice thought for one ! spent 25 years here! iend of mine was in the les pre-war. I think he was by the Japs—l have not om him since the war. But ‘ me and said he saw very ifference between Filipino ipuan, except that the had a lot of American >’ grafted onto him. ite of his being able to talk :e well, he was basically a nainly because he had adtoo quickly to fully grasp A few well-educated ones art from the others, and 5 real rulers of the lower afraid that may happen the small mission primary ire shut down. As soon as gets a bit of education he pencil behind his ear and lives, as much as possible, by the work of others. It takes a long time for him to get past this stage— some of them never do.” t There still are Japanese servicemen hiding in the Philippines.

Four were captured, still with their rifles, late last year. Others are believed to be still in the jungle on Lubang Island, 80 miles from Manila. t Between 700 and 800 people of Tonga’s population of 56,000 are suffering from tuberculosis—fewer than was generally believed. In 1955, five per cent, of all certified deaths in Tonga were due to TB.

In 1956, the figure was 12 per cent.

CORRECTION Copra Price FOB, Not GIF SEVERAL readers have pointed out an inaccuracy in a PIM article on copra in the January issue, in which we stated that the 1956 MOF price of copra was based on £Stg.sB/10/- c.i.f. The price should, of course, have been £Stg.sB/10/-, f.o.b. main Islands ports, For this piece of editorial woolgathering we apologise. ■ More than 6,000 children, nearly one-tenth of New Caledonia’s population, will attend school there this year. 131 Ic ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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DIT unions are increasing pidly in Fiji. During 1956, embership of Unions increased 16,623 to 21,586; and the numf Unions from 66 (1954) to ; Credit Union is a Fijian i organisation, under which a ,ttee of villagers receives savjom individuals, and makes >o individuals from funds thus ulated.) iddition, total assets reached £112,000 —a gain of about 75 nt. for the year. More than oans were made to members the year, an average of about member. ngs during 1956 dropped from in 1955 to approximately last year, an average saving ut £l/15/- for each member red with a 1955 average of £2/10/-. was due to severe flooding /eral large country areas, farmers suffered heavy crop Also, flood waters prevented s from making collections.

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Ganey, who was invited to o Fiji by the Governor (Sir Garvey). Sir Ronald had ortimity of seeing the success similar movement organised ither Ganey in British ras.

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claimed that the main aditage the Amazon type of oa has over the Amelonado 5 that it comes to bearing sarlier (within two or three with a heavier yield, le last eight years the West i Research Institute has been g out tests on the flavour tier qualities of Amazon, till now, 10 Amazon types, all tie Institute, have been subto exhaustive tests and have accepted by the manufacas fully meeting their reents,” an Institute official STo seedlings of any Amazon ere issued until the approval mufacturers had been d” son types are being planted co a plantations in the >ons. [*• S. Weir has been appointed Guinea’s first Town-planner, been Brisbane’s chief town- ■ for the last five years, and lecturer on town-planning e Queensland University, eir will go to New Guinea May or early in June.

Sisters for Fijian Mission MEMBERS of the order of the Sisters of Charity, who are to educate novices and postulants at Cawaci mission station on Ovalau, Fiji, attended a liturgical farewell in Sydney before they left.

They go to Cawaci in response to a request from the Catholic Bishop of Fiji, Bishop Foley. Last October the Superior-General, Mother M. Agnes, and one of her assistants, Mother M. Margaret, visited Fiji to learn more of the nature of the work to be undertaken.

The sisters in the first group of missionaries include Mother M.

Peter Fennessy, who will organise the work, Sister M. Florance Bailey and Sister M. Mark Lehman.

Bishop Carroll, auxiliary to Cardinal Gilroy, in an address, said that at this stage the Order was sending a small party of sisters to Oceania to prepare members of an indigenous congregation for a certain standard of education.

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Miss Helen McLaren, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. McLaren, of Cowra, NSW, was married to Mr. Gordon Burley, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Burley, of Neutral Bay, Sydney, at St. Luke's Church, Suva Point, Fiji, last month. There was a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Townsend, of Suva. Mr. Burley is on the staff of the Bank of NSW, Suva. Photo shows: Groom and bride; Mrs. Betty Knight (USA), and Mr. A. Townsend. 133 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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new and modern 3-storeyed live Land Trust Building, It near the Government Victoria Parade, Suva, at a £70,000, was formally opened e Governor (Sir Ronald > on February 8. excellency said the building ribute and memorial to Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, whose far-sighted policy in organising the Native Land Trust had contributed greatly towards a solution of fundamental land problems.

The new building houses the Native Land Trust staff, and most of the institutions connected with Fijian native administration.

Kilisimasi, of Tonga, has cd as an Assistant Dental oner at the Central Medical Suva, and-fras been awarded a gold medal for consistently excellent work in practical dentistry.

Kihsimasi is to do a 'post-graduate course in prosthetic dentistry.

IN BSI A New Shelling Technique HONIARA, March 1.

DURING his recent tour within the BSI Protectorate the High Commissioner called at Gojoruru, where Mr. lan Whitton (who manages the plantation) demonstrated the use of an aqualung in diving for shell. Whitton and a native from Ngela each donned equipment and gave an indication of its endurance. There would appear to be great possibilities in operating a team of native divers trained in aqualung working in deep waters.

Red Cross Ball

The annual Solomon Islands Red Cross Ball, held at Point Cruz Theatre, on February 12, raised over £lOO for the International Hungarian Relief Fund. Little Susan Oakes, whose mother (wife of a Government official) is the only Hungarian in the British Solomons, very charmingly presented a bouquet to the High Commissioner’s wife

Auction Of Seized Goods

Something new to Honiara was the public auction held in the Customs Shed on February 23. All the goods offered, worth £l,OOO, had been seized by the Customs Department. Most were bought by Chinese storekeepers. ic ISLANDS MONTHLY _ M A R C H , 1957

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Samoan Industries

PAGO PAGO, Feb. 26.

Van Camp Tuna Company’s cutive, Mr. George (“Tex”) ngton, visited the tuna canant in Pago Pago in Febnd told employees that wages ;n raised from 25 to 32 cents istralian) per hour for geniployees. Foreman and leadjloyees draw a higher salary rdance with their skills. cutters here decided they d to receive a dividend out ve funds on hand from copra All three district shared 30. They will agree to receive rth four cents a pound ed copra, instead of five, is that funds will have to owed from the local bank r cent, interest to pay pro- •or future copra weighed in. hus purchased by the local oard is shipped to the US, •rices run from $l5O to $l6O art ton (2,000 lbs). (Four er pound is equal to 80 or £36 Aust., per short ton).

A unique ceremony took place on February 12, when the Pipers of the Pacific Islands Regiment, of Papua and New Guinea, were presented by the Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) with a Pipe Banner, sent specially from Scotland by Lora Rowallan, the Chief Scout, who visited the Territories last year.

The photographs (by Papuan Prints) show a leading piper with the new Banner attached to his pipes; and a close-up of the Inscription on the banner. 137 FTC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1 9 5 7

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Bambridge in the negotiations and may skipper Imatra on her delivery voyage.

A handsome 50-ft motor sailer, schooner-rigged, with a beam of 13 ft, is being built of heart-kauri at Kawau Island (Auckland) by Mr. R.

Lidgard, a leading boatbuilder, wellknown in Polynesia. Mr. Lidgard has two adopted Rarotongan sons, as well as one son of his own, who is well known in Fiji in yachting circles. The new yacht has been warmly praised by interested yachtsmen. Mr. Lidgard plans to take part in next year’s Auckland-Suva race, and do some Islands cruising.

KOCHAB, successor to Stortehecker 111, which Dr. John Franklen- Evans, of England, sold in Canada after cruising the Pacific several years ago, cleared Balboa for Polynesia on February 12.

With the doctor is Eric F 3 The new craft, London-reg: measures 39 ft 6 in. by 10 ft ; 6 ft. The voyage commence September 29. Plans are to s month in the Galapagos, the north to enter the 1957 Los A Honolulu (“Trans-Pacific”) continue south to Tahiti; thr New Zealand, where the i should end about early Dec:

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Photo (by Max Hart) of "Makora". 138 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON Smallships and Cruising Yachts (Continued from page 63)

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New Caledonia Shows

PROSPERITY IF automobiles and tourists are signs of wealth, New Caledonia is in a happy position.

The liner Caledonien recently brought in 70, and three vessels which called a little earlier brought 150. There are now more than 8,000 vehicles registered in New Caledonia.

Twenty-nine tourists from New Caledonia, in two groups, visited Australia in February. The tour was organised by French Pacific Tours, of Noumea. It was of 14 days’ duration and the cost per head, everything found, was -23,000 francs (£161).

Australia has been popular with New Caledonians and air bookings so far this year constitute a record.

Planes and ships to Sydney are booked out for weeks ahead. fl Miss Lois Connerton, a Presbyterian Church missionary, returned to Australia in February for deputation work, after 2 h years in the New Hebrides. She will return to the New Hebrides in April. t The Rev. C L. Williams, who will become Queensland secretary of Methodist Overseas Mission on April 1, spent 15 years as a Methodist missionary in the Central Pacific. He went to Samoa first in 1940.

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They include two items that it is hoped to install at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, in time to play a useful part in the IGY Pacific Programme. Firstly, radar equipment for obtaining high altitude wind force and direction to be operated by the Rarotonga branch office of the NZ Meteorological Service. Secondly, a panoramic recorder to replace the existing ionospheric installation that has been operated at Rarotonga for some years by officers of the NZ Department of Scientific Research, assisted by native trainees.

The panoramic ionosphere recorder has a much greater frequency range than the equipment at present in use and three units of this new type are now being built in New Zealand—one for Rarotonga, one for Christchurch. NZ, and one for the Antarctic.

Ti Mrs. Cowell and her two children have rejoined Mr. R. Cowell at the British Residency in the New Hebrides. 139 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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t Tam worth (NSW) people were given an outline of missionary work in New Guinea when three Anglican missionaries passed through on their way to Narrabri (North-west NSW).

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RAROTONGA e early 1920’5, Rarotonga a covered market on the Lore at Avarua (principal nt and port). The building ler destroyed, or fell down, ten, vendors of produce have :ed their business in the r. e time, the weekly market Id on the Union SS Co.’s The Company objected, and ket was moved to the forei front of Hotel Rarotonga.

Public Works Department wn up a plan for a shelterilding, without surrounding nd designed for easy and cleaning. It will have ind a concrete floor. Its cost is £2,000.

Yaqona Disease In Fiji

A SERIOUS disease of yaqona (the root from which kava is made) is widespread in southeastern Viti Levu, Fiji. It is not a new disease (it was recognised 20 years ago) but it has increased lately. It attacks both old and young plants, and causes the leaves to drop off, and the stems to die back.

The Fiji Department of Agriculture says plants do not recover from the disease, which passes to healthy plants, and for which there is no cure. It is necessary to dig up and burn affected plants, as soon as the disease is noticed. t Carpenter interests now have no less than 1,500 first-class cattle established in the Kokopo area of New Guinea—mostly Polled Shorthorn crossed with the best grade of Santa Gertrudis bulls. que for £5,000, [?] ning funds sub- [?] n the Territory [?] ua and New for the Boy [?] nd Girl Guides was handed Administrator D. M. Cle- February by MacDonald, on of the Comwhich directed [?] kably acclima- [?] nisation Papuan Prints. 141 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 19 5 7

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When, with the help and sympathy of the United States, the Indonesians drove the Dutch out of the East Indies —where they had been established for 350 years and where they had done a magnificent job of -colonisation —there was a mixed community (Dutch and Indonesian) of at least 500,000.

The Javanese adventurers who seized the Government of Indonesia —and still hold it more or less— made “a dead set” at those Euronesians.

A large proportion of the halfmillion had been brought up and educated as people of Dutch status, and they were deeply integrated with the Dutch-Indonesian economy.

But they were told, in so many words, by the Jakarta bureaucrats that they must announce their future allegiance—Dutch or Indonesian, If they chose Dutch, they were persecuted in the same way that the Dutch were persecuted. If they chose Indonesian, they were permitted to remain in Indonesia, but were treated as pariahs.

Thus, those Euronesians who chose Dutch status were virtually without a country; and it was on their behalf that the Dutch showed enterprise and energy in developing Western New Guinea, where there now is a large oil industry and a rapidly-developing plantation industry.

Thousands of Euronesians from Indonesia —and especially Java — now are settled in Western New Guinea; and thousands more are headed that way. That is why the Territory is so valuable to the Dutch, even though figures do not suggest great tangible wealth.

They are a type of neighbour whom Australia is glad to see in a territory so close to her borders.

Imagine the kind of treatment these people would receive if the enlightened gentlemen of the United Nations succeeded in having Western New Guinea transferred from the Netherlands to Indonesia! t The Tongan boxer, Johnny Halafihi, beat Neville Rowe, Australia, by a technical knock-out in the third round of a scheduled eight-round bout at Leicester, in England, on March 4, DE BISSCHOP'S RAFT:

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The raft Tahiti Nui, on M was at 32 deg. 6 min. Soic deg. 30 min. West—about 44 ENE of her position on FeU —and-had thus averaged ad. mile& per day during Febrr her eastward progress frorre to South America.

Regular radio contact co; to be maintained withr amateurs in many parts world and Captain Eric de I reported his 5-man party health and spirits.

II A Trades Training Officer- V. Bent), Assistant Direis Education (Mr. B. SH: formerly of Auckland) and i R. J. Milligan, L. C. Ro and D. C. Williams, all W are among Education Depc personnel who recently arr Western Samoa. t M. Aime Grimald, HigM missioner for France in thea and Governor of New Cae called on the New Zealand Minister, Mr. S. G. Hollae cently. With Mr. Holland, i Deputy Prime Minister, Mt Holyoake, and the Minister’; ternal Affairs, Mr. Tom MaOo he had a discussion on muti terests. 142 march, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Noumea'S Population

MEA now has a population 22,238, according to official ures, just released. In six the section of the population ed as European or European t has increased by 31 per ?here are 503 “foreigners” in ction, of which two-fifths are i and Australian nationals, imber of “foreigners” has inl by 50 per cent, since 1951. , or descendants 15,043 2,594 379 ridians and Wallisians . . 626 ™s 1,340 sse 2,256 IT Mr, R. West, accompanied by his wife and one child, has arrived in the New Hebrides to take up the post of Controller of Stores with the Condominium Government. Mr.

West, is on secondment from the Australian Government. He was previously with the Department of Works, Darwin. tl Mr. E. C. Woodward has retired from the post of Senior Assistant Registrar-General in Fiji. He went to Fiji in 1928 from New Zealand to an appointment with the Registrar- General’s Department. With Mrs.

Woodward and his son and daughter, he has gone to England. t Two trainees from Tonga will start nursing at the Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania, next month—sisters, Elizabeth (22) and Ana (20) Helu, who have trained for two years at the Viaola Hospital, Tonga. The girls will do a complete course in Launceston. t New Caledonia imported 18,000 tons of cement worth 37,000,000 francs (£259,000) during 1956. Most of it was for the £10,000,000 Yate dam. About 9,000 tons came from each of Japan and France, 61 tons from Australia, and 7 tons from Germany. The previous year’s imports totalled about 9,000 tons.

Drug For Tropical

INFECTIONS E3SS with a new method of iting tropical infections— h as ulcers, yaws and asis (a type of dysentery)— med (by its maker) for ycin. Snyermycin is a comi of the well-known ;ic, tetracycline, and what lied a newly-discovered ;ic, oleandomycin. claimed that, when mixed, ibiotics enhance each other’s , and become more powerful le sum of their individual lling capacity.

Elmer H. Loughlin and G. Mullin, of the New York College, who have used the e, gave details of experivith it on tropical cases to irth Annual Symposium on ;ics in Washington.

Fuel Centre In Fiji

Shell Company (PI) Ltd. loses to complete, by next ruary, a big storage centre a Point, Lautoka, Fiji, to e space shortage for m products in Suva, and i the supply of aviation fuel Airport. ated cost is about £lOO,OOO. lew storage centre will help ice the costs involved in 'ting fuel by barge from Lautoka. centre will comprise three nks, each capable of storing gallons of fuel, four smaller tanks, a packed products ir drums of oil and grease, power plant, and an admini building with an office, shop and repair garage. ts will unload fuel supplies airport and the area directly Vuda Point centre. 143 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY M A R C H , 1957

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BY R. W. ROBSON ; journal is now —and has m for years—critical of the tem of land settlement which reaucratic czars of Canberra ’astened upon the Territory aa and New Guinea, teiieve that, if P-NG is to be [itico-economic factor that it be in the South Pacific’s e defence against Asia, P-NG ave a hard core of European ent.

District Administration ; of P-NG, if left alone, ffectively influence and shape ect the colonising impulse of Australians, who are eager ; “places of their own”; and, litted and encouraged, would o Papua and New Guinea, istrict officials should see e Australian settlers are of it type to associate with the and to show the natives, nple, how to become peasant ; and planters. ;in lies the only future for that can justify Australia’s us annual expenditure on Titory. The job should be out by the trained and il men on the spot, the Canberra bureaucrats, ted by an inexperienced with idealistic leanings, will me of such a system, settlement, such as it is, is arried on (and has been for three years) by centralised under an impersonal directed from Canberra — who are most conscientious a are experienced mostly in an land administration, and ttle of Territories’ conditions 5 of the very peculiar aims Australian settlement policies ? supposed to be implement- 3-NG. * * * g had a look around the y in December and not mpressed with the settlezcord of the last couple of sought an interview with rector of Lands, Mr. D. E.

's. I was very courteously reand given most of the inm I asked for. The followsummary: Y applicant for land is ?d before a Lands Board — same as in Australia—and ;d by senior officials, who the Director of Agriculture, ;entative of Native Affairs; sctor of Forests, when necesr. Macinnis (as chairman) ; tenever the Board sits out- • t Moresby, one non-official person.

Mr. Macinnis referred to the lan Downs system. (Mr. Downs was District Commissioner in the Highlands, and his system of selecting settlers was claimed by the PIM to have been nearer the ideal than the present bureaucratic and impersonal system). Mr. Macinnis said there was not sufficient examination of the individual —often the first man to come along got the available land; and 50 per cent, of those who were put in by Downs left the blocks allotted to them.

Many newcomers head towards Gorcka —they think they can make a fortune growing coffee. The great majority have neither expedience nor finance. They cannot understand that from £15,000 to £20,000 is required, if a worth-while coffee plantation is to be established in the Highlands.

Even if the natives inform individuals that they are prepared to alienate their lands, they are not allowed to do so without a most careful check. The Medical Department’s work in reducing child mortality and disease is building up population, and that future population needs land.

So far as the Highlands is concerned, the great majority simply seek a nice little coffee plantation close to an established centre.

The latest maps of the Highlands areas show that, so far as land settlement is concerned, they have reached saturation. The natives are coming into the picture there — and they must have first call. A Highlands native the other day sold his coffee for £3OO.

BUT there are lands becoming available in other Districts for cocoa, coconuts, rubber, grazing, general agriculture. The Warengoi area, at the back of Rabaul, is coming in, and will be open for settlement without racial discrimination —if applicants have resources and planting know-how.

Those Warengoi blocks will certainly attract the Tolais, a native people there who have made remarkable progress as planters.

Mr. Macinnis made the following statements: There is no such thing as disposal to the highest tenderer —we dispose of blocks according to the suitability of the applicants.

When we admit Europeans, we must think of their influence on natives. There are men now established here who ought never to have been admitted to the Territory.

The Lands Board is most interested in the development of the cattle industry: and we are happy to report that Mr. Webb, representing important Queensland cattle interests, has been examining 12,000 acres beyond Fairfax Harbour (only a few miles from Port Moresby) with a view to introducing cattle.

We made 23,000 acres available to the Atkinson cattle interests at Gusap (Markham-Ramu ivide), and we think they are certain to make a success. Adjoining that, we have 38,000 acres of pastoral land open for application at the moment.

Any block of land —agricultural or pastoral—is made available for (Continued foot of col., next page)

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GHANA JARY was an important th in one respect in the >ry of the British Commonmd Empire. new nations were born, [formerly the West African ast) and West Indies Fed- (formerly the scattered archipelagoes of the West were raised from less than status to something not far Dominion status, have little in common, ext they are British and (as lies is generally negroid) of •ace. was admitted to nationgreat ceremonies in Feb- It has 92,000 square miles, •ly 5 million population, [ndies Federation is of inthe South Pacific. It has . islands, containing 8,000 liles, with a population of s, spread across 1,500 miles aribbean, Sea. discussions extending over le following British Terricided last year to amalgaa Federation: [CA, with 4,400 sq. miles 0,000 people. It has insufndustries, over-population, i,OOO unemployed, and is ne of the problem areas of d.”

DAD, 1,800 sq. miles, 560,000 't is close to the coast of a and has rich oil.

MX)S, a sugar-g rowing rith only 166 sq. miles for ieople.

WARD IS. (Dominica, St. . Vincent, Grenada)—small, and backward.

ARD IS. —largest in Antigua, liles. Backward, apital has been fixed in , and a Governor-General appointed shortly, will be a House of Asfreely elected on a broad ', and a Senate of 18, nom- >y the Governor-General.

Britain retains control of foreign relations and defence. But the Islanders generally are pro-British; there is no sign of Red subversion; and there is probability of Dominion status at no very distant date.

NOTE: If such a development is possible in the West Indies, why not in the South Pacific, among the British archipelagoes of Fiji, Samoa, Cooks, New Guinea, Solomons and Gilberts? If oilfields were found in New Guinea, the set-up might be comparable with that in the West Indies. Of course, critics will immediately point out that Western Samoa and New Guinea are " Trusteeships.” 4s the years pass, UN becomes more discredited ; which suggests there is no future for Samoa and New Guinea except, maybe, in the kind of Federation accepted in the West Indies.

Native Co-ops. in the South Pacific A SOUTH Pacific Commission’s co-operatives expert, Mr. C. G.

Joannides, arrived in Port Moresby, on March 13, after visiting the British Solomons and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. He will study the native co-operative movement in Papua and N-Guinea, and perhaps arrange for a conference of representatives of South Pacific native co-operative groups.

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AN announcement that the Joint Anglo-French Administration of the New Hebrides has legislated to control “mining activity,” as from March 15, caused much speculation as to what is involved.

The Makatea Phosphate Co., an Anglo-French organisation, has been prospecting an area on north Efate, ostensibly for manganese, but popular opinion on the island is that something more is involved.

It is reported, but not confirmed, that the company has expended £lOO,OOO on equipment, including bulldozers, and in making helicopter surveys.

One report current in Sydney was that the comapny had armed guards patrolling its area until the legislation became effective.

Under the new legislation people now can be granted prospecting rights, to be followed by mining rights, on anybody’s land.

A planter, at present in Sydney, said the company “did not take kindly to visitors.”

A small local syndicate is also' prospecting in a nearby area. 147 Ic ISLANDS MONTHLY M A R C H . 1957 INUED FROM PAGE 145.

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THE Cook Islands Director of Agriculture (Mr. Maurice Baker), returning from vacation in Jamaica, gave some details of recent advances in tropical agriculture in that area in a February broadcast over Radio New Zealand.

New chemical sprays had been developed there which had the effect of considerably extending the pineapple fruiting season. Used in the Cook Islands they might have the effect of extending the Cooks’ pineapple season from the present brief October-January period to a June- January crop.

The sprays will be tried in the Cooks.

Mr. Baker said that Jamaica’s good harbour facilities permitted the use of inexpensive cardboard shipping cartons. These could not be used in the Cooks, where it was common for produce to be doused with sea-water in the loading operations at reef passages.

Speaking of cocoa, Mr. Baker said that important advances had been made in the propagation process. Where, up to now, much work had been involved in transplanting, it had now been found that “budding” methods, as employed with citrus, greatly simplifi ed cocoagrowing operations.

Mr. Baker had also studied the coffee industry in Jamaica and found that crops which had been neglected for as long as 30 years were being brought back to full production by correct pruning methods These could be applied in the Cooks to rejuvenate the old plantings.

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FOUR Valiant bombers of the RAF left Britain secretly on March 12 for Christmas Island, to take part in the hydrogen bomb tests.

London reports said the tests would commence “next month” (April). (See article on page 21.) Scientists throughout the world continue (March 14) to warn that the release of nuclear energy— generally, and not necessarily in particular areas of testing, like USA, Australia, Russia, Central Pacific — will seriously affect the descendants of the present generation of mankind.

New Burns Philp Ship Arrives

The new Burns Philp freighter, Montoro (named after a famous old passenger-and-freight liner of the New Guinea run, before the war) arrived in Sydney on March 15. after an uneventful run from Britain, via New Guinea.

This picture of Montoro, 3,700 tons, was taken from the hills behind Port Moresby, as she came into that harbour a fortnight before.

It was at first reported that Montoro would be on the New Guinea run; but she now will enter the Sydney-Singapore service.

Stubbs, only son of well-known [?] rs. Bert Stubbs, of Port Moresby, [?]im four-months' leave in Sydney, father's business. (Top left).

Mrs. D. de Graaff, who were married last November. They will live at de Graaff is on the staff of the Department. (Top right), [?]cia Partridge returns to her post [?]s Department, Port Moresby, after has announced her engagement to [?]e, of Works Department, Lae. Pat daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. of Edie Creek, Wau, and both Pat are B-4's. (Lower left).

A. Rutter was en route to Port join her husband, Mr. J. A. Rutter, gineer-manager of the electricity in P-NG. It is reported that all a P-NG is to be taken over by in and that Mr. Rutter may be e department. Mr. Rutter was a [?]R before the war and served AE in Borneo in World War II. [?] Rutter's first visit to the Terrishe was evacuated from Rabaul, apanese invasion. Her last memory hurriedly packing a small suitcase. sen six years in Goulburn, NSW. 149 ic ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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To this end, a small Committee has been appointed to make a formal approach to the Minister for Territories.

LATE NEWS Liquor Fees Postponed PORT MORESBY, March 13, THE new system of calculating liquor licence fees, which was to have come into effect in Papua in March, and New Guinea in October, has been postponed in respect of Papua; and all sellers of liquor will now be required to apply for new licences in October.) In the interim, the new regulations—which were passed by the Legislative Council in February in spite of protests by unofficial members —will be reviewed for anomalies.

It has been claimed that instead of the Treasurer collecting 5 per cent., in many cases he would be collecting 20 per cent, or more on the same lot of liquor. (See p. 28.) Mr. G. A. V. Stanley, formerly well known as Senior Geologist of Australasian Petroleum Co. in Papua. Since his retirement in 1954, Mr. Stanley has started a book designed to cover the geography of New Guinea; but confesses he is "bogged-down" historically at the voyage of Luis Vaez de Torres (1606), whose detailed and prolonged examination of the entire south coast of the Island, from Milne Bay westwards, must have brought him into Port Moresby and Yule Island. But of this there is no proof. 151 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

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lALIAN newspapers have ayed the usual screeching lines about “Daylong Jungle Against New Guinea Danin their irresponsible quest itions, they quite improperly world a wrong impression [>uth Pacific’s biggest Terri- Australia took over from mans, 40 years ago, more If the land area was “unci.” The natives lived as ays had lived; and tribal tids, massacres, head-huntcannibalism were part of is. )y year, since then, Ausis substituted orderly adion for “uncontrolled area,” w the only “uncontrolled in the very mountainous, country lying around the rs of the Fly and Sepik d.ioining Dutch New Guinea, here, the untamed natives t, and massacre, and do things with human bodies.

LY, the Australian police Is under young Australian 1 Officers—tough, handbell-trained lads, mostly— ting into these bad areas, patrol post was established, ice, in February, at Kagua, ountry away southeast of leadquarters of the partly Southern Highlands Dis- *at r o 1 Officers B. R. and D. N. Butler are out r , among what are officially as “most turbulent tribes, rd inter-tribal clashes as able part of their lives.” dal hand-out says, naively, a tribesmen quite cordially sed their deplorable entertainments for the to assist the Patrols in an air-strip for DC3’s. agua is a long way from main; and it was in behind main that there occurred shes with the natives in and January. (See article 16). y extend their lines of asts, the Patrol Officers "er to the scenes of regular Thus they hear of disd so they go further in, ) stop it. Then the natives 5 to turn on them, and reports of clashes. That in January. itrols gathered in a few and sent them back to Telefomin in late February while others went deeper into the dangerous area, chasing other offending tribesmen. This seems to have led to a further clash, in March, in which a native was killed, and another native policeman wounded.

It has no significance, except that the Department of Native Affairs is doing its job.

It is a kind of war. But it really is just part of the routine work of the Patrol Officers and their armed police.

These jungle folk soon learn that the European now is boss and that they must conform to his system, which does not include raiding and murder.

New Lae Hotel Plan A MONGST well-known Territorians aboard MV Bulolo, on Feb.-March voyage from Sydney were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bourke, of Wau, New Guinea. Mr. Bourke, whose company announced recently its intention of building a new hotel at Lae, says the plan is still going ahead, but is at present held up because of high building costs.

Tenders submitted up to date are much too high.

Bounty's Anchor WRITING in Sydney Morning Herald of March 14, the missionary representatives of SDA Mission give details received from Pitcairn Island to prove that the anchor raised from the seafloor at Pitcairn by Yankee last month actually was the anchor of HMS Bounty, cast away there in 1789.

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Letter to the Editor IDO not know what the present system is in P-NG regarding leave of absence on half-pay, but I would like to call attention to what happened to me when I retired under the Papuan Superannuation Ord. of 1917 38.

I was due for 40 days on full pay, vacation leave, and 12 months on full pay, retiring leave. In order to get in one more year’s “service” for superannuation purposes I applied tin Australia) for 40 days on full pay and 2 years on HALF pay.

This must have annoyed the “Canberra Clerks” for I was peremptorily told that I could not do this.

I replied and as good as said: “Read the Ordinance and come again!”

The leave, as applied for, was granted—but the “Canberra Clerks” had the last say. They deducted full, not half, superannuation payment for the two years although, years before, in the case of S. A.

Greenland, it had been ruled that when on half-pay, five per cent, of the money actually received was deducted—the wording of Section 17 was: “The annual salary received by him.”

I still maintain that the aforesaid “Canberra Clerks” robbed me.

I am, etc., SYDNEY H. CHANCE.

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Peeling Mill at Lae DNWEALTH New Guinea )ers Ltd. will shortly install sling machine at its newlymill at Voco Point, Lae. ill was formerly owned by J acific Lumber Company, is been working the transfer leases (about 16 miles s) for the last two years.

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Pacific Travel Magazine

AN attractive monthly magazine called Pacific Travel News now is issued by the Pacific Area Travel Association, which has its headquarters at 391 Sutter St., San Francisco, USA.

Its purpose is to publicise not only the attractions which the Pacific countries offer tourists, but also the various facilities (travel agencies, shipping lines, air lines, bus lines, travel books, hotels) by means of which aspiring tourists may go and see those things.

It should be a very useful service, if only sufficient means can be found of getting the magazine into the hands of the folk who have been seized by the urge to travel. 157 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

Classified Advertisements | Per line, 2/6; Minimum, 6 lines.

FOR SALE FLEETS, 30 ft. diesel workboat, 7 yrs. old, sails, etc., 60 h.p. motor, 2-way radio. £1,750. 44 ft. x 14 ft. x 5 ft. flush deck sharpie workboat, 72 h.p. Gardner diesel, hdwd. planking, boat and engine 8 yrs. old. 2-way radio. £5,250. Fleets, Water Street East, South Brisbane, Queensland-

Corrected Admiralty Charts And

Hydrographical Supplies in respect of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa waters. On sale at the Authorised Agents. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Limited, Suva, Fiji.

ARTISTS SUPPLIES and Drawing Equipment: complete range of all popular makes for Schools and Private Users. Send for lists Leighton Carrad, P.O. Box 5020, Auckland, New Zealand.

Custodian Of Expropriated

PROPERTY—SaIe of Plantations in New Guinea. The Custodian of Expropriated Property invites tenders from Australian ex-servicemen, natural-born British subjects, or companies of which at least twothirds of the shareholders are naturalborn British subjects, for the purchase of the following coconut plantations: Auchorites—Comprising the Islands of Tailing and Suf (Schoof), north-east of Maron. Lemacott (or Sogui)—Situated on Fangelawa Bay on the north-east coast of New Ireland, 38 miles south-west of Kavieng. Mai, Allison and Awinn—Mai: a group of islands on the south of the Ninigo Group, District of Manus. Allison (or Manu) Island: west of Mai Plantation, District of Manus. Awinn Island: south of Ninigo Group, District of Manus.

Tenders will be considered for Mai, Allison and Awinn as a group, for Mai separately or for Allison and Awinn together. Pelleluhn/Heina —A group of islands in the Ninigo Group, District of Manus. Intending tenderers for Mai and/or Allison and Awinn are requested to ensure that their tender is submitted on the form marked “Amended Tender Form”. Tender forms together with Conditions of Tender and of Sale and further particulars are obtainable from—Custodian of Expropriated Property, Department of Territories, Canberra, A.C.T.; Department of Lands, Port Moresby, Papua; or District Offices, Rabaul, Madang, Manus or Kavieng. Time is to be allowed for the expiration or termination of existing licences to collect produce from the properties. All buildings on the following properties are included in the sale: Lemacott, Anchorites. The following buildings and plant on the properties mentioned are not in the sale: Mai, Allison and Awinn—l Ceylon Drier on Mai; 1 Ceylort Drier on Suma .Sjjma fpart of Mai); any'buildings on Alison and Awinn.

Pelleluhn and Heina—2 Copra Stores made of Native Material; 1 Ceylon Drier. Lemacott Plantation is not regarded as an economic unit. Tenders may be lodged with the Custodian of Expropriated Property. Department of Territories, Canberra, A.C.T., up to 3 p.m. on Monday, May 13, 1957. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

C. R, Lambert, Custodian of Expropriated Property, Department of Territories, Canberra, A.C.T BOOKS ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 38 King St., Sydney.

Telephone: BX 1243.

Visitors to Sydney—

“Pacific Islands Monthly”

is always on sale at Charlesworth & Milligan’s Magazine Kiosk, Cnr. Martin Place and George Street.

PENFRIENDS 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.

WANTED Contact correspondents, philatelists, hobbyists and Pen Friends throughout the Pacific. Island representatives wanted. Members in almost every country of the world. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Natnvn, Fiji Is.

Drive Yourself Cars

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty, Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: PA 1091.

Enquiries Invited.

Position Want

AUSTRALIAN GIRL, 26 yeas; seeks a position anywhere Paoj as a receptionist, telephoniii driver or position of same mr mencing June or July. Accoc required. Please write to: Ml 60 Beaufort St., Croydon Parj New South Wales, Australia.

Stamps Want!

Island Stamps Wanted; $L.L

200 paid for postally used Brit Island Colony stamps on envelopes undamaged. Double i for stamps of 6d and over, , higher rates for 2/- up. Send J list with prices I pay. On I and over I pay all postagg Strauss, P.O. Box 1218, Gran Station, New York 17, N.Y., UD

Stamp Covers Wanted.—In

buying, by a cover collectom envelopes used in the mail of Pacific Islands. I offer 5 cents e for each one. Send me 100 H Envelopes in good condition i mail you back, via registered i plus postage. This offer exx envelopes of Fiji, N.Z., and I Send to: Mr. S. C. Jersey, 6311 worth Ave., Oak Park, Illino (Banking Reference; Maywocx State Bank, Maywood, Illinois, , ACCOMMODATE KANIMBLA HALL, 19-20 Tus« Potts Point, 5 mins, city, in Cross, modern, 9 floors, harlxf restaurant, S.C., furn. serviced separate Lounge, Bed & Batld K’ettes. Refrig., H.W. from 2Vzs for 2; from 4 Gns. for 3. T management. Write or Phonn Telegrams; “Kanimblahall”, Syj FURNISHED FLATS, Cremornn Water frontage, large, comfon bedrooms, linen and cutlery, to city. Enquiries: Nelson & s Pty. Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316. Syr, NORFOLK ISLAND, “Burnt I Estate Agency. Cable Addresia Norfolk Island”. Properties f 4 peaceful surroundings and climate of Norfolk Island. AIL promptly attended to.

HOLIDAY FLATS, comprising/ room, bedroom, kitchen and refrigeration, radio, cleaning so; 5 mins, city centre. 12 Spring!

Potts Point, Sydney. Tel.: FAfc

Employment And

Accommodation Bureau

Douglas St., Pt. Moresby, Papua Next Yellow Top Taxis. Tel.: 2455.

Arrange for: European and Native Tradesmen, Painting and Plumbing Contracts (under European supervision); Visitors’ Laundry, Dressmaking and Mending. Tested Houseboys and Clerks; Houses, Factories, Land, etc., Rented, Inspected and Sold; Purchase of Shells; Typing of all kinds. Duplicating.

Furnished Sydc

(AUST.)

Rose Bay North—Vauo

Overlooking Ocean with CD

Semi-Detached Bi

COTTAGE ACC.: Lounge, Dinrm., 2 B 3 Enel, front ver., 3-6 Months—Rent £B/18/6' Apply by airmail: J. F. KEIRAN PTY.

ROSE BAY, N.S.W. . ’Phones: FU 7126-FU7K Holiday Cottages.

Views.

Refrig., ’Phone Available _ CAHILL'S

Drive Yourself Cars [Jj

93 George St., Brisbane

Phones: B 0505—8 4132 1957 Latest Model Holden Sedans OPEN SUNDAY, 8 a.m.-12 noon.

AFTER HOUR PHONE NOS.: PW 1596, XW3414. XA 4323 Write or Phone for Price List. 158 MARCH, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MO:

DV S N (3? < I i 9mnU * U ftiM tiaruji of i i U*

Enamelised Paint

Excellent gloss retention with long protection for all exterior surfaces.

VELUSTRE High quality oil paint gives proved exterior durability.

VELVENE Velvet finish water paint for cement, brick, plaster, etc.

VIKYLITE The highest quality full gloss enamel, will stand abrasion and repeated' washing.

VELTONE Conventional type flat oil paint for all interior surfaces.

DAVCO One coat metal paint.

Anti - corrosive, lead free, suitable for all metal surfaces.

SUEDE New type alk y d flat enamel for inside or outside, perfect matt finish.

DAVISON Obtainable from:— Brown & Woods Ltd., RABAUL.

Madang Slipways Ltd., MADANG.

Norfolk Trading Coy., NORFOLK IS.

K. H. Dalrymple Hay, HONIARA, 8.5.1.

A. H. Bunting Ltd., SAMARAL Buntings, LAE, GOROKA, POPONDETTA.

Davison Paints Limited

Box 24, P.O. AUBURN, N.S.W.

Sole Agents for Territories of Papua, New Guinea, New Britain: LES CLARK & SON PTY. LTD., 27-29 King Street, Sydney.

Index to Advertisers Page 1 ... 33 . . . 94 :cept. . 76 Union 64 F. . . 66 ies . . 40 k . . 132 orderns 16 I. V. . 136 ». . . 154 jency . 69 ; ... 51 SW 39, 71 ; ... 74 ryn . . 9 & . 2, 134 lodge . 60 e . . 101 Mice 42 ills . 156 is. . . 38 liday . 48 }s. . . 97 S. . . 98 lotors . 9 Co. . 87 H. . 109 , 74, 85, 96, 131 . . . 138 .abs. . 41 veries 112 Id. . . 72 . . . 99 Pty. ... 98 . 50, 75 at . .68 on . 106 Ith . . 126 Co. . 52 . . . 107 irg. . 44 & M. 144 its . 159 . . 122 . C. . 55 )er . 117 Co. . 14 . . . 37 . . 113 . . . 90 . . 107 . . . 46 . . 121 . . 145 decke 118 . . 110 . . . 56 il . . 10 L A. . 86 is. . . 90 . 1, 35, 111, 128 les . 130 Paints 11 i) . . 13 )ks . 151 . 38, 49 . . . 101 ons . 59 Hall 147 . Co. 110 ssels 140 . . 91 lobertute . 65 . . 137 Byrne 54 . . 139 . . 36 • . 5, 30 t . . 62 Page K.L.M 12 Kennedy, Capt. . 58 Kerr Bros. ... 141 Kiwi Polish ... 66 Kopsen & Co. . . 100 Lanchoo Tea ... 3 Maize Products . 93 Marine Spares . 61 Marrickville Marg. 150 Mcllrath's ... 31 McWilliam, W. . 153 Mendaco .... 113 Millers Ltd. ... 67 Morris, P. ... 34 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 123 Mungo Scott . . 41 Murex Pty. Ltd. . 148 Nathan & Wyeth . 27 N. & R. . . 63, 105 Needham & Co. . 114 Nestles .... 43 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 88 Nixoderm ... 109 N.Z.N.A.C. ... 4 P.A.A 32 Pan Pacific Service 157 Papuan Prints . . 94 Penfold, W. C. . 45 P. I. Line ... 8 Piccaninny Wax . 155 Qld. Insurance . 51 Ransomes Co. . 118 Rex Hotels ... 37 Riverstone Co. . 124 Rohu, Sil . . . 97 "Rouna" . . . .152 Seppelt & Son . 120 Seward Ltd. . . 54 Shaw Savill ... 7 Shell Pty. Ltd. . 104 Spruso Co. . . . 28 S.T.C. Co. . . . 89 Stapleton, J. . . 93 Stewarts-Lloyds . 133 S. P. Brewery . 125 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 33 Sullivan Ltd. . 42, 122, 129 Suva Motors . . 62 Symonds, R. . .70 Tait, W. S. . . 127 Tatham, S. E. . . 70 Thornburgh College ... 125 Thornycroft Co. . 61 Tilley Lamps . . 107 Tillock & Co. . 102 Tivoli Bookshop . 149 Tongala Milk . . 116 Tooth & Co. . . 73 Turners & Growers 114 Tyneside Eng. . . 95 United Insurance 141 U.R.D 53 Vacuum Oil . . 146 Van Gelder, J. P. 65 Ventura .... 160 Vi-Stim .... 137 Vincent's APC . . 29 Vincent Bros. . . 103 Wallis Bros. . . 57 Warringah Marine 58 Warnock .... 106 Westfield Meats . 108 White, John . .142 White Rose ... 69 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 Wills Ltd. ... 92 Wrigley's ... 115 Wunderlich Co. . 119 Yorkshire Ins. . 73 Young, Harry . . 135 159 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1957

FIJI Aug.. ’39 June, ’55 1 Emperor . . . b9/ll sl4/- 1 Loloma . . . S25/6 b23/9 1 PAPUA-NEW GUINEA# Bulolo . . , . bl24/b47/- N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 sl/9 1 Oil Search . b3/ll s9/- 1 Rnt. of N.G. , — b3/- 1 Oriomo Oil . b5/s4/6 1 Papuan Apin. b4/ll s3/- i Placer Dev. . b68/6 S295/- 1 Sandy Creek . bl/5 S9d 1 The Fiji Times Established 1869 Published Every Morning Except Sunday, The Fiji Times is the only English Language Daily Newspaper in the South Pacific Islands. It is Distributed by Fiji Airways and Road Bus Services, Every Day, all over Fiji, Details of this Effective Advertising Medium May Be Obtained at The Fiji Times’

Australian Office PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD,, Technipress House. 29 Alberta St.. Sydney, and Newspaper House, Collins St., Melbourne.

Proprietors : FIJI TIMES AND HERALD LTD., Gordon St., Suva, Fiji Consign Your Shell To VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD.

26 Bridge Street, Sydney

We can offer highest prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are Sn Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; SUS 2.23.) COPRA (1957 MOF price not yet finalised).

Price negotiated between British Ministry of Pood and British South Pacific Territories for 1956 was £ Stg.sB/10/- FOB main ports—a reduction of 10% on the 1955 price. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to producers to those given below, per ton: PAPUA - NEW GUINEA:—Hot A 1 r £ A62/10/-; FMS (Sun-dried) £A6I/15/-; Smoked £AS9 FlJl:— Plantation £FS7/5/6 for top grade; FMS £FS7; moister grades £FSS/18/- to £ F54/2/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:—Sellers: 22/6-23/6 per 100 lbs. Exporters; £S4I and £S47 f.o.b.

Apia, for two grades.

E. SAMOA: —Producers receive 5 cents lb. (SUSII2 or £ A5O approx, per long ton). Periodic bonus, if average proceeds exceed Govt, buying price and expenses.

SOLOMONS: —Honiara/Gizo: Hot Air £ A6l/10/-; Mixed HA/FM £AS7; FM £ A52/10/-.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Buying price on Feb. 19 fell from 5,800 Pac. francs to 5,750 Pac. francs (£A4O/5/-) delivered Vila/ Santo. European price 67,000 Met. francs (about £AB4/5/-) c.i.f. per short ton.

NEW CALEDONIA; —Noumea, Feb. 20: The price has fallen to 7,250 Pac. francs (about £ A5O).

FRENCH OCEANIA: —Recent prices were: Top grade 10.50 Pac. francs per kilo (£ A62/15/- per long ton) f.0.b., Papeete; minimum for lowest grade 5.35 Pac. francs t £ A 39 per long ton).

TONGA:—A Grade. £TS2/5/-: B Grade, £ T46/5/-.

COOK IS.:—Local price is based on £NZSB/14/4 (£Stg.sB/10/-) per ton f.0.b., in bulk. Outer islands copra producers receive approx. 3Vid NZ per lb. equal to £ NZ3O per ton.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which on Mar. 7 was £Stg.l77/10/- per ton, c.i.f. London.

P.-N.G.;—Good grade quote No. 1 £230; quote No. 2 £220, both ex wharf Sydney.

W. SAM.: Feb. 27. £Stg.2ls. f.o.b. Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grade quote No. 1: 6Z6-6/9; quote No. 2; 6/9 per lb.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.: Virginia bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/9 per lb. del.

Sydney; other 1/5 del. Sydney.

RUBBER; —P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Mar. 6, was: No. 1 RSS, spot, 89 Vz Straits cents (33d Aust. approx.) per lb.

VANILLA BEANS; Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported on February 11; New crop, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 56/-. Green, 54/- per lb.

RICE (Australian); —Price from May 1, 1957 P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed. 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £6l per ton, f.0.b.; under 5 tons £6l/10/per ton. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £67/10/per ton f.0.b.; under 5 tons, £6B per ton.

To be revised in May: Other Pac. Islands. —Dry, brown, etc., £7O per ton, f.o.b.

Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices between the majority of the Torres Strait c and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) fore mained as for 1955, 1.e.: Souit £A736; D, £A39O: E. £A3OO; E 3 all f.0.b., Australian ports; Ma:£ quotation by independent!

Sound £ AS00; D, £A67O; E 5 EE, £ A 260. Cook Is.-Manihikii f.o.b. Rarotonga. Tuamotus. 171 francs per kilo (£ Al,ooo-£Aft. long ton) f.o.b. Papeete.

TROCHUS: —One Sydney agenri 8 quoted, in store; N. Heb.c N.G.. £ A 520; and 8.5.1., £A525.. another quoted: N.G., £AS2O, fl GREEN SNAIL:—Quote No.j Pacific, in store, Sydney, £A4ffi : to rejects. Quote No. 2: £A4SO-i

London And U.S. Prio

Copra:—London. March 7: Malaya, c i.f. European contiii weights, March/April £ 5tg.677 Philippines, in bulk, March/A (seller). New York, March 7; P 1! c.i.f. U.S. Pacific Coast poo (nominal).

Coconut Oil:—London, March crude, c.i.f. bulk, Mar./Apr. £i* ton (seller). London, February It in bulk. c.i.f. United Kingt?

European ports, Feb.-Mar. £ Stg.93 (nominal).

Rubber. —London: Mar. 6: Spq Stg.26%d lb. (nominal). Apr./Jvl Mar. 26y 4 d.

Green Snail:—London, Feb. 9: £ 5tg.565; Penang, £ Stg.s6o, alii ton, c i.f.

Trochus:—London, Feb. 9: £Stg.sBs; Singapore, £Stg.6oo; i Macassa, £Stg.s7o; Mergui, £SB per long ton, c.i.f.

Islands Mining S[?]

Exchange Rate

FlJl.—Through BANK OF N/.

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Auu Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £ Selling. £ All 3. Fiji-London, bd London: B, £llO/15/-: S. £ 112. S basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. .

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF tralia on Samoa, basis £ 10CC B £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9,€ London, basis £lOO London: 8.. J S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis B. £100: S. £lOO/10/-, Samoa- £loo Samoa: B. £111; S. £11(1

Papua - Ng —Commonwealt

(Pt. Moresby. Lae, Rabaul, GoroHi Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK (branches; Port Moresby. Laej Rabaul, Madang, Samarai. agencies: Wau, Boroko. Kokopo) ( BANK (Port Moresby) quote rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- pq

Bsi Commonwealth Bank!

at Honiara) quotes exchange tralia-BSI: 10/- per £AIOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pack: most valuable of the three fraa in French Union, are used in I donia. New Hebrides, and Fr. .• FRENCH BANK (Comptoir D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydnei Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.:: fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth quotes exchange rate Australia!

Island; 5/- per £AIOO. b priMe^ I fn C Ai^M^ C^ Tl( +v! S LTD - 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set P dm Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street. Sydney.

A PB5 • This enchanting scene could be some place in Europe . . . but it’s not ! It’s right in the South Pacific ; to be precise, New Zealand, a country as famous for the fatness of its trout as for the refreshing qualities of its climate.

And it’s so easy to reach ... by TEAL ! Look at the map below to see how many important places in the South Pacific are within such easy reach of New Zealand (and of each other) when you fly TEAL. Your Travel Agent will be glad to tell you more about TEAL air routes serving the South Pacific ... or enquire at any TEAL, office.

Guess where k NORFOLK IS. ® TONGA SAMOA e AUCKLAND

Cook Islands

SYDNEY a# CHRISTCHURCH \N EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED, NEW ZEALAND’S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH Q ANT AS AND 8.0.A.C, MARCH. 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

Capital £2,500,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Wholesalers And Retailers

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, Europeae

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS;

Distributors Of Every Descriptor

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address; G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney In London: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3, ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FUI: New Guinea Company Limited, Island Products Ltd., Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., 58 Rabanl, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

Port Moresby. f'CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH. 1957