Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXVII, No. 11 ( Jun. 1, 1957)
1957-06-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly JUNE, 1957 Vol. XXVII. No. 11 szdt '- r ed | emission ?;. v pent as a new paper] These four young Highlanders, wearing their best bunches of leaves, attend a Highland Gatering of the New Cuinea sort. Civilisation has sneaked upon them, however-note the tobacco tin tucked under the arm of the second boy from the right. (See page 84 this issue).

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ivailable from these I.H. distributors in the S.W. Pacific mSTHUtUTOMtS: PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA: Steamships Trading Company Limited, Port Moresby. SOLOMON ISLANDS: Mr. K. H. Dalrymple Hay, Honiara.

NEW CALEDONIA; Agence Automobile, Noumea.

FIJI, TONGA AND SAMOA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Limited. TAHITI: Hintze and Company, Papeete. NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Pty. Limited.

Sydney. DUTCH NEW GUINEA; H. Englebert n.v.

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FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1957

The China Navigation Co. Ltd

M.S. SHANSI Sydney Brisbane Port Moresby Samarai and return.

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

M.S. SINKIANG .... Melbourne Sydney Port Moresby Samarai Lae Madang Rabaul and return.

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.Q.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Cable: Colyeram. New Guinea Co. Ltd., Kavlen Cable: "Camohe”.

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

MELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shinning) Ptv. Ltd.. 11l William Street. Cable: Syndicate. (A British Company incorporated within the United Kingdom ) ' ~i

New Guinea Australia Line

Passenger and Cargo Liners Regular Services between AUSTRALIA and NEW GUINEA

Japan Hongkong New Guinea

New Monthly Service between JAPAN, HONGKONG and NEW GUINEA (Returning via Australia to Japan Direct) S.S. FUNING "I Japan Hongkong Madang Kavieng Rabaul Lae I S.S. FENGNING r 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. lusunaraa, usasa, K.ooe: tsuuerneia & swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable: swire.

GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd., 6 Bridge St., Sydney. Cable: "Swlreshlp’

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire. 6 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

ORSOVA ORONSAY ORION SYDNEY depart July 12 Aug. 6 AUCKLAND arr/dep — July 16 Aug. 10 SUVA arr/dep .

July 18 Aug. 14 HONOLULU arr/dep — July 23 Aug. 20 VANCOUVER arrive — July 2» Aug. 27 depart — ■ July 30 Aug. 27 SAN FRANCISCO arr — Aug. 1 Aug. 30 depart ■ Aug. 2 Aug. 31 HONOLULU arr/dep — Aug. 6 Sep. 5 SUVA arr/dep June 29 Aug. 13 Sep. 13 AUCKLAND arr/dep July 2 Aug. 16 Sep. 16 SYDNEY arrive July 5 Aug. 19 Sep. 20 iking the Pacific Islands with { Zealand 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 mstalled in every cabin, passengers rest in cool comfort even during the hottest weather. 56 m KM Cinema Theatre Spacious Lounges Two Swimming Pools Unencumbered Sports Decks Shaw for full particulars apply: FIJI Any Branch or Agency of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Head Office: Suva. Cable address: Burnsouth.

TAHITI Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

Cable address: Donald, Papeete.

Shipping Time-Tables lllngs are approximate and may y'by as much as two weeks.

Jney-Papua-N. Guinea [alekula sails from Melbourne for [ Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, [ Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Port f Sydney. Next Sydney sailing July 2. (falaita sails from Sydney for i, Rabaul, Kavieng, Lombrum, k, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Sydney, dney sailing approx. July 9. (ulolo, modern liner, sails about x weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port Samarai, Lae, Madang, Lomlabaul, Samarai, Port Moresby, , Sydney. Next Sydney sailing ily 16. lontoro sails from Sydney, for , Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Lae, Port Moresby, Sydney, Mel- Next Sydney sailing approx. July from Burns, Philp & Cos. Ltd., Street, Sydney. nkiang: Left Sydney June 20 for >resby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, tansi: Next Sydney sailing June Brisbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, Lae. ochow: Next Sydney sailing June Jrisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai. from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., St., Sydney. >ydney-Dutch N.G. veeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silinibigo and Sinabang carrying pasand cargo from E. Australian Hollandia and Sorong, DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if Inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next Sydney sailings: Silindoeng July 3, Sibigo July 24, Sigli about Aug. 24.

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

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia (Calling S.W. Pacific ports on sonth-boand journeys only.) SS Fengning: Southbound due Madang July 3, Kavieng July 5, Rabaul July 7, Lae July 11, Port Moresby July 15.

SS Puning: Southbound due Madang Aug. 11, Rabaul Aug. 13, Lae Aug. 17, Samarai Aug. 21. Port Moresby Aug. 23.

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

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Aros, Citos, 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 quarterly calls at Gizo (opt.), Honiara and Vanikoro.

Citos: Southbound due Rabaul July 3, Lae July 6, Brisbane July 14, Sydney July 18, Adelaide July 23, Melbourne July 29.

Milos: Southbound due Lae July 29, Rabaul Aug. 3, Honiara Aug. 6, Vanikoro Aug. 10, Brisbane Aug. 17, Sydney Aug. 21, Melbourne Aug. 26.

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 Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland: July 9.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Australia-New Zealand - Canada - USA Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1957. 7 ? IC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 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 TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - New Guinea

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

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

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

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

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

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

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JME A.W.P.L. FLEET now comprises the modern Swedish Motor Vessels "Arcs", "Citr Delos'" and "Milos" which offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from A trafia to Mam Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage cal Is « made at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.

Quarterly calls are made at Honiara and Vanikoro on the Southbound voyage.

Further particulars may be obtained from: IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 63 Pitt St.. Sydney. Phone: BUI Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. ’Phone: MB 2840. iai*OT> ALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide; Gibbs, Bright & Co.

Islands Trading Corporation Mr ‘ A ‘ Strachan: Lae ’ Mr - R Tebb : Rabaul. Town Transport Ltd.; Honiara. British Soli FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila. Hong Kong & Japan.

Apia. Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland: June 27.

Details from all offices of Union Steam Ship Cos. of NZ.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maul Pomare maintains a regular service between Auckland and the Cook Islands.

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

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila, Santo, Honiara. Tenaru, Yandina, Loavie, Pepesala, Somata, Gizo, Bougainville ports. Next Sydney sailing approx. July 9.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-L Vessels of Messageries Maritinn coming from Marseilles, via Wez and Panama, call about every s* at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), and Sydney, and return by sam At present on this run are the ships, Tahitien, Caledonien andc gent. Next sailing from Sydney donien June 25, Tahitien August MV Polynesie (Messageries Mi] maintains about monthly passenu ings between Sydney and Noura the New Hebrides. Next Sydney l Polynesie July 5. August 2.

Details from Sydney agents; Me Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, I Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pa Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-p liner Southern Cross makes four the-world voyages per year, tw bound, then two east-bound, ca Suva and Papeete every trip. Next Suva July 16, Tahiti July 20-21..

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides Pacific Islands Transport Line’;' Thorsisle and Thorshall main regular service from Pacific Coai.

American ports, with sailings ovj days. Some ports depend on cargoes; Thorshall: In the Pacific due Ps June 25-26, Apia June 27-28, Suva Lautoka July 3-4, Noumea July "

Vila July 10, Townsville July 141 Francisco (inbound) July-Aug.

Thorsisle; San Francisco July 5 Angeles July 12-13, Papeete Jul Pago Pago Aug. 1-2, Apia Aug. 2 8 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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NAME ADDRESS P.I.M. -8 Lautoka Aug. 9-10, Noumea Aug.

Lae Aug. 20-21, San Francisco (in- ISept. 9.

Us from General Steamships Corm Ltd., 432 California St., San sco. USA, and Islamd Agents. 5-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia Bi-Oceanic Line of San Francisco s a regular five-weeks passengerservice from Los Angeles with the i, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma, n terminal ports vary with cargoes Vessels call at Papeete, Pago md Suva, depending on cargoes, tfling from Sydney: Alameda about >, Sonoma early July, Sierra late ydney-Fiji-Vancouver B Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subof W. R. Carpenter & Cos.) operate ce three times yearly with the ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba ;he above route. Accommodation ely First Class, two-berth cabins, ailing from Sydney, June 27, Is at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu, s from American Trading & Ship- . Pty.. Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney. ydney-(or NZ)-North America four cargo vessels, Waihemo, ~ Waikawa. and Waitomo, owned irated by the Union Steam Ship NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly across the Pacific, from Sydney ouver ana USA ports, via Suva.

Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes offer. Occasional calls are made at Fanning Island. They have limited passenger accommodation. Next sailing: Waikawa late July. The Waitemata, from NZ ports, makes 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver, via Rarotonga and Papeete.

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 & Cos., Honolulu, or Etablissements Donald, Papeete.

N. 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.

Mariposa: San Francisco June 30, Los Angeles July 1, Papeete July 9-11, Auckland July 17-18, Sydney July 21-24, Auckland July 27, Suva July 30, Pago Pago July 31, Honolulu Aug. 5-6, San Francisco Aug. 11.

Monterey; Due Sydney June 25-28, Wellington July 1, Papeete July 5-7, Hono- 9 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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

Airways Time-Tables

Transpacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

(With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Sun., Tues.. Thur.. Fri.: Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is., Honolulu. San Francisco, Los Angeles, ' Seattle, Portland.

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Sat.: San Francisco, Los Angeles to Sydney (same route). • DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Nadi Sun., Tues., Thur., departing Nadi Tues., Thur., Sun. DC4 shuttle service bi-weekly connects Nadi and Tafuna (American Samoa).

Next flights June 27, July 11, etc.

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 Tun and Pri. northwards; Wed. and Si< wards.

Note: Wed. and Pri. services ea connect at San Francisco witi service to London departing San Thu. and Sat. BOAC service, e:i on Tue. and Thu. connect at SE cisco with Qantas Thu. and SatJ to Sydney.

By Canadian Pacific Airj

(With Super DC-6B Aircrae Every Wed.: Sydney, Aucklant Honolulu, Vancouver, Amsterds Every Sun.: Leaves Vancouver fi land and Sydney by same touj (Note: Crosses date-line en roc

Sectional Services

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guin Service by Qantas Empire AL (Skymasters) NORTHWARDS Mon.

Depart: A/ Sydney, 6.30 p.m. Brisbane, Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Tues.

Depart- M Townsville,, Townsville, 2.50 a.m. Pt. Moresby; Pt. Moresbv 7.35 a.m. Ls Tues., Fri., Sat.

Depart: A< Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, Brisbane, 11.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby* Wed., Sat., Sun.

Pt. Moresby, 7.35 a.m. La Thurs.

Depart: M Sydney. 8 p.m. Brisbane, II Brisbane, midnight.

Fri.

Cairns, Cairns, 6.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby Pt. Moresby, 10.5 a.m. Lae, SOUTHWARDS Tues.

Depart: A Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Townsville Townsville, 5.45 p.m. Brisbane,, Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Wed.

Sydney, Wed., Sun.

Depart: A Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane Brisbane, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, Fri.

Depart: A Lae, 12.45 p.m. Pt. Mores'?

Pt. Moresby, 2.45 p.m. Brisbane,; Brisbane, 10.20 p.m. Sydm i Sat.

Depart: A Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Cairns,?

Cairns, 4.50 p.m. Brisbane,, Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Sun.

Sydney, 3. P NG Internal Sen Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New; (DCS) Alt. Wed. (June 26, July 10, 24£ Departs Lae 11.00 a.m., calls a and Wewak, and arrives at ; 3.30 p.m. Every alternate (June 27, July 11, 25, etc..

Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and, at Wewak and Madang, aij at 3.20 p.m. 10 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MOM

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Lae-Manus (Dcs)

;d 'June 26, July 10, 24, etc.). ie 8.00 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul [erg. arr. Manus 3.00 p.m. lit Sat. (June 29, July 13, 27. etc.) rts Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at leng. Rabaul and Finschhafen res Lae at 2.50 p.m.

P MORESBY-KIKORI (Catalina) le Is., Kerema, Vaimuru; Alt. Frl. |ning same day (July 5, 19, etc.). ;T MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) irema, Kikori: Alt. Fri. returning 1-Port Moresby direct same day t 28, July 12, 26. etc.).

MORESBY-SAMARAI (Catalina) resby, Samara!. Pt. Moresby: Alt. \ (July 2, 16, 30. etc.). 1 MORESBY-RABAUL (Catalina) les. (June 25. July 9, 23, etc.) Moresby-Moewe Harbour-Talasea- Binot Bay-Rabaul, returning via i ports (June 27. July 11, 25, etc.)

;W Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) L (June 26. July 10, 24. etc.) Rabaul. , Teopasino, Kieta, Buin. Returname day.

E-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Lavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) )ep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, 81, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., direct tf ng, arr. 9.25 a.m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, , Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, 1.05 p.m. ep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng. is. Wewak, Madang, Lae. arr. p.m.

Ntral Highlands (Dcs)

Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wapenamunda, g at any of; Qoroka, Nondugl, MlnJ, Mt. Hagen, Balyer R., mtu, Wapenamunda. Arrival back e dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, callt any of Nadzab, Kaiapit, Gusap, a, Finintegu, Rintebe, Bena Bena. ntu, Goroka. Arena. Arrival back e depends on stops made. ■BULOLO-WAU (D.H. Beaver) Mon. 7.30 a.m., Tues. 11 a.m. iu: Mon. 8.55 a.m., Tues., 12.25 Bulolo is omitted on return flights take 30 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Olo-Wau-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Wed. and Sat. 9 a.m. via Bulolo, to Port Moresby, returning via route.

Iadang-Goroka (Dcs)

; Depart Madang 2 p.m., arrive a 2.35 a.m., returning same day; - Goroka 3 p.m., arr. Madang ».m.

V GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN-

Bougainville (Dcs)

Depart Lae 1.30 p.m., Finsch- -2.20 p.m., arrive Rabaul 4.30 >: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct !, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen , Rabaul 3.10 p.m. ; Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m.. Finsch- -8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m. ursdays (July 4. 18. etc.), jae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Rabaul, Rabaul, arr. 2.55 p.m. rs. (June 27. July 11. 25, etc.), 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Rabaul, 1.5 a.m. (June 28, July 12, 26. etc.). Dep.

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

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Port Moresby.

Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae Wed.; Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Poit. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.; Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang Goroka, Lae. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney and Amsterdam with a call at Biak (DNG) and Manila (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandla.

Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, Manokwarl, Noemfoer, Ranslkl, Genjem. and Kokonao. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Aircraft. (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (June 24, July 1, 15, 22, 29, etc.) Lae dep. 6 a.m.; Finschhafen, Rabaul, Buka, Vella Lavella, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, arriving 5.25 p.m.

Tuesday (June 25, July 2, 16, 23, 30, etc.) Honiara dep. 7 a.m.: Yandina, Vella Lavella, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arriving 3.35 p.m. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea- Auckland By Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux.

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every week (June 24, July 1, etc.) for Athens, Karachi, Saigon, Darwin, Brisbane, Noumea, Auckland. Leaves Auckland on return June 28, July 5, 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.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alt. Sat.; Dep. Sydney midnight, arr.

NX 6.45 a.m. Sunday; dep. NX 5.30 p.m. same day for Sydney, arr. 9.30 p.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. (June 27, July 11, 18, 25, etc.).

Sydney dep. 11.30 p.m., arriving Tontouta, 7 a.m. Fri. (June 28, July 12, 19. 26, etc.).

Fri. (June 28, July 12, 19, 26, etc.) Tontouta dep. 9.00 a.m., arriving Sydney, 2.50 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.in Vila 10.20 a.m., arrive Santo i;j depart Santo 1.30 p m., arrive ' 4.40 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-F Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft (Irregular Service) Next flights: July 7, Sept. 1. No 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckll TEAL, by Qantas (charter Alt. Sun.: Return flight Norfolk a.m.) Auckland (arr. 11.30 a.. 1.15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.1;. (See Table 8 above). 13. Auckland-Sydne* Tasman Empire Airways, DC6 aircraft.

Tue., Wed., Thu.: Departs A 930 a.m., arr. Sydney 1.00 j Sat., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 11.2 arr. Sydney 3.00 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 a.rr Auckland 5.00 p.m.

Tue., Thu.: Dep. Sydney 3. Of arr. Auckland 10.00 p.m.

Mon., Pri.; Dep. Sydney 11.30 pi Auckland 6.30 a.m. next day. 14. Christchurch-Sydi Tasman Empire Airways, wj DC6 aircraft.

Mon./Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.i, arr. Sydney 8.40 p.m.

Mon.; Dep. Sydney 8.00 a.m., arr; church 3 p.m.

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Dep. Christchurch 11.30 a.m., arr Durne 4.00 p.m. >ep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr itcburch 3.00 p.m. 6. New Zealand-Fiji sman Empire Airways, with DCfl aircraft. ed , Fri.: Dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., Nadi 9.15 p.m. )ep. Nadi 9.30 a.m., arr. Auck- -2.30 p.m.

Dep. Nadi 12.30 a.m., arr. Auck- -6.30 a.m. ;p. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr. Auck- -3.30 p.m. terican Airways, with Skymasters es.. Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 3 p.m., Jadi 10.15 p.m. r ed., Sat.: Dep. Nadi, 9.45 a.m., Luckland 5.10 p.m. 17. Fiji-Tahiti iman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft. normally fortnightly, with extra i as required.

Suva Thurs, 9 a.m., crosses datearrives Satapuala IW. Samoa) 1.55 p.m., departs Thurs. 2 a.m., s Aitutakl (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m., ;s 9.30 a.m., arrives Papeete ;1) 2 p.m. Departs Papeete Sun a.m., arrives Aitutakl 11 a.m., s 12.30 p.m., arrives Satapuala 5 departs Mon. 8 a.m., crosses datejrives Suva Tues., 10.55 a.m. uva June 28, July 5, 12, 19, 26, B, 29. Leaves Papeete June 30, ', 15. 21, 28, Aug. 11, Sept. 1. 18. Fiji-Samoa Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Aircraft.

Dep. Suva 6 a.m., arr. Satapuala 11.5 a.m.

Dep. Satapuala 1.30 p.m., arr. Suva 4.35 p.m.

Next flights from Suva July 4. 23, Sept. 9, crossing International Date Line and leaving Satapuala July 3. 22, Sept. 8. 19. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd., Drover Aircraft.

Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily except Sun., one flight.

Suva-Nadi: Tues., Wed., Fri. (additional to the above return flights).

Nadi-Suva; Wed., Thurs., Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Daily.

Suva-Taveuni-Suva: Fri., Sun.

Suva-Taveuni-Savusavu-Suva: Wed.

Suva-Savusavu-Taveunl-Suva: Thurs.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva: Tues.. Thurs.

Suva-Labasa-Taveunl-Labasa-Suva; Fri.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: Mon., Tues.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Sat., Sun. 20. French Oceania Inter- Island Service Regie Aerienne Interinsnlair (RAI), with Amphibious Catalina Twice weekly service to the Leeward Group.

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

Friday: Papeete. Huahine, Raiatea.

Papeete.

Booking agents in Papeete: Messagerles Maritimes. 21. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

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

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

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

Noumea, Mare, Llfou, Noumea, or Noumea, Lifou, Mare, Noumea, alternatively.

Thurs. a.m.

Noumea. Koumac, Noumea (with conditional call at Plaine des Galacs); Fri. a.m Noumea. Lifou. Ouvea Is.: Wed. mornings Noumea, Polndimle, Noumea (with conditional call at Houallou): Prl. p.m.

Noumea, He des Pins, Noumea: Saturday and Sunday afternoons. 22. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airlines.

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Pacific Islands Monthly Contents : No. 11. Vol. XXVII JUNE, 1957 EDITORIAL: New Shape and New Directions In An Effort To Save SPC .... 17 Prestige Boost from Christmas Island Bomb 19 Papua May Benefit from £l5 Million Aluminium Plan 20 Carlton United Joins Carpenters In Fiji Brewery Enterprise 21 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM Of 20 Years Ago 22 P-NG’s New Chief Justice .. 23 DCA Shoos Ansett Away From Port Moresby .. .. 24 Pacific Representatives In London For Copra Conference 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 27 Judge Phillips Dies In Melbourne 29 Elections For P-NG Legislative Council 30 Big Rewa Job For Mr.

Chalmers of CSR Co 31 Tug-Boats and Tourists For Tonga 32 New Guinea Diary 33 Imlay Trial Showed Up Extraordinary BSIP Copra Handling System 49 Research Council of South Pacific Commission Meets 53 New Link In Fiji Hotels Chain 55 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 57 There Are 3,000,000 In Djakarta 65 Change Over From Sugar Production In the Rewa Delta 67 White Women In a Papuan Gaol 69 Memories Of Capt. Klebingat In Tonga 71 Bank Sums Up the Cocoa and Coffee Markets 73 MAGAZINE SECTION: Madame Ingeborg de Beausacq, 77; The Industrial Empire of Unilever, 78; Tropicalities, 81; The Eye Of Tubou; 82; Little Flares Of Death, 83; This Month’s New Reading. 84; Your World Of Stamps .. 106 A Then and Now Story Of Busama, NO 109 Government Concessions Only Part-solve Fiji Mining Problems 115 P-NG’s Part In IGY Activities 117 Fiji Calls For Reports Instead of Action 119 More Bananas For New Zealand From Fiji 121 Wau Gets No More Agricultural Land 125 New Guinea Coffee Co. Issues £lOO,OOO Writ 133 More Luxury Lines For Pacific Route 135 Another Fibres Flap In P-NG? 137 The Mysterious Mystery At Tapini 138 Night-W atch i n g For All During IGY 139 The Murray Link With Papua Ends With Death Of Sir Gilbert 141 Cocoa Price Rises—Trochus Slumps 141 Notes On Commerce and Industry 145 OBITUARY: R. C. Rawley, Adi Ana Qereitoga; J. T.

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W Shape And New Directives: An Effort

To Save South Pacific Commission

IT for re-shaping and reicting the South Pacific amission goes to one of Ausablest young public servants ,m Douglass Forsyth, of the nent of External Affairs. Had come to the rescue, when he Commission probably would len put out of existence, as hy conception which grew vrong way. the Commission held its Conference”, early in May, is been some newspaper and Either about the value of the ts lofty aims and its good md the need for maintaina efficient order, so that it :ontinue to help raise the i of native living in the eas. lore one heard of the comrs, the more one realised y knew little of what they king about. ations which onsible for 16 ernlng Terri n the South Britain, Ausrance, United Vew Zealand, Netherlands) brought toafter World o do a necesd —n a m e 1 y, research into 1, health and ! problems of ;ive peoples, nd ways and of dealing •se problems, ordinate the rotation o f ecommendathe 16 sep- Administramad e a tier of mis- -s—excusable, because they ating someitirely new, leering in a therto un - Each little Government decades along its d, jealously n g its privmpletely into the fact out 90 per its problems imon to all territories, rst mistake, of course, was in selecting Noumea as the Commission’s headquarters.

The French were much more generous than any other country in providing accommodation: and the ex-wartime buildings of Anse Vata were very suitable for SPC purposes.

But Noumea is too far off the beaten track for an institution that should be in close and frequent touch with all Territories; so that the extra costs involved in transport, communications, and operation in two languages have been embarrassingly heavy. rjTHE second, and almost fatal x mistake, was in the system of co-ordination that was adopted.

Admirable work was done by the officials and associates of the Research Council—an astonishing mass of useful data of all kinds, affecting life generally in all the Islands, was assembled, classified, printed, and used as the basis of various recommendations; but those recommendations rarely reached the administrative machinery of the 16 Territories in a form capable of digestion and application.

The main fault was that the recommendations and reports had little if any authority behind them.

The great majority of officials in the individual Territories probably glanced with interest at the headings; some may have used the documents for guidance, at times; but, generally, those scores and hundreds of carefully compiled reports were just piled up in pigeonholes.

We have 144 books and pamphlets from the South Pacific Commission in PIM office, providing valuable material on scores of important subjects; but there is no indication how this data have been or are being used to improve and strengthen the various Islands Administrations.

THE fault, of course, has been in the link between the SPC and the 16 Administrations. (Over) It's on again!

FIRST NATIVE: What name something?

SECOND NATIVE: Politicians, dear boy. Must he Winter again down South. (An Australian Parliamentary party will again tour Papua-New Guinea—in July. See page 19.) 17 ic ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

In theory, the connection between formulation and implementation was through the Departments in the six countries which constituted the Commission. The SPC recommendations were supposed to go to the Ministers who appointed and instructed the Commissioners; and the Ministers were supposed to consider them, and then pass on those which they approved to the Islands Administrations, for implementation.

Of course, the usual thing happened.

Ministers are not trained administrators — in most cases they are merely successful politicians—and the Commission’s recommendations usually were lost somewhere between Noumea, the capitals of the six constituent countries, and the headquarters of the 16 Territorial Administrations. The latter usually got the reports upon which the recommendations were based; but no directive.

This weakness was pointed out soon after the SPC began to function; but no one took any notice.

Inevitably, under such conditions, the SPC began to fail and stumble.

Some men and women of outstanding ability, who had gone enthusiastically into the SPC service because of their love of the Islands and the Islands people, lost heart and went elsewhere. By the middle of 1956, the SPC was the target of growing criticism—some of it wellinformed and to the point (see PIM of June, 1956—p. 23).

IT appeared then, regrettably, that the days of the SPC were numbered. The SPC had the knowledge, the equipment, and a great eagerness to serve; but it lacked direction, did not know where to go, and more or less got in its own way.

It was then that W. D. Forsyth returned to Canberra from United Nations, where he had been Australia’s representative at Ministerial level. He had been the SPC’s first Secretary-General.

There is little doubt that Mr.

Forsyth was shocked by what he found; and he certainly acted quickly.

In the latter part of 1956, urgent representations went forth to London, Washington, Paris and The Hague from—it is believed—Canberra and Wellington. It was a question of either closing up the SPC, or making it work.

The other nations showed a spirit of co-operation; and the men they selected to represent them at the Review Conference of the South Pacific Commission in Canberra, at the end of April, fortunately were of a calibre suitable for the job.

The outstanding personalities —in addition to the Commissioners themselves—were Mr. P. Rogers. CMG.

Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office, London; and Mr. Forsyth.

By unanimous wish, Mr. Forsyth chaired” the Conference: and his guiding hand was perceptible throughout some strenuous days. He was ably supported, in the work of giving SPC new shape and direction, by Mr. Rogers.

IT really was a “review” conference. Some of the men who assembled there were very competent to review and criticise; and the collapse of the SPC structure could easily have been brought about.

But the reviewers decided that sufficient good had been achieved since 1949—though often in a blundering way—to justify an effort to maintain the SPC facade, while altering the structure somewhat and changing the machinery in certain important respects.

So far as outward appearances go, it is the same SPC—consisting of Commissioners appointed by six Governments, a Secretariat, a Research Council, and a triennial South Pacific Conference of native delegates from the 16 Territories.

But the 46 resolutions of the Conference (made public on June 1) show that the SPC has been told that it must “re-direct its efforts” and “revise its methods”—or get out.

It is not put into such brutal language—but that is what it means.

THE Commission is told that its “work programme”, instead of wandering across the wide fields of the Pacific, “should be concentrated on a limited number of activities, with clearly defined objectives of practical value to the Territories”, on a “long-term-basis”.

Furthermore, it is told to “refrain from engaging in basic scientific research except in those cases in which research is necessary to the solution of a problem of practical importance to the Territories.”

Resolutions 6 to 12, and 19 to 23, set out in detail the Review Conference’s demand that the SPC should establish a much closer liaison between the Commission’s work programme and the practical needs of the Territories. In other words, the SPC must develop its own channels of quick and effective co-operation with the Administrations of the Territories, instead of awaiting that long, slow and generally useless procedure of sending recommendations from Research Council to Commissioners, from Commissioners to Ministers, and from Ministers to Administrations.

By Resolutions 15 to 18, the SPC is told to revise the system under which it sought to accumulate a mass of expert reports on endless Islands subjects, and so make the SPC headquarters a sort of clearinghouse for technical information; and instead to deal directly, in a simplified way, with the various charge of research into Medicine, of technical and scientific guidance on a limited number of problems.

“Territories’ participation in the work of the Commission” is strongly emphasised.

“Governments should whether Commissioners hBB ficiently wide powers to ensj effective functioning of thr mission’’, says Resolutit significantly.

Resolution 27 says tha the Research Council lx well in the past, it no( not achieve maximum efficie: economy”, and should be con and operated in a new The three “Executive Offio charge of research into Economic Development ano Development) are retainer and the Secretary-General,, officio members of the Coun the Council of 12 is to be coc by six appointees nominated the Commission by the Governments, and two “Sc consultants”, recommended three Executive Officers s Secretary-General.

The Council is to meet year and the Commission down the list of topics for fj centrated attention.”

The South Pacific Cor (which now has met twice and once in Noumea) is to 0 to meet every three years; an is expressed a strong wish t next conference shall be in or New Guinea.

The Resolutions, as a rm form, go on to the six memb ernments. Their acceptances regarded as certain.

WE observers, who saw th mission brought inter watched its establishm studied its operations, ha\ one comment to make, in th of a question; Who is going 1 this new plan, and make is In the South Pacific Islam their six governing nations,, separate and independent A trations, there unquestiom need for a body like the SE functions effectively, it can real help to the Governme:; Administrations and the communities.

But it will not function eff unless it is under the dires sonal control of someone (0 Chairman, or Director, or SeE General, or anything else—tdoes not matter) who has perience and knowledge to rr the need for the SPC, as strength to instruct the poc Ministers and make the SII the service required.

In the past, there has H such personality in commanu SPC, and its decline in presfi usefulness was inevitable, first-class men were promines or twice, in its service; bu were too many gentlemen, few real managers and dfc among the Commissioners, ; good men never got a chr the top. An efficient manage can be a gentleman: he has too ruthless and brutal, if : 18 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

ient service out of the preieration of workers. leyiew Conference, and its utions, are all to the good, s praiseworthy effort will little unless there is strength ! f ion and control. There lave been a 47th Resolution, ing some outstanding peras Chairman, and giving 1 wide powers. [?]h Way Is Safe Way

Tige -Boost From

Stmas Bombs

[MENTATORS who were liming before Britain jd her two H-bombs off mas Island that they were little ones” are now claimat the second one is the st ever.” biggest droppable bomb anyqual to about 5,000,000 tons r. The US and the Soviet have built bigger ones—but >t yet devised means of transthem into enemy territory. ver, one pre-blast claim by itish appears to have been 1: so far as available reports V “haven’t hurt a fly.” Even which has its home islands by touchy gentlemen with ;ounters, concedes that they een “clean-bombs” with no ctive fall-out. 16 Europeans and 350 natives nning Island, nearest to las, felt, heard and experilothing on the day of the plosion. Neither have there my adverse reports from i, closest inhabited island to , where some of the tests pected to be made. have been no accidents with ctable wind changes and ,ng has gone to schedule. In it can be regarded as a i for British scientists and ?n a badly needed boost to prestige—which was, God badly nfeeded. ) with a Christmas Island a view of all that went beuld have been fatal in more an one. believed that there will be explosion in the present What is to hanpen to as Island after the series not known; but as the tests en (so far) successful, and UK has spent so much on allations, it is unlikely that be entirely relinquished.

ITS ON AGAIN!

Cold Weather Drives MP’s North WINTER down south brings head colds; up north, it brings Australian politicians.

Another two weeks, Papua-New Guinea tour, commencing July 10, has been arranged for eight Federal politicians. The party comes from both sides of the house and it will “make a general survey of conditions and Government administration in Australian-controlled territories.”

This has been going on for years, of course. During this time, Territorians have learned a lot about Austalian politicians. It is doubtful if Australian politicians have learned as much about Territorians.

The Minister for Territories, Mr.

Paul Hasluck, spent a couple of weeks in New Guinea, including the Highlands, in June. t Ratu Penaia Ganilau, Roko Tui Cakaudrove, has been elected by the Fiji Rugby Union to be tour manager of the Fiji rugby team to tour New Zealand. It will be recommended to the Government that Ratu Penaia be appointed Government representative with the team.

Mr. J. W. Ackroyd, headmaster of the Suva Boys’ Grammar School, has been appointed team manager, and Apakuki Tuitavua, who captained the Fijian teams in Australia in 1952 and 1954, is co-manager.

W. Samoa's Delayed Hydro Project Now Completed WESTERN Samoa’s Alaoa Hydro- Electric Scheme on the upper Vaisigano River, which was initiated by the former Director of Works, Mr. W. G. McKay, in 1952, and was delayed in 1955, when it was discovered that the earthen forebay, as constructed, would not hold water, has now been completed.

The electricity power supply for Apia and neighbourhood should now be sufficient for all requirements.

Work on the scheme was recommenced in April. 1956, after an amount of £85,500 had been spent.

An access road was then built, the forebay (reservoir) was effectively sealed and head works, outlets and reticulation improved at a total additional cost of £21,000.

The opening ceremony of the installations took place on June 3, the official birthday in W.

Samoa of Queen Elizabeth 11. Over 500 guests were invited.

The 600 acres of land on which the project was built was given to the Government by High Chief Malietoa Tanumafili 11. t The death occurred in Santo, New Hebrides, in May, of M. Leon Wright, for many years a planter in the Condominium. He leaves a wife and children.

Were Drifting for Six Months This plicture was taken from the Chilean frigate which, in late May, took in tow the bamboo raft "Tahiti Nui". (See page 103). Captain Eric de Bischop and four companions set out from Papeete, Tahiti, in November, 1956, to try to drift to South America. Within 400 miles of their goal they were caught in violent storms. The raft sank after it was taken in tow. The picture shows the raft and four of the crew shortly before they had to abandon ship. 19 F 'C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

As Beneficial As An Oil-Well

Papua May Benefit From A

£150 MILLION ALUMINIUM PLAN Developments which have followed swiftly upon the discovery of one of the world's largest bauxite deposits (bauxite ore is the basis of aluminium) in Cape York Peninsula, Northern Australia, may have a far-reaching effect upon the Australian Territory of Papua (south-east New Guinea). rE meaning of various moves which have been taking place in the past seven or eight years, under some veil of official secrecy, now is becoming clear.

We knew of deposits of bauxite (small in the Wessel Islands, and large in Arnhem Land), off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia, north and north-east of Darwin. But Weipa was found only in 1956.

There is a huge and growing world demand for aluminium.

The British Aluminium Company Ltd. (BAC) has a large share in producing the world’s supply.

The first step in aluminium pro- Auction is the location of large and accessible deposits of bauxite.

Bauxite carries a high proportion of aluminium in the form of hydrated oxide. The bauxite is taken out— it lies near the surface, so opencut mining usually is practicable— and crushed, and treated with chemicals, and put through large kilns; and thus is produced alumina, which is aluminium oxide.

The next, and very important stage, is the subjection of the alumina to massive electric current —an electrolytic process by which alumina gives up its pure aluminium, the light, tough metal which is the basis of an increasing number of m <Justries.

Therefore, the chief factor in the production of aluminium from bauxite is a massive supply of cheap electric power. It is provided, for the British Aluminium Company and its associates, by harnessing the rivers of Northern Scotland; for the North American producers by harnessing the great rivers of Northwest Canada, A FTER World War 11, those jnL North Australian bauxite deposits attracted increasing attention. Finally, in 1950, the Australian Commonwealth Government (as owners of the Northern Territory) and the British Aluminium Company, as producers of aluminium, became equal partners in a new Company called New Guinea Resources Prospecting Company Ltd.

Prospecting has been going on ever since.

Examination of the Arnhem and Wessel bauxite deposits was a comparatively simple technical proceeding. It was proved that the ore was present in Arnhem Land in huge quantities—but the Wessel deposits are not big enough to justify largescale working.

The provision of the necessary electric power was another matter, That is where “New Guinea” came into the Company’s title, The Commonwealth is interested in the establishment of aluminium production works at Bell Bay, in Tasmania. At one time, it was planned to carry the bauxite from Northern Australia to Bell Bay—but the cost of Australian labour, in mining and shipping the bauxite, rather discouraged that plan. It then was considered probable that the bauxite would be brought from deposits in Indonesia, Meanwhile, quietly and without publicity, experts began e» that great river, the Purar carries always a very largeE of water from Central Newthrough steep ranges into t of Papua. Here, said some p is potentially enough hydra power, running to waste in a almost uninhabitable coui refine all the aluminium or: South-west Pacific.

The survey went on froi 1951. Pacific Islands Monti. referred to it at intervals sir end to the interesting idea it all; but nothing seemed of it. We know now th;. serious obstacles were encoui • Difficulties in prepare for great dams and hydrc stations under “severe tropii ditions”—no exaggeration, view of anyone who has bees Gulf of Papua region. • Physical problems rep in building dams and tui “geologically immature o The Purari River comes down through limestone which have been descri terrifying.

In a geological sense, it : and unstable country. • It is country in whit almost impossible to buil storage dams to control the water. If the Purari is; harnessed, the “harness” ; applied to the minimum flow'—which means that onl cent, of the flow will be ■ However, there is enouglu according to the experts, t; a huge supply of hydrc power from only 10 per cem river. • There is no suitable, de] port anywhere on the Papu coast, westwards of Yule; There is a gap of 200 miles the probable hydro-electrii site on the Purari River, Yule Island harbour. • Finally, was there Arnhem Land bauxite in justify enormous construct! in the Purari-Yule Island ; That appears to have b position up until a few mon THEN the powerful Zinc * tion Limited—or some satellites —discovered thi deposits in the Weipa Riv on the western side of CaE Peninsula, in Northern Aust; Immediately, the whole produce aluminium from I Australian bauxite, per me massive electric power deves the Papuan rivers (the Weii deposits are a bare 500 mill across the eastern end o:< Strait, from the mouth of tH River) assumed a new shr significance.

The Australian Commi Government announced onr that: • The Commonwealth’s in New Guinea Prospectin This rough plan (from Sydney "Daily Telegraph") shows how the bauxite ore field, in the Weipa River area of the Cape York Peninsula, is situated in relation to the rivers which flow into the Gulf of Papua, eastwards of Port Moresby.

It is estimated that the Weipa River Bauxite deposits are about 500 miles from the top of the Gulf of Papua, and 650 miles from Port Moresby. other Bauxite deposits are on the coast west of Port Moresby, and 600-700 miles from of the Northern Territory, about 800 miles the Gulf of Papua. 20 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

Ltd. was being sold to Conted Zinc Pty. Ltd. onsolidated Zinc and British nium, now equal partners in guinea Prospecting Company, I continue to investigate New a’s hydro-electric potential.” ia 11 y, the investigation is d on the Purari River, and ler river). future surveys confirmed exions, those interests would d with a plan for the estabnt of a refinery for North lian bauxite, “which would over many years and would mdreds of millions of pounds.” lly, the maximum expendinvisaged in the whole plan ot exceed £150,000,000.) lere was an assurance that ndertaking would be pressed 3 with all possible speed.” nigh the world production of ium is now 3,000,000 tons per , buyers cannot get enough Ixperts calculate that demand )duction will double every ten i be seen that, so far as the re of Papua is concerned, development may rank in mce with the oil industry— when oil is discovered, plan that now is under close ration, and which will be ed with if present indications ifirmed by closer expert inion, consists of the following: )-electric works will be hed on the Purari River, in luitable place between the and the sea, for the produca very large volume of elecower will be carried by landross about 200 miles, to a be established in the deep d water behind Yule Island, there will be constructed a ictory for the reduction of urn by the electrolytic proport nearer the mouth of the £iver, in the Gulf of Papua, found and developed, it, of will be the site of the factory dis in turn will be 200 miles the bauxite deposits. But to date give little hope of port.) te will be mined at both Land (where there is an d 100 years’ supply) and at pa River (Cape York); rehere by chemical and kiln s to alumina; and the thence shipped across Strait to the new port on f of Papua, for further reby the electrolytic process, aluminium. have been suggestions that Jtric supply required might iced in Australia by nuclear I from the uranium deposits recently in Cape leninsula), instead of in and that the hydro-electric •om Papua might be brought undersea, across Torres Strait, to the Weipa River. But the experts definitely wipe out both suggestions.

If hydro-electric power can be produced cheaply enough from the Purari River, and if the bauxite deposits can be worked—and both propositions at the moment appear possible and feasible—the general plan outlined above will be implemented, and soon.

Present indications are that, with those two huge corporations (Zinc and Aluminium) in partnership and apparently eager to go on, the old Cinderella Territory of Papua is promised some startling and beneficial changes. If, on top of it, the oil industry is established, Papua’s future would appear rosy indeed. suggestion of racial discrimination.

It is considered possible that the Government will favour a system of licensed premises, apart from the ordinary hotels, wherein liquor of specified types will be available to all classes of people. The Government, in this way, would be able to maintain much closer supervision over the drinking system than is possible with ordinary hotels.

In New Guinea, Too

A somewhat similar problem has developed in Papua and New Guinea, where the more sophisticated natives are demanding access to liquor.

The natives of New Guinea are not nearly so advanced in the social scale as the peoples of Fiji; The New Brewery In Fiji

Carlton United, Melbourne, Joins

Carpenters In Enterprise

It has been announced that the new brewery now being built in Suva, Fiji, will be the joint enterprise of Messrs. W. R.

Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd. and Carlton United Breweries Ltd., of Melbourne.

THE idea of a brewery for Fiji came originally from Carpenter interests, and the launching of the enterprise last year was assumed to be entirely a Carpenter concern. However, the big Australian brewery company apparently came into the picture in recent months.

It is argued that the partnership (there will be only Carpenter and Carlton United in it) will be for the good of Fiji.

Both companies have limitless resources; Carpenters have the local knowledge and the Fiji organisation; Carlton United have the technical “k n o w-how”, so that a suitable brew is assured.

A brewery of modern design has been planned, and is now under construction in Suva; and no expense will be spared in the equipment.

The brewery will commence operations early in 1958.

Question Of

NATIVE DRINKING Under Government directions, a formal inquiry into the conditions governing the drinking habits of all races in Fiji is now in progress.

Under to-day’s conditions, the members of some races must have an official permit to drink alcoholic liquor. Many observers think that the “Permit” system has had its day and that it must be superseded by something else, without any In foreground—the beginnings of the new Suva brewery at Walu Bay.

Photo: Stinsons. 21 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

so that matter is more difficult for the Administration to handle.

One suggestion—now being considered by the Administration in P-NG—is that beer of a lesser alcoholic content be made available to natives there. But —such is human nature, no matter how primitive! beer becomes less desirable in the view of drinkers, as its alcoholic content decreases; until a point is reached when it is not wanted at all.

Another Brewery for New Guinea r[E brewery recently planned for Lae, New Guinea, by a company of which Messrs. R. F. Bunting, Lee Ashton and Meyer are prominent members, is now under construction.

A group of buildings is taking shape in the waterfront area, behind the Vacuum Oil Company’s establishment, and some people expect that the brewery actually will be in operation by the end of 1957. The administration already has provided suitable roads of access.

The problem of water-supply is being solved by the construction of a series of very large water-tanks, to take the run-off from the extensive roof area of the brewery buildings. Lae has a dependable rainfall of about 160 inches per annum, spread over most of the months.

The coming of the brewery seems to have precipitated a kind of war in empty bottles. Until recent times, in most Territory towns, empty bottles accumulated in vast heaps—it was not economic to send them away, and no one wanted them.

Now, in Lae, they are not only being gathered up—some interested parties actually are buying them. It is not clear whether the bottles are being sought by the brewery, or by the existing aerated water factory, or by a new aerated water factory that is being organised by Chinese interests. Anyway, bottles are in active demand.

Observers expect to see some lively competition in beer distribution, very soon. This always has been a good market for certain Australian beers; the South Pacific Brewery, established in Port Moresby after World War 11, now enjoys a wide and profitable demand for its products; and it is unlikely that they will admit the newcomer to their domain without resistance.

Much may depend on the quality of the brew. The original South Pacific brewer, Mr. Meyer, is the man in charge of the new enterprise. Flats for the accommodation of Mr. Meyer, and his assistant, Mr. Neimann, already have been constructed near the site of the new brewery.

A block containing offices, bathrooms, visitors’ room, chemical store room, laboratory and employees’ recreation room has been erected, and the stumps are in for the 160 ft. x 60 ft. main building.

When completed, the plan includes garage, workshops and storage room and the three rain water tanks. The catchment area of 20,000 square feet will give 1,000,000 gallons of water a year on Lae’s average rainfall. A well will supply water for the ice-plant.

The main building will house a fully automatic plant capable of filling 300 dozen bottles an hour.

Plant, most of which is to be imported from England and Germany, at a cost of over £50,000. will include mash filters, fermenting tanks and lager tanks.

It takes approximately 2 gallons of water to make one gallon of beer, and with 1-million gallons of rain water at its disposal the company should be able to produce half a million gallons of beer a y’ is anticipated, however, 250,000 gallons will be pi initially.

Fiji Birthday Hon[?]

THE following decorationj awarded to residents of the recent Queen’s B!

Honours: CMG: Mr. G. K. Roth, Se for Fijian Affairs.

CBE (Civil Division) ; Mr Scott, DEC.

MBE (Civil Division) : Mr.

Warner, Registrar of Co-oj Societies; Mr. L. H. Simpson, Levu copra planter; ' Ramaqa, Senior Assistant ; Practitioner.

BEM (Military Divii Warrant-Officer O. Johanss Military Forces.

Colonial Police Me

Superintendent J. Colclough, intendent in charge, We; Division; Sergeant Nemani senior sergeant in Fiji Police

Do You Remember ?

From RIM of 20 Years ago NEW Guinea was the big news In our issue of June, 1937 that Territory having struck a patch of news-worthy happenings that would have caused a rash of headlines to-day—and even in those more conservative days caused the Australian rival dailies, Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegravh to charter special planes and make expensive arrangements to get the story (and the pictures) first.

Here are some items from our issue of 20 years ago: About eight pages of that June issue were devoted to a description of the Rabaui eruption which began on May 28, 1937, with earth tremors. On May 29, Vulcan—formerly a small fiat island—erupted and built up a cone 600 feet high, and on May 30 Matupi crater followed suit. The population of Rabaui was evacuated to a tent-town at Kokopo and on June 9 the Burns Philp steamer "Montoro" took 75 women and children, at Government expense, to Australia. Two Europeans lost their lives and a month after the eruption over 400 natives were still missing.

About 10 days after the eruption, with the actual danger passed, there arose sharp conflict between the Administrator and the civilians as to whether Rabaui was again habitable or not. The Administrator said it was; most residents said it was not. The conflict as to whether Rabaui was fit for a capita! continued from then until a few years ago— when it was decided that, taking everything into consideration, it was still the best place in New Britain for a town. ❖ ❖ ❖ En route form Lae to Madang on June 20, 1937, the Burns Philp flag-ship of the Sydney- New Guinea service, MV "Macdhui", was damaged by two fires that broke out on board, and she was left drifting with engines disabled.

In response to SOS calls, BP's "Neptuna" reached her the following day, picked up her passengers and towed her to Salarr which port she sailed direct toi Passengers were loud in their prais master. Captain A. Campbell, and who fought the first fire in the eng; and the later fire in the hold.

It was announced that a contra weekly air-mail service from Sydney 1 with calls at intermediate points, let to W. R. Carpenter and Co., initial period of five years. Carpei ordered three DH 868 planes from Bl it was expected that they would service in January, 1938. Calls would at Brisbane, Cooktown, Port Mores and Salamaua, and 15 passengers carried as well as mails. (Things havi since then! Wau was the centre of . ing gold-mining industry then, am small farming community as it is ton of course, to-day Salamaua simply exist as a town at all).

Amongst other Coronation Day Fiji had the foundation stone laid new Government Offices. In a le< under the stone were buried copies day's "Fiji Times", "Shanti Dut" (tt newspaper) and the Fijian journal "N.l The CSR Co. reported that the pc pineapples in Fiji has proceeded a: expected and fulfilment of the expes can and pack a crop next year cam seen". ❖ ❖ ❖ NOTE ON COST OF LIVING: Accord advertisement in that issue, you o at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva 17/6 per day". (The advertisemem June, 1957, issue says "from 55/- | 22 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

NG’s New CJ is a Young Man [ new Chief Justice of Papuabw Guinea (Mr. Justice A. H. [ann, MBE), whose appoint- *was announced in May, is 13. but has had considerable ence at the Victorian Bar in riety of jurisdictions. He ds Sir Beaumont Phillips, Ideath is announced on page new Chief Justice has been iber of the Victorian Bar since p He was educated at the ig Grammar School, and ited from Melbourne Uniiterrupted his carreer to join AF during the Second World He served in Great Britain avigator in the famous No. adron, RA_AF. ;sumed his practice in Melafter the war, and took silk !, 1955. from his legal studies and k at the Victorian Bar, ne en an active interest in the sciences, and is the coa of a invention in the field d reproduction. His chief an at present is painting. iew Chief Justice was sworn )re the Governor-General lliam Slim) at Canberra on , and left immediately for preliminary visit to Port nouncing his successor, the • for Territories (Mr. Paul ) paid a tribute to the rendered by Sir Beaumont over a period of more than rs. e are few other Australians ve given so much of their the Territory and been so associated with the growth of an understanding of its many problems”, Mr. Hasluck said. “As a personality as well as a lawgiver, he will live long in the memory of the peoples of the Territory of all races.”

Afuha’Amango

Does It Again

Acquittal in Tonga Sedition Charge A6B-years-old member of the Tongan Parliament, S. P. Afuha- ’amango, was acquitted on June 11 of a charge of sedition.

The trial began on June 5 and had caused intense interest in the Kingdom—and not a little in other parts of the Pacific and Australasia.

Afuha’amango was arrested in Vavau on April 25 on a charge of having “made a seditious document” in February in which he was alleged (amongst other things) to have stated: • Queen Salote appointed her eldest son.

Crown Prince Tungi, as Premier and her next son as Minister of Lands. • The Minister of Works, the Minister of Police, the Minister without Portfolio, the Governor of Ha'apai (now dead), and the Speaker of Parliament were all close relations of Queen Salote and were appointed by her. • The daughter of the Governor of Vavau was the wife of Prince Tungi.

Bail was refused and he was in custody for 40 days—during which time he was re-elected to Parliament.

There is a group of Tongans which, for a long time, has considered that Tonga is governed by the Nobles, and that the common people have not sufficient voice; letters and articles by these Tongans have from time to time, appeared in PIM.

Afuha’amango has been something of a stormy petrel in Tonga for many years. He was charged with defamation of character against Queen Salote as long ago as 1924 acquitted; was charged again with defamation of character against Premier Ata, in 1946, and also acquitted; and was once excluded from Parliament, for a period, for physically assaulting the Minister without Portifolio.

Manihiki Will Be There . . .

Notice Of Appeal

In Libel Case

Fiji and Fiji's Supreme Court 1 ANNOUNCED, in the May issue of Pacific Islands Monthly, that I was preparing, for early publication, an article in which the future Constitution of Fiji would be critically examined and discussed, in view of the changing situation created by the steady and rapid growth of some of Fiji’s communities.

It was indicated that, in that connection, the quality and history of the Supreme Court of Fiji would be discussed.

Since then, as a result of further advice and information being made available to me, I have decided to appeal against the verdict given by the Fiji Supreme Court on May 10, in the claim for libel brought against me by Mr. J. Thornton. (The Court found in favour of the plaintiff, and the jury awarded him £lO damages.) A Notice of Appeal has been filed.

It is possible, therefore, that a discussion of the constitution and history of the Supreme Court would be sub judice, in some way, and even be regarded as contempt of court.

It is not practicable to examine the Constitution of Fiji, in the way proposed, without some reference to the Supreme Court. In the circumstances, it has been decided to postpone the publication of the article referred to, until after the appeal has been dealt with.

R. W. ROBSON.

Chief-Justice Mann. a trading schooner to pick up the New Zea-representative of the Cooks at the Jamboree, land ship at Rarotonga. Ellis will be the sole -NZ Official photo.

By the time Scout- Master Ben Ellis (seen here chatting to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr. S. G.

Holland) gets to the Jubilee World Jamboree in England in August, he will probably be able to claim that he travelled further than any other Scout there.

He comes from Manihiki, in the Northern Cook Islands, and travelled 650 miles in 23 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

Qantas Ng Polio

ON JUNE 12, IN SYDiy

A Qantas Spokesk

Made This Statemen'

It is the company's pt to introduce Super Const tions to Port Moresby as as the Port Moresby stri suitable. The Super Const tion aircraft will be avail when the strip is ready.

In the meantime, Qa policy is to uplift all loa a offering.

Sydney-New Guinea Air Service

Dca Shoos Ansett Away From

Port Moresby

The application by Ansett Airways of Australia to establish a new air-service between Australia and Port Moresby, made known in late May and rejected by the Australian Department of Civil Aviation shortly afterwards (May 28) has caused considerable comment in the Territory.

ANSETT’S plans became known only a few weeks after the recent pilots’ strike which completely disorganised P-NG commerce and infuriated hundreds of intending passengers who wished to travel between Australia and the Territory by Qantas.

Psychologically, Ansett could not have picked a better time to launch their scheme. Territorians were very sympathetic—not so much because they all intend to patronise Ansett, but because they think it will “keep Qantas on its toes.”

Qantas officials in P-NG would be the last to deny that this feeling Is general in Papua-New Guinea at the present time.

Reasons given by the Department of Civil Aviation for refusing the permit have been described as “specious”.

The Department refused the permit because: • It was considered that existing services provided by Qantas were satisfactory; and • That the Department was reviewing the whole policy on the New Guinea services and would not alter the present arrangement until the review was complete.

The second reason for refusal probably refers to the fact that when the new airstrip at Port Moresby is completed, towards the end of 1958, Super Constellation aircraft will be able to be used on the Sydney-Port Moresby service (with feeder services beyond); and it is expected that Qantas services to the Far East will be routed through Moresby instead of Darwin.

Ansett Will Apply Again

A SPOKESMAN for Ansett said that the company would apply again for a licence.

The company had applied for a licence to operate between Cairns and Port Moresby—Ansett services already operate to Cairns from Australian southern States.

It had planned a three-times-aweek service which would eventually become a daily service.

Fares would be cheaper than Qantas.

In addition to providing for Territory requirements, Ansett wanted to develop the tourist potential of New Guinea.

The company has bought four Convair Metropolitan airliners, worth £400,000 each, with the New Guinea route in mind.

Delivery of the first plane was expected early this month, with two more to come in September and the last in October.

Captain S. C. Middlemiss, of Ansett Airways, went to Port Moresby in May to survey the situation. On his return to Sydney he said that he had had an encouraging reception from residents and commerce.

“We thought a precedent had been created some years ago when Trans-Oceanic Airways held a licence,” he said. “Having created a precedent we thought the department would automatically grant us one.” (Trans-Oceanic Airways ran a flying-boat service Sydney-Port Moresby a few years ago in opposition to Qantas. The company failed.) DCA Interference QANTAS Empire Airways’ international air services compete successfully, on their own merits, with the best air services in the world and they can, if they wish, and without artificial protection, compete just as successfully with any other air service that is introduced on the Australia-New Guinea service.

So far as this journal and its owners are concerned, we have enjoyed the happiest relations with Qantas, and the greatest possible co-operation.

However, it is quite obvious that the people who live in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea are generally of the opinion that another airline on the Australia- P-NG service would greatly benefit the Territory.

At the same time, a reputable Australian airline is willing to enter this service without asking for any aid from the Australian Government other than permission to do so.

Therefore, the refusal of a licence by the Department of Civil Aviation, acting in order to protect the Government-owned Qantas, or fo( reasons of so-called “gover policy” can be regarded only warranted interference wit) freedom of private enterpi which the present Australian eminent is pledged.

Because of the importance: transportation and air-freighi the Territory of Papua-New C the decisions of the Departni Civil Aviation have an influe the lives of the people then is almost incredible. This the first time that the wishes people of the Territory hacounter to what the Departms permit.

On the face of it, one imagine that the Department) be fulfilling its functions if that aircraft operated safely it should have the power t proposed extension-of-operat: established airlines is hard toi stand.

It would be idle to suppoj Qantas, even though enjo; monopoly, has not had reaj culties in providing the k service it has for New Guine of these problems has (as we ; out in May) been that of ing. Plenty of cargo goes i Guinea; almost none comes Ansett plans a service as tension from Cairns. That ; the key to its back-loading pi

Qantas Chairman Vl£

P-NG THE Chairman of Qantas Airways, Sir Hudson Fyshi all main centres in Papi Guinea in May, and met all citizens, organisations and tin He said that when the m strip was completed at Ja (Port Moresby) that airport) likely be used by Qantas o< Far Eastern Services; and would permit also, the subs: of Super Constellations on til ney-Port Moresby service.

Sir Hudson said that aj ments were almost compli Qantas to replace the Catalii on some internal routes in the tory, with a single-enginedt These planes can have floats,, or both, thus acting as an amn 24 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS 31 ON II

ers' No. 1 Problem

Cific Representatives In London To

DISCUSS COPRA AFTER 1958 : will have two and probably ree representatives at the rthcoming London conference jra-marketing. t of the other British pro- : territories in the South who are more united on tie they will take after the Copra Agreement ends on ber 31, this year, will send , L of ß a number W of nlantftiSS ■ on Vanua f LeTO and ii- nrobablv Mr Director of Agriculture in the FiWJ? ers and the eroun J the olanters such as th g p Brnm Innas’ S and the big S lot yet ’ announced whether ill bG renresented nr not r Pacific lowing representatives: „ .. „ _ __ ’ TUorvi r H^ n •cPioT.i* 16 f' N< ?

Marketing Board, who is at,, tti t J andS ‘ Ml ' E ' J ‘ o?’ who travelern Samoa: The Hon. M. lelei, who travelled to d via Canada. aii, and rr N H ie:^ NZ Govern ' Senior Trade Commissioner nt indications are that the will be divided into three is in relation to future Lng: is generally believed that 11 continue to sell mostly to ■ushers. pua-New Guinea and the n Islands will combine to ship their copra by the westward route to Europe—with the local crushing mill at Rabaul receiving about the same proportion of local copra as at present. • Western Samoa, Tonga and Gilbert and Ellice Islands will combine to ship copra by the Panama Route—or to combine in the construction of a central mill for local crushing. ’ n “ c °P ra mill is the idea of Prince Tungi. However, it would take two or three years to gefc [t l nto °P eration and whether it would be an economic proposition for two small territories which produce a relatively small amount of copra would need careful investigation, Wjtti,£ ss than six months to go before the IVfOF contract ends, the organisations f en £ U n h left A? decide what shall be done with South Pacific copra in 1958. After they have met in conference in London with the representatives of the crushers, delegates will return to their respective territories to make a full re P° rt ' Copra Rates For 1957 May Be Surprise DELIEVE it or not, the price of JJ copra for the year 1957 under the British MOF contract (which governs the price received by coconut planters in Papua, New Guinea, Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa) has not yet been fixed.

At the date of this writing (June 14) the argument still is proceeding London; but it now has shifted to Mmi stenal level, and a formal announcement from London, Canberra, Suva and Wellington is expected about June 20.

It was generally assumed, in January, that the price for 1957 (the last year of the nine-years MOF contract) would be down by 10 per cent, on the 1956 price.

But the Australian copra interests in London led a strong campaign in favour of a reduction of less than 10 per cent., and apparently produced arguments which impressed the British Ministry.

Well-informed circles now expect that the reduction in the 1957 rates will not exceed per cent.; and there is a distinct possibility that it will be no more than 5 per cent.

If this should be the case, it should provide an unexpected windfall for British copra-producers.

Most of the Territories’ copra authorities, since the beginning of the year, have been taking over copra at rates based on the assumption that the full 10 per cent, reduction would operate. (Current “free price” is around £Stg.62/15/- c.i.f. London).

Fatal Air-Crash in New Guinea PILOT J. A. W. Gray, owner of Territory Airlines, and a passenger, J. Smith, lost their lives when a Tiger Moth plane crashed in heavily wooded foothills at the foot of Arona Gap, Eastern Highlands, New Guinea, on June 1.

The plane was on a flight from Goroka to Lae. When it was overdue, five planes were sent out to search for it. They could not locate it, but late on June 2 native runners brought news of the crash to Gusap, from which a ground party immediately set out. The bodies of the two men were taken to Goroka.

Mr. Gray was well-known in the Territory. He was a pilot with Mandated Airlines before taking over Territory Airlines. t Mr. Dwight Long, who made one of the memorable post-war roundthe-world smallships voyages in his yacht Idle Hour, is now living in Culver City, California, USA. [?]anging Face of Suva . . . still is proceeding apace in Suva, F Fiji. Already, modern buildings, [?]o-storeyed, extend almost without a [?] n g the northern side of Victoria Parade, from the Triangle half way to the Grand Pacific Hotel.

Photographs show two more buildings in course of erection—on the right, the new Borns Philp Arcade, immediately east of the Triangle, and planned to cover a wide area immediately facing the Central Building; and, on the left, the McGowan Building, which will now be the first on the right as you cross Nubukalos Creek bridge, at the northwest end of Thomson Street- 25 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

Morris Hedstrom Limitee

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By Tolola Timing T about the time of the big aol-break at Moresby, which jceived an almost day-to-day age in the Sydney Press, the of Edinburgh was preparing his •n-slide lecture for London aces on his Commonwealth referring to New Guinea, he he old story about the native loose,” released when the Japs in. •with instructions to report at the end of hostilities h they did —or are reported to done) —all of which seemed dicate to the Duke that life jr gaols is not a very disig one. In his broadcast the explained that to the native er prison is a treat. They tree square meals a day and sting work to do. further confuse the issue, a rra message on May 30 the Administrator as issuing der “that prisoners must not iced in leg-irons.” it with juvenile delinquents sent to mission schools, ers rushing back behind the ?) after a 3 h years’ war, and tive punishment being advocated by the Minister, it is little wonder that the ordinary P-NG citizen of any colour becomes somewhat apprehensive of the crime increase and the deterrent measures adopted to meet the situation.

New CJ.

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Retiring CJ (Sir Beaumont Phillips) w r as born at Ballarat, and his predecessor in the TNG, Judge Wanliss, was also from that State. Mr.

Justice Mann was educated at Geelong Grammar; service with the RAAF in Britain immediately gives him a standing with Islanders and the fact of his taking silk in 1955 gives him further prestige.

His father, Sir Frederick Mann, was a former Chief Justice of Victoria and Lieutenant-Governor of the State for nine years (1936-45).

Territory judges have a somewhat arduous task when compared with Australian conditions: The multiplicity of languages; and the montony of interpretation; the conflict of cultures; and no jury.

It’s no sinecure, but both territories have been most fortunate in these appointments.

A Political Peg Once again the poor, unsophisticated, down-throdden, exploited native in P-NG (this description is not original), is made the chopping block for Union agitators, desirous of extending their influence at any cost.

And once again the vocal vehicle in this campaign is a one-time Administration official in the District Services, yclept Gus O’Donnell, who, in a letter to the SMH (27.5.57), gleefully announces that the Labour Council will ask the ACTU to “investigate” trade-union conditions in 27 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Young men in American Army uniforms are a rare sight in the Territory these days, especially those with the unusual colour patch (Fuji Mountain in white on blue background) of the Topographic Unit, American Far East Forces.

Lieutenant Hawkins, who hails from Pennsylvania, has been away from home about a year, and Corporal Pitts, Mississippi, about two years, most of which has been spent in Japan working on maps of strategic areas. 3oth men were going to Kavieng where they will join fellow Americans, who have been there since September, 1956, and 40 Australians. Together they will do a ship-to-shore survey of New Ireland. "The Americans have * small ship and equipment, and the Australians do most of the work," Lieutenant Hawkins said. They expect to be on New Ireland until about October, 1957.

P-NG and arouse Party interest in the Territory.

He regrets that the ALP “should be so little concerned about the thousands of workers in whether they are black or i He introduced the tin bogey “colonialism” and the the right of lawful assemblj The inference to be draw his letter is that the P-NG labourer is working under v* verse conditions, without the to safeguard either his so economic position.

As an ex-Administration O’Donnell must have known preventive measures enforced Government against any genial conditions and the tion and paternal guard shown to native workers Government.

To me it appeared to b« political sniping, using the as a peg on which to hang union propaganda.

Two days later the SMH a letter from Michael J. Le: Zenag, an old identity knowi and, as co-author of The Lav Time Forgot, well qualified issue with Gus O’Donnell. (Continued on Page 129) At the Methodist Church, Rabaul, NG, recently, Mr. Alan Sutherland was marries Marjorie Izard. Photograph shows (left to right): Mr. R. Galloway (who gave the bri Mrs. Pardon, matron-of-honour; bride and groom; Mr. R. Sheen, best man; and the Pardon of the Methodist Church. Photo- C Mr. and Mrs. Y. C. Wong (centre) after their wedding recently at the Rabaul Catholl Shown with them, left to right, are Mr. Thomas Chow, best man; Father Franke; Fath[?] and Miss D. Seeto, bridesmaid. 28 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MOM!

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Hinting, MLC, together with ate Secretary, Mr. J. V. last year interviewed Mr. in Canberra.” This should ad, “The State President of FG Branch, Mr. R. F. Buntether with the Federal Pre- 3ir George Holland . . . etc.”

TO P-NG e Phillips Dies [?]eibourne death occurred in Melbourne June 6 of Sir Beaumont lillips, until recently Chief > of the Supreme Court of the ►ry of Papua-New Guinea.

Beaumont was a cancer and although his death was expected, it has caused sorrow many friends and admirers Territory. Territorians, as a are hypercritical —but few, if bund anything in “Monty” s to criticise, either in his 1 duties or in his personal 3e gave 32 years of his life Territory and endeared himpre-war and post-war gens. ms a man of great personal ;, and this did not forsake fen at the end. as born in Ballarat, Victoria, nuary, 1890, educated at College, Melbourne, and at 5 College, University of Mel- He was admitted to the bar toria in 1915 and enlisted fterwards in the First AIF. er transferred to the Aus- Flying Corps and served as enant Observer, sen 1920 and 1925 he was a Commissioner for land disi the British Solomon Islands, :ame a Judge of the Supreme )f New Guinea in 1928. bis work in organising the lon of Rabaul after the 1937 a he was awarded the CBE, Knighted in 1955. ; Second World War he again in the Air Force (1940-46), the time overseas, and revith the rank of Groupi. larried, in 1943, Miss Marie Smith, who survives him. as appointed to the judiciary P-NG Provisional Territory , and in 1949 became Chief of the Supreme Court in and New Guinea. 29 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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PREPARATIONS now are beingmade for the election, in August, in New Guinea and Papua, of representatives (European) of the three Districts in the next Legislative Council (Islands, Mainland, and Papua).

At present, New Guinea Islands District is represented by Mr. D, Barrett: New Guinea Mainland by Mr. George Whittaker; and Papua District by Mr. E. A. James.

Mr. Barrett will be opposed in the Islands District by Mr. Dudley Jones, well-known law practitioner of Rabaul.

It is now known that Mr.

Whittaker will not again seek representation of the Mainland seat —he has given up his residence in Lae and retired from active business in the Territory. Mr. lan Downs, planter, of Goroka —formerly well known as the District Commissioner for Eastern Highlands—has announced that he will be a candidate for this seat in August.

Mr. Clem Kirke, Port Moresby solicitor, has announced that he will contest the Papua Mainland seat, standing against Mr. James, the present member.

There will be a simplified postal voting procedure for the election.

In a statement issued on May 7, the Administrator said that the amendments to the Legislative Council Regulations are being Instituted as the result of complaints that the system of postal voting followed in previous elections was so cumbersome that many persons were discouraged from voting, and in areas where mail services are infrequent, the procedure made it difficult for electors to vote at all.

The postal voting procedure will now be as follows: (1) Electors will not be required to submit a form of application for a postal vote. (2) As soon as nominations of candidates close and postal ballot papers are printed, the Returning Officers will forward postal vote certificates and postal ballot papers to all electors who reside ten miles or more from the nearest polling place. (3) The new postal vote certificate will contain more detail than previously, and the elector’s declaration must be witnessed by another elector who is satisfied as to the identity of the voter. (4) An elector who is entii vote by post on grounds othe= place of residence, e.g., illness* sence from the Territory, max for a postal vote either in f by radiogram or by letter.

The electoral rolls will eld July 1 and nominations on .

Election day will be August 2 Persons eligible for enn must be residents of 12 n standing, who are not undl age of twenty-one, and wM not natives or aliens.

“Fijians” and the Tasmanian P[?] MR. Harold Krishna N 1 Fiji-Indian, has been ac to the Bar of the Supreme of Tasmania. Formerly a teacher at Ba, Fiji, he arrii Tasmania in 1953 and gradus Law from the University o:< mania earlier this year.

He will practice in Fiji.

He is the third Indian fra to be admitted to the Bar ii mania—Mr. S. M. Koya wj mitted in 1953 and Mr. Abdul in 1954.

These young men have ga siderable Press attention ir mania. There is nothing with that except the newspaper cerned persist in describing tl “Fijians.” 30 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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nportant step in the economic irganisation of the Re w a lley, in Fiji (made necessary decision to close the Nausori mill —see March PIM ) was in April, when the Colonial Refining Company appointed L. Chalmers (manager at j) to the newly-created post -Settlement Manager, with larters at Nausori.

Chalmers is very well and ibly known in Fiji. Mrs. ers is a daughter of Sir Hugh /as explained in our March the cessation of the sugaring industry in the Rewa t the end of the 1959 season, er a lot of planning, active ition and industrial readjustin 1957-53, if considerable lie trouble is to be avoided. ownership and usage must jidered; a far-reaching scheme inage and reading must be ced, if suitable new industries be established in place of reduction; a further scheme ouraging and training and g the Ind'rn and Fijian 5 and planters may be ry. 5 the various Government nents concerned were wonder sv to attack the problem—or of problems—so that reent might become effective the Nausori mill closes down, R Co. quietly took its own es, and selected and appointed ialmers.

CSR Co. has large interests Rewa area, in land, buildings, ent of all kinds. It also has d without being asked some considerable responsibility for the economic disturbance caused by the closing of the mill.

On present appearances, i t seems that Mr.

Chalmers will not only take charge of CSR Co. affairs, in relation to the Nausori closedown, but also will act as the liaison officer between the Company and the halfdozen Departments of Government —such as Lands, Public Works, Agriculture, Educ a t i o n—which necessarily are involved in this farreaching change.

It is a big job, and an interesting one; and the way in which it is carried out will have considerable bearing upon the future of Suva, which lies so close to the important Rewa Valley. (I An important step in the progress of Papua and New Guinea was noted in April, when Mr. Richard Myerscough was sent to Port Moresby to be the permanent representative there of the big press association, Australian Associated Press-Reuter. Hitherto, AAP- Reuter has not been represented in the dual Territory by a staff man.

Since April, and in the future, the chief news events of the Territory are being covered by daily despatches from Port Moresby to the principal Australian newspapers.

Mr. J. L. Chalmers (left) photographed in Suva last month with his father-in-law (Sir Hugh Ragg).

Photo: C. H. Meen. 31 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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I 695 Gardeners Rd., Mascot N.S.W. Telephone: MU 3696 Prince Tungi with an Prince Tungi has compla a correspondent in Suva years we have mis-spelt h oy dropping out the “n” av ing it “Tugi.” He says that is a Polynesian langur Samoan, Maori, etc., and Polynesians never leave • n\ Only Fijians do that.

We stand corrected—but ; to us that somewhere we ht issues of postage stamps wit spelled “Toga”

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About that time, says Tungi, the tug and freigh being built for the Governm the Copra Board should be; vice. They will run mail, pj and freight trips to Fiji.

Prince Tungi hopes to tourist hotel in Tonga eve when, he says, plane triji again be justified.

One of Prince Tungi’s 5 to institute postal deliver Nukualofa—accompanied bT numbering. It’s possible ; beat Suva there!

He also wishes to emula York to the extent of nan thoroughfares running oru “streets’' and all transvers “avenues" or “boulevards.; makes for ease of location < place in town.

At the next meeting of the < Legislative Assembly, Tongan will be given the vote. Th be a gejneral election thi Prince Tungi hopes that at t general election women vt only vote but will also s-{ candidates.

Plans are well under wae weekly Tongan newspaper, the Government. It will lingual. Prince Tungi says Government paper, it will bu the Government,’ so all n*j be accessible. Every head of! ment will be a PRO and the • people will be told what tl eminent is achieving." 32 JUNE, 1 0 5 7 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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During the month, all public bodies in the Territory, from the gislative Council (see elsewhere) to the TAC’s, have been taking the untry to pieces and reassembling it, verbally, nearer to the desirable. »art from relieving the Territorians’ internal pressure, however, this blic airing of (usually) quite legitimate grievances, has (as usual) Kluced no discernible results.

Inother Territorian

RETIRES pector Firs t-C lass H. J. sston, who first went to the iory in 1937, has retired. He Lae on May 21 for south — ; address Belgrave, Victoria, 5 he has a home. His wife led him about two months ago.

Theckston joined the old New *a Administration as a Police int Officer and was in Rabaul ie time of the Japanese ini. He and a group of residents d out a few steps ahead of the and were later rescued from )ast of New Britain by a small rom Port Moresby and taken to 5, Queensland. In 1943, he was back and remained with ANGAU until the end of the war. After the war he rejoined the Territory Police Force and has been 2IC of Lae Police District since mid-1952.

Mr. Theckston is 58.

Air-Minded Natives—Even

WHEN DEAD Natives of Wain, a village outside Lae, New Guinea, recently chartered a plane from Crowley Airways to take the body of one of their villagers, who was killed in an accident on May 17, back home.

The dead man, Guiato, who was a messenger for the Treasury Department, Lae, was riding an Administration bicycle down the steep part of Huon road when the machine got out of control. At the intersection he tried to turn the corner, but ran wide and struck a 3-ton truck travelling in the opposite direction.

Guiato sustained head injuries and died later in hospital.

Vunamami Gets The Chair

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The award for 1956 goes to the Vunamami (New Britain) Native Council; the award will be a presidential chair for the Council Chambers to be used by the President in his official capacity. In design, the chair will resemble the Speakers’ chairs used in British Parliaments.

The award is made on the basis of points allocated for the extent to which the estimated programme for the year has been carried out: proficiency of Councillors and staff: promotion of community participation in the Council’s activities: progress in health and education; economic development planning; promotion of social welfare measures, and co-operation with the Administration in the provision of essential services.

A report by the Native Local Government Executive Officer, Mr. H.

Plant, on the record of the Vunamami Council during the past year stated that hard work and good executive ability was evident in carrying out the 1956 programme.

The President, Tovin, was outstanding, and all Councillors and members of the staff had played a full part in the year’s activities. Extensions had been made to the Council School at Ngnalaka; economic progress in the area ineluded the continued successful operation of cocoa fermentaries and a rice huller, and Council influence had helped to promote new cocoa plantings in the area.

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;ime receiving the resignations Luluais and Tul Tuls within iw council area, six councillors were elected ecret ballot, after which they ;iven a short period of traingroup of villages in the Leinative council are the first i Morobe District to change new system of native admin- >n. Over 2,000 natives are y in the council area and it seted that by the end of the 1,500 will have joined. Now le initial step has been taken ir fellows, all are anxious to

F He Were Not In Gaol

iggestion by Mr. I. Downs at st Eastern Highlands District ry Council meeting, held at i, that “it would be a good d try and find, and to make for a native member on the il,” brought a reply from Mr. lor that “the only one I can t —Apo—is in gaol. ier Schaefer said he could only for the Chimbu people, mught it would be still too for them to be members of mncil at present. “They do s the way the Administration how would they be able to themselves understood? And uld they understand?” Father er said.

After discussion it was proposed by Mr. Downs, seconded by Father Schaefer and carried: “That the possibility of including native representatives on the District Advisory Council be investigated by the District Commissioner, and that a panel of names from each sub-district be submitted by relevant ADO’S for the next Council Meeting, so that one representative from Chimbu, Goroka and Kainantu may be nominated.”

Mr. Mcadam Asked To Rsvp

This same meeting discussed the desirability of posting a Forestry Officer to the Highlands: and the promised visit of the Director of Forests.

Mr. Downs reminded the meeting that the Director of Forests (Mr, Me Adam), has made promises to four different District Commissioners, dating back to the immediate post-war period, that he intended visiting the Highlands.

Mr. Downs said he would like to move that a letter be written to the Administrator drawing his attention to the fact that the Director of Forests had not visited the Highlands for 12 years. He pointed out that the Director had visited Singapore, Ceylon, and many other places in this period and that it should be possible during 1957 for him to make a visit to the Highlands area. (Continued Next Page) e Roman Catholic Church in Rabaul re- Miss Kcosje Bal was married to Mr.

Hameren. Mrs. J. Carroll was matronr; Mrs. Tony Avenell, best man; and d Mary Burgess, flower-girls.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 35 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JUNE, 1957

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jhlands residents want some of technical training for es to be established in the area. . Downs pointed out at the DAC approximately one-fifth of the e native population of Papua tfew Guinea lived in the Highl and urged a technical trainentre for carpenters, plumbers, rs and other people in useful s. was pointed out that the ition Department desired “s to know English before they have technical training, her Schaefer said that much be done with Pidgin-speaking js, and added: “If we wait they have gone through the * of sixth, seventh and eighth ard we might wait six or seven To qualify in English should 5 necessary.”

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ale in the Kainantu area who their economy on Douglas er rates are having a tough With the breakdown of the p, mainly due to adverse er, only light aircraft can get d freight rates are doubled, in the airstrip is “out” to freight rates rise from 3id to •lb; on a drum of benzine or jdstuffs and fertiliser it is a im. or six years ago the natives flourishing business of potato egetable growing, but it fell >ecause Kainantu airstrip was to DC3’s. The natives then iterest because they had no lie means of getting their e to market. (A DC3 will lift jags against a possible 3 by a ircraft).

Airport Inspector has recoin- CHINESE DAUGHTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART, ALL FROM RABAUL: They are from left to right, Sr. M. Lucienne, Catherine Seeto Kit Ching, daughter of the late Mr. Seeto Ngar Man and of Mrs. Seeto Yee Po; Sr. M. Rosita, Catherine Chan Foong Chin, and Sr. Mary Theresa Chan Foong Hin, both daughters of Mr. John Achai and the late Mrs. Rose Chan, Sr. M Patrick, Theresa Chue Beck Wan, and Sr. M. Agnella, Mary Chue Sin Wan, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

Gabriel Achun; Sr. M. Paulita, Sophia Choi Ching Kit, youngest child of the late Mr. John Choi Wong and of Mrs. Choi So Yo; Sr. M. Callista, Betty Seeto Ho Ching. whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seeto Ah Ying, live in Malaguna Road.

The distinction of being the first Chinese girl to return to Rabaul as a religious, to teach in her former school and work amongst her own race of people goes to Sr. M. Rosita. The honour, however, to be the first Rabaul girl to enter religion belongs to Sr. M. Rosita's own sister, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Chan Yit Kui, the eldest of Mr. Achai's 14 children, went to China in 1927. After her schooling she remained there to join the Congregation of the Sisters, Helpers of the Holy Souls, in Shanghai.

About three years ago all the European members of this Congregation were expelled by the Communists. For a while after this, meagre information could be had about the Chinese members still left in Shanghai. However, for the last 18 months all communication of these sisters with their relatives or friends has ceased. At present there is no means of ascertaining if Mother M. Elizabeth is still alive or not.

For some years already Father Gabriel Chan Tin Cheong, SJ, Mother Elizabeth's brother has been imprisoned by the Communists. It is not known whether he is still alive, either. 37 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Insurances at Lloyd’s and Companies mended a laterite runway o strip to bring it up to all-wv requirements, but this is a lon costly job.

The Eastern Highlands DA proposed that the Administ seek funds to enable the Kai airstrip to be made an all-w; field; and in the meantime they subsidise Kainantu rea when the airstrip is unserv? to DC3 aircraft.

Some Air Freight'!

REDUCTIONS Representations have beem by the Highland Farmers?

Settlers’ Association to the air companies in respect of duction in freight rates. Mr. « Greathead said that Ma;.

Airlines had brought theii down, but Qantas had not. E that the matter of the reo had been referred to DC. approval, and DCA had apj Qantas, apparently had tin ferred the matter to Sydney which did not approve. (Mr. Greathead made his ment in April, and no lati formation is available).

More Taxis Needei

Lae has eight hire-car “operative” at the present, although that presumably do mean that it has eight opc taxis. Since one of the town businesses went out of opu some time ago, what taxis ; are frequently not enough.

The Lae Town Advisory 0 feels that four more “plates” be granted, making 12 in all providing for the towns im population and increased n of tourists.

New Motor Hire Car regu came into force in early April Advisory Councils may now the Administrator on the gr of taxi plates. £5,000 IS THE ANSWER TQ LEMON Wau-Lae road has been giy usual seasonal trouble fon months past, although with ti of the official wet season upper reaches of the Markhs. trouble should shortly improc Lae has its official wet wh rest of the Territory has called dry; this is due to tit figuration of the Huon Gulf] lation to the mountain rang, hind. But any season can in Lae although at its causes purely local flooding.

The real trouble on the Ws is caused by rain at the heao of the Markham, as well structural difficulties an adequacies in the road itselfi The worst trouble is at s called Lemon Tree, about L. outside of Lae, on the Wau the Markham Bridge. Whr Markham floods, water backs; this point and covers the ro about half a mile. Large lorn 38 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON XI

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Ds And Mealy-Bugs

d been hoped that ladybirds 3e the solution to the mealyist which is causing some on coffee plantations in the irea. Ladybirds seemed to )lved the trouble for a while v most of the plantations are ig a reinfestation of the bugs, and small black ants ieved to be the reason, bugs are harboured and proby these ants, and are 7 carried up the trees by The ants deposit a covering, nes an inch thick, on the ss of the coffee trees, and this deposit is knocked off, 5 of mealy-bugs are found eatth. e-planters in the district sen asked to cut off portions r trees that have been thus i and send them to the CSIRO for research.

In the meantime, the only way to get rid of the bugs appears to be to get rid of the ants—by spraying with dieldrin or some other chemical.

Policeman Rewarded

The native constable who recaptured Ame Aite, the third escapee from Bomana prison (PIM, May, p. 141), will be given an open commercial order worth £ll/5/-, in recognition of his services.

Police regulations prohibit the payment of money to members of the Force, but as the donors wish some portion of the fund to be paid to the constable, this is being done by means of an open commercial order.

The remaining £2O of the public fund is to be shared equally between the Amenities Accounts of the RPNGC Police Depot at Kila, and that of the Pacific Islands Regiment.

Referring to the action of the European and native residents of Moresby, who subscribed the public reward money, the Assistant Administrator, Dr. J. T, Gunther, expressed the thanks of the Administration for this public-spirited gesture, and said it reflected the donors’ keen and practical interest lding of interest took place recently I, NG, when Mr. Bruce lan Sutherland, Mrs. L. J. Sutherland of Rabaul, was o Miss Ann Wright. The bridal couple [?]n with chief bridesmaid Noela Lyme er-girl Judith Quick.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 39 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Later on it is planned to add another eight buildings in the form of a square, at a cost of about £40,000.

They will include a mess for policemen and firemen, with a common kitchen, separate barracks, ablution blocks, married quarters and a gaol.

Joseph's Hall (above) was officially opened on May 11 at Boroko, a very up-and-coming oresby suburb. This Catholic hall will be used for church services, but will also be e to any denomination or society for hire.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 41 Fic ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Mr. G. Twogood (formerly of Native Affairs) has been provisionally appointed OIC of Planning and Development with the Department of the Administrator.

Mr. Walter William Watkins, who has been acting in that position, has been appointed Secretary of the Department of Law.

Mr. Watkins, who served with the 2/32nd battalion, 9th Division, for four years in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo, joined the Papua-New Guinea Public Service in October, 1946, as a Legal Officer in the Government Secretary’s Department. He advanced to the position of Crown Law Officer in charge of the Crown Law Office, and more recently has been acting as Secretary of the Department of Law. He is 44.

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The popularity of DC3’s for Territory work was shown recently, when £65,000, which was considered to be about the highest price ever received in Australia for a second-hand DC3, was paid by Mandated Airlines, Lae, for the Commonwealth Bank’s DCS.

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ABC has announced that im Clarkson will give two rts in Port Moresby, will be the first ABC overseas rity to visit the Territory.

Death In Laloki

3 OIC at Bomana Gaol, near Moresby, Mr. George Gough, issued a warning to native e against swimming in the i River. This followed the ling of a native in the river in May. , Gough said that in eight , nine people had lost their below the Falls—one European the rest natives —and many above the Falls, dden snags, strong currents, holes and large numbers of [files, are all traps for the ry, apart from the fact that lighland natives can swim and fore should not go in the ’, Mr. Gough said. ; native was 35-years-old and )dy has not yet been recovered.

Mothers Surmount All

Eagles For Fancy Dress

BALL paring junior for a Fancy Ball is a headache to mothers where, but more so in the Territory. After the preliminary brain-washing for a character, comes the search for materials, and ideas have often to be changed to conform with supply.

We dips our lids to the ingenuity and enterprise of Lae mothers who presented their offspring at the third annual Fancy Dress Ball organised for the Lae Pre-school Centre at Stewart Hall on May 14.

The judges had a very difficult task to choose “firsts” from an assembly of characters who could have stepped out of a Walt Disney fantasy.

Awards were:— 3-years and under: —Best girl, Pamela Devonish, “Queen of Hearts”; best boy, John Howes, “Grenadier Guardsman”. 4- —Best girl, Jane Dobbyn, “Hula Girl”; best boy, Rodney Williams, “Matador”. 5- : —Best girl, Marilynne Mort, “Midnight Fairy”; best boy, Colin Worrall, “Jockey”. 6- : Best girl, Joanne Devonish, “Butterfly”; best boy, Graeme Murtagh, “Golliwog”. 7- years :—Best girl, Robyn Myers, “Lampshades”; best boy, Chris Margin, “Egyptian”. 10-14 years-. —best girl, Jennifer Hale, “Daisy Duck”; best boy, lan Hendrick “Rejected Produce”.

Best Pair :—John Colwell & Caroline Devonish, “Adam & Eve”.

Most Original :—Brian & Karen Zavattaro, “Spanish Couple”.

More than £3O was raised at the Ball towards Pre-school funds. (Over) n H. M, Arrowsmith, general secretary British and Foreign Bible Society in attended the Mission-Administration educonference, in Lae from April 29 to (see May PIM). 43 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JUNE, 1957

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Tsemaiding Volcanoes

;n first news of the activity of aai crater, on Fergusson Is- Papua, came early in May, the listration Vulcanologist, Mr. tylor, flew over the area and 1 a report that an air inspec- )f Lamonai, Oiau and Dobu ■s revealed no obvious changes alarming nature. A close i inspection revealed that the i thermal area (near Salamo has changed since last tied in June, 1955, the geyser ilightly more active and temires correspondingly higher. inspection of Lamonai by Mr. • on May 3 confirmed that che r swamp on the floor of the had dried up; no visible r was being emitted. An [uake recorder was set up and ig operated l?y a Native Vulgical Assistant at the summit The recorder is to be made i-permanent installation even current investigation finally ts no immediate danger of iching activity.

May 8 Mr. Taylor descended ;t from the low southern wall arried out a three-hour inin of the floor of the crater, than an odd patch of dying tion and dry swamp bed, he ?red no evidence which could •ssibly attributed to recent j in volcanic activity. r an aerial reconnaissance of Icanic areas on Fergusson and nough Islands on May 9, Mr. reported that no changes ipparent at Diodio, Mud Bay, ■le, Lamonai, Oiau and Dobu . He was accompanied by the t Commissioner for the Milne (istrict, Mr. A. T. Timperley, Patrol Officer. ever, the party located a prer unidentified thermal area ie south-western slopes of lai, and a summit thermal point on an unnamed cone north of Numa Numa Bay. Both areas we r e pinpointed for a ground inspection.

Lamonai crater is on Fergusson Island, on the southern side of Subutuia Bay, and is one of three craters in the area —Oiau, also on Fergusson Island, and Dobu Island.

Within a radius of five miles of Lamonai there are some 2,600 natives living in 10 villages, and also one Mission. About 4,402 people, in 16 villages live within a ten-mile radius.

A series of earth tremors and a number of landslides were felt in the vicinity of Oiau Crater in August, 1955. At that time evacuation plans were prepared so these would be ready should activity become dangerous, then or later.

These have been kept up to date, A native winner of a flower-show award is presented with a prize on May 4, by the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 45 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1857

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Goroka Still Pays 9D Per

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Goroka residents have got no satisfaction from the P-NG Director of Posts and Telegraphs over the surcharge of 9d per pound on parcels posted to the Highlands (PIM, April, p. 55). They have had some hard things to say about the whole set-up.

All mail, including parcels, has to be flown in to the Highlands from the coast —there is just no other way of getting it there, yet. Goroka seems to have been singled out for preferential treatment in this instance, partly, in the beginning, because the Director of P&T believed that some commercial houses were taking advantage of parcelspost to have parcels air-freighted cheaply. However, the ill far outweighs the good in this instance — everyone has to pay the impost, at twice the cost of ordinary airfreight rates, and at the receiving end.

At a public meeting recently Mr. lan Downs said that the Administration presides over the most expensive mail service in the world— and probably one of the worst postal services “for the money” in the world. “In a developing territory such as this,” he said, “one would think that mail could be one of the things on which the Administration would be glad to sustain a small loss. ... I personally think that the whole system is iniquitous, stupid and quite unnecessary,”

The Wet Is Wet This Year

Lae’s “wet” season looks like being up to standard this year. By mid-May, 17 inches of rail been recorded for the month year’s “wet” was abnormal! and was the lowest ever reo Only 14 inches of rain fell the whole of May last year.

This year’s wet May folll damp April—2s rain-days proi 16i inches. Easter week-eno 46 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Official Film

ilm unit, an Administration and the Department of Civil on is collaborating to make a n. colour film of the work of atrol in the Southern Highof New Guinea, film will be produced by Mr. n Williams, senior producer of ews and Information Bureau Division. The cameraman is G. Leake and the director is eter Dimond. The patrol will ish a new patrol post and the tment of Civil Aviation will out aerial surveys of the over which the patrol is to This aspect of the operation Iso form part of the film. > is one of the series of films made under the project ap- -1 by the Minister for Terriand the object of the film e to depict the work of the listration in new areas of the ory, and to illustrate the n. and physical problems assowith this phase of Adminisn activities. It will show how contact is made with primitive groups, and include sequences dealing with the work of a European Medical Assistant accompanying the patrol.

The unit was expected to arrive at Tari, in the Southern Highlands, in mid-May and to begin shooting immediately. • The above is good news. It might conceivably show some of our critics how difficult a job remains to be done in New Guinea.

It might also remove that nasty taste in the mouth left by the epic “Walk into Paradise ”.

New Guinea Aero Club

Puts On Show

Following the purchase of their first plane, a Tiger Moth, at the beginning of April, members of New Guinea Aero Club, Lae, have logged 108 flying hours.

In the same period three private pilots have renewed their licences; an ex-RAF pilot, John Green, has been re-issued with his commercial licence: and there are seven new hands in training and a further four partly-trained students flying regularly. Finally, a friendly exenemy, Karl Brinckmann, a former Luftwaffe fighter-pilot, who is now a ground engineer with Qantas, is hard at work obtaining his commercial licence.

Not bad for two months’ operations.

To celebrate their achievements and the official opening of the Club, members and pilots from local airway companies staged Lae’s first aero pageant and ground display on May 19.

Fly-pasts of a number of different types of aircraft; individual displays where performance qualities not normally evident in their everyday operations, such as short landings, take-offs and engine performances and aerobatics, were per- (Continued on Page 113) and Mrs. M. C. Massey with their two [?]irls, Jill and Patsy Hutton, after their vedding in the Methodist Church, Rabaul. de was formerly Miss Barbara Ross.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 47 3 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Prior to reaching the Protectorate, Imlay did not know that his main duty would be the inspection and grading of copra. The only instruction given him in this was that he was handed a short pamphlet and a form setting out the points system on grading used in the Protectorate.

To this man was then entrusted the responsibility of grading the whole of the copra passing through Gizo. Not long after his arrival at Gizo he was told that he was to train a native assistant grader, named Hiva. This native had for some years been employed at a mission school, but had no experience in copra. Imlay’s instructions to him in copra grading merely consisted of passing on to him those he himself had been handed.

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There never was at any time, any supervision of this native’s work, so that the weighing of the whole of the copra at Gizo, whether European or native produced, was entrusted to a native who was under no supervision. (This was admitted at Imlay’s trial by the Gizo manager of the Corporation.) After native copra was weighed, the weight-slip and grading certificate were handed to the owner, who took them to the office of the Trading Corporation and was paid in cash, according to the information on the documents. No proper stock checks were ever made to indicate whether there were deficiencies in copra stocks.

It appears that Imlay had been “investigated” over a period lasting some months, and had been transferred to Honiara and left in much doubt, before charges were preferred against him.

The Crown then alleged that copra-grading slips and weight notes were issued at Gizo for native copra and cash collected against these notes, when in fact the natives had not delivered any copra at all.

The main Crown witnesses were the assistant copra grader, Hiva, and the two copra weighers wH served consecutively.

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Crown case collapsed and the iey-General did not even r to address—stating that the i relied on the evidence of ccomplices and it was up to ourt as to whether it was preto believe it or not. xy was acquitted on all charges.

Imlay’S Story

sydney, in late April, Imlay id that he had been posted to izo a few months after he d in Honiara in 1954, said that in September, 1956, d gone to Honiara, and on the with him returning to Gizo Police Inspector Semple. He leard from some Chinese, the jer of the Trading Corporaind from his own wife, that dice were “investigating” him. an interview with the police, s “high standard of living” ommented upon, and he was where he had found the ■ to buy a refrigerator. Imlay tie told the police he had je d money to buy the refrigas the Government refrig- -5 were inadequate.] dew of this investigation he signal to Honiara and asked transfer, or suspension, until 5 cleared. He was transferred liara, but was not suspended. ,s given other duties.

Honiara he had a discussion he Acting Senior Agricultural • (Mr. C. Mead), who advised :> get a solicitor. Imlay said successfully pressed Mr. Mead :ther information. ;hat time Mr. Dudley Jones, aul solicitor, was in Honiara, had a discussion with him old him what had occurred, mes had advised him not to any statement if and when > charged. Mr. Jones saw the ey-General and was informed everal charges were to be laid t Imlay. •tly after, Imlay said, he disci that Inspector Semple again to Gizo to investigate a >e complaint that he (Imlay) king 10 per cent, of the value of copra brought in. When Inspector Semple returned to Honiara no action was taken against Imlay.

Another police officer, Assistant- Superintendent Yates, then went to Gizo and returned with 13 witnesses.

Imlay said he knew only three of the witnesses. One was a native copra grader who had worked under him in Gizo, and the other two were copra weighers who operated the scale in Gizo.

On November 21, he was arrested at his home, taken to the police station, and charged on eight counts of having forged copra and weight slips; eight of having obtained money on forged weight and copra slips; and eight of having uttered slips, knowing them to be false ' ' Imlay alleged to PIM that before his trial the Government had adopted “pin-pricking” tactics against him in refusing him legal aid*, by stopping him from working, by cutting his salary by £75, and by attempting to shift him to a house four miles out of Honiara.

He said that he and his wife were ostracised by all except people engaged in commerce, who reserved judgment, and were fair.

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ROTONGA’S 21 mile coastal oad was in a deplorable ondition again this year after ,t heavy rains, when the al Easter Monday round-thei cycle race was run. The had to be conducted in ate heats, the first three s going to the men with the !t times. :h of the six villages entered representatives, and Mana, itikaveka, won in 53 minutes econds. Second and third 3 went to Iro Crummer, ingiia, and Tuakura, Arorangi, lively. the Ladies’ Cycle Race, of li i the first and second places to Tere Daniela and Vai , both of Arorangi, and third was taken by Diana Hosking, tikaveka.

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TWENTY-TWO experts in Pacific tropical agriculture, public health, and social welfare gathered at the end of May in Noumea for the opening on June 1, of the eighth meeting of the Research Council, the expert advisory body to the South Pacific Commission.

At the meeting, which was expected to last about a fortnight, the Council proposed to shape the Commission’s work programme for 1958.

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Administrations, with wide practical experience of Pacific problems. A small team of top-level Commission scientists will attend, led by the Secretary-G eneral (Dr. Ralph Cialron Bedell).

“This Research Council meeting will be important,” Dr. Bedell said.

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Dr. J. Bierdrager, Director of Public Health, Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea.

Med. Lt.-Col. G. Boussier, Head of Health Department, Tahiti.

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Gibson showed enterprise in ig the hotel the centre of an tive holiday resort; but he it a full-time job—and his mtial Melbourne interests also upon his time. Hence his deto sell.

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Northern Hotels Ltd. took over the Beachcomber Hotel at Deuba on June 1, and immediately commenced a programme of improvements, including new kitchens and renovation of grounds and gardens.

Mr. Max Lovell (formerly manager of the Nadi Hotel, who has been away on leave, has taken charge of the Beachcomber. At present, it is intended that he shall be the manager of the new Club Hotel in Suva, when the building is completed. t Customs receipts for the first quarter of 1957 constitute a record in New Caledonia. Total is nearly 202 million fcs. (£1,414,000). This represents nearly twice the sum of the corresponding period last year.

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flowing the successful Bastille le to Papeete last July by the itonga ketch Taveuni, the owner le new rival vessel Tiare Maori announced a similar cruise, ng Rarotonga July 9 and reing July 22. There is also a bility that MV Melva may make nilar cruise. janwhile Taveuni and the same ;r’s Inspire cleared Rarotonga Papeete April 21, with fruit >es and for refit there. . Brown and his wife travelled tie of the vessels and arrived in ete on April 28. t for years have so many smallconnections between the Cooks Tahiti been offering over so ; a period.

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HEBRIDES A New Hebrides resident, writing to report to us two shipwrecks amongst the local fleet there, remarks that although in the Hebrides it is necessary to have a licence to 1 drive a car, and to have that vehicle inspected at intervals, there are apparently no laws controlling the conduct of the local shipping fleet.

He says that there is no Maritime Court of Inquiry; no laws to prevent an unseaworthy vessel putting to set; no regulations concerning the capabilities of skippers; and that it is not even necessary to inform the authorities if a shipwreck occurs. (Over) 59 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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ADIGAETANE » 20 tons New Hebridean vessel \ro dragged her anchor and up on a reef at Retek, on the coast of Malekula at the end irch. She became a total loss. 5 was no loss of life, month later the Burns Philp ier Adigaetane was run up on on a voyage between Lugan- Santo) and Hog Harbour. No \ of this incident are availvessel was towed across from in November, 1955, by the and shortly after arrival n Vila harbour. She was rel and has since been trading i the group. her last voyage, the weather ood, and the distance to be only about 25 miles. attempt was made to tow her i reef with a launch but this Cargo, mast and engine were 3d from her before rough seas ed her. We understand that is been declared a total loss.

Vita Will Sail Again

;vuka correspondent says that ; wide of the mark when we April PIM, p. 177), that nothis being done to make Joyita thy again.

We have now been informed that work has been proceeding on her since she was beached although it was some time before she could be raised and the list she had when beached, righted. She now is in a good position, and Mr. Alsace Lorraine Miller, Levuka boat-builder, has a gang of six men on the job.

To enable the gang to get at her, a 40-ft stage has been erected from the sea-wall to the ship which is now floating upright. In early May, the new keel had been fitted and the stern post was in position.

Damaged bows have been repaired and at time of writing, new timbers were going into the damaged starboard side. She should have been ready to have her engines reinstalled by the end of May. She will later go to Suva for finishing touches.

All work done on her so far has been done by hand. Mr. Miller, who has been a boa t-builder all his life, says that repairing Joyita is the biggest job he has ever tackled.

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The master of the Joyita . David Leonard Elliott, had his Master’s certificate cancelled; and Mikaele Gukibau, mate of the Macuata , had his certificate and sailing licence cancelled. The court ordered, however, in the case of Elliott, that its ruling should in no way affect Elliott’s competency as a Mate.

The master of the Macuata, Apolisi Qata, was also disciplined.

His certificate was suspended for three months.

The Macuata stranded on a patch of coral six miles west of Moturiki on January 4, and was seriously damaged. Four days later the Joyita went aground on the notorious Horseshoe Reef in the Koro Sea.

She suffered considerable damage, and was later towed to Nasova, near Levuka.

The court found that the cause of the Joyita stranding was because Elliott was incompetent in his handling and general navigation of the vessel. The ship stranded because Elliott did not ascertain his position from Koro Light by taking four point bearings. When the ship struck, Elliott did not know his position.

Macuata stranded because Mikaele took her on the wrong side of a beacon. The mate was incompetent in his handling and general navigation of the vessel, and the damage caused by his wrongful act, and also the wrongful act of the master in not giving proper orders, the court found.

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; officers and crew of the ■yn returned to the ship on 10. ly had been living ashore since 1, when the ship was towed Suva Harbour by some of the y’s smallships after a series ishaps and a nine-days’ tow. , April, p. 78). ; agents for the Norbryn in said that the ship would be alongside King’s Wharf after s to her engine were completed.

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Cat With Price On Its Head

Cook Islanders are not considered aliens in New Zealand —but Cook Island cats apparently are, as Captain Hugh Williams found when he brought his 243-ton trader Melva south to Auckland for refit recently. (Continued on Page 98) [?]tgan" in Mori's Dock, Sydney, some ago. (See story page 131). 63 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1057

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ere are 3,000,000 in Djakarta • s. C. M. Ratard, of Aore, New ides, sends this interesting nary of impressions gained rely in a visit to Djakarta, capital \donesia. spite of much-publicised ►olitical trouble in Indonesia, ava is still a lovely island, with lie people. They are kind, ul and most generous, when jet to know them, many are not quite trained to al procedures, we spent several ; at the airport in Djakarta, passports were seen by at least terent officers, who took note ery detail. By the time fellowllers had gone through Customs, ere among the last and were itted through without having a i bag opened. ause of the present unrest, ™t after district was raided oncealed fire-arms. Our hotel ts turn at 2 a.m., soon after rived. was most impressive, having helmeted soldiers, bayonets tramping with heavy boots £h our rooms whilst guards i outside with machine-guns, onesians have a great sense of humour and I think our soldiers quite enjoyed the fun. We did, in any case. The pyjama-party ended up in the courtyard with hotel guests giving their post-mortem on pioceedmgs.

Other harassed guests, mostly Americans, tried to squeeze in some extra sleep and yelled a few “shut ups ’ at some excitable, loud-voiced Italians.

There really was nothing frightening in the anti-white slogans splashed across buildings, windows and walls, in dripping red paint.

Hot-headed youngsters were, no doubt, responsible as a result of Japanese training during the occupation period, apart from the fact that they gave the city an ugly look.

Bandits in the hills can at times become a nuisance. They, as adolescents, were Japanese-trained in guerilla warfare and since the war have preferred to continue easier living by raiding cars and villages whenever supplies run short.

BUSINESS is mainly conducted by Chinese, who all fly the Red Flag outside their shops in Chinatown. They are numerous and life to them must be profitable, as many invest in luxurious homes and expensive American cars.

Wherever we went, the people were always ready to help out with directions. Not all could understand English; but soon we learned some of their tongue with the aid of a small dictionary and idiom booklet Other than that, simple signs were used as a last resort, which often led to confusion and laughter.

For town travel, we employed betjaks, which cost us 10 rupiahs an hour. These vehicles have replaced rickshaws and are more humane. 65 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 19 5 7

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Under these carriages there are home-made devices: rubber-bands strung across the undercarriage which produce a humming sound when speeding down-hill or against the wind; also special types of bells attached underneath, with a long lead to driver’s hand. These bells are pulled to tingle at the slightest provocation warning pedestrians; passing cars; or crossing roads. With over 3,000 betjaks in Djakarta city, one can imagine the continuous melodious sounds, not forgetting the humming of rubber-bands.

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Open-air “restaurants” for labourers are dotted all over Djakarta’s modern streets. These consist of four to six poles, with bits of iron coverings, with hessian or canvas side-flaps in case of rain. Customers call at these “cuisines” for a leaffull of rice, splashed with small bits of meat or fish-balls in spicy sauces.

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EWA ange Over From ugar Production I chief manager in Fiji of le CSR (Mr. A. R. Rourke) working in close co-operation officials of the Department of ilture on plans to ensure a h transition from sugar cane ler crops in the Rewa Delta \ the next three years. m it announced in January the Nausori mill would close e end of the 1959 crushing i the then chief manager (Mr.

Elliot) gave an assurance that uld provide worthwhile help II with the problems affecting iture of those engaged in the industry along the Rewa CSR brought to Fiji from i Guiana a prominent plant •legist. Dr. H. Evans, to on alternative uses to which md could be put. It also ited a resettlement manager I. L. Chalmers) at Nausori to inate activities connected with ansition. a meeting with canegrowers’ entatives after his study of rea Dr. Evans expressed his n that the Nausori area was suited for economic sugar ition, but that the land at it under sugar cane could ain its productivity under crops. He recommended ig perennial crops such as coffee, tea, bananas and pepper, which flourished best lower light intensity conditions. These crops would provide a more or less permanent soil cover and would reduce soil erosion.

Dr. Evans said that ground provisions and vegetables could also be grown on some of the betterdrained soils with animal industries and rice-growing on the less welldrained lands. He emphasised the need for considerable improvement in the main drainage systems, and better internal drainage of individual farms.

To ensure a smooth changeover wide extension is planned of the plant nutritional experimental work already being carried out in the Nausori area by the Agricultural Department and CSR technical staffs.

Fiji Talks A bout Helicopters THE use of helicopters in Fiji to provide air services for the scattered islands of the Group has had a public airing lately.

Mr. Harold Gatty started the ball rolling by declaring that fast helicopter services were bound to come.

After the problem was chewed over by the local cognoscenti, it was apparently agreed that it would save the government money if it subsidised helicopter services as this expense would be offset by savings in construction and maintenance of airfields. 67 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Nixonwestwood, from Isle of i. England), I would point out t Miss Pat Robertson was not the \ white woman sentenced to gaol °apua. The distinction belongs Mrs. Catt. She did not actually hto gaol—but that was only bese the Europeans of that day had sense of responsibility, and atened to take the town apart tch an outrage were permitted. jout 1911 or 12, a Mrs. Catt, se husband was at one time iager of Burns Philp, at Port esby (but at the time of the ous crime was with the SID Co. he Solomons), was charged be- R. M. Norrie with ill-treating aative servant, a Gusiago named )a. was proved that Aruba was a ngerer, and refused to do any- ? to help in the house, and i sent on an errand would take s to do a ten minutes’ walk. :s. Catt one day gave him a when he refused to light the stove fire. Aruba thereupon rushed into the street, yelling blue murder.

That morning “Buffalo Bill” Norrie happened to be passing on his way to the RM’s office. He asked the Gusiago what was wrong. He was told that the Sinabada had beaten him. Norrie immediately issued a summons calling on Mrs. Catt to attend court at 10 a.m., next day.

News of this reached the “bottom pub” (McCrann’s) and the SS Kia Ora was in, either en route to the Lakekamu River, or had just arrived from there. Among her passengers were famous gold-seekers Mat Crowe, Joe Sloane, Peter Burke, Fred Kruger and an Italian named Arriotti. Later, they were joined by Jimmy Wallace.

As soon as they realised what had been done, they trooped up to the RM’s office and told Norrie what would happen to him if he allowed a white woman to go to gaol. Also they asked, why take the Gusiago’s word against that of a European lady?

Mr. Norrie tried to bluster, but apparently he was scared.

In the absence of Judge Murray (Administrator), M. C. S. Smith took charge and fined Mrs. Catt (as she pleaded guilty to hitting the boy), 7/6, and then she was released.

But until the case was settled she was practically in gaol, as she was kept in the RM’s office.

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Mr McKay, in charge of the launch, allowed him and his two boys aboard. On reaching Kanosia, Norrie and his men left, saying they were going to Lolorua to inspect labour.

Mr. Harry Gofton was then manager, and his right winger was his wife. The news of Mrs. Catts trial had already reached them, and Mrs.

Gofton (who was always out-spoken) told Norrie what she had heard; but did not make it appear that she knew Norrie was the culprit.

To make a long story short: she apparently put the fear of God into the gentleman, because he left the bungalow in a great hurry with his boys and raced through the bush back to Kanosia wharf. On his arrival, he looked as thought he was being chased; and when Mac asked him why he was so upset, he said that Mrs. Gofton had threatened him because of what he had done to Mrs. Catt.

As there was no room for him on the launch he went up to Westland’s bungalow and eventually got back to Moresby without doing any checking of Lolorua’s native labour.

It all happened 45 years ago, and none of modern Moresbyites will even remember the case. That case, and several others, showed how little the RM’s of that time knew of legal procedure, or how to apply their knowledge except in cases of pilfering and desertion. t Suva residents are so accustomed to heavy rain that it rarely becomes a topic of conversation, but when the monthly rainfall is 10 inches above average, as was the case during the April “showers,” there was some comment. The total, recorded on 20 days, was 23 inches, against an average of 12.91 inches. Heaviest fall on any one day was more; seven inches on April 3.

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emories of Capt. Klebingat reference in March issue of If " to Captain Klebingat brought ?. lively memories from Miss '.red H. Free, formerly a resident l uckland and Tonga, and now •es Voeux Road, Suva: Captain Klebingat is still on ieck! Now, there is a man with ■eal material for a book. He ably is one of the few men left spent all his life in sail, ptain Klebingat came along a way with the Melrose, in when I was a member of the is Hedstrom staff there. He fht a cargo of lumber and oil E think he made two or three But that first trip nearly i in disaster. er unloading at Nukualofa, the )se set off for Niuafo’ou, to pick return load of copra for San ;isco; and our head manager a branch manager decided to the opportunity to go along on t of inspection. They took only Jh food for a week, but had ddition a few supplies for ay, the “Tin Can Mailman,” ling two cases of whisky—pre- 3ly to revive his gaspy throat swimming out to the Tofua. i Melrose got blown south to ermadecs, and was lost for six By the time they got to d’ou there was very little left t —and still less of Ramsay’s y. vas about this time that the kainiu got blown from Tonga : New Hebrides, with a couple itives on board, a couple of iits, and a lot of hope. No one d to think that it was such idful thing as it might appear j. They were lost for three is; but natives apparently used to that sort of thing. >THER time when Captain lebingat was in Tonga he had near mutiny on board. He an immense man—k ind 1 y, , with something of the perty of Von Luckner—a born . For crew he had, as you can nderstand, some of the worst an be picked up in San Franand they played up a bit nga. Being months at sea, g from San Francisco, may added to the trouble, night, when the captain came ard, as soon as he stepped on eck a seaman hit him with ying pin. course, the police came into md Captain had to make a lent about the matter. He 3d the statement to me (I was enographer in the firm); and short and to the point, someon these lines: “When the master boarded the ship, the said seaman came at the said master and struck him with a belaying pin (looking at me with a twinkle in his eye), said master defending himself.”

This was a masterly understatement for, as a matter of fact, the said master hit that fellow so hard that he was unconscious for two days, and I think the ship sailed without him.

ON his next trip, there happened to be in Nukualofa harbour a small yacht, containing a New Zealand family. They lived on the sea in this yacht and tripped around from place to place—a delightful life, but one that could not be lived to-day, with the form-filling-ln and currency restrictions and other things that make a traveller’s life a misery.

The family consisted of a father and mother, a young boy of about twelve, and a beauteous girl about seventeen, with a bounteous mop of hair, the colour of ripe wheat on the Darling Downs, in Queensland, a New Zealand complexion and a sun-tan, made by the sea, and the sun and not got out of a bottle as to-day.

She apparently was the “crew”— I do not remember if the small vessel carried any other crew—and the minute she sailed into Captain Klebingat’s horizon, it was a case With him. (Over) 71 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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All those colourful and happy days are gone now in Tonga: people come down for a couple of years on a contract, and never get the atmosphere of the place like we did in the old days.

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Bank Sums Up The Markets SIR ERIC TANSLEY, the Managing Director of the Gold Coast Marketing Company, who recently visited Accra, has said that world cocoa prices are unlikely to make a spectacular recovery in the near future, reports the Commonwealth Bank in a recent summary. (Sir Eric was immediately proved wrong as there was a spectacular leap in cocoa prices in May—see elsewhere.) In 1956, cocoa prices on the London market became stable at around £Stg.2oo a ton or slightly above.

Since December, 1956, prices have weakened and have dropped by over £Stg.2o a ton—but an estimate, on the assumption that the lower prices of the past few months will increase consumption, shows a 9.5 per cent, increase on 1956 figures.

Another boost to consumption is that Russia may buy large amounts of French Union cocoa, under the Franco-Soviet trade agreement being negotiated in Paris to continue the previous agreement which expired at the end of last year.

Agreement in principle is believed to have been reached on a 1957 quota of 5,000 tons of cocoa, rising by 2,000 tons a year in each succeeding year of the pact. The signing of a three-year contract is expected. (Continued overleaf) 73 ' I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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In “Commodity Notes for Papua New Guinea,” released by the Rural Liaison Service of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, world raw cocoa consumption in the calendar year 1956 is now estimated to have totalled 772,000 tons, 9 per cent, above the 1955 consumption of 708,000 tons. For 1957, consumption is estimated at 847,000 tons.

COFFEE In the same release, total world green coffee production figures for 1956-57 show a 6 per cent, reduction below the record of 50.3 million bags in 1955-56. The United States Foreign Agriculture Service estimated a total world production of 47.4 million bags for the 1956-57 season.

An estimate, released by the Brazilian Department of Agriculture, forecast a production of 17.7 million bags in that country for the calendar year 1956. With an internal consumption of roughly 3 million bags, this would leave 14.8 million bags available for export in the 1956-57 season. Brazilian production in 1955 was 23.6 million bags. The smaller crop could be supplemented by stocks held by Brazil if there should be a shortage.

The Brazilian Finance Minister, Dr. Jose Maria Alkmin, has issued a press statement that the Brazilian Government would not sell its coffee stocks unless prices advance considerably and there is a shortage on the market. Trade sources consider the statement timely as rumours that the Government might sell its stocks have had an unsettling effect on the Santos market.

Representatives of Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua and the United States met during February in Washington to discuss the possibility of creating a V Coffee Council. The drafting ( international coffee agreement production and prices of coffee also on the agenda.

These countries form the Committee of the Special Comrr on Coffee of the Inter-Ames Economic and Social Council c Organisation of American S which two years ago was instr to study the question of price; trol and the supply of coffee 74 JUNE, 19 5 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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COPRA lie report from the Bank also ed that world trade in copra, a kernels and their oils, which been at substantially higher Is since 1954, continued to rise ng 1956. Copra exports have i despite the continuing increase omestic consumption in produccountries. lilippine copra exports grew dly in 1956. Ceylon’s exports * higher in the January-Sep- >er period of 1956 compared with , but the effects of a drought arly 1956 are expected to reduce irts in the last quarter of the alayan copra exports have been tically reduced in 1956, while nut oil exports have been mainid. This fall in copra exports ue to the usage by Malayan hers of locally produced copra place of previously imported inesian copra.

PEANUTS ie Rural Liaison Service also re- ;d that world production of peain 1956 has been estimated at scord 12.8 million short tons, -in-shell-basis. This would be ncrease of 2 per cent, on the ious record production of 1955 about one-third greater than average annual pre-war output, arid prices for peanuts and peaoil have remained high despite increased world production, ifavourable seasonal conditions Wanting time cut the acreage ted to peanuts in Queensland the 1956-57 season. pua-New Guinea gold returns February released in Port ;sby at the end of May, disd that £2,247 worth of gold had mined by natives during the th in the Morobe, Sepik and ern Highlands Districts. Gold h £7lO was taken from the >be District, £284 from the Sepik £1,253 from the Eastern Highs. The Chief Mining Warden, Mackenzie, said that more Aes were becoming interested in ng, and figures have doubled ; 1955-56. There are now 2,000 ve miners employed, many of n own their own mines. ■. Walter Bignell, an old resident Western Samoa, proceeded to Zealand in April, where he ex- -5 to make his future home. 75 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1057

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June, 1 D 5 7 Pacific Islands Month

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RTRAIT Ingeborg de Beausacq: Three Cameras and a Charming Smile Sydney, in mid-May, was dadame Ingeborg de Beausacq— i londe, slim, enthusiastic and e charming. German-born, now vrican, she was on her way from ) York to Dutch New Guinea, re, she says, she wants to live some months in a primitive ge to take photographs of the ves. •ack-pot? Well, Madame de usacq has a way of making even seem not so silly as it appears, although no doubt New Guinea ■ticularly what she calls the “red s”) is going to give her a lot of rises, probably she will achieve t she wishes, in the end. le is equipped with three 35 m.m. eras ; one for colour ; one for k and white ; one as a “spare yy \e has already visited Fiji and els to DNG by the longest-way- \nd: i Qantas to Noumea; by TAI i Noumea to Santo; from Santo ougainville by BP Line “Tulagi”; i Bougainville by Qantas Catato Rabaul ; from Rabaul to ang, again by air; and thence he same means to Hollandia. hile she was in Fiji, a “PIM” tspondent got these notes about career: IS will not be her first sojourn among native people. She has travelled alone a thousand miles the Amazon and has spent ths among the South American ans and other races, le outbreak of World War II d her in Brazil. There was no pect of going home—nor did she to. But she had to earn a g, she had some good photohic equipment: She went into less. itil 1948, she stayed in Brazil, filing around, observing the irful customs of the various 5 of the country. She sent y articles and pictures to maga- ;, notably Camera Press, of lon. 1948, she went to New York, ag that she needed some civilin. She became a successful ion photographer for the best ion houses and magazines, it she kept having apartment lie. Finally, she became so of cramming her priceless /e art treasures in one stuffy tment after another that she led to build herself a house.

She acquired the sole remaining virgin section on the east side of Manhattan and helped to design the perfect home, with studio, darkrooms, two apartments, garages— everything she needed and plenty of room for everything.

But it took time to build and she developed itchy feet again. So she stored all her belongings and took off for French Guiana. There she heard of a tribe of people called the Bonis, who lived up the Maroni River. They were descendants of slaves in the three Guianas, who had run away up the river many years ago. Deep in the heart of South America, this tribe of pure African descent survives and perpetuates all the old African customs and usages.

Madame de Beausacq journeyed in a small boat for several days to reach them, and stayed for some weeks, before moving further upstream to a neighbouring tribe of South American Indians.

She found that those people who lived near rivers or creeks were very clean in their habits, washing themselves and their clothes frequently.

Away from the rivers, they were dirty and unhealthy, simply because they had no means of being otherwise.

Since the house in New York was not yet finished, Madame de Beausacq fulfilled an old dream: She went alone a thousand miles up the Amazon to Manaos, the fabulous inland city.

Oil has recently been discovered there and the place is booming, with refineries springing up everywhere.

Large ships go right up the Amazon to the city and trade is brisk.

Madame de Beausacq collected some rare specimens of native art, which she later sold to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Back in New York, she moved into her new home. She arranged her treasures about her, resumed her fashion work, let one of her flats to help with the taxes.

She bought blocks of turf which she set in ledges on the roof, "But New York is such a dirty city," she says, “with all the smoke and the soot and chemicals in the atmosphere.”

The grass grew grey; then black; then died. "If only I could have washed it,” she mourns.

She was comfortable in her new home—but far places still called.

She had always dreamed of the Pacific Islands, so far away and apparently unattainable. Suddenly, she made up her mind to go.

She had heard that New Guinea was, in parts, still in a primitive state, with a virile native population still following ancient cultures and traditions.

“I only want to study primitive peoples," she said, "not those who have been changed by the impact of civilisation. So I will go away into the rough country in New Guinea, and find a tribe which is still in its natural state."

When she reached San Francisco, she was studying the best ways to achieve her objective. A name caught her attention —Fiji.

"It was magic,” she said. "It cannot be explained, but some names conjure up beauty and a sort of mysticism. So it was with Fiji. So I decided to travel via the Fiji Islands."

She spent a week in Fiji and somehow managed to see a great deal of the main island. But her search for native artifacts was disappointing: Fiji is no longer primitive nor the people in their native state. One piece of tapa from the Lau Islands was the entire bag.

But Fiji remains magic for her.

The people are charming and lovable; the country beautiful. She hopes to pay a return visit, on her trip north to New York.

Madame de Beausacq and one of her cameras.

Block by courtesy "The Sydney Morning Herald". 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

Creation of the mighty—

Industrial Empire Of Unilever

The expiry of the British MOF Copra Contract at the end of this year and the recent visit of the chief buyer of oils and fats for Unilever Ltd. to Fiji, Australia and Papua, have aroused much speculation in South Pacific copra circles as to future market conditions. The very great and rich organisation of Unilever was the subject of an article in Truth of April 28, which is reproduced here in full as being of particular interest in view of present developments.

SOME years ago, a British business executive on a visit to Indonesia found his company s Djakarta factory terrorised by bloodcurdling “evil spirits.” Obviously, there was only one thing to be done; the “evil spirits” had to be exorcised. In his striped pants and bowler hat, the Man From The City consulted the priests. The result was a “Selamatan,” a flamboyant, gaudy function partly religious, partly festive.

Its highlight was the slaughter of a bellowing bullock. Then, with the priests, the business executive and the native workers forming an exotic procession, the bullock’s flower-garlanded head was carried through the factory “attracting” the spirits, which were finally interred with the head in a deep pit.

Afterwards, the businessman was gratified to report, business efficiency return to normal.

Balding, bespectacled Lord Heyworth, 61-years-old boss of Unilever, the world’s biggest trading empire, doesn’t look like an “exerciser of spirits.”

He is a shy, modest man. When he speaks it is softly, nervously— like a kindly mathematics master chiding an erring pupil.

But when Heyworth gives orders . . . the West African peanut harvest is gathered . . . whaling fleets set course for the Arctic Circle . . . business deals proceed in Istanbul, Sydney, Amsterdam and Paris.

On Unilever, the sun never sets.

It bestrides the globe like a Colossus, dominating the lives of millions in 43 nations outside the Iron Curtain.

Beside Unilever, the empires of the Wolfsons’, the Onassis’ and the Henry Fords’, shrink to Lilliputian size.

It enfolds more than 500 subsidiary companies.

It has a turnover of £1,671 millions a year.

From massive headquarters wedged beside the misty River Thames Embankment in London. Heyworth masterminds this Leviathan.

He markets millions of tons of North Sea fish —fresh, canned, smoked, frozen—making him the world’s biggest fisherman.

Four hundred gleaming, modern British fishshops handle the harvest.

HE is Lord Soap —m anufactu r e r of beauty preparations and internationally - advertised toilet brands from Lux, Sunlight and Lifebuoy—right down to the detergent the charwoman shakes into her bucket.

He is Lord Margarine—the world’s biggest producer, operating on a 100,000,000 tons scale.

He dabbles in plywood, frozen food, ice-cream, chemicals, fat s, baby food, fertilisers—and sausages.

Once a year, 198,000 shareholders gather at the feet of this Lord of the Universe to split up the profits. In 1956, they divided £98,000,000.

The Unilever Colossus is the product of the dreams and ambitions of a Lancashire grocer’s son — William Hesketh Lever, Young Lever began work in his father’s grocery warehouse in 1867.

He was 16.

At 21 he was in partnership with his father.

At 33 he had a fortune of £60,000 and was sidering retiring.

Instead he went into soap.

Soap was already an estah< business in England. But tcckled it in a new way. He bn it, and advertised it.

In two years, Lever’s soap t world best-seller. The name —and is—“ Sunlight.”

In 1888 the young tycoon looking around for a huge; factory site. He found it on M* side, near Liverpool, and foil Port Sunlight.

By the end of the century, L feverish energy had estahi factories in Switzerland, Cat Germany, America and Austrs [A new £1,000,000 Unilever I ing is being built near Circular Sydney, now.] Soon afterwards, the Soap T —already with a dubious repui for ruthless efficiency—c 1a t bitterly with famous Fleet !

Press Baron Lord Northcliffe.

The late Lord Leverhulme. 78 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

om 1900 onward, the soapmakers begun to feel the strain of risprices. argarine and other new foods began to compete for the same and oils used by the soapmakers. id in 1906, the soapmakers ed on a general price advance, stead of raising the retail price ►unlight, Lever made the bars ler. He also began to think, aloud, of the advantages of a s ring. rd Northcliffe’s reaction was ediate. He blasted Lever’s proi “soapmakers merger” through Daily Mail. He attacked it as inst the public interest.” itially, the attack succeeded, r was forced back to making :ull-sized bars of Sunlight soap, i he brought against Northcliffe nsational libel action, cost the Press Baron £50,000 amages—the then biggest sum awarded in an English court, early as 1901, while sailing from ralia to Canada, Lever had de- -1 the time was ripe to establish iwn South Seas copra plantahad also been examining the bilities of starting plantations frica. ht years later, in 1909, Lever isingly received from the an King Albert a mandate for st empire of 1,800,000 acres in Belgian Congo. r er eventually discovered the reason he had received the late was that King Albert had d Port Sunlight incognito, and been hugely impressed with ’s model settlement, his life Lever took an enormous ;st in this Congo enterprise. /as said not a palm tree was [anted on the entire estate that ever didn’t know about, day, the Congo estate produces quantities of palm oil, rubber ;ocoa. er more than fulfilled his itions to King Albert to proadequate living standards for mployees. tie ranches provided workers fresh meat. There are ample al, educational and social serer had only two failures in his imenal career. In 1920, he ased the mighty Niger Comfor £8,000,000. It was bought I a boom period, and in the yar slump, Lever faced a fallarket. worried the multi-millionaire ;st of his life. other failure was the Isle of , 720 wind-swept square miles : Hebrides, off Scotland, soap tycoon’s plans for Lewis far-reaching.

Times commented sardonic- “He attempted to play the )f an earthly providence. The r population welcomed him at first when he established a fishing company.

“But when they realised they would have to pay for their property by being ‘industrialised’ they rebelled, and ultimately, after five years struggle, Lord Leverhulme accepted defeat.”

In 1925, the “greatest industrialist of the age”—now elevated to the peerage—died suddenly, aged 74.

His death brought condolences from King George V and Queen Mary, and control of his £50,000,000 Soap Empire to Francis D’Arcy Cooper—brother of Duff Cooper.

It was Cooper, who died not very long after, who recognised in Geoffrey Heyworth a spark of Lord Leverhulme’s own genius, and started him up the stairway to power.

In 1929, the soap empire amalgamated with the massive English and Dutch margarine interests, to form Unilever.

Heyworth took on the job of revising the new company’s marketing methods. He found 50 selling organisations —and left five!

In 1936, Heyworth became managing director of the organisation’s soap-making companies.

Six years later, then 47, he succeeded to the throne of the entire organisation.

Heyworth, the master-salesman, w r hose genius keeps the cash registers spinning at the rate of more than £4,000,000 a day, travels endlessly.

In the last few years he has been to Africa, to Asia and to every country in Western Europe.

HE has inspected Unilever plantations in the Solomons, and Unilever stores in West Africa — where a subsidiary, United Africa Company does business with 50,000,000 Africans in an area the size of the United States.

From hi s world-wide travels, Heyworth brings back a stream of ideas, suggestions, reports and criticisms to be thrashed out by his staff.

If Lever, the soap tycoon, could see Unilever as it is to-day—with its 260,000 employees and a staff pensions fund topping £64,000,000 —he would still recognise in it many of his original policies.

In 1891, Lever told William Gladstone: “It is a necessity in continuous, persistent and successful advertising that the quality of the articles advertised be irreproachable.”

That basic tenet, says Unilever, still remains. t Mr. F. E. M. Warner has been appointed Registrar of Co-operative Societies in Fiji. He has been Acting Registrar since the death of Mr.

D. Collins, who was drowned while landing from a ship at Kadavu early in January. Mr. Warner became Assistant Registrar of Co-operative Societies in 1952.

Pioneer:

Wilhelm Grube

By Nettie Frater

WILHELM GRUBE was one of the more colourful identities who reached the New Hebrides at the beginning of this century.

He was a native of Schleswig- Holstein, but had run away to sea on an English sailing ship when he was 13. The English he had learnt there had a ruddy tinge.

When he left the sea he settled down as a trader on the island of Paama, in the New Hebrides, with a missionary as his neighbour. The two liked each other from the start.

In appearance, Wilhelm was a typical “wild man,” with bushy hair, long beard and careless clothes. He was over six feet tall and his feet were so large that his boots had to be made to measure on his rare visits to Sydney. Till the boots were ready, and back in the islands after they were worn out, he wrapped his feet in bath towels.

Wilhelm’s appetite was as large as his frame. He ate a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread at a sitting, or a fowl and a large fruit cake.

Twenty-five bananas a day filled-in between meals.

Wilhelm’s wife was English; a tiny, fragile gentlewoman. To everyone who saw them together the question inevitably arose, how? why? It was never answered. He was good to her in his own way and her house was full of the unpractical presents he gave her. In Sydney, he found it less trouble to pick her up and carry her across the street than to take her arm and guide her over.

After a few years in the islands, Mrs. Grube became very ill, so her husband took her to the hospital on Ambrym. The doctor there could do nothing for her and asked Wilhelm to break it gently to his wife that she would not recover. He sat down heavily beside her bed.

“Missus,” he said, “the doctor says you’re going to kick the In spite of the trader’s fierce appearance and manner, he was gullible. The supercargo of the inter-island steamer found him a good customer and stock that was unsaleable to any other trader could usually be sold to Wilhelm.

After it had mouldered on the shelves of his store for several years he gave it away to the natives.

The biggest opposition to his trade came from a one-eyed native trader called Maki Malo, who had a store a few miles away. One day Wilhelm set out in his whale-boat for the island of Lopevi, to buy copra. As they rowed close to the steep wooded shores of Paama the boat soon came abreast of Maki Male’s village. The one-eyed trader called out, “Where are you going?”

“To Lopevi,” came the answer.

“No use,” shouted Maki Malo, “I 79 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

was there yesterday and got all their copra.”

Wilhelm, who believed what he was told, changed his direction for another island. As soon as he was out of sight, Maki Malo got his crew together, put his boat in the water and went off round the north end of Paama to get the Lopevi copra.

This island of Lopevi, five miles east of Paama, is all volcano. The cone rises pyramid-like from the sea to a height of 5,000 feet, while the grey track of an ancient lavaflow sweeps down the mountain side from the summit to the shore.

In those days there was usually a wisp of smoke rising from the peak.

Lopevi is a landmark for the area.

When Wilhelm was caught at sea in a hurricane he and his “boys” in their whaleboat raced before the storm till Lopevi was only a tiny dot on the horizon. Wilhelm’s superb seamanship was well known and his Paamese crew were daring boatmen, but when his boat failed to return there was deep anxiety felt in the mission house and the villages. The hurricane blew itself out and as soon as the sea had gone down sufficiently to launch his boat, the missionary and his boatscrew went off to look for the trader.

A few hours later, Wilhelm returned round the other end of the island. In spite of his six days’ ordeal in an open boat, as soon as he heard about the rescue party he would not even wait to eat, but set off to find the rescuers.

Wilhelm liked his neighbour’s company and often spent the evening at the mission house, but he did not care for misisonaries en masse. When the missionaries met at Paama for their annual Synod, nothing would persuade him to go to the house to meet them; but the steamer that took them away had barely disappeared round the rocky headland before he was on his way there. He sank thankfully into a chair, saying, “I’m glad to see the last of those damned missionaries.”

The trader did not, in general, approve of swearing in front of a missionary. On his visits to the mission station his speech was always slow and hesitating with long pauses where he left out the swear-words. But his solicitudes were wasted.

When Wilhelm’s boat came to anchor in the bay he roared orders mingled with curses at his crew, while his voice reverberated through the mission house and native village.

The missionary’s children and the native children imitated his vocabulary with gusto.

The Paamese said, “His tongue is bad but his heart is good.” They had reason to know, because the village nearest the store practically lived on his bounty.

During Wilhelm’s last illness the missionary was constantly with him.

A night came when the trader felt he would not live till morning and he told his boy to call the Missionary.

With a native’s unwillingness to waken a sleeper, the boy made some excuse, and when the missionary arrived in the morning his friend had gone.

U A Melbourne psychiatrist, Mr.

Alex Sinclair will begin a three months’ survey of mental health in Papua-New Guinea in mid-June. (This seems to be a task that has boundless possilibities —although perhaps the survey might more fittingly begin in Canberra).

They Make Music . . .

Romulus Dethridge . . . of the most capable citizens o British Solomons, he was born in U ville, Western Australia, and movedi his family to Victoria where he grew the timber trade around the central dis At the age of 26 he arrived in Vaniko work for the Kauri Timber Company, an mamed with it until the outbreak of w 1939. He enlisted in the AIF, trained Commando and served as Sergeant in th Army Troop Companies in Milne Bay and areas of New Guinea. In 1944 hetransferred to the British Solomon II Defence Force, which was virtually a LI Corps, and in this role he built the ss at Buma on Malaita, for the Governmeir At the end of the war he was buj houses for the Government at Honiara, helping to ship out war disposal m* for them. In 1950 he joined the T Timber Syndicate to ship out logs Guadalcanal to Sydney. When this becai registered company he became man director for two years at Tenaru, and! has some interest in the firm, which hi to cease active production at the end ok year. His next venture was a copra plam at Dadali on Ysabel Island, but this dir come up to expectations. During the three years, 1954-55-56 he went aroum Group shooting crocodiles and exporting skins. He reduced the crocodile populatii the Solomons by exactly 4,225, and they take some years to build their number again.

His latest effort is the purchase of lease of llu Farm, near Tenaru, from Government, which had tried unsucces for many years to carry on the farm it took over from the American forces the war. The farm is of 160 acres, with 10 buildings of various kinds, and in vi stages of decay. The cash price was £T and the yearly rental £4O/15/-. During last six months the farm has been flooded by heavy rains, but the present growing are sorgum, cocoa, tomatoes groundnuts of the Virginia Bunch variety Dethridge hopes to export. The only crop so far has proved to be non-fl metal from the war-scrap scattered and M around the property, mostly brass shell and pieces of brass from stripped mao BRETT HI t The Commonwealth News and] formation film unit went to Guinea recently to make a 35 i colour film of the work of a pt< in the Southern Highlands.

A fijian choir at Broadcasting House, Suva-one of the vocal groups attached to the FBC for recording and broadcasting native songs. —Photo by Caines Studio. 80 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Trpoicalities

Fing Saucers And Little

GREEN MEN ivt. in “Cook Islands News”: ild the person who took a green i’s bicycle from the Community elopment Office yesterday at roximately 3 p.m., please return e as soon as possible.

Jtting Up The Highest

)Ss In The Southern

lISPHERE: This cross was ted on Mount Albert Edward, Papua, by Roman Catholic ionaries in July, 1938, and recent irch shows that it still beats lext highest cross (in the Andes), I, April, p. 77), by 162 ft. In ember, 1938, PIM published the photograph of the Mt. Albert ard cross, but when we searched tly for the old block we found ssing. However, within a few ve came across this photograph by accident. Evidently it was ied by our old friend, the Rev. /. M. Dupeyrat, at the same is the original 1938 illustration, ws the cross being put together e peak of the mountain.

Sailing Dv!

RE is unconscious but approbate humour in the letters preyed to DV Hifofua, which was ckland for refit in May. The 3, which appear in all official I notices regarding the 108-ton of-all-work, actually represent atch Vessel”—but might just ell represent the generally ted “Deo Volente” for her cents, like those of most Island 5, are very much in the “God ?” category. the ketch was expected in Auckland but still lay mysteriously (to the public) in Nukualofa Harbour. She was waiting for a compass to arrive from Auckland before she could make the voyage.

Eventually—like all Island vessels — she got away, to make one of her smartest passages, averaging 7 knots on the 1,100-mile run—JPS.

Who Has The Biggest

THIRST?

HERE is a New Caledonian entry in the Biggest Thirst Stakes: During a recent meeting in Noumea of the committee which has been set up to fight alcoholism, one ?f the members, Dr. Tivolller, who is also health-officer of Noumea, said that between 1950 and 1956 the consumption of beer had increased by 152 per cent., wines by 60 per cent, and whisky (in which category is included all drinks containing over 35 per cent, pure alcohol, such as rum and cognac) by 80 per cent.

In 1956, 5,000,000 litres of imported wine and beer were consumed, plus 1,000,000 litres of local beer, plus 150,000 litres of “whisky.” It is calculated that New Caledonians drank 100 litres of wine and beer each, in 1956. Their total drink bill was about £A700,000.

The huge increase in consumption is attributed to (a) the fact that natives may now drink beer; and (b) the higher standard of living enjoyed by the inhabitants as a whole.

NB. A litre is equal to about II pints.

Tale Of The Consul’S Cat

UNLIKE Kipling’s cat which walked in the wet, wild woods swishing its wild tail and generally living a somewhat primitive existence, this particular cat that we are going to talk about now seems to have lived in high style.

The cat belongs to Mr. R.

Shackleton, the new United States Consul in New Caledonia. Mr.

Shackleton had previously been in Berne, Switzerland, so when he went to Noumea he had the cat shipped by air to Australia. From Sydney pussy took passage in the Messageries Mantimes Line ship Resurgent and finally arrived in Noumea.

In Noumea the trouble started: for some reason not stated, the local authorities refused to allow the cat to land and insisted that the animal either be destroyed or alternatively, that it be returned at once to whence it came without touching the unsullied soil of New Caledonia.

Mr. Shackleton, being a man of some determination and a cat lover to boot, promptly sent pussy back to Berne by air, where it is no doubt telling its cat friends something of the perils of travel and that the humans Down Under are even screwier than those in the Northern Hemisphere.

Miss Mary Edwards, the artist, had some cat trouble of a similar sort some years ago. She took a black kitten to Fiji by ship, was refused permission for it to land, so returned with it on the same ship, the cat never having left the vessel.

Back in Sydney the authorities wanted to destroy the cat although it had done nothing more exciting than take a round sea trip. After much fuss and feathers, not to sav publicity, this particular feline was allowed to land.

Culture—In Pidgin

SURELY, W. W. Jacobs’ play, “The Monkey’s Paw”, had its strangest Interpretation when a Pidgin version prepared by Secretary of Native Affairs, Val Anderson, was broadcast from Radio Honiara on May 27. Various local colour was introduced into the story and the project was well received by native listeners.

It spoke well for the patience and careful tuition of all connected with the venture.

This is Miss Lydia Pickering, third prize winner in the Miss Hibiscus contest held in Suva last year, wearing an appropriatelypatterned dress when she visited Levuka recently. A trip to Fiji's old capital was her prize as third place-winner.

Photo: B. Worger. 81 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

A Question of Tongan Succession

The Eye Of Tubou

THE Palace kava ring had been formed. Motua Ponaka and the hereditary leaders of the kava rites had taken up their positions to the right and left of the place which was to be occupied by Tubou.

From early morn, smoke and steam had been rising from numerous urns in which were cooking the pigs, poultry, fish, yams and other delicacies which were to be presented by the visitors, and now with monotonous chants, the gifts were being dragged on hurdles into the palace compound.

The Vavau chiefs closely followed their offerings, and, as they seated themselves on the ground in the centre of the ring, King George Tubou stepped out from the palace and took his place.

With the usual ceremonies the kava was cut up, pounded, watered and made ready for distribution. As the server cried, “Kava kuoreke,” the beverage was handed round by the attendants, the King receiving the third bowl under the direction of Motua Ponaka.

The ceremonial part of the business being concluded, Tubou made signs to some of the principal of his visitors to come up and sit beside him on the verandah, and was soon engaged in discussing the state of affairs in Tonga and reviving old memories with his guests, many of whom had been his comrades and his war mates in earlier days.

Tubou was nearing his end, and was troubled in mind over many things, especially with respect to the succession to the crown of Tonga.

Many of those present had assisted at the Watch Night Service in the church at Sione Foou on the last day of the year, when, in accordance with Tongan custom, as the clock struck the first stroke of midnight the band marched towards the church door to the solemn strains of the Dead March in Saul.

Then, after having offered up a final prayer, in which Tubou had referred to his approaching end and the troubles which had embittered his latter years, the King blessed his people and solemnly kissed each of the assembled chiefs with a final benediction. As the last stroke of midnight tolled forth the band had emerged from the porch of the church striking up the merry tune of, “1 Wish You a Happy New Year,” and the annual serenading raged through Nukualofa.

By the constitution of Tonga, the succession was clearly defined. It lay in the direct line of King George through his son Tevita Uga in the male line, and the only male representative was Prince George Toufa Ahau. Failing direct issue in this line, the crown was to descend to the Tungi family. Old, blind Tungi would be followed by his son, Tukuaho (then Premier of Tonga) and failing him by his little son, Viliame (William).

The chiefs were all in support of Prince George Toufa Ahau, but Mr.

Basil Home Thomson, who represented Sir John Thurston, objected to the arrangements and had been trying to get the Crown Prince passed over and the succession secured for Tukuaho.

Mr. Thomson had left Tonga, but the result of his interference still troubled the King and his people.

Naturally, this formed the principal topic of discussion between the King and his chiefs.

King George Tubou would have been a notable figure in any land and among any people. The worry of the last six months had thinned and aged him more than would thrice the number of years, cheeks were shrunken and his had taken on the iron of age* his mouth was firmly set and eyes bright. For all his shrui. figure, thin face and hollo cheeks, there was a fire in his and nobility was written on broad, square forehead. The: firmness of the mouth and chin claimed him a man among mem age was 95, but his look was « and steady. No one who had seen Tubou could ever forget h On his passing on February 1893, the Crown Prince George T Ahau (George Tubou II) succei him.

It was strange that the little?

Viliame (William Tungi), beo the Prince Consort to Queen Ss who was a daughter of the late I George Tubou 11.

A recent lease granted by P-NG Land Board to Mr. F Atkinson, of Gusap, will more double his present holding in from Lae. The 19,000-acre leas Dumpu is only separated by river from his property at Gv and will allow him more wate facilities and enable the proper run one beast to 10 acres.

Pim Crossquiz No. 87

Solutio Page ACROSS 1. —What is the largest lake in South America? 6. —Which harbour was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941? 7. —What simple and common mechanical device was never discovered or used by the Red Indian In his native state? 8. —What is the world's oldest continuously inhabited city? 9. —Which member of the weasel family has aquatic habits? 10. —Which of Napoleon's marshals was known as "The Bravest of the Brave"? 11. —Who wrote "Goodbye Mr. Chips"? 14. —ln architecture, what type of projecting window is divided up by mullions and transoms? 15. —What is the term for insects enclosed in a case when passing from caterpillar to winged state? 16. —What name is often given to the lion? 18. —Which Indian coin is one-sixteenth of a rupee? 19. —Who cares for horses at an inn? 20. —What make their appearance every 11 £ years?

DOWN 1. —Where are the British Crown Jewels kept? 2. Which play starts with the line "If music be the god of love, play on"? 3. —Where is Britain's first atomic power 17. —Where are drums found in the station? body? 4. —Who deciphered the Rosetta Ston 5. —What is the second largest pt 6. What are regularly held in Obera gau? 12. —What is the second city of Pon 13. —What was the site of the w most tragic motor racing disaster? 82 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT El

tragedy that ght have been averted

Little Flares Of Death

By Alice Allen Innes

was some time in 1928 that I lad good reason to regret I vas not able to read Morse !e, as I may have been able to ; a number of lives. fter dinner one night I took five men guests out on to the mdah facing Salamaua Bay. gramophone was playing softly ve sipped our coffee and chatted roldfields news. It was a still, gen?al° Medical whn shnfiilw £ th?r eu??t biff Whn insert S fn B ? Wfli te d SL? o nSwf ? : f *. • “H 16 1 lr ] and idly followed °L? 1 £ ri ? llg > h .ts on *• a tnougnt shattered Sl^ 0 t !]iVn j. !“,• snarply to my to someone niS? iv/r Dot ’ dash can t anyone read Morse !7*v-iof Trnil 4. 4.V, ’ lau S hed !ny •and. Fancy a woman who nat^e? O n S^ o Ln^inJr fe th^» n fr» STfllres” 1 TrS tr, g flares. Trying to kid she s “Master, master, you come quick along house sick. All boy he like die long salt water. Master, too, him close up die along salt water.”

Hastily we all fled to the administrative section of the isthmus. As far as I remember now, there was an Assistant District Officer from Madang, almost drowned. He had been injured by a floating spear, and his native police boy had swum with him from the reef to the beach a good mile or more. Those little flickers of light that stabbed the dark night had indeed been calls for help, sent out by a desperate little band of twenty-six souls from the Chinese-owned launch that now lay in the depths of Samoa Bay.

The boat had been chartered by the Government to bring the Assistant District Officer and recruited mountain natives, from the back of Madang, to the goldfields, where the natives were to work as carriers on the new road. They had left Madang and struck days of bad weather almost at once. Although the District Officer had been very ill, he was trying to push through to Salamaua, for he knew that native carriers were badly needed to carry medical supplies to the many dysentery cases then on the goldfields track and in road camps.

As the little boat came to the reef entrance at Salamaua, she was blown off her course, the engines having failed in the narrow entrance.

She struck the reef edge, and was nearly ripped in two.

In panic, the mountain natives threw themselves into the boiling surf, in the deceiving light thinka tourist, I suppose.”

“Of course, they’re fishing flares”, said the young administrative cadet.

I felt squashed, but far from satisfied. We sat on from 8 p.m. until after 11 p.m., and for an hour those lights tantalised me so that I couldn’t take my eyes off them.

Somehow I seemed to sense they were calling for help. I made k „• . , L<Bt s ta . ke , a canoe or dinghy fu d g °f out J?,. th ® reef to watch the natives fishing. nobody wanted to make the effort, though the wharf was within a few yards of where we sat.

Again I persisted: “ If those lights are fishing flares we should be seeing sparks drop from bundles of burning coconut leaves. Look they’ve gone out — just this minute”.

“Woman!” said Himself. “Will you stop mooning about the lights and us some supper?” (We never kept . s^a ® on night).

I gave in and got the required refieshments. Our little party was jUSt breaking up for the night when ? n . atll r« boy came running breathlessly to the door, calling: Salamaua before the war—the town was strung out along the isthmus. 83 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 19 57

r g ihe coast was much nearer than <■ Actually was. “The Masta, with -eat presence of mind, managed . rescue his “shoot-lamp (torch) nd so signalled the shore two miles away for help. But, of course, the call was in vain.

Then Kong, the skipper, had quickly made for the little dinghy "led to the stern of the launch, and was able to get clear of the wreckage and make for the beach.

The officer lost consciousness when he was injured in the water, but some of the police boys were fine swimmers and rescued him, together with many of the inland natives who could not swim.

Immediately the news reached the shore, our local district officer and boat’s crew went to the rescue, succeeding in bringing safely to land a number of those still in the water, but despite their heroic efforts, eleven were drowned.

This tragedy was responsible for a dramatic incident that happened after the whole story leaked out.

There were a number of miners on the beach at the time of the tragedy.

These men, angry at finding that the Chinese captain had made no effort to rescue his companions before making off with the only dinghy, and perhaps even more angry that the wreck had not been reported immediately he reached the shore so that help could have gone to the rescue, decided to take the law ito their own hands. It was found that Captain Kong had gone straight to his kinsfolk, and had been either too hysterical or too terrified to report that he had left a wrecked launch.

Chris Hollaris led the miners up to the Chinese store, and there they meted out to the terrified Chinaman the punishment they considered he deserved for his inhumane conduct.

Kong took the punishment badly, screaming out curses and imploring his ancestors to come to his aid; but he had to take his medicine.

When the miners, considering he had had sufficient, desisted, Kong turned to Chris, and, in a calm, passionless voice ,told him he would be dead in two days. Naturally, the tough bunch of miners did not lose any sleep over that statement, but, whether the Chinaman actually did “make medicine” against him or whether it was just coincidence, poor Chris Hollaris did die two days later —from blackwater fever.

Our Cover Photo . . .

TITHEN this month’s cover photo ? ¥ was submitted, this jingle came along with it: Dear friend from Australia, If you want to see failure Just come to the Islands.

Like us from the Highlands, You’ll end up with nought on — So yours until Autumn. . . .

PEREGRINE BRANCHES.

This Month's New Reading left or Right on the Left Bank Cond [?] by .

VIRTUALLY everything that can be said in praise of The Mandarins (Simone de Beauvoir), has been said; It is a British Book Society recommendation; a French Prix Goncourt winner; in America it is alleged to have been “the most talked-about book of the season.

It was praised by reviewers m publications as far removed from one another as the New York Times and the New Yorker.

In view of the weight of opinion of all that talent, no one is likely to be impressed when this reviewer contributes her two cents’ worth and admits to finding the novel more than somewhat bewildering; attunes tedious, and the multiplicity of characters at all times confusing.

It would have been an asset to have a list of characters in the front of the book for easy reference.

Most of the story takes place in Paris, directly after the liberation at the end of 1944, but there are side excursions by some of the main characters to America, Portugal, etc.

The characters are Left Bank intellectuals, most of whom were concerned in one way and another with the Resistance. The story itself concerns the aftermath of the Resistance: the treatment of collaborators, the struggles of the characters as they are pulled this way and that, towards the political Left or to the political Right, delicately sidestepping outright Communism or outright Fascism. As this phase of French life in World War II is little known and less understood in this part of the world, this aspect of the novel fails to make as much sense as it no doubt should to the Australasian reader. It is evident that de Beauvoir has based her story on real happenings; and her characters, most likely, on real people.

Inter-twined in this mesh of political intrigue, is a bed-to-bed description of the main characters sex-life. But as sexual -intercourse is regarded about as seriously as the taking of a cup of coffee (and is a great deal easier to come by than coffee in the Resistance and post-Resistance periods) even this angle of the novel loses all significance.

Main characters are Henri, a young novelist and journalist; Paula, who had been his mistress for many years; Robert a philosopher and writer; his psycho-analyst wife, Anna, and their 18-years-old daughter, Nadine, who had been soured by the fact that her lover had been killed by the Germans.

This is a sample of a conversation between Anna and Paula ; PAULA: Who is Nadine sleeping with now?

ANNA; Just now, I really * believe that she is sleeping anyone.

PAULA; Nadine? You must at that’s strange. . . Does she goc with Henri?

ANNA; I told you we’d bn with Henri, PAULA; Then according to Nadine doesn’t see Henri any no ANNA: No.

PAULA: She never loved himi she?

ANNA: No.

PAULA: Then why did she g Portugal with him?

ANNA: You know very well she went. She thought it woul fun having an affair with him, primarily she wanted to travel PAULA; You haven’t been s; ing with Robert for a long have you?

ANNA: A very long time.

PAULA: And you never hadl lovers?

ANNA: Occasionally. ... A unimportant affairs.

PAULA: And are you having now?

ANNA: I am having a very portant affair, in America. W:' writer.

PAULA; America! That’s away. I mean in France . . . C Let’s put an end to this gameknow very well that I know you are sleeping with Henr want you to tell me when it bi ANNA (apparently in some lu Look. . . Nadine’s the one who with Henri. Not me.

However, in spite of this cat attitude to tender passion, son the characters so far forget t: selves as to think they are “in !

But as it inevitably tires or the recipient, these exercises completely unrewarding.

It could be that this novel ha something in translation. Excel the passages narrated by Am the first person, it is not free-flo but jerks along in a fashionj may be considered clever, br irritating to the lazy reader.

It is possible also, that we: Down Under are lacking in of our departments. Here it iii cessary for a journalist only to: member of the AJA and to a 40-hour week. It is not 8 necessary to strike a blow dom, or to comfort one’s psycl; sleeping with a different p® every night.

Here is one member of] fraternity who is profoundly grs So fatiguing. (Published by Collins. Australian 22/6.) ... (Continued on Page 86) 84 JUNE, 1557 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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The book is so well done the produces another bout of curie Who is Jessica Hawk? Not even jacket-flap gives a clue to mystery.

The book has many surprises the least of which is the fact there was a real prototype of pedantic Boney—Leon Wood name—who actually writes an iJ Auction to the story.

Arthur was the first of five of a prosperous shop-keepe;; Gosport, England. Towards the of 1910, his father said to “You are going out to Australl try farming. I have come to 100 Australia as the ideal countr: you. It is so far away you will I save enough money to returni was correct —although Arthur return on the King’s business tween 1914-1918.

Arthur duly arrived in Ade: determined to become a bourn rider, although he had small; what a boundary rider was, oi However, to the agencies to v he presented himself he die look like the raw material foi Great Outback. He had to bic time by taking a job as fourthi at Adelaide’s best hotel.

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Ling happened. ave to unload” said the teers. ot on your life,” said the boss cky, “you unhitch and get your gon across Them bloody cks stays with my waggon and 5 her out if they have to stay i for a twelve month. They can drown and the wool can float down the creek, but I’m not unloading and loading up again.”

A team of camel drivers arrived.

They suggested they hitch their camels ahead of the mules, “make or bust.”

The 30 camels were hitched on ahead of the mules —84 animals.

The men went to work with their shovels, the bullocks, mules and camels strained, some going down on their knees. Suddenly they lurched forward —but all they had succeeded in doing was to drag the front pole out of the waggon, which remained bogged.

Even a bullocky can recognise defeat. It took him three days to unload, repair the waggon, load again. The creek did not come down.

Upheld had written two novels (unpublished) as a youth. It was 87 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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There is a laugh on every page of this unusual biography—and some of the humour is exceedingly broad.

No Upfield fans should miss this opportunity of observing the rawmaterial of the novels that have presented so well the Australian outback scene—not only for Australians but for readers in the UK, the United States and on the Continent. (Published by Wm. Heinemann. Australian price, 22/6.) After Austen POSSIBLY it could be given that fateful tag “a woman’s novel” (as it concerns strong men and weak females) this Claire, by Dorothea Malm; however, even a male may trifle away an entertaining hour or so with it.

The author herself says that it is in the tradition of Jane Eyre.

Possibly, as the central figure is a poor, little governess to the gentry in the days of William IV; and the hero an aristocratic of indigo blood, with a befitting selfishness and the notion that he is first cousin to God.

However, the treatment is modern enough and so far as we know La Austen did not produce heroines who were, even in their less embarrassed periods, demimondaines.

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First, her childhood in Paris as the beloved only child of intellectuals.

Second, as the 14-years-old orphan who is bundled off to England to become the poorly paid governess of the five repulsive brats of Lady Wichinhood, there to fall in love with the lady’s brother, Charles, to be kicked out because another brother fell in love with her; and to become a lady of the streets.

Third, Claire’s sturdy French commonsense and strength of character emerging, as she puts the bright lights behind her, returns to the respectable life of governessing in which capacity she again is drawn into the orbit of the Lady, her brats and her brother. (Over) 89 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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An interesting enough character study of not altogether orthodox characters even for that rumbustuous period. (Published by Peter Davies, Ltd. Australian price, 18/9.) Sex in the Sac-Sac NO matter if the natives of the NG Highlands do not have sago palms, the title is a good piece of alliteration, and this is not the only way in which normal life in the Highlands differs from that in Kundu, a novel by Morris L. West.

The author has flung into it every ingredient in the New Guinea kitchen —migrant doctors, frustrated District Services personnel, Canberra’s sensitivity towards United Nations opinion, native superstition and unusual sex practices, sorcery, missionary influence and as mixed a bag of characters as ever decorated any novel. The result is a stew that is easy for the average reader to swallow, eagerly; and near enough to the borders of possibility to be palatable even for Territorians —not the easiest audience to please.

The shock, of course, is that it is about the Highlands of New Guinea —and not about tropical Africa or the Indies —novels about which have been tickling the senses for a century or more.

The story concerns Kurt Sondefeld and the beautiful Gerda, whoc in a German concentration and contracted a marriage of venience. Out of convenient, born hate, and the people eacl: tract provide the opposing ( acters in the story. Kurt me in ancient native culture; 90 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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VI reviewed another of Morris L. ’s novels a couple of years ago, rws On the Sand. This story serialised by the ABC; however, mt contravening the by-laws le Purity League, we do not : that the ABC will be able to it the performance with Kundu. lished by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. ian price, 16/-.) McLaren e War JR or five years ago your reiewer was marooned for a few ays in Mrs. Pitt’s guest-house >roka, in the NG Eastern High- , waiting for a plane. This was e the establishment had been ded and turned into a hotel. It inducted in one small bungamd there was no spare room, at when the food was removed the table each night, we just n, and talked, elbows propped le table. d other guests at the table were ung agricultural officer from Methodist Mission at Mendi; a lean, angular fellow of no ;ular beauty, who was a vetry officer in the Administra- He was a friendly soul this . Kindly, you would probably Certainly, you would not cast for the part of ruthless, ress heroism. How far from the a casual observer can be. explain his Scots accent, which .s thick as a peat bog, he said ame was Jock Kerr McLaren. ;onversation was usually about ands (New Guinea variety), ilture, or cattle—or the vexed on of sheep. But one night we worked around to operations— or rather emergencies in strange places. Perhaps we had been discussing the doctor who had, about that time, gone to the Antarctic with an expedition, developed appendicitis, and was removed at considerable trouble and expense. McLaren said then that he had once operated on himself for appendicitis, and the company, naturally incredulous, asked where and how.

It was in the Philippines during the war when McLaren was fighting with the guerillas. He told us the story of the operation, and a few other disjointed details of his adventures during that period. Sufficient to whet the appetite for more—and nothing else.

I saw McLaren only once again— for a moment about a year later in Lae. Jock was in town celebrating, and in no mood for war-time reminiscence. So last year when I learned that he had been killed, I cursed. Firstly, because it seemed absurd that a man who had lived so long on the brink of disaster and survived, should have been killed a few yards from his own house when old dead timber elected to fall at the moment he was beneath; and secondly, because I thought that another angle on the Pacific war had been lost for good.

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It was McLaren’s idea to follow these islands and to join up with the guerillas fighting the Japs in the Philippines.

With him would go two companions, Jim Kennedy and Rex Butler. Destination was Tawi Tawi.

To get there, the three men had first to escape from their Japanese guards, take the dug-out from the protesting lepers, paddle 160 miles around the north coast of Borneo to the jumping-off place for the string of islands and then accomplish 20 hours of hard paddling in the open sea.

But even this apparently impossible task was completed and the three Australians, worn to the point of exhaustion, landed in Philippines territory. It is from this point that McLaren’s fabulous, oneman war began. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

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Barnett explains the relation of the to time, space and matter.

EISENHOWER BROTHERS: Bela Kornitzer es the five one dead Fisenbrothers, not as a background to nt Dwight, but simoly as an examole ' members of a humble American familv spire to and achieve success and ful- * BABY: A handbook of pre-natal and :are from the moment of conception to Fant is two years old. A practical and nsense guide, setting out in clear je the A to Z of parenthood.

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Tubby Windrush, a typical product of the professional army system is sent to the Sudan to help quell a native rising. But something happens to Windrush and the story is largely an account of his disillusionment with the established order. 4,000 YEARS UNDER THE SEA; Those who are interested in aqualunging or underwater exploration generally; or those who are interested only in reading about it, will find Phillipe Diole's second book on the subject well up to the standard of the first (The Undersea Adventure). This time Diole tells of the pursuit of undersea archaeology and diving experiences off the North African and Southern French coasts looking for specimens of ancient Roman sculpture, architecture and art. It should interest the amateur archaeologist as well as the free-diving addict.

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FROM AMERICA: The title of this one, "Rogue Cop", adequately describes this particular opus of prolific crime-writer William McGivern. It has all the usual trimmings of American crime-busters. Judging by the books that are written on the subject, one must come to the conclusion that there are as many crooks in the various State and city policedepartments in the USA, as out of them. This particular story has been made into a film starring Robert Taylor and George Raft.

IN THE PACIFIC: "Pitcairn's Island" is the last of the triology written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall to be published by Fontana. (The other two were of course, "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Men Against the Sea"). Fontana readers will be glad to add the last of the set to their collections.

Its contents are too well known to need description here.

IN ENGLAND; "Vittoria Cottage" is another story of an English family by Dorothy Emily Stevenson whose other books (including "Miss Bun the Baker's Daughter") are well known.

The novel takes its name from the house where succeeding generations of Derings had lived since it was built at the end of the Napoleonic wars. Trimmed and added to by succeeding generations, it eventually came into the possession of Caroline Dering whose twin interests are her garden and the life of the village. (Australian prices of Comet books, 3/6; Fontana books, 3/-; Pan books, 3/-; Great Pan, 3/6; Giant Pan, 5/-.) Also Received:

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As a result, Captain Williams was rather more concerned about the possible desertion of the cat than of the crew. However, the cat was ■resent and correct” on sailing day In April and the bond was refunded.

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In the meantime, some of the senior deck and engine ratings from smaller Government vessels will be given, in rotation, six weeks’ training on the pride of the BSIP fleet —the 118-ft Melanesian.

The Solomon Islanders, like most of the native people of the South Pacific, make very good seamen and on most of the smaller ships—66 ft and less—they act as Masters in local waters.

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The yawl is equipped with a 2way radio, a 40-hp diesel auxiliary engine, and is fully refrigerated. On board, when she arrived in Lae were her owner; a solicitor, Mr. C.

Pennington, and Mr. Arnold Jones: plus three crew members, all experienced fishermen from the Queensland coast.

Swevens II left Rushcutter’s Bay.

Sydney, in February and shortly afterwards brushed the skirt of the cyclone “Clara,” causing them to take shelter at Macleay River, NSW. for 10 days. Their trip has taken then via the main ports of NSW and Queensland to Thursday Island.

Daru. in Papua, Port Moresby, Samarai and on to Lae.

They reported that the area be- Samarai arFd Goodencmgh Jsland was a fisherman’s paradiseshe Marlin were so big that their 120-lbs breaking strain nylon lines —With piano wire traces—were use- J? 55 - They eventually used the log “P e - Within a few miles of Lae ?^ e y . said e y saw dozens of Marlin jumping out of the water in pairs. rT , Th . e P art y intends visiting other Territory ports, and although they have no fixed schedule, they might island-hop across the Pacific and through the Panama Canal, The party sailed from Lae May 13 in fairly thick weather and about 8-10 miles out they ran into a heavy rain squall and the engine broke down. The yacht returned under "Hans-Fohri" on slipway in Madang, —Photo by Mac-Mig.

R: "Swevens", Australian yacht (right) alongside a local ship at the smallwharf, Lae. 99 IF IC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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ONDA 111, of Argentina, has old in Auckland to Mr. Athol ti, who is well known as former owner of the Fairmile cruiser Philante II and other craft, in which he cruised Polynesia. Hillary Chiswell and crewman Carlos Paiva, ex Zonda 111, are seeking to remain in NZ, where Chiswell may build a smaller yacht. • IMATRA, of Auckland, is not being sold to Papeete as earlier reported. The transaction was not completed. • MIRANDA, of Auckland, should also clear for Tahiti early this winter. • TAHITI, of Honolulu, which returned home from NZ some months ago, may soon head back for Papeete.

Lorrin Smith will have a new sailing companion. • SOLACE, of England, paying her third and final visit to the Cook Islands before returning westward and homeward bound, reached Rarotonga from Auckland on April 22 and was at Palmerston Island on April 27. • AST RID, 24-ft Auckland cutter, cleared Mangonui (Northland), May 13, for Tonga. With owner Linton Panther is Miss J. Foster-King. A 6 months’ Island cruise is planned. • TAIHOE, of Auckland, reached San Francisco, May 12, from Honolulu after a 36-day passage. Fenton and Dambe hope to find temporary employment there. ° MARCO POLO, of Auckland, westbound round the world, cleared Balboa, Panama Canal, March 24, When unloading 2,800 cases of explosives from "Thorsisle" (foreground) at Lae on May 6, the "Doma" (background) sustained some damage to her forecastle. The weather was rough at the time. 101 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Cables: “Ivan”, Sydney. bound for French Oceania and Aucknd. Tony Armit and “Tig Loe >rm the crew The 28-ft yacht cleared Auckland July 18. 1954. 9 TROPIC BIRD, 48-ft Honolulu yacht owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Macdonald, was at Balboa early \pril bound West Indies. The Macdonalds will be remembered as former owners of Otter, which cruised the Islands in 1938-40. They again cruised the Islands in the present yacht in 1947-49. « NORDLYS, 72-ft American schooner, owned by Walter S. Johnson, and captained by Mr. McDade, arrived in Papeete. Tahiti, on April 28, having left Penhryn Island, of the northern Cooks Group, 8 days previously. . . .

The Nordlys stay in Papeete is indefinite. • TULAK, a 40-ft ketch owned by Mr. Yaroslav Novy, who is accompanied by his wife, left Papeete, Tahiti bound for Suva and eventually Brisbane, Australia on April 27." The Tulak is German registry. (March, PIM, p. 63). • MAKORA, classed as a yawl, and owned by Captain Goodwin, originally a sheep farmer in England, left Papeete, Tahiti, on April 29, 1957, for unknown destination.

Captain Goodwin was accompanied by his daughters, who flew out from England to meet him in Tahiti. • SOLQUEST. The 39-ft ketch ow r ned and operated by the Staples family arrived in Auckland, NZ, on May 23, after an 81 days trans-Tasman passage from Sydney.

On board, owner-skipper Len Staples, his wife, Joyce, and their two children, Len, 7, and Wayne 4i; navigator Don Cameron; and hands Phil Davies and Albert B beck. Solquest is bound ton Angeles, where the Staples will. and the vessel be sold. Calll be made at Tahiti and Hawaii ketch was built with sale ii. 102 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONK

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he mission ship, Salve Regina , due to leave Sydney on June or the Dominican mission in the tern Solomons. live Regina was formerly a genpurpose naval boat, which was jst wrecked on a sandbank near is Bay, on the NSW south coast, le Order bought her for £1,250, have spent about £14,000 reig her at the Bjarne Halvorsen yard at Berry’s Bay, North ley. e boat is equipped with two-way ). a 40-ft mast to take an liary sail, a six-cylinder Gardner il engine, a power winch for hng cargo, and two electric ms. She is 75 ft long, has a beam, and a draught of 6i ft. ere is accommodation for 16 —14 5 and two settees which can nverted. native crew of six will have ers in the forepart of the ve Regina is smartly painted in and white, the colours of the nican order. master for the delivery voyage ptain Aksel Evensen, a Norn, who has spent many years e Solomons and New Guinea. ■ in the Solomons he was emi by the British Government ry ships to Sydney for repair. ;w Guinea he recruited labour ulolo Gold Dredging, ther Paul, OP, of Melbourne, ie in charge of the ship when caches her base at Choiseul. r Meese, OP, the mission’s busitnanager, was also to sail on Regina when she left Sydney.

June 1, at Berry’s Bay, at a ■ful ceremony, Cardinal Gilroy d the ship and sprinkled her holy water. He stood before ollapsible Gothic-carved altar r e the blessing. )e Regina was launched by ess Nini Ptninska, wife of the r Polish Ambassador to China Ports of call before the Solomons were expected to be Newcastle and Brisbane. She is being taken to the Solomons by a Norwegian crew.

Disappointment For Raft

DRIFTERS The Tahitian bamboo raft, Tahiti A ui, sank in a storm on May 26. It was then about 400 miles from the Chilean coast. Captain Eric de Bischop and his four companions were rescued by a Chilean Navy frigate.

Thus ended over six months drift from Tahiti, the purpose of which was to prove that Polynesians could have visited South America and returned by using the great ocean currents.

The raft left Papeete on November foi^g ab ° Ut tW ‘ C6 “ For about two weeks before the raft finally sank, Tahiti Nui had been in trouble and the raft was actually being towed by the frigate when she sank.

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GUINEA ’ old friend of the spud run, ea Pearl (October PIM, 1956), to grief on the north coast w Guinea in early May. i Sea Pearl, while on a voyage New Zealand to Manila, t fire on June 3. All 22 mem- )f the crew took to the boats inally reached safety on the north of Wewak, NG. The °earl was later sighted still ig about 27 miles NW of k. m PIM last reported on Sea Fearl she was owned by the Victor International Corporation of New York but flew the Panamanian flag of convenience. She was originally a US Navy net layer, the Maria Ines. Last year this 876 tons wooden vessel was freighting potatoes to NZ during the potato famine there; she had also carried fruit from Rarotonga to NZ. She was refrigerated.

Another Fiji Mishap

The 23-ton single-masted sailing cutter, Cakaubalavu, sank late in May after striking the Vatu-i-cake reef to the north of Ovalau, Fiji.

Captain Sovea and six members of her crew rowed to Levuka in a lifeboat.

Takaubalavu did not have any cargo on board when she foundered.

The Daulomai, manned by Mr.

A. L. Miller, of Levuka, and his crew made a preliminary survey with a view to salvage.

Mr. T. Hurley, of Hurley’s Shipping Agency, Suva, went to Levuka to supervise salvage, if this was possible. If he found it possible to raise her, he will use drums to give the cutter buoyancy on the 10-12 miles tow to Levuka.

Father Bransfield, of Levuka, took his launch Shamrock close to the Cakaubalavu, and reported later that she was well under water, with only the upper part of her mast showing.

In The Bag

Mr. Willie Schutz, of Tarawa, whose wanderings have been mentioned from time to time in this column, gained his certificate as foreign going First Mate at the May examinations at Southampton, England. On completion of a short marine radar course, Mr. Schutz will be looking for another ship. (Continued an Page 131) 105 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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If possible, stamp collectors should try and keep up to date in their reading. Inexpensive booklets dealing with all aspects of the hobby are being constantly written. These could, perhaps, be obtained from local stamp dealers, stores, bookshops or newsagents.

The West German postal authorities are always assisting various charities and other deserving causes with special stamps. Not so long ago two unusually-designed stamps were released to raise funds to send children of West Berlin to holiday centres. Designs pictured young boys and girls leaving for and returning from their vacations.

The United Nations Organisation, inaugurated in 1945, has been commemorated on many stamps, by many countries, while the UNO in the USA brings out regular commemoration issues. Countries recently admitted to UN membership have celebrated the occasion with new issues. Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Libya, Italy are some of countries so honouring the occs Israel, a popular stamp-collet: country, chose an inters arrangement to identify the s? marking the 9th anniversary oc proclamation of the State. Thisc 106 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Some Recent Issues nada recently made available i of four clearly-defined stamps 1 means of advertising the inion as a tourist nation, lasising outdoor recreations for Ji the country is noted. The ps pictured two men fishing by a girl swimmer: a hunter lis dog, and a skier in a downside. edrich Froebel, the German itor, who lived between 1782 1852, and who established the irgarten system of education, just been shown on German 3S, with a typical kindergarten children at play. Froebel ined his first kindergarten in and also established training es for women teachers. 2 of the latest British countries ssue stamps to mark the nary of its first postage stamps plon, with four values to mark ncident. Printed in Switzerthe stamps showed a native runner, bearing his staff and of mail; and a reproduction ie 6d stamp of 1857, bearing ortrait of Queen Victoria. striking sequence of four icity” stamps, printed in many •s, has recently appeared in 2rland. Individually, the ts relate to an International ition of Graphic Arts, to Civil ce activities, mark the 50th ersary of the 9-mile long St. ird Tunnel, and observe the i anniversary of the important f Basle.

Forthcoming Issues tralia plans to issue later this a stamp as a tribute to the of the 28-year-old Royal Flyoctor Service. This remarkservice administers speedy al attention to patients in :d parts of Australia’s outback, unicating by transceivers until needing direct treatment can :en to the nearest hospital by ying Doctor.

Federation of Malaya is 'f to introduce new stamps independence is gained, the for which will illustrate an races welcoming independwith a protrait of the Chief er, Tunku Abdul Rahman nwhile, it has been announced ie George Medal, instituted in •y the late King George VI, warded to the island of Malta for its part in warding off enemy attacks during the Second World War. is to be honoured by that Mediterranean island. Three stamps will be distributed, picturing wartime Malta, portraits of the Queen and the George Medal, which is next in importance, in British circles, to the famous Victoria Cross.

A new name that should become familiar amongst stamp collectors is Ghana, the native Dominion in West Africa, previously known as the Gold Coast. The new title originated as a result of the country gaining independence within the British Commonwealth. New stamps heralded its advent. t Mr. A. R. (Ralph) Perrier, who was formerly traffic controller at the head office of Qantas, Sydney, has been appointed Station Manager at Port Moresby, Papua. 107 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1857

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LTD. rabaul ’HEN AND W STORY No Pots Now But Condensed Milk E village of Busama is situated an the upper part of the west coast of the Huon Gulf, on the th-eastern cost of New lea. ie Huon Gulf some of the is t tropical Jry in the 3. On the i side is the i Peninsula, ed by the wli n son Mountains, an extension of the great Finisterre block, which rises to a height of over 10,000 feet within eleven miles of the sea.

To the south of the range, running Inland from the base of the Gulf, Is a broad, rift valley, which forms the natural gateway to the interior. The Markham River winds through the south-eastern end to empty itself into the Gulf, but beyond the headwaters, about 100 miles inland, is the Ramu River flowing in the opposite direction towards the Sepik swamps of v/estern New Guinea.

Traders were the first Europeans to visit the area, probably between 1895 and 1900; and the Busama people’s old way of life has been interrupted by many masters since then.

C<pntact with German Administration officers and with labour rer Evelyn Huxley in charge of and Maternal e, Lae, with Colohan (right) g native babies ne to five years, re injected with antigen against ria, tetanus and ng cough, during [?]nthly visits of inic personnel, ynan, a visitor ae, standing. 109 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— JUNE, 1957

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Don’t Hesitate to Write Immediately on all your Technical Problems. • Orang GrenacK Sarsapan Ginger • Islands Representatives: DEMKA AGENCIES PTY. LTD., 2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney. waiters began soon after the Mteslonaries ra foUowed in, 1906 setting up church schools in tne Busama’s population, before the Japanese invasion in 1942 600. This was large for a New Guinea village. The houses were all stout structures, and the people had many European possessions—tools, bicycles, sewing machines and la A P few days after the Japanese h nded a force at Salamaua, in 1942, a small detachment of Japanese ■ \ilitary police, including an mterreter who spoke Pidgin-English, went around the countryside with orders that the village officials should attend at the headquarters to receive instructions.

The Busama people had another Master.

The Japanese bought food and pigs from the villagers, and sought the services of the men for unloading ships, promising payment in invasion money which could be spent in shops to be set up when the war was over. Lack of medical attention was the biggest disability suffered by them during the period.

By 1943, when the Allied forces - ere meeting with success, air raids increased in intensity and bombs were dropped on the villages.

Busama, along with several others, was obliterated and many persons killed. Later, the Busama village site served as a convalescent camp, but by then nothing of the village remained. Every building had been destroyed, the villagers were living in crude huts in a bush clearing nearly half a mile from the sea, and most of their belongings and all domestic animals were gone.

From then until the end of the war, little time was left to the villagers for their own concerns. A large number were conscript© act as carriers in the Mark: Ramu campaign and later for in Lae and elsewhere, and in the village were ordered to s: a quota of 1,600 sheets of t.: weekly for Lae, However, step by step rehali tion took place. By 1948, the ; lation has increased to 617 110 JUNE, 1957-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONK

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W. C. DOUGLASS LIMITED, Box 512, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia e had 85 new dwellings; 27 canoes and 17 large ones, and ;s. day, with a population of over he village is clean and neat, lildren healthy, and the village erous—but the old arts are y no longer make their pots lets. They buy them. The men prefer to work as ores on the ships at Lae. The en are cared for by the Govnt. Once a month they are I by Infant and Maternal re Sisters who examine and inis t e r injections against leria, tetanus, and whooping etc. The under-nourished iven cod liver oil and conl milk; and the motherless ven Sunshine milk. And they ntent. villagers are an example of i native group with simple and simple material apparatus apted itself to the values and lues of industrial civilisation.

CITY “Ladies-and-Gents” only are Suva’s streets unambered ( PIM , September, 56, and May, 1957), it appears has another and worse blot civic conscience: No publiciences. matter has recently caused i to the Fiji Travel Trade tion, which wants “suitable »” provided. ie past the hotels have probe necessary; although it is neans unusual for offices and :o be asked by embarrassed rs for this kind of aid. ips the Suva city fathers ake a lead from the Sydney mncil (which jumps at every to send a delegation overseas a something about civic adation elsewhere) and send three councillors to Honiara, find out how that town European population of about i manage to provide such an il public service. The first avatory went into service in i last September. t The first time-expired Kukukuku native returned to his village early in May after serving his contract at Koitaki Plantation, near Port Moresby. Although he had little money, he took with him new clothes and new axes. (Kukukukus are not given to doing anything as civilised as making a contract to work). t The oldest church in Papua- New Guinea, the Ela Beach Protestant Church, which was established in the 1880’s by the London Mission Society, has been taken over by the United Church Board which will now provide the Ministers for the Church.

Madang Swimming

POOL.—This beautiful swimming pool, at the rear of the Hotel Madang, is a boon to local residents, who use it day and night.

The pool, built by Mr.

J. G. Punch, building contractor, of Lae and Madang, for Mrs. F.

Gilmore, at a cost of approximately £6,000, is 100 ft. long by 40 ft. wide. A centrifugal pump changes the water frequently.

It is equipped with modern dressing sheds, showers and a toddlers' pool. 111 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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;d in a variety of aircraft i included Tiger Moths, Cessna Cessna 190, Beavers and a teed Hudson. -flights were popular, and local women availed themof the opportunity to try hand at flying during the nstruction flights.

District Commissioner, Mr.

R. Niall, congratulated the )n its efforts and encouraged lovement generally, day, which was a wonderful s both socially and financially, ounded off with a barbecue uvies,

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ew Guinea native who had laving himself a good time leone else’s money since last ber was sentenced to two gaol in the Lae Supreme towards the end of May. native, Poi’oi, forged three it names on cheques and ay with about £72. He was i with forgery on nine counts jmmitted for sentence on harges of forging and utterwas sentenced to six months first charge, six months on the second charge and 12 months on the third, the sentence to be cumulative.

Too Many Tilapia

The imported Tilapia fish which Fisheries Department officers placed in rivers and streams throughout the Territory are multiplying so rapidly that a call has gone out to natives begging them to catch the fish, including full instructions on how to do so.

All they need is a handful of burley, a small hook with a worm for bait and no sinker, and they can have themselves a good meal of these plump little fish in no time. (The above is printed as received.

We have always understood that Tilapia were pond-fish.—Ed. PIM)

Lae’S “Blythe Spirit”

PLEASES The Lae Musical and Dramatic Society presented two performances of “Blythe Spirit” in Stewart Hall on May 23 and 24, and repeated the show at Bulolo on June 1 and staged a request performance again in Lae on June 6.

Funds from the latter performances were in aid of the Boy Scout Movement in Lae and the Parents’ and Citizens’ Association in Bulolo.

The sprightly Noel Coward comedy was smoothly Interpreted by the company, who, although amateurs, could teach a thing or 5* a £™ss the screen in many of the B class American films to which we are subjected. (Over) 113 C ISLANDS' MONTHLY JUNE, 1857 ipua-New Guinea Diary f (Continued from Page 47)

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All natives in the Port M area have been invited to souvenirs for sale to tourist are expected to arrive Himalaya on June 26.

Later in the year the C An old Territorian, Mr. J. J. Toogood, went to Queensland for a holiday, sold the 50 head of cattle which he h[?] running on a 2,000-acre property, 38 from Lae.

Mr. Toogood first went to the Tern 1934, when he landed with cattle and at Salamaua, and travelled with them[?] days over bush tracks to Wau. He another advocate of crossing half-bre bulls with lllawarra Shorthorns wH thinks should produce the best dual cattle for the Territory.

He believes that the mating with t bred Zebu bull infuses just enoug[?] blood into the progeny to resist the and external parasites, including the Fly, prevalent in the Territory, and at t time does not spoil the high qualities British breed.

"Another point in favour of the Zel breds is their disregard for heat,"

Toogood. "A British bull is at all time the day away from the cows, shelterin scrub from the heat and flies, resulting! or very few calves. The Zebu, which concerned with the heat, is at all ti[?] the cows."

Mr. Toogood said that cattlemen Territory should have the services Animal Research Station to determ minimum amount of Zebu blood whic[?] be retained to combat parasites and conditions. It is his belief that animall exist in the Territory that are not ye to veterinary science. 114 JUNE, 1957-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Lynch, who was born in was an employee of the n DH&PG firm at Nukualofa ivau. Mrs. Lynch (nee Tubou iva) was a high chieftainess igatabu. The couple have n Auckland for many years.

Govt. Concessions Only Part-Solve Problem

Fiji Mining

THERE is a possibility that the associated gold mining companics operating at Vatukoula, in Fiji, may withdraw, unless: • They find the necessary capital to recover the gold from the deeper lodes (see May PIM, p. 49); and • There is better work from thp mine labour . .. . . , This threat to close comes in spite of the recent proposal by the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) (May PIM) to exempt the companies from income tax and gold royalty for five years.

The Government has agreed to taxation concessions, but these will be effective only if the companies earn profits.

Obviously more capital is needed to win the gold from the lower levels (where research in recent years has revealed large lodes of ore) because it is there more expensive to recover.

Where to raise the necessary capital has posed a problem. The chief general manager, Mr. N. E.

Nilsen, has gone to America to try to interest investors. Anything which would attract Australian investors —such as a subsidy from May 2, in Ela Protestant Church, Port y, Mr. Richard Wall was married to Miss oughton. Both are well-known Adminisemployees.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 115 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Fiji Government—p roba b 1 y d be welcomed. is indicated that the Fiji Govent may have to interest itself ely in the problems the comss are now facing. t gold enterprises are too imnt to Fiji’s economy to be ed to lapse, if only because is nothing in sight within the few years to take their place, ►ut ten of the £lBh millions that ompany has earned from gold silver in the last 20-odd years ;one back into the Colony as wages, etc. i companies’ programme of J expansion in the next five will require nearly £1,000,000. far as the question of labour cerned, the companies appear ieve that they are not getting ime output per man now as vere five years ago. This may a harder problem to solve that of capita I—unless a r degree of mechanisation can roduced. i T. W. T. Vuiyasawa has been ited a councillor of the Suva Jouncil for one year. He fills mcy caused by the resigna- : the Rev. Mikaele Dreu, who go to the United States for r studies.

Cosmic Rays And

RADIO P-NG's Part in IGY Activities IN May, in Lae, New Guinea, Mr. K. G. McCracken, BSc, a graduate of the University of Tasmania, is installing equipment— some designed and built by himself and the rest by the University of Tasmania for the continuous recording of cosmic rays. Designing, building, installing and operation of this equipment is part of his study plan for his Doctorate in Philosophy.

Research aimed at finding out where cosmic rays come from and how they are formed, has been carried on by the Univesity of Tasmania at various stations since 1949. Physicists have been operating equipment and recording findings at Mawson, in the Antarctic; Macquarie Island, a sub-Antarctic island; and at three locations in Tasmania.

Since the less energetic cosmic rays cannot reach the earth near •L eqi i ator ’ the observations made with the equipment at Lae will give valuable results when compared with the observations from the other stations, which, being further from the equator, can record less energetic rays.

Lae has been chosen as the site for the equipment as it is in Australian Trust Territory and is equipped with radio-sonde equipment which will provide data necessary for the complete interpretation of the cosmic ray readings.

The installation will take about 2-weeks, and after a month’s supervision, Mr. McCracken will 117 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JUNE, 1957

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The equipment, which is housed in DCA premises, will remain at Lae for 18-months and every six months, Mr. McCracken or another physicist will visit the station and make exhaustive tests.

Cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth since the beginning of time, and scientists have little idea as to where they come from or what effect they on the human body. They are not produced in atom or hydrogen bombs—the dangerous radio-active particles from these bombs being quite different from cosmic rays.

The study of cosmic rays had been in progress for many years before the first atomic bomb was exploded.

Research has disclosed that the sun. on rare occasions, produces cosmic rays—but the process is unknown —and the rest of the time the sun is screening off cosmic rays from outer space. By studying the way cosmic rays vary as the earth and sun rotate, from charts recorded by the equipment, the direction from which the rays are coming, and the effect the sun has on them, may be calculated.

The sun varies in its effect on cosmic rays over 11-year periods, and for the next two years will be in a very active condition. This period, which includes the 18months period chosen for the International Geophysical Year, is opportune for the study of cosmic rays and other phenomena occurring on the earth and sun.

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E Fiji Government’s decision to ibtain the services of another jxpert, this time to report on “Fijian community as a proive unit’’ is a typical example iat might be called pursuing the ►us. is also a discouraging indication Government is still content to ; time on useless reports— ntly regarding reports as an in themselves instead of getaction in increasing the proon vitally needed, th a good market available in Zealand, and further shipping ties offered, the opening up of janana-growing areas is urgent, at simple knowledge is availto Government without any sity of obtaining an expert • many years it has also been n to Government that the i way of life and the cornel system are deterrents against proper development and full itation of Fijian lands. More more the old ways are feeltie impact of modern life and png conditions. All intelligent tnts of the Colony know that ijian race right now must preitself for a still further stage ansition or follow the Red n of America into the isolation tive reservations, s has all been thrashed out e floor of Legislative Council, press, and, of course, privately, “expert” report can add noth- ► it. claim that such a report be valuable to the native s ridiculous. At least 75 per of the native people would r read it, nor hear of it. m the report is made, no doubt I find a pigeon-hole waiting government had appointed a representative committee to er and recommend ways and i of immediately increasing t exports and creating new t would have shown initiative might have stimulated all is of the community.

Fijian basketball team will a tour of New Zealand this Work on CI Reef Passages MR. W. H. RYAN, Superintendent of Works, Rarotonga, returned from the northern Cook Islands in early May after carrying out demolition work on some of the reef passages.

Rocks were cleared from the channels at Palmerston Island, Manihiki, and Pukapuka. The operations at Tukao landing, Manihiki, were reported as being most successful, but there was insufficient time for Mr. Ryan to make a survey of the work done at Pukapuka before returning to Rarotonga.

The standard Naval depth charges that were used completely pulverised the coral rocks. Mr. Ryan will carry out further work on Cl reef passages in the near future, and a big work programme is planned for the passages at Mangaia.— W.H.P. t Transports A e r i e n s Intercontinentaux has announced that two commercial flights from Noumea to Tahiti by DC4 will be undertaken, one on May 25 and the other June 8. The plane will come from Paris, and amongst its passengers to Noumea will be 16 members of a film unit from a German cinema producing company.

The unit is going to Tahiti where they will make a film. 119 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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When the Union Company’s new refrigerated vessel Tarawera comes on the Fiji run, in the middle of next year, there is a likelihood that it will call at Galoa Harbour, at Kadavu, to load bananas. There is deep water close in shore, and there is 12 feet of water at the old wharf on Galoa Island. It is proposed to bring bananas by cutter to Galoa Island and lighter them to the banana ship.

In 1954, Kadavu shipped 2,334 cases; 3,057 in 1955; and 11,173 in 1956. This year, to the end of April, 8,126 cases had already been shipped.

But the ultimate plan provides for 50,000 cases a year, which would certainly justify Kadavu becoming a port of call for the banana ship.

The plan drawn up for Tailevu, Ra and Naitasiri districts provides for two cases per man per day, and planting is being carried out on that basis. At present, production is roughly five cases a month for each Fijian growing bananas.

The two cases a day would give each man an income of £1 a day; a good income for a Fijian, over and above the food he grows on his land, and various other sources of income from the sale of vegetable produce, etc.

And (as Ratu Edward Cakobau, when Development Officer for those areas, pointed out) that income comes to him on his doorstep; the bananas being picked up at the local packing station, trucked to Suva, and then shipped to New Zealand without any expense on his part. 121 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Another Tragedy for Melanesian Mission TWO Europeans of the Melani Mission, BSIP, are missing* sumed dead, after a s n launch in which they were tr ling between Ugi Island and Pa on the mainland of San Christ capsized on May 26.

They are Archdeacon D. £ Hoey and Mr. D. Clunies-Ross.. natives who were also travellir the launch reached safety hours after the mishap.

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MV Baddeley, and numerous ernm e n t and private ve searched the area. The ref Qantas service to Honiara, on. 27, was asked to carry out a st. on arrival, but owing to the lai night facilities in the area this impossible. The aircraft, a DC at dawn, on the 28th, and cs out an intensive air search.

It will be remembered that i deacon Hoey figured in the s< tional Reginald Poole ca s months ago. Poole murder native boy at the Melanesian M. station at Marovovo, in Novel 1955, when Hoey was in char the station. After he had mitted the murder, Poole t<pld who stood guard over him police arrived from Honiara.

The Bishop of Melanesia, the A. T. Hill, arrived in Honiara b on May 27, after attending a. ference in New Guinea and within a few hours by sea fa search area.

Mrs. Hoey and her childrei at Pawa mission station.

US War-Correspondent Revisits Guadal[?] AN interesting visitor to British Solomon Islands ini was Mr. Bob Miller, of L Press, who called in on his home to New York from Sj where he has been managin organisation’s South Pacific H for two years.

Mr. Miller expected to get t United States by a devious through New Guinea and the He was one of the first US correspondents to land in Gu canal during the fighting then* of course, was most interest! seeing Henderson Field ano Lunga beaches as they are tc Henderson Field is now not r although it is down on the lr reconditioning; and Lunga small resemblance to the waL beach-head.

Mr. Miller was one of the fi see Vouza, BSIP, native wan 122 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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OTNOTE: In Lae, Mr. Miller that he had been most imed with what he had seen oi Guinea. He added that he jiven Port Moresby a miss behe “had heard that they someput newspaper-reporters in there.” ck of Tug Delays Suva Shipping ! need for a tug to assist ships Tiving at and leaving the ing’s Wharf, Suva, Fiji, became ent again in May when the :es could not get away because nds from the wrong quarter, was the second such occurrence ear. )pers have been pressing for for a tug, but without result, delays are expensive for the ships. arbour tug could be used by iji Government for a variety rposes, and its services would ily have been in demand in months for towing vessels in is. of the big advantages of a that it saves time and also is the risk of damage to wharves and harbour instal- >.

Suva Chamber of Commerce sed the question recently, but d to defer the matter until jw wharves are built, day one liner could not get had been one of gales; she three ropes before she was ) get alongside the wharf. It onsidered during the mornlat a strong easterly wind turn to the west so passengers ecalled to enable the ship to 1 p.m., instead of the usual f 5 p.m. that afternoon, each time she to leave the wharf she was back. She eventually sailed m. next day, 12 hours late. 82 displaced Islanders will turning home to Rogelap, ill Islands, about August, were the victims of radiofallout from an American exploded at Eniwetok in 1954. Some of them experisuperficial skin-burns, loss r, etc. All have recovered tely. They have, however, earned not to eat any land 3n the island as these have )imd (according to “Voice of a”) still to be radio-active. 123 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1857

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Instead, it has been reported that the land referred to by the Administrator is to remain a Forestry reserve.

Experts were sent in to examine the soil —and they have reported that the soil is generally not suitable for agriculture. At the same time, there seems to have been some confusion as to who owns the land —the Administration or the natives.

The natives are alleged to have said that they sold the timber but not the land. The question of title apparently could not be cleared up until Commissioner for Titles McCubbery returned from leave.

In the meantime, residents of Wau have had considerable to say on the matter —none of it complimentary to the Administration. Most of them would be willing to risk their money in taking up the land in spite of what the experts may say about the soil. They say that even if four or six new settlers were attracted to the district it would be of untold benefit to Wau. t Suva friends entertained Mrs.

Harold Crane at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Butler on the occasion of Mrs. Crane’s 80th birthday. Mrs. Crane is the wife of the organist at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Suva. After the birthday cake with 80 candles was cut, guests presented the guest of honour with a number of gifts.

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Letter to the Editor Matai System and Samoan Land YOUR correspondent signing himself “Tululele”* (PIM, April, p. 67), has, after five months at last came round to answering my letter in your December issue.

Probably his valuable time was taken up with writing weekly letters to the editor of the local paper which all tediously repeated the same worn-out arguments and dealt with the same questions: the matai system and the land problem.

It is tiresome to have to point out again to “Tufulele,” who is very well aware of the facts, that the matai system and the land problem are purely Samoan matters and have, as recognised by the New Zealand Government and the UN Trusteeship Council, to be dealt with by the Samoans themselves.

Your correspondent has yet to prove that he has any backing amongst Europeans or Samoans for hi s “campaign.” The fact that I have been elected twice to represent the European community in the Legislative Assembly, while “Tufulele” has twice unsuccessfully contested elections, may be some proof, where * This was a misprint of "Tufulele", according to Mr. Gurau.

European electors have placed their confidence. I believe I am in closer touch with the European electorate than “Tufulele,” who is practically unknown to a large majority of Europeans.

Nobody who has followed debates of the Legislative Assembly could truthfully assert that I have at any time been influenced by personal reasons in my political attitude, nor have I been attached to any 40 of political chiefs,” whatevv meant by that.

The Samoans are fully aV cope with the land situation: present a “Land-use Committ) sitting to deal with the land pn and Samoan members of thi sembly have, during the last s of the Legislative Assembly, s in favour of untitled Samoans; 126 JUNE, 1057 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON?

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TRADE Dairy Application sed extent to which endowed ssions should be permitted to npete with private enterprise Territory of New Guinea 3 issue in an argument before is authority in Lae, New , a few months ago. town of Lae gets its milk from at least three sources Lutheran Mission, which is I by Dr. J. Kuder; Mr. Michael ly, New Guinea pioneer, who .s large farming interests on ghts overlooking the Markilley; and Mr. T. Kelly, who dairy farm in the Markham near Lae.

Lutheran Mission applied for ver another 400 acres, near id on the presumption that being sought for the exof the Mission’s dairying •S, Messrs. Leahy and Kelly an objection. 3ase was heard in Lae, by E. Macinnis, Director of the Department. bjectors made the point that unfair that the Mission, had sources of revenue funds donated to Missions propagation of the Gospel) lilable to private citizens, ie given facilities for comhth private enterprise. They 'hat the 1,200 acres already ssion of the Mission should e for Mission purposes, and 1 additional 400 acres were nly to allow the Mission to ts dairying industry.

Mission admitted to Mr Macinnis that it was the owner of Tropical Dairies which carried on the dairying business; and that Mission letter-paper was used for correspondence connected with Tropical Dairies.

Mr. Leahy asked how much the Mission paid the man in charge of the dairy, and was informed, £l5O per annum. Mr. Leahy pointed out that the man in charge of his dairying section got about that amount per month.

Mr. Macinnis said that the Mission appeared to have all the land needed for Mission purposes, and refused the application. t A Samoan local-born European, Mr. William Williams, has cornpleted his final section for the degree* of MB, Chß (NZ) at the Medical School of the University of Otago and has, therefore, become the first fully trained doctor to graduate under the Scholarship Scheme, and the second local-born European to become a fully qualified medical practitioner. Another Scholarship pupil, Samuelu Atoa, on leave from the Public Service Commissioner’s Office at Apia, has recently graduated BA from Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. t The death occurred recently in the New Hebrides of M. Camille Coulon, of the Shark Bay area, where he had long been a planter.

He was decorated during the Jubilee celebrations last year.

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Cables & Telegrams: “DOMINIE”, Sydney. ; was an exceptionally good er. describing the difference been our modern social and lomic set-up and that of the ve’s. be native’s “own primitive lomy and total independence i ours,” wrote Mick, “is the best ection from the factors trademism so ably helps to alleviate abolish. What have we got in world, as we know it, as good letter than he now enjoys? I think of no worse fate for him i to be divorced from his present ire and regimented into anyg which would force him into ‘conomy with which he is not tally equipped to cope. He will me a bewildered, unwanted and ttered recruit to Communism.” ue, very true. I often wonder h interests these trade-union ipions hold most dear: The r es or the Movement? a. Passage ne months ago (or it may be ; Time hastens so in the slipm of our modern times) I had nquiry about the transfer of Buka Passage government in from the mainland at Bonis e Island of Sohano. tat was the date? And other Is regarding the post-mark on stamps? The question was never solved to the satisfaction of my enquirer. He now sends me a threefold quiz: ♦ What was the date when the government station moved from Bonis to Sohano Island? ® Was the post-office ever operated on the Bonis side’ # What was the aonroximatP date of mSSiSt the nSt-office’ (Lrhelt nlst-mlrk P known to mv enquirer is 1927) _ enquirer is From my somewhat time-worn memory, I would say that one Percy Vivian was the ADO Buka Passage circa 1927-28 and was relieved by McMullen. Perhaps Ken can us about it.

Wanted" ———— A Historian ————— The Buka Passage enquiry is only one of many which come to me from near and far Latest query came from a numismatist anxious to know all about w,orf ol iL d ’°f:P aradlse _ c 9 ins » issued by the old New Guinea Kompagnie back in 1894.

I passed on what I knew (which wasn’t much) and would welcome any news from PIM readers. This same enquirer was also interested in an old trade “token” used by pioneer J. B. O. Mouton in his trade store at Kiniqunan (near Kokopo) in the early days. store “tokens,” of course, were a popular means in earlier days of confining the purchases of plantation labourers to the planters’ own stores. Any comment from oldtimers?

All of which adds up to the need for some organised research into Territorial history and local Historical Societies (one at Moresby and t’other at Kokopo) might get cracking on the idea. Minister Hasluck (who is history-minded) ? culd solve the Problem by creatlng such a position and w £ ngle an endowment from some one of the many US foundations that support such research. PP xj T ,

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TVfkserl - A few chips were flying from off disgruntled shoulders last month when one J. W. H. Miller re-opened his barrage against the P-NO Ad ministration. The same gentleman described by the “cal Moresby paper as a “former resident” and “boiler operator,” and by a Sydney paper as a “Public Servant” and “Hospital engineer,” unburdened his soul two years ago about “wasfp and inefficiency” in the Territory and apparently got nowhere Y d His latest effort is to pen un thP tall poppies in the Trade Union movement to mess for a n enaS and he cites complaints of th?onptime Director of Public Health the present Assistant^Administrator Regarding genial lalcfty and IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY J U N E , 1957 Territories Talk-Talk (Continued from Page 28)

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Miller apparently got the e a fea,ture-writer on one of Syo afternoon papers, unloaded his< and, after expressing fears tlr a Public Servant his revekl would be discredited, said he ample documentary evidem maladministration and no poc prejudice.

Said the feature-writer: Thee Taxpayers’ Assn., alarmed b( Auditor-General’s report, and! ing regard to Mr. Miller’s bonaj has asked the Prime Minis# refer the allegations of wash; inefficiency to the Public Aco Committee.

Said Administrator Clelam Mr. Monk or any other unionist wanted to inves working conditions they wouj ceive every courtesy.

Comment: In view of the m in which previous allegations cerning Administration’s ities, as reported by the An General, have been investigat would seem that it might be s siderable time before the (the people, the taxpayers) a:j lightened as to whether there foundation for the allegaticc not.

Hustings Ahoy!

The introduction of the pe element will undoubtedly do< to create electors’ interest i forthcoming Legco polls thai pleas or threats coming fro:< Minister. Don Barrett’s seat ft NG Islands is to be contest Legal-Eagle Dudley Jones wld spite the Don’s vocal contrifcl in the Moresby Debating S will have a good following Downs is also a contestant Mainland electorate and i now suggest Jimmy James ra opposed by Solicitor Craig I Actually the Government-]- Council is such a non-effectu;i up (with all prizes going to off that it is a wonder to me so( leading residents are prepa;j give so much of their time to token gatherings.

But if it is any consulate) P-NG people let them realisa the people of “Democratic”" tralia are in much the same It is the Party that rules—m People—and their representatf the House vote merely on lines, as the Leader dictates not according to the will people. Introduce the secreti in Parliament instead of dm and we might get somewheres o That would be thez Secret voting in the P-NG Official members could th& according to their beliefsi not their briefs. That wo true democracy. 130 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON If

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TOW ex-barge Deutgan, owned by larcel Marinacce, of Santo, /as towed away from Sydney iv 25 after being in that port Imost a year looking for a was towed by Damadora del )f the Savoie fleet, and it is itood that her destination is here in the New Hebrides, here will not be decided until rives at Noumea, s not known in Sydney to use the owner will put her; be that he will use her himitil able to sell her. was put up for auction in r about a month ago.

Revising The Charts

HMNZS Lachlan, well known in Fiji-Samoa waters, where she has carried out ocean sounding and coastal survey work each winter in recent years, is to be joined in this important task this year by a Royal Navy survey vessel, HMS Cook.

One of four similar vessels, HMS Cook, with a complement of 10 officers and 125 ratings, was due at Auckland June 17 and was expected to sail for work in Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands waters late in the month. The 4-year-old vessel is equipped with the most modern electronic survey equipment which is also soon to be fitted in Lachlan.

Sprucing Up

The American-owned Nassau (Bahamas) -registered 104 ft, twomasted staysail schooner Tiare Moan, trading in the Cook Islands went to Auckland for refit in May.

With owner-skipper Walter S. Johnson was Mrs. Johnson and their three children, and a crew of 11.

Mrs. Johnson and the children returned thence to the US, per Mariposa.

The elegant Tiare Moari, with her dacron rot-proof sails, was to head back for the Cooks in June.

The Tonga Government’s despatch vessel Hifofua, completing her Auckland refit, sailed again for Nukualofa on May 27.

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The announcement a couple of years ago that Tonga Copra Board was to have a handsome 500-tonner built in Holland, was big news in the Tongan maritime world. Then came the further announcement last year that the same yard would build a somewhat smaller but wellappointed despatch vessel for general government duties. These vessels would replace the present ketches Aomu and Hifofua— taking their names.

Now comes word that the Tonga Government has ordered a third vessel from a British yard. This will be an open-decked landing-craft type of Public Works Department duties. Known as a Thames Transporter, this vessel will measure about 60 ft by 15 ft. She has bridge and machinery right aft and loading ramp forward and draws very littlewater. There is no accommodation, provided in the standard design.

She will presumably be shipped out from England as deck cargo.

It seems that in Tonga, Australasian ship-builders have lost a good customer to Europe.

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A long-mooted scientific cruise along the route followed by Charles Darwin in HMS Beagle 122 years ago seemed somewhat nearer realisation 131 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JUNE, 1957 News of the Smallships (Continued from Page 105)

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' R1.168C/4.2 lay, when the council of the J New Zealand Society reported representations have been made he government to provide a 1 as New Zealand’s contribution e proposed venture of the coml Royal Societies of the Cornhealth. e proposal now appears to be only the Pacific section of the le route would be retraced — Vest Coast of South America ;he Pacific Islands. • cruise would extend from May member, 1958, thus falling with" le International Geophysical and adding to the sum of ific knowledge to be assembled ? that period. he NZ Government decides to jrate, likely ships might be ittle oceanographic research Tui, or the larger and more rtable reserve cable ship R. A. Falla, of the Dominion to, Wellington, is handling Zealand arrangements.

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who served in the NZ ant Marine and were taken 3r by the Japanese during the re entitled to a further ex grant of £24/14/6, according May announcement from gton. indents of deceased seamen io entitled to the grant.

R Southern Waters

former NG 600-ton Swedish- ’reighter Viria, sold by New - Industries some months ago, nter the Sydney-Hobart sorter certain alterations.

For Igy Duties

ided especially for Pacific c research work during the itional Geophysical Year, the 70-ton survey vessel Takio immissioned in Japan on > is equipped to take sound- • as low as 5,000 fathoms ft). The vessel, which may south of the Line, has an length of 190 ft. Like all tnent- operated Jap vessels, s not carry the Maru suffix name.

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before has New Zealand ;h a succession of small Japlips in her ports as has been is winter, resulting from a id expanding frozen meat Japan. ler times these small vessels, y over 1,000 tons, are acting :rs to the Pacific tuna fleets le Antarctic whalers during nmer—running whale-meat me. are insulated but not resd. They load ice into their ah the cargoes.

New Guinea Coffee

COMPANY Issue of £1000,000 Writ Against R. W. Robson A WRIT for £lOO,OOO was issued out of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on April 17, against the publisher of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr. R. W. Robson, by Arabica Coffee Ltd., registered in New Guinea; and Arabica Coffee Pty. Ltd., registered in New South Wales.

Arabica Coffee Ltd. is reported to own and operate a coffee plantation in the Goroka area of New Guinea.

Arabica Coffee Pty. Ltd. has been carrying on an advertising campaign in NSW through which it offers for sale, for £2OO each, I-acre “units” in the New Guinea coffee plantation.

Nothing about Arabica Coffee Ltd. had been published in PIM. The issue of the writ is supposed to be connected with an alleged telephone conversation in April, between Mr.

Robson and a person who apparently sooke on behalf of Arabica Coffee Pty. Ltd.

P-NG Assistant Administrator Criticises a Prospectus * n H lO Legislative Counselsion P fl a t PU t a h^Tnd Gul f ne ?yr at session at the end of May, the Assistant Administrator, Dr. John a P r ospectus that mnv^whi by . a k?' vestors that they could piofitably thp C^nm f^th g • wlth " hnrnp<f Vmg com£or t o£ their own nr . .. fvP r ‘ ?" nthe r s that there were rnnfd P K° S P e £ tus that be challenged, but he would v? 1 ! 8 criticism to the claim that labour costs for planters in the Highlands would be only 16 per day P er unit—compared with £4 or £5 per day in Hawaii.

Dr. Gunther said that hp was certain that no honest employer of labour in P-NG could meet his commitments for many times the sum of 1 6 and that thp TprHtnrv did not w ant the kind of employers who would so exploit labour.

He said that there was no labour on the plantation referred to in the prospectus, and that labourers that had previously worked on the plantation had not been housed there. 133 r ic ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Airman for Job in DM Wing-Commander R. C. Cresswell to Biak on June 7, to take up a civilian ment in an area where he commanded fighter wing in 1944-45. He is now manager of the Melbourne export fir* and M. Newman Pty., Ltd., which hr operating in New Guinea for some mainly salvaging and disposing materials.

Wing-Commander Cresswell is to taki of the reorganisation and expansion firm's activities. The first project in pansion programme is to develop the industry.

Newman's was established in 1945 bourne and London, and has con throughout the world.

Wing-Commander Cresswell retired fi : RAAF in April.

He was born in Launceston, Tasmi 1920, and went to school in Eng l<l Sydney. On leaving school in 1934 came an engineering apprentice with house Pty., Ltd., Rosebery, Sydney, he joined the RAAF to make it his and was posted to Point Cook, Victoria he spent 12 months as a cadet. He v commissioned as a pilot and posted t!

Hawker Demon Squadron.

From then on he was essentially s pilot, graduating in stages from De< Kittyhawks, Spitfires, Mustangs, ano to the latest jets. While still in H thirties he was the RAAF's most exo jet fighter pilot.

He formed the original No. 77 Sqm 1942 in Western Australia and toot Milne Bay in 1943. In 1944-45 he cot No. 81 (Fighter) Wing, which was I Noemfoor, near Biak.

Wing-Commander Cresswell attract© attention in 1950-51 when he commai 77 Squadron again in Korea during difficult early period of the war. He first Australian pilot to be given an jet conversion course and to fly Sail was awarded the British and Amen tinguished Flying Crosses.

Before retiring from command of : Squadron in Korea he visited the Unit!

Air Force in Japan for several wen there he flew the FBO Shooting Star, a two-seat all-weather fighter. Final in Korea, he flew the F 96 Sabre in 0| the only Australian pilot to do so.

He flew 10 combat missions with t in what became known as MIG Alley On his return to Australia he was Staff Officer, Fighter Operations, at thr ment of Air, for two years. He was tf selection in 1953 to command a sp© at Williamstown, NSW, given the thoroughly testing the Avon-Sabre jtj it was accepted into the RAAF from k production lines. 134 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Himalaya (P and O) will a test voyage, s arting from ' on March 21, 1958, for San 3Co and Vancouver, via Auckiuva and Honolulu, joint service will begin when w 45,000-ton P and O liner he 40,000-ton Orient liner, , now being built, are dee liners are the largest built tain since the Queen Mary leen Elizabeth. Each will cost a £12,000,000 and £15,000,000 will service the route Londney, San Francisco, Sydney, in about 80 days, and will te the Pacific round voyage days, seven days less than ent. j liners will be supported in nfic by other ships from the Jts.

J both new ships will be able through the Panama Canal, ;e round-the-world services at present envisaged. large wedding parties are a feature of Polynesia, but this one must constitute ng of a record. The photograph of the tarty was taken after the wedding on to Mr. Alexander Munro, son of Mrs. and the late Duncan Munro, a wellplanter of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, to kerau Dean, also of Rarotonga. After ding in the LMS Church, Arorangi, 600 vere invited to a "umukai" (feast) and nee in the evening, hoto shows (left to right): P. Tinirau, na, P. Tuoro, M. Dean, M. Marii, M.

T. T. Toeta, N. Ngatae, groom and [?]. Jonassen, A. Munro, T. Koteka, N. n, W. Estall, F. Savage, R. Akanoa, T.

Flower Girls P. Exam, T. lotua, M.

Tetauru; Page Boys Donald Munro aid Agnew.

Photo: Marie Powell. 135 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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e Fibres Flap is On Again in P-NG PH the memory of the kenaf iasco in mind, Territorians ire likely to adopt a wait-andolicy over the latest develop - In New Guinea fibres, ording to a London report, >t Ropeworks, the biggest ishment of its kind in the has its eye on NG Manila —now obtained by the comfor dollars, from the Philipras proved that kenaf could be in Papua-New Guinea and make sacks and wool packs to those made from imported However, the Australian Govnt failed to support this inand it has now “folded-up.” he time that the kenaf boom >n, the editor of PIM was some Manila hemp trees in ;perimental station outside of id was told then, by an agriil officer, that he considered a better bet than kenaf. ila hemp looks like and is a a and the long fibres come the stem. It is heir to the is experienced by bananas— ng bunchy-top, although the t strain growing in New i is free of it. first suckers of Manila hemp mported before the war, and r after it, signs of latent Mop were detected. )rder not to introduce the ■ to native bananas, which i important food crop, all were destroyed, but some of 3ds were kept. :hy-top cannot be transthrough the seeds, but, of seeds do not breed true to ; do suckers, and a consider- ?riod of selection and breedust pass before a desirable n be established. jw Guinea can do this it may Dmething valuable. Kenaf fell mostly because it could not iuced under NG conditions to e in price with Indian and mi jute. Can New Guinea e Manila hemp to compete lat from the Philippines?

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X captain, and A. Jacguet.

I crew member is yet to be ced. rally starts from Melbourne ?ust 21. Prizes total over until August, 1958. The main reason is the difficulty of finding a suitable locality for a landing strip to be used as a base.

Caused an Upset t The Dutch expedition into the Star Mountains, Netherlands New Guinea, which was to begin early next year, has now been delayed George McKittrick, former holder of the Pineapple Cup in Fiji, caused an upset in the City Masters' bowls tournament in Sydney when he remained unbeaten after eight rounds to take the title. He had been given little chance of success. The Pineapple Cup is the symbol of the bowls champion of the South Seas. George won this in Suva in 1951. He served in Fiji with Cable and Wireless for two terms, 1942-45, and 1949-52. He is now with Overseas Tele-Communications in Sydney. 137 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Certain administrative officers of the sub-district of Goilala (administrative centre of which is Tapini) are alleged to be concerned in the charges.

The Administrator of P-NG (Brigadier D. M. Cleland), refused to comment other than to say that the terms of reference of the commission were wide and dealt with a “certain set of circumstances.” He dia not think that the release of the terms of inquiry would be in the general interest; the press would not be admitted to the hearing.

The fact that the P-NG Administration is super-sensitive to anything that might belittle it in the eyes of UNO is well known; but having allowed the front portion of the Cat to escape in this fashion, nothing much is going to be achieved now by attempting to smother the rear end of the animal.

Mr. S. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for Law, has been appointed Commissioner of the Inquiry which was expected to last for the first two or three weeks of June. t The importation of firecn' into Western Samoa has been hibited. It has been found thu gun-powder therein has been into “bombs” and used illegaE kill fish. 138 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

One Man's Will Need never be VOUR worry!

Because Executors face problems entirely different from those met in everyday business, you should never allow yourself to become enmeshed in the worries confronting a private Executor. If you have accepted this burden, it is wiser to face facts, and ask your friend to have all responsibility transferred to Burns Philp Trust Company Limited.

A similar step makes certain that your own Estate will be administered efficiently and promptly. The safeguards you gain are explained in “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel”. Ask for your 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.

DIRECTORS: James Burns Joseph Mitchell P.T.W. Black Eric Priestley Lee MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

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

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Telegraphic Address: “BURNSTRUST”. Box 543, G.P.O.

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

THAT MirtA tun 7*l Hi IGY ht-Watching For All residents, especially those iving on islands away from the aain centres, have a chance to icience through the 18-months national Geophysical “Year” d commencing July 1. ispot activity is now at its num in the 11 1 years regular This activity influences te, radio reception, and other ir a 1 phenomena, including al acti v i t y—the so-called tern and Southern Lights. At inspot maximum these displays ikely to be visible in regions nearer the equator than at times. Such sightings, coupled other observations which are cn elsewhere, are of very con- .ble interest to science. r person observing such a diseither prior to or during the period is asked to send fullest s to any observatory—such as tpia Observatory, the Carter vatory at Wellington, NZ, or Meteorological Office, Nadi, etailed description of the diss sought under the following : Time and duration of disapproximate arc of the horizon ed (e.g., extending from SE to SSW); vertical angle of splay (e.g., extending from the n to a third of the way up ; zenith); a general descrip- (Under this head would be lation as to whether the lights of the “hanging drapings” flickering or steady, very at or rather dim—the latter e probable—and the colour). ;hort, there is no danger of ing too much well documented lation, including information ither at the time of the dis- OUSE—I, Operation "Vanguard" nary mortals who are unable ust themselves to Twentieth y jargon will find themselves ‘out in the cold” durine the ational Geophysical “Year” is almost upon us (July 1, ecember 31, 1958), for they ? involved in all sorts of non- -1 “operations.” •me cases the code-naming is poses of secrecy, but, in so far is concerned it is purely for ence, as these prefects ininvolve a great deal of telecommunications and doculon. Coming up soon, for exwill be Operation Vanguard, t part of which will be the ing of the earth satellite 1, late this year or early 1958. 2 and others will follow later.

As these “mice” are going to be bignews and are likely to be seen by the very sharp eyed in the South Pacific dawn and dusk sky, it will be well to get the name firmly fixed —as editors will be disinclined to write, “Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of the Earth” more often than necessary. Mouse is tidier, and less costly. tl A daughter was born to Raymond John Deland and his wife, Nancy, in Pennsylvania, USA, on May 6.

The child is a grand-daughter to Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Deland, now of Adelaide, but until a few years ago well known residents of New Guinea where Dr. Deland was an Administration Medical Officer.

K. H. DALRYMPLE HAY PTY LTD.

THE New South Wales Supreme Court, equity division, has ordered K. H. Dalrymple Hay Pty. Ltd. to produce the books and papers of the company on or before July 31. The order was made by Mr. Justice McLelland on May 6 on the application of the official Liquidator, Mr. M. C. Card.

The company, which traded in Honiara, but was incorporated in New South Wales, was put into liquidation in 1955 by South Pacific Traders, of Melbourne. South Pacific Traders had obtained judgment against the company for about £lO,OOO in Honiara, BSIP. 139 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

WITH CATERPILLAR Only when the lush but useless jungle is cleared can the rich soil of New Guinea and the Pacific Islands be used to produce money crops of cocoa and coconuts.

The mighty 191 horsepower Caterpillar D8 Bulldozer pictured here is at work clearing the 1,000-acre estate of MacRobertsons Ltd. This plantation, situated on the fertile silt of the Markham Valley, is covered with thick rain forest, but the D8 Tractor pushes, pulls and stacks in windrows all the trees, roots and brush at the rate of acres per day.

And behind the inbuilt strength and performance of this mighty D8 Tractor stands the Hastings Deering Organisation, with engineers, mechanics and a parts service second to none.

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Mademoiselle Terevaura expects to be away in Honoloulu for at least 12 months.

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

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown & Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes: Lucky Strike, Wings; Champion Spark Plug Co.; Steelcote Paints & Lacquers- Remington Rand Inc.

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CO'op SAS R ™.N P CISr P n & ,K C r° ' , LT ?' S . an »«■*.= BURNS- TT-TI 4 « ♦ . FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents: BURNS PHILP &CO LTD. Agents in France: HARTH & CIE. PARIS; A. BICKART,^MARSEILLES th of Noted [?]lar The Murray Link With Papua JEN Professor Sir Gilbert Murray died in Oxford, England, in May, at the age I, the newspapers stated that was world-famous as a sopher and a Greek scholar, that he was born in Australia; not one mentioned the great s connection with New Guinea, e Murrays are a famous Ausin family, through which runs rked streak of genius. Gilbert Hubert were sons of Sir ice Murray, of NSW, and like father, both were knighted distinguished service—Gilbert ichol a s t ic achievement in ind, where he spent most of ife: Hubert for his genius in listering the raw Territory of a. where he spent 30 years 5 life, and died in 1940 “with oots on”. nard Murray (Sir Hubert’s iw), who followed him as aistrator, in 1940-42 (and was d out of office by an Ausn Socialist Government, withhyme or reason, during the c War), was also a gifted man, >f a brother of Gilbert and •t. one of the chattering news- -5 mentioned the fact that ilbert Murray took his name the Gilberts, another outng branch of the family, of W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert Sullivan fame) was most e. Sir Hubert Murray told long ago, of memorable [iters which he and his irs had with the great lyricwhen they were students in id; and of the historic fights used to occur between Gilbert Sullivan. They hated each it seemed, but none could the other’s place in the rship, if the production of the i comic operas was to ue.

RWR. itian Dancer for Honolulu fulfil a dancing contract at 3 Waikiki Sands Cabaret in 'nolulu, Mademoiselle Tapetu ura, aged 21, of Moorea, left by TEAL plane on Sunday, nng for the past few months i company of dancers proby Air Tahiti in Moorea, tstanding ability enabled her ire the contract to dance in ilu, where so many other

Market Moves

Cocoa Up, But Trochus Slumps THE world cocoa market has shown a steady rise in the last two or three months. Main reason is because the Brazilian Government has fixed a minimum price, and has also announced that it will buy and store a large quantity.

By June 10, the Sydney price, ex wharf, had climbed to £A245, and was expected to rise further.

The new season’s crop in Western Samoa was starting to come in, late in May, and promised to be a good one. At that stage £Stg.2lo to £Stg.2ls was offered for first grade Samoan cocoa beans, f.o.b. Apia, and second grade was quoted at £Stg.2oo- - a ton.

Trochus Slump

Two Sydney agents, on June 10. reported that Sydney stores were “full of trochus,” and there was no buyer interest. They said that the mam reason was that prices had been too high, and overseas manufacturers were using plastics for buttons.

One agent said it might be possible to do business below £4OO a ton, but even at that figure it would be difficult to find buyers. Manufacturers had plenty of stock and not enough button orders.

These two agents also reported a slackening in the inquiry for green snail.

All grades of pearl shell showed a decline in value. t No. 2 Syndicate, c/- F. R. Stevens, New Guinea Company, Lae, New Guinea won fifth prize (£500) in a recent Queensland lottery. 141 IF IC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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FIGI POPULATION Indians Outnumber Fijians by 21,000 THE Indian population of Fi reached a total of 169.4 t 21,275 more than the population.

The 1956 Census totals shov between 1946 and 1956, the pt tion of Fiji increased by one; —by 86,099 from 259,638 to 3i In 1946, the Indian popu was 120,414, about 40 per ceni than it is to-day.

The Fijian increase was, by parison, only 25.46 per cent- -118,070 to 148,314.

The biggest percentage in* however, was in the small gro Chinese. This was 44.5 per from 2,874 to 4,155.

Europeans increased by 1,808 4,595 to 6,402 (39.3 per cent.! part-Europeans from 6,142 tc (27.1 per cent.) Indians now account for 49 per cent, of the popu against 46.3 per cent, in 194 f the Fijian percentage has di from nearly 45.5 per cent, in I less than 42 per cent, last 3 Other figures (1946 —t 0t a. brackets), were: Rotumans, (3,313) ; other Pacific Isla 5,320 (3,717) ; all “others”, 91 The figures showed that th between the sexes was grai lessening. In 1956 there 178,475 males and 167,262 fe against 136,731 males and females in 1946.

GRAY—PYM Wedding of Islands Interest rE marriage will take pIJ St. Thomas’ Church of En North Sydney, on June Miss Lurlene Fym, daught Mr. and Mrs. A. Pym, Ml New Guinea, to Mr. Donald, recently of Rabaul and m Sydney.

The bride’s parents are known Territorians, and she was born in Samarai. At thai the Pyms lived in Misima Mr. Fym was manager of the?

Philp branch there. Later were transferred to Rabauj after the war, to Suva, Fijii Pym is at present manager Burns Philp branch in Mao Mr. Gray was a member Rabaul branch of the ANZ! when it was first established] he was later transferred to and is now in Sydney. 142 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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The Safe I Vay to Safety U 62 te A lister acDonald's intings Exhibited invitation, a large attendance f citizens of Papeete, Tahiti, bowed a lively interest in the ty of work presented at the 1 opening of a retrospective exon of water colour drawings, ie well known Island painter, ate Alister MacDonald. It was d by Governor Toby, at the les of the Tillet Library, on 24. ! death of Alister MacDonald, 94, occurred in August, 1956, x>rea, following an accident, i April show was gathered ler and sponsored by Monsieur mt, principal of the Tillet •y. ter MacDonald, of the more icnal school of English paintjxiled himself early in the to the South Seas, where he id more freely. ivas widely travelled and some ngs shown were executed in Dhina, Japan, England, etc. )onald painted until the end though these latter works were ;sured in their treatment, and 3 tended to muddiness, their y was quite remarkable conig his age. bs of paintings shown ranged £l2/12 - to £27 10 - for quite drawings, and very satis- -7 sales resulted. k Island Weddings of Note notable weddings took place Rarotonga during May. The 3t took place on May 16, when llizabeth Watson, daughter of filliam Watson, well known Islands businessman, was d to Mr. Leslie Bailey, Deputy •ar. ceremony was performed by Lehmann at St. Joseph’s i, and more than 350 guests ?d the reception and umukai : the Empire Hall, Avarua, second wedding was between imes McPherson, AMO, of nga Hospital, and Miss Rangi The ceremony took place 23 at the LMS Church at gi. t 500 guests attended the reand wedding feast which d and witnessed the Oora , where the bride and groom [he open and are ceremonipresented with traditional f mats, pareu material and ;ads, all being gifts of the family.- WHP. :onga had 16.98 in. of rainfall April as compared with the /erage of 6.63 in. The tomato as adversely effected.

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The Administrator may approve loans for developmental mining up to £2,000, and the Minister may approve larger advances.

Government and Administration assistance will probably be made available for treatment work, boring, marketing, etc.

The New Guinea Legislative Council has passed a bill cutting royalties from 5 per cent, to U per cent. —a move which will be welcomed by mining companies.

A gold mining authority in Sydney said he considered this a wise move, and one which could help the industry.

“At this stage I would feel that Australia could benefit largely from any new development in the mining field,” he said.

Early this month the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. sent a geologist to join its staff to assist in prospecting in New Guinea.

In May, it was announced that this company had shut down another dredge and now has only one operation at Bulolo.

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THE second school magazine of the Rabaul Elementary and High School came along a couple of months ago, but has managed to become lost to Editorial sight.

The magazine is up to last year’s high standard —and again compares favourably with school magazines from longer-established schools.

Whether this is due to the pupils of the school or mainly to the hardworking band of teachers, we would not know.

Most of the pupils at the school are Chinese, but there are about 20 Europeans spread through the 11 classes. (Most European children go South to secondary school, their parents being assisted by a Government grant).

It seems likely also that most of the brightest of the Chinese children will also, in future, be going to secondary school in Australia, as the Government subsidy has been extended to Asian children. 143 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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Tralasian Petroleum Co. Pty., Ltd.—

ne 11 it was announced that Barikewa ad been deepened 185 feet to 6,310 feet gas under considerable pressure was enred. Operations have been directed tocontrolling the gas pressure with heavy i allow a high pressure service well head fitted. It is not intended to test the st this stage of drilling. * * * 15, PHILP AND CO., LTD.—Shipping inof the company had shown a disastrous F more than £BO,OOO during the first f 1956-57 because of adverse weather, e second six months had been better, mes Burns, chairman, said at the annual I in Sydney on May 23. eplace the "Merkur", which was sold ars ago, would cost at least £1,500,000. mpany would have to earn, over the »r three years of building, about 000, as well as other revenue for Js, to provide this amount. Of this tax would take the excess £1,000,000.

Burns said it was a necessity for the y to carry on the shipping trade because ids interests. aid that most of the company's profit iwadays derived from subsidiary cornsuch as the Queensland Insurance Co., ic most prosperous interests held by the f were South Seas plantations, which id about 40, mostly in New Guinea, ring to the sale of Penneys, a subto G. J. Coles and Co., Ltd., Mr. Burns lat BP's would have had to expand by developing in Victoria and South a to get sales volume. Such expansion time would prove very expensive. on the other hand, wished to intheir interests in Queensland, so the of Penneys with Coles was mutually ory. enting on "extra benefits" for share- Mr. Burns said that, as a stockholder, not think "we have been badly have quite recently issued a million t par, he said. "At to-day's price of )/- this is a benefit of over £2,000 000 [holders." joint seemed to have been overlooked, urns said he estimated that the comas paying a total of 11/- in the £ 1. Of this amount 8/- in the £ was tax. The remainder was land tax, •us" payroll tax, and municipal rates, esale merchandise business is gradually •ut," Mr. Burns said. "If you are a and cannot buy direct from the manuyou are not in the top class. if L no t pay to s °pply small >ers with broken lines, as costs are and further, the co-operative societies ng very competitive, nately, a large proportion of our is semi-retail/wholesale. That is why, ilia, in addition to our country stores' :d Penneys in Queensland." lurns said that there had been a e fallmg-off in sales in some parts company's country stores in the last mths. sjc

Lal Sugar Refining Co., Ltd—Net

)r the year ended March 31 was >B, an increase of £291,722, or 17 3 over the previous year. Profit is an earning rate of 14 per cent. (11 9 [• last year) on paid capital of lUO. id, unchanged at 10 per cent re- E 1.404,000, General feser.e gains makmg iIEI^OT.OO O the remainder ° fi t, £167,358, raises carry forward to 16.

The directors said that at company's Austrahan sugar mills output was 233,000 tons (2,000 tons higher), but in Fiji production fell to 134,000 tons (down 29,100 tons) because of bad weather.

Raw sugar price was higher in both countries.

The quantity of refined sugar sold in Australia and New Zealand was nearly at the level of the previous year, the report said.

Sales of the building materials division suffered in some lines from a general decline in building. Success in obtaining more overseas markets for blue asbestos brought improved results to the subsidiary, Australian Blue Asbestos, Ltd.

C.S.R. Chemicals Pty., Ltd., showed improvement in sales and general situation, This subsidiary is building a £500,000 factory at Rhodes in New South Wales to produce a special plastics material under agreement with the Dow Chemical Co., one of the biggest chemical manufacturers in the United States, and a leader in plastics production.

Dow will provide designs for construction and operation of the factory, and C.S.R.

Chemicals will carry out the main fabrication Queen for a Day This charming young Indian girl. Miss C. W.

Mira, was Lautoka (Fiji) Red Cross Branch's Queen For a Day and was crowned at a festival on June 1.

The competition raised £4,628 for the Society.

Miss Mira was sponsored by the Akhil Mines and polled 241,111 votes.

There were 16 entrants.

In this photograph she is presented with a bouquet by a young gentleman of Lautoka.

Photo: Prasad's Studio. 145 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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iUM, DEVELOPMENT NL.—Further proson the gold mining lease. Enterprise has indicated "favourable gold pros- -250 ft. below the existing open cut ;. As the prospect appears to be towards the boundary of the lease, ipany has applied for and has been a new lease. Enterprise No. 13, I to the west. lions are favourable, the directors say, k is now being carried out by sluichods to establish prospects at this The last of the petroleum survey imprising the 1957 field survey, left for the permit area on May 10 for camp at the junction of the August k rivers. ear, further gravity survey work will ed out on a closer grid, with the f investigating in greater detail the lepening to the west of the gravity jneath the sedimentary zone in the ea during the 1956 survey. * * * L GOLD, NL.—Net profit for the year ry 28 was £10,667, a drop of £23,109 reduced from 8d a share to 5d £10,416. rincipal asset of Guinea Gold is a if 61,500 shares in Bulolo, valued at in the latest accounts. Bulolo Gold in turn holds 749,999 shares in ealth-New Guinea Timbers, Ltd., and i dividend of £37,500 from this source e year. * * * V (FIJI) GOLD MINES, NL—Three have been declared on the issued the company. The dividends are Id, 9d a share. Dividends are exempt me tax in Australia, idends are payable on July 5 at the registered office in Melbourne. Sharegistered m the books of the company 15 are entitled to participate. The cheques will be posted directly to srs. nited Uranium, NL, and King Island (1947), Ltd., Loloma has received to prospect over the Maranboy tin Ihe Northern Territory of Australia, is about 40 miles east of Katherine, oup has also arranged favourable option over all the principal leases in the area. They will begin testts immediately. ectors say the field is one of the rtant tin bearing areas in Australia, ous titles by different interests had retarded development. Control of the I should result in proper exploitation.

B. Theodore has resigned as a nd chairman of Consolidated Press -td., and of Consolidated Press, Ltd., subsidiary companies of the group. ;xtensive interests in Fiji gold mining ssignation will enable him to devote is time and energy to his Fiji gold He is a son of the late Mr. E. G. who founded and developed the Fiji '9 enterprises of Emperor, Loloma n. * * * lINEA GOLDFIELDS, LTD—The April n the Golden Ridges Mill was 1,114 d and 1,233 oz silver. Tributes prooz fine gold. The timber produced 3 super feet. y return from Golden Ridges was ine gold and 1,396 oz silver. From ges Alluvials production of fine gold Koranga Alluvials produced 60 oz and Tributes 145 oz fine gold. The duced was 217,846 super feet.

Norfolk Island And Byron Bay Whalimg

CO., LTD.—The directors have decided that it would be against the best interests of the company to pay an interim dividend, even though £42,500 is available for the purpose. They consider that because whaling is seasonal the appropriate time to consider a dividend is after the close of the season. In addition unforeseen capital expenditure makes it necessary to conserve finances.

The directors are confident that a satisfactory dividend will be paid after the accounts close in September.

The first season at Norfolk resulted in production of 1,125 tons of whale oil, and 300 tons of meal. On the spot difficulties had resulted in the company having to meet comparatively heavy and unexpected capital expenditure in buying a tanker in Norway. This tanker had already delivered four shipments to Sydney.

A whale catcher has been completed, and is expected to effect a substantial saving in costs.

Quota for the 1957 season, which was to begin early this month, is 120 whales at Byron Bay and 120 at Norfolk Island. Whale oil has been sold forward at prices about 10 per cent, above last year.

Off-shire lobster fishing was shelved for the season when purchase of additional equipment was recommended.

Whaling at Norfolk Island was expected to start during the first week in June.

Mr. P. A. Conrad has resigned from the board, and Mr. N. G. Bell has been appointed. * * * RUBBERLANDS, LTD.—Net profit for the year ended December 31 was £24,571. This was equal to almost 25 per cent, on the then issued capital of £BO,OOO. The dividend was 15 per cent.

Dry robber output was 382,290 lb, an increase of 85,000 lb over 1955.

Shareholders will place 100,000 5/- ordinary shares with the public at 6/-, plus charges.

The company operates a 5,513-acre rubber plantation in the Kanosia district of Papua, about 45 miles from Port Moresby. ♦ * * STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO., LTD —The chairman of directors (Mr. E. V. Crisp) on May 21 denied that W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., had any interests in Steamships Trading. He said there had not been any negotiations for affiliation of the two island trading companies. He was commenting on merger rumours that had been persistent both in Port Moresby and on Australian stock exchanges.

TIMOR OIL, LTD.—The directors report that equipment is expected to be on location in July so that when the first site is selected drilling can begin immediately. Dr. W. F.

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Adi Ana Qereitoga

Ana Qereitogo, wife of Ratu ■teniloli, died suddenly recently i home of her cousin, Ratu Sir 3ukuna, in Suva. She was 52 of age.

Ana is a descendant of Ratu au and a daughter of the late Filimone Vukinamualevu, of iland. Her husband is the para- , chief of the province of iri, and she had been living irement with him at Navuso, a mile from Nausori. many years Adi Ana spent eriods with Ratu Sir Lala and Vlaraia in Lau and Suva. On ath of Lady Maraia, last year, Dk over management of Ratu la’s household at Rairaiwaqa. was always a hard worker ,pable organiser and was held h esteem by all who knew be held a high place in the of the Fijian people, a she died she was in Suva flection with preparations for emony of vaka tara-i-sulu, or end of the period of mourn- ■ Lady Maraia.

MR. J. T. CLEARY Joseph Thomas Cleary, a r of Northern Hotels Ltd., led at the Colonial War ial Hospital, Suva, late in He was a son of the late 1 Mrs. John Cleary, of Suva, i his younger days was ;ed with his father in the Cleary and Co. e joining the directorate of •n Hotels Ltd. he had been ;ed with the management of ipany’s hotels. vas a keen tennis player 1-health compelled him to i the game. He had been y of the Fiji Lawn Tennis :ion, and for some years ;cretary of the Namosau Club, Ba. bleary was a nephew of Sir nd Lady Ragg.

Jr. Nils Carlson

his Carlson, who was wellin commercial life in Fiji nga for many years, died hand on June 2. is born at Levuka 51 years 1 educated at Levuka Public arlson went to New Zealand ?ars ago to take up a with an afforestation y. irried Miss Adella Chapman, r of an old Fiji pioneer ;d recently at the age of survived by his widow and ighters, who have married tied in New Zealand.

Mrs. A. M. Mullins

The death occurred on May 2, at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, of Mrs. Annette Marie Mullins, wife of Captain J.

B. Mullins.

Mrs. Mullins was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Storck, of Suva Point. She was born in Suva and educated at the Convent of St. Joseph de Cluny.

She married Captain Mullins in 3944. There were no children of the marriage.

Mrs. Mullins had only recently returned from a visit to her brothers and sisters in New Zealand—Mrs N. Windle (Nelson), Mrs. Leveston (Auckland) and Messrs. Harold and Eugene Storck (Auckland).

One of Mrs. Mullins’ sisters, Mrs.

L. Navratil, lives in Texas, USA, a brother, Herbert, is in Niue, and in Fiji are a sister, Mrs. B.

Southwick, of Suva, and two brothers, Mr. V. Storck, of Suva, and Mr. M. Storck, of Vatukoula.

M. Henri Bonnaud

The funeral of Mr. Henri Bonnaud, who recently died in Paris, took place at Noumea in early May.

The body was brought back to Noumea aboard MM Resurgent Possibly the biggest cortege ever seen in New Caledonia followed Mr.

Bonnaud to his last resting place.

Mr. Bonnaud was Director- General of Ballande’s Stores and director of many New Caledonian companies.

Mr. C. C. Dallaston

A former Resident Agent at Penrhyn and Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Mr. C. C. Dallaston, died in Rotorua, New Zealand, on April 18.

Mr. Dallaston returned to New Zealand in 1951 and has since been working in the Maori Affairs Department.

Major A. A. Luckham

A well-known former official of the Cook Islands, Major A. A Luckham, died in New Zealand at the end of May. He was 75.

He had had a distinguished military career in the South African War, the First War and the Second War.

From 1921 to 1931 he was Resident Commissioner at Niue: and * r ° m *931 to 1939 he was at Aitutaki in the Cooks. He is survived by his wife.

Mr Tupou (David) Hettig

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He was awarded an OBE ii year’s Birthday Honours.

At the time of his death H on leave in Brisbane.

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Ansett’s flew a similar err Tahiti in August last year, the last 12 months has oj cruises to New Guinea (one New Zealand (nine).

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Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.) OMMENDATIONS ORED Canberra Still Scolding P-NG About lts Political Apathy Papua-New Guinea’s alleged political apathy has been made the use for ignoring all the recommendations proposed 2\ years ago by select committee set up to examine the functions of the P-NG pslative Council.

S seems to be the purport of le “speech from the throne” ;ad by Administrator Cleland b opening of the last meeting he Legislative Council on 27. jadier Cleland read the stateon behalf of the Minister, statement said, in effect, that ; not proposed to increase the d number of representatives e Council tas the committee ecommended) until such time native population had reached state of political awareness w T ould allow them to take an ve part in Council affairs: and Europeans showed more inin Territory politics, re are three elected European ers—one for Papua mainland: r New Guinea mainland; and >r New Guinea Islands, ng is not compulsory and in ne total enrolments were 2,771 nly 750 of these cast a vote, sason for this was that in the t electorate, Papua Mainland, ting member, Mr. E. A. James, turned unopposed. ’e probably is a large re of political apathy among Drians —many of whom cona floating population which Dt stay more than a year or so Territory. In addition, there my foreign nationals: and the nns under which votes were ere sufficient to discourage all e most politically enthusiastic. ; booths exist only in the main centres. ever, the failure of the tion to vote in the proporlat was thought desirable has, ing to Canberra, proved for me that Terntorians are illy apathetic. It is an arguhat the Minister flings at the >ry with the persistence of a g wife. Even Mr. Menzies d out the same old accusation his recent visit to P-NG.

Legislative Council of P-NG, at present constituted, is, as . James has pointed out on a r of occasions, little but a d debating society. Unofficial rs are permitted to air their ices —but the official will preit all times, and legislation by the Administration (for read, Canberra) is forced i the Chamber by the official ;y.

Territorians are, of course, well aware of this and this is the main cause of their apathy.

There are three native members in the Council at present. They are hand picked but —with the possible exception of Simogen—their contributions to the government of the country or to debate are nil.

Simogen speaks fluently in Pidgin and what he says is frequently amusing and certainly to the point.

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SSRIADS Revolutionary Changes Planned In South Pacific Air Communications When M. Walter Grand, President of the Tahiti Assembly, returned i Paris at the end of May, he announced that arrangements had i completed under which the Government of France would assist iti in the construction of an airport which will take the largest iners. > is a triumph for local liti enterprise, and may mately result in Papeete bel the focal point of trans- : air services. cost of Papeete’s airport, mg to M. Grand, will be £2,500,000 Australian. France irovide some of this; and r substantial part will come he grant which France, each makes Tahiti for developpurposes. proposed that the run-way le 10,000 feet long, and that f the necessary area will be ;d by the islet of Motu Tahiri ff Papeete, to the westward) >y reclaiming the shallow over the coral reef which Btween Motu Tahiri and the nd. r this plan, Papeete (the chief and administrative heads of Tahiti and French i) will have a modern airght on its doorstep. It is that this development will stimulate the tourist traffic, plan to provide Tahiti with >ort, in this way, has been :onsideration for some years; very heavy cost has been a it. However, the growing lity that, before long, there airways communication be- South America, on the one md Asia and Australia, on er, with the airlines looking nain staging airport in the 'acific, has stirred the French - people to lively interest. ’ present conditions, Tahiti ;ed in the Southwest Pacific mly regular airline (TEAL, ;w Zealand and Fi.ii) is kept 7 subsidy. Otherwise, Tahiti ' upon widely-spaced shipaedules for communications, development of a transairways connection with the nations of South America •eatly increase the economic nee of Tahiti, and the big ractive archipelagoes there- ’and said that he expected i construction of the Tahiti would commence in October

Id Circle Route Via

MEXICO Australian aviation pioneer, lon Taylor, recently gave dea proposed route from Austo Western Europe, via America.

Sir Gordon Taylor says that a new route from Australia to, say, London could be opened up, via Mexico, without coming into direct competition with an established air line.

Recently, with his wife, he went to Mexico at the invitation of the Director of Civil Aeronautics there.

The director wanted Sir Gordon’s assistance in creating interest in Mexico, and to discuss financial aspects in opening up an air service from Australia.

In an ABC interview on his return, Sir Gordon said that the idea of developing this route was his own. He had made his first survey of it while he was flying with the RAF during the war.

He suggested the following route: Sydney, Auckland, Fiji, Tahiti, Clipperton Island, Mexico City, Bermuda, the Azores, and a Western European port, preferably London.

According to Sir Gordon, this route has some advantages over A model of the Boeing 8707 jet-airliners which Qantas will have on the trans-Pacific service in 1959. 153 r IC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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existing routes. That from Aui to London via South-East As; the Mediterranean was subjj uncertain political conditions, route via North America in the domestic air lines.

“This line (via Mexico) is pj ally a great circle, and goes from Sydney to London withoi domestic air line situation beii volved, and through latitude; consistently good winds and weather,” he said.

Sir Gordon said his chief ii in the route was to give a I.

Australia and other parts » world on its possibility—he w interested in running air-lines self.

South and Central America fascinating areas and had possibilities for Austr a 1 ii thought; but there was little ii at present because there w trade or communications.

Santiago-Papeete Ro<

CHILEAN engineers have i work on a 10,000-ft runv Easter Island which will vital stepping-stone on the prc Santiago-Australia route.

LAN (Line Air National), by the Chilean Governmen been planning for some ye operate this service. The fao there will be an internationj port at Papeete by 1960, brin connection much closer.

Chile, in the initial stages at would prefer to run a shuttle from Santiago to Papeete transfer passengers to othr Sir Gordon Taylor. 154 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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This new discovery makes it possible to quickly and easily restore vigour to your glands and body, to build rich, pure blood, to strengthen your mind and memory and feel like a new man in only 8 days. In fact, this discovery, which is a home medicine in pleasant, easyto-take tablet form, does away with gland operations and begins to build new vigour and energy in 24 hours, yet it is absolutely harmless in action.

The success of this amazing discovery, called VI-STIM, has been so great that it is now being distributed by all chemists here under a guarantee of complete satisfaction or money back.

In other words. VI-STIM must make you feel full of vigour and energy and from 10 to 20 years younger, or return the empty package and get your money back.

VI-STIM costs little, and the VS C? guarantee v l"3¥llll Restores Manhood and Vitality sz The Chilean Air Attache in •alia, Colonel Robert Parrague, ;old PIM that he believes that icration is better than comon when there might not be jh passengers offering, shuttle service from Santiago ipeete, with jets (LAN plan to lets eventually) would enable aircraft to do the return trip e day. This would represent saving in costs, as all maince would be done at the home

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MAN Empire Airways flying- >at service from Laucala Bay. iva, to Papeete, via Apia and iki, is likely to end in 1959, f TEAL have plans for the t of this “prestige” route they not announced them. It may it TEAL plans to operate the ivith land planes, when Papeete t is finished. the flying-boat service does i 1959, and it is believed that olent at present in use will mtlived its usefulness by then, could be a break of a year st before Tahiti gets another twice —when the landing field structed. :ourse, TEAL could do what een done in the past, and r a flying-boat from Ansett.

J the Papeete airport in built, is certain to have competin the South Pacific-Papeete from the enterprising French , Transports Aeriens Intermtaux. TAI has already run from Noumea to Bora Bora is an intermittant service to Island. No doubt the NZ iment took all this into conion when it recently allowed 0 extend its Paris-Noumea service to Auckland.

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sports Aeriens Intercontix has received one concession the Australian Government, pes to receive another by the next year. ight out of Paris on July 1 ;kland will now call at Bris- )efore leaving for Noumea, isly the last stop before 1 was Darwin. The aircraft dw operate from Paris to id via Athens, Karachi, Darwin, Brisbane and i. le end of this year TAI hopes ; permission to call at Syd- Jtead of Brisbane. Should ve be successful, the question ying passengers across the l in competition with TEAL d to arise, even though TAI operating via Noumea.

Jet Age In Pacific

imerican Airways will operate 707 jets in the Pacific at d of next year—only 18 away. is plans to operate 8707 120er jets on its North Amerivices by -the middle of 1959, via Nadi and Honolulu to San Francisco.

Qantas may then be able to fly direct to the UK, via the Pacific. It has applied for a licence to fly across the United States—but this request has had a stormy reception in the USA from some quarters.

It has been stated that this would not be in the best interests of American domestic airlines, and that Australia has no reciprocal privileges to offer.

Permission has recently been given KLM and BOAC to fly across the United States.

Introduction of the jets will cut flying time between Sydney and the west coast of America by about 50 per cent, from about 30 hours to between 16 and 17 hours.

Canadian Pacific Air Lines will introduce 100-passenger Britannias (“Whispering Giants”) in April, 1958. Flying time from Sydney to Honolulu will be 14 hours, and to Vancouver, 22 hours.

CPA has six Britannias on order, with the option on another five. It also has eight Super DC6B’s on order.

Nadi airport will be ready for jets according to the latest information available in Sydney. All runways from which jets operate will have to be strengthened and widened, but not necessarily lengthened.

Wide runways which are easy to Keep clean are necessary because jet aircraft act like vacuum cleaners and will quickly suck up dust and debris Other airport modifications are also necessary for jets. * Mary Guise, the first Port Moresby girl to complete her training at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, returned to Port Moresby in May and will join the staff of the native hospital there. There are eight other Papua and New Guinea girls training in Suva. 155 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1957

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Cnr. Gardeners and Kent Roads, Mascot. Phone MU 2334 Obtainable from:— Kriewaldts Stores, Port Moresby • Wan Jin Wah, Lae & Wau J. L. Chipper & Co., Rabaul • Gabriel Chow Sing Yip, Rabaul Tang Mow, Wewak • P. W. Reilly & Co. Ltd., Goroka Distributed throughout the Pacific Islands by — KERR BROS PTY. LTD., 4 O’Connell St., SYDNEY Outbreak of Gold Trafficking in N. Gu[?] SEVERAL cases of stealing ceiving gold have been the Supreme Court in Ws Lae, New Guinea, recently.

On May 29, Carlo CavaL married man with three ch and employed by Bulolo Gold I ing Ltd., as a dredge hano charged with stealing 625 of gold amalgam valued b< £1,600 and £2,000 from his emp He was sentenced to 12 mont; prisonment at the Wau Courtl During the war, Cavalieri Patrol Officer with ANGAU.

Another man, Arthur Lv Ahlberg, an underground employed by New Guinea Go!

Ltd., was charged and convio having gold unlawfully in h] session. He was sentenced months gaol in the Wau Cot May 29.

Mr. Jack Wilson, contract Port Moresby, at a hearing Wau Supreme Court befon Justice Kelly, on May 31 an« 3, was charged with receiving ounces) gold, the property of) knowing it to have been stole Wilson pleaded not guilty. 1 found guilty and sentenced, months hard labour and waj taken to Bomana Gaol, Moresby.

A Chinese, Ming Fook known as Eric Woo, storekee Chinatown, Lae, at a hear the Lae Supreme Court befc Justice Kelly, on June 7 and. charged with buying a quan gold amalgam without a lice do so, or alternatively that I a quantity of gold amalgam possession without lawful He pleaded not guilty.

Mr. Jack O’Shea prosecut the Crown, and Superintt Hicks, Sub-Inspector Duff a:> James Wilton, gold retort foreman for Bulolo Gold Di Ltd., were witnesses for the p< tion.

Mr. Justice Kelly dismiss; first charge on the grounds tl Crown did not entirely prr case (the Police omitted tf the numbers of the notes u the transaction).

Woo was found guilty • second charge and sentence® months hard labour.

It is believed that trafficl gold has been going on im for some time. Gold sold blackmarket in the East is; about £6O an ounce. It is If that the illegal price paid fo NG is around £6 per ounce. t The Catholic Church in I has recently lost two well! missionaries. One was Frere 78, who died after 54 years oft ing in local schools. The otl Father Guillaume, 51, who w popular in Noumea. 156 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Fiji's"Bermudan" Duty Angers Chamber of Commerce THE Suva Chamber of Commerce wants the Government of Fiji to eliminate the “iniquitous duty” on freight charges. Whenever there is an increase in freight charges—recently a 15 per cent, increase was imposed on British freights to Fiji—an automatic increase in duty follows.

This has a spiralling effect on costs, and the public eventually has to “fork out.”

According to Mr. K. Witherington, the method of assessing duty was introduced by a former Comptroller of Customs, who followed a procedure which operated in Bermuda.

Mr. Witherington moved that the Government be asked to give consideration to amending the Customs ordinance.

His motion was carried.

The Chamber also adopted a suggestion by Mr. Lawlor that representations be made to the shipping companies to see if Fiji was not paying above its fair share of the England-New Zealand freight—apart from the latest increase. He suggested this was a matter which could be examined by representatives of the larger firms.

This “duty on freight” is something worthy of Treasurer Reeves, of the P-NG Administration, who has a reputation for sitting up nights thinking of new means of wringing the last penny from socalled untaxed Territorians. For a country like Fiji, which already has income-tax, “iniquitous” just about describes it.

In most countries, duty is accessed on a f.o.b. price. Fiji levies duty on landed-cost; and you cannot escape it, either, by sending goods by parcels post; the cost of the stamps is added and duty accessed.

Islands Residents in Sydney Amongst those who attended a recent social gathering of the Polynesian Association in Sydney were the following (top to bottom): Miss Ivy Buffett of Norfolk Island, with her sister-in-law, Mrs. M. Buffett, wife of Mr Charles Buffett, Secretary to the Administration of Nl.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry O'Connor. Mrs. O'Connor was formerly Miss Moana Mann, daughter of Mr. George Mann, of Apia and Nukualofa.

Miss Shirley Clough from New Zealand with Miss Orbell Chambers who was formerly of Levuka, Fiji, but is now in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.

Mrs. A. Cubis, formerly Emmy Deighton of Suva, with Mrs. Marie Leslie, wife of Charles Leslie formerly of Levuka, Fiji.

Mrs. Irene Byron, business secretary of the Polynesian Association, with a New Zealand visitor, Mrs. Estella von Mauw.

Mr. Dwarka Singh, MBE, a retired civil servant of Suva, Fiji, who visited Sydney recently; and Mr. John Mathewsell, of Rotuma and Suva, who was in Sydney on leave.

A young samoan girl,Miss Fanaafi Mai'is'i(Centre), has made history for her people. Studying at Victoria University College, Wellington, under an islands scholarship scheme initiated by the New Zealand Government, she has attained a Bachelor of Arts degree—the first Samoan man or woman, ever to do so Fanaafi finished her degree with high marks in all subjects and, moreover has been awarded a scholarship open to all BA degree finalists who wish to continue to a Master's degree. Fanaafi's bouquet, traditionally presented to all women graduates on the nigth of the official graduation ceremony, was the gift of the Samoan people. Her sister Kuini (right), who is a trainee teacher at Wellington Teachers' Training College, presented her with the bouquet, and her brother Semisi (left) flew up from Dunedin to be present at the graduation ceremony. 157 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957

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KANIMBLA HALL, 19-29 Tusculum St., Potts Point, 5 mins, city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant, S.C., furn. serviced suites with separate Lounge, Bed & Bath Rms. & K’ettes. Refrig., H.W. from 2Va Gns. daily for 2; from 4 Gns. for 3. Under new management. Write or Phone FL 3014.

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Coconut Plantation at Wainunu, Fiji, freehold of 1986 acres, producing about 120 tons dry copra annually. Together with buildings and equipment. Much new unused land suitable for development in rice. Offers of not less than £F22,000 will be considered if lodged prior to August 31. 1957. Reasonable terms can be arranged. Further information is obtainable from the Secretary, Morris Hedstrom Limited, P.O. Box 295. Suva, Fiji.

FLEETS. —New 15 ft., varnished, twin cockpit speedboat, suit 3Vs to 30 H.P. outboard, with trailer, £175. 18 ft. halfcabin launch, 5 H.P. Simplex. £260. 26 ft. diesel trawler, £1,600. 40 ft. diesel launch, coppered. £3,675. 45 ft. diesel workboat suit towing, trochus or copra, £6,000. Fleets. Water Street East, South Brisbane. Queensland, Australia. 65 FT. DIESEL TRADING KETCH. Heavy construction of best materials, copper sheathed, independent survey and delivery arranged from England. £6,000 Sterling. R. P. Duff, 70 Maybank Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex, England.

WE send parts to all parts. Army truck spares. Dodge, Jeep and G.M.C. always available. Gilltraps. P.O. Box 500, Rotorua, New Zealand.

DIESEL ALTERNATOR; Southern Cross, 10 H.P., tank cooled, driving by triple Vbelts, Onan Alternator, 5.2 kva, 110/220 volts. 60 cycle—soo watts, 17 volts, D.C.

Complete with Control Panel, £4O spares, fuel tanks, 400 gallon water tank if required. Also 3—l H.P., I—l/3 H.P., 2—y 4 H.P,. motors 110 volt, 60 cycle.

All plant in good condition. Ideal for plantation—charge batteries for lighting while driving appliances, machinery. The lot £450 F. 0.8. Norfolk Island. Airmail: R. & J. Needham, Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island.

GENERATING PLANT Ford V.B 20 K.V.A. 415-240 V complete Switchboard, good condition, £250. 20 K.V.A. Diesel, as above, £550. J. W’. Bartholomew & Sons, 237 Sussex St.. Sydney, Australia.

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Hydrographical Supplies in respect of FIJI, Tonga and Samoa waters. On sale at the Authorised Agents: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Limited, Suva, Fiji.

Stamps Wanted

STAMP COVERS WANTED.—lnterested In buying, by a cover collector, stamped envelopes used in the mail of the British Pacific Islands. I offer 5 cents U.S. funds for each one. Send me 100 Postal Used Envelopes in good condition and I will mail you back, via registered mail, $5.00, plus postage. This offer excludes the envelopes of Fiji, N.Z., Papua-NG, and Australia. Send to: Mr, S. C. Jersey, 631 N. Kenilworth Ave.. Oak Park, Illinois.

U.S.A. 'Banking Reference: Maywood Proviso State Bank, Maywood, Illinois, U.S.A.) PENFRIENDS 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, Natuvu, Fiji Is.

TENDERS WANTE;

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PROPERTY.—Sate of Plantation Guinea: Longan. The Custodian: propriated Property invites tends Australian ex-servicemen, natu British subjects, or companies of ’ least two-thirds of the sharehold natural-born British subjects for chase of the following coconut pis Longan—A group of islands north Plantation in the Ninigo Group, of Manus, but excluding the is!< the Longan Group known as Keholl, Kamochin, Amot and Tender forms together with Condi Tender and of Sale, are obtainati Custodian of Expropriated 3 Department of Territories, 0 A.C.T.; or Department of Lam Moresby, Papua. Time is to be; for the termination of the existint to collect produce from the prope; following building and plant onr are not included in the sale; 1 Lighting Plant and building same; 2 Sun Driers. A provision in respect of Longan has been the Commissioner of Titles for s in fee simple in favour of the C Tenders may be lodged with the 0 of Expropriated Property, t A.C.T., up to 3 p.m. on Monday; 12, 1957. Intending tenderers are to inspect the plantation or t: reliable independent advice on ' of the property before submitting The highest or any tender necessarily be accepted. C. R.

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Positions Want

SCOTSMAN, experienced sawy; knowledge all mill and bushwon position anywhere in Pacific. See experience in New Guinea. RJ "G.P.”. C/o Box 3408, G.P.0..

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SCOTSMAN, 33, married, e:; fitting, turning, welding, hydraul engines, trucks and tractors, ho ing plant, centrifugal pumps,, office Ist year University stam quires a position in Pacific Is? necessarily engineering. Consg proposition. If interested pies airmail to: W. Campbell. 7 Dom Hillcrest. South Australia. 158 JUNE, 1957 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON/

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; SUS 2.20.) COPRA (1957 MOF price not yet finalised. Most territories have tentatively dropped their prices by 10 per cent.) Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1956 was £ Stg.sB/10/- FOB main ports. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce actual producer price.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA: Approx: £56/5/-; £55/11/6; £53/2/0 tentatively FIJI: Tentatively: Plant. gde. £FSO/5/6; FMS £FSO.

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 4 cents lb. (SUSB9.6 or £A4O approx, per long ton).

Periodic bonus, if average proceeds exceed Govt, buying price and expenses.

SOLOMONS: Honiara/Gizo Yandina: Ist grade, £56; 2nd £52; 3rd £45, NEW HEBRIDES:—Buying price on May 11 fell from 6,000 Pac. francs (£A42) delivered Vila/Santo to 5,750 Pac. francs (£ A4O/5/-). European price, May 11, 66,500 Met. francs (£AB3/13/- approx.) c.i.f. per short ton.

NEW CALEDONIA:—Noumea. Feb. 20; 7,250 Pac. francs (£ASO).

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Recent prices were: Top grade 10.50 Pac. francs per kilo (£A62/15/- per long ton) f.0.b., Papeete: lowest grade 5.35 Pac. francs (£A39).

TONGA —A Grade. £TS2/5/-; B Grade. £T46/s'- 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. SVid NZ per lb. equal to £ NZ3O per ton.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which on June 8 was £ 5tg.245 per ton, c.i.f. London.

P.-N.G.:—Good grade £A245 ex wharf.

Sydney.

W. SAMOA:—June 7: £Stg,2oo. f.o.b.

COFFEE;—P.-N.G. June 7: Top grade 6/7 per lb.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.. June 8: Kernels l/eVi-l/S; Virginia bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/4-1/5 per lb. del.

Sydney; other 1/2 del. Sydney.

RUBBER: —P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on June 7 was: No. 1 RSS, spot, 91% Straits cents (32- 2/3d Aust. approx.) per lb.

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported on June 10: New crop, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 59/-, Green 57/- 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.w.; under 5 tons £6l/10/- per ton. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £67/10/- per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons, £6B per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O per ton, f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL. —Prices between the majority of the Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 19( mained as for 1955 (1957 prices nr fixed), i.e.; Sound grades £A72 £A39O; E, £A3OO; EE, £A225; al'J Australian ports; June 10, 1957, quo by independent pearlers: Sound, .

D, £ A 650; E, £A4SO; EE, £A255..

Is.-Manihiki: June 10, loose shell on; £ Stg.44B per long ton. Export £Stg.Boo-900 f.o.b. Rarotonga; a agent on June 10 quoted £AI.OOO Rarotonga. Tuamotus: 175-185 Pac. per kilo (£ Al.OOO-£ A-1.060 per lon f.o.b. Papeete.

TROCHUS: Two Sydney agents ot 10 could not quote prices for N, N.G., or 8.5.1., because they had i ceived orders.

GREEN SNAIL:—Quote No. 1 Jv SW Pacific, in store, Sydney, subject to rejects. Quote No. 2: ex wharf Sydney.

London And Us. Prices

Copra:—London. June 6: Philippi bulk, SUSI6B (seller); Straits/Borne merchantable, del. weights, Kingdom-North European ports, Jui £Stg.62/15/- (buyer), £Stg.63/15/- !

New York, June 6: Philippines, c: Pacific Coast ports, $U5152.50 (nc Coconut Oil: —London, June 6: in bulk, c.i.f. United Kingdom-Nortl pean ports, June-July, £Stg.9B Straits, crude. c.i.f., bulk, Ju £Stg.9o (reseller).

Cocoa:—London, June 3; Accra Aug. shipment, £Stg.23s c.i.f. Lf.

Oct./Dec. (new crop), £238/15/-, Rubber:—London, June 7: Spot Stg.27y 8 d lb, c.i.f. Sept. 27%d, Jun 27d.

Islands Mining Sh[?]

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NS'V BANK and BANK OF NZ. Austi Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji; Buying, £A Selling. £AII3. Fiji-London, basi London: B, £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £ SAMOA. —Through BANK OF N 1 tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9.

London, basis £lOO London: B. ; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £; B £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Ft £lOO Samoa; B. £111: S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.— Commonwealth

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Gorokai Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK 1 (branches; Port Moresby. Lae, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai. agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokop* BANK (Fort Moresby) and NAf BANK OF A/ASIA. (Port Moresby exchange rate Australia-Papua-N per £AIOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—PacifiJ most valuable of the three franc in French Union, are used in N» donia. New Hebrides, and Fr.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir D’Escompte de Paris) in 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.

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.. 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set ut printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta Street. Sydney.

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General Merchants

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General Merchants

and PROVEDORES

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, European

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Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” BL 5421 G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

In London: W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Island Products Ltd., Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suvai Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo. Port Moresby. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd..

IA CI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1957