Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXVIII, No. 6 ( Jan. 1, 1958)
1958-01-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly JANUARY, 1958 Vol. XXVIII. No. 6 dfdfs *SS^^VSL~> THEMOA, MOTHER of ATA. Ata was the boy who appeared on the PIM cover in September. 1956, and won for Mrs. R. C. Short, of Gizo, BSIP, the cover award last year. Mrs.

Short is responsible for this photograph also.

Temoa is one of the Gilbertese migrants now living in Gizo, Western Solomons.

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Fly high in the smooth upper air and enjoy the highest standard of air travel in the world today. The modern, convenient rest-rooms and full-length, soft, foam-cushioned chairs are all wellknown features of the Qantas Super-G Constellation. For the utmost in luxury air travel to Europe, America, Asia and Africa, fly Qantas.

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Your Guarantee of Satisfaction Backed by Established Service Depots Throughout the Islands so LANTERNS igned to withstand heavy usage exposure to all weathers these Dsene lanterns have built in made jet cleaning needles, ly air-seals on pumps and heat shock proof globes. They lot spill and burn safely in position. Two sizes.

Solus Stoves

Coleman Solus Kerosene stoves are sturdily constructed with heavy brass pressure-tested tanks. The burners are of high grade brass containing a high copper content for good heat conductivity. All parts are interchangeable with similar stoves. Available in Silent and Roarer types.

Keroman Lamps

Table lamps of lasting quality finished in polished brass. Bums kerosene and gives a brilliant yet pleasant incandescent white light.

Has centre draught feature with heat resisting glass chimney. No pumping or preheating is necessary.

Height 24 in. Diameter of base 7i ins. Weight 3 lbs.

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An airline —and the islands of pleasure I m i m I ■ New Zealand is the holiday Paradise of the South Pacific. For here is a genially temperate and unspoilt land fashioned by a lavish hand for the leisurely pursuit of every sporting and scenic pleasure.

And here, too, is the domain of New Zealand National Airways Corporation, whose fleet links 20 key cities, towns and tourist resorts, and connects with other airlines servicing many more centres.

MAC

New Zeala N D

NATIONAL

Airways Corporation

2 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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OFFICE OF THE PACIFIC AREA REPRESENTATIVE:

Box No 7022 Gpo Sydney New South Wales Australia

agents: FIJI: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.

NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

PAPUA: Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

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New Guinea Australia Line

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

Sydney Brisbane and return.

Melbourne Sydney Port Moresby Madang Rabaul and return.

Rabaul Kavieng Madang Lae Samarai Lae

Japan —Hongkong —New Guinea

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

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

Calls at Samarai subject to inducement.

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

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

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

Cable: “Camohe”.

BRISBANE: Wills, Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd.. 400 Queen Street. Cable: Wilgilsand.

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

JAPAN: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe; Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable: Swire.

GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yulll Pty. Ltd.. 6 Bridge St., Sydney. Cable: “Swireship”. 8U1712.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire. 6 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC IgLANPS MONTHL

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SYDNEY depart Jan. 24 Mar 21 Anl 29 AUCKLAND arr/dep Jan. 27 Mte! 24 May 2 8UVA arr/dep Jan. 30 Mar 27 Mav 5 HONOLULU arr/dep Feb. 4 Apr 1 May 10 VANCOUVER arr/dep Feb. 10-11 Apr. 7-8 May 16 SAN FRANCISCO arr/dep Feb. 13-14 Apr. 10-11 May 19 HONOLULU arr/dep Feb. 18 Apr! 15 May 24 SUVA arr/dep Feb. 25 Apr. 22 May 31 AUCKLAND arr/dep Feb. 28 Apr. 25 June 3 SYDNEY arrive Mar. 3 Apr. 28 June 6 EUROPE

West Indies

New Zealand

Australia And

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L the in Pacii ir Islands th wi The 20,000 tons all Tourist Class liner i. Southern Cross emphasises the modern trend in travel with the latest in amenities: • Every cabin air-conditioned • Two swimming pools • Unencumbered sports decks • Children’s play rooms and deck » Spacious lounges • Air-conditioned Dining Room • Orchestra • Cinema Theatre • Stabilisers \\ f r.

Sjs. Southern Cross

A For full particulars apply FIJI—Any branch or agency of Burns Philo (South Sea Co. Ltd.). Cable Address; Burphll. TAHlTl—Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete. Cable Address. Donald, Papeete.

SHAW SAVILL LINE — 1858-1958—A CENTURY OF SERVICE [?]pping Time-Tables sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks. ydney-Papua-N. Guinea Montoro sails from Melbourne for y, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, il, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby. Next iy sailing approx. Feb. 12.

Malekula sails from Sydney for Port by, Rabaul. Wewak, Alexishafen. ng, Lae. Next Sydney sailing approx. 14.

Malaita sails from Sydney for Lae, ng, Lombrum, Lorengau, Kavieng, il, Samarai. Next Sydney sailing Feb. 4.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port ay, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Lombrum, il. Next Sydney sailing approx. Jan. ails from Burns, Philp & Cos. Ltd., ige Street, Sydney.

Soochow: Sydney sailings Jan. 10 approx. Feb. 8 for Brisbane, Port by and Samarai.

Sinkiang: Leaves Sydney for me, Honiara - Yahdina, Rabaul, ng, Madang, Lae. Next Sydney r: approx. Jan. 21, Feb. 28.

Shansi: Leaves Melbourne for y, Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, ig, Kavieng, Rabaul, Port Moresby.

Sydney sailing: Jan. 11; next approx. !7. ills from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., ige St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G. ;e weeks service by MV’s Sigll, Silln- Sibigo and Slnabang carrying pass and cargo from E. Australian to Hollandla and Sorong, DNQ (with and/or Manokwari if Inducement).

Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence ilia direct. Next Sydney sailings: Jan. 20. Apr. 5; Sigli Feb. 7; Sina- Feb. 21; Silindoeng Mar. 15. tils from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 e St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia ig S.W. Pacific ports on sooth-bound Journeys only.) 'owners advise that vessels Fengning Puning will omit Australian calls ;um around at a P-NG port for ;ew months. ?ning; Left Hong Kong, Jan. 4, Madang Jan. 16, then Kavieng nal) Rabaul, Lae, Samarai (op- ) Port Moresby on Jan. 29.

Lng: Leaves Japan Feb. 4, arrives ig Feb. 24, and calls Rabaul, Lae ai, Port Moresby. ills from New Guinea Australia Line i and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 6 s St., Sydney.

Australia-West Pacific Line motor > Aros, Citos, Delos and Milos maln- •egular services between Australian and Japan. Northbound vessels call mlla, Hongkong and Japan; southvessels call at Hongkong, Manila, kan, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane. Sydney.

Melbourne, with quarterly calls at (opt.), Honiara and Vanikoro. is: Southbound, arr. Rabaul Jan.

Honiara Jan. 18-25; Vanikoro, Sydney Feb. 6, Melbourne Feb. 12. s: Sydney northbound approx. Feb.

Arcs: Sails Hong Kong, Feb 7- Lae Feb. 16-18; Rabaul, Feb. 20-21; Honiara Feb. 23-Mar. 3; Sydney, Mar. 10; Adelaide, Mar. 17; Melbourne. Mar. 20.

Delos: Sailing Lae Jan. 22, Brisbane Jan. 27, Sydney Jan. 31, Adelaide, Feb. 7, Melbourne, Feb. 12. Sails Sydney northbound; Feb. 22.

Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1957-1958. 7 MFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

Pacific Islands Transport We

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.

POUT VlLA—Comptolrs Francais des LAE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

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

Australia-West Pacific Line

• • * nyt nmr~*i ■' i- s M.V. MILOS’

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

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

Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 30 Pitt St., Sydney. Phone: BU 6301.

Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone: MB 2840.

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

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

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

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 30 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 sailings from Auckland: Jan. 28, Feb. 25, Mar. 25.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Next sailings from Auckland: Feb. 13, Mar. 13. Apl. 10.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

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

Details on application to NZ Govern ment Department of Island Territorial Wellington, or to any office of the Unio SS Co. of NZ Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI-1 Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydn« for Norfolk, Vila, Santo, Honiara, Tenan Yandina, Pepesala, Gizo, Kieta, Arlgui Teopasino, Numa, Soraken. Next Sydn* sailing approx. Jan. 30.

Details from Burns, Philp & C0.,1 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Linj coming from Marseilles, via West Indi( and Panama, call about every six weel at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noume and Sydney, and return by same rout At present on this run are the motoi ships, Tahitien and Caledonien. We: Sydney sailing: Caledonien, April j Tahitien, May 15.

MV Polynesia (Messageries Maritime! maintains about monthly passenger sai ings between Sydney and Noumea an the New Hebrides. Next Sydney sailing!

Jan. 17, Feb. 7. Mar. 7.

Details from Sydney agents: Messaged!

Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-paasengl liner Southern Cross makes fdur rounc the-world voyages per year, two wesl bound, then two east-bound, calling i Suva and Papeete every trip. Next voyagi Dep. Southampton Mar. 5, via Panama 1 Papeete, March 29-30; Suva, Apl. ‘ Wellington Apl. 8-10; Sydney, Apl. 13. J 8 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

London-Suva

Q\RECT S£ /x> VIA -.■■■■ P A NAM A ■pi.

For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To: —

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

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America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc. ciflc Islands Transport Line’s vessels ■sisle and Thorshall maintain a lar service from Pacific Coast North riean ports, with sailings over 35-40 Some ports depend on cargoes ing. lorsisle: New Westminster Jan. 23- San Francisco Jan. 31-Feb. 5, Los *les Feb. 6-8, Papeete Feb. 19-21, lalofa Feb. 26-28, Pago Pago. Mar. 1pia Mar. 2-4, Suva Mar. 7-9, Lautoka 9-11, Noumea Mar. 14-16. Vila, Mar. », San Francisco, Apl. 18. orshall: New Westminster, Mar. 12; Francisco, 15-20; Los Angeles, 21-22; ete, Apl. 2-4; Suva, 7-8; Pago Pago, Apia 15-16; Noumea, 19-23; Lae, I; San Francisco, May 24. tails from General Steamships Cortion Ltd., 432 California St., San cisco, USA, and Island Agents.

JS-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia tson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco ites a regular five-weeks passengeri service from Los Angeles with the ira, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma, lern terminal ports vary with cargoes ng. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago and Suva, depending on cargoes, sailings approx. Ventura, Feb. 21 Sydney; Alameda. Jan. 27, from ey; Sierra, Jan. 18 (from Brisbane); tna, Jan. 25 (from Burnie, Tas.).

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 88-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation Is entirely First Class, two-berth cabins Next sailing from Sydney; About end March, with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu.

Details from American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St.. Sydney, Sydney-(or NZ)-North America The four cargo vessels, Waihemo, Walruna, Waikawa. and Waitomo, owned and operated by the Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly service across the Pacific, from Sydney to Vancouver and USA ports, via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes ofier. Occasional calls are made at Fanning Island. They have limited passenger 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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Approach us direct or our Representatives for the Pacific Islands: 'DEMKA AGENCIES Pil I.imited 2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney, N.S.W. accommodation. Next Sydney sailinj Wairuna end Feb., Waitomo early Marc Waihemo end Jan. The Waitemata, in NZ ports, makes 3-4 trips yearly to Va couver, via Rarotonga and Papeete, j N. America-Hawaii-Fiji-Samo Tahiti-N. Zealand-Australia Matson Line’s Mariposa and Montei make round passenger trips from Pad North Coast American ports to Austral via Pacific Islands ports and New Zealai Monterey (northbound): Sydney d( Jan. 3, Auckland Jan. 6, Suva Jan. ] Pago Pago Jan. 11, Honolulu Jan. 17, a San Francisco Jan. 22.

Mariposa (northbound): Dep. Sydi Jan. 24, Auckland Jan. 27, Suva Jan. ] Pago Pago Feb. 1, Honolulu Feb. 7, a Francisco (arr.) Feb. 12.

Monterey (southbound): Dep. a Francisco, Jan 26, Papeete Feb. 4; Au( land Feb. 12-13; Sydney 16-19.

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

United Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby The Federal Steam Navigation Co., Li will extend its regular quarterly U Australia service to Port Moresby.

MV Donegal will sail Liverpool i Jan. 7 and will proceed via Suez Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Pi Moresby, and return to UK via sa: route.

Sydney agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Lt 4 Bridge St. Port Moresby agents: But Phllp (New Guinea), Ltd.

Airways Time-Tables

Transpacific Service!

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

By Pan-American Airways*

(With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperet' and Berths*) Sun., Tues., Thur., Pri.: Sydney, Na Canton Is., Honolulu, San Francisco; Los Angeles.

Mop., Tues., Thurs., Sat.: San Francis or Los Angeles to Sydney (same rout • PAA Skymasters are used on a cc necting service between Auckland a Nadi (see table 16); and also on a 1 weekly service between Nadi and Taful American Samoa (see table 19).

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues: Melbourne, Sydney, Nadi Pij Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, Lo don.

Wed: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, a Francisco.

Pri: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San Fra cisco, Vancouver.

Saturday: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, S Francisco, New York, London.

SOUTHWARDS Tues: London, New York, San Fra cisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney.

Thurs. San Francisco, Honolulu, Na Sydney.

Pri. London. New York. San Francisc Honolulu. Nadi, Sydney, Melbourne, j Sun: Vancouver, San Francisco, Ho# lulu, Nadi, Sydney. 10 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

e: International dateline crossed n Nadi and Honolulu).

L super DC6 aircraft from Auck- I'JZ, connect with the Qantas northflights at Nadi on Tues. and Fri; n Sat. and Wed. at Nadi for the ound flights. as Wed. and Fri. services ex. r connect with BOAC London s at San Francisco (dep. Thurs. it.). 0 services ex. London Tues. and connect at San Francisco Thurs. at. with southbound Qantas ser-

Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Wed.: Sydney (dep. 2.45 p.m.) kland, Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver, iterdam.

Sun.: Leaves Vancouver (dep. 1 .) for Auckland and Sydney by e route. (Departs Amsterdam 10 . Friday).

Crosses date-line en route). :tional services in PACIFIC . Sydney-New Guinea rice by Qantas Empire Airways (Skymasters) NORTHWARDS •art: Mon. Arrive: 6.30 p.m. Brisbane, 9.10 p.m. e, 10.10 p.m.

Tues. •art: Arrive: Townsville, 1.50 a.m. [lie, 2.50 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m. •esbv 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat.

Thurs. art: Arrive: resby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m. 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m. e, 11.45 p.m.

Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Cairns, 4.20 a.m. 5.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 8.20 a.m. •esby, 9.20 a.m. Lae, 10.45 a.m.

Fri. art: Arrive: 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m.

B, 11.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 6,35 a.m.

SOUTHWARDS Tues. art: Arrive; 30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m. ssby, 12.30 p.m. Townsville, 4.15 p.m. lie, 5.45 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 p.m. e. 10.10 p.m.

Wed.

Sydney, 12.50 a.m.

Wed., Thurs., Sun. art: Arrive: 30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m. esby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane, 7.5 p.m. b, 8.30 p.m. Sydney. 11.10 p.m.

Fri. art: Arrive: 45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 2 p.m. esby, 2.45 p.m. Brisbane, 9.20 p.m. -, 10.20 p.m. Sydney, 1 a.m. (Sat.) Sat. art: Arrive: 30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m. esby, 12.30 p.m. Cairns. 3.20 p.m. 4.50 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 p.m. b, 10.10 p.m.

Sun.

Sydney, 12.50 a.m P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas OLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) d. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

Departs Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandla 3.30 p.m. Every alternative Thurs. (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.) departs Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.20 p.m.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Alt. Wed. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

Dep. Lae, 8.00 a.m.: Flnschhafen, Hoskins Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.30 p.m’

Every alt. Sat. (Jan. 25, Feb. 8, 22, etc.) departs Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at Kavieng, Rabaul and Plnschhafen, arrives Lae at 3.30 p.m.

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (Catalina) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Vaimuru: Alt. Fri. returning same day (Jan. 31, Feb. 14 28, etc.).

PORT MORESBT-DARU (Catalina) Via Kerema. Kikori: Alt. Fri. returning Daru-Port Moresby direct same day (Jan. 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (Catalina) Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Pt. Moresby: Alt Tues. (Jan. 28, Feb. 11, 25, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-RABAUL (Catalina) Alt. Tues. (Jan. 21, Feb. 4, 18, etc.) Port Moresby-Moewe Harbour-Talasea- Jacqulnot Bay-Rabaul, returning via same ports (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.).

New Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) Alt. Wed. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.), Rabaul, Buka, Teopasino, Kieta, Buin.

Returning same day.

LAE-MAD ANG-WE WAK-MANUS-

Kavteng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr, 3.45 p.m.

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

Thurs.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, Awar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng.

Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Fridays: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wapenamunda, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu, Wapenamunda. Arrival back at Lae dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Fridays: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling at any of Nadzab, Kalapit, Gusap, Alyura, Flnintegu, Rintebe, Bena Bena.

Kainantu, Goroka, Arena. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (D.H. Beaver) Dep. Lae: Mon. 7.30 a.m., Tues. 11 a.m.

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

Lae-Bulolo-Wau-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Dep. Lae Wed. and Sat. 9 a.m. via Bulolo, Wau to Port Moresby, returning via same route.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

Wed.: Depart Madang 7.45 a.m., arrive Goroka 8.20 a.m., returning same day; depart Goroka 8.50 a.m., arr. Madang 9.25 a.m.

NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN-

Bougainville (Dcs)

Fridays: Depart Lae 1.30 p.m., Finschhafen 2.20 p.m., arrive Rabaul 4.30 p.m.

Saturdays: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct to Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Sundays: Depart Lae 12 noon, Flnschhafen 1 p.m., 3.io p.m.

Tuesdays: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Finschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.).

Dep. Lae 8 a.m., Flnschhafen, Rabaul, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 2.55 p.m.

Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 30, Feb. 13, 27, etc.).

Dep. Lae 8 a.m., Flnschhafen, Rabaul, arr. 11.5 a.m.

Alt. Frl. (Jan. 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.).

Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1.20 p.m.

Alt. Fri. (Jan. 31, Feb. 14, 28, etc.).

Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1.20 p.m.

Services By Mandated Airlines

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 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae’.

Optional call at Goroka on this flight.

T ™ s,: De P art Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Madang Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 730 а. 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, Manokwari, Niemfoer, Ranslkl, Genjem, and Kokonao. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Aircraft. (Three flights every four weeks) Mon, (Jan. 27, Feb. 3, 10, 24 etc.) Lae dep. 6 a.m.: Flnschhafen, Rabaul, Euka, Vella Lavella, Yandlna, Honiara (BSD. arriving 5.25 p.m.

Tues. (Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 25, etc.) Honiara dep. 7 a.m.: Yandlna, Vella Lavella, Buka. Rabaul, Lae, arriving 3.35 p.m. б. Paris-Saigon-Noumea- Auckland By Transports Aeriens Intercontlnentaux.

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every Monday for Athens, Karachi, Saigon, Darwin, Brisbane, Noumea, Auckland. Leaves Auckland every Friday on return. 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 Skymaster) Alt. Fri. Dep. Sydney midnight, arr.

NX 6.45 a.m. Saturday; 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 (Weekly) Thurs.: Sydney dep. 11.45 p.m., arriving Tontouta, 7 a.m. Fridays.

Fri.: Tontouta dep. 8.30 a.m., arriving Sydney, 2 p.m. 11 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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58 >IAR®ARET STREET, SYDNEY. 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 1.30 p.m.

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

TAI with DCS Aircraft Service from Noumea to Nadi (Fiji) and Wallis Is. first Sunday in each month. Next flights: Dec. 1, Jan. 5.

Dep. Wallis Dec. 3, Jan. 7. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckiand TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Alt. Sat.: Return flight Norfolk (dep. 8 a.m.) Auckland (arr. 11.45 a.m., dep. 1.15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.). (See Table 8 above). 13. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Sydney 1.00 p.m.

Daily: Departs Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr.

Mon., Wed.: Dep. Auckland 6.15 p.m., arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m.

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

Tue.. Thur., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m.: arr. Auckland Wed., Fri. 6.30 a.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tues.. Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m., arr. Sydney 8.40 p.m.

Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 3.10 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., arr. Christchurch 10.10 p.m.

ISA. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 11.30 a.m., arr.

Melbourne 4.00 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr Christchurch 3.00 p.m. 158. Auckland-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 Aircraft.

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

Melbourne 4.15 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr.

Auckland 3.45 p.m. 16. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with DCS aircraft.

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m., arr.

Nadi 9 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr Auckland 3.30 p.m.

Pan-American Airways, with Skymasters Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 3.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 10.35 p.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.; Dep. Nadi, 12.30 a.m., arr. Auckland 7.50 a.m. 17. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with extr flights as required.

Departs Suva Fri. 9 a.m., crosses date line, arrives Satapuala (W. Samoa Thurs 1.55 p.m., departs Fri, 2 a.n arrives Altutaki (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m departs 9.30 a.m., arrives Papeet (Tahiti) 2 p.m. Departs Papeete Sur 7.30 a.m., arrives Aitutaki 11 a.m departs 12.30 p.m., arrives Satapuala! p.m., departs Mon. 8 a.m., crosses date line, arrives Suva Tues., 10.55 a.m. I Leaves Suva Jan. 30, Feb. 20, Mar. I 20, etc. Leaves Papeete Jan. 26, Feb.l 23, Mar. 9, 23. (Note: Flight dep. Feb. 2, does not ca Apia). 18. Fiji-Samoa Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Aircraft.

Dep. Suva 6 a.m., arr. Satapuala 11 a.m.

Dep. Satapuala 1.30 p.m., arr. Suva 4.j p.m.

Next flights from Suva Feb. 4, 18, Md 13, etc. Crossing International Daj Line and leaving Satapuala (Jan. 2 Feb. 3, 17, Mar. 12). 19. Fiji-American Samoa Pan American Airways With DC4 Aircraft Alt. Fri. (Dec. 13, 27, etc.) dep. Nadil a.m., arr. Tafuna 12.30 p.m. (Thurs.

Alt. Thurs. (Dec. 12, 26, etc.) dep. Tafui) 2.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 8.5 p.m. (Friday (Note; This service crosses Internations Date Line—the two-way flight is actual! made on the one day.) 12

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AUTOHALL Dept 135 302/306 King Street, Hammersmith, London, W.t Telephone: RlVerside 2881 Cables: Autohall. London Late Report: Fiji | Airways and Qantas It was freely reported in Sydney early in January that Fiji Airways had been purchased by Qantas, the big Australian Governmentowned air transportation company.

The report is officially described as "premature”. Qantas is one of a number of air transportation concerns which is interested in the purchase of Fiji Airways, if the latter is for sale.

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Extf&d Hve Cel lent *aite rs VlCe * by W/ftan for Q . Ul sine fro m hy^siry^ W *be ar- Jaa £es ( *6r( er vary ( r s te u °“gb OUs »'» r S oi ay . a °J Sftf/ 9fflc, be to th 0r 'by th Q f U *io n " Gr **P% aP^fion Address: ctetf va. 20. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd.. Drover Aircraft. a-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily except Wed., Sun., one flight. a-Nadi: Tues., Wed., Fri. (additional to the above return flights). 11-Suva: Wed., Thurs., Sat. a-Labasa-Suva; Daily. a-Taveuni-Suva: Fri., Sun. a-Taveuni-Savusavu-Suva: Wed. a-Savusavu-Taveunl-Suva: Thurs. a - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva; lues., Thurs. a-Labasa-Taveunl-Labasa-Suva: Fri. a-Savusavu-Suva: Mon., Tues. a - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Sat., Sun. 1. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aerlens (TRANSPAC), with Rapide aircraft. imea (Magenta), Lifou (Chepenehe), Noumea: Tues. a.m. imea, Mare (Tadine), Noumea: Tues, 3.m. imea, Mare, Lifou, Noumea, or Noumea, Ufou, Mare, Noumea, alternatively, Fhurs. a.m. imea, Koumac, Noumea (with coniitional call at Plaine des Gaiacs): ?ri. a.m. mea, Lifou, Ouvea Is.: Wed. mornings, mea, Poindimie, Noumea (with conlitional call at Houailou). Fri. p.m. imea, He des Pins, Noumea: Saturday md Sunday afternoons. 22. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airlines, sing Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates a service throughout the Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the US Government. Details from Trans Ocean Airlines Agana, Guam. 23. French Oceania Inter- Island Service Regie Aerienne Interinsulair (RAD, with Amphibious Catalina.

Twice weekly service to the Leeward Group.

Wednesday; Papeete, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete.

Friday: Papeete, Huahine, Raiatea, Papeete.

Booking agents in Papeete: Messageries Maritimes.

Catalinas To Go

QANTAS has announced it will soon take off its Catalina flying-boats serving some P-NG ports, and replace them with two Otter aircraft, one of them amphibious. 13 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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Pacific Islands Monthly Contents : No. 6. Vol. XXXVIII JANUARY, 1958 Commentary: The Publisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 17 Do you Remember —Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 18 Copra in the News as Pacific Producers Enter Free Market 19 Newspapers Hamstrung Over Fiji Sugar Strike .. .. 20 Weather Problems and a Volcano Give the Pacific Some Hurry Up 21 Fiji Approves “Open Go”

Beer Legislation .. ~ 22 High Court Releases Former P-NG ADO Frederic Anderson: Full Details .. 23 Awards for P-NG Patrol Officers 24 Pacific Islands Regiment Involved in Rioting .. 25 The Future of the New Hebrides 27 _ Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 28 Cook Islands Skirt Around Liquor Reform 33 Interesting People: Dr. Eric Bridgman 37 N. Caledonia Remembers Pioneer Missionaries .. 39 Big Number of Scientists Expected for Eclipse in Pacific 41 A Letter Tells of a “Vast, New” Promotion Scheme for NG Coffee 43 No More Light on Kuru, NG Mystery Disease 44 Jack Thornton’s Deportation from Fiji: Question in British Parliament 47 P-NG Association Formed in Australia 49 Monowai for Pacific Cruise 50 Gilbertese in Solomons Settling Down 51 Big Money Offering in the Flower Business 53 TEAL Has a Lucky Mishap 57 Norfolk Island News . 58 Solomon Islands’ Rice Potential is “Good” . • 61 New Volume of Australian War History Looks at Events in New Britain .. 65 The Indonesian Situatimi: Australian Press Opinion 69 Missionary is Critical of Condominium 71 Letter to the Editor: Role of NG Chinese 73 Tuna Dollars Roll in for East Samoa 75 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 77; Crossword 78; The Tahitian Dance, 79; E. A. James and The Courier , 81; George Clark’s Socks, 82; A Fiji Mercy Mission, 83; This Month’s New Reading 84 Cook Islands’ Legco Discusses Banana Market .. 98 New W. Samoan Assembly Sworn In 99 A Whopping Fish Story from the New Hebrides .. .. 103 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 105 New Caledonia Hit by Fall in Nickel Exports ~ ~ 121 A Correspondent Defends NG Trusteeship 122 OBITUARY: Mr. Les Lawlor; Mr. Ray Galloway; Capt. Joseph Coste; M.

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Kroening 131 Russian Scientific Ship, Vitiaz, in Suva 135 New Course for P-NG Co-operatives’ School .. 137 Fiji to Become a Cocoa Producer 143 Unions Demanding Right of Entry into P-NG and Other Australian External Territories 145 W. Samoan Financial Crisis Continues 145 Editors’ Mailbag 146 Fiji to Get a Port Authority 149 Scrap Men in a Big Pacific Clean Up 151 Queen Mother’s Visit to Fiji: A Memory Recalled 152 Pacific Commerce 153 Sports Review 155 Produce prices, Markets .. 160 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Gonlbnrn Street and Wentworth Avenne.)

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COMMENTARY . . . tific Federation Could I on Many Problems TTH the birth of 1958, the whole of Britain’s Carribbean Territories, hitherto administered as 3zen independent units, began to stion as the West Indies Federa- , an important new country fin the British Commonwealth.

Tiy should we not begin to plan, larly, for a South Pacific Fedion? It seems to offer the only ns by which we can attempt to e the various politico-economic )lems of the South Pacific Terries. ipua and New Guinea have a ;lopment problem, an education »lem, and a racial problem, le large Solomons, richly ened by nature, under-populated undeveloped, has many problems, :h can be summed up in the lem of survival, iw Hebrides has a super-problem e problem of how it ever is goto become a worthwhile home anyone under the stifling Coninium, Ibert and Ellice has the problem 00 many people for too few s. ji has a series of most acute lems—r aci a 1, developmental, ical—which grow in urgency as population grows, sstern Samoa, just now stepping into a large measure of selfrnment, could be helped greatly be sympathetic co-operation of »outh Pacific neighbours, ok Islands and Niue could be arly helped. oner or later, a plan to solve West New Guinea-Indonesia sr by adding West New Guinea Australian New Guinea, as a 1 Trusteeship, will be developed, might be done, simply, through uth Pacific Federation, itain, Australia and New Zeaare primarily interested. Why id they not get together now, i endeavour to at least arrange nvention? b South Pacific Commission has n that co-operation is possible.

West Indies Federation has ed the way. * * * Pattern of Cold War C free world is full of mischief; nd nearly all the mischief has common origin. It is calculated irass and weaken the Western ns. It is part of the Cold War. scow believes that if these disturbances can be maintained, at an increasing tempo, the non-Com mumst world will fall to pieces leaving choice pickings for the Reds’

Moscow probably is right.

Take a Sputnik view across the world, and note the trouble-spots. • Behind the mess in Indonesia is the tireless hand of the Communist. The more confusion there, the greater the embarrassment of the West —and the more certainty of eventual Communist control. • The Suez Canal has been taken from Anglo-French control; the Arab States are wavering; Russians, offering enormous monetary aid “without strings”, dominated the Asian-African Conference in Cairo: Egypt and Syria will definitely cross the line into the Soviet bloc, the moment the Anglo-American containment of the Communist nations is weakened. This is all Moscow’s planning. • There is a challenge to British authority in Singapore, Cyprus, Malta —all places vital to Anglo- American strategy. Something keeps on stirring up the Leftist elements in those places. • France, which should play a mighty part in defence of Western Europe, is torn and weakened by political unrest. Communists work ceaselessly on the industrial masses and the North African colonies. • Venezeula has just stifled an apparently purposeless revolution.

The free world draws most of its vital oil supplies from Venezuela, the Middle East and Indonesia.

Is there a discernible pattern in all this restlessness?

In America, there is a growing body of well-informed opinion which argues that the West never can win a Cold War. “Let us cease struggling with the tentacles, and make a direct attack on the head of the octopus,” they say. “That is the only way to international peace.” * * * Income-Tax Uneasiness In Fiji IF the Fiji Government is wise, it will take an early opportunity to clarify its plans regarding amendments of the Income Tax laws.

To meet an unexpected situation created by the departure of Taxation Chief Drysdale, the new tax plan was introduced in November without adequate warning or explanation, and in its half-baked form it created a very bad impression.

For reasons best known to itself, Fiji has introduced Australian taxation personnel to the Colony. Fiji private enterprise, consequently, regards all new taxation plans uneasily. Australia is notorious among the nations for the iniquity and ferocity of its taxation systems.

In Australia, for example, a company’s profits are double-taxed — once when the profit is disclosed, and again when the remaining profit is distributed to shareholders. To ensure that the shareholders shall not escape the second grab, by leaving the once-taxed profits undistributed in the hands of the company, the Taxation moguls introduced the undistributed profits tax —under which the moguls seize 10/- of every £ of profit that remains undistributed, less a small retention allowance.

Fiji’s new taxation proposals make provision for an “undistributed profits tax” —and the very term is anathema to Australians. It is one of the most unjust and oppressive things in the Australian system.

Ninety per cent, of the capital which makes Fiji tick economically was provided by Australia. Fiji wants more capital, for developmental purposes.

It has been indicated that Fiji's new tax plans are designed to catch persistent tax-evaders, and will be very limited in their application.

But so much manifest injustice

Wphc To Lose

Chief Secretary

The Chief Secretary of the Western Pacific High Commission, Mr. R. J. Minnitt, CMG, who has held the post since the WPHC was separated from Fiji in 1952, is shortly due to retire from the Colonial Service.

It is expected that he will leave Honiara, BSIP, in May for the United Kingdom.

Prior to 1952, the Governor of Fiji was also High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, an d WPHC headquarters were in Suva. Sir Robert Stanley was the first High Commissioner to be so in his own right. He was also the first to have his HQ in Honiara. Mr. Minnitt was appointed to the WPHC about the same time as Sir Robert — then Mr. R. C. S. Stanley.

Most Colonial Servants will probably agree that to get a WPHC appointment these days is to get farthest out on the Colonial Service limb — but with the Empire shrinking so fast it seems that it will be only a matter of time before only the limbs are left. 17 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

has been manoeuvred into law and into operation by skilled taxcollectors, in defiance of Parliamentary watchdogs, that reassurances in very definite terms should be given on income-tax policy, by the Fiji Government, before that Tax Bill goes before the Legislative Council again. * * * Pioneering—On Inion Principles AN Australian union executive said in December that if trade unions were established in New Guinea there would be no trouble in getting jobs filled up there. The implication was that tradesmen hesitated to go forth from Australia unless they had Union protection.

Even if there is any truth in this, most employers would consider the cure worse than the disease, believing that the heavy end of the stick is theirs already—higher wages, fares, extensive leave privileges, accommodation, etc.

Generally, people go to work in P-NG either because they feel that they will get rich quicker; or because they want to be “different” and get away from it all. Sometimes it is a combination of both.

They are individualists who want tc go to the Territory; and individualists don’t usually care whether they are sheltered by a trade union or not.

In the past there have been rare cases of P-NG employers victimising employees, but the boot has often been on the other foot —to the extent that a lot of people who got a job in NG immediately assumed a higher social status. It was a case of little pools in which the frogs all had considerable dimensions.

This was slightly more so before the war than since—but it still holds good as a general principle.

In moments of grandeur, Australia holds the Territory up to public gaze as “a sacred trust”. The question is whether the Territory is to be developed according to the tune called by organisations like the Communist-led building workers’ union. And in this connection people who say that having unions in P-NG is “OK for Europeans but not for natives”, are just fooling themselves.

If trade unions are permitted to dominate the scene in P-NG to the same extent they do in Australia, it would be impossible not to involve and influence native people.

If the cynical view is taken—that world Socialism (or Communism) is inevitable—then Territorians can let things take their course. But if they think that the natives of P-NG should be given yet more time before Australian-type trade unionism is unleashed on them, now is the time to do something about it.

There is still a big job of pioneering to do in New Guinea. Pioneering is best done by individualists whc are not hamstrung by trade unior prohibitions. * * * So Khrushchev Sent New Year Greetings THE people who know most abou world .affairs —and they arj those who say the least —believ that only one factor preventei World War 111 in 1956 and That factor is the existence of a rins of United States air bases arounj the Soviet Empire, where America and British planes, loaded witl nuclear-fission bombs, maintain 1 24-hours-per-day watch. (If you want more informatio: about this terrifying organisatioi read the long article by James I Michener, in January issue c Readers’ Digest.) Moscow’s plan, to take over th world for Communism, was read for implementation over a year agi In 12 years of brilliantly-directe “white-anting”, the Reds riddle the economy and weakened the d( fensive structure of most of the fre nations.

But America had moved fast. Th Reds learned in 1956-57, throug their efficient secret services, thj at the very first attack by Re planes, bombers from our bases i Alaska, Okinawa, Philippines, Midd East, North Africa, Britain and Ic( land would swoop upon Russia ar her satellites, and cause devastatic literally beyond the imagination ( man.

True, the Anglo-American atta( would release forces which probab would cripple or exterminate mu( of the human race. But our choii was made long ago. Better v should perish, thus, than accept tl horrors of Red slavery.

The Reds paused. NATO w strengthened.

The masses of the free worl shaken by Sputniks, newspap wailings, and the Yuletide cooiJ of the Bulganins and Khrushchev wondered why the NATO chie! assembled in Paris on Xmas Ev made no propitiatory gesture. Th merely demanded more air bas* closer to the Iron Curtain; and t sisted they would go more than hal way to meet any genuine Russit move towards international peace; That implacable ring of load bombers, their noses pointed ceas lessly at the heart of the MusCi vite empire, is a far more deao thing than the wandering Sputnu significant as the latter yet may Khrushchev knows it. So he reph to the resolutions of top-level NAT by sending New Year greetings!

Queen Elizabeth and the vane heads of States!

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago THE Pacific, in January, 1938, had no big news to report, but things were happening nevertheless. A 23-year-old Miss Barbara Hitchins was flying to NG from Australia in her Gypsy Moth, anew Japanese company was being formed to mine iron ore in New Caledonia (and the Japanese were getting in people’s hair in other ways), the Pacific was discussing malaria control, and — History was repeating itself in Port Moresby, where rain was falling to relieve a long, dry spell. People had been carting water, which had been rationed. * * • The stir in Fiji was over the resignation of Sir Maynard Hedstrom from the Legislative and Executive Councils, which he had served for 29 and 20 years respectively. It started because of a statement by the Governor, Sir Arthur Richards, in the Legislative Council, which was dealing with the Estimates. Said Sir Arthur: "I was interested to hear that archaic trinity. Sir Henry Marks, Sir Henry Scott and Sir Maynard Hedstrom quoted once more in this Council, whose views on this subject are so notoriously out of date. They have an antiquariam interest."

Sir Arthur's tone had been "contemptuous", said Sir Maynard, who resigned after some correspondence on the matter with the Governor.

The PAA flying-boat "Samoa Clipper" disappeared off the coast of American Samoa en route for Auckland. Seven abroard were lost. Wreckage and oil were later found on the sea. * * * A report from the British Solomons said there "was a very strong wish that the Solomons should be brought under Australian administration". Whoever wrote the report said it was known there was much to criticise in the New Guinea Administration, but it was "still a lot better than ours". * * * Copra was £l2 a ton sterling, and PIM reported that market was "mysteriously quiet". * * * In the worst fire in Apia for 20 years, the Burns Philp copra store was gutted, including 1,000 tons of bagged copra. Loss including plant was about £20,000, and the fire underlined the need for proper fire fighting equipment (as big Islands' fires usually do.) * * * In Rarotonga, in the Cooks', native growers got word that New Zealand merchants intended to pay 5/- a case (worth 2/- to the growers) for the next shipment of Islands bananas, so promptly went on strike, refusing to ship. But a hurried meeting of all concerned resulted in the price being advanced to 3/. to growers —and the bananas went out for Christmas. 18 JANUARY. 1958-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Pacific Copra [?]ers New Phase

Br. Planters Expect Lower Incomes

With End Of Mof Agreement

The year 1958 will be an important one for British copra producers in the South Pacific. Most of them face a considerable reduction in their incomes as copra reverts, for the first time since the war, to free marketing. But it is free marketing with a difference.

IE 9-years-old contract, under which the British Ministry of Food purchased the whole of the liable copra output of Papua, v Guinea, Solomons, Gilbert and ce, Fiji, Western Samoa and iga, expired on December 31. s from January 1, 1958, the inle of the British copra producers the South Pacific will be like 5e of the non-British people— dated by the world price, he world market price has been some time below the MOF tract price; but is tending to rise mse political disturbances are tting off the Indonesian supply >ut one quarter of the total world iuction). 11 the British Territories, except , have entered into an agreeit in UK with Unilever Limited ; big international organisation) er which Unilever will take i e proportion of their output, at •ice fixed, from month to month, the ruling rate for Philippines •a. bis agreement is limited to 1958 early half of the Papua-Nev nea output, and a very large >ortion of the Fiji output, wil; sold to the Carpenter crushing s in Rabaul and Suva. On preindications, the price offered the mills in both Suva and aul will be from £2 to £3 per better than the prices available vhere. rerefore, in 1958, the two factors y to dominate the South Pacific a market will be the averagt 3 offered in Manila for Philips Fair Merchantable Grade, anc price offered by the Carpentei > in Suva and Rabaul. Arrangets have been made to quote e prices—or a reliable approx- ;ion of same—in each month’; 5 of Pacific Islands Monthly.

E following are the arrangements operating from January ~ 1958, in the various Territories:

Apua And New Guinea

1 copra produced must be deed to the P-NG Copra Board, the assumption that the proion is about 100,000 tons per im, the Board proposes to disof the output thus: Tons, per annum To Unilever, European port 20,000 To Australia (local consumption) .. .. 35,000 To Crushing Mill, Rabaul .. 40,000 To Open Market 5,000 The price to be paid for deliveries to Unilever will be the current price of Philippines Fair Merchantable Grade at time of delivery at British or Continental ports, on delivered weight; less 2 per cent., and plus 50/- Stg. per ton for hot-air-dried, 25/- per ton for sun-dried, 10 per ton for smoke-dried, but no premium and a deduction of 10'if graded No. 2 smoke-dried or less.

Deliveries by the Board to Aus- (Continued on page 130)

Nz'S New Islands

MINISTER New Zealand’s new Minister for Islands Territories vs a man of parts—and he would need to be. .As well as the Islands responsibility he will be, additionally, Minister for Transport, Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation, and Minister in Charge Tourist and Health Resorts.

He is Mr. John Mathieson, a Scot, aged 56, and he gets Me job, of course, as a result of the Labour Party victory at the NZ elections in November.

Formerly a spinner in a Scottish woollen mill, he went to New Zealand in 1925 and was then described as a wool worker. He later joined the staff of Christchurch tramways and was shortly president of their union until the strike of 1932.

Next feature of his career was that he was publisher of the “Christchurch Star-Sun”.

That is, publisher in the NZ sense—not the American or Australian sense of owning the paper.

Divorce Acts and Matrimonial Causes Acts don't mean anything to New Guinea's Chimbus, who have always reckoned that when the little woman plays up, the good old-fashioned Cave Man Act will straighten her out. According to the hatless gentleman in the centre, who happens to be her husband, this little woman had been sleeping in the wrong village, and— would you believe it—in the wrong fellow's hut.

So he mentioned the matter to the village lululai, and what did the lululai do? Why, he went right in there and dragged her off home of course!

Among the spectators are: Right, foreground, the fellow she left home for; left, background, the fellow who was hoping somebody might come along and drag off HIS woman. Traveller Freddy Drilhon captured the incident. 19 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

Newspapers Hamstrung Over Fiji Sugar Strike

Government’S Handling Of

Ugly Industrial Trouble

Although the Lautoka-Ba-Penang sugar strike—one of the worst manifestations of industrial lawlessness that Fiji has experienced—ended in December in an apparent compromise, nobody thinks that this is the end of the matter.

THE 1957-58 cane-crushing season is now over. All the circumstances indicate that there will be more trouble in the next crushing season. . .

Working conditions within this industry always have been arranged in conferences between the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. and the Fiji Sugar Industry Employees Union (Chini Mazdur Sangh).

The CSR Co. claims —and apparently with justice—that it had given to its employees the best conditions possible in view of the fact that the product of the industry has to be sold overseas in a market where Fiji sugar competes sharply with the products of ch e a p-labour countries.

Working conditions were revised by CSR Co. and Union during 1957, and an apparently satisfactory arrangement made for 1957-58.

But, in October, the mill-workers went on strike against the continued ai|thority of two Sirdars (Indian foremen). This was settled when the CSR Co. said it would accept the recommendations of one of its executives, who would inquire into the union’s charges against the Sirdars.

The union undertook to accept the executive’s findings.

As a result, the CSR Co. decided to move one Sirdar on to other duties; but the second Sirdar remained in his job.

In spite of the union’s undertakings, mill-workers again went on strike, against the Sirdars.

Out of this developed considerable lawlessness. Hoodlum elements caused riots in Lautoka and Ba.

The persons and the property of the Sirdars and their relations were attacked and damaged. Men were assaulted; motor cars were burned.

At this stage, the call was for strong action. Lawless elements among the mill-workers should have been taught a lesson which neither they nor the majority of union members (who naturally are decent, law-abiding people) would not soon forget.

Instead, the Government —influenced presumably by fear that the cane-farmers and the Co. would suffer serious losses if the mills were idle for long at this stagebargained with the strike-leaders.

The strikers returned to work, on condition that the strikers’ original charges against the Sirdars, and the CSR Co.’s original inquiry into the charges, were reviewed by the Chief Justice of Fiji, Sir Ragnar Hyne.

The Chief Justice opened an inquiry in December, and adjourned it to January, Angles Which Demand Comment A T this stage, the situation calls for forthright comment by public men and newspapers on the following matters: • The extent to which the control of the Sugar Workers’ Union has been seized by irresponsible labour agitators. • The extent to which those agitators are influenced by Communist techniques, the purpose of which is to embarrass employers and dislocate industry, as part of the Cold War. • Was controversy regarding the Sirdars used merely as a cover for the extremists’ plan to dislocate milling operations in the middle of the season? • The wisdom of the Fiji Government in bargaining with the strikers, instead of using stronger measures. • The probability that irresponsible elements within the union, encouraged by an apparent victory in this case, will cause further strikes in the next milling season.

We May Not Comment BUT newspapers are not. able to comment on these matters, because the nature and terms of the official inquiry, ordered by the Governor and undertaken by the Chief Justice, are quite obscure, j The Fiji Times formally asked whether the usual privileges applied to the reporting of the inquiry; but the Fiji authorities refused to give an assurance, either way. Consequently, the newspaper refused tc report the inquiry—it could have laid itself open to actions for libel or contempt, or both.

Similarly, the Pacific Islandi Monthly is handicapped.

What is the field of Sir Ragna Hyne’s inquiry?

Is the inquiry (now, presumably going on) of the same character ai a court? If it is, we may not com! ment upon the above matters (whicM presumably, are within the scope o: the inquiry) without risking I charge of contempt of court.

From the public viewpoint, thj situation is unsatisfactory, and re fleets adversely upon the capacity o the Government to handle an ugl; industrial development.

New Indian Commissioner Arrives in Fiji MR. K. D. Bhasin, the new Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji, with his wife and children, arrived in Suva by the Monterey on January 10, to take up his new post.

Mr. Bhasin has been an Indian Commissioner in Afghanistan, and has had much general experience in diplomatic work.

While the retiring Commissioner, Mr. Bhatia, was waiting in Sydney for transportation to India, he went to Melbourne to see Bishop P. W.

Stevenson, of Croydon, Victoria.

Bishop Stevenson was Principal of the College at Peshawur, where Mr.

Bhatia was educated; and a friendship then formed has lasted ever since.

Recruit For

RED ARMY Two 18-year-old youths oj Suva, Nikola Umuvutia, a Fijian, and Said Hussein, an Indian, who stowed away on the Russian IGY oceanographic survey ship “Vitiaz” when she left Suva for NZ, were given one month’s imprisonment when they were returned to Suva on December 19.

Hussein only wanted a cheap trip to New Zealand, but Umuvutia had bigger ambitions—he wanted to join the Red Army.

“Vitiaz” had sailed from Suva before they got in their stock of food, so they had to give themselves up sooner than expected. They said they had been treated very kindly by the Russians.

“Vitiaz” hove-to outside Suva and the boys were taken off in a police launch, late at night. They descended into the Government launch to the accompaniment of popping Russian flash-b u lbs. The picture of the Fijian who wanted to join the Red Army will (probably make an interesting news item back home. 20 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Sputnik Weather

IN Christmas week consumers were being urged to restrict their use of water— especially for washing cars, watering gardens with fixed hoses and sprinklers—and they were not consumers in Sydney in the middle of the current drought either ; but consumers in Suva which expects the annual rainfall to be over 100 inches.

The appeal to the public was caused by the long, dry period and delayed arrival of the Wet this year in Fiji. Due to begin anytime from September, it proved reluctant — as it did also in Papua-New Guinea, and other parts of the SW Pacific.

Port Moresby’s prolonged Dry has been accompanied by oppressive heat, which even old-timers found hard to bear.

Santa did manage to give most of Papua-New Guinea 'ain for Christmas Day.

A couple of seasons ago, when all the Wets were being iust too wet, atom-bombs were blamed. So far no one appears o be attributing the long Dry "his year to the Sputniks.

Just a Crazy, Mixed Up Kid THE PACIFIC PICTURE: DROUGHTS,

Hurricanes, Erupting Volcanoes

In the Pacific in December, Nature got the bit between her teeth and gave the Islands some hurry-up.

NEARLY everyone was complaining of the long spells of hot weather, hotter and longer than usual. In some islands, drought was threatening, as it was on the east coast of Australia.

In New Caledonia the drought was a problem to the cattle industry, w'hose position was stated to be “grave”, and in the western Solomons they were saying it was as bad there as anyone could remember.

VOLCANO THE district of Madang has more than its share of volcanoes in its 19,000 square miles of territory (half of it ocean).

Occasionally a volcano —they are mostly on the off-shore islands — will explode into life with more ferocity than usual and plans will be made to evacuate the native populations to the mainland.

But the evacuation is seldom got under way, because the volcano has by this time settled down again.

In December, the 4,000-ft volcano on small, fertile Manam Island refused to settle down after showering the island with stones, pumice and ash, destroying the native food gardens.

Result: The 3,800 islanders were moved off in a fleet of small boats, and set up in villages up and down a 45-mile stretch of mainland coast.

They look like staying there for a few months.

A traveller, Madame Ingeberg de Beausacq, who took this photograph of the volcano not long before the evacuation, said: “The villagers told me they would die if they had to move from their happy home.”

But the Manam people, although not happy, began to settle in well enough, and as the volcano continued to throw out pumice, it seemed there was a possibility they would have died if they hadn't moved.

HURRONE purs worst hurricane for six years lashed the eastern islands of the Group on January 7. It may be days, or even weeks, before a full picture of the damage is revealed, but it is expected to be considerable.

The depression formed NE of Fiji about January 1 and began to move slowly south-west. On January 6 it deepened and as a fully-fledged hurricane by January 7 took a SSW path roughly to the eastwards of the two main Fiji Islands, with the Lau Islands of Naitauba, Mango and Totoya directly in its path as it headed slightly west of south.

The wind is reported to have reached velocities about 100 miles an hour at the storm’s centre, and native villages and coconuts in the areas directly in its path will have suffered greatly.

Big coconut plantations on Mango, Naitauba and on Kanacea are known to be badly affected. Not only is hurricane damage to a coconut plantation immediate —but once 21

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a coconut tree has lost fronds it will not bear again until these are made good. Loss of production from hurricane-damaged plantations lasts months and sometimes years.

Winds of 50 miles an hour were felt in Suva; an Orient cruise ship had to take shelter to the west of Viti Levu; RNZAF flying-boats went to New Zealand for safety and international airlines suspended services until the storm had passed to the southward. But Viti Levu— including Suva, which with the Yasawas took the brunt of the last hurricane in 1952, missed the worst of the latest blow.

Some Still Unconvinced, but

Fijis Open-Go Beer Legislation

PASSED From February 1 it will be legal for Fijians and Indians to drink beer without a permit. The bill, covering amendments to liquor ordinances, has been on the stocks for a couple of years and was finally pushed through the Fiji Legislative Council after a two days’ debate in early December.

THE official members who voted for the amendments in a solid block, apparently based their views on a statement by the Attorney-General, A. M. Greenwood, who must be credited with 1957’s most peculiar utterance by an official. • Mr. Greenwood, in replying to arguments that over-indulgence in liquor would lead to abuse, asked: From Our Fiji Correspondent “Because there is over-indulgence in sex, would you ban women?"

It was certain from the start that the bill would go through—the Government official majority would have seen to that. The final voting was 22 to six, an overwhelming majority on the face of it.

An analysis of the voting shows that there was an almost even division among the unofficial members. Eight unofficial members voted in favour of the amendments which do away with the permit system; and six against.

The six “antis“ were made up of four elected members and two nominated members. The four probably represented about 80 per cent, of the voting strength of the Colony—Mr.

Maurice Scott, European Member foi the North-Western Division; Mr. Vishnu Deo, Indian Member for the Southern Division; Mr. J.

Madhavan, Indian Member for the Eastern Division; and Mr. Adjodha Prasad, Indian Member for the Western Division.

The other two “antis” were the Rev. D. I. Telfer, temporarily replacing the Rev. S. G. Cowled as a European Member; and Dr. A. H.

Sahu Khan, an Indian nominated Member.

The two elected “fors” were Messrs.

J. N. Falvey, European Southern Division, and H. B. Gibson, European, Eastern Division, each of whom represents only a handful of voters.

The five Fijian members voted solidly in favour of the new measure, although Semesa Sikivou wavered because he was not happy about one clause. Semesa, a schoolmaster, thought that this clause would allow children to go to school in a drunken state, and the masters would be able to do nothing about it.

The five Fijians, four of them chiefs, also represent a big proportion of the population, so on an overall estimate opinion was divided.

One of the most amusing features of the debate, which was generally of a high standard, was to see a succession of official members rise to their feet and speak in favour of the measure. It could have been that they were coached beforehand.

Two official members said outside the House that had they been givei a free hand they would have vote< against the measure. Others probabl; would also have done so.

It was scarcely democracy at work but then Fiji is not democraticrather a benevolent autocracy.

Mr. W, G. Johnson did not spea] on the bill and abstained from vot ing. He made it clear at the out set that because of his interest ii the liquor trade (as managini director of W. R. Carpenter and Cc (Fiji) Ltd. and Carlton Brewer; (Fiji) Ltd.) that he would be noth ing more than a spectator.

Generally, the debate was of i high standard. Easily the be s speaker, who had all his argument logically marshalled (although on did not have to agree with him), wa the Rev. D. I. Telfer.

Another who spoke well was Di Sahu Khan, although he appeal© more to the emotions than to logif Dr. P. W. Dill-Russell, Director o Medical Services, was easily the bes speaker on the official side. Hi logic was as sound as that of Mi Telfer, but his delivery was not a good.

Two Government speakers wH were not impressive were th Financial Secretary, Mr. H.

Davidson, who piloted the 'oil through: and the Attorney-Genera Mr. A. M. Greenwood. Neither J a convincing speaker. Some of th analogies quoted by Mr. Greenwod were ludicrous to say the least-] although he was probably beinj facetious.

Now Fiji awaits for February 1 J see what happens. Perhaps th Fijian can be educated to becorn a sensible drinker, but the old hand shake their heads.

Just Name It And You Can Have It New Guinea’s habit of producing brand new islands from the seas occasionally, brought about a complication in December.

Territory Lands’ Title Commissioner, Mr. C. P. McCubbery, announced he was having surveys made to find out whether the right owners were occupying land which came out of the sea near Vulcan Island, Rabaul, in the big 1937 eruption.

The new spit of land joined Vulcan to the mainland. 'The Administration suspects that natives who own the foreshore land may also be making use of the newly-born land, which is now Administration property.

The problem to be solved is: Where is the dividing line?

Meanwhile, Apia, Western Samoa, appears to be having trouble with TOO MUCH water, and of the wrong kind. A correspondent says, "Believe it or not, this jug contains wafer that the people of Apia are expected to drink. Most of the time we have only specks of foreign matter visible in the water, but after recent heavy rains the water was filthy. Presumably the Health Department considers the water safe to drink, but one wonders whether 'enteritis' among infants may not be attributed to the water". 22 JANUARY. 195 8 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

[?]pua-New Guinea's Celebrated Court Case CAN'T LOSE SIGHT OF INDIVIDUAL ",

[?]Ays High Court, Freeing Anderson

A series of criminal court proceedings which have caused great controversy in Papua-New Guinea, ended in late December when the High Court of Australia dealt with an appeal by Frederic Anderson, a former assistant district officer stationed at Tapini, in Papua.

HE High Court held that gaol sentences totalling 21 months, which had been imposed on Person by the Chief Justice of JG, Mr. Justice Mann, last Sepiber, were too severe, t ordered that Anderson be re- >ed immediately—after having zed two months of his sentences hich, it said, was a term as great as any of the convictions could justify.

The High Court was composed of the Chief Justice, Sir Owen Dixon, Mr. Justice McTiernan, Mr. Justice Webb, Mr. Justice Kitto and Mr.

Justice Taylor. Their decision was unanimous.

Counsel for Anderson, leading Sydney Queen’s Counsel, Mr. J. E.

Cassidy, assisted by Mr. A. H.

Conlon, had appealed against the severity of sentence and conviction on each of the five charges, and had also asked that the Court set aside Anderson’s plea of guilty on the fifth charge.

Hearing of the appeal, which was heard in Sydney, took two days.

Anderson was in court, released on bail from Bomana prison, Port Moresby, where he had been serving his sentences.

The following is a summary of the judgment, and of the main points made by counsel for Anderson and for the Crown, together with relevant comments made by the judges during progress of the appeal.

WHAT ANDERSON SAID: Mr. J. E. Cassidy, QC, made these points: • Anderson had pleaded guilty to having unlawfully detained Avila because he had been shocked at the court’s decision on the other four charges against him. He had felt a plea of guilty was then the best course-open to him. • Mr. Justice Mann had thought Anderson had acted as a magistrate, and had thus abused his position as a magistrate, and he had taken this as an aggravating matter. But Mr.

Justice Mann had clearly been in error in adopting this view.

"Many Misconceptions" • Avila had already been in confinement when Anderson returned from patrol, and Anderson had merely continued the confinement, failing to give a proper remand.

This was not criminal, as Mr.

Justice Mann apparently found it was. • Mr. Justice Mann had had many misconceptions. He had had the idea that Avila would have been left in jail indefinitely by Anderson, but this wasn’t right. Anderson had made no effort to conceal Avila’s presence in gaol. His name had been in the gaol book. • The nature of Avila’s confinement had not been as Mr. Justice Mann pictured it. Avila had worked about the area, and even been on patrol, and the inference that should have been drawn was that Avila was acquiescing in the confinement. • Avila had, in fact, gone into voluntary protective custody to avoid a payback from his fellow natives. Anderson was preventing a breach of the peace. • Both indictments of having deprived Avila of liberty by fastening him to a flagpole, and of having unlawfully detained him in gaol, could not stand, because the way the charges were made out, Anderson would be twice punished for the same offence.

Mr. Justice McTiernan asked at this stage whether a native would regard gaol as a punishment.

"Gaol is Nothing"

Mr. Cassidy: Not always, by any means.

Mr. Cassidy read an Administration report about a Goilala native who had returned home from a gaol sentence in Port Moresby and told his friends that he had been well fed and housed, and that “gaol is nothing. They did not kill us”

Sir Owen Dixon said he understood about protective custody, but asked what was done legally when that course was to be adopted.

Mr. Cassidy replied that in Anderson's mind it would not have been illegal, because it had been' a practice long in operation in the Territory, and it was still in operation. • Mr. Justice Mann should have (over)

What It'S All About

In September, 1956, Frederic Anderson, now 33, was assistant district officer at Tapini, in the Goilala area >f Papua.

He had recently come in from patrol snd been told that while he had been ibsent a native named Avila, ac- :ompanied by a native named Koupa, lad shot and wounded a native woman, (oupa's wife, and had been put in laol.

Anderson had both natives brought jefore him and they told him that \vila had shot the woman in mistake or a cassowary. Anderson thought his statement absurd, struck each lative and ordered that both should ie handcuffed to the station's flagpole.

At sunset, a few hours later, he reed both natives and sent Avila back 0 gaol. Avila remained in gaol until anuary, 1957, without a charge aving been laid against him.

The P-NG Administration later irrested Anderson and charged him vith having assaulted each of the wo natives, with having deprived hem of their liberty by fastening hem to a flagpole and with having mlawfully confined Avila to Tapini risen from September 1956 to Janury, 1957.

He was committed for trial, and 1 Port Moresby in September, 1957, he Chief Justice of P-NG, Mr. Justice lann, heard four of the charges— he two of assault and the two conerned with the flagpole—to which nderson pleaded not guilty.

He convicted Anderson, and senjnced him to six months' gaol on ach of the assault charges, and 18 lonths on each charge of fastening ie natives to a flagpole.

The next day Anderson pleaded uilty to having confined Avila to rison and was sentenced to 21 months aol. All the sentences were to be ■rved concurrently.

Anderson in November was given lave by the High Court in Australia > appeal, and the appeal was heard i December.

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given greater weight to the fact that it was customary in some cases to detain people for their protection, and he shouldn’t have given such a heavy penalty. • Mr. Justice Mann had not taken Anderson’s character fully into account when fixing the sentences.

Anderson; was respected by the natives (who had given him a big farewell) and the Administration had had a high opinion of his administrative ability.

He had been 17 months in Tapini under cumulative pressure of work and domestic worry because of his wife’s health. The picture was really one of a who had lost his control and temper, which was insignificant.

"Was No Malice" • After the first day, there had never been a repetition of the assault, or any malice or unfair dealings towards Avila, and these matters should have been taken Into account.

Mr. Justice Webb asked if it would be correct to say that Mr.

Justice Mann based punishment on the fact that he thought Anderson had shown too much zeal and ambition.

Mr. Cassidy said he based it on that, plus the fact that he thought Anderson had abused his magisterial powers. Mr. Justice Mann had been unfamiliar with the north. He had been in the Territory since June, 1957, and the Anderson case had occurred only three months later.

WHAT THE CROWN SAID: These points were made by Mr. C.

Shannon, for the Crown, in his reply to the appellant’s case: • The prosecufion had not alleged that Anderson had been acting as a magistrate. It had said Anderson had been a police officer who had acted unlawfully. • Nor had it been the basis of Mr. Justice Mann’s judgment that Anderson was acting as a magistrate. The Chief Justice had not convicted because of that, but he had had in mind that Anderson had a threefold function and that the natives would not know what particular function he was performing.

Anderson was a police officer and magistrate, using his position as administrator to procure a confession that would be used in committal proceedings. • Anderson at no time had indicated he was arresting the men handcuffed to the flagpole. He had chained them there as a way of securing a confession by improper means.

Mr. Justice Taylor: He already had a confession.

Mr. Shannon: No, he didn’t.

Anderson has already said he teas seeking to get one.

"Close Confinement"

Mr. Justice Taylor replied that there could be no dispute about the point. The two natives had said they shot the woman because they thought she was a cassowary, and “that wasn’t a bad sort of confession.” • The whole picture had to be looked at. Anderson had been frustrated because he couldn’t get Avila to confess. • Avila had been kept in close confinement, “according to the Crown’s instructions.”

Mr. Justice Taylor: He seems to have been out of gaol more often than in it! Yet the charge says he was unlawfully confined to Tapini gaol against his will.

Mr. Shannon: In a legal sense he was confined.

Mr. Justice Taylor: But we don’t knew what he was doing.

Judge Experienced Sir Owen Dixon commented that he still had difficulty in understanding why Mr. Justice Mann thought Anderson’s detaining of Avila in gaol vms the more serious offence. Anderson may have acted in a way that could not be justified, but he had done irregularly something that he could have done lawfully anyhow, by remanding Avila. He did not understand why the Chief Justice took such a serious view of it.

The Administration, naturally, ha\ to he firm in safeguarding th natives against miscontrol, hut th criminal law and the administrate\ of natives were different things. Th sentences imposed seemed to he vet severe when looked at from th point of view of administration.

The High Court seldom interfere vhth sentences and liked to giv effect to local knowledge hut, o course, the effect on the individm had to be taken into account, S\ Owen Dixon added. • There could be no question c the Chief Justice being exper: enoed. He had done more than or circuit of the Territory.

Sir Owen Dixon said he did m want to hear the Crown on th question of the withdrawal of th guilty plea. The plea had to stand

What The High Court Saie

In giving its, judgment, the Fu High Court made these points: • There were no circumstanci which would justify Anderson beir allowed to withdraw his plea.-i guilty on the fifth charge. • The real question was tl severity of the sentences, which we: considerably severe. The eight weel already served by Anderson was i great as any of the convictions cou! justify, and many -might think t( great a punishment. • Anderson’s assault on th Papuans, including his handcuffir of them to a flagpole, was ui lawful, but no great harm was dor to the natives. • In detaining Avila in gat (Continued on page 129)

Awards For P-Ng Patrol Officers

Certificates won by students of the Australian School of Pacific Administration, who had undertaken the Course for Papua and New Guinea Patrol Officers in 1957, were formally presented at the School on December 13 by Mr. J. B.

Howse, MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Territories. Mr. J. R.

Willoughby, of the Territories Department, presided; and addresses were delivered by Mr. Willoughby and the School’s principal, Mr. C. D.

Rowley.

Certificates were awarded to; BATTERSBY, John Bryan.

BROWN, Gordon Harry.

BURGE, Bruce William Peter.

CALCUTT, Robin Alexander. Credits in Government and History, CLELAND, Robert David Mackinnon.

COCHRANE, John Raymond.

COTTLE, Allan Thomas.

DWYER, Terence.

GALL, Peter Stuart.

GIFFARD, Colin Charles. Credits in Law and Government.

GOODGER, David Raphael. Credits in Law, G( ernment. Geography, History, Anthropoloi HARRIS, John (8.A.). Credits in Law, Gove ment. Anthropology, History.

HAYES, John Francis.

HEARNE, Richard Fosser.

HOLLOWAY, Barry Blyth, HOOK, David John.

JENSEN-AAUIR, Gerald Peter. Credits in La Government, Geography, Anthropology, | History.

MARTYN, Joseph Francis.

MACKELLAR, Malcolm Lament.

PENHALE, Darrell James.

RYAN, Barry Allen (M.Sc.). Credit in Anthropology.

THISTLETHWAITE, lan Wallis.

WEARNE, John Mowat.

WOLSEY, John Roland. Credits in Law, Government, Anthropology, History.

The R. W. Robson Prize f< General Proficiency was awarded Mr. D. R. Goodger, and the R. \ Robson Prize for Law was divide between Mr. Goodger and Mr. C. ( Giffard. 24

January, 19 5. 8 —-Pacific Islands Monthlj

"Out Of Gaol More Often Than In It!"

(from previous page)

[?]IR HAS A

Ost Weekend

Papua-New Guinea’s Pacific ands Regiment lost most of its >ry one lost weekend in Dember.

ONG regarded as a disciplined regiment of well-trained, spickand-span native troops that ild be called on in an emergency, regiment made a sudden aboutn to involve itself in vicious riotwith native civilians. ’he next day, members of the iment again became a howling b and took charge of a courtm where some of their fellow Dps were being dealt with for the vious day’s rioting. They overtied a table, hurled a bottle, mg their belts and threw iches. ort Moresby had seen nothing it before, and fearful that it :ht see something like it again, quickly passed a resolution rough the Town Advisory Coundemanding the regiment be got of town permanently, eople from all over the Terrir added their condemnation. ;ry, bristling criticism was aimed everybody on hand. The troops e “mutinous, arrogant, rabble”, r Australian officers were “weak, rperienced”, the Administration ■ “to be condemned”, the police “stood by and done nothing”. ajor-General T. Daly, GOC shern Command, who was quoted Brisbane as saying the troops rioted in court because the court being held in “their beloved se of learning, or education i,” was quickly shot down for ing “hypocritical nonsense, an It to the intelligence of terriins.” le rioting was supposed to have ted after a PIR soldier had in- ;d two Kerema women, a few before. In retaliation, other ;mas attacked PIR men, who in rn retaliated by arriving at Koki cets by the truckload and startsi free-for-all. i Sunday, December 15, 200 PIR went out looking for Keremas, aging property before more than of them accepted orders and med to barracks. But another fused, and another, wilder, brawl ed with Keremas and PIR using js and makeshift weapons bethey were broken up. total of 20 natives and a Eurowere hurt in thb brawls.

Ireds of natives, Kerema and were arrested. ere were some, although not 7, who had earlier been ready ■ to pass off the trouble as “just a brawl” between native factions, but when the troops took charge of the court room, and refused to obey their officers, general condemnation was swift.

Quite rightly, the court episode was regarded as a different matter The PIR obviously needed, and clearly would get, a big shake-upeven though it was true that one company of the regiment did not have even one of its men involved in the sorry business.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho! As Off To Gaol We Go! lED by native police—more or i less—this party of Keremas marches off to the Port Moresby lock-up after their arrest in the Koki riots. In the background, native canoes stream out of their Koki anchorages after being ordered to put to sea.

The Pacific’S New Year Honours

rpHE following awards to residents .i of Fiji and Papua-New Guinea were included in the New Year Honours: In Fiji

Order Of British Empire

Commandler —Mr. W. W. Lewis- Jones, who was Director of Education in Fiji for four years, and who left the Colony in late 1957 to be Director of Education in Tanganyika.

Member —Mr. Reginald Phelps Little, who has been a manager of pastoral stations in Fiji for nearly 40 years and has contributed much to the success of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Colony.

He had a distinguished record in World War I.

Member —Mr. W. F. Stevenson, who served as a field officer with the CSR Company from » 1911 to 1948 and has since given much public service, especially in servicemen’s organisations.

II

Certificate Of Honour

Bsala Delana Kama, head teacher of Draiba Fijian School, Suva, and prominent in education organisation.

Wiliame Makasiale Wainiqulo, who is Roko Tui at Lau.

Emele Makrava, a Rotuman, who has given good service over many years as a trained nurse at Navesi.

In Papua-New Guinea

Order Of St. Michael And

St. George

Companion: The Right Rev. Philip Nigel Strong, Anglican Bishop of New Guinea since 1936.

Order Of The British

EMPIRE Commander: Horace Lionel Richard Niall, District Commissioner Morobe District, New Guinea.

Member: Stanley Hinton Christian, principal of the Malaria Control School, Minj. Western Highlands New Guinea.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 25 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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Futre of South Pacific Countries PRIVATE letter from London L to Pacific Islands Monthly says that there has been “a good deal activity in the British Colonial fice lately in relation to South cific affairs”. But the only recent dence of any pending new move s the report, published in Nonber in an obscure Sydney newsper, that “Britain is about to andon her interests in the New brides Condominium to France”. 3 robably, there is something afoot relation to the British Terriies in the South Pacific (Fiji, lomon Islands, Gilbert and Ellice, 1 the British side of the New brides).

Jut Ministers and Governors vadays are extremely wary in king any statement covering obabilities”. One word suggesting interesting change—and the ole press pack is off, presenting dr fantastic imaginings as facts. 7he rapid shrinkage in the tish Colonial Empire since 1945 > created many embarrassments Britain. There is not enough ionial Empire now for the large ff of trained administrative cials and technicians; and there not enough money. iolonies and dependencies like the omons, Gilbert and Ellice and v Hebrides are so undeveloped nomically that they are not able pay for their own administrative chinery; and Britain would be d to be rid of them. They are worth holding even as a unit in tish overseas trade.

EIERE are a few realists among the people who direct British Colonial Office affairs; and it is sible that these people already giving some urgent attention to future of the British High Comision for the Western Pacific lomons, New Hebrides and bert and Ellice). ►ur London correspondent, writin December, said: “The Generative Council here has formed ‘Australasian Branch’ for the ly of South Pacific affairs, with Keith Officer as chairman. He red from the post of Australian bassador to France in 1955, and s in England. I am not impressed h the possibilities of the new inch’, [t is the same everywhere. Everyig connected with our old Em- -5 now seems to be in the hands Doliticians, bureaucrats, academic hbrows and dawdling nobodies — and the sands are running out. The really strong and practical men who built the Empire, and who could hold it, are completely cynical, and don’t care any more—they are leaving it all to the idealists and dreamers, and concentrating their attention on money-making. For the time being! ”

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Photo: A. de Theye. 27 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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By Tolala Queen Emma FOLLOWING on Toaguba’s remarks in The Editor’s Mailbag (Oct. PIM, p. 14), on Memories of Queen Emma, I received a note from Mrs. Louisa Miller, of Vuvu, Rabaul, enclosing the Toaguba clipping with which she enclosed a note: “When Queen Emma came back to Rabaul in 1912 she came to say ‘Good-bye’. Those two young girls came up with her for a trip, and returned with her; one was Miss Hyland, the other Miss W illiams. Queen Emma had a daughter, but she died at the age of ten years, in Samoa.”

The Jovial Bishop Again The yarn about Bishop Wade in December “Tropicalities” reminds me of another story this kindly, jovial missionary head tells against himself. It happened before he had been consecrated as the ecclesiastical RC governor of the Northern Solomons, and he was starting to unravel the mysteries of the written word to a crowd of small boys on the island of Pororan (Buka).

Writing his own name on a blackboard in the native school-house he explained the characters stood for “Thomas Capital J. Wade”.

Returning a few weeks later to the island, one bright-eyed youngster, instead of greeting him with the usual title of “Pater”, remarked: “Good-day Thomas Capital J.

Wade.”

I have known a good many missionaries in NG, but Bishop Tom Wade heads the list of practical Christian do-gooders of my experience.

The Cloud On The Horizon The regrettable fracas, as it has been described, which occurred in Moresby on December 15, cannot be allowed to pass without some comment; although anything that may be said of a constructive nature is at least ten years too late and I, for one, feel very much inclined to utter the cliche, “I told you so.”

Divested of all its complicities, the riot of the PIR is merely a manifestation of native reaction to lack of discipline being exercised by the government throughout the Territory in its administrative policy in dealing with the indigenes.

That such demonstration occurred amongst the ranks of a reputable section of the Army only emphasises how this lack of discipline has been followed, by more or less forceful measures, by every section of the community.

What surprises me more than anything else is that such a breach of the peace and flagrant disregard for law and order has not taken place before.

In some ways the incident is reminiscent of the Rabaul strike back in 1929, only that “first vague stirring of group consciousness” —as that incident was described by an eminent sociologist—was more adequately organised by the ringleaders, so much so that not an indication of such a movement was given to the Europeans until they awoke to find all native labour employees were absent from their duties.

It’s easy enough to close the stable door after the horse is stolen, but the Administration cannot deny that it has been warned that its policy of bringing primitives into line with modern life must also be accompanied by certain disciplinary rules.

Through political influences —both Party and international —pressure has been brought to bear on giving the native his head. This same policy, naturally, has been a tion of enlistment for the members of the PIR and whether the appointment of officers to the Regiment, who know little of handH ling the natives, was a contributing factor to the mid-December fracai is best left to the public to decide, Personally speaking, I could noi imagine such a debacle occurring in the PIR ranks with such original members as “Bluey” Allan or Jack Mullaly. But then comparisons ars always odious. Save in this rei spect: The remarks of the GQC Northern Command to me appea to be pomposity personified in a: endeavour to save military face o display a die-hard esprit de cori for troops of whom he shows a alarming amount of ignorance.

For a GOC to attempt to whit( wash an outstanding breach c military discipline indeed appears fl be not only alarming for the futui life of the Regiment, but a derelid tion of duty which calls for offici< explanation.

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That is the old Boy Scouts’ motto and a very worthy one. It is a pit that our present army heads do nc signify their awareness of such] necessity with “Indonesia” ju s : across the border, threatening a kinds of things, with one eye on ttt Colombo Plan and the other on t| The wedding took place at the Methodn Church, Rabaul, recently, of Mr. D. Vet 1 Miss Billie Hinckfuss of the Rabaul Europea Hospital. The bridal couple are here show signing the register. Photo: C. H. Mee 28 ■ JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL'

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Colombo Plan Casey, following in ? footsteps of Neville Chambern with his umbrella, is doing his >t to lull Australia into a comicent frame of mind and Sydney ; least), with its jack-pot totes d an unlimited number of modern •s available on the HP system, ms quite prepared to be lulled. )ne aspect of this dolce far niente itude which passed my compulsion was a paragraph in the uth Pacific Post, describing the FI riots: The Administrator, Mr. D. M. :ieland, going on leave had to [rive through the rioters to get 0 the air-strip.

Jo comment, save to say it seems ange for a Brigadier to be so red to lack of discipline amongst ops f that he could go blithely on way. I can hardly imagine Hubert Murray not delaying his itjay under such unusual condiis existing in the capital of the Titory, of which he was the rensible head. .et’s hope there is some deep- -1 security measure planned to be into operation when, and if, northern neighbours decide to ch out with their red talons, lerwise the sad events of 1942 y well be repeated. e Perennial liman rom old-timer Hans Mannsfeld les an interesting screed on the .iman derivation question. Says “After I had been in touch with 3ral old-timers I want to revise first explanation (as appearing PIM, Nov. 1956, p. 22), as fols: As surmised by the first corjondent who raised the question, word is perhaps derived from name of an old German and 7 likely from the name Rudolph: r Rudolph was once in charge he Botanical Gardens in Rabaail Master Gardener, and his presssor, Herr Zwanzger (later on —Kaiserlicher Stationsleiter —of engau, Manus) confirmed to that Rudolph was greeted in Rabaul Club during those days i the nick-name Radidiman. e usual abbreviation of Rudolph Rudi: Rudi- Radi- Radidiman).

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Welcome eeting .t this time of year we all realise have had a surfeit of highly decorative seasonal greeting cards embellished with snow, reindeers carol-singers and such-like; most of them wholly inappropriate to the southern hemisphere. Therefore I was particularly pleased to receive a greeting from Rabaul in the typical Douglas Pratt style, than whose sketchings of Australiana there is none better.

This year, after his visit to NG, he has caught the true island atmosphere and his “Rabaul from the Observatory” was a delight with Mount Mother towering above the Rabalanakaia crater, the South Daughter in the distance with Tavuvur in its foreground. A pleasing memento of the town that is twined around my heart and I am grateful to Douglas Pratt for the creation of this thoughtful reminder —and the sender for remembering me.

A Popular Reduction Few people will disagree with the Full High Court’s decision to reduce the Anderson sentence, which Sir Owen Dixon described as being “extremely severe,” unless it be a few Canberra Jacks-in-Office who are always leaning over backwards in an effort to prove how extensive the native welfare policy is being implemented, irrespective of the cost or who has to suffer.

To me the Anderson affair stank from start to finish, and was but yet another crucifixion of the P-NG Field Staff on the Canberra Calvary; another burnt offering to propitiate the political demi-gods.

Coming down to the personal level I should say that the most important matter for ex-ADO Anderson at the moment is rehabilitating himself, his wife and newly-arrived Prudence (a name every field officer should paste in his hat), and it is hoped that he will find no great difficulties in obtaining a suitable position.

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SEVERAL of these recommendations proved acceptable to Council, but others were controversial. It was agreed that the issuing of liquor permits should be the responsibility of either the police or a civic committee appointed for that purpose, and that control of importation and sale of liquor should remain with the Administration.

The motion that the sale of liquor in the Cooks be investigated by a NZ Commission of Inquiry was carried.

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Dr. Don Marshall Revisits Cooks DR. D. S. MARSHALL brought his wife and three children with him when he returned to the Cook Islands in early November. Dr. Marshall, an Amer can anthropologist and student of Polynesian languages, arrived at Rarotonga by the yacht Mareva, on November 10.

Marshall is an associate of Harvard University and is attached to the Peabody Museum at Salem, Mass. He has made a comparative study of 60 Polynesian dialects through which he has elicited information on the great Polynes] migrations and the Polynesia length of residence in some Islan He left the Cook Islands America about two years ago.

After two days in Rarotonga, t Marshalls left on the Mareva Mangaia, where they plan to si fcr six months.- WHP.

At the Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby, on December 7, Mr. Helmuth Riese and Miss Margaret Topper were married.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 36 JANUARY 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A quiet, humble and unpretentiis man, his voluntary and humane distance to the Leper colonies of le French possessions has recently ain e d for him the Legion Honneur.

In reporting its decision to confer hs honour, the French Governent spoke of “the remarkable work r. Bridgman has been doing”.

Dr. Bridgman has been in contact ith lepers for many years—as far ick as 1926, when he was district ficer on Lomaiviti, Fiji, and edical superintendent of Levuka ospital.

His interest in the Tahiti lepers is been responsible for some of the location of money that has been ade to them by the Lepers’ Trust aard of New Zealand. The Board as allocated £7,000 since 1940, to ipply such amenities as buildings, edical equipment and gifts to the itients.

A rehabilitation scheme, planned ' Dr. Bridgman and now working iccessfully, is assisting an evercreasing number of patients dislarged from leper colonies.

The Legion d’Honneur is not Dr. ridgman’s first grateful recognijn for services rendered. In 1949, i was given an OBE for medical rvices in New Zealand, in par- 3ular for work among the Maori !ople.

Seventeen boys and three girls om P-NG were recently granted itive scholarships for secondary lucation in Australia.

Leave for Australian Consul to N. Caledonia DR. JOHN CUMPSTON, who has been Australian Consul in New Caledonia since 1953, leaves Noumea on long leave this month.

He has taken a keen interest in South Pacific affairs and, with his specialised knowledge of Pacific geography and history, he has been a very useful representative of Australia at the sittings, in Noumea, of the South Pacific Commission.

Before 1953, he was stationed in Chili and in New Zealand.

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It marks the site where Marist missionaries stayed for a few months in 1849, when they had been driven out of Balade, on the northeast coast, by hostile natives. Their stay on the banks of the Yate was short as they were driven out again within a few months.

They finally were able to establish themselves on the He des Pins and later returned to Balade.

Research showed where the first chapel was erected —on land owned by the photographer of the accompanying picture, who ceded the land to the church.

The photograph shows the Bishop (right) with the Mayor of Yate (left) inspecting the old well that the missionaries dug more than 100 years ago. ■ An RAF DC3 aircraft with eleven servicemen aboard visited Rarotonga from Christmas Island, via Penrhyn, late in November. The aircraft brought Mr. Ron Powell back from Penrhyn, where he had been stationed as an observer during the second series of British H-bomb tests in the area.

Photo: F. E. Dunn. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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As with other women’s clubs throughout the Territory, the Sohano Club’s activities include the teaching of written and spoken English, the instructors being members of the club who can already read and write; and demonstrations in handcrafts, hygiene and cooking.

Now the 40 members of the club are singing the songs of Bing Crosby and Burl Ives instead of the traditional church songs learned from the missions. The women are learning the songs from records played on the gramophone the club has bought.

The women, from different districts and tribes, meet once a month.

Finance for club activities is raised from the annual membership fee of 5/- and the sale of basketware and prepared sea shells.

A club competition in housekeepmg and home hygiene is raising the standards of living among the members.

The competition is not only for the best-kept house, but for the best provided for as well—so that a hou with a chance of winning must 1 well stocked with food and oth necessities, as well as being order and clean. 40 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Mr. F. M. Bateson, a Rarotonga isinessman and amateur astronaer of international repute, gave me details of international plans r the observation of the eclipse the sun from Islands locations len he returned to the Cook lands from a lecture tour of mada and the United States in ?cember.

This eclipse of the sun will be of rticular interest to science, as the >ual observations will coincide th observations of many related Lenomena being made in all parts the world.

As the path of totality of the lipse (where the sun’s disc is cometely obscured by the moon) will restricted to a narrow belt across part of the South Pacific and e only islands within the zone >m which observations can be ide are the Tokelau atolls (north Samoa), Pukapuka, Nassau, and warrow in the Cooks, and Mopelia French Polynesia.

To better the prospects of obtainl observations unobscured by cloud ring the 16 critical seconds of tality, astronomers will set up escopes on four of these islands Atafu, northernmost of the ikelaus; Pukapuka and nearby issau in the Northern Cooks; and Dpelia.

The Atafu unit will be mainly itish but with one or more New iland astronomers. Pukapuka and issau will be shared by American itional Academy of Sciences and panese astronomers; and Mopelia the site selected by the Cali- •nia Academy of Sciences’ team, her international groups may join the effort between now and Eiy.

VTr. Bateson briefed the American monomers on various aspects of 3 field situation at the intended es at a conference in Colorado. ie Americans will probably be ided at their selected sites by a > naval vessel.

Dther arrangements were being rked out for the transport of the itish-NZ team to Atafu from ia. This might be by RNZAF ing-boat or by an RNZN vessel.

Uafu and the other atoll es mentioned may seem solid . ough pieces of terra firm a the local residents, but the ;ronomers are reported to be less in happy about their stability.

Heavy surf beating against the shores of these coral pinnacles, which rise steeply from very deep water, could cause troublesome vibration to the telescopes sufficient to blur photographic exposures of the event and to disturb sensitive instruments.

This beautiful bride was formerly Miss Maureen Shorthouse, daughter of an old Port Moresby family. Photograph shows her with Mr. George O'Rourke, after their wedding at the Port Moresby Roman Catholic Church on November 23. Couple went to Sydney for their honeymoon.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 41 !VCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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CHE name of the company— Goroka Coffee Pty. Ltd.— probably won’t mean as much ) New Guinea planters as the news lat the company’s Sydney address, nd the names of two of its directors, re the same as those for Arabica offee Pty. Ltd.

Arabica Coffee created interest in ew Guinea last year when it aught from Mr. Colin Toole 123 eres of land near Banz, 34 acres : it planted to coffee, and embarked a an extensive selling campaign in ustralian newspapers, offering 369 aarter-acre units to investors at 100 each, with promise of most atactive returns.

Some aspects of a brochure issued y the company during the year ere the subject of comments in le Papua-New Guinea Legislative ouncil, and also by the Finance ditor in the Sydney Sun.

The Sun’s comment suggested that ould-be investors should first scure extra information not supied in the brochure, including an idependent valuation of the prosrty, along with an independent cpert assessment of its coffee- :ow T ing potential, and a forecast on le likely future trend in coffee rices.

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Offers Goroka Coffee Pty. Ltd. are Ausalian agents for Goroka Coffee foldings) Ltd., Incorporated in ew Guinea.

General manager of Goroka Coffee ty. Ltd., according to a letter reived by a potential investor in ecember, is Mr. Frank Powell. The tter, signed in the name of Mr.

Dwell, said Mr. Powell expected to ) to New Guinea in late December, id continued: “I have been successful in having ider offer to Goroka Coffee Pty. d. several of the best plantations in ie Highlands of New Guinea. Kin- Di plantation, the largest in the jrritoiy, is one under offer and iis plantation has 100 acres under ffee and will reach 4 year maturity jxt year. It will yield between 0,000 and £50,000 next year, and 11 maturity in the following year, has its own ‘airstrip’ capable of king a DC3, and its own wireless station factory and everything that is necessary for a first-class plantation.

“Norikori plantation has 38 acres under coffee and a further 100 acres leady to plant and with a total of 350 acres of good coffee land and ali the necessary amenities, including European house.

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Directors “These properties between them could yield 136 tons of coffee next year worth a minimum of £6OO a ton to the growers, equal to £81,600.

“Using these properties as a pivot or fulcrum, we could guarantee to pay 16 per cent, on £500,000 whilst the balance of the properties were developed to eventually increase the returns to the 25 per cent, per annum and finally near the 50 per cent. mark.

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“In order to publicise and promote this vast and exceptionally profitable undertaking we are allowing a few of our friends and business associates to join with us in a promotion syndicate on a two for one basis. When we commence selling next year the syndicate holders will have the right to ask us to sell on their behalf either their full interest or part thereof—whatever they may desire.

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Although the band of medica experts who have studied it i growing every month, there is stil no answer to the problem o kuru, the mystery disease whid is killing members of the For population in New Guinea’s Has tem Highlands.

MONG the latest experts t( study various aspects of th( disease is a group of Adelaide doctors, including Professor H. N Robson, Professor of Medicine ai Adelaide University; Professor J. B Cleland, the University’s Emeritus Professor of Pathology; Dr. H Lander, of the University’s medica! department; and Dr. Donald Simpson, of the neurology department oi the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Prof. Robson is currently making his second trip to Okapa.

Meanwhile, a clinical picture ol kuru, written by Dr. V. Zigas and Dr. D. Gajdusek, who were the first to make a medical investigation of the disease, has been published in a recent issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.

Their report is based on a study of 154 cases, which they believe are most of the cases in the region, and shows that kuru is predominantly a disease of women.

Of the 154 cases studied, only 23 were men. The age and sex distribution of the 154 was: Aged 5-9 years, 8 males, 21 females; aged 10- 14, 3 males, 4 females; aged 15-19, 7 males, 6 females; aged 20-29, 5 males, 28 females; aged 30-39, 1 male, 48 females; aged over 40, no males, 23 females.

Disease Extends The report says that since over three-quarters of the cases were among adults, the full impact of kuru is among the young adult and middle-aged women, and it is evident kuru has been a major factor in producing the current male preponderance in the Fore population.

Every Fore village and hamlet has a history of recent kuru deaths.

The disease occurs in the entire region inhabited by the Fore cultural and linguistic group and extends into the neighbouring groups of the Kimi, Auiana, Usurufa, Kanite and Keiagana peoples.

It has also affected a small group of 700 people in the lagaria linguistic group, whose tribal grounds 44 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Piey say it would not be surpristo find such cases because kuru ipies a significant place in ent Fore culture, in which it is sved to be a malady induced by ery, all recoveries being atuted to counter-sorcery or to real of the kuru-inducing charm, le doctors report they have also two cases of congenitial tremors, Jh could not be confused with i.

Referring to one of the many symptoms of kuru (the one that has earned for the disease the popular name of “Laughing Death”) the doctors’ report says; "Laughing Death"

“As the disease progresses, but still in the early months of illness, marked emotionalism appears; inappropriate excessive laughter and slowly relaxed smile or paroxysmal hilarity alternate at times with moods of depression and, occasionally, of moderately belligerent and aggressive behaviour.

“This moodiness, more usually that of excessive euphoria [sense of health, cheerfulness] than of depression, settles later in a gradual pattern of withdrawal.”

After outlining the various investigations into the cause of kuru, which so far have been in vain, and the various drugs used in an attempt to control it, again in vain, the report says that slight similarities to kuru found in some other rare diseases due to metal poisoning, makes a continued quest for a possible mineral or organic poisoning “mandatory”. t An inquest into the deaths of three men killed by a runaway torpedo in Rabaul in November has returned a verdict of death by misadventure. the Roman Catholic Church in Port esby on November 23, Mr. A. Hollsorth married to Miss Mitzi Evans, daughter of ell known resident of lona standing, Mr Evans. Photo: Papuan Prints. 45 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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[?]eportalion Queried in ritish Parliament i S was expected, the tireless Mr.

L Jack Thornton (who was deported from Fiji in November, id transported by air from Nadi i London, at the Fiji Government’s tpense) caused a question to be ;ked in the House of Commons.

Why was Thornton’s visitor’s perit (to remain for four months in Lji) not renewed? What were the asons for his deportation?

A reply on behalf of the Colonial ffice said that Thornton entered Fiji i a visitor’s permit (four months) August, 1955; was allowed lother eight months “in order that 5 might complete a book”; was fused permission to remain another ;ar, but was allowed to remain bile he petitioned the Colonial Tice; in December, 1956, his petition as refused; was ordered to leave ie Colony in January, 1957. As he iled to depart, he was charged id convicted under the Immigram Ordinance in March, 1957, and deportation order was made ainst him; and an appeal he made the Supreme Court was dismissed October, 1957. , CTUALLY, Thornton is a harm- L less and inconspicuous person, who probably would have been lowed to remain in Fiji, had he >t attracted unfavourable atten- >n to himself through certain urnalistic activities, and through iwise friends.

The Fiji Government is not nearly strict in the application of its [migration laws as the details of lornton’s case suggest. Wellhaved persons, with visible means support, are not hounded out of e Colony unless the official eye is reed to observe them, and examine eir credentials.

Thornton, a wandering scribbler, is in and out of Fiji once or twice ior to 1955. When he returned in 55, he got a job with a small Suva ■ekly (now defunct), and he might ve been left alone had he not come involved with the “mystery the Joyita”. \HORNTON was living in Western Samoa, briefly, while the Joyita was at Apia, and he had a yage on her. When Joyita dispeared between Samoa and the •kelaus, Thornton (now back in ji) insisted that something of a rk and sinister nature had curred. As 1955 drew to a close, d the Joyita was discovered drift- ? helplessly, all her company parently lost for ever, sensational journalism built the incident up to a screeching climax.

There came one famous Saturday when a report, distributed from Suva, was blazoned across Australia’s newspapers, that the Joyita actually had been attacked, and her company removed or destroyed, by the Japanese; and —horror of horrors!—it was suggested that this was the official view of the Government of Fiji.

A denial of the whole silly story —and especially of the Fiji Government’s association with it—followed within a few hours; but it was too late —sensational journalism’s rabbit already was loose, and careering across half the world’s newspapers.

Rightly or wrongly, Thornton was blamed for much of that lunacy.

There is no doubt that he was extremely active in trying to solve the Joyita mystery, and in feeding lively reports on the subject to newspapers in New Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. (Over) Natives Given Movie Projector Mr. Nigel Nichlason, President of the Apex Club in Port Moresby, is here shown presenting a movie projector to Matron Leighton, of Gemo Hospital, on behalf of the native IB and Hansenide Colony on the Island.

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IT is probable that it was at th stage that highest Fiji officia dom began examining tl Thornton credentials with a co and unfriendly eye.

If he had remained in his week newspaper job, he might have g by. But he returned to “free-lan and even free-lancers of his degree have difficulty sometimes providing assurances of an adequa income.

Thornton, legally, had no perm to remain beyond August, 1956; ar the guardians of Fiji law and ord set the machine working, accon mgly.

Thornton’s case was not helped I his friends. One of them wrote a article for a popular Sydney journa wnerein was presented a picture ( a lotus-eating Thornton at ease am: tropical pleasures, and amusing hin self at intervals by twisting tl beard of Fiji officialdom.

It was suggested that he had ir geniously defied every effort to d( port him. One almost could hea the resentful snort of high officia dom.

From that moment, Thornton fate was clear. The machine groun slowly and inexorably to his d( portation.

He made himself even more cor spicuous by engaging in litigatio over an alleged libel—a Sydne Bulletin reference to “irresponsih journalists” which, even if it ha been proven, was of so little cor sequence as scarcely to merit notio The case occupied Fiji’s Chie Justice and a jury of eight, in Fiji Supreme Court, for two weeks.

Small, inconspicuous and harm less, Thornton might have bee allowed to remain in Fiji, withor economic or social damage to th Colony. But, by criticising govern mental machinery, insisting on som odd angles in the Joyita story, defy ing the immigration machinery an engaging in unnecessary litigatior he attracted so much unfavourabl notice from the Immigration Offic that there was only one thing t be done with him.

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A big group of former Papuaew Guinea residents now living i Australia has formed a new rganisation called the Papuaew Guinea Association.

IHE organisation will have its . initial general meeting in Melbourne late in January, when it >pes to work out a constitution id put itself on an official footing.

Interest already shown in the sociation indicates that it will get [ to a fast start —which is not surging, because no other associam with a similar membership :ists.

It has been proposed that full embership will be open to men who ive lived for a reasonable period Papua or New Guinea, and that eir wives or women residents of the Territory be given associate membership.

Idea for the association started 12 months ago, when Tom Drury and Gene Mann, both formerly with DCA in the Territory, and now working in Melbourne, discussed it over a few drinks.

Quickly Spread They spread the idea around, and later about 30 men interested met in a Melbourne hotel and decided to take the scheme further by arranging an official function.

The function —a smoko —eventually took place at the Sabloniere Hotel, where it was decided to see how a club would progress for six to 12 months or so.

The last few months have seen the idea snow-ball, which is why a general meeting to properly constitute the club has now been arranged. A Buffet Tea, held at the Hotel Cecil, Melbourne, on November 29, was attended by more than 70 people, and the investigating i committee for the pilot association has a mailing list of 150 people, all of whom are interested.

Objects < Some of these include a former director of DCA in P-NG, John Arthur; Don Williams, of Vacuum Oil; Colonel Bill Young, Colonel Bert Sabin, Major Laurie Sheedy, and a wide representation of the business world.

The aims and objects of the new association will be: 1. To further interest in the Territory of P-NG. 2.

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OVER 160 Gilbertese natives have been settled on Titiana Island recently, in a model village; and the migration movement is continuing with up to £25,000 being Dffered for islands suitable for settlement.

The Gilbertese (accustomed always to atoll life) are reported to be settling down fairly well, in spite af some dietary differences. The Grilbertese are basically eaters of ;aro, fish and coconuts, and difficulty has been experienced in providing a. sufficient supply of coconuts. They lequire a minimum intake of 5 per 3ay per head.

They are suffering considerably from malaria —they come from a malaria-free country.

They are, too, highly susceptible :o the minor European ailments, narticularly influenza, and 80 per >ent. of hospital admissions are from the immigrants.

Lever Bros. Ltd. is disposing of some of its properties, and further waves of Gilbertese immigrants are expected.

"Diet Trouble"

Mr. R. Hill, retiring Director of Agriculture for the West Solomons, who is on his way back to England after completing a two-year-term Df office, thinks that the main trouble with Gilbertese migrants s their introduction to the “white man’s diet”—white flour, white sugar, polished rice and tinned meats. Their natural diet is upset, le says; they become susceptible to iisease; and the ease with which :hey can procure the prepared foods makes them lazy.

An additional factor is the relative scarcity of taro in the Solomon Islands.

It was practically wiped out on Ghoiseul, the Shortlands and Vella La Vella by a disease introduced from Japan in sweet potatoes; and, although the Gilbertese brought their own variety of taro with them, mough is not being produced for their full requirements.

However, he said, taro is being slowly reintroduced into those islands and should eventually take its former important place in the native diet.

Flying-Boat Alighting Areas for Tokelaus SINCE an RNZAF flying-boat struck an unmarked coral head in Nukunono lagoon and was almost lost, the lagoons at the three Tokelau atolls of Fakaofo, Nukunono, and Atafu have all been properly surveyed and the alighting areas buoyed and beaconed.

Although they do not meet civil aviation requirements, the water runways are now classified as acceptable for use by RNZAF Sunderlands.

The survey work was completed in three months during last year.

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By J. P. Shortall

Is Fiji missing out on a valuable dollar industry in cut flowers?

If any are exported at present, the quantities must be insignificant they rate no mention in the Colony’s annual trade returns. Yet Fiji would seem to have all the attributes for the establishment of this industry.

LANTASTIC? For an answer top that we need only take a look at what is going on at present.

For years, Australia has been exiting substantial quantities of cut >wers to the United States and sewhere. New Zealand is only just vakening to the possibilities. Four i ars ago, a man at Whakatane — hich is a long way from the main r-freight outlet at Auckland —took ) the business full-time.

He has been air-freighhting jwards of 10,000 cymbidium orchid ems each year during the Sepmber-November Northern hemislere off-season, and the American iporters have been paying him in le vicinity of a dollar a stem— bich leaves plenty of profit after r-freight has been paid.

Now some Auckland growers are alising the possibilities of this particular orchid, which will last up to' six weeks from time of cutting if properly handled.

The Whakatane man has been landing his produce in San Francisco about 30 hours after harvesting. Fiji could deliver flowers in half that time and at a fraction of the production costs.

Enough Varieties?

The airlines are encouraging the trade from New Zealand by offering special bulk freight rates, which Fiji would also receive, and which would in any case be substantially lower than those from Auckland or Sydney.

Can the marketable varieties of flowers be satisfactorily produced in the tropics? For the answer to that we need only to look at Hawaii.

Details of exports by ship are not available, but over the past seven years the average quantity of cut flowers sent by air annually has been 364,715 lbs, including cut foliage, cut flowers and orchids. The value has been in the vicinity of a million dollars a year in recent years—quite apart from a substantial local home trade to Honolulu consumers.

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Cables: Kehar, Sydney. Cables: Keharbris, Brisbane. thoroughly surveyed in an interesting publication of the University of Hawaii, Agricultural Economics Bulletin 10, recently issued. Its contents should be of great value to anyone contemplating entering the industry.

Detailing exports in 1955-56, it lists the main varieties shipped, their f.o.b. values in Honolulu and the wholesale prices on the US West Coast.

Average prices are misleading, as demand—and price—vary considerably through the year. The American market appears to be at its slackest in mid-summer and midwinter.

Retail Prices An indication of what Americans are prepared to pay for flowers is seen in the range of retail prices in the United States for Hawaii’s principal export variety, anthuriums, which bring about six dollars per dozen for the poorest, up to 24 dollars for the best. Foliage brings from 40 to 60 cents per dozen pieces.

There is no market for rubbish or for a poorly packed product, but there appears to be a thriving market for top quality material.

Exploiting the experience of Hawaiian exporters, a Fiji industry could have certain advantages if, from the very beginning growers and exporters established a high standard of export quality and of packing.

Carelessness in this direction could ruin the industry before it got under way, and some system of policing the produce to maintain such standards would be highly desirable, on the basis of Hawaiian experience.

Packing varies greatly with the type of bloom. Certain varieties require individual treatment for each stem —a plastic or glass test-tube type of water container being attached. Where the size is right, empty beer cartons or similar standardised cartons can be used.

A great deal has to be learnt about packing methods—and this information is all available in University of Hawaii College of Agriculture publications. Marketing is through recognised agents in the 54 JANUARY, 1058 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Xmas Party

Generous Gifts to NG Children THE New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney held its Christmas party for children in December and as usual it was a great success.

Generous donations made by many friends helped the Club to entertain its small guests.

The following donations were received: Mr. Les Clark and Miss Grant made donations of dolls; and Nestles Ltd. made a donation of sweets. t A December PIM report on the Tcngan royal children now at school in Auckland, was in error in that only Prince Taufa’ahau is Prince Tungi’s child. Princess Mele Sui-i- -likutapu is the daughter of Prince Tu’ipelehake, brother of Prince Tungi.

W. Samoan Comings and Goings r:E High Commissioner of Western Samoa, Mr. G. R.

Powles, left Apia for New Zealand on December 9 for discussions with the new Minister of Island Territories in the recently elected New Zealand Labour Government.

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MR. J. PRESTON WHITE, District Commissioner for Morobe, New Guinea, in the absence abroad of Mr. Horrie Niall, on long leave, left Lae in December for Australia on leave himself. Mr. Niall has meanwhile returned to Lae. 55 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1058

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Aboard the aircraft were 35 >assengers bound for the US, 11 for Jew Zealand, and five for Apia. As in spare propeller was held at ututaki, it appeared certain that he through passengers would miss heir air connections at Nadi.

As soon as word was received in Auckland, TEAL’s Head Office went nto action, and within five hours if the mishap a DC6, with spare iropeller, three engineers, a spare ir crew, and equipment for reuelling the DC6, was airborne from Vhenuapai direct for Aitutaki.

That was at 8 p.m., on December The 1983-mile flight was estinated to take eight hours but conlitions were favourable and the light was completed in 6 hours 50 amutes.

Engineers and spare propeller were anded, the aircraft refuelled, the passengers taken aboard, and the UC6 was in the air again within four hours to deliver the US-bound passengers at Nadi two bout's earlier than would have been the case if the journey had been completed normally by flying-boat.

The New Zealand-bound passengers were landed in Auckland 18 hours ahead of schedule. Only the five passengers bound for Samoa were delayed. They remained at Aitutaki to go on with the Solent.

The DC6 was airborn for 18 of the 24 hours that the entire operation took to complete. A round-trip distance of 4,800 miles was involved.

The mishap coincided with unfavourable NZ press publicity given to sharp criticism of TEAL’s trans- Tasman operations made by the well-known author Nevil Shute, who had suffered some hold-ups in a, flight from Nadi to Australia via New Zealand.

This, combined with the fact that one of the passengers in the Solent was the French film star, Martine Carol may have influenced TEAL to carry out this financially unprofitable but highly efficient rescue operation.

History was made on the flight in that this was the first occasion that a TEAL DC6 had landed at Aitutaki. This was also probably the largest civil airliner to use Aitutaki, but it is believed that a larger American military aircraft landed there about five years ago. 57 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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However, there is generally something of a lull before Christmas, and bookings are certainly heavy from now on.

The weather has probably been a bit too dry for cattle, and as a result there has been a move to conserve feed for the many cows at large.

In the past it’s been the custom on Norfolk to grant pasturage rights on the roads and commons to practically all horses—their owners paying a few shillings a year.

But because of the need for feed conservation, about 30 unregistered horses were rounded up and impounded recently, and destroyed.

The whaling station put its plant into operation to turn the carcases into tallow and meal, but the result was not worth the trouble of further operations.

Pasturage rights, which expire at the end of the year, are not to be renewed except under exceptional circumstances, and it is anticipated that many owners will not be able to take back all their horses on to their properties, and many more will therefore have to be destroyed. < Mr. Ward Price, correspondent of the London Daily Mail , who is well known in the South Pacific Islands —he covered the visit of the Queen to Fiji and Tonga in 1954—left Australia for England in the Dominion Monarch in December. He was far from well—making a slow recovery from a stroke suffered late in 1957. t During 1957, the New Zealand artist, Charles McPhee, abandoned his plan to reside permanently in Tahiti, and returned to Auckland with his wife (who is Tahiti-bom).

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NZ Gets Waxed Bananas IN an experiment to improve the quality of bananas arriving in New Zealand, usually about 14 days after picking, the Tonga Produce Board sent a trial shipment ot two cases of wax-dipped bananas to Auckland in November.

Experiments overseas have shown that fruit so treated is retarded in ripening. The special wax dip also acts as a fungicide.

Tongan Experiments With Housing A DEMONSTRATION house, erected by the Government of Tonga, at Sopu, Tongatapu, has been causing much interest recently.

Measuring 20 ft by 16 ft and with 5k ft walls and a thatched roof, the building is largely of local sundried bricks made from ten parts earth and one part cement, with the outer walls plastered.

In an effort to discourage the use of coconut leaf as house thatching —which results in damage to coconut palms and reduced copra production the house has been thatched with grass.

On one side the thatching is in the Tongan style with grass heads downward, and the other side in the English style with cut ends downward, in a test to see which method stands the weather best.

Tongans Look for Minerals SAMPLES of most of the mineral ores likely to be found in Tonga, have now been received from overseas.

The Lands Department in Nukualofa has them on display so that members of the public finding any interesting specimens may compare them. The samples include phosphate, barytes, manganese, copper.

Passengers north-bound from Auckland per "Tofua" in December included (top to bottom): Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Willoughby returning home to Suva following an air-and-sea visit to the United Kingdom.

Mr. T. Tonga, magistrate of Nukualofa, and his daughter, Miss T. T. Tonga, who has just completed a course at an Auckland teachers' training college, were farewelled by Mr. Ilolahia, now of Auckland.

Mr. R. Denny and Mr. K. Pulotu returned home to Nukualofa after five years training in carpentry in New Zealand.

Photos; J. P. Shortall. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY.

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MR. HILL, who has been Agricultural Director in the western section of the British Solomon Islands for two years, returned to England on the Dominion Monarch.

Approximately 1,400 tons of rice are imported into the Solomons each year and Mr. Hill says this could be produced there. “What is needed”, tie said, “is initiative and enterprise and, above all, ‘know how’ ”. There was an opening for private enterprise in this field.

There has been a slight increase in copra production, Mr. Hill said.

The normal production is about 20,000 tons per annum.

More and more natives are turning to hot-air drying and he considered there would be very little smoked copra produced in future.

One of the main reasons was the introduction of a cheap hot-air drier which could be part erected by the In common with a number of other Pacific possessions, and parts of the Australian mainland, the western Solomons are in the grip of a drought.

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sent, a good 90 per cent, of copra could be cooked a little more He said that, while the Malaitg natives were the best workers, the immigrant Gilbertese had a community life superior to the majority of the Solomon Islanders.

So far as the Chinese populatior was concerned, he saw little evidence of any great increase other than the natural increase of Chinese already living in the west Solomons Many of their chillren eventually went to Australia for education and did not appear to return to the Islands.

And here is news of other developments in the western Solomons: Cocoa Enterprise AN ex-Naval man, Commander Scott Elliott, who has carved a property out of the jungle at Rendova Harbour during the past three years, has planted about 100 acres of cocoa and expects to start bean fermentation in 1960.

He took over an abandoned plantation in 1954 and, by enterprise and industry, has brought the property well on the way to profitable production.

Two other Europeans in this area are also planning to develop cocoa as a main product.

Fish, Pigs and Peanuts Following the visit of Mr. van Pel (fisheries expert of the South Pacific Commission) to the western Solomons, the natives are showing more interest in both catching and preserving fish.

Mr. Van Pel carried out a survey of fishing resources, and instructed the natives in the construction of fish ponds and in the preservation of surplus fish by smoking and curing.

He suggested that the diameter of trochus should be increased from 21 to 3 inches and that a closed season be declared, to give a longer breeding-life and allow the shell population to build up.

He also suggested that surplus fish could be turned into fish meal for pigs and poultry and so help the establishment of another minor industry.

Hu farm, on the Guadalcanal plain, has been taken over by Mr.

Dethridge. He is growing pigs and peanuts; but, it is reported, is striking trouble with kidney-worm in the pigs and difficulty in finding a market for the peanuts.

Crocodile skins are returning about £5,000 a year to two people who are hunting crocodiles in the west Solomons —the only persons engaged in this trade in the area.

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Mrs. R. Hill, in Sydney on her way ack to England after two years in le Solomons with her husband, aid there was a definite need for European nurse in the area.

At the present time there is one Uropean doctor, with two native ssistants and one Gilbertese nurse. iThen there is an accident or illness ) any of the twelve Europeans on rizo, they are nursed at home.

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When Mr. Don Scott (acting manger of the Trading Corporation) ;11 and fractured his hip bone, he mducted his business from a bed 1 his office, while Mrs. Hill gave im what nursing attention he reuired.

Mrs. Hill added that tuberculosis :ill is one of the major health roblems of the area; but the BCG moculaton programme (for the ontrol of the disease) had been ractically completed in the western olomons.

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7HGURES recently published show . a very marked fall in the Cook Islands infant mortality rate.

They are striking evidence that a reat deal has been done in cleanig up the particularly serious tuation that has existed in recent ears.

It is evident that the Governlent and the Cook Islands Health ervice were stung into effective ction by the report of the New ealand Medical Research Council r hich revealed an appalling state f affairs, especially in the northern roup.

In recent years, the infant lortality rates, per 1,000 live births, :>r children up to 12 months old, ave been as follows: 1952, 137.6; 953, 123.5; 1954, 131.2, and 1955, 49.9.

The figure has now fallen to 92.6 Dr the 1956-57 year, and suggests bat the situation should be well under control by next year, especially as a European public health nurse has lately been appointed to Mamhiki (which has a mortality figure far above the average figures given above).

There is also a drive in progress to encourage better housing which overall, has sunk to slum level on some islands and in certain villages in post-war years. This drive is backed by a limited Government plan of housing finance which has been put into action this year A more extensive plan is understood to be in preparation.

Figmes for infant mortality for the individual islands do not appear in the annual reports, but the latest report states that the biggest improvement last year was on the main island of Rarotonga, where most of the health services are concentrated and where staffing and supervision is less of a problem.

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TO HOLD RABAUL IN 1942 The story of the loss of Rabaul and New Britain to the Japanese in 1942 has now been told officially—and the official version won’t put any more minds at ease than have any of the several unofficial accounts already published.

CHE unhappy story is told in The Japanese Thrust, by Lionel Wigmore, volume four in the rmy series of Australia’s official ar history, which covers the events sading up to the war with Japan, le debacle in Malaya, stories of arious Pacific garrisons and a seprate history of the experience of ar prisoners.

The New Britain story is one of le stories of the small garrisons, hich for the general reader is by the greater tragedy E Singapore.

But the things that went wrong a New Britain are deserving of msure no less than those in Malaya, ossibly more, because there was ss excuse for them to have hapened.

The official story does not give a new version of how the Japanese got their first foothold in New Guinea, but it fills in many details, and underlines others. Its maih points are: Main Points • Rabaul was considered by the Chiefs-of-Staff to be expendable.

Even before the battle started they were prepared for its loss. • The Americans had offered to provide a mass of equipment, including minefields, nets and antiaircraft equipment and radar for expanding Rabaul as an anchorage for British and American fleets, but the scheme was not implemented. • A Service Corps officer had placed a plan before New Guinea Area Headquarters for hiding part of the force’s two years’ food supply in the mountains, where it would have been of vital use, but the plan was neglected. (over) The historian in The Japanese Thrust has a cryptic comment to make on one incident involving Australian and American wartime methods.

He tells of how one weary party of nine Australians had escaped from Rabaul and many months later had got as far as Bena Bena, in the New Guinea highlands, where they had been told they would be evacuated.

But at Bena Bena they were informed that only Americans (survivors of a Mitchell bomber which had made a forced landing in the area), were to be flown out, and that the Australians had to keep walking. They did.

The historian remarks, in a footnote: “Evidently a higher estimate was held of the value of these relatively fit American aircrew than of the weary survivors from New Britain.

Four aircraft two Boston A-24’s, a DH-86, and a Spartan Moth —were lost attempting to rescue the Americans from Bena Bena”. 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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QUEENSLAND. TELEPHONE J 1253 • When word came that a Japanese naval force was on its way to Rabaul, troops were ordered to prepare for movement “as an exercise only”, with the result that some w ent to battle stations lacking rations, quinine and other essentials they needed later. • The number of men who eventually escaped from Rabaul, despite all the handicaps and lack of organisation, was “an indication of what might have been done had an organised withdrawal and evacuation scheme been planned before the invasion”, says the history. • A group of armed natives from the NG Constabulary had got ahead of troops retreating down the coast, had plundered the villages, stirred up the natives and was responsible “for much of the desolation encountered by the Australians on their journey”.

Small Force The history records that the strength of the Rabaul Army force when the Japanese attacked in January, 1942, was 1,396. Of these, 400 escaped and 800 became prisoners. In addition, about 120 members of the air force were taken off in flying boats.

The military prisoners, together with about 200 civilians, were embarked by the Japanese on the Montevideo Maru within a few months, but the ship was torpedoed and sunk by an American submarine off Luzon, on July 1, and all prisoners were lost—including many of the men who had been responsible for the development of New Guinea in the last two decades.

The history takes another look at the opportunities that had been available to evacuate these civilians before it was too late.

It records that on January 16, the Acting Administrator, having learned invasion was believed imminent, sent an urgent cable to the Commonwealth Government asking for action to evacuate the civil population.

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“It was then too late”, says the history. “Attempts by the Administration at Lae to gain wireless touch with Rabaul on the 22nd failed; Rabaul had been attacked that morning, and the Herstein, in which [Acting Administrator] Page hoped all civilians might be embarked lay burning in the harbour”.

A Mystery The war history gives no further information on the vexed question )f just who in Canberra had been •esponsible for that fatal delay.

However, the historian says it vould have been doubtful whether, wen if given the opportunity for his last moment escape, all fcivilians vould have taken it. Many were reactant to abandon their life’s work m the plantations, he says, others vere swayed by responsibility to heir native labourers; some underestimated the dangers of remaining; ome were elderly; some of the Adninistration officials felt it their luty to stay.

Dealing more fully with the /hiefs-of-Staff view on the imtortance of the Rabaul garrison, the listory has this to say: “The Australian Chiefs-of-Staff eported in December, after the iutbreak of war, that the proect [the American offer to irovide equipment, made a few months earlier] was unlikely to be implemented. They said it was important to maintain the garrison at Rabaul as an ‘advance observation line’, but its reinforcement was not possible because of the hazard of transporting a force from the mainland and of maintaining it; account should be taken of the psychological effect which a voluntary withdrawal would have on the minds of the Dutch in the Netherlands.

Astonishing “The Chiefs-of-Staff concluded that though the scale of attack which could be brought against Rabaul from bases in the Japanese mandated islands was beyond the capacity of the small garrison to repel, the enemy should be made to fight for the island, rather than it should be abandoned at the first threat.”

In view of that attitude, it is all the more astonishing why no organised withdrawal plan had not been prepared. t Some press excitement was caused in New Zealand early December when a group of Japanese vessels was sighted close off-shore in the Cook Strait area and were believed to be tuna fishing vessels. A Government announcement disclosed that this was a whaling fleet bound for the Antarctic, and that permission had been given them by radio to transfer fuel oil and supplies from a factory ship to the chasers in a sheltered bay. The factory ship was Nisshin Maru, which once aided the German raider which shelled Nauru during the war.

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Who was the mysterious European who helped the Japanese during the infamous Tol plantation massacre on New Britain in 1942, when more than 150 captured soldiers and civilians were bayonetted or shot?

The Japanese Thrust recalls a statement by one of the survivors of the massacre, Gnr.

M. Hazelgrove, who said he and his mates were taken to a house near the beach, where the party met an interpreter with the Japanese, “dressed in shirt and shorts, who appeared to be English”.

As they arrived, the interpreter said, “All right boys, you can put your hands down now”.

He spoke like an Australian, said Hazelgrove, later.

There was never any War Crimes trial over the Tol massacre, although two of the suspected principals—a lieutenant-colonel and a doctor — later committed suicide. No others were identified. 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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It seems a queer procedure for ny Government deliberately to disupt its own economy and accept he risk of disintegration of its own erritories. The campaign for West lew Guinea could eventually result i the collapse of Indonesia itself.

Jut this kind of policy is character- 3tic of the immaturity which has lade such a mess of the East ndies. rHE Brisbane Courier Mail: The Indonesian Republic could be plunged into chaos if energies .eeded to establish a rule of law, ecurity, and justice for all Indoicsia’s people are wasted in clamour and agitation for more territory to govern and more people to rule.

THE Melbourne Age: America’s neutrality on Indonesia’s claim to Dutch New Guinea can, unfortunately, be construed as support.

America is so closely tied with Australia and Holland in Western alliances that her refusal to back their argument over West New Guinea will naturally be assumed by the world to represent some sympathy with the Indonesian viewpoint.

THE Perth West Australian: By wreaking spite on the Dutch, Soekarno’s Government is not only fouling its own economic nest but is deterring other outside capital and commercial assistance.

It is simultaneously encouraging the growth of internal Communist strength which is already causing so much external distrust.

The Australian position is clear.

Our only point of difference with Indonesia is the Commonwealth Government’s recognition and rightful support of Dutch sovereignty over West New Guinea.

There is nothing else in the way of friendly and co-operative relations with our nearest Asian neighbour. 11HE Sydney Morning Herald : It . is the Communists, and the Communists alone, who stand to profit from current Indonesian irresponsibility. . . The most sensible 69 • ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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THE Brisbane Truth : It would undoubtedly be a good thing for Australia if certain parties in Indonesia were trying to get the Communists under control; but Australia will not be able to feel at ease until it is made abundantly clear that all predatory ideas about Dutch New Guinea have been abandoned.

Australia would have reason to feel happier, too, if the Indonesian Government went back to its original pledge, to permit all parts of Indonesia to determine their own This would mean, for one thing, that the unhappy people of the South Moluccas—at present blockaded and oppressed—would be permitted to pursue their own independent existence.

What hypocrisy it is for Indonesia to talk glibly about selfdetermination and independence and liberation when it keeps one of its own territories in subjection and terror.

What nonsense it is for Indonesian politicians to prate aboul imperialism and colonialism when they want to take forcibly West New Guinea, a territory to which they have neither moral nor ethical lights, without consulting the inhabitants.

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The columnist of the Henty, NSW, “Observer”, commented on December 13: “After all the trouble there was in America over the colour question at Little Roclc High School, it was refreshing that at the Wag g a Teachers’

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CONDOMINIUM PRINCIPAL of the Presbyterian Mission in the New Hebrides, Rev. E. J. Owen, had a few critical things to say about life in the New Hebrides when he was in Australia in December.

Speaking in St. John’s Church, Hobart, one Sunday, he said the British-French condominium government was a failure, and the French administration was not interested in native welfare.

Australian Government suggestions that New Hebrides natives should be taken to New Guinea for instruction in running their own cooperatives had been turned down because the commissioners had failed to agree.

Mr, Owen said he thought native po-operatives were the only solution to the New Hebrides economic problems.

He said in some ways if it were not for the church the position vculd be impossible.

More than once, missionaries had mtered forbidden territory to pre- /ent warring cannibals from slayng and eating one another after cetitions to the authorities asking 'or action had failed.

On one occasion a missionary had Dleaded non-stop for 15 hours, inally persuading two fighting tribes :o drop their arms and to build ‘a house of eternal peace”.

Mr. Owen said Government action could long ago have wiped out cannibalism in the islands, but its ‘when in doubt, do nothing” policy lad allowed evil to survive. f Members of the Boys’ Brigade Tom many South Pacific Terri- ;ories were meeting in Auckland in December-January for the celebra- :ion of the 75th anniversary of the 3oys’ Brigade movement.

Samoa Boosts Banana Export npHE one redeeming feature in a X gloomy W. Samoa financial situation is the improvement in the banana industry and the welcome increase in banana shipment during the past few months. The Matua took some 22,000 cases of Samoan bananas on November 30 and it is confidently expected that, if space is available up to 30,000 cases per steamer can be exported in future.

Many Samoan districts in Upolu and Savaii have greatly increased their banana deliveries. The largest increases were recorded in the Aana Alofi, Falealili and Safata districts of Upolu and the Salega district of Savaii. The total exports for October and November of this year were 90,870 cases and to the end of November a total of 289,297 cases were exported during 1957 with two more shipments to come during December.

In future it is intended to relate the banana production to population figures in the various districts so as to show a basis of comparison for the industry. t Mr. S. F. King, of New Zealand, has replaced Mr. A. D. Murray as manager of the Nadi Branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr. King, an Englishman, has been at the Auckland Branch for 19 years. 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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ASPRO' IN TIME Letter to the Editor The Role of the Chinese in N. Guinea RECENT items in the PIM touch on the subject of the displacement of Europeans by Chinese n New Guinea, and on the status )f the Chinese themselves.

In fairness to the latter, it seems ;hat much has been left unsaid.

In the first place, the harrowing jicture is drawn of the Old Hand jlanter leaving New Guinea because le feels that he cannot live there my longer under the present conlitions. So he has sold his plantaion to a Chinese and is leaving or the South with more money in lis bank account than he thought here was in the world when he first vent to New Guinea.

To me he seems a subject for con- ;ratulation rather than for comaiseration and I cannot raise one alt tear on his behalf. Not that begrudge him his fortune. He deerves it. Unless conditions are uch that a man who works hard n NG can make enough to retire t a reasonably early age, no one f any ability will go there. In paricular, pioneers deserve a good eward.

Now it is held against the Chinese that they did no pioneering.

What was pioneering? Back in the twenties, it was the opening up of new areas by Government patrols; the bringing in of new natives to labour; the prospecting of unknown areas for minerals; the development of plantations and, in a lesser degree living in the small settlements of the country where life was hard and amenities few.

It is only in the last category that the Chinese were found.

Why weren’t they in the other, harsher, types of pioneering?

Firstly, they could not be in the Government type because none of them were in the District Services, and one can imagine the howl of protest there would have been from the PIM if the Government had appointed a few Chinese Patrol Officers.

Nor could they recruit in the partly controlled areas as Chinese were issued Recruiter’s Licences only to recruit labour for themselves, a need they could fulfil quite well in the settlements.

Nor could they go prospecting as they were not issued with Miners’

Rights, and if they found payable ground, could not get a title to it.

Finally, they were not granted Agricultural Leases, though a few had land which they had obtained from the German Administration. So they kept trade stores, and such like, as they could not do anything else.

This, of course, does not prove that the Chinese would have welcomed the hardship and loneliness of true pioneering, even if they had had equal opportunities with the Europeans. The young Chinese of the thirties looked for the soft jobs, mainly, and I remember that in the w'orst of the depression when I 73 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958.

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It’s all a matter of BALANCE in blending that makes sco((isK Cmm Whisky tsta o A Distributors: AUSTRALIAN MERCANTILE, LAND & FINANCE CO , LTD., 35A York Street, Sydney. Cables: Merchyork. Phone: BX 6091 wanted a carpenter’s apprentice, only a half-caste Chinese would take the job on. However, on the facts, we cannot hold it against the Chinese that they were not true pioneers back in those years.

Yet we expect, even demand, their loyalty, though they were treated as an inferior people, no land, no mining, no recruiting and not much respect for them—though personal relationships between Europeans and Chinese were generally good.

But when the Japanese invaded Rabaul, we left them there with their women and children when we had already evacuated our own. It was not that any Australian wanted to deny them refuge but that the immigration regulations made no provision for Asiatics to shelter in Australia.

Though this act was not wanton or deliberate (and I think the Chinese themselves recognise this) it was a piece of careless disregard for others of which we cannot be proud. So, if we still demand their loyalty, even against their fellow Chinese, it is up to us to give them full status, which the recent laws have provided.

Lastly, there is the fear expressed in some publications that New Guinea will become completely Chinese. The reasoning is that the Chinese have less overhead expenses, a lower living standard and a greater tolerance for the climate than Europeans and this will allow them to displace the latter in all walks of life. If this reasoning is correct, then the Chinese tenure will be very short, for those factors apply even more to the Tolais and they will, then, drive out the Chinese. I do not subscribe to this point of view; life is not nearly so simple and Marxian as that.

I am, etc., ERIC FELDT.

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Nz Fruit Trade

And Now—Oranges From Cyprus F:e list of far-away places from which New Zealand receives her tropical fruit supplies will have a new name added in February.

A vessel of the Lauritzen Line— the same company which brought a, consignment of bunched bananas horn Ecuador several months ago— will arrive at Wellington early February with 30,000 cases of oranges fiom the strife-torn Mediterranean [stand of Cyprus. This will be the arst time that Cyprus oranges have seen imported, though oranges from [srael are well known. These importations from distant sources joincide with the off-season in the [slands and Australia. Australian jupplies have been restricted this due to imposition of quaran- ;ine for a time, and also due to a sad season in South Australia.

The re-established Matson Line service is now providing Tahiti with he opportunity to develop a fresh- Tuit trade to New Zealand. Grapefruit and mangoes have been comng in recently from that source.

Fhe Mariposa also brought 15,000 :artons of lemons from California m her early-December voyage.

Eastern Samoa

Tuna Dollars Roll In IWT’HILE the quantity and value ff of copra exports declined in the 1956-57 financial year in Castem Samoa, exports of canned md fresh tuna and other fish coninued to rise.

Figures published in July show hat fish exports reached a value if 4,833,187 dollars, as compared pith 4,633,677, 981,689 and 109,287 lollars in the previous successive r ears since the Japanese-employed ndustry was founded.

Without this industry, American Samoa would have been in sorry flight, as copra is the only other mportant export and it has shown teady decline, reaching a new low if 1,095 short tons worth $166,350 iccording to the official figures approximately £A76 per long ton, Lverage price). Exports in the suc- ;essive previous years were 1,486 hort tons worth 225,789 dollars, ,432 tons worth 232,669, dollars and ,803 tons worth 354,570 dollars.

The Cinerama film company which hot scenes in Tonga last August bartered another Ansett flyingloat late in December to take .erial photographs of the Group. ?he Ansett aircraft arrived at Jukualofa from Sydney via New Zealand and returned via Fiji. 75

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ATAFU’S swarming rat population is looking sleeker and hungrier this season —thanks to an effective programme of coconutpalm banding.

Upwards of 40 per cent, of the coconuts on the main islet of this Tokelau atoll have been lost to rats in recent years, and to counter them a project was put in hand a couple of years ago to eventually place broad aluminium bands round every palm on the islet. Some 4,000 palms had been thus banded at the end of the last financial year, when a further three tons of aluminium sheeting was en route to the scene.

It is hoped that eventually rat will eat rat.

Already the copra output has increased. The rat problem exists on the other two Tokelau atolls, but to a less serious extent. — J.P.S.

Man Who Tamed A

Fire Extinguisher

r!E justifiable insistence of the Samarai harbour master on fire extinguishers being carried by all boats, irrespective of size, will probably produce some’ humourous incidents. One happening pre-war will be remembered by many.

On the wharf in those days was a large cargo shed and hanging outside were several large fire extinguishers. On boat days the locals, gathered to greet the travellers and one trip of the Macdhui had rather a larger crowd than usual to see it pull out. All

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Tropicalities except the stern line had been thrown off when a surge of the crowd knocked one of the fire extinguishers down, and it went off like a rocket, shooting out clouds of vapour and foam.

As the crowd surged back rapidly, one man threw himself on the container and wrestled it like a Roman gladiator, rolling round on the wharf, to the shrieks and cheers of the crowd. Finally, the chemical exhausted, he managed to stagger to his feet waving it triumphantly and looking like something from another planet. His triumph was short lived. Booming through a megaphone came a voice, “If some one does not throw that line off I’ll tow your b wharf away”!

Then the crowd woke up that the ship was moving off steadily and the stern line was still looped over a bollard. The gladiator, being the only person on the wharf at the moment, staggered over and cast it loose. And when later he was asked to pay for damages to the fire extinguisher, he countered with an account for services rendered to the ship!- DAIKA.

From Ships To Fires

SOLOMON ISLANDS hands of the old days learned to be tough.

Walter Buckley who skippered schooners . round the group for thirty years or more is now living in retirement in Faulconbridge, NSW—which was the very centre of recent big Blue Mountains bushfires. Buck’s house wasn’t one of the 180 buildings that were reduced to ashes, but he had a narrow shave, and has had other close shaves, and helped others avoid close shaves for many years now.

Buck moved to the Mountains when he retired from his last job as bosun of the pilot steamer Captain Cook and he becomes involved in bushfires each summer.

A few years ago he distinguished himself by helping to evacuate aged women from their burning homo and a picture of his efforts made the front pages of Sydney’s newspapers. Thirty years work in a climate which brash modern writers are apt to refer to as “white man’s grave” and “green hell” have not affected his health. He is in excellent condition and spirits and would welcome a word from any Solomon Islands hand of the old days. - Buck skippered the Sideia, Rogeia, Royal Endeavour, Kobiloko, Vella, Mascot and other schooners and steamers for Levers, Burns Philp, W. R, Carpenter and other Solomon Islands concerns. Before leaving for Sydney he was trading in Santa Cruz.- W.B.

Pandanus Research

Research into the uses of pandanus is at present being carried out in the West Solomons by a graduate of the University of Hawaii, Mr. Benjamin Stone. This s irvey is the basis of a thesis for a doctorate; but Mr. Stone wants to continue his survey and widen it to cover the greater part of the Pacific.

Mission In The Mud

MR. HARRIE STANDEN —onehalf of the Mission in the Mud —was in NSW for Christmas, from the Bamu River Mission in Papua. The other half of the mission —his wife Eva— was carrying-on, back home. The Standens, who practise a practical kind of Christianity in the muddy delta, are unique in missionary endeavour—even the crustiest Territorian can’t find anything but good to say about them.

House On The Hole Of Tonga

A Cook Islands meeting house which was officially opened recently has the distinction of being the first to be built in Rarotonga for 36 years. And a bit of history goes with it.

Over 600 guests attended the opening feast, for which 200 pigs and large quantities of native vegetables were provided. The following day teams of dancers from five districts performed non-stop for eight hours, and traffic on the busy coastal road was blocked by dancers and spectators.

Few of the people who saw the celebrations were aware of the significance of the name of the meeting house, Te-Rua-o-te-Tonga, or of the dance in which gaily dressed performers simulated the crews of ocean-going canoes.

According to a legend of the Au-o-Tonga tribe, an early ancestor of theirs left his home island of Raiatea, near Tahiti, and arrived at Rarotonga. He landed at Avatiu, close to the spot where the meeting house now stands. He had left Raiatea because he distrusted and feared his brothers, and he brought the tribe’s four chief gods with him.

He hid the gods in a hole in the Avatiu reef, and the hiding place was called Te-Rua-o-te-Tonga, the hole of Tonga. Tonga was the name of one of the gods.

Most Cook Islands meeting houses are given Biblical names, dul in this case it was decided to use the name to commemorate this incident of ancient tribal history.

The building took seven years to construct, and funds were raised from public entertainments and voluntary subscriptions.

This was a notable effort, as the community responsible is one of the smallest on Rarotonga, numbering about 60 households.

Cook Islands meeting houses are used on week-days for village council debates, and on Sunday evenings, for religious discussions.

W. H. PERCIVAL. 77

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A Wheeley-Wheeley Built For Ten ' since the world began— . when the first caveman traded his stone axe for a woman— the instinct to trade has been inherent in man. And the instinct is buried deep in the simple New Guinea native.

A native of Buin, living in Lae, saved enough funds to purchase a pjcycle—or wheeley-wheeley as it ls^nown — anc * so became a man of affluence.

To further augment his income, and to realise on his investment, ne now lets out the bicycle to would-be riders at 2/- for two hours. With an old bomb table as a step, the customers wait their turn for their two bobs’ worth.

And there are plenty of customers, which makes the owner happy—for the time being at any rate. For there could be a problem ahead.

Many of the riders are curious as to just how the machine works, and occasionally one of them gets full value for his two bob by pulling part of the bike to pieces. One of these days there is going to be some pieces left over—and then the feuding will start.— PAT.

They’Re Shifting House

ONE of the curiosities of the Tokelau atolls, north of Samoa, is the way in which the entire population has become crowded onto one tiny islet, despite the fact there is plenty of room apparently on nearby islets.

This crowding has become particularly bad at Fakaofo, southern-most of the three New Zealand atolls. Reasons given are availability of existing fresh water supplies, and also a heritage of the black-birding days when there was safety in concentration of forces.

Last year, however, a re-settlement scheme was put into progress on Fakaofo, and over 40 families have now been transferred from the old village site on Fakaofo islet— from which the entire atoll takes its name-to Fanuafala islet a mile along the reef to the north-west at the extreme western corner of the atoll.

Joyita was carrying materials north from Apia to the Tokelaus as part of this re- settlement scheme when she went missing in October, 1955 The officer in charge of Tokelau administration was one of those lost from that vessel.

CROSSQUIZ (Solution on page 89) ACROSS 1 • —Which British chieftain fought the Romans but was finally taken to Rome as a prisoner? 6.—What garment is an anagram of a goat? 8. —What does the stoat become in winter? 9. What was the name of the statue Pygmalion breathed life into? 10. —ln Greek mythology, who was the mother of Achilles? 11. —ln fencing, what is a quick thrust after a parry? 12. —What is the Aral? 14.—What kingdom lies between India and Tibet? 16. —Where did Wolfe defeat Montcalm? 17. —What three letters acknowledge a debt? 18. —What are units of work? yj2o. —Who was the fourth wife of Henry —DO W N 1. —What is the worlds' fastest animal? 2. —Who became famous because of his portraits of Lady Hamilton? 3. —What type of beam is only fastened at one end? 4. —Who was the boy who stood on the burning deck? 5. —What is the outer layer of the atmosphere? 7.—What disaster struck London in 1665? 13.—What does one with strabism do? 15. —Which Kipling character spent his early life as a vagabond in Lahore? 19.—What was Dickens' nom-deplume?

The Battle’s Ended- After 35 Years!

THE name of John NixonwestwoocL has been added to those of world War I veterans, inscribed on the memorial stone in Port Moresby. Thus ends a long battle. (From here on, NW means Nixonwestwood; HO means High Officialdom.) HW was in an Administration post at Daru, Western Papua, and wanted fnlist. HO was unfavourable— inat Dapi post was essential, even in wartime, and very hard to nil.

Thereupon NW went to war with HO.

NW was asked by Messrs. Wally Maidment, D. C. Harmon and W. H.

Haru, to go to Thursday Island for foodstuffs, then in desperately short supply. The District Officer forbade the expedition. d .f£ ed the HO and left on Goodwill , carrying outwards mad.

Among the mail was a letter to the II storekeeper from the DO, ask- -Ing for certain supplies. NW knew that the DO already had ample supplies. When the “Goodwill” got back to Daru with the food, it was found that the DO’s order had most unaccountably been short-shipped.

NW thenceforward was further out of favour with HO.

NW eventually got away to the war—he served with the New Zealand Engineers on Gallipoli. But xohen the names of Pdpua’s volunteers were assembled on the memorial stone, NW’s was conspicuously missing. NW always insisted that the omission was a deliberate act on the part of outraged HO.

NW, 35 years ago, started the argument ; he insisted that his name be added to those on the stone. HO was equally insistent that it had no proof that NW ever joined up or went overseas. NW has lived in many parts of the South-Pacific, but now is retired and resides in England. He is a tireless letterwriter.

A few months ago, “PIM” heard of the marathon correspondence, and brought the matter formally under the notice of the Secretary of the RSS & A League at Lae. An inquiry was made, and the name at last was added to the honoured List. 78 JANUARY, 1958—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Monsoon Season' The little ships, the small ships Go out in all the weather The little ships, the small ships (Some barely hold together).

But Bill and Joe and Frederic Not easily put to doubt Brave winds to bring the copra in Or take the cargo out.

We roundly curse the small ships Whenever they are late — For food, and Christmas cargo We do not like to wait.

But little ships and small ships Don’t hesitate for weather And Joe and Charles and Freddy We thank you “ altogether ”

—Noelle Mason

Bougainville The Tahitian Dance Moves Towards a Renaissance Once the missionaries were shocked ... but "narrowminded, barren prudishness" is being defeated as . . .

By Mme. TEROROHEIARII MOUA, of Tahiti.

F,OM time immemorial, dancing has been the life and soul of the Tahitian people. It drew its inspiration from the worship of gods and kings, from the respect due to chiefs, and above all, from the love of beauty which, in Tahiti, pervades the bold mountains, the sweet-smelling valleys, the simmering lagoons and the dazzling sky; from a child’s smile, from a mother’s tenderness, from the natural charm of woman and the proud strength of man, and lastly, from the “joie de vivre” of a people who are its soul.

To the “Ariois”, lavishers of joy, tireless and magnificent troubadors, dancing was the highlight of all feasts, plays, heroic ballads and comedies.

To some enthusiasts to-day, the spell of dancing is in the joy of creation, in living their own composition and performing it through co-ordination of mind and body, thus identifying themselves with nature and life.

To the ever-dreaming Tahitian, dancing is also a means of expressing his personality through the skilful use of choreographic movements and attitudes combined with sumptuous costumes whose accessories are an enhancement to beauty. The Tahitian finds beauty only in the beautiful and therefore never burdens himself with masks, paint or distortions in the expression of his feelings.

In lovely Tahiti, everything seems an enticement to dance.

"Shocked"

But why, you may inquire, the litheness, the movement of the hips so distinctive of the Tahitian dance, whereas the torso remains still?

Old wives might answer emphatically “Mai Te reira i hoa” (that is the way it is); inborn in the Tahitian people, dancing is a gift of tke gods and remains what it is—an enigma, a problem insoluble as the origin of our race ... a mystery.

Yet this feature, so typically Polynesian of our dancing, shocked the modesty of the first missionaries, who found it difficult to reconcile their vocation, admirable in itself, with a naturistic approach to choreographic expression. Through them and their disapproval, dancing fell into disrepute, and, from Monsieur de Pritchard, to contemporary times, the art was at a standstill.

Poor, beloved dance, so noble and so pure! Whether in sole or in group performances, it expresses the entire soul of a healthy people who see no immodesty, no lewdness in its gestures. One cannot claim to know, let alone form an opinion on Tahitian dancing, unless it has been performed by normal and sober people and not by depraved characters gorged with liquor, who reduce this folklore art to the level of pornography.

Dance in Secret Sorry years, sorry stages, redeemed only by the folklore festivals of the Fourteenth of July which enabled the people of Tahiti, temporarily released from their inhibitions, to give way to the lure of rhythm.

And I wish here to pay tribute to the Mayor of Papeete, Mr. A.

Poroi, who, shortly after taking up office, reacted energetically against the smothering atmosphere described above, by appointing a competent and strict Folklore Committee. One of its first tasks was to free the men from the modest shorts, hanging well below the lithe “more” made of glistening grass, and the women from their ridiculous Mother Hubbard dresses.

Thus was restored the freedom of movement required for Tahitian dancing. Narrow-minded, barren prudishness had been defeated.

However, most young girls still hide to dance, and many women, in fear of their husbands or family gossip, conceal their evolutions —to the tune of a miserly gramophone —between four sordid walls.

Numerous are the Tahitians—both male and female —who love dancing but refrain from heeding to its ancestral call to avoid their reputation being sullied. “E Mea haa ma” (it is shameful).

And yet, throughout the world, races and countries proudly retain their ways and customs. Why not Tahiti? We need no foreign imports to perpetuate the integrity of our dancing which is the reflection of the Tahitian soul, slumbering perhaps, but certainly not dead. The Tahitian people alone can revive this, their heirloom, and to do so they will have to reconsider that part of their folklore in the light of tradition, with minds as clear and unimpeded as those of their ancestors who certainly saw nothing shameful in the choreographic art.

Indeed, it will be no easy task to bring pressure to bear on families and religious opinions.

One will meet with those who will not be convinced, with the excuses of the defeatists and the waverings of the timorous, but psychology and persuasion will break down these barriers, for every true Tahitian is born with the melody of the guitar in his brain and rhythm in all his body.

Timid Start Also, the intelligentsia and the public-spirited members of the island will help to revive this aspect of the local folklore without which Tahiti would no longer be the gem of the South Pacific. And this is of importance when one ponders on the influence that a rebirth of folklore in French Polynesia may have on the development of tourism.

A timid start in this work of renovation was made in Tahiti in June, 1956, and through rough and smooth, a folklore group was born in Papeete, and two others, in Moorea and Bora-Bora respectively.

It is only a first move, but in spite of the work and concentration required during rehearsals, the enthusiasm and stimulus aroused are such that every hope can be entertained for the future of Tahitian dancing.

Any efforts made to dispel the feeling of sin which attaches to dancing are laudable, re-setting this art along its traditional lines is better, but perfection will be attained with the creation of an Academy of Polynesian Dance and Music. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y J A N U A R T , 1968

The Day “The Courier"

DIED -° f £ apua ? P loneers ’ Mr - E - A. James, announced in Port Moresby in December that he was retiring from his active business ¥ e wi1 ’ how . ever > continue as member for Papua in the P-NG Legislative Council, a seat he has held since the council was inaugurated in 1951; and with his long association with the Papuan Planters Association, of which he is secretary, and the Port Moresby Town Advisory Council, of which he is chairman. Before the war Mr. James conducted the Papuan Courier, whose sudden end is recalled here.

IF E. A. James were a man who accepted the bureaucrat easily, then the name of Papua’s newspaper to-day would no doubt still be the Papuan Courier, and not the South Pacific Post.

But “Jimmy” James has always spoken up when something has needed to be said, and consequently the Papuan Courier has been dead for 15 years—felled by a sudden blow from behind, James ran the Courier in the years between the two wars. He produced it once a week from a tin shed in Port Moresby, not far from where the imposing, twostoried James’ Arcade stands now.

He had got it in an unusual way.

He had set up as a public accountant in Port Moresby in 1924, and soon after was appointed managing agent for the Courier company, which then had a number of local residents as shareholders.

But with staff shortages and one thing and another, managing agent James within the year found himself with the title of editor, too.

After that, it w r as probably inevitable that he should buy out the rest of the shareholders and become sole proprietor, which he did about 1935.

Native Compositors Typographically, the Courier was not exactly a thing of beauty, but it was much better than its loyal readers could have expected, considering that it had no linotynes. no engraving equipment, and all of it had to be laboriously hand-set.

Most of the native compositors couldn’t understand the words they were setting, but they did know the alphabet and set by letters only.

There were native comps, however, who quickly learned to handset as fast as a European, despite the handicaps, and native foremen even took charge in emergencies.

In the circumstances, it was natural that the Courier never went in for smart and eyecatching headlines, or odd tricks of display; yet no gilding was needed when James wanted to make his point. He simply made it, and there was no doubt as to what he meant.

The fact that the Courier was not normally a campaigning newspaper, but took up the rally only when something had to be fought, perhaps made its bugle calls sound out even louder.

There was, for instance, the incident in 1934, when the Commonwealth Government began to press Papua residents for radio listening fees, a thing it had done on occasions before although the Territory had no radio station, could hear mainland stations only three months of the year, at night, and usually poorly at that.

The Courier said the collection of fees was an absurdity because it was hardly worth the cost of collection in Papua, and it was probably illegal, anyhow. In fact, said the Courier, it had decided ro settle the matter once and for all m court, and added: ‘‘We do not admit the right of the Commonwealth Government to collect moneys from the people of Papua, under any pretext whatever, which are placed in the consolidated revenue fund of the Commonwealth, and over the spending of which residents have not the slightest say. In other words, we do not admit the right of any country to tax the residents of Papua and at the same time, treat them as foreigners.

“Secondly, the Papuan Courier is opposed to the alarming spread of extra - parliamentary or bureaucratic government, which in the last few years has increased not only in Australia, but in practically This is the final issue of the "Papuan Courier", Vol. 32, No. 4, dated January 23, 1942. Opposite page is reproduced the first issue of the "Moresby Army News Sheet", dated February 2, 1942, and printed on the "Courier's" comman deered press. This paoer later became "Guinea Gold". 80 January is 5 s-p aci fi C islands monthly

every country in the world, not excluding Papua.

“Government by commissions, committees, ministers, Government departments, civil servants, dictators, and by bluff and ignorance—they are all the same, usurping the right of the chosen members of the people from making the laws. In the case of these wireless listeners’ licences, it appears very much as though the PMG has decided they shall be collected in Papua, and ipso facto, it becomes the law!”

The Challenge The court challenge came in December, 1935, when editor James pleaded not guilty to having unlawfully used an unlicensed wireless, and argued that the Commonwealth had no jurisdiction in the matter, and that there was no law in existence to compel Papuan residents to hold a licence.

He won his point. The Commonwealth was ordered to pay £3 costs.

Territorians to-day still pay no listening fee, although they have long had their own station.

Maybe it was inevitable that it should have been the same kind of dictatorship that felled the Courier eight years later.

It was January, 1942, with the Pacific war only a month old, and the Australian Army was in control of Port Moresby—or claimed it was.

But Army authorities seemed unable to prevent some of their troops brawling, breaking into houses and stores, stealing from the wharves.

Moresby in peace-time had been a quiet law-abiding town, and the new type of lawlessness was not welcome. The Courier reported each incident as it came to hand, to the annoyance of the Army, which was at that time suffering from growing pains.

Troops who were brought into the civilian court had their names recorded m the p a p e r—to the further annoyance of the Army.

But the Army was really shaken to its batmanpolished boots when on January 9, 1942, the Courier, in an editorial headed, “An Altar to Incompetence”, had this to say: “Somewhere on top of a high ridge at Port Moresby there is a square pile of cement in bags. It is some 20 or 30 ft square, and about 12 ft high.

How many tons are there we do not know. It is unprotected.

There are a few sheets of iron draped on it here and there, and one small tarpaulin. The first gubu, and it is now overdue, will whirl away the flimsy protection and the pile of cement will be ruined. It will have to stay there, and for years it will be a white altar high above the town.

“If we do not relapse into barbarism, we hope and trust that the first victims who will have their hearts torn from them on this strange altar will be the incompetents who stored the stuff in this strange place. The people of Moresby have seen all manner of incompetencies of late.

“We do not know who is responsible or where the fault lies, but we can say that of late weeks something has broken within us and we feel that something savage, something barbaric is necessary to compel men who are earning good wages to earn them.

“Someone must have known that this cement was coming. Someone could have thought ahead and realised it was arriving in the wet season, and someone surely could have made a plan of some kind.

“We are told the people in charge are at their wits’ end. We doubt it. We doubt whether even a half wit would have been quite at the end of his resources before he stored cement in such an exposed position. All we can hope is that when this startling monument to incompetence has effectually hardened it will be an Ralph Ormsby : A most solid magistrate SINCE the time in 1913 when Ralph Ormsby was born at Randwick, NSW, the bulk of his Mfe. his career and his figure have been developed in the Territory of New Guinea.

He first landed at Salamaua in 1935, going to the Upper Ramu patrol post, since better known as Kainantu. He was also at Bulolo and Gasmata and spent six years in the Sepik River district, and Morobe.

With the advent of the Pacific war, Ralph was on leave in Australia. The Government released him to join ANGAU, in which he reached the rank of Acting-Major, after serving at Lae, Bougainville and Nissan. He was appointed District Officer for the Sepik at the end of the war. After his discharge he reverted to Civil Administration and was appointed ADO at Angoram, where he served until 1951.

Soon after being appeinted District Commissioner of Bougainville, he was taken seriously ill and spent some time in hospital. Ralph was then made a District Officer Magistrate, serving first at Lae, and then at Madang, the position which he still holds.

Ralph is a massive man and a very solid Magistrate. During the last six years his weight has varied from a moderate 13 stone to a colossal maximum of 32 stone 7 pounds.

He is now down to the comparatively miserable figure of 21 stone, and efforts are being made to reduce this still further. Friends who have known Ralph's former capacity for liquid fuel are warned that his present limited beverage is ginger-beer and bitters, or alternatively, tomato juice!—BßETT HILDER. 81 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

object lesson, and people in high places will then be obliged to use even the small wits the gods have given them.”

Although the following week the Courier ran another critical story, this time on the high incidence of breaking and entering which, it said, had apparently become a popular pastime, the damage had been done. The Courier didn’t know it, but its issue of January 23 was to be its last.

The Army walked into Jimmy James’ tin shed, announced that it was summarily commandeering the Courier’s printing press and newsprint supply, for military purposes.

And did.

Despite Mr. James’ retirement from active business, the firm of E. A. James and Co., started nearly 34 years ago, is to continue under the remaining partner, Mr. S.

Fox. Mr. James will also remain as consultant to the firm, and as a director of a number of local companies.

Suva’s Smells They’ve taken all the odour out of Suva — At least, a lot that we could do without.

We now have sewers, and a dhoti’d Indian sweeper To push the dirt and bits of peel about.

'They’ve built posh banks and purified the cafes; The taxi drivers wash and clean their cars; The household refuse is collected daily; They’ve got hot water in the public bars!

Some smells remain—the copra in the go-downs Wavers richly on the evening air; The lazy, muddy, winding tidal water.

At low tide hints of garbage lying there.

The rich perfume of creamy frangipani Mingles with curry and chuppati at day’s end — There’s the biting tang of freshlyuncapped lager — Which makes the heat a temporary friend.

They’ve taken all the odour out of Suva, But practiced nostrils even now can tell The homely, earthy, sweaty tropic magic That sweeps the memory with an old, familiar smell.

Gwen Matthews

The Million-To- One Chance

How A Pair Of

Wau Socks Found

George Clark

I WAS sitting recently in that lounge of the Hotel Cecil, at Lae, with three other men, and over a glass of beer; and the conversation came round to racehorses and long-shot winners. The reference to long odds took my memory back over many years.

Back in 1931, I was prospecting for gold on the Morobe field near Wau, and I decided to have a weekend at the old Hotel Bulolo, in Wau, owned and managed by that fine woman, Mrs. F. S. Stewart. After dinner, I wandered along to the lounge, and was invited to sit into a game of poker, by a man named Jim Wright.

The game ended in the early hours of morning; and I then discovered that Jim was my room-mate. We had a number of drinks that weekend, and we sort of took to each other and became fast friends.

Jim Wright was working a claim at that time on Edie Creek, at a place near Golden Ridges. He was an Englishman, well educated, charming manners—a very fine type of man. I always said that the more rum Jim drank the more polite he got. He was married, later, and set up a little trading-post as a side-line to his claim.

Over the years our friendship grew, and I had many happy evenings with Jim and his wife.

CAME 1939, Word War 11. In March or April 1940, I enlisted for active service at Salamaua, then our port of entry, and headquarters of the goldfield. About 35 other local chaps enlisted with me.

We were drafted into the 2/25th Battalion, and sent to Port Darwin for solid training. How many of my old cobbers of the 25th Battalion will forget Vesteys Barracks, the torrential rains, the terrible food, the heat and mosquitoes!

After five months’ hard training we returned to Brisbane (Redbank Camp), and thence to Sydney and embarkation on the Queen Mary.

AFTER the Syrian campaign—fast and fierce—our brigade moved to Tripoli for the winter. En route to that place, per trucks, we camped one night at Beirut, in a vineyard. I got very sick there with dysentery—grapes , I suppose—and, with others, I was sent back to Haifa, per ambulance, to an Australian Hospital.

After four weeks’ treatment I was sent to an Australian Infantry Training Battalion at a place name Dimra, near Gaza, Palestine. Ther were several of these camps in th country. However, this camp re ceived and took on strength al reinforcements from Australia, in eluding personnel from hospitals schools, detention camps, etc.

During this period (while I was a Dimra) the whole 7th Brigade (in' eluding my battalion) was recallec to Australia. I felt lonely. However 1 was cross-posted to the 2/!

Machine Gun Company, commandec by the great soldier and grant man, MacArthur Onslow.

Now, have I made it clear that 3 was sent hither and yon, about the Middle East, and that what happened was sheer coincidence?

Before I left Dimra, per truck, tc join the machine gunners, the orderly corporal came along the lines of tents and called, “A Rec Cross issue will be made at the orderly room at 3.30 p.m. There will be no parade”.

So, when the time came 1 wandered down to the orderly room, There were 500 men in that camp.

When my turn came, I filed past an officer and a sergeant, sitting at a table. I signed a book, and was handed a tin of Log Cabin tobacco, and a pair of knitted socks.

But in my tent, I pushed the socks into the old black kit-bag. Next day, I moved to my new regiment, and was given two days’ leave in Telaviv. I searched the kitbag for clean clothes, and I put on the new socks.

On the inside of those socks was pinned a little card which read: “Good luck, Soldier! From Mr. & Mrs. Jim Wright, Golden Ridges, Wau, New Guinea”.

AT that time, there were 90,000 Australian troops in the Middle East, 12,000 in England, 8,000 in Malaya and thousands in Port Darwin.

I found out, afterwards, that socks and other garments were knitted in Wau, sent to a pool in Rabaul, forwarded to Sydney, re-pooled among tens of thousands of socks, and finally sent overseas to England, Malaya and Middle East.

I related the incident to our Staff Major and, when I saw him again a few days later, he told me that it was almost impossible to work out the odds against my getting those socks.

Mr. George G. Clark can add another coincidence to these he writes about here.

In November Tolala asked for the address of Clark (p. 28), but before November ‘TIM” had time to get into circulation we had received this story from the man himself. His address is PO Box 67, Bulolo, New Guinea. 82 JANUARY, 1058 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Starlings Won the First Round, and Launched a—

Fiji Mercy Mission

r[E European starling, a bird usually addicted to fruits in season, but otherwise innocuous, ras recently responsible for a unshot wound, a sea voyage, and wo flights by RNZAF Sunderlands 3 the eastern-most island of the 'iji Group.

The starlings were first noticed n the island of Ono-i-lau, 222 files to the east and south of ,uva, in 1951. As it was feared the irds’ would spread to other islands f the group, causing havoc amongst tie fruit crops, a team of Fijian tiooters were landed at the island few weeks ago with the object f wiping out the entire starling opulation there.

The inevitable happened. A ijian storekeeper, to whom the ctions of a twelve gauge shotgun ere being demonstrated, received a unshot w 7 ound in the thigh.

The Assistant Medical Practioner on the island did all he Duld for the wounded man, but ithput proper drugs and equip lent, thought his condition would eteriorate. The AMP put through n R-T call to the Director of ledical Services at Suva, who sntacted the RNZAF at Laucala lay.

A Sunderland flying-boat was espatched for Ono-i-lau to pick up le patient, but due to coral heads nd shallow water, it was not ossible to alight in the lagoon.

Imergency medical supplies were ropped, but the aircraft returned d base.

It was then found that on the Dllowing day, Yatu Lau the rovinical ship, would be calling at >no-i-lau to discharge supplies at ie island, so word was sent to the aptain to embark the wounded lan and take him to the island f Fulaga, 40 miles away, where mding conditions were known to e reasonably good.

A second flying-boat was desatched from Laucala Bay, a uccessful landing was made at ’ulaga, the patient transferred rom ship to plane, and taken to uva and admitted to hospital diere his condition immediately nproved.- ROB WRIGHT.

THE STORY IN PICTURES: One of the two eat villages on Fulaga Island, where the ounded man was taken by ship for air vacuation. People can be seen on the beach aving to the Sunderland. Centre picture nows the lagoon at Fulaga, as it looked hen the flying-boat was searching for a nding area among those nightmare coral eefs. Inset, "Yatu Lau", with the patient ooard. Bottom picture shows RNZAF doctor, edical orderly and nursing sister attending escued patient as plane heads for Suva.

This Month's New Reading

A Bumper Holiday Selection

Conducted by J.T.

Take a Bow, Mr. Porteous IT is a matter of opinion whether better books have been written since someone discovered that Australian culture does not consist entirely of blue-gums and large, open spaces. As about 60 per cent, of Australians live in large cities, it was not a surprising discovery, anyhow.

But as it is the remaining 40 per cent, who set Australians apart from other people, these are the ones still worth writing about. Who expects a tale of South Africa to be about city life in Johannesburg?

R. S. Porteous, in his recently published Brigalow, confines his attention to some of the 40 per-centers and produces a truly Australian novel as refreshing as a brew of billy-tea after a hot day on the road.

Probably to ensure the necessary serenity, the period is the early between-wars. The location, a Queensland cattle station. The story is told in the first person by Bob Anders, who gets the job of pulling the place together—not from the owner, Joe Carson, but from Carson’s Brisbane bank-manager, who seems more worried about the overdraft than Joe.

Bob has problems including Carson’s ulcer, Carson’s schoolgirl daughter, prickly-pear, drought and incompetent station-h and s. But what he has to say makes the thing look like good wholesome fun and it was probably the kind of way Bob looked at it that made our fathers go West—even if the present generation prefers something a little more secure and less sweaty.

Porteous’ characters are real, breathing individuals; they are delightfully Australian and they don’t speak like Wooloomooloo comedians.

The station men live hard on the job and drink too much beer in town. The boss grouses like a lunatic, swears like a bullockey, and always turns up trumps in the end. There is a simple love story running through' the narrative that—after the strong diet of Bangkok and Hongkong brothels we have been having lately—brings us back with a jerk to the realisation that most people manage to have a comparatively uncomplicated love life.

Good characterisation, good writing combine to make this the most pleasant book that has come this way for a long time . . . the sort of story that leaves a warm glow of satisfaction long after it is read and tucked away on the bookshelf. (Published by Angus and Robertson. Australian price, 17/-.) Nursing Natives Marjorie gartrell spent a year at a government station in the Mac Donnell Ranges, north of Alice Springs. She has now written a book about it called Dear Primitive, which is an interesting enough account of nursing aborigines —although it is unlikely to break any records in the best-seller class.

In the last decade, Australians have become aware of the interior of their continent and the books on this subject now emerge at the rate of about one per week. There are few new angles that can be presented—the so-called dead heart having been ridden over, walked over, gone over in broken down jalopies, and flown over—by airborne doctors and others with something written from every aspect.

Miss Gartrell’s book presents the nursing angle, and from that point can be said to cover less trodde] ground. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltt Australian price, 16/-.) Bony in the Dead Heart Arthur upfield’s 25th nove —Bony Buys a Woman —wa a Christmas offering.

This is up to the high standarc set by Death Of a Lake, the 195model; and makes up for No. 24 which appeared earlier this yea; (Man Of Two Tribes) and stretchec credulity to the limit.

Number 25 is also about a lake- Lake Eyre—at a time when flood! in the island rivers were beginning to reach and fill it. (over)

Leo White Gives

Us Southland

THE advent of the air age has given us a new conception of photography— and something completely new in aerial pictorial mapping. Aerial photographic surveys are well known now, but they are usually done for governments and John Citizen rarely sees the results.

Leo White is the first person in this part of the world to exploit commercially the possibilities of air-photography of whole areas. A couple of years ago he brought out a pictorial reference book of the whole of New Zealand. He has only recently followed this successful effort with a similar Pictorial Reference of Southland province. We do not know, but we hope that this is the first volume of a series that will cover the whole of New Zealand.

The book consists of large aerial pictures of startling clarity. These cover most of the towns and villages, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. There are, for example, 32 11-in. by 7-in. photographs of Invercargill, so detailed that any local householder should be able to pick out his own residence with ease.

About 180 photographs cover this whole South-Western comer of NZ’s South Island, including Stewart Island.

There is a good index to subject matter and other statistical information. The book is handsomely bound and beautifully produced. It costs £NZ3/3/-. (Produced, published and printed by Whites Aviation Ltd., Dilworth Building, Auckland, NZ.) Hospitals were never meant for young fellows —not real, red-blooded young fellows, anyhow, who would be better off kicking an old ball around, or racing along the beach. Yet here a fellow is, sitting up here in this great bed in this hospital in Honiara. A fellow sure is down on his luck.

Photo: Freddy Drilhon.

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FAVOURITE The respectable female cook on a station near the shore of the lake is murdered in mysterious circumstances and her 10-year-old daughter Linda disappears without a trace. Detective-I nspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in and there are doings with the station aborigines and the slightly wilder variety camped near by. Although what Upheld has to write about aborigines does not seem to jell with everything that Sydney professors of anthropology taught yours truly, there is no doubt about it that Upheld makes them sound far more entertaining.

The part that Australia’s mysterious Lake Eyre is made to play in the story is ingenious and provides all the suspense necessary for the climax of the thriller.

Upheld has the rare gift of being able to produce Australiana acceptable equally to the home market and foreign consumption.

A few weeks after this latest Bony epic got into circulation, a real murder mystery developed in the Centre. The wife of a station owner, their 14-years-old daughter and a young man, driving south to Adelaide, disappeared. A week later their murdered bodies were discovered hidden under sleeping-bags covered with scrub. Soon blacktrackers, Territory police, CIB men from Adelaide were converging on the spot. But it looked like a clear job for Bony.

Some of Upheld’s earlier books were founded on actual fact; this seems like a ready-made plot for his particular talents. (Published by Heinemann. Australian pricer 13/6.) Founders of the AIF MA J O R-G ENE R A L William Bridges and General Cyril White are not names wellknown to the public, but in the annals of Australian military history they deserve more than a short chapter.

And in Two Men I Knew they get more than a chapter—a book on their lives, written by the man most qualified to tell their story, C. E. W.

Bean, Australia’s historian of World War I. He knew them personally, and in this book he brings them to life—quietly, without fanfare (as they had lived)—but in a fascinating form.

Bridges was the man responsible for establishing Australia’s miliary college, and raised, trained and led the Australian division on Gallipoli, where he was killed by a sniper’s bullet within three weeks.

White’s influence, happily, lasted longer. After being able to develop the First AIF he continued to influence it between the wars and to the beginning of the second, when he was appointed Chief of the

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Dr. Bean writes with a quiet enhusiasm that makes his book far rom stuffy—as it might have been n less experienced hands, (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 25/-.) Colourful Story of Early Australian Aviation A FEW years ago this reviewer cV found himself among a relaxed group of flying identities enjoyng a good dinner at a pub near ;he Pillaga scrub country of NSW.

Included were Arthur Butler, head >f Australia’s Butler Airways, and STorman Ellison, a public relations nan specialising on aircraft matters, vho has been mixed up with the lying industry for so long, that he ong ago became a part of it. When ;he cigars came out, Ellison began jgging Butler on to tell some stories )f his early barnstorming days.

Butler soon obliged, and within 10 ninutes the group were rolling about n their chairs, tears streaming from their eyes—for Arthur Butler can tell some very funny stories.

One story that day told of the first aircraft to visit Pillaga—a barnstorming Avro piloted by Butler, who first shot up the town to attract attention, and then landed on a dirt road a mile away, to await the arrival of the citizens.

But they were a long time coming.

When, finally, Butler was about to give up hope he and his engineer saw a dust cloud in the distance. It could be, they thought, a mob of sheep, but after another long wait it turned out to be a marching column of schoolchildren being led with precision by a military looking schoolteacher.

The flyers watched with fascinated interest. As the column came up to the aircraft, the schoolteacher snapped out orders to halt, gave a snappy right turn, and commanded, “Children, three cheers for the aeronauts!”

That story, and many more like it, can now be read in Norman Ellison’s Flying Matilda, a wonderfully entertaining, and in its way, important 87 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY,

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Ellison is personally acquainted dth the aviation greats—he knew Smithy” and Ulm and many others bat have gone, and he knows the arly histories of others still on the cene.

There are many anecdotes of the arly days of New Guinea flying, tories of “Jerry” Pentland and Ray *arer.

Half the book is devoted to “Smithy”, with many facts about him published for the first time.

Ellison collected them from many sources, some from several hundreds of his letters made available by “Smithy’s” mother before she died. (Published by Angus and Robertson. Australian price, 27/6.) Dukes Before Income-tax Georgette heyer comes in two varieties —Regency romances and detective fiction—with the romances far outnumbering the Whodunnits. Those who have enjoyed the latter, feel that this is a pity.

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Doubtless with the gift-giving season in view, 4.50 From Paddington was produced simultaneously in Australia and the UK —and gives every indication that the author was pushed a little bit by Santa, towards the end.

With 250 of the 255 pages gone m inimitable Christie manner, the author evidently decides to have done with it and finished it up in a half-page denouement that is completely shattering, to say the least.

Well go further, Agatha, and say it was close to a complete ring-in. And almost unethical, old girl.

This is a Miss Marple mystery— Hercule Poirot apparently being on Christmas vacation.

Mrs. McGillicuddy, going for a pre-Christmas visit to Miss Marple, takes the 4:50 from Paddington. She relaxes happily; then dozes. As she awakes she finds that her train has come abreast of another, going in the same direction. A blind in the second train flies up, and in a lighted carriage, Mrs. McGillicuddy sees a tall man strangling a woman. . We leave you, dear reader, to tala U _, there ’ with Agatha C. 15/6) ' Shed by Co,lins * Australian price Really One for All Ages CONSIDERING the amount o; material available, Australia hat too few of the books which car 90 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The book is in the form of a ihotographic story of the daily lives >f two aboriginal children in Arnlem Land. They go goanna and :rab hunting, search for the tastier jrubs and generally enjoy them- ;elves. The book would make an ittractive gift. (Published by Angus and Robertson. Ausralian price, 16/.) Pussies and Yanks it Mille Miglia rHERE is probably no reason why Jon Cleary, who hitherto has written about war in New Guinea and life in outback Ausralia, should not go abroard and jroduce a story about professional ;ar racing. It is just that to a ■Jcotsbyterian mind, professional ■ace-car drivers are about as ssential as professional tennis play- ;rs or jockeys.

This book —The Green Helmet— vill probably have considerable ippeal to those who have not passed f ar beyond the hot-rod stage; all ;he characters talk the jargon.

The psychological effects the nental suffering of the women who )elong to these death-darers — ilthough perhaps designed for more nature readers do not get beyond rery minor counterpoint to the main nelody.

This isn’t to say that the book Joes not improve vastly towards the md in the sequences that deal with ;he famous Italian road race, Mille Vliglia. This is when Mr. Cleary jets over his Colonial’s Dream of Some, and has finished dragging n every place-name in the London Some counties.

Ham Rafferty is an ace racingdriver. He is also the son of a 'acing-driver who killed himself in :he Mille Miglia, and he himself has tracked up at Le Mans.

He is on the point of losing his tierve when an American millionaire tyre manufacturer offers to sponsor iim in two more international races; for these events they choose a car designed by an Australian.

Ham has a brother, Taz, who also wants to be a racing driver but has promised their mother he will not until Ham gets out of the business.

The tyre manufacturer has a beautiful daughter with whom Ham falls in love.

The Australian car designer speaks like a refugee from the Woolloomooloo waterfront; the American is not so easy to place linguistically, but when these two get together and speak their separate lingos, the result really is something. This is a gimmick we have never seen tried out in a novel before.

Most of the characters in this story act like a lot of ageing childdelinquents and although they and their setting are probably authentic enough, readers of early Cleary novels will wonder why he had to travel 15,000 miles to the other side of the world to produce a novel about a section of international society so completely unimportant, m _. .

There is sufficient competence m the novel, however, to suggest that one of these days he will burst through with something worthwhile, This, we might add, is the feeling left by the other Cleary novels, too.

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I'Arcy Niland T was inevitable that the opportunity would one day arise for a comparison of the writing bility of Ruth Park and her usband, D’Arcy Niland, Angus and Robertson have now üblished at the same time, One- -Pecker, Two-a-Pecker, written by ,uth Park and dedicated to Mr.

Hand, and Call Me When the Cross urns Over, by Mr. Niland, dedicated ) Miss Park—so now the oppormity is here.

Ruth Park’s excellent novel tells le story of New Zealand’s Otago old rush of 1863. She bases her :ory on fact —even, she says, to the ind or weather on certain days— ut there are none of the usual immicks one has, unfortunately, ome to expect with historical ovels.

Miss Park is a very smooth writer -smoother now than in her earliest ovels which were set in Sydney’s lums. In this story, whose central character is Currency Mac Queen, a pretty unspoilt girl who finds herself, in tragic circumstances, alone on the fields at 18, Miss Park creates, and then overcomes, some technical problems of plot structure in a way which must make any would-be novelist envious.

But the reader who reads merely for his entertainment would not be conscious of this —but only of the fact that Miss Park writes a most entertaining and pleasing story.

The underlying vein of humour which runs through this novel conveys skilfully the character of the diggers themselves, but also gives the reader the impression that the novelist herself sees the humour of life, and is unable to prevent it shining through her work, enriching it.

Call Me When The Cross Turns Ovsr, will be a disappointing work to some—to those especially who exnected something better from the author of The Shiralee, to which this new book seems to be some kind of sequel.

The girl is now grown up, and her life is, as one would expect, far more complicated.

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Mr. Niland seems to be writing to a formula, and the formula shows through tl\e story. Gum trees, opal fields, bush characters, are all in the mixture, as usual.

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Australian price, 17/6.) The Tanker that Came Back IN October, 1940, a convoy of 36 ships in charge of an armed merchant cruiser, Jervis Bay, moved out from Nova Scotia across the Atlantic. With half the voyage behind it, the convoy was attacked by the German battleship Admiral Scheer. The escort vessel and five other ships were sunk, and the tanker San Demeirio was set on fire.

The crew abandoned her, expecting her to explode as she drifted •away into the gloom of a North Atlantic gale. Thirty-six hours later, a handful of her men in a lifeboat sighted her again. She was still burning but by now seemed a better refuge than the lifeboat at the mercy of the sea.

They reboarded her, put out the lire, got the engines and the electric generating plant functioning. The bridge gear, radio, compasses, steering charts, cabins and signalling flags had all been destroyed in the fire. An ingenious system of signal lights was rigged to communicate between emergency aft steering gear and the engine room. The compass was soon found to be useless, having with its binnacle, dropped through two decks.

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The story of San Demetrio has ;en told before —we seem to reember that there was a movie ade of it, also —but this parcular version (called simply, San emetrio ) is by Calum Macneil, le of the tanker’s crew at the me of the incident. Unfortunately, ;acneil is a better seaman than a riter and some of the most •amatic parts of the story are killed / understatement.

However, for those who prefer iat to dramatics, the story will do ;ry well indeed. (Published by Angus and Robertson. Ausalian price 13/6.) /ritten in English HHEY say you either like science L fiction or you don’t. But they’ve got it wrong. The average reader prepared to tackle any new volume : science fiction without prejudice, ut having read the first page, he len reserves the right to discrimin- :e—and it is here that he differs ■om the SF addict, who believes iat all SF is just the most.

High Vacuum, by Charles Eric [aine, is not by any means a highass story by either SF or ordinary andards, but the discriminating ;ader will probably allow himself ) read it right through, even if ily to find out how those people scape from the rocket that has lade the world’s first trip to the 100n—and crashed there.

The book’s main attribute is that makes no attempt to baffle the 3ader with science, and for this ne he needs no glossary of futur- ;tic technical terms to be able to >llow what is going on. Australia’s /oomera rocket range gets frequent lention—it seems it will be a busy lace in another 10 years or so. (Published by Hodder and Stoughton. Ausalian price, 15/6.) New Pocket Books DOCKET books which became available in the last month included the following: THE SUN ALSO RISES, the Ernest Hemingay story about the girl who fell in love with Spanish bull-fighter. Lately it was filmed rith Ava Gardner and Tyrone Power in the jading roles. (Great Pan).

JUMP FOR IT: Gerald Bowman tells a series f stories about the people who belong to the aterpillar Club—those who have saved their ves by taking to a parachute—and incidentally ives a lot of information about parachutes i general. (Great Pan).

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A DRAGON APPARENT: by Norman Lewis, ravel-adventure, in a country little written bout since the French bowed out. Indo-China hen, it is now divided between Viet Nam nd Viet Minh Lewis visited there in 1950 /hen the confusion and the results of the onfusion can only be described as fabulous. (Pan Giant).

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Only a few of the Europeans had lelings about eating with the boys -most of them accepted the situaon without comment.

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The weakest link in the Australian ■overnment scheme of sending decked natives to school in Aus- •alia (which few Territorians like uch) is the periodical return of the eungsters to their natural environlent. It might be kinder all round they were removed entirely from leir native villages and during olidays were accommodated in oliday camps in the Territory.

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Miss N. Williams and Mr. J. Powell are also members of an old Fiji family. 97 AOIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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Generally, outer-island members were in favour of growing this fruii for the NZ market; while officialdom turned thumbs down.

Member for Mangaia, Pokinc Aberahama, moved: “That in view of the fact that Fruit Distributors Ltd. have shown no valid reason why they cannol accept bananas from the outer islands, the New Zealand Government be asked to bring pressure tc bear on them to ensure that bananas produced in the outer islands, particularly in Aitutaki and Mangaia. be purchased; to take effect when the new vessel is in service”. [The new vessel the member referred to was that proposed to replace the aged Maui Pomare. The latest news concerning the new ship is that the NZ Cabinet has approved the calling of tenders—which means that it is still some way off].

The motion was put and carried, with the Director of Agriculture dissenting.

Last May, Mr. Ross Walker, General Manager for Fruit Distributors Ltd., visited the Cooks. He said that Fruit Distributors were not in favour of exporting bananas from the outer Cooks owing to loading and shipping difficulties.

The attitude of the Administration is that it cannot support any scheme for banana planting in the outer islands, as these islands are not likely to produce enough to warrant monthly shipping calls throughout the year, and they would be better advised to concentrate in the production of non-perishable crops, such as copra, coffee and peanuts.

During his visit, Mr. Walker said that although his company was opposed to encouraging banana growing in the outer islands, it was anxious to see a revival of banana growing in Rarotonga.- WHP.

TB Problem at Niue DURING the last financial year, 117 TB cases were on the register at Niue —2l per cent, of the island’s population. Twenty-f our new cases were diagnosed. The anti- TB campaign involved BCG preventive injections to 291 children found to be Mantoux-negative and therefore susceptible to TB infection. Chest X-ray examinations during the year totalled 743. A new TB ward was opened at the hospital. 98 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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SAMOAN [?]VERNMENT lew Assembly worn In UAFATAS AG A KALAPU, 52- , year-old chief interpreter of the Samoan Government, was elected e first Speaker of the Western moan Assembly of Novemoer 28. rh e Honourable Luafatasaga ilapu can look back on a long and ;tinguished career in the Govern- »nt service, which he entered first 1921, and intermittently served io for ten years in the legal firm Klinkmueller and Kronfeldt, at >ia. He rejoined the Government moan Affairs Department in 1947, d since then has on four occasions companied Samoan official legations on trips overseas as cretary-Interpreter.

The appointment has met with neral approval. rhe following Members of the new gislative Assembly were elected as embers of the Executive Council th Ministerial duties: Hon. Faalavaau Galu (Post Office d Radio).

Hon. Fiame Mataafa (Agriculture).

Hon. F. C. F. Nelson (Public orks and Road Transport).

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Faalavaau Galu was formerly hair m a n of the Fono of ailp u 1 e and Tualaulelei and latagaloa were members of the our of the five European members of W. noa's new Legislative Council (left to ht)- Mr. E. F. Paul, who becomes Minister Economic Development; Mr. G. F. D. ham, who was re-elected and is the only ependent, the other four members belongto the Progressive League; Mr. H. Kenl, Mr F C. F. Nelson, who becomes Mmer of Public Works. Mr. P. Plowman, also member of the Progressive League is not W n. Photos: Fosgren's Studio. 99 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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Why it was allowed to remain thus only the New Zealand Government and American authorities can say— but most of the gear was probably in very sorry condition when finally dismantled by a government team from Western Samoa in 1951.

Now, in the latest Annual Report on the Tokelaus, there is an item credited to those islands —£200 for sale of LORAN base equipment.

This would suggest that the American Government finally gave the base to the Tokelau people.

The base was probably worth £20,000 when the Americans switched off the transmitters and closed the doors in about 1947.- JPS. 101 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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Photos: Papuan Prints and Pan American Prints. 102 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY.

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knot Monster that lled Launches • Credit for the best fish story of 7 must surely go to Capt. J. rley, of the New Hebrides conninium vessel “Don Quijote”. He !s it in the last British Newsletter, m Vila, thus: [. BOUVIER, my engineer, and I were in the Burns Philp launch, Elaine, with stores for n Quijote. )n approaching Georges Philippe ss from the Segond Channel we ;iced a small launch with 4 peris aboard about a quarter-of-ale off our starboard bow and veiling in the opposite direction, rhe people on this launch Deared to be trying to attract our ention but we thought they were [y giving us a friendly wave, rhey did not seem to be in any üble, for their launch was travelg at a fair speed towards the ?ond Channel, and we continued our way. As we altered course d drew away from them they ved frantically and it seemed as their steering was out of control ce they kept heading off in difent directions every couple of nutes.

We turned about to investigate, d on approaching found the other it to be M. Douyere’s 21-foot, half- Mn launch. He told us that he d anchored off the west coast of ilo Island to do some fishing and mysterious fish had grabbed the chor and had been pulling them • 2i hours—first towards the open i and then towards Bruat Channel, d, finally into Georges Philippe ss, where we found them.

We pulled alongside and took M. uyere and his friends on board Elaine and made his launch fast ours. The three members of the ;w of the Elaine, together with Bouvier and M. Douyere atnpted to heave up the anchor (at- ;hed to four fathoms of 5/16ths ain) but the chain was pulled so ht that it would not give one ih of slack. The chain felt as ough the anchor had fouled the ttom of the sea bed, and yet the o launches were being towed at a be of three to four knots, still ading for the Channel.

"We tried to tow it to shallow iter at full speed in the hope that might dive down and see what -ange creature could be strong ough to pull the two launches mg at this speed. Even the 100-hp mryncroft diesel in the Elaine did not make any impression on the monster when it decided to zig-zag towards Luganville, at the same time tugging the 21-footer almost underwater, and giving the Elaine a frightening list. This decided us to release the anchor chain as we feared that both the Elaine and the smaller launch could quite possibly be pulled under.

The unknown creature did not further manifest its presence and we went on our way thankful that we had been able to extricate M.

Douyere from a dangerous predicament, but disappointed that the mystery had not been solved.

It was suggested locally mat me monster that was hooked was a giant ray.

NZ May Furnish Samoan Assembly Hall THE High Commissioner ol Western Samoa, Mr. G. R.

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The New Zealand Government has already announced that it will provide a mace.

Mr. Powles’ suggestion has been favourably received by the Municipal Association of New Zealand. 103 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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TONGA’S WEATHER: To our wember summary of Pacific voice ;ather broadcasts, compiled from st information to hand, we must iw add that Nukualofa Radio ould be included amongst those ations making regular weather oadcasts —at 0740 and 1940 GMT lily on 2080 or 2095 kc/s. The oadcasts normally consist of deils of actual prevailing weather roughout the Group, with no forest of future weather unless a storm arning has been issued by Nadi eather Centre for the Tonga area.

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USSR’s INTERESTING SHIPS; terest in the Soviet Union’s assive IGY research programme ust inevitably be dimmed by the rtain knowledge that all this is signed first to serve world Comunism rather than the cause - of ire science for the general good.

But there is no denying that in e field of oceanography alone their >rk and the equipment employed is of great interest to seafarers.

Vityaz, claimed to be the largest research ship in the world, which was in Rabaul in July-August and in Suva in mid-December, has—as mentioned before in PlM —the capacity to anchor in very deep water. From scientific journals it is noted that Vityaz (also spelled Vitiaz) did in fact establish a record by anchoring in a depth of nearly 6 miles some time after calling at Rabaul, though the exact position was not given in the reports sighted.

The operation of dropping anchor and heaving up again a while later took almost seven hours. The ship’s cable is almost eight miles long.

Previous deep anchoring record was established by a German vessel 35 years ago, the depth being only about three miles. Vityaz ’ record is likely to again be broken by another Russian vessel lately commissioned, Mikhail Lomonosov, which has a cable 9i miles long.

She, too, will probably be seen in Islands ports during 1958.

In a way more interesting than these vessels will be Zarya, a schooner of 580 tons, which will also be showing up soon. Since Carnegie was destroyed by explosion and fire in Apia, on November 29, 1929, Zarya is the first and only nonmagnetic vessel to sail the seas.

A wooden vessel with entirely non-ferrous fastenings, she has a 300 hp diesel motor made of bronze and gunmetal. The motor will be used only when essential. Zarya cleared Gravesend, England, about September, for Nova Scotia, Cape Horn and the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Her cruise will end at Vladivostok and her job will, of course, be to make magnetic readings which, combined with other magnetic research in the polar regions and along the magnetic equator, will provide information of 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— J A N U A R Y . 1958

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NAMING NAMES: The precise name of a ship may not greatly interest the man in the street, but it i s . ,° . interest to mariners and historians. The latter gentlemen of a century hence may well be sidetracked by some recent press reports.

There was, for example, the report from Rarotonga of the stranding of the Japanese tuna-vessel Taikomaru 16. Overlooking the fact that Maru is a separate word, there are very good grounds for believing that the vessel was actually Taiyo Maru i ;i. i 67^ h i ch is a ver y different kettle of fish when we study Llovds Register. 9 Next came an amusing conference aboard a small Japanese vessel at Gisborne, NZ, where acute language problems arose. Perhaps the name was not painted on the vessel—she was reported as a fishing vessel but proved later to have been a whalechaser, one of a fleet heading for the Antarctic but whatever the cause, while the Gisborne newspaper reported that she was Koyo Maru No. 5, the Auckland and Wellington dailies stuck firmly to Ahihiro Tsushime —no Maru, no appendages.

It is a fairly safe guess that this was the Master’s name, as it appears to be a firm rule that (a) Japanese ship-namers never use two words preceding the Maru, and (b) the Maru invariably is attached to merchant Vessels A *SSt Tc 106 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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iru No. 5 but Kyo Maru No. 5, :ed in Lloyds Register as a whaleaser Still pondering these conflicting les, PlM’s researcher was not ight off-guard when Suva news irces cabled to the world that tiaz was in port—for whatever jiggles may appear on her bows, 3 scientific world is firmly agreed at this vessel’s name is spelt \yaz when recorded in our Western jhabet.

UNUSUAL CARGO: Customs thorities are used to unusual rgoes, but San Francisco Customs »n probably looked twice at an try in the manifest of the Matson er Monterey, in December, when at vessel arrived there with a nsignment of 16 drums of breaking stones from Suva. The >nes were for use by a film comny arranging a “mock-up” of a ji fire-walking ceremony. (See M, December).

Why US-brand rocks could not be ed for the job was far from clear, no real fire-walking was to be ne which would call for the special rous rocks. This was not the first oe that such cargoes have been ported from Suva —fire-walking rties have on at least two occa- >ns taken their own stones to New aland.

SOMETHING WRONG SOME- HERE: Though some of the >rld’s meteorologists have utterly jected the idea that nuclear bomb plosions could affect the weather yond the immediate area of the plosion, others are less certain. So i may be certain that the iristmas Island bomb testers are ing to be blamed by some for the ocking events of November when hurricane, virtually unknown in ie area, rampaged through the awaiian Islands.

One of the strong points of awaiian tourist publicity has ways been the perfection of its imate —and even if hurricanes did rike occasionally, they would cerinly not be anticipated in Nomber, which is equivalent to the >uth Pacific’s May.

Local vessels made for cover but e 5,401-ton, 37-year-old Greek amp Margarita Chandris, south of ie group, w r as heard sending dis- £ss signals and was badly battered, tough she survived.

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Photos: John O'Donnell. 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— J A N U A R Y 1958

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Bctionable odour seeping in ough the port-hole. A moment ;r there was the rumble of the ;ring gear as the ship changed rse. tepping out on deck the cause the trouble was quickly fixedship was about to pass a large I very dead whale, floating with eavy list, its body well encrusted h barnacles —which infest even whales. ’erhaps Jap whalers, lately heading south through this general area, had lost this one—but there were no votes for a close investigation.

Mate Thomson speculated on what a horrible situation it would be for a yacht which happened to strand itself on such an odiforous “shoal” on some dark night, as could very well happen.

It would be a marine disaster of more than routine interest!

FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY: French Oceania readers would certainly identify the attractive brigantine whose photo appeared in an advertisement in PIM of last September, as Ernest K. Gann’s Albatros, which visited Papeete just a year earlier.

Under command of Captain George Atcheson, the Panamanian registered yacht arrived at San Francisco on November 30 under contract to a film company shooting Gann’s best-seller, Twilight for the Gods, most of which has been shot in Hawaii in recent months.

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TUG FOR TONGA: The second of four vessels to reinforce the loyita" shortly after she was refloated by Mr. Jack Morris at his shipyard in Levuka, lovember. The vessel is now in Suva —see story, page lll.

Photo; H. Franklin. 109 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JANUARY, 1958

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The Board’s ketch A’oniu, with a crew for the new tug, stood by at Suva to take delivery. Still to come, from a Dutch shipyard, are the much lai ger steel vessels A’oniu and Hijojua, under their own power.

ORDERED OFF: Because she was classed as “a disfigurement to the view and a “nuisance”, the ageing 35-ton, 60 ft x 17 ft hold-scow Scot, only vessel of her type in Fiji waters, was ordered by the authorities to be removed from her layingup anchorage near Mosquito Island, Bay of Islands, Suva, in November.

Built at Omaha, north of Auckland, by the famous scow builder, David Darroch, for years she worked th e North Island’s East Coast beaches with a two-man crew. During or after the Second War, Scot became club-boat for the Auckland Coastguard Service, a sort of Sea Scout organisation, until purchased by Mr. Lew Graham, one of the present owners of the trans-Tasman freighter Babinda.

Scot sailed for Suva in July, 1952 under command of Captain J.

McKenzie Arnot, now Master of another Fiji vessel but then only recently arrived by yacht Kimbala from England. At Suva, Mr. Graham sold the scow to Mr. J. B. Turner and since that time she has suffered various minor mishaps.

She has also persistently had her correct, registered name, misspelt Scott.

For a scow she has rather pleasing lines and it would not be realised at first sight that this vessel, when down to her marks, draws onl? 05 it.

LATER: Scot changed hands twice m recent weeks and left Suva under tow for Savusavu on January 4 for newest owner Mr Ross Denney.

ANOTHER FOR DAVY JONES: Following the loss of the Americanowned Ve Tega, by explosion, fire, and sinking last month, yet another New r Hebrides vessel went to the bottom in November. This was the locally built, 15-ton cutter Helvetia, owned by a local Swiss trader, Mr.

Jean Urben. This vessel apparently struck some floating object off Aesi Island, near Undine Passage, southeast coast of Santo.

There was just time for the crew to take to a dinghy before Helvetia went down. The vessel was insured and represented the fourth recent loss in these waters by the same insurance company. 110 JANUARY, 19 5 8 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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che causes of the sale of the Cook lands trader Melva was excessive impetition since American Walter Johnson brought his Bahamagistered schooner Tiare Maori to lose waters. Just as prospects emed brighter for that vessel she iffered a gear-box breakdown hich has temporarily removed her om the trade. The mishap occurred uthbound from Penrhyn to Raronga in November.

The schooner has substantial sail- •ea, however, so had no trouble in aking port. On discharge she died the 620 miles to windward > the nearest dockyard at Papeete >r repairs.

Tiare Maori has an ample reigerator and owner Johnson knows 3W to make it pay. Fish caught ; sea have been on sale in recent eeks on arrival at port at 2/3 per Dund—which is a fair indication : the absence of consumer supplies l the Cooks, though there unmbtedly are plenty of fish in those (as.

RADAR MAY NOT FIND YOU: s time goes by the evidence mounts lat radar is far from being the allying eye that some would have us slieve. One of the clearest demon- ;rations of radar’s limitations was ?en in the air search for Joyita vo years ago. Radar equipment the RNZAF Sunderlands was said, rior to that event, to be capable I detecting even tiny objects on le sea’s surface.

Later, with Joyita under tow, tests lowed that a wooden vessel as large 5 Joyita could not be satisfactorily etected at quite short range. Condence in radar as an infallible in- ;rument of detection was further laken and its limitations again tnphasised in November when a ja-and-air search, said to be the irgest ever organised, and employig the best of America’s airborne nd ship-based radar and submarine etection gear, failed to locate reckage of a PAA airliner down i the sea north-east of Hawaii. The reckage, which covered an area 11 hies by three, was eventually ’Gated visually by a carrier plane.

The wreckage, which included nine odies, some strapped in seats, had ndoubtedly been overflown by adar-equipped aircraft many times efore visual location. As in the ase of Joyita, the wreckage was 3und just where the known inarmation on point of breakdown nd speed of drift would have stimated it to be.

For radar to give satisfactory reults the sought object must have small expanse of metal a few feet above sea-level—and even then results are dependent upon the shape of the metal parts. These are details worth remembering.

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Joyita, in December, was in Suva after an absence of 11 months, but there is no knowing when she will go to sea again. She went on to Horseshoe Reef in the Koro Sea on January 8, 1957, and after she floated off she was taken to Levuka for repairs to enable her to get back to the Government slip in Suva.

She was at Levuka much longer than expected, mainly because of labour troubles and private disputes among the owners.

Her future plans are uncertain, She has not yet gone on to the slip (December 24), again because of disputes among the owners. All thal L is required to make her seaworthy again are repairs to one of engines.

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Melva Changes Crew: In

ydney, just before Christmas, were Upper Hugh Williams, his engineer, es Livingstone and eight Cook danders, aboard 243-ton Melva fter a 9-days crossing of the Tastan from Auckland. Business: to and the vessel over to her new wner, a Hongkong shipping firm hich will use the vessel to trade atween Darwin and Timor, where ii prospecting it currently proceedig- It is understood that the price aid for Melva was £NZI4,OOO.

There was considerable general iterest in the new ownership in ustralia, due to the fact that a 'ew of Bathurst Islanders took over in Sydney from the Cook Islanders. This is the first time that Australian ab o riginies have come so far south to crew a vessel.

The Cook Islands crew (with Williams and Livingstone) flew back to New Zealand just before Christmas. Most of the Cook Islanders will stay there in new jobs.

Skipper Williams, however, will return to Rarotonga, where he will indulge in a little citrus and tomato growing. He has finished with the sea; or so he says.

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Benecia seems to be dogged by bad fortune. Following her reconstruction after the burning of a year ago the vessel has been operating on the Tuamoti run, and on November 27, while in this group, she broke her rudder post. Temporary repairs have been effected and she is, at present, returning to Papeete. This is the third occasion this mishap has occurred. * * * Auxiliary schooner Te Vega is expected to clear Papeete bound for Rarotonga on January 18 with a charter party of twelve aboard. * * * Oiseau de lies I has (reportedly) been sold to Mexican interests and END OF A LANDMARK This old Japanese transport which has been a landmark on the beach not far from Honiara, BSIP, for about 14 years was recently being cut up for scrap. A team of Chinese workers was doing the job—but the scrap will go to Japan Photo: F. Drilhon. 113 > ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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SALVAGE: The Japanese freighter Erifuku Maru, which went up on Wreck Reef off the North Queensland coast on October 11, was refloated on December 28 —due to the vigorous efforts of Captain M.

Hatono, Japanese salvage expert. A tug left Brisbane on December 29 took the vessel in tow on New Year’s Eve for the return trip to Brisbane. The tow was completed successfully early January.

Eifuku Maru, a new vessel, was carrying a cargo of wool when she hit the reef. Cargo salvaged and taken to Brisbane is already estimated at £500,000.

It was believed at first that the vessel and her cargo would be a total write-off. The Japanese salvage experts thought differently, and after flying over the wreck, Captain Hatono was smartly on the job with Wakashio Maru, which vessel has unloaded and transported to Brisbane the cargo that has been salvaged.

The salvage effort has been assisted by the fact that an almost unbroken spell of good weather has been experienced in the wreck areas since the vessel went up. But with the wet season and its attendant cyclones imminent, the salvage team had not a moment to lose.

JAPS WERE BROKE: After a four-day period in Port Moresby Harbour, made difficult by the language barrier, the Japanese tuna fishing boat Daikoku Maru 18 left on December 30 without the extra fuel she wanted, only to be recallec to port.

When the Daikoku Maru arrivec in PM on December 27 to pick up a sick crew member who had been put ashore about a fortnight earlier her captain indicated he needed 4,400 gallons of fuel oil and extra 114 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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SANDBANK UNFOUND: There ;as no great comfort for navigators esulting from a recent search made iy HMS Cook for a supposed navigational hazard in Fiji waters. The lazard, of unknown nature, was breakers” reported by a French essel in 1924, about 20 miles off he Great Sea Reef in Bligh Water, lorth of Viti Levu. Another vessel lad reported discoloured water in he same area in 1927.

HMS Cook, survey vessel, has bund 1,000 fathoms in the immediite vicinity, proving that the suplosed position was free of dangers, rhe early navigation may well have >een inaccurate and the reef or ihoal may exist at some other point ,n the general area —or, like so nany other supposed reefs and ihoals, this may simply have been i shoal of fish.

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ST AME: Now wearing her new iame of Tiare, the vessel which vas formerly named Petunia, was Tiaking her first patrol to Fiji, Wallis, and the Loyalties in November.

As Petunia, this 320-ton vessel, Larger than her now de-comtnissioned predecessor, called at Suva last August en route to her station from France. The old Tiare, which came to Suva for refit each year, now lies idle at Noumea. As a new slipway has recently been commissioned at Noumea it is probable that the new vessel will be able to refit at her base port.

Japanese Igy Survey: As

part of Japan’s IGY effort, four oceanographic research vessels have now commenced soundings and seawater samplings in a triangular area between Wake, Midway, and Kamchatka. The survey will be similar to that being undertaken by the Russian Vityaz and by American vessels.

News of Cruising Yachts • AUCKLAND-SUVA YACHT RACE: The second Aockland-Suva Yacht Race, which yachtsmen hope will become a biennial event, is scheduled to take place next winter according to plan. Royal Akarana Yacht Club, sponsors of the event, announced in Auckland early December that the race will commence on May 3, 1958. Interested yachtsmen should contact the club. Entries will close February 1, except in certain circumstances. • NEWS WANTED: News is sought of the 31£-ft steel yacht TULAK, German flag, in which Joroslav Novy and his wife Bozena cleared Papeete last April 27, for Suva and Brisbane.

Reports from any en-route islands, with approximate dates, would be appreciated. The V acht ma V well be at Brisbane. Advice is also sought from England of the yacht WAPY, unknown to PIM, but last heard of at Panama Canal Zone last July. We have had no mention of this craft ' owned and manned by Mr C. r. Sarel, from our regular Balboa correspondent, Max Hart - who would normally only report a-as, ssjs ssot W4prs destmat,on was originally Australia • DIANA of England, now making Auckland her home base, was back there November 30 after a six months loop north to Fiji. With owner N. E. Young on his latest cruise were Michael Henderson of England, David Morgan of Australia, Brian Ferraz of South Africa, and Fred Undsted of England. The yacht will cruise coastwise through the summer. • KIWI, 28-ft ketch of MARCO POLO type— the latter yacht recently completed a world cruise—cleared Auckland for Lord Howe Island 115 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY. 1958

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TRES DAMAS, Chilean-flag motor-sailer of tvely lines, which Arturo Prieto Urioste ight to Papeete in November, 1955, with n companions, and later sold there as a k-boat, was renamed POPOUA—just to keep record straight. She now maintains conbetween Papeete and the lonely atolls of iline and Flint for lessee Tony Bambridge. 1 TARASS BOULBA, 31-ft gaff ketch, with ie Zavialoff lone-handing, cleared Ostend April 20 for Panama and round the world might be the first yacht to bring the lian flag to Pacific, at least in post-War II s. The owner, Ukrainian-born, is evidently laturalised Belgian. The yacht is a coned lifeboat. 1 FLYING WALRUS and NOVIA are, for the ; being, holed-up at Whangarei, northern though the crews have quietly slipped in Auckland by land transport, we hear. • SOLQUEST of Tasmania, which cleared eete September 24 bound for the US was irted in November to have been wrecked the Hawaiian Islands —no details. . RAIREVA (ex RENEGADE), 36' x 10' x owned by Doug Robinson (Canadian) and tie! Fromager (Channel Islander) arrived eete November 24 after 42 days out from kland. Accompanying them were Karl Teppo nish) and Robert Van Duyne (Dutch) —all in a veritable cruising United Nations. The wners bought the boat in Port Moresby sailed her to Sydney where they fitted out.

REVA is a staysail schooner equipped with 2 hp Petters diesel as auxiliary and has ity of "adapted" equipment aboard —exiles being aircraft blister tanks as auxiliary er tanks and a petrol station filling pump j bilge pump.

AIREVA was built in New Zealand to an teur design and, at the time, caused critii owing to her unusual construction. Comits by the yachting magazine "Seacraft" e, "Three craft of similar size could be t with the materials used if normal conction methods were followed", and "OK for as a light ship—guaranteed to bob and down in the same place", wners planned to stay in Papeete for weeks and then proceed to Honolulu via Societies and Marquesas. i SALMO, 24' 6", 21' 6" x 7' x 5' 10", er of Poole, England, owned by Peter and Hamilton, arrived Papeete November 24. >r Hamilton (ex Royal Navy) sailed SALMO lie-handed to Canada, returned home and ried Jill, then both of them returned to ada by normal means to continue a world se aboard SALMO. After leaving Panama Hamilton's called at the Galapagos, Pitn, Mangareva, Rapa and Tubuai. Present ntion is. to remain ittrPapeete until Feb-

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The Tonga Copra Board's new 52 ft tug, "Fonualei", photographed in Suva after it had been unloaded from the "Papanui", in December. It weighs 18 tons, has a beam of 13 ft 3 in. and a draught of 9 ft. She later sailed from Suva for Tonga under her own power.

She will engage in copra and general trading round that group.

Right: The Soviet survey ship "Vityaz" or "Vitiaz", which visited Suva in December. Stories elsewhere this issue.

Photos: Fiji PRO. 117 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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Present intention is to remain in Tahiti until the end of the hurricane season and then cruise via the Societies, Cook's, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji to New Zealand. • TAK-O-AUTAHI, of Poole, England, with owner Bill Morgan and Rick Mohun aboard cleared Papeete December 11 bound for Moorea.

On the agenda were plans to visit the rest of the Society group during the hurricane season before heading west through the islands to New Zealand. Owner Morgan hopes to build a larger boat (a 38' double ender) in New Zealand. • TAHOE, 36' x 10' 6" x 5' 6 ", staysail schooner of Vancouver, BC, arrived Papeete December 19. The co-owners Reg Blake (Aust.) and Fred Shepherd (Canadian) are accompanied by John Lewis (Canadian), Bob Drude (US) and Herbert Knopf (German). The vessel (amateur built) is designed after the style of a Rio de Janiero coastal sand-barge. Auxiliary is a 100 hp Kermath gasoline engine. TAHOE sailed direct from San Francisco to Taiohae Bay, Marquesas in 48 days and then called at Ua Pou and Rangiroa on the way to Papeete. The owners intend to weather out the hurricane season in Papeete doing necessary repairs to the boat and then proceed through the Societies to the Cooks, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand and on to Sydney which is the proposed terminus of the cruise. • UTOPIA owner Fred Petersen departed Papeete by TEAL aircraft on December 22. He is returning home to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin tor business reasons and while in the States hopes to recruit some more crew to assist hi continue his world cruise. • HAVFRUEN 111 of England, Group Captai J IT . Car . r J s 7T ' ton ketch, arrived at Russe NZ, m mid-December from Nukualofa and w expected at Auckland later in the month. • . TE , RAPUNGA, which cleared Hobart f Auckland December 1, finished her tran Tasman passage on a beach near Greymout west coast of the South Island of NZ, c December 21 and a local resident lost his lii in rescue operations. 118

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Offices in all Capital Cities wner George Dibbern, known for 20 years [he S. Pacific, reported that the 32-ft ketch dismasted when knocked on her beam s by a freak sea when 750 miles out from art The voyage proceeded under jury rig when the South Island was sighted on ember 12 the diesel auxMiary was started end the passage on the limited fuel avail- B. lowever a shaft bearing burnt out some e later. A fresh southerly sprang up but yacht was unable to make to windward or louvre under jury rig so it was impossible make Greymouth. nstead, the anchor was dropped in the lee a shingle bank eight miles north of that t Local residents could see that the yacht i in distress and in a precarious position in deteriorating weather so efforts were made take the five men off. In this operation ocal man was drowned, hen TE RAPUNGA parted her cable and le ashore on a shingle beach, undamaged with all aboard safe. With Dibbern were ssrs. R. Vincent, D. Haley, W. Pearton and Jones. Jones had suffered a broken cheeke when the vessel was dismasted. He was en hospital treatment. It is expected that yacht will be refloated and brought to hour, but Dibbern and his crew are out ot ds and will take local employment until y can afford to refit and continue the age to the Islands via Auckland. Dibbern, o sailed the yacht from Germany in prer 11 days, is 69.

As a result of the retirement of r. R. M. Gladney, the position of jsident Agent, Aitutaki, Cook iands, was advertised in New aland in December. The salary “up to £NZI,IIS, according to erit”. The job is one of the most sponsible in the Cook Islands ;der the present programme of icial Development. The Coral Dute air service also involves a iod deal of work not called for on e other islands at present.

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They are now testing the Cook Islands fish for radio-activity.

Mr. Ronald Powell, Fisheries Officer for the Cook Islands, and loaba Marsters, his assistant, were flown from Rarotonga to Christmas Island on November 1 and underwent a short course there on elementary physics and the use of the geiger counter. They then flew to Penrhyn where they spent almost a month collecting various specimens of reef fish and seabirds which were preserved and tested for signs of radio activity.

Air samples at Penrhyn were also taken, and three employees of the Meteorological Department, stationed at Penrhyn, were trained to carry out tests for radio activity. The data obtained will be forwarded to the Health Physics Department at Christmas Island at regular intervals, and similar checks for radio activity will be made at Rarotonga.

Powell and Marsters returned to Rarotonga at end of November, taking their geiger counter with them. — W.H.P.

Drifting Boat Mystery NEW CALEDOKIAN police are fascinated by the mystery of a rowing boat found in November on a reef at Uvea atoll, in the Loyalty Islands group.

Painted white, with a quarter-inch rope around the exterior, the boat contained nothing but a pair of oars and a pair of Japanese sandals.

The boat was made by a Sydney firm of boat builders, but the police say there is little chance that it drifted from Australia. But it may have come from the New Hebrides, or Suva. They are trying to find out.

Five-Day Week Extended THE five-day working week which is now in effect for European officers of the Administration at Fort Moresby, Lae and Rabaul, was extended in December to some of the native, Asian and mixed race staff at the three centres.

The new extension involves those engaged as artisans, clerks or in allied occupations, except those who are employed in essential services.

The five-day week will not apply to labourers employed by the Administration. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY,

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BRASSO [?]ce Lift for Honiara . . . [?]all In Nickel Exports lits New Cal. i T the opening of the New \ Caledonian Territorial Assembly’s budget session remtly, the Governor, M. Aime rimald, again warned New aledonians of the vulnerability pf leir country’s economy. He said le time had come to economise; le alternative would inevitably be period of austerity.

Although the drastic reduction f nickel exports to Japan did not istify saying that an economic risis had arrived, one could cerainly say that the nickel boom had nded. No grave damage had been one as yet to the country’s economy y the slight “depression” and one ould envisage the future with condence.

M. Grimald spoke also of the lurcpean Common market which is spected to come into operation durig 1958. New Caledonia, as part of he French Union, would benefit onsiderably by the Common market s there would be a ready market cr its products. New Caledonia reamed the right, of course, of imosing duties to protect her economy >ut any application of Customs duties must be made without discrimination to all the countries, including France, who are members of the European Common market.

In conclusion, the Governor said that every effort must be made to develop New Caledonian industries and especially agriculture.

Particular attention must be paid to the cattle industry, which is in a grave position because of the disastrous drought.

These photographs show that considerable ogress is being made in Honiara, BSIP. e top row of photographs shows the old d the new variety of Government offices, e new version, centre, looks rather like factory, but is regarded as palatial in mparison with the army-type hutments Ktreme left) that have done duty up until w—and still are in use by some departments. Extreme right, top row, shows that Europeans are not alone in forwardthinking. At native clerk is shown on his own form of modern transport.

Bottom row: At left, the new biscuit factory which has recently gone into operation in Honiara. It can produce three tons of ration biscuits per day, and these will sell at 3d per lb cheaper than the imported variety. It is expected that they will later be exported to the Hebrides and Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Extreme right, the main wing of the new hospital. Most of the construction is in cement-brick, and spacious verandahs look out on the beach. It was built with funds from the Colonial Development Fund.

Photos: A. de Theye. 121 • ACIFIC islands MONTHLY- j A N u a r y .

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In Defence of NG Trusteeship YOUR Editorial Note, “UNO In fluence in P-NG Affairs” (PIM Nov., p. 58), states: “This journal does not care twi hoots whether UNO and it Trusteeship Council are offende< by anything that happens in th( PaciAc, or not”.

But I still wonder that the P/ik should have considered that th« Tapmi affair would have been “Mon ammunition for UNO”— particularly as I have said, as Tapini is ir Papua.

I also wonder if it is universally undei stood that the Trusteeship Council has absolutely no authority whatsoever with regard to New Ouinea Administration affairs.

Article 2 of the Trusteeship Agreement states:— The Government of Australia (hereinafter called the Administering Authority) is hereby designated as the sole authority which shall exercise the administration of the territory.

I have lost count of the number of times the Australian representative has had occasion to draw the attention of certain TC members to that section.

The position of Australia is quito clear. She entered into an agreement with the UN to administer New Guinea in such a manner as to achieve the basic objectives of the International Trusteeship System as set forth in Article 76 of the Charter; and it must be accepted that this agreement was concluded m good faith.

Australia will submit to the UN an annual account of her stewardship (Annual Report) and she will arrange, at times suitable to Australia and to the Council, for a Visiting Mission to tour where it will in New Guinea.

Australia would be glad of helpful suggestions concerning administration in any of its branches: and is always willing to give due consideration to any serious and genuine criticism. What Australia will not do—and she has made it plain beyond all doubt—is to, in any way, share her responsibility for the administration of New Guinea either with the Trusteeship Council as a whole, or with any members or member thereof.

Although a number ot memuers or the Council, from its inception until now, have uttered criticisms of administrative policy in New Guinea (the Administrative Union with Papua, for instance) only one member of the Council has accused Aus- 122 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia lia of lack of good faith in carry- ; out of the trusteeship agreent—and that was the USSR. One ler has implied it: that being ssia’s SS. (In UN-ese, “Syrian iitnik”.) Neither can be taken seriously. » May I now state that I DO wlieve that the actions of the J -NG Administration ARE inluenced by the UNO. And may 1 ay further that until such time is Australia declares that a rusteeship over New Guinea is 10 longer necessary (the objectives )f the International Trusteeship System, as applicable to New Guinea, being substantially ichieved) I trust her administraion of the Territory will be influenced by UN opinion. And 1 relieve that Australia, as a member of the UN mil spare no effort )o contribute to the formation of \hat opinion. ro try and put it another ;annot visualise Australia in these itters as other than a member the UN, a member who does not ?k to dominate and, equally, cant be dominated by other members, le is entirely free to accept or to ject any suggestions or advice ered her regarding her adminisations of trust territories and I List express my personal opinion at one or more of the other -81 embers of UN should be able to me up with a suggestion which I of us might accept.

Has the International Trusteeship 'stem achieved anything?

May I quote the United Nations ay Message to Trust Territories nt out on October 24, 1957, by Mr.

D. L. Hood, the Trusteeship Duncil President. Mr. Hood is a asmanian.

On the twelfth anniversary of the United tions, I am privileged in my capacity of esident of the Trusteeship Council, to tend to the peoples of the governments the Trust Territories the greetings of the uncil.

The International Trusteeship System tablished by the United Nations has now ierated for almost 11 years and, it is atifying to note, has operated well. At e beginning of this year, the Trusteeship jreement for Togoland under British Iministration was terminated, the objectives the International Trusteeship System having icn achieved in that territory. Great ogress has also been made in the other ust Territories in the political as well as e economic, social and educational fields.

I wish to take this opportunity to point the unfailing interest which the United stions attaches to the well-being of the •oples of the Trust Territories and to isure them that the United Nations in i-operation with the administering authorities mcerned, will spare no effort in promoting leir progressive development toward the )ble objectives of the International Trusteelip System.

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White Collars A scheme for training natives s qualified tradesmen appears to »e overcoming the preference of nany natives of Papua-New juinea for “white collar” jobs.

PHIS is one of several important problems which the infant scheme is meeting in its formtive years.

One member of the Native .pprenticeship Board said recently hat he thought that as more natives ook up apprenticeships, the idea f being a tradesman would become lore popular.

Already, he said, he was receiving lany ’inquiries from boys eager to ecoine skilled artisans.

The scheme for apprenticing atfves came into being only in 1955, iut by 1957 there were 150 apprentices erving their time at various trades hroughout the Territory. Early in 958, the number will be about 200.

Chairman of the Apprenticeship Joard, Mr. J. Hohnen, who is genral manager of New Guinea Goldields Ltd., and an MLC, said the loard is now looking for ways of iroadening the scheme.

Against Dirty Hands It was studying the possibility of idding such avenues of employment is planter’s assistant and technical toreman to the list of trades to V'hich boys could become apprenticed. ; “The greatest danger I see is the lative who has been educated at school and then thinks he should lot get his hands dirty”, said Mr. rlohnen.

“These types of people have caused problems in other countries.”

In some parts of Africa, such natives were “churned out” by Missions and Government schools.

They had flooded the market because they had not been prepared to accept a trade.

“I don’t believe in the over-production of literates unless they can at into the economy of the country,” he said.

“What we have to stress to the natives is pride in craftsmanship and show them that they don’t have to be ‘white collar’ workers to get good money. We must emphasise the dignity of trade training.”

Mr. W. C. Gee, chief engineer of the Posts and Telegraph Department and a member of the Native Apprenticeship Board, said he thought the problem of natives seeking “white collar” jobs was already working itself out.

He said the problem arose because in the immediate post-war years clerks and office workers were needed by the administration and there were plenty of opportunities for natives to take up that kind of work.

"Not a Problem"

He found that apprentices who were satisfied with their jobs talked about the scheme to their young friends and interested them in becoming tradesmen.

“I don’t think native interest in white collar work will be a big problem in the future,” he said.

On another question, Mr. Hohnen said that European tradesmen m the Territory should not fear that native apprentices would displace them. .

He said that for some years to come there would be ample room for native tradesmen —more so than for clerks.

When the time came that there were sufficient native tradesmen to do the work, Europeans would be needed to oversee as foremen and leading hands.

“If a European tradesman, with his background and educational advantages, is frightened that a native, starting from scratch, will take over his job he shouldn’t be here.

“If he can’t grade up when the time comes he should grade out, Mr. Hohnen added. — AAP-REUTER.

New Building in Apia A new building, belonging to Angus MacDonald and Co. Ltd., at Savalalo, is a handsome addition to the growing business area of Apia, W. Samoa. The corner shop is now occupied by the newly formed Public Service Co-operative Store, which with over 800 public-servant members, has had a very promising beginning. Photo: Forsgren's Studio 125 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY.

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In its move towards selfg-governmemt, Western Samoa, in October, Iost one of its old-established institutions-the Fono of Faipule, or Samoan Parliament. This photograph of the 14. members and official was. taken outside the meeting huse.

Photo: Forsgren's Studio.

Amongst passengers from Auckland on December "Tofua" were: Messrs. E and K. Tuinukuafe and Miss A.

Fakalata, returning to Tonga after teachertraining in NZ.

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Samlal, teacher trainees in Auckland, were homeward bound for Lautoka, Fiji.

A. Huni, B, Finau, N. J. Ngalu Kalaniuvalu, and J. Foliaki, all of Tonga, and M. Fenn of Fi|i, who were on vacation from the Marist Seminary at Greenmeadow, NZ.

Photos: J. P. Shortall. 126 JANUARY. 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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On the other side of the ledger, ss Mariane Norbonne, of Adelaide, irking on a bursary offered by the ;w Caledonian Government, has st passed the second part of her chalaureat —the first Australian er to do so in New Caledonia, le now has the right of entry into ench Universities.

Miss Norbonne is a brilliant adent from Adelaide.

Mr. and Mrs. Noel Levy, old sidents of Fiji—they now live in tirement near Korolevu, on the autiful southwest coast of Viti wu—passed through Sydney in ecember. They were en route for ie Far East, on a holiday planned extend over three months.

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he number of Niueans in Western Samoa indicated by this photograph (right) which ws a group outside the store of a oorative society which they have formed, h them is the Resident Commissioner of e, who was visiting Apia when the photoph was taken. Photo: Forsgrens' Studio Mr. Jack Reid, well-known Territorial was arried to Miss Lucy Hamilton in the Roman atholic Church, Port Moresby, on December 4. Miss Hamilton has been a Health Dept, ietitian for a number of years.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 127

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Mr. Justice Mann’s view that re had been insufficient evidence put Avila on his trial (so that would thus be kept in custody) ; not the view of the High Court, la could have been committed trial.

Anderson had kept Avila only a loose kind of arrest.

Dangerous Territory ' On a question of punishment, case of the individual had to be en into account. Anderson had n a trusted servant of the Crown, h a creditable record, working a dangerous territory with little and great responsibility. His ions had brought him to disaster, i his life must appear to him be in ruins. These were matters be considered. • Anderson’s total gaol sentences 21 months would therefore be )wed to expire on the date he i been allowed bail to attend the Deal.

Editorial Comment NYONE who heard the High . Court consider the Anderson appeal would have been left in :le doubt that the court was are of the dangers in confusing ? ordinary processes of law with 3 job of administering New Guinea tives.

Dne of the dangers, the Court arly felt, was that the rights of 3 individual could be overlooked.

Fhe Chief Justice, Sir Owen Kon, put into words what appeared be the general feeling of the urt when he commented at one ige of proceedings: T can quite understand that the Iministration must be very firm d very definite in repressing all tempts to exercise a personal thority outside the law—it must otect the natives.

“But there are, of course, two stinct things—there is the adminrative authority over the officer id the manner in which he is dealt ,th administratively, and there is e criminal law. And the criminal w is, of course, a very different atter, and it is that which we ive to consider.”

To this comment, Mr. Shannon, t the Crown, made this reply: ; do concede that you can’t, as it ere, punish merely from a view- >int of creating a situation for ;her members, without taking into jcount the individual as well.”

These comments, and some others \ae them, were made because the High Court judges obviously felt they were relevant to what Sir Ow<jn Dixon at one stage referred to as the “extraordinary” Anderson case.

They were not meant to suggest that Mr. Justice Mann had dealt with Anderson on the basis of what would be best for the Administration.

There cannot be any doubt that Mr. Justice Mann, as one would expect, dealt with the matter purely on the basis of the law.

The High Court’s main criticism of his judgment was that in some the" evidence. ' On the question of the severity of the punishment, Sir Owen Dixon himself pointed out that this was a matter always open to wide interpretation by the judiciary everywhere with different judges adopting different attitudes.

But the result of it all has justified the indignant public outburst thnt followed Anderson’s original arrest and the wide support he got affpfhfs convicSon f SdtL main lesson in it all must now be absorbed not by the judiciary, hut bv the P-NG Administration.

K toclrVoSt Z work are individuals first, and instruments of policy only second.

The field staff have been asked to do too much, for too long, while the going has been tough. Now that it is easing up, it is not good psychology, or good manners, to begin treating them like the common hired help, owed nothing—not even a little understanding in their efforts to understand the changing circumstances of the last year or two.

New Guinea has not yet quite finished being a pioneering country, and if the Administration talked a little less about its wondrous partnership of black and white, and did something to repair the mess it is making of the partnership of white and white, the Territory would advance a lot more smoothly.- S.I.

He Plans To Return

Anderson, dismissed from his tax-free £1,740-a-year job following his conviction, is currently living with his wife and their newly-born first child, Prudence, in Newcastle, NSW.

But he plans to return to Papua to work on his own account, possibly as a coffee planter in the Goilala area.

Deputy High Commissioner in Micronesia Y “slow boat from Guam” the May-June issue of the US Trust Territory official journal Micronesian Reporter, just to hand, reports the appointment of a new Deputy High Commissioner for Micronesia.

The appointee, Mr Eugene R.

Gilmartin, reached Guam headquarters from the US coincident with the departure of High Commissioner Delmas H. Nucker for hospital treatment there, Mr. Gilmartin, a lawyer, has recently been Civilian Aide, to Secretary of the Navy at Washington He served with the US from 1942 to 1947, having earner oeen in ia ST from George Washington University. 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JANUARY.

Anderson Case (from page 24)

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tralia and to the Rabaul mill w be on prices subject to negotiate —and such prices presumably w be regulated by the Unilever pri< which in turn is regulated by t free world market.

For provisional price, paid on wtu Rabaul, m January, see page 160.

Solomons And Gilbert An

ELLICE The copra output will be deliver! to a Copra Marketing Board whic in turn, has made arrangements dispose of the bulk of its copra, du ing 1958, to Unilever, on an arrangi ment similar to that made for Papi and New Guinea.

FIJI There is no official marketing ir strumentality—producers now ms sell where they please.

The chief factor here regulatir the market is the price at whic copra will be purchased by tt Carpenter mill in Suva, whic henceforth is broadcast from Suv once a week. The first broadcast b the mill (Island Industries Ltd.; made on Wednesday, January offered the following prices in Fijia currency, on wharf in Suva: (To convert to Australian currency add approximately one-eighth.) “ The Suva mill’s price in earll January appeared to be about £ less than the MOF contract pric: which ruled until December 31, bui about £2 better than the worl« market price, cif, European port Comparisons are difficult, howeverbeing complicated by currency ex: change differences, and by the cost of transportation (freight, insur ance, handling, shrinkage) between Fiji and Europe.

TONGA The output of Vavau and Haapi goes to Unilevers, on a Philippinesbased price. The Tongatabu output is for the free market —it may go to USA, if the price is attractive The Government gathers anc markets the copra.

Western Samoa

All copra produced is delivered tc a Copra Board. During 1958, all copra will go (through C. and Co. Ltd., London, which acts also for Tonga) to Unilever, whiclr has undertaken to pay the Philippines rate of the previous month, plus £3 per ton for hot-air-dried, 25/- for sun-dried No. 1; payment} on arrival of the shipping documents in London. * * * For latest Philippines’ prices, seeE page 160.

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Dne of Fiji’s most popular and pected merchants, Mr. Ledwedge thur Lawlor (known always as 3S” Lawlor), died in Suva on Denber 14, aged 66. He had suffered ich illness in recent years. 3e was a Melbournite, and in his ms he entered the service of the JSN Company, and became an ustant purser, and later a purser, some of the well known liners the Australian coast. His service the ships introduced him to Fiji; d, in 1914. when only 23, he settled Suva as secretary of the Fiji tipping Co. Ltd.

Within a year, however, Mr. wlor had gone to World War I as member of the Second Fiji Consent; and he was gassed once id wounded twice in the fighting . the Western Front.

He returned to the Fiji Shipping j.’s secretaryship, and remained ere until the Co. was absorbed by orris Hedstrom Ltd. in 1924, when ; became the big firm’s shipping anager. He joined Mr. A. E. Pearce forming Pearce & Co. Ltd., in 30; and in 1949 he bought out r. Pearce’s interests, and carried i the company as managing irector. He semi-retired, and avelled extensively, in the early ifties.

Mr. Lawlor was keenly interested i sports—especially football —and »ok an active part in the com- .ittees controlling various organisaons and clubs, and in the Serviceten’s Associations.

“Les” was a famous host, and ived convivial company. He had lends and well-wishers all around re world. , In 1919, Mr. Lawlor married Miss iieen Nicholson, a member of a ell known Fiji pioneer family, and ley had two children —Mrs. W. J. [alley and Mr. B. D. G. Lawlor, now ssidents of Suva.

Mr. Ray Galloway

The death occurred in Rabaul, lew Guinea, on December 21 of Mr. lay Galloway, one of the town’s icst-known and hardest working itizens.

Mr. Galloway was manager of lobert Gillespie (NG) Ltd., joining he firm when the parent Sydney ;ompany opened its New Guinea übsidiary company in Rabaul in .048, but he had had a long career n the Territory before that.

He went to New Guinea in the nid-twenties for the Ex-Propriation Soard and after some years went to ;he British Solomons. He was in Slorth Queensland when war broke 3ut. He enlisted from there, later transferring to the YMCA Field Unit and seeing service in the Solomons Campaign and in Bougainville. In Port Moresby, in early 1946, he joined the then Production Control Board.

After he settled in Rabaul he began to take a prominent part in the community life of the district. He was the first post-war secretary of the New Guinea Club, and a member of the New Britain Advisory Council until his death. He was a trustee of the P-NG Museum and of the Queen Elizabeth Park, but probably the work to which he devoted most of his free time and enthusiasm was that done on behalf of the Boy Scouts’ Association. He was Commissioner of Scouts in the NB District and the strength of the present membership is a tribute to his work.

Scouts and Sea Scouts of all races formed a guard of honour at his funeral—at which there were three services. Two ministers of the Methodist Church conducted a religious service; Major Don Barrett conducted an Ex-Serviceman’s service; and Mr. T. M. Wilson conducted a service on behalf of the local Masonic Lodge.

Galloway by leading citizens.

At the time of his death be was believed to be in his early 50’s. He was unmar ried.

Capt Joseph Coste

A shocking accident on November 30 caused the death of Captain Joseph Coste, 30, Army doctor of the Noumea hospital. Dr. Coste was swimming 100 yards from the shore when he was struck by a speed boat which inflicted terrible wounds from which he died, The speed boat was driven by a boy of 13 and was towing a youthful aquaplaner.

The doctor was very popular, and had arrived from France in September; he was not married.

The accident has shocked Noumea snc j n i s hoped that overdue action vvil i be taken to prevent people from using the public beaches for their Gyrations.

M . Rene Petre

and R resoect«l' ‘New*’ 6 Caledonian family, died in Noumea in December. 131 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY.

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MR. C. D. BARFORD During his seven years’ residence Fiji as manager of the Bank New Zealand, Mr. C. D. Barford ik a keen interest in public affairs, d made many friends; and they re shocked when he died suddenly December 21, from a coronary dusion. ie had been under hospital treating but apparently was making a 3d recovery.

SAv. Barford was aged 58, and was se to retirement. He had had 43 ars’ service with the Bank —all of except for one year in London d seven years in Suva —in New aland.

Vlrs. Barford, well known and pular in Suva, survives him.

IR. W. P. (WILLIE) BROWNE Mr. William Parau Browne, a ill known Rarotonga resident, died ere on November 14, aged 73 years.

Mr. Browne is best remembered visitors to the island as the unified figure sitting in the open mt seat of an ancient truck, whose ay bore a typical Cook Islands ind dispensing rousing hula music, the truck swept round the island i “picture days” shedding hand- 11s en route.

Mr. Browne’s Royal Hall was for a ng period, until recent years, the ily public hall and picture theatre on the island. He was also associated with the retail trade and was probably at one time the leading figure in the Cook Islands business world if the New Zealand-owned firms are excepted.

His Nikao home was the centre of much of the island’s gay life and hospitality, and many a stranger from overseas has attended some island feast there.

Mr. Browne was a member of the Island Council from the First World War until 1947, and was again elected in 1950, when he was also elected to the Cook Islands Legislative Council.

He represented the Cook Islands at the Second South Pacific Conference in 1953.

On the death of his first wife several years ago, Mr. Browne again married and is survived by his second wife and by many children.

M. Paul Berton

The death occurred in Noumea, New Caledonia, in early December, of M. Paul Berton.

M. Berton had just recently retired from the Nickel Co., where he was an engineer for 32 years.

During his service with the company he was responsible for many of the improvements at the smelters in Noumea and also at the mining centre at Thio.

Mr. Joseph Michael

Mr. Joseph Michael, who served v/ith distinction in the Fijian First Battalion in the Solomons in World War 11, with rank as Company Sergeant Major, was killed in an accident at Penang, in Fiji, on December 27. He was employed by the CSR Company, and fell off a bridge, and died from severe head Injuries.

He was well known and esteemed.

He was 48, and unmarried.

Rev. Father Benjamin

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The Rev. Father Briand, veteran Marist missionary of Western Samoa, died suddenly in Auckland, where he had been receiving medical treatment, on December 6, aged 70 years.

Father Briand went to the Samoan Mission from France in 1911 and had worked there ever since. At the time of his death he was in charge of the training college for Samoan catechists, and editor of a Samoan Catholic monthly magazine.

The Requiem Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, was attended by large numbers of Samoans resident in Auckland.

Fr. Briand’s body was sent back to Samoa for burial.

Mrs. G. H. Massy-Baker

We have received advice that Mrs.

G. H. Massy-Baker, aged about 70, died in Nuriootpa, South Australia, last August.

She was the widow of a one-time Resident Magistrate of the Gulf Division of Papua and she herself kept a trade store for many years on the beach not far from the Kerema Government Station.

Mrs. Massy-Baker left Papua in the evacuation at the end of 1941 Allied War Memorial One of the first duties performed by the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir John Gutch, after his return to Honiara, BSIP, in November, was the unveiling of the recently completed Allied War Memorial.

The memorial, which was designed by the BSIP Government architect, Mr. H. S.

Barnes, is a 12 ft. high rectangular column, faced with pebbled concrete, and flanked by the fags of Great Britain, Australia, BSIP, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Zealand and the United States, all of whose soldiers fought and died in the liberation of the Solomons.

Photo: A. de Theye. 133 ACIFI.C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY.

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Mr. A. R. Pechotsch

The death occurred in Lae, Ne Guinea, on December 18, of m Albert Raimund Pechotsch, who lesidence in Papua-New Guim dates back to 1912. He was 80.

After he first arrived in Po Moresby he was employed on tl technical staff of the Departmei of Public Works. Later he resign* and joined the BNG Companv manufacture trade tobacco fro’ l9cal leaf grown at Katea, just ou side the town. The venture failei the factory closed down and he wei to Oro Bay to manage a plantatio for the company until recalled t Moresby to be BNG shipping mar ager.

His next venture was gol prospecting around Milne Bay, an after this a radio repair shop i Port Moresby, where he remaine until the outbreak of the Pacifi War.

He joined the Allied Works Coun cil and travelled all over Australi analysing soil for emergency land mg strips. After the war he remaine 9 n m Queensland doing a simila job, this time for the Main Road Commission.

He retired three years ago an* for the last year has been livin, with a son-in-law and daughter ii Lae.

He is survived by three marriet daughters (Claire, who lives in Aus tralia; Norris, wife of Mr. Denni Cahell, Lae, NG; and Eileen, wif of Mr. Clarence Healy, Westen Papua), 12 grandchildren and si; great-grandchildren.

Dr. G. Kroening

The death occurred in Decembe cl Dr. G. Kroening, of Tobero: Bougainville, who had been in poo health for some time.

Dr. Kroening was Governmen Medical Officer at Kieta during thi German regime and married Mis Frances Highley in 1914. He ha been resident at Toberoi for over 4 years. (Details of Dr. Kroening’s caree: will appear in the February issui of PIM). t Madame Ingeborg de Beausacq, j famous New York photographer am traveller, returned to USA, via Sydi ney, in December. In the course ot a leisurely tour in the South Pacific she spent some time in Fiji, the Nev Hebrides and New Guinea. She waj in the Sepik area of New Guinea between July and December, am she spent a fortnight on Mananr Island, leaving just before th* volcano’s last big eruption. 134 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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HHE Soviet scientific ship Vitiaz L visited Fiji in December, making some kind of history as the rst Soviet ship to do so.

The ship visited Rabaul, New ruinea, last year.

The Vitiaz, a ship built especially Dr ocean study and owned by the nstitute of Oceanology at Moscpw, ; a floating scientific institution ontaining 12 laboratories in which 0 scientists work. It is Russia s ontribution to the International Geophysical Year, and is claimed to le the largest survey ship of its :md in the world.

The captain of the ship, Captain sirgeer, has been in command of he ship on many occasions.

Of the 75 scientists, 15 are vomen. One of the most prominent s Miss Filatova, a Doctor of Science, md head of the Bentos laboratory :or the study of marine life.

They are studying geology of the seabed, chemistry of seawater, jiology of the sea from bacteria to fish, and physics of oceanology, among other things.

During the ship’s five-day stay in Suva, members of the expedition visited the coral reefs, played against local sports teams and shopped.

Almost every member of the ship’s company carried a camera.

At left Lady Garvey, wife of the Governor Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, looks apprehensive ile Sir Ronald looks thoughtful at someng Russian scientist Professor Beniamin gorov has to say to them about the Thing the Bottle. The occasion was the unicial visit of Sir Ronald and Lady Garvey the Russian survey ship "Vitiaz when visited Suva in December.

At right, Captain Sirgeer of "Vitiaz", and ofessor Bogorov speaking with members of e Fiji Legislative Council. (Left to right) tu K. Mara, Caotain Sirgeer, Professor gorov, Ratu Penaia Ganilau, D. 5.0., Ratu ward Cakobau, 0.8. E., M.C., and Dr Sahu an—the latter being an Indian member ot e Council.

For photograph of the ship, see page 117.

Fiji PRO Photos. 135 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT-JANUARY.

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WORK [?]pe To Solve hortage Of hips' Masters HE Co-operative Educational Centre at Port Moresby is to conduct a new pre-examination irse for ships’ masters this year, rhis is in addition to the normal ining courses conducted by the itre for co-operative storemen d advanced training for coerative inspectors who are erased by native co-operative rhe new course is intended to able competent seamen to sit for 3 examination for their Certificate Masters of vessels of under 50 is. The Administration Superinident of Marine has offered full -operation in conducting the urse.

Fhe trustees of the educational ntre are sponsoring the course, as though this type of training is not ■ictly related to co-operative actives, the lack of sufficient ships’ asters for coastal vessels is a seris handicap to the co-operative ganisation, and also many ships e, or could, be operated by native mmunities to the ultimate benefit agricultural production.

Therefore, the course will be open all qualified men and not rericted to those employed by co- >eratives.

The Co-operative Educational mtre has classroom, dormitory and essing accommodation for 40 udents, and since it first opened March, 1956, six courses have ;en conducted and 107 young men ained for positions with cojerative organisations. Teaching aff and general supervision of the >,ntre is provided by the Admimsation.

All capital and maintenance excuses are financed from funds subsided by the co-operative groups iroughout the Territory, with the riginal capital expenditure having een greatly assisted by grants from le Commonwealth Bank.

In the Territory now, there are 14 co-operative societies, 12 ssoci#tions of sociteties and one fedration of native associations, all of 'hidh have given financial support d the educational centre, and have ?ceived benefits from it through the raining of their officials and emloyees.

Cook Islands police were, in anuary, investigating the death of :utai Ma Ua, male, aged 20, said o have been killed in a “bush-beer”- ?arty fight on Christmas Eve at Uiu Island.

Fiji Has Thieves and Hooligans AN extraordinary amount of petty thieving has been reported in Fiji in recent weeks.

The police are active and alert, and quite a number of thieves— youths mostly—have been picked up and gaoled; but the trouble lies m the number of newcomers who seem to be drifting into crime.

A young Fijian who was sent to prison for several weeks had apparently just grabbed at anything lying around loose —articles in stores, bits of equipment in kitchens, clothing left lying beside swimming pools.

Ram Jag, of Lautoka. awakened on New Year’s Eve to find that his two cows had been taken away overnight.

Pastor P. D. R. Wenker, a Latter Day Saints missionary, went fora swim on New Year’s Day, at Wamiyabia Beach. Whence returned to his clothes his travelling money Fijian, £5 Tongan, and 50 Lb dollars) had disappeared.

There may be more in this than just an epidemic of sneak-thieving.

Old residents of Fiji fear that present-day conditions in the bigt,er towns —especially Suva and Lautoka -are breeding a race of young hooligans among Fijians and Indians.

The first sign of this kind of social degeneracy is lack of respect for other people’s property.

There was evidence of this undesirable element in the behaviour of the sugarmill strikers in Lautoka and Ba last month.

Miss Ginette Retard, daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. Ratard, of Santo, New Hebrides, will be married in St Patrick’s Church, Sydney, on February 8, to Mr. Frederick J. dark There will be a reception, later, at the Starlight Room of the Hotel Australia.

PACIFIC AIR BASE: The extent to which the Royal New Zealand Air Force sration at Laucala Bay, Suva, has grown, is shown in this aerial photograph The st ation takes up whole foreground of the picture; Suva harbour is shown in the background. 137 > A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY,

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nperor And Lolonm EMPEROR Gold Mining Co. Ltd., k of Fiji, disclosed no profit in the year ended June 30 last. But it covered 61,430 ounces of gold from 4,000 tons of ore treated, which is •out its usual average. It has about 0,000 tons or ore in sight, lor eatment. , J .

All the returns from gold, plus a »od deal taken from reserves, was ient during the year on mine dedopment—about £122,000.

The Emperor has been a mighty oney-spinner, and has accumuted large reserves. Its directors do it like paying out, to tax-gatherers, ly more taxes than seem reasonale Most of the shareholders are i Australia. The Co. may not aject to paying to the Fiji Governlent a tax on the profits it makes i Fiji; but it naturally resents Ausalian taxation methods, which •eats the dividends as new income, nd taxes them again.

So, for the year ended last June, iere is no dividend at all for Emeror shareholders; but, through line development, there is a large icr ease in the value of the shareolders’ property.

Loloma Gold Mines Ltd. (Emperor’s sister, also a moneyspinner) now derives no profit from mining (it has ceased mining opera Hons Intirely) but it made a profit for the year £97,318. This came fro m “Investments” - accumulated profits made in 20 years total about £IS million.

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At a General Meeting of the Highlands Farmers; and Settlers’ Association at Goroka, New Guinea, in December, it was decided to go ahead with a scheme of admitting local native farmers as members of the Association.

Details have yet to oe worked out, but this is being left to the Executive Committee The Association has been leased a block of land m the business section of Goroka and it was decided to erect an IC ~ building on it. It was decided also to make further enquiries relating to a visit to Netherlands New Guinea to examine agricultural development m that Territory.

ABOVE: Miss Marie Ah Leong and Mr. Neil Johansson, who were recently married at the holic Cathedral, Milivai, W. Samoa. In the picture also aer Mr. A. Adams, Miss E. Krause, R. Stowers, Miss Ah Leong, Mr. H. Gentles, Miss L. Crawley. Picrured at RIGHT: Amongst anders who returned home from New Zealand by the December 'Tofua" were, Mr Y. Vivian d Miss M. Maragi who have been stbying in New Zealand, and Miss Pesi, for the lidays; Mr. and Mrs. V. Toma, who were homeward bound for Apia, who was urnig to Niue and was bing farewelled by her brother Togalea.

Photos: Forsgren's Studio, and J. P. Shortall. 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT-JANUARY.

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Of these, the GSR Company imported 98 Jerseys, as part of its plan to help establish a dairying industry in the rich Rewa district.

The Rewa area is being re-planned, to take care of the closing Nausori sugar-mill at the end of next year.

Another lot of 58 stud dairy cattle were imported for the Methodist Mission’s Agricultural School at Navuso.

Sailing from Sydney for P-NG on ''Malaita'', st before Christmas were the following:- Mr. and Mrs. A. Zuwerra-Glutz who rerned to Lae at the end of an 18-month [?]liday taking in the West Indies, Panama [?]d Europe. Mr. Zuwerra-Glutz has been in e Islands since 1938 and for the last years has been with the Administration.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Donald returned on the Malaita" to Madang, where Mr. Donald orks with Burns Philo and Co Mr. [?]nald had just completed five months leave Sydney. Also pictured is Miss Shirley ilson, sister of Mrs. Donald, who returned Rabaul.

Mr and Mrs. E. J. Emannuel (who returned Rabaul with their two children) after months leave in Sydney. Mr. Emannuel an Assistant District Officer with the dministration.

Mrs. B. McDade who returned to Madang [?] rejoin her husband and two children after n absence of six months. Also pictured is [?] rs. L. Williamson, of Sydney.

Recently merried at the L.M.S Church Moto'otua, w. Samoa, were S.M.P Faleto'ese and Thelma, daughter of S.M.P. and Mrs. . To gamau. Shown (l. to r.) L. Eves, E. Samuelu, groom and bride, Miss K. Tofaeono and M. Fa amau. Photo: Forsgren's Studio. 141 ■ ICIFIO ISLANDS MONTHL Y-JAND ABY,

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Fijians Get Their Gift Islands Back A GROUP of four limestone islands referred to as the Yagasa Cluster in Southern Lau, Fiji, which were given away by the Fijians 77 years ago, have now reverted to the descendants of the original owners.

The Fijians disposed of them in a more expansive age: They went as a token of esteem to Sir Arthur Gordon (later Lord Stanmore) who was Governor for about six years from 1875.

In a note to what he has to say about the Cluster, in his excellent book, The Fiji Islands, R. A. Derrick says that the group “is still owned by Lord Stanmore’s successors”.

That w r as in 1951; the islands were actually bought by the Fiji Land Trust Board for £F2,780 in 1953 the idea being that they should be allocated to local Fijians, who would buy them from the Board.

Evidently there were no takers; the Fiji Government has now bought them from the Board for the price the Board paid and will “give them to the descendants of the original Fijian owners”.

There is no record of the Cluster having done Lord Stanmore or his heirs much good—apart from the £F2,870 in 1953; and the people of Moce have traditionally gathered coconuts from two of the islets, so it is understandable if they were not interested in paying some thousands of pounds for something they have always had for nothing.

Derrick describes the islands “without permanent inhabitants*’.

And they are, in fact, almost uninhabitable. Their shores are precipitous and undercut and it is Impossible to land on the largest o them, Yagasa Levu, except in ver; calm weather, from canoes.

Rabaul Wedding Mr. Alan Stanley Filer and Miss Janie Convary were married recently at Rabai Methodist Church. Picture shows, left [?] right, front, the bridegroom and bride; M Jim Castle; Mrs. Val Morrison. At real Mr and Mrs. C. J. Convary (parents of th bride); the Rev. lan Pardon; Mr. Peter Childs Mr. Lionel Quick; and Miss Gay Convary.

Photo: C. H. Meer 142 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L.

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ji To Become oducer Of Cocoa HE Colony of Fiji will begin exporting cocoa before the end of 1958. , - Vbout 30 villages have areas ot acres or more planted under •oa The Agriculture Department w reports that 1,356 acres are der cocoa, owned by 526 farmers, ropeans are interested—one comny has planted up 200 acres Fijians represent 93 per cent, of r°h a e B FUian S s are showing a lively erest in the new crop. The Dertment is supplying see dlmgs to em from 10 nurseries,” f ound the mam islands of Viti vu, Vanua Levu and Taveum The Indians do not seem inrested—lndian agriculture is conmed more with sugar-cane and The two South Pacific Territories iich now produce cocoa on a large ale, and profitably, imoa and New Guinea; and it has sen noted that the best cocoa in ,th countries comes from areas tiich carry much “volcanic soil, ji has no history of recent volcanic jtivity; but the experts say that ie soil, in some parts, is very suit- )le. [IHE cocoa production of Samoa L and New Guinea, before World far 11, was modest. There was a larket, but it was not exciting— mfectionary manufacturers everyhere based their buying on irmulae which called mostly for ;est African cocoa beans.

World War 11, and developments hich followed, upset all that, amoa, which seldom sold more dan £50,000 worth of cocoa per nnum prior to 1940, had a revenue f one million pounds per annum rom cocoa by the mid-fifties. New Guinea’s cocoa output was worth round £lO,OOO p.a. before the war; iy the mid-fifties it was around 250,000, and increasing.

Under the stimulus of high prices, he world’s production of cocoa has :ept on growing. The price in very ecent years slumped from around ;500 per ton to about £225; but even a £225 it was profitable. It now lag climbed back to over £3po per ;on, and is improving.

Cocoa-growing is a pleasant as veil as a profitable occupation; so, vhile the price remains at oyer £250 per ton, production must increase—until, some day, it may overbake demand.

But that day is not in sight, yet; and meanwhile cocoa has over coconuts the advantages that it can be brought to production in half the time of coconuts; it can be easily- handled with virtually unskilled labour; and the world demand shows no sign of petering out.

Cocoa production may become an important political as well as an economic factor in Fiji.

Much Governmental thought and energy now is being concentrated on a quick change-over in Fijian community life —from the present communal village system to an individualistic system calculated to stand up against the thrust of the lapidly growing Indian population.

The cultivation of bananas (now a big industry) and of cocoa by the Fijian village landowners may be the answer.

High Cost Of Beetles

IN the four years after Rhinoceros Beetles were found in Fiji in March, 1953, the Colony expended £F217,000 on its campaign of restricting the spread of this coconut pest.

At first it was hoped to eradicate the beetle altogether, but this has not been achieved. The best that can be said is that it has been confined to Viti Levu—where there are no large plantations—and has been kept out of the copra growing areas of the Colony such as Taveuni, Vanua Levu and the Lau Islands.

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\fter years of toying about h the possibility of establishing ilf in Papua-New Guinea, stralian trade unionism has :ided to take up the question tously.

IE Australian Council of Trade Unions, the combined voice of Australian unions, will ask the imonwealth Government for m right of entry into P-NG. 0 make this possible, it wants >ur laws, “at least comparable 1 those in Australia”, to be exied to P-NG —and in fact to all tralian external territories. he ACTU demand is being made behalf of the building union ip, and follows a dispute been employees and management i Port Moresby building firm in November, which resulted in )loyees asking their unions in tralia for union representation J -NG. he Federal building unions—the IU, the Plumbers’, the Painters’ the Builders Labourers’ unions jacted by referring the matter to ACTU, and by putting out a ibined statement pointing out re were no labour laws in the irnal territories, and that embers could draw up their own Dloyment contracts, “and be the i interpreters”. he statement added, “Usually se contracts are made very at- ;tive on paper, but in fact are vily weighted against the work- This practice has time and in been condemned by the ons, but the Commonwealth yernment has not corrected the ition”. hould the ACTU achieve its ective, union spokesmen say it ild be unlikely the unions would ye into P-NG in full strength ially. The number of union mems available would not warrant ployment of full-time officials for ry union. ’robably as a first step, full-time retaries would look after the Lvities of several unions, with a our council co-ordinating.

'his organisation is similar to t operating in the Australian Dital Territory and some NSW vincial centres. lowever, the unions have yet to n entry. What the latest ACTU ve brings, will be interesting. (See comment, p. 18) W. Samoan Headaches

Financial Crisis

CONTINUES IT has been known for a long time that the Samoan Government has been in a precarious and most unsatisfactory financial position and that revenue is barely sufficient to cover expenditure.

The wasteful and unrealistic financial policy of the Government was severely criticised by the last Legislative Assembly, particularly by European members—but their warnings were disregarded.

The position is now critical, a fact disclosed by the Statement of Receipts and Payments for the nine months ended 30/9/57 recently published by the Samoan Treasury.

The Statement shows a balance of £205,448 On hand in the General Treasury Fund. Receipts for the period were £693,952 and expenditure £932,922, leaving a deficit of £238,970. The amount remaining in the Treasury is sufficient for only two months at past rate.

Only by the most stringent economy can the Government avoid complete insolvency.

It is clear that the financial difficulties of the Government, whatever happens, will continue right through 1958, and that the Government set-up will be faced with difficult and unpopular decisions.

Already the High Commissioner has indicated the need for additional taxation and for a severe pruning of Government expenditure, though the proposed reduction of Departmental Expenditure by 20 per cent. has already been found to be impossible without reduction of essential social services, particularly in health and education fields.

Though the unavailability of the grants by the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation has undoubtedly contributed to the present difficulties of the Government, it cannot oe considered the sole reason.

The previous assembly, which passed the Estimates were not financial experts and had to rely on the advice and knowledge of the Government experts, particularly of the Financial Secretary, who drew up and submitted the Estimates.

W. Samoa Correspondent.

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Mr. L. J. Lockie, an Australian, has been appointed secretary accountant to the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation. (This is the £1 million concern which the NZ Government has been running as New Zealand Reparation Estates since the end of World War I—they were former German estates. The establishment was handed over to the Samoans in 1957).

Mr. Lockie, apart from his other qualifications, holds a master’s certificate for seagoing vessels under 100 tons and was master of a trading vessel in New Guinea waters. —W. Samoan Correspondent.

Friendship between New Guinea and Dutch New Guinea was the keynote when Rabaul recently welcomed the Governor of Dutch New Guinea, Dr. J. Van Baal, during Dr. Van Baal's official tour of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Picture shows Dr. Van Baal addressing a dinner in his honour. With him are the TPNG Administrator, Brigadier D M. Cleland; and the wife of the acting New Britain District Commissioner, Mrs, M. B, Orken.

Photo C. H. Meen 145 , C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1958

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The Award Went to Darkest Africa One disconcerting thing about residents of the South Pacific is that they never seem to be in one place for any length of time.

We found this out last year when we made some photographic awards, Mr, Eric C. Adams, who took a photograph of a lifeboat being lowered away from Matua when that vessel went on a reef about a year ago, has never been located.

Apparently he was a passenger on Matua, who deposited his roll of film with a Suva processor and was then lest to sight.

The cover award, which went to Mrs. R. C. Short, then of Gizo, BSIP, we felt was to suffer the same fate, but in December we received a cheery letter from Mr. Short, from Natal, South Africa, to say that the cheque had finally caught up with them.

He writes: “We have not given up photography and have, in fact, had some success with local magazines—but my wife is temporarily out of the picture business as she has just given birth to a 71 lb son—both doing well. He looks like being photogenic, but it is a bit early to be sure. This is one of the reasons for our return to Darkest Africa, but once this and some other business has been settled we hope to renew our acquaintance with the Pacific.”

We hope so, too. Marjorie Short has supplied us with some excellent cover material—including the one on this month’s issue, Ata’s mother.

Happy Days Recalled “I wonder how many remember these old-timers of the Solomons,” writes Mr. Frank M. Street, now of Springfield Avenue, Potts Point, Sydney , and lists the following names: Norman Wheatley; Joe Buskin; Sam and Willie Atkinson; Captain Voy; “Bunny” Hug (“who had one blue eye, one grey”); “Billy Boy”

Bennett; Dick Laycock and his brother; Jock Cromer and his Maggie; Captain Robinson; and Symington, of Lever Bros.

Mr. Street says that he went to the Solomons in 1912, for Burns Philp and Co., and was stationed at the Gizo branch. Later he was for many years supercargo on the old Mindini. “In those days,” he writes, “the traders’ boat-day dress was a pair of immaculate pyja: which they donned to go as: from their schooners to do t business at the stores and to li on the Sydney steamer. ..In many friends amongst BSI reside and spent the happiest days of life there”.

The Pine Forests of Buin Well-known Methodist Mission the Rev. A. H. Voyce, of B TNG, has something exceedingly teresting to say about Klinkii % which, as reported in Bepten “PIM” (p. 71), is exceedingly ficult to establish as seedling pU in its natural habitat, the W Bulolo area of New Guinea.

He writes: I thought it might interest to know that at the time of Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, made application to the Fore Department in Lae, New Guinea, suitable trees for ceremonial ph ing on that day, and, amoi others, they sent us a quantltj Klinkii Pine seedlings. These 1; made amazing growth in the si period since, and are 20 feet hi some have trunks eight inches diameter already.

About 18 months ago, an off of the Department of Forests round this way, and he was ams at their growth, and carefully nc and measured each one, and recor them, stating that they would checked again whenever anot officer came this way.

He then pointed out the gi difficulty that was being experien in growing them at 2,000 to 3 feet, which is their natural envir ment, but here at sea level and ri on the coast they were flourishir Could it be that the vast B Flats might be a suitable area grow Klinkii Pine Forests?

The Breathless Army of BSIP A correspondent at Mandolia BSIP, gives us some amus additions to the account of Malaita expedition of 1927 (P.

October, p. 86), whose intention s to capture the native murderers: two European government offic; and their native police.

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“The accompanying photograph shows the CC’s parading at Tulagi.

The CC’s will always be remembered by the last few of us oldtimers, as ‘The Breathless Army’—self-named after their first day’s climb up the steep hills of Malaita.” t A native prisoner who escaped from the Oomsis Gaol, near Lae, NG, in December, is believed to have drowned.

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Fiji to Get a Port Authority NOTHER of the slow steps towards more efficient control of Fiji’s ports has been taken. ?he Governor, in mid-December, eived a report on the subject m Mr. A. C. Clarke, general man- ;r of the Auckland Harbour ard. He was commissioned by the vernor in 1956 to make the reand he inspected Fiji’s ports t February. r iji’s ports, for many decades, ve been under the control of the stoms Department. The system ved when Fiji’s shipping needs re limited; but Fiji outgrew the item long ago, and merchants aftd powners for long have been cry- -5 out for greater efficiency and ire modern methods in both port itallations and the movements of ids across the wharves. >ir Ronald Garvey made the first ive towards modernisation in >5. Two years have been absorbed finding an expert to report, and getting his report, vlr. Clarke, of course, has recommded the creation of a Port thority, to assume control of the rts of Suva and Lautoka, and to ie charge of other Fiji ports as paired.

Organisation and machinery are paired to (a) reduce the time ten up in the unloading of goods d their transfer from the wharves; i made provision that wharf sheds all not be used for indefinite >rage; (c) shorten the turnjund of ships; (d) make provision • adequate finance for both capital ;eds (installations) and the icient management of the ports.

The report makes it clear that le charges at present levied are t adequate to cover capital and erating expenditure at presenty levels”. In the past, the shorte has been bridged by Governsnt grant. Mr. Clarke apparently inks that port operations should self-supporting. Thus merchants and shipowners may expect bigger charges in Suva and Lautoka.

So far,’there is only a report. This must now be studied; a plan developed for the creation of a branch of the Government which will provide a Port Authority; another plan developed for providing finance; another plan made whereunder the port organisation and installations now operated by the Customs Department may be transferred smoothly to the new Authority; and then the whole thing must go through the Legislative Council for discussion, re-shaping where necessary, and final approval.

It’s a slow business—but it’s progress. t Mr. I. R. Anderson, aged 49, Town Clerk of Otahuhu, NZ, during the past six years, has been appointed Secretary-Accountant to the Gilbert and Ellice Is. Government at Tarawa.

He was to take up his appointment in January, and was to be accompanied by his wife and two young daughters. His four sons will remain in New Zealand.

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Atomic Energy is a New Year Subject FIRST of the United Nations commemoration stamps for 1958 will relate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently set up by the UNO. To symbolise the peaceful use of atomic energy, the stamp featured the UN badge spreading light on an atom. In late years atomic energy has been the subject of stamps from the USA, Russia, Japan, Belgium, Germany, to name but a few contributions. * ♦ * A new form of education and entertainment, Television, has been symbolised on a set of stamps put out by Czechoslovakia, showing a TV transmitter, aerial and receiver, with TV viewers. Not long ago other TV stamps issued in Germany, Italy, France and Luxembourg. * * * The Bird of Paradise appearing on the Netherlands New Guinea stamps is a more graceful and animated rendering of the unusual bird than those seen on the stamps of Papua and" New Guinea. “Life” has been added in a realistic way on the former printing. * * * Television is symbolised by a set of stamps put out by Czechoslovakia showing a TV transmitter, aerial and receiver.

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IHOUGH not much is heard of it, an active search of the South Pacific for old ship-wrecks, warle military dumps, and abandoned gineering enterprises of past years, s been under way over the past ar or so.

Scrap merchants are scanning arts, war histories, maritime pubations dealing with wrecks, and ery other publication likely to sld clues; and likely Island sidents, appearing in places like rdney and Auckland, are being ntly wined and dined in the press of extracting information which Lght lead to some forgotten hoard.

The wonder of it is that, with all e picking-over that the Pacific lands have had since the World ar II dumps were first raided, ere is still scrap to be found.

Part of the answer to this is that tter prices have made some of the 5S accessible material and some the smaller dumps an economic oposition. That there still is war rap, including non-ferrous metals, be found, even in main ports, as evidenced recently when a large ipment of metal left Pago Pago r Japan on "behalf of a New ;aland buyer. The same buyer is .ortly sending a representative to ahiti to organise the loading of a ipment there.

This consignment will probably elude much old sugar-mill achinery from the once famous fcimaono Plantation at the south the island, and possibly portions the wreck of the iron sailing issel La France on a French jlynesia reef.

A tiny item in October PIM men- 3ned the purchase of a number of recks in New Caledonian waters by New Zealand company. The ships volved are Anton, of about 4,500 ns; Snark, of about 5,000 tons; St. nils, of 1,300 tons, and the followg hulks or laid-up craft at oumea; Antoine, of 800 tons; the [g Tayo 11, and the vessels Pax, ontravel, and Port Bouquet.

Scrap merchants’ representatives are quietly visiting every South P'-ipifif* ffrnim in thp biff search while tacinc group m ine Dig searcn wnne the prices are right.

Suspected Nukualofa Killing TWO Tonga boys were arrested early December following the discovery of the body of a third boy on the roadside near Nukualofa.

It has been alleged that the deceased was pushed off the back of a motor truck travelling at high speed, and that the body was then robbed before being concealed amongst vegetation close to the road and lagoon.

Rabaul Baseball Players

Two of the teams who played in the 1957 premiership series in Rabaul, New Guinea. On the right is the CYO team which emerged as premiers (with Mustangs as runners-up); and on the left, the Norths, who also played in the series. Photo: C. H. Meen 151 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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The Lady Who Was

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ON January 31, at 3 p.m.—weather and air-gremlins permitting—a charming and smiling woman will step off a large plane at Nadi, Fiji, and will be greeted by a big, smiling man in ceremonial uniform.

All Royal protocol will be rigidly observed, as is proper and necessary when Her Majesty the Queen Mother —the former Queen Elizabeth— meets His Excellency the Governor of Fiji.

But they will not meet as strangers, or even as official acquaintances. Nor will they be meeting in Fiji for the first time.

Both may remember another occasion when they met, away back in 1927.

She then was young and very pretty, and she had been married to the King’s son, Albert, for only four years. Before that, she was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the famous old Strathmore family of Scotland.

He then was Ronald Garvey, fresh from Cambridge, a gay and popular young man in the service of the British Pacific Colonial Administration.

The Duke and Duchess of York had been sent out by George V to open the new Commonwealth Capital at Canberra. The Duke was not then the Heir to the Throne; but he was the King’s second son and, of course, he was received in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji as a Royal visitor.

The Governor of Fiji, Sir Eyre Hutson, was host to the Royal couple, and Suva organised the usual round of ceremonies and glittering social functions.

At the Ball There was an official ball. It was a social success, and a very pleasant occasion. Among those present was young Ronald Garvey.

The rest of this is rumour—and 31-years-old rumour —and rumour is notoriously a lying old jade.

It is said that Elizabeth Bowes- Lyon and Ronald Garvey had kno) each other slightly, a few yes previously, as teen-agers; and th on this happy Suva occasion, th renewed the acquaintance. Nothi more natural than that the goo looking young Administration offic should ask the very attractive you Duchess to dance with him* a dance together they did.

But (so says that lying old jac rumour) the incident was view with horror by certain stiff-neck folk, steeped in protocol a r tradition. How dare young Garv ask her to dance! Did he not knc that she was a Royal personage, ai that the invitation to dance mo come from her? One imagines th young Garvey neither knew n cared.

But, when I visited Suva in t] 'Thirties, a few years later, the were folk still sniffing and quackii oyer the memory of it. They told d mat, by his effrontery, young Garv had “utterly ruined his career”. 30 Years Passed Thirty years have passed. Mu( water has flowed under mar bridges. George V died; Edwai VIII abdicated; the Duke of Yoi became George VI; the the Duchess of York became Britair well-beloved Queen Elizabeth; ar now she is the Queen Mother, tha whom there is none in the Empi; more highly esteemed.

No blight fell upon the career ( Ronald Garvey. He went steadl up the ladder, and in 1941 he W£ Gilbert and Ellice Administrator i Ocean Island. He got away froi the Japs, about April, 1942, by t! skin of his teeth and the spee of the Free French destroye Triomphant. Via Nyassaland, tb West Indies and British Hondura he came back to Fiji in 1952 a Governor, complete with the KCM( title. It is anticipated that, befor 1958 ends, he will move on to British Governorship of still highe rank.

In 1953, Sir Ronald and Lad Garvey entertained the forme Duchess of York’s daughter, Quee Elizabeth II, at Government Houst Suva. She was exactly one year ol: when her mother met young Ronal Garvey at Suva in 1927. (My colleagues say that I shoul. not have written this article /o: publication—that it has within it tn\ germs of (< lese majeste”, or some\ thing. But that’s the story as first heard it 25 years ago, in Suva I had forgotten it, these many yean The announcement that the Quee?

Mother would meet the Governor at Nadi brought it back to memory I re-tell it, because—even if it isn’ true—we all like to think tha 5 Royalty and Vice-Royalty a r » human, after all.—R.)

Queen Mother In Fiji

ON JAN 31 The only visit to the South Pacific Islands, to be made by the Queen Mother—now about to undertake a formal tour in New Zealand and Australia—will be in Fiji, and it will have a duration of only a few hours.

Queen-Mother Elizabeth will arrive by plane at Nadi at 3 pm. on January 31. She will be met at the airport by the Governor of Fiji, (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady Garvey. She will inspect a guard of honour provided by the Fiji Military Forces, and will meet some of the leading residents, presented by the Governor.

The Queen Mother then will go immediately to the Governor's "bure", near Lautoka; and at 5 pm., after a rest, she will proceed to Churchill Park, Lautoka, to witness some Fijian ceremonies of welcome. She will spend the night at the Governor's "bure”, and will make a short tour of Lautoka in the morning of February 1, before rejoining the plane at Nadi, for New Zealand. 152 JANUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Pacific Commerce and Industry JLOLO GOLD DREDGING LTD.; Report subed to shareholders at the annual general ling in Vancouver, BC, on November 29 /ed that the company made a net profit $966,500 for the year ending May 31, f —about $500,000 more than the previous The increase was due to the increased all recovery per cubic yard as the two ges then in operation traversed high e ground. Shareholders were warned that one dredge left operating in the current will probably strike poorer ground. An nated $250,000 profit is expected from e operations this year. In the year under jw, BGD received £A44,000 ($96,000) i its investment in Commonwealth New lea Timbers. The company's new purchase th Pacific Timbers, at Lae) was expected return a reasonable profit on investment, e of the veneers will be sold to C-NG >ers, the rest exported, mainly to Ausa. During the year two dividends, each 25 cents, was paid per BGD share. ♦ * * HOISEUL PLANTATIONS LTD.: At an extranary general meeting on January 30 it is losed that this company will divide its 3 shares into £1 units; and increase the inal capital from £150,000 to £500,000. seul earned £97,000 last year but dividend held at 30 per cent, for the fourth sucive year. Reserves are over £400,000 — ut three times the capital. The £lOO es are around £3l0 —which would mean B for a £1 share. This company is one a Burns Philp group, BP holding a large proportion of the shares. It owns a string of very profitable plantations along the Bougainville Coast —and the name Choiseul (the most northern island in the British Solomons) is confusing. Obviously, the issued capital of £150,000 has no relation to present-day values. * * *

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LTD.: The company (in which the Australian Government holds 51 per cent, of shares, and Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., 49 per cent.) made a net profit of £162,343 for the year ending June 30, 1957. This was an increase of £21,000 over 1955-56. A dividend of 6 per cent, was recommended by the directors. ♦ * * EMPEROR MINES LTD.; A full report of this company appears in a separate article elsewhere this Issue. * ♦ ♦

Enterprise Of New Guinea Gold And

DEVELOPMENT.: The survey team engaged in oil search in the Upper Sepik River, NG, was moving out of the area early December for the duration of the Wet season which is expected to last till about April. The survey party (10 Europeans and some natives) had spent six months in the permit area, but the 1957 Dry season was phenomenally wet and drilling and other work was hampered. Examination of gravity data, cores and other information collected in the field will be examined by experts in the next few months.

The annual meeting of the company was held on December 23 and the above information was given in a report to shareholders.

A report of mining activity at the company's Morobe leases was also submitted. In a separate report, the Manager in New Guinea, stated that in his opinion mining operations will prove profitable. * * * NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS LTD.: During November 966 ozs. fine gold were recovered from 3,646 tons of ore treated at Golden Ridges mill; 1,316 ozs. silver were also recovered. Tributes produced 75 ozs. fine gold; and timber production was 273,640 super feet. * * * OIL SEARCH LTD.: A proposal to vote £lO,OOO retiring allowance to Mr. E. F.

Griffin, former managing director of the company made by the Board of the company, was withdrawn following discussion at the company's annual general meeting in Sydney on December 17. This was done in deference to Mr. Griffin who insisted that the payment be made only with complete approval of shareholders at the meeting.

Directors reported that the company was in a satisfactory financial position, the balance sheet disclosing over £500,000 in liquid assets. It was expected that the present cash resources will be sufficient to meet commitments until late this year. » * *

Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co.: This

company (in which Associated Australian Oilfields NL and Associated Freney Oil Fields NL hold a substantial interest) announces that its KAUFANA No. 1 Well reached a depth of 3 220 feet on January 7 and the electric log was run from 3,210 feet to the surface casing. Coring is at 3,220 feet. * * * SANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING LTD.: During the month of November approx 74 ozs. of gold were recovered from 750 cubic yards of material treated. 153 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958

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Cash Shortage Problem For the Fijians From Norman Baxter, in Suva FOOTBALL and cricket bodies in the United Kingdom are interested in Fiji, and negotiations b in hand for teams representing ose sports to tour the UK within e next two or three years.

But the big question mark is Lance, for there are no wealthy Drting bodies in Fiji. They have to pend on the goodwill of other intries to pay touring expenses.

Df course, any tour the Fijians ike will be a financial success, for sy are the most entertaining footllers and cricketers in the world.

Fhey play for the sheer love of lying—and to win, if they can. owds would fill the grounds to ; their unorthodox rugby and ?ezy cricket.

Meanwhile, the New Zealand ?by union has “bitten” at sugstions by members of the Fiji jby union that the Dominion body s “miserable”. The reason for the ii attitude was that it received ?rant of only £1,500 from more than ),000 New Zealand made out of > 1957 tour.

Hie NZ Union, one of the althiest rugby bodies in the world, used to act the fairy godmother its poor relation, and Fiji was noyed. it does seem a bit poor that ;, with bulging coffers, will not more to help foster the code in ii. Fiji supplied the machine for w Zealand to make the money.

Question: Why Not a N. Guinea Tour?

By Peter Hall )N”T it about time that a representative P-NG sporting team went on a short tour of Ausilia or New Zealand?

Something on a much bigger and bter scale than the recent NSW ir of a combined Rabaul baseball m, which Australian baseball fans, alone the rest of the sporting blic, didn’t appear to have heard Fiji has already set the pace. [f sports-minded New Guinea sn’t got a combined team of play- ; good enough to trounce anybody anything, it shouldn’t worry, rhe team would probably have ;nty of enthusiasm, anyhow, and > beside the point if it happened lose every match.

Look at the drubbing that Philiples tennis team got on its recent Davis Cup jaunt—but it went home a much improved side, and what team wouldn’t after clashing with some of the world’s top players?

As a suggestion for New Guinea, it shouldn’t be long now before soccer Stanley Matthews will be bringing the topnotch Blackpool side to Australia. It might perhaps cross the mind of some enterprising NG promoter to suggest to Matthews that he play a couple of matches there.

I think Matthews would be interested in looking at some of those Papuan boys and, of course, the Chinese.

Worth a try, anyhow.

New Guinea "Keen”

But Needs Help THEY’RE keen, but lack of facilities is the main drawback”. This is how Jimmy Carruthers, former bantamweight boxing champion of the world, sums up the sporting situation in Papua- New Guinea.

According to Carruthers, th e Territory ought to keep working hard at getting more sporting equipment, at getting more facilities like clubhouses and sporting arenas, where fans and players can indulge their enthusiasms —and their talents.

Carruthers said the staging of the Woolley-Cross fight in Port Moresby in November (which Carruthers went to New Guinea to referee) was ar example of the way to get ahead.

The bout was the first inter-Terntory championship, and was arranged by the Papuan Rugby League, with proceeds towards acquiring a new Another series of bouts is planned for early 1958, and Carruthers says there’s a possibility that he and ms wife, Myra, will be there . . . this time on holiday.

“I liked New Guinea”, explains the ex-champ.

Lave All Set to Fight Missionary TONGAN heavyweight, Kitione . Lave has agreed to meet the American Mormon missionary, Chuck Woodworth, in Auckland.

The fight is fixed for February 25.

Lave is still in Britain, where the offer was sent to him by the Auckland Boxing Association. Terms have not been disclosed, but the Tongan will get a substantial guarantee.

Woodworth has been doing a term as a missionary on Niue Island, and hasn’t had a fight for two years.

But he’s had a first rate ring record in the USA.

Wants to Play League —And For Money THE wish of a Fijian rugby union footballer to play the league code in Australia is likely to cause raised eyebrows in the Colony, where professional sport of any description has only the slightest hold.

The footballer is a pretty good one, too —Orisi Dawai —captain of the 1957 tourists in New Zealand, a member of the 1954 Fijian team in Australia, a Ist Battalion player in Malaya, and a sprinter of more than the ordinary ability. He was a member of the Fijian Empire Games team at Auckland in 1950.

Orisi reasons that at 27 he has three years of top-class football in him. He wants to take a leaf out of the book of numerous amateur sportsmen who have joined the monied ranks to secure their future.

He has a chance of getting an offer from a Sydney club, but whether officialdom would allow him to leave Fiji is another matter. He would jump at any offer.

Jimmy Carruthers: "Keen, needs help". 155 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— J A N U A R Y . 1958

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E Was Gay Foli Xmas

From Our Lae Correspondent iNTAS Airways performed its annual chore again this year and brought about 700 students c to New Guinea without losing hild —or a parent. [though school-children and versity students started to seep c to the Territory from Ausla in November, the airlift got ly into its stride in the early tcs of December and by Christmas the customers were home with . and Mum, Decial DC3 flights were made a North Queensland, and special master services were run from ney. i late January, the process will put into reverse and approxtely the same number of chili go back to schools in Australia, espite the Sydney wharf hold-up >re Christmas, the shops in Lae good stocks of food, gifts and y now Territorians are wise in ways of Australian wharf and >ping hold-ups, having been left i and dry on previous istmases, and alert shoppers ■ted early this year, hips from the East were arrivin New Guinea in November and ember and the Chinese shops e full of novelties, ocal groups arranged charter hts out of Lae to other districts r the holidays and hotels every- 3re were booked out. All Lae bs had Christmas Tree parties.

More Native Students

For Australia

Seventeen native hoys ana three native girls from Papua- New Guinea have won scholarships to Australian secondary schools this year.

Since the scheme was inaugurated in 1954, about 20 natives per year have been chosen to go to Australian schools most of them in Queensland hut a few in NSW and Victoria.

How long the natives stay at school in Australia depends on their ability.

Fiji’s University Students in NZ IN the Pass lists of the University of Otago, New Zealand, published in December, there appear the names of 21 students from Fiji —l6 Indians, 3 Fijians and 2 Chinese.

Among those who passed important examinations in Medicine and Dentistry were: Ram Dayal.

Parshu Ram, Reginald Prasad, Po Hmg Wong, Kantha Madhavji, Ehawar Singh, Maurice Chandulal, and Prabhu Lai.

London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/6; S £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ.

B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji. basis £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

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BANK OF A/ASIA. (Port Moresby i quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG. 10/per £ AlOO.

NORFOLK IS.— Commonwealth Ba n k quotes exchange rate Australia - Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES—Pacific francs, most valuable of the three franc groups in French Union, are used in New Caledonia, new Hebrides, and Fr. Oceania.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quotes.

Selling Noumea: 168 Pac. fr. to £ Aust., Papeete: 166.56 Pac. fr.; Noumea-Papeete.

S. 208 Pac. fr. to £Stg. Noumea-Papeete.

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TIME FOR YOUTH hristmas holidays a time for youth, this happy photo [?]h shows. New Cale ian secondary school lents flood off the raft that has just jght them to Sydney [?]tart a tour of NSW.

W schoolchildren [?] a similar visit to [?] Caledonia in Deber. Meanwhile, as story below shows, Guinea school- Idren, too. are ing a busy time.

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i *We feature here one of our larger industrial Sight and power plants which will >perate motor up to 5 H.P. 3 phase. Sets are available petrol or diesel from to 100 KVA capacities. t € BRAYBON W BROS Pty. Ltd 'i TELEGRAMS: “Brayboman”.

Sydney Tht - w 27-33 WASHINGTON SI.. SYDNEY Quality Products Telephone HA 6853 ex to Advertisers a Service . 39 33 ite ... 65 Dairies . . 76 & F. . . 74 ;, W. & Co. 136 Bank . . 51 on N. V. 120 , Wm. . . 38 .... 73 A. Paints . 49 )f NSW 91, 135 of NZ . . 142 Paints . 64 I, Gwyn . . 9 id-Rae . .118 rd Mills . 104 .... 121 n Bros. . 28, 102, 159 Myers . 37 Aluminium 3 Standard - w hinery . . 46 United ies . . . 36 /ay Motors . 9 & May . . 72 n. & Co. . 87 g, A. H. . 118 . 74, 85, 96, 127 y . . . 130 >n & erland . . 44 i Breweries 92 ter Ltd. . 124 "rectors . . 34 The Hotel . 27 earn P/L . 52 a .... 116 i's French im . . . 129 al Meat . 154 Watson . 87 th Bank . 75 lond Co. . 68 e Co. . . 112 .... 47 il Marg. . 138 & Dalziel . 53 -, G. & M. 42 i .... 47 I Ltd. . . 50 ss, W. C. . 11l » Rubber . 57 Steel . . 14 , Wm. . . 61 Depot . . 89 i & Hiedecke 58 i Rum . . 66 >r Eng. . . 108 t, D. & M. 160 , W. & A. . 86 tie Bros. . 93 tie, R. . 1, 156 rooks Paints 10 J, Hotel . 151 (Suva) . . 13 Ltd. . 90, 147 sen, B. . 109 sen Sons . 107 , K. & Co. . 54 gs Diesels 100 y Ltd. . . 67 gway Robert- Institute . 39 •oks . .125 d Culti- )rs . . . 154 ational vester . .148 ransport 106 l2 ; Curry . . 57 dy, Capt. . 114 Kerr Bros. . .117 Kopsen & Co. . 128 Lawrence, A. . . 89 Lysaght, J . . 119 Macßobertson P/L 40 Magazine Service 28 Mcllrath's ... 32 McNiven Bros. . 5 Maize Products . 69 Marine Spares . 109 Mason Bros. . .106 Mendaco ... 137 Millers Ltd. . . 63 Mitchell's Tours . 32 Morris, H. . . 105 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 99 Mungo Scott . . 97 Nathan & Wyeth . 90 N. & R. . . 53, 110 Nestles . . . .113 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 60 Nixoderm ... 145 N.Z.N.A.C. ... 2 P.A.A 4 Papuan Prints . . 94 Parke Davis . 62, 95 Philips .... 16 P. I. Line ... 8 Piccaninny Wax . 98 Qld. Insurance . 101 Ransomes Co. . 134 Reckitt's Blue . 97 Richards, D. L. . 43 Rohu, Sil . . . 93 Scott & Bowne . 45 Seward Ltd. . . 58 Shaw Savill . 7 Shell Co. Ltd. . 132 Silvo .... 139 Sparklets Ltd. . 41 S.T.C. Co. . . 113 Stapleton, J. . . 73 Steradent .... 40 Stewarts Lloyds . 141 S.P. Brewery . 61 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 69 Sullivan Ltd. 59, 94, 103 Tait, W. S. . . 101 Tatham, S. E. . 102 Taubmans Ltd. . 70 Thornburgh College 36 Tilley Lamps . . 55 Thornycroft Co. . 31 Tillock & Co. . . 48 Tongala Milk . . 88 Tooth & Co. . . 50 Turners & Growers . . .152 Tyneside Eng. . . 71 United Insurance 43 U.R.D 114 Ventura . . .160 Van Gelder, J. P. 49 Victa Mowers . . 35 Vi-Stim ... 133 Vincent's APC 29 Wakefield, C. C. 140 Walkers Ltd. . . 105 Warnock ... 70 Waters, Edwd. . 122, 123 Webster, D. & Sons 66 Westfield Meats . 30 Weymark Pty. Ltd 54 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 Wills Ltd. ... 144 World Books . . 56 Wrigley's ... 126 Wunderlich Ltd. 143 Yorkshire Ins. . 157 Zevenboom, J. . 131 159 :IF I C ISLANDS MONXHLY— J A N U A R Y 1958

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• Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engines

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Write direct to our Islands Export Manager with over 35 years experience in the Islands.

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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 & MPHC areas; 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS 2.20-2.30.) COPRA The British Ministry of Food 9-years Contract, which governed Copra prices in Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, Western Samoa. Solomon Islands, and Gilbert and Ellice Colony (and. to some extent, in Tonga grid Cook Islands) expired on December 31. 1957; since when each Territory has made its own arrangements for collection and marketing of copra.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by Government; and the Board directs distribution and sales, and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a» Unilever (under contract covering 1958), (b) Australia (for local consumption) and (c) crushing-mill in Rabaul. Prices generally arranged in accordance with ruling rate in Philippines market. Unilever price; Manila FM grade rates, with premiums up to £3A per ton for hot-air dried.

“Tentative” Price For New Guinea In January, P-NG Copra Board announced “Tentative Prices”, from January 1, for copra delivered at main ports: Hot- Air-Dried. £A47 per ton; FM Standard £46; Smoke-Dried, £45/7/6.

It is presumed that, as stated, all copra goes into P-NG pool, from which Rabaul mill, Unilever. Australia and General Market will be supplied: and that final adjustments with producers will come later. (See Philippines quotation, below).

FIJI:—No Government control—producers sell where they wish. Bulk of copra goes to crushing-mill in Suva, whose price on wharf, Suva, is announced each week.

WESTERN SAMOA;—official Copra Board receives all production, and sells same and makes payments to producers Large proportion goes to Unilever, at Philippines FM grade rates, plus premiums up to 50/- Stg. per ton for hotair dried.

TONGA:—Sales are under Government control. Part of production goes to Europe under arrangement with Unilever controlled by Philippines prices, and part on to open market.

Solomons And Gilbert And

ELLICE: —All production marketed through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines market.

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.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Jan. 9: 7,450 Pac francs (about £A43/11/4) delivered Vila/ Santo.

COOK ISLANDS:—LocaI price is based on £ Stg.s4 (£NZS4/4/D per ton, f.0.b.. with premium of 30/- (NZ) for top grade kiln dried. Shipping, handling, shrinkage and storage charges reduce the outer islands price to about £NZ3O per ton, basic rate.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Ghana cocoa which on Jai was £Stg.3os per ton, c.i.f. Lon (Market expected to fall).

P.-N.G.:—Jan. 9. Situation in stat« flux following falling London prices N mal quote £A3SO (and fallingi.

W. SAMOA;—Jan. 9. No sales s Christmas period; Nominal unchanged £ Stg.3lo.

COFFEE:—p.-NG.: Jan. 9: Top gr 5/- to 5/6 per lb., but hard to sell; ; plies of overseas coffee plentiful s recent easing of Aust. import restrict on coffee.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.. Jan. 9: Ker 1/10; Virginia bunch, in shell la well cleaned, 1/3 per lb. del. Sydney RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based Singapore rate, which on Jan. 8 \ No. 1 RSS. spot, 81.12 Straits ce (28.16 d Aust. approx.) per lb.

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tull Co., Sydney, reported on Jan. 9crop, c.i.f., Sydney, Tahiti White Yellow label, processed standard ps 61/9, Green 59/9 per lb.

RICE (Australian):—Price from Maj 1957—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dres 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £6l ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons £6l/10/ton. Vitamised and enriched white, lb bags, 5 tons and over, £67/10/ton. f.0.w.; under 5 tons, £6B per Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., per ton, f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Jan. 9, 1958, quota' by independent pearlers: Sound, £A’

D, £ A 585; E, £A4OS: EE, (in store Sydney). Cook Is.-Manihiki: t 9: Export price, £Stg.72s f.o.b. Rs tonga.

TROCHUS:—Market still very we and tending to weaken further. Qui nominal, NG, £A325; BSI, £A3IS; I Hebrides, agent reports “No bush during past month”. Prices are less jects and based on Sydney weights.

GREEN SNAlL:—Difficult to g nominal price £A2BO.

London and US Quotations Copra:—London. Jan. 7: Philippines; bulk Jan.-Feb. $lB9 (seller) Straits/Bon fair merchantable del. weight. c., UK/Nts European port, Dec.-Jan.. £ Stj (nominal). New York Jan. 7: Philippn c.i.f. US Pac. port, per ton $lBO ask On January 13. the quotation for Philippines copra, FM grade, ' $U5190.50, GIF, British or European p< (On January 13, £1 Australian ■ about equal to 2.31 US Dollars. SUSI9O therefore was equal to £AB4/13/9, wb is £37 more than the amount allot provisionally by the P-NG Copra Bos The deductions from that would be freil (£l3/10/- per ton), insurance, handli shrinkage, export duty, and stabilisatt fund tax—perhaps £25 per ton. Th is no indication yet of how the Bot will market the copra, and when ff adjustments will be made.) Coconut Oil:—London, Jan. 9: Strat crude, bulk c.i.f. Jan.-Feb. £Stg.lol (no inal), Ceylon in bulk, c.i.f., fair UK-I Euro, ports, Jan.-Feb. £Stg.llo per t Rubber: —London, Jan. 8; RSS No.

Spot, 237/Bd. to 24d. Stg. Dec. 1958, 2 to 23Jd. per lb.

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, At BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying. £Alll/2 Selling, £AII3. Fiji-London. basis £‘ London: B. £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-F1 basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4’

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. A/ tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Same B. £ A123/12/6; S. £124/10/9. Sam- (Continued col. 2, page 157) Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set up and printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street. Sydney.

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Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

In London: W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA; New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo.

IN PAPUA: Island Products Ltd., IN FIJI: Port Moresby.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suvs PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1958