Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXX, No. 1 ( Aug. 1, 1959)
1959-08-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFK ISLANDS Monthly AUGUST, 1959 Vol. XXX. No. 1 blished 1930 ttfecf at the GJ>.O, Sydney, ansmisston by post as a newspaper ] A picture to delight the heart of the animal lover is this one of a New Guinea Chimbu, from Itikimumu rubber plantation in the ranges above Port Moresby, with his pet cus cus.

However, without meaning to upset the animal lovers, or libel the Chimbu. it’s more than probable that the affection the Chimbu has for this fellow is gastronomic, and that there will be cus cus stew tonight.

Photo: N. V. Salt.

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FIJI: Niranjan's Service Station, Suva. PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA; Steamships Trading Company Limited, Port Moresby and Samarai.

Dealers: New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau and Lae. Rabaul Trading Co. Ltd., Rabaul.

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AGENTS: PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai.

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NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Rabaul.

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NOUMEA: Etab'isse.r.ents Ballande, Rue de L'Alma, Boite Postale 18, Noumea.

HONIARA: British Solomon Islands Trading Corporation.

JAPAN: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) ltd., Tokyo, Yokohama, Os= Kobe. Cables: "Swire".

FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

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PEOPLE The young Princess Alexandra of ent. cousin of Queen Elizabeth, id ah informal look at Fiji on her ay to Australia in mid-August. She •oke her air journey at Nadi and >w to Nausori with the Governor, ir Kenneth Maddocks and then snt on to Suva by car, staying 'emight at Government House. ie returned to Nadi bv the same ute the following day. The Princess ; ked that her Fiji visit be treated 5 private —but there were bi g owds to wave to her nevertheless. * ♦ * The Australian Broadcasting Comdssion in August flew New Guinea lan J. K. McCarthy from Mellume to Sydney and back for a ilf-hour appearance in a TV panel low, “Face The People”. Mr.

IcCarthy, who is executive officer ir District Services, and has spent ore than 30 years with the P-NG dministration, is holidaying in :elbourne and will be there until tiristmas. During the show he was lizzed by a panel of questioners, icluding PIM publisher R. W. obson, on NG affairs. General ewer reaction: McCarthy has the akings of a real TV personality. [n Sydney, after a six months’

P to Europe, is Mrs. Marie Hyde, Goroka, New Guinea. With her lighter, Miss Margaret McGregor, s returned on the Willem Ruys “ n° w is spending a couple of »nths with relatives at Bexley, fore returning to the Eastern ghlands in August. Without busi- [?]. Father Goupillaud, SM, celebrated 50 years a priest in July. Father Goupillaud was [?]n in France in 1883, and was ordained in glum on July 4, 1909. He spent 25 years in [?]st Samoa and for the last 25 years has been in American Samoa.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

Ounl tttalifA is a “must” for tropical baking 1, % mark BAKING N*r Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder is always fresh and maintains its full strength. It never deteriorates in its airtight container, that’s why your cakes and pastries will have extra lightness, and stay fresh longer when you use Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder. You also cook with the important, and in the tropics, the vital advantage of adding the rising agent when you do your mixing that is the right time the best time for sure results.

You’re in for a wonderful treat when you try Aunt Mary’s Tomato Sauce, Tomato Juice, jellies, Custard, Baked Beans, Spaghetti, Lemon Butter and Canned Soup. ness experience, Mrs. Ryde NG four years ago, bought . remaining shop block at and established a thriving ? store. Her best line? Sir native currency and for decoration.

The Rev. Father G. Griifo living in retirement at the of Compassion, Suva, wh stationed at Rotuma for 4<J until 1954, celebrated the jubilee of his ordination priesthood early in July.

Griffon first we(nt 'to Fiji Vendee, France, in 1909, as at missionary, and was statioc Savusavu until transfer;- Rotuma.

Miss Mavis Rivers, of established herself as a singer in New Zealand somcj Mr. J. L. Molloy, who has just been Pacific Islands branch manager for th[?] Oil Company Pty., Ltd.

Recently in Sydney, Robert Wendt an[?] Miller of Suva. —T[?] 6 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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Made by Piccaninny Manufacturing Company, Manly, N.S.W., Australia. ’IC-A-LYPTUS ... a disinfectant and deodorant 3 then she went from there to >’United States in 1955 and has v definitely “arrived” with the nerican public. Now Mrs. tingub. she has lately signed a g-term contract with Capital ’ords and a long-play album of ", S ongs—with Nelson Riddle’s id providing the accompaniment ras recently released in the ited States. * * * liss Elizabeth Powell, who has n studying dietetics at Lautoka pital, Fiji, arrived in Australia ently to work for six months at : Royal Melbourne Hospital as a ritionist. The visit, to gain exience, was arranged by the South :ific Health Service. t was announced in Port Moresby July 31, that Mr. J. L.

Samara had been appointed ef Collector of Taxes for Papuai Guinea. Apparently the Terrii is not considered to be yet thy of a fully-fledged Taxation amissioner. Mr, McNamara was nerly a senior officer of the wnonwealth Taxation Office, ibourne * * * * tlre e young men from the Islands t ordained as Catholic priests in * Zealand in July. The Rev. John aki, SM, and the Rev. Patrick lu > SM, both of Ma’ufanga, gatapu, were ordained by Bishop SM, of Tonga, in St. •ick’s Church, Napier, on July 21. : Rev. William Paul Hansell, SM, was ordained in St. Mary’s rc “> Mt. Albert, Auckland, by iop Delargey, Auxiliary Bishop uckland. All took their secondary G. Serafini, popular secretary of the Red [?]s in lae, New Guinea, left Lae for Aus- [?] in July for an indefinite holiday stay.

Photo: Pat Robertson. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST. 1959

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FREE LIST. Write today for Free List and your requirements. ucation at St. Patrick’s College, verstream. before entering the eenmeadows seminary near pier. Father Hansell is the first moan-born priest to be ordained NZ. ♦ * * Hr Malcolm McDougall, who has ai manager of the Goroka Sports lb in the New Guinea Eastern rfilands, leaves there in August | Fiji, where he will become mng-manager at the Mocambo tel at Nadi Airport. Mr. McDougall 5 been a critic of Territory hotels lee Editors’ Mailbag section, this ue. professor Y. Baron Goto, Hawaii ee expert, will pay another visit New Guinea coffee producing is in September to advise on ee growing and processing. His r to the Territory is being “sored by Colyer Watson Ltd.

Bank of New South Wales. Proof Goto will be accompanied to .Territory by Mr. R. A. Colyer, of directors of Colyer «on Ltd., and by Mr. R. I.

Jey, also of Colyer Watson. The ty will arrive in Goroka on Sepber 22, and remain in P-NG for or three weeks. [?] annual baby show in the Cook Islands rs [?]mall scale affair. For the morning elimina- [?] heats at this year's show on Rarotonga, [?]udges were needed, and five for the after- [?] finals, to cope with a total entry of 350 [?]es in 12 sections. Awards were given to winner of each section—but here is the [?]pion of champions—Miss Matanono George, looking very pleased with that cup.

Photo: Cf. C. Berry. 9 CIFI C ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1959

dwad CtuibMf* \ K L m py's • . . because there is a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half pound of Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate MD2f/?F r A The Norwegian ship TV disgorged an 8,320 lbs, 21 : packing case at Suva early it Inside was a £3,924 Cadil.

Dorado Brougham consign Queen Salote of Tonga.

The car was taken aboaf Tonga Copra Board’s Aoniu\ hatch was just capable of hsj it, for trans-shipment to NuW Mr. John Ruatoke lantin, t telegraphist for the Coastwn on Funafuti, Ellice Island, the Japanese invasion, haso after all these years, obtairn radio-telegraph operator’s ficate. He won it with the ■ a Government bursary at tM Zealand Radio College, Aux and has now returned to Tarn the Gilberts.

Before they returned to Suva after a tralian holiday, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gi[?] given a farewell party by members[?] Polynesian Association of Syd[?] T[?] At another Polynesian Association gat[?] Sydney, were Mrs. Lily Antilla, for[?] Vatukoula, Fiji, with Mr. and Mrs. M[?] Mrs. Perry was formerly Maria Wise -T[?] 10 AUGUST. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON®

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Insurances at Lloyd’s and Companies Following consultations with eneral de Gaulle and officials in iris, Governor Pierre Sicaud of •ench Polynesia returned to Tahiti ily in August travelling per TAX. [?]. R. Barn wall, the pilot, and Mr. B. Beswicke, [?]ef engineer, with their Polynesian Airlines [?]cival Prince at Tafuna, American Samoa in [?] The aircraft, which they flew from Aus- [?]lia, will be based at Apia and used for a [?]vice between the two Samoas. See news pages this issue. —Pan American Prints. [?]erinterdent of the Rarotonga Radio station, W. Scarborough and Mrs. Scarborough em- [?]ing on the launch to take them to the [?]itemata", headed for a four months holiin the USA. Mr. Scarborough, better known [?]most Pacific and overseas radio "hams" as [?]ZKLBS, in planning to visit a lot of friends has made through his hobby in the States, [?] Scarborough took up art recently, and is [?]eloopmg into quite an accomplished oil painter.

Photo: D. C. Berry. 11 iCIF IC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1959

Night coughs Voice hoarseness Winter colds Sore throat DEMAND Woods GREAT PEPPERMINT COMPOUND Gives soothing relief to the distressing symptoms of all forms of coughs and colds.

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THE FAMILY REMEDY These days somebody amo Pacific peoples is always “ft do something. But it camsurprise to many people tc that a Papuan girl who grs as a nurse in July was only # to so graduate in Australia Sister Dalai Maniana, 23, whoher general certificate at E Hospital, Melbourne, She w\ do a post-graduate course midwifery course and then go Sister Maniana was sent tc tralia to train by the Mission, Samarai.

H 5 jj; The job of directing the Sc: Pacific Studies at the Aus National University was offe July to Sir John Crawford, the Australian Government economic advisers. He ac despite the fact that the post; a drop of £l,OOO a year . present salary of £6,000 a:, retary of the Department of Chief task of the school is vestigate economic problen under-developed territories.

A CSIRO survey teamj Canberra in July to undert:; three months land survey o; lower Sepik of NG. The consists of the soil scientist, i Aantjens, Dr. R. Robins, II Reiner, Mr. J. C. Saunders, IV Pullen and Mr. J. McAlpine. * * * Mr. Stan Hynd, a fisheries bio of the Australian CSIRO Fis< Division, who is normally stat Mr. G Nevil l, Resident Commissioner Cook Islands (right), officially opened t[?] tonga Radio Club's new amateur tram[?] station ZKIBO in June. This 100-wat[?] mitter was completely built by Cook I[?] under the expert guidance of Mr. Stuart [?] of the Social Development Departme[?] has been conducting classes in math[?] electronics and morse code for som[?] ZKIBO will be on the air nightly. At on the 80 metre band, both phone and will shortly be on 20 and 40 metres 10 metres phone, and will work all c[?] Photo: D. C 12 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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G.P.O. Box 1488, Brisbane 193 Adelaide Street, BRISBANE Thursday Island, has returned to istralla after making a survey of e Manihlki mother-of-pearl shell ;ourc:s for the Cook Islands Adnistration. The survey was aimed assisting the Administration in opting correct conservation proiures to permit the maximum Dfitable exploitation of the lagoon thout endangering the resources over-fishing. rhe survey will eventually be the jject of a published South Pacific mmission report.

Ir. Doug. Ramsay, formerly of iites Travel Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Jre he handled booking arrange- J ts for Islands poeple, now is •s supervisor of Sita World Vcl Pty. Ltd. “World” is rightleft Sydney on July 10 on the t leg of a two hemisphere tour t will cover nearly 30 countries )re he returns through USA and Pacific in November. * * * v. Father J. Allais, SM, who been stationed in Western and erican Samoa for the past 10 ‘S, returned to France on vacam August. Travelling with him far as Fiji was Brother uslaus, SM, bound for vacation Auckland. * * * J: Herb Caen, gossip columnist the San Francisco Chronicle, leward bound from a two-weeks’ ihon in Tahiti, said in Fiji in hst that he was “just going i ?^ tive when he had to put clothes on again—it was time o home”. [?]e twin brothers met at Nadi Airport when first Boeing 707 arrived recently. At left Mr. R. J. Ritchie, director of Technical ces for Qantas, who was a passenger on airliner, and at right Mr. C. D. Ritchie, manager for Fiji Airways at Suva. 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —A IT GUST. 1959

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Pacific islands Monthly No. 1. Vol. XXX AUGUST, 1959 Contents: PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands Interest 5 High Court Challenge May Affect New Guinea’s Future 17 It’s a Legislative Council Boycott 17 P-NG Tax Fight, Round by Round 18 Copra Prices Are Finally Levelling Out 19 Affairs of Hamac (NG) Under Review 20 Pacific Air War Warms Up .. 20 CSR Looks At South-East Asian Rice 20 The House That Warm Hearts Bought for a New Guinea Family 21 Fiji Sugar Report Details: Some Criticism of Both Sides 21 HOME BASE; Sydneysider Reports 22 There Are “Plenty of Signs” of La Perouse 23 Netherlands New Guinea Begins Local Government 23 Eddie Lund Says He’s Locked Out 23 COMMENTARY: The Publisher and the Editors Look At Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, With Tolala 33 Ex-Territorians Go To South Australia 35 Protection For P-NG Breweries 37 P-NG Tariffs Show More Ups Than Downs 37 Bird’s Eye Views of Rarotonga and Hollandia 43 Pacific Air Service Drought Becomes a Flood .. .. 45 Letter: A Milk Trading Concern Escapes Taxation .. 47 Memorial to Coastwatchers Will Be Unveiled at Madang 49 Two Fiji Sugar Stories: The Perplexed Rewa and GSR’s Grave Warning 53 Do Stones Mark the Graves Of La Perouse’s Butchered Sailors? 59 R. W. Robson Reports on the NG Tax War .. 61 The Ultimate In Low Cost Housing 69 Let the Missions Help Towards Self-Government In NG 73 The VlP’s Meet The P-NG’s Because It’s Winter 77 The Pacific’s Best Collection Of Treasures Goes To Chicago 77 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 81; In Memory of Emily Earhart, 81 ; Crossquiz, 82; The Stamp of Royalty, 83; Do You Remember? 84; Rev. Ben Danks’s Story, 84; He’s a Rum One, 85; Portrait of a Small Girl, 86; Top Brass and a Photograph, 86; The Start of Brett Hilder’s Profiles, 87; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 103 PACIFIC REPORT: Roundup of Pacific News and Pictures (Index, p. 17) .. 117 OBITUARIES: Mr. Harry Doughty; Mrs. V. Langdale; Mr. Jimmie Wilton; Mr. R.

Schulke, Mrs. W. E. Wyatt; Dr. W. P. Williams; Mrs.

H. Van Pel: Rev. Father Petelo Hamale; Mr. A. Seo 151 Sports Review 153 Shipping and Airways Timetables .. •• 155 Commerce and Produce .. .. 165 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street Is TO yards from the intersection of Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

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Taxpayers Appeal to Highest Tribunal Future Status Of New Guinea Before The High Court The High Court of Australia in late August will consider "a challenge to the whole constitutional structure of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.

IHE challenge has been made by p-NG residents, angered at the manner in which the Federal jvernment introduced income tax to the Territory, and with what « consider to be high-handed litical tactics in New Guinea ’airs generally. Nominal plaintiff Mr. M. W. Fishwick.

Income tax began operating in e Territory on August 1, despite pitched battle by residents over veral months to have it postponed.

The challenge in the High Court on the grounds that (a) the pua-New Guinea Act is invalid on Feral grounds; (b) that even if :t is valid the way the Tax Ordince was passed means that this linance is not valid because the gislative Council is not properly nstituted (not having its three icted members); and (c) the Tax dinance conflicts with the Commwealth Taxation Act.

Phis is in effect a full-scale at- ;k on the validity of an Act which, destroyed, could mean that legision in Papua and New Guinea gol back many years could be inlid—including the Taxation Ordince.

"Cause Confusion"

Experts pointed out in August it if the Papua-New Guinea Act invalid it can and probably will quickly amended by Common alth Parliament, but meanwhile ire would be confusion. The future itus of Papua and New Guinea as :ombined territory with one Legisive Council could be in question, d it could mean there might have be separate Councils.

Phe experts said that there would no doubt that taxation would be ide legal again, but those behind i attack on the Act would cerhly have proved their nuisance ue.

Jo legal blocks have been thrown the way of the High Court action the Commonwealth Government, dch could, if it had wanted, have the action through technicties. fhe Federal Government itself, idously wants to clear up once i for all the doubts that have in surrounding the Papua-New Guinea Act for some years. The Australian Attorney-General, Sir Garfield Barwick, QC, Australia’s leading constitutional lawyer before he was appointed to Cabinet last year, is believed to have been the main influence in this attitude.

Sir Garfield personally will lead the Crown case, assisted by Mr. A.

Mason, who handled the case for the Crown during another similar challenge before the P-NG Supreme Court.

For the applicants will be Mr.

Gordon Wallace, QC, assisted by Mr. D. L. Mahoney and Mr. W.

Deane.

What's Happened These are the events which immediately lead up to this vital court action (for the background to the whole series of developments of the last few months, see p. 61) : • In June, Mr, Bob Bunting applied to the Papua-New Guinea Supreme Court to declare the Legislative Council incompetent, because it did not comply with Section 36 of the Papua and New Guinea Act. • In July the Court rejected the application, and the triumphant Administration, having got the Tax Ordinance through the Council on July 15, brought the tax gathering machines into being to operate from August 1. • Mr. Bunting and other leading community members being unwilling to attack the Papua and New Guinea Act itself, refused to appeal to the High Court. Thereupon, the Taxpayers' organisation split and re-formed. • Taxpayers, directed by a Rabaul group under Mr. Dudley Jones and (Over)

Pacific Report

Turn to these inside pages for more highlights of the month’s news: They Knew About The Ten Commandments—ll 7; NG Women’s Clubs—ll 7; Apia Ships Queue Up; Ratu Sukuna’s Decorations for Museum; Five Annual Shows for P-NG—l2l; Another Papeete Hotel Offer—l 22; Lili Wanted the Quiet Life—l 23.

Where Fiji Gets Its Rice From— -123; P-NG Wants Local Broadcasts; School for Native Boat Builders—l2s; Who’s Who of the McNicolls—l26; Newspaper kporganisation in P-NG; Few Islanders Taxed in Cooks—l2B; Jets Bring Tighter Traffic Control—l 29; Too Few Coastal Ships in NG; Highlands Highway Lacks One Big Bridge—l3l.

“History Making’’ Employment Board in P-NG—l33; Suva’s Milk is “Purest”—l33; Raft Adrift; Death of W. Samoa Doctor —135; Moves in Pouvanaa Case; Anton Kiari, a Name to Remember— -137; NG Drinking Deaths Pose Problem—l 39.

A Yank Follows Wartime Footsteps —139; They Want “Euranesian”; American Goods for W. Samoa — 141; W. Samoa Public Servants Want More Money—l 42; New Blood for Fiji Legco—l43; NG Fly Problem—l4s.

It's A Legislative Council Boycott Attempts to fill the three vacancies on the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council left by the resignations of the elected members caused fun and games.

WHEN nominations closed on Ahd-usl 4 the Paoua electorate found itself with two candidates, one of whom will resign if he is elected; the New Guinea Islands electorate was in exactly the same position; and the New Guinea Mainland electorate had no candidates at all.

Thus when the elections are over on September 12 the Legislative Council may find it has one or two elected members to represent the three electorates, or perhaps none at all—but certainly not three.

This situation has arisen as a resuit of the boycott which was threatened by New Guinea taxpayers following the resignations of the three elected men, Messrs. E. A.

James, lan Downs and Dudley Jones, none of whom has renominated.

However, the boycott was not a complete one, except in the Mainland electorate, because of a split which developed between the taxpayers during July.

Some, influenced in part by the view of a visiting Federal member, Mr Roy Wheeler, believed it would be bad tactics for men to stand only to resign. Mr. Wheeler had said that these tactics would make it difficult for him and other party back benchers to fight Mr. Hasluck in Federal Parliament. (Continued on page 149) 17 I CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

Mr. M. W. Fishwick, and a Port Moresby group under Mr. Craig Kirke, at this point decided to actively boycott the by-elections and also to launch another legal campaign, this time to the High Court of Australia. • Dissident taxpayers, consisting mostly of a Port Moresby group, refused to support the High Court action, and decided to support new men for the Legislative Council who would not resign. • About July 27, Mr. Fishwick lodged his application to the High Court.

Mr. Fishwick’s application began quietly enough. It was handled by Messrs. Patience and Mclntyre (acting for Dudley Jones and Craig Kirke, New Guinea solicitors).

Beat the Gun Council contacted Mr. Justice Taylor, of the High Court, at home, and asked for an injunction restraining Tax Ordinance from being proclaimed. His Honour arranged to hear the application on July 30.

But only two hours before the hearing began in Sydney the Ordinance was proclaimed in Port Moresby. Mr. Wallace reported this, rather glumly, in Court and mentioned that this action had been taken by the Crown despite a request by the applicant for it to be delayed. However, there was still the application against the validity of the Act.

Mr. A. Mason (for the Crown) told Mr, Justice Taylor that the Crown was anxious to take the matter to finality and it would not object to it going to the Full Court.

On August 4, Mr. Justice Taylor met counsel in chambers, and it was later announced that the application attacking the validity of the Act, would be considered by the Full Bench of the High Court, probably about August 17 or 18.

Tax Machinery in Action Before July ended, every employer in the Territory who might be regarded as a likely taxpayer had received, from the new Taxation Section of the Treasury in Port Moresby, a mass of documents outlining his or her new liabilities.

A large staff must have been working overtime, for weeks, to prepare, print and get all this stuff into addressed envelopes.

Territorians, still uninstructed and completely befogged regarding their tax obligations, began to learn, in this hard and painful way, what they are in for. The following is by no means a complete picture, but it is an outline of what has come into operation since August 1.

By July 31, “taxation advice officials” had been placed in most Territory centres.

The tax operates from August 1. (It was to be July 1, but the Supreme Court application held up the machine for two or three weeks.) New Guinea’s new tax system is the full-blooded, complex and vicious Australian tax system—as compared with the much simplified income tax systems of Malaya, or Solomons or Fiji.

This new system is subject to PAYE (pay-as-you-earn) —in other words, to Provisional Tax. It actually goes beyond the Australian system, in that it forces companies, as well as individuals, to pay provisional tax.

It includes the double-tax provision—that is, a company is taxed on its profits; and then, after the remaining profits are distributed, the shareholders who receive the dividends are taxed again, as if the dividends were new income. Very few countries in the world are subjected to this system.

The employer, under threat of severe penalties, is obliged, from August 1, to collect the tax at each pay-day from employees subject to tax, and transmit same regularly to the Taxation Section.

Professional men and traders, including Companies, not on a fixed income—who therefore cannot be put on a Provisional Tax from August I—are obliged to send to Taxation Section, by January next, an estimate of what their income will be in the current year; and after March 31, 1960, they are obliged to pay Provisional that—presumably each mo: is not cLar whether this retrospective—that is whethi ing calculated their probj* come, they must pay Prr Tax at that rate from Aug Undistributed Profits There are different tax public and private compan in New Guinea, hitherto, tl; been only one kind of Comp* new law introduces a se measuring sticks (mostly, tl; ber of shareholders) by( officialdom will decide when Company is private or pufcd Public Companies will pa the £. Private Companies for the first £5,000 of pro 3/6 thereafter.

Private Companies are su the Undistributed Profits T of Australia's most oppress laws. The NG private Co will be allowed to retain,] serves, 40 per cent, of thein but, if the sum remaining at ment of dividend is more per cent., it becomes subjeiE Undistributed Profits Tax o the £.

Directors of some privac panics in Australia, anxiouj tain some of their profits i as working capital in t fiationary world, distribub profits to shareholders; a:i the latter hand back the 6 (less the income tax they H to pay) to the Company toe as a loan, at interest, forr use. The interest paid o loans is a deductible expq course.

But the newly-fledgedE Moresby tax-collectors are a this procedure; and provih been made whereby interest); as dividends sent away toe outside the Territory, m r taxed as income—and the O is responsible for the collee (Continued on page 1493 The Tax Fight— Round by Round January-March: P-NG taxpayers appeal to Canberra to delay and redraft Tax bills. Refused. Win for Hasluck.

April: Tax bill introduced to Legco without notice. Win for Hasluck.

May-June: More taxpayers’ appeals to Canberra. Refused. Win for Hasluck.

June: Three elected Legco members resign. Win for taxpayers.

June: Taxpayers apply to Supreme Court. Win for taxpayers.

July: Application rejected and Bunting and other leading taxpayers refuse to proceed further. Win for Hasluck.

July; Administrator proclaims Tax Ordinance, before taxpayers can lodge injunction. Win for Hasluck.

August: High Court agrees to hear taxpayers application. Win for taxpayers.

August: Both sides nominate candidates for by-elections. Dead heat.

Brigadier D. M. Cleland. 18 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON/ Crown Anxious To Settle Issue ’ (From previous page)

After Being Too High For Too Long IPs Happened: Copra Prices Level Out It is always gratifying to fly a kite and find that it does as predicted; however, when PIM said last month, that copra would probably level out in the next six months, it was over-optimistic on one point: Copra prices have showed themselves ready to level out in a lot less than six months and during July fell by another £Stg.lo per ton.

VERAGE price for Philippines copra. c.i.f. London, during June was £Stg.9l, a fall of £Stg.B/15/- . r the previous month; average July was £Stg.Bl/10/- c.i.f. Loni In a year, for a South Pacific Station producing 3,000 tons per aum, that would mean a drop in Beamings of £5tg.5,400.

Phis slump was in line with the irseilles price fall, June-July \M, July, page 167), and if the jnch copra market can be re- ■ded as a preview of what will open elsewhere (and sometimes the past it has been) planters it be comforted by the fact that er the price dropped to 106,000 t. fcs at beginning of July, it :tuated very little for the rest the month.

Ixperts who make a speciality of ilysing the copra situation are ling it as difficult to pin-point reason for this sudden fall as y were previously to explain irely the continually rising prices.

"Interchangeability 77 Again I number of factors are probably olved—not the least of which is I bug-bear “interchangeability”: 5 long run of high copra prices f encouraged manufacturers to .nge formulas in order to use ;matives to coconut oil. Another tor was the move in the United .tes for the disposal of stockid coconut oil and though it (ears now that this will be done r a period, it no doubt had its fit on the market, he overriding reason for the fall, course, is that copra and coconut prices have been maintained at unhealthy high level for too long, I market reaction of this sort • bound to occur sooner or later. )se in the trade are not dished; to the contrary, although no i wants to see copra fall much er. The world copra market will more than ordinarily interesting the next few weeks, he Bank Line’s Beaverbank, ich spent 21 weeks on a Fanning md reef in July, had to jettison ut 2,000 tons of coconut oil into the sea (the oil had been taken on in Suva in June) and although seme copra was unloaded into another ship it is believed that about 2,000 tons were also jettisoned. In early August, Beaverbank was in Honolulu, presumably for repairs. (A Honolulu tug went to her assistance) .

There was no immediate reaction to this loss of coconut oil and copra —although it was probably too early, at the end of July, to judge the situation completely. (Continued on page 150) Fund Earns £1 Per lon Of Copra The Papua-Guinea Copra Stabilisation Fund, which has functioned in one form or another since the end of the war, now stands at the handsome total of £ 3,300,000 which, invested in sound Government securities, is bringing in about £lOO,OOO p.a. in interest —or £1 per ton of copra produced For several years the Stabilisation Fund deduction was combined with that for export tax and when the latter came to an end with the introduction of income tax, Fund contributions came under review.

It has been decided, for the time being, anyhow, that no further contributions to the Fund are necessary and so planters will be richer by the £1 per ton they have been recently paying on this score.

The Fund was born out of experience of the wildly fluctuating and mostly uneconomic prices for copra in the period between the wars. Its purpose is to cushion the industry against uneconomic prices, but so far the post-war industry has got along on its own and there have been no pay-outs from the Fund.

So This Is The

Stone Age?

It was a Stone Age world in the Baliem valley of Netherlands New Guinea until recetly. But "buzzbikes" like this one are helping to break down the old ways. They are the only means of transport within the valley. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

Hamac Under Review Affairs Of New Group Of Companies In P-N. Guinea • Within the last three years, persons then connected with the well-known insurance brokers, Messrs. Harvey Trinder Ltd., of London, Sydney, and Port Moresby, formed a group of companies which were registered in Papua and New Guinea. Their names and nominal capital were: Halmac Holdings, Coffee Products, Ltd., £250,000. Ltd., £lOO.OOO.

Ela Services, Ltd., Morobe Hotels, Ltd., £50,000. £250.000.

Moresby Importers, Hotel Cecil, Ltd., Ltd. £lOO,OOO.

Eriama Shipping Wanigela Planta - Co., Ltd. tions, Ltd.

Eriama Estates, Aro a n a Estates, Ltd., £1,000,000. Ltd., £40,000.

A certain number of these companies began to trade actively.

Ela Services Ltd. obtained some leading car agencies, and built an impressive establishment near Ela Beach, Port Moresby, and entered the motor and garage business.

Cattle farming began to Wanigela.

Not long ago, a pedigree bull, reported to have cost 2,500 guineas m Sydney, arrived at Port Moresby and was sent to Wanigela.

The hotel companies purchased the Cecil Hotel at Lae, the Wau Hotel and the Goroka Hotel, and have conducted them for the last two years.

The finance required for th.se operations ran into some hundreds of thousands of pounds. The public did not know exactly how it been arranged—but it was generally believed that Harvey Trinder Limited was interested, in some way.

"Restless"

The group of companies, in the course of trading, incurred substantial liabilities. Early this year, a few of the bigger creditors became restless, and appealed to Messrs. Harvey Trinder Ltd.

It then became known that Messrs. Harvey Trinder Ltd. was neither a shareholder nor a guarantor of Hamac Holdings Ltd., but was merely a creditor and a large creditor.

On July 16 last the managing director of Messrs. Harvey Trinder Ltd., in Sydney, sent a Ltter to creditors of the group of companies, in the following terms; “Re Hamac Holdings, Ltd., and subsidiary companies— “As you are probably aware, Harvey Trinder (NSW) Pty., Ltd., is a very substantial creditor of the above Group of Companies, and we understand that certain monies are owing to you.

“We have made a preliminary investigation into the affairs of the Hamac group, and there are various aspects of the matter which we, as Principal Creditors, wish to put before our fellow creditors.

“We have decided to call a meeting of all Creditors so that we may discuss the future of the Group . . .

“In view of the seriousness of the situation, we should be pleased if you would arrange for a representative to be present ...”

The meeting was held in the Boroko Hotel, Port Moresby, on July 28. (Continued on page 150) CSR Go. Looks at S.E. Asian Rice The Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in Fiji does not seem to be suffering so many doubts about its rice milling project at Nausori as Mr. Ram Jati Singh, secretary of the new Indian sugar milling company seems to think, (Se 3 page 53, this issue) It was announced at the end of July that the CSR Co. has appointed Mr.

G. M. R. Day, formerly manager of the company’s mill at Penang, to be manager of the new rice mill.

He is at present in South East Asia studying rice-growing, milling and storing methods. He is accompanied by Mr. A. H. Campbell, design engineer for the company in Australia who recently visited the old Nausori mill which will also be the site for the new rice mill. It was stated that construction of the new mill will commence shortly.

Pacific Route Chan[?] THE AIR W[?] WARMS U[?] One result of the introdm Qantas Boeing 707 aircraft trans-Pacific service (the ft vice got off from Sydney om and the service will he f\ operated hy September 7) W the abrupt curtailment cc American services on the sam.

PAN AMERICAN, which Super 7 conventional pis craft until it starts i Pacific jet service, has cut vices between Sydney and America from four per WceM per week. Jet training proc for its own air crews is pa= sponsible for cutting back; service; but the bigger ♦ capacity, and the novelty flight now supplied by Qss the rest of the story.

Meanwhile, Samoa has bee: centre of keen competition First came Transocean with its non-scheduled Touri* and a direct link with Hono. wrest some of the traffic fn American which operates vi:i Now Pan American wilt September 30, commence a. scheduled bi-w eek 1 y Ht Tafuna (American Samoa) 1 with Boeing Stratocruisers,, the same time discontinu DC4 service between Nas Tafuna.

On a visit to the South Pacific in July, the Governor-General of New Zealand, Viscou[?] (right), with Lady Cobham, here photographed in Pago Pago, American Samoa, with [?] E. Fitzpatrick, American Samoa Treasurer (left) and Mr. K. Davies, New Zealand T[?] missioner, who is also on a Pacific tour. Lord and Lady Cobham were travelling aboa[?] "Royalist".

Photo: Pan Ameri[?] 20 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

The House That Warm Hearts Bought • It is the big hearts of Islands eople which make these two photoraphs possible. [THEY show Mrs. Audrey Young- L Whitforde and her six children, and the house they recently Might at 18 Jubilee Street, tehroonga, Sydney, with the help : £3,700 publicly subscribed by the tople of Papua-New Guinea folding the death of Mrs. Youngtoitforde’s husband.

He was popular Assistant District fiicer Dudley Young-Whitforde, ho died suddenly in New Guinea • September. All his six children ere under 10.

Jhe Young-Whitforde’s had been ithe Territory for 12 years and P been stationed in many areas.

Mrs. Young-Whitforde is not a ydney girl but she moved her gully to Sydney this year because I one thing, “Sydney is the centre ■Territorians on leave and I don’t ant to lose contact with such onderful people”.

They've Settled Well *The four eldest children, Penny 10), Shan (9), Denise (7) and romlyn (5) all go to school just bund the corner, and William (3) id Murray (1) help mother keep miss. All are happy and have titled down well in their new life.

In the evenings they watch TV — wnething not possible in New Guinea—and the set has particular ppeal to William, who roams the Mise in a Western outfit, guns ung low on his hips.

Fiji Sugar Industry Report

Personal Aggrandisement .... And Remote Control are Among Problems The Board set up by the Governor of Fiji in May to inquire into the sugar industry, and particularly sugar-industry wages, laboured for many weeks in the Colony and has now brought forth a recommended rise of 3d per hour. (Sugar workers’ representatives had asked for a rise of 1/7 per hour.) WITH one member of the fourman Board dissenting, the recommendations published August 1 were for an increase of 3d per houTon f Semin™rate of ?he workers involved, and no change in the existing 44-hour working week.

The workers had sought an increase from 1/5 to 3/- per hour and a reduction of hours to 40 — though the latter demand was not strongly o. g. cISS"’ M? E ’p Q K M #hin“' Mr. gatu M K N K M T CF e^M L A LB it set up as the result of a dispute between the employer, Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited, and one section of the sugar industry workers, Fiji Sugar Industry Employees’ Association.

The Board had no power to fix wages or make any award; its function was simply to make recommendations. Presumably the Governor will now recommend that both parties again meet and try reach an agreement on the basis of these recommendations.

The^dissenting.vote was cast by Mr. Bhmdi—a company^director^and business man by profession and an Indian by race, who found| increase of Bd., not 3d., was called for. - Vll -_ Hicap-rppment The grounds of h s pSS /shed ’ report which occupies 50 it b^ f b 9 hour relations in the history £ ° * Fiji sugar industry, . t L. R i amp Fixing The Blame The Board found that much of th cause of the recent unrest in the sect i on 0 f the industry involved (Over) Mrs. Young-Whitforde, with (front) Murray, William and Penny, and (at rear) Denise, Shan and Bromlyn. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

—the mill workers—could be attributed to the Association’s General President, Mr. B. D. Lakshman, whose “motives .... seem to have been personal aggrandisement rather than the advancement and improvement of the conditions and status of the workers”.

But this was only one of several causes, according to the report, not all of which rested with the employees. The report says, for example, “. . . Industrial unrest is not likely to be remedied, but rather preserved, if the present remote control from the Company’s Head Office (in Sydney) is not eased.”

One of the principal points of the Association’s submissions demonstrating a totally inadequate minimum wage, was a cost of living figure based on the cost of maintaining an Indian prisoner in a local gaol. The Government figures showed this to be £l/6/9 per week.

The Board offered no comment on the validity or otherwise of these Government figures, or the method of arriving at a family rate (multiplying it by 4i) but merely points out that evidence was submitted to show that this prison ration was “of higher calorific value than the average worker required”, and referred, too, to the evidence of a Medical Department witness that an adequate diet for a family of five could, at the present time, be produced for only £2/16/- per week.

The Board rejected the CSR submission that a basic minimum wage for the Colony should be fixed by a Government-appointed committee, and considered that the present wage negotiating machinery was satisfactory under the circumstances existing in Fiji.

The Board rejected the establishment of any formula for the fixing of wages, with Mr. Bhindi dissenting on this question.

The Board also rejected any profit sharing plan: “. . . We feel that no serious thought was given to the difficulties of such a proposal or the negligible results which would follow for the lower paid workers.

In any event it is difficult to see how it could possibly be applied to workers in the Colony ... by a Company which has a wide variety of establishments in Australia and New Zealand besides its interests in Fiji. The system of output bonus which is in operation at the various mills is a simple, easily understood and direct method of rewarding increased effort.”

Ability to Pay With Mr. Bhindi again dissenting, the Board rejected the idea that the basic needs of the worker should have any bearing on the matter of fixing a minimum wage. (Continued on page 147) HOME BASE By Sydneysides[?] Sydney is the hub of the South Pacific, and its now* i* * news. Here are some of the things that made July-AugusTheadli August Bank Holiday—a harkback to the Wild Colonial Days, probably, as all the Australian States don’t observe it—was the usual piebald affair in Sydney.

Banks, State public service, insurance, shipping companies and the Courts all took Monday, August 3, off; for other Sydneysiders it was business as usual. * * * Mr. Ivan Kurdiukov, Russia’s new ambassador to Australia— the first since the great recall after the Petrov case in 1954 arrived in Sydney in early hours of August 5 and went smartly off to Canberra the next day. There one of his first public appearances was at the Bolshoi Ballet, currently touring this country doubtless with this glad-hand gimmick in view. * * * MIGRATION PLUS: Australia’s population was increased perceptibly one day in early August with the arrival of the Dutch vessel Sibajak carrying the migrating Van Dijks (mama, papa and the 14 kids) and the Reivers, also 16 strong. Neither family was at full battalion strength, the Van Dijks being missing one son and one daughter, and the Reivers one son. * * # BEST SELLER: Sales of Bibles in Sydney have trebled in last six months. The reason (according to the Rev. Gordon Powell of fashionable Presbyterian St. Stephens): Dr. Billy Graham’s recent crusade. * * * BUSINESS (BIG) : Ans e 11 Transport Industries bid to take over Guinea Holdings Ltd. was not favoured by some shareholders, but Ansett was not unduly put out about this, and expects to win in the end.

Since acquiring ANA a couple of years ago, Mr. Reg Ansett’s once minor airline company has swallowed Butler Air Transport, also. (Guinea Holdings, of course, is mostly just that these days, its airline business being of secondary importance.) The only air company left to give Ansett-ANA a run for its money is the Commonwealth Government-owned Trans Australia Airlines, and as an interesting sidelight on this rivalry, air-minded Aussies have watched, with interest, the battle of the coloured tails. Mr. Ansett had the tails of his kites paint© vivid scarlet some months s now TAA has come out v tails and wing-tips done s bright, fluorescent orange. Iti makes for brighter skyways i * * * TRADE DEPT.: Fiji may think Australian rice “tan (according to a correspondem this issue) but Canada is w mg to give it a go to the tun.j 0,000 tons to be shipped ff Sydney this month. * * *

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Easing of import restrictions the tune of £5O million per ann has pleased Associated Chamlf of Commerce, but made Ass« ated Chambers of Manufactui a little unhappy. Amongst th who received the news with • alloyed joy were Scotch whii drinkers, dispensers and : porters. Scotch has been in sli supply for a long time; but are promised that by Christn there will be plenty for everyo * * jfc PETROL ROUND T.

CLOCK: Although they operating successfully in otj States, everyone, including Mines Dept, and explosives perts, has been called in to to find a reason to keep s(i service petrol pumps out of S;< ney. Minister for Labour and i dustry Maloney is writhing dilemma: Motorists want the the State Government does: because it plans to licence serv stations so that they can be < licenced if caught selling pet out of legal trading hours; s the Unions are dead aaginst tv bob-in-the-slot petrol pumi “because they might cause v employment”. Said a Uni. spokesman: “If we don’t puu stop to this thing somewhere, ■ day might come when grocer can be bought from a a machine.”

No doubt with this paralyss thought in mind, Mr. Malon has had the last word to dae That even if not found actus dangerous, the petrol machii could work only within “les trading hours”. We’d like to Mr. Maloney that he’s ui mately going to be proved wro —but in the meantime it lo<( like a big job for someone ■ see that the vending machbi already operating in this c.c dispensing ginger-pop, lemonas cigarettes, ice, and chocolatj etc., close up tight at 6 p.m. 22 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC I S L A V D S MONTI

It'S A Step Ahead Of P-Ng

Netherlands New Guinea Gets Local Government Netherlands New Guinea in August took a political step ahead of its big neighbour territory, Papua-New Guinea, by making the first move to set up autonomous local government.

DURING the first three weeks of August nominations were being received for candidates to be elected to NNG’s first Regional Council, in the Schouten Islands sub-district, which is the island area northwest of Hollandia, with Biak as its centre.

It includes Schouten and Noemfoor Islands, but Biak will not be included in the new Council area, which will be called the Regional Council of Biak-Noemfoor.

The Council will consist of 13 members, three to be appointed by the Governor of NNG and 10 to be elected by secret ballot from six electoral districts, using an indirect electoral system of “voting representatives”. Two members will be elected in each of four districts, and one member from each of two other districts. Each electoral district will be subdivided into a number of electoral circles, in which the “voting representatives” will be elected by the voters (popular adult votes). The representatives will be responsible for handing in a list of candidates for their electoral districts. It was the selection of these representatives which was being undertaken in August.

The representatives from each district will meet probably about the second half of October to vote by secret ballot, for the candidate of their choice.

A report from Hollandia says that the new Council should meet in November to decide on a working programme for the new year, and how money will be allocated.

The Council will, in the words of a official statement made in Hollandia in July, “be qualified to adjust all matters concerning regional affairs.

It has also been charged with the preparatory work pertaining to the formation of native community councils in the sub-districts.

“Until these latter are functioning properly, village matters are considered as belonging to the affairs concerning the Regional Council’.

So that it can have its decision implemented, the Council will institute local “administration commissions” in parts of its region.

These will be the informal forerunners of village councils to be Instituted later. The head of the subdistrict will be Council President, Spade Work A lot of the spade work which v/ill result in the establishment of this first Council has been done by the Advisory Council for the Schouten Islands, which was inaugurated in 1953 for this purpose.

Other advisory councils are operating in other areas where similar regional councils are to be brought into existence, including Hollandia, Monokwari, Sarong- Doom and Japen.

The Advisory Council for the Schouten Islands will be dissolved as soon as the Regional Council has been brought into being.

Eddie Says He’s Locked Out r Eddie Lund, the well known American musician, who has lived in Tahiti for something like the past 20 years, was sitting in a Fiji hotel in July with the Papeete door locked against him.

Eddie journeyed to New Zealand i June and made some arrangelents for the publishing of his wordings there by a Wellington rm.

Returning by TEAL, he got as far 5 Apia when word came through lat he would not be permitted to nd in Tahiti. He returned to Suva 7 the same flight and opened egotiations (by telegraph) with Governor of French Polynesia r ho was then in Paris. Up to the nd of July he was still in Suva waiting developments.

Said Eddie: “There is somebody lere who doesn’t like me,”

There Are Plenty Of Signs Of La Perouse, Says An Old Hand In Sydney, in July, old Solomon Islands skipper Walter Buckley seemed surprised at the excitement caused by the discovery of r ec relics from La Perouse’s vessel, “Astrolabe ”, at Vanikoro (see p. 59).

“mHERE’S a place in the passage X on the Vanikoro reef where the outline of a ship is quite plain,” he said. He claimed old Solomon Islands hands had seen the anchors in the coral years ago and could indicate a spot at the head of the bay at Pau where La Perouse’s men had camped and begun to build a ship. Rumours current in the Solomons 30 years ago were that the Frenchmen had buried treasure there. _ Buckley lived at Grasciosa Bay, “Big” Santa Cruz, for years and knows of interesting relics on that island, too. He describes a point on which long, low walls have been erected from squared stone blocks.

“No native would build that sort of thing/’ he says. “They were obviously defence works of some sort.”

There is a flat at the head of Grasciosa Bay which Buckley says was a battleground where rival tribes often met in warfare. It would repay investigation by anthropologists, Buckley says.

There is also a giant meteorite which Buckley reported to the Sydney Museum authorities. They asked him to break off a few samples and ship them to Sydney.

“It’s as hard as an anvil and big as a house, so I wasn’t haying it on,” Buck says.— Bill Baverstock.

Eddie on the drums. 23

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COMMENTARY he CSR Co. and the jji Government f; gain nothing by closing our eyes to the real meaning of the public statement made by [6 Colonial Sugar Refining Co. d. in Suva on July 17. (See page The people and the Government ' Fiji have been told, very politely, it quite definitely and firmly, that the cost of producing sugar in iji rises any further, so that the iterprise becomes uneconomic, the SR Co. will contemplate with- •awal from Fiji.

Fiji’s exports are worth about £l4 illions per annum. About half of icm is sugar.

Already, Fiji is suffering acute •owing-pains production now is irely sufficient to feed the increasig population, and apparently not lough to allow higher living andards.

If the situation is as CSR Co. incates—that the profits of its enterrise in Fiji now represent less than ink interest on its capital outlay iere —the CSR Co. cannot be amed for its stand.

Fiji is only one of the many fires hich heat the irons out of which ie CSR Co.’s powerful empire has ;en built. (On the day this is ritten, the newspapers are anmncing that the CSR Co. has fered £62 millions Australan for e Australian Masonite Corporation, tie stock market values the Co.’s 10 shares at away over £60.) If the money that CSR Co. now is invested in Fiji were put to work Australia, under the present boom nditions, it probably would earn iry much more profit. But that is big “if”. Any attempt by CSR Co. fold up its enterprise in Fiji r transfer of capital elsewhere iuld vastly reduce the book value the Fiji investment.

None knows this better than the 3R Co. Nonetheless, the CSR Co.’s esentation of a few simple, fundaental, economic facts to the Fiji overnment and people will do no inn, at this time.

The CSR Co. and the Indian mmunity made modern Fiji. The >R Co. and/or the Indians could stroy it.

The men of the British Colonial fice, painstakingly and conscienti- L .sly governing Fiji, must have reused long ago that the Colony was owing out of its economic boots, id reported accordingly to Whitedl. Other-than-sugar industries ould have been encouraged. But itil the Burns Commission was 'Pointed the Colonial Office did little about it. Bedevilled by acute problems in other colonies, it left “quiet and peaceful” Fiji alone.

Now, Fiji’s Government is in the embarrassing position where this powerful Australian corporation can say to it: “You will, of course, do what you think best in raising the Colony’s basic wage and living standard —but please note that if we cannot make at least the bank rate of interest on our investment, we must consider withdrawal from Fiji.”

What is the answer to that one?

What is the minimum standard of living sought for the poorest class of Indians in Fiji? What is the amount of the CSR investment in Fiji, and how is its return on that investment calculated?

We —the outsiders looking in—do not know any of the answers.

But we do suggest—and by no means for the first time —that as a point has been reached which vitally affects the economic structure of Fiji, and as 90 per cent, of Fiji’s economy is owned in some form or other by Australian corporations, it is about time that the Australian Government was invited to take more than an academic interest in the politico-economic situation now being so anxiously examined by the Fiji Government, the CSR Co., and the Burns Commission, * * * Germany Comes In And The Picture Changes FOURTEEN years have passed since the Hot War ended, and the Cold War began.

Many of us have become so accustomed to seeing the original sides lined up against each other, in the Cold War—U nit e d States, Britain and France facing Communist Russia and her enslaved satellites—that we do not readily perceive some most significant changes in a new alignment of World Powers.

The West no longer consists of a Big Three. Following her breathtaking recovery in national morale and economic strength, Germany has ranged herself beside the Big Three. Now, it is the Big Four.

Russia hates this development.

Again and again, throughout the centuries, the Slav has run head on into the Teuton; and always to his great undoing. It can happen again.

The Teutons, the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons form a racial group which never will accept Communism. But a more important factor is that the Germans never will rest until they have recovered East Germany from the Soviet group.

Another factor—curious and unexpected—now is really bothering Moscow. France and Germany ancient enemies, now are getting together in a way not seen for a thousand years.

Under the Fourth Republic, with nationalism battering her colonial empire to pieces, France was shrinking, as a world Power, and actually was being taken over from within by the Communists. The Fifth Republic, under De Gaulle, appears to be staging a great recovery; and France and Germany, forgetting old hatreds, tend to form a close union against Communist penetration and the Red Block.

Hence, all this present manoeuvring over West Berlin. The Franco- German rapprochement has caused a near panic in the Kremlin.

The changes in the world picture are not all on one side, however.

The emergence of Red China as a world Power cannot be denied —and is something of tremendous significance, especially for the South Pacific countries.

But, while Germany falls promptly into line with the West, there is no natural union between Russia and China. Alliance between Chinese and Russians will last just as long as the professional Communist organiser can keep his hold over the Chinese masses.

Ours now is a world of tensions and tortures and uncertainties — things which have profoundly influenced the thinking and the out- Father Of Fiji’s Lefjeo Retires The Honorable Vishnu Deo, leading Piji-Indian politician with 30 years of Legislative Council service to his credit, resigned due to 111-health at the close of the July session. Shortly afterwards, on Mr. Vishnu Dec’s 6(Lh birthday, fellow members of the Legislative Council entertained him at the Grand Pacific Hotel.

At this function the Colonial Secretary Mr P. D. Macdonald, announced that’ the Queen had granted Mr.

Vishnu Deo the life right to use the title “Honourable”.

In private life Mr. Deo is an indent agent. Although he had been known in recent years as the “Father of Fiji’s Legislative Council, in his political youth he was regarded as something of a fire-eater. He was one of the Indian members who walked out of the Legislative Council as a result of the Indian agitation for the common-roll In the early 1930’5.

The present part-nominative, partelective Legislative system of Fiji, which has operated since 1937, ended most of the Indian agitation—and Mr Vishnu Deo, too, has mellowed with the years. 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

look of all the new generations who have grown up into citizenship during the last 20 years. But at least the events and developments of the last two or three years, vis-a-vis the Soviet, do not seem to have made the outlook any worse. The chief headache now is carried by that very lonely figure, Nikita Khrushchev. * * * Listen, Australia, to The Words of Haiti!

THE heading in a leading Australian newspaper was “Australia Called On to Hasten Self-Rule in New Guinea”.

That was over a report from New York, on August 4, that the Trusteeship Council of United Nations had demanded that Australia adopt, “without delay”, development plans necessary for the attainment of self-government in New Guinea.

Haiti proposed the motion, and Burma, China, India, Paraguay, the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria), United States and the Soviet supported it; and Australia, Britain, Belgium, France, Italy and New Zealand opposed it.

Could there be any more illuminating commentary on the futility of this United Nations Trusteeship system than the recital of those names!

The motion was opposed by Western nations with high standards of living, and far-reaching experience in the successful administration of primitive countries. But it was carried on the casting votes of Haiti, Burma, China and Egypt, which lag far behind Western standards of life and government: and of the Russians, who never miss a chance of condemning the West, whatever the form of the motion.

The Australian administration in New Guinea may be criticised on some grounds—more especially in relation to policy—but it certainly cannot be challenged on lack of developmental plans, or energy, or money.

Since the end of the last war, Australia has spent no less than £llO millions in Papua and New Guinea, and about £65 millions of that is represented by free gifts of money from Australia.

In the same period, the New Guinea Administration has incurred the wrath of a large section of Australians because far too much energy, money and thought is being devoted to native welfare, and not nearly enough to the help and encouragement of Europeans and European settlement and enterprise there.

Thus, while we may criticise the shape of the Australian achievement in New Guinea, none of us can deny that, in volume and in thrust and in sincerity, and in the Westernising of those very primitive I? million people, Australia has done a most creditable job—a far better job than has been done by any other holder of a “C” class trusteeship.

There are over 500 separate languages in New Guinea. How many Trusteeship Council people realise the significance of that simple fact?

The Trusteeship Council produces this type of report every year. This year it is more than usually piffling.

The fact that Australian newspapers have given it prominence is the measure of the Australian newspapers’ knowledge of New Guinea conditions generally.

At present, the non-official classes in NG are united and defiant in their discontent with the Hasluck Administration. But that will pass.

Would it be possible to keep that spirit alive, and direct it into a campaign for the release of New Guinea from UN, and for its attachment permanently to Australia, as a Territory?

Which is better for New Guinea’s natives—control by Australians, who have been there for 80 years, and know what they are doing, or by babbling useless States of the calibre of Haiti, or Burma or Egypt, who have contributed absolutely nothing to the progress of modern civilisation? * * * Matters Which Concern Australian Territories Minister Hasluck THE full High Court of Australia will get to work on the joint Constitution of Australian Papua and Trusteeship New Guinea within a few days.

Whether the New Guinea administration structure survives or is breached, the fact remains that the Administration, and its Legislative Council and all its Ordinances, are in jeopardy; and if the party that is defeated elects to go to the Privy Council on appeal, they may remain in jeopardy for some time.

Sooner or later, the creation of the Legislative Council under the Papua and New Guinea Act would have come under review. There always has been a doubt about the validity of it, in the minds of eminent constitutional lawyers.

That it has come to a challenge now, to the embarrassment of both Canberra and Port Moresby, is entirely the fault of the Australian Minister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck.

There was no need for this struggle. If Mr, Hasluck had dealt fairly with the leaders of the Territory’s non-official classes, when they pleaded for more consideration in the manner of implementing the taxation of incomes, he could have had their co-operation and goodwill.

It meant only the postponement of the important taxation chaj a year, at the price of sorr fusion and inconvenience in of Treasury officials in Port IV/ Instead, Mr. Hasluck gas non-official leaders clearly toe stand that their represen would receive his most carefl sideration, so that they mj provided for in the Tax Bills all the time the Tax Bills, and printed, were lying in room in Moresby, ready to 1 sented to the Legislative 0 Up until then (April) no oc said that income tax was t; m as on July 1; and the ( had not been warned of it.

Those who now condem leaders of the Taxpayers A tions for precipitating the Court action and gravely emb ing the Government, h a appreciation of the anger elected Legco members and th official leaders, who feel ths were deliberately “led up the path” by the Minister.

The boycotting of the Leg elections may seem to be ; treme measure. But thosu criticise should pause firs? examine the exchanges betwe Territories Minister, from Nov 1958, until June, 1959. The;; will place the blame where longs.

The Wrong [?] From NZ A shocking rumour fron New Zealand source” is to effect that Qantas will shs announce that they have over TEAL.

"It it’s true,” says our respondent, "an Australian ” won’t be worth much om other side of the Tasman., thought they were up to st thing a year ago when NZI forced to buy a package Electras when all the time wanted to buy British Com Well, New Zealanders earn away that artillery and can the war. "There is absolutel truth in the story,” sau Qantas spokesman in Sydney August. "That particular rm circulates at intervals, and 3 still wrong. New Zealanderv —with justification—proud TEAL, as we are of Qantas,, no one plans to alter a thirl Another "imminent” devw ment that seems to have shelved is the second oper. on the Australia-New service. Last January Director-General of Aviation went to the Terr? to look into the matter ami announcement was prom "within six weeks.” That 71 month ago—and still noi nouncement. 26 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

The Editars' Maillag /hat is Meant By Love" in Tahiti?

Who gave the title, “Island of ove", to Robert Langdon’s excelnt new book on Tahiti? One of IM’s editors, in June, put the ame on a sales-hungry publisher.

But Author Langdon won t have that way—“lt was my idea,” he lys.

“And why not?” he goes on, “It , attractive. It is justified by the mtents of the book, particularly ie early chapters.

“And it is historically justified, id not Bougainville himself call ahiti ‘La Nouvelle Cythere’ because reminded him of the Greek oddess of love?

“And is there any island in the orld which more deserves the title sland of Love’ than Tahiti? If so, have yet to hear of it.”

Depends upon what is meant by •e”, of course. There can be a it more to the term than the unseating lagoon-side capers which ave given the lovely island of 'ahiti its remarkable fame.

What the publishers and the uthors who burble about Islands fe these days really mean is sex, ot love, and in this respect the uthors and publishers of a couple f generations ago were a great deal lore exact.

When Malinowski wrote his andard work on the erotic practices r primitive people (the Trobriand slanders) he didn’t dress it up in a )ur-colour cover of a bare-breasted ula girl and call it Love in the outh Seas. It came in a plain aper cover and was called The exual Life of Savages. We daresay lalinowski was an old-fashioned loke who thought he knew the difirence between love and sex.

'ore Primitive ave Art Does anyone know anything of 16 cave drawings of Inorahn, uam? There has been a revival of iterest lately in ancient native untings, carvings and anything else 'at could possibly be construed 5 . primitive writing or wordnntings, and Chester S. Cole, MC, USN, contributes something >out a little known cave in Guam.

He has sent a pencil drawing of le figures (which look rather like 'e match-stick, line-men one drew 1 kindergarten) and has this to 'y about them: “I learned of them through a lad !r vmg in my ship who comes from 16 village of Inorahn, a short distance from where the cave is located.

“The markings were not carved into the wall, but were marked in some sort of white lime-like paint, I believe that most of them have been renewed to facilitate photographing by a team that was said to have come to investigate the new finding. The markings are about two to three inches tall, except two interlocking figures which are about three and one half to four inches tall. The sun-like figure on the left would have been in line with where the sun rises to the person who drew it. No one that I talked to in Guam had any idea of the significance of the markings.

“I realise that more than likely, interested parties already have heard about this cave, but I pass this information on to you for what it might be worth.”

About Those New Guinea Pubs Even though Mr. Malcolm McDougall, recently of New Guinea, is shortly going to Fiji, he’s taken time off to have a last word on the subject of Territory hotels —and his critic of June Editors’ Mailbag.

“I have never suggested,” writes Mr. McDougall, “that the hotels in Papua-New Guinea were noted for discourtesy or that they were inadequate for the demands of residents of the Territory. Those who are, deservedly, proud of having been pioneers in the most primitive part of the world, would doubtless regard too much insistence on material comfort and elegant service a sign of weakness; and gracious living might seem alien and somehow disreputable.

“What I did say, is that the hotels which I have seen and heard about are unlikely to be acceptable to tourists who have so much to choose from elsewhere, even though the Territory itself is scenically and anthropologically attractive.

“My main point was that as long as these establishments are economically compelled to remain primarily public bars with bedrooms and dining rooms reluctantly appended, they will not achieve international status as hotels, however popular they may be as ‘pubs’.

It is gratifying to learn that there are six air-conditioned bedrooms in New Guinea; there must be at least 60 hotel rooms without even hot and cold running water.”

Mr. McDougall has a lot of other interesting things to say, and ends with the observation that, in his opinion, knowledge of hotel and tourist conditions elsewhere in the world is far more valuable in assessing the situation than long residence in the Territory, And with this, PIM heartily concurs ; If any Territorian thinks that the average standard of hotel accommodation in the Territory is all that is desirable even for the casual visitor, let alone the spoiled international tourist, then obviously he has been too long in the bush.

Anglicans Tonga's First New Zealand correspondent John D Whitcombe, sends us his certificate of Confirmation signed by “Alfred Honolulu”, to show that the first Anglican service in Tonga was not, as stated by Mrs. Clara Cameron in June PIM, held in a “large tin shed”. He thinks Mrs.

Cameron’s service was probably the third.

The confirmation certificate is coloured, and we cannot reproduce it here but some of the things Mr.

Whitcombe says are interesting: “In 1896 there arrived in Tonga from Honolulu the Rev. Mr. Horssfall to take charge of the Government College. He brought with him a friend, Mr. Thomas Rudling, and his wife. This Thomas Rudling afterwards was appointed Collector of Customs at Vav a u, in the Northern Group, and he was responsible for introducing the Red Wasp into the Tongan Group. They afterwards spread as far as Samoa and Fiji. He brought five hives of bees with him from Honolulu, and one happened to contain a swarm of Red Wasps. The Rudlings lived in Dr. Buckley’s old home, a Government house; the property was afterwards called ‘Bee Kula (Red Bee), after the wasps.

“Mr Horsefall was a great friend of Bishop Willis, who at that tune was the Bishop of Honolulu, arid he invited the Bishop to visit Tonga.

In preparation for the visit prepared four of us for Confirmation.

Viz —Thomas Rudling, my brother Mr. Malcolm McDougall. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney (Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.) -harles a Honolulu lad who came rtth Rudling, and myself. The jishop arrived with Mrs. Willis and leir adopted son, a young Chinese id named Yam Sang Mark. This r am Sang Mark was later ordained, nd assisted the Bishop in Tonga.

Ie married a Tongan girl of the , a ng family; they left Tonga, his rife died in Honolulu and he fterwards married again to a Ihinese girl. He is now a Canon a one of the Anglican churches i Hawaii.

“Yam Sang Mark was added to ur list, and so on April 24, 1897, je were Confirmed in the then [ing’s Chapel, Nukualofa. This was he first Church of England service ver held in Holy Tonga.

Tt was on this visit that Bishop Villis was approached by some :ongan Chiefs and asked to return nd establish the Church of Engand in Tonga. At this date the Rev.

Shirley Baker had not yet returned 0 Tonga after being deported. The Jishop returned to Honolulu, but ater went back to Tonga and estabished the Anglican Church.”

Fhe Hagen Monument s At Hagen At the time Editors’ Mailbag was sking, in May, on behalf of a reired Territorian, if anybody knew rtiat had happened to the Hagen lonument from Count von Hagen’s rave near Madang, one of PlM’s Hiring editors was staring the missig monument in the face at Mount [agen. The monument, of the Gerlan eagle in bronze, was in the ffice of Western Highlands District tommissioner lan Skinner, who has ome plans for it. The story of how 1 got there and what will happen 3 it, we hope to tell shortly. rom a Family msing the Pacific A cruising-yacht family like the ergusons—Jacque, Jack and Lonny, bout 12 are almost (repeat, Jlmost”), enough to make crusty liters of Pacific Islands magazines elieve again that sailing a small fip is the right way to see the orld.

The Fergusons, American, and ieir yacht Te Matangi, have been 1 and out of PIM pages, mostly rising yachts section, for well over year now. They last reported from arotonga, but since have left for onga.

Writes Jacque, of their stay in rench Polynesia; ‘‘The island of Tahaa should be on the itinerary of every cruis- S yacht. Each bay, while being ttfiar, is still different. Even the ! °Ple are different. The French officials are rather strict and when going from island to island, or even around one, we made a point of reporting in, although you actually need no permit after you once obtain the big green sheet from Papeete.

“In every village we visited for any length of time, from one week to two months, I played my accordian for them. Not that I’m any great shakes at playing the squeezebox, but the natives would sit by the hour fascinated as my fingers flew over the buttons and keys. In one pi ac e, called Haamene on Tahaa, I left the instrument overnight in the Tavanna’s house Children would stand by it; the adults would run a finger over the case almost with reverence. Hard to believe—yet true.

"... The day finally came when we sailed for Rarotonga. We sailed out the wide pass (from Borabora) • by evening we were at the southern tip of Maupiti, and by midnight, under the bright moonlight, we were well southwest of her. After six days of good sailing we made Avarua—arriving quite late in the evening with just enough light left to tip-toe into Avatiu to secure for the night.” 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1959

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Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolata LET KEITH McCARTHY take a bow for his factual itory in the autumn issue of Quadrant describing the Rabaul trike of 1929.

E gives that 30-year-old labour ruction a topical build-up by referring to Willy Gavera’s matum last October, voicing dissfaction of the pay and condiis for members of the Auxiliary ision of the Territory’s Public vice.

Let us hope that the dispute will i to the satisfaction of all parties ut in any case William Gavera I his comrades are fortunate that 5 is 1958 [sic] and not 30 years lier,” writes McCarthy. [e then describes that the “official id has changed much since that ly Rabaul morning in 1929 when hing disturbed the serenity of town.” fo morning teas, no wash-wash pared; no reveille from the Police Tacks and Major Ayris counted y 19 police on the morning ade—the remnant of the night’s id. flth an economy of words, Earthy then describes the events ch prompted Sumasuma and Seant-Major Rami to organise Rabaul native labourers to ;e the most efficient stop work lonstration known in the Terril ie tells of the tactics adopted by j. J. H. Margetts and Father irgerhausen, of their co-operation h police officials and of the quick ion of Inspector Ball, Colonel Istab and the ADO, J. H.

Donald. He describes the Comsion of Inquiry, under one-time ninistrator Brig. Tom Griffiths, findings and eventual punishits awarded the ring leaders. fcCarthy records two truly lesque utterances; At the inquiry i strict disciplinarian and exrdsman, Bruce Ball, had re- ’ked; “After all, the strike is the litional Australian way of achievthings. Why be so upset about one?” nd the author writes: “Years r, Ball said to me: ‘You know, had the Tolpuddle martyrs in land. One of these days the pie will erect memorials to Rami ■ Sumasuma.’ ” nd WB might have something ■e after all. . . . John Walstab, Police Superintendent, Jerry tonald, the ADO, Rev. Margetts Brig. Griffiths have all gone to their rest. Ball still enjoys his brisk walks and now strides up and down the Kentish hills with much the same vigor, I expect—despite his 76 years, as when he strode along the bush tracks around Kombiu and Namanula.

One of these days I shall look forward to a book from Keith McCarthy, written in his inimitable style and illustrated by his own black and white sketches.

Queen Emma's Store The photograph of the Forsayth store in July Tropicalities can be none other than that of the EEF emporium in Rabaul, located on the corner of Namanula Street and Mango Avenue, opposite the old Customs Office and the opening ceremony must have been about 1905-6.

It was originally a store building at Ralum and was transferred in sections when the German administration decided to make Rabaul the capital. The Queen was not too happy about relinquishing any of her Ralum interests in favour of Rabaul, but realising the future trend she compromised by moving one of her Ralum buildings.

This later became the HSAG’s headquarters in Rabaul and here Jan Hoogerwerff (later manager of The Rabaul Times ) was store manager for many years until the Expropriation Board took over in 1921 and merged all the German stores in the one building of the Neu Guinea Kompagnie on Mango Avenue.

It was here that Fred Jolley (later business manager of the Exproboard) held down the job of chief accountant for Queen Emma. Steve Whiteman and “Whiskey” Miller were also on the staff.

Emma had a weakness for Australians. Bob Bunting (uncle of the present Bob) was also on the staff, as was Harry Bond and Louri, and as late as 1912 the cost mark for goods in the store was based on the English phrase: I AM HOPEFUL.

The store was altered by the Exproboard in 1923 as accommodation for single men and made into a series of small flats. It was called the Ambassadors.

When Board properties in Rabaul were put up for tender in 1926 the building and freehold land was acquired by Harry Hamilton, proprietor of The Rabaul Times, and the plant was shifted from Narnanula. After Harry’s death a syndicate known as St. James Enterprises acquired the property, carried on The Times and for a while ran a picture theatre in the building as well.

Later, J. B. O. Mouton bought the concern and once again Jan Hoogerwerff found himself in control — slightly different from merchandiseselling as in the old Forsayth days, but he struggled along and made quite a good job of it. He was there when the Japs came in 1942.

That same old building was the temporary home of many of the oldtime Board employees. For a while in the ’3o’s it housed Iris Schmidt’s Beauty Parlour and Maude Howsen’s dressmaking establishment.

Like all Rabaul buildings it was laid low by bombing in the war and the only thing left standing when I viewed the rubble in 1945 was a very sick skeleton of a linotype on a cement base. Sic transit gloria mundi! <° ver > "Tolaia" ,in his column this month positively 'dantifies this store as Queen Emma's and gives quite a lot of background information about it. This picture was loaned by the New Britain Historical Society, and was published in "PIM" last month.

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0 Many cts For the first time the UN Trusteeip Inspectors have commented ton the “multiplicity of religious issions in NG”.

Other subjects of their criticism ,ve been quickly replied to by mberra heads, but a rather linous silence has prevailed over e alleged confusion caused by the imerical strength of varied toilers the Lord’s New Guinea Vineyard.

In Sydney, Seventh Day Pastor G. Stewart rushed to the deice of the missionary activities, ifining his remarks, in a letter the Sydney Morning Herald 7.59), principally to the work of ; pioneer missionaries during the ys when there were only ree or four denominations repreited in the contest for souls. He ds by contending “that the find- (s of the UN Mission are not lording to facts”. 3e omits to mention, however, it in 1957 there were no less than separate Mission Societies registid in NG (though admittedly not of separate denominations), but art from the principal societies — Anglican, Methodist and 11 he r a n—many little known ssion activities had been launched which most Australians had never in heard. Many of them hailed m the Land of the Stars and ‘ipes. ’astor Stewart does not deny the 1 Mission’s claim of confusion in i native mind. Such a state does st amongst many of the primitive >es (and some not so primitive) ose mentality and theological ming have failed to grasp why " sect claims Sunday as Sunday, lie another plugs for Saturday, 1 the finer teachings of transubntiation seen in relation to the 'eminent edict to stamp out canalism. The primitive is a stark terialist.

The time is long overdue for an official inquiry into the confusion of denominational teachings and the sectarian jealousies which exist both in Papua and New Guinea.

Footnote : I remember that as far back as 1931 I sent a story to PIM dealing with the topic of “Sectarian Bitterness”, deploring the keen competition for souls at that time. Long before the advent of the Apostolic Church Mission, Assemblies of God, Christian Missions in Many Lands, Jehovah’s Witnesses or the Sola Fide Mission or Church of the Nazarene.

Too Many Laws “The number of ordinances and regulations which they [the P-NG Legal staff] were required to drsh was too much physically for them said Administrator Cleland, according to a newspaper report, when commenting on need for greater control for the safety of vessels ar sea, following the disappearance 0* the Muniara.

This is not the first time mention has been made of the multiplicity (popular word these days, apparently) of ordinances in the Territory.

One is reminded of the remark by that wise Roman Emperor, Tacitus, who in the third century said; “When the State is most corrupt then laws are most multiplied.”

How simple life would be had we but the Golden Rule and the Decalogue to guide us. No good, of course, for the legal eagles.

And Where Do Ex-Territorians Go? South Australia!

By “Sanasi”

South Australia is alive with ex-P-NG people, as I found after taking a recent holiday there. It’s most surprising. Among the old Territorians I met were: The Rev. J. R. Andrew, formerly chairman of the Methodist Mission in Papua, at Kiriwina, Trobriand Group.

Mr. Alf Simpson, who was with Steamships Trading Co., Samarai, in the 30’s, now of the SA Mines Dept., Radium Hill. With him are his wife and two children —she was Miss Alice Campbell, of the well known Samarai family who owned Kuiaro slip. Her sisters, Mrs. Percy Walke and Mrs. Bunny Burrows still are at Samarai.

The Rev. Harold Short, late of the LMS at Hula, Papua, is living quietly in an Adelaide suburb. He is anxious to return to his coconut plantation at Paira Point, Rigo district, where no doubt he’ll turn out more of those very readable little stories he specialises in.

A Pioneer Mr. W. P. A. Lapthorne, one of the founder-directors of Guinea Gold NL and Guinea Airways Ltd. in the pioneering days of Morobe district, NG, has just retired from active work with his Adelaide firm, Lapthorne and Company, machinery rn pvpVi onfe Dr. Joe Whitehouse, of Gladstone, SA, is a son of the late Dick Whitehouse, one-time missionary in the Trobriands. Dick’s widow lives in Adelaide; a daughter, Pat, is nursing.

Miss Hazel Donaghue, who was a nurse with the Methodist Mission in Eastern Papua, is now married and settled in one of the SA country districts.

Rev. V. H. Gough-Sherwin, prewar a well known Anglican missionary in both Territories, is now ministering at Murray Bridge, Dr. Gordon Heaslip, of Salamo, where he made a name for himself saving motherless Papuan children, is in Adelaide but is more interested these days in the technical side of soil improvement than in prescribing pills for people. This engrossment in the land stems no doubt from being a SA wheat farmer’s son.

Another Missionary The Rev. Canon C. Chittleborough, who was at the Anglican station, Mukawa, north-east coast of Papua, is at Crafers, in the Adelaide hills.

His daughter, Jennifer, born in Papua, is now Mrs. Price of Renmark.

Other Anglican workers settled in SA include: Rev. Alan Dawe (Samarai) at a parish in the suburb of Prospect; Miss Williams, housekeeper at the Deanery, Adelaide; and Miss Davitt, living in retirement in Adelaide.

The Rev. H. K. Bartlett (Misima) now is secretary of the Methodist Foreign Missions, at Epworth Building, Pirie Street, Adelaide.

Colonel Grimshaw, some time P-NG Commissioner of Police, is managing the Crown Hotel at Victor Harbour, a seaside resort 60 miles south of Adelaide.

Mr. G. F. McDonald, who served as a technical trades teacher at Salamo, Fergusson Island, Papua, now has charge of the recruiting section of the SA Education Dept. [?]T MORESBY WEDDING. Married at St. John's [?]rch of England in Port Moresby in July [?]e Mr. Peter Coney and the former Miss Watson. —Papuan Prints. 35 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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They’re Protected—By Another Id a Bottle I Rudy Meier and John Nydam, of Lae, New Guinea, should be happier men this month. Thanks to new tariff rates introduced in the Territory in July, beer imported into New Guinea now costs another Id I bottle more, or a halfpenny a can.

MEIER, 50, a Hungarian, and Nydam, 34, a Dutchman, are the men behind Lae’s Guinea Brewery—one of two breweries in the Territory, the other being the South Pacific, on the Papuan side.

Although Meier and Nydam have a board of directors of well-known New Guinea people, they are the brewery, for they literally built it themselves from the ground up, and have been responsible for running it and expanding it in the little over 12 months it has been operating.

Recently when a PIM writer visited managing director Meier, Meier was hopeful that the P-NG Administration would make the move to give the local industry some protection. “After all,” he said, “with taxation now about to come in, it will be in the Administration’s own interest to keep industries like us in business so we can make more and more money to pay more and more of their taxes.”

Officialdom obviously concurred, for as Customs Chief, T. Grahamslaw, (Continued on page 43)

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P-NG Tariffs Show More Ups Than Downs Territorians who read through or heard the 11-page Tariff Bill speech of Papua-New Guinea’s Chief Collector of Customs, Mr.

T. Grahamslaw, at the Legislative Council meeting in July, were probably more interested in the £138,000 more that they now are going to pay in duty for some imports, than in the £362,000 which Mr. Grahamslaw says they are going to save on the items on which import duty has been reduced.

TOTTED-UP, subtracted and generally fiddled with, the new Customs duty schedule is goingaccording to P-NG Departmental mathematicians —to produce the overall £230,000 reduction in import duty promised by Mnnister Hasluck in April, when Income Taxation legislation was introduced.

However, it was probably with tongue-in-cheek that Mr. Grahamslaw said, at the end of his speech, that “no fair-minded person can validly criticise the generosity of the relief which is contained in this bill. . ”

It is unlikely that Territorians paying more for drink, matches, cigarettes, tobacco, shaving soap, musical-instruments, tape recorders (you can still get that piano in, though, at the same old duty), and jewellery (unless it is that necessary instrument of a healthy, family life —the “plain, gold unjewelled wedding ring”—which officialdom is going to let you import, duty-free), will feel very “fair-minded” about any of it.

Up and Down it Goes In addition, they will now have to cope with Australian-brand of income tax which, on closer inspection, assumes an aspect of terrifying implications.

It is interesting to note here, just briefly, the history of Papua-New Guinea import duty laws since, for Customs purposes, ‘‘Papua wa s brought into line with New Guinea , in 1950. ( ° ver) [?]nea Brewery's managing director, Rudy Meier, one foot on a stack of metal beer kegs, [?]rs into the future. Below, is his partner, John Nydam, who helped in the erection of the Lae brewery from the ground up. 37 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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The $64 question, of course, is how long will it be before import duties are changed once more.

On past history, sometime within the next couple of years it will be found necessary to vary the duties again, and next time it won’t be in order to “square-off” because of the introduction of income tax;, but in order to screw a bit more cash for the Territory Treasury out of local residents.

Here are some of the items which will be affected by the July, 1959 legislation; Duties Increased Beer, up 6d per gallon, to 6/9.

Rum, up 6/- per gallon, to 69/-.

Whisky, gin, brandy and all potable spirits n.e.i., up 12/- per gallon to 75/-.

Manufactured tobacco, up 2/6 per lb to Twist (trade tobacco) up 2/- per lb to 5/6.

Chronometers raised from 25 per cent, to 30 per cent, (presumably this Item includes also watches, clocks, etc., although Mr. Grahamslaw did not specifically mention them).

Fancy goods, duty raised from 30 per cent, to 40 per cent. (Over) Territorians's Big Grog Bill Terrltorians, If they import and nsume as much spirituous and ferented liquor as they did in 1957-58 ■e, under the new scale of duty, ijgg to contribute something like 41,000 more to P-NG consolidated venue in the next year.

In 1957-58 they consumed 5,919 Hons of unfortified wine and 8,019 lions of fortified (plus 3,000 gallons sparkling wine). This year the Adinistration will lose £5,530 in new mcessions on this—but it will more an make it up in other departments.

In spite of P-NG’s own two eweries. last year 618,169 gallons of ier were imported. In the coming >ar this will yield £15.454 more in venue than it did in 1957-58. In the me period, 4,290 gallons of brandy ent into the Territory (which will ean £2,574 more for the coffers in ie year ahead); 7,284 gallons of gin ir. Treasurer Reeve will get £4,370 ore for that); 12,468 gallons of hisky (£7,480 more for the funds); f,186 gallons of rum (up only 6/- >r gallon to yield another £8,155); id 4,523 gallons of “other” spirits yhich will bring a modest £2,574 icrease).

One way and another, it seems an irful lot of grog for 18.500 Euro- ;ans and 3,000 Chinese. (The 000,000-odd natives are not allowed i drink). 39 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1959

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Instrlal, marine, air-conditioning and efrigerating machinery from 10 per ent. to free list.

Instrial metals, including solder, white aetal, welding rods, lead, iron, aluninium, etc., from 15 per cent, to free Ist. •Is of trade, from 10 per cent, to 5 per ent. lor cars, cycles and commercial vehicles 1 15 cwt. or under, from 25 per cent. » 20 per cent. other motor vehicles, from 20 per cent, o 15 per cent. tor vehicle parts and accessories, from 0 per cent, to 15 per cent. •ctors, other than agricultural (which ave always been free) from 10 per cent. » free list.

"ts, tyres and tubes for above, now free, infectants and insecticides (formerly fee when used for animal or agricul- •re, otherwise 15 per cent.) now on ’ee list. ty, shellac, wood stains, linseed, turentine, etc. (but not paints, lacquers, aamels, varnishes) from various rates P to 15 per cent, to free list.

Anti-Sin Measures 1 couple of things in Mr. ahamslaw’s speech (which, of irse was not an expression of his •sonal opinions, but “in line with icy”), are worthy of comment. )ne is the unctuousness of the official mind that feels that the sinful creatures who drink wine that sparkles should be penalised to the tune of 35/- per gallon, while the peasants, who drink it still, should be allowed a concession that will amount to something like 1/1 per bottle. And, again, the preoccupation with “plain, gold, unjewelled wedding rings”. What a frightful thing it would be if Territory couples were encouraged to live in a state of sin because they could not pay the duty on a weddingring. Ergo, let us allow these things in free.

Another notable fact is that, in recent years, the P-NG Customs regulations have changed from being an instrument designed wholly for raising revenue to one partly of protection.

Such industries as beer-brewing, plywood and timber, the manufacture of paints and enamels, cement pipes and bricks, wood and cane furniture, trade and black twist tobacco all have a measure of protection from new and existing Customs tariffs.

Miss Margaret Mary Lou, 19, and Miss Dorothy Muskitta, 18, both of Post Office Box 94, Rabaul, New Guinea, are seeking pen friends. 41 C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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i the Legislative Council in inducing the new tariff scales (see ry page 37): “The Territory wing industry has established a nd case for an increase in the B protection because of inroads Imported beer. Thus an increase 6d a gallon in import duty which propose to apply, without alterthe excise duty, will help the al industry to achieve a fair itivity”.

Experienced Men loth Meier and Nydam are wers and brewery engineers of lerience. Meier was in Alex- Iria for many years and came Australia after the war, and dam was in a Djkarta brewery 1 came to Australia in 1952. ier first began in P-NG with the ith Pacific Brewery but left after ting it on its feet, and in 1957, rted the Lae brewery with dam. The men, with their wives staunch supporters on the spot, ared five acres of land and built X quarters for themselves to live (they will later be converted to ces for the factory) then started the brewery building itself. They ; up the brew house, fermenting 1 cold rooms, bottling cellar, and the rest of it, then turned round I installed all the equipment, inding 10,000 foot of pipes. They ned themselves into carpenters, icrete and metal workers and lied tradesmen of any trade you nted to mention.

Its. Nydam organised the colleci of empty bottles, paying natives a dozen to bring them in, and i herself sorted them. ’he brewery was opened by the Titories Minister, Mr. Hasluck, in te last year. It has a capacity at sent of between 300,000 and ,000 gallons a year, and is profog draft in barrels and bottles, i a bottled bitter ale. leier and Nydam at first turned esmen for the beer they brewed, the brewery they had built, but f the brewery, with its growing bs, has its own sales manager, 5 West.

Tie total of purchases made on [alf of members of the New Inea Planters’ Association —which s co-operatively and imports sup- ;s for members —is now in the Inity of £250,000 per annum. The iociation has now a large building deluding offices, amenities for tnbers, and a bulk store—in the tre of Rabaul.

Bird's Eye View These two fine aerial photographs give a bird’s eye view of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, and Hollandia, chief town in Netherlands New Guinea.

Rarotonga (top) is 20 miles in circumference and has been described as one of the most beautiful islands in the south-eastern Pacific. Many of its rugged volcanic hills, clothed in green, are clearly seen here. The highest peak is Mount Te Manga (1,140 feet), obscured by eloud in the centre of the island.

Just off the coast of Rarotonga is a fringing coral reef, broken (on the left of the picture) where indentations identify the twin harbours of Avarua and Avatiu. Nearby is the airstrip. This photograph was taken by Mr. K. A. Cowan from an aircraft flying about two miles west of the island.

The photograph of Hollandia, taken by the NNG Information Bureau, shows the recent development of the town. Humboldt Bay is out of the picture immediately beneath the aircraft from which the photograph was taken. The large building in the centre is the recently erected residence of the Governor of NNG. It has a sweeping view of the harbour. 43

Cific Islands Monthly August, )959

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[?]amoan Air War—And Fiji And Dutch NG Developments

Air Service Drought

Becomes A Flood

In Samoa, the battle of the local skyways 5 been entered.

OR some time past Samoan Airlines Limited of Pago Pago, with largely Honolulu or US mainid capital, has been trying to get inter-Samoan service operating, ne months ago, a “survey flight” h a chartered Hawaiian Airlines demised DC3, was made between i two Samoas, after which it was ted in New Zealand that the civil ation authorities there had not dl then received any application a permit for that company to ;rate a scheduled service into leolo airport—the only Western moa airport.

Jut even before this, Samoan Aires had struck trouble when a e early this year damaged the irtered plane by blowing it into building. & June it was announced that ’roup of Western Samoa people 1 formed Polynesian Airlines Ltd. is company immediately purised, or obtained the use of a cival Prince aircraft from Ausiia, and flew it to Western Samoa, u July, just as that aircraft ived, Samoan Airlines Limited, h its chartered DCS —and prelably now with a New Zealand rmi t went into operation, Tafuna-Faleolo, with two flights daily (excluding Sundays), at a fare of £Stg.4 single, Clearly there will not be room for two companies to operate on this short route, and if the same old business of international reclprocal landing rights—you can’t land on my airstrip if I can’t land on yours—is to operate, the two airlines will have to fight it out.

The situation could be quite interesting; and it could be disastrous to one or both of the companies, There are approximately 125,000 people in the two Samoas, and neither territory has a high-wage economy. If two airlines get on the job and attempt to run two services daily, someone is likely to get hurt.

Residents of both Samoas are busv hoping that now the vital air link has been established it won’t collapse in a few months, Fiii-Tonqa Service Still D M , , Bottle-Necked The problem of some sort of simple accommodation for a limited number of visitors to Nukualofa, Tonga, may be solved in the next few months, thus permitting a fairly regular air connection between there and Fiji. Overnight crew and passenger accommodation is the stumbling block at present.

Late in July, Fiji Airways made a special charter flight on behalf of one of Tonga’s few Indian business men. Mr. O. Ritchie, Manager of Fiji Airways, took the opportunity of again visiting Tonga and was able to discuss the accommodation problem with Prince Tungi.

Prince Tungi is sympathetic to the idea of a fairly regular air connection and he said that he thought that pending the establishment of a new hotel “some time in the future”, it might be possible for a government transit house to be built in the “near future”. However, at the present moment, according to Mr. Ritchie, there is no suitable house or building of any kind.

Fiji Airways will likely make another flight from Nausori, Fiji, to Fu’amotu, Tongatapu, some time in August, as it is expected that a small group of SDA missionaries will be travelling to Tonga, and that a number of passengers would be seeking passage from Tonga due to the temporary absence of the Union Company’s Tofua from the run—she will be on annual survey in New Zealand.

Mr. Ritchie said that if a full load of ten passengers could be obtained each way, the single fare for the three-hour flight would be about £FI7 or £lB. A special charter trip with the Heron costs £3OO for the return flight at present.

Air Viti Not Functioning Earlier this year a firm registered as Air Viti Ltd. began to operate non-scheduled services in Fiji using a Cessna amphibian aircraft chartered from Mr. Don Nairn, of New Zealand. Mr. Nairn was operating there as Lake Taupo Airways L Hi June, Mr. Nairn separated from Air Viti and commenced operating in Fiji on his own behalf. Mr. Brian McCook, a well known pilot formerly [?]unusual sight in the New Guinea highlands in July was this Cessna 180 amphibian. The air- [?] piloted by Mr. B. Kidd of Melbourne, is on a geographical survey of P-NG for potential [?]o-electric sources in connection with the treatment of bauxite deposits on the Cape York [?]nsula. The amphibian was involved in an accident at Lake Murray, Papua, and was flown [?]oroka for repairs. Because of the soft surface of the airstrip at Lake Murray, a track [?]o feet long was cut through the scrub to the surface of the lake so that the aircraft [?]d take off from the water. It is probably one of the best equipped light aircraft on the [?]ralian Register—being fitted with most of the direction-finding instruments carried by larger aircraft. Photo: Eric Bolton.

Polynesian Airlines new twin-engine Percival Prince, which was delivered to Apia, where it is based, from Australia via Noumea and Nausori (Fiji) in July. It was piloted by Mr Reg Barnewall, the company's chief pilot and operations manager. It carries 12 passengers 45 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY - AUGUST, 1959

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A New Fiji Air LinN The populous district of so Taveuni in Fiji now has a Fiji Airways link with Suva,, Over the past year ther been some non-scheduled c flights by Air Viti to a prr owned airstrip at Ura, on Ml Tarte’s property.

In July this airstrip was by the authorities for a scl three-times-weekly Drover by Fiji Airways from Nausoc have been operating a ser Matei at the north of the; for a long time past.

The service to Ura will be o convenience to plantation owj that area as they will be s 30-mile road journey to Maj Closer Air Links Betwi NNG and P-NG “A good neighbour is bette a far-away friend,” said Duti; Guinea’s Director of Internal Mr. J. C. Baarspul, at Sentas field, Hollandia, in July, whill ing bon voyage to the int flight of a new Dutch air between Hollandia and Lae (I The new service, operated] Kroonduif, is on a forti schedule, which will operate : junction with the Qantas from the Lae side which hs flying to Hollandia since 195 c as a monthly). This meamj is now a weekly air service b the two territories.

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Branches throughout the Cook Islands Letter to the Editor [ ?] Milk-Trading [?]oncern Escapes [?]G Taxation Sir—The exemption of the issions from taxation in this untry should again impress on e Lutheran Missionary Society, in le—the registered proprietors of ropical Dairies —that a missionary ciety is an organisation devoted levangelical,I evangelical, educational and edical services, as set out in their tterheads. As such, the society denes every privilege and considerayn called for by selfless services to ciety.

UE must hope that so many I words set out on a letterhead I do not merely camouflage the ploitation of the commercial iportunities of the country in rich they are privileged to serve.

The Lutheran Mission in Lae has en very active and aggressive mpetitors in the small local milk arket. Because of its privileged sition, and aided probably by the iployment of cheap inspired hour, it has cut milk prices down low the economic level permitted less fortunate milk vendors.

"Grossly Unfair"

This mission competition, which I ,im is grossly unfair, has already t one Lae dairyman out of busiss altogether; and, by its price tting, using its Mission advantes to the fullest, it will do the me to my dairy enterprise—unless ne of the pioneer missionary ffality is again evident in the ar future. As it is, I have been •ced to draft some of my dairy ffs into the beef herd. \ best-selling book in America Kjr, The Ugly American has «ked many right-thinking Amerin s by the disclosures of a tain kind of behaviour (where a yileged class falls into disfavour ■ough the greed and unethical ictices of a few). n deference to the highlyeemed pioneer Lutheran Missiones of this country, I hope it will rer become necessary to write nit the Ugly American Missionary hew Guinea.

I am, etc., MICHAEL J. LEAHY. lag, Lae, if Guinea.

Japtain Andy Thomson and Mr.

C. Brown were among passengers Tahiti from Rarotonga in the ooner Tiare Maori in July, to end the annual celebrations at ?eete.

“They” Wont Stop Throwing Things Poltergeists have been worrying an Indian family occupying a house in the Suva suburb of Tamavua.

Without warning, rocks and stones have been raining down on the house, but despite the consternation and even the embarrassment of the police who patrolled the yard and surrounding area, the stoning continued. After a couple of days and no arrest the gendarmes gave up, and returned to the more sobering business of arresting human beings.

Says a Suva correspondent: “The area surrounding the house has now been thoroughly searched by police and relatives and friends of the family, but all to no avail. In fact while the police were present, part of the iron wall of the house was suddenly pushed out as if somebody had run into it with a battering ram from the inside. But there was nobody in the house. A kettle of water was also supposed to have sailed off the primus and to have sat itself on a nearby shelf, “The family says it was compelled to leave a former house about two miles away, because similar happenings got on its nerves.” 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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The Coastwatchers These names, this sleepless monument, declare To the blind world —unlearning and unled — That, dedicated, men transcend despair, Though lost between the living and the dead.

Transcend despair! For, though each knew what fate Awaited, yet the narrow road was taken, To gain once more some respite for that state Which we enjoy, though they now He forsaken.

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A Memorial Lighthouse In Shining White The 86 ft high Coastwatchers Memorial Lighthouse haped like a bomb in gleaming white concrete will be offiially opened on the coast of Madang, New Guinea, in late August.

P’s from Australia and Papua- New Guinea —and many of the Coastwatchers who survived r dangerous occupation—will at- I the unveiling. There will be esentatives from the Army, RAN RAAF present in what will be of the most important functions I in Madang for many years.

In Pidgin he Coastwatchers’ Memorial, ± is topped with a revolving beacon to serve as a navigaal aid to ships and aircraft, has Robert A. Swan, who served with the Catchers in New Guinea for a short and who is now living in Hawthorn, tmrne, sent this poem to “PIM” on eve of the unveiling of the Coasters Memorial at Madang. He wrote, ive written it in memory of my good ds. if you feel it is worth publish- “ your journal I do not want any of payment. I only wish I could d the ceremony at Madang.” been erected with the aid of a Commonwealth grant and by public subscription. Money came from as far afield as the New Hebrides, the United States, Malaya, Cyprus, the Gold Coast and even the Bahamas.

One contributor was Richard Nixon, the US Vice President.

The public appeal was commenced in 1953 and ended the following year with about £5,000 in hand.

One of the bronze memorial plaques on the lighthouse bears an inscription in Pidgin as a tribute to the P-NG natives who supported the Coastwatchers, and to whom some Coastwatchers owe their lives.

One of the natives who will be present is Siarua, of Mr. Fred Archer’s Jame Plantation at Buka Passage, Bougainville. Siarua, after helping the Coastwatchers on Bougainville, escaped in a submarine to the British Solomons in 1953. He, his wife, Giwa and adopted daughter Elma, gave a contribution of £3 towards erection of the memorial light. Many native heroes, like the men they helped, are not alive to see the memorial.

One of the heroic native helpers who will not be at the unveiling is a lululai who is buried at Kieta on Bougainville, where a memorial to him was unveiled in 1955. This man was tortured by the Japs in an effort to make him reveal the hiding place of Paul Mason, one of Bougainville’s famous Coastwatchers, but he refused to reveal it and was murdered. Mason attended the unveiling of that Kieta memorial, and he will be at the Madang unveiling.

Of the Coastwatchers, Admiral William Halsey, Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific during the war, said: “Australian Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific.

He also said, in Brisbane after the war: ‘I could get down on my knees every night and thank God for Commander Eric Feldt and those men in the mountains and jungles of New Guinea and the Solomons.”

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mu D art of Naval Intelligence. At first the organisation included nnlv the mainland of Australia, but it was later extended to the New Guinea and Solomons n-oup, and on the outbreak of war to 1939 more than 700 Coastwatchers were ready. They had been told what information to look for, and they used normal telegraph channels on the mainland and teleradio in the Islands. With the war, Lieut.- Commander Feldt, who had an intimate knowledge of the Islands and Islands personalities, was appointed Staff Officer (Intelligence) at Port Moresby with the job of filling the gaps in the Islands screen by appointing additional Coastwatchers from among planters, missionaries and others, and to supply additional teleradios.

Soon Working Well That job occupied the first two years of the war, but by the time japan attacked in 1941, the screen was working well. The Islands’ chain extended as far eastward as the Hebrides. More officers were soon appointed to direct networks [of Coastwatchers operating through Rabaul, Thursday Island, Tulagi and Vila. The men and their radios were so stategically placed as to be able to give warning of Japanese movements and impending attacks Since most of them were civilians they were told, after Japan entered the war, that it was the policy of the Naval Board that they were to cease reporting if the Japanese occupied their area. But they elected to remain and continue reporting.

They were given naval rank or rating in the RANVR and badges and rank stripes were dropped from aircraft to those behind the Japanese lines. But these proved to be no safeguard to those who were captured.

Presumed Executed It was a Coastwatcher, C. L. Page, on Tabar Island, who on December 9 ; 1941, reported by radio the first jjhting of the Japanese in the Bismarck archipelago—a Japanese aircraft on its way to look at Rabaul.

Page some weeks later gave first warning of Rabaul’s first air raid by 22 bombers. Page was one of those Coastwatchers who lost his [he— he was presumed executed by the Japanese in July, 1942.

The full, remarkable story of the Coastwatchers and their activities behind the lines—first warning of the impending attack on Port Moresby which led to the Coral Sea battle was given by Australian on Japanese occupied wugai nville —h as been told in Eric v eldt’s book, The Coast Watchers. It y ow out of print but a New publishing firm is expected oon to bring out a cheap edition.

Fiji Was Heaven To Them r» the officers and crew of the South Korean ship Yosu which called at Suva and Lautoka in July, Fiji was the nearest thing to heaven that most of them had ever known, and it was probably unfortunate that a lot more people did not have a chance to hear first hand how the Other Half lives.

Mostly pale, thin young men, war and strife have almost always been their lot, and many of them had survived the Communist “liberation” of the north half of Korea, Coming from crowded Asia—the ship is based at Hongkong and running almost constantly to Asiatic ports—they expected to see crowds of people everywhere Shown round the environs of Suva a few of the young officers expressed constant amazement on this score.

Where are all the people at this time of day? Why haven’t they got gardens on that land? Don’t you have trouble with those Chinese storekeepers? Is there really no fighting in Fiji? There were typical questions. To them—and doubtless to millions of other Asiatics—lands like Fiji do seem like heaven. 51 Pa CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1959

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The Perplexed Rewa

[?]he Sugar And Rice War Gets Into Its Stride Jugar and rice were still the [subjects in the Rewa Valley Fiji in July, as the Colonial gar Refining Co. mill at Kauri chewed its way through the ;wa’s current cane crop prior closing down for ever. [EANWHILE, in his Nausori office, I Mr. Ram Jati Singh, the secretary of the new Fiji gar Milling Co. Ltd. (which is in ms of trying to raise sufficient ney to build a new sugar mill to * over where the old CSR mill I leave off), was ready to discuss I new company’s progress. Mr. igh has plantation interests in Qua Levu and rice-milling inests on Viti Levu. e said that there would now be iiew mill for the 1960 season, ; that there will “certainly be a | in operation in the Rewa By in 1961”.

Fthe money raised by the new apany was not sufficient to build nill with the desirable capacity 500 tons per day, then one of a ser capacity would be built, iccording to Mr. Singh, local mers were right behind the pro- IT and since the first £25,000 of Jital was registered in June, ires have been selling steadily, ther than change over to altern- ?e agriculture, farmers were prered to suffer a lean year in 1960, said. While they waited to grow le again in 1961, they had been fiscd to sow leguminous crops in sir fallow land.

Rice Plan "Will Fail"

Ohe new company had quotes «n overseas suppliers of sugar- II machinery that showed that a l-tons capacity mill could be «ted and equipped for less than 10,000.

Hr, Singh did not think a new jar mill, in itself, would affect r CSR’s proposed rice growing ieme; nonetheless, in his opinion, I rice scheme was bound to fail, d he gave these reasons; [Rice growing under Fiji condi- &s of small-holdings was not a siness proposition compared with far, and if more money could be ■de from cane, farmers would itinue to grow cane although (Continued on page 55) Doubts About Sugar's Future

Csr Co.’S Grave

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In a very frank statement, published by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., in The Fiji Times of July 17—after its officers had had a confidential discussion on finance with the Fiji Board of Wages Inquiry —the company virtually gave notice that its situation in Fiji might, in certain circumstances, come under grave review.

“T N the light of recent ( trading ) JL results, and the prospects for the future, the company is becoming increasingly anxious about the extent to which ... it will be justified in devoting its .. . resources to Fiji . . .

"In the face of the unsatisfactory market prospects for sugar , the high price of cane, and the high price of operating the mills, it can hold (to say the least ) no optimistic view.”

The Board of Wages Inquiry, set up by the Government of Fiji under the presidency of Mr. Honeyman, a London barrister, to examine the sugar industry in Fiji, and particularly sugar-industry wage-rates, heard much evidence in June and July. x .

The basic hourly wage rate for sugar-mill labourers, up to this time, was 1/5. The Board was expected to announce its finding on the claim for a higher rate, on August I—see1 —see elsewhere in this issue.

The CSR Co.’s statement was made by its Fiji manager, Mr. L.

M. Sherwood, and it occupied 62 newspaper columns. It traversed the sugar unions’ claims before the Board; and the following is the section dealing with the general situation: Board Shown Finances “At the request of the Board the Company presented, in confidential session, financial data relating to its operations in Fiji.

I have the authority of Dr. J.

Vernon (the general manager of the CSR Co. Ltd.) to make the following statement.

“This is based upon the financial data confidentially tendered (to the Wages Board) and upon the general manager’s view of the company’s Fiji business, but it is not advanced as a plea of inability to pay wage rates that are proper in the context of Fij’i.

“(a) In neither of the last two vears (the first of which was the year of abnormally high sugar pnce and of satisfactory production level) was the rate of profit on the (Over Fiji's Indian farmers, like this one ploughing behind oxen before planting a new crop of cane, are usually conservative people, not easily moved to change. But in the Rewa Valley now that the CSR's mill is closing down there will have to be changes of some sort The next year or two in the Rewa will be of significant interest, as the reports on this page indicate. 53 I CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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>sL Everyone admiref a f ine,healthy baby And Glaxo babies are perfect specimens of health and happiness because Glaxo has all the nourishment of mother’s milk at its Glaxo L*fO**TO*its (N I) Ltd - Palmimton Noxth. N i many would continue also to grow some rice for their own use and to sell the surplus. • The CSR’s announced buying price for padi at £3O per ton was ‘completely unrealistic”; most rice farmers would have no trouble in obtaining £35 to £4O per ton from alternative buyers, on present indications. • Although there will be a protective tariff on imported rice from January 1, 1960, there will be no internal protection for the CSR scheme, and as the CSR is handing , of the company’s assets in ln fact it did not t the interest rate paid on raised by the Fiji Governin recent years and this rate low bank rate. >th the Government loan rate H and the bank rate are below Interest rate ruling in Ausfand therefore the result of jusiness in Fiji compares very lourably with the rate of est and profit looked for by Investors for commercial inicnt rUnsatisfactory Profit" | The company therefore re- I its recent profit in Fiji as fcfactory; and states that its iects for profit in the future not regarded as adequate to I the further and continued il investment that will be Ible for the progress of the inl le company has been provid- Ilarge flow of capital for its pterprise in recent years and bunched certain capital profmost of which will be com- 1. it the company may not be to keep on committing capital ji (desirable though it may be 'the point of view of the inj and of the Colony) because jrospects of such capital reig its real value and providing late returns are not apparent, higher the cost level in Fiji ower become the attractions pital and the justification for ■ovision.

"No Optimistic View" ) In the light of recent results the prospects for the future, ompany is becoming increasanxious about the extent to I in view of its responsibility areholders and in other direcit will be justified in devoting nancial, managerial, adminise, technological and other rebs to Fiji. le company adds that in recent it has closed down its pineenterprise and is now in the ss of closing down Nausori IMill. It had expected by these | and by expanding production I other Mills, in place of the jatisfactory cane growing and k area on the Rewa, to ‘tidy nd consolidate its position, hopes that this will be the [but, in face of the unsatisp market prospects for sugar, igh price of cane and the high of operating the Mills, it can (to say the very least) no listic view. ie company makes this state with great regret; because it een established in Fiji for over sars, has deep roots and ataents there, and has tried not only to discharge its varicus responsibilities, but to foster the development of the Colony.

“The company also makes this statement after due consideration and with a full understanding of its gravity, but nevertheless as its considered judgment of the position.

“This view, of course, does not mean that the company is making any precipitate decision, or intends to cease trying to find ways to be constructive in Fiji.” > \ An engagement of interest announced in June was Miss Marie Reid, of Macksville, NSW, and Mr.

Evan Cleland, son of the Administrator of P-NG, Brigadier D. M.

Cleland, and Mrs. Cleland. 55 Perplexed Rewa (Continued from page 53) 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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'Phone: JF 2014. its Rewa holdings to the Govlent in exchange for other land he dry side of the island, the rice mill will have to depend •ely on rice produced by inndent growers who will sell to aest market. lo Rice Industry to Protect Fiji, in July, rice consumers the Government were maning a certain amount of concern it the whole situation, lere was general criticism of the that the Government had de- Ito protect rice from January 1, , when, in fact, there would be no industry to protect. This f (so say the critics) should ;ome into force until six months , by which time it will be clear her the CSR rice scheme is f to come to fruition or not, when it will be possible to see her there is sufficient local rice icet all requirements, ich will depend on what hapin the next few months to the of the year, when rice planting Id be in full swing, did not appear certain in July the CSR would go on with its scheme: According to states made publicly by the com- \ it apparently matters very to the CSR whether it goes rice milling on the Rewa, or right out; and, according to Ram Jati Singh, it doesn’t er to the Rewa farmers either. r , according to him, are deterd to grow cane. ernment Does The Worrying the same time, there are a f people still unconvinced that Fiji Sugar Milling Co.’s plans come to anything—and that's irry for the Government, the sugar-mill plan falls igh, or a mill is established and ;s a failure —and there is no rice project or some alternative itry to take its place —there are ! to be a lot of dissatisfied in farmers in the Rewa Valley d it is inevitable that they will ie the Government for their )les. ie new sugar company directors out their plans at a meeting Government officials at Nausori uly 18 but there was no Govlent statement following the Ing. ie Indians would be made happy, purse, if they could get their new sugar mill —with [Government taking full resibility for seeing that the tne worked. ds might not please the CSR very much; and it would, no >t, be a totally undesirable development from the Government’s point of view.

On the other hand, there is the Governments real fear that, in certain circumstances, the Rewa Valley could become a depressed area, with all the attendant political implications, in Fiji’s present state of delicate economic balance.

There are enough smart Indians behind the new sugar scheme to figure that out, and to realise that, if they can remain solidly behind their sugar-or-nothing policy for the next 18 months, and get some sort of mill going, it would probably be the lesser of two evils for the Government to see that it keeps functioning.

Meantime, as at end of July, 1959, it was obvious in Fiji that the people carrying most of the worries in the sugar-or-rice controversy in the Rewa Valley were the framers of policy in the Fiji Government.

Fiji Arts Club Building Coming The Fiji Arts Club will soon have a permanent home in Selborne Street, Suva—but how soon it will reach completion will depend on well wishers who are prepared to provide the financial support.

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The story of the recovery of relics from the wreck of La Perouse’s i “Astrolabe”, at Vanikoro, in the British Solomons, is a continuing “PIM” has published many reports over the last two years—the st in last month’s issue, when it gave details of anchors and other * recovered by a French expedition in June. The information had i received from Noumea. Mr. L. W. Filewood, a correspondent on ikoro who has supplied details in the past, here describes what the st expedition did on the scene, and says something of future plans.

From L. W. Filewood, on Vanikoro The party, following up the work commenced by M. Pierre nthonioz in 1957, arrived here by the New Hebrides Coniminium vessel Rocinante. It was led by the world-famous jlcanologist, M. Tazieff and consists of a well-known Belgium jologist M. Jacques Theodor, and our old friends and welliiown Vila identities, Reece Discombe and Jack Barley.

E uncovering by further blastng away of the coral growth, of [ number of cannons, five prs, quantities of lead, cast iron st, sections of forged steel bars various other items now leave [doubt, if any ever existed, that ship is definitely L’astroldbe. le party explored the vicinity thoroughly, blasting as required filming, by underwater camera, j phases of the search includthe actual searchers swimming he reef, the location of the ius finds and many other very lesting shots. ley have closely questioned the people of Vanikoro and have led a lot of further information h could lead to the locating of [ other La Perouse vessel, isoZe, which, local legend has it, k the reef some eight miles ler east from the spot where tilabe was wrecked. ie crew was attacked and wiped >y the natives and the ship then ed around the island to a small which exists just off the southern tip of Tevai, the small island h adjoins Vanikoro, says the id.

Are They Bones? ie later French navigator, lont d’Urville erected a cairn ones on a small tidewater island een Vanikoro and Tevai, in evai Bay, believing that the crew \oussole had died there, but it ars to be very conclusive that was not the case, ie present party has reasonably rate information that it rred near what is now the ge of Emoa, and have been m what are reputed to be the stones covering the bones of the butchered sailors.

Later efforts will prove whether this is correct, but it appears to be reasonable at the moment, very bad weather has hampered the efforts of the party at times, this being usual at this time of the year at Vanikoro, but they have stuck to the task when possible and their confirmation of the earlier work by M. Anthonioz will undoubtedly be greatly appreciated in the circles where old history is very important.

It is possible that a further and much larger expedition may come to complete the removal of whatever can be moved, in order to honour a man w ho is regarded in his own country as being as great as James Cook and Matthew *Fiindprs arp in our own. It is possible that a memorial will be erected in Paris containing the es discovered by thiS and f ° rmer pa 1 s * Obelisk Erected ... , v At present there is an obelisk being erected at the village of Peou, which is headquarters of the Vanikoro Timber Company, near the spot where the wrecked party camped and built a small boat, which after leaving Vanikoro was never heard of again, This monument will replace the cross which stands on the reef and which is very difficult to maintain because of the currents and tides which continually sweep the reef, Some of the pieces of the ship will be incorporated in the obelisk and a section of lead from the wreck will be attached to it with a suitable inscription engraved on the surface.

Lifting of anchors and cannon after uncovering it was a stiff task, as a current of about 10 knots races over the reef on the flood and ebb tides and time is restricted to the short period of slack water and when the tides have almost finished their run.

By means of empty 44 gallon drums, the job has been accomplished, not forgetting, of course, the efforts put into the work by the whole party.

It seems that the task will be continued and we will hear more of it before it is finally accomplished.

Later in June the French patrol vessel Tiare arrived under the command of L/Commander Cerebelot. His party consisted of Commodore De Brossard, M.

Favreaux, French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides Condominium: M. Blot, a seismologist, and M. Priam, of the Mines Department of New Hebrides. At the time of my writing they plan to officially unveil the obelisk to La Perouse on June 27 with a full ceremony. This will remain as a permanent monument to this great man. 59 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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R. W. Robson Reports On The Tax War

In Papua-New Guinea, It's Mr. Hasluck The Rest I never have seen, or heard described, a more entertaingg constitutional drama in the Pacific Territories than now 5 in progress in Papua and New Guinea.

I were a sensational journalist, would entitle it, “Hasluck on lis High Horse is Hunted and ried”. However, I am a sober rver and I dislike alliteration. it I weep no tears over Mr. luck. He brought it all on himcannot imagine how this dissing situation is going to end.

I am inclined to back the New nea rebels. it us set out the events in their jer sequence so that we may er understand the significance developments during July and y August.

Hasluck and Territorians ame time in 1958 Minister luck decided to impose income ition. Some say it was his own sion. Others are sure that he influenced by economic theorists Canberra, and by the Assistant unistrator and the Treasurer, in fc Moresby. In any case, the iciple of taxation for New Guinea been approved by Cabinet as ; ago as 1957 —in secret, rivate enterprise in the Terrir last year urgently and retedly asked whether the tax was ing. was a reasonable question, ipetent business men must keep r accounts in a stricter, more iful way if their net income is >e taxed. anberra remained all “Hushh”. Mr. Hasluck dodged and ged. He would not give a plain ver in 1958 or early 1959.

Pen when the Legislative Council in Port Moresby in March, it had no information about tax. hen, without any notice, the Tax was popped onto the Council April 20, rushed through to >nd reading, and adjourned until e 22, carrying the provision that tax would operate from July 1, y this procedure, Minister luck treated the unofficial comity of the Territory—the future payers —as if they were all ksters, to be circumvented by ft and clever official action; and the Legislative Councillors as if they were a lot of fools.

Maybe those words are not justified.

But that was how the non-official classes saw it. Their resentment turned to anger, and their anger began to burn.

Territorians' Plea The Tax bill was clumsily, even stupidly drafted. The traders were not given sufficient warning, if it was to operate from July 1.

Chambers of Commerce, elected Councillors, Taxpayers’ Associations, even the public servants’ organisation some individually, some in combination —made urgent, repeated requests in Canberra that (a) competent economists examine the probable effect of income tax on the Territory’s economic structure and (b) the operation of the bill be postponed for one year, so that it could be re-drafted in the light of their findings.

Not then, not at any time, have these Territorians resisted the idea of income tax—only the method of its introduction by the Minister.

It was all in vain. Mr. Hasluck rode high in the saddle. The Prime Minister was abroad. The other Ministers, in solemn conclave, accepted Mr. Hasluck’s assurance that he knew best.

The economic review was refused; postponement of the tax was refused; the Legislative Council met on June 22 with uncompromising instructions to put the bill through, to operate on July 1.

The Department’s First Assistant Secretary, Mr. Willoughby, arrived in Port Moresby that day—presumably to S3e that Council did what it was told.

Then came the rebellion. The Territory, from end to end. showed strong feeling. It seemed that every non-official Territorian went into action, through the Taxpayers’

Associations.

Officials could take no part; but there was no doubt where their sympathies lay.

Real War Begins On Monday, June 22, elected members James, Downs and Dudley Jones resigned from the Council, as a protest against Hasluckian procedures and especially his contemptuous treatment of Territorians’ representatives.

A nominated member (representing the Returned Servicemen’s League), Mr. R. F. Bunting, got ready to resign, also. But the others asked him to remain in the Council, so he might be the applicant in an appeal to the Supreme Court. (Over) This is Goroka, biggest town in the fast developing New Guinea highlands, photogrphed last month for "PIM". Cradled in mountains at an altitude of 5,500 feet, it is an incresomgly popular tourist centre. Because of the large number of settlers in the area, Goroka taken a leading part in the fight against the methods used to introduce taxation. Both Mr. lan Downs, one of the elected members of the Legislative Council who resigned, and Mr. Bob Bunting, another Council member who became plaintiff in the recent Court case, are residents of Goroka. 61 C t F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1959

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On June 23, as Legislative mncillors assembled to pass the *x bill, they were served with its—the Territory’s Supreme Court id been asked to declare the Legco competent, in terms of Section 36 the Papua and New Guinea Act rhich says the Council must intide three elected members).

The Council went on, dealing with ie bill, and with scores and scores amendments before it —many from ie Government itself, providing bstantial concessions, compared ,th the original proposal.

The concessions did not placate e taxpayers. They stood by their iginal demand —postponement, an quiry by economists, and renting.

The Council put the bill through immittee stage, and adjourned itil July 13, pending a Supreme Durt decision.

A Dramatic Change Both Government and taxpayers sre represented before the Supreme jurt by Sydney barristers, Messrs.

Mason and D. L. Mahoney.

As it began, the attack was based )on the belief that the Council mild not be constituted without ected members.

Suddenly, the whole character of e proceedings changed.

Barrister Mahoney challenged, >t so much the competency of the )uncil, but the validity of the ipua and New Guinea Act , under iich the Council was created.

Constitutional experts, long ago, id raised the question of whether e Trusteeship Agreement, between nited Nations and Australia, gave istralia authority to set up, in the int administration of Papua and ew Guinea, a body like the Legistive Council, with the powers ven to Legco under the Papua New Guinea Act.

No one then knew why barrister Mahoney changed the line of attack. Presumably, he was very sure of the vulnerability of the Papua and New Guinea Act, less sure of the challenge to the competency of th So L fS°doubtiess argued) why not make a certainty of it? The Territory Supreme Court might uphold the P-NG administrative structure, and give a verdict for Government; but he was confident that this verdict would be upset on appeal to the High Court.

And the taxpayers had said again and again that, if defeated in the Supreme Court, they would appeal to the High Court.

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Certain highly-placed Canberraltes had spread the word quickly around Port Moresby; If Papua and New Guinea Act is held invalid, these things could happen: • All the legislation passed by Legco since its creation could be challenged. (Over) Mr. Paul [?]Hsluck 63

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C. H. Cornish, Manager. i It might be found desirable to solve tne administrative union, 1 return Papua and the Trusteep Territory to separate admin- •ations. ► Australia could be gravely emrassed in the United Nations, ere certain sections especially * Communists—have often atked Australia’s policies and plans New Guinea. mmediate reaction came from . Bunting. days before the Supreme art hearing concluded, he anmced that, if the Court’s deion was against the taxpayers, he, the plaintiff (or applicant for injunction) would not appeal.

I am entirely with the elected mbers and the taxpayers in losing the way in which the oister has introduced this bill 1 ignored the non-official classes 1 the Legco, but I will not be a ty to pulling down the Papua i New Guinea Act , and all that means,” about summed up his itude. ftat also was the view of the trading companies, hitherto ipathetic to taxpayers. Mr. B. C. odsell, who is general manager Burns Philp in P-NG, resigned presidency of the Papua Taxers.

Ip to that point, the barristers— 1, very probably, the members of Supreme Court —had expected it, whatever the verdict, the case nld go to the High Court, hit when, on July 7, the verdict ne, dismissing the application for injunction, it was apparent imdiately that the withdrawal of . Bunting and the split in the flayers had momentarily crippled i anti-Hasluck forces. *apua taxpayers were hesitant.

New Guinea, under Mr. Dudley Jones’s leadership, while still full of fight, lacked sufficient funds to start again de novo.

New Guinea was hamstrung by the retirement of the nominal applicant, Mr. Bunting. It had no appellant, to carry the case on to the High Court.

A Little Jubilation While taxpayers were rallying their forces, and squabbling a little among themselves, the pro-Hasluck officials—few, but powerful—carried the Tax bills jubilantly forward to completion in the Legislative Council (July 13-15).

They said that, in view of the Court verdict, and Mr. Bunting’s attitude, all this nonsense would soon be over and forgotten.

They announced that the tax would operate from August 1. (They had planned July 1; but when the Supreme Court action forced adjournment to July 13, they apparently could not tax retrospectively : so they postponed operation until August 1.) There now were three vacancies in Legco. Administration solemnly announced three by-elections— nominations closing on August 4, and voting on September 12.

Attending Legco (at the July 13-15 Session) popular “Bob” Bunting was obviously harassed and unhappy. His motives —-those of responsible citizenship—in refusing to proceed with the appeal were respected by the belligerent New Guineans; but that did not lessen their anger at being unable to carry on the war against Mr. Hasluck.

At this session, Mr. Bunting criticised the Hasluck regime, the Tax bill, and the Australian Government’s treatment of Legco, in THEY DECIDED IT IN 1957 eir Arthur Fadden. a former Aus- . ® Treasurer called at Lae, New t ra ian Treasurer, ca d holi _ ?“ lne H. dec Ld n an Invitation to H ® i oC ai meeting on the taxaissue because, as he said, he was ’ holiday and had now retired from SlUics anyhow But he made it clear R conversaton to a “PIM” repre- ItatiTe that he thought New Guinea npnnle didn’t have a hope of turning Kv ihP taxation tide bB .? tnL* to fieht it a few years ago. but they’ve had it sewn up for some time now,” said Sir Arthur. 1 Sir Arthur’s comment supports what "PIM” said in February, 1958—that income tax for P-NG was approved in Eciple by the Australian Cabinet in pnncip y After that, it was merely a matter of deciding which was the opportune Sne for imposing it. As “PIM” indlcated in that February report, there was at one time a strong chance that it would be Imposed from July 1. 1958. But presure was brought to bear on Mr Hasluck to defer it. because, (or one thing, the big overseas oil search interests were on the point of deciding whether they would continue their search for oil in Papua or pull out. Tax, it was feared would have decided them to pull out. The effect on the Territory Public Service was also taken into account. (The °h terests finally announced they would pull out, but after the last minute discovery of oil they reversed their decision).

All these moves, going back to 1957, have been top secret as tar as Canberra or Port Moresby have been concerned. Officially there was nothing sa id about tax until April this year, when P-NG was given one week’s notice of the Tax bill bombshell that was introduced into the Legislative Council on April 20. And they wonder at New Guinea s indignation. 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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8713 ns that tended to blister the isard record. dministrator Cleland made a ntive protest. Everyone, he said, blaming the Minister. These ttion decisions were not the ister’s they were made de- •ately by Australia’s Cabinet, bservers laughed. They know r Mr. Hasluck, and his influence i the Inner Cabinet. r Bunting, having shed his reme Court status as a possible ellant, now got ready to put in resignation. igh officialdom made urgent :esentations to Mr. Bunting. Just it transpired is not known. ; is believed he finally agreed to r on for “a while”, to see what pened to Legco. Some sections ik that Legco may be restituted in such a way that isrs. James, Dudley Jones and ms may feel free to accept retion. The nominated, non- :ial members miss them very :h.

The War Goes On i that week of July 13-18, taxers—under New Guinea drive [ leadership—closed their ranks [renewed the war. hey said this, or something like i; “The tax is now claimed to be t, We say it is not lawful. The ritory’s Supreme Court says it We do not accept that verdict, we have been deprived of the ins of appealing to the High irt.

Sooner or later, tax will be derided of someone who will refuse •pay. When he is prosecuted, we [ take up his fight and carry it the Supreme Court and, if essary, to the High Court.

We shall challenge the validity the Territory’s Tax Act. We re that the validity of Australia’s rua and New Guinea Act will not involved. But we are going to lUenge the Tax Act, at all costsr Üblic meetings in practically ry centre (including Port resby, where the local branch 1 rallied and re-formed) cheered t resolution.

Ivery meeting put the hat round, 1 the response was generous. “We re plenty of money to carry on legal fight,” announced Rabaul. •lenty of money is necessary. sal and publicity actions up to ;e, including the engagement of ation consultant McKellar White, ?e eaten up over £2,000.

By-Elections Moves hi under-cover fight between the ministration and the bellicose w Guineans, in relation to the -elections, took shape late in July.

Public opinion throughout the Territory is so strongly with Messrs.

Dudley Jones, James and Downs that no person of any standing is expected to nominate, to fill their places. “None of us will vote in this election,” it was announced at one meeting.

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Then, as July ended, came more drama.

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At 8 a.m. on July 30, just 21 hours before the Fishwick application came before the High Court in Sydney, the Administrator proclaimed the Ordinance, by Gazette.

But, as July ended, the Fishwick application was still “alive” in the High Court. For the next moves, see page 17. 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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THE Rev. Father Hurley, who has introduced Fiji to the design (architecturally known as a ctesiphon, pronounced tessyfon) takes no credit for the design itself, which he says is one of the oldest in the world. All he has done, with the aid of a small grant from public funds, is to erect samples as a demonstration. The one in the photo is the third in the series, built at Raiwaqa housing estate near Suva.

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Demonstration . ctesiphon house was erected as of a large selection of low-cost ises in a demonstration organised New Delhi by the United Nations 1954. It cost one-third the Dunt of the average cost of the er 50 entries.

Secluding the cost of any exating for a level site, a concrete siphon house built in Fiji costs <ut 11/- per square foot of floor ce with a concrete floor, or about with an earth floor, instruction is on a prefabted temporary framing. Over this ming, hessian is laid, and on the sian, successive layers of cement a thickness of about 1* inches. 400-square-foot house can easily built in a few days by largely billed labour.

J 1 that is required is the ervision of one man who undermis the assembly of the template me and sees that ordinary care ;aken in putting on the cement rtar. ’he final result is a one-piece icture of great strength, comply impervious to borer and rot, 1 calling for only an occasional t of whitewash—or, if it is decided to grow creeper over the building even the whitewash is not necessary.

In the Fiji houses the windows are of the louvred type with metal frames. The doors, one on each side, are of wood, but these, too, could be aluminium or other metal at greater or less cost, thus avoiding all painting and maintenance costs.

This house, say its disciples, does not aim to displace more costly buildings; it simply is a basic house of great durability, low upkeep and low cost. Up to now a variety of houses have been designed to meet the needs of the low-income group, but none have come within the means of the lowest-income group —persons earning £5 per week or less.

A ctesiphon is also capable of standing up to a hurricane or earthquake, and a traditional Fiji bure is not.

Special Approval Because the ctesiphon building is a new conception in housing in Fiji, the present building code makes no provision for such a design. Special permission was granted to erect the demonstration models. But the Housing Authority, much impressed with its possibilities, is now seeking legal provision for the general acceptance of the type.

The house in our photograph, erected at the Raiwaqa housing estate near Suva—where 27 more costly orthodox-type houses suitable for people of a slightly higher income-group are being erected — is to be used as an administrative office for the estate.

Anyone passing through Suva from other Islands territories might profitably spend a few shillings on a taxi fare out to Milverton Road to view the demonstration house.

Whatever their feelings may be regarding the shape—and it’s a bit of a shocker at first —they will be forced to agree that on present-day costs the ctesiphon has something for administrations seeking a solution to low-cost, mass housing problems.

Bricks In NG Meanwhile, in New Guinea they are becoming more and more interested in brick houses —bricks made either of clay or cement. There are brick works in the Highlands and at Lae. In Lae, Mr. Charles Hyland recently won an Administration contract for two houses and a boy-house of brick, the first in Lae. Mr. Hyland has a brick and tile works in Butibum Road, Lae.

The Administration has been experimenting with brick making for some time, and there is a good chance that New Guinea will get away from the all-timber and fibro home, as is happening in the Hollandia area of Dutch New Guinea, where there are several hundred brick homes.

NG, building contractor and brick works [?]r, Charles Hyland (right) supervises a bit construction work on Lae's first brick building. 71 I CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Rev R■ Grant, Chairman of the ethodist Overseas Mission, Papua strict, who has been in the Terriry for 25 years, has some teresting things to say on the inuan’s role in self government this article. It is reprinted, with emission, from the “Missionary wiew”, published by the Methodist ission from Sydney.

By Rev. Ralph Grant When will Papuan and New uinean peoples be given self-govnment? One wonders if those who ess for immediate self-governent for these peoples are ignorant ■ existing conditions or, are they mply mischievous? Papuan mem- :rs of the local council sometimes ■understand their rights and reicnsibilities as, for instance, when ey summoned a woman member I one of my church congregations id demanded her appearance be re the council to answer a charge E unseemly behaviour in church, le had laughed during the sermon, nowing the preacher, I was not irprised, for he has a strong sense : humour. I have been guilty of p same offence in his services! r[ERE are probably two to two and a half million Papuans in these two territories and the eople are not integrated, anguages divide them, for some pe hundred languages are known i exist in the land.

In many language groups there ■e several dialects; and, in many aces, Papuans are proud of their cal language and dialect and lany strive to keep it intact.

Various missions have selected ie language and made it the pguage of their major work, and ' their publications. But there wains a formidable list of ■nguages that separate tribes.

Age-old hatreds and fears also Jparate tribes. In some areas here missions have been long itablished, once warring tribes now )-operate. Elsewhere old grudges re retained.

Some tribes that have risen syond this idea of “payback”, do ot yet know mutual trust. A )rthright spirit of goodwill and ■ust is necessary.

It is interesting that Methodist eople from both Papua and New rtimea working in Port Moresby provide evidence of a spirit of unity and, by their united efforts, they have erected a fine hall at considerable cost to themselves.

Amongst these Papuans, the Dobuan language is an effective uniting force. The Bible has been translated into Dobuan and it is in use over a wide area and among people of many tongues.

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English is being fostered as a medium of common expression, but totally inadequate efforts are being made to make it a “lingua franca”.

Progress in self-government cannot wait upon a widespread knowledge of English. It is to the credit of the Government that certain areas, having a wider knowledge of English and some community of interest, have been chosen as guinea-pig areas for experiments in local self-government Careful instruction has been given to build up local government groups to correspond roughly to district councils in Australia.

In a given area Papuans are instructed, then an election is held.

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The council then meets, and Papuan officers are elected, chairman, secretary, treasurer and others.

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Whole-hearted support was, given representatives of other missions the Advisory Council and by all tier members. Our unanimous solution was noted by the ivernment, but we were advised at the time was not ripe.

Our contention is that there is gent need for such booklets here local self-government is given the people. It will give them mething to think about.

"Mock Elections"

Apart from helpful instruction at the Christian Church could re by forming discussion groups, id by running mock elections to miliarise the people with such ocedures, the Church must be ncerned in this new step. No uncil can function adequately dess the Christian ethic is the •sis.

A much wider understanding of e moral obligations of marriage needed; relations between family id council must be borne in mind; »wer politics must be avoided.

In my experience, a Papuan ielding power over other Papuans a harsh task-master and snerally more severe in his judgents than a European.

A clear understanding of ewardship is needed by every mncillor and that is a definite hristian concept.

Rich Producers Get No Roads—As Usual That doughty veteran of the New Guinea planting industry, Mr. Jock Maclean, of Rangarere Plantation, in the Bainings district of New Britain, is still carrying on his war with high authority for the ordinary amenities of plantation life.

Although he has submitted figures from official sources to show that the 23 plantations in the Bainings area producing copra and cocoa pay export tax on their products amounting to at least £60,000 per annum, the Administration has not provided them with any kind of a trafficable road, and their postal and radio communications are of a primitive kind.

Since he started his campaign in 1955, Mr. Maclean has battered away at Minister, Administrator and District Commissioner, and now has a remarkable collection of smoothlywritten replies. But they all add up to the precise fact that the Administration takes over £50,000 per annum from the Bainings, and gives little more than nothing back to the planters.

The argument of the Administration apparently is that, as the planters have always managed to get back and forth to the Bainings by sea, there is no reason why they should not continue to do so. 75 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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It’s The Heat That Brings Them Out The VlP's Meet The P-NG'S From a Staff Writer in New Guinea «At the present rate” said the earnest young Territorian, “there mil he no independent European planters left in this Rahaul area (Flew guinea Islands) within five years—plantations will all he owned hy Burns Philp, Carpenters and the Chinese don’t believe it,” snapped the VIP. He is not only a visiting politician, accompanied by a xetary, all expenses paid—he also a highly successful and respected siness man. ‘Look at the copra prices,” he itinued. “Look at the valuations ly are putting on their plantations. m should they want to get out?”

Because the conditions created the Australian Government give jm no security. Very few of their ildren are returning—they see no ;ure here.” ‘But that is nonsense —this is a tter investment than ever. What s changed for the worse?”

Fhe Territorian mentioned several itors—but especially the native lour laws. [he VIP fastened on that. Would i Territorian suggest that, in this e of anti-colonialism, the labour atract between native and Euroan should be anything more than civil contract, enforceable by the iurts?

Ihe Territorian tried to explain at most labourers, whether raw tives from the bush or sophistited gents from the coast, know ly one kind of law. His point was at, unless there was a dependle labour supply, maintained and iciplined under the conditions Dived in the 1920-1940 period, it s most difficult for the smaller intation properties to be worked Dnomically. An efficient, dependle labour supply became impos- »le when Canberra’s bureaucrats )k the teeth out of the labour laws.

"Holy Indignation"

Ihe VIP worked up a quite holy lignation. He sounded as if he re addressing a soapbox election Uy. fhe Territorian shrugged and gave up.

There were many such incidents this Territory this month. This nter in Australia is very cold. This irritory is warm and sunny.

Various Parliamentary VlP’s, welling at the expense of the Ausalian public on the ground that ey were discussing the Terriry’s vital problems with Terririans, have been given VIP treatment —D.C. cocktail parties, conducted tours by quietly-cursing officials, and so on—and have tried to talk to Territorians about their problems.

There is about as much chance of some VlP’s understanding the real character of P-NG s problems (adult natives with a childlike intelligence, for example, and an economy made entirely cock-eyed because more than two-thirds of the £lB millions expenditure is a free gift from Australia) , as there is of the Territorian understanding the mind of the politician.

The Territorians appeal desperately to the smoothspoken politicians; and the politicians give the Territorians the usual platitudes and assurances that all is well in the best of all possible Islands worlds.

In one place, where a man on the side-lines referred to the harm done to European enterprise here by the “Socialist” Minister for Territories, a VIP became very angry and said he would not allow such reflections upon his “dear old friend Mr. Hasluck”.

It is impossible to escape the conclusion that there never will be real peace, order and good government (for all races) in this Territory until the job and the responsibility of administration are placed entirely in competent hands. The non-official population and the Canberra - directed Administration were never further apart than they are today.

At present, administration is a halting, fumbling thing, half-baked between Canberra bureaucracy and a quite extraordinary Ministerial dictatorship.

The VlP’s are honestly trying to help. But, even if they get this country’s troubles into focus, what chance have they against Mr.

Haslu c k ’ s “Mother-knows-best” policy?

It is only a few months since Australia was stirred by the native-tax shootings at Navuneram. Amons all these pleasant chats between VIP s and Territorians, I did not hear one reference to Navuneram, nor to the Chief Justice’s lengthy and significant report.

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From Ralph Craih, in San Francisco The world’s last great private collection of Pacific Islands ethnographical articles is now on display in Chicago, after its acquisition from the Englishman who spent his life putting it together.

THE Chicago Natural History Museum is the new owner of world-famed collection of Captain A. W. F. Fuller and his wife.

The museum isn’t saying what it paid or how it acquired the treasures to which the Fullers have devoted their lives. But it is happy to report what it got: 15 tons of crates with 6,500 carefully-documented speci- This carved image of an early Tongan goddess (Haapai group) was retrieved and taken to England by an early 19th century missionary.

It is now in the Chicago collection.

Photo: Chicago Natural History Museum. 77 a CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Early Days Huch of the collection comes from 8 early days of civilised contact th islanders; some objects were jught back to England by traders, ssionaries and explorers and nded on to their heirs.

Captain Fuller held a position th the British Museum for a mber of years and knows its exllent collection well. He was a jmber of the Royal Anthrological Institute Council for ireral years and was an intimate end of many of the great men in thropology.

During World War 11, the collecm escaped possible destruction len many of its most valuable ecimens were stored deep in a elsh coal mine, with British nseum treasures. Bombs levelled uses adjoining that of Captain d Mrs. Fuller and several maged the Fuller home itself.

The collection has found its percent public home in Chicago— id not in any of the numerous useums elsewhere in the world lich wanted it—because of a series friendships dating back more an half a century.

Scientific Study Percy Edmunds, a Briton who was e Chilean Government’s reprentative on Easter Island, was put touch with Capt. Fuller not long ter the turn of the century when s parents, in London, placed a iwspaper advertisement asking for formation about the place their n was stationed. For half of the «t 50 years, Edmund collected for iptain Fuller.

After World War 11, Edmunds rered and moved to Tahiti, where he et Robert Trier, a contributor to ie Chicago Museum of Natural fstory. Trier visited Captain and is. Fuller on a subsequent visit to agland and advised the Museum iat it should acquire the Fuller election. In 1957, Trier made inlines with the Fullers and learned iat they were interested in housing the collection in a major centre where it would be available for exhibition and scientific study.

The Museum formed a trust fund, soliciting donations for the acquisition. Dr. Roland W. Force, of the Museum staff, spent six months in London last year taping records of comments by Captain Fuller about the specimens. Then the big crates were placed aboard the Norwegian freighter Rutenfjell for shipment across the Atlantic and down the new St. Lawrence Seaway to Chicago.

Addition of the collection gives the Chicago Museum one of the world’s best collections on Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.

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Although no cocoa of any consequence has been produced in the BSI Protectorate to date, samples sent recently to London have oeen “received with interest”.

Experimental work is still going ahead at Auki, the industry’s headquarters, and already cocoa officers have been established at Malu’u Malaita and Gizo (Western Solomons). Twelve thousand pods, have already been purchased at Auki.

Mr. Urquhart, a Cadbury’s cocoa expert, is scheduled to make a visit to Auki later this year to advise. 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Tropicalities Old China Hands Abounding VA had more than its quota of Old China Hands in June. As reported in June issue of PIM, if them, Captain L. V. Rowe, has recently taken command he GEIC Wholesale Society’s 505 i Moana Raoi, had met another, tain S. Polkinghorne, of BP’s a-based Yanawai. iptain Polkinghorne had a naval el shot from under him by the anese at Shanghai during the Kd World War—and now we that a third Old Hand, who saw whole thing happen, is also ig in Suva. e is Mr. J. H. G. (“Snow”) nan. who was a former member lie Shanghai International Police Belauding on a bridge close by, watched the Japanese cruiser mo firing at point-blank range i the British gunboat when it sd to surrender. n American naval craft across river accepted the surrender land, as there was clearly no e of surviving for long, hortly after this incident, Mr. nan found himself at the beaing of a lengthy period of iniment under the Japanese.

'& is now motor licensing officer Suva.

It's Criticised —But It's On the Ball )RRECT function of a Government public relations office in countries with unrestricted press ilities is open to argument; but the case of the Fiji PRO full dit must be given to the way t news of the Legislative Council dons is given to the public via Fiji Broadcasting Service.

Tie morning session of Legco icludes at 1 p.m. At 1.15 p.m. ull and thorough 20-minute ret of the proceedings goes on the with lengthy quotations from the main speeches. may sound simple, but it olves the transfer of voluminous irthand notes to thousands of rds of typing, plus an editing of ■se notes or the quotations from *n in a form suitable for the tfs-reader.

Niere must be very few places ere such a full report of the legislative proceedings is presented to the listening public so promptly and so well.

Given a choice of listening to direct broadcasts of often longwinded, poorly presented speeches by parliamentarians, or a concise summary which omits the “urns” and “ers”, the annoying repetitions, and the jarring voices, most members of the public would—if they’d sampled the Australian or New Zealand Parliamentary broadcast systems—vote firmly for the Fiji variety.

It has the added advantage that any Members who are only dimly aware of what went on during the morning, are able to acquaint themselves of it as they dine and listen to the radio in the noon recess.

"Cook Islands News" Now Carries Photos OOK Islands News, which started many years ago as a single typewritten sheet, issued five days a week by the Radio Department, and has since graduated to the dignity of up to four such sheets and a printed head, has now started to carry local news photographs.

Several years ago the responsibility for its production—it is the only daily printed news source in the Group—was transferred to the new Social Development Department. At about the same time the government printer, Mr. lan Forbes, deveoped a simple method of making photographic printing blocks locally and these were used in a monthly government publication.

Now, the blocks are printed on to the type-sheets at the printing office, and the pages are then handed over to Social Development Department which types in the news items and prints the paper on the duplicator. The standard of photographic reproduction is good, considering that the paper used is ordinary duplicator paper.

They Will Keep Order With Gift Gavels HONIARA, BSIP, manager of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Mr. Warwick McComas, made two trips in June to present gavels on behalf of the bank, to local Native Councils.

First presentation was to Salana Ga’a, President of the Malaita Council, and the other was to the Ysabel Native Council.

Mr. McComas hopes to present several more gavels to the Native Councils within the next few months.

Lessons On "Good Living"

HUNDREDS of applications for houses in the Fiji Housing Authority’s Raiwaqa settlement near Suva had been received in the weeks following opening of applications recentlv. The first 28 houses under the scheme should be available for occnnation between October and the end of the year.

Criticism has been directed at the scheme in that it does not provide housing for those most in nee d—families in the lowest income bracket. Applications are restricted to persons with a maximum income In Memory of Amelia Earhart In July, exactly 22 years had passed since the famous American air-woman, Amelia Earhart, accompanied by the American airman, Fred J. Noonan, disappeared near the equator, in the South Pacific Ocean. USA authorities had constructed an airstrip for her landing, on Howland Island and on July 2, 1927, she left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland. The two fliers were never seen again.

In the following year, the beacon at the Howland Inland airfield was named Earhart Light, in memory of the aviatrix; and this old photograph shores a group of Americans who placed the memorial plate there.

The Howland Island airstrip is not now serviceable. 81 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

of £l2 per week and under the terms of repayment on the cost advanced by the Authority, it is unlikely that family men earning less than £8 per week could afford the repayment of the £9OO involved at the five per cent, over a 20-year period.

A system of priorities will favour the most n edy homeless.

The land will remain the property of the Authority and will be leased on a 30-year basis with provision for extension, but rent will be low.

Occupiers will be required to paint and maintain their own houses at certain intervals. All rates will be payable by the occupier, and no house may be used for business purposes. Successful applicants will make a down payment of £25 before moving in.

One interesting clause of the Housing Authority’s rules says that the chosen applicants will be given a period of instruction on the fundamentals of good living in a closely knit community of mixed races, such as this housing settlement—the first such in Fiji—will be.

What Happened to The Yanks?

THE recent announcement that Fiji’s Navy is to be disbanded and the military forces to be whittled down seems to have started a flock of rumours about the New Zealand Air Force station at Laucala Bay, Suva. According to the pundits, that base is going to cut down, too, and some people already have it turned into a TB sanitorium. They say that the RNZAF will use the Nausori airfield, and not the bay, after its Sunder lands have retired in about five years.

But they are only rumours, and time will tell. It would be more interesting to know what happened to a scheme which was quite definitely on the cards last year— that is, a plan to exchange New Zealand Air Force men at Laucala Bay with American Air Force men from Honolulu. The Yanks H Suva would no doubt have go a welcome.

Shoot Shoot The Nat I SITTING typing in by bedro Rabaul, I was bitten ssi on the ankles by the locaj of malaria-carrier.

I tried to inform the house my sufferings, but my six wc Pidgin were woefully inadeqij “This fella mosquito,’’ I] pointing urgently under thes “You fella catch im shoot; (nearest I could get to sprays you kill im mosquito.”

The eager wide-eyed New G i wrestled with it for a mon then he dashed off and res with a shoe polishing outfit aj tacked me at the southern ea We straightened it out eally, with the help of anotha who knew eight words of reaj lish.

Now I know that Pidgin fon quitos is Nat-nat.—R.

The Gold Bug A SUVA resident has calo . that it has cost to date mately £205 per rhim beetle to exterminate the beee far caught.

“Why not recoup some ol< money from the tourists,” ask amateur statistician. “Sunbeetle worth £205 must be the: valuable beetle in the world therefore surely the Amr tourists would rush them it were, say, dipped in goll mounted on pins, and offered rare collector’s piece!”

Well, American tourists chased queerer things at 1 prices. There’d be no harm ii ing to dispose of them unde name of, say, Golden Paradises or would there?— JPS.

Have Truck, Will Trave A MESSAGE was sent froi< SDA Mission in Rabaul t native radio operator in Hod Solomon Is., advising him tj missionary and his wife were hi to arrive there by a certain \ and he was asked to pasie message on to the Mission Vinaritokae, which was on it:d to Honiara.

The radio operator sent a j note thanking the Mission in Rr for the information, and sayingi although the Vinaritokae dioi arrive in Honiara in time to ( the plane, he had arranged driver to take the Mission trm the airport to meet the party. .

It wasn’t until later it was lea that the radio operator had noth able to find a licensed driven; he did find a boy who knew/ to steer. And he was placed be the wheel, while the rest ojc welcoming party pushed the two mil s along the road in i to meet the missionaries, who themselves to the Mission hoc CROSSQUIZ (For Solution see page 97) ACROSS I. —What is the term for the mental condition in which the patient is under the delusion that he is a person of the highest importance? 7. —Which bragging soldier appeared in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "Merry Wives"? 8. —What country was previously called Mesopotamia? 9. —Of which of the United States is Des Moines the captial? 10. —Which financial advisor to Queen Elizabeth I founded the Royal Exchange? 11. —What important article of food in Italy has the same name as that given to a foppish dandy of 18th century England? 13. —ln music, what is the highest pitch of the male voice? 14. —Who is Norway's most famout playwright and poet? 16. —What toy on a string has many adult as well as child adherents? 21. —What weapon was first made in Pistoia, Italy? 22. —The virtues of which city did Johann Strauss extol in much of his music? 23. —As regards the manufacture of cutlery, what is Germany's equivalent to Sheffield? —DO W N 1. —What is the name of the fabulously successful musical based on G. B. Shaw's "Pygmalion"? 2. —Who wrote a series of novels under the title of "The Forsyte Saga"? 3. —Which society of Irishmen annually celebrate the Battle of the Boyne? 4. —What term is applied to a meal that is eaten in the open air? 5. —What nationality was the statesman, Arthur Griffith? 6. —Which is Georges Bizet's most famous opera? 12. —Which American negro singer has had his career severed becase of his alleged Communist sympathies? 15. —What is the better-known term for the synthetic chemical compounds called polyamides? 17. —Who was the chief god of the ancient Scandinavians? 18. —Which daughter of the playwright, Eugene O'NeiM, is married to Chares Chapin? 19. —What type of precious stone is mined at Lightning Ridge? 20. —What is Methane? 82 AUGUST. 1 959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

The Stamp Of Royalty

It’s not often that anybody has the opportunity for a close look at the signature and seal of a reigning monarch but here are two, side-by-side, photographed by Rob Wright.

THEY are of Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Queen Salote of Tonga, and they were photographed on the occasion of the ratification in May of the Treaty of Friendship between the two Kingdoms. The Treaty was signed last year and the instruments were exchanged at the May ceremonies in Nukualofa—the Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks representing Britain (as reported in PIM, June.) At left, Queen Salote makes a charming picture as she signs the Tongan copy of the Treaty which is bound in tapa. Later this copy was handed across the table to Sir Kenneth, to be sent home to Britain.

Queen Elizabeth’s copy, signed with its large round hand, will be kept in Tonga.

Tonga’s first Treaty of Friendship and Protection with Britain was signed in 1900 and ratified the following year. At a time of Pacific troubles, when many Powers had their eyes on the Pacific, the Treaty enabled Tonga to retain its independence. And .Bntain thus avoided the risk of an y Power occupying Tonga and threatening Britain’s nearby territories. [?]wo Royal signatures and two [?]al sedls are in the pictures above, [?] below, one of the monarchs, [?]en Salote, is seen in the act of [?]ling. The signatures are on the [?]aty of Friendship ratified been Tonga and Britain in late [?]. Queen Elizabeth had signed [?]ain’s document in February, and [?]as sent out to Tonga in exchange Tonga’s Treaty. 83 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

Do You Remember ?

In the South Pacific 20 years ago, they were building up defence installations in New Caledonia, Port Moresby and Fiji; Japanese fishing vessels seemed to be poking their noses into everything (and there was a new move for a regular new Japanese shipping service between Japan. Tonga and Fiji); and in New Guinea they were arguing the merits of Pidgin versus Engish— as they still are. Here are some extracts from “PIM” of August, 1939: At Alexishafen, New Guinea, three German mission priests, a pilot and a native were killed when their Fokker crashed while taking off. One of those killed was Father Joseph Kirschbaum, an anthropologist, explorer, author, one of the bestknown men in New Guinea. * * * Tonga was having internal troubles, with “marked tension in official and political atmospheres” according to a Nukualofa correspondent. This followed the “Treasury fiasco”, when it was found that a young Government clerk has been systematically filching funds for years. A Court judgement on the matter had been critical of some people in high places, and explosions were expected. * * * Near Malaita, in the Solomons, the Government vessel “Tulagi” captured a Japanese sampan with the aid of machine gun and had its captain fined for shell poaching. In another case near Vanikoro, a Japanese poaching vessel rammed the schooner of a trader which attempted to stop it, and made off followed by bullets from the trader’s pistol. It was a sign of the times. * ❖ * At Aitutaki lagoon in the Cook Islands, the natives assembled to watch the first plane they had ever seen take off—a Walrus amphibian from the cruiser “Achilles” in which the Governor-General of NZ, Lord Galway, was making an Island tour. They saw the aircraft come to grief at the end of its flight, and sink in deep water. * * * In New Guinea, J. L. Taylor’s Hagen- Sepik patrol was back in Rabaul, after examining, among other things, a continuation of the central New Guinea plateau discos ered in 1933 by Taylor and the Leahy brothers. Taylor said that when consolidation of the Highlands was completed and a road was put in from the coast this healthy area would absorb many European settlers, “who could make a second Kenya in Central New Guinea, and at the same time help the natives to a higher state of civilisation. The Highlands’ people, he said, were of a “superior native culture” and had a real admiration for the white man. * * * From Western Samoa came a report of the death in July of High Chief Malietoa Tanumafili, QBE, Fatua to the Administration for 26 years and a former member of the Legislative Council.

A Private Diory Tells of an Unsung Hero of New Brito[?] Rev. Ben Banks , The Tinker Missionary By R. W. Robson Who was New Britain’s first and outstanding hero? Afl dredging through old Methodist records in the Sydney Mitchi Library, I think I should give the palm to a skinny, bewhiskei brass-finisher named Ben Danks. r [ROUGH a series of unforeseen troubles, this English lad found himself holding the Mission fort in New Britain single-handed, in 1879. Except for his wife, and a dozen devoted Polynesian teachers, he was completely alone among the most treacherous cannibals in the Pacific Islands.

He never knew the moment when he would be tomahawked and eaten by savages, or suffer assault and humiliation at the hands of lawless traders and blackbirders. There is a book on Danks’s work but his diary gives us a more intimate story of the man.

He was only 26 when, ordained as the Reverend Benjamin Danks, he was sent from Sydney toe Hunter (Duke of York Island help the Rev. George Brown, was December, 1878.

Brown had had 15 year, Savai’i, Samoa.

George Brown, First White SI When he reached Blanche i New Britain, in 1875, and founo. the permanent residents of parts—the great-great grandfa of our present difficult Tolais? chased out Stevens (a wand trader who had tried to settr; Meoko) and two Germans y the enterprising Godeffroys i tried to establish at Matupi, so This old photo[?] two New Britai[?] sters on the York islands is that Rev. Bern probably saw enough du[?] Mission's earl[?] raw days there.. 84 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

ere apparently wasn’t a white in remaining anywhere in the smarcks, Brown must have looked :k on Samoa as a haven of peace d decency.

Heroic Islanders jrown built his station in Port nter, and from there began to 5 h his heroic Tongans and ians onto the coasts of New land and New Britain. It was irtbreaking work. The savages istantly stalked the newcomers, 1 every so often they killed and . them. But Brown hung on. h 1878, a particularly treacherous i arrogant chief called Talili alili Bay, north of Rabaul, ,tavul-Wunawatung area, where Flived, is named after him) irdered a Fijian minister and his ■ee Fijian helpers and cut up ;ir bodies expertly, and distrited them among his neighbours, 1 eating.

Jrown with great courage, went and rescued the Fijians’ families; d then, with two white traders id had just settled nearby, he 1 a party into the interior, burned lot of houses and shot some of I worst natives. [t was a wise thing to do, and had a salutary effect on the lili natives —although Talili himf escaped.

But then, as now, unrealistic bblers occupied pulpits and itorial sanctums in Sydney, and ;re was a howl against the hearts missionary who thus would rm the ignorant, defenceless lives. (Someone probably, in the iguage of the ‘Seventies, insisted it the cannibals were “poor, xed-up kids”!) Fhe fevers of those bejungled Dies were really deadly, then, and own already was very sick. He was rushed South in early 1879, leaving his wife and two children, and his mission station, to the newly-arrived Banks.

Before he was well again, he was hurried off to Fiji, where a dreary team of officials and churchmen argued, lengthily, whether he was guilty of manslaughter. Port Hunter did not see him again for over a year.

The Plight of Danks Imagine the plight of Banks— wholly inexperienced in Islands work, not knowing a word of the native languages, and a poor mixer amongst whites, isolated among thousands of ferocious cannibals.

Brown got on well with the tough traders, who rarely moved in those days without a gun at hand; but Banks was something quite different. His intimate private diary shows that he was incredibly shy and reserved, and given to much inward communing with the spirit of faith which ruled his life.

His loneliness was appalling; but, despite fever and native treachery and European jeers, he pressed on tenaciously with his task of converting the heathen.

There was an endless series of clashes with and between natives —but the English youth never (Continued on page 97) He’s A Hum One Last year 137,068 bottles of rum were drunk in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Who sinks all this drink?

Well, at least, a fair share is imbibed by Kuaki, a small green parrot owned by Ted Siggs, of Lae.

Every evening at sundown Kuaki shares Ted’s verandah— and spirits—from an egg cup.

“Have a rum, bosun!” will bring Kuaki running at the double to his favourite perch on the verandah rail.

His tot downed, Kuaki chews a few peanuts (salted for preference) spits out the shells, mutters a few rude words under his breath —then falls off to sleep—that’s if he doesn’t fall off the rail first.

Nancy Curtis.

Rev. Ben Danks, as he was late in life.

Owner Ted Siggs makes Kuaki his regular offering at sundown. 85 'CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST 1959

Portrait of a Small Girl with Fish

By Peter England

One pleasant feature of life on an outstation in New Guinea is that if you suddenly decide to knock off work and go for a picnic in the middle of the week, there’s nothing to stop you.

“ A LAN says he’s going to give xxthe Osprey its engine trials tomorrow: what are engine trials, Pete? He’s going to Marienberg and back, he said why don’t we go; we can can’t we?

“You won’t be too busy tomorrow will you? Besides, it will be an outing for Sally.”

Sally is our daughter. There are lots of things in this world, some of them you strive for all your life and never find, some of them come along, all right, but turn to dust and ashes when you touch them.

So many mirages, so many disappointments, but a seven-year-old daughter with short golden pigtails and blue eyes and bare feet and a fishing rod over her shoulder on the way to a picnic makes up for them all.

“Where did you get the fishing rod from, Sally?”

“A boy made it for me. Look, it’s got a real hook, Daddy. I’ve got some grubs what you put on the hook, too, I got them myself, at the roots of the trees, like the natives do.”

“The line doesn’t look very strong, does it? Tell you what, we’ll run down to Tin Foo’s and get a new one, I’ve got to get some cigarettes anyway. Come on, hurry up, the Osprey will be going in half an hour.”

'lazing, Dozing"

So we went down the river, lazing, chatting, dozing, in canvas chairs in the roomy stern of the Osprey. Pat, the half-caste skipper, fussed over his engine.

After a while we pulled into the bank at Mombur, a timber camp.

The steady roar of the engine stopped suddenly, and the contrasting silence was pleasant.

“Well, we might as well have lunch here, it’s after twelve. Have you had your lunch yet, Joe? Well, come on and have some with us— this is a picnic!” Anne and Barbara started to make sandwiches, and Pat put the tea billy on his primus, and Alan opened a bottle of beer.

Sally said: “Look, Daddy, look at the canoe!”

A long canoe went past smoothly and silently. Four men and two women plied their paddles in unison, they looked straight ahead; but in the middle three piccaninnies whispered and giggled.

After lunch Pat started his engine up again, and we went on down to Marienberg.

Marienberg is a name that has figured largely in the development of the mighty Sepik River, once the chief Administration station, now the mission headquarters with a sawmill as a sideline.

“Hullo, Brother Sebastian, how are you?

“Come on, Sally, we’re going up the hill to see the mission. . . .”

"I Want a Fish"

“No, Daddy, I want to stop here and catch a fish.”

“But don’t you want to go up and see the sisters first, they would like to see you, they might give you a glass of lemonade, even. You will have plenty of time to fish before we go home. And what about the cows and the goats, don’t you want to see them? Do you remember how the goat chased you when you were a very little girl? We’ll get Brother Sebastian to show us what he’s making in his carpenter’s shop. . . .”

"Look, Daddy: I want to catch a fish.”

Well, we went on top and spent a pleasant couple of hours at the Mission, inspecting the newest buildings, chatting with the Fathers and the Sisters, they are always glad to see visitors.

And when we got back, Sally was still sitting on the river bank, her eyes intent on her line.

“Well, did you catch any fish?”

“Yes, Daddy.”

"You did? Jolly good show!

Where is it? Is it a big one?”

“I don’t know if it’s a big one, (Continued on page 101)

Story Of A Highland

PHOTOGRAPH Top Brass: Wouldn't Hat Liked It World War II was over years before I saw New Gx again. I had had to await th\ moval from office (per hoot o Australian electors) of the Hoz able E. J. Ward, Minister for 1 tories.

“Eddie” did not like me. His. sonal letter, refusing me a P 2 to enter New Guinea, is one o treasured souvenirs.

BUT I travelled around the nc arranged Dual Territory in j and—for the first time—H in and saw the New Guinea I lands.

There was nothing at Gorokai except an airstrip and a coupj kunai shacks. District Officer Gx Greathead and his wife took cl; of me and I became their at their large bungalow—buii native materials—on a ridg couple of miles out.

Per jeep and per Auster n that tireless DO showed me whole of the Eastern HighlaL marvellous then, and still one co most fascinating places in the S Pacific. (Opposite Friendly New Guinea murderer with fril four-year-old. 86 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

’he friendliest of all the Greatids was their eldest daughter, n a charming 4-years-old, and i, I believe, an equally attractive tt-ager. ter constant attendant—mentor I nursemaid and washboy—was a I brawny, bearded native man.

By made, together, a remarkable ture. The news-man in me was red when George told me that (nursemaid was a prisoner from i local gaol. He had been put for a period of years for murder, pitted at Wabag. [prowled around with my camera iil I got a satisfactory picture, len I got home, I sent Mr. and B. Greathead a copy of it, and led, boofhead fashion, that I light it would make an “excellent er picture for the PIM”.

Sharp Reaction here was sharp reaction from the Ihlands. The DO, in a frank Ho, expressed grave doubts about I reaction of Top Brass to his | of a convicted murderer as a pemaid. f should have thought of that self; so I put the wicked photo ay in mothballs, and sent Jogies.

George is no longer a bedevilled Wic servant—he is a Highlands liter, free and independent. Miss eathsad now is a dignified schoolss, preparing her own career. I igine the nursemaid was returned, ig since, to his home in Wabag. hid so I release the photograph ' public exhibition. It is too at- -ctive a picture to be kept always iden.- RWR.

Pago Pago is ‘A Drowned Valley' Chasing: through some old Pacific lands books for the story of how Comander R. W. Meade, of USS “Naramsett”, persuaded High Chief Mauga give the United States exclusive irt rights over Pago Pago harbour in 72, I came across the statement: [his harbour of Pago Pago apparently is once the crater of an extinct volno, and the sea broke into it, and ns created for us the best landlocked irt in this part of the Pacific”.

I was reminded of an incident in igo Pago, last November. I was with small party, and I told a New •lander, from the “Tofua”, of the -called volcanic origin of the haror.

Whereupon I was smartly stepped ion by my amiable and agreeable ist, Mr. Edward W. Johnson. He id that that theory had been blown pieces, long ago, by the scientists. |e scientists insisted that Pago Pago |s actually a “drowned valley”—volnoes do not figure in its record.

Whatever its geological history, Pago igo is at once the Pacific’s snuggest irt. and the most worthy outpost of nerican hospitality in the South iclfic.—R.W.R.

He Was The Start Of

Brett Hilder'S Profiles

Lovable Rascal Of The Pacific When James A. Michener, author of Tales of the South Pacific, was leaving Guadalcanal in 1949, his only regret was that he hadn’t seen a crocodile there.

Someone consoled him. “Don’t worry. At Santo you’ll see Tom Harris.”

NOT until then did I know what had so intrigued me about the set of Tom’s jaw. especially when clamped on a cigar. Apart from Tom, ths New Hebrides are free of crocodiles, in spite of being so close to the Solomons. An old rumour that the tracks of one had been seen on Santo some years ago has never been confirmed, for the tracks may have been made by human hands, after a surfeit of square-face gin.

In any case, every cigar which came into Tom’s hands came to a sticky end. I bought him a box of good cigars from Sydney, and their fascinating fate gave pleasure to us both.

Tom had a face like Punch, according to Michener, and a belly laugh like Falstaff. But we must blame the cigars for my sketch of Tom starting off a series of island characters in 1948 for the Pacific Islands Monthly. Tom’s name also appears on the dedication page of Michener’s “Return to in which he gets a long mention.

He was born in New Zealand, probably at Napier, in January, 1890, or 1892. He was suspected of having an uncle in Jerusalem, on account of his Hittite nose, and we all called him “Ike” in the old days.

Tom went to sea from Auckland in 1908, in a ship bound to Fiji for sugar, and thence to Newcastle.

From there he found his way to Europe.

In 1911 he arrived at Odessa just three weeks after a bloody revolt had been led by a Catholic priest against the Russian Government.

Tom was a supercargo on the ss Millicent Knight, of Cardiff, Captain Jones. The houseflag carried a motto in Welsh, “Where God goes, we follow”. They spent Christmas alongside the breakwater, followed by some years of oblivion.

In 1919, Tom joined Burns Philp’s Makambo, Captain Wetherall, as assistant supercargo on the run to the New Hebrides. Two years later he transferred ashore to the Vila branch, where the staff -book records “6-4-1921; Thomas Harris, protestant, married”. When he returned to Sydney on leave BP’s sent him to New Guinea as a tally clerk on cargo landed at Port Moresby, Samarai and Rabaul. After that he must have returned to the New Hebrides as a trader, and he appeared before the British Commission of inquiry there in 1927.

Times were hard in the New Hebrides during the depression, and the price of copra fell below £3 a ton. When I first met Tom, in 1932, he was living at a small trading post on Malo, virtually as a beachcomber.

He had a Tonkinese cook named Hop, who was with him for another 20 years, and amongst the native retainers were several small children with good Semitic features.

Tom told me later that he lived on five shillings a week in those days, but he wasn’t short of anything else.

Burst of Prosperity In 1940, BP’s opened a depot at Santo, with Tom in charge; on commission only, no wages. The American occupation in 1942 brought a burst of prosperity to Santo, and Tom became the invaluable local adviser to generals and admirals.

Two years later his store was blamed for some sly-grog selling, and BP’s got another manager.

This was a golden opportunity for the old beachcomber, for he set up his own store under a notice, TOM

Harris General Store The

local natives were sure that he had been made a General, and that his store was to sell the General s PX stores, and that may have been close to the truth, too.

Although Tom said he was a confirmed bachelor, no one quite be- (Continued on page 101) This sketch of Tom Harris, by Brett Hilder, was first published in "PIM” in 1948. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

The Month'S New Reading

With Judy Tudor

If the Pacific Islands ever had any pretensions of being amongst the secret places of the earth, the over-ripe pod has by now burst wide open. No month passes without some book on some aspect of the Pacific Islands making its bid for public favour books that range all the way from treatises by hit-and-run experts who knew all the text-book answers before they went there; to more mature reflections of officials and residents who let a lot of water run under the bridge before facing up to typewriter and paper. r[IS month’s Pacific offering comes into the aged-in-thewood category, the author, Wilfred Fowler, having, according to our calculations, let something like 30 years and many other experiences go by between living in the Solomons and the birth of his This Island’s Mine.

Since his BSIP appointment, Author Fowler has followed the well-worn Colonial Office path and has had several tours of duty in Africa, the last in Nigeria. Our guess is that he has now retired and has taken up writing as an occupation, and so far as this goes, long years of producing official reports have not impaired his hand’s cunning; His first literary effort is of more than fair average quality.

The island that was given to him to administer was Santa Ysabei and the whole manner of his going to the Solomons—or of joining the Colonial Service —appears, as he tells it, to have been casual in the extreme. He had wanted to go to West Africa but appointments were not made there until August. On a London December day, when he was offered the Solomons as an alternative, it seemed a good thing to take it.

One presumes that the (then) young Mr. Fowler had the right background: he had, at all events, all the right reactions when he in due course reached Tulagi and, also in due course, was shuffled off to Ysabei where 24 hours after he arrived he became responsible for peace, order, good government, health, tax collections—in short, the sole representative of the British Raj—for a mountainous island, 125 miles long and 15 miles wide.

Here, for three years, until boils, vitamin deficiency and a suspected chest affliction, drove him back to the healthy British Isles, adventures continued to come to him, even in his isolation. There was (of course), the woman from Sydney looking for her elusive husband: the stiff senior officer, chosen to relieve Fowler, who was cut down to size; the recurring meetings with Bandy Coot, engineer-navigator of the Hygeia ; and by no means least the missionary whose zeal was overshadowed by his complete unsuitability for the life and whose frustrations, dreams of wish-fulfilment (or something), drove him to confession of a sin he had not committed—that of enticing a native woman into his bed.

Around and over these and other problems of Europeans who have been too long in the bush and of primitive natives suddenly on the fringe of civilisation, all delicate as egg-shell, Fowler picked his way like a veteran—in a way that is close to incredible for anyone coming face to face, for the first time, with black Melanesia.

The background of the book is authentic; the incidents could be authentic; but it is hard to believe that the author did not telescope experience and in writing now of 30 years ago, has brought a maturity of outlook to the young Fowler which he did not then, in fact, possess. (THIS ISLAND’S MINE. Published by Constable. Australian price approx., 27/-.) Case History Of An Apostle THE fact that Taylor Caleb religious novel, Dear Glorious Physician kep< place near the top of the Ame best-seller list for so long ca attributed either to the exceE of this writer’s craftmanshfi to a special kind of sentimerr indulged in by Americans.

Miss Caldwell has based! novel on the life of St. L. before he became St. Luke„ was merely Lucanus, born C adopted by a Roman governs Antioch, and sent to Egypj become the greatest physicias his time.

There was, of course, suflf about Luke to warrant any we interest: He was the only or the Apostles not a Jew, he* not converted to Christianity a year after the Crucifixion never saw Jesus, and the Q which he subsequently wroteE therefore a good job of repo: rather than an eye-witness* count.

The latter part of his life: devoted to a Palestine pilgrii to interview anyone who known Jesus.

The Caldwell novel, howeve largely the story of Luke’s life, algainst the colourful If ground of the Mediterranean!

Middle East at the dawn ofl Christian era. And Apostle: appears, are born not madJ Lucanus (or Luke), was poss: of a divine discontent, a semj destiny from the outset. I compassionate yet he rems. aloof; no cosy, human being and probably, like all em saints, difficult to live with, these times he would have called a poor mixed-up kid.

As well as being a great phys-s —and if writer Caldwell is tt believed, we have, regretft learned little more about ca* high blood pressure, leukaemia* other serious scourges in the i odd years since Lucanus prao —he was also occasionally ahe produce a miracle.

It is, no doubt, a handy acc plishment for any doctor to; able to cure advanced leprosy touch, bubonic plague with a and cancer of the stomach wr wish. Nonetheless, in this < viewer’s opinion, the worth off Taylor novel would not have impaired in the least if L*. miracles had been left right od Presumably there is some aco somewhere in the 1,000 books Taylor says she had read onr subject of Luke, that attrilfi miracles to this man cording to her account of it happened without any effort will on his part, and he perhaps the most astounded ness.

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KLES FROM ARNHEM LAND, Ann E. Wells. This is an silent Australian production able for children of any land, ould be an appropriate gift book end overseas to a small friend relative. The tales are built ind the legends of these litive North Australian folk, the author cleverly uses the iren of today—children who w the mission school, and some he mysteries of the white man i reveal how the aborigines first overed fire, how the first canoe made and how the dingo came ive amongst these people. It is ombination of modern, ancient magic that should appeal to ngsters. The book is well ustrated with traditional riginal designs and modern line wings. (Suitable for six to 10 f olds).

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EASURE OF SPAIN, by Captain nk Knight. This author also tes books about the sea for ilts (one is reviewed in this , but has a long list of children’s books to his credit. This particular one is probably more suited for school reading than for home amusement, although it tells an exciting and true story of one man’s contribution to the British attempt to take isea-power from Spain in the early 18th century.

Captain Anson afterward Admiral Lord Anson —is not as well known as some of England’s early sailors, but he left his mark on the Royal Navy and won great fortunes for his country. In 1740 Anson set out with four small ships, including the Centurion, his flag ship, with a thousand-odd men, his orders being to round Cape Horn into the Pacific and there “annoy and distress” the Spaniards. He did all of these things and a little less than four years later the Centurion alone returned to England, with only 150 of the men, but in her hold was treasure worth £500,000 then and probably ten times as much today.

This is a story of adventure and fortitude in the days when the Pacific was unknown, modern navigation was not thought of, disease and peril awaited the adventurer on every hand. Captain Anson operated north of the equator—around the Philippines, Guam and Tinian, and he returned home the long way via China, the Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. (Suitable for 12 years and up). (Published by MacMillan and Co., Ltd.

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e Meillon. Family problems as as those of running a surf lare the theme of this book ti is based mainly on that very ralian institution, the voluntary Life Saving Club. (For teeni). taished by Angus and Robertson, Ilian price, 17/6.) E ISLE OF DOGS, by Roser Anne Sisson. This delightful f is likely to “get in” more i the youngsters for whom it Resigned. arles and Susan are returning tngland by air after visiting [parents in Singapore. Their 5 crashes in the sea and due small mishap their rubber raft whirled away with only the bhildren in it. After two days are washed up on a tropical d—but it is an island with a rence. It is inhabited by over dogs, all from England, who fed up with their masters and resses, with being put in dog B, dragged along on leashes kept in small flats. They ed out on a most unusual raft, formed a colony of their own, I “complete freedom” as the pword. e story is part-Swiss Family nson, part-fantasy, and wholly htful. Susan and Charles are led in the end, and so are lof the dogs. The moral in story is that complete freedom st for the very, very few. (For » 10 year olds).

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Mian price. 15/6.) tl of Long |ht Days •THOUGH the authors, Norman B. Tindale and H, A. Lindsay have previously collaborated in lucing a children’s book, we’ll them the benefit of the doubt Rangatira and class it as ible for readers of any age. us is a romanticised version of a canoe voyage from one of the islands of Polynesia to New Zealand about the year 1300 AD—25O years after the first Polynesians, under the leadership of Kupe, had discovered Aotearoa, by sailing from Tahiti-Nui “in the month before the coming of the wet season, laying a course that kept the setting sun and the evening star just to the right of the canoe’s bow”.

Kupe returned to Tahiti-Nui and described the three islands of the vast new land that he had discovered, and in the generations that followed many sailed along the trail that he had blazed.

Amongst those who had been and returned was Rehua and it was under his guidance that the islanders fashioned the giant canoe out of the redwood tree they had found floating in the sea, and with 30 of their best people—the Rangatira, the high-born—set out for the new land to the south.

The story tells of their voyage in the canoe and the problems of finding a home for themselves in the land that is now called New Zealand. It is told mostly through Maui and Kuru, two youngsters who went with the canoe party, and when they grew up and married, founded the new tribe, but as befitting a book written by two anthropologists, the background of history—such as we have learned and pieced together of pre- European Polynesian history—is faithfully drawn. (Over) 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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»n more Interesting than the 'of Maui and Kuru, for adult *rs anyway, are the various »s” at the back of the book, i amongst other things ibe why the authors think iroa means “Long Bright ¥ instead of the more usual bretation of “Long White I”; something of the ancient lesian navigation methods; the trips of the New Zealand Asians to Lord Howe, Norfolk fl and even to Eastern Aus- I and why it was possible in AD for bananas to have been J in North Auckland. [far as this last is concerned, ht-day New Zealanders who fno end of trouble getting lent supplies of the right sort hanas, no doubt wish that the fclimatic phase through which porld was passing in 1200 AD lasted another 1,000 years or (JGATIRA. Published by Rigby., of Adelaide, SA. Australian price, id the World i Uncle Guy S Award of the Green Coconut or the most extraordinary dece of Pacific writing in a time, goes to Mr. Guy Batham tiis fricassee of words called ing Around the South Seas — this is in spite of the fact that tys in the introduction that he [“writer of fact rather than n”. y was an Australian who in’t stay put, so his mother nted him with a Bible, a mary and a notebook, with i words; “Son, you’ll find these i books your greatest guide in The Bible to teach you how live like a Christian, the mary to correct your speech, the notebook, with pencil tided, to record the many ;s that you will find and see le world”. Presumably it’s be- ; of mum’s “notebook with II appended” that we have the |nt volume. t thus equipped to conquer ons, Guy sets out and ends up i time later in San Francisco ! 1920’s early 30’s is the guess), e he joined forces with her Australian to sail the 34 ft drift home across the Pacific, iree-quarters of the book is n up with this voyage and Mr. lam’s pertinent remarks there- Finally he reaches Brisbane n where a flip of the coin fled him to go to Thursday id. He sails as a passenger on issel called Matara which runs een Brisbane and Port Moresby Cairns. A cyclone is entered, which damages the ler, and had it not been for Batham taking the oxy-torch out of the hands of the Chief Engineer and showing him what to do with it (no vulgarity, please!), no doubt the ship would have been there yet, describing aimless circles somewhere inside the Barrier Reef.

There may have been a ship called Matara, that plied that route, although the only one we know that would fill the bill was the old Burns Philp Mataram. A lot of nasty things have been said about the Big Firm and its ships, from time to time, but no one has ever suggested that their Chief Engineers didn’t know their business.

From Cairns, Guy proceeds to TI, and after the prescribed adventures wherein our hero displays his superiority over Japanese and Malay divers, we come to Bob and the business of the Shalimar. The Shalimar , according to Guy, was wrecked on an uncharted rock in 1892, sank in a few minutes with loss of all on board, and subsequently the Shalimar Memorial Church was erected at Thursday Is.

Now, if the reader sees any relationship between Shalimar and the Quetta, which was wrecked in thoss parts, at that time, and was the inspiration behind the beautiful Quetta Memorial Church at TI, he shouldn’t be hasty, because from here on in, the stories of Quetta and Shalimar diverge considerably.

It appears that Shalimar was carrying the biggest haul of opium ever smuggled into Australia and this had been recovered from the deep, but the ship’s safe, believed to be filled with money and treasure, had not.

You have, of course, guessed it.

After herculean efforts, Bob and Guy raise the safe, it’s quite full of money and treasure—hundreds of sovereigns, diamond pendants, strings of turquoises—the lot.

Although our information is that the Receiver of Wreck ne ver lets up on these things, and would have been in for his chop, Bob and Guy apparently had no petty of this kind—neither with the Receiver, nor the banks in nor the police when they hocked their strings of diamonds and whatnot.

With his share of the loot, Guy marries Rose and takes a job with an oil company in Papua. Re

Getting From Here To

There At Sea

Whether you are a deck-chair sailor, a professional, or an ocean yachtsman, Frank Knight, Extra Master Mariner, has something for you in “A Guide to Ocean Navigation”.

The title suggests a text book, and therefore a book to be read by those who wish to practise navigation. But this is no text book in the true sense of the word.

It is a book about navigation which traces its historical development from the early Mediterranean era until the present day.

Navigation to many people means mathematics—especially trigonometry. In a book of 174 pages the author covers his survey of celestial navigation in 130 pages and of these mathematics is found on about 10 pages only. The layman would lose nothing if he skipped the calculations and continued reading. For those who are interested, however, the author has included a chapter on trigonometry.

The book commences with a description of the navigational techniques employed by the Ancients and leads on to the development of the compass. How latitude was first found by observation of the sun and stars is discussed, and the methods used today will be clearly understood even by those readers whose mathematical knowledge does not go beyond the multiplication tables.

The determination of longitude was unknown to the early navigators although the problem was understood. And the problem was one of time.

In 24 hours, as the author explains, the earth spins through 360 deg., or 15 deg. per hour. Suppose the sun, as seen from a ship, was highest in the sky (noon) three hours after it was highest as observed from Greenwich. The ship would be 45 deg. further west than Greenwich.

The reviewer has here oversimplified the author’s account but, nevertheless, it illustrates the problem—the necessity for a most reliable timekeeper so that local observations of the sun and stars could be related to Greenwich.

The invention of the chronometer solved the problem and this instrument is still of fundamental importance to the navigator.

A chapter on Radio Aids to Navigation, a typical set of calculations made by a navigator (all carefully explained), and an excellent glossary of navigational terms, complete the book. The whole is well indexed and Illustrated.

The author makes one mistake, though, when he states that the length of a true solar day varies from 23 hours 44 minutes to 24 hours 14 minutes —the maximum variation from the mean length of 24 hours is only 30 seconds. He also expresses the opinion that the air navigator, who uses radio aids to a much greater extent than his marine counterpart, “should be able to find his way home by the sun or stars as a last resort”. Qantas Airways demand that their navigators fix position by stars every 40 minutes —certainly not a last resort!

As a reviewer with similar background and qualifications as the author I can recommend this book to the layman or professional whether they seek enlightenment or enjoyment, or both. —W. D. HEIGHWAY. (A GUIDE TO OCEAN NAVIGATION. Published by Macmillan and Co. Australian price, 29/9.) 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1959

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RIFTING ROUND THE SOUTH SEAS, shed by Robert Hale, Ltd. Australian [ 22/6.) in a Hot Iney Summer .THOUGH it is a slight, light piece of novel writing—more suited to a serial in a woman’s [azine than for a properly [id volume that is going to cost [ purchaser 17/6 —Helen Fowler ; a great deal better with Hold right Mirror.

I few years ago she produced ould-be clever piece of writing The Careless People that I’t draw any bouquets from this rter where the humble opinion ield that it is better to produce a piece suitable for the ladies’ ling library, than an indifferent ime of arty-tarty nonsense best ulated to drive members of the t reviewers’ union to justifiable licide. old a Bright Mirror has an ciuate enough plot for this type lovel but the best things about re that the author has managed inprison in it something of the it and character of Sydney in i summer; and to portray idwick the cat —who tolerated women, hated men, was demanding, aloof and disdainful —as an animal of real character and dignity. (HOLD A BRIGHT MIRROR. Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd Australian price, 17/6.) What's New in Paper Jackets New paper-backs released this month include the following in Pan and Fontana (our copies from William Collins (Overseas), Ltd.): THE TALL STRANGER: By D. E. Stevenson, is a romantic little number with everyone doing things from the very highest and purest motives, and everything turning out in the end like the fortune teller said. Or almost. (FONTANA).

BOUNTY GUNS, by Luke Short. This is about a two-fisted, two-gun man called Tip Woodring who gets embroiled when the Bollings and the Shields go a-feuding.

There is also some Western-style love thrown in. (FONTANA).

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Sven Hassel. A nauseating picture of what Germany did to her deserters, slave labourers, etc., and later what the Russians provided in follow-up treatment.

Difficult to believe in these days when all Germans are again good Germans (at least those West of the border). (GREAT PAN).

ONIONHEAD, by Weldon Hill. The story of the feller with two hobbies—food and sex—who joined the US Navy and got fixed up in both departments. This has all the ingredients that made an American best-seller—which it is. It has also been made into a movie, by Warner Bros. (PAN GIANT).

WOMAN PILOT, in which Jackie Moggridge tells her own story with wit and considerable skill, and turns out to be a feminite personality and not a great big brute, trying to break more sound-barriers than the male. A South African with her A Licence at 17, she got to England just before the outbreak of war; ferried more aircraft during it than any other pilot, married, had a daughter and went back to civilian flying. Mostly about aviation, but with some amusing personal interludes. (GREAT PAN).

SEVEN DAYS TO NEVER, by Pat Frank.

A story of espionage and sabotage in the H-Bomb age—the mystery of the disappearance one by one of the B-995, America’s first line of defence against Russia’s war plan. Good suspense reading for those who like to be frightened out of their wits. (GREAT PAN).

THE NAKED MAJA, by Samuel Edwards, tells the love story of Spain’s famous 18th century artist Francisco Goya, and the beautiful Duchess of Alba whom he immortalised in paint. Recently filmed, with Ava Gardner and Anthony Franciosa in the leading roles. (PAN GIANT).

THE HORSE SOLDIERS, by Harold Sinclair. Americans can never forget their Civil War—nor, apparently, can their writers stop writing books about it. or their movie makers making movies about it. This is another one such—book and movie. (GREAT PAN).

THE LAST ANGRY MAN, by Gerald Green. This is by way of proving that the British haven’t the monopoly of Angry Men. This one is an Angry Old Man a tough outspoken doctor with a practice in a New York slum, who is too angry even for that neck of the woods. The moral of the story is that it is a good thing to get angry about something, even when it nuts you so out of step you get left behind (PAN MAJOR).

SURPRISED BY JOY. by Professor C.

S. Lewis, well-known author of numerous religious works, tells of his conversion from Atheism to Christianity. It is autobiographical as much as Religious, and is written with this writer’s usual skill, and in spite of the purpose, humour. (FON- TANA).

MINE OWN EXECUTIONER, by Nigel Balchin, one of the leading “psychological” novelists. This story is based on a study of a man who, because of his years in a Jap POW camp, looks normal but isn’t.

The psychiatrist in the case (and a “Trick-cyclist”, as he called them in another novel, is almost standard equipment in a Balchin novel), was a pretty troubled man himself. (FONTANA).

NO PASSING GLORY, the biography of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, by Andrew Boyle. Cheshire was one of Britain’s most famous World War II airmen; be is also an eccentric in the grand manner. Towards the end of the war he attempted to found self-governing colonies for ex-servicemen; and then succeeded in establishing self-help nursing homes for such of the sick and the needy who the Welfare-State seemed to leave out of its calculations. He became a Roman Catholic, decided to become a monk, then to be married instead (the Church conveniently found that his first wife, from whom lie was separated, was a divorcee and therefore had never been his wife at all); and then he decided not. The end of the biography finds Cheshire in hospital with TB—although this is not the end of this extraordinary and complicated piece of human mechanism. Cheshire visited Australia a few months ago. He is now married (he must have changed his mind again somewhere along the way), and is interested in founding homes for refugees. (FONTANA).

WHITE MAN’S TEST, by Pierre Boulle.

The author of “The Bridge on the River Kwai” has borrowed largely from fact in this story, although the end is in contrast to the original story that ended happily enough. Marie-Helen, aged nine, was the only European to survive when the Japanese invaded an island off Sumatra. She escaped to the jungle and was adopted into a Malay family: at 14, she married. After the war, she is taken back to Europe against her will and her attempts to adapt herself lead to tragedy. (FONTANA). (Fontanas: Australian price 3/9; except “No Passing Glory”, which is 5/-. Pan Majors, 7/6; Pan Giants, 5/-; Great Pan, 3/6.)

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BL 5305, BL 1737 or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach. for weeks, and there was [ng the outraged missionaries I do about it.

Clashes with Whites was no use appealing to the traders. They were mostly red in “blackbirding” for the lan plantations in Samoa, and s was doing all in his power am the natives against white who tried to tempt them onto Recruiting vessels.

B traders resented this “mterce by that damned tinker”. b records the fact bitterly in journal. He says he was it to be a first-class brassier before he felt the call to nission field—but he was not never had been a tinker.

Bwhere in his diary he coms on “nasty” and “insulting” s received by him from Blohm, sodeffroy manager at Meoko. ieffroys brought in a German list named Kleinschmidt, and d him near Meoko to collect mens for sale overseas, nks clashed with Kleinschmidt ise the latter was buying land imself and building up quarrels the natives in connection with. There was an exchange erce letters, recorded in the Kleinschmidt was brutally ered by natives, soon after- 5. those days, they suffered endtorture from mosquitoes, and ss sickness from fever; but did not connect the two. At pals of only a few months, of Brown’s small children died fever, and were buried by s. kurder and Sudden Death Sunday, October 19, 1879, John >n, second mate, and a Patrick ke were drinking beer on the of the brig Adolph, which was in Meoko harbour. Wilson ed he had had enough, and away and lay down. Bourke ved him and insisted that he nue the drinking. Wilson re- 1, and Bourke threw a glass im, and laid his head open.

Ison thereupon leaped upon ke, and threw him to the deck; nered him into insensibility a length of sugar-cane; led him off with a belaying and then, with the help of ate from the steamer Sudsee, t close by, threw Bourke’s body ward. e Reverend Ben, horrified, cted the evidence of murder i witnesses and —entered it culously in his diary! lere was nothing else to be done it it, in those days. There was law in New Britain —the nans did not come in and ;x until five years later. )ing over to Kabaira to a ion station, Banks missed mas Farrell’s trader, Geddes.

He investigated and found that Geddes had died there some days earlier —could have been murdered, but he was not sure. So the missionary buried the remains. He confides to his silent diary that it was a very unpleasant task. de Ray's Walking Skeletons Rev. George Brown, honourably discharged from his trial at Fiji, arrived back in Port Hunter in March, 1880; and 10 days later Brown and Banks were staggered by the arrival at their station of a half-dozen starving scarecrows of men who —in wholly insufficient English—begged food and help.

That was the first intimation they had had that the ships of the infamous Marquis de Ray’s “colonising expedition” were dumping hundreds of Europeans in a feverridden hole called Port Breton, at the southern end of New Ireland, and only a few score miles away from Port Hunter.

The story of how Brown and Banks and some of the better-class traders helped the wretched “colonists” would fill a book.

Brown’s health broke again, and he went away, and Banks was again alone.

Farrell had a trader, Berringer, at Kabaira, gathering copra from the natives. Farrell’s cutter, Leolea, Captain Murray, and Farrell's overseer, Anderson, arrived, to load Berringer’s copra. Berringer accused the natives of not delivering copra they had promised. A quarrel developed, and the natives killed the three whites and threw their mutilated bodies into the sea.

Banks told Meoko about it, and the Godeffroy traders went across and recovered and buried the bodies, and repossessed the cutter.

There was reprisal shooting against the natives. One of many such incidents.

Saved By French Doctor When Banks’s pregnant wife came to confinement, they were completely alone on his station —and the birth went all wrong. The terrified young man did what he could after a dead child was born, and then sent a boat’s crew away to seek aid from a French doctor believed to be among the starving de Ray colonists at Port Breton.

Then, for three days, he sat beside his tortured wife and tried to keep her alive. At intervals, he reported on the matter in his diary. Just when she seemed on the point of expiry, the boat returned with an emaciated young French doctor; and the Frenchman, displaying skill and resource, did finally save Mrs. Banks’s life.

Those diary entries have lost nothing of their drama and horror since they were written into that old book, 80 years ago.

In 1878, the handwriting in the diary was strong and firm; and 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Mrs. Danks were shipped out rdney, nearer dead than alive, they recovered, to do much ,ble work later in the Islands |n field. ybe he was only a scared sh youth, in a cruel situation.

I never heard of an Islands er with more intestinal ude. One salutes the memory lev. Benjamin Danks, the sr Missionary. m the hook, I kept it there u could see me catch it.” hat? You mean it’s still there le water? You’re lucky you I’t lost it. Be careful now, it in very slowly . . . easy hat’s it. By gosh, it’s a little y, look at it wiggling it’s tail, le take it off the hook.” i, it’s all right, Daddy, I can I know how to take it off the (I I did, too, holding the fish j with her foot while she !d the barb free, erybody can’t catch one like can they, Daddy?”

I’re darn right they can’t! we went home Pat turned his on. We heard the news. It t very good news, but it all ;d very far away; on the eck, tired, happy, sat a small svith blue eyes and two pigholding in her rather gruooy s her first fish.

I him, for he educated three is Hebridean children, Victor, and Norah. Victor was killed road accident a few years ago, ;he other two are married and children: Alec to a girl of Itephens family, and Norah to enchman named Arnould, at j. til World War 11, Santo was ly known from its first disy in 1606 by Quiros, because ailed it “Tierra Australis del itu Santo”, thinking that it he Great South Land of Terra •alis Incognita. hough it was a Spanish exion, Quiros was a Portuguese, ibout 1930 the Portuguese Govent offered a prize of £5,000 for relics of Quiros which could >und on Santo, When Tom heard this he hurried along the beach to Mat Wells’ place on Malo. Before he had breath to tell his story, Mat said. “What do you think of this?” and produced an old box which contained some ancient pewter mugs and other collectors’ items.

After encouraging Tom’s dreams of the £5,000 for a long time, Mat confessed that the relics were only some heirlooms sent to him from his father’s estate!

In 1948, Tom Harris started a cinema at Santo. It was not only with American wartime machines and buildings, but with a Hollywood man as projectionist, Ray Jenkins, the only Yank to come back to Santo after his war service there.

The Cinema Harris” became the focal point of life at Santo for several years. Tom sold it in 1955 and it still flourishes under different ownership.

During the last few years Tom had been suffering from a bad heart and other maladies, making him a frequent patient in the French hospital at Santo, and a virtual invalid at home. His death earlier this year was mercifully sudden, and he was buried with full honours by the Catholic Church. He will continue to be remembered with affectionate relish by all who knew this lovable Rascal of the Pacific. And the island of Espiritu Santo has lost the only live crocodile it is ever likely to have.

Brett Milder

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The Territory of Papua-New Guinea has added its quota o the lengthening list of Pacific Islands smallships which in scent years have disappeared mysteriously and apparently without time to utter even one last SOS. (HIGH for the small Papuan Coastal vessel Muniara had ground almost to a stop by July eight days after she had last rted her position south of Ihu hi Gulf of Papua and about 100 6 from Port Moresby. She last rted on July 15; two days later q she still had not appeared in I Moresby some concern was I The following day two air- I went out to search and by f2O a full-scale air and sea ch with five vessels was in fetion. ie vessel was carrying two Euroi officers, 12 native crew and ibly passengers when she disjared. [the first couple of days of the ch the usual reports which at- [these disappearances began to e in—life-rafts “which could I come from the vessel” were ted; flares were reported seen [ the coast; a lifebuoy was ted. A deep-freeze unit, pieces heckage, obviously part of the , were also sighted. A pilot of a thing aircraft reported “what ed like bodies covered by sheets” out on a stretch of beach west of Moresby. All reportings were in- Igated but in the case of land ies this is a difficult task in the nan Gulf, where the shore is a e of swamps, river deltas manes. mud and sago palms. [ the end of a week of search, pnystery of the Muniara . in I of reports and wreckage, was no ■er a solution. On July 22, P-NG Ine Superintendent, Captain K. Hawley said, “There is only very slenderest hope of finding I survivors now one in a isand chance.”

As in all the marine mysteries of recent years, complete lack of radio emergency message or SOS has complicated the puzzle. Said the Senior Coastal Radio officer in Port Moresby: “The Captain of the Muniara was the best radio call man along the Papuan coast. I can’t understand how he didn’t manage to get a message out unless something happened at night. . . If anyone could have got a message out, he would.”

The master of the missing vessel was Edward Ernest Smith, married, of Port Moresby; the other European officer was Malcolm A. Rafferty, a widower, also of Port Moresby.

Muniara was owned by Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., and had been built in Newcastle, NSW, in 1947.

She was a wooden, single-crew vessel of a little over 300 gross tons.

Residents of Papua were remembering in July that in August, 1955, another small vessel, the 65-ft Elsie B also disappeared and none of her crew of 12, including her skipper, James Carlton, were heard of again.

The disappearance of Muniara, and the other mystery ships of recent years, prove that in spite of modern advances in radio and navigational aids, the sea still has its hazards for small ships. • CORAL QUEEN HOME SOON; The BSIP Government vessel Coral Queen, which tried conclusions with a Witu (New Guinea) reef in May, was in the yard of Evans Deakin, Brisbane shipbuilders, in July. However, she was expected to be on her way home within a few weeks.

The damage sustained by the vessel had been reported as “fairly serious” but is not regarded as a lengthy repair job. Some of her plates had to be replaced, and some bottom plates were bent. • NATIVES BUY AUSTRALIAN: New Guinea native societies and co-ops are helping the Australian shipbuilding industry in a minor way. The Finschhafen Marketing and Development Society recently took delivery of a £9,000 vessel which was built in Maryborough. Q’ld.

Native seamen went South to take the vessel home. , _ Recently, S. G. White and Co. (Ballina Slipways) built another small vessel, Equatorian Trader for a native society in Papua. The ship was delivered a short time ago to Port Moresby. • MORE ABOUT MV WALLACH : Arnold Mellor, of the patrol-vessel Melbidir, based on Thursday Island, supplies some more details— including war service—of the 85-ft New Guinea lighthouse tender MV Wattach (mentioned in June PIM).

He writes: “To the best of my belief Wattach, ex Barbara, never made NG during World War 11. She was in the last convoy of Australian [?] The News This Month l erbank on I Queen te tes maran no B torial Trader Walrus thope fua on Rojo • Maru le Jantuta Muniara Morwak Moonfleet Novia Nerides New Silver Gull Nunniong Recorder Rundo Ruba Skyline Tenyo Maru Tovata Te Matangi Trekka Wallach Westward Ho Yosu The Oslo yocht "Rondo" which was In Papo Pago and Suva recently (see page 115). Note name on bow. - Pan prints . 103 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Transport small ships which Bimanded from AV Agatha, to [from Brisbane to Lae, but ma, after slowing the Ih convoy to 62 knots, was left nd at Smith Creek, Cairns, with Qe trouble. tnless Wallach has had a new ne since 1952, I am doubtful if made the 7 h knots referred to °IM. Whilst in command of 0 I was seconded to the PCB lost-war years 1951-52 in New lea, and met the Skipper of mra, a WO (1) of Water isport, who had married in lul and settled in the Vitu ids.

Ince Barbara became Wallach, in , and until recently her master Captain Charlie Hart. Charlie, ix-RAN petty officer, and later A.B and bosun on the coastal s in Australia will be missed by arai residents, and the small p fraternity in NG-Papuan irs.

'aptain ‘Digger’ Petersen, of the Ihouse-tender Swingle, Thurs- Island, left TI some months ago ake over the Wallach, whilst our has it that her engineer of iy years standing, Mr. George dns, is being transferred to TI the Swingle. To George this transfer will be like returning home, as he was previously Skipper - Engineer of the Reggie P (now Gelam ), a 60-ft ‘K’ class vessel owned by the Islands Industries Board of Thursday Island. His son lan is a radio operator at the DNA Base Radio Station.”

LIFE WITH THE MOTHER- SHIPS: A Japanese tuna-fleet mother-ship dropped in to Suva at the end of June, bringing with her a strong smell of fish and a wealth of information on mother-ships in general and 1959 operations in particular.

The vessel was the 11-year-old, 3,711-ton motor vessel Tenyo Maru No. 3, commanded by Captain K.

Tsuruda and owned by Japan’s largest fishing and whaling organisation, the Taiyo Fishery Co. of Tokyo.

Aboard her were 174 men, some 50 of whom were crew, and the remainder mainly fish handlers.

These latter were under the control of Fishing Manager Nobuyoshi Tanaka. There was also an official of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture aboard to police the area of operations permitted under the vessel’s licence. The Agricultural Ministry controls fisheries in Japan.

Most prominent feature of this vessel is her twin side-by-side funnels, which are typical of whaling factory ships—which in fact she was when first built. However, she [?]o the strict US quarantine regulations [?]ing the importation of livestock into the [?], no shore contact was allowed with [?]o" at Suva or Honolulu. Here the ship's [?] are lowered in a bucket to the Suva when the vessel called for water and [?]inkers in July. See story page 113. 105 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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In operation, a mother-ship lies for days with her engines stopped, drifting in the vicinity of the agreed station. The fishing vessels cruise far and wide within the permitted area, returning as necessary to the mother-ship to unload their fish, take aboard water and fuel oil.

Normally the long-liner’s crew-men stay aboard for as much as six months at a stretch until they return to Japan—unless the ship is forced to put into port for urgent repairs.

Two of the Taiyo-owned longliners might come into Suva for slipping and bottom painting this season.

Radio contact is between mothership and each long-liner every eighthours. They report their position, weather conditions, the kinds and quantities of fish taken, etc.

Normally, there is an understanding that mother-ships will not approach one another by less than 600 miles—though there is no restriction on the fishing vessels of one fleet mingling with another, which they in fact do.

In poor visibility the long-liners are guided back to the mother-ship with the aid, first, of that vessel’s radio direction finder, and as they get closer, with the mother-ship’s radar. Very little radio telephone communication was employed because there are widely differing dialects in Japan and this involves problems which do not exist with morse —or the Japanese version of it.

The mother-ships maintain constant radio watch on their fleet frequency as well as on the inter- [?]ew of the yacht "Nerides” which was in Pago Pago early July and later that month [?]r NZ. From left to right; Athol Rusden (navigator); Edward Copsey (skipper); Tom Prettiman and George Gilkey. —Pan American Prints. 107 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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ial calling frequency, there beur radio officers in each vessel, adio room is, in fact, the nerve s of operations, and the radio •s also have to service the nent of long-liners which come >ide. octor aboard the mother-ship for the 1,000 men of the fleet, Suva, Tenyo Maru No. 3 loaded 750 tons of diesel oil for her engines and for those of her also boiler oil for her st-am s which power her winches leaters —which are very necesjn the Antarctic voyages—and >ns of fresh water, was in Suva for less than 24 and her destination on sailvas 15 degrees South, 1731 es East—or roughly midway en Rotuma and Vila. Four ve long-liners were awaiting and there she will stay until lain fishing activities shift to other central area. Meanwhile la Maru is stationed a little if the Ellice Islands, ile in Suva, Captain Tsuruda, jhalf of the president of the i Co., presented very large in glass cases to the Cornier of the RNZAF base, to the Medical Officer of the CWM ital, and the Governor of Fiji, gifts were in appreciation of a 7 mission carried out last Noer when urgent medical supwere dropped to the mother Koyo Maru by a RNZAF flyoat when a man became seriill and a certain serum was Jd. 3UVA IS BUSY PORT: Overvessels are calling at Suva in ily increasing numbers, and year is likely to show a subial rise on last., i’s latest trade report gives the number of callers from 1954 to 1958, year by year, as 206, 222, 238, 281, 317. The total tonnage rose from 700,000 to 1,162,000 over this period, New overseas connections were established late in 1958 by the Royal Inter-Ocean Line (Dutch), and China Navigation Co. (British) and a new flag was seen regularly in Suva—that of Tonga, worn by Tonga Copra Board’s Aoniu which instituted a regular Nukualofa-Suva cargo and passenger service, The P & O Line also made a first appearance. Pilots were provided for 147 vessels inwards and 117 vessels outwards last year. Suva’s Harbour Master is Captain E. L.

James. • THEY STARED AT THIS ONE: Four Most technically interesting craft to rater Suva for a long time past was the 3,889-ton heavy-lift ship Yosu flying the flag of the Republic South Korea, commanded by Captain You Sang Jun, and under charter to Pacific Islands Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., of Hongkong, This is the firm which has built a number of ships and barges for South Pacific owners in the past two years. Two such steel barges one weighing 110 tons (the heaviest item aboard), were included in Yosu’s cargo, all of which was consigned to Christian!-Nieslen & Gammon Ltd.

A third barge had been picked up at Singapore. With the exception of the main portion of one crane—for use in the construction of the new Suva PWD slipways—all the cargo of machinery, steel-work, etc., was discharged into these steel barges at Lautoka for use on the big £2,000,000 Lautoka wharf job which is now well under way.

Yosu bunkered and took in water at Suva before proceeding to Lautoka, rigging her 120-ton derrick, and lifting the big barge. She took a 15 degree list as this was swung slowly overside. To prevent all swinging of the heavy items during the lifts, the huge hook was held by four powerful purchases controlled by separate winches.

The ship’s main mast is located in the centre-line and braced by a massive sheerlegs arrangement on the starboard side so that she can work two hatches with the single derrick.

Discharge with this main derrick is thus confined to the port side.

Before commencing loading at Singapore all the gear was subject to stringent survey, and again at Hongkong before lifting the 110-ton barge which was believed to be the heaviest item ever handled by the ship since she was built for American military operations as Gadsen in 1944.

She received her present name in 1955. She was transferred to the Korea Shipping Corporation a government organisation, under an American assistance arrangement which requires her to carry f t the time being one American Super- Chief Engineer— Mr. Fred Collins, of Seattle.

All others aboard were Korean.

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The Australian Branch of the World Ship Society (addl ,f SS ' p body in Woodville, South Australia) is compiling, in \he P last 60 or 10 the UK, a detailed record of every merchant ship built in tne years, and operated in the South Pacific area. narrow the field This takes in a lot of territory and a lot of ships, so knQWS down a little, the Society would like to hear fro ™ a . - th islands during that of any shipwreck or disaster that has taken pla £®, will give a cross-check, time. The Society already has a lot of[informationi but give The Society is particularly interested in the small _ r f jf you have type of vessel, but there is no restriction on size o yP . fashion by Fate, photographs of any vessel that has been overtaken in untimely fasnion oy the Society will be glad to have them. too. lir ,H P rtaken bv the UK Society.

The project is part of a larger task being und resu u s are available to Information received is carefully filed, checked present anyone who is interested. The Society hopes that in ch wants it. a copy of the complete records to any library or museum which wants [?]da", first Jamaican yacht to cruise the Pacific, was in Suva in June and reached Australia July. Those aboard were, from right: Mr. and Mrs. Alistair D. Fraser, the owners; Mr. [?]ie Tetiki, a Hutihuti of Takaroa; Mr. Jack G. Russell, a Hollywood "ideas man"; and Mr. Andre Mayet of France. 109 )IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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APTAIN COOK RE-DIS- KS FIJI: Captain Cook peered Fiji in July—Captain ir t Cook, great-great-greatson of James, and with an unted Scottish burr in his voice, vessel was the 2,750-ton, year- ’reighter Greathope, of New- -upon-Tyne, owned by the igin Steam Shipping Co. Ltd., tily one of the company’s four s not laid up at present. Shipconditions in the UK are still slack. ?tain Cook said that he left on last March with a cargo Jgar for Basra, where dates were loaded for Whampoa, thence ballast to Moji, and cement from there to Darwin for the new jet airstrip.

Clearing in ballast for Auckland the ship was diverted by radio to load sugar at Fiji, for which area she had no charts. A quick call was made at Cairns and the agents there sent a package of charts aboard, but later when they were opened they were found to be the wrong charts.

A rough plan of the approaches to Suva was made with the aid of the Pilot Book information. Adverse weather was then experienced and when the ship finally arrived at reduced speed to be boarded by a pilot well off-shore she was just about at the end of her oil bunkers, though she had a normal month’s cruising range, Explaining the Scottish accent, Captain Cook said that his grandfather had taken the first steam trawler from an English port to Aberdeen and had settled there. He himself was the only member of his family at sea, and it looked as though the tradition might be broken as his own son was training for a life ashore, Greathope was to discharge her sugar cargo at Auckland, load timber at Tauranga for Japan, make perhaps another run south to Darwin with cement, and, with luck, be back by October. Under normal condi- Captain Robert Cook who has been [?] in an ancestor's footsteps and disthe Pacific (see this page). [?]M: Suva's Harbour Master, Captain E. [?] who has been having a busy time re- [?]ee story, page 109). 111 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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LTERATIONS TO HIFOFUA : mga Government’s ocean tugter-passenger craft Hifofua Suva in July being fitted with r type of winch. It was dethat the existing winch, inl manfiy for cargo handling so for towage, was unsuitable le job ahead, which will be f towing a big steel oil barge Suva to Nukualofa and per- Apia. Important alterations also being made in Auckland i steel barge as it was cond that the original design be unsatisfactory. Hifofua d south about September when arge may be ready.

'HAT LAMB CHOP; To see of sheep faces staring from portholes of a big passenger is rather surprising, to say the and it is difficult to say which the more interesting sight— the white woolly faces of the lambs looking out on Suva from Delfino’s port-holes, or the dumbfounded faces of the Japanese crew of Kinkai Maru which Delfino moved close past as she came in to her berth. Captain Uchimura and his men hadn’t been reading the Sydney papers.

Though a pilot would have been permitted to climb directly to the bridge of Delfino, Captain Lucas made certain that there would be no argument with the United States animal quarantine people by bringing his ship in and taking her out himself.

The wharf was screened off and only a few officials approached the ship s side to exchange documents by bucket and satchel lowered from the deck.

Friends and relatives of the Fijiborn crew and stock-tenders conversed at volume and at a distance.

Visible on the boat deck was the only female in the ship’s personnel.

A veterinary officer who is the wife of the ship’s veterinary surgeon.

Stock-tenders on board said that up to arrival in Suva 180 of the 30,000 lambs had died. The bodies were examined for cause of death before being thrown overboard. Most deaths were thought to be due to lack of sufficient ventilation in some parts of the ship and excessive heat, especially in the tropics, but the number dying was probably not considered excessive and undoubtedly experience would be gained in correct management during this first of what is intended to be a series of such voyages from Sydney to California.

Australian frozen mutton is not banned from the United States, but it is the contention of Mr. James Delfino, the Californian who organised this trade, that fresh mutton will be in much greater demand than frozen mutton. After arrival the stock will be fattened to American requirements before being slaughtered. What is surprising is that lamb from Australia, after paying all the costs of “on hoof” delivery, can still be sold cheaper than US lamb.

Delfino took aboard only water at Suva and was on her way again within six hours. More water was to be taken at Honolulu. The total voyage would probably take about 24 days to San Diego.

The 10 horses also aboard the ship were reported in good health in their deck pens at Suva. • UNCROSSING THE WIRES; Suva’s month of unusual shins included the five-yen r-old British cable ship Recorder, 3.349 tons, comby Captain P. B. Henderson. Based at Singapore, Recorder is flag-ship and newest of the Cable & Wireless fleet which includes the Edward Wilshnw, Norseman . Mirror, Lady Denison Pender, Retriever, and Electra —with another soon to be built.

Recorder repaired the Suva- Fanning No. 1 cable, which had developed a “shore end” fault near Fanning Island. She then replaced 50 miles of deep sea cable on the Suva-Norfolk Island leg, which had been temporarily repaired following the 1951 Suva earthquake. Detailed soundings were made of this earthquake fault area on behalf of the Fiji Geological Survey department.

Leaving Fiji, Recorder was to survey a route towards Auckland for a telephone cable which it is expected will be laid within the next few years right across the Pacific from Canada to Australia in parallel with the existing telegraph cables. • DEMOTED BUT REPRIEVED; That famous ex-US sub-chaser, now known as Tovata, and laid up many months ago as no longer fit for ser- (Over) Portrait Of A Master Mariner J. F. Colton and Co. of Arizona are, according to their letterhead.

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Mathieson, well-known Master of sailing ships in the hey-day of these vessels. Captain Mathieson was born in a sailing ship in December, 1871. and died in a motor accident in Canada in 1954 and of the 83 years in between, nearly 60 of them were spent at sea.

He sailed the vessels of six nations and knew all the routes of the fullrigged sailing ships. He raced before the gales of the Roaring Forties; knew the fury of the route around Cape Horne, and the more tranquil passages in the Pacific.

Born shortly after the Franco- Prussian war, several minor conflicts and two World Wars took place during his lifetime During World War II he served with the Americans in the Pacific— including Australian and New Guinea waters. He was invalided out and retired from the sea in IMA.

During the whole of his life. Captain Mathieson kept records and diaries and it is from these that Gladys M. O. Gowlland. a relative by marriage, has pieced together this remarkable record of one of me longest and most interesting of sea Ca, The price of the book is $lO in the US’ $10.50 elsewhere—a very largesized price. However, the size and scope of the book is in keeping, as through Captain Mathieson s eyes, the last 60 years of the sailing-ship era are covered in great detail. (Published bv J. F. Colton and Co., P.O. Box 1121. Flagstaff. Arizona.

USA.) [?]tain You Sang Jun of the South Korean [?] ship “Yosu", in Suva recently. And.

Yosu's" 120-ton carqo hook being prepared for business. 113 UIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST 1959

So nice to go home with . . . a m G 6092 ... a bottle of GIN vice in Carpenter’s Fiji fleet, sti of machinery and fittings,, offered for sale as she lay at ings in Suva’s Bay of Islandc bought on tender in July ti A. S. R. Macalister, Suva metal merchant. He intends verting her as a cargo light! towage and storage duties. • NOT AT HOME: Fiji’s Lighthouse on its lonely ro miles south of Suva, after 71J of occupation by light-keepei their families, was extinguish July 13. Ten days later it res its winking at passing marinr an automatic gas light.

There was never a radio s there —except perhaps in war-and it was never a popular s with keepers. Deck officers i habit of signalling passing houses may wonder for a whil. there’s no response—but the re Notice to Mariners will explas a way, the change-over was su stone in Fiji’s history.

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In the first few days of the tn the Master of Beaverhank ha holds flooded to keep her froc ing further onto the reef, and menced to unload some of the? into the Fort Beauharnois, had arrived from Christmas nuclear testing area, to help. T'. perts from Sydney, Captain Bui of Lloyds, and Bank Line M Superintendent Captain Ana left Sydney by air for Suva they were picked up by the R Sunderland. Bad weather di their first attempt to reach Fai A spokesman for the Bank! said in Sydney on July 24 tM understood that a tug from lulu had reached the stn vessel; some of the copra hao unloaded but it was possible some of it would have beer tisoned. An unconfirmed repor: Suva was that coconut oil in Suva had already been jettii Beaverhank, 5,690 tons, an years old, left Suva with 2,50( of coconut oil in her tanks, bags of copra meal and some? for Gilberts and Line Island] eluding new generating madt for Fanning Island Cable stas on June 6. She subsequently * Tonga (according to Sydnea ports) and Tarawa, in the Git where she took on the biggesa E Is. Copra shipment for y* 2,600 tons. She was to top-ru cargo at Fanning Island plant!

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IABOON, a 50-ft. schooner of Acuwith John Prisch in control, was ed to head for Tahiti this (southern) f.

ELPIE of Newport Beach, California, by George Minnie, is also expected 'heading for Papeete by now. This 8-ft. schooner.

SKYLINE of Auckland, homeward i with Denis Ryan in command and sompanions Gerry Bradbury and Guy itrick of Canada, and Irishman Mnningan, was in Rarotonga early [E MATANGI and the Fergusons of 8 left Rarotonga for Nukualofa on 29.

FLYING WALRUS of Westview, BC, John, Diana, and Pamela Wells, up in Whangarei, NZ, for over a may remain there for the best part fiber year. Sailing date is now fixed »nt April, 1960, meanwhile John has there.

SOVIA of San Diego, with Lee and Gregg, is likely to remain in Honour the forseeable future. The Greggs been in the US, but by now will be living aboard the yacht. Lee was ling there in one of the Trans- -6 Race entrants—CLOUD NINE.

HORWAK, with Fred and Malo Breere of France, mentioned as outward in last September’s PIM, called the off at Dakar after some mishaps. lUBA, the Spanish-owned Hongkongjunk yacht which cleared that port pain on January 17, was skippered se Maria Tey, and crewed by 8 or 9 l. The vessel is of 60 tons. No proreports to hand yet, nor details of led route.

WESTWARD HO—listed in June PIM IHITI WESTWARD HO, confirmation ed —was reported at Papeete from o via Honolulu in mid-June. No deaf crew.

CELESTE, a photo of whose crew ■red in July, was apparently the 40- ’anama cutter sold in Papeete a e of years ago by owner Cosmos to Cameron, crewman of the 69-ft.

Ington, California, ketch CELEBES.

BES made a return run Papeetea-Papeete recently.

NEW SILVER GULL, of Sydney, lies Walu Bay berth in Suva while owner F Scott recuperates from a successful Jion. Mrs. Oceana Scott meanwhile has put the yacht through a dry-docking and bottom-painting. The Beins flew home to the US. • ADIOS and the Steeles were still laying off Millers Boatyard at Suva late July with no particular sailing date posted. • DIDA, of Jamaica, cleared Suva for Noumea early July, with Ken Mildon of Auckland—who earlier planned to help deliver MOONFLEET there—as an added crew member. She arrived in Brisbane July 19 partly disabled (broken drop keel, rudder trouble) after two days battle with cyclonic weather. Reached Sydney end of July. • MOONFLEET continues to air her wings in Suva harbour-cruising at the week-ends, under the caretakership of Allan Akins of Cable and Wireless, Ltd. • HALCON ROJO, the 37-ft. Chilean schooner which we reported in April PIM as having arrived at Papeete last December, was manned by Alfonso Jaramillo and Waldo Carrasco, according to the Slocum Society. PIM has had no direct information of this yacht or her later movements. • TREKKA and John Guzwell of Canada were reported at Barbadoes April 21 on the last lap of a circumnavigation. • LA CANTUTA ll—or is it CANTUTA 11, the news agencies don’t care—came up with a radio signal during the first week of July and told a Peruvian radio amateur that the raft was progressing favourably towards Samoa and was “near the Marquesas”. How near, or which side, PIM has no information. The drift-and-sail voyage of the 29V2-ft. x 16 ft. balsa raft commenced from Callao, Peru, last April 12. In command Eduard Ingris of Czechoslovakia, and with him Messrs. Josef Matous, Joaquin Guerrero, and Jaime Toledo. The raft has a 29-ft. bipod mast forward, an after mast, and a triangular bowsprit arrangement. She has a rudder and wheel and six leeboards to improve sailing performance. There is also an oulboard motor to assist a safe landing at the end of the voyage. There are two lifeboats, one of rubber. There is an electric generator aboard and a great deal of sundry equipment—movie cameras, weather instruments, etc. In tow is a smaller balsa raft 13-ft. long associated with spme experiment requested by Thor Heyerdahl of KON TIKI. By the time this appears the voyage should be close to finished. See Pacific Report. 0 UNION G, 63-ft. motor cruiser ™ ed by » M * f z * ard ? f Metung. Vic- ‘or*a* .^ as . ln J" r w °T J c ? urs ® , of cleared" thlre^uly M headSi®' simaril Lae, Rabaul, BSIP and home. Crew ineluded Dave Beard who is an experienced yachtsman—originally he sailed in SKAFFIE and later in KOCHAB. This cruiser has the lot—electric stove in the galley, deep-freeze unit, echo sounder and other refinements. • ALSO from Port Moresby comes news G f the catamaran which made some local news when it arrived there in January after being reported lost. (See photo February PIM). Owner, Frenchman Maizonnier who lost his original partner, recruited another, R. Debitt, in Moresby and they left in her mid-April for Samarai. This passage took 12 days but after two days rest the adventurers pushed off again for Cairns but the sou’wester proved too strong and after two suits of sails were blown out were forced to turn back to run before the wind with only staysail. They made the coast near Moresby. Maizonnier left for South by conventional means—to earn there enough money to return and carry on the cruise. 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Knew If efore Fes of Kanam village, on the 12 miles north of Madang, [ distinguish today between ren Commandments taught [by the missionaries and >r set of commandments 1 down to them by their ors. ge elders explained to Fr. el Wiltgen in July that the ihristian missionary to conthem was Divine Word aer Father Henry Buschoff, who opened a Catholic school 5 1905. en we heard the late Father iff list the Ten Commandants, d him we already knew most m,” the village elders said. t Ten Commandants sounded mch like the precepts handed to us by our ancestors,” they “This made us feel Father off was teaching the true reso we decided to join it.” kding to native tradition, it •odaw who gave the precepts ancestors. Dodaw is the name d in the Kananam vernacular, iaw cannot be seen because ,s no body,” they said. “He ever die, and he always will cise, forceful and melodious [ vernacular, the precepts are } remember and easy to under- [ They are in no particular leal sequence, a must not attack what your r and father have to say to one precept says, nr eye must not look longat the wife of another man,” another. Its counterpart forhe eye to look with desire at sr man’s goods, ianam elders wearing only loths explained that the more )ok at a nice thing that beto someone else, the more you to steal it. a man steals the wife of er man, he is to be attacked filed by the rest of the village ■ children can come from this mion,” the ancestors had said, ns is not done, the children tow up, become aware of the crime of their parents, and then perpetuate the crime in the village by following their parents’ example.”

Other precepts forbade the telling of lies and making light of Dodaw’s name and the names of fellowmen, “Those who lie are barred from the good place reserved for the dead where Dodaw rules and where there are nice homes and beautiful flowers,” the elders said.

Dodaw’s name was never told to children or young unmarried people for fear they might make light of it in conversation and so dishonour the sacred name.

The penalty for disobedience to parents was a threatened speedy death; the reward for obedience was Fife.

The villagers said they had no commandments from the ancestors regarding prayer and the offering of sacrifice to Dodaw.

The Rule Is: Don't Hit the Other Player A few years ago, Litu Litu was a small girl wearing a grass skirt and tending her father’s pigs.

Today, a proud young mother, her baby in a spotless white napkin tucked inside her bilum (loosely netted basket that she wears hanging from her head) she is one of the first arrivals each Thursday afternoon at the Lae Wam b a Women’s Club, New Guinea.

Litu is but one of hundreds of native women now attending clubs throughout Papua and New Guinea, the club movement being started by Miss Lois Niall, daughter of the Morobe District Commissioner.

At their clubs, the women are assisted by volunteer European helpers who are teaching sewing, arts and crafts and basketball. Each club has its own native women President, Secretary and Treasurer. Some clubs have built their own meeting houses, the women themselves, carrying and cutting the wood and thatching the roof tops.

Club members have taken to the game of basketball like ducks to water, and age is no handicap.

Gnarled lapoon (very old) mens leap around the court with abandon, In a Housewives' Club in Dutch New Guinea, a Dutchwoman gives native women instruction in sewing, and in household manage ment.

In Lae, New Guinea, New Guinea women learn how to sew at one of the many clubs recently started in the Territory. 117 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST. 1959

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PUAATORO J M ERA HO I ieir ancient bare feet. Blouses ften discarded when the game s up and blows are sometimes Dged when the heat is really .this score there’s a little word arning in the Rules Book written for the women’s [“Do remember that it is only ne and do not get angry with bother. Never hit the person ire playing against.” ae club members have run into r hostility from their own aids. At least one husband his top when he came home, [ the dinner not cooked and sd that his wife was out playasketball. He gave her a good ig. fever, it was pointed out to him the wife of a certain local jean police officer had broken irm. Since then her husband een cooking tea —and liking it— fortnight. The native husband juite impressed and now he is g his turn at preparing dinner. b of the aims of the clubs is ake saleable articles having a e flavour. Money so earned will sed for buying club amenities squipment. ne club members have shown a ess acumen likely to put many ,rd-boiled business tycoon to e. They are buying lolly water sweets, then selling them to husbands and sweethearts on b afternoons at an exorbitant igh to Produce maid Noises ien Mr. Vince Storck gets his water-bus operating (see shipsection, July issue) it won’t a name like his last one— 00100100. “We’re asked its meaning a hundred times a day, and it is just a word we thought up,” he said.

Odd. We remember that when 00100100 went into service, the fame of its name spread even as far as Sydney, where according to some columnist—Granny of the SMH, we think—it was said to be the noise Fijian mermaids make.

The new water-bus will take tourists cruising in Suva harbour during which excursion they will visit a strange new feature soon to appear out on the reef in line between Suva’s “GPH” and Beqa Island.

If the plan is approved by the powers-that-be, a 25-ft. long, 8-ft. diameter cast-iron tube is to be lowered vertically into a small channel in the reef. At low tide the tube will stand in about eight feet of water, and in about 13 ft of water at high tide, The bottom end will be sealed and the top end open. Near the top will be an encircling platform, with perhaps a canvas canopy over all quickly erected as required, and passengers will be served refreshments here on this look-out.

They will be able to descend into the tube by a zig-zag stairway and view and photograph the passing marine life from a series of large portholes below the water line. To ensure that the marine life does pass their viewing caison, there will be a wire-netting race to guide fish close past the viewers, This structure will be located a considerable distance in from the exposed seaward edge of the reef, but even so it may be necessary to [?]RVICES RENDERED. As a gesture of ap- [?]on for medical aid dropped by the [?]to the tuna mother-ship "Koyo Maru" [?]ar, Captain K. Tsuruda (right) and fish- [?]ager, Mr. N. Tanaka, of the same commother-ship "Tenyo Maru No. 3", in [?]ought gifts of dolls in glass cases to [?]ernor of Fiji, the commander of the and the Medical Superintendent of Suva hospital, from the president of the Fishery Co., Kenkichi Nakabe. Here is the dolls, in Suva. Photo: Stinsons. 119 :I FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Union Co. s Tarawera brought is of Fiji and trans-shipment and loaded nearly 20,000 if bananas for New Zealand.

Jank liner Yewbank lifted 1,000 tons of copra and cocoa 1 English market. istone loaded 1,000 tons of ■for Puerto Cabello (Venei Waiana brought 800 tons of lian cargo; Tofua a large )f New Zealand goods, mainly iffs; and MV Thorsisle carried bfrom Canada and the USA. [heavy accumulation of shiprained the port’s limited rei to the utmost and again clear the urgent need for the imsnt of a deep sea harbour roper wharfing facilities at pd also at Savai’i.

Sir Lala Sukuna's ■ations for Museum In the decorations and swords i late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna anded over to the Fiji Museum ly, the Chairman of the m Trustees, Mr. D. M. N. lane, described the decorais an illustration of the life of achievement and success which Ratu Sir Lala had lead.

The decorations included the KCMG, the KBE and the CBE.

There was also the French Medaille Militaire, which Sir Lala won during the First World War while serving with the French Foreign Legion.

Lady Liku, Sir Lala’s widow, handed over the decorations and swords at Sir Lala’s former home.

Rairaiwaqa. She said: “It is not easy for me to have to part with such treasured possessions which are evidence of achievements in life but I am willing to part with them knowing that there is no safer place than the Fiji Museum for them.

There they will be seen by a greater number of people, both local and from overseas.”

She expressed thanks to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. K. B. Borron, for arranging the ceremony.

Five Annual Shows Now in P-NG The growth in r:cent years in Papua and New Guinea of the annual Show idea —that is, a regular exhibition of the products of the districts—has been remarkable.

There was the usual big exhibition in July of Papuan products, arts and crafts at Sogeri (the lovely high valley at the back of Port Moresby), and at least 12,000 people attended.

About 8,000 of them paid entrance —the remainder came in through the bush and rubber-lands and meadows which surround the picturesque showground.

It was a fine, sunny day—in contrast with last year’s show which was washed out by torrential rain.

That was why the committee moved the show forward from September to July. (Over) When civilisation catches up with a Chimbu, this is what happens. The bath towels round the middle may possibly be an improvement on a bunch of leaves, but those interested in retaining native customs would no doubt be appalled. The picture was taken at Papua's Sogeri Show in July. See above.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 121 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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A notable show is now 11 year at Goroka, for the; Highlands; and Wau holds a exhibition in December Incidentally, Wau peoc haps feeling that Lae is r. its part—has changed its ns Morobe District Agriculture to Wau Agricultural Socie Messrs. N. Owers, J. Sin Slade, B. Fletcher, C. Gan Kirchoff, Minchin, and F., and Mesdames Maloney, and Crawford at the head The Madang show was July in brilliant weathersuccess.

Hotel Offer Another Papeete “If the French Polynesia. ities will play bail, we’re • to start on the foundatid first-class hotel near Pap December and have it re business when the new opens next year,” said Mj Helgoe in Suva in July.

A Los Angeles attorne restaurant interests in P' California, “just as a hobl Helgoe was returning to the States after 12 days in Ts vestigating hotel possibilities half of a California-Texas; Mr. Helgoe said that, with a Papeete architect, he amined several available t close to Papeete city. He fa boom in the hotel business soon as the new internatio* port opened—“and they’re working on it right now,”

There are—or were early in some 46 motor trucks work nine-hour shifts per day spoil on the site.

Mr. Helgoe said that his associated with French ii had made certain propositi the French Polynesia gove; conditional on them makinu cision by December 1.

If the reply was favourable would commence on a hoc mediately—“but we insist or cision by December 1, oti we wash our hands of the s< Mr, Helgoe said that tl Governor of French Polyne* the government officials cok had given him every assistaj felt that they were now qu finitely interested in encourag, entry of overseas hotel capie It was true that other Ak hotel interests had made littK way in Tahiti in recent yean perhaps with General de Gs the helm, the policy has cl; That is certainly my impn Mr. Helgoe added. 122 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON'

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We Stand Corrected —Or Almost A correspondent says that Fiji does not get most of its imported rice from Australia —as was stated in July PIM. To the contrary, in 1958 only 531 tons came from Australia while Thailand supplied 3,577 tons. Our correspondent goes on: “Thailand can easily outsell Australia here . . . their rice is cheaper and considered tastier, . . Presumably there is a protective tariff that keeps Thailand rice out of P-NG, or Thailand would be able to undersell Australian there, too.”

As to the last statement, thereon hangs a tale, of course. Before the war, most New Guinea rice came from Saigon and other parts of Asia; price ranged around £lO-£l2 per ton. During the war, and for 10 years after it, supplies of Asian rice were cut off and the SW Pacific islands had to depend wholly on supplies from Australia.

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jut £25-£3O cheaper than ian rice. There was a great f backing and filling, and from both sides but finally NG Administration reached promise with the Australian pwers under which the latter d their monopoly but reduced De by about £lB per ton. This das been adjusted annually ace. arrangement, from ethical I could be regarded as unitary, nonetheless from the Dint of view, Fiji rice conshould do their arithmetic if they imagine that they Btting rice much, if any, r than consumers in New Australian f .o.w. cost, i, is £6l/10/- for five-ton lots; is another £lO/15/- per ton. ore, with this and that, a ton should be landed in the Terriir about £A7S.

CSR Company, when or if its rice mill going in Fiji, > to be able to sell milled rice 15 per ton. At this price, :ding to Government anments in June, it should have ige on imported rice to the of about £FS. -F75 equals about £AB4, and equals £A9O, Fiji consumers ike it as read that although nd may very well be able to ell Australia on the Fiji rice t, they, the consumers, are )tting the benefit of it.

Flavour or eating qualities of Australian rice may be a different proposition; but all rice imported into the Territory is for feeding native labour, for whom the N/L Regulations stipulate either brown, or vitamin-enriched. This may, or may not be “tasty”, as our correspondent puts it, but it certainly builds bonny labour-lines, and in P-NG that’s what counts.

The fact that Fiji imports rice to the tune of 3,000-4 000 tons a year is a recent development. Until 1955, in a normal year, the Colony was just about self-supporting in rice.

In that year it imported 579 tons —124 from Australia, 321 tons from India and 58 tons from Thailand Early 1956 brought hurricanes and floods and from that time on, the importation of rice into Fiji has assumed larger and larger proportions.

Suggested Local Broadcast For New Guinea DCs The sub-governor (District Commissioner J. Foldi) of what is probably the most difficult section of the New Guinea people, the Tolais, is an advocate of some form of local radio broadcast, for communication between District headquarters and the village communities.

It should not be costly and, in the case of a difficult and suspicious people like the Tolais, regular communication between the local director of administration and the heads of the village communities should be a helpful thing.

Under present conditions, the DC is in direct personal contact with the village heads far too infrequently —and then only through the irregular visits of administrative officials. A local radio broadcast, from DC to villages, at regular fixed times, could do no harm, and it might be of real value at this time, when the relations between Administration and Tolais apparently are not good, and may be deteriorating.

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The cruising Fergusons of “Te Matangi” display the flag of the Seven Seas Cruising Association in Rarotonga (from which they departed at end of June). The SSCA is a “disorganisation" —no office bearers, no annual general meetings— whose only material symbols are a house-flag and an unpretentious cyclostyled bulletin of news from members cruising the seas.

It took shape in 1951 at Terminal Island, San Pedro, Los Angeles, USA. To be eligible for membership you have to be a deep-water cruising yachtsman (or woman) and to live aboard your own small ship. And it seems you can’t just join—you have to be nominated by someone who knows that you are the right kind of yachtsman.

Among the amateur sailors there are the usual proportion of scallywags who, having exploited some unspoiled corner of the world, will slip moorings and steal away leaving a local prejudice against cruising yachtsmen in general.

Each SSCA Bulletin has a current list of members and their ships. There are about 75 at present. Membership is never static as there is always someone joining or pulling out because, for one reason or another, they cannot any longer claim to live aboard their yachts.—G.R.

GIANT Mr. Colin White, of Miller's shipyard Suva holds a two inch diameter casing left by a giant toredo worm recently found in the Nubukalou Creek, Suva. In July "PIM" it was stated that a tordo as thick as a man's thumb is regarded as a giant-so this one can be looked up on as the grand-daddy of all worms. 125 ■FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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The School will be a joint: and funds are to be provider United Nations, South Pacil mission and the BSI Goven If there is enough mone will commence later this yes Whilst on Malaita, Mr. g visited the Langa Langa Ls district renowned for its? boats. He was impressed standard but said tha additional training eve ni boats could be produced.

In BSIP Medicines Go Duty Free A long-awaited amendmen BSIP Customs Regulations effective from June 22.

All medicinal and pharma products, including dressings ances and materials for the dl and treatment of diseases, p country of origin is a sc country, will be free of dutyously 111 per cent, (i.e., Prefl Tariff).

The rate applicable to simj ports from foreign countr been reduced from 35 per 171 per cent.

The levying of duty againj items has been a bone of tion for some time, parti amongst the missions who st provide hospital facilities tl out the islands.

Government had hoped tc duty against patent medicine; were not used regularly in hi and dispensaries but apparei laxation of the tariff in tc far simpler than enforcing tions that granted exemption) tain items only.

Who's Who Of The McNicolls Of all the people who haT prominent in the Pacific : probably none produced a distinguished family than Bri General Sir Walter I McNicoll, KBE, CB, CMG VD, who was Administrator Guinea, 1934-42. In 1905, he r the Baroness Hildar Man Wedel-Jarlsberg (daughter of Oscar Wedel-Jarlsberg, of N and she was with him ii Guinea.

Walter McNicoll, a school t entered World War I as a and came back from Gallipc France as a Brigadier, with sz of decorations and a smash Sir Walter filled a very c 126 AUGUST, 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Valter died at the end of War II; but Lady McNicoll a rpsident of Rose Bay, \ They had four sons —and owing three names appear on 17 of the 1959 edition of the ian Who’s Who: , Rear - Admiral Alan Wedel y, CBE, GM, Deputy-Secretary ment of Defence, Canberra. , David Ramsay, Editor-in-Chief, tdated Press (Daily Telegraph, Sydney. , Major-General Ronald Ramsay, lE. MIE, GOC, Central Command, le.

“Ramsay” which appears in names was the family name late Sir Walter McNicoll’s ; Loans To Icheme Growers New Zealand Government is Iking loans available to Cook [ citrus growers owning is which are not a part of icial Citrus Scheme, loans will be in respect of story orchards in bearing and i restricted to the financing Uisars and sprays. They will rgeable at 5 per cent, and rei by deductions from the is of fruit sold at the rate [•thirds of the annual earnf the orchard. terms are the same as those ig to the Scheme orchards have been initially wholly sd by the Government, new plan is apparently deto overcome the problem of t non-Scheme orchards iring pests which cause con- )le expense to neighbouring e plots. Non-Scheme owners somplained that they cannot to carry out the necessary ig. The loans now offered ake this possible.

Government has made £12,000 ble for these loans in the D financial year and a similar it for the following year.

Sir Walter Ramsay McNicoll. 127 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Ex-Service Settlers in NG Now Include Natives The machinery developed last year for the settlement of exservicemen in Papua and New Guinea—for which Australia made a grant of £25 millions—is functioning smoothly.

Already, an expert committee has examined some hundreds of applications for aid, and a large proportion have been approved.

Among the applications approved are between 20 and 30 men who plan to settle in an area of excellent land that has been made available in Popondetta, in the Northern Division of Papua. A number of them already are there, and have started work on their blocks. This volcanic land is very suitable for cocoa.

The scheme has been extended to include native ex-servicemen, and applications for land and loans have been received from more than 100 natives.

These are being sympa examined. The responsibU will try to assess eac: agricultural knowledge ai potency to manage and plantation, and grants will! accordingly.

Selected European ex-se may be advanced up to £:: the development of a plai Newspaper Organisatii In Papua-N. Guinea A couple of years ago tl Pacific Post, of Port established two new week; papers the Rabaul Times Islands section of the Terrii the Lae Courier, for the Nev mainland section.

There was a staff and ; in both Rabaul and Lae. T. and advertising copy wen; Port Moresby printing of! the printed newspapsrs we back in bulk, for distribut; The system provided s newspaper service; but in o it proved to be too cumbers expensive.

The two separate newspa: have been discontinued; their place, there is one newspaper, the New Guinea Courier. The existing Rah Lae staffs function as bef copy goes to Port Moresby; weekly newspaper is printe and sent by air from the mid-week, to Lae and Rabi< With daily air services a there seems no reason whv < newspaper, published in tin (Port Moresby) should not \ the whole Territory. There almost complete communit; terest between centres such!

Moresby, Samarai, Rabat Madang, Goroka, Wewak, I and Kieta.

But the old jealousy betv Territories of Papua a n Guinea will not die—hei separate newspaper enterpi ferred to. Before World ' Rabaul, Port Moresby and I had its own local newspa; commercial printery.

Few Islanders are Taxed in Cooks Few Cook Islanders have; incomes and most of the taxi is collected from compam European residents.

This was shown by the F of the Cook Islands Le?

Assembly (the Resident 0 sioner, Mr. G. Nevill) in h;j ing address at the June of the Assembly.

Mr. Neville said that wl new system of local taxat:: introduced in 1956 it was st some that it would weigh hec 128 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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aori people. That this had not to be the case was seen in est taxation statistics. Of the collected, the only contriwere 16 companies, 161 Euroand only 46 of a total populaf 17,000 Maoris. )ld Croc. Shooter Lucky \ the 300-tons coastal vessel I was destroyed by explosion rak, New Guinea, on May 12, 12 natives and one European, Fe other natives missing predead, that ancient, active le-shooter, George Mitchell ut another notch on the ;of his bowie-knife. [had some narrow escapes,” fe gnarled Mr. Rio to a PIM ti Port Moresby last month, me narrower than that.” lad been on his way to the ;ountry, after skins; and he ;d with the Busama people to ibout a ton of his gear, and m along as a supernumerary mate. id a premonition about that declared Mr. Rio. “I got it a my nose. I distinctly smelt fumes, a few times. The i was carrying some hundreds ns of motor spirit.”

Busama got into Wewak in ming of May 11; and, when pper went ashore early next g Mr. Rio thankfully went Soon afterwards, there were pled of muffled explosions, b ship was immediately ablaze s was no chance of saving r cargo. The first mate, Mr.

Riik, 52, of Sydney, was immediately, but Mr. James t, who was supervising cargo, awn overboard and escaped, old croc-shooter lost all his nd his pet rifle. “It was made ly for me, and it cost £118,” he said. But he did not moan—if his luck had not been in, he would have gone up with Busama.

Re-equippcd, G. M. Rio thought he might pay a call on the Western Papua crocodiles. He was born in Belgium 69 years ago, and he has been nearly 40years in New Guinea: but he still can get around more quickly than any tropical saurian.

In July, Coroner R. G. Ormsby reported he was unable to determine the cause of the fire.

Jets Bring Tighter Air Traffic Control With the entry of jets on the South Pacific airlanes a tighter system of air traffic control will soon come into operation, designed mainly to prevent air collisions.

Under the new system, aircraft southbound from Nadi to Sydney will fly a controlled air lane which crosses Tontouta, New Caledonia Northbound aircraft will follow another lane which crosses Norfolk Island.

At present, the existing propellerdriven aircraft follow the same lane north and south but fly at different heights —the odd number of thousands of feet of altitude in one direction and the even number in the other direction. This type of separation is not considered sufficiently safe in jet operations.

The path taken by a drum of petrol [?]ad exploded during the "Busama" fire, [?]graph was taken at night by George Rio. See below. 129 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1959

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Snail Plague: asant Evidence iss fire which burned for days e swept across much of the iter-owned coconut planta- [Malapau, near Kokopo, New pau has historic interest, illy, it was part of the group onut plantations established Jum by the Mrs. E. E. th (“Queen Emma”) in- -the first coconut planta- Q New Britain. [palms did not suffer much sßabaul’s drought broke later; I the fallen nuts were lost, ong over these hills a few [ter the fire, one was startled urious stench. It came from tting carcases of giant shellhails, killed by the fire, have been told by planters lese creatures —introduced by ?anese in 1942-43 as an article )d —are now all over the 5 Peninsula, in millions. The removal of the grass over square miles of Malapau gives ea of the snail population gh on plantations the pest . controlled.

Few Coastal Ships ipua-New Guinea e observers in Papua and New 1 are becoming anxious about •astal shipping situation.

Tal handy little ships have been lost in the past year or two.

Others have reached the end of their working life.

They are not being replaced. Small European investors can see an immediate return from new ships— but the long-distance prospect does not please them. They would like some assurances from the Government.

Some planters and traders expect that Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. will enter more deeply into the coastal shipping business; others think that the growing ranks of Chinese merchants may do something. Commerce and trade in P-NG move almost wholly upon the coastal waters.

NG Highlands Highway Lacks One Big Bridge Residents of the New Guinea Highlands watch patiently while the Lae-Goroka road—some day probably to be called the Highlands Highway creeps slowly towards them.

Actually, the roadway has been completed, long since—the obstacles to regular road communication are non-existent bridges over the shifting, treacherous Markham River and its tributaries.

The Erap bridge now has been completed, and is being regularly used. But it will be another three years before the biggest bridge, over the Leron, is finished.

Road vehicles now move fairly regularly between Lae and the Highlands, but they still have to be dragged through one or two streams—and notably the Leron.

This is a risky procedure in wet weather—and it is usually raining in that area.

Broadcasting Station Urged for Cooks The immediate establishment of a broadcasting station in the Cook Islands was strongly urged by some members of the Cook Islands Legislative Council in July.

The speakers pointed out that such a station was an urgent necessity from an educational and public information point of view and that its establishment, approved in principle but deferred for financial reasons, should be no longer delayed. [?] Seventh Day Adventist church, on Coronation Drive, Lae, New Guinea, was dedicated [?] 5 in the presence of the Morobe District Commissioner, Mr. H. L. R. Niall, Pastor [?]ohanson, of the Australian Division of SDA, leading citizens of Lae and adherents of [?]urch In his address during the ceremony, Mr. Niall expressed regret that the SDA had not established itself in Lae before it had. He said that the average Territonan see to advantage the work accomplished by the Adventist Mission as its institutions, Is, dispensaries and schools are all out in those centres where the need was greatest, a result, much of what they accomplished passed unnoticed. Mr. K. J. Gray, SDA at Lae and his congregation have worked hard to build this church; various SDA [?]ations made building funds available, and local members of the church built pews, furniture and rostum themselves from New Guinea timber.

Recent wedding in Rabaul, New Guinea — Mr. Derek Hallam and Miss Cynthia Sidney, who were married at the Church of St.

George the Martyr. The Rev. Father James Smith performed the ceremony. Photographed here with the bride and groom are bridesmaid Faye North and bestman John Georgiades.

Photo: L. Chin. 131 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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lory Making" oyment Board for P-NG still a long way to unionism, apua-New Guinea natives in srere given machinery which jlow them to express their as employees. machinery is part of a Native yment Board which has been 3 by the Administration to employers and employees of B to express their views on wages and conditions and to ically review labour legisla- (Board will hold inquiries on b matters which may be re- [to it by the Administrator, >ep the Administration advised ch things as changes in cost ng likely to affect native wage Irman of the Board is Mr.

C. Caterson, a former chief rial officer for Qantas and rith the P-NG Administration, members are Mr. L. A. Willis [r. D. H. Lloyd (for employers ives); Mr. Mase Rei and Mr. in To Patiliu (Papuan and Juinea representatives for ems respectively); Mr. N. J.

I (Public Service Commissionepartment); Mr. W. R. Dishon re Affairs). irnative members of the Board It. J. W. Lukin (who will sit ! absence of either of the em- ■ representatives) and Mr.

B, Goava (for employees). i Board held its first meeting ily 30 to inquire and report le question of wage scales — iequacy of the legal minimum and the matter of margins for I men. The Board will hear evidence from organisations and employers.

Said the Administrator, Brigadier Cleland, at the inaugural meeting: “The bringing into the composition of the Board of Papuan and New Guineans, representing their own fellow workers, is a step forward towards the ultimate plan of advancement of the native peoples so that they can assist in the control of their own destiny. What we witness in this Board today may be regarded as history-making.”

The Administrator added a word of warning. The Board, he said, was charged with the responsibility of advising the Administrator on matters of policy and “it should not allow itself to become embroiled in individual complaints or problems but should rather look to the broader issues.”

For Suva: Just The Purest Milk Suva has never had much of a reputation for the standard of its milk supply. A certain amount of visible dirt and the addition of a reasonable amount of water has always been considered fairly normal.

Once in a while the law has cracked down on supplies, but as of July, 1959, no pasteurisation or sterilisation of public milk supply exists, and the Health Department advises scalding before use Very soon, however, all that will be changed. . . „ The finishing touches were being made to an ultra-modern new dairy factory at Tamavua, a few miles out of the city, in July.

Owned by the Rewa Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., it will produce homogenised milk.

Under the homogenisation process the milk is not only sterilised but the fat globules are broken up to give an Iven distribution throughout. After treatment, the crea ™ longer rises to the surface when the milk is left standing.

The machinery has been supnlied by New Zealand farm machinery suppliers. J. B. Mac Ewan & Co. Ltd. The plant has a pro cessing capacity of 200 gallons per h Most of the milk will come to from the shareholders farms in the district —some from a fmrdistanc away—by an insulated road tanker, at a temperature of about 40 deg. r From e the tanker it will be transferred to an insulated holding tank.

At this stage it will undergo a [?]G Women Meet In Melbourne Irs. Linda Pratt, president of New Guinea Women's Assouan of Melbourne, reported tccessful year when these exv Guinea women met for the lual general meeting in July, 'he Association's main “work” the Memorial Scholarship K i which was set up after the r to commemorate those Ilians who lost their lives ing the war in New Guinea. is year’s scholarships went to in Crawley and Heather redith. n the last year, the monthly etings of Association mem- 's have been held in private nes, instead of, as formerly, the city—and this change, torts Mrs. Pratt, has been a -at success.

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Usually, on Saturday mornings, the Kokopo district planters of New Britain and their wives drive into Kokopo for shopping and interchange of news; and, while the family chiefs gather in the Kokopo Club's more secluded section, the wives have a happy meeting on the Club's wide verandahs. These two groups were photographed by a "RIM" man recently. 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1959

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TNOTE: One of PlM’s , who was once given ly homogenised milk in an t somewhere between Singand Calcutta, feels that if that were any indication of the brew, then Fiji milk drinkers are going to have to re-educate their palates.

That Asian homogenised could, of course, have been made from waterbuffalos’ milk; or tigers’ milk; even elephants’ milk. Certainly any resemblance it had to cows’ milk was wholly coincidental.

It Might Be The Sunflower State In New Caledonia efforts are now being made to develop production of sunflower seeds on a commercial scale. The oil will be processed for use on the local market. Sunflower seed oil is supposed to be richer in vitamins than olive oil and a Noumea correspon dent says the experiment will be watched with interest.

Those concerned with the production and import of peanut oil, large quantities of which are used in New Caledonia, will no doubt be especially interested.

Raft Adrift With Half Its Crew The four members of the transpacific drift raft Cantuta II (see Cruising Yachts section) split up late July—but not intentionally.

The raft —slightly less primitive in equipment than its predecessors —left Peru in April to drift to Samoa. By late July it was off Napuka, northernmost of the Tuamotu (not Marquesas, as reported) and it was decided to put in there for fresh water and food before continuing the voyage.

Joseph Matous and Jaime Toledo went ashore with natives in outrigger canoes and while they were there, a storm developed that drove the raft, with Edouard Ingris (leader) and Joaquin Guerrea aboard, out to sea.

Later, two radio messages were received from the raft, and all shipping in the area was alerted to watch for it. A French ship later picked the raft up and the men were reunited.

Accidental Death of W. Samoa Doctor Doctor W. P. (Billy) Williams, the first West Samoan Scholarship student graduate as a doctor, was killed in a tragic car accident in Apia on July 21. He was a man of [?]ree Nauruans are now in Sydney, attending a course in agriculture. They are, from left, J. Tibare, A. Stephen and R. kun. —Tele-Photo. 135 >FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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t promise and his death in jircumstances stunned the immunity, where he was a • figure. He was aged 29.

Director of Health, Dr. R. xwell, said at a graveside that all Western Samoa had roud of the young doctor, id taken up his work at a f great difficulties of a renedical staff in Apia.

Williams was the youngest of y of five children of the late rthur Williams, a former five Council member. He 0 New Zealand in 1941 as if the first scholarship s, attending St. Patrick’s at Silverstream and later g Otago University. •turned to West Samoa early ar to take up his appoint m the staff of the Health nent, where his unassuming mial disposition soon made ipular. wing the death of Dr. as, the Apia Chamber of irce asked for an investigate the “shortcomings of the Samoa health service”, and jeople were critical of wnai said was Samoa’s serious if doctors, equipment and ’ in July the West Samoan ment announced that it will a surgeon specialist and a an specialist for West The latter will also be 1 superintendent of the lospital. Salary would be 2,800 a year with a gratuity per cent. nother serious accident near n July, ten passengers in a bus were injured, four of seriously, when the bus sd into a coconut tree on the oeach road.

Be On The Run l the construction of an airfiose to Korolevu, on Fiji’s fast”, and the arrival shortly he United States of a small for Mr. Tom French, tourists able to fly directly from Nadi itional Airport direct to the r Korolevu Beach Hotel.

Mr. French apparently does not intend going into the general air charter business but will use his new plane—which will carry four—solely for the transportation of hotel guests.

Mr French is a son-in-law of Sir Hugh Ragg, whose Northern Hotels Ltd. owns Korolevu Hotel.

Move in the r Pouvanaa Lase Four deputies of a 12-man commission set up in Paris to inquire into the Pouvanaa a Oopa case, are to proceed to Papeete, Tahiti, according to a Noumea report. ~„ 6 _ .

M. Pouvanaa a Oopa is a memhpr of the French Chamber of Denuties but S been held in orison in Papeete October 1958 without trial pXwing polftfcai “s i " a pape“ S letter half of last year, Pouvanaa and some of his closest supporters were arrested on a charge which apparently included arson and assault. (See PIM, July, p. 19.) I A AnTOn Man A Name t pQmniriUn- -1 u A man who seems to be getting increasing attention from both Administration and natives is an educated New Guinean named Kere, who first came to notice in recent times in the Buka east coast village of Lonhan.

Buka’s east coast villages generally are regarded as politically restless. This goes back many years, to the time when nine Buka labourers, who had settled in Samoa and taken Samoan wives, were forcibly repatnatedto their homes in east Buka. Their influence thenceforth was anti-European. ~ , . int - 0 About the end of 1958, these Buka villagers decided they were being exploited by the traders. They said they were not getting enough per ba* «« -"g that : T , 0 e 0 n iin «ir nearesi; 1)0 L was some £7O per t° n • The villagers selected Kere to go to Port Moresby and put their grievances before the Government.

Seeking First Aid Badges These were some of Suva's Girl Guides of all racial groups who sought their First Aid badges at the Rally in Suva in July. Their instructors and examiners (left) are Nurse Morvick and Nurse Richards.

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On the left are Mr. Peter Lovell and Mrs. Gwen Howett, and on the right Mrs. Dorrie Ross and Rew. E. Bray who officiated. 137 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Guinea Deaths death of six natives in Port y early in August following hyl-alcohol drinking party [ the controversy as to r or not natives should be [ to drink beer, matter has been before the ;ive Council on several oc- , but legislation that would latives drink-permits has >een put into general practhough a few years ago it :t at the stage where issue >e made at the Administrakretion. recent drinking party was night affair after a wedding.

Ived only natives from the irea and during the night that “smelled like methyipirit” were served by two (or part-natives, both had mised names), one a painter ie other a medical orderly, hese men later died, yell as the six who died, others were admitted to 1; one is reported to have lind. e were fatalities after a native drinking party a ars ago, and although there me very good reasons why 2sent blanket prohibition on native drinking should not be lifted too hastily, those who advocate relaxation of the regulations to permit some beer drinking, have a good point in incidents like the August disaster.

Although most native people in the Eastern Pacific seem to be able to brew something lass lethal for themselves —bush-beer, or fermented coconut-toddy—the Melanesians had to wait for the white man’s alcohol, usually in the form of cheap methylated spirit.

Most of the Missions in the Territory are against lifting the ban on native drinking, on the ground that you can’t cure one evil by permitting another.

In the Steps of The Leathernecks What stands today on the sites of those war-time recreation clubs, PX’s, camps, and battle-grounds where the US Marine Corps served or enjoyed its recreation in the South Pacific? And where are the girls who served the cups of coffee, or provided the dancing partners?

Robert C. Hayes, a Marine Corps reserve Lieutenant-Colonel and free-lance writer flew in to Nadi from Seattle in July on the first stage of a South Pacific trip in which he hopes to answer a lot of these questions for the Marines —through their journal Leatherneck and through other magazines and newspapers with which he has arranged contracts.

Ex-Leatherneck Hayes was one of several thousand Marines who had their first sight of the South Seas from the troop transport President Polk. That vessel was a day out of San Francisco bound for Honolulu as an ordinary passenger liner when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbour. She put back and was converted to a troop transport.

Heading south for Noumea, the ship narrowly missed colliding with a heavily loaded unidentified tanker somewhere east of Fiji on a dark night with both ships blacked out.

After arriving at Noumea it was not long before this group found itself heading north for the Solomons battle area. Leatherneck Hayes was an officer in the aviation intelligence section.

Eighteen months later he flew in to Suva from Santo in a PBY flying-boat, and had his first ice cream soda since Noumea at a PX which was located in Millers store.

Heading for Tonga from Suva, one motor of the plane failed and it just managed to get back to Laucala Bay.

Colonel Hayes was particularly HES ROUND FIJI: Most of Fiji's commercial fishing is handled by individuals rather [?]y organisations at present, and Fred Simonet of Levuka (left), with his refrigerated "Kerekere", is perhaps the “biggest" of this hardy community. H.s operations range [?]aters round Viti Levu. The fish shown in this truck represented part of a catch brought [?]tly and sold to one of the big firms, on the wharf, for 1/- to 1/6 per lb, gutted. 139 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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ADDRESS ;d in Koro Island, for it was lat the first detachment of ;t Marine Corps, bound for ial landings at Guadalcanal few Zealand, spent July 942, rehearsing the landing n. Many of the local people een removed from the area some days previously. ;ests were satisfactory and voy resumed its voyage to the battle landing on August in August, 1959, Colonel will fly to New Caledonia i New Hebrides, then travel lagi to Honiara, and from i the coming months, he will on to Bougainville, New and the New Guinea mainence to Sydney, from where head back home, notebooks as a passenger in the liner Mariposa next er. sen now and then he’s likely tiling on a good many people ed with the war days in the IR as in European, i as in Asian P-NG Administrator, Brigaeland, does not think that m “Euranesian” is “entirely “iate” as a description of ruinea’s mixed race people nts some evidence that the race people themselves want pt the name.

He got some of his evidence at a Rabaul Town Advisory Council meeting in July when one of the Euranesians, Mr. H. Lewerissa said his people felt “very strongly” that they wished to be known as “Euranesians and they would be very happy if that word could be adopted.

He said they didnt like being referred to as half-castes, mixed blood or mixed race people—and particularly did not like being referred to as half-castes by the natives, who were the main users of that term. Mr. Lewerissa said that his people felt about the word half-caste just what the Chinese had felt about the word “Kong- Kong”. And “Kong-Kong” was now never used about the Chinese community, so it should be possible to use the word Euranesian instead of half-caste.

Mr Lewerissa explained that the WO rd Euranesian was composed of EUR for European, A for Asians, NESIAN for Micronesians, Polvnesians and Melanesians, .. ~ .. . . . the suggestion of chairman J. f Dowling, Mr. Lewerissa agreed to write to his people m other New Guinea centres to see if they wer . e m fa y° u J . the wor 4 Eura " nesian, so that their support would strengthen the appeal to the doubt- Administrator. [?]e: Offenders Beware the above heading fy, the “Tong an Daily 1 announced its entry into j field, that of reporting .news. quote: “The ‘Daily News üblish such details as are ed from the Courts in ilofa. If you have not yet t a light for your bicycle, hered to tie up your horse •ly—think again, for your may yet appear in this ation.” \ments a European nt: “If the publishing of 1 proceedings will reduce I and law breaking, by g a person think twice r risking notoriety, it will \ervice to the community, j some, however, it could e a competition to see how one can get one's name in on 1 'Pypw ”

Tong an “Daily News” is duplicated news sheet, but e Government printery, notype machine and the ig press stand waiting for xy when Tonga will have on newspaper. Prince has had plans for one for time. 141 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - AUGUST, 1959

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More American Goods For West Samoa American imports are making themselves felt in Western Samoa, which, although it is only a few miles from American territory, is on a New Zealand economy.

Recently the motor vessel Thorsisle brought one of the largest consignments of American goods to Apia for many years; 1,187 tons of cargo included a consignment of more than 6,000 cases of American sardines, which sold at a cheap price and soon monopolised the Samoan market.

American soft drinks and machinery, and Canadian timber and salmon were also in the consignment.

Meawhile, the Australian Senior Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Mr. H. C. Menzies, and the chief editor of the German magazine, Economist, Prof. F. E. Altmann, have both been on short visits to West Samoa, pushing the barrow for West Samoan ti; their own countries.

Mr. Menzies said that would not import banam West Samoa as NSW gro'( a surplus of fruit. But th no restrictions on the sale; in Australia. Mr. Menzies goods which Australia couj West Samoa were fresh fi meat if the shipping probll be overcome—and plans for connection were being disc Professor Altmann said tH good opportunities for cn market for Samoan cocoa a in Western Germany an parts of Europe. German welcome an expansion of tr West Samoa.

Cole of California in Exotic Tropics Mr. Fred Cole, successfu facturer of famous swim US, Australia and e; visited Tahiti in June, with him a large staff for pose of getting unusual beautiful girls clad inj bathing suits against thi Tahiti background.

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Also Registered Offlces at Melbourne Brisbane Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides). that similar discoveries of •onzes have still to be made, of the new axes is round, decoration on one side. Be- :e area was Christianised, 930, the people believed that :endants of the village where i was found received their >m the axe and when one i was soon to die that axe itart to weep. moan Public Servants For More Money ;blic Service Salaries Combegan sitting in Apia, Wesmoa on July 24. As a result, ■s of the Public Service Asn were “confidentally ex- ” a substantial pay rise, pointed out that official indicated that since the last Jrease in April, 1955, living ad shown an increase of 15 it. for seconded employees overseas) and 16 per cent, al employees.

Mood and Old iji Legco ?iji Legislative Council ceased t on July 23 and nominaosed for a new one on August ing day for the Southern and North Western Divisions has been fixed for September 12, and for the Eastern Division with its widely scattered islands the date will vary from September 5 to September 12.

Precisely who would be standing for the various seats would not be known for certain until August 14, but as of the end of July the situation looked something like this: For the three European seats it seemed probable that there would be straight fights, with Mr. John Falvey and Mr. Serge Tetzner contesting the Southern Division seat; Mr. H. B. Gibson and Mr. Les Martin battling for the Eastern seat; and Mr. R. G. Kermode possibly being challenged for the North Western seat by Mr. Mark White, though it was uncertain at the end of July whether Mr Whi would be a candidate. He was defeated by Mr. Kermode by a mere seven votes in a by-election last year, The Indian contest will be much more complicated with almost certainly four candidates standing for each Indian seat and possibly more than four in some, Certain candidates for the Southern seat appeared to be Mr.

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In the Eastern seat Mr. Vijay Singh and Mr. Jamnadas Kanji have [?]oesn’t Need An Eectronic Brain ether or not she was ght up by the birds” as her implies, Shakuntala Devi, hmin woman from Bangawho flew in to Fiji on the Qantas commercial jet from Sydney, seems to all the answers . s Shakuntala, a pleasant f woman of 26, was in Fiji rt of a world tour in which s demonstrating her exlinary mental gift in the of mathematics. i is not unique similar have been reported all the world, and New Zeai West Coast has such a mt at present—but it is lit to believe that anyone do better in the realm of il arithmetic than Miss mtala, who can extract )th root of a 42-digit numwithout hesitation, and ut knowing how she does just one of those things, nions seem to be divided whether Miss Shakuntala I be a more dangerous or handy person to have ! the establishment. 143 FI C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Ccd their intention to stand, . Tularam and Mr. Shankar are possible starters.

North Western seat will be id by Mr. Madhavan and D. Lakshman, with Mr. a Prasad, Mr. D. S. Naidu, p other as possibles.

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European and two Indian ‘s are also nominated by vernor. The retiring mem- -5 Mr. W. G. Johnson and the G. Cowled, and Mr. A. I. N. and Dr. Sahu Khan re- *y. mgust 1 it was announced e following Fijian members sn selected by the Governor he list submitted by the of Chiefs: E. T. T. Cakobau, Ratu Mara, Ratu Penaia Ganilau, s a Sikivou, and Ravuama iu.

Are There Flies At Peanut Time?

Do p2anuts bring on flies? It’s a question which has been worrying some people in Lae, New Guinea, lately many of whose residents grow peanuts as a sideline. The Lae Bowling Club even hopes to erect a new club house with the aid of its peanut harvest.

Here is how the matter came up at the Town Advisory Council and what they said about it.

Mrs. Serafini: The growing nuisance of flies will probably have to be referred to the Health Department. When I first came to Lae one rarely saw a fly here, now they are a great nuisance. Perhaps the matter could be brought to the attention of the Regional Medical Officer or Health Inspector to make some suggestion before it gets to be a plague.

Dr. Jameson : It is a problem for the individual householder. If they kept their allotments clean and their houses clean they should not be troubled with flies.

Chairman : On the company plantation at Nunum for the cultivation of peanuts, flies are like you see in the north of Australia— —literally a nuisance. Down near our office we have about eight acres under peanuts. It was raining rather heavily during the course of harvesting and the peanuts were put on the verandah, and the next morning and subsequent mornings the flies were unbearable. I wonder if the peanuts could be the possible cause of the increase of flies in Lae?

Peanuts are being brought down and stored in Lae.

Mrs. Serafini: During an afternoon tea party at BGD we had a job to serve afternoon tea because of the flies. Perhaps something could be done before they get worse.

Dr. Jameson : We will certainly investigate the matter. I don’t know whether any member of this Council has been associated with the wheat growing areas of Western Queensland, but out there when the wheat is ready for harvesting the fly problem is tremendous. It is not a question of cattle or anything else; they breed in the vegetation.

Bathie Get's It On Film Bathie Stuart, well-known American traveller, photographer, lecturer and TV artist, is in circuit in the South Pacific again, in search of new material for her lecture tours and TV programmes.

In Tahiti in June, she shot many feet of movie film to augment and bring up to date her “Polynesia— Garden of Eden”, which she has shown for the past few years. Her new sequences will show the great changes in Tahiti and special attention will be focused on the restored marae in the district of Miss Stuart later continued her travels through to New Caledonia, EALANDER'S VISIT. The High Commissioner for New Zealand in Australia, Mr. F. [?]ade a wide tour of Papua-New Guinea in July. Here at Rabaul he inspects a guard [?]ur from the Royal Papua-New Guinea constabulary drawn up at the airport. With him is Rabaul Police Superintendent, J. Carroll.

Photo: C. H. Meen.

Miss Bathie Stuart, now on a lecture tour, pays a visit in Noumea to Mr. Jean Brock, managing director of French Pacific Tours.

Photo: Fred Dunn. 145 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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DISTRIBUTORS: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Lautoka and Ba, Levuka, Nukualofa, Apia. lindi, in giving his reasons int said: “I agree that a >asis would be unduly rebut nevertheless my coni fair and reasonable wage , worker should at least be irovide for himself and his •om his wages for a reasontiber of hours.” Mr. Bhindi rom the Universal Declara- Human Right, Articles 23, 6 to support his contention, lindi also presented a numibles—in some of which his ;ic appears to be slightly in mgh to no important degree, i he set out his calculation ost of maintaining an avera Noumea for the Bastille Drations. New Guinea and Hebrides will be the locale v film entitled, “Melanesia irk Islands”. She will visit s Great Barrier Reef berning to the States. s on Memorial to Sukuna s likely to commence soon non-boarding secondary r Fijian boys and girls as ial to the late Ratu Sir una. f the cost of £15,000 was ailable, at the request of t Council of Chiefs, by the Legislative Council, so work could proceed wither. It is also intended to statue of Sir Lala at a ■1,500. The sites for these s had not been selected id of July. ians will contribute 1/- per r ards their cost. age Fiji sugar workers family, and arrived at a weekly figure of £4/19/4 to meet what he considers to be the basic needs.

On the basis of a 44-hour week, as at present, this results in a minimum hourly wage rate of 2/3 — or an increase of Bd. on the existing rate, and this is the figure that he contends should be paid at the present time.

While not denying or confirming the accuracy of Mr. Bhindi’s figures, the majority opinion dismissed this approach to the subject and stated: “An increase in wages can only be given either in consequence of an increased rate of productivity which has already been established, or where there is a reasonable hope that, when awarded, increased productivity will be either encouraged or will result. Otherwise inflation is bound to follow.

“Where inflation follows an increase in wages, the people who suffer most are the very people for whom the increase was intended, namely, workers on the minimum rate.”

The majority opinion further stated: “We firmly believe that the very large increase recommended by our colleague is wholly unrealistic and would produce a dangerous inflationary situation.”

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In , calculatin g the wages of an employee who gets board and lodging, 10 /" P er week must b ~ added for lodging, and 30/- for board. . it A person without dependants escapes tax up to £7/10/- per week, After that, tax starts at 3d per £1 Per week, and mounts steadily until *t *l2 P|{* week it is,2/6; at £l5 5 / 9 > £ * B - 10/3 » , an s,. £2O P; 1 W( cfk» 13/ 6 , T 15 Q uite a healthy slug for the single man or woman. t r . _ What Middle Classes Face However, at the present stage, there are liberal allowances made j or p erso ns who have to pay health anc j e d UCa tion charges; and persons with one or two dependants pay only a bout half the single person’s tax. t Where a man In the T f rltory has two dependants, and a taxable inxr^,«iTa d ve th tT^ 14/3 per week in provisional tax Liberal allowanc s have been made to primary producers, miners and timber-millers, in various directhe supporters of the New Taxpayers’ Association, led Dudley Jones, took the oppo- >w. They said the difficult n had been created by Mr. t and he should take the conies for it, 5 are the candidates: PAPUA tenson (“Peter”) Fox, public ant, nominated by (among B. C. Goodsell and B. E. hßoss, hitherto regarded as ers of the taxpayers’ associaint T. Sanders, contractor, ted by officials of the taxi associations.

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nomination. A nomination idney Barker was lodged too id rejected.

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un T. (“Mick”) Thomas, [ Kokopo.

L. Chipper, contractor, , nominated by officials of the »rs’ associations, understood that Mr. Sanders [r. Chipper have given an iking that if they are elected, e so requested by the taxassociations, they will resign Bats on the council. All the ites are well known men. nomination of Mr. Fox by Fairfax-Ross and Goodsell, jandidate against the Tax- Association, was a surprise, ;hree w.re prominent in supf Messrs. James, Downs and Jones, when the latter reon June 22.

Mr. James' Headache E. A. James later explained tter to the South Pacific Post, doresby, that his refusal to nomination could not be led as a boycott, said that when he had reon July 22 he had announced ild not seek re-election except certain conditions. And he ild the Legislative Council in that if it turned out that a n on income tax had already aade in Canbirra, despite the er’s assurance that it had not, le would take it as a personal t. It was later proved, said Mr. ; that the Tax bill had already )rinted at that date, idded; “After having suffered lon by the Minister with the ility of becoming the laughing of the Territory, and its Adration, none can blame me for ling it as a personal affront. . Wheeler, MHR, said, Tf a boxer gets his nose bloodied in the first round he doesn’t throw in the towel. He comes back for more.’

“If you hit your head against a brick wall once it is a bit sore. Having been thrusting my head against a brick wall for eight years, I have a permanent headache.”

Mr. Fox's Views Candidate Fox also offered an explanation to the public—about why he had nominated despite his connection with the taxpayers’ forces.

“It may be said that I changed horses in mid-stream,’ he said. “I would remind critics that I spoke against the boycott of the elections while in Lae—long before I had even considered standing for the seat.

And if elected I will fight the very cause that the members of the taxpayers’ associations have at heart.

Only my fighting will be effective.”

Mr. Fox said that if elected he would demand an inquiry into the whole workings of the Administration; he would work for a Parliamentary representative in Canberra; the appointment of non-official members to Executive Council, and the reconstitution of Legco, Separate By-election LATE NEWS. After the smoke had settled in early August Brigadier Cleland announced that the people in the Mainland electorate would get a “second chance” of nominating somebody. There would be an extra bi-election, with the rolls closing on September 1. Voting day would be October 17.

This was interpreted as meaning that Canberra was feeling badly about the complete success of the boycott in lan Downs’ old area, and hop:d to turn the tables with this unprecedented step. 149 Court Moves (Continued from page 18) I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959 P-NG Boycott (Continued from page 17)

Think Of Hardboard -Think Of

TIMBROCK CNR CSR2O6 tions; but the rank and file of high wage-earners are going to pay a quite perceptible amount, without any correspondingly perceptible reduction in the cost of living.

What the big planters (which inelude some big traders) lose in income tax liability they will gain in the abolition of export taxes.

But two things are going to happen which will affect the middleclass taxpayer, and for which no adequate provision has been made by the Administration. The cost of collecting this tax is going to be very much more than estimated; and no one is going to get any benefit in reduced cost of living brought about by the removal of import tax from a limited line of commodities.

There already are signs that the Administration, having introduced income taxation on the ground that cost-of-living will be reduced by abolition of import duties, will take the next logical step and bring in a larger measure of price control.

During early August producing territories in the Pacific were all adjusting local prices. In Papua-New Guinea the Copra Marketing Board will base its final July pries on £Stg.Bl/10/-, the average Philippines price for July c.i.f. London or Continental port.

All Round Price Adjustments Prices quoted by the local copra mill in Suva on August 3 were; £F64 15/- for HAD; £F63/7/6 for FMI; and £F62 for FM2.

Prices being paid in the Solomons by the local Copra Board, in August, were £A74 per ton Ist grade; £A72, 2nd grade; £A6B, 3rd grade.

In Papua-New Guinea, a number of new factors enter into Board’s calculations consequent to the introduction of income taxation in that Territory and the freeing of copra from Export Taxation.

Presumably, the Board’s deliberations on the new price took place before copra price subsided with such a wallop, because, although during the period of boom prices, PNGCMB tentative price has been exceedingly conservative (£ASS, £AS4 and £AS3/7/6 per ton for the three grades), now the Board appears to have gone to the other extreme and has fixed the tentative price, July- December, 1959, at £A72/10/- per ton for Hot Air; £A7I per ton for FMS; and £A7O per ton for Smoke, delivered main ports.

In his monthly bulletin to planters, Mr. lan McDonald, Chairman of the CMB, said that perhaps this price was “optimistic” and continuance depended on whether the London market held firm or deteriorated further.

During July, Mr. R. Keith Yorston, a Sydney accountant acting on behalf of Messrs. Harvey Trinder Ltd., and Mr. David J. McLeod, described as the manager of Hamac Pty. Ltd., of Caltex House, Sydney, visited Papua and New Guinea, and met Hamac creditors, and set out the position clearly.

Plan Offered Creditors A total of £lOO,OOO is owed to secured creditors. A further £lOO,OOO is owed to various unsecured people, and £330,000 to Harvey Trinder (NSW) Pty. Ltd., who also rank as an unsecured creditor.

Creditors were informed that, if immediate liquidation is sought, unsecured creditors could na more than 5/- in the £.. creditors generally would hi hand, while the interests m cerned tried to form anotli pany to take over all Hams there woud be hope of an es ment to creditors of 5/- ii and payment of the balanc 12 months.

Persons acting for Harvey Ltd., and Hamac Holdings 3 that if this plan could be operation, unsecured credita expect to be paid in full Harvey Trinder received anj liquidation of their debt.

The Port Moresby credJ the July 28 meeting, unai approved the plan; but, August, a number of Lae ■ pointed out that they ha credit not to Hamac Ltd.

Hotel Cecil Ltd., one of the subsidiaries; and, as the Ha was operating profitably, th see no reason why they sir be paid.

An attempt to reconcile tl ferences was in progress August.

Highly Respected Nar Harvey Trinder is an highly respected name in th ance business in Britain Australia; and, since the 1958, because of the assocL the name with Hamac I Ltd., the Sydney and the Boards have shown concer the position of the New group.

The purchase of the Cec; Lae, from Mrs. F. M. SteT one of the Hamac compai a price in the region of £BO,O place in 1957. Mrs. Stewart she left with her daught* J. Birr ell, on a Central A tour, in July, said that th been a satisfactory settlemi In June, Mr. Joe Bourke II his wife on a tour of the F He said he had received th of the £40,000, the price v Hamac subsidiary paid for fi Hotel. 150 Hamac Affairs (Continued from page 20) AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON?

Copra Men Are 'Optimistic' (Continued from page 19)

Deaths Of Islands People

Mrs. V. Langdale

V. Langdale, member of a ■ family of Fiji, died at ey, Sydney, on July 29, aged •s.

Langdale was the daughter , John Phluger, a German planter who settled in the )istrict of Viti Levu a century he married the late Charles t Langdale, a former emof the Colonial Sugar Re- Co.

Langdale is survived by twin hil and Charlie, and another Irian.

Us. Harry Doughty

death occurred in the is recently of Mrs. Harry ty at the age of 85. Mrs. ty was the widow of Mr.

Doughty who served with the Co. for many years as a nith at Ba and Nausori. He i 1952.

Doughty was a daughter of ,rl Rebman and Mrs. Rebman is born at Suva. Her father labour recruiter and made trips to the New Hebrides ig back labour, married at the turn of the 7 and there were 11 children marriage.

“Jimmie” Wilton

of the best-loved Old-Timers w Guinea, Clifford James lie”) Wilton, died quietly in reenslopes Military Hospital, ae, on July 16. None of his rritory friends knew he was until they saw the funeral icement. lad been in Goroka in recent and had been residing since i Cairns. His health was not and he was sent recently Jairns to Brisbane for medical At the funeral service (ate d by Old-Timers Chance, nes, Campbell and Christie) e was given officially as 58; probably was nearer 70. nie Wilton had been in the )ri-s for about 35 years. He >est known to the present tion as a superb road-builder ?as untrained, but a natural er. He built excellent roads in orobe and Highlands Districts, as Wilton, acting for District r lan Downs, who put in that cable highway across the range Goroka into the Chimbu y. Orthodox people said it not be done without a huge -works grant. Downs and i did it without money or equipment—using lines of s, a few scores of shovels, logs : the high forest, and petrol- • for the culverts.

Wilton was known in many places —he was mining in Misima in the ’Twenties, recruiting on the Sepik, drilling (with mining engineers Horsburgh and Williams) on the Lower Gira, mining at Wau, roadbuilding in the Highlands, soldiering in the jungle against the Japs.

He was called “one of the best”.

Many men of the “time before” will learn of his passing with real sorrow.

It is believed that Mr. Wilton was born in Scotland, and spent some years in Newcastle, NSW.

Mr. R. Schulke

After a prolonged illness, Mr.

Arthur Schulke, head of the Vavau Copra Board, Tonga, died at Vavau on June 17. A native of Prussia, he had lived at Vavau for almost 50 years, since 1913 in his wellknown residence at Vaimalo.

He is survived by childden in Tonga, NZ and USA.

MRS. W. E. WYATT A highly esteemed member of the Port Moresby community, Mrs.

Jessie Isobel Wyatt, wife of Mr.

W. E. Wyatt and a resident of the Territory all her life, died in the European Hospital, Port Moresby on July 13. She was only 50 years old.

She originally was Miss Jessie Hart; and her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. J. Hart, were pioneers of the Territory, who settled in Woodlark Island, about 1911. They lived for a time on Woodlark Island and in Samarai; but eventually took up permanent residence in Port Moresby.

Their daughter grew up and was educated there, and was married in 1931 to Mr. Wyatt, the well known trader, now retired.

Mrs. Wyatt took a leading part in the community life of Port Moresby, and was a prominent member of such organisations as the Country Womens Association, the Pre-School Association and the Town Advisory Council. She was president of the CWA Branch when she died.

Mrs. Wyatt is survived by her husband and by two sons and a daughter—Mr. W. E. Wyatt, Mr. R, Wyatt and Miss John Wyatt. She is survived also by three sisters, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hart— Mrs. E. Barwick, of Port Moresby; Mrs. J. Donaldson Hooper, of Subatana; and Mrs. J. Grimmer, of Itikinumu.

The Administrator of P-NG, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, said: “The death of Mrs. Wyatt is a sad loss to the Territory. Mrs. Wyatt’s work and interest in the many women’s and other organisations with which she has been associated has been an outstanding example of public service.”

Dr. W. P. Williams

Dr. W. P. Williams, the first West Samoa scholarship student to graduate as a doctor (two others have since graduated) died in a car accident in Apia on July 21. He was 29. See page 135.

Mrs. H. Van Pel

The death occurred suddenly from a heart attack on July 24, of Mrs.

H. Van Pel, wife of the popular South Pacific Commission fisheries expert.

A funeral service was held next day in Noumea and was largely attended; but Mrs. Van Pel will be finally interred in her native Holland.

Rev. Father Petelo Hamale

The death has occurred in the Wallis Islands of the Rev. Father Petelo Hamale, at the age of 58.

Father Hamale was a Wallis Islander and was ordained in 1929. He spent all his life in the Wallis and Futuna Islands and was responsible for the erection of many churches in those areas.

MR. A. SEO A Japanese industrialist, well known in New Caledonia, Mr Akira Seo, died in Tokio recently. He was the man who went to Noumea a few years before World War II and established La Society Le Fer which exploited iron deposits at Goro, on the edge of the Plain of the Lakes, Southern N. Caledonia. Mr. Seo originally tried to buy NC nickel for shipment to Japan but was prevented by the French authorities. It was common knowledge that he turned to iron ore not for the iron but for the small percentage of nickel in the ore. Several hundred thousand tons of ore were exported fn Janan before Pearl Harbour re suited in the seizure of the surface cut mines.

The late Mrs. W. E. Wyatt. 151 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST. 1959

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Sport Review Had An Air Anyhow iIEAN middleweight champ jdi, with another Noumean :er, Yewene turned up in all ready for a fight in —but they went home again iays later in a huff without rtting gloves on.

By Stadium manager Harry ixplained— after the boys had hat he had arranged to bring udi and Francois Anewy, but ir learned that Anewy had out and that Yewene would fetead. r matched Doudi with Auslight heavyweight champion Haduly, with Yewene in the support, and scheduled the for August 3. But he postthis to August 10 when he that the boxers would not be I with their manager, ato, until August 1. inato said later he knew * of the postponement and igree to it only if the boxers i guarantees. Miller refused id he pointed out that the ent was that they would get cent, of the gross takings. So umeans flew back on August t dissatisfied. rding to Miller he had Bd that if the Noumeans did i Sydney he would match with “boxers of the calibre 7e Stewart, Brian Sheehan, Todd and possibly Empire older, George Barnes.”

Miller said he lost £42/10/- in bringing out Doudi. But presumably the Noumeans lost considerably more than that, with their air fares, so nobody achieved anything on either side. The Sydney newspapers reported the argument, but it made hardly a ripple among the boxing fans.

It Was Good Enough for Drake From Norman Baxter, in Suva WOMEN have invaded many fields, for centuries the exclusive preserve of the stronger sex. The ancient game of bowls is a typical example.

At Levuka, the original capital of Fiji, female bowlers are no rarity, but what excites the interest of the visitors is the sight of Fijian women playing the game.

In their younger days some Fijian women may play basketball, hockey, table tennis or tennis, but rarely seem to have the inclination to get on to the playing fields once they are past the 25-30 mark.

The Fijian women who play at Levuka are no tyros at the game.

They know all its intricacies, and to see some of them building a head would delight the heart of the bowling purist.

Levuka has given a lead in encouraging Fijian women to play bowls, and it would be a fine thing for this Colony with its multiracial set-up if other clubs followed the example.

It Should Be A Gastronomical Tour THE chances are that a Chinese basketball team from Wellington (NZ), which is to make a short tour of Fiji this month, will not return home with an unbeaten record. . .„ The China Club, Suva, which will act as hosts for the visitors, has arranged a programme of entertainment which will leave the Wellmgtonians agape and perhaps wondering if, after all, they have come to Fiji to play basketball.

The Chinese in Fiji are Imown far and wide for their lavish hospitality. The high-class Chinese food which the visitors will enjoy, however may not be conducive to good basketball th 3 next day.

But it is not the working of the Suva Oriental mind to down the visitors. The Suva Chinese just want to give their visitors a memorable tour, and have gone to a great deal of expense, including laving their own courts.

The tour opens on August 25 and ends on September 4.

He’s Bowling Champ The man with the happy smile and the tightly clutched cup, is the winner of the singles championship of the Lae Bowling Club two years running, Mr. Ted Atkinson.

He is no newcomer to bowls. He rolled his first bowl at Dalby, Queensland, some 20 years ago, and since then has played with many clubs in Queensland.

As a member of Port Moresby Bowling Club he won the singles championship, and was a member of the championship fours. He has repeated that performance in Lae.

Ted Atkinson comes from Maitland, NSW. and has been in the Territory eight years.

Brigadier D. M. Cleland presents the Port Moresby bowling club's Champion Pair trophy to Mr. B. Suttie and Mr. T. Durkin, at the opening of the new club extensions on July 4. —Papuan Prints. 153 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Mexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney.

Iney sailing Sept. 8. ilaita sails from Sydney for Brisort Moresby. Samarai, Rabaul, [ Lombrum. Lorengau, Madang, »arai, Sydney. Next Sydney sail- | 25, Oct. 6. ulolo, modern liner, sails about i weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port Samarai. Lae, Madang, Lomibaul. Next Sydney sailings Aug. 23. from Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd.. . Street. Sydney. ik Hoi: Leaves Sydney for Bris- »ort Moresby, Samarai. Next ailing Sept 18. lochow: Leaves Sydney for Brls- 'ort Moresby. Honiara (BSIP), Lae, Port Moresby. Next Sydney ept. 25.

Jhansi: Leaves Melbourne for Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai.

Jang. Kavieng, Rabaul. Next sail- . 4.

Inkiang: On charter to British ;e Commissioners on recruiting trip •t and Ellice Is.. Nauru and Ocean 1 return to NG service approx.

IV, I from New Guinea Australia Line and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 3t., Sydney.

Iney-Netherlands N.G. weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silinlibigo and Sinabang carrying pasand cargo from East Australian Hollandia, Biak and Sorong. NNG ill at Manokwari alternate trips), iorneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence a direct. Next Sydney sailings: g, 17, Sinabang Sept. 4, Silindoeng I, Sibigo, Oct. 14. s from Royal Interocean Lines. 255 St.. Sydney. ast-Sth. West. & Central Pacific Jhina Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels Ing, Chefoo and Chekiang comin July a monthly service from 0 Hongkong and thence southwards Papua-New Guinea ports, BSI, ebrides, New Caledonia and Fiji, 1 extension to Tonga if cargo is e; return to Japan direct.

Jking: Departed Japan July 3. expected to begin northbound ex-Nukualofa Aug. 31. o: Dep. Japan Aug. 2, thence ng, Tarakan for Rabaul Aug. 19, ( Aug. 23, Lae Aug. 26, Pt. Moresby , Honiara Sept. 4. Santo Sept. 7.

Noumea Sept 11, Suva/Lautoka Sept. 15, Nukualofa Sept. 27, return direct to Japan arriving Oct. 10.

Chekiang: Dep. Japan Aug. 26, thence Hongkong, Tarakan for Rabaul Sept. 11, Madang Sept. 15, Lae Sept. 18, Samarai Sept. 22, Port Moresby, Sept. 26. Honiara Sept. 29, Santo Oct. 1, Noumea Oct. 5, Suva Oct. 9. returning direct to Japan, arriving approx. Oct. 30.

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The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Arcs, Cltos, Delos and Milos maintain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; southbound vessels call at any or all of the following: Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan.

Madang. Lae. Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, with quarterly calls at Gizo (opt.), Honiara and Vanlkoro. in BSIP; and at Santo and Vila New Hebrides.

Milos: Departs Sydney northbound, Sept. 16.

Citos; Currently southbound, Lae Aug 14, Brisbane Aug. 20, Sydney Aug. 23, northbound, ex-Sydney, Sept. 7, Brisbane Sept. 10, thence direct to Japan.

Delos: Arrive Madang from Japan, etc., Sept. 20, Lae Sept. 22, Rabaul Sept. 26.

Honiara Sept. 29, Vanikoro Oct. 2, Santo Oct. 5. Vila Oct. 7, Brisbane Oct. 11, Sydney Oct 15.

Arcs: Nth. Borneo, dep. Sept. 30, will omit Islands ports on this trip; arr. Brisbane Oct. 10. Sydney Oct. 14.

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Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners; Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and "THORSHALL"

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - New Guinea

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 432 California Street, San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A PAPEETE—Etablissemerits Donald Tahiti.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs F r a n c a i s des Nouvelles Hebrides.

APIA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande.

L AE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Lt«L Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1959-60 iland-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa fua maintains a service from to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, o Pago, Apia, Suva and return nd. Next sailing from Auckland: vey), Sept. 8, Oct. 6. ,tua maintains a service from to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Nukuttleton, Wellington, and return id. Next sailings from Auckland: Sept. 25. from all offices of Union Steam of NZ. tey-New Hebrides-BSllougainville, Etc. igi, 10 passengers, makes a round :olk Is., Vila. Santo, Honiara ports, Bougainville ports, leaving )out once every six weeks. Next tiling Sept. 10. from Burns, Philp and Co., 7 reet, Sydney. >y-N. Caledonia-Tahiti of Messageries Maritimes Line. :om Marseilles, via West Indies ma, call about every six weeks e, Vila (New Hebrides). Noumea ey, and return by same route, it on this run are the motorihltlen and Caledonien and a vessel, Melanesien. Next Sydney Melanesian Aug. 16, Caledonien Tahitien Nov. 10. iynesie (Messageries Maritimes) about monthly passenger sailireen Sydney and Noumea and Hebrides. Next Sydney sailings: Sept. 18. from Sydney agents: Messageries i, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney. ;y-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Savill’s one-class all-passenger them Cross makes four roundvoyages per year, two westtien two east-bound, calling at Papeete every trip. Next voyage thampton is Sept. 10, via South or Sydney, arr. Oct. 16. Dep. )ct. 18, bound Southampton via n (Oct. 21-23), Suva (Oct. 27), Oct. 31-Nov. 1) and Panama, from agents: Shaw Savill and 0., Ltd., 8a Castlereagh Street, Sydney; Burns Phllp (SS) Co., Ltd., Suva, Fiji; Etablissements Donald Tahiti.

Papeete, Tahiti.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maui Pomara maintains a regular service between Auckland and the Cook Islands.

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

N. America-Tahiti-Central Pacific-NG Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorslsle and Thorshall maintain a regular service from Pacific Coast North American ports, with sailings over 35-40 days. Some ports depend on cargoes offering.

Thorsisle: Dep. New Westminster Aug. 26, Seattle Aug. 28, San Francisco Sept. 2, Los Angeles Sept. 5, Papeete Sept. 17, Pago Pago Sept. 22. Apia Sept. 25, Suva Sept. 29. Noumea Oct. 2, Townsville Oct. 9, Pago Pago Oct. 19. Los Angeles Nov. 3, San Francisco Nov. 7.

Thorshall: Dep. New Westminster Sept. 157 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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AIO/AU 29, Seattle Oct. 1, San Francis Los Angeles Oct. 9, Papeete Oc: Pago Oct 27, Apia Oct. 29, Sui Noumea Nov. 5, Lae Nov. 10, Nov. 19, Los Angeles Dec. 4.

Details from General Steamu poratlon Ltd., 432 California Francisco, USA, and Island Age US-Tahiti-Pago Page Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San operates a regular five-weeks cargo service from Los Angeless Ventura, Alameda, Sierra and Southern terminal ports vary wi offering. Vessels call at Pape Pago and Suva, depending on Next Sydney sailings: Sierra, Sonoma Sept. 30 (approx.), Ver 2.

American Pioneer Line has e: (Pioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef, C Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Pai Atlantic Coast service with Papeete on southbound voyage, approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancou\ Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of S sldiary of W. R. Carpenter operate a service three times ye the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel along the above route. Accon Is entirely First Class, two-ber) with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Next sailing from Sydney first (approx.).

Details from American Trai Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 B Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-Nor America Cargo vessels Waihemo, Wa: Waitomo, owned and operated!

Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Lt tain a monthly service across tfc from Sydney to Vancouver and U via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa i as cargoes offer. Occasional calls at Fanning Island. They hav passenger accommodation. Las: sailing: Waitomo July 18. Nex: sailings: Kauri Aug. 11 (approx ), second week Sept, (approx.).

The Waitemata, from N 7 port 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver 0 tonga and Papeete).

North America-Tahiti- Sydney-Fiji-Samoa-Ha Matson Line’s Mariposa and make round passenger trips fro)' North Coast American ports Zealand and Australia, via PacifiE ports.

Monterey: Dep. San Francisco Los Angeles Aug. 27, Papeete £ Auckland Sept. 12, Sydney Sep Auckland Sept. 22, Suva Sept.

Pago Sept. 26. Honolulu Oct.

Francisco Oct. 7.

Mariposa: Dept. Sydney Aug. 2 land Aug. 31-Sept. 1, Suva Sept.

Pago Sept. 5, Honolulu Sept. 10 Francisco Sept. 16-23, Los Angeless Papeete Oct. 2-4, Auckland Oct. 10 Oct. 13. 158 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

from Matson Lines, Berger Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Iney-Tahiti-Europe an Sitmar Line (Panama flag) •1 Fairsea, a passenger liner of s, fully air-conditioned, will Sydney for Europe, via Auckete and Panama at irregular providing a new, moderately connection in the eastbound nly with Tahiti. Also on the Line’s Castel Felice, rom Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd., t St., Sydney.

I Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby ral Steam Navigation Co.. Ltd., ed its regular quarterly UKervice to Port Moresby, ils sail from Liverpool via Suez Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, by.

Due Port Moresby Aug. 27 Due Port Moresby Oct. 29 gents: Blrt and Co. Pty., Ltd., t. Port Moresby agents; Burns Guinea), Ltd.

Fiji Shipping Service ?a Shipping Agency, as agents mga Copra Board, operates a onthly cargo and passenger ween Nukualofa and Suva with 500 tons gross. Turn-round in rally two days, and the Agents V. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji),

[?]Ays Time-Tables

1-Pacific Services

ustralia (or NZ)-Fijijwaii-N. America and Tourist Class available all Services)

’An-American Airways

er 7 Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) . Melbourne (2 p.m.), Sydney i.m.), Nadi, Honolulu, Seattle, nnections at Honolulu for San :o or Los Angeles. 3. Seattle for Melbourne via i (same route). kymasters are used on a conervlce between Auckland and table 18).

Antas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 Jets) service between Sydney and San will commence on Wednesday, from Sydney at 4 p.m., calling irr. 9.50 p.m.; dep. 11.30 p.m.), (arr. 8.05 a.m.; dep. 10 a.m.), cisco (arr. 5.50 p.m.). Southday, July 31. dep. San Francisco ~ calling at Honolulu (arr. 1.25 a.m.; dep. 3 a.m.), Nadi (arr. 7.50 a.m.; dep. 9.30 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 12.30 p.m.).

The service will operate, at first, on Wednesdays northwards and Fridays southwards. As more Boeing Jets are delivered from USA, and crews trained, they will replace present Super Constellation services. “Southern Cross” trans-Paciflc services will be fully jet operated after Sept. 7. (Super Constellations) NORTHWARDS Tues. and Sat.: Melbourne (9 a.m.), Sydney (12 noon), Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, London.

Fri.: Sydney (12 noon), Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco extending to Vancouver.

Sun.; Sydney (12 noon), Nadi, Honolulu.

San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS Tues.: London, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney, Melbourne.

Thurs.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi.

Sydney, Melbourne.

Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu Nadi, Sydney, Melbourne (commencing at Vancouver on Saturdays).

Mon.: San Francisco. Honolulu. Nadi, Sydney. (Note; International Dateline crossed between Nadi and Honolulu).

Qantas Super-Constellation aircraft, under charter to TEAL, from Melbourne and Auckland connect at Nadi on Wednesdays with Qantas northbound flights, and on Thursdays with southbound flights (see table 17).

TEAL Super DC6 aircraft from Auckland, NZ, connect with the Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Tuesday and Saturday, and on Sunday and Wednesday at Nadi for the southbound flights.

Qantas Wed. and Fri. services ex- Sydney connect with BOAC London services at San Francisco (dep. Thurs. and Sat.).

BOAC services ex-London Mon. and Sat. connect at San Francisco Wed. and Mon. with southbound Qantas services.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wed.: Sydney (dep. 3 p.m.), Auckland. Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver (then on to Amsterdam).

Every Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam at 11 p.m. for Vancouver (dep. 1.30 p.m. Sun.), Honolulu, Nadi, Auckland and Sydney. (Note Crosses International Dateline en route.)

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea By Qantas Empire Airways (Super-Constellations) NORTHBOUND First Class Tues. & Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane. 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae. 8.20 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Mon.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney. 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m Tues.

De P- Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6a m Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a.m First & Tourist Class Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane. 10.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 11.15 pm. Townsville, 2.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6a m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a.m.

Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 4.15 p.m.

Dep.

Pt. Moresby, 5.15 p.m. (for Manila and Hongkong).

SOUTHBOUND First & Tourist Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. T’ville. 2.10 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.10 p.m. Brisbane. 6 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 7 p.m. Sydney. 9 p.m.

First Class Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 p.m.

First and Tourist Class Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane. 5.45 pm. Sydney. 7.45 p.m.

Thurs. Arr.

Prom Hongkong Pt. Moresby, 8.45 a.m. and Manila Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby. 9.45 a.m. Sydney, 5 p.m. • Between Lae and Port Moresby passengers are carried in DC4 aircraft.

PT MORESBY-CAIRNS-TOWNSVILLE-

Pt. Moresby

Douglas DC4. Dep. Port Moresby Sun. 12.15 p.m.. arr. Cairns 3.05 p.m.. dep.

Cairns 3.50 p.m., arr. Townsville 5 p.m.. dep. Townsville Mon. 9.15 a.m., arr. Cairns 10.25 a.m., dep. Cairns 11.15 a.m., arr.

Port Moresby 2.05 p.m. 3. P NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) (DCS) Alt. Wed. (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, etc.), npnarts Lae 11 a.m., calls at Madang *and Wewak. and arrives at Hollandla 330 p.m. Every alternate Thurs. (Aug. 90 Sent 3 17, Oct. 1, etc.) dep.

Hollandia at 10 a.m., and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.50 pm.

Port Moresby-Kikori-Baimuru

(DH Otter) Via Yule Island. Kerema, Baimuru. Kikori: Alt. Tues.. returning same day via 159 • I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1959

First-Class Hotel Accommodatio

Lis Port Moresri

Well - Appointed Dining - Room, with Trained and Courteous Service.

A Glimpse of One of the Hotel’s Cool and Pleasant Lounges.

Roroko Hotel

Phone: Port Moresby, 5181 Under the Personal Management of Mr. and Mrs. Wal. Morrisey.

The New, Modern, Bungalow-Type Hotel Esi lished in the New Port Moresby Suburb of Bon Caters for Every Need.

Beautifully-Appointed Bar Planned to Carry Mo Dining-Room Modern Equipment Bedrooms Equipped to Kitchen is Completely Provide Maximum Tropic: Electrical Comfort

Special Dinner Parties Arranged :: Orchesti

Every Wednesday And Friday Evening

i Baimuru, Kerema, Yule Is. (Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8, 22, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Via Yule Is., Baimuru; Alt. Tues. returning same day (Aug. 18. Sept. 1, 15, 29. etc.).

Via Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori. Baimuru- Alt. Thurs, (Aug. 27, Sept. 10. 24, etc.), ret. via Baimuru. Kikori. Kerema the following day (Aug. 14. 28. Sept. 11, 25 etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Via Baimuru: Alt. Thurs, returning same day via Balimo (Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10 24, etc.).

Via Kerema. Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30. etc.), returning alt.

Fri. (Aug. 21, Sept. 4, 18, Oct. 2, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) Port Moresby, Abau. Samarai each Mon . departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day.

Alt. Wed.: Port Moresby. Samurai, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9, 23, etc ).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samarai, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m.. returning same day (Aug. 22. Sept. 5, 19, Oct. 3, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, departing Port Moresby 8 15 a.m., returning same day (Aug. 15, 29, Sept 12, 26, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang an. 7.35 a.m. Wewak. Manus. Kavieng.

Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng Manus. Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr 3.55 p.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. an. 3.55 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Fri.: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Baiyer River, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl.

Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu.

Arrival back at Lae dependent on stops made.

Lower Highlands

(DH Otter) Fri.: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka. calling at any of Nadzab, Gusap, Aiyura, Rlntebe, Kainantu, Goroka, Arona. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau

(DH Otter) Mon.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., an. Wau 8.10 a.m, Mon.: Dep. Wau 8 25 a.m., via Bulolo, an.

Lae 9.25 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., arr. Wau 9.10 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Wau 9.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. Lae 10.25 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo (Dcs)

Wed.. Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.20 am., arr. Bulolo 8.30 a.m.

Wed.. Sun.; Dep. Bulolo 850 a.m., arr.

Wau 9.05 a.m., dep. Wau 9.35 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.40 a.m.

Madang-Goroka-Madang

Mon.. Thurs.: Dep. Madang ICO Mt. Hagen and Mlnj, arr. G< pm., dep. Goroka 12.50 Madang 1.25 p.m, MADANG-LAE (DC3)( Sun.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., an a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-K

(DCS) Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby via Goroka. Minj. arr. Mt. E a.m.; dep. Mt. Hagen fo< (either direct or via airfiei quired) 11.40 a.m.

Madang-Pt. Moresby (

Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Madang 7.31 Goroka, arr. Port Moresby 1(

New Guinea-New Bri7

(DCS) Wed., Sun.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 aj to Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m hafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul 1.41 Tues., Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 an hafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae a Tues., Fri.: Dep.. Lae 10.30 a.m hafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul arr, RABAUL-BUIN-RABAUL (.

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m., 10.20 a.m., dep. Buka 10.50 Buin 11.45 a.m., dep. Buin 1 arr. Buka 1.10 p.m., dep. p.m., arr Rabaul 3 p.m.

Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1, etc.).

Rabaul-Hoskins-Rabaul

Alt. Thurs: Dep. Rabaul 9 160 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Hoskins 11.15 a.m., arr. Rabaul p.m. 'Aug. 13. 27, Sept. 10, 24.

■>£S By Mandated Airlines

[died flights with DC3 Aircraft) [part Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka. ig, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— ning overnight. Depart Lae 7 tor Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby.

Goroka, Lae.

Jepart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for ig, Wewak, Madang. Goroka. Lae. epart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, ig Wewak. Momote, Kavieng. l. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae )epart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, be. Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae. p. Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka. ig, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng. l—remaining overnight. Depart f a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Port Jy, Wau, Goroka, Lae. tpart Rabaul at 7 am. for ig Momote. Wewak, Madang. k, Lae.

ILLANDIA (By NNG Airlines) •oonduif NV (Netherlands New Jrlines) commenced a fortnightly etween Hollandia, Biak and Lae with Dakota DCS aircraft. The a private company operated with tance of the Dutch Government. \ flight from Lae, NG, took place 18. Next flights Aug. 13, 27, Sept. i! i ust.-Netherlands N.G.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines oper Constellation Service) dy service between Sydney (dep. p.m.) and Amsterdam with calls (NNG) and Manila (Philippines;.

Ircraft link Biak with Hollandia, above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah lanokwari, Noemfoer and Ransiki; D Kokonao; and Twin Pioneer to lircraft dep. Biak Tues. and Sat. m. for Japan, Alaska and Amster- J ; N. Guinea-Solomons Qantas with DCS Aircraft onday depart Lae 6 a.m.: Rabaul Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, ng 5 p.m. liesday depart Honiara 7 a.m : na, Munda, Buka, Rabaul. Lae, ng 3.45 p.m.

Paris-Saigon-Brisbaneumea-NZ-Fiji-Papeete isports Aeriens Intercontinental rcraft depart Paris every Wed. for is, Cairo, Karachi, Saigon, Djakarta. in, Brisbane. Noumea. thence Bora Bora Transfer to flying- Eor flight to Papeete. Dep. Papeete 'turn flight (calling at Auckland) Sat.

Sydney-Lord Howe Is. -tt Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd. th Sandringham Flying-boats flight usually each Tuesday and fday. 161 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

RABAUL, T.N.G.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd.

Island Representative: G. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

SUVA, FIJI.

Colony of Fiji Branch Office: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Ltd., Bldg., Suva.

Branch Manager: R. W. Connolly.

Southern Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd.

Head Office: The Wales House, 66 Pitt St., Sydney.

PLAIN AND

Self Raising

FLOUR, CidJc fob ESTABLISHED 1868 Agents for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alt. Fri. (July 31, Aug. 14, 28, Sept. 11, 25, etc.). Dep. Sydney midnight, arr. NI 6.45 a.m. Sat.; dep. NI 5.30 p.m. same day for Sydney, arr. 9.30 p.m. (Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. See table 12 below). 9. Sydney-Noumea By Qantas, with Skymasters Dep. Sydney alt. Wed. 11.45 p.m., arr Noumea 7 a.m. Thurs. Dep. Noumea 8.30 a.m. same day arr. Sydney 2 p.m.

Service operates from Sydney on Aug. 5. 19. Sept. 2, 16, 30, etc., departing from NC the following day in each case. 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft Mon. and Fri.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) at 7 a.m.. arr. Vila 9.15 a.m., dep.

Vila 9.45 a.m., arr. Santo 11 a.m., dep. 12.30 p.m,, arr. Vila 1.45 p m., dep. 2.15 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4.30 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft Dep. Noumea 6 a.m. second Sat. each month (Aug. 8, Sept. 12, Oct. 10, etc.), arr. Wallis Is. (via Nadi, Fiji) at 3.45 p.m., dep. Wallis 7 a.m. following Mon. (Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12, etc.), arr.

Noumea (via Nadi) 2.45 p.m. same day. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (Charter) Alt. Sat. (Aug. 1, 15. 29, Sept. 12, 26, etc ) 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 Daily except Sat.: Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr. Sydney 1.15 p.m.

Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 3 p.m., arr. Auckland 9.55 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10 a.m., arr.

Auckland 4.55 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Tues.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr.

Sydney 8.35 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 7.45 p.m., arr.

Sydney 11.20 p.m.

Tues., Thur.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 3.05 p.m. 15. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr.

Melbourne 9.35 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 10.15 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 5.50 p.m. 16. Auckland-Melbc Tasman Empire Airways, DC6 aircraft Mori : Dep. Auckland 8 a.m., bourne 1 p.m.

Mon.; Dep. Melbourne 2.30 i Auckland 10.15 p.m. 16A. Auckland-Brisl Tasman Empire Airways, Super DC6 aircraft.

Sat.; Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., bane 12.35 p.m.

Sat.: Dep Brisbane 2.30 p.m., a land 9.50 p.m. 17. Melbourne-Auck Nadi (Fiji) By Tasman Empire Airways Super Constellation aircr chartered from Qantas Wed.: Dep. Melbourne 7 a.m., a land 2.45 p.m., dep. Aucklan arr. Nadi 9 p.m. Return, sa following day. (Note: This service connects wi Boeing 707 jet service from E US.) 18. New Zealand- Tasman Empire Airways, with g aircraft and Qantas Super Con Tues., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Aucklan arr. Nadi 9 p.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 i Auckland 3.30 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., a land 3.45 p.m.

Wednesday flights ex - Auckli Thursday flights ex-Nadi are op Qantas under charter to TEAL.

Pan-American Airways, with Sk Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Auck p.m., arr. Nadi 1 a.m.

Mon., Wed., Sat.; Dep. Nadi, I arr. Auckland 12 55 p.m. 19. Fiji-W. Samoi Tasman Empire Airways, ' Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., cros line, arr. Satapuala (Western Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Dep. Satapuala Mon. at 8 a.m Dateline, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 (Dep. Suva Aug. 20, Sept. 3, 17, Apia: Aug. 3, 10, 24, Sept. 7, 20. Fiji-American San Pan American Airways w DC4 aircraft Alt. Fri.: Dep. Nadi 7 a.m., an 12.30 p.m. (Thurs.).

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Tafuna 1.30 b Nadi 5.05 p.m. (Fri.). (Note: This all - tourist clasi crosses International Dateline— way flight is actually made on, day.) * LATER ADVICE is to the efl this service has been discontin no confirmation in Sydney. 21. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, ?

Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alt. Thurs., cross national Dateline, arr. Satap< 162 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

FROM SYDNEY (Anst currency) TO— Single Return Table £ s. d. £ s. d.

No.

Moresby . . . 51 5 0 92 5 0 2 Lae 62 15 0 112 19 0 2 Rabaul .... 72 9 0 130 9 0 2. 3 Noumea . . . 42 4 0* 76 0 0* 6. 9 Honiara . . . 94 5 0 169 13 0 2. 5 Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 Lord Howe . . 14 15 0 29 10 0 7 Nadi 85 9 0 153 17 0 1 Suva 92 0 0 166 19 0 1. .7 Auckland . . . 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 Christchurch 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 Honolulu . . . 282 12 0 508 14 0 1 San Francisco 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 Apia 118 14 0 214 14 0 1, 17 Papeete . . . 178 2 0 320 12 0 1. 21 Aitutaki . . . 155 12 0 281 2 0 1. 21 Biak 103 15 0 186 15 0 4

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Apia 62 0 0 111 12 0 18, 19 Aitutaki . . . 93 10 0 168 6 0 18. 21 Nadi 39 7 0 70 17 0 18 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 206 2 0 18. 21 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO — Apia 25 0 0 45 0 0 16, 21 Aitutaki . . . 57 15 0 103 19 0 17, 21 Nadi 4 0 0 8 0 0 22 Papeete . . . 82 14 0 148 18 0 17. 21 Prices are cheapest in Hong Kong NEW ! ! BELL & HOWELL "ELECTRIC EYE" Cameras available in 8 mm. and 16 mm. Cine AND Photo Models I BELL & HOWELL 8 mm. and 16 mm. Silent and Sound Projectors and latest models Slide-projectors, etc.

POLAROID "Land" Cameras.

GAIVAI 16 mm. Subminiature Cameras. 35 mm. AKAREX & ARETTE Cameras.

CASTLE Home Movie Films.

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All Classes Of

INSURANCE Including Fire Accident Guarantee _ Motor Workers Marine

Papua And New Guinea Branch

James Arcade, Cuthbertson St., Port Moresby.

Manager: 0. S. Pudney. tuycn - - E. V. Lawson, Ltd.

Williams & Gosling Ltd.

R. Laubreaux Honiara, 8.5.1. P.

Suva Noumea . . • ■ Norfolk Island .

Apia E. A. Coxon & Co.

A. E. Martin it 155 p.m. Wed.; dep. Satapuala Thurs arr. Altutaki (Cook Is.) im • dep. Altutaki 9.30 a.m. arr. te (Tahiti) 2 pm. Services dep.

Aug. 20. Sept. 3, 17, etc. neete 730 am. alt. Sun., arr. 11 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 12.30 arr. Satapuala- 5 p.m.; dep. Sata- -8 a.m. Mon., crosses International ne arr. Suva 10.55 a.m. Tues. es dep. Papeete Aug. 23, Sept. 6, Fiji Internal Airways »ys, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft li-Suva: Two flights daily— ng and afternoon. asa-Suva: One flight daily. asa-Suva (via Matei, Taveuni): ight—Mon. asa-Suva (via Savusavu): One -Mon., Thurs., Sat., Sun. £ (Taveuni)-Suva (via Savusavu): Ight—Wed. -Suva: One flight—Thurs., Sun. ;ei-Suva: One flight—Sat. usavu-Matei-Suva: One flight— atei - Labasa - Matei - Savusavu - One flight—Fri.

I. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service I Caledonienne de Transports s (TRANSPAC), with Heron and Rapide aircraft.

Mare: Tues. (dep. Noumea 2 Mare 4 p.m.) and Thurs. (dep. >a 8 a.m., dep Mare 10 a.m.).

Duvea: Wed., Thurs. and Sat.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 Llfou: Tues., Wed., Sat., (dep. ja 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.), , (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou .).

Kounie (Isle of Pines): Mon., (dep. Noumea 10.30 am., dep. e, noon).

Koumac: Mon., Sat. (dep. Noumea i., dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed.

Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 Note: On this flight a call will ide at Plaine des Gaiacs if re- 1. tench Polynesia Inter- Island Service au Aerien Interinsnlaire with flying-boats weekly service to the Leeward i. apeete (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Huahine, ea. Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete 4 p.m.). apeete (dep. 7 a.m), Raiatea, Bora (arr. 8.45 p.m.), Papeete 11. a.m.), Papeete (dep. 3.30 , Bora Bora (arr. 4.45 p.m.). ra Bora (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Raiatea, te (arr. 9.30 a.m.). ig agents in Tahiti: Messageries ss, Quai Bir Hakeim. Papeete. lawaii-American Samoa Trans Ocean Airways second Wednesday, a Boeing Uiser operated by Trans Ocean . of Honolulu, Hawaii, makes a light from Honolulu to Pago Pago an Samoa). 26. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airways Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates a service throughout the Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the US Government. Details from Trans Ocean Airways Agana, Guam.

Pacific Air Fares

(Approximate Only)

NOTE: To obtain the equivalent of Australian currency in other currencies (Sterling. Fiji, New Zealand, French Pacific francs). See Exchange Rates page 167 this issue.

Fares quoted are First-Class. Cheaper Tourist Class fares (approx. 20 per cent, lower) are available to most ports. Fares to points east of Nadi include air connection to Suva by Fiji Airways. Ltd. ♦ Tourist class service only.

Handy Sydney Addresses for Islands Visitors AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES DE- PARTMENT, Commonwealth Buildings, Circular Quay West (B-0537)—a massive brown stone building on the right side of lower George Street, Millers Point.

PAPUA-NG COPRA BOARD Representative (Mr. Winn, B-0537, extension 59-A) located in Commonwealth Building, above.

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT offices; Colonial Mutual Building, 14 Martin Place, opposite GPO. Tourist Bureau on ground floor. Trade Commissioner’s Office and library elsewhere in building.

FIJI GOVERNMENT Representative: Dalgety & Co. Ltd., 15 Bent Street. (B-0524, extension 342, Mr. Menzies).

Bent Street is an extension of Spring Street.

South Pacific Commission; City

office for publications etc.; 115 Pitt Street (Tels. BW 3409/BW 5487). West side of Pitt Street between Martin Place and Hunter Street.

Honiara Gets Cargo By the 1,000 Ton Lot Record cargoes have been received in Honiara on the last two calls by the MV Tulagi and MV Pakhoi.

Calling within five days of each other, the Tulagi arrived with 900 tons and the Pakhoi with 1,100 tons.

The Pakhoi’s cargo was the largest incoming cargo of one ship for several years. 163 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 195 9

Classified Advertisements Per line, 3/-; Minimum, 4 lines.

FOR SALE ISLAND VESSELS under construction. 40 ft. army-type workboat, wheelhouse and accommodation fwd., and large open cockpit. 40 ft. raised-deck workboat wheelhouse, and large hold for cargo below decks. 45 ft. raised-deck workboat, for cargo and personnel. Above vessels are of sturdy construction, built to rigid specifications. Delivery at short notice Specifications, price, etc., will be supplied on request. Builders; Wynne S. Breden Pty. Ltd., "Phoenix Shipyards”, Newcastle, N.S.W.

FATHOMETERS, surplus, unused, for sale.

RCA, model NMC. Indicator-Recorded type with shallow and deep tranducers.

Depth range 0-100, 0-200. 0-2,000 and 0- 4,000 fathoms. 115V/60C/1 power. Instructions. complete, parts available.

Price $1,250 c.i.f. any Pacific through port.

Ruxton, Vista. California, U.S.A.

DIESEL ENGINES, G.M. 6-71 twins.

Usable together or separate, marine transmissions available. Large quantity available, practically new. $2,000 c.i.f., Suva or Sydney. Service and parts widely available. Ruxton, Vista, California, U.S.A.

CHAIN SAWS, surplus, two man, 36 in.

Disston with 6 h.p. 2 cyl. 2 eye. Kiekhafer petrol engine. Pivots 180 degrees, weight 99 lbs., packed in chest, unused. $2OO c.i.f. Suva or Sydney. Ruxton, Vista, California, U.S.A.

FLEETS. 45 ft. bridge deck carvel cruiser, twin 72 h.p. Gardner marine diesels, hydraulic anchor winch, ready for sea, £5,250. 62 ft. hard chine speed cruiser, coppered, three Gray marine desels, flying bridge, dual controls, fully found, £14,700.

Fleets, 525 Stanley St., South Brisbane, Queensland.

RADIO TRANSCEIVER, Collins TCSI2 in excellent condition, with complete set of spares and accessories. Suit small ship.

Details and photo from: R. Heine, Box 1, P. 0.. St. Ives, N.S.W., Australia.

BOOT REPAIR BUSINESS, for sale in Port Moresby, P.-N.G. Address genuine enquiries only to: E. Loder, Hunter St., Port Moresby, or ’phone 2503.

SHEEP STATION, 6,400 acres, five miles town, 120 miles Sydney. Nine room home, sheds, all plant, well fenced, watered, improved, part stocked. Sell or exchange business, plantation, shipping. Write: Cowan, Capertee, N.S.W.. Australia.

Agents Wanted

THIS IS HONG KONG CALLING, offering you the opportunity of building sound relations with established exporting house, handling all Hong Kong products. We wish to appoint agents, samples supplied free. Write: P.O. Box 3446. Hong Kong.

ACCOMMODATION HOLIDAY FLATS, at famous Manly Beach, Sydney. Comfortable two bedroom units with all facilities handy to Sydney. Regent Flats, P.O. Box 92. Manly, N.S.W., Aust.

FURNISHED, FLATS, Cremorne, Sydney Water, frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Ennulries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316. Sydney. Aust.

TO LET

A Very Delightful Home

accommodation for six people, from Gosford, in an area th surpassed. Handy to beaches,, trance, Wamberal, Gosford, Cameron’s Bay, Toukley, half-W' Sydney and Newcastle and hs benefits of living in the Southi Coastal areas of N.S.W. This ; made available for people who ing accommodation from Territ; at a cost of £lO per week: additional £lO per week a I will be supplied with a mileag 100 miles per week; handy ta facilities. Property has elec: sewerage and all modern co that are required to have a t holiday. Conditions are for le: or 12 weeks, car optional. F detailed information write to: P.O. Box 628, Newcastle, N.S.W.

Artifacts Wan

An Ex-New Guinea Residi

to buy native artifacts—figur etc. —particularly from the Sep facts”, c/o Box 3408, G P. 0., £ SERVICES WATCH REPAIRS to all watches. Send your repairs > the only Swiss watchmaker giv to the Pacific Islands. Rapid work guaranteed. Swiss -Ch Service, 9 Garner Avenue, Prenc Sydney, Australia.

Drive Yourself

Fiji Hire - Drive Ltd, Mo

accommodating 5. 6 and 9 Minimum formalities. Rates i surance and free mileage plat and ships met. Queen’s Road.

Suva (P.O. Box 299). Cables: ”

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STAMPS NORFOLK ISLAND STAMPS Serviced last-day covers are available from the Postmaster, Norfolk Island, for the 3d blue-green and 2/- violet stamps to be withdrawn from issue on August 17. The stamps depict the Landing of the Pitcairn Islanders and were issued in 1956 to mark the centenary of that event. Details of forthcoming new issues are also available from the Postmaster.

FOR EXCHANGE. Send any number Pacific Islands stamps receive same number my country, P J. Lawler. 231 Liverpool St, Sonpe. N.S W.. Australia.

Books, Magazines

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence Invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney.

Telephone: BW 7874.

READERS OF ENGLISH are invited to apply for a free book entitled “Preaching the Truth” which makes clear the teaching of the Bible. Write to: Room “P”, Bible Mission. 21 Glamis Avenue, Northbourne, Bournemouth, England.

FREE AND POST FREE—64 page illustrated Bargain Catalogue. Stern’s (Dept.

PI.), 200 George St.. Sydney, Australia.

Pen Friends Wanted

FIJI—"The Crossroads of the Pacific”.

Headquarters. World’s leading Society (Est. 19331 providing world-wide correspondents interested in British Colonies and Pacific Islands study and friendly exchange of ideas and hobbies as Philately, Conchology, etc. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary.

South Sea Island Correspondence Club.

Natuvu. Fiji Is.

Agency Samoa

An agent, for building materials is required to cover Samoa. It is essential that the applicant be well connected with the building trade in this area. Applications should contain all relevant details concerning services and facilities that can be offered. Only top quality material at unbeatable prices would be handled.

References required.

Reply in the first instance to:— “BUILDING”, c/o Goldberg Advertising (Auckland) Limited, Accredited Advertising Agents. P.O. Box 1759, AUCKLAND, New Zealand. 164 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

Furnished Serviced Suites In Sydney Kanimbla Hall, 19-29 Tusculum St., Potts Point, 5 minutes city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant, S.C., turn, serviced suites with separate Lounge, Bed and Bath Rms. and Kitchenettes. Refrig., H.W., from £2/15/- daily for 2, from £3/15/for 3. Under new management.

Write or Phone: FL 4141 (9 lines); after hours. FL 4149. Telegrams; “KanimblahaU”. Sydney.

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated 1886 in Australia) Assets Exceed £12,500,000 Head Office:

Queensland Insurance

BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

Specialists in South_Sea_Fire, Marine & Accident Insurance Apply to;— FUi. —Branch Office; J. F. Drury, Manager.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

NOUMEA.—W. Johnston.

VILA. —Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

SANTO.— Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

NEW GUINEA.— Manager for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. R. D. Kennedy.

Port Moresby—Samarai— Lae

—MADANG—KAVIENG— RABAUL.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Resident Officer at Rabaul: K. Johnson.

Resident Officer at Lae: D. J. Granter.

PAGO PAGO.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd G. H. C. Reid & Co.

Other South Sea Islands

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

Pacific Commerce and Produce f Philpig and Selling s an interesting month for ■ns Philp & Co. Ltd., the th Pacific’s oldest Big Firm. in July, the company \ its General Manager, Mr.

Mitchell, announcid that it quired all the shares in a surance company—Equitable ! and General Insurance ly. Late in the same month, ipany was a party to one of s biggest real-estate deals, the Imperial Arcade and Arcadia were sold to a te of five Sydney businessir £750,000; and some Pitt »roperty, south of the Arcade, her party for an additional . the acquisition of Equitable ij BP now covers all fields of ce, its two general insurance £s being Queensland Insurto. Ltd. and Bankers and i Insurance Co. Ltd. able Probate —whose name ; changed to Equitable Life eneral Insurance Co.—has lerating for 36 years, but the npany plans further develop- Said Mr. Mitchell on the of the acquisition; “Builda life business is essentially term proposition, and profits be obtained for many years stablishment.” mperial Arcade Deal lings have turned out in the s since BP acquired the Im- Arcade-Hotel Arcadia pro- ;his investment has not been [table as expected. The exact laid for this real estate (it sn owned by Joynton Smith) t, has never been disclosed, i guess is that it was someaetween £500,000 and £600,000. in since the war has drained large proportion of the value i 1941 £, so by accepting ) for the two lots of property P, at best, has done no more reak even. iompany evidently feels, howhat this money can now be d more profitably elsewhere, cnperial Arcade, which runs steeply from Pitt Street h to Castlereagh Street, conibout 40 small specialty shops similar number of offices. At Je BP purchased it, the Comntended to use it as a means reak-through into Sydney and >outh Wales of its successful Queensland chain-stores, Penneys.

The war intervened, and a few years ago Penneys was bought by G. J. Coles and Co., a rival chain store company which was already represented in most of the other States.

It is suggested that the new owners of the Arcade property will sell the shops, etc., piecemeal over a lengthy period and in this way they should do very well. Although this is one of the biggest real-estate deals ever negotiated in Sydney, in view of the property s strategic position and in terms of 1959’s very inflated money, the purchasers could do well out of the deal.

Big Drive For Oil, Minerals An Australian government drive on a National scale to find oil and minerals in Australia and her Territories, was well under way in late July. Individual efforts extend from Mt. Lyall, in Tasmania, to Papua, and in some departments reaches beyond Australia to Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands where the search for phosphate deposits goes on. With only 30 or 40 years life left to the rich Ocean Is. and Nauru phosphate deposits, finding other sources of supply for this vital agricultural commodity is becoming urgent.

In the general drive, vulcanological observatories such as the one in Rabaul; geophysical observatories, such as those in Darwin and Port Moresby; and resident geological staff such as those at Darwin, Alice Springs. Port Moresby, Wau and Rabaul. have all been brought into the effort.

The Commonwealth Government announced some time ago that it would provide another £3 million plus generous tax concessions to assist the search for oil.

BCD Profit Up Bulolo Gold Dredging profit for the year ending May 30, 1959, was the equivalent, of £A300.000; this is an increase of about £A114.000 over the same period last year and was partly attributable to the fact that earnings from gold dredging (only No. 5 dredge now remains in production) and from sluicing operations, were higher than last year.

Commonwealth - New Guinea Timbers yielded a dividend of 5 per cent., which was paid last November; and the operations of BCD’s own timber mill at Lae (it provides cores for the C-NGT plywood as well as other sawn timber) were satisfactory.

Personal Mr. James David Oswald Burns, son of chairman of directors, Mr. James Burfts, has been appointed a director of Burns Philp and Co., Ltd., to fill a vacancy on the board.

Mr. J. Barsby, mining engineer, proceeded to Wau, New Guinea, on July 24. to join the gold-mining staff of Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development NL. (Over) 165 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - AUGUST, 1959

Sydney Sales Prices

Burns Philp . . .

July 8 Aug. 5 92/- 91/6 Burns Philp (SS) . . 55/- 59/- C.S.R Dylup Plantations £59/2/6 25/- £64/7/6 25/- Hackshalls . . 52 '6 55/- Kauri Timber . . . 20/- 21/6 Kerema Rubber Koitakl . . .

Lolorua . , .

Mariboi ....

Norfolk Is. Whaling 8/6 21/7% 8/4 7/9 4/1 8/1 19/6 10/- 7/3 4/3 Queensland Insurance 76 78/- 6/6 19/- 64/6 20/9 Rubberlands .... a /r Sthn. Pac. Insurance 0. 0 18 - Steamships Trading . 58/9 W. R. Carpenter Hold. 20/- Timor Oil 9/7 8/9

Oil And Mining Shares

FIJI July 9. ’58 July 8 Aug. 5 Emperor . b5/9 b7/9 s8/- Loloma . . — b33/b39/- PAPUA-NEW GUINE: Bulolo . . . b35/- b31/- N.G.Q. Ltd. bl/0% b2/4 Oil Search b2/6 b6/5 Ent. of N.O. b7d b3>',d Papuan Apin b9d b3/9 do. opt. . b6>/2d bl/io Placer Dev. b86/6 blOO - Sandy Creek b4d b3d PRING DEAN & CO.

H. H. Dean, V. J. Berner, W. L. Hunt. J. A. Hudson Members of the Sydney Stock Exchange

Stock & Sharebrokers

37 Hunter Street. SYDNEY. Telephone: BW 4011 (3 lines) Telegrams Address: Pring Stock Exchange, Sydney.

Cables Address: Linwar, Sydney.

Papuan Oil Search Extends to Sea Camelot Nominees Pty., Ltd., who in June were granted off-shore oil prospectiiig rights in the Gulf of Papua, will not be wasting any time in beginning work.

Camelot’s permit is for an initial 12 months’ period.

A unit of the Murphy Corporation of Arkansas, USA, which is behind Camelot, w iH undertake a geophysical survey of the sea bed in the Gulf. The permit area is of over 9,000 square miles, and this will be the first time in the history of Papuan oil search that underwater prospecting has been attempted. Murphy Corporation has had much experience of oil prospecting in the Gulf of Mexico.

Plantation Co. Issue Was Rushed The lists of Plantations Holdings, Ltd (256,942 shares at 5/-) closed on July 21.

The issue was heavily over-subscribed several days before that but was kept open to give people in P-NG opportunity to apply.

Whaling Co. Makes Plans Ahead Norfolk Island and Byron Bay Whaling Company reported in July that the company has made forward contracts for the sale of this season’s oil, meal and meat.

The company now operates three whaling stations—at Norfolk Island (where no difficulty is expected in filling this years’ quota of 150 whales); Byron Bay. Northern NSW. where the quota of 150 is already filled: and Barrier Island, New Zealand, which has no specific quota this year, and where 40 whales had been taken up to July.

Shares and Name Change for Travel Co.

As a result of the collapse of White’s Travel Service, Ltd., in New Zealand, the Fiji subsidiary has undergone some changes.

The Fiji shares previously held by the parent company have been acquired by Northern Hotels, Ltd., and the company has been renamed Fiji Tours and Travel Service, Ltd. The manager is Mr R Parkes, as before. Mr. Neil Ahlfeld is manager at Lautoka and Mrs. Olga Hutchinson is representative at Nadi Airport.

Sir Hugh Ragg is chairman of the board, and other members are Mr. David Ragg of Sydney, Mr. J. N. Falvey, Mr Shiridhar Maharaj, and Mr. Parkes.

Timor Plans New Well If all went according to plan, Timor Oil, Ltd.’s, new well, 12 miles south-west of their first well at Alibata, Portuguese Timor, should have been spudded in by now. Last report from the area was to the effect that the work was going satisfactorily and the Brewster rig, which had been dismantled, was then In process of being transported to the new site.

New Guinea Goldfields Progress The monthly progress report for July shows: Golden Ridges Mill, 988 fine oz of gold from 3,895 tons of ore treated - 1 318 oz of silver. Golden Ridges Alluvials:’ 25 oz bullion, Koranga Alluvials: 400 oz of bullion. Tributes: 74 oz of bullion. In the same period 165,140 super feet of timber were produced.

Economic Outlook Probably the most interesting angle on Australian finance at the present moment is the number of take-over bids already accomplished or in course of accomplishment by big corporations bent on absorbing rival or ancillary industries Tactics adopted by them towards their victims range from amicable mergers of obvious mutual benefit, to what comes close to intimidation and stand-over tactics.

In all cases the shareholders in these take-overs stand to gain financially, but in the long-term view, the prospect of the octopus of Big Business swallowing and stifling all independent rivals, is not a pleasant one. It is just to mitigate against such circumstances that the United States has its Anti-Trust laws. Australia, unfortunately. has not; or if it has, they i e * b 3 un l d somewhere, and are never dusted off and used.

Australia’s trusts, cartels and monopolies now range all the way from newspapers portatiorf TV t 0 r6tail trading and trans- Mean while, while we are having the take-over splurge in years, the stockmarket rises to higher and higher It •’ * At t nd of the first week in August the index for all ords. was 280.33, about thpf ol^^ ll6l than a month ago when that peak was considered something of a record.

Are stock-prices like brick-bats in that what goes up must come down? That at present, is the gold-plated. 64-do’llar question.

Islands Pro

(Unless otherwise stated, quoi In Australian currency. Aust. approximately 16/- ste., n: Samoa; 18/- FIJI; 20/- Tonga. S WPHC areas; 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS COPRA The British Ministry of Po< Contract, which governed Coi in Papua and New Guinea, Pi; Samoa. Solomon Islands, and C Ellice Colony (and. to some Tonga and Cook Islands) explr cember 31, 1957; since when e tory has made Its own arrangi collection and marketing of cc

Papua-New Guinea:—Aii

Is delivered to Copra Market! controlled by six members, inclu planters’ representatives; and directs distribution and sales, i payments to the producers, goes mainly to (a) Unilever (x. tract covering 1959), (b) Aust local consumption) and (c) cn in Rabaul. Prices generally ar accordance with ruling rate in I market, with premiums for hot From July 22, 1959. P-N Board announced “Tentative Pi copra delivered main ports; Hot- £A72/10/- per ton; FMS, £A7I Smoke-Dried, £A7O per ton.

FIJI:—No Government controlsell where they wish. Bulk of « to crushing-mill in Suva, wh on wharf. Suva, is announced e On Aug. 3, prices were HAD, i FMI, £ P63/7 /6; FM2. £F62.

WESTERN SAMOAOfflci Board receives all production, same and makes payments to Large proportion goes to Un Philippines FM grade rates, miums up to £Stg3 per ton air dried. Prices announced ii 1959, to operate till further noi air dried, £S67/13/8 per ton; No. 1, £865/3/8; sun-dried, £B6l/13/8.

TONGA:—Sales are under Gc control. Part of production goes t under arrangement with Unlle trolled by Philippines prices, on to open market.

SOLOMONS:—AII production through official Copra Board, based on Philippines market. ] dared in August; Ist grade. £: grade. £A72; 3rd grade, £A6B, f.0.b.. PStp ports.

Gilbert And Ellice:—F

marketed in Europe through offlc Board, at prices based on P 1 rates, less “stabilisation fund” etc.

E. SAMOA:—Producers receive 4i (SUSB9.6 or £A4O approx, per Ii Periodic bonus, if average proceei Govt, buying price and expenses!

NEW HEBRIDES;—Un change* early July when local buving p £A4S per ton. delivered Vila/S?

July 31, price was 103.000 Metroi per metric top. c.i f. Marseilles

Cook Is. /Niue/Tokela U: Pn

for first half of 1959. by Abels.

Auckland, who mill it, was anno; 166 AUGUST, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

Book For Sale

Primer Of Police

MOTU

By Percy Chatterton. Lcp

New Edition Now Available— For Use in Papua and New Guinea Price, Postage Paid, 4/6 From Bookshops in Port Moresby and Lae or from the Publishers Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, SYDNEY.

VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD. 247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY Island Merchants and Buying Agents SOLE AGENTS FOR:

• Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engines

• Ajax Marine Diesel Engines

• Norman Petrol Engines

• Saldanha Canned Fish

• V.T.C. Corned Beef

Distributors for all plantation, farm, trade requirements and merchandise.

Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell and other produce handled on consignment.

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as follows; Standard Grade; /6 plus £1 for bags, plus remlum, totalling £NZ69/0/6. ic j e - £NZ66/15/6 plus £1 for is £l/5/- premium, plus £l/5/emium for hot air dried, total- -70/5/6. f.0.b., Rarotonga.

The prices have been adjusted half of 1959, but as it was not sther they were f.o.b. Rarotonga, uckland they cannot be printed er clarified.)

Other Produce

—lslands' prices are based on the ■hana cocoa which, on August 6, .280 per ton, c.i.f.. Sydney.

IOA: Nominal price quoted in l August 6, £5275, f.0.b., Apia.

I August 6, £ A 335 ex-wharf. ; __p.-N.G.: August 6, good .grade, per lb. 4/4 to 4/6; B [ to 4/5; C grade, 4/- to 4/3, ley. ugust, price quoted for Tangagrade was £ Stg.3Bo; B grade, Undergradings, £ 5tg.275, all md c i.f., Sydney. Uganda Roffering at around £Stg.2l9 c.i.f.

'S:—P.-NG.: August 6, kernels: anish, 1/7 lb; Virginia Bunch, aroy Peanut Board has recently rice of kernels by 2d per lb. —p. -N.G. price is based on rate, which August 5 was: No. ?ot, 104 7 / 8 Straits cents per lb. list.).

A BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & ey. reported in August that no ans available at present; new is expected later in month. lustralian):—Price from May 1, LG.; Dry brown and dressed, ,gs, 5 tons and over, £6l/10/f.0.w.; under 5 tons £62 per imised and enriched white, 112 5 tons and over. £6B per ton, ider 5 tons. £6B/10/- per ton. i. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne, illy-grown rice has been retailing at lid Fijian per lb, with nported rice at lOd Fijian per people regard the imported rice r to the Fiji product.

SHELL.—Quotations in August by nt M O.P. shell agents were: ;A775, D £ A 575, E £250, EE (in store Sydney). Penrhyn ■ (nominal), f.0.b., Rarotonga, lagoon will remain closed this less the reported plan to transhiki divers to Suwarrow atoll to black-lip M.O.P. eventuates, only [uantities of pearl shell will be from the Cook Is. this year.

US. —Price fell during August sre was little demand. Nominal f. Sydney around £A26O-£A27O. recently, trochus was being t from 1/6 to 2/6 Fijian per lb, I on quality (equal to £FI6B to er ton, in store, Suva). 1 SNAIL SHELL.—Because of a from Japan, price has risen to r ton. P.-N.G. and 8.5.1. shell is supply. One Sydney agent says probably place a small quantity d and third grade. don and US Quotations London, August 6, Philippines in 522 50 c.i.f. UK/North European itraits/Bornco, FMS, del. weights, C/North European ports, £ Stg.7B.

New York: August 6, Philippines $220 c.l.f .

Pacific Coast ports. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars.* Coconut Oil:—London, August 5, Ceylon in bulk, £Stg.l26, per ton, c.1.f., UK/ North European ports. Straits, crude, c.i.f., in bulk. £ Stg.l23 per ton.

Rubber: London, c.i.f., August 5, RSS No. 1, 30 5 /sd Stg. per lb; Oct./Nov. 29 x / 2 d Stg.; August, 1960, 30V4d Stg.

Exchange Hates FlJl— Through BANK OF NSW. ANZ BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: B. £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA —Through BANK OF NZ. Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa B. £ A123/12/6; S. £124/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/6, S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ; B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fljl. basis £lOO Samoa; B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia - Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Ooroka. Bulolo, Kavieng, Madang. Wewak). BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai, Goroka; agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), ANZ BANK (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) and

National Bank Of A/Asia. (Port

Moresby) quote exchange rate Australia- Papua-NG: 10/- 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. Polynesia.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte Je Paris) in Sydney July. 1959, quotes: Selling, Noumea, 195 Pac. francs to £ Aust., Papeete, 194.75 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 243.75 Pac francs to £ Stg.; 89.05 Pac. francs to US $. Selling 13.76 heavy frrncs (1,376 ordinary Metrop. francs) to £ Stg.

NG'S INFANT TEA-

Growing Industry

If figures quoted recently when the plan was announced to erect a tea factory at Garaina, New Guinea, are correct it would take 6,000 acres of planted tea and 10,000 natives to give the Territory a £1,500,000 tea industry.

A present rate of consumption that would give Australia about one-tenth of her requirements (tea to the value of £14,017,000 was imported in the 11 months ending May, 1959; about half of it comes from Ceylon). However, if growing tea in the Territory on that scale is going to tie up 10,000 natives—about onesixth of the present work force—it is obvious that P-NG would be better off without a tea industry. It has always been understood that when and if a tea industry developed there, it would have to be a mechanised one. which requires special cultivation methods in the plantations.

New Guinea’s tea industry is in its early experimental stage. Some planters grow a little for local use but, as might be imagined, it is not as good as Ceylon tea The new Garaina factory—which will cost something like £27,000 —will turn out tea valued at about £16,000 per annum and will probably be sold locally as ration tea It would, at any rate, be just a drop in Australia’s tea-pot. 167 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1959

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