Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXX, No. 4 ( Nov. 1, 1959)
1959-11-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly NOVEMBER, 1959 Vol. XXX. No. 4 Shed 1930 Sydney,

So This Is The Tropics!

Yes, not the Swiss Alps, but the everlasting snow of 14,300 feet Mount Juliana in Netherlands New Guinea - one of several N-NG peaks well above the snow line. The Territory also has glaciers. In thick weather and freezing temperatures, these three men were among a party which climbed the mountain for the first time in September. See p. 19.

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C. SULLIVAN (New Guinea) LTD Augusta House, Rabaul Cables: "CHASULL". P.O. Box 214. Phone: 2275 Agents for: Timex Watches Sea Belle Mackerel Pike and Canned Sea Foods.

Alex Grahame Rotary Motor Mowers.

Crosley Refrigerators, Freezers, Air-conditioning Units, Bendix Washing Machines.

Blaupunkt Radios and Radiograms.

Golden Band Cigarettes.

Celnik and Power Cutlery.

Crown Bee Sewing Cottons.

Star, Planet, Galaxy, Wattle and Score Records.

Spica Transistor Radios.

IMPORTERS; See us regarding your supplies from Australia and Overseas. Associate offices in Australia, Hong Kong, London, San Fiancisco.

SEA BELLE ISiWElirte WA rJlowest p> SALMON — TUNA — CRABMEAT — OYSTERS — CLAMS — SQUIDS — OCTOPUS — SUKIYAKIJ 2 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON/T

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Enquiries From Distributors Invited

wrters Catering to South Pacific Areas with Branch Offices in Fiji and New Guinea SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD. 66 Pitt Street, Sydney (Corner of O’Connell and Pitt Streets) phone; 8L5071 (6 lines). Telegrams & Cables: CHASULL, Sydney.

C. SULLIVAN (Queensland) PTY. LTD. 318 Adelaide Street, Brisbane Telephone: B 4958. Telegrams & Cables: CHASULL, Brisbane.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD. 20-22 Swanson Street, Auckland Telephone; 43-307. Telegrams & Cables: CHASULL, Auckland.

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For further details please apply to Agents or refer to the weekly advertisements in the “South Pacific iV AGENTS: PAPUA; Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai.

Cables: "Steamships".

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

Cables: "Colyeram".

NOUMEA: Etablissements Ballande, Rue de L'Alma, Boite Postale 18, Noumea.

HONIARA: British Solomon Islands Trading Corporation.

JAPAN: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd., Tokyo, Yokohamaei Kobe. Cables: "Swire".

FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SANTO: Les Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles-Hebrides.

APIA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

MANAGING AGENTS: Butterfie'd & Swire Ltd., 1 Connaugi Central, Hong, Kong. Cables: "Swire".

General Agents in Australia SWIRE &. YUILL PTY. LTD. 6 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY.

CABLES: "SWIRESHIP" BU 1712 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS

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EIB9R PEOPLE r. K. Abbott, Assistant of Medical Services in the ‘ublic Health resby, is the new Executive for Health of the South Commission. Appointed at i session of the SPC in last month, he succeeded svn Dr. Emile Massal, who ist April.

E. Fox, MBE, MA, D.Litt, the best known Melanesian worker in the Solomons, is onths’ holiday in New Zeaim Taroaniara. Aged over is spent 50 years in BSI. arwick McComas, manager Commonwealth Bank of ~ Honiara, returned to Austin BSI early in November, been succeeded at Honiara c M. Macartney, who is no to Islands service—he was [?]s. H. T. Kienzle, of Mamba Planta- [?]a, photographed in November at the [?]f the Kokoda Trail Monument. It [?]nzle who had the monument erected.

See page 20. —Photo-Malik. [?]s. Jack Mason, of Yodda Plantation, [?]ed the dinner which followed the [?] the Kokoda Memorial. (See p. 20.) —Photo-Malik. 5 I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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UK. They flew from Lon- Australia, then by air to orides and on RCS Coral rom Vila to BSI. ewis N. Cotlow, the well- American traveller and who produced the film, Juku”, with its unique shots animal life in Africa, has "k again in NG—this time some hitherto unseen in the centre of Dutch New He is a man of vision, with appreciation of what is unnd filmable in the lesser- [?]r and Mrs. Henry Bruce Inch photo- [?]ter their wedding recently at St. [?]ary's Catholic Church, Lae.

Photo: Otto Brabant.

Reid (left), who will be Fiji's next [?]or Fijian Affairs (taking over from Mott), in Suva recently with Mr. L. [?]on, of Tonga. Mr. Nott leaves Fiji in December. —Fiji PRO.

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known parts of the world. E turned to New York, via Sydni October. ** * J Dr. J. M. Cruickshank, whor a few years in Sydney as the 9 representative of the World ”

Organisation (a section ofi activities) left Australia in f to take personal charge of highly-specialised private hi in California; and he now is < there. Dr. Cruickshank is? known in Fiji where, for I time, he was Director of I Dr. Cruickshank has been foi in Sydney by Dr. Lawrence E 3 an Englishman, who recentl in charge of a regional orgara of the World Health Organr with headquarters at Manilsl WHO has many contacts thl out the South Pacific and, pm a good deal will be seen Roberts in the various Terri-: Stephen Finau, 11-yearsof a Tongan Government received some publicity in newspapers recently, in a “fl Islands to the Outback” sfc scribing his fortnight’s stas remote north-west cattle near the Queensland border is a member of Newingtonr Junior Farmers’ Club, and i him and 15 other students O. Cohen, an old Newingtonir showed them all aspects of 1 station life. * * * Mr. Ernest Agate, of Taranj to Fiji from NZ 22 years?, manage the Navua Dairy “for a time”. But he stayed! on. and it was only last moo What the well-dressed governor w[?] Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Wladdock suit and plumed hat, marches out units of the Fiji Special Constabul paraded for the first time, in Suva [?] 10 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MO

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These tasty, tender, fullsize beans are picked at the peak of the season to ensure full flavour. *6(1 55 mns f a lly left the Colony—to live ement in NZ. Mr. Agate, lirying for a time, leased lotel for a few years. Later founded the Frostee Ice Do. Ltd. and ran this contil it merged with NZ ice interests as Tip Top Ice Do. (Fiji) Ltd. * * ♦ aslyn Williams, senior prof the Australian Common- Film Unit, was in New a short time ago making id the outcome of one pro- ; seen by Queensland teleon November 2. It was VBQ’s showing of the prizefilm “Growing Up With vhich covered many aspects s development in P-NG, as ed by one native, Guba. f-hour feature focused aton some of Australia’s lents in the Territory— and its responsibilities.

L. Iremonger, formerly a Officer in the Gilbert and lands and in Fiji, was revith an increased majority srvative member for Ilford n the UK general election )ber. His wife, Lucille er, is a talented writer, who i several books with an flavour published, * * * oti Tikaram. LLB, of Suva, pointed Magistrate (First n October, with civil jurison actions involving values ) £4OO. Mr. Tikaram is beo be the first local Fiji ' and solicitor to receive appointment while still in The appointment was ed by a shortage of magis- )llowing the transfer of Mr. jight to Aden. well-dressed governor wears. The [?]f French Polynesia, Pierre Sicaud, suit and braided hat, on hand in greet Deputy French Premier Jacques [?]elle during his tour of Tahiti.

Photo: Studio Mackenzie. 11 F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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cameramen David Attenand Geoff Mulligan have to Fiji from Tonga with )f Tongan scenes in their , but none of the undertanner’s Cave, which they »p e d to get (see PIM, tohn Gunther, Assistant rator of Papua-New Guinea, to the Territory in Noafter six months in Ausiree of them on leave and int attending the Australian ;ration Staff College, Mt. ictoria. The Administrator, r D. M. Cleland, will ro on leave. t travelling Tongan who vspaper acclaim in Noras boxer and rugby player u, 24, who digs graves on in Yorkshire, England. He 300 in a football pool—but ;o keep working as a grave big piece of the cheque home to Tonga. ♦ * * iative tributes for a job e were paid by Suva city rs to mayor Arthur Leys retired in November after iar term. In recent years r has grown from one square seven. Suva business man Stinson has been elected i succession to Mr. Leys, * * ♦ G. Corbin reached Honiara nth from East Africa on ent as adviser on civil He will remain in BSI for hs.

Taurama Chapel, Port Moresby, re- [?] Joan Bentley, of Brisbane, to Mr. [?]f Selby, Victoria. They will live at Napa Napa. —Papuan Prints. 13

Fic Islands Monthly November, 195^

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 4. Vol. XXX NOVEMBER, 1959 Contents: PEOPLE; Personal Paragraphs Of Islands’ Interest 5 Eight Years For Tahiti’s Leftist Leader ........ 17 Grand Pacific Hotel Gets A Face Lift 17 A Good-will Visit To Papua- New Guinea 17 Deputy Premier Soustelle’s Visit To French Polynesia 18 Merger Of Islands’ Newspapers 19 Labour Dispute At Vatukoula Mine 19 Another Coastwatcher Story Published 20 Memorial To The War-time Carriers Of The Kokoda Trail 20 Nausori Sugar Company’s Fate In The Balance .... 21 Granny Makes A First Into The NG Highlands 21 CSR Decision Upsets Growers 22 Two Men On Fraud Charge 23 West Samoan Cabinet Takes Over 23 He Helped Lead The Mau: Death of A. G. Smythe .. 23 COMMENTARY: The Publisher And The Editors Look At Pacific And World Affairs 25 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 26 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27 TERRITORIES TALK- TALK : With Tolala .. .. 29 German Eagle Returns To NG 31 New Guinea’s Teak Should Be Worth A Fortune In 50 Years 37 New Caledonia Tourist Report With A Sting 37 At Last (Perhaps) Cheaper Air Fares Are On the Way 39 Sir Hubert Murray Memorial Finally To Be Built .. .. 43 Cabinet Minister’s Critical Comment On Isla n d s’

Missionaries .......... 45 Japanese May Throw Some Light On An Old Polynesian Problem 49 Unconfusing The Fiji Immigration Laws 49 There’s A Market For The Exotic 49 Over the War-time Trail .. 53 P-NG Planters Ask For Sale Of Cattle On Application 59 Prof. Goto’s Visit To NG Coffee Areas 61 Tongan Conscripts Go To War 65 A Hotel With Its Own Air Service 65 New Crop of Rabaul Rumours 67 Seven Were Castaway, And Five Came Back 69 Samoans Rock Around The Clock 71 Move For A P-NG Organisation In Sydney 73 Side Issues In The NG Tax Fight 77 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 81; Brett Hilder Profile, 82; Crossquiz, 82; Hibiscus Festival, 83, When Errol Flynn Swopped Insults With NG, 84; Do You Remember, 85; The Monthly Dunk, 86; Carrying the White Woman’s Burden, 87; The Flight Of Rusty’s Angels, 87; Book Reviews 88 PACIFIC REPORT: Roundup Of Pacific News And Pictures (Index p. 18) .. 117 Sports Review 147 OBITUARIES: Mr. B. J.

White; Pastor Mohaka; Mr.

G. Shepherd; Mr. K. A.

Lewis; Mr. Aio Taripo; Mr. A. G. Smythe; Mr.

Charles Kuppswami .... 149 Shipping And Airways Timetables 151 Commerce And Produce .. 161 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goulbum Street and v Wentworth Avenue.)

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Year Awaiting Trial [?]ht Years For Tahiti's [?]eftist Leader being held in gaol in Tahiti ut one year, the leader of eme native nationalist party eh Polynesia, Pouvaana a is, on October 23, sentenced iminal Court in Papeete to iment for eight years, and n to live in Papeete for 15 on charges of attempted arson, and the illegal m of arms. punishment follows a series olitical events in 1958, which ; summarised in PIM of y (page 19) and in No- -1958. ana’s political Party (the gained a majority in the ;sembly late in 1957; and 1958 Pouvaana a Oopa and erusalemy led a new Govin Tahiti. They introduced tax and spoke in favour of a Republic, independent of -plans which were bitterly and resisted by most of the ea n population and the Tahitians, ivilian non-official popula- Papeete rose in revolt on , 1958, and the Pouvaana lent was forced out of id the French Governor took In September, 1958, French a, was asked to vote for or the new Constitution proy General de Gaulle, and a fought strongly for a :e. ;ober, 1958, having been dei political activities and in srendum, Pouvaana and a : supporters made a strong ration in Papeete, tempt was made to burn lected buildings with bottles >1 (Molotov cocktails) and as conflict with the police, a’s residence was found to ped like a fortress. He and score of others were arrested. delay occurred in the rhile the authories tried to trial procedure which would of local prejudices, ourt, under the presidency ge recently transferred from , tried 16 men on various connected with the inof October 10, 1958.

Pouvaana’s chief helper, got s gaol and is banned from for 15 years; another leader years gaol and five years lent; and the others got entences of up to six years.

A correspondent reports that although there was intense public interest in the long-delayed trial, the verdict was received calmly.

Grand Pacific Gets A Face Lift Suva’s Grand Pacific Hotel, possibly the best-known hotel in the South Seas, is being extended and improved.

Work began in October following settlement, by arbitration, of the price which Cathay Hotels (Fiji).

Ltd., had to pay for the hotel. A contract was let to Narain Construction Company to erect a threestorey, 36-room block adjoining the hotel on the side farthest from the city. It should be completed by May.

In addition, bedrooms in the present building are being remodelled and a swimming pool is being built on the seaward side of the hotel.

Value of the contract is understood to be about £50,000.

Tenders might also soon be called by Cathay for the building of a new 60-room hotel at Saweni Beach, between Nadi and Lautoka.

Like the new G.P.H. wing it will be fully air-conditioned, with selfcontained room units.

Mr Barry Philp, who operates the Mocambo Hotel at Nadi Airport, is known to have struck difficulties with the Fijian land-owners in his plan to erect a major tourist hotel on Yanuca island, an ideal site not far from the Korolevu Beach Hotel.

Visit To P-Ng

It Was A Good Goodwill Tour Mr. John Howse, Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Australian Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck, stirred up some official reaction when he made a goodwill tour of Papua-New Guinea in October.

HE made his tour to see for himself how Territory feeling stood following the bitter fighting over taxation and legislature matters that has marked relations between official and private interests in P-NG this year.

His decision to go was endorsed by the Minister, although it was not the Minister’s idea. Mr. Howse, who is popular with Territorians, felt now was a good time for a visit —especially as Minister Hasluck himself expects to set foot in New Guinea again before Christmas a step into the lion’s cage which P-NG residents have for months been publicly daring him to take.

As far as the Territorians were concerned, Mr. Howse’s visit was a success. He had taken the advice of influential friends before leaving and made a point of paying in private accommodation in the Territory wherever possible, avoiding too many official contacts.

Last month's photograph of the work in progress at the Grand Pacific Hotel. A swimming pool will be built in the area in the left of the photograph. —Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 17 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

He addressed residents in bodies whenever he got the chance and lent an attentive ear everywhere.

On the way south again in late October he gave Port Moresby’s South Pacific Post a few words on what he had found. Among his points were: What He Found • He had found a general feeling of insecurity among the people, with complaints that the cost of living was too high. • He felt that something should be done to make the burden lighter for the married man to keep him in the Territory. • He believed some assistance should be introduced to give the European settler a guarantee that if catastrophe in some way struck the Territory and the settler was obliged to leave (as with World War II), he would have an assurance that his life work would not be lost. • He would report all this to the Minister, and also tell him that there was need for a change in representation on the Legislative Council, both native and European, although he had no idea of what the changes should be.

Following Mr. Howse’s return there was evidence that Mr. Hasluck approved Mr. Howse’s warm nonofficial contacts—but he did not like the publicity given to Mr. Howse’s statements on discontent and insecurity. It was not, he thought, very tactful treatment by the newspaper. A J Mr. Howse’s findings, as reported to New Guinea readers, also interested Prime Minister Menzies, who has been taking a greater interest in Papua-New Guinea affairs since the angry developments of this year.

As most NG residents could have told Mr. Hasluck if he had asked them Mr. Howse discovered, and (Continued on page 163)

Pacific Report

Fiji’s Big Wharf Job—ll 7; Another Hotel for Lautoka; Miss Stewart On The Job —117; Report On The Tokelaus—l2l; Auditor Unhappy Over P-NG Accounts; New P-NG Director of Agriculture; Governor Maddocks’ Cession Day Address —123.

A Vanilla String to Tonga’s Bow— -125; Niue’s Better Than We Said —127; They Break Their Labour Contracts: Ambitious Housing Scheme for Lautoka —129; American Samoa Shelves Liquor Rationing—l3l; Samoa’s Musical Invasion; Fiji’s Cane Crop Figures —133; Suva’s Different Milk—l3s.

P-NG Cargo Cult Wasn’t Anti- European—l 36; Soldier Walks the Old Trail; Prof. Goto’s NG Visit —137; Guadalcanal On The Tracking Course —138; SPC 20th Session; West Samoa’s New Health Director —139; Lae’s First Show —140; Copra Still Unpredictable^l43.

Tahiti To Be A Paradise Los Deputy French Premier Jacques Soustelle arrived at San Frat in October after his Island hopping tour of French Polynesia j the word that the “unspoiled Polynesian paradise” wouldn’t rema for much longer.

PREMIER Soustelle said the big new airstrip now being built at Papeete and to be completed in 1961 {PIM, October) would open up the area to tourists and the way of life was bound to change.

“When you have the old easygoing Polynesian life, you have no tourists”, he said. “Then when you have many tourists, you have a Waikiki. We hope to strike a happy medium”.

Tahiti will be only 10 hours away from San Francisco by jet when the airport begins operating.

Mr. Soustelle’s news seemed to be a severe blow to American newspaper readers, who have been fed on the notion over the years that there is no paradise quite like Tahiti, and that once that paradise is opened up to all and sundry there will be no dreams left.

Tahiti Tour During Mr. Soustelle’s Tahiti tour, all classes—Polynesians, Europeans, Chinese and Euronesians united in an enthusiastic welcome, after the Minister had arrived in Papeete by Catalina from New Caledonia (see PIM, October).

Mr. Soustelle entered a gaily decorated Papeete under a great arch carrying the word “Marava” (bienvenu, or welcome) ; he troduced to the leading citi i Governor Pierre Sicaud aij most warmly acclaimed streets; he was subject t days of dancing, feasting s traditional ceremonies of [ and hospitality for which H famous.

Honours were paid, at tho ment, to the memory of soldiers who died for Franc© wars; and Minister Souste: scribed the close ties thii bound Oceania to the FrencH Mr. Soustelle was feted inn districts of Tahiti, and hes Moorea, some of the Tuamolc the phosphate island of M before his departure.

The Minister’s dramatic with Princess Terii Nui oo Pomare, the last k of the royal family, will be describe)' illustrated article in Decemtd Later, on October 5, Mr. S visited Wallis Island and tic of Wallis and the King neighbouring island of Futuu asked that France give full! nationality to the people islands, which have been ai protectorate since 1842. Mr. S promised to pass the reep General de Gaulle in persoo Deputy French Premier Jacques Soustelle waves a greeting as he arrives in Tahiti.— Studio M[?] 18 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

will sell their shares to a holding company, probably >e called Pacific Publishing . Ltd., to be formed and d at Sydney. .uthors of the plan are Mr.

Sskell, Chairman of South Post Ltd., and Mr. T. C. md Mr. R. W. Robson, in and Managing Director vely of Pacific Publications L; and their main objective rovision of bigger and better >er and printing services South Pacific Islands.

The Companies >ort Moresby company owns iblishes the South Pacific wice weekly) and the New Times-Courier (weekly). c Publications Pty. Ltd. nd publishes, in Suva, the i-old Fiji Times (morning and the old-established weekly, Shanti Dut; and, ney, the well known, 30d Pacific Islands Monthly, irculates through all the 16 les of the South Pacific It also owns the 50-yearsney & Melbourne Publishing i. Ltd., which publishes a of well known technical als.

To Go Abroad tobson will be the Chairman new merger company; and, ie returns from abroad (he on a visit to America and on November 20) he will e boards of South Pacific d., and New Guinea Times- Ltd.

Eskell (who, in addition to Jblishing interests, is a r of the New South Wales :ive Council and a high- \ officer of the Australian Military Forces) will join ards of Pacific Publications td., of Sydney, and of Fiji & Herald Ltd., Suva.

[?]Erger Of Islands' Newspapers

Printing-Publishing Service For [?]owing Territories le owners of a majority of es in South Pacific Post Ltd., oresby, and of all the Or- •hares in Pacific Publications i., Sydney, have agreed to heir interests.

Mr. Eskell, Mr. Read and Mr. D.

S. Yaffa will be Directors, with Mr Pt° bS Ltd ° f Pacific Publishin £ Co.

The existing companies will continue to operate as at present, with present staffs. In addition to publishing newspapers and magazines, they now own and operate modern commercial-printing plants in Sydney, Port Moresby and Suva.

Through the merger, they propose ‘newspaper 7 service to the Islands communities and interests.

The move, it is believed, reflects the growing economic and political importance of the Islands Territories of the South Pacific.

Labour Trouble At Vatukoula The Fiji Commissioner of Labour, Mr. Norman Pearson, was at the Vatukoula gold mines in early November for conciliation talks between the Emperor Gold Mining Company and mine workers. There were reports of trouble developing at the mine which could, according to some observers, be very serious.

There have recently been wage disputes, and an award was made in September.

Here is the party which scaled 14,300 foot Mt.

Juliana (above) in NNG in September. They are members of the Star Mountains Expedition, currently in the Territory. Standing on the peak, the men are: Cine photographer Piet ter Laag, geologists A. Escher and Dr. H.

Th. Verstappen and Lt.

M. O. Tissing and Sgt.

J. A. de Wijn. 19 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

Another Coastwatcher Story Fear Drove His Feet Amongst a current flood of New Guinea books, one got special launching treatment in Australia at the end of October. The book is called “Fear Drive My Feet”, and its author is Peter Ryan, now in the Public Relations business in Melbourne, Victoria.

AT the time the events in the book take place he was 18, a lowly member of Kanga Force that operated from Wau in New Guinea in 1942-43 and successfully bluffed the Japs from trying to take Wau for a whole year. [When the Japs did try, of course, the Australians were by then ready and the resounding defeat of the enemy amongst Wilde’s coffee trees is now history.] A great deal has been written about the Coastwatchers and other special forces that operated in the Islands during the war; little, if anything, about Kanga Force which differed from the others in so far as men were expected to operate mostly without adequate supplies and frequently without that essential for behind-the-lines patrols—radio.

When men in the Saruwaged Range wanted to send advice to HQ, they had to send a runner or go themselves, right down and over the Markham to “Bob’s” on the Wampit River.

Trip to Melbourne The force was supplied via Port Moresby, the Lakekamu River, seven days pack from Bulldog to Wau, and four further days from Wau to “Bob’s” (or one of the other camps on the Markham).

For the book launching in October, Sergeant Kari, of Royal P-NG Constabulary, was taken to Melbourne. As Corporal Kari it was he who, in 1942, guided Ryan over the Markham and into the Suruwaged for the first time.

How much of this book is 18year-old’s reaction, and how much the mature reflection of a 35-yearold man, the reader will have to decide for himself. There will be a full review next month.

An Agricultural and Industrial Loans Board has been established in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and it is expected to be In operation by the end of the year.

Its function will be, like a similar Board in Fiji, to provide a part of the capital, on a loan basis, for projects designed to aid the economy of the Colony.

Kokoda Carriers Honoured Carriers of the war-time Kokoda Trail were honoured with the ing on November 2, at Kokoda Government Station, Papua, of this memorial.

WITH the Owen Stanleys as a back-drop, the green Yodda Valley stretching back from the Station, and perfect weather, the atmosphere was one of a large family gathered together for a moment to honour the men whose service now is part of P-NG history.

The monument was erected on the initiative and at the expence of Mr. H. T. Kienzle, of Mamba Plantations, who as Captain and later Major, and with extensive knowledge of locality and natives, brought order out of carrier-line chaos in the dark days of 1942.

The memorial is of cement faced with local water-worn stones; the bronze bar at the top symbolises the unity of Australians and Papuans straining against a common enemy. The two bronze plaques, designed by Melbourne artist, Mr. Ray Ewers (who was in Kokoda for the ceremony), depict, respectively, native stretcher bearers, and carriers moving up the Trail with military supplies. 30 Carriers Present DC of Northern District, Mr. E. G.

Hicks, said in an address that the monument was inspired by a 1942 campfire conversation between Captain Kienzle and the well-loved, late Doctor Vernon, MC, who did so much for the carriers. “Of all the men concerned in the Kokoda campaign/’ said Mr. Hicks, “none knew better than these two, the great hardships endured by the carriers.”

Official guests who flew from Port Moresby included the Administrator (who unveiled the memorial) and Mrs. Cleland; the Ah Bishop of P-NG, the Rtt P. N. W. Strong (who dedicaii memorial) and Mr. C. R. Lai Secretary to the Departmn Territories.

Officially representing the : people were 30 ex-Kokodae carriers, 28 of whom had beer; in from other parts of the; tory. About 2,000 natives, s<e whom walked 180 miles, attd Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Kiens.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Kienzle entes over 40 guests after the cen and a huge sing-sing was hr the natives The 300 Mamba I tion staff were given two dai one to sing.-sing and one to i The Administratlc NG, Brig. D. M. unveils the Memorial. It the war-time [?] riers of the ‘ Kokoda trail which the Japane pushed back attempt to tar Moresby Photo: K.

Jones. 20 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

Sugar Company's Fate May Be Known Soon They’re Not Enthusiastic At Nausori From J. P. Shortall, in Suva A lei for the chairman was left in its box, and a hoped-for : sale of shares did not eventuate, at an open air public ting called by the Fiji Sugar Milling Co. Ltd. at Nausori Saturday morning in October. le, in fact, was feeling very py about the company’s out- ;, though chairman Vishnu i Mr. A. I. N. Deoki, speakupport of the establishment w sugar mill to replace the ill, both strongly urged the to press on with the proi to demonstrate their supbuying more shares—four least. of the 1,000-odd persons made any immediate purnd some were openly critical, most merely listened to the tions of the present situade by the principal speakers, lain fact is that while almost farmers want to continue gar, there is just not the n sight to establish a mill. ;ompany’s shares are worth vhich one quarter has to be on application. It was tly expected, or at least hat sufficient could be sold enough money would be on ter the second call to peritart to be made with the e two final payments would made in the form of funds ;k from the proceeds of the ?ar produced.

Need £200,000 :ual fact something a little s of 4,000 shares have been for, yielding a down payl £25,000, or a little more, ig to Mr. Vishnu Deo, a minimum of £200,000 would have to be found locally before a mill could be erected. He appealed to Nausori business interests to buck up and help the new venture, as they, as well as the farmers, would be affected by the closure of the sugar industry, he said.

Mr. Deoki said that he was prepared to assist the venture in every way possible. He considered that the government should help by making available the accrued sugar stabilisation fund.

He said that the five Indian members of Legco had approached the Financial Secretary on this subject but had not been successful. Mr.

Deoki said that he intended to call a meeting of Rewa Valley cane farmers soon to discuss the matter of this fund.

While Mr. Deoki was speaking there was an interjection from a man in the crowd, Mr. Lala Tota Ram, who was allowed to express his views at some length.

Mr. Tota Ram said that for months past the farmers and shareholders had been hearing that the company still had no money. What was the use of seeking it from the farmers, he said? They had no money.

Get The Big Firms It was, he said, necessary to persuade the big Indian business firms (Continued on page 22, column 1) It's Worse in Scotland!

Granny Makes

A First' Into

The Highlands

From a Lae Correspondent The spirit of adventure and the desire to teach primitive people the art of weaving has brought an English grandmother from her comfortable village manor house to the wilds of New Guinea. And having done that, just to prove that she is not merely a social gadabout, she has done something no woman has done on her own before—driven from the coast at Lae to Goroka, 5,000 ft up and more than 200 miles into the Highlands. r!E granny is Mrs. Molly Carrington, who arrived here not long ago in a small bus-cumcaravan equipped with a spinning wheel and three looms.

“It will not be necessary for the natives to learn to use the large looms,” said Mrs. Carrington. “I can teach them how to make small hand-looms out of pieces of wood.

They can weave table and floor mats and turn their knowledge into a profitable home industry.

“I may also teach them to make some attractive clothes like sundresses. I feel it would give them more poise and self respect.” Mrs.

Carrington hopes to learn to spin banana leaves and kunai grass into fibres.

She explained that she spent most of her time travelling on the road, and slept in her bus at night.

Before arriving here she had spent two months camping out in the bush of Western Australia, and had spent many months in Africa.

' (Over) The Nausori sugar men on the stage—the Hon.

Vishnu Deo in the centre —peer out into the audience at the Nausori meeting as an interjector has his say.

Scots grandmother Mrs. Molly Carrington, with her vehicle, in Lae. 21 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

to come in. That was where the money lay. But before they would be persuaded it would be necessary for the company to change its directors “so that some good people could be included”.

He said that the new company was going to have a tough job in “fighting the CSR and the government” for the establishment of this mill.

Mr. Vishnu Deo replied: “We have no enmity with the CSR, nor are we fighting them or the government.”

He said the CSR was closing its Nausori mill on its own initiative.

It had been asked to continue for another five years, but had declined to do so.

He was convinced that no crop could yield as much for the Rewa farmers as sugarcane. The Navua farmers who had abandoned cane for rice years ago were still suffering as a result. He again urged the maximum support and sacrifice by the farmers in raising the funds.

Mr. K. B. Singh also spoke of the approach to the CSR to carry on the mill for another five years, and of an approch by representatives of the three farmers’ unions in the district to Sir Ronald Garvey, the previous Governor, about government support. Sir Ronald had said that he could not give his support to a continuing sugar industry in the Rewa Valley.

Some Decisions Soon Mr. K. B. Singh said that the time was fast approaching when some important decisions would have to be made. The farmers were seeking advice on what to do regarding their plantings. They must know when the mill would be ready. It could not be ready before 1961, meanwhile the farmers must live.

He would not advise them what to do. If he advised them to plant rice people would say that he was obstructing the sugar mill project.

It was up to the farmers’ unions to reach these decisions. (Continued on page 144) Sometimes Impassable She made the trip to Goroka in a week, with 24 hours on the “road”. The rivers are not all spanned yet and in some seasons the road is impassable to anybody.

Women have made the trip with others but Mrs. Carrington is the first woman to do the trip alone in her own vehicle.

After arriving at Goroka she said she was “appalled” at her temerity in attempting the trip with a van with only three forward gears and “far too heavy a load”. Several times the van had to be unloaded and everything carried uphill.

In the Kasam Pass she had a tow from a man in a Landrover.

And at Bena Bena she was helped in two places when her engine was not strong enough.

At one stage between Kas and Goroka, after it had for three days, she was sti the mud.

Said she, “The going uphr just hard work, running fori 10 minutes and cooling off foie 20. But going down the lonji hills was more tiring as I nes like looking down.”

Mrs. Carrington added tbi Leron had been very low ai “didn’t even get her feet wea the swinging bridges weit; nearly as difficult as she hai cipated.

“In fact I have driven; narrower roads with wors? faces over the mountains in land, and I thought this roas of the way had a good surf' was often wide enough fd cars to pass,” she added.

N Z Shares In Fiji Airways Fiji Airways, founded in 1952 by the late Harold Gatty, and bought by Qantas last year, will sell an interest to the New Zealand Government. There will be provision for future participation also by the United Kingdom.

Fiji Airways operates within Fiji, with three Drover and two Heron aircraft.

See “Commerce”, page 161.

Csr Doesn'T Want As Much Cane

Fiji Sugar Surplus; Growers Worried An announcement by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co pany in Suva in late October that possibly 200,000 tons? standing cane would not be bought from farmers in 1960, cause of a sugar surplus, brought a reaction from growers?

MR. VIJAY R. SINGH, president of the Labasa Kisan Sangh, and Indian MLC for the Eastern Division of Fiji, said cane farmers were left with a feeling of insecurity.

Mr. Singh said it was realised that Fiji could not continue to produce more sugar than it could export each year, and some form of restriction might be a necessity.

However, for as long as one could remember, it has been the practice in the sugar industry for the grower to obtain the company’s approval for the acreage to be planted each year for harvest in the following year.

"As Good As Sold"

By virtue of that custom, that cane and the first ratoons springing from it, were as good as sold to the company, as far as the grower was concerned.

Whatever cane was offering for 1960 was thus there with the approval of the company.

The company would suffer n if this cane was left unhan yet the cane farmer already had to pay for ploughing, seeo planting, manure and general!, vation.

He would have to bear a I a result of a situation beyoic control. It was always in the pany’s hands to estimate yii keep production in line with o Mr. Singh added that the ; situation arising from the de ment should be reviewed 1 parties, as the situation coulo serious effects on the future industry.

The company announcemen that Fiji surplus sugar thki would amount to 112,000 tons, that although, if the present mate holds, something like tons of cane will not be pun in 1959-1960, the quantity 1 at each mill would be more in any previous year exceplc For more details of the CSR am ment, see Pacific Report, page 133.. 22 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

Granny Makes A 'First'

(Continued from previous page)

[?]ir P-NG Background on Men on Fraud Charges iction was commenced in on October 16 which is or less connected with airs of Hamac Holdings [, of Papua and New ; and in the outcome :h Harvey Trinder (New ) Limited may be inwell-known insurance men, icis Knibbs McEachern, 67, his son, Leonard Francis srn, 40, were brought before itral Police Court, Sydney, Dber 16, under a private , and charged on 13 counts aud, involving a sum of taring of the charges was ?d until December 7. The named Robert Keith Yorshartered accountant, of as the informant against lacherns, and it was at his on the warrants were Ay. Yorston is closely assoith Harvey Trinder (NSW) ~ the well-known represen- ' Lloyds Insurance, of Engis an interesting backto the McEacherns. years ago, Mr. F. K. ;rn became the chief Ausrepresentative of Messrs.

Trinder Ltd., of London, )f Lloyds: and he was in- :al in founding Harvey (NSW) Ltd. He became g director of that comid a highly respected figure Australian insurance world, joined in the business by who also was a director, them, they held (and still 5 per cent, of the issued P-NG Connections World War 11, Harvey (NSW) Ltd. extended its ns to Papua and New and Harvey Trinder (NG) s registered there. Mr. L. chern was closely associated 1 New Guinea company, and er was active in the infield in the Territory and, >elieved, made substantial the middle ’Fifties, persons id with the Harvey Trinder Continued on page 146) W. SAMOAN CABINET

Takes Over

West Samoa took another and mighty step towards independence on October 1 when her newly appointed Prime Minister and brand new Cabinet took over the direction of West Samoan affairs.

THE experiment in full Cabinet Government, which has come earlier than anybody would have thought 12 months ago, will continue until a Constitution is written and full arrangements made for independence, which will take about two years.

Meanwhile New Zealand High Commissioner G. R. Powles moves from the centre of the field and joins the Fautua “as friendly adviser on the sidelines” (in the words of NZ Prime Minister Walter Nash), who also warned Samoa in October that NZ knew that some people thought West Samoan progress was too fast, but that NZ believed “people can only learn the art of government by practising it”.

Prime Minister Mataafa announced his allocation of portfolios thus: HON. MATAAFA. as Pri me Minister will also have under his control the Secretariat, Police and Prisons, Attorney-General, District Affairs (Local Government), Publicity, Executive Council and Cabinet matters. External Affairs, Immigration and Emigration, Public Service matters, Legislative, Labour, Public Trust and Fire Department matters.

HON. ANAPU SOLOFA: Justice, Land and Titles matters, Central Registry. (Continued on page 148) Death of A. G. Smythe He Helped Lead Samoan Mau Over 60 years of Pacific history were bound up with the life of Mr. A. G. Smythe, who died in Sydney on October 27 at the age of 81.

Mr. SMYTHE not only had an extremely interesting and varied personal life, but at one time or another, was connected with almost every big company that operates in the Pacific.

In the last 40 years he has become closely identified with Western Samoa—to such an extent that people forget that at earlier periods he lived and was well known in other Territories.

He was born in Maitland, NSW, and in about 1892 was at Thursday Island for Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

It was there, in the Quetta Memorial Church, on October 8, 1900, that he married Miss Emily Richmond Brown. Fifty years later, when they celebrated their Golden Wedding in Apia, the whole town was en fete to celebrate with them. On this occasion, instead of personal gifts, friends and well wishers were asked to contribute to a Jubilee Fund, which was used for charitable purposes.

From BP to Nelsons After their marriage at TI, the Smythes were transferred to Bowen, North Queensland, and later to Charters Towers. When he had been with BP’s for 16 years, Mr.

Smythe resigned and for two years conducted his own business in Bowen, but in 1910 he went to Port Moresby to manage the business of C. R. Baldwin, and then to Levuka, Fiji, as merchandise manager of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. He later became a director, and in this capacity first saw Apia, Western Samoa, when in 1916 he went there to tender for the assets of DH & PG and other German firms that had been expropriated. Two years later he resigned from MH Ltd. to go to Samoa for the late H. J. Moors, of Apia. A short period with O F. Nelson and Co Ltd. followed, and in 1920 he bought out the business of Neils Johannsen, which he operated up to the time the Mau trouble drove him temporarily from the Territory, In 1930, after a period of looking after the banished O. F. Nelson’s (Continued on page 143) Prime Minister Fiame Mataafa. 23 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

JJ r. fe3 (Artist's impression of Morris Hedstrom's modern new store under construct Thomson Street, Suva.)

Morris Hedstrom Ltd

General Merchants, Produce Buyers, Importers and Exporters, Ship Owners, Plantation Owners, Commission and Insurance Agents.

Head Office Suva, Fiji

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COMMENTARY Gets Credit For ettlement Plan? ire a little startled, recently, i we found this paraph in a Hansard report of es Minister Hasluck’s den Parliament on October s acts and policies in New : credit scheme for exmen settlers arose out of Personal and persistent cy and recommendascheme had been put up Minister more than once, eriod of years; and we had inderstood that nothing at i have been done had not sident of the P-NG Re- Soldiers’ organisation, Mr. hunting, made a personal 0 the Prime Minister, in 1958. Then the Common- Government ear-marked ons for the plan, c-servicemen —while feeling 1 grant would have been ; more effective if made s sooner—expressed their i to Mr. Menzies. ig Mr. Hasluck’s state- /e wondered if we had hallucinations, i the New Guinea Timesof October 14, there is an tter on this subject from L Knight, for many years ting’s secretarial offsider in matters.

Inight, in almost brutal , declares that the settleleme never would have got le indifference of the and his Territories adad not the Prime Minister 3 himself personally in the If it had been left to ister, he says, there would fe been any settlement night should know. ☆ ☆ Should Fiji Do B. D. Lakshman? ars that, like the proverbial ird that could not rid itself ts identifying spots, the D. Lakshman, MLC, of Fiji, change his ways, he was elected recently to ve Council rank, it was hat he would accept goval responsibility and keep are of Fiji in clear focus, in relation to the welfare of the sugar industry workers, whom he dominates and directs. But already (end of October) Mr. Lakshman has returned to his old ways.

The sugar industry of Fiji is up against a world surplus in sugar production, and Fiji cannot—as explained elsewhere—send overseas all the sugar that can be produced from the cane that now is available and growing. There has got to be controlled production—that is inevitable —and all sections (including sugar workers) must adapt their thinking to that fact.

But Mr. Lakshman now comes out with a threat to organise a waterfront strike to prevent altogether the shipment of sugar, unless the Government orders anothef enquiry into the cane-price situation and the CSR Co. pays the growers more for the cane that is stored in the Northwest.

It was reported, late in October, that Mr. Lakshman, in a fiery speech at Tavua, demanded independence for Fiji—and defined independence as getting rid of all the people in Fiji from Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

It is reported that he said, flamboyantly, that he had 5,000 sugar-workers whom he could call out on strike at any time; and he asked the Indian cane-growers to follow him, should this course be Subsequently, when this stupid and provocative speech was reported to people in Suva, Mr. Lakshman denied making the statements attributed to him; but the Suva people replied that their report came from a source hitherto found quite reliable.

A body of Fiji public opinion, is rallying against Mr. Lakshman.

There is a demand for more information about his activities in relation to the union he controls, and about certain things done by him during the Honeyman enquiry. They are asking about Mr. Lakshman’s personal relationship with his plan for a college of engineering and technology. * * * The Government of Fiji has shown great patience with Mr.

Lakshman and the demands he has made on behalf of a special section of the people.

To avoid anything likely to disturb industrial peace and economic stability, it twice arranged for expensive, far-reaching inquiries into matters affecting the sugar industry.

To Mr. Lakshman and his cohorts has been extended far more consideration than actually they were entitled to. , A stronger stand, and a clearer indicator! by Government of what the future may hold is called for.

Men like Mr. Lakshman fall into two categories. There are the persistent, dedicated fighters for a cause they consider just, and for which they can show some semblance of reason; and there are selfish demagogues, whose calculated mischief-making is designed more for their own advantage, than for the benefit of the dupes they lead or the country they live in.

In a country like Fiji, bedevilled already by economic and social problems created by forces outside its control, men of the second category are a public danger, and should be removed. Mr. Lakshman is getting perilously close to the second classification. ☆ ☆ ☆ Why This Treatment of NG EuronesiansP ONE of the cruellest things in the social and economic set-up in New Guinea is seen in the way in which the small community of Euronesians there is treated by the Australian Administration.

Australia has shown, officially, an overwhelming concern for the welfare of the natives, and a tender regard for the Chinese community, for whom Australian citizenship and nationalisation privileges are now available; with some seeming reluctance it accords certain rights and privileges to the non-official Europeans; but it seems determined to give neither recognition nor status to the Euronesians.

There are some hundreds of these people in Papua and New Guinea.

The number is difficult to estimate, because the Administration usually classifies them with the indigenes, and not as a separate community requiring special consideration and help.

For the most part they are the descendants of unions between Europeans and indigenous New Guineans. Some are the children of unions between Asians and New Guineans.

In most cases, they are people of a good type—generally higher in intelligence and spirit than the average native. Given their proper place in society, and the benefits of education, they could be rated among the Territory’s most valuable citizens. , _ In countries like Fiji and Samoa —in fact, in all the Polynesian countries—there is a large and proud community of Euronesians, and, in most cases, these people take equal rank with Europeans, socially and industrially, to the marked benefit of the countries they live in.

The New Guinea indigenes, for which Port Moresby and Canberra 25 I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 19 59

profess so much concern, already have social security and a planned future. But the bureaucrats have nothing for the Euronesians, who are more worthy of bureaucratic attention. Officialdom would even deny to these people the name (Euronesian) they chose, as part of their organised attempt to get from Canberra the same citizenship privileges as were given the Chinese.

Is there no one who will fight for the Euronesians of Papua and New Guinea? ☆ ☆ ☆ So London Repudiates The Shameful 'Colonial 7 AN important change in the constitution and character of the British Colonial Office has followed the return to office of the British Conservative Government with a largely increased majority.

The Colonial Office, which directly governs the British Colony of Fiji, and (through the High Commission for the Western Pacific) the Protectorate of the Solomon Islands, the Colony of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands and the British side of the Condominium of the New Hebrides, is being immediately reconstituted and merged with the British Commonwealth Relations Office; and the combined departments will function in future as the British Ministry of Commonwealth Affairs.

In the century before World War I, British pioneers, traders and missionaries planted the British flag in practically every part of the world: the greatest colonising impulse in the history of mankind came to fruition; and, when the proud and glorious British Empire was challenged by an equally proud Imperial Germany in 1914, the Union Jack actually was flying over more than a quarter of the land surface of the globe.

World War I confirmed Britain’s hold over innumerable Territories.

Then came two profound and farreaching changes. The most important British Colonies, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa with Britain’s cordial blessing assumed a national life of their own and became what H. G. Wells described as “crowned republics”, within the British Empire.

At the same time, in other vast areas where population was not predominantly white —notably, in Asia and Africa —other British Territories which owed allegiance to the British Crown began to move slowly and definitely towards independent nationhood. Sometimes the process was a little painful; but generally it was approved, assisted and encouraged by Great Britain.

After World War I the British Colonial Office could not provide the machinery of liaison between the British Crown and the and rapidly-growing Domim was a new kind of relat; So the duties of overseas ; ment were divided between j Department of Commonweal lations, and the British 0 Office.

Since then, as the great Dominions have assumed complete independence uno British Crown, the duties Commonwealth Relations I ment have shrunken to little than formalities; while the 1 and responsibilities of the Colonial Office have grown s come more complex, as the ; British Colonies of Asia, Afn elsewhere have sprung toe and ultra-sensitive nationho Under the hammering of ] visionaries and babbling i the words “Colony” and "C: ism” have become ter:-: opprobrium, instead of inu an accomplishment worthy « and emulation —as they did J years.

And so the term “Colonial!, is being wiped out, and t!d “Commonwealth Affairs”, i:i substituted.

To people who know the i of British Colonialism, the in name seems exceeding!! but it is quite in line with thinking. The next move, 1 ably, will be to find a nev for Fiji, and Gilbert & EIII similar places—they mui longer accept to the sl< appellation of “Colony”.

HOME BASE By Sydneysider Sydneysiders had a real-life thriller—so far without the trick ending —in October-November, when gaol-breaks from Long Bay were chief news.

The newspapers had most fun from the fact that two girls followed the example of notorious Simmonds and Newcombe and shot through one night. The girls were recaptured in a day or two, and so was Newcombe, after being loose for a couple of weeks; Simmonds, up to November 10, was still at large.

The army-sized police-hunt that followed the escape of S & N must have allowed a lot of pixilated citizens to work off grudges against our cops. Thousands of clues and alarms, supplied by the public, had the whole Force boiling like an ant-heap and combing city and near-bush areas in some of the foulest Spring weather this century.

By November 6, when the police reckoned they had Simmonds “trapped” 60 miles north of Sydney, good old Australian sentiment was switched towards Simmonds, who was giving “the cops” such a run for their money.

Final indignity was when after a night of torrential rain at end of October, portion of Long Bay’s outer wall collapsed. As a lot of people were quick to point out—it didn’t seem to have been doing much good, anyhow. * * * DISTINGUISHED VISITOR; Airman Jan Moll, now 60, en route to festivities in Albury, NSW, where on October 24, 1934. he made history by landing his KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plane Uiver on the local racecourse.

The plane was competing in the London-Melbourne air-race (it was Melbourne’s centenary year) and lost bearings in a storm.

There were few navigational aids in those days but when Albury folk heard a plane circling overhead in the night, a local genius thought of flashing the town’s lights to dot-and-dash out "Albury”. Citizens then rushed to the racecourse in their cars to provide a primitive flare-path with headlights. Moll and his companion, Parmentier, landed the plane safely—it carried mail and four passengers—and Albuu helped them get it into the ai next morning to win the hand) cap section of the race. * * * THE LAST HI-HO; There w/ real sorrow at the death (fror cancer) on October 14 of 49-yeas old Jack Davey, Australia’s bee loved and brightest radio-T star. This New Zealander, wv arrived in Sydney in 1934 with j to his name, and had to crash! 2GB radio audition to get a j; as a crooner, was earning somr thing like £28,000 p.a. at the ee —and not from crooning. * * *

Now For The Recors

History was not given the chan to record the verdict when NS Premier Cahill died suddenly 1 a heart attack, after a reco: term of office, on October 2\i even those who had opposed hi in life discovered at the 0 that he was “a great Premie His successor is R. J. Heffn 69, who plans to “carry on whr Mr. Cahill left off.” Whether will display the same genius; keeping the boys together s? ficiently for his Government : rule with a majority of ab<( four, remains to be seen. 26 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

The Editors' Mailbag he von Hagen rial Once Looked nation about von Hagen and iced memorial at Bogadjim, District of New Guinea, is ling in, but the photograph i page is from ex-Coast- W. J. Read (now of the Lands’ Commission, Rabaul, linea) and is an unexpected I. ead took the photograph of lorial 25 years ago when he atrol-officer in the Madang At that time, it was in much e state as when von Hagen’s trected it at the turn of the (It was defaced sometime the end. of the Pacific War ing to native rumour, by a ian, but in any event by an an, an Australian who, no ieprecates the Arab mob defaced the Light Horse l 1 in Egypt during the isis). ead writes: “The monument , on the beach front at n Plantation then being i by Geoff, of the famous lily. Some significance may d the fact that the memorial ,t the entrance to the access azed by several exploratory ms of the German days into in) unknown interior, ingly the bronze plaque of mt’s head (shown in the iph) has also gone by the s well as the bronze eagle, itograph clearly shows the :, “Curt von Hagen,” bevhich there is the suggesa date. But unfortunately thy inscription on the lower the pedestal cannot be read 3 photograph—it might have me authentic light on why lorial was sited there.” eed says that he can supply )f the photograph to anyirested. agen and ipire ive had further information the r von Hagen corrects: Harry Jackman, of Rabaul r Editors’ Mailbag) who at he got his information von Hagen’s death mostly book recently published in l in a series something like oks, and called Die Regen- >on Motumotu. from Mr. Jack West, also of who tells us a little more the days when Australians were relieving the Germans of their possessions in NG: When I was at Bogadjim, in 1921 —then called Stephansort there were several bungalows, offices, a general store, and hospital. Herr Barnawitch (possibly my spelling is wrong), was still there running the store and watching the German interests such as they then were, and many are the stories he told of the Count.

The Count lived in Bogadjim bungalow and ruled an empire that extended from Modilon, in Madang. to Cape Rigney, on the Rai Coast.

He ruled as only a German could and disciplined his staff like an army. Once a month they all met at Stephansort and paraded in full and perfect dress around that halfcircle in front of Bogadjim Bungalow.

The huge house near the beach was mostly single staff quarters, plus the Stephansort Club—claimed by the Germans to be the richest club south of the equator before 1914.

The wealth came from the Bird-of- Paradise trade, for which Stephansort was the centre.

W. Hahn, owner of Dogumur, from whom I took over at Expropriation, started at Stephansort when he first arrived in NG. Like other German planters of the day, he had made the money to start his own place out of birds.

While at Stephansort, he was president of the club one year, and at (Continued on page 35) Was He Herr Or A Count?

A reader points out that the various stories that have been appearing in “PIM” about von Hagen and his monument, might give the impression that Mr. lan Skinner, District Commissioner of the Western Highlands, in whose keeping the bronze eagle now is, was responsible for removing it from its base. If this has been the impression, we certainly apologise. Mr. Skinner had nothing to do with removing the eagle. We know it came into his possession indirectly.

Several readers have expressed the hope that the base of the memorial can be removed from Bogadjim—where few people ever saw the monument—and re-erected, with eagle, as it originally was. at Mt. Hagen—which has many visitors. “PIM” would like to see this, too.

We have also been taken to task by others for calling von Hagen a Count.

There probably was some confusion between the Christian name of Curt, and the title of Count—but von Hagen appears to have been known, rightly or wrongly, by this title during his time in NG and for 20 years after.

The European title of Count is elastic, and pretty easily attached (or assumed) in those days, and the prefix “von” (which means literally “from” or “of”) usually indicated the landed gentry, or a member of the aristocracy.

This is how the von Hagen memorial looked 25 years ago. The eagle is now at Mt. Hagen.

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By Tolala Fhe recent ruling by Papua-New Guinea Land Titles nissioner, C. P. McCubbery, over a claim by natives for in the Toma area, near Rabaul, recalls probably the most ame and diabolical murder ever perpetrated by the early people and there were not a few grisly massacres around the turn of the century. itives’ claim and the Cornoner’s refusal to recognise ere reported in the Port newspaper, in which the ioner is reported to have quite rightly, too, that “the nan confiscation was still : generation natives have i convenient memories and i to recall the butchering Voolf on Varzin plantation forebears, which led to the on of certain lands by the government as further jnt to them, following a expedition by native police, igedy occurred in 1902, and ,rs later I had an account m one of the police boys pedition. The savage treathis woman by her attackers e adequately described and mltze (a niece of Queen who happened to be vlsit- Woolf at the time, had a is escape as she hid in an while the killing took place, civilisation comes to the s they must realise that ; of the fathers shall be pon the children . . .” ” Woolf, the husband of the ate victim, survived to be .ted in 1921 and passed on st a few years later. sses On film fans’ idol, Errol Flynn, irered his last curtain call a though he is resting, he the subject of storms in uarters. This is as he would ; columns written about the Press only sketchy was made of his days in nea which, perhaps, is just :or Flynn was never a very memory to many of the Guinea folk who carried their books for years and »te him off as a bad debt.

Flynnian characteristic of off his financial obligations recorded by R. W. Robson e The Trade Winds Blow o Magazine Section, this > well as by Frank Clune _,,_ , , „ m his Debunking of Errol Flynn, which apeared some years ago in the Sydney Bulletin .

It will be interesting to see whether Flynn’s prospective book, My Wicked, Wicked Life, will give a true account of his New Guinea escapades.

Philatelists, Ahoy! . ' , * , . . .. , There’s no doubt but that PIM readers have a variety of interests.

One whose hobby is philately, writes me asking about an air mail cover posted in Port Moresby on December 18, 1934, “per plane G-ABJU. Pilot Lord Semnhill (*??) This is hard to w r ite s the enmflrer aecipner, writes tne enquirer “Could it be Noel Simphlll, etc. It is addressed to Victoria.”

“Another envelope”, writes the same philatelist, “is marked ‘per favour Major Brearley. Hay-Wau,’ and is post marked ‘Hay, NSW, April 3, 1936’ over an Australian stamp; and then, over a New Guinea Bird-of-Paradise air mail stamp, is post-marked, ‘Post Office Wau 16 April 1936’. The addressee was Mr. W. T. Hooper, Box 19, Post Office, Hay, NSW’. Main enquiry is’

What exactly was the flight made by Major Brearley and was he connected in any way with aviation in NG?

Any information from readers?

Come in, please Bouquet For Private Enterprise It seems to be the invariable practice in the Australian Press that when a correspondent writes to the Editor on matters New Guinea, he harps on segregation, inter-racial rivalry, colonialism and the “arrogant” attitude of the nonnatives towards the native people.

It was therefore a pleasing change to read in The Observer (17/10/59) a letter from one, William McLaren, of Adelaide, who decried the “fantastic attitude to the settlers in NG” prevailing in Australia. “Are they to be sacrificed as the most expendible in any conflict?” he asks. And then takes a logical view of the situation, ending with: If there is a feeling of insecurity in New Guinea, it is Administration-inspired; if there is dissatisfaction in New Guinea, it is dissatisfaction not with the settlers but by them. If the settlers have no part to play in the Australian Government’s future plans for the Territory, they should be told now, not messed around with, not kept as persona non grata who pay the taxes, do the work, run the risks, and get criticised for expecting some rewards. It is about time the Government told the settlers where they stand.

For far too long has private enterprise in P-NG been made the whipping-post of political timeservers, including the chair-borne bureaucrats who pull the strings in Canberra. (Over) The Uechteriti-Parkinson wedding (see page 30): Back, Row Lebrechta Scholtze, Capt. Macco (unknown), Kaufmann, Capt. Schumacher; children, Lili, Ellen and Olga Macco, seated, Mrs. Schultze, Dolly Parkinson, Uechteritz, Mrs. Macco; in front, Robert Macco. (Over) 29 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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From my own experience iii I would be prepared to planters, missionaries and tt have done as much for the « of the P-NG natives as any istration effort. And I’ll leaver that.

The Parkinson Saga Publisher Robson’s delvingi the Parkinson history (Oct. H 77), makes nostalgic readin. those old-timers who still renr the hospitality of the Pan home at Kuradui, just ok Rabaul-Kokopo road beforn entered the Malapao plain Mrs. Parkinson remained in i ence there until the 1920’5, w heartless Expro Board movr out, which just about broke tr lady’s heart.

But she battled on with unffi spirit and it was only the privations experienced durin Jap invasion which laid her I RWR says, her remains lie somewhere in New Ireland should be re-interred in the burial ground. Her nieces Schultze (mentioned in thr item in this column) also o New Ireland during the Jap o tion.

Mrs. Parkinson’s daughter,, who married Diercke, of T plantation, down in Bougs later remarrying and becomir Haddow, died in Buka Pass the ’3o’s. Her body was ex and re-buried at Kuradui.

Rudolph Diercke, is one of tt remaining links with the Pa], family still resident in NG.

Another link is A. M. P. Uec: of Sum Sum. whose mothi Mrs. Parkinson’s youngest das Dolly, who later re-married s came Mrs. Messenger.

The photograph on previoui showing the wedding group a and Uechteritz, taken in IT Capt. Macco’s plantation ii Ireland, may be of inter readers. Mrs. Macco (in the is still alive and lives in I She was a daughter of Mrs Anne Horgren (a sister of Emma), and her daughter (also in photo), is now Mr: and lives in Bavaria.

A sister of Mrs. Macco Doellinger, wife of the populs. at Kieta during the Germaj died in Berlin two years ag So far as I know, Mrs. ParK voungest son, Paul, is the onl;J inson still living, and he is where in Australia, I Another son, Eddie, went America (?) in the ’2o’s, but that he had passed on.

And so the pioneering Pae family, which did so muchj velop early New Guinea is ally fading away.

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* f ginal the on RIGA recipe a?* WOLFSCHMIDT BS m * i t The throughout the world ;round to a condition comirate with its historical nee. to Native Names England writes a very readilumn in the NG Times and in the issue of 7/10/59 aents on the modern practice ; the prefix “Mister” before e’s name, claiming it derather than adds to the i grace and dignity of native He could not be more justil I see where Jimmy James, olumn in the SP Post supra. nt which does not seem to ised by officials who bend ckwards in their eagerness oy racial barriers, is that in ai area (at any rate) the have their own system of ignified by the use of “To” i” to designate male and names respectively. If the form of “Mr. Towaninara” ed it is redundant, meaning r. Waninara”. > silly to me. And to which ar section of the indigenous ion is officialdom pandering? ure the really worth-while lould not care less. er of Dress otograph, reproduced in an : a NG newspaper of a few tgo, was a very fair example present-day sartorial casuallich appears to be prevalent t European males generally lout the Territory, is a pity. photograph showed a Dis- Uommissioner inspecting a Dorps at a review in one of rritory’s main centres. The re no hat or coat and was (visibly) attired in shirt, tie, shorts and the usual stockings and shoes.

Ceremonial attire, or the gentle art of “Bilas”, is a natural trait of most of the native people and nothing impresses them more than good grooming, according to their standards, whether it is donning dance regalia for a ceremonial feast, or a clean shirt, tie and lava-lava to attend a church service.

And nothing pleases the native more than a similar regard beingshown for sartorial care by European or Asiatic. It is, in faci a silent compliment by the European to the native when visiting a village or native gathering. (Over)

German Eagle Returns To N. Guinea

One day, late in 1914, a party of Australian troops landed in the port of Kavieng. New Ireland, in the then German Territory of New Guinea. * This flag—the emblem of the German Empire of Wilhelm II —still was flying from the flagstaff of the Administration building, although the Germans in Rabaul had surrendered. The Lieut.-Colonel in charge of the Australians, lowered the flag and solemnly took possession of it. Soon afterwards, there was a violent row—someone had “souvenired” the “German Eagle”.

The Colonel threatened to put the whole party on bread-andwater if the flag was not returned: but he never saw it again.

By devious ways, the flag came into the possession of businessman Mr. Charles Sullivan, founder of C. Sullivan Pty., Ltd.

“I am not sure,” says Mr. Sullivan, “but I think it was pinched by a young, scallywag brother-in-law of mine, who was a member of that Kavieng party.”

However, it was put in a frame on the wall of Mr. Sullivan’s Sydney office; and there it has hung for over 40 years. Lately, someone noticed that the silverflsh were attacking the fabric.

The flag then was taken down carefully, and sent to Rabasil. to Mr. James Fulford, the Sullivan representative there; and the photograph shows the emblem being handed over by Mr.

Fulford (left i to the president of the RSL Club in Rabaul, where it will have an honoured place. From 1880 until 1914, the German Eagle was the symbol of much power and glory throughout the lands of the Central and South Pacific. 31 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER,

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Papua-New Guinea Adminis- : seems to he catching on, f the Department of Terristill enjoys pipe-dreams. At ening of the October conferf the Christian Missions workthe Territory, the Adminr, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, tat some of the natives have to believe that the governthe missions, or some one else •ovide all their needs without on their part. said that many natives were bstituting wishful-thinking for .f-help, and went on: 5 of our most important tasks develop among the native the realisation that they can e nothing of permanent value it work. jreat deal has to be done for the native people in the initial phase of their progress out of primitive tribal life, but they should be remined constantly that every pound spent on their welfare had to be earned by someone who worked harder than they did.”

Want Prohibition Among the many subjects disvexed* one of" 1“““ Missionaries voted 41 to 24 in favour of total prohibition in the Territory for all races. The motion was proposed by the Methodist Overseas Mission, although some other leading churches, including Roman Catholic and Anglican, were against prohibition.

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New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney: Children’s Annual Partv December 14, 2 p.m. to 4 p m Adult’s cocktail party, December 18 from 6.30 p.m. (Both held in the Feminist Club, 77 King Street, Sydney). cocktail 0 pSy^Delemter' IWrom l^eft." 1 ' In Feminlst C ‘ Ub ' 17 King Brisbane New Guinea Association- Annual Get-Together, December 5, at 8 p.m. in National Hotel Coffee Lounge.

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Capt. Duddell: irved as a junior officer under [ of those early masters who •ed in the photograph and it be of interest to give a brief ; of those who followed on.

Vlaclean died about 1938; W. i was killed at Darwin, iry, 1942, when Neptuna was W. Mcßride left the company 1938 and settled on the land Raymond Terrace and has died; A. W. Blain retired 1950 and is now living near •d; A. (Sandy) Campbell re company about 1942 and 1953 was lost at sea in a e off the NSW Coast in a ship he was bringing back New Guinea; Keith Morris the Torres Strait Pilots 1936 and is now retired in y.

C. Vogelmann retired in 1942 ejoined about 1954 as Marine intendent and is still acting it capacity; L. Miller was lost ia when MV Tulagi was loed in 1942; K. Perry retired t 0 and died about 1953; J. C. same ashore to BP’s Stevedor- Department about 1935, and ibout 1953; K. A. Tschaun rein 1958 but is acting as mg master when required.

McLeod Davis, Basil Helm, impbell, J. Thompson, G. E. , W. Colquhoun, A. Aitken, E.

MacFadyen, G. L. Sadler, all transferred to Torres Strait Pilot Service. V. G. Hildebrand is Assistant Harbour Master, Brisbane.

“Present masters serving in the company are Duddell ( Braeside ); Wilding ( Bulolo ) each with 33 years’ service, followed by Bickle (Burnside ); Hilder ( Malaita); MacDermid ( Malekula ); F. Sadler (Tulagi ) ; Lawson ( Montoro ) and Powell, relieving master.

“It will be noted that quite a number of our masters have gone into the Torres Strait Pilot Service, which is at present the chief means of promotion for junior officers as one of our early Marine Superintendents, Captain S. G. Green, aptly said.

“ Captain Green was once asked by a certain party ‘What is the retiring age of your masters in this company?’ He replied: ‘A hundred or death, whichever comes first.’ ” 35 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, "Memorial Should Go To Mt Hagen"

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A Visit to Keravat worth Guinea's Teak Should Be Worth A Fortune—In 50 Years By H. E. L. Friday Three musts for the visitor with an eye open around ml are the Tolai cocoa fermentaries; the Lowlands Agriral Experimental Station on the way to Keravat, which es on research work on cocoa growing and processing plying also selected seed to growers); and the Keravat sr industry and afforestation. distance from Rabaul to avat is, if I remember tly, 29 miles. The road is y in good order; it runs pleasant rolling country shady and rather beautiful, ome of the way, until we d off to take a look at one cocoa fermentaries, our car the Landrover of Mr. A. chardson, the Regional Officer at Rabaul, who sd in South Australia. >und quite a lot of timber at the Keravat sawmill, wmill, I was informed, on from higher up—meaning a—is now to be sold to industry.

Keravat country is sympa- -0 an Australian. Keravat quite like a straggling sawwnship in Queensland or 1 New South Wales. The river below was rather than usual, we were told; crocs had been seen there agnificent Plantation d the river, the land rises gnificent teak plantation of is. Teak planted only five fo —I took some colour picprove it—are already 100 ;h. The trees are growing it appears, than in other ands.

Richardson said, however, ik takes 50 years to reach urity. Then, if all goes well, ntation, which is annually ided to, should be worth a y, a few hundred acres of r ood are being grown for tralian market, planted with ir Central American seed — long term project. These ons are likewise flourishing, at is a good place to see. al forest there is now 2,000 lut this is being increased i-cres each year of new planplus as much regeneration (reafforestation) as the sawmill clears, 50 acres annually or more.

The natural forest here supplies Australia with Taun, a good hardwood for furniture and general purposes.

A eucalypt known as Kamerere, which is not allowed to be exported, has been in good local demand.

Need For Exports Both Taun and Kamerere are used for local building construction.

The fact is that following the war and up to two years ago there was a heavy demand for re-building Rabaul; but now this has slackened, and there is a need to find export markets.

Tests are being made to find out how other local timbers react to pulping processes, and their suitability for general uses like shelving, lining and peeling for plywood.

Once utility is established, a big new export market is hoped for.

On returning to Rabaul I was surprised to find that Keravat did not rate a mention in a Commonwealth booklet on the Territory of Papua and New Guinea published last year by the government printer in Port Moresby. It is sold in the Rabaul shops for 2/-.

In the page devoted to the timber industry the booklet states that the value of timber exports, including plywood, during 1957-58 was £1,265,000, and that in addition Territory sawmills supplied local requirements.

Most of the space was naturally given to the Bulolo Valley plant, established by Commonwealth-New Guinea Timbers Ltd. at a cost of £1,340,000, with its big annual manufacture of plywood; and to the activities of South Pacific Timbers, a subsidiary of BUIOI9 Gold Dredging Ltd. in the Lae District.

But as man-made forests on the Gazelle Peninsula continue to grow, and when the Keravat sawmill changes to private ownership, it is to be hoped that Rabaul will come more into the picture.

Tourist Report With A Sting From Our Noumea Correspondent New Caledonia’s complacency in regard to its tourist industry was rudely jolted in October, following the publication in a Noumea paper of a study by two American tourist experts. r[E men, Messrs. Clement and Koel, had been commissioned by ' Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) to make a study of various Pacific tourist possibilities. New Caledonia is a subscribing member of PATA through the local government.

The report stated that it was an agreeable surprise to find such a French atmosphere in a country entirely surrounded by Anglo Saxon influences. Food and wines were found excellent.

But at that early point the bouquets stopped, and on the otherside of the ledger (according to the experts) were the inconvenience of having an international aerodrome nearly 50 miles from the town; the inability of big vessels to use Noumea’s port facilities, hence the absence of big shipping lines calling at Noumea; and above all the complete absence of amuse- This tourist to New Caledonia certainly looks as if he has nothing to complain about. 37 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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for tourists. With regard latter it is a fact that the re ways of distinguishing st in New Caledonia are or her gaudy raiment; and or her air of utter ennui. ity on Noumea is nonand the two organisations ; development of tourism übsidised and the other tent-operated) work in in to each other instead of iting. Actually New Calebs need of a set-up such ; splendid Public Relations [lt is the Fiji Visitors’ that looks after Fiji’s ndustry.—Ed. P7M]. ixperts’ report recommends w Caledonians be educated to receive and entertain that better use be made r e arts and folk lore; that “marauding” licences be taxis to save tourists the earch for a taxi, ita aerodrome is too far Special studies have shown is the first 15 minutes in :y which create the lasting on. But the tourist who it Tontouta, which is situacountry that looks like the Df the moon, passes through aal building which has no and then has to make an ourney over a bad road to oumea. ;wo experts were not too i favour of the projected They did not believe that installation was a magic for bringing a cascade of o the country. But they ;hat if a serious effort were r New Caledonia, along the ggested and if every one his weight, there is no vhy the country should not at least 20,000 tourists per 10 years’ time.

Raised a Storm eport raised a storm when ed on New Caledonia’s Holy 3S, the military establish- :t is tabu here to point the : that institution but the experts’ report stated that ary base was detrimental, ingerous, to tourist traffic ■e as sooner or later, the ent devices created for are overrun by soldiers and ewspaper which carried the ;ook up this question and itly pointed out that the and sailors had always themselves well in Noumea e population had always ited this behaviour, ice that New Caledonia’s programme is not going )o well can be seen in the closing of a hotel after a peration, obstensibly because lised back road had not ted but more likely because natality to make ends meet.

At Last—Perhaps—Cheaper Air Fares Are On The Way It looks as though that long-promised reduction in international air fares is coming closer in which event it is going to be a case of it being a poor dilemma that doesn’t do someone some good.

DIRECTOR General of the International Air Transport Association, Sir William Hildred, had a lot to say about “basic dilemmas” in the aircraft industry at the 15th annual general meeting of lATA which concluded in Tokyo in October—the dilemma, of course, being how to keep the big jets that are becoming standard international flying equipment, filled with paying customers.

By the end of this year, there will be 300 jet aircraft operating, capable in total of uplifting something like 30,000 people if eachi is filled to capacity. T ?^ ci il}pH or fS of the pure jets are designed for long distance flights—even though oniy 19 per cent of the traffic offering wants to fly on . of over 1,000 miles-so rt can be seen at once that Sir William is probably right when he said: ...

We shall have to feedffl£ o^Jf S these capital ana an .

But Sir William is not without hope, and went on to say. 11 an attractive product is priced low enough, there is no limit to the amount of it which can be sold .

Airlinps need bigger markets, he said and in order to get them there must be lower tares the first time that anyone connected with the airline business has come out in the open and said it.

Pacific residents, who use air travel a great deal will know the high cost of travel, Jet-Travel Novelty In the j ast 12 months, as the j et services began to operate on international routes, operators who we re fortunate enough to be first-in, were lyrical about the boost jet travel was giving them. Speed, they sa j dj was the thing, It is perfectly true that the fact that one can now comfortably week-end in Paris from Sydney Qr gan Francisco or Johannesburg, attract the odd customer to wh £ m £1 000 means litt i e , but the airllnes are a i rea dy finding that it does not attract the 30,000 odd cus t o mers that the new jets are capable of carrying. tata meeting concluded without oyer , r'nrrpnt agreement will stand The current * hich th€ > air n nes will decide future policy, me amine* w f It is obvious that if the airlines do not do something to attract more customers, many of them are going Jet travel—whether in pure jets like the Boeing 707, or the Lockheed Electra prop jet like this, both of which are capable of carrying passengers at 400 to 500 miles per hour—is changing the air patterns, according to the airline operators. But what the passengers are waiting for is a change in fare patterns—downwards. 39 ic ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Bun-and-Tea Flights as significant, however, that lATA meeting, not even Sir i Hildred thought of giving stomer something more, for rhe stress was on the introi of third-class or “economy”

To this extent airline thinklas already changed, the ;is no longer being on bigger etter champagne breakfasts i getting more people there on a bun and a mug of tea. her flight has already altered feeding habits on short In the old days when it Dver three hours between and Melbourne a full menu istomary. These days, with ght taking not much over r, and the Electra turbo-prop t carrying twice as many jers, there is not sufficient o serve all the passengers, msiderable menu simplificanot complete elimination of it meals, is already in opera- At the same time it is inig to note that Australian ic fares rose during the and airlines began to charge msport to and from city ils and the airport, le forefront of the fight for fares are the two British nent-owned airline com- British Overseas Airways ation and British European s. BOAC lost no less than millions in its last accountir—a sum that few privately companies could sustain— directors maintain that they o better if they were allowed er fares from lATA levels ;tract more customers.

D agitation in this direction en going on for at least six i, and it is reasonably certain r en if the majority of lATA rs stick to their old fares larch, 1960, BOAC and BEA it on their own. This could trouble for a lot of airlines, e-cutting war and perhaps d of lATA—but it is hard how the paying customer 3se in the long run. Air fares leen too high for too long, the jet age does not bring m this direction, its main r> as far as the travelling is concerned, will have failed.

America is still leading in the production of the big jets. But these cannot operate economically on short range routes; their airfield requirements moreover, limit their operation to the larger aerodromes Short-Haul Airrraft snorr naui Aircraft It is already obvious that the British and Continental aircraft industries are ahead of the Americans in designing aircraft to meet this short-haul need which still represents about 65 per cent, of all air traffic. rp, , , _ , , RrT£fr^ UtC Tr Fokk ! r Friendship and Viscount have already established themselves in this field, Leper in Need of Money |\ EW ZEALAND’S “Leper Man", P. J. Twomey, who is field officer ™ Le P ers ’ Trust Board, Christchurch, in October, made u fjp appeals for £NZIO,OOO to prof*r e J° Ul d °l ? V( L ? ew dispensaries Solomons and the neonaes.

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Big Plan Approved igh some committee 5 still liked the idea of a .1 in the town’s centre, the lan was generally approved landed over to the Public Dr some other department lementation. that, everyone seemed to bout it. chairman (Judge Gore) E. A. James protested to the Admmistrator about the delay and the frustration; and, at long last the filling and reclamation and shaping-up of the Memorial Par£ were commenced.

That part of the job was completed in September; but the officials concerned were unwilling to proceed much further until the reclamation has “settled”, and some lawns and shrubs had taken root.

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Critical Comment on Island Missionaries Don't Send Misfits Into The Mission Field One of the most forthright and challenging addresses ever given to mission organisations interested in the Pacific Islands was heard on October 20, in Perth, when the Australian Minister for Territories (Mr. Paul Hasluck) spoke to a public meeting in the Wesley Church, Perth.

HE spoke of the numbers of mission workers in North Australia, and Papua and New Guinea, and quoted some interesting figures to show what had been done in the fields of education and medicine.

And then Mr. Hasluck went on to discuss certaip aspects of mission work in a way that is sometimes seen in secular newspapers, but rarely heard from one so highly authoritatively placed as the Minister in charge of Papua and New Guinea. Here are some of the points he made, taken from a verbatim report: Material for 'United' Nation?

In the Australian Territory there are close on two million people.

They are of many different racial types. They talk about 500 different languages. They used to be at enmity with one another.

They have nothing that even faintly resembles national unity.

They are certainly not homogeneous, nor are they yet conscious of any identity among themselves, or of any common future.

Yet we talk of their advancement towards self-government. If selfgovernment is to become a reality they will need to become conscious of themselves as one people.

They will also have to advance in civilisation. Any unity they have as a people will have to be acquired.

Any advance in civilisation will have to be based on new principles and new values that have been firmly grasped by them, and which have really replaced the principles and standards by which they previously lived. . . .

Why Do They Become Christians?

“The question we have to ask— and the politician asks it, too, just as sincerely as anyone else —is whether Christian missionary work is bringing about any fundamental and deeply-rooted change in the people,” said Mr. Hasluck.

“To put the challenge in the harshest way: Is Christianity just another white man’s custom which the native people imitate because, like a number of other white men’s customs, it appears to be an entrance ticket to a more pleasant life on earth? Or is it something which they receive into their own lives to become a vital part of their own living and being?

“In Papua and New Guinea there has been an intensive Christian missionary effort for nearly threequarters of a century.

“It is easy enough to add up figures about people who have been better fed; people who have been taught to read and write and wear clothes and to sing hymns; and people who have passed through hospital.

“But you will agree that the sum will not give the final answer to the question whether the work has been successful. . . .

“As I have moved around the Territory, seeing a good deal of the native people at various stages of their advancement, in all districts, I have been struck forcibly by the fact that their interests, as they become civilised, are often highly materialistic.

“Is that because, being a materialistic people ourselves, we have been unable to give them any better standard to live by than the standard by which we live ourselves?

“Or, is it because, having lived as primitive men, sometimes in hunger and often in fear of nature and their neighbours, they value [?]an be no serious argument on [?]rmous influence of the Christian [?]s in the history of the Pacific. [?]ssionaries were almost always the go into uncivilised areas - and [?]he first to lose their lives. In [?]ew Guinea especially the difficult of civilising people like these ders above still goes on, and Mission money and labour go [?]ning leper colonies like this one, [?]d by the Seventh Day Adventist [?], at Togaba, near Mt. Hagen. But [?]ssions can be criticised on some - as indicated by this report of Minister Hasluck's address. 45 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Guinea wonleNetherl t G rahanC?o e ve P rnmen k t doeLt reques't a financial grant for P-NG from one of the several international agencies that help undeveloped territories. Why, they ask, should Australia attempt to meet all the initial cost of development on its own, bit-by-bit, when a grant might allow the teething troubles of development to be overcome more quickly, and consolidation to take Vfff s l ?wi? r, 1 .

The Netherlands Government apparently looks at things differently, In October it announced it had accepted 35 million dollars aid for ands New Guinea from the KEenHuTk Community Development fund. It will be spent on special projects in the economic social spheres between 1959 and 1964 - The Projects will be in addition to projects included in the NNG annual budgets, The aid will be used for geological and agricultural research work the establishment of an agricultural research station, construction of a medical centre, the building of new roads and the improvement of existing ones, and for a survey of the composition of the native population. 47 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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[?]t Old Polynesian [?]blem Again Japanese May [?]w Some Light Thor Heyerdahl of Norhat controversial figure in >lynesian family tree, may e able to relax just slightly, ears that some other heree now entering the field. the beginning of October, Dfessor Dr. Makoto Suzuki, of ; Institute of Anthropology, u University, Matsumoto, and Professor Yoshichika of the Institute of Folk Lore gations Committee of Histories of Seto Island, Inland Sea, through Suva bound for and later for Tahiti. r are to carry out a prery survey of the evidence of t racial connections between lynesians and the Japanese.

“Japanese Migrations" tever the popular Press may iat they’re out to prove, the sors are apparently not tryprove that the Polynesians ited in Japan or that the ?se originated in Polynesia, lo plan to show, however, that were ancient migrations, )s in both directions, and xpect to bring to light a good )f material on this subject they say has been overlooked ored.

The professors, whose visiting cards are inscribed "Japanese Scientific Investigation of Polynesia, Central Citizens Hall (Kominkan), Kure, Japan”, said in Suva that very little scientific literature on Polynesia exists in Japanese translations. They hope to contribute to the need of Japanese students in this particular sphere.

The preliminary survey in Polynesia is expected to take perhaps six months, so a good many people are likely to meet the professors and hear their ideas during that period.

Knowing Where You Stand In Fiji Unconfusing The Immigration Laws If the recommendations published by a committee in regard to anomalies in Fiji’s immigration and residential laws are adopted by the government, much of the confusion and dissatisfaction now existing should be removed, r!ERE will be no easing, however, of the law as it applies to alien wives (or husbands) or children of persons holding residential status in Fiji. Thus it will be no easier for Fiji-born Chinese or Indians, who frequently marry in China or India, to bring those relatives to Fiji. It will also be no easier for other Pacific Islanders to settle in Fiji. And aliens, no matter how long they may have lived in the colony many of the Chinese apparently fall within this category —will still not be exempt from the residential restrictions. The solution to their particular problem, the report says, is that they should apply for naturalisation.

The general criterion, as in the past, would be that “only those persons who can assist the Colony in its many aspects and those persons who are worthy of belong- There's A Market For The Exotic In addition to there being an unlimited market for Islands dried bananas in the United States—and even in Hawaii—there is also an equally avid market for many other products that are, or could be, produced in the South Pacific, according to Mr. B. Proweller, of Suva, who' returned there in October after making a market survey in the US. (See " PIM”, October). , , , , . .. .

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Committee preparing the reonsisted of Mr. Justin Lewis, Solicitor General; Mr. Vishnu Deo Mr. K. K. T. Mara, Mr. C. L Cheng, and Mr. Noel McFarlane.

A giant petrel, banded south of Mount Harrison, on Australia’s southern territory of Macquarie Island, on February 24, 1959, was found dead on a beach near Nadivakarua village at the south-west end of Vanua Levu Island, Fiji, 122 days later and 2,400 miles away.

The find, made by a Fijian boy, Aloisio Ranasoisoi, was a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the movements of these birds.

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Who Works at What in Fiji FIJI labour statistics for 1958 recently published show a total of 23,566 persons employed on wages. Of these, 11,462 were Indian, 10,142 were Fijian and other Pacific Islanders, 628 were Chinese, and 1,334 were Europeans. The total population then was about 375,000.

Self-employed persons or familymembers not actually in receipt of a fixed wage are not included.

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[?]er The Wartime Trails [?]he Top Secret Files Had Mouldered rom a Rabaul Correspondent an underground room at il where once the brains 5 Japanese Navy planned ; strategy, a former United Marine recently brushed the dust of 15 years. the communications equip- ;nt that once lined the walls d gone; the maps and tops t files had long-since jred; and the busy urgency d longer there. their places were lines of » and rows of bottles, for the ;round room which was once Dp South Pacific Japanese intelligence centre is now f the liquor store of Rabaul’s ruinea Club. former Marine who made the j pilgrimage is Lt.-Col.

C. Hayes, who served on Icanal and is now re-visiting Pacific battle areas, is writing articles for the ;s’ magazine, Leatherneck, hting changes which have >d in former centres of war.

Home For Christmas (S hopes to be back at his in Washington for Christmas an absence in the Pacific >, Australia and New Zealand rly six months. ! scars of war are healing,” d on his arrival at Rabaul Santas flight from Bougain- >aid: “Where the great airwere once filled with life I today only wide swaithes cut h the trees and already i with dense undergrowth. ! tunnels and caves at Rabaul lling in, although it is nice some of them put to good e such as your liquor store n the biggest landmarks of ittle, the wrecked ships, are earing as the salvage teams | work or as the rust eats lem.” ss expressed deep apprecia- >f the assistance which his n had received from Pacific residents, from governments administrations, and from s Empire Airways.

The Search For "Boussole"

There is always fascination in a treasure hunt anrt i one i" the South Pacific for a long time has been the hunt fT the^reatrf Shi P S Whkh disa in 1788 after leaving Botany has for 00ld ars la ' e t r ' wer ? f ,rared *« a reef at Vanikoro. The nunt has not been for gold but for information. "RIM" has told much or the stories of the two most recent French expeditions, of 1958 and of Jure this year, which uncovered information on the two ships, but in this repor* Reece exDTdihons 91 f ' tlo ' nformati <>" of interest. He has taken part in both Jh t JU k e eX P ed ' tlon was to tr y to locate La Perouse's second ship Boussole and to bring back some more relics from the "Astrolabe". "Boussole" was not found but there were strong clues to its whereabouts From an account by Reece Discombe After taking part in the two expeditions to Vanikoro in search of La Perouse’s vessels, and with the information and knowledge we have accumulated, it is my view that a third expedition should be sent to Vanikoro.

IF this expedition could be equipped with modern electronic detection devices, the task of finding the remaining vessel Boussole would be facilitated.

Vanikoro is the most southern island in the Santa CriTz group. It is administered by the Government of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

Vanikoro is over 400 miles due north of Vila and 400 miles south of Guadalcanal. The estimated population of the island during the time of La Perouse was 3,500 —the present native population has now dwindled to about 100. The only industry on the island is the cutting of Kauri logs which are shipped to Australia by the Kauri Timber Co. About 12 Australians and some 150 natives recruited from outlying islands, are employed in the industry. Owing to the amount of rainfall the vegetation is abundant.

The island is surrounded by very dangerous coral reefs, which are only passable in three places. La Perouse met his fate trying to negotiate one of the narrow passages of the reef, lying a mile from the island. Between the island and outlying reefs are numerous coral niggerheads which are treacherous to navigation and make night navigation impossible.

Oldest Inhabitant On June 6, we started our search for further information on the whereabouts of the other ship Boussole and the fate of its crew.

We decided to seek out the oldest native inhabitants of the islands and to question them concerning their knowledge of the fatal expedition.

Luck was with us when we found an old man aged between 70 and 80 years, named Brown, who was the oldest man on the island. He was visiting Peu, which was our headquarters.

After tactfully questioning him for about two hours he informed us that his father had told him, when he was a small boy, how the French ships had been lost while entering the reefs. He agreed to take us to the village of Tanema, where he was born, but which had been abandoned for about 60 years, where he claimed there were crude graves where his forefathers had buried some of the crew of the Boussole.

After a run of 11 hours along the coast in the Rocinante, we anchored off the former site of Tanema, and then made our way through mangroves and jungle to the site of the village. The only remaining They Want A Belter Press An indication of the advance —or something—of the South Pacific territories is in the number of them which these days run their own public relations and publicity organisations—all aimed at getting a better “Press”.

Latest to get on the publicity band wagon is Western Samoa, which will establish a public relations office as part of the Secretariat. Its aim will be “to develop an informed public opinion, on matters relating to Self Government and New Zealand goodwill in working towards an autonomous Samoan state”. .

NZ has offered an experienced publicity man as a tutor. 53 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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of the former village were onch shells which the natives d on the graves of their dead ier with the bones and coral s which the wild pigs had since rooted out.

Heap of Stones »ut 100 yards further on gh the jungle, Brown pointed i large heap of stones under i some of the murdered seaof the Boussole were buried, wn’s theory of the fated exon was that the Boussole to enter the Makulumu pasand became stuck fast to the isole” Reef. The cannibal ;s, taking advantage of the ion, captured and killed the i crew. Those killed were evenwashed ashore among the roves where they were finally id with stones. i fate of the captured men can lagined, although it was not ted by Brown. i Boussole, he claims, refloated from the reef and drifted to become finally wrecked on laise Point on Tivai Island, •ing the next four days, we ntrated on the wrecked labe using explosives to blast heavily encrusted coral. After charge, various items of insuch as cannon balls, anchors, rods, brass wire, broken ery and bottles, buttons, kegs ills, etc., etc., came to light, if which provided excellent *ial for filming.

Sunken Ship? er Jack Barley and myself north to examine a smaller reef which the natives claimed was a sunken ship completely encrusted with coral.

After a closer examination by diving, this story was proved untrue, as the water surrounding it was too deep. Exploration of the Naun-ha Island, about h mile further on, revealed a piece of iron 6 ft long, 1 inch in diameter, heavily encrusted with coral, it being of the same texture of the iron previously taken from the Astrolabe.

More information from the village of Vanu revealed that crockery had been found on the beach after heavy seas, so following up this theory we set natives to work digging the location wh/fre the crockery was found.

After several htfurs of digging, pieces of crockery were found, the design of which coincided with the design of the crockery found on the Astrolabe. The pieces of crockery and tie iron found on Naun-ha Island, indicate that Dillon’s theory, thit the Boussole was wrecked on Vajiu, may be correct.

In the next few days, with the use of a barg« kindly loaned to us by the Kauri Timber Co., we anchored ov/r the scene of the Astrolabe wreck and with several boys began Hauling in various items which we had uncovered through dynamiting (ov er) T key’ll Ring Each Other Up oser border relations are to established between P-NG i NNG—by telephone.

"he main towns of adjoining •der districts, Daru and rauke, and Wewak and Holdia, have been linked by me, as well as adjoining :rol posts, Waris and Green )er and Mindiptana and ingu. According to an anincement from Hollandia in tober the patrol posts of rub, Sibil and Telefomin I be linked in the future.

This,” said officialdom, “will ther result in personal ties ween Government officials Honed in the border districts, I which for the present will confined to the exchange of vernment reports.” 55

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Jungle Lookout osite the wreck of the Astroit Ambi, on the side of a overlooking the whole of the rn coast of Vanikoro, is a ig surrounded by jungle which itives claim was the lookout >y survivors from the Astro- Dr passing ships, itive guide and myself landed ,r as we could to the clearing len proceeded to cut our way h the crocodile infested manand swamps, up the ridge 3 clearing which we found d by fern about 5 ft in make a closer investigation have required a number of ith knives to clear the underi. Unfortunately, owing to f time, we were not able to it. .825, Durmont d’Urville, was ut from France with an exm in search of La Perouse, iched Vanikoro 37 years after appearance. In honour of the sxpedition, D’Urville erected a nent on the island of ai, amongst the mangroves, iturday, June 20, we decided to locate this monument, re reaching Manevai, we d at Mausoleum Bank and gated further the heap of in the clump of mangroves, in our last expedition rea very ancient copper coin had apparently been placed a monument as a good luck by D’Urville, Mausoleum Bank Island not the location as indicated in lie’s book, we crossed to ai Island and found what have been his monument. As iras running out, the location ot fully explored, and so we ed to Peu.

Inscription he cross erected on the outer /as being badly damaged by ugh seas, we decided to erect monument in the village of 1 the honour of La Perouse. the necessary arrangements )een made for the site, we ucted a monument utilising some of the materials taken from the Astrolabe. The plaque was conducted from lead shooting and inscribed as follows (in French and English) : To

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We made a return trip, to the scene of the wreck, where continued dynamiting revealed three cannons of about three-quarters of a ton each, which we brought to the surface, with the aid of empty drums. In addition more anchors anc * a Russian coin dated 1734, with Peter I stamped on one side.

There still remained one more village where we had not sought information. Dr. Haroun Tazzief and myself proceeded to this village, Boma, where we met the oldest native woman on the island who was very reluctant to talk, However, she claims that there was a ship wrecked in the vicinity of Naun-ha Island.

We also learnt that the natives have a song of the wrecked ship, but to extract the words of the song is most difficult and one would have to live in the village several days to gain the confidence of the natives. 57 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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In view of Mr. Whitton’s attendance at the sale it was particularly noticeable that no Rabaul butchering interests were represented.

Within 24 hours of the walls of the Suva Military Cemetry being repaired and painted in October part of them had been broken down and defaced by vandals. Fiji frequently suffers outbreaks of vandalism.

Nominated Members "Can Be Critics” rpHE position of nominated mem- A bers in Fiji’s Legislative Counci' was made clear by the Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, in his opening address to the newly elected Council in October.

He said that nominated members were most valuable because it was clearly desirable that the Council should have the opinions and advice of as many sections of the population as possible.

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Coffee Costs Need To Be Lower New Guinea Highland coffee plantations are equal to the best in America, according to Professor Y. Baron Goto, Hawaiian and coffee expert who concluded a three weeks visit to NG coffee areas on October 18.

By a Staff Writer This was Dr. Goto’s second visit to the Territory to ade coffee-producers. The first was in early 1956 when the jority of plantations were new-planted and not then in iring. That visit was sponsored by Colyer Watson (NG) 1., the Bank of New South Wales, Mr. R. F. Bunting, the mmonwealth Bank and the Highland Farmers’ and Settlers’ sociation.

October visit was arranged id financed by Colyer Watson terests and the Bank of NSW was designed, primarily, to planters on processing for market, most of the itions, in the 3i years between oto’s visits, having come into g. overall coffee picture in New a today had some agreeable ses for Dr. Goto but he also ed some of the problems ar to the NG industry and sed them with planters.

Most Urgent Need Goto thinks that a uniform g system for processed beans 5 most urgent need of the at. He feels that standardised > should be established at while the industry is in its y. This could be done by all ig being done with screens iform size, and the various ■ of beans being called by irdised grade-marks—A, B, C, (In order to get his message a groups of planters, Dr. Goto yed a peculiarly Australian ■a can of VB beer. The ler didn’t have to open the ind try the beer, he told rs; he knew what it was to be like before he tasted d NG coffee planters should t the same thing—merchants ;hout the world should know they were getting simply by g at the NG grading marks).

Bush Kanaka Labour re is more in good coffee, of . than the size of the bean Dr. Goto advocated uniform sing methods for good liquor les.

Dr. Goto sees it, the New Guinea planters’ biggest problem is untrained and inefficient labour— either local casual labour or raw labour recruited from the bush to work for 18 months to two years.

In South America, generations of coffee-plantation workers live on the same estate, just as in India and Ceylon the workers are closely identified with tea estates. In this way, with whole families living and growing up on plantations there is a continuity of skilled labour that regards coffee picking and processing as a life-time work.

Although there is not the same close identification with estates in Hawaii, labour on coffee plantations there is far in advance of anything in New Guinea, As one example of this, Dr. Goto said that a Hawaiian worker picked an average 300 lbs of coffee in a day. In New Guinea, the average was from 40 lbs to 100 lbs, with 100 lbs considered very good. Although NG native wages are only a fraction of Hawaiian wages, Dr. Goto thinks the idea of “cheap, black labour” will be eventually exploded as a myth so far as NG coffee is concerned.

He thinks that a NG worker’s picking capacity could be stepped up simply by providing receptacles that fasten round the waist so that he could use both hands for picking. (Over) What Future For Nuts ?

Dr. Goto prefaced his coffee visit to New Guinea with a look at Northern NSW. His interest there was in Macadamia units —called also Queensland or Australian hush-nuts. However, the professor’s interest wasn’t botanical as most people assumed; he was trying to track down something about the mysterious John Macadam who is alleged to have given his name to the nuts that are a quarter-million dollar industry in Hawaii these days.

IT seems that the people who grow and package these nuts in Hawaii want to put a bit of historical blurb in the packages, and had asked Dr. Goto to look into the origins of this Macadam. When we caught the professor, mid-way between arriving from New Guinea and going on to New Zealand and home, there wasn’t much time to discuss his discoveries about Macadam except to find that he hadn’t learned very much and discounted most of that. ~ J We did find out, hpwever, that Hawaii’s present planting of 3,000 acres of Macadamias all came from six seedling trees that were taken there from Queensland years ago.

From these six, the University of Hawaii developed seven superior strains but most of the plantings in Hawaii today are from only two or three of these. A soft-shelled variety has not been developed, although means have been perfected in Hawaii for dealing with the very hard shell.

Shelled Macadamia nuts bring the highest prices of any nuts—about $2 88 per lb in Hawaii, where about 75 per cent, of the crop is sold; and an average of about $4 per lb in the US to where the rest is (Continued on top of next page) Professor Y. Baron Goto, in Sydney after his tour of New Guinea coffee growing areas. For photographs of his tour, see Pacific Report this issue. 61 ,F IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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All Inquiries to our Export Organisation; Turners Supply Company Limited Box 1370, Cables: Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco”, Auckland. l transportation cost was ir problem peculiar to the nds coffee areas (coffee areas ,u have an all-weather road outlet to a sea port). ough the Highlands will have sonable road to the coast the next few years, it is unfor some time to come that ng road-haul will be any r than present air transporta- Both means are expensive dd considerably to the cost luction of coffee —not in gethe processed coffee - out for but in bringing in basic dities, including fertiliser.

Goto believes that coffee •s in New Guinea will someave to achieve a lower cost iduction which basically more efficient production Is —in order to meet probably tver prices for coffee than at ; ruling. aid that in New Guinea, a :ss f u 1 coffee plantation ed on the efforts of the in- ,l planter. Where the planter adopted good farming les, had provided the right conditions, had drained his nd was a hard worker hims coffee plantation was equal best in the world, of his greatest surprises on md visit, he said, was to find ime areas which he had, in msidered doubtful for coffee I, had been turned, by the methods adopted by the into excellent coffee planta- Dear Fertiliser all planters were using sr—which cost about £lOO landed at Goroka —but they ne at it eventually, Dr. Goto as the natural fertility of 1 diminishes with continued g. Overseas experience has that there is a distinct relip between fertiliser apn and yield. ig his three weeks in New , Dr. Goto visited the whole ids coffee growing area, from f Mt. Hagen to Kainantu; so coffee areas in Morobe at Wau and the Markham farmers in the Markham who have been growing rice, ; and other crops, are hing anything up to 30 or is of Robusta coffee. Dr. sgan and ended his entirely ■ul New Guinea visit, in the im lowland coffee areas to vice to growers there whose is not yet in bearing. al colour and black and 6 mm films on Netherlands luinea have recently been X) the library of the Nether- Information Service in and may be borrowed on tion. exported. As these prices indicate, it is strictly a luxury trade.

Little interest has been shown in commercial exploitation of Macadamias on their home ground or in the South Pacific Islands where they could also be cultivated—probably because Australia has not the market potential for a high-cost product of this sort A long article in PIM in April, 1954. discussed potential Macadamia nut culture at length and also suggested that there should be more exploitathe gali P (or narli) nut of the SW Pacific.

As a result of this article, there was a prompt inquiry from Hawaii information on the galip nut. lhat letter was passed on to the New Guinea Director of Agriculture who immediately airmailed 2 lbs of gahp “seed nuts” to the potential Hawaiian producer (PIM, October 1954, p. 98).

It would be interesting to know how these trees are coming along or whether they have survived at all. Maybe they have become the basis of another Hawaiian industry which has received the thumbs, down signal south of the Line. 63 THLY NOVEMBER, 1959 Ma<*ada mia Nuts (Continued from previous page)

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GO TO WAR ie Kingdom of Tonga has :ription but the enemy the conscripts learn to fight beetle. •om a Correspondent in Tonga j Tongan males over the age [ 16 are bound by law to spend ie day a fortnight working in m to bunt for the Rhinoceros which is the enemy of the ut palm, and to clear the d of rubbish and rotting trees event the pest from breeding. 00l teachers, shop assistants, •nment clerks, school boys and ters of religion are all among who must give up work for ly to go beetle hunting, ption is only granted to those l medical certificate. Defaulters ibject to a court fine of £2/10/r for each day missed, or one i’s detention, so not many pt to shirk duty.

M. Muller, who supervises the campaign in Vavau, puts out :ular report of the result of eetle searchers, and a typical t report, from July 13 to >t 8 showed that 3,754 workers iaken part in the hunt and found 44 female beetles, 18 , and nearly 18,000 in the egg Dupae stages”.

Still Only in Vavau tunately, the Rhinoceros has got no further than the i group in Tonga. Regulations been in force for nearly seven to keep it out of the southern s of Haapai and Tongatapu. jassengers travelling by sea Vavau to the southern groups to have their bedding and fumigated before they go, and tier luggage is inspected before ture and on arrival. ting yachtsmen who make i their first port of call are shocked to find that they are llowed to call at Nukualofa or ai, for those places must be i first. Because of the beetle, i must be the last port of call i the Kingdom. y the two Government vessels : and Hifofua are allowed to Vavau and then return to alofa. But then they always to stand a mile off shore at when they are within the iom, for the beetle flies at It’s An Air-minded Hotel The only hotel in the South Pacific which has its own airstrip and aerial transport is Korolevu Beach Hotel at Sigatoka, Fji.

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The photograph above shows the hotel, which has native style thatched bungalows for its guests, spread around the foreshores of the bay. Across the main Suva to Nadi road, in the background, is the airstrip. Below, on the strip with the Piper, are Mr. French, Fiji Airways’ Chief Engineer Ken Boehm and Mr. Clark.

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E of the stories carried with em a specific date for the rising, but in most cases the did not tally. November 10, one story; November 15, ;r. One wag suggested that iber 5 would be more >riate. i the local Press was all set 1 with an account of the when two Rabaul businesssuggested that the matter be far too damaging and was j the sphere of local responournalism. r arguments prevailed, and Dry did not see the light of But as one Rabaul man i out later: “The more we bout it and talk about it, the cely it is to happen”.

Nothing New fact is, as borne out by a , that there is basically g new in the rumors. Stories r type have been coming and for at least 15 years, and ily longer. Neither is there ng new in the current crop nors that could make the lity of an uprising any r than it was years ago. present collection of “talk” ily first reached the semistage at a meeting late in iber of Rabaul sub-branch of 3L. ember said that he had heard circulating about the lity of an uprising, and he ted RSL action, or at least sion, in the matter. The t was ruled out of order, and ropped immediately. Never- ; the mere mention of it had sufficient to add fuel to the md so the story went the >. its more popular form, the tipped November 10 for the b day and said that the main s would be between native hinese elements. Knives were issued, together with instructor their use. man who has lived at Rabaul for nearly 30 years even claimed to have knowledge of how the natives were going to divide up the land which they would obtain.

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Another responsible planter who lives on the North Coast and who has been in the Rabaul district for many years admitted that he was sleeping with a gun nearby for the first time in his life.

It is significant, however, that almost identical stories went the rounds after the double murder at Rabaul nearly three years ago of a young couple, and on another occasion three years earlier following a land dispute; and in the week-end following the first sitting of Mr. Justice Mann’s inquiry at Navuneram, in 1958.

Police and district services men nave checked, and their findings are reassuring.

It is not denied that discontent and rebellious feelings are prone to settle at times on certain native elements in New Britain. This however, is a by-product which cannot be avoided while the present policy of pouring money, time and services into the native community is continued.

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The Real Story of the Laughlan Island Castaways Seven Went, But Five Came Back How much does a native tell a European? Usually only as much he native wishes. About six months ago , a canoe party of ■jhlan Islanders of Papua were blown away from home waters and ly reached the Solomon Islands. They were returned eventually apua in MV “Tulagi” and Captain Brett Hilder, of “Tulagi”, told thing of their adventures in June “PIM”. story the castaways told in g Solomons, to Brett Hilder, d in New Guinea, to some was a much abridged version it really happened, and Mrs.

Neate, of Woodlark Island, a ;r of a family which has been irs amongst these people, now ;he full story.

Laughlan Island people were illy of Woodlark Island stock ;o be more explicit, Murua as they came from the i end of the island. The rs of the Madau area, at the te end of Woodlark, have a itely different name although itive name for the whole of ark Island is Murua.

Becalmed break-away Laughlan grs have now evolved a ge of their own and no longer gr themselves to be Muruas gh there is much interige between the two areas anoes make the trip across frequently. canoe that drifted to the ms was one of six, and they iot on their way to Woodlark, ed, but back to the Laughlans. with home in sight, they were ted. The terrific tide-rip nakes that stretch of water f the best fishing grounds 1 Woodlark, caught them mid-day when, Murua i, they were completely disited in bestirring themselves, to the extent of paddling gives into the shelter of the As darkness settled that with still no wind to aid Budi-Budi lay low on the n and that was the last they :o see of it for a couple of s. Two of them never saw in. ge weeks later, Gladstone, a -Bogga boy who is captain r launch, brought the news ne of the canoes that had set o the Laughlans was still g, with seven passengers on is in Samarai at the time and usband asked me to inform istrict Officer. I did so and he contacted Port Moresby. A few days later he was able to tell me that the canoe has been cast ashore in the Solomons and that all five on board were alive. When I returned to Woodlark I questioned Gladstone, but he could not be shaken from his original statement that there had been seven on board.

Second to Die In May the wanderers returned.

With them came the Samarai Sub- Inspector of Police under whose care they had been placed when the Tulagi dropped them at Samarai. One of our first questions was who were the two who had died, but the Sub-Inspector replied that the natives were adamant that there had never been more than five on board. He was completely astounded, therefore, when the wanderers about-faced and told my husband and Gladstone full details of the drift and the two who had died.

Old Ted, as we knew him, had lasted to within four or five days of their reaching the Protectorate.

He was no relation of the others in the canoe—his people had been in one of the other five canoes which had set out from Woodlark He was the second to die; the first was a small boy of about four, son of Misilesana who is shown at the extreme left of photograph you published in June. The child died after the canoe had been drifting for about two weeks.

Three days after the survivors got back to Woodlark, Gladstone took them on to the Laughlans, but Misilesana insisted on disembarking at Kumerau Bay, at the Gosopa end of Woodlark. He has since died there.

He and Misimakeni, who is shown next to him, partly obscured, in your photograph, were brothers: Kuboi the only woman in the party, is their sister. Misitalesi, shown next to Kuboi, is their uncle, on their mother’s side.

Although they were in the Solomons during the visit there of the Duke of Edinburgh, they are extremely reticent about this as well as about most of the things they saw. No doubt the threeweeks nightmare drift, coupled with all the strange things that burst upon them when they made their debut into civilisation, just relegated a Royal Visit to a minor place in the many things that happen in the world outside Budi-Budi.

These are the Laughlan Islanders who made the long canoe drift, photographed by Capt Hilder and first published in June "PIM"

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[?]A Finds Samoans Just [?] Round the Clock [?]t No Ear For [?] Classics puty representative for the alasian Performing Right iation in New Zealand, Mr.

Mackinnon, the man who i Fiji and Western Samoa in June (June, PIM, p. 145), the object of making everyone pay more for listening to , got back home safely and reattended the APRA conferin Sydney. had some quite interesting ; to tell the conference—and iece of additional information hat Fiji has had an APRA whose job it is to collect fees, 1923, and that that agent is nown Fiji solicitor, Mr. R. d, who is also chairman of the Broadcasting Commission.

Mackinnon said that in Fiji d run into a snag with cinema tors over the basis of payment is, but finally agreement had reached which should work itisfactorily. The cinemas, he ire mostly run by Indians for is; they screen Indian films, vhich APRA is not concerned, ir or five nights out of seven. thing that surprised Mr. nnon about these Indian films lat often they introduced five vocal pieces which held up ;ory and seemed to have no :tion with the plot.

"Surprised" lA, of course, claims performghts on songs and music in Liropean films that are shown ; remaining two or three days week.

Mackinnon was surprised to > many as five cinemas operati a place like Nadi, with a al population of only 5,000. e had a look at their books, :ound that the audience at performances was as low as 20 to 30. it struck him in Fiji was the mce of the cinema run by 'Jew Zealanders in Suva as rtable and efficiently run, he is cinemas in Sydney or Auckand an example to other is capitals.

Samoa he found a “peculiar” ). rt from the one cinema in most of the screening was in small village halls or in pen air. Four people controlled these shows; one of them served 17 villages with a travelling cinema.

As for the radio set-up, the Samoan Broadcasting Service was controlled by a member of the Executive Council. The Apia station had Mr. C. H. Turner as station manager with a European and native staff.

Islands Music In a village of perhaps 60 houses you might hear 10 radio sets tuned up to full volume, said Mr.

Mackinnon. Hawaiian-type music and rock ’n’ roll was very popular, but Samoans, he said, seem never to have heard any classical music until the other day, when excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” were put on as an experiment.

With a European population numbering no more than a few hundred perhaps the neglect of classical music was not surprising however regrettable: Samoans themselves certainly had no idea of classical music at all.

That’s what Mr. Mackinnon said, anyhow.

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Where Islanders [?] Meet Move For A P-NG Group By a Staff Writer ie word has gone around ey and the Islands that the Guinea Bar is not what is.

S talk is that the bar, in ydney’s well known hostelry f Ushers, is losing some of ientele—that New Guinea men congregate there as often as have. almost 30 years it has been centre of Papua-New Guinea when the boys are in town, as “Ethel’s bar” (after the aid who ran it), and comively recently as the “New 3a Bar”, with its own sign i book for addresses, and the newspapers, and everything.

"Ethel's" Day en the original Ethel left, PIM the fact—in its issue of nber, 1939 —in these words: iere is dismay in remote s in New Guinea, and itations among hard-boiled ?ers in the Solomons. Certain ig men in distant Fiji have *ed a day of mourning. For news has gone forth that i’s bar’ no longer exists in a mown Sydney hostelry, and Miss Ethel Paulter, a sunnyed woman who created a e Islands institution, has reinto private life. For years ’s bar’ has been a rendezvous islands men on furlough in ;y. Almost any day, one could there men from the Islands — t always divided into groups ling to Territories. le went there to inquire after friends and acquaintances, or t the latest news of home— i’ always could be depended for the latest and most le information. One entrusted dth messages for one’s friends, t with her a few £5 notes, to le against that inevitable sad /hen one must face the hometrail, stoney-broke. And one led one’s secret ambitions and and sorrows to ‘Ethel’ —it was ff her that, if she ever talked, vould wreck all the Governs and half the homes in five tones. To Islands men, ey, without ‘Ethel’s bar’, will erely a place like Melbourne.”

But of course, when Ethel left it was not really the end of the bar at all. There was a long succession of other ladies who served the amber fluid and listened, with as much attention, to the peculiar problems of the men from the Territory. One or two of them even married Islands men. It became also, less of an “Islands” bar, and more of a New Guinea bar.

And, of course, Sydney without a New Guinea bar would not be like Melbourne, because Melbourne these days has a bar, too, in Phair’s hotel, which was popular following the inauguration of the Papua- New Guinea Association in Melbourne about two years ago.

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As the calamity howling over Ethel’s departure, 20 years ago, was not warranted, the chances are that the New Guinea Bar at Ushers is good for yet another 20 years despite the reported falling-off in New Guinea custom. Meanwhile, however, another spot has been growing up in Sydney as a common meeting ground for New Guinea people—Toby’s Tavern in King Street, just below Castlereagh Street, and only a stone’s throw from Ushers. Toby’s is not a bar.

It is licensed restaurant under the command of Jerry Kearney (who got his name in the Sydney newspapers recently as chef at an openair barbecue tendered for Princess Alexandra of Kent).

Kearney has taken an interest in New Guinea affairs, and for about eight years now his tavern has been an unofficial meeting place, especially for patrol officers of the Australian School of Pacific Mine host Jerry Kearney looks the real picture of a chef as he barbecues steak and eggs for Princess Alexandra of Kent. See story. 73 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Glaxo L.xo.xtox.u IN 2 . Ltd . P.l-.«to» No.th, N i. inistration, and their wives or friends. tely, there has been a move, sored by ASOPA men, to form ew Guinea Association after style of the one operating in lourne, except that it would an extremely loose organisawith no office-bearers or ings.

A NG Book, Too e suggestion is that Jerry ney’s premises would make a unofficial centre, because ney himself is happy to put Guinea people in touch with other, and will instal a book, e possibility of establishing an organisation was first disd some months ago by Assis- District Officer Bill Brown, stationed at Telefomin, who ssed it with Patrol Officer John iey and other PO’s doing es at ASOPA. ;rol Officer Des Murphy, who lis year’s president of the 3 A Students Union, said in )er: “The union will be happy Derate as a contact for New ea people, together with ney. Relations between Adoration people and private prise in P-NG have always close. New Guinea people have le same community of interests sver their jobs, and down on , as in the Territory, they mix tier. e suggest that any New Guinea e in town—male, female, gold- :, planter or judge, it’s all the —contact somebody at the i on the ASOPA phone >er, or Jerry Kearney, if they to be put in touch with is or others down on leave, lice bearers of the Union will je from year to year, because >oys are only doing one-year es now, but there will always omebody to carry on the ct work. There will be some s organised, too. We have a ne arranged for early Novema New Guinea Cabaret Ball, Lrst of its kind, which should i to the small hours.”

French Protestant Missions In Pacific Islands has been noted, with regret, the French Protestant Mission, i operates in New Caledonia Tahiti, has been omitted from otherwise complete lists of i Pacific Mission Societies in detail in the Pacific Islands Book of 1959. 3 ARENTLY, this happened beause most of the missionary rganisations working in the ic Islands have representatives Sydney, where our data is sred; whereas the French «tant Mission has its headquarters in Paris, and apparently no representative in Sydney.

The organisation—usually known as “the Paris Mission”—was established in 1822, and is the principal French Protestant Missionary Society. It operates extensively in Africa and Madagascar and, in the Pacific, in N. Caledonia and Tahiti.

It took over the work of the London Missionary Society in Tahiti in 1863, and in New Caledonia in 1898.

The Society claims that more than half the people of Tahiti are Protestants and that there are 12 missionaries and 45 Tahitian pastors working in French Polynesia under the presidency of Pastor Albert Jacot.

It is claimed, also, that there are 20,000 Protestants among the natives of New Caledonia, and that most of the natives of the -Loyalty Islands (adjoining) are Protestants. In these two groups, nine missionaries and 92 native pastors are working under the direction of Pastor M A. Ledoux.

One of the recommendations made by the chief engineer of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service during his recent visit to Fiji as a consultant to the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, is for the transfer of the transmitters from Tamavua.

Certain parts of Fiji suffer from poor radio reception from all of the four transmitters now in operation. The suggestion now is that the Suva transmitters—one on short-wave and two in the broadcast band —be transferred to a site near Wainimbuka a few miles from Nausori Airport. 75 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Side Issues On The P-NG Tax Fight Who Voted For Whom, And How Goes Trade And Commerce?

From a New Guinea Correspondent If the matter ever was in doubt, there is certainly none 3w about how the residents of Papua-New Guinea have reirded the recent fight by the Taxpayers’ Associations in this erritory. 3T month’s election, and resiglation, of the three Taxpayermpported candidates for the dative Council was a victory, ything went more or less acng to plan and the weeks since resignations have shown that Guinea people are generally in ;ment with the stated prin- -3 of the Associations. This is cularly so in regard to the for conducting a wide scale imic inquiry before considering and in protesting against the ler in which the present tax introduced. latever happens within the few weeks, Canberra ought to forget that general public ide. ere have been, however, a ier of interesting side issues developments. There was, for nee, the fuss surrounding the ?ht-from-the-shoulder, first last speech, of Mr. Jack per at the Legislative Council irted October PIM ). Taxation nation elements in Port sby dissociated themselves some of his opinions and the nr even grew that Mr. per’s own association, the New ea Taxpayers’ Association, was jased.

Mr. Chipper's View Is was quickly scotched in ul by the president of the :iation, Mr. Dudley Jones. . Chipper’s own feeling was of disappointment that an ;nt of the Port Moresby assom had thought fit to break from the unity of the taxacause. “They started running they smelt the powder burnhe said. ravelled from Port Moresby to ul with Mr. Chipper after the lative Council meeting and impressed by the number of e at all points who congratu- Mr. Chipper on his states and the stand which he had i. . Chipper admitted that some is remarks might have been :reet “if uttered a year ago”.

He said that since then the situation had drifted so badly that tact and euphemism were no longer of value. This had prompted him to make a bald statement of affairs, in an attempt to drive home the urgency of the situation.

“If a small section of the community can’t take hard facts, it is just bad luck,” he said.

Mr. Thomas 7 Position Another side issue has concerned the position of the defeated Islands candidate, Mr. W. T. Thomas, who stood against Mr. Chipper. Mr.

Thomas is a Kokopo district planter.

Claims have circulated to the effect that the Islands election degenerated into a “Rabaul v. Kokopo enmity campaign”, and that Mr.

Thomas was let down by the very people from whom he had expected support. Neither claim is true.

It cannot be denied that there is a great diversity in economic thought, personal life, and general opinion between the two places. (Over) One Shake in a Life-time Suva residents need expect an average of only one—or maybe t™°~heavy earthquakes in a lifetime, according to geologist Robert Houtz, of the Fiji Lreological Survey, who recently prepared a survey of the situation.

According to Mr. Houtz—who is mindful of the fact that a man can drown in a river of average depth six inches—the statistics show that shocks of force six or higher, which are of the seriously damaging type, should occur only every 79 years, with a possible error of 27 years each way, in areas of dense population.

The actual number 'of force six earthquakes in the Colony as a whole will average much higher. For example II such shocks have occurred since 1932.

Fijians Receive Their Trophy At a ceremony at Honolulu's lolani Palace in October, Governor William Quinn with Pan American Airways Pacific Alaska Division executive vice-president, Robert B. Murray, Jr presented the Fiil Military Band with the trophy the group won as the best marching unit in the recent San Francisco Festival parade. The presentation was made on behalf of Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco, who had appointed Mr. Murray as general chairman of the citywide saluting the 44 Pacific basin countries. Receiving the trophy were Capt. S. L.

Masi, left; and Bandmaster Kim Cava. 77 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1959

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Didn't Let Him Down re damaging is the suggestion Mr. Thomas’ own people in po let him down. To under - 1 this point of view means first 3fine what is meant by “his people”. To think simply in ; of the Kokopo electorate is rect, because the bulk of po voting power comes from pope Roman Catholic Mission, feet a town in its own right, ated policy was to support the ayers’ Association ticket. other words, Mr. Thomas’ imite supporters are in the Koplanting community, and is nothing to prove that they im down. It was not their if the mission swung a greater I power. )ther big issue hanging over ?erritory as the taxation turcontinues to seethe concerns fleet, if any, on the commerife of the community.

What Of Trade? urvey over the past few weeks indicated that opinions held one businessman to another widely, although tending to ato three main groups. ; first group claims that there een no change, or at least no leant change; the second ada mild slump, but believes tions will again stabilise in a aratively short time; and the (fortunately a minority) s that the downhill road of no i has commenced. the managing director of one •W Guinea’s oldest and biggest anies was quite frank in his ?rs to me when he said: .king for ourselves we have worries at present. We can lute this no doubt to congood prices for copra and i for the time being, no one >e very sure what will happen, thinking businessmen realise, ver, whatever their own line, the cocoa and copra markets contain the ultimate future of ferritory insofar as finance is rned.

Tongan Tuna-Men Will Learn How In Japan Tongans may soon be studying in a Japanese fisheries East 6 Asm. " 8 ° StUdeiUs fr ° m ° ther COun ‘ ries Pince Tungi, Tongas Prime Minister, said in Suva in September that with the acquisition of the new tuna long-liner from Japan this year, it was Tonga’s intention to give some of its young men a thorough training in fishery work in one of Japan’s fishery universities.

Japan was the acknowledged leader in this field, and there was provision for the training of a quota of foreigners through the Japanese Society for Economic Co-operation in Asia. Students of about a dozen nationalities were at present taking: advantage of these facilities.

Prince Tungi said that it was the intention that the young Tongan oceanic fishing industry would be. firmly based on Tongan manpower, and that full use would be made of Japanese know-how in the early stages. A Japanese fishing master was already in the government’s employ. 79 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Tropicalities Stop Sending in Pythons, Please I South Pacific is many things > many men. But for real Dnest-to-goodness Pacific ir it’s probably a waste of time ig at the travel posters and lossy magazine articles about in Tahiti. Better by far to 3 through a batch of shockroneoed news sheets, foolscap Droduced by every official and Dfficial body in the Islands, ng every sort of activity from Joy Scouts, Red Cross notes, nment Routine Orders, :il minutes, shipping informaand what have you. mg a batch of these that came le other day was one we ally liked—an Administration sheet covering the activities ne native village oouncils in gly Gulf country of Papua, e are three excerpts we are I to share with those who that the Real Pacific is still found, in odd pockets here here: — The Moveave and Moripi Counave passed two very important -the first is that it is now for any man to demand any than £5O for bride price for his ter or ward. The Councillors 1 this rule because they felt some fathers were becoming reedy and preventing young people from marrying. The second rule is about pig trespass. The rule says that if anyone’s pig destroys gardens or walks about the village defecating it will be put in a pound, or fenced enclosure, and the owner will have to pay a fee of 5/per day to get it out. This mean that in future all pig owners will have to look after their pigs. . . .

As Councillor Torea, from Savaiviri, said, ‘The pigs have been our bosses for too long!’” © “Village News, from Oalai. In 1956 Levo’s daughter Lavaki hung herself in Lae. She was buried there and after three years Levo was allowed to go and collect her bones and bring them back to Oalai. This he did just recently and he made a feast in memory of his daughter at Oalai. For the two day feast he killed two pigs, six fowls, one goat and provided 2,000 pounds of fresh food. There were 180 guests.” • “Snakes: This month three Taipans, three Death Adders, one Black snake and one large Python were sent to Australia from Kukipi.

These snakes which you have caught and forwarded will be “milked” of their poison, and this will be made into medicine and may help to save your life if you should get bitten. For poisonous snakes you will receive £3 per foot, so keep sending them, please. The python sent in measured 12 feet. When it was caught by Orovea it had just eaten another snake, which in turn had just eaten an opossum. Don’t send in any more pythons, please.”

Not A Pointer, They Hope READERS of the Norfolk Island Government Gazette have been looking at the Positions Vacant announcements lately and wondering. Under the sub-heading of “Taxation” the advertisements are saying that “income derived by residents of Norfolk Island from sources within the Island is not at present taxable under Commonwealth legislation”. Some people seem to remeember that the operative term “not at present” was appearing in the Government advertisements for vacancies in New Guinea not long before the official announcement came that New Guinea was to have taxation.

In the Black Days Of 1942 COMMENTING on the recent sale by Mrs. E. Good of her well known Kessa plantation, in the Bougainville district, Fred Archer (of Jame Plantation, Buka) recalls some Pacific War history; I helped to bury Percy Good, in March, 1942, and I helped to dig his bones up in March, 1946. Among the papers scattered outside was a will appointing me as one of his executors! But there was a later will which appointed Mrs. Good as sole executrix.

I listened in with Percy to the announcement (on February 16, 1942) that Singapore had fallen and he turned to me saying: Thats the end Fred—we are dead men.

The little yellow bastards will swarm all over the Pacific now.

There’s nothing to save Australia, 6V But the miracle happened and Australia was saved—and the Lautoka's "Mystery Building”

EN someone spends £40,000 on a building they usually have a very lear idea of the use they are going to put it to, but this Kisan >angh (Farmers’ Union) building, one of the largest and most ■n in Lautoka, Fiji, seems to be an exception to that rule, impleted about a year ago, it is occupied today by a dozen little en with polio and a small medical staff as an annexe to the owded Lautoka public hospital. The ground floor has foyer and office like that of a theatre, for which there is apparently little id at prepay off the each farmer ier of the will contrione ton of cane each i for the five years, request in mber for ssion t o graph the j gang of i e cripples were scurrybout the hall ricycles, was _ r refused by the medical superintendent. .Not, of course, tnai. )dy has any complaints about the use to which it is being put at loment. But was it planned that way?- 81 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Moon Fever RUSSIA'S snap? pxnlnits havp no USbIA b space exploits have no doubt made some Western scientists envious, as the Russians probably know. But what they don’t know is the effect their exploits have been having on some New Guinea natives.

The average native who works for Europeans in the towns has a somewhat limited vista, bounded by his kai, his pay, and his week-end walkabout, and perhaps the “pictures” once a week. The big moment comes at the end of the month when his “moon monpy” is due-anS no matteThow duff the native, he always knows this period.

One day in Lae recently a large crowd of natives gathered outside a newsagency which displayed a newspaper poster reporting, “RUSSIANS HIT MOON”.

There was a great argument in numerous dialects and in Pidgin, and a bystander eventually got the story: “Man bilong Russia i siutim masket long moon, moon i bagarap pinis, moni i no kamap long mipela”.

Which means they were wondering h ° W they WoUld get their Wages nOW the moon h a d b een shot down.— p a f tl /\ij m ,ne vva Y s A CENTURIES old method of killing fish in Fiji has been condemned by the Colony’s Agricultural Advisory Council, The attention of the Council was called to the depletion of fish round the reefs of Fiji as a result of the use of duva. „, . , nnnnri which the Fiji&ns pound into pulp &nd then five down and release among S kllls the fish by P° lsonm g them, The practice is illegal, but the Advisory Council say that its use is still widespread. They recommended that the restrictions on the use of all chemicals for killing fish should be extended.

CROSSQUIZ ,For P rrSK- ACROSS 1. —What is the green colouring matter of plants called? 8. —What is the term for flesh of deer? 9. —ln which beautiful cathedral were French monarchs crowned? 10. —What city is the cultural centre of China? 12. —What is the largest of the toothed whales? 13. —What title is given to a Jew learned in law? 14. —By what name is hydrogen oxide better known? 15. —The best quality of what type of wood comes from the British Honduras? 21. —What is the lowest hereditary title in the United Kingdom? 22. —What is the term for the fleshy, conical body suspended from the back of the palate? 23. —What English tenor was noted for his interpretation of the works of Elgar and Vaughan Williams? 24. —What bell is rung in Roman Catholic churches at morning, noon and sunset?

DOWN 1. —With which town do you associate Lady Godiva? 2. —To which did Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov change his name? 3. —Who composed the “Barber of Seville"? 4. In mythology, who was the protector of flocks and herds? 5. —ln which town in Flanders would you find the tribute to British dead, the Menin Gate? 6. —Which favourite of Queen Elizabeth was married to Amy Robsart? 7. —What very fine wool is made from the hair of a goat of the same name? 11.—Which Rabelaisian hero has given his name to anyone possessed of an enormous appetite? 16. —What type of weapon killed Achilles? 17. —What is the collective term for all the birds of a certain region? 18. —What was the name of the Glasgow chemist who discovered the method of distilling oil from shale? 19. —What instrument gives the pitch of the violin in an orchestra? 20. —Which planet of the Solar system is nearest the earth?

He Knew Every

BP SHIP Paul Best, best-known ma£ engineer in the Pacific Islan had been relieving chief engiii and odd-job man for Buu Philp for longer than most!; us could remember. His such death on September 25 left' host of saddened friends throw out the Islands.

PAUL Raymond Best was born Beaconsfield, Tasmania in I which made him three-sco years-and-ten on June 19 this y though most people thought : could be ten years younger, first ship, according to the arch legists, was the ss Oomah in : when he was signed on as third* gineer. He joined Burns, PhilgJ 1915, starting in the Mindini, since then had served in every in the company. He passed as seof engineer in 1915, and got his CM certificate at Sydney in 1917.

Paul was Chief Engineer of 1 Makambo in 1921, if not before,, went to the Marsina that yean a seven-year stretch. This was broken by the job of Maiwara from Glasgow to Guinea in 1926.

These were the years of boom r prosperity, including the openinn the New Guinea goldfields, and I “swallowed the propeller” in ; taking the plunge ashore into ( car-selling business with brother.

The depression killed the busiif stone dead so the records s Paul back at sea for a stretcH; 1933 in the ships Wallarah Beulah in 1932-33. He then gavrj the sea once more, to run a II freezer works in Sydney. From j shore job he was seduced bade (Continued on page 97) A Brett Hilder Profile 82 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HI

The Fun of the Fair Fiji Goes Gay Again THE Hibiscus Festival in Suva is getting gayer all the time. Here are some picture highlights from the 1959 festival, just concluded. At left these Chinese lasses make the picture even prettier at the Chinese Lantern Night at the Grand Pacific Hotel. And at right is Miss Hibiscus herself, Yl-year-old Suva stenographer Robin Ann Riemenschneider, in the dress she wore for the judging. Below her, Miss Glennis Colclough adds to the attractiveness of the RNZAF float in the procession.

A large black cat with paw extended into a tank of tropical fish was the eye catching float of the NZ Ministry of Works (above).

At left a section of the huge crowd which saw the procession pass through Suva's streets.

Photos: Rob Wright, J. P. Shortall, Stinsons. 83 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

When Errol Flynn Swopped Insults With New Guine The sudden death of Errol Flynn, Hollywood film star, former Tasmanian and New Guinean in Vancouver in October, reminded i lot of Islands people about a lot of anecdotes of a colourff and memorable personality.

Death of a swashbuckler reminds R. W. Robson of the time . . .

Errol Flynn had a career in Papua-New Guinea lonn before he achieved fame in Hollywood, and in 1947, whes Dorothy Stewart (now well-known as manageress of the Hoto Cecil, Lae) was trying to raise funds for a scholarship estah lished by the New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne she had a brain wave. She wrote to Flynn thus: DEAR Errol Flynn.—l don’t know whether you will remember n we met at Wau, in New Guinea, quite a long time ago. Howew that is unimportant ... I am now Secretary to the New Guinea Worn Association (Melbourne) and we are attempting to establish a merac to all those people lost from Papua-New Guinea during the war, thro enemy action. This memorial is to take the form of a Scholarship; and) attached circular will explain as much as is necessary about that msi “I know that you are not exactly credited I New Guinea) with being of a type to throw money to all and sundry for the asking (a man piece of under-statement, if ever I saw one).

I thought that if I, in my lowly position, could? my way clear to donating the odd ten pounds (• a great many hours of my time) to such a woo cause, you could, if you wished, make quitt magnificent gesture and be generous, if only for ■ in your life, just to see how it feels.

“You could, for instance, give up one nighr splendid living, stay home by the fire insteao making yourself conspicuous by your in obnoxious behaviour in a nightclub (if one believe the daily press) and donate the money sig to the Scholarship. Knowing your form, I shd imagine the Scholarship would receive healthy ajs tance if you did this. Besides —think of the hsi over you’d miss!

No Autograph, Thanks!

“However, if New Guinea now means less t nothing in your life, and you do not feel dispq to help the fund, please, PLEASE, do not instt; your Third Assistant Secretary to forward me ; autographed photograph to raffle. This I co not stand. After what I’ve been through this ; six months, I hope never to sell another raffle tiic as long as I live.

“With these few choice remarks —I now leave 5 to your thoughts.

Yours faithfully,

Dorothy Stewarti

Hon. Secretary.

New Guinea Women’s Association (Melbournr Back came this letter, dated from “Mulhollf Errol Flynn in his hey-day, as the world knew him—on the screen a swashbuckler, in private life a gay, debonair, night-clubbing ladies’ man. Below, he is in a scene from his last picture, “Cuban Rebel Girls”, which is not yet released.

With him is Beverly Aadland, 17, who was the last girl in his life.

She was with him when he died.

The newspapers described her as his protege. 84 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

n” on March 28, 1947, with liatory insults: — •ear Miss Stewart. —Your quite isive letter is at hand, and >e find enclosed my subscription 550. pon the frail premise that you not a phoney, would you be enough to label this donation nymous”, please? you are the Miss Stewart I thinking of, you are probably ed somehow to a fat, old, jnant woman named Mrs. ****, ort Moresby, a good friend of who killed herself—l’ve forn how —but to whom I was ;ed, she having befriended me i it was quite unnecessary, rs. **** and I had one love common—a small but most iring parrot belonging to me, species unknown and about as is your hand. e night Mrs. **♦* got drunk, as her nightly custom, and— l surge of alcoholic sentiality, or perhaps some more ?ical urge—took the parrot to vith her. 3 must have turned over or thing for, in the morning, my t looked like a print on the leet, Mrs. **** having squashed t as a picture-card, irt from this, our friendship ed no strain. rtainly if you are Mrs. ****’s relative I presume you will nice cut of this and other ;ions, and I am sure Mrs. would have highly approved. >e you have a nice drunk on Your obedient servant,

Errol Flynn.”

Copies of the letters were received by PIM in 1947; but as the elderly lady referred to so disparagingly by the film star had been well and favourably known in the Territory, and Flynn wanted anonymity for his gift, we put them away in pickle.

There is no reason now why the acidulous exchange should not be published: but the name of the lady would best remain in asterisks.

A Gay, Unrepentant Star Errol Flynn was born in Tasmania in 1909, the son of a visiting scientist; and he was educated in Dublin, London, Paris and Sydney.

In his ’teens, clever and handsome, he became a sea-rover; and (Continued on page 99) Do Von Remember?

In November, 1939, transport trade, development, administration —all the normal activities of the Pacific territories—awaited the outcome of events in Europe, as World War II entered the third month.

But as things turned out events were to be influenced much more by war in the Pacific, which hadn’t yet started. But it was building up.

Here are some extracts from that issue of “Pacific Islands Monthly” of 20 years ago: What the New Caledonia newspapers describe as “the waltz of the Governors” was still going on in the French colony.

It had recently had five governors in five months. * * * Under the heading “Gay and Lively”, “PIM” reported that Port Moresby, “with its steadily growing community of oil company employees and members of the military, naval and air forces, has become a gay and lively little town compared with the somewhat dismal little backwater of 10 or 20 years ago”. * * ♦ In Sydney young Crown Prince Tuboutoa, then doifig law at Sydney University (he is now Prince Tungi, Prime Minister of Tonga) lectured to the Pacific Islands Club on the transition of Tonga, He was given an enthusiastic welcome and “PIM” commented on the fact “that an educated Tongan, in ' formal evening dress, could lecture in a soft, cultured voice for an hour and a half to an intelligent and interested European audience, speaks volumes for the adaptability of Polynesian races”. »!• In the New Hebrides a French planter on the island of Malekula was murdered by natives —the first European to be so murdered in the New Hebrides since 1923. * * * A report from Western Samoa said the war had so far caused little change in life there. Uniforms of the Samoan Defence Force were more frequently seen and there was a gradual increase in prices.

Mr. D. R. Eden was appointed Food Controller. The copra price was 4/6 for 100 lbs.

The war had knocked on the head the plans to build a much-needed road between Salamaua and Wau in New Guinea, which the gold miners had been asking for for years. That is what was announced anyhow, although it wasn’t many years before the Army, under stress of war, built the road. * * ♦ There was an argument going on about whether the recent outbreak of misappropriation of Tongan Government funds by public servants was due to the fact that the public servants were underpaid.

But some correspondents seemed to think that the lack of efficient supervision, and not small pay cheques, was at the root of the problem. * * * The price of copra was still going up after getting an impetus by the outbreak of war. And cocoa growers were beginning to see a rainbow, too, with cocoa selling from £A36 to £A3B a ton.

Guinea's Dorothy Stewart, who traded insults with Errol. ynn built this house just outside Port Moresby in the 'Thirties, when he was attempting t a tobacco plantation there. Later he sold it to the writer Beatrice Grimshaw. R. W.

Robson took this photograph in 1937 when it was falling into disrepair. 85 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

Master Ben . . . . . . and Bu[?] The Monthly Dunk Probably few Suva residents are aware of a voyage from Suva Harbour that takes place each month in the cause of science.

THE voyage is usually made by the pilot launch Seniceva and the scientific team consists of Mr. P. O. Dunn of the Geological Survey and a group of sturdy Fijian assistants.

With them goes a mounted reel like a life-savers line-reel, but fitted with a lengthy span of thin stranded steel wire. There is also a torpedoshaped instrument three feet long, known as a bathythermograph, and another rather shorter metal contraption known as a reversingbottle.

The cruises began as part of a world-wide International Geophysical Year study of ocean levels, temperatures, and chemical composition, and have continued since— and will continue indefinitely as much useful information has been obtained.

On a fine smooth day the voyage is pleasant enough, but when the launch is in the short steep seas kicked up by a fresh Trade wind the launching and recovering of the equipment is not so pleasant or easy.

A small square of glass with one side smoked is inserted into the bathythermograph and it is attached to the wire. Above it is attached the reversing-bottle, its open mouth downward so that it will take in no water on the way down. The wire is then quickly lowered until the pointer on the winch reads 75 fathoms (450 ft).

A weight is then sent down the wire. This releases a catch on the reversing-bottle, which promptly inverts itself, fills, and is closed by a water-tight cap trapping a water sample at the 75-fathom level.

Meanwhile, as the bathythermograph descends a special type of thermometer registers the seawater temperature by scratching a line across the smoked glass plate.

A sample of the surface water, and its temperature, is also taken.

These samples and the temperature data are then despatched to New Zealand and from there to world IGY centres in the USSR and US to add to the sum total of knowledge of the oceans and eventually to aid climatologists, fishermen, navigators, and others.

Jim Shortall.

Outside Suva Hare Fijian Joeli Romamn covers the revee bottle with its s* of sea water froic fathoms.

Scientific man Dunn on the launch with his ants, Joeli, T[?] Sawailau and M[?] Lawakeli. Their [?] takes place on[?] month in the ca[?] science.

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Carrying The White Woman's Burden Is Gun Totin' Joan Smith Sees Papua (White) Woman Staff Writer ie white woman in Papua keep a pistol handy. It’s ig to be like the Mau Man mya. says Mrs. “Joan Smith” (a 10m de plume because she doesn’t want to go back to Moresby a marked woman”), istralia’s big circulation, pulp i Weekend. er a knock-’em-down and jm heading ( Let me in, Sina- , and a picture of a blonde d with an automatic beside n the pillow, the first halfparagraphs of Joan’s story go ns: nounding on my wall is constant, a occurrence whenever my husband y. Relentless and terrifying, beam just one of a handful of white in a sea of natives, black fists knocking on the fibro at it outside my bedroom and the i soft and insistent whisper. “Let sinabada (woman). Let me in!”

I lay there in my bed paralysed *ar. All I can do is grip my .25 tic and shiver even in that Papuan ith heat, and hope the “boy-wire" my window will hold. -wire!" nember when I arrived in Port Y five years ago “boy-wire” had r been heard of. The natives had •iendly then, trusting and depend- ;ople. Something like the “fuzzyingels" of the war. hat was five years ago. Every year have noticed the change in them mounting arrogance, their lack of ie, their contempt for us, and the of their semi-literacy, days they despise the white man, the white woman, interfere with Idren, steal from us, revile us and represent. These just aren’t my 1 feelings and fears, they are the and fears of almost every man man in the Territory, home, Australians" is an onen In Port Moresby today. And they hey taunt us when they say that >uld rather have the Germans back, Americans for their money. ;he same fascinating fashion )es on to tell how no white i dares venture onto the of Port Moresby at night; it Ela Beach, fascinated by women’s bare legs and arms, (Continued on page 97) The Long Flight Of Rusty's Angels

By Peter England

You all remember Ruston-Hornby. Or Rusty as he wa s familinrh.

T n e~ies en The U Uggest Avers ™ CombTnel i erniones. ine tales of his exploits are many, and famous.

WHAT brought him back to mind was his wedding invitation that turned up a little while back. One could hardly imagine Rusty docilely accepting the yoke of matrimony.

Would his wife allow him still to have breakfast at 2.30 p.m. and, like the fellow in The Snark, dine on the following day? Still, I reflected, marriage, like death, is one of those things that catch up with most of us in the end.

What I really want to talk about is the story of Rusty and the Angels.

You must know, then, that the people of the Big River are not always good. Indeed, on the occasion of which I write some of them were so naughty as to send word to the Kiap that they had recently had an interview with God, Who had made them all angels. Furthermore, God had mentioned to them that in view of their new angelic status there would no longer be any necessity for them to clean their village, repair the housekiap, or pay periodical visits to the sub-district station to cut the grass on the airstrip.

The message was first received by the corporal in charge of the local police detachment, who conveyed it to Rusty not without trepidation.

Rusty listened to the first half of his story and then blasted him out of the office with a number of astringent remarks about the corporal’s credulity and incompetence.

Three days later —it was between mails and he had finished reading the classified ads in the last Sydney Morning Herald —Rusty went back to the office early and he had a sudden thought. He called for the corporal.

“What did you say about angels?”

The corporal repeated it.

“Send a constable up the river and bring ’em in,” said Rusty.

Nobody was foolish enough to argue the point with Rusty’s policemen, and in due course two canoe loads of angels arrived at the station and were paraded before the Kiap.

With an air of benevolence Rusty invited them to tell him their story. They did so, with the utmost confidence.

“So,” said Rusty, “then you really are angels. At first 1 was a little doubtful, but now you have convinced me.”

They smiled at one another.

“And I suppose,” said Rusty, toying with a pile of Circular Instructions, “I suppose you can fly too, as all other angels do?”

Oh, yes, certainly they could fly, whenever they wanted to.

That is, of course . . . when the occasion warranted it.

Well,” said Rusty, standing up, “I think the occasion warrants it now. We will have a little demonstration.

“Corporal, it is quite clear to me that these people really are angels. They are now going to show us how they can fly. Take them down to the far end of the airstrip, turn them around, and then they can take off as the halus does every Saturday on mail-days. And —yes —in case they want any help you had better take half a dozen constables with you.”

Well, the police took the fellows down to one end of the airstrip, and with great enthusiasm chased them to the other end. At first the angels waved their arms and gave a few leaps into the air (all gleefully imitated by the police).

But it was a long airstrip and the angels were not in particularly good athletic trim. They came back to Rusty short of breath and dejected.

“Ah, I see how it is,” said Rusty. “You took off from the wrong end of the airstrip. Now you must try it the other way round, into the wind, and I am sure you will fly quite easily.”

After the second trial an exhausted flock of angels followed Rusty back to the office.

The Kiap still looked benevolent.

“Now I see that you are not angels at all, but only naughty men. Because you have deceived the Kiap you shall go into my calaboose, which is surrounded with the wire-that-has-sharpnails, and you shall stop there for three moons.” And that is where the former angels went. 87 ‘FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

The Month'S New Reading

With Judy Tudor

The essential thing that separates man from the beasts is the former’s inability to leave well alone. Civilised man has organised his own society to the point where the whole construction creaks badly at the hinges; but primitive man, with fewer natural advances, hasn’t been far behind in artificially providing the breeding ground for his own tensions.

THAT seems to be the conclusion to be deduced from anthropologist Marie Reay’s investigation into a section of the people who live just north of Minj, in the middle Wahgi Valley of the New Guinea Highlands.

The report of her investigations made during 15 months fieldwork in the area was the basis for a Ph.D thesis, and the work has now been published in book form, under the title of The Kuma.

The Kuma (an arbitrary name that Dr. Reay has chosen, as this group has no name for itself), live on the lower ridges and terraces of the Kubor Range. Land is plentiful and no problem: the soil is reasonably fertile and grows abundant crops; the climate is temperate and healthy. But the Kuma, in spite of these natural advantages, and in spite of the fact that they are described as extroverts, have many built-in emotional tensions.

Why they have these tensions — when on the face of it they should be living a lotus existence —is the theme of Dr. Reay’s book. In essence, tensions exist in Kuma society for much the same reason they exist in ours: The men want to “get on”; the older women resent the men’s assumption of superiority.

Kuma men “get on” by acquiring wealth in the form of pigs and wives—the wives’ purpose being to tend the pigs and bear children; and to a secondary degree, in acquiring other valuables such as plumes, shells, etc.

The material ideal of abundance is the dominant factor; “A man is a ‘rubbish man’ of no consequence if he has not enough food to offer many friends and relatives as well as meet his personal requirements,” says Reay. “The ideal is to produce more food than people can ever eat and to possess so many valuables that the owners come to think of them as useless.”

Kuma men have two overwhelming interests —women and pigs. . . They set great store by material valuables. . . . Disputes within the clan are concerned mainly with the damage pigs do to gardens, but litigation between clans is nearly always concerned with women—with women, that is, not as sexually desirable persons who can confer prestige by demonstrating the choice of partners, but as brides whom particular men can claim on behalf of their clans.”

The Kuma are ambitious as clans, but also as individuals, the acquisition of wealth being for ostentatious display at ceremonial exchanges or other clan, family or social occasions. The culmination of clan existence is the Pig Ceremonial which occurs at intervals of about 15 years. This Ceremonial is the ritualistic means of ensuring the increase in the clan’s pig-herds —although, paradoxically, during it, virtually all of the clan’s herd is wantonly slaughtered, and must thereafter be rebuilt painstakingly.

No Wine Beneath the Bough A Kuma, clan or individual, does not acquire “wealth” without effort.

Those who would succeed have to work themselves, employ judicious exploitation of others, and keep the women in sufficient subjection to tend the gardens and the pigs and to produce children for marriage exchanges.

In his efforts to “get on”, the Kuma can be likened, in a wayy the successful businessman v could afford to sit back and tf things easily, but instead goes 8 accepting more directorates 3; responsibilities until he has quired a high-powered tensiona his own—if not an ulcer or H blood pressure.

So the Kuma, with no land prc lems, fertile soil and an excels climate, and with all the paraptri alia for being, in fact, a child)] nature, instead spends his ti scheming how to acquire more n more wives, more valuables thus achieves (according to Re. more tension.

Our own society has, of com produced numerous philosoplc who have been content to let : world go hang, but if the K\Z have yet produced an (X Khayyam who is content with 1 Highland equivalent of a flasHi wine, book of verse and thou,, Reay doesn’t mention it.

The Kuma women are tensedb another reason. In the three or : years before marriage, the girll the clan are given complete scb and physical freedom; they havro obligations of any sort.

During this period, they haves privilege of choosing their t porary partners, bachelor married man, and generally cak the tune.

At marriage all this chan.

Their permanent partner already been fixed through usual custom of bride-exchangee from there on the woman beco: the chattel of the husband. SM expected to tend his pigs, bean, children, work in his garden, pare his food. Her periodfc amatory adventure is over—shf expected to have sex relations with her husband, although!

Government House, Hollandia, the home of Netherlands New Guinea Governor Dr. P. J. Pl[?] overlooking Humboldt Bay, presents an interesting picture P hot og ra phed by night. The re[?] rooms are in the building on the right. 88 NOVEMBER, 19 5 9 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI:

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ADDRESS prohibition is placed upon her 5, says Dr. Reay, produces tenin the female of the Kuma s. Adult women then collecregard the male as “no mutter other dark things him and generally behave cranky and frustrating mani their husbands —if they can ray with it. In this regard the women, too, have their counts in some strata of our own Reay’s book is completely nic, filled with anthropoloterminology and vast detail clan relationships—crosss, father’s-mother’s-daughlother’s-brothers and all the complicated variations which pologists love but which are ited to drive the average round the bend. However, inlikely that it was ever infer “popular” reading and aid be of considerable value sionaries and administration nel working in the area, aould be of interest also to nds Europeans outside those fies who like to know more :he native people in their area mgh whether everything to rned about these people can luced to a 200-page, Ph.D is a matter of opinion.

KUMA. Published by Melbourne ty Press on behalf of the Aus- National University. Australian >/-•) « . ; That Need ch of Salt J CAILLOU is one of that Teasing band of writers ich bob around all over the in search of exotic backagainst which to drape their s. », North Africa, Ethiopia, and in Mindanao Pearl, lilippines, so far as Alan is led. plot in Mindanao Pearl is a iread of improbability upon is suspended a series of bash- >eatings, shootings and asskullduggery in the jungles nail island called Pangalau. i, an unimportant clerk in i, steals some of his em- > money and bolts half ace world, to of all unusual for a London clerk to bolt :he Philippines. David Calib by his father to find Smith thalf of his lamenting exers) and have him extra- However, by the time Calib i Manila, Smith is already in pearl-diving deal with two •s, who with their beautiful Andree (the sex interest), broken-down hemp plantai Pangalau. i’s reception to Pangalau is :ated by the fact that Smith >t skipped out with the pearls and Calib is held by the brothers to be responsible although just why this was so you have to read to the end of the book to find out Most of the story consists of Calib who is not the outdoor type being severely walloped and beaten up by one of the brothers,* being menaced by shrews (entertaining little creatures peculiar to those parts who can strip all the flesh from a man while he sleeps) or being dragged through the bush by the beautiful Andree.

All turns out happy like a marriage-bell, in the end. (THE MINDANAO PEARL. Published by Peter Davies, Ltd. Australian price, 18/9.1 Red Cross and International Peace TO mark the 100th anniversary of the Red Cross organisation, Dr.

James Avery Joyce, Englishborn international lawyer, has set out the story of International Red Cross from its origin in Geneva in 1859 until the present day.

But as the title of the book indicates (Red Cross International and the Strategy of Peace ) it is more than a history in it he resurrects Dunant’s original conception of the organisation as an instrument of war-prevention, and thus a new controversial aspect is permitted to raise its head.

It is usual to look at International Red Cross as a neutral, non-partisan instrument whose specific purpose is to pick up the pieces and comfort the victims when the battle has passed. It, of course, is known that Red Cross has a role in peace —blood-banks, devoted field workers following floods, famines and disasters—but as Dr. Joyce says “. . . it 18 war the brutal, ugly fact of war which has given Red Cross Its status, its raiscm d’etre, its frame of reference”.

But that is not how Henri Dunant saw it he did not regard his chief mission in life as one of mitigating the horrors of war but in finding the means of ending war.

At the 1957 international conference of Red Cross at New Delhi, this aspect of the founder’s aims was discussed by representatives of over 60 governments and 70 National Red Cross societies against a background of the knowledge that although Red Cross has existed on a principle of non-involvement in international politics, Red Cross could no longer evade the politics of the H-bomb. It was a question of abolition of war, or abolition of man.

It was because of this aspect of the New Delhi conference that “the world’s Press which lives on disaster and thrives on conflicts found it so embarrassingly difficult to report either intelligently or adequately the most significant conference the Red Cross ever held”.

Henri Dunant was already a convinced pacifist on the day in June, 1859, when the Battle of Solferino began in Northern Italy between the army of Napoleon 111 and the Austrians. The casualties of that one day’s battle were more than 40,000 in killed and wounded, and although Dunant had travelled all the way from Geneva to try to see the French Emperor he found himself, instead, organising a handful of Italian peasant women in a desperate bid to ease the lot of some of the wounded and dying. Before he finally returned to Geneva, Dunant visited Napoleon 111 at his camp on the Plains of Lombardy 91 FI C ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1959

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Joyce feels that neither we id Cross can except by pre- Z war altogether, CROSS INTERNATIONAL. Pubby Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. an price, 37/6.) iese Water-Colour chancy business of translat- : a novel from one language 0 another depends for success 3 translator more than the 1 author. And in this sense a say that Edward G. Seidenhas succeeded reasonably translating Japanese novelist iri Kawabata’s Thousand , in that the book in its Engrm, appears more as a sty- Japanese print and not like ;1 at all. On Western stanthe story is plotless, even ss; it is a posturing of words erbal dance for the purpose lucing a pattern rather than sloping a theme, story concerns a man and )men in his immediate life of them former mistresses father, now dead, and alof modern Japan it is enwith the ancient Japanes3 emony. is a book for connoisseurs of and styles and not for the y reader of stories. If it has essage it is an unconscious lowing the huge gulf that between Japanese and Weslinking about life and death.

JSAND CRANES. Published by and Warburg, Ltd. Australian V-.) irothers Cobb istralia tIRD edition of the late Will wson’s When Cobb and Co. s King, was published during »nth the first edition havjpeared in the mid-thirties second a couple of years ;he war. A third edition of iok in the restricted Austrairket is unusual although this •oyes nothing, probably, exlat Australian pioneer stories perennial local appeal.

Law r son (no relation to Henry) turned his hand to anything in the writing line verse, fiction, factual reporting but was never a literary giant. His work covered the whole pioneering period in Australia and New Zealand and what he has left behind is likely to become more valuable as time goes on.

His Cobh and Co. is a novel and although the story is a slim enough account of a youngster growing up in mid-century, gold-mining Victoria and finally realising his ambition to be a coach-driver, its real merit lies in its account of the coaching business that made the words “Cobb and Co.” part of the Australian language.

The two American brothers Cobb remained in Australia only seven years after they arrived in 1852, and then returned to the United States, each with a fortune. Thereafter the control of the company that continued to operate as Cobb and Co. came under James Rutherford who also had arrived in Australia in 1852.

Under his direction, the company’s operations extended into New South Wales and Queensland “following the gold”. Rutherford made Bathurst, NSW, his headquarters and lived there for 50 years until his death in 1911, a year before the last Cobb coach made its last journey (in Queensland).

The Cobb and Co. era, from first to last, lasted 60 years, Lawson’s novel covers the years immediately following the return of the Cobb brothers to America years when the huge, swaying, American-built coaches were part of the Australian scene on outback roads and tracks. (WHEN COBB AND CO. WAS KING- Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 17/6.) Take a Gun, and A Big Piece of Bush A GENERATION ago it was possible to get good shooting in Australia no more than an hour’s drive from any big city. Today, with city sprawl, water-conservation schemes, and the urbanisation of areas once regarded as “the bush”, this is no longer possible and the majority of Australian men now never shoot at all.

You have to go a long way out of the cities these days before it is safe to loose off a rifle or gun without the possibility of shooting something human and as it has now acquired some of the distinctions of a specialised sport it’s probably fair enough that a “How to Do It” book should be provided. S. H. (Barney) Edwards, himself a crack shot, provides it, with a small book called Shooting and Shooting Bushcraft.

Like a certain Mrs. Beeton of culinary fame who assumed that her amateur cooks had a poultry farm ai H, on ‘take two dozen eggs”) author Edwards assumes you have a good, uninhabited piece of bush handy. He takes it from there, explaining about guns, rifles, stalking decoys, how to skin things like birds’ foxes and rabbits, what to wear what to do and even how to get through a barbed wire fence with a gun without shooting your pal in the back.

He does it all with good humour and commonsense and what he has to say about shooting as an entertainment applies, of course, not only to Australia. (SHOOTING AND SHOOTING BUSH- CRAFT. Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. Australian price, 15/-.) Emily Rocks Another Boat PRESUMABLY there are people (no doubt American), who enjoy the dilly, middle-aged travel monologues of Emily Kimbrough, but your reviewer just doesn’t happen to be one of them.

It is hard to believe that anyone so self-confessed witless, hamhanded, vague and casual could manage to get through all the formalities and difficulties of travel in 47 different countries, much less persuade hard-headed publishers to produce 10 of her epic accounts of her wanderings.

Miss Kimbrough, we fear, makes a gimmick of dishing herself up as an addle-pated American matron without one practical thought. No doubt it is all supposed to be cosy and poor-helpless-girls-together and in so far as it seems to get her a living, good luck to her but for our money, it all seems so much corn.

In her latest adventure (A Right Good Crew), she and four other Americans go cruising the canals of the United Kingdom a form of holiday that has increased in popularity in inverse ratio to the progressive decrepitude of the canals themselves.

The inland waterways of Britain date back to about the mid-18th century. For about 100 years after that they were the chief means of moving freight particularly coal.

Then came steam trains to put a crimp in their usefulness, and, finally, a modern system of roads and motor transportation to sound their death knell. The Inland Waterways Association formed after World War II (plus, of course, the British fetish about sacred tradition) , is about the only thing that now stands between the remaining canals and complete disintegration.

Anyone who has seen one of these weed-fringed ditches that passes for a British canal, and knows Miss Kimbrough’s peculiar style of delivering a perfectly kill- 93 F IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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local natives make filthy gestures; how the Pacific Islands Regiment rioted at Koki (getting on for a couple of years ago now); and how the “Goiala” (Goilala?) garbage truck boys chased the white official into his office, and went for him with an iron bar.

It goes to prove, she says, that we have taught them too much, too soon—been too soft with them and now “all these years of so softpedalling and intensive education have blown up in our face”.

Not New Trouble So much for Joan and her Weekend treatment. Like all ventures into pure sensationalism, this one nothing more substantial a few penguins and periauthor O’Brian has a gimn his two characters—Jack the young midshipman of ratic connections who rethe imperturbable gentleman when trailing through the )aked woods of southern America looking for the capnislaid piece of seal-blubber; young Tobias, the surgeon’s mate who can cause an argumentative diversion (in Greek, Latin or even Spanish) on every subject from politics to religion, and pursues his single-minded zeal for zoology even when reduced to the last extremity.

Under this treatment, the novel becomes less another sea adventure —although there is plenty of this in it—and more the story of two personalities who refuse to become daunted even when up against the longest odds.

When the survivors of the wreck are reduced by desertions, mutiny and death, a half-dozen men, including Toby and Jack, are led by an unsavoury Indian character to a Spanish outpost at Chiloe. From here they are taken to Santiago to become prisoners-of-war—but find this experience by far the most pleasant of their adventures. (THE UNKNOWN SHORE. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. Australian price. 18/9.) Mushroom Madness e middle-Wahgi natives of New ea, who at certain times of the eat fungus and go berserk, have quite a lot of publicity in Ausi and overseas, and the mushs themselves have been analysed arious learned scientific bodies, her book, The Kuma. reviewed age 88. Dr. Reay has some inting things to say about this so- -1 Mushroom Madness, which leaves layman wondering if the mushs are not more an excuse for nd-games than anything else.

Kuma name for this behaviour is ites Dr. Reay: “Men decorated selves in exaggerated bustles (of 5), seized their weapons and set o terrorise the community . . . were tense and excited and ;ed by shivering. Minor wounds sometimes be inflicted by men ing arrows at clansmen but during vo days I witnessed this behaviour e arrows fell short of their mark. ?n attacked their clansmen at close *rs only when others were present strain them. They ignored one er and menaced only those people were not themselves affected by tadness . . . >men and youths deliberately en- *ed the men to be aggressive, ing from behind trees and houses safe distance and withdrawing y with excited shrieks and giggles a madman caught sight of r people not affected by the s the event is an exciting diverfor the chief actors, it is a de- •e from the normal to be joked in retrospect . . . imen danced in formations coriding to the subclans of their nds and sons. This is the maromen’s only opportunity to dance rmation as the men and un- ;d girls do . . The women uncontrollably, flirting and ng of real or imaginary sexual Lures.” all the Kuma are affected by the fungus. In the year Dr. was there, only 39 out of over sre daad. The Kuma themselves [ it as a matter of heredity—a whose mother or father had fits of abnormal behaviour after the fungus, is more likely to be id himself. fungus is a type of mushroom he people eat it all the year It is only at certain times of ar that it produces its odd effect ne. As there is no compulsion eating the mushrooms, it can be ed as self-inflicted madness—and of fun. 97 HUder Profile (Continued from page 82) Gun Totin' Joan (Continued from page 87) FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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in the late ’Twenties he was an established citizen of the new Mandated Territory of New Guinea —he was in turn a recruiter, planter, trader and miner.

He had a ketch, and in Rabaul his ketch and he were hired by a Dr.

Herman F. Erban to take a filmmaking expedition into the Sepik area. a dangerous grain of truth in wever, it is mighty exaggerated it is perfectly untrue that any his kind of trouble has deed only in the last few years, e was plenty of “boy trouble” in places as Rabaul between the and the trouble goes back before that and is fundamental certain state of native sophison and is not confined only to 7erritory. idents have increased in Port sby in recent years in proporto the tremendous increase in Curopean population, and the quent attraction to the town tives seeking employment. j things are not nearly as bad ihn Smith says, and there are ares that can be taken to ate an existing situation— igh judging by 100 per cent. »ean, “civilised” communities is no way, while humans come r o sexes, of eliminating such nts entirely. ; of the ways of curtailing “boy e” is punishment—but that appen only after the native is t. in Smith” might have solved >wn particular troubles in a ! of simple ways. As she lives ort Moresby—which is as ised as Brisbane — she could the telephone installed. A one call to the police station sven to the Police Commishimself —would, no doubt, the necessary interesting re- >he might try the experiment ig boldly to the door—or these shutters she says they now in place of glass louvres — nth or without gun, demandknow what in the blithering went on. This method has of precedents, and as the if native involved has usually as much moral courage as ther adolescent delinquent, is lly successful.

'lying Paralysed" whatever is done, one thing e: If the Joan Smiths of Moresby cannot find any more ic method of dealing with a ging native than lying ysed in bed” gripping a .25 (which presumably they are g only for themselves as an itive to a fate worse than , then they should never e further north than a Sydiburb where the worst thing m happen to them is to wake i a “Kingsgrove Slasher” beleir beds. is not to say that an incident type involving a native, is not sing to any European woman, -errifying to some. But no ‘ how many laws are made for European women’s protection, the ultimate remedy lies in the hands of the women themselves.

Nothing could be more calculated to give the hoodlum native element of Port Moresby or any other big Territory town (and the element is there alright), the idea that it has the whip hand, than for it to feel that white women generally, go in the sort of terror that the Weekend article depicts.

The fact is, of course, that the Territory is still a black man’s country of complex though, perhaps, changing problems. In order to live there successfully requires a different set of values than is required in suburban life, an awareness of the problems and the necessary moral stamina to make the necessary adjustment. At one time this was called carrying the “white man’s burden”, but, perhaps, unfortunately, this is no longer a popular concept of European administration of a native country.

“Joan Smith’s” picture of a Territory packed with terrified females all toting guns (presumably with the permission of the police) in order to protect themselves from unruly natives, is so ridiculous as to be almost amusing.

Almost amusing—if it were not for that tiny substratum of truth that is so distorted in this article as to become pretty close to dangerous.

Flynn, now about 23, disclosed a marked talent for acting; and, from that experience, he went on to Charles Chauvel, to take the part of Fletcher Christian in the 1933 film, In the Wake of the Bounty From there it was only a step, via Europe, to Hollywood and fame.

All the New Guinea “old hands’’, of the 1926-33 period could tell stories of the devil-may-care Errol Flynn, miner and trader and irresponsible vagabond. They cursed his trickery—and laughed at his escapades.

Gatherings of “befores” in Sydney still like to get Mrs. Alice Allen Innes to tell of the days when she ran the famous Salamaua Hotel, and of how the ingenious Errol, on his erratic way out from the goldfields to new and fresher pastures, took with him a selection of the irreplaceable Innes towels and sheets.

With equal fervour, Flynn would pay a storekeeper’s bill with a bouncing cheque, lead a lonely planter’s romantic wife along a giddy path, or stay on in some hopeless place in the jungle to nurse a miner down with Japanese river-fever (scrub typhus to those of the modern school).

They called him a very wicked young man; but when, five years later, he was bestriding the world's screens as the unforgettable Captain Blood, they were proud to have known him.

His House in Papua In PIM of May, 1937, after I had made one of my regular tours of New Guinea, I published a photograph of Flynn’s house, with the following note: “All over the world, now, people mentally genuflect before the name of famous film star Errol Flynn; but in Port Moresby and Wau they refer to him familiarly as “old Errol”, and tell funny stories about his hard-up days in Papua, and the rows in which he was continually involved.

“He was a doughty and usually victorious fighter, and some of the young bloods of Port now seem inclined to boast of the rather terrible hidings they received at his hands.

“Flynn tried to establish a tobacco plantation 15 miles from Pt. Moresby, and there he built the bungalow reproduced here in a delightful situation, looking northwards over a mountain valley.

Later, he sold it to the novelist, Beatrice Grimshaw. She lived there for some years, and then sold the plantation to Dr. Strong, head of the Health Department. . . .

The house is now falling to decay.

Errol Flynn never changed. He earned millions, and died with only $100,000; and, even as this is being written, a long line of exwives and boastful concubines are squabbling over his estate and his burial-place. (Crossquiz Solution From p. 82) 99 Errol Flynn (Continued from page 85) FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Recommendations at a recent marine court of inquiry in t Moresby regarding the operation of shipping radio net- •ks just echo a long-expressed opinion among responsible rators.

Marine Board recommendans covered two main points— -3 need for at least one shore l to maintain a 24-hour radio and the need to require to indicate their arrivals in inquiry that led up to these nendations was into the loss s Papuan coast last July of istal ship MV Muniara. (See r PIM ). All hands were lost European master, Captain E. and 14 native crewmen.

Marine Board, which conthe inquiry, found: miara probably capsized roaching-to in the prevailing e ship was seaworthy at the f its voyage, but was underi in that it did not carry a 3 engineer. ?al action should be taken the owners, Steamships I Company Ltd., in respect undermanning. ; points represent the out- )f a specific case, but the interest in New Guinea is on the board’s remarks ing radio contacts. w Guinea shipping man put tter neatly earlier when he Jnder the present system, if answers a scheduled radio J know that the ship is it; but if it doesn’t answer i, we don’t necessarily know is not all right”.

His summing up of the situation is very true. If an aircraft fails to make a scheduled contact a first-stage alarm is declared. The alarm increases in seriousness as subsequent contacts fail.

With coastal shipping, however, failure to answer a call could mean a number of things—the skipper of the ship may be doing something else; or the ship may have reached port without bothering to notify coastal radio.

In most cases, therefore, the mere fact that a ship has not answered a call is no cause for alarm. Responsible shipping operators feel that the weakness of the system lies in this fact.

They say that radio sets should be rigidly and regularly surveyed to minimise breakdowns, and that the law should demand that the sets be used regularly during voyages. Most operators attend to these requirements already, but there is no compulsion and so some don’t.

If the requirements were legally enforced, it would provide greater protection for all shipping, and could be implemented with little trouble at this stage. The obligation would include notification of entry into ports as envisaged in the recent marine court finding.

Several masters and operators have been suggesting a scheme of this nature for some years, and the scheme was urged in a section of the Territory Press a little over a year ago.

• New Master For Coral

QUEEN : Following the Commission of Enquiry held into the grounding of the BSIP Government vessel Coral Queen off New Guinea earlier in the year, the Government has relieved Captain Wilder of his duties. His successor, Captain Fahlanger, is not new to BSIP waters having previously served on the Australia-West Pacific line vessels as Chief Officer and Relieving Captain and later as Master of the Aros and Delos.

Captain Fahlanger has also served with the Swedish Navy.

It is expected that he will arrive in Honiara towards the end of this year.

A new Superintendent of Marine has been appointed for Honiara.

He is a Mr. Campbell and apart from the fact that he spent some time in Cyprus before being appointed, no other details are available. • ONE LESS NG SHIP; A 60-ft patrol vessel owned by the Papua- New Guinea Administration ran aground on the north coast of New Guinea early in October and broke up.

The vessel was MV Ela, which was carrying about 12 natives, including the skipper. There was no loss of life.

The wreck occurred in the Wewak area. Some equipment and possessions in the vessel were salvaged.

• Tenders For Patrol

CRAFT: BP’s, as agents for the British Administration in the New The News This Month een lion Boye alrus ; y ele oa Maui Pomare Moonfleet Manawanui Meridian Nojima Maru New Silver Gull Outward Bound Ra Marama Reposado Rubia Romayne Raiatea Shell-40 Staghound Sea Chanty Stardust Tenyo Maru Tiare Te Matangi Tiburon Whence Wanderer White Seal Zia Zenata A Bouquet Gerry Trobridge, of “White Seal”, (above) at Cocos in the Indian Ocean took time off to write these few (appreciated) words: “At last, with ‘White Seal’ already out of your area, I have got to the point of dropping you a line, something I have been threatening to do ever since we first entered the Pacific. I have always been surprised at the amount and accuracy of information you manage to get together and feel that yachtsmen should co-operate by sending you news. We have enjoyed your magazine so much, particularly the news of cruising yachts, that we will become subscribers when we get back to South Africa. Right now we are racing for home trying to get there before we run out of money.

“We reached Darwin from Thursday Island on August 20 and left there on September 6. Had a very calm passage for the first 10 days then speeded up with a good trade wind and reeled off 1,052 miles in the last week to arrive here on September 27. Expect to leave today for Mauritius.” 101

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Dresent craft will have a ‘ 18- ft and a draught of i will have two, two-berth o four-berth cabins for passengers, and a cargo of four tons. She will be vessel owned by the British tration since the 120-ft acht Euphrosyne was disin 1928. lOSE RUBBER RAFTS; the rubber dinghy and life ; been the means of very ially reducing loss of life world’s fishing fleets, and almost all modern vessels ig fitted with such rafts, 3 still some distance from approved by maritime es as replacements for rigid f the difficulties is the fact ost of them cannot be with the passengers and it is not easy for old or in some circumstances mg people, to board them vater. Another difficulty is y must be examined by the turers and repacked every months. No accredited turers’ representative capperforming this function is anywhere in the South slands area at present. The e also expensive, people were wondering why government patrol launch Ra Marama had to be specially fitted with wooden lifeboats when she recently made a voyage to Tonga, though she is fully equipped with rubber rafts. The above are the reasons why British, and Fiji, maritime law still does not permit such rafts as sole equipment on foreign-going voyages.

• All Under Control: The

lamb-liner Delfino, on her second voyage from Sydney to San Diego, USA, with 25,277 lambs aboard — less an insignificant few which had died of blood-poisoning after sailing—passed through Suva on October 22.

Captain A. Lucas told a PIM representative —who was kept off at a distance by a strict quarantine— that the experience gained on the first voyage was now paying off.

The losses that had occurred were through shearing wounds —the lambs had been shorn on New England, NSW, sheep stations immediately prior to being sent to the ship by road trucks. There are always some deaths from this cause following shearing.

Delfino took aboard 554 tons of fresh water from four hose-lines at Suva during an 8-hour period. • IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU: Some time ago it was mentioned in this column that many areas in the Islands are still classed as potentially dangerous due to mines.

What was reported by local villagers to be such a mine was washed up on Na Viti Island in the Yasawa Group of Fiji in early October. Up to late October, arrangements were still in progress to send a qualified person out from Lautoka to confirm that the object was in fact a mine. • GETTING DOWN TO BUSI- NESS: The Cook Islands at last have a proper machine for deepening those dangerous shallow reef l-fated "Muniara", subject of a recent Marine Board inquiry in Port Moresby—see previous page. 103

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js. It is a Hydromaster drill- : capable of drilling 12-inch er holes in coral at “a fair machine, now in use at Atiu cost £6,000. The holes it vlll be filled with explosives series of charges will be lectrically in a single blast.

French Visitors: The

a-based French patrol vessel vas again in Suva for dryj in October, under command itenant Y. H. Cerbelaud and i total complement of 31. tant Cerbelaud said on that slow progress is still made on the new Noumea slipway, hence it is still ry for his vessel to come to QUIRY COMING: A Marine preliminary inquiry into the f the small Fiji vessel )ou as the result of a colliith the government vessel I on the night of September ided in Suva on October 23 formal inquiry was “both ;e and expedient” Meanthe certificates of both i have been returned.

GUARDING THE SEA- : A big maritime reconnaiand communications exercise ace throughout the ANZAM area of the Pacific between • 12 and October 24. Not mblicity was given the exert it involved the location by •econnaissance and the plotthe exact positions of all 1 merchant ships, and the J of the positions of all non- I merchant ship positions the radio reports received hem and from other inforexercise—in effect a war - —was controlled from Can- The British section of it led Operation Sea Lanes and nerican section was called '■on Rex. Military aircraft in the Islands were engaged. It was a practice run in the diversion and protection of merchant shipping. • OPERATION SAYONARA: While the above exercise was in progress another exercise, reminiscent of the secret wartime German raider operations, was in progress west and south of Fiji—except that there was no secrecy about these October manoeuvres, which represented the closing moves in the Japanese mother-ship tuna fishing operations in the South Pacific for 1959. Other fishing boats might be sighted after mid-November, but they will be longliners sailing independently from Japan and not as units of a mother-ship fleet.

The mother-ships Tenyo Maru No. 3 and Nojima Maru had commenced 1959 operations in waters adjacent to the Gilberts at the end of May. As the season progressed the fleets moved slowly south to about 30 degrees latitude —with the longliners operating to 40 degrees south. Tenyo Maru No. 3 was re- £sS ec L to . Japan earl y September, and the other, early October, and they were replaced by Koyo Maru and Jmyo Maru. The Jinyo Maru fleet remained at about 20 degrees latitude seeking—with disappointing results—the most valuable albacore which is the mainstay of the Japanese export trade to the United States, while Koyo Maru tried her luck, with success, further south m harvesting of the less valuable Australian blue-fin tuna east and west of New Zealand.

By mid-October the mother-ships were getting low in bunkers, which they feed out to their fleet vessels as they come alongside to discharge their fish and to load ice—which is brought from Japan and not manufactured aboard. To meet this situation the small Nitto Line molasses tanker Juyo Maru was jointly engaged to deliver a thousand tons of oil to each mother-ship on the high seas. While awaiting her first rendezvous with Koyo Maru this vessel lay in Suva harbour for several days carrying out routine engine maintenance. Captain Kazuo Yagi, 38, in command, served his time in the petrol tanker trade between Indonesia and Japan during the war years, and was one of the few to survive.

As a postscript to the 1959 season it is interesting to note that Japan’s first atomic powered vessel, soon to be laid down, may be a 3,000 to 4,000-ton fishing mother-ship, with an American-type reactor supplying heat for an 8,000 shp steamturbine motor, and with a 120 hp FOR TONGA The new 35 ft, pilot boat " Unga" which has been built by A. and G. Price, Ltd., of Auckland. She is now on the job in Tonga.

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Wo shall hP nleased to obtain independent Surveys of any craft we offer and subsequently arrange delivery either on .hip's deck or sea .8 desired. for emergency use. The reand its heavy shielding will 1,100 tons. The atomic id vessel, disregarding the t cost factor, would seem to rticularly applicable to this TSHING—AND TALKING: Japan catches fish, and moves towards a tuna fishiustry, the outlook for any r iji-based industry does not bright. The overseas half capital is available, but the substantial half required for >le venture does not appear forthcoming. is interesting to note, during mth, that a spokesman for ia’s chief tuna cannery said was useless trying to comi world markets for canned rapan and the US had the y sewn-up.

J. Vinnecombe of Australia, eturned there as superry mate in the tug Shell-40 )ber, said that he would be Fiji waters in a few months fishing vessel. He would not i fishing, however, □-incidence a fishing vessel might have been ideal for 'pose, passed through Suva te to Australia in October.

Isahel-May, this ruggedly ttle 47-ft by 14-ft by 6-ft yas bearing Welshman R. ; and his 20-year-old ir Ann to Sydney to settle.

Bssel, fully equipped with dectronic fish-shoal locator, it coiling winch, and trawlipment, was for sale. Some hes were made to possible in Fiji while the County uilt craft lay in Suva. aboard was a young i. A Mauritius navigator, ined at Papeete, flew back ) rejoin his yacht Eve, and expected that a member of ZAF, on short leave, would navigator to Brisbane—if a nth the hard cash was not ning in Fiji.

ULA BLUES; Moving at i a somewhat erratic course, : Shell-40 was finally deto Brisbane in October. She rlier been towed back to ith fuel-line blockages, after leaving on her second trouble developed in the ic steering gear and this ed across towards Noumea epairs were made. En route ► cruised for several miles Japanese buoyed tuna-line, in Henry Simpson and his ;w back to Suva from Bris- JSINESS IS BRISK: Pago new $BO,OOO marine slipway, came into use on June 10, mdled about 30 vessels to tober, mostly Japanese tuna irs based there. Mr. James sHtsa " e ve o ie“up e fo ucT ft" and llssL g understood 5 f"SS Plus *,zu per aay. ® NOW THEY HAVE A ‘RAnnv- When «:ejT^ g ? A^ E p4 B^a?d E s Aomw made her monthly visit to nffWre « he end f° f Se P tember the nm l i? er^rJf ore s P° r^ an attractive n .f w .. um { or ”J cap-badge m place of the standard British merchant marine cap badge. Produced by a leading overseas badge maker, the new badge consists of a green palm s&vjsut - Ton Ea G CoD?a „ GOI ri NG ', GONE ' tl°\ “ S ry sold in October to an Auckland syndicate understood to be headed oLefof Hind (later lost in French Polynesia as Artemise, March, 1953) and the Fairmile passenger ’launch Philante II (later lost in the Loyalties), and more recently assodated with toe motor-cruiser Manawanui.

To late October PIM had no in- 107 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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JRES: The New Zealand Territories are steadily towards a stricter control operation and safety stan- )f small trading craft. The is Committee of Parliament lington recommended at the September that government be taken on a petition seekislation to control the manmd seaworthiness of such lore particularly in the Cook problem is partly tied up le absence of servicing facior ships in those islands— ily a slipway—and with the i of qualified deck and enig surveyors. The latter i could be overcome to a xtent by making use of the i of such qualified officers government’s own fruit ship calls at monthly intervals, is suggested by the petithat the slipway problem be solved by a co-operative to establish this facility at iga and thus save the local from having to journey all ty to Papeete, Pago Pago, r Auckland for dry-docking, s a costly and time-consumration. The government will y now fully investigate the problem. iME SELECTED: The new n fruit vessel, due to be id from a UK shipyard for and Territories Department ugust as a replacement for 2-year-old 1,215-ton Maui will be named Moana Roa e Sea”. Cabinet announced il of this Polynesian name las been applied to the Paciian in mid-September. a Roa will have twice the capacity of her predecessor, third more speed, and she rry 40 one-class passengers two-berth and three fourberth cabins. Dimensions are 296 ft 9 in. x 46 ft x 16 ft 9 in. dr.

• Finished Her Time •

Stripped of all fittings W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s 140-ton wooden Fiji vessel Komaiwai was offered for sale in Suva, in October. Tenders closed October 14 but the hull had not changed hands to late in the month.

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Settree of Huskisson, Jervis Bay, NSW, in 1947, who also built the same owners pre-war vessels Duranbah (No. 2), Desikoko, and John Bolton in the New Guinea and Gilberts trade, and possibly other vessels for the Islands trade too. • THAT RABAUL SHIP- WHARF: Probably many seamen and other visitors to Rabaul wonder about that wharf formed by the hull of a Japanese ship. Sunk at her berth by air attack during the war, the 8,525-ton Komaki Maru, then about ten years old, was owned by one of Japan’s larger shipping companies, Kokusai Kisen KK—a company which seems to have gone out of existence or perhaps has been amalgamated or re-formed under another name since the war The company then owned 21 vessels. [?]. Bradshaw (right) and Gene Bledsoe [?]ngeles who went south to Tahiti to [?]ake over the yacht "Baboon". 109 NTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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/FYOOttBE YOOU IOM GOIPW lAGW mirro* WAYS Me J/Yfcreflce NEW SHIP FOR P-NG- EY SERVICE: A ngw vessel New Guinea trade will have her first appearance there by me this appears. She is zth Boye, and will replace recently sold to Australian ts. \heth Boye is a Norwegian red vessel of larger capacity Slevik. She was built three igo and has come to her new via Singapore and will 3 under the flag of the Kar- (NG) Line. F. H. Stephens -td., will be Sydney agents, vessel has three sets of cargo me capable of a heavy lift, ls a speed of Hi knots. Calls made at Port Moresby, Lae abaul and it is expected that yages ex-Sydney will be at imately one monthly interne will carry general cargo.

SRSONAL: Mr. Bjarne Halwell-known Sydney shipwill make a quick business ;o Port Moresby between ber 10 and 14.

MOTHER LOSS: A Japanese er of the Jinyo Maru fleet ashore on Ono-i-lau island southern Lau Group of Fiji is abandoned on the night of r 23. The vessel, of about >, was Kamome Maru No. 26. 3s were lost. lission was obtained from for the captain and radio )r to speak directly with the ■ship from the government elephone station on the to explain the situation, nothership despatched two vessels to attempt salvage, were unsuccessful, and on r 26 the mothership took off bw and departed.

News of Cruising Yachts • GOODS UNDER DRAWBACK: When a visiting yachtsman protested, on clearing Suva in October, that he had not been allowed to take aboard ship-stores free of duty, the Customs Department drew attention to a law which applies in the United Kingdom, in Fiji, and presumably in most British colonial territories. This forbids the delivery of such stores to any vessel of less than 20 registered tons under any circumstances—or to any larger vessel which has not the means of properly securing such stores. Probably the original reasoning behind the stipulation of 20 tons was that it was not considered that any smaller vessels would be genuinely making foreign voyages—in which case the law may be considered outmoded. Until it is revised, Customs authorities have no option but to enforce it. Yachtsmen are therefore advised to take note. • ADIOS with Tom and Janet Steel of Newport, Cal., and STAGHOUND with Paul Hurst. Mile. Terii Marama. and Plazi Miller aboard, cleared Suva for Noumea within half-an-hour of one another on October 7 and planned to sail in company Sam Reynolds left STAGHOUND in Suva.

The dimensions of this handsome ketch are 40-ft. x 32-ft. x 10V 2 -ft. x 6-ft. and she has a Mercedes-Benz diesel auxiliary. • BABOON, at Tahiti, was to be taken in hand by Robert Bradshaw and Gene Bledsoe who flew down from Los Angeles. • REPOSADO, offered for sale in Suva at £22,000 but unsold, headed for Auckland on Ocober 10. (Crewman Gerald Burns transferred to MOONFLEET to assist Joe Pachernegg to sail his purchase to Madang, NG. They cleared Suva October 10.) Don Bahl and Miss Tryna Saindon went ashore from REPOSADO but French chef Marchand Roger remained aboard, and new members joining were. B.

H. McLeod. D. Canty, and W. Langley ex the Sydney motor yacht STARDUST, also Aseri Uio, Harry Chand, Ram Karan, and Amika Prasad of Fiji. John Ewing of New Zealand, ex CRUSADER who had joined at Tahiti, also remained aboard with Auckland owner Brian Neill, Mrs. Neill, Eyvonne and Denis. • MANAWANUI which Mr. Neill of REPOSADO formerly owned, has been purchased in Papeete by Stanley Toogood of Nassau, Bahamas, and left Papeete August 13 for Panama and Nassau where she is employed as a tourist cruise craft. • SEA CHANNTY w r ith Roy Kempel, Lyle Monk, and Allen Cherrington, was expected to leave Suva for New Zealand late October. • KIWI of Auckland. 28-ft. x 26-ft. x 5ft. ketch, which left her home port June 18 and has since visited Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, sailed from Suva on October 15 for Lord Howe Is. and Sydney, where all hands will turn to and earn some more money before venturing further west. With owner Tom Bott are Australians John Vukovich and Denny Webb. • FAITH, 37-ft. ketch with Larry and Bebe Baldwin of Los Angeles, was at Wreck Bay, Galapagos, early September and about to sail for Papeete via Islands. • FLYING WALRUS and the Wells family, of Westview, BC, still at Whangarei, NZ, these many months, now plan to move on westward about next April. • TE MATANGI should be at Auckland from Tonga when this appears.

"Shell-40's" officers and crew. Captain [?]mpson is standing second from right. 111 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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[IRON, 40-ft. ketch of Santa Barfa Ed and Ruth Vessey, was in the s in September and believed ipeete via Marquesas. tV SILVER GULL and the H.

Scotts were still in Suva early Harry, back aboard following spell in hospital, is steadily imn health. A volunteer yachtsman ience was being sought for the if the voyage back to Sydney.

IONAIRE, which the Fisk family im England to New Zealand via orts in 1950 and later sold, was ;e of some inquiries in October, ner Jack Roberts was reported bound Suva. There was a later led report that the yacht had to Auckland.

P. Fisk, former owner, has never ted since his car was found on a ;ry road abandoned in December, lA, the Spanish-owned junk which im Hongkong earlier in the year, at Barcelona late August. The lad been mainly under power— trans-Pacific.

SNCE of Miami, Fla., 28-ft. sloop Lopez family, is at present in ’olynesian waters and will head California. of California, at in October, is unlikely to come rest. lAYNE of Vancouver with “Nipile and three companions aboard, «te October 5 for Rarotonga and MINI has been sold by the in Honolulu. They will soon launch a new boat, POSEIDON, in California. They were stationed at Palmvra Is. during the IGY. • ZIA, 75-ft. ketch of Portland. Ore was in Papeete early October, and will not come further west; no other details. • BLUE SEA, 46-ft. ketch of Sausalito, Cal., was to leave Papeete early October for Pitcairn and Lima, Peru. • W’ANDERER with film star Stirling Hayden and family, was expected to leave Papeete early October for San Francisco direct. • ZENATA, 33-ft. ketch of Morocco, with Anore Chartier, Daniel Persem. and Richard Cosmos, cleared Balboa for Polynesia on September 5. Cosmos formerly owned CELESTE, which changed hands at Papeete. • KUDO, 30-ft. yawl of Durban, cleared Balboa August 26 with Charles Kennedy and Luice Vanwyk aboard bound for Honolulu and Vancouver. • DRIFTER of Wellington, homeward bound from Rarotonga with J. P. Moore aboard, was reported overdue in mid- October and an air search was made from New Zealand. This was later suspended pending more definite information regarding intended movements of the craft. • RAIATEA, 41-ft. x 12-ft. x 5-ft. 8-in. ketch, was launched at Whangarei by Alan Orams late September. He was reported preparing for an Island cruise “in the near future”, • Cocos Island (Indian Ocean) is becoming a popular way port for cruising yachtsmen (or should we say cruising families?). Both WHITE SEAL (the Trobridges) and OUTWARD BOUND (the Caldwells) reported in from there on October 6 and 5 respectively; and CHIMERE (with the Bluche family of Sete, France) is headed that way. The Swedish yacht RONDOE was expected also in October.

Writes John Caldw’ell: “We arrived from Christmas Island on September 30 and found here the 36-ft. South African ketch WHITE SEAL with Gerry and Marie Trobridge aboard with their 11-months-old daughter Tracey born in Brisbane. With them is American crewman Dave Benedict, ex DOKRIGO ex MERIDIAN, “We leave here tomorrow for Dirgo Garcia in the Chagos Group, then on to the Seychelles and Aden where we prepare for our December voyage in the Red Sea.

WHITE SEAL departs same date for Mauritius and Durban, completing her world voyage.’’ (For what Gerry Trobridge has to say, see under picture of WHITE SEAL, page 101.) • CHIMERE, the French yawl (reports our Port Moresby yachting correspondent), with Jean, Suzanne and Jean, Jr., Bluche aboard has just completed her roundabout crossing of the Pacific and is now homeward bound. Her route from Tahiti to Japan via way ports, thence to Port Moresby via Wake Is. and the Solomons was a most unusual one. They reported no heavy weather on this stage of their cruise having departed Japanese waters before the typhoon season commenced.

Arriving Port Moresby on October 6 they left two days later for a short visit to Yule Is. where the missionaries are mostly French. From Yule they intend traversing Torres Strait thence to Colombo via Christmas and Cocos Is. and finally through the Red Sea, Suez Canal and Mediterranean to their home port of Sete. • STARDUST, the 116-ft. converted subchaser pleasure craft which left Sydney in July with a crew of amateur sailors (who were paying for their experience) and a vast quantity of publicity, got a little further than the cynics expected, but not much. The planned destination was the West Indies; the vessel is now in Suva, Fiji the cruise abandoned. A note from Fiji from a Mrs. M. Russell who sailed on her says: “STARDUST arrived in Lautoka on September 30 when the remaining [?]tor yacht “Reposado’s” crew few friends), about to leave [?]r Auckland in October. Mr. [?]eill (capt.), Mrs. Neill, and and Eyvonne are centre, front.

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The “Staghound team” - owner Paul Hurst, Miss Terii Marama, of Tahiti , and Plazi Miller —about to leave Suva for Noumea in October. 113 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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ibers of the crew were told the ould terminate and told to leave it. Two girls were told to leave five minutes before the yacht r Fiji. She is now in Suva Hariting to be sold, if possible”.

Suva we have been informed that urrently on board are owner S. Smith, navigator L. Gulson (he )LA trans-Pacific in 1956) Dianne • f NZ and Kate Smith.

RIDIAN and Richard and Abbie where are you? We last reported Brisbane six months ago but exte Carol Rice of 522 SW T 11th t. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, has again and wants to contact you. mowing anything of MERIDIAN’S ts could perhaps contact Mrs. above address —she leaves for the bortly and would like to see the if their paths cross. and Mrs. Thomas S. Steele, aboard cht ADIOS arrived in Noumea 19. ex-Suva. The 10-ton yacht is i and Mr. and Mrs. Steele had r ear in Tahiti before moving down and New Caledonia. iGHOUND (see photo, page 113) in Noumea, New Caledonia, in ber. Aboard were owner L. C. apt. Paul Hurst, and a Tahitienne, rana. The yacht will remain in tdonia for three months while the lies home to the US. He will re- <oumea to take the yacht further . Miller requires. chernegg, a New Australian, [?] Austria, who purchased the “Moon fleet” in Suva in [?] and headed hack with her [?]s Madang, New Guinea, where he now lives. 115 F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Big Wharf Job I Swing pest impression of the 00 Lautoka wharf job now T swing in Fiji is the vast : of preparatory and subwork involved before the isk of erecting the wharf Dceed. 5 who knew the Lautoka ont area of April would V recognise it now. The is centred on the town side CSR wharf, where many if what used to be harbour ieen reclaimed, and many cres are in process of being ed. This will merely be the use and wharf-approach rds the seaward end of this ition a very substantial wharf—quite a good one og to Islands standards— ready been completed—but nerely a temporary structure of the contractors’ barges, de it the big 150-ft pilemounted on one of the steel brought in from Hongkong, eiving its final touches by a Df Malayan riggers late in ber, preparatory to starting 1 job. ier back on the reclaimed here a series of earth and 3 platforms have been built, st three big hollow preconcrete piles were drying 'hey had just been brought the road from the pilearea adjoining the CSR s tanks. As of September, the activity was centred in ea.

P. Gernow, of Denmark, ent” for Christiani-Nielsen, the partners in the contract, lat there had been some Sue to late arrival of equipnd materials from overseas >m local contractors. How- /ery satisfactory cement-mix m arrived at much quicker /ould normally have been d—there is usually a deal )enmentation and testing 1, as the physical strength concrete varies greatly with the local materials used—and it was now felt that the lost time would soon be made up.

Special steel moulds, in many sections, have been manufactured by a local firm in two sizes. The cement for them is all coming from Japan.

Piles will be crossing the road at the rate of 48 per week.

The pile-casting foreman is Mr.

Kai Baekgaard, of Denmark, with Mr. S. R. Anderson, of Thames, NZ, in charge of the concrete mixing.

The English consulting engineers, Messrs. Wilton & Bell, have four inspectors watching every phase of the work to see that it meets with specifications. With these men, and gaining valuable experience, are three Fiji PWD apprentices. Mr.

C. P. Ready is in charge of this inspection group.

A ne a t row of administrative offices has appeared at the roadside adjoining the pile-making area and the whole project is being directed from here. The job is now employing about 300 persons, of wnom all but about 20 are locals.

The wharf contract has brought a considerable air of bustle to Lautoka’s port area and there is a general feeling in town that when “Our Wharf” is completed, Lautoka is going to steal a good deal of Suva’s thunder.

The Ladies Learn How: Miss Stewart On The Job “Tea or coffee? Sugar? Milk?”

With the air of experienced hostesses, some dozen native women —all members of Lae’s Native Women’s Clubs—were making their debut at an open air tea party for European visitors.

The occasion was the opening of Another Hotel For Lautoka Sir Hugh Ragg, managing director of Northern Hotels Ltd of Fiji made a surprise announcement on October 26 that his company had made application for a licence to establish a second hotel in Lautoka To cost £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO and to be named Namoli Hotel, the two-storey 26-bedroom, 40-bed building will be erected at the corner of Drasa and Namoli Avenues and should be ready for use by the last quarter of 1960.

It will be a modern tropical tourist-type hotel—“not just a pub’’—and it will have plenty of car-parking space.

The court hearing for the application for a licence was to take place on November 24. As soon as this is granted the job will be put in hand.

The scene at Lautoka in October as construction work went ahead on that Fiji port's new £2-million wharf. Here, concrete piles are being manufactured. 117 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Cables: "Carefulness" Sydney i grass basketball court at m Village, and one of the ;hts of a four day Welfare ig course organised by Miss i Stewart, of the South Commission, ors included Morobe’s District ssioner, Mr. H. L. R. Niall, let Office personnel, two e Officers —Misses Lois Niall, at Ure from Port Moresby, crested native and European ier welfare workers from Lae, Finschhafen, Dregerhafen, and Kaiapit. le basketball opening visitors irst “danced” into a large louse. Here they were treated :s, dances and games by the clubs. Many of the club rs wore smart uniforms they learned to make on es in the nine months since bs came into being. the entertainments, two women’s teams played off irst basketball match with md more especially with a. There were no longer icas that often ended in isticuffs when the game was troduced.

Stewart’s course embraced on village hygiene, house gardening, child welfare, health and cleanliness, songs and rounds.

Stewart’s method of teaching gely by use of a flanneland by play acting. The raph comprised a series of backed pictures which when ) a flannel sheet remained ion and could be easily remd replaced again by more le play acting, Miss Stewart d how the women members flubs should be divided into ups. To get home the idea ?e cleanliness for instance, □up would act “a dirty and the other group “a .lage and its consequences”, ethod not only gave the something to think about ent for self expression and 'ought out hidden talents.

Stewart has not long been :d to the SPC, but she and k will soon be better known DUt the South Pacific. ings They of Doing l a census of the number s and turtles inhabiting Frigate Shoals, recording its and squeaks of a variety sea marine life, and record- TV and movie camera the labits of commercially use- -sea fish were some of the tasks undertaken in a 3-day research cruise by the i & Wildlife vessel Charles -rt from Honolulu, essel, which was under the a of Captain William Tanaka, made a wide circuit round the Hawaiian Is.

A close study of the feeding habits of tuna and similar fish and their reaction to various kinds of bait fish, to agitation of the sea surface in the fishing area with a high-pressure water hose (simulating the activity of a school of small fish on the surface), and to various sounds, was made possible through . use of a P la stic observation “blister” fitted to the bottom of the research vessel 7-ft below the water line.

Modern electronic submarine detecting equipment depends upon the recognition of sounds peculiar to not only undersea craft but to fishes and whales, and some work on this cruise was sponsored by the US Navy which had two representatives aboard. The US Navy is compiling a llbra *7 of the sounds of the m L a f n d f S° me rec °rdings were made in this connection, in cooperation with the submarine Carp.

In addition to this special work the routine work of an oceanographic survey vessel was also conducted—the sampling of the ocean at various depths for salinity temperature, zooplankton, etc.

A number of the Department’s shore staff were taken along to 119 r 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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These atolls are subject to considerable variations in rainfall most of which is in heavy downpours from thunder-showers. Some years a lot of such showers score hits on these very small atolls as they drift past, and in other years [?]HAT BRIDGE! [?]tember the Public Works Departat Honiara, BSIP, outsmarted the [?]ain-Gone-Again Lunga bridge. The [?]l bridge, which connects Honiara Henderson airfield, was washed in floods in January, and since [?]a temporary Bailey type bridge [?]en washed away (see photograph old pilings of the permanent are in the background). When [?]rain caused a rapid rise in the in September the PWD moved [?]idge before it could be washed [?] third time. Oantas aircraft are [?]anding regularly at Kukum instead of Henderson. 121 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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re many hits. The copra fluctuates a good deal in 'h o the e outlo V ok lt for mother ’ shelf and trorhns ticularly bright at present! n industry does offer a long-range alternative to nd the report says that Mr Pel, Fisheries Officer for th Pacific Commission, re- ’avourably on the possibility ilishing shell beds in two three lagoons, Fakaofo and 3 not possible for Mr. Van make an investigation of no, but there is no reason to that it would not be. equally r llnhannu Auor r unnappy uver rw 7 c Arrrvimtf i y a MLtUUmS Vustralian Auditor-General 3er, having studied the acof the Papua-New Guinea tration for the year 1958-9, ome very harsh criticism ! of the things he found mple, he said the Adminihad: sted money on contracts for )f timber. •wed privately owned boats y • ied to account properly for items of furniture and nt at hospitals and other mients. ight electrical equipment for a technical training centre and never used it. •Generally kept unsatisfactory control over tools and equipment an f I 6 training centres, * Failed to keep reliable records of the cost of bricks manufactured administration works for Territory building projects, He also expressed sharp dissatisfaction with the way in which the accounts of the Port Moresby electrical supply undertaking, the water supply undertaking and the town’s Government-owned bus services had been kept, Every so often, Government auditors rise up in wrath, in this way, and show that there is something seriously wrong with Governmental handling of public money; it is not the first time it has happened in P-NG. But one never hears of either a bumbling Politician or an arrogant bureau- S rat ’ a ? a re !V lt ’ b £ mg booted downstairs, as they often deserve to J*®- . . .. .

What chance is there of any remedial action being taken in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea?

New P-NG Director of Agriculture Appointed It was announced on October 23 that Mr. F. C. Henderson had been promoted to the post of Director of Agriculture in Papua and New Guinea, rendered vacant on October 3 by the death of Mr. Larry Dwyer.

Mr. Henderson has been a leading man in the Department for many years—latterly as chief of the Division of Plant Industry. He joined the service in New Guinea in the ’Thirties, and was an Agricultural Inspector and Instructor under the late Mr. George Murray before World War 11.

After the war, when the Department was reconstituted for the two Territories, Mr. Henderson became Economic Botanist and, later, took charge of the Division of Plant Industry under Mr. Dwyer. He has acted as Director on occasion.

Some Good Advice From The Governor This year’s Cession Day address by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, was something in the way of a “softening up’’ process to prepare the people for the report of the Burns Commission, which finished its work in October. Sir Kenneth’s address was broadcast on October 12 to mark the anniversary, on October 10, 1874, when King Cakobau and the high chiefs of Fiji ceded the country to Queen Victoria.

But most were in agreement that Sir Kenneth’s address was both frank and sane.

Sir Kenneth said, among other things: “If we are to comply with the spirit of the Deed of Cession we too must be ready to adapt ourselves to new ideas and changing conditions. There is a tendency in all countries for people to cling to the past and to be apprehensive of change. . . . During the coming year we shall be studying the recommendations of the Burns Commission and the Spate report and we shall have to do some vitally important stocktaking.

“If as a result of this, some changes are suggested in ways and habits to which you are accustomed, I would say to you—keep your minds open and do not assume

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He had some good advice to give in his Cession Day address. 123 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1959

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Polynesia has a long history iction of high-grade vanilla. ; Tungi said that about 1953, npt was made to introduce from Tahiti to Vavau. This ut as a result of the interest it was then recalled that h priest had introduced the Tonga at about the turn century. For one reason or this plantation had been led and was long since fortnd overgrown with weeds, igation showed that those had propagated themselves ead wild through the bush, lese plants, new plantations en established and overseas indicate a vanilla content of ns equal to the best in the uld be, said Prince Tungi, thin a few years the rhinoetle infested coconut planta- : Vavau make take second o this promising industry.

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The Bush Hasn't Changed Much With a twinkle in his eye Dr. E W. Brandes said in Lae in October that New Guinea was no different now to what it was when he last visited it in 1928.

Nobody believed him, of course but he explained himself.

“The country is the same now irom the air as it was 30 years ago —-but your town—ah! now that’s a different matter!” •.r>^ h , en Dr - Bran des were here in 1928 he was with the US Department of Agriculture, and he was collecting sugar cane.

He hew about then in what was the latest type of amphibian aircraft, which frequently set down on unknown rivers. “Your boys were then hying some very antiquated little planes and looked with envy at the very modern air- Islands Life Is Catching! e New Zealand Public ce may take a leaf from Fiji book and permit its bers to deck themselves out da shirts — Fiji’s version of Hawaiian hula shirt—during next annual festival at ngton, according to a reissue of the Public Service tal. it may sound innocuous ih to Islanders and Aussies, for public servants in ngton to be so arrayed s on the sensational. 125 F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Home Truths jstralian Liberals ely debate on political conand public feeling in Papua ew Guinea took place in at the Fourteenth Annual tion of the New South Wales of the Australian Liberal in mid-October.

Lane Cove branch of the submitted a motion to the that Territories Minister : be congratulated on subg direct for indirect taxation ma and New Guinea, and le Government should keep in mind the need for ig the democratic rule that who had to pay taxation be represented in Parlianately, there was a delegate Mrs. Millard Hagon, of e Hill—who had lived rein New Guinea, and who something of the conditions and the strength of publilc feeling there She moved an amendment that the Convention urge that New Guinea be given a direct representation in the Federal Parliament by a man whose domicile and interests are in New Guinea; and she told the Convention some home truths about P-NG’s attitude towards the Australian Government.

There was a long discussion and opposition to Mrs. Hagon’s amendment was led by Mr. C. C M Usher, who is known as an industrious writer of letters to newspapers.

A very large majority of the 500 delegates present carried Mrs.

Millard Hagon’s amendment, and congratulated her on the forthright way in which she had presented the views of the now unrepresented non-official people of New Guinea.

Niue Is Better Than We Said In the new edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book, there is a libel upon the port of Niue, the small NZ Territory east of Tonga.

The book, at page 61, says the boat passage is shallow and even dangerous. This may have been so once—it is not now. The NZ Department of Island Territories reports: The boat passage at Niue now is P-NG Again after 30 Years [?]. Brandes, in Lae, NG, in October. [?]. Photo: Pat Robertson. 127 XHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Break Their Labour icts—And Go Free failure of the Papua and Guinea Administration to natives to observe the lacontracts (see above) was r criticised by Mr. J. L. •, of Rabaul, when he forresigned from the Legislauncil (to which he had just ected) on September 30. ieclared that the Minister led the Territorians in many ;, so that the Legco had beaeffective and useless; and hasised the difficulties being for private enterprise genby native indifference tolabour contracts, ng in South Pacific Post on 17, Mr. Michael J. Leahy, New Guinea’s oldest and lown settlers, said; ■w Guinea native has no economic )n to work. He only does so to ook around the country or to get >m trouble in his village—unlike man, who does not eat if he does law stands now, native labour is impossible to work. They are threatening and ridicule the ! the law. ne is much too afraid of Mr. > pro-native phobia to attempt ! to control them. They can deore an employer and an Adminisofficial that they will work for a t their issue of blankets, clothing, n without striking a blow, they with the lot.

Try and imagine what they are going to develop into in a generation.

The punitive clauses were removed in 1947 from the Native Labour Ordinance by Socialist Minister Eddie Ward. In this, he since has had the endorsement of “Liberal” Ministers.

In fact, Mr. Hasluck goes further, describes Territorian traders as “locusts”, and in Australia’s Parliament on September 30 “warned Australians not to look on New Guinea people as a mass of cheap labour for exploitation”

He was heartily cheered by the Socialist Opposition.

Under the Hasluck dictatorship, private enterprise in New Guinea —without which there can be no sound progress, either economic or discouraged 8 being systematically Ambitious Housing Scheme for Lautoka It s expected work will commence on a large housing scheme adjoining Dravuni Street, Lautoka, by the end of the year, as the result of a recent meeting between the Fiji Housing Authority and the Lautoka Town Council.

The scheme involves an attractive layout of more than 100 houses of several designs and of a type within the means of the £6-£l2-per-weekwage earner, similar to the scheme at Raiwaqa, near Suva. (Over) 129 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Colonial Development Will Help Fiji Build Roads It may safely be assumed that one of the recommendations of the Burns Commission will be for a major programme of road building in Fiji especially feeder roads to inland agricultural areas.

Apparently in anticipation of this —though its need has been clear enough—the Fiji Government has announced plans for the setting up of a feeder road construction unit, to begin work next year in the Western Division of Viti Levu. Some 75 per cent, of the initial fund of £33,000 required for road building equipment will be provided through the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund by the United Kingdom.

Such CD & W funds could not previously be used for feeder road building, though a grant of £280,000 was made to the Colony for major development roads. Approval has now been given for the use of some of this fund for feeder roads.

Because of lack of funds for feeder IN LONDON Their Spending Power Was in Doubt Vwo New Guinea towns which played hosts to 300 tourists Uly were left with mixed feelings—and mixed reasons— *ding the spending power of the visitors. r he tourists returned home to Australia about the middle of ber in the 11,000-ton steamship “Kanimbla” after a cruise to n which included Madang and Rabaul thrown in for good ure. kanimbla called at Madang on the northbound leg, and spent y at Rabaul on the cruise home. r he general opinion expressed in Madang and Rabaul was the visitors did not appear to have spent much during their stay. v he reason for this, as advanced at Madang, was: “They’re ing on to their money to spend in Japan”. And of course •eason advanced at Rabaul was that the visitors had no money because they had spent it all in Japan.

But none the less, there were brighter spots, including a fairly sale for native-made baskets, carvings and other souvenirs. °erhaps one of the most concrete disappointments was the lack iterest in conducted car tours of the Rabaul district. Five ' were planned. Four received moderate attendances, and the —an all-day picnic—was cancelled because of lack of numbers ?. r axis did well out of wharf-to-town trade, and in small omptu tours.

One woman called for a taxi so that she could see “the ificent hospital at Nonga which the generous Australians had i to the native people”.

'Lady, you don’t know how right you are,” muttered a bystander. [?] recently Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Kerkham, [?]-he is a director and the secretary of [?]ilp (SS) Co., Ltd., had a meeting with [?]r staff of the London branch of Burns [?]d this is one of the photographs taken.

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Solomon Islands: Mendana Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 73, Honiara. i the past it has been necesi build many sub-standard Either than lesser lengths of eder roads. The first move 11 be to bring the low-grade ip to standard by proper ;, drainage, etc. , Tonga, Stage a \\ Invasion of Fiji ige band from Savaii Island, Samoa, in bright uniforms, Suva in October by paradugh the city completely unl, and a week later a Tongan opped in for a brief visit. »and was from Lelepa and aded by one of Western leading musicians, Suvaimoan Sauni liga Kuresa, bound for Tonga on a visit il weeks. The 46-piece band in the Islands’ vessel Tofua lained in Suva for a week the Tongan vessel Aoniu. confusion was caused durband’s initial march from arf to Albert Park. The 5 were very similar to those iji Military Force band and eople did not realise that 5 another band. However, ng amusing evolutions, le FMF Band, this one did 1 steps, and about faces, as i on its way, and there was aare-chested gentleman out ■aring a tapa lavalava. ; next appearance, however, had changed its red jackets s and was also sporting aps just made in Suva, onstration game of Samoancket was a major feature isit (see Sport Review). lelepeku Club choir from ame up to Suva to record ns in the FBC studios. This doir that sang during the sit and has impressed with singing on other important ;. At the end of October, lents were looking forward ig the choir over the air. arotonga I Coming Minister of Island Terri- Jr. J. Mathison, said in ;a during his recent visit te had now been approved ew hospital at Rarotonga ce the present outmoded The building will be n stages. ie Crop (And ) Higher iimate of the current Fiji >P made in June—2so,ooo s raised by the CSR to an of 282,000 tons in October )mpany believed that this amount would be reached if the crushing went ahead smoothly and the weather held good, but it would take until the end of January to complete the harvest. Only 123 000 tons can be exported in the 1959 calendar year, and some of that amount would be taken up bv carry-over from the 1958 year The free-market price has risen slightly since the middle of the year and the price after the end of 1959 is estimated at about £Stg.24/l/6. price average for ~i2 59 <l uota export is estimated at £37/16/-, which will permit an actual sugar-cane price to farmers of about £F3/1/- per ton, except for the Rewa Valley cane which is of lower sugar content.

In a further CSR statement the company summarises the situation and outlook for Fiji sugar production and exports.

This shows that the International bugar Agreement export quota for 1959 is 179,000 tons of sugar and for 1960 will be 184,000 tons To these figures may be added local consumption and sugar sold to nearby Island territories which does not come within the quota limitation. This amounts to about 15,000 tons annually. Thus the total amount of disposable sugar in 1959 is 194,000 tons and in 1960 will be 199.000 tons.

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Prison Sentence For Club Treasurer Otto Louis Wendt, of Suvs ployed as treasurer of the Club, Nukualofa, Tonga, was guilty in September of the ulent conversion of £BO2 in funds and was sentenced Chief Justice of Fiji, Mr.

Lowe, to three years imprisc Because the accused is Tongan, the case fell with jurisdiction of the Court High Commissioner for the Pacific, and Judge Lowe w Nukualofa especially to he case. Wendt was represented] Moti Tikeram, and Mr. P. 1 of Suva, conducted the case prosecution. It was expecte an appeal would be lodged.

Training Course Urged For Migrating Islanders Islanders should be requ undergo a course of train adapt them to the impact oF pletely different way of life being permitted to migrate Zealand.

This was the substance address given by Mr. M. G. headmaster of Reparoa Distn School, NZ, and formerly a to the LMS Mission at Niue when he spoke at a Rotoru Club gathering in October.

Mr. Check noted that h of Islanders were arriving Zealand each year and prepared for the completely < society there. He said thi arrived in Auckland and down six families in a hou first person they meet on tH is some old friend “who hr on the booze for six years”.. 134 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MO

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Melbourne, formerly of Lautoka. former Cecily Perichon cuts the cake marriage to Mr. Geoffrey Smith, of [?]. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. [?]hon, of Port Moresby, and the late Mr. L. J. Perichon. 135 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Their Cargo-Cult Wasn't Anti-European Reports of anti-Europeani Cult on Goodenough Islam “completely untrue and als the Papua-New Guinea Dire Native Affairs, Mr. A. A. I said on October 21.

Reports reached Admink officials in Port Moresby the ous week-end that two Ev women on Goodenough wer ing Administration protection! anti-European Cargo Cults island which is in the E casteaux Group off the east i Papua.

Mr. Roberts said an Adm tion patrol, led by Assistai trict Officer I. Doolan, hac immediately for the island.

“After investigation, four were arrested and charge; spreading false rumours Roberts said. The women < Gribben and her daughte:; Hall) had listened to a few talking and had not checked; into the rumours.

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he said. “The cult has run rse and remedial action is ing taken,” Mr. Roberts said, nior native affairs official oodenough Island had been or recruiting since December, ecause the number of ablemen in the villages had :o a dangerously low level, e the war, the men of Goodhave always gone out to i contract in large numbers,” lad believed the Goodenough kept their own check on the of men who could be away but we found this was not le time of closure, food supi some Goodenough villages itically low and women and i were close to starvation, men had been used to a :ome and now they have bessatisfied with the traditional life. dom and frustration have y fostered the Cargo Cult k on the island.” than 12 months ago, in f September, 1958, a New correspondent reported on d storage and labour situt Goodenough, and added: e could follow in the shape go Cult or subversion. A ion the size of that of Good- (which is in the thousands), ed by both regulations and ographical situation from Isewhere to get sustenance, my of them used to much conditions of housing and suffering from malnutrition own on their own resources, to make use of the knowid skills they have come by, ecome dangerous.”

An Old Soldier Walks The Old Trail Back in September, 1914, when Colonel William Holmes led his Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force into Bita Paka, near Rabaul, a young man named Godfrey Jenkins was in the contingent of 1,500 men.

And only a few weeks ago, 45 years older but still bristling with energy, the same Godfrey Jenkins stepped from MV Malaita at Rabaul to re-visit the scene where the first Australians engaged in jungle warfare.

He is retired now, and living in Sydney.

“I felt like making a cruise somewhere,” he said, “so I went to the shipping company and asked them to name some of the places their ships went to. They mentioned Rabaul, so I said, ‘Right, I’ve been there once, so I’ll go again and see what has changed.’ ”

Needless to say, he found everything changed, but he could still pick the spot where Colonel Holmes’ force had landed before moving inland from Kabakaul to take the German wireless station at Bita Psikci Mr. Jenkins visited the memorial on the Bita Paka Road which pays tribute to the small band of men, mainly Naval reservists, who lost their lives in the action. He also saw the Bita Paka War Cemetery which is only a few miles from the 1914 memorial.

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Dr. Goto'S Visit

When Dr. Y. Baron Goto, the coffee expert, left Goroka, NG, after his visit there in October, the Highlands Farmers and Settlers' Association, including native growers presented him (below) with a silver tray and native curios. Above, he is photographed with many of the European and native members of the Association. President lan Downs is on Dr. Goto's right.

Photographs: Eric Bolton. 137 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Colonel Holmes, as leader of' force, became the first Adminisfaj of New Guinea under Austrn control. He remained Administid for five months, and was kill© action at Flanders shortly be the end of the war.

Guadalcanal Will Be Among The Trackers Honiara people had not) October, been told officially seems to be common knowledf American newspaper readersis, that Guadalcanal will be ox a chain of American trat stations for manned satellite “Project Mercury”.

There will be 15 sites in multi-million dollar tracking work, and the radar and telemetry installations are t ready for use in 1960.

The job of equipping them been given to a whole collect!) big American firms incll Western Electric, Bell Telep International Business Mac: Bendix Aviation Corporation, Burns and Roe Incorporated.

Other Pacific tracking sts besides Guadalcanal, will t Canton Island, Hawaii, and ii points in Australia —Western Central Australia.

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Suva Can Enjoy Its Showers Now Householders in most Fiji c breathed a sigh of relief (anc small fry grimaced feelingly) the Government announce October that water charge!: been reduced from 3/9 for gallons to 2/3 (up to 60,000 annual consumption).

This brings the daily show; of the luxury class, partu for lower wage-earners.

Between 60,000 and 100.00( annually, the charge will V per 1,000 gal. and 4 6 then Overall effect will be a sms ditional loss to the Public Department which control! supply.

Water rates have been c the liveliest local issues it Colony for ages. An indepi investigation early this suggested that 3, 9 per was, if anything, below coj< that was no consolation to ha rate-payers. Now they’re why this new system of cli couldn’t have been imposed k ago.

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Dr. Abbott is at present Assistant Director of Medical Services in P-NG.

At the closing meeting on October 23, the chairman paid high tribute to the work of Dr. A. H J Kroon, executive officer for economic development, who will retire next month after seven years of Commission service. His successor will be Dr. Jacques Barrau, at present SPC plant introduction officer.

Deep appreciation was also expressed of the services of Dr. T. C.

Lome, public health officer, who is acting executive officer for health while the post is temporarily vacant.

W. Samoa's New Health Director Is Local Born It was a case of local boy making good—and over more than the usual number of obstacles—when Dr. H. C. Thieme was appointed new Director of Health for Western Samoa last month.

He is the first local-born doctor to be appointed to this responsible position.

Dr. Thieme was born in Apia 46 years ago. His father was a well- Stardust Was Stardust the critics on the Sydney rfront predicted in July i she left Sydney with a of amateur sailors, the erted sub-chaser “Star- ’ doesn’t look as if it will i the West Indies, e ship is now in Suva, where members were told the e would terminate, and the if possible, will be sold.

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Dr. H. C. Thieme left Samo 1918 after the death of his fs and was educated in Germany studied at German universities? gained his MD in 1942. During war he served six years with German Army, mainly in Rt and was wounded twice. After war he practised for some as a general practitioner.

In 1951, Dr. Thieme, his sister brother decided to return <to Sa- When they reached Auckland found that there was a water strike and no transport was a able to Apia, so the family si on as crew on a small ketch F under an American skipper..

Thieme was appointed to the of Apia Hospital on Decembi 1951.

He has earned the respect gratitude of his many patients there is general approval ot appointment to the senior pos in the Health Department.

He spent several months in studying conditions at the I Colony at Makogai, Fiji; in 191 attended a six months’ TH fresher course in New Zealand in 1958 he represented We Samoa at the Tuberculosis Co ence at Pago Pago.

He was appointed Superintei of Apia Hospital in August, IS Set-Back To BSIP Cocoa Plan Due, apparently, to the car ness of someone in the Agrici Department of the BSIP Go ment, a large number of plants were killed at the Go ment cocoa farm on M recently.

It appears that something 3,000 plants, in various stag growth up to two years, sprayed with weedkiller inste; dieldrin and were dest immediately.

As far as can be ascertains weedkiller was placed in a which had contained di previously and was not dist labelled.

The accident is a serious for no doubt it will affec establishment of the cocoa inc there.

A Real Show, Even To The Con Men One of Lae (NG) art enthu went into raptures over a pa by a native student which w exhibition at Lae’s first agricu show in October.

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Among the industrial award winners were Morobe Bakery, who were able to display 56 different types of bread, and the Lae Joinery, who exhibited a superb dining suite of New Guinea timber. Old-timer Mick Leahy got off with many of the produce prizes.

Administrator D. M. Cleland in his opening speech answered Australian criticism that native land ownership might be endangered by development. The Territory, he said, had a total land area of nearly 120million acres of which about 117million acres were owned or occupied by natives, or were uninhabited. The total land area occupied by the Administration or by non-natives was three million acres, and thus land alienation was only about 2.5 per cent, of the total area.

Brigadier Cleland added that over the last five years 245 agricultural and pastoral leases had been granted to settlers —a total of 150,394 acres. Total land grants since 1945 were 566, with a combined area of nearly 300,000 acres. (Over)

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Chiyo Maru has been ini Honiara area of the Solomon cently, examining wartime w on Guadalcanal and Ngela ♦ with a view of salvaging sarr The Chiyo Maru t which is c by the Kyoda Salvage Con had an Australian, Mr. Jack ( on board in charge of opera She is a wooden diesel po: ship of approximately 50 specially equipped for under survey work and her equij is capable of taking pictun underwater objects to a dep 30 fathoms.

Although the survey work c ship has been completed, as is not known whether satisfy terms have been reached be Government and the salvage: pany for work to be comm at a later date.

Second Sydney Reunion Luncheon The very large attendance : New Guinea Women’s Club’s s Reunion Luncheon in Sydni October 15, probably ensures this will become another r event in the club’s long list a cessful functions.

About 100 members, friend visiting Territorians met a Feminist Club at 12.30 p.m when the working-members drew at 2 p.m., the rest of the seemed set fair to continue tea time.

After luncheon, the presidi the club, Mrs. N. H. Foxcroft a long letter from Mrs. C. of Madang, who gave an ex( description of the August cerei that attended the opening « Coastwatchers’ Memorial then Mrs. Margo Symington, an s plished raconteur, gave an ar account of a recent trip to M Amongst the guests of 1 were Mesdames Pratt and G; of the Melbourne New C Women’s Association, who w route to New Zealand for a h The Battle Against Malaria Continues Almost £2,500,000 will be sp Papua and New Guinea ov next 14 years to control i possible eradicate malaria fro territory, the Administrator, dier D. M. Cleland, sai October.

He was speaking at the o: of the Inter-Territory IN' Co-ordination Conference ii Moresby. 142 NOVEMBER, 195 9 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Still Is idictable a prices continued their unable pattern during the )eginning of November the i price for Philippines was $2O down on the price of a previously, and some copraing territories reacted ac- :ly.

Fiji, although during the the near record price of or top grade was recorded, fallen by about £F4 early ember. price went up in the ns—which has a record year behind it to sustain rices. s declared for the month of aer, were increased a further >ove the all-time high paid June, July and October of ar. means that this month the Copra Board will pay proat the three ports of a, Gizo and Yandina, £AB3 •st Grade, £ABI for Second and £A76 for Third Grade. these further increased the average prices paid for months to November 30, /ill be First Grade approx, cond Grade approx. £74 and Grade approx. £7O. a production in the BSIP creased considerably during >t 12 months as can be seen igures recently released by mager of the Copra Board, S. Corner. s figures show that for the > Financial Year (which n September 30) 15,988 tons urchased in 1958 but during 143 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Mr. Singh said that some i were asking what would happ the first instalment of their money if they were unable tc the second instalment when ■ upon. In his view they would f the first instalment, which simply become part of the pany’s assets.

Another speaker in the c Mr. Shri Ram Sharma, t thumbs down on calling in tl Gujerati merchants. When die ever help the farmers, he w to know? They had the mone; but they’d probably finish up the farmers’ money, too, if thej invited to contribute! No, keep out; let the farmers stand on own feet.

That outburst brought a “aye! aye!” but generally spe the audience merely listene tentively and wore a thoughtf pression.

The meeting broke up w any motions being put—eitf confidence or no confidence i directors, or concerning f action in the sale of shares.

Before financial support c expected from overseas it is that a bare minimum of £! in hard cash must be founc unless the government is pn to release some of the sugar isation fund for this purpose, seems most unlikely, or unles; business interests can be pen to buy shares, the outlook f new mill seemed, at the e October, less than bright. 1959 the total was 18,149 ton,<i increase of 2,161 tons or 13. S cent.

These figures did not im copra produced by Lever’s Pi' Plantations and exported dire; Australia.

With the departure of Cedarhank from the Protect) at the end of August, carryii load of 2,179 tons, the BSI 0 Board’s yearly quota with UniL. for 12,000 tons of copra, had fulfilled.

Estimates for the remainde the year are that another tons will be produced and it widely known that outside inte particularly Japanese, were terested in obtaining a propo of this copra which would be on the open market.

However, in September Mr.

Corner announced that the ’ of the 1959 copra production i Protectorate would be sole Unilevers under the same and conditions as applied earl the year. 144 Nausori Sugar (Continued from page 22) NOVEMBER. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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The Mau Troubles participation in the move- ?an with the Citizens’ Cornset up in 1924 by Eurosidents, originally with the of protecting European infrom the worst results of political muddle. Gradually, , some European members >rganisation became so tied the Mau that other mem- :hdrew and the body distau troubles reached a peak )27, when the three Euroaders were “banished” by r Zealand Government. Mr. s term was three years, ie chose to spend in Fiji, le lived in semi-retirement slson and Judge Gore were 1 for longer periods). vay or another, the end of r should decide its fate. ote: Shareholders who were :hat support might be forthfrom the Japanese firm of & Co., who had brought a e agriculturist to Fiji reto make a survey, heard of interest. A lengthy red been received from the e professor—but it was all lese script. It had just been and would take some time translated. t contained any particular morsels of news these oubtless have been released translators in time for the At the end of 1929, Mr. Smythe was given permission to return to Western Samoa and on December 28, 1929, the Mau celebrated his return by a march in force through the streets of Apia. The badly advised Administration tried to arrest some of the Mau men during the march, rioting broke out and during it one European policeman and 11 Samoans, including High Chief Tamasese, were killed.

The Mau dispersed to the remoter villages and a warship was sent from New Zealand. Sailors and marines combed the valleys and hills, and numerous Samoans were arrested and the bad feeling against New Zealand grew. Many people expected, at this stage, that the Mandate would be taken from New Zealand which had proved itself comiflcapable of administering the Territory. However, by this time the League of Nations had lost any influence it might originally have had, and the ridiculous situation was allowed to go on.

Between 1930 and 1936 there was sporadic trouble that on numerous occasions threatened to erupt into disaster, but in that latter year, the 145 F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959 Smythe s Death Continued from page 23)

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Because of the personnel volved, it was generally sup that the Hamac group of com] was integrated with the P Trinder group.

It became clear in 1958-59,, ever, that although some F Trinder personnel (and notabi Messrs. McEachern) werei terested, they were there r as individuals —there was no: connection between the P Trinder group and the I group.

By early 1959, the Hamac « isation was in financial diffic and then the Sydney director the London Board, began to lively concern. (See PIM of A page 20, and September, page It appeared that the liabili Hamac Holdings Ltd. were be £400,000 and £500,000, of whi less than £330,000 was ow Harvey Trinder (NSW) Ltd.

"Severed Connection"

Early in 1959, Messrs. F. I L. F. McEachern severed thei nection with the executive: boards of the Harvey Trindei panies, and began trading surance brokers on their owr The remaining Harvey T. interests took part in disci and negotiations in Papua an Guinea, as large creditors ; Hamac Holdings Ltd. situatioi they made a series of offers other creditors, in an effort t the latter from serious lossi The position in Papua an Guinea, and the affairs of I were not mentioned in the initiated in Sydney on Octol There it was charged th Messrs. McEachern were di of Harvey Trinder (NSW) and that, between June 30, 19i January 12, 1959, they fraud applied to their own use c totalling £22,499, the prope Harvey Trinder Ltd.

The prosecution alleged th{ cheques involved are cash c signed jointly by the defen Mr. L. K. Murphy, appear: the defendants, said that the a complete answer to the c and that the proceedings we: of an effort being made “to i them out of this company, them to hand over their shai eliminate them as business “They are completely ir of these charges,” declared c first New Zealand Labour Government came to power, and to this government must be given the credit of straightening out the political mess that 16 years of NZ administration had left in Western Samoa. From this point the influence of the Mau declined.

Today, of course, Western Samoa is on the threshold of self-government. But what the Mau fought for in the 1920’s and ’3o’s, and what the Samoan politicians of today are aiming at, are two distinctly different things.

Mr. Smythe was one of the European West Samoans who had made no secret of the fact that in recent years he did not like the look of the way events were shaping in the Territory.

He and Mrs. Smythe left Apia about four years ago to live in Sydney. Since then Mr. Smythe had never been in robust health.

He is survived by Mrs. Smythe 'and by his only child. Emmy, wife of Mr. G. S. Chisholm, formerly manager of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. in Apia, but now living in Sydney. 146 Fraud Charges (Continued from page 23) J NOVEMBER, 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONI

Sports Review M/ I* } rVOn 111 LarGS . _ DN Day in Fiji, October 10, anniversary of the ceding hose islands to Britain, is >f sport. In Suva it’s the lockey tournament of the d in Nausori 12 miles away bus flies it’s the big day ear, Regatta Day, a perfect man’s holiday, where ds flock along the banks of ;a and out on the natural ind formed by what is r the best bridge in the 'acific. iji, as elsewhere in the the outboard motor has ito its own, and no more on the Rewa River and its ies where 15-ft to 20-ft, flat-bottomed punts whine ad forth with passengers duce day and night. It is these powered punts which the entertainment on Day (although some pure ypes are also there). starters, with microphone plifier, set up camp in mida the base of one of the piles, and a commentator mother amplifier system i from the footpath above, lands of the public favour ige grandstand. lands of others mill along r banks, where Indian girls ack and forth with handearing glass jugs of cool, well diluted, cordials at a penny a glass, or temporary stalls offer short sections of sugar cane, uncooked corn-cobs, “grog” (yaqona), slices of melon, coloured ice-blocks, and Indian sweets and cookies of all kinds.

Though most shops are shut, even the town of Nausori is packed as buses from outer districts disgorge their loads to add to the fun. Down stream a little, in the shallows of a side channel hard by the Rewa Hotel, dozens of Fijian children, tiring of watching the boats snarling back and forth, splash and scream in their own version of a good time.

This year the weather could hardly have been better for the big occasion—a fresh, cool breeze, and sufficient cloud cover to ease the heat of the sun. No one much cares who won the events. This is more of a social occasion, an annual get-together enjoyed by Fijians, Indians—and a good sprinkling of Europeans from Suva, mm .. n §• • # KGIinOUISfIGS • rl n •

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ri\HE reins changed hands at JL Rabaul one day in October when the acknowledged master, Matthew Bernard Foley, stepped down as president of Rabaul Amateur Turf Club, Ready to take them up was keen supporter George Clark, of Rabaul, who has been a capable judge for the club on many occasions, and who will now hold office as president for the next 12 months.

Matt Foley, who had been president since the club’s formation 3 years ago, was made a life member in honour of his services. “And I m still here to work”, he told the annual meeting, “but I feel someone else deserves to be president now .

Rabaul Amateur Turf Club has proved itself a happy-go-lucky, up-and-down but basically sturdy organisation which has consistently defied its critics, spent money in all directions, and yet managed to keep its bank managers happy.

Foley’s part in building up a success story in the face of heavy obstacles has been immeasurable “I guess you would say that Matt is the turf club”, committee members say.

Their opinion is not far off the mark. Many is the time that Foley has combined the duties of rider, trainer, owner, and club president —and has been topping the riders’ premiership at the same time.

A serious fall earlier this year has put him out of the riding game but has not diminished his interest in the turf club and its development.

The annual meeting re-elected Ernie Young, of Rabaul, to carry on as secretary of the club.

Wouldn't Have Done At Lords From Norman Baxter, in Suva THOSE big and unwieldly-looking cricket teams sported by the Samoans and Cook Islanders have always been of academic interest only to the Fijians, who prefer what they consider to be the orthodox game of rugby.

But a Samoan band which took Suva by storm in October (see Pacific Report) gave a brief demonstration of this kind of cricket after an open air concert in Albert Park and left locals wide-eyed It was not only at the sight of 30 dusky cricketers on the ground at the same time —but also those triangular bats (about the same length as a baseball club), the four feet long wickets, and the rubber ball (which was very hard).

But what was most amazing was the lengths to which the fieldsmen would go to get the batsmen out.

One of them, a sort of unofficial captain, would give an imperious blast on a whistle. At this signal the fieldsmen would begin clapping hands, and making cither noises with the apparent intention of upsetting the batsmen. It wouldn’t have done at Lords.

But the batsmen were inured by long years of experience, and no device could rattle them.

The wicketkeepers, one at each end, did not wear gloves. If a ball passed the batsman they immediately bowled to the man at the other end. Perhaps they should be called wicketkeeper-bowlers. [?]g day of the year at Nausori—Regatta Day. This was the scene on October 10, with the Nausori Bridge jam packed! See story below. 147 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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There was no waste time be overs.

Some of the mighty swipe the semi-darkness had the s tors instinctively ducking.

The light became too bau there was no appeal. Even just walked off the field!

Now He's Kitione L Of England TONG AN boxer Kitione La 1 , Fiji late in October fc United Kingdom—with s title —Kitione Lave of Englan decided on the “England" pa cause he was upset at his rec when he returned to the kingdom in April after his lon to England. He wasn’t, he tlr treated by the locals in the n to which he had become accus; Before he left Fiji, Lav another clash —their fourth Fijian Mosese Varasikete —ar knocked out by the Fijian 12th round. Mosese’s showir him in the top rank of heavy boxers in the South Pacific, proved that he could absorb p ment as well as dish it out.

But some of the credit w his trainer, Inoke Davu, who i hard on the Nadi boy to ha 1 in top condition for that bout, now evens the score to two-al each man gaining his victo] clean knockouts.

As Lave is unlikely to ret the South Pacific during his career, and. cannot have very more years to run, any d' bout with Mosese will have fought on the other side world.

As far as is known, Mose no plans to travel that far, bu ager “Jerry” Adams is 1 another effort to get him ini Zealand (see “Adams v. Autl PIM, October, p. 133).

Footnote : At Papeete on b to UK, Lave lost to Fijian £ Cawaru, k.o’d in the Bth. 148 Samoan Cabinet (Continued from page 23) NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Mr. G. Shepherd

11-known young footballer in r. George Shepherd died in 01on i a 1 War Memorial l, Suva, on October 11, at 5 of only 24. He worked Government Printing and ery Department. For several he represented with the uropean rugby team, but had at of competitive sport for lonths because of ill-health.

MR. K. A. LEWIS )f two brothers who went to in the 1930’5, Mr. Kenneth Lewis, died in Brisbane 1 Hospital on October 29. 59 years old. ;chanic by trade, Mr. Lewis ie years ran the Vieusseaux rt services and worked up terprise into a flourishing Later, he joined the Works Department, Port 7. erved in the Army right the Pacific War, but on isation acquired “The restaurant at Brunswick Q’ld., and settled there with ife (she was Matron □e, of Pt. Moresby Hospital). because of ill-health, he to the seaside, at Redcliffe. survived by Mrs. Lewis and ipted children, irother who went to Papua m, Mr. Ronald Keith Lewis, d the Cosmopolitan Hotel, I, until his death some years

Mr. Aio Taripo

Mo Taripo, member of a Cook Islands family who ie title Uriarua Rangatira, cently in Rarotonga. He veteran of World War I. s survived by 12 children.

MR. B. J. WHITE enjamin J. White, who made ■k in New Guinea both in d in peacetime, died sud- 'ter a heart attack at Garua at the end of October, :nt to Kavieng, NG, in 1941, ommando, then became a tcher in Buka Passage, beng evacuated to BSI when >s occupied Bougainville. A aths later he went back to i territory, landing from a ne, and helped open the way for the Allied landing at Torokina late 1943. He was awarded the DCM.

After the war, Mr. White stayed in New Guinea, joining Choiseul Plantations Ltd., Bougainville. He became a well known and respected planter, later managing Mr. R.

Stuart’s Tenakow property, then Bali plantation. In 1953, he went south for a spell and for several years was farming in Victoria. He returned to NG in 1956 as manager of Garua Plantation. Later, he was with Coconut Products Ltd. His wife, three daughters and a son survive him.

Mr. Charles Kuppswami

Mr. Charles Kuppswami, who had been in the employ of the Fiji Public Works Department for more than 30 years, died in Suva in October, aged 53.

Mr. Kuppswami, who arrived in his father in 1908, started with the Works Department in 1927 as a plumber’s apprentice, and was senior works foreman when he died. He was due to retire shortly.

He left a widow and five children.

MR. A. G. SMYTHE The death occurred in Sydney in October of Mr. A. G. Smythe, who was for many years closely identified with West Samoa. For a report, see p. 23. 149 FI C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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A 30/ AU 24, Pago Pago Dec. 25-28, Los Angea 10-11, San Francisco Jan. 12-13. i Thorsisle; Dep. Seattle Dec. | Westminster Dec. 5-9, San Francui 12-16. Los Angeles Dec. 17-19, Papea 30-Jan. 2, Pago Pago Jan. 6-8, Ap 9-11, Nukualofa Jan. 14, Suva Jan Noumea Jan. 18-19, Vila Jan. 20. Fi r port Jan. 22-28, Pago Pago Jan. 31 Los Angeles Feb. 16-17, San Franck 18-20.

Details from General Steamshit poration Ltd., 432 California S Francisco, USA. and Islands Agent US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-I Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San F operates a regular five-weeks pa cargo service from Los Angeles v Ventura, Alameda, Sierra and Southern terminal ports vary withoffering. Vessels call at Papeet Pago and Suva, depending on Next Sydney sailings: Sierra !

Somona Jan. 23.

American Pioneer Line has eigi (Pioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef. Ca Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Pam Atlantic Coast service with i Papeete on southbound voyage, approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouv< Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Sui sidiary of W. R. Carpenter a operate a service three times yea the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel along the above route. Accom: is entirely First Class, two-bertl with calls at Suva, Lautoka and 1 Next Sydney sailing; Feb. 13 (app Details from American Tradl Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Br: Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-Norl America Cargo vessels Waihemo and and others, operated by tin Steam Ship Company of NZ. Ltc tain a monthly service across th from Sydney to Vancouver and Uf via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa a as cargoes offer. Occasional calls at Fanning Island. They have passenger accommodation. Last sailing: Waiana November 13. Ne> sailing: Waitomo early Jan.

The Waitemata, from NZ port 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver tonga and Papeete).

UK-Panama-Fiji The Fiji Direct Service, with vessels, maintains sailings at monthly intervals out of Lon Panama, for Suva. Fiji, and oc to Lautoka. Bethell. Gwyn and act as Loading Brokers in Lon Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., agents in Fiji. Cargo for transhi Suva to Samoa and Tonga is ha: wards by the Union Steam Ship C Ltd.

Sailing dates from London for 1 ject to alteration without notice follows; Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Mar. H May 5, June 2, June 30, July 28, Sept. 22, Oct. 20, Nov. 17, and Dl 154 NOVEMBER, 19 5 9 -FACIFIC ISLANDS MON

Established 1929 D. GOKAL & CO.

Merchants, Importers and Exporters All inquiries welcomed.

Renwick Road, G.P.O. Box 19,

Suva, Fiji Islands

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: — FlJl.—Branch Office: J. F. Drury, Manager.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

NOUMEA.—W. Johnston.

VlLA.—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.

HONIARA (8.5.1. P.) Wm. Breckwoldt & Company.

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. i America Tahiti-N.Z.iey-Fiji-Samoa-Hawaii Line’s Mariposa and Monterey und passenger trips from US oast ports to New' Zealand and via Pacific Islands ports. ;y: Dep. San Francisco Nov. 30, lies Dec. 1, Papeete Dec. 9-11.

Dec. 17-18, Sydney Dec. 21-24, Dec. 27, Suva Dec. 30, Pago Pago Honolulu Jan. 5-6, San Francisco a; Dep. San Francisco Dec. 27, lies Dec. 28. Papeete Jan. 5-7, Jan. 13-14, Sydney Jan. 17-20, Jan. 23, Suva Jan. 26, Pago Pago Honolulu Feb. 1-2, San Francisco from Matson Lines, Berger Elizabeth Street, Sydney. dney-Tahiti-Europe lian Sitmar Line (Panama flag) motor-vessels Fairsea and Castel ally air-conditioned) sail from r Europe, via Auckland, Papeete ma at irregular intervals providierately priced sea connection in jund direction only with Tahiti. r dney sailing: Fairsea Dec. 24. from Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd., ret St., Sydney. id Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby leral Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., ided its regular quarterly UKservice to Port Moresby, sels sail from Liverpool via Suez 7, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, :sby.

Due Port Moresby Jan. 30 agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Ltd., St. Port Moresby agents: Burns w Guinea), Ltd. i-Fiji Shipping Service iga Shipping Agency, as agents 7onga Copra Board, operates a nonthly cargo and passenger tween Nukualofa and Suva with , 500 tons gross. Turn-round in sually two days, and the Agents W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji).

Airways Time-Tables

S-Pacific Services

iustralia (or NZ)-Fijiawaii-N. America and Tourist Class available all Services)

Pan-American Airways

)er 7 Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Sydney (4.50 p.m.i, Nadi, Hono- Seattle, with connections at lu for San Francisco or Los 'ep, Seattle for Sydney, via Portland (same route), * PAA DC4 is used on a connecting service between Auckland and Nadi (see table 18t.

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 Jets) NORTHWARDS Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (4 p.m.), Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, London.

Fri.: Sydney (4 p.m.), Nadi. Honolulu, San Francisco extending to Vancouver Tues.: Sydney (4.p.m.), Nadi, Honolulu San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS Mon. and Fri.: London, New York San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi. Sydney.

Tues.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi Sydney.

Sat.: Vancouver, 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 Fri. service ex-Sydney connects with BOAC London service at San Francisco (dep. Sat.).

BOAC service ex-London Mon. connects at San Francisco Tues. with southbound Qantas service.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Thurs.: Sydney (dep. 1 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. and Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Tues.

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 Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr Brisbane, 11.15 p.m. 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 Wed.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 4.30 p.m.

Dep.

Pt. Moresby. 5.30 p.m. (for Manila, Hongkong and Tokyo).

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’vllle, 2.10 p m De P- Arr Townsville, 3.10 p.m. Brisbane, 6 p.m. . P ep- Arr.

Brisbane, 7 p.m. Sydney, 9 p.m. 155 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1959

All this in a genially temperate climate, fever-free and without noxious insects or reptiles, among a pleasant English-speaking people.

And all within an hour or two of the nearest airport.

For although our islands have an area only the size of Colorado, it's a thousand miles from the Bay of Islands to Invercargill, and that’s why so many visitors travel by N.A.C. N.A.C.’s fleet links 20 principal cities, towns and tourist resorts, and connects with other airlines servicing many more centres. 156 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

First Class red. & Sun.

Arr. a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a m.

Arr. by, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Arr. 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 p.m.

First and Tourist Class and Sat.

Arr. a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Arr. by, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane. 4.45 p.m.

Arr. 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 p.m. hurs. Arr. yo, Hong- Pt. Moresby, 9.15 a.m. id Manila Arr. by, 10.15 a.m. Sydney, 5 p.m. ;n Lae and Port Moresby pasre carried in DC4 aircraft.

RESBY-CAIRNS-TOWNSVILLE-

Pt. Moresby

DC4. Dep. Port Moresby Sun. ~ arr. Cairns 3.05 p.m.. dep. •0 p.m., arr. Townsville 5 p.m., sville Mon. 9.15 a.m., arr. Cairns ~ dep. Cairns 11.15 a.m., arr. >sby 2.05 p.m.

NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas bLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) (DCS) (Dec. 9, 23, Jan. 6, 20, etc.), jae 11 a.m., calls at Madang ewak, and arrives at Hollandia ).m. Every alternate Thurs. 10, 24, Jan. 7, 21, etc.), dep. lia at 10 a.m., and, with calls rak and Madang, arrives Lae at m.

Horesby-Kikori-Baimuru

(DH Otter) sland, Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori: aes., returning same day via u. Kerema, Yule Is. (Dec. 1, 15, . 12, etc.). [ORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Is., Baimuru: Alt. Tues. returntie day (Dec. 8, 22, Jan. 5. 19, la, Baimuru, Kikori. Baimuru; iurs. (Dec. 3, 17, 31. Jan. 14, ;t. via Baimuru, Kokori, Kerema lowing day (Dec. 4. 18, Jan. 1, ).

T Moresbt-Daru (Dcs)

iru: Alt. Thurs, returning same Balimo (Dec. 3, 17, 31, Jan. 14, ta, Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (Dec. 9, i. 6. 20, etc.), returning alt. ec. 11, 25, Jan. 8. 22, etc.).

DRESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) sby, Abau, Samarai each Mon., ig Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., resame day.

Port Moresby, Samarai, depart- 't Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning lay (Dec. 2, 16, 30, Jan. 13.

Port Moresby, Samarai, departrt Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning ay (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9, 23, etc.).

Port Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, tig Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., resame day (Dec. 5. 19, Jan. 2 LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DC3) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr 7.35 a.m. Wewak. Manus, Kavieng Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., 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, arr. 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, Wapenamunda. Arrival back at Lae dependant on stops made.

Lower Highlands

(DH Otter) Fri.; Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling at any of Nadzab, Gusap, Aiyura, Kaiapit, Rintebe, Kainantu, Goroka, Arena.

Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau

(DH Otter) Mon.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., arr. Wau 8.10 a.m.

Mon.: Dep. Wau 8.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr.

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 a.m., 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 (Dcs)

Mon.. Thurs.: Dep. Madang 10 a.m., via Mt. Hagen and Minj, arr. Goroka 12.30 p.m., dep. Goroka 12.50 p.m., arr.

Madang 1.25 p.m.

Madang-Lae (Dcs)

Sun.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m.. arr. Lae 8.05 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Madang

(DCS) Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m., via Goroka. Minj. arr. Mt. Hagen 11.10 a.m.; dep. Mt. Hagen for Madang (either direct or via airfields as required) 11.40 a.m.

Madang-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m., via Goroka, arr. Port Moresby 10.20 a.m.

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) Wed., Sun.; Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m.. direct to Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul 1.45 p.m.

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 am.. Finschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Tues. :: , Fri,: Dep., Lae 10.30 a.m., Fmschhafen 11.30 a.m.. Rabaul arr. 1.45 p.m. * Calls Hoskins on request on Tues. from Lae.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Alt. Thurs.; Dep. Rabaul 6 30 a.m.. Buka, Wakanai, Aropa, arr. Buin 10.30 a.m., dep. Buin 11 a.m., Aropa, Wakenai, Buka, arr. Rabaul 3 p.m. (Dee. 10. 24.

Jan. 7. 21, etc.).

Rabaul-Hoskins-Rabaul (Dcs)

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m., via Jacquinot Bay, arr. Hoskins 10.55 a.m., dep. Hoskins 11.15 a.m., arr. Rabaul 12.20 p.m. (Dec. 3, 17, 31, Jan. 14. etc.).

Services By Mandated Airlines

(Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka Madang. Wewak, Madang. Rabaulremaining overnight. Depart Lae 7 am. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau. Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Madang. Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang. Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae!

Thurs.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng Momote, Wewak, Madang. Goroka, Lae!

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

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote. Wewak, Madang.

Goroka, Lae.

LAE-HOLLANDIA (By NNG Airlines) De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands New Guinea Airlines) maintains a fortnightly service between Hollandia. Biak and Lae with Dakota DCS aircraft. The airline is a private company operated with the assistance of the Dutch Government. 4. Aust.-Netherlands N.G.

By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney (dep.

Fri. 3.45 p.m.) and Amsterdam with calls at Biak iNNG) and Manila (Philippines).

DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollandia.

Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah. Manokwari, Noemfoer and Ransiki; Beaver to Kokonao; and Twin Pioneer to Seroei.

DC7C aircraft dep. Biak Tues. and Sat. at 2.45 a.m. for Japan, Alaska and Amsterdam. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Aircraft Every Monday depart Lae 6 a.m.: Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSI), arriving 5 p.m.

Every Tuesday depart Honiara 7 a.m.: Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arriving 3.45 p.m. 6. Paris-Saigon-Brisbane- Noumea-NZ-Fiji-Papeete By Transports Aeriens Intercontinental DC6B aircraft depart Paris every Wed. for Athens, Cairo, Karachi, Saigon, Djakarta, Darwin, Brisbane, Noumea, thence Nadi, Bora Bora. Transfer to flyingboat for flight to Papeete. Dep. Papeete every Sat. on return flight (calling at Auckland). 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd. with Sandringham Flying-boats Return flight usually each Tuesday and Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alt. Sat. (Dec. 5, 19, Jan. 2, 16, etc.).

Dep. Sydney 8 a.m.. arr. NI 2.45 p.m.; dep. NI Sun. 2.45 p.m. for Sydney, arr. 6.45 p.m. (Flight extends NI-Auckland- NI. See table 12 below). 157 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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29 COLOURS CSR446A 9. Sydney-Noumea By Qantas, with Skymasters Departs Sydney Wed. 11.45 p.m.. arr.

Noumea 7 a.m. Thurs. Dep. Noumea 8.30 a.m. same day arr. Sydney 2 p.m. 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 Tues. each month (Dec. 8, Jan. 12. etc.), arr.

Wallis Is. (via Nadi, Fiji) at 3.45 p.m., dep. Wallis 7 a.m. following Mon. (Dec. 14, Jan. 18, etc.), arr. Noumea (via Nadi) 2.45 p.m. same day. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (Charter) Alt. Sat. (Dec. 5, 19. Jan. 2. 16). Dep.

Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auckland 7.45 p.m.

Return next day. Sun. (Dec. 6, 20. Jan. 3, 17 1. Dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr.

Norfolk 1.30 p.m. (See table 8 above). 13. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Daily: Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m.. arr. Sydney 1.15 p.m.

Daily: Dep. Sydney 3 p.m., arr. Auckland 9.50 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Tues., Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr.

Sydney 8.55 p.m.

Fri.; Dep. Christchurch 7.45 p.m., arr.

Sydney 11.40 p.m.

Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. Christchurch 2.50 p.m. 15. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Thurs.; Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr.

Melbourne 9.55 p.m.

Fri.; Dep. Melbourne 10.15 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 5.50 p.m. 16. Auckland-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Mon.: Dep. Auckland 8 a.m., arr. Melbourne 12.15 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Melbourne 2.30 p.m., arr.

Auckland 10.15 p.m. 17. Melbourne-Auckland- Nadi (Fiji) By Tasman Empire Airways, with Super Constellation aircraft chartered from Qantas Wed.: Dep. Melbourne 7 a.m., arr. Auckland 3 p.m., dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., arr. Nadi 9.30 p.m. Return, same route, following day. (Note: This service connects with Qantas Boeing 707 jet service from Sydney to USA.) 18. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with Super DC6 aircraft and Qantas Super Constellations Tues., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m., arr.

Nadi 9 p.m.

Wed.; Dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m.. arr. Nadi 9.30 p.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. Auckland 4 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. Auckland 4.15 p.m.

Wednesday flights ex - Auckland, and Thursday flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL.

Pan-American Airways, with DC4.

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 5.45 p.m.. arr. Nadi 1 a.m.

Thurs.; Dep. Nadi, 5.40 a.m., arr. Auckland 1.05 p.m. 19. Fiji-W. Samoa Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses Dateline, arr. Satapuala (Western Samoa) Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Dep. Satapuala Mon. at 8 a.m., , Dateline, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 j (Dep. Suva Dec. 10, 24, Jan. 7, 2 dep. Apia: Dec. 14, 28, Jan. 11, ; 20. American Same* Hawaii Pan American Airways, witi 8377 aircraft Alt. Fri.: Dep. Tafuna (Am. Sama a.m. arr Honolulu 10.20 p.m. 1 Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honolulu 10 p.r, Tafuna (Am. Samoa) 7.40 a.m. (j 21. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, wra Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alt. Thurs., crosse: national Dateline, arr. Satapuu Samoa) 1.55 p.m. Wed.; dep. Sic 2 a.m. Thurs.. arr. Aitutaki (O 7.30 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 a Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. Servii Suva Dec. 10, 24, Jan. 7, 21. etd Dep. Papeete 7.30 am. alt. Svu Aitutaki 11 a.m.; dep. Aitutas p.m., arr. Satapuala 5 p.m.; de> puala 8 a.m. Mon., crosses Inter Dateline, arr. Suva 10.55 a.m Services dep. Papeete Dec. 13, 10, 24, etc. 22. Fiji Internal Airvw Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron anu Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva; Two flights morning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: One flight daj • Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Matei, T One flight—Mon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusavr flight—Thurs.. Sat., Sun.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: One flight—- Suva-Ura (Taveuni)-Suva (via Sas One flight—Wed.

Suva-Ura-Suva: One flight—Thurs Suva-Matei-Suva: One flight—Satd Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Saj Matei-Suva: One flight—Tues?

Suva - Matei - Labasa - Matei - Ssi Suva; One flight—Fri. 23. N. Caledonia-Loyal!

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Tram Aeriens (TKANSPAC), with and Rapide aircraft.

Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. No 158 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON/

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C:* w . a bottle of ss? GIN 6392 rr Mare 4 p.m.i and Thurs. (dep. a 8 a.m., dep Mare 10 a.m.). (uvea: Wed., Thurs. and Sat.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 ifou: Tues., Wed., Sat., (dep. ei 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.), (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou i. lounle (Isle of Pines): Mon., dep. Noumea 10.30 am., dep. , noon). humac: Mon., Sat. (dep. Noumea , dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed.

Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 Note: On this flight a call will le at Plaine des Gaiacs if reench Polynesia Inter- Island Service a Aerien Interinsulaire with flying-boats jekly service to the Leeward >eete (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Huahine, , Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete p.m.). eete (dep. 7 a.m), Raiatea, Jora (arr. 8.45 p.m), Papeete 1.30 a.m.), Papeete (dep. 3.30 Bora Bora (arr. 4.45 p.m.).

Bora (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Raiatea, (arr. 9.30 a.m.). agents in Tahiti: Messageries Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete. iwaii-American Samoa Trans Ocean Airways second Wednesday, a Boeing ser operated by Trans Ocean of Honolulu, Hawaii, makes a ht from Honolulu to Pago Pago Samoa).

Samoan Inter-island Service oan Airlines Limited, with DCS Viewmaster lights twice daily, except Thurs., oa (American Samoa) to Faleolo Samoa). ma 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m.; arr. 10.15 a.m., 3.15 p.m. lo 10.45 a.m., 3.45 p.m.; arr. 11.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m. 4/4/- single, £S7 return. Agent •eter Plowman. 27. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airways rumman Albatross twin-motored 3 flying-boats, TOA operates a roughout the Trust Territory of on behalf of the US Governails from Trans Ocean Airways lam.

Colonial Development and Fund Board has announced : is granting a sum of 0 to the Gilbert and Ellice Colony for development the government over the >59-1964.

Pacific Fishing Co. (NH • ’s vessel Santo Maru called r a in mid-September to take ;wo Gilbertese who are to se themselves with the tuna operations at the Espiritu ise. 159 ic ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

Classified Advertisements Per line, 3/-; Minimum. 4 lines.

Books, Magazines

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.

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 <874.

FREE AND POST FREE—64 page illustrated Bargain Catalogue. Stern’s (Dept.

PI.;, 200 George St.. Sydney, Australia.

ACCOMMODATION FURBISHED FLATS, Cremorne. Sydney.

Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney. Aust.

Stamps Wanted

SEND ALL your Pacific Islands Stamps registered mail to Eric Mandle. Box 2210 T, G.P.0.. Melbourne. Australia. Magazines, Books, Comics, Newspapers, etc., free in return.

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.

LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT, U.S. Air Force Surplus new equipment. Complete unit includes Hot Water Boiler, 20 pound Washer, Dryer, Water extractor. Replacement cost $3,000.00. Our Price $775.00. Send for free brochure today. Baltin Supply Co.. 10962 Spinning Avenue, Los Angeles 47, California. U.S.A.

FLEETS. 16 ft. half cabin clinker launch, £250. 33 ft. offshore cruiser, ready for sea £2,350. 45 ft. diesel trawler, fully found, £3,500. 30 ton. 90 ton, 1,800 ton, diesel cargo ships. Fleets, 525 Stanley St., Sth. Brisbane. Q’ld., Aust.

Wanted Jo Buy

BIRDS WANTED; Private collector requires Parrot Pinches and Aviary Birds from Pacific Islands where bird protection laws do not exist. Reply air mail with prices. A. Davisson, Box 2671, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Drive Yourself Cars

FIJI HIRE - DRIVE LTD. Modern cars accommodating 5, 6 and 9 passengers.

Minimum formalities. Rates include insurance and free mileage plan. Aircraft and ships met. Queen’s Road, Walu Bay, Suva (P.O. Box 299). Cables: “Hiredrive”, Suva. Also at Lautoka.

SERVICES WATCH REPAIRS to all braa watches. Send your repairs dim the only Swiss watchmaker givingg to the Pacific Islands. Rapid sen work guaranteed. Swiss - Clox Service, 9 Garner Avenue, French’s' Sydney, Australia.

Penfriends Want!’

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BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LH Registered Office: VILA, NEW HEBRIDES Branch office at SANTO Exporters, Importers and General Merchants Commission, Shipping and Customs Agents Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUE

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DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas manufacturers o classes of merchandise.

Sydney Agents: BURNS PHILP & CO.. LTD . 7 Bridge St.

San Francisco Agents: BURNS-PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO INC 215 Market St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD.. 35 Crutched Friars, E.O 160 NOVEMBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON/

Specialising in Pacific Islands Insurances.

Fire—Motor Vehicle—Marine

—HULLS AND CARGO- EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS—in accordance with Administration Ordinance—COPßA insured from drier to buyer—and all other classes arranged at lowest current rates.

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.

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And this amazing new aland and vigour restorer, called VI- Stim, has been tested and proved by thousands In America, and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vl-Stlm from your chemist to-day. Put It to the test. See the big improvement In 24 hours. Take the full bottle under the guarantee that it must make you full of vim, vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 20 years younger, or money back. T# rotor* pacific Commerce and Produce Shares Fiji ,ys With TEAL does nothing else, the :ement on November 6 Australian Minister for viation to the effect that ealand, through TEAL, / an interest in Fiji Airlould scotch the idea held t of places that Qantas nning to “take-over”

A.L correspondents in recent :hs have pointed to alleged ; that Qantas intended to the New Zealand air comine of the clues was that I (for which read Qantas, connection) went eyes-out iheed Electras when New (so the story goes) wanted British Comets. time that it was decided i Qantas and TEAL should 3tras for intermediate range is, it was stated that there tain advantages in having of the two Governmentairlines interchangeable. . this was sound airways :s, the word “interchangerew sensitive Kiwis into a Santas, it was stated, was Daring the Way to take over ir more recent straw in the s supposed to be the fact Bob Allender, TEAL PRO Zealand, had left the comhy would he do this, asked r-alls, if he did not see the jn the wall for TEAL?

No Evil Intentions" ;, of course, denied any evil is and are now preparing Fiji Airways, which they ast year from the estate of Harold Gatty, with TEAL he same time are leaving a en for the United Kingdom lent to come into that pic- , if a UK airline company ; at some time in the future, irways went into operation and now has a network Tji group of slightly under es. Aircraft are three and a couple of four- Herons. If Tonga decides to on the airline routes, it b a logical development for ways to run that service.

Charter service from Fiji to the airstrip near Nukualofa are run fairly frequently now by Fiji Airways— the Herons being suitable for this route.

Pacific Is. Mines Ltd.

Goes to the Public Through a series of advertisements in the Islands and Australian Press in October-November. Pacific Islands Mines, Ltd., formed recently to develop likely gold-bearing areas on Misima Island, Eastern Papua, offered 5,000 £5 ordinary shares to the public. Applications close November 28, and directors need subscriptions of £15,000 to proceed to allotment.

Nominal capital is £500,000, of which 866 £5 ordinaries were issued initially.

Mountainous, well-timbered Misima in Louisiade Archipelago was the sitfe of the first official gold discovery in the Territory. Up to the Pacific war, some £3,000.000 of gold was taken out, but plant and workings were destroyed in the face of the Japanese advance into Papua in 1942. After re-commencement of civil administration, efforts were made to reestablish the field, but immensely increased costs forced a close-down.

PI Mines, Ltd., plan to carry out much exploratory work and go into production using mechanised open-cut mining methods.

Placer's Room to Grow Placer Development. Ltd., is in a “strong position for development of existing promising ventures and has the ability for further growth, which we have reason to hope will eventuate,” said the president, Mr.

J. D. Simpson at the annual meeting in Vancouver, recently.

This mild announcement might be regarded as an understatement, in view of the fact that Placer recently received $9,000,000 from the sale of Coronet Oil, and has an additional consolidated surplus of $10,000,000—£A8,500,000 altogether.

Timor's New Well Drilling on Timor Oil, Ltd.’s, new site (Ossulari No. lAi which is about three miles west of number 1 of the same name, is due to begin .this month.

The new site was selected in October.

New Guinea Newspapers' Profit In the year ended June 30, 1959, South Pacific Post, Ltd., of Port Moresby—which owns and operates a group of newspapers in Papua and New Guinea, and produces commercial printing, from its Port Moresby establishment, made a net profit of £21,989.

This is an increase of more than £7,000 over 1957-58, and reflects the steady growth of this publishing and printing business in recent years. In future, of course, the company’s profits will be subject to income tax.

The published accounts show issued capital at £49,908, and the surplus of shareholders’ funds at over £BO,OOO. The recommended dividend is 15 per cent.

The present directors are Messrs. S. L.

M. Eskell (chairman), J. I. Cromie, B. E.

Fairfax Ross, E. P. Glover, and D. S.

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Sydney Sales Prices

Oct. 6 Nol Burns Philp .... 108/- 1CJ Burns Philp (SS) . . 65/- C.S.R £68 £C Dylup Plantations 27/- ■ Hackshalls 57/6 f Kauri Timber .... 20/6 2 Kerema Rubber . . . »/- Koltakl 23/3 2 Lolorua 12/- Mariboi 9/- Norfolk Is. Whaling 4/9 Queensland Insurance 92/- 11 Rubberlands .... 6/3 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 19/- i Steamships Trading . 74/- W. R. Carpenter Hold. 27/1% ' Timor Oil 6/3

Oil And Mining Shares

FIJI July 9, ’58 Oct. 6.’59 Emperor . b5/9 s7/9 Loloma . . — s45/- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . . . b35/b35/- J N.G.O. Ltd. bl/fl 1 /* b2/l Oil Search b2/6 b6/5 Ent. of N.O. b7d b3d Papuan Apin b9d b3/5 do. opt. . b6V' 2 d bl/3 Placer Dev. b86/6 b98/-- Sandy Creek b4d n.q.

Dylup's Interim Dividend Interim half-yearly dividend of Dylup Plantations. Ltd., was payable on November 21.

The interim dividend at 7 per cent, is the same as last year, when the final was 13 per cent.

New Oil Area For Enterprise Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development. N.L., has been granted an oil prospecting permit for an initial period of 12 months. The permit area is 3,600 square miles including Aitape to Vanimo in the north of the Sepik District.

Part of the permit area was covered by 011 Search explorations in the mid-1930’5.

Poor Patch for Sandy Creek Last advice issued by Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing. Ltd., was to the effect that only 12 oz 15 dwt of gold had been recovered in August/September although 3,000 cubic yards of material had been treated.

Loloma Pays 2/- Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines, N.L., will pay an unchanged final dividend of 1/per share —making a total dividend of 2/per share (current price around 40/-), for the year.

Total dividend in 1958 was also 2/-.

Dividend will be payable on December 18, and 8d of the 2/- will be tax-free.

NGG Production New Guinea Goldfields operating statement for the month of September show's that Golden Ridges mill treated 3.525 tons of ore for a production of 1,094 fine oz of gold and 2,852 oz of silver; 211 oz bullion were produced from Golden Ridges overburden. Golden Ridges alluvials produced 12 oz of gold; Koranga alluvials 400 oz and tributes 89 oz. In the same period 175.171 su. ft. of timber were produced.

No Oil at Puri The Australasian Petroleum Co. announced in October that as testing at Puri had yielded only minor quantities of gas with w T ater, the hole had been plugged and the drilling outfit dismantled. Seismic work was continuing south-west of Puri Well.

After a temporary hold-up due to bad flying conditions that prevented helicopters bringing in supplies, drilling was proceeding satisfactorily at Bwata. 25c. for BGD Shareholders Interim dividend of 25 Canadian cents per share has been declared by Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., and will be paid from the Sydney office of the company on December 4.

Payment will be made in Australian currency at the rate that was ruling on November 14; and for non-Canadian residents, a tax of 15 per cent, will be payable.

Papuan Apinaipi's Interests In Old. and Papua A new well at Cooroorah, Queensland, has been spudded in and will be drilled as part of the group programme implemented under the Joint Venture Agreement which has brought the three companies, The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Company Limited, Associated Australian Oilfields N.L. and Associated Freney Oil Fields N.L., and their operating subsidiary, Mines Administration Pty. Limited, together into an Australian Group, with the common objective of the discovery of commercial oilfields, and the production of petroleum in Australasia.

In Permit No. 22 in Papua, the most difficult and costly of the areas, a detailed geological field survey on the Wira anticline has been completed by Mr. G. A. V.

Stanley, Consultant Geologist of the company in Papua, and Mr. K. H. Morgan, Field Geologist of Mines Administration Pty., Limited. This anticline is close to the first oil discovery well at Puri, and is about four miles south of the Hou Creek junction with the Upper Purari River. A geophysical survey has also been completed and the results of both surveys are now being assembled for assessment.

CSR Dividend Remains At Per Cent.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s final dividend brings the year’s dividend to BV2 per cent.—which the newspaper financial experts are quick to point out gives investors who buy CSR at the market rate of £7O. just 21/2 per cent.

The company’s declared policy is to allow shareholders to participate in its capital expansion and some shareholders are taking that unchanged low dividend to mean that there could be a share issue coming up.

High Copra Price Helps The continuing high price of copra is giving planting companies a boost. Bali Plantations and Plantations Holdings, Ltd., both New Guinea companies recently floated, have got off to a flying start.

Older established plantation companies like Dylup and Choiseul are also doing very well.

Economic Outlook Whether the share price index can be regarded as a fool-proof indication of the actual health of the nation is open to doubt. But, like a lot of other things— the cost of living, copra prices, the basic w’age included—it seems to be on the upand-up. x , In the last two weeks in October, it staggered a little, after reaching new heights, and then—as they say on the Stock Exchange—rallied a little. It ended the first week in November with the index for all Ordinaries at 304.2 —almost six points higher than we reported a month ago, when that was a record.

It is interesting to note that at the beginning of January this year the index figure for all Ordinaries stood at around 226. According to that, Australia should be a great deal more prosperous in November than it was in January. It could be so, at that. There seems to be no limit to the amount of investment money around these days—partly due, of course, to the influx of capital from overseas.

Some interesting figures were released by Commonwealth Statistician Carver during the month. It seems that Australia’s retail spending in 1958-59 rose by £739 million, from what it was in 1952-53. Cost of living and influx of migrants should have raised it by about 33 per cent, which means that we are spending 10 per cent, more in real money than we were six years ago. If you can believe figures, then we are all 10 per cent, better off than we were then. (It might also mean that we are 10 per cent, more in debt than we were then.) . , .

Mr. Carver’s figures don t include motor vehicles. Figures for these were) separately, and it seems we are now» ing 73 per cent, more on new am vehicles than we were in 1952-53. f

Islands Prod

(Unless otherwise stated, quotatt In Australian currency. Aust. 4 approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga. Soli WPHC areas; 168 Pac, Frs.; SUS 2S COPRA The British Ministry of FoodE Contract, which governed Copn in Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, , Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Gill.

Ellice Colony (and, to some ex Tonga and Cook Islands) expired) cember 31, 1957; since when eao tory has made its own arrangenn collection and marketing of cope

Papua - New Guinea;—Aii P:C

is delivered to Copra Marketing controlled by six members, includf planters’ representatives; and tM directs distribution and sales, an payments to the producers. P c goes mainly to (a) Unilever (ura tract covering 1959), (b) Austrn local consumption) and (c) crus in Rabaul. Prices generally am accordance with ruling rate in P: c market, with premiums for hot-s- From July 1, 1959. P-NQ Board announced “Tentative Pri:copra delivered main ports; Hot-A £A72/10/- per ton; FMS, £A7I Smoke-Dried, £A7O per ton.

FIJI: —No Government control —sell where they wish. Bulk of c« to crushing-mill in Suva, whu on wharf, Suva, is announced ea: On Nov. 2, prices were; HAD, ; FMI, £F79; FM2, £F77/12/6.

WESTERN SAMOA:—OfficLi Board receives all production, same and makes payments to n 162 NOVEMBER. 1 9 5 9 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell and other product handled on consignment.

Write direct to our Islands Export Manager with over 35 years experience in the Islands.

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reported on, nothing more than the truth, and there was no need for anybody to ride high horse merely because the findings were not reported in a way, or at a time, most flattering to the Minister.

Mr. Hasluck would best leave Mr.

Howse’s goodwill tour alone, and concentrate on ways of making his own a success.

Meanwhile, there has been no official indication of what steps the P-NG Administrator will take to fill the three casual vacancies in the Legislative Council, created by the resignation of the three very recently elected members.

The Taxpayers’ Associations made the formal announcement in October that if another election were held to fill the vacancies they would do nothing further to boycott the election. In their opinion, said the leaders, their purpose had been served by the emphatic vote given by the electors in September to the boycott candidates, which showed lack of confidence in the Minister and in the Legislative Council as at present constituted.

It is likely that the vacancies will be filled by nomination by the Administrator. roportlon goes to Unilever, at es FM grade rates, plus preip to £S3 per ton for hot- . Prices unaltered since March, t-air dried, £367/13/8 per ton; No. 1. £S6S/3/8; sun-dried 361/13/8. —Sales are under Government ’art of production goes to Europe, •rangement with Unilever cony Philippines prices, and part en market.

ONS: —All production marketed official Copra Board, at prices Philippines market. Price de- November: Ist grade, £AB3; 2nd A 81; 3rd grade, £A76 per ton, [P ports.

IT AND ELLICE: —Production in Europe through official Copra ,t prices based on Philippines is “stabilisation fund” charges, DA: —Producers receive 6 cents lb. or £ A6O/5/- approx, per long iodic bonus, if average proceeds ivt. buying price and expenses.

BBRIDES:—Price rose again in nd was approximately £A67/10/lelivered Vila/Santo on Nov. 2. same day, price was 132.500 rancs per metric ton, c.i.f. Mar- IS./NIUE/TOKELAU: Subject to sions of the copra contract bele Cook Islands-Niue-Tokelaus and Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, ite the only New Zealand copra mill, the price for the second »59 has been fixed at £NZBS/8/9 Grade, and £NZB4/3/9 for Grade, per ton, in sacks, f.o.b. /Niue/Apia.

Other Produce

—lslands prices are based on the Ghana cocoa which, on Nov. 5, .258/15/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney. 4GA: —Nominal price quoted in Nov. 6, £5265 f.0.b., Apia, grade grade 2.

Nov. 6, £ A3lO ex-wharf :—P.-N.G. November 5, good grade, per lb, 4/4 to 4/7; B I to 4/4; C grade, 4/- to 4/3, ley.

' Nov. price quoted for Tangagrade was £ 5tg.375; B grade, Undergradings. £ 5tg.265, all md c.i.f., Sydney. Uganda Rooffering at approx. £ Stg.l97/10/iey. :S: P.-N.G.. Nov. 6, kernels: anish, 1/7 lb; Virginia Bunch, cted that huge Kingaroy (Qld.) 33,000 tons will force P.-N.G. er when it floods the market, t: —P.-N.G. price is based on rate, which Nov. 4 had risen to: >, spot, 126% Straits cents per lb .).

A BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & :y, reported Nov. 6: Tahiti beans, n, white and yellow label, proandard packs, 86/-; green label, , Sydney.

Australian): —Price from May 1, r.G.: Dry brown and dressed, gs, 5 tons and over, £6l/10/f.0.w.; under 5 tons £62 per ■mised and enriched white, 112 5 tons and over, £6B per ton, ider 5 tons. £6B/10/- per ton.

Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne, fily-grown rice has been retailifva at lid Fijian per lb. with Saigon imported rice at lOd Fijian per lb.

PEARL SHELL.—Firm quotations in Nov by independent M.O.P. shell agents were- Sound £ ABOO, D £A6OO, E £A275, EE £A2OO (in store Sydney). Penrhyn £ Stg.4oo (nominal), f.0.b.. Rarotonga Manihiki lagoon will remain closed this year.

TROCHUS.—StiII little demand—nominal price c.i.f. Sydney Nov. 6 £A265. In Fiji in Oct., trochus was being bought at 1/9 Fijian per lb; this is equal to £FI96 (approx. £A2201 per ton, in store, Suva.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL—Continued Japanese demand has raised price to £ A 390 per ton. P.-N.G. and 8.5.1. shell is still in short supply.

London and US Quotations Copra: London, Nov. 4, Philippines, in bulk, $247.50 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European port. Straits/Borneo, FMS, delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European port, £Stg.94. New York. Nov. 4, Philippines! $240, c.i.f., Pacific coast port. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.28 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil: London, Nov. 4, Ceylon, in bulk, £Stg.K4 per ton. c.i.f.. UK/North European ports. Straits crude, £Stg. 137/10/c.i.f.

Rubber; London, c.i.f., Nov. 4. RSS No. 1, Spot 36V2d Stg. per lb; Nov., SS'Ad Stg.; Jan./Mar., 1960. 32 5 / 8 d Stg.

Mother Margaret, who has spent a lifetime in missionary work in the Solomons (first with the Melanesian Mission, then joining the Roman Catholic Mission), arrived in NZ at the end of October. 163 Mr. Home's Tour (Continued from page 18) r 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

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Index to Advertiser Akta-Vite .... 70 Alkan (U.K.) Ltd. . 38 Amal. Dairies . . 72 Amplion Ltd. . . 44 Angliss, W. & Co. 120 Aust. Canvas ... 68 Arnott, Wm. ... 76 Aspro 96 Aust. Cotton ... 56 Ballina Slipway . 108 BALM Paints . . 40 Bank of N.Z. . . 44 Bank of N.S.W. . . 55 Berec Ltd 98 Bethel I, Gwyn . . 153 Blackwood Hodge 42 Blaxland-Rae . . 119 8.0.A.C 154 Book, The, Centre 91 Bradford Mills . . 92 Braybon Bros. . . 149 Brandts P/L ... 10 British Paints . . 16 British United Dairies .... 80 Bunting, A. H. . 70 Brunton & Co. . 136 B. 41, 89, 94, 160 Cadbury .... 142 Carlton Breweries 54 Carpenter Ltd. . 58, 112, 165, cov. iv Certina, Kurth . . 46 Clark Equipment . 34 Colgate 64 Colonial Meat . . 168 Colyer Watson . 102 C'wealth Bank . . 140 Crammond Co. . . 66 C. Co. . . . 158 Cyclone Co. . . 144 Cystex 73 D. Meat Packers .... 78 Donald Ltd. . . 125 Douglass, W. Co. 79 Downie, H. W. . 160 Dunlop Rubber . . 74 Econo Steel ... 14 Eveready .... 5 Franke & Heidecke 78 Frigate Rum ... 63 Gardner Eng. . . 104 Gillespie Bros. . . 74 Gilbey, W. & A. . 159 Gillespie, R. . 1, 130 Glaxo Lab. ... 75 Gokal, D. & Co. . 155 Gordon's Gin . . 95 G.P.H. (Suva) . . 152 Grant's Whisky . 143 Grove Ltd. . . 40, 96 Halvorsen, B. . . 102 Halvorsen, L. . . 106 Hari, G. B. . . .116 Hastings Diesels . 166 Hellaby Ltd. ... 71 Hemingway Robertson Institute . 36 Hytest Co 6 1.C.1 62 Industrial Enterprises .... 52 International Harvester . . . oO Johnson, Gus & Sons P/L . . . 115 Kanimbla Hall . . 97 Kennedy, Capt. . 107 Kerr Bros. ... 135 King, R. W. . . 163 Kiwi Polish . .119 Kodak Ltd. ... 60 Kopsen & Co. . .12 Lawrence, A. . 128 Loftus & Co. . .160 Lysaght, J. ... 35 Lyons Trading Co. 107 Lyte Ladders . .147 Mcl I rath's . * Macßobertson • i Pty. Ltd.

Manokwari Sliil Malleys Ltd.

Matson Lines ; Mendaco . ..S?

Millers Ltd.

M. H. Ltd.

Mungo Scott £ Nathan & Wyeth . ~3 Nestles . ...J N. Aust. Li.

Nile Products:!

Nixoderm . 3 Norman, Leom N. & R. . ..

N.Z.N.A.C. . I Ogden Industrt Parke Davis | Parker Pen Philips . . ...

Pickers, Geo.j Pryor, A. WJ Pacific Islan-r Transport LJ P. I.

Piccaninny V\V Qantas . . 4 Qld. Insurant Qld. Milling Ransomes, Sii( Jeffries Ltd Reid, R. & Rohu, Sil ...

Scientific Sen Co. . .

Scott & Bovw A/sia. Ltd.l Seward Ltd.

Shaw Savill Sisalcraft .

Sparklets Lto Sth. Pac. Fisa St. Mary's I Stapleton, J.l S. P. Brewea Steamships Stewarts Lloa Sthn. Pac. 11l Sullivan Ltd.J Swiss-Clox ..

Tait, W. S.

Taikoo Dockl Tatham, S.

Taubman's U T. . ..

Thornburgh College .

Thornycroft Tilley Lamp- • Ti I lock & Cl Tongala Milll Tooth & Coa Turners & Growers ..

Tyneside En Vacuum Oil 1 Ventura . .

Vi-Stim .

Vi eta Mowea Walkers Ltcb Warnock .

Western Bam Wire & Ns Webster, D..

Westfield Fit Co. . . .: Weymark P/ White Rose ‘ Mills . .

Whites Avis Wills Ltd.

Wrigley's ..

Wilhelmsen,!

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T / a® 9 i Fresh Foods The C 80 will conserve up to 100 lb dry weight of pre-frozen packaged foods.

Even fresh foods may be kept for several weeks or many times longer in the CBO than in an ordinary efrigerator.

FI V/UUIII/nn P Is V' Cold Drinks Up to 80 bottles can be stored in the four wire baskets supplied with the C 80; beer and all kinds of soft drinks are rapidly and economically cooled even in places where there is no electricity available.

The C 80 cooling unit carries a 5-year guarantee; the chest and other parts are guaranteed for one year.

KEROSENE- OPERATED The C 80 is the first cooler in the world to operate without electricity or blocks of ice. Economic in use pays for itself In a short time.

LECTROLUX CARPENTER & CO. LTD., The Wales House, 27 O'Connell St., Sydney. BL 5421 New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo. Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

Noumea. 8.5.1. P. Trading Corporation, Honiara, Gizo. Burns Phi Ip (NH) Ltd., i , Simmonds, Norfolk Island.

Inin lux’ sn quality product 165 r I c ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

Logs To Lumber

atMIMIMUMcosti V. * BF 9&'-$ A All Caterpillar track-type Tractors are available with Hyster Towing Winches, for increased pull and easier logging even across hills or swamps. The further addition of a Hyster Logging Arch allows a greater volume to be hauled faster and cleaner. 1 IV O CATERPILLAR For loading logs. Caterpillar builds log and lumber lift fa interchangeable with the buckets of its Traxcavators. buckets are useful in road building, sawdust handling many other jobs.

Whether powering a tractor or a sawmill, a Cat Diesel Enn is a real profit-maker. St burns non-premium fuel witl fouling, and it responds quickly to load changes. Its compoi parts are made for the most severe duty.

The proper choice, application and maintenance of machin help the logger to operate at minimum cost. Our equipm specialists will gladly supply the facts for your considerat Caterpillar and Cat are Registered Trademarks ol Caterpillar Tractor Co.. U.S.i HD437 Full information & prices from

Hastings Deering

(New Guinea) Pty. Limited

Road, Lae, Milford Haven Road, Lae, New Guinea Box No. 61 Telephone: Lae 2487 Blanche Street, Rabaul, New Guinea Port Moresby, Papua _ , , Box No. 138 Telephone: Kone 4328 NOVEMBER, 19 5 9 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

You get only from engines kept carbon-free * < ■ :■> m cJ CZj I’

X J m m & Mobiloil Special reduces carbon deposits . . . actually lifts your engine's power capacity.

Under the toughest stress and strain, Mobiloil Special will protect your engine against wear . . . keep vital parts clean . . . release every ounce of engine power.

Mobil A gas Mobilub M 599.32 DECARBONISING Mobiloil Special Drain and refill NOW at your LOCAL MOBILGAS STATION 167 ic ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959

B R COLONIAL N So T E & vO- C<^ op CORNED u

Bronte" & "Colonial" Bran

Specially Packed For The Pacific Islands

Corned Beef Corned Mutton

Corned Beef With Cereal. Roast Mutton

Minced Beef Loaf Curried Mutton

Roast Beef

Curried Beef

A vnilalt and 2d It. cans.

SHEEP TO OX TONG Products of THE COLONIAL WHOLESALE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

Canning Factory:

State Abattoirs, Homebush, Sydney

N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

Telephone: Um 8436. Cables: "Woolmill," Sydney

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Xocoetus Volitans

Covers The Same Ground!

\\ s EXOCOETUS VOLITANS, the flying fish; in the Polynesian tongue “Maroro.” A familiar sight in South Pacific waters.

Familiar also are the airliners of TEAL, covering, in a sense, “the same ground” but in a more regular and predictable fashion, bringing the blessing of modern transportation to the Pacific Islands.

Significantly the “Maroro” is the TEAL emblem symbolising the airline’s function of serving ihe South Pacific. / \ V TEAI New Zealand's International Airline

Serving The South Pacific

dries or reservations your Travel Agent or nearest TEAL office. In association with Qantas and APIS .9* i Q c q pacific islands monthly NOVEMBER. 1959 PACiric

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General Merchants

CAPITAL £2.500.000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Wholesalers And Retailers

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EUROPE, AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURE:

Distributors Of Every Descripth

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

In London: Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydne W. R. Carpenter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.B ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo.

Island Products Ltd.

Port Moresby.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Su W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) L.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1959