Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXX, No. 7 ( Feb. 1, 1960)
1960-02-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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WORLD THROUGH A HAZE He’s from the Tsiop River of Netherlands New Guinea. The spectacles are borrowed from civilisaation for the sake of the photograph, but on him they look as primitive as the bone through his nose.

And, come to think of it, what IS civilised looking about spectacles anyhow?

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

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APIA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NUKUALOFA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

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Cheque Accounts—Savings Accounts ANZ64O.2FC PEOPLE >e Tungi, of Tonga, returned ualofa from Fiji on January »«r a business tour of a • of Asian countries as far s Ceylon. He was in Japan >ouple of weeks, and he also ;ome time profitably examin- >e coconut industry in the :ines. He said, in Suva, that ends to establish a modern >processing plant in Tonga— not only the flesh for copra iccated coconut, but also to le husks into fibre and the ito buttons.

W. L. Verrier, British Phos- Commission manager at Island, has retired after 35 service with BPC. Mr. T. has been appointed as his sor. * * * Commodore P. C. Jameson, SO, DFC, recently succeeded mmodore J. F. Roulston, CBE, DFC, as commander of the is h nuclear test unit at mas Island, Central Pacific, igh there have been no bomb r or over a year, a permanent i military unit is stationed on ofi. ♦ ♦ * jn Ratieta, of Marakei, Gilslands, has been appointed, at ;e of 24, an Assistant Adminve Officer. Educated at Queen well-dressed Director of Works wears.

J. H. Commin, Fiji Works Director, it [?]ng suit. He donned it in January to inspection of the screws of the liner [?]",which met with an accident in Suva. See page 127. -Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 1 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Available from all Leading Stores ria School, Fiji, he is the jest Assistant AO ever to be in ted in the Colony. He is the ;f Assistant AO Bauro Ratieta. . John T. Wallis, well and irably known over many years ie manager of Messrs. W. R. enter & Co. (London) Ltd., reon December 31 (having led the retiring age) and will London in March for Sydney, ind Mrs. Wallis are Australians, lave many friends and relations 3W; and, as he is “a young 65”, •obably will take up some comial pursuit in Sydney. Mr. is took over Carpenters’ Lonoffice in 1944, and has gained >st extensive knowledge of the less of marketing copra, cocooil, cocoa and so forth in the pean markets —he was pront in the activities surroundhe MOF contract, under which in bought all South Pacific i for a period of nine years.

Wallis has been succeeded in on by Mr. W. D. Ashburn, who oeen manager of the Carpenter >ing interests in Vancouver in it years. •s. J. Bunney, and Miss C. ley, wife and teenage daughter Captain Bunney, of the Ausa-New Guinea Line, were 3ngers from Sydney to Europe tie Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Line [?] n Wallis, Carpenters' manager in London, [?] as retired. This photograph was taken [?] n London in January. See below. en isei Vivi, Miss Olivina Fauhiva and [?] ary Mafi, who attended the Marist Con- [?]in Auckland, all spent their Christmas holidays in Tonga. 3 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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Mr. Grainger Johnson, eldesi of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Johnsor is chief executive of the Carp interests in Fiji) has just concl three years’ service in the Lo office of the Carpenter group. ] to leave for Melbourne immedis where he will marry a girl f: of his Melbourne college days; then he and his bride will g Rabaul, where Mr. Johnson spend some time on the New Gi staff of W. R. Carpenter & Co. 1 subsidiary, Coconut Products I After four years as Attache Press and Cultural Affairs to Royal Netherlands Embassy in < berra, and head of the Netherl Information Service in Sydney, D. J. van Wijnen will leave Sy in March, with his wife and daughters, for a new post in W ington. He has been appointed !

Secretary for Press and Cull Affairs for the Netherlands Emfc there. Mr. van Wijnen has r himself a very popular repres ative in Australia. In February was making a farewell call on P and NNG.

Brother Stanislaus, SM, has returned teaching duties in Western Samoa after to New Zealand.

Medical Officer Harry T. Nemaia, of Niue, [?] ing home following a course in New Ze[?] was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. N [?] now resident in Auckland. They travel the "Tofua". 4

February, I 960 Pacific Islands Month

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E. R. Bevington, Financial rtary in Fiji, left for the United dom on leave in January finitely following the conclusion e lengthy budget session of the native Council. In his absence 3 P. Ritchie, who recently red from leave in Northern Irewill be Acting Financial stary. . Peter William Fisher arrived . the United Kingdom in Januto take up an appointment as cal officer at Lautoka, Fiji. Mrs. er is also a doctor —Dr. Anne nica Fisher. Dr. Colin L. K. waine and his wife —a trained e also recently arrived in i from the United Kingdom )in the medical department. r. Usman Khan, 18-year-old son tfr. Samudar Khan, of Saravu, Fiji, has recently left for the ted States to study medicine at Pacific Grove High School for [icine, San Francisco. Mr. Usman in’s nephew, Dr. M. Y. Hussein, attached to Ryde Hospital, ney.

Gale, his daughter Mrs. F. Mataipule, [?]ivid Patu, were passengers aboard "Tofua" [?]ing home to Apia in January after holidaying in New Zealand. and Mrs. J. J. MacCauley and daughter bound for Penrhyn, Northern Cooks, in [?]ry, travelling in the "Maui Pomare" from and. Mr. MacCauley, who comes from the of Lewis and has recently been on the of the Maori Land Court at Wanganui, NZ, been appointed Resident Agent, Penrhyn, suc cession to Mr. David Metuarau, who recently retired. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Mr. Georges Poulet, Secre General of French Polynesia, been Acting-Governor of that t tory since Governor Pierre Si returned to France in Novembe is thought in Papeete that Sicaud may soon be succeeded new Governor. * * * Mr. Valdemar J. Andersen, S( tary for British Solomon Is. tectorate Affairs at Honiara, gether with Mrs. Andersen children, are on their way to United Kingdom via New Zea on furlough this month. Mr. Ar sen was originally from Palmei North, NZ.

Mr. F. A. Champion, who was trict Commissioner of Central trict, Pt. Moresby, and a me of one of the best known far in Papua, retired at the en January. Born in Papua (his fi was Mr. H. W. Champion, a fo Government Secretary), he j( the District Services Dept, i patrol officer in 1936, and progr through field posts and senior tions for the next 24 years, bi only by service with ANGAU ing the last war. His two brot Ivan and Claude, both hold offices in the P-NG Administrs the former as Chief Native I Commissioner and the lat Director of Civil Affairs. Mr.

Mrs. Champion will live in r< ment in Brisbane. * * * Mr. G. H. Leopard, who has s< the Union Steam Ship Co. as ] ager in several Island areas has lately been branch manage Gisborne, NZ, has been appo assistant manager at Aucklan succession to Mr. G. R. Cole, has been transferred to Invercs as branch manager. ♦ * * Under a rearrangement of j diction in Papua-New Guinea, i new Roman Catholic bishops been appointed in the Territory.

Pastor and Mrs. R. N. Heggie, of the S[?] Day Adventist Mission, travelled to Rar[?] in January to take up a new appoint During the war they were stationed in but Pastor Heggie has recently been at to the Australasian Missionary College[?] Sydney. 6 FEBRUARY. 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Ount U is a “must” for tropical baking I T k 4Syr m BAKING Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder is always fresh and maintains its full strength. It never deteriorates in its airtight container, that’s why your cakes and pastries will have extra lightness, and stay fresh longer when you use Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder. You also cook with the important, and in the tropics, the vital advantage of adding the rising agent when you do your mixing—that is the right time the best time for sure results.

A bowl of piping hot, smooth, creamy Aunt Mary’s Tomato Soup is an ever welcome treat.

It contains only the choicest, just ripe tomatoes retains the flavoursome zest of the fresh fruits. soup Father Virgil Copas, formerly : arwin, who will be vicar olic at Port Moresby; an Ameri- IFather Bernarding, who will at Mt. Hagen; and Father ing, from Germany, whose quarters will be at Goroka. 5. Lilieta Soaki, and her two- -old daughter, Lata, from a, have been receiving some rable publicity in Queensland aapers recently. Her husband Brisbane for four years on an altural science scholarship, ile at Queensland University.

Queenslanders have been tied by her pleasant, educated ter and the fact that, having iculated, she intends to spend text few years becoming an exat dressmaking and cooking.

F. M. Kunth, of Knuthenborg, Denmark, [?]ng Danish fruit grower, returned on his visit to the Cook Islands in Januar” [?]ng in the "Maui Pomare" from Aucklar [?]arriage took place in Port Moresby re- [?]of Miss Elizabeth Roscoe and Mr. G.

Mrs. Ross is the daughter of Mr. G. T. [?] e, P-NG Director of Education, and Mrs. [?]e. —Papuan Prints. 7 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

\ K M L 3S Off** . . . because there is a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half pound of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate MOZs/SFC/o Mr. T. H. Bot, Netherlands Ui Secretary for New Guinea Ai who has been on an inspection of Dutch New Guinea, crossed to Australian Papua-New Gi early in February and spent a in various centres. He later down to Canberra to hold discus with Commonwealth Govern officials before departing for V ington, USA, by air on Februai Lae’s most lavish wedding celebrated on January 30, when Anna Tong, of Rabaul, was ma to Mr. James Seeto, son of or the leaders of Morobe’s Ch community, Mr. Seeto Kui. 1 were over 500 guests, includii large party flown from Rg in a chartered DCS aircraft, ceremony was given VIP treat] —it was recorded by TV can and later televised over Cha A Svdney.

Mr. J. L. Chalmers, for the 32 years with Colonial Sugar R( ing Company in Fiji, reaching position of acting chief mam and lately Resettlement Off Nausori, has transferred to Sy< to take up the position of c technical field officer.

Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Saywell and Victor bound for Rarotonga in January. Mr. S[?] has been appointed to the Administration as Chief Clerk, in succession to Mr. M. who has been transferred.

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Gurau, well-known res[?] of Apia, returned there in the "Tofua" I[?] January following three months vacation members of their family who have settl[?] New Zealand. 8 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Uniform Quality. Golden Bird is well made by modern, improved machines, each twist being of regular shape and even weight.

Highly Mould Resistant. “Golden Bird” was tested by the C.5.1.R.0. Here is the text of the report: “The failure to develop mould growth within four weeks at 90% relative humidity at 77° F. temperature indicates that the samples submitted have manifested a considerable resistance to attack by moulds.” (Mould grows fastest at this temperature).

Special Packing. To guard against the effects of high humidity and to ensure complete smoking satisfaction, Golden Bird is supplied in moisture-proof, sealed polythene bags of 3 lbs. Packed in 30 lb. outers and in 90 lb. shippers.

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Alan Lennox-Boyd and Lady :eia Lennox-Boyd, who paid a visit to Tarawa by RNZAF :-boat from Fiji in December, a round trip from Suva to a, Niue and Samoa in Januarynary in the Tofua. They were t to Tahiti from Fiji on Feb- -15. e to leave Rabaul early in h for a new position with his any in Port Moresby is Mr. ge Clarke, a director of Burns ) (New Guinea) Limited and haul resident since 1938. has been BP manager at ul for nearly six years. He will i to an executive position at the any’s head office following a -al reshuffle of company opera- . Mr. Clarke has taken a inent part in Rabaul affairs — i president of Rabaul Amateur Club, president of Rabaul ball Association, a trustee of Jew Guinea Club and a trustee e Returned Servicemen’s League abaul. He is also a member of ,ul Town Advisory Council. * * * nesa Sikivou, Fourth Fijian ber of the Fiji Legislative icil, lately senior master at n Victoria School, and the id Fijian to attain the distincof an MA degree (1955), has promoted to Education Officer, lori. He will supervise some 90 Dls at Tailevu, Naitasiri, and i Provinces. [?] nne Cameron models a frock at a Teenage [?] Parade held on the lawn of Mrs. Mary [?] n's home in Lae, NG. Mrs. Strachan [?] ed the parade and donated proceeds to [?] e Youth Club. Other models included [?] d and Barbara Mohr, Sue Noblet, and Judith and Barbara Griffith. —Pat Robertson. 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 7. Vol. XXX FEBRUARY, 1960 Contents: PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs Of Islands’ Interest 1 Fiji Takes A Backward Look At The Riots 13 Inquiry Opens Into Suva Riots • • • 13 Fiji Oil Strikers Win Wage Increases 14 Burns Commission Report Soon 14 How Long Will The Islands Keep TV At Bay? 15 Horror Hanging That Never Happened 15 Fiji Cricketers In NSW .... 16 Hurricane Razes Niue For Second Time 17 Grim January Weather Picture • • • 17 Nausori Mill Scheme “Reckless”, Says Government .. 18 They’re Really Planting Rice In The Rewa 18 P-NG Unionism Is “On The Way” 18 Denial Of French Pacific A- Bomb Tests; Report Of Russian Missiles .. .. .. 19 Big Changes And Cheaper Air Fares Coming To P-NG 19 COMMENTARY: A Look At Pacific And World Affairs 21 The Editors’ Mailbag 22 TERRITORIES TALK- TALK with Tolala 25 Closer Relations Between Tonga And Japan Predicted 31 The New Guinea Road That’s Become A Symbol 33 Red China’s Influence On The Copra Market: Full London Copra Survey From Judy Tudor 35 Tribute To The Late Commander R. B. M. Long .. 41 Bishop Wade Leaves The Solomons 42 New Guinea Doctors Have A Lot To Do 45 Unique Forked Coconut Palm 49 Anthropologists Honour H. D.

Skinner 49 She’s The “Bargain Hunter Of The Jungle”, They Say 55 Sydneysider's WALKABOUT 57 Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd In Search Of His Great Uncle 63 Survey Of Fiji’s Banana Problem 65 When Britain Rejected Fiji: Old Document Found .... 65 Rossel Waters Were Once Tabu 67 Final Extract Of Address By Mr. G. T. Roscoe 69 MAGAZINE SECTION; Tropicalities, 77; Crossquiz, 78; Do You Remember? 78; Why Do Smokers? 79; Can Hurricanes Be Diverted? 80; A Visit To Bermuda, 82; Brett Hilder Profile, 83; Book Reviews 84 The Month’s News Of Ships And Yachts 97 PACIFIC REPORT; Roundup Of Pacific News And Pictures (Index p. 13) .. 113 OBITUARIES: Mr. William Edward Hancock; Mr.

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Fiji Takes A Backward Look At The Riots Fiji in January-February was holding a post mortem on * causes and the problems behind the Suva riots of December, there was far more talk than action it was only because most ople had agreed that nothing could be done until after the irns Commission Report is released, probably this month ving, it is hoped, a blue-print for follow-up action.

SSE were the main post-riot levelopments (for a full report »n the riots see PIM, January) : The Wholesale and Retail :ers’ General Union which ed the oil workers’ strike, which rn led to the riots—was granted ncrease in wages and better itions for its oil industry workers p. 14).

Fiji’s Chief Justice, Mr. Justice ;, opened his on?-man cornion of inquiry into the immedijauses of the disturbances (see Th| 6) Governor, Sir Kenneth docks, made statements on contional reform, appealed to Fiji ents not to exaggerate the ag, which, he said, affected only nail part of the Colony, and sed the Government was “tryvery hard” to improve condii and attract capital.

At the first Legislative Council dng since the December session suddenly suspended because of dots, Fijian and Indian m mbers the time to explain their atles more fully, and the ;d on a happy note. One Fijian iber proposed election of three tie five Fijian Legco members.

Governor's Statements nong the statements on the bles by Sir Kenneth Maddocks one r ported in the New Zea- ; Herald, from a staff reporter, paper reported Sir Kenneth as tig that some modification of Fiji constitution would be necesbefore very long, although he Id not like to say what form modification might take, joting the Governor, the NZ ild said, “Constitutional refo m i country such as this is not •ly as simple a matter as in say, toa or West African territories, re there is virtually only one . We must find a constitution jh is acceptable to all the difnt people here.” emmenting editorially on the ernor’s remarks, the Herald had to say: i’ew will quarrel with the view Sir Kenneth that the consfitucannot stay the same forever, the order for priority for reus in Fiji is less clear cut. hedges made to the Fijians under Deed of Cession impose limitations on any transfer of control along lines adopted elsewhere. The native inhabitants are now in a minority and are likely to form a decreasing proportion of the future population. Yet the history of entienched clauses in constitutions, with the aim of preserving rights, gives little confidence in the permanence of such arrangements.

“Population and racial problems in Fiji inevitably demand attention as a preliminary to political change. . . Attempts to enunciate longterm solutions would be premature until the (Burns) commission which has been examining just these problems reports early in 1960.

“Irrespective of its findings, however, the need has been shown for greater immediate attention to industrial relations. Even where labour leaders act with the most genuine of motives they are liable to let loose forces beyond their control, especially when they employ industrial weapons in societies not fully familiar with them.”

Meanwhile, in his Christmas broadcast in Fiji, Sir Kenneth appealed to all in the Colony to cultivate the spirit of goodwill if the Colony was to keep to the path of racial harmony. Once that path was left, he said, disaster lay ahead. (Over)

Pacific Report

Turn to these inside puges for more highlights of the month’s news: New Britain’s Worst Storms For 20 Years—ll 3; P-NG Mineral Search; Tonga’s Beach House Reopened— -113; Alarming Increase In Suva Thefts; Fiji Public Servants’ Wage ll5.

Papeete Tourists Find It A Dull Day 116; NG Vessel Burns —116; Fiji Concession To Tourism; New Guinea’s Floating Trade Store- -11- Rabaul Disturbance; A New Leper Man?—ll9; Jap Ship Wrecked in New Guinea; Successful Tolai Cocoa Scheme —120.

New Look For Samoan Paper—l2l; New HQ For Rabaul Police —121; P-NG “Makes It A Museum Year” 123; Samoan Population Increase; Is Fiji’s Cocoa The Wrong Type?—l2s; “Arcadia” In Trouble In Suva —127.

Behind The Airline Breakdown- -129; GEIC Loans Board —129; Some Action On Fiji Bananas — 131; Japanese Interest In Timber —132; Important New P-NG Cocoa Discovery—l 33; Big Increase In Ship Travel Predicted—l3s.

New Ton g a n Vessel —136; Jame Plantation Sold-137; Moves On Hamac Group: Vessels Lost In BSIP Samoa; W. Samoa’s Record Year—l 39; Fiji Copra Tax Up; Honiara Census; New Caledonia Nickel Plan—l4o; Numbering For Suva Streets; Bunting’s, NG.

Changes Direction —141.

Inquiry Opens Into The

Cause Of It All

Young James Anthony , 25-year-old union secretary who claims to he the brains behind the Fiji oil workers’ strike would not agree in early February that if there had been no strike there would have been no disturbances in Suva in December.

“T WOULD rather say that if there i had been no police tear gas there would have been no disturbances,” he said.

Mr. Anthony who is secretary of the Wholesale and Retail Workers’

Union, was giving evidence at the Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances. The inquiry began in Suva before Mr. Justice Lowe in January. He was being crossexamined by Mr. J. N. Falvey, counsel representing the police.

Mr. Anthony told the Commissioner that he was boycotting the commission and was only there because he had been summoned.

Mohammed Tora, president of the North West Viti Levu branch of the union, also told the Cmnmissioner that he had “no faith” in the inquiry and no trust in it.

Like Mr. Anthony, however, he gave evidence.

Mr. Anthony said that during the strike he had made efforts to keep things peaceful. He said that he had been apprehensive of violence before violence had in fact occurred, “and still was”. He denied to Mr.

Justice Lowe that this last statement was a threat.

Mr. Anthony said that he wished to make it quite clear that his union was in no way concerned with the disturbances.

The Chief Justice: Let me make it a little clearer—the police state that.

The Fiji Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. Beaumont, told the commission that section of the crowd on that first day had been angry (Continued on page 141) 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

(Continued from previous page) He added, “There are many in these islands to whom life is hard and who may sometimes feel that they are forgotten. I can assure them that Government is not the callous, impersonal machine which it is sometimes thought to be, neither knowing nor caring of their difficulties.

“I am conscious of these difficulties and we are trying very hard to improve conditions and to attract trade, industry and capital to these islands; but the one certain way to prevent progress and to ensure general hardship and poverty is to allow impatience, prejudice and mistrust to cloud your judgment and embitter relations. Remember that ill-will can ruin this Colony, that goodwill will be its salvation.”

Not Anti-British In the Legislative Council members had this to say; Mr. B. D. Lakshman, Indian elected member and president of the Sugar Workers’ union, denied there was an anti-British movement in Fiji. Everybody was British he said. ‘The struggle in Fiji is the usual struggle which has gone on all over the world, of those who have and those who have not,” he said “In our free system there should be no attempt to blockade this movement ”

M‘ Lakshman said he did not think there would be an anti-British movement in the Colony “for a very long time to come”.

Discussing the riots, he said, “Some did not behave well and others got angry at it and had a go, and that was the end of it I don t believe in violence at all ” a ™ ama u Vunivalu - the fifth Fijian member, said that from time to time he had felt ineffective as a member of the Council.

He said there was an unfortunate that U th d P er fiv nd v- e feeling abroad hart five Fl i lan members all had the same ideas, moulded bv duSv? S tn n n traditions ’ and not con " hp fnvfß S rogress - Nothing could be further from the truth.

Election Wanted nnH U^ times had changed too quickly shin bSwP^ S fL ot -ir n ° W any r Nation- &nip between the Fijian villae-er anri the town worker and his represent S aiH of the present council, it would be all to the good,” he added.

Mr. A. I. N. Deoki, Indian elected member for the southern division, said the Indian communities did not advocate any modification of the Deed of Cession. He said he gave an assurance that the Indians liked the Deed and would always honour it.

Semesa Sikivou said it was very unfortunate there was tension in Fiji. He wanted to tell the Indian people who had misunderstood part of a speech he had made some time ago, that at no time would he advocate an attack on the Indian people by the Fijian people. He was very concerned that some of his Indian friends should think that he wanted the Fijians to regard the Indians as their enemies.

He added that like Ravuama Vunivalu he would like to see the election system changed, but the desire for change had got to come from the majority of the people, and it was for them to ask for it .Mi-. Vijay Singh said: “I most sincerely urge the leaders of the communities represented in this council to sit down together vately where people don’t speak because they want to get in headlines, and where people speak frankly, openly and sine so that we can dispel any understandings and strena inter-racial relationships.”

Mr. H. B. Gibson said many < seas papers had harped on question of political change. He nobody in his hearing in the few months had cried, “Giv Votes” although he had heard ; of people cry “Give us Moi Money was wanted in the Cc to bring industrial peace Burns Commission Report Soon The Burns Commission Report is pected to be available in Suva at beginning of March. Copies wil] available in London at the enc February.

The report comprises 200 pages eluding about 20 pages of maps,’ printing costs work out at about per copy.

The Fiji Government announcec January that it would sell copies 5/- each, to encourage people to ] the report Fiji Oil Strikers Win Wage Increases t NEW basic minimum wage was fixed at £4/11/4, compared with the figure of £3/11/- agreed to by employers following the strike of December, and £3/0/6 which was th e w age before the strike.

There were various other improved conditions, and the award was retrospectrve to October 24 last year.

It will remain in force until October this year.

As PIM went to press the Wholesale and Retail Workers’ Gensral Union-directed by the you n g James Anthony—had made no comment on the new wage.

The union had applied for a new S inn U S ° f £6 + a we;k ’ an wage Cont ° n the P re " st rike gators (Mr. D. McFarlane £ n M Q r : Said Hassan, with Ratu K. me£o as J^ pir ?. m , case of . cl ear at the b> thonSS ?/ f ? e - in Q u ii'y that they their dut y t 0 see that IS om i y as a whole would not be adversely affected by th- ini th( ? y would not As with the important sugar dustry hearing of last year (v the sugar workers were granted creases) the argument centred what should be considered y fixing a fair wage.

Fair Wage Witness for the union, Dr. G Hemming, of the Bayly Clinic ] senting his own figures in detail a family of five children, said 1 he found, excluding clothing, ] sible bus fares, medical expe] and some other such items, allowing two meals a day, which considered probably adequate those not engaged in hard lab< a worker would require a sum £4/9/6 a week. This budget wa means test.

He did not think any reasons person could agree that the cour could stand 100 per cent, incre in wages.

The oil companies, in evidei said they were not pleading inabi to pay, but they had to keep line with the economic progress s ability to pay of the rest of Fij 14 UAR Y, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

Move For Election

Suva Gets The Picture

How Long Will The Islands Keep TV At Bay? y one of those freaks of recepi Suva’s one and only television itiver picked up some perfect '.gs-and-sound programmes from dralia in January. Distance ered was 2,000 miles. )METHING of the sort had already been experienced by the owner of a set in the Manus ;rict of New Guinea, who has reted getting a flicker occasionally m a TV station on Guam, well the north in the US Trust Terny of Micronesia. ’he Fiji receiver that pulled in stralia was brought to Fiji last ,r by a firm which used it as a imick in an electrical exhibition d during Suva’s Hibiscus Festival October.

Jince then, Mr. Theo Goodare, of 7a. has patiently experimented h the set, trying to bring in nolulu TV stations. Results were , encouraging—the picture beamed >rly, although the sound came ■ough reasonably well, rhen Mr. Goodare turned his atition to Australia, and on January ucceeded in tuning in a Brisbane ,tion. Later, he viewed proimmes in other Australian States, tfost Fiji residents seem to be rly unenthusiastic about the deopment of TV in the Islands. ,ose who have watched in Ausdia and UK generally bemoan the D-standard programmes (horse ► eras, cops-and-robbers, meloamas) and decry the possible leful and time-wasting influence Islanders.

NZ Now While admiring the business omen of the importers, many are iphatic that a TV transmitter is e modern luxury that Fiji can 01 do without yet awhile, although will come.

With TV established on the Pacific rders, in Australia, Japan, Guam, iwaii and USA, however, the die is been cast.

On January 29, New Zealand anlunced it will soon have its own levision system, both commercial id non-commercial, run by the NZ roadcasting Service.

Just how TV can take hold, and 3 possibilities from a retailer’s lint of view, may be gauged by the ct that since TV commenced in ustralia in September, 1956, more lan 750,000 receiving licences have ‘en issued (at £5 a pop). Australia’s jpulation is 10 million.

Horror Hanging That Never Happened Errol Flynn’s autobiography, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways”, runs true to the style that New Guinea old hands came to expect from him that is ultra-egotistical and contemptuous of others’ reputations and of the truth.

FLYNN’S book is at present being serialised in America and in England and will be published soon in book form in New York.

The first part of the book (as published in the January issue of the American magazine, True) gives a highly coloured account of Flynn s early experiences in New Guinea, and tells of one occasion in 1926 when as a cadet patrol officer in Rabaul he was serving under “District Officer Taylor'’. He was told that there had been a massacre at Madang—four prospectors had been killed and the culprits had to be brought in.

The New Guineans were to be shown that “they couldn’t go around killing white men”, Flynn reported, and District Officer Taylor (who is not given initials) had told him, “You will be assigned 10 native policemen. With these armed men you will complete your assignment”.

Flynn then tells how the whole party, including Taylor, voyaged several hundred miles to Madang, broke into four groups, one of them led by Flynn, and each went inland to capture the murderers.

"Suspects" Arrested Flynn says his party found none, but the other parties had rounded up “about a dozen suspected ringleaders”.

Flynn adds that Taylor decided to stage a combination feast and public hanging to which all New Guineans in the region were summoned. In the coming days “schooners arrived from Rabaul laden with taurau (rice)—tons of it—and calico to be dispensed at the hanging. A carrot and club approach; show them we can be tough, show them we can be useful.”

A gallows of coconut branches The late Errol Flynn.

This old photograph shows five of the Nakanai murderers at the theyr were brought into Rabaul in 1927 under escort. The murders occurred in November 1 926. This apparently wes the event which Errol Flynn used as the basis for his account of the Madang murders 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1960

was built, a long platform big enough to hold a dozen men. . .

About 2,000 came down from the hills and gathered at the gallows “Taylor told me that he hated what he had to do, but he had his orders from Australia and he had no alternative. But having undertaken it, Taylor did the job thoroughly,” says Flynn. “When the natives swarmed around the gallows and the makeshift tables that had been set up for them they were greeted with the sight of roasting pigs, rice was served, there was plenty of beer, and coconut toddy was available in abundance,”

Mr. E. Taylor Replies Flynn explains how “the whole thing changed into a genuine political fiasco” as the captives were publicly hanged, with a great shout of delight going up from the natives.

Flynn supplies all the gory details of the alleged hanging—reports how he himself vomited at “the most macabre thing I ever witnessed” and adds that the men hanged may not even have been the original killers.

That is Flynn’s version.

Mr. Edward Taylor, regarded as perhaps one of the greatest district officers that New Guinea has ever produced, and now retired and living in New South Wales, told PIM in January that he had been District Officer, New Britain, stationed at Rabaul, from 1925 to 1933. He had known Errol Flynn, who had been a cadet patrol officer for a short period in that time.

Mr. Taylor added, “The hanging story has no foundation whatsoever and shows complete ignorance of patrolling practices and official procedure. Flynn never did a patrol nor accompanied one during his short career as a cadet.

“During my appointment as DO, New Britain, I was never stationed at any time in Madang district. I have never carried out a hanging, and only witnessed one, and then as a coroner in 1936.

"Fabricated"

“Apparently Flynn fabricated a story on the little he knew of the mU3 p" er °f European prospectors —officially known as the Nakanai murders—in New Britain in 1926.

As DO, I had to proceed to the area and was directed to stay there until the murderers were arrested. * j° b for about six months, during which 15 or so natives were sent to Rabaul for trial these were convicted bv the Supreme Court, but none hanged. The others escaped from custody and nev=r captured.

Flynn was never on anv natrni scene "of’ thJ? Wa ' S ,, never near the LTfiS. aS having

Beware The Fijian Wrecker!

When a visiting Fijian cricket side began a New South Wales tour January, Australians were as much interested in their yaqona drink habits as their cricketing prowess. The tanoa (yaqona bowl) was \ most-photographed member of the Fijian team, and many were the stor told in the newspapers about the powers of its contents. Most writ were under the (incorrect) impression that it was a potent brew w powers of intoxication. It was a “wrecker”, said one report, describe how at one country town in NSW an Australian batsman had master the Fijian attack, and then made the mistake of joining them around i yaqona bowl. Despite advice from the locals not to touch it, the batsm Wiped it down, returned to the crease and had his stumps skittled by l first ball! y The Fijian visit cricket team (t[?] brings on the field Sydney a tanoa yaqona (kava) as refre[?] ment—not as a wreck Left, Frederick Val[?] tine greets his cou[?] Mrs. George Little arrival in Sydney.

Photos: "Sydney Mo [?] ing Herald". 16 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Hurricane Razes Niue For Second Time For the second time in 11 months, Niue Island on January was devastated by a hurricane and early reports said that 300 of the island’s 4,700 people were again rendered home- ;s. [S was the third destructive >outh Pacific hurricane of the >resent season. Two others in mber. immediately following other, razed Vila in the New ides. e Niue Resident Commissioner, D. W. R. Heatley reported that latest blow struck the island t midnight on January 17-18, ling its peak about 1 a.m., the • or calm centre crossing the d between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. arning of the hurricane’s oach was given from Nadi bher Centre the previous day the people had time to stow belongings in safety. Many refuge in caves, e village of Mafetu, wiped out year, was again wiped out. Only louses remain in North and h Alofi villages. The Alofi hall unroofed. ie new partly roofed Education was completely unroofed. All es and Government buildings red damage from water— 1 7 i es of rain fell.

Buildings Down Again ie Treasury building was again ►ofed, and most Government lings suffered some structural age. The electric power and >hone lines were demolished. smashed in the sides of the a store near the wharf, and a Dorary isolation ward of the »ital, on cliffs 40 feet above sea- [. was also destroyed. Most »ital buildings suffered roof age. 1 the island’s schools suffered age. Some 200 Army tents, airiped last year as temporary mmodation, were blown away, many people are now living In is or in temporary “humpies” t from salvaged timber, ie team of builders sent to the id after last year’s blow were on the job when the latest blow ck, and it now appears that they have to start all over again far as private housing is conted. tie taro crop has suffered conrable damage but it is thought ; a new crop will be available ;ime to meet requirements. No immediate appeal for help from New Zealand has been made.

Some people are already asking how so many buildings, erected only in recent months to Ministry of Works design (PIM, July, ’59, p. 53) should have been demolished by another hurricane so soon. Wind gusts were not as high as the previous February, when some were 120 mph.

"Model Housing"

It has been demonstrated that wooden buildings designed for hurricane conditions can survive such winds.

Following the hurricane of February 26-27, 1959, individuals and organisations from far and wide contributed funds generously to the rebuilding of Niue, and the Government had a wonderful opportunity to make Niue a model island from the housing point of view.

January Weather Picture January this year ran true to form as a month for had weather in the South Pacific.

But the upsets started even earlier this time, with the two blows that devastated most of Vila and surrounding areas of the New Hebrides in late December (“PIM", January and p. 80 this issue).

The same blows caused damage in the British Solomons, washing away one village on Guadalcanal and damaging smallcraft. The MV “Baruku” was lost in the BSIP. (See p. 139). New Britain reported the worst weather for 20 years (p. 113).

The same hurricane which damaged Niue later hit southern Tonga with the presumed loss of two lives The pier was demolished at Eua Island and buildings damaged, and two small cutters were reported lost in the Haapai Group of Tonga, which also was pounded.

In Goroka, NG, at the end of January, heavy rain swept away bridges, washed out important road links, closed district airstrips and caused blackouts when the Goroka hydro scheme was hit by a landslide (which frequently happens with heavy rain there).

A Build It Yourself School To go to school you first need to build it. These pupils of the Utu Intermediate School, a few miles from Kavieng, are building new schoolrooms of cement bricks -although they had never worked on a cement building before.

They are being instructed in the work by Mr. Victor Nicolai. A similar self help programme is going on in the village of Medina, on the east coast of New Ireland, where a brick primary school is being built.

Photo: Keith Chatto. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

The Government Offers Some Figures

Nausori Mill Scheme “Reckless," Says Govt.

Fiji’s Financial Secretary, Mr. Eric Bevington, who is a plain speaker at any time and disinclined to indulge in the rhetoric, in January had a few words to say about the proposal to establish a new sugar mill at Nausori, using terms which might mean the end of the scheme once and for all.

HE said the scheme of the Fiji Sugar Milling Co. Ltd was “utterly reckless” and that according to Government figures the mill could run only at a substantial loss.

Mr. Bevington was speaking in the Legislative Council in January during a long debate on the Rewa situation.

He estimated the annual cost would be £202,000, yet all the mill would earn would be in the region of £137,250. The mill would cost £650,000, he predicted, of which £550,000 would have to be borrowed.

A working capital of at least £150,000 would be needed, to take the initial cost of £700,000. [ The company has in hand (at the time of going to press) £25,000, and another call-up of £25,000 was due in January. The promoters have tried in several places to raise the money, with no success.'] No Quota Available Mr. Bevington made it clear that the new sugar company did not have a quota and that the Fiji quota did not belong to the Government.

The Rewa quota belonged to the CSR and would go where the CSR wished. The Colonial Office in London had told the Fiji Sugar Milling Company of this position, he added.

Thus the mill, if it ever starts, have . to accept a world price of £F.26 against the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement price, which guarantees £F49 up to 170,000 tons.

Nevertheless, out of the entire debate came the feeling that had the Financial Secretary six months ago clearly stated all the grounds to the new Nausori mill, some of thebittern.ss of the Rewa Valley farmers might have been avoided. y No Proof Government spokesmen had said nnt hS y that a .. new mill could not J? a /,’ but no satisfactory proof or real argument had been given to convince the farmers that anothe? company other than the CSR could not operate successfully in the Rewa if given encouragement, and a quoTa There has been an impression among farmers that possibly the Government was being influenced by the CSR, and that it was merely trying to bulldoze farmers who had always grown cane into transferring their energies to more economically desirable crops.

Not Entirely at Fault The truth, of course, is that the Government was trying to discourage peasant farmers from investing in a company which the Government was firmly convinced could not pay, but it is not entirely the farmers’ fault if they saw some hope in the new mill, even if, for security’s sake they should have taken an interest in other crops well before now.

The figures produced on the new mill operation are certain to have weight and presumably they will force the promoters of the new company to produce counter-figures —which the Government says has never been done.

No statement had been made by the promoters by early February.

P-NG Unions 'Are On The Way ’

Establishment of tr a unions in Papua-New Gui was on the way , Mor District Commissioner, H.

Niall, said in January.

He warned that the P- Administration had to } up to the situation now ( prepare the Territory unionism otherwise “there he severe industrial un\ which will he to the detrim of the natives and the com generally”.

Mr. Niall made his po in a submission to the P- Native Employment Board He said the Native Lah Ordinance and the i ordinance which has not come into force, would h been very good legislation the 1920’5, hut all of it now out of date and she be scrapped. He said ployees should he worh under various awards.

Mr. Niall suggested t awards for native emplo% should he brought in or similar basis as Austral awards.

He added there should no increase in the minim wage for native workers, should remain as low possible until the emplc attains some skill.

He suggested that nat\ working under agreem should receive a higher m\ mum for a new agreemi after the initial 18 month They're Really Planting Rice In The Rev Reluctant to switch to rice while there seemed any glimme nppz that a sugar mill might he in operation this year, the B vauey farmers of Fiji are now going ahead with rice planting c THE Financial Secretary, Mr. E. R.

Bevington, told the Legislative . ™ rt Counc ** earl Y in January that 4 000 acres of rice was now planted there, and that another 4,000-5,000 acres of land was being prepared or in the process of being planted “It seems, therefore, that if the fates are kind to us, we are going to have an amplitude of rice from the Rewa Valley,” he said.

The Council was debating the import tax on overseas rice, approved last year, which was to come into operation on January 1.

It was decided that in view of the late planting of the local rice, and the necessity of importing more before the local crop could be harvested after the middle of the year, it would not be advisa bring the tax into operation April 30. The Financial Sec agreed that to levy the tax < might put up the cost of livi Better Norfolk Is. Serv Norfolk Island may possib an improved air service as a of proposed air line changes ir tralia (see opposite page). understood that proposals hav< made for Ansett-ANA to co running services to Norfolk present fortnightly service is r Qantas. It is uneconomic an cently Qantas was given a si to keep it going. 18 FEBRUARY. 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

[?]o French Pacific Bomb Tests Says Minister 5 recent report by a lea political newssheet ming rumours of an atomic in New Caledonia caused sions of another kind in try. newssheet, Avenir Caledonien, bich is directed by the Deputy r New Caledonia, Mr. Maurice mand, reported in December ihere was considerable talk in :al circles about the possibility France could hold atomic tests er South Pacific territories January, p. 20). The article sted that an atom testing d might be established in the 5 Islands, and that Noumea , be the atom stockpile base, .owing publication of the article, jovernor of New Caledonia, *echoux, released a statement i by Mr. Soustelle, Minister in re of Overseas Territories, l strongly denied the rumuors. ; statement said that neither there been any intention of ig a strong military force to Caledonia, as the Noumea iheet had also stated, a letter to the director of the Ir Caledonien, the Governor ed out that there were heavy ties for the spreading of “inting assertions” of the type just d by the Minister. 3 newssheet picked up the tlet. It retorted that its reports been copied from reputable ;h newspapers, and no threats been made to those papers. It the names of the newspapers, e Avenir Caledonien drew the rnor’s attention to a recent of Le Canard Enchaine, a zh satirical paper dreaded by cians, which claimed that durhis Loyalty Island tour last year, when visiting the coral waste which is Lifou, Minister Soustelle was supposed to have said, “What a wonderful place for exploding our atom bomb!”

No denial of this story had been made, nor had any attack been made on the Canard, Avenir Caledonian pointed out.

Russian Missiles Meanwhile, in January, Russia became another power to use the Pacific as a target for missiLs. Ii sent a multi-stage ballistic missile off from Russia, 7,800 miles into the Pacific at a point about 250 miles west of Palmyra Island. It was first of a series (a second was sent a little later) being used as part of space flight experiments.

The missile travelled at about 16,250 mph according to the Russians, and Soviet ships standing by in the target area watched the marker hit less than a mile and a half from its target.

Thus the Pacific has become a busy area for rockets and missiles.

America for years has been running experiments in its US Pacific Trust Territory, Britain has been using Christmas Island and recently both America and Britain have been sharing facilities at the US Navy’s new Pacific range, which extends 5,000 miles south and west of Cape Arguello, California. ( PIM, Jan, p. 61).

Big Changes, Cheaper Air Fares In P-NG Important changes in airline operations between Australia and Papua-New Guinea and within Papua- New Guinea, will take place this year. They will mean cheaper air travel to Territorians.

THE Australian Cabinet is shortly expected to decide to remove Qantas from its domestic routes within P-NG and hand them to Trans Australia Airlines, the Government-owned Australian internal airline.

It will also allow TAA and Ansett-ANA (TAA’s Australian rival) to compete against Qantas on the trunk route to the Territory, which hitherto has been a Qantas monopoly.

Australian domestic fare scales will operate on the main route and the NG internal routes, bringing fares down several pounds. The fare between Sydney and Port Moreby may be reduced by as much as £lO.

TAA and Ansett will operate DC6B’s on the Port Moresby run.

They can carry up to 85 passengers.

Some Months Yet Even when the Cabinet decision is announced, it should be many months before the new services are operating, and then the pattern may be different from the one that Cabinet first approves.

The present scheme is for TAA to take over Qantas’ assets in P-NG, including their terminal buildings.

Ansett will then be invited to take an interest in internal operations in NG by buying into Mandated Airlines (a Carpenter subsidiary) with whom Ansett was negotiating last year.

However, Ansett may not agree to buy into P-NG domestic services this way because of the great expense (which was made even higher recently with the purchase by MAL of four more DC3’s).

It may combine with MAL, using MAL’s Territory experience, and may attempt to get the Government to allocate it a half share of Qantas P-NG installations, so that both it and TAA will use the same terminal buildings.

Ansett wants a share in the NG internal services because most of the traffic to and from the Territory ends or originates within the Territory, at centres other than Port Moresby. Rights to run to Port Moresby only would not give Ansett enough traffic while TAA were able to tap the internal traffic.

By the middle of March, Qantas hopes to be operating Electra turbo- (Continued on page 143) Pacific is becoming busy as a target area for the world's missiles. In January the Soviet [?]ing missiles at the point marked in the map. America and Britain are already using a range south and west of Cape Arguello, California.

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Here they are photographed leaving the Manse just after the ceremony.—Reece Discombe. 19 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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COMMENTARY v Hurricane Proof Jttle Niue?

E news from Niue isn’t good.

Fhe friendly little island has ust had its second major hurnwithin eleven months.

February last year the Island, a population a little more than natives who are New Zealand ms was struck by the worst n on record. Of Niue’s 770 lings, 320 had to be completely ilt and another 160 repaired; total damage was in the nature 750,000. Niue got a lot of help l everybody in repairing the age —many Pacific Territories Australia and New Zealand ited goods and money. And in last eleven months it has done nrageous amount for itself. No -bodied man left the island for months. id now, this January, she has l struck again. Damage to ;es this time, according to early rts—and early reports of this ire frequently tend to be exsrated—have resulted in 4,000 of 4,700 population being made eless. lis sounds incredible, even takinto account that by no means Niue’s housing been restored to nal since last February and is of builders are still working e. However, it is not unexpected some people might wonder just many of the houses demolished his latest blow were those reb to modern methods since Feb- •y last year. These new homes ; designed to withstand hurries, and built of concrete brick r the same style of the houses ; survived the first blow without culty. re Niue’s new hurricane-proof ses not hurricane-proof at all? perhaps there is some other exlation, and the next few weeks tocktaking on battered Niue may fide it. ☆ ☆ ☆ ne to Stop Fence ting on Dutch NG USTRALLIA’S Minister for Extern a 1 Affairs, Mr. Richard Casey, was created a life peer January. Shortly after the anmcement, Lord Casey resigned portfolio and thereupon set off rain of speculation about a sucsor. mong those tipped for the post were the Attorney-General, Sir Garfield Barwick, and the Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck.

Prime Minister Menzies settled the question in early February by announcing that he would take oyer the important External Affairs portfolio himself, but whether this is to be a permanent move nobody seems to know. Predictions are that Sir Garfield Barwick will still take the post, just as soon as he is finished with various pieces of legislation he has on hand— including, no doubt, the forthcoming challenge in the High Court on the validity of the Papua-New Guinea Act. This will be a vital matter for Papua- New Guinea and also, of course, for the Commonwealth, and it has already been announced that S r Garfield will personally lead in the Court hearing.

Meanwhile, it is unlikely thera will be any changes in Australia’s handling of foreign affairs while Mr. Menzies is at the helm. Australia can still be depended upon to push the barrow of closer Australian-Asian relations, which includes extending the friendly hand to Indonesia.

But what some people would like to know is how long can Australia continue to be friendly with both Indonesia and the Netherlands over the Dutch New Guinea issue? A conference to be held in Hollandia in the first week of March should at any rate give us a pointer on whether Australia has adopted a more realistic attitude on the question.

The conference, between Australian and Netherlands Government officers, will survey the progress made in the administrative liaison between NNG and P-NG, which has been in active operation since 1957.

The conference will be the sequel to the Canberra conference of October, 1958, which set the pace that has since been followed.

In purely administrative matters there has been much progress in the two Territories, a fact which will be noted in March. But on political matters the two countries don’t see eye to eye, and at the conference the Dutch can be depended on to press their view that NNG and P-NG will have to work much closer together on matters that count.

The Dutch view is that the only real questions on the issue are these (see December PIM, p. 37): • Whether or not Australia will subscribe to the Dutch viewpoint that the existing co-operation in the administrative field should be widened to a full-fledged, financial economic and military co-operation. • Whether or not Australia, having decided, will then make perfectly clear internationally—to Indonesia and to everybody else, including the United States —that it either will or will not militarily back the Dutch if their position in NNG is attacked by any third party, and • Whether the Australian Government, having made up its mind to adopt a course, will make quite clear within Australia what its guiding principles for the future are to be, so that there will be no misunderstanding among political parties, trade unions and the public generally on where Australia stands.

What this amounts to, of course, is that the Dutch want to know when Autralia will stop fence sitting on the Dutch New Guinea issue.

And that’s a fair question.

There are already signs that the natives on the Netherlands side of the border want to see the ultimate political union of the whole island of New Guinea, and in the meantime they want a closer acquaintance with the natives in the Australian Territory.

This closer liaison, this political union, with all its implications, can be worked out through the Dutch — not through Indonesia. Now is the time for Australia to tell the Dutch that they are prepared to meet them, or not. ☆ ☆ ☆ It's Time For Air Changes in P-NG Announcements of important changes affecting Papua-New Guinea air services always, it is true, appear to be “imminent”. They have especially been “imminent” for the last year or two. But now it seems the announcement that is imminent as this issue of PIM goes to press might really be it.

Nevertheless, whether the Australian Cabinet makes its announcement this month or next (and it could just as easily be next month) there isn’t any doubt that Qantas will be pulling out of the New Guinea domestic scene and that TAA will, for a start, be going in. Ansett- ANA also will be there it seems, which is what it has been pressing for for a long time.

Whether or not the new arrangements will make everybody happy, remains to be seen. Not enough final decisions have yet been made to be able to predict just what is going to develop in New Guinea in the next 12 months, and there will be time enough to consider more fully when the pattern emerges more clearly. On just what basis will Ansett go into New Guinea? What is the future of MAL?

One good thing will certainly come cut of it all: cheaper air fares to the Territory, and within it. It seems 21 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

that the Australian domestic fare structure will be used on New Guinea services. There isn’t any doubt that New Guinea people have been paying for their air services.

The fares there are well up in the clouds in comparison, for instance, with those charged in Fiji by Qantas-operated Fiji Airways. The reason for this, so New Guinea people have always been told, is that New Guinea is still a pioneer country and that a great deal of donkey work still has to be done that isn’t a paying proposition for the airlines.

That is so, but the pioneer air stage in New Guinea seems to have lasted a long time, considering that New Guinea was making pretty intelligent use of aircraft at a time in the early 1930 s when few other Pacific Territories had even set eyes on one.

If they still want to pioneer, then let them pioneer with those lower fares. Some of the competition that is now promised should help along the experiment, and the support of the New Guinea public, on that point at least, can safely be guaranteed. ☆ ☆ ☆ Being Educated For Independence WEST Samoans began reading a new newspaper during January o T° r x, at least an old friend, Savah, the Government Gazette in a dress so different that it is not recognisable.

The new Savali, with photographs and stories is a monthly at the moment, but it will probably appear more frequently after a few months, ft 18 produced by the recently created office of the Director of Public Relations, and is entirely in me Samoan language. It is a good editorially 1 technically and Why the appearance of such a paper at this time?

Saiaoa is on the threshold ,?Ll ndep ! n £ ence > and Political developments have been so rapid, there O ff 6ol J- a ver 7 ur &ent demand for publlc information ser- \uce. All the people have yet to be when ?w 6 0f the , issues involved when they are asked to vote on Samoa s future status The initial the Public Relations depart- SSJfoff to ? e i p get all thi s P innf° U o t 0 them —keep them Sd e to to rmatSn Vernment decislons situation. XrTl! tory on the threshold of indenend Sf’iSft ° nl . y now has It tagSto better example! think of a The Editors' Mailbag That Old Ship Was The "Brunner"

Everything comes to him who waits, especially if he is sitting in a PIM editorial chair. Way back in July last year the PIM Shipping Section told about the missionary from Abemama in the Gilberts, who had found an anchor in the wreck of an old steamer, sunk in 1915, and put it to better use for the mission ship Fetu Ho. The name of the wreck was not mentioned.

In September, in this column, Captain Brett Hilder, who has seen the wreck, suggested it might have been the old BP vessel Tambo, which was wrecked when entering Abemama in 1919. But he wasn’t sure. Then came silence.

The other day we received a friendly note from an old PIM reader in the Gilberts, giving what appears to be the good oil.

The wreck, says the informant, was the On Chong steamer Brunner (although he is not sure of the spelling) 300 to 400 tons, which went aground on a clear night towards the end of 1914, when bound from Tarawa to Tabiteuea.

There was a big celebration aboard possibly a Christmas or New Year Party—when the ship struck, near the north-west passage The ship was unloaded to the mainland but couldn’t be refloated and was soon broken to pieces.

The Tambo, says this reader, was wrecked a few months earlier—in July .P r AT Jgust, 1914 (not 1919), ar ?° the boiler, bow and stern are still visible near the south-west passage—useful marks for mariners. 4-u^ 10 resu lt of all this wrecking was that 1915 was a bad year for the Gilbertese—for copra was stock piled with no ships to take it to Tarawa. last Of The Old Labour Traders «f An< ? J while we are on this subject oj °l d wrecks, Capt. Ted Clay, Torres Strait Pilot Serdlops a note on th e loss of the Borough Belle on the Bellona reefs in 1893—mentioned by “Suner cargo” in his history of old BP skippers . {PIM October, p. 83). r ? i?7^ pt v r . clay recalls that Borough ( Ca Pt- John Williams) was cvHoJJp °k reefs by a tropical oyc i°uC’ but having struck the reef was thrown right over into com- M yel £ c ? ln l water, thus allowlnl» lu° boa ts to be launched.

Ibaats > although they had lost sight of each other, made Lh fe aroSBl ng of the Coral Sea and made landfall within a few miles of each other. In the B boat was Capt. Williams’ son, who was thus reunited wit] father. The landfall was nc from the town of Macka Queensland, which had for years been the home por Borough Belle —then operated recruiting vessel in the Queen labour trade, by Messrs. Paxtoi Co.

She left Mackay on Octob* 1890, on her last recruiting v under the command of William T. Wawn (the Ac November 10, 1885, had decreed after December 31, 1890, no li to introduce Islanders woul( granted).

The Borough Belle returnet Islanders, including six wome: the New Hebrides and Solomons on that voyage arrived back with only 25 recruits and four women—an successful final recruiting trip, ship was paid off in April, thus completing her service ir black labour trade. But as we seen, she never lasted long that!

Why Shouldn't Mr. Boyd Have a Cannon, Too?

A reader and occasional tributor, A. J. Sheat, of A land, wonders out loud whc Britain’s former Colonial Secre Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, is goir call in at Auckland during current wanderings in the v South Seas. (See p. 63).

Mr. Lennox-Boyd is repon bent on finding out, among c things, whether it was true s( body ate his great uncle, Benjj Boyd, in the Solomons in 1851.

Mr. Sheat reminds us th£ cannon salvaged from the v of Boyd’s schooner, the Wane is now in the Auckland Musi probably in a store room, and drawings made by John Web of the Wanderer, are also in Museum, adorning the walls, has previously published ph graphs of some of these skeh one of which shows the bur of a Guadalcanal village follow Boyd’s death.

Mr. Sheat suggests that Museum people might even lik give the former Colonial Secre that cannon if he asks for it. at least some copies of the picti We don’t know about that, we rather suspect all the publ; about Mr. Boyd’s reported intc in Uncle Ben started probably ( a comment which he just happe to drop lightheartedly in hearing of some London repor and that he never meant the tl to create the interest it has.

Mr. Boyd would know better t 22 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

; people the details of the life death of Uncle Ben—he collects i. And it is not long ago since received a request from ion, on his behalf, for copies of of May and July, 1957, and 1, 1958—a1l issues dealing with iamin Boyd and his exploits, iding that last unfortunate one. of the accounts was by correslent A. J. Sheat. was as a result of this London est that PIM began to look i the then Secretary of State the Colonies in a new and aweired light. Here was a man l a real sympathy for the ;h Pacific, for when your great e is eaten by a cannibal you surely claim that the Islands in your marrow. i Latest On istwatching hen we were writing to Comider Eric Feldt over that tribute is to the late Commander Long ich appears on p. 41) we asked about progress on the American ion of his book, The Coast chers. It has recently been projd by Ballantine Books of New k in its first paperback edition first Australian edition has been Electors’ piece for a number of •s now, and is out of print). tie paperback edition, with a jtacular cover and a foreword by teral MacArthur, is a streamd version of the original, but ically the same book, and still food, if not better,in our opinion.

Commander Feldt says there were to be about 200,000 copies printed, with a right to market in the British Empire, but he had not heard if the publishers had taken this option up.

He adds, “I have no idea how it is selling and do not expect to hear till after September, when the publishers make up their return.

Probably I should get on their back and ask them about it, but I’m too lazy.”

We never heard before that he’s lazy, but this time he can afford to sit back and wait!

Apparently though, the American paperback is being marketed elsewhere, because PIM staff have seen copies’ for sale in Sydney.

Incidentally, there is one thing readers of the page 41 tribute will no doubt notice. In the introduction. which is ours, we refer to “Coastwatchers”, although Eric Feldt’s version, which we didn t touch is, “Coast Watchers”.

He should know how to spell it, but PIM in the last year or two has made it into one word, and will continue to thus treat it, because it is now part of the language. And we notice, despite Eric Feldt’s own spelling in PIM, that the text of his American paperback makes it as one word, and with a capital, too.

And a final word about Coastwatching: We hear that Mr. Walter Brooksbank, former Civil Assistant to Commander Long, is publishing an illustrated article on the Coastwatchers’ Memorial Light at Madang in the March issue of the Australian National Travel Association’s magazine, Walkabout.

What Is The Sound Of One Hand Clapping?

Mr. G. W. L. Townsend, now of Queensland, drops a note to point out that the United Nations’ move to establish UN Information Centres in or near Trust Territories, (reported by us in December and January) was raised in the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly, and not by the Trusteeship Council Thanks Mr. Townsend says he agrees with us that the capacity of the New Guinea natives to absorb the concepts of the United Nations is still very limited —but from there on in, we’re not sure whether he is on our side or not.

He says. “Are there not others besides natives in the Territory who must be anxious for information concerning the world organisation of which Australia was a founding member, on councils and committees of which Australian delegates serve with distinction?

“The United Nations information material which goes to the Territory is supplied direct from New York by the UN Department of Public Information in response to a resolution of the Trusteeship Council of 1947.

“With some knowledge of the subject, it is my own view that with the material now received, which can be supplemented from New York and the UN centre in Sydney if desired, a UN centre in the Territory is entirely uncalled for. However, what is the use of any information material unless it is disseminated?”

Departmental Store in The Shipping Business Our correspondent, “Supercargo”, recalls in this recent letter a hit of smallships history that few Islanders now remember: Having noticed recently that Hordern Bros, have merged with Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd., I wondered if any of your readers remember when Hordern Bros, ran the only regular service from Sydney to Norfolk Island via Lord Howe.

I think it was 1894 when they started running the schooner Alice May about 60-70 tons, under the command of Captain Champion.

Many old Norfolk Islanders travelled by her, such as the Quintals, Buffetts, Dignams and others.

The Sydney Morning Herald of July 17, 1896, reports: “Messrs.

Hordern Bros.’ schooner, Alice May. last night arrived from Norfolk Island.

“The owners of the Alice May take nearly the whole of the produce from the Islanders and find a market. The whale oil is put up in tuns of 250 gallons each, in which form it passes at once into the hands of the consumer.

“As an article of export, whale oil is almost sure of a market in London and the Continent, while there is a possibility of trade with America. The local demand is alone sufficient to consume a very large quantity, while the supply is without doubt more than equal to demands when whalers are provided with the necessary means of catching their sport.

“In the present instance Messrs.

Hordern Bros, have the best appliances for securing the monsters of the deep, and they look forward with pleasurable expectation to a rapid export trade”.

I do not know what happened to the Alice May, but the May Howard schooner, of 64 tons under the command of Captain William Champion, sailed from Sydney for Norfolk Island on March 30, 1897. The passengers were Mr. and Mrs.

Anderson with four children, Mr.

J. B. Tressider and Mr. R. Rose.

The ship’s agents were Hordern Bros.

This may be of interest to some of your more elderly readers.

South Seas, Mr. Lennox-Boyd and Lady a have a picnic lunch at Nukulau during their visit to Fiji. They enjoyed [?] ing, sun-bathing and fishing (unsuccessful fishing). See below. —Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 23 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala If the self-glorification of being a nasty piece of work fas Errol Flynn’s objective in My Wicked, Wicked Ways, then e has certainly succeeded, judging from a serialised edition of he book, dealing with his youth and the time he spent in New juinea and the East. My copy came from the US.

B narration by no means enhances the opinion of him I have held these many years; although must give him credit for a lin decency in camouflaging (to ixtent) the identities of his conits in the lists of Lust; though ome of the older residents some easily identifiable, le book, no doubt, will receive , critical reviews, which is ;tly what Flynn wanted in order tep up the sales. No doubt there be big sales, despite its lack of ary merit, and its bravado and s mishandling of the truth, it modern ethics being what ' are the reading public will rush Ith their ears back —more’s the —and, insofar as the section ing with the rake’s progress in Guinea is concerned, will obtain iry cock-eyed impression of conms there in the late ’Twenties.

That Old German Flag In December Talk-Talk I commented on a statement in the Times Courier about an old German Imperial flag, which “some people reckoned was the old Neu Guinea Kompagnie house-flag.

The other day I turned up an old letter from Captain Haug, who was skipper of the Company’s Siar back in 1908. He writes: “Do you remember the old flag of the NGC? I still have a small one, which I flew on my gig when I paid an official visit. . . . Perhaps you remember we called the flag Der Hund mit dem Blutigen Knochen (The Dog with the Bloody Bone). In the left upper part schwarz-wsiss-rot (black, white, red) and in the white part something like a bear or a tiger, or a dog, with something in his paw that looked like a bone.’’

That should settle the argument.

That Itinerant Canoeist The adventures of young “Tarzan”

Michael Fomenko which are being treated very kindly by the Press and public as opposed to the more realistic attitude of Government officials generally, reminds me of a somewhat similar egotistical escapist who arrived in Rabaul in the early Forties, or thereabouts.

He was a Czecho-Slovakian and had paddled his canoe from the Philippines (I think it was), touching at various TNG villages on the mainland and being acclaimed by the native people, whom he contacted, as a god coming out of the sea.

Quite innocently he sparked off a couple of cargo cult demonstrations around Aitape way and later on down in Bougainville. TNG officialdom treated him —more or less — with ignore but when he reached the BSIP they took a dim view of his mode of transport and cut short his voyaging by shipping him out to Australia. I forget what eventually happened to him; he probably wrote a book, but otherwise accomplished nothing particularly useful.

Aspects of these “intrepid adventurers”, which should not be overlooked in Islands areas, are: • The reaction of the native people to such odd-bod Europeans arriving “out of the blue”; • The need for the enforcement of safety precautions; otherwise • Expensive search parties, which have to come out of the public purse.

Undoubtedly coves like Fomenko are imbued with endurance and stamina and, therefore, arouse admiration and have their fans —so do pole-sitters and marathon dancers. They contribute nothing more towards general knowledge; they receive a lot of cheap publicity which boosts their one-time deflated ego then usually disappear into the Nowhere from whence they came; though in late years they might have a short life-span on TV, or, if they are of the female species and with the right measurements, a try-out in a night-club.

FOOTNOTE: As for the two youths who stowed away in the Qantas Electra at Mascot and landed at Moresby, to top-off a bright party at Bellevue Hill, they were indeed lucky their prank did not land them in the boob for a long stretch. (One wonders: If the party had been at Surry Hills. . .

Oh, well, never mind!) What’s the moral difference between stealing a London Reads NG LONDON,—It’s Sunday in agland, the snow is beginning i thaw in the streets, and 215.000 readers of “People” are dting to know New Guinea — ■ as much as they can glean om “One Hour of Passion nder the Palms”. Errol Flynn’s st contribution to literature, i s autobiography, is being rialised.

It might not be up_ to Nobel rize standard but it has put °eople” into second place in ie circulation race behind its oposition, “News of the World”, he exclusive rights to the story ere hawked up and down Fleet treet at a price nobody would mch. But “People” found the 10.000 sterling.

If this astounds you, consider hat auntie “Times” has done, his ageing maiden has paid 100.000 sterling for another 2d boy’s memoirs—Sir Anthony den tells all to the Top eople!

AF.

No Honour Despite barbed wire fencing and vigilance, there has been vandalism in the beautiful Lae War Cemetery—the worst outbreaks occurring over the New Year holiday s. The Visitors’ Book has been desecrated, shrubs uprooted, and names cut into trees.

Here Custodian Sloot inspects initials cut into a tree. 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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'chologists will probably claim isuch behaviour—canoeists and itch-hikers—indicates potential anding research workers and fore should be encouraged.

'he ■ Foot 6 out oTp NG-in S aS f Admhiisre^evel— ng AffoiJc o^duc S atio r n W Health r e Affairs, Education, neaitn, sulture and Police Departments, !ix-weeks’ course at the Summer bute of Linguistics at Kainantu.

After the course the trainees will be posted to an area with a language group for a period of four years, A n Administration spokesman said that “shorter term postings had proved unsatisfactory in establishjng a close link between the two peoples”. How true!

And what a pity such a policy had not been introduced nearly 40 years ago. How many misunderstandings would have been avoided?

And how much closer would the Government officials have approached (What* Col-oner say in the -cent Death to language difficulties and inexnar!onpe(t rsee n 451. penence. .. . Lt) P It needs now a juggling of leave rosters to enable officials from a district to return to that same district in which they have succeeded in making close contact and then everyone should be happy. The native most of all. If there is anything that is anathema to the native is the constant change of the individual who is their “boss”. Unless, of course, he be a nasty type; then he shouldn’t be there at all.

In time, with the working of such a system, it will obviate the necessity of that dubious individual, the interpreter who, on more than one occasion has been suspect to an investigating officer. But he couldn’t do anything about it on account of his ignorance of the language.

When that time comes in P-NG then life should be made easier for all.

When Teddy Got The Bird Jack West is well on the beam ( PIM, Jan. Editors’ Mailbag). If anyone knew the Madang-Aitape coast in the early ’Twenties it was Jack. But the punch-line of the Teddy Phibbs’ story is that he was Chief Collector of Customs, and the one man responsible in seeing that Birds of Paradise did not get out of the country! Yes, there was certainly a flutter in the Customs dove-cots over that incident and Teddy never really lived it down. Fortunately, he was a man who could take it.

There was another BOP incident in 1921 when the senior Exproboard inspector broke the eleventh Commandment and was discovered in the gentle art of attempting bird smuggling on the same coast, but the vessel, in this instance, I think, was the old Kekere with pioneer Peter Hansen at the helm. The inspector was fined £lOO and lost a good job.

Incidentally, most of the plantations along the Madang-Aitape coast (other than those belonging to the NGG) were planted from proceeds of BOP’s sales during the German days. That trade will be revived one of these days.

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Voyage A. P. Lyons’ trip with Captain Bayldon (mentioned in the same “Mailbag”) gives an idea of what you used to get for your money in the old days; in mileage, if not amenities.

The mention of Penduffryn plantation on Guadalcanal, with the two odd-bods, Darbyshire and Harding will awaken memories in some of the real old-timers.

D & H could never bear to see a ship pass their place without calling in. It was usual for them to put a shot across the bows of any disobedient skipper—a shot from th«ir small “recruiting cannon”, which was commonly used in those days by recruiters on Malaita Island. 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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heir home was luxuriously fitted marathon carousals; a wellkeel bar, billiard table &pd >le guest chambers. Little wonder t later they went bung and BP : over the estate, and changed name to Berande. ; was here that Jack London red on his Snark voyage and e gathered material for his book, lenture. Jack was accompanied a glamorous secretary (a habit hors seem to have acquired these nv years); whom (I think) he ir married. It was the perfect losphere for Jack, men BP took over Jim Campbell gntioned by me last month in pukpuk story) was manager for mile and was succeeded by Phil jlley.

Correction )nly a small matter certainly, but t to keep the record straight I mid have described the monoi (mentioned in “TT” last month) Fred Archer’s place as being on > northern end of Jame Island, st in case someone goes looking it—or someone hops in to correct blicity for ucation [ don’t remember reading so much out the needs for education—on g juvenile level —as I have durr the past six months; both in istralia and P-NG. Education ecutives have been plugging away the Press about the urgent needs r more teachers (and, naturally, Dre finance), more schools, changes curricula and systems.

Education in P-NG appears to ive a good Press. Local sheets as ill as southern papers (not omitig PIM, by any means) are putng the spot-light on what has been accomplished, what is being done and what the Department hopes to do. Good luck to Director Roscoe, who is undoubtedly a believer in Good Public Relations.

But . . . readers should not be under the misapprehension that education of the primitive started in NG only in the Post-War II years.

Turning the pages of an old copy of The Rabaul Times, dated December 24, 1941, I came across an interesting story by none other than journalist Norman Bartlett, who had made a visit to the Rabaul district and published his story in the Australasian of August 23, 1941 Amongst the schools he visited was the Government school at Nodup, where J. H. L. Waterhouse was in charge. Bartlett’s description of the system and the high standard achieved by the pupils was glowing He thought their knowledge of pure English might have been taught par r o t-fashion, but Waterhouse soon disillusioned him by seeking synonyms from the various pupils for the words used. Amongst the pupils evincing a high standard of efficiency was one, Walaka (the same Towalaka, who is now a member of the Rabaul Council), who knew all the answers without faltering.

Bartlett writes; “When war began there were 2,290 village mission schools and 5 government schools. . . A young Government official gave me the most intelligent criticism of New Guinea education.

“ ‘We are training a few of them to do white men’s work for low wages’, he said. ‘What we should do is start in the villages and give them an all-round agricultural, hygienic and vernacular education which is related to their local conditions, social organisations, and traditional ideas. Most of them are doomed by circumstances to be village agriculturists; our educational system should be designed to make them better agriculturists, better natives and more integrated human beings.

And this, we are assured now, is exactly what is happening. Lets hope that in our enthusiasm to educate we do not divest the individual of his New Guinean identity altogether. he Forgotten AEI I am the last one to desire plaques and memorial stones for every act of bravery or sacrifice made for one’s country; but I do think the Silent Service should do something about perpetuating the memory of Australia’s first submarine, the AEI and the 35 officers and men who disappeared somewhere out of Rabaul harbour on September 14, 1914. A plaque on the Memorial Gates of Elizabeth Park, perhaps? Its sister ship—AE2—was sunk a few days after the landing at Gallipoli, fortunately without loss of life.

So Long, Robbie Passed on to his long rest on January 21 was Robert Vernon Robertson, and probably one of the best-known identities among New Guineaites in Sydney. For years “Robbie” was a sick man but, tenaciously, kept going; invariably engaged on some commission for Islands folk temporarily in Sydney: Seats for a theatre, a taxation clearance, a passage on a plane; Robbie was the one man capable of performing miracles, of ironing out troubles and overcoming the tangle of red tape. He will be sadly missed.

Peace For Poppy Forsyth After an illness lasting for years, bed-ridden and unable to enjoy the life she loved so well, Mrs. Madge (“Poppy”) Forsyth passed away in a private hospital at Mosman on January 28. There was no betterknown or well-loved woman in Rabaul pre-war days than “Poppy”.

A nursing sister in War I, she retained to the last those sterling qualities developed by that gallant band of workers. Memories of her kind actions, generous gifts and willing help will always remain valued treasures amongst her friends. ☆ Mr. Brian Edwin Jinks, who graduated as a P-NG Patrol Officer from the Australian School of Pacific Administration recently, was the winner of the 1959 R. W.

Robson prize for law and he shared with Mr. Alexis Bishaw. of Northern Territory, the R. W. Robson prize for general proficiency.

As TV Sees It It's election day at Maprik, in the Sepik district of New Guinea, and ADO Arthur Carey, the local native registrar and a voter all gather at the table in the village of Waigakum on the first polling day for the election of a Native Local Government Council. This scene was photographed by a film unit of the Department of the Interior, headed by producer R. Maslyn Williams, and was part of a series of six half hourly documentaries on New Guinea, shown recently in Sydney on ABC television. They were well received.

Photo: Lew Priday. 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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Tongan Vessel Receives A Japanese Name

Japan, Tonga Move 'Closer Together' Japan and the Kingdom of plcHunii Wme Minister of Tonga, and a ent purchase of a fishing vessel from Japan, have “greatly strength- :d” friendly relations between the two countries.

E relationship is to be still urther strengthened next year vhen a Japanese university goes to Tonga, at the invitaof the Tongan Government, to j out research into the resources ie Kingdom and its surrounding I this information was con- >d in a broadcast from Radio ; n on February 3—which was •ded by PIM. t the present moment there is ;asure ship heading from Japan ;he South Pacific,” said the dcaster. “But its treasure is gold or silver. In fact, the sure has already been found, in the ship, its crew, and the 7 behind the purchase we ess something more valuable i gold or silver. The treasure, ou wish to call it such, is the blishment of close commercial cultural friendship between in and the tiny Island nation jue n Salote Tupou.

Several years back, when few lie of our nation were aware ;he Tonga or Friendly Islands ;hey are sometimes referred to, ■e was little or almost no ;act. Most here thought of these ids as a South Pacific Paradise, arden-of-Eden-like little nation, a British Protectorate which e of us would ever visit.

Radio Will Take Part roday, not only is the fishing t with the Japanese skipper and v already on its way, but other anese will follow. Next summer fientifis survey team from Tokyo [ Osaka Universities will visit islands. Its main mission will to study the possibilities of eloping Tonga’s fishery, farm, I forestry resources. Part of expenses for sending this study up to Tonga will be shared by Japan Broadcasting Corpora- Because of the current interest •e in Tonga, the Japan Broadting Corporation has made icial arrangements for reports the survey mission.

The activity and interest here, in Tonga and its people, comes as a follow-up to the recently concluded visit to P Japan of Tonga’s Prime Minister, Prince Tungi-and, believe it is not, the visit of the Prince was in part the climax of a relationship which started with one modest Japanese girl and some Japanese dolls.

The girl is a student of European history at Tokyo’s Meiji University. Her first real contact with anyone from these islands came in the spring of 1958.

Strong Interest “During a World Christian Education Conference here she met a missionary who had just come from Tonga. Following her conversation with the missionary, Teiko—for that was the student’s name—sent Queen Salote Tupou a small Japanese doll —a model of a Japanese farmer.

The doll was sent chiefly in appreciation of what she had heard, and the desire to make some sort of friendly gesture.

“In November she was pleasantly surprised by a letter of thanks from the Queen. The Queen indicated strong interest in Japan and things Japanese. Teiko then formed a Tonga Islands Friendship Club with some of her school and neighbourhood friends, and that Christmas sent 10 more Japanese dolls to the Island Queen.

“The Prince came to Japan late last year. His main mission of course was to buy this fishing boat and to hire the Japanese crew to teach his people modern and new techniques for catching tuna. But one of his chief desires was to meet the little girl who had sent the dolls and had started the current interest of one nation in the other.

“Late last month (December) Teiko and her father were received by the visiting prince at his Tokyo hotel suite.

“ ‘The meeting with the stately Prince, who is over six feet tall, was like of a dream,’ said Teiko later.

“But dream-like as it may have seemed to Teiko, the meeting was very real. And also very real is the new relationship between Tonga and Japan. It cannot help continue to grow, with all its healthy and worthwhile implications”, the broadcast concluded.

Tonga’s thanks to Teiko, the Tokyo University student, has been expressed by giving her name to the new tuna long-liner which was expected at Nukualofa late in February. (See Pacific Report, page 136) Prince Tungi, Prime Minister of Tonga, who has just returned from his second visit to Japan.

Queen Salote, who received a Japanese doll from Teiko, after whom the new Tongan fishing vessel is named. 31

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he N. Guinea Road That's Become A Symbol From a NG Correspondent dusty and corrugated strip oad, with a big job to do few trimmings to recomd it, is fast becoming the ect of one of the greatest roversies on the Australianinistered island of New lin.

E road ribbons 20 miles from Flabaul to Kokopo along the shores of Blanche Bay. The roversy concerns whether or L 4 miles of dirt surface along its lie sections should be sealed, lere is nothing new in a public ry for surfacing a road, but the iul-Kokopo Road has ceased to i mere problem of sealing. It become a symbol of attacks on lority, a focal point of hot ,te, a forum of conflicting ion. has brought forth reasoned ments, but it has brought forth Jly wild and unreasoned statets. >r years now a big section of people, particularly among the .tation community of Kokopo, ; been urging for the complete ing of the road. The subject been thrashed out in advisory icil meetings, in private deputas and at public meetings.

Many Deputations at the present phase of the ;roversy goes back only to ember last year when the Ausian Minister for Territories, Mr. 1 Hasluck, visited New Britain, s usual the Rabaul-Kokopo Road jtion figured prominently on the of subjects discussed. Tired spapermen tended to fling down r pencils each time it was mened because they considered the ject had been done to death, ortant as it might be. n the eve of his departure, how- :, Mr. Hasluck made a revealing ement. He pointed out that no er than five major deputations . brought the subject to his attion. !e was genuinely interested that subject had figured so minently in the discussion of many groups. He made no logy for saying that he was not iciently versed in the position to e an answer, but he made it clear that he would take up the subject. . . ...„ Seasoned campaigners took this as a hint that something might happen. The story went the rounds that the Minister’s visit would produce two major results—provision of financial aid for native cocoa producers (which it did), and sealing of the Rabaul-Kokopo Road (which so far it hasn’t).

Dr. Gunther's Views In fairness to Mr. Hasluck it must be pointed out that he made no definite statement on the road question at any time, but his reception of the arguments left a note of optimism. . ...

Things were still basking in this mellow light when the Assistant Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Dr. J. T. Gunther, visited Rabaul in January. Dr. Gunther listened politely to a few comments on the road during a meeting of the New Britain District Advisory Council. , . . ..

Then he blew the subject wide open again. .

Dr. Gunther had this to say; “Unless we were sure that we were justified in carrying out this project, and unless we knew we could actually do the work in the next two or three years or so, we would be wasting the time of a sorelypressed design staff to draw up designs at this stage. The time spent would be detrimental to other works. In the next two years or so we could find better use for this money, perhaps to open an entirely new road, perhaps to build a road into the Bainings, or maybe to open a new road into the Warangoi Valley. To spend it on the Kokopo Road at this stage would be an extravagance”.

Led by the Rev. Father J. Dwyer, MLC, other speakers at the meeting said that the onus now appeared to be with the people to prove to the Administration that the money could not be spent more justifiably on any other roads programme.

Violent Reaction Dr. Gunther’s statement deflated the optimism of many people, and produced a violent reaction at a meeting of Kokopo Town Advisory Council two weeks later.

The retiring president of the council, M. Ron Levi, of Kap Kap Plantation, said that Dr. Gunther had “big-headedly vetoed any chance we ever had of getting the road done”. He said Dr. Gunther’s statements had sickened him and had shown a complete lack of grasp of the economic value of the road.

The economic value of produce carried over the road has been the main argument generally advanced for sealing the road.

The Kokopo council has asked for reasons governing Dr. Gunther’s attitude, and has expressed a minute of regret at his attitude. 33 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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From Judy Tudor, in London Trading in vegetable oils was >w in the first part of January lile buyers waited to see what rt of flavour the first release US stockpiled coconut oil Duld give to the market. r is expected that something like 6,000 tons of this oil will be released every six weeks for the xt 18 months. Tenders for the st lot closed on January 6, and >er in the month it was known at the four successful tenderers ;re the US establishments of octor and Gamble, Lever Bros., F. Drew and the Pacific Vegetable 1 Co.

The price accepted has been ited as “between 174 to 184 US uts per pound,” which according my calculations (which aren’t cessarily all that accurate, as I i far away from regular checking ints), works out at about £Stg.l32 r ton. [f correct, that should not cause ,y jolt to the market as it is proximately the same price as at current for Straits crude, ci.f., >rth European ports All this is surprising, in a way, some of this stockpiled oil must all of 10 years old, although it is own that throughout the stocking period oil has been periodicy withdrawn and replenished. It n be argued, perhaps, that the od price tendered for this oil is a inter to a continuing firm market r copra.

A Rash Prophet We can hope so, although it would a rash prophet who nailed his Lours to the mast about this one. hat is abundantly clear, however, that although copra price may it remain forever up in the high rels it has maintained over the st 15 months, as far into the ture as one can see, there is a arket, not only for all the copra ing produced today, but for a eatly increased production.

One new factor that has not gun to make its presence felt yet, ,t which is being watched with nsiderable interest by the experts, Red China. All the signs are there that this country will eventually become a big user of copra, particularly for the production of soap The outlook for copra today is so vastly different from what it was in the 1930’5, we might be dealing with an entirely different commodity.

The thing that keeps the United Kingdom a veritable preserve for South Pacific Islands copra producers, is the British duty of 10 per cent, on foreign copra, and 15 per cent, on foreign oil. that ca from y although milled in a Commonwealth country, is held to be foreign because it is produced very largely from “smuggled” Indonesian copra, These duties certainly mean that the South Seas has the lion’s share of the UK market; but as London is the centre of the copra world, where such organisations as Unilever buy for their Continental mills and even those in the East, the fact that the South Seas has this corner virtually to itself gives Pacific planters no advantage in the price field, or even any permanent monopoly, interchangeability n is obvious that if foreign copra Plentifuland -cheap►thereno wa,y of artificially keeping the UK price up. Only while all copra is based on world (or Philippines) 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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8713 »ce does the duty work in the uth Seas producers’ favour, rfjor is the business of interajigeability, any myth: To para- :rase the post: What can you iow of the oil market who only Dra knows? .. , All the South Seas copra that mes into the United Kingdom es into margarine; virtually none X) soap. But to margarine manu- 3turers, copra or coconut oil is ly one of about eight edible oils at can be used and their business life is to study each commodity . its price merits, and act accordady.

After only a short time amongst ese people here, you emerge coniced that practically anything n be made into margarine. I am Id that, during the war, it was anufactured from linseed and at it was' quite palatable for out two weeks after manufacture, len it redeveloped a characteristic iseeci t&stc In the last week I have seen some nfidential graphs put out for their m use by a big producer, showing at during last year’s high copra ice, the coconut oil content of argarine in the Netherlands fell as low as three per cent. And »w, in the United Kingdom, when rd became plentiful and cheap, was swung into margarine manucture to take the place of higherst oils such as coconut and palm irnel.

Taste Preferences Just as we have been told (in spect to New Guinea cocoa and flee) that it’s all a matter of invidual taste, so various countries ive their taste preferences in marline, and these taste preferences ie food chemists can produce to der, by blending various combinams of the available oils and fats.

Everything else being equal, the ritish taste seems best pleased by margarine blended from peanut 1, whale oil, palm oil and cocoit oil, although, as we have ready seen, almost anything else tat is available and cheaper can j swung in to replace any of lese ingredients.

Soya-bean oil, produced normally [ vast quantities in the United bates and China is used in maririne but is least popular with uropean consumers. However, the >od chemists of Unilever, and robably other manufacturers, are irrently hard at work trying to o something about this soya-oil efect in order to overcome mararine consumer prejudice.

Last year world soya bean prouction didn’t come up to expecons, and at the same time, the live crop in the Mediterranean ountries also failed.

This year of 1960 promises a umper soya bean year, and a good one for olive oil production —small straws in the wind that maybe win ultimately influence how much planters in Papua-New Guinea or the Gilbert and Ellice will be able to contribute to the tax-gatherer.

The By-Products Another aspect of the edible oils’ picture that isn’t often considered is that while some of these commodities— such as copra, palm oil and palm kernel, whale oil —can be regulated directly by laws of supply and demand, production of by-product oils and fats (cotton-seed oil from the cotton industry, lard from the pig industry, tallow from meat industry, etc.), go on regardless, unless something happens to the parent industry.

The overall study of the edib’e oils’ market is as fascinating as it is complicated. It is academically interesting for the copra planter to know the background of these things, but in the short-term it can t ever be much more than that. By the very nature of things here, in London, the brokers, the agents, the buyers and consumers will always be months ahead of him.

He can only take the long-term view, and the consensus of expert opinion here in London is that he can’t go wrong planting more coconuts and producing more and better copra. He may not always get the high prices he has enjoyed in the last 15 months, but higher yields and growing demand will make up for that.

Repeat—that is expert opinion, 37

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If the notified figures are actually adhered to, it is estimated that the total baleen catch in the Antarctic, will, amount to about 18 000 units. This could represent another 50,000 tons of oil or more.

Additional to the Antarctic quota of baleen whales is the catch taken from the many shore stations of both hemispheres. Additional, too, is the non-edible sperm whale oil used for industrial purposes and not competitive with coconut oil.

Nobody Worrying All the competing nations in the Antarctic are agreed that 15,000 units should be the maximum catch and that a higher catch is sure to result in a depletion of the resources; but this year at least no one seems to be worrying much about that in actual practice, as all are determined to have a certain quantity of oil.

Even with the Commission functioning properly, the USSR has stood aloof from the inspection system, and the Commission has had to accept Russian figures on its Antarctic catch. This year the Russians have a recently launched factory ship on the job, in addition to the older Slava.

Mr. C. D. Rowley, principal of the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Mosman, returned to Sydney in January from leave.

The Copra Outlook As NG Sees It Although copra consumers are working hard to talk the market down, February copra prices will probably hold around the present higher levels.

THE Papua-New Guinea Copra Market Board reported this in its January survey of the market.

The report said the Philippines had further typhoon damage during the month and copra supply was upset. The average production for the next three years in the affected areas, which comprise roughly 20 per cent, of total Philippines production, will be off as much as 80 per cent. There will be a gradual improvement at the beginning of next year until normal production is regained in the latter part of 1962. The total fall off in the Philippines looks like being around 16 per cent, of the overall production this year at least.

In Indonesia the Government has suspended indefinitely all copra exports except from one district where not a great deal of copra is produced. It’s reported the reason for the ban is to see there is sufficient for home consumption. 39 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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he Man Who Was Not Too Late Commander R. B. M. Long, OBE, Australia’s wartime director Naval Intelligence and an organiser of the famous Coastwatchers, ,ed in Sydney in January, aged 60. A brief obituary übll f hed “PlM’s” January issue, but here, Commander Eric Feldt, a leaag Coastwatcher and author of (< The Coast Watchers ”, pays a more zrsonal tribute to the man who did so much.

In warfare, one of the essenals of success is to be ready i time. In the success of the bast Watchers, the completeess of their organisation before le Japanese entered the war fas a considerable element.

Watchers could have been j improvised after Pearl Harbour but they would have been largely leffective without a basic orgamsaion to supply them, to collect, Dilate and disseminate their inforlation. And it is solely due to the ite Commander, R. B. M. Long, >BE, that the Coast Watchers were eady in time.

When war broke out in 1939, I ras ordered to report to the Director f Naval Intelligence. We had known ach other since we were 13-year- Ids, when we joined the Royal Lustralian Naval College, but had een out of touch since I had been a New Guinea.

He had changed little. The thicket figure, the broad forehead, serins expression and the thin-lipped mall mouth were the same, and the mile was as ready as ever. With the far just started and an enormous xpansion under way, he was errifically busy, wi t h harbour ecurity, secrecy of sailings, safe- ;uarding convoy information and ;nemy shipping, on his mind.

He gave me a couple of days to ;et into the picture, then dismissed ne to the Islands to expand the :oast Watching organisation there, vhich had been the special care of lis Civil Assistant, Walter Brooks- >ank.

So the expansion was started in [939, in time.

On The Job Promptly He dealt promptly with my requests. I wanted teleradios; he supplied them. There was war in Europe and the Pacific was not involved and he must have had to Dvercome opposition, or at least inertia, to his proposals.

I wanted more staff and he supplied it, including our term mate Hugh Mackenzie. In consequence, we were ready when raiders appeared and this justified his attention to the area, but in the back of his mind was always the possibility that Japan would enter the war.

When Japan commenced hostilities, his duties multiplied. He was one of those men who could work for very long hours and still keep a clear mind, he smoked heavily but rarely took a drink and had no recreation that anyone could see.

But his courtesy remained unimpaired, there was always time to see the visitors and then was always the ready smile.

Problems arose quickly. To ensure that intelligence was passed to all Services no matter by whom collected, he designed the basic organisation of the Combined Operational Intelligence Centre (COIC), later used by General MacArthur’s and lower Headquarters.

He saw that for unconventional organisations, such as the Coast Watchers there must be a single controlling head, and his initiative caused the Allied Intelligence Bureau to be formed, but he himself was left out of it, being required in Naval Intelligence, Under the area system, the South Pacific came under the US Navy, while General MacArthur commanded in the South West Pacific, and Coast Watchers operated in both, sometimes reporting across the line of division. Commander Long acted as link between the two areas when necessary, and there was no friction.

Great Organiser For the invasion of Guadalcanal, he collected Merchant Navy officers with knowledge of the area, he recruited others with knowledge of the Solomons and handed them over to us, helping us greatly.

In addition, he had his conventional duties as DNI to perform, but still made time to organise the despatch of the Lyons expedition against Singapore, when a disguised sampan sent in canoes which sank 35,000 tons of Japanese shipping.

During all this time, Long was an acting commander. The Navy is a hard boss. An officer, if not promoted to commander when in the “zone”, misses out altogether, and in the fierce competition, and in spite of the highest results in examinations, Long had been passed over.

But he slaved on patriotically, da? in and day out, knowing there wai no reward in higher rank for him but true to the naval tradition tha when you are given a job, you do it no matter what.

He left at the end of the war, am was promoted to commander on re tirement and was awarded the OBE He entered business and was sue cessful. He kept in touch with mos of his old associates and it was : shock to all to learn of his deatr which was completely unexpected.

His accomplishments are know] to those who worked with him, an who saw what was done and it was done. In the war in th Islands, he is the man who gc things done in time. How often w heard the expression during th war; “Too little, too late”.

Commander Long did enough, an he did it in time.- ERIC FELDT.

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There were almost 200 guests and an open bar, with champagne the popular drink (124 bottles lost their corks). In the photo the Acting Governor of Tahiti, Mr. G. Poulet, presents the charter to Tahiti Rotary Club President Lejeune.

Photo: Studio Mackenzie. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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ENGLAND Bishop Wade Leaves The Solomon In his regular monthly colu "Tolala" reported in January that Bisl T. J. Wade, Roman Catholic Bishop the Solomons since the early 'thirl had resigned because of ill health, is an American and was in America medical treatment when he made reluctant decision. Bishop Wade is ■ of the most popular men in the Islar and this account of him is from year-old Mrs. Alice Bowring, of W New Guinea, where she has a g lease.

By Alice Bowring When the Japanese were advan iug on the Solomons in early 19 and the order came from Austra , for all Europeans to leave, Bish Wade—for so many years a part those Islands—would not go.

SAID the Bishop, “How can abandon these natives after s those years teaching the brotherly love and spiritual brothe hood in God?”

The Japanese came. When tl first warship anchored, one of tl first ashore was a Japanese who Bishop Wade recognised as a ms known as “Tosh”, who had worki at various jobs around Bougainvil before the war. “Tosh” smiling greeted the Bishop.

“Well, Bishop Wade,” said “Tosh “You always told me I was too goc for the jobs I was doing!”

Did No Harm Whether owing to the good fee ing of “Tosh” or not, those fin Japanese in the Solomons did r harm to the residents who remains But at the end of 31 days, the Fon commander told Bishop Wade th£ the Japanese ship was leaving, an he gave what Bishop Wade took t be a friendly hint that it would fc wise for him to leave too. So th Bishop warned all the resident; while he and his own flock, includ ing three old and helpless nuni took to the hills. Some resident disregarded the warning, and ha good cause to be sorry about it late] Bishop Wade still remained, how ever, even after many others hai been taken off. He stayed in clos association with Jack Read, th former District Officer turnei Coastwatcher, for about 12 months 42 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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Was In Noumea was stationed with the Ameri- Red Cross in Noumea when the lop arrived. I saw him almost y He was a regular visitor to All Services’ Club, where he nk tea with Madame Saxton, the teen co-manager, and myself in little “club within a club ch was our store room. There, all k was dropped and generals and s admirals and gobs, colonels t carpenters of the Army, Navy I Air Force of the Allied nations, mobbed. was in America on a visit only s ntly. The Bishop wrote to me n Boston, where he was recupting from the illness which larently forced his resignation, I asked me to visit him there. ►f course, I did. He showed me und the “cradle of freedom”— ich is Boston—rubbed my nose in dirt for being a Britisher, and ed me would I come to Mass in morning. [e knows I am a Presbyterian, I went to church with him next rn ing_in a church where Mass celebrated at intervals all day g on the ground floor, and up- Lrs on high days and holy days 1 for VIP weddings, etc.

Special Mass le went upstairs. There were two ests, the Bishop and myself there 1 Mass was celebrated in my lour.

Afterwards, Bishop Wade said, h a twinkle: “Mum, I was not ing to convert you. I was just ang for a safe and happy journey you, and a fulfilment of your entions.” was touched and honoured that man so eminent and so beloved ild concern himself with one so ignificant as myself.

Jut this is characteristic of Bishop ide—a broadminded pious and ntly man. If all church leaders ild emulate him, no sectarian temess would be possible. am expressing the hope of msands in the Pacific area when pray that the Bishop (affectionsly known as Thomas plus, beise of his signation Thomas + ide) will be restored to health, d permitted to return even now the field where he has laboured unselfishly and successfully for many years. 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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New Guinea Doctors Have A Lot To Do Death of a Child A Coroner’s Court in Rabaul in January found that a V°ung native child had died at Nonga Base Hospital because of an overdose of chloroquin administered by mistake, by a native medical orderly. The Coroner found the mistake was due to language difficulties (the orderly had not understood the order of the European medical assistant) and oy the inexperience of both the orderly and the medical assistant, who was in charge of the hospital The Coroner, commenting on the fact that the assistant was in charge said that with present staff shortages the hospital! was fortunate to have the man at all.

No blame could be attached to him. This article describes the hospital at work.

By Lew Priday The lack of public spirit in Australia must surely take some of the blame if the Health Department of New Guinea is short handed. If, say, young doctors have the urge to lead a busy and useful life they could consider New Guinea, where the health needs of the natives are overwhelmingly great.

When I was in Rabaul recently, 70 more doctors were expected, hich meant that the medical licers working for the Department i the whole New Guinea Islands ;gion, which extends from Manus 3wn through New Ireland to ougainville and New Britain, would umber 12 instead of 10.

The district already contains one Lrge base hospital at Nonga, near ,abaul, four district hospitals with iboratory and operating facilities, nd 10 subsidiary hospitals.

Visit to Nonga Then there is the large Catholic lission hospital of 300 beds at r unapope, Kokopo; and there are tiree specialised hospitals, two for jprosy cases (at Torokina, Bougainille and Anelaua, New Ireland), nd ’ the third for TB and chest iseases of 250 b-ds at Bita Paka, 7 miles from Rabaul. These three ,re run conjointly by the Government and the Catholic mission.

Another important sign of what s going on is the aid posts that t re springing up in all the villages, [hey now number 288 in the whole irea.

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The hospital is to have a paying section and a non-paying section, but when I was there only the nonpaying section was established The paying section —generally called until now the “European hospital —was situated at Namanula, but plans were afoot for moving it to Nonga.

The non-paying section, with about 300 beds in the different wards, was opened in December, 1958. It had, when I was there, a European staff of five medical officers, a dental officer, nine registered and three partly trained nurses, a physiotherapist, an X-ray technician, a pathology technician, and about eight European assistants, with about 100 native assistants. The European non-medical staff numbered ten.

Teaching Unit The paying section at Namanula had a matron, five registered nurses, and a number of orderlies, all Europeans, with native helpers.

The hospital at Nonga now has its teaching unit, where native trainees, young men and girls, undergo a 4-year course. I was told by Mr. E. Lindfield, principal of the Rabaul Medical College, that the male trainees are quicker in the uptake than the girls, who are somewhat lacking in elementary education.

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Photo: Lew Priday Dr. B. Maksimovic is surgeon in charge of this operation, photographed by Lew Priday as it progressed at the big Nonga hospital at Rabaul. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-FEBRUARY. 1960

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Maksimovic, which I was allows to photograph, I watched nati\ being blood-tested, X-r aye bandaged; I had a look at path logical trainees at the microscor talked to a native working in tl pharmacy, chatted with patients the big ward, and the men maternity and children’s wards, ar talked to the European staff, ii eluding Sister Joan Hodson, Suvj n iste / Lucker - and Sist Terry Lally, from Perth. , I** Rabaul I was shown copies < Aid Post News”, which Dr J Saaye, the Regional Medical Office sends out regularly throughout tb New Gumea Islands. It give practical advice in pidgin on a sorts of health problems, includin what simple tablets to use, and tb dose for “man na mari” (adult me and women), t° “bigpella pikanini hkhk pikamni”, down to “beibi wokabaut” and finally “liklik beibi . In Rabaul, Sister Rita Schaefe: m charge of Infant Welfare, tol me of what was being done specific ally in the Tolai areas—for exampb instruction in the method of prepar mg infant food from local product!

What Mother Likes I learnt that the European wa of bathing baby is not necessaril the best under village conditions The position is that most mother ■ y have °ne decent size dish ii the house which everybody eats ou ot. in order to discourage its us< for washing an approved method i, to ladle water with a coconut husk giving a child a shower bath fob lowed by a good rub down.

Mothers get the idea of bringing u the clinic when it is sick but they can’t see the point of bringing along a perfectly healthy baby so the job is to persuade them tc continue to come.

Sister Schaefer had been for nearh two years among the Orokaiwas in the northern district of Papua Next she was among the colourful Chimbus, in the Highlands; cheerful people of great potentialities, she says, and great traders, in fact the Jews of the Territory, who will possibly leave the coastal people far behind.

Very different Sister found life among the prosperous and comparatively sophisticated Tolais of the Gazelle Peninsula. But like other natives they are shy at first when there is a change of staff, and take their time in sizing up a newcomer.

New Guineans have a tremendous laith in injections. The IWD employs five girls for school medicals and infant welfare clinics to work in conjunction with the Europeantrained nurses. iTr“5 art of our scheme,” the Infant Welfare schools’ nurse, Sister Morrison, told me, “is to train these girls to take over the IW work without too much supervision. We look 46 UAR Y, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The New Zealand Department of mculture has recently been instigating ways and means of \proving the sheep and cattle tnstry in the Chatham Islands, but e report which the department is handed to the government is d very hopeful.

In addition to the income derived om shearing, about 15,000 sheep, ,000 lambs, and 750 head of beef ,ttle are at present available mually for slaughter and are lipped alive to New Zealand, umbers of Chathams sheep are ught as breeding ewes in certain irts of New Zealand where their laracteristics are favourable to ic climatic and soil conditions.

The Chatham farmers feel that ley could make more money if ley had a local processing industry, he Department of Agriculture oked into three possibilities—a Diling-down works, a cannery, and freezing works. The first two ossibilities, though calling for less ipital—perhaps £2o,ooo—were rented for a variety of reasons mounting to the hard fact that ley could not produce at cometitive prices.

No Capital The freezing works is estimated d cost £320,000 to establish, this ost including staff housing, some oading, and other associated presets. The annual operating cost s estimated at £90,000. Possible ites were considered at the settlement of Waitangi where there is a srharf, at Owenga where there is a Ish freezing industry, and at Port lutt where the best harbour exists or deepwater vessels.

The Department finds that no nainland freezing company is nterested in such a project, and it s evident that the Chathams armers cannot raise the necessary capital without assistance. The government is now expected to consider whether any financial aid should be provided from public funds for such a project. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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This forked coconut palm is on Medina Plantation, about 50 miles from Kavieng on the side of the Kavieng-Namatanai Road.

Assistant District Officer John Hayes was driving me down to the coast to a sing-sing at Kama village, to celebrate the opening of a new Methodist church, when he told me about it.

He stopped his Land-Rover long enough for me to take this photograph. Can any other plantation boast a forked palm like this one? LEW FRIDAY Anthropologists Honour a Famous Teacher A Look At Some Racial Problems By the time he was eight years old Henry Devenish Skinner had become an enthusiastic collector of Maori relics HE spent many hours surfacehunting wind-swept sites within walking distance of his home town New Plymouth in the North Eh nf New Zealand.

Young Harry’s enthusiasm was encouraged by his father, W. H.

Skinner who born in the New Plymouth settlement in 1857, grew up during the momentous years of the Maori wars, and as a young surveyor in the Lands Department saw and heard much of Maori life in his explorations of the virgin bushland and wild mountains and river country of the Taranaki coast, When he was 10, the boy was given a pony so that he was able to range further afield to gather what has been described as an array of treasures that thrilled and set the course of one of the greatest collectors New Zealand has known.

The boy’s hobby soon led him to the study of prehistory and anthropology, but in those days of 50 years ago this could hardly be the subject for a career. (It was not until 1900 that Cambridge appointed its first lecturer in this “new” subject—the famous A. C. Haddon, at £5O a year—and the only other British Empire universities teaching anthropology were Oxford and London.) Tn DpaH law 10 , So it was decided Harry should read law, and he enrolled at Victona University College, Welling l n ji- ' „ 70C fr .

Yet this man was to be come the first teacher of anthr pology in the Soirthern Hen^spher e a d * of Polynesian ethnologists There were two main reasons, for this. made into Maori prehistory during \ne in ng a wbpri oifinsf? U "sites richer C had Lv f fniit mv first A fraptured P moa Trcrniftp bones, sind tne argillite girnieLS scrapers from Grevllle Harbour were perhaps the most notable finds I ever made.” The call could not be resisted, and as the first step towards his goal Skinner transferred his university studies from law to arts.

The second main reason for the goal’s achievement was World War I. Skinner volunteered as a private in the Otago Infantry, only to be badly wounded at Gallipoli, where he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, It was during his convalescence in England that Skinner was able to continue his anthropological studies, His work at Christ’s College, Cambridge, led to his appointment as Lecturer in Ethnology at Otago University in 1919—the first such appointment in New Zealand, or anywhere else south of the equator.

Lona Associations a .... - Q _ Thus we read of the birth of an anthropologist in a biographical introduction to Anthropology in the South Seas, a collection of essays presented to Dr. H. D. Skinner on his retirement to honour his contribution to anthropology in New Zealand. The book is edited by Dr.

J. D. Freeman, of the Australian National and Professor W. R. Geddes, of the University of Sydney.

The essays deal with a wide variety of subjects and the fact that a p contributors have been associated in some way with Dr. Skinner is a tribute to his achievements in fields ranging from archaeology to modern social anthropology, For instance> Catherine Berndt ( no ted for her work among the Aborigines) commences her Ascrip- 0f Meaning in a Ceremonial context, in the Eastern Central Highlands of New Guinea; “Some years a S° as a student of Dr. Skinner Tinripdin T was introduced en— the stSdv of art rnotifs in Oceania and Eouth-East . ■ „ while W R Geddes in his F^ian Social Structure in a Period of Transition says: “I have written this essay about Fiji because [t WaS the first area in which 1 at " tempted an anthropological field study and I did so because of the Hirppt pnr n n r p* pmp n t of Dr e ncouragement o u .

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Fiji Situation . a population of 361,038 (in ) there were 153,356 native ms and 177,247 Indians. The ins own 90 per cent, of the land, rights of which are vested in r patrilineal clans. Much of r social activity is organised a kinship lines, but there have i pressures for abandoning the itional structures on the grounds i it is hampering the economic incement of the Fijians, i fact, this change is already irring with the spread of the iey economy, changes in political religious life and a movement y from kinship to local units. ; weakening of descent groups is ady producing a decline in monial activity, a basic factor laintaining an integrated society, this, Geddes writes: “Ceremonial he flower of Fijian culture, a er which blooms finely even on >or economic soil. Richer villages r not necessarily be happier tges if the economic gain is lined by undermining the basis lesthetic, dramatic and recreaal activity of the community.” et the land tenure issue is the t critical problem in the present an situation. If community enirises built on the traditional em of co-operative work are not jessful, the development of indual enterprise may be ineviti—with revolutionary changes he social structure resulting, orresponding social problems in r Zealand are discussed by John th (A Modern Maori Comnlity) and W. D. Borrie (The m Population: A Microcosm of r ew World ). These demonstrate t acceptance of private owner- ) of land and a movement away n rural activities are inevitable Maoris, who are rapidly increasin numbers.

Population Trend he Maori population (down to 00 in 1896) shot up from 63,700 1926 to 137,200 in 1956. Since ), their birth rate has averaged ut 45 per 1,000 of population, ch, according to Borrie, is “a h figure by any known world idard, and over 75 per cent, ve the non-Maori birth rate in v Zealand”. ut even more significant has n the spectacular decline in the ori death rate, from more than ieaths per 1,000 of population in 1 to 9.4 per 1,000 in 1956, corned with the non-Maori rate of What does this microcosmic analysis in New Zealand mean for the rest of the world? Certainly that the white proportion of the world population will rapidly decline if applied science and public health can keep pulling down death rates in Asia and other undeveloped l an d S For New Zealand this trend poses a stern problem. Already as more Maoris move to the towns, particularly Auckland, where it is estimated they will comprise a sixth of the population by 1972, there is a growing consciousness of a racial problem. „ . . .

Though the New Zealanders have prided themselves on their treatment of the Maoris, the two groups have in effect been segregated. Can this last or can the Maoris be assimilated into the white community?

These essays thus raise weighty matters which were hardly thought 51

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Lockerbie’s From Moa-Hunter to Classic Maori in Southern New Zealand—would be nearer to his heart.

These well illustrated pieces are highly technical and original works □f particular value for the collector, whether amateur or professional.

At first glance it might appear that these papers dominate the volume, making it one mainly for anthropologists. But closer study soon shows there is ample stimulaing information for laymen, particularly those in contact with primitive societies.

Certainly J. D. Freeman’s essay on The Joe Gimlet or Siovili Cult in the Samoan Islands about the 11830’s would be entertaining for most readers.

This illustrates that the “Cargo” cults of contemporary Melanesia had their precedents in earlier Pacific history, with the natives even then “reaching out after the longedfor marvels and advantages of the white man’s world”.

Joe Gimlet Cult Siovili (translated Joe Gimlet) had an estimated five or six thousand followers . . . whose faith was not destroyed even when one of his female spirit mediums, predicting the millenium was at hand, persuaded the Samoans to destroy the bananas, pluck out the taro plants and kill the pigs, for an abundance of food would be sent from heaven.

When after days of waiting, nothing happened, she declared: “Jesus Christ is offended with this rabble who have come to look and laugh... he will come some other day when it pleases him.”

As for Joe Gimlet, he continued in authority, supported by his sacred book —which turned out to be an early volume of The Rambler!

Shades of Dr. Johnson. . . .

This is a lighter but still instructive side to a volume which makes an important contribution to the study of South Seas society, past and present. The editors have shown effectively, I think, by the arrangement of the essays, that prehistory is far from being an end in ;itself.

I Dr. Skinner may have started as a collector, but his work did much to stimulate awareness of the importance of race relationships and social change in the Pacific.

These are problems we face today. The essays don’t provide the answers. But knowledge must be [the basis of understanding, which alone can find the way to a solution.—Ronald Plater.

Now The Shark Is On The Wing The 'possibility of an export business in shark meat from certain Islands areas was further emphasised in January, when an Auckland firm instituted air-freight shipments of quick-frozen sharks to Sydney.

IN a December PIM story (p. 47), it was suggested that the Sydney public would not eat shark if they knew it was shark.

That could well be—but they have been eating and enjoying very large quantities of “flake” and “lemon fish” for years—and those items are 100 per cent, pure shark.

What is more, the public are evidently paying plenty for it, if it can be profitably caught, quick frozen, and air-freighted across the Tasman.

The sharks concerned average 20 lb in weight after gutting, and are only a very small cousin of the man-eating variety. They are known as school sharks.

The snag in the trade is that Australia has limitations on imports of fish from overseas sources.

These may not apply to New Guinea, and there may still be quotas for places like Fiji, from where refrigerated shipping connection exists as well as air connection at higher freight rates. 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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No, no, those headings weren’t .applied by the “PIM” editors— rhey are the headings for a story \bout Madame Ingeborg de Beausacq n a recent issue of the American Magazine “Parade”. Illustrating the article is a studio photograph of %e attractive Madame perched delicately on a New Guinea ceremonial post, and surrounded by lew Guinea masks, faces and carvings enough to stock a museum.

"hey were all won by her in New vluinea, where she recently made er presence felt along the Sepik.

"‘he last that “PIM” heard of 'Aadame de Beausacq was a few nonths ago when she was headed i or Pakistan to organise the proluction of women’s fashions for the Jnited States —a job, we gathered, ohich was likely to keep her away rom the Sepik for some time.

Here is what “Parade” had to ay about Madame de Beausacq’s \inancial adventures in cannibal and: rHE sleek, dimpled blonde in the lacy cocktail dress hardly looks like what she is: a real life ‘Queen of the Jungle”, who operates in exotic and highly adventuresome msiness.

As a dealer in primitive art ibjects, Ingeborg de Beausacq hacks .hrough the steaming bush of Topical New Guinea in search of mcestor statues, house posts, masks, jowls, and figurines for sale to American museums and collectors.

Some of her best sources of supply ire partly reformed head-hunters.

Ingeborg, however, feels that lead-hunters have been much naligned. In fact, her belief that lead-hunters are nice, friendly people in need of help started her n business.

As a New York fashion photographer, she got tired of the whirl jne day in 1957 and set off for New Guinea and adventure. Her life among the cannibals later was reported in Parade (June 22, 1958).

The Big Idea Ingeborg found less adventure than she bargained for, cannibalism was on the wane since Australian authorities severely frowned on it. The head-hunters had been reduced to hunting crocodiles or raising peanuts for a meagre living.

That gave Ingeborg an idea.

American decorators, she knew, were gobbling up traditional primitive art of the kind New Guinea’s hardpressed cannibals specialised in.

Why not commission them to turn out carvings for the American decorator trade, and help them to a better standard of living?

Ingeborg went back to New Guinea in 1959 with her idea. The natives were delighted at the chance to work for 75 cents a day and a free loincloth. They were so helpful, in fact, that they almost torpedoed the whole project “They imitated everything they had ever seen in an American magazine,” Ingeborg recalls, “trays and pots and walking sticks, mostly.

It was awful junk.” . i _ i Her first task was to straighten out the assembly line. Once it was functioning smoothly, Ingeborg spent her time tracking down old carvings. Negotiations to buy were elaborate. A . „ “First you have to be greeted, she says. “Then you’re conducted to the guest house. Then you have a drink of coconut juice. After some polite talk about the weather and the children, you get around to business.”

"Price Conference"

One bit of business negotiated by Ingeborg involved two 12-foot ceremonial posts. Considered the prize of her collection, they were about 50 years old, represented the work of 12 families.

She had to find the heirs of each family, get everyone’s permission to buy, hold a price conference —and then figure a way to get the posts out.

Made of ironwood, which is so heavy it won’t float, the posts required a 14-man carrying force for the trip out of the jungle.

Then lashed to Ingeborg’s powerdriven houseboat, they were hauled down the Sepik River to the nearest port.

Finally, along with 400 other carvings, the posts reached New York. Ingeborg, after seven months in slacks and mosquito net, came back with them.

But now in cocktail dress and high heels, she’s eager to return to the jungle. Her pals, the cannibals, diverted from carving people to carving ironwood, are still working furiously for the Yankee dollar.

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Sydnegsider Goes Walkabout London Traffic Is Out Of Hand LONDON- Probably if all visiting colonials were instructed before arrival to treat England, and particularly London, like a foreign country, and not just an extension of home a lot ot heartburning would be saved on both sides. The paths of the bloke from the outer dominions and the home-grown Englishman have diverged a long way in the last 175 years, and any similarity between the way of life in Australia, for example, and in the UK is now largely co-incidental.

THERE are far too many people in this country to be able to live comfortably with the current wave of prosperity. It is frustrating for the visitor who doesn’t know the rules to have to compete with 10,000,000 Londoners for a 10 bob seat in a movie; a 23 bob seat at a play; for a midday sandwich and a cup of tea; or a fourpenny bus ride.

The solution is the thrice-cursed queue, which the Englishman, and particularly the Englishwoman, still forms at the drop of a hat.

You have to learn new eating laws, and (particularly) new drinking laws; new shopping hours that change from district to district and almost from street to street. New working hours and new sleeping hours—it’s useless expecting the average Englishman to function properly before 10 a.m.; he has hardly got the sleep out of his eyes by then.

Slap Right Back at the Shophands But that’s all in the material plane, just Junior League stuff. It’s when you get to human contacts that you get into the post-graduate class. Spoiled by a decade of booming tourism, the London shopassistant, the clerk, the minor official have all developed a quick brushoff tactic that’s a world beater. In three seconds flat, you can be made to feel as unwelcome as a piece of very dead fish; organised into a queue 300 yards long; pushed up the wrong dead-end lane; told you can’t do that here, madam; or we never stock that, madam. The only defence is to slap right back, and you are frequently “in”, and then these new lords of creation sometimes become quite human.

On the other side of the ledger, the English can’t place our accent and consequently can’t pigeon-hole us. This puts them at a disadvantage and they retire behind what’s called English reserve, but which can also sound like plain damn rudeness, until you get used to it.

They also hate our attempts to cut across the thousands of self-disciplinary rules they have built up to enable 11 million of them to live in this city called London, and a further 40 million odd to live in this small island.

Guide-books about London, and England, all about historic sights and monuments, are endless. But there is a crying need for something along the lines of How to Live with the English, Without an Apoplexy.

The Changes of Four Years When at the limit of exasperation, it is good to remember that it is the first few weeks that are the worst. After that you get almost to like the place. Here are a few of the obvious changes since I was last here about four years ago: TRAFFIC: On that occasion I believed that it was less nerve destroying to drive a car in London (and England) than in Sydney; that drivers were more courteous; parking easier. None of that is true any more. There probably is a statistic to show how much the car population has increased but what it is I know not. It’s obvious, however, that if it goes on at the present rate, it won’t take four more years to bring everything to a dead stop.

What are they going to do about it, if anything? Not even the blitz loosened things up! Wherever there was a bomb site four years ago, now there is a building. Town planning and rights of land ownership don’t go together.

London’s maze of dead-ends, Among the Islanders "Sydneysider" met in London ... Ted Fulton, of Mukurapau Plantation, Kokopo, as seen by Brett Hilder.

London has discovered the hamburger. "Wimpy Bars like this one are now opening at the rate of one a week in England to meet the demand. The chain that runs these is also planning to open Polynesian Houses. 57 IPACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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IThe London driver’s reaction to lything that displeases him—and sat ranges from anything but inuntaneous jet take-off when the ■;ht turns amber, to everything tat looks like obstructing his proicss—is to lean on the horn button hurl abuse from the driving seat. ’The parking problem seems unxely to be solved until they invent •llapsible cars that can be carried tside like a brief case; and the nee sacrosanct zebra pedestrianicssings are so no longer, or only you insist. Take your life in your imds and plunge out onto one, and te traffic will come to a screeching nit. Hesitate in the gutter and the ime of chicken is on with victory i the bloke in the vehicle.

COSTS: With the possible excepon of clothing, and then it is cheap ily if you shop away out in outer irkness at Tooting Bee or Edgware oad, everything is dearer than in ustralia though wages are lower, ixes higher. Fruit, meat, vegetables :e in the luxury bracket, although, 5 usual, everything is available if DU pay enough for it. Peaches, pricots, and plums are selling here i January—probably from North frica; black grapes from some ontinental hot-house. Chrysanthemms as big as a Pekinese dog, ilips and daffodils, hyacinths in ots are all available at astroomical prices. But it is in the small jrvices where the jolt comes most; loe repairing, dry cleaning, hairressing and similar services are 3 per cent, higher than at home.

One price exception is TV sets; le local popular 17 in. size sells rom about 50 guineas, half the rice of similar Australian models.

But the programmes are just as unk as those below the Line: Westerns, corny variety, and newsasts that look as though they have een photographed through seven lyers of gauze round about dawn). tetter Cooking, brighter Pubs The standard of cooking seems nproved, although the growing and ating of brussels-sprouts, is still, egrettably, a national pastime. The übs, country, town and suburban, lave got even brighter; most of hem have had new face lifts, new iecor. The beer is still warm and reak like water, but the hospitality 3 always there, the sandwiches are Lne.

These pubs stand out like beacons n contrast to the tatty, dirty uninspired village tea shop that is the onlv alternative in the light refreshment field. For comfort, civilised form of drinking they stnnd out also in contrast to the seething mob of grog swillers that characterise the hotefs of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

There are two places in England where you can get quiet, no queues, elbow room and some peace: One’s in church, the other’s a pub.

SURPRISE: One result of prosperitv and progress is the almost universal adoption of central heating, not only in large blocks of flats, stores, pubs, hotels and public buildings, but in private homes This has come over the UK in the last few years almost to the same degree that f ir - c ° ndlt f lo^ id^ as TT ?A t th tourist spots of Florida, USA.

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IBut there are signs of winter, ne look at the sun per week is rerage. The light comes between 8 jid 9 a.m., by 3 p.m. it is twilight, ,irk at four. _ 'The sky is grey and dri P s dnzzl !; ito muddy pavements and the iist flows up the river and around ue bar^ B branches of the trees in :ie parks. It sounds melancholy, ut it has its own peculiar beauty ad charm. In small doses.

Another sign of .winter isthat .r Winston Churchill has flown to jie Mediterranean.

Dme Other Islanders m Walkabout According to the proverb, you ave only to stand long enough on nv street corner in London ana Feryone in the world will go by. hat’s as maybe, but according to nore reliable statistics there are imething like 60,000 Australians ving in the UK (most of them in London) at any given minute.

There are a fair sprinkling of slanders amongst them, too Ithough probably not so many at iiis time of the year. Amonerst the ew, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Fulton, of lukurapau Plantation, Ko ko po, Jew Guinea, turned up during the irst we?k in January, with their hree young daughters, Mary, Ehza- .eth and Catherine. It is a snap loliday to take in the girls’ school lolidays, and combining a bit ot jlantation business for Mukurapau.

In the late 30’s, when we were >oth younger, Ted and I, with nembers of my family, were lartners in a gold-mining lease on he Ulahau, in the mountains be- ;ween But and Maprik, NG. I renember one occasion when we were somehow by ourselves on the lease [ was recovering from a bout of nalaria and he was in the middle an attack of gastric fever. We were sour with the world and wflh each other, but to cheer ourselves up we sat and planned that, if the lease turned out alright, we would put the money into a plantation — not because plantations were then considered lucrative—they weren’t— but because it sounded a "n ee life” in comparison with the one we were leading.

Much water flowed under the bridge and Ted. at least, achieved his plantation. As well as organised family reunions periodically ever since, we have occasionally run into each other unexpectedly in unscheduled places.

In those old Ulahau days, when we had prospects and little else, when we lived on a steady diet of canned meat and taro; and life was a succession of fever and ram and mildew; damp-bedsails and boysblankets under a tent fly when out prosp cting, and the same furnishings under a sac-sac roof when in camp; we didn’t think ahead to a day when we should dine en famille at the Dorchester, Park Lane. I, for one, had never heard of the place then.

Perambulating Girls There Are Aplenty But back to these perambulating Australians; A large proportion of the 60,000 semi-permanents are young girls in their early twenties who come over here in droves in every ship. .

With nothing much behind them but a return fare, they settle in for a working holiday of usually two years that takes in just about everything from North Cape to Gibraltar.

Thr.e typical examples whom we have been seeing in the last weeks are Dora Ragg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Ragg, of Fiji and Sydney, who is dug in for the time being doing research for the next edition of Chamber’s Encyclopaedia.

Beatrice Hilder , daughter of Captain Brett Hilder, of Burns Philp Line ships, and Mrs. Hilder.

Beatrice is currently having a b9Ut of hospital, which she is treating like these youngsters treat all temporary impediments to their planned route of progress, but before that was designing for a Susan Small subsidiary.

And Robin Ritchie, daughter of a Pacific Publications director, who is 5 ft 2 in., 23, and with a pal has ridden her motor scooter all over Europe from Norway to Spain and back again. She is a trained nurse, but when out of funds, washes dishes if necessary—an occupation that cuts across any language barrier. .

She had dinner with us, at Simpson’s, in the Strand—a poised, wellgroomed young woman. After it, she unparked her scooter from a side street, broke out a crashhelmet and a pair of fleecy-lined boots from a carry-all, said her good-nights and rode off and away into the swirling fog of a London winter night. , . . „ Some of these days, no doubt, all of these youngsters will go back home and marry Australians who most likely will try to convince them that a woman’s place is in the home.

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[?]e Last Of The Wanderer In Search Of Uncle Ben If r. Alan Lennox-Boyd, former \tish Secretary of State for the Monies, is currently visiting the nth Pacific where he hopes among er things to find some evidence the fate of his great uncle njamin Boyd (see Editors Mail- -7) The search has created quite ioi of interest in Australian and w Zealand newspapers. ,/M from time to time has pub lished reports on the colourful Scot, Boyd, who in 1842 sailed Australia in his sch o o ne_r under er, and who was in 1851 led by natives on Guadalcanal.

Dne of the contributors to PlM’s ies of stories was Mr. Norman Wallis iPIM, April, 1958), who an article in The Sydney Morning raid in January during the emit discussion started by Mr. nnox-Boyd’s trip, brought the inflation on Boyd up to date. [n his Herald article Mr. Wallis ints out that after seven enter- Lsing, dramatic and disastrous ars in Australia, during which dissipated about £500,000 enisted to him by British investors, >yd sailed for the Californian Idfields hoping there to recoup e fortune. But after a little more le “Wanderer”, passing Hawaii by oonlight—a painting by John ebster, which is now the property Mrs. E. St. Julian, of Suva, Webster’s grand-daughter. than a year this was unsuccessful, and Boyd sailed from California to the Pacific Islands, with some vague idea of forming a Polynesian Republic. , , , At what was later named Wanderer’s Bay, Guadalcanal, Boyd, hunting ashore with a native servant named Kapertania, was attacked. Neither was seen again, though the native’s head was alleged to have been recovered later.

Mr. Wallis says there are still historical errors and misconceptions in existence about the life and death and Boyd.

Forty-six years after Boyd’s death, John Webster, sailing master of the Wanderer, was still complaining of the spate of inaccuracies which persisted in stories of the Wanderer’s Bay episode.

Mr. Wallis adds that in 1959 he saw the extensive collection of Boydiana which Mr. Lennox-Boyd has established in his home in Belgrave Square in London.

These include historical documents, personal belongings of Ben Boyd, a scale model of the Wanderer and paintings of the famous schooner by Oswald Brierly, the marine artist who accompanied Boyd to Sydney.

Rare Book Mr. Wallis gave Mr. Boyd one of the seven extant copies of John Webster’s The Last Voyage of the Wanderer and photostat copies of five letters written by Webster, George Crawford (mate) and William Ottiwell (master) of the Wanderer— the originals of which were presented to the Sydney Mitchell Library by Mr. Wallis in 1958.

The letters were discovered in the pages of one of the volumes, unearthed in the ’Thirties. Webster’s letter, to a friend, described the attack by the natives on the Wanderer, the hand to hand fight on board; and the subsequent bombardment and firing of the villages.

Later in The Sydney Morning Herald, Alexandra Wilkinson, of Wahroonga, Sydney, wrote to say she had almost completed a biography of Benjamin Boyd. She also made one or two corrections of Mr. Wallis’ material— although not on any of the facts that are reported here.

Photos: Rob Wright, Fiji PRO Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd (right) greeted by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks on his arrival by air in Suva during his current Pacific tour. In the background are Lady Maddocks and Lady Patrica Boyd. 63

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Fiji's Banana Problem Some "Are Just Pig Fe ed"

Prom J. P. Shortall. in Auckland The question of whether the iiji banana was being pushed lough on the New Zealand narket was the subject of a ood deal of comment during ne January second reading of lie new Banana Export and larketing Bill in the Fiji Legisitive Council. )UT of it all, it was made clear that the Fiji Government had been making constant effort to iduce an increase in New Zealand nports, that the present restricons were part of a general tightenig of overseas currency allocaions by New Zealand, not just irected towards Fiji or bananas, nd that New Zealand could in any ase obtain all the good quality ananas that were required withut resorting to any acceptance of scond grade fruit from Fiji.

The debate was sharpened somewhat by advice from New Zealand bat only 10,000 cases would be ccepted in a certain January shiplent, whereas 17,000 cases of what 'iji classes “first grade” were ctually available for shipment.

It is a great pity that those who alk of forcing New Zealand to accept acre Fiji bananas, even “second rade” bananas, could not make an ecasional circuit of the Auckland ruit retailers to study the facts' of ife.

They would then see that there s rarely, if ever, a “first grade” >anana on sale in New Zealand, ind there are usually ample sup- )lies of very second and third ;rade bananas.

To anyone familiar with the conlition of the fruit as it is offered ,o the public it is difficult indeed to jelieve—as was suggested by one ipeaker—that a lot of New Zealand consumers would be prepared to iccept an even lower grade than ;hat already offered.

No Comparison The average Fiji banana —as it appears in the Auckland retailer’s store —bears no comparison with the average Tongan banana, which is usually half as large again, well filled, and altogether a superior item —though still decidedly second (Continued on page 67) When Britain Rejected Fiji This historical document, of topical interest in view of the growing troubles of Fiji, has recently been brought to light at Levuka by the great-grandson of Tui Levuka, to whom it was addressed in 1862.

STTT7’Tr , ‘R AI nfhpr rnnips were nre- EVERAL other copies were pre sented to Fijian Chiefs at the same time but this copy IS the only one known to be in existence.

The document contains a message from Sir John Young, Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, on instructions from Whitehall, informine the Fijian Chiefs that Queen •WiM-nria haH HpHinpH to add the Fiji Victoria had[ decimea toaaa [inerw Islands to her dominions. The docu ment was presented m 1862.

Twelve years later, after a water had gone under the bridge, Cakobau eventually managed to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria. , . - ~ m .j c .

The text Of the message reads. „ „ ~ „ f Message from His Excellency the Bight Honourable Sir John Young, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St.

Michael and St. George. Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales, and Vice Admiral of the Same.

The Governor of New South Wales, sends to Tui Levuka—and the assembled Chiefs of the Fiji Islands, Greeting and the expression of his good wishes.

He has been Instructed by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Her Britannic Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to inform the assembled Chiefs, that Her Majesty’s Ministers have done Him the honour to select Him as the medium of communication on this interesting occasion. He has it in command to state, that the offer to cede to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Sovereignly J th / pljlan Terri t o ries on certain conditions was duly submitted to Her Majesty, who was graciously pleased to receive the same and remit it to Her Ministers for their consideration and advice.

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On the receipt of Colonel Smythe’s report and on a care f U i review of ail the Circumstances, it appeared to Her Majesty’s Ministers very uncertain whether the welfare of the Fijians would not be better consulted by leaving their civilisation to be effected by the causes and agencies already in operation, than by a direct, & nd authoritative British interference.

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'ade as compared with bananas Tered in Europe, for example.

There may be the best of reasons hy this is so— but none of those ;asons will bear the slightest eight with the New Zealand banana msumers if they have any say in le matter.

They don’t have much say, and tost of them never bother to see here the fruit originated, but those rat do would turn thumbs down n any further lowering of Fiji ;andards, and suggest that Fiji larn a little from Tonga and peraps from Samoa, although a great eal of low grade fruit also comes i from there.

A Challenge Should anyone doubt that the ituation is as bad as painted here, I M’s Auckland correspondent ffers to identify a cross-section of dippers and case-numbers where me case contents “can be classed nly as good average pig feed”, depite the costly inspection systems rhich the fruit passes through prior 3 export.

If the market for dried bananas i the United States is anything ke as promising as it has been ainted by one recent investigator rom Fiji, one can only wonder why tie Fiji Government is not working II out to divert to that form of xport in which much lower grade ruit can be successfully used. Yet he possibilities of drying bananas eceived only the barest mention by ne speaker during the debate. The Government has not at any Lme refuted recent published statements concerning American dried ianana market possibilities.

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This lofty tribute is more peculiarly aching to the Government and people whom it has been directly and mediately addressed.

While therefore their offer to become ;s subjects of the British Crown is .jpectfully, and on a grave consideration public policy, declined, the Chiefs and tuple of the Fiji Islands may rest isured that their longings after peace and :od order are viewed in England with =e liveliest sympathy, and of the . . thousands invoke the blessing of evidence of their moral and intellectual rvancement.

'The part of the document which mtained the signature is mostly iissing. But it was presumably gned by Captain Jenkins, of HMS iranda, which arrived at Levuka ii July 7, 1862, from Port Jackson, irrying the copies of the message, was read to the assembled Chiefs uoard the Miranda by Mr. Pritchard, te British Consul at Levuka.

Rossel Waters Were Tabu The Rev H. K. Bartlett, now State Secretary of Methodist Overseas Missions in South Australia, spent 14 years in South East Papua as a missionary and as such was interested in Mr Hugh Osbornes account of Rossel Island in August “PIM” —particularly as that acccmn. referred to the murder of a European diver who had been exploring Yongga Bay for shell.

HE says that the murder doesn’t surprise him, as these waters were highly tabu and would not be much doubt about the fate of a foreigner who broke the rules” half a century ago.

The tabu stemmed from the two types of local shell money—Ndap and Nko—which are supposed to have been in existence “since the gods first discovered the island”.

There were 22 main values of Ndap, Mr. Bartlett says; these were roughly triangular. Variation in colour indicated value. Nko was a shell disc perforated and strung on a piece of creeper. The intricate monetary system of these people has been described by W. E. Armstrong in his book, Rossel Island, which was published in 1928.

Mr. Bartlett continues.

“Some of the Islanders claim that the god Wonajo, who sailed in a wooden dish from Sudest to Rossel, found a bivalve in Yongga Bay. He used one valve to fashion Ndap and from the other he made Nko. Yongga Bay then became a powerful Yaba — an extremely tabu spot. Others contend that Ndap came from Yongga and that Nko was fashioned from Wolunga Bay shell. Potent Yaba is found there, also.

“All agree that the “coins” are very old, and that the shells from which they are made are not found on Rossel today. I was shown a single worm-eaten valve of an unidentified giant spondylus which the owner (not a Rossel man) stated was Nko. Being a keen shell collector, as well as an amateur anthropologist, I tried to secure some specimens from Yongga Bay. Nothing that I could offer would induce the local people to dive there. One no-one Bay and Uye Even if by acc ident, a an fell from a C anoe he could not escape the penalty, “j s this the explanation of the murder of that intrepid European diver in the early days of the century?

Chinese Relics?

“i have visited Rossel many times. often Ernest (Dick) Whitehouse — senior European Medical Assistant —travelled with me. After a visit to an inland village, Whitehouse told me that he had noticed some Chinese characteristics in the buildings which, he said, showed a distinct departure from the traditional Rossel Island design. He was intrigued with the remains of some huge earthworks, which appeared to have been formed for purposes of defence. These were situated beside the track on a high ridge between Dyindyo village and Abaleti, Harry Osborne’s home. I was never able to inspect the site which might provide some interesting evidence of the fate of some of the St. Pauls crew.

“I recall seeing numerous old coins (European, not shell) that had been found on the island. The Rev. Ern.

Clarke, Methodist Missionary to Rossel in 1928, had a silver dollar (Spanish or Mexican) stamped with Chinese characters. The late Jack Hides gathered some ancient Spanish dubloons found at Dyindyo, and from the same village I had a sovereign of 1843 in almost mint condition. The finder claimed that he had got it in the soil clinging to a taro root.”

A wartime relic is this torpedo, photographed by Mr. Hugh Osborne on the reef at Rossel Island. There is also the wreck of a Japanese ship the "Inaha Maru" and a US submarine, together with other odds and ends of the war. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1960 Banana Problem (Continued from page 65)

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P-Ng'S Most Acute Education Problem

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This is the third and final article dealing hi education in Papua-New Guinea extracted + ho niroMor nf P-NG Education, Mr. G. T. Koscoe, zo irus r P^ o lSorfsb 0 y UP T°L th together Mh'the continues: k VEXED question is the place \ the vernacular should have in Universal Primary Education.

I recently have read a report on ne use of English as the medium : instruction in schools in Ghana, s you are no doubt aware, the overnment of Ghana has given a remptory instructions that there to be Universal Primary Educaon and Universal Literacy in Engsh throughout their country. The ifficulties in the way are very like lose we are grappling with. Four ighly qualified educationists were sked to advise the Government— (a) Whether the use of English as a medium of instruction throughout the primary stage is feasible, intrinsically sound and educationally desirable. (b) If so, what procedure to this end should be adopted, and from what date should any changes be made?

I have studied with grim amuselent the map that accompanies the sport, showing the distribution of ative languages in Ghana. They ave six principal vernaculars; we ave over 500.

Three of the members of the ommittee gave us their opinion aat it was not advisable to teach i the vernacular from the start. liey recommended: — “At the beginning of the primary ourse, instruction will be given hrough the medium of the local ernacular with English taught as a ,ew language.

“As soon as possible there will be . transition from the vernacular to ’nghsh as a medium of instruction nd the upper classes will receive all nstruction through the medium of :nglish, except that throughout the ohole course the vernacular will reeive special study.”

The fourth member of the comaittee, Mr, J. T. N. Yankah, dis- .ssociated himself entirely from his recommendation.

He recommends that the “Governaent must order the teachings of he diverse vernacular languages md their use as a medium of induction to be stopped in all Statedded primary and middle schools md training colleges from the beginning of 1959. Religious instruction in the vernacular in the lower primary may be allowed. All training colleges and the primary and middle schools should start intensive teaching of English and its use as a medium of instruction from the beginning of 1957”.

Use of English The plan recommended by the majority of the committee is very close to what is actually being done in mission schools in this Territory.

The Administration no longer pays grants-in-aid for purely vernacular education; but it does pay grantsin-aid to mission schools in which the vernacular is used as an introduction to English.

The Department has compiled a very simple course in oral English suitable for use by a native teacher whose own knowledge of English is limited.

In areas of minimum contact a school which is being taught in the local vernacular, but in which the “LM Oral English Course” is being used, is regarded as fulfilling the requirements for recognition.

The use of the vernacular as a medium of instruction is permitted up to and including Standard 11, by which time the children should be beginning to read and write English, as well as speak it.

The syllabus prescribes that English should begin to be used as a medium of instruction in Standard 111, and that by the time children reached Standard VI they should have a reasonably good command of the language.

In point of fact, these expectations are not realised in native dayschools. Children listen to English in school, and read and write it to a limited extent; but immediately they are released they revert to the vernacular. It is only in boarding schools, where it is possible to encourage the continual use of English in and out of school, that they really become fluent.

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"The whole atmosphere of a board- :g-school is European. The furmire and utensils are called by uropean names, and the school rutine conforms to European conations. It is just as natural to ►teak English in such surroundings i it is to speak the vernacular in mr father’s hut.

'The plan recommended by the issenting member of the Ghana unmittee, English from the very eginning, is largely followed in dministration schools. No provision made in the syllabus for teaching nildren to read and write in the urnacular in such schools. They art on oral English straight away id, as soon as possible, are taught « read and write in the language.

It least that is the intention, but ii practice some use is made of the srnacular for purposes of explanaon in the lower standards.

The Place of Pidgin The use of Pidgin is not offici- Qy encouraged, but it is found imossible to dispense with it for puroses of explanation. This is parcularly the case in areas of limited uropean contact.

I am quite convinced now that in rbanised areas the Primary (T) 3hool can quickly bring the chilren to the point where English an be employed as the medium of istruction. The children are livig in an environment where they ave many opportunities out of chool hours to hear English spoken, 'here are many situations in which ; is very much to their advantage o speak English.

The situation is quite different in be Western Highlands. For purposes f communication with Native affairs officers and with other native icople who do not share their ernacular, Pidgin is actually more iseful than English. In the Western lighlands at present we are teaching children to be literate in Pidgin >efore they go on to literacy in English. This is not found to be a landicap in the Western Highlands.

Stern Measures With Missions I am learning slowly over the rears that it is not possible to dense one pattern of teaching method hat is equally suitable in all parts if this Territory. In my own think ng I classify education areas under ’our heads:— (i) Areas of minimum contact. (ii) Areas of limited contact. (hi) Areas of frequent contact, (iv) Urbanised areas.

In each of these categories there nust be a somewhat different at- ;itude towards the use of vernaculars Dr lingua francas and certain differences in our teaching methods.

Certain missions insist on being allowed to promote literacy in the vernacular because they believe that religious and moral teaching is relatively ineffective in a foreign tongue. Thev claim that the mother tongue brings religious and moral ideas home to the people with convincing force. The Department does not raise an objection to this provided it is not an obstacle to the of English.

An objection is raised, however, to the use in mission schools, as media of instruction, of vernaculars which are not local and are in many cases almost as foreign to the people as a European language would be.

Certain missions have acquired a vested interest in particular languages because their books are printed in that language, and their teachers trained in it. In a new area, instead of adopting the local vernacular, they seek to impose the imported language on the people.

This practice is strongly opposed by the Department; and, indeed, the Minister has authorised the closing during the year 1960 of mission schools in which the foreign vernaculars are used as media of instruction.

It is interesting to note that they have these troubles in Ghana. The investigating committee visited a school where the language in 1 and 2 was Twi, in 3 was Ga, in 4 was Fante, and in 5 and 6 was Ga. The reasons given were that Mr. X, the teacher of Class 3, cannot speak Twi, so he teaches in Ga, while 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Three Main Difficulties The difficulties with which we are aced in the development of universal jducation in this Territory are of ;hree kinds.

The first are technical problems, nostly concerned with teaching nethod. We have to find out the aiost effective approach to English in different places, sound methods Df teaching arithmetic to children In whose culture number plays an insignificant part, ways of illustrating social studies lessons to children who have met few Europeans and have never seen the sea.

These problems are difficult, but we can cope with them.

The second type of difficulty is connected with lack of resources in staff, buildings, transport and material. The problem of staff recruitment is not one that concerns the Department alone. All departments find it difficult to obtain qualified recruits from Australia.

Our main trouble at the present time is that very few male teachers in Australia are applying for appointment to the Territory service. We can actually recruit young women to the limit of the quota allowed in the Estimates, but what we need most of all are single young men who are qualified teachers and have the spirit of pioneers. I do not know whether such young men are in short supply in Australia, or whether it is that our methods of advertising are not sufficiently attractive A proposal is at present under for the exr^rsel°co r u^r C S itlnß ‘ lick of resources in buildings, transport and material basically arise P from limited finance. in mir parlier part of this paper I $ fhe Avtpnt tn which we can expect constantlv increasing financial ai d from the Commonwealth of Australia It is extremely important that the native people as soon as possible" should 6 come to make the maximum contribution to the cost nf pdiicatine - their children.

To give them credit where it is due they have generally been willing ’to provide temporary buildings of bush material for the establishment of primary schools wherever the Department could provide teachers. The trouble about temporary buildings of bush material is that their life is so limited.

Local Government Council areas are prepared to devote a considerable portion of their revenue from local taxes to the construction of permanent school buildings. In fact they are doing this to such an extent that the Department is embarrassed because we cannot provide them with trained native teachers.

The Department plans an emergency programme of teacher-training in 1960 to provide the maximum possible number of “A” certificated teachers to staff such schools. The “A” certificate is the lowest qualification we recognise and I am not at all happy at having to devote so much of our teacher training potential to preparing people who sch olarship Winners Distinctions The first officer of the Papua- New Guinea Administration to win a university scholarship endowed by the Administration under a new scheme has fully justified his endowment.

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"Prejudices and Attitudes"

The third kind of difficulty with which the Department has to grapple is psychological.

There are obstacles which consist of prejudices' and attitudes in the minds of people whose co-operation we need in order to carry out our task. Particularly do we need the co-operation of officers of other departments.

There are some public servants who are familiar with outine procedure but who have an imperfect appreciation of policy, especially the policy of departments other than their own. Such officers at times can be obstructive.

Public Service procedure has a natural tendency to become more complicated and new developments render old procedures obsolescent.

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In the past our Department has encountered obstruction from officers who have a preventive, rather than a Degressive attitude; but I can Ly with ''truth that during the past twelve months, the officers of my Department have reported receiving more co-operation from other departments than we have ever had before. I put this down to a better knowledge and understanding of education policy and objectives in the Public Service generally.

The Department of Education faces up to jt s task in a spirit of optimism tempered with realism. I do not k no w whether Universal primary Education in this country really be achieved. All I know i s that the director and his officers are united in their determination to spare no effort to achieve it, and, with the assistance of other public servants, the missionaries, the general public, and the native people themselves, we can go a long way.

Some Practical Help in Vila About 40 students of a Noumea school which gives special advanced training in the trades, received some really practical experience in January.

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The pupils took all their own tools, cooking and sleeping gear , and were under the direction of two teachers.

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Tropicalities Tarawa Today Hfre is “A Short Guide to Tarawa” as the Gilbert and Ellice glands monthly news- ‘is the Colony Head- Christmas (anything up to y 2,000 Imorphous collection o£ telegraphic iddresses each with a penchant lending ridiculous, a S| n ce nfuriating signals At that distance ■JOLAUDIT, TRADE, EDUCAiiuii, ind SECGOV are all one part of °a bffcloser. Tarawa -ufns out to a be quite different from Ihe headquarters, capitals, or whathave-you of other places.lt is, like Gaul, split into three parts 1 , but the separating element is water and not a !n nC thT a western tip of the atoU lies Betio, home of the Wholesale Society, the wirel^%^ e atl Co-operatives, and the DiStne Commissioner’s station. Fom miles to the east lies the islet of Bairiki, the administrative centre of the Colony, with Secretariat, Treasury, and Audit plying their pens and adding machines aiongside the white-collar section of the Works Department. And then, 16 miles over two reefs passages, is Bikenibeu, the home of the Education and Medical Departments, the hospital schools, the pedagogues and m What' follows in inevitable Betio becomes known as the wild and boisterous dockland. Quite inoffensive Administration co-operators, or clerks assume, when they have been in Betio a few weeks, a je ne sais quoi, an air of raffish brigandage. They are the rough wharfies, the teddy-boys (inclined to sport side whiskers) and the city slickers; they’ve seen the seamy side of life and. of course, they are rebels. Authority should be observe* d if you’re likely to get caught, but if you can get away with it, then. what’s a vote book for anyway?

That is Betio, rough, tough and rather disreputable.

The contrast at Bairiki is striking. Houses are in rows, and life is ordered. Roads are well swept and the solid respectability of a middleclass suburb lies all around. To the imperturbable officers of Baniki the smell of copra, the creak of winches, ships setting sail for Christmas Island, Abemama or Amsterdam are all things to read of m a file.

The outside world is, for them, peopled with lesser beings who seek permission or advice, who make elementary errors of addition, and strange rustics who seem unwilling to acknowledge the infallibility and the impermeability of General Orders and Financial Instructions.

To everyone else, Bairiki is where “they” live. It is the land of they .

It would not take Bairiki long to put its stamp of conscious superiority on any provincial peasant, but it is generally admitted that it would find the frontiersmen of Bikenibeu the hardest nuts to crack. (“You have to cut their tails off first, you see”). Here again we have rebels, but of a different ilk.

Men are men in Bikenibeu and it is sheer ignorance of the law, and using ignorance in its purest sense of nescience, that makes them rebels. One would like to see them thunder into Bairiki and tie up their steaming horses to the hitching bar of the club. That cannot be, but even so, the Land-Rovers from Bikenibeu are driven with a panache quite foreign to the low-gear Olympians of Bairiki, and the outlandish dress, the unsophisticated language and quaint customs of the outback, when seen in the metropolis, add charm and interest to fhp QPPHP All this adds up to Tarawa, a gem of many facets.

The Mixture As Before rjIHE dalo men will eat dalo, the X curry men curry, and the remainder will eat dry hash in Fiji’s gaols, as in the past. At least that appeared to be the outcome of a recent Legislative Council debate on the subject of a standard prison diet. .

The question of a standard diet had been raised by the Fourth Fijian Member, Semesa Sikivou.

He said that he felt there should be no discrimination in standards of accommodation, and that as far as religious beliefs permitted, there should be a common diet for all.

He said: “I don’t believe in certain prisoners being allowed to sleep on mattresses while others are not allowed mattresses, and I don’t believe in some people getting bread and jam while others don’t.

Whm these things are done on a racial basis it is wrong”.

No other member had comment on the mattresses, but when it came to the turn of the Director of Medical Services, Dr. Dill-Russell, he commented on the diet question.

Dr. Dill-Russell admitted that there was a diet scale laid down for Europeans, Fijians, and Indians, There was a great difference in the staple diet of the three races in Fiji, he said. The Europeans did not in general eat what the Indians ate, nor did the Fijians eat what the Europeans ate. .

At that juncture Semesa Sikivou rose to interject that he entirely disagreed and that he was extremelj disappointed with the Director ol Medical Services Dr. Dill-Russell repeated There is a difference in the diet of the three races and I do not believe that a common diet could be introduced”.

Post Offices Please Copy MAIL comes in lots of differen ways but the other day hen in Lae we had a sample o the bamboo mail. The letter wa from medical student Michae Powell, of Lae, who was on patrc According to the poet it was ' stout Cortex who, with eagle eye, first looked on the Pacific . . . "silent upon a peak in Darien .

But the poets are notoriously bad historians and the Panamanians, anyhow, know that it was in fact Balboa who first saw the notalways Pacific Ocean. Here, in effigy, Balboa looks Pacific-wards from Panama City—as roving editor Judy Tudors camera sees him. 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-FEBRUARY, 1960

in the Sarawagat Ranges, which run roughly down the centre of the Huon Peninsula, and it was addressed to his mother in Lae. He encased it in bamboo, tied it with adhesive tape, cut the address into the bamboo, and then a runner brought it in a lot quicker time than some of the mail we get across from Port Moresby. And was delivered right to the front door, with a broad smile! — Pat.

Robbery On the Queen's Highways SUVA City Council is considering installation of parking meters.

Some people in Suva are for it and some are agin it, and among the agins is Mr. A. H. Marlow, representing the Automobile Association, who has gone on record as saying: “These are the Queen’s highways. Why should we have to pay for parking? We pay enough in wheel tax and licences.”

We’re all for Mr. Marlow.

From what we’ve seen, parking meters can be highway robbery. In Sydney, since the meters were installed there a few short years ago, ostensibly to ration space in the busiest streets, they have blossomed out to streets, and even to suburbs, where they are used merely as a tax gathering gimmick. Some people now have to pay to park in front of their own houses! Suva beware!

They've Dragons in NG CARNIVOROUS, tree- climbing “dragons” which will attack humans if provoked are well known to coastal natives of Papua- New Guinea, according to P-NG Patrol Officer Ian Gibbons. He said natives had told him the “dragons” grew to 20 feet in length, and lived on the flesh of wallabies and other animals.

“I believe these giant lizards are ‘Komona Dragons’, which generally are believed to exist only on the Japanese island of Komono”, Gibbons said.

“Wherever I have gone in the coastal districts of TGE Territory where wallabies are common, I have found natives who know of these dragons.

“In several places I had natives do drawings of the dragons, which they call tree climbing crocodiles,”

Gibbons said.

CROSSQUIZ (For solution see page 95) ACROSS I. —What is the largest state in India? 7- —For what does an actress wait? 8- What fair was famous for its fighting and debauchery? 9.—What plant is cultivated for its use in salads? 11. What is the largest canton in Switzerland? 12.—What prefix means new?

Carthage?* 1 at WafS W<?re between Rome and 17;—Which Australian helped to develop the atomic bomb? 18. What does an elephant have in common with a walrus? 19. What famous Indian stone is the property of the Royal Family? a ns°‘~ W^ h °* m f < i le Bath a resort for fashion and ru ed it like a monarch?

DOWN element? 1 iS the ' ighteSt known ch emical 2.—Who discovered a comet that was last seen in 1858? . 3.—-Wbieli British battleship was torpedoed and sunk while at 1939? f ' n $CaPa FI ° W in 4. —Who wrote the controversial book "Eves on the Ashes"? 5. What was the surname of the hero of Dickens' unfinished novel? 6. is another name for cavies? 10.-What is the term for the process by wh,ch an electric current magnetises a nearby body? 13.-What are compounds with oxygen? .. Who discovered Newfoundland? 16 r— What is usually tne highest room? 17.—W here did ? a u * attack the French fleet in World War II?

Do You Remember ?

A letter from a Port Mores man, 'published in 20 yec ago, spoke feelingly about alarmi reports that Canberra was co templating the introduction of i come tax in Papua because of t war. Said the correspondent, i dignantly: “Papuan residents ha for many years been staggeri'i under a load far heavier and mo unwieldly than their envious neig] hours in Australialt took 20 yeai but it happened.

Here are some extracts from the issue February, 1940: The copra producer today is worse ( than he was just before the war—ai then he was not enjoying even a bres and butter existence,” said a ‘‘PITk editorial, which asked, ‘‘How long w copra producers sit quiet under th exploitation?” The trouble was that copi ?> r |n e /no / had x risen since the war fro £!0/l 2/ - a ton to £l3/SA. but the who of the rise had been absorbed by highi freight and marketing price. * * • In Western Samoa the United Pr< gressive Party sharply criticised the polk of the NZ Government in appointing your men from the NZ public service 1 vacancies in the West Samoa Publi service. it was stated there were number of positions in Samoa whic could be quite adequately filled b Euronesians. “PiM” remarked edltoriall that there was justice in the claim, tha m intelligence, industry and appearanc tne Euronesians compared favourably wit] Europeans, and as Samoans in their ow: country they had every justification fo asking that as many public servic positions as possible be made available to them. However, NZ so far had blandb ‘TIM” d thC Euronesians ’ requests, saij * * • From Rabaul, threatened with extinctioi because of the proposal that Lae be mad< the capital of the Mandated Territory it was reported that business was nov up s * nce the announcement that headquarters would remain in Rabaul I* * eas * for the duration of the war.

Said a PIM correspondent: ‘‘Those who profess to know are confident now that the capital will not be moved elsewhere —that the new observatory will gwe the community sufficient warning of impending eruption . The first portion of that prophecy has been proved right. * * ♦ There was big talk that a cocoa in- Stry 1J c ?i* ld be sount *ly established in the old Mandated Territory of NG—and possibly even give copra a run for its money (it took longer than they thought but it s certainly happening.) * * * The Banabans of Ocean Island—a native community then 500 strong—handed the sum of £lO,OOO to the Colonial Office to be passed on to King George as a contribution to the British War Fund. The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific had suggested to the Banabans that £2,000 would be regarded as a generous gift, but the Banabans had deeded it was going to be “£lO,OOO or nc thing”. 78

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Some Light of a Sort on an Old Problem Why Do Smokers?

Why do smokers smoke? Do they smoke to confirm their adulthood; as a substitute for a feeling of ' m P ortan^ e ; v b^ they think it accelerates their inspiration; because they have a longing for adventure? )R. H. B. CYRAN, who graduated in medicine from the University of Posnung, Poland, and who ;ow lives in Sydney and takes a secial interest in psychology, has een looking into the smoking habit utely, and has produced a paper in the subject which he suspects :iay be of interest to the tobacco ims.

If Islands residents have any rguments about his views they may <et a chance to discuss them with dm face to face. He hopes he may .e able to work in the South Pacific.

These are the points he makes m smoking in his paper, “Investigations Into Motives Underlying the iabit Of Tobacco Smoking”.

The Reasons The basic motives for smoking, le says, can be divided into two croups— the needs rooted in an iniividual—and the needs rooted in a cultural group. There is no sharp iemarcation line. Among those reasons are: Confirmation of Adulthood: The unchallenged youthful smoker finds confirmation of his virility. Smoking is an ego booster.

Substitute for Feeling of Importance: The muscular form of the cheeks, which is achieved by holding a cigar or cigarette in the mouth, is that of roundness, and it is identical to the “blown up” position adopted by boastful, impertinent or self-sure people. The more central the holding position of the cigarette, the more ego-centric the smoker.

Need for Concentration: The bowl of a pipe, the glowing end of a cigarette, constitutes a central point which assists in gathering the stray thoughts. The converging angle of the eyes created by manipulating the smoking item, assists the concentration of thought.

Spanish Wall Effect : In a difficult situation, where a postponement of decision, or a crushing effect of speech is required, the time involved in lighting a smoke provides a Spanish wall between the two sides —a time stretching effect.

Replacement for Missing Appreciation: After a task has been performed, the ego demands appreciation, and this is given by a premium “have a smoke”. (It stresses a point that all life is a constant give and take).

On the Threshold of Adventure Complex: This is from the association of the effects produced by the bluish smoke of the burning tobacco, with the bluish haze of the distant horizon, beyond which lies adventure. There are also associations with memories of actual adventure, such as burning logs in camp fires, pioneering days, burning autumn leaves, haze on distant shores.

A Craze to he Free from Obsession ; Freedom and a feeling of the wide open spaces, from associations with the bluish smoke, its free and constant run and change of pattern — all as a remedy for congested, restricted, oppressed and pre-determined patterns of present-day behaviour.

Missing Link Provision : In periods of waiting or of boredom, and in intervals between actions, smoking constitutes a continuation of activity, which prevents the rise of a feeling of unrest or irritation.

Feeling of Traditional Unity. The desire of identification with a social group (“What was good enough for my father and grandfather is good enough for me”). This provides a second grade feeling of security, derived from a sense of uninterrupted continuity.

Inspiration Accelerator ; The free run of smoke and unrestrained development of pattern can trigger inspiration.

Secondary Reasons According to Dr. Cyran, there are also secondary reasons for smoking.

There are: Epicurean Complex: This is a sense of fullness, a desire to top up the good things, to round off everything in a harmonious unit — e.g., after a good meal, a good smoke.

Misconstrued Belief : That smoking is a remedy for nervousness, obeisity, for sleeplessness.

Prestudied Effects ; The desire to give himself a variety of airs—e.g., (a) preoccupation —the smoker talks with a cigarette in his mouth, (b) carelessness —the smoker waves the (Continued on page 93) With a cigarette like this, perhaps you could obey doctor's orders and cut down your smoking to only one a day!

Members of New Guinea's Pacific Islands Regiment, on a recent visit to Sydney, inspect the results of a cigarette making machine at W. D. & H 0. Wills' factory at Raleigh Park.

Why does this islander smoke? With a pipe like that, we'd guess it probably has something to do with what Dr. Cyran refers to as a substitute for a feeling of importance. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

Can Hurricanes Be Diverted What are the chances of attempting to divert a hurricane from its natural path? Not bad at all, not bad at all except that the cost of the job would be more than the amount of damage the hurricane would have done anyhow.

THE fact that anybody thinks it’s even possible to divert a hurricane is interesting news, but meteorologists have been studying the problem for some years and last year they took stock.

The US Weather Bureau, the Air Force and other US Government agencies launched a full-scale hurricane busting or diverting project in June, 1956—the work to take at least five years.

Aerial flights into the calm “eye” of a hurricane have been going on in the Caribbean and the North West Pacific annually since then.

Other field work has been carried out in various parts of the world and is closely linked with rain making experiments in which Australian scientists of the CSIRO have been among the leaders.

A recent survey of results was carried out by Dr. Archie Kehan, a of long experience 16 * - U£ L Weather Bureau and the US Air Force. ipedologists are not at all lespondent that hurricane diversion ti S nmp P nf oje^is to ° ex P en sive at the noment. They say that if more Were mac * e available by varies Governments to carry on re- >6earCr^rrk ’ m ,? re might >e made in discovering cheaper rays of climate control. P Some Bright Ideas n\ df?as put .forward for innate: control in specific areas is ne which would involve towinptuge icebergs from the Arcto o? antarctic to tropical or subtropical areas. There they would slowly melt and have a substantial effect on the climate nearby—or perhaps over a considerable area if they could be moored in a current so that their cooling influence would drift along a coast-line. & A regular supply of well developed bergs moored between Fanning and Christina B Island could, for instance, ?oiT e a considerable effect on rainan<* f ert i llty in the Gilbert and Jpljce Elands as the cold water WOUId take a great deal of ice over a long period.

Less costly might be a scheme pro by * a Russia n engineei whereby a dam would be built be tween the mainland and Sakhalii Island north of Japan with gate which would permit the tidal curren to flow only north.

This would have the effect o blocking an important cold oceai current and of warming thousand; of miles of Asiatic coastline. Th( w 1 J^°Vi d K be only five miles lon* but would be a tremendous under taking, due to the strong tidal flow.

Its erection would, it is thought have a profound effect on th( climate of Japan by raising the aii temperature sufficiently to prevem Sw? S m w “ ter ’ an d this mighl effect the paths of the typhoon; (Continued on page 93) Before December's hurricane struck Vila, members of the Vila club on the warerfront used to dine on the verandah. But afrerwards there was nothing much left of the verandah or, in fact, the club, as the picture at the top left shows. Top right, the school was unroofed- to the delight of the children, if not the parents. Above, Australian Army sappers disemberk form a huge Hercules transport which brought them and equipment from Sydney to help Vila straighten out.

Photo: Reece Discombe and Numa Daly. 80 FEBRUARY. 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Vila Picks Up The Pieces

There was not much left on the house of Mr. D.

F. Kay, relieving manager for BP, when the Vila hurricane struck in December, as the top photos show. Mr. Kay's wife, Joan, sifts around among the wreckage to see what she can recover. The telephone is at the bottom right of the picture.

In the photo at right, thousands of bags of cement tumble into the sea from Burns Philp's cement dock Below it, smashed palms tell their own story of what happened to plantations in the New Hebrides. At the bottom is a typical scene following the blow, as Mrs. Reece Discombe hangs up wet clothes to dry in her unroofed house.

Photos: Reece Discombe.

Houses were unroofed all over Vila like the one on the left, occupied by a leading citizen. In the photo above it, a car lies wrecked after it was blown over a cliff. —Numa Daly. 81 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

A Different Kind Of Island State When I made a brief call at Bermuda Britain’s famous old sub-tropical isle m the North Atlantic I was interested chiefly in renewing acquaintance with J. W. Sykes, Government Secretary there, and lately Acting-Governor. He spent 16 years Le “ E, <*- "“*» - • R U T i end ed by making a quick study of one of Britain’s most Fvpn^K 1 ? latmg., 1 atmg ., Crown Colonies.

Even before it became a refuge Americas most heavily-taxed wealth a out S ’nf ha< ? accum ulated vast history. * f a strange ’ Picturesque tution tS a nh y^! Cal character, constidition’ if {L present economic conamon it has remarkable features Maybe, there are lessons here for 50 Tu>? 0U i h Pa cific Islands. - rn A Z h ° u i h it} well outside the iDhSvtS ermU ? a 18 a form ation of ip-heaved coral—rounded hills litt-ip Alleys, limestone crags,’ deep Rowing all the sparkling )?ue rS fr ° m llght green to dark the warm waters of the fbm r rinp WaShin F aCrOSS udma r i n e mountain-tons pn ouraged the coral insects to’ perorm. Nowhere else, outside the Coconut 18 nalms a Slmilar forma tion.

HMuir precariously, beings did not find this ively land unm 1515 "Xnk ortuguese navigator reported it A I nt r 7 lat - er > in 1600, a ol infi IS I mi^ a nts, headed for Virmia were blown into the maze of eef s northwards of Bermuda ►thlSllinPri and settle d there! tners joiqed tftem in the 1600’s, to cokmy a permanent - comfortable Little Ships Brought Big Money covered fh? Si £ g c ? dar - ov er the centuries bigger Indhil constructed bolls ,mHi b i gger ’ better and better brßermuri a ? e n m . Uda 1 ships ' canned y Bermuda s natural sailors wprp famous all over the AttenSc ' ss tion ’ 1 ke American ProhibiiMMf&ss gsspg Ackers taTiquor BglerS ’ and traf ' 2 they m have tec^eTart n m 3 th/?, arS ’ tofluen t fai UC * ;Ure ’ «S ve£ SS,®£ A century ago, steamships displace sail and shattered Bermuda’s basic industries; but well-endowed Bermuda easily survived an economic siege. The siege ended long ago when rich Americans discovered, in Bermuda, the ideal holiday isle.

Today, Bermuda may be described as a benevolent octopus—which creature it resembles, in shape and character. Its greenclad, limestone ridges spread out from Hamiltoncapital and port—in all directions; and between each tentacle there is usually a deep, quiet harbour and a fine beach of white or pink coral sand. Its fame as a holiday resort has spread like tentacles across the R. W. Robson takes a quick look at Bermuda, refuge of harried millionaires One of Bermuda's famous picnic beaches. 82 FEBRUARY 960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

One of Britain's most fascinating Crown Colonies", is how W. Robson describes Bermuda. Although it's in the [?]orth Atlantic, coconut palms grow there. The two views at left now the capital and port, Hamilton, with almost a touch of [?]uva in its buildings. As a matter of fact, Bermuda's government Secretary, Mr. J. W. Sykes, spent 16 years in Fiji. >orld, to draw the cream of wellidowed folk to its soft, pleasant imate, fabulous hotels, irresistible Dlf course and fishing grounds.

Nowadays, Bermuda exports iractically nothing, except a few lowers. But the Colony’s 40,000 eople live like minor kings, on the ich revenues brought in from over- ■ja by casual holiday-makers and by ae fleeing, tax-haunted members of ae West’s Upper Ten.

Seventy per cent, of Bermuda’s 0,000 now are negroes or negroid— escendants of people who drifted i after the early British colonists, o hew and fetch and carry. They re the best-fed, most comfortable oloured people I have ever seen.

Their attractive houses line the Dwer hills; they have education ,nd small cars and television. The Dwest wage, paid to the humblest weeper of the astonishingly clean .nd tidy streets, is £l4 Sterling per peek. „ . .

They are happy, laughing people, nd they cast no envious looks upon he beautiful, white and pink houses yhich nestle among the greenery >f the low hill-tops, where dwell he fortunate whites who inherited Bermuda.

No Income Tax Bermuda, like Monaco or the Bahamas, is one of the famous Diaces where a whole community s completely free of poverty and ;are, because is gives pleasure and security to the harried rich.

In Bermuda, there are no income ,axes, no death duties.

The other day there died here a nan whose trustees, without shrmk- .ng, proclaimed an estate worth £903,000, and kept the lot.

Between 400 and 500 overseas ;ompanies are registered in Bermuda.

Fhey do not trade there; but they jeep their share registers there, and from there they issue their proud and fearless balance-sheets, tt costs them, in fees, a few thousand pounds per annum to maintain their shingles in the Colony; but their savings in taxation are calculated in millions.

W e 11-trained Governmen t Treasurers look upon the set-up with horror. It is a Socialist thinker’s nightmare. But it works! Lord, how it works!

For example, consider the absence of death duties.

Facing their enevitable end —and the apparently inevitable destruction of the estates which they so painfully have accumulated—sundry rich men of North America and Britain turn thoughtful eyes upon Bermuda. Retirement is due; and what could be pleasanter than retirement in Bermuda! Domicile in Bermuda means that, when death ~ ?h° SSSteS taUsot Whereupon the said rich men seek estates in Bermuda's limited the law of supply and dema nd operates. If you own a pro- Der f V j n Bermuda which you are “r sell. you name astronomical figure which ensures your mater ial welfare. The Governme nt does not get in on the deal directly _ but the Government (which, of course, is the whole community) benefits very much mairecuy. . _ . , r . .

Private Enterprise In Control The political set-up in Bermuda is peculia r.

The Administration is little more tban a trusteeship for the large group of old families, which literady own and run the islands.

Parliament has an upper and a lower chamber, and the latter is elected by voters who get onto the rolls of the nine parishes through a complicated system of property nwn ~ rt .£ in Most neonle vote This Parliament has almost complete er oyer the government—'White g aU merely appoints a Governor and & team of administrative officials , and exe rcises a sort of benevolent supervision.

Whitehall’s benevolence shapes the attitude of the old families to the island’s commoner folk; so that, while the public service is reduced t 0 an absolute minimum, and there , g nong of that tortuous thing that the more sophisticated States call “ social welfare”, the community sgems better cared for than any ° t ‘?f n r e(i community 1 ever haVe eX ‘ dsr rsssFA'isrsz cellent system of concrete roads, sc h oo ls of modest standard, and a sufficient health service. Port dues take care of the port, and the post and telephone section lives on its own receipts, (Continued on page 95)

A Salt-Water

INHABITANT Charlie Ashley, salt-water inhabitant of New Guinea, was bom in 1900 at Sale, near Manchester, in England. He went to sea at the age of 13 in the fourmasted ship Tamar owned by Shutes of Liverpool.

AFTER serving the first year of his apprenticeship he joined the RNR for war service, and did one year at Osborne College, on the Isle of Wight. He was a Cadet Midshipman in HMS Triumph, at Gallipoli, and in the Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Tipperary, at Jutland.

The rest of the war was spent in various ships, including the destroyers Swift and Marne, and HMS Alsatian, of the famous 10th Cruiser Squadron of converted merchant liners, under the flag of Admiral Sir Reginald Tupper.

After the war, Charlie passed for second mate at Liverpool, and joined Canadian Pacific Ocean Services as junior second mate of the old Alsatian, then re-named Empress of France, on the trans- Atlantic run. After passing for first mate at Liverpool and serving in various companies, including the Blue Star Line, he came out to Australia as third mate of SS Allajra and was in various ships of the Adelaide company as third, second and first mate.

About this period, 1925, Charlie sat for extra master in Sydney, but (Continued on page 95) A Brett Milder Profile 83 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

The Months New Reading

As an instructive and, as it turned out, entertaining, shipboard task on the way to London, I read Sir Arthur Bryant’s Triumph in the West, the second and completing volume based on Viscount Alanbrooke’s war diaries. So it is appropriate that the review be written here in London, where most of the events took place.

“ A PPROPRIATE” but probably even more unreal than if I found myself doing the job on a South Pacific island, or in the middle of the Sahara, instead of in danger of dehydration insiae this steam-heated flat while the cold January sky we ps drizzle outside.

For the physical scars of the war Alanbrooke fought have all but healed. Few gaping “bomb sites” remain—as they did even 4£ years ago when I was last here.

Large blocks of offices and flats fill the gaps the bombs left, but for the most part the architecture is conventional; London soot, damp and grime does the rest, and in five years it is hard, outwardly, anyhow, to distinguish the very new from what might have bsen there for 200 years.

But even more to the point, a new generation has grown up since Alanbrooke did his stuff as Chief of the Imperial General Staff; and if these long-haired youths with their pipe-stem pants and Robin Hood hats, or their Egyptian-eyed girls, think at all of the ancient history ■ that was the Second World War, they give no sign of it.

However, in one respect this is a i good place to review this particular book: Here amongst Engii:hmen ] and Englishmen’s circumlocutionary and tradition-steeped methods of l doing anything, from buying the I groceries to foreign policy, it is far l easier to understand how the : British war chiefs almost drive their American colleagues round the bend- ! a nd why a great deal of this and other published diaries of other Allied war leaders, are devoted so largely to battl s with friends, and to a considerably lesser degree to how they got on with the war.

The Cold War Probably the greatest contribu- A 1 ? 11 u to blstor y that this section of Alanbrooke s memoirs makes, is not —interesting, amusing or instructing as they mostly are—in its catalogue of differences between Eisenhower and his ebullient subordinate, Field Marshal Mont- KIJS’t 01 ’ i he ar S um cnts about a Second Front or the wisdom of the Italian campaign or other projected or rejected campaigns; or the h-ouble s Alanbrooke had with Prime Minister Churchill; but in the catalogue of events that cast the* shadows before and were the genesis of the Cold War that had bedevilled the world since the “peace” of 1945.

If the United States has carried the biggest burden during these 15 years, Triumph in the West makes it abundantly clear that much of it was the result of American thinking or Roosevelt thinking—in the vital years between 1942-45.

It is evident that Roosevelt considered himself the instrument for bridging the ideological gulf between the Soviet Union and the West and, according to this account, during his many talks with Stalin continually stressed the fact that the forward-1 ook i n g American character had more in common with the USSR point of view, than with conservative Imperialistic Britain, which had maintained the balance of world power in the past, Roosevelt’s conception of the future was based on America and Russia working together for the future governance of mankind”, and he shaped his military and civil policies to conform to this ideal.

Roosevelt, of course, died before this new heaven and earth came into being, and although there were signs, even before his death, that there were serpents in his Eden, his last message to Churchill, sent on to® morning of the day he died, still indicated his state of wishful thinking: “I would minimise the general Soviet problem as much possible,” he said. ~ At HV- S time - b y hi s wish, he h the Allied armies held up wh they could have made their fir assault on Berlin, in order that t Russians who had been bogged dov could catch up. Two days aft Roosevelt’s death, the Russia began their offensive and five da iater entered Berlin. It was n until four days later still that th linked up with the waiting Amei cans, halted 50 miles to the sout Truman's Legacy When Truman stepped into t] dead President’s shoes, he felt hin self morally bound to carry on li predecessor’s policy of trustii Soviet leaders. He found himsc surrounded by civil and military a( vis?rs who had been educated iook with suspicion on England’s s< called imperialistic policy. It wou have taken a far stronger and abl man than Truman to shake hin self loose from that set-up, at thj St£lgo. !t was Churchill’s wish to ha the Russians until they ha honoured their agreements, whi the Allies still had sufficient forc< on the spot to force them to do s But the Americans insisted on witt drawing their troops to the west < Leipzig, and in presenting to th Russians a huge slice of Centn Europe, although already the Sovi( leaders had shown their brutj hand in Poland. in regard to this tha Churchill, soon himself to be vote out of office by the British public coined one of his last famou phrases: It was, he said, “bringin down an iron curtain between u and everything to the eastward”

In the American view, howeve: it was vital that the United State snould not be manoeuvred into • Position where she would be alignei with Great Britain in a bloc agains The Gift Please make me a favourite night ", The Spirit of the Island, wishful, said.

A sky that will be bright With millions of diamante pieces spread In glittering glory So the listening seas Encircled ar| d reef, breathed deep.

Inhaled the Island's mood, and silent trees By ruffling breeze were waked from sleep.

Below pearl glimmer of smooth creamy sands The phosphorous lit the ocean fragments. Stark '-asuannas, waxing droopily to strands Of palm, hear sea-depths bubbling on rock-mass dark.

Now blended with a song of wavelets piling Onto shore, the bird-wings' rhythm low, above.

Was harmonising, as the Island Spirit, smiling, Gave this night of hers to us with love.

AAackay, Queensland

Val Busuttin

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IChurchill (or England), it was •Id was more concerned with upolding England’s position in Europe ;.an in preserving peace.”

Entertainment Value Bryant’s first book based on janbrooke’s diaries (Turn of the ide ) ended with triumph in North Ifrica in 1942; the present volume overs the years 1943-46, and _ thus icludes some incidents after the 'id of actual hostilities, when the :old War was already shaping it- "As in the first volume, a great eal of its entertainment value— uite apart from its merit as a iistory—comes from the actuall extracts from the diaries and the word iictures and vignettes of aaracters and events, which remove ie characters in question from ifty pedestals and cut them down 3 human size. _ .

At the end of 1943, in Cairo, Janbrooke met his Chinese Allies i the persons of Generalissimo ana iadame Chiang Kai-shek, in whom he Americans set considerable store, ,nd Alanbrooke, none whatever. His iescription of the pair is interestqct I “The Generalissimo reminded me »f a cross between a pine-martin ind a ferret. A shrewd, foxy sort >f face. Evidently with no grasp >f war in its larger aspects but deermined to get the best of all jargains.”

He wrote, later, of Madame; “I have never known whether tfadame Chiang gate-crashed into ;he morning’s Plenary Meeting, or whether she was actually invited. It nakes little difference, for I feel certain that she would have turned ip, whether invited or not. She was ;he only woman amongst a very ,arge gathering of men and was determined to bring into action all the fiiarms nature had blessed her with.

Although not good looking she certainly had a good figure which she knew how to display at its best... her closely clinging dress of black satin with gold chrysanthemums displayed a slit which exposed one of the most shapely of legs. . . I even thought I heard a suppressed neigh from a group of the younger members.

Who Wore The Pants?

“The trouble that lay behind this was that we were left wondering whether we were dealing with Chiang or with Madame. Whenever he was addressed, his Chinese General sitting on his right interpreted lor him, but as soon as he had finished, Madame said: ‘Excuse me, gentlemen, I do not think that the Interpreter has conveyed the full meaning of the thoughts that the Generalissimo wishes to express. If you allow me I shall put before you his real thoughts.’ I certainly felt that she was the leading spirit of the two and that I did not trust her very far. . . As for Chiang ... he was certainly very successful in leading the Americans down the garden path.” , . _ As also, with the previous volume the book abounds in Churchill anecdote. It has been questioned often enough whether it is wise to expose the clay feet of heroes which the unfortunate public, in times of national disaster, must regard as supreme beings.

Both the Alanbrooke volumes present Churchill as the impulsive, problem-child rather than as a great statesman, and as a final exercise in giant-lopping, this incident describing Churchill’s visit to the Allied lines during the crossing of the Rhine, deserves a place for itself: “As we were leaving Simpson s HQ, Simpson asked Winston whether he wished to make use of the lavatory. Without a moment’s hesitation he (Churchill) asked, ‘How far is the Siegfried Line?’ On being told about half-an-hour’s run, he replied that he would not visit the lavatory but that we should halt on reaching the Line! On arrival there, the column of some 20 to 30 cars halted, we proceeded solemnly out and lined up along the Line.

As the photographers had all rushed up to secure vantage points, he turned to them and said, ‘This is 87 "PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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me of the operations of this great var which must not be reproduced ;raphically’. I shall never forget he childish grin of intense satisaction that spread all over his face is he looked down at the critical noment.” , , There isn’t much for a sne- •eviewer to say after that one, *xcept “Men—Exclamation Mark! • J .i • (TRIUMPH IN THE WEST. Published >y Wm. Collins Ltd. Australian price, 17/3.) Australia—and The South Seas rR a year or two now there has been included in PI M’s rather extensive Pacific library an attractive volume, filled with excellent photographs and text, entitled Australien Und Sudsee Heute, von Bernd Lohse.

The book was presented by Mr.

Lohse himself, and it has been enjoyed by various members of the staff at different times, but not by this reviewer, whose linguistic accomplishments embrace nothing more than the phrase, “Make mine a beer please” in a dozen languages and a couple of dialects. German is not one of them.

For him, then, the highlight of this month’s reading was the arrival of an attractive volume entitled Australia And The South Seas, by Bernd Lohse, which turned out to be the first English edition of the German work by Mr. Lohse, who toured Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa and Hawaii a few years ago, taking photographs as he went.

Because of the delay in translation, some of Mr. Lohse’s facts are now out of date—there are changes in the Islands he refers to —but this detracts very little from the work as a whole. , „ . , Mr. Lohse is not one of that class of foreign correspondents which adopts a learned air in explaining the intricacies of economics and politics to the readers back home.

He travelled as a plain observer and photographer, and puts down, simply and without fuss, an accurate account of conditions in the places he visits. He is a sound observer, with a sympathy for the people he meets.

Most of the book is taken up with his visit to Australia. He makes some interesting comments on the Australian way of life—-i.e.: on the one hand, each Australian is proud to be thought of as an individualist, yet on the other A 0 wants Government care lavished on him from the cradle to the grave.

Therefore he tolerates rules and regulations from State and trade union to an extent which surprises even a person from a country of much older—and much softer— people. Somewhere in the short history of the continent there must be psychological reasons for it all .

Mr. Lohse makes an attempt at explaining the reasons by pointing out that in the transition from a penal settlement into a free community there had to be more traces of a paternal welfare than if the new colonies had developed simply out of the personal initiative of free men.

On Fiji, Mr. Lohse has something to say which is of more than topical interest at the moment. He describes Fiji as “Her Majesty s Most Loyal Colony”. He asks, “Why is Fiji, home of the friendliest people on this earth, not a paradise?” and he answers his own question— “ The Indians. Not because of what they do —or do not do —but simply because they are there. They were brought to Fiji by the British after the take-over of the islands as contract workers, because the flourishing plantations needed labour. The sons of the land were all gentlemen and proud of the written rights assured to them by Queen Victoria. The British have strictly adhered to these and they saw no need to work themselves to death in the plantations. Trade commercial bargaining, egoistical penny-grabbing—these were not for them! So it comes about that everything that does not belong to the millionaire Australian-controlled Colonial Sugar Refining Company, or the gold mining Golden Rock companies of Vatukoula, or the big South Seas trading companies in Suva and a few white cocoa planters, is in the hands of the Indians and a few Chinese. You see the same picture wherever you look in the South Seas —wherever white enterprise leaves a tmy gap, in slips Asia. , “You will not hear much good said about the Indians here. But, where cornered by a questioner, every European or Fijian will admit that without the Indian worker the islands could never have flourished as they have. Their industry, their ambition, and ccmmunal sense would merit the highest praise—if only they were not * n< “The Indians are as conservative in their uncompromising nationalism as they are advanced in all technical matters. . . .

“Now that Indians can 109 k with pride on a homeland which is playing an increasingly important role in world affairs, the tension, human rather than economic, has heightened. It seems almost impossible to lower it, especially when the number of Indians is every day. It is a cloud threatening an idyll, for Fiji does seem truly idfllic to the vistor who looks beyond the huge industries, sugar and gold, and the Indian problem. (AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS.

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But there are many troubles still, here are political storms —the old hunt Clutha mining scandal is re- -ved, and with it an attack on his itegrity; and there are personal roblems—an old flame awakenig; his daughter restless; his wife utty is not what she was.

The politics in The Big Fellow re first class—it’s impossible not i) be convinced that here is a real labour politician. But in some of iis personal angles Palmer does lot awaken the same interest, llthough the material was there. (THE BIG FELLOW. Published by mgus & Robertson Ltd. Australian price, »/-.) or The Children— tecommended A USTRALIAN writer Kylie \ Tennant’s story for children, All The Proud Tribesmen, is a ttle book that deserves to live.

It tells the story of the volcanic jland of Firecrest, off the north oast of Australia, in that chain of slands that extends from Cape r ork to New Guinea. It tells how choolteacher, nurse and friend of he people, Miss Buchanan, saves hem from an eruption and leads hem to a new island. The story is old through Kerri, a young native ioy whom Miss Buchanan had tdopted, and whom she is coaching or a scholarship.

The tale unwinds in simple ashion, reminiscent of Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. It is a book hat can be read by young people, Dut the older people, too, especially hose with Islands experience, will jet a great deal of satisfaction out )f it.

Some of the Islands readers no ioubt will have a few reflections )f their own. There are people like Vliss Buchanan in the Islands, but more often than not in real life hey go a little “queer” and are difficult to get on with.

Maybe there are District Commissioners like “Long Jack”, who are sympathetic, show initiative and enterprise, can cut red tape with immunity, and who do what they think best for the common good and still come out on top—but, we fear, they are scarcer than men on the moon. And perhaps there are young and bright native boys like Kerri, who can be sent away for a mainland education among the “white boys” and still come back to their village perfectly satisfied with life there; but we think they would be as rare as those District Commissioners.

But, of course, all these would merely be cynical thoughts by the wayside to the Islanders, and they will not detract one bit from the story. Rather, Islands readers may feel a glow at the thought that here indeed is Islands life as l should be and this one is for the youngsters, after all.

Kylie Tennant is well known in Australia for her novels, but this is the first book she has written for children. She should write more.

All the Proud Tribesmen is illustrated in black and white by Sydney artist Clem Seale. (ALL THE PROUD TRIBESMEN. Published by Macmillan. Australian price, 14/6.) What’s New in Paper Jackets BY the wealth of paper jackets available this month, it looks as though the British printers have made up lost ground after the big printing strike. Anyhow, Britain’s loss is our gain, because there is inexpensive reading for all tastes available in this lot from Pan and Fontana, now in the bookshops.

An interesting facet is the number of religious books which are now appearing in the cheaper editions. , Our copies are from William Collins (Overseas) Ltd., Sydney.

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Australian Smoking According to Dr. Cyran, a youth set on proving his adolescence will smoke in spite of nausea and vomiting. And many adults disregard what they have been told about dangers from lung cancer and continue to smoke because the basic motives underlying their egos are stronger than reason.

Where, he asks, could you find a more exemplary gesture of emphasising manhood than in the gesture of tossing away the butt before starting a fight? (Over) which cross the Japanese islands ea fn very few places in the world is current diversion possible on such a scale, and there seems little prospect of any such current being squirted into the Islands from a new direction.

Smoke It Out!

The releasing of artificial clouds at very high altitude by means of rockets has also been considered.

A cloud layer of some thousands of square miles placed above a hurricane might have the effect of causing it to disperse or at least change its behaviour but that would take a lot of smoke or other material to produce and the job would be complicated by the high velocity winds at upper levels.

Australian bush fires have frequently produced a fairly dense high-altitude haze over New Zealand, but no study has been made of the immediate effect on New Zealand weather. This is another of the fields in which much more research is required.

The Best Hope The best hope so far seems to be cloud-seeding in the very early stages, although the US Standard Research Institute is less than optimistic about practical advantages because of the high costs involved. . , American Nobel prize winner amd pioneer in cloud-seeding, Dr. Irving Langmuir, is one of those who says that seeding experiments 1 could eliminate hurricanes. iribbean. It probes the complexes and nlbitions of people to whom the * jj l * the skin is more important than wealth power. A best seller, the book was ade Into a star-studded better-thannerage Cinemascope film. Englishman laugh was in Suva last year and there ts some squirming in places high and m at the thought that he might bring ie same glare of publicity on Fiji that -s Caribbean novel brought to Jamaica , d Bermuda. Like the non-existent Santa tarta and elsewhere. Fiji, too, must have ■; share of skeletons in the cupboards, n affaires d’amour, and Us behind-the senes scheming and machinations. (PAN

'The Case Of The Sulky Girl And

HE D.A. BREAKS AN EGG, both by Earle .anley Gardner. Years ago, the author «s called to the Bar of California, at ie age of 22, and he showed signs of scorning one of the top trial lawyers • USA, but he threw up the practice or w in favour of writing about it. That’s Ihy his crime fiction has such a pro- ■ssional touch. In “Sulky Girl”, Gardner s ,wyer-detective Perry Mason (with Della treet as his girl Friday) has a client who ants him to break her father’s will. Her mcle, the trustee, is murdered, making ie girl even more sulky when the police old her for the crime. But the courtroom rial begins, and Mason sorts it out. In he “D.A.”, Doug Selby, District Attorney f a small-time county, solves the who nd why of the killing of a redhead beautiful, of course). (GREAT PAN).

A WOMAN OF BANGKOK, by Jack ievnolds. Originally a hard cover under he title of “A Sort of Beauty’’, but with he sex-success of “A Woman of Berlin” nd other Woman of books, it acquired , new title and a new “come-on” coloured acket. A tale of a young Englishman ibsessed with Vilai, the Thai pick-up at i dance hall, who is crude, greedy and sxpensive. After 300 pages of bed-to-bed lescription, here, there and everywhere n Thailand, the Englishman is discarded or an American, and returns home to start life anew. (PAN GIANT).

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ROMANS, by C. H. Dodd. It has been said that few men ever swayed the religious opinions and the destinies of mankind so powerfully as did Paul of Farsus, the Apostle of Christianity. His Epistle to the Romans is regarded generally as the first great work of Christian theology. Professor Charles Dodd, an English classical scholar, herein writes a commentary and explanation of chapter, verse, line and word of the famous Epistle that makes it alive and understandable to the average layman. (FONTANA, black).

THE EYE OF LOVE, by Margery Sham.

Middle-aged Miranda foolishly invites her fiance’s past love, Delores, to a cocktail party. There, Harry’s eye of love transforms the unglamorous Delores into his Spanish Rose, and only her responsive eye of love, too, could see in fat, blubbery Harry a shining bluff King Hal. Miss Sharp’s ironic wit has full play in this eccentric comedy. (FONTANA, yellow).

FIAMETTA, by Anne Duffield. The authoress is billed as the “Queen of Romantic Fiction”, and with this tale she adds another love-diamond to her tiara. To Fiametta, an Italian town, comes Fanny Durand trying to trace her halfbrother who had unaccountably disappeared from the lakeside village. Also at Fiametta arrives Jack Morell, handsome stand-offish Englishman who sees in Fanny the image of the girl he loved and lost.

The result, as in all romantic fiction, is inevitable but their hand-in-hannd departure for England is not before Fanny learns what exactly happened to her unpleasant brother and why. (GREAT PAN).

THE MEANING OF PROTESTANTISM, by James Nichols. In today’s world, “Protestant” has come to impiy dissent.

Tracing the historical and spiritual growth of the Protestant movement, this boon shows that its fundamental doctrine Is much more positive than a mere denial of the Pope’s spiritual authority. Nichols, a US Presbyterian Church historian, indicates clearly how the Protestant differs in his approach to Christianity from the Roman Catholic. Whatever one s faith, this slim volume should stimulate discussion on the subject. (FONTANA, black).

SAD CYPRESS, by Agatha Christie. Did Elinor Carlisle poison her ex-friend and likely will-sharer. Mary Gerrard? Was Mary slain “by a fair cruel maid .

Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie’s sharpeyed sleuth) didn’t think so and he proceeded to ferret out the truth. (FONTANA, yellow).

CHANNEL DASH, by Terence Robertson.

On February 12. 1942, in daylight, the German battleships “Sharnhorst and “Gneisenau” escaped from Brest, France, through the English Channel to German waters. The news, when released, stunned the British public even more than the fall of Singapore two days later—-people just couldn’t understand how the Nazi ships could dash practically unscathed through the Strait of Dover, through our waters, and get away with it. It turned out to be a story of muddled leadership at the top. Here is a gripping account of the 24 hours during which the battleships raced through the Channel, and of the sacrifice of Lt.-Commander Eugene Esmonde, RN Fleet Air Arm, who led a squadron of obsolete Swordfish biplanes in a hopeless attack on the enemy ships.

Edmonde was posthumously awarded a VC. (GREAT PAN).

RACHEL CADE, by Charles Mercer.

Rachel’s long missionary nursing stint In Belgian Congo is broken by a wartime plane crash that brought Paul Winton, American doctor in the RAF, to her village. Together they heal the sick — and together they count the stars. Finally, he returns to civilisation. His place is taken by a new-chum missionary, scared of Africa, who eventually finds himself and helps Rachel, too, to solve her problems (including the Winton son). (FONTANA, yellow, 5/-).

DEATH OF A MAN, by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker. The true, sensitive story, told by his wife. of how Charles Wertenbaker, a writer, faced up to the last 90 days of his life, when he learned he was afflicted with incurable cancer. A moving record of the triumph of a man s spirit over pain, a man who chose his own moment to die. (GREAT PAN).

LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ,’s a moving collection of writings of Bonhoeffer, who was persecuted and eventually hanged by the Nazis for being a religious and honest man. These papers were smuggled out of prison. The book hits you as did “The Diary of Anne Frank”. (FONTANA, black). . „ .

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA is Cardinal Newman’s great classic in which he defends his spiritual and intellectual integrity from an attack. The book was first published in 1864. Cardinal Newman died in 1890. (FONTANA, black, 5/-) THE FOUR JUST MEN, by Edgar Wallace. One would expect that most people by now must have read Wallace s famous thriller of the four men dedicated to preventing injustice, but no doubt there will always be new readers for everything. They could do worse. (GREAT PAN). (Australian Prices; Great Pan 3/9; Pan Giant 5/-; Pan Major 7/6. Fontana 3/9, except where otherwise marked). 93 The Smoker (Continued from page 79) Hurricanes (Continued from page 80) PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Water Is Precious Along the ridge-like tentacles of octopus-like Bermuda, there is no area wide enough to collect a creek, let alone a river; no coastal flat out of which to pump water. So every one of these charming houses is built in a peculiar way First, they dig a huge pit, and concrete it; build the bungalow over it; and then put upon it a roof made of thin slabs of limestone, cunningly cemented together, and running down into a wide, semicircular gutter of unusual shape.

Pipes lead the rain-water down into the subterranean tanks; and electric motor-pumps, working on the cutin pressure system, push it back, as required, into domestic hot and cold water storage tanks.

Every household guards its water supply. One or two hilltops are covered with cement catchment areas, like that you see on top of Gibraltar; and, in times of drought, the Government sells water therefrom. Once, when the usual frequent rains missed out altogether, they brought shiploads of water over from the United States.

Their method of disposing of their dead is unusual. Bermuda itself consists of a thin layer of good soil over a vast heap of real limestone. They dig the grave through the topsoil, right into the limestone, and then put the bodies, encased in very light wood, into the limestone.

Within a year all but the skeleton has been entirely consumed by the limestone. It is an effective system of cremation, without cremation’s less desirable features.

Cars May Not Be Sold Families maintain tombs in this way and provided deaths are reasonably spaced—the process of burial through the one tomb can go on indefinitely.

Government controls extra-territorial finance sternly. A rich Bermudan family which would like to live in riches elsewhere may not easily transfer funds. Overseas buying is very strictly controlled.

Until quite recent years, motorcars were not admitted to the island at all. One travelled leisurely by horse-carriage, or cycled, or walked.

Now, there are plenty of motorvehicles; but no car exceeds four cylinders or 16 hp, and cycles are equipped with the smallest motor m captivity.

If you sell your car to anyone on the island, you may not own another for at least one year. The only way you can get a new car is to trade in your worn-out one with the agent; and the latter is obliged to send the second-hand vehicle overseas. There is here a trick in depreciation, in relation to public finance, that is interesting to corntemplate.

Overseas buying for local retailers is also cunningly controlled. Duty is not levied on the invoice value, plus i., f. and e., but on the assessed current value of the goods, after they arrive at the dockside, including c. i. f. and e. Consequently, no retailer in Bermuda can get much buying advantage over any other, even though his enterprise has carried him to London, New York of Timbuctoo. Fiji’s Customs Department learned some of its techniques in Bermuda.

The Cedar Forests Are Gone In 1939, an entomological disaster fell upon Bermuda. The lovely cedar trees, which are as distinctive and unique in this isle as the pines in Norfolk Island, began to wither and die.

The lazy Bermudans wondered, but did not worry. World War n was engaging general attention.

Many more pines died. The Government finally asked for scientific advice, and experts came over from America. It was too late. Somehow, a scale insect had been introduced, which ate away the bark slow-growing cedars. Officialdom sought everywhere for a biological answer to the pest, but it apparently never was found. Within 10 years, 90 per cent, of the island’s cedars were dead.

Today, a ghostlike forest of dead grey trees, sticking up above the masses of medium-size, dark-green vegetation which covers most of the island, is all that remains of the forests which over two centuries, pei medium of shipbuilding, created such huge wealth for Bermuda.

But all is not lost. The stubborn cedar seems to have bred its owr immunity to the scale insect. Little cedar trees are springing up al over the Colony, growing healthily In another hundred years, perhaps the cedars will have come back t( Bermuda failed in the examination, in which only about one man in ten is ever successful. Two years later came two important changes 1 . He swallowed the anchor and took a job as stevedore at Bowen, and he married Violet Swanson, at Cairns.

Within five years, in the depths of the depression of 1933, Charlie went back to sea as mate of the Poonbar and served in both Burke’s and Patrick’s during the next three years. He then swallowed the hook once more and joined Burns, Philp as stevedore at Port Moresby. In 1939 he transferred to the Administration as head gaoler at Port Moresby.

When war broke out he joined the RANR(S) and served in boom defence vessels for five years, ending in command of HMAS Koala.

He then returned to the Territory and served in various positions, including Government small ships, until he was appointed as shipping inspector at Port Moresby in the Department of Customs and Marine.

He will be retiring this year and intends to settle in Australia.

The Ashleys have two children: a daughter, Doreen, married to senior engineer McKillop, of the APC at Moresby, and a son, Dr. B. C.

Ashley at, present doing research at the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology, at Sydney Hospital.- BRETT HILDER. [?]rossquiz Solution From P. 78 He adds that a proper study of /hy smokers smoke, and why a ♦articular nation of smokers smoke, ould lead to skilful use of adverisements for tobacco companies.

He says his own studies of the moking motives in Australia have ndicated that the most prevalent notive there is number 6—“ on the •hreshold of adventure”, and number )—“feeling of traditional umty .

Next comes number 5 (replacenent for missing appreciation) ana lumber 1 (confirmation of adultaood) .

These are followed by numbers I and 3. Numbers 12 and 13 combine with the other motives in various degrees.

There is only an insignificant percentage of smokers in the other categories. 95 Bermuda Visit (Continued from page 83) Milder Profile (Continued from page 83) PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

One of the fruits of the Cold War is the secrecy that surrounds the tremendous developments in electronic navigation which have taken place in post war years but which are still restricted to military usage.

J|OST of these developments (I have been directed towards air navigation, but it seems irtain that in the forseeable iture sea navigation will have the id of radio-equipped space rockets ipable of providing information ifficient for an immediate naviitional fix under any conditions ; weather.

A similar application is at present sing used by the US Army Mapping ervice for fixing the positions of jrtain Pacific islands and reefs ithin several hundred feet. This being done by accurately timig the overhead passage of the merican space rocket Vauguard-1 hich was launced on March 17, )58, and is estimated to remain i orbit from 200 to 1,000 years.

Its radio gear is powered by sunght, which means that the gear perates for at least 70 per cent, f each circuit. The transmitter is n approximately 108 Mc/s and is ius only tunable on a special very igh frequency radio receiver.

It approaches within 405 statute files of the earth at its nearest oint. Its exact point overhead can e calculated with great accuracy nd it will continue to aid the map lakers as long as its radio functions. • TOUCH AND GO: Captain and rew were still aboard despite heavy seas which had been pounding the 8,397-ton Japanese freighter Nagasaki Maru between the time that she went ashore on Helen Reef, north of Dutch New Guinea, and mid-January. Owned by the Sawayama Steamship Co., of Kobe, and under charter to Osaka Shosen Kaisha, which operates a regular service from Japan to New Zealand via Hongkong, she went ashore while southbound on December 5.

Cargo was jettisoned from No.’s 1, 2 and 3 holds at the beginning of January in a refloating attempt which apparently failed, with the aid of the salvage ship Chitose Maru, which had been working in the New Guinea area. A typhoon passing further to the north during the first half of January caused rough seas and the ship was reported to be pounding heavily as salvage attempts continued. • AT COLLEGE: The Shimonoseki College of Fisheries training ship Koyo Maru (no connection with the larger tuna mothership Koyo Maru which operated near Fiji last year) was in Auckland in January.

The 1,215-ton vessel, launched in 1958, was on her second off-shore cruise with 49 students aboard.

Aged about 20, the students were in their fourth year of the fiveyear university course. During the four months at sea they were receiving practical training in navigation, trawling, longlining, and oceanography. On return to Japan they will do another year ashore at the university before graduation.

Some will then take jobs as key men with fishing companies ashore, while others will go to motherships or to ordinary merchant ships as cadet officers. After a year at sea these latter will sit for their Third Mate’s certificate.

The course costs each boy, or his parents, about £5OO, so the boys are mainly from reasonably well-to-do families, many with no seafaring background.

Koyo Maru is not engaged in commercial fishing.

The vessel has a well-equipped laboratory and her hydrographic sounding gear included the usual big winch with 5,000 metres of sounding wire on one drum and 2,000 metres of trawling wire on another. Constant seawater temperature readings are available on a meter in the laboratory to any depth down to 300 metres.

In addition to the main electronic echo sounder for depths up to 10,000 metres, the ship carried a small portable echo sounder for use in one or other of the two big launches. Equipment for lowering by sounding wire included a bathythermograph, a current meter, and a sampling “bottle”. Bridge and radio room are equipped with every modern navigational aid.

The students are housed in sixberth cabins located round the big lecture hall and recreation room, which also contains a TV receiver.

Koyo Maru is one of eight vessels operated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, but there are many other similar training vessels In The News This Month uzac valon xelle zuma Maru arbary arcoo enten Maru anberra hitose Maru orinthic ornwell elfino obiri rifter lizabeth Boye ort Beauharnois rasgoyne [amutana sin-Li ellicle elpie ilinailau okoda oyo Maru iro orraine lacuata Marilen Maroro Marutake Maru Maui Pomare Moana Roa Nagasaki Maru Nareau New Silver Gull Oriana Outward Bound Pukaki Quest Romayne Rouna Falls San Antonio Sarong St. Lawrence Sumayashi Maru Swan Swingle Te Matangi Te Matapula Tiburon Trade Winds Trieste Vingrom Wallach Warramunga Zensho Maru Currently in Sydney from Fiji after a 12 years cruise, and with no immediate plans for the future are Mr. and Mrs. H. Scott and their "New Silver Gull" (shown here in Sydney Harbour). The map on the wall behind the Scotts includes a plot of their long trek. 97 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 196 0

Cargo Vessels

m Photo shows the 60 feet K Class Copra Vessel, built by us for Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. of Port Moresby, here carrying 420 bags of copra on a draft of only 5 feet 6 inches These vessels and also 40 feet Army Workboats are in regular production in our yards.

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FOR SALE: Exclusively in our hands. TWIN SCREW MOTOR VESSEL "ARANUI". Built 1945, United Shipbuilders Ltd., Auckland, re-engined 1955.

Dimensions: Length 103 ft. 3 in.; Breadth 23 ft. 6 in.; draft (loaded) 11 ft.

Type of construction: Composite, engines aft. Tonnages: Gross 243; Nett 147; Deadweight about 250 tons. Holds, hatches, winches: two. Main Propulsion: Twin BL3 Gardner diesels. Auxiliaries, winches, windlass: diesel. Speed: 8 knots.

Accommodation: Master, mate, chief engineer, second engineer, cook, aft; 6 crew for'd.

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"KATOORA" (Not shown in photo) Built 1927, U.K.

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Shipbrokers, 26 Bridge Street, Sydney Phone: BU 1052 Cables: "BERBL", Sydney •erated by the Ministry of Translation, the Ministry of Educajn. and the various Prefectural •vernments, some having more iphasis on practical fishing, and me dealing with younger boys of wer standard, or teaching only ivigation.

Koyo Maru was to proceed home rect from Auckland but next year ie will cruise to Chile and will ,11 at Papeete or possibly Suva. • UNUSUAL JOB. The Maroro ruise and Charter Service ketch aroro, based at Suva, was off on lother unusual job in January, a ,dio “ham” expedition to the Dkelau Islands, north of Samoa.

The ketch cleared Suva for Apia id north on December 29, with ew Mexico ham Dr. H. W. :eredith, his wife, Fiji ham Peter lexander, of Vatukoula, and Mrs. , Akins aboard, to give the world’s ims an opportunity to earn a card ith the call-sign ZM6AP-Portable i its face. There are no homeown hams in the Tokelau atolls.

Operations were from Nukumo, and the party established con- ,ct with over 3,000 hams in 65 luntries during their week’s stay.

Maroro returned to Suva on Janiry 17. Later. Dr and Mrs. Meredith ft Fiji for New Zealand. • WIND GO, WATER COME: here should not be any surprise • mystery connected with the high ides” associated with a hurricane, it invariably there is much specu- ,tion by the man on the wateront when this phenomena is jserved.

When some billions of tons weight I air is removed from one place i another during the passage of hurricane, it seems fairly clear lat the sea is going to be forced ito that low pressure zone and is ling to pile up in a dome “above ta -level” —as an Irishman might iy- That is what happened in Fiji i January when the hurricanes assed well to the south. Seamen can reasonably expect unusual “sets” of current, flowing more or less with the wind, at such times, perhaps far from the hurricane centre. In the same way exceptional anticyclones result in an outward flow of seawater.

Such sets due to air pressure difference may be greater or less than the sets due to the wind on the sea surface, and can probably account for a good many strandings, though this factor seems to be one which is not always given very deep consideration at marine inquiries.

E & O E: The New Zealand Meteorological Service has recently issued an 8-page pamphlet entitled Meteorology of the South Pacific, which is available for the asking from its Port Meteorological Officers.

It gives an outline of normal seasonal weather movements and it [?]monoseki Fisheries University's 1,215-ton [?]ining ship "Koyo Maru", in South Pacific waters in January. (See below). 99 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Code: ABC sixth edition. 1 ' HandB ' M '' N ' V ' A 9 entscha P ders of ah kinds of small craft: Lighters, Hopperbarges, Houseboats gs, etc. epairers for The Royal Dutch Navy, The Dutch New Guinet Government, The Royal Packet Navigation Co. A. S. O. 100 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

V °NZ tions with the exception of Midcasting stations. It might have rn made more useful had it also iinHpd all weather broadcasts, Sliding those from broadcasting if inns in the Islands areas, too. rS&IaV controls almost all of brTdts I to thSoSSteSd from'the b Antarctic to the Equator, but W here—except in PlM’s usual nual summary —is there pubtied information of the many bather broadcasts useful to shiple in the tropical portion of this ge area.

What is wanted is a regularly reied pamphlet covering all broad- -sts from French Polynesia west- ,rd to the Australian coast and w Guinea for the whole area ith of the Line. Still wanted, too, more consideration for the yachts- ;n, of which there are many, in e way of a voice broadcast of ;ather conditions throughout the nole tropical area, transmitted on *h frequencies and receivable by ssels anywhere in the area. • WHERE DID IT COME FROM?: le master of the British liner rinthic reported on arrival at ickland early in January that this ip bound from Panama, had ssed through 900 miles of what peared to be floating pumice, the ne ending about 150 miles from ickland.

Whether the pumice had come Dm some undersea volcano in that neral area, or whether it had been rried down from the New ebrides area, where there had been Icanic activity as mentioned last onth, by the recent hurricanes, ay never be known.

• Pass The Opener: The

>ttles are still drifting by. Latest r our record is a beer bottle picked up on the beach 10 miles south of Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand on January 3 by a gentleman with the name of Breeze. In lieu of beer there was a note dated 14/4/56, the name Hans van Goverg, Vanberg Place, Cape Town, and the friendly inquiry, “How vas you?” • MAN OVERBOARD; The Norwegian freighter Vingrom, under charter to British Phosphate Commissioners, reported on arrival at Lyttleton, in January, that galleyboy Tore Hansen, aged 17, known to be aboard when the vessel sailed from Nauru on December 31, was missing next morning. o SHIP MISSING: A HYDRO- PAC message to all ships in January requested information concerning the Japanese fishing vessel Benten Maru No. 13, 84 tons, call-sign JQEM, missing since she last reported by radio on December 31 at position 32.28 N, 165.40 E.

• In For Their Chop: For

delaying their annual holidays and making a special voyage from Auckland to the Chatham Is. with school-children, in January, the officers and crew of NZGS Maui Pomare shared a present of 15 carcases of prime lamb, received from the happy parents. The ship arrived back from her week’s voyage and paid off on January 2, and was scheduled to sail for the Cooks on her first 1960 voyage on January 21. What she will be doing in 1961 no one can say, but her successor, the new MoaTia Roa should be on the job well before then. • SOMETHING OLD, SOME- THING NEW: Agence Reuter of Noumea is reported to have disposed of the 203-ton wooden vessel Lorraine —ex English fishing vessel Maid of Pinto, purchased from Malta in 1954—and is now interested in a somewhat larger vessel.

Purchaser of Lorraine was unknown to PIM late in January. • STILL LOOKING: Mr. Jack Thurston, of New Guinea, on a combined vacation and ship hunt, looked over one or two vessels in New Zealand waters in January but is believed not to have made any purchase as yet. • LEARNING DUTCH: Netherlands New Guinea appears to be far more advanced than most other South Pacific territories in the matter of training navigators and marine engineers. Arrang ments have now been made for a number of Australian New Guinea students to attend the Hollandia Nautical School for a year’s course. The Australian Government, or New Gu nea authorities, foot the bill. The boys receive a uniform, accommodation, rations, instructions, and pocket money at the rate of £l6/5/ per annum. Of the first group of boys, six are to be trained as seamen and six as engineers. • THEY’RE SHUDDERING: Whenever the big news starts to break somewhere in the Pacific Islands the world’s news agencies invariably turn on a display of extraordinary geographic ignorance.

As soon as the Russian rocket tests were announced in January, Fiji Times began to be bombarded with news agency queries on how Papua-New Guinea students are to attend the Hollandia Nautical School, NNG, for a year's course. This arrangement is part of the closer liaison between the two Territories. Here are some NNG students on the job. (See story this page).

Captain Hugh Williams and seaman Kaipo Makimare, of Aitutaki, survey Auckland from the focsle-head of "Dobiri", Cook Islands trader, which was in Auckland in January. (See p. 105). 101 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St., Sydney, on the last Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

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Noumea R. Laubreaux Norfolk Island A. E. Martin Apia E. A. Coxon & Co. people in Fiji were feeling about all. They were apparently quite iware of the fact that the target a was almost twice as far (1,500 es) from Fiji as from Hawaii 0 miles). New Zealand newsiers did not publish the exact ation of the test area. The Fiji nes did, but in a very garbled m, apparently as received from ;rseas, though this could be ted out to make sense. ?here was less sense, however, in agency report from Fiji which d, “Russian ships can expect to d only a few small ships operated Gilbert and Ellice Is. traders when »y arrive at their Pacific idezvous. . .” This will surely be tvs in the Gilberts. About the ly vessels they might find would Japanese tuna longliners.

> What’S Going On Up

lERE?: One of the few GEIC ssels that does go somewhere near 5 Russian rocket area from time time —though well to the south it—is the Suva-built 126-ton tch Te Matapula, and if reports jeived in the outside world in nuary were any indication she d just come to an unhappy end.

First she was in trouble at iristmas Island when, on Nomber 19, a Royal Navy 45-ft rbour tender attached to the J’A Fort Beauharnois, knocked a le 2 ft x 1 ft in her side 3 ft ove the waterline. The Navy tched her up and she headed ,ck for Tarawa. Word was reived in Suva late December that e had apparently there caught e and was considered a total loss.

Built in Suva in 1953, Te Mataila was originally to go into the & E Is. trade for the Colony holesale Society, but was taken er by Government in 1955. She is powered by a 204-hp Ruston ornsby diesel.

To replace her, Captain G. ouglas, Tarawa’s marine superinndent, in Fiji on his way back the Gilberts after leave in UK, immissioned a Suva marine surveyor to report on the old BP ketch Macuata, withdrawn from service several years ago and, at end of January, anchored in Walu Bay.

Experts considered that about £6,000 would need to be spent on Macuata to make her serviceable, in addition to her reported for-sale price of between £4,500 and £5,000.

Another vessel that the G & E authorities looked at as a replacement, was Trade Winds, ex Aoniu, 128 tons gross, formerly of Tonga.

She was offered for sale recently by an Auckland shipbroker.

Earlier, on October 30, the Gilberts Government’s vessel Nareau, 180 tons, suffered some slight engineroom damage by fire and water at the conclusion of her annual refit in Suva. The fire delayed the vessel’s departure by five days. • GOING DOWN: Dr. Jacques Piccard, of the famous Swiss scientist family, and US Navy Lieutenant Commander Donald Walsh, on January 23, made a world record ocean descent to a depth of 37,800 ft. (more than seven miles) in the Challenger Deep of the Marianas Trench, north of the Palau and Caroline Islands.

They sat for half an hour on the bottom and reported seeing living and moving objects when the lights were turned on. Until this dive, the Marianas Trench was thought to be only 35,000 feet deep, which was based on measurements by the Russians in 1957.

It took the bathyscaph Trieste almost five hours to descend and a little over three hours to return to the surface. There was a pressure of 16,883 lbs a square inch against the craft’s hull on the bottom, and temperatures were nearfreezing.

The men lost voice contact with the surface about half-way down but it was re-established when they hit bottom and maintained until about mid-way up.

The Trieste had been in that area for some time. It made a record dive to 18,600 ft on November 15.

Yacht "Romayne", at Auckland recently. The crew from left: Ann Reiner, Caroline Kinloch, Hans Reiner, skipperowner Stuart Riddell, George Miller, Michael Kinloch. Absent: Emily Shepard who was shortly to be Mrs. Riddell. 103 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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SOLOMON ISLANDS; Mendana Enterprises Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 73, Honiara. a dive on January 7 a depth of (30 ft was reached, with Piccard Walsh aboard. . he Trieste was designed by tne -ards, father and son, and after value had been demonstrated :dives in the Mediterranean the Navy bought it and engaged Dr.

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Ihe Piccards, in early January, ie insisting that Jacques was to i one of the two men to man it an it attempted to reach the in-mile depth. The Americans e insisting that it be an all- .erican affair, but the Piccards Tie dive means that man has ,ched a depth in the sea greater ,n the height of the tallest untain—29,ooo ft Everest. i FOR “BAA” READ “MOO”: wording to a Suva report the £ter of the lamb \inev Delfino d in December, when the ship s northbound from Sydney for n Diego with its third cargo of nbs, that on returning to Aus- L lia the ship would transfer to => cattle trade from Darwin to isbane for a number of voyages inversion from sheep to cattle mid obviously involve a lot oi irk as the pens were designed for eep It was not clear whether this >ant that American and Ausilian resistance to the live lamb port trade had proved too much id that the ship was being forced but a later report from Calimia said that at least three other ssels were being fitted out there enter the live lamb trade for her interests, which did not sugst that it had been killed.

• New Naval Liaison

FFICER: Since the Fiji RNVR as decommissioned last year there is been no Naval Liaison Officer L Suva to handle the affairs of siting naval craft, fleet tankers, ,c., which call from time to time, i January it was announced that new appointment had been made -Lieutenant J. H. Gale, formerly of RNVR, and a resident of Suva. • ROCK-AND-ROLL IS OUT: /hen the Cook Islands trader lobin sails from Auckland in larch following refit, this 19ear-old l?.dy will have abandoned Dck-and-roll and adopted a more Bdate step—at least that is what wner-master Hugh Williams exacts. The vessel is being fitted with 0-inch bilge keels to slow down ter lively motion.

Dohiri, ex Total, built of wood by I. Mercier, of Noumea, in 1941, aust be one of the very few New 3aledonia-built ships to trade in ither waters. She is unusually >eamy, 22 ft, for her length of 82i t and has unusually low head- •oom in her accommodation, but ;he is a handy ship for the Cooks vhere shallow draft is desirable. Her layout gives a measure of comfort to deck passengers. • MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN: For years there has been talk of building a reasonably sheltered Rarotonga harbour capable of handling the local small craft— vessels of, say, up to 12 ft draught— and several detailed investigations have been made, but that is about as far as things have gone. One reason is lack of unity between the four local shipowners.

There is no shipowners’ federation which can bring united pressure on the Government for improvements.

Several years ago the Director of Public Works in the Cooks worked out a scheme for Avarua harbour which gave promise <pf meeting reouirements at an estimated cost ol about £20,000. The scheme was okayed by the Minister on a visit to Rarotonga, subject to its being okayed by a senior engineer from New Zealand. The latter gentleman vetoed it and produced an £BO,OOO scheme which the government would not finance.

Since then a considerable sum of money has been spent at both Avarua and the nearby Avatm harbour on futilely scooping sand away from the berth area and from the Union Co.’s lighter launching ramp, only to see the slight depressions so made filled with silt 105 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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ain after each rain storm. So long local shipping can make do with ■; present situation there is unjely to be any improvement.

Jause of the silting at the main irbour of Avarua is a stream feedijr into it. To anyone who has seen large river diverted in its course th the aid of a row of fallen Cows, wired together, or a few v stone embankments, the problem diverting this stream and perps altering the situation subintially, does not appear msurmntable. At least it might be >rth a trial, as little money would involved.

• Regulations Tighter In

)LOMONS: The British Solomons arine Department has recently en reminding local shipowners, suns, and engineer-mechanics at the Shipping Regulations 1957, lich came into force on January 1, 59, require a survey to be rried out on all local vessels, id also require these personnel to »tain a certificate of competency. ) date some leeway has been lowed, but few applications for irveys or certificates have been ceived A Government statement id that it has not been desired place harsh restrictions on shipmers or boats’ crews, but a arine Licensing Officer and Marine irveyors have been appointed and is felt that the time has now ime for action —so, gentlemen, ndly form a queue and toe the le!

• All Over The Place: If

ariners start reporting unusual >mpass deviation off Ouaco, New aledonia, with nothing to account ir it, they can blame the old eighter San Antonio which, bound om New Zealand and Noumea for ipan with a full cargo of scrap ent up on the reef there on Janiry 7, 1957, after losing her profiler and drifting ashore.

Recently, Mr. Les Ellis, of Auckmd, on a scrap hunting expedion, had a look at what remained I San Antonio and admitted that le wasn’t a business proposition, he is well broken up, with her ,000 tons of scrap, plus her own ull plates, scattered over a wide reef area by heavy sea since the stranding. Nothing shprt of a helicopter and a magnet will ever collect those pieces. • SINGLE, NOT TWIN: Writing from Brixham, England, Mr. S.

Briant, formerly an engineer with the Australian Directorate of Shipping in New Guinea, points out that the vessel Kokoda (PIM, October, 1959. p 144) now named Liro, is single screw, not twin, as stated there—and he should know, for she was said to have the best-kept engine-room of the government fleet when he was chief in her. He was later chief in Matarani operating from Samarai. • ONE IN, ONE OUT: After three years in reserve, the RAN frigate Barcoo has been recommissioned and will make an oceanographic survey of section of the South Pacific, commencing at Lord Howe Island, this month. At the same time as Barcoo rejoined the Navy, the destroyer Warramunga moored beside her at Garden Island, was paid off and went into reserve.

Warramunga, 17 years old, took part in 16 troop landing operations in the Pacific in World War II without receiving one serious hit. • UN SEA CONFERENCE: Geneva will be the site of the second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, from March 17 to April 14. Invitations have been sent to 103 governments, maritime organisations and commissions. The two main questions left unsettled at the first Conference, in 1958, will be dealt with, namely, the related problems of the width of the territorial sea and the breadth of zones in which coastal countries may exercise exclusive fishing rights outside their territorial waters.

Of the four conventions adopted at the 1958 conference, one (Convention on the High Seas) has been signed by 48 nations and ratified by one country, Afghanistan. Convention on the Continental Shelf has been signed by 46 countries; Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone by 44 countries; and Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas by 37 countries.

Twenty-two ratifications are required before any convention becomes enforceable. • LAE BUSY: In the lull between big vessels, the small ships have taken over Lae Wharf, and the place is a hive of activity these days (wrote our Lae correspondent in January).

MV Elisabeth Boye, now operating a regular service from Sydney, Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, left during a recent weekend, loaded with timber, plywood and peanuts, and will return with general Islands cargo. She is a European-built ship, especially for the timber trade, and is under charter to the Karlander Line, whose agent in P-NG is New Guinea Goldfields Ltd, themselves shipping a considerable quantity of timber and plywood.

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vessels of the Orient and Pacific Lines now fly the new house pennant of the joint companies.

The flag is divided into four segments by a blue cross. At top left, on white background, Orient Line’s crown is superimposed on the P & O sun-sea symbol in red, yellow and blue; top right, blue; bottom left, yellow; bottom right, white.

O & P Lines Pacific operations commenced in January. 1959, and now link Australia, NZ, Fiji and Hawaii with North America; North America with the Far East (Japan Hongkong, Philippines); the Far East with Australia—thus forming Here is all that now remains of the old freighter "San Antonio" on the reef off Ouaco, New Caledonia. She is not a business proposition as scrap. (See story this page).

Photo: L. Ellis HURRICANE DID IT. This is all that could be seen of the auxiliary ketch "Avalon", 80 tons, following the big New Hebrides hurricane of December. The "Avalon", without an engine, had been beached on Iririki Island with the bottom out of it for some time, and owner Captain Brett Hilder had been asked to move it, but couldn't. The vessel was originally the "Taipan", and he had bought it for its teak. Anyhow, after the blow the "Avalon" was found in 60 ft. of water. Later, the Australian Army blew it up because it was in the way, and that was the end of that! 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1960

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Going south this year? A mainland furlough, meeting old friends or seeing your children at school, is an event to look forward to.

Ral> it ; Ca^ ree . h 0- Le ‘ * he Com momvealth Savings JzS" O" 1 ' s ’“” “ k ' -»< ■» matiom— ny ° £ £ollowin S branch « for further infor- Port Moresby Corona Madang Rabaul Kavieng Wewa\ Honiara Bulolo Lae Norfol{ Island 58.128.83 a great Pacific triangle whic] traversed both clockwise and 2 clockwise.

One of the Line’s two new su liners, Canberra (45,000 tons, O), will be launched in UK March 1 by Dame Pattie Men wife of Australia’s Prime Mini The other, Oriana (40,000 t Orient Co.), was launched last vember by Princess Alexandra. I will carry more than ; passengers at 27i knots. They enter the service in late 1960 early 1961.

• Nz Frigate To Visit P-]

HMNZS Pukaki, which has occasion shown the flag in Cen Pacific, will call at Port More P-NG, April 24-26, on her way t from Hongkong to Auckland.

The following RAN ships will : visit the Territory during the 1 couple of months: Swan (trair frigate), Port Moresby, March 12 Gasgoyne (frigate on oceanograi survey), pt. Moresby, March 29 Tobruk (destroyer), Rabaul, I 14-16, Manus, May 17-20, Lae J 21-23, Pt. Moresby May 25- Anzac (destroyer), Rabaul » 14-16, Manus May 17-20, Saim May 22-24, Port Moresby May 25

• Chinese Ship Adrift- F(

day or two in early January, P-NG Administration assisted ir sea and air search for a miss Nationalist Chinese fishing vei Hsin-Li. The 100 ft wooden st with 19 aboard, was reported to drifting towards Wuvulu and / Islands, 120 miles NNW frc Wewak.

The Administration trawl Rouna Falls was sent out; a D air-sea rescue aircraft took off a search from Wewak; a arrangements were made for 1 privately-owned St. Lawrence, th near Ninigo Group, to divert to t area. The Netherlands NG Gover ment sent out a Cessna plane on square search.

On January 12, a radio messai relayed through Manila, advis that the Hsin-Li had been repair at sea and was safe. The sear was then called off,

• Stranded Japs Rescue!

When the 95 tons fishing vesj Sumayashi Maru went aground \ The new pennant of the 0 & P line, to be seen in the Pacific. 108 februarv ’ 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Giaxo La*omato*i«s CN 2-| Ltd-. No»th. N a 3eef off Fead Islands, New Guinea, December 31, 25 Japanese were tanded for a week They we re :cued by Bougainville Co s Kil- :’ilau, which was diverted to =guria (or Home) Is., and taken to ibaul. The Japanese were later :en aboard Azuma Maru (200 tons ling boat) which came down r.m the Carolines to collect them.

Captain Toshio Mizushima said \mayashi struck the reef at 1 a.m. :d became a total wreck. She was second Japanese fishing vessel t there —Marutake Maru, No. 14, a aground on the Feads reef on member 1, 1955. Seven Japanese ssels have hit NG reefs in recent ars, six of them being beyond Ivage. • HOLLANDIA’S NEW WHARF: new, modern jetty for ships up 12,000 tons will be ready next onth at Hollandia, Netherlands »w Guinea. Facilities will include 2,500 sq. yds. storage building.

Modernisation plans are under iy (or being considered) for the irbours of Bia k, Manokwari, jrong, Gudang, Arang, Fakfak, irmi and Kaimana, NNG. • SHE’LL LOOK COOL: Colours losen for Moana Roa, 2,750 tons otorship now being built in UK ► replace the NZ Government’s aui Pomare on the Cook Is. run, :e pale green hull, dark green mnd the waterline, and white pperworks. Her funnel will provide contrast —signal red divided by horizonal black band. Inside jlours will be eau-de-nil, ivory and rimrose, while passengers’ lounge id dining saloon will be panelled ith pale wood.

• Lighthouse Ships: Two

nail motor vessels. Swingle and Tallach, which service lighthouses, ghts and other navigational aids to lipping in Papua-New Guinea and 'orres Strait, are nearly the end f their useful life, Australian Minster for Shipping and Transport, enator S. Paltridge, said recently hat they and the three Cape ships York, Leeuwin, and Otway), which ttend Australian lights, will be relaced in a £2,500,000 replacement irogramme.

• Now, If You Had A Tuna

JO AT!: The American fish cannery ,t Pago Pago has recently been saying the two Japanese cornsanies supplying them with fish, ;310 per metric ton for the top ;rade albacore. The 158-ton Zensho \laru No. 18, fishing near New Zealand last winter, landed some :argo worth $27,000 —a record landng for Pago Pago. The Japanese jovernment controls the amount of :una which it permits its vessels to ieliver to foreign canneries and the Pago Pago cannery quota has been set at 12,000 tons a year, but there is a possibility that this will be increased this year.

The quota for delivery to PaUikulo, New Hebrides is currently 3,600 tons. Of the 12,688 tons of fish landed at Pago Pago in 1958 8 964 tons was albacore, 2,150 tons was yellowfin, and 476 tons was bigeye tuna. These totals were reached in 268 actual trips by a total of 42 longliners averaging 50 to 150 tons gross in size each.

Up to the end of September, 1959, the landings at Pago Pago last year were 7,642 tons of albacore, 1,715 of yellowfin, 372 of bigeye, and two tons of skipjack.

News of Cruising Yachts • DRIFTER, 30-ft Wellington yacht, which left Rarotonga with owner John Moore aboard last August 16 for “Gisborne or possibly Wellington”, and which was the object of an air search in the second week in October, is still missing as far as “PIM” can discover. Search and Rescue Organisation has no information of the yacht’s eventual arrival anywhere up to late January. Moore was born, or lived as an infant, at Rarotonga during World War I when his father served there as a government doctor. He sailed for Canada from Wellington last Winter, intending to call first at Mangareva, but en route blew out some sails so diverted to Rarotonga from where, after some days, he decided to return to Wellington until 1960.

The October air search was initiated when the British freighter CORNWALL, while between Auckland and Wellington, intercepted a garbled distress call which included the word “drift” in some form.

No other station intercepted the message, and it seems to be well established that DRIFTER had no transmitter capable of sending morse on 500 kc/s where the message was intercepted, so there is 109 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Ihe has since cruised South Island waters. • KELPIE ex HOPEFUL, 65-ft x 59-ft 15-ft x 10-ft Bermudan schooner of Newport, Cal., arrived at Papeete on November 29 via the Marquesas where five veeks were spent. With owner George E. dinney and three sons, Ernest, Joseph, ind Owen, lan McLeod, and Peter Sstabrook. The 31-year-old Marine-built racht will not be coming further west but irill head back home via French Polynesian and Honolulu. • TIBURON, of Santa Barbara, Cal., with Ed. and Ruth Vessey, arrived at Papeete, December 10, and will remain In French Polynesian waters for four or five months. Leaving home December 20. 1958, this 40-ft x x llMs-ft x 714-ft ketch has called at numerous Central American ports, nine islands and 14 anchorages in the Galapagos, and also in the Marquesas and Tuamotus. There are no firm future plans. • ROMAYNE, of Vancouver, at Auckland, was advertised for sale there in January. She is a 53-ft deckline x 14-ft X 8-ft ketch with Albion Albatross diesel auxiliary. • BARBARY, which cruised to Fiji from the United States some years ago, was there sold to Captain D. K. Matheson, of Auckland, and now owned by Mr. John Robinson. was dismasted near Little Barrier Island, NZ, on January 7, but the 38-ft ketch reached port safely. • AXELLE which the Frost brothers of London sailed to New Zealand via the Pacific in 1951 and sold at Whangarei.

NZ, was blown ashore 18 miles from Whangarei during the Christmas holidays but was not considered a total loss. This yacht, now owned by J. Brown, was the source of some excitement at Papeete on August 2, 1951, when she was alleged to have sailed without clearance, was pursued by the pilot launch, overtaken and escorted back to port, and the owners fined. • TE MATANGI, of Los Angeles, for a while believed to be in trouble, arrived at Auckland, December 23. Source of a small-craft R/T distress call heard at Whangarei was never established and is thought to have been a hoax. Its contents were garbled. • MARILEN, 6094-ft Los Angeles ketch, while bound from Suva to Papeete via Atiu, lost both her masts 100 miles west of Papeete early December when a chainolate fitting parted in a fresh breeze under all sail. The boat was otherwise undamaged and the rigging was saved, and the yacht made Papeete under motor and jury rig. Howard Gee and his two sons and Peter Chick are remaining in Papeete awaiting the arrival of new spars from the US, but Mrs. Gee and small son Gregory have flown home. • SARONG, of Sydney, on the latter part of a circumnavigation, arrived at Papeete, January 8, from Panama. • JLLLICLE’s successor, name still unknown, which was believed to have sailed for NZ from the UK in mid-1959, is so far unreported west of Panama. This yacht was similar to JELLICLE which Lieutenant-Commander Michael Balles sailed to Auckland and sold in 1955. This time he was to have a crew of three aboard the 25-foot Folkboat. • OUTWARD BOUND, with the Caldwell family aboard, was at Aden on January 6, when John Caldwell dropped a note to “PIM”. From Cocos (Nov. PIM”, p. Ill), they had a quiet trip to lonely Durgo Garcia atoll in mid-Indian Ocean; but their next leg to Seychelles was through a cyclone that blew a solid 90 knots.

“We liked the Seychelles greatly”, writes Caldwell, “finding the scenery as remarkable as any we had seen in the South Pacific. Mahe, the main island, is called the Pearl of the Indian Ocean (memories of Papeete, Pearl of the Pacific).

“Our trip up to Aden was veering due to headwinds, and 800 miles of beating to windward. The Middle East in transition is very exciting and colourful —reminds me of China (Shanghai) in 1945; the same policies that lost her stick out like a sore thumb here. We attack the Red Sea in February and will be in Rome for the Olympic Games; then to England, on to America and, finally, the Pacific.” • A BETTER BARGAIN: Mr. Serge Tetzner, purchaser of the ex-RNZAF crash-boat mentioned in December, says that his purchase was something more of a bargain than we there reported. He paid a mere £5O for the vessel, and there is every indication that she can be repaired and put back into service. No. 276 is now hauled out at Lami, near Suva.

Sprucing Them Up Union Company freighters are to shed their dreary black and buff hull and superstructure colours and will soon be appearing in the Islands in a more attractive colour scheme —green hulls with yellow band, and white superstructure. This is the colour scheme which already applies to the company’s declining passenger ship fleet, including “ Tofua” and “Matua” and the larger trans-Pacific freighters which carry a few passengers. It will now also apply to the smaller freighters which operate to the Islands from New Zealand and Australia.

In the past, Islands passengers ships and some freighters were painted white, but it was found that this colour was too costly to maintain, and it was discontinued, several years ago.

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Pacific Report The month’s round-up of news and pictures of people and events, from PIM correspondents in the South Pacific. lew Britain's Worst forms For 20 Years While cyclonic weather lashed te Queensland coast and a devastatig typhoon struck the New Hebrides ,te in December, an arm of the sormy conditions struck out and rought to New Britain the most amaging weather it has known for t least 20 years.

In Rabaul alone nearly 30 inches f rain fell, making the month the ettest December on record, but in le Bainings district some falls exeeded 45 inches.

A native plantation worker rowned in the flooded Warangoi iver, 30 miles from Rabaul, and ve others narrowly escaped death r hen a flood-undermined road eclipsed beneath their car near avuneram, nine miles from Rabaul.

Road damage was so extensive i Rabaul and district that works fficers estimated £2,000 a week was eing spent on repairs for several reeks after the storm died away.

In the producing areas, floods and ain took heavy toll of plantings nd equipment. Damage was par- Lcularly heavy along the strip of lantations between the Bainings oastline and the mountain range ehind them.

Landslides demolished five-yearid cocoa plantings, and floods cashed away buildings, leaving a etal bill for damages which cannot et be estimated.

Roads at the back of Kokopo, 20 [files from Rabaul, turned into wamps, and other roads closer to labaul were cut open with gullies ,nd erosion channels.

Power station and telephone echnicians worked long hours to epair services affected by the rain.

In the western parts of New Iritain at least eight bridges were lestroyed, two of which were steelpan bridges.

At the height of one of the stormy peeks the Assistant Administrator >f Papua-New Guinea, Dr. J. T. >unther, decided to fly to Hoskins flrstrip to inspect New Britain outtations. Wet weather prevented a ouch-down, and Dr, Gunther went >n to Rabaul.

It made little difference to the ultimate result of his tour, but it was not funny for the New Britain District Commissioner, Mr. John Foldi, who was in a storm-tossed boat travelling to meet Dr. Gunther.

He turned round and went back to Rabaul.

On the production side, the rain reduced the output of cocoa and caused losses to plantations relying on sun-driers. Under the circumstances, the quality of cocoa which some properties continued to produce was laudable, although the output was down.

Plans For P-NG Mineral Search A group of businessmen was considering the spending of £111,600 on a search for minerals in Papua- New Guinea, an AAP-Reuter report from Port Moresby said in January.

If the group decided to go ahead with the plan and the results were promising the total investment could be “very much more substantial” the leader of the group, Mr. George Scholey, of Manila, said.

“Present indications are that they will have a team of Filipino geologists and surveyors working in the Territory within three months”, Mr. Scholey said. “From what I already have seen of mining prospects during a few days in the Territory there is room for investment and my report to my partners should be favourable.”

Mr. Scholey, who is an American, and manager of the Philex Mining Corporation, said his group was primarily interested in mining copper, but also was interested in gold.

“We would consider buying an existing mine if prospects were good enough. We have been thinking of investing in a search for minerals Tonga's Beach House Reopened Tonga’s Beach House has been reopened as a guest house under the managership of Mrs.

David (Bella) Riechelmann, who previously managed the Government Guest House.

The Beach House is being used by Fiji Airways, for passengers on their new monthly service from Fiji, which began in January.

There has not been accommodation available for visitors in Nukualofa, except in private homes, for nearly two years. No start has yet been made on a hotel planned by the Government on the waterfront.

BLAZE. This is how Morris Hedstrom's store at Ba, Fiji, looked at the height of the fire which destroyed it on January 16. It was impossible to save any stock from the building, despite a hard fight by the Lautoka Fire Brigade, police and volunteers. But the fire fighters prevented the fire from spreading to the company's nearby garage, timber shed and bulk store.

Photo: J. W. S. Mackenzie. 113 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Tie number of burglaries dropped ry sharply soon after the patrols •e strengthened. But it is a little d on the specials who do a night patrol and then have to go to ir normal work the next day. wever, they are a cheerful lot, 1 showed their merit during the ;s. l few days after the first comints the police made a great il of stolen property and court es were expected to follow hin a few days.

I Fiji Govt. Wage iployees Get Raise ls a result of negotiations belen the Fiji Public Works Departnt Employees’ Union and the Detment, which had been going on ce last June, agreement was ched in mid-January whereby onists will receive increases, respective from August 1, varying m 4id per hour for the lowest d workers down to id per hour those on the highest rates. The v minimum rate thus becomes per hour.

Ls a result of this agreement the vernment announced next day it all other Government hourly, daily, and monthly unestablished workers numbering about 1,500 would receive increases on the same scale. Workers other than PWD had received increases in December comparable with those awarded to sugar mill workers earlier in the year on the basis of recommendations by a commission of inquiry. The basic rate was thereby increased by 3d.

This has now been further increased, in line with the PWD scale, to 4 2 d. The new December scale was retrospective to October 1, but this has now been adjusted August i.

The Fiji Government had announced earlier in January that as a result of representations made by the Fiji Industrial Workers’ Congress and the Public Works Department Union, it had decided to postpone implementation of the proposed policy whereby considerable staff reductions were to have taken place, farming out much PWD work to private contractors. The government is now giving consideration to the points raised by the unions.

Theoretically, the transfer of work to contractors would call for more labour by them, but it is probably doubtful whether anything like all the PWD labour would be so absorbed, so some unemployment would seem probable.

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Almost all schemes in Fiji h been held up pending release of Burns Commission recommen tions, which will effect every ph of Colony life.

Following the announcement of creases in rates through governm casual-worker ranks, Christie Nielsen and Gammon Ltd., overs contractors handling the Laub wharf and Suva slipway jobs, i nounced that in line with an agr ment which they had with the G eminent, they too would incre their rates on the same scale.

Papeete Tourists Found It a Dull Day The Tahitian newssheet Dehats.

January was critical of the sit tion which allowed the town Papeete to be completely closed during the New Year holid during the arrival of 3,000 touri The tourists arrived on th ships only to find the streets di: the shops closed, no restaura open and no taxis. There were even enough seats for them £ hundreds of tourists sat on curb with their feet in the gutb said Dehats.

The post office was not open nobody could post cards to tf friends. One shopkeeper had tal charge of over £lOO worth of p cards to post the next day.

The Dehats added that, to it all, even the tourist bureau \ closed.

It commented that if Tal preferred to live on its fame, w indifference to the vast sums 1 3,000 tourists might have left foreign exchange, it should reme ber that the impression left on 3,i discontented tourists would d courage 50,000 others in the futu It Burnt Without Any Fuss Without fuss and generally u noticed (Rabaul did not learn abc it for nearly a week), the veter motor vessel Los Negros burnt her moorings at Manus Island i cently.

The Rabaul-based Los Negn skippered by Harry Brutnall, Rabaul, was a total loss after t fire.

Even the newspapers missed o on the fire, although one pap apologetically mentioned t subject a couple of weeks lab claiming that the loss of the sh must have been one of the quiete shipwrecks in history.

But there is one better.

Only half a mile from the doo step of the same newspaper, t] solitary top of a mast stands thr feet out of the waters of Simpst Harbour, Rabaul.

It is all that remains above wat 116 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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WESTERN BARBED WIRE & NAIL Pty. ltd. 9 Wisdom Street, Annandale, N.S.W. Australia the motor vessel Balus, which nk at anchor seven months ago id is considered a total loss.

Balus had been at anchor for sarly a year when she filled and nk. She was one of the ugliestofiled vessels ever to operate out Rabaul, but had a long life of eful service. oncessions to Tourism— jt Not to Charity Firms or organisations making nds available to the Fiji Visitors’ ireau to help promote the valuile tourist trade —now worth ,000,000 a year to the Colony—will it pay income tax on these allocams. No such taxation concession .11 be made, however, to firms, ganisations, or individuals making ants to recognised charities.

This was mentioned by Mr. E. R. jvington, Fiji’s Financial Secretary, len presenting the Budget for 1960.

Mr. Bevington said that in Idition to the amount of £9,000 set ide for operations of the Fiji isitors’ Bureau—the Government urist publicity agency—the Govnment would, in addition, this sar subsidise on a £1 for £1 basis d to a maximum of £2,000, all •ants made by firms and organisa- Dns interested in the tourist busi- JSS.

Referring to the taxation conissions, Mr. Bevington said: “While on this subject, I should £e to say that the Government is often pressed to make a similar concession in respect of gifts to charity. I regret we cannot do this, This particular gesture to tourist grants is not charity—it is the purest self-interest.”

Some people in Fiji feel that it would also be in the purest selfinterest for the Government to make such concessions in respect to charities.

This view is that charities may not earn money, but they certainly cost money, they are to a large extent the responsibility of the Government, and the Government could save money by doing its duty in this way through private charitable organisations.

Floating Trade Store Floating Trade Store A married couple with a 37-ft Danish Sea Boat class yacht have brought something new to New Guinea. They are Mr. and Mrs. E. G.

Berg, who have applied for a pedlar’s licence from Lae—they are going to barter goods from the Bluebird II like the Pacific traders of a hundred years ago.

The yacht is equipped with a deep-freeze unit to hold one ton of fish, and they intend fishing Huon Gulf waters. Mr. Berg will employ native fishermen, using his own nets and equipment, and paying the [?] Territory families were linked when [?] bara May Taylor became Mrs. Lawrence [?] nard Kelly at St. Mary's Catholic Church, [?] New Guinea, on January 16. The bride [?] the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. [?] lor, of Lae, and the bridegroom is the [?] ngest son of the late Mr. T. J. Kelly, and [?] Catherine Kelly, of Mascot, Sydney, [?] rrence Kelly and his two elder brothers are farming at Erap, near Lae.

Photo: 0. Brabant. 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L Y FEBRUARY, 1960

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.tives in goods, which they prefer hard cash. An unwritten law lists along the coast: water adjoing the villages belongs to that parsular village, and natives become sentful if other tribesmen fish eir waters. By not carrying native ew members, Mr. Berg hopes to r oid tribal squabbles, and will emoy local natives from each village iere he anchors.

A Swede, Mr. Berg was in the avy from the age of 15 until he signed in 1947. He met his wife Darwin about nine years ago, len he decided to go to New uinea, where he worked as a iner with New Guinea Goldfields id., Wau. His fiancee joined him iere about four years ago and they ere married. For the last seven .onths, the Bergs have been at inschhafen where he purchased le hull of Bluebird II and finished hiding her. They have now made leir headquarters at Salamaua and ill bring the freshly caught and eaned fish to Lae at regular in- ;rvals.

Forerunner to Bluebird II was luebird I, which they had in Port [oresby. The yacht was left on the each, for a time, but vandals ripped her, and she was eventually complete write-off. ome Hot Tempers i Rabaul Tempers ran hot in a spectacular icident involving Tolai natives and hinese at Rabaul recently, but olice and Administration officers mnd no evidence to suggest that le disturbance was of racial origin.

“It was just a flare-up of tempers inch could have happened to anyne _ here or anywhere else,” a olice officer said after the firerorks had died away.

Highlight of the incident was a bouted threat at one stage that a ang of influential Chinese was oming to Rabaul “to cut the throats f big-headed natives”.

The trouble started in the Chinese entre of Matupit Farm, when a Jhinese motorist accused four stives of spreading false stories bout him.

The natives told him they had no time to discuss the subject and told him to drive on. According to reports reaching police, the Chinese threatened the natives with retribution from a gang of influential overseas Chinese, and then drove away.

The natives followed the Chinese to his house, where they alleged he appeared waving a rifle and repeating the threats.

The story of the threats spread quickly through native groups in Rabaul, particularly among crowds of natives watching a soccer match at Queen Elizabeth Park.

A Chinese motorist (not connected with the first one) tipped a small child with the mudguard of his car immediately outside the football ground. The child was not hurt, but a big group of natives closed in on the car shouting and waving their arms.

The driver wound up the windows and locked the doors in the centre of the rapidly-growing crowd of natives, who held him prisoner for nearly ten minutes.

About 200 natives were pressing round the car by the time police arrived to disperse them. They broke up quietly, and many of them voluntarily arrived at the Rabaul sub-district office the next day to make statements.

Suva Meetings in Albert Park Only Had a new Fiji regulation regarding public meetings which was brought into force in January applied in December there would possibly have been very little damage associated with a December meeting in Rodwell Road.

Under the new regulation all future open-air meetings must be held in Albert Park.

Window smashing is an infectious form of hooliganism, and it seems most probable that had there been no windows in the vicinity when A New Man For The Lepers?

Mr P J. Twomey, Secretary of the New Zealand Leper’s Trust Board, is beginning to feel the strain of office, according to a New Zealand report. He is looking for somebody to take “a substantial part of the routine administration work” from his shoulders.

It’s not surprising. Mr. Twomey, who is almost 70, has spent half his lifetime helping other people, and has, through his own efforts, raised more than £5 00,000 for the work among lepers.

He says that with some of the work off his hands he is going to devote himself to the task of building more dispensaries to save native mothers and children from tropical diseases and malnutrition.

IN SYDNEY Mr. Victor Garcia, of Noumea, looks happy here surrounded by three Maori nurses, at a Polynesian Association function in Sydney. The girls, Alice Pirere, Betty Reihana and Margaret Grant are all at Sydney Crown Street Women's Hospital. —Tele-Photos.

COLLAPSE The occupier of this house at Madang, NG, Mrs. Teong Hop, was absent at a picture theatre with four of her children when a rain tree (right) collapsed on the house, wrecking it completely. Another child, who stayed at home, surprisingly escaped iniury. Photo; S. Diczbalis. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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As it was, the meeting took place in Rodwell Road at one of the few central areas where there is room for a large gathering, and the windows nearest happen to be those of the large firms. Had there been other firms occupying those sites their windows would probably have been broken just as readily. Instead, the smashing of the windows in these European stores helped to provide a basis for a racial interpretation of events which perhaps never existed in the strict sense.

Thpv / ll Be Back / c or some More It was the second night of the New Year and bearded Captain Toshio Mizushima had just finished a cup of sweetened coffee when the hull of his ship ground to a stop on a jagged bed of coral and rock, For the 100-ton fishing vessel Sumayahsi Maru the grinding stop spelt the end of a long and busy life; and for Mizushima the cup of coffee proved to be the last he was to have for many a day.

Mizushima and his 23 crewmen— sailors, fishermen, technicians— swam for safety away from the reef to where they could hear the v breaking on the shore. Mor found them sitting on the san< Fead Island, 150 miles due norl Bougainville in Australian tru ship territory.

There they stayed for five < salvaging their personal belong from the wreck and waiting fo answer to their radio distress < The manager of Fead Island Pla tion, Mr. Bill Hallam, also radio messages to Rabaul.

When no other Japanese ve appeared on the scene and v food was becoming scarce, Guinea Administration officer Rabaul arranged the diversioi MV Kilinailau, which was tn ling between Bougainville Rabaul.

On January 8, the Japa arrived at Rabaul. They wei strange-looking crew. Some ' heavy sea boots and had wrai towels around their heads. Ot wore several sets of clothes to duce the carrying problem. S had guns—which were quickly pounded—and most of them scratches from the sharp coral Mizushima had extracts from ship’s papers scribbled on piece paper and floating around in pockets with cigarettes and mate The Japanese spent another : days in Rabaul before a mo< steel-hulled Japanese fishing ve Azuma Maru, came to take tl home again. Accommodation scarce so the men slept on ( under a big awning.

They took the wreck and the j sequent shuttling around in t stride and did not seem dei affected. “We will be back for s< more fish one of these da Mizushima said.

The "Most Successful P NG Scheme Yet"

In preparation for a big flusl cocoa beans during 1960, the T Cocoa Project of New Britain rapidly going ahead to spent new authorised loan of at £BO,OOO.

The money will be used to ext facilities at 17 fermenteries alre operated by the scheme i possibly to establish new ferm teries.

Total authorised borrowings the scheme now exceed £220,i and repayments are being m well to schedule. The money borrowed from the Bank of > South Wales under guarantee fr the Papua-New Guinea Administ tion.

The most recent loan authorised by the Australian Mi ster for Territories, Mr. Haslu during a tour of the Territory a following a request from nat growers that money was urger needed.

Spokesmen for Government a 120 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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LYSAGHT Trade inquiries to: JOHN LYSAGHT (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD., Offices in Sydney, Newcastle. Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Fremantle TT77C vate enterprise have both made quite clear recently that the lai scheme is perhaps the most jcessful native agricultural leme ever launched by the ministration in New Guinea, rhe only shade of criticism ticeable at times is that the leme may be expanding too Didly for the general good of the iustry.

But this view is not shared by [ministration officer, Mr. F. itano, of Rabaul, who has close sociations with the scheme.

Vlr. Reitano says: “The industry sound and so is the scheme. The tive people themselves are playl a bigger and bigger part in 3 management of their own imary production affairs. ‘The mere fact that loan repaymts are up to schedule shows at the scheme is basically sound d successful.

"There are now 17 fermenteries crating, and one alone has been own to turn out 30 tons a month, ic scheme is one of the biggest ings we have struck for building i not only the native economy t the economy of the Territory a whole.”

One of the newest fermenteries away from the mainland of New Itain and is situated on Watom land off the north coast near tbaul.

Mr. Reitano said recently that e Watom Island fermentery was it yet handling a big tonnage, but i believed it would increase. . .. M , . „ rexte A New Headquarters For The Rabaul Police ?r^if ) ofVaT^m a tSe eW cr S &£££%* existing Quarters wlil be the provision of a vastly-improved scienunc ment on fofna?rol tW c°arr y " d ” m r\X P eQSpp C ed S air-conditioned an nsive filing and reference section will be included for investigation The radio equipment will consist 3M2SSS H of a will be a totante, and. another «■ . nnlirf* station The eauip- -n? P ?s a r\n|e ° f a a ‘lea.st 40 miles from the central The new’police station is being New Look For Samoan Paper \'he monthly Gazette, “Savali”, Wished by the W. Samoan Gov- \ment in the Samoan language, been remodelled. It is being ted by Mr. R. L. McDiarmid, who ;} recently appointed Public Redons Officer to the Prime Miner’s Department.

"he January issue, the first to near with the “new look ”, has pages, more than 20 photophs, feature articles from New aland and Samoa, pictures and \graphies of the Samoan Prime nister and his Cabinet, an exnation of the structure of demotic government, and a cartoon ip. The original purpose of this moan-language periodical has not m forgotten, and it still carries vernment notices. n he new paper is part of a scheme provide better information facil- >s in Samoa, so that the Terriy can be kept abreast of developnts, in its move towards inoendence. An informed public ■nion in Samoa is considered vital. >amoa has a privately owned ekly newspaper, the "Samoa lletin”. 121

I C I F I C Islands Monthly February 19 6 0

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Sample panels of Butex Full-Gloss were put in the most severe “climate” an outside paint ever has to endure. In Taubmans Weatherometer, the m o?t rat £u e WaS tUrned up t 0 100 °’ the humidity to 95%. The panels were bombarded with ultraviolet rays for the equivalent of 5 years' ordinary wear. But when the panels were removed, not one showed any sign of flaking or cracking.

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* t riginal the RIGA recipe SI uilt beside the existing one. and hen the shift is made the present nation will become the Rabaul fire 'completely new quarters for native Dnstables are being built b^”, d ie police station, including a messall, kitchen and store.

Work on the new building was elayed early in the New Year when reather conditions prevented the ontractors from obtaining a con- Lnuous supply of timber, but conduction is now going ahead apidly. iji Farm Sledges Jow Forbidden The primitive sledges known as hazitas, commonly used by Fiji ndian farmers, bcame illegal in all he dry areas of the Colony as from anuary 1, 1960.

Some time ago this measure was .pproved by the Legislative Council ls a move to combat serious soil irosion problems in many parts of Piii. The sledge is considered a najor factor in soil erosion causes, ts banishment has been strongly ipposed by farmers, mainly because >f its low cost as a means of farm ransport. A ghazita is often made ’rom the fork of a tree and its cost nay be negligible. Farmers must low purchase carts as these are jonsidered to be less damaging to ;op soil and less productive of watercourses.

As from January 1, cane farmers are also forbidden to plant cane parallel with the land-slope. This is another conservation measure.

No Out-patient Treatment For Fiji lepers Yet At present it would be unwise to treat infectious leper patients in Fiji on an out-patient basis.

Dr. P. W. Dill-Russell, Director of Medical Services, told the Fiji Legislative Council this in reply to a suggestion that facilities should be made available for patients to carry on in business.

Dr. Dill-Russell said that while in many parts of the world the disease was treated on an outpatient basis, this was only done where the problem was so vast that segregation was impossible, or where the problem was so small that patients could be easily supervised in their own homes.

Fiji, he said, was approaching the latter stage fairly rapidly and when he felt that this point had been reached he would say so, but. said Dr. Dill-Russell, he would prefer not to be rushed as he had a duty to the public.

Dr. Dill-Russell said that where in 1957 there were 559 cases at Makogai, today there were 320. In 1958 a record number of 125 cases were discharged as cured, and that record would be beaten in 1959.

"Make It Museum Year" In P-NG “Make 1960 Museum Year" is the wish of the Chief Justice of Papua- New Guinea, Mr. Justice A. Mann, who is also chairman of trustees of the Papua-New Guinea Museum.

The museum has been given space for its displays m Port Moresby, but the entire project is still in its formative stage.

When he is on circuit through the Territory. Mr. Mann loses no opportunity of “selling” the museum idea to as many people as possible, and of obtaining their support.

From all parts of the Territory he has already collected a series of articles or promises of articles ranging from collections of shells and butterflies to ancient native artifacts.

Mr. Mann said recently: We have a building and the oPP°r tun ny to get properly started. That s why I say ‘make 1960 museum year for the Territory’. I feel that the scope of a museum in a country such as this is very great.

“An overseas scientist who has been collecting specimens here has NEW CLUB BUILDING A new building for the Kone Club is now under construction for P-NG public servants, near Administration headquarters, Konedobu, Port Moresby. The club is on the foreshores and has a view up the harbour towards the town proper.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 123 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—F E B R U A R Y , 1960

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Fiji Rice Flying-Squad On the Job In the Rewa Valley of Viti L where the cane farmers are tun somewhat reluctantly to rice foil mg the closure of the CSR Nan sugar mill, the District Adminis non, Dapartment of Agriculture the CSR have jointly establishe sort of rice flying-squad to < with any outbreaks of the disi known as Rice Yellows.

The team has been establishec ensure that the dire predict] made by some farmers in regarc rice do not eventuate.

A constant watch will be kept crops throughout the entire a and at the first signs of I Yellows a spraying team will r to the farm to deal with it.

Farmers are, however, being ur to keep a close lookout themsel and to call on the team at the f signs of disease. That way the g ernment and the CSR, which establishing a new rice mill to d with the crop, are confident that damage suffered in some areas Fiji from this disease last year m not be repeated. A moderate cha: will be made by the insecticide tei to cover the cost of the work.

Recently married at Taurama Chapel, P[?] Moresby—Mr. and Mrs. David Copeland. M[?] Copeland was formerly Miss Beverley Dixon .

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GO hanks for a Bumper hristmas Party More than 80 children received )y s, and made inroads on a mnt’iful supply of food and drink, i the annual Christmas party proded by the New Guinea Women s lub in Sydney.

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Transport Charges— No Holds Barred The charges thought up by “shipping and forwarding agents” almost beggar description, according to some people who have to pay them.

Not long ago a resident of Suva sent a small case of personal effects to Sydney—total value, £4 or £5.

These are the charges he was obliged to pay in Suva before the case went onto the ship: Duty, tax, wharfage, 3d; freight to Sydney, 18/-; attending and , ’ 7/6; entries, 2/6; cartage and handling, 2/6; insurance, 5/3; bill of lading, 1/6.

A total of 37/6.

But we haven’t seen anything yet.

These were the charge? imposed by the Suva firm’s opposite number, in Sydney: Bond charges, 16/-; stacking, 9d; wharfage and entries, 2/6; stamp duty on insurance policy, 9d; customs entries, 10/-, attention to statutory declaration, 7/b, agency and attention. 12/6; stamp duties 2/6; ship’s order, 2/6; verification with customs at wharf, 15/-; American Trading charges, 7/6; sundry, 1/9; attention at bond, 2/6; wharf attention, 5/-; cartage, loading and unloading, 15/-. The modest total was £ 5/2/9.

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Is Fiji's Cocoa The Wrong Type?

Is the variety of cocoa which Fiji has adopted in its cocoa development programme the wrong type for the world’s markets? Some people apparently think that it is, but the Department of Agriculture does not agree.

In a recent broadcast address Mr.

C. Walker, officer in charge of the Government agricultural station at Naduruloulou discussed this question.

Samoan Population Increase Figures released by the Prime Minister of Western Samoa, ■name Mataafa, show that the Territory’s present population of '02,915 will probably be doubled :n 30 years. It is expected to be more than 109,000 by the end of this year, and will probably r each 188,500 by 1980.

The Prime Minister said the figures emphasised the problems the Government will face in developing agriculture, industry and social services to keep pace with the increase in population. 125 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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ill, he said, has adopted the iiitario hybrid, which was proin the West Indies, Ceylon, jioa, Indonesia, and Papua-New mea, because there were already 0 trees of this type in the :3 ny which had survived from tier attempts to establish the ustry They showed very little kse in Fiji and some were in orous bearing despite neglect ana [Ticanes. Using material from :se Fiji could make an immediate tad bulk quantities of Forastero Thich makes up the bulk of the ■'ld’s supply—been brought m, :re would have been a severe risk introduction of serious diseases, a there was no guarantee that it old do well. , .

The Government had brought in ne Forastero and planted it m lict isolation so that it could be •efully observed for any signs of lease, but this material could not used by planters for another *ee or four years at least.

Meanwhile, a technique of hybrid id production will be carried out, d these should be available by 53 by which time the present inters would have had enough exrience to take advan f age of the perior planting material, rhe main consideration, Mr. alker said, was that a well fermted, properly dried grade of coa be produced. If the standard right, there will be no difficulty the Trinitario strain finding a ady market. rcadia Strikes rouble in Suva The 29,734-ton Arcadia, south- >und in January, was in trouble Suva Just after she had been ■ought alongside by the harbouraster, Captain E. L. James, and as being made fast, steam was jcidentally fed to the port engme 1 the “ahead” position and the ;ssel started to move forward.

Before the movement was noticed le vessel was gaining way, and ily by some very quick releasing of lines and an “astern” manoeuvre on both engines was a serious mishap averted. There was no ship immediately ahead, fortunately, for Arcadia moved forward about 60U ft before being halted. She swung her bow away from the wharf and for a moment a collision with the local 119-ton wooden vessel Fijian Princess, anchored off the end of the wharf, seemed imminent. Some of her Fijian crew jumped overboard. A steel hawser which fouled the port propeilor caused a delay of 19 hours in clearing the 20-odd turns round the shaft. The RNZAF diving club, together with other commercial and government divers, assisted in clearing this tangle.

Cargo nets were lowered to protect the divers from possible shark attacks. The bulk of the work fell to the skin divers who, operating with aqualungs and swim fins, were far more mobile. They worked in teams of two and three. This was the second occasion in which Air Force underwater men have featured in the news. About a year ago they investigated the wreck of a missing American yacht, Annette, on a reef in the Lau group.

Skin divers with aqualungs Prepare to go below from a diving barge in Suva Harour to clear the propellors of the big P. & O. liner "Arcadia" in January. In the foreground are sections of the steel cable which had already been cut from the shaft with hacksaws. See story below.

At left, Government diver John Slatter takes time out for coffee during work on the "Arcadia", as Flying Officer R. Brimblecombe, who headed the RNZAF diving team, prepares to go below. At right, Colin White, president of the Fiji Spear Fishermen's Association with his compressor, which was run almost continuously pumping air bottles during the diving operations.

Photos; Rob Wright. 127 acific islands MONTHLY-F E B R U A R Y . 1960

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hat's Behind The irlines Breakdown With the breakdown in the Frenchistralian traffic rights agreement December still in the news, and e suggestion growing that the ench were to go a step further banning TEAL flights into French ilynesia, the Melbourne journal of rways and aviation news, Aircraft, January published an appraisal the situation which was, to those the know in high places, right i the ball. It was almost, some id, as if Aircraft was stating fic ia 1 Australian Government >licy on the situation.

The breakdown, said Aircraft, irned back the clock to much trlier days of horse trading in iternational air transport rights 3gotiation. And it went on: “If it now makes curious reading > a world accustomed to more iphisticated aviation diplomacy lere is cause to consider the imitations. They suggest very bluntly lat this is, perhaps, a sample of lings to come—a power-politics spression of the birth of European ir Union.

“There was a time in the sphere f international dealings when Ausralia was known to play the game f traffic rights in a jealously retrictive manner; stubbornly defendng these shores against all invaders of the national airline’s preserve There is a tendency still, therefore, to look closely at our own attitudes and to seek there the cause of such a breakdown. In more recent years, however, the appioach has been more far-sighted and much more smooth, and a succession 01 highly successful negotiations— most notably that with the United States—has demonstrated a good international reaction.

“A close examination of the background to the French-Australian talks certainly does not convince the fair-minded observer that Australia in this instance can be rightly accused of greed. On the other hand the refusal of the French to postpone the talks for a few months, and allow the existing informal arrangement to continue for that period, is strong evidence that France was, at least, impetuous. The immediate loss was that of France, not Australia, for TAI now has to plan for a much less advantageous route. Similarly, the cutting of the airline linking Noumea, French New Caledonia, with Australia will hurt the nationals of that French possession much more than it will affect Australia. . .

“The French are known, also, to have made a blunt threat that New Zealand is also in line for a similar guillotine in regard to TEAL’S present rights to operate to Tahiti— solely because Australia is a haltpartner with New Zealand in TEAL And this despite the fact that TEAL’S flying-boats were Tahiti s sole air link with the world in the days before TAI came into the picture. , , “An even more curious aspect oi the whole question is the fact that France has precipitated this rift so soon after winning substantial rights in the United States—rights that, for the first time, give TAI and Air France a first-class chance of developing a soundly economic South Pacific route, linking their Oceanic possessions into a round-the-world airline pattern. They have a jet airport under construction at Papsete, and planned late next year to introduce DC-8s to this service, via Australia, Noumea, Tahiti to Los Angeles. mA _ , “For some years now TAI has serviced Noumea via Darwin and Brisbane for a weekly DC-6B service In return Australia’s Qantas has had rights at Noumea, serving it once a fortnight from Sydney.

“In seeking a new formal agreement France asked Australia for traffic rights at Sydney and beyond as an alternative to Brisbane. They wanted two services a week, initially by DC-7C and later by DC-8. One of these services would fly via Noumea and Tahiti to Los Angeles, there to link with Air France in a round-the-world route. The other would terminate at Tahiti, where, of course, there would be other connecting links to North America and Loans Board Now In GEIC Following the ordinance which was enacted early last year an Agricultural and Industrial Loans Board has now been established in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.

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T PLANE OUT. Qantas DC4 "Hongkong [?] der" and its crew just before the aircraft Noumea on December 31 for Sydney the Qantas plane out before the Frenchtralian traffic agreement ended. The Pilot, tain J. Christensen, is on the left and Qantas [?] nt Jean Brock is on the right. The aircraft [?] ater flew low over Noumea in final salute.

Photo: F. Dunn.

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Photo: D. C. Berry. 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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CCS y pai. nd oa Lt#ganv^£e. er South America. Australian apartment of Civil Aviation momists estimated the value of istralian rights on these services about £1,000,000 a year to TAI d Air France. , x ‘Australia was prepared to grant ?se requests provided Qantas was /en reciprocal rights at Tahiti and Paris for which a trans-Atlantic ik is available to Qantas under the istralia-USA agreement. France 'ered rights at Tahiti, or Paris rith Marseilles suggested as an bernative) but not both. From ese points of view neither was epared to budge and the deadlock iveloped. There followed the sugstion of Australia that negotiaons should be resumed next year, ie refusal of this by France and ie announcement that the existing mporary arrangement—and the rvices under it—should cease from tnuary 1, 1960.

“The French delegation was led 7 the Director of Air Transport for ie Ministry of Transport and üblic Works, M. Pierre Moussa. he Director-General DC A, Mr.

G. Anderson, led the Australian *hgation.

“It is understood the French view as that Australia over-valued its ghts and wanted too much for too ttle. For their part Paris and Tahijfi ere equally generous as individual tiers for what they sought. Th°y ad the strong view that Tahiti ould develop as a major tourist entre of the Pacific, and that they ould be re-routed via Djakarta, Inetter than Australia could do withut Tahiti. It was suggested that ’Al’s route to Noumea and onwards ould be re-routed via Djakarta, In onesia, and Biak, Netherlands New Juinea—for which Dutch rights are xpected to be given. Darwin might be used for a refuelling stop only.

“The Australian view was that the rights sought at Paris (which in the jet age is too close to London to be utilised economically) and Tahiti were not a matter of immediate consequence, for there was no plan for Qantas to use them for several years at least. The airfield at Papeete would not be ready for a year and there was doubt whether, even then, it would be suitable for QEA’s Boeing 707/138s. On the other hand the Australian view was that the rights sought at Sydney conveyed an immediate and substantia* benefit to the French airline.”

Some Action On Fiji Bananas In mid-January the Fiji Department of Agriculture issued a statement foreshadowing the imposition of banana quotas on suppliers, so that all will have a fair share of the export market.

New Zealand is likely to take about 240,000 cases from Fiji this year, and as production is likely to exceed substantially that amount a quota system seems called for.

Should suppliers, having been allocated a quota, fail to meet it without good reason, they will have to expect a reduction in favour of other suppliers who regularly meet their promised quantities.

The quotas will eventually be vested in the proposed Banana Marketing Board, but until that is set up the Department of Agriculture will set quotas according to the supplier’s estimate of his capability, the quantities he has produced for shipment in the past, and on field inspection of his areas.

Quotas will also be set according to the quality of the fruit consistently supplied for shipment.

Quality will be given particular emphasis, the statement says, in view of the criticism of the Fiji product in New Zealand as compared with the product for some other producing territories, and in view of New Zealand’s right to choose freely the sources of her banana imports. (See p. 65 this issue.) A week later it was also announced somewhat belatedly many will consider —that the Government’s Standing Finance Com- Pat Henry Leaves New Guinea Mr L M (Pat) Henry, one of the strongest leaders and workers n the' ranks of the Returned Servicemen's League in Papua-New -ruinea retired from office in the league early in February. %UhhZwife Zid his two young children he will leave in April l2 years of residence in the Territory and VZiaVl " e So m C e° m iS™ y o/ h Ms d wlk e with SV th^ksL WanC MT : Hmif n hks R tSfell S eTmoZ C ands of miles on •enftaplTin Central Avenue, Rabaul, and was largely responsible -aising the money to of Rabaul Sub-branch '.eft the Territory. 131

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Moresby mittee had set up a sub-committee to make a detailed examination of a proposal for an experimental dried banana project. The proposal was put forward by Mr. H. B.

Gibson, senior European elected MLC.

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This sub-committee will no doubt investigate the highly optimistic reports of market possibilities for this product made by Mr. B.

Proweller, a business man, who made an exploratory visit to the United States late last year.

PlM’s Auckland correspondent reported from there in late January: A suggestion made in the Fiji Legislative Council in January that the Fiji Government was not doing enough towards urging New Zealand to accept larger shipments of Fiji bananas did not raise much enthusiasm from Mr. C. Ross Walker, general manager of the importing organisation, Fruit Distributors Ltd., which handles all such fruit coming into New Zealand.

Fiji had failed to grasp the opportunity which New Zealand had offered it for larger consignments in recent years, Mr. Walker said.

Where Fiji had failed to grasp this opportunity, Western Samoa had made great efforts to meet the need.

With a progressive outlook and provision of a modern shir terminal, he said, Western Se can ensure the availability bananas all the year rounc adequate quantity and at an price. Western Samoa had ser New Zealand over 800,000 case each of the past two years, could only supply 149,000 case 1958 and 65,500 cases last ' Tonga had stepped up her ou and would be supplying n< 30,000 cases in January.

Apart from the irregularity supply from Fiji—and Mr. We did not say that this was ab the fault of the Fijians, climate also involved, the New Zea! demand for bananas, especiall; January and February when ! stone fruit is available, does ] a limit. At this time of the the quantities required are sh between the producing territor Mr, Walker did not say so, it may fairly be assumed that Zealand would give some prefer to trade with Western Sa where she has closer ties responsibilities for developmem Samoa can deliver the goods, as has demonstrated that she car Realising that should spur into much greater research into possibility of processed bam and other markets.

Japanese Timber Interest In the South Pacific?

There seems some indication t Japanese buyers may stir up timber market in the South Pac The Japanese Government is habilitating the Japanese forests part of a long range plan, and a result Japan has to increase imports of logs to keep up v local demands, in addition to ke ing pace with its exports of vent and plywoods.

The Japanese have been buy logs from as far away as Gha Now, Japanese interest in exp: ing logs from Manokwari, Neth lands New Guinea, is increas rapidly. In short succession, seve groups of Japanese businessn representing prospective buyers h visited the district and entered i: negotiations with local contract* throwing in offers of loaning he; equipment to get large-scale logg operations started. Similar ope tions for Ryukyu Lumber Comps (from Okinawa) have been star in the Hollandia district.

Recently the Japanese presid* and vice-president of the N Guinea Bussan Company (also fn Okinawa) were at Manokwari, a said they intended to open up branch office in the town. T 1 bought a building there.

Japanese buyers have sho themselves interested in acquiri mixed shipments of all kinds 132 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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A few yards away his two com- ,nions, Bill Bates and Harry irtis, sat in a larger dinghy.

Bates wasn’t sure at first, but he ought Matheson’s dinghy started move. A few seconds later he was sure of it. “There’s something pulling you through the water,” he called But by that time, Matheson himself was only too aware of what was going on. There was a big fisn down below, and it was taking him for a ride. The second boat came up beside him, and the three men lashed the two boats together.

Then the fun started.

Lst Bill Bates continue the story: “Lashed together, and with the fishing line taut over the bow of the smaller boat, we moved off at a smart 2 h knots. We didn’t think it would last long, but two hours later we were still going strong. By that time we had gone round and round in a big circle in the harbour, covering about four miles altogether.

“It was getting pretty late by then, and we decided to try to land the big fish. We made a few attempts and then the line snapped.

“When we hauled it up there was only one hook left on it, with a tired 10 lb perch dangling on the hook.”

The three men believed that the fish which pulled them round the harbour was probably a groper, and that it could weigh up to 400 lb.

They think that Matheson probably hooked a small fish, and that the groper rushed in, swallowing the small fish, the hook and several feet of fishing line.

Huge Increase in Ship Travel Predicted The Orient and Pacific Lines Agencv Inc.—the American office of this big British shipping combi n e —predicts that the Line’s Pacific passenger traffic this year will be at least double that of last, and there will be a further very substantial increase in traffic when the 45,000-ton Canberra and the FAREWELL Chief Judge R. V. Kay (centre) who has recently retired from the Cooks, poses for a farewell with Chief Officer of Police J. O Helloran end Police Officer I. Best (right), and 'erne members of the Cook Islands Police Force at Rarotonga.

Photo: D. C. Berry. 135 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Suva Youth Clubs Are On The Way The United Kingdom, throug Colonial Welfare and Develop] Fund, has given £5,000 towards establishment of two youth < in Suva.

The project was organised Rotary, which has collected £l2 Fiji Government has given a fui £5,000.

The first building, already nea completmn, is located in Marks 1 ? n .f, . area. The other wil built in Samabula suburb. Each consist of a gymnasium, kitchen cafeteria, office, “quiet room” library, a store and accommoda for an instructor, and the cos So e ni Wo^uil^ s is estim at~c £19,000. The balance of the me will be used towards running a Each centre will be capable ?n™ mg a member ship of al New Tongan Vessel Leaves Japan The Tuna long-liner Teiko ' ton wooden vessel built for Tonga Government, successf sailed her trials in January and expected to reach Nukualofa in February. Prince Tungi said i when he passed through Suva ] m January, after visiting Japan j other countries of Asia.

The vessel is commanded by C tain Isamu Naoi, a Japanese fish master, who has been in Tonga G eminent employment as a fishei adviser since 1957. Teiko will crewed by Tongans when fish operations commence.

The first South Pacific vessel engage in Japanese long-1 methods of deep-water tuna fish: with an Islands crew, her operatic will be watched with the keenest interest.

Representing an investment of 1 tween £30,000 and £40,000, she equipped with 300 baskets of lor hne (each 48 fathoms) which, wh all laid out, will extend over abc 14 miles. (See p. 31).

A Cement Works—But Absolutely No Dust The Suva Rural Local Author and the Town Planning Board h agreed “in principle” to the esta lishment of a cement works on t Wailekutu Quarry Road within t Qoya Forestry Reserve, subject certain conditions.

The approved sight is alternati t© one near Lami. The applicatic lor that site was strongly opposi by many nearby residents.

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five miles of the works; that dust control equipment is installed to the satisfaction of the Authority, that machinery noise, including' that from transport vehicles, does not create a nuisance within a mile of the works; that no damage is caused to crops or vegetation by dust or fumes; that there is no obstruction of traffic on the main road nearby, and that further conditions may be imposed after the Authority has seen the company’s detailed plans.

Suva City Property Changes Hands The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society purchased in January one of the most valuable business sites in Fiji, the Central Buildings in the heart of Suva. The price has not been disclosed.

The purchasers will demolish the existing building and erect a modern air conditioned office block.

Chatham Is. Cleared : or Flying-Boats The Te Whanga lagoon in the Chatham Islands has again been cleared for use by RNZAF flyingboats and the occasional passenger service to and from the main island.

Chatham, of this group east of New Zealand, has b-en resumed.

The air service was suspended in November when a flying-boat was wrecked on an uncharted reef or rock in the lagoon. In January two Civil Aviation Department DC3’s flew to the island to land on the privately-owned air strip— which is inconveniently located tar from the main settlement of Waitangi—and landed a team of surveyors to re-beacon the landing area of the big lagoon. Following completion of this work a Sunderland made two flights to the island at the beginning of February, principally to transport school children back to their schools in New Zealand.

Jame Plantation Reported Sold The well known Jame plantation on Jame Island, off the west coast of Buka, has been reported sold.

A Rabaul report in January said the plantation had been sold to Rabaul interests by owner Fred Archer, who bought the plantation in 1927 and did a first rate job in building it up.

Mr. Archer had been active in the Planters’ Association and in the organisation of the Bougainville Company, which was formed to provide much needed shipping services to Bougainville.

Nuimate plantation, Tonga, has also been sold.

Nuimate has been occupied by the Brahne family for two generations, [?] ng recent Islands weddings was the marriage Sister Mary Amos to Captain Geoffrey Pig- [?], of Qantas, which took place in the [?] eran Church, Lae. -O. Brabant.

Sydney wedding of Islands interest Miss [?]arie Roberts, of Sydney, to P-NG Education [?] ficer Jim Metcalfe, of Angoram. The service was at St. Ambrose Church, Concord West. [?] iss P. Creed and Mr. James Marlow, who were [?] arried at the Ela United Church, Port Moresby, [?] cently. —Papuan Prints.

Popular young Chinese couple Joyce Ning and Thomas Seeto were married at St. Mary s Catholic Church, Lae. A very big reception followed. —O. Brabant.

A quiet wedding at the Lutheran Church, Lae, recently—Peg Arbuthnot, of Rabaul to Mr.

A. Blackman, of New Guinea Goldfields, Wau.

Both are well known Territory residents.

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Members of two well-known Port Moresby families. Miss Annette Stoneham, and Mr. W.

L. Richter, were married at St. John s Church, Port Moresby. —Papuan Prints. 137 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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"his is the latest move in the gled financial affairs of Hamac idings and its network of sub- .ary trading, planting and hotel apanies in the Territory.

S that 1 the Hamac com* were in IL^ t n formation^“from creditors sought mlOTmation iroi Harvey Trmder be i firm of insurancewdl kno co Sn™ c ted with Hamac oroKers , o. b learned Trinder associated with the (NSW) associated Hamac group rg something and unsecured creditors (NSW) Ltd' to'protot lte Interests, Harvey Trinder debts in 21 days, The demands were not met; thereupon the company set in motion the legal procedure for the liquidation application.

Vessels Lost In Bs|p Samoa DJ,r ' lo . vp _. rt .

Loss of two inter-island vessels, qu© m ESI Bnd toe m Am can Samoa, munities they handicap to the communities t y served.

MV Baruku <6O-ft 15 ft beam), on her way from Honiara to Sbour “aFtef on thl fierce stom 24 and ree f surrounding Kai * e au became a battered wreck^ Originally owned by the BSIP Government, she was taken over three vears ago by the semi-Governme^t Ports Authority as a general purpose ship. Within two years, era th other Government vessels Melanesian, Batua for £AIO TOmine . sweeper owned by the people of and sent out distress signals The Apia motor launch Suhmom a nd a Japanese fishing vessel from Pa go went to her aid and^took .off passengers and crew. Manua Tele later sank in deep wa er ‘ ... r u Western Samoa Has n . v ..

Record Year Western Samoa had a year of re^r(J earnings> despite a fall in banana and cocoa exports, thanks oa a considerable boost in copr a production duetto soared from 11,000 a l9 e sB^o 17000 tons, and with prices at a record high, and banana 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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Banana shipments fell by almost 100,000 cases to 884,000 cases, which figure is comparable with earlier years. Banana earnings in 1958 were £442,040 and last year were £392,975, but on top of this figure for 1959 the growers received a production bonus amounting to £39,616. The standard of fruit was markedly improved and closer co-operation between growers and the Department of Agriculture’s inspection service was a feature of the year.

Figures for copra and cocoa earnings were not given in the government despatch from Apia.

Fiji Copra Tax Up, Cane Tax Unchanged The Fiji tax on copra to provide funds for the Coconut Pests and Diseases Board was increased from 17/6 to 21/- per ton of copra at the January session of the Legislative Council.

Despite strong opposition by xndian members and opposition in principle by some other members, export tax on sugar cane remains at the 1959 level. It amounts to approximately 9d per ton of cane delivered to the mill or a total contribution of about £74,000.

Both taxes were a subject of considerable debate, more especially the cane tax. Government view on the latter tax was that while some cane farmers might be feeling the pinch “*6, P a y~ ou t for cane this vear w£s £IW to £7 - 2 million - which was £1.3 million more than had ever been paid out before, therefore the Industry was well able to pay the tax.

It was also pointed out that the great majority of Indian cane farmers are no income-tax payers but that they have the benefit of all the services provided by income tax payers. This was one way of ensuring that this relatively prosperous section of the community paid their fair share of government revenue.

A motion that the Secretary of State for the Colonies be asked to give favourable consideration to a reduction in the farmers’ contributions to the Sugar Stabilisation Fund —it amounts to about 2/1 per ton of cane—had a more favourable reception.

The Government view on this was, however, that in this relatively prosperous year for the majority of farmers, and in view of the uncertain outlook for the world sugar market and the comparative smallness of the fund, now was not the time to halt such contributions.

Nevertheless it was agreed that representations would be made for a reduction in the contribution.

More Anti-Viet Demonstrations in Noumea Another deputation from Viet Nam was expected to arrive in Noumea in February for further discussions on the repatriation of the loca! Viet population. Meanwhile, there have been anti-Viet demonstrations in Noumea with huge letters in white paint being splashed in the streets with slogans along the lines of “Viets go home”. There was a procession of about 60 cars and trucks on January 15.

Nickel Proposal For New Caledonia Mr. Rene Mayer, a director of Societe Nickel, addressed a sps session of the New Caledonia Te tory Assembly in late January, a arriving from America. He gave members a detailed account of Nickel Company’s position in nickel market. He said the sit tion looked well with ferro ni( but matte nickel (which is more fined) was not selling well beca the price was still too high. ' situation called for a joint effort the New Caledonian legislature j the Nickel Company.

Mr. Mayer said that in return a possible investment of sc millions of pounds, Australian, mechanising the present coke fi smelters, the New Caledonian . sembly would be asked to lower . port taxes on nickel by 50 per ce for 10 years.

The Nickel Company wo u guarantee to export a set quant of nickel over this period, thus i suring the New Caledonian bud] of a fixed sum. . If the company exported less th it promised it would make up t sum to the New Caledonian Gc eminent.

There was no immediate deb£ on the proposal.

Foreign Exchange Office To Go?

A Noumea report says that oi of New Caledonia’s most detest organisations—the Foreign Exchan Office—may shortly be abolishe The office was created at the b ginning of the war, and handl import licensing, among othe things. These licences will con under the Minister of Finance, the report. 3,500 People in Honiara The British Solomon Islat Protectorate has taken a sam■ census, which it is hoped u help give a reliable indicati of the BSIP population, correspondent says the task o s complete census would be “I yond the resources of the Pi tectorate”.

But a census taken at Honia the capital, was detailed a accurate and showed a to\ population of 3,525. This coi prises, Melanesians, 2,617; Eur peans, 363; Chinese, 265; Pol nesians, 170; part Europeai 43; Gilbertese, 14; and others, 1 . 140 ARY ’ 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Numbering will start in the main siness area and will gradually be tended out into the suburbs.

A few streets will be renamed, or vided into two as a matter of nvenience, under the plans now ing prepared.

The numbering will finally do vay with a situation which has beime an increasing source of anjyance in recent years as the city’s jpulation and buildings have eadily expanded.

Bunting's, Lae, Changes From Trading to Agencies The old-established store of Bunting’s, in Lae shopping centre NG, closed down as a trading establishment on February 12, and will reopen on March 1 as the agency for Australia West Pacific Line m conjunction with the present AWPL representative, Mr. R. Tebb.

Australia West Pacific Line runs the motorships Aros, Citos, Delos and Milos between Australia and the Far East, with southbound calls at NG ports, BSI, and New Hebrides.

The services are expected to expand with the addition of two new vessels to the Line in 1961 Bunting’s will also handle other agencies at Lae (including Papuan Air Transport Ltd.) and conduct a customs and forwarding business, Mr R. F. Bunting said in February.

Other branches of Bunting s, at Goroka (NG) and Samarai and Popondetta will still remain €SSS ally merchandising and trading stores.

They Celebrated Their Citizenship Some Wallis Islanders living in Noumea, on New Year’s Eve celebrated their new French citizenship with a free-for-all with New Caledonian natives in Noumea’s Coconut Square.

After the police broke up what threatened to become a near riot, 11 of the participants were carted off to hospital. Coconut Square has become a constant brawling ground at week-ends. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT-P E B R D A R Y . 1960 Suva Riot Inquiry (Continued from page 13)

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So nice to go home with . . . a 6392 a bottle of ,\V ?ul assembly and everybody had ji told by the police on the spot •e wouW be no public meeting, up rintendent D. M. McGusty that an attempt had been mane ■he Rodwell Road area to jolly crowd along” but they had w a d defiance. Some of the crowd . uerly and aggr ssive and he was 1 from headquarters that the wd had to be dispersed. Tear gas } not used until the crowd had in told repeatedly to disperse. crowd threw stones imm°d ately : 0r the smoke had been thrown. would not himself have be n ie to observe whether stones were iown before this.

'Vhen the name of Mr. B. D. kshman Indian MLC and union ,der, was called at the Inqui-y on bruary 10, he did not appear. He opli'd the Fiji Times with a copy a letter, addressed to the •y of the Commission, which said would refuse to attend. op aircraft on the route between rdney and Port Moresby.

Port Moresby already se-s one oi L ese aircraft each week on the new irdney to Hongkong flight which ills at Port Moresby.

French Position The Tahitian roneoed news-sheet ehats in January quoted the Predent of the French Airline, TAI, [r Paul Bernard, as saying that e favoured renewal of official nation talks between Australia and tance “within a few months The talks broke down in December nd as a result aviation agreements etween Australia and France were erminated on December 31 ( PIM, anuary, and p. 129 this issue).

Mr. Bernard was quoted as saying hat following the breakdown, it ms possible that TEAL’S traffic ights in French Polynesia could be withdrawn (Qantas has an interest n TEAL). _ %T A Noumea report says that TAI nil soon drop the Noumea-Auckand service as a retaliation measure, vhich would thus have the affect >f forcing TEAL out of Papeete. As Tom February the Auckland service s being run with a DC4 instead Df a DC6, but the DC4’s will not connect with the incoming Pans aircraft and NZ bound passengers will have to cool their heels in Noumea for about a week.

Pan American Airways announced in Sydney in February that beginning from March 7 its trans-Pacific jet services would be increased from one a week to two a week. An additional Stratocruiser would also operate between Auckland and Nadi. 143 NG Airlines (Continued from page 19) PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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:mr. william edward HANCOCK :.rmer senior manager of the on Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., William Edward Hancock, died fi Sydney private hospital on uary 19, aged 62. He was par- ;.arly well known in Fiji, where vas USS Co. manager from 1932 £3B. „ Silly” Hancock spent practically nis life with the Union Co., cornicing as junior in Sydney m and he retired only last Septosr, after a stroke. He served in Newcastle, Fiji and Melbourne ire taking up his Sydney post, n Suva, he was a sailing ensiast and became a founder and .modore of the Suva Yacht Club, will be remembered there also i popular concert tenor.

Mr. Thomas Chambers

tr. Thomas Chambers, Snr., died Suva in January, aged 83. He was a at Nadroga, Fiji, son of pioneer ana planter Frederick Chambers, [r Chambers was for many years employee of the Colonial Sugar ining Company and he helped lay the CSR tramline between atoka and Lautoka. He was preeased by his wife but is sur- -3d by three sons and two ighters.

Sydney Harry Edwards

Ir. Sydney Harry Edwards, son an old Levuka family, Fiji, died Auckland in January. A son of late S. O. Edwards, one-time ,rden of Levuka, he served at lous times with Morris Hedstrom lited, Robbie Kaad & Co., and rns Philp & Co. before settling NZ about 1924 where he went 0 business with Captain Charles fchbert, also formerly of Fiji.

Captain J. Flynn

Japtain John Flynn, for 34 years h the Union Steam Ship Co., 23 irs as shipmaster, died in Auckid in January, aged 88. He was ■n in Central Otago, NZ, and went sea at the age of 16. A good deal his time with the Union Comny was in trans-Pacific ships. He ired in 1933.

Mr. Erich Retzlaff

\n old respected German settler Western Samoa, Mr. Erich tzlaff, died recently at Apia, aged after a long illness. He went to moa for the then German Adminration, in 1906, and his work inilling the first telephone service r the Post Office earned him the moan nickname of “Telephoni”.

Mr. Retzlaff started a cocoa intation at Tanumapua, after iving the Post Office, and later 1 he acquired the larger Puia’a plantation, near Apia, where he lived out his lifetime. He married, in 1913, Miss Elizabeth Purcell, of Aleipata, and they had two sons Paul (killed during World War 11, near Leningrad), and Hermann (managing director of H. and J.

Retzlaff, Apia merchants and importers) .

Mr. Robert Vernon

ROBERTSON “Whitegrass Robbie” was a name known with affection by hundreds of New Guinea and Solomons people—it belonged to Robert Vernon Robertson, who died m Sydney Hospital on January 21, ag A* Victorian, well educated, he served as an Army Lieutenant in World War I. He inherited a hotel from his family but grew restless and went to Sydney, where between the wars he was always to be found among the New Guinea crowd down on leave—planters, miners, Government officials, all of whom became his friends. Finally, in the 1930 s he went to the Territory himself.

Robertson (he invariably accented the “bert”) was a brilliant man of many parts, generous and companionable. He was in Morobe District until 1938, mostly with Dick Glasson and Ray Parer. Goldfields oldtimers still recall the day he and Parer crash-landed in a single-engined aircraft practically outside Wau Hotel.

Returning to Sydney, he set up his headquarters at “The Cross” and became guide, philosopher and friend to P-NG folk on leave—his sharp-featured appearance, topped by snowy-white hair (whence derived his nickname), was hailed with delight wherever the “Befores gathered.

If a Territorian, stranger to Sydney, needed anything at all, “Whitegrass” could get it, or fix it, for him. A Papuan planter once wrote of him: “Robbie has the ‘open sesame’ for any hard-toget bookings air, land or sea travel, for theatres, for any shows or what-have-you. He can plunge into the abysmal depths of the Taxation Department and emerge with a clearance in a fractipn of the time required of the uninitiated. He Mr. Noel Barry Dies In Rabaul Noel Carson Barry, the man who ter the** Great into English when Australian civil control came to New Guinea War, died in hospital at Rabaul on J * n " ar y th last three years of his life.

He was 70 years of age, and had been ill for the lasi inree ye* b ssa Sissss* fUI mf?treng y th was in the depth of his thought, his education his perception and *his honesty as a citizen. These were the characteristics which marked hi as a friend and a member of the community. _. lQ , <n irro the son His story is one of deep interest. He was born in England in 1889. tne son of a silk merchant, and his boyhood home was the Dickens-immortalised Bleak House His early education was in England, and later he studied in J er ™ an3 L a ™J France He showed particular aptitude for the German language and became fluent in ’SffvSf course of his life was when father retired from commercial life, studied for the Church, and was ordained an Anglican minister. In time he became the first Rector of the Anglican Church at Rabaul, aiTi 111**1927 he sent for his son, and Noel Barry arrived to find himself faced with a biK task The New Guinea Administration, anxious to preserve continuity and consistency, required the translation of masses of German legal documents, land title No a e” d B < arry r wa^ Ci the P man who took over the job, and he did it well. In the course of his work he gained a clcse knowledge of the district and its people, and he also learnt to speak the native Tolai language. .

To the natives he became a man to be respected and trusted. His honesty and straightforwardness in dealings with them earned him a high regard.

Subsequently he went into his own business operating a series of stores trading in native communities, and eventually consolidated the business into one big store at Rabaul. He was appointed a member of Rabaul Town Advisory Council.

He retired three years ago after selling the business, and visited England.

His health was causing concern and he was a sick man when he came back to Rabaul 18 months ago.

He entered hospital at Rabaul in December, 1958, and remained there until his death in January this year. His only surviving relative is his step-mother, Mrs. Dora Barry, of Melbourne.

Mr. Barry served in the Great War and in the Second World War, rising from the rank of private to captain. . j _ ~ .

His funeral at Rabaul on February 2 included services conducted by the Anglican Church the Returned Servicemen’s League and the Masonic Lodge.

He’ was responsible for translating into English Richard Parkinson’s monumental Thirty Years in the South Seas, published in German during the 1920’5.

The English translation has never been published.- R.A.S. 145 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1960

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It was typical of RVR, after his death from a long and painful illness, that it was found his body was willed to Sydney University and his eyes to the eye bank.

Mrs. Frances Becke

Mrs. Frances Becke, widow of Australian author Louis Becke, a South Seas trader and seaman (at one time supercargo of Bully Hayes’ brig Leonora ) before he wrote a number of successful Islands books and stories, died in UK recently, aged 88. She is survived by two daughters, Alrema and Niya (who was on the staff of PIM in the 1930’5).

Mr. Hector Rankin Wales

Another “old hand” of New Guinea, Mr. Hector Rankin Wales, died in Lae hospital, after a protracted illness, on January 7. He was 67.

Born in Victoria, he went to Papua after the first World War, and traded with luggers along the Papuan coast, between Moresby and Daru, in association with Tom Powell. Then he went to Queensland and engaged in a series of jobs (among which was circus rough rider). In 1927, he returned to New Guinea during the gold rush days and successfully worked the Queen of Sheba claim at Edie Creek. He was mining until the outbreak of the second World War.

A member of the NG Volunteer Rifles, he later joined ANGAU, serving in a small ships unit. He was master of AK9S, now still plying in the Territory as Abel Tasman. After the war, be bought Bulu plantation near Lae and remained there until he entered hospital a short time ago.

Mr. Wales is survived by Mrs.

Lily Wales and two step-daughters, Phyllis Spencer and Angela Garrick.

His brother, Mr. Baden Wales, is with the P-NG Dept, of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries.

Mr. Allan Young

Mr. Allan Young, originally of Ryde, Sydney, and an employee of the CSR Company from the time he went to Fiji as a boy until retirement in 1953, died at Su January 1, aged 66.

In recent years he was Lectric Ltd. and Islands El Suva. First he spent 11 yes Rarawai sugar mill, then in transferred to Nausori mill, he was eventually chief engu from 1942 to retirement.

In 1915, he married Miss Chs Turner, of Labasa, and is su: by his wife, eight sons, and daughters, most of whom a Australia or New Zealand. On Mr. Graham Young, is a reside Bulolo, NG.

Lady Mildred Mjjrri

Lady Mildred Murray, wid( the late Sir Hubert Murray, I Governor of Papua until his In 1940, died in Northampton, land, in January, aged 84. Sh Sir Hubert’s second wife an Miss Mildred Blanche Bloon of King’s County, Ireland, married him in 1930, when sh 54. But she did not like Moresby, and lived there with for only a few brief periods.

Mr. August Batze

Member of a large New G family, Mr. August Batze, oi Industries Ltd., Lae, died in bane hospital on Febraury 4, on leave. He was 50 and had in the Territory since he went from North Queensland witl parents at the age of three. r brothers are residents of William and Adolph (of Lae) Karl (Madang).

Mr. George Saunderi

A Port Moresby builder, wil years residence in Papua, George Saunders, died in Tau hospital, aged 66, on Februa Originally, he was with the : of the Interior before the war returned to Papua in 1945 to John Stubbs & Sons. Late] branched out on his own as a tractor, building Steamships 1 ing Co.’s new premises and < stores in Moresby. He left a w: Mrs. Connie Saunders ar daughter, Mrs. John Nolan, bol the Territory.

Mr. Cecil Hendrick

After an illness lasting over months, Mr. Cecil Hem Regional Stores Officer in the Administration, died in Lae pital, at the end of January, 50, Following plantation experi in the 1930’s in New Britain joined the Public Works Depl Madang and, later, Salamaua one of the first NG men to ei he served in the 2nd AIF, risin captain’s rank. After the war returned to the Territory and charge of Army disposals at later on joining the Stores Dei 146 SRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Champion Cook Islands Boxers Sports Review Here are Rarotonga’s champion boxers for 1959 as they stepped right up to claim their trophies. They are, from left to right, top to bottom: W ill ie Arona, Flyweight; T u ate a Tipunu, Featherweight; Kana Ina, Bantamweight; Tauri Shepherd, Light-heavy and Heavyweight; Arthur Emil, Middleweight', Turuangi Tupuna, Lightweight; Maara Teoe, Welterweight. , ncocc* Minht (iPf OSGSG /rliyill MCI M 7 rhanrp _ OXING manager, C. A. (Jerry) Adams is not the one to let grass grow under his feet—he continuing his battle with cialdom to get overseas fights his charge, Fiji and South Seas ivyweight champion, Mosese rasikete.

Mosese landed in trouble with ; Fiji law in March last year er he scored a sensational onemd knock-out win over Tongan, tione Lave, at his home town of di. [PIM Oct., 1959]. \.n application for Mosese to enter w Zealand for fights was turned wn soon after. Adams has since d long correspondence with icials as high as the Colonial cretary, on what he says was the justice of the NZ decision.

A.nd now he looks like going ices with Mosese.

He believes he will have Mosese New Zealand in February for a •ht with Sonny Pehi, with one or two more to follow. Should Mosese do well in Maoriland, Adams plans to take him father afield, perhaps as far as England.

Should that happen Mosese and Lave would have a chance to decide who is the better man. The score at the momen t stands at 2-all, each ending by the short route, ii / n,,/_ D., fIG S DU fa DV AtlOthGt NdfflG From Norman Baxter, in Suva rrirketer Ilikena Bula 17UJ1AN cricketer, ilikena -tuna, I 1 not _ only goes in for long scoring, but his full surname, if used, would give endless trouble to radio announcers, scoreboard operators, etc.

Born on the island of Lakeba in the beautiful Lau Group 39 years ago, he rejoices in the name of Ilikena Lasarusa Bulamamavaleniveivak abulaimamavoalakebalau, which means approximately, “returned alive from the Navaoa Hospital at Lakeba Island in the Lau Group”.

It was not the young infant who returned alive —as far as is known he has always enjoyed good health —it was his grandfather, who was seriously ill in the same hospital where Ilikena L was born. The grandfather was so delighted that he made a quick recovery.

He was able to go home and christen his grandchild with the long name.

The number of strained larynxes avoided through bringing the surname within manageable proportions is legion. He appears on scoreboards as plain Bula, and that is how he is known to everybody.

Bula itself has a variety of meanings, mainly concerned with “good”.

It can be used in a greeting, such as “Good Day”, “How Are You”, etc.

As the Maori says “Kia Ora” when drinking a toast so does the Fijian say, “Bula”.

Bula has made many long scores in his long association with cricket.

In January last year he set a Fiji record when he made 246 runs in 173 minutes.

Wouldn't Do At Lords THE cricketing prowess of a young Niue Island pupil at Wellington (NZ) Technical College High School, Vanola Lafataleo, has won her the praise of the college board and a new bat. In a recent match against Wellington East Girls’

College, Vanola scored 104 not out and then went on to get a hat trick.

“I think this must be unique in the history of the college,” the director, Mr. A. D. Priestly, told the college board. The board decided Vanola should receive a letter of congratulation from them —as well as the cricket bat.

New Zealand is almost certain to make a soccer tour of Tahiti towards the end of the year, probably in September. The Tahiti association has offered to pay all fares and expenses and has accepted NZ conditions. 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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Shipping Time-Tables

•sailings are approximate and may -ary by as much as two weeks. ydney-Papua-N. Guinea Montoro sails from Melbourne for iy Brisbane. Port Moresby. Samarai.

B, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Port iby. Next Sydney sailing Mar. 22.

Malekula sails from Sydney for ine Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, lhafen, Wewak, Rabaul. Sydney. Next ;-y sailings: Feb. 23, April 11.

Malaita sails from Sydney for Bris- Port Moresby, Samarai. Rabaul, rum, Lorengau, Maaang. Lae, Samarai, ane. Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: 17.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port sby. Samarai, Lae, Madang. Lom- Rabaul. Last Sydney sailing: Feb fext Sydney sailings: Mar. 30, May 11 ■ox.). ,ails from Burns. Philp and Co., Ltd., tdge Street, Sydney.

Pakhoi: Leaves Sydney for Bris- Port Moresby, Samarai. Last Sydney ig: Feb. 16. Next Sydney sailing: Mar. r Soochow: Leaves Melbourne for ey, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, ul. Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby.

Sydney sailings: Mar. 7, mid-April, r Shansi: Leaves Melbourne for Sydney, »ane, Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, mg,’ Wewak, Rabaul. Next Sydney igs: Feb. 26, mid-April.

T Sinkiang: Leaves Sydney for Bns- Honiara (BSIP), Rabaul, Kavieng, wa (G&E), Rabaul, Lae. Next Sydney ig: Feb. 23. tails from New Guinea Australia Line re and Yuill Pty.. Ltd., agents), 6 ge St., Sydney. if Elizabeth Boye: Leaves Sydnes thly for Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul. , Sydney sailing: Mar. 2. (tails from Karlander (NG) Line (F.

Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 176 Day Sydney.

Sydney-Netherlands NG iree weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silinig, Sibigo and Sinabang carrying pas- ;ers and cargo from East Australian s to Hollandia, Biak and Sorong, NNG h call at Manokwari alternate trips), ice Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence tralia direct. Last Sydney sailing; i Feb. 16. Next Sydney sailings; Sinag Mar. 9. Silindoeng Mar. 29, Sibigo 11 22, Sigli May 14. etails from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 rge St., Sydney. letherlands NG—Papua-NG he Dutch KPM Line operates MV ak (70 tons) from Hollandia, NNG, on sth of each month, to Wewak, Madang Lae, in P-NG; and MV Karossa (2,000 s) from Merauke (south coast of NNG) ut every six weeks to Port Moresby NG), Sorong (NNG), Timordilly (Port, lor), and Singapore, with passengers I cargo.

United Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby The Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., has extended its regular quarterly UK- Australia service to Port Moresby.

The vessels sail from Liverpool via Suez to Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Port Moresby. Next vessel: Galway: Port Moresby arr. Apr. 28; dep.

Sydney agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Ltd., 4 Bridge St. Port Moresby agents: Burns Philip (New Guinea), Ltd.

Far East-Sth. West. & Central Pacific The China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels Chefoo and Chekiang maintain a sixweekly service from Japan to Hongkong thence southwards through Papua-New Guinea ports, BSI, New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Fiji, with an extension to Tonga if cargo is available; return to Japan direct.

Chekiang: From Japan, via Hongkong, Kavieng Feb. 28, Rabaul Feb. 29, Madang Mar. 3, Lae Mar. 6. Port Moresby Mar. 12, Honiara Mar. 15, Santo Mar. 19, Noumea Mar 22 Suva/Lautoka Mar. 26, thence return to Japan direct, arriving April 22 (approx.). Sails from Japan southbound again April 30.

Chefoo: Dep. Japan Mar. 24, via Hongkong, Rabaul Apr. 10, Madang Apr. 13, Lae Apr. 16, Pt. Moresby Apr. 22, Honiara Apr 25, Santo Apr. 28, Suva/Lautoka May 1, thence return to Japan, arriving May 27.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents). 6 Bridge St.. Sydney. 149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

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general steamship 'corporation LTD. 43 7 General Agents 432 Californio Street, San Francisco 4 Cal!f„ • nc * ».na,d Tahiti J ' C ° ,,forn,a ' USA Comp,oirs ftancais ties Nouvelles APIA-Bttt-ns Phi , p (So „, h Sea) Com|jany LAE-W Et p£!i SSe iT, entS Ballande syd 4 n E ey!!S »t.'Xu.T’ L,d - The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Aros, Citos. Delos and Milos maintain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila. Hongkong and Japan; southbound vessels call at any or all of the following: Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan, Madang. Lae, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, with quarterly calls at Gizo (opt.). Honiara and vanikoro. in BSIP; and at Santo and Vila, New Hebrides.

Delos: Dep. Japan Feb. 27, via Hongkong, North Borneo ports, Rabaul Mar. 20, Lae Mar. 24, Brisbane Mar. 28, Sydney Mar. 31. Dep. Sydney Apr. 28, via Manila and Hongkong for Japan, arr. May 21.

Aros; Dep. Japan Mar. 12, via Hongkong, Nth. Borneo ports, Madang Mar. 31, Lae Apr. 3, Rabaul Apr. 6, Honiara Apr. 9, Brisbane Apr. 13, Sydney Apr. 18. Dep.

Sydney May 5 for Japan, arr. June 25.

Citos; Dep. Japan Mar. 29, via Hongkong, Manila, North Borneo ports, Lae Apr. 21 -23, Brisbane Apr. 27, Sydney May 1. Dep. Sydney May 26 for Japan arr June 18.

Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA Milos: Dep. Sydney Mar. 15 for Japan, arr. Apr. 6. Dep. Japan southwards Apr 12, via Honkgong, Manila, North Borneo ports, Madang Apr. 25, Lae Apr. 27, Rabaul Apr. 30, Honiara May 3, Vanikoro May 6 Santo May 9, Vila May 11, Brisbane May 14 Sydney May 19. D e p. Sydney J for Japan, arr. July 23.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen i Pty Ltd., 30 Pitt St., Sydney, or I agents (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Trar Rabaul, A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP ing Corp., Honiara; D. J. Gubbay an Santo; Wm. Breckwoldt and Co.. Vil Sydney-New Hebrides-B Bougainville, Etc.

J 111 ?®, I ,' 10 Passengers, makes a *? rfolk Is - Vila, santo. He and BSI ports, Bougainville ports, 1« Sydney about once every six weeks Sydney sailing; Mar. 14.

Details from Burns, Philp and C Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Marltimes coming from Marseilles, via West I and Panama, call about every six m at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noi and Sydney, and return by same r At present on this run are the mi ships, Tahitlen and Caledonien an chartered vessel, Melanesien. Last Sy sailing: Caledonien Feb. 17. Next Sv sailings: Tahitien Apr. 1, Melanesian 14, Caledonien June 29.

MV Polynesia (Messageries Mariti: maintains about monthly passenger mgs between Sydney and Noumea the New Hebrides (Vila and Santo). ] Sydney sailings: Feb. 26, Mar. 25, Apr Detahs from Sydney agents: Messag Marrtimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydne N. Zeaiand-Fiji-Tonga-Samc MV Tofua maintains a service f Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Va Niue. Pago Pago. Apia, Suva and ret to Auckland. Next sailings from Auckla Feb. 23, Mar. 22. Apr. 19.

MV Matua maintains a service f Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukual Apia, Suva and return to Auckland IS sailings from Auckland; Mar. 10 Apr (omitting Nukualofa call). May 5. swp et c" s S°Sz all offlces of 0,110,1 stt Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifk Ports-Sydney Shaw Savlll’s one-class all-passen liner Southern Cross makes four rout the-world voyages per year, two we 150 PEBRUarv , „ „ , 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Ji, then two east-bound calling at and Papeete every trip. Dep. uampton Mar. 1. via J anama anal to ste (Mar. 25-26), Suva (Mar . 31 . mgton (Apr. 4-6), Sydney (Apr. 9-11 . ming via ports to UK (arr. May 16). voyage dep. Southampton May 26 Suva July 12, Papeete July 16-17).

N. Zealand-Cook Is. )e passenger vessel Maui P° ma ” (tains a regular mo " th i y ® er Ji° e a h ' n Auckland and the Cook Islands. She -withdrawn for survey early Feb. and [resume second week in March. (tails on application to NZ Governt Department of Island Terrltorles_ iington, or to any office of the Union So of NZ. Ltd.

America-Tahiti-Central Pacific-NG ACiflc Islands Transport Line’s vessels rsisle and Thorshall maintain a regular lice from Pacific Coast North American ,s with sailings over 35-40 days. Some ,s depend on cargoes offering, lorshall: Dep. San Francisco Feb.

Los Angeles Feb. 26-2-9 o f ap / f®f® • 11-15, Pago Pago Mar. 19-21, Apia •. 22-23, Nukualofa Mar. 26-28, Suva • 29-30, Noumea Apr. 1-4, Vila Apr. 5- 3anto Apr. 6-7, Townsville Apr.ll-13 (opt.), Pago Pago Apr. 21-23, Los :eles May 6-7, San Francisco May 8. horsisle: Dep. Vancouver Mar. 14, / Westminster Mar. 15-18, San Francisco r. 22-25, Los Angeles Mar. 26-29, Papeete ■ 9-12, Pago Pago Apr. 16-19, Apia Apr. 11, Suva Apr. 24-25, Noumea Apr. 27- Lae May 3-5 (tentative), Pago Pago y 14-16, Los Angeles May 29-31, San .ncisco June 1. )etails from General Steamships Coration Ltd., 432 California St.. San incisco, USA, and Islands Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia ylatson-Oceanlc Line of San Francisco •rates a regular five-weeks passengerrgo service from Los Angeles with the ntura. Sierra and Sonoma. (Alameda on charter to an associate company for indefinite period.) Southern terminal rts vary with cargoes offering. Vessels 1 at Papeete, Pago Pago, Suva, Sydney d Australian ports depending on cargoes. (Text Brisbane sailings for USA: Sonoma b 26. Ventura Mar. 26 (approx.), Sierra ir. 30.

American Pioneer Line has eight ships ioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef. Cove, Star, de, Gulf) on Australia - Panama -US lantic Coast service with calls at ipeete on southbound voyage. Sailings iprox. every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subdiary of W. R. Carpenter and Co.) >erate a service three times yearly with ie 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba ong the above route. Accommodation entirely first class, two-berth cabins, ith calls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu, ext Sydney sailings: Feb. 23 (approx.), ten mid-July.

Details from American Trading and hipping Co Pty., Ltd.. 19 Bridge St., ydney.

Sydney-Fiji MV Rona (4,500 tons) lea J« s every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka, with cargo and passengers (first class SmSatlon for eight) Next Sydney sailings; Feb. 26, Mar. 25 (approx.).

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-North America Cargo vessels Waihemo and and others, operated by the Union Steam Ship Company of NZ. maintain a monthly service across ‘J® from Sydney to Vancouver and USA ports, via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa and Apia, as cargoes offer. Occasional calls are made at Fanning Island. They have llmlte nassenger accommodation. Last eatlingf Waihemo Feb. 11. Next Sydney sailing: Waihemo mid-June.

The Waitemata, from NZ ports, makes 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver (via Rarotonga and Papeete).

UK-Panama-Fiji The Fiji Direct Service, with various vessels, maintains sailings at regular monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Suva, Fiji, and occasionally to Lautoka. Bethell, Gwyn and Co., LtcU act as Loading Brokers in London, and Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.. LtcL, are agents in Fiji. Cargo for transhipment at Suva to Samoa and Tonga is handled onwards by the Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd.

Sailing dates from London for 1960 (subject to alteration without notice) are as follows; Mar. 10. Apr. 7, May 5 June 2, June 30, July 28, Aug. 25, Sept. 22, Oct. 20, Nov. 17. and Dec. 15.

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

Monterey: Dep. San Francisco Mar. 2, Los Angeles Mar. 3, Papeete Mar. 11-13.

Auckland Mar. 19, Sydney Mar. 22-25.

Auckland Mar. 28-29, Suva Apr. 1, Pago Pago Apr. 2. Honolulu Apr. 7-8, San Francisco Apr. 13.

Mariposa: Dep. San Francisco Mar. 30.

Los Angeles Mar. 31, Papeete Apr. 8-10, Auckland Apr. 16, Sydney Apr. 19-23, Auckland Apr. 26-27, Suva Apr. 30. Pago Pago May 1. Honolulu May 6-7, San Francisco May 12.

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

Far East-Fiji-NZ Royal Interocean Lines operate a service from the Far East (Singapore) to NZ, with three vessels calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka. They are Van Cloon, Van Nort, and Van Neck. Next calls at Fiji; Van Nort Mar. 17, Van Neck Apr. 25. Van Cloon June 25.

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe The Italian Sitmar Line (Panama flag) passenger motor-vessels Fairsea and Castel Felice (fully air-conditioned) sail from Sydney for Europe, via Auckland, Papeete and Panama at Irregular totervatoprovldj ing a sea connection in the eastbouna dlr N^rs y °d^y W “.ing ah castel Felice Apr. 15 betails from Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd.. 58 Margaret St.. Sydney.

Tonga-Fiji Shipping Service The Tonga Shipping Agency, as agents for the Tonga Copra Board, °P erates a regular monthly cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Suva with MV Aoniu. 500 tons gross. Turn-round in Suva is usually two days, and the Agents there are W. R. Carpenter and Co. ‘Fiji).

Ltd.

During the first half of 1960, departure dates from Nukualofa will be Mar 12 Apr. 9, May 7, June 4. leaving Suva about four days later in each case.

Airways Time-Tabies

Transpacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America (First and Tourist Class available between Australia and Nth. America; De Economy between San Francisco and UK.)

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 Jets) northwards Tues.; Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.), Nadi (Fiji).

Honolulu (Hawaii). San Francisco Wed. and Sat.; Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.), Nadi.

Honolulu, San Francisco. New York.

Fri • Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.), Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco, extending to Vancouver.

Sun : Commencing Mar. 6. Dep. Sydney (5 p.m.), Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS Mon. and Fri.; London. New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi. Sydney.

Tues.; San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sat.f Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu. Nadi. Sydney.

Sun.: From Mar. 6, 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 AiK hts - and on Thursdays with southbound flights (see table 17).

TEAL Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra aircraft from Auckland. NZ, connect with Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Tuesday and Saturday, and on Sunday and Wednesday at Nadi for 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 Pan American Airways

(With Intercontinental Jet Clippers*) Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. via Nadi (Fiji) arr 10.40 p.m., dep. 11.55 p.m., and Honolulu (Hawaii): arr. Los Angeles Thurs. 4.25 p.m. Connections at Honolulu for San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 8.15 p.m. foi 151 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-FEBRUARY. 1960

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Note: Commencing Mar. 7, add Boeing service will operate from £ to Los Angeles every Monday, at times and same stops. * n^™ at J onal Dateline is crossei tween Nadi and Honolulu. *Pan American B-377 (Stratoci is used on a connecting service Auc Nadi Tafuna (American Samoa), Honolulu (see table 20).

By Canadian Pacific Airlin

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Thurs.; Sydney (dep. 1 p.m.), land, Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver on to Amsterdam).

Every Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam at 11 for Vancouver (dep. 1.30 p.m !

Honolulu, Nadi, Auckland and Sy (Note: Crosses International Dateli route.)

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PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea By Qantas Empire Airways NORTHBOUND (Super-Constellations) First Class Tues. & Sat. _ Dep. Ari Sydney. 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 Dep. Arr Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 First and Tourist Class Mon.

Dep. Arr Sydney. 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 First and Tourist Class Fri. sat.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 10.30 p.m. Brisbane, 12.45 1 Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 1.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 7 j Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 8 a.m. Lae, 9.20 £ First and Tourist Class Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane. 10.15 f Thurs. Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane. 11.15 pm. Townsville, 2.15 a Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a (Jet Prop. Lockheed Electra) First and Tourist Class Fri. Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 11.59 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 5 a.

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COMPANY Dalton House, 115 Pitt Street, SYDNEY Telephone BW 8663-4 SOUTHBOUND First and Tourist Class Fri. op Arr. 39.10 a.m. Ft. Moresby, 10^J r a m - Moresby, 11.30 am. T’vllle. 2.10 p.m. *ep. A£rsville, 3.10 p.m. Brisbane, 6 p.m. sep. Arr. *ne. 7 p.m. Sydney. 9 p.m.

First Class Wed. & Sun. sep Arr. 9.10 a m. Ft. Moresby, 10.30 a m. iep. Arr. xjresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m. iep. ' Arrane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney. 7.45 p.m- First and Tourist Class Tues. iep. Arr- -9.10 a.m. Ft. Moresby, 10.30 a.m. *ep. Arr. :oresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m. iep. Arr. lane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 p.m.

First and Tourist Class Sat.

Dep. Arr. 10 10 a.m. Ft. Moresby, 11.30 a.m.

Dep. Arrloresby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane, 5.45 p.m. 3ep. Arr- .ane, 6.45 p.m. Sydney, 8.45 p.m. (Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra) First and Tourist Class Sun. Arri Hongkong Ft. Moresby, 8.45 a.m. d Manila.

Jep. Arr - Moresby, 9.30 a.m. Sydney, 2.30 p.m.

Jetween Lae and Port Moresby pasers are carried in DC4 aircraft.

MORESBY-CAIRNS-TOWNSVILLE-

Pt. Moresby

tuglas DC4. Dep. Port Moresby Sun. » p.m.. arr. Cairns 3.05 p.m., dep. ns 3.50 p.m., arr. Townsville 5 p.m., Townsville Mon. 9.15 a.m., arr. Cairns i a.m., dep. Cairns 11.15 a.m., arr.

Moresby 2.05 p.m.

I. P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Ort Moresby-Kikori-Baimuru

(DH Otter) Yule Island, Kerema, Baimuru, Kikorl: lit. Tues., returning same day via Jaimuru, Kerema, Yule Is. (Feb. 23, dar. 8, 22, Apr. 5, 19, etc.).

ORT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Yule Is., Baimuru: Alt. Tues. returnng same day (Mar. 1, 15, 29, Apr. 12, !6. etc.).

Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori. Baimuru; Hit. Thurs. (Feb. 25, Mar. 10, 24, Apr. r, 21, etc.), ret. via Baimuru, Kikori, Kerema the following day (Feb. 26, Mar. 11, 25, Apr. 8, 22, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Baimuru: Alt. Thurs, returning same day via Balimo (Feb. 25, Mar. 10, 24, Apr. 7, 21, etc.). , Kerema, Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (Mar. 2, 16, 30, Apr. 14. 28, etc.), returning alt.

Fri. (Mar. 4, 18, Apr. 1, 15, 29, etc.).

DRT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) rt Moresby, Abau, Samarai each Mon.. departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day.

Alt. Wed.; Port Moresby, Samara!, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Mar. 9, 23, Apr. 6, 20, etc.).

Alt. Sat.; Port Moresby. Samara!, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Mar. 5, 19, Apr. 2, 16, 30, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, departing Port Moresby 815 a.m., returning same day (Feb. 27, Mar. 12, 26, Apr. 9, 23, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUSkavieng-rabaul SERVICE (DCS) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak. Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m.. 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.

Frl.; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng.

Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 pm.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DH Otter) Fri • Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wabag. calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Minj, Banz, Mt Hagen, Baiyer River, Kaintantu, Wapenamunda, Wabag. Arrival back at Lae depending on stops made. lower highlands (DH Otter) Frl • Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling at any of Gusap. Aiyura. Kaiapit.

Rintebe. Kainantu, Goroka, Arona.

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. Wau 925 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. Lae 10.25 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., arr. Wau 9.10 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 10.30 a.m., via Mt. Hagen and Minj. arr. Goroka 1 p.m., dep. Goroka 1.20 p.m., arr.

Madang 1.55 p.m.

Madang-Lae (Dcs)

Sun.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8.05 a.m.

Pt. Moresbt-Mt. Hagen-Madano

(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. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 8.10 a.m.. arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Tues Fri.; Dep., Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul arr. 1.45 p.m. • Calls Hoskins before Rabaul, on request, on Wed.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

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.

Rabaul-Hoskins-Rabaul (Dcs)

Alt Mon.: 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. (Feb. 1. 15, 29, Mar. 14, 28).

Services By Mandated Airlines

(Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon • Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang. Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7 a.m. 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 am. 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 am. for Kavieng. Momote, Wewak. Madang.

Goroka, Lae.

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Wewak, and arr. Hollandia 3.30 p.m.

Dep. Hollandia 10 am. alt. Thurs. (Mar. 3. 17, 31, Apr. 14, 28, etc.) and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arr. Lae 3.50 p.m.

Biak (Nng)-Lae

Netherlands New Guinea Airlines, with DCS aircraft De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands New Guinea Airlines) maintains a fortnightly service between Biak, Hollandia and Lae with Dakota DC3 aircraft. The airline is a private company operated with the assistance of the Dutch Government.

Dep. Biak, alt. Thurs. 6 a.m., arr. Hollandia 8.10 a.m.; dep. Hollandia, 9 a.m., arr.

Lae 1 p.m.

Dep. Lae alt. Fri., 10 a.m., arr. Hollandia 1 p.m., dep. Hollandia 2 p.m., arr.

Biak 4.10 p.m. 4. Aust.-Netherlands NG 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 (NNG) and Manila (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, Kaimana, Manokwari, Noemfoer, Kebar and Ransiki; Beaver to Kokonao; Twin Pioneer to Seroei, Genjem and Wamena; and Beaver to Steenkool, Fakfak, Kaimana, Teminabuar. Ajamaroe, Napan Wlsselmeren and Wasior.

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 Mon.: Dep. Lae 6 a.m. for Rabaul. Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSI), arr. 5 p.m. same day.

Tu ® s j : ? e P Honiara 7 a.m. for Yandina.

Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr 345 p.m. same day. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux with DC7C aircraft De R n n^l e o ery FrL for Athens - Karachi, Bangkok, Saigon, Djarkata, Darwin (refuel only). Noumea, arr. Mon. deTwed. 6A. Auckland-Noumea TAI, with DC4 aircraft 3 p m kland Sat ' 10 arr. Noumea De 3.«°pr a Fr ‘- 9 am ' arr ' 7. Noumea-Fiji-Papeete TAI, with DC6B aircraft D6^n.? r ? 3 Umea T, every Mon - for Nadi (Fiji) and Bor a Bora (Fr. Polynesia); transfer f°Ta h fl « at DeP .sa~^ e K r ” eh ‘ ssrsss IDateuna 8. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Ansett Flying Boat Services Ptv ua w.th Sandringham 9. Sydney-Norfolk Is. a... M ymas,ers Dep. Sydnev 8n m’ ar ’ 12 ’ 26 > etc.); dep. NI sun 245 m 245 P-®- 45 pm - for Sydney, arr. 6.45 p.m. (Flight extends NI-Auckland- NI. See table 12 below). 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DC4 Aircraft Tues. and Thurs.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) at 7 a.m., arr. Vila 8.55 a.m., dep.

Vila 9.30 a.m.. arr. Santo 10.45 a.m., dep. 1 p.m.. arr. Vila 2.15 p.m., dep.

Vila 2.50 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4.45 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallls Is.

TAI with DC4 Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Noumea 6.30 a.m., arr. Nadi 11.35 a.m.. dep 12.55 p.m., arr Wallis Is. 3.45 p.m. Dep. Wallis 9 a.m. Mon., arr. Nadi 11.50 a.m., dep. 1.10 p.m., arr. Noumea 4.15 p.m. same day. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (Charter) Alt. Sat. (Feb. 27, Mar. 12, 26, Apr. 9, 23, etc.). Dep. Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auckland 7.45 p.m. Ret. next day, Sun. Feb. 14 28, Mar. 13, 27, etc.). Dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. Norfolk 1.30 p.m. 13. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, daily with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Daily. Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr Sydney 11.30 a.m.

Mon. and Wed.: Dep. Auckland 7.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 9.30 p.m.

Daily; Dep. Sydney 12.30 p.m., arr Auckland 6 p.m.

Tues. and Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 11 a.m., arr. Auckland 4.30 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Sun., Tues., Thurs.. Fri : Dep. Christchurch 8 p.m., arr. Sydney 10 p.m.

Tues.. Wed., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1 p.m., arr. Christchurch 6.30 p.m. 15. Christchurch-A/lelbourne TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Wed.: Dep. Christchurch 8 p.m., arr Melbourne 10.35 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m arr Christchurch 6.30 p.m. 16. Auckland-Melbourne TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Mon.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m . arr. Melbourne 11,40 a.m MO ! > and D 7 eP 25p.m bOUrne 1P m ’ Autk- -17. Melbourne-NZ-Fiji TEAL, with Super Constellation chartered from Qantas We fanri D^ P ‘ Melb ° urne 7 a.m., arr. Auck- XT 3 i? m - dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m following da ". P m ' RetUm - same routc ' 707°iS n^ S • at * Nadi with Qantas Boeing jet service from Sydney to USA.) 18. New Zealand-Fiji TEAL and lt OF4 et « PrOP ‘ Lockheed Electras and QEA Super Constellations TUe Nidl Sa io.l5 D ; P m AUCkland 6 ' 30 " ■■ a"' Wed.; Dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., arr 9.30 p.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. land 2.55 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. land 4.15 p.m.

Wednesday flights ex - Auckland, Thursday flights ex-Nadi are operat Qantas under charter to TEAL. 19. Fiji-Western Samoi TEAL, with Solent Flyingboats Dep. Suva alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses line. arr. Satapuala (Western Si Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Dep. Satapuala Mon. at 8 a.m., c Dateline, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 a.i (Dep. Suva Mar. 3, 17, 31, Apr. 1 May 12, 26, etc.; dep. Apia Mar.

Apr. 4. 18, May 2, 16, 30, etc.) 20. NZ-Fiji-Am. Samoa' Hawaii Pan American Airways, with 8377 (Stratocruiser) aircraft Dep. Auckland 4.45 p.m.. Thurs.. arr 10.15 p.m.; dep. Nadi Fri. 11.30 crosses International Dateline.

Tafuna (American Samoa) 345 Thurs.; dep. Tafuna 5 p.m., arr Hoi 6 a.m. Fri.

Dep. Honolulu 10 p.m. Mon., arr. Ti 7.40 a.m. Tues.; dep. Tafuna 8.40 crosses International Dateline, arr.

Wed. 11.25 a.m.; dep. Nadi 6 Thurs., arr. Auckland 11.35 a.m.

Note: Commencing Mar. 7, an addil Stratocruiser will operate from Auc each Monday at same times and stops. 21. FijMahiti TEAL, with Solent Flyingboats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alt. Thurs.. crosses I national Dateline, arr. Satapuala Samoa! 1.55 p.m. Wed.; dep. Sata] 2 a.m. Thurs.. arr. Aitutaki (Cook 7.30 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 am.

Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. (Dep. Suva Mar. 3, 17, 31, Apr 14 28 12, 26, etc.) ’ ’

Dep. Papeete 7.30 a.m. alt. Sun., Aitutaki 11 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki p.m., arr. Satapuala 5 p.m.; dep. i puala 8 a.m. Mon., crosses Internat Dateline, arr. Suva 10.55 a.m. ' (Dep. Papeete Mar. 6, 20. Apr. 3, 17 1, 15, 29, etc.) 22. Fiji Internal Airway Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Di Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva; Two flights da morning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: One flight daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Matei, Tavei One flight—Mon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusavu): flight—Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: One flight—Mon.

Suva-Ura (Taveuni)-Suva (via Savusa One flight—Wed.

Suva-Ura-Suva: One flight—Thurs., Si: Suva-Matei-Suva: One flight—Sat.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Matei-Suva: One flight—Tues.

Suva - Matei - Labasa - Matei - Savusa Suva: One flight—Fri.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Viet Parade, Suva. 23. N. Caledonia-Loyalty I Internal Service TRANSPAC, with Herons and Rapid* Noumea-Mare; Tues. (dep. Noumea p.m., arr. Mare 4 p.m.) and Thurs. (< 154 FEBRUARY , ’ 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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The New, Modern, Bungalow-Type Hotel Established in the New Port Moresby Suburb of Boroko Caters for Every Need.

Beautifully-Appointed Dining-Room • Kitchen is Completely Electrical Bar Planned to Carry Most Modern Equipment • Bedrooms Equipped to Provide Maximum Tropical Comfort

Special Dinner Parties Arranged :: Orchestra

Every Wednesday And Friday Evening

■ tmea 8 a.m.. dep Mare 10 a.m.). a-Ouvea: Wed.. Thurs. and Sat Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 ()• ia-Lifou: Tues.. Wed.. Sat (dep. imea 8 a.m.. dep. Lifou 10 a.m.), irs. (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou t.m.). ja-Kounie (Isle of Pines): Mon.. (dep. Noumea 10.30 am., dep. inie, noon). aa-Koumac: Mon.. Sat. (dep. Noumea om., dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed. p, Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 ) Note; On this flight a call will made at Plaine des Gaiacs if rexed.

French Polynesia Inter- Island Service leseau Aerien Interinsulalre with flying-boats i weekly service to the Leeward nup. [Papeete Mon., 7 a.m., via Raiatea, ■. Bora Bora 8.45 a.m.

Bora Bora Tues, 8 a.m., via Raiatea, •. Papeete 10 a.m. [Papeete Wed. and Sat 7.30 a.m., via iatea, arr. Bora Bora 9.20 a.m. [Bora Bora Wed. and Sat., 9.40 a.m., i Raiatea, arr. Papeete 11.30 a.m. •king agents in Tahiti: Messageries imes, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete. 25. Hawaii-American Samoa Trans Ocean Airways Every second Wednesday, a Boeing Stratocruiser operated by Trans Ocean Airways, of Honolulu, Hawaii, mates a return flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago. (American Samoa). 26. Samoan Inter-Island Service Samoan Airlines Limited, with DCS Viewmaster Return flights twice daily, except Thurs., from Tafuna (American Samoa) to Faleolo (Western Samoa).

Dep. Tafuna 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m.; arr.

Faleolo 10.15 a.m., 3.15 p.m.

Dep Faleolo 10.45 a.m., 3.45 p.m.; arr Tafuna 11.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m.

Fare £B4/4/- single. £S7 return. Agent at Apia; Peter Plowman. 27. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airways Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates a service throughout the Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the US Government. Details from Trans Ocean Airways Agana, Guam.

Two New Ships for Aust. West Pacific Line A SHIPPING success story will enter a nsw chapter in 1961 when the Australia West Pacific Line will place two more modern cargo liners into service. .

In 1948, Swedish ship-owner Otto Hillerstrom took a boid step by diverting his two newest ships, MV s Aros and Citos, from their proposed Nth Atlantic service into the Pacific.

Joined by Delos (built in Denmark) and Milos (Japan) , they iun from Sydney to Japan direct, carrying wool and refrigerated cargo, and return via Hongkong, Manila, NG, BSI, and N. Hebrides.

In Rabaul this month, Mr. Folke Hillerstrom, AWPL’s managing director, and son of the founder, gave details of the two new ships.

One is being built in Denmark for delivery in August. The other, in Japan, will be ready Jan., 1961.

No names have been chosen yet.

Each will be 7,500 tons d.w., slightly bigger than the existing ships. Machinery and superstructure will be placed further aft, giving them a completely different profile to other AWPL ships. 155

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Exports .

Imports 1959 £16,297.337 £20.068.498 1958 £12.404.100 £20,238,770 Total . . £36,365,835 £32,642,870 Pacific Commerce and Produce P-NG Wants More Overseas Trade Representation From a NG Correspondent An Australian Government trade delegation which visited Papua- New Guinea in January returned with at least one concrete recommendation from the Territory’s businessmen that the Territory vitally needs overseas trade representation. r[IS point was strongly made on a number of occasions by representatives of commercial organisations and primary producers who met the delegation throughout the tour.

At the same time the leader of the delegation, Mr. A. J. Campbell First Assistant Secretary of the Australian Department of Trade was quick to point out that Australian Trade Commissioners in overseas countries already have powers to act on behalf of Papua- New Guinea. y Said }**■ Cam P b ell: “The main °/ argument, then, seems tb tbat u the greatest possible use should be made of these commissioners on New Guinea’s behalf.

That seemed to be what many of the businessmen we met required”.

Two other officers accompanied Mr. Campbell. They were Mr. F.

Weekes, also from the Department of Trade; and Mr. E. J. Wood, the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Territories.

Mr. Campbell made it clear in all his interviews that his mission was not to give advice, or to give answers, or to carry any specific submissions to the Commonwealth He said that the delegation had come to the Territory to obtain background information on trade matters which would assist the mutual operation of the Department of Trade and the Department of Territories.

Nevertheless he ran into a pretty solid barrage of advice and requests from businessmen and producers He was told that: • Capital was sometimes hard to attract from outside because the present economic and administrative trends in the Territory (particularly the Trust Territory of New Guinea) were breeding economic insecurity. • The Territory was sometimes forgotten when Australian trade officers negotiated overseas bilateral agreements. • Income tax was affecting the operation of commercial enterprise because salaried staff were restless. • Although native labour appeared cheap on paper, its full implications meant an item of great expense.

Mr. Campbell said that his discussions in the Territory on possible protective tariffs to help develop ..ocal secondary industry had brought forth mixed opinions.

Some businessmen had favoured such a system, but others had felt that the consumption market was so small that the system was not justified and would only add to the immediate cost of living. The latter opinion had been supported by a statement to the effect: “If a local manufacturer can’t compete on our local market without protection, e .•* las nothing to offer.

Either he is not running the business correctly or he has foolishly stepped into a market which could be supplied more simply and economically by imports”.

Value of P-NG's Exports Rises by 31 per cent. to ß T e nnp d -?n°snL trade figures for the year 59 frariP I°’ 19 f 9 ; are disclosed in the 1958- 59 trade report for Papua and New Guinea just issued. Details are: Because of higher copra and cocon prices and increased shipments in ( cocoa and coffee, export returns we: by just over 31 per cent.

Overall, imports did not vary gr though some individual items die instance, £200,000 more foodstuffs, ir rice and cereal preparations were bn into the Territory, while machinery transport equipment fell by £383,00C Australia supplied goods i £13,406,000, her nearest competitor USA £1,400,000 and UK £1,338 000' she took well over half the exi £8,789,000 worth against UK’s £4 94 (mostly copra and by-products) Canada’s £1,111,000 (coconut oil).

ARC'S Bwata Well Is All Gas, No OH Bwata well, in Papua, will be plu and the drilling outfit moved elsew reported Australasian Petroleum Co Ltd., on February 5. Gas had flowe the rate of 20 million cu. ft. a dayall evidence showed there was no ur lying oil accumulation there.

Effort now will be concentrated c new site at lehi. From a base camj the Kikori River, helicopter landing were being cleared, early in Febn along the access route to lehi.

Union SS Co.'s Profit Dropped Sharply Net profit of Union Steam Ship Cc NZ, Ltd., dropped from over £1,000,00 £377,170 to September 30, 1959, repo directors in January. This mainly result of the NZ import controls, w at one time resulted in 16 ship’s b laid up.

Dividend on ordinary capital, all by P. and O. Steam Navigation Co., maintained at 8 per cent. The pub held preference shares get sVs> per cen The company is preparing plans for placement and additions to the ci fleet, with vessels of changed design.

FOW FIJI. James A. Langbein, has been posted to Fiji where he has joined the New Zealand Ministry of Works team controlling the Nadi International Airport reconstruction contract.

He has replaced Mr. E. N. L. collier, who has joined the staff of Garmm on (Makaya), Limited, controlling organisation with activities scattered throughout the South Pacific.

FOR THE COOKS. Mr. Bruce Henderson, New Zealand Ministry of Works, who ha seconded to the Cook Islands Public Department as engineer for the Cook I based on Rarotonga. Much of his work i Ministry has been concerned with investii for possible hydro-electric schemes. In h post Mr. Henderson will carry local en mg responsibility for a wide variety of and among his early problems will be needed improvements to water supplies, in ments to reading, bridges and harbour fac the development of the aerodrome at Rar to a standard capable of accommodatir new Electra aircraft to be operated by and the provision of new hospital build 156

Uar Y , I 960 Pacific Islands Month

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Queensland Insurance

BUILDING, 80-82 PITT SYDNEY.

STREET, Specialists in South Sea Fire, Marine & Accident Insurance Apply to: — FIJI. —Branch Office; J. P- Drury, Manager.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

NOUMEA—W. Johnston.

VILA. —Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

SANTO. —Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

NEW GUINEA.— Manager for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. R. D. Kennedy.

Port Moresby—Samarai— Lae

—MADANG—KAVIENG— RABAUL.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Resident Officer at Rabaul; K. Johnson.

Resident Officer at Lae: D. J. Granter.

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 U Offices in Australia or N.Z. xamu Valley Goldfield New Lease of Life '.the 30 years between 1909 and the t-ak of World War 11. 40,000 oz of gold t taken from Lakekamu Valley gold- IPapua. Now. 20 years laW, the field ■ s en re-opened and Bulolo Gold Dredged., is preparing to carry out deep- Jtesting. . a .. »dog airstrip, built during the war irt of the field, has been made serviceland Otter aircraft have flown in ig equipment for BGD. rivers flowing south from the ranges ikekamu represent the opposing water- -to the Wau, Bulolo and Edie Creek —that is to say. Bulolo Valley is one tf the ranges and the Lakekamu Valley the southern or opposite side. The oility that is exercising the minds of experts now is could a comparable int of gold have been washed down the xamu Valley as was washed down into ilch Bulolo? Deep drilling should tell l93o’s. Tiveri Gold Dredging Co., installed a small bucket dredge at samu—but it dug only to 20 ft.

Trust Co. is More i profit of Burns, Philp Trust Co., rose by £287 to £9,344 for the year 1 December 31. Unchanged dividend per cent, absorbs £8,400. xation reserve of £l,OOO was created, ng carry forward £717 (down £56). s earnings were £4,277 higher at 139 lue of estates, trusts and agencies r administration rose by £4.2 million 119.1 million. ither Copra Mill Fiji? sgistered in Suva on January 14, Akhil istries. Ltd., gave as its objects “to y on business as manufacturers of soap, : and oil manufacturers, oil refineries, ’ Nominal capital is £250,000 in )00 shares of £1 each. Mr. Mahadei i Charan Akhil, company director, and Ram Dayal, company director, both jautoka, each hold one share, iva already has two copra crushing s, Islands Industries, Ltd. (subsidiary of R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd.), and on Soaps-Pacific Biscuit Co. The pos- Lity of a competitor, backed by the il group (which has large and profit- ; manganese interests in the Colony), jautoka. has been the subject of much julation in Fiji this month. terprise of NG's w Oil Permit Area 0 obtain funds for geological and geosical work in Permit Area No. 29, on northwest coast of New Guinea, cononally approved, Enterprise of NG Gold [ Petroleum Development NL, has offered reholders the unissued 1/- shares in company at 9d each. Authorised iital is 10,000.000 1/- shares of which 15,979 had been issued at last balance et date (August 31, 1959). ’he area, about 3,600 square miles, exds from near Wewak to the DNG border 1 covers the whole of the sedimentary in between the coast and the east-west ining ranges of Toricelli and Bewani s. to the south. lie company’s consulting geologist, Mr.

K. Sturmfels, DSc., in a recent report, ted: “The area seems to have ample potentialities and the chances of find- ; oil in commercial quantities are rerded as good”.

During the past year, the company has limited its activities in NG to a gold lease near Wau, from which 724 oz gold were won.

Economic Survey of P-NG Coffee Industry The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics will shortly carry out an economic survey of the coffee industry in Papua-New Guinea. It will also review the future world prospects for coffee.

Coffee growing in P-NG, particularly in the Highlands areas, has developed rapidly over the past six years. In 1953 only 47 tons valued at £31,055 were exported: in 1959 it had jumped to 969 tons worth £456,037.

WRC Group Extends Paper Merchandising Interests W. R. Carpenter Holdings, Ltd., parent of the WRC group of companies, has moved into the Australian paper merchandising business in a big way.

Through its interest in Dalton Brothers Holdings, Ltd. (originally a 40 per cent, share-holding), it has acquired two associated paper wholesalers, Hermann Haege, Ltd., and Paperholdings, Ltd. The takeover bid for Haege alone was £720,000.

Dalton’s already control Carmichael and Co. Pty. (machinery and paper supplying business). Andrew Jack. Dyson and Co (leading Melbourne paper merchants) and British Patent Perforated Paper Co. (makers of tissue rolls, paper towels, etc ).

Two other diverse subsidiaries are White Rose Flour Milling Pty. and United Pacific Bakeries Pty.

Southern Pacific Insurance Will Double Its Capital By a cash issue to shareholders of 800 000 5/- ord. shares at par, on the basis of one for one, Southern Pacific Insurance, which has branches in New Guinea and Fiji, will double its capital (to £400,000) on March 31. W. R. Carpenter Holdings own approximately 50 per cent, of the company’s shares.

Papuan Apinaipi Awaits Report by G. A. V. Stanley Mr. Bruce W. Graham, chairman of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum, at the annual meeting recently in Sydney said that Papuan activities and possibilities are being compiled into a report by Mr. G. A.

V. Stanley, of Port Moresby, who is widely known for his extensive experience in geological work in Papua.

When the report is received a decision will be made about the methods of dealing with the considerable financial and logistic problems of the company’s oilseeking activities in Papua.

Dividend of 3d Per Share For NG Goldfields Ltd.

Directors of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., recommended payment of a dividend of 3d per stock unit at the annual meeting in Sydney recently. The distribution absorbed £55,904, equivalent to slightly more than 7 per cent, on the nominal value of the stock units, and approximately 10.3 per cent, on the then market value.

December operating statement showed Golden Ridges Mill; 4.137 tons treated for 1,053 fine oz gold and 1,529 fine oz silver; Alluvials: 50 oz gold. Timber produced was 158,734 su. ft. (Over) 157

A C I F I C Islands Monthly February, 1960

Sydney Sales Prices

Jan. 6, ’60 Feb. 4 Burns Phllp . . . 103/6 100/- Burns Phllp (SS) . . 68/6 66/9 C.S.R £81/17/6 £81/10/- Dylup Plantations 30/- 29/6 Hackshalls . . 55/9 55/3 Kauri Timber . 20/6 22/- 10/- Kerema Rubber 9/9 Koitakl . . .

Lolorua ....

Maribol ....

Norfolk Is. Whaling 28/- 12/- 9/- 5/7 30/- 13/- 10/- 7/- Queensland Insurance 98/- 94/3 Rubberlands . 7/6 8/- Sthn. Pac. Insurance 40/- 51/- Steamships Trading . 51/9 56/6 W. R. Carpenter Hold. 26/- 28/- Timor Oil 5/2 4/7

Oil And Mining Shares

FIJI July 9. ’58 Jan. 6, ’60 Feb. 4 Emperor . b5/9 b6/3 s6/6 b40/- Loloma . . — b42/-

Papda-New Guinea

Bulolo . . . b35/b36/6 b37/- N.O.O. Ltd. bl/By a s2/6 b2/6 Oil Search b2/6 b5/7 b5/9 Ent. of N.G. b7d b5d b5d Papuan Apln bed b4/ll b3/8V 2 do. opt. . bey 2 d bl/71/a 1/6 Placer Dev. b86/6 b96/6 blOl/- Sandy Creek b4d bid H9H PRING DEAN & CO.

H : Dean ’ V ' J ' Berner, W. L. Hunt. J. A. Hudson Members of the Sydney Stock Exchange « Hunter street, * * SHAREBROKERS Tetegrants Address: p rin s Stock 4 ° U * lineSi Cables Address: Lin war, Sydney y ' VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD. 247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY I stand Merchants and Buying Agents SOLE AGENTS FOR- * AMx T uon?n S i^ ELEY DIESEL engines

Ajax Liquid Alarm Relays

• Norman Petrol Engles

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Hollandia Canned Fish

Distributors for all plantation, farm, trade requirements merchandise. and handled on consignment. ° F ocoa ’ Coffee, Shell and other produce e H- - » v A Y D N Y Nl Whaling to Seek £50,000 for Expansion Norfolk Island and Byron Bay Whaling Go., Ltd., will shortly issue £50,000 registered convertible unsecured 10 per cent, notes.

Funds will partly finance the estimated £ A 140.000 to be spent on the Great Barrier Is. (NZ) station, the chairman, Mr.

N. G. Bell, told the annual meeting recently.

Increased quotas, from 120 to 150 whales, at Byron Bay and Norfolk Island had been chief factor in larger earnings.

Group profit rose £45,187 to £63,063 for the year ended October 31. Dividend, resumed at 10 per cent., required £42,000 The Stock Market Again, this month, share trading on Sydney Stock Exchange has continued to hoom. On February 5, following a week of record sales, the index hit the untouched high of 332.23. In the opening Tveek of January it was 321.

Market observers say the confidence of the investing public reflects the halfyearly reports of the main companies which generally have been reported as good, with a bright outlook for the second half”.

Range of trading has been wide—wool pastoral, manufacturing, retail, mining I’ P nce . nse s have been the result persistent buying support. Buying by large institutions, too, has been a contributing factor.

Australian share prices give everv antherSdenL St t aying at high levels - since tendency to regard a stock’s highest price level as its normal price still persists. One result is that any slight downturn in price tends to make a share look cheap and sets off an immediate buying surge.

London and New York exchanges have been faltering in recent months, after peak periods late last year, and they could well serve as a warning to local investors. With many of today’s Sydney stocks, the current market does seem to be over-anticipating future benefits

Islands Produck

(Unless otherwise stated, quotatlo in Australian currency. Aust £ approximately 16/- stg.. NZ . wp Fij V 20/ * Tonffa - So,on HPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; SUS 2 COPRA The British Ministry of Food 1 Contract, which governed Copra m Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, Sa,m° a Soiomon Islands, and Gllbe Ellice Colony (and. to some exte Tonga and Cook Islands) expired c cember 31. 1957; since when each tory has made its own arrangemen collection and marketing of copra. . PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII prod is delivered to Copra Marketing controlled by six members, including planters representatives; and the directs distribution and sales, and payments to the producers Prod goes mainly to (a) Unilever (undei tract covering i 960), (b) Australia ocal consumption) and (c) crushin in Rabaul. Prices generally arrang accordance with ruling rate in Philii market, with premiums for hot-air From July 1 ( 1959 p. NG Board’s Tentative Purchase Prices copra delivered main ports: Hot-Air ' £A72/10/- per ton; FMS, £A7I per Smoke-Dried, £A7O per ton.

FIJI:—No Government control—proc sell where they wish. Bulk of copra to crushing-mill in Suva, whose on wharf. Suva, is announced each On Feb. 8 prices were: HAD £F7B' £F76/12/6; FM2, £F7S/7/6.

WESTERN SAMOA:—Official < Board receives all production, and same and makes payments to prodi P r °P° rtl on goes to Unilevei Philippines PM grade rates, plus miums up to £S3 per ton for air dried. Prices unaltered since M 1959; Hot-air dried, £867/13/8 per sun-dried No. 1. £S6S/3/8; sun- No. 2. £B6l/13/8.

TONGA:—Sales are under Govern control. Part of production goes to Eu under arrangement with Unilever trolled by Philippines prices, and on to open market.

SOLOMONS:—AII production marl through official Copra Board, at p based on Philippines market. Price dared for February: Ist grade, £AB6; grade, £AB4/10/-; 3rd grade, £AB2 per f.0.b., BSIP ports.

GILBERT AND ELLICE:—Produi marketed in Europe through official C Board, at prices based on Philipt rates, less “stabilisation fund” cha etc.

E. SAMOA:—Producers receive 6 cent ($U5134.4 or £A6O/5/- approx, per ton). Periodic bonus, if average proc exceed Govt, buying price and expense NEW HEBRIDES:— Price was appr mately £A7O/10/- per ton delivered \ Santo on Jan. 13.

COOK IS./NIUE/TOKELAU: Subject the provisions of the copra contract tween the Cook Islands-Niue-Toke! shippers and Abels, Ltd., of Aucklt who operate the only New Zealand cc crushing mill, the price for the sec half of 1959 was £NZBS/8/9 for F Grade, and £NZB4/3/9 for stand Grade, per ton, in sacks, f.o.b. Raroton Niue/Apia. 158 BRUARY. 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

FROM SVDNET (Aust. currency) TO— Single Return Taoie £ s. d. £ s. d.

No.

Moresby . . • T.ae . 51 5 0 62 15 0 92 5 112 19 0 0 2 2 Rabaul .... 72 9 0 130 9 0 2, 3 Noumea (via NZ) 107 6 0 193 4 0 13. 6a Honiara . . . 94 5 0 169 13 0 2, & Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 Lord Howe 14 15 0 29 10 0 7 1 Nadi 85 9 0 153 17 0 Suva Auckland . . . 92 0 0 52 10 0 166 19 94 10 0 0 1, Jl 13 Christchurch 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 1 1 Honolulu . . ■ 282 12 0 508 14 0 San Francisco 350 9 0 630 17 0 Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 Apia Papeete . . .

Aitutaki . . . 118 14 0 214 14 0 1. 17 178 2 0 155 12 0 320 12 281 2 0 0 1. 21 1. 21 Biak 103 15 0 186 15 0 4

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Apia 62 0 0 111 12 0 18, 19 Aitutaki . . . 93 10 0 168 6 0 18. 21 Nadi 39 7 0 70 17 0 18 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . 114 10 0 206 2 0 18, 21 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— Apia 25 0 0 45 0 0 19, 21 Aitutaki . . . 57 15 0 103 19 0 17. 21 Nadi 4 0 0 8 0 0 22 Papeete . . . 82 14 0 148 18 0 17. 21

Other Produce

UA:— Islands prices are based on the nr Ghana cocoa which on Feb. 4, EStg 227/10/- per ton, c.1.f., Sydney.

SAMOA: —Nominal price quoted in early Feb. £S2IO f.0.b., Apia.

Jl; £S2OS, grade 2. )G • Feb. 8, quote No. 1 £A26O- - Sydney: quote No. 2 (top quality). ■"FEE:—P.-N.G.: Feb. 5, good quality He per lb, 4/- to 4/5%; B grade, 4/3%; C grade, 3/11 to 4/2 c.1.f.. jarly Feb. price quoted for Tanga- A grade was £Stg.37s; B grade, il60; Undergradings, £Stg.26s, all :,n and c.i.f.. Sydney. Uganda Rowas offering at approx. £Stg.l76 Sydney.

'NUTS; P.-N.G., Feb. 8, kernels: and Red Spanish 1/6% lb; Virginia „ 1/7 Vn (no recent sales). ;BER: —P.-N.G. price is based on oore rate, which on Feb. 4 was: RSS, spot, IHVa Straits cents per .25d Aust.).

ILL A BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Sydney, advised Feb. 9 that their agent reported “no stocks available “sent”.

IE (Australian):— Price from May 1.

P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, j bags, 5 tons and over, £6l/10/kon, f.0.w.: under 5 tons £62 per Vitamised and enriched white, 112 gs, 5 tons and over. £6B per ton, ; under 5 tons. £6B/10/- per ton.

Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O ton f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne. iRL SHELL.— Firm quotations in Feb. dependent M.O.P. shell agents were: 1 £ AB5O, D £ A6OO, E £A3OO, EE 0 (in store Sydney). Penrhyn .400 (nominal), f.0.b., Rarotonga, hiki; It is anticipated that because of toor price of mother-of-pearl blacklip and the high price of copra, the Cook ds Administration will again declare hiki lagoon closed to divers for 1960, ;hird year in succession, to give the beds a further opportunity to re- •ate. N.G.: Blacklip M.O.P. sales at per ton were made in Sydney rey- OCHUS.—Little demand nominal c.i.f. Sydney, Feb. 5, £250. iEEN SNAIL SHELL.—Good demand Japan, has raised price to £A4OS A4lO per ton. P.-N.G. and 8.5.1. shell in short supply.

London and US Quotations pra: London, Feb. 4, Philippines, in , $255 per long ton, c.i.f., UK/North pean ports. Straits/Borneo, FMS, deed weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European 3 £Stg.9l per long ton. New York, 4, Philippines, $240 US per short c.i.f., Pacific coast port. ‘1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 Dollars.) rconut Oil: London, Feb. 4, Ceylon, in , £Stg.l3B per ton, c.i.f., UK/North »pean ports. Straits crude, g. 133/10/- c.i.f. ibber; London, c.i.f.. Feb. 4 RSS No. pot 34%d Stg. per lb; Jan., 1960, 32d ; Feb., 1960, 33V 4 d Stg. b is expected that the Tabia- *keti Road on Vanua Levu, Fiji, imenced in 1954, will be combed by the end of 1960, and at a t substantially below the original [mate.

The World Coffee Industry -'HE Pan-American Coffee Bureau, in a review, recently published, says the most significant general developments in the world coffee industry during the past couple of years have been; (1) A continuous rise in production, accompanied by (2) a further decline m prices, (3) a marked decrease in the foreign exchange earnings of coffeeproducing countries, particularly those in large degree dependent upon coffee for such earnings, (4) a modification of the Brazilian exchange-rate system which permitted coffee exporters to receive more cruzeiros per unit of foreign currency, thereby placing lower - grade Brazilian coffees on a more competitive basis with those of Africa, and changes in certain other exchange-rate systems, (5) an increase in coffee consumption but by only a small proportion of the increment to production or to carry-overs, (6) a tendency of roasters and importers to minimise their working inventories of green coffee, and, for the first time, intergovernmental discussions in Washington of world coffee problems at which representatives of both coffee-producing and coffeeimporting countries, including the United States, particularly, attended.

Out of those discussions came the Latin American Coffee Agreement, a side agreement between the French and Portuguese, and the formal creation of a Coffee Study Group—made up of representatives of European, African, and Latin American Countries and the United States —to prepare studies and recommendations designed to cope with world coffee problems in the years ahead.

Fiji is Extending Its Cocoa Plantings COCOA production in Fiji has not yet reached the stage of commercial exports, but since planting on a commercial scale began in 1953 the areas have been steadily expanded to about 1,800 acres with a further 400 acres added last year, according to the latest annual report of the Fiji Department of Agriculture.

The areas so far established consist of 46 blocks of more than 10 acres, mainly Fijian owned, and some 250 acres of estate plantings, mostly in the Southern District and Taveuni.

The early varieties tended to have a flavour rather milder than those most in demand commercially but stronger flavoured varieties are now being established—the West African Amelonado notably.

It is now proposed to extend the plantings to other islands —Koro, Ovalau, Kadavu, and to the Wainunu area of Vanua Levu.

Farmers are given up to 600 seedlings free of charge, and are also given advice on the preparation of the land, care and maintenance of the crop, and eventually on the fermentation, drying, and marketing The Government is establishing a cocoa experimental station at Naduruloulou, near Nausori, and another at Navavusavu, on Vanua Levu. Research into fertilisers, processing of the beans, and other aspects of the industry will be handled there.

A demonstration fermentary of a type within the means of the small farmer has been established at Naduruloulou and others will be erected at Wailevu, Cakaudrove and Taveuni.

To “make sure’’ that a good reputation is established for Fiji cocoa right from the outset, the Department will handle the processing and marketing until export standards have been established and satisfactory marketing arrangements evolved.

Pacific Air Fares

(Approximate Only)

NOTE: To obtain the equivalent of Australian currency in other currencies ( Sterling, Fiji. New land, French Pacific francs), see below.

Fares quoted are First-Class. Cheaper Tourist Class fares (approx. 20 per cent, lower) are available to most ports. Fares to points east of Nadi include air connection to Suva by Fiji Airways. Ltd Exchange Rates FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ B4NK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying. £Alll/2/6; Selling, £ All 3. Flji-London, basis £lOO London; B. £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-Fijl, basis £lOO NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA— Through BANK OF NZ. Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ A123/12/6; S. £124/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B. £O9/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fljl, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia - Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(Pt. Moresby, Lae. Rabaul, Goroka. Bulolo, Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai. Goroka; agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), ANZ BANK (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) and

National Bank Of A/Asia. (Port

Moresby, Lae) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £AIOO.

FRENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific (CPF) francs are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynesia.

FRENCH BANK (Comptolr National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney Feb., 1960, quotes: Selling, Noumea, 196 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; Papeete 194.25 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 246 Pac. francs to £ Stg.; 88.55 Pac. francs to US $: Noumea. 18 Pac. francs to 1 French heavy franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. franc equals 0.055 heavy franc). Paris-London: Selling, 13.73 heavy francs to £Stg.

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Mcllrath's . .

Malleys Ltd. . , Manokwari Slip way . .•. .

Matson Lines .

Mendaco . , .

M. H. Ltd. . .

Midget Book Co.

Millers Ltd. . 7 Mullaly & Byrni Mungo Scott .

Nathan & Wyeth . . 12 Nautical Servic< Nestles . . . , N. Aust. Line Nile Products .

Nixoderm . . .

Norman, Leonan N. & R. . . .

Ogden Industrie; Pacific Islands Transport Lin Parke Davis .

Philips ... 3: Piccaninny Wa> P. I. Society .

Pring, Dean .

Qantas . . . i Qld. Insurance Ransomes, Sims Jeffries Ltd. .

Rohu, Sil . . .

Scientific Servic Co Scott & Bowne A/sia. Ltd. .

Scotts Detergent: Seward Ltd. . .

Shann, C. R. .

Shaw Savill . .

Sheaffer, W. A., Pen Co. . . , Sparklets Ltd. .

Stapleton, J. .

S. P. Brewery .

Steamships Tr. .

Stewarts Lloyd Sthn. Pac. Ins.

Sullivan Ltd. 162 Taikoo Dockyard Tait, W. S. . .

Tatham, S. E. .

Taubman's Ltd.

T. . . . cc Thornycroft Co.

Tillock & Co. .

Tongala Milk . , Tooth & Co. . .

Tyneside Eng. .

Ventura . . . .

Vi-Stim ....

Victa Mowers .

Walkers Ltd. . .

Waters, Edwd. 46 Webster, D. . . .

Western Barbed Wire & Nail P/L Weymark P/L .

Whites Aviation Wilhelmsen, W. .

Wills Ltd. . . .

Wright & Co. . .

Wrigley's . . . .

Wunderlich . .

Yardley ....

Yorkshire Ins. . . 160 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

lassified Advertisements »r line, 4/-; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

Enfriends Wanted

T CORRESPONDENCE with friends Pacific Islands. General interests; -ages: English, French, German, Write to; Mr. Nazzareno Rolle 36 1, Corso Bramante 89. Torino (316), Europe. —“The Crossroads of the Pacific”. quarters, World’s leading Society 1933) providing world-wide ■spondents interested in British lies and Pacific Islands study and dly exchange of ideas and hobbies °hilately, Conchology, etc. Write specimen copy Club journal “Island and application form, to Secretary, i Sea Island Correspondence Club, ivu, Fiji Is.

Position Wanted

NG MAN, single, seeks position, eight s’ experience on land. Good know- ! all branches farming practice. Edul G Pub. School to Leaving. Excellent -ences. “P.A.” C/- “Pacific Islands hly”, G.P.O. Box 3408, Sydney, Aust.

Books, Magazines

BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Lasia And The Pacific Bought

SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent on application. Correspondence in- 1. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney, phone: BW 1874.

E AND POST FREE—64 page illus- ;d Bargain Catalogue. Stern’s (Dept. , 200 George St.. Sydney, Australia.

Art School

UNIQUE ART COURSES by post in oils or watercolour, with lessons illustrated by free original paintings are offered by— Alastair Gray Studios, 91 Sackville Street, Kew, Melbourne. Write for particulars.

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.

STAMPS NEW STAMPS. The first of the new definitive series of stamps will be issued by Norfolk Island in May in denominations of Id., 2d., and 9d. The stamps will be in two colours. Attractive first day covers complete 1/6. Address orders to: The Postmaster, Norfolk Island.

SERVICES

May I Do You A Personal Service

in London, England? If so please write: R. Jones, 703 Becontree Avenue, Dagenham, Essex, England.

WATCH REPAIRS to all brands of watches. Send your repairs directly to the only Swiss watchmaker giving service to the Pacific Islands. Rapid service—all work guaranteed. Swiss - Clox Watch Service, 9 Garner Avenue, French’s Forest.

Sydney, Australia.

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.

FLEETS. Near new 29 ft. diesel, fishing boat, all gear, £2,400. 42 ft. diesel trawler, built 1957, £5,250. 50 ft. trawler, built 1950, 2 diesels, £5,500. Also auxiliaries, cargo boats, etc. Fleets. 525 Stanley St., Sth. Brisbane. Q’ld., Aust.

WANTED I WILL BUY rare and beautiful sea shells in lots of $2O or more. E. L. Mauseth, Alden Minnesota, U.S.A.

ACCOMMODATION GEORGE and MOLLY MACLENNAN have purchased the modern Mandalay Flats, Alexandra Headland on the North Coast.

Queensland, and invite all friends to book for holidays through T. Richardson & Co., Alexandra Headland, Q’land.. Aust. Telegrams: "Teerico”, Mooloolaba. Phone: Mooloolaba 231.

FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne. Sydney Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutss to city. Enquiries; Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd.. G.P.O Box 5316. Sydney. Aust SIL ROHU, 143 ELIZABETH ST., SYDNEY —MA 3540 To our many Friends and Clients in the Islands. We invite you to consult us in your problems and wants in Shooting requirements—Rifles, Ammunition and Accessories, etc.

Also Fishing Tackle to tackle your fishing—large or small. Queries, etc., promptly answered.

Underwater Spear Fishermen also very adequately catered for.

Mail Orders Our Speciality Write For Our Catalogue Introducing

Drrascope Films

Beautiful 50 ft. (Bmm.) £Stg. 2.5 00 ft. (16mm.) £Stg. 5.15

30 Different Subjects

m Hong Kong Macao ■ — Formosa Bangkok Angkor Malaya apore India Suez Riviera Paris Rome Venice Spain Coronation England Switzerland, etc.

Catalogues Upon Request

: Ilmo Depot

3 Marina House, Hong Kong

American Dollars

For Butterflies

From all islands in the Pacific Any boy or girl scout, student, teacher, hobbiest or nature lover, in fact anyone on any island in the Pacific can earn American dollars from this fascinating hobby. We would like to receive butterflies from any islanders who are now collecting and know how to send perfect butterflies. Specimens from New Guinea, Indonesia, Borneo and Malaya, especially required. Will pay for any perfect specimens received. Write for free instructions, concerning collecting, packing, etc.

Butterfly Art

289-297 East 98th Street, Brooklyn 12, N.Y., U.S.A. 161 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1960

C. SULLIVAN (pacific islands) LTD Bank of N.S.W. Chambers, Victoria Parade, Suva, Fiji G.P.O. Box 427. Cables: "SULLIVAN", Suva Serving traders in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Representing ALLIED IRONFOUNDERS LTD.

BAERLEIN BROTHERS LTD.

THE BEANSTALK CO. LTD.

BLACK BROS. & BODEN LTD.

DEMA GLASS LTD.

KIWI POLISH CO. LTD.

SCOTLAND JOHN HAIG & CO. LTD.

ENGLAND Cast Iron Ware LAMB HINGLEY & CO. LTD. Galv. Hollow Wa Sewing Cottons J, & G. MEAKIN LTD. Crocke Shelving-display GEORGE ROBINSON LTD. Cotton Textil Mosquito Netting STAR BRUSH CO. LTD. Brushwa Glassware STEVENSON & SON LTD. Linen and Rayon Gooi Shoe Polish, etc. TIMEX LTD. Watcb

New Zealand

Scotch Whisky DOWNS & POOLE LTD Plastic Wai

South Africa

FEDERAL FISH PACKERS LTD. Canned Fish AUSTRALIA ARDMONA FRUIT CO-OP. LTD. Canned Fruits BRUNTON & CO. LTD. Flour, Sharps COLUMBIA PICTURES LTD. i 6mm Fi | ms HOME PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL Kolynos Toothpaste, etc.

KINNEAR'S ROPES LTD. Manila & Sisal Ropf ALFRED LAWRENCE LTD. Essencf EDWARD LUMLEY & SONS (N.Z.) LTD. Insuranc WYETH INTERNATIONAL LTD. Ethical Producl YARDLEY OF LONDON (AUSTRALIA) LTD. Toiletrie PHILIP MORRIS (AUSTRALIA) LTD. Cigarette is n utors or leading Australian and Overseas Manufacturers. 1 types of merchandise indented on commission—Suppliers' original invoices furnished ouses at Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Hong Kong, San Francisc< and London. 162 FEBRUARY. 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

TIMEX IAJorfJJ popular Watch Shockproof - Dustproof - Waterproof <*- 7 if * 1 In the United States of America TIMEX watch sales are easily first, while in England in 1957 more TIMEX watches were sold than all other makes combined.

Made in a wide range of styles from Boyproofs to men's self winding models, also in glamorous new models for the modern miss-beautifully styled and splendid timekeepers—all with unbreakable mainsprings.

Agents: — C. SULLIVAN (Export) PTY. LTD. « m SI, SYDNEY

Enquiries From Distributors Invited

Exporters Catering to South Pacific Areas with Branch Offices in Fiji and New Guinea C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD. 66 Pitt Street, Sydney (Corner of O’Connell and Pitt Streets) Telephone: BL 5071 (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.

Buyers Of Islands Produce

Marine Propulsion

Diesel Engines

The Popular Choice in the Islands for all Makes of Craf mt mm M.V. “MON OK A r Owned by Levers Pacific Plantations Pty. Ltd.

Powered by Gardner 4L3 Marine Engine,. -I rm 1755 Gardner 4L3 Marini Engine with Reversing £r Reducini Gears All Models Available Prompt Delivery Sole Agents for Papuo-New Guinea & South West Pacific Islands FERRIER & DICKINSON PTY. LTD.

Tele grams: Po ‘ 80X 21 ' Artarm ° n ' N - S - W -' AUStralia SALES SERVICE SPARE PARTS: Herbert Street. St. Leonards, M-S-W^aT^o'' Puolished by PACIFIC PUBLICA Pnnted in Australia by the Sydney anJ'Melbonln 61 *® Sydney - (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set up an Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. '

Vhat is a neighbour? \ N Who can say? Definitions change with time. People separated by hundreds of miles oi Pacific Ocean can rightfully claim to be neighbours.

Flying by TEAL you can, in a matter ot hours visit a distant friend, make an overseas business trip or send merchandise to once remote places in the South Pacific.

TEAL’S business—and pleasure —is serving the South Pacific making near neighbours ot widely separated peoples.

Enquiries or reservations your Travel Agent or nearest TEAL office New Zealand's International Airline

Serving The South Pacific

I N

Association With Qantas And

.O. A . C API 6.96 FEBRUARY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

General Merchants

m m 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, European

And American Manufacturers

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise w. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

In London: Telephone; BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.Ou Box 168, Sydney.

W ' R Car P eßter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lone, London, E.C.3 associated companies throughout the pacific-

In New Guinea: In

_ . PAPUA: IIV Fill* few Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul . , .

Lae, Madang, Kavieng Kokono S and Products Ltd- Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suv: ’ ’ Port Moresby. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.

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