Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXX, No. 12 ( Jul. 1, 1960)
1960-07-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC SILANDS Monthly JULY, 1960 Vol. XXX. No. 12 tablWed 1930 sieved at the G.P.0.. . K ransmisshi by post a a newspaper The sub-district headuarters of Wabag, perched on a rainy ridge 6,500 ft.up in the Western Highlands of New Guinea,is a growing attraction for tourists anxious to see the New Guinea wilds without, at the same time, straying too far from the amenities of civilisation. And July is a busy month for visitors, for on the Australian mainland it's winter. Wabag station is grouped aroud its all-important airtrip- 3,810 ft. long now -although is was nothing but a sweet potato patch when the first aircraft put down there in an emergency just before the war.

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AGENTS: m I * ■ PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai.

Cables: "Steamships".

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

Cables: "Colyeram".

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

HONIARA: British Islands Trading Corporation.

VILA: Les Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles-Hebrides.

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

FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SANTO: Les Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles-Hebrides.

APIA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NUKUALOFA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

TAHITI: Etablissements Donald.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire Ltd., 1 Connaught Roa Central, Hong Kong. Cables; "Swire".

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\ K L Ml VC* , , . because there is a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half pound of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate Moa/sFc/s PEOPLE famous old pioneer of the n days in New Guinea, Mr. :h Rudolph Wahlen, of Ham- Uermany, celebrated his 87th ly early in June. In a note dend in Sydney he says that is at Bramstedt in April, r oing some medical treatment, •he doctors called him a rnienon”. And. for a man of jore years and a bit he really aenomenon—he still takes his ig dive into the swimming ear his home in Bebelallee He 'ears ago, that he intended to be 100, and he now is within of his century. er a long stint in the South ic, and an even longer stint ibraltar, Mr. A. h. Abraham xpected to return to the Pacific me as Chief of Police in the 3 h Solomons. Mr. Abraham has Commissioner of P° llce 1f iltar since 1953, but from 1944 )50 he was in Fiji. He later ;ferred to British Honduras. a real islands night in Vila, New [?]s when the Australian destroyers, [?] nand "Anzac" called in on a cruise.

Vila Harbour, Commander A. W. Savage [?]k") and Lieut.-Commander B. D. Gordon [?]Anzac") get into the swing of things.

Photo: Reece Discombe.

"Tanks for a nice time," says Commander Savage (see top photo), as he presents plaques from the two Australian ships to Bill Reid, president of the Vila Ex- Servicemen's Association.

Photo: Reece Discombe. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JULY, 1960

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Dr. Jan van Baal, the form governor of Netherlands New Guin( visited San Francisco in early Ju en route to The Hague after teaci ing anthropology to University] Oregon graduate students for £ weeks. He went to Oregon as a gu« member of the faculty. These da Dr. van Baal is on the staff of t] Netherlands Royal Insthute : Tropical Affairs and lectures young men and women prepari] for careers in Dutch New Guinea * * * Auckland has an important futu as a centre for South Pacific r search, said Mr. Jack Golson, : Auckland, in June, after he had n signed as senior lecturer in pn history at Auckland University i he can take up a Fellowship : archaeology at the Australia National University, Canberra ne: year. “Auckland should be able exploit the South West Pacific fiel and there are moves here alrea( for a School of South West Pacif Studies,” he said. “This could tal in NZ’s islands territories, pli territories like Tonga, and Same as well as parts of Melanesia sue as Fiji and New Caledonia for whic no one has a prime responsibilil in the study field.” * % ♦ Young Frenchman Guy Clabau( who is making a lone-handed voyag around the world in a small yact Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bernacchi, photographed Suva aboard the GEIC Government vessel "N[?] koria". They recently made a visit to Austral Mr. Bernacchi is Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

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finding it pretty strenuous, led up at Mare Island, in the r group, one Sunday morning June in what was described ‘very feeble physical condiand shortly afterwards he )wn to hospital in Noumea, d left Bora Bora in April ide a short call at Rarotonga, Cooks. ♦ * * lure of television was strong rac L ive Karana, 18, of Kavieng, •eland, who had her heart set pearing in a TV film being by an Australian company in I in June. The company lined 0 fly her to Rabaul. But then igrv brothers stepped in and 1 her away, fearing that a would never come back from right lights and her family lose her bride money. After aing in vain that Karana’s appearance would earn her cash than her bride price, the ,ny got itself another star. shop George Bernarding, SVD, ntlv consecrated in Pittsburgh, isylvania, as Vicar Apostolic to Hagen, New Guinea, is, like most he American missionary priests -NG, an ardent baseball fan. In it was he who introduced the L ’e to Lae while he was building Mary’s Church there ten or 12 *s ago. He is a “Before” and one of those evacuated from a Bena when the Japs cut on yone’s retreat after they occupied NG coast in 1942. [?]tinguished figure at Noumea' s June 18 ony at the de Gaulle memorial, which [?]morates New Caledonia's decision in to adhere to de Gaulle and Free France, Henri Sautot, French Pacific's war-time leader. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - J U L Y , 1960

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58.128.83 Port Moresby Goro\a Madang Rabaul Kavieng Coinciding with the 75th am versary of the establishment of t Seventh-Day Adventist church the South Pacific, is the discove of the grave of Captain j ■ Marsh, master of the Pitcairn'fu Seventh-Day Adventist schooner! sail into the South Pacific area Ca tain Marsh died in 1892 and 1 grave is in the Remuera, Aucklar cemetery. Adventist Public Relatio Director in the South Pacific j, Ernie Steed, announced in Ju that a monument will now be bu over the grave to all pione workers in the area.

The US Navy Commander-h Chief, Admiral Arleigh Burke, w quoted as saying at The Hague ] June that the US was “interested! having bases all over the world, | eventually a base in Hollands This caused a mild international ii cident, whh Indonesia in the va until the US State Department sh the Admiral down with the explaru tion that he hadn’t said that at a or, anyway, hadn’t meant what 1 was supposed to have said. * * * There seemed to be need for tt appointment of a new Administrate of P-NG who “would approach h responsibilities without thinking i terms of keeping the whites on top said The Canberra Times in a editorial on July 5. Some of tt utterances of the present Admir istrator, Brigadier D. M. Clelam represented “crass stupidity”. Or of the considerations in the appoint ment of administrators of all terri tories was to avoid the “politics favouritism which has entered int too many of these appointments i the last three decades”. In repb Port Moresby’s South Pacific Pos described the Times’ editorial a “shabby”, “despicable” and part c a smear campaign aimed at remov ing Brigadier Cleland from office.

Two senior staff members of TEAL are due leave the company at the end of July—ch engineer George Bolt (left) and assistant gene manager John Veale. Mr. Bolt is retiring; I Veale will take up a position as gene manager of a new business shortly to be est lished in Auckland.

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that Norfolk Island has got i elected Council (it started ;) local resident H. S. News publicly suggested that what : wants is a “kind of watchilance group” to see that those keep their promises, or else he reason why. “Everyone is > he said “how on the mam- Jiticians don’t keep promises/’ is was immoral and brought atic government into disre- [t could happen in Norfolk, [r Newbery, adding, “It’s no ce a year just electing a perid letting him run wild.” lightning trip” is how aNether- : official information bulletin ibed the visit to Netherlands Guinea in July of three Ausm politicians, headed by Mr.

Lucock, vice-chairman of the amentary Foreign Affairs Com- ;e. It certainly was: They ed in Hollandia by air from > on July 6, met top officials local people at the Governors ence in the evening, saw india in the morning and reed to P-NG by air an hour or later. The three men wre ;ly a small proportion of a big i of Australian politicians from iarties. who were swarming over ralia’s tropical northern islands une and July, as Canberra was tie depths of winter. * * * miara, BSIP, people are friendly easy-going, but good neighbour- 's became a bit strained recently n a few of them insisted on playtheir radios too loudly. The dif- Ity was to know who the culprits [?] t the gift equipment given to the Ducos [?] aledonia) Hansenide sanatorium in recent perhaps the most useful (in objects ot ative size, anyway) is this magnificent [?] ope, here being used by one of the staff The microscope is rendering immense [?] ce, according to the Sister-in-Charge.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

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were, and the telephone system 1 came jammed with irate hou holders accusing each other Th somebody discovered that the mu was coming not from local rad but from a public address systi on a Japanese ship anchored ■ Point Cruz.

Federal Secretary of the Australii Printing Industries Employees’ Uni( Mr. C. Colborne, turned up in Pc Moresby in July hot on the hei of Australian newspaper repo] that he was going there to establi unions among the natives and g them a pay increase. But to t Territory’s Press he said, “The i ports that I am here to organ] native unions are completely wror I am on a fact-finding mission”.

Married in the Roman Catholic Church, P [?] Moresby, recently. Miss P. Partridge and [?] D. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin is a member of well known Territory family.

Photo: Papuan Prin[?] Papua-New Guinea needed a good public re[?] tions set-up in Australia to see that it a fair go, said old Territorian and pre- [?] owner-editor of the "Papuan Courier", Mr. E.

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8/6 lb. f.o.b. Sydney Special prices for contract quantities. lesian subject Mrs Tamhatu, f a cargo clerk aboard the ship Karossa, arrived in lia in June as a stowaway, he had been refused an entry into NNG. She had boarded p at Singapore, and explained he didn’t want to go back onesia because her husband sected of sympathising with in the South Moluccas. Unie Dutch agree to give Mrs. itu an entry permit, she is d to spend her days aboard irossa between Singapore and because Singapore won t allow hore, either. e last surviving relic of the bad alackbirding days of the Ausm sugar-cane fields is Jack iree now pushing 90 —he thinks. is a “member” of the Hassal ly, has been for 35 years, and at present living on the farm [r. J. C. Hassal about 90 miles h of Brisbane. He is a Malaitaand wasn’t blackbirded; he ally stowed away on a recruitcutter anchored off his home ge and was so small at the . prospective employers turned their noses. First he became a :’s offsider, then he worked on * farms around Geralton and daberg, Q’ld. He says the Aus- Lans treated them worse than dogs and paid them 2/6 a week es in those days—but Jack still ’erred it to the Solomons and in the Australian Government ed blackbirding and repatriated the Solomon Islanders from jensland canefields, he decided to lain—a step which he has never retted. [?]ecent visit to Sydney from Fiji, by PAA, enaia Ganilau, and his wife Adi Laisa. enaia was awarded an OBE in the recent [?] Birthday Honours list. He is Economic [?]ment Officer and Roko Tui Cakaudrove.

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The lack of either a tiled bathroom or water service doesn't appear to detract ro the enjoyment of a bath for this young fell a Papuan from Port Moresby's Hanuab village. Photo: N. V. S At the recent Charter Night of the Goroka (Ne[?] Guinea) Rotary Club—club secretary Mr.

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Photo: R. Schumake

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S. E. TATHAM & CO. PTY. LTD. 414 Collins St., Melbourne Z 614 -Day Adventist missionary Day Adventist missionary ing in retirement in Mel- Vic., is one of those who self-government for New i a natives yet awhile. r ” he told a Melbourne reporter recently, when the out NG was at its height, re s f ill eating each other up He went on to describe how, e was visiting a village outinantu about 18 months ago, was cooking on the fire e talked to the village men. >orter was so impressed that Hare got quite a piece of y for his old mission. Pastor ascribed this particular tribe some years ago; they are es who don’t always bury >ad—they eat them.

Loke, of Singapore, who has i Suva for the past two years a representative of Cathay Ltd. (new owners of the Pacific Hotel) recently purthe residence of the late E. Goodsir on Tamavua Hill, and plans to make that her nent home. Her son, who is ?ad of the Cathay group of nies in Singapore, probably risit Fiji in September or *r. * * * iouble drowning tragedy in New Hebrides, in la"e June ;d the townspeople, who are a f -knit community. Stephen dw 6, and Brian Kay, 4, disred while playing at the s edge at Blacksands Beach, rch later recovered the body phen, but despite a search by of Vila for a week no trace found of Brian. Mr. dw and Mr. Kay are with , philp. Mr. D. Kay was rey manager when the hurricane : Vila in December, and he and ife, Joan, lost everything. PIM □ruary publi hed a photograph s. Kay in the wreckage of their [?]is now doing some substantial business the Indian population of Fiji. Photohere are Mr. A. F. Pinto, Air India's [?] manager, with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred at a cocktail party in Suva in June. 13 ;IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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uted in AUSTRALIA, r ZEALAND and the ng PACIFIC ISLANDS: i Territories: Papua. Norfolk Island. Cocos Island, ust Territories; New Guinea.

Nauru.

Irown Colonies: Fiji. Gilbert and Ellice. >rotect orate; Solomon Islands, h Protected State: Tonga, ritories: Cook Islands. Niue, st Territory: Western Samoa.

Territories: New Caledonia.

French Polynesia. . French Condominium: New Hebrides, ftories: American Samoa. Hawaii, t Territory: Micronesia (Caroline, Marshall and Mariana).

Territory: West New Guinea.

Publisher: R. W. ROBSON.

Editors:

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Pacific Islands Monthly Jto-12. Vol. XXX JULY, 1960 Contents: PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands’ Interest 5 They’ll Talk Our Way Out Of New Guinea! I 7 Minister’s Statement On P-NG Target Dates .... I 7 New P-NG Election Candidates i 8 Qantas Leaves New Guinea, But More Moves Soon .. 19 Cuba’s Trouble May Benefit Fiji The Last Cruise of the Monowai 21 The Bumpy Road to Samoan Self-Government 21 J. B. Wright As West Samoan High Commissioner .. .. 22 What Happened to Amelia Earhart? 22 These New Guinea People Suffer For Their Australianism 23 A Decision on New Caledonia’s Viets 23 COMMENTARY 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27 Sugar Deadlock Threatens Fiji’s Economy 29 A Moresby Guest House That’s Different 33 All NZ Under Leo White’s Camera 35 R. W. Robson’s Fiji Roundup 37 Education In Papua-New Guinea 4 5 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, With Tolala .. 48 New Guinea Has Roads But Not Bridges 51 HOMEBASE with Sydneysider 58 Letter On New Guinea Sugar Situation 57 Odd Angles On Lord Howe Island 61 Life With the Frisbies .... 63 Old New Guinea Flyers Meet 67 New Guinea Self-Government—Ready Or Not .... 69 Tin Can Islanders Are Back 75 Fiji’s Paralysed Artist .. .. 77 Letter On Fiji’s Leper Colony .. .. 79 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 81; The Old Walrus Amphibian, 83; New Guinea Gamblers 84; Ode To a Conche Shell, 85; Use For Oil Drums, 86; Do You Remember? 87; Alice Bowring in the US, 87; Book Reviews 88 This Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 101 PACIFIC REPORT; Roundup of Pacific News and Pictures (index p. 17) .. 115 OBITUARIES 1 47 Sports Review • • 150 Shipping and Airways Timetables 154 Commerce and Produce .. .. 161 Volume Index 165 A Product of Pocifie Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

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It's Open Season For Opinions They’ll Talk Our Way Out Of New Guinea By a Staff Writer On the New Guinea front, June was the month of itements”. They were being made by Prime Ministers and nomists; building contractors and coffee planters even by 4ew Britain native. ( ; The Australians have been here 50 rs isn’t it about time they got out?”) All the statements concerned the future of the Territory, and them up and subtract the number you first thought of; and ! may draw the lucky prize. statement that got the most iblicity was that of Mr. R. G. enzies, Australian Prime Mmwho returned from abroadattending the Prime Minister’s rence in London—on June 20. .and pressmen in Sydney that he changed his mind about the r of self-determination for i-New Guinea. said that he would rather see endence come in the Territory > the natives were ready for it, risk the hostilities delays could had once thought that it was • to go slowly in granting inidence, he said; but the preg thought now was “if in doubt, :>ner”—and he now belonged to school. (“But that does not ” he interpolated, “that you vrite a timetable out for, say, ars’ time.”) Mr. Hasluck Started It b statements, of course, had r started rolling weeks before, ff by Mr. Paul Hasluck, Aus- ,n Minister for Territories, who accompanied Mr. Menzies l< The Hague, on May 25, he ed “against rushing into cal changes in New Guinea.” leal change without social ge didn’t mean a *hing, he said, as Australia’s aim in its NG tory to put the two million r es economically on their feet •e thinking of political developne of the worst things to do a primitive people is to i to a certain standard of living out teaching them how to look ■ themselves when they are mndent.” . , ... _ bo could disagree wi f h that? 1 June 10, Mr. Hasluck was in Francisco, where he World Affairs Council of hern California, and said that future of what he called the European “migrant p9pulation” in Papua and New Guinea “is intimately linked to the future of the indigenous population”. If Eur9~ peans were to continue to stay in P-NG it would be “only on terms of partnership with the indigenous group”. , , , The future, he said, would depend largely on the way the relationships between the indigenous and the European peoples were worked out.

A lot of Americans thought instinctively of the overthrow of George 111 and depositing tea in Boston harbour when “colonialism” was mentioned; or the end of British rule in India, or the presentlyemerging states of Africa.

But some of the areas of the world were unique, Mr. Hasluck continued, and were in no position to govern themselves. “What we must recognise is that each situation is unique unto itself.” (over)

Pacific Report

Turn to these inside pages for more highlights of the month’s news: Fiji’s Fishery Future—lls; Work on Manihiki—lls; Cook Islands Buy Store; Tongan Dried Bananas — 117; Cooks Drinking—ll 9.

One Dead in Papeete Fire—l2l; Noumea’s Viet Namese—l22; Housing Help for Niue—l23; New Guinea’s Euronesians in Struggle for Citizenship—l2s; The Toad Trade; P-NG Coffee, Cocoa Production—l 26; New Hebrides Polio Scare —127.

Nickel Helping New Caledonia Again 129; Goroka’s Soldiers —129; Who Marked That Fish?; Bannos Ship First Fiji Copra—l3o; BSIP’s Cheaper Petrol; Sir John Gutch on GEIC Farewell Visit —131; Army Crosses NG; Vila Restoration Work; Warangoi Land Development—l 33.

New Guinea Leper Position—l 37; New Guinea’s Punishment by Strap—l3B; Address to Tongan Assembly on Future; SPC Health Meeting; Noumea Murder Verdict 139; Tahiti to Choose Pouvaana Successor; Birthday Honours 141, BSIP Explosion; Australian Move on the New Hebrides; New Guinea Tells the Minister What it Thinks 142; Tinginagalip Natives Win Appeal—l 43.

"Immediate and Realistic Target Dates For P-NG Australia is to set immediate “ and realistic” target dates for dll stages of educational economic and socml “dvancemeri by the es pamia-New Guinea. This was announced by Minister for Territories, p au i Hasluck, as a major policy measure, on June d 7.

HASLUCK’S announcement Jy| followed a statement by Prime Minister Menzies on his return an p <“ e s f d ° V^ y th united Nations Trusteeship council asking Australia to fix a step-by-step programme for native | d f a ncement - his SU b S equent elaboration of statement, Mr. Hasluck was SDecific about means of political ad- V ancement but vague on the other aspects of the UN request.

P that Australia was He s v, e honouring that she had token under the UN L.narrer ®at full hut Australia’s was the responsibility S 3 the best way of reaching Worts VWrove health s^ n education food supply and incomes But New Gumea people kindness beings walk over cliffs in the d , A Scheme Outlined Mr. Hasluck then outlined the means by which political advancement could be achieved and said that the Australian Government wished this to be through the existing Legislative Council. This had, however, been delayed by the current challenge in the Australian High f Q valld p y of the Counj,g exlstence (see June. p.

If th(J Hlgh Court (ound tha t the Council was a validly consti- -ISHe°"aid that these proposals had been made: 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

Obstacles in the way of self-government for New Guinea, he said, included “the almost unbelievably primitive people who are divided by 500 distinct languages.”

Australia took pride in its NG administration, which was “providing the people with the rungs of a ladder,” which would make it possible some day for them to govern themselves. Those rungs include establishment of law and order, establishment of a common language, improving health and food supplies, and providing ways of earning a living.

These tasks must be accomplished before the natives were suited to determine their own fu f ure. A timetable was unpredictable—but Australia’s goal was to reach a point where the natives could govern themselves, and he hoped that when that time came “we are able to sit down in a friendly way and reach an agreed course of action”.

Who could challenge any of that?

Australia Into Line Mr. Hasluck also in June but this time in New York, told a New York Times reporter that the Territory would not be ready for self-government for 30 years although he expected Australia “to be under great pressure in the coming years to grant independence.”

It was probably no real surprise, following all this talk by Mr.

Hasluck and Mr. Menzies, when on June 25 the United Nations Trusteeship Council asked Australia to fix early target dates for political, social and educational development in New Guinea. The move, accompanied by quite a fanfare, was sponsored by Russia and India, two of four nations which had drawn up a report on the Territory. The other two were Belgium and Britain, who drew up a less direct formula, which was rejected.

On June 27, now back in Canberra, Mr. Hasluck said that Australia would “set immediate and realistic” target dates for stages of educational, social and economic advancement in the Territory. (This was by way of being a major policy statement and is dealt with elsewhere) .

On June 26, H. J. Roethof, described as a expert explained why the Dutch in their part of New Guinea are pressing ahead for independence, perhaps within 10 years. “Recent developments— particularly in Africa—have set the Dutch thinking .... (developments) convince us that it is no longer possible to develop colonial territories towards self-government in an orderly way.” And in Canberra, Leader of the Federal Labour Opposition, Mr. A. Calwell, said: “It is unrealistic at present to believe that the people of P-NG will be fit for self-government in 30 or 40 years.”

He renewed a suggestion made a year ago that an all-party committee visit New Guinea and report on its future; and said that Mr.

Menzies’ statement placed Mr Hasluck on the horns of dilemma: and that he (Calwell) intended to visit the Territory forthwith. (A few days previously, in Di win, Mr. Calwell said that Labour Party favoured an agr< ment on P-NG between Indones (Continued on page 149) • Non-official membership is to be increased. • There will be direct representation of the large section of the native population which has for some years been operating Local Government Councils, and thus were considered reasonably familiar with the processes of government. • There would be other forms of native representation on the Council for those still living under primitive conditions. • And, finally, “increased represen + ation of inhabitants who qualified for admission to the normal electoral rolls”.

Minister Visits P-NG On June 30, Mr. Hasluck made a further statement to the effect that he would, between July 10 and 15, visit P-NG centres “solely to discuss sugges f ions for political development with representative citizens and organisations”. (Continued on page 151) Candidates For P-NG Elections Two of the three electorates for th P-NG Legislative Council will elec candidates unopposed in the Territoii forthcoming election. The thir electorate will see a contest betwee: four candidates.

The elections will be on August This was the position when nomina tions closed on July 4: PAPUA: Mr. C. P. W. Kirk ( solicitor, Port Moresby.

New Guinea Islands; Mr. Do

Barrett, planter.

MAINLAND; Mr. Lloyd Hurrel farmer, Wau; Mr. Sydney Bertrai Barker, miner and dentist, Wau: M: Keith Charles Watkins, importer an exporter, Lae; Mr. Paul Hyman, publi accountant, Lae.

Mr. Kirke has been a prominel member of the anti-tax forces I Papua, who protested at the way k come tax was introduced into th Territory last year.

Mr. Barrett was an MLC for tvs terms until he lost his seat to M- Dudley Jones in 1957.

Mr. Hurrell, of Wau, is a forme assistant District Officer with th Administration.

Mr. Watkins first went to Ne Guinea in 1934 as an accountant fc Burns Philp.

Mr. Barker was elected as Taj payers’ Association candidate for th Legislative Council last year, and im mediately resigned with the other tvs elected men as a protest against th Government.

Mr. Hyman first went to New Guine five years ago as an accountant wit Qantas and two years ago took u private practice.

DUTCH VISIT. The first Dutch warship to drop anchor in Port Moresby harbour in post-war ye[?] arrived in June on a four-day visit. She was the frigate "Piet Hien", the former British destroy "Seraphis" , seen here at the Port Moresby wharf. "Piet Hien" is one of two Dutch ships constant patrol in NNG, which are shortly to be joined by the Dutch aircraft carrier "Ka[?] Doorman", on an extended visit to NNG. "Piet Hien's" visit to Port Moresby was a courtesy ca[?] —Papuan Prin[?] 18 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL P-NG Target Dates (Continued from previous page) New Guinea: Everyone Wants a Say (Continued from previous page)

Antas Bows Out, But

Dre Changes Coming

SSi?.; r. fiz tas == S Super Constellation on the mal Qantas flight was fl o wl jky lantain J. G. Morton, who flew L e P DC3 that made the Qantas ;ural flight between Sydney and Moresby on April 2, 1945—15 ntas in future will eaU at Port sby, in Electras, only on i s Far >m service between longkong, and it is not permitted arry any traffic between New ea and Australia, is last fact has not been red happily m NG, for tne *as are faster, but the arranget was apparently forced upon is still operating its ini\ p-NG services, but only until it September when it pulls out leaves it all to TAA.

TAA & ANA inaugural DC6B flight got rom Sydney on July 9 and the stt DC6B got away on July 11. \A won the right to be the first tralian domestic airline to ■ate overseas when TAA’s genmanager, Mr. John Ryland won ss of a coin from Ansett’s manig director, Mr. Reg Arnett, ach airline has two services a k on set days, and each has ext v a service on alternate rris (Details are on p. 157.) Both airlines are wooing the customers with promises of sixcourse menus, with free cigarettes and liquors, for first-class passengers.

Mr. Ansett met success with his campaign to win the right to fly his service through to Lae. ine Civil Aviation Departments Plan was for Ansett to terminate at Port Moresby, and TAA to go on to Lae but the Ansett chief said he would lose too much through-traffic.

He took one of his DC6B’s to the Territory in June, loaded with aviation officials, and landed it at Lae to prove it could be done safely.

Qantas had been using a DC4 on [?] better learn this," former P-NG court interpreter John Rigg [?] Melbourne class of air hostesses who wii serve on TAA's new pute. He was teaching them some pidgin English, but one of [?] ases seen on his blackboard - balus bugerup pinis-is one every- [?] pes there will be no need of In plaing English is means the aircreft has had it.

The new terminal building at Nadi, Fiji's recently enlarged international airport, seen from the air. Fiji is a vital link in Pacific air services, and a growing one.

Photo; Rob Wright.

Australian freelance pilot Paul Burton (top) and Tanna planter Bob Paul stand in ex-aerial ambulance Dragon Rapide just after it had landed at Vila, New Hebrides, on a long flight from Australia. The two men b ought the aircraft after forming themselves into New Hebrides Airways with the hope of starting much- needed internal service in the New Hebrides. But they have been striking difficulties (see story).

Photos; Reece Discombe. 19 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - J U L Y , 1960

the Lae-Moresby sector.

This forced TAA to use its DC6B in that sector, too, although up to then it had intended to use a smaller aircraft.

Ansetts have a working arrangement with Mandated Airlines to supply other feeder services.

Return fares remain the same now that TAA and ANA have taken over the Australian run but there is a drop of five per cent, on the single first-class fare.

Qantas "Unhappy"

Meanwhile Qantas, which has done some remarkably good work in P-NG since the war, is still no happier at having been forced out of the Territory. It fought the move when it first became a live issue this year, arguing that New Guinea has developed into a very valuable training ground for Qantas pilots; and that the P-NG division allowed the company to spread its costs and equipment better.

Qantas also pointed out that it hoped to run trunk routes from Port Moresby through the Solomons and the New Hebrides connecting with Fiji and it would be best to retain its installations in P-NG Now TAA, when it takes over in September, will operate the present Qantas services from Lae to Honiara, BSIP, and Lae to Hollandia, NNG— services that are certainly international.

And there now appears to be some pressures within the Commonwealth Government for TAA to be used eventually as the Australian carrier down through the Solomons and on to the New Hebrides and then to Australia—a plan which naturally Qantas may be expected to oppose, for it, and not TAA is supposed to be Australia’s inti national airline.

Qantas also part-owns Fiji A ways, which may be used as a carr between Fiji and the New Hebric and the Solomons. Fiji Airways a nounced early July it had appli for a licence to fly Herons betwe Nadi - Vila - Santo - Honiara fo: nighly.

Developments in New Guinea ra affect the fortnightly Norfolk Isla service, operated by Qantas wi the aid of a subsidy. Now there : no need for a DC4 to operate I tween Port Moresby and Lae, t only work Qantas has for the 4’s the Norfolk service, and this is r worth the expense of aircraft a crews. Qantas could ask to be i lieved of the service so it could s its aircraft.

TEAL's Future New Zealand’s TEAL, too is ha ing its problems. A French deleg tion is expected in Auckland on Ji 20 to renew earlier aviation tal which broke down.

TEAL’S Solent flying-boat mi shortly be withdrawn from the Coi route, and NZ wants fo replace with an Auckland-Fiji-Americi Samoa-Tahiti-Honolulu Electra s( vice, probably weekly.

In return for the American Sam right*, America wants Pan-Americi to have the rights to fly the Ta man in competflion with TEAL.

For the use of Tahiti, the Freni will be asking to compete with N( Zealand on the Coral route, ai they are proving difficult negol ators.

There are some observers wl foresee the eventual eclipse of TEA for she has few cards in her pac and may find herself in the ne few years pushed right down in a corner by the growing compel tion in the South Pacific.

There is a bright spot in figun released in June showing the fir (Continued on pag'e 149)

Cuba'S Political Frenzy

Could Benefit Fiji

. Jj l6 dispute in Fiji, which still was dead- ON July 6, USA retaliated upon the Castro Communist Government’s seizure of Anglo-American properties in Cuba by summarily cancelling the balance of the contract under which Cuba supplies USA with sugar.

This meant that USA had to look elsewhere for about 740,000 tons of sugar, which normally Cuba would supply. USA was looking to other Central American countries, and to the Philippines.

On July 8, a high official of the CSR Co. left Sydney by air for USA.

Obviously, CSR Co. was making an effort to sell much of Australia’s surplus sugar and, almost certainly, Fiji’s surplus sugar.

At this moment, in Fiji, there is a bumper, uncut crop of cane estimated to hold 300,000 tons of raw sugar. Hitherto, the company has been unable to con f emplate crushing more than two-thirds of it.

Also, lying under tarpaulins at Lautoka, there is a veritable mountain of raw sugar—*aid to be between 85,000 and 100,000 tons—a carryover from the bumper season of 1959.

A sale of a large additional quantity of Fiji’s raw sugar would greatly change the outlook in that Colony. (See “Fiji Sugar Deadlock”, page 29) Antonio Uruvaru of Rotuma, an employee of International Aeradio, Ltd., has been undergoing a course in air traffic control in London.

Here he is, nearest camera, under the watchful eye of Chief Instructor B. Rofe of IAL. International Aeradio, Ltd., provides all radio communication services at Fiji's lesser airfields—as it does in many other British Colonial Territories.

This huge stack of surplus raw sugar, covered by tarpaulins, was photographed in a field at Lautoka in June. 20 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

The Bumpy Road to Samoan Self-Government

West Samoa'S Europeans

Are In A Dilemma

At end of June it still appeared that European residents of^tern ™’s insistence that they take Samoan nationality.

ERE is strong objection by European electors to -he new election These re j them to become Samoan ms and swear an oath of iance before they can exercise • voting rights. iropeans held the view that they id not be compelled • old nationality and become oan, because the new State of tern’ Samoa does not at present _ . . spite of desperate efforts and ated postponements of tne sing date for nomination of candidates, con :ably less than half the potential mean electors (some 500 out of )) have enrolled, and cmly tnree iidates have been nominated ind of the ten provided for. tie Samoans, on their part, nelv objected to candidates havto put up a deposit of £lO which be forfeited if they do not ree the required number of votes. consequence, the clauses reqmrdeposits, have been hastily withwn , he UN Trusteeship Council durthe debates on Western Samoa May polled ° u t that negotmis for a treaty of friendship or treaty governing the future re onship between New Zealand I Western Samoa, should not take wdS K s b h e e Ca^a|s SS an«t conclude a A tie s S imia h r n a go%hich e fXwfnf ?he declaration * co-" p | ration wi th Belgium). fa(jt that Wes tern Samoa still * is a Trusteeship Territory nprrnd -o the argument that the dej^ and that political and particularly voting rights should be exercised only a fter adoption of Samoan citizenship, is quite wrong.

State Does Not exist It is di fncult to understand why neonle are requested to become £ itizens of a state not yet in being in fact i ong before it becomes an state. Neither the constitution nor the basic laws of the prospective new State have been determined. under these circumstances it is no j. Pe W ondered at that a majority of the European voters refuse enrolment on the new electoral roll> and that this majority includes t he more prominent local-born Europeans who prefer to retain their New Zealand, British, American or other national status in preference to t he uncertainties involved in accepting Samoan citizenship, . _ Mata I System Samoan elections of an dditional three representatives for of the 41 Samoan electoral dis 4. 1 dc + ;s (f o r the Constitutional Con vention) are to take place in -ve active and ship Council during the latter’s last session in May, to induce the Samoans to adopt universal suffrage.

They have, however, agreed to universal suffrage for the referendum next year which is the legal instrument of terminating the Trusteeship Agreement. .

And, as far as it goes, this is an encouraging sign. It may indicate that at some future stage universal suffrage will be introduced in Western Samoa, particularly as some prominent leaders of the Samoan people have expressed themselves in favour of it—notably the present Prime Minister of Western Samoa, the Hon. Fiame Mata’afa.

The closing of the Samoan and European electoral rolls and the closing date for nominations fo r candidates for the Constitutional Convention, have been postponed twice by the Government in order to persuade potential electors to Last Cruise of The 'Monowai' After much speculation on what would eventually happen to her (see shipping section, page 101), t Union Company * a "! that the old Trans-Tasman pas senger liner “Monowai” had been :«W to a Hongkong Arm for breaking-up. Purchasers « e Far East Metal Industries and Shipping Co., Ltd.. and the P rlc « is £NZ165.000, with delivery at Well- -111 Above, are some of the identities who made the final cruise in “Monowai” in June, photographed bv “PIM” staff correspondent in Suva, Jim Shortall, as the ship made her last call there. From left, they are: Captain Frank Young, in command; Captain Edwards, who was navigating officer during her years of naval service, and who travelled as a passenger: Radio Officer Pat Rae, second most senior of the Union Company’s radio staff, who has been in charge of the ships radio station in post-war years, and who was in “Awatea” when she was sunk in the Mediterranean during the war; Mr. George Tuaine, of Aitutaki, the ship’s chef, 54 years with the company and who has not seen his home island since 1914; and Mr. Arthur Izod, Cabin Class steward, who has also had long service in “Monowai” and was in ‘Awatea” during the war, and who will now retire to his Bondi, Sydney, home. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JULY, 1960

enroll. But it seems certain that the final number of registered voters will fall far short of the number registered on the 1957 roll, and that the number of European candidates will be smaller than the ten representatives permitted.

From the point of view of European residents it would be most regrettable if there were no adequate European representation at the Convention. It is important that, even if European representatives constitute only a small minority at the Convention, European interests be safeguarded and that any objections to certain clauses of the proposed Constitution, which might affect Europeans adversely, be placed on record.

J. R. Wright High

COMMISSIONER The announcement by the New Zealand Minister of Island Territories, Mr. Mathison, of the appointment of the present Acting High Commissioner, Mr. J. B. Wright as High Commissioner of Western Samoa, has met with general approval by all sections of the community.

HE succeeds Mr. G. R. Powles, who has become New Zealand High Commissioner to India.

Mr. Wright is a New Zealander, 51 years old. and entered the New Zealand Public Service in 1926.

In 1929, he was transferred to the Island Territories Department. He served in the Cook Islands and Niue for some time and in 1936 was appointed accountant to the Samoan Treasury. In 1939, he married Miss Ailene Fabricius. a descendant of one of the pioneer European families of Samoa.

After a second term in the Cook Islands, Mr. Wright returned to Samoa as Treasurer and Collector of Customs, and in 1948 was appointed Secretary to the Samoan Government. In 1952, he became Secretary of the Island Territories Department in Wellington, a poit which he occupied un f il April 1959, when he retired from the Public Service and returned to Samoa where he acquired a cocoa plantation.

Following the departure of Mr.

Powles, a few months ago, Mr.

Wright was appointed Acting High Commissioner. During his long Pacific service he has gained a reputation for integrity, straightforwardness and honesty, and there is no doubt that he will be able to contribute to Western Samoa’s political development by his advice and guidance.

Though, undoubtedly, the office of High Commissioner has lost a great deal of its former importance, there are still a number of important problems to be solved.

Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved, They Claim From Ralph Craib, in San Francisco.

July 1 An American radio news reporter and a Saipanese dental technician may possibly have solved the mystery of how famed American aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator Frederick Noonan died more than 20 years ago.

THEY believe that the flying pair crash landed into a Saipan bay in July, 1937, and were executed by the Japanese, who had illegally fortified their League of Nations Mandate islands.

For 23 years ever since the Earhart Lockheed took off from the airfield at Lae, NG, on July 2, 1937, the fate of the pair has been a mystery. They were en route for Howland Island, 1,660 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii.

But the rumour has long persisted that Miss Earhart and Noonan met death before a Japanese firing squad. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations in 1935; entrance of Europeans to the islands north of New Guinea was almost impossible after that.

Woman's Story Fred Goerner. of San Francisco Radio Station KCBS, returned to San Francisco today after three weeks on Saipan. His companion on the trip was Maximo Akiyama, a dental technician in the suburb of San Mateo, and a former Saipan resident.

Akiyama’s wife, Josephine, a nurses’ aide, recently told in a newspaper story here how when she was 11 years old she saw the arrivi of “an American girl with her ha cut short” at Panapag Harbou where she was then living.

She said she had ridden her bicyc to the Japanese navy base when st heard a spluttering motor and sa a huge silvery two-engine plane flj mg low over the water and gradi ally coming down. She later saw huge crowd gathered around woman, a man and the aircraf which was on the beach.

“The people were talking aboi the American lady pilot”, she sai( “She wore long trousers and sweater or a jacket.

“I think she had a dark seal around her neck. She had reddis! or light brown hair cut very shor She was very thin and looked ver tired.”

She was told later that the woma: had been shot.

Many persons scoffed at Josephine 1 story but Goerner determined to g to Saipan, in the northern Mariana: to verify the facts. He took Mi Akiyama as interpreter.

On his return today, Goerner sai( that the report was true. A Japanesi naval launch had picked up Mis Earhart and Noonan, he said, an< (Continued on page 145) This is probably the last photo of Amelia Earhart. It is in the possession of a Post Mores[?] man. Mr. Tom Leonard, and shows Miss Earhart and her Lockheed at Lae, NG, just before [?] take-off into the unknown. 22 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Islanders Like This Need Help

They Suffer for Their Australianism By a Special Correspondent The Returned Servicemen’s League in New Guinea may ZTmLXTZo G n :ZrwL Australian Zs inTe Pacific war and who still have disabilittes ym Japanese ill-treatment. rER what I saw recently in hp Rabaul district I feel that 0 deny continued help to some iese people would be nothing ; of a terrible injustice. eir bravery earned them some ;nition after the war but m where sickness and injury >d by their experiences will w them to the end of their days need continued recognition. vould like to draw particular aton to a Chinese, now an Ausan citizen, whose case Ulus ;s this need. lily for four months Frank Woo tortured by the Ja P a^® e 9^92 Lending Australians of.the 2/22 -alion escaping down the south t of New Britain after the Jap- ;e landing at Rabaul.

Permanent Injury 5 a result Frank has a permanent al injury which keeps him a sick et at his own expense, Joe has 1 out £3OO for injections since the i Rabaul. and at his brother-in- ’s house at Kokopo, I talked with nk about his unhappy expenes. He took off his shirt and wed me his back, fter 17 years it was still covered > a starry sky with cigarette ns Japanese-inflicted.

'o me, this quiet-spoken Chmesestralian, whose wife and children net, is an unhonoured hero. He as much worthy of respect and dical attention as any wounded stralian soldier. He is a worker i and was just moving off to a i’ as a plantation mechanic, rhis is what Frank told me; “My ithers and I were brought up by stralians, so when the Australians ssed through Kilinwata Planton aPer the Japanese landing we Iped them in every way we could, g gave them supplies and helped em on their way. ‘The Japanese were in Rabaul for ree months before we saw them it one day they moved in and arrested my whole family on charges of spying for the Australians. They found batteries which they ui" correctly claimed had been used foi radio transmission, and they n we had been signalling to Allied aircraft. We had not.

Beheaded “After long torture they took away my brother Jerry (Gerard) and beheaded him.

“Besides burning my back and hanging me upside down they thrust needles under my finger nails.

Frank told me his story quite undramatically, and even if I had not seen his injured back, his Sl i| would have convinced me In any case, I had read the family s story in the late Canon James book, Prisoner's Base and Home Again.

Canon Benson says; “. • -A Chinese family was brought into the prison. There was an old lady, well over 60 I would have thought and her six sons, the youngest of whom was Gerard.

“If, as I have been told, every story must have a hero, then the hero of mine is Gerard. He was a fine upstanding man, aged about 21.

He had attended the mission school at Vunapope and so was considered by the Japanese to be well educated, and consequently of more danger than his brothers.

“Gerard was thrown into my cell and his mother and brothers were kept in the guardroom. That night he whispered his story to me.

“His family had owned a small plantation about 40 miles from Rabaul. A Japanese patrol came to search their land and found two 12-volt batteries. . . . The whole family was beaten, together with two elderly Chinese friends who happened to be visiting them at the time.

Water Torture “At last Gerard was thrown into my cell; his back was raw and bleeding and his face was darkened with great bruises. He spent the early hours of the night shivering and weeping in my arms, as softly we prayed together.

“In the early morning he slept, but his poor misused body kept twitching and jerking, and several times he cried out terrible things in his dreams, . . . The punishment went on for days. They were beaten hung up by their feet, and several times they were put through the water torture; that is, tied down with the face covered by a cloth on to which water is constantly poured.”

The narrative continues with an account of how Gerard and Frank and the family were tortured until some of them could no longer walk, and were then released. Gerard was arrested again a few months later, and beheaded.

Frank’s round and genial wife, also an Australian citizen now, comes from another family which befriended Australian soldiers. They are citizens of whom New Guinea can be proud.

Any move today to provide new help for people such as these should not fail, for these people still carry the sad legacy of their bravery, fortitude and loyalty.

At Last— Something Firm on The Visets in early July the New Caledonian Government an announcement concerning the repatriation of Viet Names 6 agreement about which had been reached between France and North Viet Nam. (See page 122, this issue.) By some date yet to be Axed, Viet Namese will have to choose or repatriated to Haipong (North or Communist, Viet Nam); or/ 2 ) to be repatriated to Saigon (South Vet Nam); or (3) to remain in New Cale donia.

If they choose to stay in New Caledonia. they lose any further rights to be repatriated and must conform to all the requirements of other foreigners in New Caledonia.

It is expected that about 5,000 will be opting for repatriation—Bo per cent, to North Viet Nam; and that about 600, who are Roman Catholics, will be staying. In general, however, it is the older people who wish to return to their old home which they have not seen since before the war. when they left for what they imagined was a short period of work in New Caledonia.

The younger people, who were born and educated in the French colony are not keen—and are probably unfitted—for life in Asia.

If there are no further hitches, and repatriation does begin about September New Caledonia’s labour force is sure to suffer. Many of these people are employed in the building trade, they are employed by the Nickel Co. also; most of Noumea’s vegetables are produced by them; and they make up about 50 per cent, of the unskilled labour force in the colony. 23 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - J u L Y , 1960

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COMMENTARY Dr Moves Awaited On i Burns Plan Fiji’s chief industry—sugarparalysed by a millownernegrower deadlock (see article 29) Fiji has not been in a to deal with the urgent recomitions of the Burns Report n those who resist as of the Report a political economic and ;al crisis is approaching and jomething must be done about n iio co-ordinated, constructive s towards reform are the milling dispute threatens locate the country’s major iny, which brings m about £8 ns per annum. ’s harassed Governor seems to arking 18 hours a day on his cting troubles. *re are 124 recommendations - Report, covering almost every of administrative and industrial most observers see it the ipal and most important re- -5 may be placed in two groups nely, (a) the merging and mlining of the Central and n Administrations, so as to greater economy and efficiency, to assist the communities m ral, and the Fijians in par- \x, in (b) the more effective Df the Colony’s available land, lat the present population of 00, and its rapid natural m- ;e, may be better provided for. present, the Government is entrating on the task of S Fijians a clearer and a better irstanding of the. Report the beginning, either through ranee or by design, some leadmen and some important media the communities, and espeathe native people, a very dis- >d and misleading view of the Drt. They judged it by then* per- -1 reactions to various bits of it, reas it must be examined as one grated plan, designed to keep Colony out of the worst of the lomic doldrums it n ow reaching, as a result of the ire of the British Colonial Office nake plans to take care of an aordinary situation, ne situation, of course, is well vn* but it may be outlined agam > because it explains both the plexity and the urgency of the Diems; The Colony’s economy is dom- ;ed by the first immigrant comlity, which is European (mainly tralian), and comparatively 01.

More than half the population now is Indian, and consi ts of a comparatively recent second immigrant community—increasing rapidly and generally landless. 3 The Fijian community lives generally under a village communal system; and competes very litUe with either of the two immigrant communities (three, if. or Jf OT S 5,000 Chinese, mostly traders) .The Fijians are a proud, virile, highly intelligent race of Islanders, increasing rapidly in numbers. 4 The land generally is the inalienable property of the Fijians and a large proportion of it is not bB wfthin that situation, there is room for great misunderstanding, calculated misrepresentation and racial antagonism. Unbalanced presentation of the Burns Report has accomplished some of this already, especially among the Fijians.

The Governor has been active in bringing his field staffs togstheir and instructing them, so that they may in turn explain the proposals to both Fijians and Indians. But it is a colossal task. ~ In September or October, the Burns plan should come before the Legislative Council for consideration. If the Council adopts it, many of the most important recommendations, in both (a) and (b) above, will go forward for rapid implementation. A Natural Resources Council will be set up and a most carefully selected Development Commissioner appointed to direct and co-ordinate the whole plan, and, what is most important, large sums will be made available from the Colonial Development Fund.

But before the Legislative Council meets, something vital has to be done— namely, the plan must gam the goodwill and support of the Fijian community. And that, at the moment, is far from accomphshm The Fijian villagers are awaiting guidance from their leaders; and most of the leaders, in this matter, so far, have been affected asi ™uch by prejudice and misinformation as by a clear understanding of the Ppiiort The Governor has countered this by having the whole Report translated into Fijian and, it has been printed and published for the Goveminent by the Fiji . mes-e™ of the biggest and quickest printing jobs ever done in the Colony. The Report now is out among the Fijians; and the Fijians, this month are discussing the plan at their several Provincial Councils.

The Governor, meanwhile, is conferring frequently with the younger Fijian chiefs, especially those in the Administration. .

Next month, data and mstructions will go from the Fijians’ Provincial Councils to the Great Council of Chiefs; and the latter then will give directions on the matter to their representatives in the Legislative Council. . ...

But time is running very short, and it is exceedingly harassing for the Governor that his careful plans in this respect should be disrupted by the stubbornness of the canegrowers in refusing to settle the sugar dispute. , Meanwhile, quite a number of the Report’s minor recommendations are being put into effect. They include : Expenditure on new planting or replanting of coconut plantations, up to £l.OOO p.a. (instead of £5OO p.a.) is now deductible for income tax calculation. . .

More money is being spent on the Rhinoceros beetle eradication campaign. The fund is being expanded by an increase of the copra tax from 17/6 to £1 per ton. and the Government is increasing its contribution similarly.

The tender system of purchasing Government stores has been adopted; and, since last November, this has shown a saving of £4,000 per month.

Encouragement is being given to the building of smaller hotels, by reducing the amount of private capital which must be invested to qualify for Government assistance. The amounts, previously £75,000 in Suva and Lautoka and £60,000 elsewhere, are now £50,000 and £30,000. In extensions of existing hotels, the sum has been reduced from £20,000 to £lO,OOO.

But nothing on a scale likely to have a perceptible effect on the Colony’s economy is likely to take place until the plan has been through the Legislative Council, and until a Development Commissioner is available to plan, co-ordinate and drive. Little can be accomplished until departments, communities and corporations are lined up in a planned united effort—and that is a big task for a big man. ☆ ☆ ☆ And This Is Our Policy For New Guinea WE have been asked what is PI M’s policy on the future of New Guinea. PI M’s policy is, as it always has been: A fair deal for the native people, and the sort of Territory that its most responsible citizens —at present, Europeans want it to be.

We believe that three generations of Australian administrators and public servants have —within the limits of the inequalities of life and of human frailties —seen that the natives have got a fair deal.

We believe that the 3,000 European public servants now in the Territory can be trussed to carry on that tradition, and that when they have erred, it has been in exaggerated mother-henism towards the natives; and that, if there is to be any realism in the stepped-up rate of political, social and educational advancement that the Minister 25 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JULY. 1960

for Territories has announced, increased responsibilities must go with it. The natives must give as well as take.

We believe that the best people to decide the future of New Guinea are not theorists sitting on their backsides in Moscow, Melbourne, New Delhi or New York, but the people within the Territory, native and European; and that, given time, a political set-up acceptable to all will be found.

We believe that the biggest obstacles that Territorians have to overcome in the orderly advancement of the Territory are (a) the Australian Press, which never misses an opportunity of belittling all sections of the European community in the Territory or of slanting stories with headlines and innuendoes; and (b) the uninformed and apathetic Australian public which has no interest in the Territory; that, if Australians were as single minded on the subject of New Guinea as an earlier generation was in 1884, there would be no shopping around of NG’s future by aliens with ideological drums to beat.

We believe that New Guinea is important to Australia; and that Australia is vital to New Guinea, if it is not to be over-run by Asia.

We believe that the Administrator of P-NG and the Assistant Administrator, both of whom have recently berated Territorians for talking “insecurity,” are occupying ivory towers; and that Territorians, looking around at the Congo, SE Asia, South Africa. Cuba and a dozen other countries; reading newspaper articles; and listening to politicians of all countries disposing of the Territory as if it were so much overproduced wheat, not only have good reason to feel insecure, but also for selling up and getting out—if they can.

But we believe, too. that there is no need for panic, and that if NG is to have this 30-years’ grace which the Minister thinks desirable, this present phase of namby-pambyism, where everyone is being thrown selfgovernment even if it kills them, may have passed; and that even the New Guinea natives might then when the time comes, be of the opinion that collective security is better than fragmentary nationalism.

At Last, Some Action From Mr. Hasluck AUSTRALIAN Territories Minister Paul Hasluck was undoubtedly right when he said in Port Moresby in July that there was not the slightest difference in outlook between anything Prime Minister Menzie<? had said about New Guinea’s future and anything he had said.

But if the Minis f er thus meant to convey that the Prime Minister, himself, and the rest of Cabinet, have been in complete agreement about the way things have been handled in New Guinea lately, then he is not on such strong ground.

The evidence indicates that Mr.

Hasluck has been given a kick by his colleagues and told to get a move on. Nobody has questioned his good faith. His trouble simply is that he has been talking too much when he doesn’t need to talk at all, and not at all when he should.

His latest statement on P-NG Legislative Council reform (see p. 17), forced out of him after many months, at last says something concrete. He is definitely going to reform the Legislative Council, and hopes to have legislation ready this year, and he has given us a good idea of how his planning looks.

As PIM has reported in its last few issues, Mr. Hasluck got as far as that principle at least by last March, and although there have been some changes since then there has been no valid reason at all why he couldn’t have made a similar kind of statement on Legco reform before this. At the least it would have saved him the necessity of having to explain to the world, as he did the other day. that his decision on Legco reform had nothing to do with all the agitation that has been whipped up recently by the UN Trusteeship Council.

However, if the delay in Legco reform only involved a matter of months, and in the loss of a little bit of face before UNO, nobody would have very much to complain about.

Unfortunately the situation is not as straight-forward as that, although many thousands of Australians think it is. In their ignorance, they believe that the v e never were any problems in New Guinea before the United Nations started making loud noises in June.

The fact is, although there has always been plenty of room for argument about just what the future of P-NG should be, there has never been any argument within New Guinea about the one step that I to be taken before anything! —that is recomposition of the Lei lative Council.

It was as long ago as 1953 tha select committee of the Council \ set up to make suggestions fori improved Legco. And that waJ done simply out of the blue, but! cause there had already been qi a lot of agitation.

The time to act was when It! report was submitted at the beg ning of 1954, but Mr. Hasluck sirri put it on ice.

Those members who had given much time to compiling the rep were thus given another exari of how their own feelings and! thusiasms were given contemptu consideration by Canberra. J It was simply another discoun ing link in the chain of frustrate built up month by month betwl Canberra and New Guinea, w both the Australian Parliament a Australian people unaware of] Papua-New Guinea was control completely by the Minister; it ] no representatives in Federal P liament able to ask pertinent qu tions or to give an outline to) House on just what the situati was in the Territory.

And it was because of this wh series of frustrations on Legco a other matters that New Guinea \ ripe last year for uproar. Upn turned into a revolt with the wa out of the three elected Legco me bers, and finally in the High COl challenge on tax and other math The signs had been there for yei for everybody to see, but it v another case of there being none blind. . . . The tax issue was mer the explosion point.

The New Guinea uproar did fina froth over into Federal Parlianu —introduced there by a number the Government’s own back bench who had been to New Guinea a reported in plain terms just wl the Government’s—i.e., Minister’i handling of things was leading t They were promptly labelled “mouthpieces of white pressi groups!” The exclamation mark ours, for it is still a matter amazement to us why every Em pean in New Guinea should be ] garded as a white supremist, th( for no other reason than to sa the country and ill-treat the nativ The whole of the trouble in t last few years can quite firmly laid at the door of the Minist because of his weakness for politic gobbledegook and evasion, and t cause of the view he holds th nobody can see the way ahead e cept him.

Is it too much to hope that IV Hasluck’s latest announcements ai actions mean that he is at last g ing to turn over a new leaf aj admit that he and the New Guin people both want the same thin in the end, and that it is he ai not they, who are most times 0 of step?

NOTABLE FIRST. The advance of the Cook Islander is portrayed in this photograph of Mr. Tere Mataio, taken in Wellington in June just after he was admitted as a solicitor by NZ Chief Justice, Sir Harold Barrowclough. He is the first Cook Islander to qualify. 26 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

The Editoes'Maillay Looking For Some holographs ;d V. Frankenstein, art critic San Francisco Chronicle, who ipiling a book on certain * of Christian art in the South has appealed to us for help lining some photos, first of these is of the Catholic ch at Hatiheu. Nukuhiva, esas, demolished by a tidal in 1945. This church was i by Brother Michel Blanc, a {man, who was stationed m islands from 1863 until his in 1899. The church, a work t in stone, is described m ison’s in the South Seas. Possome yachtsman or other who called at Hatiheu inpre- Lays may have a photo. There ja huge statue of the Virgin itiheu, the work of Brother 1 which is presumed to be still tng on a pinnacle overlooking iv a photo of which is sought, rankenstein has made very exe inquiries all over the woHd ood photos of these, without is also seeking s of murals executed by Father Berchmans Veighe, a Dutchwhich decorated the interior ie Hatiheu church mentioned ther churches in the Marquesas Tahiti prior to 1899. Probably hotos of these exist (Father ie also decorated a church at unau, Hawaii, which is still in mce and which has been fully nented. No photos of these Is are required.) ~ yone with photos should con- Mr. Frankenstein direct.

Elections About oconut Palm ;’ve made it pre f ty clear by now we are not looking for more mation about double-headed i trees (following Lew Friday s al in February PIM) but a note L Hamburg, Germany, from »us German-New Guinea pioneei irich Rudolph Wahlen, now 87 he subject is interesting not so h because of the double-headed i but because of the rest °f the v he tells. Writes Mr. Wahlen. )n Wuwulu plantation, nearly rears ago, I discovered a palm l two branches. I was preparing ake a photo, but a branch of a i-tree was in the way, and I >d my foreman to send a native to cut away the branch he boy went up to do the job, while chopping he stood on the Qch itself, and so fell down vily as soon as the branch was “I asked William Leonard (an old Danish sailor who arrived m Matupi m April, 1895, in the Danish barque Embla, shor ty after my arrival) to tell the boy to be careful. But that native of Wuwulu just answered; Sir you ordered me to cut the branch .

“That showed the power the native king (the Pualla) had. Any SSe who did not obey at once was severely punished. I was the Pualla ° f “The Wl coconut palm on Wuwulu had two branches, and I gaye the photo to Professor Preuss J?^ re «ho of the New Guinea Company, who published this phenomenon in his book. It may be that th ft is still alive—the present ownei of th.

Wuwulu plantation would know.

“William Leonard was hrst a trader in New Ireland, and his partner was a Mr. Lundin, a Swede.

They had troubles with the natives, who Y killed Lundin and wounded Leonard badly in the face. In 1909, when he had been 14 years in the Islands, I told him to make a trip at my expense to Australia to recover his health, he answered. Sir, I never shall leave Wuwulu and my natives. Here I live and here I die.

He died there during World War I and his children now are living m Brisbane, or somewhere m Australia—others were taken care of by the Catholic Mission at Vunapope.

They Were Working On The Railroad In May we were speculating about Nukualofa’s Railway Road and how it got its name. Now we have an answer from old Tonga-hand Mi. j D. Whitcombe, of Auckland; .

“When Shirley Baker was Premier (1880-1890) the prison plantation was near the (inner) lagoon and a good quantity of bananas and other produce shipped to New Zealand in those days came from this plantation and others by the lagoon.

“So Shirley Baker had a line laid from the Government wharf to the lagoon. The trucks were pushed by prison labour but horses were also US “This line was still in use when our family arrived at Nukualofa in 1890. It was done away with alter King George Tubou II came to the throne, except for that portion of the line from ship’s side to Customs shed at the shore end of the wharf.

It Was Probably Two Other Stations PlM’s Noumea correspondent, Fred Dunn, who happens to be an Australian, writes a chastened note to sav that Radio Australia has been blowing its top oyer a paragraph Se sent to PIM m April (£18).

That paragraph rePfted that a French radio inspectorhad turnea up in New Caledonia to do some thing about the reception of Radio Noumea in country distncts, wmch seemingly is subject to interference by Radio Australia .

Fred Dunn says Radio Australia cajd through local consular channels ’no less th^ t 5'i ch A u s traiia a wls ta l er “al b^^iTbiU^ tr and that Australia isn’t the radio cul P Comments Fred; “Some station is causing interference, and the local naner definitely claimed it was an Kalian station. But apologies to Radio Australia.”

That History in a Scots Church Yard Two American readers. Captain Fred Klebingat, of California, whose name often appears in PIM, and Mr. George Darsie, of San Marino, California, supply us this month with some facts on Princess Titaua, the . Tahitian princess whose grave is in a Scots church yard.

Mr W. R. M. Low, a Honiara reader, sent us a photograph of the grave in March and inquired if anybody knew the story.

Captain Klebingat Quotes from the old book, A Ladys Crmse /w a French Man o’War, by Miss C F.

Gordon Gumming, who wrote from Tahiti in the 1870’s that Princess Titaua was the eldest of a family of three sons and five comely daughters half whites, who were the children of young Queen Marau Pomare of Tahiti. Titaua was herseTa high chieftess of Tahiti and Moorea, and at 14 married a/wealthy Scots merchant, Mr. Brander, and had three children, including p|lomaT Brander died in 1877 and in 1880 the beautiful princess married Mr. George Darsie, who according to Miss humming, was manager of her Tahiti store, and they went off to Anstruther, in 1894. She died there in 1898.

PI M’s correspondent, George Darsie, who doesn’t make it clear what his own relationship is, says the original George Darsie was a blown -away Scot who his marriage to the princess came into his own title of Lord Holderness and Earl of Liermonth.

He says there were three children of the Darsie marriage, two of them still alive Mr. Tuteru Tepau Darsie, of Minnesota, and Mrs.

Georgina Darsie Murray, of Brazil.

Nobody seems to think there was anything to prevent the princess from going back to Tahiti at any time if she had wanted to. 27 .CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL T - J D L Y 1960

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Patel and Co. Versus The Rest Sugar Deadlock Threatens Fiji's Economy Standing in Fiji’s fertile fields, between the mountains and sea, from Raki Raki right around to Sigatoka, in Viti Levu, along the rich northern plain in Vanua Levu, there is one he best crops of sugar-cane in the Colony’s history. une 21, an army of Indian i Fijian cutters should have amenced work in the fields, e four big mills at Lautoka, snang and Labasa, should ommenced crushing, to turn ne into at least £8 million, the sugar industry’s annual ution to the Colony’s now onomy. on July 14 the cutters were le mills had paid off approxi- -1,400 mill-hands nothmg im to do. isands of cane-growers stood ntly on their little hill-tops, itched endless miles of cane ripened feathers in the soft vind. and seeming to cry: I am, grown rich and fat on abour and your land, burstth sweetness. Come and get id hurry up before I begin ivel back into the earth.” i equal impotence—and with g rage—all classes in Fiji ealising that if this deadlock n the Colonial Sugar Commd cane-growers were to conan economic disturbance iting to disaster would fall the Colony within a few s. the cause of it all? the face of it, this is an icilable dispute between comand cane-growers regarding erms and conditions under cane should be cut and deictuality, it can be traced to nost incredible hatred of the :o. by a small group of Indians up to the present—have been ;d to assume the leadership > growers, and whose thinking loured by extreme racial iveness. e-Saw of a World Market i dispute itself has a history traced i years ago, the company made the growers —now about 95 per Indian, 5 per cent. Fijian—a ict governing the purchase of cane. World economic condiand the international sugar et have changed much since and generally in favour of ;rs. recent years, under this contract, the growers have done very well. The company has not been so happy—it contends that, while Fiji growers have prospered, its returns from its Fiji investment have steadily shrunken.

Nevertheless, in 1957-58 prospects seemed good, and the company urged the growers to plant more and more cane. The growers did.

The company introduced to the growers new cane varieties developed in Queensland. They were phenomenally successful, adding to the sugar crop.

Prospects changed at the end of 1958. Early 1959, the company began begging the growers to reduce production, and warning that much cane already growing would not be needed.

But, already, it was too late — there was great over-production in 1959; and in 1960 it is clear that the cane, from a generous season, extraordinary richness of new varieties, and the vigorous growth of the 1958 ratoon (second cutting) crop, could produce 300,000 tons of raw sugar, instead of the 199,000 tons stipulated under the quota.

The old, ten-years contract expired at the end of May.

The company, since 1959 has been trying to negotiate a new and very different contract, at a lower rate, and under conditions which mean that only enough of the 1960 cane will be taken to produce 199,000 tons of raw sugar—which will mean that a startling proportion of this magnificent 1960 crop will not be required.

Bewilderment The farmers, of course, resisted any lower rate. And, being simple men, they were completely bewildered by the crop position—they planted lavishly in response to company urging, and now the company can take only part of their cane.

As everyone knows, there is critical over-production of sugar throughout the world, and only the quota system introduced through the International Sugar Agreement has kept the industry steady in the various countries concerned.

Fiji’s export of sugar is rigorously controlled by the quota fixed each year: and the price similarly is con- Mr. A. D. Patel, a lawyer, of Nadi, Fiji, probably is the most able Indian in the Colony.

He is aged about 50, a brilliant advocate in either English or Hindi, and he has taken a prominent part in discussions of public affairs. He is regarded as fiercely pro-Indian and anti-European, and as an ambitious politician ready always to champion causes carrying those banners. He is a man of culture and charm, and has European as well as Indian friends and admirers.

It is generally believed in Fiji that, without Mr. Patel and his immediate followers, the cane-growers would have settled their dispute with the CSR Co. in June, on quite advantageous terms; and that they were influenced into the present deadlock (July 8) through I.ir.

Patel’s personal hatred and suspicion of the CSR Co., and his fantastic belief that, if the CSR Co. is driven out of Fiji, the cane-growers can take over and run the sugar industry.

The CSR Co., through its chairman’s address on June 29, gave a plain indication of its dissatisfaction with its huge investment in Fiji and the treatment it has received at the hands of organised groups, and of its ability to withdraw from Fiji without seriously disturbing its widely-spread structure.

The situation is outlined in this article by R. W. Robson, who was in Fiji between June 14 and July 4. trolled by international agreement.

This, of course, limits the area for bargaining as between the company (millers) and the farmers (canegrowers) .

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The associations gradually came together into one bargaining unit, and the well-known Indian lawyer, politician and newspaper owner, of Nadi, Mr. A. D. Patel, emerged as their chief spokesman.

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in carrying on discussions, Vlr. Nicholls, the company’s inspector in Fiji, and Mr. >od, a top executive there.

Jr Patel were Mr. J. P. Bayly 3 a well-known Fiji farmer ivestor, the chairman of the of the farmers’ unions; Mr. another lawyer who is inti in cane-growing and politics, Jr. Prasad, an organisation company tried to show that, v of world conditions, and its to show a reasonable profit Fiji investment and operaand the ever -rising costs in t could make no substantial sions. The growers insisted In view of the profits shown e company’s balance-sheets, ie undertakings implicit in the ,ny’s 1958 urgings to plant the company could afford to he 1959 rates for cane, and I reasonably compensate the rs for all cane grown in 1960, ot cut. , , rs and days and weeks passed national economics we re i, balance-sheets challenged, faith questioned, quick thrusts and impassioned mce of Mr. Patel were blunted Dent against the stony-faced sivity of Mr. Potts, and the less of his associates to answer lever pleading with grim jics. dlock came in June. Actual r spread through the Fiji com- ;y when it appeared that the would not begin crushing on 21.

Enter The Governor ; Governor, Sir Kenn e t h ocks, intervened. He brought arties back to a series of conces, at which he presided, pointed out that this was not tter of mere buying and sellit was the Colony’s business. important development red. it appeared that the chief was whether the company cpuld nue to pay the rates provided le 1950-60 agreement, just exit was proposed that the =» economic position of the in- ■y in Fiji, as it affected the ers and the company, should nvestigated by an officiallyinted Commission of Inquiry, e findings should guide the es in future negotiations, is not clear whether this sugon came from the Governor or company; but in mid-June it clear that, if the growers would pt the idea of an official m- / by economic experts, the company would agree to pay the 1959 rates for all the cane it accepted for crushing in the 1960 season — leaving the rates for the 1961 season still to be negotiated (presumably in the light of the report of the economic inquiry). , , This looked like a good win for the growers, because it gave them the higher rate for the waiting, uncut cane, and it provided a means by which the growers’ doubts concerning company claims about its Fiji unprofitableness could be checked officially. There also was some back-room talk of a method by which growers would be compensated for the uncut cane through a special fund.

Why No Commission?

The growers caused amazement in Fiji by flatly refusing this proposal, and no real explanation of the refusal was given. But this appeared in Mr. Patel’s Nadi newspaper of June 16: The growers have previous experience of such Commissions in the past. They know how the company bamboozles such commissions to its own way and how abortive and expensive they turn out in the end. . .

Such commissions go further and treat the farmers as if they belonged to a lesser species than the Europeans and go to the extent of laying down the size of the farmer’s family, what he and his wife and children should wear and eat and what they should not. Only their physical needs are taken into account.

The Commissions have only added insults to injuries. The farmers belong socially to the middle class of Fiji—the same class to which the company’s officers and managers belong.

If buying cane is the company’s business, selling it is the business of the growers.

And farmers have the same freedom to sell as the buyers to buy.

The company is trying to ram the Commission down the throats of the growers by laying down the condition that unless they accept it, the company will not buy their cane. The time has now arrived for the parting of the ways.

The growers must prepare to stand on their own feet, establish their own cooperative mills and become the processors as well as the producers of their cane.

That way they will emancipate themselves and this country from the economic bondage of such ruthless monopoly. It can be done. It should be done. It must be done if the growers and their families want to live in security, peace and free- After that, two further attempts were made by Fiji’s super-patient Governor to get the parties to an agreement, but without success.

All the circumstances, added to a study of the newspaper article referred to, give colour to the growing belief that Mr. Patel, so far, has been able to persuade the growers that they are being tricked and exploited by the CSR Co.; that the company has a racial prejudice against Indians; and that the farmers and the Colony can escape from what the paper calls the clutches of this ever-hungry wolf by establishing co-operative mills and processing their own cane—a truly fantastic idea in a world where the business of making and selling sugar is already so fiercely competitive that only the most powerful and efficient can survive.

A Break-Away?

By the middle of July there were indications that a section of the Indian cane-growers—probably, with Fijian growers in the lead—would break away from the Patel-dominated group and begin cutting cane.

It also was likely that, if this happened on a large enough scale, the company would bring its mills into action. . , „ But the Governor, rightly fearing that fighting, cane-burning, etc., might ensure, was trying everything possible to get agreement among the growers before breakaway canecutting could commence.

If there is no agreement, then a break-up of the cane-growers’ front, and the commencement of independent cane-cutting, are likely before the end of July. To guard against disorder, the authorities have been quietly moving small bodies of police into handy positions.

Shots Fired at Official As Mr. G. R. Me Alpine, Commissioner in charge of the Western Administrative District of Fiji, stepped from his car at his home at Natabua, some miles from Lautoka, about 11 p.m. on July 12, he was shot twice with a shotgun—once in the shoulder and once in the groin. He was taken to Lautoka hospital, gravely but not critically wounded. A large number of police began an intensive search on July 13.

Motive of the crime is obscure.

The cane price dispute in the area does not involve the District Commissioner, except that he has been trying to arrange conferences between the parties.

Sir Kenneth Maddocks.

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Like an ashamed girl, with her hand over her eyes, central /a still keeps unsightly boards over her shop windows, which re smashed by the hoodlums in the December riots. But this not altogether fair comment on affairs as they are at the iment. central shops like Stinsons, ho took a cruel beating, now it up the shutters every even- Boots, the Chemists, whose w display used to constitute de of the town’s Triangle, have iken them down since last De- >r—a daily, disconcerting re- >r to the citizens, who would d forget the wretched incident, h Carpenters and Burns Philp, w side, suffered window-smashnd a bit of looting. At week- Carpenters are sternly boarded >ut most of BP’s windows are not. Does this represent conflicting views among the commercial Top Brass, regarding the probabilities of the future? ..

I prowled around among all the communities, alert for a word or a look which might show anti-European feeling. I had been told on occasions, that the snarling and insults of the December rioters were symptomatic.

But, so far, I have found no evidence of marked deterioration in the relations between European, Indian, Fijian and Chinese. It was hooliganism rather than political rancour.

Unquestionably the hoodlum gangs were egged on by some very unpleasant, subversive people among the Indians, Fijians and Euronesians.

But unpleasant people, and hoodlum gangs, are always with us. They just don’t get the chance to cut loose, like they did on December 10.

They never again will get the chance, if the regular police do their duty. (But, I will add, in parenthesis, that frequently at night, and weekends, one sees bits of incipient hooliganism around the streets and hotel bars which should not be permitted in a well-policed city. Too many idle, silly youths loafing about in this place, with apparently nothing to do.) A Time for Co-operation Some private people are making plans for liquidating their properties and moving away. Company directors study balance sheets and wonder what to do. Bank managers sit in front of their shaving mirrors, practising that implacable, coldeyed look that goes with “No”.

Myself. I think the danger of anti- European developments has been overdrawn. A tendency to unplanned hooliganism in the towns of Viti Levu is the inevitable outcome of the country’s present inability to absorb the battalions of lads who are growing up and seeking jobs.

This was foreseen years ago. The fact that little or nothing has been done, in a planned way, to take care of the problem is the measure of the incompetence of the British Colonial Office.

The riots, as riots, had no significance beyond the fact that unemployment and poverty and hopelessness are naturally breeding hooliganism They could have been settled in an hour or two, if the police had been used as police should be used.

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With great respect, I suggest that the occasion does not call for liquidation and packing, but for fullblooded co-operation with the authorities in dealing with Fiji’s fundamental problems.

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Photo: Capt. S. Brown. 37 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - J U L Y , 1960

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Suva Also Has Its Pigeons These übiquitous pigeons! I thought as I watched about one thousand of them perching atop the buildings of Boots, the Chemists, i Suva, that they must be the world s most widely-spread bird Six months ago, I noticed them bowing and cooing in a s< l in Lima, Peru, just as they do in Martin Place, Sydney.

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Psychology and a Bar-Room Floor The hotel manager, having joined us in a drink, looked down at his feet, and cursed. . . , “Dirty bastards” he exclaimed.

“They throw matches, and spit, and throw cigarette ends and even their beer on the floor. Look at it.

We looked. “Permit holders?’ I suggested. A .

“No, Europeans of a certain type.

The Fijians and Indians don t do the things that some of these lowclass people do.”

Then the manager told us about a hotel-keeping friend of his in New Zealand. He had this dirt problem in his bar—so he had the floor covered, wall to wall, with a good carpet. They thought he was crazy; but from that time on, the nuisance disappeared—the “types” were so conscious of the luxury conditions upon which their feet rested that they automatically put their cig- TONGA'S INFLUENCE This house of unusual type was designed and built of concrete blocks, in the village of Dakuiloa, Oneata, Lau group, Fiji, by Fijian school teacher Gade Ovetaga, who is seen in the photograph. It is of solid European materials, designed to withstand the occasional hurricanes, and it conforms to the Fijian idea of how a house should be shaped. The rounded ends show the Tongan influence, which is still strong in the Lau Islands.

Photo; Capt. S. Brown. 39 LCI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY - J U L Y , 1960

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A be debris and their spittle in places reserved for same, 'sychology, eh?” said the man- “l’d like to try it here, but t a feeling that Sir Hugh would tubborn about it.” is Inclined to :e it at Home a and large, Australian flour >ably is Fiji’s most important le foodstuff—the Colony pays a £1 million to £2 million per um for it. A . . . ow, there is a project afoot for erection in Fiji of a flour mill. argument is that it would be *h cheaper to buy wheat abroad, mill it in the Colony. This is eaction to the fact that, while tralia sells Fiji millions of nds worth of goods each year, Australia buys remarkably little Z^b^asa rS oP beer and 7'S number of cigarettes. Now, a local brewery caters efficiently for the local thirst; and two rival tobacco factories are supplying the population with millions of cigarettes.

Thus very large sums already have been saved In Fiji’s precious overseas exchange. tnfha and KeS 2A Now Fiji will have its local product —employment here for funds and men (unless the Japanese undercut again) and no call on overseas funds.

So far, the flour-mill is only a few sheets of typed material, and some drawings.

Outboard Motors Destroying Fijian Waist-Lines That well-known picture of the lean, brown Fijian, standing up and poling or paddling his canoe along the quiet waterways of the Fijian rivers, is now being shattered. Tfle outboard motor has arrived, and transformed river life. Fijians are fatter. . , The modern “outboard” is cheap, reliable and can be fitted to the s"ern of almost any craft. Some of Was Just An Old runting Crayfish etuming to Suva from euni, lawyer Maurice Scott 'presented by a grateful m client with a fat little, n little pig, tidily done up i bag. is vision of the piece de stance at an early Scott ter-table was rather tempered )he knowledge that Fiji Air- 's have rules which, sternly rpreted, mean that live- ■fc may not be carried on a senger plane. However, yrding to the Maurice Scott id, one can always try anyig once. he airport official, an alert an, showed lively interest in )art of Mr. Scott’s luggage, moved around, and made What is that, sir?” he deeded. , , . he traveller turned his test, cross-examining eye m the man.

That,” he said, sharply, “is rrunting crayfish.”

'he official staggered a little, I stared unbelievingly at the i.

I’m allowed to carry a Crayl, aren’t I?” . T 7 es, sir,” said the official. it Nausori, the lawyer colted his bags. “What the hell l got there, Maurice?” derided a less respectful Euroin, looking at the squirming, Isy package dangling from the veller’s left hand.

'This is a grunting crayfish— ite a delicacy in Taveuni,” d Maurice, hurrying off to his r before the airways man could lion and fine him.

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Education Right At Home In The Territory By a “PIM” Correspondent One of the risks that European parents have to take wh™ froniml service is that, once their children reach school age, f literal 'lv sel the lalt of them. This, however, isn’t true in Papuoi Guinea any more; there now are educational facilities available n Pre-School to Secondary levels —but only a small proportion of ents are taking advantage of them. ;RE are various reasons for iis—quite valid ones, such as ic wisdom of getting children >f a tropical country into a jrate one (and also out ot rv where they tend to become more “spoiled” than normal); > not so valid reason of accept- :he snob value of a “good vever, these arguments which been going on for years in j- and most other tropical ories, need not concern us We are interested only in the that parents in the Territory at present, not availing thems of all of the educational rtunities that are offering there heir children.

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One-Fifth of Capacity ass rooms are separate and the ■ding establishment is a huge building that nestles into one Goroka’s hillsides, and has a manding view of town and air- [. The whole project was built er the supervision of Father Mike nar. an American missionary of Order, whose station is about 20 miles out of Goroka, but who still takes a personal interest in the school.

The school is modern in every respect and provides far pleasanter living conditions for b(3arders than many private schools in Australia.

There is accommodation for over 100 children in two-bedded rooms but at present the school has only about one-fifth that number of pupils.

Some of the teaching staff intended for this school have been transferred to local native village schools.

This school should be a boon to children living on isolated plantations and government posts. Correspondence lessons are excellent in their way, but they aren’t for every child—nor for every parent. Most children need the companionship and stimulus of working and playing with others in their own age group.

It should be equally acceptable to parents anywhere in the Territory, who for any reason, want a local boarding school for their youngsters, in a climate that cannot be beaten, and under the guidance and supervision of women who have made the care and training of children their life’s work.

And because Goroka has frequent air services, transportation for children or parents doesnt present problems, either.

It seems a pity that only 22 or 23 youngsters are now rattling around in this commodious establishment, when it could accommodate over IOU of them. In a commercial sense, the school may have done better ii it had had a secondary department.

However, this, no doubt, would have involved the Mission in considerable more expense in the way of providing teaching staff.

Parents Wait and See The Port Moresby High School is in a different category, but it isnt currently receiving all the parent support that it might, either. However, as this is its first year of existence, no doubt some parents are doing a little fence-sitting to see how things turn out, and m the meantime are accepting the £l4B secondary school subsidy from the Administration and sending their children to school in Australia.

The High School has no boarding hostel attached to it. To provide anything of the sort would have involved the Administration in extraordinary difficulties, but at the same time, lack of it limits the scope of the school.

Only children in the Port Moresby area are able to attend, and so far as the native pupils are concerned, it would probably be a great deal better for them if they could live in, anyhow.

We understand that a couple of them live at the Salvation Army’s Transit Hostel at Koki. There are few facilities here for the youngsters to study and do their home-work, but they are probably better off than the native children living in local villages where there are no facilities at all.

High Schools like Port Moresby’s are to be built at Lae and Rabaul — but even these will not cater for all Territory secondary school pupils.

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French Comes Easy Reilly says that native nts do reasonably well in comon with European students— suffer mostly because at least i-quarters of their time is spent non-English-speaking environand this is one reason why he :s a boarding hostel attached e school would be a good thing. ■ Reilly said that some of the re students are doing extraordly well in French, a subject at h they have started off from )ch with first-form European Iren. This could prove ePher all things being equal, they hold their own with European Iren intellectually; or that, as have already had to learn a ign language —E ngl i s h—their is are conditioned to the proi the material side, the school been going through the usual ling pains. At end of May, pupils had no proper desks, but were dng at tables borrowed from all the town; scientific equipment the science room had arrived i some vital bPs missing; and playing fields of the future are nothing but a bulldozed clayiit on the credit side, there eared to be an excellent relation- > between pupils and teachers— icthing that could only happen, daps, when the teacher-pupils o is about 1:10. Perhaps, too y realise that they are part of experiment and one that the : of the Territory is watching h interest.

Tie present unit of six classrooms th woodwork room in the basent) is one of the first Port resby buildings made of bricks, is planned that five more similar ts will eventually be built out re on that pleasant Boroko hille. Let’s hope that P-NG’s first )eriment in mixed-race, secondary ication is a success, and that the low of pupils keens pace with this ibitious building project. 47 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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MORE practical developmental planes, as outlined by Bob Bunting, are not mentioned.

No doubt they will “receive consideration in due course”. Bougainville is a long way from Port Moresby.

And I mean just that.

But then it was ever thus.

These geographically-s itua te and islands in the Solomons have for years been expected to battle along under their own steam to a great extent.

In Retrospect Well do I remember the months we waited in Bougainville for the advent of the Australian Military Forces to take over the district when War I broke out. Rabaul was captured by our troops in September, 1914, but it was not until December of that year our siege was lifted and we could breathe freely again.

It was no light task to keep the wheels of planting turning for six months without supplies.

In 1912, when I first went to Buka there were only a half a dozen plantations on Bougainville and one on Buka. There was Gustav Thurm’s planting at Dewau on Buka and then on Bougainville Carl Diercke at Tinputz; Buka Trading & Planting Co.’s plantation at Numa Numa (an Australian company); Louis Summer at Aropa; Fehr at Iwi; Peter Hansen at Kekere and Hickey at Toimonapau (also an Australian concern).

There were three European traders in Buka: Paul (“Karkar”) Schmidt for Queen Emma at Pororan (whom I relieved), Eric Sjoberg for Hernsheim & Cos. at Petats and Thurm at Dewau, who also had a trading station down in Buin. Thurm was financed by the Neu Guinea Kompagnie. The only mission representative then was Father Flaus at Burunotui. Our shipping communication was the NDL steamer Sumatra.

By 1914, however, BP’s child, Choiseul Plantations Limited had opened up big areas at Soraken.

Kunua, Ban iu, Teopasino and Arigua, and Capt. “Squeaker” Hamilton had started Inus.

I left Bougainville in 1915 and when I returned from War I at the beginning of 1921 there had more plantation development According to the old German Lad Laws of 1900, certain virgin lad areas had to be improved within! years and the HSAG Compar (which had taken over Qued Emma’s assets) had contracted wit individual planters to plant u virgin land at Kessa, which m being carried out by Schnackenberg Raua by Les Mutton and Mabiri t Ludwig Kramer. The DH & Pi owned Jame and Sale Islands an contracted with Charlie Huson ft the planting.

Needless to say, after an absent of nearly six years I saw mar changes on my return in Januarj 1921. Kessa was a well-planted are and anew estate had been develope at Karola Harbour, adjacent t Dewau; Jame was a compact sho and there was a potential plantatio at Tulaen, started by Huson whi] planting up Jame; Mathias Islam in Buka Passage, was planted an a government station had bee established at Bonis (later to b transferred to Sohano Island) an it was there I met up with Cec: Levien for the first time, who wa in charge of the station.

I lunched with him and was some what surprised when he insisted o: doing all the cooking. And aver excellent cook he was, too!

Calling at District Headquarter at Kieta I met up with Kiap Harr Cardew (later to be the first Nativ Protector in TNG in Rabaul). Hi Medical Officer was Dr. W. L. Calo\ and no better known medico t ailing Islanders who, to this daj seek him out in his Macquarie Street Sydney, rooms.

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ill a problem in this area and istrumental, I believe, in the ishment of the now-flourish ougainville Shipping Co. s noteworthy, perhaps, that problems were overcome not vernment assistance or inter n but purely by private enter- Was the Writer? ich reminds me of rather an ng incident which occurred in the late ’Twenties (I think s) when an article appeared > Sydney Mail entitled. “A Trip Copra Catcher”, depicting vhat intimate details of the dure adopted on some of the island vessels, the rather upask with which planters and rs were faced in these Fori Islands, coupled with critical nations by the writer, whose appeared as “Wanda Lust . lal photographs from Buka and ainville left no doubt as to the ty. ivas not until some years ibaul over a noggin or two with shipping manager of one of did I realise how wided had been the ramifications e article. companion mentioned the aches he had had searching -nger lists of interisland vessels ng for Miss Wanda Lust, ad Office in Sydney wanted the 1 of the vessel and the captain "was responsible for divulging >any business to a “round ier”. The search had been in en out of the goodness of my t (and after a couple more ins) I told my shipping comon that he was at the moment tie presence of Wanda Lust. I not record his remarks; the or would not pass them, any- Tale Can - Be Told id this incident brings to mind many chuckles I had had ter when editing The Rabaul es in the middle ’Twenties. Older ients of Rabaul (they are few ) will probably remember the nen’s Column on the back page he paper, which consisted of a ■ty letter from Nan to Marjorie. ost of the important social hapings were referred to with the il comments made by one woman mother and I believe they were i with interest—more especially ig to Nan’s anonymity. rho was she? It became a general stion where the local ladies ‘gathered; each eyeing the other i suspicion. The Administrator s 3 was named Nan. Surely it couldn't be the First Lady in the I Tea M s™me ny oAh q e Ui i e adief imping that they were responsible. I knew they were not. It was the same srribe who later created Wanda Lust. ad i warcfl A Book Of Verse You can’t beat the Islands’ folk for thinking up some novel way to earn an honest penny for a good cause Latest evidence of this to reach me is an effort in verse entitled, Kaviana, written by S. M. Pasley, and sponsored by the Kavieng Branch of the Red Cross Society.

It is printed at Vunapope, by the courtesy and generosity of the Sacred Heart Mission”. It is dedicated to the memory of the late William Johnson, “whose sense of humour, kindness and charity were such outstanding facets of his character .

There are a dozen “poems” and a leeend entitled King David’s Dream.

But as most of the subjects are of purely “Sal interest the outside reader cannot fully appreciate their TOISI But I do like the Prologue: They built our little township atop aShJSSI tf "with white beaches, and the sunshine of His smile.

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Here’s a query from Lew P rl^ay, directed towards students of New Guineana: “Does anybody in New Guinea know anything about a chap called ‘Kubary’? I believe he came to Rabaul in the Queen Emma days and he seems to have be en one of the people with local knowledge that made more easy than it might have been the take-over by the Germans, «j have heard it said that he was tosse d out of the Philippines for D i av i ng his own brand of politics f h ere.

“When Ray Sheridan visited Bill Bil Is j and SO me time ago, tracking down stories abou t the Russian sc i e n ti s t Miklouho-Maclay, the Islanders told him that a man named ‘Kubary’ had called in from time to see Maclay, and that he went out to survey some of the offshore islands of Madang with the Russian. The Bili Bil Islanders were quite definite in their that Maclay had another friend besides the two mentioned m he There^ 6 ” rfver on the Ral coast called “Kuban”, too.”

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The Roads Went Out i 1953-55, when lan Downs was ;rict Commissioner of Eas ern blands, he pushed roads out and west of Goroka with nothmuch more than his own drive initiative and local labour to ) the job along. e constructed hundreds of bridges 1 simple affairs of bush timber t were, however, adequate for times. The bridges were never irded as anything but temporarv and in those days the road itself was expected to carry only jeep traffic. , , .

As time went on, more and bigger vehicles—with Administration lorries leading the way—toiled up from the coast, were dragged through the Leron and other rivers, and reached the Highlands to put more and more strain on the old bridges. And the inevitable happened: one by one they are becoming unsafe or collapsing altogether.

The Asaro bridge has been unsafe for all but the lightest vehicles for some time, but in May someone with an I’m-alright-Jack complex took a lorry loaded with four tons of gear over it—and that was the end of the Asaro Bridge. (In the Legislative Council meeting in Port Moresby, in May, the Assistant Administrator said that the Highlands road and bridge problem was to be inquired into on the spot, soon). [?]of these signs on the Highlands road [?] outside of Goroka, give blunt warning to traffic. 51 acific islands monthly July. 1960

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Sydneyiider At Home Base Back To Kangaroos In Wine Sauce When I walked into the still overseas terminal at Brisbane and the Customs guard said: “Put your bag there , lady”, I knew I was home. .THOUGH in the previous six months I had been called madam, ducks, love, madame, >rita, senora, memsahib, missie the nicest-sounding one of all, ink—sinabada—this was the first y” with a hint of an i instead >r the Australian returning home, e is, of course, more than a »ting. This is where, in the toms sense, Nemesis finally •hes up. i the months immediately before, may have got used to seeing nchmen being keel-hauled by a nch douanier, while you were sed through the barriers with a le • or to seeing homing Spaniards aging their hands with anguish le the magnificent border guards ichalantly waved you on; or to ig nonchalant yourself, as polite persistent UK Customs officers ~d-degreed Englishmen. For you v had only the wish that your y in their country would be asant. , . 5ut now it’s Australia, and you Australian, and it says so in ir passport and the sheaf of ms you filled in before arrival, ere is no escape. ... „ ’ve never found out whether irists get the same welcome-mat atment from Customs officials in s country as they do elsewhere, e usually got worries of my own such times. jr Bridge Costs More But now we’re back in Sydney vn, what’s new? .

Dne thing that’s new is the incased toll on the Sydney Harbour idge. Since the Bridge was opened years ago, the toll had been 6d r car and driver and 3d for each ssenger. The toll has now been ►ped to 1/-, flat rate.

This happened about two months o I was told indignantly by a toll eper when I offered 6d, and cording to friends who live on the Drth Shore, at the time the increase •ought forth a stream of protests from residents on that side of the harbour. Not that it did any good.

The toll is up, and doubtless there it will stay. _ , , .

No one, of thought to storm Parliament House 200,000 strong; no University students did snake dances in front of the Premier’s residence, or ran around with placards saying “Go Home, Mr.

Hills”, or “We don’t like you, Mr.

Hills”. (Mr. Hills is the State Minister wot done it).

It seems to me that democracy, and the alleged rights that go with it have become poor, weak tools in our hands and that we could learn a trick or two in this department from our Asian friends.

Mr Hills’ reason for the increase was not that the cost of living had gone up, but that, as a shilling was a “good round sum”, it would help to prevent congestion at the toll gates. How Mr. Hills works it out that 1/- is a rounder sum than 6d, no one has explained; and although it looks on the face of it that Sydneysiders will make on the roundabouts what they lose on the swings, this, in fact, is not so.

Although the Harbour Bridge benefits the whole State, and just about everyone in Australia patronises it at some time, it is residents of the North Shore suburbs who pay most of the debt on it.

They stream over the bridge each morning into the chy to work and stream out again at night and the average load per car is one or two persons. There has to be four before there is a benefit from Mr. Hills “round sum” of 1/-.

There was a time when Sydneysiders were proud of their old coathanger bridge, but in the last decade they have got browned off about the contraption.

Not only is it the biggest traffic bottleneck in the State, but it is obvious that we will never pay for it. Even after 28 years, we are still about £8 million in the red, and the money taken from motorists does nothing much more than pay the interest on the loan that financed it, and the wages of the fellows who paint it and man the toll gates.

Case of the Striped Car-cushions New, too, is the cult of the car cushion, for motorists must have something to divert themselves. A few years ago it was plastic dickybirds that, in matched pairs, were stuck on the windscreen or back windows. With the motion of the car they pecked at each other.

Then there came the car-sick strap. This was a rubber strap impregnated with metal. It was fixed under the bumper and trailed on the road. The theory was that It dispersed static electricity and prevented car sickness.

Gone now are both dicky birds and car-sick straps, and in their place is the striped car-cushion.

These are of the drawing-room, scatter-cushion size, spiked in the middle with a button, with bright stripes on white to “go” or contrast with the car’s decor.

They may be bought in department stores or in some of the classiest petrol palaces, and presumably their theoretical use is to ease the aching back of driver or passengers.

But that’s not how it works out.

There they sit in pairs, more viewed by following traffic than used; spaced equidistant on the shelf below the back window like china shepherdesses on a Victorian mantelpiece; preserved unsullied in their original beauty, some even in their original polythene wrappings. (Over) Queen Salote of Tonga, flew in to Sydney in June, showed she could be a television personality, and caused a sensation when she lost her brooch. (See page 55). 53 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Vhat Queen Salote really lost was j of those carved mother-of-pearl ivers that come from Tahiti. As itume jewellery, they are very at- ,ctive indeed, but their cash value £2 or £3—not the ransom in imonds, emeralds and rubies the wspapers suggested.

Four Sydneysider had a replica ot i Royal brooch and it was much mired, but, alas, it met a far less >pectable fate than Queen Salote s. ended in four pieces some months o when the clasp came undone id it fell onto the marble floor of Spanish bar.

But driven on by the publicity, L of the airport’s myrmidons got work shifting, raking and shovelig and after a couple of days, the neen’s brooch was found —on the ibbish heap. ed Wine /ith Kangaroo Everyone knows about kangaroos, ay “Australia” to any foreigner in le remotest recesses of America or urope, and he will immediately rely; “Ah, yes. Kangaroos.” It is ard to convince any of these people lat there are millions of Australians ho have never seen these animals utside a zoo. So, so far as foreigners are concerned, Australians are stuck with kangaroos, although, inside the country, it is obvious that some people are more stuck than others.

Out west, where they are in hundreds of thousands, they are regarded as vermin; almost as big a pest as the rabbit before myxomatosis, and for the same reasons— namely, the damage they do to cattle and sheep pastures.

It’s now open-season for them, anyone can hunt them and as a big man-kangaroo is capable of travelling at 30 mph in top gear, and goes in 20 ft leaps, it can be fun.

So much for kangaroos on the hoof. In the past year, a few enterprising souls have got another idea and are selling kangaroo meat as a human food. A few thousand tons of it have already been exported— to Europe, particularly West Geimany, where there is a perennial shortage of meat; and to the United States where there is a specialised demand for exotic foods.

And now the fly in the ointment: All meat for human consumption, domestic or export, is killed under Government supervision in Australia and is certified free from disease. Kangaroos, of course, are not slaughtered in any recognised abattoirs; and after killing, the meat is snap-frozen and goes onto the market without any health certificate.

So far there has been no trouble at point of delivery, except in 55 acific islands MONTHLY-JULY, 1960

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, « rectmirant which tiey where one re jjjnc has ia £ serving kangaroo L But it P co“d come from when it sets around ; the meat leaves here without i whole thing so 6 far‘with* no solution ™roo meat on a “food news” iion. A French chef from a Sydrestaurant was brought along; > a wine expert.

'he chef said kangaroo meat was ilesome delicious—and then went why It was.

P ,, -Drsofnn vmi first eet ,ike Mrs. t yo thpn ou ,r kangaroo steak then you even n b°Uer'stlllf in ? clareh°Ster that time, you take it out of the liquid, sear it quickly on both sides, then return it to the pan and simmer slowly in the wine. Result: Magntflque!

R “Now, burgundy IS from S .Tone d o °f the probablTit “ a \fL& one heck of a 0 ( trouble for meat that has no spec i a i virtues (except being naturally tough like old boots), anyway.

There is a thought in it, however, With all that prospective meat bounding about out there, and with iamb and beef prices reaching record —™ not be i o n| before » man to Go West M^Sep^ ® It’s Got Built-in Heating tju> Hen Houses irreverant Port Moresby calls its latest archi- •.ctural Zghtmafe’lt's an Administration single-girls’ hostel that ings to one of Moresby’s steepest hillsides.

“Crook outide good-oh inside,” said my Australian w/omfl»t. wney on the new Legislative Council Chamber. iindZs me into the hillside or the scrub at the side Ml leal for this little-used method of water heating.-JT.

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Sir,—Your article in the May “ pim” headed, “What Chance for a Sugar Industry in New Guinea?” commenting on the views of Mr. M. J. Leahy, a well Known Territorian, has been read with interest by the writer, a well known chief executive in Queensland sugar mills for many years. Mr. Leahy should be commended for his recommendation, which in the writer’s opinion is 30 years overdue. However, the comments of your experts’ opinions cannot be let pass without some criticism.

SINCE Mr. Leahy’s views were given the writer has been coopted by the Morobe Settlers’ and Planters’ Association, of Lae and district, to advise and guide them on the possibilities of a sugar industry for the Territory. I have recommended in the first instance, that a small raw sugar factory be erected possibly near Lae m the Markham Valley, to supply the Territory’s needs, viz., 6,000 tons of sugar. This would necessitate a cane crop of 50/60,000 tons annually.

Later on as the country develops, naturally export sugar would be available. The foregoing recommendation was received very favourat> Surely in all fairness, if the Australian peanut growers are seeking an embargo against New Guinea peanut growers exporting their product into Australia, the Territonans should get the same protection from our Administration backed by the Commonwealth Government, for protection for locally grown cane and sugar.

Australian Help Regarding a later possible export quota of sugar being available, surely the Australian Government, which controls our destinies here, would not debar a small quota of sugar from this Territory, just to further protect a very highly-protected industry at present, namely the Australian sugar industry.

Further, as the Australian consumption of sugar is increasing by some 12/15,000 tons annually, surely the Queensland cane growers and millers would not begrudge us a portion of this added new annual increase—that they do nothing to create. Also the Australian taxpayers should add their weight behind any new industries in New Guinea, which must ultimately lessen 57 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - J U L Y . 1960

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Inited Nations will protect us s field, as they are continually g the Australian Government eate more industries for the 3 people. r arding the continuous cry of Australian sugar industry about production, I would point out that they have been overicing since 1915, with everising vigour, and although they have to sell the surplus at a price to England and Canada the Australian price, it has 7 s been a paying proposition, ■wise it would have been disnued.

More Sugar Needed im of the firm opinion that if world is to be properly fed, i more sugar will Lave to be need than at present; this co;non is further amplified by a it report from the United Dns, which read as follows; e world faces a sugary future rding to the United Natrons J and Agriculture Organisation. l , y a war consumption, until non, ily confined to advanced suga tries , will spread to und f£l loped countries, as well as the et bloc. The organisation pre- , fhn f by 1970, the world sugar umption will be up to 67,000 000 58 per cent, more than in 195 S ’ most significant increase will n those countries where at prethe average man eats less than lbs sugar per year—less than tourist airline baggage allow- ?. These countries at the pre- : time comprise one-half of the Id’s population. r. Leahy was wrongly quoted as immending a sugar mill in the tral Highlands of New Guinea.

Central Highlands would be i for growing experimental and n seed plots of sugar cane. As I e stated, the sugar mill would t likely be built in the Markham ley adjacent to Lae, where the essary shipping facilities would available. hank you for giving our efforts e to create anew industry some ly prominence in your valued and I read magazine.

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hough, like some others, it itside the coconut belt with i PIM is normally concerned, Howe has become a vital tional centre tor aircraft rsing Pacific routes, and as still belongs. radar and weather station, rhose masts rise on the heights verlooking Jim’s Point and le Beach, is to the outside I far and away the most mint building there, wer and Lidgbird, Gibraltarand over 2,500 ft high, stand nels at the southern end of even-mile long crescent-shaped and in superb solitude, 11 more ; to the south, is that extratary rock, 1,500 feet high, known all’s Pyramid. ese isolated features have ys been landmarks for shipbetween Noumea, Port Vila, Sydney. tourist isle now, Lord Howe “dinkum Pacific” in the old ing and trading days. French el Company colliers, Noumeaid from Newcastle or Port bla. still look on it as the halfmilestone for home. And kum Pacific” is the reef which 3ses the lagoon on the more :ered side. ell south of the Great Barrier it is the most southerly coral in the world; and is alive with of the recognised island type, iding the “dream” fish which s you those nightmares, i this reef at low tide you may the bones of Captain Savoie’s >oner Jacques del Mar, which t aground, her engine out of an, in 1956. On her to mea from Sydney, she had been missioned to take the islanders r four-monthly supply of stores grog. re-war this vessel was a Taslian dredge, the Wombat, bedng to the Ulverstone Marine rd, but with shipping so much lemand during the war, she was tted as a cargo carrier. She had been in French hands long bei she went agound. saw Lord Howe a few weeks ago. n the deck of the Adelaide iliary schooner Jillian Crouch, ise master, Captain Roy Simms, was based on Noumea during the war with the schooner Evaleeta, carrying stores round the islands for the Yanks and recruiting hundreds of Loyalty Island natives for Noumea docks.

A friendship based on wartime experiences led him to take me to Lord Howe with him, on the same sort of mission that had ended so unluckily for the Jacques del Mar.

We unloaded a few hundred 44gallon oil drums and a few hundred cases of beer, which the 200 islanders will share with their tourists.

Revival in Seed Trade Our second purpose was to bring back the largest consignment of Lord Howe palm seed to reach Australia since the war. The variety we freighted is known as Kentia forsteriana, and it’s quite a different Kentia than those grown in New Guinea. The seeds take at least nine months to germinate.

Sydney seed merchants will send overseas all they don’t want for local use, and the palms, when grown, will decorate the world’s night-clubs, and the palm courts of luxury hotels and liners. With stringorchestras, ukuleles, an artificial moon and a girl in a hula skirt, they will give people who have never been there, the illusion of the glamour of Pacific nights.

A small contribution to our Australian economy, these hardy and ornamental palms are also in demand for weddings and church ceremonies, municipal functions, and concert platforms. Europe was a big buyer in the days when the islanders depended entirely on this trade, and is buying again, as are Japan and the Americas.

The Island Board is delighted to see the trade revised. The Jillian brought back 313 bags, each containing two bushels (120 lbs), and each worth £lO landed in Sydney.

No wonder the young men, in weather that caused us to shift our anchorage more than once, set to with a will, lightering out the seed in steel barges towed through the reef by their launch Viking 11.

As there is now no passenger shipping service to Lord Howe, the tourist industry which keeps the island going, depends entirely on the Ansett-ANA seaplane which leaves Rose Bay twice weekly. But there is now talk of an airstrip for land planes—a question about which opinion is divided.

Civil Aviation Dept, officials from Sydney have been there to survey and advise on two possible sites — one between the settlement and Ned’s Beach, and the other between the lagoon and Blinkie’s (or Blinkenthorpe’s) Beach.

The problem is that at these only two suitable places the island is less than a mile wide.

The chairman of the Lord Howe Island Board, Mr. A. G. Kingsmill, who is Under-Secretary of the NSW Chief Secretary’s Dept., and the vice-chairman, Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, who is Under Secretary for Lands, visited the island recently.

They Call Them Mister The Board is now studying the feasabilhy of finding a landplane with a vertical takeoff. If this comes about, small and lonely Pacific islands with difficult topography and lack of space might well profit from Lord Howe’s example.

Other, local, considerations are that a strip would mean cutting into the island’s palm reservations; also it is desirable to avoid any possibility of erosion of the limited land available for grazing and gardens.

The present Superintendent of Lord Howe is Mr. J. H. McKeaknie, apparently one of the two people to whom the islands give the title of “Mister”. (The second “Mister”, This photograph, taken from the Admiralty Islets of Lord Howe looking towards Mts. Gower and Lidgbird, shows something of the teeming bird life of Lord Howe. The fishing is good, too. 61 iCI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1960

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eve, is in charge of the radar n) McKeaknie, a former NSW 'tment of Lands Inspector, has here since the middle of 1959. le island is without a police r in addition to his normal 5, he holds the position of special able. . . teard some talk of a sort of ky galore”-like incident after r acques del Mar was wrecked, ■ding to the story, the int reached a climax when the i discovered that a police conj had been sent from Sydney g as a tourist, and that he was e lookout for illicit liquor taken le sunken vessel. It would have i a good film scenario, e islanders are, in fact, worthy, folk, and I don’t want to ; it appear otherwise. Their tiful island is spotlessly clean, ere are many good guest 3S now but no hotel; the Board acts a store where liquor is rei at Sydney prices, plus hi and handling costs. Fair gh.

Bird Sanctuary fore the war the National iraphic magazine informed the 3 that the mutton bird was islanders’ favourite fishing bait, is certainly no longer the case, ke Tasmania, mutton birds are protected; the parent birds j in at sunset, from grounds jut at sea, to feed their young, hich there is just one per hole. 5e holes simply honeycomb the beneath the palms, which col- -3S under your feet, le tiny Admiralty group to the h of Lord Howe, as well as ton Bird Island, Rabbit Island, two big mountains, and Malabar ;ht, as well as Ball’s Pyramid wonderful places for bird life, nets are plentiful, is doubtful, however, whether honeymoon couples which uent this island (and provide :h of its income) are really insted in bird life.

T he Coastwatchers Recalled On the afternoon of June 11 apanese troops landed at latupit Island, Rahaul. The Mowing week they blew up a ouse at Nonga, three miles rom Rahaul. Patrols moved trough isolated jungle ctnd there ios a skirmish on the New Britain coast.

No, it wasn’t real. It was part f an intensive filming of equences at Rahaul in June for television film called “The toastwatchers”. destined for \ustralian and overseas television. The film is being made w a Melbourne unit, Pacific ?ilm Productions.

Another Member of The Family Writes About—

Life With The

FRISBIES Robert Dean Frisbie, the American novelist, died 12 years ago in Rarotonga.

He passed on his gift to one of his children, Johnny, who is, however, probably more interested in providing a memorial to Papa Ropati than in becoming a professional writer.

FEW men have earned the continuine: love and respect of K children to the degree that Robert Dean Frisbie did. Few have earned it under such extraordinary circumstances, for none of the background of their lives together in Polynesia might be regarded as child-psychologist-approved.

It is something of a shock to realise that it is 12 years since Frisbfe died in Rarotonga. A new generation has been born, or moved into the Pacific; a generation that nrobablv knows nothing of the books Frisbie wrote Mr. Moonlight’s Island, Island of Desire and others.

He was of the same generation of writers as James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff, and since these three men are now dead, this phase of Polynesian writing has ended. No one, at any rate, has yet appeared to take their place.

Now, to keep Frisbie’s memory alive, comes Johnny (Florence) Frisbie, second child of Frisbie and Ngatokorua-a-Mataa, a Puka-Pukan girl, with a story w£ ic h might pave been called Our Life With Father, but has emerged under the tit e The Fnsbies of the So The book was published in America towards the end of last year, but so far has not appeared in an edition English, edition. brm£nt y nf the five b F b r£bie h chilSen, and her highly developed sense of responsibility early made her Frisbie’s first lieutenant, when the mother died ol the Cook Islands’ perennial —e TB soon after the birth of the last child.

Charley, the first born, was adopted out of hand by a relative, j n the Polynesian manner. Jakey appeared 16 months after Johnny, and at suitable intervals, so did Elaine and Nga. Charley and Jakey both went to New Zealand shortly before Frisbie died; the girls, with Johnny in the lead, to Honolulu one after the o her. They graduated from High School there, and later achieved amei as Polynesiani dancers —although Johnny had, first, a spell of two years as secretary to a US Army colonel in Japan. j n 1953, s he married an American, carl Hebenstreit, a TV personality a t a Honolulu television station.

They now have a young son, and an even younger daughter.

Johnny’s new book is an enter taining account of a brood of part- Polynesian youngsters who lived a Swiss Family Robinson life in some Qf the mogt delightful parts of the pacific, the centre of their existence being always their erratic, gifted and unpredictable father. oinerficial amrle for That is tne supernciai angle, lor those who are makm S their flrst acquaintance with the Frisbies. For others, who knew Frisbie and Frisbie’s books, there is a great deal Johnny 63 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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ASSOCIATED WITH: Colyer Watson Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle Colyer Watson & Co, Ltd., Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch :e than that in this tribute from daughter. ,obert Frisbie’s father was a iker who later embraced, in turn, umber of the odder religions of erica. The young Robert and his 3r brother Charles, spent four their most formative years in a aastic sort of establishment called ja Yoga Academy, while their tier was going through a phase Theosophy.

The Pension Helped Vith his mother, Robert had a y close relationship right up to time of her death, even though the last 20 years of it, it was intained only by correspondence, n 1918, Frisbie was discharged m the US Army with TB and a i pension of 45 dollars a month, ich, as his daughter records, in er years sometimes meant the ference between starvation and a nfortable existence in the South eifle. \t this time, Frisbie had already id everything he could about the nth Seas—and particularly everyng written by Robert Louis svenson, who was his idol. It was ibably no coincidence that Frisbie lowed RLS in taking his TB to 5 Pacific. kfter working for a year as a rerter, he had saved enough to irt his adventure. He went to hiti in 1920, and Polynesia thereter became his home. He died in irotonga, Cook Islands, in Nomber, 1948.

By all social standards, his life is certainly unconventional. He d those 45 dollars a month, and thin himself undoubtedly the opensity for becoming a sucssful beachcomber —still a very sy thing to become in the )lynesia of the 1920’5.

But there were several reasons of Laracter why the easiest path was ;ver taken. Early background may ive had something to do with this, it even more, was the determinam to keep his family of four partalynesian children together after ieir mother died.

Hammered Out His Books In Polynesia there is no difficulty l disposing of children, and the amour for these children, from ieir maternal relatives, was an emarrassing problem of its own. He mid have farmed them out, and ane on his way. Instead, he kept iem with him, made a family life jr them that, while it was not scactly according to the best prin- [ples of the Mothers’ Union, had le happiest results.

But the thing that, most of all, aised him above the pattern that rtiite men usually made in the touth Seas in those days, was his writing. Frisbie took writing seniusly. Like most writers, he no doubt hoped to make money from his efforts, but this was not the dominant objective.

As Johnny tells it, he was a “hard” writer; he hammered out each sentence, and belted each word into place; he experimented with styles, and became despondent when he felt he was not achieving success. He was never satisfied with what he had done, and was always striving for something he —but not necessarily his publisher or his public —felt would be better.

In the last years of his life Frisbie was a very sick man, and it is likely that he never ever did achieve his full literary potential; he still seemed to be experimenting around, when Time caught up with him.

Towards the end, spurred on by a desire to leave a legacy for his children, his literary output was stepped up. It was at this stage that he collaborated with Johnny in Miss Ulysses of Puka Puka. As Johnny s English was then sketchy, it was obvious that there was more Robert than Johnny in this book, although the style was completely different from anything he had previously written. This was fitting, of course, for a story told by a teenager who, with her part-Polynesian 65 » A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Johnny’s current story lacks some of the deliberate and engaging naivety of Miss Ulysses— which is natural from a now mature young woman writing entirely under her own steam. But it is, in its own right a pleasant and entertaining story of Polynesia, and one into which has gone a great deal ot tecnnical skill and know-how particularly in the way pieces of earlier and private RDF writings have been lasting memorial to one of that almost extinct of fine Pacific writers who flourished in the years between the wars —and one of which, we think, Robert Dean Frisbie himself would have been extraordinarily proud. (THE FRISBIES OF THE SOUTH SEAS.

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Photograph shows the Majoi, ;ated, looking at a cancatureof imself; and standing, Richard, ,unny Hammond and Ray Parer.

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Present too, were ex-Temtorians rommy O-Dea. another old Guinea Lirways pioneer; Nev 4*® fQ S for causer, now senior captain lor (nsett-ANA; andl Goya Henry who n recent years has switched from he air to the sea, and is captain >f a P-NG Administration ship )ased on Wewak. Henry is still a Dicturesque and unusual character ind an older generation of Sydneysiders remember him as th % young iaredevil who, in the early 30 s, flew a light plane under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Self-Government For Ready Or Not! ?EE by A. D. Blue New Guinea got its name from an early navigator’s fancied esemblance between the natives of the Guinea Coast of West vfrica and those of this Pacific Island. I think the con | etween the two outweigh the similarities but this could be he fault of the Australians, rather than of the New Guinea latives.

IE history books tell us that New Guinea received its name frpm the Spanish navigator Ynigo iz de Retez in 1545. Sailing along north coast on his way to South erica, de Retez, in the lordly casual manner of 16th century lorers, formally took possession the island in the name of the Lg of Spain. (I wonder if Pre- ;nt Soekarno remembers that e incident of history). ie Retez thought that the natives saw resembled those he had seen the Guinea coast of West Africa, from my knowledge of both ces I feel sure that his acquaint- ;e with them must have been :ht. ifter having spent a good many rs in West Africa, and having "owed this up by several voyages md the coast of Papua-New inea I don’t think the two places i at all similar. But in spite of s, many of the problems now fac- ■ the Australian administration in pua-New Guinea, are similar to >se which faced the early British aiinistrators in West Africa. [These are the basic colonial jblems of poverty, under-nourish- ;nt, illiteracy, tribalism, and so No one with knowledge of West rica can fail to be interested in w Guinea and this applies equally the reverse.

No European Counter-Hands My own experiences were mostly that part of West Africa called geria, with which I was intimately nnected for 18 years. Nigeria, with jopulation of 35,000,000, has a Euroan population of only about 6,000; hie Papua-New Guinea with a pulation of 1,750,000 has a Euroan population of about 20,000. icse figures, intelligently intereted, tell much of the story.

They should be read in the further knowledge that the area of Papua- New Guinea is about half that 01 Nigeria. This large ratio of Europeans to natives in New Guinea is the first thing which must strike the visitor from West Africa—in fact, the visitor from any British colony.

I remember calling at Port Moresby post office on my first visit They’re Happy to Do It Themselves Once it was roads, now it’s air strips.

The Hube people, from Pindiu, in rugged mountain country near Finschhafen, New Guinea, in June turned up in force to see Morobe District Commissioner H. NiaLl officially open a brand new airstrip which they themselves had built so they could get their coffee to market easier.

Previously they had a twoday walk to carry coffee to the nearest road.

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"he economy of British West •ica is based almost wholly on peasant production of the staple ps of the various countries; cocoa Ghana; cocoa, groundnuts, oil m products, and cotton in r e na - groundnuts in the Gambia; i oil palm products in Sierra me.

Mineral production, at present, tys a small part in the national momies, unless in the case of gold Ghana, and diamond and iron- ; production in Sierra Leone, neral production is the only part the economy under European ptrol.

Australia’s land policy in New linea is similar to the traditional itish policy in West Africa. Non- ,tives cannot buy land in West rica, and there are no privatelymed freehold European plantams there.

The few European-owned plantains in West Africa are held under ase, and operated by the large unpanies who deal in the staple ops, and they occupy a small •oportion of the available land, heir main raison d'etre is in their iucational and scientific value to le native producers, and to the ivernment.

No Land Problems West Africa, of course, is much Lore densely populated than Papuaew Guinea, so that any alienation f land for European plantations or arming was never really a practicble proposition. Climatic and other onditions reinforced this.

The early British administrations recognised these factors, and acted upon them. Unfortunately, administrations in other colonies have not been so ready to recognise the 0t in New Guinea as regards availability of land f.® r European farming is entirely deferent from that in West Africa.

The administration’s recent plan to allot land to ex-soldiers, if carried out under proper safeguards for the future, as well as the present needs of the native peoples, could be of great benefit to New Guineas economy. . _ ... ..

With carefully selected settlers it could also be of great benefit socially and educationally. The slightest suggestion of a “White Highlands” policy must, however, be strictly avoided.

The Australian Government s refusal to draw up a time-table for New Guinea’s advance to self-government is understandable. So long, that is, as this is not taken to mean that there is all the time in the world for a gradual approach to this problem.

Won't Be Ready For It I have often heard Australians in New Guinea say complacently that “of course, one must remember that these people are hundreds of years behind the times”. And: It will take three or four generations, at least, for these people to be educated to a stage where they can govern themselves”.

I heard similar talk in Nigeria less than 20 years ago. spoken by 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL Y - J u L Y 1960

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A somewhat similar reversal of lationships has a lot to do with e troubles between the id their former slaves in the dgian trust territory of Ruandamndi.

They Mean Well Whatever one’s opinion of the prent administration’s record in ipua-New Guinea, no impartial iserver can doubt that the Ausalian Government is honestly arching for a policy which will ork in the best interest of the itive peoples.

Colonial policy is, at best, a case ’ the half-blind leading the blind, id the Australia-New Guinea retionship is no exception to this lie That this would probably decorate the blind leading the iind, should the United Nations rusteeship Council have a greater iy in policy, still leaves no room ir complacency.

I sometimes wonder if Australia’s chool of Pacific Administration is laking the most—or any—use of the vast pool of knowledge and experience which is at the disposal of Britain’s Colonial Office. In the field of personnel, at least, I am sure that there are many former officers, both administrative and technical, who could be of great assistance to the Papua-New Guinea administration.

Australians in New Guinea may be interested to know that incometax has been levied on West Africa s Europeans for at least 30 years, and is in force in most British colonies.

Hongkong and Singapore, however, did not institute it until the postwar years.

The principle of “no taxation without representation”, therefore, is more honoured in the breach than in the observance in Britain s colonies and former colonies.

The Legislative Assemblies in most British colonies, however, although usually officially controlled until the post-war years, have never just been rubber stamps for Colonial Office decisions. They have, even in the earliest days, been much more representative of local opinion than the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council.

This can be taken as a reflection of the greater prestige and authority of the British Colonial Service, and perhaps, also, of greater understanding on the part of the Colonial Office and British Colonial Secretaries.

The PM May Be In Gaol In the matter of readiness for self-government, it can be said that New Guinea is hardly at the stage of British West Africa at the beginning of the century. It should be remembered, however, that political and economic progress in West Africa between 1900 and 1940. was almost insignificant, and that ninety per cent, of the advance to self-government has been telescoped into the decade and a half since between 1945 and 1960. This could happen, too, in P-NG.

In 1945. the Senior Service of the British West African administrations contained very few Africans.

Ten years later the proportion was approaching one-half, and there were several African heads of departments in positions of authority over Europeans.

There were also African Cabinet Ministers, directing the policy of Government departments to senior British civil servants.

It is, therefore, not being overfanciful to suggest that New Guinea’s first Prime Minister could today be a Tolai cocoa planter, or the son of a cannibal chief in some remote village in the Highlands.

Or—if the British pattern be even more closely followed —New Guinea’s first Prime Minister may even be, at present, languishing in some prison cell. 73 acific islands mONtHLY J U L Y , 1960

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Out On A Limb

Tonga’s north-western outr, Niuafo’ou, better known the world-at-large as Tin m Island from its past mailndling history, is having its oblems.

ALLOWING a volcanic eruption there back in 1946 the 1,300 inhabitants were transferred to . Island in the south of the group. , for a variety of reasons not all ;hem were happy there. For one ig there was not enough land Eua for all to receive land allotats according to the Tongan tern Others preferred the hotter late of the north, and others were ply homesick for the island where y were born. Only a portion of lafo’ou was affected by the erupi, so there was plenty of fertile d remaining there, but the Goyiment was reluctant to permit ; people to return in case of Dther eruption. Parties of copra rkers were, however, allowed to back on a temporary and rotat- : basis. rhe uprooted population came der the care of the Niuafo’ou acuation Committee consisting of iresentatives of the people and •tain government departmental ads. Copra earnings from aafo’ou were administered by this mmittee and used for their redlement, after the wages of the pra workers had been deducted.

Decision to Return In 1956, a group of the resettled ople made representations to the ivernment that they be permitted return to Niuafo’ou permanently, id in 1958 it was finally decided at they might do so. It was proved by the Committee that at first ily a few representatives of each mily should go back and establish od crops so that the community ould be self-supporting from the oment of its return, but the people ould not agree to this. They wished i go in a body.

This proved technically impossible lie to their numbers, but Uy they did return in two separate ayages of the new A’oniu at the ad of 1959, the entire group umbering 237 persons in 19 families, plus horses, cattle, pigs, fowls, goate, dogs, cats, personal effects, building materials, and foodstuffs.

The returnees established themselves at the site of the former village of ’Esia, handy to the ship anchorage at Futu and well placed as regards concrete water-storage tanks.

Since then numbers have increased to about 300 and the situation is such that the people are now asking for Government services, such as a radio station, medical officer, school teachers, and similar services, none of which they had up to June of this year.

The Government’s attitude is reported to be that the people returned to Niuafo’ou at their own insistence and against the wishes of the Government, though with Government permission. Therefore it is felt that these services should be financed by the people themselves or by Evacuation Committee funds.

Evidently something will have to be done in the way of providing these services very soon—one way or another.

Niuafo’ou’s only commercial valuable export is copra, the export quantities for recent years being: 1956, 170 tons; 1957, 243 tons; 1958, 152 tons. Periodic droughts effect production as elsewhere in Tonga.

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Partly Paralysed. But He’s An Artist New Zealand, Fiji View Work of Discharged Leper From Jim Shortall, in Suva A partly paralysed Fijian artist who might become as well known as the late Australian aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira was to have some of his work displayed in Wellington, NZ, in June, and the Suva public was seeing some of it for the first time, too, in May.

PATIENT at Makogai leper L settlement for two periods of five and ten years respectively, and now living at St. Elizabeth s home for discharged leper patients at Suva, the artist is Semisi Naivakasoro, of Korovou.

Through the encouragement of Mr A. R. Stone, a well known Suva artist, Semisi started to paint four years ago after coming to the rehabilitation centre, which is run by the Sisters of Mercy.

He has developed great skill in poster-colours, oils, and to a lesser extent in charcoal drawings. Almost all of his work so far is in landscapes but he is now going to turn his attention to portraits as well.

Uses Forearm Semisi’s hands are partly paralysed, preventing him from holding brushes in the ordinary way, but this is no obstacle to his work. With the use of the side of his hand, his knuckles, and a discarded plastic spatula from a glue-pot he demonstrated his technique in poster-colours to me, executing a beautiful coastal scene in a matter of a few minutes.

A dripping wet sheet of glossy art paper was spread on a wet metal bench An assistant placed two blobs of paint of different colours on the bench alongside, and Semisi went to work first with the side of his hand and forearm, spreading the paint on the paper. Then with a few deft touches of the spatula and his knuckles and without the use of a brush, the picture took shape with extraordinary speed.

Some of his paintings have been based on photos but many are purely from memory, and are scenes of Makogai Is. or of his home village area. There is no doubt at all that he has extraordinary talent and that his paintings, which have a very distinctive character about them, will be readily saleable if properly promoted.

Fiji Arts Club and Mr. Stone are assisting in publicising Semisi’s work.

The Makogai colony has also produced a wood carver—Sven Ortquist, a Samoan, who has been described as a “natural” carver, without arty special training.

He has been using bush timber and ordinary carpenter’s tools until recently when Sir Hugh Ragg, of Suva, presented him with a proper set of carving tools.

The crucifix he carved below has been placed in the Roman Catholic Church on the island. He has also done a lifesized statue of Joseph the Worker.

Semisi (left) gives some close attention to one of his oils. Semisi is a former Makogai patient -but Sven Ortquist (right) is still at Makogai, where he has been winning acclaim as a woodcarver. This photo of him was taken by another patient, Charan Singh.

See next page: “A Patient’s View of Makogai”. 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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"Fiji's Leper Colony i s A Back Number " ome months ago, Dr. P. W. Dill- -ssell Director of Medical Services Fiji’said that it would be unwise substitute leprosy treatment on out-patient basis for the present tern of complete isolation on kogai. Now here is a reader who agrees with Dr. Dill-Russell, and seems to have a point: He is iself an inmate of Makogai. We holding his name from publicat, although his letter is signed. an address which he made two years ago, Dr. Dill-Russell stated that, at the then rate of disirges at Makogai, the leprosarium ild be closed in 15 years. This imistic outlook is not borne out present trends.

Vhile he quoted 125 cases as ring been discharged in 1958, he d that record would be broken 1959 The figures for 1959 showed it about half a dozen more tients left Makogai than in the wious year but that 42 of these re transferred to their own lepro- •ium in the Gilbert Islands. Only a ry few of these were ready for ich&rgc For the current year a maximum 45 will be discharged. The actual mber will probably be nearer to as several already on the list 11 be bacteriologically positive ain before their time for disarge.

With the present influx of new tients, it is improbable that the akogai Leprosarium will ever close, id this is largely because of the stem of isolation now in practice.

In very few cases do those mcted with leprosy come willing Makogai, and therefore the edical Department has the support highest authority, in apprehendg infected persons.

Because of the drastic measures ;ed to isolate patients, and beiuse they are vitually deprived of 1 civil rights through the isolation is hardly to be wondered at that come reluctantly. These ays the stock argument to induce atients to come is to tell them : the wonderful new drugs, and how aey will be discharged as cured m o time.

However, once the patient is larooned on Makogai, the story is sually quite different, and the atient regrets having been peraaded by half truths.

No Incentive Not that conditions and treataent on Makogai are anything but he best. But who wants to live in paradise when their loved ones are in hell, without protection, without adequate sustenance, without any prospect of improvement of their lot? Most patients lose everything they possess besides their material assets—their wives and families and their incentive to start their lives over again.

It is to be hoped that the pending, general revision of the Fiji Laws based on the findings of the Burns Report, will have some influence on the isolation laws of Fiji in bringing them in line with those in more civilised countries. But, it is doubtful, as the Burns Commission did not come to Makogai and there is probably little chance of their having learnt anything about it, except in the very best terms. I was notified by Mr. Strick. the secre ary of the Commission, that they would be glad to meet me soon after their arrival in Fiji to discuss certain general proposals I had put forward in their quest for suggestions. My isolation, as a patient at Makogai, made the meeting impossible; leave for a purpose of this kind had heyer been given in the 48 years of the Fiji Leper Ordinance.

Poverty Caused Riots The Suva riots in December have been given a lot of publicity, including a five weeks inquiry into the causes. While there has been much talk about the accompanying strike, the tear-gas bombs and the racial aspect, the real underlying cause that has only had passing attention is the great amount of poverty in Suva. v- * +v^ Dr. Hemming, in charge of the Bayly Clinic, in his annual report, stressed the significance of the amount of poverty in Suva and gave some authentic details of its causes.

In his statement about the 40 families that he is assisting each week, he said 6 per cent, were destitute because of the isolation system of Makogai, which he described as inhuman and out-of-date, when it made it quite impossible for bread-winners to attend to their affairs, and only occasionally gave a sadly inadequate, “destitute allowance to dependents.

But, with other government departments living in the distant past, it is little wonder that the general condition of the poorer classes has to be brought to public notice by street rioting.

With modern knowledge of leprosy and its control at the disposal of all governments, the Fiji Medical Services prefer to support a system that was condemned 12 years ago by the sth International Congress of Leprologists, and most vehemently by the 7th Congress of 1958, which represents the world’s most eminent specialists in the field of leprosy.

Makogai’s isolation system has no support in modern medical science: it is uneconomical, irritational and out-of-date. 79 acific islands MONTHIY - J U L Y . 1960

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Tropicalities Mitiaro has always been ;scribed as one of the lesser ands of the Southern Cooks, now turns out that it isn’t - or not quite, anyhow.

LISTING maps give the island an area of 2,529 acres, or about four square miles. But photophs taken from an official airft at 6,000 ft now reveal that iaro’s true size is 5,500 acies, .ch is almost double 0 they’ve announced that ntue iaro is the fourth largest in the ire Cook group of 15, coming 3 r Rarotonga, Mangaia and Atm.

Unfortunately, whether double its ; or not, a lot of Mitiaro is still imp and makatea.

Mystery Lights UI and New Caledonia lately have both been having an outbreak of mysterious lights in have been reported by erll people in Suva and Noumea the last couple of it have disappeared at a fast late, \f ter several weeks, Fiji authonti^ Ven~ iteorological balloons sent up by ather forecasting stations neai va. The balloons are Jtfed with hts when they are used at night- Phis may have laid Fiji’s ghosts, t in New Caledonia no such exmation has been offered.

Footnote ; Sydney people m late ne also got into the act, when ey reportld “mysterious brilliant een lights flashing across the sky .

Mystery Sounds S if mystery lights were not L enough, the South Pacific is also having trouble trying to loca.e vstery sounds. .

Are they Russian submarines, omic fallout, pieces of sputniks, Little Green Men? , The Cable and Wireless people anklv do not know what has been msing cable traffic disturbances 1 the Suva -Fanning Island sector nee February, 1959. They have had Fiji Government geologist meverybody knows, any metal Dject touching a radio aerial can mse a noise in the loudspeaker, he same thing can happen to teleraph cables—the ends of which for mile or so near the shore are rmour-covered to prevent this kind f interference.

Any electrical device operating near ie unarmoured sections of the deep water cable could cause interfernatura? I magn e in the earth.

The trouble has been occurring about five times a month, and it lasts from five to 15 minutes. It was severe during the tidal waves set off by the Chile earthquake in May, and hurricanes and heavy weather increase the frequency. There have, however, been intervals as long as 26 days without interference.

Mr. R. E. Houtz, the geologist, has offered one possible explanation— that the trouble arises from a bed of iron sand. But it’s only an idea.

The mystery has not yet been solved.

Just Lost, That s All T H p uv a gaol missed aprisoncrin 1 SSSSsTaIr he « u p p rls f oJ uniform, walking down a forest trail a few miles away. iSfSLSSIrtSS; when he He was glad to Fccaoer's Tribute P . tore recent visit to New Guinea by Fre d Hargesheimer. the former American wartime pilot wbo was sb ot down over New Brita in and escaped after many months living with the natives (PIM, May, June ). has brought to light som e information on a little known organisation called the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society, society has as its membership men Qf the Br iti S h Commonwealth air forces who escaped from behind enemy lines. The chairman of the Aust.alia^branch, Captam ahho g. part of the island, This West Samoan is pleased with himself because he's just got himself an octopus, using the lure he's holding in his left hand. The lure is a stone labourously ground to a conical shape.

This photo is on of many from "People in the Sun", by Lyndon Rose, with photographs by Ronald Rose, to be published in Sydney by Angus and Robertson in October. 81 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

Bill Townsend is now boss of the Royal Australian Air Force at Williamstown, NSW, and he said in June that the Australian branch of the society used its money to help those who had helped its members during the war. On occasions it erected tablets over the graves of those helpers who had died. The society intends to erect one on the grave of Paramount Luluai Golpaik, who died in New Britain last year, and who was awarded the MBE for his help during the war.

Bill Townsend has heard (correctly) that there is to be a memorial erected to Golpaik by a group of Rabaul people, and he’s been making inquiries lately to see if the Escaping Society tablet can be erected at the same time that the memorial is unveiled.

There are 700 members of the organisation of the society.

There are 60 eligible for the Australian branch, of which 50 are registered.

Dugout Express A MIGHTY dugout turned up at Honiara from the weather coast of Guadalcanal recently. It was 25 ft long, and took nearly two years to make. Twelve men brought the canoe (named Geona, which is said to be an old local name for Guadalcanal) from Talise, sometimes paddling and sometimes, sailing.

Object of the visit: The builders hope to get a loan from the Government to buy an engine so that they can freight cargo and passengers to Honiara.

He Is Now A Five-Starred General!

WHEN the publisher of the Pacific Islands Monthly , Mr.

R. W. Robson, returned to his desk in May, from a world-wander, he found awaiting him an honorary commission in the Territorial Militia of Guam, couched in these terms: This is to certify that R. W. Robsdi is hereby commissioned an honoran

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MILITIA, and is entitled to wed upon his lapel five miniature goU stars in a half circle (if he can ge them). It also entitles him to al the rights and privileges pertainm to his exalted position, including hi lifelong friendship for the peopt\ of Guam.

In Testimony whereof, I hav i hereunto signed my name and causei the Seal of the Governor to bi affixed this 20th day of October 1959, Agana, Guam.

RICHARD BARRETT LOWE, Commander-in-Chief and Governed As this probably is the only opportunity he will have, in a long lifetime, of becoming a five-s:arrec General, the modest publisher of th( PIM now is following up the matte] avidly—even if it means that h( must call some day in person upor the former genial Governor o] American Samoa and of Guam, ir his retirement at Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

The Long Way Round PUKAPUKA atoll, in the Northerf Cooks, is probably one of the most isolated inhabited islands in Polynesia, rarely receiving more than four ship visits per year anc sometimes only two.

Mr. Athol Rusden, skipper of the yacht-cum-trading craft Tradt Winds, said that when he called there last year in the yacht Manawanui, bound for Honolulu, the local authorities asked if he would mind taking the school children’s examination papers and posting them to Rarotonga from Hawaii, as otherwise it might be months before the results could be known —bj radio—at Pukapuka.

The papers eventually reached Rarotonga per favour of the airlines. as a result of Mr. Rusder explaining the situation to Par American Airways in Honolulu There was no charge.

They Created Records IN a sense, the Law is particularly fair in Tonga—there are now three Tongan lady lawyers whe have been admitted to the Supreme Court.

Latest of the trio qualified with credit last February, and has since established herself as the firs* woman to stand for Parliament in the Kingdom of Tonga. (The elections were held in May). She is Mele ’Umukisia Tu’ipulotu. This was the first occasion that women have had a vote.

Another woman candidate was Tuna ’Ulukalala-Ata, wife of the Honourable Minister of Police, who, a late report indicates, came fourth on the poll for Tonga*apu and caused her male opponents some anxious moments.

CROSSQUIZ ACROSS I. —What is the science by which the origin of families is traced? 7. —Which people wrap a haik around the head and body? 9. —What river do you cross when taking any decisive step? 10. —Who convinced Othello of Desdemona's affection for Cassio? 11. —ln which town in the south of France did Van Gogh attack Gauguin when they were painting there together? 13. —What is another name for a quagga? 14. —ln which Gilbert and Sullivan opera do the characters Robin Oakapple and Rose Maybud appear? 16. —Which British sea captain, commissioned to suppress pirates, turned pirate himself? (Solution on page 95) 17. —Which racing motorist holds the world's land speed record? 18. —What type of person would practise Meditation, Contemplation and Absorption? 21. —From which genus of palm trees do betel-nuts come? 22. —What is the right of first choice belonging to the eldest called? 23. —lt would be difficult to extend a warm welcome in these houses! 24. —What is the term in golf when a player's ball lies directly between his opponent's ball and the hole?

DOWN 1. What is the name for the comparatively new branch of medicine devoted to the health of elderly people 2. Which Swedish chemist is remembered every year for his Prizes? 3. —ln Greek legend, who was the wife of Admetus and the subject of a tragedy by Euripides? 4. —What is the scienlific study of birds called? 5. —What is the longest river in China? 6. —Which English poet wrote "The Beggar's Opera"?

B.—Who composed "The Stars and Stripes Forever"? 12.—Who was cast into the fiery furnace with Shadrach and AAeshach? 15.—Who was the composer of "Clair de lune"? 19. —What flower is "for thoughts"? 20. —Which son of Jacob was the ancestor of the priestly caste amongst the ancient Israelites? 82 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

When The Walrus Came, You Waded Ashore When Mr. Eric Mclllree, now owner of a hire car service in Sydney, recently completed reconstructing a \\ cker * Su ? er ~ marine Walrus amphibian for fun, it reminded Mrs. Marjorie Long, now also of Sydney, of some of the post war trials of air transportation in Bougainville.

By Marjorie Long

r;E recent Sydney newspaper publicity brought to mind the time when Mr. Eric Mclllree made a number of trips in a similar plane to Buka Passage, and other parts of Bougainville, from Rabaul in 1951.

Air services to Bougainville then were inadequate, the regular services being a fortnightly flying-boat to Buin via Buka Passage and Kieta, and a landing at Torokina on the West Coast by a DCS on its Lae to Honiara run, three weeks in every f °Residents in and around Buka Passage welcomed Mr. Mclllree s Walrus. Besides being useful, it was also a novelty. There had not been an amphibious aircraft in those parts since the war, and its antics particularly in taking off, were amusm|t made two special trips to Bonis Plantation in Buka Passage, where my husband was manager, and on the first occasion the whole station, including my house staff, downed tools and rushed to the beach.

As the Walrus dropped on to the water, close to the plantation beach, Mr. Mclllree emerged from a door in the roof and asked for a native to be sent out to him. „ “Got some recruits for you, he called to my husband, as he handed the native an anchor to carry ashore and hook into the sand. Wi h the aircraft thus anchored, a number of native passengers emerged from a side door, stepped hesitantly into the shallow water, and waded ashore Business done, Mr. Mclllree prepared to take off. The anchor was returned to the plane, and while the second member of the crew wound the propeller into action with a kind of crank handle, two natives stood in the water holding the tail.

Jet Take Off Suddenly the propeller turned, the engine started and two very startled natives were literally blown backwards by a spray of water and sand. By the time they had recovered their wits, the Walrus was airborne. , ..

Unfortunately, the visits of the Walrus to Buka Passage stopped and there was no improvement in the air services until the end of 1953, when Buka aerodrome was put into service The making of Buka strip on Buka Island was begun before the war under the supervision of the late Mr Raleigh Farlow, then ADO at Buka Passage. The work went on without interruption until the end of 1941 when the strip was completed but before it could be used, the Japanese occupied Rabaul and later Buka Passage.

They used this strip and also built a small strip on Bonis Plantation, on the opposite side of Buka Passage, but Allied bombing soon rendered them both useless.

Restoration of Buka strip was completed in December, 1953, and from then on the Lae-Honiara DC3 landed at Buka instead of Torokina.

As the Administration station was on Sohano Island in Buka Passage and practically all the shipping for Bougainville passed through the passage, this arrangement was an advantage to all Bougainville residents—those in and around the passage because they were now in direct touch with the service, and those in other parts of the island because of the saving in time for transport by ship from the passage.

In the last four years air transportation on Bougainville has improved considerably. The old Japanese airstrip at Kara, near Buin, was enlarged and brought use.

Two other small strips on the East Coast (Wakanai and Aropa) became intermediate stops between Buka Passage and Buin, and last November, the weekly Lae-Rabaul- Buka service was extended to Buin.

Mails, fresh foods and passengers now get speedy despatch. Government officers are provided with a quicker and more convenient mode of transport than the workboats, canoes or jeeps previously used.

Some of them still have to walk to places not available by air or ship, but, then, a certain amount of “shank’s pony” is always part of the Government officer’s lot.

Facts—Mixed

Specially designed for aerial Frank dunes who like statistics with their travel. This notice board is one o the few distractions at Port Moresby’s new but temporary international airport terminal—there is going to be a better one later on.

The figures are quite interesting, even if it is only because some of them show how Port Moresby has grown in post-war years. But whether you are the ‘ Before type, who still calls a spade a shovel, or a sensitive “Behind’ , with a don’t-let’s-hurt-anyone’s-feelings complex, the three divisions into which they have divided the population are merely confusing.

If “indigenous” means native, or born in the country, non-indigenous refers to people who were not— which includes most of Port Moresby’s 4,470 Europeans. So if the 11,000 “indigenous” include natives from other parts of P-NG, then who in fact are the 530. not - born -in - the - country, non indigenous? Not Chinese—there are very few in Port Moresby. If they are people of mixed blood (who certainly were born in the country) it might have been less confusing to call them by the honourable term of “Euronesian” which is used in the rest of the Pacific.

You don't see them in the Islands any more (like this one photographed on Bougainville in 1951) and more's the pity, says this writer 83 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JULY, 1960

Gambling: Number One New Guinea Pastime From Alan Ramsey, AAP-Reuter Correspondent in Port Moresby Gambling, the age-old “recreation” of the civilised world, rapidly is emerging as the number-one pastime of thousands of natives in Papua-New Guinea.

ACCORDING to churchmen, more natives in the Territory’s urbanised areas now spend their leisure hours gambling than doing anything else.

A missionary who has been 35 years in the territory believes gambling to be the country’s major social problem.

Children were going hungry and homes were being broken because their fathers, in the majority 25/- a month labourers, continually gambled away their pay envelopes, he said.

Even native children, in many cases unable to tell the difference in one card from another, have been known to play cards for stones and shells.

That "Lucky" Game Native gambling takes many forms, easily the most popular being a card game called “lucky”.

This has scores of variations, but basically a lucky hand consists of three cards, of which the face values are added together.

The last digit of the total is the number gambled on and the winner is the player with the highest number.

London Missionary Society Minister Rev. S. H. Butler said “lucky” was probably the greatest “curse” among native gamblers.

“From my own observations, it’s the usual way of spending a Sunday afternoon for the young men,” he said.

“Most of the native women who come to me with family problems usually admit the basic cause is her husband’s gambling.

“Either this or drink, which goes hand in hand with gambling.”

“Lucky” is illegal and natives play under penalty of a £AS fine or a month’s gaol if caught.

But the majority of “lucky” schools are well hidden and very few players end up in court.

Gambled His Wife In the Highlands, the Goroka District Advisory Council was told recently that “lucky” gambling was reaching astronomical proportions.

Some natives were gathering fortunes in cash and store goods, which were sold at a handsome profit, and in one case, a native had gambled away his wife.

Lotteries are another great attraction for the New Guinea native and he spends freely in his quest for a winning ticket.

Occasionally, a native does win a major prize, like the policeman who two years ago reaped £A6,000 from a Queensland consultation.

Such instances are rare, however, and few buyers ever see anything to show for their outlay.

According to leading Port Moresby missionary, Rev. P. Chatterton, lottery gambling among natives is fairly new.

“It is, however, developing into a headache,” he said.

“Many natives spend far more money on lottery tickets than they can afford.

“As a result they and their families go hungry, or are reduced to stealing.

“The answer to stopping it is not an easy one.

“I, for one, couldn’t even hazard a guess to the solution.”

In the Highlands, a type of gol: is a favourite betting game.

Small holes are dug and playen bet on how few strokes they tak< to knock in a small wooden ball.

In the Sepik district of northen New Guinea canoe races and arrov shooting contests are favoured betting mediums.

A senior Native Affairs office: said he even knew of instances ir Western Papua where high stake! (usually in food or ornaments) wen wagered on how smartly a native could climb a coconut palm.

According to the Territory Commissioner of Police, Mr. C. Normoyle however, gambling in Papua-Nev Guinea is no worse than anywhere else.

“Wherever you go in the world people gamble,” he said.

“And wherever you go you find people who say gambling in theii country is a major problem.”

And He Started A Controversy

From a NG Correspondent Father James Dwyer, the political priest of New Guinea he’s a Member of the Legislative Council was the central figure in May in a hot controversy over native gambling.

CRITICS tore into him on the grounds that he was raising money for his parish at Rabaul by promoting a regular Saturday gambling casino for native people.

The critics were aggrieved when investigation showed the organisation was inside the law. But they hit back on moral grounds.

Father Dwyer, too, had his supporters who went to great pains explaining that gambling as such was not morally wrong, and became evil only when the gambler carried it to extremes.

But throughout the controversy, Father Dwyer himself did not come into the picture, neither defending himself nor attacking his critics, In fact, the early chapters of the story contained nothing to publicly indicate who was running the gambling or for what purpose. A simple sign outside a new block of shops opposite the Rabaul native market proclaimed “Fair Here On Saturday”.

And behind the sign inside the building a crush of eager native bodies sweated in the heat, clutched Father James Dwyer. 84 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

week’s earnings in hot hands, bed and clamoured around the nbling tables.

Tie anonymous nature of the fair the usually astute Rev. Wesley :ton, Chairman of the Methodist erseas Mission at Rabaul, to take step which later provided him h some embarrassment.

Ar. Lutton, whose church rigidly loses gambling, laid the foundans for an all-out attack by ask- ; questions at a meeting of Rabaul wn Advisory Council. He planned launch the attack when he reved his answers at the following seting.

Moral Issue But in the meantime he learnt at the Catholic Church was concted with the fair. When the ategic moment to attack arrived, sat down tongue-tied. He was recant to take a course of action rich could be mischievously conned as an inter-church feud. ‘lf only it had been someone else 10 raised the matter in council . ”, he said privately later As a matter of fact, Mr. Lutton mself was caught unawares by the nation in the belief that all native mbling was prohibited by law. He id not known of an amendment Papua-New Guinea legislation ’o years ago which gave the native rtain gambling rights. If he had mwn, he certainly would have ught the issue months ago on the de ground of native welfare A police report confirmed that here is nothing illegal and full ficial approval has been given forganised games of chance of which b have knowledge in Rabaul at -esent.” , .

But by this time the moral issue as coming to the front. Letters ere published in the Press arguing ith sides. One of the most telling as a scathing attack on the situaon by Dr K. Furst, of Rabaul, a ractising Catholic who was not fraid to put his name to the letter.

Other members of the church, owever, claimed there was nothing rong in the gambling fair. One of le letters contained strong perjnal support for Father Dwyer and ie work he was doing for the arish But' whatever happened behind he scenes, the fact remained that he sign, “Fair Here On Saturday isappeared quietly one day. It has iot come back. . _ And no one can say that Father )wyer hasn’t a sense of humour. On he day that the last spate of letters ppeared in the newspaper columns ie turned up at the newspaper iffice with an advertisement for the lext issue. „ “I want to advertise a big raffle, le said, “put the advertisement be- ;ide' the -letters to the Editor ;olymn!”

Ode To A Suitable Conche Shell FW Marine regulations introduced into a certain Pacific territory are IsumgsMiMm launch carries “one stutabte shell in jg something> SZ '^ent^our^stanzas of it was, to “PIM”. We haven’t the space to print it all hut we offer a sample.

Perusing my new Ship’s Permit to continue to exist and float, I found therein amongst “ herc ” in”, “therefore”, to wit , a hitch.

It was issued only on condition I placed upon my boat, At once, a conche shell for a foghorn! Failing which I’d incur the grave displeasure of the Department of Marine, And forthwith forfeit every right to use the ocean!

Such an order from an office of Her Majesty. The Queen.

Would cause me sad distress and deep emotion.

Accordingly, in meek compliance with the bull*, The village boys at my request went diving off the reef; At dusk they brought ashore to me a canoe-full Of conche shells. You may imagine my relief!

I chose a large one; cleaned it well and drilled a hole.

For regulations now I was feeling very staunch, Obedient, law-abiding, happy—virtue in my soul; I whistled gaily as I placed it on the launch.

The crew boys grinned and jabbed each other’s ribs; Knowing a thing or two about blowing conche shells, “Ha! Ha!” their antics plainly said, “His Nibs— Is bent on sailing past the village for sugar-talk to gells!

“Master.” said one, “whichway you tak’im this shell come?

For mak’im sweet talk along altogether meri, along night?” (Young thoughts on conche wolf-whoops; glad cries of welcome From girls gaily dancing on the beach in moonlight).

“No, No, my boy,” I said, “this shell’s a safety aid, For our protection in time of fog and snow at sea; To guard us from such dangers a regulation’s made; None can tell how temporary this tropic clime may be!”

“As brawling seas close round my old bald head, We’ll tell each other the time is getting late — There’s yet a duty to perform before we join the dead; We’ll tell old Davey Jones to hold his hand and wait!

Then, with final lunge above the water wild and troubled, We’ll sound for all to hear, ‘God save the Queen!’

And, from lower down, softly there will come bub-bub-bubbled A final ‘Ber-ber-blub!’ Our tribute to Department of Marine!” * Explain this term I must, ‘Bull’ in the sense ‘Papal bull’; and not, Of course, bull (dust)! 85 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

Tribute To A 44-Gallon

OIL DRUM!

By Lew Friday As a sign, or harbinger, of civilisation, the 44-gallon oildrum has become as universal in the tropics as the flying machine or the Land Rover. Wherever life, and some sort of industry, no matter how humble, goes on, these drums turn up to play their part in village existence.

THE war threw them up as flotsam and jetsam in places where they had never been seen before, P° st “ war boom in copra and other cash crops, bringing in mnhn^ 6^ 6 ’ mobile and the tractor, has seen their conversion, in isolated townships, at anchorages, on plantations, l n^L t jlL! ill ?f e lc a Q nd f ° n Eu I r °P ean homesteads, to uses formerly unareamea oi.

I had many a good bath in a 44gallon drum in the days before Pearl Harbour, when a Japanese named Noda, at Ounia, on the south-east coast of New Caledonia, used to grant me prior use of his modest bathing shed before he nightly undertook the bathing of his own large family, from his wife, who was an Indian, to the smallest tot.

A sim iiar bath, with a second drum for heating the water, was installed, this time in the open on another property 15 miles away which at the time had a Japanese caretaker p The usual heavy afternoon rain did not matter once you were steeped in this welcome tub.

But my eyes were not properly opened to the modern uses of the modest oil drum until I visited New Guinea. Here I found it universally put to service, often enough in association with cement, You can earn the gratitude of native villagers by procuring thei empty drums.

I witnessed the contentment c one community, at Lambon Islam near the southern tip of New Ire land, when the MV Marr, on whid I was a passenger, pulled in wit some of these gift drums on board A Thing of Beauty!

Tondavi, the plodding, sincere ol Luluai of the village, drew me asid and pointed down through 18 fee of clear water in which the core fish (those things the touris brochures go into raptures about were darting hither and thither.

I thought it was these bright be ings he wanted to show me, bn no, it was a number of prosai cement-filled drums holding up th solidly constructed wharf which i the village pride!

What they wanted the newl arrived drums for was to build ; copra-drier.

I saw some of these easy-to-buil driers at work in other places ii the Rabaul area; they were bein used for cocoa drying as well. Th flues are constructed of as many a ten petrol drums from which botl ends have been removed. Thes drums are jointed by metal collars 4 ft wide.

The joints are packed witl asbestos tape, and the co 11 a tightened by means of two bolt passing through brackets of angl iron riveted to the collar. Th South Pacific Commission’s maga zine and pictures have given detail of the construction.

In plantations far afield you corm across large cooking vessels left be hind by the Japanese for frying the daily ration of wheatmeal cake: for the labourers.

But on other plantations the top of drums are used as baking trays They are put on coals and the sun face of the metal smeared wiT coconut oil. The lid proves a goo( cooker of cakes for the labour line since it can hold the heat evenly for hours.

They're Ovens, Too Once oil drums set in cemen made good ovens at the old native hospital in the “Matupit Farm’ area of Rabaul.

As a water collector, drums an placed at the base of coconut palms just where the first slant straighten* Drums, drums and more drums. The stocks at right were photographed in New Guinea a few years after the war. Those below were a wartime legacy for Fiji. Where are they now? All put to good and varied use no doubt. 86 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

intn the unward surge of the n SrSrS.? f %er ill is deflected there by a stick, ic end of which is stuck into the unk while the lower points into ie drum. , Practically all the first rain tanks it in at Rabaul after the war were t on foundation of four oil-drums icked with cement; on this was lilt a heavy timber platform, and len the corrugated iron tank.

I came on a medicinal use, and a lost unexpected one, of the oil rum when the MV Mainiro took ie to Lihir, the volcanic isle 30 hies off the New Ireland coas L .

Passing along the coast of Lihir, igh and serrated like a dragon’s ack you can see steam rising rom the hot springs and the smell f sulphur becomes quite strong.

Planter Jim Sciortino puts the Deal sulphur supply to use as a cure or the fairly common native skin ilment known as grille or actinia.

Up fifq o 44-eallon drum up as S bath 4 Ihh a seat and a oot rest A quantity of sulphur is oread on the bottom of the drum, telow which a small coconut-shell ire is lighted. The “patient” is proected from the choking fumes by ■overings through which his head irotrudes; and another native stands by to see that he is standing . is satisfactory and permanent, u-.j-.iie® Japs Had a Use In Rabaul, I was told of another extraordinary use that was made of oil drums during the uneasy Japanese occupation. With pipes', they ingeniously linked up drums to tap the natural heat of Matupit volcano, so that the drums were turned into boilers to extract me sa lt from sea water, The Japanese incorporated drums in their dug-out defences in accordance w ith the principles of military engineering. Filled with sand and stones they walled the funk-holes on the mountain slopes, An d round the coast, when small ships cannot get through rough seas to the shore you can sometimes see goods tossed over the side m on drums with a good sealing lid. The swe ll drifts them and their contents to the beach.

Pacific island plantation managers and Territorial could name a score of other uses to which the humble drum is nowadays put, no doubt some of them P o^ pen a better tnbu e to an indispensable article of fsiands’ hfe than a mere passer-through the Islands like my self.

Do you Remember?

Many will remember, and those who don’t will be interested anyhow from “PIM” of July, 1940-20 years ago: A sign of the times was this quip in that issue: , . .

Hitler was conversing with his head men when one of them remarked, “I hear they’re starting another campaign against malaria”.

“And about time, too,” snarled Adolf. ‘‘The way these Malarians have been treating our German minority is something terrible!” * * * Another sign of the times was an announcement that “PIM” was short of paper and that the journal was being severely condensed. That issue contained 72 pages. * * * In the New Hebrides, the recent capitulation of France was causing a reaction described as chaos . Fre ££h currency and the copra industry had been “strangled”. Nearly all the Group’s copra went to Marseilles. * * * Somebody had announced that the salary for Papua’s new Administrator was to be £1,500 a year, compared with £l,BOO for the New Guinea Administrator, and for once the critics came in on the side of the Administration The sum was too low. Wrote one objector to “PIM”, “No man can live with the dignity necessary and entertain, as Administrator, on £1,500 a year”.

The veteran Canadian Australasian liner “Niagara”, 13,415 tons, which had been running between Sydney and Vancouver for 25 years, struck a mine ott the coast of Auckland early in the morning of June 19 and foundered two hours later. Nobody was lost. * * * “Why not a cement industry in Fiji?” a Suva correspondent asked. He said it was hard for people in Fiji to understand why they had to import cement, when there was an abundance of coral, lime cheap labour and transport. (It s coming, but it’s taken 20 years) Norfolk Island was reported to be making “steady economic progress”.

Passionfruit, beans, bananas and oranges were all doing better, and there was a keen demand for farmers to cultivate flax. The Administration was planning to overcome the lack of a sheltered port by building a causeway from near the boat landing at Kingston out to Nepean islet. * * * The South Pacific now had an airmail service between San Francisco and Auckland, via Honolulu, Canton and Noumea, operated by Pan American Airways. Suva was unhappy at being missed.

She Liked What She Saw

Americans Are Nice At Home Too Mrs. Alice Bowring is one of New Guinea’s best known pioneers. During the war she was evacuated with other women to Australia, but she didn’t stay put long. She worked with the American Red Cross, particularly in New Caledonia, and made many friends. Last year she visited some of them in the States.

Her verdict: As friendly at home in peacetime as they were when at war and abroad.

Here are some of her other impressions: FOR many years I had promised to “drop in” on my war-time buddies, and sisters, of the American Army, Navy, Air Force and Red Cross in the South Pacific, so in 1959 I decided it was now or never.

I took off with my granddaughter, to find out if the Americans were as friendly and hospitable at home as I had found them abroad. , _ .

They were. They made me feel like the Queen of Sheba when she came unto King Solomon; “The half was never told me.”

From the time we landed at Los Angeles until we left New York for London, we were treated with the most affectionate hospitality, so lavish at times that it was almost embarrassing.

In Washington, DC, it was a great pleasure to meet again so many old friends of the Marines and the Red Cross, including the great Tom Stowe, Red Cross Public Relations officer.

The Americans are a very warmhearted and generous people, as is evidenced by their national behaviour in times of disaster anywhere in the world.

Their Red Cross is a magnificent organisation. Many millions of dollars are contributed annually by the charitable American public, and spent in alleviating want and distress anywhere, regardless of nationality.

General Alfred M. Grueifiher is the present head of the American Red Cross. Formerly chief of NATO, he is a man of considerable personal charm, a great admirer of our Australian tennis players, and, in- (Continued on page 99) 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

The Month'S New Reading

With JUDY TUDOR No one but Australia’s own Frank Clune would attempt to squeeze a book of 264 pages out of the 190 miles journey (“ramble-amble”, he calls it), between Sydney and Canberra.

That's over a page per mile, which is pretty good going, even for Frank.

NOT that the Clune literary cavortings, both in time and space, don’t range far and wide from that narrow piece of bitumen.

Starting from Vaucluse —e very reader of Clune knows that he lives in Vaucluse, which, in Sydney, is just the best—practically everything reminds him of something else. Of the bad old Convict days (all convicts, according to Clune, were maligned angels, victims of a vicious system); of Bushrangers, who are his heroes; of Dastardly Police and Troopers; of Wild Colonial Boys.

To say nothing of pieces of forgotten history and personal anecdote.

Perhaps “squeeze”, used in the first paragraph above, is the wrong word entirely in connection with Author Clune. His literary output floods out like water from a burst reservoir, and if the real Sydney- Canberra journey were carried through in such spate, poor Mrs. C. —Brown Eyes, in Clune books, where she is now one of the standard props —must have been quite dizzy before they reached, as her husband put it, the Hard Heart of the nation. (Meaning that the Commissioner for Taxation lives there), It is said in the trade that Frank dictates all his works onto a machine, a typist transcribes them, and the result is sent, as is, to his publishers. This is probably quite untrue, although his books have the sound of having been spoken, against time, on a radio session.

But Clune in Australia is to be infinitely preferred to Clune abroad fßoaming Round Europe. Tale of Tahiti. Flight to Formosa, etc., etc., etc.). And if, by some piece of literary chemistry, you could put some of Clune’s Australian stories in a crucible and render-out the Clunisms and other solecisims, you would probably come up with some plain Australian history that is interesting now and will become quite valuable as time goes on.

The best thing in the current Clune, and quite worth the rather exorbitant price of 27/6 that the publishers put upon it, is the story of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, better known by her two last names, Miles Franklin.

Her erratic and extraordinary career has, no doubt, been set out in print on previous occasions, but as far as this reviewer is concerned, it was left for Frank Clune to shed some light on this enigmatic Australian novelist whose All That Swagger is still the most brilliantly written and most readable story of Australian pioneering. It was left for him to suggest, too, that that other Australian novelist, '“Brent of Bin Bin”, who produced another classic of its kind in the 1930’s {Up the Country ) was simply Miss Franklin under another name. (“Brent of Bin Bin” produced other novels subsequently, but these, according to Clune, were probably in collaboration with another Australian women writer who also chose to live in England).

Miles Franklin wrote her first novel in 1899, when she was 19. She called it My Brilliant Career, and as it was written in the first person, the people around Goulburn, which provided the setting, read a great deal more into it than was intended, imagined that they saw some of themselves caricatured, and were suitably indignant. To escape from their unsought attention, Miss Franklin went to Melbourne, and a few years later, to the United States where she stayed until the outbreak of World War I, when she crossed to England, enlisted in one of the women’s services, and went tc Salonika.

Except for one brief visit, Mild Franklin did not return to Australia until 1933. In her entire life—and she was 75 when she died in Sydney in 1954—she wrote only four boold under her own name ( My BrilliavX Career, in 1899; Old Blastus o\ Bandicoot, in 1931; Bring thi Monkey, in 1933; and All Thai Swagger, which won the Prioi Memorial Prize in 1936).

After All That Swagger, in 1936 she appears not to have written anything else—even in collaboration with Mary Fullerton, who is supposed to have been the other part of “Brent of Bin Bin”.

In the years just before and just after her last novel, Clime says that he saw a great deal of Miles Franklin, and, with Brown Eyes as the third member of the party, they travelled together by car in South Australia, Victoria and NSW.

For once in a while, Author Clune is quite reticent as to the reason for this —but for what you did tell, we humbly bow and say, Thanks, Frank, (JOURNEY TO CANBERRA. Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. Australiar price, 27/-.) It's That Nino And The Aussies Again 11/’HEN an Australian book, pubf? lished in Australia, sells 250 000 copies, it is not only unusual, it is downright miraculous. It has MONSTER. Not the islands' division of the Ku Klux Klan, but a Solomon Islander practising his fire drill at Honiara. The men in the background are putting out a practise fire on an aircraft that doesn't look as if it will fly again. 88 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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NESTLES V ws* * \V N 446-59 9$ Good i ppened only once —Nino Culotta/ in O’Grady’s They’re a Weird )b. [n Weird Mob, Nino, a migrating irnalist from North Italy, took a ) in Sydney as a builder’s labourer order to get to know the Ausilians better.

Nino had prided himself on his owledge of English, and in fact, □ke like a phrase book. But that ls the first thing he learned about istralians: They didn t speak Engh.

The second thing was about that her Australian phenomenon—male ateship.

On these slim threads the book is based —and from John O’Grady s traordinary genius for getting istralian dialogue down on paper, ,me success. Oddly, perhaps, the >ok appealed strongly, not only to istralians, but to New Australians do identified themelves with Nino id his assimilation troubles. This id quite a part in boosting sales.

So much for Weird Mob. But with ich success, something further ong the same lines was inevitable, id in 1959 John O’Grady went to irope to gather the material for return match. The result has just ;en published— Cop This Lot.

This tells the story of how Nino, is Australian wife Kay, his builder lend Joe and his wife Edie, and ieir friend Dennis, visit Europe, id in particular, Nino’s family who ve about 20 miles outside Milan.

Can a sequel ever be as good as le first book? Would Cop This Lot :and on its own as a successful tory, without the prop of Weird lob? These are questions to which very reviewer who chuckled at the rst Nino, is now trying to propound rudite answers.

The answer is probably “no” to oth questions; but as a logical coninuation of the adventures of those haracters, if a continuation there iad to be, it is hard to see how ohn O’Grady could have improved >n it. .

At times it does come perilously lose to plain corn—as, for example, vhen the Australian party meet up vith that beloved instrument of Continental plumbing, the bidet, ind discuss its possible use and vhether it is intended for washing ;he feet. But, as in Weird Mob, the ’antastic Australian dialogue steers ;he story round some sticky pa f ches md provides a number of the verbal dots that delighted fans in the first aook.

The language difficulty, of course, helps. When on a train journey between Karlsruhe, they ignore an announcement in German, and go on eating breakfast in the dining-car.

When Joe leaves first, he finds that everything that was once behind has been detached. He returned to the dining car, “wild eyed and running”.

“Hey,” he yelled, “the bloody train’s gone.’”

“Wodda yer mean gone? Gone where?”

“Gone to buggery. There’s only one carriage behind this one. Were stuck in a siding miles from bloody nowhere.”

“Yer mad.”

“Mad, am I? Come and ’ave a look. We been got at. Suitcases an’ everything. Gone ter buggery.”

They finally found the right piece of train again, by running miles over tracks and between shunting engines while frenzied German officials screamed at them and blew whistles.

Along with his talent for reproducing dialogue, O’Grady has insight into character and his own way of expressing it. In few words Nino is the everlasting sentimentalist, the Australians, casual to the last.

It was decided the women should travel to Europe in some state; the men, so they wouldn t have to “dress up”, in a cargo ship which they picked up in Fiji. In the Australian view, it was an excellent idea to have two months holiday away from one’s spouse, but Nino was torn by emotion, and as the plane pulled out of Mascot, leaving Kay waving from the tarmac, he wept. He tpld himself that he was just a sentimental Italian, then he glanced across the aisle to Joe.

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Drright be buggered,” said Joe, icy bend about a foot every time goes over a bump. Wodda yer con’s in them tanks on the ends? ,d?” oe’s mind wasn’t on wives or nen; he was worried about the g, tapering wings of the Super istellation aircraft and their well- >wn habit of trembling like a leaf a breeze. ’o sum up: Your sequel is Lght, Nino, but, as Joe might say, use hoggin’ the flamin’ idea to ,th, but. It’s a smart author who iws when to take another tack, 1 we’d hate to see Nino degenerinto some kind of an Australian lyanna series. tefore he took to writing books, in O’Grady was a pharmacist, and the time They’re a Weird Mob s published, he was working in it capacity in Western Samoa, ring his time in Apia he wrote novel about that Territory and mght it back to Australia with n. lis publishers put it on ice—until lird Mob’s sequel appeared—but might be a good idea to bring out of the deep freeze now. There ? stil) a lot of people undecided to whether this bloke can really ite, or is just a recorder of the i-bal antics of homo sapiens Ausilensis.

COP THIS LOT. Published by Ure ith, Sydney. Australian price, 17/6.) 3—The Way That ley Saw It WER hear of Mt. Hercules, 37,783 i ft high —B,OOO ft more than Everest? Or “moolah’s”—animals :e tigers? Or scorpions 13 inches tig, and trees 337 ft high?

This was New Guinea, as seen by gentleman called Captain Lawson, io also discovered buffaloes, onkeys, wild goats and vultures in e same territory.

Modern journalism? No—“ Captain iwson” wrote his Wanderings in New uinea in 1875 and probably thereby t the pattern for all the literary hoppers that have been told about le Territory ever since. (When aptain Moresby challenged the uthfulness of the book, it was ithdrawn from sale; no one ever »und who “Captain Lawson” really as.) This is one of the sidelights in small booklet on New Guinea disivery just published by the OxfOTd hiversity Press in their “Australian xplorers” series.

As with a lot of other publicaons from semi-academic instituons, this one arrived quite unerased on the editorial desk. lining, too, which is a pity.

Purely commercial publications are never lacking in blurb, and their purpose is always quite obvious. But with the booklet under discussion, and many others in the same category, it is not clear just what purpose they are designed to serve.

This one could be a sort of “historical reader” for junior high school pupils; or, at a pinch, designed for general reading—although, as the “general reader” now seems to have switched over to TV Westerns, it is difficult to see where this particular audience would come from.

The story covers concisely and interestingly the period from the Portuguese and Dutch navigators in the early 16th century, to Clancy’s penetration of the Lavam Valley in the Southern Highlands in 1954, It mentions all the explorers we know the Leahys, MacGregor, Hides, the Champions and the rest.

But in a booklet of 32 pages it can’t do much more than whet the appetite for more —and this it succeeds in doing very well.

The author is Roger Joyce, who is unknown to us, and it is interesting to see that he spares the space to say in relation to exploration of the NG’ Highlands; “. . . . The German surveyor Detzner, who went inland when the war broke out and managed to remain hidden till 1918 .. . was the first European to reach the grasslands of the Central Highlands.” <° ver) 93 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Vhether Detzner ever did reach Highlands has been a matter controversy ever since his book ut his alleged NG adventure was dished in Germany, in the 1920’5. * “war” has broken out sporadicr in PIM ever since 1933 or 1934, I it all came up again for dission last year. Detzner, who we ierstand is still alive, has never hered to contradict the allegai that he never got closer to the jhlands than the Saruwaged nges.

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INEA. Published by the Oxford Unisity Press. Australian price, 4/-.) istair Maclean >es It Again OR a rattling good yarn, Alistair Maclean is hard to beat. He has given us some pretty good stuff, t the least of them HMS Ulysses i d The Guns of Navarone. iclean, a Glasgow schoolmaster, pt from obscurity to fame overgh t following publication of ysses, and he deserved it (that rticular book sold over a quarter a million copies within six mths, a record for a first novel).

Vlaclean’s latest book, Night ithout End, isn’t up to the same mdard as either Ulysses or The ms of Navarone, but it has the me well tried Maclean recipe action and suspense, and aclean-enthusiasts won’t be dispointed, Maclean, as usual, manages to -etch a point a bit too far here id there but—again as usual—it iesn’t seem to make much differlCo.

Night Without End tells of a crash an airliner on the Greenland icep. close to where an IGY station being operated by Dr. Peter ason and a team. It soon turns it that this is no ordinary crash id hardbitten Dr. Mason finds mself involved in a spy drama hich has to be played out in the iddle of an Arctic winter. He wins it in the end, of course, but only ■ter a series of narrow escapes that imetimes threaten to freeze your iood solid. (NIGHT WITHOUT END. Published by ollins. Australian price, 18/6.) »ony Lands A [ecord Catch VS we have said, Arthur Upfield’s mysteries are not always of the most mysterious and his enouements sometimes lack the ig surprises of other thriller writers. However, in the background department he is tops, and for his urrent model The Mystery of 'wordfish Reef— the Progress Assoiation (if there is one), of Bernagui NSW South Coast, should erect some sort of monument to him. It is about the best publicity that neck of the woods has received since the late Zane Grey put his seal upon it as a big-game fishing resort.

Although the South Coast of NSW has always been known as a good fishing ground, it was not until the early 1930’s that it was discovered that it was the haunt of marlin— or swordfish—in the summer months.

Bermagui, a small village, became the centre for this sport, and still remains so for those who can afford the expense involved.

Once, long ago, when your reviewer was much younger and perhaps sillier, she spent a week-end at Bermagui. It was primarily for romantic purposes but af er the traditional Sunday meal at the pub (of roast beef and apple pie with thick yellow cream), she was misguided enough to go “outside” in a fishing boat with the reason for it all and a bunch of local fishermen.

She spent the afternoon, while the rest of the party fished, lying in the bottom of the boat with two gummy sharks, getting rid of the cream, etc and envying the sharks which had died quite quickly.

This was her first and last visit to Bermagui—but she was pleased to note that the sea off that spot did not affect Upfield’s partaborigine sleuth in the same way.

Although we are more accustomed to having Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte detecting around the arid outback (where his creator spent a lot of time as a young man), he not only took to the sea like a born sailor, but succeeded in landing the second biggest swordfish ever.

It is hard to decide whether this is a story about game fishing, with a mystery about the disappearance of the Do-Me thrown in; or jus" the other way about. But, in any event, it is a bright piece of Upfieldism, and calculated to do no harm at all to the Australian business of biggame fishing. (THE MYSTERY OF SWORDFISH REEF.

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Australian price. 15/6.) He Lived To The Tale STANLEY S. PAVILLARD looks like a Spaniard, has a name that might be foreign, and has a medical practice in Las Palmas.

It could all add up; or it could be just environment triumphing over heredity. He acts British enough, in all that elastic term can mean In 1940, he went as a medical officer to Malaya and until the balloon blew up, lived the normal existence of any bright young doctor around that rubber growing community. , . „ Like many other people in Malaya, war—real war—came unexpectedly, springing up right there at the bottom of his garden. .

He became Medical Officer in the Ist Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces, and in this capacity ultimately became an inmate of Changi and after various vicissitudes, ended the war in Thailand. Sixteen years later, back in Las Palmas, he wrote Bamboo Doctor, which has just been released in Australia.

We have lost count of the number of stories about life as a prisonei of war of the Japenese, and so it all boils down to what there is that is new to say about this one.

Firstly, of course, it is written by a doctor, a doctor, moreover, who was responsible not only for ingeniously patching up the abused bodies of fellow POW’s, but, through his bluff cheerfulness and his belief that nothing was too much trouble if “his patients” were to benefit, helped keep the men around him on a mentally even keel.

The second thing about this book, is the time it happened to be published. Read in conjunction with the great hoo-hah that has been going on in Tokyo in recent weeks over President Eisenhower’s visit (which didn’t come off) and the signing of the American security treaty: and the shelling of Quemoy Island by Red China because Eisenhower dared to visit Nationalist held Formosa, it tends to make even the most ardent do-gooder feel that we could have saved ourselves a lot of future trouble if we had not drawn the line at just the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs.

It is hard to believe now, that one set of humans could be so coldbloodedly cruel to another set of humans; that men should have been expected to live under such conditions as existed in the Japanese POW camps. But these cruelties did happen not only in Malaya and Thailand but even closer to home, in the South West Pacific. (BAMBOO DOCTOR. Published by Macmillan and Co.. London. Australian price, 22/6.1

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NOTHER LITTLE DRINK, by Peter »yney. The supply of Cheyneys is well h inexhaustible. Month by month they rie onto the bookstalls, most of them rents of ancient numbers. The current del, published first in 1940, has been rented in paper backs in each of the last ee years. (GREAT PAN).

IUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SAINT is the obiography of St. Therese of Carmelite nun who died in 1897 aged 24, nslated by Ronald Knox. It is a better nslation than an earlier version. [)NTANA, Black).

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iOUND, by Diana Raymond. A character dy of a brilliant man whose undoing s a lesser brand of woman. In a ment of mad jealousy, he murders her. d as the clerk said, there were those o hadn’t a good word to say for him erwards. Did this one mad act negate ; man’s whole, previous character. This >ms to be the point at issue in this exlent, tense and well-sustained novel.

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irman Collins. This is one of the lesserown of this author’s far from prolific vels but although it concerns the London the 1920’s and 1930’5, it follows the same cipe of “London Belongs to Me” (London iring War II), and the more recent tond Street Story”. The central figures e two children, inmates of Archbishop idkin Orphan Hospital, in Putney; but is. as well, the separate stories of a zen other people whose lives touch them some respect. As in all Collins novels, e hero isn’t a person at all—but London.

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THE MASK, by Stuart Cloete. This mewhat gruesome story of eariy Boer story in South Africa was first published r Collins in 1958, and was reviewed in icse columns then. (FONTANA).

SPY CONVERTED, by Pierre Boulle. nee the movie success of “Bridge on the iver Kwai” —before which few people had eard of Pierre Boulle—a number of this iithor’s works have been resurrected. The rst “library” edition of this current one as translated from the French and pubshed in England, in 1955, as William onrad”. The French writer was born in vignon, but became a rubber planter in [alaya. Perhaps that is why he adopts cynical attitude to his British characters ith whom the current story is concerned. spy story with a different twist.

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YOUR BABY—AND YOU, by Dr. Winired de Kok. This is a third-time-over redinting, too. It was first published m 957, especially for Pan Books, Ltd., and pas reviewed in “PIM” at that time. Dr. le Kok has. in recent years, become a adio and TV personality in the UK where ier “Tell Me, Doctor”, programmes are a IBC feature. Her book is a splendid guide o what goes on, and what to do about it, rom the time of conception until the ■hild is about two years old. (GREAI •AN).

THE TALL MAN, by A. M. Harris. This story is described as “the great Australian arize-winning novel of the Korean war b„t It was on, that gat away Iran, us SS n aSaut re . C he published “ 1958, by Cassell). It Is, hawever, quite a competent suspense novel based on the war in Korea. (GREAT PAN). mmmi ing on her was a brand new apprentice, our author, Bestic. This is the story of that voyage, seen through his eyes. (GREAT PAN).

EMERGENCY EXIT, by Harry Carr k chnrd *„"p d c[«tb<- S B„l sh, was ta^dle^ be,are ~abn Piper was called in by the Insurance company. (FONTANA), H.M.S. ULYSSES, by Alistair Mac Lean.

This was the noV el that turned a Glasgow schoolteacher into a best-selling a ut^ or ? n mmm (FONTANA).

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m itro* WAYS g £y.***** fie difiv^ ee dentally, is a champion tennis ayer himself. , Mr. Kevin Kelly, Australian Chair an of Committee of United ations, gave a luncheon par"y in ir honour at UN Delegates Room, id we were invited afterwards to isten in” on this and on a subiquent occasion, to a discussion on ew Guinea affairs.

Kevin Kelly has a beautiful leaking voice, and elegant grace of iction—if one can use such a hrase—and I admired immensely his lurteous and diplomatic handling r a very mixed assembly of UN elegates.

Admission, One Cabbage In Virginia we stayed wi f h Lucy irockett, the American authoress, nd her mother. Lucy introduced us 3 Bob Porterfield, founder of the amous Barter Theatre. During the epression years of the early hirties, handsome Bob, an actor limself, had a bright idea to help ither out-of-work actors. He reused that most people could not, at that time, afford money for theatres, but that a system of barter might appeal to them. He acquired an old building in Abingdon, got together a team of actors and actresses, among them many famous stars of stage and screen today, made the price of admission to their shows farm produce—a cabbage, eggs, any kind of food-stuff, so the actors could at least eat—and presto, the famous and immediately successful Barter Theatre was launched, and is still flourishing in Virginia. Bob now has a model farm, with a rotor actor and all mod. cons.

I went to the USA, as I said, mainly to meet again many cherished friends; and secondly, to sample the much publicised “American way of life,” and I found very little difference from our Aussie living-standards in the corresponding income groups. .

They buy their goods in fancier packages, whh increased cost accordingly; and housewives are able to purchase almost any kind of food that is ready to pop into the oven.

We are very fortunate in Australia and in New Guinea with our allthe-year-round temperate climate, making expensive central heading and air conditioning (very comforting in the extreme changes of temperature in America) unnecessary.

Taking it all round, the more I saw of the rest of the world, the luckier I feel we are, and considering the comparative youth of our nation and the small population, I feel quite smug about being an Aussie.

Meeting Mrs. Roosevelt The highlight of my visit was meeting Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, for whom for many years I have had the greatest admiration. When she first asked me to visit her I was committed to a prior engagement to visit friends in “the Roosevelt country” in Georgia, where her uncle Teddy Roosevelt’s parents were married and he was born.

But, to my great joy, she repea f ed the invitation some weeks later. She is a charming woman; friendly and natural in manner, very much more attractive than her photographs Sh ?n‘Washington, DC, whilst being driven round by a Negro driver, he asked me had I seen the Lincoln Monument. I said yes, but that I would like to see it again.

When we arrived, he said, “Every time I pass this monument, I think of that wonderful Mrs. Roosevelt.

Do you know, Ma’am, when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to have Marian Anderson sing at their reunion, Mrs.

Roosevelt brought her down here, where she sang to thousands of American citizens, right here on the steps of the Memorial to The Father of Freedom! Now, wasn’t that something, Ma’am?”

It certainly was. re once they were a matter of conion, now they are put out by news- >rs, radio and TV. He warns Christians religion is no substitute for thought.

NTANA). _OTILDE, by Cecil Saint Laurent. Even [o ut “France-Soir’s” recommendation . The enchanting Clotilde gives ms in history and love at the same s”, most people know what to expect ' French novel. And in this one they not disappointed. Seventeen-year-old ilde becomes involved in the serious ness of men at war—the intrigues of Viche regime, and the heroism of the [stance. But whichever side it was to Clotilde was far more interested in the i, than their wars. (PAN MAJOR).

ALL MAN RIDING, by Norman Fox. A item. Need we say more? (FONTANA).

HE DOOMSTERS, by John Ross Macaid. This is in the tough school of erican crime fiction —all told by Lew her, one of the increasing band of mg-arm crime breakers who tell their ies in the first person. (GREAT PAN).

HE DEVIL TO PAY, by Ellery Queen — )38 original, and now reprinted in paper k. If there is anything new to say ut Mr. Queen, we can’t think of it it now. (GREAT PAN).

AMES DON’T CARE, by Peter Cheyney. s is of 1937 vintage. See paragraph ve this—and second item this section. 3EAT PAN). he RED PLANET, by Charles Chilton, aren’t quite sure whether this one is children or adults—although in some ds there is not much difference between two species. An opus based on a BBC ice thriller series. It is all about the it earth expedition to reach Mars. A advanced for us. (GREAT PAN).

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

Lloyds of London celebrated a birthday in May and while \e insurance side of that great organisation does not look with articular favour on Pacific inter-island traders, this seems a fan pportunity to recall just exactly what Lloyds is, and is not. of two entirely separate 5 Shipping. ’ he Corporation is a society of ut 2 000 individual elected mem- , who deposit a substantial £*• indiVidUally aCCePt ln ' MV J Co?oni? W with ek Lloyds I *for yds “headquarters ‘ The SSfM le™riters q then decide how much, inv of this total sum they are pared to risk One may take £lOO ?h another £lO 000. Generally, v each have many small sums L on a great many separate p S sS that g the of any one 0 will not be great for any parliar underwriter. mrnoration has many ndrcds asenetes all over the S“ill MSS veying ships and other property, 1 assessing damage. lie Corporation also, in the days ore radio, operated a world-wide ;work of lighthouse and other nal stations and provided a sere of information to owners and mts concerning passing vessels. day there are less than 200 of jse stations operating but the rporation gathers its information Shipping Index, ich gives the latest information the whereabouts of an average 1 500 shins of over 100 tons gross all nnti(ma?ities in A 2OQ t pages of ,Siing at as well as the P flmous oyds List daily shipping newspaper, and several other valuable The May birthday concerned the other branch of Lloyds—Lloyds Register of Shipping, a society founded for the survey and classi- "emb°e f rs In 1 The first. edition of the now “of which is kept up date by monthly supplements—was published in 1760.

This organisation, too has representatives all over the world to mspect shipping, buildings, machinery, etc., under construction or repair, to see that it meets Lloyds specifications.

About 42 per cent, of the worlds effective tonnage is at present classified with Lloyds, the latest information^on SSfWSW? # MONOWAI’S FUTURE; Last year, when the Union Co.’s Monowai called at Suva on an Islands cruise, the Ftp Times precipitated a ™ witch hunt aboard the vessel by announcing that she as t° be J lald off and put up for sale in 1960.

The report was strenuously denied from Wellington—but, as predicted, the anno uncement was duly made SQme months later .

This year, as the vessel bade her farewells to the Pacific Islands in a final June cruise, another prediction as to her future was afooLThis came from the Pacific Area Travel Association’s official bulletin PaciHc Travel News.

In the April issue, in publisher Frederic M. Rea’s Trade Winds column, was this morsel; “Spencer Weaver’s Hotel Tahiti is coming along very well —nine Polynesian bungalows nearing completion, each with two units, and more under construction. This is the only ‘major’ hotel development (in Tahiti) so far, but there is this possibility: Union Steamship Company may sell Tahiti their 10,000ton Monowai, which could be tied up in the harbour, transformed into a floating hotel capable of handling 350 visitors. Sounds good!”

Well, it could happen, perhaps as an interim measure, for one or two years, but from what could be learned in June it appeared most unlikely that these interests would find the necessary finance.

Monowai might very well still have some sea life in her at 35 years of age, under foreign ownership, but assuming that she is only worth scrapping, she would not be the first ship bought by scrappers which has managed to pay for itself on a profitable voyage to the scrapping yard.

Sometimes, sold in advance to a yard by a buying agent, such ships have been put to work again for a few profitable voyages before taking aboard a final load of scrap and heading for self-destruction.

Judging by the prices realised for vessels scrapped in recent months, Monowai would probably be worth about £lOO,OOO.

It was known that the vessel had been looked over by representatives In The News This Month Macuata Moana Roa Marlyn Melanesian Ngaroma Nusa Neder Eems Nanette Nina Outward Bound Phoenix Patsy Jean Readwill Santa Teretia Stardust Shamrock Southern Cross Trade Winds Tenya Maru Tungaru Trekka Te Matai Viking Ahoy Wild Goose II Aurelia Arawa Awahnee Adios Babboon Craig-J Drifter D’Vara Eole Ewa Foxton Flying Fish Fiesta Gascoyne Holmwood Inaha Island Queen Kylie Kehua Kochab Lammerhak II Monowai Maria del Mar Margaret-W Left, the Union Company's 11,037-ton 35-year old passenger liner "Monowai" leaving Suva in pouring rain for the last time on June 15. 101 \ C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1960

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THOSE NEAR MISSES: Capi G H. Edwards, who was naviine officer in Monowai during 000 miles of the 140,000 miles t the ship sailed as an armed rchant cruiser during the Second rid War, and who travelled as a senger in her on her last Islands ise in June, told in Suva of how jg Japanese submarine fired two pedoes at Monowai just outside ia in January, 1942. ►he was escorting the Australian op ship Taroona from Lautoka to va, at the time. Fortunately for Twwai, the torpedoes, which were course for the target, collided 1 exploded when nearing the ship, e submarine commander saw the fiosion, thought he had made a I and surfaced, to be met with ivy fire from Monowai which :aped.

Dn January 11, a week or so rlier, this same submarine had >bed some shells across the hills ;o Pago Pago Harbour in a night :ack. A Pago Pago correspondent id that ironically each of the zen shells just missed worthiile targets, and the very first Ivo hit and demolished a house rmerly owned by a Japanese sident. One US Navy officer and ie enlisted man were slightly junded during the attack. •DOWN FOR REFIT: Making >r first visit to Suva since her derery voyage from Sydney in May, 56, the Sacred Heart Mission’s fdney-registered 79-ton, twin rew, wooden motor vessel Santa eretia arrived in Suva from the ilberts for refit on June 8 and was [?] the "Macuata", which was in trouble been Suva and New Zealand in June. See [?] page 107 and other photograph on page At right is the "Maria del Mar", Noumea [?] and third to bear the name in the Rea trade of Emile Savoie and his asso- [?]ates in post-war years. See page 105. 103 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Ist Floor, 3 Castlereagh St., Sydney. 'Phone 8W5177 pected to be there for over a mth. Captain Peter Teke of ru was in command, Peter Manua, chief engineer, that veteran the Gilberts, Brother Joseph tutier as, “let us say a sort of percargo”, nine other crew-men, d two schoolboy passage-workers, rhe little ship had cleared Tarawa ay 20, called at ten islands on the n south, and had departed Funati June 3 direct for Suva. She ought no cargo but had some rap-metal as ballast, Santa Teretia was built by W. •amm and Sons, of Nowra, NSW, r Mr. Gramm’s own use. She was mmenced in 1949 but circumances prevented her completion itil 1952, when she was named lie, but she was never put to work, le ’Mission purchased her in 1955, id certain alterations made, and ie was relaunched January 28, 56, as Santa Teretia, taking the ime of at least two predecessors the Mission’s Gilberts service, ie measured 79 ft x 201 ft x 6h ft •aught. A double-ender type, she is >wered with pair of 98-hp Ruston Hornsby diesels—which were idly in need of an overhaul. Dur- Lg the past four years the ship as been beached at Tarawa for Dttom cleaning, but this year it as essential that she come to Suva >r certain work which could not be andled at Tarawa.

Among her crew members was aim Nabuti, who was awarded the ueen’s Commendation for Bravery >r diving from the ship to save a nail girl who had fallen overoard one night some months ago hile the vessel was at sea.

• Emergency Call; The

foumea-based Maria del Mar, under ommand of Captain R. Le Pironec, lade an unscheduled call at Suva n June 4-5 to bunker. Making one of her quarterly government charter trips to Wallis and Futuna northeast of Fiji, the 20-ton vessel met bad weather all the way. She was homeward bound with 30 deck and two cabin passengers and 80 tons of copra aboard after having made three shuttle trips between the two French island groups. Commandant Renee Thomas, chief of the gendarmerie in New Caledonia, was one of the cabin passengers, making his official rounds.

This ship is the third to bear the name in the Noumea trade of Captain Emile Savoie and his associates in post-war years. She was purchased late last year in Auckland as Marua and renamed. A month or two earlier the New Guinea vessel Kokoda had been purchased and given the name, but she was sold again and renamed Liro. The first When "Macuata" left Fiji late in May in her new role as a yacht these were the people manning her (right front, Capt. Henry Simpson, and next to him Mr. Roy Lidgard, the new owner). However, she struck trouble and returned and in a renewed voyage in June the composition of the crew was changed. Below, LC 120, "Pacific Star", which originally belonged to the Pacific Islands Salvage Company, Rabaul, and later got into trouble in the New Hebrides, was recently sunk there by owner Reece Discombe. Here she is just before she finally turned over. 105 . A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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iria del Mar was the ex-NZ ister Margaret-W, sold to Japese ship-breakers in March, 1957. e was delivered there by Captain Ime, who delivered Gaitcha to peete as reported last month, ptain Le Pironec called at Suva t February in command of .madora del Mar. (A misprint PIM gave the tonnage of Gaitcha 24 instead of 274 tons). • MOTHERSHIP ZONE EX- JNDED: When the Japanese tuna ithership Tenya Maru No. 3 made r first call of the 1960 season at ,va in mid-June, the Japanese jvernment Fisheries Agency inector, Hachiro Miura, reported at the South Pacific zone in which 3thership fleets are permitted by 3 government to operate, has this ar been extended westward to 160 grees East. Last year the western ait was 170 degrees East, and iters west of that meridian were served for the independent vessels it attached to any mothership iet. One effect of the change could that many more Japanese tuna igliners will be sighted in Southern >lomon-New Hebrides-New Calemia waters this year. The southern nit of the mothership zone is 25 ;grees South, and there is no reriction to the Eastward.

This zoning of the mothership jets is a purely Japanese internal •rangement. It came about through ■otests by the independent boat vners, who have to send their small lips far from their home ports to nd the best fishing grounds. There icy naturally operate at a considerate disadvantage to the boats atiched to mothership fleets. • FOR SOLOMONS? A crew was ;anding by in Suva late in June waiting word from Auckland that le sale of the New Zealand coaster naha, 255 tons, had been completed, t was thought that the Vilaegistered, 37-year-old twin-screw, rooden vessel would be going to a loniara buyer. With Foxton, dowered in May to Papeete, Inaha ras purchased for resale last year y an Auckland syndicate. • RESISTING ALL THE WAY; 7he ex-BP trading ketch Macuata, /Inch was towed back to Suva on ler first attempt to reach Auckand in May, was in trouble again n June. She sailed from Suva again in June 6 and ten days later was breed to ask for assistance due to mgine trouble, and other problems.

Some of the sails also blew out. The Auckland Fairmile launch yacht Wgaroma, owned by Mr. J. Lawler — i friend of Mr. Roy Lidgard, owner af Macuata —was despatched to tow the ketch from a point 340 miles aorth of Auckland. Aboard the Fairmile was Mr. Jim Lidgard, who flew back to New Zealand after helping to prepare the ketch for the voyage south. Ngaroma is a standby vessel for the Search and Rescue Organisation.

Warrant Officer Mike Tiller, of the Laucala Bay RNZAF station in Fiji, on leave and acting as navigator, was hit on the head with one of the booms and was in bed for a day or two.

• Back In Harness? The

ketch Trade Winds, more or less a sister to Macuata, which is now a yacht, was planning to move back from the yacht category to a workboat again in May, when it was reported by travellers from Apia that owners Rusden and Copsey were negotiating to put the vessel to work in the area. Trade Winds is the former Tonga Copra Board’s Aoniu.

• He Sailed In A German

RAIDER: Bound for the UK as a passenger in Orsova in June was Mr. Dan McMahon, of Auckland, who will probably be joining the New Zealand Government’s new Moana Roa as Radio Officer. During the Pacific War the McMahon family was returning aboard the coaster Holmwood after a tour of duty as officer in charge of the NZ Post & Telegraph Department s radio station in the Chatham Islands when the ship was intercepted by a group of German commerce raiders.

The McMahons, the officers and crew, and a large number of live sheep, were taken off Holmwood and the coaster was sunk by gunfire.

The McMahon’s joined of victims of other sinkings in the raiders, which then sank the liner Rangitane out from Auckland before heading for Nauru to sink five more vessels lying off the phosphate island.

By then the raiders were so crowded with prisoners that the Germans were forced to get rid of some—which they did at Emirau Island, north of New Ireland. The marooned party was eventually brought to Australia and Dan MCMahon returned to work with the P & T. Reaching retiring age a few years ago he decided to join, the Union Company radio staff and since then has served in several ships on the Islands run.

• Cruise Rearranged: The

New Zealand coaster Marlyn, under charter to a large group of New Zealand South Island people, shed a number of her personnel in Suva in June, following some domestic problems aboard.

The converted Fairmile, after doing some local inter-island cruising, returned to Suva with radio trouble on June 17, and sailed again for Lau Islands on June 20. Plans to head east for Samoa and Tahiti were abandoned and the vessel was to return to New Zealand via Nukualofa.

Marlyn , which has a 60-ton refrigerated hold and a 40-ton general-cargo hold and is powered by a pair of 200 hp GM’s giving her a service speed of 11 knots, was for sale, with a starting-price ticket of £NZI7,OOO, when at Suva. • UK WILL BUILD THEM: Three new wooden vessels for the British Solomons Government, one 80-ft replacement for the illfated Melanesian, and two 65footers, are to be built in the UK.

Whether they can actually be built and delivered from there to the Solomons at a lower figure than is possible by building in Australia or New Zealand is not stated in the official announcement, but this is presumably the case. It would seem likely that the vessels may be shipped out as deck cargo. • POKING AROUND; An unidentified warship which passed between Guadalcanal and Savo on April 14 caused a good deal of speculation in the Solomons; but it eventually turned out to be HMAS Gascoyne on an oceanographic cruise. (Over) In Suva in June on her first visit since her delivery from sydney in 1956, the "Santa Teretia II"

Standing third from left in this photograhp by "PIM" man Jin Shortallis Brother Joseph Gautier.

Sixth form left, wearing a pullover, is John Nabuti, who was awarded a medal for bravery recently. See story on page 130, and for a photograph of "Santa Teretia II" see page 109. 107 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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i TRIAL VOYAGE; The GEIC ony Wholesale Society’s 20-ton rigaru made a run south from Gilberts to Suva in June to d a general cargo of CWS sup- ;s on trial. Due to a period 9f ikness in the copra trade the ship 3 able to be freed for the voyage, rmally, cargoes for Tarawa come ect from Hongkong, or in phosite ships via Ocean Island, the ter involving trans-shipment. An asional tramp calling at Tarawa load copra also brings direct ■go. If it is found that the cost landing cargo ex Fiji is favoure, further occasional voyages may made by CWS vessels.

Captain J. B. Wallace, of Glasgow, 0 has been with CWS for the >t two years, was in command of ngaru. Mr. D. Lopian, CWS mermdise manager, came south to ndle the shipment. The vessel mght 800 empty drums and 400 ;ks of empty beer bottles from rawa. She met very bad weather the Fiji group. A call was made Funafuti in the Ellice Group. » STILL ROLLING IN: From Imerston Island, in the Cooks, mes word of another bottle jssage found there in the first half May by Mrs. Alice Manuka. The ?ssage indicated that the bottle d been tossed from the Standardicuum tanker M. E. Lombardi, 125 tons gross on August 8, 1959, 8.19 S and 145.05 W—about 270 lies due west of Nukuhiva. It had us travelled about 1,200 miles uthwest, but there was no knowg how long it had taken as it may ive been lying on the beach for □nths before being found.

It will be recalled that this tanker ;nt to the assistance of the 222n Japanese fisheries training vessel oyama Maru when the latter sssel sprang a leak 170 miles northist of Palmyra Island in February . (March PIM, p. 113). •TSUNAMIS; The tsunami (tidal ave) of May 23 did little damage 1 boat harbours or yachts in the awaiian Islands. Most yachts went ) sea to wait it out. Some small □ats and outrigger canoes were washed ashore. Some of the boats that remained in the Ala Wai Boat Harbour went aground and heeled dangerously over when the water went out. Mostly frayed nerves and a new respect for tsunamis resulted. • ISLAND QUEEN, a 65 ft motor vessel, was recently purchased from the assets of the defunct Hawaii Water Transport Company for ferry service between Tahiti and Moorea.

The Island Queen and her sister ships provided fast, regular service between Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii until the high cost of operation forced the company out of business Departure time was set for the middle of June with a stop at Flint and Caroline Islands to pick up 40 tons of copra. • CRUISING NEWCOMER: Believed for the first time, an Italian passenger ship, the 10,002-ton German-built 21-years-old Aurelia will make an Islands cruise from Sydney in August. Originally named Huascaran, sold to the Canadian CPR Line in 1947 and renamed Beaverbrae, and purchased by her present owners, the Cogedar Line of Genoa, in 1954, she is a diesel-electric vessel powered by three engines magnetically coupled to a single shaft.

Calls will be made at Nukualofa, Suva, and Noumea before the ship returns to Sydney. She will arrive at Suva on the evening of August 21 and remain for 24 hours at that port. • MASTER’S TICKET NEXT: Visiting his home port of Suva in June was Mr. George Williams, 26year-old grandson of that wellknown Fiji master, the late Captain Frank Williams, and son of Mr. and Mrs. George Williams. George, junior, served first in the mission ship John Williams VI, then five years ago joined the Union Company. Since then he has qualified as second mate and lately as mate, so is well on the way to joining the very small band of Fiji-born seamen who have qualified for a foreigngoing master’s certificate. • WAS ONCE A GUNBOAT: Nusa, oldest ship operating out of Rabaul and formerly a German steam-powered gunboat, is being broken up at Rabaul. The 54-yearold vessel, now diesel-powered, has reached the end of her economic life.

For the last 35 years she has been a copra-carrier on the New Britain and Bougainville coastal trade.

Nusa was in use by German Government for patrol duties when Australia occupied Rabaul in 1914.

Until three years ago the oldest ship operating out of Ilabaul was the motor vessel Bellbird, which caught fire and sank off the New Britain south coast in 1957. Four people lost their lives.

• Newcomer Took Richest

SHIPMENT: On her first run in a new direct service between Europe and Papua/New Guinea ports, MV Neder Eems took out of Rabaul a cocoa shipment valued at £75,000. It was the biggest single shipment of cocoa ever to leave a P-NG port, and went to England and Europe.

The 10,000-ton Germa n-built vessel was the first in a regular nine-weekly schedule being operated jointly by Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail, and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd. . ±1 Neder Eems and other ships in the line also become the biggest vessels to go into regular schedule through P-NG ports. The ships carry 12 passengers, and their equipment includes mechanical hatch covers. • IT’S OFFICIAL NOW; Cargo and passenger transport by native canoes on the Papuan coast (paddles, sails or outboard motors) has become such big business that authority has investigated the legal and safety factors involved.

The result is new legislation from the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council to control and licence the newly-developing traffic. • NEW HOME FOR MO ALA: Burns Philp’s small vessel Moala, which in recent years has been based on Santo, New Hebrides, has been sold to R. G. Symes Ltd., of Honiara, BSIP. It was expected that Below, the "Santa Teretia II" in Suva in June—see photo on page 107.

At right is the "Gaitcha", recently delivered to Papeete from Noumea.

"Gaitcha" was built in Tasmania in 1945. 109 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Moala was built for Burns Phi| by Millers, Suva, about 1947, an was virtually a sister ship t Taveuni (later purchased by Die Brown, of Rarotonga), Cora an Macuata. She was sold through th agency of Captain J. Kennedy, Syd ney shipbroker.

News of Cruising Yacht • TREKKA’S owner John Guzzwell | Victoria, BC. has been awarded the covet* Slocum Award by the Slocum Society fi his four-year lone-handed circumnavigate via San Francisco, Hawaii, Samoa. Ne Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ascer sion, Barbados, Panama, and again Hawa in his 20-ft. o.a. Laurent Giles-design* self-built yawl.

The Slocum Society announcement sa] that Guzzwell is honoured not because 1 sailed round the world in the smalle! yacht, but because he made the voyaj without incident. The award is only mad when fully merited and is not a regula award.

Guzzwell, by his cruise, joined the sele< band of lone-handed circumnavigator Joshua Slocum, Alain Gerbault, Han Pidgeon (twice), Edward Miles, Alfre Peterson, Jean Gau, Marcel Bardiau: Louis Bernicot, and Vito Dumas. • CRAIG-J and Dayton J. Lalonde t California, now at Sydney, are possibl candidates for a future Slocum Award— Lalonde can, as he hopes, make the fastei single-handed circumnavigation wither mishap. We are not quite certain wheth* TREKKA is 20-ft. w.l. or o.a. Lalonde saj that his craft is 20-ft. o.a. and 18-ft. w. approximately. • PHOENIX of Honolulu—the 50-f ketch which caused all the excitement i 1958 by flouting the US government’s ba on entering the Eniwetok nuclear bom testing area, should be back at Hiroshima Japan, the port where she was built, whe this appears. (See opposite).

Dr. Earle L. Reynolds, owner and maste of the ketch, received two years’ gaol fo the offence after a number of legal battle: but in March the Supreme Court of the U granted his release, subject to certai conditions, and permitted him to sail fo Japan to again take up a university ap pointment there as visiting Professor o Anthropology at Hiroshima Women’s Col lege. The doctor has an appeal case lodge with the Supreme Court against his con viction, but it may be some time befor this comes up.

Many people in the South Pacific me and liked the Reynolds’ family during th course of their world cruise prior to th test area incident. With them on the wort cruise were Japanese university student Niichi Mikami, Motosada Fushima, am Mitsugi Suemitsu, all experienced yachts men.

Dr. Reynolds was attached to the Atomi Bomb Casualty Commission at Hiroshim; after the war, and it was from that ex perience that his active opposition to al nuclear bomb testing stemmed. He wa also convinced that his government <3i< not have the right of interfering with navi gation, even of American vessels, on th high seas. • STARDUST, the Sydney Fairmile which has been in Fiji waters since abou last September, cleared Suva on June 11 for Taveuni, Wallis Island, Pago Pago Suwarrow, and Papeete. • SHAMROCK of Wellington, NZ, will 110 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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CARGO VESSEL, 450-tons dwt., in Lloyds Class, one hold, 2 large hatches, engine aft, in good all-round condition and working. Delivery this side. £~o,OOU Stg.

CARGO VESSEL, 115 ft. x 25 ft., aux. ketch, excellent accommodation aft, H.D. diesel aft, hold 10,000 cu. ft.. 2 large hatches, hydraulic winch, in Commonwealth Survey. £20,000, consider offer.

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Smith family, which returned to Suva e 4 after local cruising, departed again outer islands on June 20 and will then and for Vila or Noumea—depending on the ds—thence probably New Guinea and itralia. i BABBOON, 52-ft. American-registered ooner, still lay at Suva late in June ler a caretaker crew. Mr. and Mrs. Paul ier, now in possession, returned to the to recruit a crew for the voyage to ifornia. > VIKING AHOY, owned by Mr. Burns bber of Invercargill, NZ, and lying idle Walu Bay, Suva, for the past two years, I probably sail for New Zealand in July, e sturdy twin screw motor cruiser has sly been re-engined and was being generi prepared for sea in June. > READWILL, converted clinker-built (boat which crossed the Tasman from iney to Auckland in September-October, ■B, with Messrs. A. Svedlund of Sweden i A. Taumees of Estonia, and which ided off for Polynesia some months ago, s in trouble at Rarotonga on June 4. tering Avarua Harbour the 29-ft. engines ketch was set on the reef and suffered ne damage. There were four men aboard ; yacht, which is said to be westbound ck towards Auckland. • ARAWA, a 34-ft. sloop manned by •. and Mrs. Gerald Hunter, and bound im New Zealand to Tonga in May, put ck to Russell from a point 130 miles out, th a leaking water tank, and arrived that port May 28. With the owners are o sons and another crew member. They ire sailing for Nukualofa again as soon repairs were completed. • NANETTE of Whangarei, NZ, a H-28pe manned by Charlie Capon and M. sarlove, cleared that port for Brisbane on ay 29. This is the ninth yacht to leave hangarei on a deepwater cruise this ason. • FLYING FISH, a 60-ft. ketch apirently based in the Hawaiian Islands, eared Kailua direct for Papeete late May. • KYLIE, 39-ft. steel yawl of Sydney in bich Harry Fink and companions made a uise to Auckland and return at the benning of 1954, was to sail for Russell, Z, and Polynesia ports en route for the S in April. We have no report of arrival Russell up to mid-June and do not row whether she actually left Sydney. • STARDUST, 34-ft. Gulfweed-type ketch with UVz-tt. beam and 5Vz-tt. draught—no connection with the Sydney Fairmile mentioned earlier—was to clear San Diego for the Hawaiian Is. and later for the South Pacific in July. Louis and Jessie Bendixen are the owner-navigators. A Welsh terrier named Curley sails before the mast. • PATSY JEAN with Don Silk, his wife, daughter Patsy Jean, G. Fell, and K. Saul aboard, which cleared Whangarei, NZ, April 30, arrived at Aitutaki May 26, next port Rarotonga, where Don will commission his rebuilt ketch SlßEN—reported as renamed NEW SIREN, the latter unconfirmed. • WILD GOOSE II of Seattle, Wash., with owner Max Wyman, skipper Blackburn, and others aboard called at Christmas Island, Penrhyn, and the Marquesas in May and after visiting the Tuamotus and Tahiti was to call at Rarotonga. This yacht was at Hiva-oa Island when the tsunami wave of May 22 did damage to shore facilities there. A report from Penrhyn where she had arrived on May 2, said that this 300-ton yacht is on a twoyear world cruise. • NINA, 34-ft. yacht of Tauranga, NZ. which was one of those in Avatiu Harbour.

Rarotonga, at the time of the May tsunami and was last month reported as undamaged, did suffer some straining. She put to sea before the second senes of waves arrived on May 23, but was found to be leaking and has been undergoing some repairs since then. This yacht is manned by Mr. and Mrs. Buckthought and their four children, and Bob Boyd who last year was a crewman in PATSY JEAN. • KEHUA of Whangarei, NZ, with Selwyn Mathison, Peter Ashcroft, Don Beer and John Pettit, and TAHITI owned by Lorrin Smith of Honolulu and based Phoenix in Hiroshima Dr. Earle Reynolds of the well-known cht PHOENIX, who ran foul of the > authorities when he sailed into a ohibited atomic-testing area a couple years ago (he has been involved in urt cases ever since) writes a cheery te from Yokohama on June 21: We have arrived here 44 days out of jnolulu and sail tomorrow for Hiroima which we expect to reach about ily 20.

In Hiroshima I will teach at the Iroshima Jogakuin (Women’s College), i Guest Professor of Anthropology. iis gratifying appointment was made spite of the fact that I am still ider sentence of two years’ imprisonent (now subject to appeal), in the ;deral Court of Honolulu. American •lieges, of course, are afraid to offer e a position.

We will be in Japan perhaps a year, fter that our plans are still undecided ■perhaps we will re-cross the North aciflc; perhaps on west, on another •und trip; perhaps south, to Sydney, I very pleasant memory. 111 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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HE SEARCH FOR DRIFTER: In our issue (page 109) we discussed the for Mr. J. P. Moore of Wellington, nd his yacht DRIFTER, and menthat though Mr. Moore said he had in one of the New Zealand forms r out details of his yacht prior to r, and had handed this form to a , it had never reached the Search tescue authorities. Mr. Moore, in a ly letter, now tells us that the form anded to Search and Rescue within ays of his SOS signal being inter- 1. ‘ “PIM’s” authority for saying that ;tails did not reach the SAR was the of a discussion with the SAR Coitor in the Auckland Office of Air tment. Perhaps the Wellington rities did not consider it necessary rise the Auckland co-ordinator, as we no reason to doubt that the stateof both parties are correct. Statewhich appeared in the Press during ir search and later, and which ap- J to originate from the SAR authoricertainly did not suggest that the had reached the correct quarter, as is stated that inquiries had shown DRIFTER had no radio equipment d capable of sending the 500 kc/s Is now known to have eminated from acht. is also worth noting that the correct dure is for a yachtsman to make sure the form is correctly lodged prior to ture. [M” does agree with Mr. Moore’s con- >n that the regulations now proposed ic control of off-shore voyages by the Zealand Government are unreasonable mduly restrictive. “PIM” believes that ig as a yachtsman is not going to ener the lives of others he should be 0 go where he pleases within the limits ternational law—and free to sign away ghts to any search and rescue opera- The proposed regulations deny the r right and impose a strict control 1 could have the effect of effectively g the worthwhile spirit of adventure iated with deep-water cruising.

EOLE, steel double-ender of France, Guy Clabaut lonehanding it, was at tonga in May, westbound from Papeete e the yacht arrived in July, 1959. port in the world cruise was given robably Noumea. We have no precise Is but believe this craft to be about a oter. Clabaut operates on the amateur i bands, details unknown. Clabaut Its no English.

EWA. gaff-rigged ketch, left Honolulu 14 for Tahiti via Kona, Hawaii with ;r Jerry Yatsunoff and two crewmen rd.

AWAHNEE, cutter, left Honolulu June 4th skipper-owner A. L. Griffith and hter; Michael Bates, Nancy Higgins 6 year old son; E. C. Jones, wife and ?ar old son. They will spend about 10 on Maui and Hawaii and then sail Flint Island to make observations of a temperatures and sea life, and on French Oceania for a three-month le.

TE MATAI, 73-foot ketch, motor-sailer leave Hilo June 16, with owner-skipper Fraser and crew of three, plus seven engers for French Oceania and the ; Islands, to return in a year or so.

Bob plans to visit many of the islands he missed with his former boat, KURU. • KOCHAB, 40 ft. ketch from London, arrived at Hilo, Hawaii, June 8 after a 17 days sail from Manihi in the Tuamotus.

Skipper-owner John Evans credited a helpful current in helping make the fast trip.

Also aboard was Dick POhe of Auckland, NZ. She will leave in August for US west coast and, eventually, Jamaica. • FIESTA, 72 ft. schooner, just completed a movie contract as “The Wackiest Ship in the Army”. Owner Martin Vitousek is removing the temporary additions made to make her conform to Hollywood’s version of a South Seas trading vessel. When work is completed, plans are for a trip south. • OUTWARD BOUND, owned and sailed by John Caldwell and family, and currently on a westward-round-the-world cruise, called at Port Sudan in mid-March and in April sailed off into the Red Sea. Our news comes from Bill Reed, now stationed in Port Sudan, who is the unofficial welcome-committee for cruising yachts.

Another yacht which he says will eventually cruise the Pacific and which also was in Port Sudan at about the same time as the Caldwells, was TAOS BRETT 11, sailed by another cruising family—Claude Graf and wife and four months old baby. • ADIOS —A couple of weeks in Port Moresby were apparently enough for Tom and Jan Steele of this ketch. They arrived on May 24 and were gone again by June 3, bound Darwin via Thursday Island and thence into the Indian Ocean and Red Sea —a route that is becoming just about as popular with cruising yachtsmen as the Pacific. The large boom on the main-mast caused a couple of raised eyebrows in Moresby where this rig has not been encountered before—the Steeles use it for two square sails instead of the conventional twin spinnakers. • D’VARA and the Bradfields are still in Madang, NG, where they went originally to wait for an engine spare, and probably to see also that the skipper’s leg was completely seaworthy. He tore a muscle on their trip between Port Moresby and Rabaul and Mrs. Bradfield had to sail the yacht virtually single-handed. • LAMMERHAK 11, of Haifa, reported last month as clearing Rabaul for Indian Ocean ports, turned back at Kavieng to wait for better conditions. The 23-ft. yawl and lone-voyaging owner Joseph Havkins are now back in Rabaul. 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Could Have A Jy-Made Fishery e Taiyo Gyogyo (Ocean :ry) Company of Tokyo, largest ig company in the world, is m- :ed in establishing a tuna fishlase in Fiji.

Iwao Kitayama, business manof the Tenyo Maru No. 3 tuna at present operating near Fiji, in Suva in June that his comwas interested to know what Fiji Government’s attitude i be in this matter, and an ish-speaking official would be ig at Suva in July to seek mation on the subject, e idea might be to base the ership Tenyo Maru No. 3 at a port to use her as a floating ry completely self-contained it for liberal supplies of fresh r—at least 50 tons per day would quired. The company would exto pay duty on all fish handled igh the floating factory and provide a useful revenue to at no cost, local labour would need to be oyed, but if this were a point jsue the employment of local fish-handlers for the stowage of fish in the refrigeration chambers of the vessel would be open to discussion.

Tenyo Maru No. 3’s fish output is controlled by the Japanese Fishery envisaged, she might have a larger QUO t a She would operate the year p ound iik e the bases at Pago Pago and Pa nikulo.

TT n nw <?hp has had to serve SS* i 9 n thl AntarcUc! 1 but '**•a base lactor y snip - Fiji interests have been negotiating with another smaller Japanese company over the past year in rethe establishment of a tuna J ann at Lev uka. The latest pro- , would involve no Fiji capital P c U hiect to the availability of SSld be put "into operation almost immediately. (It not SU it the Levuka interests, ho wever as the main idea there was to e industry pointed out that one problem which might restrict the location of the floating factory would be the discharge of blood and offal though this problem would not be insurmountable.

The company’s interest in such a base stems from the fact that in anything but smooth weather conditions it is not easy for the fishing vessels to transfer their catches to a mothership on the high seas, and much less easy for a large freezer vessel to load from the mothership.

That is why this is currently carried out at anchorage in Suva harbour.

The Fiji Government derives little revenue from these operations at present.

Getting Down To Work on Manihiki The Cook Islands Administration —or the New Zealand Government which provides the finance —took a long time to appreciate the great value of the mother-of-pearl resources of Manihiki lagoon and their future development and conservation, but over the past several years something has at last been done.

In recent months a very thorough examination of the lagoon and of the shell beds has been under way.

In the past, no factual information on the life-cycle of these shell fish, the chemical constituents of the water, and the environmental conditions under which they thrive, has been assembled.

Conservation methods have been sheer guesswork, all or part of the lagoon being declared closed to diving operations for arbitrary periods.

No attempt had been made by the Administration to transplant shell to other lagoons in the Group.

These things are all now being attended to.

A New Zealand DSIR team headed by Mr. J. S. Bullivant, MSc, and accompanied by the Cook Islands Fisheries Officer, Mr. Ron

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The broadcast said that the divers have gained the admiration of the local people for their diving skill. Four of the 70 men have lost their lives. One has married a local girl and another is to marry soon. Most will be renewing two-y ear contracts which have just ended.

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SEASON The Scots were out in force in Port Moresby in June for the town's first Caledonian Ball. There was white heather, and tartans galore. In the picture at left, P-NG Administrator Donald Cleland dances with Mrs.

A. Brittain, wife of Port Moresby's Caledonian Chieftain, at right are Mr. and Mr. Eric Murray. Mr. Murray is Deputy Chieftain. —Papuan Prints. 115 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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The conditions are, said Mr.

B. F. Cotterill, MP, who was repenting the New Zealand Governnt at the June Legco meeting, it the maintenance and operating ts must be met from a local water e.

Phe capital cost will have to be t mainly by the New Zealand taxyer.

Administration jys on TP rhe Cook Islands Administration s purchased from the New Zeaid Government the Rarotonga otel (unlicensed), the electric wer scheme, and the public ;ezer.

The sale was, however, almost a ft. For the sum of £50,000, to be id off in easy instalments at the te of £7,000 per annum, the Adinistration takes over property Drth hundreds of thousands of >unds.

There is an undertaking, however, iat if these services show a profit, ilf of this is payable to the New 3aland Government. , . i . . .i Additional Interest In t / pv * J d Tonqa S Dried Bananas , • i Last year when a revival of the dried banana industry was under discussion in Fiji, the Tonga Government was quick to invite the promoter of the industry Mr. B.

Proweller, to go to Nukualofa and tell them about it.

In May, a company formed in Fiji through Mr. Proweller s efforts was tfmp man rep?esen?ta| nther mterelts wts ’in Nukualoll aIOT making 6 proposals To the Tonga Sld'ban^nataduTr* 1011 W “ h * The Tonga visitor was a Dutch company promoter, Mr. Anton Van impelen, now of New Zealand, and in partnership with an American, Mr. C. E. Davidson. Between them they appear to have access to Dutch and American investment capital, The p ar^ners are promoters only, when they spo t what they consider od inves tment, they thoroughly inves ti ga te it. If it proves sound, th call on the financiers, The partners establish the company nd nit a going concern once ftVsoundly established.

They have established a number of such companies in New Zealand, all of which were sold out to other Impelen said that he had been in touch with Mr. W. Skudder, 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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[Tonga, who operates a small dried tana industry of his own. Preinary investigations into such industry on a large scale in igatapu were promising, and an the-spot investigation was dead upon. It was not until he ched Tonga. Mr. Van Impelen 1 that he learned that Fiji in- -sts had also been discussing ming a company there, and that Proweller had visited Tonga, le said that he had offered to vide all the finance to establish ;600,000 factory which would emy about 60 persons and would be >able, when in full production, of icessing the equivalent of 200,000 es of fresh fruit per annum.

The Tonga Government had made iounter offer that Tonga Produce ard had a 50 per cent, interest, t the promoters preferred full itrol for at least two years until » company was a going concern. ;n they would sell part or all of to the Government, rhe Government insisted on conil of the industry in the long run, d that would be acceptable, mming that an agreed price for ce-over was reached, but there ire certain difficulties in partvernment control in so far as the n-government interests were conmed. , Because of the very high cost of ;ctricity in Nukualofa, Mr. Van ipelen said that investigations ire being made now into an iernative source of heat for the iers, using diesel oil burners. If reement could be reached on con- -3l of the industry in its early iges, he would be returning to mga about August.

Mr. Van Impelen feels confident at a big potential market is ailable for dried bananas, especily in Holland and Germany, proded they are packed to suit the market. But, said Mr. Van Impelen correct packaging is vital-and what may go well in one country may be all wrong in another. . _ He discounted the Fiji Government’s unenthusiastic statement of some time ago concerning the mwket outlook. The dried banana business, properly handled, would be a thoroughly sound investment, Mr. a Van Impelen said. The: weevil infestation problem that had killed other South Pacific dried banana enterprises presented no serous problem. Modern drying methods could meet the situation, and there was no secret method involved.

New Fiji Index Goes Up Too To replace the Cost of Living Indices established in 1943 (one referred to the cost of living of the Indian section of the Fiji population in Suva; one to country districts; and a third to Europeans), the Fiji Government has now established a single, new index.

It is intended to serve as a reliable guide to changes in the cost of consumer goods normally purchased by Indian and Fijian workmen in Viti Levu who earn between £3/0/6 and £B/5/- per week. There is no index now for Europeans.

The new index is the result of a survey carried out by an official of the New Zealand Department of Statistics in 1958.

It is based on an analysis of 90 Fijian and 90 Indian family budgets and covers 103 consumer items.

The new index is based on a figure of 100 for March, 1960. By June, the figure had risen to 101.4.

A new figure will be published each quarter.

Grogging On- In The Cooks A committee set up to recommend revisions to the liquor laws in the Cook Islands is not in favour of any licensed hotels and considers that liquor should still be sold only by the Administration.

The permit system should be much more flexible, however, with beer and light wine freed from control to a large extent, and made as cheap as possible to compete with illicit bush-beer.

Spirits should remain under strict control, but the issuing of liquor permits should be removed from the administration of the Health Department. As at present, permits should be refused to those convicted of offences associated with liquor.

Before the recommendations can be made law, certain legislation has to be passed in New Zealand and it is expected that this will be passed at the next session of Parliament in Wellington.

Suva's Whan Construction Co. Changes Ownership One of Fiji’s oldest building firms, the Whan Construction Company, changed ownership in June, Visitors to Suva have often gained the impression from the name that this was a Chinese firm.

This was not so. The man who founded the firm in 1910, Matthew Whan, was a Scot. (Over)

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The Japanese salvage company which is currently breaking up the old wartime wrecks along the Guadalcanal coast, in the Solomons, in June shipped approximately 1,750 tons of scrap metal to Japan on the "Chitose Maru". The vessel was also the first overseas ship to come alongside Honiara's stub jetty after nightfall. A new shipment of scrap will be available within the next few weeks. This photo shows one of the wrecks now destined for Japan.

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A recent photo of Tonga College, the Tonga Government's agricultural boarding school for boys. It is located on its own farm lands in central Tongatapu. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y - J U L Y . 1960

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Japs Get Them In The End Following the signing of a contract with a Japanese firm of scrapiron merchants, a team of fullyequipped Japanese specialists is expected in Noumea during July to start cutting up and shipping away wrecks on New Caledonian reefs.

Work will be started at Noumea where some half-dozen hulks are lying on the bottom close to the nickel smelters.

These hulks are one-time nickel ore carriers and have been an eyesore for many years. Indeed, during the last war the Japanese radio more than once claimed that they were ships sunk by Jap planes.

Following the disposal of the hulks, the team will work on the many wrecks situated around New barrier reef second Caledonia is b;arner ieei, longest m the worm, , Qne Dead in . [gS TrOPIOUeS Fire r \ , The chef lost his life and other staff members suffered injury when fire destroyed the staff quarters. dining room, lounge and bar of Tahiti’s best known hotel, Lea Tropiques, in mid-June, Les Tropiques is a bungalow-type They Draw Line At Duty-Free Grog \ concession to sell duty-free uor to international travellers ssing through Nadi Airport, ji, has raised some protests.

Phe concession has been mted to South Pacific Hostis Limited, a company reitly formed to provide the tering at the airport. The cision is being disputed by the Iders of the airport’s duty- ;e shop concession, who claim at they should have been ren this right.

A.t the same time, Mr. Barry lilp, proprietor of the ocambo Hotel at the airport, fis he should be considered.

Mr. Philp claims that when aders were called for the ty-free shop concession, he haired and received an assurice from the Fiji Government at a duty-free liquor permit mid not be granted.

It appears that the liquor conssion has been granted by the rport Authority, with perission from Wellington and at the Fiji Government had ily a partial (and obviously inor) say in the matter, any- )W. 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Apart from the personal losses ii volved, the damage has come at tl height of the tourist season whi accommodation is always short. 1 The hotel’s managing director, W Arne Hogsted, who was at Honolu when the fire occurred, later ai nounced that no reservations wou be cancelled but requested visito to reconfirm bookings, because tl major portion of the hotel’s fil had been destroyed.

Damage was partly covered by ii surance.

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June, a San Francisco financier ai real estate developer, Mr. Robert I Fraser, has announced there th he plans to build two hotels | Tahiti. “All I need is the okay fro the Governor of Tahiti,” he sai but he declined to give details. I later left by air for Tahiti.

Fraser arrived at Honolulu fro Acapulco, aboard the 73-ft keti Te Matai, which he recently boug from a Buenos Aires millionaire.

Rough Road for Viet Namese Repatriates Noumean newspapers in June pu lished a report that an agreeme; had been signed between the Freni Government and the North Vi Nam authorities, which will perir the repatriation of some 6,000 Vi Namese at present in New Caledoni This colony of Viets in the Coloi has been responsible for much hea burning amongst New Caledonia: who have often petitioned to ha them repatriated.

No official confirmation of the ai nouncement has been made but is believed correct.

First departures by ship are e: pected to be around September nej It is freely stated that only tho who wish to leave will be repatriate This is not exactly what the Nt Caledonians want —they would lil to see all go.

The great majority of the Vi Namese have manifested their d sire to be repatriated often enoug and they will take the chance if offers.

Soon after the rumours started fly, it was reported that Vi Namese were buying large quantiti of transportable goods in Noumi stores. One store sold 100 bicycl In a few days; another was sellii expensive fountain pens in lari quantities.

Since the departure of the Soul Viet Nam delegation from Noumi some months ago, fhere has be( silence on the Viet Namese probler The delegation visited New CaL 122 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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It seemed then that progress m patriation was at last being made However, a sour note was injected to the proceeding later in June hen it became known that the mth Viet Nam Government con- ■mned the rumoured agreement beveen France and North Viet Nam -claiming that it was the only jthority to be consulted on any lestion of Viet Namese living Droad. , , Nonetheless, New Caledonians were ill hopeful that the first lot of jpatriates would be leaving in Sep- ;mber. mti-Filaria Drive i Cook Is.

A carefully organised project to radicate the filarial mosquito from ,tiu Island in the Cooks has been nder way for some months. Similar rejects have been carried out in 'rench Polynesia in recent years.

The project is being controlled by )r. McCarthy, Permanent Research )fficer for the New Zealand Medical lesearch Council and is a pilot cheme for a general attack on this lisease (whose ou f er manifestation s the swellings of elephantiasis) in membef a oT S Atfu’s th pop g X&n E fir7t 2-!S»TcS known as Banocide (identical to Hpfra/an) the strength of this dose befn?Tradually increased over a two-yeai period by which time it KS that the disease will be wiped out. ... n .

Niue Will Get .. . u I More Housing Help As the result of the visit of a delegation from Niue Island to Wellington in April, the New Zealand Government announced early in June that it was making a grant sJructio^ofhouses to replace those MMSSSe it would have taken many build all the houses destroyed. The delegation sought the provision of 30 qualified carpenters to assist the unskilled local labour force of 230 m under the original grant the 700 houses destroyed could only be replaced at the rate of 250 a year, assuming that all work on public buildings was halted. The Niue Legislative Council and the Resident Commissioner con Q s^? re d. that it was absolutely essential that woik on the repair of public buildings be pressed ahead.

ANDS VISITORS. Recent visitors from the [?] nds to the Polynesian Association of Sydney [?](top) Fred Pasene, from Niue, accompanied Ria Clarke, Don Clarke and Marie Morehu, NZ. (Lower), Miss Kitty Cokanasiga, of Suva, [?] is nursing in Sydney, with Mr. Pat Dwter Kairuku, Papua, and Fergus Anderson of Rigo, Papua. -Tele-Photos. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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te Your Case d Send It, Too he adoption of collapsible ninium containers for the citrus t export trade from Cyprus, to overseas market suggests that eone might make themselves a i business and at the same time he means of raising the financial irn to the Cook Islands growers. i the Cook Islands fruit trade New Zealand, the growers pay roximately 7/3 for every libel case in which they export ir oranges. The sawn timber :ions for these cases are imbed by Cl from New Zealand, led together at shipment island, L used once only. Apart from actual cost the sawn timber Lipies valuable space that could occupied by other cargo on the th-bound voyages from NZ. ’o meet the problem, the Cl Adlistration some years ago began establish stands of fast-growing :wood timbers in some of the ithern Group Islands. They have yet quite reached the milling ?e. ’he aluminium containers which re just come into use in Cyprus are the idea of a man who has been expounding their virtues for 20 years without much support.

Each container holds the same quantity of fruit as the standard carton previously used. About 30 per cent, of the surface area of the six aluminium plates forming each container is perforated with oneinch ventilating holes. The plates are hinged together in such a way that the containers fold completely fiat for return shipment, thus cutting down on shipping costs. Labour involved in nailing together wooden crates is eliminated. In many cases the aluminium crates, after being emptied of fruit in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries, are repacked with eggs, fresh vegetables, and other types of return cargo.

The inventor, Mr. Jacob Mouchly, who established a £20,000 company to have the crates manufactured in Germany and Switzerland, charges the shippers 1/6 per voyage hire fee which is about one-quarter the cost of a wooden fruit crate of the same capacity in Cyprus. The growers or exporters thus save 4/6 on every crate of fruit exported and Mouchly recovers the cost of his investment after about 20 voyages.

NG Euronesians Struggle For Citizenship Nothing yet has been done in Papua-New Guinea to make it easier for Euronesians to become Australian citizens. This privilege was extended to Chinese, who fulfilled certain requirements, several years ago. Last year the Minister for Territories said that negotiations between his Department and that of Immigration were proceeding on this matter —but so far, apparently, without results.

At the June meeting of the Kokopo Town Advisory Council, a letter to a prominent mixed blood resident, Mr. Harry Spanner, from the Australian Department of Immigration was read, and subsequently described as a “slap in the face” and “almost insulting”.

Mr. Spanner is a member of the Kokopo TAG and said that he has been trying for naturalisation since 1952 without avail. The latest letter said,’ in part: “The question of naturalisation was recently considered by the Government and it is considered that your case is not one for approval.”

No reason was given for the rejection. Mr. Spanner considers that because of the Australian Govern- RUNG: Denis Payne and John Wakeford, completing terms of service with Cable and [?] ess, Ltd., at Suva, have departed for vaca- [?]in the United Kingdom, and for reassignto other stations of the world-wide C. and W. system.

Enough To Make A Chap Blush Net result of a mannequin parade, held in Port Moresby to help the Red Cross £15.000 Appeal along, was a cheque for £175 and a lot of fun for every one.

Eleven of the town’s prettiest young women took part; so did six of the town’s scaredest-looking young men. Recruiting the young women for the job presented no problems. The male mannequins were volunteers without the option. They were all employees of Steamships Trading Company which supplied all the clothes that were shown and the personnel to organise the parade including Alcea Avery who compered the show.

At first the young men loped up and down the cat-walk dragging their young women in their wake, as nervous as rabbits who expect a double barrelled shotgun to pop out of the nearest vase of flowers. But with the help of the audienpe, who showed them early in the piece that they were going to be the hit of the show, they slowly relaxed—as shown by the samples in our photographs.

Our photos were taken during the grand parade at the end—hence the tuxedo accompanying Heather Joan John’s sports “skort” (lower picture). With her is Bryan Holdcroft. At top is Maureen O’Brien and Des. Martin. —Photos by Papuan Prints. 125 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Some months ago PIM reports that the Otago Medical School, Nei Zealand, was desperately seeking regular supplies of frogs in lard qualities and was prepared to pa; air freight on them plus a casl price to anyone in New Zealani We suggested that there might b a market for the toads, giant o otherwise, which are common enoug] in some Islands’ territories.

As the result of a news item re porting that a consignment o “frogs” had escaped from thei container aboard the vessel Galli bound from Suva to Dunedin, N 2 in June, PI M’s Suva man learnq that the Queen Victoria School ii Fiji has in fact sent four consigrj ments of toads to Canterbury Uni versity since 1957—about four gros of toads in all—and has receive 2/- per head for each, plus the cos of the freight. Caught by the Fijia: boys of this school, the toads hav provided a useful item of schoc revenue. There were 12 dozen toad in the Gallic consignment.

The toads need very little atten tion during transit. They can surviv without food for long periods an only require to be kept reasonabl damp.

P-NG's Cocoa and Coffee Production In 1958-59. 4,253 tons of cocos valued at £1,491,847, and 969 ton of coffee, valued at £456,037, wer exported from Papua and Guinea.

This represented an increase ove the 1954-55 export of these com modities of 3,147 tons of cocoa an 862 tons of coffee —a phenomens development of two important in dustries.

Australia is the main buyer c both cocoa and coffee from th Territory. The balance goes to th United Kingdom, Germany, t h Netherlands, Japan (cocoa only) an Hongkong (coffee only).

Young Fijian's Mountain Enterprise In a project being carried out i: the Fijian province of Ra. a youn villager has organised youths of hi age group into an industrious wor force. 126 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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Cant Frank Hoeter was the organiser and as CO of the unit gave a commentary of the proceedings for the benefit of the spectators.

Guests included Mr. H. P. Seale, District Commissioner for the Eastern Highlands and Mrs. Seale and Brigadier S. Eskell, OC 14th Inf.

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A demonstration of squad RUd rifie drill by the newly formed Cadet unit from the Goroka Central School, under the command of Cadet Lieut.

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Turners team), was :followed by a realistic night patr 'o\ by members of “O” Coy. in which <in &tt&ck w&s made on an enemy-held building, Parachute flares, imitation grenades, shells all added to the fun.

The Cadet unit and ptplice from the Goroka Police Training Depot then combined to demonstrate the changing of the guard, and a contingent of Tolais gave the onlookers [?]]RTURES; Mr. and Mrs. Peter 0. Dunn [?]eft Suva in the "Orsova" recently. Mrs. was Miss Robin Crowe —until the day be- [?] sailing. Mr. Dunn had spent 3£ years [?] uva with the Geological Survey Branch. 129 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Who Marked That Fish?

Chief Engineer P. M. Stephen, of the Fiji-based vessel Tui Cacau hooked and landed a crevally— known in Fiji as saqa (pronounced sang-gai) when his ship was passing Tavea Island, north coast of Vanu Levu, at about 10 a.m. on June 2 Branded in black figures three-quarters of an inch high, c the left upper ’midships area m a number—possibly several number The consecutive figures 517 cou] be identified, with a figure 2 an possibly another figure nearer tt tail. Nearer the head were ah some marks which could not I identified. The figures 517 were c an area which had the appearanl of having been scraped, leaving] light patch. There also appeared be a few very fine strands of nyld thread embedded in this area.

A number of organisations a: marking fish—the United Stafc Fish & Wildlife Service, Japan® fishery research organisations, tl Australian CSIRO, and possibi fishery officers in New Guine Noumea, Rarotonga, and Papeel The tuna fishing organisations bas< at Pago Pago and Pallikulo ms also be marking fish. No organisl tion in Fiji is known to be doing s The crevally is a far-ranging fis so this one could have come fro a considerable distance. It weighs 7 lbs gutted—the ungutted weigl was not recorded —and measured : inches overall. These fish are knov to weigh in excess of 100 lbs some cases, so this one was evident young.

The US Fish and Wildlife Servi usually now mark their fish by pas ing a fine length of plastic tubii through the back muscles. Insii the tube is a number. This numb will never fade and will always 1 legible. It is not known wh methods are being used by oth organisations. The marking is usual associated with growth, movemei and migration studies. The peop who marked this fish, which is beii held by the Department of Agi culture in cold storage in Su\ would no doubt be interested in tb catch —even if only to see the i: effectiveness of their numberii system.

The marked fish. 130 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Employers Form Inion Too! ,th the Fiji labour unions gainiteadilv in strength, some of the fipal ‘employers formed their association in June, vied the Fiji Employers’ Con- Jive Association it includes the Company, Pacific Biscuit Comr, Joong King Loong, Morris strom & Cos., G. B. Hari & Cos., =l. Carpenter & Cos., and Burns p (SS) Cos. Ltd. The first preit is Mr. L. M. Sherwood, of the , Cos wording to a statement, the ciation’s operations will not exto “regulation of relations bem employers and employees” but Id aim to promote amicable rems in this field. ko Inquiry Report lected Soon summary of the findings of the rt of Inquiry into the loss of Tongan tuna fishing vessel Teiko to be issued late in June, but to poor communications with : territory it was too late for inion in this issue of PIM. , is understood, however, that inquiry was open to the public, and that evidence was given that the vessel did carry an inflatable dinghy of Japanese manufacture Teiko was lost in Tonga in March, with the loss of 22 lives. nrm r x The BSIP Gets _ , Cheaper Petrol Bulk petrol installation in the ■Rqip has resulted recently in a to thp installation of bulk diesoline and motor spirit tanks by Shell at Honiara all fuel entered the protertorate in 44-gallon drums at a price of 4/2 for diesoline and 4/9 for petrol. The new installation has resulted in the reduction of 7d. a gallonof diesoline and 6 id. for motor |p iri t Sir John Gutch On GEIC Farewell Visit The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir John Gutch. who retires towards the end of this year, in June made a farewell visit to the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony. Sir John, accompanied by his wife and son (acting as aide-decamp) , travelled on the Coral Queen via Sikaiana. It is expected that the High Commissioner will be on tour for a fortnight.

On his return from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands he was to make a farewell tour of the Western District of the Solomon Islands; this tour to include the Treasury and Shortland Islands.

He Was Going Too Far rocodiles are all right in Ir place, hut when a small turned up in Honiara’s main et Mendana Avenue the er day, there was a certain runt of excitement. Nearby dents weren’t necessarily vinced that one crocodile n’t make a summer, and that re might he more —and higger irieties in the locality. r owever, Melanesians who nd the crocodile while cutj grass near the Melanesian sion grounds didn’t take it seriously. They explained that crocodile was probably only hristian on its way to church. 131 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Army Crosses / Guinea party of native Pacific Islands ment troops crossed New Guinea i coast to coast in June, right ugh the middle of some unrolled territory occupied by the Kukukukus, who gave the 3S some anxious moments, i occasions a party of 60 armed iors screamed and yelled at the 01, shouting down abuse from steep hillsides. le patrol included one native ;eman, and was led by one Euroi officer, but it had no Native irs officers. Patrol members :ed at least 300 miles, which is iderably more than the direct mce between the main points he trek—Kerema, in the Gulf 3 apua, and Menyamya, in the obe district. le patrol was led by Lieutenant Adamson, 25, formerly of NSW, has been with the Pacific ids Regiment (P-NG troops with ipean officers) in the Territory more than three years, aey set out from Port Moresby ird an Army vessel on May 30, went to Kerema. From there, patrol went three hours up r by boat, and started walking June 1. The walk took 22 days— final stage of the journey from ;e Creek, in the Morobe District, being made by truck, he patrol crossed the big unbrolled stretch so as to familiarise If with the country, to make tact with the natives and to i some operational training, ay of the villages it passed mgh had never seen an army form before, and some had not a a white man. hey were the first troops to carry army’s new 7.62 mm self-loading Each man carried a 60 lb pack and lived on restricted army rations, plus local foods bartered as they went along.

The long trek took the patrol as high as 9,000 feet when crossing the Watut Divide, near Menyamya.

They forded many rivers and walked up one river for about three hours.

The patrol usually camped in the open and reported that the country was “very miserable”.

About 10 other Army patrols have been operating throughout the Territory this year, and in early July two of them were still out—one operating from Morobe to Kairuku, and another from Ambunti to Telefomin.

Work Goes Ahead On Restoring Vila Storm Damage When the new village school at Fila Island, near Vila, was officially opened on June 8 by Acting British Resident Commissioner C. H. Allan, it had the distinction of being the first of the hurricane : damaged village schools to be rebuilt in the New Hebrides.

The new school, of a double class room was originally erected in 1958, and destroyed in the first blow of last December. The people of Fila Island did the reconstruction work, with the help of a skilled carpenter from Australia. Its new iron roof provides catchment for much of the village water supply.

Meanwhile in Vila reconstruction work is still going on in other directions. In June, of a total of 15 precut houses freighted into Vila from Australia the previous month, eight had been completed, and work on the others was well under way.

Help Came The Long Way Round An emergency signal sent out by a 247-ton Japanese fishing boat, the Sachi Maru, which went aground on a reef at Aneityum, New Hebrides, on June 28, was picked up in Port Moresby, and air-sea rescue stations alerted. As a result, the French naval sloop Francis Gamier, which was recently established in New Caledonia again after a long absence, arrived at the scene— directed by a French Lancaster from Tontouta airport.

The sloop found that the 28 members of the crew had reached shore safely, so landed provisions for them for several days. The fishing boat was reported to be a total loss.

Some Action on New Britain Development Land development is going ahead in New Britain’s Warangoi valley, a stretch of land which has created great interest in the last few years —mainly because the Administration had previously refused to do anything about development there.

But when the Administrator, Brigadier Cleland, visited the valley in early July, his first visit in three years, he found instead of the almost virgin bush and timber, blocks being cleared for planting all up and down the valley.

Of 33 Vunadidir native settlers who started in January, four have their clearing. All 33 have Are There The Solomons?

Are there Japanese war-timestragglers still left in the Solomons?

Some BISP people have been wondering about this lately following reports from the Western Solomons of the appearance of “bearded men”.

One recent report came from a woman on Vella Lavella who said that while she was attending her potato garden, eight small men, with slant eyes and beards, appeared from the surrounding bush. The village people later searched the bush and found no evidence of the mysterious men.

However, the Government of the BSIP has asked all villages on Vella Lavella to give any information which could lead to solving the mystery. Government officials think it probably unlikely that any Japanese remain on the island so long after the war, but they are not taking any chances. [?] C. Adamson, with the native constable (on [?]ft) and members of the Pacific Islands [?]ent party which crossed New Guinea in June.

Photo: Pat Robertson.

KOKODA WEDDING. An important social event for Papua was the wedding in June of Miss Kathleen Mary Kienzle, of Mamba Estate, Yodda Valley, to Mr. John Hardy. The guests arrived from Port Moresby aboard two DC3 aircraft.

The couple will live at the plantation. —Papuan Prints. 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Administrator Cleland, while at haul also announced that there s a clear and definite policy for e development of the Talasea ea of New Britain.

District Officer F. Kaad had Advisory the Administration had already purchased 5,500 acres of native land in the Talasea- Cape Hoskins area, and another 7,800 acres had been offered for sale by the natives.

The land already purchased and other land likely to be available would provide land for European and native settlers, including native ex-servicemen, said Mr. Kaad.

BSIP Orders Replacement • i/M i • // For Traqic Melanesian 3 i. t, The BSIP Government has now given a firm order for a vessel to replace the MV Melanesian, lost in tragic circumstances in the Solomons two years ago with the loss of many The Scots firm of Herd and McKenzie have successfully tendered for an 88-ft wooden vessel to cost about £A83,000. Speed will be about eight to nine knots, there will be a cargo capacity of 3,000 cubic feet, and the vessel will be sheathed with nylon instead of copper. This is renorted to keep down maintenance costs.

The Melanesian, and the present touring vessel of the High Commissioner, Coral Queen, were both built of steel in Hongkong, and the Government thus seems now to show a preference for a return to wooden vessels of UK construction.

Delivery is expected to be in 1961, although no date has been given officially.

P-NG Will Launch Another Loan Papua-New Guinea’s first postwar loan, launched last April, turned out to be such a success that the Australian Loan Council is happily locking forward to bigger and better loans. It has approved a borrowing in the Territory of £500,000 for 1960-61.

The April loan was aimed at £lOO,OOO, which was reached in five weeks, after a poor start, and finally over-subscribed by £20,000.

Administrator D. M. Cleland announced on July 1 that the ov subscription would go towards the new £500,000 target, and there would be a continuance of sales of certificates to natives. The balance might be sought in different forms of security, such as special bonds.

Loan money is to go towards Territory development.

Cooks to Process Fruit Subject to a satisfactory agreement being reached soon regarding the supply of fruit and the provision of certain facilities in Rarotonga, the firm of W. Gregg and Co of Dunedin, NZ, should have a citrus juice and pineapple can- GUINEA ROTARY. It was quite a gala [?]ion when the newly formed Rotary Club Brok in the New Guinea Highlands was [?] ted with its charter in late May. There [?] ow three Totary clubs in the Territory -at [?] Moresby, Lae, Gorka, and a provisional [?] Rabaul.Top photo shows the offical table [?] Goroka charter night, when visitors in- [?] the presidents of other Territory clubs. [?] to right Mr. Bill Johns (Port Moresby, [?] and Mr. Lex Fraser (he is a Rotary Inter- [?]nal counsellor and came from Queensland [?] resent the charter), Mrs. and Mr Tom [?]ton (Goroka), Mrs. and Mr. David Dickie [?] A few days after the top photo was [?] Mr. Bill Johns (left) handed over his [?] Moresby post to incoming president Mr. O. [?] (right)in the presence of the visiting Mr. [?] Fraser, at a function in Port Moresby.

Photos: R. Schumaker, and Papuan Prints. 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Ireggs are also interested in er products in the Cooks and uld consider canning fish if supbs could be assured. >umea Can't Make ds Meat ;n early July, Noumea, New ledonia, entered its fourth meats week with none of the parties icerned in the “strike” looking e giving in. Graziers stopped iding meat into Noumea in June ten the Government refused to ow them to put up the price. So : most people have managed—by ying canned meat and eating >re fish. Some imported frozen itton has also made an appearce in local butcher shops.

Such meat as there is is at a jmendous price sausages, for ample, are the equivalent of 10/r lb, which works out at about S per sausage.

Says our Noumea correspondent: .ny tourist who fancies a couple fried sausages for breakfast here ould think twice about it.”

If tempted to add the traditional g to it, he should think three nes—they are 1/- each, too.

New Guinea Won't Treat Lepers By Isolation The Australian Administration of Papua-New Guinea has fired the first shot in an intensive war to oust the scourge of leprosy from the Territory, an AAP-Reuter report from Port Moresby said in June.

Adopting a new technique in treatment it is setting up a chain of clinics for the mass treatment of the country’s estimated 8,000 lepers.

Instead of shutting patients away in isolated colonies, medical officers will travel from village to village treating sufferers in their own environment.

Each officer will be based at a clinic with nursing sister amd several native medical orderlies, while only the worst leprosy cases will be hospitalised Dr. D. A. Russell, of the Depart ment of Health in Port Moresby, explained: “Patientswill continue to live as much as possible in their own family groups.

“We believe that isolating a leper does more harm than good, except in extreme cases, “Here in New Guinea the most common form of leprosy is noninfectious, and 39 the patient can safely continue living at home, “That is why we hope to extend this new method of treatment as far and as often as possible, The first of the clinics, to be It Will Have The Longest Routes Trans Australia Airlines inoduction into New Guinea serves in July is a step towards aking it the largest internal rline in the British Common- ?alth. It will achieve that disruption after it takes over all e internal flights at present \ing run by Qantas, in Sepmber. The New Guinea inrnal routes will give TAA an Iditional 7,519 route miles, and total of more than 37,000 miles.

Domestic American airlines aerating on America’s easiest routes are the only other rlines that may exceed TAA’s 3W network. TAA is owned by \e Australian Government. 137 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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It will also supply the staff but all equipment, maintenance and salaries will be met by the Administration.

According to medical authorities, leprosy rates behind malaria and tuberculosis as the third major health problem among Papua-New Guinea’s 1,800,000 natives.

It is a disease common to all parts of the Territory but certain areas have a much higher incidence rate than others.

In the Orokolo region, a recent survey found 120 lepers in a six square mile area—one of the highest casualty figures in the Territory.

According to Dr. Russell, leprosy in Papua-New Guinea poses two serious problems.

He explained: “Firstly there is the high rate of infection and secondly in most cases it leaves the victim a helpless cripple.

“This is because this form of leprosy attacks the peripheral nerves —those in the arms and legs.

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“If he is left to his own resources he would soon die. After all, what can a man do if he cannot use his arms and legs.

“If the patient is treated in hii own environment, his family or clai gradually can be taught to assura] the responsibility of looking aft® him.

“In isolated colonies this woul| be impossible.” (See “A Patient’s View of Makogai”, I page 79.) The Territory Discusses Punishment By Strap A 15-year-old native was orderej a strapping by a Port Moresby courl in June for having stolen a shilling’ worth of wheatmeal. The magia trate, Mr. L. Foster, ordered tha he be given two strokes with £ leather strap.

In evidence, the boy said h( worked full-time for £2 a weel without rations or quarters. He hac stolen wheatmeal after spending al his money on sweets, cakes anc “lolly” water. He had not eaten foi two days. [A Native Regulations Ordinance says a person under the age o] 18 cannot be imprisoned for offences committed under a Native Affairs Ordinance. The Ordinance says 2 Court of Native Affairs may ordei an offender to be privately whipped for such an offence. A person up tc 14 may not receive more than five strokes.] Womens Annual NG Meeting The annual general meeting of the New Guinea Club of Sydney will be held in the Feminist Club Rooms, 77 King Street, at 11 a.m. on July 28.

The meeting will be preceded by morning tea at 10.30. All members and Territorians who are in Sydney on that date are cordially invited to be present.

LAE WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Emery after their marriage at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Lae, in June. She was Miss Trixie Chard.

There was a big reception at the Masonic Hall, Huon Road —formerly Emery Road. The bridegroom is a member of one of Lae's oldest families. 138 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Dr Gunther said the Admimsation’s Secretary of Law had been structed to investigate the matter.

Administrator Brigadier D. M. eland had called for a full report i how often the magistrates dered strappings and under what rcumstances. .

Dr. Gunther added, “Such pumshent is handed out only on rare icasions.

“These occur where a young fender deserves some punishment ; a reminder that he cannot connue to break the law, and where 101 amongst criminals certainly ould not be correct.

“As yet in this country, we have 3 institutions for juvenile offend- •s,” Dr. Gunther said. onga's "Only Way 0 Survive"

Speaking at the opening of the onga Legislative Assembly in June, rince Tungi, the Prince Regent in le absence of Queen Salote, reared to overseas troubles.

“Are we not all aware of the state f affairs in the world today?” he aid. “Tidings of disorder and hardhip involving millions of people ving under conditions of great sufering and fear are common daily ccurrences. .

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“So let us not imitate indiscrimnately questionable examples set rom outside, but let us hold on to >ur unity with renewed vigour.”

SRC Health Members Meet The South Pacific Commission’s health programme was being studied at a meeting in Noumea, New Caledonia, July 12-20, by the health members of the Research Council.

Specialists from France and England attended the meeting as consultants. They were Professor H.

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This is the first time since 1957, when the whole of the activities of the SPC came under critical scrutiny, that the Commission’s full health programme has been reviewed. A report and recommendations of the meeting will be considered at the annual meeting of the SPC, which begins in Noumea in October.

Time Payment Was His Downfall A 26-year-old New Caledonian, Aurelian Cazeau, appeared before the Assize Court in Noumea in early July and was found guilty of having murdered a young Viet Namese, NEW CLUB "The Most Elegant Sports Club" in Fiji is how they are describing this modern new club house officially opened in June on behalf of the Nadi Sports Club. It was built at a cost of £15,000 on land donated to the club by Mr. A. B.

Edwards in 1911. There are tennis, bowls, squash, a children's playground, and later there will be a swimming pool. 139 > A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Jazeau. however, drove his victim a lonely spot on the road and >t him dead with a rifle.

Ie dragged the body into the shes after stealing the 60,000 ncs and went off to pay his debts, hiding one to a gendarme.

Vhen the Viet Namese was missed ; police had no difficulty in reistructing the crime and soon er his arrest Cazeau confessed, [is defending counsel declared that zeau was a victim of “credit”, was credit that made possession his car possible and it was this • which had caused his fall.

Che widow of the victim was arded one million francs damages sOOO). It is a little obscure as to v she will ever collect it, as the irderer has no possessions and ; remainder of his life is to be ;nt in prison. hiti To Choose luvaana's Successor ;t was reported from New ledonia in early July that in an ction held in Tahiti recently to the vacancy caused by the imsonment of former Deputy, uvaana a Oopa, Pouvaana’s son, ircel, was leading the poll. Final ult of the poll has not been reved.

Deputy Pouvaana a Oopa was •ested after disturbances in peete in 1958 and charged with iempted murder, arson and illegal ssession of arms. He was kept in d 1 for almost a year without a trial and in October, 1959, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and banned from living in Papeete, for 15 years. He is now in France.

A win for his son in the byelection would, reports a correspondent be considered a “slap in the face for a Oopa’s political enemies.”

Queen Honours For Island Territories In this year’s Queen’s birthday honours the award was announced of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire to two residents of Western Samoa.

The Prime Minister, Hon.

Mata’afa Fiame was made a Commander of the Order (CBE) and Mr. Mamea Matatumua an Officer of the same Order (OBE).

Mr. Mamea Matatumua has re- [?] GAN MEDICOS These men are Tonga's Assistant Medical Officers, photographed with the [?] dom's Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr. W. A. E. Robertson, of Melbourne (front, centre), at [?] 1960 annual conference, held recently in Nukualofa. During the conference, president of [?] Tongan AMO's Association, AMO Alo Eva, urged that an attempt should be made to affiliate [?] all AMO Associations whose members are graduates of the Central Medical School, Suva.

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Desmond Murray McGusty Deputy Superintendent of Police, for distinguished police work since 1946, was awarded the Colonial Police Medal. une Lieaa, Une m|Urea DC ID *" CXpIOSIOn a native warder at the Honiara prison was killed, and another injured in an explosion in the prison gardens in late June. The men were burning-off rubbish when the explosion occurred. The dead man was from Tikopia. The injured man, Timothy, from San Cristoval, was wounded in the chest and was flown to Port Moresby hospital aboard a special Shell company aircraft that arrived in Honiara on July 3. Sister Joy Bell accompanied him. Port Moresby hospital had a chest specialist standing by for the operation—one of a medical team which happened to be doing special work on P-NG natives, Thpv Want Tn A net 1 VVdnT lu MUST ‘ In The New Hebrides The New South Wales Air Force Association, which is an Australian ex-servicemen’s body, decided at its annual meeting in Sydney in June that it would like to see Australia take over Britain’s partnership in the New Hebrides.

The association passed a resolution, moved by Mr. P. C. Alexander that “this assembly considers thai the British Commonwealth’s interest in the New Hebrides Condominium should be transferred from the British Government to the Australian Government.”

Some speakers said Britain tool little interest in its administratioi of the group.

Mr. Alexander, who is Federa Treasurer of the association, pointec out later that the Federal Counci would have to approve the Stati body’s resolution before it could b( passed on to the Australian Govern] ment as an official association opinion.

BSIP Public Servants Want More Money The Solomons’ Civil Servants As sociation, at Honiara, has the sara complaint of the P-NG Public Ser vice Association—the high cost o living. In June, the Honiara bod] held a meeting in which there wa some vigorous discussion on cost and the end result was that thq decided to press for an all-round in crease in salaries.

Association chairman is Dr. Bo Roberts, and membership, which ha been quickly growing, is now 256.] P NG Tells The Minister What It Thinks Australian Minister for Territorid Paul Hasluck had a big day i Rabaul on July 11, during his five day survey of what native and Euro pean Territorians think about hi new Legislative Council proposal (See p. 17).

European, Euronesian and nativ groups had been hurriedly as sembled in Rabaul from other part of New Britain. New Irelam Bougainville and Manus to stat their minds to Mr. Hasluck.

European organisations such a Town Advisory Councils, Taxpayer Association, Planters’ Associatioi Chamber of Commerce, etc., were a fully represented and all said the were of the opinion that ther should be more elected Europea members —probably three from eac electorate instead of one as at pre sent; and more native member both elected and appointed. (Thes recommendations followed closel those made in 1954 in a report b a Legislative Council Select Com mittee; the report has been kept o: ice by the Australian Governmer ever since.) The natives who saw Mr. Hasluc —about 100 of them apparentl were not so concerned about th composition of the Legislativ Council, but they did discuss self government and convinced them 142 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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CSR769 yes and the Minister that they ren’t quite up to it yet. delegation of three from the tive Ex-Servicemen’s Association l s accompanied by Mr. Don rrett, who until a few weeks ago s Liaison Officer for the Pacific ands Regiment in Port Moresby me, PIM, p. 21) The delegates re Tapioli Matpulpul, Military ;dal winner from New Britain, o killed 74 Japanese during the r (he is also Mr. Barrett’s natation overseer); Samison Gila, New Ireland; and Sergeanttjor Bapi, of the Royal Papuaw Guinea Constabulary.

Papioli told the Minister that it uld be time enough if the ildren’s children of his generation irted to think about self-govern- ;nt; in the meantime the people ould be more concerned with getig themselves educated for it.

M the end of the meeting, when Hasluck asked if there were ything else any native would like discuss, one got up and said that ey appreciated what Australia had ne and wanted Australia to stay the Territory. They were not ady for self-government yet.

The only person who cast a sour note was again Epinery Titimua who had created a diversion at a meeting held by Administrator D. M.

Cleland a few weeks earlier by asking when the Australians were going to get out, and leave the natives to manage their own affairs. He put the same question to the Minister—and got the same answer: That it will be some time yet.

In Lae, Mr. Hasluck heard roughly the same views from the native people as he had heard in Rabaul— they wanted more representation, but not self-government yet.

But the Europeans gave some more varied opinions.

Goroka planter lan Downs, former District Commissioner, MLC and now President of the Highlands Farmers and Settlers’ Association, told Mr. Hasluck that reports of Mr.

Menzies’ statement on New Guinea’s future had done a lot of harm to investment in the Territory.

Mr Downs pointed out that the charter of his association supported a policy of integration of New Guinea as a State of Australia.

Discriminatory laws such as native administration regulations would have to be removed so the native people could be brought under the Hube people from Pindiu, in the Morobe [?] rict of New Guinea, are finding it a lot [?]er of get their coffee to market now that have their own airstrip, officially opened [?]une (see page 69). These photographs, by Vellacott-Jones, show District Agricultural [?]er E. R. Wilson supervising removal of [?]ee from a storage building into a waiting [?]raft and below, three Hube leaders, who [?] others helped to organise labour for the [?] ding of the new strip. They are active coffee growers themselves. 143 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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They should be given full Australian citizenship rights, although first a plebiscite should be held.

Mr. Mick Leahy, farmer, and one of the Highlands pioneers, said the Europeans had no security in the Territory—they had less than five years, and all they could do was salvage what they could.

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Hasluck that Territory investment was at a standstill. It should be encouraged by an assurance of complete indemnity in the event of sequestration of property. a t l„ " Replacement rOT The nrQ l M a;..

"w m Ihe Air Britain’s new civil airliner, the turbo prop Avro 748, made a successful first flight in June—less than 17 months after its builders, the Hawker Siddeley Group, decided to go ahead with the project.

The importance of the 748 in the aviation world is that it has been designed as a replacement for the famous DCS, work-horse of the airways, and still a vital aircraft in places like Papua-New Guinea, The new 748 aircraft, which can carry from 40 to 48 passengers I a cruising speed of 265 mph an can operate from short and poorl prepared airstrips, is due to begi operations with two independq British operators by the beginna of next year.

Tinginagalip Natives Win Their Appeal Eight natives from the RabJ village of Tinginagalip, in tl Supreme Court in June won the appeal against their conviction an sentence for having failed to pg Local Government Council tax.

The appeal was regarded as i important one (see PIM, May, p. 20 The natives had been sentencl to a month’s gaol for having failj to pay their tax to the Vunadiq Council. The Tinginagalip villa] people were closely connected wil the Navuneram incident of 191 when two natives were shot deg by an Administration patrol duril a tax collection and census.

Mr. Justice Gore upheld tl natives’ appeal on the ground thi a Village Book admitted in evideri in the lower court hearing shou not have been admitted.

The win for the natives was r garded as a technical one, but son Administration officials said tin were concerned lest many othl natives regarded it as a straight-oi win for those who didn’t want 1 pay their taxes.

The Native Local Governmd Council Ordinance would have j be reviewed following the success! appeal, officials said.

"Too Many Traffic Accidents" in W. Samoa West Samoan officials are becon ing concerned at the increasii number of traffic accidents.

In one recent fortnight at lea six accidents were reported, wii two persons dead and several i] jured.

Some critics say too many drive are found to have been drinkin and also that there should be mo: care exercised in the issuing of drr ing licences.

Salt-Making Trials In Fiji The Fiji Geological Surve Branch is carrying out sea-wat( salt-recovery trials near Nadi i investigate the possibility of a con mercial salt industry, one of tl recommendations of the Bun Commission Report.

At present Fiji spends aboi £23,000 annually on imported sa so there would appear to be scoi for such an industry—as the Gilbe: and Ellice Islands Colony has alread observed. It plans to try exportiri salt to Fiji. 144 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Everyone admiref a fine, healthy baby And Glaxo babies are perfect specimens of health and happiness because Glaxo has all the nourishment of mother’s milk at its best. full cream them to headquarters of the ary base. ter separate interrogation, Miss lart was taken to a small buildnear the headquarters. Noonan taken away in a car and never again.

Plane Fragments jerner displayed a huge collecof fragments—coral encrusted lich. he said, were recovered l the area where natives said plane alighted. ,ul Mantz, famed movie stunt who was in charge of prepara- -5 for the Earhart round-thed flight attempt, identified one 3 as a high-capacity Leece-Nevil irator which “could be the irator I installed in her plane”, will have to make a detailed y of his files, he said, antz said that another part—a 3 of pipe about a foot long— have been part of special fuel p valves he had installed, ■itics had discounted the r ama story because it indicated the Earhart Lockheed had n north-north-west from Lae, 3ad of east-north-east to reach land, where a rough landing > had been prepared and where aited States Coast Guard cut f er standing by. The Saipan landreport indicates that the airt was more than 1,500 offse.

Native Witnesses a Saipan, Goerner talked to 11 ve witnesses who verified Mrs. /ama’s story. Goerner and Akiyama said they talked to more than 300 people.

“I heard from the Japanese officers about the American lady flier,” one witness, Gregorio Camacho had said.

“The Japanese were very surprised to see a lady flier because at that time it would never happen that a lady would fly.”

Another native told the reporter and his interpreter that Japanese officers had invited him to attend the execution of Miss Earhart in her gaol cell—but that he had refused the invitation.

The two-acre military compound was destroyed during the war and is covered by vegetation now.

The key to the mystery depends now on verification of the 600 pounds of parts returned by Goerner today.

At the time of the disappearance of Miss Earhart, the US Navy made widespread searches, estimated to have cost about $4 million.

Friends financed later search missions, all of them fruitless.

A i a ter report from San Francisco said that Captain Paul Briand, Jr., an instructor at the US Air Force Academy, claimed that Captain Joseph Gervais, a pilot now stationed a t Okinawa, had written to him to say he had a photograph and affidavits from 72 witnesses to prove that Earhart and Noonan were executed on Saipan.

But former Captain Zenshiro Hoshina, who had legal responsibility for executions in the Japanese Navy, said that no execution could have occurred on Saipan without his permission, and that no execution of Americans ever did occur there. nerally speaking, conditions for making by seawater evaporation r , sunshine are far from ideal e oceanic islands of the tropics, to the high humidity and rainnditions in the Nadi area, on eeward side of the high island iti Levu are probably about as as can be found in Fiji, as a ■ deal of the moisture in the ,e Winds is precipitated out in all in the interior due to the icing cooled as it is forced up the mountain slopes. This rein the rainfall being much less tie lee side—a fact very evident i flying across Viti Levu, e evaporation is being tested with the use of black polythene [ trays, the black surface helpto retain the sun’s heat and increasing the evaporation rate, m dye, wind breaks, and varylepths of salt water in the trays also being tried. ie experimental work will coni until about November. 145 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960 Earhart Mystery (Continued from page 22)

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’Tain George Wilhelm

HAGENDORN )tain George Wilhelm Hagenonce described as “the rather citizen” who probably saved from bombardment at the outof World War I, died in Sydn June 21, aged 79. He had lived arlingford, near Sydney, for il years. en war broke out between in and Germany, on August 4, Captain Hagendorn was a ut planter at Mulifunua, at western end of Upolu, Western a, then a German Colony, i German warships Scharn- , Gneisenau and Nurnberg, at in the South Pacific, appeared ipia, early on September 13; 'ently observed that the place ly was occupied by New Zeatroops; and then steamed 25 westward, to Mulifunua, and lied. Hagendorn rowed out, and 'oyally entertained by Admiral t von Spec. 3 Germans were inclined to ard the NZ establishment in but Hagendorn pleaded the ssness of it, and pointed out the New Zealanders had treated Germans in Samoa courteously correctly. e warships sailed away (to •ard Papeete, in Tahiti, a few later); but Hagendorn was ptly gathered in by the NZ lel as a suspicious character and ned in NZ. He later was reel, but at war’s end his Samoan jrty was expropriated, and he in Australia. He was interned i during World War FT, and went to reside in Germany. His had been broken by the wars, to Australia in 1955. His esting story was told in PIM in 1956.

MR. K. P. WRIGHT ■. K. P. Wright, a famous grazier >mani, Quirindi, Northern NSW, died in June, aged 76, made , e valuable contributions to tical knowledge of animal andry and plan f ation condii in Viti Levu, Fiji, some 50 3 ago. out 1908, then aged 25, he went his father, the late Mr. P. P. ;ht, to Fiji, and they at first rubber and bananas at Nai ) Koro (ten miles west of Suva). r, they ran sheep and cattle much success on a large area le Sigatoka Valley, an article in PIM of January, Mr. Wright described how his evement in producing first-class e at Sigatoka for export to Syddrove him out of the Colony.

British Colonial Office gentlein 1915-16 forbade the export of cattle from Fiji because it was feared that the local prices for meat might be raised. Mr. Wright, in disgust, then sold his properties in 1917 to Messrs. Bryce and Howard, of Brisbane, and left Fiji, and settled in NSW.

In 1908, Messrs. Wright and Son imported 1,298 sheep from Australia, and for nine years they shore some 2,000 sheep each year at Sigatoka, and sold the wool in London and the surplus sheep to the CSR Co.

Mr. Wright said, after a visit in 1957, that he found the sheep industry now was extinct and the people had forgotten it was ever carried on in Fiji. “The property has deteriorated beyond recognition.

Homestead, yards, sheds and paddocks have disappeared, and the land is a wilderness. . ”

MR. A. B. L. R. TATTERSALL One of the most popular and respected citizens of Apia, the former Registrar of the Apia High Court and Commissioner of the Court for nearly 30 years, Mr. A. B. L. R.

Tattersall, died on June 17, in his 62nd year. He had been ailing for a long time, but had been sitting in court only recently, so that his death came as a surprise to his many friends.

Mr Tattersall had been one of the few locally appointed senior officials with a long and distinguished record of service m the Territory. He was well known and respected for his honesty, straightforwardness and sincerity.

At a special meeting of the High Court, the Chief Judge Mr. C. C.

Marsack. expressed the deep regret felt by the members of the legal profession at the death of Mr.

Tattersall, whose association with the High Court, he said, covered a longer period than that of any other member of the court and who had rendered sterling service and been of the greatest assistance to himself, particularly by his knowledge of Samoan custom and the Samoan outlook on life.

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Mrs. Hen A Wolfgramm

Mrs. Hena Langi Wolfgramm, wife of Charles A. Wolfgramm, member of a well known Tonga family, died suddenly at Auckland in her 46th year on June 25.

The funeral was attended by a large number of the Tongan residents of Auckland.

Mrs. Wolfgramm is survived by her husband and three children.

Rev. Brother Alfred

The senior member of the Marist Brothers’ teaching staff, Apia, West Samoa, Rev. Brother Alfred, died there peacefully on May 28 at the age of 80. Born in Switzerland, he had taught at the Marist Brothers’ school at Apia for 63 years—having arrived in Samoa at the age of 17.

Generations of pupils, both Samoan and European, owe their education to him and remember him with love and gratitude. Some of the most prominent citizens of West Samoa were among his pupils.

A very big crowd attended his funeral after solemn requiem, at Apia Catholic Cathedral, at which Rev. Father Ross officiated.

Mr. George Kingsley Roth

A man whose life and work were closely integrated with Fijian affairs for 30 years, Mr. George Kingsley Roth, died suddenly in a London theatre on June 30, aged 57.

An Oxford-educated Englishman, he joined the Colonial Service as an administration cadet in 1928 and, except for a couple of years in Zanzibar, he spent his working life in Fiji. He and his wife left the Colony in 1957, and he then filled a position in the Cambridge Museum of Ethnology.

Mr. Roth was a cultured, scholarly man, and took a deep interest in the Fijian race, and gave invaluable service to the Fiji Museum. He served the Colony in various public offices, such as the Town Board, and the Defence Forces. He became Assistant Secretary in 1943, and Secretary for Fijian Affairs in 1944. He was responsible, in the next ten years, for a great deal of the Fijian Affairs organisation.

Kingsley Roth had his cri f ics; some of his work was condemned forthrightly in the Burns Report, but he was a charming, sociable man who made friends easily, and was held in high regard by all classes in Fiji. He was awarded the QBE in 1954. 148 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

md and Australia to keep the is quo until the natives were y to choose for themselves — itement which brought rumbles the Dutch in NNG). week or two earlier, Sir Douglas and, an Australian economist, that it might be a good idea astralia and Holland met their is on their own ground, handed Jew Guinea over to the United □ns, but agreed to continue their Dnsibilities of trusteeship prow the UN nominated two other ■tries of the SE Asia area to P ate also. This, he thinks, would an interesting and perhaps exg experiment in raising the livstandards and political status of NG natives.”

What Port Moresby Thinks Port Moresby, on June 21, e leading European residents e statements: There was more i commonsense in them than the others put together.

'he time is not ripe to talk of iting self-government to the ■itory,” said Mr. H. H. Stubbs, hiding contractor and vice-preat of the Port Moresby Chamber Commerce. He said that the ves don’t discuss it, and neither ■he Europeans —the only people talked about it were politicians, e thought Mr. Menzies’ statet unwise, and that the time to n to think about independence when the natives, who at prespoke 500 different languages, d exchange views with one :her. , e said that when independence ; come most people expected it ie a joint government of natives Europeans—and that’s what the ves wanted. r. C. P. Kirke, Chairman of the t Moresby Town Advisory Counwho is a solicitor, and also a didate for this year’s P-NG islative Council, said he did not why Australia should admit that /as unable to judge the proper b for self-government, he Australian Government should think in ferms of “hostilities”, should direct its policy to inising co-operation between the igenous and immigrant populals. “On this basis, independence Id emerge harmoniously, in a n of representative and respone govenment.” ;e said the Prime Minister’s ;ement seemed to suggest that Europeans would have to get when self-government came. He sonally did not believe it.

Ir. E. A. James, an ex-MLC (he gned last year over the methods d in introducing income tax to Territory) said it certainly would better to grant independence be- -3 hostilities developed—but surely it was possible to arrive at the proper stage for granting independence without considering such a thing as hostilities.

Three days previously, on June 18, at the opening of the new Public Service club (the Kone Club) in Port Moresby the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland had said that the future of white residents of Papua-New Guinea was secure.

“We are here and we are going to stay here. Those who talk about something else happening in a short time do not know what they are talking about.”

He deplored the talk of low morale in the Public Service and “insecurity” of European residents as a whole.

Exploitation and Colour Bar And, finally, among the despatches from Australian newspaper correspondents who were sent to the Territory while the June furore was at its height, were these two; Brian Harris, in the Brisbane Telegraph of June 23, in a story headlined “Natives Pay Higher Prices in NG Shops—Exploitation in Port Moresby,” said; “Some shops here are flagrantly exploiting Papuan natives. A survey showed one price for foods for white people and a higher price for natives who receive one-fifth European wages or less.”

The second was from Frank O’Neill, and appeared in the Sydney Sunday Mirror of July 3. The headline said, “Colour Bar Holds Back Progress in NG”; and O’Neill reported : “If there is any doubt whether segregation operates against the natives in New Guinea, it is swiftly dispelled by talks with the more enlightened native leaders here.

“Stories they told me of insuhs and indignities they have suffered made me feel almost ashamed of being an Australian.

“They insist that this colour bar is holding up their advancement.”

One of the native leaders to whom he spoke was “Dr. Reuben Taureka, a graduate of Suva Medical School.” He complained that people sometimes called him “Boy”; and once a European woman asked him to get up and let her sit in a bus seat.

Another leader was Marua Rama Rarua, one of the three native MLC’s. He also had sometimes been called “Boy”, has been kept waiting in offices and, he said (according to the story): “Segregation even extended to the passenger terminal at the airport, where there were separate places for whites and natives to wait.”

FOOTNOTE; Graduates from Suva Medical School are not “Doctors” —although naturally any Mainland Australian reading the story would identify “Dr” Reuben Taureka and his troubles with his own GP down the road. Marua Rarua Rarua may be correct in that native passengers go and sit by themselves in the one airport waiting room, but we have never noticed that they do. Certainly there are no seats marked “Whites” and “Coloureds” or wai t i n g-rooms marked similarly—as there are in South Africa and some American States. As usual with newspaper stories, there is some truth in these despatches; but the damage is done because it is only a very small part of the whole story. (See Commentary, p. 25) six months of TEAL’S jet prop Electra operations. Both the Fiji and Trans-Tasman services showed a 31 per cent, increase in passenger traffic compared with the same period last year when DC6 s were used.

New Hebrides In June, there appeared to be plenty of work offering in the New Hebrides for the ex-aerial ambulance Dragon Rapide owned by Messrs.

Bob Paul and Paul Burton, which the two men flew to the New Hebrides, from Australia, in May.

But officially, apparently, they couldn’t take what was offering because they still hadn’t been given permission to undertake regular services.

Bob Paul is an Australian planter on Tanna and Mr. Burton is an Australian freelance pilot. The two men last year formed themselves hflo New Hebrides Airways with the idea of starting a much needed internal service in the New Hebrides.

Shortly after the Rapide, with the two men aboard, arrived in Vila via the Solomons in May ( PIM, June, p. 141) it was flown to Tanna, where it caused great interest among the natives after landing on a new airstrip near Lenakel.

It was the first passenger aircraft to land on Tanna, and the strip had been cleared by the locals under Mr. Paul’s supervision. Mr.

Paul had put a great deal of work in on building airs f rips in the hope that the service could begin operating.

In June the Rapide made several local flights and on one occasion dropped supplies to isolated Futuna and on another flew out a sick woman from Tanna on a mercy mission.

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He said extra services would probably have to be run in July to cope wflh the Bastille Day celebrations in Papeete. 149 Air Services (Continued from page 20) CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JULY, 1960 NG Opinions (Continued from page 18)

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Sitiveni may not bring any gold medals back to Fiji from Rome, in fact he may not even be there unless a public appeal for funds succeeds, but this won’t be the fault of his trainer, Eric Harrington.

Harrington has taken the 23-yearold Fijian under his wing. Apart from giving him proper coaching, he has persuaded his wife to serve Sitiveni meals appropriate for an athlete in training for an important event.

He believed that Sitiveni’s normal diet was deficient in protein, so to make it up he has Mrs. Harrington serve Sitiveni a thick juicy steak at least once a day. The result has not been an increase in weight, but a considerable increase in strength and stamina.

Harrington will be going to Melbourne soon and plans to take Sitiveni to give him a couple of weeks’ training on cinder tracks.

Athletic officials in Fiji are convinced that after a few runs under something approaching Olympic conditions Sitiveni will be capable of giving the best of them a fright over the 100 and 220 metres events.

Sitiveni comes from a somewhat parochial area as far as sport is concerned, and if he does not » to Rome it will not be becaui ardent supporters in his own N Viti Levu have failed to ran enough cash.

In everyday life Sitiveni is senior refueller in the employ J the Vacuum Oil Company at Nai Airport.

It Was Rough Football FORGET about the ball, let I get on with the game” was fairly apt description of Rugl football in Tonga and Samoa on a few years ago, but under ove seas influence the players gradual became more sophisticated. But ihi must have reverted to type to son extent a month or so ago when tl NZ Maoris went to a “picnic” toi of those territories.

Judging by the appearance j some of the Maori warriors wh( they returned to New Zealand th( must have been in one of tl toughest tours ever.

But they made no complain about their opponents—after all tl Maori is no lilywhite on the Rugl field, as NSW and British teat will testify. But injuries were i heavy on the six-week tour that tl Maoris were reduced to only j available players for the test again Tonga, and half of these were unf No wonder the Maoris took a towe ling at Nukualofa.

Only one match in the two ten tories ended with the Maoris ha' ing the full complement of I players on the paddock. One play returned home with a broken le and another had a glorious blai eye.

It Was Discr They Claimed r[E cry of racial discriminatic was heard again in Po Moresby, in June, where only few months previously the Po Moresby Basketball Association h£ been criticised for racial prejudt —unfairly as it turned out—for ing rejected applications by tv native teams to play in a Europea competition (Sports Review, April Basketball was again the soun of the June trouble, which mac headlines in Australian Pres This time the discrimination c~y ws raised against Port Moresby’s Kor Club, a social club for Administi\ Sprint hope Sitiveni Moceidreka. 150 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

He went on: “Proposals for the reform of the Legislative Council have been largely influenced by the 1954 report of a Select Committee of the Legislative Council and by subsequent expressions of opinion in the Council and in the Federal Parliament, “The Government has also been helped by discussions I have had on previous visits to the Territory, and the communications received from organisations and individuals.

The results of studies pf the problem were also examined in conference with the Administrator in Canberra last March.

“Before preparing further submissions to Cabinet I wish to talk over various aspects of the situation with both European and native representatives.”

In a statement made in Port Moresby on July 10, at the beginning of his tour, Mr. Hasluck said proposals for Legco reform were not the direct result of Holland’s actions in NNG or of the UN Trusteeship Council’s report— they were being worked out before this. He had believed for the last two or three years that natives were ready for a greater role, but he had given priority to other legislation that took longer than expected to pass.

The main claim over the last few years had been for more elected members of the Legco, but he had said previously that there could be no increase in European elected members until there were native elected members. He wanted increased native membership to be effective and not a sham.

Mr. Hasluck said Legco reform has become mixed up with talk about self-government. But these reforms were merely one more step in that direction. Before any country such as P-NG could become selfgoverning it has to see great social and economic advances.

“Social, economic and political change will only come with the help of Australians not only public servants but others.

“Good economic foundations for the self-governing Papua and New Guinea of the future demand Australian investment, management and technological skill.

“The security for those who bring them here is, as I have often stressed, in building up among all the people a tradition of respect for each other’s rights and in partnership between indigenous and immigrant Territorians.

“The greatest disservice is being done today by those who, by folly or design, damage that kind of relationship.” officers at Konedobu, Port ■esby’s administrative hea d rters. he charges followed the club’s isal to allow a native team to its basketball court. One of the >’s two European teams had ;ht to use the court to play Lnst the native team, fter all the fuss had built to a iax, the club’s president, Mr. is Normoyle, an old New Guineaid who also happens to be P-NG ice Commissioner, explained that trouble had started not from ;rimination but simply from the : that the club’s by-laws banned of club facilities to all but mcial members. i any case no official application I been made to the club for a match between the European and native team on the club’s court.

An individual member of the team had merely approached several committeemen to ascertain their reaction to an application, and he had been told about the by-law. The committee had previously refused use of the court for the same reason to a team of women basketball players, who happend to be Europeans.

Added Mr. Normoyle: “It is most likely that if official application is received for a correctly sponsored competition team under the auspices of the Port Moresby Association, it would be approved.”

What many Port Moresby people were wondering was where all these allegations of sport discrimination kept coming from.

Papua Are The Tennis Champs (From Pat Robertson, in Lae) k S Australian players dominate A the world amateur tennis titles, so Papuan players dominate the Papua-New Guinea titles —or they did this year anyhow. The championships were played at Lae before an enthusiastic gallery.

Peter Frankland, of Port Moresby, beat his team mate, John Trama, 6-2, 6-2, to win the Territory’s singles championship and Mrs.

Shirley Bullock, of Port Moresby, won the women’s singles from Mrs.

Jane Sloot, of Lae, 6-1, 6-2.

Frankland partnered Bob Daniels (Porf Moresby), to win the men’s doubles from Trama and Arthur Bullock, also of Port Moresby. And mixed doubles went to Mr. and Mrs.

Bullock, after defeating the Bulolo (NG) pair, Jim Muir and Mrs. B.

Lega. [?]ew Zealand Maoris [?]s so successful [?] their rugby in [?] but they won all [?] matches, includ- [?] the two tests, in [?] Samoa. Here [?] are being intro- [?] to West Samoa's [?] appointed High [?] missioner Mr. J. B. [?] it, before the first [?] at Apia Park. See story. left, P-NG tennis champs Mrs. Shirley Bullock and Peter Frankland. 151 P-NG Target Dates (Continued from page 18) ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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J Bulolo, modern liner, sails about y six weeks: Sydney. Brisbane, Port ;sby, Samarai, Lae. Madang, Lomi, Rabaul. Next Sydney sailings; Aug. ept. 20 (approx.). tails from Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., idge Street, Sydney.

I Pakhoi; Leaves Sydney for Bris- ■ Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Port 3sby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: 19 (then withdraws from this service).

V Soochow; Leaves Melbourne for iey, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, aul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Port esby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailings; . 5, Sept. 9 (approx.).

V Shansi: Leaves Melbourne for Sydney, bane Port Moresby, Samarai. Lae. lang, Wewak, Rabaul, Sydney. Next aey sailings: Aug. 6, Sept. 28 (approx.).

V Sinkiang: Leaves Sydney for Brise Honiara (BSIP), Rabaul, Kavieng. a’wa (G&E), Rabaul, Lae, Sydney. Last ney sailing; July 2 (for Central Pacific er charter to British Phosphate Comsion). Next Sydney sailing: Late Oct. rmal trip). etails from New Guinea Australia Line ire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 Ige St.. Sydney.

V Elizabeth Boye: Leaves Sydney ithly for Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul. t Sydney sailing: July 20 (will call also jo rd Howe Is.. Norfolk Is.). Next Sydney ing: Aug. 21 (approx.). etails from Karlander (NG) Line (P.

Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 176 Day Sydney.

IV’s Malacca and Matupi maintain a ular service between Australian ports, ma-New Guinea, and Borneo, lalacca; Dep. Adelaide Aug. 3, Melirne Aug. 5-11, Sydney Aug. 13-16. sbane Aug. 18-20, Port Moresby Aug. 25, Daul Aug. 29, Lae Sept. 4, Madang Sept.

Sandakan Sept. 17, Jesselton Sept. 19, njong Mani Sept. 23. Miri Sept. 26, Duan Sept. 30; return to Sydney via llace Bay, Cairns, and Brisbane.

Jatupi: Dep. Sandakan, southwards, g. 20, via Wallace Bay, Queensland ports, Iney (Sept. 12-16) and Adelaide, arr. )t. 19. Dep. Adelaide Sept. 23, northind, Melbourne Sept, 25-30, Sydney t. 2-5, Brisbane Oct. 7-8, Port Moresby t. 13, Rabaul Oct. 18, Lae Oct. 22, idang Oct. 24, Sandakan Nov. 4, Jesseli Nov. 6, Tanjong Mani Nov. 10, Miri v. 12, Labuan Nov. 14.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty., Ltd. (agents), 17-19 Bridge St.. Sydney.

Sydney-Netherlands NG Three weeks service by MV’s Sigll, Sillndoeng, Sibigo and Sinabang carrying passengers and cargo from East Australian ports to Hollandia, Biak and Sorong. NNG (with call at Manokwari alternate trips), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next Sydney sailings: Sibigo July 26, Sigli Aug. 16, Sinabang Sept. 7, Silindoeng Oct. 7.

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

Netherlands NG—Papua-NG The Dutch KPM Line operates MV Arfak (70 tons) from Hollandia, NNG, on the sth of each month (approx.) to Wewak, Madang and Lae, in P-NG; and MV Karossa (2,000 tons) from Merauke (south coast of NNG) about every six weeks to Port Moresby (P-NG), Sorong (NNG), Dill (Portuguese Timor), and Singapore, with passengers and 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 vessels: Donegal: Port Moresby, arr. July 30.

Middlesex: Port Moresby, arr. Sept. 30.

Sydney agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Ltd., 4 Bridge St. Port Moresby agents: Burns Philp (New Guinea), Ltd. 153 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Europe - P NG - Netherlands NG A new direct service from the Continent and/or London, via Panama Canal to Papua-New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea was inaugurated jointly by Nederlands Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd when MV Neder Eems called at P-NG ports in June. There will be an approximate four to five weeks schedule and the service will include Honiara (BSI) once a quarter.

MV Karachi: From Continent, due Honiara Aug. 19-20; then Pt. Moresby (Aug. 23). Rabaul, Lae (Aug. 28), Madang; and Hollandia, Biak, Manokwari, Sorong in NNG; return to Europe.

MV Mataram: Dep. Hamburg Aug. 4, via Panama, due Pt. Moresby Sept. 28-30, Rabaul Oct. 2-4, Lae Oct. 5-6, Madang Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA Oct. 7-8, Hollandia Oct. 10-13, Biak 0( 14-18, Manokwari Oct. 19-21, Sorong 0( 22.

MV Bintang: Dep. London Sept. 17, di Ft. Moresby Nov. 2, then Rabaul, La Madang and NNG ports.

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

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Pacific The China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessf Chefoo and Chekiang maintain a si weekly service from Japan to Hungkoj thence southwards through Papua-Ne Guinea ports, BSI, New Hebrides, Nt Caledonia and Fiji with an extension I Tonga if cargo is available; usually d turns to Japan direct.

Chefoo: From Japan, via Hongkoil Rabaul, Madang, Lae July 21, Port Mores!

July 27, Townsville July 30, Santo Aug.

Noumea Aug. 6, Suva/Lautoka Aug. 7, r turn via Hongkong to Japan. Dep. Japs next south-bound voyage: Sept. 23 (a] prox.).

Chekiang: Dep. Japan Aug. 3. via Honj kong, Wewak Aug. 19, Madang Aug. 21, Li Aug. 23, Kavieng Aug. 25, Rabaul Aug. 2 Pt. Moresby Sept. 6, Honiara Sept. 9, San Sept. 13, Noumea Sept. 15, Suva/Lautol Sept. 26, thence via Hongkong to Japa arr. Oct. 17 (approx.).

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The Australia-West Pacific Line mot vessels Arcs, Citos. Delos and Milos mail tain regular services between Australis ports and Japan. Northbound vessels cs at Manila. Hongkong and Japan; soutl bound vessels call at any or all of tl following: Hongkong. Manila. Sandaka Madang. Lae, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydne Melbourne and Adelaide, with quarter calls at Gizo (opt.), Honiara and Van koro. in BSIP; and at Santo and Vili New Hebrides.

Milos: From Japan, via Hongkong. Ntl Borneo ports, Madang, Rabaul, Honiai July 20, Vanikoxo July 23, Santo July 2 Vila July 28, Brisbane July 31, Sydney Aui 3. Dep. Sydney Aug. 17 (approx.) vi Manila and Hongkong for Japan, arr. Sep 9. Dep. Japan on next south-bound voyag( Sept. 16 (approx.).

Citos: Prom Japan, via Hongkong. Ntl Borneo ports. Rabaul July 26, Lae (open Brisbane Aug. 2, Sydney Aug. 6. Dei Sydney Aug. 30. via Manila and Hongkon for Japan.

Delos: Dep. Japan Aug. 10, via Hong kong, Nth. Borneo ports, Rabaul Aug. 3( Lae Sept. 3, Brisbane Sept. 9, Sydney Sepi 154 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Dep. Sydney Oct. 5 via Manila and ;kong for Japan, arr. Oct. 22 (approx.), as: Dep. Japan Aug. 31. via Hongkong.

Borneo ports, Lae Sept. 20, Brisbane 26, Sydney Sept. 29. Dep. Sydney 19 via Manila and Hongkong for n, arr. Nov. 12. tails from Wllh. Wilhelmsen Agency Ltd., 30 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands ts (Buntings, Lae; Town Transport, iul; Strachan and Strachan. Madang; > Trading Corp., Honiara; D. J. )ay and Co.. Santo; Wm. Breckwoldt Co . Vila).

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Bougainville, Etc.

J Tulagl, 10 passengers, makes a round Norfolk Is., Vila. Santo, Honiara BSI ports, Bougainville ports, leaving ley about once every six weeks. Last icy sailing: July 19. Next Sydney sail- Sept. 8. stalls from Burns, Philp and Co., 7 ge Street. Sydney.

Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides-Tahiti sssels of Messageries Maritimes Line, ing from Marseilles, via West Indies Panama, call about every six weess ’apeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea Sydney, and return by same route, present on this run are the motors, Tahitlen and Caledonlen and a •tered vessel, Melanesien. Next Sydney ngs: Tahitien Aug. 6. Melanesien Sept. 3aledonien Nov. 9.

V Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes) ntains about monthly passenger sailbetween Sydney and Noumea and New Hebrides (Vila and Santo). Last ney sailing: July 17. Next Sydney ings: Aug. 12, Sept. 2. etails from Sydney agents: Messageries •itimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney.

I. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa IV Tofua maintains a service from :kland to Suva. Nukualofa, Vavau, e. Pago Pago. Apia, Suva and return Auckland. Last Auckland sailing; July Next Auckland sailings: Aug. 9, Sept.

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IV Matua maintains a service from ;kland to Lautoka, Suva. Nukualofa, a. Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington and ren to Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: y 28 (after survey). Aug. 25, Sept. 22. >etails from all offices of Union Steam p Co. of NZ.

Sydney-Pacific Ports- Panama-UK shaw Savill’s one-class all-passenger er Southern Cross makes four round- >-world voyages per year, two westind, then two east-bound, calling at i and Tahiti every trip; Due Liverpool g 10 from Papeete (dep. July 17). xt voyage: Dep. Southampton Sept. 8, , Capetown, Sydney Oct. 14-16, Wellingi Oct. 19-21, Suva Oct. 25, Papeete Oct. ■3O, thence via Panama Canal to uthampton, arr. Nov. 23.

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The passenger vessel Maul Pomare Untains a monthly (approx.) service beeen Auckland, NZ, and Cook Group Details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories, Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

N. America-Tahiti-Central Pacific-NG Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thor I maintain a regular service from Pacific Coast North American ports, with sailings over 35-40 days. Some ports depend on cargoes offering.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco Aug. 9, Los Angeles Aug. 10-12. Papeete Aug. 23- 25 Pago Pago Aug. 29-31, Apia Aug. 31- Sept. 2, Suva Sept. 5-6, Noumea Sept. 8-9, Brisbane Sept 12-14. Rabaul Sept. 19-20, Santo Sept. 24-25, Apia (open), Pago Pago Sept. 29-30. Los Angeles Oct. 14-15, San Francisco Oct. 16-17. _ Thor I: Dep. San Francisco Sept. 19, Los Angeles Sept, 20-22, Papeete Oct. 2-4, Pago Pago Oct. 8-10, Apia Oct. 10-12, Suva Oct- -15-17 Lautoka Oct. 18-19, Noumea Oct. 21- 22. Vila Oct. 23-24, Townsville. Rabaul, Lae, Apia (all open), Pago Pago Oct. 28-31, Los Angeles Nov. 10-12. San Francisco Nov. 13.

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St., San Francisco, USA, and Islands Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco operates a regular five-weeks passengercargo service from Los Angeles with the Ventura, Sierra, Sonoma and Alameda, Southern terminal ports vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Pago, Suva, Sydney, Brisbane and other Australian ports depending on cargoes.

Last Sydney sailing; Alameda July 15.

Next Sydney sailings for USA; Sierra Aug. 23, Sonoma mid-Sept.

American Pioneer Line has eight ships (Pioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef. Cove, Star, Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Panama -US Atlantic Coast service with calls at Papeete on southbound voyage. Sailings approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter and Co.) operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton. 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation is entirely first class, two-berth cabins, with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu Last Sydney sailing: July 15. Next Sydney sailing; Late Nov.

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty.. Ltd.. 19 Bridge St..

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Sydney-Fiji MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka, with cargo and passengers (first class accommodation for eight); Last Sydney sailing: July 15 (after docking).

Next Sydney sailing; Aug. 8.

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-North America Cargo vessels Waihemo and Waitomo, and others, operated by the Union Steam Ship Company of NZ. Ltd., maintain a monthly service across the Pacific, from Sydney to Vancouver and USA ports, via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa and Apia, as cargoes offer. Occasional calls are made at Panning Island. They have limited passenger accommodation. Next Sydney sailings: Waihemo July 27, Waitomo late Aug.

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.. Ltd., act as Loading Brokers in London, and Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd., 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: 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; From San Francisco and Los Angeles, at Papeete July 26-28, Auckland Aug. 3-4. Melbourne Aug. 8.

Sydney Aug. 10-12, Auckland Aug. 15, Suva Aug. 18, Pago Pago Aug. 19, Honolulu Aug. 24-25, San Francisco Aug. 30 Mariposa: Dep. San Francisco Aug. 14, Los Angeles Aug. 15, Papeete Aug. 23-25.

Auckland Aug 31-Sept. 1, Sydney Sept. 4-7, Auckland Sept. 10, Suva Sept. 13, Pago Pago Sept. 14, Honolulu Sept. 19-20, Vancouver Sept. 26, San Francisco Sept. 28.

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 Fiji, NZ, and Australia, 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, Lautoka July 26, Suva July 27; Van Neck, Lautoka Aug. 30, Suva Sept. 1.

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe The Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail’s MV Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (quarterly) and MV Oranje (irregularly) sail from Sydney for Europe, via NZ, Tahiti and Panama Canal, giving Sydney-Papeete connection in eastbound direction only. Next Sydney sailings: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Aug. 12 (Papeete Aug. 22-23), Oranje Oct. 11 (Papeete Oct. 18-19).

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

The Italian Sitmar Line (Panama flag) MV’s Fairsea and Castel Felice sail from Sydney for Europe, via NZ, Papeete and Panama at irregular intervals, with eastbound calls at Tahiti. Next Sydney sailing: Fairsea Jan. 12, 1961.

Details from Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd., 58 Margaret St., Sydney.

Tonga-Fiji Shipping Service The Tonga Shipping Agency, as agents for the Tonga Copra Board, operates a 155 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Auckland, NZ), Oct. 8, Nov. 5, Dec. 1 (leaving Suva about four days later 1 each case).

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1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- 1 Hawaii-N. America (First and Tourist Class available betweei Australia and North America; First ani Economy between San Francisco and UK.;

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(Boeing 707 Jets) NORTHWARDS Tues.: Sydney (dep. 5 p.m), Nadi. Fij (arr. 10.50 p.m.. dep. 11.40 p.m.), Hono lulu (Hawaii), San Francisco.

Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.), Nad (arr. 10.50 p.m., dep. 11.40 p.m.). Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, Londoii Fri.: Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.). Nadi (arr 10.50 p.m., dep. 11.40 p.m.), Honolulu San Francisco, extending to Vancouver Sun.: Dep. Sydney (5 pm.), Nadi (arr 10.50 p.m., dep. 11.40 p.m.), Honolulu San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS Mon. and Fri.: London, New York, Sar Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5 a.m. dep. 5.40 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 8.30 a.m.); Tues.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nad: (arr. 5 a.m., dep. 5.40 a.m.), Sydnej (arr. 8.30 a.m.).

Sat : Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu Nadi (arr. 5 a.m., dep 5.40 a.m.) Sydney (arr. 8.30 a.m.).

Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr 5 a.m., dep. 5.40 a.m.), Sydney (arr 8.30 a.m.). (Note: International Dateline crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.) Qantas Super-Constellation aircraft under charter to TEAL, from Melbourne and Auckland connect at Nadi on Wednesdays with Qantas northbound flights, and on Thursdays with southbound flights (see table 17).

TEAL Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra aircraft from Auckland, NZ, connect with Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (from Christchurch) and at Nadi on Wednesday (to Auckland) and Sunday (to Christchurch) 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; ex-London Sat. connects QEA southbound ex-San Francisco Sun.

By Pan American Airways

(With Intercontinental Jet Clippers*) Mon. and Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. for Nadi (arr. 10.40 p.m., dep. 11.55 p.m.), Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr. Mon. and Thurs. 5.25 p.m.). Connections at Honolulu for San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Tues. and Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 9.30 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.10 a.m. 156 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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COMPANY Dalton House, 115 Pitt Street, SYDNEY Telephone BW 8663-4 hurs. and Mon., dep. 6.30 a.m. Thurs. nd Mon.) and Sydney (arr. 8.50 a.m. hurs. and Mon.). iternational Dateline is crossed ben Nadi and Honolulu.) 3 an American B-377 (Stratocruiser) sed on connecting services Auckland, :, Tafuna (American Samoa), and }lulu (see table 20).

Iy Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) y Fri.: Sydney (dep. 1 p.m.), Auckind, Nadi (arr. Sat. 3 am., dep. 4 .m.), Honolulu, Vancouver, (thence by ritannia aircraft on to Amsterdam, rr. Mon 11.35 a.m.). y Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam (by Britannia) t 11 p.m. for Vancouver (dep. by DC- B 1.30 p.m. Sun.), Honolulu, Nadi arr. Wed. 6 a.m., dep. 7 a.m.), Auckmd and Sydney (arr. Wed. 5 p.m.). rote: Crosses International Dateline en e.)

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PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea om July 9, Qantas’ Sydney-New Guinea ices have been taken over by Trans ;ralia Airlines and by Ansett-ANA, oping from Sydney to Lae and return. . runs the service Saturdays and Tues- Ansett-ANA Mondays and Thursday: each airline operates the Friday ice alternately.

NORTHBOUND (DC6B) First and Tourist Classes Sat. (TAA) Dep. Arr. icy, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Sun. Sun.

Dep. Arr. bane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a m.

Dep. Arr.

Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae, 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Mon. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr. ney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Tues. Tues.

Dep. Arr. bane, 12.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae, 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Tues. (TAA) Dep. Arr. ney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed. Wed.

Dep. Arr. ibane, 12.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae. 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Thurs. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr. ney, 8.20 p.m. Brisbane, 10 20 p.m.

Thurs. Fri.

Dep. Arr. ibane, 11.20 p.m. Townsville, 2.15 a.m.

Fri.

Dep. Arr. msville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae, 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Fri* Dep. Arr. ney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Sat. Sat.

Dep. Arr. ibane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae, 7.45 a.m.

TAA: July 22, Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30. etc.; A/ANA: July 29, Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9, 23, etc.

SOUTHBOUND First and Tourist Classes Sun. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10 30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes Tues. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes Wed. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes Fri. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Townsville, 2.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 2.55 p.m. Brisbane, 5.40 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 6.25 p.m. Sydney, 8.30 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes Sat.* Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m. * TAA: July 23, Aug. 6, 20, Sept. 3, 17 etc.; A/ANA; July 30, Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10, 24, etc.

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Cairns

TAA, with Fokker Friendship Alt. Mon.: Dep. Cairns 3.10 p.m., arr. Pt.

Moresby 5.30 p.m. (July 25, Aug. 8, 22, Sept. 5, 19, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.35 a.m., arr. Cairns 10.05 a.m. (July 26, Aug. 9, 23, Sept. 6, 20, etc.).

TOWNSVILLE-PT. MORESBY- TOWNSVILLE A/ANA, with DC4 Airfreighter (Tentative Schedule) Alt. Mon.; Dep. Townsville 12.15 p.m.. arr.

Cairns 1.15 p.m., dep. Cairns 2.15 p.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 4.45 p.m. (July 18, Aug. 1, 15, 29, Sept. 12, 26, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.35 p.m., arr. Cairns 10.05 p.m., dep. Cairns 11.05 p.m., arr. Townsville 12.05 p.m. (July 19, Aug. 2, 16, 30, Sept. 13, 27, etc.). 3. P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Port Moresby-Kikori-Baimuru

(DH Otter) Via Yule Island, Kerema, Baimuru, Kikorl: Alt. Tues., returning same day via Baimuru, Kerema, Yule Is. (July 26, Aug. 9, 23, Sept. 6, 20, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Via Yule Is., Baimuru: Alt. Tues. returning same day (Aug. 2. 16, 30, Sept. 13, 27, etc.).

Via Ihu, Baimuru, Kikori: Alternate Thurs. (July 28, Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8, 22, etc.), ret. via Baimuru, Kerema the same day.

Port Moresbt-Daru (Dcs)

Via Baimuru: Alt. Thurs, returning same day via Balimo (July 28, Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8, 22, etc.).

Via Kerema. Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (Aug. 3. 17, 31, Sept. 14, 28, etc.), returning alt.

Fri. (Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) Port Moresby, Abau, Samara! each Mon., departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day.

Alt. Wed.: Port Moresby, Samarai, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (July 27, Aug. 10, 24, Sept. 7, 21, etc.).

Alt. Sat.; Port Moresby, Samarai, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (July 23, Aug. 6, 20, Sept. 3, 17, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (July 30, Aug. 13, 27. Sept. 10, 24, etc.).

L AE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-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.

Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DH Otter) Fri.: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wabag, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer River, Kainantu, 157 tCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

Wapenamunda. Wabag. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

Lower Highlands

(DH Otter) Tues.: 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)

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.20 a.m., arr.

Bulolo 8.30 a.m.

Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.20 am., arr.

Bulolo 9.30 a.m.

Sun.: Dep. Bulolo 8.50 a.m., arr. Wau 9.05 a.m., dep. Wau 9.35 a.m., arr.

Pt. Moresby 10.40 a.m.

Wed.; Dep. Bulolo 9.50 a.m.. arr. Wau 10.05 a.m., dep. Wau 10.35 a.m., arr.

Pt. Moresby 11.40 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. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Madano

(DCS) Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m., via Goroka. Minj, arr. Mt. Hagen 11.10 am.; 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.*: Dep. Lae 11.30 a.m. Finschhafen 12.30 p.m., arr. Rabaul 2.45 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 6.45 a.m. direct to Lae, arr. 9.15 a.m.

Sun.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct to Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Lae 10.30 am., 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 and Jacquinot Bay 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 am., via Jacquinot Bay, arr. Hoskins 10.55 am., dep. Hoskins 11.15 a.m , arr. Rabaul 12.20 p.m. (Aug. 1, 15, 29, Sept. 12, 19, etc.).

Services By Mandated Airlines

(Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka.

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight.

Mon.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng.

Rabaul.

Wed.; Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Thurs.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng Momote. Wewak, Madang. Goroka, Lae.

Thurs.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.; Dep. Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng.

Rabaul.

Fri.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m. for Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 am. for Kavieng, Momote. Wewak, Madang.

Goroka, Lae.

LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) Qantas, with DCS aircraft Dep. Lae 11 a.m. alt. Wed. (Aug. 3, 17. 31.

Sept. 14, 28, etc.), calls at Madang and Wewak, and arr. Hollandia 3.30 p.m.

Dep. Hollandia 10 a.m. alt. Thurs. (Aug. 4, 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, 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 DCS 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, 12.30 p.m., arr.

Lae 4.30 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. (Dep. Biak July 28, Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8. 22, etc.; dep. Lae July 29, Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9, 23, etc.) 4. Aust.-Netherlands NG KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney (dep.

Fri. 3.45 p.m.) and Holland with calls at Biak, NNG (arr. Sat. 1.05 a.m., dep 2.15 a.m.), Manila (Philippines) and Amsterdam (arr. Sun. 3.20 p.m.). Dep. Amsterdam Sat. 6.35 p.m., via Manila and Biak (arr. Tues. 12.05 a.m.) for Sydney (arr.

Tues. 12.20 p.m.).

DC7C aircraft dep. Biak Tues. and Sat. at 2.45 a.m. for Japan, Alaska and Amsterdam (arr. Wed., Sun., 1 p.m.). Dep. Amsterdam Wed. and Sat. 10.50 p.m. for Alaska, Japan and Biak (arr. Sat . Tues. 12.25 a.m.).

Nng Internal Services

Netherlands New Guinea Airlines DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, Kaimana. Manokwari, Noemfoer, Kebar and Ransiki; Twin Pioneer to Seroei, Genjem and Wamena; and Beaver to Steenkool, Fakfak, Kaimana, Teminabuan, Sorong, Ajamaroe, Napan, Wisselmeren, Kokonao, Wasior, Inawatan, Nabire, Arso, and Kokas. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons Qantas, with DC3 aircraft Mon.: Dep. Lae 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, arr. 5 p.m. same day.

Tues.; Dep. Honiara 7 a.m. for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr, 3.4 p.m. same day. 6. Sydney-Noumea Qantas, with Electra International 1 Fortnightly service, every alt. Fri., wit tourist and first (sleeper-chairs) classes!

Dep. Sydney alt. Fri. (July 22, Aug. 5.11 Sept. 2, 16. 30, etc.) 10 a.m., ar Noumea 2.30 p.m., same day.

Dep. Noumea same day (alt. Fri.) 4 p.m arr. Sydney Fri. 7 p.m. 7. Paris-Sydney-Noumea-Fiji Fr. Polynesia-USA TAI, with DC7C aircraft Dep Paris every Sun, 6.45 p.m.. f( Athens, Teheran, Karachi, Bangkoj Saigon, Djakarta, Darwin, Sydni (arr. Wed. 6.35 a.m.).

Dep. Sydney Wed. 9.30 a.m. for Noun® (arr. 3 pm., dep. 5 p.m.), Nadi (ai 9 p.m., dep. 11 p.m.), Bora Bora (ai Wed. 7.55 a.m., dep. Thurs 7.45 pm. connects with Papeete by RAI flyim boat, see Table 24), Honolulu, L Angeles (arr. Fri. 6.10 p.m.).

Dep. Los Angeles, on return flight. Si 3.50 p.m. for Honolulu, Bora Bo: (arr. Sun. 8.55 a.m., dep. 10 p.ma connects with Papeete by RAI flyin boat—see Table 24), Nadi (arr. Tu< 3.35 a.m., dep. 4.35 a.m.), Noumi (arr. 6.30 a.m., dep. 4.30 p.m.), Sydn (arr. 8.10 p.m.).

Dep. Sydney Tues. 9.40 p.m. for Darwi Djarkata, Saigon, Bangkok, Karacj Teheran, Athens and Paris (arr. Thui 5.45 p.m.). (Note: Crosses International Dateline b tween Nadi, Fiji, and Bora Bora, Freni Polynesia.) 8. Sydney-Lord Howe Is. i Ansett Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd. with Sandringham Flyingboats Regular return flight from Rose Bay ba each Tuesday and Saturday (with ext flight Thursday as required). 9. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

Qantas, with Skymaster Alt. Sat. (July 30, Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10, etc.); dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NI 2. p.m.; dep. NI next day, Sun., 2.45 p.: for Sydney, arr. 6.45 p.m. (Flight e tends NI-Auckland-NI. See table ] below.) 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DC4 aircraft Tues. and Thurs.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Ca at 7 a.m., arr. Vila 8.55 a.m., and( Vila 9.30 a.m., arr. Santo 10.45 a.r dep. 12.15 p.m., arr. Vila 1.30 p.m., and( Vila 2.05 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4 p.m., 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallis Is.

TAI with DC4 aircraft Monthly, from Noumea on Aug. 14, Se] 11, Oct. 9, etc.

Dep. Noumea, Sun.. 6.30 a.m., arr. Na 11.35 am., dep. 12.55 p.m., arr. Wal Is. 3.45 p.m. Dep. Wallis 7 a.m. Mo: arr. Nadi 9.50 a.m., dep. 11.10 p.i arr. Noumea 2.15 p.m. same day. 158 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

2. Norfolk Is.-Auckland \L, by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) >at. (July 30, Aug. 13, 27. Sept. 10, 24, :.). Dep. Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auckid 7.45 p.m. Ret. next day, Sun. uly 31, Aug. 14, 28, Sept. 11, 25, etc.), ■p. Auckland 10.30 a.m.. arr. Norfolk 30 p m. 13. Auckland-Sydney L, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras (except Sun.): Dep. Auckland 9.30 m., arr. Sydney 11.55 a.m. (except Sun.): Dep. Sydney 1.30 tn., arr. Auckland 7.25 p.m.

ISA. Auckland-Brisbane IL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr. Brisne 11 a.m.

Dep. Brisbane 12 noon, arr. Aucknd 6.30 p.m. 38. Auckland-Melbourne kL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra ; Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr. Meliurne 12 noon.

Dep. Melbourne 1.15 p.m.. arr. ickland 8 p.m. 14. Sydney-Christchurch iL. with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras , Sun.: Dep. Sydney 9 a.m., arr. iristchurch 3 p.m. s. Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 4 p.m., t. Sydney 6.25 p.m. i. Christchurch-Melbourne IL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra : Dep. Christchurch 4 p.m., arr. Melmrne 7 p.m. ■s.: Dep. Melbourne 8.30 a.m., arr. hristchurch 3 p.m. 16. Sydney-Wellington \L, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra (Commencing July 26) ~ Fri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 9 a.m., arr. r ellington 3.10 p.m. ~ Fri., Sat.: Dep. Wellington 4.30 m., arr. Sydney 7.10 p.m. 17. Melbourne-NZ-Fiji L, with Super Constellation chartered from Qantas .: Dep. Melbourne 7 a.m., arr. Auckind 3 p.m.. dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., rr. Nadi 9.30 p.m. Return, same route, allowing day. onnects at Nadi with Qantas Boeing jet service from Sydney to USA.) 18. Auckland-Fiji AL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras and Qantas Super Constellations 5.; Dep. Auckland 6.30 p.m., arr. (adi 10.25 p.m. .*: Dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., arr. Nadi .30 p.m. : Dep. Auckland 11 a.m., arr. Nadi .55 p.m.

I.: Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. Auckland p.m. rs. Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. Auck and 4.15 p.m.

Dep. Nadi 4 p.m., arr. Auckland ; p.m. * Wednesday flight ex - Auckland, and Thursday flight ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL. 18A. Christchurch-Fiji TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra Sat.: Dep. Christchurch 3.45 p.m., arr.

Auckland 5.30 p.m., dep. Auckland 6.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 10.25 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Nadi 11 a.m., arr. Auckland 3 p.m., dep Auckland 4 p.m., arr.

Christchurch 5.45 p.m. 19. Fiji-Western Samoa TEAL, with Solent Flyingboats Dep. Suva alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses Dateline, arr. Satapuala (Western Samoa) Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Dep. Satapuala Mon. at 8 a.m., crosses Dateline, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 a.m. (Dep. Suva July 21, 28, Aug. 4, 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc.; dep. Apia July 25, Aug. 1. 8, 22, Sept. 5, 19, Oct. 3, etc.) 20. NZ-Fiji-Am. Samoa- Hawaii Pan American Airways, with 8377 (Stratocruiser) aircraft Dep. Auckland 4.45 p.m., Mon. and Thurs., arr. Nadi 10.10 p.m.; dep. Nadi Tues. only 11.30 a.m., crosses International Dateline, arr Tafuna (American Samoa) 3.50 p.m. Mon.; dep. Tafuna 5 p.m., arr. Honolulu 6.20 a.m. Tues.

Dep. Honolulu 10 p.m. Mon., arr. Tafuna 9.05 a.m. Tues.; dep. Tafuna 10 a.m., crosses International Dateline, arr. Nadi Wed. 12.45 p.m.; dep. Nadi 6 a.m., Thurs. and Mon., arr. Auckland 11.40 a.m. 21. Fiji-Tahiti TEAL, with Solent Flyingboats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alt. Thurs., crosses International Dateline, arr. Satapuala (W.

Samoa) 1.55 p.m. Wed.; dep. Satapuala 2.30 a.m. Thurs., arr. Aitutaki (Cook Is.) 8 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 a.m. arr.

Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. (Dep. Suva July. 21, 28, Aug. 4, 18, Sept- 1, 15, 29, etc.) Dep. Papeete 7.30 a.m. alt. Sun., arr.

Aitutaki 11 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 12.30 p.m., arr. Satapuala 5 p.m.; dep. Satapuala 8 a.m. Mon., crosses International Dateline, arr. Suva 10.55 a.m. Tues. (Dep. Papeete July 24, 31, Aug. 7, 21, Sept. 4, 18, Oct. 2, etc.) 22. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft and Beaver Amphibian Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights dailymorning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: One flight daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Matei, Taveuni): One flight—Mon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusavu): One flight—Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva; One flight—Mon.

Suva-Ura (Taveuni)-Suva: One flight Wed., Sun.

Suva-Matei-Suva; One flight—Sat.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Matei - Suva; One flight—Tues.

Suva - Matei - Labasa - Matei - Savusavu - Suva: One flight—Fri.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Suva.

Suva-Levuka-Suva; Return flights Tues. and Thurs.

Suva-Kadavu-Suva: Return flights alternate Mon. mornings (July 25, Aug. 8, 22, Sept. 5, 19, etc.) and alternate Fri. afternoons (July 22, Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc.). 22A. Fiji-Tonga Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron aircraft On a non-scheduled basis, with flights generally departing Nausori (near Suva) on the morning of each fourth Thursday (Aug. 11, Sept. 8, Oct. 6, etc.) and departing Fau’amotu, Tongatapu, on return flight on following Saturday morning (Aug. 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, etc.). Flying time is about three hours each way. Tourist Class only, with 44 lb baggage allowance. The airline leases the only accommodation house in Nukualofa, Tongatapu, and arranges reservations.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Suva. 23. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service TRANSPAC, with Herons and Rapides Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., arr. Mare 4 p.m.) and Thurs. (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., arr. Mare 10 a.m.).

Noumea-Ouvea: Wed., Thurs. and Sat. (dep. Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 a.m.).

Noumea-LIfou: Tues., Wed., Sat., (dep Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.), Thurs. (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou 1 p.m.).

Noumea-Kounle (Isle of Pines): Mon., Sat. (dep. Noumea 10.30 am., dep.

Kounle, noon).

Noumea-Koumac: Mon., Sat. (dep. Noumea 1 p.m., dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 p.m.). Note: On this flight a call will be made at Plaine des Gaiacs if required. 24. French Polynesia Inter- Island Service Reseau Aerien Interinsulalre with flyingboats Service to the Leeward Group (Isles Sous le Vent).

Sun.: One morning (dep. 7 a.m.) flight Papeete-Raiatea-Bora Bora (arr. 8.45 a.m.); and one morning (dep. 10 a.m.) return flight Bora Bora-Papeete-Bora Bora. arr. 4.15 p.m.

Mon.: One morning (dep. 8 a.m.) flight Bora Bora-Raiatea-Papeete (arr. 10 a.m.).

Wed.: One morning (dep. 6.30 a.m.) return flight Papeete - Raiatea - Bora Bora - Papeete (arr. 10.45 a.m.).

Fri.; One morning (dep. 7.30 a.m.) flight Papeete-Raiatea-Bora Bora (arr. 8.45 a.m ) and one afternoon flight (dep. 12.15 p.m.) Bora Bora-Raiatea-Papeete (arr. 2 p.m.).

Booking agents in Tahiti; Messageries Maritimes, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete. 25. Hawaii-Tahiti South Pacific Air Lines, of Honolulu, with Super-G Constellation aircraft Pending completion of Papeete Airport, SPAL aircraft lands at Bora Bora and the final 140 miles of the route is by Bermuda flyingboat of the local RAI service. (See table 24.) Mon.; Dep. Honolulu 10 p.m., arr. Bora Bora 7.30 a.m., Tues., connects with RAI service for Papeete.

Tues.: Connection from Papeete by RAI service then dep. Bora Bora 10.30 a.m., arr. Honolulu 8 pm.

Tahiti agent: John Lynch, Hotel Grand Faugerat, Papeete. (Continued on page 168) 159 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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Pacific Commerce and Produce They Want More P-NG Capital or a pleasant change, every in June and early July ted to be talking about the f for development capital in m-New Guinea.

STRALIAN Prime Minister (lenzies told a Melbourne meetng that the Territory needed >tment from outside to raise its g standard. rritories Minister Mr. Paul uck said in Port Moresby that Guinea’s future demanded ralian investment, management technological skill, and the irnment wanted the Territory ave all three. columnist in the Sydney ncial Review called for new lopment work in P-NG. ew Guinea is a place for real lopment, the non-sophisticated that built western civilisation,” said. “And it’s in Australia’s . . . When the urgent time- ; is drafted there will be a big that only Australian business play.” le columnist, Mr. H. W. Herbert, that now Fiji Industries Ltd. been created by several iralian-Fijian companies to ark on Fiji’s first cement manuuring business, it was time the e sort of thing occurred in New aea. lere could be a “New Guinea istries Ltd.” to embark on prong a dozen different basic modities. .1 these views brought support i Australian businessmen, ining one comment from Mr. K.

J. Milburn, managing director Concrete Industries (Australia) (part of the Monier group) took the opportunity to point that Concrete Industries at least had already begun as a pipe opener in New Guinea —it had built a big factory in Port Moresby in late 1958 and now had a pipe making and concrete block makingfactory going at a cost of £lOO,OOO.

Houses of all sorts were now being built of the company’s products in New Guinea, and concrete blocks equivalent to about 500,000 bricks had been used in Territory building work in the last three months alone.

Drop in World Copra Prices NEW lower tentative prices for P-NG copra, following a world market decline in June, were announced by the P-NG Copra Marketing Board late last month.

From July 1, rates at main port depots were reduced by £7/10/- per ton, and now are; Per ton Hot Air Dried .. .. £65 0 0 Fair Merchantable Sun Dried £63 10 0 Smoke Dried £62 10 0 In other territories, too, the price paid to growers has fallen —in Fiji, for example, early July rate for Hot Air Dried copra was £FS3/17/6, against £F79/2/6 in January; and in BSI the Copra Board dropped the price by £5 on June 20 and another £5 as from July 1, making First Grade £6O per ton (£B6 last February) .

The abrupt decline mid-month in world prices was due mainly to reports of increased production and anticipated heavier shipments from the Philippines and Indonesia, stated Mr. I. McDonald, P-NG Board chairman, on June 30.

However, there appears to be a stronger buying interest in forward parcels than is usual at this time of year, he continued. Thus, indications are that some consumers at least do not expect prices to fall much lower in the near future.

On the other hand, there are others who suggest that copra will have to drop to around £S L g.62/10/per ton if it is to attract new consumers or even win back some of those driven to using substitutes in 1958 and 1959. Average London price during June was £Stg.69, lowest for two years.

COPRA’S RlVALS.—Latest world crop estimates for 1959-60 indicate that the quantity of groundnuts entering international trade this year will be considerably less than in recent years, and that much of the European demand for edible oil seeds will continue to be met by US and Chinese soyabeans. Only a moderate expansion at best in copra and coconut oil can be expected, as little improvement can be foreseen in the Philippines, particularly following typhoon damage in May and again in June.

World production in copra has been declining, although given a return to normal or better seasons in the Philippines and more settled conditions in Indonesia an increase would probably result. In this regard, the following figures relating to world production of the main oilseed crops are of interest: Copra Groundnuts Soya Tons Tons Tons 1938-39 . . 2,410.000 8,011,000 12,562,000 1955- . . 3.417.000 11,575,000 20,666,000 1956- . . 3,325,000 12,456,000 23,776,000 1957- . . 2,947,000 12,603.000 24,396,000 1958- . . 2,898,000 13,050,000 27,412,000 1959- . 2,898,000 12,450,000 27,400,000 * Estimated.

CSR Shows Increased Profit, But Gives Fiji a Warning Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., earned net profit of £2,882,633 (increase of £343,349) for the year ended March 31, with non-sugar activities of the company contributing more than usual and offsetting some of the sugar profit setbacks.

In Fiji, raw sugar production was 283.000 tons, up 43 per cent., and greatly exceeded available markets, restricted by the International Sugar Agreement.

The Fiji activities received prominence in the company’s annual report and in the address to shareholders given by Mr, J. W. Dunlop, chairman, in Sydney on June 29.

“Profits from Fiji mills were very poor despite the large crop, mainly because of high costs, a prolonged season, low sugar content of cane and a type of contract with growers which, in the circumstances that have arisen, resulted in too high a price for cane,” said Mr Dunlop “Because of the large carry-over stock position and restriction on exports, it will be necessary to limit 1960 production to 199.000 tons. Each cane farmer in Fiji has, therefore, been individually advised of the tonnage which can be harvested from his farm.

“The company, as the mill-owner in Fiji, This recently completed native trading store at Koki, Port Moresby, is built of concrete masonry blocks made by Papuans at the factory of Concrete Industries (NG), Ltd., at Port Moresby. 161 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

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has been adversely affected by the working of the 10-year agreement with growers for the purchase of cane. It expired in May and negotiations for a new one have been proceeding for some time. Circumstances altered over the period of the last agreement, resulting in a reduced proportion of the sugar proceeds accruing to the miller. We have given attention to efficiency, and higher utilisation of plant and other improvements have been obtained, but the miller has had to face costs for wages, salaries, etc., which rose steadily, and recently more rapidly, and which have had to be met out of his lower share of the sugar proceeds.

“The new cane purchase contract we seek is proving difficult to negotiate. It is designed to promote sound organisation in the industry, to improve our share of the sugar proceeds and to safeguard our financial position in Fiji reasonably. The adjustments we seek can be effected without materially altering growers’ prosperity.

“There can be no long-term future place or function for private enterprise capital and the expertise that goes with it, if economic or political circumstances take away reasonable security for assets or satisfactory prospects for the rate of earnings required by the owners of the capital and available to them elsewhere. Great importance for our future prospects in Fiji attaches to the new contract for the purchase of cane and to the general attitude in Fiji towards capital investment, especially capital from outside Fiji.

“Great efforts are being made to find a solution to the problems in Fiji on a basis which will enable CSR to continue to play a constructive part in that Colony, in accordance with our tradition and continuing policy. We remain hopeful that a fair solution will be found.

“But failure of income earning ability in Fiji, or even loss of assets there, would be much less detrimental to the company’s overall financial position than it would have been some years ago, before the diversification and amplification of our activities in Australia,” he stressed.

It was announced at the annual meeting that CSR £2O shares will be split into £1 shares “in association with and as a part of the next major capital issue, whenever this may be necessary”—but no hint as to the timing of this move was given.

Oil Search Pulls Out From BSI Oil Search, Ltd., will not proceed with its plan to take out exploration licences to seek petroleum in the British Solomon Islands, as “PIM” predicted last month.

Since last December, the company carried out preliminary investigations in an area east of Honiara, Guadalcanal, but results were not encouraging, it has officially announced.

Another Carpenter Take-Over As part of its policy of diversification, W. R. Carpenter Holdings, Ltd., has entered the neon sign business by acquiring Neon Holdings, Ltd., of Sydney, biggest neon company in Australia, as a fullyowned subsidiary. WRC recently took over two other concerns outside the normal scope of its Islands trading, planting and shipping interests—paper merchandising and flour milling.

Price for Neon Holdings was satisfied by issuing 711,705 WRC 5/- shares, having face value of £177,926. At current market price of around 30/- for Carpenter shares, the deal is worth over a million pounds.

Directors say that earnings acquired are more than adequate to cover additional dividend requirement at the current 12y 2 per cent. rate.

Fiji Fails To Fill NZ Banana Quota In the first four months of 1960, |P shipped 60.000 cases of bananas to N( Zealand The quota was 80 000 cases.® These figures were given by S. Raisela field officer of the Agricultural Depai ment. in a radio talk on banana prodU tion from Suva in June.

“People in banana areas think that th( bananas will be wasted because thev ca not be sold to NZ, but I would like! make it clear that the quota which® will accept from Fiji is not being filled he emphasised.

New Zealand will take 20,000 cased month—24o,ooo cases a year, for whi Fiji would receive £264,000. Last ye growers shipped only 73.831 cases, valu at £81.124. Thus £182.876 which cou have come to Fiji remained in NZ. 1 “It is believed that we will not ful our quota this year. Indeed, Fiji cann fill its quota unless banana plantatio are looked after properly. Unfortunate most plantations are overgrown with wee and very neglected,” he added.

Lolorua Rubber Profit Up—Steady 20 Per Cent. Div. j Lolorua Rubber Estates, Ltd., Papi earned net profit of £22,496, an lucres of £2,718 (or 13.7 per cent.) for the ye ended April 30.

Unchanged 20 per cent, dividend 1 quired £20,000.

Earning rate on capital moved up frc 19.8 to 22.5 per cent.

Record Production for Commonwealth-NG Timbers Commonwealth and New Guinea Timbe: Ltd., jointly owned by the Commonweal Government and Bulolo Gold Dredgii Ltd., had record production for the ye ended June 30.

The Bulolo mill produced 32,000,C square feet of 3/16-inch thick plywood,! well as other sizes, against 28.000,000 I the previous year.

P&O and Orient Co/s Get Together The successful introduction to the Pad passenger and cargo service of the I Orient and P. and O. liners under a joi arrangement not long ago has led 1 further integration.

From July 1, the shore establishments the two lines in Australia ceased to open as separate entities and were merged in new company known as P. and 0.-Orie Lines of Australia Pty., Ltd.

The change marks the disappearance! two old Sydney shipping names, as far the Pacific is concerned—Orient Stes Navigation Co., Ltd., and Macdons Hamilton and Co. Pty., Ltd. (though IV will be registered again to carry on ott Australian shipping and airways busines Overseas, P. and O. and Orient s) operate separately, but the Austral! changes are part of an overall plan whei by port agencies and establishments both fleets are being co-ordinated throug out the world. P. and O. now own i Orient shares.

Direct Shipping Would Assist NZ Goods in P-NG One possible result of a brisk 12-da market survey of Papua-New Guinea ] Mr. R. J. Inglis, of NZ Department Commerce and Industry, might be t! establishment of a direct shipping servi between Auckland and P-NG.

Mr. Inglis, on his return from the Ten tory, said prospects of P-NG becomingi 162 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Sydney Sales Prices

June 6, ’60 July 11 Plantations . . 16/3 16/3 s Philp .... 94/- 94/s Philp (SS) . . 64/6 64/- 84/2/6 £83/17/6 p Plantations 35/- 13/industries . . . — 19/3 .shalls 62/- 16/- •i Timber .... 22/6 21/3 ma Rubber . . . 11/3 11/3 aki 30/- 30/rua 13/3 13/boi 10/9 10/oik Is. Whaling . 7/2 7/6 tic Is. Timbers . 7/- 7/tation Holdings . 10/2 9/6 nsland Insurance 96/6 99/aerlands .... 7/4 7/3 . Pac. Insurance 28/- 28/- . New 23/- 23/mships Trading . 55/- 53/3 1. Carpenter Hold. 30/3 30/ar Oil 4/11 4/3

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FIJI July 9, ’58 June 6, ’60 July 11 »eror . . b5/9 s5/b4/3 ma ... — b43/6 b39/- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA >lo . . - b35/b45/b40/- G. Ltd bl/9% b2/6 b2/4 Search . b2/6 b4/10 b4/ll>/ 2 of N.G. bid s6d b4d I. Mines — bl40/bl30/lan Ap.in. b9d b3/5 s3/6 ). opt. . b6V 2 d bl/blOd :er Dev. b86/6 bl07/6 bll5/dy Creek b4d b3d b3d et for NZ goods were "exceedingly t”. He added that P-NG merchants importers had welcomed his trade ires.

Lth direct shipping, which I’ll discuss Mr. P. N. Holloway, NZ Minister of tries and Commerce, goods such as inned and frozen meat, butter, cheese ish would be able to compete favourwith Australian exports,” said Mr. conomic Outlook estors in the past year have become inditioned to market buoyancy that was scarcely a ripple of interest Sydney Stock Exchange shares, after usual end-of-flnancial-year lack of ty, rose again to a record level on 12—ordinaries index was 338.50. ile takeovers in themselves do nothing iprove earnings or growth prospects >mpanies outside the deal, they do ;n the investment market by giving ;o optimistic expectations all around, was illustrated during the month by 'avourable reaction on ’Change to a »y chain store giant, Woolworths, of million for Matthews Thompson », largest grocery chain in NSW.

July 18, G. J. Coles and Co., Ltd., worths’ rivals (335 stores against dies” 371) offered £7V 2 million for a lews Thompson takeover. MT have rocery shops. ese new developments moved the spotfrom General Motors-Holden which. iual each year, was under fire for its million profit and because half of it to USA in dividends, svever, GMH critics are apt to overthe benefits derived from the company ding the most popular and suitable car Lustralian conditions: £64 millions to •alian firms supplying goods and :es; employment of 20,000 workers a £22 million payroll; and a very antial slice of its profits to the Govent through taxation.

Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are In Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; $U52.25.) COPRA The British Ministry of Food 9-years Contract, which governed Copra prices in Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, Western Samoa. Solomon Islands, and Gilbert and Ellice Colony (and to some extent, in Tonga and Cook Islands) expired on December 31. 1957; since when each Territory has made its own arrangements for collection and marketing of copra.

PAPUA - NEW GUINEA:—AII production Is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by six members, including three planters’ representatives; and the Board directs distribution and sales, and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a) Unilever (under contract covering 1960), (b) Australia (for local consumption) and (c) crushing-mill in Rabaul. Prices generally arranged in accordance with ruling rate In Philippines market, with premiums for hot-air dried.

From July 1, 1960, P-NG Copra Board’s Tentative Purchase Prices, for copra delivered main ports: Hot-Air Dried. £A6S per ton; FMS. £A63/10/- per ton; Smoke-Dried, £A62/10/- per ton.

FIJI:—No Government control—producers sell where they wish. Bulk of copra goes to crushing-mills in Suva. On July 8 price was: HAD £FS3/17/6, PMI £FS3/10/-, FM2 £FSI/5/-.

WESTERN SAMOA;—Official Copra Board receives all production, and sells same and makes payments to producers.

Large proportion goes to Unilever, at Philippines FM grade rates, plus premiums up to £S3 per ton for hotair dried. Prices since March, 1959, have been: Hot-air dried, £867/13/8 per ton; sun-dried No. 1, £865/3/8; sun-dried No. 2. £B6l/13/8.

TONGA;—Sales are under Government control. Part of production goes to Europe, under arrangement with Unilever controlled by Philippines prices, and part on to open market.

SOLOMONS: —All production marketed through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines market. Price declared as from July 1; Ist grade, £A6O; 2nd grade, £ASB/10/-; 3rd grade, £AS6 per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports.

GILBERT AND ELLlCE;—Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates, less “stabilisation fund” charges, etc.

E. SAMOA: —Producers receive 7 cents lb. ($U5156,8 or £A7O/4/6 approx, per long ton). Periodic bonus, if average proceeds exceed Govt, buying price and expenses.

NEW HEBRIDES; —Price dropped to approximately £ A4O (8.000 Pac. francs) per ton delivered Vila/Santo on June 29. French price on June 29 was 90,500 Metrop. francs per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

COOK IS. AND NIUE IS.: Subject to the provisions of the copra contract between the Cook Islands and Niue Island shippers and Abels. Ltd., of Auckland, who operate the only New Zealand copra crushing mill, the price paid is the average London price for the previous month, less handling charges. The actual price paid to producers varies widely from island to island, ranging from £NZ3O to £NZSO per ton.

TOKELAUS: Price is based on the average London price for the month prior to shipment to Auckland crushers.

Other Produce

COCOA: —Islands prices are based on the rate for Ghana cocoa which on July 12 was £Stg. 232/10/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

W SAMOA; —Nominal price quoted in Sydney on July 12: £S22O, f.0.b., Apia, grade 1; £S2IS, grade 2.

P -N.G.: July 12.—Quote No. 1: £255- £265 (best quality). Quote No. 2: £240 (medium grade).

COFFEE; —P.-N.G.: July 12, good quality A grade, per lb, 4/2 to 4/3; B grade. 4/1; C grade, 4/- c.i.f., Sydney.

In early July world coffee prices were; Tanganyika A grade, £Stg.37s; Kenya A, £Stg.4oo, B, £Stg.3Bo; Uganda Robusta, £Stg.l32/10/-; all per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

PEANUTS: P.-N.G., July 12, Kernels: White Spanish 1/6 lb del. buyer’s store; Red Spanish, 1/4; Virginia Bunch, 1/7V 2 .

In Shell, 1/- lb.

RUBBER:— P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on July 11 was: No. 1 RSS, spot. 108 7 /b Straits cents per lb (38y 4 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, advised July 12: White and yellow label, processed, standard packs, 62/-; green label, 60/- c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.):—New prices from May, 1960—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £56/10/per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons £57 per ton. Vitamised and enriched white. 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £63 per ton, fow.; under 5 tons, £63/10/- per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc , £66 per ton f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Firm quotations for Australian White M.O.P. Shell in July by Sydney independent shell agents were; Sound £ AB5O, D £A6OO, E £A3OO. EE £A2OO (in store Sydney). Penrhyn Island; Approx. £NZSOO, f.0.b.. Rarotonga. Manihiki Island: Lagoon still closed. N.G.: No supplies offering, but last Sydney sales of Black-lip M.O.P. were at £292 per ton.

TROCHUS: Quote No. I—Papua-N.G. and 8.5. 1.—£190-195 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Quote No. 2; £lB5-£l9O per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—In demand, with buyers offering £465-£475 per ton.

CROCODILE SKINS: 12 in. and over, small-scale, first quality No. 1 quote; 12/per in. No. 2 quote: 11/6 per in.

PAPUAN GUM: £BO per ton del. buyer’s store, Sydney.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co..

Suva, quote 2/- to 4/- lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Suva merchants offer 3/per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

Londor and US Quotations Copra: London, July 8, Philippines, in bulk, $l9O US per long ton. c.i.f., UK/ Nth. European ports. Straits/Borneo, FMS. delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, £Stg 68/10/- per long ton. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil: London, July 8, Ceylon, 1%, in bulk, £Stg.lo3 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth.

European ports. Straits, 3%, £Stg.97/10/c.i.f.

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Yardley . . . . 1 Yorkshire Ins. . . 164 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

index to Vol. XXX lume XXX is indexed under the followheadings: and Asian fairs, tion. a.

KC. l Islands. •a. ths. er Is. hin g , Pearlg and Marine dustries. ,ert and Ellice Ith. istries( Misc.). shalls. Marius, Carolines. iru. r Caledonia.

New Guinea (Neth.).

New Hebrides.

Niue Is.

Norfolk Is.

Organisations.

Pacific (General).

Papua-New Guinea.

People.

Pitcairn Is.

Samoa, American.

Samoa, Western.

Solomon Is.

Ships and Shipping.

S.P.C.

Sport.

Tahiti.

Tonga.

Trading and Other Companies.

A tST JTSSi o’mbo Plan. 3-25; S.E. Asia Problems, 25.

VIATION: Samoan Airlines Ltd., 1-45, ynesian Airlines, 1-45. 9-125; Jet ft Control. 1-129; Fiji Airways, 2-17, 2 4-161 7-113. 11-119, 12-19; New lies, 2-17. 6-41. 8-17. 12-19; Fares 2-17, 9 6-116, 8-137. 9-136; Baglee s Do-Iturself Plane, 2-117, 5-51; Papeete. Air- •t 2-136 3-21, 9-129; Easter Is. AirporL 36; Nadi Airport. 3-37, 6-119 8-19, 25th niversary of Lady Southern Cross Flight, 3- Qantas Empire Airways, 4-161. 5-137, 0 7-19 9-123, 10-21. 12-19; T.E.A.L.. 5- 6-141. 7-129, 12-19; RNZAF, 5-122; n American Airways, 5-127; Dart-Herald me on NG Visit, 5-137; Ansett-ANA. 5r 7-19 10-21, 11-20, 11-129. 12-19; stralian-French Negotiations, 6-20 7- ) 8-17 ‘ Sydney-Noumea Service, 6-20, 29- Vital Period in Air Transportation, 11- TAA 7-19, 10-21, 12-19, 12-137; fiina Airport. Am. Samoa. 8-119; De Lvilland Caribou Aircraft, 9-75; Replacing e DC3 9-75. 12-143; BSIP Navigational ds 9-117; Marlins for RNZAF, 10-123; »rfolk Is Service, 12-19; Solomons-New ;brides Link. 12-19; New Hebrides Airies. 12-19: Reunion of Famous Airmen, -67.

C rorOA (see also individual Territories); 143; 6-158, 7-120, 7-125. 7-133, 7-159.

COFFEE (see also under individual Terrifies): 2-37, 7-159. 9-132.

COOK ISLANDS: Citrus Industry, 1-127, 135 12-125; Broadcasting, 1-131; Palmeron Is 2-26. 6-123, 10-145; Co-operatives, 'B6- Oil Supplies. 2-117; Mangaia, 2-119: arment Trade. 2-126; Manihiki Pearl hell Farm, 3-57, 12-115; Air Services, 5- 3; NZ Radio Broadcasts, 5-43; Mr. T. luir Becomes Director of Social Dev., 5- 9 Trade. 5-125, 8-131; Education, 6-71; few Taxes, 6-116; Teurukura Tungarangi AUG., 1959 TO JUL, 1960, INCLUSIVE (First numeral indicates number of issue, second numeral gives page.) Ariki. 6-123; Bulk Oil Terminal. 9-157; Manihiki Closed for MOP. 9-157; Taxation, 10-22; Suwarrow. 10-127, 11-121; Land Surveys 10-138; Labour Conditions, 10-160; Liquor Laws, 11-37, 12-119; Mangaia Candied Pineapple, 11-52; Shell Fishing at Suwarrow, 11-121; Reef Blasting, 11-103, Reflector-tape Beacons. 11-103, Water Supply. 12-117; Rarotonga Hotel, 12-117, Anti-filaria Campaign, 12-123; Fruit Processing, 12-135.

COPRA (and edible oils): 1-19, 2-21, 2- 131 3-17 4-143, 5-17, 5-61, 6-157, 7-35, 8- 162’, 9-18, 9-127. 9-157. 10-129. 10-160, 10- 162. 11-158, 12-161.

D DEATHS: Tom Harris, 1-87; Lily Tavia, 1- Dr. W. P. Williams, 1-135; Mrs. V.

Langdale, 1-151; Mrs. H. Doughty, 1-151; R. Schulke, 1-151; Mrs. W. E. Wyatt, 1- 151; Mrs. H. Van Pel. 1-151; Father Petelo Hamale. 1-151; A. Seo, 1-151; Admiral W.

Halsey. 2-73; W. M. Dupain. 2-151; Toby Millar, 2-151; J. C. Hammett, 2-151; George Bogese, 2-151; William B. Thompson, 2-151; Capt. A. H. Prosser, 2-151; O. J. Atkinson. 2- Capt. A. C. Bird, 3-152; P. R. Best, 3- R. E. P. Dwyer, 3-152; Robert Melrose, 3-153; W. E. Hardaker. 3-153; Norman Saggers, 3-153; Hung Lee-Lo, 3- 153; J. Twycross. 3-153; A. G. Smyth, 4- 23; Paul Best, 4-82; Pastor Mohaka, 4-149; G Shepherd, 4-149; K, A. Lewis, 4-149; Aio Tapiro, 4-149; B. J. White, 4-149; Charles Kuppswami. 4-149; Alan Heppner, 5-121; Donald Gerber, 5-121; Mrs. Sulita Mann. 5-147; Miss Beverley Bunting, 5-147; Apororaki Rameka, 5-147; W. A. Goddard, 5- Edgar George. 5-147; A. T. McL.

Scott, 5-147; Puati Ngatama, 5-147; J. A.

Chaprontier, 5-147; Ram Deo, 5-147; Henry J. Forsgren, 5-147; Commander R. B. M.

Long, 6-21, 7-41; Guiseppe Zavattaro, 6- 145; The Rev. Tom Dent, 6-145; Jim Hoile, 6- Paul Vois. 6-145; Capt. Julius Lundin, 6-145; W. E. Hancock, 7-145; Thomas Chambers, 7-145; S. H. Edwards, 7-145; Capt. J. Flynn, 7-145; Noel Carson Barry, 7- R. V. Robertson, 7-145; Mrs. Frances Becke, 7-146; Hector R. Wales, 7-146; Allan Young, 7-146; Lady Mildred Murray, 7-146; August Batze, 7-146; George Saunders, 7- 146; Cecil Hendrick, 7-146; Eric Riechelmann, 8-151; Rasual Buksh, 8-151; Bishop W. H. Baddley, 8-151; Mrs. Sheba Austen, 8- Frederick Green, 8-151; Angus Maddock, 8-151; Llewellyn Tracey, 8-151; Pastor Tupe, 8-151; Ernest Stanfield, 8-151; David Smith, 9-146; Mrs. Amy Lumley, 9-146; Richard Stewart. 9-146; M. R. Meecham, 9- 146; Miss Elsie Walter, 9-146; George Christie, 9-146: Mrs. D. Roberts, 9-146; Stephen Prasad. 9-146; Harm Nam, 9-146; R. C. Evans, 10-150; The Rev. Albert Aufinger, 10-150; W. D. Mander, 10-150; Hugh Ellis O’Keefe, 10-150; The Rev. Wesley Amos, 10-150; David Cunningham, 10- 150; George Wedgemann, 10-150; The Rev.

Father C. Destable, 10-150; Rev. J. Sau Faupula, 11-146; Tupe George Short, 11- 146; Oswald Hayman, 11-146; Sydney Ashton, 11-146; Graburn Stanley Barrack. 11- 146- Arthur Lewis, 11-146; Capt. George W. Hagendorn, 12-147; K. P. Wright, 12- 147; A. B. L. R. Tattersall, 12-147; Mrs Hena Wolfgramm, 12-148; Kingsley Roth 12-148.

E EASTER IS.: 2-136, 6-80.

F FIJI: Rewa Rice Project, 1-20, 1-53. 5-25. 7- 7-124, 9-39, 11-22: Sugar Industry Inquiry. 1-21, 2-23: CSR Co., 1-25, 1-53, 4-23 9-131 12-29; Internal Airlines. 1-46, Reef-viewing Tube. 1-119; Sukuna Decorations for Museum, 1-121; Rice Imports, 1- 123, 10-160; Homogenised Milk, 1-133, 4-135; Private Korolevu Air Service, 1-137. 4-65; Legco Elections, 1-143, 2-18, 3-117; Sukuna Memorial School. 1-147; Grand Pacific Hotel, 2-22, 4-17. 6-127, 11-75; D. B. Lakshman 2-23, 3-22, 3-25, 4-25, 9-121; Burns Report, 2-25. 4-123, 6-17, 6-25, 7-15, 8-18. 8- 9-20, 9-21, 9-25, 9-33. 10-23, 10-25, 10-53. 10- 12-25; Constitutional Reform. 2-49; Banana Industry, 2-63, 3-69, 6-126, 7-65, 7-131 10-162, 12-162; Rhinoceros Beetle. 2-117, 11-127; Hotel Suva, 2-119; Aerial Survey, 2-121; FMF Band in US, 2-123. 3- 45- Garlic Imports, 2-123; Levuka History, 2- Population, 2-129. 3-123; Rewa Sugar Project, 2-137, 4-21, 5-25, 5-49, 7-18, 11-22; Tourism, 2-139, 7-117, 9-132; Sugar Industry (General), 2-141, 3-22, 4-22, 4-133, 5-49, 7-140, 9-131, 11-130, 12-20, 12-29; Hibiscus Festival and Queen, 3-17, 4-83; Nadi Airport, 3-39. 6-119, 8-19; Forestry. 3- Dried Bananas, 3-69, 8-119, 10-160. 11- Old Attempt to Introduce Japanese. 3-84; Paint Factory, 3-121; Birth Control Clinics, 3-123; Copra Industry, 3-127, 7-140. 11-19; Port and Service Tax Remissions, 3-131; Varasikete Case, 3-133; Installation of Vunivalu at Bau. 3-139; Migration Policy, 4-49; Labour Statistics, 4-51; Earthquakes, 4-77; Lautoka Wharf, 4-117; Namoli Hotel. 4-117; Honey for Export, 4- 123; Low-cost Housing, 4-129, 7-135, 8-131; Water Charges Reduced, 4-138; Suva Riots, 5- 6-17, 6-18, 6-25, 6-29, 6-129, 6-130, 7- 13, 8-19. 10-18, 12-37; Economic Situation, 5-21. 6-125; NZ Labour Leader Criticises Fiji Conditions, 5-23; 1958-59 Trade Report, 5-63; Rotuma, 5-84; Fiji Broadcasting Commission, 5-121; Suva Traffic Lights, 5-131; War I Flags for Museum, 5-131; Budget. 5-133; Drinkers Gaoled. 5-139; Port Dues Reduced, 5-141; Income Tax Concessions, 5-143; Savu Savu Wharf, 5-109; Future of Fiji and Fijians, 6- £2O Notes Called In. 6-118; Cathay Hotel at Lautoka. 6-141; Wage Increases for Oil Co. Workers, 7-14; TV Reception, 7- Cricketers Visit Australia, 7-16; Historical Document —Britain’s Rejection of Fiji, 7-65; Crime Increase, 7-115; Govt.

Wages Rise, 7-115; Ghazitas Sledges Prohibited, 7-123; Cocoa Industry, 7-125, 7- 159; “Arcadia” Mishap, 7-127; Youth Clubs, 7-136; Cement Industry, 7-136; Colonial Mutual Co.’s Central Buildings, 7-137; Suva Street Numbers, 7-141; India Co.

Registers Copra Crushing Company, 7-157; Liquor Hours, 8-22, 10-22; Great Astrolabe Reef, 8-61; Cable Laying, 8-117; Banno Bros., 8-129, 11-19, 12-131; Education, 8-133, 9- Increases in Police Force, 8-135; Tobacco Prices, 8-136; Transistor Radio Cases Dutiable, 8-137; NZ Trade Drive, 8- 162; Need for Australian Assistance, 9-41; Suva City Airport, 9-123; Fijians on Christmas Is., 9-131: Korolevu Hotel, 9-136; Mining, 9-158, 10-121, 10-161; Industrial Unrest, 10-20: Sigatoka Underwater Cave, 10- Fiji Broadcasting Commission, 10- 127; Teenagers Problem, 10-131; New Buildings, 10-133; Oil Search, 11-27; Wrought Iron Industry, 11-75; Levuka Fishery, line, 12-115; Sugar Industry Dispute, 11-130, 12-29; Garoda Banking Co., 11-157; Mokogai Artists Semesi and Ortquist, 12-77: Mokogai Leper Hospital, 12-79; New Cost of Living Index, 12-119; Whan Construction Co., 12-119; Duty Free Liquor at Nadi Airport, 12-121; Banno Bros. Ship Copra, 165 pacific islands monthly-july. 1960

12-131; Fiji Employers’ Union. 12-131; Birthday Honours, 12-142.

Fishing. Pearling And Marine

INDUSTRIES: Tuna Pishing, 4-79, 5-129, 11-63, 11-116, 12-115; Cultured Pearls, 5- 45, 10-77; Shark Fishing, 5-47, 7-53, 8-124- Pearl Shell. 8-33. 10-161, 10-162, 11-121 Trochus, 8-33; Kite Pishing, 8-85; Jap Interest, 10-129; Beche-de-Mer, 11-49- Fish Tagging, 12-130.

G GILBERT AND ELLICE IS. COLONY: 3- 3-75, 5-26, 5-37, 6-107, 6-126 7-&5 7-77. 7-129. 9-27, 10-117, 10-123, 10-127 10-160, 11-103. 11-105, 11-129.

H HEALTH: Malaria, 3-41, 9-117, 10-145; Migratory Birds and Health Hazards, 3-59; Anti-yaws Campaign, 5-119; Immunity to Insecticides, 6-63; Kuru, 11-121; TB, 11- 121; Leprosy. 11-135, 12-79; Filaria, 12-123.

I INDUSTRIES (Miscellaneous): Dried Bananas, 3-69, 5-125, 8-119, 10-160; Chillis. 4- Macadamia Nuts, 4-61; Honey. 4-123; Vanilla, 4-125; Phosphate, 6-115; Candied Pineapple, 11-52.

M MARSHALLS, MARIANAS AND CARO- LINES: 1-27. 8-111, 9-126.

MISSIONS: Methodist Overseas Mission, 1-73; Rev. Ben Danks, 1-84; RC Missions, 1- 10-136: SDA. 1-131, 5-119; LMS, 3- 85; Misfits in Mission Field, 4-45; French Protestant Missions, 4-75; Bishop T. J.

Wade, 7-42; New Caledonia Protestant Church, 10-137.

N NAURU AND OCEAN IS.: 10-116, 10-141.

NEW CALEDONIA: Sunflower Seeds. 1- 135; Yate Dam. 2-29, 8-31; Walpole Guano. 2- Noumea’s Proposed Casino, 2-137; M. Soustelle's Visit, 3-136; Tourism, 4-37. 5- Motor Vehicle Census, 4-43; Miss New Caledonia, 5-21: The Citizenship of Wallis and Futuna Residents, 5-57, 6-20; Coke from NSW, 5-161; A-Bomb Bases in French Pacific, 6-20. 7-19, 8-143; Noumea- Sydney Air Services, 6-20; Nickel Industry. 6- 7-140, 12-129; French Aid, 6-135; New Metropolitan Franc, 6-141; Viet Namese. 7- 9-115. 12-23, 12-122; Foreign Exchange Office, 7-141; Australian Influence, 9-18; Drought. 9-115; French Military Service, 9-121, 10-144; Jap. Interest in Smelting, 10-121; Road Accidents, 10-123; 12-127; Cost of Living, 10-133; Explosion at Chatenay Home, 10-133; Tidal Wave, 11-20; TB Increasing, 11-121; Japanese Salvage of War Wrecks, 12-121; Driving Licences Suspended, 12-127; High Priced Eggs, 12-129; Meat Strike, 12-137; Cazeau Case, 12-139.

NEW GUINEA (NETHERLANDS): Local Government. 1-23: Air Services, 1-46; “Weeping” Axes, 1-142; Birds of Paradise, 2-125; Foreign Aid, 4-47; Phone Link with Aust. NG. 4-55; Union with Aust. NG, 5-20; Indonesian Claim, 5-37, 7-21, 10-17; Hollandia Conference with Aust. NG, 6-23, 8- 18, 9-19; New Hollandia Wharf, 7-109; Japanese Interest in Timber. 7-132; Mountain Peaks and Snowline. 8-27; New Handbook, 8-43; New Guinea Council, 9-17, 10- 18, 11-18; New Stamps, 9-55; 50th Anniversary, 9-113; Trade Figures Drop, 9-157- Defence Build-up, 10-17; Trans-NNG Expedition. 10-37; Hollandia Buildings 10- 137; Oil Search, 10-161; Baliem Valley as Tourist Resort, 11-113; Visit of “Karel Doorman”, 11-139.

NEW HEBRIDES: John Frum Movement, 2-129; Yaws, 2-129; Hurricane, 6-19, 8-45. 12-133; Phosphate, 6-115; Tuna Fishery, 6- 128, 10-161; New Caledonia Lends a Helping Hand, 7-75; No UK Takeover Bid 8- 23; La Perouse Relics, 8-23; Pentecoste Land Divers, 9-83; Cost of Living, 9-133; Resettlement of Surplus Tahitians, 10-23; Fish Poisoning Fatality. 10-117; Aust. Prefab. Houses. 10-127; Internal Airlines, 11- 141; Polio Scare, 12-127; NIUE IS.: 2-119, 7-17, 7-21, 10-143 11- 119, 11-123, 12-123.

NORFOLK IS.: 2-73, 3-131, 7-18, 7-23 9- 55. 10-142, 12-19. o ORGANISATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS: NG Women’s Assn., Melbourne, 1-133; Sydney Island Agents Assn., 2-23; NG Women’s Club. Sydney, 2-135, 4-142, 12- 138; Lepers’ Trust Board, 4-41; Polynesian Assn, of Sydney. 5-143; Pacific Islands Society, 9-43.

P PACIFIC (GENERAL): La Perouse Relics. 1- 1-59, 2-25, 4-53, 8-23; Low Cost Housing, 1-69; Pacific Art in Chicago, 1-77, 3- 51; Amelia Earhart. 1-81, 12-22; “Euronesians”, 1-141; When Burns and Carpenter Fought the Dutch, 2-84; Queen Competition. 2-119; Weather Forecasting, 2- 5-125; Coastwatchers Story Republished, 3-18. 7-23; Repudiating “Colonial”, 4-26; Polynesian Migrations, 4-49, 11-61; Market for Minor Pacific Products, 4-49; Islanders in NZ, 4-134; Oceanography, 5- 43, 11-123; Cultured Pearls, 5-45; Phosphate Survey, 5-117; Shell Collecting, 5-133; Projected Capt. James Cook Film, 5-105; NZ’s Thermal Power. 6-49; Japanese War Stragglers, 6-53; Space Research, 6-61; NZ Warning to Island’s Firms, 6-115; Ham Radio, 6-123, 9-79, 10-144; When Hordern Bros. Were in Pacific Shipping, 7-23; Hurricane Diversion, 7-80; Increase Predicted in Ship Travel, 7-135; Record Dive Off Marianas, 7-103; Sea Conference, 7- 107, 10-101, 11-97; Future of NZ Territories Dept.. 8-22; Liquor Problem in Pacific Territories, 8-25; An Islander Looks at NZ, 8-35; Wanted —A Distinctive Islands Soup, 8-67; Microfilmed Pacific History, 8-120; World War II Mines, 8-101; Navigation Aids, 8-101; Bottle Drifts, 9-16, 11-107, 12- 109; NZ Aid to Education, 9-18; Proposed Ship Fares Reductions, 9-125; Radio Lessons in Japanese, 9-126; Rhino Beetle Pest, 9-127, 11-127; New Navy Charts. 9- 105; Search and Rescue Organisations, 9- 109; Red Submarines, 10-19; The Day the “Malabar” Was Wrecked, 10-84; San Francisco’s Polynesian Colony, 10-86; Aust.- Vancouver Cable, 10-142; Canton Is. Tracking Station, 10-143; Tidal Waves, 11-20, 11- 57, 12-109; Islands’ Weaving Techniques, 11-33; Dumping Atomic Waste at Sea, 11- 47; Japanese-Polynesian Racial Link, 11- 61; Minerals on Sea Floor, 11-123; Raoul Island (Kermadecs), 11-129; Pacific Federation. 11-131; Indians Appeal for Migration to NZ, 11-135; Coastal Radio Stations, 11- 99; Trans-Tasman Yacht Race. 11-109; Study of Rock Movements, 12-59; Lord Howe Is., 12-61; Life of R. O. Frisbie and Family, 12-63; Use of Übiquitous 44-gal.

Drums, 12-86; Lloyds of London, 12-101; Pacific Toads for Medical Research, 12- 126; NZ Interest in NG Trade, 12-162.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA; Taxpayers’ Hie oourt Case, 1-17, 1-26, 2-25, 3-19, 8-ll 11-17, 12-26; Legislative Council ResieJ tions, 1-17, 2-19, 3-139, 4-77, 8-145 9-* Income Tax Fight, 1-18, 1-61. 2-19 2-» 2; 43 . 3-19, 4-77. 5-19, 11-17; Copr Stabilisation Fund, 1-19, 9-117; Yount Whitford’s Sydney House, 1-21- sell Government, 1-26, 1-73. 12-17, 121e9. 15 142; Hotel Standards, 1-27; Hagen Mom ment, 1-29, 2-27, 3-26. 4-27, 11-27- Ej Territorians in SA, 1-35; Breweries ’ 1-3' 11-130; Import Tariff Variations, 1-37 I 29; Liquor Imports. 1-39; Missions an Taxation, 1-47; Coastwatchers’ Memoria 1-49, 2-69; Minister Hasluck, 1-61 2-21 1 19. 4-17, 5-19, 6-23, 6-135, 12-23; Roadi 1- 1-131. 7-33, 9-126, 9-130; Individui Planters Moving Out, 1-77; Story of Rei Ben Danks. 1-85; Kuaki Rum-drinkin Parrot, 1-85; Native Women’s Club, 1-115 Agricultural Shows, 1-121, 1-140. 6-57, « 129; Ex-Service Settlement, 1-128, 4-25,1 132; South Pacific Post, 1-128; GiJ Snails. 1-131; Native Trade Unions, I-13; 7- Native Drinking, 1-139, 10-122, 11-2 f They Want to be “Euronesians”, 1-14] Queen Emma’s Old Store, 2-29, 3-26 Maidment. 2-29; Professor Goto’s Visit,! 37, 4-61. 4-137; Coffee Industry. 2-37 ! 61, 7-157, 9-132, 9-147, 12-126; Leen Cad 2- Old Wrecks on Rossel Is., 2-53 7-61 Duna Tribes, 2-61; NGVR Veterans’ 2-7!

Port Moresby High School, 2-129, 12-4!

Leahy Case, 2-139, 11-137; Local Govern ment, 2-143; Moresby Morgue Mix-up, I 145; Australia’s Grants, 3-22; Educatid] 3- 5-69, 6-65, 7-69, 12-45; UN Intel ference, 3-39; Malaria Control, 3-43, 4-14! 10-145; High Electricity Charges, 3-41 Hvdro-Electricity. 3-47, 8-143; Neglect | Old Parkinson Cemetery, 3-77; Fresh Bee Supplies, 3-79; Recordings of Coas| watchers, 3-125; Copra Industry, 3-12' 8- S-157; Melbourne Show Exhibit. 1 141; New Postal Rates, 3-150. 9-125; Tou of J. Howse, MP, 4-17; Ryan’s Crasj watching Story, 4-20; Monument to Kokod Carriers, 4-20, 5-83; Hamac Holdings, Ltd 4- 7-139, 8-145, 9-134, 10-20; Treat ment of Euronesians, 4-25, 12-125; Germa Flag Returned to NG, 4-31; Natives an Self-help, 4-33; Forests, 4-37, 5-131; Si Hubert Murray Memorial, 4-43, 11-131 Jap Operations Room Now Rabaul Liqu| Store, 4-53; Phone Link with NNG, 4-5!

Stock Prom Govt. Cattle Runs, 4-59; Uji rising That Didn’t Come Off, 4-67; Lachla Is. Castaways, 4-69; Sydney Meeting Placi 4- Errol Flynn’s NG Career, 4-84, 7-1! 10-23, 11-113; Auditor-General’s Report, 1 123; New Director of Agriculture, 4-12!

Banana Expert’s Visit, 4-127; NSW Liberal Debate NG, 4-127; Labour Contra( Breakers, 4-129; “Kanimbla” Cruise. 4-131 Cargo Cult, 4-136; Ex War I Veteran Re visits Bita Paka, 4-137; Union with NNC 5- End of Non-BMA Doctors Schemi 5-22; Earthquakes, 5-23; NNG Issue, 5-31 Native Coffee Growers, 5-45; Rabaul Copi Mill, 5-61; Capt. H. L. Griffin. DSO (His torical Sketch), 5-86; National Bank Ex tends to Lae. 5-121; Missions Confereno 5- Dart-Herald Plane on Visit, 5-131 Jap. Salvage Teams Pull Out, 6-21; Intel Territory Conference at Hollandia, 6-23, 8 18, 9-19; Minister’s Tour, 6-23, 6-25. 6 135; The Old Bird of Paradise Trade, 6 27; Papuan Dogs, 6-27; Lihir Is., 6-47 Thermal Power, 6-49; Hewton Amess Case 6- Rabaul RSSAILA Club, 6-140; Nei Airways Set-up, 7-19, 10-21, 12-19; Bishoi Wade, 7-42, 11-27; Health Department’

Job. 7-45; New Britain Storms, 7-113 Mineral Prospecting, 7-113; Lae’s Ploatim Trade Store, 7-117; Jap Fishing Vesse Aground, 7-120; Tolai Cocoa Scheme, 7-12 C 9-47, 10-129; Museum, 7-123. 8-129, 11-22 Cocoa Industry, 7-133. 12-126; Jame Plan tation, 7-137; Buntings. Ltd. (Laei, Retire From Retail Trading, 7-141; Oversea, Trade Representation, 7-156; Export Value.

Rise, 7-156; Lakekamu Goldfield, 7-157 Natives for NNG Nautical School, 7-101 166 JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ive Tax Dodgers, 8-20, 9-118. 10-20, 12- Tolai Natives, 8-25, 8-53; Nakanai ■ders, 8-26; “Blue Walnut” Timber, 8- Progress in the Highlands, 8-75; Air- Stowaways, 8-86; Mortlock Is., 8-87, ti-racial Problems, 8-117; UN Trusteei Visitor, 8-121. 9-133; Hospital Board ased, 8-129; Labour Quarters. 8-145; J.

Shipper Attacks Administration, 8-145: anese Gaoled in Manus. 8-147; Oil Exation, 8-162; Goroka (Holdings). Ltd., ee Scheme. 9-19: Rabaul Swimming 1, 9-42. 10-142; Colombo Plan Money, i, 9-139; Kosi. the Manus Sculptor, 9- Srhooner 'German Period), ;; Vulcan Island “Land” Dispute, 9-115; R., 9-121: Rabaul Gift to Father nke. 9-127; Manum Eruption. 9-130; la” Pass 9-134; Head Tax, 9-137; Ausian Tariffs on NG Produce, 9-157; Iron iosits on Woodlark, 9-158; BP Small- >s Wharf at Rabaul, 9-105; Reconstitui of Legco, 10-19, 12-17. 12-26, 12-142", posed Sugar Industry. 10-23, 12-58: dbit at Sydney Show, 10-41; Town and trict Advisory Councils, 10-69; Cotton iwing in the Markham, 10-77; Native ges Inquiry, 10-119; Rabaul School ike. 10-119; Sorcery, 10-125; Rabaul Bus ■rations, 10-129; Bride-price Fight, 10- : Visit of F. Hargesheimer. 10-135. 11- ; Free Dental Service to Schools, 10-143: n Radio Club, 10-144; Individual Land les, 10-145; Chile Tidal Wave, 11-20: t Meeting of 3rd Legislative Council. 11- Elections, 11-21, 12-18; Bougainville’s acuities, 11-39; Public Loans, 11-45. 12- ; Kuru, 11-121; Retirement of Mr. tice Kelly, 11-139; Visit of NZ Trade nmissioner. 11-157; Helo Needed for •onesians and Asians Who Helped in :ific War, 12-23; “PlM’s” NG Policy, 12- Salvation Army’s Koki Hostel, 12-33; Mary’s School, 12-45; Vickers Superrine Walrus Service, 12-83; Native mbling, 12-84; Goroka Military Tattoo, 129; PIR Troops Cross NG. 12-133; Development, 12-133; Leprosy ;atment. 12-137; “Strapping” Natives, 138; Development Capital Needed, 12- ’EOPLE: Vishnu Deo, 1-25; The Rev. R. ant, 1-73; Sir Walter and Other Mc- ;olls 1-127; G. M. Rio, 1-129. 2-119; bert C. Hayes, 1-139, 4-52, 10-121; Miss thie Stuart. 1-145; D. B. Lakshman. 2- 3-25, 4-25; F. P. Archer, 2-23, 7-137: thur Freeman, 3-83; Miss B. A. Mcchlan. 3-125; Rev. W B. Gill, 3-135; L. Chipper, 3-139, 8-145; Pouvaana a pa, 4-17; Mrs. Mollie Carrington, 4-21; gh Chief Fiame Mataafa, 4-23; Dr. H.

Thieme. 4-139; J. R. Halligan. 5-19; ic de Bisschop, 5-65; Siarua of Bougainle. 5-85; Mohammed Tora, 6-18; James ithony, 6-19, 11-121; Professor J. W. ividson, 6-20; Mrs. Alice Bowring, 6-26; T. Roscoe, 6-65; Sir Hubert Murray, 6- ; Marion A. Radcliffe-Taylor, 6-83; Rear- Imiral J. Richard Evenow, 6-103; Eric Idt, 7-23; Bishop T. J. Wade, 7-43. 8- , 11-27; Henry Devenish Skinner, 7-49; adame de Beausacq, 7-55; Charles Ashley, 83: P. J. Twomey. 7-119; L. M. (Pat) ;nry. 7-131; G. R. Powles, 8-21; Sir Alan irns, 8-29; Jos Holmes, 8-81; Michel iblais, 8-83; Jack Read, 8-85; John E. hnstone, 9-81; Father B. Franke, 9-127; ;v. Dr. R. M. Wiltgen, 9-134; A. E. ephens, 9-135, 11-124; Les Martin, 9-145; magma Tamarama, 10-8; Mrs. Eileen nery. 10-85; Fred Hargesheimer, 10-135; ;t. Maigugu. 10-138; Major Don Barrett, -21; Allan Roberts, 11-29; Sir Ronald arvey and Family, 11-80; J. B. Wright, !-22; Leo White, 12-35: Sir John Gutch. 1-131.

PITCAIRN IS.: 11-41.

S SAMOA, AMERICAN: 1-45, 1-87, 3-121, 3- >3. 4-17, 5-161. 8-67, 8-119, 8-127, 10-86, 10- 11-19. 11-131. 11-135.

SAMOA. WESTERN: Local Airlines, 1-45. 9-125; American Imports, 1-142, Po Salaries 1-43 2-133; Self-Government. 2- 2? 3-23. 5-18. 6-20, 11-23. 12-21; NZ Governor’s Visit, 2-21: Newspaper War . 2-51" First Prime Minister, 3-23, i-zj, Samoan Citizenship. 3-23 11-23 12-21.

How John Williams Took the Bible to Samoa. 3-85; Radio Licences, 3-U7; Public Relations Office, 4-53; Local Music Habits, 4-71" Tokelaus, 4-121, 9-63; New Director of Health. 4-139; NZ’s Education Grant, 5- 143; Import Duty Anomaly Corrected, 5- 160; Professor J. W. Davidson, 6-20; Homebrew 6-55; Liquor Laws, 6-55; Monthly Newspaper, “Savai’i”. 7-121; Population, 7- 125, 8-123; Top Public Servants for Training Course, 7-133; Good Trading Year. 7- 139" High Commissioner Powles’ New Appointment, 8-21; Joining Br. C’wealth 8- 21" Petty Crime, 8-141; Taxation, 8-162: Production, 9-112; Apia Harbour Improvements. 9-119; Land Use Survey, 9-121 10- 138; Rhinoceros Beetle, 10-142; Tidal Wave, 11- Telephone Exchange, 11-124; Chief Killed in Brawl. 11-131; Banana Industry, 11- J. B. Wright Appointed NZ High Commissioner, 12-22; Birthday Honours, 12- Traffic Accidents, 12-143.

SHIPS AND SHIPPING (rough alphabetical): Adios, 1-115, 4-111, 4-115, 11-111. 12-113; Arthur Regers. 2-107; Anitra, 2- 113; Aust -West Pacific Line, 2-139, 9-105; Aust.-Guam Service. 3-20; Asahi Maru, 3- 109; Aoniu 11, 4-107, 10-105; Aoniu I (Tradewinds), 5-111. 11-82; Arfak, 5-113, Amsterdam, 5-113; Alice May, 7-23; Avalon, 7- Axelle, 7-111; Arcadia, 7-127; Affje, 8- Airco, 9-105; Anzac (HMASi, 11-97; Aranui 11-97; African Reefer, 11-107; Adi Maopa, 11-108; Adi Beti. 11-108; Armorel. 11- Aberdeen Anzac, 11-111; Aurelia, 12- Arawa. 12-111; Awahnee, 12-113; Beaverbank, 1-114; Babboon. 1-115, 3-114, 4-111, 11-111, 12-110; Burns Philp Skippers, 3-83, 4-35. 5-26; Blue Sea, 4-113, 5-113; Baleout, 6-109; Brunner, 7-22; Barcoo, 7- 107; Barbary, 7-111; Bluebird 11. 7-117; Baruku, 7-139; Ben Gun, 10-114; Coral Queen, 1-103. 2-101. 4-101; Celeste, 1-115; Cantuta 11, 1-115, 1-135; Crusader, 2-113. 9- Cimba. 2-113, 9-111; Constellation, 2-113, 4-113; Chubasco, 2-113; Charlotte Donald, 3-113; Chimere, 3-115. 4-113; Changsha, 5-105; Craig-J, 5-113, 6-109, 10- 115, 11-111, 12-110; Camilla, 6-109, 6- 111; Corinthic, 7-101; Carla Manus, 8-115, 9-111, 11-111; Catamaran (P. Moresby), 8- 115; Chitose Maru, 9-103; Canberra, 9-105; Charles H. Gilbert. 10-113; Coastal Radio Watch. 11-99; Dida, 1-115, 2-113; Delfino, 2- 3-105, 4-103, 6-99, 7-105, 10-107, 11-101; Dirrigo 11. 2-113; Debit, 2-113; Dobiri, 3-113. 6-105, 7-105, 9-107; Degei 11. 3- 4-105; Debonaire, 4-113, 9-111, 11- 111; Drifter, 4-113, 6-107, 7-109, 8-133, 9- 97. 12-111; del Mar Ships, 5-101; Dau Tataro. 5-105; Dugout. 6-109; Duali, 8-103, 9-103; Doric, 8-106; Dracones (flexible oil bargesi, 8-111; Diari, 9-107; D’Vara, 9-111, 11-111, 12-113; Equatorian Trader, 1-103; Endeavour, 2-107; Esmeralda, 3-105; Ela. 4- Elizabeth Boye, 4-111, 7-107; Elbe. 6-105; Eole, 6-111, 12-113; Elina, 9-111; Ewe. 12-113; Flying Walrus, 1-115, 4-111, 9-111, 11-109; Faith. 4-111; Freight and Fare Rates, 5-141; Foxton, 6-101. 9-107, 11-97; Fingali, 8-115; Fortune. 10-114; Fijian Princess. 11-108; Flying-fish, 12-111; Fiesta, 12-113; Greathope, 1-111; Goodwill, 2-113; Goodwind (Goodwin or Goodewindi. 2-115, 8-115, 10-114, 11-109; Guanavou, 3- 143, 4-105; Gemini, 4-113; Ginga Maru, 6- 103; Glina, 8-115; Gaitcha, 11-97; Gascoyne, 12-107; Hifofua, 1-113, 10-107, 11-97; Halcon Rojo. 1-115; Hugh M. Smith, 2-107; Himalaya. 2-109. 9-107; Hsin-Li. 7-108; Hamutana, 7-111, 8-114; Horizon, 10-103; High Tea, 10-115; Isobel-May, 4-107, 5- 105; Inaha, 5-107, 6-101, 8-111, 9-107, 11- 97, 12-107; Isabel Rose, 8-107, 10-109; Isa Lei, 8-107; Iberia, 9-107; Inchon, 11-105; Island Queen, 12-109; Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. 2-109. 5-107; Japanese Fishing Ships, 4-105, 4-110. 6-103. 7-120. 7-97. 7- 101 7-109, 8-113, 10-103, 11-107; Joyita, 6- 99 9-107" Janis, 6-109, 8-114; Jellicle, 7-111.

John Marie. 10-111: Kelpie, 1-115, 7-111. 11- Kovala, 2-23, 3-101; Kehua, 2-113, 5-115, 9-111, 11-IH, 12-111: Kochab, 2- 113 5-115. 6-109. 8-114, 9-111. 11-111. 12- 113; Kualoa. 2-115; Kulu, 3-107; Komalwai. 4-109; Komaki Maru (Rabaul’s smallships wharf). 4-109; Kiwi, 4-111, 8-114; Kudo, 4- Kim, 5-115; Korrigan, 6-111; K.P.M.

Line, 6-113; Karel Doorman. 10-111. 11-139; Kylena, 11-111; Koae, 11-111; Kylie, 12- 111; Lolo Maana’ia, 3-103, 5-113; Llro (ex- Kokoda, ex-Maria del Marl, 5-101, 7-107. 12- Lammerhak 11, 5-115, 9-111, 10-115, 12-113; La Confiance, 6-105, 8-113; Lorraine, 7- Los Negros, 7-117; Los Angeles- Papeete Race. 8-115; L’Hirondelle, 10-114; Lady Ellen, 11-111: Lady Stirling, 11-111; Muniara, 1-103. 3-143, 4-101; Morwak. 1- 115; Moonfleet. 1-115, 2-113, 5-115; Margery. 2-23 3-101; Maui Pomare, 2-107, 7-101; Manawanui, 2-113. 4-111; Marco Polo, 2- 115 8-114; Moano Raoi, 3-103; Maria del Mar 3-114, 5-101, 12-105; Moana Roa, 4- 109, 6-105, 7-109, 8-105, 10-109, 11-107. 12-107; Meridian, 4-115, 5-115; Monowai. 5- 11-109. 12-101; Marita Thornden. 5- Mei Maru. 5-107; Melva. 5-109; Matson Line, 5-109; Manua Tele, 5-111. 7- 139, 10-103; Marilen, 5-113, 6-111, 7-111, 8- 101 11-111; Moana Toa. 6-101; Monarch, 6- Mundalla. 6-101: Maroro. 7-99; Matua, 7-111; Matai, 8-102; Malacca, 8- 113; Matubi, 8-113; Margaret, 8-114; Macuata, 10-107, 11-101, 11-125, 12-107; Melinga, 10-111; Manana. 10-115; Marie Celine 10-115, 11-109; Melanesian. 11-107, 12-107; Marlyn, 11-111. 12-107; Moala, 12- 109; Nerides. 1-107. 2-115, 8-114: Novia. 1-115; New Silver Gull, 1-115. 4-113, 5-115, 6-111, 7-97; Nunniong, 1-115, 3-115; Nojima Maru, 2-103; Nalu 11. 2-113; Nareau, 3- 107; New Siren, 6-97; Nagasaki Maru, 6- 107. 8-113, 9-109; Nereus, 8-107: Nevehu, 8- Northern Star. 9-105; Ninikoria, 11- 103; Nanette, 11-109, 12-111; Nina, 11-109. 12-111; Nusa, 12-109; Neder Eems, 12-109; 00-la-la, 2-105, 6-73; Outward Bound. 2- 115, 4-113, 7-111. 12-113; Orsom 111. 6-99: Orient and Pacific Lines, 7-107, 7-135, 7- ???; Oisuea des lies. 8-107; Oranje, 8-109; Oriana, 9-105; Orsova, 12-107; Piri. 2-107, 8-106; Patsy Jean, 2-109, 6-107, 9-111. 11- 109, 12-111; Pavana, 2-113; Phoenix, 3-115. 12-110, 12-111; Poseidon, 6-109; Pu’ori, 6- 109; Pukaki, 7-108: Quest, 7-111: Rundo, 1- 115, 2-115, 4-113; Rubia, 1-115, 4-113. 5- 115; Reposado, 2-113, 4-111, 8-114, 9-111, 10-114; Romayne. 4-113, 5-113, 6-107, 7- 103, 7-111, 8-114, 10-115; Raiatia, 4-113; Ranginui, 6-109; Raft Drifts, 6-109; Recorder, 8-109, 8-117; Revel, 11-111; Rangilani, 12-107; Readwill, 12-111; Staghound, 4-111, 4-115; Sea Chanty. 4-111, 6- 107, 8-115, 9-111; Southern Cross (Shaw Savill). 5-59, 6-97, 9-105; Stranger, 6-99: Sarong, 6-109, 7-111, 8-114, 9-107; Singora. 6-109; Sacred. 6-111; Swingle. 7-109; Silver Cloud, 8-114, 11-111; Skyline, 1-115; Slevic. 2- 101; Siren, 2-109, 6-107; Shell-40, 2-109, 4-107, Shearwater, 2-111, 3-115, 6-109. 8-114, 11- 109; Soochow, 2-139; Stardust. 2-139, 4-113, 4-139, 9-111, 10-115, 12-110; Sea Wanderer, 8-115; Stanvac Nairobi, 9-103; Search and Rescue Organisations, 9-109, 10-113; Spencer P. Baird, 10-101; Samoa, 10-109; Si Yi Pambill, 10-114, 11-111: Secret, 10- 114; Symbol 10-114; Sirena, 11-99; Shamrock, 11-109, 12-110; Skall, 11-111; Santa Teretia, 12-103; Southern Cross II ( yacht I, 12-111; Te Matangi, 1-29. 1-115, 1-125, 2- 115. 4-111, 6-111, 7-111; Tenyo Maru, 1- 105, 12-107; Trekka, 1-115, 2-115, 12-110: Tovata, 2-109. 8-106; Tzu Hang, 2-115; Tofua, 3-109; Taveuni, 3-113; Tiare Taporo. 3-113, 8-133, 10-109; Tahiti, 3-115. 11-111: Tongan Govt.-Owned Shipping, 3-133; Tiare, 4-105; Tiburon, 4-113, 7-111, 11-109: Tradewinds (ex-Aoniu I). 5-111, 11-101, 11-111; Tokelau, 6-103; Te Porionuu, 6-105, 167 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1960

From Sydney

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Moresby . . . 48 14 0 92 5 Lae 59 13 0 112 19 Rabaul . . . . 69 18 0 130 9 Noumea .... 54 17 0 98 15 Honiara . . . 91 14 0 169 13 Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 Lord Howe . . 14 15 0 29 10 Nadi 85 9 0 153 17 Suva 92 0 0 166 19 Auckland . . . 53 15 0 96 15 Christchurch 53 15 0 96 15 Wellington . . 53 15 0 96 15 Honolulu . . . 282 12 0 508 14 San Francisco 350 9 0 630 17 Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 Papeete . . . 178 2 0 320 12 Apia 118 14 0 214 14 Aitutaki . . . 155 12 0 231 2 Biak 103 15 0 186 15

From Auckland (Nz

currency Apia 62 0 0 111 12 Aitutaki . . . 93 10 0 168 6 Nadi 39 7 0 70 17 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 206 2 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) Apia 25 0 0 45 0 Aitutaki . . . 57 15 0 103 18 Nadi 5 16 0 11 12 Nukualofa . . 18 10 0 43 0 1 Papeete . . . 82 14 0 148 18 FROM APIA (Samoa currency) Pago Pago . . 4 4 0 7 '0 l Polynesia Airlines Ltd., of Apia, Western Samoa, using a Percival Prince aircraft, operates a once daily service between Western Samoa (Faleolo airfield) and American Samoa (Tafuna aerodrome).

Flight takes 45 minutes, each way.

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa) Mon. 2 p.m., Tues. 8 a.m., Wed., Fri., Sat. 10 a.m., Sun. 2.45 p.m.

Dep. Tafuna (Am. Samoa) Mon. 4 Tues. 9.45 a.m., Wed. 11.45 a 4 p.m., Sat. 11.15 a.m., Sun. i: Booking agents: Gold Star Trave Apia; B. P. Kneubuhl and Cos., Pa Samoan Air Lines, of Pag American Samoa, with a DC3 Vie operates Monday to Saturday fron (Am. Samoa) to Faleolo (Western as follows: Dep. Tutuila: Mon. 9.30 a.m. 4 Tues. 9.15 a.m.. Wed., Thur’s., , 2 p.m.

Dep. Faleolo: Mon. 10.25 a.m., a.m., 10.20 a.m., Wed.. Thu Sat. 3.05 p.m.

Booking agent in Apia: Mr. Pet man. 27. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airways Using Grumman Albatross twin amphibious flyingboats, TOA op service throughout the Trust Ter Micronesia (Caroline, Marshs Mariana groups) on behalf of Government.

Details from Trans Ocean Agana, Guam.

Te Rapunga, 6-109; Te Matapula, 7-103, 8-107, 10-103: Tofua, 7-111; Teiko, 7-136, 8-109, 9-17. 9-105, 10-29. 10-105, 11-109, Tiare Maori, 8-105; Trewellard, 8-106; Tradewinds, 8-114, 10-113, 10-115, 12-107; Tahi Waitangi, 8-115, 9-111, 11-111; Thorshall. 9-107; Thorsisle. 9-107; Thor I, 9- 107; Te Vega. 10-103; Tobruk iHMAS), 11- 97; Ta-i-na-toba, 11-108; Trans-Tasman Race, 11-109; Tungaru, 12-109; Te Matai, 12-113; Union Co. Ships, 6-101, 7-111; Venus, 3-109; Van Yung, 6-99; Viti, 6-101; Vingrom, 7-101; Verna. 9-103. 10-111; Venture, 11-109; Viking Ahoy. 11-109, 12-111: Wallach, 1-103. 7-109; Westward Ho, 1- 115; White Seal. 2-113, 4-101, 4-113; White Squall, 2-113, 6-109, 8-114, 9-111, 11-111: Wanderer, 2-113, 4-113, 6-109. 8-114, 11- 111; Whence. 4-113, 11-109; Waikawa, 6- 101; Wanderer 111, 6-111, 11-109; Wakaya, 8- Wairuna (Bonnai, 9-105; Waihape, 9- 10-115: Wild Goose, 12-111; Yosu, 1-51, 1-109; Yatu Lau, 8-106, 11-108; Zarya. 3-103. 8-113, 9-103, 10-101, 10-109; Zia, 4- 113; Zenata, 4-113.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: La Perouse Relics, 1-23. 1-59, 2-25, 4-53, 8-23; Cocoa, 1-79, 2- 143. 4-140, 6-158; Boat-building School, 1- 125. 11-107; Import Duty Variations, 1-126, 8-162; Lunga Bridge. 2-18, 4-121; Land Survey, 2-139; Earthquakes, 2-143; US Tracking Station, 4-138, 8-20; War Wreck Salvage, 4-142. 10-145; Memorial Light for Melanesian Victims, 5-123; Scientific Expedition. 6-119; Oil Search. 6-157, 11-158: Benjamin Boyd Quest, 7-22. 7-63, 9-80; Ship Survey Requirements, 7-107; Population, 7-140, 9-129; Malaita Kite Fishing, 8- 84; Air Navigation Aids, 9-117; Radio Watch for Shipping, 9-101; Gilbertese Settlement, 10-123; Tidal Waves, 11-20, 11- 57; Whooping Cough Epidemic, 11-133; Direct UK Shipping Link. 11-141; Govt.

Shipping, 11-107; Birthday Honours. 12- 141; Sir John Gutch Farewelled, 12-131; Jap. War Stragglers, 12-133; Explosion Kills Native, 12-142; Public Service Salaries, 12-142.

SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION: 4-139, 5-20, 5-119. 6-65, 12-139.

SPORT: Boxing, 1-153, 2-153. 3-133. 3- 151, 4-148, 7-147, 8-153; Bowls, 1-153; Basketball, 1-153. 9-145, 12-150; Rugby Union. 2-152. 3-151. 10-151, 12-150; Rugby League, 2-153, 10-151, 11-147; Honiara Sports, 2-153; Australian “Rules”, 3-151; Fiji’s Regatta, 4-147; Horse Racing, 4-147; Cricket, 4-147, 5-151, 6-147, 7-147, 8-153; Olympic Games. 6-147; Fiji Cricketers in Australia, 7-16, 8-153; Horse Racing, 8-153; Mosese Verasekete, 8-153, 9-145; Land’s End Walk, 9-145; Golf, 10-151, 11-147; Go- Karts, 11-147; Fiji Sprint Hope. 12-150.

T TAHITI AND FRENCH POLYNESIA; E. Lund, 1-22, 10-141; Island of “Love”. 1- 27- Hotels, 1-122, 6-141. 10-139; Pouvanaa a Oopa Case, 1-137, 2-133, 4-17. 12-141; Cole of California Visits, 1-142; German Bombardment of War I. 2-77; Visit of Andre Kostelanetz, 2-117; Papeete Airport, 2-136, 3-21, 5-117, 9-129; M. Soustelle’s Visit, 3- 137. 4-18, 5-53; Last of Pomare Family. 5- 53; Eric de Bisschop’s Last Book (“Tahiti- Nui”», 5-65; Chinese Community, 5-141; New Metropolitan Franc, 6-141; Rotary Club, 7-41; Tourism. 7-116, 10-117; Scottish Grave of Princess, 8-26, 12-27; Pier Lengthening, 10-121; Tidal Wave, 11-20; Paul Gauguin. 11-53; Bar Tiare, 11-63; Fire in Les Tropiques Hotel, 12-121.

TONGA: Aviation, 1-45, 7-113; Treaty of Friendship, 1-83; BBC TV-makers Visit, 3- 41; Mariner’s Cave, 3-61; Whale Steaks, 3-i26; Copra Board Funds, 3-131; Rhinoceros Beetle, 4-65; Tuna Fishing, 4-79, 9- 17; Vanilla. 4-125: Wendt Case. 4-134; Kitione Lave, 4-148; Queen Visits Keppel, 5-123; Prince Tungi’s Asian Tour, 6-121. 8- Japanese Relations, 7-31, 9-53; Nukualofa Guest House. 7-113, 10-49; Tieko Tragedy, 9-17, 10-29, 11-108, 12-131; Entry Requirements, 9-121; Bulk Oil Tanks. 9- 105; Broadcasting, 10-47, 11-131; Decimal Coinage, 10-49; News Service, 10-125; Land Survey, 10-138; Bananas, 10-160; Desiccated Coconut, 11-117; Bamboo Growing. 11-117; Vegetable Growing, 11-124; Nukualofa Railroad, 12-27; Tin Can Is. (Niuafo’ou), 12-75.

TRADING AND OTHER COMPANIES: Hamac Holdings, Ltd., 1-20, 2-135, 4-23, 7- 139, 8-145, 9-134, CSR, 1-25, 6-158, 10-20, 11- 158, 12-161; Burns Philp and Co., Ltd., 1- 165, 2-84, 3-166, 11-157; South Pacific Post, 1-128. 4-161; Bulolo Gold Dredging, 1-165, 4- 5-162, 6-158, 7-157, 10-162; Camelot Nominees, 1-166; Plantation Holdings, Ltd., 1- 4-162, 10-162; Norfolk Is. and Byron Bay Whaling, 1-166, 5-162, 7-158, 8-162; New Guinea Goldfields. 1-167, 4-162, 5-160, 7-157; Fiji Tours and Travel, 1-167; Timor Oil Co., 1-167, 4-161; Cathay Hotels, Ltd., 2- 6-127; W. R. Carpenter and Co., 2- 84, 3-165, 7-157, 12-162; Concrete Industries, Ltd , 2-125; Banno Bros., 2-137, 8-129, 11-19; Steamships Trading Co., 2-165, 9-158; Mariboi/Kerema/Rubberlands. 2-165, 2-166, 9- Enterprise of NG, 2-166, 3-165, 4- 162, 5-161, 6-158. 7-157; Pacific Tobacco and Dev. Co., 2-166, 3-167; Aust. Gold Dev..

Ltd., 2-166, 6-158, Bali Plantations, Ltd.. 2- 4-162, 9-158; Aust. Petroleum Co., 2- 166. 4-162. 5-160, 7-156. 9-158, 10-162, 11- 15P; Pacific Islands Mines. Ltd., 3-165, 4- 161. 6-157, 9-157, 10-161, 11-157; Koitaki, 3- Placer Dev.. 4-161; Dylup, 4-162. 9- 10-162; Sandy Creek, 4-162, 5-163, 10- Loloma, 4-162, 6-157; Papua Apinaipi, 4-162, 5-162, 7-157, 10-162; CSR Co., 4-162, 11-158; Queensland Ins , 5-161; Commonwealth-NG Timbers, 5-161; Van Camp Cannery, 5-161; Hackathorn Oil, Ltd., 5- Colyer Watson (NG), Ltd., 5-163; Oil Search, Ltd., 6-157, 12-162; Emperor, 6- Ass. Tobacco Manufacturers (Holdings), Ltd., 6-158; Buntings. 7-141; Union SS Co., 7-156; Burns Philp Trust Co., 7- 157; Akhil Industries, Ltd.. 7-157; Southern Pacific Insurance, 7-157; Goroka Coffee (Holdings), Ltd., 9-19; Neth. NG Petroleum Co., 10-161; Burns Philp (SS) Co., 10-162; Pacific Is. Timbers (Holdings), Ltd., 10- 162; Fiji Industries. Ltd., 11-157; Garoda Banking Co., 11-157; Fiji Fruit Products, 11- Whan Construction Co., 12-119; Lolorua, 12-162; P. and O. and Orient Tie Up, 12-163.

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United Nations Trusteeship

COUNCIL: 3-39, 6-121, 8-121, 9-133, 12-17.

Pacific Air Far

(Approximate Only)

NOTE ; Exchange rates for Lent of Australian currency i Territories: Aust. £ 1 equals a mately 16/- Stg. f NZ, or Samoa; 18/- Fiji ; 20/- Solomons & WPHC areas; 1 Frs., SC/52.25.

Fares quoted are First-Class.

Tourist Class fares (approx. 20 p lower) are available to some port: to points east of Nadi Include : nection to Suva by Fiji Airways.

JULY, 1960 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONI AIR SERVICES —(Continued from p. 159) 26. Samoan Inter-Island Services

Exocoetus Volitans

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o // EXOCOETUS VOLITANS, the flying fish; in the Polynesian tongue “Maroro.” A familiar sight in South Pacific waters.

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