Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXXI, No. 9 ( Apr. 1, 1961)
1961-04-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific Islands Monthly APRIL, 1961 VOL. XXXI. NO. 9. le New/s yqazine )f The south Pacific TABLISHED 1930 ed at G.P.0., Sydney, for >sion by post as a newspaper.

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THE COVER: In September, 1959, the "RIM" cover girl was Tauave, from Funafuti Island, who was photographed on Tarawa by Mr. A. C. Atkinson. The Ellice girl on the cover this month is Tauave's sister laeli. She was also photographed by Mr. Atkinson, who sends the photograph from Scotland, where he is now living.

Pacific Islands Monthly

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Udy Tudor Stuart Inder

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CONTENTS No. 9. Vol. XXXI.

April, 1961 PEOPLE 5 P-NG Opens Its Reconstituted Legislative Council 17 New Faces in P-NG Council 18 America Criticised in New Guinea Raad 19 Vital Samoan Plebiscite Near 19 Fiji Wins the Battle of the Sulu 20 Fiji Sugar Industry Agreement 20 New Horizons Open for TEAL 21 New Zealand Islands Minister is an Old Hand 21 New Guinea Coffee Growers Will Seek Tariff Protection 22 Noumea Shut Down by Strike 22 Hurricane Devastates Parts of Tonga 23 Another Chapter in the New Guinea Hamac Story 23 COMMENTARY 25 The Editors' Mailbag 27 Mick Leahy's Fight Against Bureaucracy 29 Fiji Toads Love Science 31 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK, with Tolala 33

Canberra Commentary 37

The Most Beautiful Islands Schooner 40

Sydneysider Goes Walkabout .... 41

P-NG Flying May be Different Soon .. 45 P-NG Prefers Pop-Tunes 47 Cooks Want Tourists Without Tears .. 49 Cooks' Co-op. Buys Hervey Islands .. 50 Pictures of "Orsova's" Visit to Tonga 51 South Pacific Games for Suva 53 Beryl Sawyer Reports from Papeete .. 57 Fiji Competes with Low Wage Countries 61 Fiji Students Learn Farming 63 Suva Stages an "Unemployed" March 65 Tonga Radio Has Excellent Coverage 65 Pearce Home for the Suva Aged .... 67 Melanesian Mission Keeps an Anniversary 69 Cinderella Timber Comes into its Own 69 Canberra Scientists Discuss the NG Politician 71 MAGAZINE SECTION 75- 95 News of Pacific Shipping 97 PACIFIC REPORT 113 Obituaries 145 TRAVEL TALK 146 Shipping, Airways Timetables 149 Commerce and Produce 157 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney

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> I KR.2 PEOPLE Mr. J. Wattle, managing director J. Wattie Canneries Ltd., of NZ, id in March that New Zealand’s opard Breweries Ltd. and his firm uld combine in a canned beer ature, which would sell beer in w Zealand and also push export es to the Islands. It would be irketed under Leopard Breweries n name. Mr. Wattie added that jr can manufacture was highly ihnical, because the can had to coated inside with a special imel to prevent contact with the ital. Drinkers were “fastidious” )ut tainted beer.

TIAL’s Captain Joe Shepherd was k in London in April for the t time since 1944, when he ferried idringhams for the RAF. This e Joe, the South Pacific’s best >wn pilot because of his long exience with TEAL’S flying-boats Dre they were honourably disrged at the end of last year, was London’s famous Guildhall rering the Brackley Memorial 3hy for outstanding airlines ser- ;, from the hands of the Duke of nburgh. With him was his wife, cing her first trip to London, happily admitted before his deture from Auckland that he a’t own a dress suit for the Guild- P. P. Heller, with his wife, expected to [?]e NZ for Apia in early April to take up new appointment as Financial Secretary Economic Adviser to Western Samoa. Until [?]tly he was Senior Executive Officer for Transport in the NZ Civil Aviation Adstration. Mr. Heller has the difficult task directing West Samoa's financial policy, will be responsible to the Finance Minister.

Heller emigrated to NZ in 1939 from [?]na, where he had studied law and [?]omics practised as a barrister and solicitor, written several law text books. Mrs. [?]er is a qualified social welfare worker and physical education instructor. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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TTB7MC hall banquet but that he arranged to hire one at Moss E Captain Joe has almost finished conversion course to Electras, hopes soon to be back in his South Pacific stamping ground * * * When all set to show colour si of Papua-New Guinea in Canbe on April 1, Major and Mrs. A Rumpf were dismayed to disci that 150 transparencies and camera had been stolen from back of their car. Other slides to be substituted for the screen Major and Mrs. Rumpf are known in Port Moresby, where 1 have been in charge of the Sa tion Army hostel.

Suggestions from the US t American Samoa might have woman to replace Peter Colemar Governor, brought some rumbli from America’s South Pacific te tory in March. The woman is D Marie Cole Berger, Chicago law who worked in American Sar about five years ago and preser a study on the territory to the terior Department, Miss Berger i in March that some of the atta made on her impending nominal as Governor were due to the J that she had criticised Sam conditions under Republican adrr istration. “The place is a slum”, said. “Nothing has been done th for years.” * * * A Rabaul Tolai, Epinery Titen farmer and contractor, who m news 18 months ago by calling Australia to get out of New Guir has changed his views. He told election meeting in Rabaul, March, that he was now convin that Australia should remain many years yet because it y essential for full development of native races. Epinery said he fre admitted he had been wrong calling on Australia to leave IS Lae businessman, Mr. S. E. Goodie in March presented with a silver tray, and an inscr[?] framed replica of the Sydney War Me[?] by Mr. R. Bunting (right), P-NG State Pres of the RSL. This was the first time the Soldiers' League had given a certificate non-exserviceman but Mr. Goudie was tol[?] had done more to assist the League than h[?] lot of ex-servicemen. 6 APRIL 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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See above. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Cheque Accounts —Savings Accounts n before being replaced by the wna Roa last year, headed north d out of the South Pacific, In nmand was Captain L. C. Boulton, io was her master for 25 years til he retired about six years ago mi Pomare has been sold and is iking a direct voyage to Hongtig, with the 37-year-old Hereto in tow. Travelling as radio cer on Maui Pomare is PI M’s ckland shipping correspondent i Shortall, who plans to spend a t months in Hongkong waters tting the feel of the place”. ien marine zoologist Dr. Anna en, of Cambridge University, ed in Rabaul (NG) in April the idea of looking for the rare y nautilus on Vulcan Island ound she was 24 years too late, in Island was involved in 1937 eruption, and since it has been joined to the mainand is covered in vegetation. 395, another English zoologist 3amped on Vulcan Island, and Bidden was following up his However, Dr. Bidden will exthe earlier search for the lus over a much larger stretch astline. * * * old friend of PlM’s, Loloma general merchant, of alofa, Tonga, sends a letter exng loyalty to both the British he Tongan Royal families and [?]seph Williams, 26, of Aitutaki, a Cook [?]er who is the first Maori from NZ island [?]ries to take his medical degree under [?]Z , Government scholarship scheme in- [?]d in 1947, has now begun his house [?]n 's year at Dannevirke Hospital, NZ. He [?]d for five years at the Otago Medical and spent a sixth year at Christchurch. other Cook Islanders, Tere Mataio, 26, [?]otonga, and Metuakore Sadaraka, 26, of [?]ki have been the first under the scheme [?]alify respectively as solicitor and for a Master of Arts degree. 9 1 FI C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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ENRICHES gravies ‘at admiration for sentiments reitly expressed by Dr. Fisher when iring from the post of Archbishop Canterbury. Mataele takes a »ly interest in public affairs. Inentally, Mataele makes a cialty of selling oil paintings le in Tonga, for which art coltors here and there have shown interest. Anyone seeking such hires should write to him in fcualofa. ambers of Auckland’s recently tituted Tahiti-Nui Club, which 3een formed by former residents rench Polynesia, were at Auck- ’s Whenupai airport in April 'eet a number of leading Tahiti ;1 agents paying a visit to New md as guests of TEAL. TEAL, arch, inaugurated new jet-prop ra services into Tahiti and it :ts a big increase in the flow nerican tourists through Tahiti z. [?]el J. B. Harrison, former military secretary [?]e NZ Governor-General, Lord Cobham, has [?] TEAL, with the task of arranging re- [?]n of VIP passengers, and of liaison work Government, diplomatic and official groups [?]ellington, where he will be stationed, [?]el Harrison was born in India, and served [?]ars in the Indian army. In 1938 on a [?]aineering expedition to the Himalayas [?]rrowly escaped death when an avalanche [?]ed his advance camp at 25,000 ft. He went to New Zealand in 1948. [?] in Rabaul (NG) recently by the New District Commissioner, Mr. J. R. Foldi, Mr. Emmerich Schlorser and Miss Judy Mrs. Schlorser came from Port Moresby. Photo . C. H. Meen . 11 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Phone; 4-5311. Cables: “REXBRAD." or through your usual Travel Agent T 12 APRIL, 1961-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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C H * A Sydney man, Mr. Maurice sher, of Rockdale, complained in letter to the Sydney Morning irald in March that on a recent lit to Noumea he had bought a ass table lamp manufactured in B East which was later found by electrician to be a “death trap” ten plugged in. It had a maze of ;ernal wires unsuitable for Aus- -lia’s 240 volts and there was an nost Complete lack -of insulan. Mr. Fisher warned Australian irists to be careful of what they ight on Islands visits. r. R. O. Campbell, for the past lonths the District Officer, Nadi, was given a series of farewell ies and presentations on his deure for India on a furlough :h will be combined with a y course in the Indian languages, s to stay with an Indian family Jenares for three months. Mr. pbell has been a popular figure and has accomplished a t deal of work for the town- . He is responsible for the estabnent of Prince Andrew Park children’s playground, among r things. * * * my people in Papua-New lea have the wrong idea about in neighbouring Honiara, chief photograph, published recently in a United [?]s magazine, shows Miss Clelia Windrum, 18 years old, who is filling a job at [?]nt in Houston, but who moves on shortly [?]e University of Texas. She is in an [?]s dancing dress. Miss Windrum is a [?]ter of Mr. J. E. Windrum, formerly in [?]ritish Colonial Service in Fiji, and she is [?]d to some old Fiji families. Mr. Windrum British Agent and Consul in Tonga six ago, when Queen Elizabeth and Prince [?] visited Queen Salote at Nukualofa; and [?], although only 12, met the Royal visitors there. 13 D I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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town in the BSIP. In fact it ha< “very friendly atmosphere”, r comment came from Mr. C Zander, who left Honiara in Ma with his wife and young fan after relieving for a time as SI Company manager there. In Honi the Zanders had a busy social ] After leave, he will be appoin to Lae, NG.

Mr. W. N. Allison, form editorial and publication assisl of the South Pacific Commis literature bureau in Sydney, been appointed Director of Edi tion, Nauru, He took up his post in March.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Chin, with flower girl [?] Chow, photographed after their wedding in recently. Mrs. Chin was formerly Miss [?] dine Seeto.

Photo: L.

Recent visitors to the Polynesian Associ of Sydney, all from Fiji, were Mr. W. S Mr. Jim Bentley, Mr. William Matthias, Lennox Robinson and Mr. Sam McCaig Photo: A. P. 14 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

DUBONNET What’s Dubonnet? Dubonnet is the soul of Paris, the incarnation of gaiety and good living, graciousness and style.

Dubonnet is also a drink, Europe’s best known aperitif, a drink to take before a meal, or at any other time, straight, on the rocks, with gin or whisky or in a dozen other ways.

To everyone who sees it, the tall bottle with the cat on the label summons up thoughts of Paris and the springtime of little boulevard cafes and the proud Seine gliding beneath its arches, of chestnuts in bloom and beautiful women, of Maurice Chevalier singing and the life of Europe gliding by . . .

Dubonnet is made from wine red and white wine to a secret PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH formula. The wine is good Australian wine, pressed at Horndale winery in Happy Valley, South Australia, where it undergoes an exacting traditional treatment and is enriched by special ingredients from France.

To blend all these things in smooth perfection the French Dubonnet people and Gilbeys Limited set up a special company and brought experts from France to initiate the process, and make the true, the veritable Dubonnet.

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D 8876 Former P-NG Administration Cooperatives officer Brian Leonard looper, 24, will serve his full two lonths gaol sentence for having ttered seditious words to New ruinea natives. Cooper was con- Icted and sentenced in February y the Chief Justice of P-NG, Mr. ustice Mann, but was released on ail in Sydney following an applicaon to the High Court of Australia ►r leave to appeal. The High Court l April refused his application, he judges said it was true that uch inadmissable evidence had fen given at his trial, but they d not think it affected the result Iversely. The curious fact had nerged that some of the evidence as not against Cooper, but in his vour, because it helped to explain s conduct. Cooper will serve his ntence in Port Moresby. rhe BSIP was “on the brink of portant developments,” said the w High Commissioner for the astern Pacific, Mr. David Trench, Honiara, in March. He said the HP now had to do all it could produce goods for sale abroad, it could do this it would go ead fast. The High Commissioner s due to leave Honiara in early ril aboard the Coral Queen for i first visit to the New Hebrides ce his recent appointment. * * * Hr. H. C. Templeton, formerly •st Secretary to the NZ High mmissioner in West Samoa, has - n appointed Deputy High Comssioner. Mr. Templeton, a Rhodes lolar, was previously on the staff the NZ External Affairs Departnt, Wellington, [?]ce Tungi, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Tonga, in March paid a short unofficial visit Western Samoa. He stayed with the Samoan Prime Minister, Fiame Mataafa.

Photo: Hettig. 15 CIFIC ISLANJDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Some Unknown Quantities At P-NG Council Opening From Judy Tudor in Port Moresby April 10.

Bands played today, the ladies in the upper brackets of local society broke out new hats, and visiting Parliamentary delegations presented appropriate gifts—to wit, one hour-glass and a guest-book. In short, the reconstituted Legislative Council of Papua-New Guinea opened with a bang that, as a number of speakers suggested, lit another tiny candle of democracy to add its glimmer to the darkness of this bad, old world. rOMORROW, distinguished guests —or most of them —having gone their ways, the Council may jet down to work.

But only maybe. This meeting is i sort of grinding-in process, to illow members to size one another up. There will be no contentious legislation introduced and very little of any sort.

With luck, the whole thing may be over by week’s end with the promise of another meeting in early June.

Not all new members will make prepared maiden speeches, as was the case at the last meeting in October. A fact that, considering that there are only a few familiar faces on the non-official side of the fence, is probably a mercy.

However, some will be making their official debut in the speechmaking department, and according to the local grapevine, John Douglas Guise, elected native member for Eastern Papua, is cooking up something tasty.

John Guise Is There Mr. Guise, although he claims to be one-quarter descended from a French nobleman, is regarded as distinctly pro-native—if not actively anti-European—and it wouldn’t be surprising, even judging on today’s performance, if he did not steal some of the mana that has hitherto hung around Administrationfavoured Reuben Taureka.

Today that one-quarter French Count was uppermost. Suave, speaking perfect English in a pleasant voice, doing all the very correct things with considerable savoir faire, John Guise got more than the apportioned amount of attention.

He is a man of much personal ambition, I should judge, and who could be a tower of strength to the orderly progress towards selfgovernment. Alternatively, with wrong handling, he no doubt could be a pain in the neck.

Before the war he was a policeman and during it he served with distinction. I am told by someone who knows him well, that the fact that the Japs made their Milne Bay landing in an inextricable swamp instead of where they had planned, was largely due to Guise’s efforts in organising every native village and hamlet to preserve complete blackout on the vital night and provide no guiding light for the mvaders.

John Guise has resigned from the Administration to devote his time to politics. There is no salary attached to being a MLC—yet—but there is an annual allowance of £2OO for elected members plus £lO per day when sitting in Council.

First Lawyer?

One of Guise’s sons—or so the story goes—is being educated at his own expense in Australia with the object of being the Territory’s first native lawyer.

It would be an excellent thing if Guise —or any of the other native members—proved capable of dealing with contentious matters in an adult fashion, if for no other reason than to give European non-official members opportunity to reply in kind.

So far, native members of the P-NG Council have never been able to rise above parish-pump politics.

Some have been virtually inarticulate or simply poured out a flood of mealy-mouthed platitudes.

As a result, the tradition has grown up that no European member may ever say anything likely to be construed as “nasty” in reply to a native member.

Others Unknown Until such time as members can get down to a frank and open discussion of matters that really affect this Territory, and the native members have to take as well as give, it’s unlikely that P-NG will develop those virile politicians which Territories Minister Hasluck says are the country’s top priority requirement.

Pacific Report

Turn to these inside pages for more highlights of the month’s news: Progress of Fiji Burns Report—ll 3; Gaol for NNG Subversion; Cook Islanders Can’t Beat Drums; Bird Bander Strikes it Lucky— -113. Norfolk’s Survey Troubles; BSIP’s New Union —115. That Man and His Chimp—ll 7.

Samoan Election Dispute—llB.

Madang Natives Want More Wages; Rabaul Housing Loans— -119. Samoan Newspaper Suit Judgment—l2o. Scheme for Treating New Caledonia’s Nickel —l2l. New Guinea Down on Canvas; Cooks Want a Museum— -122.

West Samoa Faces Gloomy Year— -123. Scholarship Men Make an Impression; Lautoka’s New Wharf—l2s. Bulk Petrol for BSIP—I26. Future of P-NG, NNG Discussed—l 27. Death of Trobriands Chief; Has NG the Mau-Mau Jitters?—l2B. NG Patrol Hazards—l3l.

Suva’s Gaol Escapee Recaptured— -133; Fiji discusses Distinction in Staff; Does Niue Provide a Survival Clue?—l33. Copra Prices Reach New Low—l3s. Acid Comment on Fiji’s Sugar; NNG Election Names—l 36. Norfolk Battle Continues—l 37. P-NG Aviation Crashes—l3B. [?]ATING THE HEAT: Noumea, New Caledonia, [?]s been experiencing some very hot weather [?]tely, but these two knew how to beat it. [?]e Vietnamese preferred champagne as he [?]rewelled his friends being repatriated by [?]ip to North Vietnam. The little lady in the bikini settled for a soft drink.

Photos: Fred Dunn. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

P-NG's New “Cabinet”

The Administrator of Papua- New Guinea announced in the Legislative Council on April 10 the names of the six members who will comprise the first Administrator’s Council (this takes the place of the old Executive Council).

The members are: Dr. John Gunther, Assistant Administrator; Mr. H. H. Reeve, P-NG Treasurer; Mr. J. K.

McCarthy, Director of Native Affairs; Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross (a nominated member of the Legco); Mr. lan F. G. Downs (elected); Mr. John Guise (elected).

The rest of the new native members, on today’s showing, are still an unknown quantity, although it is pretty obvious that some are in away above their depth, in spite of the fact that, for this April occasion, they have all blossomed out in dark city-suits.

All these men have been to school in the last few weeks, learning Parliamentary procedure, and, from all accounts, with many it has been an uphill battle.

In this connection it would be interesting to know what genius conceived the idea that the “Less Advanced Native People” could be best served by Less Advanced Native Members. What these latter will make out of the strange mixture of tradition, expediency and plain flapdoodle that goes to make up the British Parliamentary system, is anyone’s guess.

Most Legislative Council meetings have a distinct individuality. The only meeting of the Fourth Legislative Council, which took place in October last, created for itself an atmosphere of frustration and uncertainty born out of the new idea of self-government, “sooner rather than too late”, and nurtured by the official attitude in the Territory, at that time, that Europeans had better be good boys or else.

Self-Government Flap It is too soon yet to know what kind of an atmosphere this meeting will produce—although I should not be surprised if the self-government flap has not reached rock-bottom, and that the official key-note—for the moment, anyhow—is that there is a place for all and that all sections should pull together for the good of the Territory.

Recent utterances by the Minister, enjoining Papua-New Guinea to show the world how well a multiracial society can work, seem to bear out this slight shift of official wind, as did certain items in the “speech from the throne” of the Administrator of the Commonwealth, Sir Dallas Brooks, who opened the Territory’s Fifth Legislative Council today.

Time will tell.

Not even officialdom could be blind to the effect that the last 9 months’ period of uncertainty has had on the economy of this Territory.

Everybody There Distinguished delegations from overseas attended the opening ceremony. New Zealand’s Minister for Internal Affairs, Civil Defence and Island Territories, Mr. F. L. A. Gotz, was there with Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa; there were French representatives, others from BSIP, the United Kingdom and Holland.

The only South Pacific Commission Member Government representative missing was that of the United States.

The largest delegation was from the Australian Parliament and there was a large contingent from Netherlands New Guinea led by the Governor, Dr. P. J. Platteel.

Sir Alister McMullen, President of the Australian Senate, led the Australian delegation and presented the Council with an elaborate hourglass—something like an outsize egg-timer—which is not to tick off the minutes of members’ speeches, but to mark the time for division bells.

The President of the new Netherlands Council, Mr. J. Gelpke, presented the Council with a leatherbound visitors’ book.

PORT MORESBY, April 11.

Those who expected fire and brimstone from Mr. John Guise’s maiden speech (delivered this afternoon) must have been disappointed. In fact it followed the current concilatory line, looked into the future to see P-NG taking its rightful place in the Commonwealth of nations under our Queen, with “Australia acting as a brother to us”.

It also pledged political and economic security to “those Australian friends” who make their home in P-NG—an answer to a question asked in October by Fr. Dwyer of the then native members and which, at that time, produced quite different reactions.

Guise spoke also of racial discrimination. Said there was no place for it in this Territory and remarked that “the native people of my electorate” cannot understand how anyone who feels like that can bear to stay in the Territory.

Fair enough.

New Faces In P-NG Counci[?] The elections for the Leg; lative Council of Papua and Ne Guinea, which took place ( March 18, produced a few sv prises and a lot of new fac( particularly on the native side.

THE Territory’s first attempt at political party, the United Pi gress Party, managed to £ three of its European represent tives in—two of them unopposec but the founding fathers of t party (Messrs. Don Barrett, R.

Bunting and Simogun Peta) will seen no more, not in this 1961- Council anyway.

Mr. Barrett and Simogun w( beaten at the polls and Mr. Bui ing, who has always sat as a noi mated member, was not appoint for this Council—possibly at 1 own request.

Many Territorians were of t opinion that a political party of a sort was premature in the Territc at this stage, and that it is si necessary for non-official memb< to “stick together” and that diff( ences along party lines would or hinder this.

Planters Elected Amongst the elected Europe members, Messrs. J. R. Stuntz, Eastern Papua; S. R. Slaughter, Western Papua, and Paul Mason, Bougainville, are making their fi: appearance. All are plantei Although lan Downs and J.

Chipper were not members of t last Council they have been mei bers previously.

Amongst the native elected mei bers, John Guise, of part-Europe descent who claims a French Con as an ancestor; and Kondc Agaundo, of the NG Highlands, w was an observer at the 1959 Sou Pacific Conference in Rabaul, a the best known.

Amongst the nominated membe the appointments that pleased m( were those of Mr. B. E. Fairfax-R( who has been a member of the Leg since its inception in 1951; and tti of Mrs. Roma I. Bates, widow of t late Charles Bates a popular D: trict Commissioner. Mrs. Bates h been a New Guinea resident sir the early 1930’s and is a woman great charm and ability.

In this Council the first nati woman member also makes h i appearance Miss Alice Wedef (Continued on p. 144) 18 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Everybody Was There

But America

From Ralph Craib, in Hollandia Netherlands New Guinea took its first formal step towards selfwemment on April 5. But the step seemed to shock some Ausalian visitors, and it was a step which was officially shunned by e United States.

IHE opening of the New-Guinea . Raad a Parliament with a better than three to one native majority, is a dignified state occasion. But ere were a lot of other elements rown in, too.

Hollandia threw off its torpor for e big event. With guests from istralia, Holland, the United States id elsewhere, accommodation was a premium. The government, in ct, rented the big KPM freighter isirribar for use as a floating hotel, lose* aboard it enjoyed the only commodation with air conditiong in the city!

Heads of various delegations inided the Netherlands Minister for iternal Affairs, Mr. Theo Toxopeiis, id the State Secretary, Theo Bot; e Australian Minister for Terriries, Mr. Paul Hasluck; the New saland Minister for Island Terriries, Mr. F. L. A. Gotz, delegams from the Australian and Dutch irliaments, and from the Papuaew Guinea Legislative Council.

The dignitaries and a large group Pressmen were treated to a numir of receptions, tours, a fair and fireworks show, the latter undoubtedly the biggest in New Guinea since World War 11.

The actual opening of the new Council was an event of colour and contrasts. It included Naval officers in formal whites carrying sabres, the Netherlands New Guinea Governor, Dr. Platteel in formal goldbrocaded uniform; the Chief Justice of Papua-New Guinea, Mr. A. H.

Mann, in his wig and red robes; his Dutch opposite numbers in black robes with grilled bibs and ruffled berets, and a large group of visitors sweating out .the proceedings in business suits.

Temporary Building The Council opening was held in the new temporary meeting place, an auditorium flanked by new and as yet unoccupied shops in the centre of the Hollandia downtown business area.

A band of Air Force men from the Biak airport tootled light tunes as a procession of cars arrived with those privileged to have tickets.

And a large throng of Papuans lined the streets to witness the comings and goings. (Next page) PHOSPHATE STRIKE. An Auckland report in April said the NZ frigate Pukaki left Auckland on April 14 for Ocean Island to stand by because of a reported strike there by phosphate workers.

Vital Samoan Plebiscite Is Near From our Apia Correspondent Apia, March 24.

With the electoral rolls for the plebiscite on West Samoan independence closing on March 30, there are still 9,000 eligible voters not registered out of an estimated total of 41,000.

OFFICIALS in charge of the plebiscite are making a determined effort to induce the outstanding voters to enrol. The local newspapers and the broadcasting station are filled with exhortations to enrol.

The plebiscite is on May 9.

All Samoan citizens over the age of 21 will be asked two questions; • Do you agree with the Constitution adopted by the constitutional convention on October 28, 1960? • Do you agree that on January 1, 1962, Western Samoa should become an independent state on the basis of that Constitution?

Will Vote Yes It is confidently expected here that an overwhelming majority of the Samoans will vote Yes, despite many objections against the Constitution.

The important Falealili district favoured a waiting period of at least ten years before independence, and during the enrolment campaign, the chiefs of Lufilufi village, on the east coast of Upolu, which is a seat of the influential political power Tumua and Pule, refused to enrol for the plebiscite on the ground that Tumua and Pule had not been recognised by the Constitution.

There was also opposition to enrolment in the Palauli district of Savaii.

Apart from those who do not enrol there will certainly be a considerable section of voters who vote No because they object to the fact that the Constitution does not provide for universal franchise in future Parliamentary elections, thus depriving untitled Samoans of the chance of getting a seat in Parliament.

Here, in the inaugural meeting of the New Guinea Raad, Nicholas Youwe, the Council's second [?]ice-chairman, attacks America for not attending. Council president J. H. P. Gelpke is in the centre, and first vice-chairman, M. W. Kaisiepo, is wearing earphones. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

The Dutch Government messages left not a shred of doubt about the intentions for the future. A tape recorded message from Queen Juliana said that “this is the first step on the road that leads to the right of self-determination of your people. May this road prove a short one.”

Australian visitors interpreted this to mean that the Dutch are preparing to withdraw from New Guinea. There is little doubt that this is a valid conclusion.

However, no date has been set as yet and official plans are, at the moment, based on a 10-year programme of economic development and of replacement of Dutch administrators by Papuans.

Criticism of US The absence of the United States at the event drew heated comment from one speaker, Nicholas Youwe, a native member of the Council and its second vice-chairman. He told the Council that the refusal of the U.S. to attend shocked him.

“The United States, which calls itself the champion of democracy, is not represented,” he said. “This is unbelievable. We start the road to self-government without the recognition of a country which should be supporting us. And we can not believe that those who made this decision understood what would happen here today.”

Private Dutch opinion was also shocked at the US refusal to be represented. All other member nations of the South Pacific Commission were present.

Dutch blamed the American indifference on Indonesian pressure and said that “this will get the Americans nowhere.”

And Dutchmen repeatedly asked the American newspapermen present in Hollandia “what would you have us do that we are not doing already?” The question went unanswered.

A principal event of the Council opening was a fair held on the old concrete floors of huge war-time (Continued on p. 145) Agreement In Fiji Sugar Industry An audible sigh of relief went from all classes in Fiji on Ma 27, when it was announced that agreement covering the 1961 ca crushing season had been arri at, and ratified, by all interes parties—the Colonial Sugar Re} ing Co., and the several organi tions of canegrowers.

THE agreement names amounts to be paid for cs and molasses, and time £ method of payment.

It is expected that cane-cutt will begin not later than mid-Ju and will extend into January, long, good season will do someth towards countering the severe los the industry suffered in 1960.

The CSR has announced, d. that it will take enough cane 1962 to produce 235,000 tons of r sugar—which is 18 per cent, mi than the 1960 quota, which \ 199,000 tons.

There was a bumper cane crop 1960, and cutting was to begin mid-June. But there were aci misunderstandings between Cl and the associations of car growers; and there was no car cutting in June and July, or limited operations in August a September—there was full harve ing only from October until t season ended in January.

All parties lost heavily—especia the growers. The CSR was able cash in on very substantial resen of raw sugar, and generally mai tain export quotas, but the growe income (and therefore the incoi of the many thousands depende on the growers) must have be reduced by at least 50 per cent.

Lingering Effect of Strike The strike by a section of t growers was maintained for ma: weeks longer than seemed reaso able or necessary, through the i: fluence of a small clique of irreco: cilable Indians.

Probably, the most significant r suit of the 1960 strike was tl creation of a deep political gulf b tween the Fijian and the Indu communities. This had caused tl Government acute embarrassmei in relation to constitutional ar other administrative changes whit had been planned.

The gulf may tend to disappear peace is maintained in the sugar ii dustry. The new agreement seen to promise peace—at least betwe* CSR and cane-growers.

But Fiji still has to hear fro Mr. B. D. Lakshman and his unioi of organised mill-workers. At tl (Continued on p. 145)

Tradition Wins

Fiji officials in March announced they planned to take the Fijian police out of their famous sulus and put them into shorts, except for ceremonial occasions, on the ground that the sulu wasn't practicable for everyday police work. But they reckoned without public opinion.

So great was the outcry throughout Fiji, as the public made it clear the sulu was a famous Fijian tradition and a great tourist attraction, that officialdom ran for cover. The result is that the Fiji policeman will retain his sulu. At top is a policeman wearing one; lower picture shows another form of it which was recently adopted by a Suva travel agency as a uniform for tour guides. Mrs. B. Warner is wearing it. —-Photos: Rob Wright and Stinsons.

The picture every tourist takes—a Fijian policeman in his sulu in Suva's main street. 20 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

New Horizons For Teal

From Stuart Inder, in Auckland , April 3.

When the major results of the most extensive re-thinking of ith Pacific air routes since the war are made known in the next iple of weeks, TEAL, New Zealand’s international airline, will illy have come of age.

SAL’S 21st birthday is on April 30 (it will be 21 years since TEAL made the first com- •cial flight across the Tasman) I the joint government announceit should be a real birthday pret. mong the top executives of TEAL ! week, despite the busy, almost assed, time they are having—l e found an enthusiasm for the ire that could almost be debed as bubbling.

EAL will go it alone, but nobody this side of the Tasman is the it concerned that the outcome I’t be successful, he forthcoming government anncement will, of course, be to effect that New Zealand will 3 over full ownership of TEAL, ch has been hitherto a 50-50 tralian-NZ partnership. That ; has been an open secret for ly weeks.

Aviation Reshuffle ut there is much more to it a that. There will be an aviation mffle, and it may take many iths before the full extent of it mown. ilateral agreements have been lied with care, and decisions ch have yet to be taken by the ted States (which has been :ing at the whole Pacific basin) e had to be brought into account.

EAL and Qantas will compete the trans-Tasman crossing, ic h has previously been a ative TEAL monopoly. But there be nothing cut-throat about the competition. The services will rationalised. antas, too, will be able to com- -5 on TEAL’s Coral Route service Fahiti.

Some rationalisation can also be expected on that, because the most important thing that has come out of recent talks is that the British Commonwealth intends to stick together in the South Pacific, and preserve as much of it as possible from the French and Americans.

BO AC, which left the South Pacific Islands when it pulled out of TEAL in 1954, will, come back into the picture, probably through Honolulu and Tahiti, although no extensive plans involving BOAC are likely to be announced immediately. (Continued on p. 141) NZ Minister An Islands Man From Judy Tudor, in Port Moresby Mr. F. L. A. Gotz (pronounced Gertz), has not lived permanently in the tropics since 1936, hut he still seems to fit into the Islands scene .

Mr. Gotz is NZ Minister for Internal Affairs, Defence and\ Island Territories.

WITH Malietoa Tanumafili 11, one of the two Fautua of Western Samoa, he was New Zealand’s representative at the opening of the new Legislative Council in Netherlands New Guinea and of the reconstituted Legislative Council in Papua-New Guinea in early April.

He visited Papua-New Guinea briefly and privately last year (before his Government came to office in NZ), and spent a couple of months wandering around the Solomons on a small mission boat with the Bishop of Melanesia.

For six years before 1936 he was manager of NZ Reparation Estates in Western Samoa and before that was a rubber planter in Malaya.

Territorian Outlook At present his other two portfolios in the NZ Cabinet outweigh his duties in respect of NZ’s Island Territories. With Samoan independence next year his kingdom is a dwindling one in that department.

With that tropical background it probably shouldn’t be surprising that he sees New Guinea —and its 64 million dollar question of independence —more with the eyes of a Territorian than in the way we have come to expect of Australian politicians.

He did not say so, but probably feels grateful that the problems, international and domestic, of wetnursing P-NG in the years immediately ahead are Australia’s responsibility and not New Zealand’s.

In comparison with bringing Western Samoa to self-government, he feels that Australia’s problems are tremendous.

There is not the same human material to work with to begin with; and the need to educate the disunited Papuans and New Guineans is a huge task in itself.

With Territorians he believes that this pressure for self-government comes from without and that left alone the people will work out their own destiny in their own good time.

He sees New Guinea as having great economic potential if development capital is encouraged from outside the Territory.

Few European Territorians would disagree with that. The trouble at present, of course, being that of persuading prospective investors that P-NG is still a safe bet.

TEAL on March 25 inaugurated a new Electra jet service on the Coral Route, which flies weekly from NZ to Tahiti via Fiji. Here the first Electra puts down on Papeete's new jet airport built on the coral at Faaa; and the scene a few minutes later as the crowd welcomes VIPs on the inaugural flight. 21 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL Y, r APRIL, 1961

N. Guinea Coffee Growers To Seek Tariff Protection By a Staff Reporter New Guinea coffee planters are planning to seek Tariff Board protection so that the infant New Guinea industry can remain alive.

THERE has been increasing agitation among the planters for this kind of protection—a protection which has stabilised the Papua rubber industry in recent years— but a definite move is now likely following developments at this year’s coffee conference between users and growers, held in Sydney on March 22, The New Guinea growers emerged from the conference with a caning, after having been shown the hard facts of life. It was the old story again of supply and demand.

For the first time since voluntary price agreement started three years ago, the buyers in March refused to take New Guinea’s entire coffee production, and on the lower grades they refused to agree to a price at all. The buyers indicated that they could get cheaper coffee from overseas.

Estimated NG coffee production for 1961 was given at 2,800 tons.

The buyers agreed to accept 2,000 tons of this.

They agreed to pay 4/3 lb for A grade, 4/- for B grade and 3/9 for X grade (which is clean, ungraded coffee).

They would not give a price for grades lower than X.

The growers had asked 4/3 for A grade, 4/- for B, and 3/11 for X.

Last year the conference had agreed to take the full estimated production of 1,500 tons (in fact, there were 1,750 tons) at a general minimum price of 4/- lb. Some of the users last year, however, did not honour their promises, although some other users took more than their quota.

Delegates Representatives who attended the Conference were; Department of Territories C. R. Lambert, CBE (chairman); W.

Scott; I. Cartledge.

Papua and New Guinea Administration W. L. Conroy, Chief of Division of Extension and Marketing, Department of Agriculture, Port Moresby.

Growers I. F. G. Downs and J. L. Leahy, president and vice-president respectively of the Highland Farmers and Settlers’ Assn., Goroka, NG; R. Gibbes; F. M. Hewitt, MLC; J. M. Ireland: A. S. Norquay, secretary, National Farmers’ Union of Australia.

Users J. Andronicus, Andronicus Bros. Pty.

Ltd., Sydney: T. F. Bagot and R. Etty, Bushells Pty. Ltd., Sydney: J. Dimattina, Mocopan Pood Processing Co., Melbourne; V. J. Edwards, Robert Timms Pty. Ltd , Melbourne; B. M. Hall, E. W. Bolin Ltd., Adelaide: W. S. Hoy, Hoy’s T. and C.

Products, Sydney; H. H. Leschen, chairman, Australian Tea and Coffee Traders’

Assn.. Melbourne: K. I. McClelland. E.

H. Harris and Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney; C. C. Matthes, Quist’s Danish Coffee Shop, Melbourne: G. L. Otick, Henry Berry and Co. Ltd., Melbourne; Dr. G. D. Repin, Repin’s Pty. Ltd., Sydney; R. A. Wilson and V. P. Calnan, The Nestle Company (Australia) Ltd., Sydney. (Apologies were received from Griffiths Bros. Ltd., of Melbourne, and P. A.

Southwick & Son Pty. Ltd., Brisbane.) Australian Department of Trade W. B. Keough.

Producers 'Unhappy"

Following the conference, Mr.

Downs said that the New Guinea producers were very “unhappy”.

He said apparently the import of soluble instant coffee was making inroads into the market, to the detriment of New Guinea’s green beans.

Six hundred tons of American instant coffee had arrived in Australia in cans in the last six months.

Six hundred tons of instant coffee represented 2,400 tons of beans, as the ratio of beans to instant coffee was four to one.

In addition, Brazilian coffee beans had been dumped in Australia at 1/11S a lb, duty paid, he said.

It was quite evident that a number of people now in the coffee trade were not represented at the conference, and these people could make any arrangements they wanted, said Mr. Downs.

“That there are those in the industry who are unrepresented at the conference is a fact of growing importance, and it is one of the reasons why this year we have met resistance for the first time,” Mr.

Downs said.

Must All Agree “Manufacturers can get cheaper coffee from overseas, and I think that the days of voluntary agreement are over. The time has come for the New Guinea industry to go to the Tariff Board and ask for protection. (Continued on p. 144) Americans Spend Most in Fiji American tourists stay for a average period of five days i Fiji, and spend about £l2O eacl New Zealanders remain 10 da% and spend £lOO each. Au& tralians stay for an average c only seven days, and eac spends £lOO.

These interesting calculation have been made by the Fi Visitors’ Bureau, in relation i 1960 figures. That year, it is re ported, visitors to Fiji spen £1,172J08.

Noumea Shu[?] Down By Strike From a Noumea Correspondent A four-day strike complet paralysed Noumea from Mai 21-24.

IT involved at least 3,000 work and the industrial and co mercial life of Noumea came a standstill. There were some u incidents.

The strike began over a work* retirement scheme. The scheme \ to be paid for mainly by employ* with employees paying a small s into a fund.

Deputy Lenormand’s party pusl the scheme through the reci Budget session of the Territory x sembly, the opposition abstaini apparently not daring to v against a project for the workei The workers took it for gran that the Governor would give signature to the bill to make legal, but he went on holidays Paris without doing this.

Two days after he had left, statement released by his depu the Secretary-General, said that 1 Governor had refused to sign 1 bill, that the Assembly had ad illegally and that the matter woi be placed before the Minister : Overseas Territories in Paris.

The official statement exhoii the locals to be calm and not to influenced by agitators.

Unions Act The unions called out all th members and all big shops a business houses closed. Workers the Nickel Co. banked the furna< and left only security staff.

Mobs of strikers went the rour (Continued on p. 143) 22 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Hurricane-Damaged Tonga Picks Up The Pieces The number of homeless and the amount of damage done n the worst hurricane ever to hit the northern groups of Tonga vas still being ascertained in early April.

JT early figures seem to indicate that the hurricane, which devastated Vavau and Haapai ing March 15-17, made more n 8,000 Tongans homeless, wiped a majority of the food and ext crops in the northern groups, . killed at least two people, both ;hem in Vavau. i Vavau alone (which has a ulation of 14,000 in 37 villages) per cent, of the buildings were lolished, and many of the render were damaged, including big hospital, which was partly oofed. he Postmaster at Vavau esti- ;ed there was more than £1 iion worth of damage done to rernment property alone. The toms shed and everything in it blown into the harbour, and mg other buildings lost were 30 mtly completed cottages for Govm «L£ ffiCerS> 6aCh ° f WhiCh had a hmricane er6d fUU ° f hurricane.

Vavau Worst Hit mong the losses in Haapai was £lO,OOO Government launch. malofa on the southern island of igatapu, was battened down but blow there was not SeriOUS.

Vavau, the worst hit, is entirely dependent on its copra and banana exports and on its food gardens, There was extensive damage to schools and churches, and what schools were left were closed to provide sleeping accommodation for the homeless.

One of the few big buildings to survive in Neiafu, Vavau, was a large new £200,000 college dormitory building, built of timber by a Sydney man, which sheltered more than 200 girls and many other people from the village during the hurricane.

Appeals for help were launched in New Zealand, Fiji and Australia, Fiji sent a reconstruction team of 20 men with equipment to help rebuild houses and the Fiji Red Cross despatched clothing and food, Help From Everywhere The Methodist Church in Auscane relief, which met with a quick response.

The New Zealand Government made offers of help of food and technical assistance, Mrs. F. Matheson, wife of D . (Continued on p. 141) Another Chapter On Hamac By a Staff Reporter The extraordinary story of Hamac Holdings Limited, of Papua and New Guinea (for full details see “PIM” November, 1959) was advanced a further step in Port Moresby on March 22, when an attempt was made to sell, by public auction, Ela Services Ltd.—one of the companies of the Hamac group. ) r!ERE was no sale at auction, but it was reported then that “private negotiations” were in progress.

On April 10, the Territory’s Supreme Court was still dealing with an application for the removal of the order for the liquidation of Hamac, issued by the Court last year.

The story begins several years ago, when Mr. F. K. McEachern (then, and still, a highly-respected insurance broker of Sydney) entered into alliance with Harvey Tripder Ltd., of London, to handle Lloyd’s Insurance in NSW, and formed Harvey Trinder (NSW) Ltd.

The latter concern prospered.

Eventually Mr. McEachern and his son, Mr. Leonard F. McEachern, were at the head of a big Sydney company and held 49 per cent, of issued shares.

After World War 11, Harvey Trinder extended operations to Papua-New Guinea, registered as a local company, and again prospered—mostly under the person a 1 direction of Mr. L. F.

McEachern.

Mr. McEachern was interested in the formation in P-NG of trading and developmental companies. Presently, these were brought together in Hamac Holdings Limited. There were eight companies, concerned with motor-car selling and service, hotels, transport, planting, cattlefarming. (See end of this article.) Because of the McEachern connection, it had been supposed that the Hamac group was a Harvey Trinder enterprise. But when finance difficulties developed in the late ’Fifties, it was indicated that the various P-NG enterprises were the responsibility mostly of Mr. L. F.

McEachern.

Big Sums Involved Although there was no legal link between Hamac and Harvey Trinder, the London and Sydney directors of the latter companies became concerned with events in P-NG, and forced an investigation.

Published statements said that Hamac’s liabilities were between £400,000 and £500,000, of which (Continued on p. 142) Mr. Roger Probert, quartermaster of the Fiji branch of the British Red Cross Society, attaches stickers to the first consignment of food and clothing to leave Fiji for Tonga hurricane victims. Fiji business firms co-operated with the packing and shipment.

Photo: Rob Wright. 23 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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COMMENTARY Coffee Industry eds Help Now -OBABLY the biggest factor in the New Guinea coffee conference ending the way it did, in ley, in March—with buyers reig to guarantee to take more 2,000 tons of this year’s crop, NG planters “very unhappy” page 22) was the survey made year by the Commonwealth au of Agricultural Economics, e Bureau’s survey of the coffee stry came up with the estimate by 1970, about 7,000 tons of 3 per year would be coming out apua-New Guinea—an amount t equal to Australia’s total nt annual consumption, is information was circulated 1 Australian coffee buyers and ey took fright and decided to n their heels right then, while was still time, it was a natural ?h reaction. en the buyers’ association first nteed to take all of the Terricoffee, the Territory was prog about 900 tons a year. Last production was 1,750 tons; and iroduction is estimated at 2,800 The buyers have guaranteed ce only 2,000 tons of this, but price that under the circum- -3s seems more than reasonable. ■ crux of the whole situation course, that the availability of in Australia is far in excess ; demand; that although the roducers have not got all they d in fixed prices, they are conbly more than the price at Brazilian coffee can be landed stralia. buyers say they don’t mind > NG coffee at world price but ’eel that the NG planters are istic in wanting to fix their rice; they don’t see why they be expected to subsidise the ost structure and air freightrrangements of the NG inis one side. There is another growers’. They were ened to plant coffee at a time world demand outstripped ; and when Australian import ng and dollar restrictions >d considerable protection, in the years that the coffee aturing, the situation changed, tificial protections have been Jd and world supply is now excess of demand. Unforty, in New Guinea there is r factor—the cost of products gone up and not down, and estion now arises as to just mch responsibility Australia assume in seeing that the Territory coffee producers not only don’t go insolvent but make a reasonable return on their investment.

It seems generally accepted in principle these days that all European settlers in a native country are expendable, but (probably fortunately for the European coffee planters) the Australian government through the P-NG Administration has got a vested interest in seeing that the native producers— who are responsible for a large slice of P-NG’s exported coffee—are not economically disillusioned by the present impasse in the coffee industry.

An illiterate native who was persuaded that coffee was an excellent investment in 1956 cannot see why, in 1961, it should not be worth the trouble of picking and processing.

It is the sort of unexplainable economic situation that could have far-reaching repercussions quite unconnected with a mere coffee slump.

The planters themselves have already pointed this out.

The only remedy the Australian government has at hand is through a subsidy (and it is anti-subsidy); or through the Tariff Board, which could recommend a customs duty on foreign coffee.

It was the indirect result of Tariff Board recommendations that the Papuan rubber industry was eventually put on a firm basis. These deliberations stretched over about three years.

If anything like this period is spent backing and filling over NG coffee, this important NG industry could end up as dead as the once promising kenaf industry. ☆ ☆ ☆ How P-NG Bureaucracy Rewards Its Pioneers rE case of Michael J. Leahy (see p. 29) should remain permanently in the records of Papua and New Guinea as a warning to all pioneers, and to private enterprise generally.

“Mick” Leahy was a goldminer in the Morobe area about 35 years ago.

Also, he was an explorer—he and his brother Dan were with James L.

Taylor in 1931, when they discovered the New Guinea Highlands. When the Japs invaded, in 1942, Mick and his brothers gave notable service as soldier-scouts, in the New Guinea jungles.

After the war, the Leahy brothers re-invested all. they owned in New Guinea, as planters. Mick chose cattle-farming, on the plateaus me? Mdrkham Valley.

Cattle-farming was one of the industries that New Guinea’s highest officialdom advocated, before it became bemused with plans for forcing all primary production into the hands of natives, and chasing white settlers away.

Practical Leahy, knowing that cattle tick infection in New Guinea was inevitable, made his own plans for “tick control”. Administration theorists, believing they could keep the tick out, forced him to adopt other measures.

In the end, Leahy was justified.

His cattle herds became infected, under the conditions enforced by officialdom, and he was faced with the prospect of losses from redwater fever (which develops when tick infestation is not controlled).

He put the issue clearly before the Departmental czars, but they still demanded “eradication” measures and forced Leahy to comply.

The end was that Leahy’s herd were affected by redwater, and he lost thousands of pounds worth of stock.

The long struggle, extending over years, naturally had produced bitter feeling between Leahy and Department. Mick Leahy never minces words. He carried his grievance to law, and sued the Administration for damages. The Chief Justice of the Territory’s Supreme Court, after careful review of the evidence, awarded him £4,000, and costs.

The Administration appealed to the High Court of Australia and, on legal technicalities, the verdict was reversed.

All who know the circumstances will agree that the Supreme Court verdict represented justice, and the High Court decision a mechanical— if perfectly correct—interpretation of the law, bereft of merely human considerations.

Mr. Leahy has given New Guinea a lifetime of service—as a goldfields pioneer, explorer, soldier-scout, and cattle-farming pioneer. Surely, when he suffered heavy losses because of the Administration’s default, he was entitled to compensation. That, at any rate, was the opinion of Leahy’s contemporaries and of the Territory’s principal judicial authority.

But the Administration, on legal technicalities, has escaped from its liability. It snarls angrily at planters and traders who, having succeeded in their enterprises, take their money out of the country. But here, when it had a chance to show gratitude in a practical way to one of the few who have ploughed their profits back into New Guinea, it ducked and dodged away from its moral obligations.

The point of it is that the Leahy case should never have got as far as the courts.

Whatever the legal considerations, 9 n the grounds of humanity and justice, the Administration could have compensated Mr. Leahy for losses which it caused him. A pay- 25 F I C’ ISLANDS MONTHLY a¥i! i L , 1 £1 6 1

ment of £4,000 would have been u mere drop in the more-than £2O millions per annum which it spends —and partially wastes—each year on “administration”.

Yet, what is the use of harsh comment at this stage! The matter may be safely left to history. ☆ ☆ ☆ £l2m. For Development: But Plans Obscure IN a way that suggested timidity and lack of confidence, the Fiji Government in March announced a “development plan” under which a sum of £12,192,000 would be spent in the five years from now until 1965.

At first glimpse, it is a pleasant sight. The Colony is faced with two clamant needs—more jobs for a constantly increasing number of unemployed, and much more development, expertly calculated, to feed a rapidly growing population which now exceeds 400,000. £12,000,000 of special expenditure could achieve much.

But an examination of the details of the plan—admittedly difficult, because the Government’s announcements were in a series of ill-connected pieces, and attended by many provisos raises dou b ts as to whether the plan is what the Colony so urgently needs now.

For example, it looks as if a large proportion of the suggested £12,000,000 will be earmarked for the reconstruction of the Suva docks. New docks are needed, but not so urgently as is large-scale developmental activities, planned so this large population can be adequately fed and sheltered.

Following its 1959 inquiry, the Burns Commission submitted a plan designed most carefully to take care of Fiji’s needs between 1960-1970; proposing expenditure of over £12,000,000 between 1960 and 1965; submitting an order of priority for the various public works; and insisting that if its plan was to be effective, it must be carried out as a whole.

An essential part of the plan was that a Development Commissioner should be appointed to guide, coordinate, and fix priorities in accordance with the over-all scheme.

As everyone knows, the Burns plan was thrown aside because of the refusal of the Fijians to accept some of its most important recommendations. The Fiji Government insists it has accepted more than 90 per cent, of the Burns plan and that its latest developmental plan is in accordance with the Burns report. _ That is quibbling. The small number of Burns recommendations rejected are the major ones; and the idea that a developmental plan on Burns lines can be implemented by the Colonial Office officials who now serve as the Government of Fiji, instead of by a qualified Development Commissioner, is fantastic.

Evidence of that is seen in the recent series of disconnected announcements about development.

The Government says, at one stage, that £2,500,000 will be spent on Suva docks between now and the end of 1964 out of the Colonial Development Fund. It announces in another place that the builders of the new Lautoka docks have been authorised to proceed with the Suva docks. Then it says, elsewhere, that Britain will provide half the money for the docks on condition that Fiji provides the remainder with a local loan!

There is no real indication that £12,000,000 will be available.

Classing the need to feed the growing Fiji population as of paramount importance, the Burns Commission recommended measures to make much more land available for primary industries, and for this, new roads were given first priority.

The Colony’s road system now is shockingly poor and inefficient.

But out of the suggested £12,000,000 which the Government put in the forefront of its developmental plan, only £713,000 is earmarked for roads between 1961 and 1965, and there is no real indication of whether they are to be developmental roads.

Conning over the Government’s various announcements, it can be assumed that the Government’s heart is in the right place.

For example, it proposes to make up to £lOO,OOO available for subsidising new planting of coconuts, and coconut planters will be allowed to deduct their expenditure on new planting from their taxable incomes.

It proposes to give substantial financial help to a New Zealand group which plans the development of a timber industry on a big scale.

It offers limited subsidies to the Emperor Goldmining group, to encourage it to undertake an approximate £750,000 expenditure needed to develop apparently rich lodes at deep levels (although it has so far refused to carry on with the subsidies it has made to this goldmining industry in the past, and which the Emperor interests apparently expect to continue if they are going to proceed with development).

These plans are all to the good.

The Government’s obvious intentions are admirable—but this manner in which it is proceeding with the colossal task of co-ordinating a practical development plan with the finance made available by the Colonial Developmental Fund, and with solution of the embarrassing economic and political problems created by rapid over-population, gives rise to despair.

The Colony has reached a stage where it no longer can be compl managed by the kind of boss r available for this class of Cover ship under the Colonial C system.

It needs a general manager, Development Commissione someone of that class, who is < petent by character and experj to guide and shape the Adminii tion of this kind of country, w there is still only limited talen self-government, but where a raj growing population demands penditure of very large ove: funds on developmental actn calculated to produce more food employment.

The Colonial Office system v, applies to Colonies like Fiji, t adequate, and sometimes reir ably successful, in the past, reached the end of its practical fulness. The officials who have < to high authority and emolun as a reward for long servic clerical and administrative have not got the qualifica essential in a general manager tough, competitive world; and 1 are the qualifications now ne in the Government of Fiji.

Sincerity, courtesy, probity charming hospitality—qua which distinguish most Col Office servants—are not suffici Fiji’s Administration is 1 carried on very much in the ma of the last 50 years—just as i crisis had been created by < population, and just as if that < had not been recognised planned against by the experie men of the Burns Commission.

One wonders where it will e; The Fiji Colonial Secretar just returning from the long tro leave which is peculiar to the Administration. During his abs the Finance Secretary actec Colonial Secretary and someone acted as Finance Secretary. Nex Governor is due shortly to depa long leave. Presumably, the Col Secretary will act as Gove while the Finance Secretary wil as Colonial Secretary, and som else will act as Finance Secre These are the three principal in the Government of Fiji. Fu: comment is not needed. ☆ ☆ ☆ Those Niue Supermen WHAT distinguished physicis Ernest Marsden has had h recently about the appj ability of the Niue Islander withstand the high radiatior their little island (see p. 133 very interesting. Unfortum some Australian newspapers gone completely off the deep and insisted that what Sir Ei has really discovered is a new of supermen. What rubbish! > super grins those Niueans mm displaying! 26 APRIL, 1981 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

The Editors' Mailbag fho Broke Alick's iving Record?

John Metcalfe, writing from ankston, Victoria, answers our estion about Alick Wickham, who alleged to have taught Ausilians how to crawl (swimming riety), and asks another. \s we said in a paragraph in Febary PIM (page 85) Alick Wickm, a “native lad from the lomons”, visited Melbourne 60 ars ago and created a high-diving jord that lasted 37 years. We nted to know what happened to ,ck. Mr. Metcalfe says he went :k to the Solomons and is still jre, but what he wants to know who at the end of those 37 years, )ke Alick’s record dive of 205 ft nches. )an someone tell him?

Uick Wickham, we are told, lives the Roviana Lagoon, New orgia, within stone-throwing tance of Munda airstrip. Mr. tcalfe says that although he has Dwn of him since the 1920’5, he > rarely seen him as he lived a ;ive type of life and never sought minence. He says that he is not e whether it was Alick or Harry ckham who introduced the crawl Australia—both were famous mmers —but it was certainly sk who made the famous dive, cific History in Yellow Booklet •efore Mrs. A. A. Innes sailed off Oriana from Sydney the other r , for a year’s wandering in ■ope, she sent us a yellowing old klet of printed testimonials to s May Anderson, RRC, one of early nursing trainees of the a Hospital. [rs. Innes thinks we might like ise the information in the book- -should occasion arise, s far as we are concerned, there io occasion like the present. Miss ierson, now over 90, is living in rement in Suva—64 years after gentlemen who signed themes G. W. A. Lynch, MB., Bac., g., Camb., and B. Glanvill ney, MRCS, Eng., certified that 7 Christina Anderson had corned her three years of training had satisfied the Examiners of competence as a Surgical and lical Nurse. ne of the testimonials in the £ is from Miss Frances Websteriderburn, then matron of the pital (she later became a Mrs. mbe) who had been one of the ses personally selected for Fiji, at Colonial Office request, by Miss Florence Nightingale. (Mrs. Innes recalls that when she met Mrs. Stroube, then an old lady, in Lautoka in 1914, she showed her a bundle of letters from Miss Nightingale and Mrs, Innes wonders what happened to them subsequently).

The mantle of Miss Webster- Wedderburn finally fell on Miss Anderson and towards the end of the book there is a letter from H. J.

Vansittart Neale who, “commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,” thanked Miss Anderson and her staff for the “assistance rendered to the sick and wounded transferred to Suva Hospital from Her Majesty’s ships during the disturbances in Samoa from June to September, 1899”.

Finally Mr. Vansittart Neale tells Miss Anderson that, on the recommendations of their Lordships, Her Majesty the Queen has been “graciously pleased to confer on you the Order of the Royal Red Cross”. That was in August. 1900.

Know Any Navy Graves?

If you have a Navy grave on your island, Rear-Admiral Peter Phipps, Chief of Navy Staff, Navy Office, Wellington, NZ, would like to hear about it.

It seems that the NZ Navy is engaged on a project to locate all the British Navy officers and ratings buried in New Zealand.

Rear-Admiral Phipps now wants to extend the idea further and locate any NZ Navy personnel who might be buried on Pacific Islands.

The NZ Navy is particularly interested in the following Groups: Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Gilbert and Ellice, Hawaii, Norfolk Is., Kermadecs, and French Polynesia.

Any information about old graves, with perhaps photographs of same, would be appreciated.

Memories of Once Colourful Levuka We are indebted for some valuable historical material to Dr, Richard W. D. Maxwell, now a member of the staff of the NSW Department of Public Health, but who was for 22 years a medical officer in Fiji, and for three years in Western Samoa.

In sending along some of this material Dr. Maxwell says: “It came to me many years ago through J. T.

Swanson of Levuka, together with some other old papers and photographs which had belonged to Captain David Robbie.

“Captain Robbie was a bosom companion of my mother’s father, Dr. David Blyth, when both were members of the old Bailie Club in Levuka, away back in the 1880’s.

“The club’s whisky was Bailie Nicol Jarvie, I was stationed in Levuka as a District Medical Officer in the 30’s and I knew Captain Robbie well—then a wonderful old man in his late 80’s, and a legend in Levuka in his own lifetime.”

NZ Has Preserved Those Maori Records Lew Friday’s article on page 41 of the December issue, about the things the late Australian composer Alfred Hill did for native music, interested Mr. C. R. H. Taylor, chief librarian at the renowned Wellington (NZ) Alexander Turnbull Library.

Mr. Taylor, however, says he wants to make a correction on the statement by Mr. Friday concerning the Edison cylinder recordings Word From the White House Some time ago we got busy with the editorial scissors, clipped all those articles that have appeared in “PIM” in recent months about President Kennedy, his war-time exploits and those of his rescuer, Coastwatcher A. R. Evans, and sent them to the Press Secretary at the White House.

We didn’t really expect them to get past the first wastepaper-basket in the seventh ante-room. But in March we received a charming letter from Press Secretary Pierre Salinger.

It appears, from Mr. Salinger’s letter, that the President is going to write to Mr. Evans (we presume when the Laos situation is cleaned up!) and that if Evans ever gets to the United States there will be a welcome mat out for him at the White House.

Incidentally there is nothing wrong with the President’s five handwriting experts, as we—and the rest of the Press—inferred (March “PIM”, p. 26). Mr.

Salinger tells us that they did in fact come up with the answer that the signature on the note that the President keeps in his office is “A. R. Evans”—which is correct.

Apparently the Press' messages fouled it up into R. R. Evans. 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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The article said that the recordings, which Hill considered priceless, had been buried away for 30 years in NZ Government pigeon holes and allowed to crumble away.

Mr. Taylor writes; These recordings were definitely not destroyed, but over 170 of them are held by the Turnbull Library.

There has been no neglect, but the experimentation to re-record them on permanent discs has been a difficult process.

Some have been sent to the United States for processing (successfully) and Miss Mary Martin, of the Music Department of Otago University, has been working with us for some years on the salvaging of the texts and songs A catalogue of the collection has been compiled by another musical scholar, and the Department of Internal Affairs has made available any funds necessary to ensure the fullest preservation of the songs karakia and chants contained in this quite extensive collection.

Authorities who have heard the re-recordings have been able to recognise even the voices of old tohungas who had recorded their chants long ago, and the texts themselves can usually be followed fairly well.

The conditions of recordings, with no amplification, and often in open air, have not helped to mi for clarity or freedom from ba ground noise, but a large proport will be salvaged.

Some texts, incidentally, go bi to years before 1910, before Alf Hill’s influence was felt in this fii The point is worth making, 1 that since 1045, the New Zea h Government has achieved a gr deal in recording by modi methods, as much as possible Maori chants, etc., by sending fi equipped vans into the remc areas where the older lore still s vived.

The Maori Affairs Departrm the Maori Purposes Fund Board £ the Broadcasting Service have been assiduous in this program] and I would think it fair to i that much that could have b saved in this century has been p served.

Nayacakalou In Reply The following letter to the Ed\ was received in mid-March, just late for inclusion in the Ma issue: On page 142 of your Febru issue one of your Staff Cor spondents quoted briefly from address to the Suva Rotary C (published in full in the Fiji Tii of January 30) so as to make appear that I am rigid in my vi( against any change in “the Fij way of life”.

Actually, I was putting a quest mark on all the blurb about p servation of the Fijian way of 1 urging closer scrutiny of the ci tents of such views and suggest the avoidance of blanket-terms si as “culture” —quite the opposite what your Staff Correspondent ! now attributed to me.

How he came to construe views in the way he did is unknc to me. But, as far as I can gu he must be only one of two thin either he was only deliberately n representing my views for the 1 of doing so; or he is a drongo, i able to receive the message. For sake I hope he was merely former, for such a fault he co have helped!

I am, etc., R. R. NAYACAKALOU[?] Suva.

PI M’S COMMENT: We refer this back to the Staff Writer. : latter, obviously puzzled, asked to read the full report of : Nayacakalou’s speech. We read Our Staff Writer’s comment February seems fair enough. So also are in the Drongo class. He ever, Mr. Nayacakalou now made his meaning quite clear —j it is one we heartily endorse. 28 APRIL, 1961 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

The Battle Against

BUREAUCRACY That well known pioneer -settler of New Guinea, Mr. Michael J. Leahy because [?]f the March verdict of the Australian High Court, not only loses the £4,055 [?]warded him as damages against the P-NG Administration—he also is called upon [?] pay thousands of pounds of legal costs. As this incident in future probably [?]ill be regarded as a marking-place in the history of the deterioration of private [?]terprise in New Guinea (see commentary on p. 25 of this issue) we here give [?]he history of the Leahy cattle case.

By R. W. Robson Four brothers named Leahy (Michael, James, Dan and Paddy) were nong the first Australians to enter unexplored New Guinea, when it was ken over under mandate by Australia, after World War I. During the ;tween-wars period, they were mostly gold-diggers, and they did well. They ere also explorers. Mick and Dan, with Jim Taylor, actually discovered e Highlands in 1930.

'ROM the Jap invasion (early 1942) until the recovery of the Territory in 1946, they were rvicemen—and much will be found war records about their jungle hievements.

After the war, three of the four others—Mick, Jim and Danny— came notable pioneer-settlers in e NG Highlands. Mick started ttle-farming at Zenag, just up off p MnrkVmrn Vniipv rim e Markham Valley Jim estabhed a successful coffee plantation ar Goroka; Danny has a mixed ™ an ? P lantatlon on the slopes Mount Hagen.

Until the starry-eyed idealists of b latter-day UNO took over Dund 1950, to make silken-purse •mer-politicians out of tne primve gentlemen who still are in the begory of sow’s ears, Messrs. ck, Jim and Dan Leahy were lerally lauded for their enterprise, Jir loyalty to New Guinea, and ur courage in committing their -ure to the raw Territory’s unived natural resources. n the view of old-fashioned nkers like me, those three Leahys )uld have got titular honours and istantial practical aid from a grateful country. But all they received was negative.

Here is Mick Leahv’s experiencew cn ~ , r . . ‘ sougnt ana was grantea alter £he wai f J lease over 640 acres of at Z v f l l ag (ab ove A/rovJ^ arkhan i Y^ b^ ween . be Markham and the Bulolo region). . 1 OV JI r *1 lth lo Mlc s ?i!p , in be s - bac * c l eare d the kunai grass off some narrow niateai]<; and was Irvin? to rstahlish on a soil impregnated w th tU^ d ° tones lm P re B nated wlth CI “J ana s “ le “- He was filled with enthusiasm. I remember that I lookad around, saw how the kunai was fighting back to push out Mick’s introduced grasses —and decided that there must be a lot of lion-heart in the Leahy breed.

Mick knew a lot about cattle. The cattle in the Bulolo area before the war had been tick-infested. He decided, for safety’s sake, to bring in stock from tick-infested North Queensland, “control” the tick, and so have animals which had achieved a record of immunity to redwater fever (a disease caused by ticks carrying the redwater wog), He told the Department of Agriculture what he planned. They insisted that, in the interests of future cattle-farming, he bring in cattle from a tick-free area of NSW. He reluctantly comp 1 i e d—although NSW cattle cost him, in Zenag, a third more than those from N.

Queensland. The NSW cattle did well at Zenag.

In 1948, en route South, Mick met Mrs. Doris Booth at Lae. She asked if she could send her pre-war dairy cows, still running on her property in the Bulolo Valley, to the dairy bull he had estabished at Zenag.

He warned her that her Bulolo cattle might bring ticks to Zenag, and said he would discuss the matter with the Department of Agriculture.

Next day. in Moresby, Mr.

Grainger, of Agriculture, urgently warned Mick that Mrs. Booth’s cattle could infect his clean herd at Zenag; and he (Mr. Grainger) promised to immediately warn her not to send the cows to Zenag.

Some time later, Mick received a letter from Zenag, to the effect that Mrs. Booth’s cows had arrived that the cattle tick had been introduced; and that at Zenag they now were trying to arrest the infestation.

Mick, thoroughly angry, radioed the Department from Sydney: “Now you have allowed the ticks onto my property get them out”.

Battles in Moresby Agriculture showed the liveliest concern; and finally it was arranged that there should be a two-years’ period of intensive spraying, etc.— Mr. Leahy providing the labour, and the Department the insecticide and the equipment. (over) These are some of Mick Leahy's cattle at Zenag - the subject of his long fight with officialdom. The picture of Mr. Leahy at top was taken in Sydney recently, when he appeared on a TV panel to discuss the future of NG. 29 CIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY A P P I L , 1961

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Technipress House, 29 Alberta St., Sydney (Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.) Then Mr. Marley became head of the Departmental section, and refused to continue the supply of insecticide. Mick appealed personally in Moresby to (then) Deputy Administator Cleland; and the supply of insecticide was resumed.

It presently (says Mick) became apparent that tick eradication was impossible with the Department’s method and equipment, and Mick then made up his mind to build his own cattle-dip and establish a system of control (as practised in Queensland and Northern NSW), in place of the Department’s eradication system.

He went to Moresby and told them his decision: and there was another fight with the Department, and then (according to statements subsequently made in evidence by Mr.

Leahy) Mr. Marley undertook, on June 7, 1954, “to thoroughly and skilfully spray the stock”—which, Mr. Leahy claims, would have totally eliminated the risk of redwater fever developing in the cattle 12 months later.

Lengthy Litigation The Department took over and, according to Mr. Leahy, owing to inefficiency and persistent drunkenness on the part of certain men allocated to the job, the treatment (from June, 1954, to July, 1955) was ineffective, and he lost cattle worth about £lO,OOO.

After that, Mick took proceedings (which extended over years) against the Department and the Admin: tration; and finally got from Ch Justice Mann, in the Territor Supreme Court, a verdict order! the Administration to pay h: £4,055 by way of damages, plus 1 legal costs.

That was in 1959. The Admin: tration appealed to the Austral!

High Court. The latter heard t appeal in mid-1960; but did r give its decision—upholding t appeal and reversing the verdict until March, 1961.

A most important point in all tl lengthy argument and litigation w the difference between the tern tick eradication and tick contro Mr. Leahy was prepared himsi to undertake “control’—which mea that he would treat his cattle intervals, to keep the infestati down to such proportions that would not cause redwater fever a: the death of the animals.

This was within his means. 1 pointed out that “Control” was e ervised in this way in the infest areas of Australia.

But the Department insisted, aga and again, that its policy w “eradication”, Leahy said he had n the means to provide the equipme and organisation needed for erac cation. The Department thereupc he claimed, undertook to carry i the eradication campaign on co dition that he provided the nece sary labour. That arrangement w agreed to on June 7, 1954. IV Dudley Jones (Mr. Leahy’s counse argued that this was a contrat and that the contract was brok through the neglect and incompt ence of the Department’s office] and the Territory’s Chief Justice, the Supreme Court (after a clc review of evidence and argumen accepted that view.

The three judges of the Hi; Court were unanimous in their d cison that the “arrangement” ma on June 7, 1954, was not a contra Points from Judgment A perusal of the individual Hi] Court judgments suggests that t sympathies of the Court were di tinctly with Mr. Leahy; but the was no doubt in the judges’ min that the arrangement made betwe* the Agriculture Department ai Leahy to eradicate the ticks frc Leahy’s property was not a form contract, and therefore his clai could not succeed.

Said Mr. Justice McTiernan: “T loss suffered by Leahy through t death of his cattle from redwat fever was due to tick infestatic The officers of the Department e ercised their powers for a period a very inefficient manner, throui not carrying out the treatment pr perly. However, the cause of the 1c was not the default of the Admi: istration, but a natural cause— tl tick infestation —and therefore t] respondent has not proved that t] (see opposit 30 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Margaret Merril. appellant has broken a duty of care, leading to loss on his part.”

Administration Neglect Chief Justice Dixon said at one stage he was “inclined to explore the possibility” that Leahy could recover damages from the Administration because there had been neglect, leading to loss, on the part if the Administration’s officers. But tie turned from that possibility because of the shape the proceedings took in the Territory’s Supreme 3ourt, and because it would be imlossible on the evidence to trace to those particular acts or omissions, my identifiable part of the damages claimed by Leahy.

Mr. Justice Kitto made a very thorough analysis of evidence and the judgment and concluded: “From first to last the Departnent showed itself to be doing no nore than giving effect to a genial policy of dispensing aid to miividual cattle owners as a means of toping with a recognised menace to an important part of the Terriory’s economy. And the respondent’s ittitude throughout was that of a irivate person appealing for gov- ;mment assistance on the ground that the Department, by doing for lim what it insisted ought to be lone on his property, would be performing a function of government n accordance with its settled lolicy.”

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If you are strolling after dark in the very tropical gardens around the Korolevu Hotel (a super-holiday resort on the South Coast of Viti Levu, Fiji) you presently will come upon an illuminated, aluminium square, hanging from a palmtree, some 10 feet above the ground.

IF you are reasonably observant, you will stop dead and exclaim: “Now, that is a very odd thing.”

The inside of the square is filled with parallel wires, almost touching. On each side of the wires, in front and behind, there is a glowing white neon light.

The wires sputter continuously— a sound like rain falling on a hot stove. With each sputter there is a tiny flash on the wires.

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There is your clue. Those wires carry an electrical charge. Each flash represents an insect that has flown to the neon lights, dashed against the wires, and been instantly electrocuted. Most fall to the ground.

This is an Insect-O-Cutor—something new in these latitudes and very effective.

Gift to the Toads But, if you still are observant, you will see an even odder sight.

On the ground, directly beneath the Insect-O-cutor, hard to see at first because of the semi-dark, is a close-packed mass of Hawaiian toads.

The toads were brought in years ago to eat certain insects which attacked Fiji’s sugar-crops They did the job magnificently—and they are still there, competing for every night-flying insect within reach of the ground.

When night falls, they appear in millions, all over Fiji.

No one previously had guessed it, but it now is clear that this Fiji generation of toads likes its insects fricasseed. The Insect-O-Cutors were installed only at last year’s end; but already, in toad calculation, they are the Colony’s finest institution.

Each night, under each of the 11 Insect-O-Cutors installed m the hotel grounds, you may find three or four square yards of toads, packed shoulder to shoulder, eageny snapping up the stunned or roasted insects, as they fall from the illuminated gadget above them.

The big, boss toads are in the middle, directly under the light. The creatures become smaller, and the mass looser, towards the perimeter of the eager, snapping circle.

Solution of a Problem When the hotel settled down among its lawns, shrubberies and gardens, it soon was discovered that this lush valley-mouth, facing the quiet beach, was the happy hunting-ground of every kind of nightflying insect known to tropical Fiji and particularly of mosquitoes.

Visitors like to sit out under the trees, and gaze at the lagoon—but they could be driven inside by mosquitoes. And inside, every light that was not screened was beset by the usual insects that swarm around lights in the tropics at night.

The management tackled the mosquitoes first, in the usual way— breeding-places treated, stagnant water oiled or given over to larvaeeating fish. But with only partial success.

Someone read about a new American gadget, the Insect-O- Cutor—£Bo Fijian for a big one, smaller ones less. There was a successful test, and so 11 were installed, and connected with a low voltage.

The effect has been remarkable.

The gadgets every night electrocute or stun countless thousands of the insects, and there now are fewer insects around the lights in Korolevu than you would see in sub-tropical places like Sydney or Miami.

But neither manufacturer nor hotel management anticipated the sequel—the thousands of toads congregated under the Insecto-O- Cutors, enjoying a nightly menu of fricasseed moth, have to be seen to be believed.

Fiji toads love these—one of the electric insect killers now in operation at the Korolevu Hotel. 31 The Leahy Case (From opposite page)

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[?]erritories TALK-TALK With TOLALA T/ie tumult and the shouting has died and some Old-time Captains d Kings have departed, making way for other Old-time Captains d Kings. short, the brouhaha of the 1961 >-NG elections is over. Losers re licking their wounds and jrs girding up their loins and, hope, amongst the non-official, :ed members at least, there is 11-feeling still existing. they can be like lawyers in urt of law, who tear each other rt then get together over a jin or two then all may still be . May this spirit prevail among Legislators: and may the same it prevail amongst the native iidates. Unsuccessful native iidates are as yet an unknown itity. But time will tell, le appointment of two women ibers to the Council has the :oval of all. But, parenthetically despite the reports in Sydney ning papers, it is no innovation, some years, Mrs. Doris Booth, 5, “the Angel of Bulolo”, was a iber and she was the first to be Dinted to the post-war Council, e Wedega is most certainly the native woman member, and influence on the Council will nteresting to watch, espite the great representation tative sections of the community majority of two over the white membership—which has been so much emphasised by Australia, Territories Department still holds all the aces in the pack, as it does in the Northern Territory Legislative Council. If the unofficial members put through a measure contrary to the wishes of the Department, then the Ministerial veto comes into play and official approval is withheld. So you really can’t win anyway.

If that is “free” democracy where do you go from here?

Heads in the Sand?

Considerable publicity has been achieved both in local P-NG papers as well as Sydney newspapers —of the alleged revival of a socalled “Iniid” cult amongst the Tolai natives which has been responsible, so it is reported, for the fantastic “helicopter”, “submarine” and “setting of eggs” incidents described generally as “cargo cult”. (See p. 128, this issue).

Dr. J. Gunther (Assistant Administrator) is playing it down. He has made some good points in an endeavour to allay apprehension amongst the European population, sections of which visualise a repetition of what has happened in other parts of the world.

On the other hand, the concerted opinion of the Vunapope Mission, consisting of members with many years experience of local Tolais, cannot be lightly disregarded. In fact. I would be inclined to back their knowledge and deductions against those of Dr, Gunther who has no extensive personal knowledge of the Tolai. The Vunapope Mission Fathers have made it practically a life study.

However, be that as it may, we also have local Acting DO Jack Emanuel, who goes on record to say that Father Reischl (who first investigated Mission enquiries on the matter) “is regarded as an entirely reliable sou r c e”, and that he (Emanuel), is determined to try to put a stop to the cult. , . , Mr. Paul Mason, newly elected MLC, is also reported to urge the Administration to take quick action to stop the spread of “Iniid” stories and propaganda.

“We all tend to take these things too lightly”, he said, and added that in his experience native unrest had grown substantially during recent months.

I agree that we are inclined to take these things too lightly and that too often this has brought tragedy in its wake. In these matters it’s not what we, as civilised whites believe, but it’s what the natives believe, that matters.

The word Iniid has me puzzled. I know of Iniet and Ingiat, both offshoots of the Duk Duk secret society, but Iniid is a new one on me.

Is This Dangerous?

According to a Sydney afternoon paper “that most personable of wizards” is preparing to tour New Guinea and Papua with his magic show.

With my old-time B 4 apprehensions, I immediately wondered how this would affect his native audiences and exactly what construction they would put on the various demonstrations when he started to saw humans in halves and skewer people with sabres.

Could be as the wizard himself has said: “They’ll probably think me some kind of god.”

What influence is all that going to have on the native mind? Is he going back to his leaf hut or fibre house to dismiss the weird and wonderful spectacles he has witnessed? Or is he going to start wondering about the omnipotence of the white race and if that is the way the “cargo” disappears?

To me these “wizards” represent a potential danger to the Territory, and I’ll leave it at that. ( Editor’s Note : Another “wizard” visited P-NG centres at the end of Roma Bates, now a member of P-NG's [?]ged Legislative Council, as Brett Milder sees her.

"Johnno" Johnstone—now the subject of a book, "Johnno the Diver". "Tolala" mentions it this month. 33 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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There were few more popular r sonahties in post-war Rabaul t Diver Johnstone of Niagara fa ( He salvaged m million worth gold bars from the vessel which wrecked off the NZ coast by a G man mine).

In the First War, being a Ne Reservist, he went back to Engla took a course at a Naval Div bchool, and became a Naval di during that stoush. ..Lately he has been operating the Japanese firm of Matsukura Kavieng and Wewak.

Harraps, the publishers, of L don, are turning out a book ab a former RN Commam entitled Johnno the Diver, specii written for boys. It should m good reading even for elderly b< Coincidentally, Rabaul’s post-'V I diver was J. H. J. John (Jimmy) who was equally popr in those halcyon days. He was tached to the Public Works I partment in Rabaul. Jimmy was deep sea diver though.

Primary Products Coffee producers in P-NG do 3 appear to be too happy over A tralia’s attitude towards the mark mg of their produce and from reports they have something worry about.

Cartels and tariffs are not p; ticularly noted for mixing sentirm with business and the encouraj ment of P-NG’s coffee indust which is of all-high interest both Europeans and native growe is a mere detail compared cheaper coffee and reciproi tariffs to buy into the South Ame can trade—a drive that has 01 recently been launched to step Australian exports.

The outcome of the present po tion will surely be a timely indie tion of how sincere Australia is its desire to further primary pi duction in the Territory.

Past history indicates that P-In interests must not interfere wi Australian interests which perha is only natural. For instance, are of the NG Mainland are the natui home of some of the world’s be sugar cane. Hawaiian cane growe have periodically gone to NG obtain specimens for plant breedii and improvements of strains, y nothing has ever been done to fost such an industry in NG.

Should the bottom drop out the coffee market, officialdom is g< ing to have a few headaches e; plaining to native growers the h tricacies of international trad agreements. 34 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Realistic Ihropologist? n reading a report of a talk en by anthropologist Dr. A. L. >tein to the NG Society at Canra recently on the Tolai people struck me, that for an anthroogist, he is far more realistic n many of his predecessors in 5 field of research, ome of his remarks were downearth compared with some of the ry-towered ideas expressed by ervers a few years ago.

Commenting on their social adicement, he said they had taken r many aspects of the European V of life, yet still adhered to ny of their own customs and ues. Despite the fact that the ai had been undergoing changes ce their first contact with Euroms, now nearly a century ago, se changes did not attack the acture of Tolai society at its Lit. le infers that we are expecting high a standard of Western ilisation from these natives so en they exhibit signs of their old ural culture we are disappointed 1 liable to become alarmed.

A Change of Venue So the New Guinea Bar at Ushers’ is closing down—along with the hotel itself. It will be missed sadly by old-time New Guinea residents.

It was a handy spot to duck into while the Missus did her shopping.

Islanders have always had a favourite rendezvous when in Sydney (as well as other capital cities, no doubt).

I remember when the Twenties, and even earlier, Belfields, at the corner of King and George, was the popular meeting place and then came Usher’s and, of course, Ethel who was the rock on which the NG Bar was founded.

There were then no business-like registers with names and messages as of late years—Ethel was the source of all information and in many, many cases assisted unfinancial Islanders with a loan to see them home again. She told me that never once was a loan not repaid.

The idea of Aaron’s being the projected new rendezvous is, of course, a good one. But is it central enough, and handy to feeding places and shops?

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Fhe Administrator, Sir Dallas ooks, opening the first Federal rliamentary session ever opened an Administrator (the Governor meral died in office in February) 2W attention to the PNG elections d the opening of the enlarged gislative Council.

Dpenmg of new Departments of hour and Trade and Industry in > PNG Administration showed j increasing emphasis being given the Government to training for iployment and to the encourage- >nt of industrial development, trketing and trade promotion, he d. * * * London reports that the Dutch reign Minister, Dr. Joseph Luns, d produced a proposal for an innational commission comprising stralia, Malaya and India to adnister the whole of New Guinea • the UN might have been exited to stir our legislators into >re than passing interest, tfot a bit of it. rhere was one isolated question, e Attorney-General and Acting nister for External Affairs, Sir rfield Barwick, fobbed it off. ie said that he had no informan which would enable him to say ether there was any basis for the ndon speculation. 3ut no-one followed it up, proby much to Barwick’s relief, beise no acting Minister would want buy into that one before Prime nister Menzies arrived home m London with a full report. although the Prime Miner’s statements on South Africa i apartheid brought silent, em- 'rassed disapproval from many of own followers and angry Opposin speeches about the effect on an opinion, nothing was said of ; impact Mr. Menzies’ speech ?ht have in the South and Southist Pacific. rhere were passing references tD lesser matters.

Territories Minister Paul Hasluck refused to order a departmental investigation into a Madang magistrate’s action in varying a maintenance order made by a Brisbane court against a Madang hotelkeeper. Senator Benn (Labour, Q’ld.) had suggested that there should be an investigation into the relationship between the magistrate and the hotelkeeper. ± . . . * The Minister took a back-handed swipe at the gaol sentences imposed on the natives in the Rabaul trial of natives involved in the “helicopter cult” disturbances.

He said that the sentences were “perhaps a little heavier than we administratively thought necessary”, but conceded that the sentences were a matter for the magistrate, But he dodged replying to a question on the PHI riot at Taurama Barracks . . . * * * Mr. Hasluck found himself in trouble with the Chair when he sought to intervene in the suspension of the Minister for Social Services, Mr. Roberton—the second Minister to be suspended in Federal history, He was trying to get his fellow Minister off the hook by blaming the acoustics of the Chamber. (Mr.

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P.O. Box 296, Suva. Cables: "Lumba", Suva. iposition Leader Gough Whitlam a “dirty old man”, and Mr. toerton refused to withdraw nothing he claimed he was inpable of saying.) But Mr. Speaker was unimpressed, i accused Mr. Hasluck of reflecting the accuracy of what he had id and of discourtesy to the Chair. 3o Mr. Hasluck, as Minister in arge of the House at the time, m had to move for the suspension his colleague. * * * Vlr. Hasluck tangled in Parliasnt with the fortnightly review tion over the closing of South cific, the journal once published the School of Pacific Adminisition. 3e was replying to a blatant orothy Dix” question asked by *. Cresby (Liberal, Q’ld.), a mem- • who has not hitherto shown any table interest in P-NG affairs, t who conveniently sits directly lind the Minister, fhe Minister took exception to an ;icle in Nation suggesting that j Dutch had complained about 3 tone of material in South cific and that two Dutch officials d visited the School to complain.

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Sasluck sought to suggest that 3 article was “a piece of fiction”, d added fuel with some gratuitsly disparaging remarks about tion. 3e said that there were no referees “in departmental files” to itch complaints or to any parular article published in South cific.

'Jow Nation has cracked back. :n March it challenged the Miner to allow it to submit its “carely gathered evidence” confidentiy to senior counsel to arbitrate the question of “fiction” —so long Hasluck will offer an apology if 3 verdict is against him!

Divil Aviation Minister Shane Itridge told the Senate that the sett £2-million offer for Tasman ipire Airways Limited was not idsaged when the Australian and w Zealand Governments began kering over the sale of the Aus- ,lian share of TEAL, fhe Ansett offer is not taken very iously in Canberra, rhe £2 million offered would be a t-cheap price for the TEAL fleet three Electras, quite apart from 3 company’s ground assets, fhe offer completely discounts 3 valuable landing rights which IAL has in Tahiti and San Franco and takes no account of New aland’s national pride in owning own international airline.

Australia would not be anxi- -5 to have a private Australian orator competing with its nationy-owned Qantas on the Pacific ite.

Reports reaching Canberra suggest that R. M. Ansett has been making an impact on New Zealand domestic aviation through the small airline in which he has bought an merest.

He has introduced New Zealanders to such novelties as hostesses and smoking in aircraft.

Until now, smoking has been forbidden in New Zealand internal air lin e s, apparently because the National Airways Corporation estimated the cost of emptying ashtrays at £BO a year for each aircraft. * * The only legislation passed so far this year, the Marriage Bill, does not apply to Australia’s external territories, other than Norfolk Island, whose council, oddly enough, said last year it didn’t want it.

The bill, passed by the House of Representatives but still undebated in the Senate, provides a minimum marriage age of 18 for boys and 16 for girls.

When' he introduced it, the Attornsy-G ener a 1, Sir Garfield Barwick, pointed out that a law which was suitable for the mainland and Norfolk Island would probably prove inapt in the other island territories.

However, the marriages it enables and the legitimation of children which it effects will be valid throughout all territories. 39 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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The photo on this page is of t Doris Crane, which hasn’t be seen in the Pacific now since 19 when she was lost by fire north Honolulu while on a voyage fn Fanning Island. Our interest in 1: here is because, according to Ca tain Fred Klebingat, of Californ research associate of the San Fra cisco Maritime Museum, she v, “the most beautiful islands schoor ever built”, and thus we are hap to show her.

Captain Klebingat says she w of 351 tons and was built by W.

Stone and Son, of Oakland, Ca fornia, for Fanning Island Ltd., London, and was named after M Crane, the daughter of Mr. Wigl man, of Wightman Crane and Cor pany, who were agents for Fanni: Island Ltd., and previously for t Greig family.

Doris Crane left San Francis on her maiden voyage in Decembi 1920, and thus sailed the seas or six years before she was lost.

Captain Klebingat is the read who sent us the photo of the blac birder Tahiti, which we used < p. 76 of the December issue. On( 270 Gilbert Islanders died in her.

Capt. Klebingat mentioned passing that he hopes that somebo< in the GEIC who saw that pho might recall some of those blac] birding days and supply some info mation on a subject about whic he says, there has been litt written. 40 APRIL, 196 1- PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Fiji Is Now

SO CUTE If you dropped out of a space capsule, right into the ining room of the Korolevu Beach Hotel, Fiji, any Saturday ight it would be a matter of “three guesses, where am I?” 7 this season of the year it could be any place in the world on the American tourist beat—Bali, gkok, Benares or Berlin. Even food is pseudo-American —or Australasian, anyhow. Only the m waiters indicate that you are iji. all goes to prove what the 'es periodically issued by the Visitors’ Bureau have been sayfor the last five years—that in the tourist sense, has ed. has some excellent hotels of four-star grading (and some merit no stars at all) and is jnised internationally as a re- This has all been done in the 10 years, and by hard work not mirrors, as some Pacific ;ories who pay lip service to dea of tourism (without doing i about it), seem to imagine, good proportion of the US sts that are currently arriving ji have already been in Tahiti, however much Tahiti seems to vided on the matter of whether Jts are hateful or not, that > to be the developing travel rn—Tahiti and Fiji to New nd and Australia and then reto Hongkong and Japan or le Middle East and Europe. ; trick in this sort of tourism, arse, is to appear to give somenew or unique while still providing all those four-star comforts —and this comes just about as high priced in Fiji as any place else on earth.

One result of this cost structure is that—judging by the “American season”, anyhow—the Pacific islands are becoming the playground of the ageing and aged.

In four days at Korolevu recently I saw one teenage American girl in a family party; two Australian girl tourists who were living in the annex at cheapest rates and who spent their time mooning about the beach like shipwrecked sailors; and my own 21-year-old niece.

The sole presentable representative of young European, masculine gender, was an engineer en route between a job in Pakistan and another in Canada. He had a grey haired mamma in tow and she never let him out of her sight.

Things may be different in the “Australian and New Zealand” season, which occurs in the Southern winter, but I seriously Up And Down With The Storcks and Mrs. Vince Storck, of Suva, own two boats—“Oo-100-loo” and ‘ 00-la-la”—in which they take parties of tourists up the Rewa River or out cruising around Suva Harbour’s reefs and islands By some extraordinary gift, they seem to be able to bring a fresh approach to the job with each batch of tourists, although no doubt each day’s little lot asks the same number of fool questions , The Storcks work very hard and put everything they’ve got into their enterprise and provide, amongst other things on the cruise of the glass-bottomed “00-100-loo” fantastic morning tea. This includes a banana cake whose fame has travelled all over the Pacific (The recipe is given away at the end of the cruise—but sorry, I’ve lost mine) Mr. Storck and I had met before—7oo feet underground as he put it. In 1945, when I first visited Vatukoula, I was told by the then manager of Emperor and Loloma mines that the company didn’t approve of women going underground.

That suited me, but for some reason I’ve never been able to fathom, his offsider who was showing me around was determined otherwise. He lured me into a cage and without more ado we fell straight down 700 feet in about as many seconds, unheralded and unsung into a group of Fijian miners and European overseers The whole thing scared the living daylights out of me and my recollection of subsequent proceedings is dim, but if Mr. Storck remembers it after all these years, it must have made some sort of impression on the assembled company. — “Sydneysider”.

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Safe! Fresh! whatever the weather M urn I* Recommended for children 54712.12 abt it. It is a far better travel •gain for youngsters to do the v recognised two years’ working iday in Europe; or if they must ly for a while in the tropics to to the far cheaper resorts in rth Queensland. In either case y will find companions of the >osite sex in their own age groups.

By’ll be lucky to do so in Fiji.

All the Romance ny girl who has read about the nance” of the South Seas in ks and would like to sample ie, would do better to invest in round trip on the Bulolo to lua-New Guinea, where there are hundreds of young, white, ible unattached males—a comlity that is shorter in supply in than hens’ teeth. :ost of the elderly American •ists, however, do find the ific terribly cute, and even igh the cost is high, they get r money’s worth. But even in department you can’t please yone all the time, and the last r I spent in Suva while waiting a plane was by appointment i a 60-odd-year-old, male Cann who had come all that way see “aboriginal life” and was :rly disappointed. What he ted to know from me was what ould do about it; and would he the kind of thing he wanted in Guinea if he went there, le kind of thing he wanted was go out with the forest rangers” without wishing him on my -suffering friends in the Native irs Department, in New Guinea, is able to tell him that very sionally a special visitor was a along on a jeep patrol. the end of the interview he i if it were true that some r es in New Guinea still went t without clothes, and when I able to assure him that it was :d so, he registered keen ure. I gathered that the only essed, wild life he’d seen in Fiji been American, left me, still cogitating, to a date with a travel agent, had promised to ship him off five-days cruise to the outer is in a cutter—an experiment could well cure the most ardent r after new experiences. 4 —All in with the Yaqona iba Beach Comber Hotel, ugh it belongs to the same i and is closer to Suva, lives ‘ the shadow of the more •ate Korolevu Hotel these days. ■t does have in its repertoire rip up the Navua River, ou are a tourist and you want what Fiji is like away from the road this is as easy a way of it as any. For £4 per head you >e provided with a Fiji guide, lie hamper, and a newspaper e of yaqona root as a ceremonial offering to the chief. Most of the cash, I understand, goes to the village which is your host and which provides the transport—a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat with outboard motor.

The expedition, which takes the best part of a day, is not up to the standard of being out with the forest rangers that our Canadian friend desired, but there is enough hit and miss about it to make it seem like adventure to tourists.

There is no communication with the up-stream village except by these long-boats or over the local broadcasting station in Suva, which sends out a call during the daily Fijian session. The village then arranges to send a boat down on the designated day.

Life on a Canoe You join it a couple of miles upstream from Navua township. The boat itself, although a very modem outboard motor is clamped to its rear, is a bit beat-up, and although you find in the course of a couple of hours that it is not as precarious as a powered Sepik canoe, where you just about have to have a centre hair part to keep your equilibrium, it has its moments. (Over) IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1061

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Also Registered Offices at Melbourne. Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides> A HAT* CHt There is about an inch of water over the floor boards when you get in and this level is maintained throughout—due to your guide considerately putting his big toe over a small leak up forward, and one of the two-man crew bailing continually both going and coming.

I should imagine that in very dry “seasons it is necessary to get out and push over certain upper reaches but on this day there was a fresh in the river and something like an 8-knot current with which our outward coped with a high-powered roar.

The stream remains wide and tumbled right up to the village. It twists and turns and climbs by many rapids, with occasionally its banks levelling out but more often towering right and left and spouting waterfalls.

When the sun is out you frizzle and fry and when it rains you get wet but come what may, the seriousfaced youngster, who is O/C operations, steers with uncanny knowledge and precision and lands you in the village in just under two hours from take-off. (The return voyage, downhill, takes 45 breakneck minutes).

Admire the Pin-ups After the ceremonial kava in Ratu Tavita’s house, you admire his pin-ups that range from Winston Churchill, through past and present members of the Royal fami. right down to his own brother w! is serving with the NZ Navy.

You stroll in the village and fii that one of the village industri is the cultivation and export to t coast of yaqona, the roots of whit are the makings of kava, and y< realise that in that newspap bundle of same which was broug: up from the coast on your behs and off-handedly tossed to Ra Tavita at the end of the kava drin ing, it was indeed the kind thoug behind it and not the gift th mattered.

After lunch we visit the schO' and are told that, after the ch. dren have sung for us, it would in order to offer suitable gifts.

We hadn’t been briefed about tt one, but we had brought some swe€ for the kids. Some money, perhap Yes, that seemed satisfactory.

A swift accounting amongst ensures that we’ll be able to do tl right thing when the time comes and the sweets, too, after all a also accepted with acclamation.

And on this note our visit to tl inland village comes to its close. ' this event, the party was of thr phlegmatic Australians without i isn’t-it-cute among them. It is som times otherwise.

A Riot, Sometimes During the wet season a par goes to the village only about thr or four times a month. At oth seasons it can be as many times p w r eek and up to six long-boats together.

It must be quite a riot, to s nothing of disrupting village a] educational activity—it it does sh( that there are pickings in the tour: industry not only for the Indii taxi driver and the European hoi keeper but for the stray Fiji; village as well.

In the ultimate analysis probably adds up to more and bett outboard motors —and that’s pr gress.

Who would want to pole a pu up those 18 miles of river, anyhow New Hotel For Vil[?] Gets Under Way The site of a new hotel on t edge of the Erakor Lagoon, ne Vila, New Hebrides, has been mark out, says a Vila report.

A company has recently be formed, named the Societe Hotelie d’Efate (SHEF) for the hotel co struction.

A share prospectus is bei: issued. The hotel is to be built Polynesian lines with a centi building, and restaurant with dan floor.

The Vila reports say that it hoped that an initial capital £A50,000 will be found locally. 44 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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NG Flying May Be Different Soon ! 'rom Correspondents in Canberra and Port Moresby -ivil aviation methods in »ua-New Guinea may have to entirely revised as a result of higher safety standards retly imposed by the Departit of Civil Aviation. iTTONALISATION of flying networks and changed cargo methods are being suggested to 1 airlines in the Territory absorb added costs imposed by smaller oads. le Civil Aviation Department begun a survey of types of airt which could be used to replace 1935-designed DCS, now the fliorse of Territory flying.

T>es under examination are: , DC6, Fokker Friendship, bou, Hercules and Bristol ghter.

"Revolutionised 7 ter reviewing the performance lese aircraft in relation to Terriconditions, a departmental team report to Territory airline ators in mid-April, the larger types were adopted ing flying practices would have e revolutionised, ley could lead to the use of big re airstrips from which supcould be trans-shipped to smaller aircraft for ferrying to outstations.

This would be a complete change from the present practice of landing DC3’s on as many airstrips as possible.

Other changes which might be looked at include; • Better loading methods to cut turn-round times; • Drastic changes in packaging methods, as, for instance, general acceptance of cartons to speed handling and make loading easier; and (Over) [?] AVIATION FUTURE. Another recent ad- [?]e in South Pacific aviation has been the [?]ing of 10 Fijian youths to train in Aus- [?]a and New Zealand. They may take over [?]rol of Nadi airport one day. [?]ght lads, between 16 and 20, have begun [?]ive-year course as radio technicians at [?]ane airport. Two have started courses in [?]ington. [?]e youths have been sent to Australia and by the South Pacific Air Council, on [?]h the Governments of Australia, Fiji, [?]da. New Zealand and the UK are rep- [?]ted. [?]e photograph above, taken by Rob Wright, [?]s nine of the lads before their departure Fiji. 45 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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P-NG is Different These changes could be forced! the airlines because the econon of aviation in the Territory quite different from those on mainland.

In Australia, airlines can fly tB freight aircraft 20 hours a day s maintain them in the other foi But under Papua-New Guij conditions planes can be flown c in daylight—and daylight hours cut even shorter by bad weathi It is now clear that despite howl from Territory users of s craft (PIM, Mar., p. 125) there is chance of the Department of C Aviation relaxing its new payl! standards.

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Cleland, complained bitterly t the Administration had not b consulted on the plans.

However somebody obviously 3 put him in a spot. The question ■ raised at top-level consultations tween the Departments of Te; tories and Civil Aviation weeks fore any move was made.

Safety Only Concern At those talks, Territories c ceded that flying safety was tirely the province of Civil Ai tion.

The Civil Aviation Departm meanwhile insists that the cuts payload were dictated by sal factors alone.

To reinforce its arguments it pointed to an incident at Mt. Hai only a few weeks before the i standards were announced.

A DCS which had a run-a T propeller on take-off was only ; able to land.

The plane was empty—but c because the party of natives it ! landed to pick up had not arri at the airstrip.

The experts doubt whether plane would have been able to 1; safely had it been loaded as tended.

The Civil Aviation Departm “bogeymen” who have had to t the brunt of the Territory crii ism for tightening safety stands are all men who know Papua-E Guinea conditions.

Director-General Don Ander was a war-time DCS captain Papua-New Guinea. He was one the pilots who flew in reinfoi ments when the Battle of Wau being fought just off the end! the Wau strip.

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PREFERRED n article on page 80 of Febry “PIM”, based on a despatch n Port Moresby by Reuter’s espondent there, has raised the of Mr. Douglas Channell, Man- * of the Australian Broadcasting imission in Papua and New nea. e lists the article’s sins of common and omission after saying he was surprised that the 1 was not mentioned at all. ie correspondent did mention ion 9PA which, while being only of the ABC set-up, means ABC lost laymen. (The ABC conducts only broadcasting service in G.) r. Channell goes on: JCH of the information contained in the article was incorrect and none of it was ined from the ABC. ABC activwere confused with those of Broadcasts Section of the Adstrator’s Department and I Id like to clarify the part ?d by both organisations in itory broadcasting, including famines for natives, iterial for native news, sportsessions and some other proxies, is compiled by European native officers of the Admin- :ion Broadcasts section, ur article further confuses the by stating incorrectly that r Europeans and 12 natives on staff of 9PA’s ‘Native Broad- Section’ do most of the trans- ? and broadcasting”. 9PA is the sign of the ABC’s medium transmitter in Port Moresby s not connected with the Aditration Broadcasts Section. 3 ABC employs both Euro- > and natives who are responfor preparing and broadcasting e programmes which are now fated with general programmes bast by the ABC, not only over tmt also over shortwave transrs VLT6 and VLT9. The cotion of the Administration’s leasts Section is welcomed by BC which recognises the good done by officers of that section )viding some of the programme ■ial used. ir article places the native ing audience in the Territory tempt to provide even an approxi" mation. Listener strength fs ™ cognised intangible of / anywhere but more L tmg the Ten-itorv Particularly in an^ e o1 B ?r orthe^TeSf 6 | he “ broadcasUng a daily series ally-prepaml E^TessLrt assist teachers and school children. the^A^C's^ain^functional municate with as man? people dhde^t?a^The 8 ° th6r e occasion arises. i A t f her ‘J a . ccura <:y in your article if. contamed in the statement that t . he Programme, “Your Questions Answered”, enjoys great popularity, This programme has beefi replaced SS lefc^ ers TVT a y e * r mostly from Papuans p^ulaT^'" 6 * * S reqUeStlng -- c ' The H Pacific Commission’s nZT?- tech ™ cal mating on co- P “ attended .^ eeSflf^mi held in Port Moresby in 1958. 47 IFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y A P R I L . 1961

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Cooks Want Tourists Without Tears From a Rarotonga Correspondent How far can Rarotonga go in attracting tourists without >sing its self-respect? The beautiful main island of the Cooks as recently found itself in this dilemma.

R. J. A. Ingram told the Rarotonga Island Council that the Chamber of Commerce was xis to stimulate the tourist in- :y, and had discussed the prosof publishing a booklet for :1 agents and others. But belt went ahead it wanted to r if the council supported tour- If it did support it, the iber wanted to know whether ouncil would help with the cost brochure, and whether it would in getting more ships and sts to the island. e council, after lengthy dis- 3n, decided to vote £5O to the iber to assist in the publication e tourist booklet, but agreed to the question of tourism generic the incoming council (which elected a week later).

Discussion Points ring the discussion some couns made it clear that they did avour “glamourising” the island aurists. They wanted the prearrangement where concert shore parties went aboard st ships in the stream, and the island atmosphere remained )iled. ae councillors also said they 2d shore parties chosen from various villages, and not just the same two parties every time.

The council president, Resident Commissioner A. O. Dare, pointed out that tourism did not mean just a vessel calling. He said tourism could mean hotels being set up, industry for curios, more employment, etc. A number of people were prepared to put money into enterprises to attract tourists, but they were waiting for a lead from the council, he said.

Mr. Dare agreed that the better type of tourist was wanted, and he said that the Minister, Mr, Gotz, was very much in favour of tourists.

Mr. Dare added that the question appeared to be whether the Rarotonga Council could encourage tourists “and the island still retain its self-respect.” j Bright Prospects Meanwhile, an Auckland report says the prospect of establishing a tourist industry in the Cook Islands seems brighter today than it has since the Union Steam Ship Company discontinued its trans-Pacific passenger ship service in the 1930’5.

The Matson Line certainly seems to be taking Rarotonga under its tourist wing, and is opening up the possibility of passengers southbound from the United States having a three-weeks’ stopover at Rarotonga if they so desire—and there seems very little doubt that a good many would desire, if the accommodation is available ashore.

Though Matson is not yet accepting bookings to Rarotonga—due to the fact that with no harbour available there is always the possibility of passengers having to be overcarried in bad weather —regular BEAUTIFUL RAROTONGA Rarotonga is one of the most picturesque islands in the South Pacific. This aerial photograph does not give a true indication of how rugged is its centre. Two of its peaks are more than 2,000 ft high.

Because Rarotonga has no wharf, tourists as a rule don’t come ashore from the big ships—so the Cook Islanders go out to them. Here is a concert party which recently went out to entertain 600 tourists, mostly Australian, who arrived on the “Oranje.”

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The two dancing teams whi have had the monopoly as ent tainment parties for visiting sh are from the Aitutaki Youth C and from the Titikaveka You Women’s Centre. They take it turns.

New Incomes With the Matson visits, islai families are getting a new source income. They are making gc money by weaving fans, hats, hi skirts and paper eis. This is a giving young people incentive practise local crafts.

The post office continues to good business with stamps, and 1 Press Office has a standing on for 200 copies of the Cook Islar News each time a ship comes in But, as Resident Commissioi Dare suggests: How do you deve] large-scale tourism in this isla without making concessions in otl ways?

Cooks Co-ops Buy Hervey Islands The Cook Islands Co-operatr have bought the Hervey Islands Manuae and Teatuotou (also spel] Te Au-O-Tu) 130 miles north Rarotonga.

The two islands, joined by reef, have a coconut plantati of about 85,000 trees on about l,f acres of land. Annual copra yield 180 tons, and the gross income 1; been from £9,500 to £14,500 a ye The first meeting of the Manu Development Co-operative Socie was due to take place at Raroton in early March.

The Hervey Islands were d covered by Cook in 1773 and nam after Captain Hervey, RN, one the Lords of the Admiralty. Co revisited the islands in 1777.

For many years the islands we controlled by the Ui Ariki of Ait taki, who appointed caretakers ui til about 1890 when the island w leased to John Strickland.

The lease was held by Manu: Plantation Company, Melbourn with A. B. Donald as the managi agents, and a labour force of copra workers, with manager Kai Anderson. Mr. Anderson was the about nine years.

It is because the lease has ju expired, that the co-operative h: been able to acquire the islands. 50 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

Tonga's Welcome It was a holiday occasion in Nukualofa, Tonga’s pretty capital, in late February when the P & O hner Orsova visited there on an islands cruise from bydney. Passengers agreed that the Friendly islands were jam-packed with friendly islanders, as some of these scenes, taken by Tulua Bros., show.

At left, the Orsova comes in close to the Royal Palace, with its fringe of Norfolk pines, the palace is just out of sight on the left. Left centre, a pretty Tongan lass offers wares ranging from hats to grass skirts to slippers. Immediately below, passengers seat themselves on the grass to watch the dancing, although some of the more avid amateur photographers weren’t content to stay on the sidelines (lower left) but ran into the centre for a close-up. Lower right, a group of dancers in black perform an action song. These dancers were, in fact, practising for the entertainment of the Royal children, shortly due home from NZ on their holidays, so the tourists saw the genuine article. 51 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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GAMES FOR SUVA, 1968 \n idea which began in the ith Pacific Conference in ?aul in 1959 will come to tion in Suva in 1963, when first South Pacific games take he field.

IE Suva games will be the first of a series of South Pacific Olympic Games to be held every ;e years at a different locale in South Pacific. new body called the South ific Games Council is to be ted to organise the series, le Council will probably be n a small yearly grant by the :h Pacific Commission to cover •unning costs. lese decisions were made at a erence in Noumea in March, ’h was called by the SPC to ass the setting up of the Games, degates attended from Ameriand Western Samoa, French nesia, the Cooks, Fiji, New donia, New Hebrides, P-NG and T. r. Alwyn Moon, secretary of the fiand Amateur Sports Associa- NZ, attended as an adviser.

Mr. L. O. Simpson, hon. secretary he Fiji Amateur Athletic Asition and Fiji Amateur Sports ciation, was chairman. ie conference agreed that all itories eligible to send delegates ie regular South Pacific Confers (which are attended by native le) should be included in the es.

Wide Area is means that participants come from P-NG, Nauru, New donia and its dependencies, is and Futuna Islands, French nesia, NNG, American and ern Samoa, the Tokelaus, the s, Niue, Fiji, BSIP, GEIC, n, the US Trust Territory of Pacific, the New Hebrides and a. ey must be amateurs. neral feeling at the Noumea srence was that the number of sports for the first Games be restricted, and that the participation of women be encouraged.

The official sports selected for the first Games are soccer, athletics and lawn tennis.

Tennis events are to be team games, not individual contests Athletic events will follow as closely as possible those listed for the Olympics.

Swimming, basketball and cycling were suggested for inclusion in future Games.

The conference was very interested in finding, for inclusion in the Games, some sport typical of the South Pacific, but nobody could come up with any ideas.

Most sports discussed were not common to all, or even most, Territories. However, it was felt that canoe racing probably was the best suggestion, although no final decision was made.

After a long and spirited discussion it was decided that indigenous people would be eligible at all times to represent the Territory of their birth, irrespective of their race. Thus an Indian or European may represent Fiji, a Japanese may represent the US Trust Territory, a Chinese may represent any one of a number of Territories, or a Tongan may represent, say, Samoa or Fiji. (Over) 53 ' I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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If indigenous people were born tside the South Pacific Games ?ion, then at their choice they ly represent the Territory of her parent.

Before a competitor becomes gible to compete for another rritory he will have to live in that rritory for at least six months ior to the Games, However, extriates must have lived in the rritory they represent for at least 0 years before the Games.

Indigenous Definition :t is worth noting that the conence’s definition of indigenous *e means a person born within ;erritory irrespective of race, and : necessarily aboriginal, expatriates are those born oute the South Pacific Games region, ther of whose parents were born bin the region.

"he conference decided to ask the C to agree to the giving of a nt to the host country of each mes, to help in its organisation, 1 to ask that metropolitan goviments give assistance, in the m of coaches and athletes on >rt-term visits to stimulate local erest. ’inances for the games are also >ected to be helped by gate repts and such things as the sale TV film and other rights, and by eipts from perhaps a Pacific mds Concert to be staged by the ticipating territories.

Must Affiliate Linong the technical problems mssed was the need for terriies not affiliated to any interional sports body to arrange liation. This is because those ritories which are affiliated, can compete against non-affiliated 'itories. t was decided to fix the date of first Games as 1963 to give •itories plenty of time to handle technical difficulties and also honour any commitments they V already have for international nter-territorial games, he host territory for the Games be empowered to choose the e of the year for them in order take into account weather and immodation problems, uring discussion on where the > Games would be held, the poslities of Auckland and Sydney e mentioned before Suva was lly selected. (It was the Fiji gation at the Rabaul South ific Conference in 1959 that proid a Games be organised). ae Noumea meeting decided ; Territories should use their officials wherever possible so " may gain experience, but asmce from the metropolitan govnents might be required in proig specialist officials, such as rees and time-keepers.

For the first Games, the Noumea meeting laid down that the lawn tennis competition would comprise two men’s singles, two women’s singles, one men’s doubles, one women’s, and two mixed doubles.

Games Details The athletics programme will be as far as possible: MEN—IOO metres; 200 m; 400 nr 800 m; 1,500 m; 5,000 m; 10,000 m; 3,000 m steeplechase; marathon- -110 m hurdles; 400 m hurdles; polevault; high jump; long jump; hop, step and jump; shot putt; hammer, discus and javelin; 4 x 100 m relay and 4 x 400 m relay. It was stipulated that the marathon must not be run during the hottest period of the day.

WOMEN—IOO m; 200 m; 800 m; 80 m hurdles; high jump; long jump; shot putt; discus; javelin; 4 x 100 m relay. It is possible the programme may be added to or altered, and the organising commitee of the host Territory may add extra sports “unofficially” to the events, if it gives at least 12 months’ notice.

Territories will not be allowed to enter more than three competitors in each individual event, and only one team in the team events.

The South Pacific Games Council will have complete control of the policy of the games. 55 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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MILESTONE From Beryl Sawyer, in Papeete Another aviation milestone was passed on March 5 with ie arrival at Papeete-Faaa airport of a Transports Aeriens itercontmentaux Douglas DCS jet with some 60 French and American aviation officials aboard. was the first jet to land at apeete, and the record-making on-stop direct flight from Los des was accomplished in eight s and 25 minutes. The flight almost entirely over water. spite of intermittent rain, sands of Tahitians lined the way leading to the 12,000 ft air- > an d all vantage points were ded with sightseers hours bethe scheduled 8.30 a.m. jet ng. ey skies greeted the Douglas when it was first sighted, its nihar long-nosed, streamlined nette sharply defined in the as it approached Tahiti, ice and loudspeakers warned ssembled crowd in French and lesian languages not to run ird and to keep well behind barriers when the aircraft d, and the cry was taken up by rowd —“les gendarmes sont des -pieds!”— “the cops are a nuis- —-tp be followed by cries of ah!” as the jet approached for the landing.

Bora Bora Too Short ore the surprised Tahitians climb on the roofs of “les for a better view, or hoist brown children on their lers, the plane landed gently perfectly, easing itself and mg speed before coming to a at a point two-thirds the ■ of the runway, imented Jacques Sutton, TAI entative in Tahiti: “All went my. It was a most wellsed flight.” hours after landing at te-Faaa, the Douglas DCS flew a Bora on a second test flight.

Bora Bora airstrip will be used by jets as an emergency ground only.

Although a jet with a full passenger load could land there safely, it was discovered that the airstrip is too short for a loaded jet to make a safe take-off. Should an emergency landing ever be made at Bora Bora, passengers will be flown to Papeete by regular flying-boat service.

The Douglas DCS left Papeete March 8 en route to Christmas Island—the emergency landing field between Honolulu and Papeete—Los Angeles, Montreal and Paris.

The purpose of these test flights was to test available airstrips in preparation for the new jet passenger service between Los Angeles and Papeete which, when approved by French and American authorities, is scheduled to start on May 3.

Aboard the test flight were Mrs, Donald Douglas representing her husband; Jean Mathieu r general secretary of the TAI, Paris and Colonel Louis Castex, former President of the Commission of Civil Aviation and one of the leading promoters for the construction of the new Papeete airport.

In an interview with Papeete’s daily newspaper Les Nouvelies Castex said, “As far as the airport is concerned, we are ready and able to transport the many tourists who hope to visit Tahiti this year. But as far as the hotels are concerned I doubt if we are ready to accommodate all those who will descend upon us by DCS and Boeing jets.”

Asked his opinion on whether the French financial corporations were yet convinced of the future of THE jet which in March made a nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Papeete—the first jet to land at the new international airport.

In the news again in Papeete in March—despite the fact that he is still servina a sentence in France for arson and illegal possession of arms—was Pouvanaa a Oopa. This photograph was taken during his arrest in 1958, as he entered the police van. 57 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Lsked if a tourist industry for tiiti was desirable, Castex stated .t, in view of a recession in the ra and phosphate industries, rism was not only desirable, but the utmost importance to the ire of Tahiti.

Want French Investments [t is to be hoped that Tahiti will 'act major investment companies referably French,” he added rench Deputy Claude Roux ed that, in his opinion, tourism aid become the number one re- •ce of the territory to offer more • to Tahitians. e announced the arrival in iti shortly of M. Landry, director lITO (Society for the Financing Developing of Tourism) who Id study the possibility of new ■1 construction in French Polya.

MOTHER “first” for Tahiti was the arrival of two bright red helicopters, the first ever to be in the skies of Tahiti, icy were Sikorski HSR-3 planes i the United States cruiser iy Vale, on a mercy mission flya sick crew member to Papeete ital for emergency surgery, ission accomplished, the helier crews flew low around ;ete and the neighbouring diss for a bird’s eye view of Tahiti.

D yet another “first” for Tahiti!

Hie first dance marathon— in d naturally a Tahitian ure” dance—was staged at the tian roadhouse “Lafayette”, m couples took part, ter two and a half hours of stop dancing to orchestra and ograph the judges were exted. But the dancers were not. wever, two couples who were i on their bare feet by centi- > had to retire from the st. The winners—all 18 of —each received a welcome ; of iced champagne. been election time once again Papeete, this time for a new esident of the Territorial Asy. The results produced some s! a first vote, Pouvanaa a Oopa, ■ r leader of the Leftist party— -assemblent Democratiques des ations Tahitiennes (RDPT), s now serving the third year eight year gaol sentence for and the illegal possession of and forbidden to live in te until 1974, gained 17 votes. defunct Queen Pomare IV i nine votes, and Jacques a, outgoing President, one. a second vote, Pouvanaa a TOters W who S a?s'n b J m , ne &rd h c°ount SO oSrto & XtoS by a majority vote for Councillor Franz Vamzette of the opposition Democratic Union (UTD) IT’S Ipqc pcrcrc nnH u lettuce for the average Tahitian family with dozSPand lettuce a T S 3M 12 francs (£l/10/-) a pound francs An average workman earns from 200-300 francsa dav R h P still buy 1 a pound d half of fresh tu y na a fo^40 nd fra a nc d s (4/“«1 string of eight red schnappers for 60 francs (6/-).

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APEETE s hospital, built as a military hospital in 1844 and used as a civilian hospital from 1854, is finally to go! Funds have been provided for a new one.

The present hospital consists of a surgical unit, a tuberculosis ward with 70 beds, general hospital wards with 280 beds and a newly constructed throat, ears and eyes ward with eight beds.

There are at present eight doctors and surgeons headed by the Chief of the Health Department, Dr. a^ d a , st aff, mainly Tahitians, of 85 male and female nurses and orderlies. Newly recruited staff members have a two-year training . an sxtra year of additional training before they can diplon ? as ’ mak mg them eligible to accept nursing P osts a ‘ Papeete hospital, Taravao h ° SPital " Mamao DiSpenSar y- Not Larae Enouah „ 9 9 But the hospital is neither large enough or modern enough to take care of local patients and the needs of a growing population A i thou B? l the plans for a new “ odern hospital,, to be built at Mamao just outside Papeete, have seen5 een a PP r oved, it will be three or four years before th e hospital is “» d and read y receive P —T The new hospital will be a single' building with five storeys—the highest building yet planned in Tahiti. There will be emergency' wards, an out-patients department Pharmacy, X-ray centre and four large surgical wards on the top floors— served by an elevator, (This will be elevator number two f° r Papeete, for elevator number one is still doing veteran service at fhe old Grand Hotel in down-town Papeete).

The new hospital, which will be the central hospital for 111 of French Polynesia, will have 350 beds plus a private section for those able to pay Everyone hopes the new hosnital will attract top surgeons able to deal with delicate operations so as to eliminate the present ’ costly journey to Paris by patients needing complicated surgery. s 59 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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COUNTRIES From a Suva Correspondent Hd you know that, according to latest available figures, Mexican m labourers were getting 4 - to a day? Did you know that on latest figures the labourer in ia earned about 2/-a day and t the tea-picker in Ceylon was ■ing just over 5/-?

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He knows them because these the countries with which Fiji Id have to compete in the ex- ; market of any tropical crops i as coffee and cotton, r. Watson is quite aware of the that in any discussion of es, wages and conditions in Fiji, always Australia and New Zea- -1 figures that are quoted, kit they are totally irrelevant our problems,” exclaimed Mr. son when I dropped in on him. 3 big question in Fiji is: How our farm labourers, with wages )/- to 12/- a day, going to comwith these other tropical tries with dense populations on r wages?

Te may well find, even with a yield of cotton, that it would :heaper for us to buy cotton India!” ere are also different attitudes een Fiji farmers and those other tropical countries, says Watson. ther farmers are prepared to their own food, not buy it, the Fiji farmer, if he makes profit from any crop, whether ’, rice or anything else, spends food which he could grow him- Fiji's Trouble a a larger scale that is what ens to the whole Colony,” says Watson. “We earn large sums our sugar, copra and bananas, what happens? We spend half llion pounds on rice that we well be growing ourselves, id pulses—we spent £106,000 'ting them in 1959, yet they beautifully near Nadi, to menjust one place. id sharps. Certainly, we could iroduce the wheat; but maize lx with it grows very well in Yet in 1959, sharps cost us 00, nearly three times the cost inning the Agricultural Delent for a year. And people ley don’t know what crops to a country of growing populathe first consideration must be to feed ourselves and cut down this import bill.”

Mr. Watson said it was difficult to bring home this lesson to the farmer, because he had been utterly spoiled by the two easiest crops in the world, sugar and coconuts, and it was an uphill battle to persuade him to grow anything else that required real farming.

Too Much Sugar The Colony’s preoccupation with sugar, even at a time of world overproduction, is indicated by the fact that the Suva Indian Chamber of Commerce at its March meeting even while deciding that an increase in the duty on rice should be used to increase the production of rice in Fiji, passed a resolution asking that the sugar industry be as widely distributed as possible to give employment in all districts of Fiji, and that the Government should give help to re-establish the sugar industry in Rewa.

Labasa farmers at least have apparently woken up to the fact that if they grow their own rice, they will not starve, whatever happens to the sugar industry. Every bit of spare land there not occupied by sugar seems to have turned to rice recently.

On the future of cotton growing in Fiji, which has aroused quite a lot of interest in the local Press lately, Mr. Watson is not really very optimistic.

He does not deny that Fiji cotton enjoyed a high reputation overseas during the American Civil War when prices were so high that even a very low yield was still very profitable.

Tracing its history in Fiji, Mr.

Watson said in 1875 cotton earned £22,406, by 1880 its income was £30,070, but by 1900 it had dwindled to £7O/13/9.

The reason, Mr. Watson said, waS that while the quality was undoubtedly good, the yield was extremely poor, so that as soon as America re-entered the market in force, prices fell.

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They're Learning To Be Fiji Farmers Navuso Agriculture School in Fiji has started a student farmer scheme , and 12 students have already started on a three year course.

THE boys at Navuso and others from the Ratu Kadavulevu School have cleared and levelled sites in difficult bush country near Navuso and erected, as part of the school’s trade course, small three-roomed houses for occupation by the student farmers.

Two farmers will jointly occupv each house, and each student will farm about eight acres of subsistance crops and cash crops, including bananas, cocoa and coffee. Each boy will also have 48 head of poultry.

The boys receive a monthly allowance and all farm produce will be costed. Any profits will be banked in trust for the students. It is hoped the farms will be fully productive in seven years.

The photos show (top) student farmer Matia Tokalolo surveying the property he will share with Epeli Naiseku. Centre: the Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, and his party climb a steep bush track on the way to visit the farmers recently and (bottom) Sir Kenneth shakes hands with the 12 young farmers.

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From a Suva Correspondent Nervous shop owners put up wooden shutters and conservative elements deplored the fact that permission had been given for a march of unemployed through Suva streets on March 7. But the march passed off quietly and the eye-brow raising was reserved for the lone European who occupied the front rank with Fiji trade union leaders.

PHE stranger was Dr. B. L.

Bernard, a visitor of a few weeks only to Fiji, and a selfonfessed member of the British 'abian Society.

He also attended the meeting in be Century Theatre that preceded he march, when he advocated that omething constructive should be ut before the Government.

He was for freeing credit and a rogramme of works, such as buildig municipal baths, major roads, tc., to keep men employed.

The meeting, which had heard Ir. Mohammed Tora speak in Inglish and Fijian on the unemloyment situation for 40 minutes, heered Dr. Bernard loudly, and )st no time in appointing him to a eputation of unemployed and lembers of the Wholesale and Relil Workers’ General Union, which lanned to wait on the Acting blonial Secretary, Mr. Eric Beving- >n, and present him with a number f resolutions.

So Dr. Bernard became one of the )0 or 700 who joined the “unem- Joyed” march —although “unemloyed” was not quite correct as ir as the marchers were concerned, Dr many of them were in work. In ict, the Union delayed the march ntil after 5 p.m., so that members DUld join after knock-off time.

The few nervous shopkeepers who barricaded their shops no doubt feared a repetition of the events of December, 1959, when there were two days of rioting.

At the front, a steady 20 yards ahead of the marchers, was a police car, just ahead of the front rank were a dozen or so sturdy policemen, while large numbers of police patrolled the length of the march.

The Police Helped Mr. Tor a, as union president, had earlier told the theatre meeting that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. H. T. Beaumont, had told him he would provide police “to help with the march”, in spite of Tora’s protests that the police were not necessary.

The police “helped” to such an extent that some onlookers reckoned that there were more police than unemployed.

Mr. Bevington met the deputation at the Government offices, heard their views (with Dr. Bernard expounding freely on a number of plans to solve the problem), promised nothing—except to pass Tonga Radio Has "Excellent" Cover The Tonga Broadcasting Commission’s 10-kilowatt broadcasting station ZCO at Nukualofa —on 1020 kc/s—was officially opened by Queen Salote on the occasion of her birthday on March 13.

The station had been carrying out test transmissions at various times of the day from mid-February.

Probably due to its location on an island of no great size surrounded by open oceans, the station appears to have a\ very excellent coverage. Certainly in Auckland it provides better signal strength than many New Zealand stations of comparative power located to the south of that city.

For the Tongans of Auckland it will provide a very real link with home. Reception is likely to be even better through the winter.

Programmes so far have been a very pleasant mixture of Tongan vocal music and European music of the more restrained type, with no advertising, though it is understood that sponsored programmes will be introduced.

Occasional news items have been given but up to March 18 there did not appear to be any organised local news service, at least during the evening programme which was then being heard from 0600 to 0900 GMT (7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tonga time).

A news service will be keenly awaited by Tongan listeners outside Tonga.

“We are peaceful demonstrators.

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i' ‘ mMOm ms -i V' ' x ■ ■ He Gave Home To Suva’s Aged Suva businessman A. E. Pearce in March handed over to Fiji this fully furnished home for old people. He built it and furnished it at his own expense (about Fijian £15,000 ) to replace an old building known as the Cottage Home, which has sheltered distressed Europeans in Suva since the 1880’s.

The new building has been named the Pearce Home. The original Cottage Home was also built by public goodwill. A group of public-spirited people raised funds for it, and public generosity has persisted throughout the years.

After the Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, officially opened the Home, Lady Maddocks opened the front door with a special key. Said Sir Kenneth: “Mr. Pearce’s donation of this home has been an extraordinary act of generosity.”

The photos show the lounge of the new home, and Mr.

Pearce handing the key to Lady Maddocks at the official opening.

Photos: Rob Wright the resolution on to the Governor next day—and virtually had it eating out of his hand.

He then agreed to go outside the Government Buildings, where about 1,500 men had gathered, and make a short speech. He again repeated his promise to pass the resolutions on to the Governor who, at the time, was in Lautoka.

In fact, Mr. Bevington did an excellent piece of public relations work, something which is all too often lacking among departmental heads in Fiji in their dealings with the public.

Serious Problem Although this march may have turned out to be a bit of a damp squib, there is no doubt that the unemployment problem in Fiji is serious. And it is likely to become worse.

With a stagnant economy, in spite of much lip service on the need to attract new capital, little has been done, and it is difficult to see bright times ahead.

Mr. Bevington told the delegation that Fiji was overdrawn in London to the extent of £2,000,000 in order :o keep current works going, while loping to raise more loans in London later this year.

The UK has guaranteed £5,000,000 n loans and grants between now md 1964 for the continuation of he development work in Fiji, but t still won’t be enough.

The delegation suggested to Mr.

Bevington that Australia and New Zealand be asked to take unemployed from Fiji for contract work, this suggestion is not likely to neet much favour from trade unionists in those two countries, )articularly Australia, where local inemployment is a much discussed übject—although few people seem o be without jobs. In New Zealand here is a chronic shortage of abour, both skilled and unskilled, nd a man seeking work can virually write his own ticket.

The delegation also asked for unmployment benefits of £2 a week or married men, and £1 for single aen—without suggesting where the aoney might come from.

A demand was also made for the eplacement of the Commissioner of iabour, Mr. John Amputch, with omeone who had a more “realistic nd sympathetic” approach to the jaemployment problems—a demand hat was perhaps unfair to Mr. Amtutch, who has devoted a lot of ime to the problem, admittedly nthout much success.

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Cinderella Timber Comes Into Its Own Previously the Cinderella of ji’s building timbers, kauvula at last coming into its own. [THEN Mr. C. S. Sibley Elliot, r assistant chief of Forest Products Division of the Commonalth Scientific and Industrial ganisation spent a week in the lony recently, kauvula was one of 3 main objects of his scrutiny.

Costing about £4/10/- a hundred per feet, as against about £6 for ported Oregon, kauvula is an idous way of utilising a natural ource as well as getting a cheaper use and furniture.

Fiji’s Forestry Department has m pushing it for years, as an ernative to the more expensive kua and Oregon, but until recently had been used only for cases and ;h like.

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Mr. Elliot’s coming to the Colony demonstrated the good sense and foresight of the department in allocating £2,250 of its Colonial Development and Welfare grant for timber research by the CSIRO TTnr tviof -cm n L thp hplfi! Wlll * h ?£ e vast t pSTßn’c f fi?Pst r H® o^c 1 - CeS f° f he dI V SIon for pvtlonmpr t and dustrv Pm6nt ° f the FIJI tlmber m "

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“Mr. Elliot came to have a look at our problems for himself, and he has now £° ne back with a much Nearer picture than he would have had if he had not made the trip .”

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From our Canberra Correspondent Do Papuans need formal education to be politically effective? r[REE Australian National University Research workers differed on this point at a forum irganised by the Canberra New Guinea Society on: “New Guinea— rast or Slow?”

The head of the Department of ’acific History, Professor Jim )avidson, told the forum it was prong to assume that an effective lolitician must have a high level of formal education.

He was replying to one of the main speakers, Mr. A. H. Healy, a research scholar at the school who recently spent some months doing field work in P-NG.

Won't Justify Hopes Professor Davidson challenged a claim by Mr. Healy that it was doubtful whether any of the members of the Hanuabada Local Government Council who had stood for the Legislative Council would be “able to justify the hopes of those electing them”.

Mr. Healy said that none of the present Hanuabada councillors had any but elementary education.

He said that if education had been allowed to develop years ago throughout the Territory and the people given Local Government as soon as they were ready for it, they would now be in a better position to fend for themselves.

Professor Davidson said that if the Hanuabadans disappointed their electors it would be because the Government was not giving them a lead and because they had not had the opportunity of acquiring the sort of knowledge a politician needed.

Mr. Healy replied that the argument that Local Government councils were giving the people the sort of political training they needed did not hold water.

The Local Government councils were an Administration instrumentality.

Not Political It was possible that the councils might give Papuans some training in the mechanics of administration, but they provided no oppor- [?]e's from the NG Eastern Highlands and she [?]s mud and pig grease in her hair, which fashionable there. Can people like this be politically effective?

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Although a politician might not need a high level of education he must have a certain amount if he ivas to profit from his other jxperiences.

The other main speaker, Dr. A. j. Epstein, an anthropologist and i former student of Professor Max >luckman, recently spent a year mong the Tolai people of the Jazelle Peninsula, possibly the most ophisticated and most prosperous eople in P-NG. He is returning d Rabaul in April.

He also criticised the Local Govrnment Councils as a means of iving Papuans political experience The Councils, although useful, did ot cope with national or territorial roblems which transcended the irely village level, he said.

Conservatives Members were drawn mainly from ie conservative elements of village ciety and no Tolai had emerged 10 had been able to command ly substantial following.

There were recent signs that new okesmen were emerging, and as tisions increased younger spokesm would appear. rhese would be no longer content work within a paternalistic imework of Government, and they uld be unimpressed by the Goviment’s policy of “even developing’. rhey would not want to wait ile the backward areas of P-NG ight up with the Gazelle imsula.

The Main Points )ther points made in the forum luded:— ’ RETIRING AGE: Mr. Healy i that lack of co-operation beien Administration services at the age level might be due to officers ) were “too old or too oldmoned” for co-ordinated effort, hese men had been brought up the pre-war tradition of direct -man administration, allure to adjust ideas and hods quickly could be strous. his lack of co-ordination was marked contrast to attitudes in British colonial service, where ages were much lower than P-NG.

POLICIES : Mr. Healy bitterly eked the even-development nes of Territories Minister I Hasluck as unreal.

Caste inevitably involves risks,” said. “But does it involve ter risks than the policies at ent being followed?” istralian policies differed from e followed by Britain in post- Africa, but were similar to 3, of “one or two former ual powers”.

Mr. Healy did not develop this point specifically, but his other references made it clear that Belgium was one power he had in mind.

NS J ON u S: Dr - Epstein said tnat land shortage was already causing social tensions among the Tolai, especially with the development of larger cocoa areas The activities of the “more enterprising or the more grasping” m competition for land threatened the unity of kinship groups of native society.

Since the population was likelv to double itself in a generation social tensions caused by land pressure would mount.

BSIP customs men are to go into uniform-one based on that worn by the British Navy in the tropics It consists of white shirt and shorts and peaked cap with distinguishing shoulder badges and buttons

Anti-Tb Campaign

In French Polynesia

IN Tahiti on a four months visit is Dr. Hillel Beham, sent by the World Health Organisation to re-organise and aid French Oceania’s programme against tuberculosis.

Ninety per cent, of the population has come forward to take antitubercular tests, and persons under 20 years of age—3o per cent, of the population have been vaccinated with BCG as an anti-tubercular measure.

Last year a total of 1,287 school children were vaccinated together with some 400 newly-born infants.

Anti-tubercular programmes continue in the outer islands the Marqueses, the Australs and the Tuamotus. It is hoped that by 1970, tuberculosis will be completely controlled. For TB sufferers there is a modern programme of treatment and control together with free drugs and free medical consultations. cIF 1 c ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Ancient Cornish Inn Is Link With The Bounty There seems to be almost no end to the discoveries you can make connected with the famous mutiny on the "Bounty" of 172 years ago.

By Robert Langdon One such discovery that I made recently is that at Restronguet Creek, near Falmouth, Cornwall, there is an ancient inn that was once owned by one of the principal characters in the Bounty story. And the present owner is still interested in the Bounty. r[E earlier owner was the notorious Capt. Edward Edwards, commander of HMS Pandora, who was sent to the Pacific in 1790 to find and arrest the Bounty mutineers.

The Pandora, as every student of the Bounty story knows, was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on August 28, 1791, while returning to England with 14 members of the Bounty’s crew whom Capt. Edwards had arrested in Tahiti.

Four of the Bounty people were drowned when the Pandora sank.

The rest barely escaped with their lives, for Edwards had imprisoned them in fetters in a roundhouse on the quarter deck, and he refused to have mercy on them even when his ship was sinking.

Courtmartialled When Edwards got back to England with the 10 survivors, he was courtmartialled for losing the Pandora but was honorably acquitted.

He was then a man of 50 and was apparently considered too old for further active service.

In these circumstances, he bought the inn at Restronguet Creek, and he lived there on half-pay for the rest of his days.

The inn, a thatch-roof building about 1250 AD, was then called The Ship.

But Edwards renamed it Pandora after his last, ill-fated command, and this is the name it still bears today.

Edwards had a model made of the Pandora which he installed at the inn as an ornament.

The model, which is still in existence, is believed to have been made either by a man who served in the Pandora or who helped in the building of her.

Made Him Admiral Whether Edwards was a more genial fellow as an innkeeper than he was as a naval officer, I have been unable to find out.

But he was certainly an unusual one, for when he died in 1815 he was almost Admiral of the Fleet In his day, naval officers could (Over) This model of HMS “Panora” is in Cornwall's Pandora [?]nn, near Falmouth (seen be- [?]w). The commanding officer [?]f HMS Pandora” lived there [?]fter playing his part in the [?]rama of the mutiny on the Bounty”, and he also erected [?]e model. The original “Panora” was wrecked on the Great [?]arrier Reef in 1791. 75 C 1 F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

not be retired, and they received promotions automatically when those ahead of them in the service died.

Edwards, who had been a postcaptain for nine years when he began his voyage in the Pandora, was promoted rear-admiral in 1799, viceadmiral in 1805, and admiral in 1810.

There were then three grades of admiral in each rank—blue, white and red. The most junior admiral was a rear-admiral of the blue, and the most senior, admiral of the red.

Edwards died as an admiral of the white, so he was just two steps short of being Admiral of the Fleet!

Airman Owns It Now The present owner of Pandora Inn is Mr. Peter Howard-Williams, one of the Battle of Britain “Few”, and a former Assistant Air Attache at the British Embassy in Pans.

Mr Howard-Williams and I have exchanged several letters recently about the Bounty, Capt. Edwards and the Pandora, and in one of his letters to me he enclosed the two photographs reproduced with this Describing the model of the Pandora, Mr. Howard-Williams said; “It is approximately 6 ft by 6 tt and has the most tremendous amount of detail.

“People come from all over the world to see it.

“The model has Pandora caived across the stern, and it has been much admired by experts.”

Mr. Howard-Williams is greatly interested in an old wreck which was found off the northern coast of Queensland last November, and which I suggested in January PIM might be that of HMS Pandora.

If the wreck is ever raised, and if it should prove to be the Pandora, Mr. Howard-Williams says he would like to obtain a piece of it for the Pandora Inn.

The Day We Jacked Up!

By Doug Askew The first European strike in the Islands happened on Vanikoro in the Eastern Solomons about 1929. I know, because I was in it. rJSRE were about 32 of us employed on Vanikoro by a Melbourne concern in those days, and we could muster 11 nationalities.

There we were, for better or worse, on a two-years’ contract —the most isolated group of men in the Islands. Vanikoro is just a mountainous place, completely surrounded by reef and covered with beautiful kauri pine—and these were not just saplings, either.

The largest tree I felled there measured 38 ft around the girth, 10 ft off the ground: and I cut ten 12 ft logs out of it before coming to the branches.

For the first year, everything went pretty well. We left the beach at seven in the morning on the logtrain, which ran inland on the flat about three miles, and then we climbed the mountains to where the kauri commenced at 2,000 ft.

Self-respecting Bushmen We did not receive the food any self-respecting Australian bushman would consider necessary to start the day’s toil, such as porridge with a hunk of butter, plus a slab of steak with a few eggs, and lashings of toast and tea. That kind of food just didn’t exist on Vanikoro!

But we got by—losing weight steadily, and beset by malaria and blackwater fever.

There came the day when we farewelled our Westralian manager, who had served his two years. He was popular—“a scholar and a gentleman”, as we say in the bush.

We got in his place a roughneck type who breezed ashore and started to lay the law down about how he expected things done.

He was not the manager type.

Especially for a place like Vanikoro. (What we needed, I guess, was a cover like Dag Hammarskjold!) So, up went our hackles against the, oppressor with his trivial rules, until his final order carpe: “All bushmem MUST be up in the hills ready to swing the axe at 7 a.m. and NOT—repeat NOT—just leaving the beach.”

“To hell with that!” we said. We told ourselves that he had just landed, full of New Zealand fat, as you might say, and that by this time we were a pretty debilitated lot of wrecks, in our second year. I had dropped down from a nice solid 12 stone to 10 stone.

We Jacked Up So we all jacked up and went fishing. It’s funny to look back on it now. Another Nino Culotta would have been in his element, for we were a “weird mob”, by any standard. , The new manager shot on radio messages all over the place. We held a meeting (during which he got pushed off the wharf into salt water).

Well* Melbourne office droppe us, and backed the new boss.

We expected it, anyway, but w did not expect the Resident Corn missioner to arrive from Tulagi o the Government yacht Ranadi , ph his offsiders and a contingent c native police!

Maybe, they expected a Cong situation, or a Eureka Stockade ac and were surprised perhaps to fin nary a corpse around!

The good ship Calula breezed i shortly after that, and we took o for South with whoops of joy an certain appropriate gestures.

The fare to Melbourne was on] £l5, and I reckon that each of i ate about £4O worth of tucker o the trip, after being half-starve on Vanikoro.

That lovely grub—with the Chines stewards lashing it out to us, the: eyes popping at the spectacle ( really hungry men.

That was the highlight of my ir troduction to the Isles of Illusionand it was a tough place.

D. S. Askew, on Vanikoro, with the large[?] kauri tree he felled there—38 ft around t[?] girth, 10 ft off the ground.

APRIL. 1861 PACIFIC ISLA N D S M O N T H L 'Bounty' Link (from previous page)

Do You Remember ?

The British and French Pacific were getting together in 1941. They had a common enemy in Europe now, and were soon to get one in the East. The South Pacific of 20 years ago was, in fact, realising for the first time that it was a geographical entity of its own and that it had to stick together.

Here are extracts from “PIM” of April, 1941 : Canberra announced that a Pacific Copra Marketing Board was to be established with headquarters in Sydney It would represent, Australia, NZ, Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission; and bring all the copra of British and French Territories into the one pool However, the announcement gave no hint as to what would be done about the shipping shortage. • * * Mr. t. Flower had just commenced vork on a timber getting enterprise in valley Reach, Papua, and expected to hip 200,000 ft of logs a month to Lustralian and American markets. * * * From all around the Pacific there eemed to come persistent reports that taunt Felix von Luckner was in comaand of German raiders “somewhere” in tie Pacific. ♦ * * Underground miners employed by New uinea Goldfields, Wau, were on strike •r a 44-hour week and an increase in iy per shift. They brought a large amber of alluvial miners out with them. * * • From Apia the names of the first 25 'lunteers for overseas military service id been announced. Eleven were from 5 and Australia, and 14 were Eurosians. The Administration had recently aiv e d the regulations requiring lunteers to have more than half iropean blood and many of halflynesian blood were being accepted, iwever, prohibition against men of more in half-Polynesian blood was arousing lignation and Euronesians had petitioned ? NZ Prime Minister to further modifv 5 recruiting regulations. * * • strange craft presented itself at rotonga—a modernised Chinese junk. h . en £ J Ho ”’ , owned by Mrs. Archbold, it of the millionaire leader of the Nev inea Archbold expeditions. • * * •^' ern Th° m Pson, sole survivor of “Wing On” tragedy, had just arrived k at her home in Los Angeles, her id still a blank as to what had ipened. The “Wing On” had made rs when it foundered on a reef off after having sailed from California a pearl hunting expedition. The ketch Mrs. Thompson’s husband and ther couple, all of whom died of vation, and Mrs. Thompson was ued In a demented condition.

Island Ideas For Italian Collection From Dorothy Baxter, in Suva It really takes something to impress the sophisticated palate of a Florentine, especially a mature ex-pilot, sportsman, manabout-town like dress designer Marchese Emilio Pucci Di Barsento.

BUT the natural elegance of the Chinese girls in Hawaii, Tahiti and Fiji when he saw them recently, brought the Mediterranean maestro of la mode to a quick stop _ , In , fac t so impressed was the Marchese that he is thinking of enlisting four or five Chinese models for his next Florence collection in duly.

“They are so feminine and graceful. I think they would be a great success” Pucci confided during a brief sojourn at Suva’s Grand Pacific Hotel, in March.

Likewise Pucci’s far from unfemmine Marchesa Cristina was in the mood to rave.

The Loveliest “The Chinese girls are certainly the loveliest to look at but all the island girls have a wonderful charm about them and such friendly dispositions,’’said the willowy Marchesa relaxing in one of her husband’s deceptively simple silk jersey frocks that fetches a mere 100 dollars or so on the US market.

Actually the Puccis were islandhopping not in search of girls but for ideas for his coming show—he has one in January and July each year.

“I like to get out among people and get the feel of things. You cannot go on creating if you are for ever in an ivory tower” Pucci said.

And since he’s contemplating a tropical experiment—i.e. a wardrobe designed specifically for torrid climes—he thought it best to mingle with the people of the islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji and later Bali and Ceylon.

While there had been several adaptations of native styles, there had never been a collection designed specifically for the tropics.

Even the women of Brazil, the most fashion-conscious of all in the sundrenched sphere, had to malie do with what they could fossick out of collections designed for temperate zones, he said.

'Over) The Marchese and Marchesa Pucci.

A sample of Pucci's work—a fully draped evening dress in solid silk jersey. 77 CIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

Now that air travel is making the romantic-sounding but formerly far-away tropics so much more accessible Pucci thinks it is time something was done to meet the growing demand.

So that it’s quite likely his mannequins will be parading models tagged “Fiji”, “Suva”, “Papeete”, etc., before the high-fashion Press of the world at their July preview.

The Marchese certainly is highfashion. In fact his clientele is so elite that he is quite bashful about them.

“Look at the embarrassment poor Mrs. Kennedy has had because she used to get her clothes from overseas designers” sighed the Marchese without saying whether he had been one of the culprits.

But he did admit to architecting a geranium silk jersey evening dress for Queen Sirikit of Thailand, and running up a few seams for Mrs.

Henry Ford, and “many film stars”, including Sophia Loren, Paulette Goddard and Audrey Hepburn.

The 46 years old Marchese who turns out about 500 models a year, designs his own fabrics and has his own silk factory as well as calling in other local plants.

The man whose ancestors were recorded for posterity by such artists as Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci has been designing for only about 10 years but now exports to 51 countries including Australia.

Footnote: He did not say where he would recruit his Chinese mannequins if he does finally decide on them so there could be a chancg for any comely island-born Chinese girl who happens to knock on the palace door of Palazzo Pucci, Via de Pucci 6, Florence, Italy, between now and July!

Theory on a Fascinating Subject A Clue To The Fate Of The La Perouse Men By C. Jack-Hinton The fate of the vessel which the survivors of the La Perouse expedition constructed, and in which they set sail from Vanikoro as explained in R. A. Langdon’s excellent article, is a fascinating one.

D’URVILLE himself, after his visit to Vanikoro, in 1828, concluded that they would have directed their course towards New Ireland in an attempt to reach the Philippines or Moluccas, following the known routes either of Carteret or Bougainville.

That they would have followed the route of Bougainville rather than Carteret seems likely in view of the prevailing winds and known coastlines.

As D’Urville wrote, “it was then the only route which offered any chance of success to a vessel as insecure and as ill-equipped as they would have been able to construct on Vanikoro, for one must assume that the French had been singularly weakened by fever and their conflicts with the natives”.

He added that he considered it most likely, if any traces were to be found at all, that they would be found on the west coast of the Solomons, “in the vicinity of the space known by the name Bay of Indians, between Capes Deception and Satisfaction”.

This was the part of the archipelago of the Solomons which Shortland had discovered in August, 1788, the name “Indian Bay” having been given by him to the apparent bay between “Cape Deception” (Rendova land “Cape Satisfaction” (Simbo).

Only a Coincidence?

It may be nothing more than coincidence that the only references to wreckage being sighted during the years immediately following the departure of the survivors from Vanikoro, relate to this particular section of the archipelago mentioned by D’Urville.

Captain George Bowen stated in a deposition to the Justice of the Peace at Morlaix that, whilst sailing from Port Jackson to Bombay in command of the Albemarle, in December, 1791, he saw “upon the coast of New Georgia” (by which he meant the whole archipelago of the Solomons) “pieces of the wreck of a ship floating upon the water”

He had seen the wreckage “by the help of a great fire lighted upon the land near the middle of the night of the 30th December, 1791” and that, without this fire, he would THE STORY Was Captain Peter Dillon the first man to discover the fate oi La Perouse's two ships after they were wrecked at Vanikoro ir 1788? R. A. Langdon, author o\ "Island of Love", raised some doubts in an article written foi PIM in February. He gave some facts which indicated that an English whale ship had apparently found evidence of the Frenchmar before Dillon made his discovery.

However, Langdon's story pointed out that a mystery thal still had to be solved was the fate of those of La Perouse's men whc were not drowned or killed at Vani koro. These men had built a two masted ship from the wreckage oi their vessel and had sailed away —"never to be seen again".

In this article for PIM, C. Jack Hinton suggests an explanation foi the disappearance of those men Mr. Jack-Hinton is a former Distric Officer, Malaita (BSIP), and is nov a research scholar with the Depart ment of Pacific History, Australiar National University, Canberra. H( is working on the history of the dis covery of the Solomons.

Marchese Emilio Pucci. 78 APRIL, 1961-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

irobably have “run upon the rocks if Cape Deception”.

He identified the wreckage as of 'rench construction, and added that stives who had come aboard had ignified their acquaintance with luropean vessels.

The second account, obtained by rUrville himself in Hobart in 1827, ame from James Hobbs, first officer f the Union, commanded by Caplin J. Nicholls.

He stated that whilst bound for enang, in April, 1811, the Union as becalmed “off New Georgia or olomon Islands”. He went ashore ith four lascars and an English lilor to obtain fruit for the crew i an island situated in 8 3 18’S, >6°3o’E (Simbo), which he did not link was inhabited since it was so nail.

Wreckage Seen As he neared the island he noticed channel running into the island which he saw “quite distinctly” e wreckage of a European vessel. : the same time he saw a large imber of natives who attempted entice him to land. Having iled to do this they attacked and e boat only escaped with difficulty.

Bowen had himself stated in his position that he knew for certain only a few vessels which had ssed the Solomons prior to his r n passage and that none of them is known to have been wrecked.

Nevertheless, the French tended the view that Bowen’s story was spect and only seem to have pubned it in order to discredit it. that time, however, they were t aware of the fact that the :vivors had constructed a boat on nikoro and had set sail in it. [n this respect at least Bowen’s Story seems more valuable than Hobbs’. ®y the time Hobbs sailed near the Solomons it is quite possible that one whaler at least had been wrecked on these relatively uncharted shores.

In 1791, however, when Bowen sailed past the Solomons, the whaling fleet was only just beginning to creep into the Western Pacific; the European vessels which had been there recently were known, and, with the exception of those of La Perouse, were all accounted for.

I would be distinctly reluctant to suggest that any conclusions might even be hazarded on this evidence.

It is, however, interesting that the only wreckage known to have been sighted—if it was wreckage— was sighted in an area on the probable route of the survivors and where they might well have come to grief.

Admiral Manby’s report of the probable landing on Vanikoro of the crew of a whaler is of importance, not only in relation to the La Perouse question, but also in relation to the general question of European activity in the Solomons during the early years of the nineteenth century.

That it was Vanikoro, rather than another island on which the survivors were again wrecked, is perhaps indicated by the islanders’ reference to the ship’s size and the contents washed ashore from it.

Assuming that the whaler did land on Vanikoro, then the account is important, not only for its relevance to Dillon’s claim to being the discoverer of La Perouse’s fate, but also as a reference to probably the first European contact with the natives of Vanikoro after the shipwreck of La Perouse.

No Landing Before 1788 No record appears to exist of a European landing prior to La Perouse in 1788, though the island was sighted on several occasions.

Mendana probably sighted it in 1595 and assumed that it formed one island with Utupua, whilst (Continued on p. 93) A chart of the area in the Solomons to which this article refers.

This 9 ft anchor from the "Astrolabe” was one of those recovered in 1958 by a combined French-British expedition to Vanikoro. A leading member of the expedition, New Zealander Reece Discombe, of Vila, took the photograph shortly after the old anchor, in a precarious state of preservation, was hauled aboard. 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1961

No More That

Sewer-Like

SMELL?

From a Cook Islands Correspondent Avarua’s rare durian tree, whose fruit has been compared to “French custard passed through a sewer pipe”, has been struck by lightning, and its days may be numbered!

A LIGHTNING bolt stripped a piece of bark from top to bottom of the trunk and although there was no burning, the leaves are withering and dropping off and it is feared the tree has had such a shock that it will die.

Avarua’s rare specimen which is growing at the Government experimental farm Rarotonga, first received prominence in 1931 when Dr.

Gerrit P. Wilder wrote about it in his Flora of Rarotonga, published by the Bishop Museum. He said the specimen had been introduced from the East, but had neither flowers nor fruit. Its botanical name was Durio zibethinus murray, but it was well known as the Durian tree in the East Indies and Malaya.

In 1953, when a Dutch professor wrote to Rarotonga asking about the tree, the government was able to report that it was growing well and producing flowers and fruit.

What it Looks Like Dr. Gerrit gives this description of the durian tree in his book: “A very large, stately, upright tree, indigenous to Malaya, but now seldom found in a wild state, commonly cultivated in the Straits, Burma, Java, etc., for the sake of its celebrated fruit.

“The latter, produced on strong, mature branches, varies somewhat in shape from round to ovoid, is yellow when ripe and usually weighs from 6 to 8 lb, sometimes as much as 10 lb or more.

“It is armed with thickly set, sharp pointed spikes about half an inch long, and possesses when mature a very offensive odour, more especially so on first acquaintance.

The white custard-like pulp surrounding the seed is highly relished and regarded as an aphrodisiac by Malays and others; it is also esteemed by some Europeans who acquire a taste for it once the smell is overcome.

“It has been described as ‘resembling blanc-mange, delicious as the finest cream’, whilst according to Russel Wallace ‘the sensation of eating durians is worth a voyage to the East’.

“Others have compared it to French custard passed through a sewer-pipe.”

Through A Glass, Darkly

The first field-glasses seen in the New Hebrides brought bitter disappointment. As one of the mission clergy was walking along the shore, the native at his side pointed out a tiny figure in the distance.

“There goes one of my enemies!” he said.

The white man drew out his field-glasses, adjusted the focus, then handed them to his companion, who gazed through them in excited amazement, beholding his foe apparently close at hand.

Dropping the glasses, he seized his arrows and looked again.

The enemy was as far away as at first.

Once more he snatched the magic glasses, once more exchanged them for his arrows, and once more was baffled.

A bright thought suddenly occurred to him.

“You hold the glasses,” he said to the priest, “and I’ll shoot him!”

From “ISLANDS OF ENCHANTMENT”, by Florence Coombe, published by MacMillan, London, 1911.

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The Colourful

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Captain “Frog” Evans, harbour master at Madang, has had an unusually colourful life.

HE was born at Portsmouth in 1908 and baptised Joseph Horace. His father, who hailed from Holywell in Wales, served his whole life at sea in the Royal Navy, and became deputy King’s Harbour Master of Malta in 1918.

“Frog” says that it was here that he got his first experience in handling ships, when he spent all his spare time on Navy paddle wheel and twin screw tugs; the Maltese skippers obligingly letting him work the telegraphs and correcting him only if he was likely to ram a battleship or sink the Admiral’s pinnace.

“Frog” was then sent to England to be educated at Weybridge Park College, and then went to sea in 1925 at the age of sixteen as a cadet on the training ship Wangaratta, on the England-Australia run. He passed for second mate in 1929 and resumed service with the British India Steam Navigation Co. on ships running round India and Burma, and was then put on the mail run in the Persian Gulf.

Command in Singapore On leave in 1931 he passed for first mate and returned to the East, serving this time in Malayan waters.

He passed for master in 1935 and accepted a short command of the Governor’s yacht Sea Bell II at Singapore to qualify him for a shore appointment.

He was appointed as assistant superintendent of the Penang Harbour Board and became superintendent in 1938. During his period ashore he joined the Straits Settlement RNVR and as an acting sublieutenant instructed more senioi officers in navigation and seamanship, but at the outbreak of war, as a lieutenant, he was given command of the minesweeping flotilla in North Malayan waters.

Hoping to transfer into the Fleel Air Arm for more lively duty he qualified as a pilot under the Malayan Volunteer Air Force training scheme.

When the Japanese landed, Frog’s flotilla got the desired lively operation around Johore, Singapore and the Rio Straits, and he was ther ordered to Java to serve with the Royal Dutch Navy at Batavia, bul having navigated the minefield or verbal advice and no chart the Dutch NOIC declared him a pilot and he was given the job of bringing in the ships with evacuees frorr Singapore.

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The Month'S New Reading

With Judy Tudor

Sex That Excites Scientists It was no surprise to find that American anthropologist, Dr. Donald Marshall, chose sex for intensive investigation on Ra’ivavae, instead of, as he might have done, craftsmanship, art, music, oral literature or dancing.

JJEX may not quite make the world j spin on its axis, but it’s what sells books. (I’ve been told by a espected colleague that when once equired to write a story about a javel-pit he was “able to introduce ome sex into it” —which seems to pitomise the requirements of modern journalism so effectively ’ve never spoiled the story by askng how it was done).

The appeal of sex being what it 3 then, I shouldn’t be surprised if la’ivavae doesn’t become the first nthropological best-seller since Malinowski’s Sexual Life of Savages, /hich was required reading for first ear anthropology at Sydney Uni. or so long—and maybe still is.

It’s to the credit of the publishers, Lowever, that they haven’t called t Sex Orgies in the South Seas; or iut a semi-nude hula dancer on the over. Moreover, the words Paradise nd Love don’t appear anywhere; hey have confined themselves to aying their piece on the flaps of he dust-jacket.

This is the background: Some ears ago, the American Museum of latural History, sponsored by the ‘eabody Museum, undertook a longerm study of human behaviour ased on reports made on a Polytesian island by J. Frank Stimson.

Stimson, who had lived for many ears in French Polynesia, had written voluminously on the ancient ex practices of the natives of La’ivavae and it was Marshall’s job o find out whether what Stimson ad recorded was fact, or whether itimson was—as many of his critics laimed —simply carried a\£ay by n inordinate interest in sex.

Marshall also had the additional ask of trying to equate the ancient ex practices of the Ra’ivavaeans to he behaviour of modern Western lan (and woman).

Marshall does this to his entire atisfaction in the epilogue. If, owever, the reader, like this reiewer, feels that the fact that the ncient Ra’ivaveans indulged in rgies of sex, in public, at certain mes of the year has little real earing on his own current beaviour, he will still get something ut of this book by studying the bought processes of the Western nthropologist.

The idea that man is an emotionally fettered creature, forced along a certain line of behaviour by things beyond his control, is a currently popular device among the pseudoscientific, and as good a way of escaping individual responsibility as most.

Sex Cults But back to our Ra’ivavaeans. It appears that in pre-European times these people had some sort of sex cult based on an active private and public interest in the genitals of both sexes.

With the idea of enlargement, these were manipulated in children from the tenderest years and if you think that nothing much could be done in the female department— well, read the book.

But these things were all well in the past when Marshall and his party arrived on Ra’ivavae to spend several months.

A century or more of Christianity and colonial rule had washed over these people since those far-off halcyon days.

The population, from the diseases that Europeans had introduced in the early 19th century, had been reduced from vigorous thousands to six or seven hundred sober citizens of France, who had moved out of their old villages to be near the church.

Politically they are unambitious; few realise the significance of being a French citizen although they know the Government as a benevolent, if generally unseen, force that provides free education and medical help and sends a gendarme all the way from Paris to keep law and order.

Their chief, although he still exists and is paid by the Government, has lost most of his powers and is regarded as a bit of a joke.

Only in matters of church and religion is there any vigor; they forget, or pretend to forget, old pagan practices which are now regarded as sinful.

In religion they are Fundamsnt- Samoan Book Available Mr. R. D. Taylor, whose “Polynesian Paradise'’, a colourful account of missionary work in modern Samoa was reviewed on page 86, December “PlMinforms us that the hook can now he purchased in Australia. (It was published in thei United States).

Supplies are available from: Book and Bible House, 8 Yarra St., Hawthorn, Victoria, E 2; or 84 The Boulevarde, Strathfield, NSW. Australian price is 32/plus 1/5 postage.

If It’s Censored - Fiji Has It If Fiji has any book censorship laws then they aren’t readily discernible to the naked eye. And all this is a very great delight to visitors from less enlightened countries —hence this advertisement that appeared in a local Fiji newspaper recently: POCKET BOOKS: Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Lolita; No, I am Not Afraid’, Return to Peyton Place; The Chinese Room; Confidential Love Letters, with Replies; The Bramble Bush; Nobody Cries For Me; Shadows of Shame; The Hard Blue Sky and many more Science Fiction books always available.

It’s the first time I’ve heard old Chatterley described as Science Fiction—it gives her quite an aura of respectability.

American paper-backs are also freely available in Fiji, at astronomical prices. When I bought an lan Fleming thriller in Suva in March it cost 7/- Fijian, although its companion-piece in an English Pan, which we had here last year, cost 3/9 Aust. Printed into the cover was/ the orginal American price tag—3s cents.

According to my arithmetic that’s about 3/3 Australian and less than three bob Fijian.

Apparently there is some fierce Customs duty on them in Fiji to jack them up to that price. UK paper-backs sell at normal prices.

Australian or New Zealand tourists—whom Fiji generally affects to despise because they don’t throw their money around like drunken sailors—fall for this sort of thing only once. But those poor old Yanks!

Travel certainly must broaden their minds in more ways than one.^JT. 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1961

alists, believing in the literal wording of the Bible and ruling their lives according to the Christian ethic—with one exception.

The exception is pre-marital sex relations, but even this, according to them, is “according to the Book ’.

Although the Bible does forbid adultery (which the Polynesians always considered a sin, anyway) it does not specifically forbid sexual adventures before marriage, and on Ra’ivavae as elsewhere in Polynesia, these are freely partaken of by all youngsters.

It is this description of life amongst the modern Ra’ivavaeans that makes it worthwhile, for me anyway—a statement that, I’ve no doubt, lays me open to a charge by Dr. Marshall of having missed the point entirely.

Doubtless the alleged sex practices of the ancient Ra’ivavaeans is exciting to scientists and certain readers after a cheap thrill—and the blurb that has been issued about this book makes it clear that there is a deliberate appeal to this sort of reader.

But most adults are fully attuned to the fact that sex is, and that there are as many longitudinal and latitudinal variations of it as there are regional recipes for cooking fish —so why the fuss?

The sex aspect investigations into primitive life has been done to death and is boring in the extreme, yet it is the one thing that never fails to stir anthropologists to their greatest agitation.

In this connection, it is interesting to see that Alan Seabrook, who was one of the party and at first had been Marshall’s alter ego in the investigations, is noted on page 267 as having “quit collaborating”, because he believed that an “unhealthy interest in sex was evident”.

Borrowing from Polynesia It always seems extraordinary to me that in these days, when one is almost called upon to apologise for having a white skin, the most diligent researches by whole bands of scientists and anthropologists have failed to unearth one piece of Afro, Asian or Islands primitive culture that Western man has wanted to graft into his own—except one: The Polynesian’s freedom in sexual matters.

To that extent perhaps you can say that Dr. Marshall has made one of his points.

Having read the book with some thoroughness I’m still in two minds as to whether it is to be regarded as a serious scientific work, or merely for popular reading.

Malinowski’s effort on behalf of the Trobriand Islanders, written in the early 1920’s was quite clearly a text-book; Ra’ivavae is attractively and competently written in contemporary American and is guaranteed not to strain the patience of the most unliterary reader.

In short, it is an interesting account of life on a remote island in modern Polynesia, with excursions back into the past.

Excursions, I might add, that still leave me trying to work out what possible significance it can have for me (as a representative of Modern Western Woman) that, at a time when my own ancestors were bounding over the Skye heather in their kilts, trying to push the McLeods back into the drink, the virgins of Ra’ivavae were having public gynaecological inspections! (RATVAVAE. Published by Doubleday.

US price, $4.95.) Mystery Within A Mystery A mystery within a mystery and much plain and fancy writing go to make up “Twice Lost”, by Phyllis Paul. The sum total of it is to prove —if proof is necessary—that human beings, by and large, are pretty miserable creatures.

WESTERN art and culture is, of course, entirely miserable; no writer who has any pretentions in these directions ever sees anything except through a glass, darkly.

Anything that suggests that human beings can sometimes be happy, is regarded as bucolic. Mere peasant stuff.

It can be gathered, then, that Miss Paul’s piece is an atmospheric novel and no whodunit.

The story covers a number of but begins with the unexplained disappearance of a not very attractive small girl. This disappearance, in the years that followed, produced extraordinary guilt complexes in a number of people: In her step-mother, who had been rather bored with the child; in Christine, the teenager who had accompanied her home on the fatal evening; in Thomas Antequin, the ageing novelist whose house seemed to have some connection with the mystery; and in his son Keith who was professionally devoted to his father.

When the girl seems to have appeared again, now 12 years later as a young woman, and then disappears once more, there is a fresh seething and a swarming of consciences.

The key to the mystery lies in several pages that, torn from a diary and discarded had got into wrong hands. But this, although it rounds out the story, is not all. It is not intended to be by the author whose primary object is to show the cause of one individual’s behaviour and its effect upon that of others. (TWICE LOST. Puublished by Wm.

Heinemann Ltd. Australian price, 20/-.) The Women Aren't Brash In a combined operation that sounds like a prescription for a pill and a potion, publishers Macmillan and Penguin have sent out Scenes from Married Life and Scenes from Provincial Life, both by William Cooper, as a package-deal.

A covering letter says that they feel that, for maximum enjoyment, the books “should be taken together”. 1T is hard to tell the real result of this gambit because, by the time you have ploughed through Provincial Life and embarked on Married Life, you are naturally in two minds as to whether the whole thing is growing on you; or whether the latter is really a better book than the former.

Both are the continuing story of Joe Lunn, in first person, written (and published) 10 years apart.

Thus, in Provincial Life, we find a young Joe in 1939, a Science Master in a Provincial grammar school — which appears to be the lowest type of British secondary education: while in 1949, at the time of Married Life, he has weathered the war in London as a Civil Servant, while producing several not-bestselling novels.

He is now not so young—in fact, 10 years older—but his extra-curricular activities are the same—to wit, the pursuit of sex.

In 1939, Joe liked to sleep with his girl, Myrtle, but he was determined not to marry her. That was the fashion of the time and fair enough; but 10 years later, at 39, when marriage had again become the done thing, Joe was stuck in a rut in that although he still liked to sleep with his girl—by this time, Sybil—the thought of marriage, permanent and respectable, made him as jittery as a pedigreed racehorse.

Even when he met Elspeth and said This is for Me, he went through the old routine of having her along to sleep only at weekends, while poor Elspeth palpitated visibly with anticipation of the question being put.

Author Cooper’s women are painfully made all in the same mould; Not a brash one amongst the lot to demand to be made an honest woman of; and, although ardently desiring matrimony, they deliver 86 APRIL. 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

rhat Joe wants at weekly interals, or more frequently as required, rhile waiting patiently for his forlal proposal.

This quiescence may, of course, be tie outcome of living in a society rhere there are five women to every iur men, although it probably r on’t strike any observant Antiodean as an accurate judgment of tie character of the Englishwoman.

When Joe finally worked himself p to the point of matrimony he nd his Elspeth were deliciously appy in a union based on the same rinciples as their former liaison— 3X.

Tables—No Diagrams According to C, P. Snow, eminent ritic of the Sunday Times, Wiliam boper is “hilariouly funny”— hich, if true, simply means that [r. Snow and I are working with Liferent dictionaries.

There are numerous grins and a ;w chuckles in these novels, but ot hilarious, rolling-in-the-aisles, elly laughs. They both are, in their ay, quite excellent examples of hat we believe is the English ilent for understatement; and both re mixed with quiet satire.

They may, however, miss their tark in “poking fun at English iboos of class”—at least in Colonial >ciety. Joe had a modest family ackground—a father who was a [ethodist parson and a mother who sed up a tiny legacy to send him ) Cambridge. This sort of set-up is jgarded in England, amongst those ho matter, as distinctly Non-U. i our society, of course, a Methoist parson may not only be quite and a community leader in his vn right, but could turn out, as ell, to be a coast-to-coast TV srsonality—and to dizzier heights 0 one could hope to aspire.

Nor is its sex likely (as the jacket tys) to shock anyone who has be- >me used to contemporary Ameritn novels where sex is given the ill treatment short of coloured diarams.

It’s a sort of Upper Civil Servant nd of sex, even when poor Joe, aunted by the newly-married lestion of how often, gets out of 3d to consult a table in the manual 1 Sexual Behaviour in the Adult uman Male and, for his approbate age of 40, comes up with the aswer of 2.3 per week.

And the gentle reader may well )are him a tear for his predicaient, when, having persuaded Els- 3th to go to bed with him for le first time, he lies there in a anic and a sweat wondering if, for ice, his mind hasn’t made an aplintment that his body can’t keep. (SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE, spublished by Penguin. Australian •ice, 5/-. SCENES FROM MARRIED :FE. Published by Macmillan. Australian ice, 20/-.) Territories Magazine Is Interesting Australian Territories, the new monthly magazine produced by the Department of Territories in Canberra, is a far more pretentious journal than South Pacific (which was produced by ASOPA) and which it supersedes.

AND, although it still contains some of those obscure articles on linguistics in native areas— which are Greek to everyone but trained anthropologists—it is much more interesting to the layman.

Issue number 2, which is the last we have received, has some information on the development prospects in the Northern Territory— which for the adventurous is a far safer bet than P-NG these days. NT will some day achieve full Australian Statehood but the bogey of “independence” can’t hang over it.

Of particular interest to P-NG Territorians are two articles—one by J. L. Taylor, now a coffee planter near Goroka; and the other byA.J.

Sweeting, a research officer of the Australian Official War History.

Jim Taylor tells of his patrol from Mt. Hagen, in what is now the Western Highlands, to the Sepik between March, 1938 and June, 1939.

It was the last long patrol in the Territory as post-war development of air transport and roads makes it unnecessary for men to be out for anything like that length of time.

He was accompanied on this marathon journey by J. N. O. Black.

Both, in those days, were Administration officers; both have subsequently left the service.

Montevideo Maru Sinking A. J. Sweeting’s article concerns the Montevideo Maru on which 208 civilians and 845 POW’s lost their lives on July 1, 1942.

The fate of these men, and in fact, the very existence of this vessel, was questioned by Bishop Leo Scharmach, of Vunapope, near Rabaul, in his book, This Crowd Bedts Us All.

However, the Bishop’s opinion was a minority one and both American and Japanese reports show quite clearly that there was such a ship, that she was sunk by the American submarine Sturgeon off Lingayen Gulf, and that only 10 crew men survived. ( PIM , Oct. to Dec., 1960).

Moreover, all the circumstantial evidence is there to show that the men sailed on her as planned and later reported in Japanese records.

The only missing piece to the jigsaw is that no one now living actually saw the men embark in Rabaul.

There is no reason to suppose that they did not, for if they did not go down with Montevideo Maru. where are they? The disposal of 1,000 men in the Rabaul area undetected would be a physical impossibility even for the Japanese.

In his article, Mr. Sweeting says (in part) : “War-time Japanose documents which were produced revealed that on July 20, 1942, the Japanese Navy Department officially notified the owners of the ship’s loss; on January 6, 1943, it forwarded details of the sinking to the PW Information Bureau, together with a complete nominal roll of those on board and presumed lost. Other documents told of the last days of the Montevideo Maru.

“On charter to the Japanese Navy, she left Rabaul bound for Hainan on June 22, 1942, carrying 845 PW, 208 civilians, the crew and a naval guard of an ensign, a medical orderly and 63 naval ratings. Before dawn on July 1, while proceeding without escort, she was torpedoed about 7 miles off Bojeador Lighthouse, on the NW corner of Luzon.

Some Survivors “A party of ‘more than 10’ of the crew, the only survivors, got ashore at Bojeador where most of them, including the ship’s captain, were killed by guerilla forces. Five escaped and set out on foot for Manila, two dying en route. At Manila the survivors reported the sinking, whereupon ‘an immediate search was ordered, but due to the lapse of time no trace of either ship or men could be found’.

“The nominal roll obtained from the Navy Department was in Japanese characters, representing phonetic spellings of the prisoners’ names. After transliteration a copy was sent to the Central Army Records Office, Melbourne and checked, or course, against the prisoners’ personal documents. This information formed the basis for subsequent notification of next-ofkin.

“Independently a roll of civilians who embarked on the Montevideo Maru was compiled, presumably largely from memory, by Messrs. A.

Creswick and Gordon Thomas, two civilians who had remained in the Rabaul area throughout. The roll forms part of the archives of the Australian War Memorial, where also the remainder of the information on which this article is based may be found.” 87 ACIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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HOWEVER, if any of the various art groups—such as those in Fiji or P-NG—would like to put on something special for the youngsters when they are home for the Christmas holidays this year, either of these two bright plays would do admirably.

Beverley Cross, who has written the plays, is a successful playwright for adult and juvenile theatre; both plays are designed as Christmas entertainment —a time in England when West End theatres and those in the Provinces make special efforts with pantomime, ballet and plays for the young.

Except for a teenage girl and a midshipman, the casts are adult in both plays; they are in two and three acts, respectively. The first, The Singing Dolphin, is a rollicking sort of extravaganza about an eccentric band of pirates aboard a eutter on the Spanish Main. The :ime is Christmas, 1760.

The time of the second play, The Three Cavaliers, is around Christmas Ll 2 years earlier, when the young, ?xiled Princess Elizabeth tries to rescue her brother Charles from ;he castle where he is held by the Roundheads.

The scene changes between France md England, the plot is amusing ind exciting and the kids will jrobably love it. But some of the sharacters are required to do a bit )f nimble fencing, so they should >e warned in time.

Amateur and professional perorrhing rights are protected, but he address of the author’s agents, vhere permission may be obtained, s given in the book/ (TWO PLAYS FOR CHILDREN. Pubshed by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. Ausralian price, 18/9.) Vhat Did We Do To Irown Brother ?

As we remember it, Victor Carell nd his wife Beth Dean were, until few years ago, merely experts on he dance. It was this expertise that ook them to North and Central .ustralia to study aboriginal dancig (from which came their book, Dust For the Dancers”); and later ) New Guinea (from which trip ime “Softly, Wild Drums”). >UT from being experts on native 3 dancing they now appear to have become experts on native people -or Carell has. The latest book, Naked We Are Born, is a solo performance.

He probably hopes—or his publishers probably hope for him—that this series of “before and after” (the white man) episodes will make some significant contribution to what they call “one of the most urgent problems of our day”.

The world, unfortunately, is full of people who have made significant contributions to universal understanding, with the result that there is more sectional friction, more international ill-will, more howling down of the other fellow’s point of view, more misunderstood motives, more selfishness today than ever before in history.

The air waves seethe with socalled experts ponderously solving everyone else’s problem but their own; and so does the Press and TV.

If there could be a blanket shutdown on communication media for just three months, probably ninetenths of the world’s present troubles would solve themselves.

Mr. Carell writes about Australian aborigines, New Guinea natives and New Zealand Maoris. There are two stories in each section—one before the advent of the European in that particular society; and one after.

But it is hard to tell from any of them whether or not the author believes these natives were better off before civilisation caught up with them.

In any event, the urgent problem in the Pacific today is not the European impact on natives. As history has now recorded, that impact in the 19th century was deadly, but for the last two generations at least the Pacific people have got on top of it, and have even recovered from it.

The problem facing them today is one we all face —of living in an international world where there is not one European opinion but a dozen trends of thought; and where Asian and African opinion, although it may not yet be quite so important, is 10 times as vociferous.

Nonetheless, Mr, Carell writes well enough if you happen to like that semi-fableised type of story about native people. As his publishers say, he is a sensitive observer, and thus is probably more prone to overromanticise the pre-European native period than the rest of us.

For my money, natives have always seemed pretty much like the rest of us—fairly evenly divided between solid citizens and plain pains in the neck. (NAKED WE ARE BORN. Published by Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Australian price, 22/6.) What is a Fair Retail Profit?

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The article, on their shelves, has cost them, say, 1/-. The charge to the customer then becomes 1/6. Of the 1/6, one-third (namely, 6d.) is the retailer’s profit; and two-thirds (namely, 1/-) goes back to pay for (a) production and (b) wholesale distribution.

The cost of production may have been Bd, wholesaling may have been 4d; and retailing has cost 6d. Yet the producer probably would be quite happy to sell directly to the consumer for Bd, if some shortcircuit in distribution were possible.

Why should a camera, for example, which occupies so little space in storage and handling, be loaded with a heavy retailing charge, which is found by taking the usual “thirty-three-and-onethird per cent” on the high cost of production? Yet the cost of retailing a bag of potatoes, bulky and heavy, is only a few shillings. Should not tha cost of retailing a small camera, or a wristlet watch, or a transistor—small, expensive things like that—be a mere bagatelle compared with the cost of their production?

The retailers, on the other hand, insist that it is not the work of handling, but the cost of the large finance involved, which makes it necessary to maintain the high retailing charge. The retailer has to buy the goods, and hold them on his shelves until he can find a buyer; and then perhaps allow the buyer lengthy credit, before he can get his money back. They contend that anything less than the sacred “thirty three and ons-third” represents risky storekeeping.

Economists have looked at this problem countless times in the last century. There have grown up two schools of thought—t hose who favour fundamental changes in the machinery of distribution, and those who furiously support resale price maintenance (“RPM”).

Messrs. Macmillan and Co. publishers, of London, now have produced a book which states the case in favour of RPM, as set out by two distinguished English economists. It is a very interesting argument, and a distinct contribution to current world controversies but probably a little too academic for the average retailer, and for the great majority of politicians to whom the retailers carry their woes. —RWR.

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West From Ohan ANYTHING can happen—and often does, according to Caught, by Philip Gaskell —in the wide moors and hidden glens and lochs of Westerr, Scotland.

Western Scotland is about the nearest approach in the British Isles to wide open spaces, and in this case it provides an excellent background to an exciting story of international intrigue and dark doings—all suitable for early Teen reading.

Peter’s adventures began the day he arrived in Oban, Argyllshire, at the commencement of his Summer walking holiday, and saw the school science master abducted in front of his eyes.

From there on the trail led to a lonely cottage on Mull and a fight for his own survival. (caught! Published by Rupert Hart- Davis. Australian price, i5/6o nn 1 O ± • r? 1 lirCC StOVICS FrOfU * 0 , A Specialist T IKE some of the best of World’s ±J Work’s books for children, The Rachel Field Story Book can be said to have been translated into English, too—in so far as good American s’s have been converted into British £sd.

Although this gesture towards better international understanding is probably unnecessary for modern children who start viewing American films at an early age, the Story Book itself contains three stories (illustrated by Adrienne Adams), that are completely captivating.

In her own country Rachel Field 91 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1961

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If/OOIM YOl/IUOVC GOIPW lager afXPOBTSPEOAi mtrfo* fffiAYS a n</yoo7/*oft& tie J/Yfereflce arteret certainly saw it in 1766 ad named it New Alderney or .

Following the shipwreck of La erouse in 1788 it was subsequently on by Captain Edwards in August, 91, when he named it Pitt’s land; by Captain Bond in 1792; i D’Entrecasteaux in 1793; by aptain Hogan in 1796; possibly \ Captain Simpson in 1801; by ’Urville in 1823 when sailing with aptain Duperrey in the Coquille, id by Dillon in 1826.

On none of these occasions was landing made, and it is possible at other vessels may similarly ive sighted the island, particularly lalers, which were considerably ore active in Solomons waters the early years of the nineteenth century than is generally supposed, If the whaler referred to by Manby did visit Vanikoro, then, that it was the first vessel to visit Vanikoro after La Perouse, is probably indicated by the apparent absence of any other reports, Even allowing for the notorious failure of whaling skippers to provide reports of their activities and discoveries (other than some from New England who briefly published the results of their voyages in the Boston press), it is unlikely that any European would have landed at Vanikoro without noticing some trace of La Perouse, traces which were immediately apparent to Dillon and Manby’s whaler, In view of the considerable interest in the fate of La Perouse, i > regarded as a specialist in the ivenile book field, although in ►ritish countries she is probably etter known as the author of the dult novel, All This and Heaven do.

The three stories in Story Book originally appeared about 30 years Rgo as separate stories. The present edition, with its amusing illustrations, was published in the US in 1958 and in the UK in 1960.

Although written over a generation ago, the stories are quite undated and will have universal appeal amongst the six-to-nineyear-old brigade.

(The Rachel Field Story Book

Published 'by World’s Work Ltd. Australian price, 15/6.) Making Sweef Music Together If you have budding musicians in * the family—in the under-10 age group—“A Song Is Born”, by Beatrice and Ferrin Fraser, will provide something for them to get their teeth into.

LIKE all the children’s books from World’s Work Ltd., it is beautifully produced and, in this case, instructive as well. It has the right approach to get a child interested in music—even if it extends no further than beating a drum or blowing a penny whistle or lifting up his own voice to sing.

To make music is a good thing.

As it explains in the book, it is impossible to be cross and cranky and to sing at the same time—a recipe for domestic peace and harmony which, we feel, some families of our acquaintance could well paste in their collective hats. Illustrations by Nora S. Unwin. (A SONG IS BORN. Published by World’s Works Ltd. Australian price, 15/6.)

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This sounds like alarming news for those Pacific Territories awaiting for an influx of tourists, for the idea behind this new American plan is for armchair tourists to see the Pacific, hear about it and read about it without leaving their chairs.

Each month these “tourists” receive 32 brilliant, full-colour pictures of the world’s most exciting places, plus a 7 inch, long-playing record on which a distinguished commentator such as Charles Boyer or Edward R. Murrow describes the places you visit. All this comes together with a large, hard bound, illustrated guide book.

“You are there” . . . thunders the advance publicity, “when you subscribe to the Panorama travel programme which enables your family to visit France, Mexico, etc. . .” 93 Mystery Of La Perouse's Missing Men (Continued from p. 79) CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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AUCKLAND it is even more unlikely that he would have failed to publicise his discovery.

As Mr. Langdon has pointed out, the position of relative insignificance into which Manby’s report has been pushed, is due primarily to D’Urville’s irritation and his attempt to discredit its authenticity.

Nevertheless, the record of Manby’s report does exist, and appears to be the only record of a probable landing prior to Dillon in 1827.

Such considerations do not, however, exclude the possibility of a previous landing; particularly by a whaler, of which no record exists, though they would seem to exclude its probability.

From 1944 he was sea transport officer in Holland, Belgium and Germany, ending active Naval service at Cuxhaven in January, 1946.

After this war service Frog returned to Malaya, but found still no peace. Back in Penang he reorganised the ferry service to the mainland, and as an auxiliary police officer he “jungle bashed” and saw action in various parts of Malaya, attached to the military forces for five exciting years. He was awarded the VRD, and the General Service Medal, Malaya, in 1949.

In 1951 he tried very hard to settle in Australia, but could find no suitable employment. He tried his hand at various shore occupations in turn, until in January, 1953, he was appointed manager of the Papua and New Guinea Shipping Service.

He had the difficult job of reorganising and then closing down this service the next year, and for the excellent job he made of it was awarded the MBE.

He was appointed harbour master at Port Moresby in 1955, and transferred soon afterwards to Madang, where he has been serving ever since, and again doing a very fine job. He is still a Lieutenant- Commander on the supplementary RNVR.

Since he has left Malaya he has written some amusing short stories of his adventures, some of which have been published in Blackwood’s and other magazines.

BRETT HILDER.

Java for minesweeping duties, but was caught and bombed whilst in the minefield off Batavia, and his ships, having only surface guns, were damaged.

He describes this as his most amusing and exciting action; he had no room to manoeuvre and gave the order to open fire, and when asked where, he said, “anywhere, just to make a lot of noise, and we won’t know theirs from ours”.

The result was that the attack was from a higher level, but he hates to think where his shells fell and whom he frightened most.

Frog was then caught in the Banka Strait (“Bomb Alley”), the graveyard of so many Allied and Australian ships, but eventually limped into Tjilatjap at four knots, with his remaining ships looking like pepper pots. It was here that his active seafaring days with the Royal Navy ended, as the Dutch sank two of his sweepers as block ships. The only one with any speed made a dash for Australia, but was never heard of again.

Tjilatjap was a trap left open by ihe Japanese: of about 28 ships vhich left, about five got through Dnce out of sight of land. Frog and lis crew got away on the last ship, :he Tuwali, and eventually arrived n Colombo after twice narrowly ;vading capture or sinking by Japanese naval patrols. They picked up ►urvivors from other sunken ships m this voyage.

From Colombo he went to South Africa, and as the Straits Settlements unit had been wiped out he oined the South African Air Force.

But at the last minute after ap- >ointment to the Johannesburg air tation the Navy indicated that they lad a prior claim on his services, tnd he was sent to Cape Town and >ut in the Sea Transport Service ittached to the Fleet Air Arm. 95 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961 HHder Profile (Continued from p. 80)

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Pacific Shippig Adn Cruising Yachts

wsseT' “Aolij*” Porcupine reef near Noumea, the BP to%eZ% tTTdetZf Z%V’ ShiPPinß laSt month would have iesn I ARCH was one of the worst months for Pacific shipping in years. Fortunately, no lives re lost.

Hie sinking of the Verao, on irch 18, 190 miles east of Bristle followed a dramatic wireless .1 for help. Several plates sprang heavy seas at 10 p.m. on the previ- -5 day. The ship listed badly and 1 a.m. Saturday, most of the w had abandoned the ship.

Vn Australian Neptune bomber ived overhead in time to see the rao plunge to the bottom. ?he 15 survivors, five Europeans i 10 Fijians, spent 16 exhausting irs in an open lifeboat, before tig rescued by the BHP ore ner Iron Flinders. The RAAF i guided the vessel to the spot I later the men were transferred the charter cruiser Olive R at mouth of Moreton Bay. ■he Verao, under the command Captain D. K. Matheson, had ti sailing from Bundaberg, Jensland, to New Zealand with a =° of molasses. She was owned Messrs. P. Dent and W. E. den, fter the crew had abandoned ship, Captain Matheson and his :ers remained on board for three rs pumping out molasses and ining the bilge pumps, y a strange co-incidence, Capi Matheson had another islands stered ship sink under him not r far from where the Verao went n. This was the Nukalau, South ific Shipping Co.’s Suva-registl, 407-ton, wooden motor vessel, fli sprang a leak and sank on e 13, 1954. On that occasion the CSR owned Fiona came to the rescue of the 13-man crew.

The Verao registered in Suva, was formerly Ransdorp. She was built in Holland in 1935, designed for the transport of bulk liquids. It was 166 ft long and had a capacity of 100,000 gallons stored in 12 tanks.

The ship was commandeered by the Nazis during World War n, and used for refuelling German submarines at sea.

According to J. P. Shortall, tankers with their watertight compartments are considered the safest type of ship on the sea, but Verao was a tanker with a difference.

Her molasses tanks were not part of the ship but were separate tanks set in the holds of a cargo vessel.

With these tanks full of molasses, the ship would sink if the remaining hold space were flooded. The only way to retain buoyancy would be to discharge molasses from the tanks, but getting rid of this thick, slow-flowing fluid would not be a quick job in an emergency.

Surveyed Recently Verao was one of three islands registered ships in the trans-Tasman trade. The others are South Pacific Shipping Co.’s Taranui (954 tons ) and Babinda (655 tons) in the timber and pole trade, manned mostly by Fijians.

Verao only 18 months ago underwent a special Lloyds survey and was classed as 100-AI for the run it was engaged on.

Our man in Noumea, interviewing Captain Emile Savoie (Societe Maritime Caledonienne) was told that the Maria del Mar was in a very bad way. Engine room and holds were flooded and there wasn’t much hope of saving the hull. The ship was wrecked on the night of March 19, during a moderate cyclonic depression which may have caught the ship unawares.

Maria del Mar, third ship to bear this name, was formerly the twinscrew Marua, purchased by Captain Savoie in NZ in 1959. She was a 230-ton, steel framed wooden vessel built during the war for American forces use.

The "Quebec"

No details of the cause of the grounding of the Quebec, a 3,000ton ore and coal carrier for the Nickel Co., have been released. But a crew member is reported as saying that a broken steam pipe put the steering gear motor out of action.

The Quebec went aground on Porcupine reef on the night of March 18, a few miles down from In The News This Month Aolele Awahnee Arthur Rogers Aafje Bergalia Catusha Cape Ortegal Craig J Charles H. Gilbert Damadora del Mar Flying Walrus Iron Flinders Jinuo Maru Karanai Koyo Maru Maria del Mar Monarch Moana Roa Mariner© Marie Celine Namoiata Nojima Maru Olive R Quebec Runic Retriever Sierra Sonoma Shokalsky Sepik Solace Stardrift Tenyo Maru No. 3 Teiko Te Matangi Tiburon Tzu Hang Verao Ventura Voeykov Woona Wmllambi Wanderer Yankee Above, Captain D. K. Matheson, master of the "Verao", which sank east of Brisbane in March.

At left, the "Maria del Mar", wrecked near Santo in March. And that wasn't all!

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KB2 ADVT Noumea and only a mile or two off the coast in a lagoon. The vessel was empty and heading for the port of Thio to load nickel ore Bad visibility may have contributed to the accident.

The Quebec was refloated on March 21. with the help of a sistsr ship, Caronte, which off-loaded an amount of nickel ore into the after hold of the Quebec, which thus lifted the bow considerably. The Quebec was drawn off the reef and towed to Noumea for temporary repairs and then headed for Sydney for drydocking. • STUCK FAST: The Burns vessel Aolele was reported as ituck hard and fast on a reef in harbour, Western Samoa, on blarch 26.

She is aground in almost the ame place as the Union Company’s teamer Waitomo was stranded last r ear.

Heavy seas were pounding the lort side as efforts were made to ree the Aolele from the reef. • RUNIC FOR SALE: Grounded •haw Savill freighter Runic which ias been declared a total loss on Ilddleton Reef, 120 miles north of •ord Howe Island, is up for sale.

The ship went aground on Febjary 19, and had defied all efforts ) move her. Holds and engine room re full of water. Valuable radar luipment, compasses and chronmeters will be recovered from the lip.

Runic was launched in 1950 for le UK-Anstralian-NZ run and relacement of the 13,587-ton vessel is rpected to cost over £3,000,000.

The boom defence vessel Karangl, hich was chartered from the AN to shift the Runic returned to fdney with boiler trouble. The /dney tug, Woona, and the Brisme tug, Wooree, which early went the stricken ship’s aid, have rerned to Australia. • THE MOTHBALL LINE: nerican President Lines have rently purchased a P-2 type vessel 946 vintage) for use on the San ancisco-Orient passenger trade. present in mothballs, the ship 11 be converted to a modern ssenger liner. The Line paid 200,000 for the vessel.

Fhe P-2 class of ship is about 00 tons gross and 11,800 tons deadight with a pair of steam turles driving a single shaft. They J substantially smaller than the itson Line Pacific liners, Marita and Monterey. * FOR SALE: The Damadora del ' r (former Australian coaster mar a) purchased by Captain /oie in 1956, is reported to be up sale. She is a 751-ton steel, gle-screw vesel built in Glasgow 1937. • SHIPS CHANGE, NAM F ch 7' A ivt ’ h the three vessels of the Matson-Oceanic Company which have created the trans-Pacific cargo service in post-war years are now being replaced, their names will remain on the run. vo" 1 ? 10 - lar Ks r c “ 3-t yP e ships now replacing them are taking over the will thus become the third vessels of the company to bear these names.

The original Sierra, Sonoma, and Ventura were twin-screw coal burning steamers built in 1900 so are most unlikely to still remain afloat under other names.

Sierra was at one stage named Gdansk. They were units of the Oceanic Company fleet which merged with Matson Line, and were sold in 1934.

The names were not taken up again until 1947 when the wartime-built C-2-type ships Stokes, White Squall, and Todd, were acquired and renamed Sierra, Sonoma, and Ventura respectively.

The C-3-type ships now replacing these three are actually about the same age as the C-2’s, but they are larger and faster.

The latest Sierra— first of the three to appear south of the Line— was built as Sea Centaur, in 1945, and became Hawaiian Banker when purchased by Matson two years later.

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All were built in 1944-45 and were part of a fleet of 18 similar ships on the Hawaii-US West Coast Matson service.

They have a dead-weight capacity of approximately 12,500 tons as compared with the C-2’s 10,600 tons.

They are also fitted with large refrigerated containers which can be quickly discharged through sideports or hatches.

They have tanks for the carriage of molasses and are also equipped to carry raw sugar from Hawaii.

• Lamb Liner For Sale: The

Dne-time Australian coastal passenger vessel Woollambi the Sydney newspapers still list her as Delfino though she was renamed nonths ago—lying idle at an uplarbour Sydney mooring for a long :ime past, is now offered for sale it a figure of £350,000, according :o the listings of a leading Sydney ship-broking firm.

The owners, Asian & Pacific Shipping Company of Hongkong, are said to be withdrawing entirely Torn the livestock trade.

Formerly Westralia of the Suddart Parker Line, this ship was :he second of two large passenger vessels to make a rather brief ap- Jearance in an entirely new transpacific trade—the transport of livestock from New Zealand and Australia to the United States.

The Panama-flag Hongkong- )wned 6,923-ton Catusha —formerly ; he British ship Cavina, made a run Tom Tauranga, NZ, to San Diego n mid-1958 with 1,225 steers, of vhich 109 died during the 30-day voyage.

A coal-burner consuming 85 tons per day, this former banana carrier in the West Indies-UK trade was totally unsuited to the livestock trade and in fact went to the Hongkong shipbreakers after this single voyage. She was 35 years old.

Delfino , a motor vessel, now listed as of 6,388-tons gross—she was measured at 8,174-tons when in the passenger trade entered the Sydney-San Diego lamb trade in 1959.

She proved quite satisfactory after stock accommodation, ventilation and feeding problems had been solved following the first voyage.

In later voyages losses were insignificant—but other problems apparently killed the trade and her owners were reported to be in financial difficulties recently.

Reason for the recent name change is unknown, but it may have been at the request of the American stock man, James Delfino, who had organised the importation of the stock in the case of both vessels.

With the ship out of the stock trade the Delfino association ceased.

Now 32 years old, Woollambi cannot be very far from the breakers’ hands. • FOR LIGHTERAGE DUTIES: The 584-ton 35-year-old steel twin screw Australian coaster Bergalia was recently purchased by Societe du Chalandage of Noumea for use as a cargo lighter on the New Caledonia coast. (Over) The "Woollambi"—she was formerly the "Delfino" and people still stick to the old name [?]—is still in Sydney for sale for a reputed £350,000. See below. 101 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 19 6 1,

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The new owners handle most of the cargo lighterage work at the main ports of that French territory.

A collier operating on the New South Wales coast under the ownership of Coastal Coal and Shipping Co. of Sydney, Bergalia was a coalburning steamer.

• Mothership Plans For

1961: Japanese tuna mothership fleet operations in South Pacific waters in 1961 will be the same as last year. The Taiyo Company will send three expeditions, Nippon Suisan will send one, and the jointly owned company, Hokkaido Gryogyo Kosha will send one. As in recent years, Taiyo’s Tenyo Maru Wo. 3 with 45 longliners will leave Japan in early May and will return acme late August.

Nippon’s Nojima Maru with 45 ongliners will head south about nid-May and end her cruise early September.

Taiyo’s Koyo Maru with 55 longiners and Hokkaido’s Jinyo Maru vith 45 longliners will both arrive >n the scene early in September ind will operate until late Novem- )er.

Taiyo’s Tenyo Maru No. 3 will hen come south on her second :ruise—the same as last year—and dll operate until mid-March of 962.

In addition to the mothership leet harvest there is to be added he catch of the many independent ongliners operating from Japan and hat of the shore bases at Pago >ago and Pallikulo.

Mothership longliners must perate west of a line passing up he central Tasman Sea along 160 ] to 25 S, thence eastward to 170 E nd north to the Equator. The order line thus passes just east f the New Hebrides.

As usual, it is expected that the lothership fleets will commence perations just west of the Gilbert nd Ellice Islands and, as the outhern winter progresses, gradully move south, west of Fiji, to a outhern limit of about 30 S —with le longliners ranging as far south s the latitude of northern New ealand.

There will be the usual motherlip visits to Suva for bunkering, atering, and transfer of fish to jfrigerated vessels for transport ) the United States, Hawaii, and apan. • PLEASING PURCHASE: Mr.

Bambridge’s Namoiata the >rmer New Zealand coaster Foxton, -has been very busy since she itered the French Polynesia interland trade late last June.

In the 153 succeeding days the >9-ton twin screw wooden vessel ad spent 126 days at sea and aly 27 in port. She had cruised >,969 miles, calling at 135 islands ;tween which she had moved 354 issengers and 1,280-tons of copra.

The main engines had been operating for 2,107 hours.

The owners have lately been investigating the purchase of another vessel to share the load. • SECOND RUSSIAN VISIT: Said to be a weather research ship, and of the same type as Shokalsky which called late in December, the Russian naval auxiliary Voeykov made a brief call at Suva for bunkers and supplies in February.

She reported her last port as Vladivostok.

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She got off again, but the damage was sufficient to prevent her loading and to send her off to Honolulu for dry docking and repairs, and to cause the termination of the charter. • HURRICANE DELAYS: During the March hurricane weather around Tonga and Western Samoa the Japanese cargo vessel Daisen had to shelter when approaching Apia. The vessel carried a large cargo of Japanese cement for Western Samoa and arrived with it a week late.

The cargo vessel Trevaylor from London direct to Apia with general cargo, had to cancel her call at Apia during this same bad spell of weather and discharged her cargo at Suva, where it was trans-shipped by another vessel to Apia. • LONG WAIT: “If anyone is thinking of paying a visit to the Cook Islands they had better make sure they have a return passage”, said a NZ Department of Island Territories official recently. “There is a waiting list of several hundred people there trying to get to NZ”.

To make things worse, the Moana Roa missed a round trip to the islands in February. The ship had some hatch cover modifications made in NZ at the end of February.

Its previous covers were too slow and had to be made to operate faster so as to protect fruit from sudden rain in the islands.

• Trans-Tasman Cable: The

laying and maintenance of the trans-Tasman cable, which will be part of the trans-Pacific cable will be done by two cable ships, the Monarch and Retriever.

Monarch is the largest of its kind in the world and was used to lay the trans-Atlantic cable.

She is scheduled to leave Sydney in May, 1962, with a full load of cable on board. She will steam non-stop across the Tasman to Auckland, paying out cable all the way. Laying a cable in a single operation is a terrific job.

In the old days cables had to be laid piecemeal. The cable ships laid all the cable they had on board and then returned to port to get more and start again. The sec- Did It Drift or Was It Pushed?

After a gay week-end in Suva, what could be nicer than to glide gracefully home to one’s village by punt?

But whose punt?

It’s still only a theory, but Suva authorities are getting more and more intrigued by the monotonous regularity with which small boats, said to have been found adrift, are being brought into the Harbourmaster’s office on a Monday morning with a claim for a reward.

Owners who have to fork out a reward (10!- if the boat is found inside the harbour, and £1 if found outside), often complain that their craft were securely moored with sturdy ropes, or well-beached, and they cannot fathom how they could drift away, unless given a little help.

It has been suggested that some of the “finders” might have been stuck for a ride home from Suva and “borrowed” a boat, bringing it back on the Monday and claiming the reward.

Although, as assistant harbourmaster Captain P. G.

Hough, commented, many boats are poorly moored by their owners “with something like a bit of string” and that it is no wonder they work free, the regular Monday morning return is puzzling.

Authorities have warned that anyone found “borrowing” a boat is liable to a penalty, and the police are studying the situation but the Monday boats are still turning up. 105 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1961

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tions of the cable were joined at sea.

But a cable of such expense and importance cannot be laid without provision for its maintenance, especially now that traffic has increased so much. As part of the project a new cable repair ship, the Retriever, was launched from the yards of Cammel Laird and Company at Birkenhead, England, last December.

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things they do during fishing research have often been reported m PIM, for fishing is a real science in the South Pacific these days.

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Gilbert from Honolulu down through Christmas Island to Tahiti and the Marquesas, is another example of the things the backroom fishing boys studies of tuna schools: Seven skipjack schools and two mixed schools of yellowfin and skipjack were fished for experimental purposes. Motion pictures of the tuna were obtained from a stern underwater observation chamber during fishing. Tape recordings of sounds received by an underwater hydrophone positioned in the nsning area were obtained at five hsning stations. Biological sounds (porpoise noise and squid noise) were transmitted via this hydrophone from one fishing station.

That exclamation mark is ours. • FACTS YOU DIDN’T KNOW; Tanker fleets now comprise more than 30 per cent, of the worlds merchant shipping, and the fleets are growing in number and individual size. Oil is now the largest single commodity in volume carried oetween countries, and each day more than 17 million tons of crude ail and petroleum are at sea. Three Thousand tankers carry these :argoes, and their average size is 18,000 tons dead weight, but nearly 200 of them are 40,000 tons or more.

The two largest, one of 104,520 tons and the other of 106,400 tons, :ame from Japanese shipyards in :he last two years. Two more of :hese giants, each of 106,500 tons, ire being built in the United States Still larger tankers will be proluced in the next two years. Two L30,000-ton vessels have been ordered n Japan. They will be more than 950 ft long, 141 ft wide, and 73 ft deep, and each will be capable of carrying two million tons of crude oil a year.

About 400 new tankers are either under construction or on order, and in terms of carrying capacity the new tonnage will be about 50 per cent, more efficient ton for ton than those built before the war.

Tankers now travel much faster than their pre-war predecessors and save time in port with better pumping facilities. Japanese designers expect that the running costs of their 130,000-ton tankers will be 30 per cent, lower than the operating costs of even the post-war 45,000-ton tankers. ,„ A _ • ANOTHER MISHAP: A 7,000ton British freighter, Inchstaffa, was towed into Rabaul, New Guinea, on March 30 after suffering a major engine breakdown north of Townsville.

The freighter was towed by the Ardee, a 6,000-ton vessel on the Hongkong register which trades between Japan and Australia.

Ardee answered Inchstaffa’s distress call and began the arduous five days tow of the disabled vessel, Latest advice was that Ardee was standing by to see if Inchstaffa’s engine could be repaired in Rabaul, but if facilities there proved insufflcient, the tow will resume to another port—possibly even as far as Hongkong. • VISITED BY THE STORK: The New Guinea coastal vessel Sepik in March was the scene of the birth of triplets. The vessel was travelling between New Ireland and Rabaul, when the first two babies were born to a native woman on an old copra sack on the deck—with two Chinese, Kam Yin Lee and John Wong, acting as midwives. The Sepik called at the Duke of Yorks, where it picked up Sister J. Barrett, who delivered the third baby aboard while the Sepik continued to Rabaul. Triplets are rare among New Guinea natives. (Later; One of the babies died in a Rabaul hospital on March 22). \r i j JNCWS 01 inilSlllg YdChtS o • CRAIG J, 20 ft ketch of Los Angeles, with Dayton J. La Londe i o ne handing, was wrecked on Cape Karikari in the extreme northeast 0 f New Zealand on the night of March 2-3.

La Londe got ashore but the yacht, one of the smallest to cross the Pacific in recent years, is a total loss.

The yacht was built in California in 1942 and the present voyage commenced on June 4, 1959.

Craig J, which was not fitted with any motor, was the cause of inquiries when sighted on March 28-29, 1960, during the course of the air search for the missing Tongan tuna longliner Teiko. The yacht, which had cleared Apia on March 20, was in the general area where any survivors from Teiko might well have been.

Later Craig J was the cause of a warning to yachtsmen in general by the Fiji authorities as the result of an unauthorised call Displaying commendable confidence, Mr. Dick Meredith, well known Apia businessman and fishing enthusiast, recently accomplished the first voyage ever from Apia to Pago Pago by a small boat with an outboard motor. It's an 84 mile sea voyage between the two points, but the 40 mile stretch separating the islands of Upolu and Tutuila is regarded as treacherous.

Mr. Meredith used this 18 ft Seafair Phaeton, and twin 40 hp Johnsons. Mr. Meredith (on the right) was accompanied by (from left) A, Stanley, J. Hunter and T. Yandall, all of Apia. Fishing and boating with outboard glass boats is becoming popular in Western Samoa.

Photo: Samoana 107 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Second term of 1961 commences on May 16 Prospectus from the Principal, G. E. Thomson, 8.C0m., or Secretary, City Mutual Bigs., 90 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland. at Matuku which is not a port of entry in that Group. This little yacht reached Sydney, May 27. 1960.

Bound for Auckland at the time of the disaster, La Londe had estimated that he would not approach any land before 9 a.m. when he turned in for a sleep soon after midnight, leaving the yacht to sail herself—the usual custom.

The yacht struck the rugged coastline at 5.30 a.m. La Londe got ashore in a pair of shorts and walked 15 miles to the nearest road, where a motorist took him to the town of Kaitaia.

During the course of the cruise Craig J had been dismasted four times, and was aground near Noumea after sailing for Sydney last year.

So ends another lone-handed cruise. • SOLACES voyage round the worid mdudmg the 11-months’ rebuilding operation at Palmerston Island following stranding there in November, 1954, has been told by owner Commander Victor Clark DSC, RN (Rtd) in the book On the Wind of a Dream, which should be on sale in the UK by the time this appears. Hutchinson is the publisher • STARDRIFT, no details available, is outward bound for the Pacific from Dover with dentist exjournalist Bill Howell, who formerly cruised to the Pacific in Wanderer II in 1951-52. Covering that cruise Howell wrote White Cliffs to Coral Reefs. • YANKEE (Mk. Ill) and the Irving Johnsons have been having a wonderful cruise through the waterways of Europe and will be off again for more when this appears The big shallow-draught yacht' specially designed for this type of cruising as well as for ocean work was lying at Ischia, in the Gulf of Uruguayans Still Going Strong “Alferez Campora”, the big Uruguayan yacht which left Montevideo in January last year on a world cruise, and which has been seen recently in Papeete and Suva, was in Vila, Honiara and Lae, in February- March.

In Honiara a crew member, Lt.

Jose Firpo, gave a broadcast about the cruise and later they went crocodile hunting.

The “Alferez Campora” is commanded by Lt. Jorge Nader, and the other member of the three-man crew is Lt. Carlos Costa.

The purpose of the cruise is to test marine equipment under tropical conditions, and to promote friendly relations with foreign countries. All three crew members are Uruguayan naval officers.

Four men were to have made a I trip under Alferez (Lt.) Adolfo Campora, but he died following an appendix operation before the expedition set out, so the yacht was renamed in his memory.

Lt. Firpo said in his Honiara broadcast that the new crew had met with a warm welcome and been given every assistance.

He said the tiny storeroom of the yacht was crammed with souvenirs, including drums from Tahiti, tapa from Fiji and a poison tip spear from the Amazon. (But it has no crocodile skin as a souvenir from the Solomons!) Heading For A New Life!

"Maui Pomare"—she'll probably be renamed "Mayflower" when this appears—looking spick and span in the colours of her new owners, Australia-Pacific Shipping Co. (HK) Ltd., prior to departure from Auckland in April.

The grey hull is now white, the buff masts and upperworks are yellow ochre, the waterline scarlet. The white-centred blue square on her funnel bears the initials of her owners, APS.

The 34-year-old fruit ship was to tow the 37-year-old, 465-ton New Zealand coaster "Herekino" to Hongkong direct; a job that would take not less than a month—and perhaps a lot longer. Photo: J. P. Shortall 109 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

\ K L 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 MDZS/2FC / P Naples, in January and the Johnson were back home in the US on lecture tour. • TZU HANG and Miles an Beryl Smeeton of England, at Ibiz in the Balearic Islands through th northern winter months, were to fc on the move again in March, firs for the Greek Islands and the through Suez to the Indian Oceai Miles has just completed his thir book which will soon be in th hands of the publishers. • TE MATANGI and the Fergu sons of Nevada, based on Aucklan for many months past—thoug Jacques and Lonny returned to th US leaving Jack in charge for th time being—should be on the mov again by May, heading back fc Tahiti, then perhaps westwar through other Island groups an back to Auckland by next summer • TI HURON, of Santa Barbari and owner Ed. Vessey, were sti in Auckland in March. • MARINERO, 38-ft ketch o; Coronado, Cal., with Floyd an Doris Christenson, were in Papeet in January. Plans unknown. • AWAHNEE is in Sydney afte sailing 20,000 miles through th Pacific from San F rancisco wit Dr. Robert L. Griffiths, a vet er inary surgeon, and his 11 year-old daughter, Melouise. Navi gator was Mrs. Lindsay Higgin assisted by Maynard Cohick, 22, linotype operator, who joined th crew in Hawaii, and Lyle Hine a motor racing engineer, from Cali fornia.

Awahnee competed in the Trans The Hepworths' "Arthur Rogers". 110 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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After the war he and his wife iecided to buy the Arthur Rogers, it that time the Falmouth pilot poat. They sailed in easy stages Tom England to New Zealand via Panama and Tahiti with various :rews including a crew of five girls.

N. Y. B. Crealock, who accompanied hem for part of the trip, wrote a >ook about the voyage entitled, Towards Tahiti”.

Mrs. Diana Hepworth, former ashion model in London, a keen linghy sailor and expert carpenter described by her husband as a sea ook with long hair) enjoys life on hgeon Island in spite of its isolation, nd the fact that the nearest tiedical dresser is three miles away y canoe. So too does their twoear-old daughter Natasha, who ravelled with them on the ketch ntil she was 12 months old. • MARIE CELINE, of Nanacket, schooner, arrived Honolulu ebruary 22, according to the dpper, 13 days out of Tai-o-hae, larquesas. • AAFJE, 60-ft schooner, left for an Francisco from Kauai, Hawaii, i early March. • FLYING WALRUS, 37-ft ketch of Vancouver, BC, which arrived Papeete in early February from the South, was sold by John and Diane Wells to Warren and Molly Roll, of Honolulu. Boat will remain there for the present. • ON THE WAY: A young Englishman, Godfrey Decker, is reported to have sailed from Hobart on March 30, for NZ, in a 20-ft yawl (not named). This is the second leg of his voyage, which originated in Adelaide, SA.

Apanui", the 296-ton German-built New Zealand coaster which Captain Hugh Williams of Rarotonga, purchased from the Northern Steanships Company for April delivery. Coptain Williams "Dobiri" and the new purchase were expected to sail in company from Auckland for Rarotonga about mid-April. "Apanui" will be the first vessel in class with Lloyds to enter the Cooks inter-island trade following the promise of a Government subsidy for classed ships as a move to improve safety standards.

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'Won't Carry Ouf Fiji Burns Report Latest news suggested that very few of the more important recommendations of the 1960 Burns Report on Fiji could be carried out, Dr. R. F. Waters, lecturer in geography at Victoria University, told the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Geographical Society in March.

If this were so, things would grow worse than they were already, he said.

One of the worst features was the racial tension between the Indians md native Fijians.

This was not visible immediately ;o the tourist at Suva, but there was i cold hatred between the two races md often a hot hatred.

The Indians regarded their culture as superior to that of the rijians, and looked down on them, vhile the Fijians resented the jresence of the Indians and were rery jealous of the “paramount josition” in the islands which had >een guaranteed them in the Deed •f Cession and subsequent legislaion.

The Indians clung to a declaraion in Queen Victoria’s time that heir rights were to be in no way nferior to those of other races. >aol for Subversion n Dutch New Guinea A 38-year-old Indonesian was entenced to four years gaol in the follandia District Court in March 3r having founded a secret subersive pro-Indonesian organisation.

The court was told that Willem ohannes Pakashy came to West few Guinea in 1949, and in 1958 mnded an organisation called Fentara Tjendrawasi Tenjagan”

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To attract natives to the organation he sold amulets which made le buyer “invulnerable”.

Pakashy denied pro-Indonesian itentions and said he wanted to ither information about the organation for the Dutch authorities.

Two crown witnesses, co-members of the organisation, Frits Werluken and Rafael Maselkosu, some months ago were gaoled for five years.

The prosecutor, Mr. Frans Jansen, told the court that secret pro-Indonesian organisations which had been started in 1958 had now been broken up.

They Can't Beat That There Drum!

Rarotonga, it now turns out, doesn’t altogether condone the timehonoured practice of its theatre owners in throwing advertising leaflets from moving trucks, and of banging drums to attract attention.

It made up its mind about this in February at a meeting of the Rarotonga Island Council.

The subject had been raised at earlier meetings when some council members had said they thought picture drumming was dangerous and should be stopped. The council was told that the Medical Department had complained that the throwing of leaflets from moving trucks exposed children to injury when they ran on the road after them.

The council formed a select committee empowered to discuss the matter with authorities and possibly draft a by-law to stop the practice.

The February council meeting heard the select committee’s report.

The report recommended that no by-law be introduced at present to stop the throwing of advertising matter or the banging of drums.

However, the Resident Commissioner should “officially request” proprietors to stop the practice.

If this didn’t produce results, it was pointed out that offenders could be prosecuted under present regulations. But only as a last resort should a special by-law be introduced, said the select committee.

The council adopted the committee’s report.

Bird-bander Strikes One From the Deep South One of the more rewarding of hobbies—it could be so on many Pacific Islands—is bird-banding, at- There seems to be no question where their loyalty lies, says Noumea correspondent Fred Dunn, who took this photograph of New Caledonian Vietnamese recently celebrating the Chinese New Year. In this picture are the Chinese Red Star, and, on the altar, a picture of North Vietnam's leader Ho Chi Mien. New Caledonia has recently repatriated several shiploads of Vietnamese to Communist Vietnam, and in April a shipload is expected to depart from the New Hebrides. (See elsewhere).

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tachmg a tiny aluminium band with a registered identifying number to the legs of migrattpry birds in the hope that some time, somewhere, someone will recover the band and return it from some distant country.

That bird-banding produces far more results than, for instance, the launching of ocean drift-bottles, is made clear in a report in March from Dr. Stuart Houston, MD of Saskatoon, Canada. It was Dr Houston who banded the common tern recently found dead at Aitutaki Island (as reported in PIM, Mar p. 121).

Over a period of years Dr.

Houston has, as a hobby of scientific interest, banded some 19,700 birds of 143 species and no less than 800odd of those bands have been returned to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, But of the 350 common terns banded this was only the second from which a band has come back, and—more interesting still—this was the first band from the southern hemisphere. The other tern was caught in Mexico.

Most of Dr. Houston’s birds have not got further than the North American continent or the Carribbean islands.

Many bands have come back from pintail ducks and little juncos caught in Alaska, or from teal and coots captured in Cuba, Jamaica Cayman Island, and Puerto Rico!

Two teal got as far south as Colombia but did not cross the equator.

Many birds from Alaska and Siberia pass down through the Islands to as far south as New Zealand each year.

Some of these tire on the journey and remain in the Islands instead of moving further south, or north.

Surveyors' lot An Unhappy One It’s hard work surveying Norfolk Island, according to government surveyors who are now involved in that task. They say that 70 per cent, of Norfolk is now covered with lantana and other scrub, which makes survey work “slow and arduous”.

The survey going on is to provide a basis for the introduction of the easier Torrens system of land titles in the territory. Norfolk at present operates on the old system of titles, which means deeds have to be checked for at least 40 years back before legal title can be established.

The BSIP Now Has a Union The BSIP Government has given its blessing to the formation of a Solomon Islands Workers’ Union which will organise port and plantation workers in the Protectorate.

The movement started off in Malaita, and rules were drawn up with the help of the BSIP Commissioner of Labour, Mr. A. Pickwoad. But it was agreed by the interested parties that it should be extended.

The union will interest itself in wages and work conditions, and it should be operating in April. 115

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Tomarchin, it appears, sold Moko to the zoo there, in December, 1959.

Two months later, when he found he could not bear to be parted from the ape, he kidnapped it, left 1,000 dollars in its cage, and an lOU for 2,000 dollars. He took the animal to Miami.

A St. Louis jury in March found him guilty of breaking into the zoo and stealing Moko. The judge refused to put Tomarchin on probation (he had refused on oifer of probation before the trial on condition that he would return the animal to the zoo), but Tomarchin was freed on bail, pending an appeal.

When Tomarchin became a seven days’ Pacific wonder in 1957 he claimed that the chimpanzee, who was his constant companion, was able to talk and he used the animal in some sort of vaudeville act.

The world first heard about him through a report on September 7, 1957, from the liner Corinthic, which in the course of a Pacific voyage reported that it had sighted a man wandering about on Henderson Island, a usually uninhabited SP tSS> ( !i«J?Jf c ls near l . P if cairn Island - ™, orld Pr |ss had never heard ol Henderson Island but immedi- .VL was full cry after this mysterious castaway, and all sorts of extraordinary theories were advanced. it tooK some time for the real story to emerge but apparently Tomarchin had been staying for some time in Tahiti and then about July of that year, had hitched a ride south with a young couple on the cruising yacht Flying Walrus.

When j* lo yacht was in the vicinity Henderson,Tom archin had asked that he and the chimpanzee be put ashore. With him was landed all sorts of gear and it was suggested later by another yachtsman that Tomarchln had heard that there was a buried treasure on Henderson, and he apparently had ideas about searching for it.

When the authorities heard of his unauthorised landing on this island —which is in the jurisdiction of Fiji —there was a certain amount of annoyance. The day is long past when anyone may land indiscriminately on any island, and there are strict rules about the quarantine of animals.

Tomarchin and his ape were picked up by the American freighter Pioneer Isle at the request of the authorities but although the captain offered the man a passage to Robert Tomarchin, in the Pacific, with a friend. 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MO NT HH.-APRU, 1961

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Finally Tomarchin was persuader to leave Pitcairn Island on the Rangitiki, to—as he put it—“avoir embarrassment between Pitcairr Island and Fiji”. Moko stayed behind on Pitcairn until Tomarchir made the necessary arrangements to land the animal in the Uniter States.

That was the last we heard oi Mr. Tomarchin or Mr. Moko bul apparently they were reunited successfully at some subsequent date. 250 Years for The Government In mid-March the Australian* Government announced that Loyal Service Awards had been made to eight natives of Papua-New Guinea whc between them had given 250 years of service to the P-NG Administration.

Three of the natives are from Papua, three from the New Guinea Mainland and one each from New Britain and Bougainville. They include a trawler master, two medical orderlies, a mechanical assistant, a storeman and two native local government councillors. Their lengths of service range between 26 and 41 years.

Results of Samoan Elections in Dispute After the results of the Western Samoa Legislative Assembly elections, held on February 4, 1961, had been announced, four petitions were submitted to the Apia High Court, asking for an investigation of the elections in three Samoan electorates and of the election of European candidates. It was alleged that certain irregularities had occurred in these electorates which materially affected the outcome of the elections.

The petition of Mr. William F.

Betham, an unsuccessful European candidate, asking for the European elections to be declared void, was dismissed by Chief Judge C. C.

Marsack. The judge found that the complaint that 55 electors had been added by the registrar of voters after the closing of the main electoral roll, did not constitute an irregularity, and would not have affected materially the outcome of the European elections. The petition was therefore dismissed.

A petition by the former Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Tualaulelei Mauri, alleging that voters had been threatened and intimidated in the Palauli West District, where he was defeated by Mr. Afoavale Misimoa (Mr. H. W. Moors) by 46 against 42 118 APRIL. 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A third petition concerning the election in the Faasaleleaga I district of Savaii, where Mr. Magele Ate, as the only candidate nominated, was declared elected, succeeded and the election was declared void.

In consequence, a by-election is to be held in this electorate on June 10, 1961.

A fourth petition against the election result in the district of Faleata West had not been heard up to late March.

Madang Natives Want To Be In It The three-towns basic wage agreement for unskilled native workers, which came into effect in Papua- New Guinea earlier this year, is now having repercussions further afield.

The basic wage was for £3 a week and applied to Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul only. Now Madang native workers want to get into the act.

A native organisation representing 450 workers announced in late March that it will negotiate with employers in Madang for the same wage—that is, a rise of about £2/10/- a week.

The chairman of the Native Employment Board, Mr. F. C. Caterson, said in Port Moresby on March 22 that Madang employers had agreed to discuss the natives’ claim.

The native organisation calls itself the Madang Workers’ Association and has an executive committee of 12, with Stahl Salum as its president. Salum was recently appointed to the Papua-New Guinea Copra Marketing Board as its first native member.

Madang natives at present come under the rural workers’ award which sets a minimum wage of 32/6 per month, plus food, housing, medical care, etc. The natives would, however, prefer to be included in the basic wage that was fixed for the three other big towns—£3 a week without rations or other benefits.

If no agreement can be reached between the Madang employers and the natives, the issue will go before the P-NG Employment Board for settlement.

Housing Loans for Reputable Rabaul Citizens The announcement in mid-March of housing loans to low-income ?roup residents of the Rabaul area of New Guinea, was the “first real ray of hope for the Euronesian community”, according to one of its leaders, Mr. Harry Lewerissa.

Most of the Euronesian residents Df Rabaul live in Malaytown, which las come in for a lot of adverse 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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The scheme, which is availabl to any reputable resident regardles of race, provides for a loan of u to £2,750 when the applicant caj provide £195. The loan may be usei either to build or to buy a hous; and repayments are spread over 2 years with interest at 5%.

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Judgment in Samoan Newspaper Suit Judgment was given in the Apr High Court on March 9 in the libe action brought by one of Wester] Samoa’s weekly newspapers agains the other.

Samoa Newspapers Ltd., pub lishers of Samoana had claime< £2,000 damages from the Samo; Printing and Publishing Compan; Ltd., publishers of Samoa Bulletin and Mr. R. F. Rankin, editor o Samoana had claimed a simila sum.

In his judgment, Chief Judg C. C. Marsack dismissed the sui brought by Samoa Newspapers Ltd. but found in favour of Mr. Rankir and assessed the damages recover able against defendant at £IOC together with disbursements am expenses.

The local newspaper war arose ou of letters signed by a corresponden who called himself “Citizen”, whicl were published in the Samoa Bui letin of December 23, 1960, and Jan uary 6, 1961.

The letters strongly criticised th< action of Mr. Rankin, editor of tin rival newspaper, alleging he had re fused to use the process-block mak ing machinery, owned by Samoana to make a block for an advertise] in the Samoa Bulletin.

In the course of the letters som< uncomplimentary personal thing! were said about Mr. Rankin and i was also alleged that Mr. Rankir and his company had not paid the correct customs duty on the blockmaking machinery when it hac been imported.

Chief Judge Marsack said, in hi! judgment, that he dismissed the suii brought by Samoa Newspaper!

Limited as the statements complained of did not refer to an incorporated company but only to Mr Rankin as an individual.

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Mr. Heller spent some time in ew Caledonia making a survey of >w-grade (2%) nickel deposits. He len returned to Canada where he ivestigated a new process for refining this type of ore. He subsequently announced that he and the mterests he represents will erect, at the West Coast port of Nepoui, a P^ capable of treating 5,000 tons of ore per day. However, there were some “buts” in it. He said that before going into the affair he would need certain guarantees from the New Caledonian Administration. Cost of erecting the treatment plant would be around $25,000,000, and it could be run either by conventional power or from an atomic pile. In addition, the passage through the reef off Nepoui would need to be enlarged to permit the entry of 7,000-ton g hips.

Mr. Heller said that his plans would give special consideration to the small miner who would be supplied with mechanical equipment and interest-free loans repayment for which would be made in ore.

Mr. Heller said that his group is willing to invest $5O million in New Caledonia.

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New Caledonian citizens who ai adopting a policy of wait-and-sei recall another North American min ing venture of some years ago, Thi company, called Calmet, als operated at Nepoui, where it set u a big treatment plant to recove chrome from the sands of the rive flats nearby.

A large amount of money wa spent in equipment, including dredge, but after producing abou 1,000 tons of 52% chrome, it wa found that the whole project wa uneconomic and the compan folded up. The concentration plan was bought by the Nickel Compam Cooks Want Their Own Museum, Library Rarotonga has formed a com mittee to organise the establishmen of a museum and library for th Cook Islands. It will be erected o: Rarotonga.

In early March a first donatio] of £22 was received for the museuri fund, the money collected by th Teacher Trainees’ Association.

Resident Commissioner A. O. Dar is one of the leading exponents o the need for a museum, and is giv ing the scheme every encourage ment.

Getting NG Down On Canvas A cartoonist of the London even ing newspaper, The Star, think: that he will live in a New Guinej native village for several month: later this year and draw native inhabitants for an exhibition in London.

He is Mr. Fred Joss and he ha; just made a flying visit to th< Territory en route to Hongkong. H( has not chosen the village in whicl he will live yet, but it could hi in the Highlands or in the Mr. A. O. Dare, who supports moves for a museum for the Cooks. See above. 122 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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New Caledonia Was Never Like This Letters are now reaching New Caledonia from Vietnamese repatriates who went back to North Vietnam in recent months. Reports of conditions there, according to the letters, are conflicting, the highest praise being that “life is hard”.

The writers obviously might have more to say about the conditions as they find them if it were not for the fact that the letters might be censored.

One letter of instructions from a head of one family to his married daughter still waiting repatriation in New Caledonia, tells her not in any circumstances to bring money with her, but to bring as much merchandise as possible.

This particular man left on the first repatriation voyage, and in order to go gave up a magnificent market garden which he had created out of the wilderness a few miles from Noumea. Before he left he sold it for the equivalent of £A7,500.

The Eastern Queen was due back in Noumea on April 3 to lift about SO Vietnamese who originally came from the New Hebrides. The vessel sailed later to Vila, New Hebrides, where about 450 Vietnamese will embark for Haiphong.

W. Samoa Faces Sloomy 1961 The economic position of Western Samoa during 1960, according to official figures, deteriorated considerably, and for the first time for pears the value of imports exceeded :he value of exports by about £40,000.

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At the beginning of 1961 it was •ealised that export values in 1961 vould be decreasing and that there vere no prospects of an appreciable mprovement in these values in .961. The edge of a hurricane, which vas felt in W. Samoa on March 12 lid very appreciable damage to the .961 prospects for the main comnodities, too, and the results will )e felt during the whole of the lurrent year. (Over)

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The new cocoa crop which was coming on well, has been practically wiped out by the strong winds and heavy rains, the flowers and young pods being blown off or turned black. There will be hardly any cocoa for export until the end of the current year.

The banana plantations suffered heavily and most of the plants were blown down. Banana exports to New Zealand will probably reach only two-thirds of last year’s exports of 400,000 cases.

As Tonga’s bananas have been more severely affected by hurricane damage, Fiji’s banana growers may benefit from the misfortune of Samoan and Tongan growers which is the reverse of the case of i few years back when Fiji banana production was so badly affected by lurricanes.

It has been suggested that, in )rder to cope with the dangerous ow level of Western Samoa’s overseas funds, the Government may )e forced to introduce import con- ;rol.

As the spending power of the Samoan people will be greatly imited in the foreseeable future, mporters will anyhow be compelled o reduce their imports.

The Samoan Government, and >articularly the new Minister of r inance, the Hon. G. F. D. Betham, faced with a particularly dificult task in preparing the 1961 Judget which is to be submitted to he Legislative Assembly budget ession commencing on April 11.

For years now, the Budget has beome more and more top heavy and nrealistic for a small country like Vestern Samoa with only 100,000 ihabitants.

The Public Service with a salary ill of about £8.750,000 is particularly nwieldly, and at present requires lore than half of the ordinary evenue of the Samoan Government.

When a similar, but much milder, Bcession was experienced in 1957, ie Government had to resort to ismissal of hundreds of school jachers and other public servants.

It is at present not known what ?medies the Government will sugsst to cope with the unfortunate nancial setback in 1961. It is also reatly regrettable that an economic Jcession should face W. Samoa at time when it is looking forward > Independence on January 1, 1962.

S Scholarship Men lake an Impression “The three young men with us at •esent are making a fine im- •ession both with faculty and wnsmen. They are laying the oundwork for ready acceptance of ture applicants.”

This was the tribute paid to Fiji’s ■st three scholarship winners to e East-West centre at the Unirsity of Hawaii, by the Acting

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Lautoka, second largest port in Fiji and gateway to Fiji’s No. 1 industry—the growing and processing of sugar-cane—came into its own on March 13, with the opening—by the Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks—of the new £11 million wharf.

Construction was commenced in 1959 after tenders had been invited from 16 international firms. Successful contractor was the Danish-Malaya consortium of Christiani-Nielsen and Gammon Ltd.

Government’s consulting engineers were Messrs. Wilton and Bell, of London.

The wharf takes its place in the history of dock design and construction in one special way. A new design of hollow prestressed pile was developed by Christiani-Nielsen in Copenhagen specifically for use at the Lautoka project. It has now been named the “Fiji pile” and is also being used in Malaya.

The Union Steam Ship Company’s vessel “Matua” was given the honour of being the first ship alongside the new wharf. The “Matua”, almost alone, maintained Fiji’s lifeline to New Zealand during the war years. She has been running to Fiji regularly for more than 25 years.

Photos, by Bob Wright , show a section of the spacious wharf sheds, and a line-up of local small craft which took advantage of the new wharf on the opening day. 125 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1961

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Dean of the International Colleg Mr. Leonard D. Tuthill, in a lett< to Fiji’s Director of Education, M J. G. Rodger, in March.

The three students, who left F; at the end of January, are Mar Tupou, formerly Fiji Visitoi Bureau representative at Nad James Surendra Jagi, student Lelean Memorial School, and Jam Anthony, secretary of the Whol sale and Retail General Worke] Union. (See PIM, Mar., p. 45).

Mr. Rodger had written inquirii how many more of East-West Cent scholarships would be available Fiji, as the scheme came in operation only last October.

In his reply, Mr. Tuthill said only four scholarships were ava: able to the Pacific territories (e: eluding US Trust territories) f 1960-61, and as Fiji had alrea( been awarded three of these, it d not seem likely that the Coloi would be granted the only one le: Next year, however, eight schola ships would be available to the territories, and it was more th; likely that Fiji would be success! in gaining its share of them.

Mr. Tuthill said in all, 250 schola ships would be awarded for 1961and by 1965, the total will ha reached 1,000.

In the hope that Fiji’s allocate will increase annually, Mr. Rodg said consideration was being giv to the selection procedure necessa to cope with the large number prospective students expected apply.

And although it is to be expect that the more populous Asii countries will gain the bulk of t! scholarships, a Suva corresponde says it is good that Fiji is keepu a weather eye on what’s offeru for its part of the world—and th its pioneer students are makii such a good impression.

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Bulk supplies will come fre Singapore by 18,000-ton tankers, t biggest ever to visit Honiara. Fi will be pumped ashore through submerged pipeline.

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While plans are being finalised • Shell’s enlarged installation, the 'Cuum Oil Co. Ltd. has almost npleted the erection of its first >tallation in the BSIP which >0 is like Shell’s in Honiara.

Jnder the supervision of Vacuum’s istruction engineer, Mr. C. V. >rris this installation is expected be completed by the end of April, months after coLtrnrti™ U £ four MiMorrri sa w tb» f h» T began. isfiPH he ™ as sat “ considering the s?te Tpotat C°raz was originally a swamp which had to be reclaimed before erection could be started.

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PlR's Big Part To Play Critics of Papua-New Guinea’s Pacific Island Regiment were probably interested in the mid- March announcement that Australia spent more on her Army units in P-NG than on any other units in the Commonwealth.

This information was given by Major-General R. E. Wade, GOC All This And NNG, Too!

The native people of Australian and Netherlands New Guinea would welcome federation of the two territories according to A. M. P. Reuben Taureka, recently nominated to the Legislative Council of Papua- New Guinea and already president of the P-NG’s Workers’

Association, the Territory’s first native trade union.

Taureka said that he was not just speaking for himself when he said this, but that it was “the general feeling of educated natives on both sides of the border”, that both New Guineas should become one.

Taureka had been asked to comment on a statement made by Dr. Joseph Luns, Netherlands Foreign Minister, after Luns’ recent meeting in Holland with the Australian Prime Minister.

Dr. Luns said then that a federated New Guinea was “certainly a possibility”.

Taureka said that the Workers’

Association had been in “constant contact” with various native organisations and political groups in West New Guinea, and that “generally, we think along the same lines.”

Most observers of the New Guinea scene would probaby agree that both Taureka and Dr. Luns are talking about 20 years prematurely. Taureka’s Workers’ Association represents a tiny minority of the Papua- New Guinea population, and there was far more commonsense and down-to-earth reality in the comment made by “a senior Administration spokesman”.

This unknown but practical gentleman said: “A federation is something that the natives themselves will have to decide when they attain independence. ■ . . Australia has a big enough burden developing Papua-New Guinea without tackling, on a joint basis with the Dutch, West New Guinea, too.” 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Trobriands Lose A Powerful Chief The death has occurred in t Trobriand Islands, east of Papi in March, of Mitakata, chief of t Tabalu clan of about 3,000 peopl He is survived by 13 wives, children and an estimated 40 grar children, plus 9,000 other Trobria Islanders who have all gone ii mourning for him.

The mourning period is expect to last some months as Mitaks was regarded almost as a god. : was about 75 years old and had important place in the Trobria scheme of things for the last years. He was one of the Grou most respected and powerful me: Bond For Young NB Native A 13-year-old New Britain nat: boy was given a 12 months’ go behaviour bond in the Supre] Court at Kandrian in late Man He was found guilty of killing ] five-year-old brother with a fi£ spear.

The Crown alleged that at t time of the brother’s death, be boys had been on their way to mission feast. While they wt crossing a river the younger brotl began to cry because he thought was being left behind. The elc struck him with a fish-spear quieten him, and when the youni boy attempted to swim away ] elder brother had reversed his spe and thrown it. The spear enter the young child’s groin and he di almost instantly.

In a second hearing, the bo step-father, Anuk, the village chi was acquitted on a charge of ha ing attempted to pervert the car of justice. The Crown alleged tt Anuk had tried to bribe witness of the boy’s death not to report t incident.

Chief Justice Mann, who v hearing the case, accepted the c fence’s plea that allegations were conspiracy by certain villagers have Anuk removed from power I cause he was reputed to be sorcerer.

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Just how serious is a so-call Mau Mau type cult in New Guin 128 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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vas the centre of a controversy in March —with the clergy on one side md Government officials on the >ther.

The clergy said it was serious md something should be done ibout it. The Administration said t wasn’t serious, and that they had tad their eye on it for some time, nyhow.

The cult is called Iniid.

A Roman Catholic missionary, 'ather J. Reischl, of Rabaul, a nest of many years experience in Few Guinea, reported the existence f the cult to the authorities in ebruary (PIM, Mar. 7).

According to Dr. John Gunther, .ssistant Administrator, the natives ivolved were “Teddy Boy” types, ho just needed a spanking.

The great mass of the native eople of New Britain resented ;hese fools”, he said.

“They also would bitterly resent ay suggestion that there is real Dposition to the Australian Admintration, or that white people need • have fears.”

Dr. Gunther was making an Bcial statement on reports of the leged secret native cult whose embers were sworn to kill all hite men.

The cult was reported to be builds' up among the Tolai people of ew Britain and spreading to the bw Guinea mainland.

Dr. Gunther said the Administra- Jn had known “for some time’ at a secret society—one that Junshed back in the German days had been revived.

He ridiculed the idea that any iti-European bias it might have is of significance. He said the relt of the March 18 elections— len only native candidates who mpaigned for closer native-Euroan co-operation succeeded—gave e lie to that. [ngiat was one of three native 2ret societies which flourished ring the German rule of New linea, Dr. Gunther said.

Ft was banned at the turn of the atury after a planter’s wife and r children were murdered in relation for desecration of an Ingiat nee ground.

“The Administration is closely watching its activities,” he said “Today there is no fear of Ingiat acting in any way to the detriment of the Australian or Tolai people.

“Any public statements to the contrary are gross exaggerations and looking for sensationalism.”

Dr. Gunther said that Administration officers in Rabaul were actively following all cult rumours.

“We can’t stop these people making fools of themselves until they are a danger to society,” he said.

“When they do this then the law steps in.”

However, two weeks after Dr.

Gunther’s statement at end of March, Fr. Reischl was still convinced that there was, as he put it, a “secret government of terror” amongst local Gazelle Peninsula natives.

He said that he believed the majority of natives, while not Iniid adherents, had been intimidated, through fear of sorcery, into aiding the cultists.

Cashier Faces NG Theft Charge Basil Seeto Sek Cheong, 32, in March was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Lae on a charge of stealing during the past two years £12,057/14/9 from his former employers, Burns Philp (N.G.) Ltd., at Lae, for whom he worked as a cashier. Seeto is married with two children.

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In a letter to a Noumea newspaper, Mr. Emile Castex stated that a few years ago commercial fishernen could be certain of filling their vessels locally with enough fish to satisfy Noumea’s demand. Now they ire forced to go a lot farther afield ll u^i.i even en they are not sure yhether they will catch sufficient ish for the demand.

Mr. Castex and a number of other :ommercial fishermen have made a lose study of the situation in the ast three years and their opinion s that around the fishing grounds hat are frequented by spearishermen, the fish have virtually lisappeared.

Underwater sport of this type fas, of course, virtually invented y the French but even the spear- Lshermen themselves are being fleeted by the scarcity of fish round Noumea these days. People mo take part in the numerous pear-fishing competitions now have \ go much further afield themslves to capture anything worthinle.

Other amateur fishermen who ever did anything more adventures than dangle a line at various x>ts around Noumea harbour also iport now that they have to sit •nger for fewer fish.

Mr. Castex is particularly critical : the so-called spear-fishing chamtonships which caused huge nounts of fish to be caught and len thrown back into the sea once le spear-fishermen had posed for lotographs in front of the catch.

G Patrol Hazards— annibalism and Japs A patrol of 54 days has recently sen completed in the country south 5St of Lake Kutubu, in Papua. It as carried out by Native Affairs srsonnel under the leadership of itrol Officer F. J. Howard.

The first patrol through this soiled Bosavi area was made by the lamson-Champion patrol, in 1936, id Lake Kutubu station was opened 1937.

There have been other subsequent xrols and Mr. Howard was able report at the end of the most sent one that although tribal sputes still occur and there e some cases of cannibalism, Admistration influence is growing.

With one exception the patrol is well received in all hamlets d on several occasions the people Id dances to welcome the party, hers had built new rest houses and police quarters before the patrols arrival, and an abundance of native food was offered for sale to the party.

The one attempt made to influence the patrol to leave a hamlet occurred at Ferisa. After camp had been made a villager arrived on the run and announced that Japanese troops had stayed the night at a nearby village and might visit the Ferisa hamlet soon. Mr. Howard comments that this report was probably invented in the expectation that on its announcement the patrol would immediately move on.

The informant was advised that the patrol knew there were no Japanese troops in the Territory, and the people then made no further effort to induce the patrol to break camp. Mr. Howard said that as no Japanese were ever anywhere near the area during the war, reports of Japanese troops in the country during the war had probably come through from men of the Kikori area who had served with the Forces.

The patrol found that the population had ample supplies of native produce and supplemented this with wild game, cassowary, wild pig and pigeons, which abound in the district. The Bosavi men are particularly fine and accurate bowmen.

A full set of arrows for a huntsman consists of six different types, each with its own purpose and used on one particular type of game only. 131 l C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1061

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The Bosavi bows are widely sought ter and are traded far into the iri area of the Southern Highids. Most Bosavi men appear to end at least half of their time inting.

Bosavi houses seen by the patrol ire exceptionally good and of a sign unique to the area. When ilding a house a Bosavi first finds clump of trees with the correct acing to serve as supports. The ies are then cut off sometimes 30 40 feet from the ground and the imps used as uprights. Mr. Howard v some uprights as large as eight it in diameter. The roof is made sago leaves with curved side and i gables so that the shape is lilar to an upturned boat. The iise are communal homes in ich the women of the clan live quarters partitioned from the itral hall, which is occupied by i men. i Discusses a iff Distinction l beneath-the-surface struggle 5 going on in Fiji in early April ween those who wish to accept a tish Government proposition for her rewards for overseas civil pants in Fiji, and those who mgly resist the idea, ondon has pointed out that ian administration needs a lot .killed officials and that Fiji, hava limited budget, cannot afford pay the high, and increasing iries of all the officials it needs, isequently, a number of importposts remain vacant, ondon therefore has offered to vide the difference between what can pay these officials, and it the officials require before they accept service in Fiji. A system lew rates, representing increased )luments. would apply to all exriate officials in the Fiji public dee. he Fiji Government, being corned —as to the dominant majority \ senior expatriate civil servants enthusiastically in favour of the plan. It argued that this system of bringing in more skilled and experienced officials would greatly assist in the urgent task of developing Fiji’s resources, to take care of the rapidly increasing population.

But the high officials ran into trouble immediately.

It was part of the plan that only officials from overseas should receive these additional emoluments.

The increasing number of officials who are rated as “residents” of Fiji would continue to receive only what is called the Fiji rates of pay.

That, of course, was political dynamite and the non-Governmental persons who learned of the plan told the Governor so, in simple terms. The Fiji Times was outspoken on the subject.

Also, it was manifest injustice.

Why should residents of Fiji be paid less for their services than residents of England or Australia?

Why should a person be penalised because he is a resident of Fiji— always provided, of course, that the service he gives is comparable with the service supplied by the expatriate?

Everyone agrees that Fiji needs— now, more than ever before —skilled and experienced administrative officers. Since the Colonial Office is in a generous mood, it would be folly not to take advantage of the offer.

So why not accept the offer —on condition that all officials, expatriate or resident, got the benefit of the higher rates?

The Fiji Government seemed to baulk at that. Probably, it was reluctant to seem to bargain with the Colonial Office.

But it was pointed out, in Suva, that a similar position arose recently in Kenya; and was solved by an agreement that the higher rates, as provided by the Colonial Office, should be paid to all officials, whether local or exoatriate.

At this moment, the ball is in the air. and none knows where it will fall. It is being very anxiously watched by those overseas officials who are in Fiji merely because they are serving “a term of duty” there.

However, the belief was current in Suva early in April that the Government ultimately would recommend something similar to the Kenya plan to the Colonial Office.

Suva's Most Celebrated Gael Escapee Recaptured An armed party of Suva police captured Sairusi Nabogibogi, who escaped from Lautoka Gaol on May 28, last year.

They took the prisoner in his father’s house at Raiwai, a Suva suburb, in early April.

Acting Senior Superintendent Stan Gullidge, formerly of the South Australian Police Force, led the police party.

Two Fijian policemen smashed a door down and found Sairusi with a group of seven other Fijians drinking kava.

A .22 calibre rifle was beside Sairusi, but he surrendered quietly.

Seven other Fijians were charged with harbouring a prisoner.

Sairusi at the time of his escape was serving sentences totalling 13 years for crimes which included robbery with violence. \ Does Niue Provide A Survival Clue?

Niue Islanders might provide the key to the future of mankind in the atomic age. British physicist Sir Ernest Marsden said in Wellington in April, He said research into the ability of the islanders to withstand abnormally high natural radiation on their unique volcanic island—a New Zealand dependency 300 miles IN SYDNEY These four young ladies from Fiji were at a recent Polynesian Association gathering in Sydney. From left.

Hazel Curtis, Grace Miller, Kiti Cokanasiga and Grace Smith. Hazel is a business secretary, the two Graces and Kiti are nursing. 133 CIP I C . ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Sir Ernest said that at present iologists at Cambridge University rere working on material from Niue sland.

It was hoped this research would nable scientists to find how these eople had been affected by living Dr so many years on an island in arts 20 times more radio-active ban normal.

“We have already discovered this nvironment has evolved a race lore resistant to radio-activity,” ir Ernest said.

“We are on the verge of interestig new discoveries.”

The work would be linked with le effect of radiation on chromo- >mes and genes microscopic articles that determined hereditary ictors.

Sir Ernest said Niue Islanders ad evolved under their prcjsent mditions by a process of survival f the fittest.

Stillbirth had reduced those unble to withstand the abnormally igh radiations of | parts of the iland. iji Subscribes 0 Gatty Memorial A small number of Fiji citizens 1 response to an appeal by the iji Times, sent in subscriptions to le Harold Gatty Memorial Fund nd, at the end of March, Fiji imes sent the sum of £34, thus mtributed, to the Secretary of the und, Town Council Office, Campell Town, Tasmania. Campbell own is the birthplace of the late Lr. Harold Gatty, and the memorial being erected there. (See PIM, lar., p. 57). opra Prices each a New Low Copra prices reached a new low i March when the average price, i.f. UK/Continent was £Stg.6o/15/er ton.

This has been reflected in adjustlents to prices paid producers in acific Islands—notably in Fiji and le Solomons.

The BSIP Copra Board adjusted its rices down to the tune of £B/10/er ton, making the three grades \5l/10/-, £ASO and £A47/10/-. Fiji rice at the beginning of April was F49/10/- and £F47 for their two grades.

The chairman of the Papua-New •uinea Copra Marketing Board has ;ated in his monthly report to proacers that he hopes an average of 3tg.61 per ton will be maintained ) that it will not be necessary to ary the tentative P-NG price hich at present is £AS4/10/-, £AS3, ad £AS2/10/- respectively for the three grades. However, he Indicates that the safety margin is now pretty narrow.

Other points made by the chairman in his report are that “unfortunately for copra producers” they are now on the other end of the swing from where they were several years ago when copra and coconut oil were in very short supply.

Before manufacturing formulae can be altered, long-term production and price potentialities must be considered. Manufacturers are well aware that both soya bean and cotton seed production can be increased sharply without mu c n trouble, whereas there is no quick means of increasing copra production —“Hence the cagey approach” to any sudden change in manufacturing formulae.

The chairman thinks that it is a good omen for the copra market later this year that 155,000 tons of the current season’s Antarctic whale oil catch has already been sold. The price was £Stg.73/10/- per ton ex ships, to Unilevers, on behalf of Norwegian, Japanese and British Whalers. (Over) 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Some Acid Comment On Fiji Sugar The Commission of Inquiry into the sugar industry in Fiji ended late in March with some notes of sharp criticism of the CSR Co. by some of the experts advising groups of cane-growers.

Mr. R. s. Kay, a chartered accountant assisting one group, was supported by the chairman (Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve) when he insisted that the company had shown reluctance in answeringquestions about what became of a sum of £1,380,000 which at one period appeared in the Depreciation Account, and then disappeared without trace or explanation.

Mr. H. G. Nicholls, a CSR official, submitted in writing a rather complicated reply which the chairman said was not comprehensible. “It may be an accountant’s answer, but we want a straight answer,” was his summary.

Mr. A. D. Patel also hammered at the mysterious figure; and then argued that the CSR was “cheating” the growers in relation to payment for molasses. He called for Government, instead of monopoly control, of the sugar industry in Fiji; and he advocated a system under which the growers could process their own cane.

Mr. D. M. N. Macfarlane, representing other cane-growers, condemned the “remote control” of the Fiji industry by the CSR. He argued that the cost of managing the h dustry in Fiji from Australia ws between £300,000 and £400,000 p. annum—“and that is too much ” I declared.

Mr. B. D. Lakshman said that tt figures given to the Commission 1; the CSR showed that the compar could pay bigger wages to mil workers; and if the present “deac lock ’ on wages was not resolved s the next crushing season the resu could be disastrous”

In replying to all this for th CSR, Mr. R. G. Kermode said th company had grave doubts whethe the constitution of a Sugar Boar to control the industry really wa the answer to the problem in Fij The company advocated, instea( improved control and operation c unions and associations, and a mor scrupulous regard for agreement!

Any disadvantages of “remote con trol” were more than outweighed by the benefits the CSR in Fr received from its association wit] the very big sugar industry in Aus tralia.

So far as the demand for highe wages at the mills was concerned the company considered that th present wage structure already wa more than fair and equitable. Th idea of growers processing cane fo themselves was completely im practicable, under present work conditions.

As reported, on p. 20, the Com' mission's sitting ended happily wit! an agreement covering the 196' cane-cutting.

Members of NNG's New Council With the announcement ir Hollandia in late March of the names of the 12 appointed members of the New Guinea Raad, NNG was all set to hold the inaugural meeting on April 4 (see p. 19). The New Guinea Raad has 28 members, 16 elected and 12 appointed.

These were the elected members: HOLLANDIA, Mr. N. Jouwe; HOLLANDIA-CITY, Dr. O. J. de Rijke; NIMBORAN, Mr. Manasse Suwae, SCHOUTEN ISLANDS, Mr.

M. W. Kaisiepo, Mr. B. Mofu; JAP- EN-WAROPEN, Mr. M. B. Ramandey, Mr. E. J. Bonay; MANOR- WARI, Mr. H. F. W. Gosewich; RANSIKI, Mr. P. Torey; RADJA AMPAT, Mr. Abdulla Arf a n ; SORONG, Mr. A. van Zeeland; TEMINABOEAN, Mr. A. Onim; AJAMARU, Mr. Daud Deda; FAK- FAK, Mr. N. Tanggahma; MER- AUKE, Mr. A. Kendau Gebse; KAIMANA, Mohamad Achmad.

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They Want PIR Moved Out The Papua-New Guinea State branch of the Returned Soldiers’

League decided at its congress at Lae, in March, to recommend that the Pacific Islands Regiment training establishment (for native soldiers) 3e moved out of Port Moresby.

Delegates said there were a lot of indesirable natives living in Port Moresby who had influenced young PIR troops, and this had been shown n recent riots involving the troops.

The congress also decided that it vas unsatisfactory for the Army to 30st its European officers to the PIR for short periods, and that periods should be lengthened or nade permanent.

The congress decided to press for naugura.tion of an all-race volunteer ntizen force in P-NG, and to ask ;he Commonwealth Government to extend citizenship and passports to nixed-blood people born and living n the Territory.

Fhe Council Battle Dn Norfolk Island Norfolk Island’s internal politics ook an interesting turn in March ollowing the election to the Norolk Island Council of Mr. A. Bathie n place of Mr. Leo Nola, whose )ffice was declared vacant because le was absent from three meetings )f the Council.

Mr. Bathie has been one of the nost outspoken critics of the Council, which was elected last year n place of the old Advisory Council.

Ever since the Council took office the community has been split on whether it has been doing a satisfactory job or not.

Mr. Bathie’s first move following his election was to have a special Council meeting called for discussions with the Administrator on Norfolk’s financial problems.

At the next regular Council meeting, on March 14, Mr. Bathie asked the president, Mr. F. J. Needham, for an adjournment on the ground that proper notices of the meeting in accordance with the Ordinance had not been sent out.

The president refused and Mr.

Bathie took the matter to the Chief Magistrate in early April, asking for a ruling that the meeting had not been properly convened, and for a direction to the Council to set out properly the nature of its business at future meetings.

He won his case, The verdict has aroused a lot of speculation on Norfolk. The fact that one meeting has been ruled improperly convened may mean that earlier meetings were, too.

And if all meetings were improperly convened, Councillor Nola may have been improperly removed from office!

Reported one Norfolk Island correspondent; “General opinion is that the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera regularly being performed at Rawson Hall is rapidly developing into a tragedy for Norfolk Island.” [?]he Australian Minister for Repatriation, Mr. [?]. M. Osborne, with Mrs. Osborne, arrives in ae to attend the RSL State Congress in March.

The Minister later made a P-NG tour.

Photo: "New Guinea Times-Courier". 137 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Tragedy, and Near Tragedy, in the Air Two crewmen and a hostes* scrambled from a DCS freighte: minutes before it broke in half anc burned fiercely after an emergence landing in the New Guinea Highlands in early April.

Medical equipment worth £10,00( was destroyed in the fire.

The £30,000 aircraft, which burnec for more than 24 hours, has beer written off as a total loss.

The aircraft, owned by Papuar Air Transport, had been chartered by the Administration to take 4,30 C lb of medical equipment to Kundiawa, in the Eastern Highlands.

The pilot, Miles Lewis, 36, said: “We were at about 13,000 feet. 1 smelled something—l don’t know just what it was—and went back to investigate.

“There was smoke or fumes coming from one of the boxes and the plane was filling quickly.”

Lewis said he headed in a long, shallow dive for nearby Bereina airstrip.

Four minutes later he touched down and taxied the smoke-filled aircraft off the main runway.

He and the air hostess, Miss Pat Gollum, 21, jumped to the ground from the emergency escape door.

First Officer Bill Vink, 40, blanketed the smoking boxes with foam from an extinguisher before jumping clear.

Minutes later the roof of the aircraft’s fuselage caved in and the plane broke in half.

The aircraft was the second that Papuan Air Transport has lost in the last month.

On March 8, a twin-engined Piaggio and its pilot, Geoffrey Wallace, vanished on a 90-mile flight from Popondetta to Port Moresby.

An intense air and ground search failed to find any trace of the aircraft.

However, a patrol did find the remains of four bodies in a crashed war-time American Mitchell bomber, and some of the identification tags could easily be read.

The Show Crowds Liked the Coffee Over a hundredweight of coffee and cocoa beans were souvenired by the public from the Papua-New Guinea display at Sydney’s big Royal Easter Show.

The beans were sampled by the kids who took them home to paste in their “project” books.

Several new panels of enlarged photographs were added to the P-NG stand this year to illustrate the development of coffee and cocoa growing in the Territories, Other murals which attracted the : public’s attention showed the recent political advances of the New

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Administration officials, assisted by two New Guineans, had a hectic time answering all the queries from the public.

Most questions were intelligent ones, showing the Australian man in the street’s interest in the Territory.

Although the overall attendance at the Show dropped this year, P-NG stand officials said they had experienced the biggest crowds yet.

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New Support For Suva Airport The plan to establish an airport at Suva Point, on the edge of Suva city, is being vigorously supported by an organisation of Suva citizens.

Dr. K. M. E. Bradfield, a high official in Civil Aviation in Australia, and Mr. A, Reiher, of the Australian Department of Works, were in Fiji at the end of March to report upon the plan.

Suva’s present airport is at Nausori, on a low-lying section of the Rewa Delta; and the 12-mileslong road-connection between Suva and Nausori airfield is through a series of growing Indian and Fijian villages. (See PIM, Feb., p. 138).

Seven Out of 10 Natives Won't Reach Five The task of bringing help to Papua-New Guinea was so great that it would never ba overtaken until Australians had the partnership of the indigenous people, the Minister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck, said in Madang on April 7.

Mr. Hasluck was opening the new £662,000 Madang District Hospital.

“In this task,” he said, “people of all races and variety of talents will be required.

“It is not only in this field we will make a triumph where in other parts of the world there has been human tragedy but in others as well we may be able to do successfully what has never been done anywhere else.”

The Director of Public Health, Dr. Roy Scragg, said that now only four per cent, of those who died in the Territory received hospital treatment when they died.

Dr, Scragg said seven out of 10 children never reached the age of five, whereas in Australia 39 children out of 40 lived beyond the age of five.

A woman had one chance in 10 of dying in one of her pregnancies.

He was glad to see a hospital established which would lift the standard of health in the district.

A native, Liwa Kolau, president of Ambenon, the native Local Government Council, clad in shirt, tie and laplap made a speech in Pidgin in which he thanked the people of Australia for paying “big fella taxes” to pay for the hospital.

The native people would have to pay them back and they could best do that by working hard together with the Administration for the advancement of all, he said.

Important New Radio Telephone Link A new radio-telephone service, which provides a new and highly efficient telephone link between Suva, Lautoka and Nadi was in- Contributors, Note Would contributors please address all editorial matter to the Editor, and not to individual members of the editorial staff.

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The P-NG stand at this year's Sydney Royal Easter Show. 139 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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I gather here that the BOAC Imputation which has recently been bsiting NZ and Australia, went iway with a small flea in its ear.

In effect it was told, “You pulled •ut, and you can’t expect us to hrow everything to you on a plate low.”

But BOAC certainly will be back ti the South Pacific picture in the text few years, as part of the “fly British” plan.

TEAL has always regarded the louth Pacific Islands as its own pecial province, and is jealous of be high reputation it has built up here the hard way since the war.

It regards its present by-passing f such islands as Samoa and the ! ooks as only temporary—someting that has been forced on it by •s equipment problems—and it will et back on the full Coral Route as x»n as it can.

New Zealand will retain its present interest in Fiji Airways which, of course, is being used increasingly on international routes, but the all- NZ owned TEAL flag will be kept flying even higher.

TEAL sees Tafuna airport, in American Samoa, as an important cog in the wheel.

Future is Freight But the really rich future pickings, as the New Zealanders see it, will not be with passengers, but with freight.

New Zealand’s trade troubles of the last few years, especially its trade relations with Britain, have been something of a shock here and the Government has realised finally that this country is really on her own when it comes to commerce and that it can expect no favours from anybody.

To make her own way in the big world of business, she must have her own transport services, and the future for transport in the South Pacific, New Zealand is convinced, is by air.

Big jet transports flying at terrific speeds will make the carriage of trade goods no dearer than transport by ship.

New Zealand, through a fully owned TEAL, will go about this job the way it wants without the bogey of interference from outside governments—meaning Australia.

Admittedly, New Zealand’s aviation relations with Australia (i.e., TEAL’S relations with Qantas) have not always been completely smooth. At the same time they have not been nearly as rough as might be indicated by New Zealand Press comments over the years.

As one TEAL official told me, “We will always be grateful to Qantas.

They have looked after us very well, and done many things for us that we could not do for ourselves. Now we have grown up.”

It was Qantas, of course, which received the full brunt of New Zealand public criticism when TEAL was re-equipped with Electras.

TEAL wanted Comets, and when it ended with the Electras the Qantas name was mud over here.

The New Zealand Government never bothered to explain to the irate public that Qantas’ interest in the matter was only one-third of the story.

Three Reasons It was certainly true that Australia wanted TEAL to have the Electras, because of a package deal.

But also, New Zealand, which was going through a bad economic time, did not have the money for the Comets, or to bring up to jet standard its airports.

The decision would have been the same probably if Australia had had nothing to say in the matter.

But New Zealand is now going ahead fast with the £7.5 million international airport at Mangere, outside of Auckland. The new airport will have a 6,000 ft runway and the Government wants it operational as soon as possible.

Mangere is the whole key to TEAL’s future international operations, and it must be ready by the time TEAL re-equips with the full jets which will replace the present Electras.

In March, Mr . R. M. Ansett, managing director of Ansett Transport Industries, won a great deal of publicity on both sides of the Tasman by making public a £2 million offer for a controlling interest in TEAL.

Mr. Ansett said that under his Matheson, of Vavau, reported to PIM in late March that although the beauty of Vavau had gone, its spirit had not. Already shelters were up and Tongans were planting whatever they could to help ward off the difficult time ahead.

“At the moment there is only three weeks’ supply of food here,” she said. “But everybody is grateful for being alive. Should anybody outside want to help, the best aid ivould be milk powder or the money to buy it, for the coming months ivill be especially hard on babies, poung children, the aged and the sick.”

At the height of the storm, 143 Fongans sheltered in the Matheson oome, which was partly wrecked. \ll one night shifts of men braced ;he walls by leaning against them. augurated by the Governor of Fiji late in March.

To perform the opening ceremony, Sir Kenneth Maddocks climbed to South Ridge, a 3,500 ft unroaded peak in the interior of the island of Viti Levu, where a repeater station has been built as one of the important links in this VHF service.

The new telephone link represents a great improvement in the telephone services linking the main centres of Fiji. Suva and Lautoka can now call each other quickly and efficiently, where on the old service there were long and exasperating delays.

NEW AIRCRAFT. There has been wide interest in the Sepik area of New Guinea recently in the arrival of this Dornier Do 27 aircraft—the first of its kind in the Territory. It is based at Wewak with the Catholic Mission of the Divine Word. Two more Dorniers are due to arrive shortly in Goroka, one for Territory Airlines and the other for Bishop Schilling.

The Wewak aircraft has been modified. The top of the cabin has been covered in, instead of showing clear perspex, which is not suitable for tropical work. Top speed is 115 knots, maximum range six hours, minimum runway 300 yards, pay-load between 950-1,200 lb and altitude at full load is 10,500 ft. The aircraft was shipped out from Germany and assembled under the supervision of Father Ivo Ruiter, SVD, who recently underwent a three months' course at the Dornier factory.

Photos: D. W. Hawksley. 141 ACIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'— APRIL, 1961 The TEAL Deal (Continued from p. 21) Tonga Hurricane (Continued from p. 23)

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However, nobody took Mr. Ansett seriously. He had already made an offer of the same sort to New Zealand last year and this had been rejected. His latest offer was regarded both in Wellington and Canberra as a means of getting some publicity for the Ansett Airways empire, which includes a big interest in the New Zealand internal airline, South Pacific Airlines of NZ.

But there have been no hard feelings.

Mr. Ansett is regarded as both an astute and popular businessman, and if he wants to ride on the band waggon without doing anybody any harm, nobody has had any objections.

In fact, it seems likely that Mr.

Ansett will get an even bigger share of New Zealand’s internal airservices and tourist traffic, just as he is doing throughout Australia and in P-NG.

But it is most unlikely he will get an opportunity to break into international aviation—certainly not across the Tasman, via Norfolk Island or any other direction.

Polynesian Airlines Polynesian Airlines, of Apia, was expecting to receive its two new aircraft via Singapore and Australia in early April, and planned to make two trips daily between Apia and American Samoa.

The American Samoan Airlines is now regarded as definitely finished.

It is still possible for another U.S. airline to take over Samoa’s licence, but with Polynesian Airlines operating satisfactorily with two aircraft it would be very doubtful if it would be considered economical for any other operator to try to break in on the run.

Fokker Friendships After many months delay, TAA in early April finally began operating its Fokker Friendship service between Lae and Honiara, BSIP, with stops at Rabaul and Munda. The first flight was received with great enthusiasm at the Honiara end, where the promised Fokker service was regarded as being like tomorrow —it would never come.

The Fokker replaces the DCS Weight Controversy The P-NG airline weight controversy (see p. 35) took a bitter turn in March following a suggestion that pilots should be paid danger money.

The suggestion, made by the president of the P-NG Highlands Farmers and Settlers’ Association, Mr. lan Downs, brought a tart retort from the manager of the Australian Air Pilots’ Federation, Mr.

Bruce Crofts.

Mr. Crofts, who was a patrol officer in the Territory after the war, hotly attacked the proposal as arrogant.

“Perhaps Mr. Downs envisages that he, personally, will hand the danger cheque to the widow of a pilot unable to collect it himself, and in his conscience feel a fair price has been paid,” he\ said.

“He may even wish to call upon the relatives of the unfortunate passengers.”

Mr. Crofts wrote to the Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Paltridge, saying that pilots took the strongest exception to suggestions that economic considerations should be placed before safety, and said pilots supported the new Territory safety standards. £330,000 was owing to the Harvey Trinder companies.

The Messrs. McEachern (father and son) resigned from the Harvey Trinder companies, and the latter commenced a series of actions against them.

For example, on October 16, 1959, they appeared in court, on charges laid by Harvey Trinder interests, that they had improperly made use of Harvey Trinder funds, between mid-1956 and January, 1959. This case was listed for hearing for several months.

In January, 1960, Harvey Trinder (NSW) Ltd. moved for the liquidation of Hamac. The Messrs McEachern, in March, 1960, moved for the liquidation of Harvey Trinder (NSW). On April 1, 1960. the P-NG Supreme Court ordered Hamac into liquidation.

A few weeks later (in April) the fraud charges against the McEacherns were withdrawn, and there was a settlement described at the time as “satisfactory” to all parties.

New Co. is Formed Details of the settlement were not published. But in a document filed in the P-NG Supreme Court on March 6, 1961, it is stated that, some time in 1960, debts totalling £325,170, owing to Harvey Trinder interests by the Hamac group of companies, were assigned to Mr. L. F.

McEachern; that the latter undertook that those debts would be “deferred” until “all other creditors”" have been paid in full; and that Papua and New Guinea Development Corporation Limited was formed and registered in 1960 “with the object of taking over the Hamac group of companies.” The company (PNGDC) is regarded as favourable to Mr. L. F. McEachern’s interests. 142 Hamac Story (Continued from p. 23) APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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They appeared to be unmolested for the most part, and at the offices of the Bank of Indo China, where staff was working behind locked doors, strikers became violently abusive and smashed the wooden shutters on the windows.

The staff was sent home.

The next day saw armed police in the town and warnings were issued on the radio that anybody It has been assumed that the Messrs, McEachern parted with übstantial share interest in Harvey frinder, as part of the settlement.

Viscount Lymington, eldest son if the Earl of Portsmouth, and now i resident of Australia (where he s closely associated with a group if companies headed by Latec finance Pty. Ltd.) became chairnan of the P-NG Development Corjoration.

Proceedings during the latter half if 1960 appeared to develop as a truggle for position between the ecured and the unsecured creditors if the Hamac group, and a fight ly P-NG Development Corporation 0 keep the companies “alive”. some of the unsecured creditors .rgued that liquidation would give hem a better chance of collecting heir money; while the PNGDC ried to persuade them to have nercy.

Eventually, both the Eriama and he Ela Services companies (in both 1 which cases the secured creditor s the National Bank) were forced o an auction sale. The Eriama sale ame on in February last, and 14.000 was bid for the stock by the >NGDC.

All these companies were put into iquidation early in 1960; so apparntly the official liquidators were in harge of all proceedings.

Pressure on Ela Services Ltd.

Ela Services Ltd. (motor agencies nd service) is one of the Hamac roup; and the National Bank of mstralasia, Port Moresby, financed !la. Early in 1961, Ela owed the ank £16,000. The loan was secured.

The bank gave Ela until March 2 to repay the loan; otherwise the ssets of Ela Services Ltd. would e sold at auction. Efforts to raise 16.000 failed, and the auction took lace.

Among those present at the auction rere Viscount Lymington; Mr. laurice Cohen, of Melbourne, the orporation’s solicitor; other repremtatives of the corporation; and tie Port Moresby Manager of the rational Bank.

Bidding rose from £28,000 to 34,000, for the company’s assets, ithout a sale resulting. A current, nconfirmed, report says the reserve rice was £35,000.

In March and early April the spresentatives in the Territory of NGDC were before the Supreme hurt with an application to relove the Hamac group from liquiation; and, in the belief that, if le great majority of creditors of le companies concerned would ignify approval, the Court would rant the application, the PNGDC eople were working hard among le creditors, seeking such approval.

The matter was still before the ourt in mid-April.

The following shows the approxilate position of the Hamac comanies on March 6: (I)—ANZ Bank. (2) and (3)—National Bank. (4)—Bank of NSW, £9,008; Mrs P. S. Stewart, £16,200. (s)—Bank of NSW, £15,611; South Pacific Brewery £5,000. (6)—ANZ Bank 143 Noumea Strike (Continued from p. 22) ACIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1961

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Macinnis, Director of Lands, Surveys and Mines; Mr. W. W. Watkins, Secretary for Law; Dr. R. F. R.

Scragg, Director of Public Health; Mr. J. Glen, Director of Public Works; Mr. G. T. Roscoe, Director of Education; Mr. W. F. Carter, Director of Posts and Telegraphs; Mr. H. L. R. Niall, District Commissioner, Morobe District; Mr. F. C.

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McCarthy, Director of Native Affairs; Mr. J. R. Foldi, District Commissioner, New Britain; Mr.

K. M. Chambers, Acting Chief Collector of Customs.

Non-Official Members ELECTED MEMBERS; Mr. J. R. Stuntz and Mr. John Guise, Eastern Papua Electorate; Mr. S. R. Slaughter and Mr. Simoi Paradi, Western Papua; Mr. A. L.

Hurrell and Mr. Somu Sigob, New Guinea Coastal; Mr. Paul Mason and Mr. Nicholas Brokam, New Guinea Islands; Mr. J. L. Chipper and Mr. Vin Tobaining, New Britain; Mr. I. F. G. Downs and Mr. Kondom Agaundo, Highlands.

NOMINATED MEMBERS: Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross, Port Moresby; Mrs. R. I. Bates, Madang; Right Rev. P. N. W. Strong, Bishop of New Guinea; Rev. Father J. G.

McGhee, Sideia, Milne Bay District; I Dr. Reuben Taureka, Port Moresby; Miss Alice Wedega, Milne Bay; Mr.

Ephraim Jubilee, Raba u 1; Mr.

Maneto Kuradal, Madang; Mr.

Kibunki, Wabag; Mr. Bonjui, | Korogo, Sepik District, “There is no use some people agreeing and others not. Everybody has to be concerned.”

Mr. Downs probably could have stated the growers’ position in much stronger terms than he did.

There are, of course, two sides to the question, but an indication of how the New Guinea growers have been viewing it these last few months is given in an editorial in the Highlands Quarterly Bulletin , which is published by the Highlands Farmers and Settlers’ Association, of which Mr. Downs is president.

The editorial, published before the March conference, pointed out that New Guinea natives had to be given a share in their country’s resources if they were to “emerge”.

But a common marketing front, involving both European and native growers, was in danger because of the failure of Australian coffee users to purchase New Guinea coffee, the Bulletin said.

Natives Destroying Trees Australians had encouraged the native growers to become producers and had included them in the marketing agreements, yet in recent weeks several discouraged native small holders with unpurchased coffee in Australia, and hundreds more unable to sell locally, had been talking grimly of destroying their coffee trees and going back to subsistence agriculture.

Some had actually cut down their trees.

The editorial added; "The cause of this dangerous situation rests mainly upon the failure of Australian coffee users to honour their obligations to purchase the 1960 coffee crop by a series of individual agreements made in Canberra in March, 1960.

"Not only have there been a number of individual failures to meet the quotas indicated at that time, but users as a whole, contrary to the incorrect report circulated by them, have failed to take up the total tonnage.

“Even had the total tonnage been taken up, we can see no ethical excuse for those who have not kept their promises to hide behind the fact that at least one user has purchased more than he estimated as his needs.

Credit Squeeze “Agents have reacted to the credit squeeze in the face of large unsold stocks by being unable to make further advances.

“This, in turn, has limited the purchasing power of Australians who normally buy the native parchment crop.

"And so, at the end of the line, high in the mountains of Gena, above Kerowagi, you have those who have cut down coffee trees wich axes.

“It is as simple as that.

“While some Australians whittle at Australia’s political influence in New Guinea, you have other Australians happy to destroy the economic ties which may soon be the only link between our two countries.

“While Metropolitan powers in Europe and America see to it that the dependent countries of Africa and South America have their traditional markets for coffee maintained, you have a virtual abandonment of New Guinea coffee by Australians eager to import overseas undergrade junk, without regard for Australia’s foreign exchange.

“The days of effortless exploitation of tropical crops are gone.

“We are in the midst of cutthroat international competition.

Tropical countries which can dump poor quality coffee at under-cost because of government purchase at guaranteed prices are a threat to our future no less than those who buy from them.

I "Hostile Situation"

“Australian consumption of the type and class of coffee which we produce in New Guinea is currently more than twice our output.

“The price we ask Australian buyers to pay for this class of coffee is manifestly less than the value put upon it by overseas buyers.

“We face a hostile situation in Australia unrelated to world prices.

“We, as well as wool growers wheat growers and dairy farmers are producing a product important to the Australian economy.

“The Government has already stated that it regards the primary producers of this Territory as deserving of the same help and assistance which primary producers on the mainland enjoy.

“Government action is now needed.” (For a survey of the question, see 'Commentary", p. 25.) found making a disturbance would be dealt with.

These warnings were heeded. The strikers went away fishing to fill their empty larders, but since they had already made their point, they seemed contented enough to be out of the town.

All bars were closed by order “for the duration”.

On the third day of the strike the public servants became involved when their association called them out in sympathy.

Trouble Ends The trouble ended when the Minister in Paris suggested that six members representing the striking unions, and a delegation from the Employers’ Federation, all fly to Paris to discuss the matter with him. All expenses were to be borne by the Government.

As the workers returned to work, delegates prepared for their free trip “to Paris in the spring”.

What the strike cost workers, business houses, and the Nickel Company has not been estimated, but whatever it was it probably wasn’t worth it! 144 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC INLANDS M Q , N, t T H L T NG Elections (Continued from p. 18) Coffee Tariff (Continued from p. 22)

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Government agencies, the missions, businesses and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea all had displays—and there were competing Heineken’s and Amstel beer gardens.

The fair drew large crowds of native and European spectators on each night of its five-night run and some large shipments of native art work, particularly from the headhunting South Coast Asmat people, were easily disposed of..

One item noted by the visitors: The Dutch do not believe that hot water is an essential in the tropics; a belief they acquired in centuries of life in the East Indies. Visitors were not quick to adapt themselves nor to like the cold water bath and shave.

And the Dutch tabl e— most typically slices of bread with meat, cheese, peanut butter, etc., for breakfast and dinner with rice, a small amount of meat and vegetables for lunch—had many of the Australians unhappy—out of earshot of their hosts—of course. “I can hardly wait,” said one, “to get back to Moresby and some bloody steak and eggs. I’m starving here.” oment, there is no indication of ouble. But neither is there any larantee that, when the mills re- )en, there will be no demands for gher wages.

New System of Control However, this aspect of the situam may be covered by the pending ;w system of control over the gar industry.

The Sugar Inquiry Commission mpleted most of its work by the id of March, and its members ready are back in London. It is :ely that its report and recomsndations will be in the hands of e Governor in June.

One of the recommendations is rtain to provide for the creation a Sugar Industry Control Board, d another will give the board wer to enforce its decisions.

Lhe board will not only control e relations between millers and nc-growers, but also the relations tween millers and mill-workers. [f the Fiji Government deals amptly with the report, that new ;tem of control could be in operan by the end of June. And that uld take care of the mill-workers, rhe cane-growers already are mded for, for the 1961 season, by * agreement announced on March 3ood Influence of Commission [■here was no obligation upon the gar Inquiry Commission to ange this new agreement. But, dously an agreement was vital, ;he growers were to get ready for ! coming and future harvests Growers and millers could not iply sit down to await the sub- >sion and implementation of the nmission’s report. ’here was credit due to all parties the way in which they met priely, and devoted themselves to formulation of an agreement. It > no easy task. luch praise has been given to barristers who signed the agreeat—R. G. Kermode, for the CSR; M. N. McFarlane, A. D. Patel I J. N. Falvey for groups of canewers; and Messrs. Patel and Farlane jointly on behalf of the ba Sangh. he unexpected spirit of goodand compromise which domin- -3 these proceedings is attributed the personal influence of the amissioners, and especially to chairman, Sir Malcolm Trustram , QC, who worked tirelessly to an agreement. iji still is faced with most dif- It problems in the fields of lomics and politics; but at least sugar industry seems to be comunder control —and Fiji may 3 some comfort out of that.

Deaths Of Islands People

Mrs. R. A. Crompton The death on April 6 in Suva War Memorial Hospital of Mrs R. A. Crompton, after a long illness removed a pioneer citizen who was widely known and much esteemed.

Mrs. Crompton was the second daughter of the late Sir Maynard Hedstrom, and she therefore was the sister of Mr. James Maynard Hedstrom, of Suva, and Mr. Keith Hedstrom, of Lautoka. A sister, Mrs J. Chapman, resides in Christchurch NZ.

Sir Maynard Hedstrom was born in Levuka in 1872, and he married Miss Grace Eastgate, also a member of a well known Fiji pioneer family.

Mrs. Crompton married R. A.

Crompton—also a member of a Fiji pioneer family—when Mr. Crompton was a Fiji District Commissioner, and before he went to England to take his law examinations, and qualify to join his father (the late Mr. Robert Crompton, KC) in the well known Suva law firm.

Philip Mackenzie With the death in Papeete of Philip Mackenzie, at the age of 60, the South Pacific lost one of its most competent professional photographers. Studio Mackenzie, Papeete, has been an honoured name since the war and one that has done more than any other to publicise the charms of Tahiti.

Mr. Mackenzie, who originally cams from Vermont, USA, visited Papeete with his wife, Hazel, before the war as a tourist. After two trips they both returned to Papeete permanently in 1947, where he set up his photographic business.

“This is it,” he told his wife at the time. “This is where I’m going to stay and where I would like to die.”

Mr. Mackenzie was ill for some months before his death, and he was buried at Punaauia, a spot where he loved to take pictures.

Mrs. Mackenzie is continuing the business with the help of three Tahitian girls.

Mrs. Jenny Lotomua Gaudin Mrs. Lotomua Gaudin (nee Kronfeld), wife of the late Walter J.

Gaudin, died in Auckland on March 22, following a long illness.

Born in Tonga, and with Tongan noble blood on her mother’s side, Mrs. Gaudin was a daughter of the well-known Kronfeld family of Tonga and Samoa. She is survived by a son and daughter in New Zealand.

Queen Salote gave a traditional mat for the burial and also sent a beautiful hibiscus wreath.

Adi Susu Adi Susu, widow of the late Tui Cakau and mother of the present Tui Cakau (Ratu Josefa Lalabalabu) of Taveuni, died in Suva on April 5, after a long period of ill-health.

Adi Susu was a well-known member of the leading chiefly families of Fiji. 145 New Guinea Raad (Continued from p. 20) CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961 Sugar Agreement (Continued from p. 20)

TRAVEL TALK This is a new department with ideas, facts and figures for those who want to travel ... or for those who just dream about it. For those wanting to visit the South Pacific there are details enough here—with the spotlight this month on Fiji. And for Islanders who want to go abroad there are some details of the Overseas Visitors’ Club.

THE PACIFIC THE day when Fiji’s tourist industry was bottlenecked by a hotel shortage is now past tense and although it is still wise to book in advance and although there are rush periods—such as to Korolevu at week-ends—most tourists seem to be suited according to their individual requirements.

Most American tourists follow a well-worn trail and have every last detail tee-ed up and paid for before they leave home. They simply enter the mill at one end, are passed along from person to person across the world like a well-addressed parcel, and probably are right back home before most of what they have done and seen begins to register.

The following notes about the sort of accommodation Fiji can offer visitors will therefore be of more use to those who travel under their own steam.

Fiji has 27 hotels and guest houses and they range from the simple country pub to first-class international hotels. Their prices are graded accordingly. And with this ‘‘double occupancy” business it is, as we said in respect of Tahiti last month, much cheaper to travel with a husband or wife, even if you have to borrow one for the occasion.

All prices are in Fiji currency. £FI is equal to approximately 17/6 New Zealand and Stg., 22/6 Australian, and US $2.53.

In Suva: The Grand PaciAc Hotel, built in a beautiful garden on the harbour side is the South Paciffc’s only “famous name” hotel and belongs in the same historical niche as Singapore’s Raffles and Colombo’s Galle Face. Fortunately for tourists, the GPH has not remained merely historical. It has been renovated completely in the last few years and has added a new, air-conditioned garden wing. The new wing, although it offends the aesthetic tastes of some Suvaites by its outside appearance is actually architecturally excellent for a hot country climate and the bedroom accommodation it contains is Arst class. Tariff (bed and breakfast) from £3/10/- ($8.92) single; ($12.1) to £6/5/- ($15.05) double in old building. (Some rooms have airconditioning, some private bathrooms and prices vary accordingly). In new wing, twin bedroom, air-conditioned, private bath, etc., is £7/7/- ($18.73) double occupancy; £4/15/- ($12.10) single occupancy.

Club Hotel is a modern hotel in the business centre of Suva. All rooms are air-conditioned, with private bath, etc.

There is a roof garden and a special banquet room which may be hired for private functions. Tariff (bed and breakfast): single from £2/10/- ($6.37) to £3 ($7.64) per night; twin rooms £3 ($7.64) per person per night; suite, £5 ($12.74) per person per night.

Hotel Suva is newly built, in the busiest part of Suva. Tariff (bed and breakfast): single, £2/5/- ($5.73) or if air-conditioned, with shower, etc., £2/15/- ($7); double: £4 ($10.19) or if air-conditioned, shower, etc., £5 ($12.74).

Other hotels in Suva are the Garrick, tariff, including all meals, from £2/5/- ($5.73) to £2/10/- ($6.37) per person per day; Metropole, tariff, including all meals, £2/10/- ($5.73) per person per day; and Melbourne, tariff, including all meals, £2 ($4.99) per day.

In Lautoka: (17 miles from Nadi Airport) The Lautoka Hotel is long established, and daily tariff, including meals is from £2/10/- ($6.37) to £6/10/- ($16.57) single, according to facilities: and from £5 ($12.74) to £8 ($20.39) double.

South PaciAc Hotel is newly built. All bedrooms are air-conditioned with shower and toilet. Tariff (bed and breakfast): £4 ($10.19) single: £6/10/- ($16.57) double. Suites higher.

Adjacent Nadi Airport Nadi Hotel, four miles from airport, in Nadi township. Tariff, including meals, in rooms with shower and toilet, from £3/10/- ($7.86) to £6 ($15.29) single; from £6/10/- ($16.57) to £7/10/- ($19.11) double.

Macambo, in airport area. This used to be US Officers’ Club during the war and when new Macambo, outside the airport, is built, will be demolishet Tariff, including meals, from £2 ($4.99 to £3 ($7.64) single, and from £3 ($7.64 to £5 ($12.74) double Sky Lodge, also In airport ground!

Motel type accommodation. Tariff, wit meals, £5 ($12.74) per person per daj room only, £3.10/- ($8.92) per person.

Resort Hotels: Beach Comber Hotel, Deuba. Thi hotel is situated right on the bead 35 miles along Queen’s Road from Suvs Swimming, Ashing excursions availabh Tariff, including meals, is from £2/15/ ($7) in a single room without bathrooi to £6 ($15.29) per day, with double rate from £5/10/- (($l4) to £8 ($20.39).

Korolevu Beach Hotel. This is th resort to which all real tourists go—an love it. Here you can live in a luxur bure (or Fijian type house, but with a!

American plumbing and Axings) for £1 ($28.03) double, or £lO ($25.49) singb per day.

The older type bures, without the plus Axings, cost £8 double or £6 singl ($20.39 and $15.29) per day. And room in the new main building of the hote range from £8 ($20.39) single and £1 double occupancy up to suites at £ 1 ($30.52) double occupancy or £lO per da if you want a suite all on your owr All meals included in above prices.

Country Hotels (Viti Levu): There are very good to adequate countr hotels in other parts of Viti Levu, Fiji' main island. Meals are included i tariff, and we quote only single occupancy Double occupancy is less.

Sigatoka Hotel Sigatoka, 90 mile from Suva, along Queen’s Rd. Tari: from £2/5/- to £4/10/- per day.

Ba Hotel, Ba, 181 miles from Suvs King’s Rd. £2/5/- to £4.

Tavua Hotel. Tavua, 198 miles fror Suva, King’s Rd. £3/10/- to £4/10/- Rakiraki Hotel, Rakiraki, 102 miles frot Suva, King’s Rd. £2/5/- to £5/10/-.

Tailevu Hotel, 35 miles from Suva King’s Rd. £2/1/- per day.

Rewa Hotel, Nausori, 12 miles fror Suva. £2 per day.

Hotels on Other Islands: Grand Eastern Hotel, Labasa, Vanu Levu. On bank of river with privat swimming pool. Tariff from £2 to £ per day, per person, meals included.

Hot Springs Hotel, Savusavu, Vanu Levu. Overlooks Savusavu harboui Tariff £l/15/- per day including meals Royal Hotel, Levuka, on Ovalau Island Tariff £2/7/6 per person, includin meals.

Private Hotels, in Suva: Oceanic, casual and permanent guest taken. Casual, including meals, £2 pe day.

Southern Cross. Tariff, £l/17/6 pe day, with breakfast and dinner only.

St. Laurence House. Tariff 30/- to 35/ per day. (A small self-contained privat Aat in this hotel is also available; wil accommodate three).

Fairview House. Room and breakfas only, £2/10/- double and 25/- to 30/ for single. Long term guests taken.

Something Different: Muanicula Estate. This is for peopl who want to live something approximat ing a real Island life. It is situated 9Vi miles from Savusavu township (Vanui Levu) and is part of a coconut estate Two bures, with own shower, etc., an available and meals are provided. Tarif £2/10/- per person per day. 146 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Hibiscus Festival For those who like to see a country len it is en fete, a date you might ;ep is Fiji’s annual Hibiscus stival which will be held this year tween September 16 and 23.

A. M]isS Hibiscus competition is held connection with this week of iety which is culminated with a rade of colourful floats through b streets of Suva.

Next Month Dne of the best ways to get to ow a country is to become a nporary resident—that is, rent a use and settle down for a few eks. One of the easiest ways to this is to hire a cottage from Mr. d Mrs. W. W. Baxter, of Sandy int, near Sigatoka. They have a mber of very modern units. We’ll blish more about them next »nth.

ABROAD

For Those With

Slim Purses

LTHOUGH the elderly still dom- . inate the scene In the highced tourist resorts of the world, 3 of the phenomena of the >t-war era is the number of young )ple who travel to Europe from ; British Dominions. And, as part that phenomena, in a sort of )-group all on its own, is an exordinary organisation called the erseas Visitors’ Club.

Phis organisation is one of the ,1 success stories of the age and i full account would fill a book, re we can give only the barest ;line. As with all success stories, nion tends to be either very pro- C, or very anti. Another organtion with a vaguely similar name > gone on record as deeply retting the fact. Some staid and )urban souls may feel that such ge groups of young people as the C encourages, makes for Bohemi- >; others have said that the anisers “must have made a ;ket”. Still others that, as it was rted by South Africans, it must shot through with colour pre- Lice. )n the other hand, OVC has lething like 50,000 satisfied mems, about one-third of whom, in ent years, have been in the over age groups. (Australia’s • long vice leave requirements of three nths for 20 years’ work is one son for this).

"he OVC developed in London of the post-war urge of youth travel and the difficulties of findmodest-priced accommodation in war-torn London.

In the early 1950’5, two young South Africans, Max and Monica Wilson, went to London, experienced all the usual troubles, but finally found a flat. To it came other young Dominion friends, seeking help in obtaining accommodation that suited their purses, for advice and just for companionship. From this came the idea of providing all these things for more people and making it pay for itself.

On borrowed capital, a typical London house, in a row of similar houses, was bought at 3 Templeton Place, a street paralleling Earl’s Court Road. In 1955, the Overseas Visitors’ Club, as such, was founded, and today the organisation has over 20 buildings, mostly in the Kensington-Earl’s Court area, with some in the West End.

In these buildings they provide temporary accommodation to suit all pockets, from a modest 12/6 per night for bed and breakfast with a shared room in a building without a lift; to £2 per night in a West End Hotel in a single room with private bath. In between is the “Courtfield Branch”, created specially for the over-40 group, where rooms with bath cost something like 27/6 single and less if shared; and rooms without considerably less.

This branch has its own Club Centre with restaurant, cocktail and TV lounges, and in all over 500 members can be accommodated in the Courtfield Branch.

The Club guarantees three weeks temporary accommodation in these grades, after that members are in a position to judge what they need on a more permanent basis.

The OVC has in the “permanent field” about 500 bed-sitting rooms in the Earl’s Court vicinity. These range in price from 30/- to 45/- per week, sharing; and from 47/6 to 65/- single. Residents can cook for themselves in modern communal kitchens. The Club also has Outside Accommodation Officers who will arrange alternative accommodation if required.

A limited number of self-contained flats are available for periods of six months or longer, and the Club is developing a scheme to provide more. Each flat accommodates about four and costs from £lO to £l2/12/- per week. Each is equipped with wall-to-wall carpeting, refrigerator, TV, telephone, crockery, linen, blankets, etc.

Apart from the Courtfield Branch Club Centre and restaurant, there is a big general Club, where there is nightly dancing and entertainment, TV and cocktail lounges, reading and writing rooms, Sunday films, and a beer garden.

The Club is not a travel agency but because of the numbers it commands it is able to arrange concession rates on European tours.

It charters whole liners from South Africa for its members and on the Australian run it takes block bookings of two-thirds of the accommodation on the 25,000 tons Greek vessel Patris. The Patris makes six voyages a year between Australian ports and Athens, and fares range from £ABO (in six-berth cabin) to £A2IO (for two-berth cabin) on the off-season; and £B5 to £225 for March, May, July sailings from Sydney.

The fares include two days in Athens and rail travel from Athens to London and a week’s accommodation at the OVC there. For an extra £25, the journey from Athens to London can be done as an eightday coach tour.

A club representative meets every ship arriving at Tilbury or Southampton with 10 or more members on board and takes them by coach to London. The Club has facilities for car hire, baggage storage, medical attention and finding employment.

New This Year Its new services for 1961 will include a residential club in Paris and another in Edinburgh. A children’s wing at one of the London establishments where children may be left in skilled care for anything from an hour to two weeks.

A residential branch of the Club is being built in a Johannesburg suburb which will consist of 10(> self-contained bachelor fiatets. A residential club was established in Toronto, Canada, in 1959 where members can be accommodated for from $7 to $lO per week; it also has its out-of-town mountain resort.

The OVC is best known of all in South Africa and Rhodesia; about 40% of membership comes from those countries. Another 40% comes from Australia; and the remainder from Canada and New Zealand.

Membership is restricted to those who have South African, Rhodesian, New Zealand, Australian or Canadian passports. This automatically takes care of the racial question—i.e., NZ Maoris or any Australian citizen, no matter what his racial descent, are accepted.

There is a branch of the OVC in Auckland and Wellington, NZ; and one each in all Australian State capitals except Hobart. Headquarters in London are: Overseas Visitors’ Club, 180 Earl’s Court Road, London, SWS.

Intending members are advised, to join before leaving home and for Island folks, Sydney is as good a place as any. The address is Suite 216, 35 Pitt Street, Sydney (near the Quay). Literature is supplied on request.

Entrance fee, which includes the £Stg.l/l/- annual subscription, is £AIO/10/- for a single person and £AIS/15/- for married couples if they will arrive in UK between January 1 and June 30; and £A9/17/and £l4/9/- respectively if arrival is between July 1 and December 3L 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - APRIL, 1961

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Sin Francisco, San Francisco, Los Angeles Los Angeles .

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Shipping Time-Tables

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea All sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

MV Malekula sails from Sydney for isbane, Port Moresby, Samaral, Lae, ,baul, Wewak, Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, dney. Last Sydney sailing; Apr. 21 (folring three weeks’ delay at Madang ow- ' to broken cam-shaft). Next Sydney ling: June 4 (approx.).

MV Malaita sails from Sydney, Brisne, Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, tnbrum, Lorengau, Madang, Lae, Samarai, isbane, Sydney. Last Sydney sailing: r. 12. Next Sydney sailing: May 31 pprox.).

MV Bulolo sails about every six weeks: dney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai. e, Madang, Lombrum, Rabaul. Next dney sailings: Apr. 26, June 9 (approx.).

MV Montoro sails from Melbourne for dney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, haul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Lae. rt Moresby. Last Sydney sailing: Apr. 7. xt Sydney sailing; June 7 (approx).

Details from Burns, Philo and Co Ltd Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Shansi: Leaves Melbourne about every weeks for Sydney, Brisbane, Port iresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Wewak, ,vieng, Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney, st Sydney sailing: Apr. 12. Next Sydney ling: May 25. tuning: Leaves Sydney for Brisbane, Pt. iresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, iwak, thence Hongkong. Next Sydney ling: June 7.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line wire and Yuill Ptv. Ltd., agents). 6 Idge St., Sydney (BU 1712).

Elizabeth Boye: Leaves Sydney ap- >ximately every five weeks for Port iresby, Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Next dney sailings: Apr. 28, May 26 (ap- >x.). 31evik: Leaves Sydney monthly for rd Howe Is., Pt. Moresby, Lae. Next dney sailing; May 8 (approx.).

Details from Karlander (NG) Line (P.

Stephens Ptv.. Ltd agents i. 176 Day Sydney. (BM 6601).

MV’s Malacca and Matupi (Austasia le) maintain a regular service between stralian ports (turn round at Adelaide), pua-New Guinea, and Borneo.

Matupi: From Sydney, due Rabaul Apr.

Madang May 2, Lae May 4, Pt. Moresby iy 8, thence Borneo and Sarawak ports; e Singapore for dry-docking, June 12.

Malacca: On northbound voyage, due buan May 4, then turns round for ithwards voyage, via Wallace Bay, Isbane to Sydney, arr. May 28, dep. iy 31 for southern Australian coastal rts, returning to Sydney June 17. Due a. Sydney on next northbound trip, ae 21.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty., i., 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU1271).

Sydney - Papua-NG - BSI MV Sinkiang: Leaves Sydney for Bris- 3e, Port Moresby, Samarai, Honiara, haul, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby, dney. Next Sydney sailings: Apr. 25, ae 23 (approx.).

MV Soochow: Leaves Melbourne for Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Honiara, Rabaul, Madang, Lae. Port Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailings: May 5, June 28 (approx.).

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU1712).

C..J p» >im r _ . jydney-rapUa-NG-Far East Australia-West Pacific Line’s motor- ISTan Dortfaid AUS ’ tralian ports and Japan. Southbound ves- NG Ca BSI t: Tauanerlv) M& Niw Sa ” d^^ n ’ mS’ hSwi ~H l ? b rides inH AHPlifriP Brlsbane ’ s y dne y. Melbourne " Northbound vessels from Sydney call regularly at NG ports, Manila and Hongkong; and occasionally at Islands ports Citos: Dep. Sydney Apr. 26, after docking, for Brisbane (Apr. 28-29), and Japanese ports. At Kobe, May 15, she will go on time charter.

Milos: Dep. Japan (Yawata) May 2 southwards for Hongkong May 6-7, Lae May 15-16, Brisbane 20-22, Sydney May 24-26.

Delos: Ex-Japan: Madang May 12, Lae May 13-14, Rabaul May 15-16, Honiara 18-19, Vanikoro May 21-22, Santo May 23, vila May 24, Brisbane 27-30, Sydney Aros - Den Svdnev Mnv in ■Rri<:hnnp Ml/ IMB. Madang May io Rabaul Mav 90 Manila Mav 90-97 turn round at Hongkong May 29-30, Nth.

Borneo ports June 2-7, Tarakan (for bunkering), Rabaul June 14-15, Lae June 22 ’ By-iey JUne 24 Samos and Tenos: On Sydney-Brisbane- Japan run, omitting Islands ports, Details from Wllh. Wilhelmsen Agency 149 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

SYDNEY depart Say"** Maf™ Jun™t ADCKDAND arr/dep Ma£ 11 Ma£ Is SSe 1? Sg 1 SUVA arr/dep May 14 Mav is Tnn<» on VANCOUVER ISdS }« „ thence* SSS 24 ™ y 10-u §sf“ sp if lr if IP SUVA arr/dep June 6 East ttw y StoSy® ftrr/£ ! ep June 9 via Tus 3* SYDNEY arrive June 11 June 26 Panama Aui! 6

San Pranrr<?M M°Nterey Mariposa Monterey Mariposa

SAN r RANCISCO depart May 3 May 21 limp ir * ANGELES arr / de P May 4 May 22 j££ {% JS I MROTmJPA arr/dep May 12-14 May 30/June 1 June 27-29 July 14-16 RAROTONGA arr/dep May 16 June 3 Julv 1 Tniv i« AUCKLANO arr/dep May 20 June 7-8 July 5-6 July 22 SYDNEY arr/dep May 23-26 June 11-14 July 9-12 Julv oi or AUCKLAND arr/dep May 29-30 June 17 Jul? 15 Jnll 3l'-Au* 1 SUVA arr/dep June 2 June 20 July 18 Aue 4 PAGO PAGO arr/dep June 3 June 21 July 19 Auf t HONOLULU arr/dep June 8-9 June 26-27 Ju y Auf‘ 11 SAN FRANCISCO arrive June 14 July 2 Sly 30 lug. 16 Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA tw .. , _ . * Wellington Instead of Auckland Details from P. and 0.-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd., 2-6 Spring St.. Sydney. (B 0540).

USA-Tahiti-Cook Is.-NZ-Sydney-Fiji-Samoa-Hawaii Details from Matson Lines, Berger House, 82 Elizabeth St., Sydney. (8U4272).

Pty., Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301), and Islands Agents.

Sydney-Netherlands NG Four weeks service by Dutch motor vessels 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: Siblgo May 11, Schouten June 7, Tjitarum July 7.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George St., Sydney. (8U6771).

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.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI Bank Line (Andrew Weir & Co. Ltd.) operates a direct service from Europe to Papua-New Guinea and British Solomon Is., vessels going on to Australia for cargoloading and returning to UK via Suez.

Loading brokers in London are Bethell, Gwyn and Co. Ltd. Burns Philp (NG) Ltd., act as agents in P-NG, and BSI Trading Corporation in the Solomons.

Foylebank: From London Apr. 6, due Pt.

Moresby May 18, Samarai May 20, Lae May 22, Madang May 24, Rabaul May 27, Kavieng (if inducement), Honiara May 31.

Ashbank: Dep. London May 10, due Pt.

Moresby June 14, Samarai June 15, Lae June 16, Madang June 19, Rabaul June 21, Kavieng (if inducement), Honiara June 24.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty.

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney. (BU2041).

Europe-Tahiti-Noumea-BSI- P-NG - Netherlands NG A regular service from the Continent and UK, via Panama, to Tahiti, New Caledonia, BSI, P-NG and Netherlands NG is operated jointly by Nederlands Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Karachi (NL); From Continent, dep.

London May 20, due Papeete June 16, Noumea June 24, Honiara June 28-29 Pt. Moresby July 1, Rabaul July 4, Lae July 7, Madang July 11-12, Hollandia July 14, Biak July 19, Manokwari, July 22, Sorong July 25-28; thence Europe via Far East.

Wonosobo (RL): From European ports and London due Papeete on May 17 Noumea May 25, Honiara May 29, Pt' Moresby June 2, Rabaul June 5, Lae June 8, Madang June 11, Hollandia June 14.

Biak June 19, Manokwari June 22, Sorong June 25; thence Europe via Far East.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines 255 George St., Sydney. (BU 6771).

NZ-Papua-N. Guinea Vessels of Crusader Shipping Co. (London), running between New Zealand and Japan, now call on a trial basis at Pt. Moresby (Papua) and Rabaul (New Guinea) on their northbound run.

Next vessel: MV Crusader due Pt.

Moresby Apr. 27; following call, (subject to inducement) is scheduled for July 21.

Details from Shaw, Savill Line, agents, 101 Queen St., Auckland (Tele. 30-310).

Far East-Sth. West. & Central Pacific The China Navigation Co.. Ltd. vessels Chefoo, Chekiang and Chengtu maintain a 5 to 6 weeks’ service from Japan to Hongkong thence southwards through P-NG ports, BSI. New Hebrides, Fiji and New Caledonia: usually return to Japan direct.

Chefoo: From Japan due Pt. Moresby May 3, Honiara May 5, Santo May 8, Suva/Lautoka May 11, Noumea May 18, thence direct to Japan, arr.

June 9. Next southbound voyage will be Japan-Australia direct and return. Then dep. Japan, southbound, via Islands ports, Aug. 31.

Chekiang: Dep. Japan Apr. 31 for Hon kong, Wewak May 15, Madang May ] Lae May 21, Rabaul May 24, Pt. Mores!

May 31, Honiara June 2, Santo June Suva/Lautoka June 8, Noumea June 1 thence direct to Japan, arr, July 9.

Chengtu: Dep. Japan May 31, for Hon kong, Madang June 16, Lae June 1 Rabaul June 22, Samarai June 24 F Moresby July 1, Honiara July 3, San Juiy 6, Suva/Lautoka July 9, Noumea Ju 16, thence direct to Japan, arr. Aug. 8 Details from China Navigation Co Li nZ 1 ™ a Y 2 UI Pty ' Ltd - agents).

Bridge St., Sydney. (BU1712), Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Bougainville, Etc.

MV Tulagi makes a round trip Norfo Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI port Bougainville ports, leaving Sydney aboi once every six weeks. Next Sydney sai mgs: May 11, June 22 (approx.).

Details from Burns, Phllp and Co..

Bridge Street, Sydney. (80547).

Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Lin from Marseilles, via West Indies an Panama, call about every six weeks a Papeete, Vila, Noumea and Sydney, an return by same route.

Next inwards voyages, ex-Marseilles- Melanesian: Papeete May 30-June : Vila June 12-13, Noumea June 14-1 J Sydney June 21. Caledonien: Papeete Jul 7-11, Vila July 18-19, Noumea July 20-24 Sydney July 27.

Next Sydney sailings: Tahitien May (Noumea May 4-7, Vila May 8-16, Papeet May 22-27). Melanesien June 2 (Noumea June 26-30, Vila July l-£ Papeete July 16-21).

Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes maintains about monthly passenger sail ings between Sydney, Noumea and Ne\ Hebrides (Vila and Santo). Next Sydne l sailings: May 12, June 9, June 30.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 3( Grosvenor St., Sydney. (8U2654).

Europe-Sydney-Noumea Fast cargo vessels of Messageries Marl times Line maintain a regular monthh service between Dunkirk (France) ant Noumea (New Caledonia), via French Eas Africa, Ceylon and Australian ports. Eacl has accommodation for 6 to 12 passengers From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbane anc Noumea; then return to France via Australian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney for Noumea; Vivarais May 5, Vanoise June 2.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor St., Sydney. (BU 2654).

NZ-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next Auckland sailing: May 16.

Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington and return to Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: May 4, June 8.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland. (Tel. 49-430). 150 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

S.S. Southern Cross

' EUROPE, WEST INDIES,

New Zealand, Australia

And South Africa

The 20,000 tons all Tourist Class liner s.s. SOUTHERN CROSS emphasises the modem trend in travel with the latest in amenities: • Every cabin air-conditioned • Two swimming pools ® Unencumbered sports decks • Children’s play rooms and deck • Spacious lounges • Airconditioned Dining Rooms • Orchestra • Cinema Theatre • Stabilisers.

For full particulars apply FIJI __ Any branch or agency of Burns Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.).

Cable Address: Burphil. TAHITI Etablissement* Donald Tahiti.

Papeete. Cable Address: Donald, Papeete.

Sydney-Pacific Ports- Panama-UK Shaw Savill’s one-class all-passenger ier Southern Cross makes four rounde-world voyages per year, two westund, then two east-bound, calling at Ji and Tahiti every trip.

Next voyage; Dep. Southampton May via Sth. Africa, Sydney June 30-July Wellington July 5-6, Auckland July 8, iva July 11, Papeete July 15-16 thence i Panama to Liverpool, arr. Aug. 9.

Details from Shaw Savill Line, 8a istlereagh St., Sydney. (BW 1828).

New Zealand-Cook Is.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes iproximately monthly voyages from ickland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Cook lands), with calls at Niue and some her Cook Islands when cargo warrants.

Details from NZ Department of Island irritories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117), or ty office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

N. America-Tahiti-Central Pacific-NG Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels lorsisle and Thor I maintain a regular rvice from Pacific Coast North American rts to Central and Western Pacific lands, with sailings every alternate anth.

Thor 1: From USA, due Papeete May -15, Pago Pago May 19-22, Apia May -25, Suva May 28-30, Lautoka May 31ne 1, Noumea June 3-6, Vila June 7-8, nto June 9-10, Honiara June 11-12, ibaul June 14-17, Apia (open), Pago ,go June 22-27, Los Angeles July 9-11, n Francisco July 12-13.

Thorslsle: Dep. Vancouver June 7, San ancisco June 19-22, Los Angeles June -26, Papeete July 7-10, Pago Pago July -17, Apia July 18-20, Suva July 23-24, •urnea July 26-28, Apia (open), Pago .go Aug. 4-8, Los Angeles Aug. 22-23, ,n Francisco Aug. 24-25.

Details from General Steamships Corratlon Ltd., 432 California St.. San ancisco, USA, and Islands Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco crates a regular five-weeks passengerrgo service from Los Angeles with the noma, Sierra and Ventura. Terminal rts, in Australia, vary with cargoes fenng. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago igo, Suva, Sydney and Brisbane.

Next trans-Paciflc sailings, from Brisne; Sierra May 11, Ventura June 6 pprox.).

American Pioneer Line has seven ships ’ioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef, Surf, Star de) on US Atlantic Coast-Panamadney service with periodical calls at ihiti on southbound voyage. Next Papeete 11: Pioneer Tide May 28.

Details from Wilh Wilhelmsen Agency y. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (U 6301).

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subllary of W. R. Carpenter and Co.) •erate 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.

Next Sydney sailings: Apr. 27, late Aug.

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty.. Ltd.. 10 Bridge St..

Sydney. (8U4147).

Sydney-Fiji MV Rona (4,500 tonst leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka with cargo and passengers (accommodation for eight). Last Sydney sailing: Apr. 11—on her return to Sydney she will enter dry dock, then make her next trip late May. Tambua (cargo only) will substitute for her on the voyage leaving Sydney May 4.

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney. (B 0151).

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 Fanning Island. They have limited passenger accommodation.

Next Sydney sailing for USA, via Island ports; Waihemo May 11 (approx.).

Waitomo, after docking at Vancouver, has re-entered the service and is due to leave Los Angeles for Australia, via Rarotonga, late April. She is due Sydney early in June.

The Waitemata, from NZ ports, makes 151 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver (via Rarotonga and Papeete).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., 247 George St., Sydney. (B 0528).

UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji The Fiji Direct Service is maintained by Conference vessels, sailing at regular monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Apia, Suva and 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 for Tonga is handled onwards by the Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd.

Sailing dates from London for 1961 (subject to alteration without notice) are as follows: June 8, July 20, Aug. 31.

Far East-Fiji-NZ Royal Interocean Lines operate a service from Singapore to Fiji, NZ, and Australia, with three vessels (Van Cloon, Van Nort and Van Neck) calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka.

Next call at Fiji: Van Cloon Lautoka June 15, Suva June 16.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George Street, Sydney. (8U6771).

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe The Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mall’s MV Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and MV Oranje sail irregularly from Sydney for Europe, via NZ, Tahiti and Panama Canal, giving Sydney-Papeete connection; occasionally calls are made at Papeete on southbound trips.

Next outwards Sydney sailing: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt May 17 (Suva May 27, Papeete May 31-June 1).

Next inwards call at Papeete; Oranje June 6-7.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George St., Sydney. (BU 6771).

The Italian Sitmar Line (Panama flag) vessels sail from Sydney for Europe, via NZ and Panama at irregular intervals, with eastbound calls two or three times yearly at Tahiti.

Next outwards Sydney sailing: Fairsky Dec. 27 (Papeete Jan. 5-6).

Details from Navcot Aust. Pty.. Ltd., 58 Margaret St., Sydney. (8U3464).

NZ-Tahiti-UK New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, make a two-monthly call at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Next northbound voyage: Rangitane dep. Wellington May 25, due Papeete May 31 (approx.).

Next southbound voyage: Rangitoto dep.

London June 2, due Papeete June 28 (approx.).

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ. (Tel. 45 496).

Tonga-Fiji Shipping Service The Tonga Shipping Agency, as agents for the Tonga Copra Boafcd, operates a regular monthly cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva and Lautoka) with MV Aoniu, 500 tons gross. Calls are made, as required at Haapai, Vavau, Niuatoputapu and Niuafoou; also occasionally at Apia, Western Samoa. Turn-round in Suva is usually two days, and the Agents there are W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji).

Ltd.

Next scheduled voyages from Nukualofa are: May 20 (Lautoka May 22, Suva May 23-24, Apia May 26); June 17 (Suva June 19-20, Lautoka June 21); June 23 (Apia June 29).

Airways Time-Tables

Transpacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America (First and Economy Classes)

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 Jets) NORTHBOUND Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.55 a.m. dep. 1.45 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco.

Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.55 a.m., dep. 1.45 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, London.

Pri.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.55 a.m., dep. 1.45 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, extending to Vanvouver.

SOUTHBOUND Mon. and Fri.: London, New York, Ssn Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.35 a.m., dep. 6.25 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 9 а. .

Tues. Thurs. and Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.35 a.m., dep. б. a.m.), Sydney (arr. 9 a.m.).

Sat.; Vancouver. San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.35 a.m., dep. 6.25 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 9 a.m.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.) Qantas Super-Constellation aircraft, under charter to TEAL, from Melbourne and Auckland, connect at Nadi on Wednesday and Friday with Qantas northbound flights, and on Thursday and Saturday with southbound flights (see Table 17).

TEAL Electra aircraft from Auckland, New Zealand, connect with Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Tuesday and Thursday (from Auckland) and Saturday (from Christchurch) and at Nadi on Wednesday (to Auckland) and Monday (to Christchurch) for southbound flights.

By Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers*) Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. for Nadi (arr. 10.50 p.m., dep. 11.59 p.m.), Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr.

Tues., Thurs. and Sun. 4.35 p.m.). Connections at Honolulu for San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Tues., Fri. and Sun.: Dep. Los Angeles 8.30 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.20 a.m.

Thurs., Sun. and Tues., dep. 6.30 a.m.) and Sydney (arr. 8.45 a.m., Thurs., Sun. and Tues.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.) • Pan American DC7C is used on connecting services Auckland, Nadi, Tafuna (American Samoa), and Honolulu (see table 20).

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(Super DC6B and DCS Jet) From April 29 Every Sat.: Dep. Sydney (11 a.m.) by DC6B for Auckland, Nadi (arr. Sai 11.59 p.m., dep. Sun. 1 a.m.), Honolul (arr. Sat. 3 p.m.). Dep. Honolulu (Sur 12 noon) by DCS for Vancouver, Edmon ton, Amsterdam (arr. Mon. 4.50 p.m.] Every Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam (5.30 p.m. by DCS for Edmonton, Vancouvei Honolulu (arr. Sun. 1 a.m.). Dep. Hono lulu (Sun. 1.30 p.m.) by DC6B for Nac (arr. Mon. 11.59 p.m., dep. Tues. 1 a.m ) Auckland, Sydney (arr. 11 a.m.). (International Dateline is crossed be tween Nadi and Honolulu.)

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANi operate from Sydney to Lae and retun with DC6B’s. TAA runs the servic( Saturdays, Mondays, Wednesdays; Ansett ANA Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays.

NORTHBOUND First and Tourist Classes Sat. and Mon. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m Sun., Tues. sun., Tues.

Dep. Arr Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.15 a.m, Dep. Arr Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae, 8 a.m, First and Tourist Classes Tues., Thurs., and Pri. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed., Pri., Sat. Wed., Pri., Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae. 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Wed. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney. 8.20 p.m. Brisbane. 10 20 p m.

Wed. Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 11.20 p.m. Townsville, 2.15 a.m Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.15 a m Dep. Arr Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae, 8 a.m.

SOUTHBOUND First and Tourist Classes Tues., Thurs., and Sun. (TAA) r D n e ?; 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. and Sat. (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 _ . P ep - 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. 152 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

2A. Qld.-New Guinea

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Townsville

TAA, with Fokker Friendship (First Class Only) It. Mon.: Dep. Cairns 3.10 p.m., arr. Pt.

Moresby 5.30 p.m. (May 1, 15, 29, June 12, 26, etc.), it. Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 2.15 p.m., arr. Cairns 4.45 p.m., dep. 5.30 p.m., arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (May 3, 17, 31, June 14, 28, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Brisbane

A/ANA, with DC4 Airfreighter (Air Cargo Only) it. Mon. (May 8, 22, June 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Cairns 6.30 a.m., arrive Port Moresby 9.25 a.m. Dep. Port Moresby 11.30 a.m. (same day), arr. Brisbane 6 p.m. 3. P-NG Internal Services Operated by TAA PORT MORE SBY-IHU (DH Otter) [t. Fri.: Port Moresby, Kerema, Ihu, returning same day (May 5, 19, June 2, 16, 30, etc.).

Port Moresby-Baimuru-Kikori

(DH Otter) lies.; Port Moresby, Yule Is., Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, returning same day via Baimuru, Kerema, Yule Is. [t. Thurs.: Port Moresby, Ihu, Baimuru, Kikori: returning via Baimuru, Ihu the same day (May 4, 18, June 1, 15, 29, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

la Baimuru: Alt. Thurs., returning same day via Balimo (May 4, 18, June 1, 15, 29, etc.). (DH Otter) la Kerema, Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (May 10, 24, June 7, 21, etc.), returning alt. Fri. (May 12, 26, June 9, 23, etc.). *ORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) irt Moresby, Abau, Samaral each Mon., departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day. ,t. Wed.: Port Moresby. Samaral. departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (May 3, 17, 31, June 14, 28, etc.).

It. Sat.; Port Moresby, Samaral, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Apr. 29, May 13, 27, June 10, 24, etc.).

It. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samaral. Esa’ala. departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (May 6, 20, June 3, 17, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

on.*: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m ues.; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng Manus, Wewak, Awar (on request), Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m. burs.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, Awar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul. arr. 4.05 p.m. rl.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Awar (on request), Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m. • Calls Awar on request for schoollildren only.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DH Otter) ri.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Wabag, calling at anv of- Goroka. Nondugl. Mini, Banz.

Mt. Hagen. Baiyer River, Wapenamanda, Wabag. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

LOWER HIGHLANDS (DH Otter) ues.: Dep- Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, calling at any of; Aiyura, Kalapit, Kainantu, Gusap, Goroka, Arena.

Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (DCS and DH Otter) Wed.: DC3 dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., Wau arr. 9.10 a.m., dep. 9.45 a.m., Bulolo arr. 10 a.m., dep. 10.15 a.m., Lae arr. 10.45 a.m.

Mon., Fri.: DH Otter dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., Wau arr. 9.10 a.m., dep. 9.25 a.m., Bulolo arr. 9.40 a.m., dep. 9.55 a.m., Lae arr. 10.25 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo (Dcs)

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.20 am., arr. Bulolo 8.30 a.m.

Wed., Sun.; Dep. Bulolo 8.50 a.m., arr. Wau 9.05 a.m., dep. Wau 9.35 a.m., arr.

Pt. Moresby 10.40 a.m.

Madang-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Madang 12 noon, via Mt. Hagen, Banz and Minj, Goroka arr. 3 p.m., dep. 3.20 p.m., Madang arr. 3.55 p.m.

Madang-Lae (Dcs)

Sun.: Dep. Madang 4 p.m., arr. Lae 5.05 p.m.

Lae-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Tues.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., Goroka 9 a.m., Madang arr. 9.35 a.m.

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Goroka 3.20 p.m., Madang arr. 3.55 p.m.

Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Madang

(DCS) Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m., via Goroka, Minj, and Banz, arr. Mt.

Hagen 11.50 a.m., dep. for Madang (direct or via airfields as required) 12.20 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 12 noon, Kainantu arr. 1.40 p.m., dep. 2 p.m. Goroka arr. 2.25 p.m., dep. 2.55 p.m., Madang arr. 3.30 p.m.

Madang-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Fri. and Sun.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m., Goroka arr. 7.35 a.m., dep. 8 a.m.. Port Moresby arr. 10.20 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., Goroka arr. 7.35 a.m., dep. 8 a.m., Kainantu arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 8.45 am., Pt. Moresby arr. 10.25 a.m.

Lae-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

Mon.: Dep. Lae 6 a.m., Rabaul arr. 8.40 a.m.

Tues., Frl.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Pinschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 1.05 a.m., Lae arr. 3.45 a.m.

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Lae 10 a.m., Finschhafen 11 a.m., Rabaul arr. 1.15 p.m.

Thurs.,* Sat., Sun.: Dep. Lae 10 a.m., arr. Rabaul 12.40 p.m.

Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct to Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 6.10 a.m., Hoskins 7.05 a.m., Lae arr. 8.50 a.m.

Wed.: Dep. Lae 10 a.m., Finschhafen 11 a.m., Hoskins 12.35 p.m., Rabaul 1.45 p.m. * Calls Jacquinot Bay, on request, Thurs.

Rabadl-Bdin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Buka, Wakanai, Aropa, Buin arr. 10.30 a.m., dep. 11 a.m., Aropa, Wakanai, Buka, Rabaul arr. 3 p.m.

Alt. Thurs.; Dep. Rabaul 1.45 p.m., Buka, arr. 3.05 p.m., dep. 3.35 p.m., Rabaul arr. 5 p.m. (Apr. 27, May 11, 25, June 8, 22, etc.).

Service By Ansett-Mandated

AIR LINES (Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight.

Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Boram, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt.

Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Thurs.; Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Madang.

Frl.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt.

Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang Goroka, Lae.

New services with specially fitted DC3s, and carrying hostesses, will commence on April 19 connecting Rabaul, Madang, Goroka, Wau and Lae with Ansett-ANA “Golden Orchid’’ DC6B service Pt Moresby-Sydney. 3A. P-NG - Netherlands NG LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) TAA, with DCS aircraft Dep. Lae 9 a.m. alt. Sat. (May 6, 20, June 3, 17, etc.), calls at Madang and Wewak, and arr. Hollandia 1.30 p.m.

Dep. Hollandia 10 a.m. alt. Sun. (May 7, 21, June 4, 18, etc.) and with calls at Wewak and Madang, arr. Lae 3.50 p.m.

Biak (Nng)-Lae

Netherlands New Guinea Airlines, with DCS aircraft De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands New Guinea Airlines) maintains a fortnightly service between Biak. Hollandia and Lae with Dakota DC3 aircraft. It connects with KLM’s DCS service to Europe (see table 4).

Alt. Sat. (Apr. 29, May 13, 27, June 10 24, etc.): Dep. Biak 2 p.m., arr!

Hollandia 4.10 p.m.; next day (alt.

Sun.) dep. Hollandia 8.30 a.m., arr Lae 12.30 p.m.

Alt. Mon. (May 1, 15, 29, June 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Lae 6.15 a.m., arr. Hollandia 9.05 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., arr. Biak 12 05 p.m.

Nng Internal Services

Netherlands New Guinea Airlines DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, Kalmana, Manokwarl, Noemfoer, Kebar, Wamena, Ransiki and Genjem; Twin Pioneer to Seroei; and Beaver to Steenkool, Fakfak, Kaimana, Temlnabuan.

Sorong, Ajamaroe, Napan, Wisselmeren, Kokonao, and Inawatan. 4. Aust.-Netherlands NG KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (DCS) A weekly service between Sydney (dep.

Mon. 9 a.m.) and Holland with calls at Biak, NNG (arr. Mon. 2.05 p.m., dep. 2.50 p.m.), Manila (Philippines) and Amsterdam (arr. Tues. 10.30 a.m.). Dep.

Amsterdam Fri. 10 a.m., via Manila and Biak (arr. Sat. 10 p.m.) for Sydney (arr. Sun. 6 a.m.).

DC7 aircraft dep. Biak Mon. 3.10 p.m. and Thurs. 9.45 a.m. for Japan en route to Amsterdam (arr. Tues. 9.35 p.m. and Frl. 4.40 p.m.). Dep. Amsterdam Thurs. and Sun. 7.30 p.m. for Japan and Biak (arr. 10.30 p.m. Sat. and Tues.). 153 AOIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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A2c.84 5. N. Guinea-Solomons TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet and DCS Aircraft Commenced Apr. 4 Ait. Tues (Fokker): Dep. Lae 8.45 a.m for Rahani, Munda (BSD, Honiara arr 4.05 p.m. (May 2, 16, 30, June 13, 27 etc.).

Alt. Wed. (Fokker): Dep. Honiara ( a m. for Munda, Rabaul (NG), Lae arr etc ) n °° n (May 3 ’ 17 ’ 31, June 14 ’ 28 A!t Mon. (DC3): Dep. Lae 6 a.m. foi Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina 8 STSne": l s 9) Pm ' day ,Ma!

Alt. Yues. (DC3): Dep. Honiara 7 a.m., foi Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae June 3 6 45 20) m ’ Sam 6 day (May ' 9 ’ 23 6. Sydney-Noumea Qantas, with Electra International Weekly service, every Pri. with First (sleeper-chairs) and Economy classes.

Dep Sydney Pri. 9.15 a.m., arr. Noumea 2 p.m. same day.

Dep. Noumea same day (Pri.) 3.15 pm arr. Sydney 6.30 p.m. 7. Paris-Sydney-Noumea-Fiji- Tahiti-USA TAI, with DCS jet and DC7C aircraft* Dep. Paris by DCS every Mon. for Athens Teheran, Karachi, Bangkok, Saigon Darwin. Sydney (arr. Wed. 7.05 a.m.,’ dep. 8.05 a.m.), Noumea (arr. 11 40 a.m.).

Dep. Noumea by DC7C every Wed. 4.30 p.m.), for Nadi (arr. 8.30 p.m., dep. 9.30 p.m.) crosses International Dateline, Papeete (arr. Wed. 7 a.m., dep.

Thurs. 10 p.m.), Honolulu, Los Angeles.

Dep. Los Angeles by DC7C on return flight Sat. 2 p.m. for Honolulu, Papeete (arr. Sun. 8.30 a.m., dep. Tues. 12.15 a.m.), crosses International Dateline Nadi (arr. Wed. 6.15 a.m., dep. 7.30 a.m.), Noumea (arr. Wed. 945 a.m.).

Dep. Noumea by DCS every Thurs. 8.30 a.m. for Sydney (arr. 10.40 a.m., dep. 11.40 p.m.) for Darwin, Djakarta, Saigon, Bangkok, Karachi, Teheran, Athens and Paris (arr. Fri. 1 p.m.). * After May 3, through DCS jet service Paris-Los Angeles and return. 8. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Ansett Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd. with Sandringham Flyingboats Regular return flight from Rose Bay base each Tuesday and Saturday (with extra flight Thursday as required). 9. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

Qantas, with Skymaster DC4 aircraft Alt. Sat. (May 6, 20, June 3, 17, etc.); Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NI 2.45 p.m.; dep. NI next day, alt. Sun. (May 7, 21, June 4, 18, etc.) 2.45 p.m. for Sydney, arr. 6.45 p.m. (Plight extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See table 12 below.) 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DC4 aircraft Tues. and Thurs.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) at 7 a.m., arr. Vila 8.55 a.m., dep.

Vila 9.30 a.m., arr. Santo 10.45 a.m., dep. 12.15 p.m., arr. Vila 1.30 p.m., dep. j Vila 2.05 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4 p.m. 154 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Single Return Table £ s. d. £ s. d.

No.

Moresby . . . 48 14 0 92 5 0 2 Lae 59 13 0 112 19 0 2 Rabaul .... 69 18 0 130 9 0 2, 3 Noumea .... 56 18 0 102 8 0 6, 7 Honiara . . . 91 14 0 169 13 0 2. 5 Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 9 Lord Howe . . 16 9 0 32 18 0 8 Nadi 85 9 0 153 17 0 1, 7 Suva 92 0 0 167 0 0 1-22 Auckland . . . 53 15 0 96 15 0 13 Christchurch . 53 15 0 96 15 0 14 Wellington . . 53 15 0 96 15 0 16 Honolulu . . . 282 12 0 508 14 0 1, 7 San Francisco 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 Papeete . . . 181 5 0 326 5 0 1-21, 7 Biak 103 15 0 186 15 0 4

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Nadi 41 7 0 74 9 0 18 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 206 2 0 18-21

From Suva (1

Fiji currency) TO— Nadi 5 16 0 11 12 0 22 Levuka . . . 5 17 0 11 14 0 22 Nukualofa . . 18 10 0 34 0 0 22a FROM NADI (Fiji currency) TO— Noumea .... 32 13 0 58 16 0 7 Papeete . . . 87 0 5 157 1 0 7, 21 Pares quoted are First Class.

Cheaper Economy Class fares are available to some ports. 11. N. Caledonia-Wallis Is.

TAI with DC4 aircraft Monthly (second Sunday), from Noumea on May 14, June 11, July 9, etc.

Dep. Noumea, Sun., 6.30 a.m., arr. Wallis Is. 2 p.m.; dep. Wallis Is. Mon. 12 noon, arr. Noumea 5.30 p.m. same day. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) yt. Sat. (May 13, 27, June 10, 24, etc.).

Dep. Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auckland 7.45 p.m. Ret. next day, Sun. (May 14, 28, June 11, 25, etc.), dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. Norfolk 1.30 p.m. 13. Auckland-Sydney TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Daily, except Tues., Fri.; Dep. Auckland 9 a.m. arr Sydney 11.05 a.m.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 5 p.m., arr.

Sydney 7.05 p.m.

Mon., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. Auckland 5.50 p.m. rues., Wed., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 10 a.m., arr. Auckland 3.35 p.m. 14. Sydney-Christchurch TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Wed., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. Christchurch 6 p.m.

Mon., Wed., Fri.; Dep. Christchurch 7 p.m., arr. Sydney 9.05 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Sydney 9 a.m., arr. Christchurch 2.45 p.m. 15. Christchurch-Melbourne TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra rhurs.; Dep. Christchurch 7 p.m., arr.

Melbourne 9.35 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 11.30 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 5.40 p.m. 16. Sydney-Wellington TEAL, with Douglas DC6 Aircraft Daily except Wed., Fri.; Dep. Sydney 9.30 a.m., arr, Wellington 3.20 p.m.

Daily except Wed., Fri.: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 6.45 p.m. 17. Melbourne-NZ-Fiji lEAL, with Super Constellation chartered from Qantas Wed., Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 10 a.m., arr.

Auckland 6 p.m., dep. Auckland 7 p.m., arr. Nadi 12.15 a.m., Thurs., Sat.

Return, same route, Thurs. and Sat. (Connects at Nadi with Qantas Boeing 707 jet service from Sydney to USA.) 18. Auckland-Fiji TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras and Qantas Super Constellations Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 7 p.m., arr. Nadi 10.45 p.m.

Wed., Fri.*: Dep. Auckland 7 p.m., arr.

Nadi 12.15 a.m.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Nadi 9.30 a.m., arr.

Auckland 1.25 p.m.

Thurs., Sat.*: Dep. Nadi 7 a.m., arr. Auckland 12.15 p.m. * Wed., Fri. flights ex-Auckland, and Thurs., Sat. flights ex-Nadi are operated ay Qantas under charter to TEAL. 19. Christchurch-Fiji TEAL, with Douglas DC6 Aircraft Sat.: Dep. Christchurch 4.30 p.m., arr.

Auckland 6 p.m., dep. Auckland 7 p.m., arr. Nadi 10.45 p.m.

Mon.; Dep. Nadi 9.30 a.m., arr. Auckland 1.25 a.m. dep Auckland 2.30 p.m., arr. Christchurch 4.05 p.m. 20. NZ-Fiji-Am. Samoa- Hawaii PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Dep. Auckland 5.30 p.m.. Sun. and Thurs., arr. Nadi 10.15 p.m.; dep. Nadi Mon. only 12 noon, crosses International Dateline, arr. Tafuna (American Samoa) 4.05 p.m., Sun., dep. Tafuna 5 p.m., arr. Honolulu 5 a.m. Mon.

Dep, Honolulu 12.15 a m. Tues., arr. Tafuna 8 a.m. Tues.; dep. Tafuna 8.45 a.m., crosses International Dateline, arr. Nadi 10.50 a.m. Wed.; dep. Nadi 6.45 a.m.

Sun., Thurs., arr. Auckland 11.35 a.m. 21. Fiji-Tahiti TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra Sat.; Dep. Nadi 11.59 p.m., crosses International Dateline, arr. Papeete Sat. 8 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Papeete 2 a.m., crosses International Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 6.40 a.m. 22. Fiji Internal Services Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft and Beaver Amphibian Suva-Nadi-Suva; Two flights daily (dep.

Suva 8 a.m., arr. Nadi 8.45 a.m., dep.

Nadi 9.15 a.m., arr. Suva 10.05 a.m.; and dep. Suva 3 p.m., arr. Nadi 3.45 p.m., dep. Nadi 4.10 p.m., arr. Suva 5 p.m.).

Suva-Labasa-Suva: One flight daily, except Sun.

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.

Suva-Levuka-Suva; Return flights Tues. and Thurs.

Suva-Kadavu-Suva: Return flights alternate Fri. afternoons (Apr. 28, May 12, 26, June 9, 23, etc.) and alternate Mon. mornings (May 1, 15, 29, June 12, 26, etc.).

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva. 22A. Fiji-Tonga Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron aircraft Dep. Nausori (Suva) 7 am. alternate Thurs. (May 4, 18, June 1, 15, 29, etc.) arr. Fua’amotu (outside Nukualofa on Tongatapu) 11.15 a.m.

Dep. Fua’amotu 9.30 a.m. on return flight alternate Sat. (May 6, June 3, 17, July 1, etc.), arr. Nausori (Suva) 11.45 a.m.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva. 23. Hawaii-Tahiti South Pacific Air Lines, of Honolulu, with Super-G Constellation aircraft Weekly service by American airline, South Pacific Air Lines, from Honolulu to Faaa International Airport, Papeete.

Fri.: Dep. Honolulu 10 p.m.. arr. Papeete Sat. 7.30 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 10 p.m., arr. Honolulu Sun 7.30 a.m.

Details from South Pacific Air Lines, Hotel Stuart, Quay Bir Hackeim, Papeete, Tahiti, or 311 California St., San Francisco, USA. 24. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Services TRANSPAC, with Herons and Rapides Noumea-Mare: Tues. and Fri. dep. Noumea 2 p.m., dep Mare 4 p.m.

Noumea-Ouvea: Tues., dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Ouvea 1.30 p.m.: Sat. dep. Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 a.m.

Noumea-Lifou: Tues., Wed. Fri. (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.).

Noumea-Kounie (Isle of Pines); Wed., Sat. dep. Noumea 10.30 a.m., dep. Kounie, noon.

Noumea-Koumac: Wed., Sat., dep Noumea 1 p.m., dep. Koumac 4 p.m. 25. French Polynesia Inter- Island Service Reseau Aerien Interinsulaire with Bermuda flyingboat Service to the Leeward Group (Isles Sous le Vent).

Mon., Wed., Thurs.: Dep Papeete 7.30 a.m., Raiatea arr. 8.30 a.m., dep.

Raiatea 9.15 a.m., Bora Bora arr. 9.30 a.m., dep. 10.15 a.m , Raiatea arr. 10.30 a.m., dep 11 a.m., Papeete arr. 12 noon.

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The residential section of the tel will contain 96 bedrooms, each th two lounge-type beds which 11 be converted to lounges when t in use as beds.

Fhe night club and dining room 11 be air conditioned. Mr. Carter it was hoped work would commce on the project no later than iy. .ustralian Trade lission for Pacific PONSORED by the Australian Junior Chambers of Commerce, a trade mission comprising of to 20 businessmen, bankers and lorters will visit the South cific in August. This is the ssion about which PIM reported t December (p. 21).

Tie mission will investigate or isolidate markets for Australian mary and secondary products, tecent surveys by trade comisioners and businessmen have icated that, while Australia ens a substantial trade in the mds, the volume could be biased appreciably by greater local publicity in the Territories and by packaging and designing specially to catch the South Seas market.

The mission will visit New Caledonia and Fiji, before dividing into groups to visit Tonga, Tahiti, American Samoa and other centres.

Australia now holds about 18 per cent, of the £4O million import trade in the Territories the mission will visit.

Revaluation of the Netherlands NG Guilder Of interest to Australian trading firms having business dealings with Netherlands New Guinea was the announcement on March 6 that the Dutch Government had revalued the Netherlands guilder by 4.74 per cent. This move has altered the old exchange rate of approximately BMs guilders to the £ 1 Australian to a new working quotation of approximately 8 guilders to £AI.

The official unit in Netherlands New Guinea is called the New Guinea Guilder, and it is on a par with the Netherlands guilder. It is divided into 100 cents.

Coins in NNG are both bronze and nickel—the lowest denomination being 1/100 guilder or one cent (bronze), then rising to 5 cents (bronze), 10 cents (nickel), and 25 cents (nickel). Notes are in values of guilders as follows: 1, 2Vfe 5, 10, 25, 100, and 500.

Often the guilder is referred to by its alternative name of “florin”—but there is no difference in value, of course.

PI Mines (Misima) May Take a Partner It is now apparent that the Misima goldfield of Pacific Island Mines Ltd. will constitute “four or five major lodes in which the aggregate tonnage will prove to be very large”, shareholders were told at the third annual general meeting in Sydney on March 16.

A large proportion of this tonnage would be amenable to open cut operation, according to a report made by Mr. A. G.

Palmer, consulting mining engineer.

If the deposits are to be investigated as fully as warranted it might be necessary for the company to expand its operations and, perhaps, introduce a partner to effect this expansion. Meanwhile, the company will concentrate on increasing pilot plant production to 50 tons per day, with a resultant Increase in gold production, whilst at the same time continuing with a vigorous programme of prospecting, necessary for the continued holding of its Exclusive Prospecting Licence.

The company’s pilot plant which commenced mining in February is a simple one comprising an Impact crusher, blanket strakes, amalgam barrel and pump unit; but it is proving an effective tool for the testing of the softer lode types and country rock.

Preliminary clearing, grading and drainage of an airstrip at Misima has been commenced with voluntary native labour, but would take two years to complete by these methods. An airstrip could be built in three to four months at a cost of £lO,OOO using mechanical equipment and methods of financing this work are under review, both by the company and the P-NG Administration.

Fall in BSIP Copra Production Last Year There was a fall of eight and half per cent, in the BSIP’s copra production last financial year, according to figures released in Honiara. More than 20,000 tons were produced last year, when prices declined rapidly from March onwards Average price paid by the Copra Board for first grade copra during the year was £ A74/18/6. The quality was maintained, according to London, but freight rates to London went up from Stg. £8 a ton to £B/15/- a ton.

March prices were, first grade £6O- - grade £5B/10/-; third grade £56/10/-. (Over) 157 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

Sydney Sales Prices

Mar. 7, ’61 Apr. 12, ’61 Bali Plantations . . 13/- 10/6 Burns Philp .... 91/9 93/3 Burns Philp (SS) . . 55/- 52/- C.S.R £79/10/- £80/10/- Dylup Plantations . 10/5 8/3 Fiji Industries . . . 15/6 12/6 13/6 16/3 6/9 15/6 Hackshall's ....

Kauri Timber . . .

Kerema Rubber . . . 12/6 17/9 6/8 Koltakt 18/6 Lolorua 9/6 8/9 Makurapau .... 4/4 4/1 Maribol 9/6 7/6 Norfolk Is. Whaling . 4/11 4/6 Ditto Notes (5/-) .. 5/5 5/6 Pacific Is. Timbers . 7/- 6/- Plantation Holdings . 4/8 3/9 Queensland Insurance 88/- 83/6 Rubberlands .... 7/- 6/3 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 24/- 24/- Steamships Trading . 47/6 47/6 W. R. Carpenter Hold. 31/6 31/3 Watkins Consolidated 5/- 5/- Timor Oil 5/3 4/-

Oil And Mining Shares

FIJI July 8. ’58 Mar. 7, ’61 Apr. 12, Emperor . . b5/B b3/5 b3/5 Loloma ... — s43/- S42/9 PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . . . b35/b51/b55/- N.G.G. Ltd. bl/9% bl/9 bl/9 Oil Search . b2/6 b2/4 b2/2 Ent. of N.O. h7d b2 Va d s2 Vs d Pac. I. Mines — bll5/bll5/- Papuan Apln. bed b2/b2/10 do. opt. . b6Vfed b3d b3d Placer Dev b86/6 bl47/6 bl61/-j Sandy Creek b4d bSMzd b4d NNG's Oil Fields Are "Drying Up"

Because it had lost £50,000,000 the Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum Co. is preparing to leave the Territory. Dr. H.

H. Brons, head of the company, said in March that the existing wells were “drying up” and production was declining by 3 per cent, a month.

At one time, NNGP had 90 producing wells in Netherlands New Guinea. It has exported oil worth £ 10,000,000 —but it has spent £60,000,000 to get it.

One field which was producing 750 tons a day has dropped to 50 tons and another producing 1,200 tons has dropped to 600. Production will be tapered off gradually and the oil fields will continue steadily declining production for another five years.

The company (owned by the Royal Dutch Shell Group, Standard Vacuum and Caltex) has already sold many of its installations in the Sorong area, including a hospital, wharves, and the company telephone system, to the Government.

Rubber-lands 7 Profit Goes Higher The profit made by Rubberlands Ltd. (one of a group of Papuan plantation companies controlled by Steamships Trading Company) in the year ended December 31, was £20,832, which was substantially higher than that of the previous year.

The estate’s production of 417,930 pounds of dry rubber was over 37,000 pounds more than in 1959, while the average price received, 40.7 per pound, was 7d per pound better than 1959.

The company brought forward £12,223 in P/L Account in 1960, added £20,832 profit for 1960, pays out unchanged dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, (on an issued capital of £100,000), and carries forward £18,056.

Naturally, the directors have nothing to complain about—except a decrease in recent months, in the world price of rubber.

They have £20,000 in a general reserve, and a balance of £lB,OOO of unappropriated funds in the P/L Account.

The directors are Messrs. E. V. Crisp, W. B. Molloy, L. A. Willis, H. D. Underwood, G. M. Cadden and R. J. Paul.

Which is Best Cook Is. Shell?

The recent announcement that Manihiki lagoon will be re-opened this year for shell-fishing has been welcomed in the Cook Islands, for it restores a valuable source of earning power for the Group, writes an Islands correspondent interested in pearl shell trade.

The development lets the overseas market know that —for the next few years, anyway—not more than 100 tons of Manihiki blacklip MOP will be coming on to the market.

This could have the effect of boosting prices. It has been shown that there is still a definite market for this grade of shell, where plastics have made serious inroads in the white shell market.

It is a curious fact that some overseas shell-buyers have wrongly discriminated against Cook Islands blacklip which does not come from Manihiki. Shell of equal quality can be fished at Penrhyn; and there are indications that Suwarrow shell is superior, if anything, to that of Manihiki.

Well founded opinion in the Cooks is that if Penrhyn were “hard-dived” for some years, to clean the lagoon of weed and boring parasites, Penrhyn shell would be fully as good as Manihiki’s.

In post-war years—or, at least, since 1950—the Manihiki shell harvest averaged about 300 tons in the years that the lagoon was fished; so an annual level of 100 tons should be easily achieved.

NNG Timber Co. Developments Industrial and General Credits Ltd., Sydney, an unlisted public company, has, according to a leaflet circulating in Sydney in March, announced an issue of £lOO,OOO registered first mortgage debenture stock at par (£5O) to obtain funds to develop its subsidiary ADI Timber Development Pty. Ltd.

ADI is the first Australian company to obtain a timber concession in Netherlands New Guinea, the grant running for 30 years. According to the IGC announcement, the timber company has already sent its first shipment to Australia, realising gross receipts of nearly £40,600.

The timber was tested and apparently found satisfactory for use in the plywood industry as veneer facings, centre cores and back panels. Orders are in hand for the April shipment to return £67,500, and overseas sales are expected to gross £190,000 before June, said the IGC announcement.

However, following reports in the Sydney Press in early April that 14 Australian employees of ADI Timber Development were stranded without food or wages on Adi Island and that the captain and crew of the company’s supply ship Janis B were “stranded” in Darwin, PIM contacted Industrial and General Credits in Sydney for a statement.

PIM was told that the Press story was “inaccurate” and that the company was “quite sound”. However, two of the six directors of ADI had applied to the Court in Sydney for an order to wind up ADI, and this aoplication was set down for April 24, PIM was told.

An officer of the company said also that the April shipment of timber would not now be received until a little later.

New developments will certainly be awaited with interest by those who have received the circulars or the prospectus seeking more money for the Adi Company.

Now is the Time for Other Coconut Products Now that copra prices are low, it might be well worth-while Islands governments making a concentrated effort to find other, profitable uses for coconut products.

Hawaii has been a pioneer in this field of production. Shredded coconut, coconut syrup, and frozen coconut milk are produced there for export to USA.

At present research is going on in Hawaii and in India into the production of a coconut milk concentrate which will keep over long periods and which can be used as a base in many food industries.

Judging by retail prices of some of these coconut products in Hawaii, they could prove to be a good deal more lucrative than copra once a market had been developed.

More Exported, But Value Less for NNG's 1960 Trade Though there was a rise in quantity of Netherlands New Guinea exports from 261,919 metric tons in 1959 to 271,828 metric tons in 1960, the value dropped from Fls. 23,776,000 f £A2,797,200) in 1959 to Fls. 23,275,000 ( £A2,738,200) last year.

Copra returns declined considerably (in spite of an 800 tons rise in production), as also did the value of crude oil shipments and the export of dammar gum, copal (resin), shell and crocodile skins. Increases were made in timber, mace, nutmeg and cocoa, but were not sufficient to counter the main fall of Fls. 1,250,000 (£A147,250) in crude oil consignments.

NNG’s principal markets were Australia (crude oil), Japan (oil, timber and scrap), and Netherlands (copra and produce).

Papuan Oil Search Goes On The search for oil in Papua by Australasian Petroleum Pty. Company is about to be resumed after a lapse of some months following the failure of the lehi deep bore and withdrawal of financial backing by the overseas partners, British Petroleum and Standard Vacuum.

APC directors, on April 12, announced that marine seismic reflection traverses were to start in mid-April in the entrances of the Turama and Fly rivers in the Gulf of Papua.

Economic Outlook TRADING on Sydney Stock Exchangt during the month has shown a decisive upswing, with heavy buying forcing prices of leading shares higher ’Change opened on April 14 with “Ordinaries” index at 299.68, the highesl this year. Exchanges in London and New York too have experienced buoyant trading in April, without being able to pinpoint any single factor as cause of the market’s changed mood.

A step in the Federal Government’s determination to help increase overseas earnings was a bill introduced in Parliament on April 14 to improve credit facilities for Australian exporters. It allows Exporl Payments Insurance Corporation to expand the present export payments insurance over a wider range of transactions. EPIC is an independent, statutory body financed by the Government; one of its main functions is to reimburse exporters if buyers in other countries cannot meet their commitments. The new measure lends important aid to exporters by giving them a guarantee of payment. 158 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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[?]Slands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are i Australian currency. Aust. £ equals pprozlmately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W. amoa; 18/- FIJI; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & rPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; SUS2.25.) COPRA The British Ministry of Food 9-yeara ontract, which governed Copra prices Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, Western amoa, Solomon Islands, and Gilbert and Ulce Colony (and, to some extent, In onga and Cook Islands) expired on Dejmber 31, 1957; since when each Terrlry has made its own arrangements for Election and marketing of copra.

PAPUA - NEW GUINEA:—All production delivered to Copra Marketing Board ntrolled by six members, including three anters’ representatives; and the Board rects distribution and sales, and makes lyments to the producers. Production ies mainly to (a) Unilever (30,000 tons ider contract covering 1961), (b) Ausalia (30,000 tons for local consumption), ) crushlng-mlll in Rabaul (40,000 tons), id (d) Japan (300 tons per month or are If available). Prices generally arnged in accordance with ruling rate In lilippines market, with premiums for t-air dried.

Prom January 1, 1961, P-NG Copra lard’s Tentative Purchase Prices, for pra delivered main ports: Hot-Air Dried A54/10/- per ton; FMS, £A53 per ton; loke-Dried, £A52 per ton.

FIJI:—No Government control—producers 1 where they wish. Bulk of copra goes crushing-mills in Suva. On April 10 ices were: HAD £F47/15/-, FM P45/5/-.

WESTERN SAMOA:—Official Copra ard takes all production, sells same and ikes payments to producers. In 1961, 00-4,000 tons will go to Abels Ltd., NZ ishers, and about 6,000 tons to Unilever, IT, out of an estimated 15,000 tons proction, under this year’s contracts, ices last year were: Hot-Air Dried, 367/13/8 per ton, Sun-Dried No. 1, 365/3/8, Sun-Dried No. 2. £861/13/8. e 1961 prices have not been made olic yet. rONGA: —Sales are under Government atrol. Part of production goes to Europe, der arrangement with Unilever conned by Philippines prices, and part to open market.

SOLOMON IS.: —All production marketed ough official BSI Copra Board, at prices :ed on Philippines rates. Of the >tectorate’s 1961 output (about 20,000 is), 14,000 tons will go to Unilever, i; 4,000 tons to Australian crushers; i the balance sold on the open market. :al price (which is partly financed from erves) for April: 1st grade. £A51/10/-, I grade, £A50; 3rd grade, £A47/10/ton, f.o.b., BSIP ports.

HUBERT AND ELLICE:—Production rketed In Europe through official Copra ard, at prices based on Philippines es, less “stabilisation fund" charges. • SAMOA:—Producers receive 7 cents lb. rS156.8 or £ A 70/4/6 approx, per long ). Periodic bonus, if average proceeds eed Govt, buvlng price and expenses.

JEW HEBRIDES:—In early April, rket was described as “very weak”; :e was approx. £A34 (7,000 Pac. ncs) per ton delivered Vila/Santo nch price on Apr. 7 was 81 heavy ncs per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

OOK IS.: —Subject to the copra tract provisions between Cook Is. apers and Abels, Ltd., of Auckland. • operate the only NZ copra crushing , the price paid is average London :e for previous three months, less handling charges. Price fixed for first quarter of 1961: £NZS6/0/2 Ist grade, £NZS4/15/2 standard grade—both fob Rarotonga.

TOKELAUS: Price is based on the average London price for the month prior to shipment to Auckland crushers.

Other Produce

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Ghana cocoa which on Apr 13 was £ Stg. 170 per ton c.i.f., Sydney.

W. SAMOA;—Nominal price quoted in Sydney on Apr. 13: £SIBS, f.0.b., Apia grade 1; £SI7S, grade 2.

P.-N.G.: Apr. 13—Quote No. 1: £2OO (top grade), £l9O (medium), £IBO (low).

Quote No. 2. £l9O (medium quality).

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: Apr. 13, good quality A grade, per lb, 4/1; B grade 4/-; C grade, 3/- c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas coffee prices were reported on Apr. 12 as: Tanganyika A £ 5tg.345 per ton, B £Stg.33o; Ungraded £Stg.3lo Kenya A £Stg.4oo, B £Stg.3ss; Ungraded £Stg.3lo; Uganda Robusta Stg.l4s.

PEANUTS: P.N.G.: F.0.b., Lae, Apr. 12, Kernels: White Spanish 1/4 lb; Red Spanish, 1/1; Virginia Bunch, 1/6. In Shell, 1/- lb. (del. buyer’s store, Sydney).

RUBBER;—P.-N.G price is based on Singapore rate, which on Apr. 11 was: No. 1 RSS, Spot, 88 Va Straits cents per lb (30.86 and Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp Tulk & Cos., Sydney, reported Apr. 14: White and yellow label, processed, standard packs. 49/9; green label, 47/9, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices as 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. Vltamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £63 per ton f.0.w.; under 5 tons, £63/10/- per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £66 per ton f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Australian M.O.P. Shell on Apr. 14 by Sydney independent shell agents were; Sound £ A 825, D £ASSO, E £A3OO, EE £AI9O (in store Sydney). Cook Islands: Penrhyn £NZSOO (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS: Quote No. I.—Papua-N.G. £l3s per ton, c.i.f., Sydney; 8.5.1. £145 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney. Quote No. 2: Papua-NG, 8.5.1,—£ 145/£ 150 per ton.

GREEN SNAIL short supply; £4BO per ton.

CROCODILE SKINS: 12 in. and over, small-scale, first quality: P.-N.G.—l2/per in.; 8.5.1.—15/- per in.

PAPUAN GUM: £95 per ton delivered buyer’s store, Sydney.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Cos.

Suva, quote P 2- to F 4- lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Suva merchants offer P3/per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

London and US Quotations Copra: LONDON, Apr. 13, Philippines, in bulk, $169 US per long ton, c.i.f., UK/ Nth. European ports. Malayan, ’ FMS delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European £ Stg.63/10/- per long ton. NEW YORK; Apr. 13, Philippines $157.50 US per short ton, c.i.f. Pacific Coast ports.

CEYLON: 860 Rupees per ton, c.i.f. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars; £1 Aust. equals approx lOVa Rupees).

Coconut Oil: LONDON, Apr. 13, Ceylon, 1%, in bulk, £Stg.96 per ton, c.i.f., UK/ North European ports. Straits, 3% £Stg.9o c.i.f.

Rubber: LONDON, Apr. 11, c.i.f., RSS No. 1, Spot, 26d. Stg. per lb.; RSS July/ Sept. 26Vad. Stg. lb.; May shipment 25%d.

Stg. lb. 159 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

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Buyers Of Islands Produce

Index to Advertisers Academy Drive Yourself .. 47 Adams Industries 31, 133, 135, 145 Angliss, W„ & Co 54 Amal. Dairies 4 Ansett-A.N.A 134 A. Bank 9 Arnott, Wm 162 Aust. Cotton 46 Aust. Nat. Industries . . .. 104 Ballina Slipway 106 Bank of N.S.W 128 Berec 68 Bethell, Gwyn 149 Blaxland-Rae 99 B. 154 Bosley Clipper Co 121 Bradford Installations . 66 Braybon Bros 13 British Dairies . . 72, 88 British Paints 16 Brunton & Co 73 Bush, W. J 116 B.P. .. 35, 44, 84, 131, cov. iii Cadbury 110 Cambridge Credit 156 Carlton Breweries . 58, 129 Carpenter Ltd. 62, 164, cov. iv Carnation Milk Co 14 Commonwealth Bank .. .. 138 Cheoy Lee 103 Colgate 70 Colonial Meat 112 Colyer Watson 69 Concrete Industries 52 Crammond Co 114 Cystex 111 Degenhardt, C 157 Donald Ltd 143 Douglas, W., Co 101 Dunlop Rubber 52 Filmo Depot 71 Firth Cleveland 120 Franke & Heidecke .. 72 Frigate Rum 143 Gardner Eng 100 Garrett, D. & M 157 Gilbey, W. & A 15 Gillespie Bros 92 Gillespie, R. . .. 1, 82, 83 Glaxo Lab 45 Grove Ltd 88, 102 Halvorsen, B 98 Handi-Works Co 64 Hari, G. B 74 Hastings Diesels 90 Hellaby Ltd 95 Hemingway Robertson Institute 36 Henderson, J. G 47 Industrial Enterprises .. .. 130 International Harvester . . 42 Johnston G. 60 Kanimbla Hall 71 Kerr Bros 127 Kiwi Polish 131 Kopsen & Co 163 Kraft Food Co 5, 11 Lanes Pty. Ltd 56 Lawrence, A 92 Lysaght, J 6, 10 Mac. Robertson 7 Mai leys Ltd 136 Matson Line 148 Mendaco Ill Millers Ltd 117 M. H. Ltd 24, 55 Mungo Scott 123 Nestles 43 N. Aust. Line 81 Nile Products 94 Nixoderm Ill N. & R 36 Ogden Industries 50 Pacific Islands Transport Line 149 Parke Davis 59,126 Penfold, W. C, & Co. . ..135 Philips 38, 127 P. I. Society 71 Piccaninny Wax 118 P. and 0. Orient 102 Pring Dean 159 Prouds 115 Qantas 124 Qld. Insurance 132 Rex Hotels .. 12 Rosicrucians, The 122 Royal Interocean Lines . .. 68 Sanitarium 34 Schmidt, J 61 Seismic Supply 60 Seward Ltd 89 Shaw Savill 151 Shell Chemical Co 2 Sisalcraft 123 S. P. Brewery 93 Sparklets i; Stapleton, J li Steamships Tr T Stephens, F. H ; Stewarts Lloyd ; Sthn. Pac. Ins l: Sullivan Ltd ]< T.A'.A cov.

Taikoo dockyard ' Tait, W. S ( Tallerman ; Tatham, S. E 1 1 Taubman's Ltd T.E.A.L 1.

Thornycroft Co H Tilley Lamp Co i; Thornburgh College .. .. ll Ti I lock & Co : Tooth & Co H Turners Supply Co K United Insurance 1: Victa Mowers . .. , . . .. 1 Vega Displays li Ventura T Vi-Stim 1; Walkers Ltd 1 Warnock Bros Webster, D Wesley College 1: Weymark Pty. Ltd 1: Whites Aviation h Wilhelmsen, W Woods, W. E 40, 1 Wright and Co Yardley Yorkshire Ins li 160 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Classified Advertisements Per line. 4/-: Minimum rate. 4 lines.

Car Hire In England

1959/61 Cars, 8/25 h.p. to drive yourself, from £3B per month (May/ Sept.) including comprehensive insurance and A.A. membership. Delivered to docks or airport.

Martins Selfdrive, 49/50 High St., Winchester, England.

FOR SALE

Make Offer On Property. Two

Adjacent Blocks Land, two roods each, Town Water Front, close Administration Offices and Wharf. Home furnished, adjacent store. Small cottage furnished, Flag Pole, Out Kitchen, Boy House, workshop 20 x 30, shed 30 x 40. Galv!

Iron and Timber. Battery “set-up” and town electricity. Hand Saw Set, Tropical fruits. On Daru, Western Papua.

Please enquire to: L. Maidment, 172 Vimiera Road, Eastwood, N.S.W.

SHIPBROKERS (AUCKLAND) LTD., offer a wide range of craft. Consult us for your requirements. Post Office, Box 1679, Auckland, N.Z. Cables and Telegrams: “Shipsales”, Auckland.

FLEETS. New 40 ft carvel bridge deck cruiser, new mar. diesel £9,000. Shallow draft, 160 ft twin screw, diesel, steel general purpose ship £50,000. Diesel draft 160 ft twin screw, diesel, steel with opening bow, £90,000. Fleets: Rowe’s Building, Edward St., Brisbane, Qld., Aust. Cable: “FLEETS”. Brisbane.

Trade Enquiries

HONGKONG EXPORTING HOUSE holding many important exclusive agencies and handling all Hongkong and Japan products wishes to appoint Agents. Free samples supplied. Interested parties write direct to P. 0., Box 13202, Hong Kong.

EXPORT CONSUMER GOODS; apparel, footwear, foodstuffs. Import Islands products. Please apply: Mercantile Trading Co., P.O. Box 131, Hong Kong. Cable: Mertracomy.

Agents Wanted

EXPORTERS require agents or importers on all Islands to handle an excellent brand of canned foods. Reply to: Empire Emporium, Box 2124, Auckland, N.Z.

Stamps Wanted

Top Prices Paid For Island

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulations (used or unused), covers, collections.

Seven Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd., Sterling Street, Dubbo, N.S.W., Aust.

STAMPS AUSTRALIA COMPLETE USED, from 1945 on, as listed in Gibbons Part 1, on approval ($11.20 or £4 deposit required from overseas). Apply: L. K. Stoddart, Jr., Box 1539 M, G.P.0., Adelaide, S.A.

Books, Magazines

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St,, Sydney.

Telephone: BW 7874.

TENDERS SNDERS in envelopes endorsed DAM JNSTRUCTION PLANT, close at 10.30 m. on May 4, 1961, with the Water mservation and Irrigation Commission, ix 2708, G.P.0., SYDNEY, N.S.W., for e purchase “as is where is’’ of the llowing major items of plant located Keepit Dam, approximately 320 miles rth of Sydney and 25 miles from arest rail head at Gunnedah, N.S.W. ch item of plant to be sold separately d must be removed by the successful aderer within two (2) months of the te notified by the Commission in letter acceptance of tender.

GENERATING PLANT Composite EAM and DIESEL generating plant, ree (3) Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 0 (2) Beilis and Morcom Steam engines ving two (2) Allegemeine 6,600 volt ernators, total 700 K. Watts, five (5) rrlees —Brush Diesel engine driven 415 t alternators feeding through step-up nsformers to 6,600 volts total 977 K. itts. TOTAL CAPACITY OF STATION '7 KILO-WATTS. Multi panelled tchboard with synchronising for all en (7) units. —CABLEWAYS —Two Cableways each h high and low gears, span 1,600 feet ween 80 ft. high steel head and tail rers, made by Perry Engineering Co., ;laide (at present dismantled and red under cover), -SPARE PARTS for the above plant, 1 for Aggregate Screening, Grading, ishing and Washing Plant, Scalping nt and Concrete Mixing and Batching nt which have already been disposed are also available for disposal f or ch separate prices are required. Sales where appropriate will be charged on spare parts, ecurity deposit of 5 per cent, of dered price must accompany each ler and will be forfeited should the :essful tenderer fail to meet conons regarding payment and removal; osits returned to unsuccessful lerers.

I particulars of plant for sale obtaini from the Commission’s Principal hanical Engineer (Phone B 0535 Ext. i and from the Resident Engineer, at pit Dam. A. J. QUILTY, Secretary.

Rive Yourself Cars

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Imum formalities. Rates include inmce and free mileage plan. Aircraft ships met. Queen’s Road, Walu Bay, * (P.O. Box 299). Cables: “Hiredrive”, a. Also at Lautoka.

Penfriends Wanted

I —" The Crossroads of the Pacific”. dquarters, World's leading Society :. 1933) providing world-wide espondents interested in British inles and Pacific Islands study and ndly exchange of Ideas and hobbles Philately, Conchology, etc. Write specimen copy Club journal "Island and application form, to Secretary, th Sea Island Correspondence Club, uvu. Pill Is.

Wanted To Buy

PRIMITIVE CURIOS, weapons, war clubs, carvings in wood, stone or ivory, etc.

Write: Park Lane Antiques, 515 Howe St., Vancouver, Canada.

EDUCATIONAL SYDNEY, North Shore, full secretarial training, Pitman’s Shorthand. short courses. Lindfield Secretarial Training Centre, 12 Milray St., Lindfield, N.S.W., Australia.

ACCOMMODATION FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydney Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., Q.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Aust.

THE YORKSHIRE INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated in England)

All Classes Of

INSURANCE Including Fire Accident Guarantee Motor Workers Marine

Papua And New Guinea Branch

James Arcade, Cuthbertson St., Port Moresby.

Manager, 0. S. Pudney.

Chief Island Representatives

Port Moresby . . . E. A. James & Co.

Rabaul A.S.P. (N.G.) Ltd.

Lae Paul Hyman Madang Roy Macgregor Manus .... Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.

Honiara, 8.5.1. P. . . E. V. Lawson, Ltd.

Suva Williams & Gosling Ltd.

Noumea R. Laubreaux Norfolk Island A. E. Martin Apia E. A. Coxon & Co. 161 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1961

* * * m

Triple-Wrapped

Moisture-Proof

PACKETS P& iliiriir ' WMmfM $ * 0 o m K B i>- T N * * ?? * * «3 * * * * #; WHEN NOT IN USE,

Keep In A Closed

Tin To Maintain

Crisp Freshness

Qrnott's fiunou* Biscuits There is no Substitute for Quality X/EXMA/I 162 APRIL, 1961 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

* Australia’S Leading Marine Suppliers Since 1878

W. KOPSEN & (0. PTY. LTD W m *a H 376-382 KENT ST., SYDNEY Cables—"KOPSEN", Sydney Phone: 8X6331 ■1 1 lines Take the Wishiri out of Fishiri WITH NEW SONARSCOPE

Fish Finder

Sonarscope operates on an ultrasonic wave developed by the navy and will gauge the depth from 0 to 160 ft. in salt or fresh water. It is a valuable depth indicator, hazard locator and fish spotter, all register clearly on the screen. Gimbal-mounted, it is suitable for all boats.

MADE IN THE U.S.A. vow.

An Inboard - Outboard

Volvo-Penta

t AQIIAMATIC ★ e is something new for boating, a power package that combines the t features of an inboard and an outboard. It has swept America h over 14,000 units being sold in the first production yea'-, and now available in Australia and the Islands. Built in Sweden it is a 4 stroke engine with reverse gears, 80 h.p. and great manoeuvrability.

It's easily installed. • Most attractive. • Power packed. • Efficient and Quiet. • Compact, little maintenance.

With half the fuel consumption of an outboard in the same size.

C.Q.R. ANCHORS e British Plow Anchors have terrific holding power and only third of the weight of ordinary anchors is required. Sizes from 5 lbs. to 170 lbs. o * o 1. tilt protection, trailer mobility 2. high-transom safety 3. a counterbalanced transom (no engine bed) 4. steering with propeller 5. compact installation allows more space in your boat DEKOL Wood and Canvas Preserver. Made in two grades. For wood it will positively protect timber and plywood against dry rot, decay, white ants, borers, teredo. For canvas it will stop mildew, rot, decay, and will give a waterproof seal.

Made in green or colourless. Pts., Qts., \ gal., 1 gal. or 4 gal. tins available.

R ALL YOUR MARINE REQUIREMENTS, WRITE OR CABLE W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD. 163 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1961

ELECTROLUX *•> M £2 m <C-J MODEL L5l ... the refrigerator with a difference..

ELECTROLUX the universal refrigerator for every household need. • A convenient full-width frozen storage section. • Trays with easy release handles for ice cubes, ice cream, frozen desserts. • Rustless food shelves with special provision for upright bottle storage. • Vitalises to keep fruit and vegetables fresh and dewy crisp. • Glacier blue porcelain enamel lining with oven-baked enamel exterior in Cream or Polar White. • A special compartment in the door for butter or cheese . . . racks for eggs and for bottles. Chrome plated cover strips protect the front edges of these racks. • The cabinet interior is illuminated with an electric light which comes on and goes off automatically when the cabinet door is opened or shut. The light can be connected to a 6v. or 12v. battery ... to your own homelighting plant ... or to a town supply.

Motorless, ever-silent freezing unit has no moving parts and is guaranteed for FIVE (5) YEARS.

See your local Electrolux agent now: NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavleng, Kokopo. ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby. 5.C.1.E., Noumea. 8.5.1. P. TRADING CORP., Honiara, Gizo. BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD., Vila, Santo. F. J. R. SIMMONDS, Norfolk Island W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, NSW PHONE BL 5421 Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set up and printed In Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta Street. Sydnev.

BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

General Merchants

General Shipping

& Customs Agents

Agents for; Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

The Shell Co. of Australia Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds (Distributors) Pty. Ltd.

Australian Agents: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. (All States) London Agents Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., London, E.C.3.

San Francisco Agents: Burns Philp Co. of San Francisco EXPORTERS OF:

Coffee Beans, Cocoa

Beans, Peanuts, Rubber

and TROCAS SHELL OVERSEAS TRADE ENQUIRIES NVITED For service throughout the Islands HEAD OFFICE:

Port Moresby

BRANCHES; Port Moresby Kainantu Samarai Madang Kavieng Kokopo Wewak t { Goroko / \ Rabaul / \ Bulolo / \ Daru / \\WauL Lae IttK / \* Buco T FERTILISER % °o 8P ov ELECTRICAL GOODS TRACTORS AND MACHINERY 41 o r , STATIONERY W/A-- Sa DRAPtR*Y Or

Floor Coverings

Sugar BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

APRIL 1961 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

t iifi « APITAL £10,000,000 J3XSST w. “ ~— tme^m ASSOCIATED COMPANIES: NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng.

Coconut Products Ltd., Rabaul.

PAPUA: Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

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

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

Suva Motors Ltd., Suva.

Island Industries Ltd., Suva.

General Merchants

Forty-six years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands Wholesalers and Retailers.

Buyers for Island trade of all classes of merchandise from World Markets.

Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

Agents for Australian European and American Manufacturers including Electrolux, Chrysler, Ford, McCallum's Whisky, Victa Mowers, Enfield Engines.

Buying Enquiries

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: Morris Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Connell St., Sydney.

Carpenter & Co. Ltd

27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Established 1914 Cable Address: "CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address; G.P.O. Box 168, Sydney' PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1961