Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXXIII, No. 5 ( Dec. 1, 1962)
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Pacific Islands Monthly DECEMBER, 1962 VOL. XXXIII. NO. 5.

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DECEMBER, 1962 A "New Look" New Guinea as the Bar-room Doors are Thrown Open for All 5 Opportunity Soon for Talks on Fiji Political Change 7 Fiji Introduces a Stay-put Budget .... 7 New Era in Trans-Pacific Telecommunications 8 NG Anger Over Press Reports 9 Rabaul Aids Battered Guam 10 New Tariff Gives Confidence to NG Coffee Industry 10 Move to Solve 34-Year-Old Sea Mystery 11 COMMENTARY 13 Britain's Common Market Plan for South Seas 15 Indonesia Wants Earlier WNG Takeover 16 Tropicalities 17 From the Islands Press 21 New Competition for South Seas Air Routes 23

Territories Talk-Talk 29

Fijian's Plea for a South Seas Colombo Plan 34 Sparks Fly Over Those Old Polynesian Voyages 28 Bishop Strong New Archbishop of Brisbane 41 Protests Over NG Shipping Priorities 43 Brett Milder Profile 44 Emotional Welcome Home for Tongan Castaways 47 New P-NG Council Composition "Aimed at Future Needs" 51 £3-Million Loans Under NG Credit Scheme 55 One Million Samoans in 100 Years? 56 Another Trade Gap for Fiji 57 Red Interest in Samoan Politicians 57 Malaria is NG's Number One Health Problem 61 Uncle Sam Builds an Island "Paradise" 63 SPC Review Conference Next Year 65 New Training Centre Could Mean Dramatic Changes 71 Alfred Poroi, New Senator for French Polynesia 73 Fiji's Souvenir Business is Booming 75 Fiji Luxury Items Will be Duty Free 77 Fred Hargesheimer Says Thanks With a School 77 Raft Experiment Could Lead to Bonanza for Fishermen 78 MAGAZINE SECTION 83

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A 'New Look' New Guinea As the Bar-room Doors Are Thrown Open for All From Correspondents in Papua-New Guinea Papua-New Guinea’s new liquor laws have brought about a big change in the Territory’s social habits—but no murders or mayhem. The first month of the new laws has ended without any major incidents, but with a general quickening of drinking activity among the natives, who took the first week very quietly indeed.

According to some social workers there are signs that some families are going hungry while the men drink their wages, and there is apprehension that this practice will grow, causing domestic upsets. It is too early yet to report a trend. But people, particularly missionaries, with experience in other South Pacific islands where drink has been introduced, point out that the first few months are not really a test, as everybody is on their best behaviour. Trouble can develop later.

IHE new laws come into effect on November 2, the ordinance unr which they operate being a temirary one. It will be reconsidered at other meeting of the P-NG Legis- ;ive Council early in the new year.

The new laws lifted a total ban on ink for natives.

Both sexes, over 18, may drink ything they like on licensed preses, or on social occasions when jy are guests. But they may purase only beer to drink at home. ie laws apply to almost two miln natives, but hundreds of thouids of these are in wild areas icre they are never likely to be inested in liquor.

The Acting Administrator, Dr. tin Gunther, went on the air on ; eve of D-Day to appeal to the od sense of the native population Dt to rush into hotels and drink to :ess just to use the new opportunity buy liquor.”

He also appealed to them to keep :ir liquor spending to a sum they ild afford without neglecting family ponsibilities. ‘There is nothing clever about be- : able to drink,” he added.

Phe Secretary for Law, Mr. W. itkins, the same evening on the air dined the drinking laws and hours. told the new drinkers that hotels re open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. inday to Saturday and from 11 i. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. until 7 i. on Sundays.

Fie said stores with licences could 1 only a dozen bottles of beer at ime. Clubs “belonged to the mem- ■s” and natives could not enter a club unless they were members or invited by members. Clubs could remain open from 10 a.m. to 12 midnight daily.

He stressed that Legislative Council members “would be interested in the way the native people were drinking,” because they could alter the laws.

Most hotels in the main centres of Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul reported very quiet trading for the first day or two. On the first day at Rabaul a few natives wandered into the town’s two hotels, but at lunchtime there was not a solitary one at the bars. Some filtered in after lunch and by late afternoon there were only a handful on one side of the bars, with Europeans on the other.

But trade picked up the first evening, and after that Territory hotels reported a big increase in natives in the bars, while the Europeans retreated to the clubs.

Hardened topers line up at the bar and cling tooth and nail to their preferred positions while those in the back clamor for attention. The scene is little different from Sydney’s legendary “swill” except that these drinkers are mostly barefoot (except those who charitably share their footwear around), regard their drinking utensils of thin plastic as being as disposable as a coconut, so that one hotel lost 2,000 in one week, and think it no social error to upthrow before company.

One hotel admits to closing for hours at a time so that the bar-room can be swabbed out for another session. They’ve also had to close because of shortage of stock and there’s no gainsaying the increased custom hotels are enjoying.

As one manager put it, “Our takings have gone up 200 per cent.—and we’ll never ever be short of silver again”.

Not so happy are other town businessmen who have noticed a falling off in native trade. Most affected are those who previously catered for the sly grog trade and for whom few have sympathy. Others mentally tot the value of beer cartons being The Hard Facts of Life A European in Lae decided he would initiate his house boys into the new art of hotel drinking.

He explained that he would buy the first drinks and after that it would be polite for them to “shout” the next two rounds.

They all downed their drinks, but when the time came for the shouting the boys didn’t feel so well. The boss suggested they sit out in his car until they felt better while he shouted a round for himself.

He later came out to find them asleep. There was no work done in the house next morning, but both boys announced that if that was liquor they were on the water wagon for life.

It's official now. He can drink. With a cold bottle and a plastic glass, this Rabaul Tolai is apparently satisfied with the new liquor laws. 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1962

put aboard homegoing village trucks and calculate this expediture means less to be spent on amusements such as picture shows and soft drinks, and clothing, etc.

Even hotelkeepers despair that their boom trade brings with it unmentionable bar-room manners and sheer “filth”.

“They must be taught how to drink,” is their despairing cry, and as yet no one body has taken on the task. When to stop drinking, not to slop, to stand aside for the other fellow, to observe the barest rules of hygiene, are matters of behaviour yet to be instilled into the native imbiber.

While dropping of the drink barriers was intended as a means of removing discrimination and thus transcending the gulf between white and brown it has in these early days worked in reverse.

Few Europeans have not got an opinion on the vital subject of native drinking, but most confine their feelings in one sentence, “They’re the same as us now,” —their tone belying any such relationship.

Others predict worse to follow.

Even some seasoned police are beginning to say that liquor could be the means of releasing pent-up tribal hatreds in the weeks ahead. But these are mere predictions.

Native Clubs?

Many native leaders for the first time seem to have become aware of the advantages of the clubs, and there are already moves for the natives to establish their own. One of the first to move was Port Moresby’s Hanuabada village after a councillor reported that he saw some bad feeling among drinkers in Port Moresby hotels and he thought it would be better for people to drink in their own villages. There were similar moves in Rabaul.

The anti-drinking forces in the Territory were planning for a combined onslaught by the end of the first month. They were led by the Administration, which was organising a conference of Territory bodies for mid-December in Port Moresby. Expected to attend was Pastor Ernest Steed, of Sydney, a leading Seventhday Adventist and temperance organiser.

The Administration is aiding Territory organisations to conduct temperance education. It is also giving financial assistance. There has been a temporary ban placed on liquor advertisements in the Territory Press.

The Administration wrote to 192 organisations and individuals throughout P-NG in October, inviting them to assist in the education programme.

One new society formed was the SEVA—Society Encouraging Voluntary Abstinence —whose secretary is the Rev. Paul Parkin, of the Port Moresby United Church. More than 400 people of all races, including 30 Europeans, attended the first meeting in November, when it was announced that the society would extend throughout P-NG. Missionaries of various churches addressed the meeting.

Mr. Parkin said that already people were going hungry in Port Moresby because food money was being spent on liquor.

Highlights of the month: • There was a battle of dress in the early stages. Hotels insisted native bar drinkers had to wear shirts and shoes, but this was impossible to police. Barmaids complained of stiff necks received from craning over the bar to check on thousands of feet.

Finally, bare feet were “in”. • Beer prices caused confusion when it was found hotels had no uniform standards. In Port Moresby the price of locally brewed beer was finally fixed at 4/3d a bottle, 2/3d a half, whether the bottle was drunk at the bar or taken away. There is to be a general review of Territory prices. • In Rabaul, many natives used to paying 5/- for a can of beer from their sly-grog suppliers were amazed when they found they could buy carton of 24 cans for £2/7/-. Mar natives everywhere drank cold be< for the first time—and liked it. • P-NG parents were concernc about the possibility of young rm drinking when away at school. 11 Education Department made it cle; that even students over the age < 18 would not be permitted to tal liquor to schools and colleges < drink it there.

Free Glasses! • An Administration official one out-station told the natives the: was no need to wear shoes at tl local hotel. Later the hotel manag ment reported that drinkers were tai ing their shoes off and leaving the outside the hotel while they dran putting them on for the walk home • One European who forcibly ii pressed on his boy that he must suitably dressed at the hotel, foui himself left with two right she while the boy was at the pub wes ing the two left ones. • Many native drinkers believ\ they bought the glass with the be<; and the Lae Hotel lost six gross glasses the first fortnight. Mai hotels are now supplying plastic paper tumblers. • Concern was being expressed the amount of foodstuffs being 1J over from some weekend marke and the fact that natives were draE ing regular sums from their savin accounts.

Time: 4.10 p.m. Scene: Any P-NG hotel. At first the rule was that shoes must be worn in the bar, but the rule didn't last. Bare feet and betel nut are now accepted, so long as behaviour is good. And so far behaviour has been good. 6 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LI

Opportunity Soon For Talks On Fiji Political Changes From a Suva Correspondent A hint that there might be constitutional changes in Fiji was given by the Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, when he addressed the Budget session of the Legislative Council late in November. He said it was unrealistic to suppose that the status quo could be maintained indefinitely—he did not believe it was in the interests of the Fijians or Fiji that it should. »UT, the Governor emphasised, * the extent and timing of changes uld entail safeguarding legitimate ian interests, particularly of the nership of Fijian land and of ;quate Fijian representation in the il service.

Hie said that reluctance to accept mge (by the Fijians) meant also it the constitution of Fiji continued be based on a system not devised modern conditions.

Fiji had become an important itre in the Pacific with opportuni- ; for education steadily improving, 1 more and more people from the lony were obtaining higher educai overseas.

Economically, the Colony was pressing rapidly, and with that press there came new standards, ler horizons, and more numerous Hems.

Greater Responsibility 'With these changing conditions, h within Fiji and in the outside rid, the time is approaching for people of Fiji to accept greater sensibility for the government of country,” Sir Kenneth said, le said that the Under-Secretary State for the Colonies, Mr. N. T.

Fisher, hoped to visit Fiji early t year. Mr. Fisher would want to m the views of all sections of the imunity about the future of the ony, "he Governor urged the public, members of the legislature, to ik seriously about the constitulal question so that they could ce their considered views known Mr. Fisher.

"he five Fijian members of the incil listened intently to Sir Keni. They are resolutely opposed to constitutional changes which ht jeopardise their land rights, are not wholly convinced that >e would be preserved if the Colony were given a greater measure of self-rule.

The Council adjourned soon after hearing the Budget address of the Financial Secretary (see below) and was not expected to resume till about December 4.

Observers expect fireworks will start soon after.

Fiji Introduces A Stayput Budget From a Suva Correspondent Fiji s budget for 1963 is a “stayput” document with no changes in the main revenue producing heading of Customs and excise duty and income tax. The only handout will be a removal of duty on luxury items bought chiefly by tourists. The Financial Secretary, Mr H P Ritchie, later will introduce a motion into the Legislative Council setting out the items which can be bought duty-free.

MR. RITCHIE had budgeted for a recurrent budget deficit of £81,474. But he issued a stern warning about the dangers of deficit budgeting. He said the deficit could have been avoided by imposing additional taxation.

“But I consider that such a course would be incorrect at the present juncture,” he said.

The budget provides for recurrent expediture of £8,813,784, with four items over the £1,000,000 mark.

These are annual recurrent works at £1,344,845, education at £1,314,960, miscellaneous at £1,077,824 and medical at £1,015,291.

The capital budget of £3,108,078 makes the estimate of next year’s spending £11,921,862. Capital works at £1,168,134 is the biggest item in the capital budget.

Mr. Ritchie expects revenue for the recurrent budget to reach £8,732,310, of which Customs will provide £4,230,000, and internal revenue and licences £2,294,980. He expects the capital budget revenue to be £3,027,536 with Colonial Development and Welfare funds at £1,458,836 and capital loans at £1,240,000 providing the bulk.

Commenting on the Government’s decision to remove duty on luxury items sought by tourists, which was made earlier than expected (see p. 77), The Fiji Times said: “Some temporary reservations of praise are necessary until the list of goods affected reveals whether the matter has been approached boldly or halfheartedly. If the full benefits are to be obtained, an aggressive boldness is needed on the part of all concerned.

“On an appointed day, the prices of the nominated goods should come down sharply and spectacularly in Fiji’s shops, and the full resources of the Fiji Visitors Bureau and any other source of publicity overseas should be applied "vigorously to spreading the news.

“The new system should be brought in as soon as possible, and certainly not later than January 1, 1963.”

This fine new hall, to be known as the Pioneer's War Memorial Hall, is being built in Rabaul by the parishioners of St. George the Martyr's Church, mainly with voluntary labour.

To the memory of industrial, commercial and agricultural pioneers, the hall will accommodate on its top floor an auditorium, stage, dressing rooms, kitchen and dining hall; on the ground floor will be two suites of airconditioned offices, manual arts workshop, toilets and free play area. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1962

New Era In Trans - Pacific Telecommunications A new era in telecommunications between Fiji, New Zealand and Australia will begin on December 3 when the second link in the Commonwealth Pacific Cable project (COMPAC) comes into operation.

THE new link will enable 12 high quality telephone conversations to be held simultaneously between Fiji and the other two countries. It will also provide facilities for the transmission of high-quality telegraphic and telex messages, and pictures The COMPAC project, estimated to cost £33 million, will eventually link Australia and Canada. When completed, it will provide 80 simultaneous two-way channels.

Each channel could alternatively be used for up to 60 telegraph or teleprinter channels or for the transmission of picturegrams, or music or voice broadcasts.

The first COMPAC link, between Auckland and Sydney, was officially opened on July 9 when the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, and his New Zealand counterpart, Mr. Holyoake, spoke to each other by telephone.

The laying of the second cable link, between Suva and Auckland, began on October 17. It was carried out by the British Post Office cable ship Monarch and the repair ship Retriever, owned by Cable and Wireless Ltd.

The next two sections of the COM- PAC cable, between Fiji and Hawaii, and from Hawaii to Vancouver, will be laid by the newly-built British cable ship Mercury, which sailed for the Pacific in November.

These two sections of cable are expected to be put down by the end of 1963. The COMPAC cable will then be connected by land-line across Canada to a new trans-Atlantic cable (CANTAT) between Canada and Great Britain, which was opened in November, 1961.

Following the completion of the COMPAC project, the cable ship Mercury will begin work on a £24 million project known as SEACOM.

This project will link Australia by cable with New Guinea, North Borneo, Singapore and Hongkong by 1967. .

The order of construction of SEA- COM (South-East Asia-Commonwealth) will probably give priority to the Singapore-North Borneo-Hongkong section.

From North Borneo (Jesselton), there will be a spur cable to Madang, New Guinea, which will link with a cable to Cairns, North Queensland, At Cairns, the system will be carried on a new inland route to Sydney, where it will join the COMPAC trans-Pacific system, The SEACOM cable will thus connect the countries of South-East Asia not only with Australia but with New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Canada and the United Kingdom, The opening of the Suva-Auckland link in this vast telecommunications project will mean the closure, after 60 years, of the Norfolk Island cable relay station.

The Norfolk Island station has been in use since December, 1902, when the first trans-Pacific cable came into operation.

This cable, which links Vancouver with Australia and New Zeala through Fanning Island and Su splits at Suva—one section going Southport, Queensland, via Norf( Island and the other to New Zealai In the early days, the Norf< Island and other relay stations w< operated manually and signals wi copied and retransmitted along i next section of cable.

In the 1920’5, when the automs regenerator system was introduc the staff at repeater stations was c< siderably reduced, and for ma years Norfolk Island has emplo) only six key men at its station.

This staff has comprised manager, a supervising engineer a four watchkeeper-technicians. Lo Island staff have been employed outside maintenance. One vetei islander, Mr. J. D. Edward, has spi 27 years at the station. Only e watchkeeper will remain when station closes.

The closing of the station will Norfolk’s second economic setbi this year—the other being the curt ment of whaling from the island From December 3, the Departm of Civil Aviation and the Overs Telecommunications Commiss (Australia) will co-operate to prov a telegraphic service between N folk Island and Australia. The D' will provide the facilities and OTC will provide a telegraphist v will be stationed at the airport.

The service will operate from: a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from Z p.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays to Frid and between 9 and 10 a.m. on Sat days. Telegrams may be lodged eitr at the airport or the Kingston p office.

There will be no increase in ti gram and cable charges.

Samoan Head of State Gravely III Tupua Tamasese Mea’ole, one of the two Fautua who, as Heads of State, take the place of a monarch in the Constitution of Western Samoa (independent since January) is gravely ill in Apia.

He went to New Zealand durthe year, and underwent operations which involved the removal of one lung; but, although he rallied, he has not been able tc resume duty.

The other Head of State is Malietoa Tanumafele, who is considerably younger than Tama sese.

The cable station at Norfolk Island, which will close down after 60 years' service on December 3.

Photo: Ken Mullen 8 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

More Baby Gardens Bougainville’s Hahalas Welfare Society is still “baby gardening’’

That is, it is still selecting young women to give birth to children out of wedlock.

P-NG’s Acting Administrator, Dr. John Gunther, announced this in November after visiting Bougainville. The Hahalas “society’’ comprises a group of native heretics who came into prominence following the Buka riots earlier this year.

Said Dr. Gunther : “What we have to do, and do quickly, is to try to persuade the Hahalas people to give up their obnoxious, immoral practices and re-enter the church that has done so much for them.”

Anger In New Guinea Over Newspaper Sensationalism From a Mt. Hagen Correspondent Moves are being made in the New Guinea Highlands to combat the bad “Press” that New Guinea has been getting in Australia.

HE moves have followed indignation and even anger in the High- Js over articles in the Australian fspapers by journalists who make ng visits to the Territory. 4uch of what these “objective, onspot” reporters have been writing he worst kind of sensationalism, :d with untruths and half-truths virtually inviting agitators to ry on the good work. /luch of it appears to be directed he “white man”. Readers of these cles—which would be all readers Australian newspapers because / are widely syndicated—could be used for thinking that “white i” is a dirty phrase in New inea. hey could be excused for thinkthat white men are exploiters and tiers and that the native people just waiting for the opportunity dck them all out. n Mt. Hagen recently, the Ear- ’s and Settlers Association, the Reicd Soldiers’ League and the Dist Advisory Council have all disced this disturbing growth of sensualism. he District Commissioner, Mr. n Ellis, recently went so far as to that if “this adverse and untruthpublicity in mainland newspapers illowed to continue, a very real ger exists to the political future he Territory”. peaking to the Western Highlands nch of the RSL recently, Mr. s said one recent series of articles appeared as the W'est New nea question was “being fed for all it was worth as a •ce of danger to the security of mainland”.

Taken in this light,” Mr. Ellis , “the series constituted an attack the Australian Administration of Territory in so far as the articles e directed specifically and entirely ards trying to prove that there ted in this Territory a strong and espread undercurrent of dissatision and ill-feeling on the part of natives against Europeans.

The conclusion they attempted to infer, with, I am afraid, a considerable amount of success, was that we had failed in our Administration and were disregarding these dangerous attitudes on the part of the natives, which could result in an outbreak of something akin to Mau-Mau.

“This may appear ridiculous to us with our intimate knowledge of the Territory and the actual conditions existing here, but to the average Australian reading these articles and seeing these pictures, such a conclusion was not impossible to reach.”

Mr. Ellis said another conclusion that could easily be reached was that many newspaper articles were part of a campaign to decry Australia’s achievements in the Territory, discredit Australia in the eyes of the world and thereby force its withdrawal.

“We are the last ‘colonial’ administrators,” he said, “and as such there are many eyes turned towards us from the newly created nations of Africa and South-East Asia and none of these is friendly.

“To these peoples the word colonialism is a dirty one and I can assure you that in the course of the years immediately ahead of us these nations will attempt to exercise stronger and continuing pressure, through the UN, to oust us from this country, without reference to the wants and the needs of the native people and without consideration of the effects that such an untimely withdrawal would have.”

Mr. Ellis said he felt the time was ripe for a counter publicity campaign to be launched, to repair the damage and to “bring clearly and forcibly home to the Australian public that the conditions existing in this Territory are precisely opposite to that inferred by recent adverse publicity.”

He added that unless the publicity was combated swiftly the time would come quickly when the Australian newspaper readers would have accepted the false picture and the task of correcting it would be immeasurably more difficult.

One suggestion that has come up as a result of public discussion of this dangerous and vicious Australian newspaper trend is that New Guinea organisations should group together and employ their own Press officer, or a journalist who would write a series of articles giving the correct story.

Such a man could point out that the New Guinea people are aghast at any suggestion that Australians should leave. The natives realise it is impossible for them to reach their economic destiny without the Australians. The general feeling between the native people and the Europeans, especially in the Highlands, is one of friendliness and mutual respect.

Mr. Tom Ellis. 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Rabaul Aids Battered Guam The US Navy LST “Cayuga County”, which has been working with an American geodetic survey team in New Britain, was involved in two mercy operations in November—first to rescue three fliers whose helicopter had crashed in the cloudshrouded Bainings mountains, then to take emergency supplies to typhoon-shattered Guam.

THE helicopter, which was attached to the Cayuga Country, was being used to ferry supplies from the ship in the Ataliklikan Bay area on the north coast of New Britain to a geodetic survey base camp being established in the Bainings. When it crashed it burst into flame.

First word of the disaster reached Rabaul when a Government surveyor in the Witu Group picked up radio messages from Cayuga County.

A civil air search was begun, and that night, a medical ground party headed by Dr. I. McCosker, of Nonga Hospital, travelled as far as New Massawa Plantation.

Meanwhile, Cayuga County had put ashore a ground party which began to work its way up to the camp site. Two Cs4’s, alerted at the USN base on Guam, flew to Rabaul next morning.

The party from the Cayuga County was the first to locate the crashed fliers, and they were brought down to the coast and taken in the Cayuga County to Rabaul, where they were temporarily admitted to Nonga Hospital, and next morning put aboard a C 54 and flown to Guam.

Cayuga County remained in Rabaul for a week to take aboard a new helicopter, but when typhoon Karen hit Guam on November 12 she was ordered to take emergency building supplies to the stricken island.

Altogether 100 tons of roofing iron, 10 tons of nails and 300 tons of sawn and dressed timber were taken aboard before Cayuga County sailed.

The Acting Governor of Guam, Mr. Manuel Guerrero, said in a message to President Kennedy that the “entire territory” had been devastated. Damage was estimated at $100,000,000 at least.

The typhoon unleashed winds of up to 172 miles an hour, leaving many of the 70,000 islanders homeless, one dead, and hundreds injured.

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By a Staff Writer The Australian Tariff Board’s report on the New Guinea coffee industry has provided the industry with a heartening lift by guaranteeing it assistance for at least another two years.

IT removes the air of uncertainty in the NG industry and allows it to face the future with some confidence.

The report was released in Canberra in November. Its recommendations provide for: • Raw coffee from P-NG to continue to enjoy duty-free entry into Australia. 9 Import duties on overseas coffee to be increased (from 3d to 5d per lb for raw or kiln dried; from 6d to 9d per lb for roasted;from 1/6 to 5/3 per lb for concentrated extracts, either soluble or instant).

The Australian Government announced when it released the report that the new tariffs would apply on the roasted and soluble coffee immediately.

The increase proposed for raw coffee will have to wait for overseas negotiations required under the GATT agreement. When it begins Australian roasters who use frc 25 and up to 30 per cent. N< Guinea coffee will get a duty i mission of 2d a lb; if they use per cent, or more they will recei the full 5d remission.

Meanwhile, the present inter arrangements to assist the market! of NG coffee in Australia will cc tinue. Ordinarily, coffee from sour* other than P-NG pays 3d per duty, but this is temporarily waiv in the proportion of 72 units of ov' seas coffee for every 28 units Australian roaster buys from P-h' at the current agreed prices (rangi: from 4/2 to 2/9 per lb accordi to grade).

The new tariffs will be review in two years. But the Act.

Minister for Territories, Mr. Willi i McMahon, warned roasters that object of the tariffs was to ensu that a significant quantity of H coffee was sold, and unless this v done there would be a prompt revhi Australian instant coffee manuft Loading of building materials into the US Navy LSI "Cayuga County" for typhoc[?] shattered Guam went on day and night in Rabaul in November. Every available pie[?] of timber in the town was commandeered, every nail and sheet of roofing iron. T[?] picture shows the scene at Rabaul wharf during one of the night-loading sessio[?] 10 DECEMBER, 1962-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

irers are the largest users of NG ;ans (last year 89 per cent, of the G crop went to Australia, Holland »ok about nine per cent.).

The Australian manufacturers have ;cently had to compete against a Dod of cheap imported solubles, ut the new steep rise in tariffs on lese will help sales of the two main ical producers (Nestles and Bushells) id consequently mean larger sales : NG beans.

By overseas standards the NG iffee industry is insignificant—the :cord 1960-61 output of 5,600,000 was a mere .6 per cent, of the orld production.

But it is of growing importance NG. It earns about £1,100,000 in cports, being fourth after copra, >conut oil and cocoa. Estimates of e capital investment in the NG )ffee industry range from £4,500,000 £6,500,000.

The Tariff Board began hearings to the NG industry in Sydney in ctober, 1961, and later visited NG. [ieir report was compiled last April.

Since then, a five-year interitional coffee agreement has been ached among world coffee-growers, eluding NG. NG has been defined a “Trust Territory” and given emission for a quota-free export of 10,000 bags of 60 kilos (132 lb).

However, one of the conditions of e agreement will be the abandoned of new coffee acreage; P-NG ill not be allowed to set aside rther land for coffee production— lich is what the Tariff Board forew.

The decisions of the Tariff Board d the new international agreement 11 result in a certain amount of -organisation in the NG industry, it on the whole it has been given degree of security that it has not d before.

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New Secretary of American Samoa Mr. Owen S. Aspinall, the torney-General. He replaces the ;e Mr. Eric Scanlan, who was owned near Pago in August.

Mr. Aspinall, 35, comes from )lorado. For four years he was Deputy District Attorney at Grand nction, Colorado, where he also actised law. With his wife. Sherry, arrived in Samoa last January.

Also in November it was nounced in Pago Pago that Mr. mes C. Flannery had been pointed to the new post of Special jsistant to the Governor, H. Rex :e.

Move To Solve 34-Year-Old Sea Mystery By a Staff Writer Danish shipping authorities and Mr. Reece Discombe, of Vila, New Hebrides, are currently trying to get to the bottom of an intriguing sea mystery which PIM brought to public attention in November.

THE mystery concerns the origin of a piece of wreckage bearing the word “Kobenhavn”, which a native of Vanikoro, in the Southern Solomons, gave to Mr. Discombe earlier this year.

It is possible that the wreckage is a nameplate from a lifeboat, and that it may have come from the fivemasted Danish sailing ship Kobenhavn which disappeared without trace on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Australia in 1928. (PIM, Nov., p. 7).

Mr. Discombe, a deep-sea diver and motor engineer, who sent the wreckage to PIM last month, obtained it when he went to Vanikoro in June to investigate the possibility of salvaging a cargo of jettisoned brass.

He has now returned to Vanikoro for the actual salvage job, and during this visit he will try to learn from the natives where and when the wreckage was found and in what circumstances.

Meanwhile, PIM in November handed the wreckage to the Danish Consul-General in Sydney, Mr. N. C.

Stenderup, and he has airmailed it to Denmark, where shipping authorities will try to establish whether it did, in fact, belong to the sailing ship Kobenhavn.

The Sydney Morning Herald, which gave front-page prominence to PlM’s story on November 9, quoted Mr. H, Huttemeier as saying that the nameplate could have come from one of the Kobenhavn’s lifeboats. Mr.

Huttemeier is managing director in Australia for the East Asiatic Steamship Co., of Copenhagen, the owners of the ship.

Mr. Huttemeier added that the nameplate could also have come from a lifeboat of a Copenhagen-registered ship sunk in World War II Kobenhavn being the Danish spelling of Copenhagen.

Drifted for 10 Years If the nameplate did belong to the sailer Kobenhavn it must have drifted thousands of miles, as the ship was last heard from when half way between Buenos Aires and Tristan da Cunha Island in the South Atlantic.

Proof that such a long drift is within the realm of possibility was provided recently when a US coast Guardsman picked up a medicine jug on a beach at Iwo Jima, which had been thrown overboard 10 years earlier from the Matson liner Lurline midway between Honolulu and San Francisco, more than 4,000 miles away.

The jug had been thrown over the side by a hospital attendant, James F. Hood, of San Francisco. In the jug was a copy of the ship’s newspaper, dated August 8, 1952, and a message asking the finder of the jug to write to Hood.

John D. McCulloch, the Coast Guardsman who found the jug, wrote to Hood recently that the condition of the message and the newspaper was “excellent considering being bottled up for 10 years, one month and 21 days”.

Hood is now a hospital attendant in the Matson liner Monterey in the South Pacific cruise service.

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COMMENTARY elated Awakening In he Colonial Office N issuing a warning that Fiji soon must move on to a greater easure of self-government, and ould prepare itself accordingly, overnor Sir Kenneth Maddocks erely gives official voice to someing seen and discussed years ago r non-official folk. There is nothing iw in it.

But what is disconcerting is the mtinuing inability of the British Gonial Office—for one presumes at Sir Kenneth is its mouthpiece— prepare the Fijian communities r the pending, inevitable change.

The Colonial Office, in these rst-war years, has a heartbreaking cord of failure to prepare colonial oples adequately for self-governent. Unless something positive, d skilled, and imaginative—of lich there is no sign—is done soon, ji will be added to the unhappy t.

“I am aware that the Fijians are prehensive that any major change the status quo will be detrimental their interests,” said His :cellency.

Of course he is aware of it. So every adult person in the Colony, le younger Fijians leaders, a year o. left us in no doubt where they md.

“If the present system is to be anged by the British,” they said, effect, “then the British must hand ck to the Fijians the powers [rendered to them in 1874.”

But what has the Colonial Office ne about it? Nothing, except ack platitudes, and change its inisters and its Pacific Section top icials with bewildering frequency.

The Fijians are the friends and ill-wishers of the British. They >uld welcome consultation and rejurance at the highest level. They ve been treated like children.

The Indians, whose establishment Fiji is the major embarrassing :tor in a difficult situation, are in sense hostile to the British; and ;y also seek consultation and rejurance by Whitehall. They have nerally been ignored.

Both Fijians and Indians, in a litical sense, now are grown up. »th communities can contribute mething helpful to a solution of ; problem of Fiji’s future.

But, after 15 years of Colonial Office fumbling, the Fijians and the Indians—as well as the Europeans who, sensing urgency, have tried repeatedly to get some intelligent action—feel a sense of frustration, and a growing fear of the future.

The community leaders should have been brought together years ago, and encouraged U study the common problems presented by any move towards self-government, and given the opportunity to find compromise on difficulties that now seem insurmountable. But nothing of that kind was done —and there still is no sign of anything practical being done.

All we are told is that “Mr. N. T.

L. Fisher, MC, Under-Secretary of State”, is coming out soon from London to look the Fiji situation over. What qualifications has he got for assessing administration problems like those associated with Fiji, Mauritius, and similar small, multiracial colonies?

No politician or bureaucrat, no matter how well-intentioned, should be allowed to fumble around with Fiji’s major problem unless and until he knows the history of the Fijian race, and all that it implies.

The more complex the little colonies’ political and economic problems become, and the greater the call for an expert understanding of racial psychology, the more the products of the sheltered British Colonial Office are certain they have all the answers. In point of fact, as the events of the decade have shown, there are few classes more completely divorced from realities.

Why do not Fiji’s communities get together and give the Colonial Office a lead?

New Guinea In Need of Public Relations THE New Guinea residents who are angry at the type of publicity New Guinea has been getting in the Australian newspapers lately have reason to protest. Much of what is claimed to be “objective” reporting is more often than not a mess of half-baked personal prejudices wrapped up in a sensational headline.

This stuff is not the work of regular P-NG journalists. It is the specialty of the “glamour” writers of the mainland trade; the “man-on-thespot” men; the red-hot reporters who are flown anywhere at the drop of a hat, and depart 24 hours later amid the crash of dropped bricks.

Their pieces are written in stark terms of black and white. There are no half-tones.

They make wild predictions for the future, but their pace is so fast and furious that they can’t stop in their verbal panic to look back and compare today’s New Guinea with yesterday’s, and so measure the remarkable progress achieved.

Their stuff could be dismissed as something-nothing, designed as mere entertainment, if not for the fact that it is doing New Guinea and Australia a grave disservice. If it continues unchallenged it will help more than anything to deliver New Guinea into the hands of the enemy.

The affairs of New Guinea today need responsible reporting. They need honest interpretation by balanced writers.

New Guinea is a country in transition, where facts can be found to fit any preconceived notion a visitor cares to bring in with him.

From an objective, competent observer New Guinea has nothing to fear. The record is there, of economic and political progress and progress in human understanding.

The pointers for the future are bright, not evil; but sense, not stupidity, is needed.

New Guinea organisations should accept the counsel of Tom Ellis and appoint their own Press officer to help straighten the record.

A New NG Campaign For Indonesia?

THE aggressive hate campaign, culminating in virtual war, which enabled Indonesia to get its hands on West New Guinea, left no doubt in the minds of most P-NG people about the kind of neighbour the Territory was getting. Any who had had any doubt left must have lost it as a result of Indonesia’s new campaign to own West New Guinea by December 31, despite its agreement. (See p. 16).

What now? Will Indonesians in West New Guinea now launch a propaganda campaign across the Australian border, directed at the native people, inviting them to “join with their Papuan brothers to make the whole island of New Guinea one, and throw out colonialism”? Will there be infiltrations, organised by the Indonesian communists so that President Soekarno may officially look the other way?

How long have we, President Soekarno, before P-NG is where the Dutch were a few months ago? 13 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Britain's Common Market Plan For South Seas By a Staff Writer In his address at the W. R. arpenter Holdings annual meetg on November 23, chairman . B. Carpenter made some inresting comments on Islands ading conditions. For example: lIJI’s sugar industry has settled down to more stable conditions, d stores turnover in particular had own a recovery.

It was expected that the group’s incipal merchandising company, orris Hedstrom Ltd. (which trades Fiji, Tonga and Samoa) would real in 1963 the reasonably success- [ year it had in 1962, while the irpenter copra-mill in Fiji and the cific Island territories’ operations mid cause some concern, because Common Market possibilities.

“We believe it is the intention that ji and the Pacific Island territories der the Colonial Office administran would be offered the opportunity joining as associated territories d obtaining the benefits to accrue >m such a decision should the terories become finally associated,” r. Carpenter said.

“In that event the production of ; mill would find ready access into ; British and Common Market untries at rates of duty which 3uld permit of a reasonable return ing won by the mill for its operan.”

Mr. Carpenter said nothing about j Carpenter copra-mill in New linea. The question of whether the :w Guinea mill, being in Austran Trust territory/ would enjoy ilonial Office protection like the ii mill, still has not been answered.

The chairman reported that the >up’s shipping operations again had en disappointing, and there was no n of changes which might improve ; outlook. It was indicated that jre would be no further purchases replacement of ships.

It was indicated that, following the Dup’s unsuccessful bid to take over jamships Trading Co. in Papua, ectors would pursue a policy of dirsification in investments, and prin- >ally within Australia. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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TAKEOVER Indonesia in November was pres ing to take control of West Ne Guinea by December 31, in contr vention of its UN-sponsored agre ment with Holland for a takeov< next May.

T'HE earlier takeover is the pri< A Indonesia is demanding for permit to allow KLM to land Djakarta—one of the routes tl Dutch airline had before diplomat relations between Holland and Ind< nesia were severed in 1961. Rel tions are shortly expected to be r established.

Indonesia’s acting President, D Djuanda, said in November: “If bo: sides agree that the territory shou be transferred to us before May the should be no reason for the UN object.”

Indonesia, which has boasted th West New Guinea would be hers b fore the end of 1962, apparently co siders it a point of honour to tal possession in fact as well as in su stance.

Other West New Guinea develo ments during November; • All top administrative positioi in West New Guinea formerly he by the Dutch are now held by U appointees, and many other publ service positions are held by Ind nesians. • A new daily newspaper. Tje derawasih (Bird of Paradise) has ai peared in Hollandia. with Papus leader E. J. Bonay as Editor-in-Chie Official Indonesian sources said ; objective of the paper was the pr paration of the Papuans for “welcor ing the territory’s reintegration wii the rest of Indonesia”. Bonay latt led an official delegation of Papuai to Indonesia. • The serious cholera outbrei continued to rage in the Southe areas of West New Guinea, wii many deaths reported. Australi; Minister for External Affairs, S Garfield Barwick, said the outbre; had caused Australia concern. At II request Australia sent two Am helicopters to Merauke to help it strict the spread of the disease. • Indonesian Foreign Ministe Dr. Subandrio, said Papuan leads would be screened for pro-Indonesi;i or anti-Indonesian sympathies whi Indonesia took over. 16 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L.

Tropicslitirs fhe decision by the Nauruans to ask Australia for Fraser sland for their new home has not at this time of writing been officially confirmed, although PIM reported the decision n November (p. 6.). The reason for the delay, we suppose, s that officialdom is just not sure how to handle the request’ and ve, let it be said, are rather sympathetic to officialdom’s plight.

Ve wouldn’t like to have to settle the matter ourselves, or whatever anybody does might well be wrong in Nauruan eyes.

VAURUANS appear to be talking in one voice, but the fact is that lere are many voices on Nauru, here are many Nauruans who (ould be quite happy to go to Aus- ■alia to settle, on the basis proposed y the Australian Government—that i, to receive a house somewhere in le suburbs.

But officially the Nauruans have sked for an island home of their wn, where they would be selfoverning.

They want to be self-governing on raser Island, which is Queensland erritory and a forestry reserve, fiey want to have their own police irce, their own Customs, their own ealth department—their own everyting—and be related to Australia by Treaty of Friendship.

The Government appears to have lade it plain to the Nauruans that lis matter of wanting self-governlent on Australian territory is rather tall order. It has told them that if n island were available off Australia they would be allowed to run it the same way as a municipality is run in Australia, with the extra advantage that they could have control of “immigration”. That is, the Nauruans would be able to say who should live on their island and who should not. But matters of health, Customs, etc., would still be a matter for the Commonwealth Government.

If the Nauruans could be encouraged to accept an island on this basis then there is little doubt that the Australian Government would get what it unofficially hopes for in the long run—that is, final integration of the Nauruans with the Australian people. Nauruan youngsters on an island near the coast eventually would go to the bright lights to work and settle—the same way as Norfolk Islanders and even Pitcairners, now find their way to New Zealand and Australia. (Remote Pitcairn has in fact been suffering a serious man shortage as a result of the number of able bodied men who head west, never to return.) But the Nauruans have certainly forced officialdom’s hand in asking specifically for Fraser Island. The ball is now in officialdom’s court. For this tactic the Nauruans probably have to thank Mr. W. A. Baker, a Sydney union advocate, who has been able to give some of the Nauruan leaders quite a lot of advice lately.

And what does Queensland think about it all? The next step is awaited with interest!

The Bright Lights BACK in the Solomons after seeing the bright lights of the US is Ben Kevu, of Wana Wana Lagoon.

It was Ben’s first time out of the Solomons, and every report we have makes it clear that the BSIP has had no better ambassador. He acquitted himself like the gentleman he is.

Ben is the man who took the message from Australian Coastwatcher Reg Evans to PT boat captain J. F.

Kennedy in 1943, and then took Kennedy back to a rendezvous with Evans. Ben, earlier this year, took part in the filming of the Kennedy saga by US TV man Jack Paar and he and Reg (who lives in Sydney) went off to the US in September, at Paar’s expense, for the premiere of the feature. After the show Ben and Reg met all the former crew members of Kennedy’s PT boat except one man who had died since. It was quite a party. George Ross, third officer of PTIO9 the night the boat was rammed, was one who showed Ben around, and he reported later that Ben took to getting up at one party and reciting a poem about a little flower— which made a great impact!

Ben called at the White House, where President Kennedy sat in his rocking chair and reminisced with him. He showed Ben the note on an OHMS envelope which Reg Evans had written to him and which Kevu had delivered. He also gave Ben a number of PT boat emblem tie clasps to give to Ben’s family. On the way out of the White House office J. F.

Kennedy introduced Ben to Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies who was on his way in for an interview with the President.

Only once was Ben stumped for the right thing to do during his US trip. That was when the Jack Paar show presented him with a gold watch and he complained later that he couldn’t wind it. Not surprising— it turned out to be the self-winding kind. (Over) Reg Evans, now of Sydney.

Ben Kevu, of Wana Wana Lagoon, British Solomons, on his US trip. This photo was taken at the offices of the "Readers' Digest". 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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The Idealists WHETHER the Nauruans have heard of Bernard Stanbury and the Great Barrier Reef islands of Percy and Hummock Hill we don’t know, but perhaps all of them ought to get together.

We ourselves had never heard of Mr. Stanbury or those two islands until the other day when we got in the mail from London a roneoed handout from “S. Goodall (Press Officer) of Shepherds Bush” giving us the news that one of those two “warm, beautiful, exotic and fertile islands is to be the future home ol an international group of Idealists”, It seems that Mr. Bernard Stanbury, described as a London businessman, and his wife, Sally, 24, announced last year in the persona! columns of The Times that they wen organising a small self-supporting community on a tropical island —i community in which (says the hand out) “money will be obsolete anc co-operation will replace competitior as the keynote in their lives”.

There are now 22 people in th( group and some of them will begii to head for either Percy or Hum mock Hill (the final decision hasn’ been made apparently) early nex year. But there are still vacancies fo: anybody mad enough to want to b< in it—which is the reason why th< public relations handout was hande( out to us. (They want people quali fied in agriculture, botany, medicine horticulture, diesel engineering, foo( processing and “teachers interested ii non-competitive education”, whateve that is.) What with independent nations am international groups of Idealists, th« Queensland coastline is not going t< be what it was.

Mister Sport KEVAN GOSPER, former Olym pic runner (despite his fame h still gets his name incorrectly spellei with an “i”) is pretty pleased a being given the honour of managin the first Papua-New Guinea combine sporting team to compete interna tionally under the Territory’s ow banner—the team that competed a the Perth Commonwealth Games.

But it’s an honour he deserved, fc never has anybody so quickly am firmly established himself as a Guinea identity than Gosper, win had been in New Guinea less thai 12 months, when he was appointee Shell man in Rabaul.

“Kevan Gosper came just at th right time for New Guinea,” L© Michel told us while we drank 18

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n and tonic together as the team ent through Sydney in early No- ;mber. “He was the right man to ain our blokes and he got stuck to it. He’s worked remarkably ird in his own time. New Guinea’s cky.”

New Guinea is. But we couldn’t ;lp raising a smile at Les Michel’s Imiration for people who give up eir own time without stint. Michel mself didn’t earn his own title ! “Mr. Sport” for sitting behind his fice desk in Port Moresby.

Les Michel has been a sporting ime in New Guinea since 1949 hen he was discharged from the rmy there with rank of captain.

In Rabaul he was a leading light cricket, and he kept shining when 1951 he went to' Port Moresby, ir the last 10 years he has been esident of the Port Moresby ricket Association; but his interests in Ko Rugby League, swimming, nnis, athletics, basketball; just »out anything.

Eighteen months ago Michel was tending a dinner for the Port oresby Women’s Basketball Assertion, of which he is president, len Lady Cleland, wife of the P- G Administrator, made the remark at it would be “wonderful” if New uinea could send its own basketill team to the Perth Games.

It was merely a dream. But Les Michel decided that perhaps the dream could be a reality—P-NG to field its own team at international sport. A P-NG British Empire Games Association was formed—Les Michel as president—and everything followed from there. The first successful hurdle was to obtain international recognition for P-NG.

In the last year P-NG sport has come of age—all as a result of that first dream. That shot at the moon unified the whole Territory, and in all the key centres sporting clubs and associations have been formed— boxing, weightlifting, athletic clubs (there are four athletic clubs in Port Moresby alone now) and a P-NG Athletic Association was established.

“Everything’s been the first because we started from nothing,” Michel told us.

The public kicked in with £B,OOO to send the Games team to Perth.

After Perth comes next year’s first South Pacific Games, in Suva, and after that—the Olympics perhaps.

When Les Michel is not being New Guinea’s “Mr. Sport”, he is secretary of three Papuan rubber planting companies Kerema, Rubberlands and Maraboi.

The Hon. Peter AFRICA was something of an eyeopener for the Hon. Peter Plowman, West Samoan MLA, who passed through Sydney in November on his way home to Apia after representing the independent state of Samoa at the British Commonwealth Parliamentary Association convention at Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria was most hospitable to the 141 delegates, who were shown all over the large West African State.

But on the way home, in Leopoldville, in the Congo, his group were held sternly incommunicado, mostly behind doors. “There is no doubt conditions are grim in the Congo,” he said.

In Bloemfontein, in South Africa, there was an unpleasant incident. Bad weather had forced their aircraft to land, but one member of their party, an educated American Negro with a medical degree, who as representative of a US organisation was distributing large gift sums for medical work in Africa, was segregated from the European party.

For the night he was allotted a grubby servant’s room at the back.

His fellow travellers were indignant, but the Negro shrugged philosophically and said it was a topsy turvy world.

Peter Plowman takes a keen interest in West Samoa’s political and social affairs. He is chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and also has a Samoan title—he is High Chief Leilua Plowman, of Savaii. He has taken Western Samoan nationality.

Back home, High Chief Leilua Plowman will for awhile shed his official mantle to become plain Peter Plowman, successful trader and poultry farmer. His farm is supplying an increasing proportion of eggs consumed in Samoa.

He is also specially interested in developing banana growing areas in Savaii for the Japanese trade. He says there is plenty of land, and what are needed are suitable port installations.

Fiji's Pretty Miss ETA ULUVULA, Fiji’s “Miss Hibiscus” for 1962, seemed as if she had been used to reporters, photographers and TV cameramen all her life when she arrived at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith airport in November for her two-week holiday in Australia —one of her Miss Hibiscus prizes.

From the time she arrived at 8.30 a.m. until 10 a.m. she saw more flashbulbs and answered more questions than in any similar space of time before. But Eta remained unruffled and charmed everyone.

We met Eta later at a big reception at the Pacific Hotel, Manly, her home for three days. The hospitality [?]ew Guinea's “Mr. Sport"—Les Michel.

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Miss Hibiscus—Eta Uluvula.

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-eally was turned on by the organsers—and Sydney Press and Public delations were left in no doubt that Eta had arrived.

She told us that during her free lours of the day she had intended ;oing swimming at one of Sydney’s leaches that she had heard so much ibout but “it was a bit too cold”, [hat says little for Sydney’s climate ompared with Fiji’s, as it was one »f the finest and warmest days for ome time.

Keeping a watchful eye on Eta i Sydney was Ratu Joni Vuiyasawa, Fijian law student at Sydney Uniersity. Joni had been asked to be n hand to give Eta moral support ut he assured us she did not need ny. Joni and Eta are old friends, oni attended the Queen Victoria chool, brother school to the Adi 'akobau School, where Eta was eduated.

Joni was also a judge in the Miss [ibiscus quest of 1960.

“In that year,” said Joni, “second lace was filled by Miss Wendt who as runner-up to Eta this year. Anyne who can defeat Miss Wendt really jserves to win the title.”

Ithy Islands Lucre PILTHY, evil-smelling and dilapidated” is a description applied the Fijian 5/- and 10/- notes. The ►mplaint was recently voiced by the a Chamber of Commerce, whose embers had apparently had to put ) with growls of tourists about the ate of the money they were somenes asked to handle.

The Ba Chamber decided to ask e Fiji Visitors Bureau to ask the easury to do something about it. icy considered that such notes were poor advertisement for Fiji.

The Commissioners of Currency plied that in the past year 712,300 serviceable notes had been withawn by Fiji banks, and the reason ly dirty notes continued in circuion was that they never reached ; banks.

Fiji should cheer up. Its problem is neral. An American banker we ran o in Apia recently told us that sst Samoan banknotes were the »rst he’d ever seen. Said the banker: /here I come from the average life a dollar bill is reckoned at six mths. In Samoa a banknote jrages about two months. But what i you do but keep pulling them From the Islands Press Agreement between hotels and (the P-NG) Administration on standard prices of beer has a great deal to commend it.

But many people will regret the agreement which relaxes dress standards in bars.

Papuans and New Guineans who can afford to spend 10/- a week in bars can afford to appear properly dressed in public places which ask this of them. Dress requirements should surely be left to the discretion of each individual publican.

It is as wrong to ask all hotels to admit shoeless natives as it is for all hotels to insist on shoes being worn.— Editorial in the “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby. * * * IREAD with interest the recent statement in the Press about the record number of yachts in (Rarotonga’s) Avatiu Harbour this year. There is no doubt that the yachts make a very beautiful picture in the harbour.

It is, however, an unfortunate fact that a good number of the crew members of the yachts visiting here seem to think they can dress and behave in any way they please.

It is not unusual for unshaven, ragged males to be parading the streets in bare feet—and though this is less true of the womenfolk, many of them seem to think that anything goes.— Letter from ‘‘No Snob” in “Cook Islands News”. * * * IN any island group (such as Fiji) whose connecting links are inevitably set fundamentally in the sea, the importance of sea training and the maintenance of the sea tradition is of the very first importance.

The folly of the destruction of the Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and of the obstinacy with which those in authority in Fiji have aggressively opposed all efforts to have their actions reconsidered, becomes increasingly clear as time goes on.

If war or any other disaster on a great scale should affect the South Pacific, Fiji’s continued life would almost certainly depend on the sea—to move people and to provide and carry food.

It is not too late to revive the Reserve, and this should have a high place in any planning for the future of Fiji.— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”. % ❖ >;?

THE number of crimes which have been committed (in Western Samoa) during the last few months prompts the question, is the police force adequate?

It is impossible to prevent all crime but a strong active police force could prevent the commission of many offences. The first requirement of a strong force is manpower.

It is too much to expect the Government to find all the money which would be required for the immediate establishing of an ideal force, but some money could be provided and some improvement could be made if the Government would divert to the police force a part of the money which is wasted in futile enterprises.— Letter from “Observer” in “Samoa Bulletin”. * * * IAM very glad to see that the Department of Agriculture has imported three hives of honey bees for the benefit of the farmers and, in fact, the island (of Niue) as a whole. 1 would like to point out that honey b:es are good insects. They have been kept by man for over 5,000 years, not only for the honey they make, but for the good they do to our crops, for without them very little fruit, grass, or food crops would grow.

If any person should see any of these busy little bees work on any flowers, please don’t hurt them, but let the Department of Agriculture know about it.

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New Competition For South Seas Air Routes From PIM Correspondents in Suva and Auckland There will be new pressures in South Pacific aviation next April when the BOAC flag flies in the South Seas for the first time.

BOAC Comet 4’s will cross the Tasman from Sydney to Auckland twice a week as an extension of the present London-Sydney Comet service. BOAC will thus compete with Qantas, TEAL and Canadian Pacific on Tasman services. Until last year the Tasman was a TEAL monopoly. PAA and TAI have yet to come in, but this is only a matter 3f time.

The BOAC decision means the first leg home in the British effort to get sack into the South Seas—an area hey left when BCPA was absorbed md when they dropped out of TEAL several years ago.

British airline chiefs have conceded n the last 12 months that Britain nade a mistake in getting out of the South Seas. The area now has one )f the quickest-growing tourist potenials in the world, and Britain until low has had no aviation interest in t —except for Fiji Airways in a ninor way.

The new BOAC service will termilate at Auckland and follow the same oute home, via Australia. But there s no doubt that BOAC’s next bid vill be to bridge the gap between NZ md Honolulu, and thus get a roundhe-world service via the South Seas, ts present service between London md Honolulu, using Boeing 707’s, ►oes on to Tokyo and then round the vorld.

BOAC may run its own service icross the gap or else come to some find of charter arrangement with PEAL. The second scheme is the nost probable—TEAL will do the lying.

The key to it—as with all future services through NZ—is completion of the big new jet airport at Mangere, serving Auckland. The £ 10-million scheme is expected to be finished in 1965.

BOAC will eventually replace the Comet with the Vickers VC 10, and BOAC has offered TEAL the charter of these aircraft. BOAC no doubt would like to see TEAL buy the VC 10 to replace the present TEAL Electras, but no public announcements have been made by TEAL on its re-equipment programme.

PAA Plans Other important news in November was the announcement that PAA from early December would operate one of its three trans-Pacific jet services a week through Pago Pago.

The aircraft, a 707, will fly Sydney- Pago-Honolulu, over-flying Nadi.

No announcement was made as to the reason for this, but PIM reported in September (p. 141) that PAA was planning to route its Pacific trunk services through Pago because landing charges at Pago were lower and because the US Government wanted to encourage use of the big new jet airport, which was opened in July for day landings and which only recently has ben operational at night.

PAA would eventually operate feeder services to Nadi.

With the advent of the new trunk service once a week, PAA will cease to operate the Honolulu-Pago leg of its weekly DC7c service between Honolulu and Auckland, The DC7c will in future be based at Auckland instead of Honolulu.

Pago airport, like Nadi airport, is nothing but an airport, and throughpassengers will still have to take a ride to see any local colour.

However, at Nadi throughpassengers have no chance at all of seeing the Fiji capital of Suva, which is on the other side of the island, but Pago passengers may get the opportunity of a fast ride into town to see the capital, Pago, on its famous harbour. Earlier this year the Administration put through a first-class sealed road between the airport and Pago, a distance of about 10 miles.

Pago’s new jet airport is very much like the new one at Faa’a, in Tahiti, in that it is built on coral on the coast.

Nadi's Future New Pacific air developments such as these have recently brought into prominence the future of Nadi as an international airport.

Millions have been spent on bring- A £NZ111,000 contract has been let for this new operations building at Nadi airport. It will be supervised by the NZ Ministry of Works.

Nadi's new terminal (above) was completed in 1960. 23 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER. 1962

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Renowned makers of Fine Polishes and Household Cleaners mg the airport to its present state (and more money is planned) and some people have been asking whether it has been worth the expenditure. The answer should certainly be yes. Nadi will always be an international airport of importance, despite the bids for additional trunk services, at Nadi’s expense, being made by Faa’a (in Tahiti) and Pago, American Samoa.

With bigger and faster jets coming into service Nadi can be overflown, just as PAA plans to do. But Nadi is Fiji, and Fiji can’t be ignored.

As Governor H. Rex Lee, of American Samoa, said earlier this year ( PIM, Sept. p. 31), “Pago Pago Airport won’t be taking anything from anybody. We will be giving things. Air services need to work together and if people go through the South Pacific one way they will want to go back another,”

Those who want to see Fiji will still have transport to get them there —whether direct or as a feeder service it probably doesn’t matter.

Direct trunk services go through Nadi so fast these days that nobody benefits much anyhow, except the Government with its landing fees (which is just one of the reasons why PAA has decided to shift a service to Pago).

This fact was underlined by New Zealand Herald aviation correspondent Dan Henderson in November, in an article he wrote for his paper after a fortnight’s visit to Fiji.

He drew attention to the £300,000 Nadi terminal building which was virtually deserted during daylight hours, and the fact that the terminal building shops were closing. He asked whether there was danger of Nadi airport becoming a white elephant.

Henderson pointed out that the major international airlines, Qantas and PAA, plus Canadian Pacific Airlines on their weekly flight, use Nadi only as a fuelling stop, lasting a maximum of one hour. Arrival and departure times are between 10 p.m and 2 a.m. northbound and 5 a.m and 8.30 a.m. southbound.

The feeder services provided by TEAL and Qantas (through New Zealand to Sydney or Melbourne) have to fit in with these schedules* Thus through-passengers rarely have more than an hour to fill in during refuelling. As disembarking passem gers usually go to one of the nearby hotels there is not much business of fering for the shops in the terminal building.

Some shops in the terminal build! ing are feeling the pinch, and some have closed. The banks have shui their airport agencies. 24 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

The Air Road to The Solomons Henderson said that matters are t likely to improve, as the airlines : unlikely to change their schedules, ich have been arranged for the ivenience of passengers arriving at Iney or Honolulu.

But he added that Nadi will always nain a convenient junction between ckland, Sydney, Noumea, Hono- -11 and Tahiti.

Meanwhile, official figures tell an story. Air travel in the :ific, and through Nadi Airport in ticular, has grown spectacularly in last few years. For example, the nber of aircraft which entered Fiji reased from 1,763 in 1957 to 04 in 1961.

Vhile the number might not be remarkable, it is the tonnage of :raft which shows what is hapling. In 1957 the tonnage was 700 and in 1961 it had risen as h. as 179,895, which showed that average size of aircraft had risen siderably. Nadi has been getting re and bigger aircraft. * as . t ;.y ear 68,287 passengers arrived Fiji, 19,275 to disembark and £92 in transit. Nadi accounted for bulk of the number, 67,594. isori Airport, 14 miles from Suva, :red for the remainder who ved by Fiji Airways from the P, Tonga and Western Samoa, by RNZAF and other planes. )f the aircraft which arrived in the ony 1,304 were British-owned, 900 were foreign. Most flight ar- 1s were from the United States 4), New Zealand (566), and Ausia (563). But the tonnage of airf from New Zealand was much Her—27,763, against 62,347 from United States and 61,129 from tralia. here was a considerable amount traffic from neighbouring island ips—l4l from Canton Island, 97 n Tahiti, 72 from American 10a, 42 from Tonga, 22 from the Passengers on the colourful Fiji Airways route between Fiji and the Solomons, the frequency of which has just been increased (see p. 27), call at these places. Top is the main street of Vila, in the British-French Condominium of the New Hebrides. Centre is a street in Santo, next stopping place after Vila, before Honiara and its tree-lined Mendana Avenue is reached (below).

The poinciana trees blossom in December. The photographs were taken by Rob Wright, of the Fiji PRO.

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New Hebrides Moves In the New Hebrides, work is gc ing on to improve Bauer Field, Vila airstrip, and new airstrips have bee completed at Tangoa and Aneityum.

First job to be done at Baue which is a grass strip, is to impro\ the drainage. The field is still usiri drains put down by the Americai during the war.

Tongoa’s new airstrip is 670 yc long. The New Hebrides Airway Drover made the initial landing.

The Aneityum airstrip is 280 yarc and was built by the Condominiui Government—the first to be built s a joint effort. With its opening a southern New Hebrides islands no have strips.

During the construction of the aii field a number of relics and remaii of the old whaling station whic existed on Aneityum in the middl decades of the nineteenth centui were uncovered. They included tl graves of three Europeans, a mai woman and child, now re-interre: harpoons, pottery, the foundations ■ buildings and the pots in which tl whale blubber was rendered dow It is hoped some of these artifac will be put on show in the Vila Cu tural Centre.

The first permanent settlement t Aneityum was made by the notorioi Paddon of Sydney who established! station for the collection of sandr wood there in the late 1840’s, usi:i his ex-opium brig, the Brigand. B built up a small colony of about six people. The sandalwood was shippt direct from Aneityum to China.

A few years later, however, sa dalwood supplies dwindled as a resn of excessive exploitation and tl small colony of permanent settle turned their hand to whaling.

This area is being cleared for an airstri[?] on Malaita, BSIP. It is hoped a sma[?] internal air service will be developed[?] improve communications between the[?] island and the capital, Honiara. Preser communication and transport is by sma boat. —Photo: Rob Wright. 26 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Since the 1880’s the number of vhales in New Hebridean waters is aid to have diminished. However, >aul Burton, of New Hebrides Airvays, has recently reported seeing rom the air whales in fairly large lumbers around the southern islands.

Easter Island Plans The prospects for construction of jet airport at Easter Island, some ,100 miles east of Pitcairn Island ,nd 2,200 miles west of Chile, were evived in mid-October when two big Jnited States Air Force Hercules jetirop transports flew to the island rom Chile.

One of the Hercules landed, the JS State Department said, and the ther returned to Chile. The reason or the second plane’s immediate reurn flight was not given.

Easter Island has a 4,000 ft airtrip, unsealed, but US engineers have aid they can build a 9,000 ft strip lere. Easter Island would be an imortant link in a new air route to outh America. This route was sureyed by Sir Gordon Taylor in 1951.

Australia is taking close interest i negotiations for an airstrip at 'aster Island, which belongs to Chile, [owever the growth of trade between mstralia and South America “will be significant factor in deciding diether an air service from Aus- •alia to South America will be instilled, ’’ says the 1961-62 Australian )epartment of Civil Aviation report, fleased in November.

Qantas representatives travelled dth an Australian trade mission hich visited South America earlier lis year.

The report says that any routing to outh America “will almost certainly ivolve the solving of new and investing operational problems, and :tive consideration is being given to lese at present”.

NG Developments Work continues in Papua-New iuinea on new airstrips and improvelents on old ones.

Two officers of the Department of ivil Aviation in November were irveying potential airstrip sites near le island of Samarai, headquarters F the Milne Bay district. The sites re on the mainland—one adjacent > Loani plantation, about 20 minutes tunch trip from Samarai, and anther about the same distance away om Samarai, six miles distant, near le old plantation of Konabirubiru.

If an airstrip is built at either site, le four-to-five hour launch trip from amarai to Gurney airfield, at the far id of Milne Bay, would be iminated.

Milne Bay people have had poor air services over the years, mainly due to the lack of suitable landing strips.

A Catalina flying-boat service was suspended some months ago when the aircraft crashed at Daru, at the opposite end of Papua, but a new service has recently been resumed. The new airstrip sites should be capable of taking DC3 standard aircraft.

Mendi, in New Guinea’s Southern Highlands, in November greeted its first DC3. Its arrival created great excitement among the local natives.

The DC3 brought in a stone crusher which is being used to develop Mendi from its present Category B (light aircraft) to Category Increased Fiji-BSIP Air Services From a Suva Correspondent The demand for air travel between Fiji and the Solomons has been so good that Fiji Airways on December 1 will step up their fortnightly service to three flights every four weeks.

From March 1, there will be a weekly service.

Announcing the additional service, Mr. Chris Ritchie, manager of Fiji Airways, said the airline would require another aircraft so that it would guarantee the increased frequency.

It had sent its chief engineer, Mr.

K. P. Beohm, overseas to examine several aircraft before deciding on a selection.

Mr. Ritchie said the new aircraft would be another Heron, which would bring the fleet to four Herons, plus a Drover, and the single-engine Piper Caribbean bought from Korolevu Air Transport. The new Heron would be Series 2 type, with a retractable undercarriage. (The present Herons, Series 1, have fixed undercarriages).

The new Heron will be 30 mph faster than the Series 1 and will significantly reduce the time on the longer sections of Fiji-Solomons route.

With the increase in the services on December 1 there will be a rise in air fares. The new fares (Fijian currency), with the old fares in brackets for the various sections of the route, are: Suva-Nadi £4/14/- (£4/14/-); Nadi-Vila, £25/19/- (£2l/16/-); Vila-Santo, £9/1/- (£7/12/-); Santo-Honiara, £27/17/- (£23/8/-).

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Dry weather allowed the DC3 to land with the equipment.

At Mt. Hagen, in the Western Highlands, work is continuing on a new 5,200 ft airstrip at Kagamuga, about five miles from Hagen’s present strip, which is to be closed because it is too small.

The new strip will take DC3’s and Bristol freighters, said P-NG’s Director of Works, Mr. J. Glen, in November, adding that it would be capable of extension to take DC6 types.

The strip will have a top layer of four inches of packed clay brought from hills half a mile away. The topping will give a hard, impervious surface. Local labour has now excavated 5,200 ft of black topsoil from the strip and this is being replaced by a sand and gravel mixture from nearby rivers.

Work is expected to be finished by the first quarter of next year.

Runway and apron improvements are to be made to Lae airstrip next year. Lae is an important international strip in New Guinea, but there are no immediate signs that it is to be brought up to the importance it had not long after the war, when it completely overshadowed Port Moresby’s £2-million Jackson’s Airport.

There has been some agitation in Lae recently for the airstrip to be returned to its former glory.

An editorial in the New Guinea Times-Courier of November 14 predicted that when the Australian internal airlines replaced their Electras with Boeing 727 jets in 1964, the Electras would be used for the New Guinea service in place of the DC6B’s. But at present Jackson’s was the only New Guinea airport capable of handling the Electras, said the Courier.

Figures released in November show that Jackson’s handled most passengers in New Guinea for the yearended June 30, 1962, with Lae, Rabaul and Madang following next in order. Port Moresby handled 64.000 passengers (7,431 aircraft movements) compared with Lae’s 62.000 (6,624 movements). In passenger traffic Port Moresby ranked 20th in importance of all P-NG and Australian airports, and Lae ranked 28th.

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territories TSLK-TALK There is no doubt but that some of the enthusiastic servants of the public dream up odd words at times in order to emphasise, or stimulate, integration in P-NG.

HJT a brickbat to the cove who * thought up “expatriate” to desigte a non-native member of the Terory’s population; and a bouquet to . Brian Darcey, of the Rabaul iwn Advisory Council, for his intinal fortitude in condemning its He is reported to have moved in iuncil that “the offensive word be )pped from official usage” saying it “to expatriate” meant “to tiish”. And he seems to have someng there if one only stops to rember one’s school days Latin: ex it of”, patria “native land”.

And yet . . . when one considers it the main idea of coining phrases P-NG is to avoid discrimination, y make the non-native people burnt offering for the Afro-Asian egates to UN? nds Across b Sea Fhat used to be a popular phrase loting international friendships, day it has become a bit out-moded I “Voices over the Air” is a more ilicable term.

Fhis in particular applies to John Troster (T.T., August) of Calinia, who is a ham radio fan of mean dimension, and his letters me make me realise what wondermedia these hams are in extending international understanding which, of course, is the solid foundation for friendship.

In a letter he mentions Danny Weil of the cruising yach Yasme 111 who, he says, “is now in the Manihikis” on his world cruise. Apparently John had not received his October issue of PIM when he wrote, for in that issue (Cruising Yachts, p. 120) Yasme rated a mention.

John writes: “He [Weil] is being supported by amateurs (hams) all over the world who have subscribed to the Yasme Foundation and who at their own discretion enclose a dollar when they send in their call-card after talking to him.” John was recently talking to Tonga and “the operator there said one of his friends was the local correspondent for PIM”.

Incidentally John remarked that as a result of a TT par. in June he had received a very interesting and informative letter from Bruno Kroening, of Emirau, and hoped to hear from him again.

The mention of Bruno Kroening reminds me that I was speaking to him the other day on the phone.

He and his wife had come down from Squally, travelling in Malaita.

He was in Sydney on his way to Perth and the Games, travelling the hard way—by road.

With Tolala His wife, Olive, a well-known Territorian artist (whose portrait of Paul Mason was entered in last year’s Archibald prize contest) has an entry in the coming Archibald contest. Her subject is that of Kevan Gosper, manager of the Territory’s Games team in Perth. I have heard some nice comments on her work. At least one does not have to stand on one’s head or go into a psychiatric trance to realise what she is painting. Good luck to her entry.

This Urge for Integration There is a saying that “the onlooker sees most of the game” and I am inclined to think there may be some truth in it.

For some time now I have been observing (with as open a mind as possible for one with my natural disadvantages) the manoeuvres and machinations of implementing the official policy of integration—the eradication of racial consciousness.

The whole process has been some- [?]UT OF THE PAST: Can anyone identify any of these old New Guinea-ites? The [?]hotograph was taken outside the Government offices at Bwagaoia, Misima, about 1920. It was sent to "PIM" by a reader.

Olive Kroening with the portrait of Kevan Gosper which she entered in the Archibald Prize contest. 29 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Undoubtedly the papers, the police and the pubs will have to expand their respective pages, personnel and premises to cope with the increased demand for news coverage, potential inmates of the luxurious institutions and the consumers of alcoholic liquor —boots or no boots, It is a great pity that global pressure has been brought to bear to such an extent on Australia in regard to P-NG conditions, and a greater pity that Australia has deemed fit to conform to this general pattern of acceleration of forcing Western civilisation (with all its faults) upon a still primitive people.

The day will come when this present policy will be regretted. But now ... no stone may be left unturned to give an uplift to the native ego, as rather subtly illustrated b the Hamori-design of the 2/3 Games stamp.

The stamp is one of the Commoi wealth Games series, issued on 0< tober 24, and depicts three runne] in a track race—two natives and or non-native—with one of the natrv runners well to the fore.

Enter John Barleycorn The letting-down of the colot barriers in the bars of Papua an New Guinea had such a general] good Press that it is to me sorrn what suspect. Be that as it may, a< cording to Press reports there wei no riots, clashes, rapes or botton pinching of females; at least, not i a curtain raiser. Time will tell.

No doubt the main participan were more or less well-seasoned tos pots who had learned their drinkir with the Army in the war.

It is to be hoped there will be n repetition of incidents that I sa amongst native drinkers during tl Japanese occupation of Rabaul whe; on many occasions, I was on the n ceiving end as native police, attache to the Kempei Tai, asserted the authority upon interned European “pulling no punches” (in a vei literal sense) whilst full of sake ar beer. That was a phase of alcohol dispensation in Rabaul which I d; not appreciate!

I have seen various phases Rabaul of the art of drinking. 1 German days the popular drinkir spots were the company clubs. Tl Neu Guinea Kompagnie, E. E. Fo sayth and Hernsheim & Cie had the premises where staff members co: gregated. The NGK club was locate in the premises which during tl 1914 military occupation became tl general canteen for the troops, ar when Civil Administration came in being became the offices of tl Crown Law Office in Mango Avenu opposite Park Street.

There was also a European hot) named “Frederichshof” and run, think, by the NDL. It was locat* in a two-storey building, later a quired by Cyril Gasgoine and usi for a time as the Masonic Temple its early years. In Chinatown the: were two hotels: Ah Chee’s ar Ching King’s, patronised mostly T the Chinese and Malays.

In the early twenties, after Ch Administration took over, there we: the Rabaul Hotel, run by Nelson Robertson, the two Chinese hote; the New Guinea Club (the old mit tary Sergeants’ Mess) and the RabaE Club (the old Officers’ Mess). 30

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By that time the drinking popula- >n had grown considerably; the :proboard was established (nearly ex-Diggers of War I) and the iministration staff had been stepped , with the usual public service tenncy towards numerical strength.

There were no cinemas; no mixed cktail parties, the only relaxation nained in the pubs and the clubs. night it was the usual thing to : outside each club and pub gathering of house-boys, each ned with a hurricane lantern, squalid about waiting for the time when sir mastas would decide to go me, which meant a somewhat torms path in the dark to some chelor bungalow.

Rabaul night-life often had its flights. There were German oldie residents, still there, awaiting i finalisation of their affairs before iving for the homeland. Many of :m were somewhat desperate. They d lost the war, they had to leave i country, the future was most un- ■tain. With old Omar Khayyam :y thought: Ah, fill the Cup—what boots it to repeat How time is slipping underneath our feet ; Unborn Tomorrow and dead Y esterday, Why fret about them if Today be sweet. that’s exactly what many of m did.

Fhere was pompous and very big x-foot-two and twenty stone) Herr the manager of one of the Big rman Firms, who used to come vn to Chinatown at night in maculate evening dress and wearing J of those old-time collapsible ;ra hats. He was a most imposing are, full of good cheer and Girl and beer. After a session at Ah ee’s he would occasionally return his home in a wheel-barrow. . .

Then there was the inimitable old 1 Gevers, a long, lean cadaverous- >king individual, who was native iour clerk for the HSAG. Bill was jovial soul; he never had trouble h his labour line; ships’ captains iw there would be no trouble with oading or loading while Bill was the job.

But there were times when he just 1 to relax. At night, after a prednary visit to Ah Chee’s, he would borrow or steal a T-Ford, comte with driver (a luxury in those fs) and invariably with the hood vn he would be driven through town slowly playing an old mophone. ’ don’t quite know why I am recalling these old-time identities.

There are few—very few—folk still alive who remember those Rabaul nights, and those who do are probably sitting back sedately, not the least eager to remember the nights when their house-boys guided them back to their bachelor flats.

And yet . . . it was a phase of Rabaul drinking before the advent of the cocktail parties, which followed the coming of the women-folk with their social cliques and social symbols of maidenhair fern and polished brass and marital tropical triangles.

In Retrospect In September PIM, I mentioned Australia’s first Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) in War I and the speed with which it was organised and despatched to German New Guinea.

Came a letter the other day from a member of this same Force, commenting on some of the events and asking: “Can you remember the nicknames given by the troops to the different forces and reinforcements as they arrived in Rabaul during the military occupation? I used to know them, but I’ve forgotten. Many of the names were not complimentary terms because some of the coves were pretty tough blokes”.

Replying to this old-timer it is needless to say the men were not hand-picked, and some of the characters amongst these willing Diggers were “weird mobs” and their behaviour startled the natives to no small extent. It is, however, interesting to know the name by which the subsequent Forces and Reinforcements were popularly known, as suggested by the writer.

The Second Force, to arrive on December 7, 1914, was dubbed the “Druids”. They arrived with Colonel Pethebridge, who succeeded Colonel Holmes as Administrator on January 8, 1915.

The Third Force was called “The This was Chinatown in Rabaul in the early 1930's. The photograph was published in one of the first issues of "PIM", which accounts for the black border around it —borders around pictures being the fashion in journalism in those days. 31 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Over a year later, on December 4, 1916, came the Second Reinforcelents, “The Wallingfords”. In Ictober of the next year the Third ud Fourth Reinforcements arrived ud were respectively named “The orty Thieves” and “The War babies”. Finally, on June 22, 1918, ame the Fifth and final Reinforcelent, “The Hungry Hundred”.

And such were the component arts of “The Coconut Lancers” as ley were called by the civilian uropeans in New Guinea. One can raw certain inferences as to the eneral characteristics of the ersonnel from the titles, and there no doubt there were some tough abies amongst them. Nor did the other ranks” have a monopoly mongst the (Get Rich-Quick) /allingfords, the Forty Thieves or le Hungry Hundred. orrection To keep the record straight it lould be pointed out that in Lew riday’s article on the Duke of Yorks {PIM, Nov. p. 93) there appears an error (most likely a typographical one) where it mentions “we came to Mioko or Port Hunter . . . the first Christian settlement in the whole of New Guinea”. This should have read Molot, not Mioko.

Means to An End About NG’s health; Only recently another letter came from an old-timer in which he was recalling some of the incidents in the early Twenties in an isolated NG area where, as was the usual custom, the DO had been transferred from the Military to the Civil Administration (which dated from May, 1921).

“The same Captain X,” wrote my friend, “had cornered the local market for tortoise-shell, the odd pearl, etc., and when he was transferred to the Kavieng district in 1923 he had the opposition of a young doctor there. This doctor had a brain-wave. He put a boy in every village with a few bandages, salts, etc., thus competing with the DO’s representative, the Tul Tul.

Thus were Medical Tul Tuls born, or that’s the way I heard it, anyway.”

I don’t suppose the official history of the NG Public Health Department will agree that this personal acquisitiveness laid the foundation to the creation of this useful adjunct to the service. But it could have been so. There were queer things ’neath the Tropic Sun, around ninetyhundred and twenty-one. . . . And there were some good things which have gone unsung: Tom Brennan sailing about in the Lady Betty amongst isolated island groups for weeks on end; Raphael Cilento checking up on health conditions in forgotten areas in the Boina. And then about the same time was the famed Dr. Sylvester Lambert on his hookworm campaign, with his wellorganised willing workers and their chenopodium.

No, when you really stop and think and then compare the work of the P-NG PHD with both the Federal and States Health Departments in Australia (and in many other countries, too) with all their shillying and shallying and their astronomical expenditures, P-NG has done, and is doing, a very fine job.

And, to my mind, of the greatest importance.

Of what use is a literate nation if it is not healthy?

Roofs and Earthquakes That public relations man was a bit off beam in his statement ( PIM, Nov. p. 41) that ash and soil were piled 10 ft on the roofs of all buildings in town following the 1937 Rabaul eruption, adding “Most collapsed . .

My first comment is “Hooey!” My second is to state that I doubt very much if even 10 inches of ash accumulated on the roofs, and to my personal knowledge only one roof of a building collapsed—and that was the temporary office of the Bank of NSW in Mango Avenue.

Christmas Greetings In Christian countries this particular time of the year is still regarded as symptomatic of peace and goodwill and originates, of course, from the message of the angels at the birth of Christ, And, despite the fact the promised peace and goodwill have not as yet eventuated, we still cling to the hope that by repeating the message, in various forms, we may attain those promised qualities.

Since my greetings last year, when I urged for tolerance, there have been several near-escapes from ominous global misunderstandings. Let us sincerely hope that in the coming year we may, as nations, reach a greater understanding and tolerance which may ensure a peaceful living for all; for once that is attained then international relations will become humanly peaceful and that, in turn, will be reflected in the daily life of each one of us.

Let us send up a wish, a prayer, a toast (whichever suits our need) at this Christmas-time for a better global understanding and tolerance, and may it be a happy Christmas-time for all of us. 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Fijian's Plea For A South Seas Colombo Plan By Ratu Joni Vuiyasawa One has only to look at the more developed countries of the South Pacific—Western Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, Fiji —to find that one of the greatest barriers to their independence is economic under-development.

FIJI, for example, has wide potentials in the field of agriculture; but unless it has trained men and women capable of putting into practice scientific methods of agriculture the country will be soon struggling to feed its fast-growing population. At this moment it is of prime importance that Fiji produces enough to cut down as much as possible on its imports of foodstuffs.

In many of the Pacific Islands almost the only possible sources of income are copra and bananas.

But in Fiii and in Paoua-New Guinea there 3 are wider mAshould noAleft in the hands Ah e nT J“ d J'„ ! ‘A of the Islands as a place of cheap lanour.

There is only one way to prepare for indigenous leadership in the scientific field and that is through tertiary education At present this is deplorably slow, nor can there be much change in the foreseeable future unless some such scheme as that advocated by the South Pacific Commission is implemented.

One of the serious problems confronting Fiji is racial, arising out of the presence of 200,000 Indians.

They are there because the Colonial Sugar Refining Company wanted cheap and efficient labour, These indentured labourers were promised repatriation, but the necessary provision was not made. In the meantime they were settled comfortably in our country and, without any thought for the future, the CSR, assisted by the Colonial Office, left this problem of two distinct races right in the lap of the Fijian people, The Indians have nothing in common with the Fijians. Ours is a chiefly society and, for the last 100 years, most of our people have been Christian. The Indian are chiefly Hmdus’ Wlth a P ercenta S e of Muslims. ‘“A iS entirely different We have to confess that they are far more thrift y than the Fijians, have a , re / dy cap t ure d a good deal of the local trade and there is h evidence that in this respect the Fijians have t take a se £ ondary j' ce in th ' eir own country .

So far, we have been able to avoid serious clashes between the two les is due chiefly> j belfeve , to the h and contente d temperamen( of the Eijians Not thought has been given to the problem of their living together. Like Topsy, the problem has “just growed”. So far, the Indians and Fijians have not even found a way of worshipping together.

Recent articles in "Pacific Islands Monthly" and "Fiji Times", describing the concern of the South Pacific Commission regarding future government in the South Pacific Territories, the need to train the in digenous people for self-government, and the special problem presented by multi-racial Fiji, have been read with interest by Ratu Joni Vuiyasawa.

Ratu Joni is a young Fijian student at Wesley College, Sydney.

He is a member of the well-known Sukuna family—his father is Ratu Charley, a brother of the late Sir Lala Sukuna.

Invited to write his opinions for "Pacific Islands Monthly", Ratu Joni gave us an article that is both forthright and notable for constructive thinking. Many will find it controversial.

No thinking has been done by th Government on this matter. It seem that, like most governments handlin undeveloped peoples, the onl method they know of preservim racial harmony is that of bayonet and tear gas. In 1943, and again I 1959, the Government resorted t these measures in clashes betwee; Fiji’s two peoples.

The services of trained Fijians an essential, if the two groups are tl live together in harmony. Foreig leadership is no answer to the prob lem. Leadership means training at th tertiary level.

One of the most unhealthy situ? tions in Fiji is the lack of an edu cated and independent Fijian voic* Most Fijians who have graduate either from Australia or from Ne T Zealand are civil servants. All thr As the writer of this article says, Fiji now has 200,000 Indians, as a result of the early indentured labour system. The Indians shown here are cutting matured cane for the crushing mills. 34 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Sydney, M. A. TELFER, November, 1962 Registrar 7 ijian members of the Legislative Council today are civil servants. This, believe, is entirely unsatisfactory. do not have to come all the way rom Fiji to tell you what happens o Government people who “speak •ut of turn”. We need more people /ho are free to speak their mind.

At next year’s election, when the fijians, for the first time, will elect heir representatives to the Legislative Council, they will be able only to lect civil servants because there is ast no reliable independent Fijian oice outside the civil service.

The Indian people, however, have o such problem, because their raduates, without any exaggeration, utnumber the Fijians by almost 10 0 1.

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Do not for a moment think that tie Fijian is incapable of taking srtiary education. He is capable /hen given the opportunity. Our len and women have proved that hey can take their places with other aces. The opportunity can only come 1 New Zealand and Australia will be lore generous and establish a Coimbo Plan for the Pacific territories.

It is pointless to talk about giving tie peoples of the South Pacific more esponsibility in the work of the 'ommission, if you have not got le qualified men to do the highly jchnical work that would be reuired of them.

Each year the number of Fijian oys and girls who pass the equiva- ;nt of your Leaving Certificate outumber those of any other race. Yet hen you look at the number of eople who come overseas from Fiji is usually the other way around.

This is because the Indian is :onomically stronger and is capable f sending his children overseas withut seeking support. The Fijian, on le other hand, has always relied on le limited number. of Government holarships. This creates an imalance at home, and is continually jading to misunderstanding and misust and suspicion—an altogether unealthy and unhappy state of affairs.

The fact that Fijians are mostly hristian does not, in itself, go far i the solution of the inter-racial roblem. “Thou shalt love thy neighour as thyself”, has to be spelled in ;rms of social ethics—equal oppormities in education and equal scanty for family life.

In every country in the world toay trained men and women are inestigating these matters for their own peoples and governments. This should have commenced years ago in the Pacific Islands. But it must be postponed until more and more people can be given a university education.

It is true that more and more post-graduate people from the Australian universities are using our islands of the Pacific as happy hunting-grounds for material for their doctorial theses; but little or no benefits have accrued for our people out of these excursions.

Fiji's Debt to Neighbours One further point, the Pacific Islands are linked to Australia and New Zealand in a very much closer way than are the countries of Asia.

Most of our trade has been with Australia and, for our part, we have much for which to thank Australia and New Zealand.

It has been largely due to your missionary effort that our people have been awakened to seek some better form of social life. We shall always be grateful for what you have done. But we do not want to go on through the years looking to you and depending on you for social progress or for the determination of our destiny as a people.

Therefore, having done much for us, do this one thing more: Make possible amongst us that training by which our people may be led to nationhood, independent and free and able to take our place in the wide family of nations. Into that family of nations, we believe, we have our tribute to bring; and one day we shall bring it with gratitude to you, and to God.

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By a Staff Writer One of the most fascinating pastimes in the field of anthropology is to try to figure how Polynesians and Micronesians managed to populate their vastly scattered islands in the North and South Pacific.

SOME theorists hold the view that the islands were populated deliberately. They picture the Islanders as people with great courage, incurable curiosity and a wonderful knowledge of offshore seamanship, weather, etc.

These theorists maintain that the Polynesians and Micronesians set out to seek new islands when their own islands became over-populated, when they were driven from them through defeat in war, or when ambition urged them to look for pastures new.

Other theorists believe that the Pacific islands were populated by accident when storms, winds and contrary currents drove canoe-loads of people from one island to another.

The most noted protagonist of the accidental voyages theory in recent years is New Zealander Andrew Sharp, whose book, Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific, first published in 1956, has won him many followers.

However, a movement now appears to be on foot to restore the deliberate voyages theory to favour and to take the wind out of Sharp’s sails.

In the latest (September) issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society, the first part of a symposium has been published on Sharp’s accidental voyages thesis.

The idea of the symposium was conceived about two years ago by Jack Golson, then editor of the Polynesian Society’s journal.

In a foreword to the symposium, he says that when Sharp’s book was published few reviewers could be found who were competent enough to assess Sharp’s arguments, so it was decided to get a panel of reviewers to do the job.

The Polynesian Society’s panel oi reviewers comprises: • Mr. G. S. Parsonson, senioi lecturer in the Department ol History at Otago University, whc has been working on a history ol the New Hebrides since 1949. • Mr. G .M. Dening, a recent graduate with first-class honours of Melbourne University. • Dr. C. O. Bechtol, a University of California professor, with j lifelong interest in sailing boats • Captain G. H. Heyen, genera manager of the Australia] National Line, Melbourne, win has had long sea experience ii the Western Pacific. • Captain Brett Hilder, master o the Burns Philp ship Malaitc who is well known to PIA readers for his profiles of Pacifi personalities and other articles.

Only papers by Mr. Parsonso: and Captain Heyen have so far bee: published, but Mr. Golson says tha Captain Hilder is the only contribute who fully accepts Sharp’s accident voyages theory. (Captain Hilder put lished an article on these lines in th August issue of PIM, p. 67, and ther was a reply to it by Gordon Russe in the issue for November, p. 95.) Mr. Parsonson’s contribution to th symposium is a 53-page onslaught o Andrew Sharp’s theory. He sa> Sharp’s case for accidental voyage “omits and misinterprets materu evidence, selects whatever suits th This is how Tahiti looked in the days of the early European explorers. The two[?] ships are Bougainville's "Boudeuse" and "Etoile", which visited the island in 1768.[?] A Tahitian ocean-going canoe is shown at right. 38 DECEMBER. 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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A 6218 argument and leaves out or explains away what does not”.

“It quite inexcusably denies,” Mr.

Parsonson says, “no doubt in the interests of uniformity, the most irrefragable testimony concerning long distance voyages in other seas in medieval times.”

He says: “Its basic assumptions are iften quite untenable, if not wholly llogical. The Atlantic islands, it flaims, though many of them were iesirable and near at hand, were all minhabited before being discovered ay accident or by systematic exploraion in and after the 15th century, md this presumably because early European seamen blown off course :ould always find their way back to heir extended coast.

“Why the ancestors of the Polylesians did not also seek safety in luch circumstances in the land from vhere they had originally come, is, lowever, far from clear . . .

“Further (Sharp’s) book is quite mreliable on nautical matters: a veakness which reflects its preoccupaion with theory rather than with fact, md overmuch reliance on secondary ources.

“It thus constantly exaggerates the lifficulties involved in oceanic sailing . . It becomes hard in the end to >elieve that the Polynesians could lave negotiated even the limited disances allotted to them.”

Mr. Parsonson says that the accilental voyages theory owes its surival to such factors as: the incomictence of the early explorers as obervers of native life; the sudden and Imost complete destruction of the ncient Oceanic culture in the great pidemics and civil wars of the 19th entury; and the comparative infancy if Pacific studies, notably of archaelogy, which might eventually lead to tie solution of the problem.

Captain Heyen says in his paper: Andrew Sharp has made an excelmt study of the Polynesian problem, nd his argument in favour of acciental voyages appears logical.

“But his logic does not explain the olonisation of all the islands, nor oes it disprove deliberate exploraon.”

After discussing such matters as terms, winds, currents, waves and well, Captain Heyen says: “Surely in Oceania, early man had le same urge for adventure and ddening of knowledge that inspired arly exploration by other maritime copies.

“The men of Oceania today are ardy, brave and intelligent, and are ood weather-wise seamen. Coneivably, their forbears had the same qualities, possibly to a greater degree.

Whether they were capable of exploratory voyages over long distances depended on various factors—knowledge of navigation, seamanship and weather-lore, and the sea-keeping quality of their canoes.”

Captain Heyen considers in detail the possibility of voyages by primitive navigators between Nukuhiva and Hawaii; Tahiti and Hawaii; Tahiti and New Zealand; Tongatapu and New Zealand; Kadavu and New Zealand; and Savaii and Hawaii— distances varying from 977 miles to 2,242 miles.

He concludes that voyages between all those points would have been possible either from north to south or from south to north, or both ways.

“Undoubtedly many canoes would have been lost, but it is possible that some canoe captains did discover new lands and return to tell of their wanderings.” he says.

“How, otherwise, would tales still be told of Gilbertese journeys to Samoa, and Polynesian voyages to New Zealand? Sea traditions stem from hard fact, not fancy.”

Judging from the first instalment, readers interested in the settlement of Oceania can look forward to some further lively reading on the subject in the next two or three issues of the Journal of the Polynesian Society. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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'he new bop had n educated Worcester Cambridge at 18 ned the fal Engins as a )nd lieuten- He was harged in 9, and was ained in 1923, at Durham. He served in various English ishes. lishop Strong administers the Angn mission throughout Papua-New nea, although his headquarters is Dogura, in eastern Papua. Dogura Dff the beaten track and consently does not see a great number visitors. ut Bishop Strong has always elled a great deal—especially in early days when he would spend ks, by foot or by canoe, visiting ;ly posts. [e remained in New Guinea ng the war. He was a chaplain he troops and at times was under he early days of the war were ones for the Bishop. The lapse captured two Anglican priests, mission sisters and a lay mission tker from the Sangara mission beheaded them all at Gona in past, 1942. Two other women, ng from Gona mission with Father James Benson, were also captured and murdered, although Benson himself escaped death (and died after the war).

Bishop Strong has never been a dramatic campaigner. His work for the Church has been notable for its quiet and steady progress—his utterances for their tolerance.

He has been a particularly keen supporter of native education and progress. It was because of this steady work that in 1960 Bishop Strong was able to present the Church with its first indigenous Bishop in the South Seas—the first native Bishop in any South Seas Mission. Bishop George Ambo, a Papuan, is the Assistant Bishop of New Guinea.

Commenting on Bishop Strong’s new appointment, the Dean of Brisbane, the Very Rev. William Baddeley, said: “Bishop Strong is a real man of God, and will undoubtedly be the spiritual leader which the diocese and province needs. To my mind, no better choice could have been made, “It will be wonderful for the Papuan people to think that their bishop has been chosen to be Fatherin-God not only to them but to all the Province, too.”

Archbishop Strong. 41 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Protests Over NG Shipping Priorities By a Staff Writer On Monday, September 10, e Aros, of the Australia-West icific Line, berthed at Lae, ew Guinea, and began to dislarge cargo from the Far East. |N Wednesday, September 12, at * daylight, the Burns Philp liner alaita entered Lae; whereupon the "os was obliged to move out into e stream to allow Malaita to On Thursday, September 13, the alaita departed and Aros rerthed.

On Friday, September 14, at 1 n., the Aros again was obliged to dvc out into the stream to allow e Burns Philp liner Bulolo to berth.

Thereupon, the exasperated A-WP ople ordered the Aros to proceed Brisbane to meet her commitsnts, although the liner still had 0 tons of cargo for discharge at ic.

That is a sample of conditions m e Papua and New Guinea ports, ncerning which a lively corresponnce has been going on for years tween the Swedish Minister in Ausdia and Messrs. Wilhelm Wilhelmti Agency Pty. Ltd., on behalf of ; Swedish-owned Australian-Northest Pacific Line, and the Australian apartments of External Affairs and :rritories, which control port reguions in Papua and New Guinea.

The Swedish Line operates the vesls Aros, Delos, Milos, Samos and -nos between Australia, the P-NG :rritory, and Far East ports. It thus ovides three services—namely a :ect express monthly (both ways) rvice between Australia and Japan; anthly sailings from Australia to anila, Hongkong and Japan, via P- -3 ports; and monthly sailings from pan and Far East ports to Ausilia, via Lae and (every third sail- ?) the Solomons.

The managers of that shipping line ake the point that they provide astralia and the Australian Terriry with a valuable and growing sight connection with developing arkets, especially in the Far East, d that they are obliged to plan d maintain fairly tight schedules, ley object very strongly to the frequent dislocation of their timetables, as shown in the above instance.

The Australian authorities have given “priorities” to four vessels called “trunkships”, which run regularly from Australia to Papua and New Guinea ports—namely, the Bu- 1010 and Malaita, of the Burns Philp Islands line (which is subsidised by the Australian Government) and the Shansi and Soochow, of the New Guinea-Australia Line.

In reply to the protests of the Swedish Line interests, Canberra has said that the “trunkships” provide essential two-way services between Australian and Territory ports; that the Territory depends on these ships for its more important supplies, and for marketing most of its products; and that it is vital to the Territory’s economy that the ships adhere to time-tables. Hence, they are given priority in the ports.

The Swedish Line has answered by quoting figures showing the quantity and importance of the cargoes which it carries between the Territory and its markets, and the manner in which this valuable trade has increased.

It is claimed that the Swedish Line gave invaluable service in the imme- 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1962

diate post-war years, when ships were scarce, and that the owners cooperated helpfully with Australia in developing Eastern trade (the Delos, for example, was fitted out and ran as an Australian trade-ship, at very low cost).

During the ’fifties, Canberra’s dictum ruled the situation. But in very recent years the Territory’s trade has increased very much; the number of overseas shipping lines servicing the Territory has grown; and there now is strong pressure upon Canberra to share the Territory’s port facilities more liberally with the “non-trunk” ships.

Early this year, the Swedish Line presented its case to the Planters’ Association of New Guinea. The Association replied that, after consideration, it fully supported the Line’s contention that the system of allotting berths in the ports should be “first arrived, first served” and priority to none.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., which has contributed so much to the Territory’s development over the last 50 years, and which now is suffering acutely from the competition of shipping lines not on Australian articles (which means that the latter ships can be run more cheaply) has a strong case for continued Australian protection.

The other companies reply to that by pointing out that the protection given trunkships in the P-NG ports represents a situation not seen anywhere else in the shipping world.

The pressure upon Canberra, in this matter, may end by Canberra ordering an open inquiry into the whole situation A Brett Hilder Profile

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BRUNO FREDERICK KROENING was born at Kieta, Bougainville, on July 27, 1914, only days before World War I started.

SINCE then several flags have flown over the island, and we wonder what the next one will be.

Bruno’s father was Dr. Bruno Karl Kroening, of the German Administration, who arrived in the Territory about 1911. He was first stationed at Namatanai, New Ireland, under the famous Bulominski, and later set up a fine hospital at Kieta.

He relieved Captain Dellinger as District Officer about 1913. Bruno’s mother was Frances Highly, born in the Mortlocks, her father being English and his mother a Samoan member of “Queen Emma’s” group.

Emma gave the young couple her rights in the Mortlocks as a dowry, and they later bought Toboroi plantation near Kieta.

Mrs. Highly remarried and became Mrs. Calder, and was well known in that part of the world until her accidental death in the Mortlocks about 1929.

When Australia occupied Bougainville, Dr. Kroening, as a German official, was sent to Germany with his family. During the war years two daughters arrived to keep Bruno company, Irmgard, later Mrs. Jimmy Joyes, of Bougainville, and Beatrix (or “Muschi”) who is Mrs. James Tandy, of Sydney.

At the end of the war the Toboroi plantation was not expropriated because it belonged to Mrs. Calder as British subject.

The Kroenings’ fourth child, He mut, was born in Sydney in 192 While the parents and two younge children went to Bougainville, Irmgai and Bruno remained in Sydney ; school.

Bruno went to “Shore” in di course. He left school at 17 and afh six months at the Hawkesbury Agr cultural College went on to Bougab ville to join his father on the plant: tion.

In 1934 he moved up the coast 1 Raua, working under Fred Urban : the Rugenhaven Coffee estate, ar spent four very interesting years ther His next job was at Bulolo, wor] ing for BCD, and he was there whe the Japanese arrived on the coast.

Bruno had tried to enlist in tl NGVR, but failed medically. He le Bulolo with a group of civilian mostly miners, under John Murph for the long trek overland to tl South via Bulldog and so on to Yu Island and Moresby. They sailed f( Sydney in one of the last voyages ( the Macdhui.

In Sydney Bruno tried to enlist i the AIF and the American force but was rejected as an enemy aliei He worked in Sydney at a variety ( jobs until he could get back to Ne Guinea.

Then he took a job with Mic Leahy in Morobe Transport Con pany. After leave in Sydney he r turned to the Territory in the Malau in 1951, meeting and later marryir Miss Olive Rossiter at Madang.

Bruno was keen to get back t plantation life, so they went 1 Kayieng where he got a job wit Fred Patten on a plantation c Squally Island, owned by W. R. Ca penter. He has since bought tl property and is paying it off.

Apart from a few spells at Toborc Bruno and his wife recently cam South for their first leave since the were married. This included a vis to the Games at Perth.

Olive was born in Australia, bi spent most of her girlhood in Enj land. Four years ago she took u painting, at first in watercolours, an later in oils, and with her determin; tion and natural ability she hu achieved marvellous results.

Last year she had a portrait of Pai Mason accepted for the Archibal competition in Sydney, and a lan* scape of Kieta for the Wynne com petition This year her Archibald entry is portrait of Kevan Gosper, and whe it is exhibited a lot of people, as we as Bruno, are going to be very prouj of her.—BRETT HILDER. 44 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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1915 Parallel To Minerva Reef Drama The stranding of the Tongan yacht "Tuaikaepau", on South Minerva Reef on July 7 and the sufferings of the 12 survivors of the crew of 17 had a parallel in June, 1915, when the cable ship "Strathcona", was wrecked on nearby North Minerva Reef on her maiden voyage.

The "Strathcona", built in Auckland at a cost of £lO,OOO, was an auxiliary fore and aft schooner, measuring 110 ft. overall.

Like their counterparts of 47 years later, the crew of 13 were stranded and lived in privation for five weeks.

After 16 days on the reef, the "Strathcona's" master. Captain William Robertson, decided to set out in the launch for Ono-i-Lau (one of Captain Tevita Fifita's targets in the outrigger "Malolelei"), 200 miles away. He took two men with him.

The second mate, left in charge, had orders to stand by until rescued, or, as a last resort, to put to sea in the 16 ft. whaleboat.

Misfortune overtook the castaways soon after the captain left.

Much of their water leaked away from their damaged tank, and they suffered much from thirst.

Nineteen days after the captain left, the survivors were cheered to see on the horizon the smoke of the steamer "Iris", which had been sent from Auckland to search for them.

Captain Robertson had more luck than Captain Fifita for he reached Ono-i-Lau and chartered a small cutter to return to the reef. Not far from the reef He and his companions were picked up by the "Iris".

A Captain Ross, of Auckland, later bought the wreck and stripped her of all her gear.

In 1947, Mr. Hamlet Garnett, of Fiji, went to the reef with Captain Henry Michael in the cutter "Ono-i- Lau" to see if any of the heavy lead keel remained, but little of the wreck was to be found.

Others who have since visited North Minerva say that there is now no sign of the "Strathcona".

Emotional Welcome Home For Tongan Castaways From PIM Correspondents The makeshift outrigger canoe in which three castaways from the Tongan yacht Tuaikaepau made their heroic 300mile voyage from South Minerva Reef to Kadavu, Fiji, in October was shipped from Suva to Tonga early in November in the Tongan Government ship Aoniu.

IT will probably go on permanent display in Nukualofa as an example of Tongan craftsmanship in an emergency.

The outrigger, called Malolelei, was built from the timbers of a wrecked Japanese fishing boat which the 17 Tongan members of the Tuaikaepau found on Minerva Reef after their yacht went aground there and broke up on July 7.

The skipper of the Tuaikaepau, Tevita Fifita, his son, Sateki Fifita, and Tevita Uaise’e. a carpenter who designed Malolelei, set out from Minerva Reef in the outrigger on October 7 in the hope of bringing aid to their shipwrecked comrades after vainly awaiting rescue for three months. Sateki Fifita was drowned after the outrigger capsized a mile and a half off the Kadavu coast.

Captain Fifita later gave the outrigger to the people of Kadavu’s Nacamoto village, and the elders of the village refused to part with it when Captain S. B. Brown, of the Maroro, went to Nacamoto to bring the vessel to Suva for shipment to Tonga. However, the younger men of Nacamoto said the boat should be sent to Suva, La * r . whl -n the Melanesia went to Nacamoto, the elders had reconciled their differences with the >' ou l n B. me " and allow ? d ‘ he outrigger to be handed over and taken to Suva.

About a fortnight earlier the 12 survivors of the Tuaikaepau who had rested in hospital at Suva after their ordeal on Minerva Reef had been taken back to Tonga in an RNZAF Sunderland.

The Sunderland touched down in the bay off Nukualofa at 2.30 p.m. on October 22 amid great excitement, The afternoon had been declared a public holiday and from midday people had been moving towards Faua Harbour, about a mile away from the main wharf, The harbour is used for small Survivors of the "Tuaikaepau" step ashore from a landing barge at Nukualofa.

They are, from left, First Mate Ve'etutu Pahulu, wearing spectacles, Viliami Fa and Tevita Uaisele, who built the outrigger which he, Captain Tevita Fifita and his son, Sateki Fifita, set sail from Minerva Reef to get help. —Photo: Tulua Bros. 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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By two o’clock, the wharf and >le surrounding the harbour were :ked with people, and the road o town right up to the entrance the Royal Palace was lined with loolchildren.

Earlier the TSMV Kao, a landing ift type vessel, had sailed out into ; bay with close relatives of the vivors.

After the Sunderland touched wn, its passengers and crew were tied by dinghy to the Kao, where : survivors met their relatives.

Ehe vessel was dressed over-all as ; sailed up the channel into Faua irbour, and it was a silent and lotional crowd which greeted the urning men. It was a sad as 11 as a joyous occasion.

As the vessel touched the slipy, the Police Band played the mn “Deep Harmony”.

The survivors, still showing signs their three-month ordeal, were ;eted and welcomed by the Deputy ;mier, Prince Tu’ipelehake, on half of Queen Salote, the chiefs d the people.

In a speech, Prince Tu’ipelehake inked the New Zealand Govern- ;nt and all concerned in the rescue erations. He commended the plain, the mate and the crew of : Tuaikaepau for the way they had irked together and lived up to their mgan traditions.

Although he recalled with sadness it some had given their lives, he s thankful that more had lived.

Members of the official party, binet Ministers and chiefs then Icomed the survivors.

Later, led by the Deputy Premier in his car, the castaways were driven down the coast road which was flanked by row upon row of schoolchildren.

At the mala’e (open ground outside the Palace), an enormous crowd had assembled to greet them as they passed into the Palace grounds for an audience with Queen Salote.

After the audience, the survivors were driven to the Vaiola Hospital, again through crowds lining the main street.

Early in November, they were still in hospital recuperating from their ordeal.

Queen Salote directed the hospital doctors and nurses to give her daily reports of the men’s progress.

Alapasita, wife of Captain Tevita Fifita, was staying at the hospital to nurse her husband back to health.

The survivors held daily prayer meetings, as they did when they were living in the Japanese wreck. They used an old Bible which they had with them on the reef.

Big celebrations were planned for the men when they returned to their homes. Some of the men are from Haapai, some from Tongatapu and one is from Vavau.

A court of inquiry into the stranding of the Tuaikaepau on South Minerva Reef was expected to begin during November.

On November 2, Olaf Ruhen, a noted Australian writer on Australian and Islands subjects, flew from Sydney to Tonga to gather material for a book on the Minerva Reef epic.

The book will be published by Angus & Robertson Pty. Ltd., of Sydney, in association with the Minerva Bookshop Pty. Ltd., of Auckland, about the middle of 1963.

In gathering his material, Olaf Ruhen will also have the assistance of the reporters and photographers of The Fiji Times whose coverage of the Minerva Reef drama was published in newspapers throughout the world. The Fiji Times bought all rights to a book on the subject from the Tongan castaways, and obtained from them a log which they kept on Minerva Reef.

Members of the crew of the "Tuaikaepau" in the grounds of the Royal Palace at Nukualofa after their audience with Queen Salote. Captain Tevita Fifita is on the extreme right. —Photo; Tula Bros.

The outrigger "Maloleilei", in which Captain Tevita Fifita and two crew members of the "Tuaikaepau" sailed from Minerva Reef to Kadavu, was shipped to Tonga from Suva in the "Aoniu" on November 7. The outrigger is shown here just before she was taken aboard the "Aoniu".

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New P-NG Council Composition 'Aimed At Future Needs' From a PIM Correspondent in Port Moresby and AAP-Reuter There have been columns of space in the Territory Press recently over charges that the composition of the 65-member P-NG Legislative Council to be elected in 1964 is against the wishes of the native people. f HADING the attack has been Mr.

I. L. Chipper, Rabaul businesslan and MLC, and to the defence as come the Acting Administrator, )r. John Gunther.

The present Council has 37 memers—with Europeans in the majority.

Tie 65-member Council will have a ative majority. Only 10 of the new Council will be officials—the remainig 55 will be elected, mostly on a ommon roll ( PIM, Nov., p. 5).

The decision to enlarge the Counil was made by the Commonwealth jovernment after a select committee ad made a survey of Territory pinion and reported back to the legislative Council at a special sitting i October.

Mr. Chipper has charged that the elect Committee on Political Deelopment ignored the native delands for closer balance of Euroean and native representation in the roposed new Council, and that leadig Australian businessmen were reatly concerned over the proposed atio.

Tolai View Mr. Chipper purchased a full page i the new pidgin-language newspaper Ju Gini Toktok to present to natives is view that the Select Committee fas going against their own wishes.

In Rabaul, leading Tolai businesslan Stanis Boramilat also criticised ie decision to allow a 4-to-l native lajority.

He said he felt there should be no lore than three natives to every two European members. He said some Australians might erroneously get the npression that “the native people /anted to throw the Europeans out”, tut the natives wanted the Australians a stay.

Boramilat said he would voice his pinions at a meeting of the Rabaul )istrict Advisory Council, of which ie was a member.

Dr. Gunther in reply said the lative people had generally asked for tie committee for a two to one majority of elected natives over the elected Europeans, but the committee decided on a four to one native majority.

He added: “We did this because we were looking forward to 1966, not just 1964, and we believed that it would be quite natural to the people to want to take more and more control over their own destiny.

“We believe we have correctly anticipated the peoples’ wishes and this was a proper thing to do.

“We believe the people will want the kind of arrangement the Select Committee proposed for a very much longer period of time than they would want a situation where the Council, if you include official members, would have almost equal number of indigenous and non-indigenous groups.”

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“I have said previously and I say igain that if the people continue to ;alk about insecurity, they beget insecurity.

“If the people continue to bring to ;he attention of Australian investors >uch things as whether a four-to-one Dr a two-to-one majority is the right Dne, they will create a doubt in the ninds of the Australian people.”

Dr. Gunther said that for some ;ime there had not been a large inlow of capital into the Territory— but on the other hand, there had not Deen a great outflow of reinvestment :apital.

“A great deal of reinvestment is Saking place, clearly indicating that Australians here have faith in the future.”

He added: “If there is any way of measuring Australian opinion on Territory investment, I would suggest that we watch Steamships Trading Company shares, a company which bias all its investments in the Territory. Since the announcement of the proposals for the new Council, and the confirmation of these proposals by the Commonwealth Government, Steamships shares have done nothing more than react as the market has reacted to overseas events.

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“If everybody in the Territory shows that they have faith in the country, then I am certain that they will persuade people who do not live in the country also to have faith in it.”

Investment Potential "Impressive"

From a Port Moresby Correspondent According to a representative of a big Australian hotel chain — Federal Hotels Ltd.—there is a growing interest among investors in Papua-New Guinea. representative, Mr. John Spooner, the company’s promotion manager, made a 10-day visit to the Territory in November to investigate possibility of long-term investment in P-NG hotels. Federal Hotels already has a hotel in Hobart, three in Melbourne, one in Sydney with another being built, and three in Queensland.

Mr. Spooner said he was “most impressed” by the investment potential of the Territory. North American tourists would be the most profitable market for NG, but everything would depend on having high hotel standards to attract them.

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The ex-servicemen’s scheme, estabshed as a result of RSL agitation, as been a valuable practical contriution by the Government towards sound economy for the future, he scheme without doubt has been success.

Loan money is paid to farmer jttlers progressively over the years, nd total cash advances so far mount to nearly £2,000,000. The laximum period of repayment is 25 ears from the initial granting of le loan money.

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Requirements for obtaining a loan ere satisfactory military service and jsidence in the Territory for five ;ars before the credit scheme started i 1958. Applicants also had to ossess a knowledge and experience E agriculture.

Crops being grown by scheme dtlers include cocoa, coconuts, ibber, coffee and peanuts.

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From PlM’s Apia Correspondent If the population increase of Western Samoa continues at the present rate, in less than 100 years there will be more than one million Samoans, according to the Samoan census commissioner, Mr. John Wendt, who has just tabulated the results of the 1961 census. 1951 to 1956 the average A yearly rate of increase was 2.8 per cent., but from 1956-61 this jumped to 3.3 per cent., to be among the highest in the world.

“The increase is due entirely to improved health services and the maintenance of a high reproduction rate,” Mr. Weldt said, adding that the Samoan woman produces seven children, three times as many as her New Zealand counterpart.

The earliest recorded estimate of Western Samoa’s population was made by Commodore Charles Wilkes, who was in charge of the United States exploratory expedition to Samoa in 1839.

Problems Intensify He put the population at 47,000, but, with the introduction by Europeans of epidemics and firearms and savage political wars, this figure declined up till the end of the nineteeth century.

A recovery continued until the influenza epidemic of 1918, in which 7,000 Samoans perished out of a total population of 35,000. Over the last 44 years the population has more than quadrupled to reach 114,427.

This rapid increase has brought with it problems that will intensify over the next few years.

Young people outnumber elders so greatly that over the next 10 years there will be nine times as many males looking for employment as there will be males retiring.

Made up of two main islands and a few islets covering altogether just over 1,000 square miles, Western Samoa has considerable potential for agricultural development.

She exports each year about £3 million worth of copra, cocoa and bananas, but 40 years ago copra 56 DECEMBER. 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Red Interest In West Samoan Politicians From PlM’s Apia Correspondent After a history of apparent indifference to political feeling within Western Samoa, Russia has seemingly decided that with independence Samoan politicians might be worth cultivating.

For the last three months each member of the Legislative Assembly, 46 in all, has been regularly receiving through the mail the weekly news bulletin of the Legation of the USSR in Wellington. This progaganda sheet gives the Russian slant on world events with extracts of speeches by Russian leaders, contains news of progress within Russia, and, of particular interest to Samoa, emphasises Russian concern for underdeveloped countries.

Earlier this year Prime Minister Mataafa (pictured), fearful of political implications, flatly denied any interest in aid from the Soviet. But if the development plan currently being drawn up with UN help does not come up to expectations there could be an expression of interest in closer relations with the Soviet by some Samoan politicians.

Where The Money Goes: Another Trade Gap For Fiji Prom a Suva Correspondent Fiji had a visible adverse trade balance of £6,766,000 in 1961, a gap which the Commerce and Industries Officer, Mr.

R. W. Parkinson, who is responsible for compiling trade statistics, described as “depressing”. But adverse trade gaps are nothing new in Fiji, for only in two of the last 10 years has the value of exports exceeded imports.

BUT the figure of £6,766,000 is reduced to £4,066,000 when reexports of £2,700,000 are taken into consideration. About half the reexport trade is in petroleum products, the greater part of it for refuelling aircraft at Nadi, and ships’ stores.

Next in importance are textiles at £268,000, followed by vehicles £191,000, radio £119,000, metal manufactures £104,000 and clothing £90,000.

Exports in 1961 at £10,434,000 fell sharply from the 1960 figure of £12,780,000, mainly because of the drop in shipments of sugar (the 1960 sugar troubles caused this) from £8,700,000 to £5,900,000. Other exports generally were up in both value and quantity, although the year was a poor one for commodity prices.

Coconut oil exports rose in quantity from 17,985 tons to 23,736 tons, but the value at a little more than £2,000,000 was only comparable with the 1960 return as the average return a ton dropped from £B9/14/- to £B5/18/-. Oil cake, a by-product of the coconut, was worth £202,000.

Copra exports which had fallen to almost negligible proportions in 1959 (84 tons) rose to 2,499 tons in 1960 and 5,893 tons last year. Last year’s copra exports, all of which went to Japan, were worth £338,000. Thus the total value of all products from coconuts was about £2,600,000 in 1961.

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Bank of New Zealand, Sydney; Bank of~ New South Wales, Sydney Dmestic production. Less important ;ms (but valuable nevertheless in a rained economy) were bananas at 240.000, biscuits £77,000, trochus id pearl shell £35,000, timber 53.000 and hides £19,000.

The metal exports, apart from gold, intinued their slump. Manganese as worth only £16,000 in 1961, impared with a substantial £450,000 i 1957, iron ore dropped from 100.000 in 1960 to £53,000, but in )57 the figure was only £5,000.

Clothing exports fell to only 15,500, after being at £30,000 to 55.000 in 1958, 1959 and 1960.

On the import side the figure was 17,200,000 —well up on the 1960 »ure of £16,400,000, but still behind ie record year of 1958 when Fiji »ent £17,600,000. With a growing Dpulation, import figures have generly risen steadily. Ten years ago the iports were a fraction less than ),400,000.

The food group at round the 5.500.000 mark has been more or ss static for the last five years ,and mges round 20 per cent, of total iports. Sharps was the main single ;m imported at £545,000, followed / flour at £386,000, and meat 545.000, Rice has fluctuated a lot in the st five years, ranging from 1,886 ms in 1957, to 8,092 tons in 1959, id down to 4,149 tons last year, ice imports last year were worth 288.000, Dairy products were worth 207.000, tea £191,000, potatoes 122.000, onions £83,000, pulses 51.000 and confectionery £66,000.

Beer Imports Drop The Fiji brewery (opened in 1958) id two cigarette factories (opened 1956) have had a considerable imict on imports of beer, cigarettes id tobacco. Beer imports, worth 509.000 in 1958, last year had •opped to £133,000. Spirits imirts had been reasonably stable •ound 65,000 gallons, but rose fairly larply in 1961 to- 73,393 gallons, dued at 148,000. Whisky was the lost popular drink (£82,000) fllowed by gin (£28,000), rum £19,000) and brandy (£13,000).

Cigarettes and tobacco imports intinued to fall and are now only very minor item in the bill. The ?61 imports were worth only 14.000, whereas in 1955 they cost ie Colony £273,000. On the other md imports of unmanufactured ►bacco cost £152,000 in 1961, but lis was a drop of £42,000 on the ?60 figure.

Fuels make a big hole in overseas irnings and in 1961 they were valued at £2,092,000. Most of these are petroleum products, but a large part is recoverable for the 1961 re-exports were worth £1,326,000.

Chemicals are a substantial item and in 1961 they cost £1,142,000.

The main import under this heading was fertiliser at £223,000, followed by medicinal and pharmaceutical products £19,000, paint products of various types £153,000, perfumery, and ,o,let preparations £ 12°,00 0 and soaps and cleansing materials ±.104,000.

Manufactured goods were generally dominated by the textile products of which rayon and other synthetics accounted for £590,000. This group was £lOO,OOO up on 1960 and appears to be rising steadily. Cotton materials at £537,000 were £136,000 up on 1960.

Tyres and tubes £303,000, cement £247,000, and fabricated metals £611,000 (including £143,000 for corrugated sheeting) were other items to send the import bill up.

The machinery and transport was £- 3>193i 000 compared with £2,698,000 in 1960, and among the miscellaneous group the main import item was clothing at £545,000, well up on the 1960 figure of £480,252.

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Malaria Is NG's Number One Health Problem From a Port Moresby Correspondent The appalling statistics of lalaria in Papua-New Guinea ave recently been highlighted by New Guinea medical officer, ffiey have come as a surprise to iany Europeans who take their lalaria suppressives regularly— s a mere routine of tropical livig—without realising what a courge the disease is. i/lALARIA is P-NG’s major public health problem.

Dr. J. J. Saave, P-NG’s Acting pecialist Malariology Officer, gave le facts in a paper presented to the ourth Asian Malaria Conference eld in Manila. The main points of le paper have been circulated withi P-NG by the Administration.

The paper covers the progress of le anti-malaria campaign in P-NG, om the first pilot projects in 1957, ) the current large-scale spraying perations which are going on in ight districts—New Ireland, Bouainville, New Britain, Manus, lorobe, Madang, Sepik and Milne ay.

There are 213 people engaged in lese spraying operations.

About 1,300,000 people live in lalarious areas. The spraying so far as given protection to 341,783 eople, living in areas totalling 8,800 square miles.

Until spraying was done in the laprik area of the Sepik, 60 per ent. of all infants died before the ge of one, most of them from lalaria. After spraying the mortality ate fell to less than 10 per cent.

In Bougainville, the malaria in inants before spraying started in 1960 fas 15.7 per cent. A year later, after ouses had been sprayed for the scond time, the percentage was down a 1.5.

Similar results have been achieved i other sprayed areas.

The official plan is to eliminate lalaria from at least the island areas f New Britain, New Ireland and tougainville and from the small offhore islands of the Territory.

Effective malaria control will ouble the people’s expectation of ife, and halve the infant mortality ate.

Among adults it will add 15 per cent to the efficiency of the work force, and improve the aptitude of school children by up to 25 per cent.

The effectiveness of the spraying routine was proved through the earlier pilot projects, and then extended. The spraying method has since been combined with the use of drugs.

Currently at Maprik and in the Trobriand Islands a study is being made of the use of anti-malaria drugs in conjunction with the residual spraying of buildings.

Surveillance is an important part of the campaign, and blood slides collected from fever cases are examined in the Malaria Laboratories established at Rabaul, Port Moresby, Minj and Maprik.

Following a suggestion by the Right Rev. S. C. Francis, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, and with the assistance of Monsieur J. Villemot, director of the CFTO, a church is to be built at Forari, on Efate, New Hebrides, which will be shared by both the Catholic Mission and the Presbyterian Church. The building, designed in Paris, will be hexagonal. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Uncle Sam Builds An Island "Paradise" Without Ballyhoo Pacific resort promotions are announced almost as often as the tides change. Most, however, are not nearly as solvent as the ocean’s waters.

From Ralph Craib in San Francisco NOW a brand new island “paradise” of exceptional quality has been developed—without any advertising or lavish four-colour brochures.

It offers two swimming pools, bowling alleys, air-conditioned living quarters, frequent air and sea connections, a nine-hole golf course, superb skin-diving and fishing and first run movies at a series of theatres, and, last if not least, no income tax.

There is only one drawback. You have to be employed in the United States missile programme to get on the island.

This new “paradise” is at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, site of the bustling US Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility and now home for some 3,000 Americans, most of them civilians.

In 1959 the US Army decided the island was an ideal launching site to test its “anti-missile-missiles”.

Missile launch sites were constructed, as were huge radar stations.

But the spending did not stop there.

For married military personnel, there are permanent, air-conditioned houses, all with modern furniture and appliances.

For their children, there are airconditioned elementary and high schools, staffed by teachers from the US and providing instructional equal to that of the mainland.

Teachers, the Navy says, are “lured by high wages, no income tax and the vacation-like living of the tropics”.

The island’s 627 acres have been equipped with lavish recreational facilities. There are indoor bowling alleys, libraries, five theatres, four clubs, tennis and basketball courts, a nine-hole golf course, and softball and football fields. Cabin cruisers are available to take sportsmen marlin fishing in their off-duty hours.

Two regularly-scheduled Military Air Transportation Service flights arrive from the US weekly and two Military Sea Transportation Service ships arrive monthly. The ships bring food from the US, Hawaii and Far East.

A huge commissary store sells everything from cigarettes to washing machines at prices below those in the US.

Photos show a US Navy officer and his wife displaying their tuna catches after a fishing trip; (centre) an aerial view of the Nike Zeus acquisition radar complex at Kwajalein; and (bottom) one of the two swimming pools at the base. —Official US Navy photographs. 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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SPC Review Conference Next Year From a Special Correspondent The 24th session of the South s acific Commission, held in Noumea in October, was notable nore for the important matters liscussed informally than for any iecisions it arrived at officially. rHE official transcript of the proceedings has little to say about rrangement of finances following the /ithdrawal of the Netherlands from tie Commission, and nothing at all d say about Western Samoa’s partiipation in the SPC, possible changes i the South Pacific Conferences and tie need for a review conference on tie work of the Commission. But all liese matters were discussed.

The most important informal disussions centred around the review onference. The member Governlents have yet to finally agree on le details, but it seems likely the reiew conference will be held early ext year and probably in Wellington, JZ.

This conference will discuss the PC agreement and hammer out hanges that are necessary because of le march of time in the South Seas, 'he review conference will discuss illy a formula for admitting Wes- ;rn Samoa to the SPC. It will disuss a new arrangement of the nances and a new scheme which my result in the three-yearly South acific Conferences being given a ew direction.

In the interim, the five member rovernments that are left following le withdrawal of the Netherlands t the end of this year (for all praccal purposes the Netherlands has Iready withdrawn), have agreed to lare the extra financial burden aused by the Netherlands’ deparire. The Netherlands in the past as put in 15 per cent, of the anual cost.

The review conference will give the inited States an opportunity to make nancial proposals. The US has made clear that it feels it ought to be [lowed to make a greater contribuon. The US also would like to see lore exchange of personnel between le US, US Pacific territories and le South Seas, and would like to ork out a satisfactory formula for achieving this.

One of the points to be discussed on the matter of Samoan membership is how a Government can have membership while not having any dependent territories. If admitted under the present agreement Samoa would be a member Government yet presumably be entitled to benefit as a dependent territory at the same time.

At the 24th session Western Samoa was represented by the Hon. Afoafouvale Misimoa, MLA, who was a member of the NZ delegation.

The most important public announcement following the conference was undoubtedly that of the appointment of Mr. W. D. Forsyth as Secretary-General in succession to Mr, T. R. Smith, of New Zealand ( PIM, Nov. p. 8).

Mr. Forsyth, an Assistant Secretary of the Australian Department of External Affairs, will arrive in Noumea in March. He is already well-known and popular in Noumea, for he set up the SPC headquarters in Noumea as the Commission’s first Secretary- General in 1949.

The 24th session established the 1963 budget at a level of f5tg.293,000, which is about the same as was available for 1962. It approved a wide range of regional projects—some of them SPC-run 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Among the decisions were: • A conference on rural health ill be held in April, 1963. Internazmal specialists will attend. The SPC esearch Council will meet in Tahiti imediately following the confence. • The Commission will compile, to a practical textbook designed for immunity use, the findings of nutri- Dn research workers in the South acific. It will also continue to give lancial aid, and help such projects 1 th( : ca J, orie i ntak , e research recently impleted at Kundiawa in P-NG. • Ihe SPC will approach ternnes to see if they will be interested a survey to determine to what exnt urban living is resulting in nuitional deterioration, and to plan a irve yif ls agreeable. • The SPC agreed in principle to ■ganising inter-regional training or fr^v h l r „» C i OUrSeS :K laS fi ,i ?l fl ? m fOUr S‘X weeks, ,n the fields of preven- LTi , an s Public health. vet Mk / condu ,‘: ,ed °" c « y ln _ ’l w ° u dbe f 9 r auxiliary staff local health services. • The SPC stressed the impornce of collecting medical statistics id will invite territories to define eir needs for a medical statistician id will appoint a short term consulnt to see whether a full time ecialist is required. • The Commission said that it )ped that territories in malarial eas will seek help from the SPC id benefit from the experience gained from the British Solomons where a malarial eradication programme is being carried out. • More money will be spent in the coming year towards helping the University of Hawaii in its investigations on the toxicity of fish and into the courses of eosinophilic meningitis, • In 1963 the SPC will prepare a Directory of Agricultural Research and Experimentation in the Pacific and a Directory of Agricultural Training in the South Pacific. A tropical agriculturalist will also be appointed for a three-year period. # Work win also go on next year on fisheries projects, and a Handbook Q n fisheries will be prepared, which w jjj include main fish species of economic importance in the South Pacific, fishing methods, and fishing craft adapted to South Seas conditions. The possibility of organising fisheries training courses will also be looked into • Two new boat building courses, Nouvil | e , New Caledonia and at ki Brit| ’ h Solomon Islands> wi|| be begun when the final dates are settled B with the territories concerned, ,„ . . • The Commission will ask terntories to determine the type of services they would like from the SPC for the improvement of forms of amhusbandry; the results of the survey to be submitted to the next session together with a proposed work plan. • The SPC will recruit in mid- -1963 an additional entomologist to search in South Africa for parasites BEST BABIES. These bonny babies were the winners in the three sections of the annual baby show of the New Britain Women's Club held in Rabaul recently. The babies, each with their mothers, are from left to right: Anthony Williams (winner of under 6 months section), Riina Baldwin (1 to 2 years) and Vanessa Hayes (6 to 12 months). Riina was also the grand champion. Vanessa was runner-up.

Photo; Chin H. Meen 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Meanwhile, next year’s proposed SPC review conference may make decisions altering the format of the conferences.

GUARD OF HONOUR: Tongan schoolchildren lined the route from the Royal Palace to the Legislative Assembly building recently when Queen Salote drove from the Palace to deliver her address to close the Assembly sittings.

The Queen's car and its escort can be seen turning the corner past the Treasury office. —Photo: Tulua Bros. 69 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Certainly, the 1960’5, so far, have aught a tremendous change in the es of many women in the area rticularly in territories like Fiji iere a Women’s Interests Officer, iss Ruth Robertson, began work th SPC’s WIO, Miss Marjorie ;wart, in 1960. But, with the ting up of a permanent training itre as envisaged in the Press ease, a new stage has been reached.

At the centre it is expected that ;ween 12 and 24 young women im all over the South Pacific will dertake a year’s training to fit m as “area organisers” on their urn home.

Fhe trainees who will all be reired to have certain basic ilifications, will study a compreisive syllabus: Homecraft: (a) Food— mtrition, cooking, hygiene. (b) rhe House—care and maintenance, lantitation and furnishings. (c) Clothing—sewing and dressmaking, reservation, laundry, fabrics, (d) fhe Family relationships, belaviour, finance, thrift.

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Bursaries will be granted by FAO and the SPC and local organisations are being urged to sponsor a trainee, who at the completion of her course, would be employed by that oraginsation.

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It is hoped that the centre will open about the middle of 1963, according to Miss Marjorie Stewart who has been concerned with the preliminary planning for the centre, and who, with a home economics expert will be responsible for the running of the centre.

A welcome member of the staff— until a permanent appointment is made by FAO—will be Mrs.

Elizabeth Eden, a highly-qualified home economist from Scotland.

Mrs. Eden, who has had valuable experience in Ghana particularly in the training of women as homecraft teachers, will arrive in Noumea in January to join the South Pacific Commission.

Although her duties will be manifold and cover the whole of SPC territories, it is planned that she should play a major role in the Homecraft Centre at Suva until the promised home economics specialist from FAO arrives.

That the young women completing the course will have their work cut out on their return to their home territories can be guessed from the “job analysis for area organiser” prepared in connection with the scheme.

Among other things, it will be their duty to survey the needs of the territory or area with regard to family, home and community and to work with administrative departments as well as local leaders, whether traditional, constitutional or church, in planning a programme of community improvement.

Another part of their job will be to link groups with each other, thus creating a national framework through which to establish and maintain links with relevant international women’s organisations.

It will also be their responsibility to encourage youth work and link youth groups with the appropriate national and international bodies. 71 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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ROSS AND HEREFORD STREETS, GLEBE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA France Will Hear A New South Seas Voice From a Papeete Correspondent The election of Alfred T. roi to the position of Senator France from French Polynesia, .1 take to Paris one of the bestown and well liked men of the nth Pacific. iNATOR Poroi, for the past 20 years, has been the popular yor of the city of Papeete, and still has three more years to serve his present term. The stability the political situation generally in liti and the French Polynesian nds is largely due to the liberal u.nce of this able man. ie is widely known throughout Pacific. For over 30 years he /ed the Union Steam Ship line, he was manager of the Union Co. branch in Papeete for about years. The French Government, recognition of these services, irded him the Gold Medal of lor for accomplishment in the r el and trade fields of the South ific. He now owns one of the ;cst importing firms here, the ince Tahiti Poroi.

The following are some of Senator and Mayor Poroi’s plans for the betterment and progress of French Polynesia: ® The construction of a beach front for Papeete, extending hundreds of yards from Avenue Bruat to Tipaerui River. This work will be continued a little way out of the town, where formerly the famous Blue Lagoon Hotel was located. The present swampy, coral-filled seashore will be properly filled in to form a beach. These sand-covered beach sections will markedly increase the attractions of Papeete as a holiday resort - • In conjunction with this beach development, a section of foreshore, nearer the business area, will be filled in and reclaimed and devoted to shops, warehouses, etc., all now badly needed. • The tourist trade, upon which French Polynesia is depending more and more for livelihood, will be encouraged. This situation follows the decline of agricultural and mining production, • A f urthe r raising of the standard of living of the people of French Polynesia, and an increase in various social services.

Senator Poroi intends to present French Polynesia’s problems to the Government in Paris, and to stress importance of this area, He will make his first visit to France as a Senator in December.

Senator Poroi. 73 3 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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BOOMING From a Suva Correspondent In sophisticated city circles, hat could be more U than deinter tags for rum, sweet sherry md even champagne!) from irk grey or yellow mother-of- ;arl? |R miniature hand carved “canni- " bal forks” with masi-patterned indies, in three sizes for cocktail bits, sweet corn, seafoods and the rgest for spearing the occasional ive?

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The last couple of years have seen markable advances in local arts and afts in Fiji, mainly due to the agination and enterprise of a few ople who are not only determined produce a wider range of products, but are insisting on a high standard of quality and finish.

Gone are the days when the tourist’s choice of mementoes was limited to baskets, masi, mats or the not always inspired jewellery to be got at the markets.

Handpainted shirts, muu-muus and even serrated sulus, from the very amateurish to the very professional, are to be spied by the dozen during a stroll through Suva’s shopping area, while the always attractive raintree beckons from many a window in tables, trays and novelties and even from the store signs themselves, In one of the most popular haunts, particularly of the American tourists, butter “dishes” from the black-lipped “Mela Mela” shell with matching richly opalescent butter knives nudge all-shell cruet sets which have tiny spoons of mother-of-pearl.

In the same “studio”, the frivolous femme can choose earrings of Niusawas (small coconuts) or whale ivory (from a whale caught in Lau) while the male shopper may plump for a tortoiseshell comb inlaid in sterling silver. These combs are rather pricy so are usually only made to order. „ , . , ; , , Popular with locals and visitors alike are the hand-painted shirts, some sporting the Fijian coat of arms on the pocker, while one shop offers a variety of tropical designs from pineapples to masi patterns.

Here, also, can be found the maddest collection of headgear calculated to set the feminine heart a-flutter.

Mostly of voivoi, the hats are all shapes and sizes, from Mexican sombreros with up to 16 voivoi pompoms, to tall deerstalkers with masi pugarees, to the more conventional Coolie shapes.

Some of the hats are sprayed in jet or gold to gild the lily that wears them even more, Muu-muus—-long, short, full or sli™—i n tropical prints or handpainted cottons, with an oriental or Hawaiian bent, are snapped up almost as soon as they appear on the racks. Particularly are they pounced on by locals going away who feel ,he folk ? at home wUI expect them to appear ln something tropical, Then there are bikinis in peach cotton with the gleam of a gold and white hibiscus, casual sunfrocks and shirtmakers with hand-painted designs, and blouse and shorts sets in all ' he sunniest shades , u m °uf ri l tr f nc * or P^ ace mats as brought forth an array to be se^, n m . markets m woven voivoi mas h a nd in the stores fashioned P ar, d hand-painted linen a nd printed vilene. 1 an y number of shops oner pendants of the attractive local shells as well as brooches> earrings and bracelets contrived from local woods, shells and sometimes , oca , stone U ' s a n helping to make life more interesting—if more expensive—for the oft-tempted Fiji resident. But Christmas gifts are becoming less of a problem as the years go by. 24-Hour Fiji Visit For The Queen The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will spend less than 24 hours in Fiji early in February when they pass through on their way to Australia and New Zealand. They will be at Suva for about five hours, and at Lautoka only long enough to meet civic dignitaries.

They are scheduled to arrive at Nadi Airport about 9.40 p.m. on February 1, and drive to Lautoka soon after disembarkation. After meeting the Mayor of Lautoka and town councillors they will embark in the Britannia, which is expected to arrive at Suva about 11 a.m. next day.

They will inspect a guard of honour mounted by the Fiji Military Forces, and, after presentations, will drive through the centre of Suva to Albert Park where a parade of youth will welcome them. If the weather is fine the Queen and the Duke will drive in an open vehicle through the ranks of the children.

From Albert Park they will go to Government House grounds where there will be a Fijian ceremony of welcome, open to the public. After lunch at Government House the Queen will hold an investiture. The Royal couple will then return to the Britannia, which is expected to leave for New Zealand about 4 p.m. [?]ical of the souvenirs now being produced Fiji are these gay hats and trinkets. The [?]kets include costume jewellery and miniature "cannibal forks".

Photos: Stan Whippy 75 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Fiji Luxury Items 'Will Be Duty Free' From a Suva Correspondent Passengers in cruise liners to the South Pacific want to visit Suva, not to see Fijian villages or watch Fijian entertainment or admire the scenery, but because they want to shop. Mr. D. A. Graham, manager of the Union Steam Ship Co. Ltd. in Fiji, said this at the November meeting of the Fiji Visitors’ Bureau, during a discussion on the sale of goods under the drawback of duty.

Mr. Graham said his company had conducted a survey and had come up with the answer that Suva had a reputation as a shopping port. Thus shipping lines always had to include Suva in their itineraries.

Members of the FVB were in general agreement with Mr. Graham, and decided to continue their pressure on the Government to allow luxury items sought by tourists to be sold duty free. The luxury items envisaged include watches, transistor radios, cameras and photographic equipment, jewellery, etc.

The Government is not unsympathetic, and is believed to be exerting pressure in Whitehall for approval of the FVB plans. The matter was thoroughly debated by the Legislative Council a few months ago, when it was explained that lifting the duty was not a simple matter.

Apart from protecting the revenue, the question of international agreements was involved.

It is confidently expected that duty-free sales of luxury items will be allowed, but that it will be many months yet before all the problems are ironed out.

Fred Hargesheimer Says Thanks Nith A School From Ralph Craib, in San Francisco Fred Hargesheimer, a forrrur American airman who was saved y the Nakanai people of New Britain after a World War II rash, has raised 10,000 dollars ar the Airmen’s Nantambu /Jemorial Foundation.

UfR. HARGESHEIMER reported »-£• this to PIM from his home at t. Paul, Minnesota.

The foundation, which he formed, sed the funds to build the Airmen’s lemorial School at Natambu as a isting expression of gratitude to the atives of the region.

Harstick Lundgren Associates, a 'ell-known American Mid-Western ngineering and architectural firm, esigned the school, stressing building mplicity so that native contractors ould erect it.

The project has a strong relieious nd idealistic bent. Promotional terature soliciting funds stressed that le aim of the school is to prepare he natives to live as Christians.

It also stressed that “it is not inconceivable to foresee the child who attends the Natambu school as an adult sitting in council at the United Nations determining the future of the world”.

The school was built under the direction of Davis To Kanur, a native contractor, and was scheduled to go into use about November, More than 300 Americans contributed to the fund collection, with gifts ranging from one to 500 dollars.

Mr. Hargesheimer hopes to see the completed school in operation, but his plans to go back to New Britain, which he visited in 1960, are not definite.

Mr. Hargesheimer. 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Raft Experiment Could Lead To Bonanza For Fishermen An unusual experiment, carried out recently off the coast of Hawaii to observe the behaviour of fish, could provide a new and useful technique for estimating the abundance and composition of fish resources in the Pacific and elsewhere.

THE experiment, made with a 12 ft by 12 ft raft called Nenue, was the first attempt in Hawaiian waters to make direct observations of the communities of fish and other sea creatures which congregate under objects floating in the ocean.

The raft, which had an observation capsule underneath, drifted off the Kona coast of Hawaii for two weeks. Four scientists from the Honolulu biological laboratory of the US Bureau of Commercial Fisheries spent more than 100 hours in the capsule. They are John Magnuson, Reginald Gooding, Walter Matsumoto and Joseph Harada.

The scientists were enthusiastic about the opportunities which the raft afforded for sustained study of the behaviour and interactions of a variety of species.

But they admitted that more than 100 hours in the cramped capsule, concentrating on circling fish while the Nenue bobbed on the swells, had been a severe test of their stomachs’ devotion to science.

The research vesse/ Charles H.

Gilbert, skippered by Captain William Tanaka, launched the Nenue about 10 miles off Kealakekua Bay, on September 27 and stood by within sight and walkie-talkie range of the raft for the next two weeks.

Nenue drifted north along the Kona coast unexpectedly fast, sometimes at four miles an hour, with the result that the Charles H. Gilbert had to pick the raft up four times to keep it from drifting ashore or out into rough channel waters.

Fish behaviourist Magnuson reported that each time the Nenue was placed in the sea, small fish began to seek it out within five or 10 minutes.

The first arrivals were generally rudderfish, similar to the nenue for which the raft was named, and at times there were as many as 60 of this species under and around the raft.

Small triggerfish (close relatives of Hawaii’s famililiar humuhumunukunukuapuaa) were also numerous and regular members of the Nenue’s following.

Dolphins were often about the raft, sometimes as many as 30 at a time.

These colourful, fast-swimming mammals would come in under the Nenue and rub their sides against its oildrum floats, then range out to the far periphery of the drifting community where, the scientists thought, they might have been picking off stragglers or intercepting new recruits attracted by the raft.

The dolphin mingled harmoniously with the triggerfish, but they voraciously harried a stray jack, keeping it a prisoner under the raft for several hours. The jack finally escaped by joining the pilotfish escort of a passing whitetip shark.

From the windows of their observation capsule the biologists also saw porpoises, marlin, manta rays, barracuda, opelu, wahoo and skipjack tuna. With the exception of the wahoo, these fish gave no indication that their behaviour was affected by the presence of the raft and remained in its vicinity only briefly.

When the Nenue was moored to the anchored Charles H. Gilbert, with a strong current running by, it failed to attract even the rudderfish and triggerfish which were its almost constant companions when it was drifting free.

Although the Nenue’s scientists knew that rafts were regularly used in the dolphin fishery in Japan, they did not expect so many dolphin to gather so quickly around their raft, particularly as it has commonly been thought that drift logs and othei flotsam do not attract large fish until they have been drifting long enough to accumulate a growth of seaweeds and a population of small invertebrate animals.

The unexpectedly wide variety ol fish species and large numbers ol individuals seen from the Nenue convinced the scientists that floating observation posts could provide a new and useful technique for estimating the abundance and composition of the fish resources of an area The scientists noticed that there were definite changes in the make-up of the raft’s following as it drifted into different locations at varying distances from shore.

If further observations show these changes to be regular, they should give new insights into the relations between some commercially important fish and their environment.

Many of the raftsmen’s observations were recorded in still and moving pictures, and numerous specimens were collected for identification anc for examination of their stomact contents.

Detailed analysis of these data and of similar observations made frorr the underwater viewing chambers ol the Charles H. Gilbert at various distances from the raft will furnish s basis for more sharply focused ex perimental work on future voyage; of an improved Nenue.

UNITED NATIONS DAY: About 3,000 schoolchildren marched through the streets of Rabaul on October 24 to celebrate the 17th anniversary of United Nations Day. At Queens Park, they were addressed on the significance of UN by the District Commissioner and other speakers. —Photo: Chin H. Meen. 78 DECEMBER. 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Fortune In Coins May Await A Finder At Vanikoro By Robert Langdon After the famous French navigator La Perouse sailed out of Botany Bay in his ships Astrolabe and Boussole early in March, 1788, no white man ever saw him again and nearly 40 years passed before relics of his ships were found at Vanikoro in the southern Solomons, thus solving one of the greatest maritime mysteries of the age.

INCE those first relics were discovered, many others have been ind from time to time—some by mbers of the Vanikoro Timber mpany, and some by expeditions rching specifically for remains of Perouse’s ships.

However, none of the people who ve searched for remains of the La rouse expedition recently seems to ve been aware that there may be substantial treasure at Vanikoro iting for a finder.

Fhe treasure, in the shape of two llion livres worth of coins, is not sntioned in the official account of Perouse’s voyage. But it is briefly scribed in a letter which an nerican naval officer, John Paul Jones, wrote to Thomas Jefferson, the French Minister in Paris, in 1785.

Jefferson, who later became President of the United States, sent Jones to the French port of Brest in August, 1785, to “enquire into the circumstances relative to” La Perouse’s expedition.

La Perouse had already left Brest on his voyage of exploration to the Pacific by the time Jones arrived there, but Jones’ discreet enquiries enabled him to get an accurate idea of what La Perouse intended to do.

When he reported on his enquiries to Jefferson on October 5, 1785, he said among other things: “Each ship had on board a large shallop in frames and a million of French livres in the coins of different nations”.

Coins Found A few such coins, including those of Spain and Russia, are among the La Perouse relics that have been found at Vanikoro over the years, and it could well be that they formed part of the treasure that Jones described.

But whether the main body of treasure is still on the seabed where the Astrolabe and Boussole sank, whether it is buried on shore, or whether it existed at all may remain a mystery for all time as no one from the two ships lived to tell the tale — although there were two men who were narrowly prevented by Fate from doing so.

These two men, who lived on Vanikoro for 30-odd years after the Astrolabe and Boussole were wrecked, missed being rescued by passing ships on at least three occasions.

Their story is one of the many tragic facets of the drama of La Perouse, which is, itself, one of the great epics of the sea.

After leaving Brest on his voyage of exploration, La Perouse rounded the Horn, visited Easter Island, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Macao, the Philippines, the Sea of Japan, and the Siberian port of Petropavlovsk.

At Petropavlovsk, La Perouse put ashore the only Russian-speaking member of his crew to carry his journals to Paris. This man, 22-yearold Jean-Baptiste Barthelmy de Lesseps (uncle of the builder of the Suez Canal), made the hazardous journey across Siberia, Russia and Europe in 11 months and thus became the only member of the expedition to return to civilisation.

Meanwhile, La Perouse sailed for the island of Tutuila in what is now American Samoa. At Tutuila, 11 of his men, including his second-incommand, Viscount de Langle, were killed in an affray with natives during a watering expedition.

A long boat was also lost in this affray, and it was with the object of building another to replace it that La Perouse sailed for Botany Bay.

After the long boat was completed, La Perouse sent an officer to Governor Phillip at Port Jackson with dispatches, which Phillip undertook to send to France.

Among these was one in which La Perouse outlined his future course.

He said that after leaving Botany Bay, he intended to visit Tonga, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and the Louisiade Archipelago of New Guinea, pass through Torres Strait and continue on home via Mauritius.

He said he expected to reach France within 18 months.

La Perouse. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

When nothing had been heard of him by mid-1790, a young Frenchman, Aristide Du Petit-Thouars, organised a private expedition to go in search of him. The result was disastrous.

Soon after leaving France in September, 1790, in the brig Diligent, many of Du Petit-Thouars’ crew fell sick, and on reaching the island of Fernando de Noronha, off the Brazilian coast, they were all imprisoned by the Portuguese Governor.

The Governor later sent them to Lisbon where they remained in prison until December, 1793.

Meanwhile, the French Government had sent out an official expedition under Admiral Brunei D’Entrecasteaux. This expedition, in the ships Recherche and Esperance, left France on September 28, 1791, D’Entrecasteaux’s orders were to follow the route La Perouse had outlined in his dispatch from Botany Bay. However, when he reached Cape Town, he learned that two French merchant captains had brought news to Mauritius that natives of the Admiralty Islands, north of New Guinea, had been seen wearing red and blue French naval uniforms. The uniforms were presumed to have belonged to La Perouse’s men.

Instructions Ignored Although D’Entrecasteaux doubted the accuracy of these reports, he felt he could not afford to neglect any clue that might lead to the discovery of La Perouse’s fate. So he decided to ignore his instructions and sail at once for the Admiralty Islands by the shortest course—across the Indian Ocean.

However, contrary winds compelled him to sail via Tasmania and up (but well clear of) the east coast of Australia. When, at last, he reached the Admiralty Islands six months later, he was soon convinced that La Perouse had not been near them.

He then decided to follow his original instructions, but as the prevailing winds prevented him from turning back to the Pacific, he was forced to almost circumnavigate Australia before his search for La Perouse could begin.

By the time he reached Tonga, the first place mentioned in La Perouse’s dispatch, D’Entrecasteaux had been at sea for nearly two years and many of his men were down with scurvy and other complaints.

No trace of La Perouse was found on S a > nor New Caledonia, the Solomons and the Louisiade Archipelago which D’Entrecasteaux subsequently visited.

In New Caledonia, D’Entrecasteaux’s second-in-command died of consumption, and he, himself, died of scurvy off the Hermit Islands a few weeks later. The officers who succeeded to the command of the two ships then made for the Dutch port of Amboina as quickly as possible.

And there the expedition ended in confusion because of war between Holland and France.

It was probably because of D'Entrecasteaux’s illness that his ships failed to stop at an island in the Solomons which he named Recherche.

It was a tragic omission, for this island was Vanikoro, where some of La Perouse’s men, and possibly La Perouse himself, were still living.

A similar tragedy happened two years earlier when Captain Edward Edwards, of HMAS Pandora, passed Vanikoro while searching for Fletcher Christian and other mutineers of the Bounty. Although Edwards “saw smoke very plainly” (probably from signal fires lit by La Perouse’s men), he could not see any houses or people, and he therefore decided that the island was uninhabited and not worth investigating.

There was another similar omission in 1817 when the French navigator Captain Louis de Freycinet, who had been ordered, among other things, to seek traces of La Perouse, passed close to Vanikoro but did not think it worth a visit.

Nine more years passed before an Irish seaman, Captain Peter Dillon, chanced to discover the first clues to the mystery of La Perouse’s fate.

While crossing the Pacific from Valparaiso to Bengal in his ship St.

Patrick in 1826, Dillon was prompt by curiosity to call at the island Tikopia to find out what h happened to two men whom he h landed on that island at their requ< in 1813.

The two men were a Prussi; called Martin Buschart and a Lasc named Joe, both of whom car aboard his ship soon after the anch was dropped. While Dillon was tal ing to Buschart, the Lascar sold silver sword guard to one of the Patrick’s officers for a few fish hool When Dillon asked Buschart whe the sword guard had come froi Buschart told him that the Tikopia; had brought it from the island i Mallicollo (Vanikoro), about tv days’ canoe voyage to the westwar along with other articles of Europes origin.

On examining the sword guai minutely, Dillon saw, or thought II saw, the initials of La Perou; stamped on it. This made hi question Buschart, the Lascar ar some of the Tikopians more closell He then learned that, according j the Vanikorans, two large ships ha arrived at their island many yeaj previously and that both had bee wrecked in a storm soon afterward Some of the survivors were kills by the Vanikorans when they lande+ others, who escaped the massacr eventually built another boat and le: the island. Two of the Frenchmer however, had remained on the islam and, according to the Lascar, the had still been alive when he visits Vanikoro two years before Dillonr visit.

On hearing this, Dillon decided ft La Perouse's ships “Astrolabe" and “Boussole" at anchor at Maui, Hawaii, 84 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'

for Vanikoro at once in the hope escuing the two Frenchmen. But ral days of calms, a shortage of fisions and a leaky ship compelled to abandon this plan and make Bengal. n reaching Bengal, Dillon uaded the East India Company trovide him with a ship to go to ikoro to rescue the two French- ; and ascertain beyond doubt that Perouse had been wrecked there. illon sailed from Calcutta in the Research in January, 1827. All ned set for a reasonably quick age. But on the way to Tasmania, on fell out with his medical :er, Dr. Tytler, and arrested him. (fiien the Research reached >art, Dr. Tytler sued Dillon for ult. The case came before the reme Court, and Dillon was enced to two month’s imprisonit. However, Dillon was released r only a few days, after several iing residents had petitioned the 'ernment, urging the humanitarian ire of his voyage. >n reaching Vanikoro, after calling Fikopia and picking up Buschart a native interpreter, Dillon found was too late to rescue the two ihe had come for. One was d, and the other was said to have to another island. )illon remained at Vanikoro for six weeks. During this time, he acquired numerous articles that the natives had obtained from one of the wrecks or had been washed up on shore.

Dillon’s inquiries on what had happened to the crews after the two ships were wrecked brought many contradictory replies, but, in general, the information he gathered was similar to what he had learned at Tikopia the previous year.

Search for Frenchmen On leaving Vanikoro, Dillon made unsuccessful inquiries at two neighbouring islands for the Frenchman who was said to have fled from Vanikoro. He then abandoned the search because many of his crew were sicK.

After returning to Calcutta by way of Sydney, Dillon took the articles he had recovered to Paris. There, besides being presented to the King, lionised, made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and granted a pension of 4,000 francs a year for life, Dillon met the sole survivor of the La Perouse expedition, de Lesseps.

De Lesseps confirmed tbal the articles Dillon had brought back had belonged to La Perouse’s ships.

Meanwhile, another seaman, the French navigator Dumont D’Uiville, had gathered further relics of La Perouse at Vanikoro.

D’Urville, who was in the Pacific on an exploring voyage, had called at Hobart seven months after Dillon and had there learned of Dillon’s expedition.

As he had been specifically instructed to search for traces of La Perouse, he was extremely jealous of what Dillon had learned at Tikopia the previous year, and in the hope of beating Dillon to the positive discovery of La Perouse’s fate, he sailed northwards immediately.

D’Urville, however, was too late to do anything more than gather some relics that Dillon had missed, erect a monument to his famous countryman’s memory, and gather further native stories on what had happened to La Perouse’s men.

One thing about D’Urville’s visit that seems significant in the light of John Paul Jones’ statement is that D’Urville made a point of showing European coins to the natives and asking them if they had ever seen such objects.

Unless he had been officially informed that the Astrolabe and Boussole had been carrying a large number of coins it is hard to imagine why he would have troubled about inquiring after such small objects.

Lohia Lives Quietly Now

By R. W. Robson Back in the 1930'5, a young Papuan called Lohia was the personal servant and chauffeur of the late Sir Hubert Murray, Lieut.-Governor of Papua.

HE was efficient, good-looking, smartly uniformed, clever, spoke good English—an outstanding example of what can be made of a Papuan, given a fair chance.

Sir Hubert was very fond of him.

Occasionally, when I was visiting Port Moresby, Sir Hubert would send Lohia and his big black car to take me around; and I formed a warm regard for Lohia.

Recently, strolling through Hanuabada Village with Judge Gore, I noticed how cordially he was greeted by the old men there; and I suddenly thought of the Governor’s old servant. “I wonder what became of Lohia”, I said.

The Judge smiled, took my arm, guided me into the centre of a little group and up to a rather small, shrunken, old man who had been quietly watching us. “Lohia”, said the Judge.

So I renewed an old friendship, and met an old Papuan who could talk in an informed, intelligent way about his people, and the numerous problems they now face.

Lohia lives quietly in Hanuabada on a small pension, takes a semi-tolerant, semi-humorous view of affairs, and remembers Sir Hubert Murray with affection and respect.

Lohia as he is today. 85 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y - D E C E M B E R 1962

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Governor Sees The Hard And Easy Way Photographs by Rob Wright Excited Fijians watched in amazement recently as a jet boat roared up a river in the rugged and isolated interior of the mam Fijian island of Viti Levu.

ON board were the Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, and Lady Maddocks who were making a strenuous four-day tour of the interior.

Travelling at high speed, the boa skimmed over rapids and narrow!’ avoided rocks and other obstruction in places where the water was onl; three or four inches deep.

The boat was driven by its owner Mr. Jock Baker, of the Royal Suv: Yacht Club. It was chosen becausi it can travel over waters too shallov for other boats.

During their tour, the Governo and Lady Maddocks also travelled oi horseback and on foot over jungh trails in rugged mountainous country It is believed that Lady Maddock, was the first Governor’s wife to uni dertake the journey.

Also in the party were the Comi missioner Central, Mr. H. Halstead! and the Commissioner Western, Mr J. A. C. Hill.

The tour began at Naluwai, ter minus of the Sawani-Sorea Roadl where the Governor and Lady Madl docks boarded Mr. Baker’s boat to travel up the Wainimala River. The remainder of the party followeo slowly in conventional outboard] powered punts.

Branching off at a tributary to the river, the party made their first over night stop at the village of Wairua-j The |et boat Waibula" skims over the water of a river in the interior of Viti Levu. At the is Mr . Jock Baker Beside him are Sir Kenneth and Lady Maddocks. Levu Seru, a Fijian from Korosuli, acts as pilot. The uniform was his own idea.

Sir Kenneth Maddocks leads his party up a mountain trail after having crossed a stream beyond Nailuva. Behind him are Jack Takala, District Officer, Ra, Lady Maddocks, Mr. Hill, Lieut. Sargent, and Mr. Halstead (watering horse). 86 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY?

Before the morning mists had red, they were off again, this : by horseback on a rough through rugged, mountainous ntry, most of it covered with >e rain forests. t the village of Nubumakita in Nalawa tikini, they were met by District Officer, Ra, Mr. Jack ala, and the Roko Tui Ra, Ratu 0 Komaitai, who accompanied the y for the remainder of the tour, his mountain village was once site of a hospital in the charge of European doctor, but it has long e been transferred to the coast.

L second overnight stop was made Nasau where traditional cerelies of welcome were accorded Governor. .t Nailuva in Saivou tikina, the rernor was impressed with the inive and enterprise shown by a ng Fijian, Samu Nabekuru, who formed a club named Suva tors, after a firm of motor en- :ers in Suva. : was given this name because it formed of boys who had found lifficult to adjust themselves after dng school, and in Samu’s words, icy were spare parts who, formed \ a whole, were put on the road sound condition.” amu began his work in 1958 with ings of £53 and a little knowledge forestry work. He now has a up of 18 youths who have planted rly 14,000 cocoa trees, 1,400 pine ;s, and 9,000 yaqona, coffee, and er plants. a night spent at Nailuva, the ty pushed on to Namara. From re they visited the Nalaba District 001 before continuing on to otu near Viti Levu Bay. They retied to Suva by car on the King’s ad. . fhe photographs at right show ae of the scenes during the Cover's tour.

B TOP: Sir Kenneth Maddocks eives a tabua on arrival at Nasau age in Nalawa tikina. Nasau is a »e village on flat land on the iks of the Korovoh River. It has lispensary and a school. • CENTRE: An early morning ne at Nailuva village. Mist still ts out a view of the countryside, rses are tethered near bures to be hand for an early start. Bamboo terpipes convey water from a small jam to the centre of village. Colut trees show depredations from noceros beetle. • BOTTOM; A seasea dance is ■formed by the women of Nailuva lage after traditional ceremonies of Icome had been accorded the Govlor.

Scenes On Governor’S Tour

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Queen Emma’s” Empire Now Little But A Memory Over 60 years ago, before the turn of the mtury, Ralum, just north of Kokopo, on impsonhaven, New Britain, was a notable place.

VHARVES extended from the beach out into the deep water of the bay, and behind them were many uildings, mostly stores and offices.

Half a mile away, on top of the point, was an npressive residence, “Gunantambu”, surrounded by iwns and gardens, and backed by huge coconut plantaons.

This was the headquarters of E. E. Forsayth and Company, merchants, planters and shipowners. The :tive head of the big, rich organisation was Mrs. Paul ’olbe, formerly Mrs. Emma Eliza Forsayth, and still jmembered in the South-west Pacific as “Queen Emma”.

For many years, during the “German time”, she eld court in “Gunantambu”, once famous in three antinents for its lavish hospitality.

Every morning, she left her beautiful house, descended series of very wide concrete steps to her waiting arriage, and was driven to her big offices behind Ralum 'harf.

She was a financial and political power in German lew Guinea. Although she then was in her forties, n aura of romance still clung to her, for “Queen !mma”, in her youth, was the very beautiful Emma Coe, who cut a mighty social swathe in the Samoa of the ’Seventies.

This writer recently explored the area. Of “Gunantambu”, nothing remains except some cement piles, and the massive cement steps which led down to the beach.

The house stood until 1942, when the Jap invaders destroyed it. Ine road from the stairway to Ralum is completely lost, overgrown.

There is scarcely a trace left of the wharves and buildings which constituted Ralum—only a collapsed stone wall leading into the water, and the ruins of a wharf (see photograph).

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Once “Gunantambu” was surrounded by exotic trees.

Emma’s brother-in-law, R. H. Parkinson, a famous botanist, successfully established beautiful trees and shrubs from other tropical countries.

Many are there still. Others, which he introduced, now shelter his lonely, forgotten grave, some miles away, near the RabauTKokopo Road.

After “Gunantambu” was destroyed, a smaller house was built there by the Rowe family, which owned the plantation after World War 11. But in recent months that house was dismantled and re-erected a couple of hundred yards away to become the home of the allraces Ralum Club, directed and managed by Mr. John Aquiningo (see photograph).

One hopes that this enterprising man and the members of his club will preserve there something to show the glory that once was Ralum, and something that will remain as a permanent memory of “Queen Emma”.

RWR. his is all that remains of the once flourishing establishment ailed Ralum, on the shores of Simpsonhaven, New Britain.

At left is "Gunantambu", the residence 60 years ago of "Queen Emma". The building was destroyed during World War 11, and now only the concrete piles remain. Below is the Ralum Club, which was built recently near the site of Gunantambu". Mr. John Aquiningo, the club' S president, is standing in the fore ground 89 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Yesterday Tokyo Radio claimed on December 9, 1942, that Japanese planes had bombed Suva’s port and aerodrome and had sunk two United States destroyers and set fire to another. “PIM” for that month said the report was officially denied in Suva. Other items in that issue of 20 years ago were: — Lantana, introduced into Tahiti round the turn of the century by an enthusiastic gardener, had become a major agricultural threat pn the island. It was being attacked by an imported insect, “Teleonemia Lantanae”, which devoured the plant’s leaves and flowers, causing the lantana to die. * * * Australian troops in New Guinea had captured the Wairopi Crossing of the Kumusi. After bitter fighting they had occupied Gona for the third time. * * • Tonga was riding on a wave of prosperity, brought about by high copra prices and keen demand for food by armed forces in Fiji and New Zealand. The Tonga Methodist Mission had benefited to the tune of £6,500. * * » The French Administration in Tahiti announced that it would strictly enforce a law of 1917 forbidding the sale of beer, spirits and wines in street-side open-air cafes in Papeete. Reporting this, “PlM’s” Tahiti correspondent said- “ The population of Tahiti is so mixed that this kind of regulation appears to be necessary”. * * * The general manager of the West Samoan Reparation Estates, Mr. D.

R. Eden, said in a Press interview that rubber production in Western Samoa had increased during the previous decade. He said the yield in 1941-42 was 173,157 lb compared with 97,110 lb in 1935-36. * * * Twelve months’ imprisonment, or a fine of £2OO, or both were prescribed under a new Fiji regulation for anyone possessing any utensil for distilling or making spirits or disposing of illicitly made spirits.

These penalties seem drastic enough to discourage the most persistent home-brewer”, “PIM” commented, “but up to date no punishment has served to stamp out this old Fijian custom”.

Youth Clubs Keep

Youn6 Cook Islanders

Out Of Mischief

From W. H. Percival, in Rarotonga While juvenile delinquency seems to be on the increase in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the US, serious crimes among Cook Islands teenagers are rare, there are no beatniks m the Cook Group and vicious teenage street gangs are unknown here.

THIS, on the surface, may seem surprising as most of the conditions exist in the Cook Islands for the breeding of juvenile delinquency.

Most Cook Islanders’ homes are poor, lacking privacy, good lighting, and a room where children can read and write.

In many cases the entire family lives in a single room, regardless of age or sex, and children witness the most intimate of family relationships.

Many homes are overcrowded, often due to the widespread practice of adopting children or caring for the illegitimate offspring within the family circle.

With too many children there is lack of parental control.

The chief reason why these conditions have not produced the same youth problems as in metropolitan countries is that the Cook Islands have several well-established youth organisations to keep their youngste out of mischief.

Besides the Boys’ Brigade, B< Scouts and Girl Guides, there is strong Youth Club Movement d signed to provide healthy outlets f the physical and mental energy i Cook Islands’ youth, to bui character and facilitate adjustme to adult life.

The Youth Club Movement w; formed in 1955 in an effort to he teenagers who had left school bi were too old to be catered for 1 other youth organisations.

The movement was planned ar launched by Mr. J. Lyall Noake Director of the Government’s newh formed Social Development Depar ment.

Mr. Noakes enlisted the sympath and support of responsible paren and village elders by stressing ths the clubs were merely an old Coo Islands’ custom revived in moder form.

Before the advent of the missior aries and the introduction of a cor stitutional form of government, tribal and community system was ii force.

Social behaviour was strictly cor trolled by the chiefs and great irr portance was placed on the trainim of youth.

In special schools known as Ar Karioi, boys were taught subsistenc: agriculture, fishing, and house build ing. The girls learned to cook, mak: mats and clothing, and care fa children.

Under European influence thi power of the chiefs declined and thi traditional way of life broke down.

The Are Karioi disappeared, an* there was no organised effort to helf teenagers until the introduction of thu Youth Clubs.

The three main objects of tht Youth Clubs are to: • Teach youth to work together foi mutual benefit; Mr. J. Lyall Noakes, Director of the Cook Islands Government's Social Development Department, who planned and launched the Youth Club Movement. 90 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Promote knowledge; Teach youth about their duties and responsibilities as adults. lewly formed clubs met in village iion houses and fruit packing Is but were encouraged to build r own centres. illage elders and community depment officers advised them, but were urged to find the money do the work themselves, he young people faced the chale. raising money through bazaars dances. They then went ahead built their own centres, wenty-seven clubs have now been led throughout the Cook Islands, he clubs are run on democratic ciples. Each member has only vote, irrespective of social status amily wealth.

Must Be Present t least half the registered memof a club must be present at tings when important decisions made. This is to prevent am- >us minorities from seizing conlub members elect their own etaries, chairmen and treasurers, b club has four or five advisers— Its of good reputation who do not i a vote. lembers study the subjects that rest them most. Most boys choose 'entry, bookkeeping and further y of English. Many girls also v interest in bookkeeping and lish, besides typing, cooking, smaking and homecraft, ffien the movement was well blished, selected boys from all lh clubs formed the Combined th Centres Radio Club in Raro- ;a. iter a little more than two years’ uction they were building their radio sets. Some of the more meed students have gained full es for their amateur radio •ator’s certificate. lost clubs have " table tennis, :etball and Rugby teams which pete with each other and the is from Government departments the trading companies, ther club activities are debating, tiding lectures given by visitors to islands, and viewing educational s. very fortnight a special news ion is broadcast from Radio Raro- »a to clubs in the outer islands, tig news of other clubs and advice dub matters. line of the clubs are run by the tbined Protestant churches, aided by the Social Development Department.

Because of its sense of civic responsibility and generosity, the Aitutaki Youth Social Club deserves special mention.

It is composed of Aitutaki teenagers living in Rarotonga, and is keenly interested in the preservation and performance of Aitutaki songs and dances.

Other aims are to raise money for Cook Islands’ charities and develop club members’ pride in their home island.

The club has assisted the Hospital Comforts Fund and the Crippled Childrens’ Association with money raised at dances.

When the Matson Line’s cruise ships, Mariposa and Monterey, began to call regularly at Rarotonga on their south-bound voyages to New Zealand, the youth clubs provided dancing teams to go on board and entertain the passengers.

Competition between the clubs for this honour has been keen and so a high standard of performance has been maintained.

The teams give a well balanced programme of drum dances, action songs and legends and the proceeds are used for the good of all.

Matson advertised some time ago that the best singing and dancing groups in the Pacific were to be found at Rarotonga.

Although Cook Islanders are gradually working towards self-government, they currently lack leaders in many fields.

It may well be that the youth clubs, which are doing a fine job of character building, will provide the future leaders.

Members of the Takuvaine Youth Club of Rarotonga (above) photographed after returning from the Matson cruise ship "Monterey" where they entertained passengers. Below: Hula dancers from the same club put on an item on Avarua wharf. —Photos: R. Johnson. 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Journey With Artists Among Bulldust And Mulga Sudden marriages of two arts have recently resulted in Journey nongst Men by Jack Marshall and Russell Drysdale and Outback, what might be regarded as the husband and wife team of Nolan.

OTH are about the Australian 1 inland and, because of their ce, both are aimed at the carriagede and, probably, an audience /ond Australia.

Fhe thing that makes both books :erent from other accounts of rneys in the outback is that they illustrated by famous Australian ists —Russell Drysdale in the case Journey Among Men; and Sidney lan in the case of Outback, which written by his wife Cynthia.

Both journeys were of some lusands of miles; and both covered ich the same sort of country. It up to the reader to decide whether prefers bulldust* and mulga ough the eyes of a somewhat jttante female who dislikes the it, flies and snakes—although in ; end she concludes that she is ad that she went”; or through the ;s of artistic scientists (if there is :h a thing), to whom primeval Auslia has a fundamental appeal. [n brief, while one book is female, : other is all male, and Australian ile at that.

Professor A. J. Marshall, head of : Dept, of Zoology at Monash Uni- •sity, Melbourne, and Russell ysdale whose paintings of the Auslian outback have brought him ne at home and abroad, were two mbers of a party that travelled ht across Australia and back with ; main purpose of collecting itiles, mammals and birds for some entific purpose.

Presumably what was scientifically covered on that journey has bene the subject of learned papers, is book, which is a collaboran between the scientist (who is luUdust: Australianism for the vicious it of the Inland. also an entertaining writer as readers of his Black Musketeers, Men and Birds of Paradise, etc., will remember), and the artist, is a by-product.

It delves into the unusual fauna of these desert and semi-desert regions but mostly it is, as the title indicates, an account of the men (and some women), brown, white and in-between, who voluntarily live in the vast land beyond the Australian civilised fringe.

As the authors indicate, by their very act of isolation from most of the amenities that suburban man demands, the people they describe are “characters”—just as a generation ago (but no longer), most of the people who lived in the Pacific Islands were also characters.

Professor Marshall’s acid wit and astringent cynicism (after the pattern of his Australia Limited); his small hope that those who shape Australia’s destinies will ever be anything but muddlers, seep in here and there, but over-all it is an amusing account of the journey, the people and the places encountered.

Realism Drysdale’s 50 or so black and white drawings alone are worth the price of admission. In these he has forsaken the more exaggerated techniques of some of his later paintings and settled for realism.

Cynthia and Sidney Nolan and their six-year-old daughter made their outback journey in 1948, before Sidney had hit the art jackpot in London and become the rage of the art galleries there.

Cynthia is Tasmanian-born but has spent a great deal of her life abroad, taking an interest in the arts, contemporary painting and ballet. She has written two novels before this account of the family peregrination in the Australian outback.

She has an unadorned style of writing that leaves your uncultured reviewer merely wondering if it is an exercise in simplicity or whether it is, in itself, an art-form, in keeping with the simple “squiggle” technique adopted by her husband in his five illustrations. (See p. 94).

The journey covers a lot of the same ground as the Marshall- Drysdale party, but while theirs was a robust masculine indentification with the people and the country, with Cynthia you mentally hold aloof from the Inland life and mentally breath a sigh of relief when she lands back, safely if surprised, in Sydney.

The book nonetheless has its moments of humour and realism and the author a penetrating if nonaligned sympathy with the people and problems of a demanding land. (JOURNEY AMONG MEN. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 52/-; OUTBACK.

Published by Methuen. 44/9.) Old New Guinea hands will recognise this "character" —one of the many written about and drawn by Jock Marshall and Russell Drysdale in their book "Journey Amongst Men".

This is Bob Moody (they call him Rob Moody), pre-war, a well known miner in the Sepik and Morobe areas of New Guinea, now owner of the pub at Hall's Creek, north-west Australia. Of him they say "At the age of 18 he accompanied Canning when he surveyed the Canning Stock Route, one of the most pitiless cattle trails in the west. It leads 1,000 miles from Hall's Creek to Wiluna across swelling, fixed sand-dunes, desert and mulga . . . Most of Moody's life has been spent in wild places". 93 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

The Oldest Australians Seekers after truth about the Australian aborigine have two choices this month: They can take it from a Darwin journalist, or from a Sydney anthropologist.

DR. M. J. MEGGITT, of the Department of Anthropology, Sydney University, is the author of Desert People, a study of the primitive Walbiri tribe of Central Australia; and Douglas Lockwood, journalist, is author of I, the Aboriginal, a story of a civilised native from the Roper River country of the Northern Territory. (This book won Lockwood the Advertiser, £1,250, Adelaide Festival of Arts Award. 1962.) For his exercise Dr. Meggitt lived for a year in close contact with the Walbiri people and his book is regarded by experts as the first fulllength study of aboriginal life since Professor A. P. Elkin’s The A ustralian Aborigines, which was published in 1937.

Mrs. Meggitt accompanied her husband on this expedition and was able to make investigations amongst the women of the tribe that would normally be a closed book to a male researcher.

The writer makes a thorough anthropological field-work job of it and in delving into the lives of these primitive people, leaves no sex pattern, cultural contact or kinship system unturned.

It is obviously aimed at readers with a more than amateur interest in primitive cultures; the layman and general reader will probably find Lockwood’s effort more to their taste.

For the purpose of his book, he speaks in the first person through a Roper River sophisticated aborigine, Waipuldanya, also known as Phillip Roberts. Phillip is a real person who spent his youth as a member of a nomadic tribe which lived exactly as their primitive forefathers had done for centuries.

Phillip, however, unlike all the generations that went before, was made to attend a mission school which taught him English of a sort, and how to read and write. He was— at least at first—no enthusiastic pupil but it allowed him to ride a special tide in his life when, in 1953, a white doctor appointed him his driver.

Since then Phillip has worked as an orderly amongst the people, black and white, of the North using his knowledge of native herbs and tribal medicines as well as the white man’s sulphas and penicillin.

In 1957, although from the ranks of the Oldest Australians, the Australian Government at last granted him citizenship.

Douglas Lockwood draws upon his 22 years in Northern Australia—most of them as a correspondent for Southern newspapers and as a writer of books and articles—to provide the background of this book. He also spent 100 hours interviewing Phillip.

If he uses his story also as a sort of social document in indictment of the European’s use, or misuse, of the aborigine, it is only in keeping with the spirit of the times.

After about 180 years, white Australians are beginning to have fearful pangs about the place in society to which they have relegated the aborigines. Whether the aborigines will be any happier once they are completely “assimilated” is something about which neither the Meggitts nor the Lockwoods have yet provided an adequate answer. (DESERT PEOPLE. Published by Angus and Robertson Ltd. 52/6; I, THE ABORIGINAL. Published by Rigby Ltd. 28/6.) Australia 's Book Week November 10-17 was “Australian Book Week” and our reviews this month certainly reflect the fact.

In the last decade, Australian book publishing has grown up; so have many Australian writers. In the course of a year, hundreds of books are published about Australia— some by Australian, some by overseas publishers.

Some authors—like Alan Moorhead, Jon Cleary, Patrick White and Morris West—are now internationals; others write mainly for Australian consumption, but overall the standard of writing has improved in a fantastic manner.

One reason why more books are being written about Australia or by Australians is the larger and more appreciative home market. At one time Australians who believed they were “cultured” refused to read Australian books. They have now seen the error of their ways although some still condemn Australian writers’ preoccupation with gum-trees and wide open spaces.

Be that as it may, it is interesting to note that no less than four of the important Australian books reviewed this month are based on the Australian outback.

Sidney Nolan's "Travelling by Truck" one of the illustrations in his wife Cynthia's "Outback", reviewed on the previous page. 94 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

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Four New Stories MERICANS who take strips of barren sand and turn them into rist resorts never seem quite sane prosaic Britishers —as witness the controversy we have had recently PIM (September and November es), over making Palmyra island » a “paradise of the Pacific”, ames Ramsay Ullman in his newnovel, Island Below the Wind, / enters the same sort of controjy over a fictionalised situation— of which adds up to the fact that ericans sometimes do these things sometimes get away with them.

Jllman imagines a group of islands like American Samoa that it Ices no difference; and an Ameriorganisation that sets out to de- >p a resort hotel on one of the lotest of them. For the engineer a there is an added complication ;hat he had been there during the ■, had a passionate affair with one the local girls and is greeted on val by his half-caste son, although her realise the relationship until :h further on. :he local inhabitants of the island divided over the hotel—some of progressives are for it but the servatives are so against it that y try to clear out in the Polynesian lition of 1,000 years ago to settle another island.

'his culture-clash is the backund of the novel and although le sort of compromise is worked in the end, at no stage is it sugted that the hotel should be reved: Civilisation must prevail! [Jllman has a long list of novels lis credit—some of them based on untaineering, which is one of his i interests.

'he background to this Polynesian el is authentic, which shows that is either a good researcher or has nt some time in the Pacific. [SLAND BELOW THE WIND. Pubed by Collins. 22/6.) HE very small novel, Coronation , might be regarded as one of il Gallico’s modern fairy story :es, although the situations and racters are sturdily British. -or it he harks back to June, [3, when Britain was to crown a v Queen and when a feeling of ('airy more intense than anything for 300 years was suffusing the itlemen of England. Some people ught that it was the dawn of a v Elizabethan age.

Gallico tells his story through a North Country family, mum, dad, two kids and Granny, who gave up their two weeks “annual” at Morecambe Bay to buy five seats in a window at Hyde Park Corner. Unfortunately the tickets turned out to be a swindle and the window seats non-existent on a bombed-out site.

It is what happened thereafter that can be regarded as a latter-day fairy story. (CORONATION. Published by Heinemann. 10/9.) ADMIRERS of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye —which was a very clever book—will be disappointed with Franny and Zooey.

Franny and Zooey are brother and sister in a narrative series on a New York family, the Glasses. Both stories were originally published in the New Yorker. There is some first-rate conversational material in these two short stories but they are too slight to interest most of Salinger’s admirers in this part of the world. (FRANNY AND ZOOEY. Published by Heinemann. 20/-.) WITH But Still the Stream, Australian writer Nancy Cato completes the trilogy begun with All the Rivers Run and Time, Flow Softly. Like the others it concerns the Rivery Murray and it brings Delie Edwards, the heroine, up to and beyond 1915. She has temporarily forsaken a career as an artist to become that most extraothers it concerns the River Murray man’s world —the skipper of a paddle-boat on the river.

She pursues paddle-boating with the single purpose she once gave to art, in order to support her invalid husband (whom she no longer loves) and four children. The story is not without romantic interest, however, in the shape of a Canadian engineer and an Australian wool-buyer-cumart connoisseur.

Miss Cato, incidentally, is included amongst John Hetherington’s 42 profiles of Australian writers, also reviewed this month. (BUT STILL THE STREAM. Published by Heinemann. 22/6.) • Unless otherwise stated, all book prices are in Australian currency.

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Glow, was perfected in Europe, and is now available from our chemists and toilet counters. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

From Sun Aria To Lucia Di Lammermoor We are used to Russell Braddon writing about war and war heroes— first with his own experiences as a Japanese POW in “Naked Island” — but he goes into his latest literary job with the gusto and expertise of a veteran who has spent his entire life amongst the crotchets and quavers in some conservatorium of music. This biography of Australia’s “Joan Sutherland” proves his versatility no less than that of the opera star.

LIKE Sutherland and her husband, Richard Bonynge, Braddon is an expatriate Sydneysider and an essential Australianism in the book and the people it concerns does much to bring it down out of the rarefied atmosphere of art and make it the very human story that it is.

Music, and particularly the sort of music Joan Sutherland makes, is the entire existence of the team of Sutherland and Bonynge but the story makes it clear that they engage in it because it is their life and something they want to do superlatively well, rather than because they consider themselves God’s gift to man.

Apart from a voice, few women could have been endowed with fewer of the attributes of a great opera star than Sutherland. The book soon makes it abundantly clear that being able to hit the right notes is only part of the business of becoming a prima donna.

When Joan Sutherland arrived in the United Kingdom in 1951 (on the proceeds of an Australian musical award) she weighed 16 stone, was plain, dowdy with no dress sense; was completely devoid of stage craft; suffered from acute sinus infection, was prone to colds, had incipient rheumatism, a frightful Australian accent and bad teeth.

In the next nine years she conquered every one of these disabilities, to more or less degree, except the Australian accent which is still with her to the extent that she refuses to speak lines on the stage even when the original libretto demands it.

There is almost as much space given in this story to the troubles over Joan’s teeth, which she finally overcame at the cost of £7OO Stg., and the terrifying ordeals and operations resulting from her sinus trouble, as to her high notes.

To write this book Braddon spent two years in the company of Sutherland and her husband. He is able to describe intimately her triumphs, disappointments, work and more work, in and out of the great opera houses of Europe and the United States; her final break through at Covent Garden, 1959, in Lucia di Lammermoor; and her happy, if tempestuous, domestic life with husband, small son and international friends.

Even readers who don’t know one end of a scale from the other will find much to interest them in this story of a woman with a great gift, high courage and the Australian habit of usually doing what her husband tells her. With 16 black and white photographs. (JOAN SUTHERLAND. Published by Wm. Collins. 28/-.) Two For The Kids WE don’t know what Ruth Park— better known for her adult novels about Sydney slum life— knows about the Cook Islands but no doubt her The Road Under the Sea will find enthusiastic readers amongst the youngsters for whom it is designed.

According to Ruth the sea around the Cook Islands is dark blue as ink and hisses and plumes about the shores of clouds of miniature islets whose only inhabitants may be a coconut palm, a crimson butterfly or a resting seabird like a flake of snow!

However, in spite of all this, four youngsters solve the mystery of a missing schooner and find an undersea city which (according to the illustration) is something more likely to be found in the Aegaen than the Pacific.

But it’s all good fun. (THE ROAD UNDER THE SEA. Published by Ure Smith. 18/9.) A little bit more of this earth and for slightly older children is The Mystery of Secret Beach, by George Finkel.

It all begins when a schoolboy finds a strange cylinder washed up on a southern NSW beach and it goes on to describe the doughty deeds of a young Navy lieutenant in his efforts to save Australia from the evil intentions of a foreign Power. (THE MYSTERY OF SECRET BEACH.

Published by Angus and Robertson Ltd. 18/6.)

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THE HOSTS OF REBECCA, by Alexar Cordell. The reappearance of the Me mers, the 19th century Welsh family ’ dominated his earlier novel "Rape of Fair Country". In this story they II moved their location to south-west Wi but their capacity for trouble remains same. (Pan Giant.) THE CONQUEROR, by Georgette He One of this writer's more serious histoi novels, based on the life, disappointmi and triumphs of William the Bastard Normandy, more favourably known on other side of the Channel as William Conqueror. First published in 1931 it more recently been made into a f (Pan Giant.) THE GRAND SOPHY, a nev Regency comedy by the same am appears simultaneously. (Pan Giant.) THE DEVIL INSIDE, by Stephen Coui A novel based on the life of Fyo Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, one of the nr fantastic characters in which Rl. specialised in the 19th century. C spiritor, rake, gambler and writer i escaped the scaffold, survived Siberia always fell victim to his own tortu character. (Pan Major.) (0< 96 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

: CONSUL AT SUNSET, by Gerald y. This writer is credited with being erday Kipling, and this novel conthe problems of governing natives British North African colony. Pub- I only in 1951, the problems Handcharacters faced are now almost as mic as those of Kipling's heroes, ma.) REASONABLE DOUBT, by Juilian ns, who usually writes detective i but here turns to analysing some nurder cases. (Pan Giant.) This Month in Crime LOMON'S VINEYARD, by Jonathan gr. American private eye stuff, t Pan.) N'T OPEN THE DOOR, by Anthony rt. British-type suspense . (Fontana.) = CASE OF THE RUNAWAY CORPSE, irl Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason, of g. (Great Pan.) E LETHAL SEX—IO short thrillers by F America's top Whodunnit writers, ma.) E ABANDONED DOLL, by Laurence ell. Slick dialogue goes with it. ma.) E LADY VANISHES, by Ethel Lina !. The thriller from which Hitchcock his most famous film. (Fontana.) E MIND OF MR. J. G. REEDER, by ■ Wallace. Vintage piece. (Great E DARK ROAD, by James Cross.

Australian Writers Sunny Side Up

Probably the most fitting contribution to Australia's “Book Week”, November 10-17, is journalist John Hetherington’s “Forty- Two Faces”—profiles of that many living Australian writers.

Most of these pieces have already appeared in the Melbourne Age, but students, journalists and just the ordinary, interested bystander will like to have the collection in one neat volume.

While the 42 can’t be considered the last word on who are the top Australian writers—there are a few obvious applicants missing —the cross-section is comprehensive and the writers range in age from the doyen of the group, Walter Murdoch, 88, to the baby, 27-years-old Randolph Stow (To the Islands, etc.).

Kylie Tennant is there, and lon Idriess, Arthur Upheld, Colin Simpson, Morris West, Olaf Ruhen, Alan Moorehead, Jon Cleary, and husband and wife team, D’Arcy Niland and Ruth Park.

But by no stretch of the imagination can the biographies be called critical. Possibly because they first saw the light of day as newspaper feature articles, they determinedly turn the sunny side of each character to the viewing public.

If the world henceforth sees Australia’s leading penmen as untemperamental characters of sterling worth, with never a mood or a kink, and logical even in their idiosyncrasies, it is not the fault of their friend and colleague, John Hetherington.

Nonetheless this glimpse into the backgrounds of some of the people who have given others many hours of entertainment and pleasure is well worthwhile. It has 42 pictures of the 42 faces. (FORTY-TWO FACES. Published by F. W. Cheshire. 35/-.) A NEW Upfield Whodunnit THUR UPFIELD and his infallible aboriginal sleuth Det.ictor Napoleon Bonaparte move to the wild lands of North West ralia for their newest in outback i. The Will of the Tribe. hen a dead stranger is found at >ottom of a crater carved out by ling meteor at the beginning of :entury it was a firsj rate mystery e neighbouring country. ie man, it was felt, might well fallen from outer space. No :s lead in or out of the crater; no could move in that sparsely lated country without it being —not only on the real wireless on the even more efficient bush ess of the aboriginal tribes, i the face of it, an insoluble lem for Bony but one which he tually unravels while allowing his or to display his unique underling of this strange country and eople.

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Fish is a real detective, now retired, whose job was to prevent international crime being carried on through international airlines. This is his story, with pix. Now made into a TV series. (Fontana.) ARTISTS IN CRIME, by Ngaio Marsh. A Roderick Alleyn story that has the distinction of beginning in the old "Niagara" at Suva wharf. (Fontana.) THE GALTON CASE, by John Ross Macdonald, the American crime writer who finds favour in the British Isles. (Great Pan.) THE SAINT ON THE SPANISH MAIN, by Leslie Charteris. (Great Pan.) THE SPINSTER'S SECRET, by Anthony Gilbert. Suspense and a 74-year-old sleuth. (Fontana.) For Other Tastes THE OFFENDERS, by R. H. Ward. Young love, in the meadow. (Great Pan.) THE FIERY FURNACE, by Lawrence Wiliams. Novel about a pyromaniac. (Pan Giant.) STAND ON ME, by Frank Norman, the ex-convict author of "Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be". (Great Pan.)

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Petrea Leslie. All about strippers and tandancers, with drawings. (Great Pan.) SHADOW OF A STRANGER, by Anne Maybury. Love, etc. (Fontana.) MY FRIEND MONICA, by Jane Duncan. (Great Pan.) BOOMERANG JAIL, by Frank C. Robertson. American cowboy, in spite of the name. (Fontana.) (Our copies from William Collins (Overseas) Ltd. Fontanas and Great Pans, 4/-; Pan Giants, 5/6; Pan Majors, 7/6.) Colourful Australia OBVIOUSLY designed for the Australian Christmas trade (for overseas friends who can’t be fobbed off with a Christmas card), Ure Smith’s Australia—Land of Colour contains 32 full colour plates of paintings by famous Australian artists and a description of the scenes they represent by Rosemary Dobson.

The painters include realists like Sir Arthur Streeton of the old school and more contemporary numbers by Douglas Annand, Sali Herman and Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan is also represented—with what is likely one of his earlier works as it is strictly in the Namatjira tradition.

The small book is an excellent way of learning something about Australia and about Australian artists. (Published by Ure Smith. 12/6.) 97 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1962

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd. has bought the London Missionary iety’s ship John Williams VI and will probably send her to the n Hebrides to replace the Yanawai which was wrecked off Aoba, r Santo, last March. The London Missionary Society will obtain mailer ship from England.

IE new LMS ship, to be called John Williams VII, is of 120 ;—about a quarter the size of John Hams VI. She will be equipped i the latest navigational devices, inling radar, echo-sounding equipit and automatic steering, rincess Margaret was due to ich and name the John Williams at Shadwell Basin, London, on ember 29. The ship was built xiwestoft. She is a wooden vessel her hull is sheathed with nylon, he John Williams VII will be :d at Tarawa, GEIC, but if she rees a major overhaul she will have 50 to Suva. The John Williams was based on Suva, aptain J. McK. Arnott, until rely master of the John Wiliams VI, t to England some time ago for s of the new ship, he second mate, Mr. John Price, avusavu, Fiji, and eight Gilbertese nen from the John Williams VI for England in November to take new ship to Tarawa, had been hoped that the new ship Id be at Tarawa by Christmas, because of a strike at Lowestoft, her delivery was delayed. She is now due at Tarawa early in 1963.

The John Williams VI carried out much useful work for the LMS. She visited numerous mission stations in the Gilbert and Ellice Group, taking missionaries, local pastors, and their wives and families from one island to another, and students to and from the theological college at Beru. She also carried stores and buildings to various islands from Suva, and as she then carried mail her arrival was always keenly awaited.

She has visited Apia, Rarotonga, Niue, Tahiti and Ocean Island. • RECORD YEAR: The year 1961 was a record year for tonnage and the number of foreign-going ships which entered Fiji. The number was 363, with a total tonnage of 1,203,350.

This compared with 343 ships and 1,163,934 tons in 1960.

The growth of shipping has been continuous over the last 10 years. In 1952, for example, only 171 ships (553,663 tons) entered Fiji.

Thirteen nationalities were represented last year, but ships of British registry (227) were by far the most numerous, followed by Japan (58), the United States (27), Norway (16) and the Netherlands (11).

On the other hand, the cargo handled was not particularly heavy.

In fact, it was the lowest' for five years—s6o,s32 tons. This compared with 649,845 tons in 1960 and an average of 619,500 tons over the last four years.

The lower 1961 figure was largely due to lower sugar exports—l3s,so6 tons compared with an average of 190,000 tons in the four preceding years.

Lautoka handled the biggest percentage of cargo tonnage shipped— -189,108 tons against 76,686 tons at Suva. The Lautoka figure was made up mainly of sugar, molasses and gold.

A shipment of 2,264 tons of cargo was made from Levuka—the first cargo shipped from there in four years.

Cargo landed at all ports was 229,474 tons, compared with 280,255 in 1960 and 201,797 in 1952. The tonnage landed at Suva was 177,292 and at Lautoka 115,182.

The most active flow of shipping was between New Zealand. Sixtyseven ships (of 440,000 tons) entered Fiji from there, and 80 ships (336,000 tons) were cleared to NZ.

The crews of ships calling in Fiji In The News This Month Abacus Asahi Maru No. 8 Baddeley Cap Domingo Cook, HMS Coral Princess Coral Queen Fortune Doubloon Driftwood Enticer Faith II Fortune Craig J II Gascoyne, HMS Gerard Jeanne d’Arc John Hanna John Williams VI John Williams VII Joyita Kalili Kavieng Trader Iris Larapinta Mariner© Medley Okeanos Ondine Ontario, HMCS 00100100 00100100 Too Runic Sea Wind Southern Cross Takohe Te Matangi Tuaikaepau Victor Schoelcher Wanganella White Lady Yanawai Yasme 111 Yuyo Maru ohn Williams VI", the IMS ship which has been bought by Burns Philp to replace the "Yanawai". 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Cables: "IVAN", Sydney. imbered 36,237. Although they are >t recorded as tourists, the money ey spend has the same effect as that aich a tourist spends. They leave ihind them in Fiji ports considerable ms of money. • TRAINING COURSE: A threeonth course of advanced training r Papuan and New Guinea seamen 11 start at the Napa Napa Adinistration Nautical Training School, )rt Moresby, early next year.

Announcing this in November, the NG Director of Trade and Inistry, Mr. G. D. Cannon, said 12 perienced seamen would be chosen r the course, which would train perienced seamen for Certificates of Dmpetency or Local Master’s cence examinations.

Mr. Cannon said plans were also ing made to admit up to 30 adtionai trainee seamen to Napa Napa xt year. They would do a twoar course to qualify as Grade One amen.

The first 12, enrolled when the hool opened in May, would comete tneir training next April.

They were now building a 10 ft. scale model of the MV Kalili to be used for instruction on navigation, cargo stowing and operation of derricks.

• German Captain Likes

RAROTONGA: A keen fan of the island of Rarotonga is Captain Klemm, master of the ship Cap Domingo, which called there last year.

In an article, “Visit to a South Seas Paradise”, written for a German publication, he said Rarotonga was “the most beautiful place I have had the pleasure of visiting during my seafaring career.

“The climate is excellent and a pleasant sea breeze maintains reasonable temperature in the houses.”

He described Rarotongan hospitality as “gracious and charming”.

“In tne afternoon sport was on the programme, and at night hula dancing and singing,” Captain Klemm said. “The unavoidable flower necklaces were put around the necks of my officers and seamen by the beauties of the island.

“The women wore flowers in their hair; the young girls had a flower behind an ear. On the right side it meant: T am still free’. Worn on the left side it meant: ‘Sorry, already bespoken’.

“This habit we found very practical Castaways’ Letters Turn Up at Kadavu Seven letters written by survivors of the Tongan yacht ‘I,aJ cepau’, which n vi\c d on South Minerva Reef in July, turned up in Fiji in November and were sent on to Tonga. Fijian women, fishing at Kadavu, found the letters and handed them to an employee of the Kadavu Timber Company, who in turn passed them over to the Commissioner, Eastern, Ratu K. K. T. Mara.

All the letters were written in uencil and were addressed to relatives and friends in Tonga.

Each bore the address, “Minerva Reef, 285 W of Ata Island".

The letters were written on September 9 and 10, about five weeks before the men were rescued by an RNZAF Sunderland Hying-boat.

When found, the letters were hound together with string. It was thought in Suva that they had been tied to a piece of wood or something else which would float. • See “Emotional Welcome Home for Tongan Castaways", p. 47. 101 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1962

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RUNIC SALVAGE: The 300schooner Gerard returned to ey early in November with its load of scrap from the British iter Runic. The 13,8 57-ton c ran aground on Middleton 440 miles north-east of Sydney ;bruary, 1961.

FRIGATE ON REEF HUNT: Royal Australian Navy frigate lS Gascoyne sailed from Sydney 2 end of October to inspect some efs, islands and island groups off lorth-east coast of Australia, e Minister for the Navy, Senator 3n, said the frigate would steam al of 6,500 miles on a reconnais- : survey in the Coral Sea and the > of Papua and Carpentaria, r drographic work it would do ind the investigation of several fe reefs, which the Navy was not need should be on navigational s. The Gascoyne’s task would be e if they actually existed. The would also chart mountains bei the sea off the north-east coast astralia. ider the command of Lieutenantmander R. J. Rust, the Gascoyne was due to return to Sydney on December 3. • MISSION SHIP AGROUND: The Melanesian Mission ship, Southern Cross, ran aground on the Alite Reef, between Malaita and Gela in the BSIP, on October 24. According to a mission spokesman at Auckland the captain reported there was no structural damage, and although salvage might take some time, it was expected to be successful.

The BSIP Government ships Coral Queen and Coral Princess and the mission ship Baddeley stood by in case the Southern Cross required help.

The ship is the ninth Southern Cross to be owned by the Melanesian Mission. She was built by S. G. White Pty. Ltd. at Ballina, NSW, and began service less than a year ago. She is about 85 ft. long and has a beam of 25 ft.

The Southern Cross series certainly has bad luck.

The eighth Southern Cross was driven aground and abandoned at Maravovo, north-west of Guadalcanal in April, 1960. She was then only a new vessel, built especially for the work. There was much inconvenience while the latest vessel was being built.

• New Glass - Bottom

LAUNCH FOR FLEET: Storck Cruises, of Suva, are to add another glass-bottomed launch to their fleet.

It will be named 00100100 Too. (There is already an Oolooloo.) The launch is expected to be completed next March. It will have a tunnel stern to enable it to manoeuvre in shallow water and will have two 6 ft. viewing panels to enable passengers to see the coral. Mr. Vince Storck said recently that the new launch, which would carry between 40 and 45 passengers, was designed to cope with an increasing number of tourists who wanted to see the coral gardens. [?]'Southern Cross" in Sydney on the [?]ion of her dedication last May by the [?]te of Australia, Archbishop H. R.

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BACK AGAIN: The French y’s “floating officers’ college” ne d’Arc will visit the Pacific n soon. The ship, escorted by the ette Victor Schoelcher, was due eave France in early November, two ships will call at the West es, Balboa, Callao (Peru), Tahiti, Wallis Islands, Noumea, Guam, gkong, Saigon, Bangkok, and mese ports. They were in Noumea er this year.

KAVIENG TRADER IN- EST: An inquest began in Rabaul November 13 into the deaths of men who died from injuries >wing three explosions in the 70fuel tanker Kavieng Trader off coast of New Ireland in Septemhe two men were the ship’s en- ;er, Willy Lee, and.. Paul Moso, a iser. The Rabaul Coroner, Mr.

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Tie skipper of the Kavieng Trader, »tain Frederick Charles Matthies, Rabaul, told the Coroner that the losion occurred while the ship was hored off the New Ireland coast. : crew was degassing and cleaning tanks after discharging a cargo of :01.

'aptain Matthies, whose face and ids are fire-scarred, said Willy Lee 1 handling a water hose which ick an electric light bulb on a lead pended above the main deck.

Three explosions and a fire followed.

The ship’s owner, William Francis Carruthers, of Rabaul, said the cleaning and degassing procedures met the requirements of the Rabaul port authorities.

Other witnesses told how Captain Matthies, burned and half-blinded after the explosions, dived from the burning ship to rescue Lance Atkinson, a passenger, who was badly burned and fell into the sea.

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The new sounding is 263 fathoms deeper than the previous greatest known depth—in the Marianas Trench, north of Guam. The Cook’s discovery has been named the Cook Trench.

The survey ship will return to Fiji about December 17 to continue her survey of the islands. • FIRST SINCE THE WAR: The first passenger liner to visit Norfolk Island since the end of

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Id War II dropped anchor in ade Bay on October 17. She the Wanganella, veteran of the i-Tasman. She was making a i-day cruise from Sydney to : olk Island and return, her heavy rain, Norfolk sparkled farm sunshine and most of the passengers landed at Cascade to make the most of a 12-hour le enterprising shopkeeper pro- ! free transport to the shopping where tourists fell like locusts Norfolk’s ample supplies of >s, cameras, etc. long the Burnt Pine shopping ■e, cash registers clattered as the visitors snapped up hundreds ounds worth of imported items h — so they said—were considercheaper than those provided by ganella’s duty-free shop. the afternoon, many passengers id the island’s community hall e the Administrator, Major- ;ral Wordsworth, opened the lal Agricultural and Horticultural v. le quality of exhibits was very and the tourists were impressed he wide variety of produce on ay. anganella left for Sydney at it and the captain later radioed Administrator expressing his eciation “for the excellent igements for my passengers’ connce and reception, and the outling effort of Norfolk’s boatmen”,

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IFT: Matson Lines has joined the glas Aircraft Company in efforts reduce a new trans-ocean craft bining features of aircraft and Matson Press release says the are known by several names— cushion vehicle, surface effect :le or ground effect machine— -1 for short. Several craft using 5 principles have been built and d in the United States and other tries.

Sydney recently, Matson’s vicedent in the South Pacific, Mr. iam F. Meeske, said Douglas been engaged for about 20 ths in a research programme to lop an efficient and practical ice effect vehicle for primary over water. 5 said: “Since the commercial of such a craft would depend ts ability to fit into the pattern xisting sea commerce, which it d supplement, Douglas engineers Long Beach, California, have broadened their studies to include collaboration with the steamship experts at Matson.

“As currently envisaged, the vehicle would be supported on water by a hull and would rise a short distance above the surface as it attains speed. The distance above the surface is governed by the size of the machine.

“One design under investigation calls for a vehicle about 200 ft long and 130 ft wide. It would accommodate 300 passengers or 25 tons of cargo and would glide 15 ft above the surface at about 100 knots.”

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TULAGI: A supplementary grant of £A2,000 from the BSIP allocation of Colonial Development and Welfare funds has been approved for the completion of the Government slipway and cradle at Tulagi, including provision for a small mooring dolphin and a catwalk between the dolphin and the shore, which were not included in the original scheme, The slipway is expected to be ready soon, the total cost being about £A3 5,000.

A Colonial Development and Welfare Scheme approved this year provided £A 1,800 as grants to local councils for the construction of wharves, up to a maximum grant of £A2OO or one-third of the cost of the wharf.

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The MV Iris dragged a steel bar on 30 ft ropes over the whole area on the third day and it was free in all places. When lowered a further six inches it touched at one point.

This was located and a charge laid.

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Diving again, he put more gelignite with a new line of cable and wedged it in place, then surfaced and set a four-minute fuse which detonated the charge. It took t\o and a half tons of TNT to complete the work.

There has been some discussion over the years about the real value of the shoal. Some masters insist it has an important bearing on harbour currents.

AND DRY: The motor vessel [?]a", which has been bought by a [?]n syndicate, was still high and dry [?]asova, Levuka, Fiji, recently when grapher Stan Whippy took this snap. 109 lIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Many yachtsmen already do this.

PlM’s yachting columns are for the convenience of yachts cruising the South Pacific, and for years they have been a post office whereby cruising yachtsmen keep in touch with each other. • DOUBLOON, a 40 ft sailing catamaran, was due to leave Ontario, Canada, in October for Auckland with Rear-Admiral (retd.) John Littler, his wife and four children, of Grimsby, Ontario. Rear-Admiral Littler, who built the catamaran himself, intends to visit the West Indies, the Marquesas, the Society Islands, Tonga and Fiji. He will settle near Auckland at the end of 111 MFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER, 1962

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GLAXO LABORATORIES (N.Z.) LTD.. PALMERSTON NORTH. N.Z. trip. Rear-Admiral Littler is known to many people in Suva mse, as Captain Littler, he visited city as commander of the cruiser CS Ontario. He says Doubloon ‘not a bad name” for his boat en you think of how I read tical stories in my youth and dream of Spanish gold and sure trove”. • DRIFTWOOD, an American it, which was briefly aground on reef while trying to enter Avarua hour in August, was still in otonga at the beginning of )ber. i ENTICER, 46 ft ketch, was nd from Apia to Suva in late jber after visiting Tahiti and the ety Group, Rarotonga, Niue and d Pago. On board are ownerp r Carl Gillette, Joyce Gillette William Kalinowski, of Hono- , and J. A. Castille, of Houston, as. The Enticer, a diesel liary, was built in Kobe, Japan. 959. After a voyage from Honoto Tahiti and back in June and , the ketch headed south again e^c u Tahiti after a 12-day age. She then cruised among the ety Group—everyone on board g struck by the friendly reception Tahaa. On September 19, the h arrived at Rarotonga, where stayed 12 days before going on 4iue. She then went on to Pago d and Apia before heading for a. i FAITH 11, 31 ft 6 in. ketch, i owner-skipper Mick Orchard crew members Allan McDonald and C. Orchard (the skipper’s father), returned to her home port of .a uan , Je v /L.ea nd, on October 20 after a 7,000-mile cruise of the Pacific lasting six months. Hundreds of people lined the wharf to welcome the ketch home. Faith II left Whakatane last May for Tahiti. She later visited American and Western Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. She was in Suva in September for the Hibiscus Festival. 9 MARINERO, Floyd Christenson’s 38 ft Californian ketch, was still in Rarotonga at the beginning ot October. She arrived there on July 1. 9 OKEANOS, Joe Pachernegg’s 39 ft staysail schooner ( ex-Kona and Moonfleet) left San Diego, California, on October 7 for Nukuhiva, the Tuamotus and Tahiti. Travelling with Joe are his fiancee. Miss Benita E. Burge, a former New Guinea nurse, and Albert Blanchette. In a note to PIM from San Diego, Joe said he hoped to arrive at Papeete by the beginning of December.

Pachernegg's yacht "Okeanos" which [?]sxpected to reach Tahiti from San ego, California, early in December. 113

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• ON DINE, 57 ft American aluminium yawl, left Tahiti at the end of October for Sydney on the last leg of a 1,500-mile voyage to take part in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race, which begins on December 26.

Ondine was recently awarded the Northern Ocean Racing Trophy, America’s annual prize for the best blue-water yacht of the season. She will be the first genuine international entry in the Sydney-Hobart race.

Several other overseas yachts have competed in the 18 previous races, but always with Australian crews.

Ondine will have an all-American crew. Ondine’s owner is Mr. S. A.

Long. • SEA WIND, 38 ft ketch, owned and sailed by Malcolm and Muff Graham, arrived in Pago Pago in October after a 13-day voyage from Papeete. The Grahams were en route to Fiji. They had been in Papeete since May. Their home port is San Diego. • TAKOHE, 40 ft yawl, with owner-skipper Lance “Snow” Gatehouse, his brother Trevor, Ron Mitchell and Bob Daniel, arrived back in Auckland on October 23 after a three-month, 5,500-mile voyage to Tahiti and back. Takohe left New Zealand on July 31. On the trip to Tahiti the craft covered 3,150 statute miles because she was beating to windward most of the way. “Snow” Gatehouse described the trip back as “quiet” and “downhill all the way”. Now he is itching to get back to Tahiti as soon as he can. “Tahiti is just great; we didn’t want to leave”, he told the Press in Auckland. He said Tahiti was a yachtsman’s mecca and that the number of yachts that called there— mostly American—was “fantastic”. • TE MATANGI, a Block Island class ketch, with American Jack Ferguson and his wife, arrived at Whangarei, NZ, on October 30 from Suva, The Fergusons, who have spent 15 years cruising the Pacific, and are well known to PIM readers, built Te Matangi in the interior State of Nevada. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson have done much of their cruising among the Pacific Islands, and after they leave New Zealand they intend to “do” them all again. Mr. Ferguson, a biologist, says he has been sailing so long he is now incurable. • WHITE LADY, 32 ft ketch, with Joe and Ellen Hart and their seven-year-old son Joey, was bound from Pago Pago to Honolulu in mid- October. • YASME 111, Danny Weil’s 51 ft yacht, sailed from Rarotonga on October 8 for Suwarrow to take stores to the island’s only inhabitant.

New Zealander Tom Neale. Weil and his wife, who is sailing with him, are on a voyage round the world.

They had been in Rarotonga since July 27.

Yasme 111 reached Suwarrow on October 11 after a voyage of 3i days.

Despite a rough sea they went straight through the passage and anchored in the lagoon. Tom Neale was in the best of health and was very pleased to receive fresh supplies.

Weil, who is an amateur radio enthusiast, set up a station, ZKIBY, on shore and broadcast from the island in the afternoons. Yasme 111 intended to stay at Suwarrow until about October 25 before going on to Pago Pago and Apia. (See “Hermit Tom Neale Gets a Visitor”, elsewhere in this issue).

Yasme 111, has a powerful auxiliary engine, three radio transmitters, five receivers, three depth-finders, three direction-finders, two automatic pilots, one 110-220 volt a.c. generator and other electrical and mechanical gear. • MEDLEY, a 37 ft American staysail schooner, arrived in Rarotonga from Bora Bora on October 7 with owner-skipper Dean Harold, John Rowe, L. Stone and G. Saint Pierre. Her arrival brought the number of yachts in Rarotonga’s Avatiu Harbour to seven—the others be; Marinero, Yasme 111, Driftwo < Takohe, Larapinta and Fortu There were also three local trad; vessels in the harbour at the tir From Rarotonga, Medley was to on to Tonga en route to Austral! • LARAPINTA, 37 ft ket which left London on July 17, 19' with Peter and Lesley Mouns; arrived in Rarotonga from Bora Be early in October en route to Ni Larapinta is on the last stages ol voyage round the world. She sal to England via the Cape of Gc Hope about three years agovoyage which took 14 months. T Mounseys then lived aboard th ketch in London for 18 months. • CRAIG J 11, 20 ft ketch, w D. J. La Londe, of Los Angeles, loi handing it, left Wanganui, Nl Zealand, in October for Los Ange via Papeete. Mr. La Londe lost his possessions in March, 1961, wh his 20 ft yacht Craig J was wreckon Cape Karikari in the extrei north-east of New Zealand. Craig was one of the smallest yachts cross the Pacific in recent years. • FORTUNE, American yac; which left Honolulu for Tahiti in Jir with Dave and Nellie Goeffnti arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bo on October 6. From Rarotonj: the Goeffneys intended to go on Niue.

IN RABAUL: About 1,200 tourists on a Far East cruise visited Rabaul on October[?] 21 in the liner "Orcades". Among the passengers were more than 500 Romai[?] Catholics on the fifth Australian National Pilgrimage to Catholic shrines in the Fa[?] East. These spent most of the day at Vunapope. Special services were held a[?] St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Rabaul. The picture shows a party of th( tourists coming ashore. —Photo: Chin H. Meen. 114 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

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Norfolk's Weather Gives "Wanderer's" Wanderers The Run - around From Ken Mullen on Norfolk Island Fickle weather at Norfolk Island caused the 36 ft. New Zealand cutter Wanderer to live up to her name when she visited the island in November to examine the possibility of establishing a yacht racing course between Norfolk and New Zealand.

IREWED by four members of the ' Royal Akarana Yacht Club, anderer left Auckland on Novemr 3 and arrived at Norfolk six ys later.

The crew were Tom Buchanan, ipper, Des Seager, Len Migounaff d Ken Pragnell.

Interviewed soon after his arrival, ipper Buchanan said the projected :e would be non-stop from Auckid and return and that an observer mid probably be stationed briefly Norfolk Island to check passing chts. “It would be an excellent test navigation,” he said.

However, after experiencing some Norfolk’s Jekyll and Hyde weather tterns, the crew of the Wanderer ly now view the proposed race with somewhat jaundiced eye.

Late in the afternoon of the day :er their arrival, the weather decorated while the Wanderer was Dored off Kingston, and Tom ichanan, who was ashore with two his shipmates, went out in a aghy to join Pragnell who had lyed on board.

That night, a strong south-easterly gw up with heavy rain squalls and continued overnight. Early next morning, Wanderer lost her anchor and the two men aboard had to put out to sea.

After circling the island, they put into Anson Bay and Pragnell rowed ashore in the dinghy to find his shipmates. However, when he was 50 yards from the beach, the dinghy grounded on a sand bar and turned turtle.

Pragnell then swam ashore, enlisted the aid of a man fishing on the beach and managed to salvage the dinghy.

But when he tried to return to the Wanderer, he could not get the dinghy through the breakers.

After being dissuaded from swimming to the cutter (Anson Bay beng a favoured cruising ground for sharks at this time of year), he harnessed some local manpower to take the dinghy to a nearby fishing spot known as Jacobs Rock, where it could be launched into clear water.

The dinghy was manhandled up 300 ft cliffs and manoeuvred half a mile round the coast.

However, on seeing the dinghy being carted up the cliff, Skipper Buchanan assumed that the men were heading for Kingston, so he decided to go there too.

The irate dinghy-wallahs lit a fire on top of the cliffs to try to attract his attention—but without success.

When Buchanan reached Kingston and found that the dinghy had not arrived, he sailed back to Anson Bay where he remained until the following day.

Meanwhile, the dinghy was launched in rough weather at Puppy’s Point, and Des Seager scrambled aboard and cast off while the craft was held on a line by his two shipmates.

After reaching the Wanderer.

Seager and Buchanan put out into deeper water as the south-easterly was still chopping up big seas.

When night fell, Migounaff and Pragnell asked the Department of Civil Aviation to turn on the revolving beacons on top of Norfolk’s Mount Pitt and Mount Bates as navigational aids for their two mates at sea.

Next morning, when the two crewmen on shore drove round the island in search of the Wanderer, she was not to be seen.

Calling at the TEAL agency, they ruefully booked seats on the next skymaster for New Zealand; but next day, in better weather, the Wanderer turned up again and the two men were able to get aboard.

They sailed for New Zealand the same afternoon—without making further comments on the possibility of the New Zealand-Norfolk race.

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"Wanderer In Trouble" 117 Visitors for Suwarrow's Hermit 119 Fish-flake Industry in BSIP 121 Pitcairn's Big Construction Job 123 West Samoan Round-up 125 NG Zebu Scheme 128 GEIC Civil Servants' Salaries 129 US Oil Interests In Papua 131 BSIP Workers Back After Strike 133 In a Nutshell 134 People 137 AT OPENING OF SHOW: The Administrator of Norfolk Island, Major-General Wordsworth (second from left) officially opened Norfolk's annual Agricultural and Horticultural Show on October 17. He is shown here arriving for the opening with his wife, Mrs. Greg Quintal (left) and Mr. Quintal, who is president of the Show Society. (For report, see p. 105.) —Photo: Ken Mullen. 117 MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Suwarrow’s Hermit Gets A Couple Of Visitors From a Rarotonga Correspondent New Zealander Tom Neale, who has lived alone on Suwarrow atoll in the Northern Cooks since November, 1960, had one of his rare visits from the outside world in October when Mr. and Mrs. Danny Weil arrived at the atoll from Rarotonga in their yacht Yasme 111.

T'HE Weils, who are on a voyage J- round the world, brought Tom some welcome supplies. They found him in perfect health, although at 50-odd he is beginning to feel he is getting too old for the hermit’s life, Tom is now doing his second spell in solitude on Surarrow. His first stay was from October, 1953, to fune, 1954, but for part of that time i party of shell divers was also itationed there.

He went there aeain as Governnent overseer with another team of livers for two months in 1956; and >e began his present period of resilence in April, 1960, when he Sty severaf'days'” 8 t6am ‘° lion oy several days.

The divers left on November 6, 960, and Tom has seen few human aces since then. His first visitors /ere the crew of a US Navy heliopter, who dropped in on Decernber 10, 1960, and caught him in his “Suwarrow clothes”—his birthday suit.

The crew of the helicopter, which came from the USS Glacier, an icebreaker bound for the Antarctic, put T om * n wor l ( l’s headlines when they re P° r t e d having found him wandering stark naked on “Stravenof Island”, 600 miles east of Samoa. f° u . r months later, this unsought publicity brought Tom a visit from an English journalist, Noel Barber, phot ° grap J lers > £ h ° a " d pl ? tu , res ey a „ y :? ,L, t,- t Rarot0 ”® a took ".ores months ago? SQ thfi Weils are only the fourth lot of people to interrupt his solitude in 23 months, The Weils’ visit enabled Tom to speak by radio with Rarotonga for the first time. Danny Weil, who is an amateur radio enthusiast, has three transmitters and five receivers aboard Yasme 111, and soon after his arrival at Suwarrow he set up a radio station, ZKIBY, on Anchorage Islet, where Tom lives.

ZKIBY broadcast from the atoll each afternoon, mostly in morse on 20 metres. On the night of October 17, the Cook Islands News, the roneoed daily news-sheet issued by the Social Development Department in Rarotonga, showed its journalistic enterprise by interviewing Tom on ZKIBY.

In an excellent report of the interview published next day, the news-sheet said that Tom intended to leave Suwarrow for good next year if shell diving operations were carried out then.

Tom said he could not possibly come off in a ship that just called there for a few days as it would take several weeks to pack his belongings!

The most exciting pieces of news that Tom had to report were that: • He had a bad accident last year which nearly cost him his life. • He had picked up a bottle on the beach on May 29 this year containing a piece of paper with the address of an American couple from Los Angeles. The couple had thrown the bottle overboard from the Mariposa en route to New Zealand. • He had picked up more than 40 Japanese glass fishing floats on the beach.

Regarding his accident, Tom said he was out on the lagoon one day when a squall came up which overturned his sailing boat and toppled him into the sea where the water was 100 ft deep.

He was badly hurt, but with the aid of a glass float and with much effort he eventually got the boat upright, although full of water. He bailed frantically with his hands, and Hermit Tom Neale generally wears his “Suwarrow clothes" when he goes out fishing. The photograph was taken by James S. Rockefeller, Jr., who spent some time with Tom several years ago and wrote about him in his book "Man on His Island".

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'as just beginning to give up hope 'hen the wind eased and the sea ropped.

He lay exhausted for a while, nd then made a slow trip back to le beach—having been in the water ■om early morning until midday.

Tom said the pearl shell in the goon was maturing well, and he redicted a good season for divers if team should go to Suwarrow next ;ar.

He said the atoll (which is a bird nctuary) was now swarming with rds, and estimated that at least >O,OOO tern were nesting there, and at there were about 10,000 frigate rds.

Turtles (which are also protected) -re increasing in numbers. On the her hand, the rat population had creased amazingly, thanks to his ts.

As for pigs, Tom said he had now ped them out entirely—a fact lich pleased him very much, as ey had caused much havoc in his dl-cared-for gardens.

Tom told the Cook Islands News at the only time he felt lonely was r four or five days after the parture of a ship. After that, he >uld settle down to the existence he sferred —communing with Nature.

Tom said he rose early each day d his first job was to light a fire. ‘ then went to his “House of sditation”, after which he washed d prepared himself some coffee.

Egg Production Record His next job was to feed his vis. He said he had quite a flock these, which he kept behind wire i only let them out at 3 p.m. each Y- (In September, they had proled him with a record of 284 eggs).

Aiter a leisurely breakfast, Tom d he gathered firewood and uto )conut apple), of which he ate a at deal.

Fhen there was the ritual of ndering down to the beach to see any ships were in sight, followed inspections of his fowls and dens. Also on his programme s the job of visiting the nearby tus to see how the trees he had nted were faring. fom said he had planted trees of ious types on most of the islets, e type, the anu, was thriving, and re was about half an acre of lanu. lowever, he had had a lot of jble with coconut trees because the onut crabs stripped the trees of their young leaves and never gave m a chance to develop. Termites were also a pest in about 10 to 15 per cent, of the trees.

Tom said he was very grateful to Mr. Jack Best, of Rarotonga, for sending him food, seeds and reading material in Yasme HI. He added that he would like some new posts for his buildings as the old ones were rotten.

According to the Cook Islands News, the Weils intended to stay at the atoll until about October 26, when they would leave for Apia with some mail from Suwarrow’s celebrated recluse, including a report on the atoll for the Cook Islands Resident Commissioner, Mr. A. O. Dare.

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Dried Fish Flakes Industry Started At Kia, BSIP From PlM’s Honiara Correspondent The people of Kia, in the Western Solomons, are making an all-out effort to establish a processing factory for the production of dried fish flakes.

THEY are working under the guidance of Mr. M. L. Aylett, Fisheries Officer in the Solomons, and the Co-operative Societies Officer, Mr.

M. B, Hamilton.

The Kia people put up a building surrounded by fly wire, and the Government provided a stove and boiler made from 44-gallon drums.

The first large quantity of dried fish was produced from a catch of the Government fishing vessel, San Juanita.

After boiling the fish, which were held in wire baskets in the water, they were spread out on trays.

The bones, skin and scales were taken out by hand to avoid waste.

Then the flesh was finely crumbled and dried for about two hours.

After drying, the flakes were placed in bags made from polythene tubing.

A metal clamp pinched the edges together and they were finally sealed by a small kerosene lamp (from an old ship’s navigation light) running along a slide.

Fifty pounds of dried flakes were sent into Honiara for distribution as samples. They were made from 312 lb of dressed fish.

The flakes must be soaked in water before use or they can be put straight into soups or stews.

If a market for the flakes develops the women of Kia will do all the processing at the factory. Even the young girls are very adept at drying and packaging the flakes.

The catching of the fish will be left to the men.

It seems to be quite a good enterprise, but whether it will catch on with the native market remains to be seen.

It only needs a few buyers to express a dislike for the product and the whole business will flop.

The experiments have been with tuna, mackerel and trevally. Sharks have not been used, but will be used later as a further experiment. 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Pitcairners To Tackle Their Biggest Construction Job The biggest construction programme ever attempted on Pitcairn Island at one time since the Bounty mutineers settled there 173 years ago will begin in January when the Bounty Bay landing and an area known as The Square will be transformed.

FN The Square, the present separate L buildings housing the post office nd dispensary will be replaced by a ngle building, which, besides providig space for the postal and medical epartments, will include a room for se as a library and museum. The ew building will be 40 ft. long by 4 ft. wide, and will have a verandah ft. wide along the front.

Rooms for the dispensary and post ffice will each measure 24 ft. by 4 ft. The library, which will be stween these rooms, will be 24 ft. y 12 ft.

The new building will be made of mber and will have a concrete aor and an iron roof.

A new skidway and boat shed will ; built at The Landing at Bounty ay. The skidway will be 143 ft. mg, and over 75 ft. of this the new 3at shed will be erected.

The shed will house the three 3ats now in use. It will be an opended building, 20 ft. wide, with a ible roof of corrugated iron.

The present winch, which is used for hauling up the boats, will be replaced. It has been worn out for years, and only the ingenuity of the local engineers has kept it in working order.

The new winch will not only haul up the boats, but, by the use of a warping block, will also haul them down. When it is in use, the familiar cry at The Landing—“one, two, three, haul!”—will be a thing of the past, The flying fox, which, like the winch, has seen better days, will also be pensioned off as a new engine and overhead gear are to be installed.

The islanders will also work on extensions for their radio station and a new launch.

The construction programme will be under the supervision of Mr. F.

E. D. Bradnam, of Fiji, who visited Pitcairn last year to supervise the first stage of what the islanders call the Bounty Bay Development Scheme.

However, because of ill-health, Mr.

Bradnam had to leave before the job was completed. (P/M, Oct., 1961, p. 47.) This unusual photograph of a whale boat entering Pitcairn's Bounty Bay was taken by a BP official, when the 15,000-ton tanker "British Curlew" stopped at Pitcairn en route to New Zealand to deliver some 1,600 gallons of kerosine, light diesel oil, petrol and lubricating oil from BP's Kent refinery. After waiting 24 hours for a heavy swell to subside, the oil—in 10 and 12½ gallon drums—was landed into Pitcairn's whale boats and ferried ashore.

Below is Pitcairn's post office, which is soon to be replaced. The picture was taken soon after it was opened in 1941. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1962

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From our Apia Correspondent Shipments of Samoan bananas • Japan under the new long term mdling contract with the sole rents —Tojirushi Tokyo Seika o. —have not got away to a very ippy start. Three changes in ipping arrangements created •nfusion and disappointment long growers. f was announced early in October that 6,000 cases and 12,000 bunches uld be shipped in the Turakina vards the end of that month. Later s was reduced to 6,000 bunches, 1 agriculture field workers in- :cted and marked most of the iches ready for shipment. Then : week before the Turakina was ; it was announced that because lack of shipping space the Turaa would have room for only 2,500 es. dr. F. Hirai, director of foreign le for the Japanese company, was Apia at the time and he made a die announcement regretting the c of space and promising better igs for the future, tananas continue to be one of loa’s biggest businesses. In the five rs since the Agriculture Departit took over the marketing of baas, Samoa has shipped 3,608,000 ;s, said Director of Agriculture, E. V. Parham. Mr. Parham has i the driving force behind the lational progress of the banana ness. hipments this year will be over ,000 cases, worth over £870,000. » compares with shipments of ,156 cases worth £644,133 last . Record shipment was in 1958 n 884,000 cases were exported to fhis tremendous output has only i possible through the co-operaspirit of all involved,” said Mr. lam recently. tiere are now 6.000 banana growand the Agriculture Department 5 personally with each one. lipping companies with an init in Samoa were taken aback ntly by the announcement that a oan group was considering geta vessel built in Japan especially for the carriage of Samoan bananas to New Zealand and Japan.

Harbour Master Captain Harry Moors said that it was hoped to find sufficient local capital to finance the scheme. Already plans for two vessels had been received from Japanese shipyards.

“Japanese shipyards require only 15 per cent, down payment and the balance over seven years,” said Captain Moors. He said that this would mean about £lOO,OOO would be needed for the initial payment on a vessel of the type needed. * * * Samoan Members of Parliament want more pay. A motion recommending “that the Government give immediate consideration to the setting up of a Commission of Enquiry to enquire into the possibility of paying a fixed salary of £6OO per annum to each Member of Parliament, other than the Honorable Ministers and Mr. Speaker, in lieu of the salary and allowances now paid to them” was passed on a vote by 26-15 recently.

This has not been a very popular motion among the public in view of the austerity conditions now prevailing in Samoa.

Working on last year’s figures, £6OO a year would give members an extra £5O, but because so little legislation has been dealt with this year, the increase would be much greater over the present year.

Significantly the Prime Minister and his whole Cabinet voted against the motion—another good example of the difficulties of government with no party system and no majority for the Government. * * * Acording to NZ agricultural scientist Charles Wright, the Samoan farmer has come a long way in the last five years in the understanding of his importance to the economy and the purpose of agricultural improvement efforts.

Mr. Wright, who made a soil and land use survey of Samoa five years ago, called at Samoa for a week during October on his way to NZ from Chile where he is working with FAO.

“P e °pl e are feeling more responsibility and getting an intelligent appreciation of the problems facing Samoa to an extent I wouldn’t have thought possible five years ago,” said Mr. Wright, who renewed old aquaintances among Samoan agriculturalists in both Savaii and Upolu during his brief return visit.

“The agricultural extension programme has been amazingly successful in reaching the imagination of farmers, and many farmers are now showing real integrity of purpose honestly doing their best by the soil and for their crop,” said Mr. Wright.

GIFT TO PRESIDENT: Richly woven American Samoan ceremonial mats—at one time the currency of the area—were presented recently in Washington, DC, to President Kennedy and other Administration officers and politicians who are considered "friends of the Samoan people". President Kennedy's mat was presented to an aide on the White House lawns by Mr. and Mrs.

Salofi Sotoa (third and fourth from left). Also in the picture are (from left) Senator Oren Long, of Hawaii; Congressman Wayne Aspinall; Mr. Claude J.

DeSautels, Assistant to the President; and Mr. John A. Carver, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Department of the Interior. 125 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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Commented one field officer; “Mr. r right is correct to some extent, but 5 strikes me as a bit over enthusias- ; and optimistic.” * * * After one of the closest competi- >ns for years Hospital won Western moa Inter-Club tennis championips in a play-off with Anglican and Dia only one point behind. The team was G. Keil (Capri), M. Fepuleai, T. Faaiuaso, R. hren (ladies), M. Lam, J. Pryor, . Karene and N. Rasmussen. * * * More developmental land has been ened up as a result of completion the Salani-Sapunaoa road at the d of October. The 4i mile link was tried two years ago and completes 80 mile circuit around the main and of Upolu. With two bridges Sapunaoa and Salani it cost about 1,500.

The road has wide sweeping curves 1 spectacular cuttings approaching ; bridges, one of which is 80 feef Dve water level and has a drop o' ft a few yards further on. ■‘Construction would not have been ssible without the D 8 caterpillar ich eliminated the need for deius approaches,” said Assistant Eneer K. M. Owen who supervised istruction of the road and bridges. ‘Besides opening up new land, the ite around the island will most tainly be a real tourist attraction,” d Director of Works A. Ferry, who Limed to New Zealand on expiry his term a few days before the cial opening. * * * completing a two-week sur- . Principal of Lincoln Agricultural lege in New Zealand and Chairn of the Council of Scientific and ustrial Research, Dr. M. M. ns, was enthusiastic about the sibilities of up-grading Avele icultural College into a postmdary tropical agricultural college a regional training and research tre for the whole of the South ific. )r. Burns’ visit came about as a fit of a request by Prime Minister taafa to the New Zealand Govment for a qualified person to ret on the desirability, possibility costs of such up-grading. He unook a similar survey in Malaya years ago.

The provision of advanced agricultural training and research facilities in Western Samoa is a matter of urgency,” he said. “I am hopeful that the establishment of such a centre would serve not only Samoa but also other Pacific islands already associated with Avele.”

Dr. Burns said that the level of agriculture in Samoa was in general quite good, but that there were some extremely important problems to which solutions had to be obtained in the very near future.

He said that the major problem lay in finding the most efficient use of fertiliser in relation to different levels of soil fertility and soil types so that a continuing production of foodstuffs and export crops can be maintained in the limited area of lowland soils.

“The Samoan farmer simply cannot carry on breaking in new land, cropping it briefly, then leaving it to break in more new land,” he said.

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“The policy of the Government in acquiring Nafanua and Avele in close proximity promotes an opportunity to build up an agricultural centre which could serve as headquarters not only for teaching at an advanced level of tropical agriculture, but also for agricultural research,” said Dr. Burns. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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TOE Mayle Award, which also - covers the BSIP, was prepared r a Mr. Mayle, of the British alonial Office, who visited British rritories in the Pacific about two sars ago. It has caused similar in the BSIP.

The GEIC Civil Servants’ Associa- >n held an extraordinary general eeting on November 12 and agreed accept the award, but with great luctance.

At the meeting, a resolution was ssed stating that the award was cepted only as an interim award r six months, and that the Govern- ;nt should set up a local comssion to study its defects and the use of dissatisfaction over it.

A few days earlier, Government icers addressed workers at three >lony headquarters stations about a ivernment proposal to set up workl committees to submit fresh :ommendations for the Colony’s ge structure.

Unestablished staff agreed at a iss meeting at Tarawa on Novemr 12 to end a two-day strike which d caused some disruption of ential services. * * * Islands in the Central and Southern Iberts were suffering from a mild )ught, the GEIC Resident Comssioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, said his return to Tarawa recently after tour of the area.

Sir. Andersen’s tour, which began October 29, took in Abemama, nouti, Beru, Nikunau, Tamana, Jth and North Tabiteuea, Aranuka 1 Maiana. Mr, Andersen has now ited all 16 islands in the Gilberts. re Tabunawati Takoa, an Assist Administrative Officer in the GEIC Administration, was made a member of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on November 6.

Te Tabunawati Takoa, who is 38, has 21 years of Government service to his credit. He is at present taking a public administration course in England. * * * A Royal Engineers reef blasting team, which has been working in the GEIC improving passages at 12 outer islands, has now completed its task.

The team returned to Tarawa in late October and was to fly to New Zealand in an RNZAF Sunderland on November 21. * * * Mr. Justice D. R. Barwick sentenced a native to three years’ imprisonment in the GEIC High Court recently for causing malicious damage to the Betio Club.

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New US Oil Interest In Papua Three American oil companies anmnced in November they had quired petroleum exploration rights an 8,740 square mile area along e southern coast of Papua.

MERADA Petroleum Corpora- * tion of Australia Ltd., Continen- Oil Company of Australia Ltd., d Marathon Petroleum, Australia d., said the exploration rights in ; area had been taken over from Australian group which would, wever, hold “an over-riding royalty erest”.

In the Australian group are Papuan •inaipi Petroleum Company Ltd., sociated Australian Oilfields NL, i Associated Freney Oil Fields NL.

Transfer of the title involves pert No. 22 which extends for )ut 125 miles along the southern ist of Papua, west of Port Moresby 3 the Purari River delta.

No Commercial Production ‘The associated group has carried exploratory work in the permit a for some years but to date no nmercial production has resulted,” company statement said.

The American companies will untake further exploration of the mit, bringing many years of exience in petroleum discovery and elopment to this challenging a.” he Papua-New Guinea Assistant ninistrator for Economic Affairs, F. C. Henderson, said in Port resby that entry of the American ipanies was a most encouraging elopment which would give imis to oil exploration and consider- ' extend the Territory’s prospects the discovery and development of □mmercial petroleum industry. imerada, Continental and Marai describe themselves as “sub aries of prominent American corations active throughout the Id in petroleum exploration, protion, and marketing,” with recent :ess in the discovery and developit of major oil reserves in Libya.

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BSIP Workers Back at Work After Strike After having been on strike /er wages for three days, most the 1,100 native workers emoyed by the Government and ivate enterprise in Honiara turned to work early in ovember after the Government omised increased wages and iproved conditions.

IHE strike began when 930 Gov- . eminent labourers and others on y rates walked out in protest at the iv Mayle wage schedule for all wernment staff. About 200 workers ployed by private enterprise Iked out in sympathy.

Fhe strike was the culmination of veek of unrest during which an air resentful discontent built up. Durthe strike, some strikers blocked road with oildrums and threatened overturn cars.

Jnder the new wage schedule, expiate officers received a 20 per cent, rease in salaries, local staff 13 cent, and day rate workers 10 per t. The increases for expatriate and d staff were retrospective to April, 1, but day workers were not nted retrospectivity. reviously labourers’ wages were a day.

The Mayle award offered sixpence a day increase.

The strike was eventually settled at 6/- a day, which was regarded in Honiara as a win for the strikers.

Private enterprise labour received similar increases.

The decision to strike was made on October 27, when natives employed by the Public Works Department met to discuss the salary revisions.

Speakers claimed that the revisions were not fair to all workers.

On October 30, the Secretary for Protectorate Affairs, Mr. M. A. Andrew, met about 200 representatives of the workers, and a committee of six men was chosen to explain the workers’ grievances.

Mr. Andrew and Mr. A. H. Pickwood met the committee on November 1 and 2 for negotiations.

At these meetings, the six representatives were informed that on the question of accident pay, which had been raised, the Government was prepared to offer full pay for three months, followed by half-pay while a man remained in hospital.

Labourers would be entitled to three days’ sick pay a month for the first six months of their service; after that, they would receive 21 days’ paid sick leave a year, which was the same as the sick leave for classified workers.

Although there was some apprehension earlier in the week among workers who were not striking, and police investigated several stories of intimidation, investigations proved that the stories were not true.

By the end of that week, Mr. E.

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Of the 431 classified workers and labourers employed by the Public Works Department, all but 12 were back at work by November 9, and other Government departments were also normal.

Most of the men employed by private enterprise returned to work during the week.

Exceptionally high spring tides recently caused minor disruptions to traffic in coastal areas on the south-west coast of Viti Levu, and flooded a number of Fijian villages. At Naboutini, a village about 57 miles from Suva on the Queen's Road, the high tides flooded right through the village, but did not deter a Fiijan mother from giving her young son a bath under th e village tap. Photo; Rob Wright.

Fiji's athletes who competed in the Empire Games in Perth in November got a taste of some of the competition they will be up against when the first South Pacific Games are held at Suva's Buckhurst Park next year. The three athletes shown here were pictured with their manager, Mr. W.

P. Ragg (extreme left), and the Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, on the eve of their departure for Perth. The athletes (from left) are Maca Vakalala, Sitiveni Moceidreke and the Rev. Viliame Liga.

There were 15 members in Fiji's Perth Games team. P-NG sent 22.

Photo: Rob Wright 133 ' 1 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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New Zealand in October could result] in a profitable new industry for the) Cook Islands.

The shipment—made under al project financed by the Cook Islands Co-operative Bank Ltd.—was con-| signed to an important NZ oil manu-j facturing firm, which ordered the) nuts for a trial extraction of oil.

New Zealand now pays nearly] £200,000 a year for candlenut oil) most of which comes from Europe!

However, several years ago thq Imperial Institute of the Uniteq Kingdom found that oil extracted from Cook Islands candlenuts com! pared favourably with the oil novtf imported into New Zealand. * * * A three-storey building to ac] commodate nearly 300 Papuan andl New Guinean nurses is being builti at the Papuan Medical College, Port Moresby. The building will be largest brick and concrete building in the Territory, and will cosl approximately £347,000.

Supervising architect of construe) tion for the Commonwealth Depart! ment of Works is Mr. A. Jones, whq said in Port Moresby in November that the nurses’ home should be finished next October. * * * Mr. Kenneth Mills, a former Resill dent Agent at Mauke, has beei appointed architect to the CooH Islands Government. The Coo?

Islands Assembly recently decided that the appointment of an architect to be stationed in Rarotonga, wajj essential if progress on major build; ing jobs was to be made.

Mr. Mills, who has recently bee| working with New Zealand?

Ministry of Works, drew the plans-| without charge—for the publiii library and museum to be built ill Rarotonga. ( PIM, Nov., p. 141 X He visited Rarotonga briefly earlie this year to discuss the plans with thif Library Committee.

Mr. Mills and his wife were dui to arrive in Rarotonga in latt October. 134 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Landtrust Building, East Row, Canberra City, ACT Telephone: J 2045, J 4153 The Nauru Administration recently >mpleted the scaling of the main tad on the island, so that it is now jssible to drive right round Nauru i bitumen. * * * Four Papuans and New Guineans ill be chosen soon to attend a two- :ar boat-building course at Auki, alaita, BSIP. The course, the cond of its type, will start on arch 4, 1963, and will last for two ars.

The courses are organised jointly r the South Pacific Commission and ie United Nations, with the assisnce of the BSIP Administration, ie purpose of the course is to imove the standard of boat building the South Pacific, * * * A research economist estimated rently that Papuans and New uineans had between £1.5 and million in saving bank accounts, ie economist, Mr. John Phillips, of e Reserve Bank, said at least ,000 natives had opened savings nk accounts in the past 12 months, ; estimated that native savings bank positors had saved an additional 50,000 during the last 12 months, * * ♦ Two Papuans were missing, premed drowned, when the Tagari ver Bridge, near Tari, NG, colled in November while a threei truck was crossing it. The truck apped into 20 ft of water. * * * Samples of tea from the P-NG Adnistration’s pilot commercial tea mtation at Garaina, in the Morobe itrict, were sent to tea importers in itain in November. They will be ted for taste, blending, colour and )ma. Similar tests are at present ing made in Australia. * * ♦ Surveyors have been working on a m for a big expansion of Kwikila 3-district station in the Rigo area Papua. Kwikila will become a vn, with houses, schools (including technical and secondary school), a al, shopping centre and sports >und. The LMS Church has already rted building a teacher training liege on 45 acres there—to be led Ruatoka College. The Roman tholic mission is building a brick iool about two miles away and will er add a convent, church and girls’ look Statistics released in Port Moresby in November put P-NG population at 1,972,361 —1,947,031 native people, and 25,330 people of other races.

There was an overall population increase for the year of 68,185 people. * * * P-NG Mission leaders are preparing a hymn book that can be used at all religous meetings throughout P-NG. The book will have about 200 well-known hymns. * * * About 3,000 natives in the Bainings area of New Britain have agreed to the P-NG Administration resettling them. The Administration plans to move them to 12,000 acres in the Malasait-Mainem area, but a bridge will have to be built across the Vudal River. The Bainings people suffered heavily during the war and population since the war has declined. * * * Widespread damage is being caused in Lae, NG, by the giant white ant— biggest white ant in the world— which was found for the first time in NG last year. It grows to a length of three-quarters of an inch. Previously it had been known to exist only in Queensland, but Dr, J. Szent- Ivany, P-NG’s Senior Entomologist, ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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KR43B thinks it got into the Territory during the Pacific War. In November, Professor A. Emerson, of the University of Chicago, arrived in Port Moresby to advise on methods of controlling this giant and also to study all types of P-NG termites. * * * Dr. Chester Williams, 43, al UNESCO educational consultant, has arrived in Western Samoa to help formulate the State’s educational programme. He will be in Samoa for two years. Dr. Williams is a Yale graduate and is now Professor of| Education at the College of Education, University of Wichita, Kansas.

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Native women at Kerema, in the Gulf district of Papua, have started a sewing business.

They have formed a company of 23 shareholders and six directors.

Share price, open to anyone who; works in the business: 10/- Australian. The women guarantee to: fill bulk orders for eight types of clothing including women’s and children’s underwear, boys’ shorts and girls’ skirts. $ $ $ Although Road Rates and Bicycle Taxes for 1962-63 were due to be paid on April 1 this year, 1,500 bike riders in Rarotonga had still not paid up by mid-October. However, a stern notice in the Cook Islands News on October 16 reminded defaulters that proceedings would be taken against all those who had not paid by October 29. * * * The West Samoan census report] is available at the Treasury, Apia, for £Stg.l a copy. The census was taken in September, 1961, and the report contains an account of the; trends in Samoan population since 1839. * * * The first sheet of a new series of large-scale maps of Western Samoa; was released in Apia in October. This sheet covers the main island from Faleolo in the west to Le’auva’a in the east and extends south as far as Tanumalala. It costs 7/6 per copy.

Two more maps in the series will be published within the next six months —a further four maps will follow. 136 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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People l retired US Navy man and his v Zealand wife have settled nanently on Norfolk Island as a It of learning from the Pacific nds Year Book that the island : ree of the Anopheles (malaria ying) mosquito. he couple, Mr. and Mrs. Max ;elman, paid a short visit to folk some time ago in search of lace to live after reading about folk’s lack of Anopheles, ressed by what they saw, they : now returned for good. [r. Diegelman, who spent some s in Antarctica with Operation spfreeze”, is a photographer of iderable skill. A recent display is Antarctic studies aroused keen •est. r. Diegelman’s wife, Thelma, is tig up a hair styling business on island which is expected to prove ilar with local belles. ;amships Trading Company, iting in Papua and New Guinea, has an issued capital of over millions, earns over £250,000 per m after providing for the Terri- > healthy income tax, and has res, including unappropriated pro- )f about £li millions, e original compounder of this morsel was Captain A. S. Fitch, took his old steamer Queenscliff ig on the coast of Papua about r ears ago, and began planting jr-trees north and east of Port :sby. He retired a few years after d War II and, fit and well, still [?]g a shot in the arm was no bogey [?]abaul's Tolais recently when they [?]ed, via the radio and Press that it [?]wise to have a smallpox injection, [?]tolais turned up in their thousands [?]Tabaul's clinic. Medical assistants [?]d down long lines of natives apply- [?]ypodermics and only the very young [?]orotested at the needle's prick. 137 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

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G8854R wanders around the world, with occasional spells at home in Sydney. He was followed by Mr. E. V. Crisl who added rich icing to “Cappy’

Fitch’s cake, and also retired ver) comfortably to Australia at the em of 1960.

“Steamies” board had a certal amount of hesitation in selecting I new chairman and managing directJ but eventually the choice fell 01 young H. D. Underwood, who ha been the company’s accountant am secretary for some time. In the pa* year he has handled like a vetera a finance reconstruction, a take-ovf bid and the absorption of another bi company. If shareholders’ commenl at last month’s annual meeting ai any guide, the Underwood photc graph is destined to hang on th board-room wall beside those c Fitch and Crisp.

A descendant of that notable W. liam Beddows, who was born I Levuka over 100 years ago, w married in Sydney on November t She was Miss Margot Bart® daughter of well-known Mr. and Ml W. A. Barton —he was merchandisi manager for Messrs, Morris He strom Ltd., Suva, for many yea?

Margot, who was born in Su| Ra haul's Little Theatre group recent[?] came out of a three-year retirement stage a new presentation, which was p[?] on for two nights in Rabaul and o[?] night at Kokopo. The show was app[?] priately called "Back on the Boas[?] Again". Its producer was Geoff Absolot[?] Rabaul people are hoping to see mc[?] shows of a similar calibre. The nati[?] "sandwich man" shown here is advert[?] ing the second night of the Rabaul p[?] duction. 138 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH ty

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PHONE 8-2043 5969/82 rried Mr. Cecil Paterson, an Irish sinessman, and has gone to live in land. jreat-grandfather William Bedvs, while still a young man, bei planting cotton in Fiji in the j ’seventies, but later moved over Taveuni and operated a succession coconut plantations—Mataua, Laua and Vani Vanu, in North Tave- . There have been members of the idows family in Fiji ever since. fhe transfer back to New Zealand Fiji service chiefs and the names their replacements were announced October. Colonel R. McK erson, who has been commander the Fiji Military Forces for the ; two years, will be replaced by lonel W. R. K. Morrison. These ) will be swapping appointments Colonel Paterson is going to liouru in the middle of the North [?]cher Christian, 18-year-old great-great- [?]at grandson of the leader of the [?]unty" mutiny, left Auckland by TEAL [?]ntly to attend the world premiere of "Mutiny on the Bounty" film in [?]w's State Theatre, New York, on [?]ember 8. The young Christian's trip [?] sponsored by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [?]ch made the film in Tahiti. Marlon [?]ido, who takes the part of the original [?]cher Christian, met the great-great- [?]at grandson in Tahiti and that's how ng Fletcher Christian's trip started. He stay at least a month in the US, at- [?]ding various openings of the film [?]ughout the country, making TV ap- [?]rances and giving Press and radio [?]rviews. Fletcher Christian now lives [?]Vellington, New Zealand. Photo shows cher checking his plane tickets in Auck- [?]nd with TEAL receptionist Janet Ross. 139 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

\ K L UrYS • . . because there is a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half pound of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate MD2S/2FC/9 Island to replace Colonel Morrisoi as Camp Commandant there.

Group-Captain J. J. McDowell, of RNZAF Headquarters, Wellington, is to succeed Group-Captain J. D.

Robins as head of the RNZAI station at Laucala Bay. Groun Captain Robins on his return to New Zealand will take over command of the RNZAF station at Wigram, neai Christchurch. He has been in Fij since December, 1960.

A New Guinea motor mechanic Joel Tade, of Rabaul, recently working at Sohano, Bougainville, saved two lives in two days. He took pari in a search for a missing man and found him hanging by a rope on a tree. He cut him down and the marj recovered. The next day Tade wa| on the wharf at Sohano, when he dived in to save a schoolboy from drowning.

Rev. J. J. Jesudason, a clergymal of the Church of South India, wJ visiting Papua-New Guinea in N« vember. He visited the grave of I colleague, Rev. Suttya Joseph, whl died in 1955 while working with tli London Missionary Society a Gavuone, Papua. Mr. Jesudason sail the Church of South India took I great interest in mission work in New Guinea and had provided scholar ships to train two Papuans as mi* sionaries.

Rev. Setareki Tuilovoni, the firi Fijian to be installed as chairman d|i the United Synod of the Methodi* Church in Fiji, recently took ove): from an Australian minister, the Rew.

L. D. Fullerton, who had been actinl chairman.

During a recent visit to NZ, Tonga's[?] Premier, Prince Tungi (left), paid a call[?] in Wellington on the NZ Minister o[?] Island Territories, Mr. F. L A. Gotz. One[?] of the objects of his NZ visit was to [?] explore marketing prospects for desiccated[?] coconut being produced at a new factor[?] in Tonga. 140 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLK

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Deaths Of Islands People

Sir Alfred Clarke Turnbull r Alfred Clarke Turnbull, KBE, Drmer Administrator of Western oa, died in Stamford Hospital, necticut, USA, recently, r Alfred was in Western Samoa i 1930 until his retirement early 946. He experienced many diflfiand trying years, e was there first as Government etary while there was much politurmoil over the Mau troubles; from 1934 to 1943, he knew all uneasiness of being Acting Adstrator the New Zealand >ur Government refusing for ; reason to give him the full al title. hen at last he was given the full in 1943, he had to carry the y burdens and embarrassments ar. One of his most embarrassing was to order the internment of / long-resident German nationals le territory, some of whom were Tiends and acquaintances. ic fact that Samoan affairs were )letely calm and harmonious 1936 onwards was largely due ir Alfred’s great patience and tact. This, together with the athy and understanding of the Zealand Government, led to a measure of self-government be- »ranted in 1948 and to the inidence of Western Samoa on ary 1 this year.

Alfred’s services were rewarded a knighthood in the 1946 New s Honours List, just before his ment. PIM said at the time: “In listory of the Pacific Territories, men have more completely d the distinction of knighthood Sir Alfred Turnbull.” ter his retirement. Sir Alfred and Turnbull moved to the US to ;ar their daughter Ruth, who had tly lost her husband, an Ameriairman.

Alfred is survived by his widow daughter. i/lr. George A. Whitehouse e death occurred recently of Mr. ge Augustus Whitehouse, aged t Mosman, Sydney. He was in lank of New South Wales serin Fiji for many years and he ed Miss Ivy Milne, in Suva, in and had one son. He was apsd to Suva in 1912; became acant there in 1918, and was ger in Levuka in 1919. He was manager in Auckland when he retired. For a period, in World War I, he served in the Suva Garrison, and, among other experiences, he had custody of Count Felix von Luckner for a period.

Mr. Toka Gaudi A well-known Papuan, who helped the work of the Boy Scouts’ Association in the Territory for 36 years, died in Port Moresby on November 21. He was Mr. Toka Gaudi of Pari, who lived at Hanuabada village, near Port Moresby. He was 47.

In a tribute, the secretary of the Boy Scouts’ Association, Mr. J. Gwilliam, said Mr. Gaudi’s passing was a great loss to the association and to the community.

Mr. Gaudi joined the Scout movement in 1926 and was engaged in scouting activities until his death. He was a member of the Territory Boy Scouts’ Council and was recently elected Territory representative of the Australian Boy Scouts’ Council.

Mr. Gaudi represented Territory scouts at a meeting of the Council at Canberra in 1961, and again at Hobart last month.

He was employed by the Administration for nearly 33 years with the Electrical Undertakings Branch; he was one of two Papuans on the committee of the Port Moresby branch of the Public Service Association; and was recently elected to the Church Council of the London Missionary Society. More than 600 people attended his funeral.

Mr. Gaudi left a widow, a married son and a daughter.

Colin George Hodgson The death occurred at the Repatriation Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, on November 11 of Mr. Colin George Hodgson, a well-known resident of Bulolo before and after the war. He was 48.

Mr. Hodgson first went to Bulolo in the late ’thirties where he worked in the machine shop on the dredge repair gang until the start of the Japanese war. He then served with the NGVR and ANGAU, returning to Bulolo after the war.

Mr. Hodgson was a keen sportsman. Before going to New Guinea he represented NSW as a Rugby Union five-eigth.

He is survived by his widow, Rachel, and son, Geoffrey.

IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Have You A Travel “Find?”

“PIM” readers are amongst the world’s most industrious travellers and they are hereby invited to do as Mr. Owen G.

Nott has done this month—tell us about some of your “finds” in Pacific and overseas travel.

Mr. Nott’s items were on budget-travel; but don’t let this stop those who prefer it de luxe.

If you have discovered something special in hotels, a new variation in an old travel idea, a new route, a new country, something unusual to buy, our other readers might like to hear about it.

Remember—we don’t want romantic descriptions so much as practical details: how to get there, how much it costs, who to write to; where to look.

TRAVEL TALK Cheaper Than Staying At Home A New Guinea reader, Mr. Owen G. Nott, who has recently returned to the Territory after a European holiday, contributes a couple of ideas for travel bargain-hunters. The prices he quotes seem fantastic but we have his assurance that this is no dream.

HIS number-one “find” is Chalet Vagabond, at Leysin, at the eastern end of Lake Geneva and about 35 miles from Lausanne. It is right in the middle of the best skiing areas of the Bernese Ranges.

The Chalet Vagabond is run by a Rhodesian, Mr. Ken Tait, and a Canadian, Mr. Allan Rankin; it has accommodation for 80 in two and three-bedded rooms. It has a fully licensed bar, hot showers, central heating, and customers can either cook for themselves or have their meals provided by the establishment.

The tariff—believe it or not—is £2/10/- per week per person for room only; £5 per week with breakfast and dinner included. In summer a room is only £2 per week, with meals available on request.

There are nine ski-lifts in the area —for which you can get a special sports card which allows you to use them at low cost; there are also facilities for hiring skis and learning how to use them. As well as skiing, skating, sleighing and ice-hockey are also available.

During the summer there is golf, mountain climbing (the Matterhorn is within a few hours’ drive), horseback riding, fishing and swimming— all in with a fine alpine climate (the Chalet is at 4,700 ft.).

Says Mr. Nott: “The Vagabond is one of the few English-speaking chalets in this French-speaking part of Switzerland, a feature which tends to make it a language oasis for Australians. A multilingual staff who keep the conversation going at night over the log fires or nightly dances help to make the chalet a real find in an expensive foreign country . . . it is a meeting place for globe-trotting Australians, Canadians, South Africans and New Zealanders but a host of guests of other nationalities keep it interesting. It can be reached by car or rail in all seasons.”

Intending guests should write direct to the owners: Chalet Vagabond, Leysin, Switzerland.

Mr. Nott’s other find was at Alicante on the south-east coast of Spain. Called the Casa Campello, this is run by an Australian couple.

Hostel type accommodation is provided and costs only a few shillings a day. Cooking facilities are available and the attractions are Spanish- Mediterranean scenery, good climate, sunshine, fishing, swimming and cheap living.

European Snow Season is On ONOW is becoming just as profitable a selling gimmick in Europe as sunshine and France has them both. The French Tourist Dept, recently has been boosting its resorts in Savoy and visitors to Europj who want a snow holiday might gs further and fare worse than b settling for this most beautiful pa:t of France.

The ski resorts in this area have as the ski-lifts, cable cars and othei mechanical aids demanded by tH modern skier; and the hotels come i the full range from luxury to modes; From this High Savoy countri even in winter, it is easy to put yoin car on a train, pop through a tunnr in the Alps into Italy and be dowv on the Mediterranean within hoursz Kuala Lumpur's 1963 Pacific Cruise Programme WHILE the Kuala Lumpur, 12,50 c ton vessel owned by the Chiii Navigation Co., has just her first Pacific-Far East cruise-3 Australian ports, Rabaul, Manilii Hongkong and Bali—the cruise pm gramme for next year has been as nounced. This will allow prospectih travellers to make their plans well I advance.

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New Way to Holiday by Road SOMETHING new in drive-yourself ideas has recently been introduced in Sydney. It’s called a Travelvan and is, in essence, a more compact way of caravanning.

The Travelvan is a Commer panelvan converted so that three adults and a child are provided with bunks at night while by day it has interior seating, cooking and eating arrangements for up to eight people. Petrol consumption of the van is approx, 25 miles per gallon.

The vans are hired out complete with all gear, including blankets and sheets and cost £A7 per day. This sounds expensive but less so when you consider that you are hiring transport plus accommodation.

Bookings are through the NSW Government Tourist Bureau, 8 Martin Place, Sydney. The Bureau will also send you brochures which give all details of the scheme.

The 12,500-ton liner "Kuala Lumpur" which will be seen in the Pacific next year. 143

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New Hebrides - New Guinea

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General Agents PA 3 p?PT? a A lif ° rn,a SfTeet ' San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A.

Maritime inter- SYDNEY—Birt & Co. Pty.) Ltd.

Inter- PAPEETE—Agence nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PORT VILA-Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides.

Fiji Direct Service

Via Pa N Ama

Regular Sailings from London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

Labasa - Levuka - Apia - Pago Pago

Nukualofa - Vavau ■ Niue

For further particulars apply to BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD. 138 Leadenhall Street London E.C.3

Burns Philp

(SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

Suva

Shipping Time-Tables

Sydney-Papua-New Guinea ■ All sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

Malekula sails from Sydney for Brisbane, Nth. Qld. ports, Pt. Moresby, ilamarai, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, (Vewak. Kavieng, Rabaul, Pt. Moresby.

Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: Jan. 26 s approx.).

Malaita sails from Sydney for Brissane, Pt. Moresby, Samaral, Rabaul, ►lOmbrum, Lorengau, Madang, Lae, Samirai, Brisbane. Sydney. Next Sydney sailngs: Dec. 24, Feb. 5 (approx.).

Bulolo sails about every six weeks: ;ydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, ;ae, Madang, Rabaul. Samarai, Pt.

Horesby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing; ian. 5 (approx.).

Montoro sails from Melbourne for ydney, Brisbane. Nth. Qld. ports (subject d permit i, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, lavieng, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Pt.

Horesby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing; tec. 29 (approx.).

Details from Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., Bridge Street, Sydney (80547).

Shansi: Leaves Sydney about every four eeks for Brisbane, Port Moresby, amarai, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Rabaul, t. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailigs: Dec. 11, Jan. 11 (approx.).

Soochow: Leaves Sydney every four eeks for Brisbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, [adang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next tiling from Sydney: Dec. 7 (approx.).

Details from New Guinea Australia Line Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents). 6 ridge St., Sydney (BU1712).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels nking and Anshun call at Pt. Moresby, apua, on their way north from Sydney ' Hongkong. Next vessel: Anking: Dep. Sydney Dec. 20, Pt. oresby Dec. 26-28, thence Manila and ongkong.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., rents, 6 Bridge St., Sydney (BU1712).

Elizabeth Boye: Leaves Sydney apoximately every five weeks for Port oresby, Samarai, Wewak, Madang, Lae, r dney. Next Sydney sailing; Jan. 2 pprox.).

Sleyik; Temporarily on cattle-lifting uttle service between Townsville and tbaul. Next trips: Dec. 5, 17.

Slitan: Will shortly enter the service, iving Sydney approximately every five seks for Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Wewak adang, Lae, Sydney. First Sydney iling expected to be Dec. 30 (approx.).

Details from Karlander NG Line (F.

Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge . Sydney (BU8311).

Austasla Line vessels run between istrallan ports (turn round at Adelaide) d Papua-New Guinea, with every third yage extending to Borneo.

Matupi: From Sydney, due Pt. Moresby c. 6, Lae Dec. 11, Madang Dec. 13 haul Dec. 16, Cape Hoskins (timberidmg) Dec. 16, thence direct to Sydney r. Jan 1; dep. Sydney Jan. 5, for :go loading Melbourne Jan. 7-11, return dney Jan. 13. Dep. Sydney Jan. 16 for Brisbane Jan. 18-19, Pt. Moresby Jan. 24, Lae Jan. 29, Madang Jan. 31. Rabaul Feb. 3, Cape Hoskins (if inducement), thence direct to Sydney.

Malacca; Undergoing dry dock survey and repairs in Singapore in late November—no forward timetable available.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty , Ltd., 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney (BU1271).

Sydney-NG-Far East.

Australia-West Pacific Line’s motorvessels maintain services between Australia and Japan via Islands ports.

Southbound vessels call at: NG, BSI (quarterly), New Hebrides (irregularly), and Australian ports. Northbound vessels from Sydney call regularly at NG ports.

Delos: From Sydney, at Lae Dec. 11-12, Madang Dec. 12-13, Rabaul Dec. 14-15, Manila Dec. 21-22, Hongkong arr. Dec. 24; omitting Japan, due dep. Hongkong Dec. 26 for Nth. Borneo ports Dec. 29-Jan 3 Madang (opt.), Rabaul Jan. 9-10. Lae Jan. 11-12, Brisbane Jan. 16-17, Sydney arr. Jan. 19 (approx.).

Aros: Dep. Sydney Dec. 12 for loading in southern Australian ports; returns Dec. 23. Due dep. Sydney Dec. 28 for Bri>bane Dec. 30-31, Lae Jan. 4-6, Madang Jan. 7-8, Rabaul Jan. 9-10, Manila Jan. 16-17, Hongkong arr. Jan. 19: omitting Japan, due dep. Hongkong Jan. 2J for Sydney via Borneo and P-NG ports.

Milos: From Japan, at Madang Dec. 10-11, Lae Dec. 12-13, Rabaul Dec. 14-15 Honiara Dec. 17, Vanikoro Dec. 19-22 Santo Dec. 23-24, Vila Dec. 25-26. Brisbane Dec. 29-Jan. 2, Sydney arr. Jan. 4.

Due dep. Sydney Jan. 7 for loading in southern Australian ports; returns Jan. 20,

Ici F I C Islands Monthly December, 1962

ARCADIA ORSOVA CANBERRA IBERIA SYDNEY AUCKLAND depart arr/dep Dec. 7 Dec. 10 Jan. 1 Jan. 4 Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 10 Feb. 13 Feb. 16 Feb. 21 Feb. 26-27 Mar. 1-2 Mar. 3 Mar. 8 thence Far East and UK SUVA HONOLULU VANCOUVER

San Francisco

Los Angeles

HONOLULU SUVA AUCKLAND SYDNEY arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arrive Dec. 13 Dec. 18 Dec. 23-24 Dec. 26-27 Dec. 28 Jan. 2 Jan. 9 Jan. 12 Jan. 15 Jan. 7 Jan. 12 Jan. 17-18 Jan. 20-21 Jan. 22 Jan. 27 Feb. 3 Feb. 6 Feb. 9 Feb. 4 Feb. 8-9 Feb. 11-12 Feb. 13 Feb. 17 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 Details from P. and O.-Orient Lines of Aust.

Pty., Ltd., 2-6 Spring St., Sydney (B 0532).

MARIPOSA MONTEREY MARIPOSA MONTEREY

San Francisco

depart From Dec. 16 Jan. 10 Jan. 31

Los Angeles

arr/dep USA Dec. 17 Jan. 11 Feb. 1 BORA BORA arr/dep Dec. 4 Dec. 25 Jan. 19 Feb. 9 PAPEETE arr/dep Dec. 5-7 Dec. 26-28 Jan. 20-22 Feb. 10-12 RAROTONGA arr/dep Dec. 8 Dec. 29 Jan. 23 Feb. 13 AUCKLAND arr/dep Dec. 13-14 Jan. 3-4 Jan. 28-29 Feb. 18-19 SYDNEY arr/dep Dec. 17-20 Jan. 7-10 Feb. 1-4 Feb. 22-25 NOUMEA arr/dep Dec. 23 Jan. 13 Feb. 7 Feb. 28 SUVA arr/dep Dec. 25 J an. 15 Feb. 9 Mar. 2 NIUAFOOU arr/dep Dec. 26 Jan. 16 Feb. 10 Mar. 3 PAGO PAGO arr/dep Dec. 26 Jan. 16 Feb. 10 Mar. 3 HONOLULU arr/dep Dec. 31-Jan. 1 Jan. 21-22 Feb. 15-16 Mar. 8-9

San Francisco

arrive Jan. 6 Jan. 27 Feb. 21 Mar. 14 Details from Matson Lines, Berger House, 82 Elizabeth St., , Sydney. (BU 4272).

Aostralia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA USA-Eastern Pacific-NZ-Sydney-Central Pacific-Hawaii sailing Jan. 23 for Brisbane Jan. 25-26, thence direct to Japan.

Samos and Tenos: On Sydney-Japan- Sydney direct service.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

Sydney - BSI - P-NG Sinkiang: Leaves Melbourne approximately every five weeks for Sydney, Brisbane, Honiara, Rabaul, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney, Melbourne.

Next Sydney sailing; Dec. 21 (approx.).

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 1712).

Sydney-West NG Four weeks service by Dutch motor vessels carrying passengers and cargo from East Australian ports to West New Guinea (optional ports: Hollandia. Biak, Sorong); thence Manila, Hongkong and China; thence West Africa; and return to Australia. Next Sydney sailings; Van Neck Dec. 17, Van Cloon Jan. 25 (approx.).

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail’s Oranje sails irregularly from Sydney for Europe, via NZ, Papeete and Panama Canal; occasionally calls are made at Papeete on southbound trips.

Present southbound voyage: At Papeete Dec. 7-8.

Next northbound Tahiti call; Prom Sydney due dep. June 12, due at Papeete June 19-20.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

New Zealand-Tahiti New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, make a call every two months at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Next northbound voyage: Rangitane, dep. Wellington Dec. 14, due Papeete Dec. 20 (approx.).

Next southbound voyage: Rangitoto dep. London Dec. 28, due Papeete Jan. 22 (approx.).

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

New Zealand-Tahiti Vessels of Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd., Wellington, NZ, call every two months (approx.) at Papeete on north-bound voyages of West Coast North American service. Next vessels: Norefjell dep.

Auckland Dec. 6, at Papeete Dec. 12; Crusader dep. Auckland Jan. 17, Papeete Jan. 23-24.

Regular two-monthly calls at Papeete and occasionally at Suva are made by Tasman Pacific Service (a West Germanowned shipping company) with its vessels Cap Corientes and Cap Domingo, running between NZ ports (including Napier) and the west coast of USA.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI Bank Line operates a direct service from Europe to P-NG and BSI, vessels going on to Australia for cargo-loading and returning to UK via Suez. Next vessels; Cloverbank: From Continent and London due at Port Moresby Dec. 19, Samarai Dec. 21, Lae Dec. 22, Madang Dec. 24, Wewak Dec. 26, Rabaul Dec. 27, Kavieng Dec. 29, Honiara Dec. 31, thence possibly Noumea.

Fleetbank; From Continent, dep. London Dec. 13 for Pt. Moresby Jan. 19, Samarai Jan. 21, Lae Jan. 22, Madang Jan. 24,, Wewak Jan. 26, Rabaul Jan. 28, Kavieng* Jan. 29, Honiara Jan. 31.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty..

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (BU2041).

Europe-Papeete-Noumea- BSI-P-NG-West NG A regular service from the Continent and UK, via Panama, to Tahiti, New; Caledonia, BSI, P-NG and West NG is operated jointly by Nederland Line Royaj Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Rotti (NL): From Continent and United Kingdom due Papeete Dec. 271 Noumea Jan. 5, Honiara Jan. 10, Pea Moresby Jan. 13, Rabaul Jan. 17, Lae Jam 19, Madang Jan. 21, Alexishafen Jan. 22S Hollandia Jan. 23, thence (optional], Biak, Manokwari and Sorong.

Schie Lloyd (RL): From Continent, depc London Dec. 22 for Papeete Jan. 21i Noumea Jan. 29, Honiara Feb. 2, Pti Moresby Feb. 5, Rabaul Feb. 9, Lae.

Feb. 11, Madang Feb. 13, Hollandia Febc 14, thence (optional) Biak, Manokwan and Sorong.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

NZ-West Pacific-Far East Cargo vessels of Crusader Shipping Co (UK), running between New Zealana and the Far East, call at Noumea (Nevi Caledonia), and Pt. Moresby (Papua), and) in some instances, Guam, on their northc bound run. Next voyages; Saracen: Dep. Auckland Dec. 7 ioo Noumea Dec. 10, Rabaul Dec. 13, Pl‘ Moresby Dec. 15, thence Pt. Swettenham Singapore, Hongkong and Manila. Follows ing voyage, due dep. Auckland Jan. 15.

Port Montreal: Dep. Auckland Dec. 11 for Guam Dec. 24, thence Japan.

Details from Shaw, Savill Line, agent! 101 Queen St., Auckland. (Tel. 30-310). ( Far East-Sth. West. & Centra Pacific China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessee maintain monthly service from Japas southwards through P-NG, BSI, Ne 9 Hebrides, Fiji and N. Caledonia; usual! return to Japan direct.

Michael Jebsen: Dep. Japan Dec. 16 f«i Hongkong Dec. 21-23, Madang Jan. 2, Ls l Jan. 5, Rabaul Jan. 8, Pt. Moresby Ja;£ 15, due arr. Japan Jan. 25.

Chengtu: Dep. Japan Dec. 31 for Honjr kong Jan. 4-8, Manila and Guam (opt.J Rabaul Jan. 20, Madang Jan. 24, Ls..

Jan. 27, Samarai Jan. 30, Pt. Moreslfa Feb. 2, Santo Feb. 8, Vila Feb. 11, Suvn Lautoka Feb. 14, Noumea Feb. 20, Bourse (opt.), due arr. Japan for docking Ms] 8.

Chekiang: Dep. Japan Jan. 25 ft Hongkong Jan. 29-Feb. 2, Guam (opt!

Wewak Feb. 14, Madang Feb. 17. LJ Feb. 20, Rabaul Feb. 23, Pt. Moresla Mar. 2, Honiara Mar. 5, Suva/Lautolo Mar. 10, Noumea Mar. 17, due arr. Japsq Mar. 31.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), , Bridge St., Sydney (BU1712).

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Bougainville, Etc.

MV Tulagi leaves Sydney about six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Sann 146 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

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Europe, West Indies, New Zealand

Australia And South Africa

One Class (Tourist) liners, Southern Cross (20,000 Tons) and Northern Star (24,000 Tons) air-conditioned with the latest in amenities.

For full particulars apply: — Fiji—Any branch or agency of Burns- Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.) Cable Address: Burphil.

Tahiti Messageries Maritimes Papeete.

Cable Address: Messagerie Papeete.

Around the world east or west bound via Panama and South Africa calling Fiji, Tahiti, Balboa, Curacao, Trinidad, U.K., Las Palmas, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand. Occasional calls, Miami (Pt. Everglades), Bermuda, Lisbon.

Shaw Savill Line

qniara and BSI ports, Bougainville ports. :Sxt Sydney sailing: Jan. 5 (approx.).

IDetails from Burns, Phllp and Co. Ltd., [Bridge Street, Sydney (80547).

Sydney-New Caledoniallew Hebrides-Fr. Polynesia Wessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, om Marseilles, via West Indies and mama, call about every six weeks at :.i-o-hae (Marquesas), Papeete, Vila, •umea and Sydney, and return by same ute.

INext inwards voyages, ex-Marseilles: Ealedonien: Tai-o-hae Jan. 16, Papeete in. 18-21, Vila Jan. 28-29, Noumea Jan. -Feb. 2, Sydney Feb. 6.

Tahitian: Tai-o-hae Mar. 8, Papeete ar. 10-14, Vila Mar. 21-22, Noumea Mar. -27, Sydney Mar. 30.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney: Melanesien: Dep. Sydney Dec. 19, '■umea Dec. 22-26, Vila Dec. 27-Jan. 4, ipeete Jan. 11-16, Tai-o-hae Jan. 19.

Ealedonien: Dep. Sydney Feb. 8, umea Feb. 11-14, Vila Feb. 15-22, umea Feb. 23, Papeete Mar. 1-6, :i-o-hae Mar. 9.

Polynesia maintains monthly passenger lings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila d Santo. Next Sydney sailings: Dec. 21, a. 18, Feb. 8.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 36 osvenor St., Sydney (8U2654). ydney-Norfolk Is.-Noumea- New Hebrides Dolorado del Mar (owned by Societe iritime Caledonienne, Noumea), carrying cargo only, makes a regular monthly voyage from Sydney to Norfolk Is., New Caledonia (Noumea) and New Hebrides ports. Next Sydney sailing: Dec. 20 (approx.).

Milos del Mar (Societe Maritime Caledonienne), carrying cargo only, will make a trip from Sydney to New Caledonia (Noumea) and New Hebrides (Forari), dep. Sydney Dec. 29 (approx.).

She is expected to go into the Sydney-Fiji trade in January.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-3605).

Europe-Sydney-Noumea Cargo vessels of Messageries Maritimes run monthly between France and Noumea via Fr. East Africa and Australian ports. From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbane and Noumea; return to France via Australian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney: Vanoise Dec. 19 (Noumea Dec. 26); Velay Jan. 14 (Noumea Jan. 21).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports. Next calls at Papeete: Shropshire Dec. 13; Siletta Jan. 12.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor St., Sydney (8U2654).

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 sailings; Dec. 24, Jan. 22.

Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, and return to Auckland.

Next Auckland sailings: Dec. 11, Jan. 8.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland. (Tel.: 49-430).

Tonga-Fiji-Samoa Tonga Shipping Agency operates a cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Calls are also made as required at Apia (W.

Samoa) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa).

Turn-round in Suva is usually two days, and the Agents there are W. R. Carpenter (Fiji) Ltd.

Sydney-Pacific Ports- Panama-UK Southern Cross and Northern Star each make four round-the-world voyages per year, two west-bound, then two eastbound, calling at Fiji and Tahiti every trip.

Southern Cross: From Southampton via Panama Canal, at Papeete Dec. 28-29, Suva Jan. 3, Wellington Jan. 7-9, Sydney Jan. 12-14, thence via South Africa to UK, arr. Southampton Feb. 18.

Northern Star: Dep. Southampton Jan. 9, via Sth. Africa, for Sydney Feb. 14-18, Wellington Feb. 19-21, Suva Feb. 25.

Papeete Mar. 1-2, thence via Panama Canal to UK, arr. Southampton Mar. 26.

Details from Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (BW 1828).

New Zealand-Cook Is.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes approximately monthly voyages from 147 I C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, J 9 6 2

The "Pacific's Most Modern Cargo .., Consign refrigerated and general cargo bd Crusader, for fast efficient delivery to leadinn Pacific Ports.

Regular services connect:

New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Nev

GUINEA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, INDONESIA, HONG KONG, MANILA.

MALAYA $ m mmmm co LTD m f&t .yC\\j: x 7 fefo-5111 7'^^Jh w ill ill mmm sis * Eroy . ** IHi um m St 1 Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Cook Islands), with calls at Niue and some other Cook Islands when cargo warrants Details from NZ Department of Island Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117), or any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

N. America-Tahiti-Central Pacific-NG Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thor I maintain approximately six weeks service from West Coast Nth. American ports to Pacific Islands.

Thor I: At Papeete Dec. 7-10, Pago Pago Dec. 14-17, Apia Dec. 18-19, Suva Dec. 22-23, Noumea Dec. 25-27, Rabaul Dec. 31-Jan. 2, Townsville Jan. 5-8, Apia (open), Pago Pago Jan. 15-17, Los Angeles Jan. 30-Feb. 1, San Francisco Feb. 2.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco Jan. 16, Los Angeles Jan. 17-19, Papeete Jan. 30- Feb. 1, Pago Pago Feb. 5-7, Apia Feb. 8-9, Suva Feb. 12-13, Noumea Feb. 15-17, Apia (open), Pago Pago Feb. 23-25, Los Angeles Mar. 11-13, San Francisco Mar. 14.

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St., San Francisco, USA, and Islands Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco operates a regular five-weeks passengercargo service from Los Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra and Ventura. Terminal ports, in Australia, vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Pago. Suva. Sydney, Brisbane, etc.

Next trans-Paciflc sailings; From Brisbane, Ventura Dec. 28 (approx.); Sierra Feb. 23 (approx.).

Details from Matson Lines, 82 Elizabeth St., Sydney (8U4272).

American Pioneer Line ships on US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service make periodical calls at Tahiti on southbound voyage. Next Papeete calls: Pioneer Isle Dec. 28; Pioneer Gem Jan. 11.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter and Co.) normally operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route.

She is off the Pacific run at present, however, engaged on charter work in the Far East until Mar., 1963.

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney (8U4147).

Sydney-Fiji MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka with cargo and passengers (accommodation for eight). Next Sydney sailings: Dec. 22, Jan. 15 (approx.).

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney (B 0151).

Slagen; Is expected to make several trips on charter from Melbourne and Sydney to Suva and Lautoka during the next couple of months—the first from Sydney about Dec. 3 (approx.). If the trade warrants it, she will be joined in January by the Milos del Mar.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-3605).

Sydney-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Lt< maintains regular monthly services fro< Melbourne and Sydney, and periodical] from Adelaide, to Lautoka, Suva (li eluding transhipments for Vavau an Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Next sailing: Kawerau Jan. ] (approx.).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. ■ NZ Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydne (B 0528); or other branches and agent) Sydney-(or NZ)-North America Cargo vessels Waihemo and Waitomr operated by the Union Steam Ship C of NZ, Ltd., maintain a two-monthr service across the Pacific, from Melboun and Sydney to Vancouver and USA port Occasionally calls are made at Fannii Island, en route.

Next sailing: Waihemo Jan. ; (approx.).

Waitemata, from NZ ports, makes thr or four trips yearly to Vancouver (w Rarotonga and Papeete).

Details from Union Steam Ship C of NZ Ltd., 247 George St., Sydnu (B 0528): and other branches and agent.

UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji The Fiji Direct Service is maintain! by Conference vessels, sailing at regull monthly intervals out of London, w Panama, for Apia, Suva and LautobJ 148 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. OF N.Z.

LIMITED Serving the Pacific since 1875.

Regular Sailings by Modern Vessels From Melbourne and Sydney (periodically Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Also from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago and Apia.

Ship your cargo by a Union Company Vessel.

BRANCHES AT ALL MAIN AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND ISLAND PORTS. fhell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load- Brokers in London.

UK sailing dates for early 1963; Jan. £3l, Feb. 28, Mar. 28.

Far East-Fiji-NZ-Sydney ioyal Interocean Lines operate a service :m Singapore to Fiji, NZ, and Auslia, with three vessels (Van Cloon, n Noort and Van Neck) calling iiodically at Suva and/or Lautoka, Uext calls at Fiji: Van Cloon Dec. 20-21, n Noort Jan. 14-15 (approx.).

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 orge Street, Sydney (2-0573).

[?]Irways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

1. Australia-Fiji-Hawaii- Nth. America

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 V-Jets) NORTHBOUND :s., Thurs. and Sun.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.50 a.m., dep. 1.35 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, x, Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.50 a.m., dep. 1.35 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, London. ; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.50 a.m., dep. 1.35 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco (extends to Vancouver alternate weeks; from Sydney, Dec 21, Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1, 15, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND x. Wed. and Fri.; London, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.40 a.m., dep. 5.30 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.35 a.m.). s., Thurs. and Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.40 a.m., dep. 5.30 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.35 a.m.). ; San Francisco (service begins from Vancouver alternate Sats.: Dec. 22, Jan. 5. 19, Feb. 2, 16, etc.), Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.40 a.m., dep. 5.30 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.35 a.m.). [nternational Dateline is crossed been Nadi and Honolulu.) antas/TEAL Electra International Mk. drcraft from Auckland connect at Nadi Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun., and Mon. i Qantas northbound flights, and on 1., Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun. and Tues.

Auckland, with Qantas south-bound its. (See Table 19).

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet) NORTHBOUND Sat.: Dep. Sydney 11 a.m. by Britannia for Auckland (arr. 4.50 p.m.). Weekly from Auckland, dep. 5.35 p.m. Sat. for Nadi (arr. 9.40 p.m., dep. 10.35 j.m.), Honolulu (arr. Sat. 10 a.m., iep. Sun. 9 a.m. by DCS), Vancouver, Amsterdam (arr. Mon. 1.45 p.m.'. fortnightly service operates from ney Dec. 15, 29, Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND Dep. Amsterdam 2 p.m. by DCS or Vancouver, Honolulu (arr. Sun. >.35 p.m., dep. Sun. 10.35 p.m. by Britannia), Nadi (arr. Tues. 6 a.m., iep. 6.45 a.m.), Auckland (arr. 10.55 i. Alt. Tues.: Dep. Auckland 11.45 j. for Sydney (arr. Tues. 2.15 p.m.). (Fortnightly service operates from Auckland: Dec. 11, 25, Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.) IA. Australia-Fiji (or Am.

Samoa)-Hawaii-Nth. America

By Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers*) NORTHBOUND Sun., Thur.: Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. for Nadi (arr. 10.55 p.m., dep. 11.45 p.m.), Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr. Thurs., Sun. 4.30 p.m.). Connections at Honolulu for San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Tues.: Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. for Pago Pago, Am. Samoa (arr. 1.10 a.m., dep. 1.50 a.m.), Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr.

Tues. 4.30 p.m.).

SOUTHBOUND Tues., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 7.30 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi, (arr. 4.15 a.m., Thurs., Sun., dep. 5 a.m.) and Sydney (arr. 7.10 a.m. Thurs., Sun.).

Sun.: Dep. Los Angeles 7.30 p.m. for Honolulu, Pago Pago (arr. 4.15 a.m.

Mon., dep. 5 a.m.) and Sydney (arr. 7.55 a.m. Tues.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu, and between Sydney and Pago Pago.) • PAA use DC7C aircraft on connecting services Nadi-Auckland and Nadi-Pago Pago (Am. Samoa). (See Tables 21 and 21A).

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANA operate from Sydney to Lae and return with DC6B’s. TAA runs the service Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays; Ansett- ANA Tuesdays. Thursdays, Fridays.

NORTHBOUND Mon., Wed. and Sat. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.50 p.m.

Tues., Thurs., Sun. Tues., Thurs., Sun.

Dep. Air.

Brisbane, 12.40 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.10 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae, 8 a.m.

Tues., Thurs. and Fri. (Ansett) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane. 11.45 p.m.

Wed., Fri., Sat. Wed., Fri., Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.05 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 6.50 a.m. Lae. 7.50 a.m.

SOUTHBOUND Tues., Thurs., and Sun. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11 a.m. Brisbane, 4.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 4.50 p.m. Sydney, 6.55 p.m.

Wed., Fri. and Sat. (Ansett) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11 a.m. Brisbane, 4.10 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 4.50 p.m. Sydney, 6.55 p.m. 2A. Qld.-New Guinea TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Alt. Mon.: Dep. Townsville 12.40 p.m., Cairns arr. 1.40 p.m., dep. 2.45 p.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 5.05 p.m. (Dec. 10, 24, Jan. 7, 21, Feb. 4, 18, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m., Pt.

Moresby arr. 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.15 p.m., Cairns arr. 4.45 p.m., dep. 5.30 p.m., arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9, 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Cairns

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Alt. Sat.: Dep. Cairns 3.35 p.m., arr. Pt.

Moresby 5.55 p.m. (Dec. 15, 29, Jan. 12. 26, Feb. 9, 23, etc.).

Alt. Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 9.05 a.m., arr. Cairns 11.25 a.m. (Dec. 16, 30, Jan. 13, 27, Feb. 10. 24, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Brisbane

Ansett. with DC4 (Air Cargo Only) Alt. Mon.: Dep. Cairns 6.30 a.m., arrive Pt. Moresby 9.25 a.m. Dep. Pt. Moresby 149 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

11.30 a.m. (same day), arr. Brisbane 6 p.m. (Dec. 17, 31, Jan. 14, 28, Feb. 11, 25, etc.). 3. P-NG Internal Services Operated by TAA

Pt. Moresby-Lae

(Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet) Alt. Tues.: Dep. Pt, Moresby 6.40 a.m., arr. Lae 7.40 a.m. (Dec. 11, 25, Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Alt. Tues. Dep. Lae 9 a.m., Rabaul arr. 10.55 a.m. (Dec. 11, 25, Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 10.10 a.m., Lae arr. 12 noon (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9, 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Alt. Fri.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.45 a.m. for Daru, returning same day via Balimo, arr. 2.25 p.m. (Dec. 14, 28, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 22, etc.).

Pt. Moresby-Western Papua

(Catalina) Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Kerema, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2.10 p.m.

Alt. Thurs.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. for Daru, D’Albertis Junction, Lake Murray, arr. 1.15 p.m. (Dec. 20, Jan. 3, 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, etc.).

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Lake Murray 7 a.m. for Daru, Pt. Moresby, arr. 11.30 a.m. (Dec. 7, 21, Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1, 15, Mar. 1, etc.).

Pt. Moresby-Eastern Papua

(Catalina) Alt. Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Esa-Ala, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Dec. 17, 31, Jan. 14, 28, Feb. 11, 25, etc.).

Each fourth Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Deboyne Lagoon, Samarai, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Dec. 10, Jan. 7, Feb. 4, etc.).

Each fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Dec. 24, Jan. 21, Feb. 18, etc.).

LAE-MAD ANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

Mon.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 7.30 a.m. for Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Lae 9 a.m., for Madang, Wewak. arr. 11.55 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Wewak 6 a.m. for Madang, Lae. arr 8.45 a.m.

Wed.: Dep. Kavieng 8 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 9 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Manus, Rabaul, arr. 3.25 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 12.45 p.m. for Kavieng, arr. 1.45 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 8.10 a.m. for Manus, Wewak, Madang, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Wed.: Dep. Madang 9.40 a.m. for Wabag.

Wapenamunda, Baiyer River, Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr 355 p.m.

Thurs.; Dep. Lae 9.40 a.m. for Goroka Minj, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer R., Wapenamunda, Wabag, Madang, arr. 4 p.m.

LOWER HIGHLANDS (DH Otter) Tues : Dep. Goroka 1 p.m. for Lae, calling at any of: Aiyura, Kaiapit, Kainantu. Gusap, Arena. (Note: Fortnightly calls at Dumpu— Dec 11, 25, Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

Th^®-: De P- Lae 8 - 4 0 a.m. for Goroka, calling at any of Kiapit, Arena, Gusap Aiyura, Kainantu. P

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo-Lae (Dcs)

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 10.45 a.m. for Wau, Bulolo, Lae, arr. 1.20 p.m.

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Bulolo, Wau, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10 a.m.

Madang-Goroka-Lae (Dcs)

Tues.: Dep. Lae 9.40 a.m. for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 2.10 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Madang 11.30 a.m. for Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

Pt. Moresby-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Sun., Tues., Thurs.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, arr. 10.50 a.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.20 а.

Lae-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., arr. Rabaul 12.05 p.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 6 a.m., arr. Lae 8.35 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m. for Jacqulnot Bay, Hoskins, Talasea, Kandrian, Finschhafen, Lae, arr. 2.10 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Lae 10 a.m. for Finschhafen, Kandrian, Talasea, Hoskins, Jacquinot Bay, Rabaul, arr. 3.10 p.m.

LAE-FINSCHHAFEN (Cessna) Thurs.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Finschhafen, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m. for Buka, Wakanai, Aropa, Buin, Aropa, Wakanai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 3.20 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9, 23, Feb. б, 20): Dep. Rabaul 9.30 a.m. for Buka, Wakunai, Aropa, Wakunai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 4.50 p.m.

Operated by Ansett-Mandated Air Lines Ansett-MAL DC3’s, connect at Lae with Sydney-Lae-Sydney DC6B services;— Wed.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Wed., Fri., Sat.; Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Wed., Fri., Sat.; Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 12 noon.

Fri.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Wau, Madang, arr. 10.55 a.m.

Fri. (Piaggio); Dep. Lae 9.05 a.m. for Kainantu, Goroka, Minj, Banz, Mt.

Hagen, Wabag. arr. 12.35 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Madang, Lae, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Fri. (Piaggio): Dep. Goroka 7.30 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Other Ansett-MAL scheduled internal P-NG services (mainly by DC3) include; Mon.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka.

Madang, Wewak, Rabaul, arr. 2.25 p.m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Kainantu, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau.

Goroka, Lae, arr. 3 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3.40 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a.m. for Mendi, Kagua, Brave, lalibu, Mt.

Hagen, arr. 12 noon.

Dep. (Piaggio) Hagen 6.30 a.m. for Banz, Goroka, Hagen, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Norseman) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Lumi, Nuku, Wewak, arr. 11.05 a.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 1 p.m. for Maprik, Yangoru, Wewak, arr. 2.45 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 8 a.m. for Telefomin, Wewak, arr. 11.10 a.m.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Mt.

Hagen, Banz, Minj, Madang, arr. 11.45 a.m.

Dep. Goroka 7.50 a.m. for Wau, I Moresby, arr. 10.25 a.m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for GoroH Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavien Rabaul, arr. 4 p.m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Ws Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Kainan (Fri. only), Lae arr. 2.35 p.m. (3 p..

Fri.).

Wed., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.20 a..

Rabaul, arr. 12 noon. ’ ed., Sat.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m. 1 Goroka, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Thurs.; Dep. (Piaggio) Hagen 1.30 p.. for Banz, Minj, Goroka, arr. 2.50 p..

Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m. for GoroH Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, GoroH Madang, arr. 2.50 p.m.

Dep. (Norseman) Wewak 8 a.m. 1 Aitape, Vanimo, Sissano, Aitaj, Dagua, Wewak, arr. 12.05 p.m.

Thurs., Sat.; Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. 1 Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madai Goroka, Lae, arr. 4.40 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Madai Lae, Wau, Madang, arr. 10.55 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Goroka 10.40 a.. for Minj, Banz, Hagen, Wabag, Hag»: Banz, Minj, Goroka. arr. 2.55 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a. for Mendi, Kagua, Brave, lalibu, M Hagen, arr. 12.30 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 8 a.m. 1 Angoram, Wewak, arr. 9 a.m.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for GoroL Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Mt. Hagen 8.30 a., for Mendi, Tari, Mendi, Mt. Hagt; arr. 11.45 a.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 9.30 a.m. ; Ambunti, Berui, Maprik, Wewak, a£ 11.35 a.m.

Papuan Air Transport Ltd. (“Patair’T Local services operated in Papua Papuan Air Transport Ltd. include: Mon.: Dep. (Cessna) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.j for Amazon Bay, Baibara, Pt. Mores'e arr. 11.50 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a,i for Kairuku, Bereina, Tapini, Woitar Tapini, Bereina, Kairuku, Pt. Moress arr. 1.30 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. (Cessna) Pt. Moresby 7.45 a.i for Kubuna, Aroa, Rogers, Pt. Moress arr. 10.25 a.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.45 su for Daru, Balimo, Pt. Moresby, as 4.50 p.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 6.30 a* for Popendetta, Garaina, Lae, Pop«c detta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a* and 10.45 a.m. for Tapini, Pt. Moresa arr. 9.10 a.m. and 11.15 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11.40 as for Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr, 122 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 12.30 pq for Paili, Cape Rodney, Pt. Moresa arr. 2.50 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 7 ae for Bereina, Baimuru, Brave, Mem Baimuru, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, s 2.50 p.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby for Kokoo Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 11.10 as Thurs.; Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.40 as for Popondetta, Embi, Kiriwina, Embi, Popondetta, Moresby, arr. 2.20 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 10.45 as for Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 12. p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 7.30 as for Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9.10 as Fri.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 10 a.m. , Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2.50 p.m. .i Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 12.30 pq for Paili, Cape Rodney, Pt. Moress arr. 2.50 p.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 11.30 as 150

December, 1962 Pacific Islands Mo Nth Ii

for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11 a.m. for Rogers, Aroa, Kairuku, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.45 p.m. t.t.; Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m. for Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9.10 a.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.45 a.m. for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.20 a.m. onthly, first Wed.: Dep. (Piaggio) Pt.

Moresby 7 a.m. for Daru, Pt. Moresby, arr. 11 a.m. (Jan. 2, Feb. 6, Mar. 6, etc.). 3A. P NG - West NG ILAE-HOLLANDIA (West New Guinea) TAA, with DCS aircraft It. Thurs. (Dec. 13, 27, Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.) dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Hollandia, arr. 1.35 p.m.

It. Fri. (Dec. 14, 28, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 22, etc.): Dep. Hollandia 11.35 a.m. for Wewak, Madang, Lae arr. 5.05 p.m.

Biak (West Ng)-Lae

De Kroonduif with DCS Aircraft IDe Kroonduif NV maintains a fortghtly service between Biak. Hollandia d Lae with DCS aircraft. It connects ith KLM’s DCS service to Europe (Table It. Thurs. (Dec. 20, Jan. 3, 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Biak 6 a.m., Hollandia arr. 8.10 a.m., dep. 9.10 a.m., arr. Lae 1.10 p.m. t. Fri. (Dec. 21, Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1, 15, etc.): Dep. Lae 9.15 a.m., Hollandia arr. 12.05 p.m., dep. 1.05 p.m., arr. Biak 3.10 p.m.

West Ng Internal Services

De Kroonduif Airlines DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollandia je above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah ;rah, Kaimana, Manokwari, Kebar, amena, Ransiki, Genjem; Twin Pioneer Seroel, Steenkool, Manokwari, Noemjr, Inawatan, Teminabuan, Sorong, asior, Nabiri, Wissel Lakes, Kokanao; aver to Fakfak, Kaimana, Teminabuan, amaroe, Inawatan. 4. Australia-West NG KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Weekly DCS service between Sydney ep. Fri. 10.35 a.m.) and Holland, calling Biak, West NG (arr. Fri. 3.30 p.m., p 4.30 p.m.), Manila (Philippines) and asterdam (arr. Sat. 12.10 p.m.). Dep. asterdam Wed. 2.30 p.m., via Manila and ak (arr. Fri. 12.30 a.m., dep. 1.30 a.m.) f Sydney (arr. Fri. 7.15 a.m.).

DCS aircraft dep. Biak Mon. and Fri. p.m.) for Japan en route to Amirdam (arr. Tues. and Sat. 7.55 a.m.), ip. Amsterdam Wed. (2.15 p.m.) and t. (6.30 p.m.) for Japan and Biak, arr. mrs. (11.30 p.m.) and Mon. (3 a.m.). 5. N. Guinea-Solomons AA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet and DCS Aircraft fc. Tues.: Dep. Lae (DC3) 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda. Yandina, Honiara arr. 4.20 p.m. (Dec. 18, Jan. 1, 15, 29, Feb. 12, 19, etc.), b. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DC3) 7.30 a.m. for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae arr. 3.45 p.m. (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9’, 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.), t. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 9 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara arr. 4.20 p.m. (Dec. 11, 25, Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.), t. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 6.45 a.m. for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae arr. 12 noon (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9, 23.

Feb. 6, 20, etc.). 6. Sydney-Noumea QANTAS, with Boeing 707 Jet Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 10.15 a.m., arr.

Noumea 1.45 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Noumea 3 p.m., arr. Sydney 4.50 p.m. 7. Paris-SydneyNoumea-Fiji- Tahiti-USA-Paris TAI, with DCS Jet Aircraft Dep. Paris Mon. 5 p.m., eastbound for Athens, Beirut, Karachi, Bangkok, Saigon, Darwin, Sydney (arr. Wed. 8.25 a.m.).

Dep. Sydney Wed. 9.40 a.m. for Noumea (arr. 1.25 p.m., dep. 3.30 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 6.15 p.m., dep. 7.05 p.m.), cross International Dateline, Papeete (arr.

Wed. 1.10 a.m., dep. alt. Wed. (Dec. 19, Jan. 2, 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, etc.) and Fri. 10 a.m.), Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris (arr. Sun. 8.15 a.m.).

Dep. Paris Fri. 5.30 p.m. westbound for Montreal, Los Angeles (dep. alt.

Thurs. (Dec. 20, Jan. 3. 17, 31. Feb. 14, 28, etc.) and Sat. 1 a.m.), Papeete (arr. alt. Thurs. and Sat. 7.25 p.m., dep. Sun. 1.40 a.m.), cross International Dateline, Nadi (arr. Mon. 4.25 а. dep. 5.25 a.m.), Noumea (arr.

Mon. 6.30 a.m., dep. 9.10 a.m.), Sydney (arr. Mon. 11 a.m.).

Dep. Sydney Mon. 1 p.m. for Darwin, Saigon, Rangoon, Karachi, Teheran, Rome, Paris (arr. Tues. 2.15 p.m.). 7A. Tahiti-Hawaii TAI, with DCS Jet Aircraft Alt. Wed. (Dec. 12, 26, Jan. 9, 23, Feb. б, 20, etc.); Dep. Papeete for Honolulu, arr. 9.05 p.m.

Alt. Thurs. (Dec. 13, 27, Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.): Dep. Honolulu 11.45 p.m. for Papeete, arr. alt. Fri. 5.20 a.m. 78. Tahiti-USA TAI, with DCS Jet Aircraft Fri. and alt. Wed. (Dec. 19, Jan. 2, 16, 30, Feb. 13, 20, etc.): Dep. Papeete 12 noon for Los Angles, arr. 10.10 p.m.

Sat. and alt. Thurs. (Dec. 20, Jan. 3, 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Los Angeles 1.30 p.m. for Papeete, arr. 7.55 a.m. 8. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Airlines of N.S.W. with Sandringham Flying-boats Regular return flight from Rose Bay base each Tues. and Sat. (with extra flight Thurs. as required). 9. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

QANTAS, with Skymaster DC4 Aircraft Every Sat.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NI 2.45 p.m.; dep. NI next day, Sun., 2.45 p.m. for Sydney, arr. 6.45 p.m. Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See table 12). 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DC4 Aircraft Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Vila (arr. 9.55 a.m., dep. 10.30 a.m.), Santo (arr. 11.45 a.m., dep. 1.15 p.m.), Vila (arr. 2.30 p.m., dep. 3.05 p.m.), Noumea (arr. 5 p.m.). 11. Noumea-Wallis Is.-Tahiti TAI with DC4 Aircraft Monthly (second Sunday), dep. Noumea, Dec. 9, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, etc.

Dep. Noumea, Sun., 11 p.m. for Wallis Is. (arr. Mon., 6.30 a.m., dep. 8 a.m.), crosses International Dateline, Papeete (arr. Sun., 7.05 p.m.).

Dep. Papeete, Tues., 8.30 a.m., crosses International Dateline, Wallis Is. (arr.

Wed., 3.15 p.m., dep. 4.45 p.m.), Noumea (arr. 10.15 p.m.). 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) Every Sat.: Dep. Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auckland 7.45 p.m. Ret. next day, Sun.: dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. Norfolk 1.30 p.m. (See Table 9). 13. Sydney-Auckland QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. ll’s Daily: Dep. Auckland 9 a.m., arr. Sydney 11.05 a.m.

Fri., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 3.35 p.m.

Daily: Dep. Sydney 1 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.35 p.m.

Fri., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 4.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 8.05 p.m. (Note: Additional services will be operated to meet traffic requirement throughout December for this and all other Australia-NZ routes.) 14. Sydney-Christchurch QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. ll’s Wed., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 9 a.m., arr. Christchurch 2.50 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. Christchurch 6.05 p.m.

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat.: Dep.

Christchurch 7 p.m., arr. Sydney 9.05 p.m. 15. Christchurch-Melbourne QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. ll’s.

Wed., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 4 p.m., arr. Melbourne 6.55 p.m.

Tues., Fri.; Dep. Melbourne 11.30 a.m., arr. Christchurch 5.40 p.m. 16. Sydney-Wellington QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. ll’s.

Daily; Dep. Sydney 9.30 a.m., arr. Wellington 3.30 p.m.

Daily: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m., arr.

Sydney 6.50 p.m. 17. Auckland-Melbourne QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. II Tues., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr. Melbourne 11.30 a.m.

Tues., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 7 p.m. 18. Auckland-Brisbane QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. II Sat.: Dep. Auckland 11 a.m., arr. Brisbane 1.30 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Brisbane 3 p.m., arr. Auckland 8.45 p.m. 19. Auckland-Fiji TEAL, with Electra International Mk. ll’s Daily (except Mon.)*: Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 12.15 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Nadi 1.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 5.20 p.m.

Wed., Fri., Sun.; Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr. Auckland 12.35 p.m. (Over) 151 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

(APPROXIMATE ONLY)

From Sydney

(Aust. currency) TO— Single Return Table £ s. d. £ s. d.

No.

Moresby . . . 48 14 0 92 5 0 2 Lae 60 4 0 115 5 0 2 Rabaul . . . 70 9 0 135 15 0 2, Noumea . . . 56 18 0 102 8 0 6, Honiara . . . 92 4 0 179 5 0 2, 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, U.

Suva 92 0 0 167 0 0 i-2;s Auckland , . . 53 15 0 96 15 0 13 Christchurch . 53 15 0 96 15 0 14 Wellington . . 53 15 0 96 15 0 16 Pago Pago . . 110 17 0 199 11 0 1, U.

Honolulu . . . 282 12 0 508 14 0 1, U.

San Francisco 350 0 0 630 17 0 1. 1 1.

Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 1, 111 Papeete . . . 181 5 0 325 5 0 1-20, , Biak 103 15 0 186 15 0 4

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Nadi .... 41 7 0 74 0 0 19 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 206 2 0 19-2(S Noumea . . . 45 10 0 81 18 0 27 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— Nadi 5 16 0 11 12 0 22 Nukualofa . . 18 10 0 34 0 0 23 Apia .... 25 0 0 45 0 0 24 Honiara . . . 67 10 0 121 10 0 25 Vila 30 13 0 55 4 0 25 Santo .... 39 14 0 71 9 0 25 FROM NADI (Fiji currency) TO— Pago Pago . . 28 18 0 51 19 0 21A 1 Noumea .... 32 13 0 58 16 0 7 Papeete . . . 87 5 0 157 1 0 7. t Pares quoted are First Class.

Thurs.*, Sat.*: Dep. Nadi 5.45 a.m., arr. Auckland 9.35 a.m. * Wed., Fri., flights ex-Auckland, and Thurs., Sat., flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL. 20. Fiji-Am. Samoa-Tahiti TEAL, with Electra International Mk. II Mon.: Dep. Nadi 3.30 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago Sun. 7.10 a.m., dep. 7.45 a.m., arr. Papeete Sun. 12.50 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Papeete 7 a.m., arr. Pago Pago 10.25 a.m., dep. 11 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi Tues. 12.40 p.m. 21. Fiji-New Zealand PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun., Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 5.30 a.m. for Auckland, arr. 10.15 a.m.

Sun., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 5.30 p.m. for Nadi, arr. 10.15 p.m. 21A. Fiji-Am. Samoa PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Mon.; Dep. Nadi 12 noon, cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago (Am.

Samoa) 4.05 p.m. Sun.

Tues.: Dep. Pago Pago 9.30 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi 11.40 a.m. Wed. 22. Fiji Internal Services Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily (Wed., Fri. and Sun. morning timetables 30 mins, earlier)* 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: Dep. 11 a.m. Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Tues.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m.

Mon.

Suva-Ura-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 7.20 a.m., Wed.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Ura-Suva: Dep. 7.20 a.m., Sun.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva; Dep. 11 a.m. Mon.

Suva-Matei-Labasa-Matei-Suva: Dep 11 a.m. Fri.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva; Dep. 11 a.m., Wed Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva. 23. Fiji-Tonga Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Alt. Thurs.; Dep. Suva (Nausori) 7 a.m., arr. Nukualofa (Fua’amotu airfield Tongatapu) 11.15 a.m. (Dec. 13 27 Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Dep. Nukualofa 9.30 a.m., arr oc V^,l l - 45 am - (Dec - 15 > 29 > Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9. 23, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Dep. Suva 7 a.m., Nukualofa arr. 11.15 a.m., dep. 12.30 p.m., arr ieb Va 2 2 '2 5 6, P etc... <DeC ' 22> Jan ' 5 ’ 19 - Detans from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva. 24. Fiji-Western Samoa Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Alt ‘i4 ThU 9 r «- (1 ? ec ; 2 °; Jan - 3 ’ 17 > 31 > Feb- -14, 28, etc.): Dep. Nadi 6.15 am Nausori (Suva) arr. 7.05 a.m., dep’. 7.45 a.m., cross International Dateline arr. Apia (Faleolo Airfield, Upolu) 1.25 p.m. alt. Wed. (Dec. 19, Jan. 2, 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, etc.).

Alt. Thurs. (Dec. 20, Jan. 3, 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Apia 10 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Suva, alt. Fri. (Dec. 21, Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1, 15, Mar. 1), 1.40 p.m., dep. 3 p.m., Nadi arr. 3.45 p.m. 25. Fiji-New Hebrides-BSI Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Three flights per month during Dec., Jan., and Feb.—thence weekly.

Sun. (except Dec. 23, Jan. 20, Feb. 17): Dep. Nausori 8.30 a.m., Nadi arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Vila arr. 1 p.m.

Next day, Mon. (except Dec. 24, Jan. 21, Feb. 18), dep. Vila 8 a.m., Santo arr. 9.20 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Honiara arr. 2.45 p.m.

Tues. (execpt Dec. 25, Jan. 22, Feb. 19): Dep. Honiara 8 a.m., Santo arr. 12.25 p.m., dep. 1 p.m., Vila arr. 2.20 p.m.

Next day, Wed. (except Dec. 26, Jan. 23, Feb. 20), dep. Vila 8 a.m., Nadi arr. 1 p.m., dep. 1.30 p.m., Nausori arr. 2.10 p.m. 26. Hawaii-Tahiti-Am. Samoa South Pacific Air Lines with Super-G Constellation Aircraft Weekly from Honolulu to Faaa International Airport, Papeete; fortnightly via Pago Pago (Am. Samoa).

Wed.: Dep. Honolulu 11 p.m., arr. Papeete Thurs. 8 a.m.

Thurs.; Dep. Papeete 10 p.m., arr. Honolulu Fri. 7 a.m.

Alt. Sun. (Dec. 23, Jan. 6, 20, Feb. 3, 17, etc.); Dep. Honolulu 11 p.m., Pago Pago arr. Mon. 7 a.m.

Alt. Tues. (Dec. 25. Jan. 8, 22. Feb. 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Pago Pago 10 a.m., Honolulu arr. Tues. 10 p.m.

Details from South Pacific Air Lines, 311 California St., San Francisco, USA. 27. New Caledonia-NZ TAI with DC4 Aircraft Fri.: Dep. Noumea 8.30 a.m. for Auckland, arr. 3.10 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 5 p.m. for Noumea arr. 10 p.m. 28. Samoan Inter-Island Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with Percival Prince Aircraft Between Western Samoa (Faleolo airfield) and American Samoa (Pago Pago) —flight time is 45 minutes.

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa): Sun. 7 a.m., 2 p.m.; Mon. 7 a.m., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m.; Tues. 7 a.m.; Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. 9.15 a.m.

Dep. Pago Pago (Am. Samoa): Sun. 8.15 a.m., 4.30 p.m.; Mon. 8.15 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 3.15 p.m.; Tues. 8.15 a.m.; Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. 10.30 a.m.

Booking agents; Gold Star Transport Co. Ltd., Apia; R. E. Pritchard, Pago Pago. 29. French Polynesia RAI, with DC4 Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group (Isles Sous le Vent), Society Islands.

Sun., Mon., Tues., Fri.: Dep. Papeete 7.30 a.m., Raiatea arr. 8.20 a.m., dep. 8.50 a.m., Bora Bora arr. 9.10 a.m., dep. 4.30 p.m., Raiatea arr. 4.50 p.m.! dep. 5.10 p.m., Papeete arr. 6 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Papeete 7.20 a.m., Bora Bora arr. 8.20 a.m., dep. 8.50 a.m., Raiatea arr. 9.10 a.m., dep. 9.30 a.m., Papeete arr. 10.20 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Papeete 1.30 p.m., Raiate; arr. 2.20 p.m., dep. 2.40 p.m.. Bon Bora arr. 3 p.m., dep. 4.30 p.mi Raiatea arr. 4.50 p.m., dep. 5.10 p.mi Papeete arr. 6 p.m.

Other local RAI inter-island service are operated with Bermuda flying-boat.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeira Papeete, or any TAI office. 30. New Caledonia TRANSPAC, with Herons and Rapides Noumea-Mare: Tues., Fri. dep. Noumea p.m. for Mare, Noumea, arr. 4 p.m.

Noumea-Lifou: Tues., Wed., Fri. den Noumea 8 a.m. for Lifou, Noumea, arr 10 a.m. Sat.: Dep. Noumea 2 p.m. fc Lifou, Noumea, arr. 4 p.m.

Noumea-Ouvea: Tues. dep. Noumea II a.m. for Ouvea, Noumea, arr. 1.30 p.nr Sat.: Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Ouves Noumea, arr. 10 a.m.

Noumea-Houailou-Koumac: Wed., Sat. dei Noumea 1 p.m. for Houailou and Kou mac, Noumea, arr. 4.25 p.m.

Noumea-Isle of Pines: Mon., Wed., Frit Sat. dep. Noumea 10.45 a.m. for Isli of Pines, Noumea, arr. 12 noon. Suni Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Isle of Pine:!

Noumea arr. 5 p.m. 31. Micronesia PAA, with Albatross Flying-boats Using Grumman Albatross twin-motores amphibian flying-boats, PAA operates service throughout the Trust Territory o Micronesia ( Caroline, Marshall anr Mariana Groups) for US Government Details from High Commissioner of thd Trust Territory, Box 542, Agana, Guam

Pacific Air Fares

152 DECEMBER. 1962 PACIFI'C ISLANDS MONTHL'

Issued capital Reserves and unappropriated profits Internal reserves 1962 12,341,605 2,178 185 1934 339,788 252,000 Land and buildings 4 819 416 Shipping property, motors Investments Trade Debtors Branch balances 1,660,388 4,891,540 2,593,734 28,155 140,617 21,284 418,667 Stocks 4,412,762 Total assets 19,039,888 609,999 IN FIJI Pacific Products Ltd. .

Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

Island Industries Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co.

Millers Ltd Suva Motors Ltd.

Pacific Shipowners Ltd.

The Lau Traders Ltd.

Fiji Pastoral Co. Ltd.

Cicia Plantations Ltd.

Kanacea Ltd Austral Motors Ltd. . .

Island Transport Ltd.

Fiji Hire-Drive Ltd. (In (Fiji) Ltc Liq.)

In New Zealand

Paramics Ltd.

In Western Samoa

A. G. Smyth Ltd. (In Liq.) . .

IN CANADA B. Ship Chartering Co. Ltd.

In United Kingdom

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (London) Ltd Pacific Commerce and Product Remarkable Growth Of W. R. Carpenter Empire The consolidated balance sheet : W. R. Carpenter Holdings ltd. for the year ended Septemer 30 last shows that assets now ;ach the staggering total of 119,039,888 an increase of sarly £5 million in one year.

IHIS is another of the Australian - corporations which commenced eir trading in the South Pacific lands and which, as the result of xewd management, plus the initionary movements following two arid wars, have grown enormously strength and influence. Sydney erchants, more than any other single ctor, established Australia’s domina- )n in the South Pacific during the st half-century.

For comparison, we reproduce Jow the figures of W. R. Carpenter Co. Ltd. for the year ended June >, 1934; in the table, we have placed em beside the figures for the whole arpenter group for the year ended spt. 30, 1962: During the year, the Holdings ampany took over Claude Neon In- Estries Ltd., for a share issue of ,126,409.

The company made a net profit, ter tax, of £702,687, and paid a vidend of 15 per cent, on its issued pital.

Directors of the Holding Company •w are Messrs. R. B. Carpenter hairman and managing director), H. V. Carpenter (vice-chairman d managing director), W. S. snnett, B. B. Perriman. W. G. hnson, C. D. Brownhill, H. E. ell, G. C. Remington and W. A. ce.

Subsidiaries Of Carpenter

HOLDINGS LTD.

In Australia

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd Southern Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

American Trading & Shipping Co.

Pty. Ltd M. G. B. Jefferson Pty. Ltd Claude Neon Industries Ltd Claude Neon Ltd Claude Neon Lights (Vic.) Ltd. ..

L. G. Burley Pty. Ltd Marvelcraft Pty. Ltd Scanlans New Neon Ltd Neon Holdings Ltd Consolidated Neon Ltd Endurance Electric Pty. Ltd Motor Services (Gladesville) Pty.

Ltd lonlite (Queensland) Pty. Ltd.

Neon Supplies Pty. Ltd.

Neon Luminous Products Pty. Ltd. , .

Neon Signs Ltd W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Solomon Is.) Pty. Ltd J. B. Carpenter & Sons Ltd. (Non-op.) Artcraft Neon Signs Pty. Ltd T. E. Page & Company Ltd On Chong & Company Ltd. (Non-op.)

In Papua And New Guinea

Pacific Trading Co. Ltd New Guinea Co. Ltd Coconut Products Ltd Island Estates Ltd Garua Plantations Ltd Tovaruru Plantations Ltd Repairs & Sales Ltd W. R. Carpenter (New Guinea) Ltd. (Non-op.) W. R. Carpenter Oversea Shipping Ltd. (Non-op.) Island Transports (New Guinea) Ltd. (Non-op.) Island Products Ltd Southern Cross Marine Insurance Co.

Ltd Carpenters' Share In Woolworths The W. R. Carpenter chairman, Mr. R. B. Carpenter, announced at the annual meeting on November 23 that Carpenters are purchasing the shares held by Rockman interests— about 5,000,000 —in the Woolworth chain-store company and are issuing some new capital to take care of the deal—which might require £3 million. The price being paid for each 57share was not stated—some financial writers guess it is about 12/-, compared with the current market price of around 13/6.

The deal will bring the Carpenter issued capital to over £2O millions.

It is a curious coincidence that the two biggest Islands trading corporations—Burns Philp and Carpenters—will now be large shareholders in Australia’s two largest chain store companies— Burns Philp in Coles, and Carpenters in Woolworths; and in each case the holding is around 10 per cent. 153 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Oct. 22 Nov. 22 Ball Plantations . . 4/- 4/- Burns Phllp .... 95/- 78/4 Ditto New .... — 78/-J Burns Phllp (SS) . 47/- 47/-1 Cholseul Plntn. . . 200/- 190/-1 C.S.R. Co 54/- 50/6 Dylup Plantations 5/6 5/1 FIJI Industries . . . 12/- 11/6 Hackshall’s .... 14/3 15/3 Kauri Timber . . . 6/3 8 - Kerema Rubber . . 5/- 4/9 Koltakl Rubber . . 12/4 12/6 Lolorua Rubber . . 8/- 7/9 i Makurapau Plntn. . 2/1 2/3 Mariboi Rubber . . 5/2 5/1 Norfolk Is. Whaling . 8V 2 d 8o; Pacific Is. Timbers . 2/6 2/6 j Palgrave 2/4 2/9- Plantation Holdings . 2/10 2/6 Queensland Insurance 115/- 120/- Rubberlands .... 4/6 4/- Sandy Creek .... 8d 8o Sangara 6d llo.

Sogeri Rubber . . . 5/6 5/3 i Sthn. Pac. Insurance 23/3 25/6 i Steamships Trading 11/3 11/3 W. R. Carpenter Hold 31/3 26/6 i Ditto Rights .... — 13/5 Watkins Consolidated 3/9 3/5 i

Oil And Mining Shares

Dec. 4, ’58 Oct. 22 Nov. 23!

Emperor . . b9/b5/3 b5/8 Loloma . . b30/b51/- S53/63 Bulolo G.D. b32/- S54/b51/— N.G.G. Ltd. b2/3 bl/9 b2/- Oil Search . b9/9 b2/10 b3/l Ent. of N.G. slid b4d b5d Pac. I. Mines — bl/2 bl/6 i Ditto Options . — — b3d Papuan Apin. b4/6 b3/b3/6 i Placer Dev. b91/bl97/bl28 A i Timor Oil . n.q. bl/9 Sl/4 : CLARENCE DEGENHARDT & CO.

Stock & Share Brokers J. W. DUNCAN

Member Of The Sydney Stock Exchange

Mercantile Mutual Building, 117 Pitt Street, Sydney.

Telephones: BW 1751 (5 lines). BL 3327 (3 lines) Telegrams: WARDANKO. Sydney. Cable Address: OGIANI, Sydney A. B. S. WHITE & CO.

Stock and Sharebrokers H. S. LLOYD, E. C. S. WHITE, O. B. LLOYD, J. L. KING, K. H. WATERHOUSE, P. C. WOLFE.

Members Of The Sydney Stock Exchange

16 O’Connell Street. Sydney BL 6111

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Steamships on the Up-and-Up THE annual accounts and the report of the chairman (Mr. H. D.

Underwood) of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., of Papua, indicate that this 39-years-old trading and planting corporation is going on from strength to strength. It made a record profit of £263,454 in the year ended June 30, and it has increased its dividend from 12i to 13-1/3 per cent. What it lost on the depressed copra swings, it gained on the rubber and general trading merry-go-rounds.

The holders of the old 7 per cent, cumulative preference shares were invited to the picnic. They were allowed to convert their Prefs to Ordinaries on the basis of 5 Prefs for 4 Ords which, under present conditions, doubled their earning power.

The issued capital of the Company at the close of accounts was £1,289,316 in ordinary shares, and this since has been increased by £192,709 of new shares issued for the purchase of Colyer Watson (New Guinea) Ltd.

The chairman disclosed that the Company’s assets recently had been re-valued, and it appeared that the assets were £685,500 greater than appeared in the balance-sheet.

Little wonder that the shareholders at the meeting on October 29 refused to be perturbed by the political horrors with which the seat of their enterprise (Papua and New Guinea) is supposed to be surrounded. Their £1 share in March last was quoted at 39/6. Four 5/- units today are— despite slumps in the share marketworth around 46/6.

NG Goldfields Ltd. Shows 40 Per Cent. Profit Rise In the year to June 30 last, New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. made a net profit of £84,922—a lift of £24,315 (40 per cent.) on the 1961 profit of £60,607. Profit was after providing for directors’ fees £2,500, depreciation £19,447, and P-NG income tax £2,700.

Goldmining returned a profit of £40,621, but trading profit declined from £65,394 to £44,514. Gold subsidy for the year was £28,874.

Dividend of 3d per share, payable on December 14, will absorb £55,904.

Papuan Apinaipi In A Wide Field The services of a patient stockbrokercum-accountant would be needed to explain fully the present structure of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co. Ltd., whose annual report for year ended June 30 has just been circulated.

Papuan Apinaipi was formed in the ’thirties, to drill for oil in a small area in Papua, northwest of Port Moresby.

Operations produced much optimism, but no payable oil, and most people supposed that would be the end of the enterprise.

But the directors proved to be tenacious people, and they kept the company alive through many years of tribulation: and in more recent times they have teamed up with other oil-seeking enterprises, through a series of agreements.

A map published in the last annual report shows that the Company’s interests now cover not only an extended area in central Papua, but also about 10 large areas in Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales and West Australia, where searches for oil are either proceeding, or contemplated. A very wide field now is covered by Papuan Apinaipi; but the chances of hitting the oil jackpot are of course correspondingly increased.

The Company’s issued capital is shown as £1,890,000 in 5/- shares; and the hopes of the organisation are reflected in the Stock Exchange quotations—the 57shares there are valued at between 3/and 4/-.

Bali Plantations To Try Share-Split Again Last December, Bali Plantations Ltd., cocoa and copra planters, New Guinea, held two extraordinary meetings on the 15th and 29th to split the 10/- shares into 5/- stock units—and Sydney Stock Exchange has been quoting on the basis of 5/- ever since. It now transpires that the plan to split the shares was void because, under the P-NG compani ordinance, 14 clear days were required b tween the meetings. So Bali will n< hold another two extraordinary meeting wider spaced, to make the share-sp valid. In the meantime, Sydney Sto Exchange is regarding the shares as pa to 5/-.

Depressed Rubber Prices Lower Maribor's Profit The present depressed price of Papa rubber lowered Mariboi Rubber Ltd profit for the year to June 30, 1962, frc £47,530 to £30,588 —the average pri realised by the company was 29.07 d e lb. c.i.f., Australian port, a decrease 6Vzd lb against the previous year.

Rubber production during 1961-62, ho ever, was a record 1,009,632 lb, said IV H. D. Underwood (chairman) at t annual meeting in Port Moresby i October 19.

Economic Outlook THE passing of the immediate thre of an East-West shooting war ov Cuba and the end of the US Navy’s fo weeks blockade eased international tens! in late November, but world stock marke showed no immediate reaction to t situation.

Sydney Stock Exchange trading has bei slow and uncertain throughout the monl Because a number of blue-chip stoc are down to low levels, some stockbroke have been advising clients to buy in current prices, and market observe predict that a sustained rally may not far away.

Sydney Sales Prices

154 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Ralph W. King & Yuill

Members of Sydney Stock Exchange

W. Keith Yeill—Keith C. Phillips—Ian C. Walton

Cordon G King—Walter I. Summons

William S. Shugg

O. „ 33 BL IGH STREET. 2-0137 84 William St., Melb. 67-5089. 340 Queen St., Brisbane. 31-2191 Telegrams and Cables: "Ralphking”

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Grafton and Tamworth VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD. 247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY Island Merchants and Buying Agents SOLE AGENTS FOR:

Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engines

Ajax Liquid Alarm Relays

Norman Petrol Engines

Dunedin Engine Testing Equipment

Hollandia Canned Fish

for all plantation, farm, trade requirements Distributors merchandise.

Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee handled on consignment.

Write direct to our Islands Export Manager with over 35 years experience in the Islands.

Ca Bles: Ventura Sydney

and Shell and other produce

[?]Slands Produce

lUnless otherwise stated, quotations are l Australian currency. Aust. £ equals :«roximate!y 16/- Stg.. NZ, or W. raoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons JWPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; $U52.25.) COPRA ,'APUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production (delivered to Copra Marketing Board, (trolled by six members, including three raters’ representatives: and the Board sets distribution and sales, and makes 'ments to the producers. Production >s mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) itralia for local consumption, (c) ishing-mill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan irplus as available). Prices generally ;y with ruling rate in Philippines, with imiums for hot-air dried. ’-NG Board’s Tentative Purchase :ies for copra delivered main ports are: ;-Air Dried, £54/10/- per ton; FMS, 3 per ton; Smoke-Dried, £52 per TJI: —No Government control—propers sell where they wish. Bulk of ira goes to crushing-mills in Suva.

November 24 prices were HAD ’49/5/-, FM £F46/15/- (exclusive of a a delivery bonus of £FI per ton).

WESTERN SAMOA;—Official Copra ird takes all production, sells same 1 makes payments to producers. It s mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers. 1 to Unilever, UK. Local price retly has been £56/12/6 Samoan, first de.

ONGA:—Sales are under Government trol. Part of production goes to ope, under arrangement with Unilever trolled by Philippines prices, and part to open market.

OLOMON IS.:—All production marketed lugh official BSI Copra Board, at :es based on Philippines rates. Output 3 to Unilever, UK; to Australian shers; and the balance on to the open :ket. Local price for November wasgrade, £4B/-/-; 2nd grade, £46/10/-; grade, £44/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ts (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

TLBERT AND ELLlCE:—Production •keted in Europe through official Copra rd, at prices based on Philippines :s less freight, etc. The Government sidy to producers is: £7/15/5 per ton Ist grade, and £3/14/7 for 2nd grade.

EW HEBRIDES:—On Nov. 28, the fa price was approximately £42/10/- 00 Pac. francs) per ton delivered ,/Santo. French price then was 85 V 2 vy francs per metric ton, c.i.f settles.

OOK IS.; Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., Auckland, who operate the only NZ •a crushing mill. Price paid is average don price for previous three months, handling charges. Price for final rter of 1962 is £NZSO/3/ll Ist ie, £NZ4B/18/11 standard grade—both )., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

OCOA: —lslands prices are usually (d on the rates for Ghana cocoa which Nov. 22 had recovered to 'g-168/10/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney. -N.G.: Sydney buyers on Nov. 22 reed: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul >rt quality £2OO per ton or on wharf ley, according to quality: £lBO-£200; •e No. 2: Best quality, on wharf Syd ’ 3.. £190; in store, N.G. ports, £l7O £lBO. . SAMOA:—Nominal prices quoted in ley in mid-Nov. were: Grade 1 ;g.220; grade 2, £Stg.2ls, f.0.b., Apia!

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: Nov. 23, good quality A grade, per lb, 4/- to 4/2; B grade, 3/9 to 4/-; C grade, 2/9 to 3/4, c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were reported on Nov. 22 as: Kenya A, f.a.q., £Stg.37s, B £ 5tg.325, C £Stg.3ls; U/G £ Stg.26o; Tanganyika AA £Stg.34o, A £ 5tg.325, B £Stg.3lo; Uganda Robusta £Stg.l74.

PEANUTS: P.-N.G.: Sydney agents quoted Nov. 23:—F.0.b., Lae; Kernels— White Spanish, 1/4 lb; Red Spanish, 1/2; Virginia Bunch, 1/7, in shell 1/1.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Nov. 22 was: No. 1, RSS, Spot, 80 V 2 Straits cents per lb (27.07 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp Tulk & Co. Sydney, reported Nov. 23: White and yellow label processed, standard packs, 38/-, green label 37/-, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices until April 30, 1963 —P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £59/-/- per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons £59/10/-. Vltamlsed and enriched white, 112 lb bags. 5 tons and over, £65/15'f.0.w.. under 5 tons, £66/5/-. Other Pac. Islands: Dry, white or brown, etc., £67/10/- (any quantity), f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Australian M.O.P. Shell in mid-Nov. by Sydney independent shell agents were: Sound £825, D £550, E £3OO, EE £l9O (in store Sydneyi. Cook Islands: Penrhyn £NZSOO (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS.—Sydney buyers in late Nov. indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: No. I.—Papua nominally £ll5 per ton, f.0.b., Papuan Ports; N.G. — £95, c.i.f., Sydney: 8.5.1. £ll5, f.0.b., Honiara. No. 2. —Papua— £lOO per ton; N.G., 8.5.1. — £9O per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted on Nov. 23: No. 1; £3OO-£320 per ton, f.0.b., Islands port. No. 2: £2BO (best quality), on wharf, Sydney; or £290, f.0.b., Islands port.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On Nov. 23 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.— 16/- per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) 10/- per in. 8.5.1.—16/- per in. (small scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM: £B2/15/- f.o.b. Islands port.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Suva mediants offer F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

London and US Quotations Copra: LONDON, Nov. 22, Philippines in bulk $176 US per long ton,’ c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan, FMS, delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth!

European ports,, not quoted on London market since late Oct. when price was £Stg.6o/10/- per long ton. NEW YORK: Nov. 22, Philippines, $156 US per short ton, c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports. CEYLON; 870 Rupees per ton c.i.f.

Coconut Oil: LONDON, Nov. 22. Ceylon 1% in bulk, £Stg.9s/10/- per ton. c.i.f.!

UK/North European ports. Straits, 3%! not quoted on London market since late Oct. when price was £Stg.9l, c.i.f.

Rubber: LONDON. Nov. 22, c.i.f., RSS No. 1 Spot, 24d Stg. lb (nominal l.

Dec. shipment 23-13/16d. Stg. lb. Sept shipment 23*/ 2 d. Stg. lb. (£1 Australian Is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars or 10V 2 Rupees). 155 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Classified Advertisements Per line, 4/3; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

Tenders For Land

TENDERS are invited from persons eligible under regulation 46 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations for the cash pur chase of a block of land known a, “Kavavar”, formerly used as a trading The land has an area of 55 acres, 17 square metres more or less and is situated in the Rakunai District on the Gazelle Peninsula about 14 miles from Rabaul on the western boundary of the road from Rakunai to Kurakakaul distant approximately 150 metres northerly from its junction with the road from Rakunai to Kabaira. Further particulars as to location may be obtained from the District umce, ixauaui.

Title: A freehold title has been restored under the New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance in the name of the Custodian of Expropriated Property.

Terms: The property will be sold, subject to the consent of the Administrator of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

A tender shall be accompanied by a remittance representing ten per centum of the tender price as a deposit. The balance of the purchase money shall be paid within one month of the acceptance of the offer.

Each tender shall contain a statement that the tenderer is prepared to purchase the property with all its faults (if any).

On payment of the full amount of the purchase money, a proper transfer and title to the property will be executed to the purchaser at the expense of the purchaser.

The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

A tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed “Tender-Kavavar”, and should reach the Custodian of Expropriated Property, Canberra, A.C.T., by 12 noon, on February 1, 1963. (C. R. Lambert), Custodian of Expropriated Property Regulation 46 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations reads as follows: — “. . . the Custodian shall not unless by direction of the Governor-General, sell any property to any purchaser other than to — (a) A person who is an Australian soldier, or who is a natural-born British subject; (b) A company in which at least twothirds of the shares issued by the company are held by persons who are natural-born British subjects and of which the Articles of Association contain a provision prohibiting the sale or transfer of shares in the company to persons who are not natural-born British subjects; (c) A company registered in any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions, in which at least two-thirds of the shares issued by the company are held by persons who are natural-born British subjects and which is approved by the Attorney-General.”

FOR SALE

Shipbrokers (Auckland) Ltd. Sale

and Purchase Brokers for Island passenger and trading craft, tugs, lighters and pleasure craft. Box 1679, Auckland.

Cables: “Shipsales”. T. B. Blakey, Agent, Phone 4850, Suva.

FOR SALE FLEETS, new 32 ft. workboat hull, planked, decked, wheelhouse fitted, no machinery, £1,400. 66 ft. landing barge, 50 ft., 60 ft., 66 ft. diesel workboats tugs, cargo ships, all tonnage. FLEETS, Rowe’s Bldg., Edward St., Brisbane, Qld., Australia. Cable: “Fleets”, Brisbane.

“Samoan Songs Of Love And

DANCING”. 33-1/3 LP record containing 14 of the most melodic Samoan songs— recorded in Apia. £2/10/- Samoan currency, post paid. Samoa Records, P.O.

Box 139, Apia, Western Samoa.

REFRIGERATORS guaranteed completely reconditioned Kerosene Electrolux, Hallstrom, 12 months free service. Electric SEALED units only, four years free service from £24/10/-, Aust., F. 0.8.

Leaflets EAST COAST AGENCY PTY.

LTD., Box 4809, G.P.0., Sydney.

FIJI ISLANDS. —Delightful beach residence, 3 miles along main road from famous “Beachcomber” Tourist Hotel, Deuba. Recently completed from specially selected durable Fijian timber on concrete, 1,400 sq./ft. Large lounge, 3 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, and toilet. Completely furnished, including gas stove, large ’fridge, and electric light. Out buildings: boathouse (boat with outboard engine), wash-house, garage/workshop. %-acre garden. 75 years lease. Excellent sea, underwater fishing and fascinating coral gardens on the doorstep. Photographs supplied on request. A sound investment at £F5,000, or best offer. Owner transferred. Enquiries to: J. Derbyshire, Forestry Dept., Suva, Fiji.

STEEL CARGO VESSEL, 387 tons d.w., length 142.2 ft. by 27 ft. by 8.5 ft. beam. 250 bhp diesel engine—£Stg.22,loo. Steel cargo vessel, 1.462 tons d.w., 148 ft. x 27 ft. x 11 ft. Diesel engine—£Stg.2o,soo.

Steel cargo vessel, 1,648 tons d.w., 163.8 ft. x 26.4 ft. x 11.1 ft. Diesel engine 400 bhp—£ 5tg.33,000. For further particulars write to: A. Jalil Brothers, P. 0., Tavua, Fiji Islands.

STAMPS

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.

Trade Enquiries

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might w from Hong Kong (Photographic and C Equipment, Transistor Radios, Housefc Appliances, Chinese Brocades, Pla Flowers, Cultured Pearls, etc.) we supply you. Right prices and perse care assured. Please write us quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd., I Marina House, Hong Kong. Establisi in Hong Kong since 1936.

WANTED TO BUY. Native Art, hai crafts, weapons, musical instruments, shells, etc., from Pacific area. Cents South Pacific Traders, Box 127, Broads Sydney, Australia.

Mercantile Trading Co., 10Th Pl

Alexandra House, Hong Kong, accept r purchases, camera, transistor, binoex and general merchandises, wholesale pr C. S. & JOHNSON YOUNG CO., P.O. 3038. Hong Kong. Export Hong K Chinese manufactured goods. Imj Island produce. Enquiries welcome.

ACCOMMODATION FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydi Water frontage, large, comfortable, bedrooms, linen and cutlery. 10 minx to city. Enquiries; Nelson & Robert Pty. Ltd., Q.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney. A

Sea Shells

WANTED TO BUY good quality specir shells for collectors, make offer, v prices and quantity. Enquiries; No.

C/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Austrs

Books, Magazines

All Books And Journals On At

Tralasia And The Pacific Boug

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and t free on application. Correspondence vlted. Berkelouw. 114 King St., Sydil Telephone; BW 7874,

Power Farming Technical Annu

Just issued. Complete data on your p tation machinery in 1962-63. 508 page fully illustrated. 17/6 per copy, post fl ORDER FROM "POWER FARMING", G.P.O. BOX 1813, SYDNEY.

WANTED

Butterflies And The Larger Moths

From all Islands in INDO-AUSTRALIA, NEW GUINEA/

Indonesia, Borneo, Aaalaya, Celebes Islandss

INDIA, PHILIPPINES, or any FAR OFF ISLANDS. Those; interested, please write for free instruction on hovw to earn money in spare time collecting butterflies for us name and address clearly.

A. Glanz, Butterfly World

295 East 98th Street, Brooklyn. 12., N.Y., U.S.A.

Please write youu 156 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Available In Kerosene And Petrol Models

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Brisbane Queensland Australia

Index to Advertisers ams Industries 23, 33, 38, 69, 95, 105, 141 moods Ltd 32 gliss, W. & Co 60 sett-A.N.A 144 nott, Wm. Pty. Ltd. .. 58 ♦mo Cigars 69 stralian National Industries 46 strimex (Nederland) NV .. 43 k.L.M. Paints Pty. Ltd. . . 64 Hina Slipway & Eng. Co. 104 11k of N.S.W 39 ice 80 Ihell, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 145 i.A.C 92 ybon Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 20 ickwoldt & Co., Wm. . . 22 h Ltd 43 tish Paints Ltd 4 inton & Co 107 .. 35, 82, 135, cov. iii •ness, J. (Travel) Pty. Ltd. 143 Ibury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 140 Iton & United Breweries td 40 nation Company Pty. Ltd. 137 penter. Ltd. 112, 115, 160, cov. iv iricorn Charters ..100 ■oy Lee Shipyard .. ..103 yer Watson (NG) Ltd. .. 61 mmond Radio Co 72 sader Shipping Co. . . 148 imins Diesel Sales & ervice (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. 102 •K 80 lenhardt, C., & Co. ..154 ika Pty. Ltd 81 aid, A. 8., Ltd 105 Douglass, W. C. Ltd 65 Dunlite Electrical Co. Ltd. 14 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd 100, 108 Filmo Depot Ltd 71 Fisher & Co 120 Flick, W. A. & Co. Pty. Ltd. 50 Frigate Rum 53 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. .. 138 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. . . 88 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. .. 1 Glaxo Lab. (NZ) Ltd. .. 113 Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (Aust.) Ltd 122 Grocery Wholesalers Pty.

Ltd 73 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd 70, 120 Halvorsen, 8., Ltd 106 Handi-Works Co 157 Hastings, Peering Ltd. .. 124 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. 75, 127 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd 107 Hotel Metropole 143 International Harvester Co 36, 37 Invincible Motors Pty. Ltd. 18 Kanimbla Hall 77 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 53 King, Ralph W. & Yuill .. 155 Kodak (A'sia.) Pty. Ltd. . . 76 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 159 Kraft Foods Ltd. .. 26,136 Kriewaldt, E. E. & Co. Ltd. 139 Lane's Pty. Ltd 2 Lawrence, Alfred, & Co. P/L 76 Love, J. R., & Co. Pty. Ltd. 116 Mac. Robertson Pty. Ltd. .. 16 Mai leys Ltd 30 Matt Taylor & Co 103 Millers Ltd 109 Mitszumi, Jiro & Co. Ltd. 33 Mobil Oil Aust. Pty. Ltd. .. 126 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. 54 Morris Hedstrom Ltd. . 12, 59 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .. 128 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. 118 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd. 101 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The 45, 132 N.G. Aust. Line 79 Nicholson's Pty. Ltd 56 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. 134 Pabco Products Pty. Ltd. .. 50 Pacific Islands Society .. 86 Pacific Islands Transport Line 145 Parke, Davis & Co. .. 128,131 Philips Electrical Industries Pty. Ltd 52, 55 Piccaninny Manufacturing Co. 24 Polarizers International Ltd. 60 Qantas 158 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 71 Seward Ltd 95 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd 147 Shipbrokers (Auckland) Ltd. 156 Smith, Markwell Pty. Ltd. .. 110 South Pacific Brewery . .. 67 Stapleton, J. T., Pty. Ltd. . . 141 Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. 66 Stewarts & Lloyd Pty. Ltd. 129 Stipplecote Products Ltd. .. 22 Sthn. Pac. Ins. Co 86 Sullivan Ltd 54 Suncharm 80 Swallow's Biscuits Pty. Ltd. 62 T.A.A cov. ii Taikoo Dockyard 98 Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L ..106 Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L . . 88 Taubman's Ltd 74 T.E.A.L 48 Tooth & Co. Ltd 70 Thornburgh & Blackheath Colleges 41 Turners Supply Co. Ltd. .. 129 United Insurance 57 Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 149 University of Sydney . . 35 Ventura Trading Co. P/L .. 155 Victa Mowers 11l Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., The 130 Watkins, Ivon Ltd 77 Warnock Bros. Ltd 44 Westfield Freezing Co. Ltd. 28 Weymark Pty. Ltd 55 Whites Aviation 86 White Rose Flour & Milling Co. Pty. Ltd 66 White, A. B. S., & Co. .. 154 Wilhelmsen, W., Agency, P/L 62 Woolf, J. C., Typewriters, Ptv, Ltd 77 WunucWch Ltd 42 Yardley of London (Aust.) Pty. Ltd 51 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 31 157 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—D E C E M B E R , 1962

If M -■ 1 IfWillT i ;>7T» * -* .♦• * -vmwm ■P * » M gill H. ■ A C>* «

Flights A To

Qanfas, In association with Air India. 8.0.A.C.. 5.A.4 and TEAL.

Q 81.84.32 158 DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

Island Workboat

** VV ' ~4> ■ M : : '"I .

" * < -: $ m m i BOATMAN THE 22 FOOT

Kopsen Workboat

The ideal Rugged workboat built especially for the Islands — with —

• Storage Space For 2 Tons

• Plus 10 Passengers

It has a draught of 2 ft. and a beam of 8 ft. It can be installed with Petrol or Diesel Marine Engine and extras are available. •. ■ I (1)

Henderson Pumps

The high capacity marine bilge pump capable of dealing with 7i gals, of water per minute.

An English diaphragm pump that is self-priming, lightweight and non-corrosive. Approved for lifeboats and small boats. 3) TRAKMARK: ne unique canvas-backed, embossed plastic sheeting for xks and cabin top. New deck covering from the U.K.

Australia'S Leading Marine Specialists

W. KOPSEN & CO. PTV. LTD. (2) SEKURA LIFEBUOYS Super lightweight plastic foam, canvas covered Lifebuoys that supersede cork. Sizes: 24 in., 28 in. German made. Approved.

(4) Pains Distress Signals

For safety on your boat you need a set of Pains distress rockets and flares. Approved.

W. KOPSEN & CO.

PTY. LTD. 376-382 Kent St. # Sydney hone: 29-6331 (11 lines). Cables: // Kopsen ## Sydney. r COUPON Please post further details on: The K Workboat or Item Nos. 1[ ]2[ ] 3 [ ] 4 [ ] to NAME ADDRESS P.I.M. 159 4 c I F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1962

Electrolux Kerosene Deep Freezer Electrolux kerosene-operated deep freezer conserves up to 100 lb. dry weight of pre-frozen packaged foods for many weeks in tropical ambient temperatures as high as 100 deg. Fahr. (38 deg. Cent.) or even higher, provided there is a drop at night. Even fresh foods (meat, game, fish, vegetables, butter, etc.) may be kepi for several weeks or many times longer in C 80 than in an ordinary refrigerator Uses no ice or electricity. The Electrolux C 80 operates anywhere by kerosene, economically and with high efficiency.

Anywhere in the Tropics . .

I I % r // \?.S k I N & D NEW GUINEA CO. LTD.

Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo 5.C.1.E., Noumea BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD., Vila, Santo

Island Products Ltd

Port Moresby 8.5.1. P. TRADING CORP., Honiar = Gizo F.J.R. SIMMONDS, Norfolk Islan 160 DECEMBER 1962 PACIFIC

Islands Monthl

he lirfnted A in IF Aus^Yi?i jI h AT Hf >N Q ? TY ‘ LTD ” 29 Alber ta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set up and onnted m Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. 29 Alberta Street. Sydney.

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. fhe Shell Co. of Australia Ltd. .loyds of London >tewarts & Lloyds (Distributors) Pty. Ltd.

Australian Agents: Sums, Philp & Co. Ltd. (All States) London Agents: kirns Philp & Co. Ltd., London, E.C.3.

San Francisco Agents: lurns Philp Co. of San Francisco EXPORTERS OF:

Ioffee Beans, Cocoa

Seans, Peanuts, Rubber

md TROCAS SHELL OVERSEAS TRADE ENQUIRIES NVITED DEPOTS: Kainantu Popondetta For service throughout the Islands HEAD OFFICE:

Port Moresby

BRANCHES; Port Moresby Kainantu Samarai Madang Kavieng Kokopo Wewak \ Goroka / \ Robaul / \ Bulolo / \ Daru / \VWau \ Lae * Buto fertiliser no^ «/> G o °o 5$ BP ELECTRICAL GOODS TRACTORS AND MACHINERY STATIONERY °R.

Sa FLOOR COVERINGS Sugar IURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

DECEMBER, 1962 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

BV OP A 0 v A v 196 Z Q CAPITAL £ 10,000,000

General Merchant!

Forty-eight 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 America Manufacturers includin Electrolux, Chrysler, Eon McCallum's Whisky, Vic: Mowers, Enfield Engine

Buying Enquiries

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: Morris Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Conm St., Sydney.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LIE 27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Cable Address; "CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.O. Box 168, Sydb PACIFIC ISLANDS MoNTHLY-D E C E M B E R , 1962