Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 35, No. 1 ( Jan. 1, 1964)
1964-01-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific Islands Monthly JANUARY, 1964 VOL. 35, NO. 1.

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I. 35. No. 1. JANUARY, 1964 [?] This Issue IERAL / Territories Ministers 7 ch for Poisonous Fish 32 Call for "Togetherness" 33 hback on 1963 47 neysider in Maoriland 57 serving Islands Handcrafts 63 ?. Taylor's Autobiography 88 sr Pinney in the South Seas .... 88 > "Pandora's" Last Voyage 89 iian Rocket Tests 101 'ey of Islanders in NZ 113 Records Microfilmed 113 )K ISLANDS >tonga Hotel 8 / Cabinet Members 15 ihiki Castaways in Rarotonga .... 33 s Soon on Political Future 35 fralian Seafaring Partners 80 Training Course 113 lin Under UN Pressure 10 ernor May Be Leader Needed 12 abans Prospering 19 quated Liquor Laws 27 fralian Commission Plan 39 . Prichard's Early Days 88 terious Banana Disease 116 )l Exported 121 Tourist Project 122

Mch Polynesia

' Hotel 8 ti Air Rights 9 aroa Atoll May Change Hands 71 jraphy of Noted Tahiti Couple 91

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Protest Over Two-Storey Buildings .... 72 Mission Schooner's Role in Pacific War 77 Census Results 113 Tarawa Causeway Opened 114

Lord Howe Island

Flying Boat Service 9 NAURU Resettlement Plan Rejected 11

New Caledonia

More Japanese Tuna Boats 39 Leaflet on Dangerous Cone Fish 114 Automatic Weather Stations 115

New Hebrides

Emergency Hurricane Supplies 13 Plane Crash 13 Advisory Council Meets 30 Ex-Servicemen's Club Opened 30 First Karwenu Graduates 114

Norfolk Island

New Hotel 8 TV Programmes Picked Up 40 Tourist Boom Brings Opportunities . 41 New Stamps 115 New Radio Transmitter 116 Administrator to Retire 117

Papua-New Guinea

Talks Over Border 8 First Native Officers 10 More Support for "New Guinea" .. . 11 Popondetta Agricultural Training Institute 11,114 Varzin Case Appeal 13 Territory Set for Elections 13 Education Problems 17,116 Sandalwood Trade Revived 19 Lillian Schoedler's Death 19 King or Queen Concept 27 War Scars on New Britain 29 Roman Catholic Seminary 37 ASOPA Pass List for 1963 55 Problems of Reserved Electorate 61 Daily Routine at a Patrol Post 82 Lae Wharf to be Extended 101 Bougainville Mines Cleared 101 Radio Wewak 113 Malaria on Biugainville 113 New Lae Hospital 113 Keravat Power Station 115 Cone Shell Death 116 Moresby-Kwikila Road Project 116 Anti-Venene for Snake Bites 116 Dividend for Copra Growers 122 Rubber Planted on New Ireland 122 Tonolei Timber 123

Solomon Islands

Economic Outlook Brighter 7 First Bishops Consecrated 12, 36 Battle of Savo 25 Harold Markham's Privy 79 Musician's Tilt With the Law 81 Phoenix Islands Migrants 105 bve cn Saturday Work 115 Buckets for ll7 lExciting Timber Prospects 121 TONGA Reaction to President Kennedy's Death 17 Queen Salote in NZ 31 Modern Shopping Block 122

United States Trust Territory

Long, Involuntary Voyage 33

Western Samoa

Apia, Asau Harbour Plans 29 Polynesian Airways Ltd. 35,115 Low Banana Prices in NZ 123 DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 15; Magazine Section, 77; New Books, 87; Pacific Shipping, 97; From the Islands Press, 111; In a Nutshell, 113; People, 117; lommerce, 121; Deaths of Islands People, 129; Travel Talk, 131; Shipping and Airways Information, 134.

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By Stuart Inder The policies of Australian and New Zealand South Pacific rritories will be steered by new hands at the helm in 1964. As result of general elections in both countries on November 30, the L Minister, Sir Leon Gotz, lost his seat and the Australian Minister, r. Paul Hasluck, was given a new portfolio. lEW Australian Minister for Terri- ' tories is Mr. C. E. Barnes, a leensland blood stock breeder. The w NZ Minister is Mr. J. R. Hann.

Sir Leon Gotz had been NZ inister for three years. He was deited for the Manurewa seat, which a district about 16 miles from ickland. He lost by a narrow 1,524 tes. Manurewa is a new seat created when electoral boundaries were altered recently, and was regarded as marginal. Sir Leon never has had a secure seat and held at least one marginal one before.

Said Sir Leon; “This will probably mean my departure from the political scene but these things happen. I regret losing, but it was a difficult one.

My main regret is that I will not be able to finish the work I started. I would have liked to have seen selfgovernment for the Cook Islands.”

The NZ Department of Island Territories is responsible for policy in Niue and the Cooks (including the Tokelaus). Its former main interest, Western Samoa, has been independent for two years, and the Cooks will be given internal self-government in 1965, so there is not a very big job left for the new Minister, Colourful Sir Leon With the disappearance of Sir Leon (he was knighted last year by the Queen for his work in organising the Royal tour of NZ) there goes from the Islands scene a colourful and controversial character.

A tough ex-planter (Malaya and Western Samoa) with an eye and an arm missing, Sir Leon’s refreshingly apt choice of words with which to describe Islands problems and Islands personalities has time and again had his staff of career public servants crying into their beer in sheer terror of his being reported.

“What the hell will we do with him!” said one officer to me at a reception a year or two ago, when Sir Leon was expounding forthrightly to a small group about a neighbouring territory.

Like most people with long Islands experience and a genuine love of the Islands, he has strong views on most aspects of Islands life, and he has never much cared who knows it.

His successor will probably seem tame by comparison.

Mr. Hannan, who is 64, has been a member of Parliament since 1946.

He held the portfolios of Health, Public Trust, Friendly Societies and Immigration from 1954 to 1957.

In the last Parliament, he was Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister of Maori Affairs, and Minister-in-Charge of the Electoral Department—portfolios he retains in the new Parliament.

Mr. Paul Hasluck, who is now Australian Minister for Defence, is an opposite type to Sir Leon. His statements have always been careful, considered, correct. He rarely makes off-the-record comments to the Press, and has never allowed his staff to give information without his authority.

His official handouts are on routine matters and any worthwhile information is first announced in Parliament or to the UN. Pressmen who may have had wind of it for weeks have meanwhile found it impossible to confirm it, and often impossible to get any additional facts after it has been confirmed.

High Tribute This policy of handing out information only on his own restricted terms has won Mr. Hasluck many critics.

The same critics would agree that Mr. Hasluck’s term as Minister has won him an honoured place in New Guinea’s history. No Minister has worked harder, with more skill, for better results than he. When New Guinea becomes independent, Mr.

Hasluck will have been the chief architect.

Mr. Charles Edward Barnes, 62, is still an unknown quantity, but the

Brighter Outlook

In The Bsip

The BSIP financial situation is at last developing a tinge of pink to replace the grey. There was the suspicion of a modest blush in December when the Financial Secretary, Mr. L. M. Davies, announced to the Legislative Council that the Solomons required only another £A 12,000 from the UK grant to make the budget balance for 1964. This would be the smallest increase in the last decade.

Estimated expenditure is £2,002,000, revenue £1,130,000, and UK assistance under the Overseas Aid Scheme is £235,000, leaving a shortfall of £637,000 to be met from the grant-in-aid.

Salaries will take £795,000 of the expenditure.

In 1963 imports were £2,085,000 and exports £1,700,000. The deficit in the trade balance was an improvement of some £215,000 compared with 1962. Exports were up £BO,OOO.

The High Commissioner, Sir David Trench, described progress as most encouraging and said it looked as if the Solomons was at last entering a period of greater development.

See Commerce, p. 121.

Mr. C. E. Barnes. 7 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

general view of his departmental officers soon after he took over in Canberra was, “He looks like being a good bloke”.

Mr. Barnes doesn’t consider that the job in New Guinea has been done and that he is merely winding up a few ends for Mr. Hasluck.

“There is certainly tremendous credit due to Mr. Hasluck and to the officers of his administration,” Mr.

Barnes told me two days after he was sworn-in. “But that doesn’t mean we can be satisfied. Although a lot has been achieved it is nothing to the problems that face us in the future.

But with experience and the honest co-operation of all concerned, a lot more can be achieved.”

To Visit Soon The new Minister hopes to take his first official look at P-NG, the Northern Territory, Nauru and Norfolk Island “as soon as possible”.

First to be visited will probably be P-NG. He was last there with a Parliamentary delegation in April, 1962. His party visited Port Moresby, Goroka and Lae.

“Why did the Prime Minister select you as the Minister instead of a Brown, a Smith or a Jones?” I asked him. He smiled.

“I suppose he had his reasons. All I can do is give you my background and you make what you like of it!”

The Barnes family have had Queensland holdings for more than a century. C. E. Barnes’ grandfather took up Lyndhurst Station, 250 miles SW of Cairns, in 1862. His maternal grandfather took up Oak Park in 1865. .His father bought Lyndhurst in 1914, sold it to the Queensland Government in 1918, having, the previous year, bought Canning Downs m the southern Darling Downs. Canning Downs is now owned by the Minister, who breeds blood horses.

In the ’thirties, C. E. Barnes formed a syndicate and went mining in the north for such things as wolfram and tin. He got a pilot’s licence and flew his Gypsy Moth for 10 years in and out of remote spots.

When war came his flying experience took him into the Air Force as a Flying Officer with a fighter section, and this in turn took him to Milne Bay and the outlying Papuan islands, such as Goodenough, for 12 months around 1943. He ended up with RAAF Intelligence.

When Mr. Barnes’ appointment was announced it was stated somewhere that he had “extensive business interests in New Guinea”, but he says this isn’t true. He has no commercial interests in New Guinea.

Mr. Barnes is no professional politician and his rise to Ministerial rank has been remarkably quick. He entered politics only in 1958 in Sir Arthur Fadden’s old seat of Mc- Pherson (“I still hadn’t made up my mind two days before nominations closed”) representing the Country Party. He had become interested in politics as a result of the bank nationalisation fight, and first lent a hand only because of that.

The new Minister has three daughters and a son.

My guess is that he got the appointment because of his close interest in the welfare of Australia’s North, which is an important and growing part of the Territories’ portfolio. He has to keep his eye on Norfolk Island and Nauru together with P-NG.

With his private enterprise background I personally predict he’ll do the whole job very well.

The departure of Mr. Paul Hasluck from Territories means that two of the key figures in the development of Papua-New Guinea for til last 13 years served out their tim together.

Mr. Hasluck was given the poi( folio in May, 1951, at the same tim as Territories was made a separas ministry, and took in the Norther Territory.

On the job at the same time cam Mr. C. R. Lambert, as SecretaiL Mr. Lambert retired in Novembd ( PIM, Dec., p. 17), since when thes has been no announcement about H successor. No doubt the nea Minister, Mr. Barnes, will have tlj job of selecting him.

Sir Donald Cleland also has nc much longer to go in New Guinea He has been Administrator sintr February, 1953 (he had held tHj position in an acting capacity fro;c the previous April) and is due ftl retirement in the normal course < events in 1966.

New Pacific Hotels

Proposals for the building of two new hotels in the Pacific—on Norfolk Island and Tahiti—were announced in December.

The Norfolk hotel (plans, for which have been approved by the Minister for Territories) will be at Kingston and will incorporate the ruins of two convict buildings. Initially, it will have 60 beds.

The Tahiti hotel, to be built at Punaauia, about 20 miles from Papeete, will have 160 beds.

The Cook Islands Government has also invited inquiries from anyone interested in building a modern, good standard hotel at Rarotonga Talks Over WNG Border Incidents INDONESIA and Australia are soo< to discuss a survey of the bordt between P-NG and West Nes Guinea. This was announced in Djt< karta in December following an ii terview between the Australian An bassador there, Mr. Keith Shann, am the Indonesian Foreign Minister, DC Subandrio.

Mr. Shann sought the interview ; a result of border incidents. An Am tralian border survey party had n cently found that temporary wood©! border markers, which had be©-, erected with the concurrence of tfij Indonesians, had been uprooted. TF border is also marked at intervae with permanent concrete cairns hv there has been no interference witi these.

Mr. C. E. Barnes, in his first offi cial Press statement since his appoinn ment as Minister for Territories, core firmed on December 20 that theia had been border incidents.

Mr. Barnes said the P-NG surv©\ branch had stopped putting up tHJ wooden markers following the inoi dents. The markers were being pirq there until permanent markers coulu be erected. The trouble had been duf to “some misunderstanding amomi the local Indonesian authorities.”

In Djakarta following the talHI with Mr. Shann, Dr. Subandrio saifi he expected no more border troubl'd because basically we have reaches: an understanding on the matter”.

The border marking is now beimi continued.

Sir Leon Gotz,

Touchy Situation Follows France's Tough Attitude On Tahiti Air Rights One of the touchiest situations in the history of commercial aviation in the South Pacific developed in mid-December when the French Government terminated the rights of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. to fly into Tahiti, and kept the Australian Government guessing on whether Qantas would be allowed into Tahiti in 1964. By year’s end Qantas also found it was out. tEAL, the pioneer airline into Tahiti, had been operating gular services between Auckland d Papeete since 1951, and for a imber of years it provided Tahiti’s ily air link with the outside world.

Qantas, on the other hand, began service only on November 22, '63, following an agreement with ance made a few weeks before, owever, the agreement only gave mtas landing rights in Tahiti until e end of the year.

The announcement in December at TEAL’s landing rights to Tahiti id been cancelled corresponded with i announcement that the US Civil eronautics Board had approved a in American Airways plan to fly to Tahiti.

The plan is for Pan-Am to lease e route of South Pacific Airlines ;tween Hawaii, Tahiti and American imoa, operating this in conjunction with its existing route between the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Rumours early in December that France planned to “ditch” TEAL were greeted with expressions of disbelief by people in Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti who remembered t h e eulogies that leaders such as Tahiti’s Senator in the French Parliament, Mr. Alfred Poroi, had uttered only recently about TEAL’s long an d invaluable service to Tahiti.

But when the rumours were finally confirmed, the official reaction was r ~ mart ahlv remarkably restrained.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Mr.

Holyoake, merely said that his Goveminent (which owns TEAL) was “most disappointed” at the French action.

TEAL’s chairman, Sir Andrew McKee, said—a little more forthrightly—that the French decision was “short-sighted and distressing”, and that if the French proposed to stick to their “get tough” line, he hoped New Zealand would respond and terminate French rights into New Zealand.

The strongest word that TEAL’s general manager, Mr. F. A. Reeves, would allow himself to muster publicly to describe the French decision, was “annoying”.

He said the decision was annoying because: • TEAL had spent much money building up its Tahiti operations, which had been profitable only in the past two years. • The Tahiti Coral Route terminal was an integral part of TEAL’s South Pacific tourist promotion programme. • It would be a setback to a promising airfreighted export business in New Zealand foodstuffs and other products which TEAL had pioneered.

"Troublesome"

Mr, Reeve said that although the French decision would be “troublesome” in its effect, it was by no means critical.

“TEAL,” he said, “will continue to promote the South Pacific as a tourist mecca —an image which TEAL has done so much to establish in the past.

“We must ensure New Zealand’s adequate participation in the post- Mangere tourist boom expected from North America.” [Mangere is the new jet airport being built near Auckland. It will be opened in 1965].

“We in TEAL are naturally very disappointed by this French decision, but our future does not depend alone upon the transience of the French Government.

“It will no doubt make our task a little harder in the next year or Leonard Murray Dead Mr. Leonard Murray, Administrator of Papua from 1940-42, and nephew of the late Sir Hubert Murray, died at his home in Sydney on December 10, at the age of 76. He had spent the greater part of his working life in Papua. Details of his career are on p. 129.

FLYING BOAT SUNK: A party of Ansett engineers visited Lord Howe Island in early December to salvage parts of the wrecked flying boat "Pacific Chieftain" which was wrecked in a storm there last July. The remains of the aircraft were towed out to sea for disposal. Airlines of NSW will put a new flying boat into service between Sydney and Lord Howe next Easter. The plane, a Sunderland, has been secured on lease from the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Photo: Clive Wilson. 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

so, but it should not adversely or unduly affect our airline’s longer-term prospects.

“As soon as Mangere is ready for commercial jet operation, the French Government can be expected to approach New Zealand with a view to re-establishing rights for the French carrier in this country, “Any such approach would automatically raise the question of the resumption of TEAL services in Tahiti.”

Mr. Reeves said the French decision would not affect TEAL’s programme to re-equip with DCS series 52 jets in 1965, as only a small part of the company’s plans involved the use of Tahiti.

Probably only the niceties of protocol prevented the TEAL executives from saying openly what many other people were saying in New Zealand and in the South Seas served by TEAL (including Tahiti).

That is, that the French decision was mean and narrow. For the purposes of expediency the French had sacrificed an airline which had done 2?^5. e ., la y the foundations of Tahiti s present tourist .prosperity, and thus French commercial interests’ than anybody else. TEAL had also provided Tahiti with a lifeline when nobody else would.

Despite the official TEAL statements, Tahiti has always been a key *9 s planned expansion and the French have known this. The situation could in fact be serious for TEAL, which is still a small airline on the way up.

Although the French Government’s decision on TEAL was to become effective officially from December 31, 1963, the French Government agreed to allow the airline to continue flying into Tahiti in the New Year so that passengers booked on its flights would not be inconvenienced. The flights will continue until other airlines can handle the bookings.

About 450 passengers have booked seats for January on the Pago Pago- Papeete section of TEAL’s Coral Route, and about 250 have bookings for February. Other seat reservations have been made for up to 12 months ahead.

The French Government’s decision that Qantas’ landing rights in Tahiti had been cancelled was announced on December 26—only six days before an Australian-French Air Agreement terminated, and only two days before Qantas was due to make its last flight to Tahiti for the year.

France announced at the same time that the UTA-Air France round-theworld air service through Sydney would end after December 31, and that in the New Year the airline would refuel at Darwin and fly direct from there to Noumea.

Australia and France have temporarily agreed that Qantas and UTA-Air France will each continue to operate a weekly service between Sydney and Noumea in January, but future services after that month are in doubt.

The cancellation of Qantas’ Tahiti landing rights is a severe blow to the airline’s hopes of establishing an air route to London via Mexico.

The idea of starting this service, and thus getting a leg into Latin America for further expansion, was “? e - c M reason w hy Qantas wanted iahiti landing rights.

However, in a speech officially despatching the inaugural flight on November 22, the Australian Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Paltndge, made it clear that aviation relationships between Australia and France were not the best.

P-NG Gets First Native Officers Papua-New Guinea in December got its first native Army officers.

Ramu Ted Diro, 18, of Rigo, and Balire Patterson Lowa, 19, of Talasea, graduated as 2nd Lieutenants from the Australian Army Officer Cadet School at Portsea, Victoria. Both men are officers with the Pacific Islands Regiment, which up till now has had all European officers.

The men were at Portsea 12 months, but it will be another 12 months before they return to the Territory, for they will be given junior leadership training in Queensland with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. They will rejoin the PIR at the end of 1964.

Yachtsmen Missing

The search - rescue co-ordination centres at Nadi, Sydney and Auckland, have sent messages to all parts of the South Pacific seeking information about two Sydney yachtsmen who have not been heard from since they left Sydney in a trimaran last June (see p. 104).

Negative replies were received from Tonga, Pago Pago, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, the Kermadecs, Rarotonga, Apia, Aitutaki and Tahiti.

Fiji Under

PRESSURE I[?] THE UN Britain in December gave furthS deails about its plans to arrange ' constitutional conference in Londt\ to hammer out a plan for politics progress in Fiji.

THE details were given to the IX General Assembly, which pq Britain under pressure to “transfi power in Fiji’. It was the second tinn in 1963 that the UN had taken s interest in Fiji’s politics, and for tIJ second time Britain—and Fiji—maoi it clear that the interest wasn’t appn ciated.

The General Assembly voted 78-1 with 21 abstentions, on a motion thd Britain “take immediate steps i transfer all power to the people » Fiji”.

The British delegate at the UniteJ Nations, Mr. Cecil King, told tHJ Assembly before the vote that it w;\ Britain’s policy to fulfil in Fiji “tHJ obligation laid down by the Unit©] Nations charter”. But the people « Fiji had made it plain that indepeis dence was not at present the issu« for them.

Mr. King continued: “Since the United Nations Commiii tee on Colonialism adopted its resolvl tion on Fiji [last July] the Britisi Government has proposed the coic vening of a conference in the neis 12 months or so to work out the ne'e constitutional framework which wih preserve a continuing link with Britain and within which further prcr gress can be made in the directioo of internal self-government.

“This conference will considol whatever aspects of Fiji’s constitutioo the people of Fiji wish to discuss, ini eluding the question of the franchisi and the composition and membershiii of the Legislative and Executiwi Councils.

“In view of my Government’s del cision to convene this conferences my delegation will abstain on thd draft resolution submitted here.

“However, this abstention shoulli not be taken to mean that my Gove eminent is committed to any particular constitutional solution for Fiji- —it will be for the repesentatives od the people of Fiji themselves to deaf cide this in consultation with thd British Government.

“It is precisely for this purpose thasi the conference is being convened.”

In Suva the Fiji Government madd 10 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

short statement on the UN resolun: “Abstention from voting does not iresent acceptance of the resolution t expressed Britain’s rejection of ; claim that the United Nations has y right to interfere in Fiji’s affairs this way.

“This resolution is no more bind- ; on Britain than the resolution ssed about Fiji by the United itions Committee on Colonialism t July.”

Earlier Resolution [The July resolution of the UN mmittee affirmed the right of the jian people to self-determination d national independence and ined Britain to work out with the ople of Fiji a new constitution ividing for elections on the prin- »le of “one man, one vote”.

It asked Britain to take immediate ps to transfer all power to the ople of Fiji “in accordance with nr freely expressed will and desire d without any conditions or resertions”.

Four of the six Fijian members of i Legislative Council issued a pubstatement in July saying that the V Committee on Colonialism lould not interfere in our affairs less we, the people of this country, sk its assistance through our knowledged leaders”.

The four European elected memrs of the council all agreed that ii and Britain could be left alone work out the best system for the )lony.

All the Indian members of the uncil remained silent.] In Suva in December all the unicial members of the Legislative Hindi, meeting the day after the V resolution became public prorty in Fiji, held a meeting, and reed that constitutional change was matter of domestic concern to Fiji d the UK Government.

The unofficial members decided to :ommend to the Government that the “Member System” be introduced in the first half of 1964.

Their statement read- “ They (the unofficial members) welcome the statement of the British delegate to the United Nations that it will be for the people of Fiji, through their representatives, to decide the pattern of constitutional development in consultation with the British Government.

“Informal discussions on constitutional matters have been held since August this year. As a result the unofficial members have unanimously decided to recommend to the Government that a “Member System” should be introduced in the first half of 1964.

“It is expected that the recommendation will be debated early in the New Year. Plans are also being made for the continuation of discussions among unofficial members as a preliminary to the London conference proposed by the Secretary of State for 1964 or 1965.”

The unofficial members held their meeting behind closed doors. When it came to signing the statement to be issued four of them refused to append their signatures.

These were the loosely-styled Federation members, three of them elected, Messrs. A. D. Patel, S. M.

Koya and J. Madhavan, and one nominated member, Mr. C. A. Shah.

All are Fiji-Indians.

The attitude of these men is not regarded as representing general Indian opinion but it is certainly a straw in the wind.

One of the major problems to be plumbed at the constitutional conference is the differing attitudes to Fiji’s political future held by some Indians and some Fijians, and especially to find out how strong and how representative these attitudes are.

The Indian population of Fiji is almost half the total population of 427,000.

NG and Nauru New Guinea came in for one of its regular attacks by the Soviet at the General Assembly in December.

The Soviet delegate accused Australia of “colonial repression”. But the Indonesian delegate paid tribute to Australia’s policies in Papua-New Guinea.

Australia was still waiting for counter proposals by the Nauruans for resettlement, the Australian representative, Mr. Dudley McCarthy, told the General Assembly Trusteeship Committee in New York in December.

He said that the Nauruans had rejected Australia’s plan to resettle them on Curtis Island.

More Support For 'New Guinea' Papuans representing nine Local Government councils in the Central District of Papua recommended in December that the Territory of Papua-New Guinea should be called “New Guinea”. This can be regarded as an important move towards finding one suitable name for P- NG.

The Central District includes the Port Moresby area, Papua’s stronghold, and one of the objections in the past to P-NG being called simply New Guinea has been the fact that, allegedly, Papuans wouldn’t like it. On the New Guinea side of the border there doesn’t appear to be any great opposition to the simple term New Guinea. If this name were adopted, presumably P-NG natives would call themselves New Guineans whichever side of the border they came from.

The recommendation of the Papuan Local Government councils will be discussed later this year at a territory-wide conference of councils.

To Train Farmers The Popondetta Agricultural Training Institute was officially opened on December 3 by Mr. H. H. Reeve, P- NG's Assistant Administrator (Economic Affairs). Mr. Reeve is seen presenting a certificate to one of the graduates of the Institute's foundation class. See also p. 114. At left is one of the buildings. 11 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

Cathedral Ceremony New Fiji Governor 'Could Be The Leader Fiji Needs' From Judy Tudor, in London It could be that Fiji has struck the jack-pot with her new Governor. Sir Derek Jakeway (Sir Derek only since the beginning of December when he was made KCMG) is probably the youngest Governor Fiji has had and he could be what Fiji needs—a leader and not a figurehead.

FJARK, squarish, with a pleasant personality and devoid of chitterchatter he listens well and says his piece only when he has something to say. He looks as though he could be a do-er as well as an administrator ■—in fact, without much imagination it is easy to see him as a District Commissioner of one of New Guinea’s tougher districts who had arrived there the hard way via many patrols.

And it is not always that Fiji’s Governors look as though they could ever have been Patrol Officers.

With Britain’s Colonial Empire now shrunk almost to vanishing point, Fiji, after Hong Kong, is probably the most important Governorship in the bestowal of the Colonial Office.

But if these top jobs have all but disappeared, the people in line for them have not. It has sometimes, in the past, been a matter of conjecture how or why the Colonial Office has chosen certain men for the Fiji post, but something more than hit or miss —or more appreciation of the problems of Fiji—appears to have been attempted this time.

A new Governor, no matter how able, isn’t going to present a readymade answer to all Fiji’s troubles, of course. Amongst the imponderables is the United Kingdom’s policy on the matter of former colonies and what appears to be her desire to liquidate them as soon as possible.

Unique Fiji is unique in this age of emerging new nations in that the indigenous Fijians like things as they are and want no change. But if the British Government has decided that it is time to push Fiji out of the nest, whether it wants it or not, it could be that this new Governor, who looks as though he could take a tough decision when necessary, is the chosen instrument to do it.

The Governor and Lady Jakeway leave the UK about mid-January by air via USA and should arrive in Fiji about January 18. Their three sons—one at University and two at school—will remain in Britain.

P-NG Is All Set For Biggest Pacific Election With nominations due to close a January 6, Papua-New Guinea is a set to take part in the most massiv electoral campaign yet seen in tH South Pacific. Candidates, mam hardly out of the Stone Age, will U seeking election for 54 seats i P-NG’s new House of Assembly.

OUT the most significant point o O the elections, which are due ti begin on February 15 and continuj until March, is that voters for tlr first time are on a common rollcomprising about 1,000,000 name out of a total Territory population a 2,000,000.

To collect the names, Natiw Affairs officers have carried out the most concentrated programme ce patrols ever conducted in the Territory, visiting about 12,000 villages; thousands of hamlets, and coverinr 174,000 miles of country.

They have visited all but 6,00<( square miles of territory still classh fied as “restricted”, where visiton are still likely to get shot at by arrows from the trees. (The same thing can still happen in unrestricted areas too.) Only one-third of P-NG’s voten have had any voting experience (through local councils) and the res mainder include men who have neves heard of a ballot box or a parliaments Terrific Job Electoral officers, under the direcc tion of Mr. Bob Bryant, have been; working frantically to educate then new electors with the aid of tape*recorders, loud-hailers, film pro-c jectors, and various gimmicks to geis their attention. The course of thei unique elections will be followed by' The Archbishop of New Zealand, Most Rev. Norman Lesser, and eight bishops took part in the consecration ceremony in Honiara Cathedral on November 30 of the Solomon Islands’ first Anglican bishops, the Rt. Rev.

Leonard Alufurai and the Rt. Rev.

Dudley Tuti. See story page 36.

Photo: Australian Board of Missions. 12 JANUARY, 1964-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

ibers of interested overseas obers. orty-four of the new parliaments will be elected from open torates in which anyone may d regardless of race. Ten will dected from special electorates in ;h only Europeans are allowed to d. The rest of the House will be eminent appointed, y the end of December, Eurois who had indicated they would standing for open electorates ined Mr. Les Farley, Papuan ter and husband of former world ous ballerina Elaine Fifield; Mr. i Wells, a coffee planter from Goroka; and Mr. Jack Roy h, a Finschhafen businessman, se to stand for special electorates ided Major Don Barrett, of aul, a former member of the slative Council; New Ireland ter Mr. W. J. Grose; Rabaul tiessman Bert Price; Port esby missionary, Rev. Percy tterton.

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HE Australian High Court in December granted leave for eral parties to appeal against the Igment of Mr. Justice Mann in at has become known as the rzin land case. New Guinea. It 1 hear the matter at sittings in Iney some time in 1964, possibly irch or April. The High Court :ision on the Varzin matter will of great importance in New inea because it is likely to affect er titles besides those of the rzin lands, near Rabaul. fhe leave to appeal was granted the P-NG Administration, to the stodian of Expropriated Property I to Mrs. N. E. Richards, of 3aul. A judgment last year by P-NG Chief Justice, Mr. Justice nn, put an encumbrance on the rzin lands, which are owned by s. Richards, in favour of a group natives. n the High Court application, i. Richards’ interests were repreted by Mr. A. H. S. Conlon, a ney barrister briefed by Parish, ience and Mclntyre as agents for rner Shand, of Rabaul.

Tie application will have to be mded, nominally, by the Director P-NG Native Affairs. Some insting matters of law procedure expected to be brought up during hearing, which will probably last longer than a day or two.

New Hebrides Gets Emergency Supplies After Hurricane Emergency supplies were shipped from Suva to the New Hebrides in the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Cook in December following a hurricane which did substantial damage in the Group in mid-November.

THE Cook’s cargo included 70 tons of cement, 1,200 super feet of timber, four tons of roofing iron and eight tons of reinforcing rods.

The Cook brought the material from Suva at the request of the British Resident Commissioner, Mr.

A. M. Wilkie.

Most of it was destined for Tongoa and Tongariki in the Shepherd Group, which suffered the worst damage in the hurricane.

Tongoa is the most densely populated island in the New Hebrides, It is only eight miles in circumference, but its population is in the vicinity of 2,300.

The hurricane completely destroyed the village of Matengi on the eastern side of Tongoa, and about 70 per cent, of the houses in other villages. There was also considerable damage to coconut palms and other trees.

The French and British District Agents for Central District No. 1 (which includes the Shepherd Group) were authorised to spend up to £Stg. 1,000 on immediate relief measures, and they left Vila in the MV Alize on November 22 with emergency supplies.

They unloaded three and a half tons of rice, cases of tinned meat, clothing and building materials at Tongoa, and then took about 80 Tongariki natives, who had been on Tongoa during the hurricane, to their own island which had suffered much the same damage as Tongoa.

Although the force of the hurricane was felt throughout the New Hebrides, the only other place that was severely affected was Forari, the manganese mining centre, on the eastern coast of Efate. Latest estimates place the damage there as high as £75,000.

Messages of sympathy and offers of help poured into Vila as soon as news of the hurricane was received abroad.

The British Red Cross headquarters in London wired the local branch offering £625, and the French Red Cross put £450 at the disposal of the French Residency.

The vessel UOrientaise arrived at Tongoa on December 12 with food and clothing that had been given by the Red Cross and the people of New Caledonia.

Into The Drink!

A Super Emerald aircraft, piloted by its owner Mr. Philip Delacroix and carrying Mr. Claude Mitride as a passenger, crashed into Vila Harbour, New Hebrides, on December 24 after hitting power lines between the mainland and Iririki Island, the site of the British Residency. The two occupants were shaken but unhurt.

The crash occurred when the plane swooped low to enable Mr. Mitride to photograph Tonkinese boarding the liner "Eastern Queen" for repatriation to North Vietnam. The plane, which cost about £6,000, was towed into shallow water. The newly-formed local aero club had been using it to train pilots.

Wharf labourers in Suva take emergency supplies aboard HMS "Cook" for shipment to the New Hebrides.

Photo: Stan Whippy. 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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D. C. Brown, recently elected Leader of Government Business in the Cooks.

HE News thinks he is “certainly” the wealthiest man in the Cooks, We make no comment on Pacific-wide reputation, except say that we know a few men in w Guinea and Fiji who might in the running for that particular lour should the blue chips ever down. It’s been our experience life that the real money is not /ays where it might appear to be.

But whether or not he is the althiest man in the South Seas, alleged, Dick Brown has certainly to where he is the hard way, or, the News puts it, “he has climbed his present pinnacle solely on his n merits”. \s leader of Government Business is in fact the “Shadow Premier” the Cooks, and if he does his properly he can expect to be :ted as the first Chief Minister the Cook Islands when that Terriy of only 20,000 or so achieves ;rnal self-government in 1965 (see 35). lut we’ll let the Cook Islands News the rest of Dick’s story, since we r e already involved it in this :e: He was born in 1905 in Mangaia he third child of George Brown, Scotland, and Wakiki, of Mangaia, I one of 18 children. He early )k over’ this large family when his ier died. He went to school in ngaia, coming to Rarotonga at the of 18 years to work for A. B. nald Ltd.

While there he became interested fie marketing of tomatoes, as well in planting himself. Starting with mall store on his own in Tupapa gradually enlarged the business to er stores, until he purchased the sent trading premises, that of Isi Merchants Ltd. and that of D.

Brown and Sons. During this ansion he also enlarged his plantareas of bananas and citrus.

During the Second World War, k (as everyone knows him) bele the pupu and hula skirt ‘king’, shipping hundreds of thousands of shell necklets and skirts all over the South Pacific—wherever the American forces had bases.

“Then copra and pearl shell became his main interests and he obtained the Cook Islands pearl shell agency of John Rie and Company, the second largest buyer in the world.

“To ship his shell to Rarotonga a vessel was necessary so he purchased the schooner Tahitienne —the first of his ‘fleet’, which included the Mahurangi, Karoro, Inspire, Rannah, Taveuni, Apanui and recently the Bodmer, the first classified vessel in the Cook Islands.

“He entered politics in 1956 when he was elected first to the Island Council, and then to the Legislative Council. He has proved progressive and liberal in his outlook, well deserving the high honour and responsibility now his.

“Up to the time of his trip to New Zealand to buy the Tahitienne, Dick had never left the Cook Islands.

Since then he has travelled widely over England, Europe and the States, also to New Zealand many times— recently on Assembly business where, with the Hon. Tuavera, he studied citrus marketing conditions.

Spends Wisely “Dick has put an amount of his self-made fortune to good use. At his own expense he has had one boy from Manihiki (whence the bulk of the pearlshell was obtained) educated in New Zealand. He lent £lO,OOO to the Rarotonga Island Council to enable that body to proceed with the tar-sealing of the main road and also lent the Co-operatives Society £5,000 to aid them in purchasing the copra-producing island of Manuae, “Dick married Mata Goringo, of Parekura, and they have six children, Albert, Henry and James, Mavis, Alex, and Tina.

“With all his experience and knowledge of planting, business, world affairs and political ‘know-how’, the Hon. D. C. Brown should be able to fill the seat of Leader of Government Business with great aptitude.”

Dick Brown, at 58, is second oldest in the new shadow Cabinet of five.

Oldest is Julian Dashwood, 64, the man who earlier in 1963 told the UN that New Zealand wasn’t pushing the Cooks fast enough ahead in development. Now he will have the job of helping NZ push.

Julian Dashwood was born in England, and is a former Malayan rubber planter, schoolteacher, motor salesman and shell dealer. He is also an author. His first book was I Know an Island, and a second, Today is Forever, has recently been published in the US.

Napa Tauei Napa, 53, is a Cook Islander, businessman and citrus grower. He is such a big grower that he hopes soon to provide enough citrus for a full load of the Moana Roa, the fruit ship to New Zealand.

Tangaroa Tangaroa, 42, was born at Penryhn, and was a wireless operator with the Government for many years until joining A. B.

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He has been with them ever since.

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All-in-all, the new Cabinet probably represents as useful a cross section of the Cook Islands as you’re likely to get. (ov er) Mr. D. C. Brown. 15 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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The Tongan Government on >vember 26, the day of President mnedy’s funeral, published a izette Extraordinary with a heavy ick border, proclaiming the day a day of national mourning.

Announced the Gazette : “AND E DO by this Our Royal oclamation, COMMAND that on ; said day, flags shall be flown half-mast, cinemas shall be closed d there shall be no public enternment within the Kingdom”.

From San Francisco, which j happened to be visiting, joint itor of PIM, Judy Tudor, wrote: fothing—not even Pearl Harbour— s so universally effected the whole tion or its friends as the Kennedy lassination, “It may be, as a TV commentator d today during the funeral telecast, it America by and large is not ared to solemn occasions of this rt, but if the stranger within the tes emerges with any impression of iterial things it is of the precision, ;nity and swiftness with which the blic events of the last tragic days ve been carried out. Emotionally, course, to have been here at this ae is an experience one could never -get.”

The death of President Kennedy 11 have no effect on US policy the Pacific. President Johnson is intimately involved in the ■eign and domestic decisions of esident Kennedy’s administration.

The American interest in the South Seas was stepped up in President Kennedy’s time and this resulted in more attention by the American public. There has been a growing recognition in the US, especially in the Government, of the Pacific as the most important single military area left in the world in which Western alliance nations have complete freedom of movement.

The US has significantly increased its budget for American Samoa and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and at the time of Kennedy’s death it was in the process of taking a much bigger share of the South Pacific Commission budget—2o per cent, as against the former 12k per cent.

The Problems of New Guinea Education LAST month we had a good shot at interpreting the forthcoming report by the Commission on Higher Education in Papua-New Guinea, but we have since begun to suspect that we were just a little too enthusiastic in considering some aspects of it.

University standards, for example.

Should they or should they not be lower in New Guinea than on the mainland? We said last month that the commission would suggest that they should be lower.

Many New Guinea people of all races have been pretty insistent at the public hearings in the Territory that a New Guinea university degree should have the same standing as one from anywhere else, and they don’t want standards lowered.

But there are others who point out that universities are like the United Nations when they meet in New York: all are equal, but some are more equal than others!

Standards differ at universities TREES MAY GO: The fate of these beautiful trees at the top of Casuarina (formerly Yarra) Avenue, Rabaul, is in doubt owing to a recent street widening programme. Before the war, the avenue was noted for its splendour, but it has not been quite the same since. 17

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A New Guinea man we know, who has taken a reasonably close interest in the work of the commission and thinks he knows what it has been getting at, insists that “a reasonable comparability is all than can reasonably be aimed at. And for New Guinea, given the very recent development of secondary education, the answer might well be to have entrance standards lower than in the South, and offset this by lengthening the degree course”, Ua T 1 J 2! t ad £ : ° f “ ur s’ 1° if JJ , e f the Sown%nnth b dlfferent from some down South.

“There seems to be no good reason why a New Guinea student need know all about the rise of the absolutist monarchy in Renaissance Europe, but he ought to know a lot about the history of the Pacific people. A Sydney history graduate, living in the Pacific, could quite like get by with the former and withoi the latter.

“And again, the degree of emphas on deserts and volcanoes could be n versed for geology or geograpl students in Australia and Ne Guinea. What matters is not i absolute identity of standard which doesn’t exist anyway, be the best means of turning out usefl citizens and informed leaders fo Papua-New Guinea.”

We’ll concede our friend hi points—although it would be interes ing to see how it works in practic “given the very recent developing of secondary education”.

And also, because a wink is good as a nod to us, we shall aid concede now that it is most unlikes that the commission will suggest the standards should be lower. Juj entrance standards.

Postscript: Since this matter of university for New Guinea has hsj such a lot of publicity these Is few months we are all likely overlook the fact that the thrn commissioners (Sir George Cunt Dr. John Gunther and Professor ♦ H. K. Spate) have had othc problems to solve besides.

They have also been looking inr the needs of vocational and technics training of all sorts and at all levele and these matters are as importar to P-NG as the academic side.

Their report should be in the hamr of the Minister some time in Janua£ (whether or not the Hon, Ministf decides to release it to the pubic is another matter) and, whatever finally says, the three commissionea should have learnt a lot!

BACK HOME: Adi Lusiana and Adi M[?] the pretty daughters of Ratu Pen[?] Ganilau and his wife Adi Laisa, who turned to Fiji recently after a holiday the United Kingdom. Ten years ago, A Mei (on the right) was the mu[?] photographed tot in Fijian traditional dre[?] who presented a bouquet and gree[?] Queen Elizabeth as she stepped asho on Fijian soil for the first time. 18 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

he Banabans In he Jet Age THE Banabans of Ocean Island • who shifted their home to a new and, Rabi, in the Fiji group, in >45, continue to prosper. Some deils of just how well they are going ter their initial unhappiness and seticks were given in an article in PIM November. Since that article was iblished, they have made another ogressive step—the division of land.

In 1957, the Banabans decided to y for a survey by professional suryors of the island’s land resources, lis cost them more than £12,000, rich they set aside from their Trust ind money, and the survey has now en completed.

The Rabi Island Council has deled to go ahead with lands distrition, which will give every member the community one acre each, lese lots have been grouped into tnily estates, which vary according the numbers in the family, but the mily estates generally total five to i acres.

They are to be held individually, rich, oddly enough, is in accordce with Banaban custom, which s always allowed for individual jure, (Many other islands, fighting sir way through the difficulties of stomary land tenures which allow r clan holdings and not individual ies, will wish they had half the luck the Banabans).

A Fiji Government development am has spent an intensive four days i the island, and the Banabans are >ping much from this visit.

A Forest officer in the team is excted to advise on what hill land is be left as protective forest (it’s obably likely to be more than half s 17,280 acres in the island).

Meanwhile the Rabi co-operative cieties have amalgamated as the inaban Co-operative Association mited so as to improve efficiency, jcoa planting is continuing apace, r the Banabans hope cocoa, tother with increased coconut plantgs and cattle raising, will finally vq them a jet age economy. andalwooders Are At fork Again in Papua |NE of the Territory’s first natural * products to be commercialised is joying a brief trade revival. It is e sandalwood trade which flourished Papua during the late 1890’s and ought many traders to the area.

The trade collapsed as mature mds were cut and it is only rently that natural regeneration has yielded sandalwood of commercial significance.

Small quantities are now being cut along the coast from Port Moresby and sold to buyers at 1/- a lb for desapped, sorted and baled logs in hundredweight bundles. Most of it is being exported to Asia—places like Hong Kong and Singapore.

The minimum size for sandalwood logs is 5 ft. long and 5 in. wide.

As far as is known sandalwood in the Territory grows only in the dry savannah areas of Papua. When cut to stump level the tree takes up to 30 years to grow to its normal 30 or 40 feet.

About 40 years ago the sandalwood trade was brisk along the Papuan west coast. Sailing ships brought Australian buyers who found ready markets for the wood in Europe and Asia. Some of these buyers, attracted by the general trading potential, remained in Papua and established the first merchant houses in Port Moresby.

Sandalwood is used for making such items as incense and ornamental boxes.

Dr. John Cumpston, of Canberra, in December sent PIM a reproduction (above) of a small oil painting entitled “Bay in the Pacific Islands, Fiji”, which is from the famous Nan Kivell collection at the Australian National Library, and asked whether any PIM reader could identify the locale.

His own opinion after examining the painting is that it could show sandalwooders at work about 1810. He thinks topography should be much the same today as it was then but can’t see whether the houses on the beach are native or European.

One of the background peaks is faintly reminiscent of New Caledonia, he thinks, Are these in fact sandalwooders at work, and if so where? ri ■ m j j /. • LIKGa 10 LIVG Dannemuslv' ' T ILLIAN SCHOEDLER was a remarkable New York woman who liked to travel.

Christmas, 1963, was the first in a great many years that she had not spent in some odd corner of the world. Many friends in many places noted the absence of her cheerful, informative letters, loaded with colour and facts. Miss Schoedler roneoed her letters, for she had so many friends to send them to, and her letters on her New Guinea experiences of the last few years deserved to be preserved as collectors’ pieces, Lillian Schoedler died in late 1963 in a car accident while on her way to visit friends in Oregon. Her death was instantaneous. She had with her a return ticket to Sydney which she hoped to make use of before the beginning of 1964—using Sydney as a jumping off place for New Guinea, for New Guinea was her favourite “odd” country.

In her wanderings she had spent one Christmas on a house-boat on the Nile, and others variously on board a ship between Manila and Singapore, in Java, in Shanghai, in East Africa, on board a Japanese ship between Capetown and Buenos Aires, in Peru in Mexico, in Paris, in Austria, Japan’

England, Australia, New Zealand and Czechoslovakia, We first met her in Madang, New Where is this sandalwood bay? See the story below. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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She told us in her friendly fashion that she had been having alternative jags of work and travel for almost 40 years. She was then almost 70.

When we met her she had already been all over Papua-New Guinea, and for some months had been living m the wildest parts of West New Guinea, too. She had visited remotest spots, gone out on patrols, stayed with Administration officers and missionaries on out-stations, and her enthusiasm was still firing on all eight cylinders - *. , , i M * • ro .’i eoed f ‘l tters ‘ f dat year told, ironically, of how after endless walking in really hazardous conditions in the Casuanna coast and sh’ThLt J 7 ° Umea ; when she had crossed crude piers of loose bamboo strips and walked long r ° u ® h tr “ ‘ runkS -l d flats, of how within ha f-an-hour of getting back to civilisation at Merauke she had threfribs Wanopen dram and broken X e * my sister, Mrs. Kimball,”

Lillian wrote to her friends, “whom you all know through her wonderful help with my mail, and who had kept worrying about my wandering alone in those headhunting surroundings, was herself attacked at that time by an armed teen-age hoodlum in broad daylight in the public lobby of her New York apartment and had her head bashed in and her purse stolen! It all goes to show how much safer it sometimes can be to ‘live dangerously’.”

She was 71 when that routine car accident claimed her, a long way from the shores of wild New Guinea, .., , , > HG JuntOT CloldDuS mHE two sons of thp PNf. ah ,“c „ „„ / ' , mmistrator. Sir Donald Cleland, f/ 1 • Lady Cleland got one of their rare Pubkc mentions m December when Sir Donald in Sydney addressed the annual speech day at Knox College. Both sons, Robert and Evan, received part of their education at Knox, although their father was educated at Guildford Grammar School. Western Australia Boih Cleland boys work in New Guinea. Robert Cleland is an Assistant District Officer, Local Government, and younger brother Evan manages three plantations in the Hisiu area.

Both boys have progressed in the Territory on their own merits, and their father has always taken great pains to avoid giving any impression that they had extra privileges becau of his own position. When Robe first started in the Territory as cadet, and later became a PO, got his name mentioned a lot le frequently than many others mere because he was the Old Man’s so The Press knew that the Old M; didn’t want any publicity for him Sir Donald and Lady Cleland ov property in the Territory and proc ably will retire there since the family is there. They have no oth children. Sir Donald will be 65 June, 1966.

The Personal Touch THE old-established Islands tradk A firm of Nelson and Robertso (they started out in business in 1895 now have a new travel departme;; which will book tours and travel ft anywhere in the world. Some peopc won’t see anything extraordinai. about this but many of the thousano of Islanders since sailing ship daj who have been serviced by N & R> unofficial travel department will giy a smile now that it has all becom official—and wish the new depart ment prosperity. N & R’s unofficii travel section began almost when th firm did—bom out of that feeling o togetherness which is still a featun of Islands life. Islands customers wfcl wanted a house or flat in Sydney fo' their leave were in the habit of ash mg the old firm to rustle up som possibilities. The old firm did. If til customers wanted to move from her to there, with the kids, would the oh firm arrange the details, since it wir closer to civilisation? The old firr obligingly did. As a free servio N & R have for years arranged a* bookings for about 150 P-NG schoo< children flying between the Territory and Australia on holidays.

N & R, of course, are typical o Island merchants everywhere whd have retained a lot of that friendKl customer relationship while the re:j of the business world has quickly be( come impersonalised.

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Gordon Thomas is still ill in the Camden District Hospital, near Sydney, and so his regular “Talk-Talk” column, which he writes under the name of “Tolala”, does not appear this month. 20 JANUARY, 1964-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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[?]etters To The Editors What Might Have Been at The Battle of Savo Sir, —The reconquest of the Dlomon Islands from the Japajse is of interest to Australians id of the many bitterly fought :tions in those waters, the battle I Savo, when the heavy US misers Vincennes, Astoria, uincy and HMAS Canberra ere sunk, ranks as the worst ffeat we suffered.

VITH all information now available, Richard F. Newcomb has told the story well in “Savo”, which as reviewed by P/M in December.

To those familiar with the history : the naval war in the Pacific, New- )mb’s account adds little to what is ready known of this sad story of )or reporting by aircraft of surface lip sightings, of inefficient transission of this intelligence, of faulty valuation of it when received, of isunderstanding between American id British officers owing to different stems in use in handing over comand temporarily, of too much trust radar, of trusting assumption that ly craft sighted would be friendly, ; unreadiness to meet the enemy when he arrived; in short, what Admiral Nimitz called lack of battlemindedness.

But one factor which Newcomb does not stress sufficiently to my mind is that in the rise of importance of aircraft, officers lost sight of the elementary axiom that each ship must, in the final analysis, keep its own lookout.

So most of the ships sunk had aircraft on board which could have been used to search and warn, aircraft which became flaming torches under fire and contributed materially to the loss of the American heavy cruisers.

Newcomb mentions that there was a general expectancy of Japanese surface attack and hints that there a re P ort (rom a <-oastwatcner.

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When the Japanese ships passed through Bougainville Strait, it was too late in the day before they came £ to Paul Mason’s arc of vision for £ im to A ee t J iem - .f P fiP ty j cou ld not see f ar m d l6 dark, The sinking of four heavy cruisers was a severe set-back but it did not itself cause the withdrawal of the transports from Guadalcanal before OING HOME SOON: Dr. Ailao Imo, of estern Samoa, seen here with an unentified partner at a recent Polynesian ssociation function in Sydney, has been sing a year's post-graduate course in fdney. He expects to return to Apia in [?]bruary. Dr. Imo graduated in medicine Dunedin University, New Zealand, in 1958.—Telephotos. 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1964

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Phone; 61-2052 eir unloading was complete. The ithdrawal of the carriers caused at, and the “shoestring” on which e Marines subsisted in their subselent battles to hold Guadal.

But if Admiral Mikawa had gone i and attacked the transports at eir anchorages after sinking the uisers, the result would have been lamitous. Guadalcanal could not ive been held and the war would ive lasted at least another year.

This was another occasion (as at Dral Sea and Leyte Gulf) when the panese High Command failed to e the advantage it had gained to flict far more grievous losses than did. This is one of the riddles of e war in the Pacific, particularly len contrasted with the high iciency of the Japanese fighting ips.

There were many lessons to be irnt from the defeat at Savo and our great benefit, the Yanks did ?t that. In Newcomb’s words, the :ret of American success was the ility immediately and honestly to sess mistakes and correct them.

Long may they continue to do so.

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The King Is Dead. Long Live The Queen!

Sir, —I agree with Tolala (Dec.) at New Guinea people do have an predation of the concept of a aeen or a King (as the case may ).

When I was stationed in Manus st after the war ended, there were lite a few Cargo Cult type moveents and the leaders were referred by their followers as Kings. And ere was one all powerful King— Ling Pera” who controlled everying—it took us months to realise ey meant Canberra!

And about Queens. Mick Foley, >w District Officer, Mt. Hagen, told e that when he was at Talasea a cal rabble rouser named Mope ferred to himself as King Mope.

A\ King Mope, mi bos bilong ipela”.

Mick heard Mope saying this one iy and said “Olesem Wonem Mope, ipela inogat King nau emi dai nis mipela igat Kiwin nau”. Mope plied; “Maski I orait mi Kiwin tope!”

Yours etc., M. B. ORKEN and Titles Commission, oroka, NG.

"One For The Road" In Fiji , ~ . , Sir,—The annual meeting on tourism was held in Suva a few weeks ago, and some of the broader issues were discussed, but one of the main aspects was totally ignored.

Tourism depends almost entirely on a healthy and prosperous chain of hotels around the island. The hotels in small village communities depend almost entirely on their “bar trade” to enable them to keep their bedrooms, lounges and cuisine in a befitting manner, for overseas guests who stay in these hotels mostly travel on a rigid budget, and purchase little outside of their board and lodging.

Some even smuggle in their liquor requirements in their suitcases.

M TT _..., . 4 , Under Fiji s antiquated liquor laws no traveller can get a drink before 11 a.m., and most buses and travel agency cars leave both Suva and Lautoka between 7 and 8 a.m., passm.g all the hotels on their journey without the passengers having a chance of that friendly drink that tends to ease the tensions of traveling over our second-class, tortuous, liilly gravelled and dusty roads. The hotels thus miss that small, but vital, s ,° ur c e of income that can either make or break them, Outside of that morning traffic, 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Write: P. R. WARNER, 121 CROWN STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. 3st of the country hotels receive ry little custom from the scattered rabitants, as the Government has anted club licences in every district, d all the big, and some of the lall stores are licenced to sell one ttle of every kind of liquor from a.m. until closing time in the evenl. Previously stores were allowed sell only in wholesale lots of a nimum of one dozen and one.

This loosening of restrictions on all t hotels can only result in higher iffs to tourists and locals, if the tels are to pay their way.

It is time that the tourist agencies, tel owners, and the general public proached their elected Council repjentatives to have the laws lended, and allow local and overjs tourists to drink “One for the >ad” on their uncomfortable jrneys.

Yours, etc., H. S. FADDY. idroga, ji- • SAMOAN HARBOURS: Conuction of new wharves and hariurs at Apia and at Asau, on vaii. Western Samoa, could start thin six months, according to UN viser Mr. Harry Spence, speaking Apia in December, He said gotiations were still going on to range long term loans. About 'O,OOO dollars worth of equipment, eluding a dredge, were needed, he id. The Apia newspaper Samoana ported that the equipment would ter be used for reclaiming land near pia, including the filling of Vaiusu iy to form a new airport close to pia. About 35 acres of land would so be reclaimed near the new Apia liarf.

Last Scars of the Pacific War Although December marked the 22nd anniversary of the outbreak of the four-year Pacific War, old scars and old wounds still show in some parts of the Pacific. The two pictures at left show one of the last important Japanese relics to be moved from Rabaul —the former headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the South West Pacific area. The Japanese anchor insignia is cut into the concrete. The shelter-like building was on New Guinea Club ground. It has been removed to make extra parking space, For a number of years the club manager’s house was built on top of the structure. Centre, the manager of Tol plantation, on the south coast of New Britain, Mr. Tony Asanuma, points to a clearing where he recently uncovered graves of some of the 180 Australian soldiers murdered by the Japs in the notorious Tol massacre of 1942. The remains have since been removed by the War Graves Commission. At right is the Rabaul memorial, recently refurbished by the New Britain Women’s Club, to those hundreds of Australian prisoners who were aboard the “Montevido Maru” in 1942 when the ship was sunk en route to Japan. Since this photo was taken a bronze plaque has been added to the memorial. 29

Acific Islands Monthly— January, 196

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The New Hebrides Advisory Council is to be enlarged from 18 to 24 members, and members will serve for two years instead of one as previously.

THE British and French Resident Commissioners announced this when they opened the seventh session of the Advisory Council in a joint speech in Vila on December 3.

The Commissioners are Mr. A. M.

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To obtain the outstanding sum, the Resident Commissioners proposed tJ introduce a proportional tradim licence fee, which would vary accord ing to the total value of imports am exports handled by traders, am would replace the present fixed rati licence.

It was also proposed to calculati copra export duty on a true FOj value, instead of the present artificis one, which was less than the tnu FOB value.

Adjustments would also be made ii the Customs tariff, involving increase in some non-essential items, but re ductions on captial investment good) and agricultural equipment. Finally to complete the sum of £BO,OOO, small sum would be withdrawn fron reserves.

Protection of Copra The Resident Commissioners sail that, with the continued reduction o French import duty as a result o Common Market arrangements, thd protection of New Hebrides copra oc the Marseilles market was rapidll coming to an end.

The quality of New Hebrides copn must therefore be improved if itri future was to be assured, and a tern of grading was essential fct achieve this improvement.

The Resident Commissioners sail that despite uncertainties of price anai attacks on trees by parasites, the ex? port of copra from the New Hebrides for the year 1963 was expected tJ reach the record figure of 36,00*0 FOR EX-SERVICEMEN: British ex-servic[?] men in Vila, New Hebrides, now haw an attractive club overlooking the harbou[?] The building is of two storeys (although it may not seem so) as it is on the sid of a steep hill. President of the e[?] servicemen's association is Bill Reid, a[?] Australian, who put in a lot of effort t[?] get the clubrooms built. Photo: Reeo Discombe. 30 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

The New Guinea Party

A Policy for the Territorys Security The Party will contest the House of Assembly elections for Papua-New Guinea with the following main objectives: Representation for the Territory in the Federal Parliament • A free and independent plebiscite for West New Guinea • Improvement in the Territory’s defence • A trebled amount for education • Equal opportunity for all races • The maintenance of stable government.

People of all races are invited to nominate for preselection before January 6 with Charles Kilduff.

Barrister and Solicitor, Port Moresby. is. (This is 1,000 tons more than ; previous record in 1959.) Speaking of the premature fall of conuts, which has affected copra oduction on many plantations, the isident Commissioners said that a jlti-purpose team of experts, includl entomologists, soil specialists, mt pathologists and plant genetiits, would be sent to the New Hebles by the French Institute of :eania (Institut Francais d’Oceanie) rly in 1964 to investigate the causes the nutfall, which might not be e only to the insect Axiagastus mpbelli, hitherto suspected of being j cause.

They said that despite marketing ficulties at the beginning of the ar, exports of manganese for the ar to December 31, 1963, were excted to reach 30,000 tons, cornred with 15,000 tons in 1962. [ln their speech to the Advisory >uncil in December, 1962, the Resint Commissioners estimated that mganese exports for 1963 would al 60,000 tons.] The Commissioners said that the la fishery, the third important arce of wealth in the archipelago, d run into “certain difficulties”, but 5 export tonnage for 1963 was excted to be about the same in 1963 in 1962 (4,700 metric tons).

Report on Tuna An expert from the South Pacific >mmission had examined the probns of tuna fishing in the area in dober and his report, expected in nuary, was expected to indicate lat steps could be taken to improve j present situation.

Other points made by the Resident mimissioners were that:— • Of 15,000 children of school e in the Group, 12,000 (80 per nt.) were now going to school, mpared with 75 per cent, in 1962 d 55 per cent, five years ago. • The exploitation of timber on Erromanga and the export of frozen beef from Vila and Santo were new industries of promise in the New Hebrides. • Several important companies had shown interest in establishing cocoa and pineapple plantations in the New Hebrides, and the first positive steps towards getting the industries started were likely soon.

The Resident Commissioners added: “We have the best of reasons for being reasonably optimistic about the future of our archipelago. Despite setbacks, we find resolute progress in all fields of activity—political, social and economic.”

Queen Salote In Nz

Queen Salote of Tonga arrived in Auckland from Nukualofa, on December 1 and will stay at her Epsom home, Atalanga, until March. Auckland's Tongans turned out in early morning drizzle to welcome the Queen when she arrived in the MV "Tofua". The Queen's party included nine-year-old Prince 'Amilalivahami, second son of Crown Prince Tungi and one of the Queen's grandsons.

Marching Girls Of The GEIC Precision marching is a specialty of these girls of Immaculate Heart College for Girls at Taborio, Tarawa Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.

The girls are seen in action at their annual sports day. The only music was provided by one accordion and one drum.

Photo: Jim Kum Kee, Betio. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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In Search Of The Pacific’s Poisonous Fish Dr. P. Helfrich, of the Mari i Laboratory, University of Hawa was in Fiji during November as pa of a Pacific-wide study of poisona fish and their feeding grounds.

HIS visit coincided with the yea. prediction for the “small risini of the balolo and he was at Levul to observe this from the Bth to tl 10th. He then chartered the Maroy for an investigation of poisonous fii feeding grounds.

Studies had previously been mai over a period of some years in mai areas of the North Pacific. Toxicii of these reefs however is said to 1 decreasing and more informatio over a wider areas is needed.

Maroro anchored in the reef pas age at Gau Island and so successfl was the fishing in this area that C Helfrich decided to stay there an forgo a visit to the reefs north Wakaya, which are currently report#: to have a large number of poisono* fish.

Numbing Effects Fish collected and identified I local fisherman as poisonous we; tested at a laboratory made avat able by the Fiji Agricultural Depai ment.

In addition enquiries were made all areas about the number of person in the past who had been poisons by daniva, the sardine-like fish thr periodically schools in Fiji waters.

Several deaths have been records over the last few years from tl eating of daniva. It appears that tl intestines are the most toxic part ■ these small fish.

Theories that poison is also prese; in the slime and scales on fish bodii received positive evidence during tf survey. One of the fishermen, takin time out to smoke after helping i tag and sort some of the dokonivm caught, found that the whole of tH area around his lips went numb.

He had roughly wiped his hands o a piece of waste carried by the shipq engineer, and when the engineer us© the waste before smoking he als experienced some numbing effects.

Evidence on shark behaviour w v also collected for passing on to au other member of the University stae who is engaged on this work. DC Helfrich was able to interview z Gau, Tone Waiteatei, who la* February was mauled by a whiti shark. 32

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CASTAWAYS The three survivors of the 63f drift voyage from Manihiki, ok Islands, to Erromanga, w Hebrides, were welcomed Rarotonga, by a big, enisiastic crowd when they arsd by air from Apia on vember 8. 3E three men, Teehu Makimare, Toka Tube and Tupou Papai, e blown away from Manihiki in 7 ft boat after almost completing 20-mile crossing from Rakahanga M, Nov. p. 10 and Dec. p. 63).

Tier reaching Erromanga, the i were transferred to hospital in i. They began their flight home to Cook Islands, via Fiji, American Western Samoa, on November 2.

Leg Pains »n arrival in Rarotonga, all men e outwardly in remarkably good sical condition, but all were suing from leg pains, eehu Makimare was met by his i and two children, who had elled from Manihiki to Rarotonga he trading schooner Tiare Taporo. a Tube was met by his father— wife and family still being in nihiki. And Tupou Papai was ted by his wife and one child, down from Manihiki. he relatives of the three castas had been on their way to Raro- ;a from Manihiki when word received from the New Hebrides they were safe, mong the crowd at the airport to t the castaways was the Cook nds Resident Commissioner, Mr.

O. Dare, and members of the k Islands Legislative Assembly, rayers of thanksgiving were said in Maori and English; the castaways were smothered in leis; and a unit of the Junior Missionary Volunteers of the SDA Church formed a guard of honour as the men left the terminal building.

The castaways and their families were due to return to Manihiki on the first ship sailing for that island from Rarotonga.

Incidentally, PIM has just learned of another remarkable, involuntary voyage that took place in the Pacific last year when six men were blown away in a 40 ft outrigger canoe while making the 50-mile voyage from Ulithi Atoll to Fais Island in the Yap District of the Carolines. The men turned up 22 days later at Samar in the Philippines.

The men, all Micronesians, were aged 34, 42, 45, 60, 62 and 65. They left Ulithi for Fais on April 11 with about 30 coconuts, 10 gallons of water, a small basket of rice, and 300-400 smoked fish to trade for tobacco.

After sailing all night, they could not see Fais, so they turned back until they got their bearings from a red light on a radio antenna at Ulithi.

They then set out for Fais again.

On the second run to Fais, they

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However, the story ended happily.

The men were flown home via Manila and Guam, and arrangements were made to send their canoe after them.

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The three castaways from Manihiki were smothered in leis when they were met by relatives at Rarotonga's airport on November 8. The men are (from left) Tupou Papai, Teehu Makimare and Toka Tube. 33 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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The Cook Islands new Leader [ Government Business, Mr. D.

Brown, who is “Chief linister” in the Cooks’ new ladow Cabinet, will visit Well- [gton early in the New Year to scuss some vital aspects of ooks-New Zealand relations ter the Cooks achieve internal If-govemment in 1965. i MONG the main points for k discussion is the recommenda- >n by the constitutional advisers at Cook Islands affairs in the New aland Parliament be handled rough a Select Committee of the Z House of Representatives rather an through an elected Cook ander sitting in the House.

Under the recommendations of the nstitutional advisers, whose report s been accepted by both the Cook ands Assembly and the NZ Govament ( PIM, Dec., p. 33) the >oks in 1965 will have full Cabinet avernment under a Chief Minister, d the Cooks Legislative Assembly 11 have complete legislative tonomy.

Head of State The Queen will be the Head of ite in the Cooks as in NZ and : Cook Islanders will retain NZ izenship. NZ will have a Comssioner in the Cooks, but he will rry out a role somewhat similar a Governor and will have no wer to over-rule the Assembly.

However, since NZ will continue provide most of the finances for 5 Cooks, NZ will continue to ircise control of policy simply by atrolling the purse strings.

Before the Cooks Assembly closed 1963 session on November 19, it cted Mr. Brown and three others a deputation to discuss the future sembly and NZ Parliamentary ationships in Wellington. The iers are Mr. William Estall •eputy Leader of Government siness), Mr. David Hosking and Ngatapuna Matepi.

As Deputy Leader of Government siness, Mr. Estall is also a member the Cooks new Executive Comttee, or “shadow cabinet”, the membership in which was announced by Mr. Brown the previous week.

Mr. Brown was appointed Leader as a result of a secret ballot by the Cooks Assembly, but he is required to make his own selection of his “cabinet”. The Assembly also elected a Speaker.

The only other nomination for the post of Leader was that of Ngatupuna Matepi. Mr. Brown received 11 votes to Matepi’s 10.

The full membership of the new Executive Committee, with their portfolios, is: Mr. D. C. Brown: Leader of Government Business.

Mr. William Estall: Deputy Leader of Government Business, and in charge of Finance, Treasury, Customs, Inland Revenue, Post Office, Radio, Shipping and Air, Labour.

Napa Tauei Napa: Agriculture, including fisheries, Co-operatives, Hotel, Freezer.

Mr. Robert Julian Dashwood: Health, including dental; Social Development, including Housing; and Broadcasting, Justice, Police and Prisons.

Tangaroa Tangaroa: Public Works, Education, Printing, Power, Survey.

The new Speaker is Teariki Tuavera, He is not a member of the Executive Committee. The only other nomination for Speaker was that of Ngatapuna Matepi, and the matter was decided in a secret ballot.

The Cooks has had an Executive Committee since 1962, but its powers have not been as wide as those that are now given to the new Committee under Mr. Brown.

Three members of the new Committee were also members of the old one, whose full memebship was: D. C. Brown, T. Tangaroa, W.

ON AIRWAYS BUSINESS: Three leading figures in Western Samoa (from left) the Financial Secretary, Mr. P. P. Heller, the Minister for Air, Mr. F. C. F. Nelson, and the chairman of directors of Polynesian Airways Ltd., Mr. E. F. Paul, visited Fiji early in December to negotiate landing rights for PAL at Nadi. Pending a decision, PAL began a fortnightly service from Apia to Nausori (near Suva), which takes passengers from Western Samoa direct to international air links, and simplifies the flow of Cook Islands traffic from New Zealand. 35 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Administratively it had been ‘'excellent”, and decisions had been made on the spot. On no occasion had there been any acrimonious discussion.

He added: “If the Hon. D. C.

Brown and his new members work as well as the old Executive Committee then the Cook Islands are in good hands”.

The timetable for internal selfgovernment in the Cooks is now as follows: 9 The constitutional machinery to be put into operation by the NZ Parliament immediately. • The Cooks Assembly to be dissolved in February, 1965. • A 22-member Assembly to be elected by universal suffrage in March, 1965. • The new Assembly to meet in May, 1965, and elect a Speaker and Chief Minister; the Minister to name four other members of the Assembly to form a Cabinet.

For some notes on the backgrounds of the new shadow cabinet, see Tropicalities, p. 15.

History In A Ramshackle Cathedral The consecration of the Rt, Rev.

Leonard Alufurai and the Rt. Rev.

Dudley Tuti as first Solomon Islands Bishops in the Anglican communion took place in Honiara on November 30. Here, Canon Frank Coaldrake gives a colourful report of this most important event in the history of the Church in the South Pacific: The most ramshackle cathedral the world was the scene of this A Andrew’s Day’s most significant ses vice in the world. No one preset noticed the cathedral—it did not see.* to matter that the building is an oc tunnel-shaped army hut with co> lapsed arches, sagging eaves and glasi less windows. A few did notice tk leaking roof when a sudden showt. found its way through in trickle > Nothing else was bedraggled.

THE complicated service flowr smoothly and solemnly on. TT people were spick and span. Islanj people have taken to shirts and shorn or skirt and blouses and the packu congregation seemed suddenly have brought the new world inn focus.

With several hundred “left-oven on the lawns around the cathedral tit congregation totalled nearly 2,00 For a week past every available boa and even some canoes, had beis bringing people in from islands fi and near—from the New Hebridef 1,000 miles to the south—froo Tikopia 1,000 miles to the east-t from Ontong Java 400 miles to tt north. From distant places in om and twos, from nearer places parties of 10—chosen representatiw The Rt. Rev. Dudley Tuti (left) and t Rt. Rev. Leonard Alufurai, the Solemn Islands' first Anglican bishops. 36 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The day was declared a public )liday throughout the Protectorate.

The service was broadcast on the cal radio, this being the first dayne broadcast attempted. Proammes had always been recorded d replayed in the past but this rvice was brodcast live.

Sir David Trench, High Commismer of the Western Pacific, and idy Trench were in the congregam. Representative senior clergy im other churches were present.

The Archbishop of New Zealand, - Most Reverend Norman Lesser, nducted the service because Melasia is in the Province of New Zeaid. He was assisted in the conseation by the Bishop of Melanesia, d Rt. Rev. Alfred Hill, the Bishops Nelson, Carpentaria, New Guinea d Polynesia; the Assistant Bishop New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. George nbo (a New Guinean), the Bishop Aoteoroa, the Rt. Rev. W. H. napa, and the Coadjutor Bishop Brisbane, the Rt. Rev. John Hudn.

The occasional sermon was cached by the Bishop of Melanesia.

He reminded the congrgeation of that God had wrought in over 100 ars in the church in Melanesia, om the initial visionary planning of shop George Augustus Selwyn, the irtyrdom of Bishop Patteson and i heroic suffering of Stephen iroaniara, the church had grown as i offering of a people to God.

The cathedral rector, Canon Edgar ood, was responsible for the ornisation and succeeded with the Ip of many clergy and wardens laying the ground for a faultless emony.

The chairman of the Australian >ard of Missions, Canon Frank •aldrake, was present on behalf of the board. The ABM supports the diocese with budget grants and has undertaken a substantial extra responsibility in part of the cost of the Assistant Bishoprics.

The appointment of the two Assistant Bishops had been made possible by the financial support of the Islands church. The people have shown their support for the consecration of two of their number by promising extra support.

This will be raised in different ways, but on one island they have given land, cleared the jungle and made five new coconut plantations for the church. In a few years the nuts will produce copra for sale and the proceeds will go to the Bishoprics.

Round of Duties The new bishops, the Rt. Rev.

Leonard Alufurai and the Rt. Rev.

Dudley Tuti, will serve initially as assistants in the full round of duties.

The Islands people welcomed the new bishops in their own way, first with a feast, then with a great dance.

Food for the feast had been brought in with the people—four bullocks, 43 pigs, 14 turtles, 40 fowls, two goats and 10 tons of fruit and vegetables.

Firewood for the cooking was cut by two of the church’s men serving a prison sentence and assigned to that task as their share in the festivities.

Another mission promised a truckload of flowers for the decorations and sent the truck all the way into town the day before to ask the mission for the petrol they would need to bring the flowers in.

The local broadcast commentator began with a 10 minute introduction in Pidgin English describing the scene at the cathedral. He finished with the words “Make im Bishop begin soon mebbe half hour mebbe 10 minit mebbe sometime,” just as the first procession entered the cathedral.

The dancing on the sports ground was watched by about 2,000 people.

Men from several different islands danced old custom dances of welcome to a chief. The rhythms and the costumes stirred the blood and many times there were shieks and calls from the crowd the same as we hear from teen-age fans of a pop-singer.

The broadcast commentator said Honiara had never seen anything like it.

Seminary Students Early last year, the Roman Catholic mission of Papua, New Guinea, and the British South Solomons officially opened Holy Spirit Regional Seminary at Alexishafen, near Madang, to train native Roman Catholic priests of those areas. The first students— -22 of them—were received in March for a course of studies lasting seven years. The students are seen here with Doctor Robert Baffour, Vice - Chancellor of Kwame Nkumrah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. 37 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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The fleet of Japanese tuna ishing boats operating in New Caledonian waters will be inreased from 31 to 40 in early aniiary. In April, the total may >e increased to 64.

A T present, two or three fishing boats come into Noumea each lay to deliver their catches to the efrigerated vessel Eiyo Maru, which s anchored in a cove of the Ducos Recently, there has been talk of ringing in a second refrigerated vessel as the Eiyo Maru is too small o handle the present fleet’s catches.

Meanwhile, the floating Japanese ishing school Hokusei Maru has >een in Noumea on a visit. The ship >elongs to the fishing faculty of the Jniversity of Hokkaido.

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Australia To Put Permanent Post In Fiji—At Last!

Negotiations which had been continuing for some months came to fruition in late November when Australia announced that an Australian Commission will be established in Suva early in 1964.

THE first Australian Commissioner will be Mr. R. N. Hamilton, at present councillor in the office of the Senior External Affairs Representative in London.

Sir Garfield Barwick, Australian Minister for External Affairs, said it was important for the Australian Government to have direct contact with the Government and people “of this important Pacific Territory, where there are many Australian private interests and citizens”.

Top officers in the Australian External Affairs Department have been pressing for such a posting for some time. In the last year or two the Australian Consul in Noumea has been given the additional task of keeping a general eye on developments in the New Hebrides and in Fiji, and has done the job as well as can be expected considering the difficulties of movement from Noumea.

But it has been obvious to some Australians that closer attention was required in Fiji affairs. The political pressures in Fiji are growing and Australia has not always created the A familiar sight on the Noumea waterfront these days—a Japanese tuna boat alongside. Photo: Fred Dunn. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Fiji, although so closely linked with Britain through the Deed of Cession, certainly has very strong ties with Australia. Apart from a big Australian population in the Colony, most of the big corporations are Australian-owned.

Australia has a tremendous trade with Fiji and has displaced Britain as the biggest exporter to Fiji, although Britain still buys more from the Colony.

In the last few years the Qantas sales representative in Suva has had the title of “Trade Correspondent”, but the title is no more than the name implies. He passes on to the Australian Trade Department trade inquiries he may receive, and vice versa.

From time to time there is criticism that Australia should do more to adjust the unfavourable trade balance, In a statement in December the Fiji Government welcomed the decision, saying it would mean even closer links commercially, culturally and socially between the peoples of the two countries.

The Fiji Times in an editoriat commented; “The establishment of an Ausc tralian Commission is probably pan of a perfectly legitimate Australiai push into the Pacific. It might perhaps be said that the Australiai flag is following trade, rather thai the other way round.

“Meanwhile, it may be recalle* that at the time of the Suva tradJ fair, authoritative Australian state ments were made to the effect tha; it was realised that Fiji-Australiai trade must be a sound two-wa; business, but, as far as can b« discerned, nothing has been done t» put the precept into practice.

“Nobody has yet explained wlr Fiji should buy more and more frorr Australia, mainly at the expense ot Britain, the country which does more for Fiji than the rest of the work put together.”

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Mr. Ray Hoare, Norfolk Island's only radio "ham", recently won the distinction of becoming the island's first television "ham".

It came about after Norfolk businessman Mr. Ken Prentice thrust on him a rather ancient-looking, standard TV receiver, which is the only set on the island.

After coupling a Yagi 4-element beam antenna to the set, Mr. Hoare had the satisfaction, at dusk on November 21, of receiving a programme from ABN Channel 2 in Sydney, 930 miles away.

Since then he has picked up other programmes from Sydney, and has received the sound but not the picture from New Zealand stations, about 630 miles away.

Mr. Hoare believes he has been picking up the beam "straight from the ionosphere". He expects even better reception during the summer. —RL. 40 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Tourist Boom Brings Opportunities

Fortunes Go Begging On Prosperous Norfolk Is.

By Staff Writer Robert Langdon.

Norfolk Island, Australia’s pleasant Pacific outpost of green, undulating hills, grim and romantic history, duty-free goods, sheer cliffs and towering pines, has been struck by a tourist gold rush. 7TTH increased publicity abroad, ' additional accommodation, and ra air services, tourists are flockto the island at the rate of about a month, compared with 55 a nth in 1959-60, and their numbers still increasing.

Directly or indirectly, the tourists writing out the pay cheques for riost every person on the island, beise, with the collapse of the whal- ; industry and the closure of the ?le station a year or so ago, Nork now has virtually no source of ome other than the tourist instry.

The tourist industry is doing so 11 that the Norfolk Islanders are >re prosperous now than they have ;r been.

Tet fortunes (small ones) are go- ! begging simply because many of : people lack either the enterprise, jrgy or inclination to cash in while : going is good.

The most obvious fortunes that no e is making are to be made in the )d line —providing the necessary meat, fish, eggs, vegetables and fruits for all the hungry tourists.

Another potential “gold mine” is a laundry and dry cleaning business, something that Norfolk lacks.

Anything Grows Sufficient meat, fish, eggs, fruit and vegetables for present needs could probably easily be produced on the island, as Norfolk is a land where almost anything will grow and the waters around it abound in fish.

At present, however, only a fraction of the food needed on the island for the tourist trade is being produced there. For example, the Kingfisher Airtel, Norfolk’s newly-opened 70bed hotel, expects to import about 65 per cent, of the food that will be cooked in its kitchen.

Mr. Max Freyer, the Kingfisher’s extremely food-conscious manager, becomes quite miserable whenever he thinks about the difficulty of obtaining food in such a land of milk and honey.

“There is a shortage of meat,” he Typical scene on Norfolk Island, showing the famous pines. 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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“When the sea is rough, we cannot t enough fish—although this situam will not apply when the new mpany, Norfolk Island Fisheries d., begins freezing fish in a bigger iy- “Eggs are at a premium, so I have d to arrange with Qantas to air fight our needs from New Zealand, reckon on taking about 300 dozen week.

“There are very few oranges, and pies are almost non-existent.

“At present, I find it hard to get :h things as rhubarb, lettuce and ives, although I have made rangements with a number of local Tners and gardeners to supply our eds in the future.”

Mr. Freyer might also have menned a shortage of chickens, potais, and beans, and possibly several ier vegetables and fruits.

Shortages But his list of shortages is an imsssive one, when one bears in mind at the Kingfisher is only one among /eral hotels and guest houses on arfolk with the problem of feeding arists, and that more accommodan to cater for more tourists will □bably be built in the next 12 anths or so.

This new accommodation includes: • A hotel at Kingston, which, inilly, would accommodate 60 guests d a staff of 20, and could be exided to accommodate a further 40 ests. • A group of 40 holiday flats at rnt Pine, to be built in stages in >cks of four. • A 50-bed motel-style guest use to be built at Redleaf, near : entrance to the airport.

All this new accommodation, plus aposed extensions at the Kingfisher rtel, will provide almost twice as my beds for tourists on Norfolk exist at present.

Phis will mean that whereas about 3 tourists can now be accommoted at one time, there will be beds ; something like 400 when the new ildings are put up.

Fherefore, unless something is ae quickly about producing more ad locally, there will be an even :ater shortage of the basic foods : ore the year is out.

Local food prices would thus proby become higher; and more, exisive overseas foodstuffs would /e to be imported. These factors uld increase the cost of a holiday Norfolk, and so the island would lose one of its attractions—its cheapness—which entices tourists there now.

Chances for Islanders Generally speaking,he people who £ J n oor.ha^ S U P S° n ne t e°ds Pr forTs tourist trade are the 300-odd descendants of the Bounty mutineers. the island as the islanders —everyone else being a “mainlander” from Australia, New Zealand, etc.—make up just under half of Norfolk’s population. They own most of the land that is not Crown land, and they have a long tradition of being farmers, gardeners and fishermen.

However, the islanders have never been commercially-minded people, and, probably because of their Tahitian ancestry, they have never had much inclination for regular work.

Thus, even if they have seen the opportunities for making money out of the tourist boom, they have not done anything about it.

Some of them, moreover, are opposed to the development of the tourist industry on the ground that and unhurried way of xhis ■ an understandab i e viewpoint, but rational fee . cause, unless Norfolk’s tourist in- . ’ • , , , , • . nA • «. 7 7 li' f ‘ S ? d ‘ il, fashion V ‘ thmg but prlmltlve fashlon ' ~ Government Subsidy In fact, without a Commonwealth Government subsidy (£32,500 last year) and without revenue from postage stamps sales (£23,500), Norfolk Islanders would probably have had to pack up long ago and move to either Australia or New Zealand.

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Bank of New Zealand, Sydney; Bank of New South Wales, Sydney stantly tries to impress on peoplil every industry that the island has pn viously tried has failed, mainly bw cause its products cannot be place anywhere competitively because of ii remoteness from the rest of tb world.

For instance, the distance betwee Australia and Norfolk (930 miles immediately adds £l7/10/- a ton i freight to any product, and lighteraq adds another 37/- a ton. MoreovvO Norfolk Island does not produce am thing that is not produced in Aui tralia.

“It is therefore quite plain,” Majoc General Wordsworth says, “that it no use trying to take Norfolk’s gooo to market. So the only answer, Norfolk is to survive, is to bring th market to the goods. I am thus firmi convinced that the future of thr island depends on tourists.”

However, Major-General Word! worth has no wish to see Norfof Island turned into another Gox Coast.

This was a point he strongs stressed, and which brought man hear-hears, when he officially openei the Kingfisher Airtel on December before a crowd of 200 guests.

Atmosphere “We have a beautiful island hen with an atmosphere which I thin must be preserved,” he said. “It h:i a good climate and a very friend! people. It is quiet and has a sloo tempo of life.

“It is eminently suitable for a hole day for a tired business man or s elderly couple, as we do not have tHi attractions for young people wH want to dance every night.”

Major-General Wordsworth saa that in due course, the Kingfishtri Airtel would have squash courts, , golf course, tennis courts and a chas Major-General Wordsworth. 44 JANUARY, 1 964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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“The combination of what we have sre now is something I beseech you Dt to disturb.”

However, despite what Majorgeneral Wordsworth said, Norfolk iland is changing—though not necesirily for the worse. For example: • Five of the 50-odd miles of lotorable roads on the island have sen sealed in the past few years, ad about another mile is to be ;aled in the next six months. • The number of motor vehicles is constantly increasing, and most of them are modern. (At June 30, 1963, there were 356 vehicles compared with 325 the year before.) • More and more houses are being supplied with electricity, and are thus able to be equipped with washing machines, refrigerators, and other mod. cons. • An expert from the Postmaster- General’s Department is to visit the island soon to investigate the possibility of installing an automatic telephone exchange, capable of serv- »ng 10 ? subscribers. This would re- Pl a ? e I* 16 existm g manual exchange, which is only open in business hours, anc * which serves no more than half a dozen pnvate houses.

They've Never Had It So Good Norfolk Island’s current tourist boom has created so many jobs on the island that, probably for the first time in the island’s history, there is over-full employment. As a result: • Elderly people who have gone to the island to retire have been “roped into” jobs—at least one such man being employed by the Administration • The new Kingfisher Airtel flew University students from Australia over the Christmas period to work as kitchen hands, waitresses, yardmen, etc. • The island’s bowling greens have frequently remained uncut for lack of a man to cut them. • In mid-December, the Administrator, Major-General R. H.

Wordsworth, could not get anyone to work for him as cook.

O Money allocated for public works projects cannot be spent because labour is not available, and it is probable that men will have to be imported from Australia to cope with what has to be done.

This is a far different situation from that which applied on Norfolk a year or so ago when the whaling industry collapsed for lack of whales and the cable station closed because the new COMP AC cable made its existence unnecessary.

Jobs around that time were so hard to get that some islanders threatened to beat up a man who was brought to the island by the Administration to superintend the grading of roads. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Since that time, maybe 2y 2 million chairs have been made by the Sebel organisation in the nine previous versions of this chair, which would seem to make it a “best seller” in the chair world.

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"Colonial" Territories

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Further moves towards full self-government for the “colonial” territories were among the most important events in the South Pacific in 1963. This is seen in making our flashback over the past 12 months.

I AKIN ARY* Fijian members MnUMIVI * of the Legislave Council made it clear that “there lould be no change in Fiji’s present Dnstitution until the Fijian people their desire for further conitutional changes”. * * * New Zealand promised the United rations that the 25,000 people of the dok and Niue Islands would be ;lf-governing within three years. * * * Prime Minister Mataafa, of /estern Samoa, devoted most of is New Year speech to the need )r a sound and stable economy. 3ur first year as an independent tate has ended successfully. No one m predict what may happen during 963, but there is no cause for alarm r undue panic,” he said, * * * The people of Pitcairn Island proved to the South Pacific Office, ieir administrative headquarters in iji, over the possibility that the rench Government would use the land of Mangareva, in the Gambier rchipelago of French Polynesia, as nuclear and missile launching base. * * * Mr. J. P. Bayly, sponsor of the ayly Clinic which cares for poor idian women and children and ijians in the slums around Suva, ied in Fiji on January 12. ; EBRUARY: Although the takeover o f /estern New Guinea by Indonesia 'as not to take place officially until lay, 1963, a mass exodus of Dutch civil servants had been taking place since October 1, 1962, making the job of replacing them difficult for the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority. * * ♦ Drinking hours in Papua-New Guinea were shortened under a Liquor Licensing Bill introduced into the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council. ♦ * * Some of the recommendations made in a second interim report tabled in the P-NG Legislative Council in February were that the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council should have its name changed to House of Assembly following the new Council elections in 1964. * * * The Queen made her second visit to Fiji in 10 years, and she and Prince Philip received a very warm welcome from the Fijian people, ♦ * ♦ Lord Silsoe, formerly Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, began a survey of Fiji’s coconut industry. k A ADfU. West New Guinea mrtixvii. was pretty wdl in Indonesian hands despite UN claims that Indonesia could not take over the territory before May 1. All that remained was for the Indonesian troops to take over from UN forces and for the Netherlands Bank to hand over to the Bank of Indonesia, ♦ ♦ ♦ Plans were well under way for the South Pacific Games to be held in Suva from August 29 to September 7. Territories taking part in the games were organising teams through territory-wide campaigns. ♦ ♦ * A commission was appointed to report on the development of higher education in Papua-New Guinea, including the establishment of a university, Chairman was Sir George Currie, former vice-chancellor of the University of New Zealand. ♦ * * Mr. Douglas (“Mike”) Knuebuhl, president of American Samoa’s Chamber of Commerce, made a bitter attack on a new income tax bill passed by the territory’s Senate and Legislative Assembly in late January.

The bill provided for a two per cent, tax on wages too low to be covered by the graduated scale of income tax, and imposed the regular US tax on all higher salaries and incomes, and on corporations. (Over) The Queen visited Fiji in February. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1964

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SYDNEY MELBOURNE BRISBANE ADELAIDE M 156 A hurricane set back Tongan banana exports several months when it tore across the Tongan Group. * * * Mr. W. B. Rogers took over the position of Fiji’s Development Commissioner. * * * The P-NG inter-island trader Polurrian sank on March 28 en route between Sohano and Rabaul, with the loss of 34 lives.

APRIL- BOAC entered the * trans - Tasman service on April 4 when a Comet IV left Sydney for Auckland. * * * It was announced that Mr. Kenneth R. Iverson would head a mission to P-NG from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the middle part of the year. * * * Tupua Tamasese, loint Head of State of Western Samoa since its independence in January, 1962, died in Apia on April 5. * * * It was officially announced that France would use five atolls in tho Tuamotu Archipelago of Frencl Polynesia as bases for a nuclear tesO ing project. sf: sjs Fiji went to the polls under itj new constitution, which gave the voL for the first time to the Fijian peopll and to women of all races. * It was hoped that thu * problem of finding a nev home for the Nauruans might bn solved by using Curtis Island, ot the Australian coast.

Tonga was exploring the possibility of raising loans with the World Banij and the US Export-Import Bank foe various projects. * * * It was announced that Norfolk Is land was to have a new Island Counr cil with the Administrator as a member, and with the right to discus* budget proposals. * * * Polynesian Airlines Ltd. announce*; that it would soon introduce au air service between Western Samoji and Aitutaki and Rarotonga in tha Cook Islands. 5*C * jfc It was announced that the firs Advisory Council for the Gilbert anci Ellice Islands Colony would be es tablished later in the year. * * * The Administrator of Nauru, Mn R. S. Leydin, told the UN Trustees ship Council in New York tha£ leaders of Nauru might accept Curtii Island, off the Australian coast, as ; new home for their people. * * * Indonesia officially completed itt take-over of West New Guinea on Some P-NG drinking hours were short in February and the drive by the mise against intemperance was stepped [?] 48 JANUARY, 1964—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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UNE: The question of whether Japanese commercial invests should be allowed to establish tuna cannery in Rarotonga, Cook ands, was a lively topic in Raronga. ♦ * * Emergency food and water supplies were being brought in to Hull and Gardner Islands in the Phoenix Group of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, where droughts were severe. * * * Attacks by Tolai litigants upon land titles in New Guinea were creating general fear that all land titles in the Territory might be unsafe. * * * A team of experts from the World Bank began a two-month survey of Papua-New Guinea in June, * * * The UN decided to establish in Apia, Western Samoa, the headquarters of a new United Nations Regional Area for the South and West Pacific.

JIJI V • Mr. Francis Derick Jake- * way, Chief Secretary of Sarawak since 1959, was appointed Governor of Fiji, succeeding Sir Kenneth Maddocks. He was to take up his position in January. * * * Fiji was having its own morals problems, coinciding with the Profumo affair in Britain. Several Government officials were given gaol sentences on “charges involving indecency”. * * * Suva’s new wharf, which cost £2,500,00, was finished after two years’ work. The wharf was capable of taking any ship in the world. ♦ * * An important decision was made by the Chief Justice of P-NG that one-third of Varzin Plantation in New Britain belonged to the Tolais and not to European interests who bought it. * * ♦ The Government of Western Samoa protested to France against the French Government’s decision to establish a nuclear testing base in the Tuamotus, 1,920 miles from Western Samoa. * * * The Chief Justice of Fiji, Mr.

Justice Mac Duff, died suddenly in Suva on July 11. * ♦ ♦ The Rt. Rev. Leonard Kempthorne, who retired in 1962 as Bishop in Polynesia, died in Suva on July 25 in his 77th year. * ♦ ♦ The French Government rejected New Zealand’s protest against French The First South Pacific Games were held in Suva in August - September.

This is the official Games flag, showing a blazing torch superimposed on a globe with the Pacific prominently dis played. The flag is royal blue, with skyblue and white for the globe and the torch of gold, with crimson flames. 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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AUGUST• 1116 p e °p le ° f pit - . cairn said they ere “living in fear” of what the iture held for their island as a relit of the French Government’s scision to hold nuclear tests in rench Polynesia. ♦ * ♦ Allegations made to the UN by Cook Islands resident that New ealand was seeking to frustrate the alitical aspirations of the Cook Isnders caused irritation in Governicnt circles in Wellington. * * ♦ Mr. Patrick Joseph Twomey, tiown throughout the South Pacific 5 the “leper man”, died at Suva n August 1 at the age of 71. * ♦ * Among the 492 Vietnamese who 'ere repatriated from Vila, New Hebrides, were quite a number who were most unwilling to return to their “homeland”. * * sjs Planters’ associations in P-NG complained about lack of confidence in investment in the Territory. * * * The West New Guinea Legislative Council, in late August, decided that there would be no need for the people of West New Guinea to have a plebiscite on self-determination before 1969. The Council was set up by Indonesia and no members were elected. ♦ ♦ ♦ The First South Pacific Games were held in Suva from August 29 to September 7.

SEPTEMBER- Work was JCr ' tWOCK. going ahea(j rapidly on the reconstruction of the wartime airstrip at Funafuti, GEIC, he death occurred in July of the Bishop [?] Polynesia, Leonard Kempthorne, here seen with his wife. 51 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1964

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London Agents: BURNS. PHILP & CO., LTD., 35 Crutched Friars. E.C.3. a link in the proposed new air service between Fiji and the GEIC. * * * Mr. Charles Hall, director in the Philippines of the California Packing Corporation, visited the New Hebrides to study the possibility of establishing pineapple plantations and factories to can both fruit and juice, * * * Sir Kenneth Maddocks and Lady Maddocks departed from Fiji on September 13 after Sir Kenneth had been in office for five years. ♦ * * Work was proceeding on the building of a fish factory for the newly formed Norfolk Island Fisheries Ltd., Norfolk Island.

Within a few days in late September the 2/6 Papuan gold shares in Pacific Islands Mines Ltd. went up to 7/-.

The Protestant Church of Tahit became autonomous.

A Japanese com v * pany was im terested in the possibilities of a cul tured pearl venture in the Vavau Group of Tonga. * * * Lealofi, a 41-year-old doctor, waE elected to the royal title of Tupui Tamasese of Western Samoa, bui there was a dispute over the position * Sfc Negotiations were in the finas stages for Polynesian Airlines to itn crease its fortnightly Cook Islands service to weekly flights and to intro duce a new service each fortnigW between Apia and Nadi, Fiji.

Three Cook Islanders were recover ing in hospital in Vila, Ner; Hebrides, at the end of Octob© from the privations of a 60-day drill voyage in a 17 foot open boat whies took them 2,200 miles across tM Pacific. * * * One hundred members of tM French Foreign Legion arrived ii Papeete on October 9 to assist ii the erection of the atomic testinn centre in French Polynesia. * * * The 25th session of the Soutti Pacific Commission was held ii Noumea. Samoa was not yet readb to be admitted.

NOVEMBER: L ? rd .ajf® released h u report on the Fiji copra industry ii which he said the total copra pro' The Ansett flying boat "Pacific Chieftain" was a complete loss at Lord Howe Island in July. 52

January, 1964 Pacific Islands M O N T H L T

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Branches throughout the Cook Islands action of the area covered by the )uth Pacific Commission accounted »r more than 10 per cent, of the orld production. * * * Pitcairn’s population was at its west since the early 1880’s. The tcairners were leaving their home il almost literally in droves.

SjS Hs * Airline competition, using Tahiti as drawcard for tourists, warmed up little more in November when Ausalia’s international airline Qantas augurated a weekly Boeing 707 rvice Sydney-Nadi-Papeete and rern. sf= * * A plan was introduced to spend i million developing the port of ipeete. * * * Federal Parliament made amendmts to the Norfolk Island Act lich opened the way for the Norik Island Council to be reconstited. s|k s§s 9§S A decree signed by President de mile outlawed two political parties French Polynesia. The two parties ;re the Rassemblement Demoitique des Populations Tahitiennes LDPT) and the Papu Tiama aohi.

S»C Papua-New Guinea ended a litical era. The Legislative Council is prorogued to make way for a gely elected House of Assembly xt year.

The first Solomon Islanders to become Anglican bishops were consecrated in All Saints Cathedral, Honiara, BSIP, on November 30.

They are the Rev. Dudley Tuti and the Rev. Leonard Alufurai. * * * The Netherlands and Australia, in the UN, reminded Indonesia of its “obligation to keep faith” with the people of West New Guinea. * * * It was announced that the Cook Islands would have full internal selfgovernment in 1965, The Territory would have a fully elected Legislative Assembly with complete legislative autonomy, with a cabinet of five, headed by a chief minister.

Mr. D. C. Brown was elected Leader of Government Business in the interim. * ♦ ♦ A White Paper was released in the BSIP, proposing that in 1965, the Solomons should have a partlyelected Legislative Council in place of the fully nominated one. [?]ua Tamasese, Joint Head of State of [?]stern Samoa, died in April after a long illness. 53 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

,4 uuud Cod> u,u i !i \ K Ml L D* • • • because there is a glass and a half of pare, fresh, fall-cream milk in every half pound of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate MD2S/2PC/9 After a 7,450-mile voyage on a ras from Peru in 130 days, WilliaE Willis, 70, came ashore near Api Western Samoa, on November 11. * * * The death occurred in Suva on Nt vember 1 of Mr. A. E. Pearce, wH lived in Suva for more than 50 yeas and who was one of Fiji’s most pn minent businessmen, and a philae thropist, * * * Several islands in the New Hebridfc suffered severe hurricane damage late November, and food and buili ing materials were donated.

DECEMBER: gff-JSE opened the new Commonweal Cable, linking Australia with Britas across the Pacific.

Hubert Leonard Murray, Admir istrator of Papua from 1940 until tt outbreak of war in 1941, died in Sy ney on December 9, aged 76. * * * Four hundred and one Gilberts from the Phoenix Islands arrived Wagena Island in the Solomons in tr Tongan ship Niuvakai on DecemUi 3. The Gilbertese were to settle Wagena because of persistent drough in their home islands.

Another Bottle!

A bottle, dropped from the SI2 "Mariposa" on June 26, 1962, fromc a point 1,000 miles north of Pagog Pago, American Samoa, was pickeoe up on December 11 by a party oo schoolboys 15 miles south-west oo Daru Island, Papua-New Guineas The bottle contained a note fromc Mr. and Mrs. W. Parkinson, of 700 Wilton Place, Los Angeles, US, whirl asked the finders to write to themn The boys intend to do so.

William Willis, on arrival at Apia after raft voyage. Photo: "Samoana". 54 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH II

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Full ASOPA Pass List For 1963 The Australian School of Pacific Administran, Sydney, in December announced the results the New Guinea Patrol Officers’ Certificate urse for 1963. The full results, set out below, the passes in order of merit.

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'ernment :REDITS: Smith, G. P.; Hope, A. C.; Biscoe, W. H.; Heuston, 1. PASS; Wright, P. J.; Rochfort, P.; Fanning, D. J.; Dunn, B. J.; Hicks, John S.; Harris, G. W.; Molony, W.; Percy, R.; Weber, R. E.; Bragge, L.

W.; Brown, M. D.; Read, D.; Hunter, J. O.; Thomas, P. J.; Waite. C. D.; Duffy, B. F.; Hicks, Joe R.; Haynes, F. J.; Fischer, B. M.; Andrews, R. J.; Pamplin, J.; Visser, J. M.; Batterham, B. J.; Lindsay, D. C.; Maume, B. J.; McNeill, A. F.; Lyons, P. L.; James, G. M.; Heriot, G. A.; Hollamby, K. E.; Webster, R. W.; Try, A. K.; Sabben, H. F.; Duggan, G. D.; Foreman, R. J.; Behr, M.; Reid, G. T.

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A Long Police

TRADITION Native police with a total of 135 years of service in the Royal Papua-New Guinea Constabulary were recently presented with long service medals by the Acting District Commissioner, New Britain, Mr. Ted Hicks. From left to right, they are Sgt. Ist class Kipau, of Buka, 33 years; Sgt. Ist class Karo, Morobe, 27 years; Sgt. Ist class Givere, Waria, 25 years; Const. 2nd class Druso, Gasmata, 27 years; and Const. Api, of Wewak, 23 years.

Following the presentation the police marched around Rabaul. 55 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1964

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THE buts included the hotels, which were “old and just horrible”; the food which was “terrible”; and the liquor laws which were “archaic”.

All legitimate tourist howls of course —many of them justified, but only part of the New Zealand story.

A few hotels in New Zealand, particularly those run by the semigovernment Tourist Hotel Corpora- :ion, compare favourably with any, anywhere. Some of the brewery iotels are now being renovated also, jut too often NZ hotels are Victorian relics, furnished in black oak and Lhe Stag-at-Bay and permeated by the smell of boiled mutton and Drussel-sprouts.

Food in most hotels shows complete lack of imagination and often ;he abuse of excellent raw materials.

NZ must be the only country in the world where boiled or roast hogget appears naked and unashamed on ;ven the best menus (because NZ-ers tiave a fancy that hogget has a better flavour than lamb).

Moreover, it usually arrives on liners’ plates looking as though the cook has been deprived of his carving knife and has had to resort to snipping pieces of meat from the ioint with the kitchen scissors.

When an English woman journalist pointed this out recently every New Zealand hackle rose, although the journalist had common sense on her side when she said that such chunks of meat, served to tourists, were not likely to help the export market for lamb.

Wonderful Pastry

But in contrast to the evil things cooks can do with meat and vegetables, NZ bakers produce fantastic arrays of cakes, pastries, buns and pies, with and without lashings of real cream, all calculated to increase the waistline and make the eyes of the sweet-tooth drop right out of his head. More often than not, too, NZ housewives cook like cordon bleu angels.

NZ hotel-keeping is still, by and large, a hit and miss affair—conducted as though the proprietor had just read up about it in an overseas magazine and was trying to put what he read into practice.

Due to the over-full employment position in the Dominion, domestic staff, or staff for the more menial jobs, is difficult to get. (When we arrived at the new downtown Auckland air terminal at 11 a.m. there was no one to carry a bag and we were told that although there was a coffee shop it was temporarily closed as the girl in charge had gone away to eat.)

Australian Girls

About 90 per cent, of the waitresses in NZ hotels are Australian girls on working holidays, who move from one pub to another down the whole length of the two islands.

Back home they are solicitors’ clerks or stenographers and as amateurs are devoid of the Australian professional waitresses takeit-and-be-damned-to-you attitude and are consequently a great success.

Male hotel staff, away from the cities, may well be recruited from the building trade or bus services as a spare-time job.

Liquor laws, on world standards, are archaic, as our American said, although neither New Zealanders or visitors appear to have much difficulty in imbibing their full alcoholic requirements.

Hotel bars close at 6 p.m., as they still do in some Australian States; the expanding licensed club of NSW is absent; and licensed restaurants are few. Pre-meal drinks in the latter are restricted to vermouth, Dubonnet or beer; you may not have sherry (because it’s “fortified”) or spirits. As a result most tourist eating is done in hotels.

NZ Authority is still puritan over grog.

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In tourism New Zealand is still in state of transition. It has spectacuar, unique and beautiful natural ssets, good roads and transport acilities but has been slow to cash n on this obvious way of earning luch-needed overseas funds. Five ears from now it will be a very lifferent story.

Tourists are already coming in in steady stream, mostly in the form if the package-deal organised tour ffiich hits the Dominion in about ive of the recognised tourist spots, trains available accommodation to he limit and then goes its way. ourist organisations set their sights m this type of tourist at present— ometimes to the neglect of the individual, discriminating tourist makag his own way, although he usually las far more to spend and a great leal more influence overseas, where satisfied customer could matter aost.

But tourist spots and tourism are mall beer in the overall picture of 'lew Zealand where 2i million icople, 12,000 miles from the world’s aarkets, have done better for themelves than anywhere else on earth.

Ush Pastures

Agricultural science and aerial top- Iressing have turned the country, rom the far south to the far north, nto a vast sea of lush pastures, 'race elements have reclaimed iracken country; introduced bugs lave wiped out formerly useless aanuka scrub; hormone sprays have •een used on gorse and broom and he result is green farmland that □oks, to the uninitiated, like a uccession of exclusive golf-clubs.

When I was a kid in Southland •rovince, it was an area given over 0 dairying, turnip growing and timber nilling.

These days the timber is cut out; he butter factories are closed and n their place are rolling sheeptudded pastures—and 200-300 acres >f it are sufficient to give a farmer 1 prosperous living.

Of the big timber mill where I lived is a child on the edge of the bush lothing now remains but our house, low a farm homestead.

New Zealand is one of the few :ountries in the world where farmng really pays—and of all the farms, hose of Southland pay best.

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Auckland, with its 500,000 people, has one-fifth of the population of the whole Dominion, while Dunedin, with less than 70,000, has scarcely grown at all in the last quartercentury. (As a result of this Auckland real-estate values are out of all proportion to those in the rest of NZ and can make even Sydney values look like the bargain-basement).

The cost of living in NZ, even allowing for exchange, is mouthwateringly low by Australian standards. NZ butter at 2/- alb is about one-third of that across the Tasman; NZ bread, milk and cream about half Australian rates and meat is considerably cheaper. Imported fruit (oranges from Australia and pineapples from Hawaii) are expensive but local vegetables reasonable. Manufactured goods are a little dearer, but NZ has better social services than Australia— including a pension for everyone over 65, without a means-test, and a comprehensive national health plan.

Most visitors away from the tourist crawl soon find themselves asking how this Elysium was created and is maintained. The fact that it is a compact, tight little country, whose natural fertility has been enriched by scientific know-how, obviously has something to do with it; its assured market in Britain (or assured until now), for its primary products has been a factor. But probably the New Zealand temperament which has produced governments that have been fundamentally sound and sober, if sometimes unimaginative, whether from Conservative or Labour ranks, is the decisive factor.

Averaged out over the whole communi t y, New Zealanders have probably a better standard of living and more creature comforts than any other people on earth—and a lot of the complacency that goes with them.

For the above reasons, as well as his own pride of country and the ingrained belief that he is superior and more refined than an Australian, the Maorilander is less than enthusiastic at the idea of being tied at the end of the Australian kite, in any future union.

New Zealand has plenty of economic problems—most of them hinging on foreign exchange and the uncertainty of its present markets for primary produce. But as a country, in a world where new nations are born every day, it is a shining example of how a couple of million people, as a community, can survive, prosper and, what is more to the point, pay their own way with handouts from abroad.

Problems Of Reserved Electorate Papua-New Guinea feels that it has invented something with its 10 reserved seats for the European minority at the 1964 elections but New Zealand has been using similar tactics since 1867.

The NZ “reservations” are in reverse, however—four Maori seats.

A person of half or more Maori blood must enrol as a Maori and vote only for a Maori candidate. A person of less than half Maori blood may choose whether he will go onto the Maori roll or on the European roll.

But whether he is full or part Maori he can stand for any of the European electorates —even though people of half or more Maori blood cannot vote for him. (Three Maoris stood for so-called European electorates at the election on November 30; so did, for the first time ever in NZ, a Chinese candidate.) Many New Zealanders, both Maori and Pakeha, doubt the fairness of the reserved Maori electorates. They think they have outlived their usefulness and that the time has come for a common-roll.

But while the Bishop of Aotearoa (a Maori bishopric) calculates that on a population basis there would be 20 Maori members elected from a common roll, a few believe that there might be no Maori members at all. Some Maoris think that even this might be a sounder system than the present huge Maori electorates —better a Pakeha that they can approach than a Maori member they never see.

The question of the reserved Maori seats has become a political football with both Conservative and Labour scared to do much about it.

The fairest thing might be a Maori referendum. If a recent Gallop poll is correct, 61 per cent, of Maoris would vote for a common-roll.— Sydneysider . 61 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Vital That South Sea Skills Be Preserved By a Staff Writer Unless the products of the skilled native craftsmen of the South Pacific can be developed so they will be of worthwhile economic value to the craftsmen, the traditional skills will be lost. The loss will be gradual, but it will be certain.

AT the moment, fortunately, there is almost an infinite wealth of handcraft skills still being practised in the South Pacific, and a large proportion of them with only minor adaptations are suitable for sale abroad.

However, the Melanesian cultures, which have an extraordinary variety of artifacts and art forms, appear to lose their skills more rapidly than Polynesian cultures, and generally little has been done by administrations anywhere to develop the skills economically.

Economic Help There are, of course, some exceptions to this, but a greater awareness is needed by Pacific territories of the skills within their midst. Apart from the vital consideration of keeping them alive, they can be a useful aspect of any territory’s economy.

The Social Development section of the South Pacific Commission has been taking a close interest in the whole subject in the last 12 months, with the result that Mr. Angus Mcßean, Social Development Assistant. who has had a great deal of experience with the marketing problems of native artifacts, spent the greater part of 1963 making the first comprehensive survey of the position.

What he has to say about it all is of interest and importance. 20,000 Miles From January last year until October Mr. Mcßean travelled about 20,000 miles around the South Seas by public transport (including 15 aircraft and seven small vessels), and in addition covered hundreds of miles on foot and by canoe. Twice his canoes were swamped in heavy seas and on one occasion he was swept off into the surf by a rising tide.

He visited in all 56 islands and more than 200 villages, holding meetings in most of the villages.

He was back in Noumea in October long enough to see his report accepted by the 25th session of the South Pacific Commission, and then he was off again to wind up his full survey by the end of 1963.

In addition to his general report to the SPC, summing up his overall impressions, Mr. Mcßean has already provided Island administrations with detailed reports of the situation in their own territories. These individual A VARIETY OF SKILLS. Top left, tapa cloth, beaten from bark, photographed in Asau, on the island of Savai'i, Western Samoa, and on the right, some fine examples of mats from neighbouring Tonga, photographed at Nukualofa. In the centre is a unique photograph of one of the last experts in ancient loom weaving in Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz. Lower photo shows a specimen of the fine pots made in the Chambri Lakes area of New Guinea. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1964

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To show the commercial world just hat is available from South Seas •aftsmen, the Commission has greed to sponsor, at Mr. Mcßean’s iggestion, a high-class sales cata- )gue to be distributed widely to hambers of Commerce, large deartment stores, agents and other inrested firms and organisations in ic main metropolitan countries of ic SPC area.

This free brochure will include )lour photographs (Mr. Mcßean has ken hundreds) and will describe, rritory by territory, the main artiicts and their approximate price, id commercial details such as eighting problems and costs.

However the SPC wants the Island [ministrations to help with the costs production, and since the cost ould probably work out at no more an £lOO for each territory it’s not pected that any of them will decide )t to be in it. Such a booklet would ing in orders worth thousands to en the smallest territory.

The important thing now is to get e catalogue out, and production apirently is well organised and merely /aits the final financial approval, lich depends on how quicldy the rious territories move.

Mr. Mcßean found the weaving of getable fibres was one of the most dely spread skills of the Pacific, th examples seen from the swamp lages of New Guinea’s Sepik to the iy coral islets of the Tokelaus.

Some of it, notably the fine mats the Samoas, is of “almost increde” delicacy, and other examples, ch as the string bags of New linea and the Solomons, are of exlordinary strength.

The pandanus is the most widely used fibre, but people also use the coconut leaf, vine tendrils, coconut fibres, the bark of trees and banana palms and even the skin of the sago palm leaf.

For dyes, the bark, leaves and roots of many different plants are used, in processes that are often jealously guarded secrets. But Mr.

Mcßean thinks it is regrettable that many of these natural fast dyes are being replaced by gaudy trade store dyes. Even a good deal of mercurochrome and “Gentian Violet” from local hospitals, and purple carbon paper from administrative offices, now finds its way into the dye pots of the village weavers.

Such a diversity of articles are made that not all of them would have commercial value (for instance, the anti-mosquito sleeping bags of New Guinea, made of bark fibres and big enough for a whole family to sleep in at night!). But many can be modified.

Mr. Mcßean saw some lobster traps of such a design and of such materials that they could be produced as attractive lamp-shades.

Tapa making is not known in some territories and in others where it once flourished the skills have almost been lost. In some others it is still an integral part of life.

There is an infinite variety of wood carving skills in the Pacific, especially [?]ji women making pottery in the Sigatoka area of the main island of Viti Levu.

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in Melanesia, where some of the careers are artists rather than artisans, iome of the best available is in the Solomons and parts of the Sepik disrict of New Guinea.

Pottery making is confined to a •datively small number of islands, Hit even with extremely primitive echniques, some areas, such as the -hambri Lakes, in New Guinea, proluce articles of “consummate interest md artistic sense”.

All these are the main forms of landicraft, but in addition there is a mge array of articles in Polynesia md Fiji, of polished shell, of items nlaid with silver, intricately ashioned spears with barbs of splinted bone, “bride money” of many ypes, shell necklaces and armlets.

European Modifications here are modifications of European kills seen in the bead work of Wallis nd Futuna and other groups, in the •atchwork quilts (ti fai fai) of Tahiti, he hand-painted or silk screened ress fabrics of Western Samoa and 'ahiti and the engraved shell of the rtisans in Tahiti and Fiji.

Some of these items have curiosity iterest only, or are too bulky or too ragile to pack commercially. Mr. tfcßean’s catalogue would list ob- ;cts with intrinsic interest created by heir beauty or usefulness or a comination of both. The sale of curios nd souvenirs, he believes, is best left i the “able hands” of local vendors ealing directly with tourists.

He made no new discoveries of uitable objects for the market in reas where catering for the tourist The yam masks of Maprik, NG, above, of woven fibres plastered with clays in earth colours, would look fine in miniature. At right, the women of Buin, Bougainville, make "Buka" basketware. Below, a women's committee at Faka'ofo in the Tokealau Islands, weaves fine mats, and at the bottom are some of the fine mats, fans, skirts and basketware, with their makers, at Funafuti in the Ellice Islands. All photographs in this report were made available by Mr. Angus McBean, of the SRC.

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ff CROWN ff W PACIFIC *Ro f 1 ff ARROW XW/i HEIUfiP ftp CO ias long been firmly established. This particularly applies to the Polynesian slands.

But in some parts of Melanesia md Micronesia, little or nothing has peen done to promote the sale of artifacts and he found great possibilities 'or new development.

He found frequently that an arti- :act, such as a food bowl or a Sepik nask, needed only to be reduced in ize to be ideal for sale.

Sometimes, however “miniaturisaion” had been tried out but exaggerated, so that model canoes or veapons were little more than toys md lacked atmosphere. They were >ut of proportion in their fittings.

Even in the least sophisticated areas Tr. Mcßean found himself warning igainst the mixing of styles. Gaudy European dies were used on woven vear; model canoes were painted vith house paint and fringes of prightly coloured wool were added to l mat which otherwise was austerely :orrect and beautiful.

Sometimes he found that an artiact on which a lot of labour had )een expended lost its value because t wasn’t finished off properly, baskets of intricate woven design vere fitted with flimsy and insecure landles or a delicate wood carving vould be roughly daubed with cheap r arnish or would show chisel marks; i bead necklace with hundreds of hells, each of which had been careully sorted and drilled, would be trung on a thread of cotton so light hat it would break the first time the lecklace was worn.

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On the other hand, fine mats and gaskets of river grasses in New juinea, artifacts of incised and en- Taved bamboos and products of /oven or plaited sago palm leafterns, were among the handicrafts he ound had never been put before even local market to any great degree.

Mr, Mcßean found that in Melaesian areas where populations were >nly a generation or so removed rom the first impact of the outside /orld, there was a fascinating wealth f highly developed skills.

Yet in other areas of Melanesia /here the population had become fiore sophisticated, the handicraft icture presented almost an arid esert. This wasn’t so in the Polyesian territories, where most of the ncient skills were still proudly and onsciously retained as a part of the fe of the people, even though they /ere also valuable as sources of inome.

Mr. Mcßean asks: “The reasons or this might be hard to define. Is it because Melanesian society lacks the cohesive, communal quality which is partly responsible for maintaining such handicrafts as mat-weaving or the carving of kava bowls within Polynesian society?

“Is it that many of the Melanesian handicrafts, notably wood-carving, were intimately connected with a religion that has been abandoned and of which the present generation is perhaps ashamed?

“Have outside organisations such as missions or administrations failed to encourage and support these skills in the way that they were encouraged and supported by analagous bodies in the Polynesian world?

“Or is it a lack of self-confidence among the Melanesians themselves which has caused them to abandon their handicrafts just as they have abandoned their own singing and dancing in those areas that have been most exposed to European influence?

“It is not within the competence or the functions of my survey to make any attempt to answer these questions; but the point is raised so that the danger of extinction of handicrafts within Melanesia can be fully realised and steps taken, if administering governments so desire, to encourage the development of these handicrafts before it is too late.

“There are one or two Melanesian territories where already almost nothing is left of the traditional culture.” 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Marlon Brando May Become Landlord Of Royal Atoll American screen actor Marlon Brando, who has spent much of lis spare time in Tahiti since he >vent there about three years ago :o star in the Mutiny on the Bounty film, may become the andlord soon of historic Tetiaroa Moll, 26 miles north of Tahiti.

Tetiaroa once belonged to Tahiti’s royal Pomare family.

A CCORDING to Papeete’s “coconut radio” in late November. 3rando, who was then holidaying in Pahiti, had almost completed negotiaions for the purchase of the atoll.

The present owner of Tetiaroa is drs. Marjorie Doran, step-daughter )f the late Dr. W. J. Williams, who vas given Tetiaroa by the Pomare amily for his services to them. Dr. •Villiams. a Canadian dentist, was British Consul in Tahiti from 1916 o 1935. He died at Tetiaroa in une. 1937.

Tetiaroa is the only atoll in the 'icinity of Tahiti. It is composed of 3 islets, the largest being about two niles long. The combined land area s about 1,600 acres, most of whch las been planted with coconuts.

The atoll commands a clear view >f the impressive mountains of Tahiti md Moorea.

Unlike most atolls, there is no pasage into Tetiaroa’s lagoon, and even anoes must be hauled over the reef, lowever, a jetty has been built out >ver the reef from southerly Rimatuu slet, which makes it easy to get ishore.

The lagoon was once noted for fine leads, but no diving has been carried >ut there in recent years as far as VM knows.

Colonies of Birds Large colonies of terns, boobies md other sea birds, plus good fishing >oth inside and outside the lagoon idd to Tetiaroa’s attractiveness. (A 'iant fish called a hapu, speared unler water at Tetiaroa in late Novem- >er by a team from the laboratory of darine Biology of the University of lawaii, weighed nearly 282 lb.) In recent years, Tetiaroa has isually been inhabited only when 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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However, in the heyday of the Pomare family it was a place of some importance. It was used as a pleasure resort, a beauty parlour and a refuge during political disturbances.

The site of the Royal residence on Rimatuu is still marked by enormous tuu trees, which were apparently planted in very ancient times. The trees cover about three acres of land with much-appreciated shade. The remains of several ancient temples may also k e seen.

Female members of the Pomare f am ily used to go to Tetiaroa for fattening before marriage, and to live in t | ie s h a de of the tuu trees so that t jj e j r s kj ns wou id become fair. Queen Pomare IV, soverign of Tahiti from 1827 , 1877 went to Tetiaroa for , h t purpose as a girl . * Pomare 11, father of Queen Pomare IV, is said to have used Tetiaroa for heathern orgies while Tahiti was in the process of being christianised.

To the early explorers, Tetiaroa was known as Tethuroa, but few of them actually visited it. One of the few who did was Captain Bligh. This was after three deserters from the Bounty stole a cutter from Matavai Bay in January, 1789.

As soon as Bligh heard that the deserters had fled to Tetiaroa, he sailed to the atoll at the head of a boat party and personally arrested them.

FOOTNOTE : Another Pacific island “paradise” that was on the market in November was Korelevu, an islet of three acres, some five miles off the coast of Taveuni, the third largest island in the Fiji Group.

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Malley, who would like to sell it for £B,OOO to £lO,OOO.

According to Suva solicitor Mr, R.

A. Kearsley, who told the Sydney Press about Korelevu, the island has everything for anyone who wants to get away from it all—beaches, coconut palms, lush vegetation, fishing, peace and quiet, no people, and nowhere to live. “A gorgeous place,”

Mr. Kearsley said. “No buildings on it.”

Custom Comes To A Head Gilbertese workmen at Ocean Island have protested against being required to live in expensive two-storied quarters recently built for them by the Phosphate Commission.

The protest was based on the ancient custom that it is offensive and shameful to move above the head of another. The same objection is reported to have been made by Gilbertese in Nauru.

The official “Colony Information Notes”, published weekly by the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, says that this custom was followed strongly in the colony two decades ago but it is now observed mainly by elderly people.

Expansion in education services had given the Gilbertese people a degree of sophistication against which “the attempted invocation of an obsolete custom strikes a discordant and false note”. 72 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Famous Mission Schooner Played Heroic Role In Pacific War By R. W. Robson, from material supplied by E. V. Tibbo The ship which services the London Missionary Society’s stations in the South Pacific Islands always is called John Williams, after the famous pioneer missionary who was murdered in the New Hebrides about 125 years ago.

A NEW ship, named John Williams VII, was commissioned about a year ago for ervice in the South Seas—which, of course, leans that she was preceded by six other hips called John Williams.

The most famous of the six probably /as the three-masted schooner John Wiliams V, which rendered remarkable war ervice during the Japanese invasion of the louth Pacific.

When the Pacific war broke out at the end of 1941, only one vessel, the little Viti was available in the Fiji area for patrol, mine-sweeping and similar duties.

European residents of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1,000 miles north of Fiji, had to be evacuated and coast-watchers established on various atolls between Fiji and the equator. A small band of very courageous men, therefore, were sent off from Suva in an insignificant coastal vessel, the Degei.

Europeans Evacuated Somehow, they dodged the Japanese destroyers and brought away most of the Europeans from the Gilberts.

On her way back, the Degei came upon and rescued the survivors of two American ships which had been torpedoed south of Hawaii. They had drifted into the Gilbert Islands, after nearly 2,000 miles and many weeks in the ship’s lifeboats, and they were nearly dead.

To face the Japanese in the Gilberts, the United States fortified Funafuti Island, in the Ellice Group, and established an air strip there.

Communications remained the major problem. The defence people in Fiji got their eye on the John Williams V, which had been long out of commission, lying at the back of Suva Harbour.

The old schooner was put into shape, equipped and provisioned, and sent off north with a volunteer crew, who became famous for the work they did.

Captain Kettle was in command; his two mates were Gus Raddock and Bruce Robertson; and the chief engineer was Ed Tibbo. They had a crew of 14— all GEIC natives. Their job was to carry urgently-needed supplies to New Zealand servicemen who had been placed on a number of isolated islands as coast-watchers.

John Williams V slipped out through the boom which defended Suva Harbour on February 8, 1943. She was without an escort or arms, and went off on a voyage which lasted 76 days, in enemyinfested waters eastwards and northwards of the Solomons. She visited some of the Ellice Islands and then went on into the Phoenix Group, to call at Canton, Hull, Sydney and Enderbury Islands.

While the ship was in the vicinity of Funafuti, inconspicuously doing her job, Funafuti was several times raided at night by bombers—one raid causing the loss of an American Fortress plane and another destroying a Liberator and inflicting many casualties.

Several times, Jap bombers flew over the John Williams, but apparently had no bombs to waste on her. The ship visited 14 islands before she returned to Suva with many tales of adventure and narrow escapes.

She made her second trip northwards soon afterwards, and got as far as the most northerly Ellice Island, Nanamua, 400 miles north of the Americans, when a Japanese “Betty” aircraft spotted her, and pounded her with machine guns and cannon-fire, in five strafing runs at low altitude. Three men were wounded and the old schooner was peppered with bullets. However, she returned to Suva safely, although she passed he old mission schooner "John Williams V" is [?]een above under sail. Below, three of her [?]vartime officers "shoot" the sun on board. They [?]re (from left) Captain Kettle, Mr. Raddock (second mate) and Mr. Page (first mate). 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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• HONESTY IN ADVERTIS- ING. From the “For Sale” column of the GEIC Colony Information Notes: “If you have £45/2/6 and are interested in becoming the owner of a somewhat out-of-tune piano— complete with stool and some borer —please apply to David Lopian.

Betio, who may be prepared to sell it to you”. through an area where no less than five transports had been attacked a few hours earlier, only one of which limped into Suva.

To The Line Islands Another trip to nine of the Ellice Islands soon followed and then the 1W carried stores and much-needed equipment out to the Line Islands— Washington, Christmas and Fanning.

The JW had done three or four of these trips, when American forces captured Tarawa and drove the Japs DUt of the Gilberts. The old JW was then equipped to carry a medical survey team to all the 16 islands vacated by the Japanese. This job she carried 3ut while US planes flew over almost daily on bombing raids into the Marshalls.

Tarawa was a dreadful sight after :he cruel battle there, and the JW men saw how hundreds of bodies of Koreans and Japanese—and one supposes a few Americans—had been 3ulldozed into the coral sand. They learned how the Japanese, in retaliation for the American bombing of Tarawa, had lined up 22 helpless prisoners—five old residents of Tarawa and 17 New Zealand Coastwatchers whom they had captured— and beheaded them. It was one of the foulest crimes of World War 11, A gallant Australian, Reg Morgan, was butchered there before he could receive the George Medal awarded him for great gallantry in operating his mobile radio station.

The John Williams V returned to Suva a fpw davs before the Pacifie Suva a tew days before the Pacific War ended. She had served the armed forces for 2\ years, traversing thousands of square miles without escort or armaments, except an American .45 revolver and 2,000 cartridges, which were scrounged by Mr. Tibbo, the engineer, from the American store at Funafuti.

Ran Aground After the war, the old schooner went back into Mission service, but soon afterwards she ran aground on Savaii,Western Samoa, and was lost.

Mr. Tibbo says he has no idea where Captain Kettle now is. “I also have lost sight of Captain Bill Page,” he says. “Captain Page left us on transfer to an American destroyer, so that he could navigate the first US destroyer into Tarawa, for which he got the Bronze Star.

“On that trip, we had Captain Harry Gosling, who became ill before we got to Funafuti, and had to be flown back to Suva.

“Gus Raddock is still the Union Co. head-stevedore at Suva; and I am a resident of Mount Albert, Auckland.”

Saying It With Flowers A controversy about whether or not to keep the bathroom door locked which swept Sydney recently recalls how the late Harold Markham settled the question in his Solomon Islands homestead, “Segi”.

Readers of Michener and other writers on the Islands will recognise Markham as the Solomons’ most lavish host.

“Segi” was a show place in which Markham had acclimatised trees and plants from many parts of the world. Markham’s bathroom. with its adjunct roofed with leaf, stood, like his large, comfortable house, on higher ground and was reached by a path which led through a corner of his garden. Neither the bathroom nor the inevitable cubicle nearby had doors.

“Who’d want to shut out a view like that”? Markham would enquire of his guests in a magnificient voice that could be heard a mile across Marovo Lagoon, over which the necessary buildings commanded a broad vista.

Markham seldom lacked visitors and as most of his guests were passing schooner men nobody bothered about the absence of doors.

But rare lady guests sometimes found the al fresco lavatory arrangements embarrassing until their anxiety was put at rest in characteristic Markham fashion.

The path to the privy led past a magnolia tree and the signal that a guest was in occupation was a solitary plucked magnolia bloom lying on the coral paving.

On returning to the house the guest tossed the flower into the shrubbery and so gave the “all clear”. Only a poet’s mind would find a picturesque solution to what could have become a trying domestic contretemps. — Bill Baverstock.

This memorial to the 22 men beheaded on Tarawa by the Japanese was built of coconut wood and erected by American forces soon after they recaptured Tarawa in 1943. It was replaced in 1950 by a similar memorial in stone. 79

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Since The "Old Firm" Split Up, Life In The Cooks Just Hasn't Been The Same

From W. H. Percival In Rarotonga

Life in the Cook Islands has never been quite the same since Captain Hugh C. Williams retired to live in Sydney in late 1961.

CAPTAIN Williams, an Australian from Townsville, and his mateof-long-standing, Les Livingstone, also an Australian, first visited Rarotonga in 1951. They arrived in the Inspire, a Brixham trawler, that Captain Williams had bought in England and was sailing to Sydney for conversion for Islands trading.

The following year Captain Williams returned to Rarotonga and began trading between the Cook Group’s 15 small and widely scattered islands and New Zealand.

His engineer, dour, hard-working Les Livingstone, had known and worked with him for several years and remained as his engineer for nine more on a succession of small ships.

The 85 ft Inspire had been refitted at a cost of over £3,000 to carry 43 tons of cargo and 11 cabin passengers, One of her two powerful diesels was brand new, she had a new suit of sails, new cordage, three anchors, and cabins fitted with mirrors and hand basins. Electric light was generated from her own power plant.

Curios Skipper Williams’ cabin was embellished with curios collected from various parts of the world—carvings from Bali, the Three Wise Monkeys from Japan, a wooden dancer’s mask covered with carved cobras from Ceylon.

A launch was secured on deck, and also an old Baby Austin in which the two Australians used to get around in Rarotonga.

Dodging coral reefs and surviving hurricane seasons and tidal waves the Inspire proved to be both a money-maker and a fine sea boat. skipper and engineer, bound by the rare quality of “mateship” were strikingly different in appearance and character.

The skipper, short, middle-aged a bantam . “ ck , of a and as game as Ned Kelly, had taught himself navigation and seamanship H e walked quickly and talked quickly, flitting from one subject to another with butterfly-like facility.

Les, the engineer, was some years younger, tall, thin and austere-looking, in a grey work shirt and blue dungarees. Les spoke seldom, and his voice was quiet and slow and indicative of thought.

Both men shared a love of the sea and the open air life. Both were non-smokers and non-drinkers— probably a unique distinction for a South Seas skipper-engineer team.

Adventures The Inspire and her crew had their share of maritime adventures.

The vessel was almost wrecked on Rarotonga’s reef when Captain Williams fought her out from Avarua harbour to the safety of the open Pacific during a heavy northerly blow.

On another occasion, Inspire lost both her topmasts during a storm at sea.

In 1957, she was damaged and almost wrecked when a tidal wave left her aground in Avarua’s silted-up harbour.

Running a ship under Islands conditions presents many peculiar difficulties, and the Inspire’s good sailing schedule was only made possible by Les Livingstone’s devotion to his engines and long hours of work.

Skipper Williams always had a hard time persuading Les to forget work for a few hours and relax ashore with him.

For several years, the Inspire hauled profitable cargoes of copra and pearl shell and provided a useful service to the inhabitants of the c °o* Group’s isolated atolls.

Then, in June, 1956, Captain Williams sold Inspire to another island trader and invested his profits in a arger ship, the 265-ton motor vessel Melva.

The MV Melva, built in Auckland I 1 ™ 8 World War II for the United Mates Navy, was used after the war Captain Hugh Williams (top) and engineer Mr. Les Livingstone (centre) first came to the Cook Islands in 1951 in the Brixham trawler "Inspire", which is seen below after she had foundered in Rarotonga after Captain Williams had sold her. 80 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

»r collecting scrap metal from the ar-blasted islands near New Guinea, er two 160 hp diesels gave her a jrvice speed of eight knots —two lots better than the old Inspire.

In the Melva, Captain Williams irried cargoes of pearlshell, copra, npty petrol drums and general cargo om the Cook Islands to Aucldand id returned with cargoes of aviation id.

Trading Voyages But most of his time was spent in ading voyages between the Cook lands. On these relatively short trips j carried up to 50 Polynesian deck assengers.

To keep them happy he installed 16 m.m. movie projector, and a Hii record playing unit worth £2OO.

Captain William’s main worry was le lack of good harbours in the ook Islands.

Rarotonga’s two small harbours, varua and Avatiu, which are often owded with visiting yachts and inr-islands vessels, were too small and lallow to accomodate the Melva. Bedes, they were unsafe when heavy ortherly weather prevailed.

As a result the Melva had to lie off arotonga in the roadstead, exposed ) the risk of being swept on to the jef during a northerly blow.

However, most of the Cook rroup’s 15 islands have no harbours t all, which means that visiting vesds either have to anchor or steam p and down until all business is This can be a hazardous ndertaking—especially during the urricane season. 48 Ships Lost Since 1833, 48 vessels are known d have been wrecked on Cook dands’ reefs—and it is suspected that iere are many others that have not een recorded. Aware of this, and all is other business risks. Captain Wilams was understandably nervous bout his Melva.

Something had to be done. So he □ld Melva in Sydney, then went to ’ort Moresby where he bought the dobiri.

The Dobiri, a wooden motor ship f 135 tons, seemed better fitted for slands work. Built in Noumea, she fas of shallow draft, and propelled •y a single screw.

Being built for shoal waters, she oiled like a beer barrel in heavy eas.

With Les Livingstone as engineer, Captain Williams sailed his new ship to Suva, where alterations to her were carried out in October, 1958. From there she went to Rarotonga and then made her first trading voyage to Aitutaki.

The Dobiri was able to shelter in Rarotonga’s two little harbours due to her shallow draft. But Skipper Williams was still unhappy about local harbour development.

Unless the harbours were improved within a reasonable time, he said, he would quit.

Bigger Ship For over two years he “soldiered on” with Les in the Dobiri, making money despite local hazards. As cargoes increased, he again began to think about a larger ship.

In January, 1961, he took the Dobiri to Auckland for a refit, and next month bought the Apanui, a German-built, steel, single-screw vessel.

The Apanui, built in 1938, is of 296 tons gross. She is qualified for the New Zealand Government’s subsidy for inter-Cook Islands vessels in survey with Lloyds or the NZ Marine Department.

Williams had the Apanui converted to take 16 passengers and 385 tons of cargo. Then the Dobiri and Apanui sailed together for Rarotonga, reaching there in May, 1961.

By this time, Captain Williams had sold his old Baby Austin and had a new Holden station sedan to roll over Rarotonga’s rough roads in comfort.

He also had thoughts of quitting the sea and settling down on firm, solid land. So he leased an orange plantation in Rarotonga with notions of becoming a gentleman farmer.

But before long, he realised that he could not run a shipping business and a plantation as well—not in the Cook Islands anyway. Besides, the plantation’s overheads proved too high and the profits too small, so he got rid of the plantation and returned, reluctantly, to the sea.

However, he did not stay at sea for long. In September, 1961, he sold the Dobiri to the Cook Islands’

Co-operation Society, and in the following month he sold Apanui to a local shipowner.

Next, he married an attractive Cook Islands’ girl, and in November, 1961, he said Aere ra to the Cook Islands and his old mate Les Livingstone, and returned to his native Australia with his young bride.

Les still lives in Rarotonga, but without the skipper, things just aren’t what they used to be.

And The Band

Played On!

From Gabrielle Lawson, in Honiara It was 12.15 a.m. in Mendana Avenue, the main street of Honiara.

Most good people had gone to bed, and to ensure their safety the usual Solomon Islands police constable was doing his rounds.

HE quickened his measured beat when the sound of loud singing and the notes of a ukelele came upon the midnight air. Hurrying forward, he found a lone Solomon Islander serenading the hidden moon.

Instead of becoming a rapt listener, he forthwith told the happy soul to be gone. The law said it was forbidden to play a musical instrument and sing on a public road, he said.

But the alleged offender was apparently very fond of music, as well as being the owner of a radio set, which kept him up to date with the news.

Anyway, he promptly told the constable he did not know he could not sing or play when and wherever he liked, and, besides, he had never heard anything to the contrary on the broadcast news.

However, the constable insisted on his view of the law and continued on his beat.

Two hours later, his duty took him to the Chinatown area, and to his astonishment a familiar sound again smote his ears.

It was the same happy soul singing and playing his ukelele.

The outcome was that the one-man band found himself in the Central District Magistrate’s Court charged with wilfully and wantonly singing and playing upon a musical instrument in Mendana Avenue to the annoyance of the public.

The man pleaded not guilty, and to show he wasn’t dim witted, he crossexamined the policeman. Had he actually disturbed the public? he asked.

As no one came forward to say that he had, the magistrate held that the police had failed to establish a case, as there was no evidence before the court that the public had been annoyed or disturbed. The accused was therefore discharged. 81

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The patrol post at Pomio covers an area of 2,690 miles, most of it mountainous but with about 150 miles of coastline. It was originally established in 1938 by Mr. P. Mollison, and re-established in 1947, after the war. Present population there is about 15,000.

The Pomio post is an attractive, well-kept station, as the picture at top left shows. As in every other post, the daily routine includes the traditional retreat ceremony, where the guard of constabulary presents arms as the station flag is lowered.

Another regular duty at Pomio, as at any other post, is the running of a banking agency. Here Cadet Patrol Officer Gibbs receives a quantity of money—all in silver—from one of his 240 customers.

And not far away, schoolteacher Peter Hill gets some answers from his bright class of 75 pupils. Pomio school is a typical Crash Education Programme school, and there is also a mission school at Pomio.

At bottom right a party of Pomio schoolgirls enjoy the midday break by having a swim. “Bikinis” are no problem—they design their own with the aid of a few palm fronds. 82

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OTHER items in PIM for January, 1944, were: Banana and other crops had been destroyed at Atiu, Mitiaro and Mauke in the Cook Islands in a hurricane that struck the Group in mid-December. * * * Planters who had returned to New Guinea in July, 1943—before the Japanese had been pushed right out of their area—hoped to exceed the peak pre-war output of 1,200 tons of rubber in their first year of production. * * * Japanese forces on the northeast coast of New Guinea were in a difficult position following the landing of American forces at Saidor, 60 miles south-east of Madang, The landing of the Americans put the Japs between them and Australian forces advancing from the eastward. * * * An article by Eric Ramsden, well-known writer on Polynesian subjects, recorded the death in Tahiti of Taurua, the one-time mistress of the famous French painter Paul Gauguin. Taurua bore Gauguin two children. One, a girl, died in infancy; the other, a boy, Emile, still lives in Tahiti. * * * Although trade and industry were still prosperous in Western Samoa, the departure of many American troops had caused quite a slump. PI M’s correspondent reported that the curio, basket, mat, hula skirt and bush-gin industries were all suffering, and restaurants —formerly veritable gold mines— were not doing so well, either.

“A certain foreign currency,” he added, “is no more bundled about in high stacks and—strange to behold—one occasionally meets Samoan maidens without uniformed company.” * * * Among the souvenirs which Australian servicemen were bringing home from New Guinea— only to have destroyed on arrival —were tiger cubs! The Japanese had apparently introduced the cubs to New Guinea from Malaya. * * * Since November 15, 1943, no lighting restrictions (black-out or brown-out) had been in force on Viti Levu and Ovalau, Fiji. However, the public had been warned that should an emergency arise, they must be equipped to conform to full black-out conditions immediately. * * * An announcement that Mr.

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Tallec was New Caledonia’s seventh Governor since mid-1940. * * * Two Japanese heavy cruisers and a destroyer were damaged and set on fire and 32 enemy planes were destroyed in Allied raids on the Rabaul-Kavieng area early in January, 1944. * * * After 50 years of trading within the Cook Islands, the firm of W.

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Although it is now more than 28 years since Sir Charles Kings ford Smith disappeared into the void on a flight between England and Australia, Australians are still fascinated by him, both as an air pioneer and as a man. The aura of mystery and sadness that surrounded Smithy in his lifetime has continued with the years since 1935.

IWO new books help further the - legend, although neither set out do so. Isabel Carter, in her mthern Cloud, tells the story of the ss of the tri-motor Avro-Fokker airier. Southern Cloud, in March, >3l, on a flight between Sydney and elbourne.

The aircraft, whose grave in the ustralian Alps remained unknown itil 1958, was owned by Australian ational Airways, a company unded and operated by Smithy and larles Ulm, and Miss Carter sets out to show how the Southern Cloud disaster led, by a series of inevitable steps, to the deaths years later of both Smithy and Ulm, and how in a sense it made other men.

One of the ANA pilots of those days, and a flying comrade of Smithy’s in some of his pioneer flights, was former first war pilot P. G. Taylor, now Sir Gordon Taylor, who has produced another of his autobiographies, The Sky Beyond. This is Sir Gordon’s fifth book, and as in some of the others Smithy is writ large.

Greatest Air Mystery The loss of the Southern Cloud was Australia’s greatest aviation mystery, for the largest air search ever carried out in Australia failed to find one clue to the aircraft’s disappearance. In the days when air transport was new the disappearance of an aircraft large enough to carry eight people was a sensation.

Miss Carter collects every fact of the crash, even to delving into the backgrounds of the passengers, but she goes farther than that, and it is this broad view which gives the book a place in Australia’s aviation literature.

There is not an early flyer who does not come into the picture in some way or other as Smithy and Ulm fight to keep ANA in the air in face of the tragic and expensive loss of their glamour aircraft. But ANA went down under the weight and Smithy set out to convince an apathetic Australian Government that airlines could be run if in their first years they had the benefit of a Government subsidy. ANA had none, but it was prosperous until the Southern Cloud disaster.

Smithy crossed the Tasman six times and spent £2,000 trying to organise an airmail service against Government indifference. He knew that his dream of running a New Zealand service, or a service to Singapore to link up with one planned from England, would be impossible without modern fast planes. With Government support Smithy could have had a trans-Tasman service going in 1935 (the route was eventually opened by somebody else in 1940).

Which ever way he turned Smithy made no headway. He was a wonderful bloke whenever he broke a new record, but in between times he was nobody. The contract for a Singapore service, which he desperately needed and which his pilots could have flown on their ear, was given to a small company called Qantas.

Smithy's Death He attempted another record flight from England, in the Lady Southern Cross, in an effort to put himself in a stronger position to talk to governments. He did not want to make the flight; he was ill, his stamina strained to danger point by ten years of worry, exhaustion and long distance flights. And somewhere over the Bay of Bengal Smithy, Tommy Pethybridge and their aircraft disappeared.

Smithy was then 38.

In The Sky Beyond, Sir Gordon Taylor makes the comment that although it is a popular opinion that Smithy should never have undertaken Australian Painters Australian writer John Hetherington has now done with Australian painters what he did so successfully with Australian writers—given us a potted biography in the one book of the people most worth knowing.

Australian Painters: Forty Profiles, follows his Forty-Two Faces, and as with his book of author profiles his latest reports were originally written as a series for the Melbourne Age. Hetherington manages to portray his subjects objectively without passing judgment on their particular brands of art, yet he brings them all to life.

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that last flight, the circumstances had forced him to it.

“There was no other way for Smithy,” writes Sir Gordon, “To have dragged out his life in some physically secure but drab situation would have been death for him anyway. He was completely right in setting out in this flight. It was necessary for the freedom of spirit on which he lived.”

The Sky Beyond covers most of the ground already crossed thoroughly by one or other of Sir Gordon’s earlier books, and in fact, the words are the same in many cases.

If he had not written those earlier accounts this one would have made a far greater impact, but those who have never read Taylor before will find this handsome volume more interesting than they would have found any of the others.

Sir Gordon Taylor is a planner, a careful pilot not noted for a sense of humour. His careful prose, with, on occasions, its stilted conversations, go to emphasise his outlook.

The only time he allows himself to shine is in his account of his flying with the Royal Flying Corps as a fighter pilot on the Western front in France. This, one suspects, was the real adventure to him; in comparison, his later days were more adult, more serious.

This book brings Sir Gordon’s adventures up to his South Pacific crossing between Australia and Chile in 1951, and ends with him planning his flying-boat tours in the Pacific. SI. oo < f OI^ I ?? RN CLOUD - Lansdowne Press. 28/6. THE SKY BEYOND. Cassell. 37/6.) 100 Years Of The Statesman's Year Book T'HE Statesman’s Year Book has * been one of those indispensable publications for many years now, but we never realised until the 1963 edition turned up just how long it has been around. The 1?63 edition is the centenary edition. It’s 1,728 PP-, plus maps, packed with all’the information worth knowing about every country in the world from Aden to Yugoslavia. Fiji, selected at random, is a fair sample of the kind of facts this Year Book deals in.

Nearly five pages of small type give an accurate picture of Fiji’s history government. population, religion’ education, defence, production, communications and banking. And each section gives a list of reference books tor additional information. It’s published by Macmillan, at 75/6.

A Peter Pinney With Sand In His Shoes Peter Pinney, son of a former Administrator of Norfolk Island and a relative of some sort of Sir Hubert Murray of Papua, has spent a good deal of his adulthood leading a lawless, adventurous life.

FOR the last 16 years or thereabouts, he has drifted round the word—usually without money and the appropriate visas in his passport, often at war with authority, and always in company with peop doing things the hard way, the wroi way, the cheap way or the unconve tional way.

From time to time, Peter Pinn< produces a book about his travelsastonishingly vivid, well-written boo which prove the author to be a mo sensitive soul than he sometimes lik to make out.

His first book, Dust on My Shot probably inspired more young Austr lians to go wandering round tl world than any other book by i Australian author.

The latest Pinney opus, The Lm less and The Lotus, is a record i the author’s wanderings in ai around the West Indies, and fro there to Tahiti, the New Hebride New Caledonia and home to An tralia.

As with the earlier Pinney trav books, it is impossible to believe th all the adventures the author ascrib to himself are true. But with th reservation, The Lawless and Tl Lotus can be heartily recommend* to anyone in the mood for some noi conformist armchair travelling.

Naturally, the section of the boc that appealed most to PlM’s review< was that dealing with Tahiti, the Ne Hebrides and New Caledonia.

It was in Tahiti, anyway, that or of the highlights of the book toe place—the author got a job as £ extra and finally as a stand-in f« Marlon Brando (who had returne to Los Angeles) in the film Mutir on the Bounty.

Disguised as Brando, and playir the part of Fletcher Christian, Pinne took part in scenes in which thre deserters from the Bounty wei chased in Tahitian war canoes.

The shooting of these scenes w; not all plain sailing. Instructions hs to be relayed over radios and lorn speakers in English, French an Tahitian; and, at critical moment the Tahitian actors were often foun asleep or reading comics, huntiri clams or nursing bottles of soc drink.

Occasionally, everyone waited f« Early Notes On Fiji A hurricane which swept the island of Ovalau, in Fiji, in December, 1883, is now perpetuated in the title of an autobiography by Australian novelist Katharine Susannah Prichard— Child of the Hurricane. Miss Prichard has for many years lived in Western Australia, but she was born that night at Levuka, where her father, T. H. Prichard, was the editor of The Fiji Times.

Miss Prichard gives the impression in her chapter on her Fijian days, and in a curious appendix headed “Papers on Fijian Affairs by T. H. Prichard”, that she could give more information from her father’s notes, about those interesting times in Fiji. If so it is a pity that she didn’t because there is much other material in her book which is irrelevant and dull, and which could well have been left out in preference for some early Pacific history. Mr. Prichard Snr. arrived in Fiji about 1868.

What she does include in the volume doesn’t shed any important light on developments of that time. There is much talk of land tenure, some nasty asides at Sir John Thurston, an unclear and possibly inaccurate reference to the Rev. Shirley Baker and his control in Tonga and some unflattering references to King Cakobau, described by Prichard, as “an old blackguard”. But Mr. Prichard sounded an interesting fellow for all that. (CHILD OF THE HURRICANE.

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tours while squalls passed, or for :xactly the right lighting, or perhaps or a breeze. Then, with everyone >oised for action, the unpredictable vould happen.

A fisherman’s dory would cut icross the background a mile away, k paper cup or a paper tissue might >e discovered floating somewhere on he bay. Or when the scene was inally shot to perfection, a Tahitian warrior would be discovered wearing 1 wristwatch. . . .

With such unpublicised problems is these to contend with, plus the nuch-publicised tantrums of actors, criptwriters and directors, it is no /onder that the Brando version of he Mutiny on the Bounty was one >f the most expensive films ever nade, necessitating a stay in Tahiti •f actors, cameramen, directors, techicians, etc., of nearly a year.

The hailstorm of dollars that the Americans brought with them made lany of Tahiti’s French and Chinese rosperous, but not the Tahitians, his is a subject on which Pinney as some pertinent things to say.

From Tahiti, Pinney moved on to r ila as a stowaway (so he says in is book) in the Messageries Marimes liner Tahitien.

This could well be, but his descripon of his adventures in Vila, where e says he left the ship to avoid beig caught, does not present a conincing picture of Vila.

But one cannot help admiring his onderful talent for telling a tale.— (THE LAWLESS AND THE LOTUS, ngus and Robertson. 35/-.) The Best Of Lower Sydney humourist Lennie Lower, a much-loved man in his lifetime, died in 1947 on the day that Princess Elizabeth’s engagement to Prince Philip was announced. As a result his death notice got pushed into a line or two at the back of the newspapers, but one clairvoyant writer made the observation that Lower would live while Sydney people could still read. And so it has proved in the years since.

Now we have Lennie Lower between hard covers, presented by Cyril Pearl and artist WEP, who were old cronies of Lower’s. THE BEST OF LENNIE LOWER is published by Lansdowne Press at 35/-.

It’s worth that in laughs.

A New Account Of A Famous Pacific Voyage The story of the mutiny on the Bounty has long had a fascination for Commander Geoffrey Rawson, who, well before World War I, began a seafaring life in sail.

ROUND about 1936, Commander Rawson published a book called Bligh of the Bounty, and later came Mary Bryant, the story of the convict woman who, with several companions, escaped in an open boat from Sydney and reached Timor, only to be arrested by Captain Edward Edwards of HMS Pandora who had been sent out to arrest the Bounty mutineers.

Now, Commander Rawson has told the story of the Pandora's voyage in a book called Pandora’s Last Voyage, which incorporates some of the material in his previous two books.

Pandora’s Last Voyage is obviously a labour of love, and is a very readable account of one of the most notable and disastrous voyages in Pacific history.

It does what no other work on the subject has yet done—it says a few things in favour of Captain Edwards, who is invariably criticised for inhumanity towards the Bounty mutineers he managed to capture, and for his failure to explore the Pacific more thoroughly while he was looking for them.

However, a glance at Commander Rawson’s bibliography shows that he is not aware of any research that has been done on the subject of his book since 1936. As a result, his book is not as valuable as it might be.

Commander Rawson does not know, for example, that an account of the voyage of a schooner, which was built in Tahiti by James Morrison, the Bounty's boatswain’s mate, and which Captain Edwards confiscated for use as a tender to the Pandora, was acquired by Sydney’s Mitchell Library a couple of years ago.

This has been the only first-hand account of the schooner’s voyage to come to light—and it filled in many gaps and corrected much of the data that had previously been available on it.

An article on the “lost manuscript” account of the schooner’s voyage appeared in PIM in August, 1961 (p. 29). Another article, throwing new light on another aspect of the Pandora's voyage, which would have been of interest to Commander Rawson, appeared in PIM in September, 1962 (p. 77).

This goes to show (a) that anyone contemplating writing a book on the Pandora would do well to read PIM first, and (b) that such an author should not assume that, because an event happened nearly two centuries ago, no one is likely to find out anything new about it now.- RL. ‘PANDORAS LAST VOYAGE, Longmans. 37/3.) The "Bounty" modern version. This is the one used in the film, starring Marlon Brando—and Peter Pinney. 89

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The Aborigines From Four Angles It’s getting to the stage in the Australian publishing world where a month is not allowed to go by without a new book about the aborigines. In the pre-Christmas rush of books they appeared in an uninterrupted stream. iI7E selected four as a cross sec- I* tion, two of them in a more erious vain designed to prove a oint, and two others by professional writers and apparently designed more or the Christmas trade than anything Ise.

We, The Aborigines, by Darwin ewspaperman, Douglas Lockwood, is beautiful production which the pubshers obviously hope you will buy Dr your friends overseas. Lockwood sleets dozens of photographs of borigines, some well-known such as le artist, the late Albert Namatjira, nd film star Ngarla Kunoth, and thers, such as Sugarbag Jack and Charcoal”, selected at random.

He writes a page or two on each, i bright and breezy fashion, and in le first person. The words he has hem use are obviously not their 'ords but the device is legitimate in ockwood’s hands. Australians who ave never been closer to an aboriinal than a Namatjira painting at le art gallery are treated to a pain- ;ss lesson on aboriginal life and Die. lon Idriess doesn’t need any introuction; his list of books is almost mg enough to require a second page n the flyleaf. In Our Living Stone \ge, this year’s contribution, he lets imself wander over the years, jotting own bits and pieces as his interest ancies.

Words pour out of lon, and even i his explanatory preface he finds imself. typically, having to cut off hort (after four pages) “to prevent lyself running off into another ook”.

But it’s a good book, as easy to sad as any of lon’s, and with plenty f photographs.

Namatjira, Wanderer Between Two Vorlds, is by an Adelaide woman, oyce Batty. It’s not a book full of an, like the others, but it’s a factual, workmanlike account of the main oints in the life of the artist.

It surveys his rise, his fight to live i two worlds and to get on with his rt in peace, and the arguments, rtistic and social, which raged round him from time to time. The ook would have been more useful with an index, or even chapter headings.

No Dying Race, by Charles Duguid, is an argument appealing for a fair go for the aborigines.

Every Australian, he says, has the right to expect the satisfaction of his basic human needs —food, shelter, work, and acceptance. But not yet have all these been accorded to the aborigines, and “even at this late date there are many people in Australia who can see nothing good in our aborigines.”

Dr. Duguid feels that the Federal Government must be allowed to assume responsibility for aborigines in all States as well as those in the Northern Territory, for their future is a national responsibility.

But he agrees that no amount of legislative progress will compensate for “the saddest obstacle to that happier future—the refusal of a majority of white Australians to recognise the work of the aborigines and to accept them”.—Sl. fWE, THE ABORIGINES. Cassell. 50 -. OUR LIVING STONE AGE. Angus and Robertson. 42/-. NAMATJIRA.

Hodder and Stoughton. 27 6. NO DYING RACE. Rigby Ltd. 35/-.) Biography Of Noted Tahiti Couple Among the athletes who represented French Polynesia at the recent South Pacific Games in Suva was one, J. Salmon, a name with a decidedly non-Gallic and non-Tahitian ring, but one which has been intimately connected with Tahiti for more than 120 years.

THE original bearer of the name in Tahiti was Alexandre Salmon, a London Jew, whose family (they were bankers) fled to England from France during the French Revolution.

Alexandre Salmon was born in 1820, and at the age of 19 or thereabouts he set out from London to seek his fortune. In 1841, after visiting California, Hawai and Sydney, he turned up in Tahiti, where, within a few months, he married the Tahitian chiefess Ariioehau.

Ariioehau was an intimate friend of Tahiti’s Queen Pomare IV, who conferred upon the newly-weds the title of Ariitaimai, meaning “chief from over the sea”.

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tween Tahitians and foreigners, Queen Pomare lifted the ban for three days to enable the marriage to take place.

For the next 24 years, until his death in 1866, Alexandre Salmon played a prominent part in Tahiti’s political and commercial affairs.

His wife, who became known as Ariitaimai, was also an important figure.

However, Ariitaimai is mainly remembered these days as the begetter of a celebrated book on Tahiti’s history called the Memoirs of Ariitaimai.

The book was first published in Paris in 1893 by the American historian Henry Adams, who visited Tahiti in 1891 and took down much of the contents of the book from the lips of Ariitaimai, as interpreted by her daughter Marau Ta’aroa, wife of Pomare V, Tahiti’s last king.

No copies of the 1893 edition and only a few copies of the second, revised edition of 1901 are known to exist, but the book has become widely known through a German translation and a facsimile version of the 1901 edition, published in New York in 1947.

A French version of the book is now being prepared by the Societe des Oceanistes in Paris.

Biography Meanwhile, the Societe des Oceanistes has published a valuable biography (in French) of Ariitaimai and her husband. It was written by the late Ernest Salmon, a grandson of the subjects of the book and a son of Queen Marau. Ernest Salmon died in France in 1961 after retiring as First President of the Court of Appeal of Reunion.

The Memoirs of Ariitaimai, the unpublished memoirs of his mother, and other family papers, were among the sources used by the author.

The book has a preface by the Rev.

Patrick O Reilly, who says in it— nghtly that professional historians will regret the absence of notes on the sources of material quoted Another regrettable feature is that the author says nothing on how the Memoirs of Ariitaimai came to be produced and published.

These, however, are minor shorten? 88 in a book that is a mine of information on two people whose descendants intermarried with such rn<ii? OWn D names in th e Pacific as Godeffroy, Brander, Darsie, Atwater S The Latest In Brief IN MINE OWN HEART is the third book of autobiography by Melbourne writer Alan Marshall, who has already produced / Can Jump Puddles and This Is The Grass. This one takes him up to the war and includes chapters about his boardinghouse keeping, fortune-telling and experiences as a male Dorothy Dix in one of the Australian women’s magazines. As always, he is easy to read, full of interest, common sense, compassion and honesty. As always, he comes through as a thoroughly nice bloke. In Mine Own Heart is almost a bedside book on the philosophy of living and liking it. (F. W. Cheshire. 27/6.)

With Gently Smiling Jaws

is a novel of a New Zealand girl’s adventures in New York, written, oddly enough by a New Zealand girl, Shirley Maddock, who once worked in New York. It’s meant to be light and bright and perhaps a little mad, and it is all those things.

But it is also rather pointless. An episode or two about the adventures of a New Zealand girl in New York don’t make a novel. (Collins, Auckland. 22/6.) WINDOWS OF FAME, designed as a book of tributes to Australian war heroes, is a good idea that doesn’t quite come off. The idea is built around the stained-glass windows of the Australian War Memorial at Canberra, the panels of which portray Australian fighting men, and one nurse. Each window illustrates the warrior’s personal qualities, such as coolness, audacity, endurance, decision, chivalry, loyalty, resourcefulness. The glass windows are reproduced in colour in this handsome little book, and in the text author Bruce Harding sets out to tell true stories of the two wars which he thinks best illustrate these personal qualities. There is the story of “Simpson and his donkey, an account of the New Guinea Coastwatchers, the sinking of the Emden, and many more, some well known and others which will be read for the first tim by most people. Unfortunately Mi Harding is not the man to write th text, which is pedestrian. At th hands of a more skilful writer thi book could have been a movin tribute. (Lansdowne Press. 32/6.) HOPETON HIGH, by Bria James, described as a “novel to b relished by teachers and by every body who has ever gone to school’ is supposed to be a satire on th workings of the Parents’ and Citizen: association of the Hopeton Hig!

School. It is unsuccessful, either a satire or as entertainment. (Angus & Robertson. 21/-,) SON OF MARS, by Sydney write Mungo MacCallum, who is note, particularly for his radio features, i a successful novel of a man wh, bears a grudge against the world an, of the tragedy that surrounds it. Th background is Sydney. (Ure Smith. 25/-.) DISTURBING ELEMENT, th, first instalment of Xavier Herbert’ autobiography, might better hav been titled “The Rake’s Progress’

Herbert is nothing if not frank abou his youth, during which he seems t have had many kinds of experiences Sex, one way or another, was oni of the problems of his existence.

Whether this kind of thing wil continue to the end of his life w, won’t know unless we do in fact ge another instalment, for Disturbin, Element breaks off when Herbert ii hardly out of the callow youth stage Even up to that period he had a grea variety of experiences (non-sexual which have gone to make this an entertaining book even for those oven seas readers who might not knowor even care—that Herbert is tin author of the best sellers Capricornia. and Soldiers’ Women. (F. W. Cheshire. 30/-.) BIG FAT TUESDAY, by Viviau Cunnington. This author is 5 ft < in. tall and full of bounce. S*i are his stories if this collection ii any indication. He writes about dogs parrots, other birds and sometime: people, with humour, occasions pathos, and understanding. Ver;good. (F. W. Cheshire. 30/-.)

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Nicholson's 416 GEORGE $l, SYDNEY • 251641 How To Excel At An Old Sport Of Polynesia During the past few years in Australia, the United States, Mexico and South Africa, the Did Polynesian sport of surfboard riding has grown tremendously in popularity.

IN Sydney, the sport now has so many followers that the Sunday newspapers devote special sections to expositions of it, and one of them recently sponsored a surfboard riding championship with prizes running into thousands of pounds.

The reason for the great upsurge of interest in surfboard riding is mainly technological. Since the late 1940’5, the solid and oh-so-heavy planks of wood that used to do duty as surfboards have been replaced by boards made of lightweight foam plastic.

In this new material, boards are made to suit the fancy of every potential surfboard rider—the pointed nose and square tail, pointed tail, spoon nose, spoon tail, pig shape, the the parallel rails, double-ended, south bay, thick nose, thin nose, semi-pig, etc., etc.

Needless to say, with boards of so many different designs, a beginner needs an expert to help him choose bis board; and, having chosen it, to give him a few clues on how to use it.

Grant Kuhns, a graduate of the University of Southern California, is such an expert. In an easy-to-read book called On Surfing, which has plenty of diagrammatic and photographic illustrations, he has set out pretty well everything a would-be surfboard rider should want to know.

There are chapters on the selection of equipment, getting out to the surf, the take-off, the ride, the pullout, and the various kinds of surf, plus appendices on surfing competitions, and manufacturers and retailers of surfing equipment.

Finally, there is a glossary of surfing terms wherein one may learn, for instance, that a difficult or unpredictable surf condition is “spooky”, that a novice surfer is a “kook”; that “soup” means “swash” and that “swash” means “soup”.

The only quarrel that we have with the book is that Kuhns approvingly 93

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This idea that the Hawaiians had a monopoly on surfboard riding is a lopular but erroneous one. The fact :s that the old-time Tahitians were pretty good surfboard riders, too.

James Morrison, boatswain’s mate if Captain Bligh’s Bounty, wrote a /ivid description of how the Tahitians went surfing at Matavai Bay in December, 1788, when the surf was so high that the Bounty was nearly Jriven ashore and wrecked. This is what Morrison (who used capitals and spelt as he pleased) said: “The part they choose for their Sport is where the Surf breaks with Most Violence. . . . They get peices if Board of any length with which they swim out to the back of the surf, when they Watch the rise of a surf sometimes a mile from the shore, and, laying their Breast on the board, keep themselves poised on the surf so as to come in on top of it with amazing rapidity. ... At this diversion both sexes are excellent, and some are so expert as to stand on their board till the surf breaks. . . .”

This description makes it clear that the old Tahitians did not have much to learn from the Hawaiians about surfboard riding. But, strangely, the Tahitians of today seem to have abandoned the sport.—RL. (ON SURFING. Published by Charles E. Tutttle Company, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo. Our copy from Paul Flesch & Co. Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. 42/9.)

A Guide Book To Spain

TEN million tourists, according to the latest book by Australian writer Colin Simpson, visit Spain each year .The book is called Take Me to Spain (but it also includes chapters on Majorca and Portugal), and it is aimed at the Anglo-Saxon element among Spain’s numerous visitors. rj* , ~ . . ~, , , .

The book is intended to be both a travel book (for reading at home) and a guidebook (for taking with you), for it is produced in two editions large and small the smaller one being a travellers compact edition to tuck in coat pocket or airways bag for the trip”. Both editions contain identical material.

As is usual with Simpson’s books, Take Me to Spain is a first class production job. It is full of attractive maps, line decorations, black and white photographs, and Kodachromes.

Unfortunately, the book’s contents do not match up to the book’s attractive appearance. Much of it is a rehash of the history, descriptions, opinions and facts to be found in Spanish Tourist Bureau hand-outs, other guide books, and the works of Anglo-Saxon writers on Spain.—RL. (TAKE ME TO SPAIN. Angus and Robertson. Both editions 32/6.) Best of The Paperback These are the best of the latest release of paperbacks Novels: Two by Howard Spring, FAME

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LONG. The first is based on the life story of a politician, the second starts in a Cornish vicarage. (Fontana; 8/9 each). A QUESTION OF SURGERY, by Michael Fitzwilliam, who is a surgeon when he isn’t writing stories like this one, is set in a British hospital. (Four Square; 4/-). PINK FLANNEL, by Ruth Park, set in a New Zealand country town of the 1920’5. (Pacific; 5/6).

Murder, Thrills WINDS OF EVIL, by Arthur Upfield, is a Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte adventure. Two murders and a strangling attempt.

One of his best. (Pacific; 5/6.) THE WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb. Murder and sex with an American background. (Four Square; 4/-.) THE FERGUSON AFFAIR, and THE WYCHERLY WOMAN, both by Ross MacDonald, who is billed to be the successor to Raymond Chandler. He writes like him, and the thrills are there. (Fontana; 5/6 each.)

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John Creasy. Britain’s ace thriller writer mixes Department Z and a kidnapping, and the result is palatable. (Four Square; 4/-.) THE SHADOW, by Sydney journalist Vince Kelly, is a true-life account of Frank Fahy, who worked for years as an undercover police agent and shadower, unknown even to most of his colleagues. (Pacific; 5/6.) Something Special JULIUS CAESAR, in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series, is value for money. Tastefully produced, the edition includes text notes, commentaries by experts and suggested references. (Signet Classics; 5/6).

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BRITISH POETS, edited by Oscar Williams, runs from Blake to Wordsworth to Robert Browning and Dylan Thomas—an anthology of two centuries of poetry by 22 British poets. 576 pp. (Mentor; 12/6).

A SHORT HISTORY OF AUS- TRALIA, by Professor Manning Clark, Excellent, compact production of Professor Clark’s invaluable history. Worth owning. (Mentor; 9/9). HOW TO WRITE, SPEAK AND THINK MORE EFFEC- TIVELY, by Dr. Rudolf Flesch.

Good practical advice for anybody interested in plain talk and clear thinking. (Signet; 8/6), COM- PANION ENGLISH DICTIONARY, was first published in England in 1961 as Chamber’s School Dictionary.

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NEUROTIC DOG, by Stephen Baker, filled with drawings by Eric Gurney, is a genuinely funny book for dog lovers and dog haters alike.

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BUDGERIGARS and Other Caged Birds, by Jack Aistrop, FZS, is a handbook on their care, feeding and housing. Illustrated. (Four Square; 5/6.) (Signet, Four Square, Mentor and Go, Go, Go books are all distributed by Tudor Distributors Pty. Ltd., Sydneyr Pacific by Angus and Robertson Ltd.; Fontana and Pan by William Collin!? (Overseas) Ltd.) 95

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts Three Skippers "In The Gun"

Over Fiji Standings Marine courts of inquiry in Fiji had a couple of busy days early in December when they suspended one master’s certificate of competency for 12 months, censured another master, and admonished a third. 3HEY did this after inquiries into - the stranding of the Tui Levuka i Nanuku Reef early on August 8, >62, the Tui Cakau on Yadua Reef i December 22, 1962, and the Tui alavala on Mabulica Reef, Gau, amaiviti, on May 12, 1963.

In delivering their findings on the ui Valavala (registered tonnage r . 59) stranding, the court, although Imonishing the master, Mesake Kolisava, congratulated him on getting s passengers safely ashore on Gau land.

In this inquiry the court was critiil of the long hours Mesake worked ports and at sea. It was revealed at just before the stranding, Mesake id only about seven hours sleep in )out 70 hours.

He had sailed the Tui Valavala trough reef-strewn seas in heavy eather on May 9 and he did not get i bed till about midnight on May 10. He had about four hours’ sleep before resuming duty on May 11, and another three just before the stranding.

The court was also critical of the owner of the Tui Valavala, Abubakar Siddiq, for having failed to attract an adequate crew for the ship. The evidence revealed that Mesake had a crew of five, and that most of them were mere youths with very limited sailing experience.

For example, Mesake, when he went to bed about 11 p.m. on May 11, left instructions that he was to be called at 2 a.m.

Although his order was passed on to the boy who took over the wheel, the boy did not call him because an unreliable alarm clock in the wheelhouse stopped at 1.50 a.m., about an hour before the Tui Valavala stranded.

The Tui Valavala became a total loss a few days after the stranding.

The court found that Mesake was guilty of a wrongful omission in not ascertaining his position before altering course for Gau, and allowing the ship to go to sea with what he must have known was an incompetent crew. But the serious damage to the Tui Valavala was not the direct result of the wrongful omission, it said.

A contributing cause was the employment of a deck crew with no knowledge or experience and Mesake had no reliable person he could put in charge while he took necessary periods of rest.

"Tui Levuka" Case The court in giving its findings about the Tui Levuka (registered tonnage 25.97) recommended that the Coasting Ordinance be amended to provide for the production of a crew list as one of the facilities required for the clearance of a ship.

The court found it was probable the Tui Levuka stranded because of: • Poor visibility; a possible set to the west by the tide; bad steering; sailing with the jib only; underestimation of the speed by the master, Taniela Kepa; and insufficient crew.

The court found that Taniela was guilty of two wrongful acts: • In the poor visibility he should have reversed his course earlier; (Over) In The Newt This Month Adi Keva Adios Age Unlimited Altair Aquitaine Awahnee Barlovento Cook Curlew Degei II Deutgan Ela Europe Extended Adolescence Fiesta Fjord 111 Geneve ~ ull Sugh B. Smith jkj s Macdhui Vlakoa Malabar VIII Malaita Maroro Matua Mistress Santa Barbara Niuvakai Nordkil Okeanos Patonga Polurrian Siga Wale Staghound Snipe Taipan Tangaroa Teal Te V ega Tiare Tui Cakau luiI u i v Le , vuk » Tui Valavala ulu Lani Valais Wanderer FOUR OF A KIND: The crew and officers of these four ships of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Fiji, had a celebration on November 28 when all were in Suva together.

To mark the occasion, the ships were decorated with flags. They are (from left) the "Tuvalu", "Altair", "Adi Keva" and "Tui Cakau". Photo: Stan Whippy. 97 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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A contributing cause was that miela apparently had no young lined deckhand to send up as a 3kout.

The court did not think Taniela’s rtificate should be cancelled or susnded, but that he should be cenred.

"Tui Cakau" Case Isikeli Rakuni, who was relieving aster of Morris Hedstrom’s interand trader, Tui Cakau (registered image 59.70) lost his certificate for : months.

The court found that the Tui ikau had stranded because of an ror in navigation and that Isikeli as incompetent generally in his indling of the ship.

Isikeli had failed to mark his posim on the chart when he anchored the afternoon on December 21, he ft his anchorage in the dark when : had not ascertained his position, id he had failed correctly to ascerin how much room he had in which turn.

The total cost of repairs to the ui Cakau was £stg. 1,939, which inaded salvage costs and repairs to e engine and winch. The winch was rained during the salvage. • NEW FACILITIES FOR NOR- DLK ISLAND: Work is expected to ;gin within six months on the idening and lengthening of the pier Cascade Bay, Norfolk Island, and on building a concrete cargo handling area adjacent to the pier. The Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck, has approved the spending of £10,500 on this project. The work will be under the control of the Commonwealth Department of Works.

Cascade Bay, on the north-east side of Norfolk Island, is one of only two anchorages at the island at which cargo from ships can be discharged.

The other anchorage is Sydney Bay (Kingston) on the island’s southern side.

Sydney Bay has several smaller bays within it, one of which, Slaughter Bay, may be developed as a small boats harbour.

About two years ago, the Commonwealth Government allocated £2,500 for an investigation into the possibility of building a small boats harbour at Norfolk. This investigation was carried out by the hydrographic department of the University of Queensland, which is expected to submit a report to the Government in March.

It is understood that the report will recommend Slaughter Bay as the most suitable spot for a small boats harbour, and that it will outline a £150,000 scheme for building such a harbour. The scheme could only be carried out if the Commonwealth Government provided a grant. • NEW CLUB: The recently established aquatic club of the New Britain Club, Rabaul, became a going concern in November when the club members held their first official New Painting Manual Helps All Boat Owners This complete Boat Painter’s guide has been compiled after 80 years research by International Paints . . . the world’s leading manufacturers of marine paints. Designed to make boat painting more efficient and economical, this comprehensive 36-page guide deals with marine painting in detail. Not just a handbook, but a complete manual! Buy your copy of the International Boat Painter’s guide now only 4/ from leading marine suppliers and paint stores or write, enclosing money order or postal note to:—

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IN NEW ROLE: "Tiare", which was formerly a French naval patrol vessel used in New Caledonian and New Hebrides waters, is now on charter to the big New Hebrides company, CFNH, to carry copra. She is seen here in Vila Harbour.

Photo: Reece Discombe. 99

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icht race. There were five yachts king part on Simpson Harbour, abaul. Rabaul saw yacht racing beire the war, but there has been none nee the war, although for many jars there has been yachting in Port [oresby. • CAPTAIN TIPPETT DIES; he death has occurred in Nukualofa : Captain A. J. Tippett, Tongan arbourmaster from 1918 until 1950. ;e Deaths, p. 129. • LAE EXTENSION: After much ptation extending back for years, e wharf at Lae, NG, is to be exnded to 400 ft. The wharf will also ;t another three approaches, making re. altogether, and thus avoid bottle- :cks in cargo handling. The tender r the extensions, worth £190,000, is been let to Delta Constructions, Port Moresby, and date of cometion is June, 1965. • NEW BOUGAINVILLE VES- EL: The Nordkil, brought from orway by the Bougainville Commy to replace the Polurrian, which nk with the loss of many lives last arch, began its Bougainville service early December. See picture for rther details. • NEW BP VESSEL: The conact was signed in Melbourne in ovember for Burns Philp’s new lands vessel to replace the Malaita. le is being built at the NSW State ockyards, Newcastle, and will be 600 tons and 300 ft long. Conact price is £1,400,000. She is the st BP inter-island vessel to be built Australia, and her name has not been decided on, although \a appears to be in top running. • RUSSIAN TESTS: Russia was i hold new rocket tests in the Pacific dween December and late January.

Tass news agency said the tests ould be of “new improved versions : booster rockets for space vehicles.”

Tass news agency said the tests ea was about 500 miles due south : Johnson Island and 800 miles >uthwest of Honolulu.

This is in the same general area here Russia previously tested space >ckets.

A second test area was listed as 50ut 1,500 miles northwest of the -st area and about 2,500 miles due ist of Tokyo.

Russia also has previously tested >ckets in this area.

Tass did not disclose where the )ckets would be fired from.

But in previous tests they were reported to have been fired from central Asia, about 7,000 miles from the target areas.

The Russians held two Pacific test series in 1961. The announcement of the latest series warned ships and aircraft to stay out of the test area between the prescribed dates. • MINES CLEARED: Six Australian minesweepers spent a week clearing mines from Tonolei Harbour, at the southern tip of Bougainville, in late November. The minesweepers are HMAS Curlew, HMAS Ibis, HMAS Snipe, HMAS Hawk . HMAS Teal and HMAS Gull, all of 360 tons, Tonolei was a wartime Japanese base and the mines, of the magnetic type, were laid by US aircraft in 1943. They dropped 150 mines, triggered to explode after the passage of various numbers of ships. The six minesweepers made nearly 200 runs up and down the channel. . , , The Minesweeping Squadron also carried out a hydrographic survey of reported shoals in the Solomon Sea, and later called in at Port Moresby, where they were given a warm welcome by local people.

During the Port Moresby stay the commander of one of the minesweepers, Lt. F. B. J. Hammill, of the Snipe, decided to have a close look at the wreck of the old BP ves- Macdhui, which still lies in Port Moresby after being bombed and sunk during the war. She is rusted pieces—and not very safe, as Ft. Hammill found when he fell through the funnel and injured himself. He was pulled free by a party from his vessel and admitted to Port Moresby hospital with a deep wound in his thigh. The ship left without him. • FAREWELL TO COOK: Fiji took farewell of the Royal Navy survey ship, HMS Cook, on a grey day amid emotional scenes The Cook, badly damaged after hitting a coral head off Ellington a few weeks a B°- ,$ as a result now on her way Devonport, England, to pay off.

Flying a paying off pennant, 187 ft long, she sailed proudly down Suva Harbour escorted by a fleet of motor boats from the Royal Suva Yacht Club and a Sunderland flying-boat from the RNZ AE base at Laucala g ay a crowd of about 500 stood on the wharf at Suva as the Cook, promptly at 4 p m on December 7, with the ratings standing to attention on the SEEN IN RABAUL: Recently in Rabaul on her annual visit was the "Ozama Twomey" (above), which is owned by the Methodist Foreign Mission. Her headquarters are at Munda, BSIP. Below, also photographed in Rabaul recently, is the 143 ft. vessel "Nordkil", which has been bought by the Bougainville Company to replace the "Polurrian", owned by the same company, which was lost in March, 1963. The "Nordkil” is fitted with radar and does 9 knots. She was put into service two days after arriving in Rabaul. She is under the command of Captain A. Brown. 101

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:k, drew away into the stream, and ; Sunderland roaring overhead, dipig its wings in salute.

She gave three blasts on her siren she pulled away, and these were swered by the Union Steam Ship i.’s Matua, berthed at the other end the wharf. The Maroro, which had ived back from Levuka a couple hours earlier with the disabled ird 111 in tow, flew three flags ich read, “Ni Sa Moce” (Goods).

Just off the passages the Cook ised and waited for the Governnt ship, Degei 11, which had the id of the Fiji Military Forces on ard. The band, which had been iring Lomaiviti Province, was to ve returned to Suva in time to play : Cook away from the wharf, but s held up by bad weather. But the id still made its farewell effort im the Degei 11.

Ihe commander of the Cook, mmander Frank Hunt, exchanged ssages with the Degei 11, and also changed messages with the Acting ivernor, Mr. P. D. Macdonald.

Phe Cook’s last two missions from i waters were not of survey, but mercy. The day before she sailed ; went to the assistance of the >rd 111, stranded on Nairai Reef.

Phe Cook first came to Fiji waters 1957, and in the six years she s associated with Fiji she won a rm place in the hearts of the )ple. Her officers and crew were /ays willing to take part in the : of Fiji. A recent example was ding some of the crew to help i the South Pacific Games.

Just before she left the Governnt and the people of Fiji presented j Fijian clubs to the Cook. The nivalu, Ratu George Cakobau, ided the clubs, which were part of collection at the Fiji Museum, over a ceremony at Suva. Ratu George erred to the esteem in which the ok was held. Commander Hunt, after accepting the clubs, handed to Ratu George, a replica of the Cook’s crest, as a symbol of our affection for the way in which you have taken us to your hearts over the past six years”. The crest was symbolic of the work of Captain Cook in opening the Pacific to the Western World.

As the Cook sailed she left five men on the wharf, but they were not absent without leave. They were part of the “honeymoon crew” of 15 who, in 12 months, had married.

Seven of them had married Fijiborn girls, while eight had New Zealand brides. The married men left on the wharf flew home to England with their wives.

• For Inter-Island

SERVICE: A new ship for interisland operations in American Samoa was due to leave San Diego, California, on December 10. The ship is the Hugh B. Smith. Ten American Samoans flew from Pago Pago to San Diego in November and December to sail the ship home under Captain George R. Jacobs. cvhmfy ffrrv ini NFW

• Sydney Ferry In New

The ex-Sydney ferry which has been bought by two New Caledonian businessmen has arrived and the island of Nouville. This is a Governmentsubsidised service, and the only communication between Noumea and Nouville, which was formerly the notorious penal settlement, He Nou.

The populaton of Nouville has been steadily increasing in recent years due to the opening of various educational projects, including boatbuilding classes sponsored by the South Pacific Commission.

The Patonga will go into service in New Caledonia under the same name. Besides operating between Noumea and Nouville, she will service tourist ships which have to anchor in the harbour roadstead.

The Patonga cost the two businessmen the princely sum of U million For New Britain Service BUSES FOR EXPORT: The second of two buses to be exported from Fiji to Tonga is seen here being loaded into the "Matua" in Suva on November 28 for shipment to Nukualofa. The first bus left early in November and was consigned to Mr. Sunia Bloomfield, father of one of the Minerva Reef castaways. Both buses were built by P. A. lal Bros., of Suva. Photo: Stan Whippy.

This ship, which will join Rabaul’s fleet of small ships after a refit, is a former Navy motor stores lighter, purchased from Lorengau by the Bismarck Shipping Co., and as yet unnamed. She is about 80 ft. long. Her refit will consist of hull examination, conversion to cargo carrying and the construction of new superstructure aft to house officers and bridge. The ship is expected to be in service about April next year. 103

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Her purchase would seem to have put an end to the idea of building a causeway between Noumea and Nouville. For some years this idea has been discussed among local political parties at election times. • FOR FRENCH RESIDENCY: The Messageries Maritimes cargo vessel Valais recently delivered a 62 ft touring vessel to the New Hebrides, for the French Residency at Vila. The new ship, the Aquitaine, was built near Bordeaux.

She is a twin-screw vessel with a cruising speed of 10i knots, a range of 700 miles, accommodation for six passengers, and a crew of six. ® GROUNDED IN HURRI- CANE: The 100-ton steel trading vessel Deutgan, owned by Mr.

Marcel Marinacce, of Santo, New Hebrides, struck a reef in the Maskelyne Islands, off the south-east coast of Malekula, in a hurricane c November 15. No one was hui and all merchandise on board wi expected to be saved, but the shi was so badly holed that she expected to be a total write-off. • AGE UNLIMITED, Williai Willis’ metal raft in which I travelled from Peru to Apia, arri l ing in November, is something of point of interest for tourists 1 Samoa. Willis himself has flow home to the US for some medics attention for injuries he receive during the 7,450 mile journey (on roundabout route). At the momei he plans to return to Samoa at th end of the hurricane season and con plete his voyage to Australia.

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These two yachtsmen, Paul Cronan (left) and Richard Sedgeman, left Sydney in the 35 ft. fibre glass trimaran Taipan on June 28 and have not been heard from since.

The trimaran, which was fitted with a small outboard motor, is believed to have been heading for the Kermadec Islands and then Samoa.

Cronan, a 20-year-old driver, of 85 Wynstan Parade, Abbotsford, Sydney, had had no previous bluewater sailing experience, but had sailed on yachts in Sydney Harbour. He is a strong swimmer.

Sedgeman, 26, a boiler maker, of Five Dock, Sydney, built the trimaran in his back yard. Its floats were filled with a material which was supposed to make it unsinkable. 104

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To illustrate the book he has lenty of photographs of himself on le high seas, taken with the aid of self-timer on his camera. He also 30k a lot of 16 mm movie film.

His films and cameras were stored i airtight bags in the shelter on eck. Willis and his two cats prejrred to sleep on deck, although ecause of the long periods of bad weather during his 130 day drift fe wasn’t so comfortable there, art of his daily routine was to drink third of a cup of seawater.

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rst commercial voyage of the Tonga opra Board’s new ship Niuvakai as to pick up about 450 Ellice danders in the Phoenix Group for at Wagina Island in the ritish Solomon Islands. The liuvakai arrived at Suva on Novemer 16 on her way to the Phoenix Jroup, and reached Wagina in )ecember. © FISH GALORE: More than 0,000 salada fish, in two shoals of bout equal numbers, were stranded t Nukulaelae in the Gilbert and llice Group in November.

Cruising Yachts • MISTRESS SANTA BARBARA, yacht, arrived in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, from Tahiti on November 24. • O KEAN OS, 39 ft. staysail schooner, with Joe Pachernegg and his wife (formerly New Guinea nurse Benita Burge), is leaving the Pacific —temporarily, at least—after cruising some 20,000 miles in the past 18 months.

After a wet and rough trip from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands, Okeanos reached Balboa in mid- November, her last Pacific port before going on to Miami, Florida.

The cruise of the Okeanos began in March, 1962, when she sailed from Wewak to Japan. From Japan, with different crews, the Okeanos went on to California, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Rapa, Juan Fernandez and Valparaiso, where Joe and Benita were married on board. ( PIM, July, 1963, p. 112.) She then sailed up the coast of Chile and Peru, out to the Galapagos and Cocos Islands, and on to Balboa.

In a cheery note to PIM from Balboa, Joe said: “Now we intend to sail to Florida and the Bahamas, mainly to fill up our coffers with gold for further travels, by doing, we hope, some charter work.

“We expected to do it the easy way by finding a tiny part of that buried pirate gold on Cocos Island. But, no.

To find anything there—if there is anything to be found at all—needs more devotion to hard work than only the wish to stumble over it on the beaches.

“After spending a season in the Bahamas, it might very well be that Benny and I will come sailing back to Australia again.”

Joe also gave news of several yachts that he and Benita had encountered either in the Galapagos or the Canal Zone.

“At Academy Bay, in the Galapagos,” Joe said, “we met the 28 ft.

Swedish ketch Lunkentuss, with Gunnar Dahlgren and Dag Ekholm, bound for Tahiti and round the world.

“Then there was the French schooner Europe (about 70 ft. long), which was making a movie about the activities of the UNESCO station in 105 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1964

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Palmer Street, Townsville, Queensland. he Galapagos, and is probably now in her way to Tahiti.

“Another 70-footer came and left i few days later for Easter Island, Rapa and Tahiti. She was the American staysail schooner Barlovento, of St. Thomas, with a charter larty on the way to the South Pacific md probably around the world.

“Here in Balboa, we met two old acquaintances of PIM, Tom and lanet Steele of the Tahiti ketch 4.dios. Tom, just a few days ago, ?ot the Blue Water Medal of the bruising Club of America.” [PIM’s ast news of the Steeles was from Diego Garcia, an outlier of Mauritius, ibout two years ago when they called here en route to Aden after cruising he Pacific in 1960.] • DWYN WEN, 106 ft. American schooner, which has been cruising the s acific shooting an adventure film in :olour, was tied up in Papeete at the :nd of November. The schooner was lue back in Hawaii early in the New fear. • GENEVE, Michel Mermod’s >5 ft. Marconi rigged sloop, arrived n Vila from Noumea on November 15, flying the Swiss flag. Mermod, a 17-year-old Swiss sociologist who first law the sea when he was 18, has ingle-handed Geneve from Callao, J eru, via the Galapagos, Marquesas, fuamotus, Tahiti, Society and Cook slands, Tonga, Fiji and New Calelonia. After several weeks in Vila, viermod planned to move on to the Solomons, New Guinea and the J hilippines. • MALABAR VIII, 55 ft. Ameri- :an schooner, was still in the South ’acific in late November—being tied ip at Papeete’s yacht haven with half l dozen other yachts. Malabar VIII urived in Tahiti on August 24 from iawaii after calling at Palmyra sland to drop an oceanographic reearch party, and also at Fanning sland. At Fanning Island, Malabar sill encountered another American racht of more or less the same size —Marty Vitousek’s Fiesta, which was here for 2J months exploring the agoon and ocean reefs. • TANGAROA, 36 ft. yacht with Die and Ann Hanson and their teenage son and daughter, was due to lead for the South Pacific from Los \ngeles in December. • WANDERER, 96 ft. topsail jchooner, whose port of registry is >an Francisco, was among the yachts n Papeete’s yacht haven in late November. Wanderer, originally lamed Grade S, was built as a San Francisco pilot boat. Recently she has been under the command of Captain Omer Darr, a former owner oi Te Vega, and has been operating as a luxury cruiser. • EXTENDED ADOLESCENCE, 32 ft. ketch-rigged trimaran skippered by Jim Thomson, was causing some amusement in Papeete in late November on account of her unusual name.

The trimaran left Hawaii for Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia in September. • AWAHNEE, 52 ft. American cutter, which completed a trip round the world in July when she reached Honolulu as an entrant in the transpacific yacht race from Los Angeles, is off on another South Seas adventure. On October 24, she left Honolulu with owner Dr. R. L.

Griffith and his sailing family—wife Nancy and son Reid—and five crew members for the Tuamotus, Tahiti and Pitcairn Island.

Then, if the Trades allow, plans are to go to Easter Island and the west coast of Chile. After cruising the Patagonian channels, Awahnee will either go through the Straits of Magellan or return to the Pacific and cruise the Galapagos Islands. Dr.

Griffith has installed a new Japanese “Yanmar” diesel engine for the trip.

The five crew members, all Americans, are: Sharron Antich, Bill Nordhoff (nephew of author Charles Nordhoff), Norman Zalkind, David Lamb and Mike Risdon. They expect to be away from home for about two years, and to be in Tokyo for the 1964 Olympic Games. • STAGHOUND, Paul Hurst’s 40 ft. ketch, which spent quite a while in New Guinea waters some time back, has recently been enjoying the hospitality of Indonesia. Writing to Swiss yachtsman Michel Mermod of "Geneve". 107

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s from Bangkok on November 15, 'aul said: “Not since Kar Kar Island nd Rabaul have we found the ordiality we experienced during two lonths in Bali and at the Soerabaya 'acht Club. Both friends and flicials there spent days taking us ightseeing, entertaining us and proisioning us. Only in Tahiti, New Caledonia and Papua-New Guinea ave we postponed our departure as ften as we did in Indonesia.

“Before coming to Bangkok, we iad six weeks in Singapore and reek-ends at Jahore, Kota Bharu and le Beach of Passionate Love in orthern Malaysia. By the time we ot there, it was All Passion Spent.

“Harry Fink who joined Staghound i Port Moresby left us after six tenths to attend to his business in ydney.” • MAKOA, Don Gillam’s 32 ft. larconi-rigged cutter, arrived in [onolulu’s Ala Wai Harbour about le middle of October from somehere south. ( PlM’s correspondent ould not give any other details.) • FJORD 111, 49 ft. cutter, which r as on a world cruise, was stranded n Nairai , Reef, in the Lomaiviti rroup of Fiji, about 11 p.m. on lecember 5.

On board were the owner and laster, Dr. George Lapin, of Long each, California; Leo Gilson, an ngineer, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts; /infred Schneider, a German student, udying at Washington; and Mistrel an Englishman, who is irector of a Nevada ski school.

The four men were rescued by the oyal Navy survey ship, HMS Cook, hich left next day to return to ngland.

The Cook left a six-ton launch, ith a rescue team of seven men, with le Fjord 111. The team was inructed to refloat the cutter and tow er to Levuka.

At first glance the order appeared almost impossible as the Fjord 111 was three times heavier and well up on the reef.

But the launch did the job and towed her, leaking badly, to Levuka.

Captain Stan Brown’s Maroro then took over the tow and brought her to Suva.

The Fjord 111 kept the Royal Navy men busy baling. The engine-room was under water and the engine was out of commission.

Fjord 111, valued at $50,000, left Los Angeles early in July, and called at Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga and American Samoa before heading for Fiji.

Dr. Lapin, a dentist, picked up Schneider as a crew member at Pago Pago and Gilson at Tahiti.

This is how Gilson told the story of Fjord Ill’s stranding to a PIM representative: “It was after 11 and I was up forward keeping a look-out. The moon hadn’t risen and visibility was poor. Suddenly I saw waves breaking on the reef, about 60 yards away.

“I yelled to the others and dropped the mainsail, but it was too late.

We were doing about four knots at the time.

“The yacht was battered by heavy seas and defied attempts by the four of us to refloat her. She was firmly wedged, and racing the engine astern did not work. For a long time we were afraid the waves might break her up. But when the tide went out we were left high and dry.”

The Fjord 111 sent out a May Day distress signal, which was picked up at Suva, and passed on to the Harbour Master (Captain E. L.

James).

HMS Cook left Suva at 1 a.m. while an RNZAF Sunderland flying boat, captained by Flight-Lieutenant P. J. McKay, flew across and pinpointed her position, homing the Cook to the reef.

On reaching the stranded vessel at 7 a.m., the Cook sent across small boats (one of which overturned and threw the ratings into the sea) to pick up the cutter’s crew and take them back to Suva.

In Suva, Dr. Lapin said he would wait for a report of a survey of the damage to the yacht, but that he intended to resume his journey.

Fjord 111 was built in Argentina.

She won the Bermuda yacht race in 1954. • LUNKENTUSS, 28 ft. Swedish ketch, with Gunnar Dahlgren, 31, and Dag Ekholm, 25, arrived in Tahiti early in December from the Galapagos Islands.

Lunkentuss left Sundsvall, Sweden, in September, 1962, and visited Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal before heading for the Canary Islands and Panama.

She is on a voyage round the world. • SIGA WALE, the 30 ft. yacht which left Suva for Auckland on November 5 against the advice of the Fiji Harbourmaster, Captain E.

L. James, had not arrived in NZ by the second week in December, and The crew of the "Fjord III" (from left) George Lapin, owner-skipper, Leo Gilson, Mistrel Cumberledge and Winfred Schneider. Photo: Stan Whippy.

VISITOR TO TONGA: Tied up in Nukualofa in mid - November was the yacht "Auau Kai", of Los Angeles, which is on a cruise in the South Pacific.

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description of the yacht was being ssued to NZ shipping. The Siga Wale las no radio and none of the three nen on board has had any experience if navigation. The three are the iwner, Mr. Pat Ewins, 61, his son, Robert, 22, and a nephew, John ?aine, 16.

Mr. Ewins allowed himself 30 lays to reach Auckland, which would lave meant December 3, but it later ranspired that he had stopped off at Cadavu for eight days. Thus keepng to the 30-day sailing schedule vould mean that he did not expect 0 reach his destination until Decemier 11.

An American yacht, the Ulu Lani, vhich left Suva seven days after the Uga Wale, reported on arrival at Bussell it had seen no sign of the r acht.

The RNZAF was prepared to make 1 search if necessary and RNZAF ircraft travelling between New Zeaand and Fiji were asked to watch for he Siga Wale.

From the Islands Press IN the last year or two Rotumans have become moderately vocal in matters affecting Rotuma as part of the Crown Colony of Fiji.

Letters published in The Fiji Times underline the fact that a quiet, rational, and constructive upsurge of feeling has been going on.

It is no relation to fanatical nationalism of the kind that has created tragic development in Africa and elsewhere, and the indications are that Rotumans, like most Fijians, disdain the shoddy devices of rabble-rousing demagogues of any race.

But this does not alter the fact that thoughtful Rotumans have, with justification, reached the conclusion that peaceful little Rotuma has been taken for granted for too long.

Geography has ensured a big measure of isolation for the beautiful island, but isolation is not the same thing as a sense of neglect, and it is a sense of neglect that has built up a belief that something will have to be worked out to give the Rotuman people a voice in matters which concern them.— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”.

LIGHTS smashed with stones, attempts to enter Papuan girls’ quarters, drunkenness, brawling, attacks on police, cafe owners employing extra staff to cope with objectionable patrons—is this the new emerging civilisation of Papua-New Guinea?

No, we believe, it is not. This is merely the urban loutishness and hooliganism that has existed for years . . . Liquor has certainly inflamed the situation, but not all the flood of recriminations by temperance organisations can wash this problem clean.

These louts must be taught with a firm hand to accept the responsibilities as well as the privileges of the society in which they share. Prohibition at this stage would not be the answer.

That could turn the flame into an inferno.— Editorial in the “South Pacific Posf’, Port Moresby.

IF the people of a free country are not encouraged to take an interest in national affairs, the Government should at least maintain a steady flow of information for that section of the public which likes to keep itself abreast of all developments of national importance.

Nowhere more than in Western Samoa in this stage of its development, is such a policy more necessary.

At this time, important legislation is being enacted, and the public are not informed of the proposed laws until they are discussed in the Assembly.— Editorial in “Samoa Bulletin”, Apia.

NOW and again a few voices in the wilderness, including that of The Fiji Times, are raised against the habit of regarding the United Kingdom’s Colonial Development and Welfare Fund as a financial milch cow which can be counted on to provide sustenance indefinitely.

Since a statement appeared indicating that hopes of a Suva Point airport are receding into the realm of the apparently unattainable, a number of people have been blithely asking why the C. D. and W, fund cannot foot the bill again.

The obvious reply is: Why in the name of sense should the heavily-taxed British man-in-thestreet be asked to pay for a Suva Point airport?— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

FINGERNAILS are very important to us. Their first job is to protect the end of our fingers from all the bumps and knocks they get every day. Their second job is to help us pick up things.

Fingernails can also be very dangerous to health because if they are allowed to grow long they collect the dirt very easily, and if you eat your meal with dirty hands and dirty fingernails, the germs that have ben living in the dirt of the fingernails will be swallowed and will begin to live in the body where they can cause disease.— Public notice in the “Niue Newsletter”.

RESENT FROM RAFTMAN: William Willis, 0-year-old raft voyager, wore this canvas [?]ap, which he made himself, during his [?],450 mile journey to Western Samoa. In [?]pia he presented the cap, suitably incribed and autographed, to Mr. Eric [?]mith, who is seen holding it. Mr. Smith [?] a Sydney oyster farmer who has been [?]orking for some time in Western Samoa, he two men became firm friends, and [?]Villis plans to stay with Smith in Sydney [?] and when he continues with the final leg of his raft voyage. 111

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In A Nutshell • Radio Wewak, in the NG Sepik )istrict, will transmit a special lessage of greeting to short-wave adio listeners in Nelson, New Zeaand, in February. The manager of ladio Wewak, Mr. R. Wilson, said tiat reports indicated that the station ad been received in many parts of Jew Zealand, Japan, Germany and )enmark. • Exploration Services, a Port Moresby company, is using teak from tie Territory teak plantation at Irown River as the piles for 12 lowest houses it is building near the .aloki River for native employees, 'he teak was planted seven years ago iy the P-NG Forestry Department. • A census taken in the Gilbert nd Ellice Islands Colony in 1963 howed the population had increased 0 50,000, compared with 36,000 in 946. The colony consists of 37 atolls nd islands spread over two million quare miles of ocean. • In the last three years on lougainville, NG, P-NG health officers lave achieved what is believed to be a vorld record for malaria reduction on 1 comparatively big land mass. In hat period they have reduced the inidence of malaria from as high as >0 people a hundred down to three >r four people a hundred. The reactions are the result of the general ;radication campaign now being ;arried out in Papua-New Guinea. • The first South Pacific Commission course to be held in the Cook Islands —a training course with the theme of “Incentive for Economic Development”—will be held on Rarotonga in April. American Samoa, French Polynesia, Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, Niue and the Cook Islands are being invited to send delegates. • An independent survey of the welfare of Cook, Niue and Tokelau Islanders living in New Zealand is being arranged by the Department of Island Territories. It is hoped that the School of Social Science of Victoria University, Wellington, will be able to begin the survey in the Auckland city area next May.

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Niall, when the Japanese were being pushed back, although ANGAU was Port Moresby based. • The New Caledonian Education Department is distributing in all schools an illustrated leaflet on six dangerous cone shellfish found in New Caledonian waters. The leaflet was produced free by a local printer. • Investigating a possible route for ultra-high frequency radio links for Territory internal telephone traffic, P-NG Department of Posts and Telegraps officers recently used a helicopter to land on the peaks of Mt.

Albert Edward, Mt. Scratchley and Mt. Strong to inspect them as repeater radio sites. The mountain sites might also be used to link Territory telephone traffic with the SEACOM cable that would be landed at Madang. SEACOM is part of a link: connecting Europe, Asia, the Pacific: and America. • Twenty-nine New Hebridean, men and six women, the first students; to graduate as teachers from Karwenu College, just outside Vila, received their certificates from Dr.

Richard Seddon, of the South Pacific Commission, at a ceremony at the; college on December 2. Karwenu College, which was mainly built with British Colonial Development and Welfare funds, was opened in March, 1962. New Hebrideans are trained there for two years as teachers. • At Tarawa Atoll, in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, on November 15, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, formally opened a mile-long causeway linking Naanikai and Teaoraereke Islets, thus completing unbroken highway communication to Bonriki Airport. The first regular air service to the GEIC, by Fiji Airways, is expected to start in a month or two. • The Popondetta Agricultural Training Institute, the first of three similar institutes in Pa p u a-New Guinea to begin teaching, was officially opened on December 3. Others will be opened in the Central District and Western Highlands District.

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A higher (full diploma) course, asting three years, will be available in 965 to students with Intermediate or unior Certificates at the Vudal Agri- :ultural College now being built in slew Britain. • A tender to build a £97,000 jower station at Keravat, about 25 niles from Rabaul, has been let to he Australian firm of Alfred, inashall, Anton Pty. Ltd. • The BSIP Civil Servants’ Association has asked the Chief Secretary o approve a change in the hours of vork for civil servants, to allow for m official working week of five days 'excluding Saturday), and a maximum of 35 hours work a week for ill sections of the British Solomon [slands Civil Service. • Captain Lionel Thrift, manager : or TAA in Papua-New Guinea, will ransfer his office from Port Moresby ;o Lae early in the New Year. Mr. \rthur Krieg, who represented TAA n P-NG during the takeover from Qantas several years ago, will be Dosted from Sydney to become TAA’s Port Moresby manager. • Two new Norfolk Island postage stamps, the first of a new series, will go on sale on February 24.

Lheir denominations will be 5d and Bd. • To combat the danger of surprise cyclones, the New Caledonian Weather Bureau is installing three automatic weather stations on outlying islands. One, on Ouvea, the northernmost of the Loyalty Group, has been operating for some months. A second has just been installed at Belep, an archipelago north-west of the main New Caledonian land mass. A third will be built at isolated Surprise Island in the far north-west of the Group. The three stations will broadcast weather information every three hours. • The Polynesian Airlines DC3’s service between Western Samoa and the Cook Islands, started earlier last year, has proved so popular that on November 29 the company increased the frequency from a fortnightly to a weekly one. The service leaves Apia every Friday for Aitutaki and Rarotonga, returning on the same route on Saturday. The aircraft also now has a hostess. The PAL service is the first to link the Cook Islands with outside services since TEAL closed down its flying boat services to the Cooks several years ago. PAL is owned in Western Samoa. 115 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1964

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The first, a seven-year-old boy, recovered. The type of cone shell which stung the girl was not identified. • A £175,000 project has started to make the 45-mile road between Port Moresby and Kwikila an allweather highway. The new road will cost about £92,000 and an additional £83,000 will be spent on erecting 19 bridges between Port Moresby and the Kemp Welch River. • With the installation in November of a new transmitter at Kingston, the Norfolk Island Administration’s broadcast station VL2NI received an increase in power from 2 watts to 10 watts.

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Some transmissions now feature a request session. • If all children of school age in New Guinea were to be educated, some 20,000 teachers would be needed, P-NG’s Director of Education, Mr. L. Johnson, said in Port Moresby on November 19 at the third annual graduation ceremony of the Port Moresby Teachers’ College.

He said there were now 4,000 certificated teachers in Administration and mission schools, of whom 2,800 were natives and 1,200 were Europeans. An additional 2,500 people had permits to teach. • A mysterious disease has been affecting bananas in parts of southeast Viti Levu, Fiji’s largest island.

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R. F. R. Scragg, P-NG Director of Helath, said in December the antivenene, a mixture of the venom of the Papuan black, taipan, death adder and tiger snakes, was successfully used on a Tupeseleia man bitten ,by an unidentified snake. 116 January , „ 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Bellona is a Polynesian “outpost” nong the generally Melanesian lands of the Solomons, The Bellona people have no rniboos for water-carrying, and they ive to carry fresh water from )mmunal tanks which are some stance from their houses.

Mr. Monberg and Dr. Elbert tended the buckets as a practical ay of thanking the people for dping them during their research. # * * The Housing Adviser to Britain’s epartment of Technical Co-opera- -3n is to visit Fiji early in February, e is Mr. W. M. Woodhouse, who ill discuss standards of design, aterials and layout for housing for w income group workers. * * * The Principal of the Port Moresby eachers’ College, Mr. F. Johnson, is i spend 12 months at Columbia niversity. New York, studying the aching of English as a foreign language. Mr. Johnson will go to the US with his wife. Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of the Morobe District Commissioner, Mr. H. Niall, and Mrs. Niall. * * * A 22-year-old American girl, working for 12 months as a Welfare Officer with P-NG’s Department of Native Affairs, has been posted to the Gulf District of Papua. She is Miss Barbara Belton, of Oregon, whose father was Deputy Chief of Mission, at the American Embassy, Canberra, for three years.

Miss Belton visited Australia last January to see her parents and decided to learn about Papua and New Guinea by working in the Territory.

So she applied to the Administration for a position. She is a Bachelor of Arts of Columbia University. * * * Mr. Pierre Messmer, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, will visit the atomic testing centre in French Polynesia in January. * * * Mr. and Mrs, Don Over, co-producers of the Puka Puka otea dance, which has been playing to recordbreaking crowds at the Queen’s Surf Gardens at Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach, are to produce a major Polynesian show for the New York World’s Fair.

Mrs. Over was formerly Elaine Frisbie, sister of Polynesian author and dancer Johnny Frisbie, and a daughter of the late American writer Robert Dean Frisbie.

Mr. and Mrs. Over will visit Tahiti, FIVE OF A KIND: These charming young ladies, photographed at a gathering of the Polynesian Association in Sydney recently, are all from the same small island, Rotuma. in froni (from left) are Miss B. Gibson, Mrs. J.

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A. J. Blum, T. Chan. A. Bernhardt.

Graham Morgan, George Yee Fai and W. Quan, committee members. * * * The idea of “getting away from it all” on a small island such as Norfolk apparently has its appeal to quite a few people in Australia.

Anyway, several dozen people applied for the job of Official Secretary to the Norfolk Administration when the job was advertised two or three months ago.

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William Lloyd Mortlock, 41, who is expected on Norfolk on January 10.

He is married with three children and was previously with the Australian Postmaster-General’s Department.

Mr. Mortlock will take over from Mr. Jim Donovan, who, after twoi years, will return to Australia withi his wife and young twins, to join the Finance and Economics Division of’ the Department of Territories in i Canberra. * * ♦ Mr. Ray Goriss and his wife and i family have left Port Moresby and! will live permanently in Queensland., Mr. Goriss has been a Port Moresby ’ resident since the war and a wellknown sportsman in the Territory. ❖ * * Pastor L. H. Barnard, who< supervises 80 Seventh-day Adventist J native missionary teachers on the? fringe of uncontrolled territory in the; New Guinea highlands, will start J doing his rounds by plane when the; Church takes delivery of a Cessna i 180 aircraft early this year. The; plane is the first introduced to New\ Guinea by the Seventh-day \ Adventists, although most other i missions operate them. 118 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Melbourne journalist Raymond mil, author of Retreat from okoda and Old Walhalla, a Portrait a Gold Town, has taken over news editor at the Fiji Broadsting Commission from Derek ound, of New Zealand. Mr. Round is returned to NZ. * * * Two young Sydney men visited ard Howe Island in December to vestigate the possibility of climbing all’s Pyramid, which still has not ;en scaled.

The men are Bryden Allen, pre- Jent of Sydney Rock Climbing Club id David Lambeth, a cameraman ith ABN Channel 2 TV in Sydney Mrs. L. Johnston, of the Port oresby Golf Club, was the winner the 1963 Lux Pacific Islands Golf ophy given (annually from last ar) by J. Kitchen & Sons Pty., Ltd. isults were:— Mrs. L. Johnston, Port Moresby, 45 hits; Mrs. S. Irvine, Ba, Fiji, 43; Miss ana von Reiche, Apia, Western Samoa, ; Mrs. L. Colahan, Rabaul, P-NG, 41; ss L. Vance, Labasa, Fiji, 40; Mrs. J. lillips, Lae, P-NG, 39; Mrs. L. Bossley, utoka, Fiji, 39; Mrs. M. Dell, Suva, Fiji, ; Miss G. Greinke, Madang, P-NG, 36; •s. N. Thomas, Vatukoula, Fiji, 36; •s. N. Primrose, Goroka, P-NG, 36; ■s. C. Revell, Nadi, Fiji, 35; Miss ttlefair, Penang, Fiji, 33; Mrs. E. hnson, Wau, P-NG, 33; Mrs. V. J. sming, Bulolo, P-NG, 33; Mrs. N. ason, Kavieng, P-NG, 18. ♦ * * Mr. Bernard Hebert, Assistant ench Resident Commissioner in e New Hebrides, has been apiinted Commissioner for France on e South Pacific Commission. He places Mr. Jacques Bach who, as icond Commissioner for France, as based in Noumea for some years. [?]AURIED IN SYDNEY; Two well-known [?]baul, New Guinea, families have been [?]ited with the wedding in Sydney of [?]. Larry Chin and Miss Debbi Ng. Mr. [?]lin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chin H. sen, and his attractive bride is the daughter of Mr. Ng Kai Ho. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY, 1964

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Pacific Commerce and Produce Solomons Timber Development Has 'Exciting Prospects' The British Solomon Islands Protectorate is sharing in the growing South Pacific timber boom. From this year timber will become a major industry there and the Government expects a capital investment of £1 million to be achieved soon.

WEN at its present modest level, J the BSIP Financial Secretary, r. L. M. Davies, expects the timber dustry to yield a direct revenue of 0 000 in 1964 “We can expect this yield to be ladrupled a/ full thT BSIP Legislative Council in ecember. “In addition there will sizeable effects on he pool of bour imports the yield from mme tax and other duties There is imense potential here which we e about to see mobilised.”

Mr. Davies described the increased terest in timber as “the most imirtant thing which has happened to e Solomons since coconuts were st planted here”.

He said he did not want to over aphasise the importance of the inistry, but it couldn’t be under emlasised, either.

One Japanese and one British commy were already operating and he iped that in 1964 two further commies would begin on a large scale.

He said timber operations were implicated and expensive, requiring eat skill, but the companies would introduce training schemes, thus setting a pattern of development which was “exciting”.

Log exports would be the most important aspect to begin with, but saw-milling and timber processing in- Solomons was f ? rt “ n vfrt^cos^t^itsdf' deVe '° pment * timber got top billeconomic report * replacing copra for the fi ; Bu s ra cture was , y F The )%3 productjon should a record, probably achieving the target G f 25,000 tons. Solomon Islanders continue to produce more than half, with Levers producing 23 per cent, of the total.

Mr. Davies said greater efficiency on existing plantations would mean greater exports.

“At a guess”, the Solomons could probably export another 3,000 to 4,000 tons if all the nuts which fell to the ground were harvested, Over-crowded palms had to be thinned out and new areas had to be planted.

Mr. Davies said annual increase in copra production in the last four years was about 4 per cent, but the target for 1964 would be 26,250 tons, or an increase of 5 per cent.

Mr. Davies added that cocoa was coping with the sort of anti-climax which sometimes followed a breathtaking start. The 1963 production would be about 40 tons from five licensed processing units, but in 1964 there needed to be a five-fold increase to some 200 tons.

First Fiji Wool Export For Twenty Years EARLY in December a Fiji farmer shipped a 254 lb bale of wool, grown at Navunivesi, Bua, Vanua Levu, to London. The farmer is Mr. A. Edwards and the wool the first exported from the Colony for more than 20 years.

That is not surprising for there has never been any concentration on sheep farming in the Colony, possibly because of the climate, or because all the best land is required for sugar or copra.

Mr. Edwards sheared 52 of his flock of 89 sheep at the end of October to get his bale of wool, which he expects to realise £6O to £7O.

He runs 81 sheep bred in New Zealand and eight bred in Fiji. The New Zealand sheep came into the Colony last May. They are doing surprisingly well, although five of them died soon after arrival.

Mr. Edwards plans to shear the sheep again next May.

Mr. Edwards’ father also owned sheep and shipped wool overseas soon after the end of World War I.

Too Much On Food Imports The BSIP last year imported nearly 400 tons of meat (threequarters of it in tins), 170 tons of fish (nearly all of it in tins) and 2,400 tons of rice. Total value was £400,000.

“All this we could produce locally,” said the BSIP Financial Secretary, Mr. L. M. Davies, in December. “It is money we can ill-afford to pay to producers overseas so that we can feed ourselves here with goods which we could produce ourselves. The production of biscuits and eggs locally shows what can be done.

We hope others will follow this example.”

Fiji woolgrower Mr.

A. Edwards (right) examines some of the wool which was exported to London from his farm in December. Mr. Edwards' sheep-farming venture is an encouraging experiment, but until there is a first generation of Fiji-born sheep, it will be impossible to say whether sheepfarming in Fiji is economical. Photo: Stan Whippy. 121

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Dividend For P-NG Copra Growers CHAIRMAN of the Papua and New Guinea Copra Marketing Board, Mr. I. McDonald, announced early in December that there would probably be a final price distribution of about £lO a ton to copra growers at the end of 1963, This would apply to all copra delivered to the board’s depots throughout the Territory from January 1, 1963.

Mr. McDonald said that, on the basis of copra shipped each month, the average London price for the year was about £66 sterling a ton.

This would probably give a final Territory price of about £6B/15/- a ton. Australian currency, for hot-air, and £67/10/- for FMS copra.

Mr. McDonald said that copra shipment prices had risen from £66 sterling a ton in January, 1963, to £7l/7/6 in December. This was about £lO higher than shipment prices from January to December last year.

The prices to be paid for copra delivered to the Board in December would be the same as those paid in November. These, per ton, were: Hotair £59, FMS £57/10/- and smoke, £56/10/-.

New Ireland Adds Rubber To Its Crops VI/’ITH plantation interests and TT village farmers making a start on the planting of rubber in New Ireland, there is an excellent prospect of rubber becoming another important export crop in that district according to the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Sir Donald Cleland.

Speaking at the opening of the New Ireland District Show at Kavieng on V p m M?/ 5 ’ Sir Donald that ! h a e . P V N< ? D ! par ; ment of Agriculture had fostered the introduction of rubber growing in New Ireland.

A total of 250 acres were being planted at Libba, and there were experimental plots in other areas ,h efer , r J ng ‘° copra - Sir Dona ' d said * h ,k" < ? utput of 25 - 760 tQ ns a year on the latest available figures New Ireland was the most important ?ory a Pr ° dUCinB area in the Terri ' New Ireland’s position as a conra exporter reflected great credit on prodneers because the district was one areas in ™NG. ' ly War - damaged “Copra production in New Ireland by 76 per cent, tee 52 ' Slr Donald went on, “and the steadily rising production by village farmers has brought their copra output to about one-third of the district’s total exports.

“Plantation coconut acreage has risen from 52,726 to 59,700 acres over the past 10 years, but the actual rate of planting is considerably higher because of the progressive replanting of senile palms.

“Village coconut groves now total 28,600 acres, making a total for the district of 88,300 acres. This figure includes around li million immature palms, which ensures continued increased production.”

Sir Donald said cocoa output in New Ireland last year was 330 tons, and was expected to be between 500 and 600 for the current year. Output in 1951-52 was only three tons.

Village farmers continued to show considerable interest in cocoa planting, and were now producing around 70 tons.

Cocoa plantings at the end of June, 1962, were 10,214 acres, compared with only 438 in June, 1952.

Fiji's Biggest Tourist Project Yet ¥jTUI RESORTS LTD., formed in November with a nominal capital of £lOO,OOO, has leased half of Yanuca Island, off the southern coast of the mainland island of Viti Levu, with the intention of developing it into the largest tourist project so far undertaken in Fiji.

Plans call for a first-class hotel, with a nine-hole golf course, tennis, bowls, a fresh water swimming pool and facilities for fishing, skin-diving water ski-ing and sailing.

Yanuca Island is about 40 mile from Nadi Airport and is separate from the mainland by a narrow strij of water over which it is intended t< build a bridge.

Two of the directors of Fiji Re sorts Ltd., Mr. P. Slimmer and F Doyle, already have hotel interests i] Fiji.

Better Late Than Never FIJI’S Development Commissionei Mr. W. B. Rogers, is an optimisl but he is also a realist. Speaking ii the Legislative Council during th debate on the 1964 budget, he re ferred to the 1964-68 developmen plan (in which he will have a bi; role), and said there would be failure in the scheme.

Then, his optimistic nature assert ing itself, he said: “But it is up t< us to ensure that the successes hand somely outnumber the failures.”

He said it had been suggested tha Fiji was too late in starting a pro gramme of land development, and h< agreed. But it was not fatally late and there was a need to press on witl the various schemes with all possibh speed.

In two or three years the Colom should start to feel the benefits o: schemes now being launched, he said and he hoped that in 10 years then would be a substantial improvemen in the Colony’s economic affairs.

Modern Shopping Block For Tonga A TWO-STOREY block of shops and offices, now being built ir the main street of Nukualofa, is expected to be completed ir February.

The block is owned by the Tongs Copra Board, and is being built bj its subsidiary, the Tonga Construction Company.

The building is 181 ft x 76 ft which gives a ground floor area ot 13,700 sq. ft. The ground flooi will consist of shops, and will have two arcades leading through to the back. The offices will be on the first floor.

Five of the shops and two of the offices will be used by the Tonga Construction Company. The remaining 14 shops and offices will be available for letting.

The block will be the best shopping block in Tonga, and it is hoped tc that it will set the pattern for sub- A native axeman demonstrates his skill at the New Ireland Show at Kavieng on November 25.—P-NG Official Photo. 122 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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“It is doubtful if the average New Zealand consumer, who enjoys a high standard of living, is aware of the depressed living conditions so enforced upon the village planter— already without most of the amenities and facilities of more advanced societies—when his share of the export trade in the face of rising costs of production in recent years remains static at just under 2d lb for his bananas,” the Minister said.

In 1963, in an effort to find new markets, trial shipments of bananas were sent to Japan and Canada, but costs for containers and transport had been too high to lead to large-scale exports, Mr. Betham added.

NZ Interest in P-NG Mr. H. B. BOWER, a New Zealand businessman, is very impressed by the rattan cane potential of Papua New Guinea. He made a brief survey of the cane recently on behalf of business interests in New Zealand and other countries. Mr.

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Islands Trading Notes

New Guinea Goldfields Profit

GHER; New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. ide a nett profit of £97,868 for the ar 1962-63, compared with £84,922 • the previous year and £60,607 for 80-61, and the company’s directors :ommended the payment of a dividend 4d a stock unit.

In his address to stockholders at the nual general meeting in November, e chairman, Mr. J. Kruttschnitt, said creasing profits were due to the mulative improvement in the company’s /■ersified activities.

Ore production in 1962-63 was 73,202 is, obtained exclusively from open-cut erations. The ore was milled for a ;overy of 9,670 oz fine gold and 8,826 silver.

Total sawn timber produced by the mpany amounted to 2,087,366 super ;t —mainly Hoop and Klinki pine.

Production of coffee beans at 55,448 lb is more than double that for the eceding year, but was 10,000 lb less an the estimated output because of a ought in the Wau area in the second If of the year. The output for 1963-64 mid probably be less than that of 62-63. However, the chairman said: )ur coffee venture has turned the rner by yielding a small profit for the ar”.

OIL SEARCH LTD. plans to continue systematic exploration for oil in Papua, t because of the great cost and EBculties of exploration, it would like a rtner to share in its activities, accordg to the annual report of its directors r the year to June 30, 1963. ‘‘The broad terms for participation by a partner have been framed and discussions have already taken place with other companies, but so far without any conclusive result”, the directors say.

They add: ‘‘Current assets £1,877,459 represent funds and resources available to meet the cost of the programme of exploration in Papua”.

NEW GENERAL MANAGER: Mr. C. W.

Cayzer, general manager of the Associated Gold-Mining Companies at Vatukoula in Fiji, will leave the Colony in January to become technical director of the Emperor and Loloma mining companies.

His replacement at Vatukoula will be Mr. A. Watson, the present assistant general manager. Mr. Cayzer served for two terms as a member of the Fiji Executive Council and was a Nominated Member of the Legislative Council for one term.

PEANUTS FROM MAUKE: The second shipment of peanuts from Mauke, the easternmost island in the Cook Islands, was made to New Zealand in November.

It weighed about six tons. The first shipment was made about a year ago and weighed one ton.

Peanut-growing was started at Mauke about two years ago under the direction of the Resident Agent, Mr. A. M. Hall, who is a qualified agricultural scientist.

The nuts now being grown, the Virginia Bunch variety, are up to world class, according to a spokesman for a New Zealand company which has tested them for use in peanut butter and cooking oil, and for eating.

The Stock Market Sydney Stock Exchange share price index for “Ordinaries” on Dec. 19 was 357.92, on November 19, it was 344.93. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; 5U52.25.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by six members, including three planters’ representatives; and the Board directs distribution and sales, and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Australia for local consumption, (c) crushing-mill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus as available). Prices generally tally with ruling rate in Philippines, with premiums for hot-air dried.

P-NG Board’s Tentative Purchase Prices for copra delivered main ports are: / Dried ’ £59 /-/' ton; FMS, fSJ/W- per ton; Smoke-Dried, £56/10/- per ton.

FIJI:—No Government control—producers sell where they wish. Bulk of copra goes to crushing-mills in Suva FM £FS4/?/6 eS Were: HA ° £FS6/17/6 - WESTERN SAMOA:—Official Copra Board takes all production, sells same and makes payments to producers it goes mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers a ?d Unilever - UK - Local price reg?ade WaS £ 56/12/6 Samoan, first o™^ GA: r, Sal , es are under Government Eumni' „ ? art of production goes to Europe, under arrangement with Unilever controlled by Philippines prices, and part on to open market.

SOLOMON IS.: All production marketed through official BSI Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rate. Output goes to Unilever, UK; to Australian crushers; and the balance on to the open market. Local price in December was: Ist grade, £6O/-/-; 2nd grade, £5B/10/-; 3rd grade, £56/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

GILBERT AND ELLlCE:—Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Government subsidy to producers is; £7/15/5 per ton for Ist grade, and £3/14/7 for 2nd grade.

NEW HEBRIDES:—On November 22 the copra price was approximately £4l/-/- (8,200 Pac. francs). French price on Dec. 4 was 955 francs per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

COOK IS.;—Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, who operate the only NZ copra crushing mill. Price paid is average London price for previous three months, less handling charges. Price for third quarter, Oct.-Dec., 1963, is £NZS7/13/6 Ist grade, £NZS6/8/6 standard grade— both f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

COCOA:—lslands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa which on Dec. 13 was £Stg.2o6/6/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

P.-N.G.: Sydney buyers on Dec. 13 reported: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul export quality £2lO per ton, or on wharf Sydney, according to quality; £220- £230; quote No. 2: Best quality, on wharf Syd., £235-£240, in store, N.G. ports. £220 (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA:—Nominal prices quoted in Sydney, Dec. 16, were: Grade 1, £Stg.2ls grade 2, £Stg.2os, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE. —P.-N.G.: December 16, gooi quality A grade, per lb, 4/- to 4/2; ] grade, 3/9 to 4/-; C grade, 2/9 to 3/€ c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were re ported on December 3 as Kenya A. £Stg.3s4-£Stg.46l, A £Stg.33s-£Stg.43B B £Stg.3oB/10/0- £Stg.39s, C £Stg.3o4 £Stg.333/10/0; Bugisu AA £Stg.3l£ A £Stg.3os, B £Stg.3oo; Tanganyik AA £Stg.32s, A £Stg.3ls, B £Stg.3lo Uganda Robusta (standard £Stg.3l2/10/0.

PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney agent reported Dec. 13 —f.0.b., Lae; Kernelswhite Spanish 1/5 lb.; Virginia bunc 1/8 lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based o Singapore rate, which on Dec. 13 was No. 1, RSS, Spot, 66Vs Straits cents pe lb (23.06 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk i Co., Sydney, reported Dec. 16: White am yellow label processed, standard pack: 30/- green label 29/-, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices until May ] 1964—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressec 112 lb bags, 5 tons and ove: £5B/10/- per ton, f.o.w. Vitamised an enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons an over, £65/-/- f.o.w. Other Pac. Islands Dry, white or brown, etc., £67/10/- (an quantity), f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Aus tralian M.O.P. Shell on December 16 b Sydney independent shell agents were Sound £750, D £5OO, E £3OO, E: £l9O (in store Sydney). Cook Islands Penrhyn £NZ42S (approx.), f.0.b., Rare tonga.

TROCHUS.—Sydney buyers on Dec. 1 indicated the following quotations t Islands producers: No. 1. Papua nominally £9O-£95 per ton, f.0.b., Papuai ports; N.G.—£9o, c.i.f., Sydney: 8.5.1.- £9O-£95, f.0.b., Honiara. No. 2.—Papa £llO per ton; N.G., 8.5.1. £lOO pe ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyer quoted on Dec. 16: No. 1: £325 pe ton, f.0.b., Islands port. No. 2; £3O: (best quality), on wharf, Sydney; or £3O f.0.b., Islands port.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On December 1 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and ovei first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.- 24/6 per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, sma, scale (salt water); large scale (fres; water) 16/- per in. 8.5.1. 24/6 (sma' scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM: £B2/15/- f.o.b. Island port, £95 del. Sydney or Melbourne.

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 processes commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Suva merchants offe= F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins of com mercial quality. Sydney buyers quote 6/' to 8/- lb., ex-store Sydney, according tJ quality.

London and US Quotations Copra; LONDON, Dec. 13, Philippines, in bulk, $193.75 US (equal to £Stg.69/5/5 i per long ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. Europeai, ports. Malayan, 1% oil, £ Stg. 102/10/c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports. NEW YORK: Dec. 13, Philippines, $177.50 US per short ton, c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports-i CEYLON: 930 Rupees per ton, c.i.f.

Coconut Oil: LONDON, Dec. 13, Ceylonc 1% in bulk £ Stg. 102/-/- per ton, c.i.f..’

UK/North European ports. Straits, 3%%} N.Q., c.i.f.

Rubber: LONDON, Dec. 13, c.i.f., RSS No. 1 Spot. 19-15/16d Stg. lb, MarcH Shipment 20-3/16d Stg. lb, Dec. c.i.f.. 19-13/16d Stg. lb. (£ 1 Australian is equal to about 2.1.

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Mr. H. Leonard Murray Mr. H. Leonard Murray, Adminrator of Papua from 1940 until vil administration was suspended in jbruary, 1942, with the military :cupation of Papua, died at his home Sydney on December 10, aged 76.

Mr. Murray was the nephew of Sir übert Murray, Lieutenant-Governor Papua from 1908 until his death February, 1940.

Mr. Murray had arrived in Papua 1909 as assistant private secretary his uncle, who was then Judge urray. In 1913, he became Judge urray’s private secretary, and in >l6 he was made official secretary.

He was appointed a member of the ;gislative and Executive Councils in •25, and he was made a CBE in >36 in recognition of his services. 1940, he was made Resident agistrate. In all that period he was man of great ability, who served a ry hard apprenticeship of steady iremitting work as the right hand Papua’s greatest administrator.

He was popular with everyone, en those who felt, on Sir Hubert’s ath, that Papua needed as a replaceent a man imbued with the ideals commercial development as well with native affairs, for stress on ati v e affairs distinguished Sir Libert’s administration.

The Government was apparently ipressed with this view and there as a long delay before Mr. Murray’s’ •pointment was announced by the overnment the following December.

In the meantime it was decided to Lange the title from Lieutenant-Govnor to that of Administrator. Thus ;onard Murray was Papua’s first and ily Administrator, for following the ar there was an administrative union th New Guinea.

There was great satisfaction within e Territory at his appointment, and le of the first to congratulate him as the then Government Secretary, r. H. W, Champion, who had been cting Administrator and who many •ople thought might have got the >st.

Mr. Murray married Pauline, the lughter of Judge Herbert, of Papua, le died in 1958. They had one son.

Leonard Murray was a first-class ivigator and for many years he ted as master and navigator of the dministration’s several vessels, often ;gotiating dangerous waters. He was e author of Sailing Directions for ipua. In his youth he was a fine dimmer and missed representing ustralia at the 1912 Olympics narrowly, when his rival at the Olympic trials at Manly beat him by a foot or two. He was also a champion rower.

He is survived by a sister in Melbourne.

Among the small group of old friends and colleagues from New Guinea at the funeral were Mrs, E. V.

Bignold, Mr. H. W. Champion, Mr.

Claude Champion, Mr. John Ahearn, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Butcher, Mr. R. F.

Bunting, Mr. Lewis Lett, Mr. Les Hilder, Mr. Mac Rich, Mr. A. N.

Minogue, Mr. Tom Lowney and Mr.

E. N. Bastard.

Mr. A. C. Rowland Mr. Alfred Cooper Rowland, one of Tahiti’s oldest residents and a correspondent for the Pacific Islands Monthly for many years, died in Tahiti in November at the age of 91.

Mr. Rowland, an American, was an erudite man, with a keen interest in the history of French Polynesia.

A native of New Jersey and a Columbia University graduate, he arrived in Tahiti in 1906 when he was 34. He married a young woman of the Leeward Islands, and became known both as Tauraatua and “Monsieur Rolline”.

Mr. Rowland was a man of great charity. Before World War I, he made himself responsible for the care of Tahiti’s lepers, giving them medicines and even preparing their food.

He provided the money to build the first house for lepers at Orofara, the site of Tahiti’s present leprosarium.

In the influenza epidemic that ravaged Tahiti at the end of World War I, he helped to save many lives, when, with a few other volunteers, he set up a first aid post to dispense advice, medicine, food and bedding to the sick and their relatives.

Capt. A. J. Tippett The death has occurred in Nukualofa, Tonga, of Captain A. J.

Tippett, at the age of 76. Captain Tippett joined the Tonga Government as Harbour Master in 1918, and served continuously in this post until 1950. He was in addition the master of the Tonga Government vessel Hifofua, in charge of wharf building, and a permanent member of the Board of Survey.

On his retirement in 1950 Captain Tippett chose to live in Nukualofa and it was there he spent the remaining years of his life. For a short period after his retirement he was with the Tonga Copra Board and was the first captain of the original Aoniu, which he sailed from Fiji to Tonga early in 1950.

He made a great many friends throughout the Islands and on the visiting ships which he so ably piloted into the ports of Nukualofa and Vavau.

Mr. Lionel Haynes The death occurred in Sydney on November 6 of Mr. Lionel Haynes, a resident of Fiji and New Guinea for many years, and a long-time committee member of the Pacific Islands Society.

Mr. Haynes, who was 75, was a geologist with oil companies in New Guinea between 1922 and 1953. He worked in Fiji during and after World War I.

Mr. Haynes, who lived at 2 Reed Street, Cremorne, is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter.

Mrs. Lydia Seal The death occurred in NZ on December 18 of Mrs. Lydia Seal, 92.

Mrs. Seal was born on Vanua Levu, Fiji, the third daughter of Mr. Sam Whippy. She married twice, first Mr. Peter Simpson and later Mr.

E. Seal, and there were two children from each of the marriages. Mrs.

Seal and her husband left Fiji in 1924 for NZ, where Mr. Seal died in 1956.

Mr. Peter Meredith Mr. Peter Meredith, a member of one of the oldest families in Western Samoa, died in Apia in December, aged 70. Early in his career he was a merchant seaman, but he left the sea to open a bakery business in Samoa, and soon built a reputation as a most respected businessman. Flags flew at half mast in Apia the day of his funeral. He left a widow, five sons and two daughters.

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Honolulu-Tourist Fantasia In A Class Apart By Judy Tudor Honolulu has what is probably le best climate in the Pacific ut there all resemblance to any ther Oceanic resort ends. It is tourist fantasia in a class by self.

T has become the fashion amongst Pacific purists to scoff at Honolu, mostly for the way it has turned ; Polynesian background to gimickry. But in the tourist realms it erits a high order of the straightit fabulous and should be seen at ast once, on this account alone.

It is, moreover, a place where visits can have a lot of fun —from wery sophisticated pastime to the mple business of lying about on a jach.

The chief exports of the Hawaiian lands are still given as sugar and neapples but the 50th State’s real 3om is coming from tourists—few : whom ever go beyond the island I Oahu and most of whom crowd ito the restricted Waikiki area of onolulu.

As a result, real estate in Honolulu amongst the highest priced in the orld, and apartment buildings, otels, shops and eating places, in very unorthodox shape and size, >stle for elbow room and for views long the mile or two of the world’s lost famous beach.

Since the jet ge, special air exarsion fares and jecial inducelents have been iven to Amerians to visit lonolulu. It has THE PACIFIC ecome, in the last year or so, the ivourite place for that most beloved f all American institutions—the 'onvention.

Tourists in Hawaii, then, are overwhelmingly American —and overwhelmingly Americans having a ball, lut Honolulu is also, currently, prearing for a Japanese invasion and everal new hotels are being built with Japanese capital, with the excess purpose of catering for Japnese visitors.

This is the result of the unfreezing if Japanese overseas funds for travel luring 1963. For the Japanese Honolulu is reasonably accessible and it is also the place where most Japanese want to go when they travel abroad.

CLIMATE: There is very little seasonal variation, the temperature being around an average 75 deg. on the coast, day and night, winter and summer, but tempered by cool trade winds. (Latitude of Honolulu 21 deg. 19 min. N.). Annual rainfall in Honolulu and Waikiki is only 30 inches but it increases steeply in the mountain areas back from the coastal fringe.

CLOTHING: Honolulu invented the muu-muu and the colourful printed cotton shirt and all local fashions are variations of this theme.

In the dress sense it is probably the most informal place in the world and even its formal attire is something peculiar to itself. Visitors of more than a day or so should take a minimum wardrobe with them and then play the rest of it by ear, leaving leeway in the holiday budget for the necessary expenditure on some local clothes.

WHERE TO STAY: The Hawaii Visitors’ Bureau, 2051 Kalakaua Avenue, is the best place to seek information on this point. The main hotels in Waikiki include the Royal Hawaiian, Halekulani, Waikiki Biltmore, Princess Kaiulani, The Breakers, The Moana, The Edgewater-Reef and The Hawaiian Village. These range from the expensive-luxurious (like the Royal Hawaiian) through the moderate (like the Reef), which is moderate only on American standards.

But there are, as well as these, much more modest establishments, including apartments and rooms, in the streets that run back from the beach, priced to suit more modest pockets.

Although some of the hotels have slices of the beach within their own preserve, Waikiki’s main beach is accessible to all. Entrance to it is between the Royal Hawaiian and Moana Hotels and surfboards may be hired and instruction arranged from the Outrigger Canoe Club which is situated at this point.

DINING OUT: Like every other American town Honolulu abounds in eating places from the lowliest to the plushiest. You name the kind of food you like—American, Japanese, French, Chinese or otherwise—and Honolulu has got it. Apart from the restaurants in the big hotels, those that are considered best in Waikiki The "Pacific Islands Monthly" is a member of AurtraHan National Travel Association (ANTA) and the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA), which are pledged to promote tourist travel is their areas. 131 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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But all visitors should, at leas once, visit La Ronde, a glass, re volving, flying-saucer of a place perched 25 stories up on a skyscrape at the rear of the Ala Moana ship ping centre.

NIGHT CLUBS: Many of the hi hotel restaurants and most of th others mentioned have floor shows a night—the first performance usuall; beginning about 9 o’clock. Of particu lar interest to South Pacific resident at present is the show at Queen’s Sur where Elaine Frisbie, second daughte: of American novelist, the late Rober Dean Frisbie, has a troupe of th most eye-catching girls that eve; came out of the Pacific.

WHAT TO SEE: The Bishoi Museum, in Kalihi St., is about twe miles from downtown Honolulu anc houses some of the finest Hawaiiar exhibits of ancient art and culture the Academy of Arts, in Beretaniz St., specialises in Oriental anc Hawaiian arts; and the Queen Emmc Museum, in Nuuanu Ave., is interest ing as this old white mansion was once the summer palace of both Kamehameha IV and of Queer Emma and it has been preserved in its original state.

The Capitol or lolani Palace in King St., was once the Royal Palace of King Kalakaua but is now the seat of the State Government although the Throne Room is maintained as it was in the days of royalty and is open to the public. The Governor has his office in the building.

Punchbowl, an extinct volcano 50(1 feet high, behind the downtown area, now transformed into the US- National Memorial Cemetery for the Pacific War Dead is well worth a t visit. So is Nuuanu Pali, which is one: of the most visited beauty spots. It) is six miles from the down-town areat and consists of a 1,200 ft cliff fromi which spectacular views can be obtained of the windward side of the; island of Oahu.

TOURS AND TRANSPORT: Honolulu has a good system of buses < and an abundant supply of taxis? which, on Australasian standards, are; fairly expensive.

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ALL; The Ala Moana Shopping ntre that covers about 40 acres — e or take a few—between downvn Honolulu and Waikiki, is reted to be the largest in the world. rtainly there are few others with varied, modern, beautiful or sophisited shops. No woman-and few n-could fail to be drawn towards like a m a gnet.

Unfortunately for Australasian ckets, the prices here, as in the rest the United States, are dear. Ac- -ding to the rate of exchange, a liar is worth about 8/9 Australian; t in purchasing power that 8/9 is irth only about 4/—in other irds, it costs a Britisher, at his rate exchange, just twice as much to e in the USA as it does an Amerin.

ABROAD Duty Free and Otherwise A LTHOUGH Shannon, in Ireland, A was the first—or one of the first —with a duty-free shop at its airport, few countries in the world have now failed to fall into line with this tourist gimmick. All of them sell the same lm< ; s whl f ky ’ French perfurn , watches, ra ? l ° s ’ ta recorders and cameras but not all at same New Pr f ces J a d bout the same as at Sydney’s Kinsford-Smith airport—but Fiji, which has removed all duties all the above lines, in or out Q f duty-free, airport shops, has a very considerable edge on both.

New York’s Idlewild airport also has duty-free shops where goods are sold less local purchase tax and less duty. By and large the range of goods is not nearly as extensive as in other countries—probably because the United States is still young at the game of r ‘° u f t purchase taxes are a trap for unwary ■— P isitors . Although most countries have now cottoned on to this means of raising revenue, with most the decently buried in thepurchase price never turns out to be what it seemed in the first place.

Qne of the biggest anoma lies in depar(ment happens in the State j-£ awa ji. Apart from the manufacture 0 f woo den platters and bowls from imported ra { n tree wood, and the manufacture of muu-muus and shirts frQm importe( j co tton material, Hawaii has only Qne dis tin C tly Polynesian manufacture - plaitedware handbags. These are the smartest things of their kmd to come out # of the who . le J ac 'sj b cf a i 5 be B. m around s B > plu *. ?*? te Feder f. p u. r , cha^ something like $2 on top o .

Why a home industry of this kind should be penalised is one of the mysteries but until Hawaii does something about it, the plaited ware turned out in American Samoa still gives the best value on the qualityprice basis. 133 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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Shipping Time-Tables

All sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

Sydney-Fiji MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka with cargo and passengers.

Next Sydney sailing: Jan. 15 (approx.).

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney (B 0151).

Sydney-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Union Steam Ship Co. maintains monthly services from Melbourne and Sydney (periodically from Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Next sailing; Waiana Jan. 28 (approx.).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney (B 0528); or other branches and agents.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners Ltd., of Suva normally operate a service three times yearly with the Lakemba along the above route.

Next sailing from Sydney: Late Feb (approx.).

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty.. Ltd., 19 Bridge St Sydney (8U4147). ’

Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides-Fr. Polynesia from °i„P SSai > eries Maritimes Line, v . ia West Indies and panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete (with occasional calls at Taiohoe Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Tahitiin^ a D dS v . oyages , ex-Marseilles: 2 o T 9q hltl !?- Pa Peete Jan. 18-21, Vila Jan 28-29, Noumea Jan 30-Fph o Sydney Feb. 5 -W-Feb. 2, arr.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney: Feb ah in e ?-i D ™ P - Sydne y Feb. 2, Noumea £ y lT i l a ? e r 9 s^fVa/T2T8 £ : Taiohae June i-g 9 ’ Papeete Ma y 25-29, Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila, Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo.

Next Sydney sailings: Jan. 17, Feb. 7, 28.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor St., Sydney (BU 2654).

Sydney-NZ-Fiji-Tahiti 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.

Northern Star: From Southampton (UK), via South Africa at Sydney Mar. 4-6, Wellington Mar. 9-11, Suva Mar. 15, Papeete Mar. 19-20, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Apr. 13.

Southern Cross: From Southampton (UK), via Panama, Tahiti Mar. 27-28, Fiji Apr. 2, Wellington Apr. 6-8, arr.

Sydney Apr. 11, thence via South Africa to Southampton, arr. May 18.

Details from Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (BW 1828).

Sydney-Norfolk Is.

New Caledonia Colorado del Mar and Milos del Mar (owned by Societe Maritime Caledomenne, Noumea) carrying cargo only, make a regular three weekly voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe Is. Norfolk Is., New Caledonia (Noumea).

Next sailing: Milos del Mar from Sydney Jan. 17 (approx.).

Detaiis from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-3605).

Sydney-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides-BSI-Bougamville MV Tulagi leaves Sydney about every six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Santo 5® iar „ a and BSI Ports, Bougainville ports.

Next Sydney sailing; Jan. 29 (approx.). 7 SftS £° m + BU i nS ’ Philp and Co - Ltd.. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Sydney-Papua-New Guinea Malekula sails from Sydney for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madane sidnS afen M Wewak - Rabaul, Pt. Moresby fapprox.). Sydney sailing: Feb. 25 S ?? S ? 0m Sydne y for Bris- ■sagi. l —• Peb Sba 2 n 2 e ' ( a S p y p?S. NeXt Sydney Bulolo sails about every six weeks* LL nBy M?d r i? £ r ane ’t 5 P u Moresb y- Samarai! rrf’ Madang, Rabaul, Samarai Pt saiS: y Ma r r iSb 3 a Tapp?ox n ) ey - ****** Montoro sails from Melbourne fc Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samara Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, La< Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing Jan. 29 (approx.).

Burnside and Braeside sail abou every four weeks from Sydney fo Singapore and call (if cargo induce ment offering) at Pt. Moresby (Papua and Indonesian ports. Next Sydne sailings: Burnside Jan. 22; Braeside Pel 19.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (80547).

Soochow: Leaves Sydney about ever; four weeks for Brisbane, Rabaul Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby Sydney. Next Sydney sailings: Jan. 29 Feb. 29 (approx.).

Shansi: Leaves Sydney every fou: weeks for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Sydney. Nex Sydney sailings: Jan. 15, Feb. 15.

Details from New Guinea Australia Lim (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), I Spring Street, Sydney (BU4701).

Slitan; Leaves Sydney approximately every five weeks for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby.

Lae, Madang, Wewak, Sydney. Nexl Sydney sailing: Jan. 24 (approx.).

Sletta: Leaves Sydney approximately every five weeks for Brisbane, Rabaul, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: Feb. 14 (approx.).

Details from Karlander NG Line (P.

H. Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge Street, Sydney (BU8311).

Austasia Line’s vessel Matupi runs between Australian ports (turn round at: Adelaide) and Papua-New Guinea.

Matupi: Dep. Melbourne Feb. 14, Sydney Feb. 21, Brisbane Feb. 24, Pt. Moresby Feb. 29, Lae Mar. 5, Madang Mar. 7„ Rabaul Mar. 10.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty.,, Ltd., 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 1271)., Roggeveen: Leaves Melbourne approxi-' mately every six weeks for Sydney, Brisbane and Kota Baru. Next Sydney sailing: Jan. 22, due Brisbane Jan. 24, Kota, Baru. Jan. 30.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George Street, Sydney (2-0573).

Sydney - P NG - Far East Australia-West Pacific Line’s Motorvessels maintain services between Australia and Hong Kong via Islands ports.

Southbound vessels call at: NG, BSI (quarterly). New Hebrides (irregularly), and Australian ports. Northbound vessels from Sydney call regularly at NZ ports. • PIM's shipping and airways schedules are up to the minute. They are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways companies. 134 NUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Direct Service

Japan South Pacific

M.V. "DAISEI MARU", Voy. No. 14 JAPAN December 24 GUAM December 31 APIA January 23-24 PAGO PAGO January 25 * NUKUALOFA January 28 LEVUKA January 31 SUVA February 1 LAUTOKA February 2-3 NOUMEA February 7 VILA February 10 SANTO February 11 HONIARA February 15 JAPAN February 26 * Subject to inducement.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next Sailing

M.V. "DAIEI"

The Daiwa Navigation Co., Ltd.

Osaka: "Dailine" Tokyo: "Funedailine"

AGENTS: GUAM: Atkins and Kroll (Guam) Ltd.

APIA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAGO PAGO: B. F. Kneubuhl.

NUKUALOFA: Tonga Shipping Agency.

SUVA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

LAUTOKA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

NOUMEA; Agence Maritime Pentecost.

SANTO: South Pacific Fishing Co. (N.H.) Pty. Ltd.

VILA: Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

HONIARA: British Solomons Trading Corp.

Milos: From Hong Kong and Manila, e Rabaul Feb. 3-4, Madang Feb. 5-6. ,e Feb. 7-8, thence Brisbane F’eb. 12, dney, Adelaide, Melbourne.

Delos- From Adelaide and Melbourne, p Sydney Jan. 31 for Brisbane Feb. 3 Rabaul Feb. 7-8, Lae Feb. 9-10, adang Feb. 11-12, thence to Hong Kong, sp. Hong Kong Feb. 21 for Manila, ibaul, Madang, Lae, thence Brisbane, r Mar. 19, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels iking and Anshun call at Pt. Moresby, ipua, on their way north from Sydney Hong Kong. Next vessels: Anshun: Dep. Sydney Jan. 22 for •isbane Jan. 24-25, Pt. Moresby Jan. -30 thence Manila and Hong Kong.

Anking; Dep. Sydney Feb. 22 for Bris- ,ne Feb. 24-25, Pt. Moresby Feb. 29-30, ence Manila and Hong Kong.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., ;ents, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU4701).

Dominion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) ssels maintain monthly service between r dney and Japan (via Manila, Hong ong and Keelung), return via Guam id Rabaul.

F’rancis Drake: Dep. Sydney Feb. 5, t. Brisbane Feb. 7, Manila Feb. 19, ong Kong Feb. 22, Japan Mar. 2, Guam ar. 13, Rabaul Mar. 18, Sydney Mar. 25.

George Anson; Dep. Sydney Mar. 7, T. Brisbane Mar. 9, Manila Mar. 21, ong Kong Mar. 24, Japan Apr. 2, Guam pr. 13, Rabaul Apr. 18, Sydney Apr. 25.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 ork Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253).

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail’s ranje sails irregularly from Sydney for ixrope, via NZ, Papeete and Panama anal; occasionally calls are made also ; Suva.

Next northbound Tahiti call: From pdney, at Papeete June 13-14.

Next southbound Tahiti call: September >-26.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 eorge St., Sydney (2-0573).

Sydney-(or NZ)-North America Cargo vessels operated by the Union team Ship Co., maintain two-monthly ;rvice across the Pacific, from Melourne and Sydney to Vancouver and USA orts. Occasionally calls are made at anning Island.

Waihemo: Dep. Sydney early Feb. ipprox.) for Fiji (opt.) and Vancouver.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of Z Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney B 0528); or other branches and agents.

Europe-Tahiti-New Caledonia BSI-P-NG-West NG A regular service from the Continent nd UK, via Panama, to Tahiti, New laledonia, BSI, P-NG and West NG is perated jointly by Nederland Line Royal hitch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Scheld Lloyd (NL): From Continent nd London, dep. Rotterdam Jan. 29, for 'apeete, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, ladang and Kota Baru.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 61 George St., Sydney (2-0573). 135 ' A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

The 'Pacific's /Host Modern Cargo F/eet...

Consign refrigerated and general cargo by Crusader, for fast, efficient delivery to leading Pacific Ports. * - I Regular services connect NEW ZEALAND, PACIFIC ISLANDS, NEW GUINEA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, MALAYA, INDONESIA, HONG KONG, MANILA.

Apply to Managing Agents— SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.

Branches and Agents throughout the Pacific.

Shipping Co. Ltd

□ □ i ted Wk- IWI m* * Europe-Tahiti-New Hebrides- New Caledonia-Australia Messageries Maritimes cargo vessels run monthly between France and Noumea via East Africa and Australia. From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbane and Noumea; return to Prance via Australian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney: Vivarais Jan. 13 (Noumea Jan. 22); Vanoise Feb. 10 (Noumea Feb. 19).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Iraquaddy (Papeete July 17, Vila July 24, Noumea July 26 Australia Aug. 2).

Details from Messageries Maritimes 36 Grosvenor St., Sydney (8U2645).

Far East-Fiji-NZ-Sydney Royal Interocean Lines operate a service from Singapore to Fiji, NZ, and Australia, with three vessels (Van Cloon, Van Noort and Van Neck) calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka Van Cloon calls at Lautoka Mar. 1, Suva Mar. 2; Van Noort calls at Lautoka Mar. 27, Suva Mar. 28.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573), • PIJVTs shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Far East-P-NG-BSI-New Hebrides-Fiji-New Caledonia China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels maintain monthly service from Japan southwards through P-NG, BSI, New Hebrides, Fiji and N. Caledonia, usually return to Japan direct.

Chengtu: From Japan and Hong Kong, due Rabaul Jan. 17, Madang Jan. 21, Lae Jan. 24, Samarai Jan. 28, Pt. Moresby Peb. 3, Suva/Lautoka Feb. 8, Noumea Peb. 14, thence to Japan, arr. Mar. 3.

Herbjorn: From Japan and Hong Kong due Wewak Peb. 6, Madang Feb. 10, Lae Feb. 14, Rabaul Peb. 18, Pt. Moresby Feb. 25, Suva/Lautoka Mar. 1, Noumea Mar. 9, thence to Japan, arr. Apr. 4.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU4701).

Japan-Samoa-Tonga-Fiji- N. Cal.-N. Heb.-BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs a regular service from Japan, calling at Guam, Apia, Pago Pago, Nukualofa (opt.), Levuka, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo, Honiara, thence returning to Japan.

Current voyage: Daisei Maru, dep.

Japan Dec. 24, returning Feb. 26.

New Zealand-Cook Is.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes approximately monthly voyages from Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Coc Islands), with calls at Niue and son other Cook Islands when cargo warrant Details from NZ Department of Islan Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117) c any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

NZ-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from Audi land to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niui Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return t Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: Pel 11, Mar. 10.

Matua maintains a service fror Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofs Apia, Suva, and return to Auckland Next Auckland sailings: Jan. 30, Feb. 21 Details from Union Steam Ship Cc of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auck land. (Tel.; 49-430).

NZ-New Caledonia - P-NG- Far East Crusader Shipping Co.’s cargo vessels running between NZ and the Par East call at New Caledonia and Papua, and, h some instances, Guam. Next voyages: Port Adelaide: Dep. Auckland Peb. 11 for Noumea Peb. 18, Pt. Moresby Feb 22, thence Singapore, Pt. Swettenham Manila, Hong Kong and Shanghai (i inducement).

Port Montreal: Dep. Auckland Mar. 1( for Guam (arr. Mar. 19) and thence or to Japan.

Details from Shaw, Savill Line, agents 101 Queen St., Auckland. (Tel.: 30-310) 136

January. 19 6 4 -Pacific Islands Monthly

Oronsay Orcades Oriana Canberra

DNEY depart Jan. 23 Feb. 19 Mar. 6 May 3 JCKLAND arr/dep Jan. 26 Feb. 22 Mar. 9 May 6 rvA arr/dep Jan. 29 Feb. 25 Mar. 12 1NOLULU arr/dep Feb. 3 Mar. 1 Mar. 16 May 12 lNCOUVER arr/dep Feb. 8-9 Mar. 6-7 Mar. 20-21 May 16-17 N FRANCISCO arr/dep Feb. 11-12 Mar. 9-10 Mar. 23-24 May 19-21 »S ANGELES arr/dep Feb. 13 Mar. 11 Mar. 25 May 22 )NOLULU arr/dep Feb. 18 Mar. 16 Mar. 29 thence via If A arr/dep Feb. 25 Mar. 23 thence West Indies ICKLAND arr/dep Feb. 28 Mar. 26 to UK* to UK DNEY arrive Mar. 2 Mar. 29 MARIPOSA MONTEREY MARIPOSA MONTEREY

St Francisco

depart Jan. 12 Feb. 2 Feb. 27 Mar. 18 S ANGELES arr/dep Jan. 13 Feb. 3 Feb. 28 Mar. 19 RA BORA arr/dep Jan. 21 Feb. 11 Mar. 7 Mar. 27 PEETE arr/dep Jan. 22-24 Feb. 12-14 Mar. 8-10 Mar. 28-31 ROTONGA arr/dep Jan. 25 Feb. 15 Mar. 11 Apr. 1 CKLAND arr/dep Jan. 30-31 Feb. 20-21 Mar. 16-17 Apr. 6-7 DNEY arr/dep Feb. 3-6 Feb. 24-27 Mar. 20-23 Apr. 10-13 UMEA arr/dep Feb. 9 Mar. 1 Mar. 26 Apr. 16 VA arr/dep Feb. 11 Mar. 3 Mar. 28 Apr. 18 JAFOOU arr/dep Feb. 12 Mar. 4 Mar. 29 Apr. 19 30 PAGO arr/dep Feb. 12 Mar. 4 Mar. 29 Apr. 19 NOLULU arr/dep Feb. 17-18 Mar. 9-10 Apr. 3-4 Apr. 24-25 * FRANCISCO arrive Feb. 23 Mar. 15 Apr. 9 Apr. 30 Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young St., Sydney. (BU 4272) 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.

Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA * Via Far East and European ports, arr. Southampton May 3. tails from P. and 0.-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317) USA-Eastern Pacific-NZ-Sydney-Central Pacific-Hawaii New Zealand-Tahiti few Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, rating between NZ and UK, via lama, make a call every two months Tahiti, northbound and southbound, text northbound voyage: Rangitane, Wellington Jan. 25, due Papeete . 31. ext southbound voyage; Rangitoto n London, due Papeete Feb. 26. stalls from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., tomhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ. rusader Shipping Co. Ltd., Wellington, makes a call every two months prox.) at Papeete on north-bound ages of its West Coast Nth. American ice. Next voyage: Crusader dep. kland Feb. 1 (approx.), at Papeete . 7 (approx.).

Tonga-Fiji-Samoa onga Shipping Agency operates a ;o and passenger service between ualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, igton, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Calls also made as required at Apia (W. toa) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa), ti-round in Suva is usually two days, the Agents there are W. R. Carpenter i) Ltd.

UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji tie Fiji Direct Service is maintained Conference vessels, sailing at regular thly intervals out of London, via ama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka, iell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load- Brokers in London. -xt sailings, ex-London: Jan. 30, Feb.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI ink Line operates a direct service from >pe to P-NG and BSI, vessels going on to Australia for cargo-loading and returning to UK via Suez. Next vessels: Westbank: From Continent and London, arr. Pt. Moresby Jan. 19, Samarai Jan. 22, Lae Jan. 23, Madang Jan. 25, Wewak Jan. 27, Kavieng Jan. 30, Rabaul Jan. 31, Honiara Feb. 3.

Forresbank: From Continent and London, arr. Pt. Moresby Feb. 27, Samarai Feb. 29, Lae Mar. 2, Madang Mar. 4, Wewak Mar. 5, Rabaul Mar. 8, Honiara Mar. 12.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty.

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (BU 2041).

USA-Tahiti-Am. Samoa-Fiji- Australia Matson-Oceanic Line operates a fiveweeks passenger-cargo 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, Sonoma Feb. 1 (approx.); Sierra Mar. 5 (approx.); Ventura Mar. 30 (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 Glen Mar. 3; Pioneer Surf Apr. 4.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

USA-Tahiti-Samoa-Fiji- New Caledonia Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thor I maintain approxmately six weeks service from West Coast Nth. American ports to Pacific Islands.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco Feb. 17, Los Angeles Feb. 20, arr. Papeete Mar. 2, Pago Pago Mar. 8, Apia (open) Mar. 10, Suva Mar. 14, Noumea Mar. 17, dep.

Pago Pago Mar. 24 for Los Angeles, arr.

Apr. 6, San Francisco Apr. 9.

Thor I: Dep. San Francisco Mar. 27, Los Angeles Apr. 1, arr. Papeete Apr. 11, Pago Pago Apr. 17, Apia (open) Apr. 21, Suva Apr. 25, Noumea Apr. 28, dep. Pago Pago May 5 for Los Angeles, arr. May 18, San Francisco May 21.

Details from General Steamship Corporation Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francisco, USA and Islands Agents. 137 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y J A N U A R Y , 1964

Airways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

Australia-Fiji-Hawaii-USA

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 V-Jets) NORTHBOUND Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.50 a.m., dep. 1.35 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco.

Mon., Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.50 a.m., dep. 1.35 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York.

Fri.: 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, Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, Mar. 13, 27, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND Mon., Wed. and Fri.: New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.10 a.m., dep. 5 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.05 a.m.).

Tues., Thurs. and Sun.; San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.10 a.m., dep. 5 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.05 a.m.).

Sat.: San Francisco (service begins from Vancouver alternate Sats.: Jan. 18, Feb. 1, 15, 29, Mar. 14, 28, etc.), Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.10 a.m., dep. 5 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.05 a.m.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.)

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet) NORTHBOUND Alt. Sat. (Jan. 25, Feb. 8, 22, Mar. 7, 21, etc.): Dep. Sydney 11 a.m. by Britannia for Auckland (arr. 450 p.m.).

Weekly from Auckland, dep. 5.35 p.m. every Sat. for Nadi (arr. 9.40 p.m., dep. 10.35 p.m.), Honolulu (arr. Sat. 10 a.m., dep. Sun. 10 a.m. by DCS).

Vancouver, Amsterdam (arr. Mon 225 p.m.).

SOUTHBOUND Weekly from Amsterdam, dep. 2 p.m. every Sat. by DCS for Vancouver, Honolulu (arr. Sun. 10.35 p.m., dep.

Sun. 11.55 p.m. by Britannia), Nadi (arr Tues. 7.20 a.m., dep. 8.05 a.m ) Auckland (arr. 12.15 p.m.).

Alt .p 7 T " e f ( Ja n- 21. Feb. 4, 18, Mar. 3. * £l. etc.): Dep - Auckland 1.05 p.m for Sydney (arr. Tues. 3.35 p.m.).

Nadi-Honolulu DateUne " OSSC ' 1 between Australia-Fiji (or Am. Samoa) Hawaii-USA

By Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers) northbound Sat MaJ< h V rS ‘ : , Dep - Sydney 5.30 p.m for MO Pa K o De (arr Sy i d ?n y 530 pm - tor Pago f'ago (arr. 1.50 a.m., dep 235 a m \ Honolulu and Loo Angeles iarr fls SOUTHBOUND Tues., Thurs.; Dep. Los Angeles 8 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.45 a.m., Thurs., Sat., dep. 5.30 a.m.), and Sydney (arr. Thurs., Sat. 7.45 a.m.).

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 8 p.m. for Honolulu, Pago Pago (arr. 4.45 a.m., dep. 5.30 a.m.), and Sydney (arr. 8.20 a.m. Mon.). (International Dateline crossed between Nadi-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.) Australia-New Caledonia-Fiji- Tahiti-USA UTA-Air France with DCS Jet Wed.: Dep. Sydney 8.40 a.m. for Noumea (arr. 12.20 p.m., dep. 2.15 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 5 p.m., dep. 5.50 p.m.), cross International Dateline, Papeete (arr. Tues. 11.55 p.m. dep. Fri. and alt. Wed. 8.15 a.m., Los Angeles, arr. 6.10 p.m.). Immediate connection by Boeing non-stop to Paris.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 1 a.m., Papeete (arr. Sat. and alt. Thurs. 7.30 a.m., dep. Mon. 8.30 a.m.), cross International Dateline, Nadi (arr. Tues. 11.15 a.m., dep. 12.15 p.m.), Noumea (arr. Tues. 1.20 p.m., dep. 3.20 p.m.), Sydney (arr. Tues. 5.10 p.m.).

Australia-New Zealand

Auckland-Brisbane QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. ll’s Sat.; Dep. Auckland 11 a.m., arr. Brisbane 1.20 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Brisbane 1 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.55 p.m.

NOTE: Additional services will be operated on all sectors during January.

Contact your local Qantas-TEAL office or travel agent for full details.

Auckland-Melbourne QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. ll’s Wed., Fri.; Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr. Melbourne 11.30 a.m.

Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 7 p.m.

NOTE; Additional services will be operated on all sectors during January.

Contact your local Qantas-TEAL office or travel agent for full details.

Christchurch-Melbourne QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. ITs Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 9 a.m. arr. Melbourne 11.40 a.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr. Christchurch 6.40 p.m.

NOTE; Additional services will be operated on all sectors during January.

Contact your local Qantas-TEAL office or travel agent for full details.

Sydney-Auckland QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. ll’s.

Daily: Dep. Auckland 9 a.m., arr. Sydney 11.05 a.m.

Daily: Dep. Sydney 1 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.45 p.m.

Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sun.; Dep. Auckland 1.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 3.35 p.m. Dep.

Sydney 4.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 10.15 p.m. • PlM's airways schedules are arrange alphabetically from point of departui under five main headings: Tran Pacific Services, Australia-New Ze land, Australia-Pacific Islands, Inte Territory Services and Internal Se vices.

NOTE: Additional services will I operated on all sectors during Januar; Contact your local Qantas-TEAL office ( travel agent for full details.

BOAC, with Comet IV’s.

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 9.45 a.m., ar Auckland 2.45 p.m.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., ar Sydney 10 a.m.

Sydney-Christchurch QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. ll’s Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat Dep. Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. Chrisi church 6 p.m.

Daily: Dep. Christchurch 7.30 p.m., ar Sydney 9.35 p.m.

NOTE: Additional services will I operated on all sectors during Januar; Contact your local Qantas-TEAL office < travel agent for full details.

Sydney-Wellington QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. ll’s Daily: Dep. Sydney 9.30 a.m., ar Wellington 3.25 p.m.

Daily: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m., ar Sydney 6.50 p.m.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 12.30 a.m., ar: Wellington 6.25 a.m. Dep. Wellingto 8 a.m., arr. Sydney 10.20 a.m.

NOTE: Additional services will t operated on all sectors during Januar; Contact your local Qantas-TEAL office t travel agent for full details.

Wellington-Brisbane TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sun.: Dep. Wellington 9.15 a.m., ar Brisbane 12.05 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Brisbane 2.15 p.m., ar Wellington 8.35 p.m.

Wellington-Melbourne TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sat.: Dep. Wellington 8.45 a.m., ar Melbourne 11.45 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., ar Wellington 7 p.m.

Australia-Pacific Island

Sydney-Brisbane-Honolulu By Qantas Empire Airways, with Boeing 707 V-Jets NORTHBOUND Weekly from Sydney, dep. 5 p.m. eve:: Sat., arr. Brisbane 6.15 p.m., de?

Brisbane 7 p.m., arr. Honolulu 7.7 a.m. Sat.

SOUTHBOUND Weekly from Honolulu, dep. 2.30 p.n every Sat., arr. Brisbane 7.30 p.E Sun., dep. Brisbane 8.15 p.m., an Sydney 9.35 p.m. 138 JANUARY, 1964 P ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks 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. Burns Philp

Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

London, E.l. Suva Sydney-Lord Howe Is. ines of N.S.W. (Sandringham Flyingboats). urn flight from Rose Bay base every Tues. and Sat. Departure time from Sydney is dependent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Is.

Sydney-Norfolk Is.

LNTAS, with Skymaster DC4 Aircraft : Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NI 2.45 p.m. Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See “Inter-Territory Services”). .; Dep. NI 2.15 p.m., Sydney arr. 6.15 p.m.

Sydney-New Caledonia QANTAS, with Boeing 707 Jet :rs.: Dep. Sydney 11.15 a.m., arr.

Noumea 2.45 p.m. rs.; Dep. Noumea 4 p.m., arr. Sydney j. 50 p.m. lydney-Papua-New Guinea rans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANA rate from Sydney to Lae and return i DC6B’s. TAA runs the service idays, Wednesdays, Fridays and irdays; Ansett-ANA Sundays, Tuess, Thursdays and Fridays.

NORTHBOUND t: Mon., Wed., Sat. dep. Sydney 9.45 ?.m., arr. Brisbane 11.50 p.m. Dep.

Brisbane 12.40 a.m. next day, arr. Pt.

Moresby 6.10 a.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8 a.m.

Fri.; Dep. Sydney 9.30 p.m., arr.

Brisbane 11.35 p.m., dep. Brisbane L 2.25 p.m. Sat., arr. Pt. Moresby 6 n.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 6.45 a.m., arr.

Lae 7.45 a.m. ett-ANA; Sun., Tues., Thurs., Fri. lep. Sydney 9.45 p.m., arr. Brisbane L 1.45 p.m., dep. Brisbane 12.40 a.m. lext day, arr. Pt. Moresby 6.10 a.m., lep. Pt. Moresby 7 a.m., arr. Lae i a.m.

SOUTHBOUND ett-ANA; Dep. Lae Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun., 9.15 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.15 i.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 11 a.m., arr.

Brisbane 4.10 p.m., dep. Brisbane 4.50 ?.m., arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m. i: Tues., Thurs., Sun. dep. Lae 9.15 i.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.15 a.m., dep. ?t. Moresby 11 a.m., arr. Brisbane 1.15 p.m., dep. Brisbane 4.50 p.m., irr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., arr. Pt.

Moresby 10.30 a.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 11.15 a.m., arr. Brisbane 4.30 p.m., lep. Brisbane 5.05 p.m., arr. Sydney 7.10 p.m.

Qld.-Papua-New Guinea 1, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Mon.: Dep. Townsville 12.30 p.m., Cairns arr. 1.25 p.m., dep. 2.30 p.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 4.50 p.m. (Jan. 27, Peb. 10, 24, Mar. 9, 23, etc.).

Wed.; Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m., Pt.

Moresby arr. 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.15 p.m., Cairns arr. 4.35 p.m., dep. 5.35 p.m., arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (Jan. 22, Peb. 5, 19, Mar. 4, 18, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Cairns

ett, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Sat.: Dep. Cairns 3.35 p.m., arr. Pt.

Moresby 5.55 p.m. (Jan. 25, Feb. 8, 22, Mar. 7, 21, etc.).

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 9.05 a.m.. arr. Cairns 11.25 a.m. (Jan. 26, Feb. 9, 23, Mar. 8, 22, etc.).

Inter-Territory Services

Fiji-Am. Samoa PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Nadi 12 noon, cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago 4.05 p.m. Sat.

Mon.: Dep. Pago Pago 4 p.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi 6.10 p.m. Tues.

Fiji-Am. Samoa-Tahiti-NZ TEAL, with Electra Mk. 11, Sun.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 12.15 a.m. 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. Dep. Nadi 1.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 5.20 p.m.

Fiji-New Hebrides-BSI Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Mon. and alternate Thurs. (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.): Dep. Suva 9 a.m., Nadi arr. 9.40 a.m., dep. 10.25 a.m., Vila arr. 1 p.m. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 8 a.m., Santo arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 9.45 a.m., Honiara arr. 1.40 p.m.

Wed. and alt. Sat. (Jan. 25, Feb. 8. 22, etc.): Dep. Honiara 6.45 a.m., Santo arr. 10.40 a.m., dep. 11.10 a.m., Vila arr. 12.25 p.m., dep. 1.10 p.m., Nadi arr. 5.45 p.m., dep. 6.30 p.m., Suva arr. 7.15 p.m.

Fiji-New Zealand PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sat., Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 6 a.m. for Auckland, arr. 10.45 a.m.

Sat., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 5.30 p.m. for Nadi, arr. 10.15 p.m.

TEAL, with Electra Mk. IPs.

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.

Thurs., Sat., Sun.; Dep. Nadi 5.45 a.m., arr. Auckland 9.35 a.m.

Wed., Fri.; Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr.

Auckland 12.35 p.m. • Wed., Thurs., flights ex-Auckland, and Thurs., Fri., flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL.

Fiji-Tonga Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 16. 30, Feb. 13, 27): Dep. Suva 7 a.m., arr. Nukualofa 11.15 a.m.

Alt. Sat. (Jan. 25, Feb. 8, 22,): Dep.

Nukualofa 9.30 a.m., arr. Suva 11.45 a.m.

Alt. Sat. (Jan. 18, F'eb. 1. 15. 29): Dep.

Suva 7 a.m., arr. Nukualofa 11.15 a.m., dep. Nukualofa 12.30 p.m., arr.

Suva 2.45 p.m.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

Fiji-Western Samoa Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Apia 1.25 p.m., Wed. (Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 11, 25, etc.).

Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Apia 10 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Suva 1.40 p.m., Fri. (Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, Mar. 13, 27, etc.).

New Caledonia-New Hebrides UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Mon., Thurs.; 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.). 139 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

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New Caledonia-NZ UTA, 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.

New Caledonia-Wallis Island UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Monthly service (second Saturday) Sat. (Feb. 8, Mar. 14, etc.); Dep. Noumea 11 p.m. for Wallis Is. (arr. Sun. 6.30 a.m.).

Tues. (Feb. 11, Mar. 10, etc.): Dep.

Wallis Is. 4.45 p.m., Noumea arr. 10.15 p.m.

Norfolk Is.-New Zealand TEAL, by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) Fri.: Dep. NI 4 p.m., Auckland, arr. 7.45 p.m.

Sun. and alt. Sat. (Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 22, etc.): Dep. Auckland 10 a.m., arr.

NI 1 p.m.

P-NG-Solomons TAA, with Fokker Prop-Jet and DCS.

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Lae (DCS) 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (Jan. 27, Feb. 10, 24, Mar. 9, 23, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DCS) 7.30 a.m. for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 3.45 p.m. (Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 11, 25, etc.), Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 9 a.m for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara arr. 4.20 p.m. (Jan. 21, Feb. 4 18 Mar. 3, 17, 31, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 6.45 a.m. for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae arr. 12 noon (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, Mar. 4, 18, etc.).

P-NG ■ West NG TAA, with DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (Jan. 21, Feb. 4, 18, Mar. 3, 17, 31, etc.): Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Kota Baru, arr. 1.35 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, Mar. 4, 18, etc.): Dep. Kota Baru 11.35 a.m. for Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 5.05 p.m.

Biak (West Ng)-Lae

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS).

Alt. Tues. (Jan. 28, Feb. 11, 25, Mar. 10, 24, etc.): Dep. Biak 6.15 p.m., Kota Baru, arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.25 a.m., arr. Lae 1.30 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 11, 25, etc.); Dep. Lae 9.15 a.m., Kota Baru, arr. 12.15 p.m., dep. 1 p.m., arr. Biak 3.10 p.m.

Tahiti-Hawaii UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Alt. Wed. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, Mar. 4, 18, etc.): Dep. Papeete 4 p.m. for Honolulu, arr. 9.35 p.m.

Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 23, Feb, 6, 20, Mar. 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Honolulu 11.55 p.m. for Papeete, arr. alt. Fri. 5.20 a.m.

Tahiti-USA UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Fri. and alt. Wed. (Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 11, 25, etc.): Dep. Papeete 8.15 a.m. for Los Angeles, arr. 6.10 p.m.

Sat. and alt. Thurs. (Jan. 16, 30, I 13, 27, Mar. 12, 26, etc.): Dep.

Angeles 1 a.m. for Papeete, arr. ' a.m.

Pan American Airways, with International Jet Clippers Alt. Sat. (Jan. 11, 25, etc.): Dep.

Angeles 9 a.m., dep. Honolulu ] p.m., arr. Papeete 7.10 p.m.

Alt. Sun. (Jan. 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Pape 9 a.m., dep. Honolulu 3.45 p.m., •, Los Angeles 8.45 p.m.

W. Samoa-Am. Samoa Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Aircraft Between Western Samoa and Ameri Samoa —flight time: 45 minutes.

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa); Sun. 7 a 3 p.m.; Mon. 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m.; Y 8 a.m.; Thurs. 3 p.m.; Sat. 3 p.n Dep. Pago Pago (American Samoa): £ 8.15 a.m., 4.30 p.m.; Mon. 10.30 a 3.15 p.m.; Wed. 9.15 a.m.; Th 4.30 p.m.; Sat. 4.30 p.m.

W. Samoa-Cook Islands Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Between Western Samoa and C Islands (Aitutaki and Rarotonga).

Dep. Faleolo 8 a.m. each Friday, i Aitutaki 2 p.m., dep. 2.30 p.m., !

Rarotonga 3.35 p.m.

Dep. Rarotonga 7 a.m. every Sat., s Aitutaki 8.05 a.m., dep. Aitutaki 8 a.m., arr. Faleolo 1.20 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, et( Dep. Faleolo 11 a.m., arr. Naus (Suva) next day 2.10 p.m. E Nausorl alt. Fri. (Jan. 24, Feb. 7, etc.) 8 a.m., arr. Faleolo alt. Thi (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.) 1.10 p Agents: Gold Star Transport Co. L Apia; R. E. Pritchard, Pago Pago. 140 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Internal Services

Fiji Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft 'a-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.—all Heron flights. a-Nadi: Dep. (Drover) Suva alt. Wed. 3.05 p.m., arr. Nadi 3.55 p.m. (Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26, Mar. 11, 25, etc.), li-Suva: Dep. (Drover) Nadi alt. Thurs. 6.15 a.m., arr. Suva 7.05 p.m. (Jan. 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 12, 26, etc.). a-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Sat. a-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Tues. r a-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m.

Mon. r a-Ura-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 7.20 a.m., Wed. a - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Thurs., Sat., Sun.

'a-Ura-Suva: Dep. 7.20 a.m., Sun. r a-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Mon. r a-Matei-Labasa-Matei-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Fri.

'a-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m., Wed.

Jetails from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria ade, Suva.

French Polynesia RAI, with DC4 Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group (Isles is le Vent), Society Islands, a., Sat.: Dep. Papeete 8 a.m., Raiatea, arr. 8.55 a.m., dep. 9.20 a.m.. Bora Bora, arr. 9.40 a.m. :s.: Dep. Papeete 7 a.m., Raiatea, arr. 8 a.m., dep. 8.20 a.m., Bora Bora, arr. 8.40 a.m. d.: Dep. Papeete 8 a.m., Huahine, arr. 8.50 a.m., dep. 9.10 a.m., Raiatea, arr. 9.30 a.m., dep. 9.50 a.m., Bora Bora, arr. 10.10 a.m. irs.: Dep. Papeete 8 a.m., Bora Bora, arr. 9.10 a.m. .; Dep. Papeete 8.45 a.m., Raiatea, arr. 9.40 a.m., dep. 10.50 a.m., Bora Bora, arr. 10.25 a.m. n., Fri., Sat.; Dep. Bora Bora 4 p.m., Raiatea, arr. 4.20 p.m., dep. 4.45 p.m., Papeete, arr. 5.35 p.m. is.: Dep. Bora Bora 9 a.m., Rangiroa, arr. 11 a.m., dep. 3.15 p.m., Papeete, arr. 4.45 p.m. d.; Dep. Bora Bora 2.45 p.m., Raiatea, arr. 3.05 p.m., dep. 3.20 p.m., Huahine, arr. 3.40 p.m., dep. 3.55 p.m., Papeete, arr. 4.45 p.m. irs.: Dep. Bora Bora 5.30 p.m., Papeete, arr. 6.40 p.m. )etails from RAI, Quai Blr Hakeim, seete, or any UTA office.

New Caledonia ANSPAC, with Herons and/or Dragons imea-Mare: Tues. dep. Noumea 2.30 p.m. for Mare, Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m.

Fri. dep. Noumea 2 p.m. for Mare.

Noumea, arr. 4 p.m. umea-Lifou: Tues., Wed., Fri. dep.

Noumea 8 a.m. for Lifou, Noumea, arr. 10 a.m. Sat. dep. Noumea 9.15 a.m. for Lifou, Noumea, arr. 10.15 a.m.

Noumea-Isle of Pines: Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat. dep. Noumea 10.30 a.m. for Isle of Pines, Noumea, arr. 11.45 a.m.

Tues., Thurs. dep. Noumea 8.15 a.m. for Isle of Pines, Noumea, arr. 9.50 a.m. Sun. dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Isle of Pines, Noumea, arr. 5.30 p.m.

Noumea-Ouvea: Mon. dep. Noumea 1.30 p.m. for Ouvea (via Houailou), Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m. Tues. dep.

Noumea 10.30 a.m., Noumea, arr. 2 p.m. Sat. dep. Noumea 8 a.m., Noumea, arr. 10 a.m.

Noumea-Houailou-Poindimie; Wed., Fri. dep. Noumea 1 p.m. for Houailou and Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 4.20 p.m.

Noumea-Kone-Koumac: Mon., Thurs. dep.

Noumea 1 p.m. for Kone and Koumac, Noumea, arr. 5.30 p.m.

New Hebrides New Hebrides Airways, with Drover.

Mon., Fri.; Dep. Vila 8.30 a.m. for Tanna, arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 3.30 p.m., arr. Vila 4.45 p.m. (Usually a flight is made from Tanna to either Aneityum, Futuna, Aniwa or Erromanga before the scheduled departure for Vila).

Tues.: Dep. Vila 8.30 a.m. for Tongoa, arr. 9.05 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Vila, arr. 10.35 a.m. (with extension to Pentecost and Santo on demand).

Details from New Hebrides Airways, Vila.

Papua-New Guinea Operated by TAA PT. MORESBY-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Alt. Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 6.40 a.m., arr. Lae 7.40 a.m. (Jan. 21, Feb. 4, 18, Mar. 3, 17, 31, etc.).

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Alt. Tues. Dep. Lae 9 a.m., Rabaul arr. 10.55 a.m. (Jan. 21, Feb. 4, 18, Mar. 3, 17, 31, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 10.10 a.m., Lae arr. 12 noon (Jan. 22, Feb. 5, 19, Mar. 4, 18, 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. (Jan. 17, 31, Feb. 14, 28, Mar. 13, 27, etc.), PT. MORESBY-WEST. PAPUA (Catalina) Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Paibuna, Kerema, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 3.25 p.m.

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. for Daru, D’Albertis Junction, Lake Murray, arr. 1.25 p.m. (Jan. 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 12, 26, etc.).

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Lake Murray 7 a.m. for Daru, Pt. Moresby, arr. 11.40 a.m. (Jan. 17, 31, l4, 28, Mar. 13, 27. etc.).

PT. MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina) Alt. Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Esa-Ala. Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Jan. 27, Feb. 10, 24, Mar. 9, 23, etc.).

Fourth Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Deboyne, Samarai. Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Feb. 3, Mar. 2, etc.).

Fourth Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai. Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Jan. 20, Feb. 17, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-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 6.30 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 7.30 a.m.

Pri.; 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, Lae, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Wed.: Dep. Madang 9.40 a.m. for Wabag, Wapenamunda, Baiyer R., Hagen. Banz, MinJ, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

Thurs.; Dep. Lae 0.40 a.m. for Goroka, MinJ, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer R., Wapenamunda, Wabag, Madang, arr. 4 p.m.

Sun.; Dep. Mt. Hagen 6.40 a.m. for Goroka, Lae, arr. 8.40 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Lae 9.40 a.m. for Goroka, MinJ, Banz, Mt. Hagen, arr. 12.45 p.m.

Pt. Moresby-Popondetta-Lae (Dcs)

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 11.30 a.m. for Kokoda (opt.), Popondetta, Garaina, Lae, arr. 2.05 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 7.40 a.m. for Garaina, Popondetta, Kokoda (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.15 a.m.

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 a.m.

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, Kandrlan, Cape Gloucester (on request), 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-LAE (Cessna) Thurs.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Finschhafen, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Fri. and alt. Wed. (Jan. 15, 29. Feb. 12 26, Mar. 11, 25, etc.): Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m. for Buka, Wakunai, Aropa, Buin, Kieta, Wakunai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 3.20 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Jan. 15, 29, Feb. 12, 26. Mar. 11, 25, etc.); Dep. Rabaul 9.30 a.m. for Buka, Wakunai. Kieta, Buin, Wakunai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 4.50 p.m.

Operated by Ansett-Mandated Air Lines with DCS’s (unless otherwise shown) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Rabaul, arr. 11.35 a.m.

Dep. Goroka 7.45 a.m. for Kainantu, Lae. Wau, Pt. Moresby. Wau. Lae, Goroka, Mt. Hagen, arr. 5 p.m. 141 4CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

Moresby . . .

Single £ s. d. 48 14 0 R( £ 92 ;tui s. 5 Lae .... 60 4 0 115 5 Rabaul . . . 70 9 0 135 15 Noumea . . . 56 18 0 108 3 Honiara 92 4 0 179 5 Norfolk Is. . 27 10 0 52 5 Lord Howe . 16 9 0 32 18 Nadi .... 85 9 0 162 8 Suva .... 91 5 0 175 0 Auckland . . 54 10 0 103 11 Pago Pago . . . 121 4 0 278 4 Honolulu . . . . 282 12 0 536 19 San Francisco . 350 9 0 665 18 Papeete . . . . 181 5 0 344 8

From Auckland Fnz

currency) ' TO- Nadi .... 43 0 0 81 4 Norfolk Is, . . 20 15 0 39 9 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 217 11 Noumea . . . 45 10 0 86 19 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— Nadi .... 5 16 0 12 12 Nukualofa . . 18 10 0 45 3 Apia .... 25 0 0 47 10 Honiara . . . 67 10 0 128 5 Vila 30 13 0 58 5 Santo .... 39 14 0 75 9 FROM NADI (Fill currency) TO Pago Pago . . 31 15 0 60 7 Noumea . . . 35 11 0 67 11 Papeete , . . 87 5 0 165 16

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PORT VILA-Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4 p.m.

Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Dep Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 12 noon.

Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Dep. Mt. Hagen 6.30 a.m. for Banz, Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Lae, Goroka, Madang, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Goroka, Wewak, Vanimo, Wewak, arr. 2.45 p.m.

Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, Banz, Minj, Madang, arr. 11.45 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Goroka 8.15 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 6.30 a.m. for Banz, Goroka, arr. 7.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Lumi, Nuku, Wewak, arr. 11.05 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 1 p.m. for Maprik, Yangoru, Wewak, arr. 2.45 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a.m. for Mendi, Erave, lalibu, Kagua, Mt.

Hagen, arr. 12 noon.

Thurs.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, arr. 2.30 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 4.40 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna or Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 1.30 p.m. for Banz, Minj, Goroka, air 2.50 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m. foi Telefomin, Wewak. arr. 11.40 a.m, Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Aitape, Sissano, Vanimo, Dagua Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Dep (Cessna or Piaggio) Wewak 3 p.m. for Angoram. Wewak, arr. 4 p.m.

Fri,: P e P- Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka.

Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Lae 9.05 a.m. for Kainantu, Goroka, Minj, Banz Mt Hagen, Wabag, Mt. Hagen, arr. 110 p.m.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 12 noon.

La^aVr^oVm 15 “ f ° r Madang ' Dep. (Piaggio) Goroka 7.30 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4 p.m.

Dep. Goroka 7.45 a.m. for Wau, Pt.

Moresby, Wau, Lae, Goroka, arr. 2.40 p.m.

Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Minj, Banz, Mt.

Hagen, Madang, arr. 3.30 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a.m. for Mendi, Kagua, Erave, lalibu, Mt.

Hagen, arr. 12 noon.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 12 noon.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 4.40 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Ambunti, Burui, Wewak, arr. 10.05 a.m.

Papuan Airlines Transport Ltd. (“Patair”) Local services operated in Papua by Papuan Airlines Transport Ltd.: Mon.; Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m. for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, Bereina, Tapini, Woitape, Tapini, Bereina, Kairuku, Aroa (opt.), Rorona (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 6.30 a.m. for Tapini, Woitape (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 8 a.m. (20 min. later if call made at Woitape).

Tues.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Kokoda, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 11 a.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m. for Daru, Balimo, Daru, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.50 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11 a.m. for Cape Rodney, Paili (opt.), Pt.

Moresby, arr. 12.50 p.m. (20 min. later if call made at Paili).

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p. for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt Kairuku, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, a 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later if call ma at Rorona and Aroa).

Wed.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a. for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresl arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a. for Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, a 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p. for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, 1 Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 11.15 a. for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2 p.

Thurs.; (Piaggio) Dep. Pt. Moresby 8. a.m. for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresl arr. 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p. for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt Kairuku, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, a 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later if call ma at Rorona and Aroa).

Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, etc Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. t Popondetta, Embi, Wanigela, Viviga: Losuia, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, a: 1.45 p.m. (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.): Df (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. f Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9 a.m., Fri.; Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.: for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9. a.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 10.30 a.: for Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2 p.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11 a.: for Cape Rodney, Paili, Pt. Moresb arr. 1.10 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.: for Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, ai 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.: for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, B Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 2.30 p.! for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.35 p.: Sat.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.i for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresb arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.i for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, ax 10.30 a.m.

Pacific Air Fares

(Approx. First Class)

FROM SYDNEY (Aast. currency) TO- 142 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Classified Advertisements er line, 4/6; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

FOR SALE DING CRAFT, steel, 58 ft. 6 in. by ft. Powered by 6LW Gardner, 45 lold, double bottom, ramp door, draft t. fwd., 4 ft. aft. Good condition ughout. Suit logging contractor. ,500. C. Duncan, Dromana, Vic., ;ralia.

Pbrokers (Auckland) Ltd. Sale

Purchase Brokers for Island enger and trading craft, tugs, lighters pleasure craft. Box 1679. Auckland, les: “Shipsales”. F. B. Blakey, Agent, le 4850, Suva.

ETS, 26 ft. diesel general purpose ;, 2 way radio, £1,750. 32 ft. diesel cboat £2,000. 48 ft. x 16 ft. x 3 ft. i. wooden cargo boat, diesel, lifts 23 , in survey. £4,750. 66 ft. diesel :o boat, lifts 40 tons, in survey, 300. Steel cargo ship, diesel .lifts tons, in survey, £43,000 Stg.

ETS, Rowe’s Bldg., 235 Edward St., bane, Queensland, Cable: “FLEETS”, bane.

L, hire or charter 72 ft. diesel sred landing barges. 75 ton D.W., ton cubic. Marine Contractors Pty. . Box 1034. Darwin, N.T., Aust.

Moan Songs Of Love And

ICING”. 33-1/3 LP record containing Df the most melodic Samoan songs— rded in Apia. £2/10/- Samoan ency, post paid. Samoa Records, P.O. 139, Apia, Western Samoa.

ACCOMMODATION IN THE HEART OF SUVA, opposite Carnegie Library, 259 Victoria Parade,

South Pacific Guest House You

will love it. New and sparkling, luxurious beds, hot and cold water in every unit.

Tariff 30/-, includes breakfast. ’Phone: 3394, P.O. Box 100, Suva, Fiji.

HIRE OR BUY your Volkswagen for southern leave from Dong Elphinstone or Bob Wilson, 254 Condamine Street, Manly Vale, Sydney. Aust. Telephone: XJ 5108.

FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydney.

Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Aust.

Wanted To Buy

WANTED TO PURCHASE. Primitive native art. Carved wood masks, ancestor figures, shields, heads, drums, kap kaps, etc., authentic work, used tamberans, ceremonials, T.N.G., Pacific Islands.

Write details, prices to Museum Institute, P. 0., Box 441, Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.

WANTED TO BUY—Good Quality Sea Shells and Mineral Specimens from Pacific area. Contact: South Pacific Traders, Box 127, Broadway, Sydney, Australia.

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.

WE PAY THE BEST PRICE for Pacific Island stamps, obsolete or current, singles, 100’s, I,ooo’s, for private sale or auction.

Melbourne Stamp Auctions, 377 Bourke St., Melbourne.

Trade Enquiries

C. S. & JOHNSON YOUNG CO., Box 423, Hong Kong. Exporting consumer goods. Mail order welcome. Importing fungus, pearl shell, shark fin.

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might want from Hong Kong (Photographic and Cine Equipment. Transistor Radios, Household Appliances, Chinese Brocades, Plastic Flowers, Cultured Pearls, etc.) we can supply you. Right prices and personal care assured. Please write us for quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd., 313 Marina House, Hong Kong. Established in Hong Kong since 1936.

Books, Magazines

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney.

Telephone: BW 7874.

Whites Pictorial Reference

Of New Zealand

A superb complete visual reference of New Zealand of over 400 pages of whole page representative aerial views of cities, towns and counties, with informative and useful text and maps. DE LUXE PRESENTATION BINDING £NZ7/7/-.

Coloured enlargements of New Zealand views available in all sizes —send for full price list.

WHITES AVIATION LTD.

C.P.O. Box 2040, AUCKLAND, New Zealand.

The Pacific Islands Society (Founded 1937) Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islands affairs, are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

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

Address for correspondence:— THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY, Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydnry.

Diesel Engines

—Lister 40 H.P. 4 cylinder, hand farting 1,100 r.p.m. Engines. Comlete with Radiators. Good Secondand Running Condition. £3OO each .0.8. Sydney.

Jso quantity of new and reconvened spares to suit the above.

Deludes Fuel Pump, Cylinder Heads, r alves, etc. £4OO. hos. W. Ward (Australia) Pty. ltd. !7 Unwins Bridge Road, ST.

PETERS, N.S.W.

Telephone: 51-3705.

The Fiji Times

Established 1869 Published Every Morning Except Sunday, The Fiji Times is the only English Language Daily Newspaper in the Southern Pacific Islands. It is Distributed by Fiji Airways and Road Bus Services, Every Day, all over Fiji.

Details of this Effective Advertising Medium and of Shanti Dut (Hindi weekly) and Nai Lalakai (Fijian weekly) may be obtained at the Australian Office—PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney, and 247 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Proprietors: FIJI TIMES AND HERALD LTD. 20 Gordon St., Suva, Fiji NORTH-WEST BRANCH—VidiIo Street, Lautoka. 143 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1964

First NON-IRRITANT Aerosol! nutrax Kills flies, mosauitoes, fleas, carpet beetles, silverfish, ants, etc., and resistant cockroaches.

INSECT KILLER Hosouno m Flick Niit ra x is a new, more effective insecticide with a rast fumigating vapour action. There’s more power in iNutrax because the vapour spreads throughout the room, even killing insects not exposed to the direct spray.

Flick Nutrax is non-irritating—it will not affect even the sens 1 1 . tl Y e nose or throat. Use it in the bedroom, nurser y , living room, kitchen, etc., without fear of residues or irritating odours. ?n^ectio^ tC ar^ 6 free on treatmenN X^m r * Personal atttention. nearest RESIDENT guar . an teed. For your Gutaea-steamsSS SSng”®, • “i Üb ? NEW Rabaul; A. Woodward wltL-v' p - h James & Co..

Madang. FIJI ’ A ew Guinea Co., Lae and Building, Phone 3425 Bank of Ns - W - Caledonlenne Noumea NE^,PA^? ONIA — Soclete Havraise everyhewere Noumea - And BURNS PHILP BRANCHES NUVANIB, -trade mark of CIBA Lw B asle, Swlt2erland Remember—one Flick and they're gone!" i fIU mm Index to Advertisers Adams Industries 17, 30, 33, 35, 41, 49, 117 All Soul's College . . . . 43 Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. . . 40 Ansett-A.N.A. 2 Arnott, Wm. Pty. Ltd. . . 147 A. (Overseas) Pty. Ltd. 42 Australian Cotton Manufacturing Co. .... -.114 Aywun Poultry Farm .. .. 49 Ballina Slipway & Eng. Co. 108 Bank of New Zealand .. 26 Bethel I, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 139 B. 130 Bramair International Pty.

Ltd 131 Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 110 Breckwoldt & Co. Wm. .. 78 Brunton & Co 52 B. .. 36, 52, 76, cov. iii Business for Sale .. .. 35 Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 54 Carlton & United Breweries Ltd 58 Carpenter, W. R., & Co. Ltd. 74, 75, cov. iv Carreras (Overseas) Ltd. .. 21 Classified Advertisements .. 143 Crammond Radio Co 86 Crusader Shipping Co. .. 136 C. Co. Ltd., The . . 94, 126 Cystex 113 Daiwa Shipping Line .. ..135 Donald, A. B„ Ltd 53 Dunlite Electrical Co. Ltd. .. 16 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd 98, 105 Fim Times & Herald Ltd. .. 143 Filmo Depot Ltd 17 Fisher & Co 84 Flick, W. A. & Co. Pty. Ltd. 144 Frigate Rum 104 Gaston Johnston Corp. . .. 26 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. .. 4 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 86 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. .. 1 Glaxo Labs (NZ) Ltd. .. 72 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd 78 Haig, John & Co. Ltd. .. 107 Halvorsen & Kessler Pty. Ltd. 99 Handi-Works Co 68 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. .. 69 Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd 100 1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 56 International Harvester Co 28,112 International Majora Paints Pty. Ltd 68, 99 Kasper Refrigerators Pty.

Ltd 38 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 104 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 106 Kraft Foods Ltd. . .. 34,120 Lawrence, Alfred, & Co. P/L 66 Love, J. R., & Co. Pty. Ltd, 127 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd 90 Malleys Ltd. . .. 48, 59, 115 Massey Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd. 60 Matthey Garrett Pty. Ltd. .. 123 Mendaco H 3 Millers Ltd 51 Morris Hedstrom Ltd. .. 14, 44 Multiple Incubator & Brooder Pty. Ltd 119 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .. 61 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. .. 70 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd. 133 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The 24, 128 New Guinea Party .. .. 31 N.G. Aust. Line 73 Nicholson's Pty. Ltd 93 Nixoderm 113 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. 82 Pacific Islands Society .. 143 Pacific Islands Transport Line 142 Parke, Davis & Co 145 Philips 20, 50 Piccaninny Manufacturing Co. 118 P & O-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty. Ltd 45 Qantas 22 Qld, Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 30 Robert James & Associates 44 Rothmans of Pall Mali (Aust.) Ltd 125 Ryson Rural Constructions Pty. Ltd 27 Sebels (Aust.) Ltd 46 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd 140 Smith Markwell Pty. Ltd. .. 102 South Pacific Brewery .. 57 Stapleton, J. T., Pty, Ltd. .. 41 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 23 Sterne, T 107 Sthn. Pac. Ins. Co 37 Stewarts & Lloyds (Oist.) Pty. Ltd Sullivan Ltd T.A.A cov Taikoo Dockyard Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L ..

Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L ..

Taylor, Matt & Co 1 T.E.A.L 1 The Town House 1 Thos. W. Ward (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd 1 Tilley Lamp Co 1 Tongala Milk Products Pty.

Ltd Tooth & Co. Ltd Turners Supply Co. Ltd. ..

Tyneside Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 1 Ventura Trading Co. P/L .. 1 Victa Mowers Vi-Stim Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., The Warner, Geo. C., Laboratories Pty. Ltd Westfield Freezing Co. Ltd.

Weymark Pty. Ltd Whites Aviation 1 White, A. B. S., & Co. .. 1 Wills, W. D & H. 0. (Aust.) Ltd l Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L Wunderlich Ltd , Yacht for Sale ; Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. I 144 JANUARY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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URNS PHILP (New Guinea) LTD.

General Merchants, Shipping & Customs Agents

Head Office: Port Moresby, Papua Cable Address: BURPHIL

Overseas Agents

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London.

Burns Philp & Co. of San Francisco.

Trade Enquiries Invited KAVIENG VVEWAK RABAUL KOKOPO ® MADANG GOROKA

Kainantu Lae

BULOLO • WAU DARU A

Port Moresby^

iIPOPONDETTA <3 BOROKO SAMARAI Branches and Shopping Centres.

IPPING AGENTS FOR: Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp Gr Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line.

Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes.

Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail.

P. Gr 0. Orient Lines.

Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

L LINE AGENTS FOR: Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines.

Qantas Empire Airways.

International Air Transport Representatives.

Rns Philp For Service Throughout

Agents For

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Pty. Ltd.

DISTRIBUTORSHIPS INCLUDE Beresford Pumps British Paints Buckingham & Carnatic Textiles Canon Cameras "Cecoco" Machinery Conditioneire Air Curtain Doors Evans Deakin Electrical Generators International Majora Paints "John" Valves Joseph Lucas Electrical & C.A.V.

Equipment Land Rovers & Rover Cars Massey-Ferguson Tractors and Equipment Mikimoto Pearls National Radios & Appliances Noritake Chinaware Pioneer Chain Saws Rover Power Mowers Sunbeam Appliances Tempair Air Conditioners Vauxhall Cars & Bedford Trucks

Exporters Of

Coffee & Cocoa Beans, Peanuts, Rubber & Trocas Shell.

The Islands

■Sill

Shopping Centre

JANUARY, 19' 64 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

m f: Iff i LU i i I CAPITAL £10,000.000 * m m i n ASSOCIATED COMPANIES:

Eneral Merchant!

Forty-eight years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng.

Coconut Products Ltd., Rabaul.

PAPUA: Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

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 Australia!

European and America Manufacturers includin Electrolux, Chrysler, Fon McCallum's Whisky, Vicl Mowers, Enfield Engine: FIJI: w. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

Suva Motors Ltd., Suva.

Island Industries Ltd., Suva.

Buying Enquiries

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: Morris Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Conne St., Sydney.

R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd

27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Established 1914 Cable Address: "CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.O. Box 168, Sydni IS L A-N DS MONTHIY-JANCARY. 1964