Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 35, No. 7 ( Jul. 1, 1964)
1964-07-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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dI. 35. No. 7, July, 1964 In This Issue NERAL AL Favoured by Air Agreement .... 11 leen's Birthday Honours 17 . Hasluck in New Role 23 3anese Tourist Rush May Begin Soon 97 inch Islands in Common Market .... 123

Lerican Samoa

ord Dance Fire in California 35 ure of Territory (letter) 55

Ok Islands

it Political Party Formed 11 iletes Break Records 63 >acco Growing Plan 123 I and ROTUMA king Miners Back at Work 8 nber-Minister System Introduced .. 10 rists Don't Want Scenery 16 ony "Behind the Times" (letter) .. 57 Alport Barker Library Opened .... 69 isterial Government of 90 Years 90 79 jma's Split Island 83 3es of "Kadavulevu" Disaster .... 97 oka Port Facilities 101 Drunkenness 115 ge Over Nadi River Restored .... 115 trips for Outer Islands 133

Ych Polynesia

litional Industries Declining 53 ics in Tahiti (letter) 61 etes Break Records 63 rea's Pierced Mountain 82 > Weddings H 5

Ert And Ellice Islands Colony

Gilbertese Priest H Air Service Plans 35 Lack of Govt. Aid Criticised 39 Resident Commissioner's Long Walk 113 New Postage Stamps 115

Lord Howe Island

Island Beauties 16, 17 Tourism Statistics 117 NAURU Resettlement Agreement Nearer .... 13

New Caledonia

Election for Deputy 33 Cost of Living Increasing 53 1966 Games Developments 63, 118 Flying Gendarmes for Noumea? .... 115 Tuna Company Dissolved 121

New Hebrides

Result of Election for Deputy 33 Chinese Trochus Poachers 103 Santo War Relics 107 Mystery Coin from Wreck 110 Volcanic Activity H 6 NIUE Many New Houses Built 31 First Bus Arrives 115 Drilling for Underground Water .... 115

Norfolk Island

Administrator Leaving Soon 39 Profile of Roy Bell 87 Passionfruit Price 116 Candidates for Elections 118 C'wealth. Bank Branch Opened 125

Papua-New Guinea

Money Pouring into Border Area .... 7 Action Wanted on Cargo Cult 12 Electoral Bill Passed 12 New Life for Salamaua 15 JEPARTMENTS. Commentary, 18; From the Islands Press, 29; Letters to the iITII 55 i'\ I Ma ? aZ ' ne Section ' 79 ' New Books / 89; Shipping, 95; Territories 1 In " 3 Nutshel1 ' 115 '’ People, 119; Commerce, 121; Deaths of slands People, 131; Travel Talk, 133; Shipping and Airways Information, 136.

Australia NG Corporation 18 Deadlock Over Site for 1969 Games 29 New Assembly Won't Be Tame-Cat .... 43 First Under-Secretaries Named 47 Members of Administrator's Council 47 Ray Parer's Planes (letter) 55 Naming of Mortlocks 61 Vagrancy Problem in Moresby 65 New Book by Mrs. Terry Spencer 91 28 Die in Landslide 115 Kassam Pass Road Progress 115 New Postage Stamps 115 Recruitment of Teachers 116 Copra is King in New Ireland 121 Way Cleared for Decimal Currency .... 123 Secondary Industries' Output Up .... 124 Goroka's Show on Again 133

Pitcairn Island

Mercy Visits 99

Solomon Islands

Internal Air Service 15 Legislative Council Session 53 Study of Guadalcanal Society 89 Submarine Volcano 99 Ports Authority Operation 101 High Commissioner Sworn In 118 New Timber Company 125 TONS* New Weekly Newspaper 29 Nobles Open Parliament 53 Coprp Board Industries 124

West New Guinea

Crocodile Poaching 90

Western Samoa

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Defensive Duchessing For Australia's NG Border Areas Money, the magic that can cure almost any ill in New Guinea, is at last pouring into the border areas along the eastern side of the 141st meridian, that, until two years ago, was left to the Dutch or entirely neglected.

In the last couple of years, Australia has gone a long way to filling the power vacuum created in the remote areas of central New Guinea by the withdrawal of the Dutch. Young Australian patrol officers and lieutenants at the head of native troops are regularly walking the paths to villages, that, as recently as three years ago, saw only the occasional Dutch “controleur” or Dutch missionary.

NETWORK of airstrips has spread over country where tance has traditionally been :asured in weeks of walking or loeing; schools are open for the lettered; aid posts are going up for s sick; and advice is to be had anyone who wants to know how grow better crops, build better uses, start new lives.

Miy P-NG Native Affairs officer o has sweated out a posting in Sepik District of New Guinea, or Western District of Papua in irs gone by, will testify to the ennial frustration of budgets that r er brought funds, or fighting for igress against mud and apathy.

Changed Policy n those years, and they lasted il 1962, a transfer to Daru was sntence to the salt mine of Papua; be sent to the Green River in the ik was to be sent to a sort of gle Coventry, for there was |ody else there to talk to you. oday the conditions haven’t nged much (who could change Sepik?) but policy has. Today e are funds for roads, vehicles, pols, houses, boats, airstrips, ios, and more and more men. : Australian Administration, after mg peacefully through the Dutch- Jnesian conflict for 13 years, has last awakened to the need to ite a human buffer against tration in country where a border :e can never be built. .nd the 30,000 scattered folk, who in hamlets and nomadic impments in the few reasonably Itable areas of the border line, are at last getting their lick at the lolly of progress.

In some places, the Australians had to start from well behind scratch.

In the featureless country of swamps and plains a hundred miles from the northern coastline, several thousand people were living under the flag of the Netherlands.

Most of the huts had tattered pictures of Queen Juliana, not Elizabeth, fastened to their walls; and Port Moresby, by tacit agreement, left their pacification, their schooling and their ailments to Hollandia.

The local language was Malay, not Pidgin, and Australian Patrol- Officers could not converse there.

Waris and Jafe, the village centres of the area that leapt into the news m 1962, as the New Guinea “enclaves”, were drawn on all Dutch maps as west of the international boundary line.

Now these people are administered from a new sub-district headquarters established at Amanab, in the Sepik District of Australian New Guinea, and there is a patrol post nearby at Imonda.

Crops previously unknown to the nomadic border folk—sweet potatoes, yams, pineapples, peanuts and European vegetables—flourish in demonstration gardens at Amanab, and cuttings are supplied to the villagers.

There are poultry runs, too. From Wutong, on the coast, there is a chain of little airfields—Pagei, Imonda, Edam and Green River.

Schools have sprung up at Wutong, Pagei, Amanab and Kamberatoro.

In April, a Local Government Council was proclaimed, centred on Pagei. Eighteen councillors represent 3,000 people of some 30 village groups, who speak half a dozen different languages. Administration subsidies will carry the Council

Farewell To P-Ng

Australia's Governor - General, Lord De L'lsle, who paid an extensive three-week visit to Papua- New Guinea in May and June, is seen here being farewelled at Port Moresby's Jackson Airport on June 9 by P-NG's Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, and Lady Cleland.

Lord De L'lsle's most important official task while in the Terirtory was to open the new 64-member House of Assembly on June 8.

For on-the-spot reports on the new Assembly by PIM editor Stuart Inder, see: • Quick Action Wanted on Cargo Cult, p. 12. • New Assembly Won't Be a Tame-cat Affair, p. 42.

Photo: Dept. Information. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1064

through until economic development makes taxation revenue possible. In the fifties, a council in such an area would not have been thought possible, but trials in the Southern Highlands proved that primitives could grasp the principle of helping to run their own affairs, and despite economic handicaps, could make good, in time.

Men and women from this and other border areas, have been taken to the townships of the Sepik Coast for adult education classes which teach everything from the rudiments of hygiene to how an electric torch works. Capsule courses in civilisation.

Missions, too, are playing a greater part than they were a few years ago.

The handful of children from the “enclave” area who were studying at continuation schools in Hollandia have been passed to the Franciscans at Aitape for further schooling.

There is a strong Catholic mission centre at Amanab. Protestant organisations, such as the Christian Mission to Many Lands, are pushing into the Green River and other onceforgotten or forbidden parts.

South of the massive limestone ranges in the centre of the island, the story is much the same, but the population is sparser. The main focal point of effort is along the Morehead River, not so very far from Torres Strait.

There, a patrol post at Weam, supplied for many months by airdrops, now has its own airstrip, capable of taking Cessnas.

It also has ground transport.

Big Improvement This is a marked improvement on the situation late in 1963, about the time that survey parties were encountering armed Indonesian patrols mounted in scout vehicles.

At that stage, the District Officer at Daru was frantically asking Government Stores for delivery of the bicycles that had been promised for border patrolling! And Government Stores, safe in Port Moresby, was insisting that the D/O must wait for the machines specially indented from overseas, because local purchase was too expensive!

A recent top-level investigation charted the course for future planned border development. The Departments of Native Affairs, Education, Health and Agriculture all have their parts to play in this programme, and indications are that they will not lack the funds they’ll need.

Australian authorities are concerned to see that an effective border barrier is established against the possible spread of animal and plant diseases. One authority has stated that there are nearly 60 human, animal and plant diseases found in Indonesia that do not occur in Papua, New Guinea, or Australia.

So far there is no knowledge of any of them spreading to Indonesian West New Guinea, but even the most optimistic see the problem as one of “when” and not “if’. But then, the guard must be well up.

Foot and mouth disease, one of the main animal disease worries, could decimate the Territory’s stock population of a million pigs and 30,000 cattle. Spreading to Australia, it could cut export earnings down almost overnight.

P-NG has established a radio monitoring station at Mt. Hagen to keep an ear open for possible radio propaganda from across the border.

The Territory Administration has prepared a master plan for emergency action against foot and mouth disease, should it enter Papua or New Guinea, and every Agriculture officer, veterinarian and Patrol Officer in western regions has seen a graphic English colour film which teaches how to recognise the disease in cattle, sheep or pigs.

Army platoons now patrol in border areas of Papua-New Guinea, and there are several airstrips where Hercules transports could land troops in a national emergency. But the New Guinea Administration is aiming to create a more subtle, more necessary defence line.

It hopes, in whatever time it may have left, to weave the primitive border people into the fabric of the emerging nation of Papua-New Guinea, so that there will be aware and loyal communities as the surest defence against aggression by subversion.

Striking Miners Return To Work Striking miners at the Vatuko gold mines in Fiji returned to w> on June 8 to await the result of official inquiry into their dispute m the Emperor Gold Mining Co. Lta THE men struck at midnight June 4 and ultimately I,' workers were involved. The disp was the result of the company’s fusal to dismiss Mr. F. Whitcombe senior underground worker, who, union alleges, used abusive langu; to union members while they w at work.

Mr. A. J. Jeddere-Fisher, Laut( Senior Magistrate, was appointed hold the inquiry which began at Magistrate’s Court in Tevua, June 15. The inquiry was still c tinuing when PIM went to press.

During the hearing, the gc mining company’s general mana* Mr. A. Watson, said the comps reserved the right to hire and personnel and that they were pn to have Mr. Whitcombe in the cc pany.

AMERICAN TOUCH: A large parade students and organisations which initia Western Samoa's annual three-day In pendence celebrations in Apia in J[?] had an American touch because a la contingent from American Samoa ti part. The celebrations attracted almost many people as the record gathering Independence Day 2½ years ago.

Photo: "Samoa[?] 8 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

High Drama In Rarotonga At Formation Of First Cook Islands Political Party From a Rarotonga Correspondent There was a moment of high drama at Avarua, Rarotonga, on June 15 when the magnetic, Aitutaki-born leader, Albert Henry, held a public meeting to form the first political party in the Cook Islands.

HHE moment of drama came after L Mr. Henry had outlined the wen basic principles of his party— t be called the Cook Islands Party -to the 500 people who had owded into a hall to hear him.

The crowd had unanimously :cepted Mr. Henry’s charter, and tr. Henry had been proposed and conded as the party’s first president hen into the hall came a Rarongan woman of high rank, whose ipearance stopped the proceedings :fore a show of hands could be runted.

The woman, Makea Nui Tereoana Ariki, CBE, a member of the )ok Islands Legislative Assembly, quested and obtained permission to eak.

She said she completely agreed th the party’s charter, and that it ould have been inaugurated by the ;w Zealand Administration 30 years o.

But she did not believe the party the present Legislative Assembly □ld run Cook Islands affairs :cessfully.

Mr. Henry politely but firmly disced with Makea about the party’s 3abilities. And he was followed other speakers—all men of rank i all good orators—who said that 1 time had come to face the future ively and not with timidity.

Henry Stands Down 3ne of the speakers, himself an ki, invited Makea to stand with rest of the Cook Islands ariki in ir struggle for a brighter future, ereupon Mr. Henry said he would sake the presidency of the Cook inds Party provided Makea was ninated as president. rhis announcement was greeted h acclamation; and Makea was :r elected president, with Mr. iry as vice-president. >nly three days after this meeting mbership of the Cook Islands 5 Party had grown from 500 to about 2,000 —out of Rarotonga’s adult population of 5,000.

By July, Mr. Henry expected that the number of members would have risen to 3,000 as the party has the solid backing of nearly all the ariki (high chiefs), the mataiapo (chiefs owing allegiance to their tribal ariki), and the rangitira (sub-chiefs); and the commoners are also well behind it.

Considering that Mr. Henry lived in New Zealand more or less continuously for nearly 20 years and only returned to the Cook Islands m late March ( PIM, May, p. 18), the outcome of the June 15 meeting is an amazing achievement for him and seems to prove that he has the ability to unite Cook Islanders.

It also seems certain that Mr.

Henry will be swept into office if he contests next year’s elections when the Cook Islands get full internal selfgovernment. (To be able to stand, an ordinance ruling that candidates are eligible only if they have lived in the Cook Islands for three years will have to be amended).

The seven articles of Mr, Henry’s party’s charter, are to: — • Ensure the election to Government of men and women dedicated to the progress and welfare of the peoples [i.e., Polynesians and Europeans] of the Cook Islands. • Maintain the existing friendly ties with New Zealand. • Provide all outer islands of the Group with active assistance, encouragement and co-operation for their greater economic progress. • Provide facilities and opportunities for the younger generation of Cook Islanders so that they can look to the future with confidence should they wish to remain in their own islands. • Restore certain aspects of the traditional ways of Polynesian life, customs, and culture, and to restore the traditional leaders to their responsible positions amongst their own people. • Provide for general economic progress in the Cook Islands by careful planning in co-operation with qualified advisers. • Provide the peoples of the Cook Islands with just, impartial and modern laws.

Mr. Henry told the meeting on June 15: “If we follow these planks of our platform one by one, we people of the Cook Islands will soon prove to New Zealand, and the United Nations, and the whole of the wide world, that we are capable of running ourselves—of keeping abreast of conditions with the passing of time.

“But let us also keep the worthy culture and traditions and customs of our ancestors, so that pride of race may once again bum brightly in our hearts.”

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The agreement enables TEAL to fly through both Honolulu and American Samoa, and through Tahiti if a new agreement is reached with the French Government. TEAL already has a service to Fiji.

Albert Henry. 9 LGIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JULY, 1964

Fiji Takes A (Cautious) Step Towards Self-Government From a Special Correspondent After years of discussion of ways in which the Government of Fiji might be changed from a British Colonial Office autocracy to a system under which representatives of the Fiji communities could be given an authoritative share in policy-making and administration, the new “Member-Minister System” has been introduced. It began to function on July 1.

IN future, the Executive Council will consist of 11 members— seven of whom, in effect, will be ministers with specific portfolios.

Three of these “ministers” are elected members of the Legislative Council, and this is the first time that such members have had portfolios allotted to them.

The old-established Legislative Council, hitherto advisory to the extent that the Governor could refuse to implement any of its acts or recommendations, was reformed in 1963. It now consists of 37 members —19 ex-officio; six Europeans (four elected and two nominated); six Fijians (four elected by the Fijian people, two elected by the Council of Chiefs); and six Indians (four elected and two nominated).

Hitherto, administrative power has lain in the hands of the Governor and an Executive Council of official and non-official members, with final power in the hands of the Governor.

Under the new system, the following is the structure of the Colony’s administration:

Legislative Council

Thirty-seven members, as above.

Executive Council

Member Ratu K. K. T. Mara, Minister for Natural Resources, who will have responsibility for agriculture, co-operatives, crop processing, fisheries, forestry, geology, lands, livestock, marketing, mining and soil conservation.

Member A. D. Patel, Minister for Social Services, who will be responsible for cultural activities, education, health, prisons, social welfare and societies.

Member J. N. Falvey, Minister for Communications and Works, who will be responsible for civil aviation, electricity, hotels, marine, meteorology, postal services, roads, telecommunications, tourism, transport, \yater-supplies, works. (Officially, the above three are called “Members”, but they are virtually acting as “Ministers”.) The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. D.

Macdonald, who will be responsible for ceremonial, civil service, constitution, consular, defence, external affairs, immigration and emigration, information, labour, passports and visas, police, printing, publications and records.

The Financial Secretary, Mr. H. P.

Ritchie, who will be responsible for the Budget, commerce, industry, currency, Customs, economic planning, exchange control, fiscal policy, loans, statistics, stores, taxation, weights and measures.

The Attorney-General, Mr. Justin Lewis, who will be responsible for law and order, in particular criminal proceedings, civil claims, drafting of legislation and giving legal advice to all offices and departments.

The Secretary for Fijian Affairs, Mr. A. C. Reid, who will be respo sible for Fijian affairs, housing ai local government.

These seven “Member-Ministei become, ex officio, members of t Executive Council which, with t Governor, actually is the Cabinet the Government.

There are three other “Membei on the Executive Council, selected the Governor from among the r official members of the Legislati Council, They are Mr. R. 1 Kermode (European) Ratu Pens Ganilau (Fijian) and Mr.

Madhaven (Indian). They do r rank as high as “Member-Minister

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FROM this issue, thousands of PIM readers in the South Pacific Islands will get their copies of PIM quicker and cheaper. All copies are to be air freighted from now on.

This has been made possible by a re-arrangement of air freight charges, which in future will be paid by PIM instead of the various selling agents —who, of course, have had to pass these charges on to readers. Thus the selling price of PIM varied widely in the South Pacific in the past.

The improved arrangements make it possible to fix a standard nominal price for PIM, which from this issue will be 3/- local currency in all British Commonwealth South Pacific Territories, Tonga, Western Samoa and the New Hebrides; and elsewhere in the South Pacific, 50 French Pacific francs or 60 US cents.

Yearly subscriptions will be 36/-, 600 francs or 7 dollars. Subscription copies will be air freighted to the Islands and posted there.

Many Islands readers now pay up to 7/6 to obtain their copies of PIM by air; others pay as little as 2/6. The new selling price of 3/- will mean some readers will pay slightly more for their copies than in the past, but the spreading of the distribution cost will enable the publishers to give all South Seas readers the same speedy service.

In the few Islands with no air facilities yet, PIM will be air freighted to the nearest connecting seaport. . _ The new rates will only affect subscriptions due from now on.

Mr. J. N. Falvey (left) and Ratu K. K.

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ut they appear to have higher status lan other MLC’s.

The Development Commissioner Colonel W. B. Rogers) also is a lember of the Executive Council smporarily, until the functions of •evelopment Commissioner become lerged in those of the new Minister” for Natural Resources Ratu Mara), Mr. Patel and Ratu Mara are fulltne Members, on £3,000 a year, us housing allowances of £75 a onth, plus a Legislative Council lowance of £275 a year, and transit and subsistence allowances.

Mr. Falvey, who is now senior irtner in the legal firm of Crompns, is unable to devote himself fullne to his portfolio and has been cepted on a part-time basis, on :,000 a year, plus the other allowices. He will become a full-time ember, when “reasonably practicle”. If he finds he cannot keep at undertaking, he will relinquish ice.

The three Member-Ministers will ve direct access to the Governor, le office of each will have a sec- ;ary, who will be in charge of the ice. He will be the link between ; “Member-Minister” and the partments, and will be responsible • ensuring that policy decisions ; conveyed and implemented on : one hand, and that the Members : adequately advised and informed the other.

Heads of departments will retain 1 internal control of their departnts; they will look to the Colonial :retary on all matters relating to ; civil service; to the Membernister for all functional operations; 1 to the Financial Secretary for financial matters.

No Power Of Direction fhe “Member-Ministers” will have power of direction over staff in i departments with which they are ociated, and instructions to mrtmental officers will remain the rogative of the head of departnt. fhat does not mean, however, that Member is in no way concerned h the internal organisation and ordination of his office with detments that may be associated with subjects. fhe Member will be required to wer to both the Executive and pslative Councils on matters affecthis office and associated departtits.

Vll members of the Exe ,utive ancil, official and non-official, will r collective responsibility for all vernment policy decisions made the Council. If any non-official One of the big objections to the old system was the concentration of all administrative power in the hands of the top bureaucrats who, by tradition and in fact, are responsible only to the British Colonial Office.

It was thought that the new system would transfer at least some of that power from the hands of bureaucracy ■ to control by the elected representatives.

But—as is shown by an examination of the detailed functions of the : “Member-Ministers” and the top officials—the bureaucrats appear to * be as firmly seated in the administrafive saddle as ever, and if the new “Members” wish to unseat them in } any particular, they probably will have a fight on their hands.

The other side of the picture, of course, is that Fiji, as a British Colony, enjoys considerable gifts and privileges, and so should bear cheerfully with its share of British bureaucracy.

However, the new system is in being, and functioning. Like all new structures, it probably will creak a bit—but it has to be given a trial.

There may not be much time for trial. A change of Governmental authority in Britain in October might quite soon produce a new policy for Fiji—“tell those people in Fiji to change over to self-government, and let’s get this Colony and its everlasting problems out of our hair!”, or something like that.

The world-wide tendency to throw all colonial empires into discard is not growing less. member of Executive Council disagrees with any policy decided in the Council to the extent that he is not prepared to bear his share of collective responsibility, then it will be for him to resign.

The system is new and untried and is expected to have many “kinks” in it. One was discovered actually before the thing functioned.

It was shown, in an official handout, that Member-Minister Patel would be in charge of “broadcasting”.

This caused a slight panic. Broadcasting is a major and a sensitive instrumentality in Fiji public relations; and Mr. Patel still is an unknown quantity in the field of government.

Until he has had a chance to demonstrate his quality, Mr. Patel Will be regarded by the Fiji public, on his long record, as politically dangerous, ... So the Government followed up the distribution of its hand-out with the urgent instruction, “Delete broadcasting”.

Bureaucracy's Powers The Governor’s action in nominating Mr. Madhaven as the second Indian elected member for the Executive Council has been criticised, on the ground that Mr. Madhaven is a Patel man; and that leaves the great majority of Fiji Indians, and especially the non-Gujerati sections, unrepresented in the Executive Council.

There also has been criticism of the internal organisation of personnel connected with the “Member- Minister” system.

First Cilbertese Priest: Ap r il 26 was a red letter day on Maiana, Gilbert Islands, for it was on that day that Father Edwin Martin, the first Gilberlese priest, was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Father Martin, who was born in Maiana, is seen facing the camera at left, with Bishop Guichet, MSC, and Father H. Jolivel MSC.

Another Gilbert Islander, Joseph Kirieta, was due to be ordained at Tabiteuea, GEIC, in June. 11 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

P-Ng'S New Politicians Speak Their Minds

Quick Action Wanted On New Hanover Cargo Cult From Stuart Inder in Port Moresby Easily the most surprising and most interesting development in the inaugural session of Papua-New Guinea’s unexpectedly vocal House of Assembly was the way in which the Administration accepted a debate on cargo cult activities as giving it a mandate to take sterner action against the cult.

THE Administration announced that since most speakers in the debate obviously wanted some quick action against a “Lyndon Johnson cult” in New Ireland, then that was just what they would get.

The Administration said it would move in on the cult leaders as soon as the House got up.

The Administration attitude impressed most of the new members, and even the old hands praised it as a shrewd move, for the outcome was exactly what the Administration had hoped for.

The Government had believed for weeks that only strong action would settle the New Ireland trouble, but remembering the Navunaram riots (when natives were killed) and the Buka cult outbreak (when hundreds were gaoled), they were loath to start any action that might rebound in the UN.

Once armed with support from the first elected Assembly, they felt on strong ground should anything go wrong when they moved against the Johnson cultists.

Political Dynamite This method of getting the majority to share the responsibility for political dynamite obviously has a future, as valuable to the officials as to the Territory itself.

The Johnson Cult is currently in control of about 2,000 of the 6,000 people of New Hanover, a small island off the tip of New Ireland.

It was noticed in February when several hundred people in that area informed electoral officers for the House of Assembly elections that they wanted to vote for “President Johnson bilong America”, who, unfortunately, was not among the six local candidates.

Attempts to reason with them failed, and, as a result, only about 28 per cent, of the people voted.

Later in February, field staff visited Materanken where the cult had been originated (reputedly by Bosamalik, a youth of about 20) to try to reason with the men, but the cultists demanded that the Australians leave and the Americans come in.

False Alarm Further talks, in March, seemed to quieten things down and the field staff considered they had persuaded the cultists to abandon their ideas and return the money they had collected among followers to pay President Johnson’s fare over.

But it was a false alarm, and the situation became worse.

The cultists became more truculent and threatened patrols, regarding any effort to reason with them as Administration weakness. Nicholas Brokam, the member for New Ireland, was unable to land in the area to talk to them because of the cultists’ threats.

Brokam, who is Under-Secretary for the Assistant Administrator (Economic Affairs), brought the matter up in the House by way of an urgency motion.

Both Brokam and New Ireland planter Jim Grose (New Guinea Islands) had discussed bringing up the matter of the cult even while they were still in New Ireland, and they learned that the Administration would, in fact, welcome a debate.

Brokam told the House that he feared there would be breaches of peace, and that the cult would spread to New Ireland proper, unless it were stopped now. He said there should be a law against cults and the police should arrest the New Hanover cultists.

In the ensuing debate, there hardly seemed to be a member who did i have something sound to say.

To the public gallery, it appeal as if the whole of the Territory v breaking out in cargo cult activi as member after member told ab( his own experiences and suggest with confidence, how the cult probl( should be solved.

First Rate Debate There must have been at least different solutions (gaol the educate them, cut off their suppli show them factories abroad, bu them factories at home, etc.), 1 there was one clear message go through the entire debate; Whate’ the final solution was, the N Hanover cult had to be wiped < now, because no man should allowed to cock a snook at law i order.

Not for the first time in the sess did observers ponder at the way which inexperienced, backwc politicians managed to confine the Bill “Removes Confusion"

Papua-New Guinea’s House of Assembly passed an electoral bill on June 16 designed to “remove some confusion” about the Territory’s first elections under a common roll last March.

After the elections, Kainantu planter Mick Casey, an unsuccessful candidate for the South Markham Special Electorate, stated his intention of challenging the Electoral Ordinance because it was confusing in its meaning about what constituted an “absolute majority”.

At the time, some observers believed that if Mr. Casey appealed and was successful, and if he was followed by appeals in other electorates, the elections would have to be reheld in more than half of the 53 contested seats.

Mr. Casey, however, allowed the deadline for his appeal — June s—to pass, and the Administration breathed a sigh oj relief.

Introducing the bill to amend the ordinance, the Assistant Administrator, Dr. John Gunther \ said: “It is conceded that the wording of the ordinance was not as clear as it could ana should have been.” 12 JULY 1964 —.PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

ves to the question in hand, and ;h an economy of words.

Only rarely did Speaker Niall (who /e loose and welcome rein to the ?ate) have to explain to a member t cargo cults, not village pumps, re the items under discussion, iven Paliau Maloat (Manus) nanded action—a plea which was lost on those who knew that iau was a former cult leader him- E, and was once gaoled for his own ivities.

At. J. K. McCarthy, Director of tive Affairs and one of the 10 cial members, replied that where pie had little knowledge of the lised ways of life, it was plain nanity to treat these cults with ipathy and he was proud to say was Administration policy.

'he Government had never set out crush such movements, but to made people that their beliefs Id lead to disaster, levertheless, this particular cult destroyed law and order in its i, and the Administration was now )ared to restore it—with the full ?ort of the House of Assembly, ince there was already a big ce detachment in the New Ireland i as Mr. McCarthy was speaking, Mr, McCarthy himself promised go over as soon as the House >hed the session, New Guinea ited the sequel with interest. ootnote: It was reported from ; Moresby on June 24 that 2,000 don Johnson cultists on New over had agreed in principle to council taxes “on the eve of a to the island” by Mr. McCarthy.

Agreement Nearer On Nauruans Resettlement Statements by an Australian representative at the meeting of the United Nations Trusteeship in New York in June suggest that the Australian Government and the Nauruan Councillors are approaching agreement on the resettlement of the N am uans on Curtis Island, off the coast °f Queensland near Gladstone.

A .. . r r HE Australian representative, Mr. **■ R - Marsh, who is Director of Nauruan Resettlement, said that ” ei I t . her A he Nauruan , s nor * he Aus ‘ ralian Government knew of any island whlch wa& more sultable f °r resettlement, and that the problem of as&'aai.'&.tt-a Governments view that it could not agree to make available any part of the Australian continent or its nearby islands for the resettlement of the Nauruans, with sovereignty over it vested in the resettled Nauruans.

But he said that if a suitable island away from Australia could be found> efforts would be made to give the Nauruans sovereignty over it.

Meanwhile, the Australian Government had formulated a resettlement scheme based on Curtis Island under which the Nauruans would be able to manage their own affairs “substantially without interference” to an extent that might be described as selfgovernment.

Important features of the scheme were that the Nauruans would own Curtis Island and would govern it as a separate administration under the Queensland Local Government Act; the management of the Land Owners’

Royalty Investment Fund would vest in the Nauruans; and a local authority would be established enjoying extensive powers including “complete financial autonomy”.

Mr. Marsh said that the Australian Government had already started measures for the resettlement of Curtis Island. Drawings of the type of homes for resettlement were ready.

In reply to questions by the Russian representative, Mr. P. F.

Shakhov, Mr. Marsh said: • Some elder members of the Nauruan community would probably remain on Nauru, but the resettled Nauruans would still be owners of their land and would continue to receive phosphate royalties. • Members of the Nauru Council were going to Australia in July to discuss the resettlement question with the Australian Administration, which indicated “a belief on the part of the Nauruans that there are prospects of working out an acceptable resettlement scheme”.

Mr. Marsh added that the Australian Government and the Nauruan Council would also discuss the establishment of a Legislative Council for Nauru.

A UN mission will visit Nauru and NG next year.

They Do It In The Cook Islands, Too Last month we published a picture of Fiji’s Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, and Lady Jakeway being carried ashore in grand style at Lomaloma, Lau Islands. Now we’ve got a similar picture of New Zealand’s Governor- General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, Lady Fergusson and their son Geordie being borne ashore in similar fashion at Rakahanga during their recent tour of the Cook Islands. The main difference between the two pictures is that the Fergussons’ sat on an iron bedstead—a four-poster, in fact, complete with a mosquito net canopy.

Photo: “Evening Post”, Wellington. 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Tropicalities Salamaua, New Guinea’s most famous town, looks like getting a new lease on life—as a weekend holiday resort.

VLAMAUA was the bustling gateway to the Morobe goldfields in twenties and thirties. Neighbouring ;, across the Huon Gulf, was nothmuch more than an airstrip—a e for the aircraft that supplied goldfields of Wau and Bulolo. 5 famous Bulolo dredges were vn in from there, in parts, aboard big Junkers.

"he war wiped out Salamaua and it a ghost town. Those buildings t hadn’t been razed by Japanese Allied bombs fell down, and iody went back. Lae was the new n. )nly the world’s map makers have t Salamaua’s name alive, for there till not a school atlas, not a map where, that doesn’t list Salamaua arge letters.

'hat Salamaua is a shell is a fact known by the geographers, low, as Lae has expanded and urbia has arrived, the people who in the Lae residential areas have r eyes on new places to go at kends. They have seen Wau and olo; they have gone up the rkham; they have taken weekend its to the Highlands, alamaua, just 2i hours away by t (there is no road connection) he coming fashion. ,ae residents are interested in :ks of land there for weekenders one Lae syndicate is interested building motel-type accommodai for the visitors. Camping parties there. n late June, Morobe District Commissioner Allan Timperley planned to head over that way himself and see what could be done about land sub-divisions.

Only one house of the pre-war boom days—the doctor’s house— still stands today, and this is nothing but a shell. There is one house built postwar, but now old; and there is one new house, occupied by the European school teacher—for there is now a school.

The famous isthmus is also the headquarters for the Salamaua Local Government Council.

It’s not much, but it’s a beginning.

And when the residential blocks go in and the weekenders take over, Salamaua will be entitled again to the lettering it gets on the world’s maps.

A Dove In The Megapode's Nest AIR companies which have borrowed from the bird kingdom for names for themselves have never been fussy about the flying capabilities of the birds they adopt—e.g., Bird of Paradise Service, Sunbird Service, etc.

Among the latest to look for a name in the bird world is Megapode Airways, which began operating the first and only internal service in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate last December.

Megapode is a strange name for an air company because a megapode is a ground bird. It hatches its eggs by burying them in a huge mound of leaves and vegetation where fermentation provides the heat.

The bird is common throughout New Guinea and the South Pacific where it is more commonly known as the scrub turkey, bush hen, etc. It makes very good eating, is about the size of a large domestic fowl, and as its habitat is the jungle, it is usually seen walking rather than flying (in our experience, anyhow). Australia has a branch of the family—the mallee fowl.

Despite its unaerial name, Megapode Airways is now running regular as well as charter services around the Solomons.

Chief Pilot is Capt. H. V. Moss, MBE, who was once a pilot with the Australian Flying Doctor Service, based on Alice Springs, and later was with TAA.

Chief Engineer is Mr. Phil Bennett recently of Port Moresby.

The company uses a Dove DHIO4 Mark VI aircraft which can carry seven passengers and has a cruising speed of 145 knots. It has long-range tanks fitted and with them has a range of about 1,000 miles.

Increasing numbers of Solomon Islanders, as well as Government officials and planters, are using the service that cuts down a trip from Honiara to a place like Auki, on Malaita, from eight storm-tossed hours in a small ship to 25 minutes by air.

The Government has used the This is a pre-war picture of Salamaua harbour and isthmus, seen from the mainland. The town, such as it now is, is on the isthmus. 15 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

plane for medical mercy flights and a number of forestry survey flights have been carried out.

Operations are, at present, limited by the fact that apart from the two airstrips near Honiara, the Group has only four other operational strips —Munda, New Georgia; Yandina, Russell Island; Auki, Malaita; and Barakoma, Vella Lavella. A strip at Segi Point, on New Georgia, is expected to be rehabilitated; and a new strip at Kira Kira, San Cristoval, was commenced in 1963.

The airline’s future expansion naturally depends on the construction of more airstrips, and as soon as new ones are opened up they will be included in the service.

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Fiji's Shopping Tourists Don't Care For Scenery WHEN the P and O-Orient liner Oriana arrived at Suva on Tuesday, June 16, it rained—but not the stuff the people of Fiji have dubbed “liquid sunshine”.

It rained pennies from heaven, thousands of them, in the biggest tourists’ spending spree ever to gladden the hearts of the city’s shopkeepers. More normal tourist attractions were neglected, however, and this has become the pattern of Fiji tourism.

The Oriana brought 1,800 Australians who were on an 11-day South Pacific Islands cruise. They were just what Suva shopkeepers have been waiting for, cruises being somewhat sparse of late, and everyone in Fiji knows that nobody spends like the Australians.

The New Zealanders are hamstrung with their currency regulations, and the Americans already have everything they want from other duty-free ports before they get round to thinking about the South Pacific.

But Australians! To them Fiji with its duty-free transistors, cameras, watches, binoculars, projectors and even television sets, has become the Aussies’ Mecca.

They poured off the Oriana for an overnight stay and almost cleaned out Suva’s shops.

It was, said the satisfied shopkeepers, probably the best 24 hours they had ever had, and the banks echoed that because they were busy as never before channelling the golden rain.

One shopkeeper, who usually banked a few hundreds after a “ship day”, brought in £3,000 and travelling bank on the wharf chanj more than £A6,000 into Fijian c rency in less than two hours.

One surprising thing, one sh< keeper said, was the large amount fishing gear sold and that’s not du free.

But, what was gained on roundabouts was lost on the swin The taxi proprietors and tour p moters are beginning to think t duty-free goods might not be a gc thing after all.

Fiji’s reputation for its duty-f goods is beginning to overshad its reputation from a sightseei paradise-seeking tourist’s point view. The tourists are spending their time and money in the sh( and ignoring the very attractive to and entertainment available for the Children and parents at the Fij Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Memoi School staged an entertainment Fijian dances and songs, rehears for days to make the event someth the Australians would never for* Seats were provided for 1,00( but, alas, only 100 turned up! A this is becoming the pattern ev time a cruise ship carrying A tralians and New Zealanders cor in.

The same thing happened on smaller scale two days later vvl the Cogedar Line cruise ship Fla called in for the day on her first v Whistling In The Dark?

The first sugar ever producei in Western Samoa was milled a Vaivase, a few miles out o Apia, at the end of April. Th> Government hopes that by ex tending the industry on a smal scale village basis Samoa wil eventually produce all the suga it needs.

Commenting on this, the Fi] Public Relations Office newslet ter said recently that it seemet inevitable that Fiji, which no\ supplies Western Samoa’s sugar would eventually lose this mar ket—worth more than £lOO,OOl a year.

“Hopefully, perhaps, the news letter added : “But Fiji need no fear Samoa as a potential riva in the world sugar market be cause sugar production there i not envisaged as an export in dustry.”

ISLAND BEAUTY: Lord Howe Island, with a permanent population of only 200-odd, is not short of pretty girls —this one being Miss Pat Young, of Leanda-lei Guesthouse, who is Miss Lord Howe, 1964. Islanders are wondering if she will follow in the footsteps of her fellow-islander opposite . . . 16 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

■iji- She brought only 440 passen- , however; most were New Zea ers, and bad weather on the way i Australia delayed her arrival five hours. lie pattern of duty-free trade in is mirrored in the 1963 annual “ report just published. There is ntling increase in imports of the ist-type of goods compared with ■ when the “drawback” system ated. Value of imports of all Is of duty-free type imported t>een about doubled. due of radios imported at over million was more than £300,000 er than in 1962; value of photolic apparatus—mostly cameras— from £103,961 in 1962 to ,920 in 1963. ports of watches and clocks were than three times greater at ,532; and imports of gramoes and record players increased old. tal value of all “duty-free” items rted by Fiji was £1,163,196 in compared with £462,883 in Most are taken out of the ry again by tourists and become lible exports”, because there is ncial record of their leaving the >y. far as shopkeepers’ tills are med, however, they are anybut invisible.

Tongan Watson Returns T>ACK on Tonga in June for the ■U first time since he published his best-selling account of the Tongan castaways, Minerva Reef, Sydney author Olaf Ruhen got a warm welcome. He and his wife, Madeleine, were given an enormous Tongan feast by the survivors of the Tuaikaepau, headed by Captain Tefita Fifita who had specially built a spacious fale to house his guests. Ruhen and Fifita are to go whaling together—handharpooning from a 30 ft whale boat.

That Korolevu Church WE said in June, under a photograph of a beautiful little church near Fiji’s fine Korolevu Beach Hotel, that the land was given by the late Sir Hugh Ragg, and that it was a condition of the gift that the church might be used for religious purposes by all denominations. Well, we were wrong.

The donor of the land was not the late Sir Hugh, but Mr. W. J. Clark, Sir Hugh’s son-in-law. The gift was made without any conditions attached. Lady Ragg donated the crucifix behind the very interesting altar. The church was built by the Catholic community and others in and around the Korolevu area, under the guidance of the parish priest and has been dedicated for Catholic worship.

Islands People Honoured By The Queen A large number of Islands people was honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List in June.

In Papua-New Guinea, four Territorians were awarded the Order of the British Empire.

They are Miss Alice Wedega, Chaplain Raymond John Leonard Quirk, Mr. Albert John Bretag and Mr. Neil Thompson.

In Fiji, one CBE, one OBE, three MBE’s, two BEM’s, and a Colonial Police Medal were awarded. Eight people also received Certificates of Honour— a larger number than usual because of awards made for work during the March floods in Viti Levu.

Mr. A. D. Leys, already an officer of the Order of the British Empire was raised to a Commander of the Order. He was awarded the OBE in 1958 while Mayor of Suva.

Other high awards went to: Mr. W. E. Donovan (OBE), Mr.

Shiri Kisan Balgovind, Mr.

Mervyn Forest Clay and Semesa Sikivou (MBE); Sergeant Timoci Tomu Waqa and Mr. George Swann (MBE); and Deputy Superintendent lan Colquhoun Clow (CPM).

In the Western Pacific, the Right Rev. Leonard Alufurai, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Melanesia, and Mr. E. V.

Lawson, member of the BSIP Legislative Council, were honoured with the OBE, and Itaia Tiaoti, pastor of the London Missionary Society, of Nikunau, GEIC, became an MBE.

The British Empire Medal was awarded to Mr. Simeon Makini, of the BSIP Customs Department, and the Colonial Police Medal went to Mr. D. S. Walford, Commandant, British Division of the Constabulary, New Hebrides.

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COMMENTARY Nehru's Death Poses Problem Of Holding Asia's Reds THE Indians of Fiji—they now number about 220,000 in a total population of about 430,000 — went into solemn mourning when India’s famous Prime Minister, Mr.

Nehru, died on May 28.

The other communities, Fijian, European, Chinese, Euronesians, out of respect for their Indian fellowcitizens, similarly observed the tokens of mourning. Public tributes were paid to the achievements and the memory of a great world figure.

The career of Mr. Nehru, and the quality of Mr. Shastri, who now follows him, are of interest to Fiji in particular, and to all South Pacific countries, generally.

Nehru’s greatest achievements were in maintaining unity and peace among the 400 millions in India, who are split into so many sharplydiffering sections; and in keeping India within the British Commonwealth, and outside the ideological groups, now lined up in the Cold War. f „ The immediate future of India under the new regime is of more than academic interest to South Pacific countries. Will India assist Britain and United States in holding the non- Communist barrier between Red Asia and the Westernised countries of the South Pacific?

Britain and United States are supporting Malaysia against Indonesia’s attempts to destroy that new Federation. USA is supporting the non- Communist countries of Indo-China against Red Chinese penetration. The outstanding event of the last two months has been the forthright way in which Australia (now the leading nation of the South Pacific) has committed herself to support of both Britain and USA in both fields.

Even as this is written (at the end of June) Soekarno is building up Indonesia’s attack on Malaysia (which must bring him into conflict with Britain and Australia), and Australia’s Prime Minister (en route to Britain) is in conference in Washington with President Johnson.

Where do India and Pakistan stand, in relation to these developments?

Nehru—in many respects a political genius—maintained, for India, a policy of non-alignment. Can Shastri do likewise? It is very doubtful.

Some indication must soon be seen —and the shape of it will be of much importance to the South Pacific.— RWR. ☆ Papua-New Guinea's 64-Million Dollar Question THE Australia New Guinea Corporation Ltd., with its impressive board of directors and its paid-up quarter-million capital (see June PIM, pp. 11, 119) has gone swiftly into action.

The chairmanship has been taken over, almost at this stage as a fulltime job, by Mr. S. M. Rich, who occupies a suite of offices on the 22nd floor of the AMP building in Circular Quay, Sydney; offices have been acquired in Port Moresby; and already experts are examining various propositions in the Territory relating to coffee, copra, timber and cattle production, which come under the general heading of development.

The energetic chairman is spending much time in the Territory. He made two trips in June.

This ANGCO liveliness, plus other investment, including the gesture of the Carpenter group in earmarking £1 million for development of the tea industry there, plus the steppingup of Australia’s annual gift to P-NG to something approaching £3O million has had one marked result.

Some old observers of the ' Guinea scene, who had 1 rendered cynical by some of impractical thinking of the ] Report, are beginning to ask: ! possible that New Guinea car developed on sound economic 1 in spite of its new political struc and the menace on its wei frontier? In other words, is 1 time?

That, really, is the $64-mi question.

How can the directors of devi ment in P-NG reconcile their j with the repeated assurances | by Canberra that P-NG must prepared for self-government as as possible?

The heads of ANGCO thems have said that three to five : must elapse, after investment, b( capital can expect any return.

Return For Investors ANGCO investors could be e: ing a satisfactory return by 1 but if we are to be guided 1955-64 experience in Africa Asia, how long will the Eure capitalists (“colonialist exploitei be permitted to remain in the n< emerged nation?

The leaders of ANGCO have asked: “In view of what is haj ing politically in the Indoi Malaysia area, and the way in v the Foot Report plan of pol development is being implement!

Port Moresby, what assurances you obtained from Canberra or Moresby that all this planned pi enterprise in Papua and New G will be protected?”

There have been no fc assurances. In so many word; vestors are being asked to put in the belief that (a) Papua New Guinea will be protects Britain and the US against ference from outside, especially Asia or Indonesia; and (b) many primitive natives of P-NG retain such goodwill towards tralia that they will wish the tralians to remain with indefinitely, and share the frui their development.

The present upsurge of invest activity seems to be built on a that P-NG development is some for big international corpora rather than for individuals. Cor tions could reap rich rev economically. If they are wipe< of P-NG by political troubles, can write off their P-NG against their gains in other coui But, with political conditioi they are, P-NG could offer inducement to the small or indn 1 investor,- RWR. 18 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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The quick rise of Paul Hasluck in the Australian world of politics and diplomacy is a notable thing. It is of interest to the people of Papua and New Guinea because they had him, for a dozen years, as a tireless and uncompromising Minister for Territories.

T is of interest to other South Pacific Territories especially lose directed by Britain and New ;aland —because they are going to e much more of him in the future ian in the past.

Only a few months ago (in Novem- ;r, 1963), Mr. Hasluck disappeared iddenly from the Papua-New Guinea cture. He was briefly Australian [inister for Defence, and this was st when Australia began to look ore closely at her defences than at ly time since World War 11.

Then, presto! Paul M. C. Hasluck >pears as Australia’s Minister for sternal Affairs (in other, and upler words, Foreign Minister) and tipped in some authoritative larters as successor to Australia’s sary and fed-up Prime Minister, Sir obert Menzies.

Even as this is written, Mr. Hasluck in South-East Asia, looking over e most difficult and prickly section his new domain; and before this in print, he will be on his way to ashington and London to sit beside r Robert Menzies in conferences tiich will have a sharp bearing upon fiitical and defence alignments in e South Pacific and the South-East dan areas.

Australia's Obligations Never before, in Australia’s history, s Australia’s relationship with her ighbours to the eastward, northird and northwestward been more iportant.

Britain is getting ready to move out Fiji, the Solomons, the Gilbert and lice Islands and the New Hebrides, d Australia must accept new oblitions there, or suffer grievously in sstige. and economically.

Britain and USA are determined maintain the Malaysia-Vietnam rrier between Communist Asia and 5 East Indies, as protection both to j European countries of the South cific, and the southern flank of the nerican defence line against Red Asia: and clearly they expect Australia’s help.

And Australia, unequivocally, has accepted obligations regarding the future of Papua and New Guinea which bring her directly into contact with Indonesia. Statements just made publicly and deliberately by Mr.

Hasluck, as Foreign Minister, after visiting Djakarta, Saigon, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore show that Australia now is ranged beside Britain and United States in maintaining and protecting the Malaysia- Vietnam Line.

Hasluck's Qualities So the qualities of Mr. Hasluck, who now has accepted responsibilities second in importance only to those of Prime Minister Menzies, are of concern to all the millions of people who live within Australia’s growing sphere of influence in the South-East Asia-South Pacific area. How competent is he likely to be, as adviser of the Australian Prime Minister and Government in foreign affairs, and as a diplomat?

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P-NG's Stubborn Boss far, one would say, a very appointment. But how will he ; as a diplomat? Those who known him for a dozen years e uncompromising boss of Papua New Guinea do not turn their ibs down, at this stage; nor do manifest ill-will; but they are dating a little. his direction and control of ralian Territories, Mr. Hasluck two distinctions: he held the olio for a record time (1951- ); and he presided over the iniction of the first self-government finery in Papua-New Guinea. was handicapped, at the start, ise he inherited there much of economic mess created by the and the political confusions left by the late Leftist-Labour iter E. J. Ward, the Hasluck mark upon P-NG ry is clear and ineradicable, and ms to fall into three periods, ere was the uncertain, fumbling d, when he was getting some lance of order into the Adminisn, and trying to reconcile his rather advanced ideas regarding e rights with some very contive policies which dominated erra thinking. ere was the middle period, , in order to force his own ies —now clearly-defined—into ition in the face of endless nent and disputation, he assumed >owers of a dictator and would c no local interference and, with fited money and complaisant •nnel, built a tremendous adtrative machine in P-NG. id there was the brief final 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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PIM of August, 1962, said: “The port of the Trusteeship Council’s siting Mission . . . was the biggest imbshell Australia and P-NG have ceived since the Japanese invaded ibaul in 1942 . . . Some of it . . . ight have been written by the Idest nationalist in the Afro-Asian DC.”

Hasluck and Foot Report Not a hint of it ever was pubhed; but it always was the opinion PIM that the Foot Report, and the ly in which it was forced upon jstralia, destroyed the Hasluck plan r P-NG.

The Minister loyally carried out ; wishes of the Australian Cabinet, dictated by the Trusteeship nmcil; but his heart had gone out the job—a man as competent and perienced as he could not possibly j real value in the Foot Report, lich was to dominate and shape P- -3 after 1963. If anyone doubts is, let him read the public statesnts made by Mr. Hasluck since became Defence and then Foreign inister.

Mr. Hasluck’s record in P-NG obably will be often analysed in i future. In this writer’s opinion, was marred by two outstanding jits. He was far too slow in at- :king, at its base, the greatest stacle to rapid social and economic ogress among New Guineans— mely, almost complete village iteracy; and he insisted on retaining d much local administrative power his own hands, so that high icials, from the Administrator wn, tended to become mere )hers.

Much of the ’Fifties had gone here Mr. Hasluck got to grips with ; fundamental problem of village iteracy; but he was attacking it Dst energetically when the Foot ission charged in and insisted that istralia should do, in 1963-64, what ; Hasluck policy had planned fiistically for about 1985.

Probably, Mr. Hasluck handed over Territories with a sense of great relief. Someone else can try to solve the problem of how Australia is going to retain trade, investment and influence in New Guinea, while encouraging the social development of the New Guineans to the point of self-government sen government.

However, the qualities of dictatorship, which in a Territories Minister tended to destroy administrative initiative in P-NG, probably will be of real value in this new post. Mr.

Hasluck should be a clear-thinking, forthright Foreign Minister for AustraJ!a ’ a °d could give to the Aus- Italian Government and the South- East Asia-South Pacl fi° area s 9 me very yaluable xr ,ke, j ust at a time when it is urgently needed.

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1969 GAMES Papua-New Guinea in June couldn’t ake up its mind whether to stage e third South Pacific Games in 1969 Rabaul or Port Moresby. Memrs of a special committee set up consider the matter had reached a adlock.

IHE first Games were held in Suva last year and the 1966 Games 11 be held in Noumea. At Suva, pua-New Guinea delegates inrmed the Games Council that the rritory would make an offer for j 1969 Games.

A decision has to be made by 1966, t ideally it should be made as Dn as possible so the site can be jpared.

High Cost It has been estimated that wherever ; Games are staged in P-NG, it will st at least £250,000 of Administran funds—most of it on a main aue and a swimming pool of ympic standard.

The Administration wants to spread s cost over at least five years.

The decision will be important for i town chosen—it will mean aranteed development in both )rting facilities and accommodan.

About 900 athletes and officials iired into Suva for the first Games, ich also attracted thousands of itors.

This meant big money for Suva, 1 fine publicity, and Noumea will )rtly begin to benefit too.

The P-NG committee of five mem- •s looked at Port Moresby, Rabaul i Lae as sites.

Lae was discarded and the voting s reported to be two for Port >resby and two for Rabaul, at ich point the chairman wouldn’t e his vote.

The position was then referred to Administrator, Sir Donald ;land, who looks like being in the fition of deciding one way or 3ther. Whatever he does will be Dng to some people.

See Tahiti Athletes Getting Steam Up For Noumea Games in 1966, p. 62.

From the Islands Press AT the moment, Western Samoa is losing dignity overseas because some farmers are trying to fool the Department of Agriculture with poor bananas. They are really fooling themselves, because if the standard of Samoa’s produce falls too low, there will simply be no market for it.— Editorial in “Samoa Bulletin”, Apia.

UGLINESS is spreading in many parts of Fiji—more noticeably in areas close to towns.

Some of it is the sort of ugliness that creates dismayed outcries in overseas countries all round the globe—the felling or mutilating of trees to make way for power and telephone lines, the ironing out of curves and windings in highways so that motor vehicles may rush faster and faster through the countryside, and the spoiling of otherwise unspoiled scenery by the intrusion of advertising hoardings and similar monstrosities.

But in Fiji the trouble is emphasised many times over by the persistence and the extension of scattered rural slums.— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”.

ALTHOUGH speakers on (Western Samoa’s) Independence Day paid considerable lip service to the magnificent progress in the last two-and-a-half years, they failed to enumerate the visible signs and benefits of progress. What are they?

No new hospitals or high schools to see. Only school fees.

A few houses built for Government servants, a slow-growing hangar at Faleolo, and two harbour walls. A start, but a slow one.

A bigger bank, but less to put in it. We have a deficit in overseas trade which first appeared in 1960 and is growing very healthily. Also, with the harbour loan, we have the makings of a national debt, which seems to be a sign of respectability in independent countries.— Editorial in the “Samoa Bulletin”, Apia.

IF there is one factor about the [new Papua-New Guinea] House of Assembly which is abundantly clear, it is the significantly tougher line to crime, criminals, gaols, urban drifting and laziness in general, which has been expressed by Members inside and outside the House.

There is little doubt that there would be no quarter shown to criminals once independence came to this country. And there are signs that the Government will, as of now, face pressure for the provision of heavier sentences for a wide range of crimes.— Editorial in the “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

FIRST ISSUE: The first issue of a new Tongan weekly newspaper, "Chronicle", or "Kalonikali", appeared in English and Tongan editions in Nukualofa on June 19 at 3d a copy. The paper is edited by the Tongan Premier's Department and printed by the Government Printer. Six hundred copies of the English edition sold out in Nukualofa within 20 minutes, while 5,000 Tongan edition copies were sold on the first afternoon and 1,000 were held for release on other islands. It was reported from Nukualofa that "Kalonikali" is Tonga's first printed newspaper. However, Sydney's Mitchell Library has one issue of a Tongan newspaper called "Koe Fetuu O Toga" which appeared in September, 1869. 29 1 c I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

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In some ways it’s a pity that most of the older-type houses have disappeared—either collapsed by the two successive hurricanes or so weakened that they were torn down to make way for a new house.

These old houses, despite rusty, corrugated iron roofs, coral cement walls and sagging verandahs, were picturesque. Niue villages now look a little like suburbia in any city anywhere, with their standardised Al, A 2 and A 3 houses. Yet with only a few houses of the 750 to be completed, Niue’s people without doubt, are much more efficiently housed. 31 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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HE election became necessary when Mr, Lenormand lost his t in Parliament several months ) after being found guilty of com- :ity in a dynamiting affair ( PIM, ril p, 15 and May p. 71).

Mr. Pidjot beat his main opponent, businessman Edouard Pentecost, 2,800 votes. The only other canate, Pierre Jeanson, a Socialist, led only 541 votes. All three canates are New Caledonians of :ed blood. dr, Pidjot’s victory is seen as a ; of confidence in Mr. Lenornd, whose supporters have claimed was framed in the dynamiting ir. lr. Pidjot won by a landslide in centres with big native populas. le was beaten by Mr. Pentecost in imea and on Mare (Mr. Pente- :’s home island), but in both cases margins were small and Mr. Pidgained on Lenormand’s figures at last election.

Heavily Outscored he only place where Mr. Pidjot outscored heavily was the New rides, where Lenormand’s party never been popular. The New rides vote was: Pentecost, 1,217; ot, 118; Jeanson, 29. early 40 per cent, of the electors, tly in Noumea, abstained from ig. A new electoral law, ostenr introduced to combat fraud— gh this has never been a problem —was the main reason for the mtions. ie law stipulates that voters must in the polling centre where they registered, whereas formerly they i vote anywhere if they had their Jfication papers and voting cards, embers of the Union Calcine claim that the new law was her attempt on the part of the de 'le Government to put their candidate at a disadvantage, as it meant that hundreds of natives working outside their districts in Noumea or in the mining centres could not vote.

The Union Caledonienne claims that these people could not afford to return to their districts, and even if they could, sufficient transport did not exist to get them home. This applied particularly to Loyalty Islanders, hundreds of whom work in Noumea.

Mr. Pidjot’s term as deputy will be for the remainder of that of Mr.

Lenormand—about two years. After this there will be general elections in France and other French “ries Mr p; dint iT/Vtrv : c ■ u \ £ Mr. Pidjot, who is 57, is head of the native community of Conception, e ttLm N nf U ™ ea >j ° n V th - e ° ldest mlrfS? tS ri m i, NeW i Ca ed ? ma .; He 18 married and has a large family.

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From Ralph Craib, in San Francisco Almost every Samoan family in California and American Samoa seems to have been affected by the disastrous fire at a Samoan gathering in San Francisco on May 23. fPWELVE people suffered fatal A burns and another 77 were hospitalised when a tragic misunderstanding turned the gathering into a fiery scene of panic and horror.

The list of dead and burned was so large that it was a shattering blow to California’s Samoan community and to American Samoa.

The victims and some 220 other people had gathered at All Hallows Catholic Church in a San Francisco residential area for a Saturday night social of entertainment and dancing sponsored by the Samoan Catholic Benevolent Society.

David Quane, 25, a professional night club entertainer, was to perform a ritual flaming sword dance as a high-point of the entertainment.

In his ritual, he lights candles on FROM FIJI: At a social gathering of the Polynesian Association in Sydney recently was this party of people who either live or used to live in Suva or Rotuma. From left (standing) are: Mr. Barry Johnson, Miss E. Bently, Mr. A. Bowerman, Mrs. V.

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C. Benz.—Tele-Photos. 35 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

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He realised that he had no matches light the candles and asked a jsician for a match. The drummer, 10 was not familiar with Quane’s t, reached out with a flaming ;arette lighter—instead of the unlit itches Quane desired—and the soline was aflame in a second.

Spectators ran for a fire hose and ned it on the bowl of flaming soline; this mistaken effort did not ench the flames, but spread them ■oss the entire stage and into dried 1m leaves being used as decorans.

In the ensuing panic, two exits ir the stage apparently went un- ;d and the main entrance was •eked, at least momentarily, by a d table at which entrance tickets 3 been sold.

Fhe disaster resulted in immediate bilisation of San Francisco’s Civil fence and Disaster Corps. The f’s emergency facilities were overelmed and a Municipal Railway i was used to take some burn tims to hospital after all available bulances had been called to the ne. irnest Reid, president of the San mcisco Bay Area Samoan Civic jociation, and Tenari Fuimano, his inci p a 1 assistant, immediately nched appeals for blood for the tims and for funds to care for se who will not be able to work for many months. Within a few days, 850 San Franciscans had given blood, and cheques totalling 4,000 dollars had been received by Reid and by the American Red Cross.

San Francisco city officials are considering making such entertainments as the fire dance illegal unless the performer obtains a permit and the fire department inspects the premises where the entertainment is to be performed.

Damage suits alleging wrongful death have already been filed by some next-of-kin against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. They charge that the church social hall did not have adequate exits.

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Tuelua, 27, of Fagatoga; Frances Bernard Himphill, 16, son of the president of the Samoan Catholic Benevolent Society, of Lalolaloa; Tagaluia Lefiti Jr., about 27, of Fagatoga; Tumuatasi V. Malepeai, 29, US Coast Guard enlisted man, of Fagaitua; Falaniko Tou Paaloalo, 32, merchant seaman, of Alao; Tavita Pa’ama’i Tuiagamoa, 25, air line caterer, of Malaeloa; Aoese Osoimalo, about 26, Army enlisted man, of Utulei; Aiva’a Tafao, about 40, steelworker, of Utulei; Fe’e Tafao; Togi Mata’u; James Edwards; and Robert Orton. The last two were not Samoans.

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Aid To GEIC [ From a Special Correspondent ’he “most urgent export” of Gilbert and Ellice Islands Dny is people, and Austral! ;t do her share in taking some hem, according to Mr. E. H Blacklock, an unofficial mem of the GEIC Advisory ncil.

R. BLACKLOCK, a plainspeaking citizen, expressed his at the second meeting of the ncil recently, during discussion on Colony’s population trends, e said it was obvious that the my’s population must be reed, as some islands in the group i remote and costly to service, sly overcrowded and unproducle working out of the Ocean id phosphate deposits would tually make the problem more t for the labour force. [r. Blacklock said he felt the lem was too big and urgent to ured by the emigration of small ps under private and uncolated arrangements. These had value but the problem could be solved by planned, long-term rammes. hen a country was trying to atpopulation it did all it could to e itself attractive to and to assist icially the people it was trying to 1 to itself. b believed the Colony should do same, only in reverse—since it trying to make it attractive for ie to go rather than to come.

Colony needed a publicity cam- 1, among other things, to make ration popular. r. Blacklock said that, initially, British Solomon Islands might be d on to take as many people as ible. but whether or not efforts Id be limited to the BSIP was tier question.

Lion's Share of Benefit ost people, he said, were aware he “miserable” White Australia :y, but he did not think the y should prevent Australia being oached in this matter, istralia in particular had had the s share of the benefit of the monopoly of phosphates from Ocean Island. It looked as if it would continue to enjoy the lion’s share for the next 20 years or so.

“What will happen then?” asked Mr. Blacklock. “Will they just brush off the remains of the phosphate dust and say goodbye? Or will Australia recognise that it has some responsibility towards the people of this Colony?”

He said they were large questions but they should be dealt with vigor-

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Norfolk Island's Administrator, Major- General R. H. Wordsworth, and Mrs. Wordsworth will leave Norfolk Island on August 16 to retire to their home in Tasmania. Major-General Wordsworth has been Norfolk's Administrator since May, 1962.

His chief task while on the island has been negotiation with the Council over amendments to the Norfolk Island Act, 1957. These amendments were passed by the Australian Parliament last October.

Recently the Council unanimously carried a resolution requesting the Minister for Territories to extend Major-General Wordsworth's term of office for 12 months.

However, the Administrator, who has given long service to his country in the Army and as a member of the Australian Senate, and will soon be 70, had made up his mind to retire.

He will remain in office for the Council elections on July 1 and the subsequent swearing-in of the new Council.

Major-General Wordsworth has proved a popular Administrator and Mrs. Wordsworth shares her husband's popularity.

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Major-General Wordsworth. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Mr. Blacklock invited his fellow nembers to consider what benefit Britain and the Commonwealth chained from the Colony and then »mpare it with what money Britain nit into the Colony.

Some people might hold that what yas taken out of the Colony was very ittle, he said, but there were, in act, two items of outstanding value. . . Ocean Island phosphate and the ise of Christmas Island (for A-tests).

He said by an agreement which ome would maintain had long outived its time, Britain, Australia and 4ew Zealand had effectively removed rom the Colony’s control its most r aluable economic asset and were ble to monopolise the fast-diminishag deposits of Ocean Island phoshate.

The deposits were of high grade, uperior to that obtainable anywhere a the world.

It was not possible to place a value m the monopoly but it would be surdsing if those concerned were not repared to pay a further £250,000 nnually rather than lose it.

Monopoly Value Mr. Blacklock said that when disussing UK Treasury grants to the IEIC, this monopoly value should e borne in mind.

The Ministry of Aviation paid the Colony “the princely sum” of £5OO year for the use of Christmas sland (which is part of the Colony).

Again it was hard to estimate the •ue value, but presumably Britain sed Christmas Island because it auldn’t find any other place so conenient, and on this reasoning it lould be worth more than £5OO.

Mr. Blacklock said the GEIC relived something less than £250,000 year in grants, yet in 1963 the •ook Islands (NZ territory to the )uth) had been given more than £1 lillion.

Although this was four times what le GEIC got, the Cook Islands were smaller territory. The Cooks popu- Ltion was probably about 19,000, jmpared with 50,000 in the GEIC.

Mr. Blacklock added that on these gures the Cook Islands got help at le rate of £A52.62 per capita, comared with £A4.32 for the GEIC. In ther words, NZ was giving aid to le Cooks at a rate 12 times greater lan that given by Britain to the EIC.

Footnote: Since Mr. Blacklock •oke, Britain has decided to close 5 A-test base at Christmas Island. 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Be A Tame-Cat Affair

From Stuart Inder, in Port Moresby Those of us who felt that Papua-New Guinea’s brand-new 64-member House of Assembly would most likely be tame-cat or European-dominated for the first 12 months are going to have to eat our words.

AT the end of the inaugural session on June 16 it looked like being neither. The Hon. Members—the majority of them natives of the place —have treated fascinated and surprised Territorians to such bursts of oratory mixed with sound commonsense that even hardened sceptics have been asking themselves whether. perhaps, they haven’t been underestimating a lot of people.

It’s certainly no parliament yet.

But one thing seems clear: With only a few exceptions the Territory’s one million electors knew who they were electing. As a starter for what is to follow in the next four years in the life of this House, who could ask for more?

The new House, with its 10 Government members and 54 elected members (38 of them natives) was opened by the Governor-General, Lord De LTsle, on June 8. The opening ceremony, and the pomp and circumstance which followed into the next day, are best forgotten.

Opening Ceremony Mess-Up The thing was a messy mish-mash, a trial to all those who had to take part, and a disappointment to the thousands who missed it because of a muck-up over holidays.

The Hon. Members, confused or resentful at being shepherded like puppy dogs to this place or that to act as a convenient backdrop to the occasion, were obviously relieved when the visitors roared off back to Australia and let them get on with the business they had been waiting for.

The House of Assembly met with the shadow of Sogeri hanging over it.

Sogeri, in the ranges above Port Moresby, had been the scene of a seminar arranged only a few weeks before to give the new members some training in the mysteries of parliamentary procedure.

It had been a success, especially in the eyes of many European members who came away with the impression that there was good native material which could be worked into useful, active groups in the House.

Among a number of things cided at the seminar was that fort District Commissioner “Horrie” N would be chosen for the import new post of Speaker on the nomi tion of Simogen Pita, seconded John Guise.

This, it was felt, would show world that the native people (pi European John Guise regards himi as one) wanted a European in chair.

Unfortunately, when the time ca for nominations, planter Don Barr an old-hand at the Legislative Co cil until his defeat some years a got to his feet and did the hono for Mr. Niall, leaving John Guise do the seconding and Simogen to perplexed.

The result was the same, of coui and Mr. Niall thus ends a dis guished career with the Adminis! tion by taking unopposed, the higl post in the Territory’s first legi; ture with an elected majority.

But lots of members were furi with Mr. Barrett and accused 1 of limelighting for the benefit of newsreel and Press cameras t jammed the House for the occasi Mr. Barrett was indignant in turn and retorted that he hat been at the Sogeri seminar and t nobody had bothered to tell / about the arrangements.

Within a day or two it beca apparent that Mr. Barrett wai necessarily going to be a party to { The Governor-General, Lord De L'lsle, with the Speaker, Mr. H. R. Niall, at the opening of the House. — Photo: P-NG Information Dept.

Mr. Don Barrett, member for the Rat Special Electorate. 42 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

jecial arrangements with anybody, md he wasn’t the only one.

The sense of togetherness which )me people felt had begun to deslop in Sogeri was dissipated now by le physical impossibility of getting )gether for private talks 54 elected lembers spread in accommodation ght around the town.

Messrs. lan Downs and John tuntz, both old Legco hands and oted The-Most-Likely-to-Succeed at siting some battle order into the nwieldy unofficial forces, did their sst but found it an unequal task.

They ended by ferreting out a umber of apparently kindred spirits and a number of others who looked ke being out of sympathy), but nee there were lost souls in other arts of the House making exactly le same discoveries in their own ailiwicks, it was a fragmented aciety at the end of the session.

Generally speaking, men with the ime geographic interest seemed to link they might have common cause, ad after the first one or two formal ays this was even reflected in the :ating arrangements.

Many Europeans appeared to be tting within striking distance of ien elected from nearby areas. This, )me said, was so they could help lem if they needed it.

Motives Suspect But motives of some of them were aspect to a number of the native lembers, who had no intention of ;ceiving European patronage. There as no anti-European feeling in this; )me of those I spoke to made it iear with directness and shrewdness lat they intended to select in their wn good time their own running lates, white, brown or brindle.

If there was any semblance of oranisation anywhere in the House, ien it was on the Government enches. Government Leader Dr. ahn Gunther, a shrewd tactician 'ho is impressive in his efficiency, uickly concentrated on culling out ae likely Government supporters, and by the end of the session he seemed to have what one elected member admitted might be the rudiments of a “Government Party”.

Ready-made Opposition At this stage it had occurred to one or two of the more astute tacticians on the opposite side of the House that if Dr. Gunther continued to enlist Government supporters then what was left would obviously be a ready-made Opposition.

The keystone of Dr. Gunther’s “party” is his panel of Undersecretaries—whose names were announced on the first day of the sitting.

Under the Ordinance the Government may appoint 15 of them (of any race), but it chose to select 10 and it is most unlikely that any more names will be added until there is a better clue as to how the experiment will work out. All are native. (See p. 47.) There were some minor murmurings that the Europeans had a share in Government too, and that at least one European should have been selected. But this is a pointless suggestion as the system is obviously designed as a training ground for an emerging Government.

Unlike the recently announced Fiji system of “membership”, the New Guinea Under-Secretaries do not have to abide by “Cabinet” decisions or else get out.

They will be allowed to put up an opposition view in the House so long as they first give notice to the Administration.

That’s the theory of it, anyhow, but there are clearly lots of ifs and hopes in the whole arrangement, and like the House itself, only time will tell.

The Address-in-Reply allowed the House to get off early with debates on all manner of subjects. So wide was the field that native members who might not ordinarily have been expected to have had a say on purely machinery bills were encouraged to get on their feet and catch Mr. Speaker’s eye.

Most of them spoke like old hands —as indeed most of them are. The New Guinea Highlands areas particularly are noted for turning out orators. As in Polynesia, no man is a true leader unless he can put his views forthrightly and hold his audience with verbal gymnastics, and there were plenty of both in the House.

Arm-Waving There was plenty of arm-waving, table thumping and playing to the gallery, and the fact that the speech was going over in Pidgin made no difference. The best gallery was, after all, the House itself with its Pidginspeaking majority.

Several European members spoke only in Pidgin and let the simultaneous interpreters dish it out in English, haltingly, into the earphones at the Government benches, most of whose occupants aren’t speakers.

Former policeman John Guise made his first address in Police Motu.

Speaker Horne Niall, who started off on the first day tentatively, almost nervously, soon settled down and within a couple of days was revealing the iron hand in the velvet glove by making a clear ruling that the official languages in the House were to be English, Motu and Pidgin, and that anyone who didn’t know any of these had better learn one quickly.

The ruling arose as a result of the presence in the House of Handabe Tiabe, elected from the backwoods of Tari, in the Highlands. Tiabe had ON TOUR: Australia's Governor-General, Lord De L'lsle, seen here inspecting a guard of honour of the Rabaul Boys Brigade in Rabaul, made a three-week tour of Papua-New Guinea before opening the new House of Assembly on June 8. During his tour, Lord De L'lsle stressed the need for young natives to learn English to overcome the multiplicity of languages in the Territory.—Photo: Larry Chin. 43 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Mr. Niall ruled that the interpreter wasn’t allowed in the House, as he yould be a Stranger.

Thus Tiabe sat at his table glumly, rith his eyes working overtime but without ears or mouth. He was mable to catch the Speaker’s eye at ny time.

Finally, outside the House, the ipeaker. the interpreter and Tiabe lad a chat, during which it was exilained to Tiabe that not even the Jnited Nations allowed all manner if languages to be spoken in the Assembly. The line had to be drawn omewhere. Tiabe should go home nd learn Pidgin quickly so that next ime he would be able to have someting to say. But for the present he should have to remain voiceless.

Tiabe, who had been annoyed and onfused at being ignored, said he yas relieved to learn that that was 11 the trouble was. He would have •idgin by the next session.

“Apinun” (afternoon), said Mr. ipeaker, with a grin.

“Apinun,” replied Tiabe.

At session’s end Mr. Speaker did n fact allow Tiabe to get up and peak in his own language, without in interpreter, A translation is to be ncorporated in the record so that icsterity, anyhow, may applaud fiabe’s maiden speech.

One of the most impressive of the lew European members is former UDO Ronald Neville, representing he special electorate of West Papua.

Another is Highlands planter Keith evy, from the Hagen Open Elecorate.

Yauwi Wauwe (Chuave), Lepani Weston (Esa’ala), Zure Zurecnuoc (Finschhafen), Singin Pasom (Lae) and Matthias Toliman (Rabaul), are all obviously personalities among the native members.

Highlands orator Yauwi Wauwe speaks Pidgin at a great pace and frequently had the House rocking with laughter in the early stages of his maiden speech, during which he was attempting to find out what happened to all the money that poured into Port Moresby every year.

“What do you Europeans do with it?” demanded Yauwi. “We think you must bury it! We don’t see any of it up in Chuave, where I come from! Now, the next time you have to divide this money from Australia, we want you people in Port Moresby to divide it equally so that we all get a share!”

Singin Pasom, who spoke along the same lines, was more notable for his delivery than for what he had to impart. It was possible to hear him out in the street, through the walls of the air-conditioned chamber, and those who know him best say he had hardly warmed up. At his loudest his voice could fill every corner of the Lae airstrip.

Dominant Theme One theme dominated the Addressin-Reply and the adjournment speeches. It was the need for economic development; the need for money for roads, buildings, hospitals, schools. Although the parish pump handle was pumped vigorously at times, the overall picture was clear: The native members from one end of this big Territory to another want action at the grass roots here and now.

Just how they will learn to manipulate their strange new political strings so that they will get these things is one of the fascinating mysteries still in store for the people at Canberra.

Handabe Tiabe. 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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First Undersecretaries Are

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It is unlikely that Papua-New Guinea could have done any better in selecting its first 10 native Parliamentary Undersecretaries. All are intelligent men , most are personalities and none can definitely be said to be a “Government man”.

HHE fact that all speak some Eng- L lish and most speak excellent nglish might or might not have fluenced their choice, but it will irtainly help them in their new jobs -which are worth £1,300 a year to em plus £350 living allowance.

For that they will be expected to end about three-quarters of the year Administration headquarters in )rt Moresby, or travelling on Adinistration business.

They will go home about once a onth —according to the Adminisition. But, in fact, the Undercretaries probably have minds of eir own and just how long they 11 spend in Port Moresby will be teresting to see. A number are nscious that they have to keep their jetors “on side”.

At this stage, the Under-Secretaries y they don’t exactly know what they II be required to do, and the truth that the Administration doesn’t actly know either—although it has better idea than they have of what wants them to do.

May Read Files It wants them to understudy dertmental heads, to see how they idle their departments and to sit on policy decisions. They may read : files, but they have taken an oath t to use any official information a way damaging to the Governnt. If they want to vote against Government, they have to give tice.

Dne of their main tasks will be to as a connecting link between Govment policy and the electors. They 1 be expected to explain to the ks back home just why the Govment is doing what it is doing.

Fhe Administration has authority appoint up to 15 Under-Secretaries, it doesn’t plan to announce any ther names this year. It will see t how this experiment works out. all goes well, it plans to let them wer questions in the House next ir. s robably progress of the 10 will depend greatly on the relationship they have with their departmental heads. Not all the heads are exactly enthusiastic about their new understudies, and there will no doubt be as much education required on the European side as on the side of the learners. But given even half a chance, the system should work as successfully in New Guinea as it has in Western Samoa and is currently working in the Cook Islands.

Of the 10, only three can be said to be reasonably well known to Territorians—John Guise, Simogun Pita and Nicholas Brokam. All have served in previous Legislative Councils. who will assist the Assistant Administrator for Economic Affairs, was elected in 1961 but had little to say during the life of that council. He represents New Ireland.

He’s about 30, has two children, is a former mission school teacher and co-operative storeman, but is currently a farmer. He has visited Australia.

John Guise is probably the bestknown of any. .He was born in 1914, represents Milne Bay, which he won on the primary count, and has several times been overseas. He attended the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 with part of the contingent of the Papua-New Guinea Constabulary, with whom he was a sergeant-major..

He was in Pago in 1962 for the South Pacific Conference and in the

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Members of the Papua-New Guinea Administrator's Council —the inner cabinet —were announced at the same time as the new Under-Secretaries.

The elected members have a majority —seven to three official members.

Five Council members are natives, all of whom are Under-Secretaries.

Official members are: Dr. John Gunther (Assistant Administrator, Services); Mr. H. H. Reeve (Assistant Administrator, Economic Affairs); Mr.

J. K. McCarthy (Director of Native Affairs).

Elected; Nicholas Brokam (New Ireland); lan Downs (Highlands); John Guise (Milne Bay); John Stuntz (East Papua); Robert Tubua (Fly River); Matthias Toliman (Rabaul); Zure Zurecnuoc (Finschhafen).

Papua-New Guinea's 10 Under-Secretaries—all elected members of the House of Assembly, and ail natives—together the day their names were announced. From left, they are: Top—Robert Tabua (Works); Matthias Toliman (Administration); and John Guise (News and Information). Middle Row—Nicholas Brokam (Economic Affairs); Edric Eupu (Lands). Bottom Row—Dirona Abe (Health); Paul Lapun (Forests); Simogen Pita (Police); Zure Makili Zurecnuoc (Treasury); and Sinake Giregire (Services). —Photo: P-NG Information Dept. 47 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

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John Guise is a prominent layman of the Anglican Church and has several times represented the Church in overseas visits. He has eight children.

He will be Under-Secretary for Information and Extension Services—a job he should well be able to do. He is an excellent English speaker (he speaks six languages) and is a fervent nationalist. He is part-European.

Simogen Pita, of Wewak Aitape, who was born about 1900, is another former police sergeant. He is Undersecretary for Police. Simogen has had no formal education and still prefers to speak Pidgin although he can understand English and in fact speaks it not badly when encouraged.

He won fame and a BEM with the Coastwatchers in New Guinea during the war, and until 1961, when he failed to win election, he was an appointed member of Legco. He could always be counted on to say something with humour and commonsense. He has several times visited Australia. He has eight children.

Dirona Abe, from Rigo-Abau electorate, is Under-Secretary for Health.

About 37, he was educated at LMS schools and taught at Kwato Mission for some time. He spent two years at the Sydney Teachers’ College. He has a block of land under the Land Settlement Scheme and is a member of the Central District Advisory Council. He has six children. Those who know him well say he is an excellent, sound man.

Matthias Toliman, representing Rabaul, is the new Under-Secretary for the Administrator’s Department.

Aged about 38, and an excellent speaker of English, he comes from a family of school teachers and was a teacher himself until becoming Inspector for Catholic Schools in his area. His four brothers are schoolteachers and so is his wife.

Toliman was elected despite a policy speech in which he attacked Tolais for being jealous of Chinese and European homes and cars. He said that Tolais ought to honour land contracts, even if the land had originally changed hands for a few tomahawks, “as that was a fair price at the time”.

Those who felt that Europe ought to be thrown off their 1j merely wanted something for nothi Toliman is deservedly proud of family background. He has ne previously been out of Rabaul ! hopes his new job will give hin chance to travel. He has four c dren.

Robert Tabua, Fly River, is anot member of a well-known nai family. About 44, and with se children, he was LMS-educated, a before the war, was an Adminis tion clerk. He served with the A tralians in the war as wire operator and after the war 1 appointed Postmaster at Dam. has been a member of the West District Advisory Council since IS He has some Fijian ancestry. Tal is Under-Secretary for Works.

Edric Eupu, Under-Secretary Lands, is from Popondetta, where is a soldier settler with a wellveloped cocoa plantation at Sangi He is president of the Popond Ex-servicemen’s Association and member of the Northern District > visory Council. Born in 1922, he mission-educated, was with Papuan Infantry Battalion during war, and an Administration cl afterwards. He has a reputation having a mind of his own. He visited Australia.

Zure Makili Zurecnuoc, of Fins hafen, a store-owner and sch( teacher for a long time, is about He is Under-Secretary for Treasury. He comes from a w known local family—his father be first ordained pastor in the Luthe Mission in Morobe.

He is probably the most eloqu of the native members of the Hoi and by all accounts should turn to be one of the most able. He visited Australia and was at the P; conference in 1962. He has th children.

Sinake Giregire, of Goroka, Under-Secretary for the Assists Administrator (Services). About he has a big coffee plantation s market garden, a carrier business s trade store. He is director of Highlands Commodity Exchange i president of the Asaro Native Lc Government Council. He has < child.

Paul Lapuu, of Bougainville, about 40 and lives in Buin. He, t is a former Catholic schoolteac with long experience. He is now fai ing. He was once a seminarian the Roman Catholic Church. He visited Australia. Lapun is promin in his area and a sound man. He four children. He is Under-Secret for Forests, 48 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH! (Continued from previous page)

P Ng Under-Secretaries

The Month In Western Samoa

Consternation Over Governor Lees Iron Curtain"

From R. F. Rankin, in Apia.

There has been widespread consternation in Western Samoa in recent weeks over the decision of Governor H. Rex Lee, of American Samoa, to introduce travel restrictions between the two territories for the first time. )ESPITE pro tests from the Government of Western Samoa, reryone travelling from Western rnioa to the neighbouring Ameriin territory has been required nee June 1 to carry a passport or entification paper containing the jarer’s photograph or fingerprint.

The Secretary to the West Samoan overnment, Mr. H. A. Levestam, sw to Pago Pago to forestall the >w regulations. In discussions with overnor Lee and his Attorneyeneral, Mr. Gergely, Mr. Levestam it forward the West Samoan view at the new regulations would tend drive a wedge between the two imoas.

Division "Not Real"

He claimed that although the two id been politically divided for 60 ars, in other senses the division had ►t been real because of complete ;edom of movement.

He also claimed that:— • The new formalities could ipede this freedom of movement d seemed contrary to the spirit of -operation existing and developing rther between Western and Amerin Samoa. • The inconvenience and expense solved in getting identification pers could be a real hardship on j great majority of visitors who welled to American Samoa for mily reasons, etc. to stay for only short period.

In reply, Governor Lee said that 5 problem was to keep track of ; 5,000 aliens, mostly Western moans, in American Samoa’s pulation of 20,000. He said that large number of visitors from sstern Samoa were young men der no matai control, who acted th a complete lack of responsibility.

It was claimed that half of the nates of Pago gaol were Western Samoans, and that in the previous week, 80 per cent of all persons appearing in court in Pago for police and criminal offences were Western Samoans.

There was also heavy pressure on educational and health facilities as a result of West Samoan immigration.

Governor Lee said he did not want to do anything to harm relations between the two Samoas, but the unrestricted flow into American Samoa of Western Samoans, particularly those of undesirable character, was itself a threat to good relations.

Governor Lee and Mr. Gergely later flew to Apia for discussions on the subject with Prime Minister Mataafa, but no alternative plan was reached.

While a few people in Apia think Governor Lee has some justification for his action, the move is generally very unpopular. There are few Western Samoans who have no relatives in American Samoa, and traffic is very heavy along the 80 mile sea route and 45-minute air passage between the two islands.

In the first three months of this year, 3,504 people left Western Samoan for American Samoa, and 2,883 arrived in Apia from Pago.

Meanwhile, from Pago, reports tell of growing disillusionment with their status as second class American citizens, and more thought among legislators of eventual union with Western Samoa.

This may still be a long way off, but travel restrictions have not brought the day any closer.

A FTER 4i hours of discussion at the end of May, Western Samoa’s Cabinet directed Public Service Commissioner Vaiao Alailima to abide by the decision of Chief Judge Molineaux in the case of Government printer Frank Sprague.

With another three months of his contract to serve, Mr. Sprague was NEW MINISTERS: After Western Samoa's general elections on April 4, these three new faces were included in Prime Minister Mataafa's Cabinet. They are— from top to bottom—Laufili Time (Agriculture), Ulualofaiga Talamaivao (Health), and Papali'i Poumau (Education).

Photos: "Samoana". 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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To eliminate any ambiguity in the iw regarding the Appeal Authority, hich caused all the confusion in the rst place, a Public Service Bill, hich has been in the making for le past 18 months, has now been iven top priority to enable it to be resented to Parliament as soon as Dssible. Parliament was due to meet i June 9.

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VESERN SAMOA’S public servants want more pay. The üblic Service Association, to which bout 600 of Samoa’s 2,000 local üblic servants belong, has asked le Government for a 10 per cent icrease, retrospective to January 1, 964, or 7J per cent increase retro- Jective to January 1, 1963.

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June Was Talk-Talk Month In The South Pacific June, 1964, was talk-talk month in the South Pacific, with parliaments in session in six territories—the BSIP, Western Samoa, French Polynesia, Tonga, and New Caledonia, plus Papua-New Guinea with its new 64-member House of Assembly (see pp. 12 and 42).

FN the Solomons, 10 bills, none of L them controversial, were passed uring a five-day session of the Protctorate’s Legislative Council. A ative member also moved that the iquor Ordinance should be amended 3 that all Solomon Islanders may rink spirits if they wish.

Moving the motion on liquor, the ative member, Mariano Kelesi, said lat the time had come to end liquor Iscrimination in the Protectorate.

From his own observations, he fid, local people had handled their eer well and prohibition on spirits as embarrassing for Solomon Ismders having drinks with their uropean friends.

European members supported the lotion, and the Secretary for Proctorate Affairs, Mr. R. Davies, said ic Government had always intended lat the restriction should eventually 5 lifted. He added that an amending 11 would be drafted for introduction a later session of the council.

In a debate on the adjournment of e council, Mariano Kelesi referred the Government’s policy of ultiately giving self-rule to the indi- :nous people, and said the Solomon lands had benefited greatly from eir association with the British.

But self-government was no joke, ! added. It took years of experience, ng preparation and careful planog- JHE Governor of French Polynesia, Mr. Aime Grimald, gave some teresting facts and figures when he »ened the 1964 session of the local irritorial Assembly on May 26.

He said three of French Polynesia’s Dst important traditional industries copra, vanilla and phosphates— d declined markedly in recent nes.

The copra industry, which had own signs of recovering towards 5 end of last year, was declining ain; the production of vanilla had dined by 16.2 per cent, in the st 12 months; and the end of phosate exploitation in the territory was sight.

However, the number of tourists passing through Tahiti’s international airport at Faaa in 1963—14,155 was 35.8 per cent, more than in 1962; the value of bank deposits in Tahiti increased by 16 per cent, in 1963 over the previous year; and more than 1,000 building permits had been issued in 1963.

Meanwhile, the value of exports had fallen from 1,103 million Pacific francs (about £A5,515,000) in 1959 to 919 million Pacific francs (about £A4,595,000) last year; and the value of imports had risen from 1,188 million francs in 1959 to 2,894 million francs in 1963.

“These figures,” Mr. Grimald said, “show how the territory is overreaching its own means in that its adverse balance of trade, which was only 89 million francs in 1959, has risen to 200 million in only four years.”

However, he said there were two factors which were keeping the economy on its feet—tourism and contributions by the Metropolitan Government through the building of the atomic testing centre in the territory.

The establishment of the atomic testing centre had already brought substantial sums to the territory, and it was estimated that about 800 million Pacific francs would be spent during the next two years to modernise the port of Papeete.

Other big sums would be spent on aerodromes.

THERE was an unusual feature in the opening of the 64th session of the Tongan Legislative Assembly in June because Queen Salote, who was convalescing from a foot injury, was unable to be present.

The session was therefore opened by a commission of three nobles appointed by her in accordance with Tongan law. The three nobles are Kalaniuvalu Fotofili, Vaea and Ve’ehala.

Kalaniuvalu Fotofili read Queen Salote’s speech from the throne. The speech said some legislation “of an unusual nature” was to be introduced because “progress demands innovations”.

IN opening New Caledonia’s Territorial Assembly, the High Commissioner, Mr. Marc Biros, said that the Territory’s finances were in good shape but the cost of living was increasing.

He said 1963 ended with a budget surplus of 35 million Pacific francs (£A175,000), and there had been a favourable trade balance of 96 million Pacific francs (£A480,000) compared with an adverse trade balance of 610 million Pacific francs in 1962.

On the other hand, the cost of living index was 142 in May compared with 134 last December.

IN Western Samoa, Head of State Malietoa Tanumafili said in his opening address to Western Samoa’s new parliament that a plan for the country’s economic development would be introduced this year.

He said it was a cause for satisfaction that, unlike many other newly independent countries, Western Samoa in its two years of independence had come to pay more attention to economic than to political matters.

Referring to international relations, Malietoa said membership of the South Pacific Commission was expected this year; increased participation in international affairs was to be provided for; and the relationship with American Samoa might be set out on a more formal basis.

These three Tongan nobles, Ve'ehala (left), Kalaniuvalu Fotofili, and Vaea opened Tonga's parliament in June because of the indisposition of Queen Salote.

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Sir, —The letter from “Winds of Change”, Port Moresby, in your April issue, commenting on my little article in March PIM on American Samoa, states that anyone suggesting a “longish transitional period of change” there is asleep and that the United States insists on autonomy for everyone’s colonies but its own.

These comments stem perhaps from the fact that only excerpts of what I wrote were printed by your excellent publication but, I fear, also From the regrettable fact that many of our British “friends” seem currently anxious to find fault with the United States wherever possible.

My article was a plea for greater autonomy for American Samoa without endangering the protection of Samoan lands, the chief system and Dther vital Polynesian institutions presently vital but directly repugnant :o American law, which ideally denies jpecial privileges to any particular jroup.

The average American doesn’t mow where Samoa is. The majority )f those who find out usually become rate over the fact that millions of axpayers’ dollars are being poured nto a tiny area which returns this country nothing. Pago, as a naval ?ase, is in most observers’ views long iince obsolete.

I feel confident that if American Samoa wanted her independence or inion with Western Samoa, this country would grant it with our blesiings.

I am reasonably sure, however, hat most intelligent American Samoans recognise that an area of 76 iquare miles with 20,000 inhabitants, lalf under 15, cannot subsist inde- )endently. As to union with Western Samoa, there seem to be mixed feelngs on both sides.

We have a duty to these splendid >eople which does not include casing them adrift because whatever use heir country may have been to us s over.

At the same time, however, a Congress whose members and their conitituents know virtually nothing of his tiny, remote area are going to be lesitant about supporting it forever mder a system which forbids sale )f land to non-Samoans, which confines elections to and place in the Upper House to the chiefs and contains other features in complete conflict with American democratic principles.

The transitional change suggested was made with the interests at heart of the Samoans whom I have been fortunate enough to know and love.

The average American couldn’t care less about whether we keep Samoa or not. —Yours etc.

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Fiji Behind The Times

Sir, —Why is it that Fiji is always 100 years behind the times? We live close to countries like Australia and New Zealand, whose planning and policies are converting them into real crowns in the British Commonwealth of nations. Their Governments are continuous and stable in their policies.

In Fiji, in contrast, Governors and , other high officials are appointed for short terms to positions that are “plums” for services rendered elsewhere, and just as they are beginning to understand the problems they are shifted into laurel-crowned retirement, or to higher salaried positions in other countries. There is no continuity of effort.

The result is that Fiji continues after a hundred years of occupation to have the same old dusty, gravel and grade roads. Who cannot realise that the initial cost of tarsealing the roads, which can be repaired at small cost, far outweighs the costs incurred by huge fleets of gravelling lorries, scoops and graders? A PIM writer once aptly described our roads as “slipped disc” roads, owing to the corrugations that inevitably occur as the increasingly heavy traffic rolls and pounds over them.

Just recently again officialdom tightened the chains against progress by refusing to allow an Australian firm to establish television. How far this decision was influenced (if any) by avoiding hurt to the profits jf our commercialised radio network, is anyone’s guess. The Americans, on the other hand, have established a television station on 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Naming Of The Mortlocks

Sir, —May I prefer my opinion on the question of the European discovery and naming of the Mortlock Islands/Tau’u, which has featured recently in PIM.

They were discovered on June 21- 22, 1616, by the Dutch explorers Le Maire and Schouten, and were named Marcken (Marquen or Marqueen are alternative spellings).

They were sighted by Tasman on March 24, 1643, and he recognised them as Marcken.

In 1794 Captain Wilkinson of the Indispensable, after sailing northwards through Indispensable Strait in company with the American vessel Halcyon (Captain Benjamin Page), sighted them again and named them Cocos Islands.

In 1795 Captain Mortlock of the Young William sighted them, and he named them Hunter’s Islands in the mistaken belief that they were the “seven islands” sighted by Captain Hunter from the Waaksamheyd on May 18, 1791. In fact Hunter had sighted Kilinailau on that day, and had correctly identified his landfall as the Nine Islands discovered by Carteret in August, 1767.

Mortlock’s name of Hunter’s Islands seems to have been applied to the group between 1795 and 1824, e.g. on Arrowsmith’s “Chart of the Pacific Ocean” of 1798 and on a chart by Beautemps-Beaupre of 1804.

The earliest chart which I know of on which the name Mortlock Islands appears is by Krusenstern, dated 1824. Krusenstern realised that Hunter’s Islands were the same as the Nine Islands of Carteret, and the islands seen by Shortland immediately after he sailed north from the Bougainville/Shortland Straits, and he accordingly applied these three names to Kilinailau.

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Politics In Tahiti

Sir, —Your article on page 71 of he May issue of PIM created considerable comment, discussion and :ontroversy. The “facts?” listed there ire, indeed, open to serious question. [The article in question referred o the conviction, in 1959, of Tahiian politician Pouvanaa a Oopa on charges of attempted murder, arson md illegal possession of arms in Ocober, 1958, when he was Deputy for French Polynesia in the French Pariament and a member of French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly. The irticle compared Pouvanaa’s case vith that of New Caledonian politician Maurice Lenormand whose career ended recently and abruptly in omewhat similar circumstances.] A number of French friends of nine here in Tahiti have asked me o make a response and a true defence of French justice, which in the )pinion of most people really needs 10 defence.

Pouvanaa a Oopa was tried, convicted and sentenced in open court, here was no coercion, no “fixing”. 3e received full and fair treatment mder the law. A number of newspapermen friends here have given me heir eye-witness version of what took )lace, and if anything the sentence vas most lenient.

First of all, in a French court, a man is innocent until he is proven guilty, and that is the task of the prosecutor, and the whole court procedure. For several years Pouvanaa had acquired arms, ammunition, etc.

He had his bully boys well armed and they stood guard over his house.

At the time of the local uprising, if it hadn’t been for some of his own followers who had become frightened at what had been planned, and informed the local authorities, Papeete indeed would have been considerably destroyed by fire.

The local police and gendarmerie surrounded the house and it took considerable doing, with one of Pouvanaa’s boys aiming right at one of my friends, and succeeded in capturing the huge store of arms, Molotov cocktails, etc., that were in Pouvanaa’s house. Fires had been actually started, but were fortunately caught in time.

Attempted murder was committed when a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the bedroom of the home of one of Pouvanaa’s opponents. In the bedroom were a number of children, who would indeed have been burned to death if the weapon had exploded, but fortunately it fizzled out. There 61 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Sir, —I am writing to you in the hope that you can give me the history, etc., of the Tanya Maru, the Japanese wreck which is at the end of the airstrip, in the sea, at Lae, New Guinea, I lived in NG for many years and tried to find this out but no one could’ help me. We get PIM every month.—Tours, etc. (Mrs.) S. STEPHENSON.

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Tahiti Athletes

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Performances by severs young French Polynesian ath letes in recent weeks suggest tha French Polynesia will field on of the strongest teams at th Second South Pacific Games h Noumea in 1966.

ONE athlete, Charles Tetarh became the French universit champion for the 80 metres hurdle with a time of 10.5 seconds a Charlety Stadium, Paris, on May 17 and a couple of days later, he chalke up a remarkable 7.03 metres (23 1 Of in.) for the long jump.

Tetaria’s long jump performanc bettered that of New Caledonia’ gold medal winner C. Kaddour at th first Games in Suva last Septembe by If in., and was 1 ft 8i in. bette than Tetaria’s own performance ii Suva, which won him a bronze medal Tetaria was only 16 when he com peted in Suva, and carried off a goh medal in the 110 metres race Le Journal de Tahiti recently devote< a double page spread to his Pari exploits dubbing him “Charles 1< magnifique”.

Two other athletes who competec in Suva registered fine performance at a recent school sports champion ship in Tahiti. They are Jean Bourne 19, and John Salmon.

Bourne became the first athlete ii French Polynesia to run 100 metre: in less than 11 seconds on May 27 French Polynesia's record-breaker Charle Tetaria in action at the Suva Games la year.— Photo: Rob Wright. 62 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

when he covered the distance in 10.9 seconds. Within half an hour, he also broke the local record for 200 metres —his time being 22.3 seconds.

Bourne’s time for the 100 metres was 0.3 seconds slower than that of New Caledonia’s gold medal winner I. Pothin in Suva last September; but his time for the 200 metres equalled that of C. Kaddour (New Caledonia), winner of the 200 metres race ir Suva.

John Salmon established a local record for the high jump at the school sports when he became the first French Polynesian to clear 6 ft. He cleared 1.85 metres (approximately 6 ft Of in.). This was 2f in. below the best jump of P-NG’s gold medallist E. Laboran in Suva, but nearly 2 in. better than Laboran’s runners-up.

Records were broken in about a lozen other events at the Tahiti school sports championship.

Cook Is. Records Go Results at the annual Tereora College sports day in Rarotonga in May indicate that the Cook Islands also has some up and coming althletes for Noumea in 1966.

Ten new records were set at the meeting, and one was equalled. One boy, David Ngamanu, set new times for both the senior 880 yards and the 440 yards races.

In the intermediate girls’ discus throw, Tina Williams improved on the previous record by 14 ft. 1 in.

Her throw of 100 ft was 2 ft 71 in. better than the bronze medallist’s distance for this event in Suva last year.

To increase the stamina and fitness of Cook Islanders and to encourage interest in athletics, the Rarotongan Sports Association presented gold, silver and bronze medallions to the place-getters at the meeting.

Western Samoan Plan In Western Samoa, the Amateur Sports Federation has decided to run an art union with a first prize of £l,OOO to raise money to send the Samoan team to the Noumea Games.

The federation intends to sell 12,000 tickets at 5/- each to allow £2,000 for prizes and £l,OOO profit.

If the response is good, prizes may be increased in number and value in a subsequent lottery.

The federation estimates that about £5,000 will be needed to send 50 representatives to Noumea.

The federation has also decided to investigate cycling interest and potential in Samoa with a view to sending a cycling team to Noumea.

Meanwhile, Samoan Rugby officials are more optimistic about their South Pacific Games chances at Rugby than they have been for some time.

A Samoan secondary schoolboys’ team held a visiting Fijian schoolboys’ representative team to a nil-all draw in the first schoolboys’ test ever played between the two islands at Apia Park in mid-May.

Over 2,000 spectators saw the match, which had some exciting moments and produced some good football.

Interest In The G.E.I.C.

There has also been increased interest in sport in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony recently. At Tarawa, voluntary workers on Bairiki Islet have been enlarging the Bairiki Sports Field by cutting coconut trees and removing them from the proposed site of an athletics track. Similar work has been done at the sports field at Bikenibeu,

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On Games Venues

From Fred Dunn in Noumea Noumea architects have been invited to compete for the design of the Olympic pool complex which will be used at the Second South Pacific Games here in 1966.

It is proposed to construct at least two pools on a site near Noumea's popular beach, Anse Vata, The site tentatively chosen is in a park-like area, which is to be further developed.

Work is also expected to begin— or, rather, to resume—soon on the uncompleted sports ground that the authorities have taken over from the Olympique Sports Club at Magenta Beach to serve as the main venue for the Games.

The building of this ground began 10 years ago.

AMES HOPE: A recent action picture f Miss Losaline Vakauta, 18, who, in lukualofa, Tonga, on May 16, broke the [?]omen's South Pacific Games shot put ecord with a throw of 37 ft. 11 in. This [?]mpared with the throw of 37. 7 in. by [?]jian Merewai Turukawa at Suva last September. —Photo: Tulua Bros.

SCHOOLBOYS' RUGBY TEST: Western Samoan schoolboys in banded jerseys held the Fijians to a nil-all draw recently in the first-ever schoolboys' test between the two islands. (See below.) —Photo: "Samoana". 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Growing Problem In Moresby's Bright Lights Migrating natives who turn into vagrants because of the lack of work are becoming an increasing problem in Papua-New Guinea.

SO serious has the situation become in Port Moresby that the Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, recently appointed a special committee to study the situation.

This committee was provided with an initial sum of £3,000 to ship workless and unskilled people “out of town” back to their own villages where they would not be a problem in this rapidly developing urban centre.

The Government also is worried by the growing native vagrant problem in the territory’s other two main centres—Lae and Rabaul.

Most natives are drawn to these three centres by the lure of the bright lights. Many also come because their own home villages have no cash income and they hope to raise the necessary money to pay their annual council tax, usually about £3 a year.

Others send their children to the town in the hope that they will receive some sort of education.

Nowhere in the Territory is vagrancy more serious than in Port Moresby. Of the town’s estimated population of 34,000, 27,000 are Papuans and 7,000 Europeans.

Of the Papuans, Administration officials estimated that between 8,000 and 9,000 are urban vagrants—people without jobs, without any place to live and without any means of getting themselves back to their own villages.

A recent police survey of the town made from the air showed there were more than 25 squatter settlements hidden in thick bush around the town. The reason that these settlements are hidden is due to some extent to police control of natives living in town areas.

Other native immigrants live with friends in the large labour compounds used by private trading and manufacturing companies to house their staffs. Others live with their friends in the “boi houses” attached to European houses.

If detected in their settlements, the compounds or the “boi houses” the native immigrant who has no job or money faces a gaol sentence.

Mr. David Marsh, District Officer of the Central District, an area which embraces Port Moresby, says most native immigrants come to Port Moresby from two areas which lie west of the town, the Gulf and Western districts. TTiese districts are two of the poorest in the Territory, and sending the migrants home to them is no answer.

Yet town life offers no rewards for the unskilled. There is a shortage of work in Port Moresby for unskilled workers.

The Government keeps on paying out money to ship them home; usually long distances at considerable cost.

Some Administration officials feel that the towns, for those who live in them, should carry some form of head tax. This they believe would discourage many people from living in them.

Whatever the answer, most officials believe that town life with its movie houses, beer parlours and aura of excitement will always attract the village native and the problem will continue to grow.— AAP-Reuter. 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

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FIJI’S Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, said at the opening ceremony that Sir Alport Barker, former Mayor of Suva and proprietor of The Fiji Times, had offered to bequeath his collection to the Colony and people of Fiji two years before his death in 1956 if it could be used as a nucleus of a national reference library of material dealing with Fiji and the Pacific generally.

This offer was accepted. Later, in 1963, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company offered to contribute £2,000 towards the cost of a building to house the collection if the Government provided the balance.

This offer was also accepted, and the library building was now completed.

Sir Derek Jakeway added: “It is appropriate that the Sir Alport Barker Library should be placed close to the Central Archives of Fiji which . . . holds official records, not only of Fiji, but also of all the other territories for which the British Government is responsible in the Pacific.

History Documented “There are now about 11,000 ft of shelving and the records document much of the history of British expansion and administration in the Pacific over about the last 80 years.

“The Sir Alport Barker Library, together with that of the late Mr.

Harold Gatty, which has recently been acquired, will provide a valuable supplement to the Central Archives; while near at hand is another important and developing centre of research—the Fiji Museum.

“Much progress has therefore been made towards the realisation of Sir Alport Barker’s wish that a national reference library of Fiji should be established.

“It would, however, be wrong to 69 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Enlarging on Sir Derek Jakeway’s remarks, Fiji’s Archivist, Mr, A. I.

Diamond, said in a letter to PIM that the Sir Alport Barker Library was being administered as a unit of the Central Archives, and that its acquisition meant that the Archives had one of the world’s best collections of Fiji newspapers in English and the vernacular.

Newspapers Mr. Diamond went on: “The Barker Library, when transferred to us, contained a valuable collection of Fiji English language newspapers, including a complete file of The Fiji Times, from its establishment in 1869 to 1918.

“We have since received on loan from the Times office a continuation of the Barker Library Times file from 1919 to 1939.

“The collection was also greatly enlarged by the transfer to us in 1960 of the entire collection of Fiji newspapers accumulated by the Registrar-General’s Department in virtue of the Newspaper Registration Ordinance of 1895.

“The Central Archives now acts as the office of deposit for all newspapers currently published in Fiji.

We are thus equipped to keep our collection comprehensive and up-todate.

“The library also contains an excellent coverage of the official publications of the Government of Fiji and of other British territories and dependencies in the Pacific. By arrangement with the various administrations the library receives copies of all publications currently issued by them.”

More Samoan Readers According to a columnist in Samoana recently, membership of the Nelson Memorial Public Library in Apia has increased in the past 15 months from 800 to 4,000 juniors and from 400 to 1,100 adults.

The columnist added: “It would be hard to find a better selection of up-to-date reading in a library of similar size anywhere, and extra activities such as the current art exhibition by Miss Jean McGreal [a graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and a lay art teacher in Catholic schools in Samoa] all create interest and help to bring in new readers.”

However, according to library assistant Miss Usuga Mo’ilo, the Apia library has too many books for its shelves.

Miss Mo’ilo, who is in New Zealand on a six-month in-service training course at the expense of the New Zealand Government, told the Dunedin Evening Star in May, that the Apia library was getting so many books from the Canadians and Americans that “we are forced, through lack of shelves, to pack them away in boxes.”

Lady Jakeway, wife of Fiji's Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, shares a joke with Lady Barker at the opening of the Sir Alport Barker Memorial Library in Suva on May 23. — Photo: Stan Whippy.

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The ministerial form of govament, which is expected to ow out of Fiji’s newly-estabhed “membership” system, ly sound like something brand w in Fiji. But the truth is that ji had ministerial government >re than 90 years ago.

HE first Ministers in a truly national government were those jointed to the Cakobau Governnt at its launching on June 5, Ministers had served both Ratu kobau and other chiefs previously, these had been regional rather n national governments, fhe Cakobau Government was des- ;d to last, though with constant nges in the ranks of the Minisuntil March 20, 1874. From n on, an interim government ran country until Cession to Great tain in October of the same year, lince then Fiji has been a Crown ony, ruled by a Governor through egislative Council.

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i the struggle for power. When his rovernment was formed he was delared King of Fiji.

Ma’afu, the most powerful member f the confederacy, came to Levuka, ad to the surprise of many swore llegiance to the new king. He agreed ) serve the Government as eutenant-governor of Lau, where reviously he had ruled as absolute lief. Later Tui Cakau also swore ilegience.

The money so necessary to form a rovernment was obtained by unwal, but profitable means. The man army had just defeated its >rmer allies, the hill men of Lovoni, J ter a long siege.

In Cakobau’s younger days, the ctory would have been the prelude i a cannibal feast. But Cakobau was iw a Christian. But fortunately his jw religion had no laws against the :quisition of wealth.

Marched Into Town The emaciated survivors of the ;ge—men, women and children— ere marched into the town of evuka escorted by the victorious man warriors. There, they were Id as plantation labourers. Cutting ross the business of those engaged bringing in labourers from the ew Hebrides and Solomons, it was sort of blackbirders’ black market.

The money received from the sale ts used to launch the new Governing Provision had been made for I the planters to continue to pay a arly hire for the labourers they had ought”, and this became one of the iv sure sources of revenue.

Although supported by Fijian iefs and many of the planters, the ikobau Government was implacably posed by the lawless ones, who inted no form of law or discine.

Surprisingly, these, including the im of Levuka waterfront, were pported by the British consul, arch.

The consul was also instrumental forming these men into a branch the Ku Klux Klan, whose aim was lite domination.

Into this turbulent world of vioice and rancour, emerged the fledgg Ministers, all untrained, and in ne cases completely unfitted for the k ahead.

They were immediately the target all the ire and derision of the remely vocal group opposing the wernment. 3ne of them, the Prime Minister, Jney C. Burt, had previously been nmercial agent to Cakobau.

He was not a success in the Government. Able but hated for his dictatorial attitude, he was finally forced to resign.

As if in revenge, he later became one of the most violent critics of the Government, as an Opposition member of the Legislative Assembly.

George Austin Woods, an ex-naval surveyor, succeeded Burt as Prime Minister. He had been brought to Levuka to survey the port area, and was offered the post of harbourmaster after the successful completion of his contract.

Woods felt that Fiji had much more to offer him, and he was right, for a time. He held several different Ministries at different times besides the Prime Ministership, and was finally removed from office when the Cakobau Government was replaced by the interim government.

Shady Merchant Cobham Smith, another Minister, was a shady Levuka merchant. He just managed to escape the sobriquet “blackbirder” by being the owner rather than the captain of the ship Nukulau, then engaged in the unsavoury labour traffic.

But all the Ministers were not villains, neither were they incompetent.

John Temple Sagar, was a welleducated planter, held in high regard.

He later opposed the Government, mainly on the question of expenditure.

Ratu Naulivou and Ratu Timoci, son of Cakobau, both served as Ministers.

One of the most competent Ministers was John Bates Thurston, who joined the Government at Cakobau’s request while representing Wairiki in the Legislative Assembly.

He had previously been acting British consul, a planter and mate of a mission schooner.

He was one of the most able men ever to serve Fiji, and went on to hold many of the higher posts in the Government after Fiji became a Crown Colony. From 1889, he was Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific until his death in 1897. Thurston was a personal friend and adviser to Ratu Cakobau and enjoyed the love and respect of all Fijians.

Except for Thurston, all the Ministers took office without previous political experience, and immediately had to assume great responsibilities.

They had no choice but to make their decisions and mistakes, and take the consequences.

Their lack of knowledge and experience was at the bottom of most of the Government’s troubles. £12,000 Spent None of the Ministers had any difficulty in spending the funds allocated to his department. But where these funds were to come from, no one, it seems, bothered to inquire.

At the end of the first financial year, the Government had achieved the dubious distinction of spending £12,000 out of an estimated income of £7*ooo, and less than half the estimated income had been collected.

A proposal was made to recoup the Government losses by a heavy tax on those great money-earning commodities, liquor and arms. (As a result of new high prices, liquor was distilled in many a Levuka backyard, and as gun barrels were used in these home-made stills, the resultant fiery potion was named “gun barrel rum”.) The tax on arms, affecting the trade of the merchants brought a vote of “no confidence” in the Government. Ministers resigned or were removed from office as their individual popularity decreased.

But there were many others willing to try their hand at running a Government, and one Ministry or another limped along under unskilled guidance.

Only when Thurston was in charge was some measure of stability achieved, but by then, arrangements for Cession were well under way.

Cakobau. 81 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

Mooreds Holey Mountain Was Pierced By A Spear One of the curiosities of the island of Moorea in French Polynesia that is frequently pointed out to visitors is the pierced mountain pictured below. Legend has it that the hole in the mountain got there when an ancient chief threw his spear across from neighbouring Tahiti to show how strong he was.

Tourists, of course, scoff at this legend as being a bit of Polynesian blarney; but in the Cook Islands, there are not only people who vouch for the story’s authenticity, but they claim to be descended from the man who threw the spear.

One such descendant, C. T. Cowan (otherwise known as Tumu Korero), recently told the story of the famous spear thrust in the Cook Islands News.

From this we learn that after putting the hole in Moorea’s mountain, the spear sailed on and did some damage in another island—Huahine— about 100 miles away.

Mr. Cowan wrote: “In the days of long ago, Pai-tua-tini was a man famous for his enormous strength and the outstanding warrior of Tahiti.

Being a friend of Tangiia Ariki, they spent much time together in Tahiti and other islands across the sea, and both of them had several children in those islands.

“Two remarkable signs of his strength were left by Pai for the wonderment of later generations until this present day. One of these is the channel named Utuura in Moorea, which he himself dug with immense labour. The other is the remarkable hole in a mountain in Moorea, which is still known by the name Puta-a-pai.

“Pai created this hole as the result of his determination to perform a great feat that would cause men in time to come to wonder at this fantastic strength. The feat he actually contemplated was to pierce the mountain in Moorea with his vast spear hurled from Tahiti-iti across the 10-mile wide channel of the open sea.

Friends Scoffed “Some of Pai’s friends scoffed at this idea. ‘No man amongst us could hurl a spear so far’, they declared, ‘even though ours is the greatest generation of warriors that our race has ever produced’.

“Pai forebore to reply. Picking up his long and heavy spear, he strode to a beach in Tahiti-iti which looks across the sea to Moorea. There he paused to call upon his god to grant him the necessary skill and strength to hurl his spear as he desired.

“Then he raised the spear, drew it back so that it balanced well in his hands, and launched it into the air with a great and well-timed thrust.

“The spear, to which Pai had given the name Tumu-enua, flew fast and high through the air. It struck the mountain at which Pai had aimed.

“So great and swift was the force of the impact that the spearhead Topographical Curiosities Of The South Pacific Have Strange Tales To Them drove right through the mounta and shattered the nearby island Huahine into two pieces, “That is why Huahine consists two separate islands, the one beii named Huahine-nui, and the oth Huahine-iti, And the shaft of Tun enua, the great spear hurled by Pi still stands in the sea between tl two islands.

“The action of the sea on it h turned its stout wood into stone durii the centuries that have passed sin Pai made his mighty throw.

“It was about this time that the arose gradually the famous quan between Tangiia and Tutapu Tahiti. The story of this dispute fairly well known, relating as it do the accounts of their eventual arriv at Rarotonga, and Tutapu’s death Avana Valley.

“When the quarrel was at its heigl Tangiia came to Rarotonga; about tl same time Tamarua-Pai-Tua-Tini al arrived in his canoe containing number of his own family.

“Both leaders remained in Rar tonga for some time thereafter. F was given the rank of Mataiap Tutuara in the district of Rangiate Takitumu.

“This is the story of Tamarua-P; Tua-Tini whose descendants still li in Rarotonga in this present year 1964.

“(1) Ngati Tamarua-nui (Mai iapo) of Pouara, Rangiatea, (Ma: surviving descendants).

“(2) Ngati Tamarua Te-kaki (Mataiapo) Ngatangiia. (The or surviving member of this family Meameaau).

“(3) Ngati Tamarua Tumu-rak Pitimani (Rangatira) Ngatangi (Many surviving descendants).

“NOTE: The writer of this sto is a descendant of Pai-tua-tini.”

When this picture of Moorea's pierced mountain was sent to PIM in 1942, the writer gave the mountain's name as Moua Puta, not Puta-a-pai as does C. T. Cowan in the accompanying article. However, it is the same mountain, and the hole in the peak can be seen as a small dot just below the top. 82 JULY. 1964—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

[?]otuma's Split Island Had [?]ole In Cannibal Feast Hofliua, or Split Island, a remarkable little islet off the western end ?/ Rotuma, which looks as if it has been cleft in two by an axe, figures h some of the early history of Rotuma. is recorded that about 1780, a raiding party from either Tikopia Ontong Java in the Solomons hid lind Hofliua by day, and at night ered the village of Losa on the inland and seized some of the abitants for cannibal feasts.

Tie Rotumans, detecting the raiders m the heights and realising that disappearance of their people was Another topographical oddity of Rotuma is to be found in the Itutiu district where the twin hills of Solalete and Solmaja have the appearance of a woman's breasts. The hills are covered with coconut trees from base to peak. not from supernatural causes as they had thought, ambushed the raiders one night and killed or captured them all.

The name Split Island was given to Hofliua by Arthur Gordon and Hugh Romilly who represented the Fiji Government on Rotuma in 1879, after Rotuma’s chiefs petitioned Fiji’s Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon, for annexation by Britain.

Gordon (a relative of Sir Arthur) and Romilly lived on Rotuma to give the Rotumans advice pending the British Government’s decision on the chiefs’ petition, which was in favour of annexation.

A drawing of Split Island by Arthur Gordon appeared on the cover of Romilly’s first book A True Story of the Western Pacific (a ghost story about Rotuma) published in 1882.

Romilly describes Split Island this way in his book: “On approaching Rotumah from the westward, a barren rock, shaped like a turtle’s back, is seen standing by itself about four miles from the mainland. At that distance you would say there was nothing extraordinary about it, but as you get nearer you see a thin white line completely bisecting it. On a still nearer approach you find out that this line is not a vein of quartz, as you probably have at (Over) This striking view of Hofliua, or Split Island, was taken during a recent visit to Rotuma by Rob Wright, of the Fiji PRO. He also took the picture below. 83 31 FI C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

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irst supposed, but what you have conluded to be one island is in reality wo, and that the white line is the ky showing through from the other ide.

“The extreme width of this split may e perhaps forty feet, and on calm ays it is quite possible to pull trough it in a whaleboat.

“From one point of view, however, huge mass of rock may be seen idged exactly in the centre of the ssure, about half way between the Dp of the rock and the water.

“The sides of the crack are smooth nd perpendicular, like the side of house, and in some places seem to e polished, and are coated with a emi-transparent grey substance like lass, which chips off easily in thin nd brittle flakes.

“Take away the windows and proofing ledges of an old street in Edinburgh, treble the height of the ouses, and for white walls substitute polished black surface, and you lay form a very fair idea of what the iland of Hofliua looks like while ulling through its very centre in boat.

“Round it there is no protecting eef, and it is only on the calmest ays that it can be visited. Even then mding is dangerous work, and a eavy ground swell is never absent.

“About fifty yeards from shore it i necessary to jump overboard and wim ashore, and you are lucky if ou go through this performance nth no greater damage than a barked bin. However, the novelty of the lace and excitement of landing mply repaid us for our visit.” yesterday When PIM completed its 14 th year of publication in July, 1944, American Super Fortresses had just bombed southern Japan for the first time, and the Americans had seized Saipan from the Japanese. This, PIM said, was the opening of a new stage in the Pacific war, with events moving swiftly to the utter defeat of Japan <( and to the annihilation of the power which broke the Pacific peace”.

OTHER items in that issue of PIM of 20 years ago were:— New interest in the fate of the American aviatrix Amelia Earhart had been aroused by the discovery, at Saipan, of an album of photographs on her round-theworld flight. With her navigator, Fred Noonan, Miss Earhart disappeared after leaving Lae, NG, for Howland Island in 1937. ♦ ♦ ♦ Lady Murray, widow of Sir Hubert Murray, former Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, was making good progress after having been injured by the explosion of a flying bomb in southern England early in July. * ♦ ♦ Mr. A. L. Armstrong, former British Agent in Tonga, had prepared several tentative proposals for the “co-ordination of Fiji’s far-reaching post-war reconstruction schemes”. * * * “Old Bill” Borthwick, discoverer of the Tavua goldfield in Fiji, died at Lautoka on June 3 at the age of 84. * * * Residents of Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea—weary of being pushed around or ignored by Australian Ministers and officials—made a move at the annual meeting of the Territories Association in Sydney in June, which, PIM said, “might have far-reaching effects”. They proposed that at the next general meeting of the association in September, members should discuss a motion that they appeal to Great Britain for the removal of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea from Australia’s administration because of the Australian Government’s “past neglect of, and present indifference to, the interests of European residents”.

Ten New Caledonian volunteers, most of whom had left Noumea in the second contingent of March, 1943, had been killed in action with the French Army in Italy during a big attack which routed the Germans on May 12. ♦ * * Commenting on the annual balance sheet of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., of Fiji, which had just been issued, PIM said: “This company is still suffering the embarrassments of riches—it has been so prudently and efficiently managed during the past couple of decades, and especially during the war, that now it literally does not know what to do with its money. . . .

It could repay every shareholder 30/- for every 20/- subscribed, and still remain completely equipped for carrying on its large and profitable business.” * * * Details of the Allied re-occupation of Manam Island, off the Madang coast of New Guinea, were given in a letter to PIM from Sergeant Roy McGregor, of Madang, who said: “The landing was done by a single PT boat, with 10 ratings, under Lieutenant Broadhead, of Melbourne, and with myself acting as pilot. We nosed into the beach on the western side of the island, with all guns trained on the shore. A few natives appeared in response to signs and, as we almost hit the beach, we got the welcome news, ‘No got Nippon’. As the PTs nose touched the steep beach, I dropped off into armpit deep water, followed by the rest of the party—and that was all there was to it.” 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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[?]orfolk Veteran's [?]ames Have An Islands Ring From Merval Hoare on Norfolk Island Anyone who knows anything )out the South Pacific could not istake Norfolk Island resident aoul Sunday Bell as a genuine mizen of the Islands, for his jo Christian names are the imes of the island where he as born.

IR. BELL, who is generally known as Roy, was born in the :rmadecs, on lovely Raoul Island therwise known as Sunday Island), years ago. This was four years er his family settled there.

Roy retains vivid memories of his rly life on the island, where his nily lived off the land, cultivating ge areas of crops and, each season, oking hundreds of mutton birds • the table.

It was a strenuous life, for the n'ily had no labour-saving devices; s often plundered their crops and rehouses; and earthquakes were all ) frequent.

All this provided interesting iterial for Elsie K, Morton’s book the Bell family’s life in the rmadecs, The Crusoes of Sunday md.

Roy moved to Norfolk about 1910, 1 has worked on the island both a planter and photographer.

But his main interest has been natural history. He collected shells for Tom Iredale, plants for Dr, Oliver, and birds for Gregory Mathews.

Under Mathews he became an expert field naturalist and Mathews’ book The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, published in London in 1928, was based on his work.

Various birds and shells that Roy discovered, including the Norfolk owl, Ninox boobook royana and the Kermadec shell Trochus royana, were named after him.

Roy’s skill as a photographer was recognised in 1947 when one of his photos, a view of Norfolk’s Ball Bay, was used as the design for Norfolk’s first postage stamps. This design was, for many years, the only one used, Roy served in World War I as an aerial photographer in the Royal Australian Flying Corps and in the last war as a telephonist on Norfolk.

Now, in retirement, he lives quietly at Burnt Pine.

FOOTNOTE: The island where Roy was born was named Raoul by the French explorer D’Entrecasteaux in 1793. Three years later, the captain of the British vessel Britannia came upon it, and— unaware of D’Entrecasteaux’s discovery—named it Sunday Island after the day he sighted it. The two names for the island have been in use ever since, although Raoul has been more commonly used in recent years.

And Lew Friday's Cry Out "Help" • A Brett Hilder Profile

Herbert Ernest Lewis

FRIDAY is well-known to PIM readers as a writer of authority on the Pacific islands, especially New Caledonia.

IUSED to wonder whether he was French, but his surname is pronounced as the English “Friday”, and he was born at Warwick in old England in 1897.

After attending Warwick School he went off to World War I in the Royal Irish Rifles, later serving as lieutenant in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Finally he was wounded and taken prisoner in 1918.

After the war Lewis spent four years teaching in New Zealand, before going to English-language newspapers in Germany, Italy, and France. He then joined Britannia & Eve in London, and was later film critic on Daily Film Renter, leading trade paper of the British film industry. In 1932 he joined the staff of the West Australian, and in 1938 arrived once more in New Zealand.

When the Pacific War started Lew became a war correspondent in New Caledonia, with headquarters in Noumea, first for Reuter’s and later for the American UP, covering the South Pacific area.

After this war he joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission, where he worked for 15 years, on the ABC Weekly. He left Australia in 1960 to revisit England and Europe for a couple of years, but now is back in Australia, for the time being at least. At this moment he is vegetating and fishing on the beautiful foreshore of Lake Macquarie, but expects to make for Europe again next year.

Apart from journalism, Lew is deeply interested in Shakespeare, Southern Italy and historical research on the Pacific, in that order. He is the author or translator of the following books: Yesterdays in Maoriland; Pioneer Days in New Caledonia; Migration Without Tears (for the Fairbridge Farm Schools Scheme); Murder in the Rue Monge; Cannibal Island; and The War from Cococnut Square.

H. E. L. Friday (his initials spell HELP) has several manuscripts in hand, and a very good film script, so we may look forward to further entertaining and valuable contributions from his wide experience and erudition.— Brett Milder.

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One-Upmanship Solomon Islands Style Although just published, A Guadalcanal Society by Dr. lan Hogbin, is something of an historical document as it relates to field work he undertook in this part of the British Solomons between 1927 and 1945.

BEFORE the war, Guadalcanal was f of little importance to anyone isides the 15,000 Melanesians who red there and Lever’s Pacific Planta- >ns Pty Ltd. which worked large eas of coconuts.

The war changed all this. It imortalised the name Guadalcanal, pecially with Americans; it proiced Honiara, which previously did ►t exist, as the capital of the BSIP; id it brought a great many of its ople into head-on contact with the ith century. >r. Hogbin worked mainly amongst language group on the north-east ast of the island, about 50 miles st of Honiara, which is still fairly dated as the coastal road stops ort about 30 miles west of there, oreover, there are many places in iiadalcanal, in spite of its plunge :o the modern world, where customs ve changed as little in the last 30 ars as they did in the 300 years fore that. To this extent, his small ok is undated and it provides, as ill, an excellent background from lich present white Honiarians might 5W the current indigenous popula- Well Known Dr. Hogbin, while not yet exactly the sere and yellow, is well known a couple of generations of an- •opology students at Sydney Univery; he has done a great deal of itinguished field work in the Soloms and in New Guinea; has itten a number of books and inmerable papers; and, in the last years, has had practically every thropological honour heaped upon n. At present he is developing a w side-line. He’s one of the lec- •ers in the ABC’s television series, liversity of the Air.

Dr. Hogbin is an incisive speaker d he writes with the same economy words. The present book is signed for students and others with interest in but no technical know- Ige of sociology.

It is therefore quite painless to tb 2 general reader and, although it concerns a small Solomon Islands society, serves as basic instruction in the Melanesian background.

This becomes more interesting to readers today when people in such places as Papua-New Guinea are being pushed further and further away from their old ways into a 1964 type of Western democracy with common rolls, adult franchise, selfgovernment - too-soon-rather-than-toolate and all the political frills that go with it.

It is interesting to compare the procedure necessary for a New Guinean to become an elected member of the P-NG House of Assembly with Hogbin’s description of how Atana, in a small village on the Guadalcanal coast, set about the first steps to becoming a village headman.

As the author explains, to become a headman in a Melanesian village society depends on esteem only and not on hereditary right. Ambition to become such a leader usually manifests itself in a man’s thirties, and probably takes another 10 years to accomplish. First, he must possess certain basic attributes—he must be industrious, a good organiser, a positive character, tactful and a good speaker. From there on, up to the top, it is a matter of one-upmanship, the ability to provide hospitality on a more lavish scale than anyone else with the only wealth recognised in the village society—vegetable supplies and pigs.

Atana’s opening gambit was to announce that he would build a house larger and finer than was customary for which it was necessary to enlist the aid of many others.

When the house was built, preparations for the feast to celebrate it were begun.

For 10 mornings Atana and his kinsmen went out fishing and each day on their return they smoked the catch over a pit until they had 250 lb of dried fish. Meanwhile, Atana’s wife had organised the women of the group and between them they gathered five tons of yams.

Dr. Hogbin goes on: “Atana now announced that the feast would take place in four days’ time. He and his wife’s working parties spent the first day collecting firewood and coconuts.

The men brought in logs, the women bundles of sticks, the youths strings of ripe coconuts . . . Next morning all worked together chopping the logs and piling the pieces into tidy stacks alongside the ovens.

“Finally, on the third day, they occupied themselves making yam cakes. The women peeled the tubers and grated the raw flesh while the men grated the meat of some of the

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This is how baby-sitting is done at Roroni village, Guadalcanal. The picaninny is carried over and under the shoulder by an older member of the family, with a shade made from pandanus leaves sewn together. The shade is really a sleeping mat.—Photo: Rob Wright. 89 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JULY. 1964

coconuts and squeezed out the white cream. Both sexes now took banana leaves and wrapped up a series of sandwiches of layers of grated yam with cream in the middle, The 3,000 or so of these sandwiches had to be cooked in a long row of earth ovens.”

Mound Of Food On the morning of the day of the feast, the women made great wooden bowls of yam pudding, the youths gathered areca nuts and betel and decorated the puddings with coloured leaves and berries and the men killed and cooked the pigs. By three p.m. a great mound of food—2so lb, of dried fish, 3,000 yam cakes, 11 bowls of yam pudding and eight pigs— stood in front of Atana’s house and the guests began to arrive. The sexes kept apart but formed friendly groups and sat at ease in the shade of trees while a dozen of Atana’s young kinsmen handed round areca nuts, tobacco and green drinking coconuts.

Atana then made a tally of all those who must get a share of the feast, dropping a pebble into coconut shells to mark each one—and began to share out the food in piles on the ground. When the division was complete, he called each guest’s name loudly and indicated a pile, whereupon a young helper would carry it and lay it at the feet of the individual concerned.

In all, Atana made 257 separate presentations and in the end only the remnants, the bones and the broken cakes, were left for him. But he had put his foot on the first rung of the ladder to success.

In our Western society we are apt to think of primitive life as simple and uncomplicated. But from the above description it’s obvious that civilisation has some rewards. The thought of those 250 lb of dried fish and the 3,000 yam and coconutcream sandwiches, makes hiring the Opal Room at the Australia and throwing a cocktail party look like kid stuff.—JT. (A GUADALCANAL SOCIETY. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. Distributed in Australia by Rigby Ltd. of Adelaide. 17/6.) Crocodile Poaching In Wild, Wi West New Guinea Anyone with regrets for the good old Islands days she lament no more. They still live—at least in Gunther Behnemai New Guinea Crocodile Poacher, which reads like fiction tho Gunther says it’s fact.

THE last time we met Gunther was in 7 Deserted Rommel, in which he described how, after serving with the German Army in Poland and Norway, he became a dispatch rider attached to the Afrika Korps. Sometime in 1941, he deserted, was picked up by the British and sent as a POW to Australia. At some later stage he became a legitimate New Australian.

For some reason best known to himself, when Gunther decided to shoot crocodiles, sometime in the 1950’5, he went to the Digoel River of West New Guinea, and for the purpose of his book it is just as well that he did. If he had followed the more orthodox course and gone to the Fly River of Papua very few of the exciting adventures he writes about could have happened—the New Guinea administration would have seen to that.

He didn’t feel that he would get permission from the Dutch to go into the vast swamps that extend for miles behind the mouth of the Digoel and provide a home for thousands of crocodiles, but he decided to go anyway and that is where Poa fits in to the title.

Although we are all for a hi red-blooded adventure ourselv especially in a book— we must that, judging from Gunther’s sequent actions when he got into swamp, the Dutch knew would tainly have been right in refu entry. We’ve been under the imj sion for years that the punitive pedition went out about the s time as hansom-cabs.

Gunther began his adventures sneaking into the estuary of the River without the formality of g< through the adjacent port of er Daru. The reason for this is not exa clear except that it provides at sphere, but the purpose of the POPULAR: Two New Gu books, published just before Ch mas, recently went into second pi ings. They are New Guinea: The j Unknown, by Gavin Souter (Ai and Robertson Ltd., Sydney); Patrol into Yesterday, by Keith Carthy (Cheshire, Melbourne).

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I to call upon a friend called Tom ensen who had a coconut plantation long the shores of the estuary.

Because the coconut plantations on le Fly estuary can be counted on bout half a hand, we can guess that bm is either a figment of the Titer’s lively imagination or not est pleased by this appearance in rint.

Among the decorative pieces in bm’s household was a native girl, are from the waist up, whose breasts seemed to lift with invitaon.”

“Phew,” said Gunther, “how in ;11 can you stand up to that, Tom?”

“Doesn’t bother me,” said Tom, [ don’t stand up to it. I take it lying awn. We’re in the tropics, after all. o cinema, no pub, no dances and, )ove all, no white women, just icsquitoes and coconuts . . .”

Pitched Battle In the finale of Gunther’s story he id his crocodile-hunters have a tched battle with hundreds of reaming headhunters from the igoel swamps in which the crocodileinters use automatic weapons, shotins, .303’s and a home-made izooka that fires dynamite bombs flatten the savages and fire their aus Tambaran.

Having dealt out death and struction all round, the party then tricates itself only to run foul of a atch patrol vessel anchored in the outh of the river.

This presents little trouble, however, le of Gunther’s divers goes over- >ard and ties up the Dutch ship’s opellers with a wire rope and Jnther shoots out its searchlight th a well-directed burst from a annlicher gun which he had had the rsight to install somewhere on his m vessel.

After all, as Gunther put it, “the ject of our visit had simply been mmercial. If the Dutch Government >uld not, or could not, protect or en allow expeditions such as ours o those swamps, we felt we had protect outselves, and we had done ’5 With wild men like Gunther hnemann about no wonder the itch were glad to give West New linea to the Indonesians in 1962.

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EW GUINEA CROCODILE POACHER, blished by Jarrolds. 26/-.) Thoughtful Report On Papua By A Doctor's Wife Margaret Spencer, who in 1959 published Doctor’s Wife in New Guinea, has now brought out a sequel, Doctor’s Wife in Papua, which is better than most people would have been prepared to predict.

MRS. SPENCER is the wife of Dr. Terry Spencer, who was a medical officer in the Territory for a number of years from 1954. They lived in the Highlands, in the D’Entrecasteaux Group and in Rabaul. They have since “gone South”.

Mrs. Spencer’s first book was a fairly superficial account of life among the native people of the New Guinea Highlands. No European so much as got a mention—which in itself was not pertinent, but the result was a book which seemed to carefully avoid contemporary issues and which must have been a disappointment to many people wanting to know about the writer’s reactions to the meeting of two cultures.

Mrs. Spencer explained that book in her opening pages as having “no real beginning, and no end, and its only sequence is in time”, and that is just what it was—a disembodied account of a segment of Highlands native life as seen by a faceless observer.

In Doctor’s Wife in Papua, Mrs.

Spencer nails her colours to the mast and reveals herself as a thoughtful reporter with a compassionate and intelligent interest in all the problems of living in a tropical and primitive territory, whether they affect brown or white.

Are They Anti-Social?

After having had several more years of experience in the Territory, and in a different area (this book is set in Fergusson Island in the D’Entrecasteaux Group) her horizons clearly widened.

“The white people we meet here” (she writes), “who are all such individuals, are they like that anyway?

Do they come here because they are individualistic and adventurous, or because they are anti-social and cannot fit into the communities at home?

“One man, a high Government officer, has said to us, and only partly in joke, ‘The sane don’t linger.’

Perhaps where there are so few, the personality of each stands out and cannot hide itself because there is nowhere to hide, and no camouflage is possible.

“This is not really the story of the white folk of these [Papuan offshore] islands: it is the story of the native people. But these islands are permeated with the influence of the white man, in a way in which the New Guinea Highlands, in our time there, were not, because enough time had not passed there since the white man’s coming among them, who had remained so long in isolation.”

Again, “We who serve in the Territory are expatriates in a new land, our communities are small, and events are highly personal. We can see our endeavours lost through a change of policy remotely decided. We can experience isolation and frustration to the point of despair. And to prevent us taking ourselves too seriously we need the satirical, humorous eye of a popular cartoonist! We certainly need our leave periods every two years.

“We can at times find our work both stimulating and satisfying, and the intangible rewards coming to us may be very great. To know that you have the respect and regard of a native people, no matter in how small a way, is a reward indeed. But you must never expect it to take the form of what we call ‘gratitude’—why indeed should they be ‘grateful’ to us who are disrupting their culture?

“There is one big factor. Time is against us, and events are moving at an ever-accelerating pace. A ferment is working within the natives themselves, and outside pressures are increasing.

“Growing and heavy demands are perpetually in conflict with inadequate finances and services, and we all work within a shaky framework, shored up by the devotion of those within it, and sustained in the hope of future consolidation. Even in a modern setting, a more than usual devotion to duty and a large measure of human understanding are inevitably required from those officers and their wives who work and live under these conditions.”

Doctor’s Wife in Papua is a useful contribution to the literature on the Territory, and there is something in this one for both the old hand and the casual reader.—Sl. (DOCTOR’S WIFE IN PAPUA. Robert Hale Ltd. 22/6.) 91 ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Life Story Of A Noted Canadian In an age when countries are xious to project their image road, Canada’s has not yet lounted to very much in the uth Pacific and tends to be rerded as an extension of the uted States. [OST of our own problems have parallels in Africa rather than the big, white Dominion on the er side of the Pacific. [he memoirs of a distinguished aadian, the Rt. Hon. Vincent ssey, CH., What’s Past is Prologue, only gives an insight into the at moments in Canadian history ing the last 50 years but into the at moments of our times as well, dassey became interested in politics the early 1920’s but it was in the [omatic field that he made his atest mark, at different periods ng Canadian Minister in Washingand London. n 1931, he records, he was offered Governorship of Western Ausia but seems to have found WA be rather a long way out of his it. He turned down this first optunity for a national of one British minion to represent the Sovereign mother. n 1952, Mr. Massey became the ; Canadian Governor-General of lada, a post previously reserved Englishmen, and his term of :e (to 1959) enabled him—and bles readers of his book—to meet □ more of the world’s distinguished les than his diplomatic posts in ope and the United States, n this (as in most biographies) the slights on the important people of times provide most of its value.

'V addicts of the Dr. Kildare es will be surprised to see what ears to be “Dr. Gillespie” looking hem out of the dust-jacket of this k. Dr. Gillespie is played by unond Massey but it was news to antipodean that Vincent and rniond are brothers—and very :h alike.—JT.

VHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE. Macan. 75/6.) CHILDREN’S BOOKSHELF THERE is a wide variety of books for the young this month.

Among the best are: JOSEPH IN EGYPT, one of a picture book series on Biblical subjects, put out by Macmillan. It tells the story, in simple language in big type, of Jacob and his 12 sons. The illustrations by Reinhard Herrmann add great splashes of colour. (13/3.) THE FOX AT THE MANGER, by P. L. Travers, with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, is an old carol turned into a fable, suitable for children up to 80, for this little book, elegantly produced, deserves to be a classic. (Collins; 13/3.) THREAT TO THE BARKERS, by Joan Phipson, who won the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award in 1962 with The Family Conspiracy, is adventure with an Australian background. The Barker family were met with in her prize book. (Constable Young Books and Angus and Robertson; 17/6.) DR. SEUSS’S ABC is the latest of the fascinating Dr. Seuss series of Beginner Books for children which are finding popularity among Australian schoolteachers. Dr. Seuss has a William Lear type of fascination, which takes his books out of the ordinary. With Dr. Seuss, A is not for Apple but for Aunt Annie’s Alligator. And Z, naturally, is for Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuss. (Collins; 10/9.) Best Of The Paperback Non Fiction:

Serengett Shall Not Die

by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek, a German zoologist who has been described as the Dr. Schweitzer of the Serengeti herds. Serengeti is the Game Reserve in Tanganyika but man and climate both seem bent on destroying one of the last sanctuaries of big game in Africa.

As well as being a collector for German zoos, Grzimek and his son, Michael, became propagandists for the preservation of the Game Park and to help in their work they learned to fly a plane. Most of the excellent pictures in this book are the result of viewing the animals from a lowflying plane and not as most tourists do, from a car. Even people who are not particularly fond of wild animals will probably be interested in this book which has an introduction by Australian writer Alan Moorehead, who is also a Game Park fanatic. (Fontana; 9/-).

The Story Of Language

by Dr. C. L. Barber, senior lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

Language more than anything else distinguishes man from other animals and the study of it as a science is as fascinating as it is vast in scope. The author in the first half of his book traces the development of organised language and its various “families” over thousands of years. The second half of the book is devoted to the evolution of the English language. (Pan; 9/-).

Fiction: PSYCHE by Phyllis Brett Young is the story of a girl who was kidnapped in infancy and is later abandoned. She grew up in surroundings alien to what might have been and thus the writer works the plot out according to her own ideas of the influence of heredity and environment. (Pan; 7/6).

LILITH by J. R. Salamanca is not everyone’s cup of tea. About a deranged beauty who inhabits a world of sexual ecstasy into which she entices her young male nurse.

Has now been filmed by Columbia Pictures. (Pan; 7/6).

Some Angry Angel By

Richard Condon—who is alleged by the London Daily Mail to have written it with a flame-thrower on asbestos paper. About the world of modern public relations and organised publicity. (Pan; 5/6).

THE NOVICE by Giovanni Arpino (translated by Peter Green) was a best seller when first published in Italy. The story begins when a frustrated middle-aged accountant and a young nun, who frequently share a tramstop in mid-winter Turin, finally break through the barrier of silence. (Pan; 4/-.).

POWDER AND PATCH and FRIDAY’S CHILD both by Georgette Heyer and both well-tried and, apparently, time-defying. The first was 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

Australia's "Colonial" Stamps “The Australian Dependencies Stamp Catalogue", a 32page, illustrated guide to the postage stamps of Australia's territories and dependencies, is a most useful publication for philatelists. But non-philatelists will find plenty in it to interest them, too.

The catalogue lists and describes every stamp ever issued by Australia for its Antarctic territory, Christmasc Island, Cocos Island, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Papua, New Guinea, P-NG, New Britain and the North-West Pacific Islands. (The North-West Pacific Islands comprised former German New Guinea, Nauru and other ex-German islands.) Prices are given for used and unused specimens of each stamp; and each different stamp in a series is illustrated.

The catalogue is full of curious information. We learn, for example, that Norfolk Island's first postage stamp (pictured) was first issued on June 19, 1947, in a series of 12 values, but that stamps "Perf 11 or in different colours Perf 11, which have appeared on the philatelic market, were never released officially but were stolen from the Commonwealth Note and Stamp Printing Branch, Melbourne''.

We learn, also, that in 1935 New Guinea issued £2 and £5 stamps for use on gold shipments airmailed from the Bulolo goldfields, and that an unused pair is now worth £5O. However, the earliest airmail stamp in those parts appeared six years earlier, when the 7/6 Papua stamp picting a lakatoi was overprinted with a representation of c primitive-looking aeroplane with the words "air mail" on its wings.

The catalogue (price 3/6) is published by Review tions Pty. Ltd., Sterling Street, Dubbo, New South Wales.—RL originally published in 1923; both are Regency romances. (Pan; 4/- & 5/6).

PEACEABLE LAND by Keith Wheeler. The theme is this could happen to you in Negro-White relations in the United States. A successful painter makes a down payment on a house in an upper middle-class area of New York suburbia and thereby starts a furore. The painter is a Negro and—worse—has a chip on his shoulder. (Pan; 7/6).

AMERICA, AMERICA by Elia Kazan who gave the world Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll, East of Eden, etc. (Fontana; 5/6).

Thrillers and Crime:

Death Packs A Suitcase By

Bryan Edgar Wallace. A Them and Us drama. (Hodder; 5/6).

THE BEAST MUST DIE and

The Worm Of Death By

Nicholas Blake. The first is in his Early Period (1938); and the second in his more modern style. (Fontana; 5/6 ea.).

TRUST THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris. (Hodder; 4/-). THE TERRIFIED TYPIST by Erie Stanley Gardner. (Pan; 5/6).

Murder In Mesopotamia And

The Hound Of Death By

Agatha Christie. (Fontana; 5/6). All these are up to usual specifications.

Miss Pym Disposes And Brat

FARRAR are both by Josephine Tey who died in 1952 but who, while she wrote thrillers, had also an engaging style of writing. (Pan; 4/and 5/6).

THE GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS,

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LAST FRONTIER, all by Alistair Mac Lean who deals with the Caribbean, Hungary and the Arctic, in that order, in his usual breath-taking style. (Fontana; 5/6 ea.).

THE BORDERS OF BAR- BARISM by Eric Williams and THE MEGSTONE PLOT by Andrew Garve are both excellent and both were reviewed by PIM when first published—in 1961 and 1956 respectively. (Pan & Fontana; 4/- and 5/6.) THE SATIN BUG by Alistair Maclean who for some reason unknown writes this as lan Stuart. Mac- Lean was better when he wrote as Maclean of HMS Ulysses and not as Stuart of pot-boiling thrillers. (Fontana; 4/-.) War: ESCAPE—OR DIE by Paul Brickhill is a collection of authentic RAF escape stories. SALERNO by Hugh Pond is the story of the Allied assault on Churchill’s “soft underbelly of Europe” which turned out to be not so soft after all. (Pan; 4/and 7/6.) True Crime: MURDER REVISITED in which the author John Royland, compares two causes celebres—the South Wales Greenwood Case of 1920 : the Welsh border Armstrong Case 1922. (Pan; 5/6).

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DER by Colin Wilson and Pat man. For more serious students criminology. It’s a sort of who’s \ of 300 murderers, their crimes, hi grounds and characters. (Pan; 11/ Biography Of Pope Paul The production of a biograph of Pope Paul VI, within nin months of his election was prett smart work by Father John C Clancy, an American who sper many years in the Vatica secretariat of State.

HE has called his book Apostle Our Time. He traces the life Giovanni Battista Montini, > elected to be called Paul w elected Pope, from his childhood Brescia, in the foothills of the Ita Alps through his years as a Vati diplomat and his eight years as A] bishop of Milan. The book also the death of Pope John and ancient procedure whereby the ] Pope was chosen by the Cardii of the Catholic Church behind loc doors in Rome. (APOSTLE FOR OUR TIME. Publls by Collins. 28/6.) 94 JUNE, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts Japanese Tourist Rush To Pacific May Begin Soon The Japanese may begin a tourist rush to the Pacific soon ollowing the Japanese Government’s removal of currency estrictions on ordinary citizens in April.

IE lifting of the restrictions means that the Japanese can now el freely abroad, and they are exed to do so in increasingly large ibers. Pacific tourist centres are »ng the places they are likely to 1 for. he managing director of the Toyo en Company, of Tokyo, Mr, mo Hishida, said in Suva on May that his company proposed to d a liner of up to 50,000 tons the trade between Japan, Austraand the United States following lifting of the currency restrictions, [r. Hishida, whose company owns cruise liner Oriental Queen, which makes regular calls at Austra- New Zealand, and South Pacific s, said draught and other factors litting, the new liner might call regularly at Suva and Tahiti. He hoped the ship would be in service by the end of 1967.

Mr. Hishida added that the names of Fiji and Tahiti, as well as Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii were becoming increasingly familiar in Japan.

More Echoes Of "Kadavulevu"

DISASTER Official probes into the Kadavulevu disaster, in which nearly 90 people lost their lives in Fiji waters on Easter Sunday, are now over. After a preliminary inquiry by the Fiji Marine Board, the matter went to a formal court, which delivered its findings late in May.

But there will be echoes of the disaster for weeks yet, for on June 8 a Safety at Sea Commission of Inquiry, presided over by Mr. Justice Knox- Mawer of the Fiji Supreme Court, opened its hearing. The inquiry is a direct result of the Kadavukvu foundering.

The court in May, which was presided over by Mr, A. J. Jeddere- Fisher, Senior Magistrate at Lautoka, who was assisted by Captains A. S.

Lewis and S. Smith, as assessors, found that the Kadavulevu was carry- In The News This Month Achille Lauro Adi Keva Angelina Lauro Astrolabe Atea Boussole Cedric Cimba Cythera Daiko Mam Edward Bear Flying Cloud Hamutana John Williams VII Kaburoro Kadavulevu Malaita Matua Mittagong Naomi Neophyte Nuivakai Olga Topic Oranje Otaio Port St. Lawrence Rona Saint Briac Saint Yves d’Armour Sarabande Solo Takohe Tarawera Tarua Tiare Moana Tofua Turagalevu Waiana Weybank White Water Willem Ruys Yashiyo Mam Yonder Taveuni Haven Somosomo, a historic village and centre of administration on the Fijian island of Taveuni, is a calling place for inter-island ships and the seat of high chiefs of Cakaudrove. The building in the centre is the Provincial Office. The craft at anchor are the “Turagalevu” and the “Cagi-maira”. Waiyevo, a Government station and hospital, is located three miles south of Somosomo. —Photo: Rob Wright. 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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POSTAL ADDRESS: CABLE ADDRESS: Box 508, North Sydney. Berrysboat, Sydney. g a greater number of crew and issengers than specified in her sealing certificate, both at the time she Ft Suva on March 26 for Waitoga, airai, in the Lomaiviti Group, and len she left Waitoga on Sunday, arch 29, to return to Suva.

There was evidence that the master the Kadavulevu timed his deparre from Nairai to arrive at Suva in e early hours of March 30 when ere would be no one about to see s overloaded ship.

The Kadavulevu held current sury and seagoing certificates from the ji Marine Board authorising her to rry 22 passengers and seven crew, it without any deck load. The idavulevu was seaworthy on the itward voyage and on the return P- Stating that the cause of the founring could not be definitely ascerined, the court gave four probable asons for the tragedy: • The number of persons carried; • The rough sea and strong wind erating on the beam; • Heavy rolling when the engine )pped just before the capsize; • Top weight caused by the posiin of some of the excess persons, gravated by the ballast having been moved several years previously so at she could carry more cargo.

The court said that police inliries revealed that 76 passengers d nine crew were lost. It was pos- )le that a further two passengers ;re on board, who were also lost.

The court found that the loss of 2 Kadavulevu was contributed to the wrongful acts of the owner, mson Lee, and the master, Filimoni umaki (both of whom perished in b disaster) in that they carried exss persons and deck load, and they : t Suva on the outward trip before b time of clearance.

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The doctor of the New Zealand lipping Company’s vessel Otaio, en ute from London, went ashore to amine Pitcairn Island’s radio offir, Tom Christian, when the ship lied at Pitcairn Island on April 2, )m had been sick for some time.

Eight days later the doctor of the trt St. Lawrence, which was headg for Panama from Sydney, offered examine any of the islanders who eded medical attention.

Several islanders took the oppornity of obtaining checks and advice iring the ship’s two-hour stay. It is the first time the Port St. Lawnce had called at Pitcairn.

That Submarine Volcano

Playing Up Again

Solomon Islanders at Wana Wana Lagoon, New Georgia, have reported seeing three columns of steam rising from the sea south-west of Munda on May 25.

The BSIP Geological Survey Department says this is believed to be the area of the submarine volcano discovered by HMS Cook on the night of December 14, 1963, at latitude 8 deg. 24.9 min. south, and longitude 157; deg. 06 min. east. {PIM, Mar. p. 95.) Nearly three weeks later—on January 3 —this point was the focus of a severe earthquake of magnitude 5.5 and at a depth of about 30 km. The latest reports are the third manifestation of activity at this location, which is about seven miles distant from Munda Airfield and the local headquarters of the Methodist Mission.

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The Fiji inter-island motor ship, Adi Keva, owned by Morris Hedstrom Ltd., is to be scrapped because it was found during a recent annual overhaul that repairs that needed doing would be uneconomical.

The owners are undecided what to do with her, but it is likely that she will be cut up for scrap.

The Adi Keva is the third ship to bear that name for Morris Hedstroms, who bought her at Vila in 1953. The original Adi Keva was built many years ago by the Fiji Shipping Co. at Ucuinasoki, a site on which the Pacific Biscuit Company now stands in Rodwell Road, Suva.

Morris Hedstrom’s built the second Adi Keva at Suva, and that one was destroyed by fire.

The company has no definite plans yet about a replacement and in the meantime is looking for a “temporary replacement overseas”. The company does have a tentative plan to build new ships.

The other ships in the Morris Hedstrom fleet are the Tuvalu, Altair and Tui Cakau. (Over) 99

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The cargo handling facilities at utoka, Fiji, were under heavy ain at the end of May and during i first few days of June.

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Working capital at the close of the financial year amounted to about £103,200.

The report states that by next October the Authority should be able to contribute over £lOO,OOO from its own resources towards the cost of the new deep-water wharf.

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The John Williams VII, the 120ton ship of the London Missionary Society, paid her first visit to Suva on June 1, when she arrived with a missionary who had to go urgently to Sydney.

The ship was launched in London last year by Princess Margaret and is based at Tarawa, GEIC. Her skipper is Captain J. McK. Arnot, who was previously master of the John Williams VI for five years. Captain McK. Arnot plans to retire to live in England about the end of August after 12 years in the Pacific.

The captain, who comes from Manchester, has spent 43 years at sea. He came to the Pacific in 1952 in his own yacht, and was later captain of the Morris Hedstrom ships Altair and Ai Sokula before joining the LMS ship John Williams VI.

He went to London last year to take delivery of the John Williams VII with a crew of eight Gilbert and Ellice Islanders.

The ship now has a crew of 12 including an Icelander, Mr. George Johnsson, who is chief engineer.

Ship'S Last Visit To

Pitcairn For Dutch Line

The passenger ship Willem Ruys, which has been a welcome visitor to Pitcairn Island in recent years, paid her last visit to that island on April 26 for the Lloyd Rotterdam Line.

The Willem Ruys, with her sister ship Oranje, has been sold to the Italian Flotta Lauro Line.

Both ships are to be completely renovated (increasing passenger accommodation and reducing the size of the crew), renamed, and used on the Europe-Australia run.

The Oranje (20,565 tons) will be renamed Achille Lauro and the Willem Ruys (23,112 tons) will sail as the Angelina Lauro.

One vessel will sail to Australia from Europe by way of the Suez Canal and return via Panama, and SOLOMONS REPAIR CENTRE: Tulagi, once the capital and pride of the Solomons, is now the marine maintenance station for the Protectorate. A slipway was completed in 1962, and this now takes Government vessels including the "Coral Princess" and the "Coral Queen". Photo shows "Coral Princess" on the slipway and the "Coral Queen" alongside the jetty. The buildings are workshops.

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tie Japanese fishing vessel Yashiyo u was completely gutted by fire pt in the bow area in late May leaving Pago Pago on a fishing ige. The vessel reached land at lufi, 18 miles east of Apia, about hours after the fire broke out. chief engineer, Motoichi Konno, later admitted to Apia hospital bad burns to the face, arms and le fire broke out, apparently in refrigeration plant, about 200 5 from Pago. It spread so kly that there was no time to send a distress message before abandoning ship.

The crew waited astern of the burning vessel for 18 hours on an inflatable raft, only venturing on board to salvage some food. By then, the fire had died down sufficiently for them to return on board and try to put it out with cans and buckets.

A makeshift sail was lashed to the foremast, and the crew drifted where the elements took them. On reaching the coast of Upolu, four flares were lit which brought the people of Lufilufi to the vessel’s assistance.

The ship, which is virtually a writeoff, is owned by the Nitchiri Company of Japan, and was working for Van Camp of Pago Pago.

Voyage Of "Matua" Cancelled

The Union Steam Ship Co. Ltd., has had to cancel a scheduled voyage of the passenger freighter Matua because the vessel’s refit was more extensive than was expected.

The Matua began her four-yearly survey on May 16 and was scheduled to begin service again on June 23, but as she could not be got ready before July 1, this put her out of timetable for the Islands run.

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Racing Yachts On Pacific Look-See Several yachts which took part in the Whangarei-Noumea yacht race in April called at the New Hebrides and Fiji on their way home in May.

Hamutana arrived in Vila on May 18, Tiare Moana and Naomi arrived there next day, and Edward Bear turned up on May 21.

Those seen in Fiji waters included Atea, Takohe, White Water and Yonder. The owners of all these yachts complained on their arrival at Suva that they had been unable to raise Suva Radio, which maintains a 24-hour listening watch.

Tama, which won the yacht race on handicap, spent several days at Lord Howe Island on the way home.

Cruising Yachts • FLYING CLOUD, 65 ft American staysail schooner, which we last mentioned in these pages after she arrived in Sydney in April, 1963, is now on her way to Portuguese Timor and Indonesia.

Flying Cloud is owned and skippered by Charles Daniels, who has sent us news of his latest wanderings in a note from Thursday Island.

Says Mr. Charles; “From Sydney we went to Brisbane, called into Mackay, then cruised the Barrier Reef where we bumped into Vic.

Meyer and Solo. Then we went on to Townsville, Cairns, Cooktown, Portland Roads and Thursday Island.

“From Brisbane to Cairns the crew was: Mary Pietsch, of Portland, Oregon; Trevor Griffith and Rosemary Ransom, of Auckland; Helen Walters, of Sydney; and Keith Marshall, of Surfers Paradise, who left in Townsville.

“In Cairns, we lost Rosemary and gained another male crew member, 105 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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I SARABANDE, 45 ft converted ster boat, skippered by Charles Trill, was found by HMNZS yalist and towed into Whangarei, , on June 9 after drifting for six s miles off the coast without fuel I with her radio out of action. abande, en route from England, i in Tahiti, Bora Bora and Raroga in May. > NEOPHYTE, 45 ft ketch led and skippered by Lee Quinn, ed from Nukualofa, Tonga, at the of May for New Zealand, nn, who is noted for his partiality all-girl crews, was disappointed : the New Zealand Government ild not allow him to take three igan girls to New Zealand as v. )n leaving Tonga, the only other nber of his crew was Miss bara Stodt, 27, an advertising ywriter for the Chicago Tribune. ee other women crew members, ) sailed with Quinn from Honoi, signed off in Moorea some time ’he three Tongan girls whom nn wished to take to New Zealand Fane Lavulo, 21, Mau Mou, 23, li Maumu also 23. All the girls reported to have obtained their snts’ permission for the voyage, des that of Tonga’s Premier, ice Tungi. But the New Zealand Government refused Quinn permission to bring them to New Zealand even though he offered to put up a bond for each girl and guaranteed that they would be out of New Zealand within two months.

According to the New Zealand Herald, Quinn hoped to reach New Zealand between June 6 and June 10 to meet his wife who was flying from California with her three children. ( Late News: The ketch reached Auckland on June 14.) Quinn’s wife, formerly Mrs.

Bernice Berkson, was a member of his crew when Neophyte left San Francisco for Honolulu in December, 1962. The pair were married in Honolulu last March after Quinn’s first wife, Mary, divorced him in San Jose, California, in February.

Soon after the ceremony, Quinn sailed for Tahiti via Johnson Island, the Marquesas and Tuamotus. He went on to Rarotonga and Nukualofa after touching at Bora Bora.

According to another NZ Press report, Quinn was “ordered to leave” the Cook Islands for attempting to sign on female replacements in Rarotonga for the three girls who left Neophyte in Moorea.

Quinn is reported to have said that a man went aboard Neophyte to conduct a “safety survey” of the Relics of War At Santo Visitors to Santo, New Hebrides, can still find plenty of relics of the Pacific War, such as this overturned landing craft and marine crane on the foreshore. But many of the pieces of equipment that used to litter the beaches have been taken away for scrap. Santo was one of the biggest Allied bases in the Pacific during the war. —Photo: Rob Wright 107 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Quinn added that he intended to ke on the whole Cook Islands rritorial Government” over the itter. • SAINT BRIAC, 39 ft. ketch, led from Tahiti for New Caledonia June 4 after spending a year and days in Tahitian waters. En route New Caledonia, the ketch intended call at Raiatea, Tahaa, Borabora, i, Samoa and the New Hebrides.

Saint Briac, which is registered in nnes, left France in January, 1960, a voyage round the world which expected to take nine years. Bee reaching Tahiti, the ketch spent r ear in the Antilles.

Hie ketch’s crew of four includes ■nadette and Tidier Depret, and tin Courteville, a journalist and itographer who arrived in Tahiti eral months ago in the yacht rope.

I CYTHERA, the 50 ft steelled Sydney yacht, which was very ch in the news last year after ig stolen at Lord Howe Island the beginning of a round-the- Id cruise, will probably he headinto the Pacific again before long. ! yacht belongs to Mr. Peter iton and his wife Pat.

Irs. Fenton told us in a recent s that a court case which is ding over last year’s episode has n set down for the end of this r, he added: “We just hope that we soon sail away once more, back he islands, and see just what we nded to see the first time”. \ ST. YVES D’ARMOUR, 70 Tench yacht, was wrecked on the at Barrier Reef near Pine Island the night of June 4. (Pine nd is about 40 miles off the ensland coast between Rockipton and Mackay). he nine people on board, includthree young childen, were rescued days later after they had spent e and a half days on a raft, a in a dinghy, and a day on a en, uninhabited island, he nine people are Robert Le ec, 36; his wife, Raymonde, 34; r children, Annaich, 7, Gwenole, nd Yves, 2; Robert Gordon, 42, his wife, Joan; Sydney Forrester; Hank de Jong, 21. [r. and Mrs. Gordon, Mr. For- :r and Mr. de Jong are all from ley. They were planning to leave yacht at North Australian ports.

The Le Serrec family was on a cruise around the world which began at Etel, Brittany, in 1960. The two youngest children were born during the voyage—Gwenole at Casablanca, and Yves at Nassau. Both were taken to sea only a few weeks after their birth.

The St. Yves d’Armour visited Suva last November, and arrived in Sydney in January after calling at New Caledonia. She was wrecked while heading for the northern tip 0 f Australia en route to Indonesia, South Africa, the Azores and home, The nine people from the yacht were brought to Bowen in the coastal trading vessel Mittagong.

Mr. Le Serrec told the Press that the yacht began to break up in heavy weather soon after hitting the reef.

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“We had no choice but to try for the mainland in the dinghy. We took our lives in our hands when we all got in. There were only a few inches of freeboard.

“During the trip the children were crying and everything was wet, “We did not know from minute to minute whether the dinghy would sink or stay afloat.

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“Late in the afternoon we saw a ship and fired flares from a Very pistol. The ship saw us and took us off.”

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Mr. Le Serrec got in touch with the French consulate in Sydney and arranged for assistance, as none of his party had any money.

Mr. Le Serrec, said the St. Yves d’Armour, of which he was the owner,’ was worth £12,000. She was not insured.

Coin From Wreck Puzzles Numismatists By Robert Langdon A gold coin, which Vila skin diver Reece Discombe recovered at Vanikoro in December, 1962, from the wreck of La Rerouse's ship “Boussole”, has mystified numismatists in Sydney and London. The “Boussole” and La Perouse's other ship “Astrolabe" were wrecked at Vanikoro after leaving Botany Bay, NSW, in March, 1788.

WHEN recovered from the seabed, the coin was embedded in coral and only a fraction of it—about the size of a fingernail paring—was visible. It is not in good condition.

The coin is about the size of an Australian shilling, and has the head of King Louis XVI (sovereign of France from 1774 to 1793) on one side, and a human figure riding on the back of what is probably a dolphin on the other.

The letters LUD XVI D.G. FR.

ET NAV. REX are discernible on the heads side; but the only letters that can be seen on the reverse are PUBLI.

Spelled out and translated from Latin, the heads side letters stand for: “Louis XVI, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre.”

Sent To British Museum Mr. H. P. Boland, numismatist at Sydney’s Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, was unable to identify the coin from photographs and rubbings of it given to him by PIM, so he referred the matter to an expert at the British Museum, London.

After almost a year’s delay, the British Museum man announced that the coin was not a coin but a jetton “issued during the time of the Revolution, 1789-93, and bearing the legend FELICITAS PUBLICAS”.

He added: “These pieces are very common, and I am wondering whether you (Mr. Boland) are correct in stating that yours is gold, as usually they are made of brass.”

English dictionaries define a jetton as “a counter used in games”, but Mr. Boland says that, in the circumstances described, the best definition is “a small political or commeir tive medalet resembling but nol tended as currency”.

Mr. Boland goes on: “In vie) the fact that La Perouse left Fr on August 1, 1785, for the S Seas, and was last heard of in M; 1788, the dating given by the Bi Museum throws doubt on the that the vessel from which the j( was recovered was in fact from expedition. It must be borne in i that there could have been a wreck at the same spot from w this jetton came.”

Mr. Boland’s reasoning, of co is quite sound; but my view—wit being either a coin expert c metallurgist—is that the Bi Museum’s identification is wrong In the first place, having seen coin myself, I would say there i doubt that it is gold. Thereto] would think that it is something c than the type of jetton known tc British Museum, which seems t< exclusively of brass.

Secondly, La Perouse’s ships the only French ships of the tionary era that are known to disappeared in the Pacific.

But if any other ship of that was lost, it is scarcely credible no word was ever breathed aboi disappearance.

But supposing this had happe it would have been a trillion-tc chance for it to have been wre at Vanikoro.

FOOTNOTE: New relics of the ships Astrolabe and Boussole 1 recently put on display at Cultural Centre in Vila. They 1 recovered at Vanikoro by Reece combe on a recent expedition the French Resident Commissic Mr. M. Delauney.

The relics include cannon i a lons boat. heavy pieces of n for making lead shot, a lengtl metal which was hung from mast as a lightning-conductor, i of copper wire and mountings early scientific instruments navigation.

Heads side of the mysterious coin f at Vanikoro. 110

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Territories TALK-TALK With Tolala When one considers that in Papua and New Guinea there are some 30-odd different sects and denominations of the Christian religion, each one fiat out seeking adherents amongst the native people, it is really surprising that there are not more sectional clashes than there are. |N the mainland of NG in the " mid-thirties, I remember an open ish between two denominations, lich led to a court case. Animosity i so high between the native partiis that arson was resorted to. And it at a time when there were only If-a-dozen sects operating throught NG.

Whether it is that there is greater rmony prevailing amongst the 30d sects these days, or whether the iding has gone underground, it is rd to judge; suffice it to say, certain janisations in the Rabaul area reitly have registered disapproval of ; more or less recently-organised dy in the Territory known as the lovah’s Witnesses, it being deibed as “subversive” and “disloyal” various individual members of the mplaining organisations.

This animosity towards this sect ninds me of the mid-thirties in baul when in the evenings the »rld and his wife attended the Real Theatre Pictures, with Bob Kenly as manager and “Squizzy” atch as monitor.

On certain nights there was one rticular young chap in the audience io would stolidly remain seated die the National Anthem was being lyed. (And that at a time when triotism rated fairly high.) It turned out that he was a Jehovah itness and there were many disraging remarks on his behaviour, t he suffered none of the physical alence with which he was reatened; he was generally ostra- ;ed and as he seemed to like it at way, he was classed as a “bit of ratbag”, and there the matter ded.

Religious Freedom: We must not rget that New Guinea, being a ust Territory, is pledged to allow digious freedom” (Article 76 (c)), d we should also not forget that g word “religion” does not only Per to the Christian group.

What’s going to happen in the future if such faiths as Islamism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any of the other non-Christian “isms” try to get a toe-hold in the Territory? I don’t see that officialdom, under the present Trusteeship, can do a thing about it.

The next thing we’ll be hearing about will be native cults in Manus, Buka and New Hanover (for instance) being registered under the Act as religions. And where will we be then? Probably the Law Department will have an answer.

Old-Time Fanatics

Talking of religion in this year of Grace, 1964, together with the urge for mass hysteria, takes me back to my first year in New Guinea as a lay missionary in the Duke of York Group and the May meetings or waratabaras (Blanche Bay dialect: “act of giving”; tabar —to give, with the prefix wara transforms the verb into a noun), which were held annually for the purpose of allowing the native people to show their appreciation of Lotu (the Christian religion) which was brought to them in 1875 by Dr. George Brown, He was not the first missionary in this part of New Guinea; that distinction belongs to a couple of Roman Catholic Fathers of the Utrecht Mission who established themselves on Rook Island in 1852, stayed for three years and then, owing to native hostility, retired to Geelvink Bay, Dutch New Guinea.

Although the Duke of York Islanders were looked on as the least intelligent of the natives thereabouts, they were, by no means, the least in demonstrating (50 years ago, anyway) the same hysteric qualities which have been shown in religious gatherings in the US Southern States or the more recent emotionalism displayed by teenage fans for their popular songsters. (Over) 111 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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M Tf PACIFIC *RO 1 7 ARROW to m, Fhe general plan, mapped out by ; missionary, was for several yil- ;es to concentrate at a given point hold their feasts and sing-sings and vings”, where a white missionary iuld be present to praise the lount of food gathered, listen to the g-sings and eventually watch each [itributor drop his/her “marks” into ; big enamel wash basin placed on table. Each giver then received a iling ll boina” from the missionary. oina, which really means “good” the Blanche Bay dialect, is also ;d for “thank you”, as there is no jcific term for gratitude in the iguage.) Village Rivalry: Inter-village rivalry, jether with prolonged dancing, lich also means much chewing of tel-nut, also added to the enthusm of the occasion, until some of ; more competive villagers had iched a stage of near-hysteria, and en the missionary, naturally folving a non-alignment policy, was led upon to intervene and restore ace as best he could.

The keener the rivalry between vil- ;ers the greater the enthusiasm of j dances and impulse to exceed ;ir rivals in the amount of donans—a reflex by no means disuraged by the missionary.

I still have vivid recollections of : time I was allotted an area of a zen villages or so in which to carry t this work: the seething mass of ncers, vying with each other for and and action; the energetic chiefs ging on their respective teams and entually the ardour of their giving they dropped their silver coins in j basin.

I was more than happy to have a ilwart Samoan teacher, well exrienced in the game, seated beside j, reassuring me that all was well.

Whether these high-tensed meetings II prevail in these districts, I would not know. With the Winds of Change it may be customary now for the lululai (chief) to sit down in his prefabricated house and write out a cheque for the mission and let it go at that.

If so, I expect there are still a few of the lapoons (old men) who hanker for the days of the waratabaras, the old rivalry, excitement and the satisfaction of having given a few more “marks” than their neighbouring village.

Not the least interesting part of these gatherings for me was the final counting of the thousands of onemark pieces brought back to the mission headquarters in canvas bags from the villages; the rolling of them into “fuses” of 100 marks and, at the same time, separating the English shillings and the old Neu Guinea Compagnie’s bird-of-paradise marks which, even at that early date, were considered curios.

Eventually the total amounts received from the villages were recorded in A Nila ra Dowot (“The Voice of Truth”), the monthly publication of the mission, which it was amongst my various duties, to turn out from the Watnabara Press.

Once Is Enough! | The Resident Commissioner in \he GEIC, Mr. V. J. Andersen, who recently made history by walking the full length of Tabiteuea, the colony’s longest atoll, wys there is little point in anyone repeating the exercise. He says the central part of the atoll, with its innumerable small islets it right angles to the coast and intervening passages, is a very desolate area. Tabiteuea is about 60 miles long, and Mr. Andersen was the first RC to walk it. 113 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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In A Nutshell \RUNKENNESS in Fiji has * decreased greatly as a result of e new liquor laws introduced two lars ago. This is stressed in the port of Fiji’s Central Liquor Board, hich states that in all areas the new ws have led to a decrease in unkenness and an improvement in inking habits.

All Districts agreed on this. The istrict Officer, Ba, reported that the imber of liquor prosecutions in s area was the lowest on record— ily five. In Nadroga, there was me.

The Commissioner, Central ivision, stated that both he and his istrict Officers found that not only id drunkenness declined, but there id been a decrease in the drinking : such noxious home-brews as raisin ck.

The new liquor laws include earlier osing at night, later opening in the orning, and a two-hour break— om 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday ; ternoons. Bars are not open on jndays.

Suggestions made to the Liquor oard included one that the liquor ;rmit system for women should be lolished. The board’s report comicnts: “This is a controversial matter id reports received by the board low that opinion about it is still ivided. In the circumstances, the card considers that it is still too irly to recommend that the permit astern for women should be bolished”. • The bridge over the river at ladi, which was swept away by the larch floods, has been replaced by a )w-level temporary bridge which was pened to traffic on May 27. The ridge is a vital link on the main aad between Fiji’s capital, Suva, and ladi International Airport. • Niue’s first bus arrived on the iland recently. Bought by Arumaki trickland, it was brought ashore on iree lighters tied together, for Niue las no wharf and ships anchor out. .uckily it was a calm day.

It was probably the bulkiest piece f cargo ever to be brought ashore i one piece, and its slow progress rom the ship to the wharf was matched by a large crowd. • Twenty-eight men, women and children died in an earth slide on May 11 near the Maramuni River in the mountainous area of P-NG’s Western Highlands District, according to a report reaching Port Moresby in June.

The slide started at an altitude of 9,000 ft where it was about half a mile wide and it carried everything before it for 3,000 ft to the edge of the Kamapa River, a tributary of the Maramuni River. • The Kassam Pass Road between Lae, NG, and the Rupert Havilland Memorial on the Kassam Pass is expected to be completed by September. • According to Noumea’s conservative bi-weekly Bulletin du Commerce, a reliable source in Paris says that a helicopter force of the Metropolitan Gendarmerie will soon be established in Noumea.

Commenting on this, PlM’s Noumea correspondent says: “New Caledonians are wondering just what this means. They were given a glimpse of the gendarmerie in action during the recent strike when radioequipped trucks of gendarmes circulated in the streets throwing tear gas bombs to break up the crowd. New Caledonia is certainly the most heavily policed island in the Pacific.” • A team headed by Mr. P. M.

Berrill, a senior surveyor from New Zealand’s Department of Lands and Survey, was drilling for underground water on Niue in June. A large volume of fresh water is believed to lie below the surface of the island, which comprises 100 to 150 feet of coral and basalt rock. • Fifteen Tahitian couples were married on the same day in the Protestant Church at Faaa in June.

Old timers say it is at least 25 years since such a spectacle was last seen in Tahiti. • Four new postage stamps featuring P-NG health services will be issued on August 5. • The GEIC Resident Commissioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, has approved art work received from the Crown Agents for a new definitive 115 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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On May 27, a report was receive from Epi of submarine volcan activity which had caused the ten perature of the sea to rise in or area off shore. • Four miles of roads in the Doi Settlement area west of the Bamguin River in P-NG’s Central District ar expected to be completed by Deceit ber. The roads will enable villagei to transport their crops to the coas for shipment. • Norfolk Island passionfru growers were guaranteed 5d a lb fc whole fruit for next season an onwards at a meeting at the Norfol Island Tourist Bureau on June 7, ® About 250 teachers and traine teachers have been recruited this yea from Australia and overseas for th Department of Education in Papua New Guinea.

TO SETTLE ON NORFOLK: Newly-weds and Mrs, J. Parsons, who were ph[?] graphed at the Polynesian Associat clubrooms in Sydney recently, intend settle on Norfolk Island after an exten[?] honeymoon. Mrs. Parsons is a member the numerous Quintal family of Norf Island.— Teel-Photos. 116 JULY > 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Discombe, the French Resident Commissioner, Mr. Maurice Deauney, and several other Frenchnen have established that the object s the hull of a ship turned upside lown, and that it is about 110 feet ong. Some long-time residents of /ila believe the wreck is that of a mall collier which was in service ibout half a century ago and which erved as a barge for SFNH until t sank following a cyclone in 1921. • Papua-New Guinea’s Adminis- ;ration has paid £15,000 to natives in the Marshall Lagoon area, about SO miles south-east of Port Moresby, for timber rights over 56,700 acres 3f native owned land.

This purchase will mean a new industry for the area and employment for many of the local people. • Preliminary figures just released show that some 2,900 tourists visited Lord Howe Island in 1963, staying an average of 14 days. Airlines of New South Wales ran 123 flights to carry these passengers. • A Sydney couple, Reginald Anthony Powditch and his wife Shashi Kanti Powditch, applied for an order in June to adopt Nalnie (Nancy) Kanti Prasad, a five-year-old Indian girl from Fiji, whose parents left her in Australia last November for medical treatment, after their visitors’ visas to Australia expired.

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Two former councillors, Gregory Quintal and William McCoy, are seeking re-election. The other candidates are Ronald Nobbs, Herbert Buffett and Albert Edward (all members of prominent Island families), and Thomas Lloyd, a Norfolk Islander who has recently returned Spending some years in Sydneyc Sur Prise candidate is Mrs. Gwen Stanton, a New Zealander, who has lived on the island for 14 years. If elected, she will be Norfolk’s second woman Councillor. The first was Mrs.

L. C. Donkin, elected in 1960, who served one term but did not seek reelection. • Sir Robert Foster, Britain’s n High Commissioner for the West< Pacific, arrived in Honiara on Ji 16 and was sworn in later that d Sir Robert expects to make his fi official visit to the New Hebri< towards the end of July. • The Governor of New Ca donia, Mr. Marc Biros, the Goverr of French Polynesia, Mr. Ah Grimald, the French Resident Co missioner in the New Hebrides, IS Maurice Delauney, and the Admin trator of Wallis and Futuna, Rambeult, flew to Paris in June attend a conference of France’s ovi seas territories chiefs, presided o'* by France’s Territories Minister, \ Louis Jacquinot.

Also in Paris to see Mr. Jacquin in June were two men concerned wi the staging of the Second South Pa fic Games in Noumea in 1966. Th are Mr. Arnold Daly, a Noum lawyer and New Caledonian Cover ment councillor, and Mr. Roger Ka dour, president of the Territori Committee of Sports in Noumea. • With the inauguration of DC operations by Polynesian Airlint passenger traffic at Apia’s Faleo Airport showed a 100 per cent, i crease for the last quarter of 19( over the same period for 1962. I ward passengers for 1963 were 5,7‘ against 3,671 for 1962, while outwa passengers were 6,091 against 4,16 The Civil Aviation Report for 19( states that it is hoped that the Is Civil Aviation Administration will 1 able to survey the present airpo and any other sites with a view i preparing a development plan.

RESUMING VOYAGE: Seventy-year-ol[?] lone raftsman, William Willis, who lasi year sailed from Callao, Peru, to Westerr Samoa, in 128 days on his raft "Age Unlimited", was due to resume his voyage to Australia towards the end of June.

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Captain Douglas’ successor in the EIC is Captain G. W. Sharp, trmerly Deputy Superintendent of [arine in the BSIP. He will take fer in September. Meanwhile, Capin E. V. Ward is acting as the ElC’s Marine Superintendent. • Dr. Ron Crocombe, who has ien in New Guinea for the past iuple of years as a member of an ustralian National University team idying land tenure, left Port oresby with his wife Marjorie in ay to take up a university teaching pointment in Los Angeles for a ar on a Fulbright Scholarship. The ocombes were to travel by ship far as San Francisco, via Hong Dng, Japan and Honolulu.

Dr. Crocombe, who is a graduate Victoria University, Wellington, cently published a thesis on Land mure in the Cook Islands, which is reviewed in PIM last month. He d his wife hope to call at Raronga in July, 1965, on their way ck to New Guinea, • Mr, Thomas Hill, the American isistant Consul in Fiji, arrived in la towards the end of May on > first visit to the New Hebrides. j later went on to the Solomons d Tahiti. [?] INDIA: Studying leprosy-surgery in [?]dia at present is Mr. Ken Clezy, forerly resident surgeon specialist at abaul's Nonga Base Hospital, who is [?]en here with his wife at his Rabaul rewell party. Mr. Clezy expects to be [?]ck in P-NG by Christmas —but in the Highlands, not Rabaul. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.A.S.A.

HEAD OFFICE; 7 Bridge Street, Box 543, G.P.O.

Sydney.

TELEGRAMS: “BURNSTRUST”, Sydney.

CANBERRA AGENT: Burns Philp Trustee Company (Canberra) Ltd.

Landtrust Building, East Row, Canberra City, A.C.T.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides).

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Executor ® Administrator $ Trustee Attorney • Agent DIRECTORS: James Burns P. T. W. Black Joseph Mitchell Eric Priestley Lee • Australia’s Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, the Federal Minister for Primary Industry, Mr.

C. F. Adermann, and six State Ministers of Agriculture will attend a meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council in Port Moresby on July 20 and 21. After the meeting, the Ministers will fly to Goroka, Lae and Rabaul to study rural development in the Territory.

O Eric Young, a descendent of Bounty midshipman Edward Young arrived at Pitcairn Island in the Corinthic from New Zealand on April 17 for a visit of two months.

Mr. Young has been living in New Zealand for the past 18 years. • The leaders of the Fiji Rugby team which will tour Wales and France in September and October are Ratu Edward Cakobau (Government representative), and Messrs. D.

W. Brown (manager) and P. T.

Raddock (coach). Messrs. Brown and Raddock held similar posts with the 1963 Fiji gold medal Rugby team. Mr. Raddock has coached most Fiji teams since 1951. • The Rev. L. D. Fullerton and his family, left Fiji in the Oriana on June 27 for the United States, where Mr. Fullerton will take up a scholarship. Mr. Fullerton has been in Fiji for 22 years and till recently was chairman of the Fiji-Indian District of the Methodist Church, was closely associated with Ru; in the Colony. ® Two personal items of inte: to residents of Fiji: Miss A] Kennedy has just been married at Matthews Church, Ealing, Lond to Mr. Howard Dudgeon, Katoomba, NSW; and Mr. Kenr Kennedy has announced his engj ment to Miss Lynette Grieve, member of a Mosman, Sydi family. The two young people the children of Mr. and Mrs. F: man Kennedy, of Mosman, Sydi former residents of Fiji; and th fore they are the grandchildren Mr, H. W. Garnett, of Suva. 9 Mr. H. W. Hollis, a £ Guinea coconut plantation mana recently became the first r American to receive the 1 tinguished Service Award of United States Air Force. The aw was made for “unusual hospita and co-operation” to members of Air Force’s Air Weather Serv Mr. Hollis allowed the American! set up a temporary weather stai without payment on his plantation Mussau Island, off New GuineJ • Mr. James Stuart has been po to Papeete as Pan American Airv district traffic and sales manager, director for Tahiti. Mr. Stuart born in Johannesburg, South Afi and is a graduate of McGill I versity, Montreal. ® Mr. James P. Shortall, n officer and well-known Pacific Ish traveller, was in Auckland Sydney in June. He had come fi Far East to take charge of radio on SS Karu, recently sold Union SS Co. Ltd. Captain Bo is taking the Karu to Hong K for delivery to an Asian buyer. • Mr. W. (Ted) Wilkinson, a \ known aero club instructor, Wanganui, New Zealand, left NZ Suva in June to take up an appc ment as captain with Fiji Airways, O Fiji’s Director of Public Wo Mr. John Common, has retired fi the Colonial Service to join the I don staff of the building and gineering firm of Richard Cos Ltd. Mr, Common and his wife h been prominent members of the S Arts Club (he is president this ye and of the Royal Suva Yacht C Mr. Common is also president of Fiji Amateur Boxing Associai after being Chairman for the pr ous two years. 120 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Pacific Commerce and Produce

Copra Is King

In Booming

New Ireland

• But Rubber And Cocoa Get A Go, Too The coconut is king in New ;land. Planters have a faith in conuts probably not seen since ; early German times, and cernly their enthusiasm for copra greater than in any other disct of Papua-New Guinea.

COCONUTS have been New Guinea’s stand-by for years, some districts have neglected m in the new enthusiasm for oa,” says Mr. Jim Grose, a lead- New Ireland planter who now resents the area in the new House Assembly. ‘Coconuts are virtually disease ;, don’t require much in the way factory equipment and can even id neglect. Much more could be le with them.”

Increasing Development 'Jew Ireland is doing much more h them.

'he district already _ produces 25 cent, of the Territory’s copra, in the last few years developit has increased—not only with (anting, but many new plantings ight along the long (160 mile) t coast road. impressive number of plantais are native-owned.

Jew palms in all stages of developit can be seen along mile after e of the road. im Grose’s enthusiasm for the ire of copra apparently rubbed on some members of the World ik survey team who visited the ritory last year, and whose report ■ be available in a month or so.

'he team members had long talks i Mr. Grose, and one section of r report, according to Canberra rces reported in PIM in June (p. , will suggest that much more can done to build up copra produci, instead of neglecting it for new nour crops such as cocoa.

The New Ireland planters are probably luckier than most because the rhinocerous beetle is not yet as troublesome there as in other districts.

And other conditions are excellent.

New Ireland growers are just a little tired of the long neglect of their district on the ground that it is a backwoods outpost with comparatively poor conditions and no future.

They say it never was poor, and its future is almost here.

The few visitors who have seen it since the war have looked at the dying coconut palms within 40 miles of Kavieng, the main centre, and have decided that these represent the district.

Wrong Soil “Coconuts like the soil near the sea,” says Mr. Grose, “and the habit on New Ireland in the past has been to plant them from the sea right back to the property line, on the higher ground, “But the soil as a rule was never right for them on the higher ground —too much clay—and consequently visitors driving down the road have tended to see only the weak or dying palms,”

These days, cocoa or rubber are replacing these old and poor stands, for the local planters certainly don’t make the error of neglecting everything else for their copra. They say there is room for many things.

Jim Grose was the first to bring in rubber. He got the idea from Robin McKay, who has recently sold Aropa plantation, on the east coast of Bougainville, and who successfully grew rubber on Aropa for a number of years.

Jim Grose’s late father, planting pioneer Mr. W. E. Grose (who like his son was a member of the New Guinea legislature) planted some rubber just before the Pacific War, but wasn’t able to see it mature. The idea was neglected until 1961, when Jim put in some Malayan material.

He plans to have about 10,000 trees in the next 18 months.

Only Rubber Mr. Ross Irvine, of Libba plantation, about 80 miles from Kavieng, is concentrating wholly on rubber on his ex-service block. He has 80 acres in and is still going strong.

The rubber replaces old coconut stands.

Mr. Wally Lussick, of Kapsu plantation, is another man who is replacing old coconuts with rubber, although his property is not exclusively rubber.

Rubber takes about six to seven years to mature.

Both Jim Grose and his attractive wife, formerly Diana Stanfield, are Territory-born. Their plantation is Kamiraba, which is one of four plantations of Poliamba Estates, a family company of which Jim Grose is managing partner.

Lakuramau, Poliamba, Lossu and Kamiraba between them produce about 1,000 tons of copra a year and 100 tons of cocoa.

And production of both products is increasing—especially the coconuts!

Tuna Fishing Company To Be Dissolved in Noumea A COMPANY formed in Noumea just over 12 months ago by Taiyo Gyogyo, of Japan, and New Caledonian directors is to be dissolved, according to the Noumea newspaper Bulletin du Commerce.

Operating under the name of Societe I’Ocean, the company had a fleet of tuna boats fishing in New Caledonian waters. The fish were brought into Noumea and stored aboard the refrigerated vessel Eiyo Maru, anchored in a bay of Noumea Harbour. The catch was picked up periodically by Japanese vessels and taken to the United States and Japan.

Bulletin du Commerce says that the company is being dissolved be- AMERICAN VISIT: Mr. Eugene Lau, owner and director of Yet Sing, tyre distributors, in Papeete, Tahiti, has been in the United States recently on a business trip. He is seen here with his sister Miss Emma Lau at the offices of the General Tire International Company, at Akron, Ohio. Miss Lau is currently attending the College of San Mateo for executive secretaries. 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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se high costs have made its operal unprofitable. It adds that the ipany’s closure will mean a loss Noumea of 5 million to 6 million ics a month (£A25,000 to ,000). he company was formed with a ital of 5 million francs (£25,000) owing years of negotiations. >acco Growing Plan The Cook Islands [TEMPTS are to be made to commercialise tobacco growing he Cook Islands. W. D. and H. O.

Is is sending an adviser from New [and, who will train a man to srvise a trial planting of 300 acres joor soil, which previously pro- ;d a peanut crop. Seed is to be from Britain and the experiments concentrate on cigar leaf and tobacco. he experiment is being sponsored the Department of Island Terri- 's. obacco grows wild in the Cook ids and some of it is used for I consumption. fills operate cigarette factories in i Papua-New Guinea and Fiji and v some tobacco in both groups. [. Noel I. Schaefer, 48, was rely appointed the company’s ager in P-NG. He was previously > manager.

G Clears Way Decimal Currency IPUA-NEW Guinea in June cleared the way to adopt the ralian decimal currency system le same time as Australia adopts i 1966. A currency bill was id by the House of Assembly in Moresby. iscussion on the bill gave the unistration the opportunity to say : it has in mind for the future id to draw reaction from elected ibers. le P-NG Treasurer, Mr. New- , said that in preparing the bill Administration had given “serious ideration” to adopting a Terricurrency as distinct from an ralian one. It was “elementary”, said, that “working as we are irds the independence of P-NG, cal currency will be introduced )me time or other”, it a local currencv would mean anking system and a Currency •d, and since P-NG was working n imbalance of trade there would no overseas confidence in the sncy. / adopting the Australian Currency Act, 1963, with some local modifications, the Territory could go ahead immediately in educating the people about what the conversion would mean.

The Government, as in Australia, would meet the cost of converting, or compensating for, machines affected by the changeover.

Mr. Don Barrett (West Gazelle) said it was vital that the education programme should be got moving quickly in the Territory, where so many people still had their money at home instead of in a bank.

There could be a good deal of misunderstanding that could undermine confidence in the currency.

Mr. lan Downs (Highlands) said he did not agree with Mr. Newman about the “inevitability” of the Territory having its own money under a new name. He hoped that the idea wouldn’t be entertained for a long time.

“If you are interested in getting secondary industry established up here, or getting investment, I can think of no better way of frightening people than to suggest that you start some new kind of currency here,” he said.

New Guinea currency might be a kind that nobody wanted. But Australian money was in such widespread use that it was a habit and he hoped the habit would continue.

In reply, Mr. Newman said a big campaign like the election campaign might be introduced to educate the people.

Later, the Administration announced the appointment of a Currency Conversion Commission, whose members are: Mr. B. C. Goodsell (general manager, Burns Philp, NG), chairman; Mr. F. K. Milne (P-NG Treasury), deputy chairman; Mr. M.

I. Phillips (Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney); Mr. A. Pike (chartered accountant, Port Moresby); Mr.

Elliott Elijah (Administration cooperatives inspector, Port Moresby).

With Push, Samoa Breaks Into NZ Taro Market NEW ZEALAND accountant David Ashby is a man who speaks his mind and doesn’t like being pushed around. As a result, Western Samoan taro growers earned £2,800 from 1,664 cases of taro shipped to New Zealand in April and May, and it appears that this new market will take up to 1,000 cases a month at 16/10 or more a case.

Mr. Ashby is a New Zealand Volunteer for Service Abroad (corresponding to the US Peace Corps plan) and is working as advisory accountant to the produce section of the Samoan Agriculture Department.

His plan to break into the NZ taro market almost completely dominated hitherto by Fiji—was born following the floods in Fiji at the end of March.

The Auckland merchants. Turners & Growers, feared a serious shortage of taro after the floods, and cabled Samoa that they could take up to 500 cases a ship. They also asked the Department of Agriculture to stimulate grower interest in taro for the NZ market.

Mr. Ashby, who was looking after the Samoan side of things, responded enthusiastically. Samoan growers responded, too, and 500 cases were shipped as requested. However, while the cases were on the water, Turners & Growers cabled again to say the situation was not as serious as expected and that there was no need now for Samoan growers to worry about the NZ market.

“This was a heck of a situation,” says Mr. Ashby. “Here we were organising production and getting a good response from growers, and then we were expected to tell them: ‘Sorry chaps, a false alarm after all.’ ”

He was determined that Samoan growers would not be let down, and decided that the 5,000 Samoans living in New Zealand should be asked to do something to help their own people back home.

He went ahead shipping taro to Auckland produce merchants, and, at the same time, a circular was mailed to 400 homes of Samoans living in Auckland. The circular said: “Dear Fellow Samoan: Your Mother Country, Western Samoa, is endeavouring to establish a market for Samoan taro in Auckland and eventually throughout New Zealand.

French Territories In Common Market French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna became associates of the European Economic Community on June 1, according to “Le Journal de Tahiti”. The paper says this follows a decision of the Council of Ministers of the “Six”, and that the move marks an important stage in the economic development of the French territories in the Pacific. Several other French territories, elsewhere in the world, also became associates of EEC on June 1. 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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The circular was signed by Prime Minister Mataafa “for the people of Western Samoa”.

The appeal must have worked for the market is growing, and more than 50 growers had participated to the middle of June.

The Department of Agriculture is continuing with trial shipments of other produce and reports that prospects and demand are excellent for papaws and avocados, and especially for vi and coconuts.

Everything From Tonga's Coconuts Will Have A Use WHEN Tonga’s new desiccated coconut factory starts in Pago Pago later this year, something like 30 million coconuts will be shipped there from Tonga annually.

Each coconut will be de-husked before shipment, and the husks will be processed into a hard wallboard at a factory in Nukualofa to be built by the Tonga Copra Board, This will mean that every part of Tonga’s coconuts will be put to some use.

The machinery at the factory will be similar to that used in Japan for making hardboard from wood waste.

Two thicknesses of wallboard will be produced—one-eighth inch and three-sixteenths—besides corrugated roofing, finished with a plastic paint for extra water-proofing.

The board will be suitable for flooring too, using a strip of wallboard, then a strip of corrugation, topped by another strip of wallboard for maximum strength. Off-cu the corrugated wallboard will be as reinforcing for boxes.

The processing of coconut I into wallboard will be a great to building in Tonga, as the C Board expects to produce the board cheaper than it can be ported.

Other projects that the C Board has been interested in some time are a coconut fibre fa and the manufacture of paper strips of banana tree trunk.

At an experimental coconut factory established by the board ployees have been turning out brushes, door mats, rope in va thicknesses, and filling for mattr Another product is matting floors—squares, about 12 in. in are made in various designs and joined together to give any siz quired.

The Copra Board now hopes stall further machinery and go full production.

Interest in “banana paper” fo the dispatch to Japan last Janua a strip of banana tree trunk for cessing, experimentally, into pap This sample recently came ba the form of quite stiff, light b paper. The experts say the c could be lightened if the trunk < be processed sooner after being The Tonga Copra Board Tonga Produce Board will nov cide whether it will be worth establishing a factory in Tong make use of the thousands of be trunks cut and allowed to rot year.

Increased Output By P-t Secondary Industries THE value of output for secoi industries in Papua-New G for 1962-63 was 23 per cent, h than the output for 1961-62, Administration Statistician, Mi L. Walters, announced recently, The value for 1962-63 £13,199,000 or £2,476,000 more in 1961-62, Mr. Walters said.

The gain to the Terril economy from manufacturing £5,622,000 —18.4 per cent, 1961-62.

A total of 331 factories ope throughout the Territory in the financial year. These employed i people, 5,625 of whom were na The main secondary indu were classified as being indu metals and machines, food, drinl tobacco, and sawmills, including wood and joinery. 124 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Samoa; 18/- FIJI; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs,; $U52.25.) 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: Hot-Air Dried, £6l/10/- per ton; FMS, £6O/-/- per ton; Smoke-Dried! £59/-/- per ton.

FIJI: —No Government control—producers sell where they wish. Bulk of copra goes to crushing-mills in Suva.

June 15 prices were: HAD £FS7/17/6 FM £FSS/7/6. ’

WESTERN SAMOA:—Official Copra Board takes all production, sells same and makes payments to producers. It goes mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, and the open market. Local price recently was £56/12/6 Samoan, first grade.

TONGA; Sales are under Government control. Part of production goes to Europe, under arrangement with Unilever controlled by Philippines prices, and part on to open market.

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 June was: Ist grade, £6O/-/-; 2nd grade, £5B/10/-; 3rd grade, £56/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Glzo).

GILBERT AND ELLlCE:—Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Copra Board subsidises the price at: First Grade £6/4/2 per ton, Second Grade £2/2/1 per ton.

NEW HEBRIDES: —Price on June 10 was approximately £A4O/-/- (8,000 Pac. francs), French price at that time was 945 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. Prices for third quarter, July-Sept., 1964, is £NZS9/14/8 Ist grade, £NZSB/9/8 standard grade— both f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

COCOA:—lslands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

July shipment is £ Stg.2lo/-/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

P.-N.G.: Sydney buyers on June 22 reported: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul, export quality £175 per ton, or on wharf Sydney, according to quality; £200; quote No. 2: Best quality, on wharf Syd., £205, in store, N.G. ports, £lBO (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA;—Nominal prices quoted in Sydney, June 18, were: Grade 1, £ Stg.l7s; grade 2, £Stg.l6o, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.; June 22, quality A grade, per lb, 4/- to 4 grade 3/9 to 4/-; C grade, 2/9 t c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices we] ported on May 27 as Kenys £Stg.42o, A £Stg.4lo, B £Stg.4 £Stg.37s; Bugisu AA £Stg.3B £Stg.37B, B £Stg.372, Tanganyik £Stg.3Bo, A £Stg.37B, B £St Uganda Robusta (standard) £Stg.3 PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney reported June 22 —f.0.b., Lae; Kei white Spanish 1/5 lb.; Virginia 1/7 lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is basi Singapore rate, which on June 17 No. 1, RSS, Spot, 67% Straits cen lb (23.49 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp 1 Co., Sydney, reported June 22: Whil yellow label processed, standard 33/3, green label 32/6, c.i.f., Sydn RICE (Aust.): Prices until M 1965—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and d 112 lb bags, £59/10/- per ton.

Vitamised and enriched white, 1 bags, £65/15/- f.o.w. Other Pac. Is Dry, white or brown, etc., £6B/-/quantlty), f.0.w., Sydney or Melbot PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for tralian M.O.P. Shell on June S Sydney independent shell agents Sound £B5O, D £625, E £35( £235 (in store Sydney). Cook Is Penrhyn £NZ42S (approx.), f.0.b., tonga.

TROCHUS.—Sydney buyers on Ju indicated the following quotatloi Islands producers: No. 1. —Pa nominally £9O-£95 per ton, f.0.b., P ports; N.G.— £B5- £9O, c.i.f., Sj 8.5.1. £9O-£95, f.0.b., Honiara. —Papua—£llo per ton; N.G., B £9O per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney 1 quoted on June 22: No. 1; £321 ton, f.0.b., Rabaul; £3OO on y Sydney. No. 2: £3OO (best qu on wharf, Sydney; or £305 f.0.b., I ports.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On June Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in, and first grade quality as follows: P.-I 30/- per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, scale (salt water); large scale water) 18/- per in. 8.5.1. 30/- i scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM; £B2/15/- f.o.b. I port, £95 del. Sydney or Melbourr BECHE-DE-MER; Chang Sing Loon Suva, quote P 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well proi commercial varieties.

ICEP Pty. Ltd., Sydney, are inte: in offers of well prepared edible var SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Suva, offer F4/6 per lb for well-driei of commercial quality. ICEP Pty.

Sydney, quote 6/6 to 8/6 lb., ex Sydney, according to quality.

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Deaths Of Islands People

Eorge Whittaker

DIES AT 60 One of New Guinea’s best-known i respected “old-timers”, Mr. orge Kenneth Whittaker, MBE, 'D, died suddenly in Goroka, stern Highlands, on June 25, at ' early age of 60.

FE gave the Territory distinguished L service as a public official,, dier, member of Legco, leader of ; organised returned servicemen, i in his profession as an optomejt—in fact, few men in a primitive antry could have a finer record.

George Whittaker joined the NG idical service in 1925 and, in the ct 10 years, he led many medical trols into the newly-discovered ghlands, where he was associated times with the explorers Mick and m Leahy and James Taylor.

He began practice as an optometrist 1936; and when the war reached ;w Guinea, he served, as a specialist icer, in many capacities and many ices. He gave equally valuable blic service after 1945, in both pua and New Guinea, but probably s best known in the Lae-Highlands jas.

Mr. Whittaker married Miss sephine Hogan in 1929, and they d one son—Dr. Vivian Whittaker, to has already had a notable career a scientist in New Guinea, Ausilia and United States.

The funeral, at Lae on June 27, is attended by his widow and his q, and a large cross-section of the NG community.

Mr. Albert Roger A well-known Noumean pernality, Mr. Albert Roger, was ried in Noumea Cemetery early in ne following his death in Sydney yeral weeks earlier.

Mr. Roger, who was the doyen of aumea’s taxi drivers, covered about o million miles during a career read over half a century and never ,d an accident. He was 76.

Mr. Roger spent a good deal of his ildhood at Australian schools and oke English perfectly. But he had e keen humour of a Parisian taxi iver, and with his rotund figure and arkling eyes, he looked like one. ! M’s Noumea correspondent says loger” cannot be replaced. An >och ended with him.

Mrs. W. G. Johnson Seldom have warmer tributes of love and esteem been paid to a deceased lady than were heard in Fiji in mid-June, when the death occurred of Mrs. Val Johnson, wife of Mr. W.

Granger Johnson, managing director of W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd. Mrs. Johnson had been in poor health for some time, and was visiting Melbourne when she died suddenly on June 16.

Mrs. Johnson was born in New Zealand, and was employed in secretarial work in Suva in the 1920’s when she met and married “Tui”

Johnson, a member of an oldestablished Fiji family. “Val and Tui” were prominent in the social life of Fiji from then on; and Mrs.

Johnson was active for 40 years in all kinds of charitable work.

They had five children (Grainger, of W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., Rabaul; Miles, a Suva barrister; Mark, a student at Harvard University; Richard, a student in Sydney; and Mary, who last year accompanied her mother on a tour of Europe), all of whom have gained distinction in scholarship.

The funeral service at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, on June 19, was attended by members of the family who had flown from Fiji, and by relatives and friends.

Mr. J. B. Grove Mr. J. B. Grove, well known in Islands merchandising over many years, died at his home in Auckland on May 28. He was 78.

Mr. Grove was born in Canada and moved to Auckland with his family in 1896. It was in that year that the New Zealand business of W. H. Grove and Sons Ltd. was established.

In 1907, when he was 21, Mr. J.

B, Grove joined the family company, and he remained with it all his life.

He became chairman in 1924. As chairman, he directed a long period of successful expansion, in which the company became well and favourably known all over the Central and Eastern Pacific.

Mr. Grove had five children (two sons and three daughters). He has been succeeded in the direction of the business by his eldest son, who joined the company in 1938.

“JB was a fine old gentleman, and we all miss him,” a PIM correspondent in Auckland wrote.

Mr. George Hanson Mr. Henry George Wilmore Hanson, a well-known New Guinea “‘old hand”, passed on on June 3.

A planter, he died at his home at Erina Heights, near Gosford, NSW.

He would have been 70 on June 8.

George Hanson was born and educated in England. He went to Australia as a very young man, and from there his spirit of adventure took him to New Guinea about 1922, when the coconut-planting industry was passing into Australian control.

Thenceforward, he spent his working life on the plantations there— first as a manager and later as an owner.

In the late ’thirties, when he and Mr. Priebe were the joint owners of a plantation at Namatana'i, New Ireland, Mr. Hanson met and married Miss Anna Ballantyne, of Samarai.

When World War II broke out, Mr. Hanson and his wife were in Germany and they spent the war years there as civilian prisoners. They returned to Australia in 1946, after an absence of eight years; Mr.

Hanson then disposed of his New Guinea interests; and he and his wife settled down in the Gosford district of NSW.

Mr. Hanson took a keen interest in international affairs, and his cynical comments on world trends were not always appreciated by his friends. Yet he was a man of most charitable disposition—for example, it was George Hanson who befriended and cared for “Karkar”

Smith in his last years, when that doughty old German pioneer and planter lost his all in World War 11, and was sick and penniless in Sydney.

Mr. Hanson’s health deteriorated steadily in the last three or four years, and he was taken to hospital when he suffered a stroke at the end of May. He leaves a widow.

Mr. A. 0. T. Chamberlin The death occurred in Auckland Hospital on May 4 of Mr. Augustus Of a Talau Chamberlin, eldest son of an early settler in the Tonga Group.

Mr. Chamberlin’s mother was Miss Amy Parker, daughter of one of the Parker brothers who stocked the island of Eua with sheep.

Mr. Terii Frogier Mr. Terii Frogier, head of a wellknown family in Tahiti, died in Papeete in late May at the age of 66. As chief of the building division of the Public Works Department of French Polynesia, Mr. Frogier was responsible for building numerous schools throughout the territory. 131 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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oroka's Colourful Show [?]n Again This Year Although upwards of 60,000 natives are expected um out for this year’s Goroka Show (August 29-30), lay not be quite the Biggest Show of Earth. But it will ainly be amongst the highest in the South Pacific.

IROKA, in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, is at a sant 5,200 feet, or just on a high. oroka, which inaugurated Highs shows, has been in retirement the last couple of years, and Mt. sn has done the Show honours. of Goroka’s difficulty was loss i showground; but for months , native volunteers—2,ooo of i have turned up each Sunday— : helped hew out a new 27-acre and sow it to grass. By Show 2, everything will be in readiness, s usual, the accent at the Show be on the natives. The “talk” has idy gone all over the Highlands right down to the coast and, re groups have been practising ■ dances for months. Some of people who will attend will walk a week or more to get to Goroka once there will melt into the scape. o particular measures are taken iccommodate these thousands of fie although food is a different more important matter. It is ulated that 500 tons of kau-kau jet potato), will be needed to them over the two days—that ' lb per head per day.

New features at the Show this year will include a model native village, occupied under as normal living conditions as possible; a conch shell band from the Morobe District; a zoo; a museum; an artificial lake; an archery competition; and a display showing how native weapons are made.

No doubt the celebrated “mud men” will again do their stuff and there will be the almost non-stop sing-sings provided by various groups—thousands of near-naked brown bodies, arrayed in kapul- fur neckpieces, shells, and flaming orange Bird of Paradise plumes, or blue, white and red feathered headdresses.

Although these people are less than a generation removed from savagery, and although the gathering consists of hundreds of different tribes who only a few years ago were in a state of perpetual tribal war with one another, there never have been any incidents at these Shows. They are the biggest spectacle that New Guinea puts on, providing a seething kaleidoscope of colour that tempts visitors to shoot off literally miles of colour-film.

There probably is nothing quite like the Goroka or Hagen Shows anywhere else on earth and they are given extra piquancy by the very fact that, in their freshness and spontaneity, anyway, their days are numbered by the march of civilisation.

Chartered planes from all over Papua-New Guinea will fly local Europeans to the Highlands for the Show and considerable numbers of overseas visitors are expected to be there.

Even so, it is expected that no more than 1,500 privileged beings will see the two-day spectacle, and even this number will strain accommodation to the limit.

Goroka’s two hotels haven’t a hope of coping with this number of visitors —nor have all the hotels in the Highlands put together. However, some people will be accommodated privately and others will be encouraged to make a camping/picn'ic of it.

Local natives have been hard at work making palliasses, and all visitors can be sure of a welcome, food and somewhere to lay their heads.

Few overseas visitors will be

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The Fiji Government has announced at new airstrips will be built on the ands of Kadavu, Lakeba and Vanuailavu. An airstrip, is already being jilt on Ovalau, near Fiji's old ipital, Levuka. Fiji Airways can start scheduled service to Ovalau as •on as the strip is ready.

The improvement of local air serces is expected to bring great ronomic benefits.

Britain has provided £F9,000 to ards the cost of the airstrip proramme.

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iered just going to the Highlands the two-day Show —they’ll want ee the rest of the place and may i be adventurous enough to try ifari-type holiday by engaging a er and a vehicle at Lae and elling right up the 380-odd miles runk road from the coast to Mt. en. [ the last couple of years, Mt. en town has had the same sort jhenomenal growth that Goroka irienced in the middle to late )’s, and in the years ahead, Mt. en and Goroka will probably fight ut to see which is going to be main Highlands town, here are hotels or motel-type immodation right along the trunk I now—at Kainantu, Goroka, idiawa, Minj and Mt. Hagen, One the latest is at Kundiawa, the sloping Sub-District headquarters the Chimbu Sub-District of :ern Highlands. hlands Half-Way House highlands visitors for the Goroka w ought to make a special note the Kundiawa Hotel. For anyy wanting to drive between the main Highlands centres of oka and Mt. Hagen, the hotel is ilf-way house for weary travellers. 63 miles from Goroka and 90 ;s from Hagen, and the only ;1 en route.

Iwner is Mr. Dick Kelaart, and lager is Mr. Dennis Rooke, who i his wife Muriel and three dren came to Australia, and ice to Kundiawa, from Birmingi, UK.

'hey like it there, and they make rists feel at home.

Lundiawa is the main centre of populous Chimbu area of the ;hlands population about i,OOO. There is plenty of life in raw for avid colour photophers, and the Rookes report that re and more Americans are cornthrough the area.

Dne night recently at their dinner le they found themselves sitting vn with Americans, Germans, tchmen, Englishmen, Australians 1 Papuans.

Ihe Kundiawa Hotel started life iut three years ago as a licensed jsthouse, and opened as a full hotel iut nine months ago. It does not a roaring bar trade—unlike the istal areas of the Territory—beise the Highlanders have not )wn the same inclination to take strong liquor.

You won’t find 24-hour room vice and air-conditioning at the tel, but in that place and in that climate the traveller requires neither.

He will, however, be comfortable.

There is accommodation for 15, and daily tariff is £4/5/- a day inclusive.

Health Hints For SW Pacific Travellers Travellers to the Pacific malarial areas of New Guinea, the British Solomons and the New Hebrides frequently wonder what precautions they should take against attacks.

The best advice, good for all areas, is given in leaflets put aboard TAA and Ansett-ANA aircraft on the Australia-New Guinea run. The leaflets say:

On Going To New Guinea

• New Guinea is a highly malarious country. A few of the large towns and parts of the Highlands are free from malaria but it is best to regard the whole country as malarious for the time being. • You can best protect yourself against attacks by taking one or other of the following drugs all the time you are in New Guinea: Amodiaquin ( Camoquin ) or Chloroquine ( Aralen, Avlochlor, Nivaquine): Two tablets on the same day every week. Or — Proguanil ( Paludrine ): One tablet every day. • These drugs will keep you completely free from malaria but whichever one you select must be taken regularly to be effective. • The use of a mosquito net, protective clothing (long sleeves and long trousers) at night, knockdown sprays in mosquito-proofed houses, and the avoidance of native villages at night, will reduce the incidence of subsequent malaria on returning from New Guinea.

On Leaving New Guinea

• You should keep on taking your anti-malaria drug for one month after leaving New Guinea. • It is possible you may suffer from an attack of malaria a few months after your return but the serious malignant malaria will not occur if you follow this advice (Headaches, shivers, fever, aches and pains are early symptoms of malaria). • Consult your physician if you think you are developing malaria.

Relapsing malaria can now be cured —your doctor will know about this.

These are some of New Guinea's Mud Men, who may be seen at the Goroka Show again this year. They cover their bodies with clay and wear masks of mud, baked hard in the sun —grotesque affairs with artificial teeth. The Mud Man in the front of the picture is also decorated with three lemons. The Mud Men put on this weird garb to represent spirits. 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

Shipping Timetables

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 sailings; July 8, 29 (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 July 20 (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 July (approx.).

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St..

Sydney (8U4147).

Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides-Fr. Polynesia Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete (with occasional calls at Talohoe, Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Next Inwards voyages. ex-Marseilles: Caledonlen: Papeete July 11-14, Vila July 21-22, Noumea July 23-26, arr.

Sydney July 29.

Oceanien: Talohae Aug. 14, Papeete Aug. 16-19, Vila Aug. 26-27, Noumea Aug. 28-31, arr. Sydney Sept. 3.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney; Caledonien: Dep. Sydney Aug. 1, Noumea Aug. 4-7, New Hebrides Aug. 8-16, Noumea Aug. 17, Papeete Aug. 23-27, Taiohae Aug. 30.

Oceanien; Dep. Sydney Sept. 6. Noumea Sept. 9-12, New Hebrides Sept. 13-21, Noumea Sept. 22, Papeete Sept. 28-Oct. 2.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila, Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo!

Next Sydney sailings: July 17, Aug. 7.

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 Sept. 9-11, Wellington Sept. 14-16, Auckland Sept. 18, Tahiti Sept. 23-24, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Oct. 21.

Southern Cross: From Southampton (UK) via South Africa at Sydney Oct. 14- 16, Wellington Oct. 19-21, Auckland Oct. 23, Fiji Oct. 26, Tahiti Oct. 30-31, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Nov. 25.

Details from Shaw Savlll Line 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (BW 1828).

Sydney-Norfolk Is.

New Caledonia Colorado del Mar and Milos del Mar (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea) carrying cargo only, make a regular three weekly voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Caledonia (Noumea).

Next sailings: Colorado del Mar from Sydney July 8, 27 (approx.).

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311).

Sydney-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides-BSI-Bougainville MV Tulagi leaves Sydney about every six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Santo.

Honiara and BSI ports, Bougainville ports.

Next Sydney sailing: Aug. 20.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Sydney-Papua-New Guinea Malekula sails from Sydney for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, Wewak, Rabaul, Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: July 25 (approx.).

Malaita sails from Sydney for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Lombrum.

Lorengau, Madang, Lae, Samarai.

Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: Aug. 11 (approx.).

Bulolo sails about every six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Sam Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Samarai, Moresby, Brisbane. Sydney. Next Sy sailing: July 28 (approx.).

Montoro sails from Melbourne Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Sara Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sal Sept. 5 (approx.).

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Soochow and Shansi leave Sydney a every four weeks for Brisbane, Moresby, Samarai, Sydney.

Next Sydney sailings: Soochow Juh Shansi Aug. 3.

Details from New Guinea Australia (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents Spring Street, Sydney (BU4701).

Slltan: Leaves Sydney approximi every five weeks for Brisbane, Pt. Mon Lae, Madang, Wewak, Sydney.

Sydney sailing: July 24 (approx.).

Sletta: Leaves Sydney approxlms every five weeks for Brisbane, Ral Wewak. Madang. Lae. Svdney. ] Sydney sailing; July 10 (approx.).

Details from Karlander NG Line H. Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Br Street, Sydney (BU8311).

Austasia Line’s vessel Makati runs tween Australian ports (turn round Melbourne) and Papua-New Guinea.

Makati: Dep. Melbourne Aug. 24, Sy< Sept. 1, Brisbane Sept. 4, Pt. Mor Sept. 8, Lae Sept. 12, Madang Sept.

Rabaul Sept. 16.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) 1 Ltd., 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 12 Sydney - P-NG - Far East Australia-West Pacific Line’s Mo vessels maintain services between 1 tralia and Hong Kong via Islands pt Southbound vessels call at: NG, (quarterly). New Hebrides (irregulai and Australian ports. Northbound ves from Sydney call regularly at NZ pc Aros: From Adelaide and Melbou dep. Sydney July 10, arr. Brisbane . 12-13, Rabaul July 17-19, Lae July 20 Madang July 22-23, Hong Kong Aug, (dry dock), dep. Hong Kong Aug. 4.

Samos: From Hong Kong and Man arr. Rabaul July 26-27, Madang July 29, Lae July 30-31, Brisbane Aug.

Sydney Aug. 7-11, thence Adelaide Melbourne.

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Ager 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU6301).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vesi Anking and Anshun call at Rabaul, PIM's shipping and airway schedules are up to the minute. They are revised each month just before publication from information suppliec by the shipping and airways com panics. 136 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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SANTO: South Pacific Fishing Co, (N.H.) Pty. Ltd.

VILA: Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

HONIARA: British Solomons Trading Corp. way north from Sydney to Hong Next vessel: ihun: Dep. Sydney July 25 for me July 27-28, Rabaul Aug. 2-3, e to Manila and Hong Kong, ails from Swire and Yulll Pty. Ltd., 5. 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU 4701). ainlon Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) s maintain monthly service between y and Japan (via Manila, Hong and Keelung), return via Guam labaul. rge Anson; Dep. Sydney July 11, Brisbane July 13, Manila July 25, Kong July 28, Japan Aug. 6, Guam 17, Rabaul Aug. 22, Sydney Aug. ncis Drake: Dep. Sydney Aug. 10, Brisbane Aug. 14-15, Manila Aug. 26tong Kong Aug. 29-Sept. 1, Japan 7-14, Guam Sept. 18-19, Rabaul 23-24, arr. Sydney Sept. 30. alls from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253). ope-Tahiti-New Caledonia BSI-P-NG-West NG regular service from the Continent UK, via Panama, to Tahiti, New onla, BSI, P-NG and West NG is ted Jointly by Nederland Line Royal , Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd. aosobo (RL): From Continent and in, arr. Papeete Aug. 17, Noumea 26, Tarawa Sept. 2, Honiara Sept. , Moresby Sept. 8, Rabaul Sept. 11, Sept. 13, Madang Sept. 15, Alexis- Sept. 16, Wewak Sept. 17, Sukarno- Sept. 18, Biak, Manokwari, Sorong. ails from Royal Interocean Lines, Jeorge St., Sydney (2-0573). ope-Tahiti-New Hebrideslew Caledonia-Austraiia isageries Maritlmes cargo vessels run ily between France and Noumea via Africa and Australia. From Sydney, s go to Brisbane and Noumea; reto France via Australian coastal :t sailings from Sydney: Velay July Noumea Aug. 2); Ventoux Aug. 24 nea Aug. 30.). ler MM vessels run between Prance Sydney, via Panama Canal and c ports. :t vessel: Iraquaddy (Papeete July 12, July 24, Santo July 26, Noumea July ustralia Aug. 5). ails from Messagerles Maritlmes, rosvenor St., Sydney (8U2645).

Far East-Fiji-NZ-Sydney ral Interocean Lines operate a service Singapore to FIJI. NZ, and Aus- , with three vessels (Van Cloon, Noort and Van Neck) calling Jlcally at Suva and/or Lautoka. i Noort calls at Lautoka July 26, July 28; Van Neck at Lautoka Aug. uva Aug. 25; Van Cloon at Lautoka 4, Suva Oct. 6. alls from Royal Interocean Lines, leorge St., Sydney (2-0573). 137 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

The "Pacific's Most Modern Cargo Fleet..

Consign refrigerated and general cargo Crusader, for fast, efficient delivery to leadi Pacific Ports. * Regular services connect

New Zealand, Pacific Islands, New Guini

JAPAN, SINGAPORE. MALAYA. INDONESIA, HONG KONG, MANILA.

Shipping Co. Ltd

* Apply to Managing Agents SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD. r j Branches and Agents throughout the Pacific □ n *lBB3BB SARACEH • PIM's 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 July 11, Madang July 15, Lae July 19, Samarai July 23, Pt. Moresby July 31, Santo Aug. 4, Vila Aug. 7, Suva/Lautoka Aug. 10, Noumea Aug. 16, thence to Japan, arr. Sept. 5.

Herbjom: From Japan and Hong Kong due Wewak Aug. 19, Madang Aug. 22, Lae Aug. 26, Rabaul Aug. 30, Pt. Moresby Sept. 9, Suva/Lautoka Sept. 14, Noumea Sept. 21, retiring from the service when she reaches Japan, Oct. 14.

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, Kota Baru (opt.), Apia, Pago Pago, Nukualofa (opt.), Suva, Levuka.

Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo, Honiara, thence returning to Japan.

Current voyage; Fiji Maru dep. Japan July 3.

New Zealand-Cook Is.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes approximately monthly voyages from Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Cook Islands), with calls at Niue and some other Cook Islands when cargo warrants Details from NZ Department of Island Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117) or any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

NZ-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: Aug 4 Sept. 1.

Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, and return to Auckland.

Next Auckland sailings: July 22, Aug. 18.

Details from Union Steam Ship" Co. of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland. (Tel.: 49-430).

NZ-New Caledonia ■ P-NG- Far East Crusader Shipping Co.’s cargo vessels running between NZ and the Far East, call at New Caledonia and Papua, and, in some instances, Guam. Next voyages: Port Montreal: Dep. Auckland Aug. 21, arr. Guam Aug. 30, thence to Japan.

Crusader: Dep. Auckland Aug. 28, for Noumea Aug. 31, Pt. Moresby Sept. 4, thence Singapore, Pt. Swettenham, Manila and Hong Kong.

Details from Shaw, Savill Line, agents. 101 Queen St., Auckland. (Tel.: 30-310).

New Zealand-Tahiti New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. ve operating between NZ and UK, Panama, make a call every two m at Tahiti, northbound and southbou Next northbound voyage; Rang dep. Wellington Aug. 22, due Pa Aug. 28.

Next southbound voyage: Rer from London, due Papeete Aug. 4, Details from NZ Shipping Co.

Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

Tonga-Fiji-Samoa Tonga Shipping Agency operato cargo and passenger service bet Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lau Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. are also made as required at Apia Samoa) and Pago Pago (Am. Sai Turn-round in Suva is usually two and the Agents there are W. R. Caro (Fiji) Ltd.

UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji The Fiji Direct Service is mainti by Conference vessels, sailing at re monthly intervals out of London, Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lau Bethell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as I Ing Brokers in London.

Next sailings: ex-London: July Aug. 13.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI Bank Line operates a direct service Europe to P-NG and BSI, vessels g 138 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

kk kj IBERIA ARCADIA ORSOVA ARCADIA KEY KLAND a depart arr/dep arr/dep Aug. 24 thence Manllat Sept. 14 Sept. 17 Sept. 20* Nov. 16 Nov. 19 Nov. 22 Jan.

Jan.

Jan. 2 5 8 13 OLULU COUVER FRANCISCO arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep Sept. 16 Sept. 22 Sept. 24-25 Sept. 26 Oct. 1-2 Oct. 4-5 Nov. 27 Dec. 2-3 Dec. 5-7 Jan.

Jan. 18-19 21-22 23 ANGELES OLULU A KLAND NEY arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep arrive Sept. 26 Oct. 1 tt Oct. 28 Oct. 6 thence via West Indies to UK Dec. 8 Dec. 13 Dec. 20 Dec. 23 Dec. 26 Jan.

Feb.

Feb.

Feb. 28 4 7 10 • Thence to Pago Pago, arr.

Sept. 21. t Hong Kong and Japan. tt Thence Japan, Hong Kong and Manna. ils from P. and O.-Orient Lines of Aust.

Pty., Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317) MONTEREY MARIPOSA MONTEREY MARIPOSA FRANCISCO depart June 21 July 12 Aug. 6 Aug. 30 Aug. 31 ANGELES arr/dep June 22 July 13 Aug. 7 Sept. 8 Sept. 9-11 Sept. 12 Sept. 17-18 Sept. 21-24 Sept. 27 Sept. 29 A BORA EETE arr/dep arr/dep June July 30 1-3 July 21 July 22-24 Aug.

Aug. 15 16-18 OTONGA KLAND NEY arr/dep arr/dep arr/dep July July July 4 9-10 13-16 July 25 July 30-31 Aug. 3-6 Aug.

Aug.

Aug. 19 24-25 28-31 MEA arr/dep July 19 Aug. 9 Sept. 3 A arr/dep July 21 Aug. 11 Sept. 5 AFOOU arr/dep July 22 Aug. 12 Sept. 6 Sept. 30 O PAGO arr/dep July 22 Aug. 12 Sept. 6 Sept. 30 OLULU arr/dep July 27-28 Aug. 17-18 Sept. 11-12 Oct. 3-6 FRANCISCO arrive Aug. 2 Aug. 23 Sept. 17 Oct. 11 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 USA-Eastern Pacific-NZ-Sydney-Central Pacific-Hawaii to Australia for cargo-loading and rning to UK via Suez. Next vessels; eetbank: From Continent and London, Pt. Moresby July 24, Samarai July Lae July 29, Madang Aug. 1, Wewak 4, Kavieng Aug. 7, Rabaul Aug. 8, iara Aug. 13. nebank: From Continent and London, Pt. Moresby Aug. 21, Samarai Aug. 24, Aug. 25, Madang Aug. 28, Wewak 30, Rabaul Sept. 1, Honiara Sept. 5. ■tails from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty. 269 George St., Sydney (BU 2041).

ISA-Tahiti-Am. Samoa-Fiji- Australia atson-Oceanic Line operates a flve- :s passenger-cargo service from Los ;les with the Sonoma, Sierra and ;ura. Terminal ports, in Australia, with cargoes offering. Vessels call Papeete, Pago Pago, Suva, Sydney, bane, etc. >xt trans-Pacific sailings: From Bris- !, Ventura Aug. 4 (approx.); Sonoma . 11 (approx.); Sierra Oct. 10 (ap- :.). ‘tails from Matson Lines, 82 Elizabeth Sydney (8U4272).

USA-Tahiti-Australia nerican Pioneer Line ships on US ntic Coast-Panama-Sydney service e periodical calls at Tahiti on southid voyage. Next Papeete calls; ieer Gem July 9; Pioneer Star Aug. 6.

“tails from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency, Jridge St., Sydney (BU6301).

USA-Tahiti-Samoa-Fiji- New Caledonia iciflc Islands Transport Line’s vessels rsisle and Thor I maintain approxely six weeks service from West Coast . American ports to Pacific Islands.

Thor I; Dep. San Francisco June 24, Los Angeles June 27, arr. Papeete July 7- Pago Pago July 13-15, Apia July 16-17, Suva July 20-21, Lautoka July 22-23, Noumea July 25-28, Santo July 31-Aug. 1, Apia (open), Pago Pago Aug. 8- due Los Angeles Aug. 23, San Francisco Aug. 26.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco Aug. 7, Los Angeles Aug. 11, arr. Papeete Aug. 22-24, Pago Pago Aug. 28-30, Apia Aug. 31-Sept. 1, Suva Sept. 4-5, Lautoka Sept. 6-7, Noumea Sept. 9-10, Apia (open), Pago Pago Sept. 14-15, due Los Angeles Sept. 29, San Francisco Oct. 1.

Details from General Steamship Corporation Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francisco, USA and Islands Agents.

Airways Timetables

Trans Pacific Services

Sydney-Brisbane-Honolulo- Nth. America By Qantas Empire Airways, with Boeing 707 V-Jets NORTHBOUND Weekly from Sydney, dep. 5 p.m. every Sat., art. Brisbane 6.15 p.m., dep.

Brisbane 7 p.m., arr. Honolulu 7.30 a.m. Sat. Dep. 9 a.m., arr. San Francisco 4.40 p.m.

SOUTHBOUND Weekly from San Francisco, dep. 8 p.m. every Sat., arr. Honolulu 9.50 p.m., dep. 11.59 p.m. Sat, Arr. Brisbane 5 a.m. Mon., dep. Brisbane 5.45 a.m., arr. Sydney 7.05 a.m.

Sydney-Fiji-Hawaii-USA

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 V-Jets) NORTHBOUND Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.40 a.m.. dep. 1.25 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco.

Mon., Wed. and Sat.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.40 a.m.. dep. 1.25 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York.

Pri.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.40 a.m., dep. 1.25 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco (extends to Vancouver alternate weeks; from Sydney, July 17, 31, Aug. 14, 28, Sept. 11, 25, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND Mon., Wed. and Pri.; New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 3.25 a.m., Wed., Frl.. Sun., dep. 4.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 6.30 a.m.) Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 3.25 a.m., Thurs., Sat., Tues., dep. 4.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 6.30 a.m.).

Sat.; San Francisco (service begins from 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

Vancouver alternate Sats. (July 18 Aug. 1, 15, 29, Sept. 12, 26, etc.) Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 6.55 p.m., Sun., dep. 7.45 p.m.), Sydney (arr. 10 p.m.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.)

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet) NORTHBOUND Alt. Sat. (July 11, 25, Aug. 8, 22, Sept. 5, 19, etc.); Dep. Sydney ll a.m. by Britannia for Auckland (arr. 4 50 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 DC8) Vancouver, Amsterdam (arr. Mon. 2 25 p.m.i SOUTHBOUND Weekly from Amsterdam, dep. 2 cm every Sat. by DCS for Vancouver Honolulu (arr. Sun. 10.35 p.m., dep Tue«? 7 P on' by Brltannla >- Nadi if V. T f. 7 20 am - de P- 8.05 a.m.i Auckland .arr 12 15 p.m.i.

Alt 8 T 99 S ' ( f JU ! y i 4, 28, Aug - U > 25 > Sept.

Dep- Aucklan d 1.05 p.m. for Sydney (arr. Tues. 3.35 p.m ) Nad. ? Solu°"“' Date ‘ me Cr ° SSed between Sydney-Fiji (or Am. Samoa) Hawaii-USA

By Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers) NORTHBOUND Sat ;v JF hurs - : De P- Sydney 7 p.m. for Nadi (arr. 12.45 a.m., dep. 1.30 a.m.) ? h °Srt 1U 7.i a o n U° S Ange ‘“- arr - S *‘- Mon.: Dep. Sydney 7 p.m. for Pago Pago (arr. 2.55 a.m., dep. 3.40 a.m 6 ) Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr. 7 io p.m.).

SOUTHBOUND Tues.. Thurs : Dep. Los Angeles 9.45 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.15 a.m.

Thurs., Sat., dep. 6.15 a.m.), and <5of® yd £ ey ( r rr ‘ Thurs - Sat. 8.35 a.m.).

Sat.. Dep. Los Angeles 9.45 p.m. for Honolulu, Pago Pago (arr. 5.10 a.m., dep. 5 55 a.m.), and Sydney (arr. 8.55 a.m. Mon.).

M Q ( i < n « rna , tl ? nal Datelln e crossed between Nadl-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.)

Australia-New Zealand

Auckland-Brisbane QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. IF* Sat.: Dep. Auckland 11 a.m., arr. Brisbane 1.20 p.m.

Sun : Dep. Brisbane 1 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.55 p.m.

Auckland-Melbourne QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. II’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.

Christchurch-Melbourne QANTAS-TEAL. with Electra Mk. II’* Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 9 a.m arr Melbourne 11.40 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Christchurch 7 p.m., arr Melbourne 9.40 p.m.

Wed., Sun.; Dep. Melbourne 12.30 pm arr, Christchurch 6.40 p.m. ’

Sydney-Auckland QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. II’s.

Daily Dep Auckland 9 a.m., arr. Sydney 11.05 a.m.

Da >i' Sydney l p.m.. arr. Auckland 6.45 p.m.

Sun : Dep. Auckland 10 p.m., arr. Sydney 12.05 p.m. *Mon. Fri.; Dep. Auckland 8 p.m., arr.

Sydney 10.05 p.m. tMon., Wed., tfSat.: Dep. Sydney 12.30 a.m., arr. Auckland 6.15 a.m * Operates Mon., July 20, only, t No service on July 13, 20. tt No service, Sat., July 25.

BOAC. with Comet IV’s.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr Sydney 10 a.m.

Mon., Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 9.45 a.m arr. Auckland 2.45 p.m.

Sydney-Christchorch QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. IF* Tues Thurs., Fri.. Sat.: Dep. Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. Christchurch 6 p.m.

Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 7.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 9.35 p.m.

Sydney-Wellington QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. II'* Dai^: „. Dan - Svdney 9.30 a.m., arr.

Wellington 3.25 p.m.

Dally: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m. arr Sydney 6.50 p.m.

Wellington-Brlsbane TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sun.: Dep. Wellington 9.15 a.m., arr Brisbane 12.05 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Brisbane 2.15 p.m., arr Wellington 8.35 p.m.

Wellington-Melbourne TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sat.: Dep. Wellington 8.45 a.m., arr Melbourne 11.45 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr Wellington 7 p.m.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Airlines of N.S.W Sandringham Flyingboats).

Return 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-New Caledonia QANTAS —UTA with Electra Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 10.10 a.m. for Noumea (arr. 2.40 p.m.), dep. 4.10 p.m. for Sydney, arr. 7 p.m.

Sydney-Norfolk Is.

QANTAS, with Skymaster DC4 Aircraft Fri.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NT 2.45 p.m. Flight extends NT-Auckland-NI (See “Inter-Territory Services”).

Sun.: Dep. NI 2.45 p.m., Sydney arr. 6.45 p.m. • PlM's airways schedules are ai alphabetically from point of de under five main headings: Pacific Services, Australia-Ne\ land, Australia-Pacific Islands, Territory Services and Intern vices.

Sydney-Papua-New Guit Trans Australia Airlines and Anse operate from Sydney to Lae and with DC6B’s. TAA runs the Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays Saturdays: Ansett-ANA Sundays, days, Thursdays and Fridays.

NORTHBOUND TAA: Mon., Wed., Sat. dep. Sydne p.m., arr. Brisbane 11.50 p.m.

Brisbane 12.40 a.m. next day, a Moresby 6.10 a.m., dep. Ft. K 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Sydney 9.30 p.m Brisbane 11.35 p.m., dep. Bi 12.25 p.m. Sat., arr. Ft. Mon a.m., dep. Ft. Moresby 6.45 a.m Lae 7.45 a.m.

Ansett-ANA: Sun., Tues., Thurs. dep. Sydney 9.45 p.m., arr. Bi 11.45 p.m., dep. Brisbane 12.4( next day, arr. Ft. Moresby 6.10 dep. Ft. Moresby 7 a.m., an 8 a.m.

SOUTHBOUND Ansett-ANA; Dep. Lae Wed., Fri., Sun., 9.15 a.m., arr. Ft. Moresby a.m.. dep. Ft. Moresby 11 a.m, Brisbane 4.10 p.m., dep. Brlsban p.m., arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

TAA: Tues., Thurs., Sun. dep Lae a.m., arr. Ft. Moresby 10.15 a.m.

Pt. Moresby 11 a.m., arr. Br 4.15 p.m., dep. Brisbane 4.50 arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., ar Moresby 10.30 a.m., dep. Ft. M( 11.15 a.m., arr. Brisbane 4.30 dep. Brisbane 5.05 p.m., arr. S 7.10 p.m.

Qid.-Papua-New Guinea TAA, with Fokker Friendship Pn Alt. Mon.: Dep. Townsville 1.50 Cairns, arr. 2.45 p.m., dep. 3.50 arr. Pt. Moresby 6.10 p.m. (Jul Aug. 3, 17, 31, Sept. 14, 28, et Alt. Wed.: Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m., Moresby arr. 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.15 Cairns arr. 4.35 n m., dep 5 35 arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (July i Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Cairns

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Pro Alt. Sat.; Dep. Cairns 3.35 n.m., an Moresby 5.55 p.m. (July 11, 25, Ai 22, Sept. 5, 19, etc.).

Alt. Sun, Dep Pt Moresby 9.05 arr. Cairns 11.25 a.m. (July 12 Aug. 9, 23, Sept. 6, 20, etc.).

Inter-Territory Servic

Fiji-Am. Samoa PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Nadi 12 noon, cross L national Dateline, arr. Pago Pago p.m. Sat.

Tues.: Dep. Pago Pago 4 p.m., c International Dateline, arr. Nadi p.m. Wed. 140 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

Labasa ■ Lev Uka ■ 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 Fiji-Am. Samoa-NZ TEAL, with Electra Mk. 11.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 2.15 a.m. Mon. Dep. Nadi 2 a.m., oss International Dateline, arr. Pago ago Sun. 5.45 a.m.

Dep. Pago Pago 10 a.m., cross iternational Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. l. a.m. Dep. Nadi 12.30 p.m., arr. uckland 4.20 p.m. ji-Gilbert & Ellice Islands Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Mon. (July 20, Aug. 3, 17, 31, etc.): ep. Suva 7.45 a.m., arr. Nadi 8.25 m. dep. 9.10 a.m., Funafuti arr. 1.05 ,m. Next day (alt. Tues.) dep. Funaiti 7 a.m., Tarawa arr. 11.40 a.m.

Wed. (July 22, Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 2, 5, 30, etc.): Dep. Tarawa 7 a.m., unafuti arr. 11.40 a.m., dep. 12.40 m., Nadi arr. 435 p.m., dep. 5.20 m., Suva arr, 6.05 p.m Fiji-New Hebrides-BSI Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft , Thurs.; Dep. Suva 9 a.m., Nadi •r. 9.40 a.m., dep. 10.25 a.m., Vila •r. 1 p.m. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) ;p. Vila 8 a.m., Santo arr. 9.15 a.m., *p. 9.45 a.m., Honiara arr. 1.40 p.m. , Sat.; Dep. Honiara 6.45 a.m., into, arr. 10.40 a.m., dep. 11.10 m., Vila, arr. 12.25 p.m., dep. 1.10 m., Nadi, arr. 5.45 p.m., dep. 6.30 m., Suva, arr. 7.15 p.m.

Fiji-New Zealand PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 6.45 a.m. for uckland, arr. 11.30 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 6.30 p.m. r Nadi, arr. 11.10 p.m.

TEAL, with Electra Mk. ITs.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. adl 12.15 a.m. ~ Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 5.45 a.m., :r. Auckland 9.35 a.m. , Fri.: Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr. uckland 12.35 p.m. : Dep. Nadi 12.30 p.m., arr. Aucknd 4.20 p.m.

'ues., Wed., flights ex-Auckland, and , Thurs., flights ex-Nadi are operated antas under charter to TEAL.

Fiji-Tonga Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft alt. Thurs. (July 9, 23, Aug. 6, 20); »ep. Suva 7 a.m., arr. Nukualofa L. 15 a.m. Dep. Nukualofa 12 noon, rr. Suva 2.15 p.m. tails from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria cade, Suva.

Fiji-Western Samoa Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Thurs. (July 16, 30, Aug. 13, 27, ept. 10, 24, etc.): Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., ross International Dateline, arr. Apia .25 p.m., Wed. (July 15, 29, Aug. 12, 6, Sept. 9, 23, etc.).

Thurs. (July 16, 30, Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 0, 24, etc.): Dep. Apia 10 a.m., cross aternational Dateline, arr. Suva 1.40 .m., Fri. (June 19. July 3, 17, 31, ug. 14, 28, etc.).

New Caledonia-Fiji-Tahiti- Fiji-New Caledonia UTA-Air France with DCS Jet Wed.; Dep. Noumea 8.50 a.m. for Nadi, arr. 11.35 a.m., dep. 12.35 p.m. Wed. for Papeete (cross International Dateline) arr. 6.40 p.m. Tues.

Sun.: Dep. Papeete 6.30 a.m. for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Mon. 9.15 a.m.

Dep. Mon. 10.15 a.m., arr. Noumea 11.20 a.m.

New Caledonia-New Hebrides UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Tues., Sat,: Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Vila (arr. 9.55 a.m., dep. 10.30 a.m.), Santo (arr. 11.45 a.m., dep. 1.15 p.m.), Vila (arr. 2.30 p.m., dep. 3.05 p.m.), Noumea (arr. 5 p.m.).

New Caledonia-NZ TEAL, with Comet 4 Jet Fri.: Dep. Noumea 1 p.m. for Auckland, arr. 4.25 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m. for Noumea, arr. 12 p.m.

New Caledonia-Wallis Island UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Monthly service (second Wednesday) Wed. (July 8, Aug. 12, Sept. 9, etc.): Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Wallis Is., arr. 3.30 p.m.

Fri. (July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. 11, etc.): Dep. Wallis Is. 8 a.m. for Noumea, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Norfolk Is.-New Zealand TEAL, by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) Fri.: Dep. NI 4 p.m., Auckland, arr. 7.45 p.m.

Sat., July 11, 25: Dep. NI 2.15 p.m., arr.

Auckland 6 p.m. Dep. Auckland 10 a.m., arr. NI 1 p.m.

P-NG-Solomons TAA, with Fokker Prop-Jet and DCS.

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Lae (DC3) 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (July 13, 27, Aug. 10, 24, Sept. 8, 22, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Honiara (DC3) 7.30 am. for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 3.45 p.m. (July 15, 29, Aug. 12, 26. Sept. 9, 23, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 9 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka. Munda, Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (July 21, Aug. 4, 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 6.45 a.m. for Munda, Buka. Rabaul. Lae arr. 12 noon (July 8, 22, Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, etc.).

PNG - West NG TAA, with DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (July 21, Aug. 4, 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc.); Dep. Lae 10 a.m., for Madang, Wewak, Sokarnopura, arr. 2.35 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (July 8, 22, Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, etc.): Dep.: Sokarnopura 11.35. a.m. for Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 5.05 p.m.

Biak (West No-Lae

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS).

Alt. Tues. (July 14, 28, Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8, 22, etc.): Dep. Biak 6.15 p.m., Sokarnopura, arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.25 a.m., arr. Lae 1.30 p m Alt. Wed. (July 15, 29, Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9, 23, etc.): Dep. Lae 9.15 a.m., Sokarnopura, arr. 12.15 p.m., dep. 1 p.m., arr. Biak 3.10 p.m.

Tahiti-(Hawaii)-USA UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Wed.: Dep. Papeete 6 p.m. for Honolulu, arr. 11.35 p.m. Dep. Honolulu 12.20 a.m. Thurs. for Los Angeles, arr. 8.35 a.m. Dep. Los Angeles 12.30 p.m.

Thurs., arr. Papeete 6 p.m.

Fri.; Dep. Papeete 8.30 a.m. for Los Angeles, arr. 7.25 p.m. Dep. Los Angeles 1 a.m. Sat., arr. Papeete 6.30 a.m. 141 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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LINE Tahiti-USA Pan American Airways, with Intercontinental Jet Clippers Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 9 a.m., dep. Honolulu 1 p.m., arr. Papeete 6.25 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 8.25 a.m., dep. Honolulu 3.30 p.m., arr. Los Angeles 11.25 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 10 p.m., dep.

Los Angeles 11.59 p.m., arr. Papeete 5.15 a.m. Sun.

Sun.: Dep. Papeete 8.45 a.m., arr. Los Angeles 7.45 p.m., arr. San Francisco 9.45 p.m.

W. Samoa-Am. Samoa Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Aircraft Between Western Samoa and American Samoa—flight time; 45 minutes.

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa): Sun. 5.30 a.m., 8 a.m.: Mon. 8 a.m.; Tues 2.30 p.m.!

Wed. 8 a.m.; Thurs. 9.30 a.m.: Sat! 5.30 p.m.

Dep. Pago Pago (American Samoa): Sun. 6.45 a.m., 9.15 a.m.; Mon. 9.15 a.m • Tues 3.45 p.m.; Wed. 9.15 a.m.; Thurs 10.45 a.m.; Fri. 7.30 a.m.; Sat. 4.45 p.m.

W. Samoa-Cook Islands Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Between Western Samoa and Cook Islands (Aitutaki and Rarotonga).

Dep.; Faleolo 9.15 a.m. each Friday, arr.

Aitutaki 3.15 p.m., dep. 3.45 p.m., arr.

Rarotonga 4.50 p.m.

Dep. Rarotonga 7 a.m. every Sat., arr.

Aitutaki 8.05 a.m., dep. Aitutaki 8.50 a.m.. arr. Faleolo 1.20 p.m.

W. Samoa-Fiji Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Alt. Wed. (July 8, 22, Aug. 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Faleolo 11 a.m., arr. Nadi next day 2.40 p.m.

Alt. Fri. (July 10, 24, Aug. 7, 21, etc.): Dep. Nadi 2.45 a.m., arr. Faleolo alt.

Thurs (July 9, 23, Aug. 6, 20, etc.) 8.25 a.m.

International dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nadi.

Agents: Polynesian Booking Office Terminal, Air-Centre Buildings, Beach St..

Apia; R. E. Pritchard, Pago Pago; Qantas Empire Airways Ltd., Nadi Airport.

Internal Services

Fiji Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily: Dep.

Suva 7.30 a.m., arr. Nadi 8.15 a.m., dep. Nadi 9 a.m., arr. Suva 9.50 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.

Suva-Nadi; Dep. Suva Mon., Wed., Fri and alt. Thurs. 4 p.m., arr. Nadi 4.50 p.m. (July 9, 23, Aug. 6, 20, etc.).

Nadi-Suva: Dep. Nadi Tues., Thurs., Sat. and alt. Fri. 6.15 a.m., arr. Suva 7.05 p.m. (July 10, 24, Aug. 7, 21, etc.).

Suva-Labasa-Suva; Dep. 11 a.m. Wed..

Thurs., Fri., Sat. and Sun.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: 11 a.m. Tues.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. r Mon.

Suva-Ura-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 7.20 Wed.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savuj Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Thurs., Sat., i Suva-Ura-Suva: Dep. 7.20 a.m., Sun Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: D( a.m. Mon.

Suva-Matei-Labasa-Matei-Suva; De] a.m. Fri.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m., Details from FIJI Airways, Ltd., V Arcade, Suva.

French Polynesia RAI, with DC4 Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group Sous le Vent), Society Islands.

Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat.; Dep, Pap a.m. Raiatea, arr. 8.55 a.m., dep a.m., Bora Bora, arr. 9.35 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 7 a.m., Huahim 7.50 a.m., dep. 8.10 a.m., Raiatej 8.30 a.m., dep. 8.50 a.m., Bora arr. 9.10 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Papeete 7 a.m., Raiatea 8 a.m., dep. 8.20 a.m., Bora Bors 8.40 a.m.

Mon., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Bora Bora 4 Raiatea, arr. 4.20 p.m., dep. 4.40 Papeete, arr. 5.30 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Bora Bora 9.30 a.m., Til arr. 11.20 a.m., dep. 3.15 p.m., Pa arr. 4.30 p.m.

i Dep. Bora Bora 9 a.m., Tikehau, irr. 10.50 a.m., dep. 2.10 p.m., Rangioa, arr. 2.35 p.m., dep. 3.5 p.m., •apeete, arr. 4.30 p.m. rs.: Dep. Bora Bora 5 p.m., Papeete, ,rr. 6.10 p.m. (tails from RAI, Qual Bir Hakeim. sete, or any UTA office.

New Caledonia NSPAC, with Herons and/or Dragons nea-Mare: Tues. dep. Noumea 2.30 i.m. for Mare, Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m.

'ri. dep. Noumea 2.30 p.m. for Mare, foumea, arr. 4.30 p.m. nea-Lifou: Tues., Wed., Fri. dep. foumea 8 a.m. for Lifou, Noumea, rr. 10 a.m. Mon. dep. Noumea 8 .m. for Lifou, Noumea, arr. 10.15 a.m. mea-Isle of Pines; Mon., Wed., Fri., lat. dep. Noumea 10.45 a.m. for Isle f Pines, Noumea, arr. 12 noon. nn dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Isle of ’ines, Noumea, arr. 5.30 p.m. nea-Ouvea; Tues. dep. Noumea 10.45 .m., Noumea, arr. 2 p.m. Sat. dep. foumea 8 a.m., Noumea, arr. 10 a.m. nea-Houailou-Polndimie; Mon., Wed., 'ri. dep. Noumea 1 p.m. for Houallou nd Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 4.10 p.m. mea-Kone-Koumac: Mon., Thurs. dep. foumea 1.15 p.m. for Kone and Noumea, arr. 4.15 p.m.

New Hebrides Jew Hebrides Airways, with Drover.

Fri.: Dep. Vila 8.30 a.m. for ’anna, arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 3.30 >.m., arr. Vila 4.45 p.m. (Usually i flight is made from Tanna to either ineityum, Futuna, Aniwa or Srromanga before the scheduled leparture for Vila). 5.: Dep. Vila 8.30 a.m. for Tongoa, arr. 1.05 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Vila, arr. 10.35 ~m. (with extension to Pentecost and Santo on demand).

“tails from New Hebrides Airways, Papua-New Guinea Operated by TAA , MORESBY-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Tues.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 6.40 a.m., irr. Lae 7.40 a.m. (July 21, Aug. 4, LB, Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc.).

AE-RABACL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Tues. Dep. Lae 9 a.m., Rabaul arr.

L 0.55 a.m. (July 21, Aug. 4, 18, Sept.

L, 15, 29, etc.).

Wed.; Dep. Rabaul 10.10 a.m., Lae irr. 12 noon (July 22, Aug. 5, 19, Sept. 5, 16, 30, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.45 a.m. for Daru, returning same day via Balimo, irr. 2.25 p.m. (July 10, 24, Aug. 7, 21, 3ept. 4, 18, etc.).

MORESBY-WEST. PAPUA (Catalina) I.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Paibuna, Kerema, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 3.25 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Daru, Lake Murray, Daru, arr. 3 p.m. (July 16, 30, Aug. 13, 27, etc.).

Fri.; Dep. Daru 9 a.m. for Pt.

Moresby, arr. 11.15 a.m. (July 17, 31, Aug. 14, 28, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina) Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Esa-Ala, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (July 13, 27, Aug. 10, 24, Sept. 7, 21, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m for Samarai, Deboyne, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (July 27, Aug. 24, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (July 6, Aug. 3, etc.).

LAE-MAD ANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

Mon., Fri.: 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, arr. 12.50 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 9 a.m., for Madang, Wewak, arr. 11.55 a.m.

Sun., Tues.: Dep. Wewak 6 a.m. for Madang, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Wed.; Dep. Kavieng 6.30 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 7.35 a.m.

Tues.; Dep. Rabaul 12.45 p.m. for Kavieng, arr. 1.50 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 9 a.m. for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer R., Wapenamunda, Wabag, Madang, arr. 3.20 p.m.

Sun.; Dep. Mt. Hagen 7.20 a.m. for Banz (opt.), Lae, arr. 9 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, arr. 12.05 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 Ga?aina, 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 a.m. for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 1.30 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.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 10 a.m. for Finschhafen, Kandrian, Talasea, Hoskins, Jacquinot Bay. Rabaul. arr 3.10 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m. for Jacquinot Bay, Hoskins, Talasea, Kandrian, Cape Gloucester (on request), Finschhafen, Lae, arr. 2.10 p.m.

LAE-FINSCHHAFEN-LAE (Cessna) Tues.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Pinschhafen, Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Wed., Fri.. Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m. for Buka, Wakunai, Aropa, Buin, Kleta, Wakunai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 3.40 p.m.

Rabaul-Talasea-Rabaul

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 12.30 p.m. for Hoskins.

Talasea, Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Operated by Ansett-MAL (with DOS’s) 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.

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, Mlnj, 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 Luml, Nuku, Wewak, arr. 11.05 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 1 p.m. for Maprlk, 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,

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW. ANZ BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: B, £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £lOO NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA. —Through BANK OF NZ. Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa: T.

T. B. £AI23/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ; B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji basis £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia-Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

Papua-Ng. Commonwealth Bank

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Goroka, Bulolo, Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai, Goroka. agencies; Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), ANZ BANK (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) and

National Bank Of A/Asia, Port

Moresby, Lae) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £AIOO.

FRENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs (CPF) are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynesia.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris, Sydney), in June, 1964, quoted: Selling, Noumea, 196 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; Papeete 196 (nom.) Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 247 Pac. francs to £ Stg., 96.5 Pac. francs to US $; Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 French franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. franc equals 0.055 French franc), Paris-London: Selling 13.7 U francs to £Stg. 143 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

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Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka Lae arr. 4.40 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna or Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 1.30 p.m. for Banz, Mlnj, Goroka, arr. <£.so p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m foi Telefomin, Wewak, arr. n. 40 a.m Dep. )Cessna) Wewak 8.30 a.m for Altape, Slssano, Vanlmo, Dagua Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m. ’

Dep (Cessna or Piaggio) Wewak 3 P-m. for Angoram. Wewak, arr. 4 p.m.

Frl V- P e P- Laa 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Lae 9.05 a.m. for Kamantu, Goroka, Mlnj. Banz. Mi Hagen, Wabag, Mt. Hagen, arr. 110 p.m.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul. arr. 12 noon.

Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Madang Lae, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Goroka 7.30 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr t>.25 a.m. -,, D . e P- Lae 630 am - 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. 240 p.m.

B , am ‘ for Mt Ha S en .

Banz, MinJ, Goroka, MinJ, Banz. Mt Hagen. Madang, arr. 3.30 p m ror De £J£ la i glo) Mt ' Hagen 93 ° amfor Mendl, Kagua, Erave, lallbu. Mt.

Hagen, arr. 12 noon.

Sat iir P ep ' Lae 855 a m - f °r 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. ’ a £ eP O J? abaUl 545 a m - for Lae - a ”. 0.25 a.m Rabaul , 6 30 a.m. for Kavieng. 55! 440 W pm ak ’ Madan &. Goroka. Lae, Dep (Peggie) Wewak 8.30 a.m for Ambuntl. Burul, Wewak. arr. 10 05 Operated by Papuan Airlines Transport Ltd. (“Patalr”) Mon.: Dep. (DC3) 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, Kalruku, Berelna, Taplnl, Woltape, Taplnl, Berelna Kalruku, Aroa (opt.), Rorona (opt.) Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.20 a.m tor Taplnl, Woltape (opt.), Pt. Moresby’ arr 9.50 a.m. (30 min. later If call made at Woltape).

Tues.; Dep. (DC3l Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Kokoda. Popondetta, Pt. Moresby arr. 11 a.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m. for Daru, Balimo, Daru, Pt. Moresby arr. 1.50 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11am for Cape Rodney, Paill (opt.), Pt Moresby, arr. 12.50 p.m. (20 min’ later if call made at Paill).

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Woltape, Taplnl, Pt. Moresby arr. 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt ) Kalruku, Berelna, Pt. Moresby, arr’ 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later If call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Wed.: Dep. vDC3) 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 Taplnl, Woltape, Pt. Moresby, arr 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m for Rorona, Aroa, Kalruku, Pt Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 11.15 a.m. for Berelna, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2 p.m.

Thurs.: (Piaggio) Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Woltape, Taplnl, Pt. Moresby arr. 10.30 a.m. , De P- (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m. .or Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kalruku, Berelna, Pt. Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later If call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Alt. Thurs. July 16, 30, Aug. 13, 27. Sept. 10, 24, etc.); Dep. (DC3) Pt.

Moresby 7 a.m. for Popondetta, Embi, Wanigela, Vivigani, Losula, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.45 p.m.

Uuly 9, 23, Aug. 6. 20. etc.): Dep.

'DC3I Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. for Popondetta. Pt. Moresby, arr. 9 a.m.

Pri.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.3( for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, an a.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 10.3( for Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. : Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby i: for Cape Rodney, Paill, Pt. Me arr. 1.10 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.31 for Tapinl, Woitape, Pt. Moresby 10.30 a.ro Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.4! for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 2.30 for Berei?ia, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.3!

Sat.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Mo arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.3 C for Woitape. Tapini, Pt. Moresby 10.30 a.m.

Solomon Islands Megapode Airways with a Dove

Dhio4 Mb. Vi

Tues.: Dep. Honiara 8 a.m. and 4 arr. Auki (Malaita) 8.25 a.m. anc p.m., arr. Honiara 9 a.m. and 5 Tues., Thurs. (in Fokker week): Honiara 9.30 a.m., arr. Yandina sell Is.) 9.55 a.m., dep. Yandina a.m., arr. Honiara 10.40 a.m.

Pri (in Fokker week); Dep. Honia a.m. arr. Munda (New Georgia) a.m., dep. Munda 9.25 a.m., arr. 3 koma (Vella Lavella) 9.45 a.m., Barakoma 10 a.m., arr. Munda’ a.m.. dep. Munda 10.30 a.m., Honiara 11.45 a.m.

Fi:i. (in DCS week): Dep. Honiara 8 arr. Yandina 8.25 a.m., dep. 8.40 arr. Munda 9.25 a.m., dep. 9.45 arr. Barakoma 10.15 a.m., dep. : a.m., arr. Munda 11.05 a.m., dep. : a.m., arr. Yandina 12.10 p.m., 12.30 p.m., arr. Honiara 1 p.m. (Note: Fokker week and DCS week : to TAA services from Papua- Guinea. See timetable under Ir Territory Services.) Details from Megapode Airways, P.O. 103, Honiara, BSIP.

Bird Of Paradise Fligh

The International Air Trans Association has approved the usi TAA of the name Bird of Pare flight for its Australia-New Gu air service. A TAA spokesman nounced this on June 30. 144 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Classified Advertisements er line, 4/6; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

FOR SALE

Ate Of Robert Allen Crompton

RASED. Offers closing on July 31, i, are invited for the purchase of residential property of the late Mr.

V. Crompton, situated two miles from :ral Suva on Princes Road, Tamavua. land comprises:— ‘eehold Certificate of Title No. 6444 ntaining 6 acres 3 roods 27.3 perches anting the eastern side of Princes jad on which the residence and icillary buildings described below are ■eehold Certificate of Title No. 7629 ntaining 2 acres 15.5 perches. This nd is vacant with a frontage of about 2/3 chains to the western side of inces Road; ■own Lease No. 3134 containing 1 od 13.7 perches. This lease, sale of lich is subject to the consent of e Director of Lands, is for road cess only to the southern and eastern irts of C.T. 6444. rovements on Certificate of Title 6444 prise:— vo storey reinforced concrete resimce, containing hall, spacious (750 ft.) living room, dining room, eakfast room, kitchen, pantry, cloakom downstairs, large porte cochere; large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, storeom, semi-enclosed sun-porch upstairs; uch built-in furniture; )tal enclosed area 3,000 sq. ft. approx. ;tached wooden cottage, 4 rooms, mpletely self-contained. ;tached 2 car garage and laundry. ;tached servants quarters. )r the main dwelling, are nificent views over Suva Harbour from front, and over Laucala Bay and coast eastwards of Suva from the Administrators will consider offers the property as a whole or for the bold titles separately, rs should be addressed to the undered with whom arrangements for ection may be made.

CROMPTONS, Solicitors.

Thomas Street, Suva, Fiji.

ETS 30 ft. carvel launch, 4. cyl.

Ine diesel, 2 way radio, echo sounder 200. 36 ft. steel bridge deck launch, towing, cargo, personnel, 60 h.p. mardiesel, 2 way radio £3,750. 45 ft. ry diesel cruiser £lO.OOO. 45 ft. ;1 workboat £7,000 shallow draft diesel steel passenger ship, cargo e available, £I7.SOO.FLEETS Rowe’s ~ Edward St.. Brisbane, Queensland,

E “Fleets Brisbane.”

Moan Songs Of Love And

JCING”. 33-1/3 LP record containing of the most melodic Samoan songs— rded in Apia. £2/10/- Samoan ency, post paid. Samoa Records, P.O 139. Apia. Western Samoa.

PBROKERS (AUCKLAND) LIMITED, & Purchase Brokers for Island senger and Trading Craft, Tugs, iters, and Pleasure Craft. Cables; ipsales”. Box 1679, Auckland. Fiji nt: F. B. Blakey, ph. 4850, Suva.

Position Vacant

MERCHANDISE EXECUTIVES. Applications are invited for a position offering opportunities for advancement with large retail and general merchandise company in New Guinea.

Duties; After initial training period, to take on relieving responsibilities of management.

Qualifications: Essential that applicant has had good all-round general merchandise experience, preferably in large country stores.

Conditions: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Superannuation benefits available after qualifying period. Accommodation available at nominal rental.

Two months leave on completion of two years service.

Applications; In writing, stating age, marital status, experience and qualifications, giving full supporting details, to: “MERCHANDISE EXECUTIVE”, Box 2915, G.P.0., Sydney.

Trade Enquiries

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might want from Hong Kong iPhotographlc 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.

C. S. & JOHNSON YOUNG CO. 1015 Alexandra House, Hong Kong. Import: Sharks fins, fungus, mop shell, trepang.

Export: Plastic, piece goods, radios and footwear.

Opportunity Exists In New

GUINEA. Papua and all Pacific Islands for appointment as distributor for U.S.A.

Petroleum Products. For full particulars franchise, etc. Apply: Sinclair Opaline Imported Oils. P.O. Box 11, William St., Sydney, N.S.W.

STAMPS

Top Prices Paid For Island

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulations i used or unused), covers, collections.

Seven Seas Stamps Pty Ltd.. Sterling Street. Dubbo NSW Aust Pacific Issues purchased at highest prices.

Send for your Free Copy of the only Catalogue giving complete list of buying prices for used Fiji. Papua-New Guinea Aust., N.Z. and other Pacific stamps.

P. Downie, 94 Elizabeth St., Melbourne.

Vic.

Wanted To Buy Used Stamps Of

any Pacific Island. Large or small quantities. Will remit by return mail.

Send to Petterd’s Stamp Depot, Box 221, Hobart, Tasmania.

FOR SALE AUX. KETCH, 82 x 18 x 5. Carry 70 tons. Recent Survey, Pt. Adelaide, Reg. ton 48.8, 2Vs in. plank. Heavy construction. Laying Brisbane. Price £4,750.

Replies to: “W.W.”, G.P.O. Box 3408, Sydney.

FATHOMETERS RCA Model NMCn 110/60/1; 0-4,000 fathoms range. Indicator-Recording type; 46”Hx22”Wxl8”D.

Unused $9OO. Used, good condition $4OO.

FOB Los Angeles. Reg Ruxton, 638 North Ave., Vista, California, U.S.A.

Books, Magazines

Give Yourself A Book For

FATHER’S DAY! Esquire Drink Book, 44/9 -f 2/5; Esquire Cook-Book, 44/9 -I- 2/5; Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, 44/9 + 2/5; Esquire’s Book of Gambling, 37/3 + 2/2; Esquire’s The Art of Keeping Fit, 37/3 + 2/2; Esquire’s Europe in Style, 37/3 + 2/2; Esquire Book of Fishing, 37/3 + 2/2; Esquire Book of American Autos & Their Makers, 107/6 -|- 5/2. Write to; The Salon Bookshop, 26 Eddy Road, Chatswood, N.S.W., Aust.

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.

DIVER MAGAZINE; Annual subs. £l.

Bi-monthly from England. Aust. Editor, Plat 8, 10 Prince St., Randwick, Sydney. (Dist. wanted).

Position Wanted

YOUNG MAN, 21, ex-RAAF (Australian) unattached, seeks employment Pacific area.

Excellent references from past civilian employers and RAAP. Good education inc. 3 years tertiary studies. Speaks some French and German. Handy with electrical and radio equipment and tools in general. Accurate with paperwork: good conscientious solid worker. Willing to pay own fare after appointment.

Please contact: J. Andrews, 13 Brotherton St., Merrylands, N.S.W., Australia.

ACCOMMODATION

Hire Or Buy Your Volkswagen

for southern leave from Doug Elphinstone, 243-259 Pittwater Road. Manly, Sydney.

Telephone: 97-0287.

Wanted To Buy

ARTS AND CRAFTS from all Islands of Oceania. Primitive art, woodcarvings, artifacts, masks, weapons, etc.—Send your price list bv airmail. Seven Seas Arts, 1254 East Miner Rd., Mayfield Hts., Ohio 44124, USA. 145 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1964

I ✓ / HANOI m f PmPttWpefro/ IRON Australia's best selling non-electric Iron I For reliability, ease of handling, and excellence of quality at a low price, you can't beat the MNmi It's simplicity itself to operate—NO PUMPING IS REQUIRED. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERFILL THE FUEL TANK and one filling does approximately 2 hours effortless ironing. Attractively finished in nickel plate. Spare parts always available.

The PORTABLE OUTDOORS COOKER at a sensible price!

Twin independent burners for fast cooking. Twin tanks for doi capacity. Steel case, when opened, acts as triple-wind shield. R proof. Noisy or silent burners as required. Small or large porce enamel ovens also available separately. HANOl—the lowest pri QUALITY Twin Burner Portable!

Better buy HAND/! Available at leading stores or direct from manufacturers HANOI WORKS ?iy. Lid.

Compo Road, Rocklea, Phone 47212

Brisbane Queensland Australia

Index to Advertisers Adams Industries 18, 23 32 35, 46, 99, 110, 111,' 114' A . . ~ . 115, 124 Air India International .. 72 Amal. Dairies Ltd. 65 Ansett-A.N.A. .. 60 Arnott, Wm. Pty. Ltd.’ !! 68 Aust. Cotton Manufacturing Co Aywun Poultry Farm .. .. 117 Ballina Slipway & Eng. Co. 98 Bank of N.Z 53 BetheM, Gwyn & Co’.' Ltd’. 141 d.U.A.C Bramair International Pty.

Ltd ’ joo Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd 6 Breckwoldt & Co. Wm. .. 88 British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd. 24 Brown, David, Tractors Pty.

Ltd 38 Brunton & Co. .. .’ 33 BP. . . 31, 77, 120, cov. iii Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd 41 Canon Camera Co., Inc 3 Carlton & United Breweries Ltd 22 Carnation Company . "73 Carpenter, W. R., & Co. Ltd. c 78, 129, cov. iv Carreras (Overseas) Ltd. 19 Classified Advertisements .. 145 Crammond Radio Co. .. . 86 Crusader Shipping Co. !! 138 C.S.R. Co. Ltd., The ~ .. 95 Cummins Diesel Sales & Service (Aust.) P/L . .. 26 Cystex Daiwa Shipping Line .. .. 137 Donald, A. 8., Ltd 27 Drambuie Liqueur Co. Ltd. 107 Dunlite Electrical Co. Ltd, .. 50 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty. c ..f- td - 100 Fi|i Airways Ltd, ... 30 Filmo Depot Ltd. .. 114 Fisher & Co. . .. " 58 Flick, W. A. & Co. Pty.’ Ltd. 24 Frigate Rum ]]g Gaston Johnston Corp. .. 35 General Tyre International . 21 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. 4 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 86 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. .. 115 Glaxo Labs (NZ) Ltd. .. 109 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 64 Halvorsen & Kessler Pty.

Ltd ’ 09 Handi-Works Co. . * ‘ 145 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. !! 113 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd ]QB 1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 8 4 International Harvester Co. 28 International Majora Paints pt V- Ltd los Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd. ~ 31 Kodak (A'asia.) Pty. Ltd. ! ’ 102 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 104 Korbond Industries Pty. Ltd. 34 Kraft Foods Ltd. . . . 67, 76 Lawrence, Alfred, & Co. P/L 66 Love, J. R., & Co. Pty. Ltd. 127 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Ltd. 92 Massey Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd. 1 Matthey Garrett Pty. Ltd. .. 124 Matson Line 132 McPherson's Ltd. . .. .’. 36 Mendaco 70 Millers Ltd i ’ 62 Mobil Oil Aust. Ltd 112 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd ]O6 Morris Hedstrom Ltd. . 14, 59 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd, .. 48 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. 25, 34 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd. 134 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The mpa*.- 20 ' 128 ' 130 N.G. Aust. Line .. .. 74, 75 Nixoderm 70 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. 46 Pacific Islands Transport Line 144 Philips 27, 122 Piccaninny Manufacturing Co. 119 P. & O-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty. Ltd 37 Qantas Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. .! in Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 22 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 80 Scotts Detergents (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd 39 Sevanands Kennels .. . H 4 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd ]42 South Pacific Brewery 55 Stapleton, J. T., Pty. Ltd. .. 23 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 71 Steelcrete Pty. Ltd. .

Sthn. Pac. Ins. Co. ..

Stewarts & Lloyds (Dis Pty. Ltd Sullivan Ltd Suttons Motors (Homebus T.A.A Taikoo Dockyard .

Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L Tatham, S. E, ; & Co. P, T.E.A.L Tongala Milk Products Pt Ltd Tooth & Co. Ltd.

Turners Supply Co. Ltd. , Tyneside Foundry & E gineering Co. Ltd. ..

Union Steam Ship Co. i N.Z. Ltd. .. . .. , Ventura Trading Co. P/L .

Vi eta Mowers Vi-Stim Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., Tt Warner, Geo. C., Laboratory Pty, Ltd Waters, Edwd., & Sons 32, 114 Westfield Freezing Co. Lt( Weymark Pty. Ltd. .. .

Whites Aviation White, A, B. S., & Co.

White Rose Flour Milling C< Ltd. .. ~ ~ t Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/ Wolaroi College for Boys .

Yardley of London (Aust Pty. Ltd . .

Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd 146 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

Let Bangkok go to your head Let Bangkok go to your head. Try on a chada-crown. Ask Qantas what to see, what to buy in Thailand or Tokyo, New York or New Delhi, Fiji or Frankfurt—or any of the places Oantas flies to. All over the world people who enjoy travel fly Qantas. Because they know that wherever in the world you fly with Qantas you fly with that special sense of enjoyment Qantas likes to put into travel. (And with the efficiency gained from 43 years of service.) Discuss new travel ideas with your local Travel Agent or Qantas.

Australia's Round- World Airline QAHTAS 43 years of dependable service itos Airways Limited, in association with Air India, 8.0.A.C., S.A.A. and TEAL Q 20.85.64 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1964

Corned Beef Corned Mutton Mea treat Sheep and Lamb Tongues Braised Steak Pat Dripping Pat Lard Sandwich Pastes (

The Choice

Of The Islands

PALM’

Lamb and Green Peas Steak and Kidney Pudding Kegged Meats Frozen Meats Smallgoods Bulk Dripping and Lard AND Salisbury

Canned Meats

Specially Packed For The Pacific Islands

WESTFIELD FREEZING CO. LTD.

Postal Address : Private Bag, C.P.0., Auckland, N.Z. Cables "FILALORA", Auckland.

Price Lists Forwarded On Application

W 962 148 JULY, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set up a printed In Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

URNS PHILP (New Guinea) LTD.

Seneral Merchants, Shipping & Customs Agents

Head Office: Port Moresby, Papua Cable Address; BURPHIL MADANG 1 v * GOROKA • X.

Kainantu * Lae

BULOLO * V*V _ WAU V?

Q DARU <3

Port Moresby\

BOROKO SAMARAI Branches and Shopping Centres.

HIPPING AGENTS FOR: Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line.

Campagnie Des Messagenes Mantimes.

Crusader Shipping Co, Ltd.

Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail.

P. & 0. Orient Lines.

Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

MR LINE AGENTS FOR: Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines.

Qantas Empire Airways.

International Air Transport Representatives

Travel Department

Consult our experienced personnel for planning world wide travel.

Overseas Agents

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London.

Burns Philp & Co. of San Francisco.

Trade Enquiries Invited 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 Conditional re 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 \/ a ..vhall far* & Bedford Trucks

Exporters Of

Coffee & Cocoa Beans, Peanuts, Rubber & Trocas Shell.

Shopping Centre

w PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY 1964

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES-

Ral Merchants

Forty-eight years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands NEW GUINEA: New „ Gu J inea 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 includir Electrolux, Chrysler, For McCallum's Whisky, Vic Mowers, Enfield Engine FIJI: w. fi. 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; Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. ltd., 27 O'Conm

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, Sydney PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JUL.Y, 1964