Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 37, No. 5 ( May. 1, 1966)
1966-05-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific Islands Monthly MAY, 1966 30 Aust. cents Three shillings 70 US cents 50 French Pac. frcs. he News lagazine Of The South Pacific ESTABLISHED 1930 stered at G.P.0., Sydney, and at P. 0., •/ tor transmission by post as a newspaper.

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OUR COVER: The famous smile belongs, of course, to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

Rob Wright, Jr., captured it as she emerged from the Easter Sunday service at Suva's Holy Trinity Cathedral. There are several stories about the Queen Mother's Fiji visit in this issue, and more pictures on p. 117. 8 MAY, 1 9 6 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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In This Issue Vol. 37. No. 5, MAY, 1966 GENERAL Australian Tariff Plan 13 Council of Churches 14 South Pacific Firewalking 64 Louis Coutance, Forgotten Navigator 81 Biography of Sir Joseph Banks .... 92 Taylor Bibliography Revised 97 Proposal to Cut Air Fares 125

American Samoa

New Weather Station 29 New English Samoan Dictionary ... 51 Fiji Airways Interest 133

Cook Islands

New Community Spirit 73 NZ Help for Harbour Projects 99 Book on Epic Drift Voyage 103 Air Service from Samoa 133 FIJI Population Problem 14 Queen Mother's Visit .... 14, 23, 117 Banabans' Independent Line 15 Death Penalty To Go 15 Salvage Operation with a Difference 22 YWCA Land in Suva 22 Teams Withdraw from Games 53 Fijian Band at Bendigo .... 55 Dutch Ship for Islands Trade 103 Trawler Saved from Reef .105 Mew Look at Korolevu Hotel .125 Hotel Opened at Ba 127 Additions for New Nadi Hotel 129 Mew Launch for Cruises 135 : iji Industries Profit 144

: Rench Polynesia

egalised Brothels Urged .... 19 Votest Against A-Tests 19 New Book by Alan Moorehead 93 Australian Trade Opportunities .... 139

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Banabans' Independent Line 15 Local Government Developments .... 31 Porpoises Baffled 73 UK Gift of Ship 99 NAURU New Administrator Fake Decimal Currency Notes 21

New Caledonia

No Ticker-Tape for Mr. Clark 21 Noumea Nearly Ready for Games .... 24 Prehistoric Village on Mare 71 Noumea Dredging Plan 105 Lunch Break Under Attack 129 Internal Air Services 129 Major Move in Nickel Industry .... 141

New Hebrides

Floating Libraries 75 Charollais Cattle 144 NIUE Political Developments 27

Norfolk Island

New Administrator 15 Record Quest for Land 53

Papua-New Guinea

Talks on Constitution 11 Administrator Retiring 12 Seventh State Impracticable 12 Local Govt. View on Independence .. 13 "King Cam's" Skin-Covered Book .... 17 Moresby Protest Against French Tests 19 Fake Decimal Currency Notes 21 Prince Charles' Visit 24 J. ropicalities ' 21 '• People in Pictures, 38; Territories Talk-Talk 41- New rS ß’: k h %r"s° h rS ' 55; F r UlandS PreSS ' 6,; Magazine Section/ 8,; Travel 'd 9 Sh 1 '?^ m 9, Cruism 9 Yachts, 107; Planters' Digest, 113avel, 117; People, 137; Commerce, 139; Shipping and Airways Schedules, 146- Deaths of Islands People, 153.

Army Camp for Lae 24 New University 37 Growth of Local Government 41 Tolai Wrist-Whipping Ceremony .... 55 Ancient Mortars from Goroka 86 Training Scheme for Ships' Engineers 101 Seamen's Award Sought 103 Pyrethrum Production 141 Misima Still Promising 143 Seminar on Future 155

Pitcairn Island

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Solomon Islands

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Western Samoa

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P-Ng Assembly Will Quiz

Electors On Ministers

And Self-Government

By a Staff Writer Papua-New Guinea’s 14-member House of Assembly select committee on constitutional development visited Canberra for a week of top-level discussions in April, and returned home with most of its problems still in front of it. The members had hoped they would take back a blueprint which would enable them to plan a timetable for political development.

YET in many ways the negative results of their talks gave them a positive picture, and certainly a positive determination to produce, by August, an interim committee report which would make its points more clearly than Canberra had.

Members in early May were arranging to tour the territory, possibly in two groups, to sound out the electors on a system of ministerial government, self-government and the method of attaining it.

Their August report will also outline the electors’ views on how electorates should be altered for the 1968 elections, and whether the existing 10 special electorates (reserved for European members) should be abolished.

Most members are aware that the problem of gaining the first part of this information is a real poser, because questions can be phrased in today’s territory to elicit any answer the questioner wants.

It is a problem also because there are no majority opinions in New Guinea just now, and perhaps even no real opinions at all. The people don’t know what they want—they know merely what they don’t want.

They don’t want Australia to start getting out now.

This present political vacuum is a real thing. But many committee members believe that if they go about their task carefully, and somehow also overcome the committee’s own serious internal divisions, they could quickly develop some kind of political plan for the future.

The question of ministerial government was one concrete matter raised at the Canberra talks. Australia is prepared to change the Papua-New Guinea Act to appoint a small number af ministerial “representatives”, giving them more authority than the present Under-Secretaries have.

Both the Government and the committee were aware at their talks that in the absence of party politics, and therefore safe seats, the “ministers” would still be tempted to neglect their ministerial duties for regular visits to their electorates to keep on side with the electors. How then to educate the electors? That, and the principles of a satisfactory ministerial system, will be up to the committee to decide in the next few months.

"The People Will Decide"

The committee learned in Canberra that the Government’s basic policy was self-determination for P-NG, but that it was up to the territory people to say when and how. If they wished to remain “in association” with Australia after self-determination this would require the agreement of the Australian Government of the day, and the present Government was not going to make any predictions.

The Government said also it was up to the territory people to decide how to solve any implications arising from the separate status of Papua as an Australian territory and of New Guinea as a trust territory.

The matter was of no practical importance now, said the Government, and there were dangers for everybody in attempting to interfere with the UN Agreement, because it would bring too many other questions into prominence.

The Government’s apparent avoidance of other main issues did indicate to most committee members that Australia was not hurrying with any policy of disengagement, and in this the committee felt reassured.

It was probably this point more than any other that made them feel that the Canberra deliberations were not a waste of time. The talks did indicate Government thinking.

They absorbed one important note of warning in Canberra. Australia indicated that the territory could not expect to get increasingly large financial handouts and the limit was not far off.

On migration, Australia's Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman made a fine impression with his frankness and his grasp of New Guinean attitudes.

He could not foresee a mass movement of Territory people to Australia (and neither could the committee) but there would be no difficulty about New Guineans being allowed into Australia to obtain skills to be used for the benefit of the territory.

The recent liberalisation of Australian policy, which allows non- Europeans to settle if they have specialised skills, would apply to New Guineans, and in fact, said Mr.

Opperman, New Guineans would get top priority when the time came.

In total, the talks were regarded as satisfactory, with some confusion left. As one member remarked, interpreting what was said during the week was rather like interpreting the Bible: there were so many meanings.

One puzzle left unanswered was whether Australia would countenance P-NG becoming a seventh state. But the following week the P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland in a statement in Port Moresby which was presumably inspired by Canberra, indicated that a seventh state was “not practicable.” • See "Seventh State Is Out" p. 12, and "Independence" p. 13.

Chairman of the P-NG select committee on constitutional development is Mr. John Guise, who is also leader of the elected members in the House of Assembly.

Many Assembly members are agitating to remove him from the leadership of the House, and this may soon come to a head. 11 pacific islands monthly_may, 1966

Sir Donald's Retirement Is Official By a Staff Writer A decision taken in Canberra in April allowing the P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, to continue in office until the end of the year will ease the the administrative crisis that has been threatening the territory in recent months.

SIR DONALD will shortly announce appointment of two new Assistant Administrators and one or two other senior departmental postings which have been vacant, and which thus helped cause the crisis.

Sir Donald Cleland turns 65 in June. He was due for retirement then. Earlier this year he asked Canberra to allow him to remain in office until the end of the year, as he plans to live in Port Moresby and to build a house there.

Canberra declined the request because it was lining-up a new Administrator in the person of Mr. John Overall, 52, of the National Capital Development Commission, and it wanted the new man to take over the reins quickly and have a say in the selection of his new senior men (for the full details see “Crisis at the Top”, PIM, Mar., p. 11).

But Mr. Overall dropped out of the picture and there does not appear to be anybody else to replace Sir Donald at present. Mr. C. W. J.

Falkinder, whose name is frequently mentioned in Port Moresby as being a possible choice, is not being considered for the post.

The Ministerial statement on May 1 announcing Sir Donald’s retirement did not give any of the background of events.

The Minister for Territories, Mr. Barnes, said simply that Sir Donald “had expressed a desire to retire from the end of this year and the Government had agreed to his request”.

The Minister paid high tribute to Sir Donald’s “long and outstanding service”, which started in 1951 when he was appointed Assistant Administrator. He became Administrator on January 23, 1953, after a period as Acting Administrator.

The decision to allow him to remain for a few extra months has pleased Sir Donald, who had felt that after his long service it was reasonable that Canberra should accede to his request.

Although the administrative crisis has been eased there are still many and growing problems in the territory, not the least of them the discontent and the low morale in the territory’s Public Service.

A payments scheme for overseas public servants who eventually lose their jobs to local people, and a superannuation scheme for contract workers, will shortly be announced and there are indications that Canberra is working on other plans to help solve its Public Service problem.

And of course the important matter of a new Administrator has not been solved —merely stood over.

Seventh State 'Out ', He Says From an AAP-Reuter Correspondent in Port Moresby No pressure existed in Papua- New Guinea at present for radical political changes the Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland said on May 1. The political future of the territory was “good and solid” and he was confident the transition to eventual independence would be smooth and regular.

AT an informal Press conference at Government House, called to discuss his retirement, he made one of his frankest statements ever on the future of P-NG.

Sir Donald said that one of the great things yet to be developed in P-NG was a national conscience and outlook. This would be very gradual.

"No Pressures"

Asked whether there was any strong international pressure for early independence, Sir Donald replied “none exists”.

Sir Donald said eventually there would be a smooth transition to selfgovernment or independence. He said “the idea of P-NG becoming a 7th state of Australia is completely impractical both from the point of view of the Australian people and also for P-NG.

“But they (the territory people) must seek their own solution in their own time. I am perfectly sure that when this time comes they will remain in close association with Australia, either by treaty or by agreement,” he said.

"One Country Now"

Sir Donald said he felt P-NG would gain its independence first and work out its future association with Australia from there.

Sir Donald said the geographical boundary between Papua and New Guinea meant nothing today. The different peoples had learned to live together and a national feeling gradually was growing up.

“The political development over the past 15 years has been outstanding,” he said.

There was every prospect m the Sir Donald Cleland Currently a key man in Canberra on New Guinea matters is Mr. G. Warwick Smith, Secretary of the Department of Territories.

He works closely with the Minister, Mr.

C. E. Barnes.

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long term of intensive economic development in the territory, provided plans outlined in the World Bank report were followed. But he said it would be a considerable number of years before the territory would be economically viable.

Sir Donald said in every year of his 15 years in the territory there had been rewarding results in all spheres of administration and private enterprise. He had received the fullest loyalty and support from a very efficient staff.

But most important of all was the help and support he had received in all these from his wife, Lady Rachel Cleland. Sir Donald said he and Lady Cleland would take a six months’ overseas trip early next year, then build their own house in Port Moresby, overlooking Ela Beach.

“Our two sons and their children live here and we all like the territory and its people,” Sir Donald added.

Australian Tariff Plan To Aid Underdeveloped Territories By a Staff Writer A new system of free or reduced Australian tariff concessions for less-developed countries came into effect in April, following approval by GATT.

PT*HE new concessions apply to a big range of countries, including many South Pacific territories, and allow Australian importers to apply for quotas of certain goods from the territories at free or cheap rates, as a means of giving economic aid.

The Pacific territories which come under the scheme are the British Solomons, the Cook Islands, Fiji, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the New Hebrides, Niue Island, Pitcairn, Papua-New Guinea and Western Samoa.

Hand-made traditional cottage industry goods from the territories will be allowed into Australia duty-free and without quota limit. These goods comprise carved or inlaid hornware, ivoryware, shellware or stoneware, decorated leatherware or pottery, metalware, carved or inlaid woodwork and some woven fabrics.

Reduced tariffs apply to such items as chairs and lounges of bamboo or cane, wooden chairs, cement, carpets and coir matting.

Most Pacific territories are at present examining the concessions to see what benefits they may gain from them. Applications for import have to be made in Australia by individual importers.

A close examination has already been made by Fiji, which at Australia’s suggestion has recently submitted a revised list of items which it feels should be added to the concessions.

The revised list was prepared after consultation with Fiji businessmen.

Fiji’s imports from Australia were worth £F8,294,000 in 1965, compared with £F2,051,000 in exports to Australia.

The Fiji Government representative m Australia, Mr. R. M. Major, told Australian Pressmen in Sydney in April that Fiji “very greatly appreciated the Australian initiative in instituting practical measures to help Fiji trade”.

It was aware that the present list of concessions was a start-something of an experiment to establish a principle, but very welcome.

The existing list did not assist Fiji a great amount.

He said the revised Fiji list now before the Australian Government for consideration included concessions for men’s and boys’ shirts footwear, hats, ships and boats,’ passionfruit juice and pulp, tropical fruit salad, tomato and guava pulp, ginger, timber, pepper, peanuts, desiccated coconut and shell jewellery.

Sale of all these goods could help expand Fiji industry.

Independence? Who-Us?

From a Port Moresby Correspondent While the territory’s 64-member House of Assembly contains a number of elected representatives of real talent, it does not really represent a cross-section of the views of the territory’s two million people. It’s hardly a real parliament yet. pAPUA-NEW GUINEA’S comx bmed local government councils do not comprise a parliament, either, stace l *f S r bablY t tF V e j hat i at this fft 8 „ of ft® countr y s development the councillors represent a greater asT I fs1 of th r a e n I t , h err A ory Ught (SUCh as it ,s) than the Assembly.

There are 39 councils in P-NG, representing 68 per cent, of the population, and the councillors are undoubtedly in closer contact with the people. ror these reasons the resolutions of the sixth annual local government 8 of some A surprising number of the motions debated were connected with the matter of self-government, and councillors were in no doubt that the pace was being forced and that they w . an( “V , f * lrther Pressures w m ‘° War ? s self -SOvernment berouncn aft oUntry W f for Council after council said the same i, , , comnMPfft °Sr g deba * e . the . chairman, competent Mase Rei from Port Moresby, invited the conference to move a resolution condemning the use of outside pressure to bring about self-government.

He said he had told i v ; c ;t ing UN* that" the UN Tas' making a mistake in pressing New Guinea iust as the Hnteh HoH a Ske in aS a^ing U 1 h „dtts"lo take over West New s Gujnea> an ° “the UN had made a mistake in letting them do it without having considered the feelings of the West New Guinea people, “I f ee j t jj e United Nations should not exercise any power over the Australian Government,” said Mase Rei Goven^d country in a hurry”. It was passed unanimously, • Popular commanding officer of the Australian Army in Papua-New Guinea ’ Brigadier A* L. MaJ-Donall left Port Moresby in April for a new appointment as Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Canberra. He has been promoted to the rank of maiorgeneral. The new commander in P-NG is Brigadier lan Hunter 13 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

1946 1956 1964 Fijians . . . . 118,083 148,134 189,169 Indians .. .. 120,414 169,403 228,176 Europeans . . - 4,594 6,402 10,831 p ar t- Europeans . . 6,129 7,810 9,803 Other Islanders 3,717 5,320 7,232 Rotumans . . 3,313 4,422 5,635 Chinese 2,874 4,155 5,423 Others .... 514 91 121 Total population 259,638 345,737 456,390 1957 1964 1965 Average of all races 41.91 37.82 35.89 Indians only 45.61 39.84 37.29 Fijians only 39.28 37.40 36.19 “Every Care But No Responsibility”

“Every care but no responsibility’ is what Australians were working for in Papua-New Guinea, Mr. lan Downs, MHA, of Goroka, told a Sydney seminar in April. The Australian people didn’t really want New Guinea to be tied to Australia, he said, because then they would have to be responsible for it.

“But you’ve got New Guinea and you are stuck with it and you have got to do something about it whether you like it or not!” he said.

Mr. Downs said he was once a supporter of a scheme to make New Guinea the seventh state of Australia, but now he was prepared to admit that the idea was “impracticable and quite silly”. But certainly some sort of relationship was important.

He added: “Australia is capable of a bigger, more confident outlook on New Guinea than the present timid one. Unless you are careful what you will create in New Guinea is a country of proud people milking the cow of Australian aid until its teats bleed and then telling you to get out.” • For a report on the seminar, see p. 155.

Fiji'S Birth-Rate

Slows, But Still

Causes Concern

By R. W. Robson Fiji is to have an official census on September 12, the results of which will be of special interest at this time.

The population growth in Fiji still is a source of concern to the people responsible for the improvement of living standards there. The rate is falling, under the influence of propaganda directed to birth control, but has not yet reached proportions sufficient to affect the socio-economic outlook.

A CENSUS in 1946 and 1956 and an official estimate in 1964 gave these results: Up until the late 1950’5, the increase of Fiji’s population was phenomenal, and so far in advance of the development of the country’s natural resources that there was danger that the country’s economic structure could not adequately support the people.

A normal birth-rate increase among Western peoples is around 20 per thousand per annum. Fiji’s average birth-rate (all races) in the 1940’s and 1950’s was about 42 per thousand. Both major races contributed substantially—in 1957 the Fijian rate was 39.28, which is very high, but in that year the Indian rate was 45.61.

It was that staggering Indian population growth, and the fact that the Indians now so far outnumbered the Fijians, that created alarm in the Colony 10 years ago. Propaganda in favour of birth-control began about then, and pressure in that direction has been building up ever since. The effect can be seen in this table:

Birth Rate Per Thousand

PER ANNUM It is evident that the birth-control bureaus that now are operating in Fiji are having an effect; but it is equally apparent that the rate of (Continued on p. 155) Pacific Council Of Churches Soon A conference of South Pacific churches to be held at Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands, from May 25 to June 5, is expected to finally establish a Pacific Council of Churches. The new council will work as a regional group under the auspices of the World Council of Churches.

Chairman of the Lifou conference will be a Solomon Islander, Anglican Bishop Leonard Alufurai. Bishop Alufurai is also a member of the BSIP Legislative Council.

Queen Mother Has Lost None Of Her Charm From a Suva Correspondent British royalty has lost none of its charm for Fiji. This was shown by the two short visits to the Colony in March and April of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, while she was en route to Australia and New Zealand.

HER stay was an enormous success, and crowds on occasions actually were bigger than for the 1963 visit by the Queen and Prince Philip.

The Queen Mother has a great charm of her own, the display of which not even the efforts of an over-conscientious officialdom could smother (see p. 23, about traffic arrangements and reception invitations).

There were some disappointments, because of rain. The greatest was when somebody decided that weather conditions were such that she should not visit the Fiji national athletics championships at Buckhurst Park.

Suva. This was to have been the main part of the Queen Mother’s visit to Suva as far as the children were concerned, and a huge childrens’ rally had been planned, and was cancelled.

Famous Canoe The Fijian ceremonies of welcome at Government House grounds were also marred by rain.

One major departure from the Royal programme arose as a result of the Queen Mother’s interest in the iarge model canoe from the Fiji Museum which was used in the Government House ceremonies. She later asked if she could see one of the famous large double-hulled canoes.

The museum’s director, Mr. Bruce Palmer, said that there was such a canoe to be seen in Suva—housed at the old J. B. Turner residence, part of the late Mr. Turner’s collection of Pacific artifacts. It was left behind when the collection went to the Auckland Museum some years ago, and is now believed to be the largest of its type in existence.

Mr. Palmer made arrangements with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ragg (Mrs. Ragg is a granddaughter of the late Mr. Turner), who now live 14 MAY 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

at the Turner house, and the Queen Mother inspected the canoe with great interest.

There was another unexpected departure from plans when at dinner on the Britannia the Queen Mother’s Lady-in-Waiting, the Lady Jean Rankin, mentioned that the Queen Mother had spent some time on Good Friday afternoon searching the beach at the island of Yakuve in the Astrolabe Lagoon for a golden cowrie shell. She wanted one for Princess Margaret. Not surprisingly, she did not find a specimen of this rare and beautiful shell.

Ratu K. K. T. Mara then excused himself and went to the gangway, where he gave some instructions to Assistant Superintendent Nemani Raikuna. The Assistant Superintendent soon returned with a magnificent golden cowrie from Ratu Mara’s home, which Ratu Mara asked the Queen Mother to accept as a gift from Adi Lala and himself. It’s now on its way back to Princess Margaret. • Royal visit in pictures, p. 117.

Death Penalty To Go?

A bill seeking to suspend capital punishment in Fiji for five years will be debated at the next sitting of the Colony’s Legislative Council on May 24.

The death penalty would be retained in a few cases.

A similar bill to abolish the death penalty in the British Solomon Islands will be debated by the BSIP Legislative Council in Honiara in May.

Banabans Take An 'Independent Line'

Prom a Suva Correspondent The Banaban people of Rabi Island are talking independence. Still angry with their deal over phosphate royalties some of the councillors want to approach the UN about a New Banaba, and have even designed their own flag.

TTERE in Suva the independence moves are not taken very seriously, although five councillors actually turned up in Suva recently with their bags packed ready to go to UN headquarters in New York.

Wiser counsels prevailed and they returned home to their small island next door to Taveuni, Rabi, and the 1,900 Banaban people who live there, are an integral part of Fiji. The islanders settled there after World War 11, when their home, Ocean Island, in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, was devastated.

The full story of their present difficulties has been told in PIM in recent months (see especially “Angry Ocean Islanders Have No Kind Words For Britain”, Oct., 1965, p. 32).

The Fiji Government has been worried that the Banabans showed no inclination to register as electors for the Fiji-wide elections in September.

The Banabans have in fact had financial relief since their plight was first brought to public attention in PIM last year. More relief may be on the way. They have had two visits from the chief Colonial Office economist in London, Mr. K. C.

Christofas. He was making his second visit to the islanders in early May.

Following his first visit in December they received another 1/- a ton in royalties for their Ocean Island phosphate, and in June or July they will sit down in Canberra with the British Phosphate Commissioners to talk about a larger slice of the cake.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony will also be represented. This is the first time the Rabi people have been invited to such a conference on their own account.

The Rabi islanders will have as their spokesmen in Canberra the same Sydney firm of consulting economists, Philip Shrapnel and Co., retained by the Nauruans.

The Nauruans will probably be having their own talks in Canberra in late May. These will discuss the ownership of the Nauru phosphate deposits, and try to work out a “final solution” to the Nauruan request for control. Attitude of the UN trusteeship partners on Nauru—Australia, NZ and the UK—is reported to have hardened recently, and the Nauruans may find their task more difficult than anticipated. • About 151,000 people, out of the eligible 180,000, have registered as voters for the general elections in Fiji in September and October. The figures for the three rolls are: Indians, 73,219; Fijians, 71,564; general (Europeans, Chinese, etc.), 6,332.

Hydrofoil May Suit Pacific Exciting new travel possibilities may be opened up for the South Pacific if the first open-ocean ferry service operated by high speed hydrofoil, capable of travelling through six feet waves, is successful. The US designed Grumman Dolphin (left) which is capable of carrying up to 88 passengers at 50 knots will go into service in August for a Spanish company, taking tourists on a 132 mile route between Barcelona , Majorca, Valencia and the Canary Islands. 15 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1966

THE MONTH IN REVIEW Much-publicised discussions on the constitutional future of Papua-New Guinea overshadowed all other news in the South Pacific in April, which, as usual, was a somewhat disorganised month because of the Easter and Anzac Day holidays.

ITKJRMAL talks on New Guinea’s -T future took place in Canberra in mid-month between P-NG’s 14-member constitutional committee and the Australian Government.

No clear-cut Government view emerged from these on where New Guinea was heading. It was up to the constitutional committee to find out what kind of political setup the P-NG people would like, the Government said.

The Government’s vagueness caused dissatisfaction in many quarters, and was widely criticised by speakers at a seminar in Sydney on New Guinea’s future, organised by the Council on New Guinea Affairs.

Subsequently, the P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland. called a Press conference in Port Moresby to announce his retirement at the end of the year, and in the course of this he stated that the much-discussed idea of Papua- New Guinea becoming the seventh state of Australia would not be practicable.

No one has yet been named to succeed Sir Donald, nor have P-NG’s two Assistant Administratorships been filled. But during the month, the Australian Territories Department announced the names of new administrators in Australia’s two other Pacific territories Norfolk Island and Nauru.

The main events in other territories were: American Samoa: President Johnson approved a supplementary allocation of U 551,235,750 from Federal disaster relief funds to rehabilitate the territory following the heavy hurricane damage in January. American Samoa had received an initial allocation of US$5OO,OOO.

Fiji: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, arrived in Nadi by air from Australia on April 8 for a brief stay in the Colony before going on to New Zealand. She was given an enthusiastic welcome.

The first five pages of The Fiji Times of April 11 were almost entirely devoted to her, and there were also news and pictures on other pages.

Fiji’s Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway and Lady Jake way, began a nine-day tour of the Northern District of the Colony.

It was announced that the Fiji Government had agreed to allow New Zealand troops to train on Viti Levu to acclimatise themselves for jungle warfare in South- East Asia.

French Polynesia: Preparations for France’s nuclear tests have continued despite mounting protests from countries in and around the Pacific about the dangers of radio-active fall-out. To help allay fears in Australia, the French Government flew 10 Australian journalists to Tahiti during the month to brief them on its plans and precautions.

New Caledonia: Negotiations were reported to be progressing in France for the entry into New Caledonia of the world’s largest nickel producer, the International Nickel Company, of Canada.

Work on the sports arenas for the Second South Pacific Games in Noumea in December was nearing completion.

Papua-New Guinea: Plans were announced to build a large Army base at Lae at a cost of 57.5 million. The Papua-New Guinea Electricity Commission recommended a $42 million hydroelectricity scheme capable of supplying the whole of the New Guinea mainland.

Tonga: Delays, disagreements and disorganisation over plans to open the Kingdom’s first tourist hotel, the Dateline, in Nukualofa, culminated in the resignation of the hotel’s manager.

Western Samoa: At a ceremony in Apia. Prime Minister Mataafa launched a new English-Samoan dictionary, compiled by a noted English scholar. It is the first completely new dictionary of its kind for 104 years.

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Nauru and Norfolk Island, two of Australia’s three South Pacific territories, are to have new Administrators. Their names were announced in April.

BRIGADIER Leslie Dudley King, 57, replaces Mr. R. S. Leydin on Nauru, and will arrive in May; and Mr. Reg Marsh, 59, will take over from Mr. Roger Nott on Norfolk Island in June.

The Nauru post has been vacant since February, when Mr. Leydin retired. Mr. Nott’s retirement from Norfolk was announced only the week previous to the naming of Mr.

Marsh as his replacement.

Brigadier King’s appointment came as a surprise, as his name had not been mentioned as a possibility.

Major-General lan Murdoch, of Sydney, had been offered the Nauru post but he did not take it up for medical reasons. General Murdoch is a former Deputy Chief of the Australian General Staff, now retired.

Brigadier King has just retired from the post of Director of Recruiting for the Australian armed services.

Melbourne born, he was commissioned in 1931 in the Garrison Artillery and held various General Staff appointments in World War 11, and with the British Commonwealth Mr. Reg Marsh 16 may, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Occupation Forces in Japan afterwards, and later in Korea.

In 1954 he was made Assistant Adjutant-General (Directorate of Personnel Administration) and subsequently held a number of senior appointments at Army headquarters until he became Director of Recruiting in 1962. With his wife, who will accompany him to Nauru, he lives in Melbourne.

Mr. Reg Marsh is already well known in Australia’s South Pacific territories. Born in Braidwood, NSW, he was for many years a school teacher before entering the Commonwealth Public Service after World War 11.

He joined the Department of Territories in 1953 and has been an Assistant Administrator in the Northern Territory and (briefly) in Papua-New Guinea. He was closely connected with Nauruan affairs during negotiations to move the Nauruans to an Australian off-shore island and has also been connected with Norfolk Island affairs from time to time.

His present position is Director of Information and International Relations with the department.

Mr. Marsh will be accompanied to Norfolk Island by his wife.

Mr. Nott, who now leaves Norfolk Island, has been a successful and popular Administrator, and the island has seen a number of advances under him. A former NSW Minister of Agriculture, he has been particularly interested in improving agricultural methods there.

He now plans to return to farming on his wheat and sheep property at Dunedoo. NSW.

King Cam’s Book Bound In Human Skin’

A 300-year-old book, which is claimed to be bound in human skin, was on its way from Samarai to Sydney at the end of April.

THE book belonged to Cyril Barnevelt Cameron, popularly known as King Cam of Kitava, who died at Port Moresby on March 28 at the age of 78.

Cameron lived for more than 50 years on Kitava, in the Trobriand Islands of Papua, where he owned a coconut plantation.

Born in 1887, at Chudleigh, Tasmania, where his great-grandfather, a prominent member of the Clan Cameron, settled in 1817, Mr.

Cameron went to Papua in 1909 as a goldminer, and three years later sailed to Kitava, where he pitched a tent and started his coconut plantation.

From then until his death, he left his island only rarely. Two of the occasions were when he went south during the two world wars and another was in 1926 when he joined the Edie Creek gold rush.

Belonged To Ancestors His ancient book is said to have been bound in the skin of one of his ancestors, who took part in an insurrection. Certainly it is bound in skin.

There seems to be some doubt as to who the ancestor was.

One member of the Clan Cameron wrote in the Sydney Press after Cam’s death that one of his ancestors, John Cameron, third son of the 18th Laird of Lochiel, was beheaded in 1753 as the last of the Jacobites.

But King Cam also appears to have been a descendant of the Dutch patriot, Johan van Olden Barnevelt, who was executed in 1619.

At any rate, his book, which was published in 1670 and is a revised and corrected version of one published the previous year, has reposed in the safe of the Bank of NSW at Samarai for some years.

King Cam’s will provided that it be given to the museum in Hobart after his death.

The book is printed in old Dutch, and measures 6i in. x 41 x 2 in.

It is bound in “fine skin” and is in good condition. It has about 700 pages, including about half-a-dozen copper engravings.

The contents comprise letters from Queen Elizabeth and the Kings of France and Sweden, but most is taken up with the political and religious arguments of the Dutch provinces engaged in throwing off the Spanish yoke in the 17th century.

Like many of the other facts about Cameron’s life, nothing seems to be known about how he came to be in possession of the old book.

No Harem His lonely existence on Kitava led to much speculation on the mainland of New Guinea and in Australia.

He was said to be the ruler of a free love island with a harem of more than 80 Papuan girls during his years as “king”. But he strongly denied this.

Samarai copra inspector, Doug Askew, a New Guinea old hand, said in April: “Old Cam could have pulled out of there a long time ago and had a bit of comfort somewhere else. I’ve seen him only three times in the last 10 years here.”

Mr. Basil Hall, of Ringwood, Victoria, who called on Cameron with ADO Ben Hall, in 1938, remembers him as being on the beach to meet them—“a gaunt figure in black silk shirt and shorts, with a sheath knife thrust ‘skean dhu’ fashion into one ragged puttee.”

In recent years the sheath knife gave way to a filed-down hacksaw blade, with which he cut up his “trade twist” tobacco in pieces small enough for his pipe. In the other puttee he thrust a small block of wood he used as a chopping board for the tobacco.

Mr. John Stuntz, MHA, a Milne Bay district plantation owner and a friend of Cameron’s, describes him as “a fine old gentleman who liked his privacy”.

There was rarely any trouble on the island, as Cameron was respected.

Cameron’s 300-acre plantation will be bought by the NG Administration and made available to the local people, probably on a co-operative basis.

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Legalised Brothels Urged As Solution To Tahiti's 'Explosive' Social Problem The Semeur Tahitien, a Roman Catholic newspaper in Papeete, recently made a vehement protest against a campaign being conducted by local newspapers favouring the introduction of legalised brothels in Tahiti.

THE newspapers have been arguing that, with the huge influx of troops and sailors in Tahiti for France’s nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll, and with more expected, legalised brothels are the only answer to the social problem that has been created.

The Semeur Tahitien stated: “As Christians, it is our duty to oppose the establishment of legalised and protected prostitution”.

The paper’s sister journal in Noumea. Semeur Caledonien, which added its voice to the clamour, said that “establishing houses of prostitution is a graver danger than atomic radiation”.

Certainly, the French plan to hold nuclear tests in their section of Polynesia has created problems for Tahiti that the French Government seems not to have envisaged when the decision was made three years ago to build the base at Mururoa.

By mid-April more than 20,000 people had arrived in Tahiti in connection with the nuclear tests and the local people seemed dazed by everything that was going on.

Outnumbered Several thousand more servicemen are expected before the end of May, and by that time the local girls will be hopelessly outnumbered.

Five ships of the French Navy are expected in Noumea on May 13 en route to Tahiti from France via the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar.

They are the 27,000-ton aircraft carrier Foch, three escort vessels and a tanker. The Foch has a crew of 2,500. including 176 officers, and carries 50 Dassault Standard jet bombers which can carry atomic tactical bombs.

The 9,380-ton anti-aircraft carrier De Grasse is also due in the Pacific soon.

Eight French naval aircraft, en route to Tahiti, passed through Port Moresby in mid-April. One of them had its nosewheel slashed by a 43year-old electrical technician with the Department of Civil Aviation (see opposite).

Other, less violent protests against the French tests, which are expected to begin in July, continued to come from other parts of the Pacific in April.

NZ Opposition In Wellington, New Zealand, 200 members of the New Zealand Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament listened to an address by an Opposition MP, Dr. M. Finlay, in Parliament House grounds after a march through the city.

The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Holyoke, stated for the umpteenth time that his Government was “continuing to express its opposition to the French plan” to conduct the tests. He added that he had called for an official report on the extent, if any, of the health hazard that might be expected in New Zealand from the tests.

In Peru, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously approved a motion condemning the French tests and urging all parliaments of the Western world to express their opposition.

This protest coincided with a move in Lima, the Peruvian capital, to bulldoze the city’s brothels out of existence. • The Bougainville Company in April took delivery of a new 600-ton vessel for its Bougainville service.

The vessel is the Nukumanu, ex- Waiben . which the company bought from the Brisbane firm of John Burke Ltd. Nukumanu is a sister ship of the Edenhope, also owned by the Bougainville company. Edenhone will arrive in Brisbane at the end of May for a survey, when she will be renamed Nukutoa. Captain of Nuktimanu is Frank Stewart.

Moresby 'Protest'

AT FRENCH

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From a Port Moresby Correspondent A Department of Civil Aviation employee in New Guinea slashed the nosewheel of a French naval DC6B aircraft on April 19 to show his resentment for France’s proposed nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

THE plane was one of a group of eight French naval aircraft which were carrying personnel to the test site at Mururoa Atoll, in the Tuamotus, and were parked at Port Moresby’s Jackson Airport overnight.

Electrical technician Richard James Collyn, 43, married, next day pleaded guilty in Port Moresby Court to causing malicious and unlawful damage to the aircraft and was fined $lOO, in default 14 days’ goal.

The magistrate, Mr. A. A. Germain, told Collyn he was being dealt with leniently.

The police prosecutor, Acting Inspector G. Anderton, said a native constable on duty at the aerodrome had discovered Collyn under the aircraft scraping away at the fuselage with a knife.

Cuts On Tyres An inspection revealed a scratch on the fuselage and two cuts on the tyre, which however could still be used.

In a statement to the court Collyn said, “I was sitting at home by myself, when I heard on the news that the Frogs intended to explode an atomic device in the South Pacific.”

Asked what he meant by Frog, Collyn said the French Government.

“What followed, Sir, must have been my method of showing my resentment,” he told Mr. Germain.

“Now that the Russians and the Americans have decided not to explode any more surplus nuclear devices I just resented the French going ahead and doing so,” said Collyn.

Collyn said he had not been influenced by any religious beliefs.

“There is not much else I can say.

I think I was influenced by drink.”

Inspector Anderton added that the Department of Civil Aviation would decide whether to dismiss Collyn or transfer him from New Guinea. Until now he had had an exemplary record. 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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topicalities Mr. Ed. Clark, the hearty, backslapping millionaire banker from Texas, who is currently serving as America's Ambassador to Australia, is not exactly a person who fights shy of publicity.

INDEED, scarely a week passes in Australia when he is not to be seen beaming out of a newspaper photograph or from the television screen with a fat cigar, a tall stetson, a broad smile, or some other symbol of Texan largeness.

It was strange, therefore, that when Mr. Clark, with his wife and an entourage of 12, visited New Caledonia for 3i days at the end of March, the local radio, television and Press did not mention a word about him.

The fact is that Noumea’s Press corps, perhaps with the exception of the Rothschild-owned daily, France Australe, was kept in the dark about Mr. Clark’s visit; and the Rothschild paper, if it knew, kept mum.

The inference is that, with Franco- American relations somewhat strained at present, word came from Paris to soft-pedal the Ambassador’s visit.

The only Noumea newsman who did see Mr. Clark was our correspondent Fred Dunn, who was tipped off from Australia that he was coming.

No Ticker-Tape In. Noumea For Mr. Clark He says that Mr. Clark called on the High Commissioner, Mr. Jean Risterrucci, with whom he dined on the evening before his departure.

He visited the commander of the French Naval Forces in the Pacific, Admiral Picard-Destelan, a personal friend, whose mother was an American woman from New Jersey, He also looked in on other high officials and the South Pacific Commission secretariat.

Mr. Clark was enthusiastic as only a Texan can be about the reception he received in Noumea.

Noumea was not an unknown name to him, he said, because a first cousin of his, Captain Crews, of the US Cavalry, had served for four years in New Caledonia during the Pacific war.

“I shall not hesitate,” Mr. Clark told PlM’s correspondent, “to recommend this charming and hospitable city to all my travelling friends in Australia and the US. Its climate, scenery, friendliness of the people seem to me to promise a good future in the tourist business.”

Mr. Clark spoke highly of the food and the wines as he found them; he said the shopping facilities were most adequate; and he really became lyrical when he voiced his admiration for the local girls.

No Bourbon He said he would like to make a less hurried visit to New Caledonia later, and that if the occasion presented itself during the coming visit to Australia of his daughter and three grandchildren (one of whom was President Johnson’s first godchild), he would certainly avail himself of it and bring them along.

According to Mr. Clark, the only cloud on the New Caledonian horizon from his point of view was that there was no Bourbon, “that Godgiven red liquor from Kentucky”.

But like a go<xi Texan, he said that he was going to rectify that situation by presenting the High Commissioner and the Admiral with a stock of it before he left for New Guinea, via Guadalcanal, on March 31.

Several days after Mr. Clark’s departure, the Journal Caledonien, Noumea’s most popular paper, expressed surprise at the way the Government had kept the secret of the ambassadorial visit to itself, “when it is remembered with what verbosity the Administration an- Fake Notes Are A Real Issue The introduction of Australian decimal currency to the Islands in February proved, if nothing else, that just about every community can produce an up-to-the-minute confidence trickster.

On Nauru, it didn't take long for someone to hit on the idea of cutting colour pictures of the new notes out of an Australian magazine and attempting to pass them off as the genuine article.

Warned the Nauru Administration news-sheet, “Fake dollar bills have been detected in the last few weeks and all residents are warned to be on the lookout".

One of the notes consisted of two pictures stuck together. Another was of single thickness, with no picture on the reverse side.

The news-sheet went on to add: “The simplest method of detecting a fake note is to hold it up to the light. A real note not only has a watermark, but contains a thin metal thread across the narrow section of the note."

Similar instances have been occurring in Papua-New Guinea. “Play money”, and notes cut from advertisements, have also been passed.

These “notes" of course wouldn’t bear any real inspection, but apparently some of them have been good enough as one-shotters amons unsuspecting bush kanakas.

Mr. Ed. Clark 21 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

nounces the least movement of any public or Administration figure”.

The Journal Caledonien added: “We remember a time when the Americans were received here with all the honour and merit they deserved. It is true that at that moment they were badly needed”.

Following the Journal Caledonien’s outburst, PlM’s correspondent was left wondering whether Mr. Clark’s tongue had not been in his ambassadorial cheek when he went into raptures about his Noumea reception.

Up And Over, And Down Again A SALVAGE operation with a difference was completed at Levuka on April 5 when a sunken Japanese fishing boat, Koyo Maru No 18, was refloated, towed out to sea, and sunk again.

The ship capsized at the Levuka wharf last December while refuelling. She was empty at the time, except for ice which was piled high in the hold and not trimmed.

While the fuelling operation was under way an oil company representative said he wanted to fill each side of the ship alternately to prevent heavy listing.

The engineer, however, insisted on filling one side first. The result was that the ship and the ice shifted.

With the ship leaning against the wharf, the cook, apparently in a panic, cut the lines with a meat cleaver.

The next thing was that the ship rolled over and sank.

Air trapped in the holds kept the forward part buoyant and the movement of the ship endangered the wharf.

So the hatch covers were removed, and with the trapped air escaping, the ship settled on the bottom.

Mr, Robin Powell, of Levuka, who was awarded a contract to remove the wreck, kept trying for about a month to January 31, but was unsuccessful.

Another contract was later awarded to Captain Stan Brown, of Suva, but legal delays held up his work until March 28.

Air was then pumped into the vessel, and as leaks were found by divers they were sealed by a variety of methods.

Captain Brown did much of the diving himself. He was assisted by Mr. Macleay Lawrie, of Port Adelaide, who came to Fiji for the job, and Jo Aisea, mate of Captain Brown’s ship Maroro.

The people of Levuka were amazed when, at lunchtime on Thursday, March 31, the Koyo Maru No 18 rose sideways and rolled over to be bottom up.

As the cost of repairs was deemed to exceed the value of the vessel,, Captain Brown hired the former Japanese fishing boat, Fijian Princess 11, which Arthur Evans rescued off a reef last year, to tow the wreck out to deep water to be sunk.

Over about 120 fathoms, two holes were cut in her bottom to free the compressed air.

It took 25 minutes for the vessel to make her last plunge.

Fiji's YWCA Shows How It's Done COMMERCIAL houses in Suva are looking with hungry eyes at the choice 130 ft x 60 ft block of land donated by the Suva City Council to the Fiji YWCA.

The Fiji YWCA in turn is looking with anxious eyes at its financial resources, surprisingly healthy for such an organisation yet not robust enough to finance the type of multistoreyed YWCA headquarters-cumwomen’s centre which both the ‘Y’ and the Suva City Council have in mind.

The SCC has specified no commercial shops must be included in the proposed building, and it is precisely with those the *Y* hoped to meet building costs. The block is set on reclaimed land on Suva’s foreshores, a step away from the main shopping area, and commands a fine view of the harbour. £200,000 is the estimated cost of the five-storeyed building for which an overseas architect was consulted for plans. When completed, the building will become part of the new Civic Centre, and will not only serve ‘Y* purposes but also those of women’s organisations in Suva.

The Council has given the ‘Y’ three years to put up the building, funds for which it is now hoped will come largely from overseas YWCA’s and church organisations, private donations and, if possible, the Government, Running costs will be raised from hostel-type rooms.

The ‘Y 5 in Suva has grown at an incredible pace since its establishment in 1962, and it now is at the stage where it warrants this building as a replacement for its present upstairs rooms in Suva’s Town Hall.

Its multi-racial membership is around 800—with an added 250 participants in its activities, twothirds are non-Christian.

Its wide entertainment and education programme embraces almost • The "Koyo Maru No 18" comes to the surface (left) and turns over. 22 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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It runs Blue Triangle Clubs in Suva suburbs, for sub-teenagers whose circumstances prevent them attending school; ‘Y’ Wives Club, dances, and the YWCA kindergarten and play centre.

The kindergarten is under the direction of Miss Ann Walker, with Adi Davila Uluilakeba as second kindergarten teacher. Adi Davila also runs afternoon play centres three times each week. She is a graduate of the Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers’ Training College, where she won the coveted Mary A’Beckett Prize for Distinction.

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Heartburnings On The Royal Tour TT is probably impossible to draw up a guest list for an important function without offending someone by leaving him out, but the guest list for the reception to the Queen Mother aboard the Royal Yacht Britiannia at Suva on April 9 was a source of more bad temper than usual.

Here we had a list which was obviously drawn up without paying any particular regard to the length of residence in the Colony or of service to the community.

People were invited by classification. There were, for instance, all of Suva’s bank managers, most of the travel agents and also the representatives of the various airlines.

All nice people, of course, but some indignant locals pointed out that some of these people had been in the Colony “for no more than three minutes” (one or two had been, in fact, in the Colony for just a few weeks).

There was also criticism over the guest list for the reception in the Governor’s Bure at Lautoka during the first part of the Queen Mother’s yisit.

Then it was pointed out that not one part-European was included, although part-Europeans make a large contribution to the economy of the Western District.

Commented The Fiji Times in an editorial, “Presentation is an honour to be treasured—and it’s right that it should be earned, either by virtue of high public office or notable achievement or continued and devoted public service or service to the Crown.

“Invitation lists must necessarily be limited and not all who are deserving of such an honour can hope to receive it.

“But a list compiled to a large extent on a basis of classification by occupation and taking no account of length of residence in Fiji or the relative value of service to the community could have been the work surely only of someone with a sense of values governed by narrow bureaucratic practice and uninfluenced by any real degree of sensitivity or humanity.”

The Fiji Times also found a few well chosen words with which to criticise the traffic arrangements in Suva on the Queen Mother’s arrival.

Traffic was stopped in the capital for hours at a time and caused great inconvenience and a lot of indigna- 23 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

tion. There was support for The Times' editorial, which said: “The result was seen at its most absurd on Sunday, when access through the city was denied and bus services disrupted for hours, though the total number of pedestrians and vehicles in the streets was negligible.

“If people had been able to get nearer to the route over which the Queen Mother travelled several times during the day—and there was no sensible '.ason why they should not have been able to get there by normal bus services, or by car to streets or parking places just off the Royal route— more would no doubt have been delighted to take advantage of the opportunity to come to see her pass.

“The procedure in London for a Royal progress is simple and practical, and could have been applied at Suva with the utmost ease.”

Who Will Occupy New Lae Camp?

THE announcement in April that a $7.5 million tender has been let for the building of an Australian Army camp at Lae, New Guinea, to house a battalion of troops has again led to conjecture as to what troops will be stationed there.

It has been officially stated that a battalion of the Pacific Islands Regiment, comprised of New Guinean troops, will be stationed at Lae, but some people who have seen the plans of the establishment believe that the camp could be used as a training base for Australian soldiers, including National Servicemen. This suggestion had been put forward previously but was refuted by the then Minister for the Army, Dr. Forbes, The Lae camp, to be built on 700 acres of land adjoining the Lutheran Mission boarding school at Bumayong, seven miles from Lae, between the Butibum and Busu Rivers, will be a self-contained establishment. Besides having full training facilities for an infantry group it will contain a complete setup for the training of corps personnel.

Lae is ideally situated for the building of an army camp, to cater for more than 1,000 men, and Bumayong is in an area suitable for jungle training. The camp site is a large kunai and timber tract of land cut through the centre by a road built by a timber company for logging purposes and which extends for several miles into heavily wooded country and through the mountains at the back. In close proximity is the fast flowing Busu River.

Charles As One Of The Boys From Susan Young When Prince Charles, heir to the British Throne, stays at the Anglican Martyrs’ Memorial School near Popondetta, Papua, for several days in May, he will be treated the same way as the other schoolboys who will make up the rest of his group. Prince Charles will share a garden house of bush timber with a thatched roof with one of the school pupils, eat and sleep there and wash in a nearby creek.

Prince Charles arrives with a group of Geelong Grammer pupils, in what is the fifth annual visit of a party from Geelong. Geelong is a Church of England school and has had a special link with the Martyrs’ secondary school for some years.

Martyrs was founded in 1948 as a memorial to Church people killed in World War 11. Three years later it was destroyed in the big Mt. Lamington eruption, but it was rebuilt and now has 300 boys and a staff of 12. It is one of the finest secondary schools in the country.

Prince Charles will also spend five days at the Dogura mission headquarters—founded in 1891 as the first Anglican station. Here again he will join in the normal life of the mission.

Noumea Nearly

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From Fred Dunn in Noumea.

The sporting complex for the 1966 South Pacific Games in December is nearing completion.

THE Magenta stadium where the most important contests will be held is expected to be finished at the end of June. The “omnisports” hall in the Anse Vata district will be terminated in July and the municipal Olympic pool will be finished in August.

The finishing touches to the complex, such as access roads and general beautification, should all be terminated in September and the lighting should be ready in late November.

Thus a task that many locals thought impossible will have been brought to a successful conclusion — ahead of the estimated date.

However, the disenchanting job of paying for it all still has to be faced.

The estimated cost up to now is about SA3i million. To this must be added the cost of certain major road work, including a new entrance to the town some three kilometres in length. This is estimated to cost at least 68 million Pacific francs (SA680,000). So New Caledonian tax-payers are likely to remember the Games for quite a few years.

Authorities expect that some 3,000 people will visit Noumea for the Games from surrounding countries.

At least 1,200 of these will be athletes.

The influx of visitors will cause an accommodation problem, as the local hotels can take care of a maximum of only 800 persons.

To cope with it, athletes will be lodged in the boarding schools which will close early in December; a tent village at the Anse Vata camping reserve will be created; and an appeal is to be made to local residents to take in some of the visitors.

The omnisports hall in Anse Vata will seat about 2,000 people. It will be used for basketball and volleyball, boxing, table tennis and athletics.

About 60 girls have answered the call of the Games organisers to act as “welcoming hostesses”. The girls, who will be in uniform, will give their services free.

They will assist the organising authorities with the many chores which will have to be carried out during the Games.

Those with a knowledge of English will be used as interpreters.

It is expected that extra police will be recruited for the duration of the Games, and the gendarmerie will be increased especially for traffic problems.

It is unlikely that extra gendarmes will be brought from France. Probably the extra men needed will be brought in from country centres during the Games. 24 MAY, 1 9 6 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

DEVELOPERS NEEDED IN THE B.S.I.P. • PI M’s Honiara correspondent, Gabrielle Lawson, in February reported at length on Solomons development schemes. In the report she said that BSIP experiments with soya bean seemed to be a waste of money, and that the growing of rice would put money only into the pockets of big overseas companies. In this article Mr. Ken Dalrymple-Hay, of Honiara, managing director of Guadalcanal Plains Ltd., replies.

By K. H. Dalrymple-Hay.

It is obvious that Gabrielle Lawson has been obtaining her information on agriculture, in particular on rice and soya bean, from someone who has little knowledge of the subject, or is suffering from “sour grapes”.

IT is commonly known that the economy of a country is dependent upon its ability to develop its natural resources and in the first instance to produce staple foods.

These, in the case of the BSIP, are rice and meat. To quote from the 1965 annual trade report, imports of rice were 3,277 tons, valued at 5A520,840, and fresh and canned meat 944,506 lb, valued at $A303,010.

The Solomons is in fact spending $A823,850 in importing foods which ;an easily be grown and consumed in the Protectorate. A large export Market in rice and soya bean could De built up.

If the vast sum of over SABOO,OOO emained in the country, it could luite easily be circulated three times )er annum with an ensuing tax reurn to Government and a general >enefit to the community.

Mrs. Lawson mentions that growng rice in the BSIP will only put noney into the pockets of the big overseas companies. She seems to jave overlooked the fact that >A520,840 already goes directly to werseas interests for rice purchases, rith no benefit financially to the JSIP Government by way of import luty. In addition it is well known hat some of the small Honiara usmess firms exist entirely on commission received from these big overeas companies, and would go out f existence only for them.

It IS an established pattern that all t U h n . d pQ d Tp Ve ° pe ? countries, such as the BSIP must depend on the introduction of outside capital to develop their natural resources and not for ever be dependent on grant-in-aid. It is interesting to consider what the economy of the Solomons would be today without this aid.

The largest overseas company represented in the Solomons, namely Unilever, produces about one-third of the total production of copra on which Government levy an export t-ax of 15 per cent. It not only produces the copra but it purchases almost the whole output of the Solomons at world prices.

The latest overseas company to commence operations is Guadalcanal Plains Limited, with a nominal capital of $A 1,500,000 paid up to $A600,000.

Local shareholders have invested $A286,000.

The company commenced operations on August 1, 1965, and at present has 400 acres of rice planted and 100 acres of soya bean. Harvesting of both crops is due to commence m May and a further 500 acres will be ready for planting in July. It has also introduced a pure-bred herd of Hereford cattle from Australia and has purchased, as going concerns, other well-known local businesses which it intends to modernise and expand.

The agricultural side of the company’s activities will greatly benefit the Solomon Islanders, as eventually rice will be made available at S3O per ton cheaper than that imported, and when cattle numbers are increased sufficiently to permit local slaughtering, the price of meat will be reduced, Gabrielle Lawson’s article is contradictory and shows little evidence of thought for the future. Developers are needed in the Solomons and their activities will ultimately benefit all sections of the community.

ANZ Bank For The Solomons The Australia and New Zealand Bank is to establish itself in the British Solomon Islands with full savings and trading bank facilities. The BSIP for many years has been served by the Commonwealth Bank, and the ANZ Bank is the first to compete for business there.

The bank’s chief administrative officer, Mr. J. F. Hemphill, announced in Honiara at the end of April that a branch would open in Honiara in three to four months in temporary premises initially. A manager would arrive soon to organise establishment of the new branch.

Earlier in the year there were reports current in Honiara that a Hong Kong bank would establish itself in the BSIP, but there was no substance in these.

This is the rice being grown by Guadalcanal Plains Ltd. and ready for harvest in May. Here it is being sprayed.

Photo: Ted Marriott.

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VE of the electorates returned a single candidate unopposed, but nine electorates required polls. Most had only two nominated candidates, but two electorates had four candidates to choose from.

The new Assembly consists of: Arumaki Strickland (Alofi North), Togiatule Elesoni (Makefu), Phigia (Tuapa), Felesi (Namukulu), Liumaihetau (Toi), Limatau Poepata (Hikutavake), Pulefolau Talipule (Mutalau), Kaliatama (Lakepa), Falani Nogotau (Liku), Siakisoni (Hakupu), Talaiti (Vaiea), Ikimotu Paelo (Avatele), Peika Taiea (Tamakautoga), Robert Richard Rex (Alofi South).

Member System It was an important election because the outgoing Assembly, voted ,n t° office in 1963, had approved in principle the creation of a member system.

Under this system members of the Executive Committee, chosen from •he elected Assembly members, will ?e given individual responsibility for Administration departments, instead exercising collective responsibility mder the chairmanship of the Resident Commissioner, as at present.

A Leader of Government Business o be recognised as the spokesman )f the elected members of the executive Committee and of the Assembly and to be deputy chairman )t both bodies, (and in the absence )r the Resident Commissioner to >reside over meetings) will also be hosen from the new Assembly.

The creation of a member system Fid the selection of a Leader of jovernment Business by the new Assembly are new moves in Niue’s rogress towards internal self-governient from its position as a depenency of New Zealand.

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The Assembly had much wider powers than the Island Council, including the power to deal with money raised locally. It was still appointed by the Governor-General of New Zealand, but nomination of members was decided by popular vote. In 1960 the first election by secret ballot was held.

In 1962, in a further move, four new plans for constitutional development were put to the Niue Island Assembly through the Resident Commissioner. These were the same as those put to the Cook Islands Assembly at Rarotonga, and were: • Complete independence. • Complete integration with New Zealand. • A federation of Polynesia. • Internal self-government.

The Niue Island Assembly unanimously chose internal self-government and a timetable to move Niue towards this was set out.

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The creation of a member system could be the first step towards the establishment of cabinet government, but it does not necessarily commit Niue to cabinet government.

It is a step along the road towards eventual self-government, but any further steps will be a matter for the people to decide.

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MR. SUTTON’S main task will be to organise and run a Local Government Training School which will be set up at Betio, Tarawa, to train Island Executive Officers, who are to be the key figures in the planned reorganisation of local government in the GEIC.

Island Executive Officers will be clerks to the Island Councils and clerks of the new Island Courts that are to be established at the same time as the new councils. The officers will have a general executive responsibility for the implementation of the decisions of the councils.

Candidates chosen for training at the school are to have a six-month course under the supervision of Mr.

Sutton, and will then be posted to their jobs in the islands.

Mr. Sutton will spend the period after the end of the first course, which will be attended by 15 candidates, in travelling to the islands with the newly-appointed officers, establishing them in their jobs and supervising the first stages of the new system. 85 Applications An intensive publicity campaign resulted in 85 applications for the 15 vacancies on the first course, and only four islands are not represented.

An encouraging feature of the response was the fact that of the 85 applicants, fewer than 30 are in jobs at the moment (nearly all in the present island councils or the central government), which indicates that there is in the islands a considerable reserve of talent that has yet to be used.

The school was scheduled to open in early May.

Mr. Sutton, who is 47, has had long experience of local government, in Britain, where he spent 18 years on various rural district councils, and in Tanganyika, where he was Senior Local Government Officer from 1952-1964. 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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new guinea's university gets going This is the type of country in which Papua-New Guinea’s new university will grow, and these are some of the buildings which will house its students and staff.

First lectures of the preliminary year started in March, in temporary quarters. By next year students will move into these brand new quarters now going up at a great pace (at a total cost of $2 million) in the June Valley area. These buildings, in concrete block, are in fact part of the new P-NG Administrative College, but they will serve the university for some years until the university’s own buildings are erected on a nearby area of virgin bush. Roads, sewerage and all amenities are going into the new campus. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

People in Pictures At the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in April were P-NG House of Assembly memers Robert Tabua and Zure Zurecnuoc, [?]ointing out some of the details of a andsome Buin basket to a pretty visitor, he two were among 12 members visitng Australia in April on a familiarisation tour.

Corporal Henry Van Leeuween is a member of the Papua-New Guinea Volunteer Rifles—the Territory's citizen military force.

In private life he is with the P-NG Department of Public Works, based at Kainantu, where he established the first Eastern Highlands malaria control station. Before going to Kainantu he was in Rabaul.

Western Samoa's tennis season got under way in April with an opening day tournament in which 40 players took part-including these. The competition was won by Mrs. M. Williams and R. Coldham. The growing popularity of tennis in Western Sanjoa is hampered by lack of courts. —Photo: Samoana. 38 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

This happy picture was taken on the island of Naviti, in the Yasawas Group of Fiji, when Ronald Rose, of Canberra, and his wife Lyndon, were taking photographs for a children's book, "Inoke Sails the South Seas". It is to be published soon.

Left, attractive Pauline Bona, 19, of Samarai, Papua, is an Arts student with the University of Quensland—one of several P-NG stcdents who began classes at the university this year. Pauline was formerly at the Rabaul High School.

Desmond Bundu, 20, of Popondetta (right, top), and Joseph Muriki, 18, of Manam Island, are two of 12 young P-NG men selected in April to train as cadet executives for the big W.

R. Carpenter Group in the Territory. The 12 will receive three years' fully-sponsored advanced education. Bundu will be a cadet in mechanical engineering, and Muriki has a cadetship in commerce. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1960

Above, in Port Moresby in April were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hargesheimer, being welcomed (centre) by the Bishop of New Guinea, Rt. Rev. David Hand. Mr. Hargesheimer is a former US pilot well-known for his work for the New Britain people.

His wife is making her first trip.—Photo: C. H. Meen.

Below, Dr. Guy Loison, head of the health services for the South Pacific Commission, and Mr. Cedric Gardiner, SPC expert on health statistics, in Wellington, NZ, talk with Mr. Malcolm Wells, president of the Wellington United Nations Association, about the need for training Islands health workers. A training scheme started in Wellington in April.

Married in Surrey, England, Dr. John Atherton, of Surrey, to Dr. Viopapa Annandale, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Annandale, of Apia. Best man was Dr. George A. Schuster, of Apia, matron-of-honour was Mrs. Helen Mihaljevich (nee Macdonald, of Apia) and the bride was given away by Dr. Leonard Goodman, of Apia, in the unavoidable absence of the parents. The couple hope to return to Apia next year.

A pretty picture at Palmerston North, New Zealand, when the Society for International Fellowship staged a garden party for overseas visitors. On the left is Miss Lingi Siosiua, of Niue Island, with Miss Dianne RohlofF. 40 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Territories TALK-TALK With Tolala Raking over dead ashes, one-time Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley is reported to have said, is exactly what we will not do. He was answering a question in the House regarding the fall of Rabaul in World War II and about who was responsible for the tactical error of commission or omission, causing the deaths of the cream of New Guinea’s European population.

THERE has been a studied silence on this phase of the Pacific War, and I was surprised, but none the less interested, to read a story by Allan Barnes in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on March 2, of his interview with the US Rear-Admiral “Pete” Aurand, in charge of the Seventh Fleet, revisiting Pacific battlegrounds on Operation Heritage.

“Pete” Aurand in 1942 was a lieutenant aviator on the aircraft cruiser Lexington and describes how, in February, 1942, the cruiser, with four other cruisers and 10 destroyers were dispatched to block an expected enemy invasion from Rabaul. The Admiral describes in detail the attack on the Japanese defence planes, which was successful, but the Admiral in charge of the operation ordered withdrawal from attack on the harbour [of Rabaul] as the “element of surprise had been lost”.

Commenting on the situation, Admiral Aurand said: “All of us make tactical errors, but that was a real blunder. We should learn from them. Those Japs from Rabaul soon were scattered all over the South Pacific and American and Australian soldiers had to dig them out with bayonets. A great opportunity was lost—because one admiral didn’t appreciate the capabilities of carrierborne aircraft and naval aviators”.

Speaking personally, and as a frontseat observer in the Show in February, 1942 (when I was in Rabaul), I am sure it could have caused untold damage to the Jap morale, if nothing else.

Air attacks on Rabaul following its fall in January, 1942, were desultory. I remember a couple of planes coming over on the night of the occupation and bombing the commissariat stores behind Chinatown. It was quite near enough for us internees sleeping in the Kuomintang Hall—believe me! Other than that there were few alerts for air raids until 1944, when the blitz We Should Have Bombed Rabaul Early In The War really started in Rabaul on February 29, synchronising with the invasion of Manus by the Yanks, There were a few small raids in the early months, mostly on shipping in the harbour. Well do I remember the butterflies in my tummy one day when, working cargo in the hold of one of the Japanese transports anchored out in the stream, our planes came over and scored a few hits; fortunately not the one on which we were working. It’s a helpless, uncomfortable feeling really.

The cargo-working days remind me of the time, a few days after the Jap landing, when we civilians were rounded up and taken by lorry to a wharf, marched aboard a transport, which had brought some thousandodd females—mostly Koreans—for working on the coffee plantations (so they were told on embarkation).

That was a euphemistic term for work in the army and navy brothels.

Our task, the most degrading in the eyes of the Japanese, was to shift the baggage of these Little Ladies of a Thousand Delights from the ship to lorries on the wharf.

The highlight of this incident was not the feeling of degradation hoped for by the Japs, After we had fallen in and the roll called, Father Barrow, Rabaul’s parish priest, said to me rather sadly in his Irish brogue: “I wonder what His Holiness would think if he knew I was a-portering for prostitutes”, A few weeks later Father Barrow died in the Vunapope Hositpal, from typhoid.

That was 24 years ago, and a lot of water, etc., etc. . . . Anyway, I’ll go along with “Pete” Aurand in his

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There are 3,505 councillors and 39 multi-racial councils in the Territory.

Rabaul in December, 1943—from an American B-24 which had just bombed it.

Better results would have followed earlier, says "Tolala". 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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I know only too well that in the early months of Rabaul’s occupation by the Japs, they were not well organised. They were “jumpy”, their ack-ack defence was not good, there was a lack of co-ordination in the air-raid warnings and a general lack of co-operation between the army and the navy units in the town.

It was the lack of Allied air-raids in those early months which was good for Jap morale, but the opposite for us whites and for the New Guineans. . . . But one must not rake over the dead ashes. . . OK. Ben!

Territorians At Surfers

ABOUT every 10 years—or so—l receive a letter from a neo- Before by the name of Ambrose Thomas. He arrived in New Guinea in the mid-thirties for the then newventuring firm of Colyer, Watson.

Ambrose was one of those quiet, studious types. You could never visualise him going out on the town and painting it red, as so many of the new-arrivals had a tendency to do—at times. (Itsh only 10 o’clock.

Letsh take a drive to Kokopo!) The link which drew us together, I think, was a letter addressed to me and delivered to him by mistake —after I had left New Guinea, It was from one of those dynamic Yankees who become delightful pen-friends.

And such was Reginald Orcutt, vicepresident of the Mergenthaler Linotype Coy, who travelled the world and has an exciting knowledge of linotypes and the varying type-faces which are distributed in the different countries of the world. (Well do I remember when New Guinea’s first lintoype arrived, it was installed in Harry Hamilton’s printing shop on Namanula in 1926 by a Mr.

Smith, of Smith & Miles, the linotypers of Sydney.) Back to Ambrose. His last letter comes from Surfers Paradise where, apparently, he has dug in along with many another ex-territorian. And among these he mentioned Tony Corlass and wife at Burleigh Heads; Toby Donald and family on Miami Keys; Bill Bailey, an old WRC man and later POW, has a block on one of the islands and will be building soon.

Ambrose writes: “I often bump into Ron Clammer doing the beat around Surfers. He’s changed very little in the years and has retired down here”.

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He also mentions the past president of the local RSL—Major Mollard.

Mollard was an officer of the 2/22nd AIF Bn. in Rabaul and receives very kindly mention by David Selby in his book Hell and High Fever. Unfortunately, some time ago, Mollard had a heart attack, which has left its mark.

Added to these must be included Mrs. Una Adams, who has staked a claim on Mermaid Beach, and then Steve and Irene Lonergan have given Avalon away for the Gold Coast; also Wally Cordon, pioneer transport man of the early days at Wau, is also located up that-a-way, and last, but by no means least, there is Mrs.

Lillian Bennett-Miller who has settled for the simple life of Surfers Paradise.

Enclosed in the letter was a photo of a “smoko” send-off to NG recruits for the Second AIF and held in the Regent Theatre. It is not a good print, otherwise I would reproduce it here.

With a magnifying glass one can see many of the old faces of the early forties.

There is Bill Heinicke, who was sergeant-major of the First Contingent, waving aloft his tankard of ale; there is Syd. Costelloe. Jim Cromie, Tom Ellis, Sr., George Robins, lan Mac Lean, Keith Chambers, school teacher Monger, Bill Phillpot and his cobber Goodwin —all in uniform—a mixture of NGVR and 2nd AIF. At the top table, which is in the background of the picture, one can pick out John Walstab, who formed the NGVR, Sir Walter McNicoll (Administrator), Ross Field (CO NGVR) and then three chaps in whites— “Nobby” Clark (president, RSL), Major Watch (MO, NGVR) and the local pressman.

Above the top table, on the stage, is the orchestra and one member is Bert Rawnsely at the piano, and I expect another would be there, playing the violin, Eric Hopkins.

There are not many of that crowd still alive.

A Message From Cairns

NOW, don’t think I am making a thing about receiving letters from old B4s, but one came recently from Cairns and the writer was “Ces Evans, the oldest of the Kids”. And if anyone could qualify as a copperplate handwriter it is Ces. Evans.

I always appreciate good handwriting and when it is from ex-pupils of Rabaul schools I try to work out who the teacher would have been.

In this case it could have been Mr.

Crouch. Many of his pupils write a good hand. But you don’t see such good handwriting these days, pupils

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In late March, it looked as if it wouldn't be long before others were shipped to the island. 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONIHLY MAY, 1966

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Ces. writes to tell me about his Dad, Edward George (Ted) Evans, who in 1937 was managing Tex Roberts’ Garage by the old Rabaul Hotel.

After the volcanic eruption in 1937 the Evans family moved to Cairns, and for the last six years Ted was in bad health, result of mustard gas in World War I. He was an original Anzac. In January last he died in the Cairns Base Hospital and was buried with military honours the following day. His widow, Mrs. E. B.

Evans, and five children survive him.

Turn down an empty glass for Ted; he was a good cove.

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THIS is the title of a book on the Papua and New Guinea people by a professorial type of chap named Charles Dunford Rowley, MA, all of whose life—he will be 60 this October—has been spent in matters relating to education of one type or another.

For 10 years he was a secondary school teacher, during the war he was an Education Officer of some tonnage, ending up a lieutenantcolonel, and then with UNESCO he spread the Gospel of the Three “Rs” in Siam, Laos, Cambodia, S. Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. After all that he became principal at the Australian School of Pacific Administration—the grooming ground in Mosman for P-NG government officials, and now he is in charge of a major project of the Social Service Research Council of Australia, something to do with the dinkum Aussies who at one time owned this country.

Little wonder then, with all this erudite build-up of his, I picked up his latest book on New Guinea, The New Guinea Villager (Cheshire), somewhat apprehensively, for I usually have a thing about these Wise Men from the West who tell us about the New Guinea people. But once started and after a short while I realised that here was a man who, despite the comparatively short period of residence in the Territory, had a very comprehensive knowledge of the New Guinean; and not only of the collar and tie sophisticated species, which is steadily now becoming the accepted image by Australians of New Guineans, but the man (and woman) in the village, as the title implies.

With the delicate touch of the connoisseur he pulls the New Guinean 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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apart to see what makes him tick and, having seen, with knowing fingers then puts him together again —with no parts left over. He has reconstructed him as he actually is and not as Canberra would have him be in order to present an accepted, modern image to the world, and more especially to the Afro- Asian members of the UN.

His nicely defined reactions of Administration to Missions and Missions to Commerce, and vice versa, give an accurate picture of the expatriate activities within the Territory.

What I particularly like about his book is his easy style; there is nothing of the erudite, dogmatic, pragmatic savant as you might expect. He uses realistic language, not embellished with ornate gobbledegook, so often employed by many academics.

Get hold of a copy. It will be five bucks well spent.

THE H.S.N.B.

THE initials stand for Historical Society of New Britain, the which many of you know. It has received a “shot in the arm” and is due to get cracking again this year, with Jack Thurston II as its president.

In the past, New Britain’s historical research has not thrived, due mainly to the transient domicile of its officers and members. There are few organisations which do not suffer from the same disability. Here today, gone tomorrow. In time, one supposes, all organisations of social activities, such as historical societies, Apex, Rotary, RSL and also, perhaps, fraternal societies, may lean more heavily upon the New Guineans.

They have the advantage, at least, of being permanent; the expatriates are not.

And whether New Guinea wants to commercialise its artifacts as was suggested recently, is a matter to be considered. It is to be hoped such an action can be clipped in the bud; we don’t want tourists to come along and buy New Guinea curios, turn them over and find them marked “Made in Japan”. Or then again: Are we willing to do just that in order to lead our New Guinea brother up the economic garden path?

We could be at that.

A job I would like to see the HSNB tackle is to get the government to proclaim Kuradui cemetery (where so many of Queen Emma’s kith and kin are buried) a national trust, or whatever is needed to preserve it as an historical area.

And let’s hope the New Britain historians don’t become involved with their Port Moresby opposites to such an extent as to allow themselves to have the Indian sign put over them by the PM-ites and suddenly realise that their best antiques and curios are in the museum at Port Moresby.

FOOTNOTE: The above “hope” was not expressed with any special incident in mind. News that a Rabaul museum had been suggested, did not reach me until after my par was written.

Bits And Pieces

Pctcd dtaxtt* u • ETER PIANTA, who died in February. 1963, in North Queensland, was well-known on the goldfields in the early days. His will was recently contested, and in the Supreme Court in Brisbane his legacy of $21,000 to the Australian Communist Party was declared invalid . . . Mrs. Hazel Cresswell, old time miner of the Morobe fields and widow of “AH” has been visiting her daughter in New Britain, She returned to her home in Switzerland the middle of April after a short spell in Hornsby Hospital, being devirused from one of the wogs picked U P i . n Sydney. . . .Mrs. Nairie Watkins, better known to old-timers ?s Nairie Campbell of Raua (Bougainville) is down to check her interests in the Bowral district. Her mother, the wife of C. I. H. Campbell (Rabaul’s first Commonwealth Bank manager) died recently from a heart condition. . . . The Prince ot Wale . s is due for a trip to the- Anglican Mission in Papua this; month, visiting spots around Gena* (one-time home of my old friend James Benson), “The Prince will eat native foods and sleep in a native house”, says the spokesman. And thus racial discrimination is abolished and inter-denominational jealousies intensified.

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A new Samoan dictionary prepared by Dr. G. B. Milner of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London was launched in Apia by Prime Minister Mataafa in mid-April.

AT a ceremony in the Nelson Memorial Public Library he gave presentation copies to five Samoans who collaborated with Dr. Milner in his work.

The Samoans are Masiofo Fetaui Mataafa, Fa’alili Leilani F.S., Su’ifau Liumalo, Fa’api’o Faletose and Sione Fauatea.

Dr. Milner’s dictionary supersedes the Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language prepared more than a century ago by the Rev, George Pratt, of the London Missionary Society. This first appeared in 1862 and passed through three more editions—in 1878, 1893 and 1911.

By the end of World War 11, however, the original plan of Pratt’s work had been lost in a maze of alterations and amendments, and it was also obsolete.

Under a plan sponsored by the two Samoan Governments, Dr. Milner, who is Reader in Oceanic Languages in the University of London, was invited to undertake the preparation of an entirely new work.

Field Work With the help of six dictionary assistants, he set to work in 1955, first in Savai’i (Western Samoa) and later in Tutuila (American Samoa), spending over a year in the field and collecting a large quantity of material.

He then returned to London, where he spent the next three years preparing the first draft of the dictionary.

In 1959 he went back to Samoa for a second, shorter spell to check the data already in hand and to collect additional details.

He made it a point of special importance to arrive at an understanding of the precise meaning of words by studying their use at first-hand, i.e., by spending as much time as possible in Samoan villages observing traditional activities—planting, fishing, building, pastimes and ceremonies.

In 1961 the Samoan-English part of the work was ready for the press and the second part was completed in 1963.

Dr. Milner says that the large number of Samoans and Europeans whose help is acknowledged in his book, represent “an interesting crosssection of Samoa in the middle and late fifties.”

Special tribute is paid to the late Head of State, Tupua Tamasese Mea’ole, who took a great interest in the progress of the work.

The new dictionary was published in London by the Oxford University Press. Its dust jacket is in the traditional colours of Samoan cloth (white, black and brown) and it runs to close on 500 pages.

The first and the most important of its two parts (Samoan-English) is intended not only for European residents of Samoa and for scholars, but for those Samoans who already have a fair knowledge of English and who wish to express themselves more accurately in it.

Bestseller Part II (English-Samoan) is mainly intended for Samoans learning English at school or elsewhere and for translators into Samoan. But it will also be of use to all those whose mother tongue is English and whose work, travel or reading has brought them to Samoa or to an interest in its language.

The Nelson Memorial Public Library is handling sales of the dictionary in Apia, and according to senior librarian Mr. Bruce Turner, it looks like being a bestseller at £3/10/- per copy.

Its author, who is 47, is also the author of a Fijian grammar (published by the Government Press in Suva in 1956).

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Players told PlM’s correspondent that the excuse of “prohibitive costs” of sending a team was a very poor one.

“Knowing that we would need a lot of money to send a team our size, the association should have organised a fund-raising campaign soon after the first games at Suva,” said one player.

“In any case the association should have a lot of money in the kitty from inter-district matches. These are held annually and bring in more than £l,OOO at a time.”

May Be NZ Tour The players said that Fiji has sent only one soccer team overseas, and this was to Australia in 1962.

There is talk of sending a team to New Zealand in preference to the South Pacific Games but the players would rather go to Noumea, because they think it is a more important occasion.

At the first South Pacific Games in 1963 the Fiji team took the silver medal in the soccer competition after going down to Noumea in the final.

The Fiji boys were hoping for a revenge on the New Caledonians’ own ground but they have been disappointed.

Six teams took part in the competition at the Suva Games, and with the withdrawal of the Fiji entry it appears that there will again be six teams at Noumea.

New Hebrides, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea, and the Solomons have entered again, with Wallis and Futuna entering for the first time.

The president of the Fiji association, Mr. M. V. Pillai, has said that apart from the cost of sending a Fiji team being prohibitive, it was also felt that because the Games are to be held in December, out of the Fiji soccer season, players would not be at their best.

He explained that the association’s treasurer had estimated that to send a group of 17 players and two officials to the Games would cost the association about £2,400, a sum it “could not afford at present.”

The Fiji Amateur Sports Association. the mother body of sporting organisations in Fiji, had estimated a figure of between £1,600 and £l,BOO, which covered travel and subsistence, The difference in the two estimates is because the association took into account camping and training in the Colony to bring a team up to the necessary standard.

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The Editors' Mailday

Memories Of Vailima

Sir, —Having had the pleasure of living in Vailima for over 11 years, my wife and I thoroughly appreciated the historical article on this lovely old house which appeared in your March issue (p. 81).

I am sure that if your writer had had more space he would have explained that “Aunt Maggie” was really R.L.S’s mother. She was called “Aunt Maggie” in the household by R.L.S’s wife—Mrs. Fanny Stevenson.

The old lady, Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, formerly Margaret Balfour, had great courage and strength of character, and she never failed in her support for and her interest in her son. Indeed the steady encouragement and consistent backing that Stevenson received from both his parents during the many vicissitudes of his life is one of the fascinating aspects of his story.

While the roof structure of the house is badly damaged, the building itself is not, and repairs to restore the house to its former glory will not be too difficult. It is gratifying to know that Western Samoa’s Head of State was able to take steps to save from damage most of the Stevenson material which was in the house.

GUY POWLES.

Wellington, New Zealand. • Sir Guy's 11 years at Vailima were 1949-60, when he was New Zealand High Commissioner in Western Samoa, before independence.

It'S Not Henderson Field

Sir, During World War 11, Londoners and others tended to be bombed out of their homes. Among consequent vexations the question of breakfast—not to mention lunch— arose. To meet this situation the authorities established Communal Feeding Centres to serve good meals at canteen prices, but unfortunately no-one turned up to enjoy them.

It was found that the public had got hold of the idea a Communal Feeding Centre was a place with troughs for the benefit of farm stock.

So the centres were renamed “British Restaurants” and became a great success. Nothing had changed but the name.

Henderson is served by two international and one local airline, and is not infrequently host to numbers of other users. It has a modern passenger building and—in terms of traffic—is the first port of entry to the Protectorate. To refer to it as a “field” seems tantamount to referring to Point Cruz as a “beach”.

I hope you will agree the Solomons have got beyond the stage of offering visitors a choice between landing on a beach or in a field.

Will you give your co-operation, therefore, in referring to Henderson for what it is—an airport—especially in written material, on maps and plans? This would certainly aid efforts being made to project overseas the more attractive and more up-to-date image of the Solomons that they deserve.

What’s in a word? Perhaps if the right ones are used at all points of the compass, then everyone in the Solomons may benefit from the difference between a “communal feeding centre” and a flourishing— and profit-making—restaurant.

DAVID TUDOR-POLE, Chief Information Officer.

Honiara, British Solomons. • Henderson Field, outside Honiara, was so named by the Americans, and the name has obviously stuck. If the Solomons thinks the time has come to call it a restaurant then that's OK by us.

New Hebrides Dig

Sir, —I wish to thank Pacific Islands Monthly for the article in the January issue on our 1963-1964 archaeological work in the New Hebrides. It was very nicely summarised.

If we receive the funds we have requested, we shall be returning to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia areas for two years beginning in September of this year.

RICHARD SHUTLER, Jr.

Fellow in Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. • For more interesting news of Dr. Shutter's discoveries, see p. 71.

Wrist-Whipping Ceremony

Sir, Could you tell me the significance behind the Tolai wristwhipping ceremony? I photographed the ceremony at Vunapope Mission near Rabaul in 1963, the occasion being the farewell to Bishop Leo Sharmach.

The ceremony as I observed it was as follows: Two painted natives walked around slowly with their arms held rigidly and were obviously drugged or drunk. Every two or three minutes one of them would kneel down and a third man would whip his wrist with a long cane.

The noise made by this action was similar to a pistol shot. The man thus whipped showed no signs of ill effects and continued to walk around.

I saw this performed for about i hour but it could possibly be performed for greater periods of time.

I would like to find out the significance behind the ceremony and the type of drug or intoxication used by the participants. Perhaps one of your readers can help.

D. J. RUMSEY.

Kerema, Gulf District, Papua.

W.H.O. Man In Manila

Sir, —I would like to point out an error on p. 133 of PIM for March, under “People”, where Dr.

Francisco Dy is reported as having been appointed Regional Director of WHO for the Western Pacific, “with headquarters in Suva”.

This should read “with headquarters in Manila”. I should perhaps point out that Suva is the headquarters of the “South Pacific Area”, which comes within the “Western Pacific Region” of W.H.O.

ALAN H. PENINGTON, M.D., WHO Representative.

Suva, Fiji.

Fijian Band At Bendigo

Sir, —As I am an interested reader of your magazine I am writing to tell you of a visit by the Fiji Military Forces Band to Bendigo, Victoria, on March 19. The band is doing an excellent job of promoting the South Pacific, as many people in Victoria are not aware of the activities and places in the South Pacific.

Because of thunderstorms the band’s performance had to be shifted from the showgrounds and compressed into our Town Hall, which meant we were not able to witness the picturesque spectacle of them marching. The programme was then made up of Islands songs, band music and traditional dances, which under the direction of Drum-Major Epili Rayawa, thrilled the capacity audience. People were packed five and six deep around the doorways and out into the streets, just to hear the music and catch a glimpse of the band and their dancing.

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The men, with their fine physiques and immaculate uniforms, looked formidable soldiers. Any country would be proud of them.

In Bendigo, most of the bandsmen were billeted in private homes and so now I am glad to say the people of Bendigo know who the Fijians are (they are not Africans, as I heard some people say).

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Bendigo, Victoria. • Reader Curnow will be pleased to know that the Fiji Military Band made a big impact at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show with its superb marching displays, performed in the open under spotlights.

Rhodesian Question

Sir, —I am forwarding an interesting pamphlet issued by the Prime Minister’s Office in Rhodesia. It was sent to me in answer to my request to a friend living in that country to explain to me just what is going on.

It looks as if there might be two sides to the story; a not unknown state of affairs. One wonders what sort of democratic government would be introduced into Rhodesia by the gentlemen responsible for the broadcasts quoted in the pamphlet.

Keep the pamphlet. If you run any of its contents, some “official spokesman” somewhere will say you made the whole story up!

RONALD SYME.

Rarotonga, Cook Islands. • The pamphlet forwarded by Mr.

Syme was published by the Prime Minister's Office, Rhodesian Government and printed by the Government Printer, Salisbury. PIM has received several pamphlets of a similar type forwarded unsolicited from Rhodesia. Mr. Syme’s copy alleges that Britain is aiding the Zambian Broadcasting Corporation in a campaign to “incite murder, arson sabotage and destruction in Rhodesia ”, and claims that the British Government is “intent on the break-down of law and order in Rhodesia, as a pretext for military intervention".

Dalrymple-Hay Supporter

Sir, —Stuart Inder wrote a piece in PIM (March, p. 25) about Mr.

Ken Dalrymple-Hay’s Honiara hotel which does not allow Solomon Islanders into white people’s beds.

Nothing would put the owner into bankruptcy quicker than to allow them in, as most tourists which hotelkeepers wish to attract are women, and they take a dim view of innovations such as these.

It is unfortunate that people who live in a welfare state, with no likelihood of ever having to take far-back natives into their beds, should be in a position to influence world opinion. Witness Mr. Wilson trying to break down Rhodesia.

The colour question is basically an economic problem, and not a slur on a person’s colour. All coloured races have different customs to Europeans. The Fijian, for instance. a delightful fellow to meet, but a disaster as a neighbour as he will not go to bed but keeps on all night with guitars and parties, while the Indian will let every room in his house and every corner, so that the place soon becomes a slum area.

These conditions will be aggravated in the Solomons, where the natives are still in the Dark Ages. They are still using the spear, aren’t they?

Proprietors of hotels have to appreciate that they are catering for high-class people (for nobody else could afford the fares nowadays) and they want to stay in business.

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From R. F. Rankin in Apia The devastation of the hurricane of January 29 has already brought benefits to Western Samoa in the form of an intensified replanting and rehabilitation programme by the Department of Agriculture, esspecially with regard to bananas.

KEY figures in the revitalisation of the department have been the Director, Mr. T. M. S. Cunliffe, and Mr. W. H. Smith, an Australian agricultural scientist working under the expanded Australian Technical Assistance programme, Mr. Smith is head of the campaign trying to eradicate bunchytop disease which has been seriously threatening the Samoan banana industry.

The hurricane, coming on top of the depredations of bunchytop, has given the Department of Agriculture a chance to enforce a tough policy aiming at a complete kill out of infected plantations before replanting.

Planters are being assisted in the organisation and planning of village replanting schemes, supply of planting material, fertiliser, and spraying service.

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“With aid from all sources now rapidly becoming a reality, it will be possible to give assistance on a comparatively massive scale,” Mr. Cunliffe says.

With the arrival in Apia in April of a $25,000 gift consignment of utility trucks, tools and weedicides, Australia has taken a prominent place in the banana campaign.

After a brief survey in April, a World Food Programme official, Mr.

R. Arnolda, said in Apia that he hoped his organisation might be able to provide free food to planters waiting for the plantations to come into production again after replanting.

Banana exports during April were down to nil as a result of hurricane damage, but with a number of successful replanting schemes underway, it is expected that within another 18 months exports should show a spectacular improvement over the figures of the past few years— provided there are no more hurricanes.

Meanwhile, the exploitation of Western Samoa’s vast timber potential is moving steadily towards realisation.

In March it was announced in Apia that the Samoan Government had signed a Letter of Intent signifying its interest in proposals by a US corporation, Potlatch Forests, to invest SUSIO million in the industry over the next five years.

In April, a Potlatch survey team arrived to carry out week-long investigations around the Asau area of Savaii. They were to make detailed assessments of the costs involved in putting in roads, water and power supply, and buildings necessary to establish the industry.

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from the islands paress THE present pile-up of cargo at the Port Moresby wharf is a disgrace. Tonnage unloaded at the Port in the first quarter of this year is nearly double last year’s figures.

The position is so grave that one shipping agent has seriously suggested that the port should be closed. This, he maintains, is the only way possible to clear cargoes which have been banking up since last October . . .

By inference the Administration concedes that there is a problem.

The Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, told a news conference [recently] that the position was being “thoroughly investigated”.

How long will this thorough investigation take? Until a few more hundreds of tons of cargo have been piled upon the hundreds of tons of cargo that no one can get at?

Port Moresby is a growing town—and with the increasing grants from Australia the growth will accelerate. Greater demands will be made on our already overtaxed port facilities.

A start must be made NOW on increasing storage and wharf space before the whole port is choked off. Editorial in the “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

THE opening ... of the new power station at Tanugamanono and the new College of Tropical Agriculture at Alafua, following close upon the completion of Apia’s new wharf, provides solid evidence of progress in this country’s development.

No one seeing the massive engines at Tanugamanono and the space-age control panels of the power station can fail to be impressed by the growing skills of Samoan technicians; and, heeding the words of the Minister of Agriculture speaking at Alafua yesterday, no one can doubt the wisdom behind setting up such an institution aimed at introducing new techniques and vastly increased efficiency in the agriculture of Samoa and other South Pacific territories.

It is apparent, however, that while development is slowly following the right trends, it lacks balance and co-ordination. Public Works is notching some notable achievements but other sectors are lagging far behind.

The basis of this country’s economy is agriculture, and will remain so for some time, but apart from bananas, no significant improvement in production is foreseen for years ahead.— Editorial in “Samoana”, Apia, Western Samoa.

NORFOLK’S bush telegraph can be pretty vicious at times and it is usually extremely difficult for the victim to hit back.

One of our well-known local identities is supposed to have gone broke (not saving money) much to the delight of some merchants. Just how accurate are these rumours?

Enquiry at the Registrar of Lands, after paying search fee, revealed that some of the most valuable real estate on Norfolk Island, worth a small fortune, was without a trace of a mortage and apparently unencumbered. A further search with the Registrar of the Court showed that no writs had been issued and a bank’s opinion just said “honours all obligations”. It would appear that someone in our midst is trying to stir up trouble bv making up these rumours. “Observer”, in the “Norfolk Islander”.

MANY people will be appalled to realise that conditions in Chimbu have worsened to such an extent that the police are to be issued with full riot equipment —including tear gas.

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Will the existence of riot equipment effect this? Will this show that neither the police nor the Administration will tolerate this sort of behaviour? Surely a few stiff sentences for offenders, combined with instant dismissal from their work, and repatriation, would curb this before it gets out of hand?— Editorial in the “Kundiawa News”, New Guinea.

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RECENT publicity overseas has brought a number of new settlers to the island, many of whom have acquired property. Some parts of the island, especially the Middlegate extension off Queen Elizabeth Avenue and the area around Burnt Pine, have been extensively subdivided.

The Middlegate sub-division, being Crown land, is taken up under lease and this is granted subject to certain improvements being carried out within a stated period, usually two years.

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The island’s five land agents, like the visiting surveyors, are also kept busy. Land agents are not at present required to register before going into business on Norfolk, but, no doubt, as prosperity speeds up, legislation affecting them will be introduced.

Fortunately the Government has reserved a fair amount of land for various purposes so there is no danger of the island’s forests and natural scenic areas being replaced by a mushroom growth of new buildings.

Thanks to the giant pines growing everywhere, Norfolk island is unlike the typical island of the South Seas. Visitors from Australia and New Zealand have now "discovered" it. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1966

South Pacific Firewalking Has Some Odd Facets By Robert Langdon I have recently been reading everything I can find on the subject of firewalking in the South Pacific, and it has occurred to me that a scientist might make some valuable discoveries if he made a comprehensive study of this curious practice.

There are some interesting questions to be answered about Pacific firewalking that could yield information on all sorts of subjects, including such seemingly unrelated topics as pre-European migration, native trade routes, and so forth.

Why is it, for example, that although firewalking is found from one end of the South Pacific to the other, it is practised in only a handful of widely separated localities, whose people seem to have very little else in common?

Why is it that no Europeans ever seem to have heard of firewalking in the Pacific until about 80 years ago, even though the practice is almost invariably said to be of ancient origin wherever it is practised, and some of these localities have been well known to Europeans for nearly 200 years?

Another obvious question is: How is it that the firewalkers manage to do what they do without getting their feet burnt?

Four Centres According to my, by-no-meansexhaustive, researches, firewalking is practised by the indigenous Islanders at only four places in the South Pacific—Biak (West New Guinea); Gaulim (New Britain); Beqa (Fiji) and Raiatea (French Polynesia).

It is also occasionally practised elsewhere by performers from those islands, and by some of the Indians in Fiji—descendants of labourers imported into that Colony between 1877 and 1916. The Indian practice is quite different from that of the Islanders.

I first heard of the Biak firewalkers from reading the accompanying article by Mr. Hugh Clarke, of Canberra, which was what prompted my researches. As far as I could find out, these Biak firewalkers have not previously been described.

As for the New Britain firewalkers, I was able to find only one account of their ceremonies, and this was in an article in the Australian magazine Walkabout in April, 1961.

Gaulim Ceremony The author, an Australian journalist, Raymond Pauli, who now lives in Fiji, saw the firewalking in New Britain with a party of delegates to the fourth South Pacific Conference in Rabaul in April-May, 1959.

The demonstration took place at the village of Gaulim, in the Bainings Mountains, about 30 miles south of Rabaul. It was said to be an ancient ceremony, whose performers were restricted to members of a secret society whose roots ran only among the Bainings people.

The performers, for the purpose of the ceremony, were spirit men; and each had a tail, which seemed to link them with the legendary tailed men of New Guinea, of whom the late Sir Hubert Murray used to speak.

At one stage in their ritual, each performer carried a live python, which was finally cast into the pit oven.

As far as I could gather from Mr.

Pauli’s article, the Gaulim ceremony has nothing to do with the cooking of food, and therefore it differs in one important respect from the firewalking ceremonies of the people of Biak, Beqa and Raiatea.

The Beqa and Raiatea ceremonies, which appear to have grown out of the annual chore of baking the root of the ti-plant {Dracaena terminalis), are both said to date back to ancient times.

But Europeans, inexplicably, do not seem to have heard of them until quite recently, as the first ceremony of which I could find a description took place at Raiatea on September 20, 1885.

"Fiery Furnace"

This ceremony at Raiatea was witnessed by a man called Hastwell, who wrote about it in a pamphlet published in San Francisco. He described the ceremony as “passing through the fiery furnace”.

“The furnace that I saw,” he wrote, “was an excavation of three or four feet in the ground in a circular form (sloping upwards) and about 30 ft across. The excavation was filled with logs and wood and kept burning for about a day.

“When I witnessed it, on the second day, the flames were pouring Firewalkers of Beqa Island, Fiji, take turns to enter the firewalking pit.

Photo: Rob Wright. 64 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

up through the interstices of the rocks, which were heated to a red and white heat.

“When everything was in readiness, and the furnace still pouring out its intense heat, the natives marched up, with bare feet, to the edge of the furnace, where they halted for a moment, and after a few passes of a wand made of branches of the ti-plant by the leader, who repeated a few words in the native language, they stepped down on the rocks and walked leisurely across to the other side, stepping from stone to stone.

“This was repeated five times, without any preparation whatever on their feet, and without injury or discomfort from the heated stones ”

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Karely Performed Harwell's account was republished by Miss Teuira Henry in the Journal of the Polynesian Society for March, 1893—Miss Henry, a resident of Honolulu, being a grand-daughter of mie of the first LMS missionaries in the Society Islands, and subsequently the authoress of a book called Ancient Tahiti.

Miss Henry said that the ceremony described by Hastwell had formerly been practised by the heathen priests of Raiatea and that it was “rarely performed nowadays”.

At the time she wrote, only two people, Tupua and Taero, knew the secret of the ceremony, she said.

Miss Henry made it clear that the primary purpose of building the “fiery furnace” was to bake the root of the ti-plant, which, when baked, yields a sweet and nourishing juice.

For this reason, she said, the firewalking ceremony was known in Raiatea as an umu-ti (literally, tioven), “The ti-ovens are frequently 30 ft in diameter, and the large stones. heaped upon small logs of wood, take about 24 hours to get properly heated,” Miss Henry wrote.

“Then they are flattened by means of , gree n , d the y t k of a few banana trees are stripped up and strewn over them to cause steam.

“The //-roots are then thrown in whole, accompanied by short pieces of ape- root ( Arum costatum ) that are not quite so thick as the ti, but grow to the length of six feet and more.

“The oven is then covered over with large leaves and soil, and left so for about three days, when the ti and ape are taken out well-cooked, and all of a rich light brown colour.

The ape prevents the ti from getting too dry in the oven.” n . lononrl oeqa 16 9 6 till A legend which the people of Beqa (an island about 20 miles from Suva) still tell about the origin of their firewalking ceremony suggests that their prowess in the “fiery furnace” was discovered years ago while roots of the ti-plant ( masawe, in Fijian) were being cooked, A ~ . , According to the legend-a version of which is recounted in C. S. Ross s b ?SL I F ''V- r, e (1909)--Tingal.ta, a chief of the Sawau T of B f qa - * aa B r °P‘“B ln a cave for an eel he had seen there * hc " hq P ulled out a stran B e man by iiair ‘ The stranger offered Tingalita various ransoms for his freedom, but the chief refused everything until the stranger said: “Tingalita! when your tribesmen of Sawau have a masawe baking, you and I can be baked in the oven and dug out alive in four days’ time”. (Over)

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THE highlight of native ceremonies held in former Netherlands New Guinea in April, 1960, to commemorate the opening of the Netherlands New Guinea Council was a firewalking dance performed for the first time in Hollandia (now Sukarnapura) by natives from Biak.

A great mound of stones, some 15 feet in diameter, were heated all day on a raging log fire tended by natives in a variety of ceremonial head-dresses. Towards evening as the white hot stones shimmered in the black ashes of the fire they were raked flat and the blackened wood embers dragged clear.

Heat from the mound drenched the crowded circle of spectators with perspiration as the first pair of firewalkers casually strolled barefooted across the white hot stones. See my photo at right.

This feat was repeated several times by other pairs of firewalkers the last of whom spread a thin screen of banana leaves as he went.

The ceremony ended with the arrival of more orthodox walkers carrying bags of yams and taro which they heaped on the banana leaves spread on the ready-made oven.

As the vegetables cooked and crackled on the stones, along with pigs that were later added, the firewalkers awaited the feast by strolling around the outskirts of the fire.

Their feet were obviously more fire-resistant than the material they were about to eat.- HUGH CLARKE. 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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Tingalita, who fancied the idea of being able to show off in this fashion, accepted this offer.

Some time later, when the ti-roots were being baked, the stranger from the cave sprang into the oven and seated himself upon the stones.

“Come on, Tingalita, my chief’, he cried, “and join me here”.

After some hesitation, Tingalita stepped in, and found to his surprise that the stones felt cool to his feet.

But wonderful as it was, he thought it would be unnecessary to spend four days in the oven, and that an occasional performance would be sufficient.

So he expressed himself to this effect to his friend from the cave, and his friend immediately bestowed on him the power, both for himself and all his descendants, of walking in the fiery oven unscorched by heat —and so it has remained with his tribe on Beqa to this day.

Europeans Try It As far as I could discover, the Beqa firewalkers have never encouraged outsiders to attempt the feat that they perform. But those of Raiatea have not been so exclusive, with the result that even tenderfooted Europeans have “had a go” at firewalking from time to time.

The fact that these Europeans have performed the feat unscathed, and without any prior initiation or physical treatment, makes it clear that firewalking is not as dangerous as it looks, and that there is some quite simple explanation for the ability to do it.

Among the Europeans who have “passed through the fiery furnace” and have written accounts of their experiences are Lieut.-Colonel W. E.

Gudgeon, who was British Resident and later Resident Commissioner in the Cook Islands at the turn of the century; the Australian author Hector Macquarrie ( Tahiti Days, Vouza of the Solomons, etc.); and the Swedish writer Olle Strandberg ( Tigerland and South Sea).

Writing in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in 1899, Colonel Gudgeon said that on January 20 of that year, he and three other Europeans had taken part in an umu-ti on Rarotonga, superintended by a tohunga (priest) from Raiatea.

“I got across unscathed,” Colonel Gudgeon wrote, “and only one of the party was badly burned. ... I can hardly give you my sensations, but I can say this—that I knew quite well that I was walking on red hot stones, and could feel the heat, yet I was not burned. I felt something resembling slight electric shocks, both at the time and afterwards, but that is all. . . .

“Quite half an hour afterwards, someone remarked to the priest that the stones would not be hot enough to cook the ti. His only answer was to throw his green branch in the oven, and in a quarter of a minute it was blazing.

“I walked with bare feet, and after we had done so about 200 Maoris followed. No one so far as I saw went through with boots on. , . .

My impression as I crossed the oven was that the skin would peel off my feet . . . but the very tender skin of my feet was not even hardened by the fire. . .

Atiu Ceremony Colonel Gudgeon’s experiment was repeated at Atiu, Cook Islands, a year or two later by a Major J. T.

Large, who crossed the oven “three times and more” and described his experience in the Journal of the Polynesian Society for March, 1901.

As in the Rarotonga ceremony, the proceedings were conducted by a priest from Raiatea.

Major Large said he could not explain how the people taking part “escaped having the soles of their feet scorched to a cinder while going through this fiery ordeal”.

But he did have a theory on how some people—such as one of Colonel Gudgeon’s companions—occasionally got their feet burned. This was that they stepped off the stones themselves and into the live embers between them.

Moustache Curled Up Two other Europeans who are known to have ventured into an umu-ti were George Eli Hall, Turkish Consul in San Francisco at the turn of the century, and a French naval commodore from the cruiser Protet. Their experience was at Tahaa, Raiatea’s nearest neighbour in the Society Group.

Describing the experience in the Journal of the Polynesian Society for 1901, Hall said: “We stripped off our shoes and took our places behind the chanting sorcerers. Then I wished I hadn’t been so bold. All the heat I ever experienced was as nothing compared to that. My moustache and hair curled up so that I could not get them straightened for days; my hands seemed cooking; in my ears was a feeling as if fires had been kindled against the drums; my eyeballs seemed to boil out the water that ran from them. . . . But all this time my feet were cool and we passed through the ordeal unsinged and unharmed. . . .” (Over) 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1966

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Some of these explantations have been put forward by quite eminent scientists and medical men, but almost every one, merely on the evidence presented in this article, can be ruled out as incorrect, and the others sound by no means convincing.

Stones Theory This leaves us with an explantation put forward in 1901 by one, S. P.

Langley, that the secret of immunity is not in the firewalkers but in the stones they use.

And considering that the Beqa firewalkers are said to take their own stones with them whenever they go firewalking outside Beqa, Langley’s theory seems to be highly reasonable.

Langley, who saw a firewalking ceremony in Tahiti in July, 1901, conducted by a priest from Raiatea, observed that the stones used in the pit were of water-worn basalt, weighing from 40 to 80 lb apiece.

After the firewalking ceremony had been in progress for some time, Langley had a large ovoid stone of about 65 lb removed from the centre of the trench after everyone had walked on it.

Its lower end had been in the hottest part of the fire, and when it was placed in a large bucket halffilled with water, it boiled the water for about 12 minutes because it was “an exceedingly bad conductor of heat”.

“The most distinctive feature of the stone,” Langley wrote later in the scientific journal Nature, “was its porosity and non-conductibility, for it was subsequently found that it could have been heated red hot at one end while remaining comparatively cool at the top.

“I brought a piece of it to Washington with me, and there determined its specific gravity to be 2.39, its specific heat 0.19, and its conductivity to be so small that one end of a small fragment could be held in the hand while the other was heated indefinitely in the flame of a blowpipe, almost like a stick of sealing wax. . . .

“To conclude, I could entertain no doubt that I had witnessed ... a most clever and interesting piece of savage magic, but ... I am obliged to say (almost regretfully) that it was not a miracle.”

Miracle or not, there is still a lot about Pacific firewalking that I would like to know, and I hope that the Bishop Museum or the Australian National University or someone will sool a scientist on to the subject to find these things out for me. 69 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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Two American archaeologists, who carried out the first archaeological survey of the New Hebrides a couple of years ago (PIM, Jan., p. 69), hope to return to the Western Pacific later this year for further field work in the New Hebrides and in New Caledonia and Fiji.

THE archaeologists are Dr. Richard Shutler, Jr. and his wife Mary Elizabeth. Dr. Shutler, who was formerly head of the Department of Archaeology at the Nevada State Museum, is now with the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

He is particularly interested in making a thorough examination of a unique prehistoric fortified village on Mare, one of the Loyalty Islands, of New Caledonia.

The village was pointed out to him by Pere Dußois, a long-time resident of Mare, when he visited that island in company with Mr. Luc F.

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Dr. Shutler says that the village is near the centre of the island, and is surrounded by a wall of coral rocks, many of which have been shaped.

Mile Square At one time the wall was 10 ft high and 10 ft wide, and double in some places. It is approximately one mile square. At one corner of the village are the remains of a gate.

Although the village is now covered with dense bush, its outline may be clearly seen from the air, as trees growing on the fallen wall debris stand out from the surrounding terrain.

Dr. Shutler says he knows of no prehistoric village of this size to have been reported previously from anywhere in Oceania, and that the present natives of Mare have no knowledge or legends about the origins of the village.

However, large, shaped blocks of coral were used in various smaller structures in parts of Micronesia, a P. - as one the island’s grand chiefs told Dr. Shutler that his ancestors had reached Mare on a direct migration from Guam, it seems possible that investigations may reveal some link between the Micronesian structures and the village on Mare.

Meanwhile, it has been reported from Samoa that a young Samoan, Atonio Maiava, has discovered some extensive archaeological remains on the island of Savaii, inland from Safune, Safotu and Patamea. According to the Samoa Times of Pago Pago, the most spectacular is an old fort or 010 behind Patamea, which is almost certainly the biggest structure of its kind yet found in the Samoan group.

The fort is reported to consist of a huge stone wall built across a ridge. The wall has only one narrow entrance through which people could pass.

Atonio has been searching for ancient sites in preparation for the return later this year of an archaeological team sponsored by the American National Science Foundation and the Bishop Museum. A similar team will also resume work in Fiji soon.

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New Community Spirit Is Getting Things Done On Rarotonga From W. H. Percival on Rarotonga Newly-created village and sub-district committees on Rarotonga, imbued with the old Polynesian community spirit, are getting things done on the island that previously were left undone or would not have been done anywhere near as quickly and efficiently.

THE committees have been formed at the suggestion of the Cook Islands Premier, Mr. Albert Henry, and his colleagues, whose aims include the restoration of “certain aspects of the traditional ways of Polynesian life, customs and culture”.

Allied with this is the desire to increase the productivity of the little land available.

Productivity has fallen off over the years because of lack of labour, caused by the emigration of many active and useful Islanders to New Zealand; the dislike of many of today’s younger generation for working on the land; and the depredations of wandering livestock and thieves.

For these reasons, many landowners have been growing only sufficient crops for their own needs, leaving nothing for the local market.

To combat this problem, thereby reviving some of the old Polynesian ways, Mr. Henry decided to establish village and sub-district committees composed of people best equipped to sort out the peculiar difficulties of their own localities.

Committee members would be elected on merit, regardless of creed, colour or political leanings. People attending meetings of the committees would be free to express their own opinions and ideas; and the committees would give villagers a chance to make their own decisions and carry them out, without interference from the Government.

Almost Revolutionary Early this year Mr. Henry and his colleagues spent a lot of time and effort getting these ideas across.

The notion that the Government would not be telling them what to do was regarded as almost revolutionary by many of the people. But once it was fully understood it was accepted with enthusiasm.

Nikao Village Committee was the first to take action under the new “charter”. Early in February after some native shacks had been destroyed by the edge of the late January hurricane ( PIM, March, p. 49), residents went to work in the true Polynesian manner. The men cleared a new building site and erected framing while the women plaited palm thatch for the roofs.

Those who could not attend contributed money for hardboard, paint and nails, and food for the workers.

Europeans gave generous donations of corned beef, rice and sugar.

After two days’ work two small dwellings and a cookhouse had been built. And they cost the new oc-

Wartime Road Baffles Porpoises

The nearest cattle station is a long way from Bikenibeu Islet, on Tarawa, in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, but villagers there “rode the herd on an unusual quarry in March and ended up with a satisfying meal.

A GEIC newsletter reported that the villagers sighted a school of porpoises in a nearby lagoon and set off in a fleet of canoes to herd them towards the shore, where they were guided into a channel near Bikenibeu.

Six were driven ashore and rapidly cut up for distribution to every household in the village.

The newsletter added, “Our reporter says that the school was ‘swimming hopelessly ’ in the lagoon and an interesting sidelight on the story is the fact that there used to be a passage from the lagoon to the ocean just east of Bonriki, at Temaiku, where porpoises were often caught before the war. During the war the Americans blocked the passage to make a road from the air-strip at Bonriki to the rest of South Tarawa.

“One theory has been advanced that the porpoises had a migration route which led into Tarawa lagoon from the west and out at the Temaiku passage, and that is why so many were caught there.

“Others say that the porpoises like the smell of the Tonga trees growing there and nowhere else on Tarawa. Still others say that the porpoises were called to Temaiku by Gilbertese magic and link their theory with the Tabaonga people (Gilbertese of the old days whose extraordinary and absurd activities are recorded in many stories) who lived at Temaiku.

“Whatever the reason for the arrival of the porpoises they made a welcome addition to the diet of the people of Bikenibeu .”

Mr. Albert Henry, Premier of the Cook Islands, has begun his campaign to restore some of the "traditional ways of Polynesian life". 73 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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Weeding The next Nikao project was the weeding of taro patches and the cleaning of the ditches surrounding them. Then a good deal of other land was cleared and planted, mainly in kumara.

In the Titikaveka district, which has the heaviest rainfall in Rarotonga, 85 male volunteers cleaned out two of the nine creeks in record time, then planted 500 banana shoots for a planter short of labour.

Among the workers were five ordained ministers from the three local churches. The planter’s appreciation took the form of a generous donation to the village committee funds.

In nearby Ngatangiia, a district exposed to the full force of the south and south-east Trades and the heavy seas that sometimes accompany them, the villagers have planted trees along the foreshore to form windbreaks.

Ancient Road The village committee has also resolved that all land-owning males aged 18 and over must plant their land in food crops before the first week in May. It was made clear that legal action would be taken against those who failed to do so.

In late February the people of Arorangi, the richest growing area of Rarotonga, formed a working bee and removed underbrush and weeds from the private roads leading to the Ara Metua.

The Ara Metua is an ancient road believed to have been built about 1,600 years ago. Parts of it are still in use today.

After clearing the access roads, the 70 or so Arorangi volunteers cleaned and repaired that part of the Ara Metua running through their district.

In another part of Arorangi the stream that drains extensive taro swamps had become blocked with fallen trees, watergrass and sedge, resulting in the taro beds becoming inundated and much of the crop being destroyed.

This problem, a major one requiring a large work force, was thrashed out at a committee meeting. The people living near the stream agreed to do the job and 40 men started work shortly afterwards. They worked like demons, giving each other frequent spells. The project was completed in li hours.

Extensive planting of bananas, taro, kumara and other subsistence crops was aso carried out.

In the Avatiu-Ruatonga village area, close to the main township of Avarua, 60 men worked together to clear the Avatiu sports ground and drains.

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The committee members said work would start at 7 a.m., but expected only about 30 men to turn up in “Maori time”—about an hour late.

The European committee members turned up a little late themselves— and were startled to find 120 men and boys already hard at work.

In places the drains were blocked by solid masses of weeds 7 ft high, and it appeared an impossible task to clear them. But as weary men fell out for a breather others leapt in to take their place, attacking the obstacles with supercharged energy.

In four hours all the main drains had been cleared.

There were generous contributions of food from Maori and European —bananas, bully beef, coffee, pies, cakes, biscuits, raw and fried fish, this latter item being almost a delicacy in fish-starved Rarotonga.

Hard-working and cheerful women prepared the food which was more than enough to feed the hungry workers and the children of the village. A quantity of tinned and cooked food remained uneaten, and this was given away later.

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In the words of the secretary of the village committee, in a letter of thanks in the Cook Islands News: “This, our first village project, was such an overwhelming success that it has shown us, as a committee, that we have the support of the whole village behind us.”

The sub-district and village committees are essentially in the old Polynesian tradition brought up-todate—which accounts for their success.

In the “old days” the activities they are now arranging were organised and directed by the chiefs and sub-chiefs of the various tribes.

Thieves, loafers and delinquents were heartily discouraged, and it is one of the safer bets that there was far less petty crime than we know today.

It is to be hoped that the committees will extend their activities to include the suppression of food stealing and the control of wandering livestock.

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Forgotten French Navigator Blazed New Trails In The South Pacific By Robert Langdon About eight miles off the south coast of Papua, between Keppel Point and Cape Rodney, is a small, low, wooded island, which is marked on the charts as Coutance Island. About 450 miles east of this, at the extreme end of the Louisiade Archipelago, is another island of similar appearance called Adele.

T HE names of the two islands are A relics of a notable, yet completely forgotten voyage to the South Pacific in the first years of the 19th century, performed by an adventurous Frenchman, Captain Louis Ruault Coutance, in the 130-ton brig Adele.

The voyage was remarkable because Captain Coutance was: • The first man to sail from one side of the Pacific to the other south of the Equator • The first European to see Swains Island (American Samoa) and much of the southern coast of pln.i ot tne southern coast of Papua. • One of the earliest European visitors to the Marquesas Islands. • The first Frenchman to sail through Torres Strait. • Ihe pioneer of trade between • , , a * i- 6 a j V L map A part ° f a chart of Australia and New Gmnea prepared by in'll* Fr * ycmet 18 ° 8 ® nd published m 1811, shows part of the track of the French navigator Louis Ruault Coutance I apuan waters m 1804. The letters K-c (Ruault Coutance), which Freydnet used to indicate some of Coutance's discoveries, have been pinpointed with arrows.

Mauritius, Australia and South America. • The unwitting cause of Captain Matthew Flinders’ detention on Mauritius from 1803 to 1810.

Despite ail these achievements and claims to fame, no account of Captain Coutance’s voyage has ever previously been published, and his name is not mentioned in any modern t? ook on th u e discovery of New guinea or the Pacific, nor in any biography of Matthew Flinders. c I- rv .

Sailing Directory , 7 I fi rst came across Coutance’s name in a century-old South Pacific sailing directory which I was lucky to acquire in a secondhand bookshop a couple of years ago.

This stated matter-of-factly—as if there was nothing remarkable about it—that Coutance was the discoverer Ade i e Island and of some reefs near Hood Point, Papua, in 1804.

There was no other clue as to what Coutance was doing on the Papuan coast at such an early date, and as I could not discover anything about him in any reference book on New Guinea, I began making an investigation at Sydney’s Mitchell Library.

After following up numerous vague clues and hunches, I finally got to the bottom of an intriguing tale.

It all began in the year 1803 when Captain Coutance, a former French Navy officer, put up the idea of trying to establish trade between Mauritius, Sydney and South American ports to a firm of Mauritius merchants, Messrs. Merle, Cabot and Co The idea of such a trade had apre"‘ly, bee " suggested to Coutance by officers of a French exploring expedition to Australia under Nicholas Baudin, who had been in Sydney the previous year, and had called at Mauritius on their way home to France.

It is significant, anyway, that when Coutance sailed for Sydney in June, 1803, his main cargo consisted of 4,000 gallons of liquor, which, in the years before the Rum Rebellion of 1808, was the most desirable commodity a sea captain could take to Sydney.

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with a progress report before he went on to South America.

The Adele, with a crew of five officers, two pilots and 13 men, arrived in Sydney on July 15, 1803, after a voyage of six weeks. Britain and France were then enjoying a brief respite from their almost constant wars; but there was still suspicion on both sides, and Coutance trod warily at first.

When Governor Philip Gidley King asked him why he had put into Sydney, Coutance said that he merely wanted to make repairs to the Adele's mast. Later, however, he told the truth and asked permission to sell his cargo.

Governor King gave his approval, even though he was then trying hard to put down the colony’s infamous trade in spirits, and it was official policy to discourage trade with foreigners.

Misunderstandings The Governor reasoned that it was better to break the rules and make exceptions than to risk antagonising a Frenchman, because, as he put it, “less causes have produced misunderstandings in politicks”.

However, King told Coutance that he and his countrymen could not expect to do any trade with New South Wales in the future; and he also gave him a letter to this effect to deliver to the Governor of Mauritius.

King then wrote another letter to Lord Hobart, the Colonial Secretary in London, explaining what he had done. In this, he made no bones about the fact that in his view the less Sydney had to do with French-held Mauritius the better.

The letter turned out to be disastrous.

In it, King said: “I cannot help regarding the encouraging of commerce with the inhabitants of the Isle of France (Mauritius) but illcalculated for the prosperity of this colony, as spirits will be the general object of their commerce.

“Although there is no other inducement for the French to cast their eyes on this country in case of a war but its recommendation for fertility, the spirit of conquest, extending their dominions, etc., yet I consider it my duty most respectfully submitting to your Lordship’s consideration the possibility in any future war of the Government of the Isle of France annoying this colony, as the voyage from thence may be done in less than seven weeks .. .”

Ships Wrecked King’s letter, plus a copy of the one he had given to Coutance for the Governor of Mauritius, were dispatched to England in HMS Porpoise when that ship sailed from Sydney in company with HMS Cato and the merchant ship Bridgewater on August 10, 1803, A week later, however, the Porpoise and Cato went aground at Wreck Reef, 750 miles NNE of Sydney, and it was only through the resource of one of the Cato's passengers, Captain Matthew Flinders, that the crews of the two ships were saved.

Flinders, who had been going to England to seek a new ship to replace the condemned Investigator in which he had been surveying the Australian coast, sailed back to Sydney in a cutter with 13 other men to obtain help for the Wreck Reef castaways.

Governor King immediately gave him the colonial schooner Cumberland, and in this, he directed two other ships, Rolla and Francis , to the castaways’ aid.

After picking up the castaways, the Rolla sailed on to England via China; the Francis returned to Sydney; and the Cumberland, with Flinders, proceeded to England via Torres Strait, having taken aboard, at Governor King’s request, the governor’s dispatches for England.

These dispatches, especially the plainspoken letter about trade with Mauritius, got Flinders into serious trouble when he put into Mauritius on December 16, 1803, to seek repairs to the Cumberland.

Britain and France, Flinders soon learned, were again at war, but, as he had a passport from the French Government he was not particularly concerned at this.

Yet when he went ashore to address himself to the Governor, Charles Decaen, he was told that he could not have sailed from Sydney in such a small ship as the Cumberland.

Therefore he could not be Flinders, but was an imposter and presumably a spy.

Flinders was confined aboard the Cumberland and all his books and papers were removed. Subsequently, he was interrogated by Decaen’s officers, who, it seems, decided that Decaen had misjudged him, and Decaen was persuaded to revise his opinion about Flinders.

To make amends, Decaen invited Flinders to dinner. Flinders haughtily refused. Decaen’s suspicions were again aroused, and Flinders was ordered to be confined on shore.

Governor Offended It was after this that Governor King’s letter, warning Lord Hobart of the possible menace of the French in Mauritius in time of war, was discovered.

The letter gave great offence to Decaen, who thought Flinders was guilty of a grossly unfriendly act to be carrying such an anti-French document, when at the same time, he had a passport from the French Government, which gave him immunity in French ports even in time of war.

The result was that Flinders, who had no idea what was in any of King’s dispatches, was detained on Mauritius indefinitely—for seven years, as it turned out.

Meanwhile, Captain Coutance, the unwitting cause of Flinders’ detention, had spent 48 agreeable days in Sydney, which he thought was Matthew Flinders Governor King 82

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He had sold the cargo he had jrought from Mauritius in the 4dele; he had obtained a cargo of imber to take on to South America n that ship; and he had bought and efitted the veteran 60-ton brig Nautilus to send back to Mauritius vith a progress report on how he lad fared.

The Adele, with Captain Coutance, ailed for Concepcion, Chile, on Jeptember 3, 1803; and the Nautilus, low called UEnfant de I’Adele Adele’s Child) left for Mauritius ibout five weeks later.

The Adele reached Concepcion fter an uneventful, 30-day voyage iy way of Cook Strait, New Zealand; •ut UEnfant de VAdele never reached ier destination, and appears to have een lost in the Coral Sea.

In Concepcion, Coutance found hat prospects for trade were not as ood as he had hoped. Further up le coast, at Coquimbo, he managed d obtain a cargo of salmon and opper; then he sailed on to Callao, ’em, to take on water and provisions, nd prepare for the long voyage ack to Mauritius.

In The Marquesas He sailed for Mauritius at the id of March, 1804, intending to )uch at the Marquesas and pass to le north of the Tuamotus and aciety Islands.

Hivaoa, in the Marquesas, was ghted after a voyage of 24 days, ut as no anchorage could be found ; this island, Coutance moved south • Tahuata (then known as Cristina) here Captain Cook had anchored >me 30 years earlier.

In Captain Cook’s old anchorage, esolution Bay, and later at a bay irther north, Coutance found the atives friendly and well-acquainted ith Europeans. But as he could not ;t either the wood nor water he anted, he continued westward.

Coming in sight of another island, here the natives seemed unfamiliar ith Europeans, Coutance found and ichored in a commodious bay, hich he called Anse de I’Adele. ere he obtained some of the protons, he wanted, and planted some neat and maize. But the natives imediately dug them up again.

Coutance called this island Zamar land, thinking it was a new disivery. But it was, in fact, Uapou, Inch an American, Captain Joseph graham, had discovered in the erchant ship Hope in April, 1791 Continuing westward, Coutance pted the island of Nukuhiva. Then days passed before more land was en. This was a low island, covered with palm trees. It was unmarked on any of Coutance’s charts.

As night was approaching, Coutance resolved not to visit it.

But he did his best to fix its position with the rather inadequate instruments he had.

From this, and from his description of it, the island that Coutance saw was undoubtedly the modern Swains Island, whose discovery is usually ascribed to a mysterious Captain Swain who seems to have sighted it some 20 years later.

The Adele’s next landfall was the mountainous island of Vanikoro in the southern Solomons. Soon afterwards, the smaller island of Utupua was in sight, Coutance sailed between Vanikoro and Utupua; sighted what appears to have been San Cristobal; then narrowly escaped disaster on a reef southwards of Rennell Island.

Nothing remarkable then occurred for three days, when very high land was sighted about 15 leagues ahead.

Coutance changed course several points to double it to the south, but had to alter his course still more when a low, wooded island was seen ahead.

The high land was Rossel Island in the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua. The low, wooded island was the easternmost point of that archipelago. It had apparently been missed by both Bougainville in 1768 and D’Entrecasteaux in 1793, who sailed past it on its northern side.

Barrier Reef Coutance fixed the position of this island as best he could, and, as with his discovery in the Central Pacific, he named it Adele Island after his ship.

Continuing westward, occasionally in sight of the Papuan coast, Coutance headed for the Great Barrier Reef.

He reached the reef on a line about 50 miles south of Cape York, and when he could not find a passage through it, he decided to try to find one between the New Guinea mainland and the Louisiades.

To have been successful in this, he would have had to turn about and sail almost due east. In fact, he sailed almost due north, and so picked up the coast in the Gulf of Papua, somewhere in the vicinity of Port Moresby, where there were two small islands on a reef.

The islands seemed likely places tx> get wood, so Coutance anchored, Two canoes, with some armed men on board, immediately rowed out to 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1966

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the ship and looked it over, returning ashore again uttering what Coutance thought were “horrible cries”.

Next morning, when Coutance sent a cutter ashore to get wood, the natives at first acted amicably towards its crew. But presently, they tried to seize the cutter, and the Frenchmen had to head back to their ship with two canoeloads of natives in hot pursuit.

Natives Give Chase Later, when the cutter was sent to fish off the reef, the natives again gave chase. But three cannon shots fired behind them from the Adele drove them to the mainland and the Frenchmen were able to land on one of the two islands to get the wood they wanted.

This was the first landing by Europeans on Papuan soil for nearly 200 years—since the Spaniard, Luis Vaez de Torres, was on this coast in 1606. (Torres subsequently discovered the strait that now bears his name).

At daybreak next morning, Coutance continued his voyage northward, along the coast of the Gulf of Papua, having noted that the natives at his first anchorage were nude, ugly, and of middle stature; that they had shell necklaces and spears of a heavy wood; and that they “seemed like the people of New Holland, but more industrious”.

After five days, Coutance sighted “a superb river” and decided to replenish his water supplies. There were a few menacing natives in the vicinity, but these were driven into the bush with a few musket shots.

Coutance was now at the head of the Gulf, and having found no passage through the land to the northern side of New Guinea, he decided he would have to try again to sail through Torres Strait, Report On Voyage This, at the second attempt, proved almost ridiculously easy to do, and soon the Adele was heading for the Dutch East Indies with all sails set.

The rest of the voyage back to Mauritius was uneventful—Coutance returning home in September, 1804, after an absence of 15 months.

During the next few months, Coutance wrote a report on his voyage for Governor Decaen, which was eventually transmitted to the French Government in Paris.

Deeres, the French Minister for Marine, and Fleurieu, the leading French authority on Pacific geography, showed considerable interest in the report.

Fleurieu, for his part, analysed the discoveries that Coutance claimed to have made; decided that the two Adele Islands were the only genuine discoveries; and reported back to Deeres in March, 1807, that the “veritable merit of Captain Coutance’s voyage is of his having sailed through the strait which the English call Torres Strait . . . which no Frenchman had attempted before him”.

Despite these glowing words, no account of Coutance’s voyage was published, and his report was pigeonholed in the Hydrographic Department of the French Admiralty. The only person who ever subsequently made use of it was a young naval officer, Louis Freycinet.

In 1808, Freycinet, who had been a lieutenant on Baudin’s expedition to Australia in 1800-02, borrowed the report to help him prepare a chart of Australia and New Guinea for an atlas to accompany the official account of Baudin’s voyage.

The atlas containing this chart was published in 1811, and thanks to Coutance, Freycinet was able to give a more accurate idea of the coast of Papua than any previous cartographer had been able to do.

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In an explanatory note, Freycinet said: “Islands, coasts, banks and reefs marked R-C (between the 141st and 160th degrees of longitude, and the Bth and 13th degrees of latitude) are discoveries made in 1804 by Captain Ruault Coutance, commanding the French ship Adele, fitted out at the Isle of France. I have taken from the manuscript journal of that officer many valuable details . . .”

Freycinet’s information, and the details on his chart, were incorporated in the famous hydrographic work of the Russian admiral Krusenstern, published at St. Petersburg in Russian and French between 1824 and 1834. And these were subsequently copied kito the works of other hydrographers.

In June, 1827, the French explorer Dumont d’Urville made a point of searching for and fixing the position of the islet at the end of the Louisiade Archipelago, shown on Freycinet’s and Krusenstern’s charts, and having found it, he named it Adele Island just as Coutance had done. It has been shown on the charts under this name ever since.

Coutance Island, between Keppel Point and Cape Rodney, did not appear on the charts until 30 or 40 years later when all the “islands, coasts, banks and reefs marked R-C” on Freycinet’s map were carefully searched for and checked off by British naval surveyors.

Report Found In Archives Meanwhile, Coutance’s report was gathering dust in the French naval archives, and it was not until 1917 that its value as a historical document was recognised by a research worker who was combing the archives for material of Australian and Pacific interest for the New South Wales Public Library.

A handwritten transcript of the report was then made, and this has reposed, unknown and unsung, in Sydney (latterly at the Mitchell Library) ever since.

My discovery of the transcript, which has enabled me to write this, the first account ever published in any language of Coutance’s voyage, is closely akin to the British discovery in Manila in 1762 of Torres’ account of his voyage along the Papuan coast and through Torres Strait in 1606.

In that case, 156 years separated the performance of the deed from the discovery of the account of it, and another 46 years passed before Admiral Burney published it.

Footnote : Although Coutance’s voyage brought him no fame, it did prove of value to the owners of his ship, Messrs. Merle, Cabot and Co., for during his stay in Sydney, he arranged for a local merchant, Simeon Lord, to act as their agent for more shipments of liquor. One shipment, of 6,000 gallons, was sent to Sydney in the American vessel Eliza late in 1805. Governor King, again, was most annoyed, but, again, he allowed it to be sold.

J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville 85 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

Ancient Mortars Found

In Goroka Valley

Revive Old Mystery

By R. J. Giddings Three ancient stone mortars collected recently by an Administration patrol in the Eastern Highlands District of Papua- New Guinea have revived interest and speculation among people who have seen them about their origin and use.

THE mortars were found in the Asaro Census Division, which is at the northern end of the Goroka Valley. All are believed to have been found fairly near the surface, and to have come to light after heavy rains, during gardening operations, or such like.

Similar mortars, and the pestles that go with them, have been dug up in various parts of New Guinea from time to time.

By far the greater number have been found in the densely populated Highlands, although some have been found nearer the coast and on the off-shore islands.

Some interesting examples are displayed in the Port Moresby museum.

That these prehistoric artifacts represent a material culture of great antiquity is vouched for by the depth at which they are sometimes found.

In the Watut River area of the Morobe District, for example, some stone artifacts, including a mortar and pestle, were found in undisturbed strata at a depth of 14 ft. In the vicinity of these finds were the bones of an extinct mammal embedded in sandstone. The Government geologist at the time estimated that the bones were about 15,000 years old ( PIM, Nov., 1937, p. 26).

Archaeologists generally associate mortars and pestles with the existence of a grain-consuming society—the mortar being the utensil in which grain is ground into meal by means of the pestle.

The original use of the stone mortar has long been forgotten by the New Guinea people. Today, they serve no functional purpose apart from being valued as magico-religious paraphernalia in certain areas.

Tapioca Pudding Possibly the only place in the Territory where stone pestles are still used for grinding food is at Saposa Island in the Bougainville District. There, large pestles are used to mash tapioca during the preparation of a traditional-style pudding. However, they are not used with stone mortars; the food is prepared on a wooden plate.

The most elementary type of mortar is a lump of primordial rock, generally of sandstone, into which a symmetrical cavity is gouged. A smooth river stone may act as a pestle in this case.

In Papua and New Guinea a high degree of artistry was achieved in the carving of mortars. One specimen found in the Western Highlands and displayed at the last Mt. Hagen Show was an excellent example of this type. It was tall and elegantlyshaped, having handles on both sides of the bowl. Its overall design was not unlike some of the ceramic vases excavated in Greece and in other archaelogical sites in the East.

The mortars and pestles used by modern chemists barely differ in design from their ancient counterparts, although their functional purpose is different since they are intended for grinding chemicals instead of food.

The three mortars found recently in the Asaro Division were without pestles.

In the Asaro language, stone mortars are called yavirise, which, freely interpreted, means “protecting stone”. Until recent years, it was commonly believed that the yavirise exerted magical influence over the station of man in his physical environment, particularly where fertility is concerned.

It was customary for a clan group to acquire a yavirise and bury it in a secluded, sacred place. Each season it would be exhumed and doused with pig fat or decorated with coloured ochres. Such decoration not only enhanced the appearance of the object—the natives believed—but also appealed to and evoked the magical powers supposedly contained within the stone.

Amid great solemnity the yavirise would then be reburied.

A native elder acquainted with the appropriate liturgy would pray over the buried yavirise and ask it Each of the three mortars found recently in the Goroka Valley was carved from a solid lump of sandstone. The mortar on the left was found near Miruma Village during gardening operations. That in the centre was found on a hillside near Miruma Village after the surrounding soil had been washed away during a storm. The mortar on the right was uncovered when a road was being built near Nomba Plantation.

Photo: R. J. Giddings.

The stone mortar and pestle found in the Watut River area of the Morobe District in 1937 (mentioned below) are seen on the left of this picture. They were unearthed on the gold claim of Mr.

Russell Wild at Surprise Creek. The other objects, a carved bird's head and two unidentified artifacts, were found at the same spot. 86 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The type of prayer uttered followed this pattern; “Yavirise, you must make our gardens fruitful and our pigs fertile. You must make our children strong and healthy. You must look after all of us.”

An Asaro native once described to me the faith placed in the yavirise in this vein: “The yavirise exerted the same influence oyer human affairs as does the Christian Cross; both of them protect those who honour it.”

Although the cult of the yavirise is dying out with the gradual consolidation of mission influence, there are still some people who practise it.

I have visited three sacred groves in the Asaro Division where yavirise are buried, waiting to be exhumed and honoured in accordance with the age-old custom.

Who Made Them?

Comparative beliefs associated with appropriate esoteric ritual are afforded to stone mortars in other parts of the Highlands; yet they were obviously intended for use other than this.

Briefly, there are two main hypotheses regarding the origin of these artifacts. Common to both theories is the premise that their existence suggests the presence of a grain staple crop existing in parts of New Guinea some time in the past.

The most important question, yet to be answered, is: Who made and used these artifacts?

One suggestion is that they could be relics of a now forgotten people who inhabited the Territory before the arrival of the present Papuan- Austronesian stock.

The alternative is that they were used by the ancestors of the present inhabitants and were discarded when an existing grain crop was completely supplanted by a more favoured staple crop. Perhaps the new crop was the sweet potato which today is the staple food throughout much of the Highlands.

If the second, and more widely subscribed to, theory holds, another question to be answered is: When did mortars and pestles become obsolescent? And: How long ago could the sweet potato have supplanted an earlier crop?

It is believed that the sweet potato is indigenous to the Americas, and that its introduction into the Western Pacific closely followed European penetration after Magellan’s exploratory voyage in 1521.

It could have been as late as the end of the 17th century before sweet potato plants reached the interior of the New Guinea mainland over trade routes from the coast.

If this is so, it would indicate that the use of the mortar as a household utensil declined after this date, and that its demise was completed within a comparatively short time.

This could explain why their original use has been forgotten; it would also have allowed sufficient time for a magical one to have been developed.

The mortar and pestle mystery may be partly solved when the results of archaeological field work recently carried out in the New Guinea Highlands become available.

At present studies and analyses of material (including some mortars) collected in this area are being carried out at universities in both Australia and America. 87 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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Other items in that issue of 20 years ago were: ALL Territories were suffering from lack of overseas shipping due to war-time casualties among Allied ships, and some vessels still being on Admiralty service. Governments controlled all remaining vessels. There were no trans-Pacific services; Matua was the sole link between New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Niue; and Burns Philp vessels Morinda and the old Montoro the sole communication between Australia and P-NG. It was announced that Bulolo would be retained for a further period by the Admiralty and was not expected to be returned to BP’s until 1947. (She was not, in fact, returned to the P-NG service until August 1948 after nine years of war service).

HOWEVER things were brighter on the air front. Pan-American Airways were resuming at the end of the month the old San Francisco-Auckland service interruped by the war. They still had not got permission from Australian bureaucrats to terminate in Sydney, but Australia, with New Zealand and the UK, was setting up the short-lived British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines to run in opposition to Pan-Am. Both airlines planned to use Skymaster aircraft. Single fare, Sydney-San Francisco, £lB4 (1966 fare £323).

TWO Japanese officers were sentenced to death at the War Crimes Court in Rabaul, for the massacre of 200 Ocean Islanders five days after Japan had surrendered to the Allied Forces.

Although in early questioning they both admitted guilt, they pleaded not guilty to the charge on the last day of their trial.

A TIDAL wave which struck Alaska caused death and destruction in the Hawaiian Islands on April 1, 1946, and affected a number of territories in the South Pacific. At Rarotonga, Cook Islands, the harbours of Avarua and Avatiu were subject to unusually large tidal movement which accelerated until the harbours were emptying and filling at ten-minute intervals. No great damage was reported, although during the period of greatest fluctuation, water flowed over the waterfront road of one of the harbours. Western Samoa had an unusually heavy surf and normally covered reefs and mudflats were exposed off Apia’s main beach at low tide. Half of Pitcairn Island’s 24 fishing canoes were swept away and one of the 38-foot surf boats vanished.

AN article by a planter who had returned to Papua expressed disgust at the enormous waste of surplus goods in Papua and New Guinea. “Enough building material had been dumped in Milne Bay to have rebuilt every town and all the settlers’ homes in both Territories”, he said.

Millions of pounds worth of material, tools, engines, oil, foodstuffs, paints and gear that it would be impossible to buy for the next two years had been destroyed. “A fully equipped American hospital at Milne Bay,” the planter said, “was offered to ANGAU, with drugs, instruments, bedding, medical stores, etc.: but no ANGAU officer could be found with sufficient initiative to sign for it, or take it over. Finally, in disgust, the Yanks obliterated it with bulldozers and benzine.”

THE Australian Labour Government was again being challenged to hold an inquiry into the reason why 300 civilians had been abandoned in Rabaul to fall into the hands of the Japanese in January 1942. It was also being criticised for the appointment of Mr. Alex Wilson as Administrator of Norfolk Island on the grounds that it was a pay-off for Mr. Wilson who, as a former “independent” member of Parliament, had helped to keep the Labour Government in power.

A COMPANY, Aloma Products, was being formed in Western Samoa to can coconut cream for New Zealand and Europe, The factory was to be set up on Reparation Estates land and a bright future was predicted for the product which was said to be “comparable with dairy cream”. (But like the dried-banana industry—“banana-figs”—that had a run for its money about this time, not much more was heard of canned coconut cream).

IT was reported by the manager of the British Phosphate Commission that war damage to phosphate working installations on Ocean Island and Nauru amounted to £1,000,000. Work of reconstruction was, however, well advanced, and it was expected to commence exporting phosphate in July 1946 with a production target for the following year from both islands in the vicinity of 200.000 tons.

This picture, published in PIM for April, 1938, has set us wondering.

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The limited literature on Tonga has been enriched by Olaf Ruhen’s new book, Harpoon in My Hand.

RUHEN is a word spinner, and here he is at his best, carefully selecting and polishing his phrases to create the picture of Tongan life as he sees it.

It’s a simple picture, in quiet and sincere tones, which captures the character of the Tongans—their austerity and ingenuity, their love of life and of Queen Salote (who died after the book was written), Tongan weaknesses are here, too, but reported through Ruhen’s sympathetic and perceptive eyes, so that readers will want to know more of day-to-day life in the kingdom.

Whaling Adventure Yet Harpoon in My Hand was meant mainly as a whaling adventure.

Sydneysider Ruhen and his wife Madeleine went to Tonga in 1964 to collect material for the book. He wanted to record a season of whale hunting from small boats with hand harpoons, Tongan fashion, and his companions on the exploit were to be many of the survivors of the Minerva Reef shipwreck tragedy, which Ruhen so ably reported in his best-selling Minerva Reef.

But whales were scarce that year, and although the hunt for them dominates the book it is the personality of Tonga itself which emerges as the central theme.

Echoes of Minerva Reef are heard frequently as the author places many of the men in their home environment and re-examines, in passing, their characters.

Ruhen himself is at home with the sea, and his love for it shines through these pages as he works with the Tongans on rebuilding the Velata, the boat in which they finally went whaling.

The story of the rebuilding allows Ruhen to observe Tongan character at first hand, as he shares with the men and their families the problem of getting the best boat for the least money.

Such is the shortage of cash that the boat builders do not punch the nail heads beneath the surface, for the holes would then have to be filled with putty which nobody could afford.

It seemed that there was never more than one tool for each man working on the construction, and if there were any tasks beyond the capacity of the simple collection available then a tool was made for the purpose. Drill bits, for example, were hammered out of any handy scrap of metal. Waste was kept to a minimum. Offcuts of wood were saved to provide small fittings and the final small chips used to feed the fire.

“It was the same with every finished job in Tonga,” says Ruhen. “Americans particularly were quick to criticise and comment on inadequacies they saw. But these inadequacies arose not from laziness or ignorance but from the impossibility of buying supplies. They were caused by poverty, for which Tongans have always learned to find a compensation”.

But friends are survival insurance in these happy islands, Ruhen makes clear, and everyone has a surplus of insurance cover. With the Polynesian genius for improvisation, “which rises to Everest heights in Tonga”, and their endurance, the Tongans win out. The endurance of the Tongan is frequently called on to compensate for the absence of proper tools or equipment.

As the work of boat building goes on, and the whalers eventually put to sea, Ruhen continues to comment on the life around him.

Of food he writes: “The Tongans didn’t interrupt their working day to Mr. Olaf Ruhen, a New Zealander who lives in Sydney.

The end of a Tongan whale hunt. This early picture of whalers and their victim is from the records of Mr. J. D. Whitcombe, of Auckland, who lived for many years in Tonga. 91 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1966

eat. One meal a day, or at the most two, was sufficient for them. They ate breakfast if leftover food happened to be in the house, and then they ate it without any ceremony, just to stay their hunger, and probably while they were on their way to the day’s destination.

“Any time they were hungry there was always a coconut of which to eat the white meat or drink the liquid; or perhaps they would find a cooked sweet potato, or a root of tapioca, or even a piece of the yams they loved best of all.

“Their attitude to food was hardly understandable to people with European backgrounds. Food connected with a feast is of prime importance to a Tongan. It has to be of good material, it has to be cooked by the men and mainly in earth ovens, it has to be prepared to an exact perfection. But of major importance is that it should come whole to the table. No quantity of sliced ham can show the respect to guests that Tongans feel is accorded by the presentation of a small but whole pig cooked on a spit. At feasts, crabs and crayfish are also presented whole; the compliment to the guest envisages that he may take any part of the whole animal.”

Another insight into character is given by a discussion on the use of gelignite by the whalers. Ruhen’s team decided against the practice so the members could prove to themselves they could catch a whale the old way.

A "Famous" Robbery Gelignite was used by others, but in great secrecy because most of the community believed it was illegal.

This was incorrect and was the result of Tongan confusion.

Nevertheless it is impossible in Tonga to buy gelignite from any legal source, so each year before the whalers go out there is a raid upon the island of Velitoa Hahake, where the kingdom’s explosives are stored. Each year for as long as anyone can remember the resident watchman is found tied up and the magazine rifled.

Mysterious visitors then come in the night to offer gelignite plugs at outrageous prices to would-be whalers. Even bigger quantities of explosives are surreptitiously stolen, stick by stick, from the normal blasting operations of the kingdom, and Ruhen’s impression is “that the annual burglary was an institution designed to cover up the wholesale nobbling that went on all through the year”.

There are many characters in the book, not all of them Tongan.

Among them is Tavi, a Dane with long blond hair, who was trained as a civil engineer, and who now inhabits the otherwise uninhabited Hunga Ha’apai, the most westerly isle of the Tongan group. He lives there naked, and on a vegetarian diet. His real name is Preben Kauffmann, and although he has achieved the fantasy of his Crusoe island, Ruhen shows us that Tavi misses out between the theory and the practice of his beliefs.

Harpoon In My Hand is a pleasing book, and for the second time the people of the kingdom have reason to thank author Ruhen for his literary skills.—Sl. (HARPOON IN MY HAND. Angus and Robertson. $3.75).

How Australia Works

Professor L. F. Crisp, Professor of Political Science in Canberra since 1950, must now be among the ranks of Australia’s bestselling authors. His book, The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, went through three editions and two reprints between 1949 and 1962, and it has now been republished in revised and enlarged form as a Longmans paperback ($3) under the title of Australian National Government. The book’s four section titles —The Constitution, Electorate and Parties, the National Parliament and the National Government —indicate its scope.

Reprint Of Noted

Biography Of

Sir Joseph Banks

Of all the eminent men who trod the stage of 18th century England, no one exercised more sway in so many fields of scientific endeavour than Sir Joseph Banks.

HAVING decided to devote nimself to botany from the age of 15, Banks first came into public prominence in 1768 when, with his large personal fortune, he and a party of scientists sailed with Captain Cook on his first great voyage round the world.

This voyage gave Banks a lasting interest in Australia, the South Pacific and the East Indies, and from then until the end of his life more than half a century later, Banks had a hand in almost every important British project concerning those areas and many others.

In 1779, Banks gave evidence before a committee of the House of Commons that a convict settlement should be established at Botany Bay; in 1787 he obtained the first merino sheep from Spain for this new settlement as well as securing Captain Bligh’s appointment to the Bounty and supervising the equipment of that ship for its voyage to Tahiti to get breadfruit for the West Indies.

In 1788, Banks advised the East India Company on the transfer of the tea-plant from China to India; in 1792 he sent Mungo Park on a scientific expedition to Sumatra; and in 1801, he played a prominent part in the outfitting of Matthew Flinders’ famous survey voyage of the Australian coast in HMS Investigator.

So numerous were his interests and so voluminous was his correspondence about them that any writer essaying biography of Banks is in danger »f becoming bogged down in a multitude of details or of skipping too lightly over the mass of documentary material available.

Dr. H. C. Cameron in his biography, Sir Joseph Banks, has steered a judicious middle course, which has resulted in a well-rounded portrait of his subject that is both highly readable and useful for reference.

Dr. Cameron’s book was originally published in 1952. It has now been reprinted for the first time.- RL. (FIR JOSEPH BANKS. Angus and Robertson. $4.50.) The children of Captain Fifita, of Minerva Reef fame, frequently appear in Olaf Ruhen's new book. One is Tokilupe Fifita, who earlier this year was married to Olaf Ruhen's son, Carl. The two are seen here in Sydney, where they are now living. 92 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A Cook’s Tour Of Tahiti, Australia And Antarctica Australian author Alan Moorehead, whose vivid narrative style and flair for story-telling have made him widely known for his histories of such diverse subjects as the Battle of Gallipoli, the Russian Revolution and the exploration of the River Nile, has turned his attention to the South Pacific for his latest book, The Fatal Impact.

According to its subtitle, The Fatal Impact is “an account of the invasion of the South Pacific” by Europeans between 1767 and 1840. But it is, in fact, an account af that invasion in only three sample territories, Tahiti, Australia and Antarctica, and the consequent destruction there, respectively, of the Did Tahitian way of life, the Aus- ;ralian and Tasmanian aborigines, ind the whales, seals and sea elephants.

Moorehead sees this destruction as ligh tragedy; and he begins his account of it in each territory with ong summaries of what Captain A)ok and his fellow voyagers did md saw there in 1769-70 and 1772-75.

“I have naturally followed Capain James Cook on his Pacific voyages,” the author says, “since learly everywhere he was the first m the scene, and he seems to have inderstood, better than any other ;xplorer, what was happening at hat special moment and what the :onsequences were going to be.”

In the case of Australia and the Antarctic, the author’s procedure is air enough in that Cook’s exploraion of those territories did represent the fatal impact” from which subequent events flowed.

Misleading, Lopsided It was not so in the case of Tahiti, the author himself says (p. 9), 'ook would not have gone to Tahiti o observe the transit of Venus if Captain Samuel Wallis had not eported his discovery in 1767 if that “hospitable refuge” at a most onvenient time.

As Wallis spent five weeks in Tahiti and introduced the Tahitians o such things as firearms, nails and ther ironware, scurvy-stricken sailors nd possibly venereal disease, he leserves much more space in The 7 atal Impact than the fleeting reerences Moorehead gives him. So oes Bougainville who visited Tahiti year later.

Thus, Moorehead’s section on Tahiti—a total of 93 pages, in a book of 230—presents a somewhat misleading picture. The section is also completely lopsided in that nearly 70 pages are devoted almost exclusively to what Cook did and saw there, leaving only 23 pages to tell the story of what happened up to the year 1840.

The result is that those remaining 23 pages are such a dizzying potpourri of Tahitian history over the next 60 years that the author sometimes bamboozles even himself.

He speaks, for example, of beachcombers hanging about the native settlements until their money or their credit gave out, when, in fact, a money economy was still many years from being established in Tahiti.

He speaks of Robert Smirke’s famous picture of the cession of land at Matavai to the first missionaries in 1797 as showing “what a change can be made [in the Tahitians] by the gentle hand of religion”. At this time, however, the “gentle hand of religion” had only been seen in Tahiti for a few days, and it was nearly 20 years before it had any effect on the Tahitians.

Moorehead’s section on Australia is better balanced than the one on Tahiti. But again the author has to cover too much ground in too short a space, so that no truly satisfying picture of the European invasion of that continent emerges.

Only the final section on Antarctica really achieves what the author seems to have set out to do, and that is because the story of Antarctica is briefer and less complex than the other two.

RL. (THE FATAL IMPACT. Hutchinson. $3.85.) 93 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - MAY, 1966

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MONKEY ISLAND, by Jane Rietveld. Most children are fascinated by watching the monkeys at the zoo.

But this story is about a monkey who was fascinated by the children who came to watch. He wondered if they behaved as he and his brothers and sisters behaved and wondering made him quite melancholy. So one day he escaped from the zoo to find out.

Most of this story is told in rather unusual monotone drawings. (Angus and Robertson. $1.95).

I’M TIRED OF LIONS, by Zhenya Gay. Little Leo the Lion decided he’d rather be any other kind of animal than a lion—until he set out to see how the rest of the world lived. There are plenty of animal illustrations in this book but a good slice of story as well. (Angus and Robertson. $1.60).

SHARKS, a Reed Science Colourbook, is for older children. It is written by Dr. J. A. F. Garrick who is senior lecturer in zoology at Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. He has studied sharks in Australia, New Zealand, Africa and elsewhere. It is full of coloured illustrations and up-to-date information that should make it of interest to budding naturalists and to all youngsters who spend their summers surfing and swimming in coastal waters. (A.. H. & A. W. Reed. $1.15).

THE IMPROBABLE KANGA- ROO, by Axel Poignant, deals with other Australian weirdies as well.

It is illustrated by the author’s own excellent photographs of wild-life and by drawings, many of them by the very earliest European visitors to Australia.

The text combines historical fact and modern information very pleasantly. It describes how 18th century Europe believed explorers’ descriptions of large animals who stood on their hind legs and carried their young in a pouch or of black swans were leg-pulls; and has something to say about present-day conservation methods.

This well-produced book would make an excellent gift for anyone over the age of 10 who is interested in nature.- JT. (Angus and Robertson. $4.95.) 94 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Best of the Paperdacks : iction

Corporation Wife, By

Catherine Gaskin. What it is like to >e married into an American corporaion, to live in a corporation town tnd to learn to look upon the orporation as God. (Fontana; 80c.)

Northwest Passage, By

Cenneth Roberts. The classic novel if America before it became the Jnited States. The hero is Major logers but his attempt to find the aythical North-West Passage to India nd riches is only part of the saga if earliest North American pioneerag. (Fontana; 90c.)

Our Mother’S House, By

ulian Gloag. When a mother dies, er seven young children, all jrrified of the unknown horrors of n orphanage, decide to bury her i the garden and pretend to the mrld that she is ill and can’t be ;en. (Pan; 80c.)

The Flowers Of The

OREST, by Elizabeth Byrd, ixteenth century Scottish history, 'hen the Scots had a King of their wn and the King a Queen — largaret Tudor—who was furiously jalous of his mistresses. (Pan; 80c.) THE RAGMAN’S DAUGHTER, y Alan Sillitoe. A collection of cries based on that most fashionble of all facets of contemporary nglish life—the lower classes.

Pan; 60c.) THE GIFTS and Other Stories. . collection from famous writers— tells, Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, laupassant among them—abridged ad simplified by Anthony Toyne for udents of English. (Oxford Unijrsity Press; 70c.)

Beyond The Chindwin, By

ernard Fergusson. This account of le adventures of the Number Five olumn of the Wingate Expedition ito Burma in 1943 was first pubshed in 1945. It has run into many iitions since. The author was a [ember of Five Column and his aok is regarded as one of the best ever to be written about ingle warfare. (Fontana; 60c.) hrillers And Crime THE DROWNER, by John D. [acdonald, regarded as the doyen of riters of the tough American school : crime. (Pan; 60c.)

The Long Saturday Night

and STAIN OF SUSPICION, by Charles Williams, who is following in Macdonald’s footsteps. (Pan; 40c and 60c.) MODESTY BLAISE, by Peter O’Donnell. This James Bond-ess leaves behind her a trail of men spattered all over the sidewalks or crumpled at the bottom of cliffs with broken necks. The trend in with-it crime fiction—written, filmed or televised—is to the eminently bed-worthy female who is still more deadly than the male with a knuckleduster, automatic or karate. (Pan; 60c.)

Why Didn’T They Ask

EVANS and DEAD MAN’S FOLLY, by Agatha Christie, may seem tame in comparison with the above—but Poirot and Miss Marples are still going strong after 40 years, and it will be a miracle if Modesty is still cracking necks in 2006. (Fontana and Pan; 60c each.) Non-Fiction

Road To Volgograd, By

Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, etc.). Although this is an account of the author’s visit to the Soviet Union the description “factual” doesn’t seem to meet the bill. The prose seems to be more fitted to a novel. However, as the blurb says, he brings an uninhibited eye and ear to bear on Russia. (Pan; 60c.) ON SAFARI, by Armand Denis.

Reviewed in the original edition in 1963. Mostly about Africa, a little about New Guinea—where Territorians told him a lot of strange things about head-hunters. (Fontana; 90c.) MODERN DANCING, by Nornie Dwyer, who runs a dancing school in London. Do it yourself instructions for everything from the waltz to the twist. (Pan; 80c.) NEEDLEWORK AND EM- BROIDERY, by Winifred Butler.

Basic sewing, embroidery, knitting and home furnishing techniques for the less vigorous hobbyist. Illustrated. (Pan; 80c.) THE SIXTH SENSE and THE INFINITE HIVE, by Rosalind Heywood. Both about extra sensory perception—a term covering a wide range of human experiences for which no physical cause has yet been found. (Pan; 80c each.)

The Student Guide To

BRITAIN, by Helen Pickthorn, MA.

As the title indicates, this is a guide for the thousands of overseas students in Britain. It covers accommodation, costs, social life and customs, entertainment, welfare services, educational facilities universities, technical institutions and specialist schools, etc. Correct up to November, 1965. (Pan Original; 80c.)

Through Gates Of

SPLENDOUR, by Elizabeth Elliot.

The author is the widow of one of five young American missionaries who were killed by the Auca Indians of Ecuador where they were carrying on their work. (Hodder; 75c.)

Educating Your Dog, By

Monty Hamilton-Wilkes, a recognised expert on animal training and care. This booklet is designed for both the average dog owner who merely wants pleasure and companionship from his dog, and for the owner who enters in obedience competitions. Judging by the number of uneducated hounds abroad these days it might be a good thing to hand something of this sort out to all owners of new pups. Illustrated. (Horwitz, distributed by Ure Smith; SI.)

Frontiers Of Science And

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provide in popular strip cartoon form, potted outlines of the problems and reaseaches currently engaging the attention of scientists.

The contents of the two books first appeared in the newspaper strip, Frontiers of Science, which is now published in more than 100 newspapers—a tribute to its scientific adviser, Professor Stuart Butler, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Sydney University, and Robert Raymond, a Sydney TV producer, who writes the text. The artist is Andrea Bresciani.

With subjects as diverse as the theory of probability and the population explosion, the books provide excellent fare as conversation starters at a cocktail party or for fathers wishing to keep up with their sons. (Horwitz; 60c each). 95 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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Down with robber-barons Articles which originally appeared in the Australian journal “Nation ” form part of “Managers and Men”, a study of industrial relationships, by R. A. Ramsay.

A GREAT deal of this book sounds like theory, although the author’s career suggests anything but that.

He graduated in Law from Melbourne University and in 1951 became an industrial advocate on the side of Big Business. After two years he had had enough of it and went to sea in Swedish vessels, working his way up from deck-hand to third officer. He got his mastermariner’s certificate in London in 1962, returned to Sydney and became assistant manager in a shipping company.

It is from this position, at the age of 40, that he makes this assessment of the fundamental conflict between employer and employee, much of which has become indistinct and distorted at the present time.

Much of the fault lies with the employer (he seems to think). “If we are to come to grips with economic injustice,” he says, “it is essential that more of the affairs of large companies be exposed to the public gaze.”

He thinks that a Prices Court (rather than an Arbitration Court that sets wages) could become the instrument for regulating economic injustice—by refusing price approvals to companies paying excessive dividends or top salaries; that more money should be spent on equipment to wipe out drudgery; and that softpadded board-room control should be outed.

What he doesn’t tell us is how to keep the country from going broke and disintegrating into economic confusion while we are stamping out the commercial robber-barons and turning control over to Government which, basically, appears to be what he is suggesting.

IT. (MANAGERS AND MEN. Ure Smith $3.25.)

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New Novels

Our London Office, By

Thomas Armstrong. This carries on his Crowthers of Bankdam series, following the Yorkshire mill-owning family into its third generation and London. It is one of those slowflowing English chronicles, told in the first-person by young Charles Crowther, in such detail that it seems to list every bus he takes during the currency of the story. This seems to be a typically English form of novel.

The Americans also have their family sagas but they are more souped-up jobs. (Collins. $3.15).

The Copper Crucible, By

Betty Collins. This Australian first novel is based on the disastrous Mt. Isa strike of 1965. Based, too, on the author’s own experience of the copper mining town of North Queensland. Her grandfather owned a mine there before the big mining company, Mt. Isa Mines, went into business. She now lives in Sydney but lived in Mt. Isa in 1957 when she was president of the women’s committee of the Industrial Council.

She tells her story of life in a strike-bound mining-town through Australian Julie married to a Greek employee who is also a prominent union official. A typical Australian theme written with considerable insight and a firm grip on local colour. (Jacaranda. $3.50).

THE RANGER IN THE HILLS, by Lucy Walker. It is possible that the author has lived all her life in the Australian outback and just happens to write about it as though she lives in Tooting Bee or Melbourne, Vic. This unsophisticated romance against the improbable background of Malley’s Find seems about 30 years out of date but will probably find customers among the lending library trade.- JT. (Collins. $2.50.)

Revised Version

Of Noted Pacific

BIBLIOGRAPHY SINCE 1951, Pacific scholars have been well served by Mr. C. R. H.

Taylor’s A Pacific Bibliography, a work of 492 pages published by the Polynesian Society, Wellington.

Now, after a lapse of 15 years, Mr. Taylor has revised, extended and brought his bibliography up to the year 1960, and has had it republished by the Oxford University Press.

The new edition is a considerable improvement. It is exactly 200 pages longer, and it now has something like 15,000 entries.

The old system of grouping the entries for each territory into sections such as general works, ethnology, physical and mental characteristics, origins and migrations, culture contact and influences, etc., etc., is still followed. But the sections have been subdivided for some of the bigger territories. Another innovation is a section on Pitcairn Island.

A most welcome feature is that the index—one of the weaknesses of the first edition—has been extended from 23 to 95 pages, so that it is now a fairly complete guide to the authors listed in the body of the book. It is still not foolproof.

If you are curious to know, for example, what works are listed by Sir Albert Ellis, the index will refer you to only two of his three books —in the Ellice Islands section on p. 138. However, if you happen to look under Gilbert Islands on p. 569, you will find all three books listed.

Considering the enormous amount of time and effort that Mr. Taylor has put into his work, it would be pleasant to be able to say that he has virtually left no stone unturned in his quest for Pacific literature.

However, this is not the case. Even this reviewer’s very modest library of Pacific books yielded nearly a dozen titles unrecorded by Mr.

Taylor, and it is not difficult to think of others, and find them missing too.

But just as one should never look a gift horse in the mouth, one should never look for shortcomings in a bibliography of this kind. Such works are always labours of love; they will almost invariably lead a true research worker to any items that have been left out; they are always worth far more than you have to pay for them. Mr. Taylor’s costs 5A24.80, RL. 97 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1906

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The New Zealand Government decided in early April to make a grant of £9,000 towards the cost of replacing the wharf at Avarua, Rarotonga.

BUT no decision had been made to mid-month on loans sought by the Cook Islands Government to develop Avatiu Harbour at Rarotonga as the principal port in the group, and to widen the reef passage and improve landing facilities at the outer island of Mangaia.

The jetty at Avarua, which is to be replaced, was put out of action by the hurricane that swept through the Central South Pacific at the end of January. The entire structure was buckled when the hurricane snapped its piles ( PIM, March, p. 49).

The New Zealand Minister of Island Territories, Mr. I. R, Hanan, said on April 12 that his Government was considering granting loans totalling £101,500 for harbour facilities at Avatiu Harbour and at Mangaia.

Technical Data He said information on the technical aspects of both harbour development projects was being supplied by the Cook Islands Government, and the means of servicing the loans was being studied.

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Ship Given To

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The vessel, MFV 630, is to be used by the Colony Government to ply between Tarawa and the nearby islands carrying cargo and touring officers on the outward trips and thatch and copra on the return trips.

The vessel is 55 feet long and has a beam of 16 feet. An 110 hp diesel gives it a speed of about nine knots.

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Western Samoa’s Minister of Marine, Mr. F. C. F. Nelson, said in a broadcast statement early in April that Apia’s new deep-sea wharf was safe, but that mooring lines of sufficient strength had not then arrived.

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A week or so earlier, the Matua was moved from the wharf to a harbour anchorage after breaking three of her mooring lines.

A few days later, the Waimate also broke her mooring lines and was shifted from the wharf.

Next day, the Oriental Queen did not tie up alongside but anchored in the harbour.

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Douthett said that of the original 12 mooring lines, only two were now unbroken and they were both stretched to twice their size.

He said that New Zealand Marine Adviser Captain Ruegg had originally recommended that mooring lines of 22 in. coir be used at the wharf. Instead, lines of 10 in, and 13 in. had been ordered. Mr. Douthett claimed that if the proper lines had been available the Oriental Queen could safely have been berthed.

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Western Samoan Wharf

Stamps Show Profit

The opening of Western Samoa’s first deep sea wharf at Apia in March has been commemorated by a special issue of postage stamps.

The stamps, which are in four denominations with a total value of 5/9 per set, will remain on sale until June 2, unless stocks are exhausted earlier.

Sales on the first day of issue returned the Western Samoan Government £8,600. Overseas orders represented £7,200.

They cost £2,500 to produce.

The Minister of Post Office and Radio, Fa’alava’au Galu, said the sales reflected increasing international interest in Western Samoan stamps.

P-Ng Administration To

Train Engineers

A course to train young Papuans and New Guineans to work on coastal vessels started at Port Moresby on April 15.

The course, the third to be organised by the Division of Marine, Department of Trade and Industry, will last one year.

Fifty Papuans and New Guineans, who have reached standard six or higher qualifications, were selected from more than 200 applications.

Twenty of these trainees will learn about maintenance and operation of diesel engines, outboard motors, and the names and usage of tools. Successful trainees will become marine engine operators, grade one.

The remaining students will study various aspects of seafaring, including rope, sail, anchor and chart work, the use of mariner’s compass and general ship maintenance.

Successful trainees from the two previous courses are now working aboard Administration and commercial vessels on the coast.

More Volcanic Activity

In The Solomons

The BSIP’s Chief Geologist, Mr.

John Grover, who has taken a keen interest recently in predicting the activities of volcanoes ( PIM , Jan., p. 15), believes that Tinakula Volcano in the Santa Cruz Group may erupt violently about September and October this year.

Tinakula has been active since November 23 last year when it blew its top after 14 years of quiescence.

On March 12 it was reported that eruptive activity was every 10 minutes, that a cloud of white steam was being emitted, but that there were no earth tremors. The 187 men, women and children who live on Tinakula were staying on the island for the time being.

Mr. Grover said in late March: “As Tinakula Volcano has cleared its throat, and the type of eruption is known to be one of basaltic lava from a conduit with a westerly bias away from the populated side of the island, the islanders should be able to remain for the time being in reasonable safety.

“Basaltic lava eruptions under these conditions are relatively safe.

“Notable earth tremors and changes in gas emission should provide adequate warning to the islanders and give them time to get away.

“Intermittent eruptions are expected in the immediate future but of no greater magnitude than recently, “Present calculations suggest the convergence of effects in the mantle beneath the earth’s crust in the Tinakula Volcano area in September and October, 1966, when there will be a

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ansiderable risk of a much more iolent eruption.

“The District Commissioner will be dvised with full details closer to te event, when it will be recomlended that the islanders be evacuted from the volcano.”

Meanwhile, there has been further :tivity from the submarine volcano Dout 20 miles south of Vangunu, hich was first reported to be eruptig irregularly in mid-December p /M, Feb., p. 21).

The crater rim of the volcano was ten about a foot above sea level, it a month later it was reported to j subsiding, and Mr. Grover said j expected it to settle down as much > 30 ft below the surface (PIM, farch, p. 99).

The latest report on the volcano is come from Mr. Wolf Lackshewitz, ho found it in eruption and cine- Imed its activity on March 21.

Mr. Lackshewitz described the >lcano as being totally submerged, id not visible.

Every five minutes there was a ries of explosions, the first hurling it with great violence a pillar of ack rocks and fragments, the next iing an eruption of steam imediately following, and the next ack.

Within a short period there were ternately black and white columns irsting through the surface of the a: rocks and steam alternately, his was followed by about five inutes of no activity.

Far East-Fiji Service

REARRANGED The China Navigation Co. ships, Sinkiang and Szechuen, which have been servicing Suva and Lautoka from Japan and Hong Kong, are to be sold.

In May the Fiji service by the China Navigation Co. will be taken over by four ships which now operate a Japan - Hong Kong - New Zealand service.

These ships are the Kwangsi, Norman, Nanchang and Kweichow.

After calling at Suva and Lautoka on southbound voyages they will go on to Auckland, Wellington, Lyttleton, Dunedin, Bluff (occasionally), Napier and Mt. Maunganui.

Port Moresby Seamen

Seek Award

The Port Moresby Workers’ Association is seeking an award for seamen working on coastal ships based in Port Moresby. About 40 members of the union are affected.

All employers operating Port Moresby-based ships will be asked to take part in negotiations.

The employers include Steamships Trading, Burns Philp, the Federation of Native Societies, New Guinea Co. and Keith Tetley.

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Epic Drift Voyage

A book describing the ordeal of Teehu Makimare on his 64-day drift voyage from Rakahanga, Cook Islands, to Erromanga, New Hebrides, in 1963, has been selected as the alternative Book Society choice for June.

The book, The Man Who Refused To Die, will be published in the first week of June.

The book was written by an English author, Barry Wynne, and has a foreword by the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Holyoake.

It was serialised in an English Sunday newspaper late last year, at about the time that Makimare visited London to receive the Royal Humane Society’s Stanhope Gold Medal for Bravery ( PIM, Jan., p. 97).

In August, 1963, Makimare and six companions were blown off course in a storm while making the 26-mile crossing from Rakahanga to their home island in a 17 ft boat. An unsuccessful sea and aerial search was made for them, and they were given up for lost.

Two months later, however, Makimare and three companions—three having died en route —reached Erromanga, having drifted about 2,000 miles.

One of Makimare’s companions died shortly afterwards.

Makimare was awarded the Stanhope Medal for his outstanding endurance, self-sacrifice and qualities of leadership during the epic voyage.

Dutch Purchase Arrives

For Fiji Trade

The 339-ton Dutch ship Boezemsingel, which Island Industries Ltd., of Suva, bought recently for the interisland trade in Fiji, arrived in Suva on April 14 from Holland. She will go into service in May, joining the Komaiwai and Adi Keva.

The new ship, which was built in Holland in 1961, will be altered to suit tropical conditions. She has an overall length of 159 ft, a beam of 27 ft, and a draught of 10 ft 8 in.

She is powered by a 450 hp Industrie engine, has a service speed of about 10 knots, and can carry about 6,000 sacks of copra.

New Hebrides Ship

In The Geic

The 205-ton motor vessel Darega, owned by Captain Athol Rusden, of Vila, New Hebrides, was in somewhat unfamiliar waters in March when she delivered a cargo of aviation fuel to Tarawa, in the Gilberts, and Funafuti, in the Ellice Islands.

However, her chief engineer, Otto Poznaski, was not new to it all, as he was a resident of Funafuti in the days before 1956 when the Wholesale Society at Tarawa sold the 120 ft Tuvalu, of which he was also chief engineer, in Fiji. Otto went, too.

Otto told a reporter from Colony Information Notes, the GEIC newsletter, that he was happy to see the many new buildings that had gone up in the Colony since he had left.

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The Darega was one of three ships from different territories that were at anchor at the same time off Betio Islet, Tarawa, in late March.

The others were the FS 126, a US Army craft, with a Filipino crew, which arrived on March 25 with a unit of 12 men who are to be stationed on Betio for the next 12 months to track satellites as part of a survey project; and the oil tanker Pacific Enterprise.

Japanese Trawler Saved

From Fiji Reef

The Japanese fishing trawler Fuji Mam No. 15 steamed into Suva on April 6 after being aground on a coral reef of Nukulau Island, 12 miles from Suva, for three days.

Listing to starboard, the trawler tied up at the slipway berth for an examination of her hull by divers, who found little damage.

The trawler was on her way from Levuka to Suva when she went aground on a spring tide. She was pulled off the reef by a sister ship, Fuji Maru No. 17, after about 40 tons of fuel (10,000 gallons) had been pumped out of her tanks.

Another sister ship, Fuji Maru No. 1, stood by outside the main barrier reef while she was being pulled off.

On the previous day, the Japanese fishing ship Koyo Maru No. 18, which capsized while refuelling at Levuka on December 14, and which was refloated on March 31, was towed outside Levuka Harbour and sunk in deep water. Previous attempts to refloat the vessel had failed.

The successful attempt was made by Captain Stan Brown, of the Maroro, and Mr. Macleay Laurie, a marine contractor at Port Adelaide.

They won a contract to remove the ship, which had hampered berthing at the Levuka wharf.

Stop-Gap Dredging

Operations For Noumea

Dredging has started on a small scale in the port of Noumea, New Caledonia, following recent criticism in the local Press about the lack of sufficient depth of water for some of the ships calling there.

A sum of $4,000 has been allocated to carry out emergency dredging operations. Captain Cyriaque Mary is at present engaged in this work with a small dredge. Captain Mary was engaged in similar work around the wharf edges in 1965, when the depth of water was increased from about 22 feet to 26 feet.

Past operations have also turned up bombs and shells lost from the American ships during loading operations in World War 11.

Local experts are asking for the dredging operations to be repeated annually. They say that the harbour silt comes mainly from the mud and road metal in Noumea’s drains and the waste (scoria) from the nickel smelters which is being used for land reclamation in the vicinity of the smelters. Much of this waste is carried into the harbour by currents.

Gen. Billotte, France’s Minister for Overseas Territories, on a recent visit to Noumea promised that a new quay would be built in the harbour, running at right angles to the existing wharves.

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INDONESIANS A Queensland fisherman, K. M. (Bluey) Bedford, was reported to be imprisoned in a West New Guinea gaol in mid-April after sailing to Merauke to buy crocodile skins.

Bedford, 38, sailed from Thursday Island on March 23.

Merauke is about 200 miles northwest of Thursday Island.

Friends of Bedford in Daru, in the Western District of Papua, said in April that he had visited Merauke twice since the Indonesian take-over of West New Guinea.

They said that before the take-over Merauke had been a regular port of call for Bedford, as he had friends there.

However, an Administration spokesman in Port Moresby said it was now believed that Bedford had been gaoled by the Indonesian authorities.

He did not know on what charge he had been arrested and inquiries were continuing.

Bedford, who lives aboard his 42ft work boat The Westralian, has been operating in Northern Australian waters for the past 20 years.

His last shore address was Cairns, Queensland, but he spends most of his time at sea or in the islands between Cape York and the Papuan Gulf.

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• KATHLEEN DEL MAR, 55 ft ex-Scottish Fisheries Protection vessel, owned and skippered by Bern Cuthbertson and crewed by four of his children, Rodney, 18, Michael, 15, Charmaine, 15, and Adrian, 13, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on March 23.

Mr. Cuthbertson bought the vessel at Teddington, near London, and sailed from the United Kingdom on September 29 last year. His wife and youngest boy, aged 11, were originally in the crew, but left the vessel in Tahiti and returned home.

After leaving Rarotonga, Kathleen del Mar will call at Auckland, then proceed to Tasmania.

Mr, Cuthbertson is a cray fisherman from Tasmania and all his family are Australians. Last year he took the well-known racing schooner Astor from Australia to the US. • LAKEMBA, 26 ft yacht formerly owned by the author-yachtsman Harry Pidgeon, arrived at Rarotonga on March 25 from Papeete with lonehander John Roberts of San Pedro, California.

In the Society Islands, Lakemba almost met disaster on two occasions.

At Huahine, rough seas forced her on to a coral wharf, but she was saved by Islanders on their way to church who, disregarding damage to their “Sunday best”, refloated her.

As Lakemba was leaving Papeete harbour she was rammed by an approaching fishing boat which had failed to keep a proper watch. The bowsprit was smashed and the rudder and toe rail broken.

The Tahitian captain of the fishing boat made amends by paying for the repairs and playing host to Mr.

Roberts until Lakemba was ready to leave.

Mr. Roberts plans to visit Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. In Fiji, he intends to visit Lakemba Island after which the vessel was named by Harry Pidgeon. • DID A, 52 ft ketch, owned and sailed by Englishman Geoffrey Mathews, left Durban, on March 3, for Cape Town, after about three months’ stopover in Durban.

Geoff, who is well known in the New Hebrides and Solomons for his crocodile hunting exploits, sailed Dida single-handed from Timor to Durban last year. He bought her in the New Hebrides in 1963.

Accompanied on his latest voyage by Miss Raina Nieland and Raymond D’Abbadye, Geoff was considering sailing to the Mediterranean, then the West Indies to explore the possibilities of charter work. • ATOM, 30 ft Tahitian ketch from New York, sailed solo by veteran yachtsman, Jean Gau, capsized and was dismasted on February 27 soon after leaving Durban on the last leg of a voyage round the world from New York.

Masts, bowsprit, sails and dinghy went overboard while Gau was riding out a 50-knot gale about 50 miles off the southern coast of South Africa.

He cut away the rigging still attached to the masts and the following day made for the nearest port, Mossel Bay. In mid-March, Gau was planning to return to Durban for repairs. He will stay there for the rest of the year, as the hurricane season is now too far advanced for him to resume his voyage.

Gau, a naturalised American, crossed the Pacific in 1964, calling at Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Samoa, New Zealand and New Guinea. He has been sailing since 1937 and has seven singlehanded Atlantic crossings to his credit, and one previous voyage round the world. • ANDANTE, 34 ft fibreglass sloop with American skipper Donald Wood and a crew of one, was scheduled to leave Whangarei, New Zealand, in late March, for Seattle, Washington, USA.

Andante made a Pacific cruise last year with calls at Nukualofa, Nomuka, Vavau, Pago Pago, Apia, Savaii, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia.

In a note to PIM from Whangarei, Mr. Wood said he planned to sail to the US via the Cook Islands, Tahiti and Hawaii. • SOLO, 57 ft Sydney yawl, with veteran Australian yachtsman Vic Meyer sailing single-handed, arrived back in Sydney on April 4, after a 13-month cruise around the world from east to west.

Meyer left Sydney in March last year, with a two-girl crew and sailed via Brisbane to Darwin, where one girl left because of seasickness and another signed on.

Solo then continued via Cocos Island to the Mediterranean where the two girls got off. Vic Meyer picked up a male crew member, Bob Blaikie, in Gibraltar and continued across the Atlantic to Panama and Honolulu, where Geoff Swanson signed on as crew. Next call was at Nukualofa, Tonga, where Blaikie and Swanson signed off.

Mr. Meyer sailed the 2,200-mile leg from Tonga to Sydney in 13 days. ® CONGOOLA, 73 ft Bermudarigged ketch, skippered by Mr. Wally Goddard, called at Lord Howe Island, in early April, en route to Honiara, British Solomon Islands, where she is to be used in mineral survey work.

Congoola has been bought by the United Nations Organisation to assist the Solomons Government in a mineral resources survey which is

"Esmeralda " On New Pacific Cruise

THE four-masted, 308 ft Chilean Navy training ship Esmeralda will call at Rabaul on July 14 for a two-day stopover en route to Sydney.

The ship created immense public interest when she visited Sydney in May, 1961.

Under the command of Captain Roberto Kelly, the vessel is carrying a crew of 278 men, including the officers and trainees. She was built for the Chilean Navy in Cadiz, Spain, in 1952. Her sister ship, Sebastian El Cano, is in service with the Spanish Navy.

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She is usually described as a barquentine, but she has the main rigs of all types of sailing vessels incorporated in her rigging so that her trainee seamen can have wider experience.

On the current voyage, Esmeralda has already called at two places in the South Pacific—Easter Island and Papeete.

She was in Pearl Harbour early in April, and was then due to visit Yokohama, Formosa, Hong Kong, Manila and Rabaul, reaching Sydney on August 3. She will leave Sydney on August 8 and will return to Valparaiso, via Auckland, in September. 107 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1966

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In 1963 she was “mother ship” for :he Sydney to Hobart yacht race. • EURYDICE, 20 ft yacht, sailed :o Lord Howe Island from Sydney n 1955 by Mr. Maurice de Verteil, las been refitted by Mr. Les Rohan and is now sailing in Lord Howe vaters after having been out of action iince her arrival at the island.

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Through a friend in San Francisco, yir. Baylay is arranging to have oak Fames and H in. planking of Philip- )ines mahogany shipped to him from he US. When the timber arrives he lopes to have Trendaway hauled out or repairs at Avatiu.

If the repairs cannot be done ocally, he will sail the ketch to Suva.

The vessel is insured with Lloyds, vhich means, according to Mr. laylay, that when the repairs are lone Trendaway will be as good as 'ew —if not better. The ship has oak rames and planking of Philippines nahogany.

Former crew members Jim Peterson nd Christopher Duncan have now -ft the ship, but Duncan intends to return to Rarotonga after obtaining an entry permit in NZ. • CYTHERA, 50 ft steel ketch, set sail from Sydney on April 16 on the world cruise that her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fenton, set out to accomplish three years ago.

The Fentons’ cruise of three years ago came to a halt only two weeks after they left Sydney when two crew members stole their ketch while they were attending a dance at Lord Howe Island.

The ketch was recaptured off Norfolk Island, but was damaged in a collision with the Colorado del Mar while the two thieves were trying to out-manouevre that ship. The Fentons flew to Norfolk Island to sail Cythera back to Sydney, and the two thieves were later sentenced to four years’ gaol each at the Sydney Quarter Sessions.

Because of the collision with the Colorado del Mar, Mr. Fenton had to replace a 12 ft by 5 ft section of Cythera's hull, install four new ribs and replace part of the decking.

He also modified the rigging to improve the handling of the ketch.

On their new voyage, the Fentons are accompanied by their 12-year-old daughter Penny, and a crew member Bob Coupland.

The new voyage was planned to "Congoola". 109 ’ ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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However, when the yacht was within 60 miles of Lord Howe the weather turned “dirty” and drove her 150 miles north of the island. Mr.

Fenton then decided to make for Brisbane, where he arrived on May 1, Fears had been held for the yacht’s safety.

The Fentons will now follow the Queensland coast to Thursday Island and cross the Pacific by way of Fiji and Tahiti to San Francisco. • MAR-QUESA, 40 ft Newporter ketch, which has been licking her wounds in Rarotonga since late December after a bad 4i-day trip from Bora Bora, was due to sail from New Zealand in early April.

All the yacht’s sails were ripped in heavy seas and gales during the passage from Bora Bora and had to be sent to New Zealand so new ones could be made.

Owner-skipper Harold Wilden and his wife are accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. James L. Anderson. Mr. Anderson is a freelance photographer of Honolulu.

The Mar-Quesa arrived in Papeete, Tahiti, on October 27 from Hawaii. • TAKEBORAS, sloop-rigged fibreglass yacht, reached Norfolk Island in March in the course of a round-the-world trip. Sailing her single-handed was Hans Maurenbrecher, former fighter pilot in the Dutch Air Force.

Maurenbrecher left Holland in July, 1964. and sailed to New Zealand via England, Portugal, Spain.

Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, Panama, the Galapagos, Marquesas, and Tahiti, which he reached in April, 1965.

He married in New Zealand, but as his wife had had no previous sailing experience, she decided to rejoin him at Aden.

From Norfolk Island, Takeboras (Indonesian for “the trip that goes far away on the sea”), was to call at Brisbane, Cairns, Torres Strait Islands, Cocos Island, Mauritius, Aden, Suez Canal ports, and Mediterranean ports, before reaching Holland in April, 1967. • KAHUTARA, 45 ft Aucklandregistered ketch, arrived at Christmas Island on March 16 and Fanning Island on March 23 en route to Hawaii from the Marquesas. On board were Mr. Rex Kershaw, his wife, and three of their four children. 111 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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\Aany Tropical Soils

)Eficient In Phosphorus

A SURPRISINGLY large number of tropical areas are deficient in •hosphorus, the cause being high ainfalls, the continual washes from vhich leach valuable minerals from he soil.

It has been found that generally attle in high rainfall areas do need supplementary intake of phosphorus nd this applies particularly to milkng cows, which have high phosphorus equirements because of the amount if the mineral in milk.

The only symptom in mild phoshorus deficiency may be a slight rop in milk production, which sually passes unnoticed.

With a more marked deficiency iere is a depraved appetite. Affected nimals chew bones and other □reign material. In still more dvanced cases of phosphorus eficiency, bones become fragile and ractures occur readily. In addition iere is lameness, through erosion f the joint surfaces of bones.

There are many ways of supplying hosphorus to cattle to rectify a eficiency, and the most common ne is by means of licks which very ften can be mixed by the farmer imself.

A mixture of equal parts of coarse alt and either bonemeal or ground □ck phosphate makes a good phoshorus supplement. It has the added dvantage of being cheap and easy to repare.

Owl Leucosis

CHE disease which causes the most deaths in poultry after the licken stage in tropical areas is ;ucosis.

While there are a number of ifferent forms of leucosis the most □mmon are neural leucosis, in which srtain nerves are involved resulting i paralysis, and visceral leucosis, i which internal organs are affected.

The first sign of neural leucosis is sually a partial paralysis of one g. Later the paralysis becomes more larked, with both legs being affected ) that affected birds can’t walk and tend to flounder with the support of their wings. Later the wings also may become paralysed.

The paralysis that accompanies the neural form of the disease should not be confused with limb weakness that may be caused by malnutrition, vitamin deficiency, worm infestation or other diseases.

In the visceral form of leucosis, there is usually loss of appetite, diarrhoea and a wasting away.

Older birds may carry the disease and be sources of infection to young chickens, so rearing of chickens well away from older birds is recommended. Unfortunately, this is not always effective, as cases have been known in birds reared on wire floors from the chicken stage.

A great deal more research needs to be done before leucosis can be controlled. Recent experiments in the United States suggest that birds well fed at the time of infection are more susceptible to leucosis than undernourished birds. At the Veterinary Research Station, Glenfield, Victoria, an important observation has been that extra riboflavin in the diet for 14 days may be of some value in relieving the condition during an outbreak.

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THE control of weeds—of undesirable species of plants—is something that man has had to contend with since the beginning of agriculture. No matter which of the many methods are used it has always been a long and laborious business.

Now the scientists and chemists have come to the farmer’s assistance with chemicals which enable him to considerably reduce his labours, which in turn eventually reduce the overall cost of production.

Selective weedicides have been formulated which will kill broad leafed plants and leave narrow leafed ones growing, and vice versa.

Herbicides have been devised which will deal effectively with water grown weeds and there are other materials available which can be used against weeds in orchards without any apparent ill-effect to established crops.

Where weed control with chemicals is a comparatively new innovation there is a tendency to be trapped in the pitfall of thinking chemical weed control is an end in itself. It can be, but very seldom.

After weeding with chemicals a wise farmer will endeavour to followup the spraying with good farming practices, such as pasture improve- 113 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1966

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Steel tube is r almost without exception, the best way to convey things. Oil, gas, chemicals, wires, voices and water —all can be carried equally well.

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In most cases it is necessary to nsure that when weeds are killed iseful plants are encouraged to redace them. Adequate fertilisation nd heavy grazing are important in aaintaining weed-free pastures.

In some cases, well managed and nproved pastures can be sufficient reed control in themselves, although lis is more the case in temperate limates rather than the tropics, where igh rainfalls and persistent winds re conducive to the spread and rowth of weeds.

When you spray, remember that eeds generally are more susceptible ) chemical control when in the Dung, actively growing stage, before owering begins.

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HHE insecticide Sevin has shown L itself a top-flight chemical for af hopper control in the Solomons, fact of primary interest to all rice rowers in the Pacific, as leaf hoppers ave shown themselves the rice -ewers’ main pest.

The promise that Sevin could work ?ainst leaf hoppers with satisfactory :sults was established at the Interational Rice Research Institute in ic Philippines, after basic research ork on the subject had been done : Japan.

One unique use for Sevin has been »und with a granular formulation )plied right in the rice paddy water •r the leaf hopper control. Further welopment of this technique has ken place recently by combining win with BHC in granular form for iddy application. A happy result of is insecticide combination is the mtrol of both leaf hoppers and rice em borers.

Tests also have shown good Sevin :rformance on mangoes in the lilippines, and on cocoa in Ghana id Nigeria for control of cocoa ipsid, all of which augurs well for milar performances in the Pacific.

Since it was first introduced as a meral purpose insecticide in 1956, ;w markets have opened up for win at a surprising rate.

One main reason for Sevin’s ipularity is that early tests showed to be less hazardous than most •mmon insecticides on the comercial market. Combined with this •mparative safety, Sevin has shown elf effective against a number of sect species which had grown sistant to earlier insecticides.

Supporting the concept that Sevin one of the safer insecticides, a new label was granted by US authorities recently for the use of Sevin by pest control operators to control household insect pests. These pests include cockroaches, ants, brown dog ticks, earwigs and millipedes in and around homes, apartments, hotels, restaurants and other similar structures.

Unfortunately, while its action is effective against such a variety of pest, notable exceptions are the house fly and spider mite.

Sevin has been found to be the practical answer as an insecticide to be used on crops grown as livestock feeds, or adjacent to dairy or beef cattle. The insecticide does not carry through into milk or meat, thus overcoming one of the larger handicaps of many of the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides.

When used in direct application to poultry, no changes have been noted in egg production, hatchability, chick survival or growth. Sevin’s effectiveness against ectoparasites of poultry has proved important to poultrymen everywhere, particulary in the Pacific where it is widespread. 115 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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rpHE visit of Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Fiji was the occasion for a warm welcome and display of loyalty to the Crown by the people of the Islands. Colourful ceremonies reserved for persons of highest rank, and rarely performed these days, provided an unforgettable spectacle for most people, but especially for tourists, whose cameras were kept clicking busily. The spectacles included the stirring meke wesi, or spear dance (below), which was performed by the men of Wailevu, Cakaudrove and Vanua Levu.

The Queen Mother really made two visits to Fiji in the course of her tour —both of them short. The first was at the 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

end of March, when she arrived by air at Lautoka to stay overnight on her way to Australia; the remainder of the tour was made when she returned to April on the Royal Yacht Brittania.

She inspected guards of honour mounted by Fiji Military Forces wearing scarlet tunics and white sulus; met chiefs dressed in traditional costume (top right) who gave her a ceremonial invitation to land; enjoyed a gesture song and dance performed by the people of Lau (left); and received a present of finely woven mats and tapa from all the Fijian provinces. In Suva she was met by the Mayor, Cr. C.

A. Stinson, in his colourful robe and chain, and in Lautoka by his Indian counterpart, Cr. R.

A. Patel and Mrs. Patel. All these photographs are by Rob Wright, Jnr., of the Fiji PRO. 118 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

119 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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Fare Cuts For 'World's Most Expensive Piece Of Water' By a Staff Writer The South Pacific can expect a big increase in tourist travel by air as a result of proposals for big fare cuts, which have sent most major airlines serving the area hastily climbing aboard the economy bandwagon.

THE showdown seems likely to take place at the International Air Transport Association conference at Honolulu in September.

The first crack in the harmony of the airlines Pacific fare structure came in Suva on April 1, when the newly appointed Fiji manager of Canadian Pacific Airlines, Mr. R. A.

Godfrey, announced that his airline would seek fare reductions of up to 40 per cent, on 30-day excursions and of 20 per cent, on all first class and economy round-trip fares crossing the South Pacific.

Authority would be sought to introduce these cuts from May 1, Under the 30-day economy excursion arrangement a Sydney- Vancouver return would cost £F239/17/-, a £FIS9/16/- reduction and the regular round trip fare reduced 20 per cent, would be first class £F44B/3/-, economy £F3I9/8/-.

Mr. Godfrey advanced cogent reasons for seeking the reduction in air fares over what he termed, “the most expensive piece of water in the world to fly over”. He said the proposed cuts “would make the South travel Pacific much more competitive in attracting visitors”.

He said the new low fares would be justified by the economic efficiency and passenger-carrying capacities of the big jet aircraft now serving the South Pacific routes.

The CPA decision was also in line with: • A resolution of the recent Pacific Area Travel Association conference in India, calling on airlines to lower their fares across the Pacific. • Pressure from the United States Civil Aeronautics Board to reduce air fares in the South Pacific which were currently higher than those in other parts of the world.

Mr. Godfrey’s announcement was given support by CPA vice-president Mr. Hugh Main, who arrived in Suva soon after to say that if all airlines adopted the reduced fares proposed by his company, total passenger traffic would increase by more than 40 per cent, above normal growth.

Among points Mr. Main made were that air fares across the Pacific were almost double the cost per passenger mile across the Atlantic.

One of the effects of this was that the cost of transportation on a European tour represented only 18 per cent, of the total cost, compared with 67 per cent, in the South Pacific.

As a result the traveller to the South Pacific spent only 24 per cent, of the total cost of the tour in the New Look at Korolevu This is the new look at Fiji's famed Koroleva Beach Hotel.

These four concrete units replace the 27 Fijian bures in local materials which were burned down last August. The new designs are fireproof and were speedy to erect. Each new unit contains eight double bedrooms and faces the beach. The main hotel lounge is still in bare style and there are other bures remaining.

TAA Kapitan ’E Tok Long Yume Airline hostesses become “misis bilong balus” in an airline flight log introduced for the benefit of Pidgin English-speaking passengers on Trans-Australia Airlines' Papua New-Guinea services.

Attractively produced in three colours, the log (which is circulated in flight) gives information to passengers both in English and its pidgin equivalent.

Tailwind becomes win bilong bihain and height becomes antap olsem, but “weather at destination” taxed the translator’s ingenuity before emerging as, Kain de long taim balus I-kamap long.

With groundspeed he gave up altogether.

The log concludes with the request, Salim I Go (Please pass on). 125 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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He said that lower fares would mean more potential travellers and it was well-known that there was particular elasticity in the North American market.

In an editorial, The Fiji Times commented: “Air travellers and all interested n the tourist industry in the South Pacific will watch with interest to >ee where the ripples finish from the done thrown into the pool by CPA.

“The initiative taken by CPA has made it inevitable that the whole question of air fares in the South Pacific should be brought out into he open, which is the proper place 'or all such things.”

Mr. Main flew on to Australia and Zealand to seek support for the ower fares policy from Qantas and \ir New Zealand.

His proposals received a cautious eception in NZ, the New Zealand )fficials reported as being sympahetic, but taking the view that the :urrent fare structure in the South s acific had been agreed upon already md was due to run until next year.

Qantas and Pan American were nore definite. A Qantas spokesman aid his company had been seeking ower tourist fares for some time.

He said “massive” reductions on fares could occur from April next year, if other airlines operatng South Pacific routes agreed to the uts at the lATA conference.

The New Zealand director of Pan American, Mr. W. L. Rolph, said hat his company would welcome alks with other carriers in an effort o introduce practicable fare reducions.

When the first ripples had reached he side of the pond by the end of kpril it seemed there would be no fare cuts until next year and that all the airlines, including CPA, would have more talks through the regular lATA conference channels.

Meanwhile, top executives from American-owned Eastern Airlines and Continental Airlines visited New Zealand.

The two airlines are among many which all hope to be chosen as the United States’ second South Pacific operator.

Mr. D. D. Taylor, the vicepresident of public affairs of Eastern Airlines, warned New Zealand to get ready for a great upsurge of tourism.

“Jets have transformed tourist and travel concepts in Honolulu, Mexico City, Acapulco and Tahiti,” he said.

“That is going to happen to New Zealand, whose tourist potential has not been scratched so far.” • The ground was broken in Saipan, US Trust Territory, in April for the start of a 50-room private enterprise hotel costing SUS4OO,OOO.

It will give the northern Marianas facilities to attract a bigger tourist trade. The hotel is being built by the Micronesian Hotel Corporation, which is making 40 per cent, of its shares available to territory citizens, and offers transfer to Micronesian ownership after 20 years if an offer to buy is forthcoming.

New Ba Hotel Opens

Fiji's newest hotel is the Hotel Ba, part of the Northern Hotels chain, which has been erected alongside the old hotel which the Ragg family acquired in 1922.

It's a vast improvement on the old one. The hotel includes a swimming pool, seen here.

Photo: Frank Barrington. 127 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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From Fred Dunn, in Noumea There is a move afoot in Noumea to undermine one of the country’s oldest traditions— the traditional “siesta”.

VISITORS to New Caledonia have always wondered just why it is necessary to have the two-hour stop in the middle of the day. Businesses open at 7 a.m., close down at 11 a.m. opening again at 1.30 p.m., to close at 5.30 p.m. Probably the local himself could not explain just why the “siesta” exists. He would put it down to “tradition”.

There are only two months in the year when climatic conditions might favour such a long middle of the day stop. These are February and March, in the hot and humid season.

A Noumean newspaper has conducted a poll to find the population’s reaction to an end of the siesta. A working day with only a short halt for lunch was proposed. About a dozen workers were interviewed, a cross section of Noumea’s working force, including Administration employees. All were in agreement that the midday halt was too long and that it should be shortened to leave workers more leisure at the end of the day.

Astonished Among those consulted was an Australian linotype operator working for a local printer. He said that he had always been astonished at the working hours in Noumea. He suggested an eight-hour work day of four hours, followed by a half-hour lunch break followed by another four hours of work. With the present system of a hours break he said he always had the impression of being at work though he is at home during the break.

If all those consulted were in favour of the “continuous” working day all agreed also that such a system would have to be uniform. If such was not the case working married couples, and there are many in Noumea, would find in many cases that periods of leisure would clash. One of the men interviewed, though in favour of the idea, was very pessimistic of it ever being adopted in Noumea. He thought that summer daylight saving would be an easier plan to adopt.

The pessimism of the above gentleman is well founded. It is extremely unlikely that the idea will find favour with the big commercial houses. A closed shop is lost business, especially in these days of decentralised trade. The local can now find in his own neighbourhood all he needs at a price little more than in the big stores. With all the extra daylight leisure the commercial barons fear that consumers would spend too much of it in the suburban shops—although most of the suburban businesses are branches of the big houses.

Several years ago the commercial houses refused to co-operate in a campaign to end Saturday morning work. The scheme was adopted only by some administrative services and the local bank.

It will be interesting to see if the new campaign gains any momentum.

NEW CALEDONIA’S internal air service, Transpac, continues to progress. Traffic figures for 1965, just released, show that nearly 33,000 passengers were carried last year— an increase of nearly 7,000 passengers over the previous year.

Freight also increased to 647 i tons, while nearly eight tons of mail was carried.

PlM’s Noumea correspondent says Transpac’s service to New Caledonia cannot be overrated.

Created in 1955, the company has operated with a 100 per cent, safety record.

Nearly 160,000 passengers have been carried during the 11 years of operations.

The company has a fleet of eight planes, most of them light US-built machines. The work horses of the fleet are still two de Havilland Herons.

BECAUSE of the heavy demand for accommodation, the new Hotel Tanoa, at Nadi Airport, Fiji, is already in need of additions. The Tanoa, owned by Reddy’s Enterprises Ltd., was completed in May, 1965.

A new lounge and bar with a covered terrace will reach out to the swimming pool. Extra bedrooms and staff facilities will be added in two storeys on the airport side. The new additions will give the hotel 88 beds.

On the river side the dining-room is being extended. A regular buffet dinner, with pool side entertainment and a resident band playing nightly, are to be added features. 129 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966 travel

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The plane will leave Apia at 9.30 a.m., arrive at Wallis at 11.10 a.m., leave Wallis at 5 p.m. and return to Apia at 6.40 p.m. The round trip will cost £WS2S.

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Wallis Island, a volcanic mass rising to a height of 479 feet and surrounded by a reef on which there are several islets, was discovered by Captain Samuel Wallis, the discoverer of Tahiti, in 1767.

Christianity was introduced by French Roman Catholic missionaries, who chanced to land there in 1837.

This accident of history led to the island, with neighbouring Futuna, being made a French protectorate in 1887, and the two islands were administered as such from New Caledonia until 1959.

In that year, Wallis and Futuna became a French territory, with the same status as New Caledonia and French Polynesia, and with local representation in the French Parliament, The population of the two islands is about 7,500. The people, who are Polynesians, are among the poorest in the Pacific.

Several years ago, the copra plantations on the two islands were ravaged by the rhinoceros beetle, which reduced exports of copra—the only important cash crop—practically to nil.

In January this year, the islands were desolated by the hurricane that swept through the Central Pacific.

About 300 houses, and most of the food crops were destroyed, and most administrative and school buildings were damaged ( PIM , March, p. 48). 131 travel PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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THEIR decision reversed one made in October, 1964, when most of the landowners felt that they could not part with the little land they had ( PIM, Dec. 1964, p. 119).

Addressing the landowners in Maori, Mr. Henry said that in June the application of a rule obliging all aircraft to be within 90 minutes of an airstrip at all times would force Polynesian Airlines to terminate its present twice-weekly DC-3 flights from Apia to Rarotonga, via Aitutaki.

This would leave the Cook Islands without air contact with the outer world—unless bigger, prop-jet aircraft could be used.

To take prop-jet Electra aircraft, Rarotonga’s strip would have to be extended seawards by 500 feet, and the entire strip would have to be sealed.

The strip would also have to be widened to either 500 feet or 300 feet.

The widening to 500 feet would cause the destruction of all obstacles within certain graded heights fringing the strip, such as trees, houses, and Nikao Church.

This would mean the destruction of all trees and buildings on the seaward side of the strip, and the houses and trees on the inland side that face the Ara Metua—the ancient inland road.

This proposition, Mr. Henry said, had been rejected as impracticable by the Cook Islands Government.

No Loss Of Land The widening of the strip to 300 feet would cause the destruction of about 1,000 coconut, mango, breadfruit, and other trees—but would not involve the loss of land or buildings.

The land denuded of trees could still be used for the planting of lowgrowing crops.

It was vital to the economy of the Cook Islands, Mr, Henry explained, that air links with New Zealand and the outer world were maintained.

The landowners had to decide whether or not they would allow their trees to be cut down.

If they did not agree, the Aitutaki strip could still be used by New Zealand. The decision rested with the landowners—and their decision would be supported by the Cook Islands Government.

To clarify his points Mr. Henry used drawings showing how the proposed gradients would affect the land fringing the airstrip, and a large, composite photograph of the area involved. . A report published in New Zealand in late April stated that the New ami hcutr N air ?o e ule and tf k inT"n a S Sand ’ 8 th 1 as “.aa.! ,tsv,k tones officials and Air New Zealand.

The new circular route would begin at Auckland International Airport and would take in Nadi, Fiji, and P a g° Pago, American Samoa. Jet- P r °P Electras would be used on it.

Meanwhile, an unconfirmed report from Pago Pago, says that Polynesian Airlines hopes to continue its service from Apia to Aitutaki and Rarotonga after June 30 by replacing its DC-3 aircraft with a DC-4 Since late February, Polynesian has been under the general managership of an American pilot, George Scott, 41. He is also said to have acquired a controlling interest in the airline, although Mr. Eugene Paul, of Apia, is still chairman of directors.

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REPORTS one: “The way things are going it might well be Christmas before the hotel is ready to receive its first guests.”

One recent setback was in the resignation of Mr. Max Tremain as manager. He was reportedly fed up with the amount of interference he got from local Government “experts”.

The hotel is Government owned.

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AIR NEW ZEALAND completed its current expansion programme with the inaugural Auckland-Singapore DC-8 flight on April 6. The big jet left Auckland at 9 a.m. with a full load of 129 passengers and was in Singapore late the same afternoon, Singapore time.

Since December 14, when Air New Zealand opened its first long-haul service—twice weekly through Nadi and Honolulu to Los Angeles—the airline has more than doubled its total routes to 34,600 miles. In March, the airline began its first Orient service with a twice-weekly flight from Auckland to Hong Kong.

THE Romanda, a 100 ft twin-engine Fairmile launch, will enter the Fiji tourist cruising service in May, under the command of Captain C. I. Miller, managing director of Blue Lagoon Cruises Ltd. and Fairmile Enterprises Ltd., both of Lautoka.

Blue Lagoon Cruises operate the Fairmile motor vessel, Sayandra, on three-day cruises to the Yasawas.

The Romanda will take over these cruises and cut them to two days, while the Sayandra will go on to a new cruise—to Nanuya Lailai in the north of the Yasawas, and Yaqeta.

DR. A. GROVE DAY, Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and a leading authority on Pacific literature, will give a series of lectures to first and tourist class passengers during a month-long voyage in the P and O-Orient liner Orsova in June and July.

Before each port—Suva, Noumea, Auckland, Sydney, Manila, Hong Kong, Kobe and Yokahama—he will brief passengers on the port and the surrounding region. The Orsova is due in Sydney on July 19. 135 travel PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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People o The former British Commissioner and Consul in Tonga, Mr.

James Coode, has been appointed a part-time member of the secretarial staff of the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt. Rev. Basil Guy, Mr. Coode, who left Tonga last year after 25 years in the British Colonial Service in the Pacific, now lives at Cheltenham in the Cotswold Hills. © Captain D. M, Thorsen, formerly Port Officer at Honiara, BSIP, and more recently a member of the staff at Waikeria Youth Centre, New Zealand, in March was appointed Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at Picton, NZ. • Mr. T. Tutaka, the first Cook Islands Customs officer to train in New Zealand, was due to return to Rarotonga from New Zealand in April, after spending 18 months with the Customs Department in New Plymouth, • Viliame Molera, of Lageregere village, on Viti Levu, Fiji, has been awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct for his bravery in rescuing a two-year-old girl from a turning bure (house). Viliame heard :he child’s cries coming from the interior of the building, and when ae entered, he found the child on he floor with her clothing alight.

He carried her from the bure, but vas badly burned in the process. The :hild died before reaching hospital.

Viliame spent two weeks in hospital ecovering from his burns. • Two senior members of the Hebrides Constabulary, Sergeant ■Ceith Weqas from the Banks Group, md Sergeant Thomas D, Boe from \oba, are soon to leave Vila to ittend the Police Training School at Hendon, England. After completing i course there, they will be posted for a period with the Police Force n the United Kingdom. Also on the igenda is an instruction course on veapons drill, marching and cerenonial with the British Army. • Recently appointed as Deputy Director of Agriculture in Fiji is Vlr. J. D. Yelf, formerly a senior >griculture officer. He succeeds Mr.

C G. Garnett. Mr. Yelf joined the folonial Service in Northern Rhodesia n 1941 and was tranferred to Fiji n 1956. • One of the first New Guineans o win a Churchill Fellowship, Albert Isikini, a 23-year-old motor mechanic from Lae, arrived in Sydney recently to spend a year in Australia as a motor mechanic with a motor company. His trip to Sydney was sponsored by the Lae Lions Club. • Mrs. Valmae Dunn, widow of Seventh-day Adventist missionary, Brian Dunn, who was speared to death in the Solomon Islands, in December, left Sydney on April 18, to serve for two years as a missionary and nurse at the Hatzfeldhaven leper colony, near Madang. Mrs. Dunn had been married only 10 months when her husband was murdered at Uru mission hospital on Malaita Island. • Mr. R. F. Wilby, senior auditor with the Fiji Government Audit Department, has been appointed principal auditor in Hong Kong. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Mr. Wilby has spent the past 10 years in Fiji. He previously served in Northern Nigeria. • Mr. Tom Bakeo, of Ndui Ndui, Aoba Island, recently became the first New Hebridean, studying in the New Hebrides, to pass the examination for the Cambridge University General Certificate of Education. He obtained credits in English language and Bible knowledge, and a pass in health science. Mr. Bakeo has been working in the British Office in Vila for the past two years, and his studies were mainly done in his own time. • New Guinea journalist Gus Smales, who has been 10 years in Rabaul, the last five of them as a freelance, has been appointed Papua-New Guinea staff correspondent for the Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, and will set up shop in Moresby. He expects to spend another two months in Rabaul before moving to the capital with his family.

Gus Smales will supply the Group’s overseas service and will not be on the staff of the South Pacific Post, Port Moresby, which is owned by the Herald group. • Following the marriage in Sydney in April of their daughter Robyn Allison, 22, to Mr. Walter Maryska, Mrs. W. A. N, Allison will join Mr. Allison in Nauru for the remainder of his term on the island.

Robyn is the youngest daughter of the Allisons, who spent many years in the Cook Islands. Mr. Allison, now Director of Education on Nauru, was unable to get to Robyn’s wedding because of shipping hold-ups on Nauru. • Norfolk Islander Mr. Charles Iven Buffett has been appointed official representative on Australia’s Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean.

Mr. Buffett has been official representative at Cocos Islands for the last two years. Before that he was acting official representative for four years.

He was an officer of the Norfolk Island Public Service and spent 12 months with the Department of Territories in Canberra before his appointment to Cocos. • Mr. Bernard Hebert, Commissioner for France on the South Pacific Commission and former Chancellor at the French Residency in the New Hebrides, is the author of three articles on the New Hebrides in the current (1963-1965) issue of Etudes Melanesiennes, the bulletin of the Musee Neo-Caledonien at Noumea.

Mr. Hebert’s articles concern traditional dwelling and meeting houses in the south-central islands of the New Hebrides, megaliths on the island of Emau, and archaeological sites on Efate and nearby islands, some of which were discovered by the author. Among articles on New Caledonia in the bulletin is one on the Star massacre by Ron and Marjorie Crocombe. Ron is head of the ANU’s New Guinea Research Unit in Port Moresby. • An attempt in London to adopt seven-year-old Fiji-Indian girl Nancy Prasad so that she may live in Australia struck legal difficulties in April.

Nancy’s sister Shashi and her husband, Mr. R. Powditch, whose home is Sydney, have been told that they cannot follow the usual adoption procedures as they are not domiciled in Britain.

Nancy and her family came to Australia from Fiji on tourist visas in 1962, All but Nancy, who was sick, returned to Fiji a year later.

The Powditches then attempted to adopt Nancy so she could remain in Australia, but in August last year she was deported (PIM, Sept., p. 65).

Mr. Coode and his wife photographed just before they left Tonga last year. 137 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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IN an article in the April issue of Overseas Trading, issued by the Commonwealth Department of Trade and Industry, Mr. Carney says that he existing demand from French Polynesia for Australian foodstuffs, building materials, tools and hardware is expected to increase in line with the rapid rate of population growth in French Polynesia.

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“The trade is growing, but inhibitag factors are import licensing and Customs duty,” Mr. Carney says.

“Goods from member countries of be European Economic Community nter duty-free and are not subject o licensing. Selected items, such as efined sugar, from other European ountries who are members of the Organisation of Economic Co-operaion and Development also do not equire import licences.

“For the same goods from Ausralia, import licences are needed.

“The Matson shipping line carries Australian goods to Tahiti, but the lain sea connection with Australia 5 the regular six-weekly passenger service provided by Messageries Maritimes. Its vessels take fresh produce, but transport of fresh meat by the service is restricted by limited frozen storage space.

“Work on Papeete’s modern harbour is being pressed ahead with great energy and the harbour is expected to be ready later this year.

“The old wharves and warehouses were designed for a monthly intake of about 5,000 tons of cargo. The present monthly traffic is 25,000 tons, resulting in overcrowded wharves and excessive manhandling. In these conditions, combined with a hot, steamy climate, Australian products have suffered some bad examples of packaging breakdown.

“When the new wharves are ready, the shipping companies will have their own sheds and the situation will ease. However, Australian exporters should continue to give serious attention to the provision of extra strong packaging for all items going to Tahiti by sea. < New Storage Facilities “One reason for using aircraft to transport meat, eggs and seafoods to Papeete has been the lack of refrigerated storage. However, new storage facilities will be completed soon and should provide new opportunities for Australian exporters of meat and other fresh produce.”

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Mr. Carney says that until recently the main source of French Polynesia’s rice was South Vietnam, but longgrained rice is now being imported from the United States. This country has the advantage of a three-weekly service, against the six-weekly service from Australia.

Because of the big construction programme in French Polynesia,, there is a strong demand for building materials and hardware of all kinds. The EEC countries are the main suppliers, but Australian exporters are showing an interest in the market and a variety of Australian hardware is now going to Tahiti.

The construction of a major military base at Papeete, with permanent barracks, houses for married personnel, and canteens, is opening new °oportunities for Australian suppliers of seafoods and other fresh foods, Mr. Carney’s article lists the main importers in Tahiti, and gives, information on banking, payments for imports, tariffs and Customs, Copra Production At New Peak In BSIP A BONUS of SA2O per ton has produced a record crop of 7,333 tons of copra in the British Solomon Islands during the first quarter of 1966. This compares with the previous record of 5,654 tons for the same period in 1965. The bonus on copra ceased from March 31.

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These included the development of palms yielding up to 50 per cent, more coconuts than present varieties, palms that would begin to bear earlier and the finding of the most economic methods for replanting and replacing old plantation stands.

Pyrethrum Factory's Production Slow PRODUCTION at the South Pacific’s first pyrethrum factory had been handicapped by a shortage of pyrethrum flowers, but it is proceeding intermittently, the managing director of Stafford Allen and Sons Ltd., Mr. Peter Muller, said in Sydney in April.

Stafford Allen pioneered the industry in the South Pacific when it established last year a $400,000 pyrethrum processing factory at Kagamuga, near Mt. Hagen, New Guinea.

It now employs a staff of five Europeans and 28 natives.

Mr. Muller said that the factory would be officially opened by the Australian Governor-General, Lord Casey, on May 16.

He hoped the arrival of Lord Casey would stimulate interest in the crop among the 2,000 New Guinean growers and local government councillors who would attend the opening ceremony.

Dylup Profit Down Dylup plantations ltd., New Guinea cocoa, copra and rubber grower, suffered a 23 per cent, drop in net profit in the financial year ended January 31, when compared with the previous financial year.

The net profit was $81,278 ($109,308) in 1964-65.

The directors say the fall in profit was caused by very low cocoa prices and reduced cocoa production because of an unprecedented drought in the second half of the year.

They recommend a final dividend of 6i per cent., making 12i per cent, for the year.

Major Move In N.C.

Nickel Industry NEWS recently that the world’s biggest nickel producer, the International Nickel Company, of Canada, intended to begin operations in New Caledonia resulted in some 400 applications for prospecting permits being lodged with New Caledonia’s Mines Department by the end of March.

Most of the applications were for low grade nickel ore in southern New Caledonia, where International Nickel hopes to build a refinery.

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APEE 198 QUEEN ST., AUCKLAND, N.Z. PHONE: 30874. merce stated in mid-April that negotiations in France to pave the way for the entry of International Nickel to New Caledonia were proceeding smoothly.

The start of the company’s operations would be a major step in the development of the southern tip of New Caledonia.

Although it is almost a block of metal, with iron, nickel, chrome, manganese and cobalt all being present, the region has only been opened up since the war and parts of it are still unexplored.

This is the region of the Plain of Lakes and the Yate hydro electric complex; of the “wastelands” and exotic flora, much of which is found nowhere else on the island. It is also thought to be the last stronghold of the cagou, New Caledonia’s flightless bird.

Japanese interests mined iron ore at Goro, on one corner of the Plain of Lakes, just before the war.

It is generally believed that they took the iron ore for its small nickel content —the very content that makes New Caledonian iron ore generally unacceptable for smelting.

The Bulletin says that International Nickel expects to take about two years of experimentation and research to find the best system for treating the local nickel ores.

At present, nickel accounts for well over 90 per cent, of New Caledonia’s exports.

New Fishing Plan For Norfolk Island TWO Sydney businessmen, Mr. L.

A. Semple and Mr. R. Davis, discussed with the Norfolk Island Council in April their plan for a new fishing industry for the island.

They hope to get Canberra approval for erection of a processing factory on Crown land west of the Kingston pier.

The proposed installation will be serviced by fishing boats designed by De Havilland, working around Norfolk waters. There will be twoway radio communication between ship and shore, and echo-sounding devices for tracking fish.

The businessmen have said local fishermen will be given preference in the recruiting of fishing crews and that local women will be employed in the packing department. Surplus vegetables from island growers may also be processed for local consumption.

A correspondent says that if approval of the plan for the erection of the factory is given this will be the third fish factory to operate on the island in recent years. One was built by the Burnt Pine Investment Coy. Ltd. and later taken over by the Norfolk Whaling Coy. Ltd., and the other was built by Norfolk Island Fisheries Ltd. and had to close down.

Misima Continues To Look Good HOPES of an El Dorado on Misima Island, Papua, have increased following the latest investigations of Cultus Explorations Ltd., the Canadian company which has a large interest in the Pacific Island Mines Ltd. property, Cultus has successfully concluded negotiations for major financing of further development work on Misima.

The Canadian company has reported to its shareholders that Misima has two main features: A gold and silver deposit some 400 ft to sea level, one lode alone having a potential value of at least $l4 million Canadian, and possibly $37 million if lodes are connected; and a zinc-

W. Samoan Power Output Trebled

Western Samoa entered the era of automation at the end of March when Prime Minister Mataafa pressed a button to start an ultra modern £200,000 power station at Tanugamanono, a couple of miles from Apia.

The station has two 2,400 hp diesels each producing 1,680 kilowatts.

It was built under contract with the German firm of MAN. Three engineers from Germany helped in the installation and testing.

Pictured standing in front of one of the 16-cylinder diesels are mechanical supervisor Philip Penn, Alfred Wagner (a mechanical engineer from Germany), Moala, George, Aso, Pune, Tevesi and Vaoala.

Photo: R. Dawson. 143 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

The Pacific Islands Society Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

Phone: 59-1778.

A social and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St., Sydney, on the last Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m. lead-copper deposit also carrying gold and silver, the commercial value of which is yet to be determined.

The Cultus company believes that Misima contains a big ore body, and that shareholders “will be amply rewarded”.

The new finance is suffcient to put the property into production, but final decision on installation of a treatment mill will not be made until after the end of the year.

Koitaki Holds Dividend KOITAKI Para Rubber Estates Ltd., is holding its interim dividend at I2i per cent, for the halfyear to December 31, although profits for the period were slightly less than required to cover the dividend.

The directors expect profits for the second half of the year to be higher than those of the first half, and a final dividend will be decided on the results.

Factors which will govern a final dividend are world prices for rubber and coffee, and whether coffee beans ripen and can be picked before the close of the financial year.

Rubber output was affected by abnormally dry weather, but conditions have now returned to normal.

Production of coffee also fell—by almost nine tons to 38.75 tons, in the dry spell.

Fiji Industries Prosper FIJI INDUSTRIES LTD., cement manufacturer, based at Lami, near Suva, continues to prosper— with an increase of three per cent, in the annual dividend in sight.

The interim dividend has been increased from five per cent, to 6i per cent., indicating an annual rate of 13 per cent.

The directors reported that both sales and profits showed an increase in the half-year to December 31, compared with the corresponding six months of the previous financial year.

Fiji Industries was formed in 1960 and started manufacturing cement in 1962.

Its record has been one of steadily increasing profits after a loss in the first year of operations.

Leading Australian companies which have substantial interests in Fiji Industries are CSR, W. R.

Carpenter, Burns Philp, Development Finance Corporation and Dickson Primer.

New Hebrides Plan For More And Better Beef By D. I. Allen, Condominium Agricultural Department, New Hebrides.

Seven Charollais heifers and three Charollais bulls recently brought into the New Hebrides from France are to be the foundation stock of a purebred herd of Charollais cattle in the Condominium.

TAHITI and the New Hebrides are the first territories in the Pacific and Australasia to import this fine beef stock.

The beasts are being acclimatised at the Condominium Agricultural Department’s agricultural station at Tagabe, near Vila.

Locally-killed New Hebrides beef is already of excellent quality. Now, the Condominium Agricultural Department plans to develop the cattle industry in the islands and to improve its quality even further.

Besides being the foundation stock of a purebred herd of Charollais cattle, the newly-imported beasts will provide service bulls for the upgrading of local stock.

Charollais cattle are large, white beasts. They are bred solely for beef. In France, where there are more than H million, they constitute the fourth most numerous breed.

They are docile animals which grow rapidly, particularly up to the age of 15 to 18 months.

Their reputation for rapid growth, the high quality of the prime meat cuts and the high yield of roasting meat from the forequarter have aroused world-wide interest in recent years.

The Charollais breed is now a serious competitor to the well-known British breeds of cattle such as the Hereford (the most numerous beef breed in the world), the Aberdeen Angus, the Shorthorn and the Devon.

Trials conducted by the Milk Marketing Board in England have shown that Charollais-cross calves frequently grow faster and consume less food than crosses by British breeds. Some calving difficulties have occurred, however, with the large calves thrown by the Charollais.

The United States, Canada and Argentina have been importing Charollais cattle regularly and the United Kingdom has just received its second shipment of bulls and heifers.

In the Pacific, the Charollais may be of considerable economic importance in future. • One of the three Charollais bulls imported into the New Hebrides recently. 144 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

1 SYDNEY 1 Mar. 30 Apr. 27 Seller Seller Bali Plantations . .48 b .49 Burns Philp . . . b 3.56 4.05 Burns Philp (SS) 4.15 4.10 Camalec .... .63 b .55 Carpenter, W. R. . 2.53 2.67 Choiseul Plntn. . 5.50 5.26 C.S.R. Co. . . 2.85 2.91 Dylup Plantations .56 .62 Fiji Industries . b 1.83 b 1.94 Hackshall’s . . . 1.15 1.30 Kerema Rubber . .30 .29 Koitaki Rubber . 1.30 1.28 Lolorua Rubber .58 b .40 Makurapau Plntn. .39 b .25 Mariboi Rubber . .50 b .35 Plantation Holdings .40 .39 Queensland Insurance 4.10 4.25 Rubberlands . . . .22 b .16 Sogeri Rubber . . b .57 b .60 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 2.10 b 1.95 Steamships Trading . .96 .97 Watkins Consolidated .42 .43

Oil And Mining

SHARES Mar. 30 Apr. 27 Emperor . . . s .48 s .44 Bulolo G.D. . s 9.40 b 9.20 N.G.G. Ltd. . s .43 s .46 Oil Search . s .14 s .15 Ent. of N.G. . s .03 s .03 Pac. I. Mines s .36 s .43 Papuan Apln. s .16 s .15 Placer Dev. .

S25.50 S25.50 (Quotations are in Australian Dollars $A2 = £ Al.) Produce Prices (Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. $ equals approximately 8/- Stg., NZ, or W. Samoa; 9/- Fiji; 10/- Tonga; 5.381 Ceylon Rupees; 98 Pac. Frs.; $U51.125.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA: —All 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, $143 per ton; FMS, $l4O per ton; Smoke-Dried, $138.98 per ton.

FIJI: —The Fiji Coconut Industry Board fixes the prices to be paid for Fiji copra on a formula based on that for Philippines copra, and taking into account freight, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, etc. The copra must be graded at centres in Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and Taveuni. Prices in Suva until May 30 are; First grade, £FSB/15/-; second grade, £FS3/17/6; • third grade £F46. A scale of deductions has been established for copra delivered to grading centres other than Suva.

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. Prices, in Apr., were: Ist grade, $140; 2nd grade, $136; 3rd grade, $126 per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

GILBERT AND ELLlCE:—Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Copra Board subsidises the price at; First Grade $12.42 per ton, Second Grade $4.21 per ton.

NEW HEBRIDES: —Last official price on Mar. 21 was approximately $7B (7,800 Pac. Francs). French price in Mar. was 920 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 second quarter, Apr.-June, 1966, were £NZ67/13/11 Ist grade, £NZ66/8/ll standard grade—both f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

COCOA;—lslands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

On Apr. 29 these were approx. £ Stg. 192 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

On Apr. 29, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality $415 per ton, exwharf Sydney, $470. Quote No. 2: Best quality, ex-wharf Sydney, $460, in store N.G. ports $416 (for UK, continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA:—There were few actual transactions in April, however, nominal prices quoted in Sydney, May 2, were: Grade 1, £Stg.26s; grade 2, £Stg.23s per ton, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE. P.-N.G.: Apr. 29, good quality A grade, per lb. 43c; B grade 42c; C grade, 36c-38c, c.i.f., Sydney.

Approximate overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were reported on Apr. 29 as: Kenya AA £ Stg.3B6 per ton, A £Stg.376, B £ 5tg.356, C £Stg.344; Bugisu AA £ 5tg.346, A £Stg.34o, B £ Stg.33o; Tanganyika AA £ Stg.37o, A £ 5tg.362, B £Stg.342, C £Stg.336; Bukoba Robusta (standard) £ 5tg.263, pulped and washed £ 5tg.276; Mataari £Stg.43s; Sannani £ Stg.42o; Harrari £ Stg.36o; Hodeidah £ Stg.4os; Singapore Robusta API Special £ Stg.2sB, API £ 5tg.242, AP2 £Stg.229, APIO £Stg.237.

PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported Apr. 29—f.0.b., Lae; Kernels — white Spanish 17c lb.; Virginia bunch 18c lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Apr. 27 was: May shipment 67% Straits cents per lb (19.65 c Aust.), June shipment 67/2 Straits cents per lb (19.58 c Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported Apr. 29; White and yellow label processed, standard packs, $5.25, green label $5.15, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): New prices, settled in Apr., are—P.-N.G.: Dried brown rice, 112 lb bags, $l2l per ton, f.o.w. Sydney or Melbourne. Vitamin enriched white rice, 112 lb bags, $134 per ton, f.o.w. Other Pacific Islands: Polished white or dried brown rice, $142 per ton, f.o.w.

PEARL SHELL. —Quotations for Australian M.O.P. Shell on Apr. 29 by Sydney independent shell agents were; Sound $1,650 per ton, D $l,lBO, E $670, EE $470 (in store Sydney). Cook Islands: Penrhyn £NZ4OO (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS.—Sydney buyers Indicated the following quotations to Islands producers; Apr. 29, Quote No. 1, nominally $l4O per ton, f.0.b., Islands ports. No. 2 —Papua—sl6o-$lBO per ton; N.G., 8.5.1, —slso-$l7O per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted: Apr. 29, No. 1, Ist grade, $470 per ton on wharf, Sydney, 2nd grade, $240 on wharf, Sydney. No. 2, $440 (best quality), on wharf, Sydney.

CROCODILE SKINS. On Apr. 29 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.— $2.90 per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) $l.BO per in. 8.5.1. $2.90 (small scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM: $165.50 per ton, f.o.b.

Islands port, $l9O del. Sydney or Melbourne.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quoted F 2- (4in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS; Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, offers F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality. ICEP Pty. Ltd,, 22 Taylor St., North Curl Curl, Sydney, quote 65c to 85c lb., ex-store Sydney, according to quality.

London and US Quotations COPRA: LONDON, Apr. 26, Philippines, in bulk, SUSI9I (equal to £Stg.6B/7/4) per long ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan 1% c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, UQ. NEW YORK: Anr. 26, Philippines, c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports, nom. $U5169.80. CEYLON: Spot, 1,225 Rupees per ton.

COCONUT OIL; LONDON, Apr. shipment, Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £Stg.ll9 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, Apr., Spot 20-l/16d Stg. lb; May shipment Aug. shipment 20-7/16d Stg. lb.

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ

Bank, Bank Of Nz And The Bank

OF BARODA LTD. Australia on Fiji, basis £F100: Buying, $A221.73; Selling, $A226. Fiji-London, basis £ Stg.loo: B. £FII2; S. £FIIO/15/-. NZ-Fiji, basis £NZ100: B. £Flll/11/9; S. £FIIO/4/3.

WESTERN SAMOA, Through BANK OF WESTERN SAMOA. Australia on W. Samoa, basis £WS100: B. $A246.67; S. £ A 249.08. W. Samoa-NZ, basis £NZ100: B. £WS99/11/3; S. £ WSIOO/10/-. Fiji-W. Samoa, basis £ WS100: B. £FIO9/17/6; S. £FIII.

W. Samoa-London, basis £Stg.loo: B. £WSIOO/l/3; S. £WSIOI/10/-.

Norfolk Is. And Papua-New

GUlNEA.—Australian currency used; no exchange payable in transactions with Australia.

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 Apr., 1966, quoted; Selling, Noumea, 98 Pac. francs to $ Aust.; Papeete 98 (nom.) Pac. francs to $ Aust.; 247 Pac. francs to £ Stg., approx. 90 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 13.685 francs to £Stg.

Stock Market Quotations Sydney Stock Exchange share price index for “Ordinaries” on Apr. 27 was 326.54, on Mar. 30, it was 312.46. 145 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

Shipping, Airways Information

Shipping Timetables

• PlM's shipping and airways schedules are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways companies. Detailed information on ships' sailing dates should be obtained from shipping agents.

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

West Ng - Indonesia

The P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping Company operates a monthly cargo service between Indonesia, West New Guinea and Australia, with the Antonio Regidor, Pilar Regidor and Visaya Regidor.

Details from Mcllwraith McEacharn Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney (27-1481).

Sydney - Fiji

The CSR Company operates a passenger/cargo service with the MV Rona from Sydney, departing every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 1-7 Bent St., Sydney (2-0515).

Sydney - Fiji - Tonga - Samoa

Union Steam Ship Co. maintains a monthly cargo service with the Waimate from Melbourne and Sydney (periodically from Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney (2-0528); or other branches and agents.

Sydney - Fiji - Uk

Chandris Line vessel Australis maintains a two-monthly passenger service from Sydney via Fiji to Southampton, and return via Suez to Sydney.

Details from Chandris Line, 10 Martin Place, Sydney (28-2451).

Sydney - Fiji - Vancouver

Pacific Shipowners Ltd., of Suva, normally operate a passenger-cargo service three times yearly with the Lakemba calling at Sydney, Melbourne, Suva, Lautoka, Honolulu, Vancouver.

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4147).

Sydney - Geic - Honolulu

Columbus Lines of New York, operate a monthly passenger-cargo service from Sydney to Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, continuing via Honolulu to Los Angeles.

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4149).

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - Fr. Polynesia

Messageries Maritimes Line passengercargo vessels, Tahitien, Oceanien and Caledonien from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete (with occasional calls at Taiohae, Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila, Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St., Sydney (BU 2654).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - HAWAII -

Canada - Usa

P. and 0.-Orient Lines passenger vessels call approximately monthly at Auckland, Suva and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, occasional calls are made at Pago Pago and Nukualofa.

Details from P. and 0.-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty. Ltd., 55 Hunter St. Sydney (2-0317).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - TAHITI -

Panama - Uk

Southern Cross and Northern Star passenger vessels each make four roundthe-world voyages per year, from Southampton, UK, alternatively via South Africa and Panama, calling at Sydney, Wellington, Rarotonga, Papeete and Fiji.

Details from Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (28-1828).

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI -

Panama - Usa

Holland-America Line passenger vessel Maasdam leaves Sydney twice a year for Panama and USA, calling at Wellington and Papeete.

Details from Europe-Canada Line, cnr.

Bridge and Pitt Sts., Sydney (27-6432).

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS. -

New Caledonia

Jacques del Mar (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea), makes a regular three weekly passenger-cargo voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Caledonia (Noumea).

Details from F, H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311).

Sydney ■ Norfolk Is. - New

Hebrides - Bsi - Bougainville

MV Tulagi (passenger-cargo) leaves Sydney about every six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI ports.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Sydney - Papua - New Guinea

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vessels Malekula, Braeside, Bulolo, Montoro and Moresby, make voyages about three times a month from Australian east coast ports to Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul, calling at Wewak, Kavieng, Lombrum, Lorengau, Soraken, Teopasino, Numa Numa, Arigua, Kieta, Samarai and Alexishafen at longer intervals.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Soochow and Shansi provide a regular fortnightly passenger-cargo service from Sydney to Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai and Sydney, sailing from Sydney every second Monday.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line cargo vessels Sletta, Sletfjord, Sletholm and Slitan, leaves Sydney weekly for P-NG ports, calling at Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kieta and Honiara (BSIP).

Details from Karlander NG Line (F H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-8311).

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vessel Makati runs monthly between Australian ports (turn round at Melbourne) and Papua-New Guinea, calling at Rabaul, Madang and Lae.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (27-1271).’

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vessels Australasia and Malaysia run monthly between Australian ports (turn round at Melbourne) and Singapore, via Pt.

Moresby.

Details frcm Blue Star Line (Aust. i Pty. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (27-1271).

Australia-West Pacific Line vessels maintain passenger-cargo services from Japan and Hong Kong to Australia calling fortnightly at Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Lae and Madang, on northbound trips and monthly on southbound trips.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. cargo vessels Kweilin, Wenchow and Wanliu call monthly at Rabaul and Lae on their way north from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Hong Kong.

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Changsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly passenger-cargo service calling at Pt.

Moresby when northbound between Australia, Manila and Hong Kong.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU-4701).

Dominion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) vessels Francis Drake and George Anson maintain monthly passenger-cargo services between Sydney and Japan (via Manila, Hong Kong and Formosa), return via Guam and Rabaul.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 York Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253).

Sydney - Tahiti - Uk

Chandris Line vessel Ellinis maintains a regular passenger service every two months from Sydney via New Zealand and Papeete to Southampton, and return via Suez to Sydney.

Details from Chandris Line, 10 Martin Place, Sydney. Tel. 28-2451. 146 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Daiwa Line

Direct Service

Japan South Pacific

M.V. "TAHITI MARU" V-8 Dep. JAPAN May 30.

GUAM June 5-6.

APIA June 19-20.

PAGO PAGO June 21. *NUKUALOFA June 23.

SUVA June 25-26.

LAUTOKA June 27-28.

SANTO July 1-3.

VILA July 4.

July 6.

July 10.

SUBJECT TO CARGO INDUCEMENT.

Heavy lift, reefer space and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next sailing — M.V. “Daisen Mam” V-9.

The Daiwa Navigation Co., Ltd.

Osaka: "Dailine'

Tokyo: "Funedailine"

AGENTS: GUAM: Atkins, Kroll (Guam) Ltd.

APIA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAGO PAGO: B. F. Kneubuhl.

NUKUALOFA: Tonga Shipping Agency.

SUVA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

LAUTOKA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

NOUMEA: Agence Maritime Pentecost.

SANTO: South Pacific Fishing Co. (N.H.) Pty. Ltd.

VILA: Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

HONIARA: British Solomons Trading Company Ltd.

PAPEETE: Etablissements Baldwin.

EUROPE - NEW GUINEA -

Bsip, Geic

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd operate a service every six weeks from the Continent and London via Suez to Port Moresby, Honiara or Tarawa (alternating each voyage), Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, Wewak, Sukarnapura, Biak, Manokwari and Sorong.

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Tonga - Fiji - N. Caledonia

A regular passenger/cargo service every three weeks from the Continent and UK. via Panama, to Tahiti, Fiji and New Caledonia, calling at Western Samoa and Tonga every second voyage, is operated jointly by Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

EUROPE - TAHITI - NEW HEBRIDES -

New Caledonia - Australia

Messageries Maritimes passenger-cargo vessels Vivarais. Vanoise, Velay, Ventoux and Vosges, run monthly between France and Noumea via East Africa and Australia. From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbane and Noumea: return to France via Australian coastal ports.

Other MM vessels run between France and New Zealand, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Details from Messageries Maritimes. 2 Young St., Sydney (27-2654).

Far East - Fiji - Bsi

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Szechuen and Sinkiang, operate a monthly passenger-cargo service from Japan and Hong Kong southwards to Fiji direct and BSI returning to Japan direct.

Far East - Fiji - Nz - Sydney

Royal Interocean Lines operate a monthly passenger-cargo service with the Tjimanuk, Tjitarum and Tjiliwong from Hong Kong and Singapore to Fiji and NZ, calling at Suva and Lautoka, and returning via the Philippines.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

FAR EAST - P-NG - BSI - NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels maintain a monthly cargo service from Japan southwards to Wewak, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, Santo, Vila and Noumea, usually return to Japan direct Details from China Navigation Co. Ltd, (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

JAPAN - SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - N. CAL. - N. HEB. - BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs a monthly passenger/cargo service from Japan via Guam to Apia, Pago Pago, Nukualofa, Suva. Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo and Honiara.

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. 147 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA Tofua maintains a service approximately monthly from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland.

Matua maintains a service approximately monthly from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, and return to Auckland.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland. (Tel.: 49-430).

New Zealand - Tahiti

New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels Ruahine, Rangitoto and Rangitane, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, make a call every two months at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

Tonga - Fiji - Australia

The Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvakai operates a four to five-weekly passenger-cargo service between Australia and Tonga via Fiji.

Details from Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Tonga - Fiji - Samoa

Tonga Shipping Agency operates a cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Calls are also made as required at Apia (W.

Samoa) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa), Turn-round in Suva is usually two days, and the agents there are Morris Hedstrom, Ltd.

Uk - Panama - Samoa - Fiji

The Fiji Direct Service is maintained by Conference vessels, sailing at regular monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka.

Bethell, Gwyn and Co. Ltd., act as Loading Brokers in London,

Uk-Panama-Tahiti-Australia

Cogedar Line vessel Flavia, operates a passenger service regularly from Southampton, via Panama and Papeete to Sydney.

Details from agents; H. C. Sleigh, 115 York St., Sydney. Tel. B 0253.

UK - PAPUA - NG - BSI Bank Line operates a monthly direct service from Europe to Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kavieng, Rabaul and Honiara, then to Australia for cargo-loading and return to UK via Suez.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty.

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (27-2041).

Australia - Am. Samoa - Usa

Matson-Oceanic Line operates a fiveweeks passenger-cargo service from Los Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra and Ventura. Terminal ports, in Australia, vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Sydney, Brisbane, Pago Pago and Honolulu.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young St., Sydney (8U4272).

USA - PACIFIC PORTS - NZ -

Sydney - Usa

Matson Line vessels Mariposa and Monterey maintain a regular service every three weeks from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Bora Bora, Papeete, Rarotonga, Auckland, Sydney, and return via Noumea, Suva, Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolulu to San Francisco.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Tahiti - Australia

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships on US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service make periodical calls at Tahiti on southbound voyages.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU6301).

USA - TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI -

New Caledonia

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thor I maintain approximately monthly services from West Coast Nth. American ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, and return.

Details from General Steamship Corporation Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francisco, USA and Islands Agents.

Airways Timetables

Trans Pacific Services

SYDNEY - BRISBANE - HONOLULU -

Nth. America

By QANTAS (with 707 Jets) Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1700, arr. Brisbane 1815, dep. 1900, arr. Honolulu 0730 Sat., dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1640.

Fri.: Dep. San Francisco 1145, arr.

Honolulu 1335. dep. 1445, arr. Brisbane Sat., 1955, dep. 2040, arr. Sydney 2200.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii ■ Usa

By QANTAS (with 707 Jets) Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1700, arr. Nadi 2250. dep. 2340, arr. Honolulu 0730, dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1640.

Tues., Thurs., Sun.; Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0040, dep. 0125 for Honolulu, arr. 0925, dep. 1040 for San Francisco, arr. 1820.

Mon., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr.

Nadi 0040, dep. 0125 for Honolulu, arr. 0925, dep. 1040 for San Francisco, arr. 1820 (to New York, London).

Fri.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0040, dep. 0125 for Honolulu, arr. 0925, dep. 1040 for San Francisco, arr. 1820 (extends to Vancouver alternate weeks from Sydney: May 6, 20, June 3, 17, etc.).

Mon., Wed., Fri.: From London, New York, dep. San Francisco 2000 for Honolulu, arr. 2150, dep. 2315 for Nadi, arr. 0325, dep. 0430 for Sydney, arr. 0645.

Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 2000 for Honolulu, arr. 2150, dep. 2315 for Nadi, arr. 0325, dep. 0430 for Sydney, arr. 0645.

Sat.; Dep. San Francisco 1145 for Honolulu, arr. 1335, dep. 1445 for Nadi, arr. 1855 (Sun.), dep. 1945 for Sydney, arr. 2200. (From Vancouver via San Francisco alt. weeks, May 7, 21, June 4, 18, etc.). (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.) SYDNEY - HAWAII - USA via FIJI,

Nz Or Am. Samoa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707 Jets) Tues., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1730 (arr. Nadi 2310, dep. 2359), Honolulu arr. Tues., Sat. 0805, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1755.

Mon.: Dep. Sydney 1730 for Pago Pago (arr. Mon. 0130, dep. 0210), Honolulu arr. 0815, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1755.

Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1600 for Auckland (arr. 2040, dep. 2145) for Honolulu arr. Thurs. 0815, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1755.

Sun., Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Nadi, arr. Tues., Sat. 0515, dep. 0615, and Sydney, arr. 0830.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Pago Pago, arr. Sun. 0510, dep. 0610 and Sydney, arr. Mon. 0915.

Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0745, dep. 0830 for Sydney, arr. 0945, SYDNEY - NEW ZEALAND - FIJI -

Hawaii - Canada

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(with DCS Jets) Pri.; Dep. Sydney 1535, arr. Nadi 2130 Fri., dep. 2230, cross International Dateline, arr. Honolulu 0640 Fri., dep, 0800 for Vancouver, arr. 1525, dep. 1600 for Calgary, Edmonton and Amsterdam.

Fri.: From Amsterdam, Edmonton and Calgary, arr. Vancouver 1650 Wed. dep. 1830, arr. Honolulu 2215 Wed.,’ dep. 2355, cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi 0415 Fri., dep 0520 for Sydney, arr. 0735 (alt. Fri to Auckland, arr. 0810).

New Zealand - Tahiti - Usa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707 Jets) Wed.: Dep. Los Angeles 1300 for Honolulu, dep. 1700 for Papeete, arr. 2225.

Thurs.: Dep. Papeete 1700 for Honolulu, arr. 2220, dep. 2330 for Los Angeles, arr. Fri. 0725.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359 for Papeete, arr. Sun, 0515, dep. 0600 for Auckland, arr.

Mon. 0950.

Mon.: Dep. Auckland 2359 for Papeete arr. Mon. 0655, dep. 0800 for Los Angeles, arr. Mon. 1850 and San Francisco, arr. 2105.

New Zealand - Usa

By AIR-NZ (with DCS Jets) Tues., Sat.; Dep. Auckland 1015, arr.

Nadi 1305, dep. 1400, arr. Honolulu 2200 Mon. and Fri., dep. 2330, arr.

Los Angeles Tues. and Sat. 0725.

Sat., Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 0930, arr.

Honolulu 1145, dep. 1300, arr. Nadi 1710 Sun., Wed., dep. Nadi 1800, arr, Auckland 2150.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti

By Pan American Airways

(with 707 Jets) Tues.: Dep. Honolulu 1000, arr. Pago Pago 1410, dep. 1500, arr. Papeete 1850.

Wed.: Dep. Papeete 2230, arr. Pago Pago 0040, dep. 0130, arr. Honolulu 0735.

SYDNEY - FIJI OR NZ - TAHITI - MEXICO By QANTAS (with 707 Jets) Mon.: Dep. Sydney 1030, arr. Auckland 1515, dep 1615 for Papeete, arr. Sun. 2310, dep. Mon. 0015 for Acapulco, arr. 1220, dep. 1320 for Mexico City, arr. 1410.

Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1030, arr. Nadi 1615, dep. 1700 for Papeete, arr. Wed. 2310, dep. Thurs. 0015 for Acapulco, arr. 1220, dep. 1320 for Mexico City, arr. 1410 (to Nassau, Bermuda, London).

Sat. (from London, Bermuda, Nassau); Dep. Mexico City 2145 for Acapulco, 148 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

AUSTRALIA PACIFIC WEST LINE ■5 mam Linking ® m.v. "samos”

PACIFIC with the FAR EAST and AUSTRALIA Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney. Phone: 27-6301.

Branch Office at Melbourne; 51 William St. Phone: 61-3031.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide—Gibbs, Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Lae and Rabaul (New Guinea)—New Guinea Co. Ltd. Port Moresby (Papua)—lsland Products Ltd. iVewak (New Guinea)—J. A. Corrigan Wewak (1963) Pty. Ltd. ?AR EASTERN AGENTS: Japan—Dodwell & Co. Ltd. Hong Kong and Manila—Everett Steamships Corporation. arr, 2235, dep. 2335, arr. Papeete Sun. 0345, dep. 0445 for Nadi, arr. Mon. 0725, dep. 0815 for Sydney, arr. 1035.

Tues. (from London, Bermuda, Nassau): Dep. Mexico City 2145 for Acapulco, arr. 2235, dep. 2335 for Papeete, arr.

Wed. 0345, dep. 0445 for Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0835, dep. 0930 for Sydney, arr. 1035.

Sydney - N. Caledonia - Fiji

Tahiti - Usa

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DCS Jets) Wed.: Dep. Sydney 0940 for Noumea, arr. 1320, dep. 1435 for Nadi, arr. 1720, dep. 1805 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. 0010, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 2010.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 0100 for Papeete, arr. 0620, dep. Sun. 0700 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Mon. 0950, dep. 1035 for Noumea, arr. 1135, dep. 1250 for Sydney, arr. 1458.

Fri.: Dep. Noumea 1435 for Nadi, arr. 1720, dep. 1805 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. 0010, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 2010.

Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 0100 for Papeete, arr. 0620, dep. Fri. 0700 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Sat. 0950, dep. 1035 for Noumea, arr. 1135.

Alt. Sat. (May 7, 21, June 4, 18); Dep. Sydney 1000 for Noumea, arr. 1550.

Alt. Fri. (May 6, 20, June 3, 17): Dep.

Noumea 1730 for Sydney, arr. 2210.

Sydney - New Zealand - Fiji

BOAC (with 707 Jets) Mon., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Auckland 1345, dep. 2130, arr. Nadi 0020 (Tues., Sat.).

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 0505, arr, Auckland 0755, dep. 0930, arr. Sydney 1035, thence London via Singapore.

Australia-New Zealand

Brisbane - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s and DCB’s) Twice weekly, both ways.

Brisbane - Wellington

AIR-NZ (with Electras) One service weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Three times weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Twice weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Wellington

AIR-NZ (with Electras) Three times weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s and DOS’s) Twice daily, both ways.

BOAC (with 707’s) Twice weekly, both ways.

PAN AMERICAN (with 707’s) Once weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with DOS’s and 707’s) Daily, both ways. (Exc. Thurs.).

Sydney - Wellington

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Twice daily, both ways.

Because days and frequencies of trans- Tasman services change at short notice, It is impossible to give reliable detailed information on the services outlined above. Intending passengers are advised to check timetables with the airlines or travel agents.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney - Fiji

AIR-INDIA (with 707’s) Tues.: Dep, Sydney 1000, arr. Nadi 1555.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 0730, arr. Sydney 0945.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

AIRLINES OF N.S.W. (with Sandringham Flying-boats) Frequent services from Rose Bay Base each week. Departure time Is dependent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Island.

Sydney - New Caledonia

QANTAS (with 707’s) Alt. Thurs. (May 12, 26, June 9, 23, etc.): Dep. Sydney 1100 for Noumea (arr. 1430), dep. 1545 for Sydney, arr. 1735.

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS (with DC4’s) Wed., Sat., Mon. (May 9, 16 only): Dep.

Sydney 0800, arr. NI 1445. Plight extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See “Inter- Territory Services”).

Thurs., Sun., Tues. (May 10, 17 only): Dep. NI 1445, Sydney, arr. 1845. 149 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and 'THOR I"

Regular Freight and Passenger Services between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

Tahiti - Samoa - Tonga - Fiji - New Caledonia

New Hebrides - New Guinea*

* Transhipment via Noumea.

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 1 Bush Street, San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime nationals Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd. - . X LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PORT VILA-Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelies Hebrides.

Sydney - Papua - New Guinea

Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANA operate from Sydney to Lae and return with Electras.

NORTHBOUND TAA: Daily (exc. Tues., Sun.): Dep.

Sydney 2340, arr. Brisbane 0110, dep. 0155, arr. Pt. Moresby 0600, dep. 0645, arr. Lae 0740.

Ansett-ANA: Daily, exc. Wed., Sat., dep.

Sydney 2345, arr. Brisbane 0115, dep. 0200, arr. Pt. Moresby 0605, dep. 0655, arr. Lae 0745.

SOUTHBOUND TAA; Daily (exc. Mon. Wed.); Dep. Lae 0930, arr. Pt. Moresby 1015, dep. 1055. arr. Brisbane 1445, dep. 1525, arr.

Sydney 1655.

Ansett-ANA; Daily, exc. Thurs., Sun., dep.

Lae 0925, arr. Pt. Moresby 1015, dep. 1055, arr. Brisbane 1450, dep. 1525, arr. Sydney 1700.

Old. - Papua-New Guinea

TAA (with Fokker Friendships) Mon.: Dep. Townsville 1330, arr. Cairns 1425, dep. 1530, arr. Pt. Moresby 1750.

Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1445, arr. Cairns 1705, dep. 1800, arr. Townsville 1855.

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Cairns

ANSETT-ANA (with Fokker Friendships) Fri.: Dep. Cairns 1330, arr. Pt. Moresby 1545.

Fri.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 1630, arr. Cairns 1845, dep. 1930, arr. Townsville 2025.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS.

NZ - FIJI AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Daily (except Tues.): Dep. Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020.

Daily (except Mon., Wed.): Dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755.

Mon.: Dep. Nadi 0930, arr. Auckland 1220.

Mon., Fri., flights ex-Auckland and Tues., Sat. flights ex-Nadi are operated by BOAC.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Sun.: Dep. Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020 Mon. Dep. Nadi 0200, cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago Sun. 0445.

Sun.: Dep. Pago Pago 0715, cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 0815.

Dep. Nadi 0930, arr. Auckland 1220.

NZ - FIJI - HAWAII - USA AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Tues., Sat.; Dep. Auckland 1015, arr. Nadi 1305, dep. Nadi 1400, cross International Dateline, arr. Honolulu Mon., Fri. 2200, dep. Honolulu 2330, arr.

Los Angeles Tues., Sat. 0725.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 0930, arr.

Honolulu 1145, dep. Honolulu 1300, cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi Wed., Sun. 1710, dep. Nadi 1800, arr.

Auckland 2050.

Nz - New Caledonia

AIR-NZ (with DCGB’s) Sat.: Dep. Noumea 1030 for Auckland, arr. 1630.

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 1100 for Noumea, arr. 1455.

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC6B’s) Thurs. Dep. Noumea 1030 for Auckland, arr. 1630.

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 1100 for Noumea, arr. 1455.

NZ - NORFOLK IS.

AIR-NZ (by Qantas DC4’s) (Charter) Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 1945.

Wed.; Dep. NI 1600, arr. Auckland 1945.

Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330 Extra flights to NI, Tues., May 10, 17.

Extra flights from NI, Mon., May 9, 16.

Inter - Territory Services

Fiji - Gilbert & Ellice Islands

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Sun.: Dep. Suva 0745, arr. Nadi 0825, dep. 0910, Funafuti, arr. 1305. Mon., dep.

Funafuti 0700, Tarawa, arr. 1140.

Tues.: Dep. Tarawa 0630, Funafuti, arr. 1130, dep. 1230, Nadi, arr. 1625, dep. 1655, Suva, arr. 1735.

Fiji - New Hebrides - Bsi

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Suva 0900. Nadi, arr 0940, dep. 1025, Vila, arr. 1300. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 0900, Santo, arr. 1015, dep. 1045, Honiara, arr. 1440.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Honiara 0630, Santo, arr. 1025, dep. 1055, Vila, arr. 1205, dep. 1235, Nadi. arr. 1705, dep. 1735, Suva, arr. 1815.

Fiji - Tonga

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with DOS’s) Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0800, arr. Nukualofa 1215.

Dep. Nukualofa 1300, arr. Suva 1515, dep. 1600, arr. Nadi 1645.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

Fiji - Western Samoa

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Sat.; Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0800, cross Dateline, arr. Apia Fri. 1310.

Fri.: Dep. Apia 1450, cross Dateline, arr.

Suva Sat. 1800, dep. Sat. 1830, arr.

Nadi 1915.

New Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA (with DC4’s) Tues.: Dep. Noumea 0930, arr. Vila 1125 dep. 1300, arr. Santo 1415, dep. 1445 arr. Noumea 1725.

Fri.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Santo 1040, dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1225, dep. 1400, arr.

Noumea 1555.

New Caledonia - Wallis Island

UTA (with DC4’s) Monthly service (second Saturday) Sat. (May 14, June 11): Dep. Noumea 0800 for Wallis Is., arr. 1530.

Monthly service (following Monday) Mon. (May 16, June 13): Dep. Wallis Is. 1000 for Noumea, arr. 1530.

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA (with Fokker Friendships and DOS’s) Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (DCS) 0600 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara, arr. 1620 (May 2, 16, 30, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DCS) 0730 for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1545 (May 3, 17, 31, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0845 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara, arr. 1630 (May 10, 24, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 0715 for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1235 (May 11, 25, etc.).

P-NG - WEST NG TAA and Garuda Indonesian Airways, using DC3’s, run services between Lae and Sukarnapura Both services are fortnightly.

Tahiti - Honolulu

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DOS’s) Sat.: Dep. Papeete 1000. arr. Honolulu 1525, dep. Sat. 1700, arr. Papeete 2220.

Tahiti - Usa

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DOS’s) Wed.: Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 2010, dep. Thurs. 0100, arr. Papeete 0620.

Fri.; Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 2010, dep. Sat. 0100, arr. Papeete 0620. 1 50 may, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. OF N.Z.

LIMITED Serving the Pacific for nearly 100 years.

Regular Sailings by Modem Vessels From Melbourne and Sydney to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Also from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia and from New Zealand to Port Moresby direct.

Ship your cargo by a Union Company Vessel.

BRANCHES AT ALL MAIN AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND ISLAND PORTS.

PAA (with 707’s) Wed.: Dep. Los Angeles 1300, dep. Honolulu 1700, arr. Papeete 2225.

Thurs.: Dep. Papeete 1700. arr. Honolulu 2220, dep. 2330. arr. Los Angeles 0725 Fri.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0515 Sun.

Mon.; Dep. Papeete 0800, arr. Los Angeles Mon. 1850, arr San Francisco Mon. 2105.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS’s) Sun.: Dep. Apia 0445, 0515, 0730; Tues.- Sun. inch: 1700: Mon. and Sat. 0800; Fri. 0830.

Sun.: Dep. Pago Pago 0615, 0645, 0845; Tues.-Sun. inch: 1815; Mon. and Sat. 0915; Fri, 0945.

W. Samoa - Cook Islands

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS’s) Fri.; Dep. Apia 0900, arr. Aitutaki 1445, dep. 1515, arr. Rarotonga 1620.

Mon.: Dep. Rarotonga 0900, arr. Aitutaki 1005, dep. 1045, arr. Apia 1530.

W. Samoa - Fiji

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS’s) Tues.; Dep. Apia 1300, arr. Nadi Wed. 1615.

Thurs.: Dep. Apia 1100, arr. Nadi Fri. 1415.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 0900, arr. Apia Wed. 1430.

Sat.: Dep. Nadi 0230, arr. Apia Fri. 0800.

W. Samoa - Tonga

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS’s) Sun.: Dep. Apia 0800, arr. Mon. 1115.

Mon.: Dep. Tonga 1215, arr. Sun. 1530.

Internal Services

FIJI FIJI AIRWAYS (with Herons, Drovers, and DCS’s) Suva-Nadi-Suva; Daily.

Suva-Ura-Suva: Wed., Sun.

Suva-Labasa-Suva; Mon., Wed., Thurs.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Mon.

Suva-Matei-Savusavu-Suva; Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: Tues., Fri.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva: Sat.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Tues., Thurs., Sun.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

French Polynesia

RAI (with DC4 and Bermuda Flying-boats) Papeete-Moorea-Papeete; Mon., Thurs., Sat.

Papeete - Raiatea - Bora Bora: Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri.. Sat., Sun.

Papeete - Huahine - Raiatea - Bora Bora: Thurs.

Bora Bora - Raiatea - Papeete: Mon., Tues., Wed., Sat., Sun.

Bora Bora - Raiatea - Huahine - Moorea - Papeete: Thurs.

Bora Bora-Rangiroa-Papeete: Fri.

Details from RAI. Quai Bir Hakeim Papeete, or any UTA office.

New Caledonia

TRANSPAC (with Heron and/or Aztec) Noumea-Mare-Noumea: Mon., Tues., Fri.

Noumea-Lifou-Noumea: Tues.. Wed., Fri Sat.

Noumea-Ouvea-Noumea: Mon., Thurs., Sat.

Noumea-Isle of Pines-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea - Houailou - Poindimie Houailou-Noumea: Sat., Sun.

Noumea - Kone - Koumac - Kone - Noumea: Mon., Wed., Fri.

Noumea - Kouaoua - Houailou Kouaoua-Noumea: Daily except Sun.

Noumea - Poindimie - Hienghene Poindimie-Noumea: Daily except Sun.

Noumea - Thio - Noumea: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri.

Noumea - Thio - Kouaoua - Thio - Noumea: Wed., Sat., Sun.

Noumea - Houailou - Noumea: Daily exc.

Sun.

Noumea-Tontouta-Noumea; Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat., connecting with UTA, and Qantas flights.

New Hebrides

New Hebrides Airways

(with Drovers)

Vila-Southern Islands

Vila-Lenakel-Vila: Mon., Fri.

Vila - Erromanga* - Lenakel - Erromanga»-Vila: Wed.

Lenakel-Aneityum-Lenakel; Alt. Fri. (May 13, 27, etc.).

Lenakel-Futuna; Fri. (monthly).

Vila-Northern Islands

Vila-Tongoa-Santo-Tongoa-Vila: Tues.

Vila - Tongoa - Lonore* - Sara* - Longana-Walaha-Santo: Wed.

Santo - Walaha - Longana - Sara* - Longana-Walaha*-Santo: Thurs.

Vila-Tongoa-Vila; Sat. (NOTE: Asterisk represents optional stop. Lonore and Sara are on Pentecost: Walaha and Longana are on Aoba; Lenakel is on Tanna.) Details from New Hebrides Airways, Vila.

Papua - New Guinea

Operated by TAA LAE-RABAUL-LAE (with Fokker Friendships and DCS) Mon., Tues., Wed.; Lae-Rabaul.

Mon., Wed.: Rabaul-Lae.

PORT MORESBY-DARU (Beechcraft) Mon., Fri.: Pt. Moresby - Daru - Balimo - Pt. Moresby.

PT. MORESBY-WEST PAPUA (Aztec) Wed., Fri.; Pt. Moresby-Kerema-Baimuru- Kerema - Pt. Moresby. Reservations beyond Kerema subject to administration requirements.

PT. MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Beechcraft) Tues.: Pt. Moresby - Gurney - Misima - Gurney-Pt. Moresby.

Wed.: Pt. Moresby-Gurney*-Pt. Moresby. • Launch connects at Gurney to and from Samarai on Wed. only.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

Mon., Thurs.; Lae - Madang - Wewak - Manus-Kavieng-Rabaul.

Mon.: Rabaul-Kavieng-Manus-Wewak.

Sat., Tues.: Lae-Madang-Wewak.

Sat.; Wewak-Lae.

Sun., Tues.; Wewak-Madang-Lae.

Wed., Fri.: Kavieng-Rabaul.

Tues., Thurs.: Rabaul-Kavieng.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Mon.: Madang - Balyer R. - Hagen - Banz-Minj-Goroka-Lae.

Tues.: Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Mt. Hagen - Baiyer R. - Madang.

Wed.: Madang - Wabag - Hagen - Banz - Minj-Goroka-Lae.

Fri.; Lae-Goroka-Madang-Wewak.

Sat., Sun.: Madang-Goroka-Lae.

Thurs.; Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Hagen-Wabag-Madang.

Sat.: Mt. Hagen-Banz (opt.)-Lae.

Tues.; Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Lae.

Sun.; Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Mt. Hagen-Madang.

Pt. Moresby-Popondetta-Lae

(Beechcraft) Sun.: Pt. Moresby-Kokoda (opt.)-Popondetta-Garaina-Lae.

Sun.: Lae - Garaina - Popondetta - Kokoda (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo-Lae (Dcs)

Thurs., Sun.: Pt. Moresby - Wau - Bulolo - Lae.

Thurs., Sun.: Lae - Wau - Bulolo - Pt.

Moresby.

Madang-Goroka-Lae (Dcs)

Tues.: Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Hagen - Baiyer R. - Madang.

Mon.; Madang - Baiyer R. - Hagen - Banz-Minj-Goroka-Lae.

Pt. Moresby-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Fri., Sat., Tues., Thurs.: Madang-Goroka- Pt. Moresby-Goroka-Madang. 151 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

Labasa - Levuka - Apia - Pago Pago

Nukualofa - Vavau - Niue

For further particulars apply to

Bethell, Gwyn & Co Ltd. Burns Philp

Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

London, E.l. Suva

Lae-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun.: Lae-Rabaul.

Fri., Sat., Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Rabaul-Lae.

Thurs.: Lae - Finschhafen - Cape Gloucester - Talasea - Hoskins - Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

Sat.: Rabaul - Jacquinot Bay - Hoskins - Talasea - Kandrian - Cape Gloucester - Finschhafen-Lae.

Lae-Finschhafen-Lae (Dcs)

Tues.; Lae-Finschhafen-Lae.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Mon., Wed., Fri.: Rabaul - Nissan Is. (optional Fri. only) Buka-Wakunai- Kieta - Buin - Kieta - Buka - Nissan Is. (optional Mon. only) - Rabaul.

Rabaul-Talasea-Rabaul (Dcs)

Mon.: Rabaul - Jacquinot Bay - Hoskins - Talasea-Hoskins-Rabaul.

Tues.: Rabaul-Hoskins-Talasea.

Sun.; Talasea-Hoskins-Rabaul.

Thurs.: Talasea - Hoskins - Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

PAPUAN AIRLINES PTY. LTD. (with DCS’s and Piaggios) Mon.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Pondondetta-Kofcoda-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.)- Aroa (opt.)-Kairuku (opt.)-Bereina- Woitape - Tapini - Bereina - Kairuku (opt.)-Aroa (opt.)-Rorona (opt.)-Pt.

Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Tapini - Woitape (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Tues.; (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - Kokoda-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Daru - Balimo - Daru-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Cape Rodney- Paili (opt.)-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Woitape - Tapini-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.) Area (opt.) - Kairuku - Bereina - Pt.

Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Pt.

Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Gurney - Pt.

Moresby.

Wed.: (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Kokoda - Popondetta-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt, Moresby - Tapini - Woitape-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona-Aroa- Kairuku-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Bereina - Pt.

Moresby.

Thurs. (Piaggio): Pt. Moresby - Woitape - Tapini-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.)- Aroa (opt.) - Kairuku - Bereina - Kairuku (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Alt. Thurs. (May 5, 19, etc.): (DCS) Pt.

Moresby - Popondetta - Wanigela - Vivigani - Losuia - Popondetta - Pt.

Moresby. (May 12, 26, etc.): (DCS) Pt.

Moresby - Popondetta - Losuia - Vivigani-Popondetta-Pt. Moresby.

Fri.: (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - Pt.

Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Gurney/Samarai- Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Cape Rodney- Paili-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Tapini - Woitape-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona-Aroa- Kairuku-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Bereina - Pt.

Moresby.

Sat.: (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - Kokoda-Pt. Moresby 1010 w (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Woitape - Tapini-Pt. Moresby.

ANSETT-MAL (with DCS’s and Piaggios) Mon.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Madang-Lae.

Lae-Goroka-Madang.

Goroka-Lae-Bulolo-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby - Bulolo - Lae - Goroka - Mt. Hagen-Madang.

Lae-Wewak-Vanimo-Wewak.

Madang-Momote-Kavieng-Rabaul, Lae-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Madang.

Mt. Hagen-Banz-Lae.

Mt. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Tues.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Wewak - Madang - Lae - Goroka - Madang-Wewak.

Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak - Madang-Goroka-Lae.

Madang - Mt. Hagen - Banz - Minj - Goroka.

Mt. Hagen - Erave - Kagua - lalibu - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Lae-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak - Lumi - Nuku - Wewak - Hayfield-Yangoru-Wewak.

Wewak-Telefomin-Ambunti-Wewak.

Wewak-Angor am-Wewak.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Kainantu - Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Wed.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Lae-Madang-Wewak.

Madang-Lae.

Lae-Goroka-Madang.

Lae - Goroka - Madang - Wewak - Momote-Kavieng-Rabaul.

Goroka - Lae - Bulolo - Pt. Moresby - Bulolo-Lae-Goroka-Madang.

Wewak-Lae.

Mt. Hagen - Kainantu - Lae - Kainantu- Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen.

Thurs.; Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak-Madang-Goroka-Lae.

Madang - Goroka - Bulolo - Pt.

Moresby-Bulolo-Goroka.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak - Hayfield - Yangoru - Wewak.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak-Aitape-Dagua-Wewak.

Wewak-Vanimo-Wewak.

Wewak-Angoram-Wewak.

Wewak-Ambunti-Wewak.

Fri.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Madang-Lae.

Lae - Goroka - Madang Wewak - Momote-Kavieng-Rabaul.

Goroka - Lae - Bulolo - Pt. Moresby - Bulolo-Lae-Goroka.

Wewak - Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Mt. Hagen.

Madang - Mt. Hagen - Banz - Minj - Goroka-Madang.

Mt. Hagen-Pt. Moresby.

Mt. Hagen - Erave - Kagua - lalibu - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Tari-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Lae - Mt. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Lae.

Lae - Madang - Wewak - Vanimo - Wewak.

Rabaul-Kavieng-Rabaul.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak - Lumi - Nuku - Wewak - Hayfield - Yangoru - Wewak - Angoram-Wewak.

Sat.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Wewak-Madang-Lae-Madang.

Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak - Madang-Goroka-Lae.

Goroka-Lae-Goroka.

Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Kainantu - Lae - Kainantu- Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Mendi - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Solomon Islands

MEGAPODE AIRWAYS (with Dove) (NOTE: See P-NG-Solomons timetable under Inter-Territory Services for connecting flights.) Honiara-Auki (Malaita)-Honiara; Tues., Fri.

Honiara-Yandina (Russell Is.)-Honiara: Thurs.

Honiara - Yandina (Russell Is.) - Sege - Munda, and return: Wed. (Fortnightly, May 11, 25, etc.).

Honiara-Kira Kira-Honiara: Wed. (Fortnightly, May 4, 18, etc.).

Honiara-Munda (New Georgia) -Barakoma (Vella La Vella)-Munda-Honiara; Fri. (Fortnightly, May 13, 27, etc.).

Honiara - Yandina - Munda - Barakoma - Munda-Yandina-Honiara; Mon. and every second Fri. (May 6, 20, etc.).

Details from Megapode Airways, PO Box 103, Honiara, BSIP. 152 MAY, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Classified Advertisements Per line, 5/- or 50c Aust.; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

Stamps Cr Coins

STAMPS & COINS purchased at highest prices: Lists available—Aust., N.Z., Fiji & Pacific, Papua-N.G., Australian States.

Send 1/- Postal Note. P. Downie, 94 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Vic.

Top Prices Paid For Island

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulations (used or unused), covers, collections.

Seven Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd., Sterling Street. Dubbo, N.S.W., Aust.

WANTED TO BUY. Used Stamps of Pacific Islands in any quantity cash by return mail. Petterd’s Stamp Depot, Box 221 C, G.P.0., Hobart, Tasmania.

WILL BUY. Islands stamps on covers preferably registered. M. Clarke, Box 56, Colac, Vic. Please write with details first.

Wanted To Buy

PACIFIC ISLANDS ARTIFACTS from all islands; particularly interested in shell products, carved and woven items; send lists and prices to: Director, Talofa Imports Co., Box 556, Captain Cook, Hawaii, 96704, via Air Mail.

ARTS AND CRAFTS from all islands of the Pacific. Primitive art, woodcarvings, artifacts, masks, weapons, etc.—Send your price list by airmail. Seven Seas Arts, 1254 East Miner Rd., Mayfield Hts., Ohio 44124, USA.

LADY BUYS New Guinea curios, masks, figures: 249 Birrell Street, Bondi. Phone: 38-1274.

PENFRIENDS AS MANY PEN-PALS as you have the time to write to. Full details from: The Universal Correspondence Agency, Astral Offices, 64 Brixton Road, London, 5.W.9., England.

Books, Magazines

ALL THE LATEST BOOKS! Libraries, schools, Government Departments, supplied. Discounts for bulk orders.

Personal attention to Islands customers.

Free catalogues: Write to: The Salon Bookshop, 26 Eddy Road, Chatswood, N.S.W., Australia.

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: 28-7874.

Going to Norfolk Island?

Then You Need

Rambler'S Guide To Norfolk

ISLAND 78c at bookstalls or from Pacific Publications, Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney (plus 7c postage.) FOR SALE SHIPBROKERS (AUCKLAND) LIMITED.

Sale & Purchase Brokers for Island Passenger and Trading Craft, Tugs, Lighters, and Pleasure Craft. Cables: “Shipsales”, Box 1679, Auckland.

“Samoan Songs Of Love And

DANCING”. 33-1/3 LP record containing 14 of the most melodic Samoan songs— recorded in Apia. £2/10/- Samoan currency, post paid. Samoa Records, P.O.

Box 139, Apia, Western Samoa.

FLEETS, 25 ft diesel workboat, built 1956, £1,500. 36 ft twin diesel cruiser, built 1965, £5.480. 43 ft diesel workboat. built 1956, £3,500. 55 ft diesel general purpose boat, built 1965, 2 holds available, £ll,OOO. Also cargo ships all tonnage.

FLEETS, Rowe’s Bldg., Edward St., Brisbane.

BODEN’S BOAT DESIGNS. The well known Naval Architect, Cecil E. Boden, has compiled two excellent Boatbuilding Books for the amateur builder. One is a manual on Boatbuilding, the other a Design Book describing and pricing over one hundred boats to build. These books can be yours for £l/7/- including postage. 3 Rawson Place, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

Building Contractors

QUEENSLAND GOLD COAST. Kilner Constructions Pty. Ltd., builders of Quality Homes, Flats and Motels. We will build to your own plan or design a home for you. Quotations free. Write for Catalogue to; Kilner Constructions Pty. Ltd., 3661 Gold Coast Highway, Main Beach, Gold Coast, Qld., Aust.

Real Estate

QUEENSLAND GOLD COAST. For your Real Estate requirements, Houses, Land, Investments on Queensland’s Gold Coast and for personal attention contact: Kilner Real Estate, 3661 Gold Coast Highway, Gold Coast, Qld., Aust.

Trade Enquiries

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might want from Hong Kong (Photographic and Cine Equipment, Transistor Radios, Household Appliances, Chinese Brocades, Plastic Flowers, Cultured Pearls, etc.) we can supply you. Right prices and personal care assured. Please write us for quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd., 313 Marina House, Hong Kong. Established in Hong Kong since 1936.

NURSERY LIMBERLOST NURSERIES. Specialising in Dendrobium Orchids —Hibiscus and unusual exotic plants. Free lists posted on inquiry:—Limberlost, P.O. Freshwater, Cairns, N.Q., Australia. Fully illustrated 40 page catalogue. Air Post —75c.

DEATHS OF ISLANDS PEOPLE Mr. R. S . Bell The death occurred in the Norfolk iland Hospital on March 28 of Mr. aoul Sunday Bell, a well-known jsident of the island for the past 6 years.

Mr. Bell, who was known as Roy, as born on Raoul Island (otherwise nown as Sunday Island) in the ermadecs 84 years ago. His family ad settled on that island four years irlier.

Moving to Norfolk Island about HO, Mr. Bell worked both as a lanter and photographer.

But his main interest was natural istory. He collected shells for Tom edale, plants for Dr. Oliver, and irds for Gregory Mathews, Under Mathews he became an cpert field naturalist and Mathews’

Dok The Birds of Norfolk and Lord owe Islands, published in London i 1928, was based on his work.

Various birds and shells that he scovered, including the Norfolk vl, Ninox boobook royana and the ermadec shell Trochus royana, ere named after him.

His skill as a photographer was cognised in 1947 when one of his lotos, a view of Norfolk’s Ball ay, was used as the design for orfolk’s first postage stamps. This jsign was, for many years, the only le used.

Mr. Bell served in World War I i an aerial photographer in the oyal Australian Flying Corps and World War II as a telephonist on orfolk.

Mr. Bell had a large collection of lotographs and natural history ledmens which the local people ipe will be retained on the island r a proposed Folk Museum.

Mohenoa Tonga Mohenoa Tonga, one of six ongans who fought in World War died in Nukualofa on April 16. e was 66.

Mohenoa, who, at the time, looked der than his years, joined the Union earn Ship Company vessel Atua as steward in 1912, at the age of 12. r hen war broke out in 1914, he ined the New Zealand Army and w action with the Anzacs at allipoli in 1915.

He returned to Tonga in 1920. 153 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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natural increase in the Colony’s population (that is, birth-rate less death-rate) is too high when the rate of development of natural resources (that is, the country’s capacity to maintain a good living-standard among the population) is taken into account.

A Government department, under the direction of Ratu K. K. T. Mara, has been set up to encourage the development of natural resources and assist in the establishment of new industries; but there still is danger that its achievements will be countered by a too rapid population growth.

Two facts especially are worrying the economists—namely, 65 per cent, of Fiji’s population is under 25 years of age. and the Colony’s natural resources are limited.

The Indian community, more than any other, is feeling the pinch.

A large proportion of the Fijian people still live as family groups under village communal conditions, and the sustenance economy of the villages just naturally takes care of additional population, as it comes along.

But the Indian community does not have general access to agricultural land, and an increasing proportion of Indians is seeking employment, on wages. There are not enough jobs for the Indians who are seeking them. In spite of all that the British administration is doing— and it now is very active—the employment position is not improving, with the result that there is severe poverty among some sections of the Indians. There is growing evidence of petty crime.

A much larger measure of selfgovernment is being introduced this year, and many hope that further measures to be taken, plus continued birth-rate decline, will improve the outlook.

Two Lines Of

Thought At

Sydney Talks

By Angus Smales With a barrage of welleveloped oratory in Sydney in a group of thinkers from Australia and Papua-New juinea discussed the constituonal future facing the territory.

PWO main lines of thought emerged from the talks, which were jonsored by the Council on New fuinea affairs. They were: 1. Politically, economically, socially id for foreign policy reasons Papuafew Guinea could not become a :venth State of Australia. 2. Australia should clearly tell the f ew Guineans immediately that le Statehood idea would not be assible, and should set out alrnative constitutional proposals.

These two points were by no means lanimous expressions from the :minar, but they summarise the meral climate of opinion.

One significant departure from ie general trend of thinking was ie fact that not one New Guinean trliamentarian attending the seminar [pressed an opinion on the posbilty of Australian Statehood for s country.

This would appear to indicate an )en mind on the situation among e native political leaders—although young Tolai university graduate iposed Australian Statehood for NG.

What Value Was It?

In assessing the worth of the )inions which the seminar expresd, it is important to consider the ickground of the Council on New uinea Affairs and the type of eakers who addressed the seminar.

The council was formed 18 months ;o to study the problems and needs P-NG and to promote enlightened ought and advice in these problems id needs. The council has shown irticular interest in creating thought ithin the Australian community— community which too often has :en poorly informed and little terested in P-NG affairs.

The council has achieved success developing specialised interest, id this is to the good of Australia’s ork in the territory.

Many observers feel however that the approach developed by the council has been of an over-academic nature, and an academic approach was certainly evident at the April seminar.

Four members of the P-NG House of Assembly spoke and none of these men is what could be called an “academic” type.

Their main point—and it was a very fair one—was that Australia should quickly set out a selection of possible constitutional paths for the New Guineans.

Cards On The Table This meant that if the Australian Government considered a certain type of constitutional future impossible, then it should not hesitate to so tell the Guineans.

The germ of the problem facing the territory’s constitutional future lies in the opening remarks to the seminar, given by the Vice-Chancellor of the Territory’s university, Dr. J.

Gunther, who in March resigned from his post of assistant administrator of the territory.

Said Dr. Gunther: “The most likely conclusion at the present time is that the majority of New Guineans don’t know what they want.”

If this conclusion is accepted, then the real job today is to give the New Guineans a full understanding of the situation, and then wait for their opinion to emerge.

Their Main Points Mr. J. R. Kerr, president of the Australian Law Council, advocated the start of a “generous disengagement policy” by Australia towards P-NG, and was one of the strongest supporters of a non-attachment constitutional policy.

After a series of strongly-reasoned arguments on the subject, Mr. Kerr said: “However one looks at the problem, whether from a political, economic, defence or foreign policy point of view, it seems preferable that New Guinea should be fully independent, and not tied to Australia through any constitutional apparatus.”

The chairman of the Council on New Guinea Affairs, Mr. Norman Cowper, said that Australian Statehood for Papua New Guinea would be a fatal move. It would be unwise to adopt a pattern immediately for the territory’s future constitution, but he favored a modified form of the Westminster system.

One of the most outspoken of the other speakers was Mr. John Guise, chairman of the P-NG House of Assembly select committee on constitutional development and leader of the elected members in the House.

He appealed for an increase in Australian aid, for a greater shift of administrative employment to New Guineans, and for the use of UN educational scholarships.

Other native parliamentarians who spoke were Sinake Giregire, Simogun Peta and, Dirona Abe. All of them asked in general for continued Australian aid, but they did not discuss the issue of possible Statehood. 155 Fiji's Birth-Rate (Continued from p. 14) ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1966

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