Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 38, No. 4 ( Apr. 1, 1967)
1967-04-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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38, No. 4. April, 1967 This Issue ERAL 1c Cable Opened 8 ting in the Islands 87 ds Trader Fined 103 Fare Reductions 129

Rican Samoa

ng Governor 23 K ISLANDS ;r Over Stamps 8 ds Survey 103 ;r Overhauled 109 Shipping Service 111 onga Airstrip 137 > Session 8 University 13 n Birthrate Falls 15 : Behind Fiji's Athletes 37 Past 41 ping In Suva 65 <a, Past and Present 83 Tanker 107 s Crowd Suva 11l ; Fishing Boat Launched 125

Ch Polynesia

ges at Huahine ... 21 ng Trimaran Found 22 vae in the Australs 105 r Island Statues 131

Ert And Ellice Islands Colony

le Training School 109

Lord Howe Island

New Speed Limit 23 NAURU Canberra Independence Talks 11 Offshore Fishing Rights 101

New Caledonia

Nickel Ship Sold 105 Chateau Royale Hotel 135

New Hebrides

Big Census Job Ahead 29 Big Bay, Wall Mystery 40 Old Schooner Still Going 11l Airline's New Planes 131 NIUE Bee-Farming Industry 148

Norfolk Island

Offshore Fishing Rights 101

Papua-New Guinea

Political, Land Development 6 Fears Over Disorder 7 By-election 12 After J. K. McCarthy, Who? 12 University Development 13 Footballing Schoolboys 22 Government House 23 Political Heat's On 39 Mrs. Hay and Lady Cleland 42 Retirement of J. K. McCarthy 42 Second P-NG Woman Doctor 42 Electoral Boundaries 53 South Pacific Games Site 67 Offshore Fishing Rights 101 Big Fishing Venture 101 Work On Co-op. Ships 103 US Help for Mission Ship 107 Pictorial Section on P-NG 117 Qantas for P-NG Again 121 Building Contractors 145 Copra Prices 146 Search for Oil 147

Pitcairn Island

Few "Bounty" Relics Left 31

Solomon Islands

Political Scene 7 Visit by Warship 107 Beche-de-mer Industry 148

South Pacific Commission

Education Books Sell Well 69 Fisheries Research Station 105 TONGA Santos Takes Boxing Title 16 Decimal Coins 21 Big Numbers of Visitors 35 Coming Coronation 36 Prehistoric Pottery Found 51 Currency Changeover .... 146

Us Trust Territory

New Newspaper 27 Typhoon Kills Three . .. 101 Carolines Food Shipment 101 New Capital Wanted 148

Western Samoa

Mata'afa Re-elected 9 Samoan Paper Closes 9 Weekly Newsletter 25 Ancient Pottery Found 47 Faleolo Airport Closed 133 Apia's Rental Cars 135 EPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 21; Letters to the Editors, 26; To The Point with src V Chatterton, 55; Practical Planter, 71; From the Islands Press, 60; Magazine ;ction, 83; Yesterday, 91; New Books, 93; Shipping, 101; Cruising Yachts; 111; avel, 121; People, 139; Business and Development, 145; Produce Prices, 149; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 150; Deaths of Islands People, 158.

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Problems, Problems As New Guineans

Put The Pressure On

By Suart Inder, who was in Port Moresby in March You can get nothing but fragments of the Papua-New Guinea House of Assembly by sittim through its meetings. The House is not to be listened to, but to be read, for only in the privacy oc your own 75c copy of the Debates do the 64 members develop significant patterns of thought! surprisingly, only on paper does the House become real, the objectives clear.

PERHAPS it is the interpretation system which robs much of the debates of their immediate significance to the listener; perhaps the frequent motions, suspension of standing orders, question times, tea breaks, and committee stages dull the sense of urgency which does in fact exist in the chamber as two million New Guineans grope towards a future of some sort.

One of last meetings The March meeting of the Assembly—its twelfth, and among the last before the general elections of next year—was a typical example.

The many interruptions over the 10day sitting helped mask for those who, like me, were there, the fact that pleas were being made, solutions being offered, indignation being expressed, challenges being laid down and a political awareness being displayed with a shrewd if inexperienced indigenous skill.

Only with reflection, and with the help of the record, does one realise what an obsorbing commentary it was on land settlement; does one get unexpected insight into the inadequacy of the education system; and see disturbingly reliable evidence of a growing disrespect for law and order throughout the territory.

AAore radical 1968 Through it all runs a constant threat, possibly already an inescapable conclusion, that the electorates will send more radical members to next year’s House because of their failure to get from Port Moresby the bridges, roads, schools, teachers, and the economic development they so urgently require.

Shouted men like Pita Lus, “The Government must distribute the money equitably. They have forgotten about us Sepik people. They have said the Sepik people are rubbish!”

Complained Tei Abal, “It is quite wrong! The greatest need is in the bush!”

And Singin Pasom, “I cannot say something new—l am going to repeat what I have said for years. I am sick of asking the government! I am an old man now. Others are singing out and me too, but we are wasting our breaths!”

And Pita Tamindei: “I am not giving you an idea which I picked up from an officer—l am telling you the thoughts of all my people! How many years have we waited for the sort of development we have asked for?”

Yauwi Wauwe said the people were puzzled by the Government’s lack of response to their requests. “Now I do not know, shall we join with Australia or shall we find a solution of our own to our economic troubles?”

Yauwi asked. “My friends will support me in this type of thing.”

Budget victory Somewhere in all the 10-day talk, and all the interruptions, there was a comment by Momei Pangial which summed it all up: “The reasons why my friends have asked for this great variety of development is simply that they are told to by their electors.”

There may yet be some late relief on the way, for the most important Administration statement of the meeting accepted the fact that the House had been justified in staging last September’s Budget revolt.

Assistant Administrator, Mr. L, W.

Johnson, said Administration “appreciated that there is need for more consultation than has previously been the case” and said this year it would take its Budget planning to the Administrator’s Council, which could make a detailed study of the estimates, both before and after they had been seen by Canberra.

This announcement was generally recognised by members as the beginning of the new era at last, althoc John Pasquarelli was one who feas that their trust would be betrayj The announcement would hd been accepted with more enthusui if the Administration had not brouj down a new “little budget”, wh will spend an additional whacM amount.

Expensive Public Service The elected members attacked from all sides. The money was b©( spent not on economic developrrr but on a Public Service that was.?

John Stuntz put it, “over-complicar over-centralised and too cumberso, for this country to afford”. If Administration had got to the p«c where its Public Service was out} control, he said, then it should acb it and seek authority to take dras steps.

Government member J. K. I Carthy threw in a sobering c<k ment: “Despite all the criticism, should remember the great amoumr progress we have made since war.”

Siwi Kurondo brought up school problem on the adjournnw and for days afterwards it was teas and worried over by member a:£ member.

Education problem For the New Guineans it wai£ sensitive question—this one of v young children should be throout of school at standard six, and J given another chance. “People w say that our children have an eq> chance with other children are telll lies,” said Kurondo.

In support, Mr, Percy Chatten; thought the Education Departmrr had done a good job in desigm; a primary school curriculum to p pare pupils for secondary schoc But it wasn’t so good for childb 6 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

► were going to finish at standard Ir. L. W. Johnson, formerly the *ctor of Education, said total itory school enrolment was about ,000 children, rather less than of the children in that age group he territory. To provide enough iols the Administration would 1 almost 10,000 more teachers, to mention the classrooms, and was beyond its resources, he time had passed, he said, when y NG child who successfully pleted a primary education could 0 another school. owever the Education Departit was now making a complete ew of its policies, and some of solutions offered in the House Id certainly be considered.

Land settlement he debate on the native land ement schemes scattered about territory brought the information these, too, were being reviewed the Administration. lr. John Guise, had brought the ter up, successfully asking for tion of a Land Settlement Board, ;he present “vague system” was ing a lot of distress among native settlers throughout New Guinea, was unrealistic to ask several Jred people with wives and chil- -1 to go out into any area without ls, schools and medical aid posts, [embers made it clear in debate the principle under discussion that big estates were more ient than little ones and that New lea had to bring its thinking up late with an organised “back to land” drive in a big way. [ much other business the House oved an oil palm industry for r Britain, with a 50 per cent, linistration interest; gave the Adistration a mandate to continue mraging a mining company in gainville despite the recent objec- -5 of some of the local people; jp a Housing Commission to help r Guineans, particularly in the is, to get decent housing; and tied without comment to a statet by the Director of Lands, Mr. ve, that illegal native squatting and held by registered title would be condoned, but that those who ed land in developed areas may breed by legislation to put it to his last statement was not the ; important commentary on the ms problems of a developing f Guinea. i See NG hots up its politics, p. 39.

Civil disorder increasing By Stuart Inder THERE’S serious concern in Papua-New Guinea about increasing disorder, involving rioting and tribal revenge killings. The disorder, once contained in the uncontrolled areas, is becoming more frequent in the larger urban areas.

The deteriorating situation was stressed at the March meeting of the House of Assembly when Mr. John Pasquarelli (Angoram), initiated a debate as a matter of public importance.

Sixteen members who spoke were unanimous that the number of cold blooded murders was on the increase, that to most criminals in the territory gaol was a joke, that people in some areas felt they could no longer depend on protection from police and District Administration officials and that in many territory towns women were afraid to go out alone after dark.

Mr. Pasquarelli said that if things continued as they were, people would soon say the Administration was not in control.

The situation could get out of hand.

Kaibelt Diria (Minj), said Highlands members were worried. Simogun Pita (Undersecretary for Police) said the police felt they had no support, but with support they “could be strong again”, Paliau Maloat said he was “frightened” to see lawlessness developing in New Guinea as it had in other emerging countries, and the whole country could be wrecked by it. There was not now the influence of the older people.

Speakers in the House made it clear that harsher penalties and stronger action on the spot were needed. Some native members called for hangings.

The Assembly debate gave publicity to a serious territory situation, which most people, particularly in the Highlands, have been aware of for some time. It needs attention urgently.

Solomons ' political scene is ‘dismal ' From a Honiara correspondent Elections in the Solomons under the new Constitution are to get under way in the next month or two.

Mounting of elections in 14 electoral districts more or less simultaneously is going to be a bit of a headache in these scattered islands.

THE Eastern Outer Islands will certainly have to resort to indirect election through an electoral college. The 13 other districts will organise direct elections—for the first time, except for Honiara.

The present council has 11 official and 10 unofficial members, two of the unofficials being nominated. Of the eight others, only one, the member for Honiara, was elected directly.

The Government will retain the majority in the new council by appointing three ex officio members and up to 12 official members. But there will be other changes, such as an embryo cabinet, and the elections are a further experiment in political freedom—if the Melanesians want it!

E. V. Lawson retires Mr. E. V. Lawson, the only elected member, has told the House he would like to see two of the official members appointed who are not Government employees, so that “there is something more to the debates than there has been”.

Mr. Lawson has announced he does not intend to stand this time.

“It is time for the Melanesians to stand on their own feet,” he said, “and do something for themselves.”

Mr. Lawson’s Democratic Party, formed with Mariano Kelesi in 1965, is “in recess”—virtually defunct, but not entirely so because of lack of political interest. No Government employee is now allowed to take an active interest in any political party.

Mr. Lawson, who was the party secretary, takes the view that if the Melanesians want to do something about reactivating the party then they should get busy and do it. But nobody seems to want to take up the challenge.

The political scene at the moment looks somewhat dismal, but one hopes for surprises. If the Solomons are to have any, we should know soon. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Australia Not So

Popular With Fiji

Legislative Council

From a Suva correspondent If would-be investors in Fiji, who might be worried about the country’s stability in the storm whipped up by the winds of change, had had a look in at the Fijian Legislative Council’s three-day session in the week preceding Easter they would have invested their cash in the colony there and then. fTTHE whole council, all 40 of them —there wasn’t a single absentee —breathed an aura of brotherliness and goodwill which persisted throughout.

One of the more pleasant of the council’s jobs was to pass a resolution agreeing to the establishment of the new University of the South Pacific (see p. 13).

There was not similar unanimity when the Government proposed increasing the Customs duty on imported poultry meat and game to protect the local poultry industry.

The Government explained that during the six months’ ban on poultry from Australia, where there had been an outbreak of Newcastle disease, local poultry farmers had extended their flocks to keep pace with local demand.

Now the ban had been lifted the Australian farmers were plucking the local market bald with bigger birds at a cheaper price, and the local men needed protection.

The Opposition, the Federation Party, surprised the Government by opposing the motion—because it said it didn’t go far enough. The tariff increases should have gone on eggs too, as the Australian farmers would try to dump them on Fiji to make up for their losses on the birds.

The Opposition withdrew only after the Government said it would examine the position should Australians try to dump cheap eggs. The tariff increase went through.

No Australian loan Australia came in for some criticism again later when the Opposition moved that: “This House records its deep disappointment that the Government of Australia has seen fit to reject an application for a loan made by the Government of Fiji in the sum of £3,650,000”.

But the motion was rejected by the Government, which forced its own amendment through after a three-hour debate.

The amendment said virtually the same thing, but went on to “welcome the assurance of the Australian Government that it was studying other possible ways and means of providing assistance”.

Wait and see!

Some of the Federation Party members felt the Government ought to wait and see what the Australian Government’s assurances were worth before welcoming them.

Mr. A. D. Patel said he worried about Fiji’s development plan and the effect on it because the loan was not forthcoming.

“This motion was timed,” he admitted, “to precede the joint visit of the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, as announced in the Press, to let them know what we feel, and of the difficulties we are in, so that they might consider in what way they can help us.”

Ratu K. K. T. Mara, Leader of Government Business, said he had faith in the assurances from the Australian Government.

“We believe this is a genuine desire to help because they have appointed a committee to look into it,” he said.

Plight of farmers That the new Government side was rapidly learning parliamentary tactics was evident when the House came to debate another Opposition motion calling for an independent inquiry into the economic conditions of Fiji farmers.

After Mr. M. T. Khan had moved the motion and outlined the parlous state Fiji farmers found themselves in through the drop in sugar prices and copra production, and the depredations of two hurricanes and a drought, the Government produced a hamstringer.

The Parliamentary Secretary for Natural Resources, farmer Doug Brown, described how he and others in the Government had toured the farms and were looking into the problem.

Then he produced an amendment which expressed appreciation “of the Government’s continuing concern for an investigation of the problems farmers were facing” and for initiating further measures to assist them. (Continued on p. 159)

Angry Protests

OVER COOK

Islands' Stamps

By a staff writer Hundreds of stamp dealers o collectors in New Zealand and A tralia who sent money to the Co Islands Philatelic Bureau for a set\ Christmas stamps released i November have yet to receive stamps or their money back.

MANY people spoken to by P c have not received acknowles ment of their order or answers ; second and third letters they ha written.

A group of 70 Auckland star collectors have asked the !

Minister for Island Territories, I J. R. Hanan, to investigate.

The Premier of the Cook Islam Mr. Albert Henry, said the stam had sold out before his Governmr became aware the demand for the had not been satisfied.

The Wellington Evening Post ported Mr. Henry as giving assurance that all money recehi would be refunded in full unless people had received stamps.

One Sydney stamp dealer, Mr.

F. Webb, said he had sent $3O IT year to the Cook Islands Philate; Bureau for the stamps. “I have got a word or my money back sino he said. “It’s shocking. The Co Islands will have a black name II Tonga soon”.

Mr. Webb said the Austral;!

Stamp Dealers’ Association had be< told by the Cook Islands Philate; Bureau that 5,000 refunds had be made.

Mr. R. W. Hornadge, editor Stamp News in Australia, said 1 Cook Islands had lost a lot of go«( will in stamp circles by its bunglhi He said the set of Christnn stamps was on sale in Australia j April at three times their face val'l in only unused varieties.

A 7,050-mile South-east A/ Commonwealth Cable, linking mas South-east Asia cities by telepho with Sydney through Guam, Madas and Cairns, was opened on Man 30. It cost SAS9 m.

Territorians living near Madm; may speak to Sydney after onlyy minute’s delay—but the rest of P-M won’t have the advantage of t new service, and this has causi criticism. 8 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Mata'afa will lead independent Western Samoa for third term Western Samoa’s new parliament met for the first time on darch 14 and Prime Minister Fiame Mata’afa was elected nanimously for a third three-year term as Prime Minister. The leeting followed the territory’s general election held on Febuary 25 when Mata’afa and all his Cabinet retained their seats -except the Minister for Education, Papalii Poumau (PIM, lar., p. 11). its first meeting the new parliament also elected former ity Speaker Magele Ate as ker, and Tuala Paulo as Deputy ker. On March 17 Mata’afa aniced the names of his eight-man net, but said portfolios would be ated later. ic Cabinet is, Faalavaau Galu, 65, Ulualofaiga Talamaivoa, G. F. D. Betham, 51, Laufili !, 53, Toomata Tua, 61, Lesatele , 57, Tuaopepe Tame, 49 and lanuvae Eti, 43. Mata’afa hims 45, giving an average Cabinet ber age of 54. pi, Tame and Eti did not hold olios in the previous Cabinet.

New cabinet pi is a senior MP who was ited at Government and Marist iers schools and has been in zs for 16 years. Tame, a former r, entered parliament six years ls the member for Lefaga. was born in American Samoa ic entered the Western Samoan ment in 1957 and was Minister ;alth in the first Cabinet of 1959. 1965 he headed the West Samoan dion to the South Pacific Con- :e at Lae. ; new Cabinet is a strong one, PlM’s Apia correspondent. He the announcement by Mata’afa former Minister of Justice galoa Leutele had declined a ►lio for health reasons caught by surprise. itele had been a Minister since rst 1959 Cabinet and proved If a valuable member, having a fluence in Samoan politics partly concerned with traditions, en Mata’afa announced his new et he made an unprecedented lent calling upon any nominee Felt he was not up to the job him know. )body made a move but many felt Mata’afa was providing a graceful exit for those who might take the hint.” PlM’s correspondent noted.

Sixteen MPs lost their seats in the election.

The Minister of Finance, Mr. G.

F. D. Betham, who topped the poll in 1964 for one of the two individual voters’ seats, and has served in the House for 19 years, was headed this time by 41-year-old Peter Paul, newcomer to politics and son of former Minister of Finance and leading businessman Eugene Paul.

Preliminary results gave Paul 587, Betham 539, Thomas Ott 424 and Peter Plowman 223.

Under Chief Returning Officer G.

Fepulea’i and his staff the elections ran off without a serious hitch. No incidents were reported and the final results were broadcast over 2AP just after 9 p.m., about five hours after the polls closed.

Liveliest incident of the whole campaign was a parade through the streets of Apia by a sandwich board man ringing a bell and carrying the slogan, “Vote for Peter Plowman”.

But under the apparent calm there is increasing tension as the modern world steadily encroaches upon traditional Samoan ways.

A serious breakdown of treasured custom and tradition is evident by the increase in numbers of matai, which at 9,000 now is almost double that of six years ago.

The ludicrous situation at Vaisigane, where in three years the number jumped from 125 to 1,400, gives Mata’afa and his fellow chiefs reason to ponder on the future.

The country also needs a lot more finance and investment to provide improved living standards for its exploding population (130,000 and expected to double within 40 years).

'Samoana' Dies; New Paper Born

AFTER months of uncertainty about its future Samoa Newspapers Ltd., began its final winding up and the weekly Samoana appeared for the last time on March 1. However, the newspaper re-appeared on March 15 as the Apia weekly Advertiser.

Samoa Newspapers Ltd. was ordered into liquidation from July last year as a result of a petition from Mr. and Mrs, A. Annandale and Mr. and Mrs. K. von Reiche who owned 50 per cent, of the £B,OOO capital.

The petitioners claimed a deadlock had been reached between them and the other shareholders—founder of the company, managing director and editor R. F. Rankin and his mother- -in-law, Mrs. P. Forsgren, who owned the other 50 per cent, Rankin and Mrs. Forsgren offered to buy out the other shareholders at a price fixed by independent arbitration; or sell at the same price provided their claims on the company, which they were prepared to have fixed by the Court, were also paid up. Both offers were refused, The liquidator, Herman Thomsen, decided to keep the company going to establish its value and to sell it as a going concern, However the Court ordered an abrupt halt when it was learnt that Rankin proposed bringing out a new paper.

The new paper is about 70 per cent, owned by Rankin and Mrs.

Forsgren and the rest by investors from the US.

Fiame Mata'afa. 9 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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INDEPENDENCE

For Nauru?

By a Staff Writer Showdown talks to decide whether the Jauruans will achieve their aim of inependence by January 31 next will bein in Canberra on April 12. The lauruans are taking part with only one ertainty—that they will be offered ouble the phosphate royalties they are t present being paid for their rich hosphate. But independence? Who nows!

E Canberra talks will involve Nauru’s three trusteeship powers istralia, Britain and New Zea- —and a Nauruan delegation led ammer Deßoburt, and including economic advisers. e delegates will discuss Nauru’s itutional future and the future 2 phosphate industry. e full talks have been scheduled ipril only as a result of pressure the Nauruans, who have been / irate at delays so far. early March, Deßoburt com- ;d to the president of the UN eeship Council that he was ed at the continued postponeof the talks, which were ad- 2d from July last year, and which to be held last October or last ■ary. He asked for help. hough he got his help, March 1 out to be a bad one f<pr burt, who has been living in )urne for several months while lally negotiating on the resump- )f the talks. >t, Australia s national newsthe Australian, came out with elusive page one story claiming he three trusteeship powers had 1 among themselves to give i independence by January 31 and that Deßoburt would be rime Minister of Nauru. eked, Deßoburt wired the Ausi Department of Territories deng to know why such an imit announcement should have given to the Press without i also being told. embarassed department replied tie newspaper’s story had nothing to do with them, and that there was absolutely no basis for it anyway.

Hardly had this blown over when Deßoburt was outraged to learn from Nauru that Canberra had told the Nauruan Local Government Council that portion of the talks would be resumed in April, and that the partnership governments would offer 35/- a ton royalties for phosphate, instead of the present 17/6.

Not surprisingly the Head Chief saw this direct offer to the council while he was already in Australia as being aimed at driving a wedge between the council and himself as Nauruan leader. In a letter to the Minister for Territories, Mr. Barnes, he called for an apology and an assurance that this serious breach in protocol would never be repeated.

Another protest to UN A copy of his protest went to the president of the Trusteeship Council, who was told that “very serious deterioration” had set in over Deßoburt’s relations with the partner governments.

This then is the position on the eve of the important Canberra talks.

The Nauruan view has hardened, and they are prepared to go all out to gain their main objectives—which are: full independence by January, 1968; rehabilitation of Nauru by the importation of soil, or alternatively, resettlement on another island; admission that the phosphate industry is legally theirs.

Above all they want independence, and like Soekarno’s demand on West Irian, it has become a principle with them that they should achieve it on the date they have asked for. If not they will certainly put further pressure on the UN.

They have meanwhile invited Professor J. W. Davidson, Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University—who is a constitutional expert—to advise them on matters affecting independence. Professor Davidson has not yet decided whether he will accept the offer.

What will partners offer?

The most important unknown quantity to be revealed in the April talks is the extent to which the partnership governments are prepared to go to meet the Nauruan demand for independence.

Undoubtedly the three governments have settled on their brief, but despite the Australian's exclusive report it is most improbable that the three governments will offer independence outright by next January.

If under heavy pressure, they could be expected to offer a limited form of internal self-government, with administrative safeguards which they think the Nauruans need.

The partners do not feel the Nauruans are capable of running their own affairs by next January —nor are they. Nauru has not enough men of Deßoburt’s calibre.

The sticking point could well be that Head Chief Deßoburt is adamant that no offer of limited self-government will be accepted. For him it is either independence or nothing.

"I say, Smith—HOW many tons of soil did we say those Nauruan chappies could have?" 11 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Another New Guinea by-election—but only just!

There's to be another by-election for a seat in the P-NG House of Assembly—the second and last, in the life of this first Assembly.

THE by-election has been made necessary by the death at Goroka on March 15 of Ugi Biritu, member for Henganofi Open electorate, in the Eastern Highlands.

Mr. Biritu, aged about 30, a peanut farmer with no formal education, took ill while returning from the March meeting of the Assembly.

A by-election for the Assembly must be held if any member dies within three years of the date of the previous election. Mr. Biritu died only three days before the end of this period. New general elections will be held in February or March next year.

The only other by-election during the life of this Assembly followed the death last year of Mr. W. J. Bloomfield, the member for Kaindi Open.

Mr. Toni Voutas won the seat.

Mr. Biritu spoke rarely in the Assembly, but occasionally made use of question time to bring local matters to the Administration’s attention. He was a friendly man, wellliked by fellow members.

In the 1964 elections he was elected on the fourth count from five candidates. He obtained 3,925 primary votes, second to Bona Azanifa, who obtained 8,028 but lost on the preferences.

Can an "outsider" win New Guinea historic Native Affairs post?

New Guinea correspondent “GOROHAUVE” discusses some possibility Now that Mr. Keith McCarthy has announced that he wii retire as Papua-New Guinea’s Director of District Administrs tion in September, there is great speculation about the name o the new man who will be chosen to fill this key position.

FTEREST in the decision has only been surpassed in recent years by the interest over the naming of the new Administrator, for District Administration—or Native Affairs as it was—has always attracted a great deal of attention.

The men of the department have spearheaded the drive to civilise the people of New Guinea; the patrol officers have been the explorers and the pro-consuls for half a century.

But their role has changed recently, since the misty hinterland valleys have been brought under control, and it could well be that for the first time the new director will not be appointed from the ranks of the field staff. The skills required are now different. Many people believe that a change in the order of succession might be to the territory’s advantage.

Those in the running Let’s look at the present members of the department, and some former members of it, whose names have already been whispered as being in the running as McCarthy’s successor.

The first is an obvious one—Tom Aitchison —who is the First Assistant Director of the department. Aitchison, a small, soft-spoken, shrewd man, is rising 57, and on the count of age alone is hardly likely to be appointed.

And despite his many years of hard bush service, particularly in the early days in the Highlands, not even his warmest admirer would say that Aitchison has the administrative skill, political wisdom, drive and leadership, which the new director must possess in abundance if the department is to play its proper part in the next five to seven crucial years.

The only other senior member of the department’s headquarters staff is Bill Dishon, like Aitchison a man in his fifties. A quiet, colourless, hardworking back-room boy, Dishon is a sick man out of the running.

Three former members of the department whose names are being mentioned are Bob Cole, now Commissioner of Police; David Fenbury, the Secretary of the Administrator’s Department, and Gerry Toogood,. of Fenbury’s assistant secretaries: A couple of years ago Cole, District Commissioner, Sepik, prevailed upon by Sir Donald Cl© to accept the police job. Whiles odds are now that he wishes hadn’t, it is highly unlikely that would put himself forward McCarthy’s job. He has a hercu job in cleaning the stables of the( sent police situation, and being a of decent pride he would not I himself open to suggestions thar ran away from the police job beo he couldn’t cope with it. A pity\ cause Cole would make an admix director.

Fenbury, Toogood Fenbury, a man of surpassing tellect and a doughty, but taa fighter, would be a favourite d: of many individual kiaps particu the immediate post-war vintage are now District Commissioners Deputy District Commissioners., has a formidable record of w while achievement in the fiell native affairs, but in recent yean has suffered an eclipse which cut ated in the removing of contrr DC’s from his department. Morn he is in his own words “a bit c iconoclast”, and this, plus his varying integrity of approach ttJ many problems he considers are continuously shelved, has nofli deared him to the present i hierarchy in the Department off ritories. If Hasluck and Lau were still there he would be wi\ the running, but now he mux considered an outsider. ReluctJ If Sir Donald Cleland still Administrator, Toogood would well in the running, and in viei the favourable impression hes created in exalted circles becam his successful two or three aflj ances at the UN he must still b©< ceded a chance. He is a very fit f of impressive appearance, still i early fifties, and is a pre-war o of the old Papuan administration (Continued on p. 158) Ugi Biritu. 12 APRIL. 1 9 6 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

Universities for the South Seas: suddenly there were two!

From PIM correspondents in Suva and Port Moresby In Fiji in March members of the Legislative Council patted themselves on the back and basked in reflected glory as they gave approval for the Fiji Government to establish a University of the South Pacific, in Suva. At the same time in Port Moresby, members of the House of Assembly sniffed somewhat as the South Pacific’s first university, the newly-established University of Papua-New Guinea, opened its lecture rooms for its first degree courses.

JJNIFFED” is the word, because 5 there was no concerted attack l or overt objection to the university the P-NG Assembly. Merely umbling, and some cheeky asides d suspicion that New Guinea was tting something that it didn’t need >w, and which would turn out to .ve cost a lot more money than anybody had admitted. And which would be filled with great numbers of overpaid academics forcing radical ideas into black skulls not ready to receive them.

Members commented, to each other more than to the record, on the numbers of professors and lecturers now to be seen loping around Port Moresby and meeting in select groups (easily identified, as it was said, by their informal dress), and on the number of young men now inquiring into this or that bit of territory history for some thesis or other.

Port Moresby, it was pointed out, had become more ivory tower than University of Papua-New Guinea spreads itself across a valley at Waigani, Port Moresby. The university currently shares these halls and lecture rooms with the P-NG Administrative College; its own will soon rise nearby.— P-NG official photo. 13 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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Fiji university may start next March er and soon would become bloody [possible.

This attitude of many members of 2 Assembly merely reflects the fact at the territory, and particularly irt Moresby people, have been ten aback by the remarkable speed which the university has become academic operation.

They are biting their nails, wonring if they haven’t made a misce in permitting it; and since they n’t now stop it they are determined least to follow developments with more critical eye.

Proposals for the P-NG University :eived Commonwealth approval ly in 1965, and the interim council Id its first meeting in October, 65.

Four months later, in February last ar, the university took in its first idents for a preliminary year of iglish/, mathematics, science and lory, designed to prepare them for start on full degree courses in 67. At the same time it began vertising around the world for idemic staff. 190 students Fhose first preliminary year students mbered 57. Thirty-five of these :cessfully completed the year, thus ing them matriculation and the ht to start full degree courses when :se began on March 6.

A total of 75 students comprises ; enrolment for the university’s first jree courses, which are in arts >ur years) and law (five). They lude 33 Europeans and a West moan. Sixty students are doing s and 15 law. There are 26 girls long the students.

Now another 115 students have ?un a year of preliminary studies.

Fhe 190 students have 50 prosors, lecturers and tutors at the >ment, and the academic organisan for the courses hasn’t yet been nly settled.

Fhere are departments of Biology rof. K. P. Lamb); Chemistry rof. D. P. Drover); Economics rof. J. W. Williams); English rof. F. C. Johnson); Geography rof. R. G. Ward); History (Prof.

S. Englis); Law (Prof. P. G. ish); Mathematics (Prof. M. H. :Kay); Physics (Assoc. Prof. B. dnsbridge); and Education (Prof.

Roe), Last year’s preliminary year dents made do with lecture rooms lich were converted stalls at the rt Moresby showground, and dormitories which were even worse.

This year students have excellent, but again temporary for them, accommodation at the P-NG Administrative College while the university’s own buildings are rising on a site nearby.

Admin. College They should be completed by 1970, when enrolments are expected to reach about 600. The buildings will cost more than S6m.

The Administrative College, which may eventually be absorbed into the university, gives higher education and training for mostly Administration officers—including courses for native magistrates and courses in public administration.

There are plenty of problems— natural enough with the speed in which the university has got going.

Some of them are unexpected, such as the complaint by some students that they weren’t getting enough to eat in the joint Administrative College-university. But without doubt

Fiji-Indian Birthrate Is Dropping

Much Faster Than Fijian

By R. L. MUNRO, president of the Family Planning Association, of Fiji I should like to refer to the population portion of R. W.

Robson’s very interesting article on Fiji in PIM for February (p, 25). The estimated population figures for our two main races are indeed, Fijians 200,934, Indians 242,224, as approximated by Mr.

Robson.

But the Indians have a present estimated birthrate of 34.64 per thousand, which is demographically very much more favourable than “just under 40” as stated in the article, and the Fijians’ 1966 estimated birthrate was 36.93 per thousand, which, demographically speaking again, is, regrettably, very much more than “about 30 per thousand”.

The colony’s total estimated birthrate of 34.87 per thousand, compared with a 1957 peak of nearly 42 per thousand, with our very low present death rate of 5.20 per thousand, leaves us with an estimated present growth rate of 29.67, which, for a developing territory with a limited economy, is still most dangerously high.

Fiji has an increase rate higher than India’s and comparable to most parts of South-east Asia, where the population growth rate is regarded as dangerous.

The Fiji government’s immediate target is a reduction in the birthrate to 30 per thousand by 1970 and it has every prospect of doing that.

But 1 would say that Mr. Robson, old personal friend and astute observer that he is, has things well and truly out of focus when he undemographically writes: “It is no use putting pressure on the Fijians to reduce their birthrate, while that of the Indians remains so high. Already there is sharp resentment in the Fijian villages against the way in which the Indian population has overtaken and outnumbered that of the indigenous people.”

The latter statement could be correct, but the fact is that the Indian birthrate is going down much faster than the Fijian, and to the Indian’s great advantage.

It would be foolish for Fijians to think they should engage in a population race to make them stronger politically against the Indians. For one thing, they have already lost the local population race; but their political security can never be gainsaid.

What Fijians must realise if they hope to make real progress as a race, is that over-population begins at home and that if they want to secure economic and social advantages for their families they must plan their families’ size.

That is what the thoughtful Indian is clearly doing—so as to give his family more education, better food and clothing, better opportunities and greater economic advantages. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Will Australia help Fiji, too ?

P-NG now has a university that is a going concern.

Fiji’s first university may get going by March, 1968. It will be established at the RNZAF base at Laucala Bay, near Suva, which is being closed.

Fiji University New Zealand has offered the buildings free and the British Government in March offered £ 1.25 m sterling towards the capital costs, and said it would help meet the cost of employing British staff for a time, if Fiji was agreeable.

At the March meeting of the Fiji Legco, members were unanimous in being agreeable. The university, they thought, was a fine idea and everybody hoped some of the credit would rub off on them.

There was almost a row when the Member for Social Services, Mr.

Vijay R. Singh, in moving the motion, said, “We, the Alliance Government, are taking a positive step forward in our declared aims of building a racially integrated society”.

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr.

A. D. Patel, who has talked about a university for years, not unreasonably thought the Alliance Government was trying to steal the thunder of the Federation group.

Other Federation Party speakers stressed the big part that Mr. Patel had played in pressing for a university, and Mr. James Madhavan, the Deputy Speaker, went so far as to laud Mr. Patel as the man who “wholly and solely had implemented the idea of a university in Fiji”.

Mr. Wes Barrett, an Alliance man, thought the establishment had been a co-operative effort over some time, and he protested.

Some criticism Mrs. Jai Narayan, the only woman on the Opposition benches, took the feminine view with the comment that Mr. Singh’s job, speaking of his role as mover of the motion, had been “to hold the baby for its christening”.

Mr. Singh in his turn, replied that his job hadn’t been to hold the baby but to take the pregnant mother to the maternity hospital. This brought a return to good humour all round, and Fiji agreed to have its university.

But not before some criticism was voiced of the university’s academic planner, Sir Norman Alexander.

Sir Norman had said in his report that the university must be autonomous and not under immediate Government direction though set up by Government legislation; that academic matters must be completely under the control of the appropriate university authority.

Sir Norman had added: “Autonomy does not mean, however, that a university is entitled to go its own way regardless of the wishes of the Government or Governments which support it. As but one arm of the whole educational system, it must meet the needs and wishes of the area, as interpreted by the Governments concerned. It must work within the limits of a policy laid down; but it must be autonomous in its internal affairs.”

This attracted fire from Mr. Koya, another Opposition member.

“Who are we to dictate to professors what the curriculum should be?” asked Mr, Koya indignantly.

And he warned: “You will kill the university the moment you say ‘Here is Government policy and your freedom is within this framework 4 .”

He pointed to “what happened in Nazi Germany, in Russia and in some South African universities and the socalled cultural revolution in Red China”, as examples of what happens when academic freedom is interfered with.

All were agreed, including Mr.

Singh and Mr. Patel, that the new university must be free of any shadow of political pressure.

The Leader of Government Business, Ratu K. K. T. Mara, who is Fiji’s “Premier”, praised the generosity of the British and New Zealand governments and added, pointedly, “I am sure that sooner or later we will be able to include the Australian Government—l hope”.

The new university will be for English-speaking students in various territories of the South Pacific well as from Fiji, but who exac: these will be is not yet known.

There has in fact been son* criticism outside Fiji that with ft establishment of the New Guim University there is not now the san urgent need of a “South Pacii university” in Fiji.

What Fiji report says Sir Norman says in his report, i leased in March: “There is perhaps no parallel the proposed university—one un versity serving a number of territorr under a number of governments widely differing pattern and certain no single university which caters ft such an enormous area. Spec: problems will require special measui and precedents from more develop: countries simply will not apply.”

Sir Norman proposes that t) university should provide a core studies leading to university degre of international standard. Work ft higher degrees should be introduc: as soon as possible.

In addition, there should be ass; ciated institutions offering diplon and certificate courses below the lev of a degree.

He says initially the subjects offen in degree courses should be confinr to English, history, geography, eduo tion, economics and sociology in ft Arts Faculty and mathematii physics, chemistry and biologic sciences in the Science Faculty, was hoped that the degrees would regarded as comparable with those Australia and New Zealand.

Sir Norman estimates capital coc from 1967 to 1970 at £1,520,000 ai the net recurrent cost at £80,400 tl; year rising to £513,530 in 1971. I suggests several possible sources external aid.

Tonga'S Santos Reaches Boxing Glor

From a Nukualofa correspondent Tonga’s hope of boxing glory was realised on March 15 wheim Tongan boxer Manoel Santos took the British Empire Lightweight!

Championship from Bunny Grant of Jamaica.

The fight, in Wellington, NZ, crowned a spectacular professional] boxing career for Santos, who had had 18 wins in 20 bouts. Santos*? win was on points after 14 rounds of a match which frequently had as capacity crowd on its toes.

Tongan listeners to Radio New Zealand could hardly hear thea decision for the noise of the cheering.

Santos was born on Tongatapu in 1941. A brother, 16-year-oldb Joey, who is also in New Zealand, is already being tipped as a futures champion comparable to his now famous brother. 16 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

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DNGA’S circular stamps on gold foil, its heart-shaped stamps, its nps in the shape of the island of igatapu, and its gold coins of a years ago, were all issued solely collectors’ items, and all brought handsome profits to the Tongan asury. low Tonga is poised to set its i registers ringing again, with the oduction of decimal currency in kingdom on April 3 (see p. 146). or the coin collectors of the Id. the government has had 5,000 :imens of each of its new coins ck by the Royal Mint in London n “special high mirror-finish dies”, ch were destroyed as soon as the ting was completed, hese coins, along with the regular is, will go on sale to collectors on Day, as will crisp, mint copies he kingdom’s new banknotes, here are seven coins and five knotes in Tonga’s new currency, unit of which is the pa’anga □ivalent to the old 10/-). The uga is divided into 100 seniti its).

Unusual date here are banknotes for 10, five, , one and one-half pa’anga; and is for one pa’anga, 50, 20, 10, two and one seniti. The two ;st denomination coins are of ize: the others are of cupro- ;el. n unusual feature of the new ency is that all the coins bear date 1967 and a portrait of the Queen Salote 111, who died in ember, 1965, rather than a rail of the present King Taufa’ j Tupou IV. The new banknotes bear the late queen’s portrait, his has prompted cynical :rvers in Tonga to speculate on ther there will not be another :ially minted issue of coins and knotes in the kingdom before long i the king’s head on them, leanwhile, the numismatic section Tonga girds its loins for decimal currency day of Tonga’s Treasury has done a good job in publicising its new wares in a brochure directed to coin collectors.

This is entitled “A Numismatic Announcement by the Kingdom of Tonga”. An order form for specimens of the new currency accompanies the brochure.

The brochure explains that specimens of the new currency may be bought only from the numismatic section of the Treasury, and that all orders must be accompanied by payment in full.

“Every effort will be made,” the brochure goes on, “to supply the regular coinage in the quantities requested, but all such orders may be subject to rationing. This is dependent upon the requirements of normal commercial business by the Treasury in its dealings with the public.

“On Monday, April 3, 1967, it will be determined if allocations for the proof series are necessary. If so, the proof sets will be immediately distributed pro-rata on the basis of quantities ordered.

“Should the received requests happen to exceed the number of series minted to the extent that even one set per purchaser is impossible, then every buyer will be given a number, and the recipients chosen by lot.

“To assure an equitable distribution, should this latter procedure prove necessary, a purchaser ordering one set would be given one number, another ordering 10 sets would be given 10 numbers, etc., etc, . , .”

Our guess is that, as with the gold coins (koulas) which Tonga issued as a revenue-earner a few years back, there will be quite a run on the new currency.

And after the Treasury has got its cut, the local scalpers will step in and start supplying the needs of disappointed overseas customers at hefty prices.

In a capitalist world, it’s all legitimate business; and as far as little Tonga, with its few resources, is concerned, it is one way of redressing the unequal distribution of the world’s wealth.

Huahine dusts off its old maraes ALTHOUGH it is only 80 miles from Tahiti, the island of Huahine has so far remained aloof from the hordes of tourists who have invaded Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora these last few years.

But this state of things seems likely to change soon; and the reason is that Tahiti’s tourist authorities have suddenly woken up to the fact that Huahine has quite a number of interesting sights and sites for tourists to see.

At Lake Maeva in the far north of the island, for example, is a village called Maeva, which is reputed to be the only village in all Polynesia built over water on stilts.

There are fish traps in the lake which are three centuries old, and nearby are the ruins of 29 maraes (open-air Polynesian temples). (Over) The obverse (top) and reverse (bottom) sides of the new Tongan decimal currency coins. 21 C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Recently, Tahiti’s Office du Tourisme had the bright idea of asking two experts from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu—Dr. Kenneth Emory and Yosihiko H. Sinoto—to advise on the restoration of the maraes to something like their former state.

Some of the work has already been completed. The rest is expected to be finished by about August.

The Office du Tourisme will then turn its attention to restoring the biggest and, in old times, the most sacred marae in the Pacific—the Taputapuatea at Raiatea.

Washed up from the “Washkish”

LAST month, in these columns, we described how an unmanned trimaran, thought to be the missing Washkish, had been washed ashore at Lakeba, in the Lau Islands of Fiji, on February 27.

Since then it has been established that the trimaran is, indeed, the Washkish and that she went adrift some 2,700 miles away at Ua-Pou, in the Marquesas (not Nukuhiva, as we reported) last July.

One of the chief clues for the Fiji authorities to the identity of the trimaran’s original occupants was a diary which was found on board belonging to a Canadian, Glen Mac Lean.

The discovery of the diary resulted in newspaper stories about the Washkish being cabled from Suva to the Canadian Press; and, in the fullness of time, by a rather circuitous route, they brought a slightly startled Glen Mac Lean into our office in Sydney. We were thus able to straighten out some of the facts in the Washkish story, and to learn a few others.

Mac Lean, it seems, hails from Edmonton, Alberta. He is 19 years old.

Early last year he set off from Canada to see the world, and headed south to Mexico.

In Mazatlan, he teamed up with another Canadian, James Armstrong MacCutcheon, owner of the Washkish, and together, they set off for the Marquesas and Tahiti.

They reached Nukuhiva after a voyage of 52 days, then moved on to Ua-Pou. They had been there for two or three weeks, and were on the opposite side of the island, some 20 miles from their anchorage, when the Washkish mysteriously drifted from her anchorage in the night.

Thereafter, the two men were marooned on Ua-Pou for a couple of months until a copra schooner picked them up, took them on a slow Cook’s tour of the Marquesas, and finally deposited them, without passports, in Tahiti.

MacCutcheon, who had some money with him, managed to escape before long by air to Honolulu.

Mac Lean, who had none, was put up by some friendly Tahitians while he began a tedious battle (a) to get money from home (b) to get a new passport, and (c) to get out of the place.

As operation (b) proved to be impossible, operation (c) was equally so—until the Canadian Trade Commissioner in Sydney notified the Tahitian authorities that he would issue Mac Lean with a new passpc if he came to Australia.

Mac Lean reached Australia by s< three or four months ago, s worked for a while in northern N< South Wales.

He was in Sydney when he ceived a letter from home, containr a clipping from an Edmonton ne 1 ; paper about the discovery of Washkish at Lakeba.

He visited the Fiji Governrm representative’s office in Sydn where he was shown a copy of 1 month’s PIM and a front page st« in The Fiji Times. From there man from Alberta found our off in Alberta Street.

After we had filled him in w all we knew about the Washki Mac Lean thought he might abano a plan he had to hitch-hike throu Malaya and India, and instead head for Fiji to try to retrieve diary and other possessions.

The diary, being the most person item, interests him most.

“There are a lot of silly thii in that diary and I’d like to haves back,” he said.

They was tough, bu we was lucky "3LTOUNG New Guineans Show A How!” was the heading in o issue of last October, reporting the visit to Australia last year of team of New Guinea schoolboys a Rugby League tour. The youngstf from Papua-New Guinea, play' barefoot, thrilled crowds in Brisbat Sydney and New South Wales count centres, and the visit was sucht success that there will be anotl: one this year.

But how does last year’s tour sec in retrospect to the young M Guineans? Winger Lindsay Saiss tells his fellow pupils about it Sogerinumu, the annual magazine the Sogeri High School, in the rant behind Port Moresby.

Reports Lindsay: "We started pi; ing football at Brisbane and w\ down to NSW. The team which played at Brisbane was not tout They played in bare feet like [The New Guineans crushed the i tough combined Brisbane side 31 nil.] "When we went down to NS the climate changed and the way played football was not satisfacto; because of the cold weather. TI troubled us in our handling of ball. All the teams we played NSW wore boots and this made ‘ games tough.

“We played 10 matches in NSe Out of the 10, three matches w«v Wedding in Tonga Just as Europeans have fairly rigid ideas on what you should wear at a wedding, so they do in Tonga—and this is it. The bridegroom is a New Zealander, Mr.

Ronald Naylor, of the RNZAF at Whenuapai, Auckland. His bride, a Tongan, was formerly Miss Mary Violet Fonua, of Kolomotu’a, Nukualofa. Their marriage took place at the Wesleyan Church in Nukualofa on March 4. They wore Europeanstyle dress for the church ceremony, and changed into Tongan dress afterwards. The couple plan to make their home in New Zealand.

Photo: Hettig. 22 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

ists against the State team. We won i first and third Tests, while NSW m one.

“We were the curtain-raiser to the istralia v. Great Britain Third Test ■ies. This was the first time we d seen such a crowd at the Sydney icket Ground. We were nervous icn we ran out on to the field betse of the crowd. The attendance that day was about 80,000, which more than the population of Port Dresby. ‘The NSW team was very tough 1 they were better than us but we srwhelmed them in this game, le result was 13 to 5.] The worst game we played in W was in Wagga Wagga. It was ning and freezing when we were ying. We couldn’t feel the ground our legs were numb. We just n the game, 3 to nil.” )ur comment is, God help the stralians if this year’s weather is rmer! he case of the issing governor fITH TV lawyer Perry Mason (alias Raymond Burr) living y a few hundred miles away on tauba Island, Fiji, the people of icrican Samoa will not have to far for expert advice if they should denly decide to make an inquiry ) what has become of their No. 1 linistrator. Governor H. Rex Lee. iver since his arrival in Pago Pago May, 1961, Governor Lee has er exactly been chair-bound.

At the flick of one of those ceremonial fly-whisks that Samoan talking chiefs carry, he has been ready to dash off to Apia, Hawaii, Washington, Antarctica, or anywhere else to discuss the business of State.

American Samoans have long ago grown accustomed to the periodical absences of their Governor. But never in the past six years have they seen so little of him as they have in the past 15 months, A correspondent reports, rather gloomily we feel, that in the 365 days of last year, Governor Lee was absent from home base for no less than 200-odd of them; and in the first 12 weeks of this year, he did not spend a single day in the territory.

Governor Lee’s absences last year included trips to the United States, one to New Delhi, and several brief visits to neighbouring territories.

One of his US visits lasted 83 days, and one lasted a month. His seventh visit to the States for the year—to attend talks on hearings in the Pacific Air Routes case—began on December 19 and hadn’t ended when these pages went to press.

He was in Paris in March, attending a conference on broadcasting and television.

But meanwhile there is speculation in American Samoa about when Governor Lee will take another post elsewhere—for he has been in the territory now for six years, longer than any other Governor.

And there is speculation on whether the Territorial Secretary, Owen S. Aspinall, really will get the Governor’s job if and when Governor Lee finally goes.

Aspinall, the locals say, has been keeping Governor Lee’s seat warm for so long now that he must have begun to think that the chair is his.

Those new people in Government House ft LACK and White, a small Port Moresby satirical magazine, put its finger on it when it reported the public welcome to Papua-New Guinea’s new Administrator, Mr.

David Hay. “The social climbers were out in force”, said Black and White, “hoping that the New Boss would notice their eager faces in the crowd”.

After 14 years in Government House, Sir Donald and Lady Cleland had close friends as well as alsorans; hobbies, interests and pet organisations. And everybody knew of them.

But what of Mr. and Mrs. Hay?

What and who are their likes and dislikes? Who will be the in-crowd?

Does one give up golf and take up tennis? Does one join the Yacht Club?

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The island's roneoed newssheet, ord Howe Island Signal", reported me weeks ago (PIM, Feb., p. 76) at there had been a number of cidents and near-accidents in rent months, "nearly all occurring i Friday nights on the way home om clubs.

"Soon someone is going to get lied," the newssheet said.

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Suite 11, Landtrust Building, East Row, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 9.500 rr The currently surveying the possible ;cking order with some appremsion. A close eye has been kept 1 all signals from Government ouse. But Mr. Hay and his wife, ith long diplomatic experience (the :w Administrator was once Ausalia’s Ambassador to the UN, and Bangkok, and High Commissioner Canada) have given no clues, bviously they are playing it by ear.

But it has not gone without notice at Mrs. Hay (see photo on p. 42) kes a closer look at standards of ess for Government House nctions than did the Clelands. And at there will be some changes side GH.

The Clelands were at home in the mbling old house which dates from acGregor’s day, but it will be rprising if the Hays settle down easily to its lack of modern conniences. It has little but at- Dsphere and might in fact make a tier museum.

Why not a museum?

And, as a matter of fact, why ouldn’t it?

The Papua-New Guinea Museum s already outgrown its allotted ace beneath the House of Assembly lambers in Port Moresby.

And the Assembly itself will need are room with the enlargement of numbers following next year’s actions.

Set on an historic hill overlooking 2 harbour, surrounded by gardens at could well be the nucleus of an erdue Botanic Gardens for Port oresby, Government House could come a superb museum, and a w Government House could rise the hills behind.

Not that we are suggesting that is will solve the Port Moresby cial set’s current dilemma. Only ne will do that!

Into the drink A light aircraft belonging to the United States National Council for Atmospheric Research, was reported in March to have crashed north of Palmyra Island on a flight from Fanning Island. The aircraft missed Palmyra and landed in the sea dose to a Japanese fishing vessel. All the crew and the passengers were picked up by the fishing vessel.

That old, old Islands magic TjWERYONE knows that in the Islands time doesn’t have quite the same importance that it does in metropolitan countries. , . . ... , , We were prompted to fhmk along ,hese lm f ° n February 24 when three copies of the weekly newsletter issued by the Western Samoan Government public relations division arrived in our mail. The newsletters were for the week ending August 26, September 2 and September 30, 1966.

The two for August 26 and September 2 were posted on January 26 (five months after the events recorded in them) and the one for September 30 on February 3 (four months late).

All were marked with the words “air mail”, but each one bore only 3d in stamps, so that they were sent by sea mail.

Not that it mattered. Might just as well have been sealed in a bottle and chucked hopefully into Apia Harbour. 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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What Fiji Tourism Needs

Sir, —I am not entirely in agree ment with Judy Tudor’s criticism « Fiji’s tourist industry (F/M, Feb., 121).

Mrs. Tudor says that “new zest badly needed in Fiji’s tourist iii dustry”. I say that rather than nee zest, a new outlook is more desirabc if tourism is to flourish in Fiji.

As one who is familiar, or rathe knows Fiji, 1 believe that what Mn Tudor and others of the same min would like to see is not the answe If their opinions were realised—tH consequences would bring about eve more slackening in the colony tourist trade, apart from detractin from the naturalness of the island:!

The standard of things in genen could be improved, but what has be changed is the general attituo towards Fiji by those who look at as a luxurious paradise not accessibc to everyone. And the Fiji Cover ment’s attitude must also change things are to look brighter.

The slump in tourism is uninte; tionally explained in Mrs. Tudoi article. There is too high a standar an undesirable standard as far as i am concerned. Let’s not try to ii crease the standard, but let’s conce; trate on a new standard of tourh: Give Mr., Mrs. and Miss Averag Person a chance.

The future of Fiji’s tourist industJ lies in servicing the more appreciatri and less demanding people countries only a few hours flyinr distance away. This stream of visitor would be continuous if it did not cc a small fortune just for accommodt tion. As it is, the number of visiter from Australia and New Zealand nothing like it could be.

It is quite obvious that the existii standards are being set by touris from a country where, for mair money is no problem and the best essential, regardless of cost. And tl; new and foreign-owned hotels a£ there to accommodate these peop!< No doubt this situation will <± velop; and to compete with the moc modern hotels it is natural that tl; locally-owned hotels should impro't their standards and hence be forct: to raise their tariffs.

Fiji cannot expect its tourist ii dustry to boom while the cost of stae ing in the colony slowly climbs oc of proportion. Something must done; the Government must take stee to control the standards so that thu suit everybody.

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Fiji will become a second-rate mrist trap like Tahiti only if it connues as it is. The fate of tourism in iji does not depend on the Americans, it the people of Australia and New W. S. SMITH. tmchbowl, SW.

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Can you help me by telling the Ivertiser to quote me prices, etc., id perhaps (yes, they must!) send sample up. There are all sorts of w insect pests coming in. One of e worst of recent years is a small riety of cockroach. Keeping food am it is a real problem. This stuff ay be the answer.

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The Straight And Narrow

Sir, —Mr. Chatterton should know at the London Missionary Society elded great political influence in rly British New Guinea ( PIM, arch, p. 4).

Christian missions in the 1880’s ;re propagators of paternalism and jre instrumental in bringing the forcement of law to the Western icific.

My guess is that the LMS of those ys would not stop at being told aat the Church mustn’t interfere politics”, unless there was some rse trading to be done. Rememr, the LMS had been in Port oresby 15 years.

Admittedly the mission was not vays successful, as is shown by a ter from the Rev. W. G. Lawes the Brisbane Courier on July 25, 85.

In 1885 the Queensland Govern- -nt, with the consent of the High )mmissioner of Western Pacific, had sent over 400 recruits back to New Guinea. Fifty-eight of the improperly recruited labourers had elected to stay in Queensland. Mr.

Lawes wrote that he regretted that these 58 were not obliged by the Government to be returned home.

He considered that their chiefs and friends would not be satisfied by the assertions of Messrs. H. H. Romilly (Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific) and H. M. Chester (Special Commissioner for Queensland Government) that the boys did not want to return home till they had fulfilled their engagements The power of the Christian missions has waned over the past 40 years. They were over zealous at times, but a moral force is needed to keep our future generation on the straight and narrow,

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Being a census officer is no sinecure in the rugged New Hebrides By Robert Langdon Once upon a time, when Britain’s colonial empire was so vast that the sun never set on it, there were plenty of jobs offering for rugged young Englishmen who were prepared to hack their way through virgin forests, climb mountains, live off the land, be bitten by ferocious insects, and hand out justice and census forms to friendly and unfriendly natives. with the empire shrunken to only a few small iland groups here and there, young Englishmen of the old “go anywhere, o anything” school do not have the ime opportunities.

Up in the wild, mountainous, multingual, Anglo-French New Hebrides, owever, there are still a few openigs for men of that type; and among lose who has found one is 31-year- Id John Yaxley, who has been with le British Administration since 1961.

John has a BA degree in geography om Durham University (which leans that he knows or can find is way around). He likes travelling which means that his superiors can md him any place, almost any me). He has a strong pair of legs nd a ditto pair of lungs (which leans that he’s always good for a ard day’s climb or trek). He has a leasant personality which enables im to get on well with all kinds f people. He is a good organiser.

And he’s not even afraid of lepers —as he showed a couple of years ago, when, as Assistant British District Agent on Espiritu Santo, he marched into the interior of that island to help bring 33 lepers to the coast for treatment.

Director of Census In a word, John Yaxley seems to be the ideal man for the job he now has, which is British Director of Census for the first census ever to be held in the New Hebrides. The census will take place in the second half of May.

John has held his job for the past 12 months. He has been working in conjunction with a French colleague, and with the full-time assistance of Miss M. J. Anderson, of the Australian National University’s Department of Pacific History.

Dr. Norma McArthur, an expert on censuses at the ANU, is acting as consultant.

The census will give the New Hebrides Government its first really solid data for future planning.

The initial preparations for the census called, pretty well, for the sturdy qualities of a character from an adventure story in Wide World magazine, for the census officers had to tramp all over the New Hebrides to determine how the census could best be conducted.

To be precise, they had to divide the territory into “enumerator areas”, i.e., units that could conveniently be enumerated by one person. Such units, it was decided, should consist of about 100 households of from 400 to 500 people each.

As, in many areas, no one had more than a vague idea of how many houses there were and how many people lived in them, the only way the census officers could find out was to go and count them for themselves.

Plenty of travel This sort of work occupied about half of John Yaxley’s time throughout the second half of last year.

During that period, he visited every inhabited island from Efate north to the Torres Group, with the exception of the Shepherd Islands, and walked or travelled an average of four miles a day.

He poked about in no less than 150 coastal villages on Malekula; wandered fascinatedly over the lonely.

The big islands of Espiritu Santo and Malekula still contain several thousand people who have had little contact with Europeans—such as these men of the Big Nambas tribe.

John Yaxley. 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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spopulated Torres Islands; and made intact with the little-known bush ;ople in the interior of Espiritu into.

When John and his French colague had established the wherelouts of the various villages, the hole of the New Hebrides was vided into 188 enumerator’s areas, hen work began on preparing inructions in English, French and idgin for the enumerators, and in loosing and training them.

As the success of the census will timately depend on the enumerars, every effort has been made to id active young people of the ghest calibre for the job.

Most of those who finally were losen are graduates of Kawenu ;acher Training College in Vila, French moniteurs. Their ages are nerally between 18 and 25.

Special training courses extending 'er several days were held for the mmerators in Vila a few months ;o when an education conference ithered many of them in the town the same time.

To obtain the greatest possible iblic co-operation in the census, e reasons behind the census have en publicised over Radio Vila and the government newsletters; and here opposition to it can be expected ■as in parts of the cargo cult island Tanna—the census team has done best to allay the people’s fears of xation or military draft.

Biggest problem Now, with only a few weeks to before the census is held, most the groundwork of preparation s been done, and the census officers obably have a better idea of how tackle their biggest problem than ey did when I spoke to John Yaxley Vila late last year.

“Our chief problem,” he told me 1 that occasion, “is going to be king a census of the bush people the interior of Espiritu Santo.

“The trouble is that the bush ople live right on the crests of 2 mountains [which reach a height several thousand feet], and to get am one of their villages to another, u have to climb down one mounn and up another.

“We don’t quite know how we’re ing to deal with those people yet. ice the rains finish about February March, they go walkabout.

“We therefore can’t hope to census ;m in the normal census period, d we might have to do it with lice patrols.

“One suggestion is that we hold a I feast and get them all together at way.

“The bush people—there are about 1,800 of them—are scattered over an area of about 400 square miles. It takes you two to three days to reach that area from the coast, and in some parts—from Tasariki to Pic Santo, for example—it can take two days to cover 15 miles . . .”

That, of course, sounds like pretty tough going. But I got the impression that when John Yaxley climbed the peak last year, he enjoyed every minute of it.

“From the top of Pic Santo, which is just under 6,000 ft,” he told me with a faraway look in his eyes, “you can see Aoba, the whole of Espiritu Santo, and both the Torres and Banks Groups. It is a marvellous sight . . .”

Such a panorama has certainly not been seen by many Europeans, for few Europeans have ever climbed the peak.

Probably few of the few who have done so would care to do it twice.

But I fancy that John Yaxley might.

If so, there shouldn’t really be any difficulty about finding out just who is who among those Santo bush people, for John will just go off to the interior and census them all himself.

Footnote: Because of the generally backward nature of the New Hebrides, the census questionnaires will be confined to a minimum number of useful questions, i.e., name, relationship to the head of the household, sex, age, marital status, details of children (in the case of women), ethnic origin, place of birth, religion and occupation.

Few Relics Of

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Of New Developments

By a staff writer When Mr. J. R. Taylor, of Sydney, made a trip to Pitcairn Island in February to investigate harbour facilities on behalf of the British Government, he found that few relics of the Bounty now remain on the island.

MR. TAYLOR is a partner in the firm of Wilton and Bell, Dobbie and Partners, Sydney consulting engineers, who have had a hand in a number of important engineering projects in the South Pacific.

Mr. Taylor made a point of inquiring for Bounty relics during his two-week stay on Pitcairn. He also kept an eye open for other interesting facets of Pitcairn life.

In a talk with PIM on his return to Sydney, Mr. Taylor said that the only Bounty relics he was able to learn about were an anchor, an anvil, an axehead, a tinderbox, a jar, and perhaps a few copper nails. These were in addition to the famous Bounty Bible, which was given to an American sailor, Levi Hayden, in 1839, but was returned to Pitcairn after World War 11.

In town square “The anchor of the Bounty is still in the Adamstown town square,” Mr.

Taylor said. “But few people from passing ships ever see it because they are not allowed to land unless they have permission.

“The Bounty anvil is owned by Vi McCoy, widow of Floyd McCoy, the radio ham, who died a few years ago.

“Her husband obtained it from the island’s workshop many years ago.

“Vi also has the Bounty axehead.

She was given this when she visited Norfolk Island in 1956.

“I was told someone else on Pitcairn has an earthenware jar from the Bounty, and one of the older Pitcairners was reported to have a tiny tinderbox. But I didn’t see either of those relics.

“Children have also come up occasionally with bits of copper or nails that have been washed up on This bright New Hebridean girl from the British Secondary School in Vila is typical of the type who have been chosen to help with census work. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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As the Pitcairners are Seventh-day iventists and Saturday is their bbath. this is hurting their trade fruit and wood carvings.

“When the ships arrive on Saturys. the Pitcairners cannot do any rtering with the sailors and passenrs,” Mr. Taylor said, “and must :ept the price offered, which is astly lower than they would get the ship arrived on a Tuesday, r instance.”

Mr. Taylor said another problem - the islanders was unloading cargo >m ships standing off the island, air long boats were used, two of lich had motors.

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Many trees planted Mr. Taylor said that over 16,000 es had been planted during the st three years under a reafforestan plan, carried out by Mr. Jacob arren and an assistant.

An expert from Otago University, ;w Zealand, would visit the island er this year to advise on further mtings.

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Mr. Taylor said a rock crusher d been delivered to the island reitly to crush rocks and stones >m the beaches and inland areas make concrete aggregate.

The islanders have a small con- ;te block machine and I think one two may start replacing their iber houses soon with houses of acrete blocks,” he said. “The Iventist church is the only building t built of timber at present.”

Mr. Taylor said Pitcairn’s abledied male population had recently m increased by one by the arrival an English-born youth, John nnycad, 20, of Tasmania, who nted to live there permanently.

The youth had settled in happily th Ivan and Dobrie Christian.

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The other two liners were the 'Queen Frederica" (812 passengers) md the P and O-Orient's "Oronsay" 1,240 passengers).

The passengers from the three hips were estimated to have spent :T121,000 in the kingdom. 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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From a Nukualofa correspondent The crowning of King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV on July 4 is still four months away, but already coronation fever is rising in Tonga even though, Tonga being Tonga, it is, as yet, a controlled, relaxed kind of a fever.

VTDU won't see creased foreheads or boxes of sedatives around Nukualofa.

As Mr. Alf Sanft, the genial manager of the Tongan Broadcasting Corporation, says: “Tonga will cope in Tonga’s way”.

The day of the coronation, the first in Tonga for almost 50 years, is also the King’s birthday.

The King and Queen have recently been to England to order their European-style coronation robes.

Their crowns are ready already, and have been standing on a dais in the Royal Chapel where the crowning will take place. The King’s crown is decorated with a carved, sixpointed wooden star cut from the koka tree under which all the old Kanokupolu (temporal) kings were installed at Pangai, Hihifo.

Although the coronation will be strictly confined to invited guests, plans are afoot for a dress rehearsal to which the Press of the world will be invited. This will enable the great public, which, since Queen Salote’s magnificent appearance at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in London more than a decade ago, has given Tonga a special place in its affections, to see as much as possible of the new monarch’s coronation.

The robes for the religious ceremony are based on the coronation dress worn by British sovereigns.

But for the Tongan ceremony, involving a sacred kava presentation by the kingdom’s 33 nobles, King Taufa’ahau will wear Tongan dress.

This ceremony may also be restricted.

The rest of the festivities, which will extend over a week or more, will encompass as many of the King’s loyal subjects as possible.

The feasts which will take place will be so great as to make the imagination boggle.

Each village will contribute its share of the food and each is already cossetting fat porkers and chickens.

Yams, taro and bananas are being almost hand reared to ensure that they give of their best.

And, in the sea, a few yards from the Palace garden, a large pen holds 30 turtles which, if not destined to end up, as the old song has it, as “the turtle in the Lord Mayor’s soup”, will surely be in a soup of even greater notability.

Rehearsals Everywhere, dancers are rehearsing the lakalaka to produce a dance which will tell the story of the coronation in supple body and hand movements in the way originally taught to Tonga children by early missionaries.

The police band’s practices ring melodiously through Nukualofa on more afternoons than not; and if the Government officials, whose offices are immediately in front of the band’s tiny, circular rehearsal room have to close their windows when they need to make a telephone call of any privacy . . . well, it’s all in a good cause.

The same goes for the “squarebashing” and rigorous drills to whio the Royal Guard is currently bein put.

Nose-flautists are among othe:; who are putting in some hard wonand it is to be hoped that som enterprising person will arrange fo recordings to be made of thee delicate, dawn serenade so that tH wide world may enjoy their miniii ture music.

Everywhere white paint is bein applied liberally; torches are bein fashioned for the traditional flaminjj torch guard which will ensure m evil approaches the monarch; am children are growing wide-eyed i the thought of the fun ahead.

Children are being widely cater© for with a variety of holidays fron school, inter-school sports and picnhi galore.

Rugby battles Adult sports-lovers, too, are 100 l ing forward with relish to the arrivr of the Fiji Rugby players. Somu thing of the spirit of the battles o the “good old days” seems to H abroad at the thought of the tussle to be fought out between the tw/ island groups on the football fielo of Tonga.

It’s quite evident that no smae measure of prosperity can be expe»; ted from the influx of visitors.

Plans are still not complete, bu no doubt they’ll eventually prove & attractive that more than one visit© in an official capacity will succumn to the charm of Tonga and iii people—like a 90-year-old Americas lady did recently. This womau who celebrated her birthday it Nukualofa, presented the Prino Regent, Prince Tu’ipelehake, with $l,OOO gift for the recently openea Queen Salote Memorial Fund . . for no better reason than she jusi loves Tonga.

The late Queen Salote, at her coronation in 1918.

King Taufa'ahau.

He guides Fijians to athletics victory From MATT WILSON, in Suva The scene is Buckhurst Park, Suva, on a fine February evening nearly seven years ago. A superbly muscled Fijian, moving with the grace that marked him as a natural athlete, is loping round the field on one of his regular training sessions.

UDDENLY he becomes aware of 1 strange eyes watching, and sees fair-haired young Englishman with red beard gazing intently in his ■ection.

Soon the two men begin to talk and for the Fijian a turning point his career has arrived, and for iletics in Fiji a driving new rsonality has appeared on the scene.

Today the Fijian, Jo Navusolo, has ssed his peak but he can look back an illustrious career in Fiji aletics —thanks to the guidance ft n to him by the young Englishan who now occupies the top post Fiji athletics.

Alan Scott (33), president of the ji Amateur Athletics Association, a hard-working organiser, who ys as much attention to the future athletics in Fiji as he does to ; present.

Scott, Cambridge-educated, tackles 5 job in athletics with a missionarye zeal. Enthusiasm, deep involve- ;nt and a straight-talking, nomsense attitude are his characteriss.

Trained together Sitting relaxed behind the desk of » office in Government Buildings, erlooking Albert Park, Suva, Scott called how he and Navusolo joined rces to improve the Fijian’s perrmance.

“We trained together and we reced his half mile standard from mins. 7 secs, to 2 mins. 0.5 secs, lis stood as a Fiji national and -comers record until November, 65, when the present holder, alamala, broke the record,” he plained.

Afterwards, Scott was asked to ganise the athletics section of the iva Games, in 1963, which he und a “staggering job”, but satising. The International Amateur hletic Federation observer, Mr. F.

W. Humphreys, congratulated Fiji on the organisation of the athletics.

Scott was elected president of the Fiji Amateur Athletics Association after the Games, and his present policy is to bring a young look to athletics by getting more and more young ones to take part.

Up to now, the policy had been to concentrate on adult athletes.

“That policy has been successful.

We proved that at Noumea,” he said.

He pointed out that Fiji had managed to come top in the athletics score despite the fact that New Caledonia and French Polynesia had a considerable amount of capital and equipment at their disposal.

“They brought in six international coaches for athletics alone for the Games,” he said.

Coaching sessions To help in the new bid to attract the youngsters, special sections are being devoted to the under 19’s and under 17’s at the Fiji athletics championships on March 25.

Officials of the association are also giving up their spare time to run coaching sessions for school children.

Scott explained that for field events, particularly jumping and throwing, techniques could be learned more easily by young people, who could develop them as they grew.

“We hoped last year that through the good offices of the Education Department it would be possible to provide departmental officers to promote physical education systematically in Fiji’s schools,” he said.

“But for various reasons this isn’t yet possible.” The balanced development of the school child was important, he said.

“Although it was marvellous to have those wonderful facilities at Noumea, they are not essential for the pursuit and enjoyment of sport.”

Scott said it was important that organisers of regional games bore in mind the wishes of participating territories, and maintained full communication.

On the future of athletics in the South Pacific, Scott feels that standards will rise “precipitately”.

If they are to maintain their supremacy Fiji’s athletes will have to devote even more time to training, and more coaches will have to be found, he says.

Fiji’s plans are well under way for the 1969 Port Moresby Games.

“After the March championships we should have a nucleus of people aged 15 and upwards, and these would be our long term training group for 1969,” said Scott.

A beginning In his work Scott has had great pleasure in helping to explode the myth that Fijian athletes were not capable of middle-distance running.

“As far as T can remember,” he said, “the fastest mile time in Fiji up to about 1964 was something like 4 mins. 48 secs. We now have two juniors who have done the equivalent of 4 mins. 27 secs. This is not great but it is a beginning.

“I regret that Indians, with one or two exceptions, don’t come forward for middle distance running. Temperamentally and physically they appear to be quite suited to it.”

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New Guinea hots up its politics With proposals for immediate home rule, a plan for a political party of influential local government councillors to contest next year’s general elections, and suggestions that New Guinea should have a presidential system sometime in the future, the Papua-New Guinea political scene had hotted up in March. The new activity was all directed at the elections.

THE home rule proposal made the greatest impact. It was contained in an 11-page submission by 12 New Guineans and one European to the House of Assembly select committee on constitutional development. The European, Mr. Cecil Abel, member of the family which established the famous Kwato mission of Papua and now working on a research scholarship for the P-NG University, is the man behind the submission. He first introduced it in a somewhat different form last August.

The submission asked for a Cabinet, elected by the House and responsible to the House, to be set up in 1968, with full executive authority, comprising eight Ministers to replace departmental heads.

There should be a Chief Minister, to head his own new department, and Ministers for Home Affairs, Local Government, Lands, Labour, Information and Culture, Local Finance and Education.

Departmental heads would become permanent secretaries of their departments until they were replaced by local officers.

High Commissioner There would be a parliamentary executive, comprising Cabinet Ministers and House steering committee members; a Public Service Board to replace the Public Service Commissioner; a High Commissioner to replace the Administrator (with a Deputy High Commissioner who had to be a New Guinean); and the Department of External Affairs would deal with P-NG affairs, not Territories.

The submission stressed repeatedly that the present system of colonial government, “with all its inevitable master-servant overtones”, had to go quickly and a caretaker administration hand over.

The submission was frequently couched in blunt, almost rude terms, which resulted in an attack by one committee member, the territory’s Secretary for Law, Mr.

W. W. Watkins, on what he said was its “impudence”. Mr. Watkins himself later came under attack by others for his attitude.

The submission is that of a minority—a minority to be found in the towns—but cannot be dismissed as the ramblings of ratbags. Many of those who signed it—but certainly not all—are capable and intelligent.

Those who signed The signatures were those of: Cecil Abel; Albert Mauri Kiki, a patrol officer, born in the Gulf; Mike Somare, a broadcasting assistant, of Wewak; Oala Rurua, president of the Port Moresby Workers’ Association, of Port Moresby; Elliott Elijah, a cooperatives training officer, of the Trobriands; Sinaka Goava, training as a magistrate, of Port Moresby; Kamona Waro, a schoolteacher, of Hula; Karl Nombri, patrol officer, of the Chimbu; Ebia Ole wale, schoolteacher, of Daru; Dr. Homo Batton, medical officer, of the Sepik; Gerai Asiba, a patrol officer, from Daru; Dr. Reuben Taureka, Acting Assistant Director of P-NG Medical Services, from Marshall Lagoon; and Pen Anakapu, training as a magistrate, of Suau.

Presidential system The constitutional committee will attempt to put the submission into perspective when it gives its final report to the Assembly in June.

It might also take into account a five-page document on a proposed presidential structure for P-NG, published privately in March by Europeans Toni Voutas and Barry Holloway, two of the youngest members of the Assembly.

Voutas is a fulltime politician, Holloway a planter—both are thoughtful, constructive men, who said they published their paper to stimulate debate on the territory’s political future. They proposed no timetable.

Basis of the scheme is for a presidential head-of-state to be elected by the national parliament and be responsible to it. The President can submit a list of additional men to be appointed to the House because of their expertese, who might not otherwise win a seat. A Cabinet is to be chosen from the House, and could include these extra members.

If the President falls from office the additional members’ positions are vacated.

Local Government Party Voutas had already circularised, on his own account, the territory’s Local Government councils with a proposal that the councils form a P-NG Council Party, to win seats in the 1968 elections. He told them that 30 or 40 candidates supported by councils would have to be elected to have a strong influence in the next House of 94 members.

If councils were clever, they would each decide who was the best man in their area to be nominated, not necessarily a councillor, and then ask the local people not to encourage other nominations.

He suggested party candidates meet in October to decide on their Assembly platform. The councils would be asked to contribute anything from $lOO to $2OO for expenses.

Councillors’ reactions to this scheme should be known in the next month. Voutas says he has put the scheme forward in an attempt to get people thinking along practical lines, whether or not they support this particular proposal.

Nominations for the 1968 elections will be called in November, and the closing date for nominations will be some time in December. The polling period will last from February to March, 1968. P-NG has a common roll of more than a million names— everybody over 21, and with 12 months’ residence in an electorate, has a vote. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

And Who Else But Quiros?

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An article in PIM last month by PIM's assistant editor, Robert Langdon, suggesting that a mysterious stone wall found at Big Bay, Espiritu Santo, might be a relic of the Quiros expedition of 1606, brought a number of comments from interested readers. The wall is about three miles east of the River Jordan and about 200 yards from the coast. It was reported to PIM by a Sydney man, Mr. Ted Hebblewhite, whose family has had links with the New Hebrides for nearly 100 years.

What exactly is this mysterious wall in Santo—who built it and when? There were a number of different opinions available in March—and apparently some more to come.

CAPTAIN Brett Hilder, master of the Burns Philp flagship Bulolo, said he “could not see that the wall could have been built by anyone else but Quiros”. • Dr. Dorothy Shineberg, a research fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, said the wall may be the remains of a sandalwood station. Dr. Shineberg made a study of the New Hebrides sandalwood trade for her PhD thesis and is to bring out a book based on this later this year called They Came For Sandalwood. • Mr. Reece Discombe, of Vila, New Hebrides, also a noted student of early New Hebrides’ history, said he had seen the ruins about 17 years ago, and he had always believed they were left by the Melanesian Mission in the old days. • Mr. E. W. Lamberty, who has been a leaseholder of the Societe Agricole et Elevage plantation in Big Bay since 1956, came out flat-footed with the statement that the ruins are the remains of a trading store built in 1902 or 1903. • Robert Langdon, who was on vacation when this issue went to press, says further research into New Hebrides history, plus a better knowledge of the topography of Big Bay, has strengthened his belief that the strange wall is a relic of the Quiros expedition. More will be heard from him.

To make it easier for the general reader, PIM has printed opposite a wartime RAF aerial photograph of the south-eastern corner of Big Bay.

In the photograph the north is at the bottom, which should be considered when comparing the photograph with the map on this page.

Captain Hilder said in a note from Madang, New Guinea; During the last 30 years, I have collected references to early settlement in the New Hebrides, but have no knowledge of any Europeans living near the Jordan except an early trader named Fysh.

For this reason, I cannot see that the wall found three miles east of that river could have been built by anyone but Quiros.

The wall, apparently of rubble and mortar, would have to be surmounted by a stockade for protection against assault, and to support a protective roof against missiles.

Over this the sail referred to in the March article would have been rigged to shed the rain.

I agree that the wall is probably buried to a depth of four feet above its base, by sand and other debris of floods and waves.

Dr. Shineberg said in a letter: “If 1 may add my two cents, I would be inclined to say that the Spaniards hardly had enough time to erect stone fortifications on Santo.

“I would like to suggest the possibility that the ruins are the remains of a sandalwood station dating back to the early 1860’s.

Several stations “Sandalwooders, mostly from Sydney, visited Santo regularly from 1853 to 1868, and several of them had stations there, although I have never been able to find their exact locations.

“The trader who worked Santo most thoroughly was Henry Burns, who had several stations on the island, employing large gangs of labourers from other islands to cut and clean the wood.

There were many clashes between these labourers and the native population, and I have no doubt that the sandalwood stations were pretty we; fortified to guard against surprise attack.

“There are the remains of a traderhouse on the southern tip of Lifu it is a regular fortress, with doubll stone walls. It is about 100 yean old, as I recall.”

Reece Discombe said in a lette; from Vila: “I once found a cave iii that area, and found in it iron chains like anchor chains. I know of a coiii that came from Big Bay, and haw been trying to track it down to se< what it was. But my own opinion is that the ruins are Melanesia!.

Mission. At Vanua Lava there ar-‘ similar ruins. Perhaps Dr. C. E Fox, in the Solomons, can shed som« light on the matter”.

Mr. E. W. Lamberty wrote frorr Santo: “These relics have been wel known to me and the history oc it is as told by me by my employee Mr. Joseph Santino, who has crisa crossed the region many times. Thd ruins ‘discovered’ by Mr. Hebble; white are the remains of a tradinji story built by the CCIP (Compagni«i Coloniale des lies Pacific) in 19(U or 1903.

“The manager of this store wai a certain Mr. Witts, or similar name; The store was built as a kino of fortress for the simple reason thaf in those days the natives were still very hostile and used to attack mostly by surprise, white traders hence the ‘embrasures’ from wherr rifles could be fired.”

PIM will be following up numbern of the points made, plus other inr formation it has. 40 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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new guinea Personalities THIS first official picture of Mrs. D. O, Hay, wife of Papua- New Guinea’s new Administrator, was taken in Government House grounds, Port Moresby, at the end of February; And the photograph below, most unofficial, is one of the last taken in the territory of Lady Cleland, wife of the previous Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, before the couple left for overseas on retirement. It was taken in Madang, and: shows Lady Cleland preparing to dive under Madang Harboun with aqualung equipment, as a guest of the Madang Underwater Explorers’ Club. In the background Mr. Tom Briggs watches Mr. Warren Warburton, club president, adjust Cleland’s diving gear. Lady Cleland made two dives, and went down 40 ft. Sir Donald had been invited too, but he preferred to leave it to his wife.

On the opposite page is another of the territory’s leading personalities soon to retire—Mr. J. K. McCarthy, seen witfr his wife, Jean, shortly after he announced that he will step: 42 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLIf

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At right. Dr. Lenga Dopenu has rned herself a nitch in territory :ords by becoming the second jw Guinea woman to graduate in idicine. The first was Dr. Amelia Dmba, of Popondetta, who gradu- ;d in 1964. Dr. Dopenu spent a ar as a nurse in Port Moresby fore beginning her five-year idical course with the Papuan edical College. She is seen here owing her diploma to her husband, nee Corporal Lenkewe Dopenu. the Pacific Islands Regiment, and Brigadier I. M. Hunter, Papua- ;w Guinea Army commander. The )penus both come from Finschfen.

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Expedition to Taveuni finds exciting traces of Fiji's past

By Jane Gregor

Exciting traces of Fiji’s early inhabitants have been found on Taveuni, the third largest island in the colony, east of Vanua Levu. relics were discovered by Miss L Elizabeth Shaw, while she was ding director of the Fiji Museum iring the absence on leave of Mr. ruce Palmer.

Her discoveries far exceeded her :pectations when she and a party t out to search for traces of the icient past early in February. I icompanied Miss Shaw’s party on e first week of their trip.

Mr. Palmer made the first investiitions on Tavenui two years ago id found a number of traces of imitive civilisation.

But Miss Shaw’s expedition has und so much more that it is to be >ped that more money will be forthuning from some enlightened source > that Taveuni can be explored uch more intensively.

On the first two days of Miss laws expedition, it rained so hard at some areas became unreachable id all tracks were extremely muddy id treacherous.

We began by staying in the village of Vuna, with Tui Vuna and his delightful family. But everywhere we went we found great interest in our search, together with open-handed hospitality, practical offers of help and a rich wealth of knowledge of local flora, fauna and ways of life.

Many people, such as Mr. Reggie Douglas, of Qacavulo, knew of sites on their own plantations to which they were only too willing to lead us.

As in Mr. Douglas’ case, their own interest had been stimulated by finding stone adzes and fragments of primitive pottery.

And we found that, whether we stayed in Fijian villages or with plantation owners, sooner or later relics of the past would be handed around, memories would be dredged for sites glimpsed, and the talk would steer its way around to: “You’d better meet old so-and-so. He remembers a lot about the old days and likely he’ll know some of the bush places where you might find things.”

Sometimes these clues led to important discoveries, sometimes they all d part b of IhTgame h '^ k archaLl t ogy S It - S a profession which combines a variety of curious characteristics. of^a^detective! 16 a 10 good 1S dea? 6 !)^! scholar, and he is usually a skilled workman when it comes to piecing together fragments of pottery or artifacts found on a site “ louna on a Slle ' . , I J eeds ’ -T o ®’ 1 . stamma an( J knowledge of terrain, maps and weather which make an explorer, combined with the interest m people and t^e ) r .^ a^s w l? ic h will accurately interpret the reminders which long- ®one P eo Pl e have left behind them, vvaV tO do it 1 Where do you begin when looking for the past?

Often by reading, thinking, followjn g a hunch and asking endless, patient questions. 0 t Sometimes, as at Deuba, on Viti Le ™- f, stre . am cha "B es “j. c , ourae and pottery fragments are disclosed, lf j adln E archaeologists to dig and explore further in the area.

Field exploration in Fiji is very Taveuni, a mountainous island rising to more than 4,000 ft, is of volcanic origin. The three extinct volcanic cones seen at left are all ancient fortified sites in the Vuna area. At right, archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw gets down to business. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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They have been swallowed up by ic quick-growing bush, so that unss a hunter or a local walker appens to chance on a pile of stones id realises it is not merely Nature’s andiwork, there is little to guide ic beginner.

However, it is astonishing how any people begin to remember lings seen once interest is aroused, ; it has been on Taveuni, where xhaeology is now the newest “sport” id where collections of stone implelents and pottery shards are begining to rival the more commonlace ones of shells!

Still, for the present, an expedition [ust rely on chance encounters with ic few who do know. For example, lost villagers near Qacavulo knew isolutely nothing of certain rocks i the shore-line bearing carvings and auged holes.

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So we waded through shallow ater to discover what were, clearly, allows where adzes had been ground.

One was so deep that it must have sen the receptacle which held the water to cool the stone as it was being worked.

The other stone we examined lay back from the sea a little, a black, lava lump.

The children from nearby houses watched fascinated as we clambered over it; and then Elizabeth Shaw began scrubbing some dimly-seen hieroglyphs on its side with a stiff wire orush. , c . ' u cn a ■ j Afterwards she filled in the depress,ons with white chalk before photographing the strange almost mathematical-looking symbols.

That was a day of easy going. But most days involved strenuous walking and climbing into the bush.

Plantation owners were uncommonly generous in driving us in their Land Rovers to places where even a Land Rovei ‘ must stop. After that, it was very mucb a case of Shanks pony. 9 ne m 9. st ex . cß mg °. ur unds was a large fort site, clearly mdicated by its ditch, some 30 ft deep, encircling a high conical mound which, » n lts da V> would have been P ahsaded for B reater protection.

The whole area was thick with bush and traili vines The immed i ate fort area which interested us rejoiced in a coveri ng of tall, cutting-edged grass Huge spiders had hung their webs between lantana bushes; and somehow these webs always managed to Ancient pottery in inland Samoa Scientists have discscovered pottery 2,000 years old in inland Samoa, according to the Western Samoan newspaper, “Samoana”.

The paper says that an expedition headed by Dr. Roger Green of Auckland University, and sponsored by the Auckland University and Honolulu's Bishop Museum, found adzes similar to those found in Tonga and Fiji dating back to 500 BC.

Dr. Green said there was evidence of a deterioration in the pottery, which led to its final disuse and the use instead of wooden kava bowls.

The Samoan adzes found are the property of the Western Samoan Government, but they will be stored in the Auckland Museum until a museum is established in Apia. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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At each site we discovered, Miss haw was kept busy taking notes, larking contour maps, taking photoraphs, and keeping her eyes open for hards and artifacts.

On top of our fortress mound her oung Fijian assistant, Moce Qalo, icked up several large pottery pieces rom the rubble of small stones lying n the damp earth.

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On some days our searchings took s high above the coconut planting ne, into the forest towards the olcanic peaks.

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Now and again we stopped to drink le cool water which lies inside the rey creeper stems, and I was stonished at the delicate, pale-pink, eshy inside hidden within these unttractive plants.

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What astonished and delighted us uring the whole expedition was the r ealth of sites we came across. In 11, some 70 were recorded, ranging om small, family dwelling places > fortresses extending for several undred feet.

Both the homes and the forts were sually on ridges or spurs of land hich gave the ancient Fijians a >mmanding view of any invaders.

Some of the yarns were found in roups of two or three; others were ustered close together and numbered ? many as would be found in any llage today.

Quite clearly, the island had once jen far more thickly populated than is today.

Those people of earlier times had jen stout climbers, for many of the tes we came across were as high as 000 ft up the mountainsides.

On the north side of the island, Dtably near Bouma, was a remark- )le concentration of yarns.

Pottery was plentiful there, too; id from a site which appeared most like a present-day city dump, zeable shards were brought to Suva ir study and identification.

It was at Bouma that a Fijian, lone ola, gave Miss Shaw an artifact therto unknown in this part of the orld —a large, stone implement, ith one sharpened edge, bearing a int resemblance to a cricket bat. 1 was anxious to know just how d the Taveuni settlements might be. it Miss Shaw with the true caution the scientist, hesitated to put an :act date to them.

Plainer pottery “They are not as early as some e have previously found at Yanuca, i Viti Levu,” she said.

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“These newest finds are quite plain, icy don’t even bear the marks hich ‘paddle ware’ has, from beg patted into shape with an impleent rather like a butter-pat.

“The Taveuni pottery is, in fact, very similar to what is still being made today at Sigatoka, and at Nasilai and I doubt if it is more than, say, 500 years old.”

No matter how old, or how young, those early settlements on Taveuni eventually prove to be, what is still supremely exciting is the fact that so many clues are being uncovered in the fascinating mystery of who the earliest Pacific settlers were, where they came from, how they lived.

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AS I recognised who she was, my nL mind went back to a day long ago when I had seen her mother itanding on that very spot. Of course, it wasn’t a bus stop then; here weren’t any buses.

And her mother wasn’t wearing a ihift. She was wearing a grass skirt, )r rather several grass skirts one on op of the other. The upper part of ler body was unclothed, as indeed it vas required by law to be. Her feet vere bare, and her head was covered vith an untidy mop of hair, not enirely free from insect life. And vhen I spoke to her, she wiggled her oes and giggled in embarrassment.

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On the top of this load would be a bundle of firewood, and not infrequently on the top of the firewood a two or three-year-old child, steadying himself by clutching at his mother’s hair.

Girls lived a busy but happy life, vith plenty of chores to do, but time ;o spare for fun and games. They :ame to school, but didn’t take eduction very seriously. Nor did their parents.

“Teach my sons to read and write, hen they can get jobs in town,” said i Hanuabada man when I expostuated with him about the irregular school attendance of his daughter. ‘But what’s the use of teaching my laughters to read and write? The inly use they ever put it to is to vrite notes to the boys.”

Perhaps he wasn’t too far out as •egards the majority of my girl mpils. However, there was the occasional girl who was not only inerested in the (in those days) very simple teaching given, but who outstripped the boys in her ability to ibsorb it.

One such stands out in my nemory; if she had had the opporunities available today, she would lave done brilliantly.

After the war, girls’ education got iway to a very slow start. Followng the emergence of the Departnent of Education in 1946, most of he Administration schools which vere established had for years a very arge predominance of boy pupils.

Work of Miss McLaughlin That girls’ education, once it did ;et under way, developed so rapidly vas almost entirely due to the enhusiasm of a dedicated departmental ifficer, Miss Barbara McLaughlin, vho strove for years to secure recoglition of the importance of not allowng the education of girls to lag belind that of boys, and who, when she lecame Chief of Division for Seconlary Education, continued her efforts o see that girls had as good a chance is boys in the educational rat-race.

As a result of her efforts there ire not only girls studying alongside ioys in most of the territory’s high ichools, but there are two high ichools, one near Lae and the other n New Ireland, catering solely for jirls, and there are three girls’ techlical schools, specialising in domestic science and commercial subjects.

These are Administration schools.

The missions have always attached great importance to girls’ education, and continue to do so in numerous mission schools throughout the territory.

Already there are girl teachers and nurses galore. Girls and women are working as welfare assistants. We have two women doctors, and three indigenous girls are among the intake for the first year of the university.

Neatly turned out Papuan girls mix our milk-shakes, serve us at store counters, take our money at the selfservice exits, and sit demurely behind typewriters in numerous offices. By and large they do very well indeed, comparing favourably, I believe, with Australian girls of the same age group, The USDS of lipstick , wjsh th wouldn ’ t use lipstick, But of course more and more o{ them wil |. being so j wish that some . one would take them in hand and teach them how to choose it and 57 ’ ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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Marriage conventions are in confusion how to put it on. There must be some lipstick colours that look well against their brown complexions, but they don't seem to have much luck in finding them.

Of course, this revolution in a decade has not been accomplished without growing pains. What I have said in praise of these lasses is on the whole true, but there are some dreadful exceptions—girls who have lost the traditional graces and skills of their grandmothers, and in exchange have found nothing but vulgarity, empty-headedness, and idle hands for which Satan seems to have no difficulty in providing mischief.

But this happens in plenty of other places as well as New Guinea.

The parents have on the whole taken the revolution calmly. There has been a certain amount of grumbling that today’s young people have no respect for their elders. This also is not peculiar to New Guinea.

The marriage problem But many parents are anxious that their daughters should have educational opportunities and they are proud of their achievements; and some of them are generous beyond their means in providing them with clothes and pocket money.

The biggest area of tension relates to marriage.

Many parents still want to select their daughter’s husband, and are quite prepared to pull her out of college and marry her off to some long-haired, betelnut-chewing type in the village.

They resent the thought of her choosing a husband for herself, particularly when that choice, as it increasingly does, cuts across the boundaries of tribe and language.

All this is bound up, of course, with the bride-price system, which has not only survived but, in a money economy, has often become commercialised. The abandonment of the bride-price, with the obligations in which it involves the bride towards her husband’s relations, will have to come, as the ties of village and tribe are broken; but it won’t come overnight.

At present the marriage conventions are in a state of confusion.

Papuans and New Guineans can be married either under the Marriage Ordinance or by “native custom”.

But there is no one native custom; there are a multitude of tribal customs. How can you have a marriage by native custom when a Tolai marries a Motu girl, or when a girl from Milne Bay marries a boy from Manus?

When my wife and I lived close to a relatively unchanged Papuan village, we always knew who were married and who were not. If we didn’t the first villager we asked could tell us without hesitation.

But if you ask the same question here in Port Moresby, the answer will probably be “Sedira”—a handy Motu word with a wide range of meaning depending largely on the tone of voice in which it is uttered.

In this instance it might be translated, “Who knows?”

But ARE they married?

For in the towns there is a whole gamut of relationships ranging from marriage through informal temporary associations to casual cohabitation, with no sharp boundary lines.

At present marriages by native custom are recognised by law for some purposes, but it becomes increasingly difficult to come up with a clear-cut answer to the question, “Are these two people married or not?”

I think that the time is fast approaching when it will have to be laid down that a marriage by native custom will not be recognised in the courts unless it has been validated under the Marriage Ordinance.

Even then there will be a tremendous backlog of complicated cases in which Papuan couples married under the Marriage Ordinance in the days when legal divorce was for Europeans only, and then, after separating by mutual consent, were remarried by native custom to new partners.

It would be an interesting exercise for an anthropologist to work through the Registrar-General’s records and find out how many of the Papuans whose marriages are registered there are now living with spouses other than their legal ones.

I remember one flighty lass who set the courts a problem. She was married by native custom, then cut the ties and married another man under the Marriage Ordinance. Then she changed her mind again and went back to her former native-custom husband.

The “legal” husband then laid a complaint in the Court for Native Matters alleging that the nativecustom husband had committed adultery with his wife—adultery being a criminal offence under the Native Regulations.

If I remember rightly the case was dismissed. But it must have given the officer quite a headache!

The new Marriage Ordinance, enacted a few years ago, together with the opening of legal divorce to indigenes, have between them unravelled some of the tangles, but not all of them.

However, I felt these problems were still in the future for my passenger as I put her down at the entrance to Koki market. She wanted to buy some fish to take home. As she got out of the car she thanked me charmingly, and “Please give my best regards to Mrs. Chatterton”, she said.

Then she flitted away into the market —a gay, incongruous figure amid the gaunt sheds, the heaped bunches of bananas, the piles of betel nut, and the shabby, unkempt vendors. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

From the Islands press I would like to ask that the attention of the authorities be brought to the urgent need to arrange the repatriation of all the unemployed people now living on the tiny islet of Betio.

I suggest that if this is done and they are all sent back to their home islands, there will be much less crime and public health will improve. All these people without work are causing a lot of trouble, crime is increasing rapidly, and people are living in very crowded and unclean conditions.

If the people are told that they must go to their home islands, they would become very valuable to their country, working on their own lands and helping the implementation of the development schemes being planned by government.

Ir is much better to do this than to become cowboys of Tarawa.— Letter from Bobai Timon in “Colony Information Notes,” a Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Newssheet.

WITH the country [of Western Samoa] now past its second general election since independence and many of its politicians getting on in years, it is about time some consideration was given to providing pensions for long-service parliamentarians or their immediate surviving dependents, Parlament is now regarded as a full-time job, and as this election showed, competence is no guarantee of continued employment.

As in other countries a pension scheme should be instituted whereby after, say. three consecutive terms, a politician would be entitled to some sort of retiring allowance.—Editorial in “Samoana,”

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THE good old days are gone.

Cricket is a game of the past with us on Pitcairn Island. . .

With the exception of an impromptu game between islanders and visitors, no game has been held since 1957.

The reason is obvious—there are not sufficient capable men to make up two opposing teams.

Mainly we have become an island of oldsters. In 10 years the island population has dropped from 152 to 96.

The married men, widows and bachelors are far too old (mostly) to participate in such a strenuous game as cricket.— Comment in “Pitcairn Miscellany ”

A RE VIEW of the United Nations’ 1966 activities, issued last month by the organisation’s Office of Public Information, shows once more the capacity for self-deception that marks the attitude of the Colonialism Committee of 24, and resolutions on colonial territories passed by the General Assembly.

The review records that the General Assembly has solemnly declared that the continuation of colonial rule “threatens international peace and security.”

To the people of Fiji and the Soiomons and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and Pitcairn, developing peacefully under Britain’s guidance, the declaration is patently and utterly absurd.

Neither internal nor international peace and security are threatened in the slightest degree by the “continuation of colonial rule”.

On the other hand, the prolonged violence in the Congo, the resurgence of tribal enmities in others among the new African states, and the racial strife in British Guiana under lagan’s control are examples of threats to international peace and security which stemmed directly from the premature ending of colonial rule. —Editorial in “The Fiji Times”, Suva. is that in the seven years a Boroko electrical store has been in business, it has not received one undamaged stove shipped from Australia. Recently 16 stoves arrived from England in perfect condition. The following month two came out from Brisbane with the tops bashed in.— Columnist in the “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

MOST Outer Islanders [in the Cook Islands] think that the term “Outer Islands” is a very pertinent and proper one. They contend that the Outer Islands have aways been on the “outer” when it comes to government and other help. Rarotonga, they say, is always considered first.

At present, the government is making strenuous efforts to change this position, and perhaps it would be a good idea if a new name was used for the Outer Islands.

According to Time magazine, the Hawaiians have solved the problem by calling their outer islands “Neighbour Islands”. Any ideas please?— Editor’s query in the “Cook Islands News”, Rarotonga.

T AM a Samoan educated in the -*■ United States and have made the following observations: Many of our Samoan people are trying to make fools of the Palagis by lying, being deceitful and making unkind remarks in Samoan.

We should realise that Palagis are here to help and we cannot do without them.

Getting along with them is very important because they carry impiessions of us back to the United States. We live on their tax dollars and we must keep that in mind.

So let us be more careful with our manners. If we are proud people, let us be proud of being people. If we think to fool somebody, we are very mistaken.

This is not something to laugh about. Think it over.— Reader's letter in the “Samoan Times,”

Pago Pago, American Samoa. npHERE were three Wise Men who came to the Solomons— one from New Zealand, one from Australia and one from Great Britain.

And the Solomon Islander said to the three Wise Men; “I respect and thank you for the wisdom you bring from New Zealand, from Australia and from Great Britain, and I have one question to ask you.”

And the three Wise Men replied; “Ask!”

“Where are we?” said the Solomon Islander. “Are we in New Zealand? Are we in Australia? Are we in Great Britain.”

And the three Wise Men replied: “We are in the Solomon Islands.” “Then tell me,” said the Solomon Islander, “who is to speak with the wisdom of the Solomon Islander?”— Fable in the “BSIP N ewssheet”, Honiara. 60 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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They're well worth finding Shoes from Paris (but not at Paris irices), objets d’art from the Orient, fid-fashioned toys like wooden tops . . they’re all there for those with :yes to see.

My own loves are the slightly arger “emporia” where richly :oloured Chinese bowls and ladles ostle gaudy enamel basins, sturdy ools and a few yards of lace or a lundle of pencils, all within a foot ir two of each other.

At first sight, you might think there tru' 11 u"a which iiiik.hi mciyv CTT^xnT made to measure for my feet and my pocket book, both!

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Stacked together in bright, if dusty bales, we walk past thinking of them as “cheap”.

That they often are, in price, but not, for the discerning buyer, in style, design or texture. Get a length away from its multi-coloured mates, and it can look striking.

The same thing applies to the market selling native goods. You 0 seeing wooden bowls, es, cannibal forks and it is easy to overlook fistic pieces of real skill. % time but, as the poet, h, says: ‘s life, if, full of care, » time to stand and stare? tanding and staring” has ne charming satin baby- ;d with swansdown, for Id; a tiny kerosene lamp bogey-men away” all r of Chinese figurines pd among some cheap bile of Indian cosmetics, 1 overlooked, but which, [l of flowers on a low tally elegant; a Spanish piy fevered brow when goes wild; and a host of foodstuffs which I at one time thought were unprocurable in Suva.

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Some of these bear only Chinese lettering and are real discoveries, but others do announce for the benefit of ignoramuses such as I, that they contain birds’ nests, or dried squid or beche de mer.

Cooking hints The delightful thing is that the shopkeepers are always quite happy to tell you just how to cook your new-found delicacy.

If you are really adventurous in your cooking, you can have a lot of fun buying small quantities of the various spices which go to make a gourmet curry. (There’ll be none of that tinned curry powder for you once you’ve begun to blend your own flavours!) What’s more, the smaller shopkeepers do not scorn you if you want tiny quantities. They are much more likely to respect you as a housewife who knows how to make her husband's hard - earned cash stretch profitably.

You can do this, too, by a little haggling and will not lose face, give offence or look mean. Again, the shopkeeper is much more likely to . . . accord you respect instead of the B f o . rn P ro .P er ly reserved for an untlmft V Wlfe who carelessly throws mo " e y a " a V without even trying to strike a bargain, Substantial reductions x . , , , , . . , M 9 re tin ? 9 18 needed for this, but 118 time wblcb not only benefits the family exchequer, it weaves a little lsland of Personal relationships between y° u and the salesman, which, if the whole affair is conducted with di B nit y, good humour and mutual res P ect ’ as 11 can and should be, will sweeten your shopping, I’ve had substantial reductions offered me on such mundane objects as hair curlers, and such major items as saucepans.

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If nothing else, they are a saga of human nature.

Too many musical instruments tell a tale of youthful extravagances, and old-fashioned pieces of jewellery lying alongside the latest in watches shows that, after all, human nature has not changed so much, down the generations.

But who has been able to dispense with his flip-flops, or the tools of his trade?

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1^0 W that Port Moresby is pushing ahead with the organisation of the 1969 South Pacific Games, there are noises off-stage which sound like sour grapes. The Lae New Guinea Times-Courier complains that the selection of Port Moresby, rather than Lae or Rabaul, “seems to have been a foregone conclusion”. Somebody at the Lae Town Advisory Council said much the same thing.

The chairman of the Games Council, Mr. Johnstone, replied that the claims were “quite wrong”. The committee appointed in 1964 by the then Administrator, he said, had looked at Lae and Rabaul; their findings had been submitted to the Administrator, who had announced in mid-1966 that Port Moresby had been chosen.

What Mr. Johnstone did not say was that the committee of five (himself, H. Niall, D. Barrett, R. Galloway and E. Flower) rejected Lae and were split on whether Port Moresby or Rabaul should have the Games.

Two wanted Rabaul and two Port Moresby—leaving chairman Johnstone in the position of having to make a casting vote. He decided not to make it, and the nasty problem ended in Sir Donald Cleland’s reluctant lap. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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THE sets are sold by the South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau to education departments and missions. In a little more than four months, 17,000 copies of each book have been sold.

In February the SPC had a backlog of 2,000 orders for sets. The Commission then planned to print a further 5,000, thereby keeping the price of the books at 15 cents and 25 cents each.

Main sales to date have been to the BSIP (3,500 sets), GEIC (2,800), Western Samoa (3,000), American Samoa (1,600) and the Englishspeaking section of the New Hebrides (1,000).

Sets in hundreds have also gone to Niue, Nauru, Tonga (1,200), the Cooks, Guam and the Marshalls (1,000) and Caroline Islands of the US Trust Territory.

Start of series The books are the start of a series of school readers produced as a result of the English language-teaching project of the SPC. The series will complement the oral school syllabus and assist the teaching of English as a foreign language throughout the Pacific. Teachers’ Handbooks are being produced to accompany the first few readers.

They consist of short stories about Islands family life told with essential sight-words and basic sentences. Coloured pictures inside depict islanders, who are not specifically Melanesians or Polynesians so the books hold a regional rather than territorial appeal.

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Miss G. M. Tate (author of the Tate Oral English Course which has been in use in the Cooks and Western Samoa for several years) and Mr.

G. A. Pittman, the language-teaching specialist of the SPC.

During 1963-64, the SPC obtained the approval of its member nations to start an English language-teaching project which has succeeded in placing language-teaching materials on a regional, rather than a territorial basis. Up to that time teachers in the Islands were using variable methods to teach the Islanders English and language-teaching materials were produced individually or on a territorial basis - Mr. Pittman has visited all main Pacific centres over the last two years and has made recommendations on syllabuses and books which are geared to the linguistic conditions of the region.

“Attention is given to the areas of difficulty of English which produced errors—the tenses of the verbs and the plurality of nouns,” he says.

“The SPC series of readers is written for all the Islands. We hope to direct the teaching effort so as to avoid error and generally make the language more understandable to the children.

“Orders have exceeded our hopes and initial sales have been encouraging and indicative of general interest.

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The Practical Planter

Robusta for smallholders: But check on markets first By Don Barrett, in Rabaul Anybody wanting to plant coffee these days should explore marketing prospects first because of export limitations under the International Coffee Agreement. In New Guinea there is general concern that coffee may already be in over-production. Most of the coffee grown in the territory is Arabica; and such Robusta as is cultivated is usually found on smallholdings.

COFFEE is a hardy plant but it is unwise to accept this fact without some reservations. For example, the coffee nursery needs adequate shade as does the young plant.

Failure to provide it often leads to unhealthy yellow-leaved plants. Basically Robusta will thrive at elevations up to 1,500 ft. While being amenable to heavy rainfall it does require good drainage and does not take kindly to heavy clay type soils, preferring loose friable soils where its largely surface roots can spread freely.

Since it is necessary to keep a coffee plantation free of weeds, thorough preparation of the area intended for planting is an advantage.

It is useful to clean far more carefully than would normally be done for cocoa. Although it is somewhat tedious, cutting and heaping fallen timber prior to burning helps to preserve much of the natural mulch which will be greatly appreciated by young coffee when planted out.

As the area to be planted will be far less than with cocoa (as a general rule) this additional effort will not cost much more. Furthermore, in many areas on Islands coasts a complete burn is an invitation to kunai —one of the worst enemies of the Robusta coffee farmer.

Nursery needed early A nursery should be established early. Natural shade can be used quite effectively or a simple shade house can be built. In any case an area of good loose soil in a welldrained location should be chosen.

The actual nursery beds are worked just as if a vegetable garden were being prepared. The big time saver in the coffee nursery, as against the cocoa nursery, is that the coffee beans The Practical Planter is a new section in PIM. It is written by people with practical experience. The section first appeared in January. It will be published each month from now on. are not planted in plastic bags or other containers, but straight into the ground.

A common fault in planting coffee seed in nurseries is to set the seed too deep. I have seen this mistake made very often. A good bush rule is to set the seed no deeper than the fingernail width of the indexfinger—roughly half an inch. The coffee bean has a straight side and a convex side. It is usual to set the straight side DOWN with the convex side UPWARDS.

Planting intervals Self-sown coffee, somtimes seen in an ill-kept farm, seems to come up from an angle, but how often is this sort of contradiction apparent when we take things from a natural environment and put them into an artificial one? To be safe, plant the straight side down.

Germination time varies with climatic conditions but should be no more than six weeks. If a dry spell comes along after the seed is planted hand-watering is necessary but not so as to “force” the germination.

Try to maintain normal conditions.

While the coffee is growing in the nursery the area to be planted can be lined and shade set out. Opinions differ as to the best interval for Robusta coffee—as they do with virtually every tropical crop. Where rainfall is over 100 inches and soil is loose and well drained 10 ft by 10 ft would be a minimum.

I have planted at 9 ft by 9 ft but under good conditions this is too close and can lead to some overcrowding as trees grow older. It also makes for difficulties in harvesting as lateral branches which bear the fruit become partly inter-twined. Do not plant at less than 10 ft by 10 ft.

The farm may be lined on the triangle or on the square. Again this is a matter of individual preference.

Perhaps the triangle planting gives a little freer access to all trees as they grow.

Leucena glauca (lamtoro) is a commonly used shade and may be planted from seed or from seedlings where these are available, or from cuttings. It is a hardy tree but good rains are needed to get your shade established. It is a waste of time and labour to plant in parched soil and in a dry spell of weather. Seed or cuttings set out when the soil is really soggy after heavy rains should be assured of germination or striking.

Shade species In most coastal regions leucena glauca is a rampant grower and a heavy seeder. It has a tough wood.

Since much of the initial shade will be cut out as the coffee matures it is wise to plant sparingly. Use as little shade as possible consistent with a good cover for the young coffee and to inhibit the growth of weeds or grass.

Another useful shade is gliricidia maculata. This is a particularly quick growing soft-wooded tree grown from cuttings only. It tends to make long cane-like branches which while they require fairly constant pruning provide good mulch and are much 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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easier to cut than leucena glauca.

Where available I would favour gliricidia maculata because of its nonseeding habit. A fair density of shade plantings for the new farm area is one tree between each coffee stake or alternatively a line of shade between each proposed line of coffee at a 10 ft interval—that is 10 ft between shade in the lines of shade.

There is not the same urgency to set out your coffee seedlings as there is with cocoa. As coffee does not have a large tap-root the seedlings can be left much longer without much danger of damage to root system. ...

It is unwise to lift seedlings with less than eight leaves—about eight or 10 in. high. On the other hand it is quite possible to plant out trees that are well over 12 months old and two ft high provided normal care is A seedling with a strong stalk (and even leaves) about 12 in. high should be a good average specimen. When lifting seedlings soil may be balled but it is also possible to lift with a minimum of soil providing transplanting is immediate, roots are intact and are not unduly exposed.

Shade control important A properly prepared hole for each seedling is a necessity, if the young trees are to be given a good start.

It is surprising how often such preparation is neglected. The hole needs to be large enough to take the young plant’s root system without this being twisted or bunched, and soil well worked to a depth that will allow the roots to spread quickly. Finally soil around the base of the plant must be well tamped down —another basic need often neglected. A little mulch around the young plant should complete the planting out.

As the young coffee grows it is essential to keep the ground around the plants clean weeded; this is because coffee feeds greedily on the surface and does not like competition from grass or other plants. This is one of the qualifications to its being a hardy plant.

Shade control now becomes important. It is quite likely that a few plants at the edge of your plantings will show a slight yellowing of leaves due to exposure to direct sunlight.

Do not worry about this, some plants have to be on the outside, and in any case as they grow older they will strengthen up. If your main body of plants is showing a yellowing in leaves then you have insufficient shade. If your shade is too dense your coffee plants will be spindly.

When the young coffee plants are three or four ft high they should be "topped”. This prevents a tree-like growth and helps to produce a bush, which is essential for ease of harvesting. Normally topping is necessary to induce early lateral growth but some few plants may produce laterals at an early age; provided these are not growing too high they need not be topped.

Once the young trees have been topped continual attention is necessary to cut out water shoots which will appear in abundance at the top of the tree and will sap much energy if not moved quickly. Since the lateral branches will be the bearing wood all strength must get to these.

Shade control must be continued.

In the main this will consist of thinning out. If you use leucena glauca you will need to strip the bark from the stumps otherwise you will get a rapid and vigorous regeneration.

With gliricidia maculata there is a tendency in damp weather for cut branches to sprout where they lie.

This can be overcome by a few swift blows with a machete.

Again with leucena there is the problem of seedlings. These are best dealt with by letting them grow from eight in. to 12 in. and then pulling by hand. If cut with any sort of grass knife the small stems will shoot again and after several cuttings you will have a spiky little underfoot jungle which is really hard to remove. The old fashioned hand-weeding cannot be surpassed.

Weeding essential Clean weeding of the farm is also a continuing essential. When the coffee is young it may be necessary to feed quite frequently. As the plants become bigger and make their own cover the interval between weedings will be greater. Any sort of dense grass is likely to cause real setbacks to young coffee.

Loose weeds may not be so damaging but any general cover which competes for surface moisture will affect growth of the coffee.

Quite a lot of people who have never grown coffee seem to fear the amount of work involved. Taking all factors into account there is really very little more work in establishing a Robusta coffee plantation than from establishing a cocoa and coconut plantation.

And one bonus attends the coffee grower to date —the almost total absence of serious pest or disease problems.

It may be OK for Robusta, but not for cocoa, he says Gliricidia maculata, recommended by Don Barrett as a satisfactory shade for Robusta coffee, is a most unsatisfactory shade for cocoa in New Guinea, according to New Ireland planter Jim Grose.

HE found it very easy to establish but very hard to get rid of. It was not susceptible to hormone weedkillers.

Mr. Grose, who has 200,000 cocoa trees, mostly under coconuts, in Poliamba Estates, New Ireland, of which he is managing partner, tried gliricidia on a 25 acre block of cocoa.

“We put it in because we were attracted by the fact that it was easy to establish,” he said. “But probably due to its rampant rooting system it seemed to be detrimental to cocoa, which didn’t bear even with the shade severely thinned.

“After 10 years we pulled it all out and planted leucena glauca.”

Mr. Grose feels planters could control gliricidia with constant pruning and a lot of labour, plus plenty of intelligence to see that thinning is done carefully (otherwise you end with too much shade or not enough).

“Perhaps on a small block of cocoa you can do this,” he said. “But when you have, say, 500 acres the less work you do the cheaper you produce your cocoa.”

Rubber, too Poliamba Estates have been putting more and more rubber under cultivation recently. They currently have 400 acres and in another two years plan to have 700, The oldest rubber on the plantations is one year in the ground.

The planting is a high yielding variety—and needs to be, according to Mr. Grose.

“Rubber prices have been falling steadily, so low-yielding varieties, or any inefficiencies on the plantation could be disastrous,” he said.

Oldest rubber on New Ireland is on Ross Irvine’s Libba plantation, which should be tapped in two years.

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THE main thing to watch carefully is the fuel supply—this being the chief cause of engine stoppage. Dirty fuel and water content will cause slowing down, erratic running and even complete stoppage.

It is therefore recommended that a primary filter be fitted between the fuel tank and the feed pump or final filter.

Check to make certain there are no air leaks in the fuel lines. Air bubbles, even a few, will cause missing and ragged running.

Do not turn the fuel supply off at any time, unless in an emergency, as emptied pressure lines mean “bleeding” the lines and system.

Slowing down may be due to poor cooling water circulation and is often slower to detect than on a petrol engine. Check the pump and sea cock regularly. Restriction on the air intake will cause very inefficient running.

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Do not attempt to dismantle the fuel injection pump unless in dire emergency. This should be carried out where correct facilities are available. Never use kerosene as a fuel, but if unavoidable in an emergency, add lubricating oil just to discolour the kerosene. Kerosene will damage the injection pump.

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By W. F. Ritchie Early working and a good fallowing. These are key factors in land preparation if you want successful establishment of a new tropical pasture.

TROPICALS have a much longer sowing season than temperate pastures and this gives a better chance for good land preparation.

Any new plant being introduced to a paddock is going to have to battle it out with the old plant inhabitants which have been there for generations.

Their very existence there proves that they like these conditions and that they can stand off competition.

They have to be jolted out of this if they are to be replaced with more productive pasture.

Seed bed preparation Land preparation is the major weapon in turning the tide in favour of the new pasture plants. The main objective should be to make the situation as comfortable as possible for the new tropicals, and at the same time as uncomfortable as possible for weeds or old pasture plants which are not wanted any longer.

This involves: • Getting the newly sown seed into firm contact with both soil and moisture —into a good seed bed. • Beating competition from weeds or old pasture plants. • Controlling drainage either to prevent waterlogging or to protect against erosion.

A tropical pasture is going to be there for a long time, and its first seed bed is the only one it will ever get, A good seed bed at the start is a long-term investment which will pay off for years in faster and better establishment of the pasture. A good start is the best insurance for a good pasture.

It really pays to give the new plants the best and most even seed bed practicable. On sloping and difficult country, this is not always easy, and you just have to do the best you can. Erosion risk also comes into the picture on slopes, as is mentioned later.

You can’t make up later what skimping at the start will cost you. • W. F. Ritchie, the author of this article, is director of science services, Terranova Tropical Pastures. This is a big private organisation in Queensland which experiments with seeds and brings out new strains, etc.

A smaller area well prepared will get you more milk or feed faster than a larger area done carelessly.

The first working should be fairly deep, getting shallower and shallower with each successive working, to consolidate the seed bed and to aid in weed control.

Don’t leave top layers of soil fluffy and loose. That way it is very vulnerable to erosion, and dries out very quickly. Aim for a firm tilth on your final working.

Generally speaking, try to prepare what you’d consider a good seed bed for maize, or sugar cane, remembering that most tropical pasture seeds are small, and must be sown shallowly—usually less than an inch deep.

You want that seed firmly in contact with soil and soil moisture, and given a cover. Rolling after sowing can be a big help with this, if your country doesn’t pack and cake with rolling.

Storing moisture Fallow to conserve soil moisture and to consolidate the seed bed.

The planting period for tropical pastures is much longer than that for temperate pastures, ranging from September-October through to the end of March.

This gives plenty of time to work up the land and avoid a hasty preparation followed immediately by planting. At the same time, the earlier the planting, the sooner the pasture will be producing feed.

Early planting should be the aim. but not at the expense of poor land preparation.

We tend to have forgotten the value of fallowing, particularly its part in storing soil moisture. When the land is open, it allows more of the rainfall to penetrate, getting more of the water into the sub-soil.

Fallowing also prevents the very heavy losses of moisture caused by weed plants (or the previous pasture plants) as they suck up moisture and pour it out into the air from their leaves.

So it is a double barrel method of building up the soil reserve of moisture so that you will not be so dependent on good rain at and after sowing.

One of the reasons we have neglected fallowing something that no man sowing a crop should ever forget—is that our experience in sowing improved pastures has mainly been limited to temperate species like ryegrass and clover which are sown in the autumn.

In the sub-tropics and tropics, autumn sowing follows the main rainfall period of the summer months, so there is usually plenty of moisture in the soil for sowing.

Best sowing time But when you sow tropicals in the spring—and that’s the best time to sow most of them—you have usually just come through some of the driest months, and are in a period when the rain is mainly limited to storms.

Fallowing has proved—in these dry times—to be a wonderful insurance by storing moisture until you need it, just the way every sensible grain grower does. It has often meant the difference between success and failure.

So aim at opening your land about June to September to soak up rain, consolidate the seed bed, and get rid of weeds and competitive growth.

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Even a rough fallow can make a tremendous difference, and fallows must be rough—and preferably with contour banking of some sort—on really steep country.

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for this, as weed seeds have been building up under the ground for years.

Land that has been under grass is nowhere near the problem, although it’s bad enough. There is the existing grass to get rid of.

On these cultivation paddocks you have to be more thorough with fallowing, and you will probably need to add potash to your fertiliser treatment as well.

Weeds have two natural advantages that have to be overcome. For a start, the number of weed seeds sitting underground waiting for a chance is probably many, many times the number of pasture plant seeds growing.

Secondly, most of these will be annual weeds which are very fast growing. Generally speaking, annual plants make growth faster than perennial plants. Annuals have to grow to maturity and set seed in a few short weeks or months at the most, compared with the perennial which takes a whole year for its annual growth cycle.

Weed control Progressive cultivations, right through from the first break to the final harrowing, all aid in weed control. If you can get the weed seeds to germinate between each working, the next working kills the young weeds and you have fewer seeds to bother you at planting time.

Picture what’s going on in the top layers of soil as you get to your final workings. There’s a band of weed seeds waiting to be turned up into the zone where they will germinate. The ones that do get into this zone germinate and are killed by the next working, but if the next working is deep, it merely turns some more weed seeds up in the germination zone.

If each working is shallower than the previous ones, you get rid of many of the weed seeds in the top zone without turning up many more, and you are left with a top layer of soil fairly free of weed seeds when you are ready to plant. Plant with the minimum of soil disturbance, and you avoid turning up many new weed seeds to germinate.

All these moves help to cut weed competition to a minimum, and to prevent the weeds from stealing light —and tremendous amounts of soil water and plant food—from the young pasture seedlings, and to tilt the balance in favour of the new sowings.

Chemicals like Dalapon are also very effective in some instances in wiping out competition before planting, with minimum soil disturbances —the so-called chemical fallowing.

Whatever happens, aim at wiping out 80 per cent, of the competitive growth and give the new seedlings a chance to fight when they are young and weak. When they get going, they can look after most of the competition themselves. It’s the good start they really need.

Drainage control Poorly Drained Flats: Many a drowned pasture testifies to poor drainage on flats. One of the real advantages of the tropicals, particularly the legumes, is their deep rooting system which lets them draw food and moisture from deep down once they are established. They can’t do that if the water table is close to the surface.

Here again, cultivation can be a major tool. Laying out bays intc “lands” and ploughing the soil progressively towards the centre when preparing the seed bed gives strips with shallow humps, and hollows in between them for drainage. More drastic drainage may have to come into the picture in more swampy land.

Slopes: When cultivating slopes, you need to control drainage for a different reason—erosion risk. Land being worked for the first time is usually held together fairly well by old grass roots, but there’s always risk. Depending on the slope, the area, and so on, your protective measures will vary. Consult your local agricultural officers on this one.

When you plant tropical pastures, you are going to expect a great deal from them. They are not miracle plants, but they have proved that they can be tremendously productive—if given a proper chance.

No one can do much about the weather, but there are many other things that can be done to give them the best chance to fulfil their role as highly productive pasture.

Like most things, they respond to good treatment. Give them the sort of start any valuable crop deserves.

Where this has been done, there have been few failures, even in the dry reason, but you can’t expect them to help you unless you help them. ■

Sorghum Has Advantages

SORGHUM has shown itself well suited for growing in the Pacific Islands, and it has several advantages over maize in the field.

Sorghum can be harvested about three months after planting as compared with the five months required for maize; it tolerates long periods of dry weather, and is less susceptible to disease.

Harvesting sorghum is comparatively simple and it is easier to sun-dry than maize.

Bird damage, however, is always a problem with sorghum-growing.

The birds start their attacks when the grain is in the milky stage. Bird scaring with flashing tin and so on is effective in some areas.

Wherever possible large fields, or small adjacent fields, should be planted, as it has been found that isolated small fields encourage bird damage.

Sorghum needs good seed bed preparation and good cultivation.

Naturally competition from weeds will reduce yields, although if weed competition is not too severe in the early stages of growth, it is usually enough to give one or two horsecultivations at this stage.

Usually there is no need for hand hoeing—the leafy growth of sorghum shading out weeds in the row. Closer spacing when planting out gives slightly better yields, provided the inter-row cultivations are carried out properly. ~ The seed should be planted 1 to 2 inches deep, as sorghum is a crop which will not tolerate deep planting, Fertilising on many alluvia soils is effective with a dressing of li cwt of urea to acre ’ a PPi ie d straight after the first horse hoeing, The fertiliser. should be coupled with an application of 2 cwt per acre of superphosphate at planting time if the soil is deficient m phosphate.

Sorghum should be harvested as soon as the gram is hard; the stalk cut about 9 inches below the head, an d threshed by hand or by using a Carvie nee thresher, Sorghum not properly dried soon goes musty when stored, and it is a good policy to sell or use the gram as soon after h arves ting and sundrying as possible, . Grain sor B, um j s similar, to maize m food value for stock, but it a verages about 2 per cent, higher in P rote m and 1 per cent, lower in fat. contains practically no vitamin A.

For laying hens, broiler production, and dairy animals, maize and sorghum are identical in food value. Sorghum alone is a little inferior to maize for fattening beef animals and pigs. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1967

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Levuka: Where Everybody

Knows Everybody, And

Old Memories Linger On

There was a time when the trip from Suva to Levuka, the old Fiji capital on the island of Ovalau, was somewhat more difficult and adventurous than it is now. j'IRST, there was a drive of 30 or so miles over an extremely windg, but picturesque, road, to Lodoni .ondon) on the Tailevu coast of iti Levu. Then, if the tide was unvourable, one was carried by a isky Fijian across the squelching ud flats, running the risk of being opped en route into the murky iny.

Finally, one was dumped unremoniously into a dinghy and rried to the waiting launch.

Then came PROGRESS.

Marvellous innovation There was still the winding drive t went even further, to Natovi) but > longer the delicious uncertainty the pick-a-back.

Instead, there was a very long tty with a waiting-room at the end, pable of sheltering two and a half ople with their suitcases.

Erstwhile mud-hoppers considered is a marvellous innovation, and icerfully trudged with their belonggs along the long, long jetty.

But the inward and outward flow passengers increased, and the jetty as considered inadequate—“an in- By Lema Low, author of “A Family in Fiji” finitesimal finger of concrete” was the way one MLC referred to it.

So there was MORE PROGRESS.

In Fiji, it is wonderful what progress takes place when the right person waves a magic wand.

The jetty was widened, with a suitable turnaround to accommodate cars and buses.

So now—apart from the temporary but inevitable hitch which occurs when embarking and disembarking passengers mill around in a glorious tangle with cases of vegetables, bags of mail, sides of meat, bundles of taro and passengers and their luggage battling for priority—there is no waiting; no lingering for a last swig of lemonade at the Chinese store.

Progress has hit Natovi.

Meanwhile, there is a lot to be said for the launch journey. Not, perhaps, in the uncomfortable old Jubilee (in which we went) with its inadequate seating and noisy engine. But the Ovalau (in which we returned) is (to coin a phrase) a different kettle of fish.

Plenty of seats are provided in the main cabin, facing the bows, and set high so that one can enjoy the breeze.

There’s a seat across the stern for those who want to trail a fishing line, and seats up top under an awning for camera fiends and those who enjoy the full blast of the wind.

We could also trace our course on a chart on the wall.

Air of mystery Besides the Jubilee and Ovalau, there is also the Blue Lagoon, a launch in which we have not yet travelled.

The island of Ovalau, its brief, narrow foreshore rising steeply to a jagged crown of mountains, has a Bali-Hai quality, an air of mystery and romance—something of Tahiti or Pago Pago.

As the launch swept along the coast, through brilliant blue seas Levuka, from the air The limited area of flat land in the old capital led to residences being built on the hillsides, access being gained by long flights of steps. An excellent example is the 200-odd steps leading to residentials on Mission Hill.

Photos: Rob Wright.

tipped with scampering spray, ws could see the arms of a sunny valle; reaching up to its towering peaks.

The bare faces of rock resemble< the stern faces of the gods of Haste Island.

Villages, homes and settlement nestled snugly near the beaches.

The launch nudged against thi Levuka wharf after a trip of 2i houn from Natovi. We had reached historii Levuka, its buildings sprinkling thi lower skirts of the mountains abov the town, like flowers on a crinc line.

A waiting taxi scooped us up am took us grandly a few hundred yard to the Royal Hotel, Levuka’s onll hotel, a large, two-storey, ramblim wood and concrete building, of a styll reminiscent of bygone years, and ye so in harmony with Levuka’s old world atmosphere which persist even today.

As yet, no sky-scrapers ador Levuka’s waterfront, which is, pei haps, even more peaceful than it wa in its heyday, when cargo boats plie: between Levuka and Auckland am Sydney, and sailing ships brough seafarers from everywhere.

Next to creek The Royal Hotel is built on curve of the Totogo Creek whic': brushes its walls when torrential rain send the creek foaming out to sea., It is presided over by Mr. Eddi Ashley, helped by his charming wifi and a bevy of pretty daughters, whi display a variety of skills.

Mrs. Ashley is as adept with pair brush and carpenter’s tools as she i at the culinary arts, while the Ashle girls, in the twinkling of an eye, cai switch from routine household task to the presentation of an entrancim floor show of Islands songs and dance: Each morning at the Royal, a sh hibiscus girl sat in a corner of th upstairs verandah fitting her gorgeou multi-coloured blooms on to a sasi stems. Each morning she went aroum gathering the withered heads. Ho* sad that the life-span of thes beautiful flowers is so short!

Ovalau’s big days are during th Easter sports carnival and Octobe Cession Day, when the island is in undated with visitors from all ove Fiji and the three launches run non-stop shuttle service, and accom modation is taxed to the utmost.

But, on the whole, except for Satui day market day, when the whol island comes to town, Levuka mostly heavenly quiet.

On arriving from noisy Suva, on feels that, in a few hours, one ha stepped back 60 years into Fiji’s pas?

True, Levuka’s past was not realll These three views of Levuka show (top) the Royal Hotel, last of the 22 saloons and hotels that once served the town; (centre) the main thoroughfare which follows, and is within a few feet of, the waterfront, culminating at the wharf, post office and main shopping centre at the south end; and (below) a typical back street, flanked on either side by hedges of hibiscus and palms. — Photos: Rob Wright. 84 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

iet. On the contrary, it was more :tic than the present. As the dtal of Fiji, the Mecca of many the roisterers of the wide Pacific, i of the tough old breed of Island jiters who made it their goal when iy had money to burn, Levuka’s terfront and the town itself once stled with people.

Phere were ships, and the inevit- -1 e grog-shops. There was gay :iety, too, and elegant ladies bought iir finery from Sydney stores for : parties and balls which were so ich a part of life in old Levuka.

Homes abandoned But times changed. That era has ised away. Memories of the terrible session years of the ’thirties still ger. One sees old homes abandoned their owners, who, of necessity, ye migrated to more lucrative ids.

In a way, it seems fitting that the II of the mystery ship Joy it a is ng on its side on the beach, wither- ; away in this graveyard of so many pes and dreams.

But now there has come the happy ws that Mr. Casling-Cottle, of vuka, is to rescue her from her vly position and bring her to a ting-place on dry land and convert r into a museum.

So, too, may Levuka be raised ain by those who care, to a position importance in Fiji.

Levuka’s fortunes have ebbed and wed like the tide.

The Japanese fish-freezing factory s brought new life to the economy.

Not so long ago, banana boats lied at Levuka and regularly fried many thousands of cases of t fruit to New Zealand. There is reason why they cannot do so ain.

As the place where the Deed of ssion was signed in 1874, the docu- ;nt by which the Fijian chiefs ceded dr country to Great Britain, and the former capital of Fiji, Levuka s an assured place in Fiji’s history.

Many countries treasure their imrtant and historic spots, and audly re-live the event which made :m famous.

On Norfolk Island, for example, June 8 each year, the island lebrates Bounty Day, and all ddents join in a re-enactment of the iding of Pitcairners in 1856. The stumes of the time are worn, and whole day of commemorative ents is held.

One can visualise a similar celebra- >n in what could be called a “Back Levuka Week”, with everyone wearg period costume, re-enacting enes from Levuka’s past, culminatg in Cession Day commemoration ceremonies and a lovely old-fashioned ball at the Royal Hotel.

We loved Levuka’s irresistible charm, and the truly friendly people.

There is a happy family atmosphere where everybody knows everybody, and the visitor is welcomed with genuine interest and curiosity.

The Royal’s back balcony has a glorious view of Nassau Park and the mountains beyond—the jagged crater rim over which, in days of yore, the fierce Lovoni cannibal tribes crept to stage savage raids on the terrified folk of Levuka town.

Narrow lanes, meandering delightfully among old homes and sweetscented gardens perpetuate names to stir the memory—Robbie, Bentley, King, Waterhouse, Hennings, Langham, Spowart, etc.

A stroll along Robbie’s Lane brings one to the Town Hall, where Freddie Kaad, Secretary of the Town Board, takes great pleasure in explaining the photographs, concerning places and people connected with Levuka’s history, which are to be seen on his office walls.

We disengaged ourselves reluctantly from the spell of leisurely Levuka and returned to the rush of civilisation.

As the Ovalau glided away from the wharf, the town browsed in the early morning sunshine—homely and cosy, living quietly on the memories of bygone days.

Old Levuka really DID rip and roar From F. J. RYAN, in Suva The Levuka of the old days— of the roaring ’sixties and ’seventies —has now become legendary, and perhaps, with most things legendary, the more boisterous of the exploits of some of its citizens may have become slightly exaggerated with the passing of the years.

BUT a perusal of the old files of The Fiji Times proves that life in Levuka in those days was boisterous enough, for that which was published stood open to contradiction by the town’s own colourful, cosmopolitan and polyglot population, and there were not too many contradictions.

In its issue of September 11, 1869. for example, the Times stated: “We surely have had rows enough during the last week to satisfy anyone for two fortnights.”

“And if broken heads, black eyes, and a narrow escape from a Japanese disembowelling with a broadsword, or a few gentle prickings with a 14inch ham sheer do not make us all go about with revolvers in our belts, and many of the more cautious do, they make us all wish either for a magistrate that would be a terror to evildoers, or for a besom, to sweep the beach of the drink-maddened ruffians.”

The Times said that on the previous Sunday night “there was not a little You can read about it in the papers disorder by some of our unruly members.”

The paper added; “One individual armed with a knife somewhat under a foot in length made passers-by feel anything but safe as he flourished it before their eyes calling on them as being the man for whom he was in quest.”

One of the slight exaggerations about Levuka of those days which one can probably overlook was made by the authoress, Miss C. F. Gordon Cummings, who, even in the “advanced” days of 1875, observed that “ships needed no chart to bring them to Levuka” as “they would find their way marked by floating gin bottles, increasing in numbers as they reached the Group.”

She added, primly: “If the multitude of broken bottles which strew the beach are any evidence of the amount of liquor consumed, we might imagine that the old drinking days are not entirely forgotten.”

But the good lady could see some hope for the wicked town in the formation of the Order of Good Templars, although she admitted that their work was possibly being facil- 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

How you can get a lasting shine in the tropical sun without really trying.

Almost any exterior paint jobs can look nice and shiny when new.

But how long will yours stay bright and cheerful when tropical sunshine, high humidity and rain go to work on it?

Around five years, we say, if you use “Hi-Gloss.”

Can we guarantee that? No. No paint maker can make such a guarantee. What the wall is made of, which direction it faces, whether or not painting directions were followed can all affect paint life.

What we can guarantee is that “Hi-Gloss” will outlast any other exterior full gloss enamel.

Because in our own tropical tests, Dulux “Hi-Gloss” was standing up beautifully after five years. And in temperate climates, people have been known to get longer life between repaints with “Hi-Gloss.”

A big saving which probably explains why Dulux “Hi-Gloss” is the largest selling exterior paint in Australia.

So if you want a bright and shiny home anywhere under the sun, choose a colour-scheme from the 50 available “Hi-Gloss” colours. Notice how easily it flows on.

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ated by the increased price of gin. his, she said, “formerly flowed like ater at the modest price of one lilling a bottle, but has now risen ) five shillings.”

A year later another writer, H. tonehewer Cooper, observed that ie Good Templars Hall was among ie attractions of Levuka, and that suitable entertainments and good ctures” were given there. But, he lid, “to put it very mildly, the teeitallers are not in a majority.”

Meanwhile, the Fiji Government ad introduced a tax on spirits.

But this did nothing to discourage nice little trade in bootlegging the [famous “gun barrel rum”.

This was distilled by the simple •ocess of boiling a whaler’s tri-pot [ molasses and sticking an old gun arrel through the bung with a re- ;ptacle underneath to catch the con- ;nsed raw and highly potent spirit lat dripped out.

It was good currency to barter with trade and commerce, the comierce often being comely native rls from the bush or along the last.

Thus ready at hand were all the gredients for the night life so igerly sought after by the “tourists”

I those colourful days—the sandalooders, the blackbirders and the halers anchored in the calm waters : Levuka Bay.

There was little or no authority, aw and order was of the ready-made iriety.

Lashed in street “Last Thursday evening a native ffected stealing money from Mr. udlip’s was flogged in front of that mtleman’s house,” The Fiji Times ported on November 26, 1870.

“The flagellator was an unusually awerful man who used a thin piece : Manilla rope. Ten lashes were iministered.”

On July 8, 1871, the paper reported lat in a dispute between two egroes over cards one of them had ed a sling shot, and that members the public had chased him, caught Im and given him a dozen lashes.

Justice was, indeed, summary— jrhaps too summary to be just at mes. There was the case, for exnple, of a woman sentenced to be anged within three days for murderig her newly-born baby.

It transpired, however, that the ;ntence was not carried out because lother woman was subsequently larged with the offence!

This case would have provided fine laterial for anyone supporting abolion of capital punishment—if any ich had existed in Levuka then.

Slow boat to England , or . . .

How (Not) To Cruise

The Western Pacific

On A Shoestring

By Graham Pike, captain of the ketch “Eilander”.

The main problem we have had during our recent meandering cruise of the fascinating islands of the West Pacific has been to make enough money to continue our voyage to England.

IPS not that the islands or the people have been inhospitable— quite the contrary, in fact. The main problem is that we’ve been enjoying ourselves too well—and that we’ve tangled ourselves in ventures that promised a fortune, and didn’t quite make the grade.

We left Sydney last August. None of us had had any previous experience with any sort of sailing. Our means of trying to get to England was a 65-year-old ketch, Eilander, that was very much the worse for wear, although we had spent some months in refitting her for the big trip.

When we left there were six of us aboard—Chris Cole, 24, Rhondda Wraith, 20, Daryl Gunter, 29, Maureen Herbert, 26, Bill Wilson, 34, and myself, 27. In Noumea, Maureen and Bill left us to return to commitments in Sydney.

Eilander cost us $3,200. The refit cost us another $2,000 which left us very short of cash at the start. But we couldn’t delay our departure later than August as the weather would have been against us. So we decided to push on and hope that we could “live off the land” along the way.

First landfall Lord Howe Island was our first landfall. A gale held us off the island for a few days—during which time, unknown to us at the time, Australian papers reported us lost. (Actually we only made the lagoon after a sea anchor was shipped to us from the island).

We stayed in this honeymooners’ haven for a few days, but were anxious to head off for the “real”

Pacific.

Our finances were critically low when we tied up at the Noumea waterfront, and the position became even worse when we had to engage in major repairs—replacement of all keel bolts.

We couldn’t possibly afford the $25 a day charged by the two public slips in Noumea and we were quite desperate until the commandant of the Noumea yacht club (“I wasn’t their senior captain for 23 years for nothing”) arranged for us to use the Nickel Company’s private wharf for nothing.

Of course, we leapt at the opportunity. This resulted in a most interesting rumour. The employees of the company, who had never seen anything like the tiny Eilander on the slip, worked out that we were an eccentric branch of the fabulously rich Rothschild family (principal "Eilander" under full sail. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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ners of New Caledonia’s Societe Nickel). n our near destitute state, we ■e not anxious to correct the error.

Ve finally fixed the major repair , but still didn’t have enough ney to continue the trip. [he four of us (Bill and Maureen 1 returned to Sydney) searched for rk with little success, iowever. I finally picked up a job ing tile floors at the Noumea Liarium for $7 a day. After a few s of this we had salted enough ly to refill the larders and head for the New Hebrides.

Ideal weather )n the way, with sailing weather al, we took time off to explore Loyalty Islands. :he thing that struck us most ut Fayahoue, the administrative tre, on the island of Ouvea, was number and size of the churches, hitecturally, they could have been ight from the Mediterranean.

Lfter a couple of days, we left this ixed and relaxing backwater of world, after enjoying the exiivity of one last ale on the andah of the hotel. (There is a il ban on alcohol for the locals).

Ve had only one thought in our ids when we pulled into Vila, on te, New Hebrides —how to make le quick cash.

Lfter five days of fruitless searching, opportunity came knocking on our door. We were approached to do some chartering work by an official government authority (details of which, I’m afraid, cannot be divulged here). We leapt at the opportunity, of course.

The charter was to take us to the islands of Maskelyne, Aoba, Ambrym and Emae and back to Efate. The fee was to be $l6O. This sounded great.

In fact, it wasn’t great at all. The round trip took us 10 days and cost us $6O in food and petrol. This meant we netted $lO a day—which for 12 hours work a day for four people was hardly extravagent.

So back in Vila we still had the same problem.

Green snail venture We weren’t back long before yet another proposition was put to us.

This time no fixed amount of money was mentioned—but a promise of unlimited wealth was laid as the bait, and we swallowed it whole.

One of the locals (who must remain nameless), on learning about our boat, talked us into a green snail shell hunt.

Green snail shells, for the unitiated, are used in the button industry. Our contact man told us they were currently fetching $3OO a ton, and he calculated we could harvest 40 tons in a month of work.

This really sent us into the clouds.

Even with only a one-third share for us (the other two-thirds going to the divers and to our new-found friend), this would net us $4,000.

This looked too good to be true.

But after some quick verification, we set off for Emae to look for some divers.

Then followed a long and involved escapade.

We found only a couple of casual divers at Emae —and found no green snails at all on neighbouring Cook’s Reef, which was supposed to be swimming with the creatures.

So we went down to Makura to pick up some full-time divers and continued on to Erromanga, where we were assured green snails were in abundance.

Then followed problems because we had no diving dinghies, threats from Erromanga natives because we were trespassing on their reefs, and finally the decision of our divers to pull out because the work was so slow.

We therefore returned to Vila.

The whole business took us three weeks. For this we grossed the grand total of nine bags of shells—worth $7B. Out of this, our cut was $26, with the cost of fuel $22. So we made exactly $4 profit!

Our charter job had provided us with enough money for food, so we decided to search for greener pastures.

We said farewell to all the friends we had made during our five weeks in Vila and pointed our bow to the Solomons and Honiara on the island of Guadalcanal.

After 10 languid and lazy days at sea, we sighted our landfall.

Now we have the task of looking for work again.

England feels a long way off. But we’ll make it yet—however hard the “natives” try to kill us with kindness along the way. ham Pike, skipper of "Eilander" and author of this article.

On a harbour cruise in Vila, "Eilander's" crew had plenty of company. 89 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL 1967

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Yesterday Weather stories were a feature of the April issue of PIM 20 years ago. Mare, one of the Loyalty Islands off the east coast of New Caledonia, had been hit by the most severe hurricane in living memory, which ruined houses, schools and plantations; and in Tahiti, the Papeete harbour waterfront was a shambles following a 100 m.p.h. gale which hit the harbour, wrecking several boats and damaging many others. Meanwhile, Western Samoans were sweltering in the hottest rainy season on record.

OTHER items in PIM for April, 1947, included: A CHARTER air service, Trans Oceanic Airways, to operate to P-NG, Netherlands East Indies, Malaya, New Hebrides, New Caledonia and other Pacific centres, had been formed in Sydney. The company planned to fly passengers and freight in five Sunderland Mk 111 flying boats.

FOR the first time Indians outnumbered Fijians in Fiji. A census taken in 1946 put Fiji’s population at just over a quartermillion—l2o,4l4 of whom were Indians and 118,083 Fijians. PIM commented: “While the natural increase of the native Fijians and Rotumans is quite satisfactory, the growth of the Indians is phenomenal.”

Another 1946 census showed there were 55,734 people in French Polynesia—an increase of 12,000 in 10 years.

HIGH prices for copra and cocoa—£l9o a ton for cocoa beans were making growers happy in Western Samoa. However, the territory was threatened with a shortage of sugar and flour because a ship bringing sup plies was delayed in Sydney.

STRAY Japanese were still turning up in New Guinea and the Solomons. But several Allied troops had also gone bush. A South Australian deserter was found in the Ramu Valley, south of Madang, and an American was picked up at the back of Lae.

A SURVEY of the world copra market showed that where copra was permitted to run free, as in the Philippines, the market value was about twice that permitted where the price was under sharp control, as in New Guinea.

SIR Alexander Grantham, Governor of Fiji and British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific for the previous two years, had been appointed Governor of Hong Kong.

THE first Norfolk Island postage stamps, depicting the island’s famous pine trees at Bali Bay, were about to be released.

Hitherto, the island had used Australian stamps. PIM said the new stamps were “unimaginative in design”. (GEORGE AUMULLER. for many years a very popular manager for Burns Philp at Samarai and elsewhere in P-NG, had died in Sydney.

THE effects of the war were still being felt in Rabaul and Lae. In Rabaul, water and supplies were scarce, roads were terrible and there was no sanitation system.

Lack of food and water and a poor lighting system hampered efforts to revitalise Lae. No ships had arrived for months.

ISLANDERS at Pupapuka (Cook Islands) had claimed ancient rights to settle on uninhabited Nassau Island, 45 miles away.

Pukapukans had lived on Nassau in early times, but gave it up when long distance travel by canoe was interrupted by what is thought to to have been a cycle of frequent hurricanes.

AFRESH supply of pareu cloth was on its way by ship to the Islands. A Papeete correspondent said Tahitians were rejoiced that the cloth was coming and importers, to avoid a “mob scene” resembling the nylon stocking riots in the United States, had advised buyers to place orders before the ship arrived.

An account of celebrations in French Polynesia to mark the 150th anniversary of the landing of the first missionaries in Tahiti was among the items in PIM 20 years ago this month. The missionaries, members of the London Missionary Society, landed at Matavai Bay from the ship "Duff” on March 4, 1797. This famous painting of the cession of Matavai to the missionaries was done by M. A.

Smirke, RA. The young chief Otu, and his wife, were carried on men's shoulders because any land their feet touched became theirs. 91 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1967

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Book Reviews

New Guinea - but with no deep belly-laughs This month you can take your choice of native New Guineans: Kenneth E. Read’s The High Valley version; or the Margaret Spencer Doctor’s Wife in Rabaul version. If neither is precisely your own native New Guinean, then this is because as Margaret Spencer herself might have said—these things are very much according to the eye of the beholder.

HHIS is the third of Mrs. Spencer’s L Doctor’s Wife books. The other vo cover the New Guinea Highlands nd Papua.

All are based on the experiences le and her husband had in the tertory between 1953 and 1961 when e was a medical officer with the administration and she, for part of le time, was an entomologist with n anti-malaria unit.

Her new book is not concerned overmuch with mosquitoes or other bugs; and only to a minor degree with anti-malarial work. This aspect of her life in P-NG merely provides the vehicle whereby she can record the contacts she makes with the native people around her and an opportunity for interpolating the history of the Gazelle Peninsula and adjacent areas.

Contemporary non-native people do little but flit through the background like nameless ghosts a characteristic of all her books and one that robs them of some perspective.

Highly emotional From Rabaul excursions were made to Nissan and the Mortlocks and even as far as (then) Dutch New Guinea. But, naturally enough, a considerable amount of the narrative is devoted to the life and problems of the urban native—the semisophisticate on the threshold of new delights, freedoms and bedevilments.

Although no one could consider her book a study in depth of any facet of New Guinea today, it provides fair background for anyone seeking an introduction to the territory.

Read’s book is a different proposition. It is a highly emotional, personal approach to primitive man, all the more unusual perhaps because Read is an anthropologist, currently at the University of Washington, Seattle, although an Australian.

As a member of the Australian armed forces in the Pacific War, he had, for part of the time, one of those specialised jobs that allowed him to practise his profession.

He spent some time in 1944 in an Upper Markham village and this gave him his taste for New Guinea.

After his Army service he spent two years in London; returned to Australia to teach at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Sydney; and then, as a research fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, found himself back in New Guinea, in 1950, at the beginning of a two-year term of field work in the New Guinea Highlands.

The High Valley is based on his experiences during those two years— not terribly far from what (to quote) “the local people called Humeleveka and the whites called Goroka”.

Simon-pure primitives Goroka at this time had scarcely struggled into being, and it was not difficult to find virtually simon-pure primitive man within a short walk of the station.

The village of Susuroka, where Read went to live, had had contacts with Europeans, however (and could be reached even then by jeep), and it was for this reason that the headman, Makis, had walked in to the District Office and asked that a white man go to live among them.

This is not unusual at this level of advancement among New Guinea people. It usually stems from the fact that the community in question Queenly subject; king-size tome As an alternative to wild and gaudy whodunnits, a king-size paperback about a queen is recommended reading. “Victoria R. 1.”, nearly 800 pages long, by Elizabeth Longford is not only a remarkable character-study of a woman who gave her name to a whole era, but a fascinating history of Europe in the 19th century.

Queen Victoria emerges from it not only as a forbidding presence—as she undoubtedly became —who frequently was not amused; but a credible human being with very human failings, eccentricities and doubts, if, at the same time, a profound sense of duty and of destiny.

Perhaps most surprising of all she is shown to have a tolerance and a social conscience far in advance of what we now attribute to her century.

A massive amount of research has gone into this book which is written in a readable and witty style. (Pan; $2.25).

Why not solace for lovelorn Islanders?

When the Central African Mail in Zambia started a “Tell Me, Josephine” column, it was inundated with letters from lovelorn and troubled Africans, mostly male unlike Dorothy Dix and her sisters, whose seekers after truth are mostly female.

A selection of the letters —and Josephine’s answers—edited and arranged with explanatory notes by Barbara Hall, is an hilarious small book. Probably more than most anthropological treatises, it gives considerable insight into the mind and circumstances of the modern African.

In many ways the modern Pacific Islander is undergoing the same sort of cultural change as the African, Perhaps some Islands newspaper could tap the same source of material by copying the Central African Mail and inventing a Josephine of its own. (Pan. 60c). 93 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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lieves that the presence of a Euroan will produce benefits—perhaps bridge over a river, even a road; d. most of all, opportunities for de whereby the village will obtain :h desirable articles as axes and ives, stick-tobacco, salt and so on.

While Read realised this, and, in :t, it produced embarrassment and art-burning in him at later stages, also attributed far deeper motives Makis’ desire for his presence—a knowledge on Makis’ rt that change was just around the rner and a belief that Read could aply the emotional and cultural dge between the two cultures.

Whatever might be one’s own iction to this idea, a great many aple who have had long contact :h Melanesians will question Dther of Read’s assertions. This is it because, as he puts it, he wanted thing from these people but to live long them, he, of necessity, had a ;cial relationship with them.

Many people, not only anthropo- ;ists, have had similar delusions.

Perhaps the best answer to such Dple comes from another expert primitive people. Dr. C. E. Fox, the Melanesian Mission in the Solomons, who has given more years than anyone now living to selfless service to them.

Dr. Fox said in one of his books that if the native people had the privilege of getting rid of every European but one, it would be the trader they would keep.

Even though the whole tenor of Read’s story is the high emotional experience (Read’s, not the people among whom he lives) and that it is therefore something removed from the mundane life of the territory with its “whites” who build boxy bungalows and call places Goroka when they should be called Humeleveka — there will be few who are not trapped by the author’s lush carpet of words.

Plenty for ctiirlentc nemy ror siuuerm The story has pace and even suspense and through it Read emerges as a person who is not only having his emotions stirred, but one who is a somewhat nervy individual, repelled by, as well as attracted to, the things that are part of primitive village life. He is one who can be embarrassed and tonguetied and, although he does not say it, probably wishes a thousand times that he was somewhere else.

The Philistines among us will say serve him damned well right when, as a sworn-in. blood brother ° f . , a fami ! y ’ h . e i beC c ° with rapacious in-laws, or when he reverts to European thinking and interferes with traditional custom to the extent of sending Makis’ wife to hospital when she is in difficult labour and thus displeases the village, Nonetheless, there is a great deal in this book for the student of New Guinea affairs, even though the circumstances that prompted it are now 16 years distant and the once primitive Susurokaese are now probably successful coffee growers, truckers along the Lae-Mt. Hagen road or pyrethrum tycoons, Specialist vieWS “ Human nature does not alter in a generation; and the New Guinea Highlanders, even more than most, have proved that they are capable of remaining themselves in spite of outward trappings. u c f , w »h Read s search for fundamental realities and Mrs. Spencers matter-of-fact skimming across the urban cream, there is little similarity between their two books, except in a complete lack of humour in either, Nothing of the rumbustious, extrovert, deep belly-laugh New Guinea that still is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the vital essence of the territory, shows through and therefore neither can be regarded as New Guinea in microcosm. Both are specialist views, —JT. (DOCTOR’S WIFE IN RABAUL. Robert Hale $2 .30. the high valley. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. $6.35.)

The War In Ng

And Elsewhere

Two of the best war books sver written by Australians are now in paperback: No Moon Tonight by D. E. Charlwood, who produced something of a :lassic about the exploits of young Australians in Bomber Command in England during the war; and T. A. G. Hungerford’s The Ridge and the River, a novel based on jungle fighting in New Guinea. Both are as gripping now as when they were first pubished—which is remarkable for books of this kind.

Hungerford went on to write nther excellent novels, although nothing seems to come from him these days; but if Charlwood ever wrote again, we have not beard of it,—J.T. (Both published by Pacific Books; 80c each).

The Rev. Dr. C. E.

Fox, mentioned in the accompanying review, has been working in the Pacific with the Melanesian Mission since 1902 when he was posted to Norfolk Island.

He has been in the Solomons since 1908, having remained there throughout the Japanese occupation.

He is the author of many articles and books on the Melanesian people. This photograph, by Ted Marriott, was taken on his 88th birthday last October. 95 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

A Book For

SHELL COLLECTORS SHELL collectors, who are a proliferating breed, will soon have a new book on the subject of their abiding passion. Marine Shells of the Pacific, by Walter O.

Cernohorsky, will be published by Pacific Publications shortly and will offer a good coverage of all aspects of conchology at a reasonable price.

The main section of the book will cover descriptions and plates of between 400 and 500 shells.

There will also be chapters on the evolution of gastropods; the use of shells; classification of mollusca, notes on the shell, the animal and its radula; early collections and collectors; collecting techniques; photography of shells, etc.

Glossary The whole book will be well indexed and there will be a glossary of terms and other valuable information.

The author has aimed at giving the amateur conchologist a working knowledge of his hobby, a means of identifying his specimens, and information on subjects that are of greatest interest to him—something that, at present, is available only in halt a dozen separate books.

Walter Cernohorsky’s interest in shells was aroused when he first explored Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef in 1951 and 1952.

It grew when he went to live in Fiji soon afterwards as chief surveyor for the Emperor Gold Mining Company at Vatukoula.

His interest in shells soon became more than an idle one. Dr.

F. A. Schilder, professor of zoology at Halle University, fostered in him an urge to adopt a scientific view of the subject instead of merely storing dead shells in drawers; and it was Dr.

Alison Kay, professor of zoology of the University of Hawaii, who started him off on the investigation of the anatomy of molluscs by offering helpful advice.

Encouragement Other zoologists and curators of museums and other learned institutions also provided encouragement to carry on work on the little-known molluscan fauna of Fiji and other parts of the Pacific—something he has been ideally situated to do.

There is little he has not learned about Fiji’s reefs and their teeming life in the last 14 years, and he thus writes from experience as well as acquired scientific knowledge. Up to date, he has completed six parts of a study of molluscan fauna of the Fiji Islands.

Cernohorsky is now honorary conchologist to the Fiji Museum and has contributed articles and papers to the learned publications of the California Malacozoological Society, the Hawaiian Malacological Society, the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and others.

Marine Shells of the Pacific will contain about 240 pages, including 60 plates and a score of diagrams.

The final price has not been fixed but it will not be less than S 6— considerably less than other books that attempt to cover the same ground.

Anthropology For Students

D£dZ)/YGS in Australian and Xi Pacific Anthropology, edited by lan Hogbin and L. R. Hiatt, contains two papers on Papua-New Guinea, one on Melanesia (particularly the N T J r H i ebnd - eS) ’ a°T ° n ly T Sia and Melanesia and four on the Australian Aborigines. All have been published before, some as early as 1931, and the purpose of this solidly bound 179 pp paperback is to bring together for the benefit of students worthwhile papers not now easily accessible. The Islands material comprises: The Nature and Function of Secret Societies, by Camilla Wedgwood; African Models in the New Guinea Highlands, by J. A.

Ba ™es; Problems in the Con- ,, , “ptual.sat.on of NG Highlands ocia Structures, by L, L. Langness, and Political Types in Melanesia and Polynesia, by Marshall Sahlins. Melbourne University Press publish it at $2.80. 28 years in Papua

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SCHWEITZER At 62 the Rev. Herbert Alfrec Brown is a brilliant academic, s world-famous authority on fuchsias, an experienced Unguis"; and, above all, one of the longest practising pastors in Papua-New Guinea. jLTE is a bushy-haired, vigorous East AX Londoner, known in some circles as “the Livingstone of New Guinea”.

For more than 28 years he has worked among Papuans in the Mom area, 100 miles or so north of Port) Moresby, representing the Londonr Missionary Society, or, as it is now known. Congregational Council fon World Mission.

He arrived at Moru in early 1939,. and began making contacts withi natives, some of whom had never seen a white man, or heard of Christ..

He practised medicine, helpedl lepers, translated the Bible for local! reading and made extensive walking; patrols into rugged, virgin country toi meet primitive tribes.

His linguistic ability got him intoi hot water during the war when he; was arrested as a spy for the invading Japanese because of his knowledge of German.

Destructive Fire In Australia in 1944, Mr. Brown i married an English-born nurse, Anne; Cole, who had worked in New Guinea j before the war.

Three years later, the couple lost all. their possessions when fire destroyed J the Moru mission. But this did not: deter them and they are still at Moru today.

In Bert Brown of Papua, an j English journalist, Garry Saunders,, tells the story of Mr. Brown’s varied life. Saunders paid a two-month visit: to Moru a couple of years ago to < gather his material.

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Our copy from Cassell & Co., Sydney.) 96 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

)T Children FILE CHIMBU, by Nancy Curtis This is the story of a small boy who lives in a round house at the bottom of a tall mountain on the big Island of New Guinea. He has a father called Big Chimbu and a mother called Bigger Chimbu, and lots of little brothers and sisters. Nancy Curtis’ story and inimitable drawings in colour and black and white provide a new and different book for children and the first one to come out of the Territory. Price: $1.95 Aust., plus postage 8 cents British Commonwealth, 12 cents Foreign, $2.50 U.S. posted.

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NDB00K OF FIJI Second edition published 1965 —completely revised and up-to-date information on the Crown Colony of Fiji. 272 pages of data on history, structure of the administration, geography, finance, taxation, communications and social services. A full tourist guide. Price: $1.50 Aust., plus postage, 15 cents British Commonwealth, 25 cents Foreign, $2.00 U.S. posted.

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RINE SHELLS OF THE PACIFIC, by Walter 0. Cernohorsky.

This authoritative handbook describing approximately 500 shells found in the Pacific area and how to find, arrange and photograph them, etc., is for the collector who takes his hobby seriously. Fine plates of all shells described; numerous diagrams; over 240 pages. Now in preparation. Price will not be less than $6.00 Aust.

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts 12-mile fishing limit for P-NG, Norfolk Island, Nauru Australia and its external territories, which include Papua- New Guinea, Norfolk Island and Nauru, are to have a new limit for exclusive offshore fishing rights.

HE Australian Minister for Primary Industry, Mr. Adermann, i in Federal Parliament in midirch that legislation was to be reduced in Parliament later in the sion to extend the present limit for shore fishing rights from three to miles.

Te said the Government had :ided to extend the limit because developments in the international / of the sea in the past few years.

Fhe Government’s decision applied external territories as well as Auslia. But it related only to fisheries 1 did not involve any increase in breadth of the territorial sea, ich would stay at three miles.

Vlr. Adermann said the new islation would bring Australia into ; with many other countries, inding Britain, the United States and w Zealand.

Fhe Government was still examin- : the position of nationals from ter countries who fish in the new ie, between three and 12 miles out.

“Fortunately, so far as both Australia and the territories are concerned, there is no evidence of any substantial degree of foreign fishing having taken place in the new zone,” he added.

The main countries that will be affected by the new legislation are Japan, Russia and Formosa.

Japanese long-line tuna fishermen, who range far and wide across the Pacific from bases in American Samoa, Fiji, the New Hebrides and elsewhere, have sometimes been reported to be operating close to the east coast of Australia, in the Gulf of Papua, and in the vicinity of Norfolk Island.

Formosan fishermen have been arrested on numerous occasions over the past three years for poaching trochus shell from reefs and islands in Papua-New Guinea. The first case was in July, 1964 ( PIM, Aug., 1964, P- 95).

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Foodstuffs and general goods worth about $40,000 were loaded aboard the 392-ton United States Trust Territory ship Kaselehlia at Rabaul in February for Ponape in the Eastern Caroline Islands.

The buyers, the Ponape Federation of Co-operatives, intended to resell the cargo in the Caroline Islands through the federation’s three trading centres at Ponape, Truk and Yap.

A spokesman for the buyers said the Kaselehlia had made the 500-mile trip to Rabaul because the items purchased were cheaper in Rabaul than in Japan or Guam.

He said there was a businessman aboard the ship who had placed further orders for his own trading company.

In October, 1965, the Kaselehlia was one of three ships taken over by Micronesian commercial agencies in Ponape, Truk and Yap. (PIM, Nov., 1965, p. 105).

Japanese In Papuan

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A fishing company has been set up to fish for barramundi, tuna, reef fish and prawns in Papuan waters.

Called the South Sea Fishing Company, it will use four converted Queensland prawning boats and a 146 ft Japanese mother ship.

Several businessmen from Queensland and New Guinea and one of the world’s largest fishing groups, Nihon Kinkai Hogei Co. Ltd., of Japan, have invested $200,000 to get the company started.

Selling headquarters will be in Brisbane.

The company’s fishing director, Mr.

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Two vessels for native societies in SfG are currently being built at pyards at Ballina, NSW.

The Trans-Fly Co-operative Shipig Society, of Daru, is having one ilt for general cargo work for ; Moorehead, Lake Murray and unga buyers’ societies.

The ship, which will have a cargo pacity of 25 tons, is expected to delivered by June. She will be sed at Daru.

The other ship, a 70 ft steellied vessel, is being built for the ;w Ireland Native Societies As- :iation Ltd. She will cost $120,000.

The ship will be used to deliver pra and other merchandise to outng co-operative societies in the ja.

She has a 60 cubic ft deep freeze, d is capable of carrying 4,000 Hons of fuel for pumping ashore, lere is storage space for 1,250 bags conra.

Delivery is expected in May.

Burns Philp Fined For

Stevedoring Breaches

Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., was fined a total of $1,500 for three breaches of the Stevedoring Industry Act in the Commonwealth Industrial Court in Sydney on March 13.

The company pleaded not guilty to the charges, which related to one of its ships, the Malekula, at Walsh Bay, Sydney, on November 23, 1965.

The Malekula maintains a sevenweekly cargo service from Sydney and Brisbane to Papua-New Guinea ports.

Mr. Justice Kerr ordered the company to pay the minimum fine of $5OO on each charge, plus the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority’s legal costs.

The company was convicted of having acted in a manner in which the safe performance of stevedoring operations was prejudiced, having failed to ensure that stevedoring operations were expeditiously, safely and efficiently performed, and having failed to ensure that the labour available for the stevedoring work was used to the best advantage.

Mr. Justice Kerr said the company had followed an unsafe loading practice and had unjustly dismissed 103 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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terside workers after they had sed the safety issue, and “stood their rights”.

The practice allowed by the comny could have caused cargo to fall d injure a hatchman and other iployees, he added.

C To Set Up

Iheries Station

The South Pacific Commission is 3ected to make a decision on a ; for a fisheries research station at next session in October.

The SPC’s fisheries officer, Mr. n Powell, completed a seven-week vey early this year to look for ssible sites. He visited American noa, Hawaii, Guam, Saipan and ror in the US trust Territory and mila.

He told PIM the station would be id to teach Pacific Islanders comrcial fishing.

Vlr. Powell, who was Fisheries :icer for the Cook Islands Governnt before he took up his post h the SPC for six months from t July, also told us that the Cook inds Government had gone ahead h a long-term plan for developnt of tuna fishing in the Cook ands.

Construction of a workshop had »un in 1962 and now a 55 ft tuna npan and a slipway were being ilt. ‘Progress has been slow because y little labour is available,” he d.

Ckei Company

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Fhe New Caledonian nickel comiy, Societe le Nickel, has sold its 00-ton freighter Quebec to Chinese crests.

The Quebec was built to the order the nickel company in Canada in : early post-war years. Her sale ves the company with two 15,000i vessels and the 5,000-ton Caronte.

HON STEAM SHIP CO.

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PIM some months ago cominted on what was called the archiness” of managers of the lion SS Co. Ltd, in Australia and :w Zealand and other places, when ced for information by newspaper jorters.

It was mild comment; but friends PlM’s old friend, Mr. David A. itler, who for 20 years was the lion SS Co. manager in Fiji, Dught it might have reflected upon n.

Actually, it did not. David Butler, all his contacts with the public

Where Things Are Still As They Were

ALTHOUGH many time-honoured cultural traditions have disappeared in the main centres of Polynesia, in the out-of-the-way islands the people still do some things in much the same way as they have for centuries.

On Raivavae in the scattered Austral Islands of French Polynesia, 400 miles south of Tahiti, the Polynesians still make their elaborate dugout canoes without using a single metal fastening.

David Fletcher, of the New Zealand yacht Matatua, discovered this when he called at the island last year. He told PIM about it when he visited Sydney in March.

“The islanders use the trunk of a large tree for the hull of their canoes,” he said. “The canoe is shaped by adzing and burning out the trunk. Then they cut small holes in the sides of the boat and lash extra pieces of timber on to give more freeboard. They make the lashings from long strips of coconut leaves which can be up to eight feet long. These strips are hand-plaited and are invaluable as very strong lengths of rope.

“Outriggers are shaped out of smaller trees and attached to the canoe with braces and further lashings. The whole canoe, about 20 feet long with accommodation for a dozen people, or more if they are children, is held together by hand-made lashings.”

Mr. Fletcher said there were about 300 people on Raivavae and every family had a canoe to paddle across the lagoon or collect coconuts from the many motus (islands) on the reef surrounding Raivavae.

“A few of the more fortunate people powered their canoes with outboard motors, which seemed quite out of place,” he added. • The pictures show (top) Raiurua Bay, site of the main settlement on Raivavae, with 1,434 ft Mt. Hiro in the background, and (below) a Raivavae dugout canoe and a close-up of the hand-plaited lashings. 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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There was a period, covering some cades, when the Union Company’s airs were ruled by a board of ectors (probably of Dunedin igin!) who apparently hated blicity in all its forms, and seldom, ever, expressed any love for newspers. Naturally, the company’s inch managers throughout the uth Seas had to conform.

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I Help For P-Ng

Lurch Vessel

The American Diocese of Minne- ;a will help the Anglican Church Papua-New Guinea to buy a ssel to join the 18-year-old aclaren-King II on passenger and rgo trips.

The Americans hope to raise about 0,000 towards the cost of the new at. The new ship will have freezer ace and a motorised winch to speed rgo handling.

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A new Shell Co. tanker, the %awale, arrived in Suva on Febary 28 on her delivery voyage from Dng Kong. She will operate out of va, carrying petroleum products to ibasa, Savusavu, Taveuni, and icific territories outside Fiji.

The Sigawale was formerly the n Fah Chan and was used as a mkering craft in Hong Kong.

A sister ship, the Kuanua, also rmerly of Hong Kong, has been ansferred to Rabaul.

Captain Dick Speary has taken 'er the Sigawale as master; the chief tgineer is Mr. Fritz Ragg; and his sistant is Mr. Isaac Underwood.

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One of the French Navy’s latest ng-range escort vessels, the 2,000n Enseigne de Vaisseau Henry, ith Rear-Admiral J. Gouttier, the »mmander-in-chief of French Forces the Pacific, aboard, paid a fourly visit to Honiara BSIP, in March.

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[he 113 ft Cook Islands schooner atere, one of three ships run by Islands trader, A. B. Donald Ltd., s in Auckland in February for her lual examination of hull and cargo ir.

Dutch-built in 1948, the Akatere s trading between Holland and the Itic seaports when A. B. Donald jght her in 1963. She arrived in aeete on New Year’s Day, 1964, 1 was handed over to her master, . A, J. Pickering, who is still in nmand.

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\ group of 150 New Zealand ondary school boys, from 14 to years old, will go on a South :ific cruise with the China Naviga- -1 Company’s liner Kuala Lumpur August. [he cruise will start from Wellingon August 13 and will take in umea, Santo and Suva before ling at Auckland on September 2.

Phis will be the second of two :ific cruises by the Kuala Lumpur ; year. The first will begin in llington on July 22 and will end Wellington on August 12.

Fch Up For Sale

Wellington, 80 ft ketch owned by all Price, was up for sale in Brisle in February. Price is wellawn in the Pacific for his voyages skipper of the 22 ft yacht C’est Vie. In early 1966 he took the llington to the Solomons to look charter work (P/M, Mar., 1966, 107).

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Aining Plan

fwo big shipping companies, the ina Navigation Company and the lumbus Line, have supported the •posed merchant marine training 00l in the GEIC, according to reports in the New Zealand Press.

The reports say they have told the GEIC Government they will give graduates of the school jobs on their ships operating in the Pacific. This could mean jobs for more than 420 islanders.

The reports say: • The China Navigation Company has agreed to take on two deck crews, totalling 20 to 30 men, on a trial basis. • The Columbus Line has said it is anxious to employ full islander crews—i.e. deck, engine and catering crews and that there are prospects of at least 400 jobs with the line and its associates.

The training vessel for the school, the Ter aka, was due to arrive at Tarawa from London in March ( PIM , Feb., p. 105).

The Teraka will be moored in Tarawa lagoon and its captain and goTn training cruises to other Pacific ter- ... 6 ntones.

While lying at Tarawa, the ship will be used for overseas cargo storage—so that trainees can gain experience in cargo handling, The trainee intake will be phased 109 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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\ Kon-Tiki style raft expedition, ich began in Guayaquil, Ecuador, December, was abandoned 800 !es west of Guayaquil, near the lapagos Islands, in March when raft became waterlogged, fhe expedition was headed by a year-old Spaniard, Vital Alzar, of itander, Spain. There were five ier crew members, fheir raft was made of 11 trunks balsa set lengthwise and nine jrally. with others set diagonally, area was about 46 ft by 30 ft. fhe raft pushed off from Guayaquil December 25 to try to prove that ancavilca Indians from Ecuador ild have peopled the islands of Lynesia a couple of thousand years ). There had been a false start ) months earlier (PIM, Dec., p. n.

On March 15, a report from ayaquil said that the raftsmen were aiting rescue in their waterlogged 1 half-submerged craft near the lapagos Islands. \ German vessel picked up the adventurers the following day.

Owded Days At

Mgs Wharf, Suva

Fhe Suva harbour authorities had ir work cut out on March 11 en they had to berth three big ;rseas liners at the Kings Wharf.

Fhe ships were the Ariana, northmd for American west coast ports i the Far East, the Monterey, on Pacific cruise, and the Norwegian ury liner, Sagafjord, also on a :ific cruise with some of Ameris wealthiest citizens.

W Shipping Service

RAROTONGA From the beginning of April, a pping service to Rarotonga, Cook mds, will be provided by Holm i Company Limited, of Wellingi, in conjunction with the New aland Department of Island Teraries and the department’s vessel, lana Roa.

Fhe company expects to make six as a year to Rarotonga. The service iy be extended to Tahiti if trade aspects warrant.

Until a few months ago, a supmentary service to that of the mna Roa was provided by the lion Steam Ship Company’s transcific vessels en route to the west coast of North America. These vessels have now been withdrawn from the trade.

Holm and Company provide a regular shipping service from New Zealand to Norfolk Island and New Caledonia, and to the Chatham Islands. The company’s vessels also undertake the annual servicing of the weather stations at Campbell Island (South of NZ’s South Island) and to Raoul Island in the Kermadecs.

They have also made a few trips to Fiji.

Still going strong Still going strong after 54 years in the Islands is the 97 ft schooner “Tiare Taporo”, seen here at Vila, New Hebrides, recently. Built in New Zealand for A. B. Donald Ltd. in 1913, she was first used as a trader in the Society Islands, based at Papeete. After World War I she entered the Cook Islands trade, but returned to the Societies in 1949.

Two notable South Seas skippers commanded her —the late Captain Viggo Rasmussen and Captain Andy Thomson, who now lives in retirement on Rarotonga. In March, 1964, the “Tiare Taporo” was sold to Mr. W. B. Christophers, of Rotorua, NZ, who resold her a few months later to her present owner, Mr. Tom Low, of Vila, who is now using her in the New Hebrides trade.

The schooner was badly damaged by fire in May, 1965.

Cruising Yachts • BOUNTY, 42 ft ketch, was due to sail from Pago Pago to San Francisco, via Honolulu, in March.

The ketch has a new owner. The previous owner, a Californian, Mr.

Gordon Johnson, had to abandon his cruising plans because of his son’s sickness. (PIM, Feb., p. 115).

The new owner is Mr. Ben Deathridge, of the US Navy. He is having the ketch sailed to San Francisco by a three-man crew, Lyle Hines, Jamie Lopez and another man. He and his wife plan to live aboard the ketch until his retirement next year. The couple then plan to cruise down the coast of Mexico and perhaps bring the ketch back to the South Seas. • LA BELLE SOLE, 64 ft. American luxury ketch, was due to sail from Sydney for New Guinea, Ceylon and the Red Sea in late March.

On board are Roger Franson, a Los Angeles engineer, his wife Anne, their children Keith 10, and Karen eight, and crewmen Alan Hare, 27, of England, and an Ecuadorean from the Galapagos Islands, Teppy Angermeyer, 19.

La Belle Sole reached Sydney on February 18 after a 12-month trip across the Pacific from Los Angeles.

The ketch called ,at the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Cooks and Auckland.

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P.O. Box 204, Ashfield, N.S.W., Australia Phone: 71-9044 merston Island (Northern Cooks) e two of the most interesting lands.

At Matahiva,” Mrs. Franson told “we were astonished to see boys e more than babies swimming nd with three and four foot rks.

They were in a shallow concrete I and played with the sharks, ing them on the tail and pulling r noses.

We were told it was to get the s used to sharks so they would be afraid when they went pearl ng in later years.” m Belle Sole made a detour to merston to carry badly-needed ipment, medical supplies and d to the island, as the ship which mally calls there was months rdue. » MATATUA, 36 ft New Zealand ;er, arrived at Sydney on February after a three-month stay in Brisic. )n board were Mr. and Mrs.

Drge Fletcher, of Auckland, and ir 27-year-old son, David, lince last April, Matatua has ted Raivavae (Australs), Papeete, orea, Raiatea, Fluahine, Bora Bora, ;o Pago, Fiji, Vila and Noumea, drs. Fletcher told PIM that she I her husband were very disapnted with Papeete.

The Tahitians were unfrinedly and y interested in making money,” said. ‘We had to pay fantastic prices for food. A sliced loaf of bread cost the equivalent of 50c, fish were 90c and $2 each, and even watermelons were $2.

“Old potatoes cost 10c a pound and three pineapples cost us Si.

“I wouldn’t advise any yachts to call there—Papeete doesn’t cater for them. Moorea is much nicer and miles cheaper.”

Matatua was to leave Sydney in March for Russell and then Auckland, NZ. • STORNOWAY, 33 ft blackhulled New York yacht, reached Sydney from Noumea in early March.

Aboard were Alf Peterson and his wife Marjorie who intended to rest in Sydney for a short period before setting off for Japan.

Fifteen years ago Alf Peterson made a singlehanded circumnavigation in Stornoway. Now Marjorie has had a book published about the trip called Stornoway, East-West. • TAM ATEA, 48 ft 8-metre class yacht, has been sold by Suva Defence Club secretary, Mr. Heath Hemphill, to Mr. Gordon Ross Cochrane, of Auckland.

Mr, Hemphill bought the yacht in Auckland in 1952. She was sailed to Suva that year by Captain Stan Brown who had as his crew well-

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Several yachts have been in >ort Moresby recently waiting or the end of the hurricane eason before heading east or vest.

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wn Suva yachtsmen, Jack St. an. Tommy More, Ten Bentley the late Tommy Miller.

Ir. Cochrane plans to sail iatea back to Auckland about the of April, he Tamatea was launched in 1937. was easily the best yacht in Fiji, won the Fiji open championship Royal Suva Yacht Club champhip 12 times, and numerous other ihies. ► REBEL, 35 ft trimaran from Francisco, which reached Pago 0 from Rarotonga last October, resume her Pacific cruise in /■ 1 a note to PIM, skipper-owner, rvin Glenn, said: “We plan to e for Western Samoa about / 1, then call at Niuatoputapu Vavau on our way to Nukualofa, re we will stay for the King’s mation. From Tonga we will 3ably go to Fiji, the New »rides, New Caledonia and Ausia, arriving at Sydney in Dec- >er.”

Ir. Glenn said that he had jerted” Rebel for a month late year to help Dr. Robert Griffith his 52 ft cutter Awahnee from o Pago to Honolulu (PIM, Mar., 115). He then flew “home” to id Christmas aboard Rebel. le and his wife, who had been king for the Education Departit, had also found time to cruise and Tutuila and the Manua nds.

Ir. Glenn added: “We enjoy PIM f much, but we don’t agree with r magazine’s inference that Gov- Dr Lee’s programme is having a imental effect on Samoa. We feel the overall effect of the prorime is very good.

Still, it was very interesting to e an outsider’s views.” > PORPOISE, 38 ft ketch, with i. Louise Myers, of Illinois, USA, three crew members, reached ney on March 15 from Auckland, he ketch was to rest in Sydney two or three weeks and then head Japan, via the Barrier Reef, New inea, the Philippines and Hong ’g- 4rs. Myers has been sailing the th Pacific in Porpoise since she California in 1964. She has ted Hawaii, French Polynesia, h Samoas, Fiji, Tonga and New land. • VALKYRIE, 31 ft ketch, which reached Durban last September (PIM, Nov., 1966, p. 115) was still there in January because her 72-year-old American lone-handed skipper, John Goetzcke, had to have operations for hernia and appendicitis in December.

Mr. Goetzcke is on a round-theworld trip from the Virgin Islands. • ELEUTHERA, 48 ft steel ketch, with Earl Schenck Jr., and his wife Paula will make another trip from Honolulu to the South Pacific this year. No departure date has been set yet.

Eleuthera made a trip from Tahiti to the seldom-visited Austral Islands in 1965 (PIM, Dec., 1965, p. 113). • WHISPER, an American yacht, with Hal and Margaret Roth aboard, was to set out on a cruise in the South Pacific in March from Sausalito, California. • ELSIE, 30 ft cutter, sailed solo by 60-year-old American, Frank Casper, which spent about 18 months in the Pacific in 1964-65, was at Grenada, West Indies, in December.

We last reported Frank, who rarely stays still for long, at Durban in January, 1966. (PIM, Mar., 1966, p. 112). • SLEA NO MARA, 40 ft schooner, was being refitted in Sausalito, California, recently by Tony and Anne Carter for a transpacific cruise to Australia.

Mr. Carter chartered the 75 ft ketch Sirocco from a Las Vegas architect, Mr. Jack Belcher, in 1964-65 and spent some time in the South Pacific.

While on the Sirocco in Tahiti, he met and married his wife, Anne. Now Mr. Carter has long-range plans for charter work off the Great Barrier Reef when he arrives in Australia in Slea No Mara. • NAM SANG, 66 ft American yacht, was due to leave Sydney in mid-March for Los Angeles via the Bay of Islands (NZ), the Cooks, and French Polynesia.

Her current owner, Mr. J. Thompson, of Los Angeles, told PIM he planned to sell Nam Sang in Los Angeles and buy a smaller yacht or, if he couldn’t find a suitable one, to build one.

He expected to take nearly three months to reach Los Angeles as he hoped to stop at one or two of the Austral Islands in French Polynesia.

Nam Sang has a crew of seven and an attractive girl cook. “Sammy”

Malbert, 24, of California. One of the crew is 21-year-old Tom Waters, of Los Gatos, California, whose 30 ft trimaran Voladora was wrecked at Bora Bora a year ago ( PIM, April, 1966, p. 113).

Nam Sang will stop off at Bora Bora to have a look at the wrecked, vessel, which is being looked after by one of the locals, Steve Ellacote.

“I hope to return to Bora Bora one day to repair the trimaran as she wasn’t a write-off,” Waters told us. • DOVE, 24 ft fibreglass sloop, with 17-year-old solo American yachtsman Lee Graham, reached Port Moresby on March 26 from Honiara.

He has the tomcat he picked up in Fiji.

Graham left California in Dove when he was 16, and hopes to become the youngest solo yachtsman ever to circle the world.

When we reported that he had left Honiara in mid-December for New Guinea (PIM, Feb., p. 113), he was actually setting off on a cruise around the Solomon Islands. • DORA, 48 ft French ketch sailed by a French couple, Mr. and Mrs.

A. G. Merlot, with their daughter, Brigitte, was in Brisbane in March for repairs to damage caused by cyclone Dinah.

The ketch was blown ashore on Macleay Island, Moreton Bay, during the cyclone and the rudder was damaged. Island residents helped the couple make a jury rudder and Dora went to a nearby boatyard for slipping.

Dora will stay in Brisbane for two or three months before leaving for the Barrier Reef.

The Merlots began a cruise round the world in Dora from Cannes in 1961. They crossed the Pacific, calling at a number of islands, last year (PIM, July, 1966, p. 111).

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Dr. David's address is: Department of Public Health, Sohano, Bougainville Island, New Guinea. 115 i C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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Picturesque New Guinea With the introduction by the end of this year of new air services which will put Papua-New Guinea on the through route (see page 121) more of the world’s; travellers will be seeing some of] the beauties of the territory for: themselves.

THE chances are they might first see these very pictures, for these have been selected from a portfolio of New Guinea pictures which was a prizewinning entry in the Pacific Photographic Fair in Melbourne in March. The photographs were submitted by Australia’s Department of Territories and they will later go on tour overseas.

The opening picture on the previous page shows children at play at the Administration’s primary school on beautiful Rogeia Island, in the Milne Bay district of Papua. Rogeia, within hailing distance of the island of Samarai, which can be seen on page 120, has white sandy beaches to go with the typical South Sea Island look so apparent in this photograph. White beaches are often a novelty in the South Seas; more often they are of black sand.

At top left of this page another primary school class gets down to business, this one at Menyamya, in the wild Kukukuku country of New Guinea’s Morobe district. The gentlemen seen looking through the window were no doubt placed there for the sake of a more interesting photograph. but the locals really do look like that and haven’t been dressed for the occasion.

The centre picture shows logging operations at Cape Hoskins, on New Britain, where Japanese tractors load timber into Japanese ships for Japan, More and more of New Guinea’s timber returns to New Guinea these days in the form of inexpensive furniture.

Below, trainee mechanics at the Popondetta Agricultural College see something of the insides of a tractor.

The Popondetta area is worth a visit, for the traveller will pass close 118 APRIL, 1967- PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

At Menyamya, one of the locals opens an account with the Commonwealth Bank. . . . 119 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

to the notorious Mt, Lamington, which erupted after the war with the loss of thousands of lives. From Port Moresby your aircraft follows the famed wartime Kokoda Trail, passing through a gap in the Owen Stanley Ranges. On a clear day from high above the Owen Stanleys it is sometimes possible to see right across the long arm of Papua from coast to coast.

Beautiful Samarai, from the air. In the foreground is China Strait, which leads to Milne Bay and to the route north. You can walk around Samarai in 20 minutes.

This air map shows how the projected new service from Sydney through Port Moresby, to South-East Asia, will enable the world traveller to take a colour ful new route through the Solomons, New Hebrides and Fiji. The map also shows the various ways of reaching the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, which is now encouraging tourist traffic. 120 APRIL, 19 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Picturesque New Guinea

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Opens Up Great Possibilities

By a Staff writer Australia’s overseas airline, Qantas, plans to return to Papua-New Guinea in September, after an absence of seven years. It will operate a weekly return 707 jet service from Sydney to Port Moresby and on to South-East Asia—through Manila to Hong Kong. The service will open up a long-awaited new tourist route across the South-West Pacific, linking world routes with New Guinea through the Solomons and Fiji. nr will mean a big increase in - tourism for Papua-New Guinea s the new route becomes known to avel agents, especially as the new jrvice coincides with a number of ther new developments which will (feet the territory’s tourist potential, hese are; • The decision by Australia’s omestic airlines, TAA and AnsettiNA, to operate daylight 727 jet ;rvices between Australia and the irritory, phasing the present overight Electra services. These will egin shortly. • The operation by Fiji Airways f a Hawker Siddeley 748 twin irboprop airliner to speed up the ;rvice between Fiji and Honiara, his service connects in Honiara with le New Guinea route (see detailed lap opposite). • Appointment of an executive irector to the recently created apua and New Guinea Tourist oard, which will enable the board > get down to the business of proloting territory tourism. • A call in the House of Assmbly in Port Moresby in March >r the territory to launch a big mrist campaign overseas, with ppointment of tourist officers in ondon. • The granting of a licence for new internal territory charter airne which will concentrate on taking jurists around the territory.

Qantas has for years been after ic right to fly a through service to outh-East Asia via Port Moresby, ut it has met with frequent bstacles. PIM reported in March p. 125) that the Department of ivil Aviation now appeared to have lade up its mind that Qantas would 5 given permission to fly the 707’s s soon as airport extensions could s made.

But permission has been granted ithout the immediate need of airort extensions. It means the 707’s travel will initially operate with some weight restrictions.

The airstrip will be lengthened and strengthened eventually, and the terminal building will be enlarged.

Qantas does not have domestic rights, but will be able to pick up or put down through passengers, and take passengers out of Port Moresby to South-East Asia destinations.

There are great cargo prospects from Hong Kong to Port Moresby, as Qantas is aware.

The new service will leave Sydney on Thursday mornings and reach Hong Kong the same night. There will be a 24-hour stopover. On the northbound flight the 707 will probably reach Port Moresby about 12.30 p.m., and southbound about 6.30 a.m.

Qantas for many years had a monopoly on services between Australia and the territory, but in 1960 the airline was pushed out by the Commonwealth Government, which gave the services to the two domestic airlines.

Faster to New Guinea Qantas at that time had been all set to introduce Electras on the Sydney-Port Moresby service, to replace the rumbling DC4’s. But with the removal of Qantas, territory people got rumbling DC6’s, which were retained until last year, when the Electras came on the run, six years late. The Electras speeded up flying time, and are more comfortable, but it is still necessary for the aircraft to leave Sydney around midnight and arrive in Port Moresby in the early morning.

What New Guinea people—and tourists—have been asking for years is a fast, comfortable return daylight service between the territory and Sydney. The two airlines, TAA and Ansett, announced in February that this service would be given about April, with the introduction of 727 jets to New Guinea, and the phasing out of the Electras. The Boeing 727’s carry up to 116 people compared with 81 on the Electras, and the new aircraft can reduce flying time by about two hours.

Although up to the time that this issue had gone to press no details had been announced, it would be possible for the 727’s to leave Sydney at 7.30 a.m. each day and return by 8.25 p.m. Such a schedule would probably operate something like this: Daylight schedule Depart Sydney 0730; arr. Brisbane 0840, dep. 0930; arr. Port Moresby 1215, dep. 1300; arr. Lae 1335, dep. 1430; arr. Port Moresby 1505, dep. 1555; arr. Brisbane 1835, dep. 1915; arr. Sydney 2025.

Fiji Airways’ Hawker Siddeley is expected in August. The new aircraft carries just over 40 passengers and cruises at 300 mph.

Fiji Airways plans to use it on the services at present operated by the Herons, and the service between Fiji, New Hebrides and the Solomons is the one which will pay greatest dividends. Because of weight restrictions the 14 seat capacity Heron now carries only eight passengers on the service to the BSIP.

The British Solomon Islands is also making a tourist drive in its area and this will be increased when the Hawker Siddeley begins to operate. New Guinea will benefit from this publicity, as also will the Solomons benefit from New Guinea’s promotional drive.

The new executive director of the P-NG Tourist Board is Mr. Sidney Moore, who will arrive in April.

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The call for a big New Guinea urist drive overseas was made in e House of Assembly in March r Mr. John Guise, an elected smber, who said the time was ripe consider “the proper and accurate lage of New Guinea overseas”.

Every state in Australia had its fice in London, as most countries the world did, but Papua-New Liinea had no representation, said r. Guise. A P-NG office could established in Australia House, mdon.

“I see this office in the first stance as an information office, aling directly with the Press, the 3C and other information media,” id Mr. Guise. “At present it is it possible for any of these ganisations to obtain direct inrmation about what is one of the ost interesting territories in the arid.”

Publicity needed now Mr. Guise said now was the time r the creation of such an office, it later “when it may have to be me with ill-considered haste”, jarly every country was cornting in the tourist trade and most alised that they had to go to the urist to attract him and not sit ck and wait for the tourist to me to them.

There were increasing numbers American tourists who, having sited Europe and England, wanted go home by a different route, proper promotional drive, through itels, could get them.

Mr. Guise suggested an Ausdian should occupy the post of formation officer in London, under e authority of the Australian High ammissioner, and have a staff of at ast two New Guineans, who would ain in publicity work. The Ausalian “must be prepared to hand er within a limited time”.

The man to fill the job initially ould “not merely be somebody 3m Canberra who has been saying js’ for a number of years, and is ven a pre-retirement holiday, but ould be an experienced officer om this country with the interests of Papua-New Guinea at heart”, Mr.

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The company would start off with one Twin Beech Baron, shortly to be flown by Mr. McCook from the United States, and plans to add two more.

The company would carry out all kinds of charter work but expected to develop tourist work. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967 travel

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Fiji’s first luxury game fishing raft, Fleet Lady was launched i March by an 89-year-old cotswoman who flew 12,000 files from Devon to Suva to person the ceremony.

CHE woman is Mrs. Janie Scott Dutfieid, whose son, Mr. Harry hitfield, is chairman of Marlin Inestments Ltd., owners of the Fleet ady.

She sat between two high Fijian tiiefs and quaffed a bowl of yaqona kava) during the Fijian ceremonial -hich preceded the launching ceretony.

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Yanuca base It is planned to operate the Fleet ady and a second launch Susan Jane r from the luxury hotel now being uilt at Yanuca Island, near Sigatoka. o complete the fleet, Marlin Investlents will also have a number of mabouts, ski craft, and glass-bottom oats.

The Fleet Lady will have as its tipper Mr. Mike Connell, a seasoned nglish boat captain and general lanager of the company. All types f game fish are to be caught within few miles of the fleet’s base.

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Seven black marlin were hooked, Seated between Ratu George Cakobau, paramount chief of Fiji (left) and Ratu Edward Cakabou, Member for Commerce and Tourism (right), Mrs. Janie Dutfield (top picture) accepts a bowl of "yaqona" during the Fijian ceremonies which preceded the launching of the big game fishing launch "Fleet Lady". Below, the "Fleet Lady" in the water after launching. Forty-four feet overall, with a beam of 13 ft 8 in., she is powered by twin Cummins diesels, and is equipped with the latest aids in navigation and handling. She is the first launch of her type in the world to be fitted with Decca/ Simrad Basdic, which, apart from sounding and fish-finding, can locate reefs ahead of the vessel. The equipment can be trained through 360 degrees.— Photos: Rob Wright. 125 travel ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1967

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it none was landed. One of the arlin, estimated at 350 lb, was lost iring the gaffing process. The rgest one that got away was estiated to be in excess of 600 lb.

Since then, however, Mr. Dutfield, 10 has been elected first president the new Game Fish Club of Fiji, is had some better luck.

He was on his way to a meeting the club in Suva in March when caught a 220 lb black marlin from r. Graham Wallace’s launch reniwai. The marlin took a locallyade lure trolled at knots at a ot almost opposite Nau Passage.

New hotel named The new hotel from which the hing boats will operate is due to en for business on September 1. will be called “The Fijian”, and 11 have 101 double rooms, plus /en large suites.

Accommodation charges per day 11 be: £7 to £8 for double occuncy and £5 to £6 for single occuncy, with the lower rates prevailing most cases. Charges for suites will from £lO to £l2.

The dining room and/or outdoor tio next to it will be open for meals >m 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

There will be an a la carte menu, is breakfast, luncheon and dinner de d’hote.

A light breakfast consisting of fruit ce, fruit, toast or roll and a /erage will cost about 6/- or 7/-. 11 breakfast will range from 10/- 12/-.

Luncheon sandwiches and salads 11 range from 8/- to 12/-.

There will be a luncheon buffet eral times a week, costing 15/- to /6. \ table d’hote dinner, with soup, ad, main course, dessert and /erage (with the choice of the main jrse determining the price of the mer) will range from £1 to 25/-.

A small snack bar underneath the ling patio, and near the beach and imming pool, will be open initially m about 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If rranted, these hours will be exided.

Jasino? No dice!

HE Suva City Council has rejected the idea of a State lottery in i or the opening of a gambling ino to attract tourists. The council s among many organisations asked the Government recently for views the proposal.

"The Fijian", the new hotel at Yanuca Island, near Sigatoka, off the main Fiji island of Viti Levu, is set amid tall palm trees on a narrow tongue of land at the extreme point of the island.

The partially-finished accommodation block is seen in the top picture. The centre picture shows the fishing launch "Susan Jane II" anchored off the island; and, at right, is the high-roofed dining room, built to resemble a typical Fijian "bure".

Photos: Rob Wright. 127 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967 travel

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Fronds The Triangle , Suva , Fiji. Telephone 2-2619 P.O. Box 180, Suva More travel predicted [?]s Pacific air [?]re cuts start By a staff writer Air travel across and in the >uth Pacific is expected to rise i up to 30 per cent, in 1967l, and the seven South Pacific ternational air carriers will be jhting to get more of the multiillion dollar business.

IHE much-publicised air fare reductions, which were decided at t October’s International Air affic Association in Honolulu, start >m April 1. (See PIM, Nov., 1966, 127).

Airlines will mount intensive advering and promotion campaigns to e the expected extra passengers o their planes.

A PIM survey found that all travel encies, tour operators and airlines pect big increases in Pacific air vel with the fare reductions. Some a 40 to 50 per cent. :rease, but all expected at least a per cent, rise.

The biggest rises are expected on ms-Pacific travel between North nerica and Australasia, and the ms-Tasman route from Sydney and dbourne to New Zealand cities.

The big two airlines in the South cific—Qantas and Pan Am—hope entice several thousands more nericans to take package-deal its of the Pacific Islands, Australia d New Zealand.

Advantage Qantas and Pan Am’s flight freencies and big number of stops 'e each a distinct advantage over ;ir five competitors.

However, in April, BOAC goes ross the South Pacific for the first ic, using Boeing 707-420’s, which : slightly bigger than Qantas’ «ing 707-338’s. The 707-420’s also have converted seats from BOAC’s ■y successful DClO’s, which fly the lantic runs.

BOAC could have made a big hit th a DC 10 in the Pacific but untunately operational and crewing ficulties made this aircraft unanomical.

Air New Zealand will promote :w Zealand extensively because urn fares from Australia at offak periods carry 40 per cent, rections. The company will also amote a “South Pacific Circle Fare Plan” taking in New Zealand, Fiji or Noumea from Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne. This run carries a 25 per cent, cut at certain periods of the year.

UTA-French Airlines, will, of course, maintain promotion on trips to Noumea and Tahiti. The French airline will also have a circle plan, taking in Noumea, Fiji or New Zealand.

Canadian Pacific, which opposed the fares reductions at the Honolulu meeting because it thought they weren’t enough, has forced lATA to review its fare structure gain in April, 1968, with a view to bigger reductions.

While Air-India has no immediate plans to double its weekly Sydney- Nadi service it welcomed the reductions and stepped up advertising for travel to Fiji.

With at least two airlines skipping the Nadi stopover on their transpacific runs, and poor economic conditions in New Zealand curbing the spending of its best tourist visitor, Fiji looked forward to big fare cuts from the October conference.

It hoped for a reduction of 25 per 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967 travel

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Lautoka, P.O. Box 366 cent, in ordinary tares across tW Pacific and return fares available fo the whole year. If it had pinned muc on these hopes it must be now bit terly disappointed.

Return fares concessions weit extended from seven to eight month for Fiji, an increase of one mont!

But the late August-Septembe tourist period, popular because Au; tralian and New Zealand schoo holidays are held then, is not no’ included in this concession—so th airlines have in fact taken awat more than they have given, and Fii will notice it.

Package fares, or “inclusive” fare as the airlines refer to them, wen made available to Fiji. These pu hotel bills, plane fares, food ant touring all in the one charge whic; must not be less than 110 per cem of the ordinary return fare.

Mr. R. M. Major, Fiji’s represent ative in Australia, said in Sydne: that package deals restricted inde pendent travel and didn’t let peopll stay with relatives because they woull be booked into a hotel with thei food and other amenities arranged., “We welcomed the changes madl at the conference,” he said. “W just wish they could have goni further.”

Of the seven airlines, only BOAO told PIM it hoped to draw peopll away from sea travel in the Soutl: Pacific.

A BOAC spokesman said hi believed in many cases people wouli rather spend two or three day look ing around an island centre such at Suva than at sea.

Despite this, the big increases ii passengers flown across the Pacifii will intensify competition among thu air carriers, not start a sea and aii war for tourists.

The shipping cruise lines in thu South Pacific do not see the fan cuts as a move by the airlines to tak: shipping tourists away from therrr They argue, as a spokesman fo< P and O Orient Lines put it, than a person who goes for a cruise by ship is quite different from someonti who prefers to travel by air.

“It’s two separate types of holiday —the person on a ship spends mos> of his time at sea relaxing and enjoy, ing himself. Air travel is only i means of getting somewhere,” thu spokesman said.

P and O said cruises on the Orsovt and the Arcadia in the Pacific an booked out several months ahead. 130 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY travel

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A spokesman for Air Melanesia d at the end of February that one over Mark 111 was under option »m the Royal Flying Doctor Sere, Queensland.

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“A second Mark 111 Drover should ive in Vila about June or July.

“These rugged aircraft are conered the most suitable type for ; New Hebrides as to payload, r ety and conditions.

“A new timetable for Air Mela- >ia will be effective from about iril 20.”

The spokesman added that bridair did not expect its Dornier to resume services for about four five months. The Dornier was solved in an accident last year.

N archaeological centre is to be k- set up on Easter Island to initigate and restore more than 250 ne statues and other relics of the >t. Experts from the University Chile will do the work.

Easter Island is still being talked as a possible future stopping place tourists travelling between Auslia and Chile, via Tahiti. But re have been no further reports ently of plans to build a jet airip on the island. »AN American World Airways started a direct weekly service »m Auckland to Pago Pago, nerican Samoa, on March 4. The ;ht originates in Sydney.

It is the first direct commercial icdule between New Zealand and moa, and cuts travelling time besen the two countries by more in two hours. The flight time is w 3 hours 40 minutes.

NEW development on the lighter side of Norfolk affairs is the )rfolk Entertainment Group, which is formed a couple of months ago. and which plans to put on two good shows a year.

These will be the Pageant of Norfolk which will take place in June during Bounty week, and the Festival of the Pines, scheduled for the Christmas period, at the peak of the tourist season.

Music for the Pageant will be under the direction of Mr. Eric Jupp.

CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES, which runs a fortnightly return service across the Pacific from Vancouver to Sydney, will change its arrivals at Sydney from Fridays to Sundays.

From May 14 the company’s DCBs will reach Sydney on Sunday afternoons from Vancouver, via Hawaii and Fiji, and leave again for Vancouver at 6 p.m. the same day.

The airline’s Australian manager, Mr. Eric Birdsall, said the flights had been re-arranged to attract Australian businessmen. Executives could enjoy a weekend with their family in Sydney, leave at 6 p.m. Sunday night and arrive at Vancouver half an hour later—by courtesy of the International Dateline. 131 A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967 a ■ W I -M. w M.

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The inadequacies of Western noa’s Faleolo airport, which Iynesian Airlines have pointed out some time, were spotlighted in i-February, when, after a period heavy rain, the airstrip was oded and the airport was closed three days.

HIS upset several organised tour parties and with air services to ia suspended, congestion at the ?o Pago Intercontinental Hotel s so great that guests were retedly sleeping on the floor, fhe managing director of Polylian Airlines, Mr. E. F. Paul, said t the deteriorating state of the ding field was noted last Sepiber by the Director of Civil iation and Financial Secretary, . P. Heller. He then wrote to bhc Works requesting that imivements be made. ‘Why the field hasn’t been patched before is beyond my understand- ,” Mr. Paul said. ‘lt is evident that there is still no 1 appreciation in government of importance of tourists coming 3 the country.

Plan for bigger plane ‘The minute the airport is upded, Polynesian is prepared to ng in a DC4 or a DC6.”

Vleanwhile, Polynesian is retedly in the happy state of having ir major airlines courting it for :hance to buy in. fop executives of Pan Am, Consntal and Air New Zealand have ently been in Apia for talks with [ynesian directors, and Eastern is □ reported to be interested.

Public Works has plans for upiding the airport this year by first ing a scoria surface, which would dw DC4’s to land, and then by iening the strip.

Fhe upgrading costs are estimated £llO,OOO.

Footnote: At the end of February, leolo was closed for night flights ile the PWD repaired and upided the landing field. This iously upset Polynesian’s schedules, ic service that had to be rearranged s that to Nadi. Sunday morning ;hts to Tafuna (Pago Pago) to meet with Air New Zealand had be cancelled. 133 \ C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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T a meeting of creditors in Noumea at the beginning of arch, it was announced that, folding discussions with Pan Am’s esident. Mr. Juan Trippe, in Dumea in February, negotiations d been carried on in Paris.

PanAm, at that stage, was prered to advance 22 million Pacific mcs ($A220,000) to keep the hotel oat, and to put in two experts to Ip run it.

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Some of the creditors at the meetl expressed disappointment that the ench airline UTA had not taken 3re interest in the hotel, although made a proposal to run it.

The meeting was told that if UTA ;re prepared to counter Pan Am’s :er, it should have priority as it was sirable that the hotel should ream in French hands.

The meeting was also told that an astralian chain of hotels and motels as interested in the hotel.

If PanAm should take over the nning of the hotel, it would un- •ubtedly use its own airline to ing tourists to New Caledonia to ay in it.

PanAm already has commercial air »hts for New Caledonia.

N line with rapid developments in the local tourist industry. Hertz ntal cars are now available in pia.

The largest taxi company in estern Samoa, Gold Star Transport has been made Hertz licensee. 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967 travel

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PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

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NEW GUINEA: N.G.G. Trading Co., Lae.

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New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau.

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FIJI; Niranjan's Service Station, Suva.

NEW CALEDONIA: Agence Automobile, Noumea.

NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd., Sydney. 136 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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IRIS follows what a Rarotonga correspondent describes as “outndingly successful talks” between New Zealand Government delegan and the Cook Islands Govern- ;nt in Rarotonga in mid-March.

The talks covered the possibility upgrading Rarotonga Airport to :e Air New Zealand Electras on proposed Auckland-Fiji-American moa-Rarotonga route and possible ;ure jet services.

The New Zealand delegation was I by the Minister of Island Terriies, Mr. J. R. Hanan, and the inister of Civil Aviation, Mr. P. irdon.

Capital contribution Mr. Gordon was reported as say- -1 before leaving New Zealand that, return for a considerable capital ntribution from his Government upgrade Rarotonga airport, the vernment wanted to ensure that ;w Zealand interests in landing ;hts and in the airstrip itself were equately protected.

“Since the upgrading of the airid will involve a need for adional land for site clearances, and ice the question of orientation ly be raised, I am going as inister of Civil Aviation to satisfy j islanders of the need for this,” r. Gordon added.

Mr. Hanan told the Press: “The rpose of our mission is to discuss th representatives of the Cook ands Government the extension of 2 airport and the consequent land quisition problems.”

At present, the airport is 500 ft o short for Electras.

The Cook Islands Minister of ternal Affairs, Mr. T. Henry, said had hopes that cheap accomodation could bring holidays there ithin the reach of the average New ;alander. 137 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967 travel

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People • Captain Brett Hilder, master of ie Burns Philp flagship Bulolo, is » be married in September to Jane obertson, of Tomewin, Queensland, tie was born in Suva, the daughter I the late Mr. Arthur Freeman, who ied in Queensland in October, 1965, the age of 92. Mr. Freeman was pioneer of the Fiji banana export ade. Mrs. Robertson has travelled densively in the South Pacific, and ade frequent trips through Mela- ;sia into the Gilberts and Line lands. They first met in 1934 on e Malaito. Captain Hilder’s wife, illy, died in Sydney last year. • After 21 years in New Guinea, r. Harry Plant is to leave the terriry to become Director of Local overnment and Community Services the Northern Territory, based on arwin. Mr. Plant, one of Papuaew Guinea’s best-known officers, is •NG’s Assistant Director of Local overnment and Commissioner for Deal Government. He launched NG’s first Native Local Governent Council, in Hanuabada, Port oresby, in September, 1950. • Mr. Gerald Coppenrath, of ihiti, is the author of one of the test publications of the Societe des ceanistes in Paris. It is a volume 172 pages entitled Les Chinois de ihiti: de I’aversion a Vassimilation: 165-/966. The book traces the story of the Chinese in Tahiti from e arrival in March. 1865, of 350 idies to work on the vast cotton antation of William Stewart at timaono. It is the first detailed tidy to be published of Tahiti’s hinese. • Jack Neale, well-known trader ; Aitutaki, Cook Islands, who took /tx John Harrington’s and Willie r atson’s stores on Aitutaki when he ansferred from Mangaia many years to, has just started on a holiday r at least 10 months. He hoped to ;t on the Northern Star at Raronga on March 12 to go to Panama, om where he planned to motor 'de through Central America to the S. He will then tour the US by >ad bus to New York and then go /er to Newfoundland, Scotland, ngland (to see his family), Ireland id Wales. Starting in Norway, he ill then tour Europe, and, en route Australia and New Zealand, visit 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

places previously known to him in India, Ceylon and possibly Burma.

During Jack’s absence, Ted Melville, an ex-farmer from Western Australia and an old friend of Jack’s who has retired to Aitutaki, will be running his stores. Both Jack and Ted originally hailed from England. • Two students from Fiji have been awarded scholarships for the 1967 academic year at the University of Hawaii under a programme run by the East-West Center. The award winners are Ratu George Tu’uakitau, of Nadi, and Patiliai Tuisabeto, of Suva.

Ratu George is the son of Ratu Edward Cakobau, Member for Commerce, Industry and Tourism. Ratu George who has studied in Fiji and New Zealand, is now working with Pacific Hostings Ltd., of Nadi. He plans to major in hotel management at the University of Hawaii.

Patiliai Tuisabeto, now in his second year at the Fiji School of Agriculture, will undertake a course in tropical agriculture at the College of Tropical Agriculture of the University of Hawaii.

Both students will leave Fiji in September to begin their overseas studies. • After attempting to settle at Queensland’s Gold Coast, the call of New Guinea has again been too much for Mrs. Lillian Barclay-Millar.

She arrived in Port Moresby in March in the Bulolo, and intends to work there. • Mr. Leonard Goodman, FRCS, formerly surgeon specialist in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Aden, and from 1959-65, Western Samoa, has been appointed Tutor in Surgery at the Fiji School of Medicine. • Mr, Alfred J. Gergely has resigned as Attorney-General of American Samoa. He is to return to his home in Palm Springs, California. to look into the possibilities of a law practice there. Mr. Frank Swett, assistant Attorney-General, will occupy Mr. Gergely’s post pending a new appointment. • Mr. J. A. Sutherland, consultant on agricultural education for the South Pacific Commission, visited the US Trust Territory recently on the last leg of a 25,000-mile journey through the island territories of the Pacific area surveying agricultural education. • Na Kiboboua Batiku has been appointed to be secretary-treasurer of the recently-formed Gilbert and Ellice Islands Co-operative Federation Limited. He will be seconded to the federation from the Audit and Supervision Fund. The federation’s office and handicraft store, now being prepared, will be in part of the Mare wen Tarawa Co-operative Society’s Building adjacent to the Betio Post Office. • Dr. Lindsay Verrier, of Suva, recently collected £22 for the Kadavulevu Dependents’ Fund by opening his garden to visitors so that they could see a plant which flowers only once a year and only at night.

The flower is the Cereus grandiflora.

The Kadavulevu Dependents’ Fund was set up to help care for the dependents of nearly 100 people who lost their lives when the inter-island trading ship Kadavulevu, foundered in Fiji waters on Easter Sunday, 1964. • Two old New Guinea families will be joined in Sydney in September with the marriage of Lynne Evans, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Evans, now of Turramurra, Sydney, to Peter, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hurrell, of Wau.

They have known each other since childhood. The couple will live in Brisbane. • A Fijian woman, Vasemaca Muri, will celebrate her 100th birthday this year. But she doesn’t know exactly when she was born. Her birth certificate shows that she was born in 1867—seven years before Fiji was ceded to Britain—but does not record the day and the month.

Vasemaca has five children, 20 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren. • Lieutenant Mikaele Yasa, the First Fijian to obtain a commission in the British Army, returned to Suva in March after six years overseas.

Driving from the international airport at Nadi to Suva he was impressed by tourist hotel developments and by road improvements.

Of Suva itself, Lieutenant Yasa said: “It was stimulating to see that Suva is now a booming city with many fine new buildings”.

Lieutenant Yasa has been serving in Malaysia with a crack British regiment, the Green Jackets. • Mr. J. M. Carswell, who has just retired as Senior Assistant Director of the Department of Technical Education in New South Wales, arrived in Suva in March to become principal of the Derrick Technical Institute.

In the past few years, Mr. Carswell has visited Fiji and other SoutH Pacific territories on several occasion:! to advise on technical education prot grammes.

His first visit was in 1960 when Fiji asked the Australian Govern! ment for advice about technical education. Australia sent Mr. Cars* well.

During a visit in 1964, Mr. Cars? well was a guest at the official open! ing of the Derrick Institute. • The Rev. Alan Quigley, MA/ BD, B.Litt, was installed as temporary Lecturer in New Testament at the Pacific Theological College, Suva, on March 1. A permanent appointmem will be made next year. Mr. Quigley studied in St. Andrews, Scotland, ano is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. • Mr. James P. Shortall, well I known a few years ago in maritime and journalistic circles in the South Pacific, is still going strong as s radio operator on a ship in the US banana trade.

Says Jim, in a postcard to PIM recently: “I’m still with the bananas —shuttling back and forth, at 20 knots, between Costa Rica or Honduras, and United States ports— a three or four days’ voyage each way. I will never be able to looM a banana, straight or curved, in the eye again, once we get off this trade!”

Jim Shortall is a great traveller and has been into some queer ports in some little-known countries. For a time, he was serving on ships out: of Hong Kong, and his New Yean card for 1966 came from an unpronounceable place, up a big rivet in Red China. • The former Tongan lightheavyweight boxer Kitione Lave has been refused a licence to box by the British Boxing Board of Control! according to NZ Press reports. Lave.; 35, recently completed a term in the Royal Air Force and since returning to civilian life has campaigned vigorously for a licence. The reports say that the licence was refused because of Lave’s age and because he has been “out of the game for some time”. • Two schoolgirls from Pitcairm Island, Diane Clark, 16, and Julie Christian, 13, have arrived in Fiji! to attend school at the Fulton Missionary College. Diane who has already done an 18-months’ course at the college, is the daughter oft Pitcairn’s postmaster, Oscar Clark.: Julie, who is attending the college for the first time, is the daughten of Ben Christian. 140 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

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Bixsiness sljcicX Will a grading system help New Guinea contractors?

From a staff writer in Port Moresby A plea made in the P-NG House of Assembly in March, aimed at solving the problem of territory building contractors “devouring each other”, highlights some of the difficulties of the local building industry.

HE call was made by an elected member, Mr. lan Downs, who is o a member of the Administrator’s uncil. Speaking on the Appropri- >n Bill, he criticised the waste of ilic money on the territory’s road Iding programmes and asserted t road and building contractors re not being properly used by the vernment. ie said the attitude of “most peris” in both the Commonwealth partment of Works and the P-NG partment of Public Works was to it contractors “compete against h other as much as possible, to :p them on the run, keep them off ance, exploit them as much as isible”.

Multiple tenders were offered to ake the thing as confusing and as : icult as possible”, said Mr. Downs, ling that on the slightest excuse Government then often decided do the work on day labour or else rt another contractor up from Auslia”.

Mr. Downs said there was urgent •d for the Administration to get ether with the contractors. It uld be surprised at the potential the contractors once the Works >ple took them into their confiice and worked out a proper promme.

Plenty of work ‘There is more than enough work every contractor in this country t it is not being properly used,” d Mr. Downs. “And some of them ! without work because specificans and designs are not ready for m.

He added: “I believe that you will a lot more done here if you make ; of your contractors and stop m devouring each other.”

Ferritory contractors would agree h Mr. Downs. There are too many milt snares for contractors in the ritory’s current building boom.

Some leading builders are pressing for a graded system of contractors, and they are talking of making an approach direct to the Minister for Territories, Mr. Barnes.

There are also moves for more selective tendering to be adopted in the territory, and there is some hope that statutory bodies will give a lead on this, such as the P-NG University.

Graded systems are not new, nor is the current argument in the territory about whether they are good or not.

One man who would support a graded system is Mr. H. H. Stubbs, managing director of John Stubbs and Sons Pty. Ltd., a company which established itself in Papua in 1940.

The company employs 70 Europeans and 350 New Guineans and is currently building sections of the new Administrative College in Port Moresby.

“The basis of a graded system,” says Mr. Stubbs, “is that before a builder is allowed to tender for a contract he must have proved that he has the assets and the backing to carry the job through. This way clients aren’t let down by carpenters with a kit of tools under their bed claiming to be contractors.”

There are those who point out that many big contractors started with a kit of tools under their bed, and that the grading system can be an unfair method of control.

Under a typical grading system contractors are graded according to the size of contract work they have the finances and equipment to handle and they cannot go above their gradings.

The bigger contractors can come down one or two grades to tender for work they might need to keep their teams together. But they are not allowed to drop further than this, nor in fact would it usually be possible for them to do so because smaller contractors with lower overheads are better placed to handle smaller contracts.

Overstretching For all those who say this system prevents the smaller man from expand i n g, there are others who point out that it also prevents the smaller man from over-expanding, or the big man from devouring him.

Overstretching is one of the weaknesses of the territory’s building industry.

It was probably at its worst four or five years ago, when many leading foremen and small sub-contractors who were brought to the territory by big firms engaged in multi-million dollar projects, started tendering on their own account in the hope of making real money.

Most soon went broke, or decided the game wasn’t worth the candle, but they caused a lot of trouble in the process. Some of those who survived, survived because of luck. As one experienced territory builder put it, “We’ll never know how many Mr. lan Downs 145 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

firms, both big and small, have been saved from overstretching by the simple fact that they didn’t get the contract they were after”.

Although the big clients such as Comworks and the PWD have frequently been accused of not caring whether the small contractors went broke, there is no justification for this belief. The fact that the big clients have helped to send contractors broke seems to be one of the handicaps of the present tender system in the territory and nobody deplores this more than PWD officials, who have to sort out the mess. But while they are tied to the public tender system there is little they can do about it.

Under the public tender system the departments do not have to accept any or the lowest tender, but the lowest tender is usually awarded the contract. Departments find it very difficult to find an excuse not to do this, even though they might suspect a contractor’s ability to carry the job through.

The contractor might be able to show he has both the finance and the know-how, yet he goes broke. A number of things have gone wrong and he has not been able to ride them out.

There are as many traps for the larger firms as for the smaller ones.

Sometimes in the territory a larger firm wanting smaller jobs to fill in, will cut its quote too fine. If it takes this risk too often and strikes a long bad patch then the whole structure collapses.

A private Port Moresby architect who has used the selective tendering system for years says that on this system he doesn’t have to take the lowest tender, but in fact he usually does because he is satisfied before he invites tenders that the selected contractors can do the job. But even with care there were problems. The contractor’s situation might change after the tender was accepted or there might be changes in the contract that brought difficulties.

Mr. Mick Lloyd, one of the managing partners of Higgin, Lloyd and Partners, a Port Moresby engineering firm, would support the graded system for territory builders, but he issues a note of warning.

“It’s a system which needs constant review—say every six months —if it is to be operated correctly,” he says.

“And if it is done correctly it is protection for the little man—it saves him from himself and from the big man.”

Whatever the pros and cons, the matter is likely to get a lot more attention in the territory in the next few months.

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From a Nukualofa correspondent The Kingdom of Tonga does not expect any great difficulty in its changeover to decimal currency on April 3. Tonga’s citizens are too used to Australian currency as it is. For many years now Tonga has been using Australian coins as legal tender and thus it changed over when Australia did in February, 1966.

AND every cruise ship that arrives at Nukualofa (there were 19 during 1966) brings an estimated SAB,OOO-10,000 for circulation among the public. Although this usually finds its way back to Australia via the local Treasury, Tongans meanwhile become pretty familiar with it.

Another factor which will probably ease the problem of changeover for Tonga is the fact that there are very few machines in the kingdom to be converted. Conversion has caused delays and complications in other countries, Tonga sent a representative from the Treasury, Mr. L. W. Robertson, as an observer to Australia last year, to watch the changeover there. What he saw has helped the kingdom a great deal.

Old currency withdrawn Unlike Australia, Tonga plans to withdraw immediately the old currency, and authorities expect this will be done within a few weeks of April 3. But Australian currency will still be accepted.

Tonga has approached C Day without any great blare of publicity.

Only during February and March have radio, Press and the schools been asked to assist. Schoolteachers have been given special instruction, and supplied with charts and other teaching aids.

Local reaction could almost be described as apathetic. The only real worry that most householders seem to have is whether the new currency will retain the same purchasing power as the old!

Tonga’s new unit of currency will be the pa’anga, equal to one Australian dollar. This will be divided into 100 seniti (cents).

There will be notes in denomiii tions of one-half, one, two, five a 10 pa’anga; and coins in denomi:: tions of one pa’anga, 50 seniti, 10, five, two and one seniti.

The colours of the old note is;; will be retained in their equivaLJ value in the new decimal notes. 1 coins, apart from the one and ti seniti pieces, will be the same s as before.

It is the first time Tonga will using her own currency. The coc were produced by the Royal Mi London, and the notes from De Rue of London, who comple; designs from photographs suppl] from Tonga.

Copra market repor Prices steady Philippines fm copra pri have not fluctuated to any gn extent over the past six weeks or holding very close to an average £Stg.6s per ton c.i.f. delivered weig' UK/Continental ports.

Chairman of the P-NG Copra M keting Board, Mr. lan McDonai reported this in Port Moresby March 22. He added: Actual monthly shipment pri« have been: January, £Stg.63/17 per ton; February, £Stg.6s/10/- { ton; March, £Stg.67 per ton. Th« is every indication that the Ap shipment price will be around £Stg. per ton.

This has allowed the P-NG Boa to increase its purchase price S 5 per ton. Consequently, with t bounty of $2 per ton granted by t Stabilisation Board, tentative rm ports purchase prices were adjust on March 1 to the following leve Hotair, $120; FMS, $117; Smol $ll5.

There has been a steadiness gem ally throughout the whole of t edible oils and oilseeds markets, w most edible oils following the le of soyabean oil and showing soi firmness.

This condition may be result! from recent predictions that cum season world production of edit oilseeds may only exceed 1965-66 1.7 per cent., compared with increa: of 4.2 per cent, and 5 per cent, ov the previous two years.

Whether or not this below norm increase in production will be reflect! in a similarly below normal increa in world net export availability yet to be seen, but by and large the is an expectation that the markets I edible oils and fats generally will : main fairly steady, possibly with, firming tendency over the next ft weeks. 146 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

>r. Noe is confident i Misima E was confident the Pacific Island Mines Ltd. mine at Misima Is- 1, Papua, would go into produci fairly soon, the chairman of the ipany, Mr. G. W. Noe, said during iscussion of the company’s affairs r the annual meeting held in ney on March 6. isked how the project would be need, Mr. Noe said there had a interest by majors (major rating mining companies with exence), Cultus Exploration Ltd., Canada, which was drilling the ima adit, could come up with a position. /hatever happened, the directors ild not water down the interest PI Mines if it was avoidable.

Ir. Noe in his annual report, dealt i drilling progress, and said that February drilling was taking place very difficult country”. ; was not yet possible to announce intersection of the Umuna lode the Cultus adit, but upon interion that information, and the re- > of assays of samples taken from lode, when known, would be yeyed to shareholders, hareholders could be assured that most rigorous controls would be •cised in taking and presenting pies for assay. ampling would be supervised by sultants to the company and tus, and would be forwarded to [•nationally recognised laboratories Canada and Australia for assay report, he consulting engineer, Mr. A. G. ner, reported that all lodes carried 1.

Ir. Noe interjected to say there e also indications of other metals.

Umuna lode was a heavily lised area carrying gold, and e were also indications of silver, and zinc, he primary target at present was gold lode, but he believed Misima ild develop from gold to other als. •rd (Aust.) takes V Pacific sales )RD Motor Company of Australia has assumed full marketing 'onsibility of all Ford cars and ks in the South-West Pacific areas Papua, New Guinea, Fiji, New edonia, New Hebrides, Tahiti, 10a and the Solomon Islands. Preisly sales in these areas were died by Ford Motor Company’s rseas Distribution Operations at roit, USA.

New P-NG moves in search for oil SEVERAL new developments in the search for oil in Papua have been reported recently. • Esso Exploration and Production Australia Inc. is to drill four wells at an estimated cost of $6 million under an agreement with two operating subsidiaries of Oil Search Ltd. On completion of the drilling programme Esso will earn a 50 per cent, interest in the area, 6 An independent American oil company, Nakoro Petroleum Corporation Ltd., has been granted a petroleum exploration subsidiary of $330,000 for a stratigraphic well in Papua.

The Nakoro grant was the highest single subsidy for drilling in Papua since early 1965.

Nakoro has been operating in a 200 square mile “farmout” area about 50 miles north-west of Port Moresby for several months, ® Directors of Oil Search said in a statement in March that P-NG authorities had rejected an application by them to take a 25 per cent, interest in oil exploration permit areas held by British Petroleum.

No explanation for the rejection was given in the statement.

The area in question covers about 6,000 square miles in the southern highlands of Papua, granted to BP last May.

Oil Search has meanwhile begun drilling its first well for 1967 at Mauba, in the Central Delta region.

The well is to be drilled to a depth of 10,000 or 12,000 feet.

The well is in the vicinity of the Puri well, which flowed oil about six years ago. • From July a $500,000 joint Australia-US project to study the thickness and structure of the Coral Sea plateau from Townsville to the Louisiade Archipelago of Papua will begin.

Scientists from the University of NSW and the Lament Geological Observatory at Columbia University, New York, will make the study aboard the Lament Observatory’s ship Verna and the RAN survey ship Diamantina.

Gulf Oil (Aust.), Esso Exploration (Aust.), BP Development (Aust.) and the Australian Research Grants Committee will all support the venture.

Businessmen, is your biography in the Islands Year Book?

REVISION has started on the Who’s Who section of the next edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book. Some months ago proofs of all biographies from the last edition were sent to the persons concerned for revision. Most of these have now been returned, but a number have not.

If you have not yet returned your corrected biography; or if you did not receive a proof sheet for correction, WOULD YOU PLEASE LET US HAVE CORRECTIONS, BY AIRMAIL, AT ONCE.

In many cases, failure to get corrections back is the result of retirements of expatriate personnel who have returned to live in their home countries, presumably without leaving forwarding addresses.

Judging by our experience, “return to sender” mail that comes out of all Islands territories must constitute something of a record—although it is not always easy to understand how a man who has given 30 years ot his life to a specific Territory, and who reached the head of his organisation, can sometimes be completely “unknown” to that organisation a few months after his retirement.

Because the first Who’s Who section in the 9th edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book was experimental, it was not as comprehensive as we would have wished. We hope to make it more so in the next edition, to be published this year. We will, therefore, be happy to consider suggestions for additions—just send the correct name and address and some indication of who the person is. We will take it from there.

The first Who’s Who contained about 1,400 biographies of people of all races living or working in the Pacific Islands, plus persons not normally living in the Islands who had contributed politically, scientifically, culturally or through commerce to the Islands.

All communication should be addressed to The Editor, Pacific Islands Year Book, GPO, Box 3408, Sydney, New South Wales. 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

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M Tf PACIFIC *RO “r ARROW * helu^ nr CO Beche-de-mer factory for Solomons THE British Solomon Islands will have a new export industry before the end of the year. Quan Hong Pty.

Ltd., have begun building a factory at Kukum to process beche-de-mer (sea slugs). They will then be exported to Hong Kong and Japan where they are considered a delicacy.

The factory, equipment, and housing for the manager and workers is to cost a total of about $44,000.

The buildings are being erected by D. J. Gubbay and Co. The work is expected to be finished in September.

Quan Hong’s will collect the bechede-mer, with their own boats, and they will also buy them from Solomon Islanders.

Mr. Quan Hong operated a bechede-mer export industry in the Western Solomons before the war.

New capital urged for Micronesia A REPORT making far-reaching recommendations to stimulate economic development in Micronesia has been completed for the US Trust Territory Government by a team of economists from Robert R. Nathan Associates, Inc., an internationallyknown economic consulting firm.

The report states that selected capital, management and labour must be permitted and induced to co from outside the Trust Territory a significant rate of development to be achieved.

The opening of the territory to entrance of both people and cap will be of overall benefit to Micronesian people, the report s; New people will bring new ic and create an element of competil from which local businesses profit. The arrival of outside cap will create new job opportunities strengthen the economy in generaj The report recommends that Administration budget be increa to SUS3S-40 million per year (at five times more than five years ag BSIP will advertise itself in Sydney THE British Solomon Islands I tectorate is to focus attent on development opportunities tt in a supplement to be published the Australian Financial Review May 22. The Financial Review i national daily financial paper, p lished in Sydney. Purpose of the s plement is to publicise the BSIP a field of investment for Austr. and New Zealand.

Pacific newcomer is an old firm D. & J. Fowler (Australia) Ltd., its purchase of the goodwill . records of the Islands trading firm Robert Gillespie Pty., Ltd., last ! cember (PIM, Feb., p. 142) is exte ing the areas to which it now exp to incorporate most of the So Pacific.

It is aiming to continue, and Is on, expand exports to many of Rot Gillespie’s customers throughout Islands.

Experienced staff of Rol Gillespie’s Sydney and Brisbane off: have been retained and D. & J. Foy will direct its South Pacific operati from Sydney. Although a newcoi to the South Pacific, the Lond based D. & J. Fowler has had o 100 years’ experience of exporti Big honey project for Niue Anew Zealand apiarist, Waitoa, left Auckland in Tofua on March 9 with more tl three million bees to begin a lar scale bee-farming industry on N Island. The scheme is in associat with the newly-formed Niue Devel ment Board. 148 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH]

Peb. 23 Mar. 23 Ansett .50 ... . .58 .57 Bali Plantations .50 .52 .53 Burns Philp 1.00 . . 3.92 3.71 Burns Philp (SS) 2.25 4.20 4.22 Camalec .50 ... .52 .54 Carpenter .50 . . . 2.17 2.15 Choiseul Plntn. 1.00 2.90 2.82 C.S.R. 1.00 .... 2.80 2.90 Dylup Plntn. .50 . .60 .59 Fiji Industries 1.12 . 2.45 2.25 Hackshalls .50 . . 1.35 1.32 Kerema Rubber .50 .22 .22 Koitaki Rubber .50 1.45 1.20 Lolorua Rubber .50 .40 .40 Makurapau Plntn. .50 .42 .43 Mariboi Rubber .50 .35 .33 Plantation Hldgs. .50 .35 .34 Queensland Ins. 1.00 4.00 4.20 Rubberlands .50 . . .20 .20 Sogeri Rubber .50 . .60 .60 Sth. Pac. Ins. .50 . 1.75 1.60 Steamships Tdg. .50 1.00 .96 Watkins Cons. .50 . .47 .43 C.R.A. .50 ... . 5.26 5.20 Emperor .10 ... . .38 .38 NG Gold Ltd. .35 . .50 .47 Oil Search .50 . . .15 .17 Pacific I. Mines .25 .47 .44 Papuan Apin. .50 . .18 .19 Placer Dev.* . . . . 29.80 29.20 * No par value (Quotations are in Australian dollars— $A2 = £ Al.) Produce Prices (Unless otherwise stated, quotations are i Australian currency. Aust. $ equals pproximately 8/- Stg., NZ, or W. Samoa; f- Fiji; 10/- Tonga: 5.381 Ceylon upees; 98 Pac. Frs.; 5U51.125.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA: —All production i delivered to Copra Marketing Board, jntrolled by six members, including three lanters’ representatives. The board directs Istribution and sales, and makes paylents to the producers. Production goes lainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Ausralia for local consumption, (c) crushinglill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus s available). Prices generally tally with aling rate in Philippines with premiums >r hot-air dried.

P-NG Board’s purchase prices for copra elivered main ports from March 1 were ot-air dried, $l2O per ton; FMS, $ll7 er ton; smoke-dried, $ll5 per ton.

FIJI:—The Fiji Coconut Industry Board [xes the prices to be paid for Fiji opra on a formula based on that for hilippines copra, and taking into account reight, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, tc. The copra must be graded at centres i Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and 'aveuni. Prices in Suva to Apr. 2 were; irade one, £FS4/5/-; grade two. 8F49/7/6 and grade three, £F4I/10/-. l scale of deductions has been established or copra delivered to grading centres ther than Suva.

WESTERN SAMOA; Official Copra loard takes all production, sells same nd makes payments to producers. It oes mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, nd the open market. Local price reently was £NZS6/12/6 grade one.

TONGA; All copra is sold to the Tongan Jopra Board which sends it to Europe, inder arrangement with Unilever conrolled by Philippines prices, and the rest oes on to the 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 on Mar. 17 were: Ist grade, $120; 2nd grade, $116; 3rd grade, $lO6 per ton, BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

GILBERT AND ELLICE: —Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Copra Board subsidises the price at $67.20 per ton for first grade.

NEW HEBRIDES: —Copra sold direct by planters to France and South America.

Official price on Mar. 17 was about $7O (7,000 Pac. Francs). French price in Mar. was 865 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 next quarter, Apr., May and June, have been fixed, subject to freight adjustment, at £NZSS/5/4 Ist grade, £NZS4/0/4 standard grade—both per ton, f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

COCOA: —Islands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

On Mar. 21 these were approx. £ 5tg.235 per ton, Mar.-May, c.i.f., Sydney.

On Mar. 21, Quote No. 1; In store Rabaul, export quality $485 per ton, exwharf Sydney, $530. Quote No. 2; Best quality, ex-wharf Sydney, $515, in store NG ports $462 (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA; —Latest prices quoted in Sydney, on Mar. 15 were: Grade 1, £ Stg.3os, grade 2, £Stg.277/10/- per ton, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: Mar. 21, Quote No. 1, good quality A grade 40.5 c per lb; B grade 39.5 c; C grade 37.5 c, c.i.f., Sydney.

PEANUTS. —P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported Mar. 21, f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 15c lb.

RUBBER. —P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rates, which on Mar. 18 were: Prompt shipment 56% Straits cents per lb, c.i.f. (16.45 c Aust.); Apr. shipment 57ya Straits cents per lb (16.57 c Aust.): May shipment 57 3 A Straits cents per lb (16.75 c Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, buy mainly from Tahiti for Sydney and Melbourne essence makers.

Prices on Mar. 21 were: white and yellow label processed, standard packs, $5.70, green label, $5.60, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices, until Mar. 31, 1968, are—P.-N.G.: Dried brown rice, 112 lb bags, $l2B per ton, f.o.w. Sydney or Melbourne. Vitamin enriched white rice, 112 lb bags, $142 per ton, f.o.w. Other Pacific Islands: Polished white or dried brown rice, $142 per ton, f.o.w.

PEARL SHELL.—Latest quotations for Australian M.O.P. Shell by Sydney independent shell agents were: Sound $1,650 per ton, D $l,lBO, E $670, EE 470 (in store Sydney). Cook Islands: Penrhyn £NZ32O (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS. —Sydney buyers indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: Mar. 21 Papua $l6O-$lBO per ton; N.G., 8.5.1.—5150-$l7O per ton. f.o.b. Islands ports.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL,—Sydney buyeri quoted: Mar. 21, No. 1, Ist grade, $490, f.o.b. Islands ports, 2nd grade, nom., $240 on wharf, Sydney. No. 2, $440 (best quality), on wharf, Sydney.

CROCODILE SKINS. On Mar. 21 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: $l9O per ton, del.

Sydney: New Guinea graded gum $lB5 per ton, f.0.b., Samarai.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS; 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, Mar. 17, Philippines, in bulk, $U5187.50 (equal to £Stg.67/l/-) per long ton, c.1.f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan 1% c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, UQ. NEW YORK; Mar. 17.

Philippines, c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports, nom. $U5167.50 per short ton. CEYLON: Spot, 1,075 Rupees per long ton.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON. Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £Stg.lo4/10/- per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, Mar. 18, Spot 17yad Stg. lb; Apr. shipment 17y 8 d Stg. lb: contract June shipment 17%d Stg. lb.

Exchange Rates

FIJI. —Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ

Jank, Bank Of Nz And The Bank

)F BARODA LTD. Australia on Fiji, iasis £F100; Buying, $A221.73; Selling, 1A226. Fiji-London, basis £ Stg.loo: 3. £FII2; S. £FIIO/15/-. NZ-Fiji, basis £NZ100: B. £Flll/11/9; S. £FIIO/4/3.

WESTERN SAMOA. Through BANK JF WESTERN SAMOA. Australia on W Samoa basis £WS100; B. $A246.67; 3.’ £ 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/1/3; S. £WSIOI/10/-.

Norfolk Is. And Papua-New

GUlNEA. —Australian currency used; no sxchange 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’Ecompte de Paris, Sydney, in Mar., 1967, quoted; Selling, Noumea, 98 Pac. francs to S Aust.: Papeete 98 mom. i Pac. francs to $ Aust.; 240 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; Buying 13.84 francs to £Stg.

Stock Market

Last Sales Sydney

Oil And Mining Shares

Sydney stock exchange share price index for ordinaries on Mar. 23 was 322.58, on Feb. 24, it was 284.46. 149 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Shipping, Airways Information

Shipping Timftables

PIM'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 East Australian ports, with the Pilar Regidor.

Details from John Manners and Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., general agents, 4 Bridge St., Sydney (27-9164).

Sydney - Fiji

The CSR Company operates a passenger/cargo service, usually with the MV Rona, departing Sydney every three to four weeks for Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 1 O’Connell St., Sydney (2-0515).

Sydney - Fiji - Tonga - Samoa

Union Steam Ship Co. maintains a six-weekly cargo service with the Waimate from Sydney to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Nukualofa and Apia with return to Sydney via Fiji ports, Auckland and Tauranga.

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 New Zealand and Fiji to Southampton, and return via Suez to Sydney.

Details from Chandris Line, 135 King Street, 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 approximately monthly passenger-cargo sailings from West Coast, USA (with occasional calls at Tahiti) to Australia and New Zealand, returning via Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (including transhipments for Mauritius) and 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 and Caledonien from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call regularly at Papeete, Taiohae (Marquesas Group), Vila Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Polynesie maintains three - weekly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St., Sydney (27-2654).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - HAWAII -

Canada - Usa

P. and O. 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 O. Lines of Aust.

Pty. Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317), or travel agents.

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, generally calling at Sydney, Wellington, Rarotonga, Papeete and Fiji (Southern Cross only).

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. 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311),

Sydney - Norfolk Is. - New

Hebrides - Bsi

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

Australia-West Pacific Line operates a regular monthly service from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Rabaul, Madang and Lae.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vessels maintain regular services from the Australian East coast to New Guinea ports.

Bulolo maintains a six-weekly service from Sydney and Brisbane to Pt. Moresb' Samaral, Lae, Madang and Rabaul Braeside sails every eight weeks froi Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to P Moresby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kavleni Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney.

Malekula maintains a seven-weekl service from Sydney and Brisbane t Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madang, Lombrun Lorengau, Rabaul and Bougainville port) Moresby maintains a seven-weekU service from Sydney and Brisbane to P Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul. Kaviem Wewak, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby. „¥° ntoro sails ever y eight weeks froi Melbourne and Sydney to Pt. Moresby Samarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak Alexishafen, Madang, Lae and PI Moresby.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessel Soochow and Shansi provide a regula fortnightly passenger-cargo service fron Sydney to Brisbane, Pt. Moresby Samarai and Sydney, sailing from Sydne' every second Monday.

Details from China Navigation Co. Ltd (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., genera agents), 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line cargj vessels Sletfjord, Saidor, Sarang anc Sletholm leave Sydney approx, weekly foi P-NG ports, calling at Brisbane, Pt Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak Kieta, and occasionally Gizo and Honiara Details from Karlander NG Line (F H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., agents), £ Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

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 and Djakarta.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (27-1271).

Australia-West Pacific Line vessels maintain a regular passenger/cargoi service to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Rabaul, thence to Taiwan, Hong Kong and!

Manila; returning to Australia via Madang Rabaul and Lae.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. cargo vessels Woosung, Wenchow and Wanliu call monthly at Rabaul, Lae and Madang on their way north from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Hong Kong, Okinawa and Japan.

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Changsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly nassenger-cargo service calling at Pt.

Moresby when northbound between Australia. Manila, Keelung and Hong Kong.

Details from China Navigation Co. Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., general agents), 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701). 150 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Direct Monthly Service

Japan L South Pacific

M.V. "FIJI MARU" V-13 Dep. JAPAN March 31.

GUAM April 5.

APIA April 14-15.

PAGO PAGO April 16-17.

SUVA April 20-21.

LAUTOKA April 23-24.

NOUMEA April 26-27. ‘VILA May 3.

SANTO May 4-5. ‘HONIARA March 2. * Subject to cargo inducement.

Heavy lift, reefer space and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next sailing — M.V. “Tahiti Maru”, end April, 1967.

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.

Dominion Far East Line vessels Francis •ake and George Anson maintain anthly passenger-cargo services between r dney and Japan (via Manila, Hong jng and Formosa), return via Guam and ibaul.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 )rk Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253).

Sydney - Tahiti - Uk

Chandris Line vessel Ellinis maintains regular passenger service every two onths from Sydney via New Zealand and ipeete to Southampton, and return via lez to Sydney.

Details from Chandris Line, 135 King reet, Sydney. Tel. 28-2451.

EUROPE - NEW GUINEA -

Bsip, Geic

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Dyal Rotterdam Lloyd operate a service r ery six weeks from the Continent and jndon via Suez to Port Moresby, Honiara ■ Tarawa (alternating each voyage), abaul, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, ewak, Sukarnapura, Biak, Manokwarl id Sorong.

Europe - Tahiti - New

Caledonia - Australia

Messageries Maritimes vessels arquisien, Malais, Mauricien and Maori, in monthly between France and New ;aland, via Panama Canal, calling at apeete and Noumea.

Messageries Maritimes passenger-cargo »ssels Vivarais, Vanoise, Velay, Ventoux id Vosges run monthly between France ad Noumea via Suez Canal and Aus- ■alia. From Sydney, vessels go to Noumea; ‘turn to France via Brisbane and mthern Australian coastal ports.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, Young St., Sydney (27-2654).

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Tonga - Fiji - N. Caledonia

A regular passenger/cargo service every aree weeks from the Continent and UK, La Panama, to Tahiti, Fiji and New aledonia, calling at Western Samoa and bnga every second voyage, is operated lintly by Nederland Line Royal Dutch [ail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 61 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Far East - Fiji

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Iwangsi, Norman, Nanchang and operate a monthly passengerargo service from Japan and Hong Kong outhwards to Fiji direct, returning to apan via New Zealand and Far Eastern iorts.

Far East - Fiji - Nz - Sydney

Royal Interocean Lines operate a nonthly passenger-cargo service with the 7jimanuk, Tjitarum and Tjiliwong from long Kong and Singapore to Fiji and JZ, calling at Suva and Lautoka, and eturning via the Philippines.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines. 561 George St.. Sydney (2-0573).

Far East - P-Ng

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Kweilin and Chekiang maintain a regular nonthly passenger/cargo service from [apan direct to Lae and Pt. Moresby, ;hence Tasmania. Melbourne and Fremantle. 151 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. OF N.Z.

LIMITED Serving the Pacific for nearly 100 years.

Regular Sailings by Modern Vessels From Sydney to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Nukualofa and Apia.

Also from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Niue, Vavau, Nukualofa 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.

FAR EAST - P-NG ■ BSI ■ NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels Yochow Yunnan and Ninghai maintain a monthly cargo service from Japan and Hong Kong southwards to Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, with regular calls at Wewak.

Honiara, Santo and Noumea returning to Japan direct.

Details from China Navigation Co. Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., general 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, 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.

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA Union Steam Ship Co. passenger/cargo vessels Tofua and Matua depart from Auckland alternately every two weeks for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Tofua maintains a service every four weeks from Auckland to Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Niue, Vavau. Nukualofa, Suva, and return to New Zealand (usually Auckland).

Matua maintains a service every four weeks from Auckland to Lautoka.

Apia, Nukualofa, Suva, and return to New Zealand (usually 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 . . Ton ga Copra Board vessel Niuvakai operates a six-weekly passengercargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Lautoka, Suva, Apia and Nukualofa.

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, occasionally extending to Tarawa, GEIC, and other Pacific Islands.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty.

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (27-2041).

Usa - American Samoa - Fiji

AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line operates monthly passenger-cargo service from L.

Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra ai Ventura. Terminal ports, in Australi vary with cargoes offering. Vessels cs at Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, FiJ Pago Pago, Papeete (occas.) and Horn Details from Matson Lines, 50 Your St., Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Australia

Pacific Australia Direct Line’s vesse Parrakoola, W.R. Lundgren, Goonawarr and Boogabilla maintain a monthly servii from West Coast Nth. American por to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaidl occasionally calling at Honolulu, Suv and Lautoka.

Details from agents: Birt and Compan (Pty.) Ltd., 2 Castlereagh Street, Sydne (2-0313).

USA - PACIFIC PORTS - NZ -

Sydney - Usa

Matson Line vessels Mariposa an Monterey maintain a regular service ever three weeks from San Francisco and Lc Angeles to Bora Bora, Papeete, Rarotongs Auckland, Sydney, and return via Noumet Suva, Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolul! to San Francisco.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Youni Street, Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Tahiti - Australia

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships o: US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney servic make three-weekly calls at Tahiti oi southbound voyages.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agencs 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

USA • TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI -

New Caledonia

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessel; Thorsgaard and Thor I maintain approxl mately monthly services from West Coas; Nth. American ports to Papeete. Page Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, occasionally Vila, Santo, Nukualofa, an« return.

Details from agents: Birt and Companj (Pty.) Ltd., 2 Castlereagh Street, Sydnej (2-0313).

Airways Timetables

(International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.)

Trans-Pacific Services

Sydney - Brisbane - Honolulu

North America

By QANTAS (with 707’s) Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Brisbane 1015, dep. 1100, arr. Honolulu Wed. 2340, dep. Thurs. 0045 for San; Francisco, arr. 0730.

Thurs.: Dep. San Francisco 1000, arr.

Honolulu 1255, dep. 1400, arr. Nadii Fri. 1815, dep, 1850, arr. Brisbane; Fri. 2015, dep. 2115 for Sydney,, arr. 2225. 152 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii - Usa

By QANTAS (with 707’s) bs., Pri., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Nadi 1440, dep. 1525, arr. Honolulu Mon., Thurs., Pri., Sat. 2330, dep. Tues., Pri., Sat., Sun. 0045, arr.

San Francisco 0730. n„ Wed., Pri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0010, dep. 0125, arr. Honolulu 0930, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1745 (to New York, London), n., Wed., Pri., Sun.; From New York, dep. San Francisco 2000, arr. Honolulu 2255, dep. 2359, arr. Nadi Wed., Pri., Sun., Tues. 0415, dep. 0500, arr.

Sydney 0715. ~ Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 2100, arr. Honolulu 2355 Sat., dep. 0100, arr. Nadi Sun. 0515, dep. 0600, arr.

Sydney 0815. (From Vancouver via San Francisco alt. weeks Apr. 7, 21, May 5. 19, etc.). !S., Sat., Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 1000, arr. Honolulu 1255, dep. 1400, arr. Nadi Wed., Sun., Mon. 1815, dep. 1900, arr. Sydney 2115.

SYDNEY ■ FIJI - TAHITI - MEXICO By QANTAS (with 707’s) i.: Dep. Sydney 1000, arr. Auckland 1445, dep. 1545 for Papeete, arr. Sun. 2240*, dep. 2340 for Acapulco, arr.

Mon. 1130, dep. 1230 for Mexico City, arr. 1315. i.: Dep. Sydney 2000, arr. Nadi 0150, dep. 0235 for Papeete, arr. Wed. 0850, dep. 2230 for Acapulco, arr.

Thurs. 1020, dep. 1120 for Mexico City, arr. 1205 (to Nassau, Bermuda, London). s.: Dep. Mexico City 2210, arr.

Acapulco 2300, dep. 2359 for Papeete, arr. Wed. 0410*, dep. 0510 for Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0855, dep. 1000 for Sydney, arr. 1105. (from London, Bermuda, Nassau); Dep. Mexico City 2210 for Acapulco, arr. 2300, dep. 2359, arr. Papeete Sun. 3410, dep. 0510 for Nadi, arr. Mon. 3750, dep. 0835 for Sydney, arr. 1050.

Asterisk indicates technical stop only.) DNEY - HAWAII - USA via FIJI,

Nz Or Am. Samoa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) s., Pri., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1730 (arr. tfadi 2320, dep. 2359), Honolulu arr, lues., Pri., Sun. 0805, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1655. i.: Dep. Sydney 1730 for Pago Pago (arr. Mon. 0140, dep. 0230), Honolulu irr. 0835, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, irr. 1655. rs.; Dep. Sydney 1630 for Auckland [arr. 2110, dep. 2215) for Honolulu, arr. Thurs. 0845, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1655. : Dep. Sydney 1530 for Auckland (arr. 2010, dep. 2115) for Pago Pago, arr. 0150, dep., 0240 for Honolulu, arr. Sat. 0845, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles 1655. ~ Wed., Pri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100 :or Honolulu, Nadi, arr. Tues., Pri., Sun. 0545, dep. 0645, and Sydney, arr. )900. : Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honolulu, ?ago Pago, arr. Sun. 0540, dep. 0640, and Sydney, arr. Mon. 0930. s.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honoulu, Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0815, dep. )900 for Sydney, arr. 1000. rs.; Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honoulu, Pago Pago, arr. Pri. 0540, dep. )630, and Auckland, arr. Sat. 0915, iep. 1000 for Sydney, arr. 1100.

SYDNEY - N. CALEDONIA - FIJI -

Tahiti - Usa

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DOS’s) Wed.: Dep. Sydney 0950 for Noumea, arr. 1320, dep. 1435 for Nadi, arr. 1715, dep. 1800 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. 0005, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955.

Prom April 11 to 29 arr. Los Angeles one hour earlier.

Pri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2359 for Papeete, arr. 0515, dep. Sun. 0800 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Mon. 1045, dep. 1145 for Noumea, arr. 1230.

Prom April 1 to 29 arr. at Papeete one hour later.

Pri.: Dep. Noumea 1435 for Nadi, arr. 1715, dep. 1800 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. 0005, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955.

From April 1 to 29 Los Angeles arr. one hour earlier.

Thurs.; Dep. Los Angeles 0800 for Papeete, arr. 0615, dep. Pri. 2359 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Sat. 1045, dep. 1130 for Noumea, arr. 1230, dep. 1345 for Sydney, arr. 1545. (NOTE; Flights from Sydney to Noumea and return are operated in association with Qantas.) SYDNEY - NEW ZEALAND - FIJI -

Hawaii - Canada

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(with DCB’s) Alt. Pri.: Dep. Sydney 1800, arr. Nadi 2355 Pri., dep. 0040 Sat. (cross Dateline) arr. Honolulu 0850 Pri., dep. 1010 for Vancouver, arr. 1735, dep.

Pri. 1900 for Amsterdam.

Mon., Wed., Sat.: From Amsterdam — various times.

Wed. flight; From Amsterdam, arr.

Vancouver 1550, dep. 1800, arr. Honolulu 2145, dep. 2245 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi 0305, dep. 0345 for Sydney, arr. 0600. (Alt. Pri. to Auckland, arr. 0640). (From May 14 jets will arrive at Sydney on Sundays. They will leave for Vancouver at 1800 from Sydney on the same day.) NOTE: Canadian Pacific also operate a weekly non-stop service from Toronto to Honolulu, Wed.: Dep. Toronto 1625 for Honolulu, arr. 2115 Wed.

Sun.: Dep. Honolulu 1845 for Toronto, arr. 0840 Mon.

SYDNEY - NTH. AMERICA, via

Fiji, Hawaii

By BOAC (with 707’s) Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0040, dep. 0125 Wed., Pri., Mon. (cross Dateline) arr. Honolulu Tues., Thurs., Sun. 0930, dep. 1130, arr. San Francisco 1745.

Tues., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2000, arr. Honolulu 2255, dep. 2359 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi Thurs., Sat., Mon. 0415, dep. 0500, arr. Sydney 0715.

New Zealand - Tahiti - Usa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Thurs. Dep. San Francisco 1400 for Honolulu, dep. 1815 for Papeete, arr. 2340.

Pri.: Dep. Papeete 0130 for Honolulu, arr. 0650, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. Pri. 1555.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359 for Papeete, arr. Sun. 0615, dep. 0700 for Auckland, arr.

Mon. 1050.

Mon.: Dep. Auckland 2359 for Papeete arr. Mon. 0655. dep. 0800 for Los Angeles, arr. Mon. 1750 and San Francisco, arr. 2005.

Australia-New Zealand

Brisbane - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s, DOS’s and Electras) Three times weekly, both ways.

Brisbane - Wellington

AIR-NZ (with Electras) One service weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Pour times weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Pour times 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) Daily, both ways.

BOAC (with 707’s) Twice weekly, both ways.

PAN AMERICAN (with 707’s) One service weekly, both ways.

Sydney ■ Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with DOS’s and 707’i) Daily, both ways.

Sydney - Wellington

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Daily both ways.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney - Fiji

AIR-INDIA (with 707’s) Tues.: Dep. Sydney 1000, arr. Nadi 1545.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 0730, arr. Sydney 0935.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

AIRLINES OF N.S.W. (with Sandringham Flying-boats) Three times every week from Rose Bay Base. Departure time is dependent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Island.

Sydney - New Caledonia

QANTAS/UTA (with 707’s) Pri.: Dep. Sydney 1100 for Noumea (arr. 1430), dep. 1545 for Sydney, arr. 1735

Sydney - N. Caledonia - Fiji - Nz

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with Caravelle) Tues.: Dep. Noumea 1200 for Sydney, arr. 1420, dep. 1600 for Noumea, arr. 1955.

Wed.: Dep. Noumea 0930 for Auckland, arr. 1320, dep. 1500 for Noumea, arr. 1705.

Sydney - New Zealand - Fiji

BOAC (with 707’s) Mon., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Auckland 1345, dep. 2130, arr. Nadi 0020 (Tues., Sat.).

Tues., Sun.; Dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755, dep. 0930, arr. Sydney 1035, thence London via Singapore.

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS (with DC4’s) Wed., Pri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr.

NI 1445. Flight extends NI-Auckland- NI Wed., Sat. only. (See “NZ—Pacific Islands”).

Thurs., Pri., Sun.; Dep. NI 1445, Sydney, arr. 1845. 153 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S —Sandefjord, Norway.

Motor Vessels "THORSGAARD" 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

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 Internationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

LAE/RABAUL —Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PORT VILA Comptoirs Francais de Nouvelles 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. 0650, 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. Wed., dep. Lae 0930, arr. Pt. Moresby 1020, dep. 1100, arr.

Brisbane 1455, dep. 1530, arr. Sydney 1705.

Ansett-ANA: Daily, exc. Thurs., Sun., dep.

Lae 0900, arr. Pt. Moresby 0950, dep. 1030, arr. Brisbane 1425, dep. 1500, arr. Sydney 1635.

Qld. ■ Papua-New Guinea

TAA (with Fokker Friendships) Thurs.: Dep. Townsville 1300, arr. Cairns 1355, dep. 1500, arr. Pt. Moresby 1720.

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 1315, arr. Pt. Moresby 1530.

Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1610, arr. Cairns 1825, dep. 1920, arr. Townsville 2015.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS.

NZ - AM. SAMOA

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Fri.: Dep. Pago Pago 0630, arr. Auckland Sat. 0915.

Sat.: Dep. Auckland 2115, arr. Pago Pago Sat. 0150.

NZ - FIJI AIR-NZ (with DCB’s and Electras) Fri., Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020.

Sun.: Electra dep. Auckland 1000, arr.

Nadi 1355.

Wed.: Electra dep. Auckland 2300, arr.

Nadi 0255.

Sat., Wed., Fri.: Dep. Nadi 0505, arr.

Auckland 0755.

Sun., Thurs.: Electra dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0900.

Mon.: Dep. Nadi 0930, arr. Auckland 1220.

Mon., Sat., flights ex-Auckland and Tues., Sun. flights ex-Nadi are operated by BOAC.

Sun.: Electra dep. Nadi 1500, arr. Auckland 1855.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIR-NZ (with DCB’s) Sun.: Dep. Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020 Mon. Dep. Nadi 0200 (cross Dateline) arr. Pago Pago Sun. 0445.

Sun.: Dep. Pago Pago 0715 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi Mon. 0815. Dep. Nadi 0930, arr. Auckland 1220.

NZ - HAWAII - USA AIR-NZ (with DCB’s) Wed., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 1500, arr. Auckland 1945, dep. Auckland 2100, arr.

Honolulu 0720, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1555.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2000, arr.

Honolulu 2315, dep. 0030, arr. Auckland 0715 Fri., Sun., dep. Auckland 0900, arr. Sydney 1005.

Nz - New Caledonia

AIR-NZ (with Electras) Fri.: Dep. Auckland 1315 for Noumea, arr. 1540.

Pri.; Dep. Noumea 1645 for Auckland, arr. 2105.

NZ - NORFOLK IS.

AIR-NZ (by Qantas DC4’s) (Charter) Wed., Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 1945.

Thurs., Sun.; Dep. Auckland 1030, arr.

NI 1330.

Nz - Tahiti

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DCB’s) Fri.: Dep. Auckland 2345 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. Fri. 0630.

Thurs.; Dep. Papeete 0900 for Aucklai. (cross Dateline) arr. Fri. 1230. Fro May 4 arr. and dep. 2 hours earlie

Inter - Territory Service

Fiji - Gilbert & Ellice Islanc

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Pri.: Dep. Suva 0745, arr. Nadi 0825, de 0910, Funafuti, arr. 1305. Sat., de Funafuti 0700, Tarawa, arr. 1140.

Sun.: Dep. Tarawa 0630, Funafuti, a;j 1130, dep. 1230, Nadi, arr. 1625, de 1655, Suva, arr. 1735.

Fiji - New Hebrides - Esi

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Suva 0900, Nadi, a,j 0940. dep. 1025. Vila, arr. 1300. Ne day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 090 Santo, arr. 1015, dep. 1045, Honiai arr. 1440.

Wed.. Sat.: Dep. Honiara 0630, San'; arr. 1025, dep. 1055, Vila, arr. 120 dep. 1235, Nadi, arr. 1705. dep. 17: Suva. arr. 1815.

Fiji - Tonga

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with DC3’s) Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Sui 0700, dep. 0800, arr. Nukualofa 120 Dep. Nukualofa 1245, arr. Suva 144 dep. 1600. arr. Nadi 1645.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoi Parade, Suva.

Fiji ■ Western Samoa

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Sat.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 070 dep. 0750 (cross Dateline) arr. An Pri. 1300.

Fri.: Dep. Apia 1350 (cross Dateline) aj Suva Sat. 1700, dep. Sat. 1730, aj Nadi 1815.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahitii

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Tues.: Dep. Honolulu 1000, arr. Pago PaE 1410, dep. 1500, arr. Papeete 1850.

Tues.; Dep. Papeete 2230, arr. Pago Pa; Wed. 0040, dep. 0130, arr. Honolu 0735.

New Caledonia - New Hebridi

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC4’s and Herons) Tues.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 09J dep. Vila 1035, arr. Santo 1150, df 1330, arr. Vila 1445, dep. 1515, aj Noumea 1710.

Sat.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Santo 104 dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1225, dep. 14( arr. Noumea 1555.

New Caledonia - Wallis Islam

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC4’s: Monthly service (second Wednesday) i Wed. (Apr. 12): Dep. Noumea 0800, aj Wallis 1530.

Monthly service (following Friday) Fri. (Apr. 14); Dep. Wallis 1000, aj Noumea 1530.

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA (with Fokker Friendships) Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0900 1 Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandin Honiara, arr. 1625.

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) OT for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabat Lae, arr. 1545.

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0845 f Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara, at 1630.

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 0900 i Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 162< 154 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

Australia-West

Pacific Line

- MHHI nking

Acific Islands

with the FAR EAST and AUSTRALIA M.V. “SAMOS”

JAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney. Phone: 27-6301. ich Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone; 61-3031.

TRALIAN AGENTS; Brisbane & Adelaide—Gibbs, Bright & Co. Pty. Ltd.

LND AGENTS: Madang, Lae and Rabaul (New Guinea) —New Guinea Co. Ltd. Port Moresby (Papua)—lsland Products Ltd.

EASTERN AGENTS: Japan—Dodwell & Co. Ltd. Hong Kong, Manila and Taipei—Everett Steamships Corporation.

P-NG - WEST NG 'AA and Garuda Indonesian Airways, ng DC3’s, run services between Lae 1 Sukarnapura Both services are tnightly.

Tahiti - Honolulu

TA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DCB’s) .: Dep. Papeete 0815, arr. Honolulu 1510, dep. Sun. 0615, arr. Papeete 2230.

Tahiti - Usa

TA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DCB’s) 3.: Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1855, dep. Wed. 2359, arr. Papeete 1615. ; Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1855, dep. Fri. 2359, arr. Papeete D 615.

N AMERICAN AIRWAYS (with 707’s) irs.: Dep. San Francisco 1400, dep.

Honolulu 1815, arr. Papeete 2340. : Dep. Papeete 0130, arr. Honolulu Pri. 0650, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1555 Fri. : Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0615 Sun. i.: Dep. Papeete 0800, arr. Los Angeles Mon. 1750, arr. San Francicso Mon. 2005.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DC3) .: Dep. Apia 0445, 0515, 1600; Mon. md Thurs.: 0800; Tues., Fri.: 0800, L 600; Sat.: 0800, 1300. .: Dep. Pago Pago 0615, 0645, 1715; Mon. and Thurs.: 0915; Tues., Wed., Pri.: 0915, 1715; Sat.: 0915, 1415.

W. Samoa - Tonga

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DC3) Sun.: Dep. Apia 0800, arr. Tonga Mon. 1115.

Mon.: Dep. Tonga 1215, arr. Apia Sun. 1530.

W. Samoa - Wallis Island - Fiji

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS) Sat.: Dep. Apia 1030, arr. Nadi 1345 Sun.

Wed.: Dep. Apia 1030, arr. Wallis 1115 Thurs., dep. 1145, arr. Nadi 1445 Thurs.

Fri.: Dep. Nadi 0815, arr. Wallis 1130, dep. 1215, arr. Apia 1500 Thurs.

Sun.: Dep. Nadi 1445, arr. Apia 2015 Sat.

Internal Services

FIJI FIJI AIRWAYS (with Herons, Drovers, and DC3’s) Suva-Nadi-Suva: Daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Mon., Sun.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Mon.

Suva-Matei-Savusavu-Suva: Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: Tues., Wed., Fri.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva: Sat., Thurs.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Tues., Wed., Thurs., Prl., Sun.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Parade, Suva.

French Polynesia

RAI (with DC4 and Bermuda Flying-boats) Papeete-Moorea-Papeete: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Sat.

Papeete - Raiatea - Bora Bora: Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun.

Papeete - Huahine - Raiatea - Bora Bora: Thurs.

Bora Bora-Raiatea-Papeete: Daily.

Bora Bora - Raiatea - Huahine - Moorea - Papeete: Thurs.

Bora Bora-Rangiroa-Papeete; Thurs.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, or any UTA office.

Guam - Us Trust Territory

Trust Territory Air Service

(with SAl6’s and DC4’s)

Guam-Marianas

Guam - Saipan - Rota - Guam: Mon., Wed. (DC4).

Guam - Rota - Saipan - Guam: Tues., Sat. (DC4).

Guam - Saipan - Guam; Thurs., Prl. (DC4).

Guam-Carolines

Guam-Yap-Koror: Thurs. (DC4).

Koror-Yap-Guam; Pri. (DC4).

Guam - Yap - Koror - Yap - Guam: Sun. (DC4).

Guam-Carolines-Marshalls

Guam-Truk-Kwajalein: Tues. (DC4).

Kwajalein - Majuro - Kwajalein - Truk - Guam: Wed. (DC4).

Truk - Ponape - Kwajalein: Tues. (SAI6), Kwajalein - Ponape - Truk: Wed. (SAI6). 155 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

Labasa - Lev Uka - Apia • Pago Pago

Nukualofa - Vavau • Niue

For further particulars apply to

Bethell, Gwyn & Co Ltd. Burns Philp

Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

London, E.l. Suva

New Caledonia

TRANSPAC (with Heron and/or Aztec) Noumea - Mare - Noumea; Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri.

Noumea - Lifou - Noumea: Mon., Tues., Wed., Pri., Sat.

Noumea - Ouvea - Noumea: Mon., Thurs., Sat.

Noumea-Isle of Pines-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Thio-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Houailou-Noumea: Daily, Noumea-Poindimie-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Hienghene-Noumea; Daily.

Noumea-Kouaoua-Noumea: Daily except Sun.

Noumea - Kone - Voh - Koumac - Voh - Kone-Noumea: Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat.

Noumea - Tontouta - Noumea: Charter only.

New Hebrides

Air Melanesia

(New Hebrides Airways and Hebridair) (with NHA Drover and Aztec) Mon.: Vila - Lamap* - Norsup - Santo - Walaha - Longana - Walaha - Santo - Norsup-Lamap*-Vila.

Vila-Tanna-Vila.

Tues.; Vila - Lamap - Norsup* - Santo - Norsup • -Lamap-Vila.

Wed.: Vila - Lamap* - Norsup - Santo - Norsup-Lamap*-Vila.

Vila-Tanna-Vila.

Thurs.: Vila - Epi* - Longana - Walaha - Santo - Walaha - Longana - Epi* - Vila.

Pri.: Vila-Tanna-Vila.

Vila - Lamap* - Norsup - Santo - Norsup-Lamap*-Vila.

Fortnightly: Tanna - Aneityum - Tanna (Apr. 7, 21, etc.).

Sat.: Vila - Epi - Lamap - Norsup* - Santo - Norsup* - Lamap - Epi - Vila.

NOTE: Walaha and Longana are on Aoba; Lamap and Norsup are on Malekula and an asterisk means optional stop.

Details from Air Melanesia, Vila, or local agents.

Papua - New Guinea

Operated by TAA LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Friendships and DCS) Daily (exc. Wed.): Lae-Rabaul.

Daily (exc. Mon., Wed.): Rabaul-Lae.

PORT MORESBY-DARU (Twin Otter) Sat.: Pt. Moresby -Dam - Balimo - Pt.

Moresby.

Mon., Fri.: Pt. Moresby - Dam - Pt.

Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-West Papua

(Twin Otter) Tues., Fri.; Pt. Moresby-Kerema-Baimum- Kerema - Pt. Moresby. Reservations beyond Kerema subject to administration requirements.

Pt. Moresby-East Papua

(Twin Otter) 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 (Friendships) Mon., Thurs.: Lae - Madang - Wewak - Manus-Kavieng-Rabaul.

Mon.; Rabaul-Kavieng-Manus-Wewak.

Daily (exc. Wed.): Lae-Madang-Wewak.

Daily (exc. Wed.): Wewak-Madang-Lae.

Mon., Wed., Thurs.; Kavieng-Rabaul.

Mon., Tues., Pri.: Rabaul-Kavieng.

RABAUL-NEW IRELAND (Beechcraft) Pri.: Rabaul-Namatanai-Rabaul.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Mon.: Madang - Baiyer R. - Hagen - Banz-Minj-Goroka-Lae.

Tues.: Lae - Goroka - MinJ - Banz - Mt. Hagen - Baiyer R. - Madang.

Wed.: Madang - Wabag - Hagen - Banz - Minj-Goroka-Lae.

Pri., Sat.: Lae-Goroka-Madang-Wewak.

Thurs.: Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Hagen-Wabag-Madang.

Tues., Sat.: Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Lae.

Sun.: Lae - Goroka - Minj - Banz - Mt. Hagen-Madang.

Pt. Moresby-Highlands

(DCS) Thurs., Fri.: Mt. Hagen - Pt. Moresby - Mt. Hagen.

Pt, Moresby-Popondetta-Lae

(DCS) Sat.: Pt. Moresby-Kokoda (opt.)-Popon detta-Garaina-Lae.

Sat.: Lae - Garaina - Popondetta Kokoda (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Pt, Moresby-Bulolo-Lae (Dcs

and Twin Otter) Thurs.: Pt. Moresby-Bulolo-Lae.

Thurs.: Lae-Bulolo-Pt. Moresby.

Sat.; Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo-Lae.

Sat.: Lae-Bulolo-Wau-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo

(Twin Otter) Sun.; Pt. Moresby - Wau - Bulolo - F 3 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

Pri., Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Madang-Goroki: Pt. Moresby-Goroka-Madang.

Lae-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat.. Sun.: Lae-Rabav Pri., Sat., Sun., Tues., Thurs.; Rabaul-L® Thurs.: Lae - Pinschhafen - Caij Gloucester - Talasea - Hoskins Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

Sat.: Rabaul - Jacquinot Bay - Hoskins?

Talasea - Kandrian - Cape Gloucester!

Finschhafen-Lae.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Mon., Wed., Pri.: Rabaul - Nissan I (optional Fri. only) Buka-Wakuns Kieta - Buin - Kieta - Buka - Nisss; Is. (optional Mon. only) - Rabaul.

Rabaul-Talasea-Rabaul (Dcs)

Sat.: Rabaul - Jacquinot Bay - Hoskins?

Talasea.

Sun.; Talasea-Hoskins-Rabaul.

Tues.: Rabaul-Hoskins-Talasea.

Thurs.: Talasea - Hoskins - Jacquinr Bay-Rabaul.

PAPUAN AIRLINES PTY. LTD. (with DCS’s and Piaggios) Mon.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Popoi detta-Kokoda-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.; Aroa (opt.)-Kairuku (opt.)-Berelnn Woitape - Tapini - Bereina - Kairulj (opt.)-Aroa (opt.)-Rorona (opt.)-I Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Tapini Woitape (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Tues.: (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta?

Kokoda-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Dam - Balimtj Daru-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Cape Rodn© Paili (opt.)-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Woitape : Tapini-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt Aroa (opt.) - Kairuku - Bereina - E Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-E Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Gurnt (Samarai) - Pt. Moresby.

Wed.; (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Kokoda , Popondetta-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Tapini .

Woitape-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona-Ann Kairuku-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Bereina - I Moresby.

Thurs. (Piaggio): Pt. Moresby - Woitapic Tapini-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (optl Aroa (opt.) - Kairuku - Bereina .

Kairuku Moresby.

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Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul. ae-Madang-Wewak. ladang-Lae. ae-Goroka-Madang.

T’au - Bulolo - Lae - Goroka - Madang - Wewak - Momote Kavieng - Rabaul. roroka - Pt. Moresby - Bulolo - Lae - Bulolo - Pt. Moresby. 7ewak-Lae. 7ewak - Angoram - Maprik - Wewak.

It. Hagen - Goroka - Lae - Goroka - Mt. Hagen.

It. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

It. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen. rs.: Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak-Madang-Goroka-Lae-Wau.

It. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Vewak - Hayfield - Yangoru - Wewak.

It. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Vewak-Aitape-Dagua-Wewak. yewak-Vanimo-Tadji-Wewak. 7ewak-Angoram-Wewak.

Vewak-Ambunti-Wewak.

Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Ladang-Lae. 7au - Bulolo - Lae - Madang - Wewak-Momote-Kavieng-Rabaul. •t. Moresby-Bulolo-Lae-Goroka.

Vewak - Lae - Goroka - MinJ - Banz - Mt. Hagen.

Ladang - Mt. Hagen - Banz - MinJ - Goroka-Madang.

Lt. Hagen-Pt. Moresby.

Lt. Hagen - Erave - Kagua - lalibu - Mt. Hagen.

Lt. Hagen-Tari-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Lae - Mt.

Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen.

Lae - Madang - Wewak - Tadji - 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 - Goroka - Lae - Goroka - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Mendi - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Port Moresby-Goroka.

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MEGAPODE AIRWAYS (with Apache and 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.

Honiara-Kira Kira-Honiara: Wed.

Honiara-Munda (New Georgia)-Barakoma (Vella La Vella)-Munda-Honiara: Prl.

Honiara - Yandina - Munda - Barakoma - Munda-Yandina-Honiara: Mon.

Honiara-Avu Avu-Honiara: Thurs.

Details from Megapode Airways, PO Box 103. Honiara. BSIP. 157 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

Smooth in his dealings with politicians, high Commonwealth public servants and members of the Trusteeship Council and secretariat, it could be that David Hay, himself a former Ambassador at the UN, would look on him with favour. But it must be recorded that for a variety of reasons, Toogood’s appointment would not be popular with the rank and file of the field staff, and with this sort of handicap hampering him, it seems unlikely that he would get the appointment.

Of the present active crop of DC’s only four, at the most, are thought to have any chance of being considered. They are Ted Hicks, of Wewak; Harry West, of Rabaul; Des Bassett, of Madang and the redoubtable Tom Ellis, of Hagen.

The first three are all much of an age and have a common background in that they were all young ANGAU officers and very early appointees as patrol officers to the post-war administration. All have completed the two-year diploma course at ASOPA with distinction, and there is little doubt that they all are more attuned to the present climate of native administration than any of their pre-war colleagues.

West is quick, but sometimes impulsive and rash; Bassett is deliberate and sometimes timid, while Hicks is a bit temperamental. Nevertheless, all three have considerable achievements to their credit and any one could cause an upset.

The unusual Ellis Ellis is in a category of his own.

Brought to the territory nearly 45 years ago as a child, he has become a legend in the Western Highlands.

Appointed District Commissioner in 1959, his drive, imagination and initiative have made his district into the most go-ahead in the territory.

He has the undoubted backing of the native people there, and since his appointment as an official member of the House of Assembly, he has emerged as a strong and positive member on the government side.

But being a director of a key department in Port Moresby, subordinating his desires to that of the team as a whole, requires different techniques to that of running what is, after all, still a pretty remote and primitive district, and there are many who feel that his god-like attitudes— reminiscent of General Macarthur— and his steam-rolling methods, might not work out at Konedobu.

If he does get the job—and he has an excellent chance—he will have emulated the example of Bert Jones, who started as a medical assistant in the early twenties and finished as Director of District Services (as it then was) in the fifties.

There is one man, who while not a kiap, has been persistently mentioned for the job, and that is Bill Carter, the Director of Posts and Telegraphs. Still in his early forties —the same age as West, Hicks and Bassett, Carter was only 32 when he came to the territory in 1954.

A post office trained engineer with an engineer’s logical and objective approach to problems, Carter has demonstrated that he has most of the qualities required in a key departmental head. Patient, polite and considerate in his human relations and staff matters, he is concise and decisive in his summation of any problem placed before him. On a couple of occasions he has acted as an Assistant Administrator. Although Dr. John Gunther, for come reason, felt he was a disappointment in that high post, Carter has a blend of enthusiasm, idealism and hard headedness.

One very important factor Carter’s favour is that, not having background of service in the ff staff, he has not been engaged in internicene jockeying for place 2 position which has always beenr feature of the field staff service. E body has any reason to dislike himr The days are now past when head of the field staff was choc from among those whose me qualification was a lifetime of de ing with primitive bush nativ Nowadays the job requires somebo qualified in the intricacies of puß administration, set against a bac ground of rapid and drams political, social and economic chair And, of course, additionally man chosen must have persoc qualities of integrity and leadersH capable of inspiring all those—broc as well as white—upon whose lii and activities the operations of department impinge.

If I were a betting man, I’d hs no hesitation in having a dollar Bill Carter’s nose. • For a note on J. K. McCartl see p. 42.

Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Julian McNicoll The death occurred at Keravat, near Rabaul, on February 6, of Mr.

Julian McNicoll. Mr. McNicoll, whose mother was a Tolai, died in his sleep at 61. He had been ill for some time.

At the outbreak of World War II Mr. McNicoll was employed as a labour overseer on Volupi Plantation, near Rabaul. During the days of the Japanese invasion of Rabaul he displayed outstanding bravery when helping with the evacuation of troops and civilians from the town.

For this he was awarded the DSM, and later he won a bar to this medal.

He afterwards joined the Royal Australian Navy.

After the war Mr. McNicoll returned to New Britain and was employed by the Department of Agriculture at the Lowlands Experimental Station, Keravat.

Mr. Pang Chung Sing Rabaul lost one of its best-known identities with the death in March of Pang Chung Sing. He had been ill for some months.

Pang, who was an employee of the New Guinea Club for more than 15 years, made many friends through his activities at the club. He was righthand man to manager Len Kent. ! looked after the needs of memb< and guests; nothing was too miu trouble for him; everybody spa warmly of him.

Pang was born in Rabaul in 15 and lived there all his life. He was member of the Kuo Min Tang 1 many years. He had a number other interests.

He is survived by his parents, fi brothers and four sisters.

Mr. Ugi Biritu The death occurred in Goroka March 15 of Mr. Ugi Biritu, a mei; ber of the P-NG House of Assemb: See p. 12 for a report.

Dr. Yves Merlet Doctor Yves Merlet, chief Noumea’s Municipal Bureau Hygiene, died on March 5, followii an accident while skin diving. E Merlet had been a keen diver ft many years. The accident occurn on the barrier reef near the Amedt lighthouse.

Dr. Merlet had greatly aided tJ Noumea Aquarium by supplying with deep sea specimens.

He had done invaluable work head of a flying TB detection squas He left a widow and family. 158 APRIL, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Who follows McCarthy? (Continued from p. 12)

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DEALERS and collectors have advertised for old papers of historical or literary interest: also artifacts and scientific specimens. Items such as these may constitute national cultural property as defined in the National Cultural Property (Preservation) Ordinance 1965. The Trustees of the Museum have responsibilities under this Ordinance to preserve and protect cultural property, export of which from the Territory is prohibited unless a permit is obtained.

There are heavy penalties for breaches of the Ordinance. Any person desiring to send out of the Territory any national cultural property is advised to consult the nearest District Commissioner or address their enquiries to the Public Museum, P.O. Box 635, Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

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Federation man, Mr. R. D. Patel, brother of Mr. A. D. Patel, appealed in vain to Speaker, Mr. Ron Kermode, to rule the amendment out of order, because it was a substitution, not an amendent.

There was loud laughter from both sides of the House after the Speaker pointed out that an amendment could not be ruled out of order if it contained one or more words of the original motion, and in this case “the mover has been careful to leave in one word of the original motion, the word ‘that’

The Member without Portfolio, Mr. John Falvey, told the House; “This Government is here to govern and will govern for the next four and a half years, and will not be pushed into having an inquiry or committee to take over the job it has been given to do by the people of this country”.

After that, a diatribe by Mr, Koya about the Government ignoring national issues, and calling on them to resign, had as much effect as a snowflake on a hotplate.

UN 'not wanted' The meeting ended brightly with Ratu Mara firing a rocket at the United Nations, meant to burst over the General Assembly with a shower of sparks.

Replying to a comment from Peni Naqasima, of the Alliance, that his constituents were concerned about the United Nations’ proposal for a fact-finding mission to Fiji, Ratu Mara said such a mission would not be welcome in Fiji.

He said they agreed with the view expressed by Mr. Herbert Bowden, the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, that he doubted whether the British Government would be able to see the value of such a mission.

Furthermore, “from information received of the debates that take place in the General Assembly it is quite obvious such a mission would come with preconceived ideas”. 159 Fiji Council (Continued from p. 8) CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1967

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Weymark Pty. Ltd Whites Aviation ' Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd.

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone; 61-9197). Wholly set up and nrinted in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

lead Office: Port Moresby, Papua Cable Address; BURPHIL.

AGENTS FOR: Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Pty. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific Islands) Ltd.

OVERSEAS AGENTS: Bums Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London Burns-Phiip Co. of San Francisco Inc.

Trade Inquiries Invited

SHIPPING AGENTS FOR; Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail P. & O. Orient Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

AIR LINE AGENTS FOR: Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Qantas Empire Airways International Air Transport Representatives TRAVEL DEPARTMENT: Consult our experienced personnel for planning world wide travel.

DISTRIBUTORSHIPS INCLUDE: Beresford Pumps Briggs & Stratton Engines British Paints Buckingham & Carnatic Textiles Canon Cameras "Cecoco" Machinery Conditionaire Air Curtain Doors International Majora Paints "John" Valves Joseph Lucas Electrical & C.A.V. Equipment Land Rovers & Rover Cars Massey-Ferguson Tractors and Equipment Mikimoto Pearls National Radios & Appliances Noritake Chinaware Pioneer Chain Saws Rover Power Mowers Sunbeam Appliances Tempair Air Conditioners Vauxhall Cars & Bedford Trucks EXPORTERS OF: Coffee & Cocoa Beans, Peanuts, Rubber & Trochus Shell.

BRANCHES and SHOPPING CENTRES: PAPUA; Port Moresby, Boroko, Samarai, Popondetta and Daru.

NEW GUINEA: Rabaul, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wau, Buloio, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen.

Shopping Centre

CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967

W.R.Carpenter & Gq.Ltd

M \ GENE V A >4* ★ RCHANTS For more than 50 years the W. R. Carpenter Group has brought progress and service to the Pacific lslands-as wholesalers and retailers; as buyers of island produce such as copra, coffee and cocoa beans; and by creating industries and facilities which have contributed to the economic development of the area.

The Group is a buyer of merchandise from world markets, and holds many valuable agencies. These include

• Electrolux • Nissan/Datsun • Dewars Whisky

• Ford • Gordon'S Gin • Victa Mowers

• Evinrude Outboard Motors • Chrysler

Associated companies of tH Group in the Pacific Islam include:

Papua/New Guinea

Island Products Limited New Guinea Company Limited Coconut Products Limited Boroko Motors & Transport Pty. Ltd.

FIJI W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Lto Morris Hedstrom Limited Island Industries Limited Suva Motors Limited W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD HEAD OFFICE: 68 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA CABLE ADDRESS; "CAMOHE"

TELEPHONE: 25-5421.

LONDON OFFICE: 116-126 CANNON STREET, E.C.4.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1967