Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 39, No. 9 ( Sep. 1, 1968)
1968-09-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific Islands Monthly Registered at 6.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper.

SEPTEMBER, 1968 news magazine of the south pacific .* ANDs! « I,A FR CS OC w. • W U ,s ZEA pACmc TERR.ToJeS ' 7„ /9 * F,KNCH PAC'"Cother pacific territories, T 3s<. c O URRE*c P r. N G AND AU

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r ol. 39, No. 9, September, 1968 In This Issue ENERAL FA on air fares 41 antas, PanAm clash 43 eekly Canadian air services 45 jstralian foreign policy 89 >ok for stargazers 91 story of Gippsland Shipping , 93 e Quinn loses court case 105

Aerican Samoa

67: a record year 67 nnery head leaves 110

>Ok Islands

Hie Watson; 40 years a trader 29 i| mb haze? ;j King contest H w dollar notes ;;; >men police on the way iv ra's little "Opera House" 21 u Mara on self-government 21 ans in NZ 23 lind the by-election 24 nese drift to Solomons 25 lustrial developments 30 i Lau" off to Lau 39 m members for Fiji Airways 43 1 islands in the sun 55 ng club airborne 61 1 Yadali" trading to Vanua Levu 101 ter rice results 116 Meat: another setback 117 Australia's "lack of interest" 118 Customs system changes 118 Mr. C. E. Best dies 129

French Polynesia

Tahiti-Moorea air services 45 Tureians travel to Papeete 63

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Call for airline operators 45 Christmas Island's brighter future 65 "Moana Raoi" in Sydney 97 Robert Narruhn dies in Suva 129

Lord Howe Island

Shipping freight rates up 101 NAURU Aussie Rules catches on i v Plans to register ships 95

New Hebrides

Economic progress 19 Census details released 20 British shipping regulations 99 Pastor Wimbong in Sweden 110 Mr. E. Ohlen dies in Sydney 129 NIUE A Spring "bush" day 67 New administrator 110

Papua-New Guinea

Kuru disease caused by cannibalism ii Students protest at apartheid 27 Papuan tourist resort 47 Moresby's unemployment troubles 59 Papua's last cannibals 70 Memories of L. Wilkinson 79 Bougainville's "German times" 81 Political future discussed in book 89 BP's ships leave Bougainville 97 Lae shipping terminal opened 101 Another brewery for Moresby 110 Bright future for pearls 115 PNG Motors go public 117 Nickel, copper found near Sepik 118 Big crocodile skins sale 118 Copra growers' payout 118

Solomon Islands

Captain Ladd: no narrow shaves! ii Chinese castaways from Rotuma 25 "Coral Queen" returns • 99 GPL's new general manager 110 TONGA August Hettig profile . 83 Shipping services for NZ? 101 New hotel manager arrives 110 Vavau copra does best 118

Us Trust Territory

Bikini people to go home ii

Wallis, Futuna Islands

Road accidents galore 65

Western Samoa

Bomb haze? |j Traders and their meat problems iii Privies to go 28 Airline staff stood down 29 Tourist increase 45 More Asau wharf delays 95 DEPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 15; Tropicalities, ii; Port Moresby Personality iv; Travel, 39; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 52; Letters 49- YaXrtoS Fr°o n ' th'’ Book Shipping/95 Cruisfng Pnioa the glands Press, 109; People, 110; Commerce, 115; Produce Page, 119; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 121; Deaths of Islands People, 129; Practical Planter, 135; Index to Advertisers, 128.

Tropicalities Is it The Bomb? Undoutedly any unnatural happening in the South Pacific during the next few months will be blamed on the French nuclear tests —and one such happening was the mysterious haze over Fiji and Western Samoa in August. It produced brilliant sunsets and sunrises, turned the sun to blood-red and reduced visibility in Fiji to five to 10 miles.

At the same time people in Port Moresby were complaining about a haze which had hovered about southeastern Papua for more than a week in August. At one stage visibility at Port Moresby airport was reduced to one mile.

There were no hard and fast explanations for either phenomenon.

However, a random check of atmospheric radiation made at Apia Meteorological Observatory early m August showed radiation to be twice the normal background level.

Some suggested that the cause might be volcanic ash from the New- Hebndes, but the Nadi Meteorological Office had not been notified of any eruptions thm^because dust from the French tests could reach Fiji only by travelling east around the world—and there had not been enough time for it to do this.

And in Port Moresby, the Meteoro-

Well, Is It

THE BOMB? logical Office said that the Papuan haze was caused by industrial smoke (i.e., smog) from the cities of Australia. According to the Met Office, the smog had moved in an arc through the Coral Sea and the Solomons to Papua.

Could this arc have extended as far as Fiji and Western Samoa?

Could it be that the idyllic South Seas are becoming the victims, not of The Bomb, but of smog?

There is probably some very ordinary explanation, but, like our maiden aunt, we prefer to suspect the bomb.

How to put your foot in it and win AUGUST’S international fishing contest at Korolevu, Fiji, had its fair share of minor disasters, not the least being the Fiji team’s forced withdrawal on the opening day of the contest.

Fiji team - members, Mr. D.

Ellerton, Mr. George Rawnsley, the Australian Commissioner, Mr. R. N.

Birch, and Mr. Syd Gould, had to return to Suva after the windscreen on their launch, Inez, was smashed.

Their opponents, a team of enthusiastic New Zealanders, took home the Air New Zealand Trophy for the winning team, plus the Prouds Trophy, the Gokal Trophy, the Burns Philp Trophy, the Millers Ltd. Trophy, the Tip-Top Trophy and the K. Witherington Trophy.

The Tip-Top Trophy (for the heaviest billfish) went to New Zealander Mr. C. Shields, who brought in a 128 lb sailfish —a new Fiji record.

The contest had its humorous ! moments, including the time a 70 lb wahoo revenged itself on Mr. Ken Wiles, 38, of Papatoetoe, Auckland.

Mr. Wiles, who took the Prouds Trophy with a 79 lb wahoo, trod on the smaller fish while it was lying in the cockpit of the Sere-ni-Wai.

“When 1 stepped over it my foot slipped into its mouth —which it promptly closed,” explained Mr.

Wiles, who went home with an additional trophy—three stitches and a bandaged left foot.

“Not me, a couple of other fellows”

CAPTAIN Fred Ladd did not have a narrow shave while flying in the Solomons about two months ago, as we reported on page 41 of August PIM.

According to Fred himself he was out fishing on the reef that day. It all happened to another pilot who was taking a load of Solomon Islander passengers from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to a Mission strip at Avu Avu. We quote Fred: “On approach to the airstrip, the pilot had under-carriage selection trouble and landed wheels up—a perfect landing for this mode of arriving back on earth. The aircraft was not badly damaged and the passengers were not aware that anything untoward had occurred until they were vacating the aircraft and found it unnecessary to use the steps.”

We hope this sets the record straight. Captain Ladd was one of the late Harold Gatty’s pioneer pilots on Fiji Airways. He now runs his own charter air service in New Zealand and went to the BSIP earlier this year on a three months’ contract to relieve a pilot on leave from the local air company.

They died because they ate their dead THE fatal disease, kuru, peculiar to the Fore people near Goroka, New Guinea, for at least 70 years, is caused by ritual cannibalism, practised by these Highlanders up till the mid-1950’5.

This fact has been suspected tor several years now but in Sydney in August, a New Zealand doctor, Dr, R. W. Hornabrook, put firmly on the record, his view that the brain disease among the Fore Highlanders stemmed from their former flesheating days. .

“Kuru is the first chronic disease of the nervous system in man which Bikini's Bomb exiles return Talking of nuclear tests in the Pacific, the former residents of Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, are to be returned to Bikini after 22 years of exile on Kili, another Marshall atoll.

The 150 Marshallese (now numbering about 300) were removed by the United States in 1946 so that 20 nuclear tests could be conducted on the atoll.

The last of these tests was in 1958 and the atoll is now safe enough for the Bikini Islanders to return home.

Over the next two years, they will be completely resettled on the atoll, and a new community centre will be built for them.

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has been shown to be caused by an infective agent cannibalism,” said Dr. Hornabrook.

He was speaking at the Australian Medical Association congress, held at Sydney University. Dr. Hornabrook returned to Wellington Hospital before the congress ended but he was expected in Port Moresby in late August to take up his new appointment—Director of the P-NG University’s planned Institute of Human Biology.

The doctor said that kuru, an organic disease of the nervous system, was confined to the Fore linguistic group of the central NG Highlands.

“Kuru is a common disorder in the Okapa sub-district and has come to be a dominant factor in the culture of the local people,” he said. A kuru sufferer would lie down and die six nonths to three years after developing the disease.

Dr. Hornabrook said that Drs. R. and Shirley Glasse in 1963 first drew attention to the fact that Fore informants agreed that kuru was not mown to their ancestors and at first nade its appearance in one village it the turn of this century.

“They also drew attention to the ;enerally-held description of the pread of kuru among the Fore over he next 50 years. By 1957 kuru ; ases were occurring over an area of ,000 square miles; between 100 and 00 people were succumbing each ear.

“In the last 10 years there has een a gradual reduction in the total umber of cases. There have also een changes in the age and sex icidence.

“Children are no longer affected nd although young women still omprise the bulk of the cases, there re now a significant number of adult lale patients.”

Dr. Hornabrook said that chimanzees inoculated with tissue taken om dead human kuru victims had the disease themselves, esearch on the chimpanzees lowed that kuru was a virus, he Ided.

The phenomenon of kuru was first corded after the war by anthro- >logists and in 1957 Drs. Vincent gas and D. C. Gajdusek identified as a disease and described the cidence of it in a combined medical iper.

Following this publication the sease received world publicity and as popularly known (but not to >ctors, who objected to the term) the laughing death” because ctims were unable to control their tions in the last stages and their ovements, and sometimes their jghter, appeared exaggerated.

The Fore people had a history, until recent years, of ritually eating portions of their own dead—as a gesture to the departed.

They’re smuggling in corned beef Western Samoan farmers are in a big flap, mostly over mutton flaps.

They want a ban on importation of mutton, canned fish, eggs and poultry.

They have already succeeded in excluding “Pisoupo” canned corned beef. (PIM, Aug., p. 118).

But they are vigorously opposed by householders and merchants. The first want competition to keep prices down and the second want to retain a profitable business.

Prime Minister Fiame Mata’afa supports the proposed ban on the grounds that the price of mutton flaps (rib and belly portions) is out of proportion to their food value. But the Legislative Assembly is sharply divided. There will be many a lengthy “fono” before the matter is settled.

Meat imports into Samoa last year totalled 700 tons, 80 per cent, of which was mutton flaps. To provide the same weight in local beef at an average of 500 lb per animal would require 3,500 additional animals a year.

Last year the commercial beef slaughter was only 1,351 head. The first three months of this year 606 head were marketed as meat. But even at this rapid rate of increase, critics point out that it will be several years before local production can meet present demand, let alone the demand of an increasing population.

The imported mutton, 95 per cent, of which comes from New Zealand, is landed for 9 Samoan cents a pound, wholesaled for 10c and retailed at between 13c and 15c. Local beef wholesales for 13c and retails for 20c for stewcuts and 40c for steaks.

Beef from New Zealand and Australia sells for the same prices.

The controversy over the proposed ban inflated demand for mutton so greatly that when a shipment of a ton of it missed the boat in New Zealand recently, its Samoan consignee had it air-freighted.

Retailers and Samoan Customs Department report that canned fish such as sardines and mackerel have rocketed in consumption since the corned beef ban last year. New Zealand corned beef had been landed for 9c a lb and sold over the counter for 40c.

The sardines and mackerel are only 15c a lb, and fresh marlin and other seafish can be bought at the two canneries in nearby American Samoa for the same price.

Even so, the demand for the more expensive corned beef is so great it is being smuggled into Apia. Recently Customs officers caught a taxi driver leaving the wharf area with his car’s luggage compartment full of large cans of it, just as a New Zealand ship was departing.

To alleviate the problem, the gov- Fiji’s Minister of Finance, Mr. H. P. Ritchie, in August released the designs for the colony’s new 50 cent and one dollar notes for security reasons, minus signatures. Prechangeover operations are being conducted with the utmost secrecy hut it’s believed Fiji’s decimal currency has actually arrived from Britain and is now happily biding its time in the Treasury vaults at Suva. D-day is January 13 next. The 50 cent and one dollar notes will he basically the same in colour as the notes they’ll replace. Each incorporates the famous Annigoni portrait of the Queen and to avoid confusion, the value has been shown in both words and numerals . The notes also feature the Fiji coat of arms and tapa motifs.

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ernment is encouraging the raising of rabbits and poultry, both of which thrive in Samoa, but without much success.

One poultry farmer has 5,000 hens producing up to 180 dozen eggs daily, but complains that he cannot sell them all because eggs are being imported from Australia and New Zealand. The current price of eggs is 70c a dozen, grade A large.

The same goes for chickens. Large quantities of frozen poultry come in from the United States each month at 40c a lb in preference to the local supply at the same or lesser price, despite protests of government agricultural officers.

It’s Australian (Republican) Rules FIJI may boast its Rugby prowess, and Australians of the southern states may deplore the lack of competition from overseas in their version of the national sport, but Nauru has the answer to them both.

A by-product of the Nauruan invasion of Victorian secondary schools over the last decade or so is a growing band of dedicated Australian Rules players in the island republic.

Although Australian administration of Nauru ceased last January, football is one part of Australian life that seems certain to remain a permanent feature of Nauru. Nauru has special links with Geelong, the chief port for ships plying from Nauru.

President Deßoburt recently watched a Geelong match from a special Presidential box. and is reported to have invited the Geelong team to visit Nauru. If they did, they might find the ground and the temperature a little rougher than they are used to, but one thing they would find for sure—a mightly welcome.

For the second successive year, a full season of Australian football is being played in Nauru, concurrent with the Victorian League season.

Every Saturday afternoon at four o’clock the Nauru airstrip takes on the appearance of any southern Australian town where the community is small enough to permit car parking around the ground.

A large section of the population rings the oval, which is marked by a line of sand poured on the darker ground, with cars, trucks, Jeeps and Land-Rovers and an odd assortment of other vehicles becoming grandstands and sun shelters for the big game. t , Onto the field trot two husky teams of 18, booted and clad like any « ,iV H Austra t lian sid , es ’ de xhe leL S B^wl ree re P departments and enterprils such as the Nauru Co-operative Society and the British Phosphate Commissioners, play under names like Panser, Elco and Hawks The Hawks are the Police team, last year’s champions and current fnvnnritM ‘ Most of the players are Nauruan, but the field umpire is always an Australian. He bounces the ball, and a mighty leap and a punch sends the ball well out to a team mate waiting for a kick. Plenty of boisterous rivalry for a mark leads to some scrappy fumbling as players mix it willingly, striving for possession.

The play goes back and forth until a long ranging kick finds its way safely into the hands of the full forward right in front, who kicks between the portable steel posts for a goal. The posts have to be portable an aeroplane has to land here next day!

Around the outskirts of the crowd cruises a Land-Rover with a sign proclaiming “Iced Drinks”. Players can wilt, but spectators appreciate a cool orange cordial, so the vehicle stops now and then while members of the Apex Club sell (for charity) drinks to the thirsty crowd.

The hard ground provides a few grazes, the keenness of the game will perhaps bring on some fisticuffs that the umpire quickly quashes, but on into the sunset they slog out the final tally of points. A goal brings an excited round of tooting car horns, and some teams even have their band of feminine supporters dressed in the team colours, cheering wildly at every forward movement.

The pressure is perhaps not up to that on the Melbourne Cricket Ground or the Adelaide Oval—for one thing there is only one game each week, so that teams play about once in three weeks. But there is practice three times a week all the same, and when the semi-final and final rounds are played, the excitement grows high. 1967’s Grand Final, played on the same day as Melbourne’s, produced a thrilling match, followed by all the celebrations, including a Grand Ball, that such an auspicious occasion warrants.

The third rib of the law YET another masculine stronghold will topple in Fiji before the year is out. The Suva Police Force is to be invaded —for the first time — by women police officers.

This enlightened move was announced in the Legislative Council by the Chief Secretary, Mr. G. P.

Lloyd, who said finance had recently been made available for the establishment this year of a section of women police in Suva. Further funds will cater for a similar section at Lautoka in 1969. . t .

It is intended to start with six women in Suva, employed on the basis of a 36-hour duty week at special constabulary rates.

Port Moresby

PERSONALITY For the past four-and-ahalf years, Joy Scragg, wife of P-NG’s Director of Public Health, Roy Scragg, has been president of the Port Moresby Branch of the YWCA. The association is expanding quickly, and Joy is kept busy.

Originally from Adelaide, where she worked as a nurse, Joy arrived in the territory in 1950. She settled in Port Moresby after three-and-a-half years in Kavieng. She is on the committee of the Horticultural Society, and is noted for her excellent flower displays. For five years in succession she won the championship prize in the society’s flower show. Joy has a family of three boys and a girl, all of them at school or university in Australia. One of the boys is studying medicine. Sibyl Lloyd.

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Almost none of your parents are as well educated as you are. Still, they know more than you do about a lot of things, and you must realise that they have advantage of experience which you must respect. • Accept responsibility. Act like an adult and everybody, including your parents, will treat you as one. • Don’t feel guilty about growing up. If your parents are reluctant about allowing you to grow up and think you should not have any independent ideas of your own, then don’t feel guilty about the fact that you do have these feelings. Rebellion against the authority of parents can be managed peacefully and needn’t cause any split in family relationships. • Remember that nastiness, spreading rumours, gossiping, loud arguments, remarks made about people that they can overhear . . . are all signs of immaturity. People who are mature find it possible to get along well enough with others even if they don’t like everybody.

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There's progress in the New Hebrides -but it's not political From a Vila correspondent The condominium of the New Hebrides has made some progress since Kathleen Woodburn published 20 years ago her book called, Backwash of Empire. When she published that, Whitehall showed little interest in the territory that was shared by Britain and France under a protocol proclaimed at the turn of the century. But the progress that has been made has not been political.

Economic progress came with the ippointment of Mr. J, S. (later Sir ohn) Rennie as Resident Commisioner after World War 11. With his irrival the British Government at ong last acknowledged its responibility in education; activities of the oluntary agencies were correlated nd a college for the training of New lebridean teachers was built.

The progress which Sir John comlenced continued, and two years ago Tr. Fred Lee, British Secretary for he Colonies, gave an assurance in n address inaugurating Radio Vila lat Britain had no intention of withrawing from the New Hebrides.

Tiis was a statement which was heard dth relief by French as well as ritish residents of the Condominium.

There has been material growth nd expansion in both the British and rench sectors of the economy since ien. Burns Philp has erected a ne new store in Vila; an equally npressive Condominium office block ill soon be ready for occupation aht beside it, and new administrarative offices have been built by the Tnch administration.

Buoyant economy With this material growth and :pansion there has been further idence of a buoyant economy with e substantial surplus announced by e Condominium Treasurer at the id of last year.

Politically, the Protocol is still e yardstick by which every proposed )litical change must be measured, nd when two administrations share e government there must be comomise, which prevents decisions ing made quickly. While both (ministrations may strive to find the ghest common factor, the result more often the lowest common nominator. Thus constitutional welopment has been bogged down.

There was a major step in 1958, hen the first meeting of the New Hebrides Advisory Council was inaugurated with 12 unofficial members (four French, four British and four New Hebridean, all nominated by the two Resident Commissioners) and two Condominium officers as official members, plus the two Resident Commissioners as copresidents.

The number of unofficial members has increased since then, with a proportion of the members elected. But new plans for a further constitutional step, which was expected by 1966, have not been formulated because of lack of agreement between the two metropolitan governments.

The life of the Advisory Council has had to be extended and we have now got to the stage when some decision must be made for the future.

The Local Government council system, inaugurated 10 years ago with so much promise, has been bogged down like the Advisory Council.

No enthusiasm The first councils, complete with a chairman, secretary, and a built-in taxation system, were created to fill an administrative vacuum left by the decline in authority of the village chiefs. But today they function merely after a fashion, with no great enthusiasm on the part of the elected members; in some areas the people have expressed definite opposition to them. The town council for Luganville The people of Tanna, an island In the south of the New Hebrides, cling to their ancient customs and face the camera shyly. These children are grouped near a John Frum red cross, symbol of Tanna's cargo cult. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

has met with the same attitude, because it is only an advisory body.

Local councils would have more opportunity to function if they had more work to do, and if they had officers who could guide their activity.

Certainly sections of the Condominium have made progress in talking together over these past 10 years, but they have made no progress in acting together. The Advisory Council has not become a body which is representative of the citizens of the New Hebrides, and the two national administrations have not conceded authority and responsibility to a single Condominium administration.

Probably the only Condominium department which is a true Condominium service is the Postal Department, which provides facilities which everyone needs. All its officers are paid entirely from Condominium revenue, and it is responsible for earning a considerable proportion of Condominium funds. But there is no unity in the other departments.

Separate marine services There is not, for instance, a Condominium Medical Department as such, but there are three medical services—a Condominium one and national medical services for Britain and France, Yet there would be great advantages if all these services were to come under one unified direction.

The same applies to the marine service, of which there are three separate ones. How much more effectively could manpower be used if these were made into one department (for one thing, there would be a more efficient distribution of surface mail to the outer islands!).

The New Hebrides constabulary, concerned with the maintenance of law and order in the Condominium, is still divided in to two sections.

They get together when guards-ofhonour are required to welcome visiting VIPs.

Education problem There is still no Condominium Educational Department, even though the Advisory Council agrees to a subsidy of £Stg.6l,ooo to be divided between the two national administrations.

With the experience gained after all these years there should be evidence of common action with education. The two administrations should surely place a proportion of their subsidies in the hands of a joint service instead of dispersing them to their own nationals.

It is all very well for the national (Continued on p. 151) "Me no wantem cencus", Santo's bushmen said Although the New Hebrides has been jointly administered by Britain and France for more than 60 years, there are still parts of the large island of Espiritu Santo which have never been brought under effective administrative control and where little is known about the inhabitants.

This is stated in a recently-issued 500-page report on the Condominium’s first census, which was taken on May 28, 1967.

The report says that nearly 2,000 people are estimated to live in the untamed parts of Santo, which are known as the Santo bush.

These areas have had a long history of nativistic movements resulting mainly from unhappy contacts with Europeans. The Santo bush also contains the highest mountains in the Condominium, and as these are linked with a system of steep ridges and deep valleys, they have helped to keep it isolated.

Despite the human difficulties and mountainous terrain, census officers, in conjunction with a WHO antituberculosis team, made an effort to make a census of the bushmen. But they finished up with a list of 832 people who refused to be enumerated.

When asked why they would not co-operate, most of the bushmen simply said: “Me no wantem” and refused to be more explicit.

Anti-European feeling The worst area for non-co-operation was the Upper Jordan Valley where only 13 of the estimated population of 313 were prepared to give details about themselves to the census officials.

“The almost complete failure of the census in the Upper Jordan Valley can be attributed to the long history of anti-European feeling in this part of Santo,” the report says.

The report adds that census officers also ran into uncooperative New Hebrideans on the island of Tanna, where the John Frum cargo cult has created difficulties of administration since World War 11.

However, the census on Tanna was conducted with considerably less difficulty than was at first feared.

Only about 500 people were not enumerated out of a total population of nearly 11,000.

The main finding of the census was that the total population of the New Hebrides on May 28, 1967, was 77,988. 92 p.c. New Hebrideans Of this figure, New Hebrideans numbered 72,243, or 92.6 per cent.

The biggest of the other ethnic groups were; Europeans, 1,773; Polynesians and Micronesians, 1,270; and part- Europeans, 1,151.

The non-New Hebridean population tends to be concentrated in the urban and periurban areas of Vila and Santo, the report says. But the New Hebridean poulation in those areas is growing, and each town now contains, respectively, about 3,200 and 2,500 New Hebrideans from other islands besides those locally born.

There is an increasing tendency by young New Hebridean men to drift away from subsistence and village agriculture to more sophisticated occupations.

On this subject, the census report says: “Whereas 80 per cent, of males aged more than 30 years who were gainfully employed were engaged in subsistence and village agriculture, less than 60 per cent, of those aged 15 to 29 years were so occupied”.

The report goes on to say that the New Hebridean population is probably increasing at about 2.5 per cent, per year, which means that it will double in less than 30 years if the estimated growth rate continues.

Work force By 1982, the New Hebridean work force could be nearly 30,000 compared with fewer than 20,000 in 1967, while the increase in the number of school-age children is likely to be of similar magnitude or even larger.

Despite a surplus of males of most ages, the New Hebridean birth rate is more than double that of

lost populations of European origin, fhile the rate of natural increase 45 births and 20 deaths per 1,000 opulation) is considerably higher lan the corresponding rate in Aus- ■alia (19 and 9 per 1,000).

After reviewing estimates of the opulation in the New Hebrides nee Europeans discovered the group i 1606, the report says: “There can e little doubt now that much of le old thinking about disastrous eclines in poulation numbers in the lew Hebrides should be discarded.

“Too many writers have accepted ncritically estimates of pre-contact opulations which had no more lundation in fact than the assumpon that a large island must have a irge population, and the bigger the land the bigger its population must e.

Labour traffic losses “At the other end of the time- :ale, they have relied—equally unritically—on inadequate or inimplete population estimates, so lat the extent of the decline in umbers has been doubly exaggerted.

“In addition, epidemics and perhaps >me chronic diseases which have een introduced have been assumed ) fall equally on all populations hatever their size or distribution; tid despite all evidence that it was ot, the labour traffic to Queensland id Fiji is generally depicted as a le-way movement from which ractically no one returned.

“The effects of epidemics on popuition size and structure, and thence i subsequent growth cannot be isessed, but the direct loss to the ipulation through the labour trade as probably little more than 10,000 eople over a span of 40 or more sars, and this represents a loss of ily a few hundreds each year.”

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Full self-governing Fiji is inevitable' From a Suva correspondent Stresssing the constructive policies of his own Alliance Party and the destructive aims of the Federation—“lf they are the party of smashing down, we are the party of building up”— Fiji’s Chief Minister, Ratu K. K. T. Mara, talked during last month’s policy speech of the inevitability of a fully selfgoverning Fiji.

But he was adamant about the need to maintain Fiji’s link with the British Crown. “Reckless and irresponsible men,” he said, “would not stampede the government into pointless and harmful courses.” He dismissed the Federation Party’s contention that it will smash the Constitution as being another way of saying that its members were “bankrupt of ideas and believe only in destruction”.

Full self-government, said Ratu Mara, would follow “ordered and systematic handover of power”, without “chaos and anarchy in the streets”.

He told delegates at the Alliance Party convention at Lautoka that the party was itself re-drafting the Constitution to meet the needs of the self-governing Fiji which was not now far off m* . , . , The delegates (over 700) unammously approved a resolution calling for more constitutional talks with Britain before the Fiji general elections in 1971. The 11 aims outlined by the Chief Minister as Alliance Party policy were. • A steady, progressive move towards internal self-government, maintaining Fiji’s links with the British Crown. • The welding together of one nation, while recognising and respecting the different cultures, traditions and special contributions of Fiji’s richly-varied communities, • The most vigorous prosecution of economic development, having regard to the needs and aspirations of the people. • The encouragement of new indiistries and investment. • A rapidly expanding tourist industry, with the widest possible spread °I * ts benefits. • The closest attention to the Zltj* T t i ndustry ’ both internationally and at home, # Social justice and educational opportunities for all.

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Several of these are predictably 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

restrained, lacking the glitter of Federation Party leader, Mr. A. D.

Patel’s golden promises of free education for all children, free medical service, old age pensions and so on.

It is not a platform with much oomph or appeal for the individual, as is Mr. Patel’s, but it is far more credible. Whether the poorer people will be tempted by the glitter or settle for the solid, unsensational assurances of the Alliance Party is being decided as this issue of PIM goes to press. (Polling in the byelection to fill the nine Legislative Council seats forfeited last September by the Opposition begins on August 31 and continues until September 7).

Party seeks affiliation In a pre-election development, the National Democratic Party—a predominantly Fijian political organisation which claims membership of over s,ooo—decided to seek affiliation with the Federation Party.

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Apisai Tora, said implementation of the decision would depend on negotiations between the NDP’s executive committee and the Federation Party on matters of policy.

Mr. Tora told more than 100 delegates at a National Democratic Party meeting at Naboutini on August 14 that he favoured affiliation with a large political party.

The party’s president, Mr, Isikeli Nadalo, said the Alliance Party had held the helm of government for two years with no sign of progress seen or felt and that other races in the colony were enjoying the liberty of full national rights, were well educated, financially stable and politically mature.

Pope'S Encyclical

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From a Suva correspondent Pope Paul’s decision on birth control has not exactly been received with enthusiasm in some important quarters in Fiji—a colony where there is official encouragement for people to control the population growth.

Mr. R. L. Munro, president of the Family Planning Association of Fiji, described the Pope’s ruling against all forms of artificial birth control as “disappointing”. Which was putting it mildly, considering his own organisation’s efforts towards stemming the colony’s population explosion.

“The association would hope that married couples, irrespective of their religious beliefs, would know that children are the main sufferers from excessive family size and that control of family size is a basic human right attainable by methods which, although not sanctioned by Pope Paul’s encyclical, are nevertheless ethical,”

Mr. Munro said.

His anxiety was probably heightened by the fact that only a week or so before the Pope’s decision was announced, the results of the 1966 Fiji Census was published.

One of the most urgent points stressed was the need to create more jobs for the growing number of men looking for work.

Figures indicated that the number of young men seeking employment over the next 10 years would be eight times greater than those who would normally be expected to retire during that time. The position looked like becoming particularly acute in the major industry of cane farming.

In addition to that, a Medical Department report—also published before the Pope’s encyclical—showed that the overall infant death rate in Fiji, which has been falling for years, was now among the lowest in the world.

Obviously any force opposing birth control, particularly one as strong as that emanating from Rome, must cause concern to a body which is doing its utmost to curb Fiji’s population growth.

And although the Roman Catholic population of Fiji is a surprisingly low 8.6 per cent, of the total, the effects of such religious rulings, according to Mr. Munro, can be more widespread than the numbers indicate although the real effects will probably be felt in the Roman Catholic pocket! of population, such as those a Taveuni and Sigatoka.

By coincidence, the Family Plan ning Association’s 1967 annual re port came out exactly a week aftei the encyclical—and it contained 5 warning that Fijians were adopting family planning far too slowly, “Unless Fijians are to lose th< benefits of planned parenthood, mud more will have to be done to per suade their political, religious am other leaders that family planninj is as important for Fijians as it is fo the rest of the developing world,’ the report said.

It warned that without plannee parenthood, Fijians would lose thi advantages of better living standards better education and healthie mothers and children in an improv ing family and national economy.

It stressed also the gravity o the future for Fiji unless its self sufficiency in food production wa vastly improved.

Nevertheless, despite the slight ai of pessimism, the report showed tha the gospel, as carried by the asso ciation’s 16 branches in Fiji, is havinj an effect.

It said that 32.5 per 1,000 coule be used as a close approximation t< the true 1967 birth rate (the exac figures are confused by the fact tha the 1967 registrations contain an un usually high number of births relat ing not to actual 1967 births, but t< those occurring in previous years).

Deducting the estimated death rati of 5.01, Fiji now has a growth rah of about 27.5 per 1,000 —a big im provement on previous years.

Population details The figures also showed that the birthrate of Indians in Fiji is stil dropping faster than that of the Fijians, with the Indian rate beinj 32.01 per 1.000 and the Fijian rate 36.48 per 1,000.

The population—as estimated uj until December 31, 1967—was showr as consisting of: Indians. 250,513; Fijians, 208,468 Europeans. 13,499; those of mixec descent, 10,414; Polynesians, Micro nesians, Melanesians, 8,017; Rotu mans, 6,177; Chinese, 5,716; others 152 .. . making a total for Fiji ol 502,956 people.

The report also said: “The association believes tha. family planning is a proper part ol sex education and that sex education on a comprehensive scale, should be part of the school curriculum.”

A. D. Patel. 22 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Pressure on NZ to change migrant policy and Fiji watches with Interest By Kathleen Hancock, in Auckland Recent pressure has been put on the New Zealand Government for an increase in the rate of assisted migration to New Zealand. The NZ Manufacturers’ Federation, which supports an increase, has reported that there are vacancies for skilled workers in many manufacturing industries and has said that if these vacancies were filled jobs would be created for semiskilled and unskilled workers.

Any change in New Zealand’s imigration policy will be closely atched in the Pacific, especially in 'ercrowded, under-developed Fiji.

Last year New Zealand placed a tal ban on the three month working :rmit so popular with citizens of ji, both Fijian and Indian. And rmanent immigration into New :aland from Fiji is so difficult as be just about impossible.

If an increase in the rate of NZ imigration is granted, will this san a continuation of the old iropean/Polynesian bias?

Limitations Cook Islanders, as New Zealand izens by right, may enter the untry freely. Samoans receive /curable treatment and immigrants >m Northern and Western Europe ve little difficulty in becoming new tiers. But there are strict limitans on the entry of citizens from n-European countries, even if they ; British citizens.

The New Zealand Immigration :partment operates on no formal otas and entry is largely at the cretion of the official concerned each individual transaction. The eration of the system leads to a »picion on the part of nonropeans and non-Polynesian inders that the immigration laws : racist. They certainly give scope • the exercise of prejudice. [n Fijian eyes, New Zealand is beginning to look a bit like those two-faced figures with a smiling countenance to the fore and a nasty grimace to the rear. She is generous with aid to Fiji—willing to send scarce teachers to help raise the colony’s educational standards—and the donor of a magnificent gift of buildings and amenities to Fiji’s new University of the South Pacific.

But to Fijian and Indian, Kiwiland is beginning to take on something of the aspect of the old-time lady bountiful, who was always willing to take hot soup to the needy villagers, but would have fainted if any of them had presumed to enter her drawing-room.

Nevertheless, during the period when the temporary labour permit system was operating between New Zealand and Fiji, immigrants crowded in great numbers into small houses and flats. Housing conditions deteriorated fast and caused values to drop in the areas affected.

Both Fijian and Indian had high standards of cleanliness at home; but temporarily transplanted into an unfamiliar environment, they tended to get slack. This was partly due to all-male households.

There were several contributing factors to this state of affairs.

The air fare to New Zealand was high. Rents were also higher than the immigrants had expected. Expensive, warm clothing often had to be bought. And all these outgoings, combined with the short period of the work permit, forced workers to pack the greatest possible number into the smallest possible space. Only by these means could they hope to save enough to be able to take money home, which was the whole object of the exercise.

Ordinary, tolerant New Zealanders began to regard all short term workers from the Islands as a threat to living standards.

When this became evident, some of the companies that engaged regular batches of labour, especially from Fiji, set up a kind of private welfare service for their temporary workers.

Personnel officers kept an eye on living conditions.

The men were helped to find accommodation at a reasonable rent.

And both Indian and Fijian employees were counselled on the necessity of turning a hand to “women’s work”, if they wanted to keep healthy themselves and remain on friendly terms with their fellow citizens.

Highly regarded When they could still enter New Zealand on working holidays, Fijians and Indians were highly regarded in factories and assembly plants. The personnel manager of one large plant told me he’d like to see the scheme reinstated, with the permit covering a longer period—say, six months or a year.

“They’ve just got the hang of things when they’ve got to leave,” he said.

But even on the old terms, he’d • Fiji is overcrowded and underdeveloped. Many people in Fiji would like to work in NZ as they had been doing until last year when NZ placed a ban on the three-month working permit. 23 'CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

like to see them back. “We’re still putting men on,” he said. “We don’t advertise these days, but we take men on through relatives or friends, or even off the street.”

As far as New Zealand’s farming community is concerned, many farmers would welcome back Indian scrub-cutters, in spite of the fall in farm prices. Generally farmers praise both the output and the outlook of the Indian farmers they formerly employed on a temporary basis.

“They did a darn good day’s work,” one farmer told me. “They were always willing and cheerful— not like the lot we’re getting now.”

The unemployment bogey has always been made good use of by the opponents of multi-racial immigration into New Zealand, especially the Federation of Labour.

Economy now healthier Rising unemployment figures were given as the reason for banning the work permits issued to Fiji. But New Zealand’s internal economic situation is widely considered healthier these days than it was when over-full employment was helping to create a work force with more than its fair share of drifters.

New Zealand, as part of S-E Asia, is anxious to get together in the areas of trade and defence with India, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, not to mention her nearer Islands neighbours. It’s hard to see how she can look her fellow negotiators in the eye over the conference table while her immigration laws discriminate against their nationals.

And with her experience of the enemy drive towards Fii during the Pacific War, it would seem obvious that good relations with this neighbouring island group, eventually to become independent, are very important.

No Fijian, Indian, Singapore Chinese or Thai expects New Zealand to open her doors at random to all comers. But they would like to see the same criteria applied to all immigrants, regardless of race or colour.

Insistence on a certain standard of education would be understood.

But a screening according to race is likely to be misinterpreted. In the US the old quota system discriminated harshly against Asians in particular. But recently the “national origin” provisions in the US immigration laws were wiped out completely.

If New Zealand expects her Pacific neighbours to co-operate with her in trade and stand with her against possible aggression, she needs to look to her social attitudes.

Background To The

Fiji By-Elections

From a special correspondent in Suva The by-elections for nine vacant Indian seats in the Fiji Legislative Council, being held in Fiji in the first week of September, have been brought about by the walkout of the nine members of the Opposition in the Council at the end of last year. The Opposition walked out in protest against Fiji’s new Constitution, which came into effect in 1966.

The constitution was framed at a conference in London in July, 1965, attended by all the elected members of the old Legislative Council (Fiji, Indian, European), plus the Governor and some high UK officials.

The conference decided that the new council should be elected on communal rolls—lndian, Fijian and General—with other rolls for crossvoting across all communities; but a vocal section of the Indians, the Federation Party, demanded a common roll.

A common roll, of course, would have given the Indians now the largest community in Fiji, political control of the Crown colony, now emerging into independent statehood.

It was rejected emphatically by the Fijian, European, Chinese and mixedrace communities, and by an influential section of the Indians.

After the general election in October, 1966, the new council com prised: Ex-Officio Members (3 European; 1 Fijian) Fijians (9 on communal roll, 3 from cross-voting roll, 2 nom. by Council of Chiefs) . .. 1 Indians (9 from communal roll, 3 from cross-voting roll) 1 Europeans (6 from general roll, 3 from cross-voting roll) Chinese (1 from general roll) Total membership 4 The Indian Federation Party woi all the nine Indian Community scab with the following majorities: Suva 2,89 Tailevu-Rewa 2,54 S. Central Viti Levu 2,73 SW Viti Levu 3,57 W. Viti Levu 4,09 NW Viti Levu 29 NE Viti Levu 1,84 North and East 1,09 NE Vanua Levu 2,55 An analysis of the official return of that Indian Communal electio showed: Votes for official Federation candidates 43,17 Votes for other candidates, generally anti-Federation . . . . 22,63 Total valid votes cast in this (Indian) section of the general election 65,7C This meant that about 65 per cen of the Indian voters supported th Federation Party; about 35 per cen voted for non-Federation candidate Racial bitterness The nine Indian Federation Pari members took their seats in the ne council as the official Oppositioi They would not associate with th other three elected Indians. Th latter, with all the members repn senting other races, had groupe themselves as the Alliance and b< came the Government Party, heade by Ratu K. K. T. Mara.

After a number of sittings, dm ing which they showed increasin opposition and racial bitterness, th nine Federation Indians walked ou (Continued on p. 127) No job for harbourmaster In August, Tonga decided not to renew the service contract of Captain J. C. Hozack, the kingdom’s Chief Harbourmaster and Marine Superintendent for the past three years.

Captain Hozack, popular in shipping circles, had returned to Nukualofa in early August after completing a special threemonths’ port and navigational course in Australia, at the kingdom’s expense. Soon after arrival at Nukualofa he was told his contract would not be be renewed. He flew back to Sydney.

His virtual dismissal by Tonga, after completing a shipping course which would have been of extra value to the kingdom, came as a surprise to everyone. It’s understood that another European will be appointed to the vacant post. 24 EPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Adrift For Nearly Three Months

Nearly three months after the Nationalist Chinese fishing boat Hsienchin burned and sank off Rotuma on June 5, the South Pacific gave up the last of the boat’s survivors—7oo miles from Rotuma in the Solomon Islands. )uring July and August, the rageous story of the survivors, of their dead shipmates, reached outside world from Honiara, ital of the Solomons.

'he story of the privations of the Chinese seamen adrift on the enchin’s three rafts has two cornable “castaway” sagas in recent rs—the Minerva Reef Tongans, sing for four months in 1962, and Cook Islands drifters, missing two months in 1963, he Hsienchin’s 11 survivors were overed clinging to tiny rafts in ote Solomon Islands weeks after j had been presumed dead, dter treatment in Honiara’s pital, the survivors told reporters it had happened when the enchin had gone down.

Search abandoned •f Hsienchin’s 20-man crew, one vned soon after abandoning ship. remaining 19 boarded three s built of glass fishing floats, iboo and 44-gallon drums, aft One, with six men under tain Chi Son Chin, took 39 days drift more than 700 miles until cached a small beach near Taipe age, on remote Santa Cruz. /hen news of these survivors Led Honiara, Australian and NZ aircraft scoured the entire area for six days.

During the search Raft Two turned up, on the opposite side of Santa Cruz. Of the four men aboard, one died shortly after landing. His three shipmates rested for several days on Santa Cruz before being taken to Honiara hospital.

On July 29 the air search was abandoned, and most people considered that Raft Three containing nine men, was lost.

Then, in the early hours of August 11, the raft was spotted off the coast of San Cristobal by the interisland trader, Vula. On board were two brothers, Lee Ah-wong and Lee Ah-yung. They were starved, sunburnt and almost lifeless. They had been at sea for 69 days. Their seven shipmates were dead.

With the three rafts accounted for, Hsienchin's crew list read; one drowned, eight dead from privations and 11 alive.

In late August, after a couple of days rest as guests of Honiara’s Chinese community, Captain Chin told how he and the five men aboard his raft endured their 39 days at sea.

For the first nine days the three the first group of "Hsienchin" survivors after treatment in Honiara hospital. "Hsienchin's" captain, Chi Son Chin, is second from left. RIGHT, the last two survivors still in hospital—they are brothers and were picked up after 69 days at sea.

The raft (upside down) which carried the last of the "Hsienchin's" survivors 700 miles from Rotuma to the Solomons. A bow and arrow, with which the survivors attempted to shoot birds, lean against one of the drums on the left.— All photos by Ted Marriott. 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

rafts were roped together. There was no fresh water and the only food was five pounds of biscuits.

Raw fish The rafts were separated by heavy seas on the ninth day. Soon after, the biscuits were finished and for six days no one had anything to eat. Rain water was caught in plastic raincoats and the tops of glass fishing buoys.

A fishing hook was filed from the tongue of a haversack buckle and three to four pound fish were caught.

Also, flying fish landed on the raft.

All fish were eaten raw.

Once all were thrown into the sea when the raft capsized.

The raft was becalmed two miles off Fataka Island, 300 miles to the south-east of Santa Cruz, but by this time all were too weak to swim to the island. Ten days later winds, a shirt-made sail and biscuit-tin oars helped drive the raft onto Santa Cruz.

On Santa Cruz Taipe villagers took the seamen by canoe to Graciosa Bay, where the Chinese met the touring District Commissioner for the Eastern Solomons, Mr. John Russell. And thus the big search began to reclaim men who had long since been presumed lost at sea.

Pacific council planned The formation of a Pacific regional council to improve regional co-operation and understanding has been proposed by the Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand, Mr. Kirk. The council should include New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga, Niue, the Cook and the Tokelau Islands, he said.

It would establish agreement on such matters as Customs and immigration, fishing zones, defence, education and the development of under-d evel o p e d countries.

Such a council could later be extended to take in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and perhaps Japan, said Mr. Kirk. Eventually North American interests could be included.

Representatives of countries in the proposed council would be members of their parliaments rather than members of their governments, said Mr. Kirk, This would give member countries a broader political knowledge of one another.

Administration faces challenge on NG salaries From an AAP-Reuter correspondent in Port Moresby The P-NG Administration could face its first major challenge in the territory's new House of Assembly when it begins its budget session on August 26.

At this second meeting (the new 94-member House was inaugurated in June), the government members, who are in the minority, will be faced with a private member’s bill seeking a committee of inquiry into the territory’s 14,000 local New Guinean public servants. It will be introduced by Mr. Percy Chatterton, of Port Moresby, a former missionary.

It has the support of the territory’s Public Service Association, which has for years been pressing for higher salaries for its local members. The association is confident the bill will be carried.

It also has the support of the Pangu, the House’s only party of substance, and is likely to appeal to a number of other members who are former public servants.

The Administration has not yet decided its attitude to the bill.

But an Assistant Administrate] Mr. L. W. Johnson, said: “In th past the Administration attitude ha been firmly that public servar salaries are a matter for arbitration’

If, as this indicates, the Admin stration does oppose the bill, som of its Ministerial and Assistai Ministerial Members will be in a embarrassing position.

Three of them two years ag publicly supported the association case for higher salaries at an arbitn tion hearing. But as Ministers, the will be expected not to publicl oppose the Administration.

Their only loophole would be t abstain—and even this would be see as a blow to the Administration authority.

Mr. Chatterton said he wants th committee to inquire into th appropriateness of present salarie “for the maintenance of an efficien dedicated and contented publi service”.

He would ask that the commissio: consist of five members, appointed by the territory’s Chief Justice. Th commission would report to th Minister of External Territories am the House.

The move is the latest in a battl begun more than three years ag( by the territory’s public servio association. It lost the long firs round when the Public Servio Arbitrator, Mr. L. G. Matthews rejected most of its claims.

Not a safe landing place for aircraft now is the former airstrip at Mt. Hagen in NG Western Highlands. The airstrip has been moved out of town, and new commercial buildings and roads have been built on the old airfield, which has become part of the town's business area. 26 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

APARTHEID

Thorough The

Spanners Out

From LEO MORGAN, in Port Moresby 'he students of the two-and-a-halfr-old University of Papua-New hea staged their first demonstraat Jackson’s Airport, Port resby, in late July , against the th African Ambassador to Ausla, Mr. J. C. Maree. Mr. Maree returning to Canberra after a k’s “familiarisation” tour of Port *esby, Lae and the Highlands. s the South Pacific Post had ►rted, it was inevitable that the ersity should eventually join the •national ranks of university onstrators. The demonstration, rally, received a lot of publicity, e reports were favourable and rs very critical. le South Pacific Post in particuwas cynical of the demonstraand claimed that our motives : not shown. It also suggested demonstrations should be con- -1 only to basic issues, and that re was expected from our ire) leaders”.

Racist me of these views would be by a majority of territory Euros, especially those who would -ise for the sake of criticising, not necessarily because they d particularly care to offer any- : constructive. e way I see it, as a university nt and participant, the demonon against the racist and reive policies of the South African :rnment had clearly-defined /es. It was directed against i Africa’s policy of apartheid, at a white minority having all the power, property and prestige (as we have in this country) and it was a protest against Mr. Maree’s halftruths, evasive answers and his arrogance in answering student questions at a meeting previously held at the university.

In the meeting, I for one failed to see how Mr. Maree could describe all the separate tribal groups in South Africa as separate nations and then describe the Dutch and English there as one separate nation, when it is obvious that the only thing that unites them is the colour of their skin. We students could not also understand why Asians, according to Mr. Maree’s reasoning, could be honorary white men. Would that be because they, like the Boers and English, are predators and settlers?

It seemed to me that when Mr.

Maree spoke about nations, he really meant races.

The demonstrators have been condemned for displaying such signs as “Black Power” and “Maree Stinks”, and “Go to Hell”. But I think we had every right to use the “black power” cliche in a demonstration against apartheid. For too long it has been a case of “white power” (and there is no justification involved).

Frustration But we did have such signs as “We Condemn Apartheid”, “No Separate Nations Here”, “Integrate Not Segregate”, and those few signs that suggested Mr. Maree should go to hell could be related to student frustration in not getting satisfactory answers to their questions at the meeting. In any case, in any demonstration there are always a few slogans unpalatable to some people.

Many of the students hope to see a peaceful multi-racial society develop in this country. But such a society could not develop if we had white people “hating” black people and black people “hating” whites, and while white people lived in one section of the town and blacks in another (as in South Africa).

The demonstration was peaceful and lawful. It was against apartheid, and not against the Territories Minister, Mr. Barnes, and the Australian Government for allowing Mr.

Maree into our country, as some reports said.

Czech protest' in P-NG Papuans and New Guineans streamed into churches in Port Moresby late in August to sign a petition protesting against Soviet aggression in Czechoslovakia.

The petition was organised by all churches in Port Moresby.

A spokesman, Father A. F, Meaney, said about 5,000 signatures were collected.

Some churches put signs up in Pidgin explaining the background to the crisis.

The petition was to be sent to the Soviet Embassy in Canberra.

A grim Mr. J. C. Maree, South African Ambassador to Australia, bundles briefcase and umbrella into his car at Jackson's Airport, Port Moresby, as students from the University of P-NG register their disapproval. Critics of some of the placards and some of the demonstrators feel that they were scarcely calculated to change South African thinking.— " South Pacific Post" photo. 27 ' 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

Samoan privy is (somewhat hesitantly) on the way out From GLEN WRIGHT, in Apia The ugly, incongruous lagoon privy that has marred the tropically picturesque shoreline of Western Samoa for so long may soon be a thing of the past. Its replacement is the watersealed toilet, a simple and cheap device being energetically introduced by the Peace Corps.

Some 400 of these toilets have been installed in the past few months, accompanied by a noticeable reduction in the number of beach outhouses. Acceptance increases as the price reduces. Cost per unit is now down to SWSI.4O.

The outhouse is an accoutrement of societies without plumbing the world over, but the lagoon privy has been a special feature of Samoan life. It is a rickety shack of clapboard or palm-frond, sheltering a board seat perforated by oval holes and set on stilts over the water at high tide and the coral at low. It is reached by a pier of loose rock or teetery timber.

Not Very sound ™. T sursj" xiSS, theorised that the sea was a better place for disposal of human waste than the earth. Aesthetically and scientifically offended devotees of the South Seas mystique have been ever since trying to get rid of it.

The theory of that Victorian medic was never very sound. Because of encircling reefs, tides that wash many shores do not go out to sea but remain in placid lagoons, and so does the waste.

The water-sealed toilet is simple and effective. It consists of a concrete bowl with rump-shaped opening on top and metal trap in the bottom, quite like the ones used in modem homes. The bowl is flanged around its under edge with an extending ring. The unit is set over a hole in the ground and earth is packed over the flange, -phe bowl is flushed by pouring in a gallon or two of water, which washes the waste into the hole below, leaving enough clean water in the sr-stt , Th, j Mjg gm existing outhouses m the interior, the only new P lts 3X1(1 structures needed are for replacement of the lagoon latrines.

However, the Samoan changes his habits slowly, despite his avowals to the contrary. He is not beat at the door of the Peace Corps he quarters demanding immedi delivery and installation of its n< fangled plumbing fixture.

In at least two instances he not only rejected the idea out hand but has replied with large-sc countermeasures. The lagoon c house in a village near Apia on road to the airport recently fell ap from sheer old age. Despite Pe Corps pleas to accept water-sea toilets in its place, the people vc for retention of the old and famil They replaced the little old with a large new one; iron-roc wooden building painted glean: white. Community-sized, it has rooms, one for men and the ol for women; each has many holes various sizes.

Peace Corps "of no use"

Perhaps this is the village fi which comes the writer of the foil ing, a theme submited anonymoi to a teacher by an upper fi student at an Apia college.

“Great expectations of the pe< from the Peace Corps of chai and new ways of living and hell the adults to know changes from 1 ago to nowadays. But the P« Corps not doing this. They just c< here to have the villagers labou: and serving them. The Peace C< girl in my village seldom has ha face and is always stuck up. T* interest of the people in Peace Q is weaker and weaker. They tl Peace Corps of no use at all dislike them.”

The first contingent of P< Corps Volunteers arrived here October, 1967. There are now of these university-educated yc Americans scattered over the nat They serve as aides in educal public health, agriculture, pr works and economic planning as specialists in law, pharm dentistry, nursing, civil engineei architecture and economics, addition, the Corps conducts cla in arts and crafts to develop dividual artistic creativity and c munity cottage industry. • Western Samoa's famous privies, the US Peace Corps has its way, tl[?] may soon be replaced by simf[?] cheap, water-sealed toilets. Althou[?] the author of this article attribute the lagoon privies to a mission!

PIM has always been under the pression that they were introdu[?] by the late Dr. S. M. Lambert, of Rockefeller Foundation, in a campa[?] against hookworm. 28 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

“We are helping a newly indepennt nation become self-sufficient,” ys young, personable, Corps direcr David Ziegenhagen.

In so doing, he says, the volunteers idergo the unique experience of coming assimilated into the moan communal social system, ley literally become members of family units which make up each lage and district. They work on 5 farms, help fill the family larder, ntribute to the common purse, and ide by the rules as established by j Matais, or chiefs.

They have 24-hour-a-day jobs and 2 dominated by the strong-willed moans, who are very selective in cepting what the volunteers offer.

Go native As a result the volunteers tend “go native” at first. But, says jgenhagen, they recover soon and gin to express their individualities.

However, Samoans do not take idly to undertaking assignments for yone except their chiefs. Inevitly friction develops because the ace Corpsmen are trying to teach ;m to do things.

Consequently, as in the student’s ade, the Corps is often criticised the Samoans, who either do not derstand that what they complain out stems from their overlording the volunteers, or don’t, upon exigence, like the changes they have ced for.

Nonetheless, director Ziegengen says that the longer the Corps 5 here, the less criticism it reves. By and large, the governmt is enthusiastic about the proimme.

Polynesian Airlines

Stands Down Pilots

Withdrawal in August of the certificate of airworthiness for its chartered DC4 aircraft threw the Apia-based Polynesian Airlines Ltd. into confusion. The airline quickly revamped all its schedules using only its two remaining DC3’s, and stood down, temporarily, most of its pilots and engineers.

Polynesian’s chairman of directors, Mr. E. F. Paul, said the airline could not bear the burden of paying all its salaried staff while it remained short of equipment, with a grounded DC4.

Hopes were that an aircraft similar to Fiji Airways’ HS 748 could be chartered to replace the DC4.

"WILLIE" WATSON: 40 YEARS AN

Island Trader

One of the Cook Islands’ most successful citizens, and one of Rarotonga’s oldest identities is cheerful, optimistic William H.

Watson.

“11HLLIE”, as he is known to his ** European friends (and “Viri Vokotini” to his Maori friends) was born in Scotland. In Rarotonga, he worked his way up from near-subsistence level during the depression of the 30’s to become one of the Cook Islands’ most prominent citizens.

These days “Willie”, and his charming wife, Marie, keep two homes, one in Cambridge, New Zealand, and one in Avarua, Rarotonga. They spend New Zealand summers in Cambridge, and the Cook Islands’ cool seasons in Rarotonga.

In an interview in Avarua recently, “Willie” told our Cook Islands correspondent, W. H. Percival, how he had come to settle in the Cooks, “As a boy in Scotland I read every book I could get about the South Sea Islands. I developed an irresistible urge to reach the Islands and become an Islands trader. So I came here in 1928,” he said.

But “Willie” didn’t go directly to the Cooks from Scotland.

After being demobilised from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders after World War I, he had spent several years working in the coal mines in New Zealand and Australia.

However, he never lost his urge to settle in the Islands. In New Zealand, in 1928, he met a Captain “Topsail” Jack Williams who “sold” the Cooks to him. A week after that meeting “Willie” was on board the SS Makura bound for Rarotonga.

For two years “Willie” worked for a firm on Rarotonga. Then, on May Day, 1930, he took out his first trading licence.

With modest capital (and faith and determination), he opened a small general store in Avarua. He worked alone from 6.30 am to 9.30 pm, and sometimes had to work on Sundays.

About a year later he bought a billiards table and opened a billiards saloon. This increased his income, but also his hours of work.

In 1933 he married Marie Peyroux, the daughter of Jean Peyroux, a Frenchman, and his Polynesian wife.

Marie cheerfully helped “Willie” in the store, and also made cakes and bedspreads which sold quickly.

The next milestone in “Willie’s” career was when he bought out W.

H. Grove and Sons store in Rarotonga.

Partnership He began to buy and export copra, mother-of-pearl shell, cowry shell, hula skirts, shell necklaces, dried fish, tomatoes, citrus fruit, and locally-made hats and mats. All this was in addition to his regular business in groceries, hardware, drapery and fancy goods.

In 1943, when the bottom fell out of the trade in pearl shell brooches and similar items “Willie” Watson went into partnership with Harry Scott and established a small clothing factory on Rarotonga. ( PIM, Oct., 1962, p. 39). Many setbacks and difficulties had to be overcome, but the business prospered and expanded.

“Willie” became a member of Rarotonga’s Island Council, and was the mover for a Cook Islands Legislative Council.

For nine years he served the Cooks, first Island Council, then on the "Willie" Watson and his wife, Marie.

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Legislative Council and finally on the Legislative Assembly.

In October, 1958, “Willie” Watson stood as a native member against 15 Polynesians. Old hands scoffed at his chances, but many Cook Islanders remembered what he had done for them in the depression and the lean years of World War 11. They stood behind him solidly and, without looking for votes, he romped home an easy winner with 1,609 votes — 884 votes ahead of his nearest rival.

More schools From the outset of his political career “Willie” Watson stressed the need for secondary schooling in the Cook Islands. As a result, Rarotonga’s Tereora College was opened on February 18, 1954, and Junior High Schools were built on Aitutaki, Atiu and Mangaia some years later.

He was one of the first to battle for a pure water supply for Rarotonga, and big improvements, at great expense, have been carried out during recent years. In January, 1967, Mr. George L. Chan, a public health engineer with the South Pacific Commission, demonstrated how a plentiful supply of pure water can be obtained cheaply on Rarotonga by means of water galleries. (P/M, May, P- 67).

“Willie” campaigned successfully for improved medical service and internal self government for the Cook Islands. (The Cook Islands became internally self-governing in August, 1965). And, it was “Willie” who, in 1951 helped found the Cook Islands Crippled Children’s Society.

Destroyed by fire Fire completely destroyed “Willie’s” store in Avarua in November, 1957. Undaunted, he immediately began to build a much larger one.

It was opened in December, 1958, and it is the largest store in the Cook Islands. The 6,000 sq. ft. supermarket was constructed almost entirely by local labour. Today, the permanent staff of United Island Traders is 48 and 10 extra staff are employed on busy Saturdays.

In 1955, “Willie” took his wife and their two children, Betty and Jean, on a tour of Europe which lasted 14 months. Five years later “Willie” and his wife toured Europe, Russia and the US and, in 1965, took a combined business and pleasure trip to Australia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan.

Big Industrial

DEVELOPMENTS IN FIJI From a Suva correspondent Important developments in two of Fiji’s major industries—sugar and copra production—have occurred just when public attention was focused on the by-elections to fill the nine vacancies in the Legislative Council.

Both developments are concerned with the relationships between growers and millers in each industry; and only persons deeply involved can really understand the technical points now under argument. But they are important.

A new sugar-cane contract, between millers and growers, will be required next year. Drafts now are being prepared for the Sugar Advisory Council.

When the Alliance Party, which is directly influenced by the Chief Minister, Ratu Mara, met in preelection convention in July, it announced that it would recommend 13 changes in the existing contract.

The rival Federation Party also sought many changes.

Chief Minister Mara was attacked by the Federation on the proposed 13 changes; and was obliged to explain and defend them. As some of these changes were in favour of the growers, and against the sugar company, the Chief Minister was made to appear as a critic of the company.

The mouthpieces of the Federation Party have been attacking the Chief Minister with such virulence that the campaign has tended to become anti- Mara just as much as anti-British.

In any case, the sugar industry has now become involved in political wrangling, which everybody, wanted to avoid.

Thus with copra. When copra prices nose-dived in July, the copramilling (or Carpenter) interests protected themselves by announcing some pretty drastic cuts in the rates and conditions under which they accept copra from the growers. The new rates were criticised by Fiji interests, who argued that the millers should carry a larger share of the losses represented by the calamitous change in the market.

Public comment The copra-millers, of course, defended themselves and, as there is no government marketing organisation such as the Papua-New Guinea Copra Marketing Board, there was public comment. The government spokesmen especially the Chief Minister became slightly involved on the side of the copra-producers (mostly Europeans and Fijians).

Again, it appeared to be a little embarrassing for the Chief Minister, for it is the policy of his government to maintain good relations with the big corporations which control sc much of the economy of Fiji.

It only goes to show the difficulties that beset the feet of an honest Chiel Minister, who tries to walk in fail balance between Fiji’s producers anc the powerful corporations which buj their products.

Fiji's new Tradewinds Hotel, in the Bay of Islands four miles from Suva, is attracting not only tourists for its beds, but yachts and cruising yachtsmen for its mooring berths. Many cruising yachtsmen are finding the Tradewinds area a convenient spo to spend a week or two between islands. 30 EPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Australia now has a South Pacific Colombo Plan (but it's broke)

By Stuart Inder

If we make an exception of Papua-New Guinea, for whose administration Australia is directly responsible, Australia’s friends and neighbours in the islands of the South Pacific don’t get any extra consideration from this year’s Australian Budget, brought down in Canberra in August.

P-NG gets $9,408 million more an last year, for a total Common- :alth grant of $87,353 million, d she’ll need every cent, and more, r the big job of development that s yet to be done in that territory.

Norfolk Island, the only other istralian South Pacific territory now t since Nauru’s independence of it January (and Nauru paid its n way with phosphate profits anyiy) gets the same Australian handt as last year—s66,ooo for general ministration and an additional 0,000 for restoration and mainlance of its tourist-attracting cont ruins (which it also got last ir).

Australia’s contribution to the uth Pacific Commission is down s year—s2s7,3oo compared with 59.000 last year. Only about 57.000 of last year’s contribution s spent.

They'll share what's left Phe rest of the South Pacific will /e to share a mere $420,000 to be de available under Australia’s nth Pacific Aid Programme ictly the same as last year.

Phis is the first time since the icme was started in 1965 with )0,000 that there has been no rease.

But there is a gleam of hope. \t some time since the last Budget, hout any publicity at all, the aid igramme has dropped its insistence being a plan for distribution of hnical aid only, and the way is v clear for it to develop into a e South Pacific Colombo Plan.

Jntil this year the plan has been led ASPTAP—Australian South :ific Technical Aid Plan. Under it, South Pacific territory (not Auslian) could ask for, say, machinery be installed in a technical college, ; it could not ask for money to Id the college itself. It could ask the provision of engineers to ign a new road, but could not for money to build the road.

Restricted as it was, this assistance was welcomed in the South Pacific, but there were hopes in the Pacific that the plan would in time be widened. There were signs last year that the men of Australia’s Department of External Affairs responsible for administering the plan were beginning to be less fussy about how the money was used in the Islands.

Anxious External Affairs has in fact been anxious to widen the scheme, but it has had Cabinet and Treasury to contend with. 1 understand that External Affairs budgeted for a much bigger increase in the South Pacific Plan this year, but despite an overall increase in Australian aid to developing countries this year other commitments absorbed all the money. This isn’t good enough.

The South Pacific is in need too.

ASPAP (without the “T”) is a fine vision, but it would remain just a vision without the money.

Certainly Australia’s expenditure on external economic aid has increased at a much faster rate than both national income and total government spending since 1958/9.

All told, Australia has provided, as outright gifts, more than $1,130 million in official economic aid to developing countries since the end of World War 11.

The total amount to be provided this year is $155 million—comprised of $l5 million in multilateral programmes, $4l million in bilateral programmes and $9B million for P NG.

Aid for P NG The P-NG handouts do, of course, comprise a big percentage of total aid payments each year. Of the $1,000.5 million paid out since 1958/9 (including the 1968/9 estimate) $668 million has been allocated to P-NG.

According to a comparative table published with this year’s Federal Budget, Australia now ranks second only to France in the proportion of overseas aid it gives, when expressed as a percentage of national income.

The French figure (for 1967) is Like all the other Islands in the South Pacific, Tonga is doing her best to promote tourism, but she is not finding it easy there are stumbling blocks. For instance, the proposed internal air service can't get off the ground because Vavau airstrip (right) has not been granted official approval.

Pilots say that crosswinds in the area make landing dangerous. 31

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0.98 per cent. Australia is 0.79, followed by Belgium and the Netherlands each with 0.60, the US and Germany with 0.53 and Britain with 0.49.

It would be an interesting study to see how the aid figures were compiled in the various countries.

France, like Australia, gives a big proportion of its overseas aid to its own territories. But does the aid figure given for Britain take into consideration such British handouts as the grant to sugar-producing countries (Fiji is one) to offset the poor world prices for sugar? For Fiji this is a valuable consideration.

It could be that the aid table might take on a different appearance with closer examination.

But undoubtedly Australia has a good, and improving, record of external aid grants. What is needed is more attention to the needs of the South Pacific, in addition to such requirements as India’s Indus Waters Scheme and the Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan.

FOOTNOTE : To be found in the “other services” section of the Prime Minister’s Department 1968 Budget appropriation is a sum of 57,000, — the cost of the official visit recently of President Hammer Deßoburt of Nauru. It compares with $20,000 for the visit of the Emperor of Ethiopia.

Indonesians kill 162 in West Irian Indonesians had killed 162 Papuan tribesmen in the twoyear-old rebellion of the Arfak tribe on the Manokwari coastal area of West Irian, Indonesia’s Army Chief, General Panggabean, admitted in Djakarta in August.

General Panggabeau said a further 138 tribesmen had been taken prisoner and a total of 3,539 tribesmen had surrended since the uprising started in late 1965.

His statement followed the words of General Sjarif Thajeb that “perhaps 20 West Irianese” had died in the uprising in 1965. General Thajeb said this when he visited NG earlier this year with a six-man Indonesian parliamentary delegation.

He said Indonesian air force planes had strafed unoccupied open ground at Manokwari to “scare” West Irianese. Manokwari is about 400 miles west of Sukarnapura, West Irian’s capital.

The Islanders say farewell to "Matua"

To many Pacific Islanders ships are just about as important as people, sometimes more so, so when the venerable Union Steam Ship Company vessel Matua made her last calls at islands ports in August, after 32 years service, hundreds of Islanders turned out at each port to give her a fitting farewell.

On her final call at Nukualofa, the Matua was farewelled by some 500 people who packed Queen Salote wharf. She presented a handsome sight silhouetted against the grey dawn.

A few moments before leaving a white pennant was unfurled from the Matua’s main mast to a distance of 371 ft —one foot for every month of service.

Two rockets The tail of the pennant was caught and tied back with a fine line, so that it curled and billowed in the breeze. The reflection of the ship’s lights on it, in the early dawn, made it look like a comet in the sky.

Two rockets were fired and Matua was away, her siren answering the call of other vessels in port, while the Police Band added its farewell.

Tongans will remember her best for the time she evacuated all the people from Niuafo’ou, or Tin Can Island, after the volcano on the island erupted in 1946.

Suva gave the Matua no less enthusiastic a departure. Amid dozens of rocketing fireworks and a chom of sirens from other ships in por she sailed out of the Bay of Island to the sounds of Isa Lei and Aul Lang Syne from the Fiji Militar Forces Band, A Matua office dropped a huge salusalu off he bridge into the sea.

Emotional A plaque presented by the peopl of Fiji in 1946 in appreciation c the Matua’s war service was returne for safe-keeping, amid emotiom speeches from the ship’s maste: Captain Peter Bennett and the Mayc of Suva, Councillor L. G. Usher.

After a speech of his own, th Minister for Communications, Wori and Tourism, Mr. C. A. Stinsoi read a message from the Governo: Sir Derek Jakeway.

Captain Peter Bennett had sper many years on USS Islands rum having also commanded Matua sister ship Tofua.

USS is to replace Matua ten porarily with a 2,808-ton trade: Taveuni.

The "Matua" berthing at the deep-water wharf at Apia, Western Samoa, where she was as familiar a sight to Samoans as she was to Fijians and Tongans in other port;[?] 32

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GEIC'S House examines colony's "big problems"

Drunkenness and the “crime wave” on Tarawa were two of the main topics discussed at the second meeting of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony House of Representatives, held at Tarawa in late July and early August.

A six-man committee, including four islanders, was set up by the House to examine the colony’s liquor licence ordinance and the means of enforcing it.

Motions carried varied from calls for a basic wage and minimum hours to be set for domestic servants to possible government restriction on Bingo and card playing.

The GEIC’s top politician and chief elected member, 43-year-old Reuben K. Uatioa, took a big part in debates.

In his opening address to the House, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, again stressed the big problems facing the colony— its isolation from overseas markets and major shipping routes, its rapidly increasing population, its few economic resources and the vital revenue that would be lost when phosphate supplies from Ocean Island are worked out about 1980.

Mr. Andersen said the GEIC would be “lucky” if it reached half last’s year’s record production of copra because of a severe drought. However, this position had been relieved somewhat because of higher world prices for copra this year.

Business lost Fiji Airways’ HS 748 fortnightly service through Tarawa to Nauru had failed to attract the hoped-for increased freight and passenger traffic because of high air fare and freight rates, and the “out and back nature” of the service, he said. Tarawa had also lost most of the business derived from small planes stopping off, on delivery flights from North America to Australia. These planes were calling at Pago Pago because Canton Island airfield was now closed.

He said 1967 was a successful financial year—revenue amounted to $3,800,000 and expenditure was $3,160,000, down on the revised estimate because the colony’s new vessels could not be delivered and paid for in 1967, Referring to crime and drunkenness, Mr. Andersen said government procedures for money control had been “tightened up” and training programs for Islanders would emphasise integrity, honesty and the ability to resist “bubuti” pressures.

He recommended to the house that a select committee examine liquor legislation because of the increase of crimes involving liquor, Mr. Andersen said that the per ton costs of phosphate mining on Ocean Island were being reduced to the lowest level possible, and, in turn, the maximum sum of money available per ton exported was available to the Banaban community as royalty and to the colony as phosphate taxation.

Independence question He commented on the recent Banaban petition to the UN Committee of 24, seeking UN support for the independence of Ocean Island as a Banaban state.

“I am sure that the people of the GEIC, and their elected representatives, do not accept that there are any grounds for agreeing to the creation of an independent state on Ocean Island,” Mr. Andersen told the House.

“The chief elected member went to New York in lune to oppose the Banaban petition in the Committee of 24. To the best of my knowledge the committee has not recommended that Ocean Island should be independent.”

Talking of family planning, Mr.

Andersen said islanders should limit the numbers of children in their families. “The unavoidable, inescapable answer is that the land, food and work cannot be so stretched and that now is the time to limit a family to two, or at the most three, children,” he said.

“There are those who say. ‘But why doesn’t the government find land in other countries where our surplus population can live and work?’. Let me tell you that it is not for want of trying.

“Our Pacific neighbours have their own population problems and need their land and their work for their own people. The metropolitan countries have immigration policies which shut the door to the entry of settlers from this country, or demand highly specialised skills in their immigrants, which our villagers do not possess, or are impossibly remote in terms of cost and distance.

“The BSIP has in recent years taken in almost 2,000 settlers from this colony, but these settlers have created difficulties and the protectorate is not at all enthusiastic about accepting more people from our islands.

“We have, however, invited three members of the protectorate’s legislative council to visit us later this year, so that they can see for themselves the poverty of the land and the work we do to assist ourselves in the outer islands.”

Mr. Andersen said resettlement could not “appreciably” reduce the population of the GEIC. “The plain, bald truth of the matter is that, if the people of this colony want a reasonably satisfactory future for themselves, their children and their children’s children, they must be prepared to adopt the family planning techniques available to them.”

Mr. Andersen said the GEICs constitution had been in force little more than seven months and the occasion was only the second meeting of the House of Representatives, “Perhaps it is premature to mention it, but I can see value in members giving some thought to the next stage of constitutional development for the colony. This stage can only be decided upon after very detailed examination of the several possibilities open to us and the timing and nature of this next step should be a matter for the people of these islands and you, their elected representatives.”

Mr. V. J. Andersen 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Samoans, like all Polynesians, love messing about in boats. The two boats at left are at Matautu, just outside Apia (which can be seen across the harbour). Samoans are also great ones for the land— although in Western Samoa the land is often wild as the picture (below left) shows. These tall trees of Savaii Island are the ones that interest Potlatch Inc., the American timber company which recently signed a $6 million deal with the Western Samoan Government (P/M, Apr., p. 22). Below, the Sliding Rocks of Papasee’a, just 15 minutes drive from Apia. There are three sets of sliding rocks here.

The first is for children, the second is for women and the third (pictured) is for men.

This group of singers and dancers (top) performs for guests at Aggie Grey’s Hotel in Apia. Above, Prime Minister Mata’afa’s home on the outskirts of Apia. The building is a combination of Samoan and European architecture. And left, one of Apia’s little oddities—the Tenpenny Store. Nobody is quite sure how the building—a cafe—got its name, but Fiji photographer Rob Wright (who took all the pictures on these pages) suggests that ten pennies will buy a cup of tea.

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Lem's islands in the sun Above, mist-shrouded Vatu Vara in the Northern Lau Group. An eccentric American millionaire once owned the island. Gossip had it that he payed for everything in gold, so a rumour naturally got about that there was a cache of bullion on the island, and Vatu Vara became known as "Treasure Island". Left, an historical tree. In the middle of the last century, a Tongan Chief, Ma'afu, who ruled the Mualevu in Northern Lau, crushed a rebellion on the island. To commemorate the occasion Ma'afu planted the tree (at left). The Lau Group is today becoming a tourist attraction, as the story opposite tells.

Photos are by Rob Wright.

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Commissioned in 1950 for service long the rugged north coast of lorway, the 701-ton Alta was named fter the tiny fishing village in Jtenfjord where the giant German attleship Tirpitz was sunk by the oyal Air Force in the closing years f World War 11.

Recently however, this itinerant orwegian lady has found herself a lace in the sun—but not the Midght Sun.

Now named the Tui Lau, she’s ie latest addition to Fiji’s interland fleet ( PIM , Aug., p. 47). nder the command of youthful aptain Don Wendt, one of Fiji’s )lest masters and the first to obtain i extended ticket, she recently began weekly service carrying cargo and issengers between Suva, Cakaudrove id the beautiful, remote islands of e Lau Group, east of Viti Levu.

Colourful ceremony Naming the ship in July (during colourful ceremony which included e presentation of tabua and the rowing of a tanoa of yaqona over r bows) the Vunivalu of Bau, Ratu jorge Cakobau, predicted that the a Lau —the second vessel to be quired by the Maritime Coerative Shipping Association Ltd. would play a vital role in the Dnomic advancement of the Fijian ople.

Through their membership of jian co-operative societies, hundreds Lau and Rabi Islanders own a rt of the Tui Lau. Ultimately, her □fits will be theirs—and, on paper least, the potential profits seem nsiderable. According to Captain endt’s estimation, a five-day trip th capacity passengers and cargo •eight charges are £F4/10/- per i) would gross £3,500. Total costs mid be around £1,200.

The islanders’ excitement at paripating in such a creditable venture evident whenever the ship arrives at a new port of call. They stream aboard to examine their “property”, exclaiming with awe at her size and fittings, even trespassing up to that sacrosanct preserve, the bridge, to chat with Captain Wendt—who remains unperturbed by such ebullient behaviour.

For its passengers—32 first class, 27 second class and 47 economy— the Tui Lau is a new and fascinating experience in shipboard informality and it’s a trip to stir the pioneer spirit. Round trip fares cost £37/10/for first class, £22/10/- for second, and £l2/10/- for economy, with half fare for children under the age of 12 years.

Scattered as they are over thousands of square miles of ocean (their aggregate area totals 178 square miles) the islands of Lau have a peculiarly elusive quality. When anchored in the lee of one, its nearest neighbour is generally wreathed in the blue mist of distance and the fact that relatively few people can quote statistics about Lau adds mystery.

You feel you’re the first to tread those fine white beaches—and certainly the spontaneous excitement of the local populace indicates how few European feet have paved the way.

During a recent voyage in the Tui Lau we made our first overnight stop at Vanua Balavu, the largest island in the group, with an area of 20 square miles.

Part of the southern section of Lau, Vanua Balavu is closer to Tonga than to Suva and it was at the village of Lomaloma that a Tongan chief called Ma’afu established a Tongan community in 1855. The 300 or so villagers, even if born in Fiji, still consider themselves purely Tongan. Strangely, they were the first Lauan inhabitants we were to meet.

Having dropped anchor a little after sunset, we faced a journey through unrelieved darkness, by punt and on foot, to reach Lomaloma, once an important cotton-growing centre. Here, we were treated to an impromtu display of Tongan action dancing and singing, a rare sight in Fiji unless imported. The Lomalomans, with an eye to supplementing village revenue, hope to polish their performance a little and present it as a regular tourist attraction— they’re aware of the tide which can follow the first ripples of tourism.

Among passengers on my trip— which took in Cikobia, Katafaga, Lakeba, Nayau, Oneata, Moce, Komo, Kabara and the Vanua Balavu ports—was the new Roko Tui Lau, Pita Matasau, who was transporting his family and furniture to Lakeba, administrative centre of the group.

A learned, eloquent Fijian from the province of Lomaiviti, the new Roko is enthusiastic about the advent of Our girl in Suva, Sue Wendt, recently took a trip on the 'Tui Lau'. She sent us this report.

Captain Don Wendt, 34, master of the "Tui Lau", who brought the ship from Norway to Fiji in June, The trip, via Panama, took two months. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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“I am very very anxious to do ly best for the people of Lau, irticularly in financial matters,” he lid. “Lau might be one of Fiji’s lost affluent provinces, but the oney could be used more wisely.

“There’s so much to be done in ie field of education. There are ill many out here who never go i school at all. Tourism may help little towards financing a better stem.”

An airstrip at Lakeba, he added, ould be an enormous advantage bringing tourists to the area— though ships like the Tui Lau ould always play a valuable dual le in carrying both cargo and issengers.

At this stage though, the islands Lau are still unchanged, and the Hagers still relatively free from trat some consider the corrupting fects of commercialisation. Even e occasional bare-breasted maiden n be seen.

You can buy a necklace of shells r 2/- and on the sleepy island of oce some of the best tapa cloth be had anywhere is available at a tarter the Suva market price. (Moce is also remarkable for its nine inhabitants, who’ve obviously ard nothing of the dangers of •pulation explosion. I stopped unting at 40 but I’m sure there s quite as many dogs, all related, there are children. And there are mty of those.) Viewed purely in its role as a pra-carrying vessel, the Tui Lau 11 undoubtedly live up to Ratu iorge Cakobau’s predictions of sat economic benefit. But to the anders themselves and particu- •ly the new Roko Tui Lau—its sst interesting contribution will be bringing the outside world in. At i rate the tentacles of tourism are iching out, it shouldn’t be too long fore far-flung Lau is in the swing things, comparatively-speaking. • UTA French Airlines will suprt moves for expansion of South cific excursion air fare rates at s annual meeting of the Intertional Air Transport Association at innes, France, in mid-September, ie airline, which calls its proposals romotional tariffs”, wants to attract Dre Australians who haven’t flown fore into its two Islands drawrds—Papeete and Noumea. 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968 travel

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Without prior approval from Australia, PanAm Director for Australia, Mr. Rush S. Clark, said in mid- August that his airline would increase flight frequencies between Sydney and the United States from seven to 12 times a week.

But a week later Australia granted PanAm only two of its five new. proposed services, giving PanAm nine flights a week each way, the >ame as Qantas.

Pan Am’s statement won the company a lot of publicity—as did a limilar one earlier this year that s anAm would inaugurate weekly lights from Sydney to Tokyo, via juam. Australia objected shortly bebre the proposed first flight, and the ervice was never begun.

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Also, Fiji Airways could become i minor shareholder in Polynesian Airlines, particularly following the ate August news that Pan Arnerian’s plans to start flights between he two Samoas in September has ieen called off. The Western Samoa Jovemment blocked PanAm followag cries that the service would put 'olynesian out of business.

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A FTER over 20 years of a trans-Pacific air “infrequency”, Canadian Pacific Airlines will start :s first weekly Australia-to-Canada ir services, via Fiji and Hawaii, on tovember 1, using 135-passenger )CB’s.

After November, the Australian irline Qantas will also change to r eekly its fortnightly flights with •oeing 707’s from Sydney to 'ancouver, via Fiji, Hawaii and San rancisco.

CPA has operated fortnightly nee its first trans-Pacific commercial ight, with a 32-seat pressurised DC4, n July 13, 1949. The fortnightly :hedule has been hard to sell. Now, -PA is hopeful traffic will build up— it does, CPA will introduce to re run 199-passenger DCB-63 stretch” jets shortly after June, 1969.

CPA feels Canadians want to see lore than just Australia or New ealand when they travel the South acific route, and they will promote >urs to NG from Australia, through ieir selling agents in the territory— msett.

Canada also has extensive mineral ad timber interests in the territory Placer, International Nickel, Cultus acific and Bougainville Developlent Corporation), and CPA can aunt on some steady business, from icse quarters.

A new weekly service six weeks fter the International Air Transport Association’s chin-wag over air fares at Cannes, France, in mid-September, would also give CPA bigger nails to drive if it continues to press for big cuts in trans-Pacific ordinary fare rates.

In the past, CPA has won itself some publicity with its repeated calls for air fare cuts on the South Pacific —exposing the only cracks in the ranks of the six trans-Pacific operators in this area. At the September Conference, opposition to any substantial air fare cuts is likely to be too strong. But there are hopes that a compromise may ensue in the form of extended excursion fares. rE Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony has called for airline operators to make proposals for an internal air service in the colony.

Aided by heavy construction equipment transferred from the defunct nuclear testing site in Christmas Island, the colony is stepping up work on airstrips on main islands of the widely-scattered group. A light plane on July 10, made the first landing since World War II on a mud-rolled 2,600 ft airstrip on Abemama and a second strip on Tabiteuea is expected in September. Air Pacific Ltd. and Fiji Airways Ltd. are reported among those airlines interested in running the service.

FRENCH Polynesia’s internal airline, RAI (a subsidiary of UTA- French Airlines), hopes to begin four-times-a-week return flights between Papeete and the newly-built airstrip on Moorea, 12 miles away, with a new Twin Otter aircraft. RAI is obviously expecting a considerable leap in the number of travellers to beautiful Moorea now the partly-UTA owned Hotel Mediterranee resort is getting underway. Support by Australian tourists for the resort is still below hopes.

VISITORS to Western Samoa in the first half of this year totalled 3,972 to show an 8,4 per cent, increase over the same period for last year. Visitors from the United States jumped 38 per cent, to 1,662, but visitors from New Zealand showed a slight fall. Average age of the visitors was 43 and average stay almost four days.

The increase in visitors is expected to accelerate over the second half of the year, says PlM’s Apia correspondent.

These results are slightly ahead of predictions made by travel consultants several years ago, which claimed that by 1970 visitors would total 20,000 annually, and that the tourist industry would shortly be one of Samoa’s largest money earners.

In line with the growth of the tourist industry, several big hotel plans are in the negotiating stage.

The Australian company of Travelodge has now put forward plans to the Government for a Sim upgrading of the Casino Hotel now owned by the Government Hotel Development Corporation ( PIM , Aug., p. 41); and a group of United States investors has put forward pro- Apia's Casino Hotel, built in German times, has beautiful grounds. Australian Travelodge has a plan for upgrading it (see below). Photo is by Rob Wright, of Fiji. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y S E P T E M B E R , 1968 travel

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Sir, —If tears of gratitude could be sent by wireless, the Tongans would send them to the residents of Gisborne, NZ, to the NZ Minister of Justice, Mr. Hanan. Their humanitarian attitudes and gestures to Captain Tevita Fifita and his crew in their hour of rejection and desperate loneliness in New Zealand reaffirm my all-but-shattered faith in human kindness.

Captain Fifita and his crew sailed the 1,200 miles from Nukualofa to Auckland in the 36 ft yacht Asitalonoma, which was built in a backyard. They had hoped to get jobs so that they could buy a new engine for their yacht which was run by a four-cylinder Ford car engine. This was the very first trip of the Asitalonoma to any port outside Tonga. On arriving in Auckland, Captain Fifita and his crew were refused work of any kind, although jobs were available at the time.

The refusal of the New Zealand authorities to permit Captain Fifita and his crew jobs to enable them to purchase their very much needed, and often dreamed of, engine does aot come as a surprise.

As was pointed out in PIM [March, p. 19): “Tonga over the /ears has been getting the crumbs :rom the rich man’s table, while ier neighbours have been feeding generously at the same table”. One ’eels that if the Asitalonoma had ieen a yacht from one of Tonga’s reighbours the response from the mthorities in New Zealand would rave been different. But beggars can’t >e choosers.

The Tongans are fully aware that 'Jew Zealands unemployment policy nust be safeguarded, but it is amazng that such a rich country as New Zealand should make such a big issue >ut of the effort of a handful of ►oor Tongans to seek jobs to buy ri engine for their yacht.

As a Tongan, I find that the »hrase “extending a helping hand” which was introduced by highly ivilised white missionaries) now has false sound. Are policies more mportant than people?

However, despite what has tappened, I hold in the highest steem the very kind efforts of the esidents of Gisborne, who fed, lothed and housed Captain Fifita and his crew and enabled them to buy their dreamed-of engine.

What the people of Gisborne did for these poor Tongans, I am sure, represents the true spirit of New Zealand.

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P-Ng'S Banking System

Sir, —When the Minister for Territories was in Port Moresby, Mr.

Sinake Giregire, the Ministerial Member for the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, P-NG, included the following in an address to the Minister in the Goroka Local Government Council Chambers: ... “In finance for the increasing number of native businessmen in this territory, the Development Bank is not providing the facilities we hoped it would, primarily because there are insufficient branches. We in Goroka have sufficient native businessmen and small planters to warrant the establishment of a branch of the Development Bank here and I could name another 20 towns in this territory requiring the same facilities.

“In other words, there is a case for the Development Bank to be divided as was the Commonwealth Bank, namely, into a Banking Corporation with a development bank, a savings bank and a trading bank.

Unless the Reserve Bank of Australia and the trading banks in this territory are prepared to give the same proportions of overdrafts to deposits in this developing area, as they do in Australia, the territory’s own trading bank should be started immediately.

“However, I feel the trading banks could play a much greater part in the finance required for the development of this territory, and the assistance of native businessmen and in fact all businessmen, if the Reserve Bank in Australia would release some of the special account funds held on their behalf, and at this stage frozen, for the specific purpose of providing the increasing finance that is going to be required to develop this territory, and finance the increasing number of small native businessmen.

“This, with the correct relationship with Australia, about which I am not going to speak now, will make this territory one of the wealthiest parts of Australasia in the foreseeable future. We have the land, we have the labour. We only need the finance to develop it.

“As a businessman, I believe in competition, and I would urge the trading banks to stay in the territory to compete with the proposed territory bank and provide that competition which has enabled the Australian banks to play such an important part in the development of Australia.

“The releasing of special funds by the Reserve Bank will enable them to provide that additional finance that is not available under the present banking policy. I want their competition and I want our special bank so that we have the same banking system that is operating in Australia so successfully.”

The above speech was made by a man who, in my opinion, ranks third or fourth in the Ministers, because he is a Member of the Administrator’s Council the equivalent of Australia’s inner cabinet. Also, he is under 35 years old, and has been regarded by some Europeans as progressive.

If these are the views of a relatively progressive Minister, they give an indication of the native people’s conservative approach to territory affairs.

STEPHENSON FOX.

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Sir, — PIM, July (p. 97) carried an article regarding four new cargo runs to the Pacific Islands. While I have no desire to cross swords with Mr.

Rilk, the Australian manager of Columbus Lines, and can accept defeat by a larger and wealthier organisation, for the sake of putting the record right I would like to contradict the portion where Mr. Rilk says he spoke to me and I refused to co-operate with his company. The fact is that I have never spoken to Mr. Rilk and I feel that the “cooperation” has been very one-sided.

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tween shipping lines, I feel I would e to have my say.

Your article also implied that dumbus Lines had the support of : South Pacific Export Action Comttee. In fact, this committee was ; up by our firm at the request the Government and has worked vays in very close co-operation th us.

It should be mentioned that dumbus Lines also approached the wernment for assistance and when s was refused they increased the ight rates drastically.

You mentioned that our company d requested a subsidy of fZ 150,000 from our Government, lat we asked for was a repayable in by way of a guaranteed freight • a period of one or two years.

J. F. HOLM, Managing Director dm & Co. Ltd., dlington • For a full record of Holm’s ■■hdrawal from the Melanesian vices readers should see the long ter in Aug. “PIM” (p. 55) from >lm’s general manager, Mr. I. A. ■Kay.

How Ugly Can You Get?

sir, Percy Chatterton suggests \M, July, p. 52) that ‘New means’ is a clumsy, ugly name for people. I would like to remind i that it is not nearly as ugly ‘Singaporeans’ or ‘Sabahans’, ich refer to the people of gapore and Sabah, respectively, knd ‘Nugini’ could be pronounced h the Nug rhyming with snug to ke it sound like an Australian original word.

Vhat about the Republic of lanesia, Pangu, East Irian, or just in unaltered Papua and New inea?

Vhat is so wrong with the bird paradise as an emblem? It may be found in every region of ma-New Guinea, but neither is kiwi found in every region of v Zealand. The important thing heir uniqueness to the respective ntries, like the kangaroo and emu Australia.

John Milne

igkok, uland > Reader Milne, formerly of stern Samoa, may not have read ?ust “PIM”, in which Percy Chatterton (p. 52) says that “Nugini” is sloppy usage and that “Niugini” (the word which won Ada Ole Anna Arisa, 10, the “Find a Name” contest) is correct.

Lieutenant Pilsbury

Sir, —I refer to your article “Lieut.

Pilsbury goes home” (PIM, Aug., p. 30). The aircraft was found by Mr.

Michael Clayton, a surveyor employed until recently in the Buin area of P-NG; not by Father O’Sullivan.

Mr. Clayton was engaged in survey work in the vicinity of Kangu Hill, and by sheer chance one of his survey lines went across the Corsair. He then reported the find to the ADC in Buin, and to others. Father O’Sullivan reported this find to some Air Force officers while in Australia recently, and it was an Air Force officer who excavated the remains.

In recent weeks the Buin area has been visited by more people excavating remains of soldiers—Japanese soldiers. Headed by Mr. Hamasaki, a former battalion commander on Bougainville, a team of 30 excavated the remains of nearly 700 Japanese soldiers buried in this area.

The bones were reverently placed in plastic and nylon bags, and taken back to Japan. Mr. Hamasaki estimated (from the few remaining records and his own knowledge) that nearly 12,000 Japanese dead are buried in southern Bougainville nearly 25 per cent, of the Japanese force here in the war. Most of these died of hunger and disease.

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Where Is It?

Sir, —I’m enclosing an old photo that may prove of interest for PIM readers. It belongs to my late father’s collection.

The photo says the machinery is part of a chiefs tomb. Chiefs and tombs for them have gone out of date in New Guinea lately, but I wonder where this symbol has disappeared to? De Ray’s expedition broke up in New Ireland in Queen Emma’s time and perhaps this piece of machinery could be traced and placed in one of Rabaul’s sites of interest, adding to the country’s historical focus. The photograph was taken about 1926.

(Mrs.) Nari Watkins

Raua Estate, Bougainville, NG • The Southern tip of New Ireland was the scene of a French “South Sea Bubble” in the 1880’s when Charles Marie Bonaventure de Bred, who called himself the Marquis de Rays, although his title was never proved, sold £300,000 worth of shares to 600 gullible Frenchmen, Italians and Belgians in the mythical colony of “Nouvelle France” at what he named Port Breton (Port Praslin).

Four shiploads of colonists, pitifully ill-equipped, arrived at Port Breton, only to find it a desolate, malarial place and the natives thoroughly treacherous. The infant colony lasted less than two years, most of the survivors eventually settling in Australia and New Caledonia. A large mill stone from the expedition, which looks like it could have been connected to the machinery in Mrs.

Watkins’ photographs, is now erected in Rabaul, with an identifying plaque.

An excellent summary of the De Rays swindle is to be found in an appendix to R. W. Robson’s book, “Queen Emma” (Pacific Publications).

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Your article also implied that >lumbus Lines had the support of : South Pacific Export Action Comttee. In fact, this committee was ; up by our firm at the request the Government and has worked vays in very close co-operation th us.

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How Ugly Can You Get?

5ir, — Percy Chatterton suggests \M, July, p. 52) that ‘New means’ is a clumsy, ugly name for people. I would like to remind i that it is not nearly as ugly ‘Singaporeans’ or ‘Sabahans’, ich refer to the people of gapore and Sabah, respectively.

Vnd ‘Nugini’ could be pronounced h the Nug rhyming with snug to ke it sound like an Australian original word.

Vhat about the Republic of lanesia, Pangu, East Irian, or just in unaltered Papua and New inea?

Vhat is so wrong with the bird paradise as an emblem? It may be found in every region of ina-New Guinea, but neither is kiwi found in every region of v Zealand. The important thing heir uniqueness to the respective ntries, like the kangaroo and emu Australia. , , JOHN MILNE igkok, uland

New Guinea needs a department of informal education For a long time my attitude to professional “consultants” has been coloured by the views of one Parkinson, of “Parkinson’s Law” fame. However, the form displayed by the English consultants called in to look at Papua-New Guinea’s transport problems has given me pause.

Two things which they have said have particularly pleased me. For one thing, they have praised the “self-help” efforts of Papuans and New Guineans, especially in the field of road building, and compared them favourably with those of the people of other developing countries. I believe that this praise is welldeserved, though of course here and there one comes across less commendable attitudes.

In the second place, they have expressed disagreement with the World Bank experts’ doctrine that economic factors must be paramount over human, social and political ones in the development of Papua-New Guinea. Some of us have been unhappy about this doctrine for quite a long time, but we have been written off as sentimentalists. Professional consultants are not sentimental; they can’t afford to be.

I hope that the consultants’ words will carry the weight they deserve.

Hard-boiled “Hard-boiled” doctrines have been taking a knock in other fields too; for instance, in the field of education, where there has been a tendency to assume that we need university graduates so badly that the whole educational system must be geared to producing them, even if the result turns out to be that we produce nine social misfits for every one graduate.

The other day I heard of a 19year-old youth in one of the urbanised villages close to Port Moresby. He left primary school four years ago as a drop-out from Standard 4, since when he has spent most of his time idling in his village, a village in which subsistence gardening, hunting and fishing have been virtually abandoned.

His story came to my notice when he was picked up by the police for stealing cigarettes from a trade store.

He got a two week gaol sentence, which will probably do him no harm but which won’t really solve anything.

There are scores, and will soon be hundreds, like him in the

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WITH PERCY CHATTERTON urbanised and semi-urbanised villages of Port Moresby and its environs.

It’s easy to say that these lads should be prepared to take pick-andshovel jobs. Perhaps they should, but at 15 or 14 or even younger, when they are eased out of primary school to make room for more promising youngsters, they are not sufficiently developed physically to tackle pickand-shovel jobs, even if the Department of Labour, which has the last word until they are 16, was prepared to let them try, and even if their schooling had not conditioned them against doing so.

In one’s more pessimistic moments one feels that all their schooling has done for them is to unfit them for contentment in any walk of life open to them.

Recognition of the existence of thi problem is growing, but ideas o: what to do about it are not to plentiful.

Great credit is due to the Anglica Mission for setting up a Yout Employment Office, aiming speciall at placing teenagers in jobs, at thei Franciscan Friary at Koke. It ha already had some success; but th fact that it is currently advertisin for jobs for “100 employable youn men” suggests either that employei are not co-operating very heartily c that the jobs aren’t there (see p. 59] The technical division of th Department of Education is giving il vocational schools a new look. It i actively preparing to give speck training to teachers for these schooli and is looking at the idea of utilisin School drop-outs in the towns spend their time idling in ugly shanty villages like thi one not far from main P-NG administrative headquarters in Port Moresby. 52 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

the services of village craftsmen to teach traditional arts and crafts.

It is disheartening to hear that the implementation of this obviously sensible idea is bogged down by the difficulty of fitting such unconventional “teachers” into an oversophisticated Public Service.

Insofar as their aim is to reorientate their students towards village life, village crafts and rural occupations, these vocational schools :an do a very valuable job, especially f they are prepared, as Don Barrett las suggested, to take on not only school leavers as such but also youngsters who have already left ichool and have tasted the bitterness of finding themselves unwanted in a vage-earning world.

In the urban situation it is a bit larder to see where they are heading, fhe “handyman” kind of skills their tudents will acquire are not likely 0 be of much use to them in getting obs, and there is only a limited scope or “cottage industry” types of money naking.

However, even if no more is tccomplished than to keep the Youngsters off the streets during heir middle teens, it will have been omething worth doing.

And there are all sorts of unconrentional possibilities. Just this week 1 news item has told of a group of tudents in a vocational school in Vestern Papua which is being joomed to establish an airline Agency at their local airstrip.

What answers?

Efforts to find answers are not onfined to the Department of Education. I have already described in this olumn a self-help scheme among iris at the Kaugere Community Centre. A similar scheme is now working very successfully among boys nd young men at the Hohola Commnity Centre. I have just bought well-made set of book-shelves from tiese lads, and I believe that orders or various types of simple furniture re coming in well.

These schemes operate under the dng of the welfare branch of the )epartment of District Administrator Another self-help venture of similar though more ambitious ind, this time promoted by an nthusiastic officer of the Department f Trade and Industry, is Port Moresby’s Welders’ Club.

These are all self-supporting efforts, lough the Welders’ Club is hoping or an Administration grant to help ; establish itself on firmer foundaions.

Some agencies have sought to ameliorate the lot of the youthful unemployed by providing recreational facilities for them, and now DDA itself is reported to have entered this field. Admirable as such activities may be, they are a poor substitute for a job and a pay packet.

However, if DDA’s rugged chief, Tom Ellis, could be persuaded to turn out and lead the unemployed in a few Sue Becker type physical exercises on Ela Beach oval, and the Welders’ Club were allowed to take up a collection among the admiring spectators, two birds might be killed with one stone.

The spotlight has certainly been on education lately. The department has staged an “education week”, intended primarily to interest parents in what their kids are up to. A UNESCO expert has arrived to promote primary school science. The university’s foundation Professor of Education has delivered his inaugural lecture, and a distinguished visitor from the University of London is here to speak on “Education— Imported or Home-Grown?”

Our own Director of Education, on the eve of a study tour overseas, has let it be known that we may expect changes in the structure of our primary and secondary education next year. A new Education Ordinance is reported to be in the making, though its contents are still very hush-hush, and a Curriculum Committee is rumoured to be working away like mad behind closed doors.

The Cinderella of the Education Department is adult education. Jim Horner is doing his lonely best, but he must have been a bit embarrassed when two Zambian visitors turned U P to see what we are doing in this field. The Press boys photographed him showing them a map of the territory, but I wonder what else he showed them, What we need is a new division in the department, which for want of a better name might be called the Division of Informal Education. (After Nancy Phelan’s book, Serpents in Paradise, I just couldn’t hear to hear it called Fundamental Education). As I think of it, it would take care of three areas of education which are outside the scope of mainstream education.

The first of these would be adult education in the normally accepted meaning of the term. In this area we must aim at giving the customers what they want, not what we think they ought to want. And w© must Her health is being well looked after by the New Guinea Administration. But will she get an education? 53

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Another would be the vocational training of school drop-outs and unemployed youths, at present being tackled uncoordinatedly by Education’s technical division and through self-help schemes by welfare officers and voluntary agencies.

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All that the Admnistration has done in this field so far has been to discourage the missions from trying to cope with it.

IN whatever other respects we may be backward in educational matters, we can at least claim to be up-to-date in one aspect—we have had our first student demonstration, which took place on the occasion of the South African Ambassador’s visit to Port Moresby.

Public reaction to it was, to me at any rate, unexpected. No huffing and puffing from Colonel Blimp. No scarifying comments from the Highland Farmers and Settlers’ Association. No suggestion that communist agitators are at work. Not even any sneers about academics. (After nearly half-a-century on this side of the world I still can’t get used to the Australian habit of using the word “academic” as a term of abuse).

Far be it from me to discourage our students from demonstrating.

But I would like to see them thinking up some fresher techniques than the display of scruffily written and often badly expressed slogans on placards and banners.

I was delighted with those demonstrators on behalf of America’s poor who thought up the idea of obstructing Miami’s traffic during the Republican convention by driving a mule train through the streets.

True, mules aren’t easy to come by in Moresby. But we have plenty of push bikes. A covey of 50 or 100 well deployed pedal cyclists could attract quite a lot of attention to their cause during Saturday morning shopping hours. 54 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Grin and bear it used to be and what must inevitably come. Change is certain. The direction it will take seems less so.

In the meantime, for someone straight out of a homogenised, instant-mix, pre-packed, comfortconscious society like Sydney, life in the colony of Fiji presents more than a few surprises.

You learn to accept such minor irritations as weevils in the flour and unwashed, unpacketed rice, cockroaches in the cupboards and mildew on the floors, doors, clothes and furnishings. You grin and bear it, if you can, when a glorious-looking peach, costing perhaps l/6d, turns 3ut to be utterly tasteless because it’s i Californian import and, like many Dther foodstuffs here, has been subected to the rigours of deep-freezing.

Hurricane troubles You accept philosophically the 'act that hurricane slats, ready to be vhipped over the windows, are an jssential part of household equipnent. (They tell me hurricanes come n 10-year cycles, but I haven’t been ible to work out whether we’re in he middle of a cycle or the end of me. Whichever it is, the hurricane lats are close at hand). It’s also lightly unnerving to hear tales of lisastrous floods and of the tidal vave which might have been lisastrous had it not been miracuously deflected by the reefs ringing luva Harbour.

There are other minor hazards, pecially for government wives, rhey take the form of morning offee parties, seemingly innocuous •ut actually hotbeds of gossip, only ome of it based on fact but all of t lavishly garnished in the telling.

Ay initial shock at hearing someone’s reputation torn to shreds by he wife of an extremely prominent itizen has worn off now, since everyody suffers the same fate. And when // our reputations are in tatters, why wry?

No-one would consider us part of he cultural mainstream (Oh! Was here once live theatre, concerts, good ew films?) though the local radio tation does a sterling effort in imroving the minds of its Englishpeaking listeners. I can’t vouch for he minds of Fijian and Indian udiences since their programmes are i Fijian and Hindustani.

A typical daily programme would aclude a mid-morning concert with .iza Della Casa, soprano, a midafternoon concert with Strauss, a latenight (9.30 p.m.!) concert with Haydn, Britten and Stravinsky. To be fair, soap operas such as “A Portrait of Jennifer” offer a little light relief, but having managed to avoid listening to it in Australia it seems a little silly to risk becoming an addict in Fiji. With only one Englishlanguage programme, English-speaking listeners must submit to the turgid sentimentality of such serials or simply switch off.

Lifeless TV sets Television is unknown of course, apart from curiously lifeless sets in duty-free stores, but the occasional television “personality” does pass through in the guise of tourist, bringing a breath of promise—or is it a threat?—from the outside world.

The locals feel they can lay claim to at least one celebrity—Raymond Burr. Since the on-screen perpetuator of Perry Mason—the Lawyer who Never Lost—bought Naitaubu Island, his every move, including his intention of breeding pheasants on the island, has been followed with assiduous attention. One wonders how many of those who follow the actor’s activities with such interest have actually seen him playing his famous television role.

Working wives are the rule rather than the exception in Fiji but to a newcomer, it seems a great deal of European skill is being wasted because of the delicacy (that word again!) of the employment situation.

Local labour must be utilised and one understands that—but surely there must be a way of preventing the talents of trained nurses, schoolteachers and so on from being wasted while their husbands are serving in banks and government positions.

While there’s a depressing lack of enlightenment in some spheres, (though perhaps no more than anywhere else), there’s evidence of spectacular achievement in others.

One is always bumping into cliques of business speculators, from Australia, America and occasionally England, speaking their own kind of linguistic shorthand and enthusing over the potential of this place, the untapped tourist markets (can there still be some?) the fortunes to be made, the nightclubs, new hotels, island resorts to be developed. And they hint darkly of vast financial resources upon which they can draw.

The amazing thing is that from week to week one can hear the same conversation from an entirely new set of mouths. The supply of potential new investors seems endless.

One wonders, if all the schemes came to fruition, where it would end!

Even 300 islands in the sun must have their limitations. . . . • Despite widespread business speculation, Stravinsky symphonies and the occasional presence of a real live TV star, there is still plenty of Islands tradition in Fiji. Below, Fijians ceremoniously prepare yaqona for a feast. 57 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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From a Port Moresby correspondent Something positive is being done about the unemployment and youth problems in Port Moresby as a result of action by the Anglican, United and Catholic Churches.

The Rev. John Key, of Moresby’s \nglican Church, recently confronted lis parishioners with a youth survey irepared by Messrs, T. E. Daw and ST. Doko for the Administration. The •eport showed that last year 1,700 people had completed their )rimary education, but places could )e found in secondary institutions for mly 1,000 of them.

The other 700 had joined the ranks )f the drop-outs who flock to the own to seek work.

The report had a dramatic effect »n the Rev. Key’s parishioners, tome 30 of them formed themselves nto a community action group, and lecided to set up an employment igency for Moresby’s youth.

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Sympathetic Already the Department of Labour j interested and sympathetic. There sems a good chance that the agency dll both help young people to find lbs and provide a useful service to mployers.

Meanwhile, the United Church has een busy with a scheme of its own nd has made careful and detailed lans for a mobile welfare unit which dll regularly visit the shanty settlements scattered around the town to rovide a variety of services to both arents and children.

The Catholics have already proided an attractive youth centre open 3 all young people on Hubert lurray Highway at Boroko.

Port Moresby is beset with many roblems, but at least it is not lackig in men and women of goodwill. 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y s E P T E M B E R , 1968

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Unlimited enthusiasm gets Fiji Flying Club airborne From David Evans, in Suva The Victa Airtourer taxied to a stop on the apron opposite the control tower at Nausori airport, the engine revved once, then the propeller fluttered to a stop. The canopy slid back with a clatter and out onto the wing stepped Charles Stinson, OBE, Fiji’s Minister for Communcations, Works and Tourism.

After several hours of dual flying, 2 had just completed his first solo rcuit of the airfield, and it was his rthday.

The Victa Airtourer, its stubby ;llow and white fuselage now a miliar sight in Fiji skies, is owned / the colony’s newest air service, ir Pacific Ltd., and is chartered f the Fiji Flying Club.

This club is the result of the foreght and hard work of a number of dng enthusiasts in Fiji who have, me of them for a number of years, sen trying to get a flying club “off e ground”. The main difficulties sre the large initial cost of an airaft and the lack of a qualified structor.

Hearing of the difficulties, and eing the possibilities of expanding e new company, Air Pacific’s Suva >ss, Pat Macassey, offered to supply e Victa. The offer was not long in :ing accepted.

A bunch of eager flyers, headed \ a figure long familiar in Fiji ing, Tom French, and another perienced flyer with many hours to s credit, Tom King, of the Bank New South Wales, promptly rmed the Fiji Flying Club. They jre joined by would-be pilots with icks of enthusiasm but little or no actical experience—men such as teve” Stevenson, a man familiar th those interested in competitive motoring events in Fiji, and longtime citizen Jock Baker.

The club’s 50 flying members are forming the nucleus of a strong band of enthusiasts who will probably supply the colony with many pilots of commercial standard.

The club is based in Suva, where there are currently over 30 members receiving flying training, and it has a branch in Lautoka, where some 20 north-west members are now receiving regular training at Nadi International Airport. There are a further 40-odd potential flyers who have recently joined the club and many of these will be taking up flying training in the near future.

Amazing The enthusiasm with which the club was met by local citizens when it was formed was amazing. Among its flying members are Vijay R. Singh, the Minister for Social Services, Adi Samanunu Cakobau, daughter of Ratu George Cakobau, the paramount chief of Fiji, and several members of the Ragg family, of Northern Hotels, including David junior, who has also recently completed his first solo.

When the club was formed and the aircraft arrived, there was still one problem to be surmounted—there was no instructor. Air Pacific was still trying to find a suitable professional to act as a full-time instructor when Tom King stepped in and offered his services gratis to the club. Tom has over a thousand hours as an instructor, and his experience dates back to the war years when he helped train RAAF pilots.

Tom worked like a Trojan until Air Pacific found a full-time instructor in Clive Plane, a man with several thousand hours of flying experience.

Though the club is only three months old, the members have already clocked up 150 hours of flying time, and the hours are now being stacked up at a rate of more than 25 per week. Six locally-trained pilots are now flying solo, and this requires an average of six to eight hours per pupil. Many others will go solo in the near future.

The object of most of the fledgling flyers is to obtain the little folder now familiarly known to them as the PPL—the Private Pilot’s Licence.

Quite a handful To qualify for the licence a pilot must have at least 40 hours air experience (with almost half of them solo), high passes in examinations in the principles of flight, air navigation, aero engines and airframes, meteorology and, since the Victa is equipped with a VHP radio receiver and transmitter, a practical and written examination in radiotelephony.

This is quite a handful, but the Fiji's Minister for Communications, Works and Tourism, Mr. Charles Stinson (in cockpit), is congratulated after his first solo flight by his instructor, Mr. Clive Plane. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y S E P T E M B E R . 1968

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All the student pilots must underake a medical examination and take •ut a permit to fly—a Student Pilot’s dcence. This entitles them to fly oth dual and solo under the superision of the instructor.

When the cost of flying instruction £F6 an hour) is included, a private ying licence costs about £F2SO. Why, len, are people so eager to learn ) fly? Most of them just love ying. You will, however, strike the idividual like Suva builder and otelier Y. P. Reddy who, besides is passionate love of flying, also itends to use his licence to keep an /e on his rapidly expanding Viti evu-wide business interests.

With the rapid growth of private ying in Fiji, the club is already mtemplating the acquisition of lother aircraft. There is, of course, so the possibility that one of the embers, having gained his (or her) :ence, may decide to buy an airaft.

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Tureia, a small atoll in the amotu Archipelago, is 60 miles of Mururoa, the centre of orations for the French nuclear ts Normally, it has a population 60 or 70 people; but when no vs was heard from them after : election, speculation grew that had been wiped out by (a) ►mic radiation, (b) a tidal wave, (c) some other natural disaster.

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Set in the mid-Pacific, Christma is one of the Line Islands and is nc to be confused with the phosphat island of the Indian Ocean, althoug] many people still do.

About 100 miles in circumference it boasts a land area of 222 squar miles—nearly double the total lan area of the 25 Gilbert and Ellic Islands (125 square miles).

Currently there is no central cocc nut plantation on Christmas Islanc but there are several big groves nort and south of its extensive lagoor Only about 6,000 acres —or 10 squar miles—are planted with coconuts an production is roughly 400 tons c copra annually.

Drawback to large-scale plantatio development remains the unpredic: able rainfall, which is usually to low, a factor which has made th quality of its soils suspect for turr ing out big, healthy nuts.

However, copra production froi its two wealthier Line Island sister?

Fanning and Washington islands, w£ well up last year.

Fanning success Fanning Islands Plantations Ltd a subsidiary of Burns Philp an Company Ltd., has recently reporte that 834 tons of copra were pre duced at Fanning and 967 tons cam from Washington, totalling 1,80 This total figure is not far belo 1 the record for these two islandsjust over 2,000 tons.

BP’s continued success with Fai ning and Washington may ha\ prompted Christmas’ current owne the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colom to try to put its plantings on a con mercial footing, but anyway th colony has this year appointed European manager to supervise tl 80 to 90 labourers on the islan and hopes to overcome Christma lack of rain by planting all ne coconuts deeper into the soil.

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Copra has now been produced rom Christmas Island for 66 years, "hree different owners have planted Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd, ;ased the island from Britain for 9 years in June, 1902.

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Rougier's interest Eleven years later, the famous lissionary-turned-planter, Fat h er manuel Rougier, bought the lease om Levers. Less than a year later, s resold the lease to Central Pacific oconut Plantations. CPCP produced bout 400 tons of copra annually om Christmas for the next 30-odd jars, and when the company left the land after World War II well over 30,000 coconut trees were bearing.

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Smashing traffic statistics The small French Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna recently established what must surely be a record in the field of road traffic statistics.

Although there are only some 50 motor vehicles in the territory, eight of them were damaged in one week in five separate accidents.

Among those who have recently been injured in road accidents in the territory is the 84-year-old Vicar Apostolic of Wallis and Futuna, Monseigneur Poncet. He had to spend two days in bed after a Citroen he was travelling in overturned in a ditch. 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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From J. Edward Brown, in Niue August on Niue Island is the month when most of the hibiscus bushes start to sprout greenery again, and buds appear on the tips of the branches. And then the housegirls spend hours outside threading the blossoms on to cotton and appear with leis of hibiscus flowers around their necks.

With spring in the air, Mele, one of our housegirls, asked why we didn’t have a “bush” like some of the other Europeans living on the island.

A “bush” is a plot of land up on the central plateau where there is soil and where it is possible to grow vegetables such as taro and yams and tapioca, and fruit such as bananas.

“I’ve talked to my parents and you can have a piece of their bush,”

Mele told my wife.

A “bush” is a good idea if you are interested in gardening because it’s almost impossible to grow anything in the grounds of our house, or any of the other houses on the lower plateau. The lower plateau is 70 feet or so above the sea, and it is rocky.

Sawdust for soil We have big lawns but there’s no soil under the grass. The ground was originally built up with sawdust which has rotted into so-called soil, but it is very thin and has to be continually spread with fresh sawdust.

The lower plateau of the island is riddled with caves and caverns and there are small holes in our back lawn which go through to a cave which runs from the coast right under our house. And when the tide and the wind are right, cold air is expelled through these small holes with a whoosh as the Pacific rollers break on the reef, and the cold air flattens the grass.

In a really heavy sea the house shudders slightly, and I sometimes wonder if it is safe.

The sawdust comes from the timber mill which processes timber from the extensive forest on the fertile central plateau, the only place where food crops really grow well.

On the west side of the island all the villages are on the sterile lower plateau and all the villagers go up on to the central plateau to grow their food.

Thursday is a big “bush” day and half the staff of the government departments take the day off. Late in the day Niueans emerge with bicycles groaning under the weight of husked coconuts tied together, hands of bananas, plaited coconut leaf baskets of kumeras and yams, taro and tapioca and thick branches to be used as firewood.

“Bush” days are regular events in the subsistence economy of Niue, and the Niueans are actually forced by law to till the soil.

Forced by law There is a law which says that Niueans must plant enough food for their familites, and crops are regularly inspected to ensure that enough is planted. Niueans who don’t plant enough food have to appear before the court.

Most Europeans eat imported food from New Zealand so there is no compelling reason for them to plant in the bush.

Some do, though. We have a friend, John, with a piece of “bush”.

He grows parsley. It’s delicious.

A record year for A. Samoa According to the latest annual report of America Samoa (published recently), 1966-67 was a record year for the territory. A record number of tourists arrived; a record amount and value of fish products were exported; the net tonnage of vessels arriving in Pago Pago harbour was nearly double that of the previous year; a record number of planes arrived at Pago Pago airport; and the Bank of American Samoa reported records in loans granted and in the numbers of savings and commercial accounts. • In spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of marriage?

Obviously cartoonist Nolarae, of Niue, doesn't view spring from the masculine viewpoint. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L T S E P T E M B E R , 1968

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There are cannibals in the Papuan Wonderland From a Port Moresby correspondent Something is being done to tame the last of the cannibals in P-NG. The Administration has set up a base camp at Sadado, some 350 miles north-west of Port Moresby, among the warring Biami cannibals.

Allan Johnson, 24, Assistant District Commissioner from the Nomad patrol post, 20 miles west of Sadado, has set up the camp with 10 policemen.

The Administration decided to establish the Sadado camp after an Unevangelized Fields Mission had gone into the area. Although the UFM patrol met with no violence, the Administration was worried that the presence of white men might stir up the Biami people.

Until recently little attention was paid to the Biami. They were virtually left alone until November, 1962, when Acting Assistant District Officer M. Lang, and Patrol Officer R. W. Henderson, took a patrol into the middle reaches of the Strickland River.

A member of the patrol, Constable Kasiga, 26, was hacked to death by four men who claimed Kasiga had assaulted one of their wives.

As a result of the killing, the Administration set up the Nomad patrol post in 1962.

The single patrol officer at Nomad began working around the fringes of the aggressive Supei, Kubor, Biami and Gubusi tribesmen, trying to halt the traditional killing and cannibalism.

Things began to look good. But the Nomad patrol officer was never quite sure what was happening out in the bush.

Slaughter Then, in May, 1967, the Kubor cannibals broke their fast. They swept in at dawn with their bonetipped arrows, killing clubs and bamboo knives to slaughter four people in a longhouse only 12 miles from Nomad station. Two of the bodies were sliced up on the spot, carried off and eaten. The only evidence —a jawbone and one piece of a tibia—still hang on a nail today, in the Nomad Sub-district Office.

For the Administration, it was the worst cannibalism since the discovery of the Keba (Southern Highlands) cannibals in 1962, and one of the most highly publicised since that Easter Monday in 1901, when the English LMS missionaries, Chalmers and Tomkins and 10 of their native adherents, were slaughtered and eaten on Goaribari Island, in the far west of the Gulf District.

Less than five years ago, many of the estimated 4,000 longhouse people in the Nomad Sub-district were cannibals. It’s the last big stronghold of cannibalism in P-NG.

There’s no social stigma in cannibalism near Nomad. Very little is known of the people so far, but it seems they seek human flesh as a suppplement to the colourless and monotonous sago.

Perhaps some of them, like the Kukukukus and more recently some of the Southern Highlanders, feel that by eating the slain enemy they acquire that man’s strength as a leader or warrior.

Many of the Gubusi and Biami people are afraid of the Administration, and repeatedly race into the bush when they sight a patrol.

Not long ago, one Fabe clan threatened to attack the next patrol it saw. “We want to be left alone . . . we don’t want the Administration” the Fabe leaders told the patrol, as they hovered on top of a sharp little hill, twanging their bowstrings by way of warning.

The first journalist allowed into the Sadado area, the ABC’s John Ryan, said in Port Moresby: “The Biami cannibal people and their nervous neighbours live in carefully hidden, heavily-fortified longhouses with great logs which crash over the small doorway, the moment danger threatens.

“Loopholes in the blackpalm walls of the longhouses give the defenders a big advantage against an enemy in the open. The arrows, four feet long and delicately carved, are sometimes tipped with human bone.

“Tracks to the longhouses are often almost impossible to find. This is the first line of defence.”

Patrols with local guides often have great difficulty, because the guides don’t like approaching a longhouse community which almost invariably are at war with their own.

Occasionally, the nervous guides lead (Continued on p. 144) Assistant District Commissioner Allan Johnson stands beside a burial platform outside a deserted longhouse in the Nomad area of west P-NG. 70 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The Coral Sea rooster and other (unlikely) stories...

Old hand LANCE WILKINSON, in Milne Bay, does some remembering.

We’re sitting down, firmly anchored in the lee of Nuatutu Plantation on Goodenough Island, waiting impatiently for wind, sea and rain to abate. It’s been rough weather now for 10 days and we’re feeding 16 recruits. They have already eaten the profit away, and are now eating their way well into the loss. We are completely out of grog, so that even with the rain our hides are cracking. is nothing else for us to • do but sit and yarn. So we sit d think about the old times and men in small ships who were in )rse predicaments than us. We rn about 'HE BLOKE who had just come through the Hornbill Passage on st Cape. He was a bit rattly when landed, and had to hold his glass both hands. He wasn’t suffering )m a hangover, though what is causing the trouble was that he’d it missed a watery grave and his rves were a little on edge.

He’d been in the thick of it in i Passage. Waves were 20 ft high. 5t as he was congratulating himf on having two engines and having come through without a atch a real beauty of a wave Re along. The bow of his boat >e to the occasion and the wheel Re off in his hand. The key fell wn, and only the quick substitun of a screwdriver saved him m destruction.

He still managed to spill quite a lot of his double rums for hours after he landed Four landlubbers who left Misima for Samarai in a 32 ft launch with four dozen of beer for breakfast didn’t have a navigator, so they had to navigate themselves.

Just on daylight, after a gruelling all-night run, they heard a rooster crow. This threw the amateur navigators out they weren’t supposed to be near land. They altered course.

A little later the rooster crowed again, and again the navigators altered course.

That darn rooster was worrying them. They decided that it must be on a reef in the area and they kept a wary look-out, and reduced speed.

They kept up this vigilance until one of the men, who had gone to the stern, heard the rooster crow immediately beneath him. And there it was lashed to the bottom of a dinghy!

It was a good job that the men had a little humour left, otherwise the crewman who had souvenired the rooster at Misima might have gone to his watery grave. . . .

THE LUGGER skipper who sailed into Sewa Bay one night after a hard trip from Mambare way had just about had it, and so had his crew. The order to drop anchor was obeyed with alacrity. Sewa Bay is one of the best anchorages in Papua. It is almost landlocked, with an entrance a mere 200 yards wide. Ten fathoms of chain was let go in three fathoms of water.

After the traditional one under the yardarm, the skipper and his crew took to their cots and slept the sleep of the just.

When the skipper woke next morning he couldn]t see land. He thought at first that his eyes must be deceiving him, or that Whitton Bros.’ rum had finally caught up with him, but his crewmen confirmed that there was no land in sight.

After a lot of blasphemy it was discovered that the anchor was firmly caught in the bobstay with the anchor chain trailing to no purpose Samarai, focal point of Milne Bay, and guardian of the China Straits. On August 1, district headquarters was moved from Samarai to Alotau. 79 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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THEN there were the four blob who left Woodlark Island f( Samarai. This was a long time ag They took with them a plentiful su; ply of victuals from Gus Nelsor pub.

Towards midnight, when slumb was beginning to overtake high spiri and revelry, a terrific jolt was fe on the troll line. While hauling it ; —and wondering what sort of mo: ster was on the end of it the noticed that one of their numb was missing. Naturally, he turne out to be the oversize fish tl hook was firmly embedded in h calf.

After getting him aboard, pumpii him out and administering a powe ful dose of Gus Nelson’s anaethetic a little rough surgery was perform* —with a sheath knife. The victt suffered no serious after effects, e: cept that he never took another drit at sea. . , .

A WELL - KNOWN prospech chartered a launch from Bun Philp in Moresby to take some su] plies to Vilirupa, about 60 miles u in Marshall Lagoon. As it was long weekend, he took with hii three friends, intending to retui within three days.

To lighten the charter fee, Bun Philp gave him some cargo to drc on the way.

Shortly after clearing Basilisk Pa sage, it was discovered (by a moi observant passenger) that what m supposed to be a keg of cement fc a mission station was, in fact, a fivi gallon keg of BP OP rum. (Th was a particularly powerful bre and was often broken down wit plonk to make it drinkable.) Of course the launch didn’t mak it to Vilirupa, or anywhere else i the Marshall Lagoon. It made i way (giddily) out to sea. As far £ the people in Moresby were coi cerned it was lost.

Burns Philp was in the process c claiming insurance when the launc steamed back into Moresby o what locals described as a deliriui tremens course. BP was so glad t see the vessel that it forget to charg the man ....

That’s how that yarn goes, anywa] 80 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Bougainville, Where They Treasure

The Relics Of "The German Times"

By Kakata Generally speaking the Bougainville Islanders are a communicative people who, at the slightest pretext, will down tools and enter into long and interesting conversations on any number of topics.

On many occasions I have spent hours listening to the rumblings of old men as they retold the past in their native tongue, waiting patiently for someone to translate their stories into Pidgin.

Often the conversations would ntre on “the German times”, often misleading term since the natives id to confuse the early days of the istralian Administration with the >t days of the German. (The srman Administration, of course, me to an end in 1914).

Bougainville Island is named after 5 French explorer, Louis de mgainville, who discovered it in 68. During the century following v Europeans set foot on the island, lose who did were sailors, from s occasional whaling or trading ssel, who went ashore in search of jsh water.

Towards the end of the 19 th ntury both England and Germany owed interest in acquiring vereignty over Bougainville. In 86 the Germans annexed it, and s was later ratified in the Anglo- ;rman Settlement of 1898.

During the last two decades of j 19th century the first trading posts were established on the island, and the first European settlers and missionaries arrived. Trade goods were the first articles of western origin to enter the island in quantity.

Still valued The most common relics of the German era still in use are steel axeheads. Some of these were acquired from traders, and others were received in payment for land sales.

These axes have a narrow blade and a hammer head. All of them are now burnished brown with age, and most have worn short after countless sharpenings on coarse river stones. Nonetheless, they are still valued for their balance and their ability to keep a sharp edge.

Many of them are mounted on black-palm handles, some of which are decorated with intricate geometric designs—an indication that these axes were regarded as treasures. (Bear in mind that before the arrival of the European, the Bougainville native had used stone axes).

I once inquired in a village in the Siwai division of South Bougainville if anyone had a stone axe-head.

The villagers replied that they had none, but they did show me two rusty iron adze-heads hanging from the rafters of the village drum house.

These had been unearthed near the village during the preparation of a new garden site. No one knew why they may have been buried in the bush, or where they had come from.

Judging from their antiquated shape, and the degree of corrosion, it appeared that they might well have dated back to the last century. They may even have come from Forsayth’s store which was looted and destroyed by Siwai natives near Mamagota village in 1897.

Traffic in firearms During the last century a prolific traffic in firearms, introduced by traders and recruiters, existed in many parts of the Pacific. Although percussion lock muskets could be found in the nearby Solomon Islands in the 1920’5, I have not seem a Bougainville native with one. Perhaps some of these muskets did enter the island in the early days, but if they Kieta, Bougainville, as it was in "the German times," before World War I. Many natives on Bougainville still talk about the German Administration, and treasure relics from that time. 81 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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father to son lid they must have been confiscated oon after the establishment of govrnment control.

The early traders did bring with hem shotgun barrels which had been ut down and sharpened into chisels. k>me are still used to gouge out the ateriors of logs during the manuacture of the prized “garamut” slitongs.

Most village men possess a long pear which they use when hunting igs. Most of these spears are carved rom a 5 ft length of black-palm, nd they are generally tipped with piece of sharpened steel bound into tie haft with either rattan cane or opper wire. In some instances these pears have been handed down from ather to son for three generations r more.

Some of the older spears are pped with triangular-bladed socket ayonets. There bayonets are thought a have been introduced by the Jermans. Found in a variety of mgths and sizes, many of them ear ordnance marks from some of Europe’s most famous arsenals, triangular bayonets were in common se by European armies during the ist century).

Golden sovereigns Some of the old people keep olden sovereigns as curios. These re said to have been earned as wages n copra plantations in the Solomons nd elsewhere about the turn of the sntury. Probably they would be ven more common today if many ad not been used to pay tax during le mid-war years.

The oldest sovereign I have seen i the territory was dated 1854 which n old man cashed at the Bank of ISW in Rabaul. Coins such as lese are rare in Bougainville, but it ► their existence that occasionally ives rise to rumours that the natives ossess “golden dubloons” salvaged rom the wrecks of Spanish galleons.

German coins Equally rare now are German oins —marks and pfennig. Most of lem passed out of circulation many ears ago. An occasional mark is eceived in change in coastal stores, hough, and I saw one cashed at You’s store at Buka Passage i 1961; it was dated 1908.

More common are coins introuced by the Japanese during the for use in the islands they conquered and placed under military administration. Much of Bougainville was under Japanese control from 1942-45.

In 1962 a native, digging a garden near Buin, South Bougainville, unearthed a great hoard of copper and aluminium invasion coins. His delight quickly changed to anguish when they turned out to be valueless!

I was once asked by a Bougainville Islander where he could buy a mine dectector. He had seen them used during the war, but he was not interested in finding bombs or scrap iron; he wished to search a nearby island for a wooden chest reputedly full of silver coins.

He had heard the village elders tell of an old man who lived on the island in “the German times”. He had sold a lot of copra to the traders, who once plied the coast, and over the years had received a considerable numbers of coins in payment. He kept these in a wooden chest which he carried with him wherever he went. When he died his kinsmen searched for the chest, but it could not be found. They deduced that he had buried it somewhere on the island.

Perhaps one of these days somebody will dig it up and unearth with it yet another ailment introduced by expatriates—treasure fever!

Brett Milder Profile A TONGAN OLD HAND August Hettig, photographer and trader of Nukualofa, comes from a German family which arrived m the Islands m about 1890. The Hethgshved m Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand, before settling in Tonga in 1892. „ . , , , , August Hettig s father, Wilhelm JaC( iT7-S ettlg ’ k n ?^ n to everybody as Willie, married a Nukualofa girl (later he was to marry another local girl) and went into business as a copra-buyer, trader, boatbuilder and manufacturer of aerated waters. He died in 1949. * o^ gU TT was on une * 1896. He spent four years at school m Auckland before joining his father s business.

Over the years August has added photography to the business, but dropped the boatbuilding and copra-buying, August has married twice. His fi rs t w jf e was Anna Maria Maka, and t he Maria, daughter p Atnnio D ™ t .. A . . .

By his first wife August had a son , Frederick, now a schoolboy of 14. August also has two adopted daughters, Betty and Lili. .

A;P art * rom business, and colour-photo processing, August b QS always enjoyed producing amateur theatricals. In the November, 1951, issue of PIM there appeared a photograph of the cast G f t h e Mikado, a production directed by Princess Mata’aho, the present Queen of Tonga, assisted by August Hettig.

BRETT HILDER. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Life On The Big Pond

The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune One of a series, by Bill Dame The trans-Pacific luxury liner was nearing Tahiti. The evening meal was over and several crewmen were on the fantail enjoying the tropical sunset and engaging in that time-honored ritual, the Bull Session. A group of new men, all university students at sea for the summer, was clustered around a middleaged, tattooed salt, listening to his stories of Tahiti as it used to be before the tourist invasion.

“The girls were relatively unsophisticated and their wants were simple in the old days,” he sighed. “Whenever a ship tied up at the dock, the waterfront girls were always there, impatiently waiting for their men to swarm ashore and give them presents from overseas. And all it took to please them was a new dress, a comb and mirror set or a pack of candy. And they really knew how to express their appreciation, too.”

“How do you approach a Tahitian girl?” someone asked.

The method “Each man has his own method,” the old salt shrugged.

“And it’s perfectly permissible in their culture for a girl to make all the overtures when she sees a guy she wants.”

“How do they go about it?” another asked.

“In different ways. Let’s see.

Oh! I’ll tell you how one little cutie did it. It’s an incredible story, and you may not believe it, but it really happened.”

The group leaned forward, and the old salt began his tale. “It was about 12 years ago. A handsome young fellow, engaged to a pretty girl back home and proud of his virginity, was aboard this very ship and latched onto me in Tahiti to show him around. We rented a car, picked up my vahine from one of the waterfront bars and started around the island just after lunch.

“We stopped at my vahine’s place on the outskirts of town and my young friend drank pop in a Chinese store while he waited for us. While he was there, a beautiful and very exotic young girl of around 16 came to the store and made some small purchase, “She stared at him as only an interested Tahitian girl can stare at a man she wants when my vahine and I arrived and honked the horn for him to hop in the car. As he got into the back seat, the young girl, who was a friend of my vahine’s, came over and exchanged a few words with us. I agreed with her that my friend needed a date and she hopped in the back seat by him and off we went.

“He remained aloof and concentrated on the scenery, but she was a dedicated Tahitian and concentrated on him.

“Half way around the island the fanbelt broke and I had to walk back a mile to a store that had a telephone where I rang town and ordered a new fanbelt.

I arranged for it to be delivered to a bus driver who would bring it to me.

Excited “I bought some cheese, bread, corned beef and wine and returned to the car not exactly dreading the four-hour wait. The late afternoon was beautiful and we had parked very near a secluded little cove that promised good swimming. We swam until past sunset, then built a little fire for a signal to the bus driver and had our picnic.”

Another crewman had wandered out on to the fantail and stood against the rail close to the old salt’s group. He listened attentively to the excited unfolding of the yarn.

The old salt went on: “The wine really excited the young girl, but my astonished buddy wouldn’t cooperate. He explained that he was being true to his girl, and that made the Tahitian really angry.

She stood in front of him and hurled a threat at him which my thoroughly amused vahine translated. ‘She say if you no do it, she gone follow you around town tell all you friends you not real man, so more bettah you get busy.

Ha!’ ”

Triumphant The old salt paused for a few seconds. Then in almost funereal tones he told of how the anguished boy and the triumphant girl walked away into the darkness to a small patch of grass nearby; of how, a few moments later, the night’s calm was rent with sudden cries of pain; and of how the would-be lovers quickly leaped back into the firelight and furiously began to flick from their naked bodies the biggest, blackest ants he had ever seen. After that, said the old salt, the two went to the beach and buried their stinging bodies in the cool, wet sand until the fanbelt was replaced.

Some of the listeners believed the tale; some didn’t, and a goodnatured argument over “true” or “false” erupted among them as the old salt smiled and slowly walked away, followed by the unsmiling late arriver.

When they were away from the group, the late arriver hissed, “You old reprobate! If you ever tell anyone who . .

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OTHER items in PIM, for September, 1948, included: THE New Hebrides was “well catered for” with air connections, PIM said. Two airlines, a Noumea-based French company, TRAPAS, from Noumea and Trans Oceanic Airways, from Sydney, were regularly servicing the Condominium, and the Australian airline, Qantas, was talking about starting a fortnightly service between Sydney and Santo. Qantas had already carried out survey flights, but had had to make three postponements of its starting date.

WESTERN Samoan planters were being urged to produce more copra, cocoa and bananas and to further develop the resources of the territory.

KOKOLA and Kokola Extended Plantations, near Namatanai, New Ireland, NG, were both up for sale. There were 1,500 acres with 32,000 coconut and 100 cocoa trees on the plantations, which at the time had 80 to 90 years of an original 104-year lease to run. Former owner was the late Mrs. E. B. Hertz.

THE Presbyterian Church of the New Hebrides was inaugurated as an independent church with a separate constitution on July 1 at Tangoa, Santo. Representatives of the church throughout the New Hebrides, from Australia and New Zealand, attended the celebrations. New Hebrides’ new church would not break all its ties with its parent churches overseas and would still receive support from both Australia and NZ, said the report in PIM.

NEW Zealand had suddenly decided to lift the value of its pound from a par level with the Australian pound to a par level with the British pound—a move which caused widespread change in the exchange rates of several Pacific territories. Most affected were NZ’s bigger trading partners Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Norfolk Island. The Australian pound remained at 25 per cent, below both the British and the New Zealand pounds. Fiji’s traders wanted Fiji’s pound strengthened, but the Fiji Government announced in early September that there would be no alteration to its exchange rate.

A DECISION was expected in September on the site for the future international airport for Fiji—and both major rivals—Nadi and Nausori—were ardently pressing their claims. Nadi had everything in its favour except one thing—its 130-road mile distance from Fiji’s capital, Suva. Nevertheless, it was the big tip.

THE oil search in Papua was to be stepped up and the Australasian Petroleum Company Pty.

Ltd. was buying two additional drilling outfits for use on the company’s extensive drilling areas in Western Papua. Drilling sites had been selected. APC, then and now, was an associate company of Oil Search Ltd.

BURNS Philp and Co. Ltd. had received a new auxiliary ketch at Santo, New Hebrides, for trading throughout the New Hebrides. The ketch, 82-ton Koro, would be based at Vila and take the place of the motor vessel Muliama, recently diverted to trading in the Solomons. Koro’s master was Captain D. Anderson, who had experience on New Guinea runs.

SUVA’S trial bus service was under way. “The traffic authorities, bubbling over with reasonableness, have altered and extended the timetables”, PIM said.

“The flat rate fare of sixpence, however, remains a major hurdle for short-distance travellers”.

LEVUKA, Fiji’s former capital on Ovalau, felt itself badly done by in the realm of public works, and on a visit by the Governor, Sir Brian Freeston, Levuka residents asked for additional roads for the island and a small jetty to be built at Lodoni.

PIM said Lodoni was literally a “jumping-off place” ferry passengers had to take off their shoes and paddle across the mud flats to reach Levuka.

What did Ocean Islanders look like around the turn of the century? One of PlM's longest contributors, who was around those islands about 1904, has turned up this picture of a group of that time. The Ocean Islanders of today live on Rabi, in the Fiji Group. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Book Reviews

Potted imponderables of Australia's defence Until 1942 Australia had no foreign policy worth calling a foreign policy. Australia was part of the British Empire and Britannia ruled her waves. If Britain fought, Australia fought alongside her, believing that Britain’s interests were her own.

When the mother lion went into battle she was followed by her loyal cub.

Then came World War 11, and, i 1942, the fall of Singapore— nd everything changed. Suddenly ritannia no longer ruled the waves -not in Australian waters anyway -and the Japanese were on Ausalia’s doorstep.

It was at that time that Prime linister Curtin turned to the US Tee of any pangs as to our aditional links with the United ingdom”, and asked for help.

And the Americans sent help— icn, money and machines. It was profound reversal of ties for Ausalia, this new alliance with America, id it was one that affected Ausalia and Australians strongly.

Singapore started it From the fall of Singapore onards Australia was forced to depend creasingly on the US. It was in ustralia’s interests to support the S and she has done so pretty insistently in postwar years (with ie exception, of course, of Suez, hen Menzies was every inch a ueen’s man). In particular Ausalia, unlike Britain, has supported merica by refusing to recognise Red hina.

Now with Americans and Ausalians fighting side by side in ietnam, and with British troops aving their bases East of Suez, ustralia and America are closer lan ever.

These developments are underlined Australia Faces Southeast Asia: he emergence of a foreign policy, brief (168 pages) report on and lalysis of Australia’s foreign policy nee the war. It is written by an merican husband and wife team, mry and Mary Belle Vandenbosch le’s Professor Emeritus of Political cie n c e at the University of entucky).

The book, which is divided into eight chapters (each of which can be read as a separate essay), places particular emphasis on recent events —such as the confrontations in West New Guinea and in Malaysia, and the war in Vietnam. The authors don’t make many strong judgments, but those that they do make are sound.

As far as Vietnam is concerned, the Vandenboschs seem to be mildmannered hawks. Describing Australia’s involvement in the war, they give the opposition a fair go—but are critical of confused thinking in the Australian Labour Party.

For instance, an ALP resolution in 1965 recognised that the presence of American forces in Vietnam was “necessary”. The resolution called on western nations to withdraw support “from the forces of reaction, oppression and tyranny” (i.e., the government) in South Vietnam and urged that “a programme of full scale economic and social assistance” should be implemented.

But, as the Vandenboschs point out: “To whom this assistance should be given after support of the existing government had been withdrawn was not indicated by the resolution”.

New Guinea Coming nearer home, this book has some commonsense things to say about New Guinea. To quote: “The territory’s sparse population is divided into numerous primitive ethnological groups with hundreds of different languages, living in mountain pockets with great distances between them.

To build a nation, much less a strong society, out of such groups and under such geographic conditions is a slow process. To grant selfgovernment prematurely would be

The Future Of New Guinea

Those who followed with interest the proceedings of last January’s 34th summer school of the Australian Institute of Political Science in Canberra, which dealt with P-NG (P/M, Feb., p. 31), will be pleased to know that Angus and Robertson has now published all the papers read at the school (in paperback at $2.25) —which must be some sort of record. Sometimes a year has elapsed before the publication of some seminar papers in Australia.

The book, New Guinea . . . Future Indefinite?, is edited by John Wilkes, and comprises papers by academics E. K. Fisk and Edward P.

Wolfers, Minister for External Territories C. E. Bames, politician Kim E. Beazley, and J. H. Wootten and N. L. Cowper.

What makes this a more useful compilation than otherwise is the inclusion of the discussions on the papers.

According to J. F. Blaxland in a foreword, the contributions of New Guinean participants “were not fully balanced by adequate presentation of viewpoints of the less articulate but numerically, and possibly politically, more significant highlanders”, and he adds: “Nor, apart from the notable contribution of lan Downs, were the attitudes and views of the expatriate Australian community in P-NG expressed as fully as may have been desirable.”

Emphasis of the school was on P-NG’s political future, and strong feelings were expressed on this subject. A common view on the part of many European speakers was that Australia’s paternal and colonialist attitude towards the territory must end; and that independence for the territory should be a stated policy.

Most of the New Guinean speakers, on the other hand, never mentioned the word independence, or if they did, they seemed to think it was a long way off. Less definite—and passionate—views were expressed on the economic and social future of the territory. 89 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Although this book places a lot : importance on the American liance, this alliance is not the be-all id end-all of Australian foreign >licy—as the Vandenboschs recogse.

Speaking of the possibility of a lion between New Zealand and ustralia, they write: “If threats to e security of the two states conme, and especially if Australia and ew Zealand should fear that the nited States might withdraw from e area, or that disagreement might ;velop between them and America, ncerted action would be highly sirable”. ‘7/ Australia and New Zealand should fear that the United States might withdraw from the area. . . ”

Well, many people in Australia and New Zealand do fear that the United States might withdraw. And surely the crux of the matter is that Australia must not become so dependent on America that she is unable to develop her own defence policies.

Pessimistic now The authors appear to avoid this issue, and don’t make enough of Australia’s fear of an American withdrawal. Certainly their book was written before the de-escalation of the Vietnam war, before the Vietnam peace talks, before the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. It does not, therefore, reflect the pessimism of many Australians, who feel that America may be tempted, because of her internal strife and because of anti-US feeling in Europe, to withdraw into isolationism.

But their book is good, potted politics, which will make Australians at least ponder on the defence problems of their own area, if it will not supply any answers. And it comes at a time when in Canberra there is being mounted a thorough review of Australia’s defence and foreign policy, likely to determine Australia’s direction for the next decade.—Sß.

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Bull, it is readable, with indexes • both ships and general events, well as some well-produced photos old ships.

Several of the Gippsland ships peared later in New Guinea waters, plain Alexander Rennie took the •ton schooner Dove from Melurne in 1878 in the hope of strik- ! it rich in the rumoured goldfields New Guinea.

Dove reached NG, but due to •ious mishaps Captain Rennie and crew returned home emptyaded.

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Phe 100-ton steamer Queenscliff, ilt in Melbourne in 1876, spent ,ny years plying the Gippsland ist before Captain A. S. Fitch Light her in 1918 and a year later >k her up to New Guinea. Captain ch started Steamships Trading Dprietary Ltd. with Queenscliff.

He used her to trade around all Papuan trading posts.

Another ship to make its mark NG after many years work around ppsland was the big steamer of same name. Gippsland was used the Allies in World War II for nsport of supplies and men around NG Islands.

After this war, a salvage company d her around NG, but she was scked during a storm about 1948.

Story of Gippsland Shipping is xi value for shiplovers.—K.McG.

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts' Two years old and still in [?]irginal solation Completed two years ago, the deep water wharf at Asau, Western Samoa, will continue to stand in virginal isolation for some time yet. iy some incredible engineering .calculation, only after the Sim. arf was completed was it disered that the coral sea bed was tough for the dredge to dig out 3,600 ft channel through the oon to the open sea. The New dand Navy came to the rescue, after more than a year of blasthundreds of tons of war surplus ?edo heads, squid bombs and TNT, end is still not in sight, larly this year it was predicted t with the blasting, the wharf uld be opened this September, wever in August, Samoan Director Works L, McQuitty announced t it was unlikely that the wharf ild be opened this year. He said t Public Works had run into unected difficulties but that good gress was being made in dredging blasted coral. He said over half channel had now been cleared the dredge was clearing about 20 ft daily of the 120 ft wide nnel.

Tie wharf plays a vital part in latch Forest plans for Savaii timber development. Potlatch manager T. Shelton is now permanently in Samoa and the company is all set to start building its mill at Asau.

The only delay in this, according to Mr. Shelton, is the hold up in finalising a lease for the mill site. After the usual protracted argument and negotiation, expected in things of this nature in Samoa, this will be finalised shortly and work on the mill and the S6m. timber project should be well under way by the end of the year.

The wharf should certainly be open by the time the mill is in operation some time next year. The two year delay however has not enhanced the value of expert advice in the eyes of Samoans.

Nauru To Register

OWN SHIP On July 12 the Speaker of the Nauruan Parliament gave assent to the Registration of Ships Act, paving the way for Nauru to register its own ships. Members of Parliament wrestled with the complex bill over several sessions before accepting the inevitable conclusion that the technical requirements of such a measure just had to be accepted.

The new law is obviously intended to provide for the blue, gold and white flag of the Republic to fly over the 6,000 ton vessel that the Nauru In The News This Month Alena Antares Avanti Bacchus Camira Carousin’ II Coral Queen Dear Dear Louise Driver Eryx II Belly Hokianga Jacques del Mar II Jahama Kittiwake Korora Lei Lei Lassen Lei Yadali Madang, HMAS Malekula Melusia Mistral II Moana Raoi Neophyte Nomad Okeanos Opty Pacific Crusader Procax Roiaata Roulette Samarai, HMAS Santa Maria Sarabande Staghound Tawarra Tere Valhalla Waiotahi Woomera Yeti Zarathrustra Zwerver II Savaii's new wharf at Asau, vital for the $6 million Potlatch timber project, is not yet able to handle shipping. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Advertisements appeared recently q Nauru, seeking two young men as ipprentices and another as a writer, or the ship’s crew. This appears to »e the limit of Nauruan participation n the ship’s operations, at least at irst. It has not been officially stated vho will comprise the ship’s crew, >ut it is understood that there may >e jobs for other Pacific Islanders in he total complement.

Ownership of the vessel is one of he oddities of the Nauruan political tructure, since the Nauru Local jovernment Council comprises the line men who were also the elected nembers of the old Legislative Council, and who with nine more lew members, comprise the Nauru Parliament.

President Hammer Deßoburt is till also Head Chief of Nauru by Trtue of his still being leader of the Government Council, and iealth and Education Minister Austin Bemicke is the council’s ecretary. Presumably the Head Zhief and his Council will apply to he President and his Government br registration of the ship, and no loubt after due deliberation it will >e granted.

Ips Halt Bougainville

Zalls For Time Being

After over 40 years of regular ihipping services to Bougainville >orts, Burns Philp and Company Ltd. vill stop calling regularly at Bougainville when the firm’s 16-year-old >assenger-cargo vessel Malekula eaves Kieta about August 29.

BP’s general shipping manager, Mr. “Monty” Stobo, told PIM that t was no longer economically worthvhile to call at the plantations of >oraken, Teopasino, Numa Numa or \rigua where cargoes of copra nave to be loaded by surfboats or ighters because no deepwater wharves ire available.

Mr. Stobo said it was possible BP vould resume calls at Kieta later.

ECieta’s new wharf can handle nedium-sized freighters of the Malekula class.

BP’s decision to eliminate several )f its less important NG calls is part ?f a reappraisal the company has )een making for several months now 3f all its shipping activities. Hopes ire to reduce massive shipping losses of recent years and produce shipping profits by 1970.

The company made its first call at Bougainville in 1922 with its motor vessel Melusia. Since then the company has made regular calls to Bougainville—-except for a three-year break during World War 11. fiiAAMi daai/ DAvc ucd

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Tucked neatly at No. 7 berth, Sydney Cove, beside Sydney’s massive Harbour Bridge, the small interisland trader Moana Raoi went virtually unnoticed during her twoweek stay in Sydney in August. She was behind the big passenger terminal (which receives regular calls by 40,000-ton P and O liners)—and the white hull of her 700-ton body hardly filled the length of her wharf, Sydney Press, radio and television didn’t g j ve the ship, or her successful star t on a regular shipping service between Tarawa, GEIC, and Sydney, a WO rd of mention. But for those who cared, the Moana Raoi was a hit.

Everybody who went on board was impressed. Some said she was the best-kept and “cleanest” vessel in Sydney for many years. Others remarked at the friendliness and 97 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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P.O. Box 633, Cables & Telegrams: Port Moresby Printer Port Moresby ciency of her 24-man Gilbert and ice Island crew. lopra buyers praised her first connment of 400 tons of sun-dried >ra as better than top New Guinea >ra, and shiplovers had only one ;stion for Captain Peter King: 0 you take passengers?”

Vtoana Raoi’s appearance in Sydr was the result of long negotiais between her owners, the governnt-run GEIC Wholesale Society, 1 Australia for permission to sell :r 2,000 tons of copra a year in stralia to an agreed copra buyer, fhe service means that the GEIC ; an additional market for its Kiuce and is also able to import ae consumer goods itself, thereby ing overseas exchange, ronically, for her Sydney stay, >ana Raoi was berthed a few blocks ay from the headquarters of Burns ilp and Co. Ltd. which began its n shipping services to the Gilberts t on 70 years ago. Excluding the npany’s plantation interests on ming and Washington Islands, , of course, hasn’t operated in the TC since 1945. \s with its activities in the Scions, BP pulled out of these two ritories because the company n’t receive compensation from tain for equipment losses during Pacific War. 7 OOTNOTE: Moana Raoi does e passengers—two of them!

Itain Introduces Shipping

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fhe New Hebrides—for long arded as the best spot in the South ls to register “any old tub” :cause shipping regulations were ;ually non-existent there) —is to inter this reputation, at least as as British-controlled vessels are icerned.

Dn July 20 the British Resident mmissioner, Mr. C. H. Allan, ned a new regulation to “provide the control and safety of British sels”.

Broadly, it means that certificates competence will be introduced for w requirements and conditions Jer which passengers and goods y be carried. Restrictions will be ced on unseaworthy vessels.

While not all parts of the regulaa were in force in August, a RIM ■respondent in Vila said residents the New Hebrides hoped the ndards of safety and seamanship vessels throughout the condolium would improve.

Britain will enforce the regulation dually, and after 12 months, safety tificates will be legal requirements ships registered by Britain and in the New Hebrides.

Commander F. W. Hunt has been appointed Licensing Officer.

French-controlled vessels and vessels owned by New Hebrideans are not covered by the British regulations.

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The 'Coral Queen'

After an absence from the Solomons of nearly three years, the supposedly irreparable Coral Queen recently berthed at Santa Cruz, Gaudalcanal her machinery and engines overhauled and her fittings and super-structure repaired. She had a new master, Captain Harry Moss, and a new crew of Solomon Islanders and at last report she was looking for work in the Solomons.

Once the BSIP High Commissioner’s vessel, she went aground on Papari Reef, off Ysabel Island, on February 4, 1965, and was refloated with the help of dynamite, which severely damaged her hull. In late 1965 the government offered her for public tender because it was judged she was damaged so extensively she could not be repaired.

Mr. Lawrie Crowley, a New Guinea businessman, bought her and had Captain Moss carry out repair work at Tulagi and Taroaniara boatyards.

Now, with a second life, the future looks bright for the Coral Queen. 99 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Among recent shipping developlents in the Islands: • One of the newest inter-island aders plying Fiji waters is the 7-ft motor cutter Lei Yadali, bult ver seven years in a boatyard at /ainunu, Vanua Levu, by her wners, Charles Whippy, 29, and [enry Bhurra, 29. Named after the lountain on Vanua Levu, where her mber came from, Lei Yadali jgularly runs from Suva to Labasa, avusavu and Wainunu. • To start a deepsea commercial shing business, the Rabi Island Council is having four fishing vessels uilt at the Suva Shipyards of Millers ,td. Rabi, north of Taveuni, will ;ceive the first vessel—a 26-ft boat -about September. • A new $150,000 freight terminal 3r the Australia-West Pacific Line t Lae was opened by the P-NG Ldministrator, Mr. D. O. Hay, ecently. It is expected that the terlinal, which can handle up to ,000 tons of cargo at a time, will reatly speed up Lae’s cargo-handing facilities. AWPL’s decision to iuild the terminal at Lae reflects its tiinking—and the thinking of several »ther major firms—that Lae is NG’s astest-growing town. • Freight rates for Sydney to Lord €owe Island cargo on the French- »wned Jacques del Mar II increased rom August 1, by up to 25 per cent, slew rates are $37.50 per ton for ;eneral cargo (old rate, $3O) and >5O per ton for freezer and cooler argo (old rate, $45 per ton), tydney shipping agents said it was it least 10 years since the charges vere changed. Increased operating md stevedoring charges in Australia lad caused the rises, they said. • A new small-ships wharf at Vasu, on the northern side of the Tuon Peninsula, New Guinea, was •ecently opened. The wharf, built vith the help of the local Kabwum jeople, will save many hours in loadng and off-loading coastal traders. [Previously the traders had to spend ip to a day loading by raft.) • Mrs. E. Feldt, widow of Commander Eric Feldt, who organised ;he Coastwatchers during World War 11, launched a new Royal Australian Navy patrol boat, HMAS Madang, at Brisbane in August. Commander Feldt died earlier this year, aged 68, and his ashes were scattered at sea from another RAN patrol boat, HMAS Samarai, off Madang, NG, on May 20. • Tonga is considering shipping some of its copra and bananas in its own vessels to New Zealand instead of using Union Steam Ship Company vessels. Tongan leaders recently pointed out that the USS has been making profits by hauling Tongan produce, while some of Tonga’s own vessels have been operating at a loss. The Tongan Government in August was considering a proposal to operate ships to NZ, but observers felt any decision to put Tongan ships into NZ would meet solid resistance from the USS, a whollyowned subsidiary of P and O. • An ultra-modern lighthouse on Vadua Island, off western Vanua Levu, began operating in mid-August.

It is the third lighthouse built from special British grants to Fiji since May. The two other lighthouses are at Makogai and Vatu-i-ra. • Two former New Zealand coastal ships, the Waiotahi and the Hokianga were being fitted out recently for service in Papua and the Solomons. The Waiotahi, a 36-yearold vessel of 208 tons, was being fitted out at Onehunga, and the Hokianga, a 30-year-old vessel of 169 tons, was being fitted out at Auckland. The Waiotahi will go to Honiara, and the Hokianga will sail for her new owner in Port Moresby. 101 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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Anyone know where ‘Staghound’ is?

Do any readers know the whereabouts of former yachtsman Paul Hurst, who cruised many parts of Melanesia and South-East Asia in the early 1960’s in his 40 ft ketch Staghound?

Staghound’s last mention in these columns was in January, 1964, when PIM reported that Mr. Hurst had been in Bangkok on November 15, 1963.

Will anyone who can help please write to this department, or to Mr. Edgar Haering, C/- Post Office, Finschhafen, New Guinea?

Crulsing Yachts • JAH AM A, 36 ft ketch with ck Ross and Robert Hervin, left d nolulu on July 16 for the arquesas Islands and Tahiti. Jack’s fe, Hamae, was to join the ketch Papeete. • TERE, 48 ft ketch, with Louis ilier and daughter Kathy, Dr. ank Tabrah and wife Ruth, and ;ir sons Joe and Tom, of Kohala, iwaii, reached Bora Bora in early ly from Honolulu after calls at karoa, Rangiroa, Tahiti, Moorea d Raiatea. Louis served with the > Navy on Bora Bora during World ar 11.

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tch, with Denis Budge, his wife yllida, Caroline Fitzwilliams 24, d Desmond Fitzgerald, was to ive Port Moresby in early August • Durban via Thursday Island and irwin.

The ketch reached Port Moresby mid-July after a 13-day passage •m Noumea. She left NZ on June Mrs. Budge told PIM in a note it the 36 ft Sydney ketch SARA- INDE, skippered by Basil D letin, was at Santo, New Hebrides, in ; July. Since arriving in Santo, sil had flown to Sydney on busies with plans to return—and haps to work there. • LEI LEI LASSEN, 25 ft fibress folkboat, with singlehander lann Trauner, was to leave Port >resby in August or September for irban, via Thursday Island and ristmas Island. In a note from jresby, Mr. Trauner said he ched Moresby on July 2 from peete, after a stop at Pago Pago. didn’t visit the Cooks or Fiji, we reported him in August as /ing planned to do. He said he was y pleased with the performance his folkboat, despite some rough ather north of Fiji, Vlr. Trauner said four other lising yachts were in Moresby in ly August: ZARATHRUSTRA, m Hamburg, Germany; SANTA 4RIA, from Holland; BACCHUS; 1 the 34 ft Norwegian cutter OCAX. The 83 ft 100-ton French looner ERYX II was at Thursday md, he said. • OPTY, 31 ft yawl with solo :htsman Leonid Teliga (a Polish iter), was to leave Suva in early August for Casablanca, Morocco, via the Indian Ocean. In Suva, Mr.

Teliga was reported by “The Fiji Times” as saying he couldn’t call at Australia because the Australian Immigration Department refused him a visa. Mr. Teliga was also reported as calling himself a “sort of Chichester for Poland”. • YETI, 35 ft NZ sloop, left Vila on June 24 for a cruise of the Loyalty Islands and a stop at Noumea before returning to Auckland. Yeti left NZ about three months ago and made a stop in Suva before reaching Vila on June 16. • OKEANOS, 39 ft staysail schooner in which Joe and Benita Pachernegg roamed the Pacific for four years in the early 1960’5, was recently sold by auction in Sydney for $6,200. She was sold by a crippled road accident victim, Mr. Roger Bartlett, 25, who bought her for $9,000 in 1966, to a former naval man, Mr. William Key. The sale was arranged by Australian Customs officials, who seized her for nonpayment of duty in early 1967. The Pacherneggs were recently working in New Guinea. • CAROUSIN’ 11, 40 ft trimaran, with American skipper-owner Mike Kane and a crew of three Australians. was to leave Darwin on July 23 for Durban, via the Cocos Islands and Mauritius. In a note to PIM, Mike said that since stopping in Tahiti last December his trimaran had sailed 6,000 miles. So far, he had had 16 male crew members and six women cooks in his round-theworld attempt. • ROULETTE, 35 ft ketch, with Lawson Burrows, Colin Campbell, Jim Aitcheson and Allan Meech, was to leave Rarotonga in July for Tahiti, via Aitutaki and Penrhyn Island (PIM, Aug., p. 104). • NOMAD . 50 ft NZ steel yawl, with skipper Bryan Williams, wife Pauline, and their three children, Mark, 14, Suzanne, 13, and Jannise, 11, was to leave Lae, NG, in August for Madang and a long power cruise up the Sepik River—then back to Madang and over to Rabaul.

Mrs. Williams told PIM Nomad had made stops at Port Moresby, Samarai and the Trobriand Islands before reaching Lae in early August.

Nomad has already done extensive cruising in Polynesia and the New Hebrides in 1966 and has appeared in these columns several times. • ANT A RES, 24 ft NZ yacht, was up for sale on Norfolk Island in July after she completed an eightday trip from NZ with Dale Petersen, his wife Lee, and Peter Luxmore.

Dale, a pharmaceutical chemist, hopes to open his own pharmacy on Norfolk. • MISTRAL 11, staysail schooner, with nine young Australians, recently returned to Sydney from Lord Howe Island after an unsuccessful attempt to sail around the world. The schooner was damaged by heavy seas on her way to Lord Howe. While anchored off Middle Beach, Lord Howe, her anchor fouled and she went aground early in July and her hull was extensively damaged. Islanders helped refloat her. • ARIADNE, 70 ft NZ motorketch, with owner-skipper “Snow”

Gatehouse, his attractive wife, Julie, and crewman Jerry Davitt, was "Nomad's" crew, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Williams, and their children Mark (seated), Suzanne and Jannise (see below). 103 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER, 1968

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In a note to PIM, Ray Weldon said Miss Brittain bought Valhalla. at Sydney and sailed the ketch to Port Moresby, via Thursday Island, where she signed on Ray as a crewmember. She recruited the rest of the crew in Port Moresby. • ZWERVER 11, 48 ft ketch, with skipper-owner Jaap Alenson, his wife Marie, daughter Amanda and crew Dick Johnson and Jeff Stookey, was to leave Nukualofa in mid-August for NZ and Australia. Previous calls included the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Huahine and Bora Bora. merican yachtsman loses in court American yachtsman and selftyled adventurer Lee Quinn ost a damages claim of $BO,OOO rom Associated Steamships Pty. ,td., owner of the freigher Voomera, in a judgment in the Admiralty Court in Sydney in arly August.

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Mr. Justice MacFarlan found hat the Neophyte was at fault »y not keeping a proper lookout, le said Miss Anderson was at he tiller and had not seen the Voomera until seconds before he collision. 105 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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He bought the 16-year-old sloop i England in 1962 and left Southampton late that year on an exmded cruise. Stops so far have icluded many European ports, the Zest Indies, Balboa, the Galapagos slands, Nukuhiva. Ua-Pou. Tahiti, loorea (where he met Mr. and Irs. “Med” Kellum), Rurutu Austral Islands), Raiatea, Tahaa ad Bora Bora in French Polynesia, arotonga. Aitutaki. Nukualofa and fZ. He arrived in Sydney early this ;ar.

“I was told I was the fifth yacht ) visit Rurutu in five years,” Ed >ld PIM. “The islanders were very iendly so I stayed for a couple of eeks and helped fix up the motors I jeeps and outboard engines on moes. The friendliest people I met ere the Cook Islanders on itutaki.”

Ed said he liked travelling alone, is ambition was to be the first ichtsman to “sail around the world id not write a book”. • HELLY, 38 ft American sloop, as to leave Sydney in late August ►r Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef ith three former US Air Force en. Ken Grant, Winslow Brabson id Ben Kajer. • ALENA, Lord Howe workboat, as reported cruising the New ebrides recently with a team of ord Howe Islanders, including ipper Alan Williams, Rodney and [ichael Thompson and Richard waiter. • TAW ARRA, Sydney-registered I ft masthead sloop, was refitting at iva in August, prior to returning to /dney on the last lap of a world jyage. The three-man crew consists : its owner, retired English busi- ;ssman, Mr. E. N. Fearis, the skip- :r, 28-year-old John Smith, who is Sydney boat builder, and Mr. nith’s English-born wife, Josephine, he sloop left Australia in 1965, Hind for England, via Suez. • ROIAATA, 32 ft cutter, with ipper Neil Gillard and crew Alan ill. Bryan O’Donnell and Owen otterell, was in Suva in July en route to Noumea from Nukualofa {PIM, Aug., p. 104).

The cutter had to spent some time in Nukualofa, after a rough 14-day trip from NZ, while repairs were made to her top sides, rails, and boom mast. Neil Gillard plans to call at Brisbane and Sydney with the Roiaata. • KORORA, 33 ft ferro-cement ketch, with NZ’s Dr. M. Watson, his wife Robin, their three daughters Rebecca, eight, Sarah, seven, Judith, three, and crewman Tony Collins, was on a cruise of the Vavau and Haapai Islands, Tonga, recently before pressing on to the Samoas, Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and New Guinea, with plans to spend Christmas in Durban, South Africa. Korora reached Nukualofa in late May. • C AMIR A, 41 ft yawl, with four Italian migrants to Australia— Bruno Yalta, Luciana de Gastani Nino Yugovaz and Luigi Romolo— was in Rarotonga in early July for a week’s stay en route to Aitutaki, Tahiti, Honoloulu, San Francisco and Panama. 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1968

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LIVING in Papua-New Guinea can have its compensations.

Only last week we learned there is little danger of a nuclear attack in the territory.

There are other compensations also. As yet the territory has not experienced all the discomforts that can be caused by strikes.

Even our recent riots seem innocuous when compared with recent student demonstrations in Australia. Nobody has yet tried to overturn the Administrator’s car as Sydney students tried to overturn the Prime Minister’s car.

And our police have not yet found it necessary to mount cavalry charges in the main street as Melbourne police did to disperse student demonstrators.

It’s good to live in a civilised country! Editorial in “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

ON Thursday last week, a blue Yamaha motor-bike was accidentally burnt at Tapaiki, Toi.

The incident occurred when an old man by the name of Palalagi set fire to surrounding bushes on his coconut plantation.

The motor-bike was parked on the opposite side of this coconut plantation and the poor old man didn’t think that there was a motor-bike in the area. While he was cleaning and burning his coconut plantation, the motor-bike was burning merrily along with it too. Later in the day when the owner came to take his bike away, what a sad sight met him! The owner of the bike didn’t do any harm to the old man but he was very upset, but no-one could be blamed for the mishap. The owner of the motor-bike was Mr.

Lagotia, also of Hikutavake, who went and bought himself a new bicycle to replace his burnt “Yamaha”. You have heard of the “Burning Bush” well how about the “Burning Yamaha”.— Editorial note in the “Tohi Tala Niue”, Niue Island.

LOST, a bird namely, a drake, white in colour, has been missing from its home at Vaiea some days ago. Would the person knowing whereabouts this drake maybe, please get in touch with F. Talihega, of Vaiea.—Advertisement in “Tohi Tala Niue”, Niue Island.

DIG this game man. It’s cool— it’s got soul. Fab. Man, but fab.

Let’s try some more wild accusations.

For instance —most farmers in Fiji are lazy layabouts who won’t till their soils; politicians as a race are often dishonest self-seekers; some students at the University of the South Pacific are nothing but irresponsible children; the practice of sleeping while driving is known among Fiji bus drivers.

Have all Fiji’s taxi drivers the necessary skill to take passengers?

Commerce in Fiji is full of illegal practices.

Yippee. Kaila. Yahoo. Let’s join the Gounder Go-Go. Let’s suggest that anyone and everyone is guilty and let them prove themselves innocent. Roll up to the Fiji social casino. We’re all free —let’s see who can attack (as vaguely as we can). — Letter from “Civil Servant” in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

THE criticism of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission by the members of the Legislative Council was very timely and true.

Why has the public to put up with the battering of the ear drums from a continual string of advertisements and no entertainment?

Why did the government turn down the offer of an Australian electrical firm to install television at Suva and Lautoka? Television has lately been introduced into New Caledonia, Malaya and Western Samoa but as usual Fiji is 100 years behind the times.

If some influential person were to draw up a petition to the government to have television installed, how the public would flock to see it, and the colony would gain some worthy entertainment. —Letter from H. S. Faddy in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

New Guinea life has its compensations, says the “South Pacific Post". Even local riots aren't as bad as Australian student demonstrations. This was a demonstration by public servants in Port Moresby last year, against a wage decision. In the front line there are some prominent New Guinean leaders. 109 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

Poeple • Visiting Nauru in August were Mr. and Mrs. C. Trillin, of New York. Mr. Trillin is a staff writer of the New Yorker magazine, who specialises in articles mainly on race relations in various parts of the United States, and occasionally overseas. Mrs. Trillin is a teacher at the New York State University. They were visiting Fiji for a series of articles which Mr. Trillin is writing, when the opportunity arose to visit Nauru.

After Nauru they proposed to call at Tonga, both the Samoas and Tahiti. • Mr. Hugh Evans is the newlyappointed Director of Education in Nauru. Mr. Evans was formerly an Education Officer in the RAAF, with the rank of Squadron Leader, and had previously served in the Army and as a teacher. He joins the department headed by Mr. John Ayers, secretary for Education and Health’ who has acted as Education Director since earlier this year. • Mr. Aminiasi Katonivualiku, 31, on August 6 became the third Fijian m recent years to be admitted to the Bar in the Supreme Court, Suva. Mr.

Katonivualiku, who is with the Suva legal firm of Comptons, graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Victoria University, Wellington, in 1966 and was admitted to the New Zealand Bar at Wellington in September, 1967. • Mr. lan McDonald, P-NG old hand, of Port Moresby, has donated an album of about 100 photographs to the library of the University of P-NG. The photographs, taken in and around Rabaul between 1923 and 1927 by Colonel Lovett Cameron, of Djaul Plantation, New Ireland, include shots of the residence of Queen Emma and the offices of the Kuo Min Tang. • Mr. Benjamin Brial, the retiring deputy for Wallis and Futuna in the French Parliament, was re-elected in the general elections in early July.

He defeated Mr. Herve Loste, a former deputy, by 1,863 votes to 1,509. • Five New Caledonians will represent France at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in October.

They are record-breaking swimming champion Marie-Jose Kersaudy and her ‘back-stop” Simone Hanner, weightputter A. Beer, and two footballers, Kanyan and Charles.

Marie-Jose Kersaudy, when only 12, won seven gold medals for swimming at the Second South Pacific Games in Noumea in December, 1966, to become the star performer of that tournament. Recently, she made news in Europe when she broke several French and European women’s swimming records. • Mr. Tapangkai Sopi, dresser in the New Hebrides Health Service for over 20 years, was recently awarded the British Empire Medal for his work. Currently in charge of the World Health Organisation’s antituberculosis team on Ambrym, Mr.

S°Pi has spent most of his time on Malekula and in charge of the French hospital at Norsup, Malekula. • Mr. B. W. Blaikie has been appointed a director of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., of P-NG. Steamies’ group accountant for several years Mr. Blaikie fills the seat left vacant by Mr. T. L. Armitage, who died in Port Moresby in February. • Mr. Paul Brown, previously executive officer for Guadalcanal Plains Ltd., Solomons rice and sorghum grower, hotel owner and food store proprietor, has recently been appointed the company’s general manager. His appointment closely followed the retirement, for health reasons, of Mr. Ken Dalrymple-Hay from the position of managing director. Mr. Hay, 73, who was convalescing at his Palm Beach, Sydney, home in August, remains chairman. • Mr. S. D. Wilson, administrative assistant to Niue’s Resident Commissioner from 1958 to 1961, has been appointed Niue’s Resident Commissioner. Mr. Wilson, who succeeds Mr. L. A. Shanks {PIM, Aug., 110), joined New Zealand’s Department of Island Territories 11 years ago. • Representing the Tokelau Islands community of Wellington, NZ, Mr.

J. Pedro recently presented Group Captain D. B. Flintoff, of the RNZAF, with a silver replica of a Sunderland flying-boat to mark the islanders’ gratitude for the many mercy missions to the Tokelau Islands made by the RNZAF since 1945. With the Sunderland service now discontinued, hopes are that a Grumman Mallard amphibian aircraft can be used out of Fiji for mercy flights to the Tokelaus. • New Guinea’s Deputy Coi missioner of Police, Mr. A.

Eskine, was to resign from t force on September 2 for “domes reasons”. Mr. Eskine arrived in N in June, 1965, as Assistant Poli Commissioner, and was promoted deputy this year. He planned to vi relatives in Australia after leavi Port Moresby, and then travel Britain. • Mr. John Fokkema, a form manager of Chevron Hilton Hofc at Sydney and Surfers Paradis Queensland, took up his post manager of Nukualofa’s DatelL Hotel in early August. He replac Mr. Kim Mahnkopf, who was i cently appointed manager of Suvj new Tradewinds Hotel. Mr. Fokkem born in Holland, brought with hi to the Dateline a new cook, M George Deraux, a Frenchman, wl is expected to revamp the hote menus. • Pastor Jonathan Wimbong, i Sa n t o’s Luganville Presbyterh Church, recently attended the Wor Council of Churches Assembly Sweden as the representative of tl New Hebrides Presbyterian Churc Born on Malekula and trained Tangoa Island, Pastor Wimboi spent two years in Sydney at tl Croydon Bible College before beir ordained in 1956. He has bee stationed at Luganville for near] two years. • Mr. Thevenin, new Frenc head of the New Hebrides Agricultui and Animal Husbandry Departmen recently made a “familiarisatio tour” aboard the motor vessel Navak visiting Malekula, Ambrym, Paam and Pentecost. Dr. de Wilde, maternal and child health special!; from the World Health Organisatioi went along also. • Mr. Brian Leamy, administrate of Pago Pago’s five-year-old canner] Star Kist Inc., for the past fou years, was to leave Pago Pago i late August for a new Star Kis appointment at Puerto Rico, Mrs Leamy and the couple’s children lei for New Zealand in early August. • One of the prettiest girls at recent social night organised by[?] the Islanders Association o[?] Sydney was Miss lsapell[?] Tuatoki from Tonga. Miss Tua[?] toki went "island style" for the night, complete with hibiscus necklace and colourful dress Photo: Jim Fairborn. 110 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

People In Pictures

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Pacific Islands Monthly— September, 1968

On a recent visit to Rakiraki, Viti Levu, Fiji's Chief Minister, Ratu Mara, was garlanded by tiny Kumari Veena, of the Naria Bharteeya School, Ra. For her big moment, Kumari was more than glad Ratu Mara was seated—it solved a height problem.

During the recent Fiji Governor's tour of the northern division, a very small Fiji miss, dressed in traditional masi costume, presented Lady Jakeway with a bouquet at Saqani village. Watching are Sir Derek, and his ADC, Flight-Lieutenant B. Giiliver.

Miss Christine Piethe, P-NG's first American Field Service Exchange student, was to leave Port Moresby in August for her home at Detroit, US, after three months study at Port Moresby High School.

Photo: Chin H. Meen.

Over 700 guests attended the recent wedding reception of Miss Janet Wong, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Yuk Chee, of Lae, to Mr. Daniel Wong, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Kam Fai, of Rabaul. After a honeymoon in Hong Kong and Japan the couple planned to live at Port Moresby.

Photo: Chin H. Meen. 112 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

[?]OVE, twenty-year-old Apenisa Hing, of Tamavua —Fiji's first Adonis, Senior—lives up to the traditional proportions of his thical Greek namesake. Perhaps his job at the Suva slaughterhouse [?]ps keep him in trim. The Adonis competition was run by Char- [?]n's All Races Club, and Apenisa's prize was presented by club [?]asu er Mr. W. W. Bentley. ABOVE RIGHT, John Ovia, of Hisiu, [?]aua, newly-graduated Army fitter, turner and vehicle mechanic, congratulated by his proud sister, Leotine. The Acting Commander, NG Command, Colonel B. B. Hearn, presented 27 other soldier [?]aduates with certificates in a recent ceremony at Port Moresby.

LOW RIGHT, Terry Akins, who currently operates a Sydney travel [?]ency specialising in Fiji. Last year she spent several months on staway Island resort, off Lautoka, working for the resort's manager, Dick Smith. BELOW, Marctoni Lawakeli, Joeli Ramanu and Taniela [?]isau (left to right)—three Fiji geological assistants in the Solomons carrying out geological work (picture by Rob Wright). 113 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER. 1968

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From YVONNE BLAKENEY, in Port Moresby The pearl—of the “teardrop of the moon” to give it its legendary Japanese name—has provided P-NG with a new, million dollar industry. Next year, the first pearls produced by a farm in Fairfax Harbour, five miles across the bay from Port Moresby, will be sold on the Moresby market.

Set against a backdrop of barren 11s that characterise the Moresby ea, the farm is a 400-acre water ise operated by Pearls Pty. Ltd., □stralia.

Port Moresby managing agent for e company, Mr. Neville Barnes, id that the pearls would be sold as ms, not jewellery, and that the ice could vary from Sioo to $2OO ch.

He said: “Practically all our proiction will be sold through the panese pearl market but a small lantity will be marketed through . E. Barnes Trading Company Pty. d., mainly to private local buyers io have expressed interest in Gaining some locally-grown pearls.

“If successful, we will examine the issibility of using other outlets.”

The pearls produced during three years of tests have been equal to the world’s best. They have soft warm colours and a very smooth surface.

They range in size from 11 to 15 millimetres.

The industry will give a big boost to the territory from overseas exchange earnings, taxation and employment. Forty New Guineans are now being trained in many aspects of the pearling industry and their number should increase to 60 within a year.

Six Japanese are now carrying out the more detailed and technical activities and are helping to train the indigenous workers.

General manager of Pearls Pty.

Ltd., Australia. Mr. H. Iwaki, surveyed the New Guinea waters early in 1965 and found conditions in Fairfax Harbour similiar to those at Kuri Bay, Western Australia, where there is a large pearling station.

Temperatures, salinity, tidal movements and the type of plankton were all tested with favourable results.

Conditions were also similiar to those in Burma where some of the world’s best pearls are produced.

Ideal Therefore, Mr. Iwaki felt that Fairfax Harbour was an ideal place to extend pearling activities. A thousand oyster shells in which nuclei had been inserted were shipped from Western Australia to New Guinea and tests were started.

Results from the first harvest verified Mr. Iwaki’s judgment in selection of a site, and a further 6,000 shells were imported in 1966.

Periodical tests showed good results and progress. Early in 1967 the company decided to go into full production with a further consignment of 50,000 shells.

Setback Then the first setback occurred.

There was a severe attack by the Polycheate worm which burrows into the shell and weakens the oyster.

The worm caused heavy losses before it was brought under control by early 1968. A further 70,000 shells were then installed in the farm.

The Administration was enthusiastic [?]PPOSITE: Top, the pearl farm of Pearls [?] Ltd., Australia, from the air. Workeds and living quarters are on the [?]omontory at left. In Fairfax Harbour [?]n be seen the rafts from which the ster baskets hang. Bottom, Mr. Yasuo mamoto, Port Moresby manager of [?]arls Pty. Ltd., Australia, inspects half arls. THIS PAGE; Samples of well-formed If pearls produced by the company. 115 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

When a “Compliment”

The honouring of a trusted, devoted friend by appointing him your Executor may well turn out to be tragedy for your family, and heartache for your friend. The management and planning of an Estate places on him a burden which he—however well-meaning—may not be equipped to handle. To ensure that your family's future is guarded with understanding and wisdom, it is essential that it be entrusted to people trained to do just that.

The first step is to ask for the Burns Philp Trustee brochure at any B.P. Branch. It explains why practical men and women appoint a professional Executor and so place full responsibility where it belongs in the capable hands of Burns Philp Trustee.

Executive Officers at Head Office handle the business affairs of all Islands clients. A senior Executive of Burns Philp Trustee visits Papua- 3Mew Guinea every few months. Should you need urgent advice, write to the Head Office at once. You will not place yourself under any •obligation.

Burns Philp Trustee Company Limited

Executor: Administrator: Trustee: Attorney: Agent Directors: J. D. O. Burns, P. T. W. Black, E. P. Lee, L. N. Stanford.

' 7*|j | ▼ Manager: A. H. E. Furze.

Assistant Manager: J. H. L. Bathgate.

"Secretary: J. M. MacCallum.

Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, SYDNEY. Box 543, G.P.O. 2001.

Telegrams: "BURNSTRUST", Sydney. Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), Suva (Fiji) and Vila (New Hebrides). ■Canberra Agent: BURNS PHILP TRUSTEE COMPANY (CANBERRA) LIMITED, Landtrust Building, East Row, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 2600.

Turns to Tragedy 9.597 about the new project, and gave much assistance m the initial stages.

The pearl farm consists of 12 long, grey teak rafts floating on drums in the protected waters. From these rafts, baskets containing the oysters are suspended. Made from teak saplings cut from New Guinea forests, the rafts are about 100 ft Jong by 50 ft wide.

Worksheds and living quarters for the workers have been built on a nearby barren promontory. Fresh water from Port Moresby is brought across the harbour by a pipe 4i miles . .

To the casual visitor, there is little to indicate great expense, but the company has invested half a million dollars in equipment, reclamation, buildings, rafts and oysters , ' 1 he harvesting season for the round pearls is between November and December The oyster shells—which are about 9 in. wide—are placed in plastic covered wire baskets divided into ten compartments and are rested for six months after they have arrived from Western Australia. The baskets, attached to the rafts, are suspended at depths of between 15 to 20 ft.

After six months they are brought (Continued on p. 142) Better yields from Fiji rice August brought an encouragi report for those dedicated to t expansion of Fiji’s smaller rural i dustries, particularly the experiment rice-growing concerns—but it was report with a sting.

It was announced that yields Fiji’s main rice-growing areas—Re\ and Navua—were up to 50 per cei more this year, compared with U year’s production figures. A m variety known as FK 135 was yiel ing up to H tons an acre, wh grown on irrigated land, and fertilis trials were increasing yields by up 50 per cent.

On the Dravo Developme Scheme in Bau, a yield of mo than H tons per acre was obtaine compared with half a ton on lar not subjected to fertiliser trials.

But in the latest governme progress report, the Minister f Natural Resources, Mr. W, ] Brown, warned that Fiji would ha to pay a “staggering” price f imported rice unless local growii efforts were intensified.

Mr. Brown said rice imports h year cost £F766,000. The value local rice production was on £555,000. Fiji consumed 23,000 to of rice in 1967, was expected consume 25,000 in 1970 and 1 1975, 32,000 tons.

Local rice production has be< hampered by the uncertain rainfa which results in late planting aj low yields, but farmers are hopef that the situation will be improv< by the new high-yield varieties ai new irrigation methods.

Mr. Brown said the governme was planning to irrigate about 71 acres of rice land at Nausori.

A United Nations pilot project c another 250 acres at Nausori h been approved and a team w; also carry out a three-year pr investment study into irrigation ar drainage of 8,000 acres on the Rev Plains.

In addition, the government hi decided to employ a firm of overse; consultants to carry out a simils survey of the Navua Plains. Th two-year survey is expected to sta at the end of the year.

Third brewery for P NG Plans to build the P-NG’s thir brewery and to place a major terr tory vehicle distributor on an Aui tralian stock exchange were ar nounced in August.

Sponsors of the two projects ir 116 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

a I m 9 p\,v£ vS SVA O Soda Water Tonic Water Dry Ginger Ale Bitter Lemon in non return bottles A full range of flavors in Gi & Shelleys cans.

SHELLEY & SONS CORDIAL FACTORY PTY. LTD., SYDNEY AUSTRALIA. ;nd to have residents of New Guinea nancing and owning most of each roject. This reflects current thinking y NG that local capital should be sed to develop secondary industries.

The brewery, to be built in Port loresby, will be financed by six jrritorians “representing the widest ossible interests”. Mr. Norman /hite, a Port Moresby solicitor and lokesman for the six men, said that le expected cost of the brewery is 750,000.

The money would come “wholly” *om New Guinea, Mr. White said, lowever, the brewery itself would be lanned by a Japanese firm, Asahi irewing Company, and its beer would possibly be of a Japanese style”.

A company, called Papua New iuinea United Brewery Ltd., would e formed to run operations and it muld be initially privately owned dth a public listing on Australian tock Exchanges an eventual goal.

NG’s two existing breweries are the outh Pacific Brewery Ltd., of Port loresby, and Guinea Brewery Ltd., f Lae. Both are controlled by a lajor Asian corporation, centred in ingapore. *NG Motors to jo public There was more than a little public Nations in the announcement by a ydney stockbroker, Patrick and Company, that territorians would e offered 500,000 50 cent shares in ie vehicle distributor, PNG Motors ,td., of Port Moresby.

If PNG Motors can attract several jrritorian investors it will give tie firm a favourable local image.

Patrick and Company told PIM tiat PNG Motors would be floated ►n Sydney Stock Exchange in late leptember or early October with a •aid-up capital of $500,000 or 1600,000 in 50 cent shares.

Earnings would be 20 per cent, ind it was hoped to pay dividends of at least” 10 per cent., the brokers aid.

Since its foundation, under a diferent name, in Port Moresby in 954, PNG Motors has prospered vith NG’s rapidly expanding car )Opulation. Today it has branches it Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul and tfadang and plans to set up a Mt. -lagen branch.

The company is sole distributor or the British Motor Corporation ine of cars and trucks —such as the Vlorris, Nuffield and Riley range— md it also has the NG franchise for laguar and Daimler cars. Other activities include selling petroleum products, running two fleets of taxis, panel-beating, car body making and maintaining Administration cars.

Director of operations in Port Moresby is businessman, Mr. Alan A. Morris, Chairman is Sir Donald Cleland, NG’s former Administrator.

Another setback L . for Fiji moot Fiji’s embryonic meat exporting industry has suffered another setback through the tightening-up of meat regulations in American Samoa.

Initial consignments of Fiji meat to Pago Pago were received with enthusiasm, but Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. has had to abandon ternporarily its beef exports to the territory because of the recent enforcement of local import regulations.

A spokesman for Burns Philp in Fi jj Mr. Paul Best, explained that in order to export any more meat, the company would have to conform to US mainland requirements, which involve inspection of slaughtering and processing facilities by an offical from the Department of Agriculture in Washington.

The company’s export activities are being kept on ice until after the publication of a report now being 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

prepared by an Australian beef expert who has studied the Fiji industry.

A ban is still in force on imports of Fiji-produced corned beef into Western Samoa. Western Samoan authorities say they cannot afford the imports, in terms of foreign exchange, and would prefer local people to buy Samoa meat and fish (see story in Tropicalities).

Bank of NSW for Nauru?

Two senior officers of the Bank of New South Wales, visited Nauru in August to examine the prospects of establishing a branch of the bank which could supply full trading and savings bank facilities in the Republic. The only banking services at present available in Nauru are those of the Commonwealth Bank agency conducted by the post office.

This results in large sums of money having to be carried around by hand, and business often becomes a cumbersome process.

In recent months several overseas financial corporations, including American interests wishing to build a hotel, have taken close looks at Nauru.

Fiji will change Customs system Fiji will have more than decimal currency to confuse its business community next year. The government has announced that a new Customs tariff system—the internationally-used Brussels Nomenclature, already adopted by about 100 countries—will be introduced in January. The changeover, a government release hinted, will not be easy.

“Although it is based on precision of definition and relative simplicity,” it said, “any system which aims to classify all goods in international trade must, of necessity, be somewhat complex.

“Nevertheless, it is considered that the system is the most simple method of doing what it sets out to do.”

Which, beneath the verbosity, seems to be one way of saying the new system is the best of a bad lot.

Vavau copra progress For the first time in seven years, Vavau has regained its position as the top copra-producing island group of Tonga, ahead of its two rivals, Tongatapu and Haapai.

Vavau was hit by a severe hurricane in 1961 which in two years minimised copra production from 4.764 tons in 1960 to 150 tons in 1962. Latest figures, for 1967, reveal production of 2,704 tons—a good recovery.

By clearing allotments for Tonga’s coconut rehabilitation scheme, Vavau producers have been largely responsible for the comeback. The early 1970’s should see 1960 figures equalled again.

With vanilla bean growers increasing planting on Vavau—and receiving $4.20 f.o.b. per lb—Vavau could be heading for prosperous times.

Commerce briefs • Australia’s 1968-69 government grant to New Guinea is $B7 million, $9.4 million, or 12 per cent, more than in the previous year. In addition, Australian departments, such as Commonwealth Works, Army and Aviation, will spend $23 million, making a total of nearly $llO million provided for the territory in the Australian budget. ® “Indications” of copper and nickel have been located by the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources in the south-western area of New Guinea’s Sepik River, on a tributary of the Frienda River, north of Telefomin and about 56 miles east of the West Irian border. In a prospective area of about eight square miles, traces of porphyry copper were found by a bureau mapping team recently and during the same mapping operation, the team located 400 square miles of ultrabasic rocks which are usually associated with nickel. • Three separate lots totalling 1,374 crocodile skins from the Western District of Papua were recently sold at Daru to two buyers, Mr. George Craig, of Daru, and the Horiushi Trading Company, of Japan, for over $25,000. The skins, mainly freshwater belly types, came from Lake Murray, Kiunga and Morehead. • In late August the Oil Search Ltd. and Esso Exploration’s first well on Ini Island, in the Gulf of Papua, had reached a depth of 6,401 feet and was testing a “gas flow” encountered at 6,380 feet. Drillers were hopeful because Ini is less than 13 miles from where huge gas flows were tapped earlier this year, P-NG copra growers will get more New Guinea copra growers will receive an extra 5A29.69 for every ton of copra they delivered to the P-NG Copra Marketing Board during 1967 as a final price distribution payout.

With deliveries of copra to the board in 1967 totalling 108,114 tons, the extra payment will cost the board over $3,2 million.

The $29.69 does not include a bounty of $2 per ton paid by the board during the first half of 1967 and a similar $3 bounty per ton paid during the last half of the year.

Generally, NG growers seemed satisfied with this final $29 payment, which is greater than similar payments made by copra bodies in other Pacific Islands territories.

Since NG copra prices are not keyed so tightly to day-to-day changes in world prices as, for example, Fiji and the Cooks, the policy of the board has been to pay prices well below world ruling rates and build up its own reserves, making final payments from accumulated reserves.

This policy was strongly criticised early this year by Mr. J. W. Grose, president of the Planters’ Association of New Guinea, which represents the territory’s major copra producers.

Mr. Grose had argued that growers should receive 90 per cent, instead of 60 per cent, of current world prices.

The board is currently paying out about 75 per cent, of the world rates to growers.

Bougainville copper reserves quadrupled Estimates of copper reserves at Panguna, Bougainville, have almost been quadrupled to nearly 1.000 million tons of low-grade ore—ranking the deposits bigger than all the deposits in Australasia and comparable with the world’s biggest copper deposit.

Conzinc Riotinto, which has a two-thirds interest in the Panguna project, announced in late August that 500 million tons of ore with an average grade of 0.51 per cent, copper and 0.4 dwt. a ton gold were available for open-cut mining.

In addition, recent drilling has indicated another 400 million tons of lower-grade copper. Previously CRA had proved ore reserves of 230 million tons at a slightly higher grade.

While a final decision to go ahead with the mining operations has not been officially made, there is now little doubt the green light will be given.

If hoped for production of 120.000 tons of copper concentrate is produced annually it will be worth SI20 million a year in exports for New Guinea. 118 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Last Sales

SYDNEY July 23 Aug. 23 A. Lemon .50 . . . .87 .85 ANG Hold. 1.00 1.00 1.00 Bali Plantations .50 .68 .78 Burns Philp 1.00 . . 4.83 5.50 Burns Philp (SS) 2.05 3.75 3.70 Camelec .50 .58 .65 Carpenter .50 . . 2.50 2.35 Choiseul Plntn. 1.00 3.50 3.40 6.04 C.S.R. 1.00 . . . 6.30 Dylup Plntn. .50 .73 .75 2.25 Fiji Industries 1.02 . 2.20 Hackshalls .50 . . 1.75 1.75 .26 .62 Kerema Rubber .50 .25 Koitakl Rubber .50 .62 Lolorua Rubber .50 .30 .30 Makurapau Plntn. .50 .52 .52 Marlboi Rubber .50 .25 .26 Plantation Hldgs. .50 .40 .45 Queensland Ins. 1.00 7.50 7.50 Rubberlands .50 . . .21 .21 Sogerl Rubber .50 . .54 .53 Sth. Pac. Ins. .50 . 1.85 1.85 Steamships Tdg. .50 .84 .76 Watkins Cons. .50 .95 1.00

Oil And Mining Shares

C.R.A. .50 . . 19.20 23.00 Cultus Pacific .25 . .62 .60 Emperor .10 . . . 3.05 2.15 NG Gold Ltd. .35 . .70 .78 Oil Search .50 1.24 1.28 Pacific I. Mines .25 .51 .41 do. rights .... .25 .37 Papuan Apln. .50 . .78 .62 Placer Dev.* * No par value 29.50 25.75 Produce Prices Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Australian dollar equals $l.OO New Zealand; 9/7 Fiji; 98 French Pacific francs; 80 cents Western Samoa; $l.OO Tonga; 9/3 sterling and $1.12 USA.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by six members, including three planters’ representatives. The board directs distribution and sales, and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Australia for local consumption, (c) crushingmill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus as available). Prices generally tally with ruling rates in Philippines.

P-NG purchase prices for copra delivered main ports in August were hotair dried, $163 per ton; FMS $l6O per ton; smoke-dried, $l5B per ton.

FIJI:—The Fiji Coconut Industry Board fixes the prices to be paid for Fiji copra on a formula based on that for Philippines copra, and taking into account freight, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, etc. The copra must be graded at centres in Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and Taveuni. Prices in Suva until “further notice” were; Ist grade. £F62/5/-; 2nd grade. £FS7/5/-; CAS, £F47. A scale of deductions has been established for copra delivered to grading centres other than Suva.

WESTERN SAMOA:—AII production is sold to the Copra Board of Western Samoa at fixed prices. The Board makes payments to producers through its agents — the local firms—and sells the copra on the open market with a portion of Abels Ltd., NZ. Prices in Aug. were SWSI27 for grade one. SWSI27 for grade one sun dried, and SWSII4 for grade two.

TONGA: All copra is sold to the Tonga Copra Board which sends It to Europe and the open market. August prices to growers were STBS first grade and ST73 second grade.

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 narket. Prices on Aug. 13 were: Ist jrade, $140; 2nd grade, $136; 3rd grade,

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through Bank of NSW, ANZ Bank, Bank of NZ, Bank of Baroda.

Australian dollar on Fiji pound, buyer J. 0235, seller 2.0576. Fiji-London, £P104.5 <o £Stg.loo.

WESTERN SAMOA.—Through Bank of Western Samoa, controlled from NZ seller SAI to SWS Tala 1.2470.

NORFOLK IS., PAPUA-NEW GUINEA. -Australian currency used: no exchange jayable in transactions with Australia.

FRENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific 'rancs (CFP) are used in New Calelonia, New Hebrides (Jointly with Ausralian dollars), Wallis and Futuna slands and Pr. Polynesia. French Bank, Sydney, on Aug. 23, quoted: Selling, Noumea and Papeete, 98 Pac. francs to 5 Aust.; approx. 90 Pac. francs to US $; Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 French franc conversion rate: 1 Pac. franc equals *055 French franc). Paris-London: Buyng 11.88 francs to £Stg. Also, £Stg ;quals 215.50 Pac. francs $126 per ton, BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

GILBERT AND ELLlCE:—production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Copra Board subsidises the price at $67.20 per ton for first grade.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Copra sold direct by planters to France and Japan. Official market price on Aug. 16 was $B5 (8,500 Pac. Francs). French price was 1,020 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 July, August, and September, have been fixed, subject to freight adjustment, at $NZ229.32 first grade, hot air dried; $NZ227.22 first grade, sun dried, and $NZ225.66 standard grade, all per ton packed f.o.b.

Other Produce

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quoted P 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to P3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for “Sucuwalu” and “Loaloa” varieties.

Honiara.—Live slugs, over six Inches, black—six for 10c, other colours—l2 for 10c.

COCOA:—lslands rates are based on Ghana prices. Ghana price on Aug. 23 was £ 5tg.295 per ton, c.i.f., UK Spot.

On Aug. 23, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality $520 per ton, exwharf Sydney, $585, and steady. Quote No. 2: Best quality, ex-wharf Sydney, $570, in store NG ports $512 (for UK.

Continent and USA shipments).

W. Samoa. Latest price quoted In Sydney, on Aug. 14, was: Grade 1, £ Stg.2Bs; grade 2, £Stg.26o.

New Hebrides. beach, Vila, Santo. $250 per ton.

Solomons.—4 cents a lb delivered to a fermentary, 3Vs cents a lb at buying points.

COFFEE.—P-NG: Aug. 23, Quote No. 1, good quality A grade 39c to 42V 2 c per lb; B grade 37% to 41V 2 c; C grade 35c to 37c; X grade 36c to 39c and native X grade 34c to 35V 2 c (ex-store Sydney).

CROCODILE SKINS. On Aug. 23, Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over’. first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G. $2.80 per in., f.o.b. main ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) $l.BO per in. 8.5.1., Honiara; $1.89 to $2.10 per in.; Gizo: $2.10 per in.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—On Aug. 23 Australian buyers reported very little demand from Japan, Europe and the US.

Prices were not quoted. Honiara; 16c lb.

PAPUAN GUM; New Guinea graded gum $lB5 per ton, f.0.b.. Samarai, ungraded gum $174, f.0.b., NG.

PEANUTS.—P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported Aug. 23, f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 15c lb.

PEARL SHELL. Torres Strait Pearlshellers’ Assn, recently quoted these prices for MOP: AA grade, $A1,250 per ton; A $1,450; B, $1,800; C, $1,900; D, $1,220- E, $B4O and EE, $6OO f.o.b. Thurs. Is.

Solomons. Honiara, mother of pearl blacklip 15c lb, goldlip 20c lb.

Cook Islands.—Penrhyn Island, SNZ7OO a ton (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

RICE (Aust.): Prices, until Mar. 31, 1969, are—P.-N.G.: Dried brown rice 112 lb bags. $136 per ton, f.o.w. Sydney or 56 lb bags, $153 per ton, f.o.w. Brown, Melbourne. Vitamin enriched white rice 40 lb bags $146 per ton. Other Pacific Islands; Polished white (56 lb bags) or dried brown rice (112 lb bags), $l6l per ton, f.o.w.

Solomons.—sl6o per ton (orders over 2 tons), $l6B per ton (under 2 tons) f.o.b. Honiara.

RUBBER. P-NG price is based on Singapore rates, which on Aug. 23 were; Prompt nominal shipment 54% Malayan cents per lb; Sept., M54V 2 cents per lb and Oct., 54% cents per lb (all about 17 Aust. cents per lb).

SANDALWOOD. —New Hebrides, landed on the beach, Vila and Santo, $3OO a ton.

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.

TROCHUS.—A Sydney buyer indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: Aug. 23 Papua $175-$lB5 per ton Honiara 4 cents per lb, f.o.b. Islands ports—direct shipment to overseas markets.

TURTLE SHELL.—BSI: first grade unmarked 60c to $1.50 a lb at Gizo.

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, buy mainly from Tahiti for Sydney and Melbourne essence makers.

Prices on Aug. 23 were: white and yellow label processed, standard packs $5 90 green label, $5.80, c.i.f., Sydney.

Uk, Us Quotes

COPRA; LONDON. Aug. 23, Philippines, in bulk, SUS22O per long ton, c.i.f.

UK/Nth. European ports; US Pacific coast, SUSI 92 per short ton.

Coconut Oil; London, Aug. 23

Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £Stg.ls6/10/- per ton, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, Aug. 23, Spot 19-3/16d Stg. lb. Sept. 19d Stg. lb, Oct. 19%d lb.

Stock Market Sydney stock exchange share price index for ordinaries on Aug. 23 was 609.39. On July 23 it was 616.76. 119 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

The Bank Line

Monthly Services

United Kingdom And Continent

To And From

Papua, New Guinea And The Solomon Islands

ALSO : FIJI, TONGA, SAMOA AND TARAWA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT ☆

U.S. Gulf/Australasia Service Vessels Calling At

FIJI, ETC., WHEN SUFFICIENT INDUCEMENT OFFERS FROM U.S. GULF PORTS ■I ' •• Viil FOR PARTICULARS APPLY; THE BANK LINE (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD., SYDNEY, N.S.W. r.

Southern Cross—Northern Star

Linking the PACIFIC ISLANDS with . . .

England, West Indies, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa • One Class liners, Southern Cross (20,000 tons) and Northern Star (24,000 tons) —airconditioned with the latest in amenities.

Regular sailings approximately every six weeks via Panama Canal and South Africa, calling at a selection of the following ports: Fiji, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Acapulco, Balboa, Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Miami (Pt. Everglades), Bermuda, Lisbon, Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland.

For full particulars apply: — Fiji—Any branch or agency of Burns Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.).

Cable Address: Burphil.

Tahiti. Messageries Maritimes, Papeete.

Cable Address: Messagerie Papeete.

Shaw Savill Line

120 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Shipping, Airways Information

Shipping Timetables

• PlM's shipping and airways schedules are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways companies. Detailed information on ships' sailing dates should be obtained from shipping agents.

Australia - Fiji - Usa - Canada

Pacific-Australia Direct Line, owned by the Transatlantic Steamship Co. Ltd., of Sweden, operates a fast cargo service, departing Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane every three to four weeks for Lautoka and Suva en route to West Coast, USA, and Canada.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd., 275 George Street. Sydney (29-2551).

Orient Overseas Line, with four cargo vessels, operates a monthly service from Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Suva, Lautoka, San Francisco, Puget Sound and Vancouver.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 York St., Sydney (2-0253).

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

West Irian - Indonesia

The P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping Company operates a monthly cargo service from Indonesia to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Calls are also made every 8-10 weeks at Sukarnapura.

Details from John Manners and Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., general agents, 4 Bridge St., Sydney (27-9164).

Sydney - Fiji

CSR operates a passenger/cargo run with the MV Rona, departing Sydney every three to four weeks for Suva and Lautoka and return.

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 Auckland. The return trip occasionally takes in Malua (Fiji) and Tauranga (NZ) for timber.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, 247 George St.. Sydney (2-0528).

Sydney - Nz - Fiji/Tahiti - Uk

Chandris liners Australis and Elllnls maintain a two-monthly passenger service from Sydney via NZ, Suva (Australis only). Papeete (Elllnis only) to Southampton, returning via South Africa.

Details from Chandris Line, 135 King Bt., Sydney (28-2451).

Sltmar Line, with four liners, operates s monthly passenger service from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane to Southampton, UK via Balboa, Panama, via NZ, Fiji or Papeete.

Details from Sltmar Line, 22 Bridge St., Sydney (27-4521).

Sydney - Geic - Honolulu

Columbus Lines of New York, operate approximately monthly passenger-cargo sailings from West Coast, USA (with occasional calls at Papeete or Pago Pago) to Australia and New Zealand, returning via Tarawa, GEIC (with transhipments to Majuro in the Marshall Islands) and Honolulu to Los Angeles or Vancouver.

Details from Shiptraco Sea Transport Services Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4149).

Sydney - Lord Howe - Norfolk

Is. - New Caledonia

Jacques del Mar II (owned by Soclete Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea), makes a regular three weekly passenger-cargo voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe, Norfolk and Noumea.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311), 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, with occasional calls at Pago Pago and Tonga.

Details from P. and O. Lines of Aust.

Pty. Ltd., 55 Hunter St.. Sydney (2-0317).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI/COOKS -

Tahiti - Panama - Uk

Southern Cross, Northern Star and Akaroa passenger vessels each make four round-the-world voyages per year, from Southampton, UK, alternatively via South Africa and Panama, calling at Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Rarotonga, Suva, and Papeete.

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 Holland-America Line. cnr.

Bridge and Pitt Sts., Sydney (27-6432).

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).

Australia ■ P-Ng

Australia-West Pacific Line operates • regular cargo/passenger service from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul.

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 port*.

Braeslde sails every eight weeks from Melbourne and Sydney to Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby. Sydney, Melbourne.

Moresby maintains a service from Sydney and Brisbane to Lae, Madang, Rabaul and return to Brisbane and Sydney.

Malekula sails every four weeks fron Sydney to Brisbane, Port Moresby Samarai and return.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

China Navigation vessels Papuan Chle and Island Chief operate a two-weekl: service from Sydney to Brisbane. Por Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd. 2 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line’s six cargi vessels leave Sydney approx, weekly fo P-NG ports, calling at Brisbane, Pi Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Lae, Madang Wewak, Kleta, Fulleborn, Glzo, Honiara Buka and Vanlmo.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd. 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

Amplex NG Lines, with the frelghte Jette Bue, operates a three-weekly servlc from Sydney to Rabaul, Lae an Fulleborn, and return.

Details from Auscan Shipping Pty. Ltd 68 Pitt St., Sydney (27-9886).

Messrs. Keith Holland Shipping Com pany uses a small motor vessel Jar din to operate fortnightly services froi Cairns, Queensland, to Port Moresby an Daru, and return.

Details from Herbert S. Craig, Bo 12, Port Moresby (2728).

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vesse Australasia and Malaysia run month] between Australian ports (turn rout at Melbourne) and Singapore, via P Moresbv and Djakarta.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust Ptv. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydm (27-1271). 121

Pacific Islands Monthly— September, 1968

Australia-West Pacific Line vessels maintain a passenger/cargo service from Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane to Lae thence Taiwan, Hong Kong and Manila, with return to Australia occasionally via Island ports.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Changsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly passenger-cargo service calling at Pt.

Moresby when northbound between Australia, Manila, Keelung and Hong Kong.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 3 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Dominion Far East Line vessels Francis Drake and George Anson maintain monthly passenger-cargo services between Sydney and Japan (via Manila, Hong Song and Formosa), return via Guam.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 fork Street, Sydney (2-0253).

Europe - Tahiti - New

Caledonia - Australia

Messageries Maritimes vessels Jarquisien, Malais, Mauricien and Maori, un monthly between France and New Zealand or Australia via Panama Canal, ailing at Papeete and Noumea.

Messageries Maritimes passenger-cargo essels Vivarais, Vanoise, Velay, Ventoux ,nd Vosges run monthly between France nd Noumea via South Africa and Ausralia. From Sydney, vessels go to loumea; return to France via Brisbane ,nd southern Australian coastal ports.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, Young St.. Sydney (27-2654).

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Tonga - Fiji - N. Caledonia

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Loyal Rotterdam Lloyd operate a regular assenger/cargo service from the Con- Inent and UK every three weeks via anama to Tahiti, Western Samoa, Fiji nd New Caledonia, and every alternate ionth from Panama to Tahiti, New Caleonia and New Zealand. Transhipments jr Tonga, Am. Samoa, Niue and Fiji orts are off-loaded at Suva (Fiji) and pla (Western Samoa).

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, B 1 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Far East - Fiji

China Navigation Co. Ltd. four “K” jssels operate a monthly cargo service om Japan and Hong Kong southwards • Fiji direct, returning to Japan via Z and the Far East.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Far East - Fiji - Nz

Royal Interocean Lines operate a onthly return service with the Straat urres, Straat Madura and Houtman from Dng Kong, Bangkok (opt.), Pt. Swettenim and Singapore to Fiji and NZ, calling Suva and Lautoka, and returning via e Philippines.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, il George St., Sydney (2-0573).

FAR EAST - P-NG - BSI - NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

Tahiti - Am. Samoa - Fiji

China Navigation vessels Chengtu and lekiang maintain a monthly cargo rvice from Japan and Hong Kong to Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Pt. Moresby, with regular calls at Wewak, Honiara, Santo, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka and Noumea returning to Japan direct.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Japan - New Guinea

Mitsui Osk Lines of Japan, with six cargo vessels, operate a monthly service from major Japanese cities to major NG ports, and return.

Details from Mcllwraith McEacharn Ltd., 247 George St., Sydney (27-1481).

JAPAN - SAMOA - FIJI - N.

Caledonia - N. Hebrides - Bsi

Daiwa Line runs a monthly passenger/ cargo service from Japan via Guam to Apia, Pago Pago, Suva, Labasa, Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo and Honiara.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), Suva.

NEW ZEALAND - COOK IS.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes monthly trips from Auckland to Rarotonga, with calls at Niue and other Cook Islands when cargo warrants.

Details from NZ Department of Island Territories, Wellington (71-846) or any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA The Union Steam Ship Co. passenger/ cargo vessel Tofua departs from Auckland every month 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).

Details from USS of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland (40-430).

Nz - Cook Islands - Tahiti

Holm and Co. Ltd. passenger-cargo vessel Magga Dan maintains a 28-day service from Auckland, NZ, to Rarotonga and Papeete, with other Island calls when cargoes warrant.

Details from Holm and Co. Ltd., Customs Street East, Auckland (49930).

NZ - TAHITI - UK New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd.’s vessel Rangitoto, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, makes an occasional call at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ, or P and O, Sydney (2-0317).

NZ - NORFOLK IS. - N. CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - Wallis Is. - Fiji

Reef Shipping Company, Suva, operates a three-weekly service from NZ ports to Norfolk Is., Noumea, Vila, Wallis Is. and Suva, and return to Auckland.

Details from Trans Pacific Marine, 29-31 Fort St., Auckland (41-873).

NTH AMERICA - TAHITI - AM. SAMOA Polynesia Line vessel Graziella Zeta maintains a regular seven-week cargo route (with limited passenger space) from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Coos Bay (British Columbia) to Papeete and Pago Pago and return the same way.

Details from Marine Chartering (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Box 1631, GPO, Sydney (26-6701).

Tonga - Fiji - Australia

Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvaka* operates a 49-day passenger-cargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago and Nukualofa.

Detail? from Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Tonga - Fiji - Samoa

Tonga Shipping Agency operates a cargo-passenger run from Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Calls are also made a« required at Apia and Pago Pago.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), Suva.

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.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), Suva UK - PAPUA - NG - BSI Bank Line operates a monthly direct service from Europe via South Africa to Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kavieng, Rabaul and Honiara, occasionally extending to Tarawa, GEIC, or Vila and Santo, New Hebrides.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Ptj Ltd.. 269 George St., Sydney (27-2041).

Uk - Tahiti ■ Nz - Australia

Cogedar Line vessel Flavia, operates a passenger service four times a year from Southampton, via Panama, Papeete and Auckland, to Sydney.

Details from agents: H. C. Sleigh, 115 York St., Sydney. (2-0253).

Usa - Am. Samoa - Hawaii

AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line operates a monthly passenger-cargo service from Lo« Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra and Ventura. Regular calls include Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Burnie, Pago Pago and Honolulu.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Younp St., Sydney (27-4272).

USA - PACIFIC PORTS - NZ -

Australia - Usa

Bank Line Ltd., operates regular services from US Gulf ports to Australia and NZ. Frequency of sailings offering fortnightly availability for calls at Suva and Lautoka on demand.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty.

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (27-2041).

Matson Line liners Mariposa and Monterey maintain a regular passenger/ cargo service every three weeks from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Bora Bora, Papeete, Rarotonga, Auckland, Sydney, and return via Noumea, Suva, Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolulu to San Francisco.

Details from Matson Lines. 50 Young Street. Sydney (27-4272),

Usa ■ Tahiti - Australia

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships on US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service make three-weekly calls at Tahiti on southbound voyages.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency 13 Bridge St.. Sydney (27-6301). 122 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

©Aiwa Line

Direct Monthly Service

Japan Guam & South Pacific

M.V. "FIJI Dep. JAPAN October 30.

GUAM November 4-5.

PAGO PAGO November 16-17.

APIA November 17-18.

SUVA November 21-22.

MARU" V-20 *LABASA November 23-24.

LAUTOKA November 25-26.

NOUMEA November 29-30.

VILA December 10.

SANTO December 11-12. * Subject to cargo inducement.

Heavy lift and reefer space available.

Subject to alteration with or without notice.

Next Sailing — M.V. “Samoa Mam”, V-10, End November.

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: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.

LAUTOKA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., 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. • PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

USA - TAHITI • SAMOA - FIJI -

New Caledonia

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessel! rhorsgaard and Thor I maintain approximately monthly services from West Coast Nth. American ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Noumea, occasionally Pago, Apia, Suva, Noumea, and occasionally Lautoka, Vila, Lae, Rabaul, and return.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty.

Ltd., 275 George St., Sydney (29-2551).

Airways Timetables

(International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.)

Trans Pacific Services

Sydney - Brisbane - Hawaii - Us

QANTAS (with 707's) Thurs.: Dep. Syd. 1700, arr. Brls. 1815, dep. 1900, arr. Honolulu 0755, dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1645.

Thurs.: Dep. San Francisco 2100, arr.

Honolulu 2255, dep. 2359, arr. Brls. 0525 Sat., dep. 0610, arr. Syd. 0725.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii ■ Usa

QANTAS (with 707’s) Tues., Sat., Sun.; Dep. Syd. 1700, arr.

Nadi 2245, dep. 2330, arr. Honolulu 0735, dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1645.

Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat.; Dep. Syd. 1900, arr. Nadi 0045, dep. 0130, arr. Honolulu 0935, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1845.

Mon., Wed., Fri., Sun.; Dep. San Francisco 2000, arr. Honoloulu 2155, dep. 2300, arr. Nadi 0315, dep. 0400, arr. Syd. 0615.

Mon., Tues., Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2100, arr. Honolulu 2255, dep. 2359 arr. Nadi 0415, dep. 0500, arr. Svd’ 0715. * BOAC (with 707’s) Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0045, dep. 0130 Wed., Fri., Mon. (cross Dateline), arr. Honolulu 0935, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1845 Tues., Thurs., Sun.

Tues., Thurs., Sat.: Prom London, New York, dep. San Francisco 2000, arr Honolulu 2155, dep. 2300 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi Thurs., Sat., Mon. 0315, dep. 0400, arr. Sydney 0615.

Sydney - Fiji - Tahiti - Mexico

QANTAS (with 707’s) Wed.: Dep. Syd. 2000, arr. Nadi 0145 Thurs., dep. 0230, arr. Papeete 0845 Wed., Dep. 2230, arr. Acapulco 1030 Thurs., dep. 1130, arr. Mexico City 1220 (to London).

Sat.: Dep. Mexico City 2200, arr. Acapulco 2255, dep. 2355, arr. Papeete 0400 Sun., dep. 0500, arr. Nadi 0745 Mon dep. 0830. arr. Syd. 1045.

SYDNEY or AUCKLAND - FIJI -

Hawaii - Canada

CANADIAN PACIFIC (with DCB’s) Alt. Sun. (Sept. 15, 29): Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0055 Mon., dep. 0140 arr. Honolulu 0950 Sun., dep. H3o’ arr. Vancouver 1950 Sun.

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Vancouver 1800, arr. Honolulu 2040, dep. 2245, arr. Nadi 0305 Sun., dep. 0345, arr. Sydney 0600 Sun.

Alt. Sun. (Sept. 8, 22): the DCB’s end and start at Auckland, leaving at 2205 and arriving at 0640.

Sydney - Nz - Hawaii Or

Tahiti - Usa

AIR-NZ (with DCB’s) Wed., Fri.: Dep. Syd. 1500, arr. Auckland 1945, dep. 2100, arr. Honolulu 0720, dep. 0830, arr. Los Angeles 1625.

Sun.: Dep. Syd. 1815, arr. Auckland 2300, dep. 2359, arr. Papeete 0655, dep. 0815, arr. Los Angeles 1905.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100, arr.

Honolulu 2315, dep. 0030, arr. Auckland 0715 Fri., Tues., dep. 0900, arr.

Syd. 1005.

Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100, arr. Papeete 0215 Sat., dep. 0330, arr. Auckland 0715 Sun., dep. 0900, arr. Syd. 1005.

SYDNEY - USA (via N. CAL, FIJI,

Nz, Am. Samoa Or Hawaii)

PANAM (with 707’s) Tues., Wed., Pri., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1730 (arr. Nadi 2315, dep. 2359), Honolulu arr. Tues., Wed., Fri., Sun. 0805, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1755.

Mon.: Dep. Syd. 1600 for Noumea (arr. 1930, dep. 2030), Pago Pago (arr. Mon. 0145, dep. 0225), Honolulu (arr. Mon. 0830, dep. 1000), Los Angeles, arr. 1755.

Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1600 for Auckland (arr. 2045, dep. 2145) for Honolulu, arr. Thurs. 0800, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1755.

Sat.: Dep. Syd. 1600 for Auckland (arr. 2045, dep. 2140), Pago Pago (arr. Sat. 0210, dep. 0250), Honolulu (arr. Sat. 0855, dep. 1000), Los Angeles, arr. 1755. 123 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

UNION STEAMSHIP 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, Nokualofa 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.

Pacific Islands Transport Me

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, SYDNEY—Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd.

Ltd.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime Inter- LIU.

LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

SUVA —Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd. nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA—Etabiissements Ballande.

PORT VILA Comptoirs Francais dc Nouvelles Hebrides. 3un., Mon., Wed,, Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Nadi, arr. Tues., Wed., Fri., Sun. 0515, dep. 0615, and Sydney, arr. 0830. 3at.; Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Pago Pago, arr. Sun. 0510, dep. 0610, Noumea, arr. Mon. 0755, dep. 0845, Sydney, arr. Mon. 1035. fues.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0745, dep. 0825 for Sydney, arr. 0930. rhurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Pago Pago. arr. Fri. 0510, dep. 0610, and Auckland, arr. Sat. 0855, dep. 0945 for Sydney, arr. 1050.

NOTE: PanAm will begin two new •eturn trans-Pacific flights from Sep- ;ember 6. New schedules will include four ion-stop flights Honolulu-Sydney weekly. ?or details, see your nearest PanAm office.

SYDNEY or NOUMEA - USA (via

Fiji, Nz Or Tahiti

UTA AIRLINES (with DCS’s) Mon.: Dep. Noumea 1120, arr. Nadi 1400, dep. 1445, arr. Papeete 2050 Sun., dep. 0900 Mon., arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Thurs.: Dep. Noumea 1020, arr. Auckland 1340, dep. 2345, arr. Papeete 0630 Thurs., dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Fri.; Dep. Sydney 2050, arr. Papeete 0730 Fri., dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0500 Tues., dep. 0645, arr. Auckland 1030 Wed., dep. 1230, arr. Noumea 1415.

Thurs.; Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr.

Papeete 0500 Fri., dep. 0645, arr.

Sydney 1055 Sat.

Fri.; Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0500 Sun., dep. 0745, arr. Nadi 1030 Mon., dep. 1115, arr. Noumea 1215 Sat.

Nz * Am. Samoa, Tahiti Or

Hawaii - Usa

PANAM (with 707’s) Mon.; Dep. Auck. 2359, arr. Papeete 0645 Mon., dep, 0745, arr. Los Angeles 1830.

Thurs.: Dep. Auck. 2145, arr. Honolulu 0800 Thurs., dep. 1000, arr. Los Angeles 1755.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0510 Sun., dep. 0610, arr. Auck. 0950.

Sat.: Dep. Auck. 2140, an*. Pago Pago 0210, dep. 0250, arr. Honolulu 0855, dep. 1000, arr. Los Angeles 1755.

Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145, arr. Honolulu 2355, dep. Wed. 0100, arr. Auckland 0745 Thurs.

Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145, arr.

Honolulu 2355, dep, 0100 Fri., arr.

Pago Pago 0510, dep. 0610, arr. Auckland 0855 Sat.

INDONESIA - USA (via DARWIN,

Noumea, Nz, Or Tahiti)

UTA AIRLINES (with DOS’s) Wed.: Dep. Djakarta 2020, arr. Darwin 0225 Thurs., dep. 0305, arr. Noumea 0905, dep. 1020, arr. Auckland 1340, dep. 2345, arr. Papeete 0630, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0500 Tues., dep. 0645, arr. Auckland 1030, dep. 1230, arr. Noumea 1415, dep. 0050 Thurs., arr. Singapore 0615.

Australia-Far East

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

QANTAS (with 707’s) Thurs.; Dep. Syd. 1130, arr. Pt. Moresby 1525, dep. 1610, arr. Manila 1905, dep. 1945, arr. Hong Kong 2230.

Pri.: Dep. Hong Kong 0900, arr. Manila 0940, dep. 1025, arr. Pt. Moresby 1725, dep. 1810, arr. Syd. 2140.

NOTE: From October this service will be twice a week.

Australia-New Zealand

Qantas, Air-Nz, Boac And Panam

operate regular trans-Tasman services.

THE QANTAS and AIR-NZ services link major NZ cities with Australian east coast cities.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney ■ Fiji

AIB-INDIA (with 707’s) Tues.; Dep. Sydney 1045, arr. Nadi 1630.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 0800, arr. Sydney 1025.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

AIRLINES OF N.S.W. (with flying-boats) About twice weekly from Rose Bay.

Time of departure depends on high tide in the lagoon at Lord Howe Is.

Sydney - New Caledonia

QANTAS/UTA (with 707’s) Mon., Frl.: Dep. Sydney 1100, arr. Noumea 1440, dep. 1600 for Sydney, arr, 1755.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Noumea 0930, arr. Syd. 1150, dep. 1310, arr. Noumea 1715. 124 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Australia-West Pacific Line

aIC

Kid Glove Service

Exporters/Importers. Your cargo to and from Papua/ New Guinea is assured “Kid Glove Service” when entrusted to Australia-West Pacific Line.

By advanced, modern techniques in cargo handling, the proven service of A.W.P.L. is still second to none in the Papua/New Guinea Trade.

Your cargo is treated V.I.P. when shipped A.W.P.

For further enquiries, please contact A.W.P.L. Agents:— Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane—Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd.

Adelaide—Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd.

Lae, Rabaul, Madang—New Guinea Company Limited.

Port Moresby—lsland Products Limited.

Australia West Pacific Line

• PlM’s shipping and airways schedules are correct to time of publication.

Sydney - New Zealand - Fiji

BOAC (with 707’s) Mon., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Auckland 1345, dep. 2130, arr. Nadi 0020 (Tues., Sun.).

Tues., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755, dep. 0930, arr. Syd. 1035, thence London via Singapore.

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS (with DC4’s) Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr. N 1 1450. Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI Wed., Sat. only (See “NZ —Pacific Islands’’).

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. NI 1445, Sydney, arr. 1850.

Australia - P-Ng

Trans Australian Airlines and Ansett- ANA each operate from Sydney or Melbourne to Pt. Moresby and return five times a week, with Boeing 727’5.

NORTHBOUND Ansett-ANA; Mon.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr.

Syd. 0805, dep. 0835, arr. Bris. 0945, dep. 1035, arr. Pt. Moresby 1325.

Wed.: Dep. Syd. 0630, arr. Bris. 0740, dep. 0820, arr. Pt. Moresby 1110.

Pri.; Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Bris. 0810, dep. 0850, arr. Pt. Moresby 1140.

Sat.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr. Syd. 0805, dep. 0910, arr. Pt. Moresby 1250.

Sun.; Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Pt. Moresby 1040.

TAA: Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Bris. 0810, dep. 0850, arr.

Pt. Moresby 1140.

Pri.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr. Syd. 0825, dep. Syd. 0910, arr. Pt. Moresby 1250.

SOUTHBOUND Ansett-ANA: Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1415, arr. Bris. 1655, dep, 1800, arr. Syd. 1910, dep. 2000, arr. Melb. 2110, Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1200, arr.

Bris. 1440, dep. 1545, arr. Syd. 1655, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

Pri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1230, arr. Bris. 1510, dep. 1615, arr. Syd. 1725, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1340, arr. Syd. 1710, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1915.

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1130, arr. Bris. 1410, dep. Bris. 1500, arr. Syd. 1610. dep. Syd. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

TAA; Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Pt.

Moresby 1230, arr. Bris. 1510, dep. 1545, arr. Syd. 1655, dep. 1800, arr.

Melb. 1910.

Pri.; Dep. Moresby 1340, arr. Syd. 1705, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

TAA and ANA each operate a weekly DC4 from Sydney to P-NG with cargo only.

Queensland - Papua

TAA (with Fokkers) Tues.: Dep. Townsville 1110, arr. Cairns 1215, dep. 1315, arr. Pt. Moresby 1535.

Thurs.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 1445, arr. Cairns 1705, dep. 1800, arr. Townsville 1855.

ANSETT-ANA (with Fokkers) Thurs.: Dep. Cairns 1325, arr. Pt. Moresby 1545.

Pri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0745, arr. Cairns 1005.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS. (For other schedules touching these islands see also Trans-Pacific Services).

NZ - AM. SAMOA PANAM (with 707’s) Pri.: Dep. Pago Pago 0610, arr. Auckland Sat. 0855.

Sat.: Dep. Auckland 2140, arr. Pago Pago Sat. 0210.

NZ - FIJI AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Daily: Dep. Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020, dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755.

Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 0800, arr.

Nadi 1050.

NOTE: Mon., Sat. flights ex-Auckland and Tues., Sun. flights ex-Nadl are operated by BOAC.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 0800, arr.

Nadi 1050, dep. Nadi 1145 (cross Dateline), arr. Pago Pago 1445.

Wed., Pri.: Dep. Pago Pago 1600 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi Sun. 1700, dep.

Nadi 1800, arr. Auckland 2050.

Nz - New Caledonia

AIR-NZ and UTA (DOS’s) Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1300 for Noumea, arr. 1445, dep. 1600, arr. Auckland 1930.

Wed.; Dep. Auckland 1230, arr. Noumea 1415, dep. 1020 Thurs., arr. Auckland 1340. 125 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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NZ • NORFOLK IS.

AIR-NZ (with Qantas DC4’s on Charter) Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 2000.

Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1340.

Nz - Tahiti

UTA-French Airlines (with DCB’s) Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 2345 for Papeete (cross Dateline), arr. Thurs. 0635.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 0645 for Auckland (cross Dateline), arr. Wed. 1030.

Inter - Territory Services

Chile - Easter Is. - Tahiti

LAN-Chile (with DC6-B’s) Alt. Tues.: Dep. Santiago 0100, arr.

Easter Is. 0700 (24-hour stopover), dep. 0700 Wed., arr. Papeete 1500.

Alt. Sun.: Dep. Papeete 1900. arr. Easter Is. 0700 Mon. (24-hour stopover), dep. 0700 Tues., arr. Santiago 1900.

NOTE: Schedules have been cut down on Tahiti-Easter Is. connections.

Details from Mr. J. Federer (31-4366), Sydney; or Tahiti Tours, Papeete.

Fiji - Geic - Nauru

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Alt. Sun. (Sept. 8, 22): Dep. Suva 0600, arr. Nadi 0635, dep. 0720, arr.

Funafuti 1020, dep. 1105, arr. Tarawa 1435, dep. 1520, arr. Nauru 1650.

Alt. Mon. (Sept. 9. 23); Dep. Nauru 0700, arr. Tarawa 0930, dep. 1015, arr.

Funafuti 1345, dep. 1430, arr. Nadi 1730, dep. 1815, arr. Suva 1850.

Fiji - New Hebrides - Bsip

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Thurs.: Dep. Suva 0700, arr. Nadi 0735, dep. 0820, arr. Vila 0955, dep. 1040. arr. Santo 1130, dep. 1215, arr.

Honiara 1510.

Fri.: Dep. Honiara 0730, arr. Santo 1025, dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1200. dep. 1245. arr. Nadi 1620, dep. 1705, arr. Suva 1740.

NOTE: An additional fortnightly service operates here, leaving Fiji on alternate Sundays and returning on alternate Mondays. Times are the same as above.

Fiji - Tonga

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Wed., Sat.; Dep. Nadi 0610, arr. Suva 0645, dep. 0715, arr. Tonga 1015, dep. 1100, arr. Suva 1200, dep. 1300, arr.

Nadi 1345.

Fiji - Western Samoa

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Wed.: Dep. Nadi 1100, arr. Suva 1145, dep. 1240, arr. Apia 1640 Tues.

Tues.; Dep. Apia 1720, arr. Suva 1920.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti

PANAM (with 707’s) Tues.; Dep. Honolulu 1200, arr. Pago Pago 1610, dep. 1655, arr. Papeete 2045.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 2230, arr. Pago Pago 0040 Wed., dep. 0130, arr. Honolulu 0735, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1655.

Hawaii - Micronesia - Guam

AIR MICRONESIA (with 727’5) Sun.; Dep. Honolulu 0700. arr. Johnston Is. 0845, dep. 0915, arr. Majuro 1005 Mon., dep. 1035, arr. Kwajalein 1120, dep. 1150. arr. Truk 1210, dep. 1255, arr. Guam 1530, dep. 1615, arr. Saipan 1650.

Sat.: Dep. Saipan 0850, arr. Guam 0925, dep. 1010, arr. Truk 1035, dep. 1120, arr. Kwajalein 1540, dep. 1610, arr.

Majuro 1655, dep. 1725, arr. Johnston Is. 2215, dep. 2245, arr. Honolulu 0025.

New Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA (with DC4) Tues.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Santo 1040, dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1215, dep. 1530, arr. Noumea 1725.

Fri.; Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 0955, dep. 1315, arr. Santo 1420, dep. 1450, arr. Noumea 1730.

NEW CAL. - WALLIS IS. - NEW CAL.

UTA (with DC4) Second Wed. each month.

Wed. (Sept. 11): Dep. Noumea 0800, arr.

Wallis 1530.

Thurs. (Sept. 12): Dep. Wallis 1100, arr.

Noumea 1630.

New Guinea - West Irian

TAA (with DOS’s) Fortnightly flights leave Lae, via Wewak, to Sukarnapura and return the next day (Sept. 9, 23).

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA (with Fokkers and DOS’s) Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0700, arr. Lae 0800, dep. 0900 for Buka, Munda, Honiara, arr. 1630.

Wed.; Dep. Honiara 0740 for Munda.

Buka, Rabaul, Lae, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1415.

Tahiti - Usa

UTA-French Airlines (with DOS’s) Mon.: Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955, dep Mon. 2345, arr. Papeete Thurs. 0500.

Thurs.: Dep. Papeete 0900,, arr. Los Angeles 1955, dep. Thurs. 2345, arr.

Papeete 0500.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 0700, arr. Honolulu 1225, dep. 1355, arr. Los Angeles 2150, dep. Sat. 2345, arr. Papeete 0500.

PANAM (with 707’s) Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 1300, dep. Honolulu 1630, arr. Papeete 2155.

Fri.: Dep. Papeete 0800. arr. Honolulu Fri. 1320, dep. 1500, arr. Los Angeles 2255 Fri.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0510 Sun.

Mon.: Dep. Papeete 0745, arr. Los Angeles Mon. 1830.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 2230, arr. Pago Pago Wed. 0040, dep. 0130, arr. Honolulu 0735, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1655.

Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 0830, arr. Honolulu 1040, dep. 1200, arr. Pago Pago 1610, dep. 1655, arr. Papeete 2045.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES (with DCS) Apia-Pago Pago; Three times Wed., Fri., twice Tues., Sun., once Sat.

Pago Pago-Apia; Three times Wed., Fri., twice Tues., Sat., once Sun. (all flights 45 mins.).

W. Samoa ■ Tonga

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES (with DCS) Sun.: Dep. Apia 0800, arr. Tonga Mon. 1100.

Mon.: Dep. Tonga 1200, arr Apia Sun. 1510.

W. SAMOA - WALLIS IS. - FIJI POLYNESIAN AIRLINES (with DCS) Thurs.: Dep. Apia 0800 (cross Dateline), arr. Wallis 0835 Fri., dep. 0855, arr.

Nadi 1200.

Fri.; Dep. Nadi 1245, arr. Wallis 1545, dep. 1600 (cross Dateline), arr. Apia 1840 Thurs.

Thurs.: Dep. Apia 0800 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi 1200. dep. 1245 Fri., arr.

Apia 1840 Thurs.

Internal Services

FIJI Fiji Airways, with Herons, DC3’s and a HS74B operates regular services to Labasa, Matei, Nadi, Nausori and Savusavu.

Details from Fiji Airways, Victoria Parade. Suva.

Air Pacific, with Beech Baron aircraft, operate regular services to Ba, Bureta, Korolevu, Nadi and Nausori.

Details from Air Pacific Ltd., Suva (Phone 25137). 126

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They announced they would fight outside the council for anew Constitution, a common roll, removal of British control and European dominance, and early self-government and independence. They appealed to the United Nations, and demanded that a UN committee be allowed to come and assess the situation.

They rejected a Government appeal for them to return to the council.

Their seats were then declared vacant and this by-election for the nine seats (within the Indian community only) is being taken.

The Alliance Party organisers claim they will now cut down the Federation Party vote, and even win one or two seats. But neutral observers expect that the Federal Party will retain all nine seats.

Valuable help The non-Federation Indians mostly educated men—are giving the Alliance valuable help; but although the Alliance Government now stands high in public esteem (Ratu Mara has done an excellent job as Chief Minister), the party finds it difficult to reach the majority of the semiliterate Indians from whom the Federation gets its major support.

These people are shut off by the barriers of language and ignorance.

They accept the Federation speakers’ promises, such as, easier access to Fiji-owned lands; a review of the Constitution, and introduction of the common roll: the end of European domination of the council, to be followed by the ousting of the British control of the government, and independence; a challenge to the “power” of the Australian corporations now operating in Fiji; a bigger and better life for Fiji’s 250,000 Indians.

Re-election Most of what is practicable in this is already in the policies being activated by Ratu Mara’s administration.

The re-election of the Indian Opposition (one of the nine has since resigned from the Federation Party and will be an Alliance candidate) may not take the political situation in Fiji any further.

It would mean that 60 per cent, of the Indian vote had gone to the Federation, but on the last election figures it appears that practically the whole of the remainder of Fiji’s multi-racial population supports the present government, which in any case would not be changed.

And the question is, if the Federation Party members get back, what can they do other than a further boycott and a further trial of strength?

Fiji just now. superficially, appears to be prosperous. The colony is packed with tourists, and their money spreads to many places.

If the Alliance Government can get an overall 35 to 40 per cent, of this by-election vote, the politicoeconomic situation can be regarded as safe.

French Polynesia

RAI, with DC4’s, Twin Otters and a Bermuda flying-boat, operates regular services to Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Papeete, Raiatea and Rangiroa.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, or any UTA office.

Guam - Us Trust Territory

Air Micronesia, with 727’5, DC6’s and Grumman SA-16 flying-boats, operates regular services to Guam, Koror, Kwajalein, Majuro, Ponape, Rota, Saipan and Yap.

Details from Continental Airlines, International Airport, Los Angeles, California.

Papua - New Guinea

TAA, with Fokker Friendships, DC3’s, Twin Otters and Aztecs, operates regular services to Baimuru, Baiyer R., Balimo, Banz, Buin, Bulolo, Buka, Cape Gloucester, Cape Hoskins, Chimbu, Daru, Finschhafen, Garaina, Goroka, Gurney (Samarai), Jacquinot Bay, Kandrian, Kavieng, Kerema, Kieta, Lae, Madang, Malalaua, Manus, MinJ, Misima, Mt. Hagen, Munda, Nissan Is., Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Talasea, Wabag, Wakunai, Wau, Wapenamanda and Wewak.

Ansett-MAL, with Fokker Friendships, DC3’s and Piaggios, operates regular services to Altape, Ambunti, Angoram, Banz, Bulolo, Erave, Goroka, Hayfield, lalibu, Kainantu, Kagua, Kavieng, Kundiawa, Lae, Lumi, Madang, Mendi.

MinJ, Mt. Hagen, Momote, Nuku, Pt.

Moresby, Rabaul, Tarl, Telefomin, Vanimo, iVabag, Wapenamanda, Wau, Wewak and Fangoru.

Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd., with DC3’a md Piaggios, operates regular services tc \roa, Balimo, Bereina, Cape Rodney, Daru. Gurney, Kairuku, Kokoda, Losuia.

Vlt. Hagen, Paili, Popondetta. Pt. Moresby, Rorona, Tapini, Vivigani, Wanigela and Voitape.

New Caledonia

Air Caledonie, with Twin Otters, Herons md Aztecs operates regular services to lienghene, Houailou, Isle of Pines, Isle >uen, Kone, Kouaoua, Koumac, Lifou, 4are, Noumea, Ouvea, Poindimie, Touho, roh.

Details from Air Caledonie, Noumea.

New Hebrides

Air Melanesia, with Drovers, operates egular services to Aneityum, Epl, Jrromanga, Lamap, Longana, Norsup, Janto, Tanna, Tongoa and Vila.

Details from Air Melanesia, Vila.

Solomon Islands

Solomons Islands Airways, with Dove nd Beech Baron aircraft, operates reguir services to Auki, Avu Avu, Barakoma, foniara, Kira Kira, Marau, Mono, Munda, ege and Yandina.

Details from Solomon Islands Airways td., Box C 25, Honiara, BSTP. 127

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Ltd 132 Everhard Concrete Products Pty. Ltd 151 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd 94 Fiberglass (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd. 100 Filmo Depot Ltd 46 Frigate Rum 46 Gabba Wrecking Pty. Ltd. .. 140 General Foods Corp. (N.Z.) Ltd 108 George & Ashton Ltd. . .. 96 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 18 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 106 Hand! Works Pty. Ltd. .. 138 Heinz, H. J. & Co. Aust. Ltd. 12 Hellaby, R. & W„ Ltd. 63, 107 Hughes & Co. Ltd 141 Hutchinson, Robert Ltd. . . 62 I. Ltd 5 International Harvester Co. . 56 International Majora Paints Ltd 82 J. Stanley Johnston ..102 Karlander New Guinea Line Ltd 47 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 139 Kodak (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd. .. 42 Kraft Foods Limited .. 8 Lingard Investments Pty.

Ltd 147 Lysaght, John (Australia) Ltd 13 Marine Contractors Pty.

Ltd 97 Massey-Ferguson Aust. Ltd. . 134 Mendaco 145 Mick Simmons 147 Millers Ltd 98,142 Morris Hedstrom Ltd 50 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .. 131 Murray, Sons & Co. Pty.

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Ltd 152 Pongrass Bros. (Marine) Pty.

Ltd 104 Qantas 44 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 105 Remploy Ltd 10 Ronson Products Ltd 9 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 71 Royal Interocean Lines . .. 34 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 84 Sansui Electric Co. Ltd. .. 88 Sebels (Aust.) Ltd 41 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd 120 Shelley & Sons Cordial Factory Pty. Ltd 117 Small & Shattell Pty. Ltd. . 140 Southern Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd 147 St. Bede's College 91 Stapleton, J. T., Pty. Ltd. . 47 Steel Boat Building Co. of Australia 99 Stewarts & Lloyds (Dist.) Pty. Ltd 138 T.A.A cov. ii Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L .. 133 Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L 100 Tooth & Co. Ltd 44 Toyota Motor Sales Co.

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Deaths Of Islands People

Judge Ralph I. Gore Another of the famous Australian Did Timers”, who gave Papua and few Guinea distinction and a flavour i the quarter-century between the /orld Wars, has passed on. Judge alph Thomas Gore, CBE, who had sen living in Southport, Queensland, nee his retirement in 1962, died in risbane on August 1, aged 79.

He was born in NSW, educated in risbane ,and joined the Crown Law ffice in Port Moresby in 1924, when ir Hubert Murray was trying—with i infinitesimal budget and a trelendous belief in humankind—to lake an orderly State out of Papua’s ilf million primitive Melanesians, e was identified with the Murray while New Guinea ill was a “Mandated Territory”, id in no way associated with Papua.

No man in Papua was better lown or more highly respected an Ralph Gore—not even Murray mself. He became Judge Gore in >2B, and was chief of Papua’s legal stem right up until the Japanese vasion in 1942; and after the war ? returned to the Bench of what is iw the Territory of P-NG.

A biographer wrote of him in >65; “A kindly tolerant man, rich wisdom and learning, who like any other Australians devoted his ; e to the service of a people whose istiny is inextricably involved with ir own.”

Judge Gore became an Associate the Chief Justice of Australia in >l5. He was called to the Queensnd Bar in 1916; and was engaged private practice until he went to ipua in 1924. In 1916, he married iss Mabel Shand, daughter of the dl-known Warner Shand, and she ared his public life in Papua and tired with him to Southport in 1962. le Judge was awarded the CBE in >53; and his many friends insisted at he had truly earned a higher stinction to crown his long, useful reer.

Judge Gore wrote his autobioaphy after he retired. Justice zrsus Sorcery was published in *65. In it there are many indications his deep and sympathetic underanding of the New Guinea mind id outlook.

Mr. C. E. Best Mr. Clyde Edwin Best, one of the st-known identities in Fiji shipping *cles, has died in Suva, aged 79.

Mr. Best, who was bom in Ausdia, went to Fiji in 1909 and joined Henry Marks and Co. He worked for Morris Hedstrom Ltd. at Lautoka before becoming a Customs and shipping agent, and was then with the Union Steam Ship Company until 1942, part of the time as the Lautoka manager.

Following his retirement from USS he joined Williams and Gosling Ltd., where he remained until forced to leave through ill health.

Mr. Best was a keen sportsman, excellent rifle shot and strong supporter of the Lautoka and Suva Bowling Clubs, He was a life member of the Lautoka Club.

Ex-members of the old Fiji Defence Forces knew him as Captain Best—he was commissioned in 1922.

Mr. Best leaves a widow, Viti, twin daughters, Mrs. Mattie Edmunds, of Broadbeach, Queensland, and Mrs.

Podge Wardrop, of Lautoka, and a son, Philip, of Suva.

Mr. Robert Narruhn Mr, Robert Narruhn, a long time trader in the Pacific Islands and the grandson of one of the first Europeans to settle in the Line Islands, died recently in Suva. He was 78.

Born on Ponape, Caroline Islands, he spent several years on Jaluit and Likiep in the Marshalls. When the Japanese forced many Europeans to leave the Marshalls during World War I, he moved to Butaritari.

In 1922, Mr, Narruhn joined Bums Philp (South Sea) at Tarawa, later transferring to a BP store at Butaritari. He also did 12 months work aboard the BP trader Mauno.

Shortly after 1941, he left Butaritari to avoid the Japanese invasion, and in 1943 he was in Suva, working for BP. He left BP in 1961 after nearly 40 years’ service with the company.

Mr, Narruhn stayed on in Fiji and tok a temporary job for a short time at Suva’s Club Hotel.

His brother Fred, who was decorated by American forces for gallantry against the Japanese on Makin Atoll, Gilberts, in 1943, lives in San Francisco. Three of his four daughters live in Suva, and one in the US. A son, Fred, lives in the Marshalls, and two other sons live in the US.

Mr. Narruhn’s grandfather came from Germany, and his father moved to the Marshalls from the Line Islands in the late 1800’s and married one of the De Brunn family.

Mr. Emile Ohlen Mr. Emile Ohlen, who served in the New Hebrides contingent of the French Pacific Battalion in World War I, and later spent about 27 years in the New Hebrides as a marine engineer and plantation manager, has died in Sydney, He was 76.

Born in New Caledonia, he served as an engineer on Messageries Maritimes ships before 1914. After war service he moved to Vila as chief engineer aboard the Victory, the touring vessel of the French Resident Commissioner.

From 1925 to 1928 he operated an engineering workshop in Vila, but in January, 1928, the workshop was burnt down in a fire which broke out in the nearby French store of CFNH.

After that Mr. Ohlen worked on plantations, and for several years .managed a plantation at Port Havannah and another plantation at Tagabe.

He left the New Hebrides after World War II and settled in Sydney, but he always remained interested in condominium events.

Mr. John Mansakau Mr. John Mansakau, a chief of Tongoa Island and the son of “Sandy” Mansakau, a former British police sergeant in the New Hebrides, died recently in Vila after a long illness.

Chief Graham Kalsakau, of Vila, and Islanders from Tongoa, Paama and Emae attended his funeral at Vila.

Judge Gore (right) with Mr. Ivan Champion. 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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The Practical Planter

Poultry can thrive in the Islands Poultry is a natural for the Pacific Islands. Egg production can be sustained at a higher level for longer periods in the tropics than in temperate zones. In Apia, where 10 years ago the poultry industry was virtually non-existent, three commercial farms now supply the needs of the town’s 20,000 people.

There is one big drawback to rofitable poultry production in imoa, though, a drawback which takes it difficult for poultry products > compete with overseas poultry: tost poultry food, except grit, has > be imported, and it is very exmsive.

R. F. Rankin writes about local mditions in Apia: Work on local poultry foodstuffs starting this year at the Regional ollege of Tropical Agriculture at lafua by FAO livestock expert Dr. eddy. The results of his investigaons could have a profound effect on ie poultry industry throughout the lands. Dr. Reddy is confident that palatable and nutritious mash can j produced economically from local •ains and meals.

Bigger If he does make this breakthrough ie poultry industry in the South acific will become much bigger than is at present.

In Samoa, most local farmers iport their day-old chicks from Z, Australia or Fiji. Restrictions gainst Newcastle disease prohibit the iportation of higher producing lines om the USA and England.

Peter Plowman, a leading Western Samoan poultryman whose farm has been praised by overseas experts, is now hatching his own chicks and getting a successful dual purpose breed from a cross between Australian Rhode Island White roosters and White Leghorn hens.

It does not seem to make much difference what breed is imported— all the breeds and their crosses seem to lay and thrive equally well.

With imported foodstuffs specially this brooder was made from cocoa wire and hardboard ousing. With proper diet and clean water, chickens are easy [?] raise in West Samoa, and need no expensive or elaborate equipment. -Photo: R. F. Rankin.

One of Peter Plowman's laying houses. Running water is provided in the trough that can be seen just above the food trough. Laying boxes are at the rear. The house is divided into 6 ft by 8 ft compartments with up to 30 pullets to each compartment.

Mr. Plowman keeps his breeders in a similar house with 12 hens and a rooster to each compartment. Three muscovy ducks can be seen on the concrete path towards the far end of the house. They thrive on the mash that falls to the ground, and they have almost eliminated the fly problem. These quick-growing table birds breed abundantly. -Photo: R. F. Rankin. 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

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nixed for each stage of growth, raisng the chickens is straightforward.

Vlost are kept in 6 ft x 3 ft brooders nade of cocoa wire and hardboard lousing. They are rat-proof (rats iresent quite a problem to Islands loultrymen) and heated for the first ew days of a chick’s life by an slectric bulb.

All the commercial farmers in >amoa keep their birds off the p-ound at all stages of their life.

Jome put the pullets into imported >attery cages when they are nearing he laying stage. Others keep them n home-made wire pens a few feet >ff the ground. Results seem equally 'ood.

With the big advances in pasture nanagement in Samoa in recent 'ears, it seems that open range yould provide even more economic esults, but this has yet to be tried.

Whatever the method, the inlustry is not going to show any big tdvances until food costs are cut übstantially by the use of local n gradients. » DON’T THROW AWAY that old dish drainer that has been discarded from your kitchen, even if it is rusty. Paint it up, and it will make a handy carry-all in which to place odd tools for a particular job. • The fifth in a series of articles on spices. Further information on cardamom, or any other spice mentioned in the series, may be obtained from The Tropical Products Institute, 56-62, Gray's Inn Road, London, WCI, which supplied PIM with this article.

Cardamom requires shade, height and moisture The cardamom plant (Elettaris Cardamom Matori) requires elevation, moisture and shade. In Southern India and Ceylon it grows in jungles at altitudes of between 2,500 ft and 5,000 ft with an average temperature of 72 deg. Fahr. and an average yearly rainfall of 120 in. The shade provided by the jungles is particularly important.

The soil should be rich, with a high humus content (swampy ground is suitable). Loamy soil, as used for pepper, is quite satisfactory, and cardamom is often planted as a secondary crop alongside pepper. In some areas it is grown with coffee.

The first harvest can be gathered in the fifth year. Production may continue for eight years, after which the planting has to be renewed.

The plants are propagated either by division of the rhizomes (bulbs) or by seed growth in beds and nurseries (though the seeds germinate very slowly). If rhizomes are used, the soil is thoroughly cleaned, and holes are dug 12-15 in. deep, 11 to 2 ft wide and 7 ft apart in both directions. In Ceylon, cardamom is propagated mainly by seedlings which have been in a nursery for about a year.

Smaller quantities Harvesting takes place principally in February/March and August/ September, but smaller quantities can be obtained throughout the year, at two-monthly intervals. The capsules are gathered from the stems just before complete maturity when still somewhat green but beginning to turn yellow. If left on the stems to ripen, the capsules split and eject the seeds.

It is now the practice to cut off each fruit carefully with scissors, a portion of the pedicel being left attached to each capsule. (It was formerly the custom to pull off whole racemes of fruit, but this was wasteful because not all fruits ripen together). The yield is from 150 to 300 lb of cardamoms per acre.

The capsules are prepared for the market by drying, or curing, which can be done in two ways. The oldest, and cheapest method is to dry the fruits slowly on mats by exposure to the sun. Care is necessary, since too rapid, or excessive, drying may cause the capsules to swell, burst and lose their seeds. Sun-drying also bleaches the capsules to some extent.

Higher price The other method of drying is to use kilns. Kiln-dried cardamoms retain their green colour, are less liable to split and fetch a higher price than the sun-dried spice. However, they must be thoroughly dried, otherwise they may become mouldy in course of shipment. Fresh cardamoms lose about 75 per cent, of their weight on drying, but the precise amount varies, as some types are moister than others.

In India, completion of drying is judged by weight loss, the standard loss for any particular locality having been determined by practical trials.

Commercial cardamoms contain about 10 or 11 per cent, of moisture.

In the Indian kiln, the cardamoms are dried on bamboo floors, while in the Ceylon kiln, the drying trays are timber-framed with wire mesh or hessian bottoms.

Great importance The main objective in drying cardamoms is to prevent the capsules from splitting, and thus exposing the seeds to the atmosphere. The seeds contain the bulk of the volatile oil in the spice (averaging about 6 per cent.) but the seed-vessel contains very little. Exposed seeds lose their volatile oil fairly rapidly—as much as 30 per cent, in eight months— whereas the loss from the whole, unsplit fruits is very slight in the same period.

Apart from this, the trade attaches great importance to the external appearance of the capsules themselves, which may be either green or bleached. Green cardamoms are most Peter Plowman with one of his handsome Rhode Island White roosters. Mr. Plowman is producing a dual purpose breed by crossing these roosters with White Leghorn hens. 137

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Bleached cardamoms are a fancy ;rade used mainly in mixed spices or pickling and other culinary pur- >oses.

Bleaching is sometimes carried out >y exposing the fruits to the fumes )f burning sulphur in sealed rooms; >r it may be done by stirring the ruits in an extract of the soapberry ree, which are then exposed to the un, and sprinkled occasionally with vater.

When the capsules are sufficiently hied, the pieces of attached stalk ire clipped or rubbed off, and renoved by hand—or machine— vinnowing.

The final product may need a urther air-drying before shipment.

Junlight spoils the colour of the Iried fruits and they should be stored n a dark room, in rat-proof metal >r wooden boxes.

For export, the capsules should be jacked in venesta cases, lined with in-foil, polythene or Sisalkraft, or n new jute bags with waterproof inings. Cardamom seeds should be lacked in clean, dry tinplate conainers, or in waterproof lined /ooden cases.

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The P-NG Administration will spend $250,000 to combat weevil infestations to cocoa trees in the Popondetta area of the Northern District, Papua.

Cocoa trees in the area have been badly stricken with weevil in recent months.

Department of Agriculture workers will carry out a 12month spraying programme using Dipterex insecticide. Hopes are that this will reduce infestation to a level where growers will be able to control the weevils by routine pest control.

Cocoa trees in the territory’s two richest-growing area s Rabaul-Kokopo, New Britain, and Madang-Karkar Island— have also been adversely affected in recent months by cocoa’s other big enemy—the Dieback fungus disease.

Several European planters and companies in the Rabaul area have reported significant falls in production due to Dieback, which cannot be controlled by chemical treatment. 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968 Practical Planter

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Examine fastenings, wires, and the rudder shaft quadrant fitting. 3. Remove all floor boards and clean out the bilges, checking the bilge pump and pipes at the same time.

Check, renew 4. Thoroughly inspect the propeller and shaft. Examine the propeller nut (and lock-nut if fitted) for slackness, and check shaft and propeller for corrosion. If zinc plates or anodes are fitted, renew them—they are cheaper than propellers and shafts. Check rudder pintle bearing if fitted— since a loose bearing will cause vibration. The same applies if the tailshaft aft end bearing is worn. A loose, worn bearing will cause excessive wear to the shaft. Therefore, examine the stern tube aft end bolts and bearing. 5. If the engine exhaust outlet is aft, inspect the piping, and clean out the silencer. 6. With the engine, check the injectors first and give the engine a top overhaul. This may not be necessary if the workboat hasn’t been used much, but a change of oil and good crankcase flush out are always worthwhile. Renew the oil and fuel filter elements to get the full benefit of new oil. 7. If the engine has been running in a rough or uneven manner it may pay to re-calibrate the fuel injection pump. 8. Clean and flush out the reverse gear—residue from clutch plate wear can affect the ball bearings.

Adjust the ahead clutch and also the reverse band. Clean the reduction gear and renew oil. 9. Overhaul the water circulation system—unless it is air-cooled.

Examine the pump for wear and clean or- flush out all water jackets, including the fresh water heat exchanger. This is particularly important if the boat is operating in sandy or muddy water, since build up of silt will cause excessive pitting. 10. Finally, check the instruments and tachometer for accuracy. e Readers who wish to know more about workboat maintenance should address their questions to: The Editor, Practical Planter section, Pacific Islands Monthly, GPO Box 3408, Sydney, NSW, 2001. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968 Practical Planter

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The idea was to capture one or two Fabe people and to hold them long enough to convince them the Administation is friendly, and is trying to help them.

But a Fabe lookout spotted Johnson and also the five armed policemen, and the Fabe fled, dropping a five-year-old native boy in their haste to reach the jungle. Johnson’s patrol interpreter, a former cannibal named Nogoi, grabbed the little boy.

The boy, Gosuma, aged five, was convinced Johnson and his men were cannibal raiders, and he was going to be killed. For 20 minutes, Nogoi, and the Karkar (Madang) policeman, Siebert, tried everything they knew to halt his wailing and screaming.

No use Eventually, Gosuma seemed reassured, and was instructed to begin calling his father and friends from the jungle. It was just no use.

After 20 minutes, Johnson gave little Gosuma a brand-new Administration bushknife in the hope that this, in a community still using stoneaxes, would convince the Fabe community the Administration was friendly.

For little Gosuma, it had been a very rough day, psychologically.

Johnson and the patrol were the first white men he’d seen; and he’d also been spared from what be believed would be certain death.

Next day, Johnson’s patrol surprised two haughty Biami warriors in a garden. Both quietly snuffed their fire, slowly reached for their bows and arrows, rose and headed in separate directions.

One climbed a pig-fence and came within five feet of Johnson’s patrol —then raced up a sharp hill and turned left into the jungle, with Johnson’s native policemen on his heels. But too late.

The Biami longhouse was further up the hill, and the police rushed it, hoping for a hostage.

The patrol was too late. All it found inside was an old woman 144 CANNIBALS (Continued from p. 70) SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Suspicious The sullen and suspicious attitude of the Gubusi and Biami longhouse was hard to take. But there wa one welcome relief, on the soutl bank of the Rentoul River.

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Not long ago, one Biami lookec ADC Johnson in the eyes and tol< him in all sincerity: “When our children cry for nc apparent reason, we parents know that they are hungry for humar flesh.” 146 SEPTEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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What of the future? r hat is the political future of the tory? How strong is the desire independence? tnong the younger educated group, pendence is sometimes discussed is no more than an ideal for the re, for they know that indepene in itself would not increase the >nal pay packet. here is, however, a growing New rides national consciousness, and ’sire to support the things which ribute to that development. this bilingual, multi-racial comity, there is an abundance of aal goodwill which is evident, for iple, in athletic contests. Now is time for action, and the future he Condominium will take care self. But where is the action? 151 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968

New Hebrides

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FURNITURE PTY. LTD. 36 Luland Street, Botany, N.S.W. 2019 Australia CHAIR IT STACKS 15 HIGH cables: PONGRAS’ Botany PI 954/68 Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney, 2000. (Telephone: 61-9197). Wholly set up and printed in Australia by The Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney, 2000.

Head Office: PORTMORESBY/PAPUACabIe: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 Burns Philp & Co., all Australian States Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London Burns Philp Co. of San Francisco Inc.

Trade Inquiries Invited

shipping agents for Austasia Line Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes Chandris Line Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail P.&O. Orient Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd Union Steamship Co. of N.Z. 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 DHffl distributorships include Beresford Pumps Briggs & Stratton Engines British Paints Buckingham and Carnatic Textiles Citizen Watches "Cecoco” Machinery Conditionaire Air Curtain Doors Hardie’s Building Products 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 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, Bulolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen Dp BURNS PHILP (New Guinea) LTD. y Head Office Port Moresby Telex PM 116 Telegrams all centres Burphil \ C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER, 1968

Wr.Carpenterccfi.Ltd

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General Merchants

For more than 50 years the W. R. Carpenter Group has brought progress and service to the Pacific Islands-as wholesalers and retailers; as buyers of island produce such as copra, coffee and cocoa industries and facilities which have contributed to the developmerit of the area. Qs SEPI96B The Group is a buyer of merfrbaKffiise fr6m : .w.Qff£f 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 the Group in the Pacific Islands include:

Papua/New Guinea

Island Products Limited New Guinea Company Limited Coconut Products Limited Boroko Motors Limited FIJI Carpenters Fiji Ltd.

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.

U.K. OFFICE: 22 PARK ST., CROYDON, CR9 3NP.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1968