Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 41, No. 7 ( Jul. 1, 1970)
1970-07-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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

JULY, 1970 AUSTRALIA 40c NEW ZEALAND 45c

U.S. Pacific Territories 70C

French Pacific Islands (Frcs. Cfp.) 65

P.-N.G., Fiji, Other Pacific Territories 35C

TAA's got you covered S 3 All the way from Port Moresby to Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Goroka, Mt. Hagen fifty centres in all The best connections in the Territory. More coverage of Papua/New Guinea, flying air-conditioned twin prop-jets, than any other major airline. Plus the best connections to Australia flying Bird of Paradise’ T-Jets. Mote comfort, more flights, more places. That’s why more people fly TAA Contact your Travel Agent or TAA; Port Moresby 2101.

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Cumulative Index

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Pacific Islands

MONTHLY (Volumes 1-15) The index covers the 15 vital years from August, 1930, to July, 1945, when many of the events which shaped the Pacific of today took place. But PIM in those years (as is the case today) did not only concern itself with current affairs. It abounded also in articles on every aspect of Islands life both past and present—from agriculture, anthropology and aviation to shipping, tourism, vulcanology and the weather. Islands history was (as it still is) a PIM specialty.

Now, with the aid of the new cumulative index, you can find in a few seconds everything PIM ever published from 1930 to 1945 on any subject, whether it was a two-line snippet or a major article.

The index is one of the most detailed productions of its kind ever published. It is divided into nine sections—aircraft, authors of articles, biographical entries, book reviews, companies, letters to the editor, poems and short stories, ships, and territories. Nearly 10,000 people are listed in the biographical section, and there are some 200,000 entries relating to them.

The territories section, which deals with Islands groups such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Oceania, Papua, etc., is equally minutely indexed and cross-indexed under a wide range of headings.

The index contains 228 closely-printed, but easy-to-read pages measuring 11 by inches. It is cloth-bound and printed on tough, long-lasting paper.

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J J \ Merican Samoa Is

■ ■** preparing to send a ■ ■strong team of government officials, sportsmen and sports fans to Western Samoa for Independence Day celebrations. This visit, coming so soon after the mass arrival of Western Samoans to Pago for the Flag Day celebrations last month, [emphasises the strong bonds of friendship, as well as of language, trade and culture, which exist between our two groups of neighbouring [islands. | It is strange, therefore, that the [matter of improved communications between American and Western Samoa continues to remain unresolved despite the obvious good- !will of the two governments. The [question of the selection of an American airline for the Pago-Apia route, the question of reciprocal air taxi llanding permits for Air Samoa Ltd., [Air Samoa Inc., and South Seas Airways seem to have been shelved, in practice.

I And here’s a few more suggestions: [how about a teletype service (between the two capitals, and a 24hour telephone service, and special cut-rate telegraphic rates, and postage [rates? — Editorial in “The Samoa I Times’", Apia.

T HAVE read with interest quite a few comments on tipping in PFiji. I would like to say those people |\vho receive tips are usually on a [low wage. They are the porters, gaiters and waitresses. I do not understand why tipping should be banned in Fiji when it is even compulsory in some countries overseas.

L Why do rich people want to stop tipping when a poor man can make f bet *er living out of tips? I feel the subject of tipping should be left to tourists to decide for themselves. If they wish to tip they should be allowed to.

Tipping generally means that the person concerned is happy with the Service he has received.— N. Taj Mohammed, in a letter to “The Fiji Times”. f AM certain that in the style of J" s . ome newspapers overseas, our Premier was misquoted in pointing >ut that even if one of the islands vas to suffer from multi-storey hotels stc., there were always other islands 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Milk Arrowroot biscuits for all-day energy You and your children use up a lot of energy during the day; but Amott’s Milk Arrowroot biscuits will give you the extra nourishment you need to replace it. The triple-wrapped pack keeps the biscuits crisp and fresh at all times .

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. . . because only Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate has a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half-pound. It’s so smooth . . . so creamy. A good reason for always saying C I want Cadbury’s’.

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Our Premier has repeatedly said, even before the South Pacific Commission, that no hotel higher than a coconut tree will be built. It must be a newspaper misquote, because the Premier doesn’t go back on his word. Letter from Walter H.

Hambuechen, editor of “Cook Islands Review”, in the “Cook Islands News”.

HAS anyone tried using hot water to kill ants and cockroaches in thousands? Many of you were told before so try it now. Hunuki killed thousands of ants in his dispensary with hot water. Wani killed thousands of cockroaches inside bores at home with hot water.

Please try this method instead of asking for insecticides which will cost us dollars and dollars to import. Hot water and general cleanliness is the answer.— ltem in “Tohi Tala Niue”.

IT is with sympathy and regret that one reads of the sad event which occurred between Makin and Butaritari costing the lives of two women [who drowned when a canoe overturned]. Can the government do something about this sort of thing?

If the canoes, for instance, have some kind of life-jacket (which wouldn’t take up much space or add any noticeable weight) those poor women would have had a better chance of survival.

Our people will never stop travelling by canoes, hence their lives are virtually always at risk. It’s a bit surprising that seaworthy vessels are obliged to be equipped with lifejackets (which are never used) while our fragile, less reliable, canoes are not. Surely the lives of passengers in both types of vessels are of equal worth. Or would it be better to leave things as they are as another method of checking our population explosion?—Michael Tebano in a letter to the GEIC “Colony Information Notes”.

ONE bag and a little toil equals 30c.—They’re getting into the copra business young in Ovalau these days. Leone Mocelutu, 11, of Tokou village, walked into Morris Hedstrom’s office and asked that his bag of copra be weighed. Shown where to go, he duly arrived back at the office with his chit for payment of the proceeds of the sale.

The chit read: One only paper bag of copra; weight, 5 lb; grade, first; gross proceeds, $0.34, less cess, .04.

The net proceeds: 30 cents in pocket money for young H ■■ Leone.— ltem from “The Bf S Fiji Times ”, Suva. Jf J 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Fully loaded with supplies, she makes more than 10 knots out of Darwir to Gove, Groote Eylandt, Weipa and other project areas to Australia's north —barging in strongly through shoals and shallows to land her carg right on the beach.

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A great bunch of flours.

Robert Hutchinson makes the greatest bunch of flours in the Pacific. Bakers’ flour.

Superlite cake and sponge flours.

Biscuit flour and cracker flour.

Wheaten sharps and wheaten meal.

We’re particularly proud of our bunch of flours. So we have a technical advisory service to help you use them properly.

So next time you see a Robert Hutchinson flour (or even one of our Hutmill stock feeds), remember it’s just one of the bunch. ’ % > .1 Ss 3^ & 4 m ROBERT HUTCHINSON LIMITED the flour people Hartington Street, Glenroy, Victoria, Australia. 3046. Telephone Melbourne 306 7261 9 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Some Of The Firms

WE REPRESENT ARE: A. W. Allens (Confectionery) Sunshine Biscuits Sunrise (Confectionery) Flamenco (Instant Coffee) Cremota (Quaker Oats, Jets Pet Foods) Merchants (Canned Soft Drinks) Lunchtime (Honey) South Pacific Canneries (Scallops, Abalone) Safcol (Canned Tuna, Salmon) Hancock's (Spaghetti, Cereals) Melbourne Canning (Jams, Bleach) Water Wheel (Flour, Sharps, Wheat) General Food Corporation (Twisties, Twirlies) Edward Zorn (Margarine, Cooking Fats) Robert Timms (New Guinea Gold Coffees, Teas) Rodd (Cutlery) Nylon Palm (Mattresses) Esteel (Cookware) Vendolux (Cafe Bars) Mitchell's (Abrasives) Regent (Swiss Watches) Gainsborough (Furniture) Tamco (Melanie Crockery, Hardware) Elmaco (Plastic Household Goods, Electrical Fittings) Brownbuilt (Pre-Fabricated Houses) Ryline (Fluorescent Lights) Jex (Steel Wool) Austramax (Pressure Lamps) Preservene (Soap Products) Charles Tims (School Requisites) Ascow and Philadelphian (Shirts) Lawn Chair and Tubco (Garden Furniture) Sunrise Lustretone (S.S. Sinks, Plumbers' Supplies) Electronic Industries (Electrical Household Appliances) S. E. TATHAM & Co. Pty. Ltd.

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It means that what goes underneath is every bit as important as what's on top. This applies to walls, too.

If the walls are going to peel then the wall paper is going to do a strip as well. Or if they're not waterproof your feature wall could change its features overnight. The answer is to use a wallboard that's really tough: Villaboard.

It’s fire resistant, water resistant and childproof. It won’t warp or buckle or perform a slow peel in front of your friends. But for something so tough, Villaboard is very accommodating. It takes all kinds of surface finishes, even tiles.

So you can use it all over the house if you wan to. It's ideal for ceilings, too. Ask your buildei what’s the next best thing to paint and paper He knows.

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These units are made from moulded fibreglass tough, hygienic, colourful. There are no joints to harbour vermin and cleaning is guick, easy and efficient.

Enguiries welcomed.

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.V * * i 3 > \td !Z3 Zjl At loose ends with your present tape deck?

Meet the Sansui SD-7000.

Until now, owning a decent tape deck meant a willingness to suffer certain inconveniences—broken tapes, excessive slack, stretching and stresses. Not any more.

Sansui, after three years and ten experimental models, has just brought out the all-new SD-7000, a 3-motor 4-head deck that puts special emphasis on tape protection devices, more than you'll find on any comparably priced model you can name.

They include circuits that preclude breaks in going from Fast Forward or Rewind to Stop and then to Play, and which minimize resistance during Fast Forwarding or Rewinding; a Tape Tension switch to prevent tape stretching, a tape speed-governing device, and built-in safeguards against accidental erasing or reversing.

Sansui engineers also devoted special attention to giving the SD-7000 superior tone quality, as reflected in a frequency response of 15 to 25,000 Hz, a better than 60dB S/N ratio and very low distortion.

And ease of operation is ensured through such advanced features as Automatic Rewind, Repeat and Reverse, either by recorded 20Hz signals or by attached sensing strips; convenient push button controls, automatically resetting reel clampers, Stereo/Mono L-fR Recording Mode switch, self-locking Pause switch, tape travel direction lamps, Sleep switch and much more' If your present taping unit has you at loose ends these days, your nearest authorized Sansui dealer will soon be able to show you the SD-7000, the stereo investment with the built-in protection.

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EQUIPMENT CIG CIG supply centres throughout Papua-New LAE: CIG New Guinea Pty Ltd, Phone 2641 PORT MORESBY: CIG New Guinea Pty Ltd, Boroko Phone 5 3870 MADANG: Madang Slipways Pty Ltd, RABAUL: Rabaul Metal Industries Pty Ltd, WEWAK: B & G Motors Pty Ltd, GOROKA: Collins and Leahy Pty Ltd, KAINANTU: Kainantu Trading Co Ltd, KUNDIAWA: Collins & Leahy Pty Ltd, MT. HAGEN: Kala Motors Pty Ltd, Guinea SAMARAI; Belesana Slipways Pty Ltd, BANZ: Kamarl Coffee Plantation LORENGAU: Edged & Whiteley Ltd, KIETA: Breckwoldt & Co (NG) Pty. Ltd, CG2993/69

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D. C. Watkins Limited.

FIJI: Reddy Construction Company Limited.

Narain Construction Company Limited.

RABAUL: Rabaul Metal Industrie Pty. Limited.

LAE: Lae Plumbing Limited.

Watkins (Overseas) LimiteC Port Moresby Telephone 53144 MADANG; Madang Building Supplies.

MT. HAGEN: South Pacific Hardware Distributors.

HONIARA: Tischler Constructions Pty. Limited. 8:P22 17 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Which one is the new Akai M-10?

They all are!

We get carried away every time we turn one on.

Ten years ago we introduced the “Big M“ series.

Since then, thanks to you, these fine stereo tape recorders have sold as fast as they could be produced.

The new M-10 is the finest of the series. Features include AKAI's world famous cross-field head system, 3-speed direct drive capstan hysteresis synchronous motor, separate torque motors and continuous automatic tape reverse.

These coupled with a 40 watt all solid state amplifier, give exceptionally wide frequency response with negligible distortion and extremely low wow and flutter.

The M-10 can be used with its own inbuilt loudspeakers or with your choice of external speakers. Ask to see the AKAI range.

The M-10 is available in either oiled wood or vinyl cabinets.

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Box 12, Honiara, 8.5.1. P. NAURU; Nauru Co-operative Society COOK ISLANDS; N.T. Napa (Avarua) Ltd., Rarotonga TAHITI: Ets. Comimpex., P.O. Box 200, Papeete PAPUA & NEW GUINEA: S.O. Svensson (N.G.) Ltd., P.O. Box 705, Port Moresby TONGA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd., Nuku Alofa 18 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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JULY, 1970—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Up Front with the Editor When Fiji attains dominion status just a few months from now, she will be entitled to some high level representation in overseas capitals. She will be appointing High Commissioners to London and Canberra as a starter, and a representative in the UN, and naturally a number of people would like to get those plum jobs should Ratu Mara and his cabinet decide on them.

After all, the post of Fiji High Commissioner in Canberra (a High Commissioner being equivalent of an Ambassador among Commonwealth countries) could carry considerably more perks than onerous duties.

But it would also cost considerably more to run than does the office of the present Fiji Representative in Australia, who is based in Sydney.

In the past there has been enough belly-aching in Suva at the cost of the modest Sydney office, and the expense of full-scale High Commissions here and elsewhere would surely give both the Fiji Finance Minister and the electors apoplexy.

Despite this, one shouldn’t be unsympathetic to Fiji’s problem.

Diplomatic representation abroad is a problem in the South Seas, and it is going to be faced more and more as the territories “emerge”, as the current phrase has it.

On the one hand it’s natural that they should want to underline their new status by flying their flags abroad; on the other, they know they have to watch costs and be practical, for no South Pacific territory is rich enough to dissipate its budget on empty gestures.

In that regard, the South Pacific has shown more commonsense than some of the African States, with their large and expensive diplomatic representation in London, New York and Washington. But commonsense is an attribute of the South Sea Islander.

Tonga has been criticised, I think rightly, for having established an expensive office in London when it might have been more practical to set up a trade office in Sydney or Auckland first. I hope that now she has joined the “comity of nations” she doesn’t get too exuberant about establishing unproductive overseas representation. King Taufa’ahau has been talking about joining that expensive club, the UN.

The Republic of Nauru, to be sure, now also has an office in London— started in May—but it’s fairly modest, operated by former Government Secretary Q. V. L. Weston, and Nauru set an example of commonsense by establishing not an Embassy in Canberra following independence two years ago, but a business office in Melbourne. The Melbourne office is still the only overseas representation the republic has got, apart from the new London office. There were some pressures on President Deßoburt to establish a diplomatic mission in Canberra, but he wisely considered the expense unnecessary.

Nauru's position Nauru’s Melbourne office has been searching for a new Official Representative for Australia—the last one, Mr. L. J. Lockie, having recently been dismissed. As it probably causes less reaction to dismiss a representative than an Ambassador there are additional advantages in having this style of representation! President Deßoburt has said he doesn’t intend to join the UN, for the time being anyway.

Western Samoa, independent longer than any other South Seas territory, has set a better example still— Samoa has no diplomatic representation of her own anywhere. If she wants anything done at diplomatic level she has the right to use Commonwealth channels just as if she were a member of the Commonwealth—which she hasn’t been up till now. New Zealand has been keeping an eye on things for her. Under the

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Treaty of Friendship with New Zealand she is represented overseas through NZ diplomatic posts, and through British offices where there is no NZ post. She can, however, make overseas diplomatic approaches direct if she chooses.

West Samoa has only two overseas representatives, an honorary consul in Los Angeles, Mr. J. G. Rough, and a trade commissioner in Auckland, Mr. Eddie Stehlin.

West Samoa has been an “as if” member of the British Commonwealth—that is, she has been treated as if she were a member—and former Prime Minister Fiame Mata’afa deserves credit for getting the best of both worlds with this system.

Mata’afa was opposed to Samoa joining the UN, but saw to it that Samoa joined some UN agencies and profited by membership.

Tupua Tamasese Lealofi and his cabinet take a different view, and I should imagine that the system of overseas representation will be changed following Commonwealth membership.

The Cook Islands, being part of New Zealand with her people New Zealand citizens, is in a different situation. Premier Albert Henry would certainly like to see more direct representation in Australia.

He made it clear on his recent first visit to Sydney, in a conversation with me, that Australia had never heard of the Cooks. That direct contact was to be preferred to indirect representation through the New Zealand High Commission. While he was here, Mr. Henry certainly temporarily bridged the gap officially (and, incidentally, with his many public appearances, won a great many Australian friends for the Cooks).

Mr Henryk dilemma Mr. Henry’s dilemma underlines the dilemma of his neighbouring territories: that is if you don’t have direct representation, how can you get your point of view across? And if you do have representation, how much should you spend on it? Should you estimate its worth on what you can get out of it immediately or what you can get long term?

The unhappy fact is that Australia will help the South Pacific Islands only if the Islands remind her constantly they are there. There is money to be got, and in Australia’s case I think there are migration advantages to be won. Diplomatic and/or trade representation will more quickly apply the pressure where it will do most good.

I would like to think there was an opportunity here for the South Pacific OUR COVER When Bruce Adams, whose work often appears in “PlM’s” pages, found this pretty 15year-old Trobriand Islands girl working in food gardens on Kiriwina, she was complete with colourful ornaments. Apparently she and some of her friends had just been taking part in some minor festivities, and, Islandslike, they hadn't troubled to remove the baubles. But it all made a very nice picture. The marks on the pretty islander's cheek and forehead are tattoo marks. Tattooing is still practiced in many parts of Papua. to develop a kind of diplomatic representation suited for her needs. The Islands have already shown that the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy is not necessarily the system suited to the South Seas, so why shouldn’t they also develop their own diplomatic style—one which will have the most effect for the least cost?

Why not indeed? But unfortunately the Vienna Convention laid down by the West, dictates the procedures of diplomatic protocol, and if the Islands want full representation they must follow the accepted procedures, and hope that these will not stifle the Islanders’ reputation for friendly ease and natural dignity.

I am prepared to admit that high level representation in Canberra can achieve results, through contact with representatives of other governments besides the Australian Government.

But I question the Islanders’ need for the type of expensive empire building seen in Canberra, Wellington and London among the High Commissions and Embassies of this world.

One High Commissioner in Canberra, with a couple of typists, plus a big Fijian or two, in sulu and sandals, or a friendly Indian with administrative know-how, based in Sydney or Auckland as supporting troops—could be a more effective diplomatic staff in this corner of the world.

THE “in” route to Europe is via the Gilbert and Ellice Islands— according to Ken McGregor. Ken, aged 25, a valued PIM staff writer since 1966, left us in June to further his journalistic career in Europe. But as he’ll spend a few months in the GEIC en route, writing for us, his byline won’t disappear immediately from our pages.

Stuart Inder Wilke buys into 'PIM ' and 'The Fiji Times ' group THE board of Pacific Publication Pty. Ltd. made the followint statement in Sydney on June 22: By purchasing, for cash, 40 pei: cent of the ordinary shares of Paciff Publications Pty. Ltd., of Sydne: Wilke & Company Ltd. of Me"; bourne, have acquired substantia ownership in the following ole established newspapers, periodical and reference books.

The Fiji Times, the century-oli daily newspaper published in Suva Pacific Islands Monthly, published ii Sydney and circulating chiefly in thi Pacific Islands, as well as in Aus tralia, New Zealand, and Unite* States. Shanti Dut and Nai Lalakai respectively Indian language anc Fijian language weekly newspapers published in Suva.

Ni Bula Mai, a journal publishec regularly for visitors to Fiji.

Power Farming, a monthly tech nical journal circulating in Australij and New Zealand.

Australasian Baker, Australasiai Confectioner, Australasian Footwear Australasian Soft Drink Journal— well-known old-established technica monthly publications, servicing tht Australian and New Zealanc industries indicated.

Fiji Sport, published monthly ii Suva.

Power Farming Technical Annual Pacific Islands Year Book, Hand bool of Papua-New Guinea, Handbook o\ Fiji, and other reference books.

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. wa; registered nearly 40 years ago, tc own and publish Pacific Islandi Monthly, which was established b> Mr. R. W. Robson, in 1930. Aftei World War 11, in 1949, that company purchased Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., whict owned several trade publications, and its printing factory at 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

In 1956, Mr. Robson formed Pacific Publications (Fiji) Ltd., registered in Suva, to wholly own and manage Fiji Times & Herald Ltd., a company which he had purchased from the late Sir Alport Barker.

In a subsequent reorganisation.

Pacific Publication Pty. Ltd. became a holding company, owning all the shares of Pacific Publications (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., and (Continued on p. 127) 20 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Pacific Islands Monthly Vol. 41. No. 7. July 1970.

In This Issue GENERAL New stamp issues 23 Chemicals cause deaths 45 Aerial views of the Pacific 51 -53 Land sales—"political poison" 59 Sydney, 1970 95-98

American Samoa

Pope may visit 24

Cook Islands

Tuna development 105 FIJI Independence preparations 22 Rotuma's future 24 Flag chosen 24 Ban the bomb! 33 Internal Peace Corps .. 43 Training courses for waiters 47 Repair dock 101 Anglican bishop 143

French Polynesia

Tiki returned 29 Ban the bomb protests from Fiji .... 33 Connection with Peru earthquake .... 37 Island for $27,000 42 General strike fizzles 119 Economy's downward turn 119

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Alfred Hicking of the 1880's .... 87 Capt. Ward due back 103 Grants for copra and ferries 120 NAURU History of the phosphate find .... 30, 31

New Caledonia

New school hours .... 42 New and old Noumea 47 Tontouta plans 47 How to lure New Caledonians 50 Steam-engine plaque found 107 New brewery 115 Uproar over nickel quota 116

New Hebrides

The mask makers 54 Slit gongs of Ambrym 55 New Hebrides Airways' anniversary .. 63 Beating Jon Frum cult 141 Pastor goes to New Caledonia 143 NIUE Spoiling Niue's name 35

Norfolk Island

Fire destroys museum 29 Overdevelopment and other faults .. 35 Delegation in Sydney .... 135

Papua-New Guinea

House of Assembly sitting 32 The Warmaram affair 40 Trials of a tooth plucker 43 Education in Australia 43 Constitutional Development Committee 44 Black Power 45 Computer company 49 Ansett wants Patair 65 Shortage of qualified church teachers 69 Headhunters up the Bensbach 79 Book review of "Vunamami" 93 Exports and imports well up 115 Crude oil rights 118 Bougainville copper profits 118 Snails eat snails 135 Compulsory unionism 139 Franciscans move out 139

Pitcairn Island

New stamps 133

Solomon Islands

Election results 25 C. M. Woodford papers 37 Hungry animal life! 43 Descendants in Queensland 44 Help for polio victims 44 Mineral search 117 TONGA Independence celebrations 26 Tonga's first baron 28 Population growth critical 69 Outside investment invited 112 View of education 131

U.S. Trust Territory

Political future 30 Micronesians in US 37 Ownership of land 39 Nerve gas stores 40 Mill interested in cruises 101

Western Samoa

To join the Commonwealth 25 Huge hotel venture 59 DEPARTMENTS: From the Islands Press, 3; Up Front with the Editor, 19; Editor s Mailbag, 35; Inside New Guinea, with John Ryan, 40; Tropicalities, 42; Footnotes, with Percy Chatterton, 48; Magazine Section, 79; Yesterday/ 91- Book Reviews, 93; People, 99; Shipping, 101; Cruising Yachts, 110; Business and Development, 112; Produce Prices, 121; Shipping and Airways Schedules, 123; Deaths, 128; Classified Advertisements, 130.

Pacific Islands Monthly A colony in search of a dominionsized pot of gold From a Suva correspondent The colony of Fiji is involved to the hilt with the paraphernalia of independence. There is sc much to be done before the new flag goes up on October 10 and Fiji becomes a Commonwealth dominion.

Part of the independence celebrations will be an ecumenical service in which all religions will take part.

This is just one of the ideas being worked out by a committee set up to plan the events.

The committee also has to fix such problems as accommodating all the official guests from overseas and providing transport for them.

The committee has decided that the precedent followed by most excolonies in hoisting their flags at midnight will not be followed by Fiji.

Prince Charles?

Instead, the flag will be broken some time during October 10, but the actual time has still to be decided.

The general form of the celebration is also incomplete and will remain so until the identity of the Queen’s representative—everyone is expecting Prince Charles—is known.

However the committee has recommended that they should be spread over three days, October 10 to 12, with the main ceremony at Suva.

Fiji Government Ministers have been returning individually from the London constitutional conference, some of them holding out prospects of millions of dollars worth of new investment of loan finance for Fiji in the early stages of independence.

The Governor, Sir Robert Foster, announced that Fiji’s next five-year development plan, to be launched next year, is aimed at a 6 per cent, increase in the national income.

And Sir Robert added that “measures are being taken” to ensure that a viable and efficient solution is found to the problems of the sugar industry. An expert adviser is expected soon from Britain.

Sir Robert, in the Legislative Council, outlined the Alliance Govemment’s plans for the next 12 months.

His address, the equivalent of the opening of parliament in Westminster by the Queen, was historic, because Sir Robert is the last in a long line of colonial Governors to make a once-a-year call on the Legislative Council to deliver a review of the past year and a preview of the next one. Next year the speech will be given by a Governor-General (who will probably be Sir Robert).

His speech disclosed the government’s intention to establish a national marketing authority and to press on with the rapid expansion of agriculture, fisheries, forestry, industry and tourism.

Tourism was expected to gross $32 million this year and by the end of 1971, 700 extra hotel bedrooms would have been built at a cost of $7 million.

Consultants would be hired to draft a master development plan for tourism, work on the $5 million expansion of Nadi Airport would start this year and a master plan for the development of Nausori Airport to handle jets would be prepared.

New industries New industries in prospect included leather-tanning, shipbuilding, fruit and vegetable processing and a jute bag manufacturing plant, and to aid exports taxes on them would be lifted.

Legislation to facilitate oil exploration would be enacted, and the government would expand teacher Under the new plans for a viable economy after independence the industrial section of Suva, shown in this aerial photo by A. G. Shearer, will have even more significance. For other bird's eye pictures by Captain Shearer of Pacific reference points see pages 51-53. 22 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

training and begin the design of a school curriculum based on Fiji, instead of New Zealand and English examinations.

After Sir Robert’s speech, the legislature started a two-day debate on a motion asking Britain to establish Fiji as an independent sovereign State on October 10 this year.

The resolution, moved by the Chief Minister, Ratau Sir Kamisese Mara, and seconded by Opposition Leader Mr. S. K. Koya, also asked Britain to support Fiji’s application for Commonwealth membership.

Approved unanimously, it sealed the report of the conference at Marlborough House, London, in May, at which terms for a new constitution and independence were worked out by all members of the legislature in negotiation with Lord Shepherd, British Minister for Commonwealth and Foreign Affairs.

New investment Returned from the constitutional talks, Minister for Commerce, Industry and Co-operatives, Mr. Vijay R. Singh, reported (outside the council) that in New York he had met officials of the Chase Manhattan Bank, which was interested in putting over $1 million into the manufacture of desiccated coconut in Fiji.

Another US trading corporation would take the product on a 15-year contract basis.

Mr. Singh said a Chicago group of investors was contemplating the start of a manufacturing business which would involve investment of several million dollars.

If this came to fruition, it would be the biggest industry in Fiji outside of sugar, Mr. Singh said.

He added that the United Nations Industry Development Organisation in Vienna would send a mission to discuss the setting up of a rum manufacturing plant, and another factory using sugar by-products for a process which, for the time being, he did not want to specify.

Finance Minister Mr. Wesley Barrett, arrived from London, New York and Washington to report that a multi-million dollar loan from the World Bank to finance the reconstruction of the 150-mile-long road between Suva and Nadi Airport should be arranged by the end of the year. He had been told that the loan was conditional on Fiji becoming a member of the International Monetary Fund.

Membership of the IMF would put a “stamp of approval on Fiji currency, an important factor in gaining the confidence of other potential loan sources”, Mr. Barrett added.

His talks with Bank of England officials concerning Fiji’s currency system would probably lead to the creation of a Reserve Bank. Future financial policy would definitely not include restrictions on repatriation of profits or capital by overseas investors.

Such restrictions would only frighten investors off, and the country needed all the overseas investment it could get.

Mr. Barrett said the Crown Agents in London had advised that $2O million Fiji had invested abroad in long-term loans should stay where it was.

Work on the $5 million extension of Nadi Airport to enable it to cope efficiently with 350-passenger Boeing 747’s and supersonic Concorde airliners might be brought forward by several months, reported Mr. Charles Stinson, Minister for Communications, Works and Tourism.

Britain, Australia and New Zealand have agreed in principle to pay for the work and Mr. Stinson said his talks with British and Australian officials on the subject had been “most satisfactory”.

In London, a firm of road consultants engaged by the Fiji Government told Mr. Stinson that it should be possible to invite tenders for the Suva-Nadi road project in October.

In India, Mr. Stinson learnt that the big Tata industrial group of companies wanted to invest in Fiji’s hotel industry after a recent visit to Suva by the group’s chairman, Mr.

J. R. Tata.

Back from London, via Rome, Kenya and Mauritius, Minister for Aircraft of the islands Western Samoa has just begun its first internal air service—from Apia to Asau and has issued a set of four definitive stamps featuring aviation.

Papua-New Guinea at the same time has issued a set of six stamps showing aircraft which have played an important part in P-NG development. Samoa's stamps are: 3 sene. Sir Gordon Taylor's Bermuda flying boat, "Frigate Bird III", a regular visitor to Samoa in the 1950'5, now flying in French Polynesia; 7 sene, Polynesian Airlines Ltd's DC 3 at Apia; 30 sene. Air Samoa's Britten- Norman Islander; 20 sene, PanAm "Samoan Clipper", the four-engined flying boat which flew the first mails from the US to Samoa. The P-NG set, all 5 cents, DC 68, TAA, with Mt. Wilhelm in background; Boeing 727, TAA, with Mt!

Giluwe in the background; Electra, Ansett-ANA, with Mt. Yule in background; Fokker Friendship, Ansett-ANA, with Manam Island in background; 25 cents, DC 3, Qantas, with Matupi volcano in background; and 30 cents, Boeing 707, Qantas, with Hombrom's Bluff, near Port Moresby. 23 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Natural Resources, Mr. Douglas Brown, was hopeful mainly for United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation aid.

This might cover a skipjack tuna fishing project, a school running short-term courses on farm mechanics, help in fighting banana diseases and in developing livestock raising, and a programme involving the mixing of intensive dairy farming with rice culture.

Another set of statements relevant to the future after independence comes from the Fiji Public Service Commission, in its 1969 report. It describes some 60 “shortcomings” in the administration of Fiji civil service staff affairs.

It said the cases it picked on were not mentioned in any spirit of “carping criticism.” It just hoped that departmental heads would be more thoughtful when recording the qualities, or lack of them, of their subordinates, and that they would remember to check back on personal files in recommending the advance or otherwise of those treading Suva’s corridors of power.

For instance, one department head had said of a junior in February, “an excellent year’s work”, and five months later had condemned the same bright young man as “not qualified for promotion.” Another junior’s record was described as “very poor” by one superior, but in “glowing” terms by two other superiors.

Several department heads had given their juniors top marks in respect of all 13 questions relating to the qualities under assessment.

“While there may conceivably be such paragons of virtue, they are very rare indeed” the commission says drily. “Such markings are unlikely, to say the least, to be the product of a seriously considered judgment”.

The commission describes the localisation of the civil service as proceeding at “surging speed”. While the number of short-term expatriate officials, around 430, had not changed much, the number of permanent expatriates had dropped from 235 in 1962 to 128 at the end of 1969.

The proportion of overseas officials in the service as a whole had in the same period dropped from 9.1 to 5.4 per cent.

Britain's new office “There should now be little doubt about the degree of localisation which has taken place in the civil service,” the commission says.

“Whether the speed with which it has taken, or is taking place is adequate is open to some argument; some think it should be faster while others think that it should be slower; yet others think that it is proceeding at about the right pace.”

Britain has taken over a former Suva night club for its future High Commission office in Fiji.

The UK Government will pay rent of $F8,500 a year to the Suva City Council for the lease of the premises, in Suva’s “Opera House”, the new town hall.

The mayor, Councillor L. G. Usher, said although there was no firm commitment, there was a chance of Britain helping to finance the cost of building the third stage of the city’s civic centre project, including offices which the commission would use.

The Deputy High Commissioner designate, Mr. J. R. W. Parker, has already arrived in Suva and until independence, is acting as an adviser to the Governor, Sir Robert Foster, from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Mr. Parker, formerly holder of the post in Nigeria and most recently an assistant head in the defence department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, said the commission would have a diplomatic staff of about four.

The High Commissioner had not yet been named, but New Zealand’s High Commissioner has been. Sir John Te Herekieki Grace, associated with the Maori Affairs Department, will move into what will be New Zealand’s first diplomatic commission in Fiji of any kind.

The opening of the commission will occur about October and it will operate in conjunction with the New Zealand Pacific Island Trade Commissioners office, which will be moved from Auckland to Suva.

Pope May Visit

The Samoas

The Pope may visit Western and American Samoa during his visit to Australia in November. This surprise development occurred as the result of a visit by the Secretary to the Pope, Bishop Paul C. Marginkus, and his assistant, Monsignor Easquale Macchi, to the two territories in June.

The purpose of their visit was to find possible places for the Pope to visit on his trip and generally prepare his way. The informal visit took in a look at colleges and plantations at Moamoa in Western Samoa and a trip to Leone in American Samoa.

At Leone, after ceremonies, the two visitors were told by Chief Tuiteleleapaga Napoleone, that the Pope was most welcome in the Samoas.

The Rotumans aren't happy The 4,000 people of Rotuma don’t want to be a “mere colony” of Fiji after Fiji’s independence in October—they want some autonomy of their own as a federal part of the new nation. A petition to this effect has been presented to the Governor of Fiji, Sir Robert Foster, from the chiefs of Rotuma.

Rotuma, 300 miles north-west of the Fiji group, whose population have a Polynesian background, was ceded to Britain in 1881 and is a dependency of Fiji Under the new Fiji Constitution, Rotumans get a seat in the Senate but have no specific guarantee for a House of Representatives’ seat. They are not happy about this. The petition asks that federal status, as “part of the new independent nation consisting of Fiji and Rotuma” be guaranteed, and that there be provision for a seat in the lower house.

The petition said this was necessary “in order to protect and perpetuate our identity, our birthright, customs and traditions”.

Fiji Chooses

ITS FLAG Fiji has chosen its new flag.

It will have an air-force blue field with a Union Jack in the top left hand corner and the Fiji coat-of-arms in the fly.

The $lOO prize (there were 410 designs for the flag) was shared by commercial artist, Mr. Robi Wilcock and housewife, Mrs. Murray Mackenzie, both of whom submitted the same design.

There will also be a special flag for the Governor-General.

It will probably be dark blue with the crest of a crown and a lion over it and the word “Fiji” below. This is understood to be the standard design in the Commonwealth. 24 JULY, 1970—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

In The Solomons It Was

Vote 1, 'Slim' Dusty

Prom a Honiara correspondent The bus company put on a special service to the airfield and the road into Honiara was lined with people eagerly waiting for his car to pass by. If it were not for the absence of Union Jacks one might have thought it was a royal visit, but instead it was a visit by that hero of the Solomons, “Slim” Dusty, an Australian country and western singer.

Slim’s appearance in the Solomons was part of the Solomon Islands’ community centre appeal. Slim, who made no charge for his performances appeared before enthusiastic audiences at Honiara, Yandina and Auki.

If Slim had stood for the new BSIP Governing Council, without a shadow of a doubt he would have got in with a landslide vote. The excitement shown during his visit in the weekend he was here, completely overshadowed any feelings for the elections in Honiara on the following Tuesday.

Although the three candidates for Honiara held an occasional public meeting, there was little to show that an election was forthcoming. The three candidates were Peter Kenilorea, a teacher at King George VI school and originally from Malaita, Peter Salaka from the Shortlands and vice-president of the town council, and Peter Smith who has been in the Solomons some 24 years, and who retired from the post of Accountant- General last year.

Peter Kenilorea had the support of his school “old boys”, and much of the European community, but not of the Chinese community,, who feared that he would be too nationalist. He seemed the least vigorous of the candidates in campaigning.

Peter Salaka, who campaigned vigorously, had the support of the large community of workers from Malaita, and some Chinese and Europeans.

Peter Smith discounted the European voters and lost the support of the Chinese, who thought that he would not protect them from any nationalist move. With placards around the town saying “Vote for Salaka, your colour” or “vote for your own colour” it was clear that the day of the European representative was over.

It was Peter Salaka who won overwhelmingly, 874 votes to Kenilorea, 327, and Smith, 308.

Two other well-known personalities were elected: Mr. Mariano Kelesi (North East Malaita), a member of the old Legislative Council (he was first elected in 1961, and is a former President of Malaita Council) and Archdeacon Peter Thompson (North Central Malaita). Archdeacon Thompson was first elected to the Legislative Council in 1967 and has held several positions within the Diocese of Melanesia.

Other results: South Guadalcanal, Mr. George Pugeya; Choiseul/Shortlands, Mr. Remisio Joseph Eresi; North Malaita, Dr. Clement Ofai; West Guadalcanal, Mr. Alfred Maeke; East Guadalcanal, Mr. Leone Laku; Vella Lavella/Kolombangara, Mr. Gordon Siama; Makira, Mr.

Solomon Mamaloni; Eastern Outer Islands, Dr. David Dawea; Gela/ Savo/Russells, Father Edmund Kiva.

Results to come are from Santa Isabel, Central Malaita, South Malaita, New Georgia and South Central Malaita.

The date of the first meeting of the Governing Council has yet to be announced, but there will be interest in it, because for the first time elected members will outnumber official members, 17 to nine.

It’s a new South Pacific experiment in a system other than the Westminster system (PIM, Feb,, p. 25, and June, p. 26).

Samoa joins the Commonwealth From an Apia correspondent The independent state of Western Samoa is to join the British Commonwealth. Western Samoa’s new prime minister, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi, in announcing this in Apia in June, said support of cabinet for the decision was unanimous.

He commented, “Our country has enjoyed many of the benefits of Commonwealth membership on an ‘as if basis in past years, and it is not fitting that we should continue to enjoy these benefits without committing ourselves to full membership”.

Cabinet’s decision has passed without a ripple in Apia.

Samoa has been independent for eight years and as the Prime Minister says, she has had all the advantages membership entails.

She has received considerable educational assistance under Commonwealth auspices with teachers coming from UK, Australia and Canada (apart from the special arrangements with NZ) and has had a number of Commonwealth scholarships offered.

In addition a tree crops specialist has been made available under the Overseas Development Ministry of the UK.

Parliamentarians have had particularly close relationships with the Commonwealth, Samoa is a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and sends a delegate to the annual meetings of the association. Parliamentary procedure is modelled on Westminster.

The move to join the Commonwealth is merely aimed at formalising a relationship that Samoa has enjoyed informally for the past eight years. The delay in making formal application is attributed to the cautious conservatism that has typified the attitude of Samoan leaders to all major questions since independence. » -i, UThe main result of l . he acti on,” said one top Samoan official, will be to remove any possible doubts in the minds of other Commonwealth members as to the sincerity of Samoa’s attitude towards the Commonwealth. It will make little or no difference to Samoa.”

Parliament has not yet met since the elections earlier this year, but there soon will be a meeting to pass the supplementary estimates.

The delay in calling parliament together has probably been a wise m °ve K the new Prime Minister and his Cabinet because it has enabled the people to accept the change in the leaders, and if, anything, support for Lealofi is stronger. 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L T J U L Y . 1870

Gargantuan Is The Word For

Tonga'S Latest Celebration

From 7 FUTA HELU, in Nukualofa Scouts of distant rain pitched their cloud-tents on the eastern horizon during the early hours of June 4, but a cool and moderately strong breeze wafted them over to the western ocean and left one excited nation to celebrate its independence in peace and fine weather.

It was the first of four days, crammed full with ceremonies, feasting, dancing, in which the King of Tonga, Taufa’ahau Tupou IV, and his people, celebrated Tonga’s independence and joining with the Commonwealth.

The four days and nights were blessed with fine warm weather and clear skies such as had never been known in any previous katoanga (celebration) of such prolonged duration.

Cnmmred to thp nrevinm katoanea everything at the independence celebrations was planned on gargantuan dimensions. The element of time was also sometimes waived m true Tongan style.

There were other minor differences, The quality, number, and beauty of archways appreciably fell, primarily because the two katoangas were too close to each other, with the undesirable result that schoolchildren, who are always responsible for these things, were still smarting from finger bruises received through not hitting the nail on the head during archway construction on the royal visit.

Celebrations opened with a flag raising ceremony at Mala’e Pangai, a large rectangular green, lined at the sides with great pine trees, adjoining the royal palace. After the flag was raised to the masthead there was a 21 gun salute from the shore battery and HMS Whitby, King Taufa’ahau inspected the Royal Guards and ToSga Defence Fork Then the Secretary to Government Mr. I. Faletau, read the official communication of the two governments — Britain and Tonga — during of negotiations that led to in ep n .

R was , evident from these that the negotiations were earned out in a spirit of complete goodwill and that Britain played a major part in initiating the independence.

The king in delivering the official address of the day, stressed the significance of three years—lB62 (the year in which George Tupou I emancipated the people from serfdorn), 1875, granting of the present constitution, and 1970.

The king observed that different nations acquire independence through different processes. In Britain, liberty wa s an outcome of parliamentary action, whereas in Tonga it was the re\erse that took place. Tupou I without pressure from any quarter had liberated the people in 1862 and tadl grown both conshtu- The “ n P ko told his people that tfa word indeP endence did not do just f ce £ fhis histor i c occasion . J t u at tprm re ferred to a created Sonthathadkst freed itself from external control. anc j WO uld have to choose a head of state, new flag, and national anthem, Tonga was merely reverting to her former status, which she had to forgo temporarily because of some international political emergency.

King Taufa'ahau, in the uniform of Commander-in-Chief, inspects a Tonga Defence Force guard of honour during the celebrations in Nukualofa.-Photo: "Fiji Times".

Memories of one man, George Tupoul The king pointed out that although Tonga was in a way a member of the Commonwealth (represented by Britain) it was now a voting member, and this would make all the difference.

The next ceremony was laid out at Mala’ekula, the royal tombs, situated right in the middle of the town. At one time, the royal cemetery was on ’Uiha in the Ha’apai Group, but due to the foresight of the Rev.

S. Baker, Tonga’s second Premier, last century, new royal tombs were erected at Nukualofa. It would have been somewhat inconvenient if Baker’s vision had not been realised.

Wreaths were laid at the tombs and the memory of one man was on everybody’s mind—George Tupou I.

The Tupou dynasty has had a long and arduous history and Tonga’s history is the history of its three distinct kingly lines.

The first period may be called the “ ’Uvean Age”. Its principal feature was intensive artistic activity, for it was during this period that the distinctively Polynesian musical and dance forms were introduced to Tonga.

Hawaiian Age The second period is the “Hawaiian (or Lo’au) Age”. The presence on Tongan soil of two people—the ’Uveans and the Hawaiians who came later—became progressively problematic, but a brilliant solution was reached when the king of one line took the princess of the other to wife. The result of this marriage was Tu’itatui—who united in his sacred person the two lines of kings.

But in doing so he put an end to the benign ‘Uvean civilisation and initiated the second great age of Tongan history—the Hawaiian or Lo’au Age.

This period saw tribal strife and the introduction of the art of warfare to a level which had never been attained before or after in the whole of Polynesia and Melanesia.

It enabled the Tonga kings to institute a great age of conquests and imperialism. This characteristic of the Hawaiian Age—the elevation of war and its extensive use as an indispensable organ of progress, points to a probable link between the Lo’au people of ’Eua and ’Eueiki (The Tongan Hawaiki), and the Maoris of New Zealand. In fact a very strong case can be made out for ‘Eua and ’Eueiki as the last ‘refuelling station’ of the Maoris before settling down in Tiritiri-o-te-Moana.

This chapter of Tongan history closed at the advent of the greatest warrior the Tongan people has ever produced—George Tupou I, who invaded Tonga in a series of victories and battles resulting in the unification of Tonga. He is to the modern age what Tu’itatui is to the Hawaiian Age.

Tupou's era was the third great period of Tonga’s history—the “Christian Period”. It did not mark the coming of a new people. But in it Tupou I set the wheels of the new civilisation rolling. It was mainly to the memory of this great and heroic man that the Mala’ekula ceremony was conducted.

Cheering children After the ceremony, cheering and shouting school children marched down the main street of the town, and around the palace.

In the afternoon, lakalaka and ma’ulu’ulu dances were presented at the palace. One lakalaka performed by the people of ’Eua Is was a representation in ballet of the rounding up and catching of wild horses which were plentiful in Tonga 50 years ago.

In the evening, a grand concert was held at Pangai. Local talent was a feature including ’Sioni ’Aleki the boy with the magic ukulele, who earlier this year enthralled Sydney crowds at the Captain Cook bicentenary. Featured also were some very ancient Polynesian dances, which can be monotonous but very, very graceful. Unlike the European ballet, the taste and sensibility embodied by these dances lean more to the sedate rather than the athletic.

These ancient dances are Asiatic in origin—akin to the legong and the Bharata Natyam —are based on different principles from the Western ballet and also embody a profounder aesthetic sense.

And while the concert was proceeding, torches were blazing away along the shore of Nukualofa in a Tupakapakanava ceremony, another contribution of the school children of Tongatapu. It was a magnificent spectacle but had to be viewed from a distance because of the heat.

The next day’s royal banquet was perhaps the most lavish ever given in the kingdom. Some 4,000 sucking pigs and the same number of chickens were on the menu. The king thanked Britain for her friendship to Tonga and Sir Arthur Galsworthy, the UK High Commissioner for Tonga, replied. Messages of goodwill were read from the heads of England, the US, Russia. Australia, the Vatican, Holland, India, West Germany, New Zealand, Korea, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Taiwan and Malta. The banquet finished with a ma’lu’ulu, a sitting pantomime, by the girls of Queen Salote College.

The full day wound up with a State Ball, and the next day was devoted to sports. The Fijians ex- • After the pomp and ceremony, came the feasting! This group has already become mightily involved in Nukualofa.-Photo: August Hettig. 27 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

celled in the athletics section witlw Fijian girl L. Tuiquinu beating the; “golden-footed”, Keta longi, in the; 100 metres.

On Sunday, services were heldl throughout Tonga and at the Methodist Centenary Church, the; Rev. S. A. Havea, preached before: a huge congregation including the; Tongan royalty and overseas guests..

Dr. Havea, secretary-general of the; Methodist Conference, the only' Tongan to have acquired a doctorate; in divinity, compared the similarity l in the development of three nations— the Israelites, Great Britain andl Tonga.

They had all, he said embraced the tradition of devotion to God. They were unified races, freedom-loving; people and all possessed of a vision for the future.

He ended his sermon with an exhortation to historians to give the title of Tupou the Great to the creator of Tonga as a nation. Whatever students of history may say of Dr. Havea’s views, it was a fitting climax to four days of celebrations.

And now what?

The celebrations over, attitudes of people towards independence are still as varied as there are social types.

Some describe the move as the result of ignorance and miscalculation, and some praise it as far-sighted and timely.

Among the large number of VlP’s at the celebrations was Prince William of Gloucester, representing Queen Elizabeth. Islands leaders included Hammer Deßoburt, President of Nauru; Tupua Tamasese Lealofi, Prime Minister of Western Samoa; Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Chief Minister of Fiji; Mr. Albert Henry, Premier of the Cook Islands; Afoafouvale Misimoa, Secretary-General of the SPC; Reuben Uatioa, Chief Elected Member, GEIC.

Sir Arthur Galsworthy, UK High Commissioner in New Zealand, became non-resident UK High Commissioner in Tonga on June 4. Mr.

A. C. Reid, British Commissioner and Consul in Tonga since 1965, became Deputy High Commissioner, resident in Tonga.

The New Zealand High Commissioner in Western Samoa, Mr.

R. B. Taylor, will become NZ’s first High Commissioner in Tonga, and will live in Apia. • Tonga's development plan, p. 112. Education, p. 131.

Tonga gets its first baron From a special correspondent Tonga’s High Commissioner in London, the Hon. Vaea, has been elevated to the rank of baron and will be known henceforth as Baron Vaea of Houma (a village of Tongatapu).

The new title, which has been created by King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga, is one of the first innovations to follow Tonga’s attainment of full independence from Britain.

Tonga severed its last protective links with Britain on June 4, and it was from that day that Baron Vaea’s new title took effect.

A three-sentence announcement about the barony in the Tonga Chronicle of June 12 stated simply that the title was to Baron Vaea personally and would not be passed on to his heirs.

The title honours a man who has done much for Tonga and is highly popular in the kingdom.

However, no reason was given to Chronicle readers for the creation of the new title; nor was it explained that this was the first change in the nature of Tonga’s unique nobility (in the context of the South Seas) for nearly half a century.

The Tongan nobility dates back to 1875 when King George Tupou I gave his people their first Constitution. Originally, there were 20 nobles or nopele —nine for Tongatapu, five for Ha’apai, four for Vava’u, one for Niuafo’ou and one for Niuatoputapu. However, the numbers were augmented in 1880, 1894, 1903 and 1921, and the total is now 33.

The titles of nobility were conferred on the chiefs of the kingdom’s three royal lines, but most of the nobles, are, in fact, descended from the first Tui Kanokupolu, a temporal king, who is estimated to have lived in the early 17th century.

The titles are hereditary and are now regulated according to the principles of primogeniture.

The nobility is a privileged aristocracy, which has extraordinary power in the economic and social life of the kingdom through its possession of vast estates which are handed down with each title.

The nobles lease their land to the commoners, who, by custom, are obliged to render “the first fruits of the soil” to their landlords, and in other ways are subservient to them.

Some critics have claimed that the system of land tenure has greatly retarded Tonga’s agricultural development; that it tends to create a servile peasantry which is subject to the personal whims of the landlords; and that it can produce lethargy and lack of initiative among the nobles.

It is, perhaps, to give the nobles some new status to strive for that Tonga’s king has now created the rank of baron, and has bestowed the title on one of his most outstanding nobles. Another very probable reason is that the king wishes to provide his High Commissioner in London with a title commensurate with his traditional ranking in Tonga.

Baron Vaea, who is 49, has had a distinguished career. He was educated at Wesley College, Auckland; served as a pilot in the RNZAF during the war; worked in various Tongan Government departments from then until 1953; and then became aide to Queen Salote.

In 1959, he was appointed Governor of Ha’apai, and subsequently he acted as Minister of Lands and Minister of Police.

He took up his post of commissioner and consul in London, as the position was called before recent independence, in September last year. He’s pictured above. 28 JULY, 1070 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

An Islands' Treasure

COMES HOME...

Prom a Papeete correspondent A party of American scientists, who carried off an ancient wooden tiki from the island of Uahuka in the Marquesas in March, were obliged to return the object to the Governor of French Polynesia in June following an outcry in the Tahiti Press over the tiki’s disappearance.

The scientists, who were from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, included the museum’s director, Dr. Gardner Stout, and Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, head of the museum’s department of anthropology.

The scientists visited Uahuka on board the 165 ft motor yacht Aletta 11, owned by a US newspaper publisher, Mr. Ralph Ingersoll, in the course of an extensive tour of French Polynesia.

While at Uahuka, the scientists discovered four badly-weathered “carved wooden posts” in the Hananai Valley, one of which was considered ‘“intact enough to warrant professional restoration and continued study”.

"Neglected"

The tikis were completely neglected by the local people, so the scientists, with Mr. Ingersoll’s approval, decided to take the best-preserved one with them in the interests of science.

Subsequently, in Tahiti, Mr.

Ingersoll announced the discovery of the tikis to the English-language Papeete Bulletin, a daily give-away paper for tourists, without the subject raising any particular stir.

Some time after the Aletta 11 left French Polynesia, the local French Press reported that the tiki had been “stolen” from Uahuka, and Le Journal de Tahiti quoted a Tahitian sailor from the Aletta as saying that he had seen the scientists take the tiki aboard their ship. Le Journal said the tiki had been carved before the arrival of the European explorers and was “of very great value”.

In mid-May, the director in Tahiti of the French scientific organisation ORSTOM wired Dr. Stout asking that the tiki be returned. Dr. Stout replied with a letter to the French Governor, Mr. Pierre Angeli, explaining why the tiki had been removed.

Mr. Angeli’s answer to this was that an ancient Polynesian object of art had been removed from its site without authorisation; that this was completely illegal; that if the tiki needed to be restored there were French experts who could do this just as well as Americans; and that if the American scientists wished to avoid legal action, they should return the tiki by air promptly.

The tiki, which is nearly 7 ft high, arrived in Tahiti in a wooden crate by air from Honolulu on June 8 and was taken for the time being to the Governor’s residence.

A day or two later the local French newspapers received a letter from Mr. Ingersoll in which he accused them of inventing sensations over the Uahuka affair, and in which he taxed local journalists, government officials and scientists with hypocrisy on the question of the territory’s cultural artifacts.

Mr. Ingersoll said that in island after island from the Tuamotus to the Marquesas and all the way to Rapa, he had been shocked by the “flagrant negligence” of the inhabitants towards their historic treasures.

Maraes were abandoned and covered with vegetation; carved wooden tikis had been overturned and were lying half-buried and abandoned.

The famous fortress at Rapa had never been properly explored.

Mr. Ingersoll said that if the newspapers wanted sensations, they should try to awaken the people to the value of these things.

In replying to Mr. Ingersoll’s attack, Le Journal de Tahiti wondered what the American newspapers would have said “if we had acted the same way in America towards the Indian tombs, for example”.

Le Journal added: “You have, however, reason to deplore that abandonment which causes us to lose our relics, and we expect that after this recent adventure our authorities will be a little more solicitous about our maraes and tikis”.

...But This One

HAS GONE FOREVER The equivalent of London Bridge burning down on Norfolk Island would be a fire at the convict era public library, containing also a newly completed museum and broad casting studio.

And that’s exactly what happened early in the morning of May 27.

When Islanders awoke on May 27 they found only four blackened walls and a caved-in roof for their public library. Within lay the remains of the public library’s books, newly bought broadcasting equipment, police office records and the museum.

Luckily most of the exhibits destined for the museum had been placed in the prison cells for safety while the museum was renovated.

The Sirius and Bounty canons were also safe.

The museum had in it at the time, a shell collection valued at $2,000 and a relief plaster map of the island made in 1956. A room downstairs used by the Norfolk Historical Society, containing a restored convict table and a handsome wooden lectern, was also badly damaged.

An iron hand crank from the old mill and a hand drawn plough of the convict period survived the flames.

Rumour had it that a lighted cigarette end might have started the fire. However on June 16, at an inquest into the fire evidence was The gutted museum and broadcasting studio. 29 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1070

taken from 14 people. The results of the inquest are not yet known.

But the historic building will never be the same again, even though fate spared the main part of the historic relics it was meant to house.

Built in 1836, the building was originally the officers’ mess for the regiments stationed on the island in the convict era. In later years it served as the liquor bond store and the residence of the Official Secretary. Now it is a burnt out shell.

It’s expected that a substantial grant will be forthcoming from the Commonwealth Government to rebuild the library. But it will never be the same again. An appeal for funds within the island has already met with much support and the energetic Norfolk Islander has already set October 10, 1974, as a date for completion, the bi-centenary of Captain Cook’s discovery of the island.

A boost for the fund came from the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Paul Hasluck, and Lady Hasluck, who visited Norfolk on June 7 to celebrate Bounty Day, the day when 194 Pitcairners landed on the island from the Morayshire in 1856. They offered the islanders their sympathy and left a personal cheque for $lOO.

They were to have officially opened the new museum.

Sir Paul Hasluck, as Minister for Territories, had done much to help conserve Norfolk Island’s historic buildings. • Brigadier N. A. M. Nicholls, has been appointed Commissioner of Police, Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary. He succeeds Mr. R. W.

Whitrod who resigned earlier this year and takes his appointment on August 14.

DEBATE ON MICRONESIA The Congress of Micronesia in late July is expected to receive and debate the report of Micronesia’s Political Status Delegation. The report, contents of which have not yet been disclosed, follows talks between the delegates and members of the executive branch of the US Government in May.

Previously, the Micronesians have pushed for a separate political identity, with some ties to the US, and it is not expected the report will change this attitude.

End of a Nauruan era The control of Nauru’s economy—its phosphate industry— finally passed into the republic’s hands on June 30 for the first time since the phosphate was discovered on the island in 1900.

The end of an era was marked at a brief ceremony that day at the Melbourne office of the British Phosphate Commissioners, and afterwards at a news conference called by Nauru’s president, Hammer De- Roburt.

It was the opportunity for the President to comment on the past and make predictions for the future.

Nauru’s phosphate was discovered as a result of a chance inspection of a lump of “fossilised wood” used as a doorstop. [For new light on that historic incident, see the panel on the opposite page.] Today Nauru produces two million tons of phosphate a year, and President Deßoburt estimated at his news conference that at the present rate of extraction the phosphate will be exhausted in about 20 years. In the meantime Nauru had given priority to establishing alternative source of income for the 3,000 Nauruans.

He said shipping was the republic’s first venture. The 6,000-ton Eigamoiya, named after a Nauruan queen of the old days, was now “profitably employed” on the Australia-New Guinea route carrying cargo. The Rosie D., formerly the bulk phosphate carrier Triaster, was now in service between Melbourne and Nauru, and the recently purchased 9,335 ton Princess Margriet, renamed Emma G., after the wife of a former Head Chief, the late Raymond Gadabu, would go into service later this year between Australia and South Pacific ports. She carries 100 passengers.

The President said there were good possibilities of a fishing industry being established on Nauru, if a port could be created. The Japanese Mitsubishi company was interested in the fishing scheme, which needed further investigation.

He said Nauru could not afford to become a tourist centre, but it could benefit as a transit house for tourists, and a plan for an international airport, to be built over the workedout phosphate pinnacles, was high on the government’s list. Several Australian enterprises had tendered for the lease of the partly built hotel, left after the football scheme collapsed. The airport could also act as a watershed and reservoirs would be built. Water would still have to be imported during dry periods.

But the main income for Nauru after the phosphate deposits were worked out, said President Deßoburt, would be from investment dividends.

While declining to give an exact figure, he said that “millions of dollars” were invested in Australia.

The return would maintain the island’s income at its present rate.

President Deßoburt said Nauru will have repaid within seven years the loan it required to purchase for cash the plant and facilities of the BPC. BPC would continue to sell most of the phosphate, as before.

He could foresee future difficulties in the marketing of phosphate, but the Nauruans “could meet the challenge”.

This is worked-out phosphate. One-third of Nauru looks like this. 30 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

AS THE BPC LEAVES NAURU . . .

... An Historic Letter

Comes To Light

By Robert Langdon

A letter written 71 years ago, but which has only just come to light, has revealed for the first time the full story of how Nauru’s immensely valuable phosphate deposits were found.

The letter was written by H.

E. Denson, the manager in Sydney of the Pacific Islands Co., about 18 months after he took from Nauru what he thought was a piece of fossilized wood, but which was subsequently identified as high-grade phosphatic rock.

The Denson letter was unearthed by the Australian writer Maslyn Williams, who is preparing a book to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Phosphate Commissioners.

The anniversary coincides more or less with the transfer of managerial responsibility for Nauru’s phosphate industry from the BPC to the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, which is wholly Nauru-owned.

This transfer took place on June 30 and represents the third change in the management of Nauru’s phosphate deposits—the first body to work the deposits being the Pacific Phosphate Co., which began operations in 1907.

The Pacific Phosphate Co. was the successor of the Pacific Islands Co., a firm formed in May, 1897, with planting, trading and guano interests in the Pacific.

It was while H. E. Denson was making a tour of the Western Pacific to report on various trading stations for his company that he called at Nauru, then known as Pleasant Island, and discovered the piece of “fossilized wood”.

Denson described the discovery in a letter dated July 10, 1899, to his company’s vice-chairman, J. T. Arundel, who was then in London. He referred secretively to the site of his discovery as Frezzent Island in case his letter should fall into the wrong hands.

Denson said that in visiting Frezzent Island he had been “so struck by the peculiar formation of the place” that he had devoted most of the time at his disposal, which was only one day, “to inspecting and exploring the Island”.

In particular, he had visited a cave called Orakar.

Denson quoted from his diary for January 12 (1898) in which he had written: “Went ashore at 9 a.m. with Mr. Halstead and Mr. Smith, visited ‘Orakar’ Cave, evidently an old crater, almost circular in shape and about 60 ft deep by about 10 to 12 ft wide.

“The sides are pitted and scored in places, but otherwise polished smooth with Convolvulous creepers and Tamna Trees growing in and out of the rocks and creeping inside and outside of the crater. The rocks everywhere showed signs of fire.

“Around the large crater are numerous small ones, but only a few feet deep, but the bottoms are probably false, creepers and dead leaves choking up the entrance in a solid mass. In one of these small craters, I found THE FULL STORY, AFTER 71 YEARS! wedged in between two boulders a fossilized tree. This tree was evidently in situ, and had been about 2 ft in diameter. The fact of it being fossilized shows that it must have been many years since these volcanoes were active. . . .”

Denson said (not quoting from his diary) that the “fossilized tree” was “buried among rocks of strange and fantastic shapes”.

He went on: “The fossil was irregularly round and foliated, or more properly speaking of circular stratified appearance, and I fancied I could trace the sections of an ancient tree from the core, ring by ring, until the outer bark was reached.

“The fossil bore evidence of a very great age.

“With the implements carried by our party, a crowbar and pickaxe, we broke off two blocks of this supposed fossil and removed it from the rim of the crater. . . .

“The two blocks . . . were carried down some four miles to the boat. The specimens weighed about half a cwt.”

Denson said that he had later shown the specimens to Professor Edgeworth David, Professor of Geology at the University of Sydney, and to another geologist.

Father Curran, and they had both confirmed his opinion that they were parts of a fossilized tree.

They had both been “very anxious” to obtain his specimens for a Sydney museum.

Denson went on: “Mr. G. C. Ellis [a director of the Pacific Islands Co., then in London] will remember the specimens, they were on the floor of my laboratory and were used to keep the door open.

“The first time Mr. A. F. Ellis [G. C. Ellis’ son, and later Sir Albert Ellis] saw the stone, he was struck with its appearance, and said it looked like Rock Guano, as he had seen specimens very much like it.

“Last week Mr. Ellis chipped off a piece and after applying the usual rough test, found Phosphate present and he at once put it through a quantitive analysis, and proved it to contain 78 per cent, of Phosphate of Lime.

“Now as to the quantity of this deposit, I would not attempt to go into figures, the amount on Frezzent Island is simply enormous, the whole Island is one mass of rock of this nature.”

Denson said he could not suggest how the phosphate could be worked because the island was under German jurisdiction and German laws, and the Jaluit Gesellschaft had the sole right to work its guano deposits.

He added: “There is no doubt about the stuff being what we say it is, and to verify the foregoing, I enclose a small sample with this letter, and as regards quantity, I think the matter need not be considered, it is simply enormous”.

Footnote: Eight months after Denson’s letter was written, Albert Ellis was sent to Ocean Island, which was known to be similar in formation to Nauru, to confirm his laboratory findings. He also visited Nauru, 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

New Guinea's House begins to get up and go From a Port Moresby correspondent Liberal thinking and support for principles gained a sudden spurt in the June sitting of the House of Assembly.

The formerly government dominated house on the hill in Port Moresby this time showed more than just signs of independent thought, and actually supported the once despised “radical” Pangu Party in defeating the government on a motion which was not, perhaps, so important in itself, but which released a surprising amount of desire to put the government in its place for once.

Not that the government didn’t have things mostly its way as usual.

The government appointed Leader of the House, the Assistant Administrator, Mr. Tony Newman, is still running things behind the scenes, and manipulating the House quite blatantly when it suits his more urgent purposes.

One constant observer commented that his hamfisted approach would lose the government considerable sympathy in the next few meetings, unless modified drastically to allow members time to think and understand, and vote according to conscience, as well as be influenced the government’s way. (Newman stepped up into the Leader’s position when Administrator-elect, Mr. Les Johnson, moved out earlier this year).

A sight in the House is still watching one of the government-appointed Official Members (there are 10) working the strings on his half-dozen Highlands puppets, physically pulling them down or pushing them to their feet in divisions when they uncertainly vote the “wrong” way.

The Pangu motion, introduced by Mr. Joe Paul Langro (West Sepik) to change the name of the Public Service Training Centre back to the Administrative College, received considerable Highlands support when the government, after debating hard, stayed mum during the vote which came out 37 to 23 in favour Pangu’s nine members, which along with the Rev. Percy Chatterton (Moresby), Mr. Ebia Olewale (South Fly), and Mr. Peter Johnson (Angoram), provide the only consistent opposition of substance to the government point of view among the 94 members, have now come in out of the cold to find, at least, that the fire had been lit, even if its not particularly warm yet.

The Mataungan Association’s name this sitting was not greeted by the usual rumble of disapproval—perhaps its sparking capacity had been worn in the hot debate on the Warwaram Affair. Ebia Olewale was able to argue Mataungan’s right to exist and expand in a democratic society, and added that the way to fight Mataungan if anyone disagreed was to form opposition groups.

Both Olewale and Pangu Parliamentary leader, Michael Somare, defended the rights of free speech and association, in particular for the Australian secretary of Bougainville’s Napidakoe Navitu political society, which, among other things, advocates secession from the territory for Bougainville.

The secretary, Barry Middlemiss, was the subject of a motion by Bougainville Regional member, Joseph Lue, to have the government deport him on the grounds that he was trying to take the place of the elected members as the people’s leader, Lue was supported by Bougainville North MHA, Donatus Mola, who was also annoyed at Middlemiss’! activities, including the Navitu’s at tempt to extend its unofficial refer endum, on whether Bougainvilh should secede, into Mola’s area.

However, fellow Navitu executiv< member Paul Lapun (Bougainvilk South), said Middlemiss was in fac doing for the people things whicl the two members had failed to do and the two members were afrak they would not be re-elected. H< added that Middlemiss was not seek ing membership of the House, anc had already turned down the presid ency of a local government council Lue’s motion was watered dowi by himself in the end to ask for at investigation of Middlemiss’s activities and this was passed.

Ebia Olewale, among Papuan anc New Guinean MHA’s, showed prob ably the biggest improvement in de bating ability this year. His obvious intelligence and searching, deep concern for bigger issues make him £ man to watch closely during the remaining half-dozen meetings of the House before the next elections.

The Chairman of the House’s These pretty Port Moresby girls modeled bikini fashions in June at a successful swimming carnival in Port Moresby to raise funds to send a swim team to the Fourth South Pacific Games in Papeete[?] They are, from left, Mrs. Bronwy[?] Atkins, Miss Vicky Morland, and Miss Jenny Folkes. -Photo: Chin H. Meen. 32 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Select Committee on Constitutional Development, Paulus Arek, who is touring the Pacific in July as part of the committee’s investigations, also stood up for the House’s right to make decisions on major constitutional changes. He said that in future, any constitutional changes involving amendments to the Papua- New Guinea Act (of the Australian Parliament) could come only after recommendations from the committee.

This may have stolen some thunder from the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton, who was due in Papua-New Guinea in July in answer to the dramatic tour of the Australian Labour Party Opposition leader, Mr. Gough Whitlam, early this year.

Mr. Arek also echoed several leading citizens when he told the House that the government had been ineffectual in educating the people about politics, as evidenced by the committee’s recent lengthy tours of the countryside, gathering opinions about the territory’s constitutional future.

Farewell speech The retiring Administrator, Mr.

David Hay, made a farewell speech to the House, notable mainly for his emphasis on the need for a strong central government for a self-governing Papua-New Guinea, his determination to refrain from commenting on his successor’s way of doing things (unlike the former Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, and former Assistant Administrator, Dr. John Gunther, he obviously inferred), and his pleasure at being able to do even more for the territory as the new Secretary of the Department of External Territories in Canberra working in liaison with the new Administrator, Mr. Les Johnson.

Mr. Peter Johnson called for a House committee to enquire into practically all aspects of malaria eradication and control. It was a timely call, considering the woeful state of the malaria services, which have been losing ground in their fight because of insufficient funds, possible lesistance to DDT spraying, and lack of the dedicated staff necessary to be effective. The Health Department told him that an internal investigation on what was needed to reform malaria services was going on, and he was promised that the report on the investigation would be tabled in the House before the end of this year. He reserved the right to call again for a committee if this wasn’t satisfactory.

Death Of President Soekarno

Former President Soekamo, of Indonesia, died on June 21, aged 69.

He was president for nearly 22 years —from the time of Indonesian independence in 1945, till he was removed from power in March, 1967.

Soekarno was the man mainly responsible for Indonesia taking West Irian from Dutch control.

There'S 'Danger' In Fiji'S Rainwater

"Ban that French bomb"

From a Suva correspondent French delegates attending the South Pacific Conference at Suva in September could be in for a barrage of ban-the-bomb barracking from university students and others who think that radioactive fallout from Mururoa Atoll is not conducive to an ideal environment.

The French might even hear a sharp word or two from Fiji’s Chief Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and other Pacific Island leaders on the subject of the present series of nuclear explosions, which are to be continued by them next year.

Any discomfort the French are made to feel will be due to Dr.

Graham Baines, acting head of biology in the School of Natural Resources at the University of the South Pacific, in Suva.

Early in May he caused a stir in Fiji by telling The Fiji Times that since the last Mururoa tests in 1968 the amount of Strontium 90 in Suva’s rainfall had increased fivefold.

He urged people to become concerned with this fact, for, he said, Strontium 90 was a substance which built up in calcium, and in particular it was absorbed by the growing bones of young children.

Once absorbed by bones the longlived element became for years the source of constant irradiation of body organs, and in particular body cells.

Baines claimed that 75 per cent, of Strontium 90 in Suva’s rainwater was due to the 1968 tests, and that as tests were continued the levels of the element present to be absorbed would build up.

He emphasised that despite all French, and for that matter Australian, New Zealand and British Government assurances that fallout levels were “insignificant”, scientists were entirely ignorant about the long term affects of radiation on human health. Particularly, there was no guarantee that such radio-activity, no matter how small the level, would not cause gene mutations which would have “unpleasant consequences” for children born in 30 years time—the next generation.

Referring to “safety” levels quoted by the French, Baines said it was these levels which scientists were increasingly bringing into question.

Ordinary folk in Fiji, unused to direct exposure to unadulterated ban-the-bomb propaganda, were suitably horrified by the biologist’s disclosures.

Australian-born Dr. Baines had joined the USP’s staff in January, after work in Canadian Government laboratories on Strontium 90, and work in Britain on the way radioactivity is transmitted through the atmosphere.

He got his figures for Strontium 90 in rainwater from data analysed and published by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment.

First reaction to his published statements was an invitation from the USP’s Student Christian Movement to address it.

He told the movement’s members that although the 1970 series of tests at Mururoa could not be stopped, something might be achieved in the case of the planned series next year if all South Pacific territories, including Australia and New Zealand, acted together.

“Even a small amount of dissent can grow,” he said, and added that personally he would be writing about the tests to London newspaper editors and the British Conservation Society.

A week later the USP’s Students’

Association, the Fiji Council of Churches and the Fiji YWCA together announced that they would sponsor a public meeting in the Suva Town Hall in an effort to launch a campaign against the French tests on a wider basis.

Among those invited to attend the meeting were the Governor of Fiji, Sir Robert Foster, and the Chief Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.

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Sir Robert sent his regrets, saying he did not think a person in his position ought to involve himself in protest movements.

Ratu Sir Kamisese also offered his regrets—he was away in Lau—but he sent Ratu Edward Cakobau, Minuter for Labour, to deputise.

Some time earlier the Chief Minister had stated that as Fiji was still a colony it could lodge protests about the tests only through Britain.

He did not say if any complaint had gone from his government through British channels, or for that matter whether the Fiji Government was opposed to the tests at all.

At the public meeting Ratu Edward said he would report to the Chief Minister the feelings demonstrated.

He added that the Chief Minister’s difficulty was that a contingent of the Fiji Military Forces had been at Christmas Island to assist with the British nuclear tests conducted there in the 1950’5.

Unfortunately some of the populated islands closest to the Christmas Island blasts had been those of French Polynesia.

“The Chief Minister has asked me to say that he will be quite willing to arrange that any representations made to the Government of Fiji in connection with the current French series of tests shall be forwarded on,” Ratu Edward said.

Radiation effects An attentive audience heard Dr.

Bains repeat his earlier warning, illustrating his talk with the help of a busily ticking geiger counter.

Then Dr. Felix Emberson, vicepresident of the Fiji Medical Association gorily described the effects of radiation on the human body and ended by declaring his association’s support for the protest movement.

Solomon Islander Francis Saemala, president of the USP’s Students’

Union, outlined the history of the Ban-the-Bomb movement, starting with the CND demonstrations which swept England 10 years ago.

He also recalled the words of the former Premier of Western Samoa, Fiame Mata’afa, at the time of the first French tests in 1968, when Samoa, then the South Pacific’s only fully independent state, had complained about the tests.

Mr. Mata’afa admitted that his? small country’s lone voice would notl much affect the French, but that ai thousand small voices raised ini unison, might do so.

Mr. Saemala said his association! would write to all South Pacific: leaders, urging them to take a standi against the further radioactive poisoning of their region’s atmosphere.

The president of the Fiji Council! of Churches, the Reverend P. K..

Davis, said his organisation would) use the Pacific Council of Churches* to urge churches in other territories* to put anti-test pressure on their territorial governments.

When the meeting’s chairman, Dr..

D. J. Lancaster, a Fiji Medical!

Department gynaecologist, invited! ideas for measures to discourage: further tests at Mururoa or anywhere; else in the South Pacific, there were; suggestions that for a start UTA,, the French airline, should be stopped! from flying through Nadi Airport.

Fiji’s first popular protest meeting: of its type ended with three unanimous resolutions asking for 1 protests from all sources against the: tests, and the appointment of a committee to further the work of protesting.

Rim'S Covers Uncovered

Sir, —Why is it that a respectable high-quality magazine like Pacific Islands Monthly displays native girls naked on its front cover (April, 1970)?

One would hope that an Australian publication would set a higher standard than this.

NIGEL COOPER.

Port Moresby, P-NG.

Sir, —I give you greeting, and hope all goes well with PIM. But—as a long-time subscriber—l have a grumble about the cover of the May issue.

Those girls look to me to be only about octoroons, not true Islanders.

The brassieres depress me. What’s wrong with bare breasts? The skirts look like shredded nylon, the flowers seem more like plastic than anything out of nature’s garden, the belt ornaments a product of Czechoslavakia, the males like poorly trained chorus boys; not to speak of the billiard tabley lawn. In short the sort of put-on for gullible tourists who are spending six hours ashore.

I hope you’re not offended at what you may consider carping. Others say the same.

GOYA HENRY.

Harbord, Sydney.

Spoiling Niue'S Name

Sir, —I was up in Rabaul last week and bought my PIM for May. I didn’t like the article, “Tarzan the Apeman” by J. Edward Brown (p, 85). He sure spoilt Niue’s name, and with a new hotel for “1,000 tourists” a year coming.

Why didn’t Mr. J. E. Brown ask the assembly to look at the way the film society is running things. But not just sit there and yak away about how the people behaved, and the projectionist in shiny, orange, cheap, Hong Kong trousers, and barefooted.

And the censor’s chair removed from some European expatriate’s residence.

And the big, fat, old woman.

It won’t help anything to say all these funny remarks. The Government Inspector should see to it that the owner builds a real building with everything in it, before he gives him the licence to run it.

In my travels I have seen worse places. I don’t have to mention any places, but I have been around the world a bit. So anyway Mr. King Edward Brown VI, let’s try to put Niue up a step, not down.

ABLE SEAMAN DEAN ANAKI.

MV Auckland Exporter , Brisbane.

Letters

What'S Wrong With Norfolk?

Sir, —Your article on Norfolk Island, by Ken McGregor ( PIM , April, p. 29), interested me.

As an ignorant outsider, who has spent only two weeks on NI (this was two years ago), I endorse the opinion of a local councillor that unrestricted development on NI has reached saturation point and gone far enough.

I fear that NI will eventually pay dearly for the wave of artificial “progress” which engulfed it during the 1960’5, this being simply a cycle of cause and effect. During my visit, I clearly saw the writing on the wall and was then apprehensive regarding the future of NI. My impressions were: A small, once-beautiful island, overpopulated, being rapidly and ruthlessly despoiled by the steamroller of “progress”, some of whose inhabitants were more interested in commercialism and the exploitation of tourists than in anything else.

Motor vehicles (which now total more than 1,000, not including motor cycles), already too numerous, threatening to inundate the island.

One wonders exactly how many motor vehicles can be stacked on to NI before they topple off into the sea.

Wild life (other than fish) tenuously established and engaged in a struggle for survival in a despoiled environment rendered inhospitable by an excess of hostile humanity.

Township of Burnt Pine depressingly ugly and untidy, suggestive of a semi-shanty town in outback Australia. Unrestricted and unsupervised jerry building, excessive and alarming.

Garbage disposal system primitive, deplorable and short-sighted. Superfluous roads, in excess of actual requirements, consuming potentially useful land and precipitating soil erosion. Pine forest resources rapidly diminishing.

Soil erosion plainly apparent.

Agriculture neglected. Catering for tourists mediocre. Climate and scenery delightful. Residents friendly, hospitable and co-operative.

I was surprised that there was such brisk activity in non-essential road construction, and the destruction of natural flora and landscape, in which earth-moving machinery was engaged, when the urgent need for the preparation of a communal rubbish tip was so blatantly apparent. For example, NI appeared to me to need Prince Philip Drive as urgently as Sydney needs another Opera House.

The slovenly, barbaric manner in which the island’s garbage was then being dumped over the cliff at Headstone Point (a once-beautiful locality, prior to the advent of “progress”), to be regularly and reliably deposited, by the tide, along the west coast, was depressing and astonishing to me, as it must be to any conservationist and admirer of natural beauty. After two years, this impression lingers in my mind as the most depressing spectacle I have ever witnessed.

W. S. HALL.

North Sydney, NSW.

Stop Smoking!

Sir, —I refer to the encouraging news that the P-NG Administration is to embark on an anti-smoking education campaign. As an expatriate Australian worker in the territory, I have observed the obvious enjoyment and satisfaction the natives get from smoking.

They seem to really relish the foul tasting and smelling toxic fumes. To watch a European guiltily inhale and quickly exhale, knowing he is shortening his life every time he does, makes me hope we will soon smell the last of this obnoxious habit. It is amazing to me that the missionaries have not done more to curb smoking. If anything, they seem to encourage it.

The blame for what must be thousands and thousands of premature cancer deaths, must lie squarely on the European (especially Australian) expatriate who used twist tobacco as a much sought after payment for service. I would like to see the Australian Government recognise this and extend their extensive campaign to the territory.

NEIL CAMPBELL.

Panguna, Bougainville.

Coastwatcher, Yauwika

Sir, —The well-known New Guinea coastwatcher, Yauwika, had a lot of publicity in Brisbane, when he visited here in May. Yauwika came to Australia to meet the Queen. I was able to spend an enjoyable afternoon with him and we swapped reminiscences going back many years. He is still full of humour and good sense.

Meanwhile I was particularly pleased to read {PIM, May) about the editor’s meeting with Miss Woodford, granddaughter of the famous first Resident Deputy Commissioner of the Solomons.

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my father, (it was my father’s second trip out, about 1880 or 81 I think) and they became great friends. When I first went to the Solomons in 1927 my father wrote to tell me that I would probably meet a lot of people who knew Mr. Woodford. I met many of the old timers who knew him well and thought the world of him. I have always regretted that I did not take notes of these people and what they told me of Mr. Woodford.

As my father and Mr. Woodford wrote to each other for many years it may be possible that the present Mr. Woodford has some of my father’s old letters among his collection. I think that it would be worth inquiring.

E. W. SETON.

Sunnybank, Queensland.

MICRONESIANS IN SAN FRAN.

Sir, —Recently in my studies of Pacific cultures I have been trying to locate any Micronesians living in the San Francisco Bay area or elsewhere in California.

I called the San Francisco office of the Trust Territory of Micronesia, but much to my surprise the people there did not know of a single Micronesian living here. Indirectly, however, I have learned that some Micronesians are definitely in this area, though I have no way of contacting them.

Could you be kind enough to run this letter in PIM so that anyone knowing of Micronesian friends or relatives in the Bay area or elsewhere in California could send me their names and addresses? I would very much like to contact these people, wherever they are.

RICHARD A. GOODMAN.

Box 9385, Berkeley, California 94709 US.

Wrong Song

Sir, —Regarding the PIM (May, p. 28) article, “7,000 say welcome back the Samoan way”, telling of the welcome to the astronauts at Tafuna Airport in American Samoa, it is worth mentioning that the “traditional song of welcome” that was sung was a Maori song, “Haeremai”.

We watched the doings on TV, and were surprised to hear this song.

No doubt other, Samoan songs were given as well, but “Haeremai” was given pride of place.

F. H. E. KING.

Takaka, New Zealand.

France: Not Guilty'

While the French continued their nuclear bomb tests in French Polynesia’s Tuomotu Islands during June, the French Government was busy denying allegations by some scientists that the bomb tests might have been the cause of the earthquake disaster in Peru that has killed an estimated 50,000 people. A disgruntled French Embassy in Canberra issued a communique that underground tests, a common occurrence in the deserts of Nevada in the US, would be a more likely cause of the earthquakes.

Over Radio Australia, reporting from Paris, Elizabeth Bower, commented on June 8: “French Government officials were taken by surprise here by the suggestion that there could possibly be any link. Although the French Press and radio have given day-by-day coverage of the Peruvian disaster, and there are many French correspondents on the spot, none as yet has made any reference to the rumours believed to be circulating about the possibility of a connection between the two events.

“The general impression here is that the idea is too far-fetched to be even worth any serious consideration, and a Defence Ministry spokesman limited himself to the curt comment: ‘There is no possible link. There is no question of cause and effect’.

“The French have always prided themselves that their tests in the Pacific have not been nearly as dirty as those carried out in earlier years by the Americans, and they have developed the technique of exploding their nuclear devices suspended from balloons nearly 2,000 ft above sea-level.

“In the present series three out of the eight experiments planned have already taken place. The first, a low-powered atomic device was set for May 15, the second on May 22, and the third more powerful on Saturday, May 30. The earthquake was on Monday, June 1.

“The object of the present series is twofold: to test improvements in the firing device for thermo-nuclear bombs, and to test the effect of the considerable work done by French scientists on the miniaturisation of nuclear weapons, particularly in the missile field.

“The series is due to end with a hydrogen bomb test on July 3 which will, of course, be far more massive than anything which precedes it.”

The next day, Canberra’s French Embassy, had this to say; “At a time when several scientific personalities, both Australian and South American, have already made known through Press and radio the improbability of a correlation between the French nuclear aerial tests in the Pacific and the recent catastrophe in Peru, 6,000 kilometres away, it may seem opportune to emphasise certain facts: Since 1963, France has not undertaken any underground nuclear tests whereas other great powers have for many years followed a programme of important underground explosions at a rate which surpasses one explosion a month.

“No one can affirm that these underground explosions of high intensity can cause seismic shocks, thousands of kilometres away. But one can affirm that the recent French aerial explosions which were of low intensity and whose energy is greatly reduced when reaching ground level could certainly not cause such movements.”

Meanwhile, French Polynesia’s two representatives in the French parliament, Senator Alfred Poroi and Mr. Francis Sanford, were among those who witnessed the May 30 nuclear explosion in the Pacific which was France’s 17th.

The explosion took place over Fangataufa Atoll. It was the first time that any of French Polynesia’s political representatives had been invited to see a nuclear explosion. Mr. Sanford is a member of the majority coalition in the local Territorial Assembly which has been strongly opposed to the French nuclear tests in the Pacific. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Can The U.S. Resist Micronesian

Demands On Land Ownership?

• F. T. ULUDONG, acting clerk of the House of Representatives, Congress of Micronesia, views the US Trustl Territory's search for documents in Japan, New Guinea and Australia to authenticate "public land" ownership in Micronesia, as a means by which the IT Government can hang on to land it is not entitled! to. In this article for RIM he gives his point of view. RIM has invited the Trust Territory Governmenti to reply in a later issue.

What is the history of the 2,000-odd islands which make up Micronesia? It’s a turbulent one, made all the more complicated from the land tenure point of view by the fact that four foreign powers have controlled the islands at different times.

In earliest times the land was split into estates owned by chiefs, families or clans. The Spanish arrived in the 1500’s but they were more interested in acquiring souls than land.

The Germans were the first to realise the potential value of the Marshalls and the Carolines. By 1885 Germany had declared a protectorate over the islands and in 1899 Spain formally sold her the Carolines, Marshalls and Marianas for $4 million. The island of Guam (not a part of the Trust Territory) was ceded to the US by Spain as early as 1898.

Immediately after World War I broke out in 1914 Japan took possession of all these islands.

The German way was to claim all land not in actual use by the inhabitants as “public land” and this practise was continued by the Japanese, who were given a League of Nations mandate.

Japanese population grew from 3,500 in 1920 to about 70,000 in 1940—and most of these people were permanent settlers, many of them owning land.

At the end of World War II the Americans were in control of the islands, and the UN gave the US trusteeship in 1947.

Since then, lengthy investigations have been held to determine what is public land (claimed by the government) and what is private.

As a new five-year, $5 million land registration programme begins in Micronesia, the US Government is preparing to meet: challenges to the validity of its own ownership of “public lands”. It’s almost certain that many Micronesians will attempt to challenge the US Trust Territory Administration’s right to title of “public lands”, which comprise over 69 per cent, of Micronesian land.

The challenge will probably be made on the basis that foreign governments prior to the present foreign government did not purchase most of the so-called public lands, that most of the public land was taken by the Spanish, the Germans and the Japanese without just compensation and therefore that any claim to such land by the US Trust Territory Administration is without foundation.

Many people have hoped that the quasi-judicial land commissions will settle once and for all who have titles to the “public lands”. Most observers are confident that the historical fact of Japanese land acquisition without just compensation will be recognised by the land commissions, and most “public lands” will be returned to the owners from whom the lands were unjustly taken, or to their descendants.

However, it has been recently revealed that the United States has been sending certain of its Trust Territory Administration employees to Japan, New Guinea, Australia, Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific and Asia to search for old records concerning the “public lands” in Micronesia.

The United States, of course, views such explorations as being in the benefit of all landowners in Micronesia, for any records discovered, whether they support or dispute Trust Territory Administration’s claims to land, it is said, will be available to all parties in the process of determining title.

It is with the purported “objectivity” and impartiality of the search for documents that some Micronesian leaders find real cause for concern.

For one thing, the explorations have been relatively quiet and certainly not announced to landowners or interested Micronesian legislators or congressmen. It is only recently that such investigations have been discovered by people outside the Trust Territory Administration, although the investigations have been going on for some time.

Further, it was only after the “discovery” of certain documents which were claimed by the Trust Territory Administration to support its claims of land ownership in Truk Islands that such explorations were disclosed.

It’s only too easy to suspect that the Trust Territory Administration is carrying on the intensive search for documents to support its claim to title of public lands because it’s aware that its claim is extraordinarily weak.

Unjust sales Anthropologists such as those hired by the United States commercial company right after the war to study aspects of Micronesian cultures, consistently stated that the Japanese method of acquiring land for government use was unjust, and recommended that most public lands be returned to the Micronesians.

This position was disregarded by the Trust Territory Administration and it appears that it is struggling hard to come up with support for its claim to ownership of most Japanese held land, despite the acknowledged facts of history.

In the Marshall Islands, the United States (the trustee for the Micronesians under the UN Trusteeship Agreement) is becoming openly worried about the increasing clamour by the local people for reversion of their islands now used by the US Defence Department. 38 JULY, 1070 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Such a reversion could lead to a loss of multi-million dollar military installations on these islands. The cause of the concern is that the US granted its military, land uses to these islands despite the fact it was told by the Micronesians themselves and its own anthropologists and government officials that the lands belonged to the Micronesians.

Roi Namur, for example, clearly belongs to the Marshallese, yet there is over $4OO million worth of technical military equipment on the island. Many American officials knew this fact when Roi Namur was given to the military.

U.S. may lose If Roi Namur is returned to its rightful owners during the land registration programme, the US stands to lose all of its $4OO million, as improvements made knowingly on land owned by another, belong to the owner and not to the one making the improvements.

As the land registration programme (it’s really a “cadastre” programme) nears, the United States’ search for documents seems to be accelerating.

When a Micronesian Congressman from Truk recently repudiated Japanese documents turned up by the Trust Territory Administration in one of its “impartial” searches as being worthless, because they were unsigned, undated, unaccompanied by receipt of payment by Trukese landowners, and of doubtful authenticity, the Administration came up with some “new” documentation to show that the Japanese had title to the land in question in the representative’s district.

This particular case is similar to many in Micronesia—the land in dispute has not been used by the Trust Territory since the war and no use is planned for it in the future, yet the Trust Territory Administration is now attempting to support its claim to title.

Micronesians have been asking for many years why all “public lands” which are not presently used, or which will not be used in the forseeable future, are not turned back to the rightful owners. The Administration’s motives are clear in some cases—certain areas are retained because the US may want them for military use.

U.S. to benefit The land cadastre is thought by some to be designed to secure the title claims of the government to the “public lands”. Benefits to individual Micronesians would be secondary.

Further, if the US succeeds in its desire to make Micronesia a US Territory, the more “public lands” which are securely held at the time territorial status begins, the greater the capability of the US in meeting its land needs in the Pacific for establishment of bases.

Thus, as the cadastre gets under- Micronesia is more water than land—its 2,000-odd islands cover just 706 square miles, dotted over some 3 million square miles of blue ocean—but land is the politics of the territory. Land, and who owns it, more than anything else are the governing factors in Micronesia's relationship with the US, and as tourism now begins its entry into the area, the issue becomes even more controversial. These tranquil hills dropping into a quiet cove are typically Micronesian. They are in fact part of the Rock Islands of Palau District. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

way, Micronesians have good cause for concern. The Micronesians have no resources with which they can ensure themselves that the wide-ranging document searches being carried on by the Administration are impartial and objective.

They must wait until the title determination, to put forth their case to rebut the “findings” of the TT Administration investigators. If they are unprepared to meet whatever documents the TT Administration puts forth with contrary documentary proof, they may lose ownership of their land for the second (or third) time to a foreign government.

While it’s a well-known historical fact that the Japanese Government and previous colonial powers took lands unjustly to meet their needs, it’s only becoming apparent now that another foreign government is attempting to do the same thing, only under the guise of a democratic system, where the landowner has his “day in court”.

The taking of Bikini, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, the Mid-Corridor, Roi Namur and parts of Saipan for military use was only a thinly veiled form of robbery.

America’s hanging on to land for possible future use rates a close second. Now America has assured the Micronesians that it is straightening out the land problems in Micronesia for the benefit of the Micronesians. If the Trustee had looked at the facts after the war, if it had listened to its anthropologists, and, (although it is barely possible to suppress a sigh) if it had listened to the Micronesians the people who knew and still know who legitimately owned what land at the end of the war the land problems would not exist.

Nerve Gas For Guam?

New York reports say Micronesia may become a storage base for GB and VX nerve gas, which can kill or incapacitate whole areas in seconds.

The gas is stored on Okinawa, Japan, where 12 months ago the colourless and odourless gas leaked out and hospitalised 24 people. The US agreed to move the gas from the island, and since then has been looking for a new home for it.

It was to be transhipped to Oregon, US, but the government was forced to back down in face of a 200,000 signature petition. Guam is now favourite for the gas as Alaska has also refused it.

Inside New

GUINEA

With John Ryan

Tropical New Guinea is a very chilly place when one is off-side with the government. And when elected Members of Parliament turn on the heat as well, New Guinea is definitely sub-zero.

All because of the Warmaram affair ... a political debacle sparked off by publication of a confidential government letter showing how a substantial group of Tolais, with help from Konedobu and Canberra, are trying to reduce the effectiveness at Rabaul of Tolai, John Kaputin, and his aggressive Mataungan Association.

Abominable Snowman in the latest government snap-freeze is the New Guinea News Service and yours truly.

In warmer, more comfortable days, when I was gathering news for the ABC, there were a few cool periods: They followed a journalistic “sneak preview” in 1964 of the government decision to reduce native public service salaries; the discovery of plans to establish a police special branch; Canberra’s secret decision to give political asylum to the first important refugee from West Irian —Joni Jakadewa; details of the huge military expansion project; stories about the Public Service Association’s strongly anti-government activity, leading to arbitration of native salaries; the ‘discovery’ (on foot patrol) of refugees hiding on our side of the border; first independent eye-witness account of the Nomad (Western Papua) cannibals in 1968; etc.

Each time a story broke, Konedobu and Canberra reacted as though the publishing of these, and other public-interest stories, had no place in print; that the public had no right to be told of such things.

Konedobu paid the supreme compliment in 1968: Reacting to a story about a border security conference at Konedobu, it built a chain-wire fence around the Administrator’s Department to keep nosey journalists out of the ‘secret’ backrooms.

The Australian Journalists’ Association code of ethics requires journalists to not reveal their sources of information . . . otherwise one could throw the cat among the pigeons by naming the man who leaked the security story, and the man who built the security fence so as to cover his tracks with his government employers.

There could be many such examples of deliberate ‘leaks’ to journalists by public servants who, when the witch hunts start, throw up their hands in righteous horror that such a leak should have occurred.

Why do some public servants ‘leak’ news to journalists?

In nine years in New Guinea, Tve met some who leak stories simply to embarrass their ememployers. Most, however, leak news because (as individuals) they hold certain principles and are angered when they see their employer breaking them . . . secretly, politically, and for what sometimes are the most obscure reasons.

The confidential letter sparking off the Warmaram crisis was leaked to the New Guinea News Service by a public servant who risks his substantial career by trusting journalists to ‘forget’ his name: And there’s no way in the world anybody is going to get his name. It’s a question of ethics.

The background; The emotional, angry Rabaul situation has been bubbling over for more than a year now, with the 70,000 Tolai people split (apparently) between the pro-government Gazelle Coun- 40 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

cil, the anti-council and anti- government Mataungan Association (reputedly 20,000 supporters) and the old (1934) Kivung Group.

Early in May, Acting Director of Lands, Tolai, Paulias Matane, told Administrator D. O. Hay he was desperately worried over the psychological civil war among his Tolai people. With an influential group of other ‘expatriate’ and senior Tolai, he wanted time off to go to Rabaul to try to mediate.

So Warmaram (the mediation group) was bora, and chaired by the manager of the government’s radio station on Bougainville, Tolai, Sam Piniau.

Others in the group: Robin Kumaina, of the Reserve Bank Savings and Loans Society, Lae; John Vue, of the Department of Agriculture, Lae; Dr. Himson Mulas (Rabaul), Dr, Alan Tarutia (based at Kavieng), Stanley Vuai (Rabaul), the Rev. I. Puipui (Rabaul), Father Paivu (Rabaul), Alkan Tololo (Public Service Board, Port Moresby).

Warmaram was a fine idea, getting the immediate green light from Konedobu and Canberra.

Kaputin’s breakaway Mataungan group at Rabaul had been seriously affecting existing and potential investment, had split the Tolai community, and had set village groups in other parts of New Guinea thinking along the same lines.

With nation-building and unity, the keynote in the march towards 1972 self-government, breakaway thinking like Rabaul and Bougainville were disastrous portents.

Anything mediated at Rabaul would be worthwhile. Konedobu and Canberra felt compelled to bend the rules a little, to give Warmaram a fighting chance.

Then the balloon went up.

A public servant unhappy with the way his government-employer was involving itself, presented to New Guinea News Service an exact copy of a letter written by the government’s Director of Information and Extension Services, L. R, Newby, to his radio station manager at Rabaul, and others.

From the letter: “. . . . it was mentioned [during a conference between Newby, one of his senior officers, and the Administration on May 8] that Warmaram could be regarded as a scheme devised by Robin Kumaina to improve his position if he should wish to stand for the next House of Assembly election (in 1972). The Administrator said this was a risk to be taken. He said a major concern of the Warmaram Group was to reduce and destroy Kaputin’s standing.”

And later. “Warmaram was not to be regarded as a political party .... while we (Department of Information) might allow Warmaram members to speak on the radio (Rabaul) and give maximum publicity to their statements, this is not to be taken as a precedent for other groups who might want time on air ... . the position with regard to Mataungan was unchanged; as a group with political ambitions, the normal restrictions (about time on air) applied to them.

“If Mataungan or any other group approached the manager (of Radio Rabaul) he should refer to headquarters .... our policy for political groups is clear: activities and (Press) releases would be dealt with in news bulletins according to news value .... Warmaram was in a different category in that it wasn’t a political organisation,”

Administrator Hay was aghast when he learned Newby’s letter had found its way out of Konedobu. Aghast that government thinking should have been committed to paper, aghast (It’s reported) that the real government thinking had been misinterpreted by Newby. . . .

The letter was published because Mataungan asd Warmaram and the associated politics stretch right back to ministerial level in Canberra, and because the man who pays the bills—the ordinary man in the villages—should know what part his government is playing in domestic politics—and why.

Konedobu and Canberra disagree vehemently with this line of journalistic thinking: They believe still that New Guinea should be told only what Konedobu and Canberra believe New Guinea should know. This sort of thinking (with big constitutional changes just around the comer) appears in need of urgent overhaul.

In Canberra, Minister Barnes explained that Warmaram had full government support in trying to bring peace to the Tolai. In Port Moresby, the Public Service Association demanded to know why the government was paying senior native public servants to go to Rabaul (on public money for three months) to play politics, when for years all public servants had been told to stay out of politics.

In the House of Assembly, the debate on the Warmaram sortie (and the ‘scurrilous’ publishing of the confidential government letter) reached a tirade of abuse against yours truly and, unfairly, against the Press in general. Outcome was a motion commending the government for supporting Warmaram .... and a very reasonable outcome, because Warmaram was and remains a good idea.

Clearly through the debate came the message: John Kaputin is to be destroyed .... his Mataungan followers are to be ‘educated’ to realise (as one government man explained carefully to me in private) that there are much better Tolai leaders available, if the Tolai really want to go out on their own.

One can well understand the government’s distraction that the letter found its way into the Press; one can understand the dismay among Warmaram members; the current security purge is more than reasonable.

But it’s hard to understand why the government’s extraordinary political thinking was ever put on paper; why it was misinterpreted by Newby (if it was misinterpreted); why the government decided so blantantly to break its own public service regulations by allowing (and paying) senior native public servants to play politics.

And throughout the long public and parliamentary debate on the Warmaram affair, the government studiously avoided any confirmation that such a letter existed, or that the New Guinea News Service copy was anything like the “nonexistent” original.

Whichever way you look at it, the Rabaul situation is largely unchanged by the fuss. Mataungan knew exactly what Warmaram was, how it was financed, and what its aims were, long before the government’s confidential letter was published. In a nutshell, it means that Mataungan and Warmaram have the Australian Government by the nose.

A Sydney journalist once told me he was convinced there was no politics at village level in New Guinea. Sometimes, the government seems to think the same way.

How wrong they are. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y J U L Y , 1970

Going home Mother Blanche, head of the nursing staff at Ducos Hansen sanatorium in New Caledonia, who is a member of the Catholic Sisters of St. Joseph de Cluny, is headed for France on holiday and to seek medical treatment.

It’s 14 years since Mother Blanche last visited France and it will be only the third time during her 48 years service at Ducos. There have been canonisations for less!

In comparison with other diseases, treatment for Hansen’s disease has seen little progress. A non - medical supervisor of Ducos Sanatorium some years ago went on record as saying that one of the reasons for lack of progress in treatment was that the disease was not a “commercial” one.

That’s to say, it did not immobilise a great number of people as heart diseases and TB do. Thus funds were not forthcoming for the concentrated research into leprosy as for the more “popular” diseases.

Tropicalities Three million French Pacific francs, or approximately $A27,000, was the asking price for an away-from-it-all Pacific island, replete with white sandy beaches, which came on the market recently.

The island, which is in the remote Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia, was advertised in the “classifieds” of the Papeete Press over a period of several weeks.

The advertisement (translated from French) read: “Tuamotu, south-east of Hao, island 26 kilometres in circumference, beaches of white sand, fresh water tank, small solid house.

Price 3 million French Pacific francs.

Possibility of credit”.

Although the island was unnamed, there seems little doubt that it is Ahunui Atoll, about 100 miles southeast of Hao and some 600 miles from Tahiti. There is no other eligible island in that direction.

Ahunui is one of those Pacific Islands which is so far away from it all that virtually nothing has appeared about it in print since its first discovery by Europeans.

Its discoverer was Captain F. W.

Beechey, of HMS Blossom, who came upon it in late February, 1826, and named it Byam Martin Island.

He had quite a story to tell about what he found there.

“As we neared the shore,” he wrote, “the natives made several fires.

Shortly afterwards three of them launched a canoe, and paddled fearlessly to the barge, which brought them to the ship. Instead of the deepcoloured uncivilised Indians inhabiting the coral islands in general, a tall well-made person, comparatively fair, and handsomely tattooed, ascended the side, and, to our surprise, familiarly accosted us in the Otaheitean manner. The second had a_ hog and a cock tattooed upon his breast—animals almost unknown among the islands of Eastern Polynesia; and the third wore a turban of blue nankeen. Either of these were distinctions sufficient to excite considerable interest. . . .”

Inquiry revealed that the three men, together with a dozen other islanders on shore, were natives of Anaa Atoll, who had set off in a 30 ft double canoe two years earlier to go to Tahiti to pay tribute to Queen Pomare. Instead, they had been

Away From It All

-AND ONLY $27,000 caught in a storm and blown to Vanavana Atoll, about 500 miles in the opposite direction. After living on Vanavana for a year, the islanders had repaired their boat and had sailed homewards as far as Ahunui, a distance of about 100 miles, where they again temporarily settled.

They had been on Ahunui about a year when Captain Beechey arrived, and they begged him to take them home. Beechey half promised to do so, and next morning the islanders were waiting expectantly on the beach with their belongings.

However, Beechey finally consented to take only their chief and his family—the rest being left to find their own way home, to await the arrival of another ship (a fairly unlikely occurrence), or simply to stay where they were.

History does not reveal whether the islanders ever did get home; but the Pacific Islands Pilot states that the island is now “uninhabited except during the copra harvest”.

As for whether anyone recently managed to raise the money to buy their island, we have no positive information about that, either.

After several weeks of regular appearances, the “for sale” notice in the Papeete newspapers quietly disappeared without editorial comment.

Noumea tries new school hours A serious dispute between teachers and the Education Department over primary school hours in New Caledonia (PIM, May, p. 33) has resulted 42 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

in the trial of a new system. It follows a democratic consultation between authorities and parents.

Of the three systems proposed, the authorities have decided to test the so-called “Polynesian week”, beginning in June. Primary children will attend classes every morning Monday- Friday until 11 a.m. They then return every afternoon except Wednesday. This means the traditional Thursday holiday is replaced by a free Wednesday afternoon, with no more Saturday morning classes either.

The reverse is however maintained for high school pupils.

It’s a relief for the youngsters and parents who like to be free to travel inland on Saturdays, says a Noumea correspondent.

Fiji may start its own Peace Corps Fiji may have its own internal Peace Corps if an idea raised at the recent Student Christian Movement conference is followed up. Further discussions are taking place at the moment on the setting up of the student volunteer movement to give service to the community in Fiji.

Proposals for raising money include the suggestion that students give 1 per cent, of their pocket money to help get the scheme off the ground.

Rose and Eva, two bright girls Both doing very well at school in New South Wales are Rose and Eva Arni, the first Wuvuluvians ever to come to Australia for their education.

Rose and Eva belong to Wuvulu Island, away in the Western Islands group, north east of Wewak, New Guinea, and well out in the blue— a beautiful coral island with waving palms and white beaches and all that goes with these Pacific beauty spots.

They attend Our Lady of Mercy College, as boarders, in Goulburn, where they are now in third form.

Before coming to Australia they went to Court Street “A” School in Rabaul for five years.

Rose is now 17 and Eva, 15; both have done very well in their class exams and in sport, and both have been captains in their classes. They are very keen on music and are members of the school choir, and have also competed at the annual Goulburn Eisteddfods—in solo and in group singing with success.

In 1969 Rose Arni was actually the first girl student in Australia to sit for a classical guitar examination under the Australian Board of Music, and gained 89 per cent, with honours.

The girls were born on Fred Archer’s Yame Island plantation off the coast of Buka, Bougainville— their Wuvulu Is. father being a long time native foreman on the plantation. Their aunt, Giwa Arni, is a personality in Buka, Rabaul and Wuvulu areas, and lives in Rabaul.

The girls are to remain at their Goulburn college for the fourth year and gain their Leaving Certificates and then decide on a career. Their music examiners have predicted further success for both in due course. An elder brother, Paul Soma, is in the Pacific Islands Regiment and is presently in training at the Portsea Officers Training School in Victoria, and expects to graduate as 2nd Lieutenant in June.

Animal life in the Islands The animal world seems to have a grudge against the local population in the British Solomon Islands at the moment. A Marovo Lagoon pupil had a coconut crab fastened to his backside with such persistence that it took the combined strength of two grown men to pull them apart, and a local teacher fought off a marauding crocodile with her umbrella.

The crocodile attacked a canoe in Wairaha River near Pamua, San Christobal, containing the Diocese of Melanesia education adviser. Miss Joan Beglen, and a number of Pamua teachers and pupils.

The BSIP official newssheet continues: “The incident happened in the same part of the river where a small child was attacked and injured a few weeks before. The crocodile came up from underneath the canoe, put its head and kneck over the canoe’s side, and opened its mouth.

Miss Nesta Kafefuria, a teacher from Pamua, was sitting nearest to the crocodile. Bravely she hit the crocodile on the nose with her umbrella and the reptile then disappeared.”

The crocodile was not seen for some time after, hiding its shame no doubt, until Mr. Albert Kuper of Kira Kira set out with friends to catch it and using a prize rooster as a bait, the team caught it.

“According to Mr. Kuper,” continued the newssheet, “the crocodile was well known in the Wairaha River Trials of a tooth plucker The trials of bringing the science of dentistry to Papua- New Guinea were amply demonstrated in early June when a well-meaning tooth-plucker was lucky to escape from a Gulf District village with his life.

At Mei’i village an Administration dental assistant extracted several teeth from the children.

When he finished, the villagers demanded money in exchange for their children’s teeth.

Deciding that discretion was the better part of valour, the dental assistant packed his things and got out while the going was good. Gulf District Health Officer, Dr. Walker, later said it might be ,{ a long time” before a dentist went that way again.

He also said the dental assistant was partly to blame—he should have asked the parents’ permission before extracting the teeth.

Eva and Rose, at school. 43 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1070

and had been called ‘Uncle’ by the Rawake school girls, who considered him harmless until this year’s attacks.

The girls became angry with him after his unfriendly behaviour and so they ate heartily of the crocodile steaks given them by Mr. Kuper.”

In the case of the poor lad taken from behind by a coconut crab, the newssheet reports: “Education Week at Putukau Junior Primary School, Marovo Lagoon, was not without its excitement. One of the pupils, Berven Senu, was hunting coconut crabs with his friends for a feast to be held at the end of the week, when a large crab fell on his back and fastened his nippers into the boy’s buttocks.

“Poor Berven was in great pain and called for help. He tried to get rid of the crab by running this way and that through the bush, but the crab still hung there. Eventually after some minutes Mr. Green Jino, the head teacher, and our correspondent, helped Berven to tear the front of his trousers and managed to pull both trousers and crab away at the same time.

“Apart from spoiling his trousers, there was no permanent damage to Berven, and he managed to enjoy the feast at the end of Education Week when 100 coconut crabs (including the one that bit him) and many other good things were eaten.”

A family search in the Solomons A young Queenslander is making inquiries throughout the Solomon Islands to find out if any of his relatives are still alive. The Queenslander is one Charlie Bobongi, who claims to be the grandson of people blackbirded from the Islands to work on the Australian canefields.

Charlie, said to look like a Malaitaman, doesn’t know what part of the Solomon his people came from, but recalls that people called Fatnouna were friends of his family.

Charlie’s home is now Seaforth, near Mackay, Queensland, where, he says, there are several hundred descendants of Solomon Islanders living. Most of them are still cane cutters and fruit-pickers, but quite a number of the young girls work in the district hospital.

They are the descendants of people who stayed on in Australia after recruiting for labour stopped in 1904.

The only clue Charlie has to his background is his name. Any Solomon Islanders who might help Charlie trace his lineage can contact the BSIP Newssheet, Honiara. We wish him luck.

Help for Solomons' polio victims A man who could bring new hope to the hundreds of Solomon Islanders who suffer from polio, arrived in Honiara recently. Professor Huckstep, a world expert on polio, made a week’s visit during which he saw more than 600 patients, performed several operations and gave advice to medical staff on treatment for the disease.

He said that many of the Islanders who hitherto were crippled would be able to walk again after operations if they were provided with simple callipers or supports. He hoped to set up a workshop at the central hospital for the manufacture of such supports, once a cheap type suitable for use in the Solomons had been developed. Polio patients themselves could produce them.

Professor Huckstep said over 1,000 of the supports would be needed as in his experience twice the number of patients who had already presented themselves would come forward once the supports were available..

He said the Solomon Islands were lucky to a certain extent because at least polio vaccine was available in the protectorate. Many developing countries couldn’t afford to pay for it and the number of cases was increasing, especially in the tropics.

P-NG Committee on Pacific tour Having completed its tour of the territory to consider peoples’ views on self-government, Papua-New Guinea’s Select Committee on Constitutional Development, chaired by Paulus Arek, was to leave on a fact-finding tour of the Pacific and across the world at the end of June.

The committee has been split into two six-man groups. One group is visiting Guam, Saipan, Honolulu, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and Honiara. The other is going round the world taking in Sydney, Singapore, Colombo, Nairobi, Rome and Calcutta.

The South Pacific group will be in the US Trust territory and Guam from June 30 to July 8, from July 9 to 12 in American Samoa, from July 12 to 15 in Western Samoa, from July 15 to 22 in Fiji, and from July 22 to 27 in the Solomons.

Above are chairman, Paulus Arek (with briefcase), and John Middleton, with natives at Telefomin, in the remote West Sepik, at the end of the committee's New Guinea tour. 44 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Saying what you think on NG Black power in Papua-New Guinea? Black power in the Pacific?

It’s not so far off, and, in fact, there have been signs of its adherents in Papua-New Guinea for some time now.

They’re not advocating violence necessarily, although it appeals to some privately as the simplest way to overthrow the white who dominate this country in every field at present.

It’s only a small ground swell at present, and its rise won’t be rapid.

A political forum at the University of Papua-New Guinea recently heard black power philosophy expounded by the Trobriand Islands’ most politically active student, John Kasaipwalova, although he didn’t give it that name. But he made no bones about his intentions in the title he gave to his subject, “Why We Should Hate Whites”.

Before more than 200 students and staff of all races, Kasaipwalova fluently and rationally declared that whites in the territory should be hated in the sense that they should be rejected, and their dominating power structure with them, so the native people could stand up with pride as members of their own race.

He rejected outright the colonial attitude that a good New Guinean could only be so if he was “a brown Australian”.

Dressed in a bright tunic-like garment made of a material printed with a native design, over trousers and thongs, Kasaipwalova said the acceptance by most New Guineans of this “brown Australian” idea was obvious in their apeing of Australian dress, manners and customs.

Meanwhile, a dapper, outspoken East African professor of political science has shaken to its foundations the acceptance by many involved in Papua-New Guinea’s future that the territory must adopt either the Westminster or United States systems of government.

Professor Ali Mazrui, from Uganda, blew apart the contention put forward only the day before by eminent judge of the Australian Commonwealth Industrial Court, Mr. Justice Kerr, that the territory was moving with “implacable” force towards the Westminister form of government.

Professor Mazrui was the main guest speaker at a seminar on constitutional development in Papua- New Guinea, run at the end of May at the territory’s university in Port Moresby by the Council on New Guinea Affairs, a private group of people interested in P-NG’s development.

The professor said he felt he owed it to his sponsors to comment positively, and he did just that. He opened up by saying that the problems of African countries approaching independence (disunity, lack of polical parties, uneven development, poorly developed or undeveloped institutions such as trade unions and so on) were grotesquely illustrated in P-NG. New Guinea was at once a miniaturisation of Africa and an exaggeration, and was the one place in the world he knew of which was really relevant to Africa. (Years ago it was popular to try to compare P-NG’s problems with Africa’s to find solutions, but this lost popularity in favour of looking inwards).

The professor thought it would be Anglo-centric to discuss only the British and United States forms of government in trying to come up with a form for P-NG, especially as these two were more alike than different.

He urged there be a national language to help cultural integration. Pidgin was the obvious language to promote; but it needed to be renamed to get away from the implication that it was a “broken” language, its rules needed to be set down and the language left to solidify and become part of the country’s culture (through translations of Shakespeare, for example, and local writings), with English remaining a complementary language.

The professor was not kind to Australia as a colonial power. At least, he said, the British in Africa had contributed to national unity by their exploitative attitude to the colonies. But Australians took the only attitude that could be worse— they were indifferent, thus denying New Guineans even the shared anticolonial feeling that had been such an important contribution to nationhood in Africa.

There was practically nothing of this long tradition of exploitation to help P-NG combine its 700-odd separate cultures into a national feeling, there was no flag, no anthem or national song, no unifying cause.

The Australian Administration had in fact perpetuated differences through the artificial line between Papua and New Guinea, and the 18 districts which brought about unequal progress, and you had to add to these the linguistic differentiation, and the geophysical break-up of the peoples between Highlanders and coastal peoples.

But his main bombshell probably was his acceptance that the Westminster system would be just as likely to fall apart because strong political parties were unlikely to develop. Oneparty rule was now either current, or virtually so, in East African countries because of this “weakness”

Chemicals and death Agricultural chemicals have caused sickness and death to both humans and fish in the South Pacific recendy A child in Western Samoa is dead, and his mother and three other children were in hospital gravely ill, after possibly having eaten some weed-killer with their evenmg meah The mother and her children of Faleasui-uta had begun their evening meal when the children started to vomit. Their sickness struck the whole family, When the mother tried to attract the attention of a passer-by two days later, her child was dead while she and the other children could hardly move. They had been without food for two days and rs 0 nights. They were rushed to hospital and given blood trans- T t °° s * , - - It s strongly suspected that the water used for cooking the meal had been tainted by a weedkiller used by the neighbour, from whose water-drum the water was drawn, A general warning has gone out that great care should be taken by those using weedkillers and other chemicals to ensure that they don’t get into food, water and cooking utensils, At the same time, agricultural chemicals were reported as having killed thousands of fish in Truk Lagoon in the US Trust Territory and the illnesses of several villagers. TT officials say the cause of the contamination of the lagoon is not yet fully known but samples have been flown to Honolulu and Manila for close study A strong smell in the area suggests that powerful agricultural chemicals are responsible.

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Old and new Noumea Noumea's latest and most luxurious building is the new headquarters of the Banque de I'lndochine, below.

But just three blocks away, is the building at left, one of the town's oldest. In the heart of the town and on one of Noumea's busiest corners it's just across the street from the Australian Consulate. The building is still occupied by a family. This "colonial" type of architecture is fast disappearing in Noumea, there now being only about a dozen examples left in the main part of Noumea. The style charmed the tourists visiting Noumea in the first cruise ships before World War 11. in the countries’ development, and for reasons of national security.

From what he knew of P-NG’s culture and traditions, the country seemed hospitable to liberal values under which a one-party system could well operate without descending into autocracy.

Professor Mazrui also pressed the government to assist in establishing institutions, such as trade unions and other bodies, which would help create national feeling, and not to suppress any natural political groups.

He said that while some of these groups might be opposed to what the Administration today was trying to do, there must be what he called “conflict resolutions” coming out of the clash of ideas between these institutions so as not to “petrify” disputes.

Fiji hotel courses soon Fiji’s first training courses for hotel and restaurant waiters are due to begin in Suva on August 10, with an initial 16 students. To be held at the Derrick Technical Institute, Suva, the courses are the first step towards the proposed establishment of a hotel school at the institute.

Mr. E. J. Beckley, head of the institute’s School of Catering Services, said that eventually, the school hoped to be turning out 50 to 60 qualified waiters a year.

“This should satisfy all our demands,” he said.

Training for the proposed 50 to 60 chefs a year will not begin until the school is opened, possibly next year.

Under the two - year leamership scheme, waiters will attend three three-week courses at the institute.

On-the-job training will be carried out as well.

If at the end of the first year a learner is considered worthy of further training, it will be possible to convert him to the three-year apprenticeship course.

It is expected that those who graduate from the school—so to 60 a year—will be the future head waiters of Fiji’s hotels and restaurants.

Tourism promoters are hoping that while the training turns out a new, more efficient stamp of waiter in Fiji, it won’t rob him of his spontaneous good humour. For that, above all, is Fiji’s number one attraction.

Tontoua plans Major pre-occupation of airlines servicing Noumea currently, is the future development of Tontouta international airport.

For two years plans for a new $3 million passenger terminal have been “in the air”, but they now seem to have made a forced landing.

Governor Louis Verger, on his return from top-level Paris talks in March, on the future exploitation of Caledonian nickel, declared that work on the new airport would begin in July.

Since then, it has been disclosed that Paris is not prepared to provide the full finance necessary for the S 3 million project. The Noumea Chamber of Commerce, which has had charge of the airport since last year, has stated that there is only enough finance to complete twothirds of the project.

It was thus decided to increase the area of the extremely inadequate current facilities. These extensions were to begin in June and be completed in four months.

When the new terminal can be built, about 120 yards away, the present facilities are to be retained as a freight-baggage hall, where arriving passengers will go across and fetch their luggage.

It is in fact expected that in future the freight and baggage will increase more than passenger traffic, at the airport. 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1970

Footnotes THE way in which “self-government” has become a dirty word in Niugini has been entertainingly illustrated by the case of a Niuginian who felt so strongly on the subject that he smashed his radio when it uttered the hated word. He bought another one, but it too started to talk about self-government and was similarly bashed to pieces. When he acquired his third radio, someone was able to persuade him that it would be simpler and cheaper just to switch it off when it uttered the 14-letter word.

“Home Rule,” oddly enough, has not acquired this stigma, though no one seems very clear as to what the difference is.

Surprisingly, few people seem to realise how close we have in fact got to home rule. Since 1964 there has been not only an unofficial majority but also an indigenous majority in the House of Assembly. At any time during the last six years the Niuginian members could have combined to defeat the expatriates.

Yet the skies have not fallen on us; and that final bulwark of white supremacy, the Governor-General’s veto, has been used, as far as I can remember, only twice. In both these cases the unacceptable legislation had been initiated by European, not by indigenous, elected members; and in one of them the proposal which was vetoed in 1965 was re-activated by the Government itself in 1968.

True, wide powers are still vested in the Minister for External Territories, but many of them are now delegated to the Administrator in Council or to Ministerial Members, and the pace of this process of delegation is accelerating.

What more is needed before we can be said to have achieved home rule?

First, full ministerial responsibility to the House of Assembly for all departments of the Administration. The present distinction between ministerial and assistant ministerial members, could be replaced by a distinction between senior ministers who would be members of Cabinet (i.e., the Administrator’s Executive Council) and junior ministers who would not. But all must accept full responsibility for their several departments.

If at the start this leaves ministers very heavily dependent on the advice of their permanent departmental heads, is that a situation so unknown in Australia as to be repulsive to us?

Second, formal transfer of the Minister’s already delegated and still undelegated powers to the appropriate authorities within Niugini, including, most importantly, his powers in relation to the Public Service Board.

TTie Government’s present unwillingness to reveal how far this delegation has gone in respect of the Public Service Board shows what appears to be an unnecessary secretiveness, and is certainly bad for public relations.

Third, local control of the budget, subject only to such checks as may be reasonably conceded to safeguard the proper use of Australian financial aid.

And that’s about the lot. I have come round to the view that it might be a very good thing to retain the Governor-General’s power of veto during an initial period of home rule. Its retention would do a lot to allay the fears of those who are still afraid of selfgovernment; it would be unlikely to be frequently invoked; and it would be much cheaper than an Upper House.

The question of a review chamber could then be postponed till the time for independence draws near. * * ♦ NIUGINIANS are not by tradition tolerant people.

In the small, vulnerable communities in which they lived before the coming of the white man they could not afford to be tolerant of dissenters. Moreover, it was their belief, as it has been the belief of many peoples throughout the ages, that the failure of a single individual to conform to traditional customs and rituals could bring down the vengeance of gods or spirits on the whole community.

One might have hoped that nearly a century’s contact with the more democratic manifestations of western democracy would have produced an atmosphere of

With Percy Chatterton

in Port Moresby tolerance among Niuginians, but I am afraid that this has not happened to any great extent.

For this state of affairs the missionaries must take some of the blame; the growth of tolerance between churches is a fairly recent phenomenon, and many of the earlier missionaries in Niugini were as fiercely intolerant as the tribesmen they sought to convert.

The Administration must also take its share. A “Native Regulation” of pre-war Papua ran: “If any native appears on reasonable grounds to a magistrate—to be engaged, or about to engage, in any act which is likely to prejudicially affect the good government and well being of the natives, the Magistrate may order him to desist”.

The magistrate had apparently unfettered freedom to decide what was prejudicial to good government, and penalties for disobedience to such an order were prescribed. And it should be noted that “magistrate in pre-war Papua meant what we would now call kiaps, not legally trained magistrates.

There were, of course, some tolerant magistrates, just as there were some tolerant missionaries. But the general atmosphere was not one of tolerance of dissent, and we cannot be surprised that Niuginians have been slow to learn a lesson which we have been slow to teach them. Can we now inculcate the lesson before it is too late?

This question was provoked in my mind by a debate during the recent meeting of the House of Assembly on a motion advocating the deportation of Mr. Barry Middlemiss, who has recently been active in promoting a public opinion poll or unofficial referendum on Bougainville on the secession issue. A fiery debate led to a watering down of the motion by deleting the reference to deportation and settling for “investigation”. 48 JULY, 1 9 7 0 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

From New Guinea, with love But this did not satisfy Peter Johnson, member for Angoram on the Sepik, who declared: “I do not like Mr. Middlemiss. I do not like his political views neither do I respect them, but I do respect his right to have and to express these views. This motion, even in its watered down form, that this House set investigations afoot to victimise an individual for his political views and the fact that he expresses them outspokenly reeks of the possible establishment of a police state within this country, and I hope that members will think again and now reject this motion”.

Mr. Johnson’s hopes were ill-founded.

Only 15 of the 43 members who were in the House when, a few minutes later, a division was taken, agreed with him. True, 43 is less than half the total voting strength of the House, but I do not think that he would have been supported by a bigger proportion of members if the attendance had been larger.

There are some people who say that a newly independent nation, like the old Niuginian village communities, cannot afford to be tolerant. I respect the sincerity of those who hold this view, but I believe that they are wrong.

We sure need that Bill of Rights.

From DENIS FISK, in Port Moresby in ?h D e worm hM^? compuS E r “attet o h r g ame en n _ . * T ., r Com P. u *f rs Pt y- td *» P °* ore . whlc *J ™us the only c^m P fii ter m Pa P ua-New Guinea, has firm* 6 P ro S ra J*J mes t 0 United States twen C^o^ Ul fn^\^ e o^^AnA tle^ and s l2o>°°o.out0 >°°0.out of eas it farst developed for its own u e ' The Port Moresby firm only began in March, 1967, with a staff of two, and an IBM-1130 computer which rn^ ded . t 0 oil and other mineral searcn data.

But the firm’s biggest market turned out to be in the commercial/ business field. The IBM company dnint “support” the computer well enough for this type of work, and afford develop its own programmes V ge° the performance it wanted from the Its programmes—or “software” as they are called inThe computer industry—turned out to be wav ahead of anything developed in theVnUed SSj?" 4 ’° o ° ° f the U 30 ’ S .Th- programmes were written by the firm s tec hmcal wizard—Englishman David Lee who migrated to Australia 10 years ago and to Papua four years ago. One, a sorting programme, was found to operate eight - ime A S fa ? ter than an Vthing in use in America; a second increased the speed of the computer’s printer six times; and the input-output system for disc records was improved to 10 times its original speed of operation.

Australian, David Podger 34 of is the manager of the firm which now employs 14 people, made up of nine analysts, computer operators and programmers, and five keypunch machine operators.

Podger is proud of the fact that already four of his staff are Papuans f Milne Bay who m^ ch . lne J S3I kev are also T 5)n I t he Be” Y ule MSd^wh^b/^ 106 , la ? d w + ho L has g iven c^mpm^Togrammer. ‘° h* o ™ 3 coffi £ word about the new programmes and signed an agency agreement with DNA Systems Inc. of Flint, Michigan.

The royalties he expects would come f rom only the normal shallow penetration of the software market in the United States—between 2 per cent, and 5 per cent, of the computer users with IBM 1130’s.

Credibility dan gap He had to go over, to get around the credibility gap, which he calls “the Tibet complex” . . . “you know, say, two Tibetan monks ring you up with an offer ’ y° u wouldn’t believe lt > would y° u? ”

The first sale of the programmes * as made t 0 a P la f which couldn't SpTS&r *S3S?

Alas^ a - A computer firm there wants L° ' mprove , its Performance in hand mg oil search and mineral LTaiSh otf fields" “ b °° m - The computer girls: Left to right standing, Pauline Beni, Eunan Ani of Pari village, and Kaikanu Eai from the Gulf District.

Seated is the firm's second key-punch operator, Mea Mallard. 49 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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This is one of the songs being used on the French radio, perhaps unwittingly, to lure New Caledonian travellers overseas, on their tight foreign currency budget.

The song has been played to advertise UTA French Airlines latest (payin-francs) overseas travel—the America tour.

Biggest problem for Caledonians flying overseas is to arrange their trip with the minimum of foreign currency expenditure. Since the French franc devaluation last August, Caledonian tourists’ allowance has been reduced from SA27O to $237 for one year’s travel.

The greatest effort to overcome this problem has been made by UTA, which is offering prepaid all-inclusive overseas excursions. By this means, three groups of Caledonians have been able to plan visits to Expo ’7O in Japan, on a four-week air excursion.

Other group travel is regularly organised to neighbouring islands such as New Hebrides, New Zealand, Norfolk and Fiji.

However, more distant horizons are now opening up, particularly following canvassing among the nickelplated or cattle-rich of the inland.

In June, the first group of nineteen inhabitants of the Bourail region flew off for the USA.

Their three-week tour had been carefully planned so that the precious foreign currency would only be required for meals and personal expenses.

Visitors agree that the capital, Noumea, looks bustling and freespending enough these days, but UTA has organised publicity films inland, where the airlines representatives have sniffed out millions of francs stowed away in modest villages.

Francs earned from mountains of nickel, acres of cattleland or shopkeepers thriving from both.

It looks as if the overseas airlines —PanAm, Qantas and Air New Zealand—will have to work up some good foreign-currency saving tours too, if they want to keep the Caledonians moving. 50 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

A bird's eye view They look like a row of discarded matchboxes,- in fact it's Hanuabada village in Port Moresby harbour. Captain A. G. Shearer, Fiji pilot, took this bird's eye view of a familiar South Seas landmark and there are others from his camera on the following two pages. 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Seen from the air: Top, Bonriki Airport, Tarawa Atoll, GEIC; above, Fiji School of Medicine, Suva; right, Forari manganese mines, Efate, New Hebrides, operated by Southland Mining Ltd. Opposite page top, Honiara, the circular building is the High Court and the Legislative Assembly building; BSIP administrative headquarters is in the oblong building opposite.

Right: Tonga's International Dateline Hotel, facing the waterfront at Nukualofa. 52 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Dira s eye view

53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

At the same time as the carving of traditional figures and ceremonial gongs. New Hebrideans, following the same pattern as throughout the Pacific, are turning out more and more items for the tourist market. Whether or not they can produce their magnificent slit gongs, at the same time carving lesser works for tourists, remains to be seen. Certainly these mask carvings show no concession to the second-rate—yet.

Slit gongs, the prestige item of the New Hebrides Gongs of various types are found throughout the New Hebrides, from small, hand-held undecorated bamboo gongs to large, elaborately carved varieties of Malekula and Ambrym.

Ambrym gongs are distinctively carved and the Fanla gong is a particularly fine example of the style.

Small gongs with or without the carved face are owned by most Big Men and there is at least one in every ceremonial ground.

The smaller gongs are played with hard wood sticks and have a lighter tone than the large ones, which are played with the trimmed end of a dried coconut spathe. Unlike Malekula, where gongs may be left lying on the ground, in Ambrym they are always set upright, a portion of the base being shaped for the purpose, and it is in this position that they are always played.

Communication system The gongs are an extremely effective inter-village communication system and gongs the size of the Fanla ones are audible for many miles; gong rhythms also play an integral part in all rituals and ceremonials.

Gongs are individually owned and since acquiring one entails considerable expenditure, it is usually only Big Men, that is those men who have achieved the higher ranks in the graded society, who possess them.

The gongs are not regarded as sacred; however, a certain amount of a Big Man’s power and prestige accrues to all his personal possessions and the slit-gongs are no exception.

They have a definite ritual significance and, as in Malekula, the erection of a new gong may entail considerable ceremonial.

A gong is acquired in the following way: the prospective buyer approaches a man who already possesses one of the kind that he wants and requests that he make one for him. If the “seller” agrees, he gives the buyer a pig, a debt which will be cancelled by the return of a slightly larger pig when the actual payment for the gong is made.

The pig returned is called the kukubu or pay-back pig and the transaction is common to the many rituals entailing payments for particular rights and paraphernalia in both Ambrym and Malekula.

The seller’s first task is to negotiate for a suitable tree, if he does not have one of his own, and to pay the owner of the breadfruit in compensation for his loss of its fruit.

The felled tree is usually carved on the spot but if it is in or near a frequented spot it may be dragged further into the bush to ensure that only those with rights to carve the particular kind of gong will have access to it.

Women are strictly excluded from the site and it is believed that should a woman see a gong before it is finished its tone will be spoiled. If the seller does not wish to carve the gong himself he may commission men who have reputations as skilful carvers provided that they or their fathers had previously purchased the right to carve such gongs.

The buyer visits the site from time to time to check the progress of the carving and, if he has never cut a gong himself, to learn the techniques.

Trunk hollowed out The trunk is first hollowed out, leaving only a narrow slit, the right hand “lip” of which is the only one beaten. The upper part of the gong is then carved into the stylised face or faces that characterise Ambrym gongs.

When the carving and decoration are complete, the buyer arranges a day for payment and erection of the gong with the seller.

On the appointed day the buyer sends a party of men to transport the gong to his ceremonial ground where it will be set up. A long pole is lashed by the men to haul the gong. The pole juts out over the base of the gong and is used as a rudder by the team organiser who steers and calls out the hauling chants used by the team. (Over) • Miss Mary Patterson, a post-graduate research student at the School of Anthropology, University of Sydney spent some months in the New Hebrides recently studying the unique slit gongs of Ambrym Island. In this article she describes the gongs and their significance in New Hebridean culture. Her picture (right) shows slit gongs being played on Fona village beach on Ambrym. 55 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Once basic items have been accounted for, the payment may vary depending on the ambitions of the buyer and status of the seller.

Particular features, such as the carving of the face, are paid for in live pigs of specified grades, but the buyer may also kill one or mere pigs which he presents to the seller and to the men who hauled the gong to the ceremonial ground and erected it there.

The pigs are cut up and distributed with the yams, taro and banans that accompany all such presentations. If the man holds a particularly high rank he may arrange for dances to be made in honour of his new acquisition and the dancers will also receive pieces of pork and vegetables.

How big an affair the erection of a new gong becomes depends entirely on the individual, his prestige and ambition.

Gongs may also be the focal point of a ritual called tobuan in which a man kills pigs and presents them to his wife’s kinsmen. Only a man who has previously made many presentations of this kind can perform the rite, since it is not only a means of achieving status and power, but a statement of that already achieved.

Each rung a pig The ritual entails the purchase of several items from the wife’s kinsmen by the donor of the pigs. The actual performance centres around a ladder built so that each rung represents a pig killed or donated live in the past.

The donor climbs the ladder or rather walks along it as it is not elevated very high, calling out at each rung the name of the recipient of the pig represented by the particular rung until he reaches the final rungs and calls out the names of the men waiting to receive the pigs.

The ladder may finish at a circular pile of stones called a wor or if the donor owns a fine gong it may rest halfway up the body of this.

The pigs are held up to the donor by his kinsmen while he stands on the last rung of the ladder and kills them with a carved wooden pig hammer called an atata. This item, together with the ladder and certain flowers and leaves used to decorate it, will have been provided by the recipients of the pigs and they will be paid for their service with live pigs of specified grades.

A gong that features in such a rite achieves renown as one over which many pigs have been killed and gives status, not only to its owner, but to the ceremonial ground in which it stands.

A Queen'S Gong

A 12-ft high Fanla slit gong was presented to Queen Elizabeth during her March tour of the Pacific. According to Miss Patterson, it was owned by the highest ranking man on North Ambrym in the New Hebrides, called Tain Mai. It's of the "Atingting Gelan" type (meaning beautiful slit gong) and the hands carved on either side of the face are the personal insignia of Tain Mai and his sons, who possess the only right to use them. The gong has a long history.

It is said to have come from a man from West Ambrym, who settled in Pangim and put it up in the ceremonial ground. From there it was bought by men of an inland village, who finally sold it for many pigs to Tain Mai. When in Tain Mai's possession, the gong took part in the "Tobuan" rite described in the article, the ladder leading up to the gong starting well outside the ceremonial ground and consisting of over 100 rungs.

The gong was famous throughout North Ambrym, and its sounds could be heard in many of the coastal villages. 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Land sales for tourism are 'political poison' By KEN McGREGOR “They’re committing political poison, you know.” The travel consultant gestured with his hands across his shiny new desk at his Sydney headquarters.

“I was in Kenya for many years and I saw it happen there. The year before Kenyan independence Europeans and overseas residents bought up most of the freehold land. After independence, Kenya’s leaders found that the best land in their country was not owned by Kenyans.

“Kenya had to borrow a huge amount from her former colonial master, Britain, to buy this good land back from outsiders. It hardly helped European-Kenya relations. And, of course, when most other African countries became independent, any land their leaders wanted, they appropriated. . . .”

We weren’t talking about Kenya to start with at all. I had dropped in for a talk about travel and the increasing lists of land sales to overseas residents of Fiji islands, plantations and properties.

However, the consultant was anxious to point out that while his firm was generally highly confident about Fiji’s tourism prospects, he couldn’t understand why so much land was being allowed to pass into overseas hands on the eve of the colony’s independence.

Nor can several other people I talked to.

In May and June The Fiji Times produced a wealth of stories on local land sales. Savusavu land sold. , . .

US-backed company buys land. . . .

Rakiraki land deal. ... 89 sections from new subdivision. ... Resort plan by NZ investors . . .”, and so the headings poured out.

The biggest sale of all, of course, was the buy for about SFI million of some 7,500 acres of freehold at Deuba, 30 miles from Suva, on Viti Levu.

Canadian and British were the purchasers and Indians and several Europeans, the vendors (PIM, June, p. 116).

Other sales have included: • A 505-acre plantation at Buca Bay, Vanua Levu, to Americanbacked Nukudamu Estates Ltd., for about $50,000. • 495 acres of land formerly owned by Mrs. Sarah Florence Barrack to Nukudamu Estates for $20,000 (Nukudamu’s two directors are Mr. Brian Larsen, now a resident of Suva but formerly of Hawaii, and Mr. Henry Achilles, a US naval officer who also owns Nawavi Island, near Savusavu). ’ • 87 acres of coastal land at Nadroga to American Investments Ltd. for $31,600. American is a holding company which controls American Pacific Corporation Ltd., which owns a sawmill at Deuba. • 921 acres of freehold on the outskirts of Savusavu township to General Investment Corporation (Fiji) Ltd., for $65,000. This land was from the estate of Mr. Peter Derbyshire. General also owns a small island off Labasa. • 3,791 acres of land near Rakiraki, northern Viti Levu, to Kappock Investments Ltd., for $250,000. Kappock bought the land from Mrs.

Harriet Burness and co-owners.

Registered in Suva, Kappock has British directors and was formed in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1967. • Yanuca Island, off Rakiraki, to South Seas Lands Ltd. for $28,575.

Sold by Mrs. Moira Therese Micheal, of Suva, the island lies between two bigger islands, Nananu-i-ra and Nananu-i-cake. South Seas is the operation of American, Mr. Bob Hunter, perhaps the best-known buyer of land in the colony. Mr.

Hunter had had an option on the island for several months. • Four acres of land in Savusavu township to Travelodge Fiji Ltd. and Burns Philp (South Sea) Ltd. for $39,500.

These land sales—and many others Huge hotel venture for Apia “Agreement in principle” was reached in May between the Western Samoan Government and a Seattle businessman, Mr. R. H. Hadley, and American investors for construction of a SUSIS million hotel-resort complex at Taumesina, one mile east of Samoa’s capital, Apia, on the island of Upolu.

Mr. Hadley was in Apia discussing with government officials details of the project, which would be by far Samoa’s biggest tourism venture.

He returned after the talks to the US to “proceed with plans to finance the plan”.

First stage of the project would be a 100-room hotel, costing $1.5 million. Government offered a 60-year lease on the hotel site, with an additional 20 years available should the hotel reach a size of 250 rooms within the first 20 years.

This initial hotel investment would rise to $l5 million over 20 years with money going into associated tourist projects nearby. PIM understands no actual agreement has yet been signed between Mr.

Hadley and the government.

And if Western Samoa continues to receive the kind of increase in numbers of tourists it has been getting lately, there should be no trouble in filling those rooms in the Apia hotel venture.

Western Samoa in the first month of this year increased its tourist arrivals by almost 50 per cent, from 696 in January 1969, to 1,022 this year. With last year’s totals for both Samoas at around 14,000 each, predictions are that by 1972, Western Samoa will have about 27,000 a year and American Samoa, about 34,000.

Average age of those staying in Western Samoa during January was a low 47.3 years. From the US came 537 people; from Europe, 108; from NZ, 88; the UK, 67 and from Australia a surprisingly low 64. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Mr. Jim Mair, managing director of J. H. Mair Ltd., of Suva, paid a Sydney visit in May and said real estate values in Fiji were booming.

He expressed surprise that more Australians weren’t participating in the boom.

Mr. Mair said American investors, both individuals and companies, were buying large tracts of Fiji land for residential sub-division, confident that independence would see an expansion of the country’s economy.

“There is also the advantage of no land tax, and both company tax and individual income tax are at a low level,” he said.

However, many in Fiji see the big land prices pushing up a wide variety of prices, with current investments in land based on long-term potential, rather than on immediate returns in the next two years. And then there’s Fiji’s land shortage ratio to population with the political intangibles of independence. Has anyone considered those?

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A lot has happened since that first New Hebrides flight On May 31, 1960, the first New Hebrides internal flight, from Vila to Tanna and return, took off. It was flown by an Australian-born Hebrides plantation owner, Bob Paul, and a New South Wales pilot, the late Paul Burton.

On May 31 the condominium’s internal operator, Air Melanesia, celebrated the 10th anniversary of that historic flight.

Bob Paul and Paul Burton had bought a de Havilland Dragon Rapide (a former aerial ambulance in Queensland) and Burton flew it to Vila, via Port Moresby, Rabaul and Honiara. They then flew from Vila to Tanna, and landed on a new airstrip constructed by the Tannese people.

But, after landing, Mr. Burton decided Tanna strip was not long enough for a take-off. He asked the people to make it longer and it was two weeks before the extension was completed and the aircraft was able to take off to return to Vila.

It was hard going in those early days. Money was short, and the French Administration made life difficult for the new airline. But there Bob Paul, with the New Hebrides Airways' first aircraft, in 1960. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

In Port Moresby

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Messrs. Paul and Burton called their operations New Hebrides Airways, and about a year later they received some competition when a French group, Hebridair, started up with its own plane.

In June, 1966, these two companies combined to form Air Melanesia, but individual and involved British, French and Hebridean shareholdings in the two original companies remained.

October, 1966, was New Hebrides aviation’s darkest hour when Air Melanesia’s three-engined Drover aircraft crashed into rugged country in South Tanna. All eight aboard were killed, including NHA’s co-founder Burton.

Burton was mourned widely, and the crash was a shattering blow to Air Melanesia. Time, the perseverence of Mr. Paul and a few new shareholders, helped operations get back on their feet.

In the late 1960’5, Air Melanesia emerged as one of the promising Islands internal airlines, with its worth rather in goodwill and licence rights than in aircraft equipment.

The French made take-over advances, a New Zealand-backed, Suvabased charter group showed interest and then the international Commonwealth carriers, Qantas and BOAC, moved in.

Qantas bought up a controlling interest in NHA, and resold about half its share to BOAC. And then Islands trader, BP’s took up a minor stake.

Mr. Paul kept his interest but it remains to be seen if Qantas and BOAC have bought in merely to stop someone else or to upgrade services and equipment. So far, their presence hasn’t been greatly felt.

The fact that New Hebrides has any service at all today is due to the tenacity and far-sightedness of planter Paul and the late Captain Burton.

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Westours Inc., Seattle-based travel firm, has a new Pacific cruise service due to begin in November, with the firm’s ship, the MV West Star, inaugurating operations between Tahiti and Fiji.

Westours is extending its one-way cruise programme to the South Pacific service by offering 11 and sixday cruises operating in both directions between Suva and Papeete. Intermediate cruise stops will include Tonga, American and Western Samoa, Bora Bora and Moorea. 64 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Am. Airlines Start August

PERHAPS WITHOUT AUST.

With its flights to Australia still undetermined, American Airlines will begin its flights to New Zealand, American Samoa and Fiji from August 1.

From Hawaii, American will fly its Boeing 707’s twice a week to NZ (once via Nadi, Fiji, and once via Pago Pago, American Samoa).

Also, from Hawaii, American will operate three terminating flights a week to Nadi and return.

To connect with Hawaii* from August 1 also, American will operate daily 707 non-stop flights from New York, Chicago and St. Louis to Hawaii, as well as daily one-stop (probably a West Coast US point) flights from Boston and Detroit to Hawaii.

From New York, American announced it planned a daily service out of Hawaii to “points in the South Pacific”, indicating at least two more flights south of Hawaii a week.

The initial American flights indicate the airline’s confidence in Fiji as a destination tourist area and its determination to promote NZ, Fiji and Samoa, regardless of its proposed Australian flights.

Australia’s Department of Civil Aviation hasn’t yet agreed to an Australian touch down because it thinks American is initially wanting too high a frequency, and that other Pacific airlines would suffer. • Mr. Tony Pinto, who left Air India as Australasian manager last year ( PIM , Dec., 1969, p. 45), has been appointed manager, schedule services, in the marketing department of Nordair, one of Canada’s regional airlines. Mr. Pinto was first engaged with Nordair last October, developing new 727 services.

Talks Drag On Between

Ansett And Patair

Talks between directors of Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd, NG’s biggest locally-owned airline, and Ansett Airlines, on a merger into the Ansett empire continued to their fourth week in late June.

Conferring in Port Moresby, neither airline’s directors indicated what had happened. The secretary of Mr. G. H. Ross Jones, Patair’s group executive director, told PIM it was expected the talks could continue for “quite a while” before any decision was reached.

Meantime, in Moresby and Melbourne, Mr. Cliff Jackson (Patair) and Sir Reginald Ansett, principals of the two groups, gave informal Press statements.

Mr. Jackson said Ansett had not made a takeover approach to Patair.

The approach had been more related to a “merger”, and it had come from Patair.

In a statement which the Melbourne Stock Exchange queried as it was not an official one, Sir Reginald said Ansett would take over Patair and “clean up Patair’s mess of aircraft and lift profitability to viable levels.”

Ansett would exchange its 50 cent shares for 240,000 $2 units in Patair at par, transforming Patair into an Ansett subsidiary.

Ansett would dispose of many of Patair’s aircraft to outside interests and possibly use others elsewhere in its business. By gaining Patair’s NG concessions, Ansett would challenge its competitor, TAA, in all areas.

Patair’s profitability, Sir Reginald said, had been “patchy” for several years, with recent operations producing little more than break-even earnings.

Mr. Jackson’s and Sir Reginald’s statements were followed by silence all round, but should the deal eventuate, it could be a major step for Ansett’s case as THE independent NG airline (and overseas routes?).

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1070

South India Palm-fringed tropical beaches, quiet waterways, luxury hotels. /? * m r»»I RfMiN: mEgssk 1 Smiles as wide as all India 2 Tropical Exotica! Beach at Kovalam 3 Awe-inspiring temple art and architecture 4 Main street In a southern village 5 Canal at Cochin the Venice of India * Singapore ; V ; with BO AC and Qantas It doesn’t happen quickly.

You discover South India piece by precious piece. Your gateway is the great city of madras with its bustling bazaars and fascinating beach temples at MAHABALIPURAM. From here you cross South India to Trivandrum, a tropical city of infinite charm. Relax on palm-fringed beaches at kovalam lapped by the warm waters of the Arabian Sea. Live in a Maharajah's beach palace.

From Trivandrum a side trip to the famous PERIYAR GAME SANCTUARY, or a short car ride to the breathtaking beauty of the three ocean coastline at CAPE COMORIN, India's southernmost point. At COCHIN on the west coast, board a powered canoe and explore the labyrinth of canals that weave and wind between tree-lined villages. For COCHIN is the Venice of India.

Then a plane-hop via COIMBATORE for a scenic drive high into the hills to OOTY. A spectacular climb through lush forests to this hill station resort nestled 7,000 feet above the prolific green of India's garden southland. Inland to BANGALORE, commercial heart of the South. Thriving. Wealthy.

Exquisitely beautiful.

And then a decision. Whether to head North to the romantic Lake Palace at Udaipur and the majestic Taj Mahal at Agra, to press on to Europe, or to head back home rich in knowledge and laden with treasures. Or whether to dwell forever in the bosom of India. The incredible South.

Fly there soon. See your travel agent and make it easy.

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Fiji Travel Service moves into other Pacific territories Fiji Travel Service, with UK financing, will expand from Fiji operations to travel agency business in nearby territories, such as the Samoas, Tonga and the New Hebrides, early next year.

Fiji Travel was recently taken over for an undisclosed sum by the London-based, United Touring Company. UTC, with some £Stg.27 million invested in tourism facilities in Africa, was the party last year which made an unsuccessful attempt to take up an interest in Fiji’s major travel agency, Hunts.

Now, with its Fiji Travel acquisition, UTC has an alternative vehicle for operations in the Islands. It has kept on Fiji Travel’s part-owner, Miss Terry Atkins, as manager of FTS, and has set up offices of UTC at Nadi and Suva to assist Fiji Travel in Fiji.

From Sydney, UTC has set up a telex booking system for Fiji accommodation, and hopes are to extend this system to other Islands.

Meantime, it aims to consolidate itself in Fiji.

Big resorts needed One of Britain’s major travel operators, UTC has closely examined Islands markets over the past 24 months. It feels the Islands lack a major resort areas such as Miami or Hawaii, where several big resorts are adjacent to each other.

When resorts are close, UTC feels, many complementary tourist facilities are set up. Transport operators, boat charterers, nightclubs, restaurants, native villages and marinas spring up, giving visitors a variety of activities from several resorts, instead of just those from the resort they may happen to be at.

Fiji in particular needs a Club Mediterranee resort badly, UTC feels, with cut-price package tours from Sydney. Such a Fiji resort, would, as at Moorea and Bora Bora, in French Polynesia, attract single people in the 20 to 40 years age group, looking for a lively time on an all-inclusive price basis.

UTC feels a British, Australian or American group could set up such an operation in Fiji, but they could learn much first by examining the French effort, particularly on Moorea. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - J u L Y . 1970

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Desperate shortage of qualified church teachers in P-NG From SUSAN YOUNG, in Port Moresby The Anglican Bishop of Papua-New Guinea has sharply criticised the Australian “mother church” for failing to supply the territory church’s only boys’ high school with enough qualified teachers.

In a special statement, Bishop David Hand said that unless the staffing situation soon improved dramatically, the Anglican church in Papua-New Guinea might be forced to close the Martyrs’ School, near Popondetta, in the Northern District of Papua. The present staff is 15, six unqualified, for just over 330 boys.

“Martyrs’ School is the only boys’ secondary school run by the Anglican church in the territory,” said Bishop Hand. “Yet the Australian church is apparently incapable of keeping it adequately staffed. It’s pathetic and disgraceful.

“The Australian Board of Missions has done its best to find us the teachers, but the Australian church people themselves just aren’t responding.

“It’s amazing that there are not in the Australian church enough trained men teachers with sufficient sense of dedication and vocation, or mere sense of adventure, to ccme up here and help these people who will soon have to be running their own country.

“Every year we have the same trouble. We scratch around and make frantic appeals for staff and somehow manage to make do. Then at the end of the year most of them leave and we are back to square one.”

Bishop Hand said that so far the church had kept the school’s staff up to strength by employing a lot of unqualified volunteers. “However”, he went on, “with the new system of education now being introduced here, unqualified staff are no longer acceptable.

“This means that Martyrs’ School is now in an extremely critical situation and unless we can very soon find more fully trained teachers we shall have to give serious consideration to closing the school.”

A pub near a burial ground

Man Behind Tonga'S

Family Planning

By Sio Magisi

Land shortage and overpopulation are undoubtedly the primary causes of the discontent one finds in Tonga today. One man who might hold the key to its eventual solution is Dr. Mumui Tatola, chief of the kingdom’s government-backed family planning programme, headquartered in Nukualofa.

I asked him how his birth-control programme was faring. He told me: “The situation we have got into is frightful, almost unthinkable. A lot of people oppose our programme.

They say it’s against the will of God, some even say it’s a form of Communism, just how, I don’t know.

“Tonga has a higher poulation density than India. By the turn of the century, regardless of how productive our agriculture will be, the land will not support our projected population.

“There are already 88,000 in Tonga,” said Dr. Mumui. “A population of 160,000 is the maximum we can hold for survival. Beyond that we will have to starve.”

He said that an expert from Hawaii considered the government, Tonga’s biggest and most powerful employer, could only give 70 more jobs between now and 1976. Other employers, such as stores, could add only a few more, “There should only be 80 high school graduates a year if we are t 0 maintain our level of living now, low as !t 18 ” said Dr - Mumui. “But we are already faced with 2,000 secondary school graduates a year who are out after jobs. Where will they all work?” ,Mumui sa y s . onl y half * he 20,000 Tongan males eligible for Au d ,he ° ,tS ha ™ ‘hem. the land a .‘ ea ln the K 25 ? ? q “ ar ® ™‘ es > ~c an b , e dlvlded only into 20,175 allotments or apis of Si acres, and that includes road There aren't too many Islands pubs which can boast nearby limestone caves used for centuries by locals as protection from the enemy and as burial places for the dead. But, one New Guinea hotel—Chimbu Lodge Motel, at Kundiawa, in the Eastern Highlands—has its own transport to show guests these revered caves. Also, near the two-storey 14-suite hotel, are primitive New Guinea markets, spectacular mountains and the busy Kundiawa airstrip outside guests' windows. Accessible by road from Goroka or Mt. Hagen, the lodge is owned by Mr. Paul Mason, of Inus, Bougainville; Mr. Fred Archer, now of Rabaul; and Inus Plantation Pty. Ltd. 69 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1070

Keep your family safe from mosquitoes Tl is of the utmost importance to keep your family safe from mosquitoes. The spread of malaria, directly attributable to the bite of the female mosquito, is still one of the costliest diseases known to man, killing a million people a year.

Today malaria is fought on a global scale at its source— with the eradication of the mosquito itself. Programmes for control are made easier by the fact that the insects must breed in water. The elimination of any possible breeding sites near the home, such as old tins and bottles, roof gutters, flower pots, fire buckets and drains, is a natural precaution to observe.

The mosquito is also a carrier of such serious diseases as yellow fever, dengue, encephalitis and filariasis.

There is no need, however, for you or your family to run formidable risks. Tremendous scientific advances made by A.N.I. Chemical Research now place the powerful effects of high-potency Pea-Beu aerosol insecticide at your disposal, an ideal means for eliminating the mosquito menace and for rapidly killing all insect pests on a pattern similar to fumigation.

As mosquitoes prefer shadowed and darkened areas, always spray the Pea-Beu fine mist spray towards pelmets, curtaining, the shadowed sides of furniture and dark room corners where mosquitoes lurk. The wide “umbrella-spreading” action of this concentrated insecticide will keep all your home and family safe from these disease-carrying pests and ensure that every mosquito is killed off. Pea-Beu is pleasantly perfumed, and can be sprayed freely with safety throughout the home. space, town areas, uninhabited islands and all tofia’s (royal and nobility estates) . . . and you know who will be against that.

“Family planning here started in 1958 virtually on the quiet. I became involved personally two years ago, and I have been blowing the whistle everywhere since. It’s been a definite success.”

There were now at least 2,000 Tongan couples practising birth control, “but a lot of the records have been lost because of frequent staff changes since the programme was started”.

Aged 42, Dr. Mumui is a dynamic man who pulls no punches when he gives radio talks on the need for birth control in Tonga.

He warns listeners why Tongans today seem to have less respect for human life; why supplies of fish and shellfish in the coastal areas have markedly diminished in recent years; why local food prices have soared; why children suffer from insufficient nutrition; why there are so many heated rows over land ownership; why crimes increase yearly; why there is begging in the streets; why classrooms are overcrowded and why Nukualofa has “drifters” sleeping on the cold hard floors of shops at night.

Dr. Mumui sticks to his belief in birth control despite concerted opposition—declared and undeclared.

Some of the opposition is religious.

From their pulpits, Catholic priests have turgidly denounced any interference with “God’s plan”.

The irony of it all is that Dr.

Mumui himself is a Catholic, “but I haven’t bothered to go to any services after my work was tom apart, even by lay members.

“You know some people poke fun at me every time they see me coming.

They say, ‘Now, here’s the birth control doctor’ and so on. But this is good because it shows they’re aware of what my staff and I and the government are trying to do.

“We will continue to spread the gospel at kava parties, by talking to people, through our radio talks, through educational films and posters.”

Award film to sell Fiji A copy of the prize-winning film Fiji, Fiji might be a boost for potential Fiji investors busily 'seeking finance overseas. Made by Cinesound, the film presents Fiji “at its best”—and the Fiji Visitors Bureau is looking for buyers for an extra 25 copies costing SFISO. The film won first prize in the Pacific Area Travel Association film festival in 1969.

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"A final smoke of trade tobacco, a chew of betel nut, and then... " t was while I was at Tarara in 1929 that the local village constable reported that, only a few days earlier, a head hunting raid had taken place at the small village of Peatakaka. There was still great excitement, and reports were very confused, but I gathered that a man named Danai, his two vV maU w5 ad i? een •5 illed and their heads cut off ’ and that a woman named Orang ad been kidnapped. Who the raiders were and whence they came was still unkown.

One thing was obvious, the matter would have to be fully investigated and arrests made. I would have rather taken more fully trained police. As it was, two of my seven police were raw recruits out for their first experience: No doubt they would benefit, but they would be of very little value to the patrol.

It has to be admitted that the information about this raid came as a shock, as this area had been considered entirely under control for a long time, so much so, that every locality of any size had been placed under the charge of a village constable for many years, and further, there had been a permanent and regular police camp at Taunda on the Morehead River.

This had only been closed down comparatively recently as it was deemed no longer necessary. This police camp had been established mainly as a protection to these same local natives from the raiding parties of the Togeri peopl,e who used to come from the other side of the Dutch New Guinea border.

This district, lying between the western boundary of the Fly River and the Dutch border, was only visited once a year, and as the land was all very low-lying and swampy, this could only be done during the dry season, that is to say, between September and the end of November. 100 miles of flat mangrove swamp My main plan of the trip was to take the stores up the Bensbach River, to the farthest point to be reached on this patrol, and to work back on foot to the government station at Daru.

The finding of the entrance to the Bensbach River was far from easy, as the land along the coast here is a dead flat mangrove swamp for over 100 miles and extends many miles into Dutch territory.

Moreover, owing to the many sandbanks and generally shallow water, it was necessary to keep the launch a good five miles out to sea, and even there the lead frequently gave us less than one fathom of water. To add to the difficulty, neither I nor any member of the launch crew had ever entered the Bensbach. All we knew was that it lay about 70 miles to the west of Tarara without a single salient feature anywhere along the coast, from which we could get our bearings.

Finally our party found an opening which turned out to be the river.

Pot shotting at passing crocodiles we sailed in our launch, Minnetonka, as far as the small village 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Over Dutch border of Wando, two days up the river.

After a week of duties, which included trying to keep the natives from wandering over into the Dutch side and paying the village constables their annual sum of 10 shillings, for which they chose trade articles from the stocks I had brought with me, we headed for the scene of the crime.

The patrol arrived at the fairly large village of Roku on October 13, and I was able to obtain a little more information regarding the Peatakaka raid. The local village constable, Suam, was able to give me the names of the four natives, who, he alleged, did the actual killing, and the names of the villages from which they came.

This was the first bit of useful information obtained. Suam also handed over four fighting clubs and a bundle of arrows, which had been left near the bodies, and also six bamboo knives four of which were bloodstained. Evidently these were the weapons with which the heads had been cut off.

It occurred to me that possibly the fact that six knives were found indicated that originally they had hoped to secure six heads. These natives never use bamboo knives now in the ordinary course of their daily lives, which is rather significant.

A “farasi” for each killing Suam was also able to hand over another article of considerable interest, and something I had never seen or heard of before. This was called a farasi and there were four of them, apparently one for each killing. The farasi consisted of a carved and highly ornamented piece of wood about two feet long, the ornamentation being done with brightly coloured feathers.

The wood itself was painted red, black and white. The red paint was made from chewed betel nut mixed with lime. Soot and lime provided the black and white effects.

As far as I could gather from Suam, farasi were formally prepared by these local natives before any head hunting raid, and each one was used only once. They were supposed to have supernatural powers so that anyone, seeing a raider with one in his hand, becomes so stupefied that he is unable to offer any resistance.

Where possible, it seems that the victim should first be hit over the head with the farasi, which as it was made of very light soft wood, could do no harm. The victim was then killed with a stone axe or fighting club.

The farasi, the bloodstained bamboo knives, and some special cane head carriers, were afterwards handed over to the Port Moresby museum. From this information it is evident that the raid was premeditated and carefully planned.

On October 14 the party left Roku, crossed the Morehead river by canoe and went on to Peatakaka. As was to be expected, Peatakaka was deserted, and it was found that the raiders had systematically cut down all the banana and papaw trees in and around the village. It’s probably fair to assume that this destruction was carried out because the raiders also found the village temporarily deserted.

Apparently the raiders had picked up the tracks of the villagers in the thick dust, and had followed these tracks from a taitu house to a small footpath leading into the bush.

Now came the great moment of visiting the scene of the murders.

Accompanied by the police and village constable, Suam, under whose care the village came, I set out along the small track, leading from the village. I followed the footmarks in the dust, and, after covering about half a mile, came to the remains of nine small fires, just where the grass country changed into light scrub.

One can well picture the raiding party, perhaps two or three men crouched over each fire, having a final smoke of trade tobacco and a chew of betel nut to fortify themselves for the ghastly job ahead. It must have been many years since such a raid took place, and more than likely the vast majority had never been on such a mission.

From the scene of the nine small fires it was less than half a mile to the small encampment where the massacre occurred in the thicket of dwarf bamboos. All those killed or kidnapped were sleeping together.

The victims were a man named Danai, his two wives and small boy, who were all killed, and a woman named Orang and three children who were taken away as prisoners.

Only survivors were three men The only survivors were three men who were sleeping about 50 yards away in their own special little shelter in the thicket. The actual scene of the murder was a cul-de-sac with no possible hope of escape. A small track had been cut into the thickest part of the bamboo clump and a small camping area cleared.

This dwarf variety of bamboo is very dense and has quite big leaves, and would thus give quite good protection from the dew: in fact it was an ideal camp.

It was hardly necessary to have the one large grave pointed out.

Suam explained that the village dogs had been left behind when the rest of the village people ran away. Being hungry, they had tried to dig up the bodies.

According to a man named Kuti, one of the three survivors, a native named Waboram had killed the man Danai. Kuti went on to say that the village constable of Setavi, named Women of the Middle Fly River area, with bark cloaks, bring out sago to sell for beads and fishhooks. Women of the Bensbach River would have been of the same type when this picture was taken in the 1920's—as indeed they still are.

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Daka, according to Kuti, was then killed by Sowa, a native of Draia.

He further stated that Sauiam and Wagi, both belonging to the village of Setavi, had killed the other woman Derka and the small boy Jendana respectively. I inspected the place where Kuti and the other two survivors were sleeping, and I doubt very much if Kuti could have seen any of these details of the murders, although he certainly could have heard any words spoken. Kuti had at least given us the names of some of the possible raiders and the villages from which they came.

The party set off once more and headed for Mata, 20 miles from Setavi, the home of the murderers.

When we arrived we found there was a rather gruesome reminder of the last occupants of the village. Il was evident that the raiding party had rested here on the first night of its homeward journey. In the middle of the clearing a fairly strong sapling had been driven into the ground, and then light boughs had been torn from the surrounding trees, and grouped round this central post.

Smoking kept the heads ‘fresh’

The end of these boughs had been split with a knife, and the wood torn open for a distance of two or three feet, thus forming a “V” shaped fork.

It was obvious from the heap of ashes round the main sapling, and the curly hair still sticking in the torn wood of the fork, that the heads had received their first partial smoking over this fire.

This would be done to keep them fairly fresh, and a great deal of work would have to be done before they were finally cured. Apparently two heads had been smoked in the forked sticks, and from the amount of blood still sticking to a woman’s prawn net, there is little doubt that this net was used to hold the other two heads.

On the ground in the ashes were seen some white strips of Ti-tree bark. These were heavily bloodstained and had undoubtedly been used to wrap around the heads while they 83 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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A number of arrows had been fired into the upper parts of surrounding trees and left there. This I understand, was a general gesture of defiance.

I had my tent pitched a few yards from where the smoking had taken place, not because I liked it but because it was the only suitably clear spot. As it was a brilliant night with a full moon the whole atmosphere was rather eerie, and I do not think any of the carriers slept very much.

It was on the night of the previous full moon that the raid had taken place.

Since we were now getting near the possible scene of action, a police guard was posted, although I felt that it was very unlikely that the late raiders would dare to attack an armed government party.

We reached Setavi at 11 o‘clock without incident and found the village deserted. There were indications that the village had been visited that morning to get food from the taitu houses.

Then came the complicated business of finding the headhunters. Luck came to me soon when a man of Setavi brought in five of the culprits.

Twenty-three men were rounded up He pointed out three of my own party’s carriers as haying taken part in the raid. They admitted this and were also put under handcuffs. By threatening to live on the food supplies of villages harbouring the men, we ended in having another six men arrested and the kidnapped woman and children found.

Finally 23 men were rounded up and the 150-mile trek to Dam began.

The trail became better as we progressed and we were able to live off wallabies and kangaroos which had become plentiful. This place, the nearest in Papua to Australia, was the only part of the territory I had seen containing these animals.

At last the party approached Dam after having walked some 650 miles. On trial before the Lieutenant- Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray, the captives pleaded guilty to the killings and were given a year’s gaol each. I then returned to normal service—for the time being.

About the writer George Zimmer, who wrote this account, today is 81 and lives in Dorset, England. He went out to Papua after World War I, having been an RAF squadron leader in that war (during which he won the DFC).

This article is one of several pieces on his Papuan experiences PIM has published in recent months. The accounts and the photographs have been taken from his patrol diaries, and have not been published before. • Women of the swamplands of Western Papua. Again they are wearing tapa hoods as shields from the sun and rain. This picture was also taken in the 1920's during one of Zimmer's expeditions. 84 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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"A quiet Englishman of the best type" -a rarity in the Gilberts of 1880 KEN McGREGOR is building up quite a fund of knowledge on the early traders of the Gilbert and Ellice Islanders. He's been researching in Tarawa, Sydney and Canberra on two odd characters, Alfred Nicking and Peter Grant. This is what he has found out.

How did trader Alfred Kicking survive the savage Tabiteuea war of 1880 and what was life like in the same period on desolate Marakei Atoll for American Peter Grant?

Alfred Francis Kicking certainly won’t be forgotten for a long time, for well over 20 of his descendants live today in the GEIC and others can be found in Sydney and the Mariana Islands.

Born in 1848 in Sydney, the son of a Derbyshire migrant to Australia, he arrived in the Gilberts aboard a trader in the late 1870’s, settling on Tabiteuea.

Tabiteuea had, and still has, the worst reputation of the Gilberts. It was the driest atoll and little grew.

Droughts were common as were wars between neighbouring villages over food supplies, land and women.

Today Tabiteueans still carry twofoot coconut knives concealed beneath their waist cloths.

Kicking, whose contemporaries described as an honest, “quiet Englishman of the best type”, survived and traded on the atoll because he remained impartial on all parochial disputes. How he did it, and if he had any close shaves, will probably never be known.

He did, however, with another Tabiteuean trader, James Garstang, write a letter to the British Consul in Apia, describing the Tabiteuea war of 1880. The letter was dated March 7, 1881.

There is also a report that, shortly, after his arrival on Tabiteuea, Hicking’s younger brother, James, joined him, but died soon after.

The store burnt down Alfred was aboard a trader at Tabiteuea anchorage, leaving James alone in the Kicking store. 'Die store burned down with James uninjured.

Five days later James took a small canoe out to sea and was never seen again.

Alfred Kicking remained on Tarawa until his death, in his late *, n ° ermai }. trading associations, he had competition from five traders. They an £ mcn S“. Tom Linehan, a Chinese ’ Kum On. Hawaiians Kapur and Charlie Komalolai and a Gilbertese Tieutica I , ’ TT . , . ,. A Kf e . n gardener, Kicking grew at t l ?,, VV roa , Vl , llag€ l P r °P e rty the Gilberts only oleander and fig trees.

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Price: $2.00 Aust. $3.00 U.S. post free. 29 Alberta Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000, Australia. 1908, but didn’t receive formal education. They carried on the family business after their father died, but government encouragement of cooperatives finished their trading in the 1930’s . ‘ , A great-grandson of Alfred Hicking, Henry Kicking, who is a clerk in the colony’s Public Works Department at Bainki, Tarawa, has had only partial success in attempts to glean more information on early Tabiteuea days, At North Tabiteuea the old house and two foot thick walled copra shed of the Kicking estate remains. A Vi™, sto [ e . rt^? er . lec * ger °f 1890 s and 1900 s is kept by a local Kicking, Grants story is a similar one; he came ashore at northerly Marakei sometime during the early 1880’s and set up a small trading station.

He lived with a Gilbertese girl and they had a son, Jack.

VV ent to Sydney T~ , _ „ • i to get married ~ ° n . Marakei ’

Sydney by trader woman from d C^lff^f n a iu Ame J lcan settled at Tamwa where Gram bought a small property called Tabonimate, at the lagoon entrance to a tidal passage that separated two islets. , i VF ant enlarged the property by budding dry-stone wahs and filling m behind them with sand and debris.

He erected a store dwelling of imported hardwood and roofed with corrugated iron. A large copra store shed went up behind the main store, rpont . 0 , , , .

Grant traded on his own account, buying copra and shark skins. In 1892 he was prospering, with the help of a Gilbertese, Karauia, against six other traders on Tarawa a Chinese, Nai Yong, a German, Yohan Meyer, an American, Albert Kustell, an Austrian, Anton Kaofaroafa, a Swede, Carl Johnson and a Cook Islander, Fino.

About 1904 the Grants had a daughter, who was sickly—and died, reportedly “in pitiful circumstances”,’ in 1910.

Grant himself died, at Tabonimata, in 1911. Mrs. Grant stayed on, running the business with a recentlypurchased lagoon-cutter around Tarawa, buying copra from outlying villages. e . , , , _ , She heard of Grants son, Jack, on Marakei, and in 1912 travelled by trader to Marakei, setting up a branch of Grant’s business there and leaving Jack in charge. The branch, however, did not prosper.

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Yesterday New Caledonia was saddened 20 years ago by the deaths of four members of the local Catholic Church in an Air France Constellation air crash on June 13 in the Persian Gulf. Dead were Mother Guy, with 20 years in Noumea, Sister Marguerite, who nursed lepers in Caledonia for four years, Father Luneau, with 20 years in Caledonia, and Father Luc Amoura, the first New Caledonian to be ordained a priest.

Other news in PIM for July, 1950, 20-years-ago included: After an absence of eight years, Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., returned to the mainland of NG with the takeover of the trading business and property of Mr. Roy McGregor, at Madang. Colyer had re-established previously after World War II at Kavieng and Rabaul, not re-opening its pre-war bases at Madang and Wau.

Captain Sandy Campbell, former master of BP’s Neptune, Bulolo and Macdhui, was lost when the naval vessel Fairwind went down in a cyclone off the north New South Wales coast about June 24.

NG’s first commercial bulk petrol terminal at Lae, was opened in July 8. It cost £150,000 and was built by Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. (now Mobil).

The opening, on Australia’s Barrier Reef, of the resort hotel at Hayman Island drew comment that “Mr. (now Sir) Reg Ansett was showing the Islands a thing or two, and Fiji in particular”. Said a writer: “Fiji has great attractions to offer the tourists but although millions of words have been spilled on the subject, neither public nor private enterprise there has yet done the one thing that would make it possible—that is, provided the accommodation. Maybe Fiji does want a tourist industry, but it obviously does not want it enough”.

Another writer wrote to PIM asking “why Press and politicians do not do something to compel the big companies to give up some of their grip on the New Hebrides land, and thus encourage new settlement and production”.

The Fiji Council of Chiefs was under fire as a result of what a correspondent described as “the implacable Fijian opposition in the Legislative Council to any change in the colony’s constitution”.

The correspondent said that certain European and Indian groups had made no secret of their ambition to force “some sort of democratic system” on to the Fijians, “whether the mass of the Fijians want it or not”, and the Council of Chiefs was taking the brunt of it. Legislative Council elections were imminent at the time.

HMNZ Rotoiti made a call at Mangaia, Cook Islands, and a correspondent reported that immediately before the call “much time was spent by some of the villagers in preparing large supplies of bush beer for sale at 1/- a bottle” but unfortunately “the brew was not always of praiseworthy vintage”.

West Samoan cocoa had been sold to English buyers at an f.0.b., price £WS26O per ton. Fiji sugar was selling for £F3I per ton.

Mr. Ronald Garvey, with service in the civil departments of Fiji, the New Hebrides and the Solomons, and also a former acting Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, was knighted. He was then Governor of British Honduras, but in 1952 he was appointed Governor of Fiji.

An elaborate programme had been planned for the visit in July of the UN Trusteeship Council Mission to Western Samoa. The visit was to take 11 days, visitors were to meet Samoan and European leaders and they were to call at Savaii and Upolu Islands.

Mr. James Whippy, the last-surviving grandson of Fiji European pioneer, David Whippy, died in Suva, aged 60. Mr. David Whippy, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, US, went to Fiji in 1832.

World War II was still on at Anatahan, a 12-square mile steep speck in the northern Marianas. The US Navy was dropping pamphlets, food and broadcasting from ships off the island—but in vain. On Anatahan were 21 Japanese servicemen who believed the war was still on and were holding out. Anatahan was so small and unimportant that the navy would not risk sending a landing party to take it by force, a navy spokesman in Hawaii said.

John Grover, senior geologist to the Solomons Government, was to leave on a expedition to the mountains of Guadalcanal for geological surveys. Today, after many years in the BSIP and Fiji—and a recent visit to Tonga helping to substantiate the presence of oil in the kingdom— he is Sydney-based and working for Kathleen Investments.

The US Trust Territory (the Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines) was expected to come under civilian, instead of naval, administration from July 1. Truk was tipped as headquarters (but Saipan won out).

Dressed in a beaming smile, a flowing white and black skirt and clutching a red umbrella, Apia’s successful guesthouse owner, Mrs.

Aggie Grey, was pictured attending a local race meeting.

Near Kavieng, New Ireland, NG, a BP steamer, the 250-ton Kokoda, went aground on a reef for two days before high tide and a “gallant” 40footer, MV Sepik, got her free. She was towed to Kavieng wharf for repairs.

Prince Fatafehi Tuipelehake, Governor of Vavau, Tonga’s northern group, laid the corner stone of a new, 70-bed hospital at Neiafu, Vavau. It was to be known as Gnu Hospital —Gnu being the Tongan word for strength.

This photo of Mr. (later Sir) Ronald Garvey was reproduced in "RIM" in December, 1941. He was then acting Resident Commissioner of the GEIC, and he was having his hair cut aboard ship in the GEIC. See paragraph this page. 91 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Book Reviews Traditional society is not so conservative In countries governed by outsiders, economic planning has rarely been undertaken in adequate consultation with the inhabitants.

The planners have frequently insufficient knowledge of the traditional economic system of the inhabitants, their judgments and desires for, and adaptability to, economic change.

In the introduction to his book, Vunamami, Professor Richard Salisbury claims that, as far as the people of Vunamami, a Tolai village on the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain, are concerned, internal political changes have been the crucial factor in using foreign technology to achieve modern development.

He believes that too many administrators and expatriates in particular are wrong in assuming that external factors, such as overseas finance and advice and personnel to create an infrastructure of social services, are the cause of development. Salisbury maintains that external factors merely facilitate development.

Complex decisions The author further maintains that unreasoning conservatism is not characteristic of traditional society, that traditional societies are not internally homogeneous and that subsistence farmers do make highly complex decisions.

Therefore, says Salisbury, “no theory of economic development is adequate if it ignores the calculating abilities, the entrepreneurial tendencies, or the range of individual variation, found among traditional farmers”.

Having thus taken a stand differing from the redoubtable Rostow, and others whose writings are prescribed reading for economic students in the Western world, Salisbury goes on to say: “No argument is explicitly made against anthropologists or economists who assume that people living in ‘traditional societies’ are ‘bound by custom’ or are ‘inherently conservative’. An exposition of the facts is enough to show the falsity of the assumptions on which such theories are based”.

Salisbury’s assertions are backed by measurements made and statistics collated by him, and amplified by a text which deals with historical events at Vunamami, seen through Western and Tolai eyes, and with such aspects of economic activity as copra and cocoa production and marketing, wage labour and cooperative retailing. The measurements and tables are, therefore, basic to the text.

One table (p. 117), for example, shows Vunamami’s copra exports and income from 1896 to 1921. The figures up to 1912 are based on the assumption that Vunamami sold 3 per cent, of the total Bismarck Archipelago output.

As much of the land alienation and expatriate coconut palm plantings on New Ireland, one of the three major islands in the archipelago, occurred well after the peak of alienation on the Gazelle Peninsula, the assumption is a brave one, indeed.

Another table (p. 204) sets out the average number and types of vehicles, the average number of passengers per vehicle, and the average amount of purchases per vehicle at Rabaul market in June and November, 1961.

Six per cent, of all loaded vehicles were checked by the author, two Tolais and six agricultural trainees on three Saturdays in June and one Saturday in November.

Figures queried They counted 1,538 people leaving the southwest corner of the market on June 10. Again, it is rather brave to base some of the book’s major arguments on conclusions reached from these checks.

Notwithstanding any reservations one may have about some of the fieures, and though one may consider Professor Salisbury’s views about the role of internal political changes in Vunamami to be too romantic and not very relevant to Index to Rhodes House MSS Since its inception in 1928, Rhodes House Library in Oxford has been steadily building up its manuscript material relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth. In addition, over the past six years the Oxford Colonial Records Project has deposited in the library considerable collections of diaries and private papers of former colonial administrators.

To satisfy a growing demand, the Rhodes House Librarian, Louis B.

Frewer has now compiled a summary guide to manuscript material in his custody, excluding Africana (for which a guide already exists). This companion volume is an up-to-date list of holdings territorially arranged and indexed. Material under official or personal restriction is indicated; Rhodes House Library shelf-numbers have been appended to entries for all “open” material. The list is available from the library at 15/- (5A2.00) per copy, post free.

SPC handbooks The South Pacific Commission has published three small handbooks. Improving Land Tenure is a shortened version of a technical paper written by Ron Crocombe now of the University of the South Pacific. It gives the ins and outs of owning and registering land in the South Pacific.

Banana Production In The South Pacific, edited by M.

Lambert, has already been quoted from extensively in PIM and is a valuable guide for anyone starting up or maintaining his plantation.

Laboratory Techniques In The Diagnosis Of Some Intestinal Parasitic Infections, by Lawrence Ash is a useful guide to the medical profession. All are priced 50 cents; Inquiries should be addressed to SPC Publications Bureau, GPO Box 5254, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2001. 93 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

the overall New Guinean situation, past and present, the book makes a worthwhile contribution to our knowledge of economic progress among a group of Pacific Islanders whose move into the modern world of commerce started well before that of most other groups.

A great deal of highly interesting, novel and extremely useful information is provided by Professor Salisbury, who has done field work in two different areas in New Guinea.

It would not be surprising if Professor Salisbury’s main intention were to stimulate more thought about, and less complacent acceptance of, the present standard thinking among economic planners in countries such as New Guinea.

As he points out, probably to temper some of his assertions, the study presented by this book should be viewed as complementing theories about stagnant traditional societies, with one analysing the development process in dynamic traditional societies.

Whatever one may think of the overall tenor of the book, it clearly points to the urgent need to bring New Guineans centrally into the decision-making process in economic matters.

HJ. (VUNAMAMI—Economic Transformation in a Traditional Society, Melbourne University Press, $9.60).

Shell money still important Shell money or tabu is still a significant part of Tolai economy, Professor Richard Salisbury says in his book Vunamami, reviewed below.

He estimates there are 1,730,000 fathoms of shell money, each fathom containing some 300 shells, currently in circulation in the Rabaul area.

He said although most Europeans saw shell money as a quaint survival that would shortly disappear, it was in fact “the mainspring, not only of inter-Tolai trade and business enterprise, but of a critical area of entrepreneurship in Tolai society. . . . Since the 1880’s the Roman Catholic Mission has inveighed against the practice as being harmful to ‘habits of frugality and saving’ which would lead ‘to improvements in family life’. The German Government prohibited the use of shell money in trade by Europeans. Modem administrators try to discourage it by tolerant laughter. And some anthropologists continue to use 19th century concepts of ‘primitive money’ in relation to tabu, and predict its demise, as other writers have done for 60 years. The Tolai themselves avoid European scorn by concealing most tabu transactions,”

The largest source of shell for the tabu is the eastern Nakanai coast of New Britain.

Varied material from P-NG A welcome recent arrival is Volume 3, No. 1 of the Journal of the Papua & New Guinea Society. The issue contains a wide range of articles, including those on history, anthropology and sociology, two of which have been written by Papuans.

In “The Kainantu Villager,” Edwin Brown, a Papuan medical student from the Trobriand Islands, tells about meeting the Komano people of the Kainantu sub-district in the Eastern Highlands, and of how he feels one of the main obstacles to national unity in P-NG is the lack of knowledge among the many linguistic groups of the way of life or all but their immediate neighbours.

Now that communications within the country are improving and there is growing mobility among its inhabitants, the younger people should have opportunities to get to know their fellow citizens. One hopes that many of them will show the same interest in and sympathy for their fellow men as Mr. Brown —and that they will record what they see and hear, so that their knowledge will be shared with others.

Expatriates, in particular, will find much interest in lan Willis’s story, “Who Was First”, about the first white man into the New Guinea Highlands.

There is sure to be many an argument concerning the claim by a Lutheran missionary that a member of his mission, Leonhardt Flierl, takes pride of place by having reached the Bena Valley in 1926. There will be less argument about Ned Rowlands, the prospector, who was camped at Omapinka (near the Markham-Ramu Rivers Divide) in 1929. The argument is perhaps merely an academic one, if one recognises the merit of exploratory work undertaken by men like the Leahys, Dwyer, Taylor, the Foxes, Karius, Champion, Hides, O’Malley and, in post-war years, Sinclair, Clancy and Fitzer —to name but some of them. The efforts prior to World War II in particular, when lines of communication and supply were scarce and exploration entailed great physical hardship and danger will continue to be admired, no matter who was first.

Among the other articles, Harry Jackman has taken a brief look at Sir Peter Scratchley, first of the territory’s administrators. Perhaps one day there will be in-depth studies on other British and German governors, like Dr. Francis West’s biography of Sir Hubert Murray.

The Papua & New Guinea Society, whose president is Mr. Gabriel Gris, a New Guinean, deserves more support. Ordinary membership ($3 per annum) entitles a member to attend its meetings and to receive its publication. Address of the society is PO Box 172. Port Moresby.

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1970 in the 'big smoke' Sydney's skyline is changing so fast that it probably has already altered since this picture was taken in June! BRUCE ADAMS took the picture for PIM from Kirribilli on the other side of the harbour from/ Circular Quay, and his telescopic lense makes the "Oriana" look as though she's heading straight up Pitt Street. Pages 97 and 98 of Adams' photos show you Sydney, 1970—its buildings and its 'birds'.

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While new buildings are going up all the time, there's still plenty of support to preserve the best of old Sydney.

Opposite left, its Sydney from the air with the Opera House (left), the bridge and, of course, the city. The historic Rocks area appears under the city end of the bridge, and in the lower picture this page, some of the architecture of the Rocks. These homes, painted and restored, represent the new Paddington—"fashionable" Sydney in other words. At right, its the Opera House, still unfinished after 10 years, but a magnificent sight as you arrive at Circular Quay on the commuter ferry. It should be finished by 1972.

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SYDNEY, 1970 97 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'— JULY, 1970

People • Some interesting people turned up for the Fiji independence delegation’s official reception at Marlborough House, London, recently. The Fiji delegation at the conference were reciprocating an earlier reception held for them by Lord Shepherd, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

As well as Lord Shepherd and the Fiji delegation, there were past officials of the old Colonial and Commonwealth Office, Sir Leslie Monson and Sir Hilton Poynton; Lord Denning, arbitrator of Fiji’s sugar award; Sir Dingle Foot and his wife; former Governors of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks and Sir Derek Jakeway, and three former Commissioners, the Hon. Philip Snow, Q. V. L. Weston and J.W. Gittins.

Crown Prince Tupo’utoa and Major Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, both on foreign services courses at Oxford, were also there, as was the High Commissioner for Tonga, the Hon.

Va’ea, the Secretary to the High Commissioner, Mr. David Tupou, Mr. H. P. Ritchie, recently retired Financial Secretary, Fiji, and Mr.

E. A. Jones, former Administrative Officer, Fiji. • A representative of the US Marine Corps, Staff/Sgt L. R. Rosemann, recently visited American Samoa to promote a recruiting drive.

Staff/Sgt Rosemann said he was there to tell young Samoans about the “active-life opportunties offered by the Marine Corps to healthy, adventurous, intelligent young men”.

Hundreds of Samoans are already serving in the corps. • Mr. S. Sorbotten, United Nations economic planner to the Western Samoan Government, left Apia for Norway in June, having completed a two-year contract, during which he had taken part in the planning stages of a second five-year development plan. • Sydney is not, of course, buildings and a harbour. Sydney is people. Bruce Adams used a telephoto lens from the opposite side of Martin Place to capture the expressions on this typical Sydney crowd waiting for a bus.

The maxi skirt is worn in Sydney these days alongside the shortest minis in the world. • Three part-Samoans have been picked to take part in the controversial All Blacks Rugby tour of South Africa. They, and three part- Maori players, will be the only non “full-European” members of the side.

They are Bryan Williams and two brothers, Dave and Frank Solomon.

Bryan is the 19-year-old son of Arthur Williams (originally of Apia) and Irene Williams formerly Irene Boucher of Rarotonga). Dave and Frank have represented New Zealand in past Rugby games. • President Hammer Deßoburt of Nauru met the Queen during his visit to the UK recently. He was in England to sign the contract for the purchase of a new ship, the Enna G (PIM, June, p. 110). • Mr. Henry Manuhea of Lord Howe Island, (the one in the British Solomon Islands, known also as Ontong Java) is back in Fiji again after having completed a three month Nuffield Scholarship course in clinical work at Princess Mary’s Hospital, Newcastle, in the UK. Henry, who expects to take his finals at the end of this year, is a medical student at the Fiji School of Medicine. • Mr. J. R. W. Parker of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Fiji, is to remain in Fiji alter October independence as deputy m the British High Commission.

Preparatory work for the setting up of a UK High Commission in Fiji is in progress. • Popular Gilberts master, Captain Tom Murdoch, is currently in Sydney for several weeks studying and taking examinations to obtain his overseas master’s certificate.

Sydney’s smog, filth and cold are making Tom more than a little homesick for the air and lagoons of the Gilberts. He’s also missing his wife and three young children, who live on Betio, Tarawa. • Corporal Lane F. Levi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fatutoa Levi of Fagatogo, Tutuila, American Samoa, was killed in action in Vietnam recently. He was the 18th American Samoan to die in the war, and the 49th Samoan casualty of the war. • Recent executive changes in the government of American Samoa include Mr. Richard Berg, former director of Manpower Resources who becomes special assistant to the governor; Mr. W. H. Struhs, former San Francisco-based recruiting officer for the US Trust Territory who becomes director of Manpower Resources and Mr. Raymond Smythe, former yachtie and corrections supervisor who becomes commissioner of Public Safety.

The Cook Islands Minister of Health, Inatio Akaruru, and his nephew, were nearly drowned when the outrigger of their canoe broke while they were tuna fishing near Titikaveka on May 2. The two had hooked and landed a tuna when, while turning the canoe, the outrigger broke. Mr. Akaruru held on to the canoe to prevent it capsizing while his nephew recovered the outrigger and fixed it to the boom with a bicycle tube. • Pisila Taufe’ulungaki, has returned to Tonga with a Master’s Degree from Alaska Methodist University. She is the first woman in Tonga to hold an MA.

Miss Taufe’ulungaki is the daughter of the headmaster of GPS Atele, Solo Taufe’ulungaki. She has taken a temporary teaching post at Tupou High School until August when she expects to return to Canada or the USA for more post graduate studies. • Mr. David P. Garretson arrived in Suva on May 19 as vice-consul in the American Consulate, replacing Mr. Peter Maher. A single man, he previously served in Niger, Vietnam and Thailand. • France’s Minister for Overseas Territories, Mr. Henri Rey, will visit Valuable canine recruit to the Fiji Police Force is three-year-old Emily, a Dobermann Pinscher, who proved her worth by tracking down a burglar on her first job out in May. With her is her handler Constable Peni Rokobera. 99

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Originally from Western Samoa, she’s taking up the position of secretary to the Attorney-General of American Samoa. • Japanese artist Hideri Goto, who has now spent years painting his way around the South Pacific, was back in Noumea in June.

Mr. Goto first appeared in the area during the South Pacific Games in Noumea, December, 1966. Since then his brush and palette have wound their way through Papua-New Guinea, the Solomons, New Hebrides, Australia and Fiji.

The Japanese artist is planning to revisit Fiji, before proceeding to Tahiti, and he expects there will be considerable changes to adapt to when he finally gets back to Tokyo. • The last European regimental sergeant-major to serve with the Ist Battalion, the Pacific Islands Regiment, Warrant Officer Class 1 J. D. McKay, left Port Moresby on June 5, ending an association that goes back 28 years. In 1942 he was a lance corporal in charge of Papuan Infantry Battalion soldiers on guard duty at Jackson airport. During his term he handed over as RSM to WOl Osi Ivaraoa and has been acting as training officer for the battalion for some months.

Major Ronald George Lange, 40, has been appointed commanding officer for Ist Battalion, Pacific Islands Regiment. Major Lange has been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and he succeeds Lieutenant-Colonel M. B. Pears, who has retired. Picture shows WOl McKay and Mrs.

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Pacific Shipping MILI interested in the cruise business MILI, the US Trust Territory shipper, is considering chartering or buying a cruise ship for eight, 10 and 12-day passenger cruises out of Saipan, Mariana Islands.

Directors of MILI, who met recently in Ponape, Carolines, to review the company’s current operations, decided to further investigate the project.

They noted heavy bookings on their vessels out of Japan and the US West Coast to Micronesia. Mr.

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Directors said that since February 2, 254 MILI shares had been sold, for a total of 171,545 shares now held by residents of Micronesia.

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Other points at the meeting included: • Losses on operations had occurred in the first two quarters of the current financial year; a “healthy” profit was expected in the third quarter and, if reserves “proved adequate”, MILI would move ahead by a “narrow margin” in the fourth quarter. • Fare increases averaging 8 per cent, became effective on the Far East runs from May 1. • Because of the new wharf, port time for vessels calling at Ponape had been reduced from an average five days to 2\ days. Yap, however, continued to cause stevedoring problems. • “Shrinkpack” palletisation had proven initially successful. Cargo was loaded onto pallets, covered with heavy plastic, and slightly heated to shrink the plastic coating. The result was a compact, watertight pallet load which arrived at destinations exactly as loaded. ® A proposition to consider a direct run from Auckland/Sydney to Truk/Ponape once or twice a year would be studied.

MILI has long hoped for such a direct Australasia-Micronesia run, which at the moment doesn’t exist (except for calls by the Gilbert and Ellice Islands’ Moanaraoi every 12 weeks).

It’s a run many businessmen in Australia would support. Traders would like to crack the rich US Trust Territory import market, which is dominated by the US and Japan.

The US has so far turned a blind eye to the Moanaraoi*s calls at Majuro. Australian and NZ goods have been getting through, much to MILI’s chagrin.

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If the dock is brought to Fiji it will mean work for hundreds of men.

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Atarangi Bluejacket Carina Dubloon Dawnbreaker Etai Maru Exodus Estrelita Escapee Etu Moana Finisterra Gemini Hummingbird Two lona Ida John Williams VII John Williams V Keo Ladybird Mapu Mystic Mistral Moanaraoi Marlin Medea Ninikoria Pandora Qoeequeg Robert Hartley Ravakai She Shu Bi Himmany Tungaru Tiwatu Tiare Tango Vampire Whai Westwind V On the slips at Whippy's shipyards, Suva, recently were "Cagimaira" and "Tui Taveuni", two of the first government craft to be repaired by a commercial yard. This follows the Fiji Government's announcement last year that it intends to give maintenance work on Marine Department vessels to local commercial shipyards in order to encourage expansion. Whippy's was the first to benefit.

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All governments concerned have now signed the plan of operations for this South Pacific Islands Fisheries Development Agency, which uses the South Pacific Commission as a base for its activities. The agency works on funds supplied by the UNDP, in cooperation with the territorial governments in the area, and has the job of developing South Seas fisheries of all kinds.

Mr. Tubb has been contacting people in top jobs concerning fisheries development, with a view to arranging visits to the South Pacific.

He said he expects two high-level consultants to be in the area by September.

Following initial surveys of fisheries prospects, the agency will seek to recruit field workers to carry on specific projects in the territories.

The agency’s preliminary soundings-out among the Islands have revealed a keen interest in the farming of turtles. On this subject, Dr.

Harold Hirth, a biologist at the University of Utah, has been contacted.

Dr. Hirth has worked with turtles in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Another turtle specialist SPIFDA is interested in is Professor J. R.

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In response to Islanders’ interest in crayfish as a luxury trade item, Dr, R. W. George of the Western Australian Museum has been contacted. The insatiable demand for crayfish in the USA and Europe has made crayfish farming a particularly lucrative prospect for the Islands.

On the subject of constructing ferro-cement fishing craft, Mr. Tubb expects Englishman John Fyson will be available at the end of the year Mr. Fyson could work with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, which is already handling ferro-cement craft construction in Fiji.

Concerning reef and lagoon studies, Mr. Tubb hopes these may begin by the end of the year. Dr. Frank Talbot, director of the Australian Museum, Sydney, has been approached to do a primary study.

Mr. Tubb then hopes to arrange a meeting of specialists concerned with reef and lagoon systems to draw up a project which could be carried out by the territories.

The agency will be working always in co-operation with local fisheries officers. The only territories not to have such officers, according to Mr.

Tubb, are the Solomons, Cooks, New Caledonia, Nauru, New Hebrides, Niue, Tokelau and Pitcairn.

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Captain Ward has been operating to the GEIC since 1946, only one year after Robby arrived, and he has been based in Tarawa (though he’s mostly at sea) for the past 17 years.

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Back at Tarawa he’ll probably take up his command again of the colony’s expensive recruiter Ninikoria.

Captain Ward’s sea history goes back 24 years. He was an apprentice with Ellerman and Papayanni Lines, Liverpool, in 1936, and was third and second mates in the Ellerman, Bucknall Lines.

He served with the British Merchant Navy during World War 11, and was twice torpedoed in the North Atlantic.

“Fed up”, in 1946, he moved to the Pacific and joined, as chief mate, the LMS schooner, John Williams V.

Based out of Suva, he later became mate and master of the Williams, travelling regularly to the GEIC.

In 1953 he joined the GEIC’s Wholesale Society as master of the Tungaru and Tuvalu. In 1958 he travelled to Hong Kong to pick up and bring back the WS’s first Monaraoi; in 1966-67 he picked up the second Moanaraoi from Europe and in 1968 he picked up the Ninikoria from Europe.

In the GEIC, Captain Ward is known for his humour and interest in local affairs. He’s written many a sarcastic note to the colony’s newssheet, CIN, and is a great mixer with his Islands crews. His decorations include the MBE and a fellowship of the Institute of Navigation.

He plans, after eventually retiring from the GEIC, to “rusticate in nice pleasant Thomas Hardy’s rural Dorset”.

Tuna Development

In The Cooks

After taking several years to build, the Cook Islands Government tuna fishing sampan, now named Ravakai (an expert fisherman), was launched in June last year and passed its sea trials successfully. It then went back into its shed for further work to be carried out on it and did not take to the water again until early April this year.

In late May, skippered by Tony Reeves and with fisheries officer loaba Marsters on board, it brought in its first catch, all barracuda specifically caught for the welcome feast given for the Premier, Mr.

Albert Henry, and Mrs. Henry on their return from their visit to New Zealand and Australia.

In early June Ravakai had not made any further fishing trips and was still tied up in Avatiu harbour because vital work on it had not been completed by the Public Works.

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Tekake William took the vessel [ to sea for a trial run on April 28, signed on an engineer and three ; other crew, and renamed his boat Etu Moana (Star of the Sea).

Bad weather hampered his activities, but he and his all Poly- | nesian crew made several successful trips, working from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Using the long-line method, they caught higher than the world average of tuna for 100 hooks, but it seems unlikely that they can keep this up for long.

Tekake and his crew work on a co-operative basis and sell their catches to a local trading firm. The firm guts the tuna, removes the heads from the bigger ones and sells the fish quickly at NZ3S cents per pound to the fish-hungry public. Catches usually sell out in 15 minutes.

As Tekake is not a navigator, his fishing is done within sight of Rarotonga or with the high island not too far below the horizon. This indicates once again that it is only the lagoons and close inshore waters of Rarotonga that have been fished out. Given the right types of boats and gear, some Cook Islanders can catch fish in bulk and help to reduce the $13,700 worth of frozen and canned fish imported into the Cook Islands every year.

Where Did The

Plaque Come From?

A Noumea restaurant-operator, who is also a keen underwater fisherman, has recently added to the decor of his establishment the 70year old relic from an unknown ship sunk off New Caledonia.

Mr. Jean Godot, who now operates the Esquinade, specialising i n seafood dishes, was with a group of spearfishermen when he recovered an old steam-engine plaque from the seabed. The plaque was among other wreckages of propeller and metalwork, found at a depth of 45 ft around the main reef, some U hours by boat south of Noumea.

The 30-inch diameter plaque, now displayed among the sea decor of the Esquinade, bears the following mscription : FULTON ENGINEERING & SHIP-

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Shipping Briefs

• Hopes of salvaging John Seeto < and Company cargo ship MV Medea \ have been abandoned. The 21 ton j Medea was sailing from Mussau Island to Kavieng in May when it ran aground on a reef off Lukus Island. Crew and passengers of the ship were able to walk to safety from the ship. • Etai Maru, one of five commercial ships operating on interisland routes in the Marshall Islands, was in Suva recently. She carries general cargo, copra, and passengers around the Marshalls out of Majuro.

Her master is Ellice Islander, Captain Paul Tolise of Funafuti. Captain Tolise has a crew of 13 Marshallese. • NZ firm, Star Jets Ltd., hopes to receive a S 4 million contract for jet barges to New Guinea. The 50 ft long aluminium barges will be powered by twin diesels and will be used to transport copra down the Flv River, • Captain Richard Beadon master of the Tarawa-based Protestant mission ship John Williams VII has been appointed technical master of navigation and seamanship in the nautical department of the Derrick Technical Institute, in Suva. Thirtytwo-year-old Captain Beadon has been master of the John Williams since 1967. He’ll train seamen for examinations to the level of the Pacific Islands masters and mates certificates. • Toboi Ship Building Company' of Rabaul has started on a small \ copra and passenger boat for * Islanders from the Duke of York: Islands. The 20 ft boat is expected! to be completed in August; it will! operate between Rabaul and the; Yorks. • Japanese-Australian fishing company, Gollin Kyokyo, has made progress during its initial survey period! of fishing in the New Ireland area..

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However, in the words of the island’s newssheet Signal, “a few residents were inconvenienced and annoyed by the behaviour of a few sailors”. “Most of the seamen were well-behaved and would always receive a warm welcome from island residents,” Signal said. “But there were a few who ‘borrowed’ bicycles . . . and in at least one case a motor vehicle ... and some who had too much to drink . . . and in general did not endear themselves to anyone.” • Mr. Vince Storck, pioneer of the reef cruising business on Suva Harbour and founder of a fleet of cruisers operating under his name, launched his newest venture, the 37 ft pleasure craft New Moon, from Whippy’s shipyard in April.

Although intended mainly for private use, the eight-berth cruiser, powered by a 110-horsepower diesel engine, was to be registered for occasional charter and skindiving cruises. Mr. Storck, designed the New Moon himself. He also designed the craft in the Storck commercial fleet, of which the 00100100 is perhaps the best known.

The cruiser has a speed of about seven knots and a cruising range of almost 200 miles. Installations include a freshwater shower, a refrigerator, a depth finder and later, radio transmitting and receiving equipment.

Picture by Bindar Pal. • Ida and Keo, the two new British services vessels for the New Hebrides, recently arrived at Vila.

Built in Fiji, they both have large fuel tanks capable of carrying fuel, which enables them to run for about 180 hours without refuelling. • The Gilbert and Ellice Islands recruiter Ninikoria will have a standin skipper until January next year.

He is Captain Michael Henson, who will replace Captain E. Ward who is on leave. Captain Henson, of Cornwall, England, spent 14 years with New Zealand Shipping Company before taking a shore job in England.

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Bluejacket’s crew, Keane, Helen, Laraine and Bobby Gau, sent this report on Easter to the Californiabased Seven Seas Cruising Association: “We arrived just in time to be invited to Christmas dinner at the American Air Force weather station and met some of the greatest guys you could imagine.

“The most serious drawback with Easter is there is no protected anchorage and you must be ready, at a moment’s notice, to move to the lee of the island, when (every few days) the wind changes.

“There is a small harbour under construction, at Hanga Pika, and if it is ever completed will furnish good protection for possibly two yachts at a time; the depth at present is a maximum of 4 ft, and there being no equipment available, the harbour has to be deepened by divers working by hand, rather a slow process.

“The port captain, Guillermo Blanco, not only took care of our papers quickly, with no muss, fuss or bother, and no charges, but took a great deal of his time showing us around in his jeep to the various interesting places on the island, explaining the beliefs and legends of the places as we travelled.

“There seems to be plenty of produce available, but the prices are a little high. Almost nothing was available in the way of boat supplies and repair gear except at the American weather station where machine tools, welders, etc., are located.” • PANDORA 111, arrived at Fanning Island, Central Pacific, on May 4 with an American couple, the Forciers. Her damaged sails were repaired and she sailed for Hawaii. • WHAI, catamaran, visited 1 Honiara in May on her way from .

NZ to Japan with W. Potts, Jr., , Ralph Powell, “Cobber” Morley, , Callum Campbell, Wayne Barsanti,, Michael Rober and P. C. Sturdle. • ESTRELITA, tri, left Honiara j recently after a 10-month stay in the; Solomons. She will go to Japan viaj Gizo and Rabaul. • ATARANGI, 34 ft cutter,, arrived at Suva in May with Des< Read and Mrs. Read and crewman i Grant Dawson, from NZ. • ESCAPEE, 40 ft cutter, arrived! at Suva in May from NZ withi skipper Mr. H. Sykes and Mrs. Sykes,, plus Richard Farley, Mike Hart and!

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Kirk Usher’s aboard also. New calls include the Hebrides and NG. • LADYBIRD, 34 ft ketch, arrived in Fiji on May 24 from NZ, via Tonga. Skipper-owner Brian Blake—with wife, Joyce, and three children, Peter Tony and Elizabeth, as crew—was planning to spend a couple of weeks before leaving for NZ. • SHE, 35 ft sloop, with husband and wife, Dr. Hans and Dr. Sheila Fleming, arrived at Suva in mid-May from NZ. Plans were to spend several months in Fiji before leaving for England. • QUEEQUEG, 35 ft tri, which has been cruising the Pacific since May, 1968, arrived at Apia recently with Jack Downs and Quentin Cultra.

From Samoa they headed for Tonga and Fiji. • DUBLOON, a catamaran, skippered by former Canadian naval officer. Captain J. Littler, arrived in Suva recently. • TIARE, with Paul de Smit, paid a recent call at Apia for supplies before continuing on to Tonga. Mr.

Smit, of Antwerp, Belgium, was in Rarotonga in April (P/M, May, p. 111). • DAWNBREAKER, tri, owned by American composer Russ Garcia, returned to Suva in May after several weeks absence. • HUMMINGBIRD TWO, of the West Indies, has left Suva where she has been for the last six months to continue her round the world cruise. • TANGO, with Stephen Bonnett and Drew Hayward, of Auckland, rested in Suva in May after she was battered by storms for three days 800 miles south of Fiji. A mizzen sail was lost and the tiller broken. • FINISTERRA, 75 ft ketch, arrived in Port Moresby in May after a 120-day charter cruise from Fiji.

She is one of the largest privately owned yachts to visit the territory in recent years. • MAPU, 36 ft cutter, safely reached Rotuma, Fiji, in late May with Auckland engineer Edward Stallard, his wife Bernice and son Christopher, after running aground on a reef off the north-east of Rotuma.

Mapu was sailing from the Yasawas for Vila, via Rotuma. • GEMINI, 40 ft ketch, with American grandmothers Mrs. Vangie Haughwout and Mrs. Maryanna Burr arrived in Suva from Auckland in June. Her owner-skipper is Mrs.

Haughwout’s husband, Robert, of California. She will sail around Australia and then to NZ. • SHU Bl HIMMANY, 29 ft, single-masted yacht, arrived at Norfolk Island on June 4 en route from Sydney via Lord Howe Island, which she left on May 29. Skipper Paul Jenkins and his crew of four men anchored in Ball Bay for two days then left for South America, via Suva and Panama. • ROBERT HARTLEY, is in Sydney these days. Her crew, Cec and Joan Auty, married recently— aboard ship on the fore deck with flags all “fluttering”—and Harry Fink, of Kylie, was best man.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

Business and Development

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Tonga'S New Five-Year Plan

By John R. Baker

Tonga’s new five-year development plan, released on July 1, stresses that the independent! kingdom’s economic growth in the immediate future must come from agriculture. But only in the short! term. Long term, Tonga can’t base its development solely on agricultural expansion, and the must be diversified.

The plan hopes Tonga can achieve a favourable investment climate and encourage local and foreign interest to develop light industry. And the plan also lays stress on the value of tourism, and it plans for an increase.

The new development plan, Tonga’s second, covers 1970/75 and takes effect from July 1.

The kingdom’s first five-year plan, which ended on June 30, achieved most of its main objectives. Urgent social needs were largely met and a promising start was made on the rehabilitation of the coconut industry, and on the modernisation of agriculture.

Tonga will soon benefit from the opening of a modern hospital in Nukualofa. A new police training school is already training up to 20 recruits a year. The Queen Salote wharf, built during the plan, has swiftly made a big contribution to the Tongan economy by facilitating shipment of major export crops, and by encouraging cruise ships to call.

The new plan will mean expenditure of about 5T4.9 million, and like the the last one it depends heavily on external assistance, particularly from the British Government. But it’s expected—in fact it’s one of the plan’s main objectives— that at the end of the next five years Tonga will be less dependent on foreign aid.

Here are the main points of the plan: Emphasis on agriculture It is proposed to continue the rehabilitation of the coconut industry, to develop further the banana industry and to expand agricultural services with trained staff, so as to raise production and to permit diversification with new crops. These steps, the plan argues, should make it possible to absorb a rising population, at a rising standard of living.

But agricultural development is seen to depend on the full and effective utilisation of the kingdom’s land resources, and the government is at present awaiting a report by Mr.

J. B. Hardaker, an agricultural economist from the Ministry of Overseas Development, on this subject.

Such a policy is dependent upon the strengthening of the Department of Agriculture. This is to be achieved by rehousing the department at a cost of 5T52,000, and by setting up a staff training centre costing STBO,OOO.

Crop development schemes (5T36,000) and a livestock development scheme ($T104,000), coupled with research and investigations, general agricultural expenditure and a farmer training centre, are other significant fields of departmental expenditure.

More forestry The coconut replanting scheme, which began in 1966 and which by mid-1970 has replanted 12,000 acres of coconut palms, should replant a further 20,000 acres during the next five years, resulting in increasing copra exports towards the end of the seventies.

Limited expenditure will also be undertaken in the field of forestry development, principally on the island of ’Eua. The government’s deep-sea fishing vessel; Pakeina, is to be replaced by a more suitable fishing vessel, and other additions to Tonga’s fishing fleet are to be made.

In total, over STI.I million are to be spent on agricultural develop-i ment, the coconut replanting schemes and fisheries development in the new/ plan. This represents some 23.6 pen cent, of all plan expenditure, andb compares favourably with the actual] expenditure of STO.6 million incurred) in these fields in the 1965-70 plan.

Light industry and a bank In stressing the need to encourage light industry development with local) and foreign participation, the plam announces that the government hopes: to establish a commercial bank im Tonga. It says discussions are at) present going on with three foreigm banks on this subject. The establish-f ment of an Industrial Loan Fund isi also being considered, with the in-i tention of encouraging local entrepreneurs to engage in light in-i dustrial activity, by providing thenn with equity and loan finance.

The electric power generating plant on Tongatapu is to be replaced and extended at a cost of $T350,000,( This will involve the construction oh a new diesel power station at Popuai several miles from the centre ol Nukualofa, and for the replacement! of many of the present distribution lines.

Nukualofa’s water supplies are to be improved by the investment ok 5T31,000 in the construction of new pumping stations, reservoirs and pipe* lines.

Improved transport The archipelagic nature of Tongs; means that in addition to the usuas road network, it is also necessary foie the group to be unified by good se*: and air services.

The 1970-75 plan continues thor 112 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

roads development programme which was a major feature of the last plan, but more emphasis will be placed upon crop evacuation roads and on roads to tourist sights than has been done previously.

Airfields are to be constructed at Vava’u, Ha’apai and ’Eua, so that internal air services can be operated.

The airfield at Vava’u is to replace the one which was built in 1967 and which proved unserviceable on account of its poor site. Fua’amotu airfield, Tongatapu, is to be extended and surfaced, to accommodate the medium jet aircraft which Fiji Airways are expected to operate to Tonga from mid-1972 onwards. Night flying facilities will be installed, and other improvements.

Internal shipping services are to be improved through the acquisition by the government of a fast interisland vessel to serve the main shipping route between the capital of Nukualofa and the islands of Ha’apai and Vava’u.

Shipping shake-up The government also states that t is giving consideration to operating ill government and commodity board vessels as a National Shipping Line, fongan vessels, such as the Niuvakai ire to continue to serve overseas K>rts, provided that the services are ither profitable or necessary for the fongan economy.

Vuna Wharf, the deepwater wharf tow replaced by the Queen Salote Vharf, is to be converted into a srminal for inter-island passenger ervices. The small govemmentwned slipway is to be further exsnded so as to accommodate all ut the largest vessels in Tonga’s hipping fleet. The possibility of creating other more modern slipway facilities is also to be investigated.

In addition to the development of the road, air and sea services already detailed, telecommunication facilities are to be improved, although a proposed new telephone exchange for Nukualofa has had to be shelved.

Total cost of all the above proposals amounts to about STI.6 million, or 33.5 per cent, of total planned expenditure. Largest amounts will go on road development ($T250,000), shipping services (5T574,000) and airfield development ($T433,000).

Tourism Of all sectors of the economy, the plan considers tourism offers the greatest potential to the kingdom, as an employer of labour and also as a source of foreign exchange.

The government says it accepts that tourism, “if properly controlled”, can make a positive contribution to the economy, and it intends to improve the basic facilities available to tourists.

A Tourist Office is to be established in Nukualofa. The construction of airfields on the other islands, coupled with the upgrading of Fua’amotu Airport, are evidence that the government is conscious of the advantages of tourism, but it might be added that the phrase, “tourism, if properly controlled”, also suggests that the government is not unaware of tourism’s darker side.

The International Dateline Hotel, which in the plan is quoted as having a room occupancy for 1969 of 30 cent cent., is to have its accommodation doubled from 100 to 200 beds by 1974.

But provision of other hotel accommodation is, the plan states, “to be left to private enterprise and will obviously, be contingent upon the growth of tourist traffic”.

Total expenditure on tourism during the plan period is estimated at $T261,040, and of this sum, 5T250,000 will be devoted to the Dateline Hotel extension.

Quality in education Unlike many other Pacific territories, Tonga has had universal (i.e., compulsory) education for all children of primary school age since at least 1927.

Similarly, at the post-primary level, while schooling is not compulsory, a fair proportion of the age group receiving some form of schooling.

Tonga’s problem, according to the plan, is not quantitative, but the need for an improvement in quality.

This will be contingent upon curriculum development, teacher training programmes, a comprehensive scheme of scholarships at the tertiary level, improved buildings and equipment and upon an effective administrative service.

Out of a total of $T411,500 devoted to improving the quality of Tonga’s education, $T150,000 is to be spent on the further development Agricultural produce is still, and will continue in the near future as, Tonga's main source of overseas exchange. Left, husked coconuts being prepared prior to their processing into desiccated coconut at the Havelu factory of the Tonga Copra Board.

Right, effective marketing is the key to increased sales overseas of locally produced vegetables and fruit. The government marketing adviser, Mr. K. S. Masters, is seen here discussing a new method of packing the kingdom's tomatoes for export.

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Later in 1970, the new Vaiola Hospital is to be opened and the premises of the old Vaiola Hospital will then be converted at a cost of STIOO,OOO into new accommodation for the Teachers Training College.

Medical and police services will, receive relatively less attention in the second development plan, since they occupied an important place in the first plan.

With the completion this year of the new Vaiola Hospital, at Nukualofa, the Ha’apai hospital is to be reconstructed, and the Vava’u hospital will be modernised. Rural health services generally, and particularly the maternal child health clinics, will be further developed.

These clinics form the foundation stone of the family planning programme.

The police force will benefit from a new central police station in c Nukualofa (costing $T70,000), , together with _ vehicles and com- munication facilities to improve their i mobility. Present prison facilities, t i which the plan aptly describes as, t ; “both insecure and inhumane”, are s to be improved by the construction c of a new prison on the site of the s present Hu’atolitoli Prison.

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Tonga’s population has in recent! years been increasing at an annual! rate of 3.1 per cent., and jumped t from 56,838 at the time of the 1956 S census, to 77,429 in 1966. If thes present growth rate continues, thee kingdom’s population could top thee 100,000 mark by 1975, and could t reach 118,000 by 1980.

The plan rightly points out that!

“the implications of such a rate ofi population growth in a country ofl limited land area and limited employment opportunities are considerable”..’

The government intends to places increased emphasis upon planning, with the intention of pro—i viding these services to at least half! of the female married populationc during the next five years. The rathen ambitious aim is for a birth rate ofl 20 per thousand by 1975.

Other projects In addition to the many projects: detailed, the plan also allocates finance to a variety of othen schemes, including a new centralh administration building, a neww Legislative Assembly, and extensions to the Treasury, Printing Office andb broadcasting studios. Water supplies; are to be further improved in thes rural areas.

The total expenditure amounting to $T4,778,220 proposed for the? 1970-75 plan is about the same asi the expenditure of $T4,853,608 that* was actually incurred during the first!? plan.

In the first plan, 5T2.6 milliom was from domestic sources and ST2.3£ million was from foreign sources,2 giving a total expenditure of abouti 5T4.9 million. In the new plan itri is assumed that only $T2.3 milliom' will be from domestic sources, whilol 5T2.5 million will be from foreigm; sources, giving a total expenditure* of ST4.B million.

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Exports and imports well up in P-NG Exports of prawns, tea, desiccated coconut and scrap metal performed best of New Guinea’s smaller export items in the four months ended October 31 last. NG’s Bureau of Statistics, in its May bulletin, compares sales of these products for this period with sales in the same period of 1968: Prawn receipts jumped from nothing to $310,000; tea sales went from $53,000 to $149,000; desiccated coconut from $307,000 to $409,000 and scrap metal exports increased from $Bl,OOO to $137,000.

The bureau totalled all exports for the four months of ’69 at $33,890,000, a healthy jump from $22,799,000 in ’6B.

The best improvers were coffee sales, which jumped from $6,742,000 to $8,695,000, and cocoa, which increased from $4,318,000 to $6,180,000.

Imports to NG for the same two periods, unfortunately, rose correspondingly; from $47,138,000 to $62,962,000.

On imports, the bureau said that the October monthly figures were $3.7 million above average. Heavy equipment and large shipments of live oysters and petroleum products went to Port Moresby.

Two aircraft, a helicopter and large consignments of industrial machinery were imported into Lae.

Several aircraft engines and large shipments of tobacco, industrial machinery, vehicles, tyres and tubes, also entered NG.

On exports, the bureau said October was average for season crops. Large shipments of prawns left Moresby; two aircraft engines and large shipments of copra went from Madang.

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As the hiUsides are being chiselled away, the first group of homes has been assembled—imported from New Zealand. The 10 weatherboard dwellings are to house employees of the Pentecost group. Plans to import a second batch of homes have been abandoned following the May announcement of Paris-imposed limitations on the export of Caledonian nickel ore (Mr. Pentecost is the island’s main independent mine operator), Plans are going ahead, however, for a new brewery on this site. This PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Construction of the plant is expected to begin in August. Production is intended to reach 450,000 gallons of beer a year, and an identical supply of soft drink.

Uproar over Caledonia nickel quota The French Administration found itself with many questions to answer in New Caledonia’s Territorial Assembly, following the May announcement of Paris-imposed limitations on the exportation of Caledonian nickel ore to Japan.

Caledonian independent miners who had been negotiating contracts with Japan to sell over six million tons of nickel ore, were advised that a quota of 3.8 million tons had been imposed. This was for the Japanese fiscal year, begun on April 1, 1970.

The news of the quota was released in Noumea on May 20, although the decision had been made in Paris by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Development”, on March 25.

Principal independent Caledonian mine operator, Mr. Edouard Pentecost, second vice-president of the Territorial Assembly and member of the Gaullist Union Democratique, told PIM in Noumea: “We are stunned by this decision from Paris which does not take into account the needs of the territory’s economy and of our clients.”

Sixteen independent mining groups (excluding the Societe Le Nickel) then presented the visiting Minister for Overseas Territories, Mr. Henri Rey, with a four-page document seeking a reversal of the Paris decision. Mr.

Pentecost declared: “We hope he takes our request into consideration, for the reverse position would be heavy with responsibility.”

It was later announced that the 3.8 million ton quota would be raised to 4.1 million ton. (Japan bought 3.5 million tons in its last financial year.) In the ensuing Territorial Assembly debate on June 3, the head of the French Administration, Secretary- General Mr. Michel Levallois, reminded the Assembly that New Caledonia, being part of the French Republic, must submit to laws voted by the French Parliament.

The Administration expressed the fear that Japan was over-buying and would create nickel stock-piles. The Director of Mines in New Caledonia, Mr. Leca, however announced that France would be prepared to raise the quota to 4.5 million tons, the quantity estimated as meeting Japanese needs, if Japan undertook to assist financially in the development of a French nickel processing factory in New Caledonia.

The factory concerned is planned for Poum, in the north, with the SLN as major shareholder. It was understood the Japanese had been asked to grant a loan of approximately SUSI6O million to help the SLN.

In the meantime, in opening the Territorial Assembly Session on May 20, Governor Louis Verger had declared that New Caledonia’s export tax derived from nickel for the first four months this year is 5U5530,000 below estimates, due “firstly, to the SLN extension programme being slower than expected in getting under way.”

The SLN’s latest problem had been a 15-day strike by 120 workers, re- 116 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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B ' an MOßESßY'{Papua^°and S A ' S ° Re9iSl ' re '' °® C “ a ’ BRISBANE ' PORI Canb A^ u 1 9C ?a„b e ß ,ra N ? ity Pm A LP C.T TRU 2^ E , E . C ° MPAN¥ ,CANBERRA) LIM,TED ' 84 Northern, suiting in the closing down of three blast furnaces for that period.

The return to work was finally arranged for May 23, the morning the Paris Minister was scheduled to visit the smelting works.

In the meantime, work is progressing at the SLN’s new mining centre of 400 homes at Nepoui (west coast). The eight-mile long conveyor belt to bring ore to the loading wharf is to be completed by the end of September.

But as the Paris-based SLN worked on its extension programme, the independent Caledonian miners had also been preparing to share in the boom. One operator claimed he had invested over SUS 7 million in new equipment, in view of the encouragement given for an expanded mining activity in the territory.

When the Paris curbs were announced on May 20, one miner immediately closed two mines and dismissed 76 workers in the Poya area.

This was followed by another operator closing two mines and dismissing 40 workers in the Bourail area.

Contractors who had borrowed heavily to finance trucks and excavators became anxious over repaying their debts.

Following meetings at Monte Dore (near Noumea) and Kone (175 miles away on the west coast), Caledonian mine workers, contractors, truck drivers, etc., formed a Union-Syndicat Independent des Mines (SIM).

On June 15 they addressed a cable to French President Georges Pompidou, and the President of the French National Assembly, in Paris.

The telegram requested: “Firstly, immediate cancellation by the Administration of quotas on exportation of nickel ore to Japan.

Secondly, abolition by the parliament of the three so-called Billotte laws. Thirdly, speeding-up of replies from the Mines Department concerning requests for transfer of mining titles, exploitation permits, etc.”

The cable continued: “Considering the dismissals already carried out and those to come, we draw your attention to the growing malaise in the mining world resulting from the decision to limit exportation of nickel ore. Signed Syndicate Independant des Mines de Nouvelle Caledonie.”

The independent miners claimed that the Japanese, if thwarted in New Caledonia, would go and buy their nickel elsewhere.

Moreover, the Caledonians claimed the loss of contracts would cost the territory SUS2O million and a similar loss to France.

Considering that nickel is the heritage of the Caledonians, miners asked that Japan be invited to participate with the locals in financing a smelting plant—a desire expressed equally by the Japanese and Caledonians.

Meanwhile, the newly formed union was quick to receive financial aid from men whose incomes were threatened. An office has been set up in the heart of town (rue Anatole France) with a highly decorative collection of rich ore samples (chrome, iron, nickel) from mines which members are fighting for the right to work.

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A SI i N Vl ' ruae 0,1 ri 9 nT S m D_M/2 A r n .. . „ Australia will continue to give any f. rude 0,1 discovered in New Guinea the same rights with respect to price and guaranteed access to the Australian market, as is accorded to Australian-produced crudes, This H wil , be reviewed in 197J> or earlier, if proposals for the establishment of a refinery in NG are put forward. . * n recen f years oil companies have explored in the territory hoping they would have domestic supplier status on Australian market, Oil explorers have been searching in NG for over 50 years; to the end of last year, $lO5 million had been spent by private enterprise in the search.

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First estimates on Bougainville Net profit from the Bougainville copper project will be $lOl.B million in 1973, $105.8 million in 1976 and $47.8 million in 1980.

Sydney stockbroker, Garrett, Lance and Co., estimates these figures in a detailed analysis of the prospects of New Broken Hill Consolidated Ltd., CRA’s smaller partner in the project.

Garrett assumes a current price of $l,OOO a ton for copper (current price, $1,300), SUS3S an ounce for gold and $2 an ounce for silver in its profitability predictions.

Garrett says production should begin early in 1972. Higher grade ore would be mined first to build up a sizeable cash flow in the initial years when loan repayments would be heaviest, and tax liability nil. A steady ore production rate of around 32 million tons a year was envisaged from 1973 on, which would yield an estimated mine life of 30 years, based on current reserves of 900 million tons.

Garrett estimates the total realisation cost for copper would be $l5O a ton. This included normal smelter deduction, commodity price deduction, smelting charges per ton of concentrate and transport costs. For gold and silver, realisation costs would be negligible.

The firm assumed the total capital cost of $350 million for the project would be written-off over 12 years and the $250 million in loan funds already negotiated would carry an average interest rate of 9 per cent.

Loan repayments would be repaid by the end of 1982 with annual payments, 1973-75 at $5O million, 1976-77 at $35 million and 1978- 82 at $6 million.

Garrett’s predictions on Bougainville’s profitability are the first serious estimates on the Islands’ major mining venture, which can only be rivalled by New Caledonia’s nickel miners collectively.

It obviously takes no account of industrial stoppages at Bougainville, which would upset production figures, but it carefully takes into consideration the future of copper prices on world markets.

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Tahiti strike fizzles out An “indefinite” general strike in Tahiti, which began over the sacking of a number of workmen at the Bali Hai Hotel on Moorea, fizzled oui after only 36 hours at the end of May.

While it lasted, the port of Papeete was partially paralysed and some workmen, who did not wish to join the strikers, had stones hurled at them.

The strike ended after the Governor of French Polynesia, Mr. Pierre Angeli, intervened and arranged for the Bali Hai to re-engage some of its sacked workmen and for others to be given jobs in the Department of Public Works- The Bali Hai is owned and operated by three Americans, Messrs.

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Downward turn in Tahiti French Polynesia’s economy, which reached a peak this year, is now on a downward curve, according to the territory’s Governor, Mr. Pierre Angeli.

Opening the administrative session of the Territorial Assembly at the end of May, Mr. Angeli said that, apart from tourism, the territory’s traditional industries were stagnant.

However, he predicted that the territory would continue to prosper.

This was because private investment was twice as high as had been estimated, the local budget had been tripled, and the support of the French Government, including the nuclear testing project, had risen to 7,600 million Pacific francs (about SA7O million).

Mr. Angeli said that under a new development plan two hotels would be built in Tahiti; Point Venus and the Papeete waterfront would be beautified, and the territory would be promoted overseas; there would be experiments into the production of pearl shell, which were expected to produce income by 1973; and there were plans for the development of agriculture.

Mr. Angeli said it was hoped that the territory’s tourist business would triple between now and 1975 and that 5,300 new jobs would be created.

Much needed to be done in that sector, it being particularly necessary to control prices. “Businessmen and hoteliers must help us to maintain them, if not bring them down,’ Mr.

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Following Mr. Angeli’s speech, elections were held for the various Assembly committees, In accor dance with an agreement between the two majority coalition parties, Mr. Jean Millaud was elected president of the Assembly in succession to Mr. John Teariki, who is now Ist vice-president. Members elected to the Commission Permanente, a sort of cabinet, are: H^nri Cuvier (president), Daniel Millaud (vice-president), Adolphe Agmeray (secretary), Jean Amaru and Eugene Haereraaroa.

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The colony’s Agriculture Department has given $lBO,OOO for replanting, partly with subsidies to growers, of coconut groves and $54,630 will also be spent on coconut nurseries, research stations and housing for employees.

The $60,000 for ferry services will be spent on converting the colony’s landing barge, Tabakea, into a vehicle and passenger ferry, and a new ramp will be built at Betio. Tabakea will be refurbished at Tarawa by the Marine and Public Works Departments.

Commerce briefs • Fiji’s timber industry may have found a regular market in the Cook Islands. A large Cook Islands (partly Hong Kong-owned) trading company, A. B. Donald Ltd., of Rarotonga, has already bought 30,000 super ft of damanu and dakua planks and framing from Carpenters Fiji Ltd.

In June, another shipment of 45,000 super ft left Suva for Rarotonga, also for Donald. Total value of die shipment was SFB,OOO. • Freeport Indonesia Inc., an Australian-incorporated subsidiary of Freeport Sulphur of the US, will invest SUSI 6.9 million in the Ertsberg copper project in West Irian. Japanese and West German sources will lend 542 million for the project and Freeport has arranged a $5B million loan from a group of American insurance companies and banks. Total cost of the project is $l2O million. The company expects to begin shipments and production early in 1973 ( PIM , Mar., p. 121). • Australian electronics company, Racal Electronics Pty. Ltd., has been awarded a $400,000 contract for the supply of equipment for high frequency radio subscriber services in Papua-New Guinea’s five-year development programme. The system will provide high quality communication to remote areas of the territory. • Placer Prospecting (Australia) Pty. Ltd. will spend not less than $lOO,OOO to explore 118 square miles of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. leases in the Wau-Edie Creek area of New Guinea. Under an agreement with NG Gold, announced in May, Placer could spend up to $5 million looking for gold, copper and other materials. If a mining operation is proved, a joint company will be formed on a 60-40 basis between Placer and NG Gold respectively. • For its first work in New Guinea, Sydney-based Central Constructions Pty. Ltd., has won a $1 million contract with the Australian Department of Works to build a 1,830 ft steel and concrete bridge over the Markham River, near Lae, on the Wau-Bulolo road. Equipment for the job was to arrive in Lae in June and work is scheduled to be finished in November next year.

Central has built 230 bridges and culverts in Australia over the last 18 years. • The Western Samoa Chamber of Commerce has increased the basic wage for casual labour in Samoa from SWSI.IO to $1.30 per day. It was the first time in 15 years since labour rates were fixed. New rates are to start July 1. 120 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Southland .25 . . 32.00 1.95 32.00 2.38 • No par value Produce Prices (Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Australian dollar equals $l.OO New Zealand; 98-99 cents Fiji; 98 French Pacific francs; 80 cents Western Samoa; $l.OO Tonga; 9/3 sterling and $1.12 USA).

COPRA Copra industries are controlled through copra boards in NG, the Solomons, the GEIC, both Samoas, Fiji, Tonga and the US Trust Territory.

New Hebrides, the Cooks, French Polynesia and New Caledonia don't have boards and copra is either sold individually by growers to overseas buyers or used for local making of soap, etc.

The boards were born after World War II and their functions, which vary among territories, include orderly selling overseas, maintaining stabilisation funds, raising government revenue and developing copra on long-term bases.

NEW GUINEA: The board, with planters' reps, directs distribution and sales and pays planters. Buyers include: Unilever, of the UK, Australia and Japan, and coconut oil and desiccated coconut mills (controlled by Carpenters) on New Britain.

June prices, delivered main ports, were: hotair dried, $l4O per ton; FMS, $137 per ton; smoke-dried, $135 per ton.

FIJI:—The board fixes prices on Philippines copra, taking into account freight, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, etc. Prices recently were: Ist grade, $F163.25; 2nd grade, $F155.25; CAS $F135.75.

WESTERN SAMOA: —The board makes payments to producers through its agents—local firms —and sells the copra on the open market with a portion of Abels Ltd., NZ. Recent prices were SWSII7 for Ist grade, SWSII7 for Ist grade sun dried, and SWSIO4 for 2nd grade.

TONGA: All copra is sold to the board which sends it to Europe and the open market. Recent prices to growers were STII3 Ist grade and $T 101 2nd grade, per ton.

SOLOMON IS.: —All production through board at prices based on Philippines rates. Output goes to the UK, Japan, Australia and the rest to the open market. June prices were: Ist grade, $130; 2nd grade, $126; 3rd grade, $ll6 per ton, BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

Exchange Rates

FlJl.— Through Bank of NSW, ANZ Bank, Bank of NZ, Bank of Baroda. Sterling dollar on Fiji dollar, buying £Stg.l = $F2.085; selling $2.11. Aust. dollar on Fiji dollar, buying $A1.0117 = SFI; selling $A1.0288 = SFI.

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 payable in transactions with Australia.

FRENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.— Pacific francs (CFP) are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides (jointly with Australian dollars), Wallis and Futuna Islands and Fr. Polynesia. French Bank, Sydney, on June 22, quoted: Selling, Noumea and Papeete, 112.19 Pac. francs to $ Aust.; approx. 100 Pac. francs to US $; Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 French franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. franc equals 0.055 French franc). Paris- London: Buying 13.25 francs to £Stg. Also, £Stg. equals 240.80 Pac. francs.

GILBERT AND ELLICE:—Board pays growers $78.40 per ton and receives $143.05 per ton overseas; 2nd grade price 3£c per lb.

NEW HEBRIDES; —Copra sold direct by planters to France and Japan. Official market price on June 4 was $BO (8,000 Pac. francs).

Marseilles, 1,150 francs, June 12.

COOK IS.: —Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, who operates NZ's copra crushing mill. Prices for Apr., May and June were fixed, subject to freight adjustment, at $NZ189.27 Ist grade, hot air dried; $NZ187.20 Ist grade, sun dried, and $NZ185.63 standard grade.

US TRUST TERRITORY:—Board pays $U5112.50 per ton, grade 1; $lOO per ton, outer islands.

Other Produce

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F2oc (4 in. to 7 in.) to F3oc (9 in. to 11 in.) Ib for "Sucuwalu" and "Loaloa" varieties.

Honiara. —Live slugs, over six inches, black six for 10c, other colours—l2 for 10c.

CHILLIES.—SoIomons, Honiara, Tabasco, grade one, dried 22c per Ib, wet, 6c per lb; long red, grade one, dried, 12c per Ib, long red, wet, 3c per Ib.

COCOA. —lslands rates are based on Ghana prices. Ghana price on June 18 was £Stg.27s per ton, c.i.f., UK Spot.

On June 22, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality $465 per ton, delivered exwharf Sydney $525. Quote No. 2: Best quality ex-wharf Sydney $520, in store NG ports $448 (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

W. Samoa. —Latest price quoted in Sydney in June was Ist grade, £Stg.27o; 2nd grade, £Stg.2ss, f.o.b. per ton, and unchanged.

New Hebrides.—beach, Vila, Santo, $3OO per ton, Solomons. — 4 cents a Ib delivered to a fermentary, 3 cents a Ib at buying points.

COFFEE.— P-NG: On June 22, Quote No. 1, good quality A grade 51c per Ib; B grade 47c; C grade 44c; X grade 47£c and native X grade 44c (ex-store Sydney).

CROCODILE SKINS. On June 22, Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, Ist grade quality as follows: P-NG —s3.os per in., f.o.b. main ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) $2.10 per in. 8.5.1., Honiara: $l.BO to $2.20 per in.; Gizo: $2.10 per in.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL. Very little demand from Japan, Europe and the US. Price not quoted: Honiara; 5c to 6c per Ib.

PAPUAN GUM: Graded gum $195 per ton, f.0.b., NG ports.

PASSIONFRUIT. — Cook Islands, Islands Foods Ltd. pays growers NZ2.5c per Ib for good fruit.

PEANUTS. P-NG: Sydney agents reported June 22, f.0.b., Lae; Kernels—white Spanish 17.25 c Ib.

PEARL SHELL. — Thurs. Is. out of season, production to resume July, Solomons. —Honiara, mother of pearl blacklip 15c Ib, goldlip 20c Ib. Cook Islands. —Manihiki, 40c-46c per Ib: delivered Rarotonga, 50c-56c per Ib. French Polynesia. —Tuamotu, Gambier shells, to $l,OOO per ton, Papeete.

PYRETHRUM. — NG growers 17c Ib, flowers.

RICE (Aust.): Prices, until Mar. 31, 1971, are— P-NG: Dried brown rice, $132 per ton, f.o.w. Sydney. Vitamin-enriched white rice, $146.50 per ton. Other Pacific Islands: Polished white (56 Ib bags) or dried brown rice (112 Ib bags), $156 per ton, f.o.w.

RUBBER.— P-NG price is based on Singapore rates which on June 18 were: Prompt nominal shipment 57£ Malayan cents per lb; July, MS7J cents per lb and Aug., M 57? cents per lb (all about 19£ Aust. cents per lb).

SANDALWOOD. —New Hebrides, landed on the beach, Vila and Santo, $250 a ton.

SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, offers F4sc per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

TROCHUS.— June 22—Papua—$180-$l9O per ton—Honiara—sl7o-$175 per ton, f.o.b. Islands port—direct shipment overseas— NG— slso-$155 per ton—Hebrides—sloo per ton— US Territory —World Trading, Hong Kong, after sellers.

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 June 22 were: White and yellow label processed standard packs, $7.10; green label $7, c.i.f., Sydney. Tonga.— sl4.2o, f.0.b., Nukualofa; $14.50, Melbourne.

Uk, Us Quotes

COPRA; LONDON, June 19, Philippines, in bulk, SUS2I9 per long ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth European ports; US Pacific coast SUSI9O, buyer, SUSI9S, seller.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON, June 19, Ceylon 1% in bulk, £Stg. 146 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, June 18, Spot 211 d Stg. lb; June 20-1/16d Stg. lb; Sept. 20|d Stg.

Stock Market

Last Sales Sydney

Sydney stock exchange share price index tor ordinaries on June 18 was 551.58. On May 25 it was 496.32. 121 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

The Bank Line

Monthly Services

U.K., CONTINENT to PAPUA-NEW GUINEA & SOLOMON ISLANDS PAPUA, NEW GUINEA to NORTH AMERICA & U.K., CONTINENT SOLOMON ISLANDS, FIJI, TONGA, SAMOA AND TARAWA to U.K., CONTINENT ☆ U.S. GULF/AUSTRALASIA VESSELS CALL AT FIJI WHEN REQUIRED FOR PARTICULARS APPLY: THE BANK LINE (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD., SYDNEY, N.S.W

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

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Shipping & Airways Information SHIPPING

Australia - Fiji - North America

Pacific-Australia Direct Line operates monthly run, leaving east coast Australian ports for Nth. America, via Lautoka and Suva.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd., 275 George Street, Sydney (29-2551).

Sydney - West Irian - Indonesia

P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping Company operates a monthly cargo service from Indonesia to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne; there are inducement calls at Djayapura.

Details from John Manners and Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 4 Bridge Street, 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 Street, Sydney (2-0515).

Sydney - Nz - Fiji/Tahiti - Uk

Chandris, Australis and Ell inis maintain a two-monthly passenger service from Sydney via NZ, Suva (Australis), Papeete (Ellinis) to Britain.

Details from Chandris Line, 135 King Street, Sydney (28-2451).

Sitmar Line, with three liners, operates a monthly passenger service from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane to Southampton, UK via Balboa, Panama, via NZ or Papeete.

Details from Sitmar Line, 22 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4521).

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE - NORFOLK IS. -

New Caledonia

Jacques del Mar 11 (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea), operates a three weekly passenger-cargo voyage from Sydney to Lord Howe, Norfolk and Noumea.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

Chargeurs Caledoniens, with the Ville de Noumea, operates three-weekly Devonport- Jnsbane-Sydney-Noumea.

Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty. Ltd., i Bridge Street, Sydney (27-1671).

Sydney - Geic ■ Honolulu

Columbus Lines operate monthly passenger- :argo sailings from West Coast, US to Australasia, returning via Tarawa, GEIC (with Tanshipments to Majuro, Marshall Islands) and +onolulu to Nth. America.

Details from Shiptraco Sea Transport Services ty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4149).

Sydney ■ New Caledonia - New

Hebrides - French Polynesia

Messageries Maritimes Line passenger-cargo vessels, Tahitian and Caledonien from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call regularly at Papeete, Taiohae (Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return to France via S. Africa or Panama.

Polynesie maintains three-weekly passenger sailings—Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.

Details from France Australia, 2 Young Street, Sydney (27-2654).

Sydney - Nz - Fiji - Hawaii

Canada - Uk

P. and 0. liners call monthly at Auckland, Suva and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and the US; occasional calls at Pago Pago and Tonga.

Details from P. and 0. Lines of Aust. Pty.

Ltd., 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).

Sydney/Nz - Fiji/Cooks - Tahiti - Uk

Shaw Savill's five 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 Street, Sydney (28-1828).

Sydney - Norfolk - 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 a fortnightly cargo/passenger service from Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae and Madang with two ships.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty Ltd., 13 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0517).

Burns Philp's Montoro sails every five weeks from Melbourne to Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Moresby. Marsina sails every three weeks from Sydney to Rabaul and Kavieng, and return.

On alternate trips she calls at Honiara instead of Kavieng.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

NG Aust.'s Coral Chief operates every 17/18 days from Sydney to Brisbane, Port Moresby and Samarai; Island Chief operates every 21 days from Sydney to Brisbane, Lae, Madang and Rabaul.

Details from Swire and Gilchrist, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line's eight cargo vessels call at Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kieta, Fulleborn, Honiara, Buka, Manus, Three carry passengers.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 4 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

Amplex NG, with Jette Bue, operates monthly Sydney-Rabaul-Lae, occasionally Fulleborn.

Details: Hetherington Kingsbury, 4 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-1671), Nauru Pacific Shipping Line operates regulargly from Melbourne to Portland, Rabaul, Lae and Moresby.

Details from W. R. Carpenter and Co., Pitt Street, Sydney (25-5421).

Australia - P-Ng - Far East

Austasia, with Malaysia, runs two-monthly Aust. ports Moresby - Djakarta - Singapore.

Details; Macquarie Travel, 183 Macquarie Street, Sydney (221-3799).

NYK, with Atsuta Maru, operates six-weekly Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane - Moresby • Lae - Madang - Rabaul - Kieta - Japan.

Details from Burns Philp, 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Far East - Fiji - New Zealand

China Navigation operates a monthly cargo service from Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva, NZ ports, Manila, Kaohsuing, Keelung, Hong Kong.

Details from Swire and Gilchrist, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA - TONGA -

Fiji - N. Caledonia - Nz

Nedlloyd Lines operates from Europe threeweekly via Panama to Tahiti, Apia, Fiji and New Caledonia; every alternate month from the Continent to Tahiti, New Caledonia and NZ.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George Street, Sydney (2-0573).

GERMANY - LONDON - PANAMA -

New Caledonia ■ New Guinea

Columbus Line operates monthly from Europe through Panama to Noumea, Port Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul and return via Panama.

Details from Breckwoldt & Co. Pty. Ltd., 324 Pitt Street, Sydney (61-7110).

Far East - New Guinea - Australia

China Navigation Co. Ltd. operates monthly from Japan to NG ports and Australian ports.

Details from Swire and Gilchrist, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

EUROPE - TAHITI - NEW CALEDONIA - AUSTRALASIA Messageries Maritimes' eight vessels (three cargo only) run monthly between France and Australasia, via Panama and South Africa, calling at Noumea and Papeete.

Details from France Australia, 2 Young Street, Sydney (27-2654).

Far East - Fiji - Nz

Royal Interocean Lines operates monthly with three ships from Manila, Pt. Swettenham, Singapore to Suva, Lautoka and NZ.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George Street, Sydney (2-0573).

FAR EAST - P-NG - BSI - NEW HEBRIDES -

New Caledonia - Tahiti - American

Samoa - Fiji

China Navigation vessel Chengtu operates monthly from Japan and Hong Kong to Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Moresby, with regular calls at Wewak, Honiara, Santo, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka and Noumea returning to Japan direct.

Details from Swire and Gilchrist, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

Geic ■ Hebrides - Sydney

The GEIC Wholesale Society operates a 12-weekly cargo service between Tarawa and

Sydney, using Moanaraoi. Passengers taken and occasional southward calls at Santo or Vila.

Details from Kerr Bros., 65 York Street, Sydney (29-5703).

JAPAN - SAMOA - FIJI - N. CALEDONIA -

N. Hebrides • West Irian

Daiwa Line runs a monthly passenger/cargo service from Japan via Guam to Apia, Pago Pago, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo, Djayapura, Biak and Sarong.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), Suva.

Japan - New Guinea

Mitsui and China Nav. vessels provide fortnightly services from major Japanese cities to major NG ports, and return.

Details from Swire and Gilchrist, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

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 - Samoas

Union Steam Ship passenger-cargo vessels fofua, Waimate and Taveuni (cargo only) leave Auckland alternately every two weeks. Tofua calls at Suva, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Vavau, Nukualofa, Suva and Auckland. Taveuni calls at Lautoka, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Nukualofa, Suva and Auckland. Waimate leaves Tauranga for Auckland, Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Nukualofa.

Details from USS, Quay and Commerce Streets, Auckland (379450).

Nz - N. Caledonia - Ng - Norfolk

NZ Export Line operates a 14-day service from Auckland to Noumea, Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Norfolk Island, and return.

Details from Maritimes Services Ltd., 22 Kitchener Street, Auckland, or Shiptraco, Sydney (27-4149).

Holm and Co.'s vessel Holmburn operates fortnightly between Auckland and Noumea.

Details from Holm and Co. Ltd., Customs Street East, Auckland (49930).

Nz - Norfolk Is. ■ New Caledonia •

New Hebrides • Fiji

Sofrana, with two ships, operates regularly out of Auckland to Tauranga (NZ), Noumea, Vila, Santo, Suva, Futuna, Lautoka, Wallis, and return.

Details from Trans Pacific Marine Ltd., 29 Fort Street, Auckland (31-873).

Nth America - Tahiti ■ Am. Samoa

Polynesia Line vessel Graziella Zeta operates seven-weekly from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Coos Bay (British Columbia) to Papeete and Pago Pago and return.

Details from American Trading, Box 168, GPO, Sydney (25-5421),

Tonga - Fiji - Australia

Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvakai operates a six-week cargo service from Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Melbourne and Sydney.

Details from Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

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.

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, Vila and Santo, New Hebrides, Noumea, Kieta, Djayapura and Yandina.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd., 269 George Street, Sydney (27-2041).

Us/Japan - Micronesia

Ml LI, with several inter-island passengercargo ships, operates regular services out of the US west coast and Japan, via Honolulu and Guam, to all major Micronesian ports, including Saipan, Yap, Koror, Ponape, Truk, Kusaie, Kwajelein, and Majuro.

Details from American Trading, Box 168, GPO, Sydney (25-5421).

Us - Hawaii/Samoa - Australia

Matson operates monthly service from Los Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra (no passengers) and Ventura to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Pago Pago and Honolulu.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272).

Us ■ Fiji/Tahiti - Australia

Bank Line Ltd., operates regular services from US Gulf ports to Australia and NZ.

Calls at Suva, Lautoka and Papeete on demand.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd., 269 George Street, Sydney (27-2041).

Matson liners Mariposa and Monterey operate three-weekly from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bora Bora, Papeete, Rarotonga, Auckland, Sydney, and return via Suva, Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolulu to San Francisco.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272).

USA - TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI - NEW CALEDONIA Pacific Islands Transport's Thorsgaard and Thor I operate monthly from West Coast Nth.

American ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Noumea, and occasionally Santo, Vila.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty.

Ltd., 275 George Street, Sydney (29-2551).

AIRWAYS

Trans Pacific Services

Sydney ■ Brisbane - Hawaii ■ Us

Qantas, with 707's, operates weekly from Sydney and San Francisco, departing on Sun.

Sydney ■ Fiji - Tahiti - Mexico

Qantas, with 707's, operates weekly services out of Sydney on Thurs. and return out of Mexico City on Sat. Stops at Acapulco.

Sydney - Fiji ■ Hawaii - Canada

CP Air, with DCB's, operates weekly services out of Sydney on Sat. and Vancouver on Thurs.

Sydney - Nz ■ Hawaii Or Tahiti - Usa

Air-NZ, with DCB's, operates out of Sydney and Los Angeles on Wed., Fri. and Sun.

Sydney - Fiji ■ Hawaii - Usa

Qantas, with 707's, operates daily services, from Sydney to San Francisco, and from San Francisco daily. Sat. flights by-pass Fiji.

BOAC, with VClO's, operates from Sydney to Los Angeles on Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., and Sat., and Los Angeles on Mon., Tues., Thurs., Sat. and Sun.

NOTE: Services ex-Melbourne started July.

SYDNEY or NOUMEA - USA (via FIJI.

NZ or TAHITI) UTA, with DCB's, operates out of Sydney on Fri. and Sun. and Noumea on Mon. and Thurs.

Thurs. flights operate Los Angeles direct to Sydney.

SYDNEY ■ USA (VIA N. CAL, NZ, FIJI,

Am. Samoa Or Hawaii)

PanAm, with 707's, operates daily return trans-Pacific services out of Sydney and Los Angeles. Also, extra Wed. and Sat. flights out of Sydney terminate at Hawaii and Wed. and Sat. flights out of Hawaii terminate at Sydney.

Jets connect with services to the Far East, New York and London.

Jets fly Sydney-Hawaii non-stop both ways Sun., Mon., Wed. and Fri.

NOTE: Services ex-Melbourne started July.

Nz - Am. Samoa - Tahiti Or Hawaii ■

USA PanAm, with 707's, operates out of Auckland on Tues., Thur., Sat.; out of San Francisco on Tues., Wed. and Sat. Mon. flights departs Honolulu for Auckland, via Pago Pago.

INDONESIA or MALAYA - USA (via

Darwin, Noumea, Nz Or Tahiti)

UTA, with DCB's, operates a weekly service out of Djakarta to Los Angeles on Mon. and return on Sun. A non-stop Noumea-Singapore flight operates on Thurs.

Australia-Far East

Sydney - P Ng - Far East

Qantas, with 707's, operates services out of Sydney on Mon., and Wed. to Port Moresby and Hong Kong, and return from Hong Kong on Tues. and Sun.

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

(For other schedules touching these Islands see also trans-Pacific services.)

Brisbane - Nauru

Air Nauru, with a Falcon Fan jet, operates fortnightly Brisbane-Honiara-Nauru and takes no passengers for Honiara (Solomons).

Details: Nauruan Government Office, 227 Collins St., Melbourne.

Sydney - Fiji

Air-1 ndia, with 707's, operates weekly services to Nadi on lues., returning to Sydney on Wed. Qantas, with 707's, operates weekly on Sat. to Nadi, returns Sydney same day.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

Airlines of NSW, with flying-boats, operates 124 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Micronesia Interocean Line Inc

Regular freight and passenger service between

U.S. Pacific Ports - Hawaii - Japan - Micronesia

(Other Ports On Inducement)

Home Office: Micronesia Interocean Line, Inc., P.O. Box 471, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 96950, Trust Territory of the Pacific Cables: 'Mili' U.S. General Agents: Interocean Steamship Corp., 680 Beach Street, San Francisco, California 94109, 'Phone (415)-771-6400 TWX 910-372-7388 RCA 27-337 Cables: 'lnterco' Inc., Hawaii Agents: Hawaii Feight Lines P.O. Box 1601, Honolulu, Hawaii 96806.

'phone 567-031 Telex: 723-407 Cables: 'Freight' Far East General Agents: Interocean Shipping Corporation, Room 627, lino Bldg., 1-1, Uchisaiwai Cho, 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Telex: 781-2335 Cables: 'Oceaninter' POLYNESIA LINE LTD.

U.S. PACIFIC U.S. General Agents: Interocean Steamship Corp., 680 Beach Street, San Francisco, California 94109, 'phone (415)-771-6400 TWX 910-372-7388 RCA 27-337 Cables: 'lnterco' Regular freight and passenger service between

Ports - Canada - Tahiti - Samoa

(Other Ports On Inducement)

Tahiti Agents: Maison Morgan-Vernex, Papeete.

Cables: 'Morex' Samoa Agents; B. F. Kneubuhl, Pago Pago.

Cables: 'Kneubuhlinc' Australian Agents: American Trading Shipping Co. (Pty.) Ltd., G.P.O. Box 168, Sydney, N.S.W., 2001, Australia Telephone No.; 25-5421 Telex: AA20486 Cable: 'Amtraco', Sydney twice weekly, return services from Rose Bay Sydney, to Lord Howe. Extras on holidays.

Sydney - New Caledonia

Qantas/UTA, with 707's and DOS's, operatei return services on Mon., Tues., Thurs. and Sun.

Qantas operates Mon. and Thurs., UTA oa Tues. and Sun.

Sydney - New Zealand - Fiji

BOAC, with 707's, operates services out of Sydney on Mon. and Sat., and out of Nadi on Tues. and Sun. NZ call is at Auckland.

SYDNEY ■ NORFOLK IS.

Qantas, with DC4's, operates at least twice weekly. More in holiday periods.

Australia - P-Ng

TAA and Ansett, with 727'5, operate 11 times a week from Sydney or Melbourne to Ft. Moresby. Ansett doesn't operate on Tues. or Thurs., TAA doesn't operate on Wed.

Queensland - Papua

TAA and Ansett, with Fokkers, operate weekly services. TAA leaves Townsville, via Cairns, for Ft. Moresby on Tues. and returns on Thurs. Ansett leaves Cairns on Thurs. for Moresby and returns on Fri.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS. (For other schedules touching these islands see also trans-Pacific services.) NZ - AM. SAMOA PanAm, with 707's, operates from Auckland to Pago Pago on Wed. and Thurs., and returns on Mon. and Wed.

NZ - COOKS No commercial services but RNZAF planes make regular calls, Auckland-Rarotonga return.

Passengers are carried.

NZ - FIJI Air-NZ, with DCB's, operates daily return services from Auckland to Nadi with BOAC, using 707's.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA Air-NZ, with DCB's, operates services out of Auckland on Tues. and Sat. and from Pago Pago on Tues. and Fri.

Nz - Tahiti

UTA, with DCB's, operates from Auckland on Thurs. and from Papeete on Thurs. Air-NZ, with DCB's, operates from Auckland on Sun. and from Papeete on Sat.

Nz - New Caledonia

UTA, with Caravelles, operates weekly from Auckland on Wed. and return. Air-NZ, with DCB's, operates weekly from Auckland on Sun., returning same day.

NZ - NORFOLK IS.

Air-NZ, with chartered Qantas DC4's, operates a weekly service, leaving Nl on Sat. and Auckland on Sun.

Inter - Territory Services

Chile - Easter Is. - Tahiti

Lan-Chile, with 707's, operates weekly, leaving Santiago on Thurs., leaving Papeete on Fri. (returning to Santiago on Sat.). Stopover at Easter Island is about six hours.

Details from Lan-Chile, 88 Pitt Street, Sydney (28-9629).

Fiji - Geic - Nauru

Fiji Airways, with 748's, operates weekly return services to Nauru, leaving Nadi on Fri. and making stops en route at Funafuti and Tarawa. Planes return from Nauru on Sat.

Fiji - Western Samoa

Fiji Airways, with 748's, operates from Fiji on Thurs., returning on Wed. from Apia.

Fiji Airways, with 748's, operates from Nadi on Wed., Fri. and Sun., via Vila and Santo, to Honiara. Planes leave Honiara on Tues., Thurs. and Sat. for Nadi. On Mon. 748's fly direct to Pt. Moresby from Honiara and return to Honiara same day; staying overnight before flying to Fiji Tues.

Fiji - Tonga

Fiji Airways, with 748's, operates from Suva to Nukualofa four times a week.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa

PanAm, with 707's, operates from Honolulu on Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat., and Sun. and operates from Pago Pago on Mon., Thurs., Fri. and Sat. 125 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY. 1970

Direct Monthly Service

Japan/Guam & South Pacific

M.V. "TAHITI MARU" V-29 Guam Oct. 14-15 Suva Oct. 29-30 Noumea Oct. 25-26 Lautoka Oct. 30-31 M.V. "ELLICE MARU" V-19 Guam Sep. 29-30 Suva Oct. 9-10 Lautoka Oct. 11-12 Pago Pago Oct. 15-16 Apia Oct. 16-17 Noumea Oct. 21-22 Vila Nov. 1- 1 Santo Nov. 2- 3 AGENTS; GUAM: Atkins, kroll (Guam) Ltd.

APIA; Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAGO PAGO: B.F. Kneubuhl , Inc 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.

Heavy lift and reefer cargo space available. Subject to alternation with or without notice.

Next sailing-M.V. "SAMOA MARU" Voy. No. 19 Middle October.

For W.Irian & Darwin Service

M.V. "GOLDEN LIGHT" V-2 Singapore Aug. 16-17 Sorong Aug. 30-31 Djajapura Aug. 24-25 Darwin Sept. 3- 5 Biak Aug. 27-28 Dili Sept. 7- 8 AGENTS: H.K.: Dietrich Air Freight Service (H.K.) Ltd.

S'Pore: The Borneo Company (Singapore) SDN BHD Djajapura; P.N. Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia Biak: P.N. Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia Sorong; P.N. Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia Dili; Sang Tai Hoo Darwin; Burns Philp & Co., Ltd.

Subject to alternation with or without notice.

Next sailing-M.V. "SHUNKO MARU" Voy. No. 9 Early October.

THE DAIWA HAYIGATIOK CO., LTD.

Osaka: "Dailine" Tokyo: "Funedailine”

Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti

PanAm, with 707's, operates from Honolulu on Sun. and Sat. and from Papeete on Thurs.

A Sun. flight from Papeete overflies Pago.

Hawaii - Nauru - Micronesia

Air Micronesia, with 727'5, operates from Honolulu on Wed. and Sun., via Johnston Is., Majuro, Kwajalein, Ponape, Truk, Guam anc Saipan, and returns on Thurs. and Sat. Nauru calls fortnightly, alternate Thurs., from Majuro.

New Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA, with DC4's, operates two returr services a week, out of Noumea on Sun. anc Fri., making calls at Santo and Vila.

NEW CAI. - WALLIS IS. - NEW CAL.

UTA, with DC4's, operates a fortniqhth service, leaving Noumea on the second Thurs of the month.

New Guinea - West Irian

TAA, with DC3's, leaves Madang on alternate Wed. for Djayapura and returns the same day

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA, with Fokkers and DC3's, operate! twice weekly. Fri. planes leave Moresby vi« Munda to Honiara, returning Sat. Tues. leavi Rabaul via Buka, Kieta, Munda, Yandina t( Honiara, returning Wed.

Tahiti - Usa

UTA, with DCB's, operates on Mon., Thurs.

Fri., Sun. non-stop from Papeete to Los An geles, and return, the same day. The sarm flight on Sat. out of Papeete makes an extn call, at Honolu'u.

PanAm, with 707's, operates to Los Angele; from Papeete on Mon., Tues., Fri. and Sat The Thurs. flight takes in Pago Pago am Honolulu; the Sun. flight is via Honolulu Planes return from San Francisco on Wed.

Thurs., Sat. and Sun.

Air-NZ, with DCB's, flies to Los Angele from Papeete on Sun., leaves Los Angeles Fri

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

Polynesian Airlines, with DC3's, operate between Apia and Pago Pago at least twic a day (all flights, 45 min.).

W. Samoa - Tonga

Polynesian Airlines, with 748's, operate twice weekly Apia-Nukualofa.

W. Samoa - Fiji

Polynesian Airlines, with 748's, operate from Apia on Sun., returning to Nadi 01 Mon.

Internal Services

Am. Samoa ■ West Samoa

Three charterers operate:. Air Samoa Ltd. o Apia and South Seas Airways and Air Samo: Inc. of Pago Pago.

Apia's firm, with Islanders, flies Fagalii Faleolo and Asau; South Seas, with a Cherokei seaplane, to Pago, Manua, Rose and Swain; and Air Samoa Inc., with Cessnas, to Pagi and Faleolo.

FIJI Fiji Airways, with Herons, DC3's am 126 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. of N.Z.

LIMITED Serving the Pacific for nearly 100 years.

Regular Sailings by Modern Vessels From Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Niue, Vavau, Nukualofa. Also from Lyttleton, Tauranga to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Nukualofa. Regular sailings from Australia to New Zealand to enable transhipment of cargo to all the above ports.

Ship your cargo by a Union Company Vessel.

BRANCHES AT ALL MAIN AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND ISLAND PORTS.

Pacific Mmds Transport Tine

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 400 California Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

Inter- SYDNEY—Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd.

SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) PORT VILA Comptoirs Francais de Nouvelles Hebrides.

Pacific Publications (Fiji) Ltd. Forty per cent, of the shares of the holding company, giving a minor ownership of whole group, have now been bought by Wilke & Co Ltd.

Wilke & Co. Ltd., which is one of Australia’s most powerful and profitable printing corporations, with a high rating on the Australian stock exchanges, now is entering the periodical publishing industry, in a novel way. It is developing a creative marketing policy which involves the planning, testing and marketing of publications and other printed material.

Its new magazine-management department recently launched two specialised Australian periodicals, School Family and Dinstinction; and further similar enterprises shortly will extend into the areas serviced by Pacific Publications.

Wilke now operate mainly from a very large, modernly equipped prining and publishing establishment in Clayton, Melbourne, and from a similarly new factory in Brisbane.

The Wilke Board has just completed a reorganisation of its company structure under which half of its HS74B's operates regular services to Labasa, Matei, Nadi, Nausori and Savusavu.

Details: Qantas, BOAC or Air-NZ.

Air Pacific, with Beech Barons, operates to Ovalau Island, Korolevu, Natadola, Ba and Vatukoula and with Grumman Mallard Amphibian to Vanua M'Balavu, Kadavu and Lakeba.

Details from Air Pacific Ltd., P.O. Box 1259, Suva (Telephone: 22666).

French Polynesia

Air Polynesia, with DC4's, Twin Otters and a Bermuda flying-boat, operates to Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Papeete, Raiatea and Rangiroa.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, or any UTA office.

Air Tahiti and Air Moorea, with light aircraft, operate charter services from Papeete to Moorea, Raiatea and Bora Bora.

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Fiji Airways, with Herons, operates regular services among Tarawa, Butaritari, North Tabiteuea and Abemama.

Guam - Us Trust Territory

Air Micronesia, with 727's and DC6's, 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, operates to Baimuru, Baiyer R., Balimo, Banz, fuin, Bulolo, Buka, Cape Gloucester, Cape Hoskins, Chimbu, Daru, jacquinot Bay, Kainantu, Kandrian, Kavieng, Kerema, Kieta, Kikori, Lae, Madang, Malalau, Manus, Mini, Misima, Mt. Hagen, Munda, Nanatanai, Nissan Is., Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Talasea, Valimo, Wabag, Wakunai, Wau, Wapenamanda and Wewak.

Ansett, operates to Aitape, Ambunti, Angoram, Banz, Buin, Buka, Bulolo, Erave, Goroka, Hayfield, lalibu, Kainantu, Kagua, Kavieng, Kieta, Kundiawa, Lae, Lumi, Madang, Mendi, Minj, Mt.

Hagen, Momote, Nuku, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Tari, Telefomin, Vanimo, Wabag, Wapenamanda, Wau, Wewak and Yangoru.

Papuan Airlines operates to Aroa, Balimo, Bereina, Cape Rodney, Daru, Gurney, Kairuku, Kokoda, Losuia, Mendi, Mt. Hagen, Paili, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, Rorona, Tapini, Vivigani, Wanigela and Woitape.

Also, Aerial Tours operate in the Sepik area, and Territory Airlines in the Highlands.

New Caledonia

Air Caledonie, with Twin Otters, Herons and Islanders operates regular services to Hienghene, Houailou, Isle of Pines, Isle Ouen, Kone, Kouaoua, Koumac, Lifou, Mare, Noumea, Ouvea, Poindimie, Touho, Voh.

Details from Air Caledonie, Noumea.

New Hebrides

Air Melanesia, with Piper Aztec and Navajo aircraft, operates to Erromanga, Lamap, Longana, Lonorore, Norsup, Santo, Tanna, Tongoa, Vila and Walaha.

Solomon Islands

Solair, with Beech Barons and Doves, operates to Auki, Avu Avu, Barakoma, Gizo, Honiara, Kira Kira, Marau, Munda, Parosi, Seoe and Yandina.

Details from Solomon Islands Airways Ltd., Box C 25, Honiara. BSIP. 127 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970 Pacpub changes (from p. 20)

subscribed capital is being returned to shareholders.

Wilke & Co. Limited, operating through their new association with Fiji Times & Herald Ltd., propose to introduce to Fiji a new industry connected with book production.

This is a long-term plan and steps already are being taken to technically train the necessary local labour. To a degree, this development will be contingent on some assistance being given by the Fiji Government in relation to technical training and Customs tariff.

The capital structure of FT&H Ltd. has been rearranged, with a view to making this company’s shares available to Fiji investors. A new issue of 100,000 $1 shares at a premium has been authorised, for sale in Fiji only.

Until now, the ordinary shareholders of Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd.—who thereby have been the owners of the whole group—have been the Robson Family Trust, Mr.

S. C. Hughes, Mrs. Judy Tudor, Mr.

Stuart Inder and Mrs. T. C. Read, and the ownership change outlined above has been effected by those shareholders selling 40 per cent, of their holdings to Messrs. Wilke.

Wilke & Co. Ltd. have also bought outright a small number of preference shares, issued many years ago, and an option under which they may acquire the remainder of the issued ordinary shares (60 per cent.) within a certain number of years. Certain Wilke directors will join the board. In the meantime, there will be no change in executive or in present management control policies. Mr. Robson will remain as managing director.

Wilke & Co. Ltd. was established in Melbourne originally as a printing firm, in 1896. It was registered as a private company in 1921 and, following growth and development, it became a public company in 1948.

Its growth continued, with consequent rearrangement of its capital structure to take care of expansion and the purchase or organisation of subsidiaries.

Its 50 cent shares were quoted at between $1.35 and $1.45 up to mid- June; then a board decision to return half the subscribed capital to shareholders was given effect to; and on June 18, following the rearrangement of capital, the first offers for the new stock were over $2.60.

The paid-up capital of Wilke after the reduction, is now $1,486,041; its total assets, as officially stated, are $9,334,069; and its employees are over 800.

Deaths Of Islands People

Sir Alan Mann Sir Alan Mann, Kt., Chief Justice of Papua-New Guinea since May, 1957, died in Brisbane on June 20, after a long illness. He was 56.

Sir Alan was bom in NSW and attended Geelong Grammar School and Melbourne University. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1938 and was in private practice in Victoria from 1939-42 and from 1946-57, when he was appointed Chief Justice by the then Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck. He had been made Queen’s Counsel in 1955.

During World War II he was with the RAAF coastal command in Britain, winning a military MBE.

Sir Alan was a friendly man, with great personal charm, happy to talk to all on any of his many outside interests, which included painting and boating. He was patron of many P-NG community organisations.

He leaves a widow, Yvonne, and four daughters.

Mrs. Rosa Raoulx The death occurred in Tahiti in mid-May of Mrs. Rosa Raoulx, chiefess of the Arue district for the past 20 years and a member of the Territorial Assembly of French Polynesia from 1962 to 1967.

Mrs. Raoulx was born in Papeete in 1908. She became chiefess of Arue on the death of her uncle, Pedro Micheli.

Mr. Hartley Onslow Edward Palmer Mr. Hartley Onslow Edward Palmer, whose grandfather arrived in Levuka before the cession of Fiji, died on June 22, aged 68. He was well known in the business world of Fiji.

After education at the Levuka Public School and the Kings College, Auckland, Mr. Palmer joined his father’s business. When this closed he went over to Morris Hedstrom Ltd., working as a branch manager in various parts of Fiji.

During this period he was seconded for five years to the GEIC as manager of the Colony’s Wholesale Society.

Mr. Palmer, when he retired from Morris Hedstrom’s a few years ago, was the company’s shipping manager.

Soon after his retirement he took up a post in the Suva Co-op.

Society.

He is survived by a daughter and two sons. His wife, formerly Miss Harvey Lepper, of Savusavu, died about six years ago.

Mr. Carlos Garcia Palacios One of Tahiti’s best-known and best-liked foreign residents, Mr.

Carlos Garcia Palacios, died on the island on May 1 at the age of 72.

Mr. Palacios, a Chilean, had been honorary Chilean consul in Tahiti since 1953.

The film actor Marlon Brando flew especially from London to attend his funeral.

Mr. Palacios was a career diplomat who represented his country in Geneva before World War II both in the International Labor Organisation and in the League of Nations secretariat. After the war, he was a member of the United Nations secretariat in New York.

After taking up his post in Tahiti, one of Mr. Palacios’ first jobs was to arrange the repatriation of three Easter Islanders who rowed a small boat 2,130 miles from Easter Island to Kauehi Atoll (Tuamotus) to escape the yoke of Chilean rule ( PIM, Feb. 1955, p. 106).

Mr. Palacios was a close friend of the French sailor, Eric de Bisschop, who, in 1956-57, tried to do a Kon-Tiki raft drift in reverse by sailing his raft Tahiti-Nui from Tahiti to the coast of Chile. When the Tahiti-Nui began to break up in a heavy storm near Juan Fernadez Island, it was Mr. Palacios, who was then in Chile, who arranged for a Chilean frigate to go to his rescue.

Mr. Palacios wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines throughout the world, and was the author of a book about Tahitian women entitled Tane api or UHomme blanc repart toujours.

Chief Faivae Hunkin High Chief Faivae Hunkin, American Samoa’s postmaster from 1949 to 1962, and a former Senator and member of several government boards and commissions, died recently in Pago Pago. Chief Hunkin served in the US Navy before becoming postmaster.

Miss Marcelle Perronnet Miss Marcelle Perronnet, longtime planter on Efate in the New Hebrides, died in May, aged 76.

Born in Noumea in 1893, she moved to the Hebrides in April, 1904, with her mother, Marie (a widow), who operated a small plantation at Mele, north-west of Vila.

Miss Perronnet later bought a small plantation on Nguna, a small island north of Efate, and lived at Nguna until 1940, when she returned to Mele. At Mele she maintained a 128 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Classified Advertisments Per line, 85c Aust.; Minimum rate. 4 lines.

Pen Friends

IN TORRES ISLANDS. Man, 27, would like friendly correspondence, male or female, with Islands in North Queensland.

Please write now to: Mr. Jambres Lay, P.O. Box 286, Mt. Hagen, Western Islands, New Guinea.

Stamps, Shells, Coins

Top Prices Paid For Island

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulations (used or unused), covers, collections.

Seven Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd., Sterling Street, Dubbo, N.S.W., 2830, Aust.

PRIVATE COLLECTOR, wishes to buy or exchange stamps of Pacific Islands, NZ and Australia. Please write: COAR, “Herdlea”, Church Road, Warton, Preston, England.

USED STAMPS, of Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea and Australia.

Highest prices paid. Send any quantity.

V. Kuna & Co., P.O. Box 77, Clarence St., Sydney, N.S.W., 2001, Aust.

Business Investment

ENERGETIC ex. New Zealand building contractor, age 38 yrs., finishing contract P.W.D. Construction, October, 1970.

Looking purchase, partnership or working directorship of suitable established business or future projects in Pacific Islands.

Hotels, Trading, Shipping, construction, etc. Finance up to $70,000.00 available.

All propositions considered, replies to B. J. Hards, C/- P.W.D., Betio, Tarawa, Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony.

Positions Wanted

U.S. LICENSED AIRCRAFT MECHANIC.

Heavy, recent experience Cessna air taxi equipment. Desire to locate outside U.S.

Prefer island operations. Apply: P.O. Box 942, Kailua-Kofna, Hawaii.

EXPERIENCED export fish processing plant manager is seeking employment in the Pacific. American, married with B. S.

Degree in Business Administration.

Interested in management and/or equity opportunity in fish processing or related manufacturing operation. “MC” C/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney 2001.

Tahiti Shells

We buy, sell and exchange specimen shells for collection (actual and fossils).

Free list on request.

P.O. BOX 1610, PAPEETE, TAHITI RCil

& J Stanley Johnston

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M Latest pamphlets dispatched free at your request. * Prompt service and SAFE ARRIVAL GUARANTEED. •fc Most records available in MONO or STEREO. Please state when ordering.

M All needles and record player accessories in stock. + Postage charge up to 3 lb is $l.lO.

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Lovely record of Sfik flll 14 popular country hits. L5P4223. v v Mr. William ToMutmut Tolai British Empire Medal holder, Mr. William Pillo ToMutmut, died recently, aged 40, in Nonga Base Hospital, Rabaul, NG. Mr, ToMutmut received the medal for service with the Administration and especially for his work with local government councils. He leaves a widow, Kibil, and five children.

Mr. George lalimiau George lalimiau, president of the Dillon’s Bay Local Council, New Hebrides, died on June 10 at his Dillon’s Bay home. Mr. lalimiau, who was about 70, was a radio operator on Erromango after the war and had been president of the local council for three years; he leaves a wife and five children.

Hugh Claud Monckton Mr. Hugh Claud Monckton, a former Adviser of Native Affairs in Fiji, died at the age of 89 in Sydney on June 27.

Mr. Monckton was a magistrate in Fiji in the early 1920’s and retired to Sydney in 1942. He leaves a wife and three children, Hugh, Basil and Sybil. 129 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

ACCOMMODATION KINGSCLIFFE, N.S.W. “Koolmurra” Flats, 144 Marine Parade. Modern brick 2 B/R.

S.C. Maximum accom. 5. All carpeted.

Septic, 2 mins, beach. Opposite bowling club. Brochure available. Harry and Margaret Prosser. Telephone; 74-1114, Kingscliffe.

KINGSCLIFFE, N.S.W. 15 minutes Gold Coast, “Carellen” Flats. On beach, comfortable, family accom., modern amenities, fitted for TV, carports, fishing, bowls, tennis. Special off-season tariff; Enquiries: Bill and Anne Diamond, 78 Marine Parade, Kingscliffe, N.S.W., 2413.

FOR FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODATION, Mooloolaba, Alexandra Headland on Queensland’s sunshine coast. Contact: W.

N. Perraton, Esplanade, Mooloolaba, Qld., 4557.

GOODWIN TOWERS, Gold Coast, Queensland. Completed August, 1969. 35 luxury home units with panoramic views of the Gold Coast from each one. Off-season tariff: $5O per week. We have many other flats, home units, houses and motels from $lB p.w. off season. All tariffs are subject to special rates for long term bookings. Write for brochure. Personal attention to every inquiry. Pat Long, trading as A.E.T.S. (R.E.1.Q.), Box 197, Burleigh Heads. 4220. Phone 5-2112 or 5-2375. Gold Coast.

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Extremely well equipped units, each 9 squares. TV, Music, Pool. Underground parking. Manager: Bob Kerrigan Tel.: 39-9081.

Cairns, Nth. Qld., “Mandalay”, A

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BOOKS, MAGAZINES, ETC.

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney. 2000. Telephone: 28-7874.

Trade Enquiries

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might want from Hong Kong (Photographic and Cine Equipment, Transistor Radios, Household Appliances, Chinese Brocades. Plastic Flowers, Cultured Pearls, etc.) we can supply you. Right prices and personal care assured. Please write us for quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd,. 313 Marina House, Hong Kong. Established in Hong Kong since 1936.

The Mercantile Trading Co., Box

131, Hong Kong, Exporter: foodstuffs, camphorwood chests, ivory ware, umbrellas, garments, porcelain, plastic goods, electrical and rubber goods and fish net.

WANTED PLANTATION WANTED, New Guinea or New Hebrides. Lease with option. Pull details: “Advertiser”, P.O. Box 18, Kieta, Bougainville, T.N.G.

HOME EXCHANGE HOLS, (a beaut idea).

Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Isles.

Full details of homes, families, amenities, localities. “SWOP”, 32a College Rd., Lane Cove, N.S.W. 2066.

Rambler'S Guide To

Norfolk Island

$1.25 at bookstalls or from Pacific Publications (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney (plus 15c postage).

FOR SALE CONCRETE BLOCK MACHINE. Makes blocks, flags, edgings, screen-blocks, garden stools —up to 8 at once and 96 an hour.

SAB3 c.i.f. main ports. Send for leaflets.

Forest Farm Research, Londonderry, N.S.W.. 2753.

BODEN’S BOAT DESIGNS PTY. LTD., 695 George Street, Sydney, 2000. Get your New Boden’s Boat Building Books from Newsagents and Booksellers everywhere. Posted direct $3.40, $3.95 airmail.

FLEETS. 48 ft carvel passenger boat, profess, bit. 1968, hardwood hull in survey, mar. diesel 3:1 reduction, installed new, seats 94 persons. 2 way radio, Public Address System, rafts, etc. $21,000. Fleets, Rowes Bldg., Edward Street, Brisbane.

Cable: “Fleets”, Brisbane. 36 FT. TRIMARAN LODESTAR. As new, completely fitted for overseas voyage.

S. S. staunchings, pulpits and wire, aluminium mast. Many additional extras, $A7,500. Delivery can be negotiated. For further details write: 75 West St., Crows Nest, N.S.W., 2065.

WANTED

Freehold Land

Am interested in buying a large tract of freehold hand in the South Pacific. Might pay cash.

Please write: "PAM", cl- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, 2000, Australia.

WANTED Battery Lead Scrap, all types of Lead, Tin, Antimony, Scraps, Residues and Drosses.

BERJAK Cr PARTNERS, 424 ST. KILDA ROAD, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, 3004.

Buy In Brisbane

Shipchandlery—Yacht Fittings

Rigging work a specialty at

The Small Ships Centre

177 Wellington Rd., East Brisbane, Queensland, 4169, Australia.

PROMPT MAIL ORDER SERVICE.

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FOR SALE (NEW & USED) All types of coin-operated machines;

Latest Juke Boxes

Amusement Machines

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Importers Distributors Operators

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Send For Brochure

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HAI26 Education must be "freed" to work for Tongans By 'I PUT A HELU, a Tongan schoolteacher Three views—all in error—continue to prevent educational progress in Tonga.

The first is the view that education should be a hand-maid of society.

Granting that the school is a social mstitution and education a social activity, it does not follow that education should be made subservient to social needs.

Courses for Tongan schools show clearly how far teachers and educational leaders of the country subscribe to this view. In fact many attempts have been made to force schools to give too much emphasis to the subject of agricultural science at the expense of other sciences. The general idea is that Tonga needs more agriculturalists than anything else. 1 his instrumentalist kind of view is Wlf y J° ngan ’ lt t i - n f? at °£ C findS ll i ln u S most virulent form. For example, the newly-formed University of the South of WhT r 8 tC> mC v th t P C u ds ot South Seas communities, had her courses designed in such a manner as to aid the Islanders in their fishing and agriculture, which will result in a predominance of fishermen and farmers in the future composition of the populations of South Seas countries—as is the case at present to a lesser degree.

Whereas this might appear beneficial to society, it certainly is not so to education, taking education to be autonomous, as something with a distinct character of its own, related to, but independent from, other social activities.

It would be extremely difficult to regard education as a continuing tradition, and much more to formulate its definition when it is subjected to the whims of age and society.

This notion was demonstrated bv the attitude of people to the educational system of Dr. Moulton* It came under fire bec ause Moulton was careful to design his courses so that there would be nothing “practical” about them, so far as thl then tongan environment was concerned.

This may have been takW the* Y 6 bCen takmg the -Dr. J. E. Moulton, early missionary t 0 Ton ga. established the Tupou college, Nukualofa, in 1866, and was later president fn S. ne Collegc in Sydney ' He dled Are these Tongan students getting the education they deserve?— Photo by Sio Magisi. 131 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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Another wise thing which Moulton did was the adoption of syllabuses of overseas countries for use in his Tongan College. This is a grand lesson for our syllabus committees which have nothing to guide them but “the will of the people”.

After Moulton, the subsequent systems were designed to provide students with something they could “use”, and these systems have been very efficient in producing two types of people—clerks and preachers.

A second view—a variant of the first—is the notion that education should be pursued only to enable one to make a living, to get a job.

The effect of this view is just as harmful to education, for, like the first, it makes the scope of education pitifully limited, and leads to the same undesirable results. This arises, as already indicated, from our viewing of education too much through the optics of social welfare and society—through the optics of greed.

Mould character Thirdly, there is this view that education should mould a man’s character. Tongans believe this so ardently that they take “good” character as more important than knowledge and even wisdom.

This is a debatable point, but what is amazing is that the teachers at our schools have not, for the most part, studied ethics. I do not mean to say that a person must know ethics before he can do good acts, but our teachers are superbly lacking in any ability for moral judgment apart from passing on accepted norms, which shows once again the effect of social domination over education.

This view is maintained and reinforced by churches whose present interests lie in material and not spiritual gain and this piece of coercive psychology is very useful to them.

These views have ravaged education for so long, it’s time education was rescued and given back what really belongs to her—autonomy and freedom from a dominating society.

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Now they have small snails eating big snails The giant snail species in New Guinea is proving a headache for the Administration.

Brought in originally by Japanese troops in 1942, the snails were intended to feed soldiers. Now they are in abundance in the Gazelle Peninsula of the East New Britain District, New Ireland and certain parts of the Manus District.

In the Gazelle Peninsula and in some areas of New Ireland, the snails eat out food gardens. They move into the gardens in tens of thousands and can eat out a good size garden under a week. The only way New Guineans have been able to control them is by daily inspection of their gardens and removing snails by hand from plants.

The Administration some years ago introduced legislation prohibiting the removal of plants from the original snail districts.

However, late last year, snails were discovered at Kieta, on Bougainville.

A huge search was organised to (Continued on p. 137)

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Fourth from left is the island's Administrator, Air-Commodore R. N. Dalkin. 135 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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The Department of Agriculture carried out an intensive programme to eradicate the snails then.

Snails in Boroko Apparently, the eradication programme failed hopelessly and now people are finding giant snails in their gardens in a suburb, Boroko.

Early in April, the Administration brought in small snails (Gonaxis quadrilateralis ) and released these in the Boroko area to try to combat the giant snails.

The small snails are a predator and feed on other snails. It is claimed that these small snails do not become pests.

To help combat the giant snails, the Administration has given out colour descriptions of the two snails to householders in the Moresby area, to help distinguish between them.

Pangu Party starts in uni.

From LUKE SELA in Port Moresby Staff and students at the University of Papua-New Guinea have formed a branch of the Pangu Political Party.

This is the first time that any political party in Papua-New Guinea has been able to establish a branch within the university.

The Pangu Political Party was established in 1966, at a time when many other political parties were being formed in Papua-New Guinea for 1968 general elections. Pangu entered the general election in 1968 with nominated candidates. The outcome was nine Pangu Political members in the Papua-New Guinea parliament.

Today it remains the only properly organised political party in the territory. Pangu Party has recently published its own newspaper, Pangu Pati Nius”, which it hopes will become a monthly newspaper.

It now claims to have a total of 9,000 financial memberships throughout Papua-New Guinea. Among other aims of the party, Pangu is seeking immediate self-government, unity for people of all races, an independent view of political events at national and local level, and to serve as a means of political education for the people.

Recruiting campaign There are 12 staff and 38 students in the new branch on the campus.

There are plans to launch a recruiting campaign within the university. Although the stated aims of the Pangu Party are appearing less and less radical as time passes, it’s attracting some rather radical students with strong political ideas, notably, the President, Mr. Leo Hannett, who, against Pangu’s policy, has advocated openly an independent Bougainville (or is it Buka?). 137 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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The “division” of External Affairs? would in effect comprise the Papua- New Guinea Administration as itJ stands now, with the exception of the; native public servants in it who would 1 be the growing local public service,, taking over the self-government the; Labour leader, Mr. Gough Whitlam,, promised in January shortly aften labour gains power (that’s the plan,, anyway) at the next election.

Mere instrument The Administration then would be\ the Australian Government’s division/ administering Papua-New Guinea, instead of being merely an instrument! of a Canberra department, with all I the problems of distance and lack ofi communication which have afflicted! administration here for so long.

Australian public servants in the; Administration would become Commonwealth public servants, solving the; vexing problem of what to do withe Australians being levered out by the; “indigenisation” of the public service; here. Absorbing many hundreds off people into the Commonwealth Public: Service (one figure suggested is 3,000)( would create its own problems, butt Labour sources say the party would! prefer this to “being deterred from/ doing the right thing by an entire; nation, by considering the special! needs and futures of a comparative; handful of expatriates.” 138 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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No converts for obedience New Guineans, it seems, are not attracted to the religious life of poverty, chastity and obedience.

At any rate, the Anglican Society of St. Francis has only one fully professed Papuan brother—and a handful of native novices—after more than 10 years in the territory.

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The Franciscans lived in Hohola for just over two years. Now they have handed it over to the parish and it’s expected that a Torres Strait island priest will be appointed to take charge there.

Brother Geoffrey, head friar of the Franciscans’ Pacific Province, says; “Of course, we had no intern 139 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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“But there just aren’t enough New Guinean brothers. They aren’t joining us, and those who do aren’t staying.”

Bro. Geoffrey continued: “We felt that to have three houses in the territory”—there are two others, at Koki in Port Moresby and at Jegarata near Popondetta—“when the people are not responding, is not a right use of our resources.

“If we are going to do more effective work in this country there must be a greater response from the men of this country and from the mothers, to be willing for their sons to join us.”

Bro. Geoffrey said New Guinean reticence was in sharp contrast to the enthusiasm of Solomon Islanders, many of who have joined the society.

Indeed, the demand for the society from that direction is such that the Franciscans are about to open a new house in Honiara.

But Bro. Geoffrey indicated that this would probably be the society’s last new move for some time. “We feel we have reached the limits of our expansion for the time being,” he said, “and must now start to consolidate our work”.

Samoan and Tongan are Port Chaplains For the first time in its 114-year history the world-wide Missions to Seamen now numbers a Samoan and a Tongan among its honorary Port Chaplains.

The Yen. Jabez Bryce, of Samoa, now serves in Lautoka, Viti Levu, and the Rev. Sosia Fineanganofo, of Tonga, is at Levuka, Ovalau.

Both ports are in Fiji in the 11,500,000 square mile Diocese of Polynesia. Their appointments were announced by the Rev. Roy Chalkley, Missions to Seamen Port Chaplain in Suva.

Using practical means to beat Jon Frum Members of the Jon Frum movement, a cargo cult movement in the southern islands of the New Hebrides, are being wooed back to Christianity by a new Presbyterian body. Called the Kristian Institute of Technology of Weasisi, it is led on Tanna by the Rev. Ken Calvert.

According to the Presbyterian magazine, Encounter, KITOW is holding “verbal football matches” with members of the cult. The cult, it says, was formed many years ago 141 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

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“We (remember the Frummies are in their leadership ex-christians who know their Bibles) argue the toss with them about the validity of the Christian faith”, Encounter goes on.

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Pastor to work for Hebrideans A Presbyterian pastor is to be sent from the New Hebrides to New Caledonia to work alongside the 1,500 Hebrideans currently earning big money in the nickel factories of Noumea. The news follows pleas (see report in P/M, June, p. 66) that some sort of Presbyterian presence should look after the needs of expatriate Hebrideans in Noumea.

The decision was arrived at at the recent Presbyterian Church Assembly.

Since early 1969 a total of six Presbyterian preachers have spent brief periods in the Caledonian capital working by day and performing pastoral duties by night. But there has never been a permanent worker.

Polynesian Diocese fa elect bishop The Anglican Diocese of Polynesia will now elect its own bishop, the Bishop in Polynesia announced in Suva at the end of May.

In making this announcement, Bishop J. T. Holland stated that, “This major step forward in local self-determination is most appropriate to this year of Fiji’s independence and the 100th anniversary of Anglican work here.”

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GENERATORS Suitable all conditions and climates. Geared to operate in lightest breeze. Totally enclosed, dust and waterproof.

Absolutely reliable.

Capacities 300-1,500 watts.

Battery Chargers

Range of types for 2-36 V. batteries. Simple to operate— robust portable low operating cost—maintenance free. Supplied complete. Approved all Aust. authorities.

Name your power generating need we can more than match it.. •

With Australia’S

Largest Range

From Australia’S

Most Experienced

MANUFACTURERS OF POWER PLANTS.

IfliS i PORTABLE A.C.

"Power Packs"

Can be carried anywhere.

Rugged compact lightweight. 2 KW and 4 KW.

Choice of petrol or diesel engine.

Accurate voltage control.

Belt Driven

ALTERNATORS Convert stationary engine to 240 V. supply. No intricate wiring— simple to install—easy to maintain. 2-30 KVA single phase; 6-150 KVA 3-phase.

Brushless Alternators

Self-exciting, self regulating, self protecting. Available as shaft drive or complete engine driven units.

Your choice of 10 leading makes of engine.

There's a Dunlite plant to exactly suit . . . built for a specific load capacity. Each is a ready to run, tropic-proofed package unit, with no special installation instructions. Ask your nearest dealer.

Dunlite Electrical

COMPANY PTY. LTD., 21-27 Frome Street, Adelaide, South Australia 5000.

Telegrams: "Dunliteco", Adelaide.

Distributors: • RURAL SERVICES PTY. LTD., 65 IPSWICH ROAD, WOOLLOONGABBA, • N.G.G. TRADING COMPANY LTD., LAE.

BRISBANE • NEW BRITAIN ELECTRICAL CO., RABAUL. • COLYER WATSON (N.G.) LTD., GOROKA. 144 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Established 1890 offering merchants in the Pacific, buying service giving prompt, careful and expert attention to all requirements.

For that service with a difference, cable "Success", Sydney. cA, l! % Sole Distributors in the Pacific for: Tilley lamps, Plastevic antifouling paints, Fulda tyres, Success & Tiara footwear, 4711 Eau de Cologne, Hilite batteries, Woodcemair prefab houses, Ross frozen foods, Balgay # jams. Success canned fish, kerosene refrigerators, jute sacks, ice cream, torches, textiles, furniture, electric appliances. ltd *w.s

Highest Prices Obtained On World Markets

FOR YOUR SHELL - COCOA - COFFEE - COPRA - ETC. 31 MACQUARIE PLACE, SYDNEY, N.S.W. 2000 G.P.O. BOX 5315 SYDNEY 2001 'SUCCESS'—Sydney

Cable Addresses

'TAlTCO'—Sydney 145 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

♦ Sullivan Export Service ♦

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD. 4th Floor. Kemblo Building. 60 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY, 2000, N.S.W.

Telephone: 29-8144 (6 lines). Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Sydney.

MELBOURNE

C. Sullivan (Export)

PTY. LTD. 59 William Street, Melbourne, 3000, Vic.

Telephone: 62-6600.

Cables and Telegrams: CHASULL, Melbourne.

BRISBANE

C. Sullivan (Q'Land)

PTY. LTD.

Empire House, cnr. Queen & Wharf Sts., Brisbane. 4000 (G.P.O. Box 1697 V, Brisbane, 4001.) Telephone: 24958.

Cables and Telegrams: CHASULL, Brisbane.

New Zealand

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD.

Levein Building, cnr. Paul & Airdale Sts., Auckland, 1.

Telephone: 36-0472.

Cables and Telegrams; CHASULL, Auckland.

Also at; PORT MORESBY • LAE • RABAUL • SUVA • LAUTOKA • LONDON • SAN FRANCISCO

Offering A Comprehensive Buying Service

To Islands Clients

GENERAL FOODS ...bring you the good things in life! :x -%.

V ICE CREAM ATa Good things like creamy smooth Tip Top ice cream. A whole range of flavours in take-home packs, in novelties, and in bulk. Tip Top another quality General Foods product.

Trade enquiries to General Foods Corporation (N.Z.) Ltd., P.O Box 722, Auckland, N.Z. 146 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Conserves frozen foods for weeks.

Capacity up to 100-lb.

Can also be used for fresh meat, fish, vegetables, butter, etc.

Cools beer, minerals and soft drinks quickly and cheaply, lapacity up to 80 bottles, allowng DAILY service of up to 300 settles of really cold drinks!

THE ELECTROLUX CBO uses no ice or electricity, operates anywhere by Kerosene, YES ANYWHERE economically and with high efficiency.

S 3 Kerosene Electrolux Deep Freezer 9 I For better EARNINGS and a NEW way of LIFE

Electrolux Cbo Kerosene Freezer

Distributed By

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD. lEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Mt. Hagen. >LAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby. lORRIS HEDSTROM LTD., Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga.

THROUGH COMPTOIR FRANCAIS DES NOUVELLES HEBRIDES, Santo, Vila.

BURNS PHILP LTD., Vila, Santo, Norfolk Island.

E. V. LAWSON PTY. LTD., Honiara. 147 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

rum • . • BACARDI ea^ &A CS AWAKOeSO TO EsAS - **' **■»»«»« »****■,■:■■. *- Bacardi rum does more for all the mixer drinks than any other spirit ever did.

Bacardi rum is the mixable one.

And tonic. And lemonade. And dry And soda. And ice.

AwAingpl With Bacardi rum Tlic >\\*kls jpvat mm: "Coca-Cola" and "Coke" are registered trade marks of The Coca-Cola Company Limited Bacardi and Bat device are registered trade marks of Bacardi & Company Limited. 8AC9509/70 148 JULY, 1970 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

General Merchants. Shippin

& Customs Agents

V v -sfiLK'S r.

I l» y ojllM PHlLPtmwomwt BU CO Head Office:POßT MORESBY/PAPUA CabIe:BURPHIL agents for Burns Philp Trustee 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 ■an 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 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 R D BURNSPHILP(NewGuinea)LTD. y Head Office Port Moresby Telex PM 116 Telegrams all centres Burphil PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1970

W.R.Cmpenter B Co.Ltd

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 beans; and by creating industries and facilities which have contributed to-^^^ytiiC' development of the area.

O The Group is a buyer of mercham and holds many valuable agencies. The! 17 JULI97O '*)] world market*,

• 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 JULY, 1970