Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 45, No. 11 ( Nov. 1, 1974)
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Pacific Islands Monthly

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

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OUR COVER Judging by his solemn expression, this young GEIC lad could be heralding something important—perhaps the result of the recent referendum on whether the Ellice people should separate from the Gilbertese? (See p 8.) Or maybe he’s just demonstrating his technique for the cameras in a scene from Karl-Heinz Stellmach’s film Sailing in the Trade Winds . . .

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Pacific Islands Monthly 45 No. 11 November, 1974 This Issue ERAL h Pacific Conference 4 t SP Arts Festival venue 23 nesians in Auckland 35 oving Islanders' education in NZ 39 itoring Pacific currents 45 (location of Pacific air routes 79 of the sea 81 onal shipping plans 82

Ik Islands

h Pacific Conference .... 4 ions 19 newspapers 10 ion celebrations 12 icus Festival (pics) 17 Talanoa 18 sts' complaints 24 > for tea-drinkers 27 short-lived Polynesia Company 57 -up for Uluilakeba replacement 82 ares up 89 (n at celebrations 104

Ert And Ellice Islands

• votes for separation 8 id politics 47 RU c servants unhappy 93 CALEDONIA b demonstrations 10 Island casino 11

New Hebrides

London talks 9 New newspapers 10 Rescue procedures tightened 83 Air fares up 89 Cambridge Credit continues 104 NIUE Population figures 41 Self-government celebrations 104

Norfolk Island

Charter air service 81 Companies on tax charge 93

Papua New Guinea

The budget 7 Amateurs in the courts 10 Money in cassowaries 10 New newspapers 10 Niugini Arts Festival 15 Irian Jayans at Festival 16 Filipino recruits answer back 26 Concern at public service exodus 43 Bougainville re-negotiations 89 Air fares up 89 Receiver for tea growers 93 Search fails 104 Woman driver killed 104 Urban wage fixed 104 Bougainville buys airline 104

Solomon Islands

Chief Minister takes control 6 TONGA South Pacific Conference 4 Drug taking .... 9 Stowaways in Sydney 104

United States Trust Territory

Drug taking 9 Arrival of new inter-island ship 81 Massive Transpac suit 83 Drought disaster 104 Governor leaves 104

Western Samoa

Strike by nurses 33 Air fares up 89 Trouble at WSTEC 91 Hussey's new job 104 Ocean rower arrives 104 iRTMENTS: Up front with the Editor, 3; Topicalities, 10; Editor's Mailbag, 29; the Islands Press, 48; Magazine Section, 57; Yesterday, 59; MANA, 60; Books, s acific Transport, 79; Cruising Yachts, 84; Business and Development, 89; Shipping Airways Information, 96; Deaths of Islands People, 101; Advertisers' Index, 103; Postscripts, 104.

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November, 1974 Vol. 45, No. 11 Up Front with the Editor My old friend and colleague Gus Smales says it very well on p 89.

The last 12 months of wear and tear on Papua New Guinea’s Chief Minister Michael Somare has forced Mr Somare to sell himself loudly against the increasing clamour of groups which now see themselves as “more nationalist than the government”. The Chief Minister is neither more radical nor more conservative than he ever was, but the circumstances have changed. Mr Somare now has to answer the sloganshouters on their own ground.

Michael Somare’s difficulties began to develop after he announced in March that he was aiming for December 1 as Independence Day.

At the same time it became clear that the Constitutional Planning Committee’s report was going to take longer to see the light of day than anybody had expected. Every week that the report was delayed meant that the December 1 date was more difficult to attain.

Since nobody could actually act, because there was nothing concrete to act on, PNG politics then entered an unprecedented bitching phase.

The Chief Minister, and the country, were soon embroiled in heated debate on (a) whether December 1 was too early for independence (b) whether some aspects of the constitution—which were being leaked out by now—were what was wanted.

At the same time the Somare Government found itself faced with the prospect of renegotiating the big Bougainville Copper agreement, so the critics naturally bought in on that too. The renegotiation, they said, had to be “tough”—though Somare’s negotiating team seemed to be making it as tough as possible, to the point of complete stalemate at one stage.

He won through with Bougainville.

If he hadn’t been so successful, his enemies would surely have clawed him down. He won through on a major facet of the constitution argument— the matter of provisional citizenship (see p 7). And he won through on one of those side issues that have infested the arguments of recent months—whether or not Minister for Justice Mr John Kaputin should be fired.

Mr Somare wanted to fire him, but he could do nothing more than strip him of his portfolio and leave him still a minister—without portfolio. It looked for a time that he might have to give Kaputin his job back, but in mid-October he finally had him relegated to the back benches with massive parliamentary support which was as much a vote of confidence in the Chief Minister as a measure of John Kaputin’s unpopularity in the parliament. It’s a fact that the noisiest criticism of Michael Somare comes from outside parliament, although not necessarily from non-parliamentarians.

Not too much further attention need be given to John Kaputin. He got his chance—Minister for Justice is a pretty good post to have—and he messed it up without help from anybody else. He told the House after it had sacked him that he “was never moulded to fit into the colonial shoe, whereas others have fitted beautifully into it”. The shoes he wears might also be out of step with everybody else’s.

Strange it is that when Michael Somare’s Pangu Party men got the chance to form a government two years ago there was genuine fear that they were too radical and that they would move too fast. They haven’t changed, but for some they are not now radical enough, and have not moved fast enough.

Despite the vocal critics, it is a national New Guinean government, not a colonial government, taking it on the chin. And it’s the New Guineans who are going to be the final arbiters as to whether a national central government remains in power.

I merely hope that the decision is made democratically, and not as a result of hysterical shouts from the barricades and of the cries for bloodshed that PNG has heard in recent weeks.

Stuart Inder 3 [FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Pacific Islands Monthly

A Pen Stroke And The Pacific

Becomes An Islands Co-Operative

Colonialism’s shadow seems to have lifted from the South Pacific Commission and Conference. With sweet reason permeating the atmosphere like at no other conference in SPC history, the 14th conference, which lasted here for eight working days from September 25, approved without amendment the Memorandum of Understanding agreed at the Wellington meeting of the eight member governments of the SPC.

From JOHN CARTER PIAA's man in Rarotonga At long last the Islands have an equal say with their former colonial masters in the doings of the SPC.

The memorandum was ceremoniously signed by the Big Eight and the occasion was regarded as so important that, for the first time in the history of the commission and conference, four prime ministers attended —New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Mr Bill Rowling, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, Fiji’s Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Western Samoa’s Fiame Mataafa.

Three of them put their names to the document which bears such an obscure title that history will have to add a footnote everytime it’s trotted out for inspection. Australia’s Science Minister Bill Morrison added his name because Prime Minister Whitlam had been and gone, an overnight stop on the way to the United Nations. The brief visit gave Mr Whitlam one of those firsts he likes to collect—the first Australian prime minister to visit the Cook Islands and the first prime minister from anywhere to attend the South Pacific Conference.

Little time was taken over such an historic occasion. The irrepressible Premier of the Cooks, Sir Albert Henry, allowed no one or anything much time. With a rod of iron encased in suave geniality he ran that conference like a schoolmaster.

I’m sure that it was the memorandum which brought a subtle change to the atmosphere. At other conferences there have been flashes of anger; sneers at colonial masters and a definite cleavage of opinions; the metropolitan governments on one side, the Islands on the other. But now the Islands have got rid of the chip on their shoulder. They are masters in their own house.

It’s not that perfect, of course. The Big Eight are still there, as the Committee of Representatives of Participating Governments. They’ve only one vote like the rest, but that committee is charged with various duties which make it stand out from the remainder.

The metropolitans contribute most and so call the tune. But even this distinction is on its way out. T 1 Islands expect, and will get, equali in everything.

Now, they’re calling for “localis tion” of secretariat posts, arguii that Islanders know better than an one else what Islanders want. Th will come.

The memorandum seeks to repla the Canberra Agreement of 194 which established the SPC. It w assented to by all eight participati governments and thus has the foi of law, but it’s really a short c they’d sooner not put the searchli§ on. Hence, when one delegi questioned a rule which was direct contradiction to the Canbei Agreement he was asked to wait ur after the tea-break to pursue his poi During tea-break, things were ( plained to him. He withdrew query immediately on the resumpti< He’d got the message—let the chan] over be smooth and don’t start r picking over details.

After the memorandum was sigr (see box for main points), came 1 question: “Where do we go fn here?” Australia provided part the answer in a speech by Bill M rison who asked whether the Pac would continue to need both South Pacific Forum and the SPC.

He continued: “I don’t believe this stage in rushing in with s gestions. We should consider h best the Forum with SPEC and SPC can develop in the next cou of vears.

“The 30th anniversary of 1 organisation in 1977 may be the propriate time to review the functi* of the organisation and consi whether a whole new agreem should be formulated and a new s cessor organisation brought i being.”

He offered to host a conference The changes in a nutshell The effect of the signing of the South Pacific Memorandum will be: • A de facto merger of the South Pacific Commission and the South Pacific Conference, and abolition of the session of Senior Commissioners of the participating governments; • All members of the new body, the eight participating governments and the other Island members, will have one vote each, abolishing plurality of voting which has existed until now, when each metropolitan power had as many votes as it had dependent territories; • Compilation of the works programme and the budget will be the task of the Planning Committee which will meet a few months before the annual conference. Its deliberations and decisions will be vetted by the Committee of Representatives of the Participating Governments, which replaces the session. That committee's decisions, however, will be subject to the will of all the members meeting in the annual conference. • A name-finding competition will be organised in the region by the secretariat to find a new name for the South Pacific Commission and Conference. 4

Pacific Islands Monthly —November, 1

Lame-Change Coming

icuss his suggestion and said Ausilia would table his proposal at the 75 conference which will be held xt September on Nauru.

In any case a change of name for 5 SPC is coming, and on the Cooks’ ggestion, a region-wide contest will held to choose a name which will feet the new look, and will also lect the US-held territories above i equator.

Here are some unofficial suggestis: Pacific Commission, Society of cific Countries (which allows the C to keep its badge), League of cific Islands, Pacific Islands Union d the United Countries of the cific.

This gentle zephyr of change—Bill orison called it a gentle bloodless 'olution —could have a great impact the South Pacific, particularly if, I believe it must, the SPC seeks a ser union with the Forum, but le can be done without a big ancial shot in the arm.

Which brings us to the only dark :ch in the conference—the erosion greatly-increased dollar contribuns by inflation and the devaluation the Australian and NZ dollars, r the first time, with the 15 per it increased contributions of the ; Eight—UK, USA, NZ, Australia, mce, Fiji, Nauru and Western noa —and voluntary contributions hiding $A250,000 each from Auslia and New Zealand, the budget sed the $2 million mark, everyone rejoiced until Secretaryaeral Fred Betham—who was re- >ointed, but says he’ll only do one re year—told them that they uld have to tighten their belts, j increase was 15 per cent; world ation was 20 per cent, and 70 per t of the devalued dollars from dralia and New Zealand would be nt in currency areas which haven’t alued.

Tiat was a real jolt and added ency to the conference’s directive, gested by the US, that the seciry-general finds more money infrom governments outside the on or from agencies, t was a good point. For too long, agencies, UNDP, UNDAT, WHO, universities. Foundation for the pies of the South Pacific and -rs, have been on the outside dng in. As the SPC will undergo e change, some method should Found to give the agencies, which e the money, some active part in organisation. he SPC will never amount to much more than it is until it has more money to spend. So many times has come the cry at conferences—you give us schemes on paper but not the money to finance them.

Perhaps, because of the money shortage, and also because chairman Sir Albert got through the agenda like a whirlwind, the works programme for 1975, which lists priorities in the SPC’s budgeted programme, was disposed of in two hours. Past conferences have taken at least a week.

Maybe the process was too hurried.

Some delegates would have liked to have spoken on it; to have pleaded for priority for some item way down the list. They didn’t get the chance.

This is part of the new look. The Planning Committee, whose deliberations can be attended by all the Islands and agencies too, now does the job of compiling the programme and listing priorities. Therefore, the theory goes, there’s no need for lengthy debate at the conference.

Which many delegates agreed with, but some will ask what is the use of attending the conference if the main job is already done?

In two hours the conference approved expenditure of $A2,371,624, which is $157,412 more than the SPC has got. Mr Betham also warned that four specialist posts may have to be jettisoned.

The Big Eight gave the following sums towards the budget, on an agreed percentage basis; Australia (31 per cent) $475,837, plus $250,000 voluntary contribution for special projects; Fiji (1 pc) $15,349; France (14 pc) $214,895 plus voluntary $50,000; Nauru (1 pc) $15,349 plus $1,500 voluntary; New Zealand (16 pc) $245,594 plus $250,000 voluntary; United Kingdom (16 pc) $245,594; US (20 pc) $306,991; Western Samoa (1 pc) $15,349. The Island territories including Fiji ($3,400) contributed $36,393 between them.

The item which took the longest time was one which will no longer appear on the agenda—addresses by territorial delegations on their special needs and problems. PNG’s Tony Siaguru argued for abolishing the addresses, which have been a feature of all conferences. So out they go, but there’s nothing to stop any member from circulating a paper setting out his country’s problems and needs.

One subject, which it was prophesied would take some time and cause some argument, took little time and produced no argument. It was the three-year-old topic of the establish- The Queensland Government has offered the Papua New Guinea Government open selection of an 8,000-piece collection of PNG art and artifacts worth SAI.S million, to help "fill gaps" in PNG's museum. The collection, which was assembled by an early Lieut-Gov of Papua and Governor of Queensland, Sir William MacGregor, is regarded as one of the most important of its kind. Picture shows Queensland Museum director Dr Alan Bartholomai examining some of the pieces. Photo; Australian Information Service. 5 'IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

ment of a regional development bank.

A committee which has been studying the proposal pretty thoroughly, felt it was a viable proposition but the $5O million question—that’s the suggested amount needed for capitalisation—of where the money would come from, remained unanswered.

The conference dodged the issue. It couldn’t do any more. It decided to keep the proposal as a going concern, noted the special committee’s report, and directed the secretary-general to look for funds from donor countries and institutions and have talks with the Asian Development Bank. So the question was shelved for another year.

Only one reference was made to the nuclear tests. It came from Isakala Paeniu, one of the GEIC’s up-andcoming young men, who made an oblique reference to the tests during a debate on whether the SPC’s quarterly magazine, the South Pacific Bulletin published in Sydney should be axed or given a new lease of life.

The reference to the tests didn’t disturb even one of Mr Henri Nettre’s short, grey hairs, but the debate on the Bulletin was lengthy, resulting in a decision to continue publication and allow it to print objective political items but not controversial ones, and no member country was to be criticised.

Among other items quickly agreed on was approval for PNG to join the Big Eight following PNG independence and thus make it the Big Nine; and approval of SPC membership of the Pacific Islands News Association, a media organisation founded in Suva in June.

Australia and NZ made nearidentical proposals to help the Islands over investment problems and to provide incentives for private investment by Australian and NZ companies in the Islands, with safeguards for those Islands’s economic and cultural customs and institutions. These offers and an Australian one to contribute $250,000 to help Islands to conserve their cultures and customs are a promising augury. (A threeman Australian team of experts set out to the Islands on October 13 to make initial inquiries on how this $250,000 can best be spent).

It was obvious all through the conference that the metropolitan members are determined to help the Islands despite the cutting of the colonial bonds. It was the eagerness with which the metropolitans greeted the new set-up in the SPC and dispersed the shadows of colonialism which, I think, created a new atmosphere of friendliness. Colonialism will cease to be the whipping boy at future conferences.

NEW CHIEF MINISTER

Plays It Cool

From a Honiara correspondent Swinging straight into action after his election as Chief Minister, Solomon Mamaloni confounded his critics and heartened his growing army of supporters with a brief but triumphant tour of Malaita, the largest and potentially the most disaffected island in the Solomons.

Mamaloni’s visit was a calculated risk and it paid off handsomely. Some of his advisers were dubious about the project. The Malaitans, notoriously truculent and independent people, seldom take kindly to strangers. Since the days of the Marching Rule freedom movement of the 1940 s and 1950 s they have been in the forefront of any attempt to embarrass the authorities.

It was felt that the Chief Minister might consider it prudent to leave Malaita severely alone, at least until he had consolidated his position.

Mamaloni, however, doesn’t play things that way. He is determined to show that he intends being the leader of all the Solomons.

The trip turned out to be roses all the way. The people of Malaita, intrigued by the thought of an indigenous Chief Minister, flocked to see Mamaloni at all his stops. There were speeches, presentations, feasts and tra-la-las.

For his part Mamaloni was impeccable. He said all the right things, complimenting Malaita on its Marching Rule movement (calling it the Solomons’ first independence bid), and emphasising his determination to decentralise and grant more power to local councils.

An attempt made by one or two USIPA members to arrange a boycott of the tour fell flat, further strengthening Mamaloni’s hand. He thus went into the first meeting of the Legislative Assembly in October with a considerable psychological advantage.

But in late September the Chief Minister was locked in polite but firm combat with the top brass in the civil service over the vexed matter of his senior advisers,' particularly over the vital and much-coveted posts of Permanent Secretaries in each of the ministries. These are held by expatriates, hold-overs from the previous administration, but neither Mamalo nor the influential cadre of educat indigenous civil servants is happy wi this state of affairs.

Resentment has been intensified 1 the results of a recent so-call “restructuring” of the service. Inste of the drastic pruning that seem called for, when the smoke final cleared, the expatriates appeared be as firmly entrenched as ever, soi of them on increased salaries.

But party politics came with a ve geance when the Legislative Assei bly opened its first meeting October 4.

It was a case of no holds barn with the USIPA members hamrru ing away at the government, generally expected the two main cc troversial issues were the admin tration’s apparent reluctance localise public service posts, and t highly-unpopular education systen The opposition lost little time pinpointing posts they wanted loc ised at once: the three ex-offi( members of the Council of Mir ters, the six acting permanent si retaries in the ministries and 1 Governor’s ADC.

There was a minor sensation wh USIPA supporters demanded 1 dismissal of two expatriate-eled members, Peter Thompson from position as Minister of Trade, Ind try and Labour, and independent I Page from the Deputy Speake chair.

Funifaka asked when the Cour of Ministers would stop licking i colonial bureaucrats’ shoes and st running the Solomon Islands for i Solomon Islanders. Matters wi taken even further on the second c when Benedict Kinika ended an i passioned speech by leading a wa out of USIPA members in protest Peter Thompson’s appointment. 1 errant members were back in th places next morning.

At first week’s end Mamaloni r< to reply to his critics. In a brillii address, by turns reasoned, ironi and vehement, he pleaded for ur and tolerance in the Solomons wt the government strove to attain eventual goal of independence.

Solomon Mamaloni 6

Pacific Islands Monthly—November, 11

Is it the devil you know in New Guinea politics?

From PERCY CHATTERTON in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s House of Assembly began its Budget leeting on September 23 and after a two-week run adjourned on )ctober 4 for a week’s break, after which it is to meet for a further wo weeks of sittings from October 14 to 25.

During the first half of the meeting inance Minister Julius Chan’s Budget as had to play second fiddle to the mtinuing debate on the Constituanal Planning Committe’s report, 3W being considered chapter by lapter in the light of two other Dcuments —the government’s white iper, and a second paper setting out e views of the opposition United arty.

Interest in the debate was heightled right at the start by Father John Komis’ announcement of the formalin of a “nationalist pressure group”, imprising the more radically minded embers of the CPC and drawing its pport from both opposition and ivernment benches. Clearly, it could >se a threat to the Somare governent’s already slender majority.

However, the indications are that ost members of the conservatively iented opposition prefer the devil ey know to the devil they don’t low. They may be suspicious of •mare, but they are far more spicious of the radical nationalists.

Be that as it may, there is no doubt at Chief Minister Somare has done ast of the scoring during the first If of the match. The chapters of e CPC report dealt with so far are apters one to four.

Chapter 1, dealing with introctory matters and general prin- )les, was dealt with by compromise, ic government wanted a short contution; the CPC was prepared to ncede that it should be “not unduly ig”. On the issue of the contution’s entrenchment, the govern- ;nt conceded that a two-thirds ijority of the House must be obtainin order to amend the constitution, d that two months must elapse ;ween a proposal for a constitutional lendment and its passage through ' House. There will also be proion for a full scale review of the nstitution after three years.

To keep the constitution within mageable length, it was agreed that should set out only basic principles, the details being enacted in a series of “organic” or “constitutional” laws.

The United Party opposition secured agreement to the most important of these laws being enacted before independence, which could have the effect of setting back the date of independence.

Chapter 2 of the report deals with National Goals and Directive Principles, and includes an investment code to control the impact of overseas investment. Here the divergence of view was not in relation to the contents of the chapter, but as to whether the investment code should or should not be included in the constitution.

Mr Somare wanted it to be in subsidiary legislation; Father Momis wanted it in the constitution, and forced a show-down in which the House supported Mr Somare by 52 votes to 28.

Chapter 3 deals with the proposed “leadership code” and the Ombudsman Commission to be set up to police it. Here the only difference of opinion was on the question of to whom the code should apply. Mr Somare won the approval of the House for a more restricted list of office holders than that advocated by the CPC.

Chapter 4 deals with one of the thorniest issues in the whole report, that of citizenship. Here again, Mr Somare won a victory for moderation.

The House agreed to the concept of “provisional citizenship” for people who have lived in PNG for eight years or more, but who are not eligible for immediate naturalisation under the CPC’s proposals. It also agreed that automatic citizenship should be available to those with two grandparents born in PNG, instead of, as the CPC had proposed, two indigenous grandparents.

This change will smooth the way to citizenship for a large number of PNG’s mixed-race community.

So that’s the score at half-time; and Continued next page

In Command

Lieutenant Karry Frank, 28, has been promoted lieutenant - commander, the first New Guinean Defence Force officer of the maritime element to attain the rank.

Lieutenant-Commander Frank will retain command of HMAS Ladava, the first fully New Guinean-crewed patrol boat. LCdr Frank, from Rogea Island, Samarai, Milne Bay District, joined the service in 1965 as a sailor, training as a radio operator.

Captain K. Konrote, Flight Captain Tarawa and responsible for the operation of GEIC air services. He's the first UK scholarship trained pilot to obtain his senior commercial pilot licence and to qualify for command duties with Air Pacific.

Photo: Gordon Shearer. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

there are 1 1 more chapters to go!

When the 1974-75 Budget was brought down, the disarming Mr Julius Chan, after describing it as “fair and reasonable”, went on to refer to it as a “Robin Hood Budget”, framed on the principle that most of the government’s needed extra revenue should be provided by those who are best able to pay.

Company tax is increased from 25 per cent to 334 per cent; personal income tax is increased for people earning more than $lO,OOO a year; and the minimum income level carrying liability to pay tax is raised from $416 to $624 p.a.

There will also be an export tax of 24 per cent on agricultural exports.

This tax is designed to solve a problem which has defeated successive colonial treasurers, that of extracting a contribution to national revenue from indigenous cash-crop farmers who are obtaining a substantial income from their labours,, but who, being illiterate, are unable to keep records for income tax purposes.

Bona-fide indigenous companies and co-operatives are to have a five-year tax holiday to help them get on their feet. On the other hand, “pioneer status” companies, previously exempt from the dividend withholding tax of 15 per cent, will now have to pay it; and Christian missions, charitable bodies and councils will in future have to pay tax on income derived from commercial activities. (The mission reaction to the latter provision has been: “Fair enough, but it means that we shall have to wind down some of our edu£ational and health services now financed from this source, and it will cost the government more to fill the gan so created in these services than it will collect in tax from us.”) The Budget’s principal novelty is a betting tax on olf-course bookmakers and their clients. This will involve legalising an activity which up to the present has been technically illegal, though for years no serious attempt has been made to curb it.

Legalising it will now enable bookmakers to operate in the open, wit the result that what in the past h< been mainly an expatriate indulgent may come to rival the card game ( “Lucky” as a means of partir Papuans and New Guineans froi their money, especially as gamblir with cards remains illegal. If th comes about, the social ill-coi sequences may well outweigh tl financial benefits.

Finally, our Minister for Finam has budgeted for a deficit of SlO mi lion. This is generally regarded hei as a device for twisting the Australis Government’s arm for a supplemei tary grant to what is felt by boi government and opposition to be disappointing first slice of the S 5( million cake which we have be( encouraged to expect to receive ov< the next three years.

At half time, the only speech ( the Budget apart from Mr Chan’s ov has come from the oppositior shadow Finance Minister, John Mi dleton. His main criticism was th the Budget placed undue reliance ( Ellice votes the 'E' out of the GEIC The die is cast in the Ellice Islands. By an overwhelming majority, the islanders have voted for separation from the Gilbertese who will now march alone into independence.

The referendum, organised by Britain and held from June to October, resulted in 3,799 voting for separation and continuance of British rule and 293 for remaining with the Gilbertese. There were 40 spoilt papers.

They didn’t really know what they were voting for and what is in store for them under the conditions to be imposed by Britain, says Isakala Paeniu, Minister for Natural Resources in the GEIC and the only Ellice leader to oppose separation.

He told PIM; “I’m sorry to find there are only 200-odd sensible Ellice Islanders. They are, perhaps, the only people who voted with full knowledge of the tough implications of the whole issue.

“This is where both the British Government and the Tarawa regime have failed badly. Although attempts were made to explain the implications, they were not extensive. The issue was never formally, let alone extensively, debated in the House of Assembly or in previous Houses.

“I’m sorry to say that the Ellice leaders, who advocate separation, have not come to grips with the real problems facing small, almost unknown communities in the world today.

“While the tendency today is for bigger groupings to withstand the economic and political forces of the day and the future, the Ellice, which is already far too small with practically no resources, chooses to take a different course.

“Britain is shedding her colonies as fast as she can. Australia doesn’t want to be a colonial power and New Zealand has got enough island groups to look after.

“Creating a state for the Ellice is fine but who’ll foot the bill— certainly not the Ellice people.”

Mr Paeniu added that, when the time comes, he will take his family to the Ellice.

Chief Minister Gilbertese Naboua Ratieta believes that separation, so far as the Gilbertese are concerned, is a question between the Ellice people and the British Government.

“We tried to persuade them at the outset not to take the course they have decided on but we can’t force them to do anything they don’t want to do,” he said.

“Personally, I am sorry they have decided to separate from us. After all, we have been friends for a long time, and, so far as my administration is concerned, there would have been no question whatever of any political domination of the Ellice people by the Gilbertese.”

When the Ellice people separate, they will have little of value. Britain has already told them they will receive no share of the income from Ocean Island phosphates and no part of the Revenue Equalisation Reserve Fund of the present GEIC; will have no claim to any assets belonging to the GEIC which are outside the Ellice Group, except for one ship and the new colony will have no right to any islands outside the group.

The next move is expected to be a meeting in London between the British Government and the Gilbertese and Ellice representatives to agree on details of separation. 8

Pacific Islands Monthly—November, 19

the dwindling expatriate sector of the community to carry the burden of ■evenue raising.

He challenged Mr Chan’s predic- ;ion that the size of the expatriate community would level out and renain relatively stable, and offered his )wn prediction that it would continue o decrease by about 5,000 people a 'ear. This rate might be accelerated >y the increased tax burdens proposed >y the Budget, Mr Middleton said.

The shadow minister’s second riticism was on what he called ‘departmental non-performance”, /hich had resulted in last year’s exicnditure targets not having been net.

Meanwhile there comes the news f the successful conclusion of the Dng drawn-out negotiations between ne Somare government and Bougainille Copper. The government has jcured a good bargain for PNG. This an hardly fail to strengthen Chief linister Somare’s prestige throughout le country and particularly in ougainville, and so to strengthen his osition vis-a-vis the nationalist presjre group. > See Somare gilds his image p 89.

Islands Warned

ON DRUGS Tonga, alarmed at the invasion by ug takers, warned other Islanders Rarotonga’s South Pacific Conferice in October to “try to stop the affic of narcotic drugs before it ;ts to your beautiful shores”. The arning was sounded by Maafu apou, Governor of Vavau, who [vised, “Look out for your yachtsen and check on your volunteers”, e reported that two American jace Corps Volunteers and a madian volunteer had recently en deported after appearing on arges connected with the cultiva- >n in Vavau of marihuana.

The men said the drug was grown r their own use. Fining them, the igistrate ordered that half the lount of the fines be paid to two •ngan farmers who reported the ;n.

Meanwhile, the Congress of Microsia has taken speedy action to offa judgment by Chief Justice irold W. Burnett invalidating the ritory drug statutes. This had had 1 effect of making the smoking of rihuana legal. Congress passed a v law which strengthens the codes ating to the use of drugs and im- ;es more severe penalties for isession of marihuana. \merican Samoa’s Legislature also sed a bill increasing penalties for g offences.

On the razor's edge in the New Hebrides From a Vila correspondent November 4 and 5 are the dates set for the long-time-coming mmistmal meeting between Britain and France which may, which must, settle a few crucial questions about the future of the New Hebrides.

In a short, guarded statement —which gave no hint of the agenda for the talks-the British and French Residencies anhoth nC RpQiHp V^V Radl ° Vlla t !?? t dS »nS nU^°? erS, | IS?r du Boulay and Mr Langlois, would be flying to London for levH at at Residency level m Vila, appear to be aware that further delays would have disastrous consequences in terms of progress and harmony among the racial groups of the condominium. nil??'_ especially, are pm- S . * ot of fai Jh on . tbe ta!ks even burst_ intoprint, mp^ gh i thClr mf ® rmatlon depart- Expected a, ?T 8 J ° n£ k GS 118 expected to be a much more countrv’s P affairs ’Vm 1 " 1 ? 8 ,! th f ountrys affairs. Some kind of co B uM emerge Un ’

Thpri K p „ a Kt .u thp nnpcr r n ° doUbt that talkers in Sw= SS £»» pre-talks broadsides. And left no ihf Cd e o n n Ce a g e S n h d 0 a U ' d ßu^w, t , 0 h P £ of New Hebridean political thought became strikingly evident.

Three formerly separate groups, Na Griamel, United Communities of the New Hebrides (UCNH) and MANH ( a clever juxtaposition of initials simply meaning Man, New Hebrides) held a joint meeting in Vila and the National Party met.

Each of the others is French influenced, including the Na Griamel movement of bearded Jimmy Stevens—whose followers at Santo stood silently to watch the arrival of Queen Elizabeth in February, but broke into cheering and pro-French banner waving when the French High Commissioner visited a few months later.

All three have now joined forces, claiming to have much the same ideas for the future of the New Hebrides. Mr Remy Delaveuve, president of UCNH, told a crowd of around 300 at the tripartite rally that everyone in the country—black, white or yellow —must work together to make the New Hebrides a better place.

Jimmy Stevens admitted, to the astonishment of some observers, that Na Griamel had no fight with properly registered claims to land held by foreigners ... his movement, he said, was more concerned with areas of “black bush” which should be properly developed. There was a time, not so long ago, when Mr Stevens fiercely spoke out against foreign land holdings in the New Hebrides.

The president of MANH, Mr Aimee Malere, said that some of the laws of the New Hebrides needed changing, but whatever one s colour, whether indigenous or expatriate, MANH wanted everyone to participate in the future of the New Hebrides. He added; “Independence is good, but we must take it slowly and try to build up the New Hebrides first.”

Another UCNH speaker, Father Gerard Leymang, said there were two ways to independence .

“a good way and a rubbish way”.

And the good way was to take things step by step.

Continued on p 94 9 2IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Tropica I ities Vonlli to the barricades Militant members of the Union of Caledonian Youth have successfully campaigned for removal of an offending Melanesian spear-surrender plaque in Noumea’s central square.

But the young Caledonians’ latest “anti-colonialist” campaign swiftly brought upon their backs an attack from truncheon-bearing French police.

The plaque on the Governor Olry statue was regarded as offensive to Melanesians as it depicted island warriors surrendering their arms to their new French masters. Demands for removal of the bronze engraving began in the Territorial Assembly three years ago, but the protest campaign really gained momentum early this year. (PIM April.) Some local groups grew impatient with administrative delays on the job, and in September red and green paint was sprayed over the plaque by Melanesian chief Nidoishe Naisseline and Jean-Jacques Bourdinat, whose late father, a barrister, was formerly head of the local Bar Association. Through September and October workmen were chiselling at the monument, under police supervision, and it was expected the controversial plaque would not be long in reaching its resting place among local historic pieces.

While the Melanesians have been persuaded that spears are out, French police truncheons were in action at Noumea court house when a group of sympathisers at the trial of two young Melanesians refused a judge’s order to clear the court.

Those on trial were a young Melanesian graduate mathematics teacher, who was later sentenced to two weeks in prison and his collaborator to one week for attempting to demonstrate at the military parade of September 24, anniversary of the French taking of possession of New Caledonia. Their “independence” banners were promptly snatched by police as they protested over freedom of expression, after Governor Eriau had banned a Caledonian Youth public meeting planned the week before.

Thirteen sympathisers who refused to leave the court room at the subsequent trial made it known they would not resist arrest, but an unexpected number of police were ordered to charge with truncheons to drive them out. Later 12 young people, including Caledonian Dr J-P Caillard, J-J Bourdinat and three Melanesian women, were sentenced to prison terms of up to six months.

The violence of the police intervention to remove such a small unresisting group has led to uneasiness over future repercussions.

Meanwhile Caledonians, under continuous pressure from government-controlled media, are obviously weary of political agitation on both sides. Resigned to leaving Paris to face the problems of Autonomic, Budget deficit now approaching SA2O million, and charges of colonialism in the exploitation of Caledonian nickel, the locals seem anxious to divert their attention to their own A, B, C of Automobiles, Boats and Cuisine. *Aina(eiirs’ in (lie PIVG courts Papua New Guinea in September announced its first major break from the British legal system by permitting assessors without legal qualifications to sit with Supreme Court judges on criminal trials.

What are defined as “experienced Papuans and New Guineans” will sit with the existing all-white judiciary to advise on local customs, traditional backgrounds and interpretation of evidence.

The immediate purpose of the scheme is to phase as much New Guinean content into the courts as possible while bridging the gap which will exist until the country produces its own judges.

Details of the scheme were announced by the Chief Minister, Mr Somare, following a long series of investigations into a situation which has been of increasing concern to his government.

But although the plan is essentially a “bridging” operation, Mr Somare said the assessors would be I retained if necessary even after the I country’s own nationals were ap-l pointed as judges. Their retention! would depend on the success of the I scheme, and the amount of real aid I which it was able to give to skilled | judges.

Mr Somare said there was no sug-| gestion that the assessors would de- \ cide the guilt or innocence of a person on trial. However, the assessors I would sit throughout each trial, and at the end they would give an overall opinion to the judge.

During a hearing the assessor I assigned to the case would be in a position to advise the judge on 1 “modes of thought and language”! and special knowledge of customs.

The assessor system operates in some other areas of the Pacific.

Changes with the Islands' press An afternoon daily, Fiji Sun, appeared in Suva on October 8, and | the weekly Sunday Sun on October; 13. They are published by a new company. Newspapers of Fiji Ltd, with NZ and Hong Kong capital. ; Suva already has one morning daily, the Fiji Times, which is 105] years old. The Fiji Times group re-] cently launched the Western Herald at Lautoka, a regional 16-page weekly with 10,000 copies distributed free throughout the western side of the main island. It’s the first free regional s paper in the South Pacific.

In Saipan, Micronesia, a third weekly newspaper has appeared, the Free Press. Publisher is Alfonso C. ; Rasa. . I A new weekly, the Lae Nius, in English despite its Pidgin name, has appeared in Lae, New Guinea, owned by the Papua New Guinea Printing Co Pty Ltd, whose managing director, Ray Thurecht, was once production chief for Port Moresby’s South Pacific Post Pty Ltd, publishers of PNG’s only daily, the Post-Courier.

Lae Nius is a small format 12-pagerJ produced offset.

The Post-Courier is owned by Melbourne-based Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, which announced inj October it had acquired from Wilke; & Co, all the shares in Pacific Publi- 10 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1974

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In Vila, husband and wife editing :eam, Jean and Penny Barbier, until •ecently entire staff of the New Hebrides weekly newspaper Nakamal, ire now producing a travel-orientated nagazine called Kousurata, a local anguage word meaning ‘to roam’.

Nakamal, owned by local businessnen, ceased publication some nonths ago and attempts to revive t have so far failed.

First Island *asino New Caledonians with a spare A 2,000 in their pockets are invited 0 join the list of shareholders in the land’s casino, planned to open at le end of the year in Noumea.

Work is now well under way for le construction of the Casino Royal, le first gaming casino in the South acific Islands. Mr Raymond Frere, of the controlling company OCABA, announced the issue of a irther 49 million CFP capital in sptember which was being taken up V Caledonian and overseas investors.

The casino will operate in the "iginal reception halls of the 330- >om Chateau Royal hotel, right on nse Vata beach. In preparation for e opening, the Caledonian press is itiating the locals in the rules of iccarat, Black Jack, roulette, etc.

The American-based Bally Cor- )ration, which recently made headles during the Australian judicial quiry into Organised Crime in iubs, when allegations were made at Bally had Mafia connections, adered for the supply of slot achines to the casino.

The tender, which came through e Noumea representative of a welllown Australian export firm, was not cepted.

An Australian, well-known in mbling circles, Mr Abe Saffron, is introduced to the casino directors the Sydney representative of an ernational airline but his offer of rticipation in the casino was also dined.

Meanwhile, as a further move on ; Noumea tourist front, the first ge of work has begun on the Holiy Inn project at Brunnelet Point, posite the Cercle Nautique yacht b. The hilltop on the Point is being elled off into the waters of Baie ; Pecheurs to provide extensive rina development.

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THEIR DARLING From a Suva correspondent Charles Windsor, Prince of Wales and heir to Britain’s Throne, could have been King of Fiji in his own right in October. Already a favourite with the many who saw him and read about him during his visits here in 1970 and earlier this year, he captured 99 per cent of Fiji’s hearts in the four days here from October 8 and did it so disarmingly that Cakobau’s crown could have been his for the asking.

And maybe he wouldn’t have minded. His obvious delight at being here again wasn’t just another Royal job like opening a town hall or laying a foundation stone. A good mixer in the Buckingham Palace new look in which royal restraint and formality have gone by the board, he got among the people and made Fiji’s Cession Centenary Year as much an enjoyable thing for himself as did the many thousands of Fiji people who enjoyed the four-day, $350,000 junket.

Everyone believed him when he told the welcoming thousands at Suva’s Albert Park on October 8, “I was filled with joy when my mother, her Majesty the Queen, asked me to represent her at celebrations to mark the centenary of the link with the British Crown.”

But the Queen could hardly have chosen anyone else, except herself, of course. Prince Charles has Fiji in his own portfolio. He was here, in October, 1970, and scored a triumph, when he gave back to Fiji, as representative of the Crown, its ownself, which the chiefs, headed by King Cakobau, ceded to Prince Charles’ great - great - great - grandmother, the many islands of Fiji, j He brought it back. He was here again in February on an unofficial call when the British frigate, HMS Jupiter, in which he was serving as radio officer, just happened to be passing through Fiji waters.

As it was an unofficial visit, he really let his hair down, diving into the water off Beqa to join Fijians in a fish drive, and dancing the tuibotoj a Fijian conga dance, with a Fijian girl The hair came down this time as well, and no doubt a picture taken of the heir to the throne doing a hula with a Cook Islands girl will have gone round the world.

There were cries of “Nice bold" from Fijian girls when he landed a!

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He hadn’t much time to spare beore he was at Albert Park for his ►fficial welcome which included the indent and lengthy Fijian cerenonies. For these Fiji’s Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, at on the ground with the other hiefs in his capacity as Tui (king) Jayau and paramount chief of the ,au Group. Also on the ground was idi Lady Lala Mara, who is paralount chief of Rewa.

The following day, the Royal Navy nrvey ship HMS Hydra took the rince to Levuka, the ancient capid, and Charles straddled a century f history as he stood on the site on r hich was signed the Deed of Ceson. Surrounded by Fijian chiefs, escendants of those who signed ic deed, he unveiled a centenary □mmemorative plaque, making a >tal of three on site.

He spent some time talking to the :hoolchildren before boarding HMS !ydra for the chiefly island of Bau )r more ceremonies with a swim id 30 minutes water skiing on the ay.

The Bauans’ welcome was a royal le with the whole gamut of Fijian ;remonial and Fijian dances thrown for extras. With the prince was iji’s Governor-General, Ratu Sir eorge Cakobau, great-grandson of ing Cakobau, whose traditional ime is on Bau.

The celebrations climaxed on the ird day when the prince spent five iurs at Suva’s Albert Park. This as everybody’s day, a multi-racial Fort, which began with the Troopg of the Colour, a martial cereony which the Royal Fiji Military arces do so well and ended with royal Islands night at the Tradeinds Hotel just outside the city oper. It was here that the prince d the hula with Cook Islander elen Frankhen, a university student No, along with other girls, asked e prince for a dance.

In Fiji, the girls do the asking, lere are no shy wallflowers at Fiji mces.

The ceremonies at the park were most a carbon copy of the 1970 remonies when the prince prented Fiji’s Prime Minister with the icuments of independence.

The fourth day of the visit proiced some scenes which couldn’t linked with protocol but which deared the prince to Fiji if by at time Fiji needed any more conacing that Prince Charles was the amber One Nice Bola. No doubt, he’s convinced the Cook Islanders as well. He was around north-west Viti Levu at Nadi, Lautoka, Ba and Vatukoula and it was at the gold mining town that it happened. Cook Island dancing girls on their way home from a tour of Japan gave a dancing display which delighted the prince.

When the dance ended he made straight for the dancers. They weren’t slow to react. One girl slipped a bead lei around his neck and then, in Cook Island fashion, kissed his cheek, Charles enjoyed it and then enjoyed some more of the same treatment when the other nine followed suit.

Ceremonial and unrehearsed welcomes followed him all day, his last in Fiji.

He heard speeches and saw dances, coconut husking and cane loading exhibitions and so enjoyed his brief stop at Ba that he made the halt 30 minutes instead of only 15 minutes.

It was there, in an off-the-cuff speech, that he made Fiji prouder than ever. He said he always enjoyed his visits to Fiji because he received “the best welcome of any country I know.”

He’ll be back. 13 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER. 1974

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'Dazzling diversity’ of PNG tradition From KIRSTY POWELL, in Port Moresby.

The Fourth Niugini Arts Festival is over. For three weeks, 50 (roups from various parts of Papua New Guinea, and from other have performed in varying combinations, on 50 different occasions, in 30 different locations around Port Moresby In market places, sports fields, mools, colleges, the stadium, the ►pen Air Theatre, and the cultural mtre, people have danced, and sung, id acted plays, and played musical istruments before the biggest and lost far-flung audience ever.

It was the most ambitious festival Jt. Perhaps too ambitious: for the rge number of participating groups ere uneven in quality, and the omentum and excitement of the "st week were not maintained. The ogadala dancers (from Balimo in e Western District), performed on e last Saturday night before a mere •nnkling of people on the grass of e cultural centre. On the Sunday, iwever, the final night of the festiil, they danced to a crowd of over thousand packed into the Open Air icatre.

And the crowd was rapt. The ogadala dancers have never before en seen outside Western District. their grass and leaf skirts, with eir highly elaborate painted and athered masks, and their bobbing il pieces they danced to the comlling rhythm of kundu drums (two them eight feet long—the longest ndus I’ve seen), gourd rattles, perssive “walking sticks” of split mboo, conch shells, and haunting ng.

They moved on stage like seasoned rformers, following the patterns olved for performing in their great ighouses. The performance is splendid in itself. But it is also the expression of a remarkable cultural revival, for these dances and their superb costumes, apparently lost after 40 years of disuse and disapproval, have been revived in the last three years.

Such a cultural revival not unnaturally strives for authenticity to tradition and authentic tradition represents one strand in the festival performances. The dazzling diversity of Papua New Guinean tradition was once again demonstrated.

Beautiful dancers from Marshall Lagoon young women, bare breasted, with big hair and shimmering grass skirts danced in a big circle, in the winding, contorted movement of a python swallowing its prey.

Enga men, dignified in bearing, wearing long woven aprons, and triangular black wigs surmounted by a head-dress of feathers that looked rather like a medieval triptych painted in red, blue, black and white, made one simple, effective statement in a line of bobbing figures. Bainings men, in spectacular masks, sculpted with animal-like faces, dashed through fire, while other figures, enveloped in huge, lacy sandwich boards of fragile paper bark, looked on.

Other groups strove not so much to do a traditional thing with authenticity, as to take a traditional thing and change it creatively. A group from Mount Hagen turned the old reality of tribal fighting into the new hilarity of a performance for the amusement of actors and audience alike.

The North East Dance Group from Port Moresby Teachers’ College gathered together dances from various parts of Milne Bay—the Trobriand Islands, Dobu, Samarai, Misima—and demonstrated a high degree of ballet skill. Ritual and ceremonial acts, like the Bena Bena ordeal of cane-swallowing, and the Hagen courting ceremony tanim hed, were turned into performances.

A number of children’s groups put on remarkable performances which demonstrated that the traditional dancing laid down in the primary school syllabus is no mere dead letter. Children from various Northern District tribes and Elema children from Kukipi in the Gulf District, danced with polish and zest the dances of their particular cultural heritages.

By contrast, a group of urban children from Hohola Primary School, of diverse cultural origins, united to do a Manus dance, responding joyously, belligerently, athletically, to the characteristic Manus beat of three great garamut drums.

Some groups turned their back on tradition to do a new thing. String bands from all round Port Moresby, and from as far afield as the Duke of York Islands, showed that Papua New Guinea has its own modern pop Among the performers at the Niugini Arts Festival were these young Papuan dancers from Marshall Lagoon. —PNG Information Dept photo. 15 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

culture. A number of teachers’ colleges and high schools and the National Theatre Workshop presented plays.

Theatre in this country is a colonial import, but the plays presented at the festival showed the current concern to forge a Papua New Guinean style. Brandi High School's version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (an adaptation by Greg Katahanas) took place on the night of Independence Day celebrations and featured a Melanesianlooking Puck and Oberon.

Most of the other plays were based on Papua New Guinean myths and] legends, but there was little attempt! to explore the contemporary relevance of these, and they all tended! to be obscure and prolix. Most of I the acting was emotionally flat and without audience impact.

The exception was the National Theatre’s Skull Man which was also visually beautiful. The first genera-j tion of PNG playwrights saw in theatre a weapon of protest. They wrote plays that were at times pro- i pagandist, but always alive and ! emotionally real. The present genera-j tion seems to regard a play as a method of embroidering a legend.

The one exception to this was Sogeri High School’s play, Worlds Apart, about the conflict between town and village. It was like a breath of fresh air from the real world.

The festival was not only a cross-j cultural Papua New Guinean experience. It was also international.

Expatriate groups resident in Port Moresby displayed the city’s increasingly cosmopolitan character.

South Sea Islanders decked in frangipani danced and sang Polynesian style. Traditional Indian instrumen- Irian Java's dancers 'are an eve-opener' From R. S. ROOSMAN A contingent of 60 Irian Jayans came to Port Moresby for the arts festival and for PNG’s National Day celebrations.

With them came also Irian Jaya’s governor Acub Zainal, the chairman of Irian Jaya’s House of Representatives, and the bupati (district chief) of Jayapura, together with their wives.

The group was composed of amateur singers, dancers and musicians—all of whom are Jayapura residents— and also Irian Jaya’s soccer team.

Earlier in the year, on August 17, 20 students of Sogeri Senior High School, well-known in Papua New Guinea for its emphasis on expressive arts in its curriculum, had demonstrated PNG traditional dances for thousands in Jayapura during Indonesia’s Independence Day celebrations. The PNG national soccer team went along to play a match with the Irian Jaya team, which ranks second in the All-Indonesiari Championship, having lost only to the Jakarta team last year.

The dancing display by the Indonesians was an eyeopener for many New Guineans, because it included not only the Hindu-style dances performed by Javanese and Balinese migrants to Jayapura, but also colourful dances performed by Irian Jayans which bear strong similarity to Papua New Guinean traditional dances.

“We want to show people in Papua New Guinea the diversity of cultures in Indonesia,” commented Mr Alex Rumambi from the Indonesian consulate, who organised the programme.

One of the items which impressed New Guineans most was the angklung orchestra —composed of a series of bamboo rattlers and a wooden xylophone —which drew a special applause when Waltzing Matilda was played. With the present policy of the PNG Govern- 1 ment of striving for economic self-reliance, people start! wondering why such an orchestra could not bej assembled in PNG.

During the Indonesian performances there were moving scenes when refugees from West Irian contacted their relatives among the group of dancers. Speaking in the Bahasa Indonesia or their local tongues they, exchanged news about their families and relatives.

From Sukarno’s Confrontation until the “Act of Free Choice” in 1969, the hundreds of refugees from West Irian crossing the border initially posed a problem in Papua New Guinea. A number of them returned to West Irian after President Suharto’s appeal for amnesty, but the majority of them have made their home in PNG, acquiring jobs and marrying New Guineans., They are now given the option of becoming prospective PNG citizens.

The Irian Jaya-PNG soccer match held at the Hubert Murray Stadium and watched by an estimated 30,000 —■ including Irian Jaya’s visiting dignitaries, the Indonesian consulate staff, and several PNG Ministers—ended in a 2-0 win for the guest team, much to the disappointment of PNG whose team had beaten Irian Jaya 1-0 a month ealier in Jayapura.

In anticipation of a future celebration at PNG’s Independence Day, Indonesian Consul-General Roedjito commented that “the Indonesian contribution to Papua New Guinea’s National Day celebration was merely a rehearsal”.

Hope for the future? A young Kukipi dancer from the Papuan Gulf District leads the chant. —PNG Information Dept photo. 16 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974|

wed and sa A n U e Stral ' an S ' nBerS *... . . ibrcndered I?* 1 ? •users or pailv on rP H k anish-looking dances ’ 5 There were three visiting overseas >ups. The Renaissance Players of dney proved not only the vitality ditiM 0 o U f n fnstr.,mPnl a h i e Eur ° P t an 0 its -ihilitv tn rrmc a music, but des Mm S hfj b ?“ n u' Indonesian w , h ( ch ■a oerformed ? f A lr i an n Melanesian in eh m °, re Slan rder of me s,rAn„ a • Cter n a re "

Irian Tava’c ? Asian influence sent Th. y nn £r IS ° ry • P * S and sent, ihe one Melanesian item— extremely dramatic dance-mime, wed strong Indonesian influence.’ iditional Melanesian dress had n rejected in favour of red cloth 1 gold paint. -l , JJ® Maon grou P won 1 the hc3rts i rrS*- ? n y the gusto po isn of their action songs and as, but with the warmth of their ressions of goodwill spoken and g ‘ ,ey sang m one of their action gs: We were invited, we have ie, we have liked it, we’re not 5 if we’re going home.” w•, , ’ e Maoris showed up one of the .ms to be faced when performm places like volleyball courts, ket places and stadiums. Most i places are ‘in the round”, and jps like the Maoris (and PNG’s ais) need to adapt their tradial habit of dancing in one ctional rows accordingly. Plays in i settings tend to be inaudible. ►ne enterprising group solved this flem by putting all their dialogue on tape - but this produced rather wooden acting.

Another problem is the terrain for dancing. The favourite ground-cover the " e , w markets-tar spiked with bluemetal—is impossible; concrete even is too hard for very athletic dances; dirt is all right; and grass is excellent.

The Niugini Arts Festival has come a long way since the first was held in 197 L The chairman of that first festiva l committee was Leo Hannett. He has been followed in successive years by Arthur Jawodimbari - Bart Philemon, and Bernard Narokobi: a distinguished line of Pa P ua New Guineans, The first two festivals did not go outside the university campus, although groups did come from both the Northern District and from the Trobriand Islands. In those days there was no Australian cultural grant and no National Cultural Council, and money was hard to come by. The cultural grant was first made available towards the end of 1973, in time to affect the last stages of planning for the third festival, This year’s festival has been able to count on generous financial assistance from the start, and it has used this to bring in groups that have never been to Moresby before, and to spread the festival round the city, It has been money well spent, . How loi ? g Wlll such money last? It is a Question for the future, and so 18 the Question whether such a huge organisational effort can continue to . be car ried .out by a mainly voluntary, part-time committee. And what will be lost (as well as gained) with professionalisation?

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Fiji’s popular Governor-General, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, and pretty Sandra Hazelman, 18, who is Miss Hibiscus 1974, both look [?] little uncertain as Ratu George gets the job of adjusting her sash at the Hibiscus Festival crowning ceremony in Suva. Surprisingly, at this year's festival the sun shone [?]almost the whole time, so there was more opportunity for festive [?]un in the streets. —Chris Moorhouse photos. 17 2IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

fiji talanoa With SUE WENDT, in Suva Fiji, like more affluent countries, is increasingly obsessed with money —the lack of it, the high cost of it and how to stretch it when it isn't there. Fiji people are becoming increasingly bemused by headlines like “Fiji MPs to get $63,000 in back pay” and “Bus fares up 25 per cent”, by news of increased domestic air fares, soaring fuel costs, spiralling food prices and —that familiar bugbear—higher freight charges. there was some dismay when the government announced that more than $350,000 would be spent on the four-day cession centenary celebrations from October 8-12.

Predictable protests came from Opposition politicians, one declaring that the expenditure was “a sin” and another claiming with some justification that the money could have been spent more usefully on roads, electricity and other amenities in areas which remain as primitive as they were a century ago.

One MP pointed out that last year, $345,720 was allocated for family assistance for the whole of Fiji.

The independence celebrations in October, 1970, were magnificent, but the cession centenary celebrations (marking 100 years since the signing of the Deed of Cession at Levuka) looked like being every bit as grand.

One item of expenditure was to be for VIPs —$25,000. It seemed a lot, considering that an additional $17,550 had been earmarked for “official entertainment”.

Not to mention fireworks —at $12,000, a grossly unnecessary extravagance. Overseas missions would cost $12,000 and official cars $lO,OOO. Part of the money would be spent on an $ll,OOO statue of the Fiji statesman Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna and $l,OOO would buy a gift for the royal guest of honour, the Prince of Wales.

A Fiji Times editorial was both moderate and realistic: ‘‘Nobody would deny the particularly significant meaning that Cession has. for Fiji,” it said.

“The centenary celebrations will serve as a visible and joyful reminder of the generosity, wisdom and selflessness of a British presence which for almost a century strove —and successfully—to bring a uniquely multi-racial nation peacefully to independence.

"It was an enormous achievement and should be commemorated with due ceremony.

“But the essence of Fijian ceremony and celebration is simplicity and restraint —a magnificent and quiet dignity which gives special meaning to oratory and the presentation of traditional but not costly gifts.

“People hard hit by inflation are entitled to ask, for example, whether more than $17,000 to be spent on ’official entertainment’ is not altogether too much.”

Many people must have agreed with those sentiments, including, possibly, the Royal visitor. During his visit earlier this year, Prince Charles seemed to enjoy himself the most when the entertainment was spontaneous and unofficial.

Accounts of his visits, to the home and swimming pool of a government minister in Suva certainly make entertaining listening.

Still, by the time this column appears, the celebrations will be over, deemed an enormous success and worth every cent. Perhaps even the question of who is to pay the $24,000-plus incurred in getting the 35 members of the Dance Theatre of Fiji to England as a prelude to centenary celebrations in the UK will have been resolved . . . (The $24,000 is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the real cost of the Dance Theatre’s 2\ month tour. However a report from London in early October saidj the group had found a way of beating the high cost of Londorr accommodation by moving into the building occupied by the Fiji High Commission. The commission occupies two floors of a building in prestigious Upper Brook Street (rent around £stgB a square foot) and has an option on two more floors previously occupied by other tenants. The group was reportedly camped there, waiting to give a command performance for the Queen on October 17.) . . . Unresolved however will be the plight of numerous families in Fiji who find it increasingly difficult to live comfortably. Accordj ing to one charitable group, the Fellowship of St Francis and Si Clare, many Suva people are no longer able to afford bread.

That’s not as far-fetched as il seems. Consider the plight of 8 Fijian domestic worker earning $€ a week and having to clothe anc feed herself and four young children. With coconuts 20 cents each, a string of fish $3.50, eggs $1 a dozen, there’s not much lefl over for bread. (When it’s available. Fiji has chronic shortages ol flour and tea and in October was almost out of toilet paper.) The Fellowship of St Francis and St Clare, a voluntary arm o' the Diocese of Polynesia, supplies food to about 700 in 125 destitute families, distributing parcels, ol rice, milk powder, wholemeal bis cuits, sharps, sugar and tinnee fish. A parcel is not enough tc feed a family for a week, but i supplements meagre supplies.

Many thousands of people ir Fiji can be classified as destitute and the government has an nounced that it hopes to imple ment a new family assistance plar early next year. Some already receiving assistance will have t( be reassessed under the nev criteria. 18 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1974

Those who qualify (those whose ombined income from all sources > less than $4O a month) will reeive a basic allowance of $lO, lus $5 for the applicant’s spouse nd $2 for each dependant. Aditional allowances may be given or essential expenditures such as snt, rates, school fees, water and lectricity.

Application forms will be filled ut at local social welfare offices nd forwarded for consideration to le Social Welfare Department’s ew Family Assistance Unit. Those liqible will receive a book of □uchers, which may be cashed idividually.

This impersonal system of ssessment, say the authorities, ill remove emotional and social ressures from social welfare fficers when deciding for or gainst family assistance. Let’s Dpe it doesn’t also eliminate impassion and humanity.

But a bright spot for shoppers recent weeks was the news that cal supermarkets would lower •ices of some goods, following e Australian and New Zealand Dllar devaluation.

Fiji decided not to devalue and us some goods should be reaper. Not locally - produced )ur, Flour Mills of Fiji Ltd istened to say, because Australia id increased its wheat price by ! per cent (the amount of the delation).

The cynics among us predicted at similar overseas rises would obably cancel out the effect of valuation on nearly all goods, sspite a government estimate at it would mean an immediate duction of $6 million a year in e national import bill.

Hopefully, the estimate had ken into account an earlier an- Hjncement that orices of confer goods were likely to rise October as a result of new Jight increases.

Cooks have three roads to choose from at elections From JOHN CARTER in Rarotonga Three signposted roads lead to the Cook Islands’ future. In a surprise election and referendum set by Premier Sir Albert Henry for December 3, the islanders will be asked to select one of them.

They are the road to self-government, which they’ve been treading for around 10 years; the road to independence; the road to integration with New Zealand.

Democratic Party Opposition leader Dr Tom Davis alleges there’s a fourth road—the road to dictatorship which, he says, is the one which the people will have to take if they vote the governing Cooks Islands Party into office again.

I spoke to both Premier and Opposition leader. Their views are irreconcilable, though there’s no bitterness between the two.

Dr Davis saw Sir Albert around September 23 and asked him for time on the radio. He was given it cheerfully by the Premier who, it has been alleged, manipulates both press and radio for government and party. The readiness with which he agreed to his rival taking the air belies the allegation.

Sir Albert was even amused when Dr Davis told his audience the Premier was a sick man—he’s had at least one heart attack—and said there could be something in that, because his opponent is a doctor and should know!

But the Premier is taking the election campaign in his stride, almost as comic relief fom the cares of office and the financial troubles into which, says Dr Davis, the Premier has got his country. Sir Albert is confident of victory.

“I will win 18 out of the 22 seats, three more than I’ve got now,” said the Premier. “I am sure of it. I’ll win Dr Davis’s seat and the two Atiu seats. I am hoping for a little extra.

I’ve a pretty good chance of winning 20 seats. The worst agitators and those retarding the country’s progress will be out.

“At present I have a two-thirds majority. Early on I asked Dr Davis to form a coalition with me but he wouldn’t have it. He said an opposition was needed to keep the government in order, but when you start opposing everything, even the things which are obviously for the country’s good, it doesn’t help the country.”

Sir Albert told me that his prime reason for calling the election was because of an expressed wish by some people, including Cook islanders in New Zealand (who, incidentally, won’t have a vote), for integration with NZ.

“That can only be decided by the people,” the Premier said, “because it means a change in the constitution, but, unless I give the people the right to decide, my conscience will never be clear.”

Sir Albert is riding the wave’s crest this year. The Queen came here. Sir Albert received his knighthood. The South Pacific Forum came here. The South Pacific Conference is here until October 8 and various heads of government came to the SP Conference including Australia’s Gough Whitlam, NZ’s new Prime Minister, Mr W. Rowling, Fiji’s Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Nauru’s President Hammer Deßoburt—all because of Sir Albert.

Sir Albert has been very frank about the importance of the SP Conference to his election campaign. He told delegates one day that his people were following every word of the conference, because he’s managed to get the proceedings broadcast live to all the islands in the group.

“Keep saying that I’m a good fellow,” he told the conference from the chair, after some glowing tributes had been paid to him. “My people will hear it and it will help on December 3!”

One delegate, breaking the conference’s no-politics rule, said he hoped Sir Albert would win the election!

According to Dr Davis, however, Sir Albert has another very pressing reason for calling the election. That is to ensure another four years of rule for the Cook Islands Party so that Sir Albert, who, says Dr Davis, intends to retire soon after his party is back in power, can be sure a new leader would be firmly seated before they have to seek re-election.

Some people are already making a book on the choice of a new CIP leader. The betting is that it will go to Dr Joe Williams, the Secretary 19 &CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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Sir Albert, it is also predicted, won’t op out altogether. He’ll be Head of ate!

Sir Albert told me; “We have a lall Democratic Party opposition, anted, and it’s unfortunate it doesn’t atter what it is, they oppose it,” he mplained. “They’ve hampered much ogress. We have committees which an certain projects and publicise em. The next thing we know is that j opposition has been at work and ople owning land on the island we mt to improve oppose us, accusing of planning to dispossess them. It our policy not to force anything on j people if they don’t want it. So, : put the plan aside.

“We have a good project. We have ; finance from New Zealand, and icn nothing is done New Zealand nts to know why it hasn’t been ne. All these things have been mpering us since 1972, and all :ause of underground agitators. ‘lf I have to force an issue I am ;used of being a dictator. If I don’t anything I’m still blamed. ‘This would have gone on until 76 when the life of the present -liament would have ended but by it time the people would have been restless and disappointed because )jects hadn’t been carried out, that vould have been a bigger headache me.” ‘lt’s really very advantageous to ft an election now,” Sir Albert led. sir Albert’s own desires, he says, far as the referendum is concerned, all for the status quo—self-governnt in free association with New dand. He doesn’t want indepenice and says he never has said that did—that the independence he was sr when on the way to Caracas the Law of the Sea conference was right to have a voice in interional affairs. But whatever hapicd he would never want to change Cook Islanders’ right to New iland citizenship embodied in the Act of 1948. This defines citizens New Zealand as people born in w Zealand, the Cooks, Niue and Tokelaus.

If we could look after our own eign affairs without that act being nged, then it would be all right, at was the meaning of what I said en I mentioned independence, but never be party to our people ing NZ citizenship. Dr Davis told the people of the four islands supporting his party that they would lose that right if there was independence and that they should go for integration with New Zealand.

“Agitators among the Cook Islanders in New Zealand, supported by some Europeans married to Cook Islanders, said the same thing and demanded a referendum. Now we are back to the 1965 position when we decided on internal self-government, and I told them that full independence was no longer an issue.

“New Zealand has not dominated us or our internal workings. We have become a partner in the Forum with NZ blessing and we are playing our part as a full self-governing country.

There was the point to be made at Caracas that we were not a vassal of New Zealand and that there was no domination from outside. That was recognised by all at Caracas, so I was satisfied. There’s no need to change anything!”

What does Dr Davis think?

“No one really knows why he wants an election,” he said. “He has used a variety of reasons. His statement that they wanted independence became unpopular so he dropped it like a hot coal.

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“His references to integration when : came back confused the people. It ad as though he wanted integration. :ame out in the Cook Islands News ying he was finding any excuse for election, and made my stand in the iddle to continue as we are.

“This, Sir Albert said, confused the ople and he used that as a reason r an election involving changing tide three of the constitution, which s to do with self-government, and tides five and six which have to do th NZ citizenship and foreign ? airs. Five and six require a ferendum but, instead of calling a ferendum, he called an election.

“We accept the challenge.”

Dr Davis said it was wrong for • Albert to say the Democratic rty had hampered the government.

“How can we,” he asked, “when : are only seven? He has put bills ough which have given his ministers nost dictatorial power and tries to ime us for his failures.”

I asked Dr Davis what he thought is a reason for Sir Albert’s election- -11.

“He’s not a well man,” he replied, le wants to get off the scene and pes an election win would allow n to retire completely, or become ;ad of State and put someone else charge. He hasn’t been able to do s up to now because he really has one to hand over to so he hopes secure the government for the next ar years.

“If he wins this election, I feel sure will go independent. He will then be free of a restricting influence from New Zealand. He will then make the existence of an opposition impossible in other words full dictatorship.

“I feel sure he will go independent because he is in terrible money trouble and needs much more than the ordinary aid New Zealand gives him.

He needs about six and a half to seven million dollars to get out of financial trouble. Independent, he has the right to negotiate for aid with outside powers, Japan or even Soviet Russia, which would be a strong possibility.

“He has had three visits to Japan and I think he has some set-up there, but can’t do it with only internal self-government. He will be fighting to win an election on his mana; go independent, move out and then put someone else in.

“I am fighting this election on the basis that he wants to go independent regardless of what he says to the contrary and if he does, Co-k Islanders will lose their NZ citizenship.”

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Causes range from undelivered souvenirs to over-charging by dud free dealers, from surliness of staff to cockroaches in the food.

An irate Auckland woman in September demonstrated a new weapon in the fight against what she considered unfair dealing. She picketed a Suva duty free shop and after attracting the Press, the police and an interested crowd, she succeeded in getting her money back.

Mrs Renata Stempher contended that the duty free dealer quoted her a price of $175 for a stereo set. But when she gave the shopkeeper $2OO in New Zealand travellers’ cheques (5F224) she received only $23 change instead of $49.

The shopkeeper said he quoted the price in New Zealand currency, but Mrs Stempher said she understood he quoted Fiji currency.

Although the manager declared at first that a sale was a sale, after Mrs Stempher stood outside the shop telling would-be customers of her experience, he finally agreed to the return of the set.

The “persuasion” can only be blufl or veiled threats, for the FVB and the Consumer Council have no legal authority to enforce a settlement. The police, too, keep out of it if it’s a straightforward argument between tourist and shopkeeper over prices Shop around! is the obvious message Price isn’t the only complaint Numerous letters tell of obsolete goods being substituted for new, during packing. Other goods are paid for, but not delivered.

Complaints against duty free dealers are numerous, but if it’s simply a case of a tourist buying in one shop and finding he could have 24 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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In the case of duty free dealers, it s often a matter of the unscrupulous ew blackening the name of the whole ndustry. As the Consumer Council loints out: “We are very much aware if the customer who behaves rudely; he people who use dishonest tactics nd take up shopkeepers’ time when hey have no intention of buying; of he bouncing cheques . . .”

And over recent years, it hasn’t Iways been true that taxi drivers ave charged unrealistic, inflated rices, as is often believed. In followig up these complaints last year the Consumer Council discovered that the overnment-published schedule being uoted in some tourist publications r as 20 years old! Obviously, taxi rivers were not following it or dislaying it. Taxi meters—to be introuced soon—will solve that problem.

Of major concern are the street )uts. Under the heading “Sword filing Touts”, a local travel agent rote of numerous complaints revived concerning the “tactics and lanners of the numerous touts selling )-cal!ed Fijian swords on Suva reels”.

“Their favourite approach is to irround in twos, threes or fours, derly tourists or young women tourts and then almost belligerently Ter to carve the person’s name on ie sword at a cost ranging from The agent cited cases where young omen have been in tears after this pe of approach and one elderly mple terrified by the whole incident.

“Such standover tactics, with beildered visitors surrounded by big, irly, in most cases unshaven, dirtyagleted Fijian males, conveys an dremely bad impression of Fijian )spitality and friendliness”, the ;ent declared.

A visitor wrote describing one of iva’s less expensive guest houses: “Meals—no choice; waitress didn’t eak or understand much English.

Dinner—poor soup, meat, one een veg, 1 potato.

Breakfast—poor tea (bad taste), ied egg and bacon badly cooked id greasy, boiled egg put on big ate, no egg cup or spoon.

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Bedroom —sheets patched down middle and torn on two beds”.

Discontent isn’t confined to the smaller, cheaper establishments. A hotel long considered Fiji’s most expensive and luxurious is attracting an increasing amount of criticism. The setting is magnificent. But the surly attitude of staff and management’s indifference to complaints alienates guests. There is a general air too of “you tip—or no service”.

Bad service is so widespread in Fiji hotels that good service is received with surprise and delight. After a week at a luxury hotel on the Coral Coast, an Australian couple said they’d become used to receiving their wine at the same time as their coffee.

In Suva, the wine arrived with the first course—to their surprise.

At the same international standard Suva hotel however, when the visitors and their guests had ordered, the waitress loudly demanded: “Cash or charge?” The supermarket approach might be efficient, but it hardly makes for gracious dining in the city’s most expensive restaurant.

Png’S Angry

FILIPINOS

Fight Back

Prom a Port Moresby correspondent Angry Filipino migrants in Papua New Guinea are threatening to advise their countrymen back home to ignore any offers of employment from the PNG Government.

PNG’s experiment in bringing in trained Filipinos is still coming under attack from the outspoken general secretary of the public service asso-| ciation, Mr Jacob Lemeki.

Last month (PIM, Oct, p 9) Mr Lemeki accused the Filipinos of being “third-rate public servants who couldn’t get a job in their own country”. He accused them of coming to PNG and of taking over jobs, at higher pay, that New Guineans should be doing.

The Philippines Consul-General in PNG, Mr Ruben Mendoza, smoothed over the situation in talks with Mr Lemeki, but there was more trouble again in late September.

In newspaper correspondence Mr Lemeki renewed his attacks on the Filipinos, accusing them of low standards in their work and of not being prepared to work in remote areas.

In Rabaul a spokesman for the Filipino migrants, Mr Antonio Casimiro, said that unless Mr Lemeki’s association showed immediate signs that it was changing its attitude there would be a strong reaction. He said he would not hesitate to tell Filipinos in their own country not to answer calls for employment in PNG. He said there were now more than 300 Filipinos working in PNG under the new scheme, and they could discourage the arrival of any more.

He called Mr Lemeki’s statements “emotional, full of hate, and senseless”.

He said that Mr Lemeki was also effectively criticising his own country’s selection team by suggesting it had employed incompetent people.

He said “none of us will accept in silence continuous insults like a water buffalo would accept a whipping from its bad-tempered owner.

No one is doing the Filipinos a favour by employing them”. • Australia is playing a positive role in helping Fiji to build the Suva- Nadi highway. In its 1974-75 budget, Australia has provided for a loan of $1,815,000 to Fiji to help finance construction of the highway.

Gini Uru, head of the PNG team which went to Manila earlier this year to recruit Filipino workers. Angry Filipinos retort that if they are deemed incompetent it must be his fault. 26 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER. 1974

Storm In Fiji'S

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Brewing Again

From VUENDRA KUMAR, in Lautoka In Fiji, people take their cup of tea seriously. Not ily is it the commonest offering to a guest who may rop in at one’s home, but it is also part of the staple et in the rural areas.

But like so many consumer goods, tea is becoming scarce commodity in Fiji these days. Supermarket lelves are always running out.

Tea drinkers’ problems really started when the govnment slashed tea imports by 50 per cent to encourage id protect a faltering local tea blending company. :uch of the current public wrath is directed at the cal company, Domino Pacific Inc Ltd, which has wer been able to fully supply the market. Added to e supply problem is that tea drinkers seem to dislike e locally blended tea. They say it is too weak and atery.

“You’ve got to empty virtually the whole packet in kettle of water before you get reasonably concentrated a,” one housewife told me.

Although the government has recently allowed mertants to import more overseas blended tea, consumers nerally cannot get enough of their favourite brand, ishells, which is Ceylonese tea blended in Australia, ther brands like Lipton seem not to have caught on, spite heavy radio and newspaper advertising.

Domino Pacific Inc Ltd, which has its factory at ausori, 12 miles north of the capital city of Suva, is been plagued by troubles. Its managing director, r Mohammed Khalil, said poor shipping services tween India (where he gets his tea from) and Fiji ve been causing him trouble.

The factory is the brainchild of the Indian High unmissioner, Mr Bhagwan Singh, who helped Mr lalil, a former driving instructor, to launch the nture on a shoe-string budget.

Mr Khalil’s refusal to let press representatives into > factory aroused suspicions that all was not well, msumers were asking who were the experts blending Tea drinkers, who generally know little about what es on inside a tea-blending factory, were somewhat alarmed when a company spokesman announced that his company would import tea leaves from anywhere.

One Bushells fan told me that he feared that the company might use some of the local “bush” tea as well!

But despite all the objections to the local Tui brand tea, I believe that a lot of people are prejudiced against it simply because they do not want to give up old habits. Many of them have condemned the brand without even sampling a cup of brew from it.

Fiji tea drinkers can be divided into three categories.

The Indian wants his tea strong, with liberal doses of milk and sugar in it. The Gujratis (merchants who originally came from Gujrat in India) want it spiced with cinnamon and eucalyptus seeds. The Punjabis prefer tea made purely in milk—no water at all.

The Fijians, some rural Indians, want it “black” or “red”—without milk but with plenty of sugar. While the Fijian takes his cup of tea with his meals, usually with bread, the Indian farmer drinks a large bowl of it with his breakfast and then polishes off another bowl in the afternoon before dinner.

The third category of drinkers includes Europeans, who seem to like weak tea, always with milk and sugar —unless one is diabetic. The Chinese drinks his tea in privacy with the usual Oriental ritual. (I once tried Chinese tea and found it extremely unpalatable.) This third group is not fussy—at least publicly—about its tea problems. But the first two groups won’t have any nonsense.

The local tea is held in such contempt by some people that one person has been advocating “lemon tea”. This is a brew made of lemon leaves instead of tea leaves.

It is tangy in taste and can be quite pleasant—sometimes.

It seems Fiji’s tea drinkers will continue facing problems unless the local factory produces an acceptable flavour, or the government lifts all import restrictions.

Or tastes change.

"It's nice." Margaret Dansey of Lautoka, enjoys a cup of tea —Bushells, as it happens. "I don't drink the local brand," she says. 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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As the representatives of the Film Censorship Board in Vila who viewed the film “Hiroshima” we feel obliged :o correct Mr Sethy J. Ragenvenu’s misinterpretation of our comments and intentions in his letter (PIM Sept).

The film did not “alarm” the Censorship Board. It simply came to aur attention, by virtue of Mr Ragen- /enu’s paid announcement on Radio Vila, that a film was to be shown mblicly the same evening for which 10 application for approval had been nade to the board. It was therefore accessary to inform Mr Ragenvenu of he provisions of the law, which by he way, was given full publicity vhen it was enacted in April 1973, ind of which Mr Ragenvenu must lave been one of the very few people n Vila to be unaware.

It was suggested, with suitable ex- >ressions of sympathy for the inconvenience caused, that the showing hould be put off until the board ould be convened. The film was not banned” but Mr Ragenvenu was inormed that he would be contravening he law if he showed it without the Censorship Board’s approval.

The Mailbag The f o n ow i ng d a y was not pos . sible to obtain a quorum of the board. That we were well aware that we did not constitute a quorum j s made clear by our informing Mr Ragenvenu that if he chose to reimport the film he would have to inform the board which would then convene and endorse (or otherwise) our recommendations and issue the necessary certificate.

Mr Ragenvenu dwells at some length on the subject of education.

It was precisely with “education” in mind that we proposed certain conditions on the showing of the film which, to use our own words in the minute we recorded afterwards, is “a 15 minute documentary showing, factually and without emotion, something of the effects of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945”.

Mr Ragenvenu himself said that children under 12 years should not be allowed to see the film “as it could terrify them and give them nightmares”. In our view the shots of the terrible effects of nuclear radiation on human beings made the film unsuitable for any young person; hence a “16 years and over” recommendation (not 18 years as Mr Ragenvenu says).

Further, the greater part of the potential audience for the film is not educated beyond primary school level so we said it would be necessary to accompany the film with an explanation in simple terms putting the film in its proper context. Mr Ragenvenu’s understanding of the possible content of such an explanation is incorrect.

We see no reason why, for example, it should not summarise the past and present history of nuclear weapons but we do feel that it should be made very clear that the events shown took place nearly 30 vears ago and that, mercifully, since that time no nuclear weapon has been used in anger. Our reason for wishing to see the text of any explanation was to ensure that it was factually accurate 29 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-NOVEMBER, 1974

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Jut “speeches” would have converted 1 film-showing into a public meeting Dd such a meeting would be subject 0 the laws governing public order.

We must dispute strongly the alleation made by Mr Ragenvenu that any film that makes New Hebrideans tiink and start questioning about life nd the world must be examined”.

Tiis is utterly untrue. All films estined for public screening in the few Hebrides are subject to censorlip. Many have been made subject > restrictions on age, most often bemse they contained an unacceptable icasure of sex or violence, and a ;ry few have been banned entirely >r the same reasons.

As far as we are concerned, the tore films that will encourage people 1 the New Hebrides to think, the Jtter. But would Mr Ragenvenu, as ducation Secretary of the Presbyrian Church of the New Hebrides, ish to see “Deep Throat” (a itorious American pornographic m) or “The Clockwork Orange” (a m portraying horrible violence) reened freely here? We think not. hat is why we, in common with ery other civilised country in the Drld, have censorship laws.

We consider that, for the benefit PlM’s readers, it is useful to set it the original facts of the matter, id preferable that they be examined jectively.

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This appears to be one of those ridiculous philosophical problems, yet it is the definition of midwife that is behind the current unrest among the nurses of Western Samoa.

This unrest led to a limited strike by the nurses early August resulting in a fairly large proportion of discomfort on the part of the Health Department—but luckily it was not a catastrophe.

The trouble began when the Nursing Board of Western Samoa earlier this year started to implement the provisions of nursing legislation, approximately five years after the passing of the legislation. It provides for the registration of all nurses in Western Samoa in the three specialised areas of general nursing, maternity and midwifery.

For those nurses who qualified at the local School of Nursing, registration in general nursing and maternity was a comparatively simple matter.

But not so in the case of midwifery registration. The Nursing Board was of the opinion that locally qualified nurses could not register as midwives because they could not in fact qualify.

Is a midwife someone who (1) has learned the elements of midwifery during a general course on nursing or (2) has spent many years of nursing service performing duties generally recognised as midwifery ones?

If she is, then the Western Samoa Registered Nurses Association, which represents nurses, nursing aids and trainees, is right. Local nurses do qualify to be called midwives and, therefore, to be registered.

But if the definition means a midwife is (1) someone who has attended a recognised school for midwives or (2) someone who has learned more than the elements of midwifery, then according to that definition, the Nursing Board of Western Samoa is right. For there is no recognised midwifery school in Western Samoa and by expert opinion midwifery is much more complicated than many nurses think.

Anyway, when this problem arose earlier this year the Nurses Association agreed with a heavy heart to forget its own interpretation, provided the Nursing Board established a midwifery school for local nurses.

The board was given three months to do this, and if it failed to do it the nurses planned to strike. The board characteristically failed to establish the school. The association instructed all nurses performing midwifery duties in the Apia General Hospital and in the districts to cease performing those duties—which they did.

And the Health Department was forced to call in for duty all the New Zealand - qualified midwives, about seven of them in Western Samoa. Most of them went on duty in the Apia General Hospital, including the Superintendent of Nursing, Miss Moana Matatumua, who is also a member of the Nursing Board.

Village trained midwives helped out in the districts.

Things returned almost to normal after about three weeks, following a meeting between the association and the Public Service Commission. The nurses agreed to resume midwifery duties—provided the commission reinstated two dismissed nurses.

The nurses had been suspended for alleged unethical practices (ie, they permitted practitioners of the Samoan traditional medical art to perform for patients at the hospital). The association pointed out that (1) the World Health Organisation encourages legitimate folk medicine (2) the two nurses were among their leaders in the midwifery registration issue. The two nurses were reinstated.

Some individual nurses however have indicated that they will not perform midwifery duties, and this is not the end of the controversy. The Nurses’ Association has indicated that it will continue to pressure the Nursing Board to establish a midwifery school in Samoa, to enable local nurses to register in midwifery. It is not satisfied with the board’s latest conciliatory measure, which consists of diplomas in midwifery for local nurses: nothing less than registration will satisfy them. It is now a matter of prestige. 33 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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Problems of Polynesia's biggest city

By W. G. Coppell

Auckland, in comparison with, say Sydney, has an almost postcard charm to it—the enclosed trbour dominated by the outline of islands, lofty and low-lying, a skyline which is enriched imeasurably by the many volcanic cones—and a central shopping area, which for all the intrusion a few tower blocks, still conveys the feeling of bygone colonial times.

Schoolboy memories of the city ing to mind the romantic notions the connection of the harbour th the islands of the South Pacific schooners such as the Tiare Taporo d the Oiseau des lies, tied up to ; Western Viaduct, undergoing their nual refits—the Union Steam Ship )mpany’s Island traders, such as the atua and Tofua, unloading their rgoes of Fijian bananas and the eet brown Cook Islands oranges, ught by the bagsful, which were ; essential restorative at the halfy mark in the football match.

In the late 1940 s I taught in a i-down primary school which ved an inner city slum area and three years there I taught among icrs two Polynesian children, no ;w Zealand Maoris, a Cook ander and a Western Samoan, ese island children were centres wonder for my class, with tales the islands, with strings of shell ads and pieces of tapa cloth.

In those days the number of New aland Maoris who lived in the city s small and all Aucklanders were ascious of the continuing and anaonistic existence of the Maori pa llage) at Orakei. In the wartime ars in Auckland sport the presence the Aotearoa Maori Club team on • rugby fields of Eden Park was wed in a benign and paternalistic hion.

Fhose days have gone—gone for aod and all”?

It is a shattering experience to return at spasmodic intervals to Auckland, to a city that I know so intimately, and to find it bedevilled with the problems which face all urban areas, of transport, housing, the provision of social services—but also to see it struggling with the forces which have made it the capital of Polynesia.

As any Aucklander will say to you, although whether it is true I don’t know, there are more Polynesians living in Auckland than in the rest of Polynesia. The Polynesian influence is everywhere to be seen.

There are more Niueans in Auckland than on Niue itself.

Yams for sale Suburbs, which were once solidly the homes of white working class, are now the centres for considerable numbers of Polynesians. This applies not only to the older inner suburbs of Newton, Ponsonby and Grey Lynn but also to the older suburbs of Avondale, New Lynn, Glen Eden.

Mangere and Onehunga.

I boarded a bus bound for Ponsonby and found that I, as a pakeha was outnumbered 10 to one by my Polynesian fellow townsmen. In some shopping areas the businessmen cater for the special interests of their Polynesian customers—the fruit and vegetable shops display prominently piles of taro, cassava and yams, the butcher shops sell plastic barrels of paelo povi masima (corned beef on brisket) at 524.99 per barrel, and signs in Island languages demand that the customers “Keep on the other side of the counter”. There are shops which specialise in muumuus, and a shop carrying quickmade fabrics announces, “Afio mai ma maliu mai”.

The white Aucklander, by and large, finds great difficulty in distinguishing between the various Polynesian groups, and regrettably, but perhaps inevitably, has resorted to the use of stereotyped and denigratory terms with which to level all brownskinned Aucklanders.

It comes as a shock to hear a friend, headmaster of a large primary school, refer to the Polynesian pupils under his control as “coconuts”, and to be everywhere assailed with the use of racist names such as “headhunter”, “tarpot”, “spearthrower”, “wog” and “wop”.

It is necessary to understand the dilemmas faced by many white Aucklanders, as they struggle to understand cultures as foreign to them as the European life style is to the Islander. A barman, a friend of many years and one who has remained in the same district for a quarter of a century, told me that in the hotel the customers group themselves into Cook Islanders, Samoans, Niueans and so on and that the few remaining 35 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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However, Auckland is in the >sition now that its way of life is tally dependent upon the Poly- ;sian. Step aboard any bus and the lances are 10 to one that the driver ill be brown-skinned; in the launies and clothing factories Islands 3men represent by far the largest irt of the work-force. I have a iend who was matron of a hospital the South Seas, and now a matron a large Auckland hospital, who mits that if the Island women who rry out the duties of cleaners, iindry workers and many of the unilled tasks about the wards were go, her hospital would cease to riction.

In the present economic environmt the Islander is fortunate in ickland, there has been no unem- 3yment in the city throughout 1974, man reporting himself as out of a ) in the morning is suitably placed afternoon. For the sake of the my Islands people, whose stake in :w Zealand is slight, it must be ped that unemployment will not :ome a blight upon them.

Many attempts are being made to d ways of fitting the Polynesian 3ple into Auckland in as sympatic and understanding way as is ssible. The Auckland regional hority is currently examining sites, ere a combined Islands mare (meetplace) will be established, with arge meeting hall and with Islandstyle houses grouped about the grounds. The government is making provision for some rented State houses to be reserved for Island families and young Islanders are receiving apprenticeship training in the skilled trades social nroblems inere L are social problems Tdentity and of cultural hn y ks "" preSerVa,lOn The Pacific Islanders’ Church in Edinburgh Street, Newton, is a prime example of the approach of voluntary organisations to the problems faced by he Js land «; T . h e Rev R. L Challis, together with ministers from the Cook Islands, Western Samoa and Niue, direct the activities of a very large and diverse congregation. , „ , . , ,„ . , ln all there are ei B ht full-time ministers, and on a Sunday 21 services are conducted m the city and at Glen Eden ’ Te Atatu, Manurewa, nriph]in „„ „ nH AvrmHak a thrm sand children attend the Sunday school and up to 1400 people majr p tcel ?. d **J®. A' oC i!°o servlce in Engllsh at Edinburgh Street.

The church is involved in activities typical of its work in the Islands; there are youth clubs, boys brigade, girls brigade, clubs for the middle- DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATION The likelihood of increased violence in Auckland was discussed by an Auckland City council committee in September.

The council’s Senior Community Adviser, Mr P. K. Harwood, said, “We are heading for a violent time in Auckland if things continue the way they are going.”

His comments were made when the committee was discussing allegations that the police task force was discriminating against Islanders and New Zealand Maoris. Mr Harwood’s statement followed another he made on August 29 on Pacific Islanders and drink. He maintained that experience through advice bureaux and social services involved in the treatment of alcoholism showed that Pacific Islanders had fewer drink problems than the general population. 37 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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»ed and the lay preachers’ class, he church devotes much of its time ) choir practices, and in the foyer e trophies won by the Sunday hool choirs. Sporting activities are so sponsored by the church and it is teams which compete in cricket id basketball, but it has decided, >r rather obvious reasons, that it ill not sponsor rugby league or igby union teams. The needs of the lands children in the local schools e met in some small degree by the inisters taking part in Bible classes 1 a once weekly basis.

The police, on the other hand see e problems from an entirely difrent point of view.

Thev are basically concerned to enre that the Islanders keep out of aiible and when trouble occurs that is dealt with judiciously and fairly, lere is a task force of police which charged with dealing with affrays volving Polynesians. linor crimes Interestingly enough, a senior police ficer told me that experience has own that much of the trouble lich occurs is not between rival ands groups, but more frequently solves members of the same family. 2 also said that many of the anders who come under the notice the police do so for minor inictions, which often take place beuse of ignorance of standards of haviour acceptable in Auckland.

The police are now more concerned establishing a preventative role and 2 so-called “J-Teams” (for Joint ams) have been created for Auckid Central, Henderson and Otahu. These teams are made up of e member of the police force, a jresentative of the Department ’ of aori and Island Affairs and a minister of religion. The general philosophy being adopted is that the police members are not on the teams to detect offenders, but to support community workers and convey the police point of view.

To understand, even to some slight extent, what is happening to the burgeoning Polynesian community in Auckland and elsewhere in New Zealand is a task of some magnitude and it is essential that hasty judgments are not taken. There is great danger in the proposition put forward by a very prominent politician that the solution lies simply in sending the Polynesians back home.

There seems no doubt that the child born of Island parents in New Zealand will become a New Zealander; there is so little to attract him to return to his ancestral home.

A Mangaian said to me that he had felt sad when he had first arrived in Auckland, having left his land, but now he could see so many advantages for his children, he had gained so much from his job, and there was so much happening in Auckland, that he didn’t think that he would ever return to Mangaia.

A Rarotongan girl spoke to me in Queen Street and told me in nostalgic terms about her family and friends in Rarotonga but when I asked her if she was going to return home, she thought not as her father had died and would not be able to support her in Rarotonga.

And yet the ties with the Islands are being kept very much alive for many people. Mangere airport must be one of the most crowded airports in the world for its size, and whenever there is a plane leaving from or arriving from Island destinations, the numbers of Island people in the passenger lobby is astounding.

Islanders get greater say in XZ education From a Wellington correspondent Hundreds of Pacific Islanders living in Auckland and Wellington have been able to have their say in the discussions which made up the Educational Development Conference, held throughout New Zealand during the last few months.

The conference has taken the form of a series of seminars held in centres right through the country to review critically the existing education system. Recommendations from the seminars have been forwarded to the Advisory Council on Educational Planning, ACEP, who will report to the New Zealand Minister of Education, Mr P. A. Amos.

Four of the principal Pacific Island groups with interests in NZ Samoans, Tongans, Niueans and Cook Islanders—have been involved in the seminars. Mrs Erolini Alaimlima-Eteuati, a teacher at Hillary College in Auckland, estimates that about 700 Samoans have taken part.

The conference discussion booklet, “Let’s Talk Education” has been translated into Samoan to make it more relevant.

Major recommendations have also come from Tongan, Niuean and Cook Island groups, and all these have been collated into the final report for Mr Amos.

The Islanders have a different perspective to education, which will have an important bearing on the way the future education system is introduced.

With a mounting Polynesian population, New Zealand’s system must take account of this percentage of the total population, and the schools of New Zealand will reflect the stronger Polynesian influence.

Meanwhile, Mr Amos has written to the leaders of the communities from Tonga, Fiji, the Cook Islands, Niue, Western Samoa and the Tokelau Islands inviting them to attend special meetings in Wellington and Auckland to discuss ways of ensuring a continuing form of consul- There are more Niueans in Auckland than on Niue. Here Niueans farewell departure of family and friends at Niue's airport. 39 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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“It may well prove that an advisory council of some sort could be established to offer this avenue of consultation,” Mr Amos said.

Such an organisation could consider a broad range of activities associated with Island people, includng resettlement programmes, the development of a truly multi-cultural ;ociety, and educational opportunity.

“I am anxious to get Pacific Isanders thinking and discussing this ype of development. In Auckland, am aware a local group has been stablished involving all Island Kopies, and it may be that a similar Wellington group, and then in turn i similar national group may be ;stablished.

“This would then provide a workible structure for consultation, and eaction, to and from the government md the broader community,” Mr \mos concluded.

Mr Phil Amos has also made mother announcement of particular ignificance to Pacific Islands children, vho form a large proportion of many lasses in some New Zealand schools, t is planned that refresher courses vill be commenced in Teacher Trainng Colleges for Island teachers, who, ►ecause they do not possess New Zealand teaching qualifications, are at ►resent unable to use their talents in 4ew Zealand schools.

Mr Amos said Polynesian children n NZ would benefit from contact rom teachers of their own race, and vith the enhanced teacher-pupil reationships a better teaching climate vould result.

An article by lain McDonald in the 4ew Zealand Herald emphasises the ducational plight of Pacific Islands hildren in New Zealand schools. He aid it was “not clear to what extent tie use of another language was a landicap to learning English . . . slanders were less successful than heir European contemporaries in ■nglish and reading. But Islanders id just as well as the Europeans in pelling and arithmetic. The difficulty ►f educating Polynesian children is ncreased by the unwillingness of eachers —mostly Europeans—to work i schools in inner-city suburbs of Auckland where most Polynesians ive. Teacher - pupil relationships ould be marred by a lack of undertanding of cultural differences”. • The population of Niue Island t December 31, 1973, was estimated t 4,142. The figure has declined teadily since 1966, when it was ,194, with emigration to New Zeamd as the major cause. The popuition of the island in 1884 was estilated at 5,070.

Islanders In Trouble

Tongan and Samoans were involved in two separate assault cases in Auckland recently, and in each case the Samoan was charged. Pai Amituanai, 24, admitted he had struck Tarita Tali with a pocket-knife in the lower abdomen. The court was told a disagreement developed between the two at a party, and they agreed to fight.

Amituanai stood up to go out and Tali struck him in the face. Amituanai then retaliated with the pocket knife. Mr M. L. Morgan, SM, sentenced Amituanai to six months’ periodic detention and ordered him to pay $19.50 costs.

In the second case Joseph Bentley, 30, was remanded for a probation report and sentence, after pleading guilty to having assaulted a Tongan with a bottle. It was stated that Bentley and two friends passed a Tongan and insults were exchanged.

Bentley asked the Tongan to explain the insults, and was pushed to the ground. They started fighting, and Bentley smashed a beer bottle over the Tongan’s head. 41 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY- NOVEMBER, 1974

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Some second thoughts on public service exodus From GUS SMALES, in Port Moresby In just under two years the lumber of whites in the Papua Sew Guinea public service has Iropped by one-third—from 3,500 in November, 1972, to : ewer than 4,500 today.

And as the trend continues, phasng New Guineans into the jobs left r acant, concern is beginning to grow n some areas of national opinion hat the pace may be too fast.

Most of the concern about the [uickness of the pace represents the ears of conservative and lesserleveloped rural areas, where change s frequently resisted purely for its iwn sake. But some of PNG’s dediated nationalists are now joining he expressions of concern, not beause they want to slow down the •ace towards nationhood but because hey fear their country could be losng too many skills too rapidly.

What has really happened is that he move to “localise” employment— he government’s euphemism for relacing white workers with black— » no longer seen in itself as an ssential ingredient of political inependence.

Localisation and independence are till seen as closely interwoven, yet here is a new realisation that no recise formula links one with the ther.

Papua New Guinea would like othing better than to reserve all its ibs for its own nationals, but the egree to which it is able to do this as no real connection with the bility and desire to become politiclly independent.

For too many years PNG was hasing the wrong target, looking for le development of a fully-skilled ommunity as a prerequisite for inependence. Australia all too freuently didn’t—or wouldn’t—make lis point clear, either. pie present concerted move for olitical disengagement from Austria began shortly before the Labor jovernment came to power in Canerra. Despite the strength of the move, the old idea that a community of all skills must emerge before independence, continued to linger in some political areas. The lingering of this idea had several effects.

One was that the conservative element in PNG politics opposed political change without real reason, and using an argument which was not soundly based. It was an argument of fear based on a belief that independence would require total reliance on home-grown skills.

Another effect was within the government itself which went to elaborate and sometimes risky extremes to force the pace of localisation. An annual 15 per cent blanket reduction was imposed on the number of whites in the Public Service, putting more emphasis on an arbitrary target than on the country’s year-to-year needs. (The 15 per cent target has since been removed, and the availability of local skills governs the pace at which whites are displaced.) The situation now exists where self-government has slipped in with hardly a ripple and where independence is generally accepted as being only a matter of months away. Even whites who until a few years ago saw independence as a generation in the future are saying, “get it over with as quickly as you can so we all know where we stand”.

With nationhood accepted as not far away there is now a more realistic acceptance of the employment situation. There is a strengthening ambition among rank and file New Guineans to take over jobs at present held by whites, but the situation is no longer tied up with independence and political change.

It’s a personal ambition, and represents a far more rational situation than what existed before.

It can also mean that a politician can attack (or praise) the rate of localisation without being accused of meddling with the date for political independence.

Against this background there is a growing feeling that some of the employment changes have been excessively traumatic. Many whites in the Public Service got out much faster than anticipated because of insecurities they felt, and this was one of the factors which caused the removal of the 15 per cent reduction target.

In the western highlands in September a meeting of 6,000 villagers expressed fears that the country was losing too many whites with skills which were still needed.

Meanwhile the Public Service Board has begun a detailed review to find out exactly what manpower it requires, and to give some indication to whites still in the Public Service of the:.-, likely tenure of each job.

Exodus Halted?

Although the number of whites in the PNG public service has dropped by one third in two years, official figures released in Port Moresby in September seem to indicate that the expatriate exodus generally is over.

In the previous three months the number of long term arrivals—returning residents and those intending to live in PNG—increased by 300. This was the first increase since early 1973.

Most of the outward migration flowed to Australia, reaching a peak of almost 2,000 a month at selfgovernnment last December before tapering off to a little less than 600 last June. There was a record 12,23 i, departures in the year to June 30.

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From GARY MEYERS, in Honolulu Since the days of the earliest :plorers, the major ocean currents ive been observed by navigators id oceanographers. The average irrents can be reliably charted beuse there is now a vast amount of ita available, but a major problem to discover how the currents vary am month to month and from year year.

The oceans are large, so for a parular month of a particular year 2 observations are so few and so dely separated that very little can said about the general circulation, id, since the cost of sending ships er the entire ocean each month is ahibitive, no solution to the probn seems imminent.

Knowledge of the changes in the rrent systems is needed to make ig-range predictions of the weather d of draughts over the continents.

Led by Professor Klaus Wyrtki, a mp of oceanographers at the Unirsity of Hawaii is presently work- ; on this problem. They are establing a network of sea level morning stations on a number of cific Islands. This network will ow continuous observation of the :ific Ocean’s equatorial current tern. shown on the accompanying map the major Pacific Ocean currents, te that three great currents flow oss the Pacific. Between the laties of Tahiti and Hawaii, the rth and South Equatorial Currents flow westward. Separating these two broad currents is the narrower Equatorial Countercurrent which flows eastward.

You will see that the Countercurrent is not symmetric about the equator. It flows principally in the region which mariners have called the doldrums. As PIM readers well know, the doldrums is not a region where strong winds are unknown, but by comparison the winds are relatively weak there, especially during certain seasons of the year.

Why do the currents flow in this particular configuration? The North and South Equatorial Currents are driven westward by the Trade Winds of the two hemispheres, causing the ocean water to pile up on the western side of the Pacific, The Countercurrent is the return flow eastward down the path of least resistance, ie, the doldrums.

Ocean currents at any one instant are turbulent flows. The water moves in great eddies and swirls, rather than along smooth trajectories as the arrows on the map might suggest.

This means that if someone started floating in the North Equatorial Current at Johnston Island he would not necessarily end up near the Philippines. The arrows represent the average flow over an area a few hundred miles on each side and over a period of about a month.

The islands of the Pacific are scattered across these three currents, and many of them are in geographical positions especially suitable for monitoring the currents with sea level gauges Only one is vitally missing Dr Wyrtki has often stood at the map with his finger on a spot about halfway between Christmas and Hawaii and said, “What we really need is an island right here] ” His comment generally draws a laugh because no island is there, but if it were there it would be located near the boundary between the North Equatorial Current and the Countercurrent, an ideal location for a gauge.

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These existing stations are shown / dots on the map.

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In the future the number of ations in the existing network will i approximately doubled by the inallation of new gauges. This work is already begun: since the first of e year, new gauges have been stalled at Christmas, Ponape, ajuro, Nauru, Tarawa, and French igate Shoals. The many agencies d' individuals on the islands who ovided valuable assistance are ich appreciated. The new and ture stations are shown by circles the map.

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Because of it, the surface of an ocean current flowing westward, for example, slopes upward toward the north when the current is in the northern hemisphere. Though it’s a surprise to some, the sea surface would not be flat even if all the waves were removed!

We can further our understanding of ocean currents by considering a j ll * l * r Human senses can detect centrifugal force, which affects the surface level of a moving fluid as Coriolis force does. lo feel centrifugal force, tie a weight to a string and whirl it around y° ur k ea , P OI L Ihe string is centrifugal force. Everyone is familiar with the surface slope of a stirred cup of tea. The slope is caused by centrifugal force piling the tea up against the side of the cup.

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By measuring the fluctuations in the slope across the three equatorial currents, Professor Wyrtki and his fellow oceanographers will monitor the strength of the currents from month to month.

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The Atoll Pioneer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, reports the following incident during a House of Assembly debate: “The member from Nanumea decided he had had enough of the Ministers, so he stood up at the middle of a speech by another member and he told the Minister for Natural Resources that he was not the boss in the meeting, the Speaker was. When he was interrupted the man from Nanumea sat down and sighed: T’m sorry Sir, I’ve lost my mind’.” 47 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

From the Islands Press From the Tonga Chronicle: Wealth doesn't necessarily mean an erosion of a nation's cultural values, according to His Majesty. Addressing the Niuatpuotapu Show, he said that Saudi Arabia's great wealth had not caused a cultural decline. However, His Majesty pointed out that the people of Saudi Arabia prayed five times a day—and perhaps Tongans did not worship enough.

From the Arawa Civic Association Bulletin, Bougainville: Personal head tax notices are being delivered throughout the town as a service to the community to advise them of their responsibility to pay.

A Head Tax is $lO per head for male and female adults, but if a person does not receive a tax demand it does not release him from the responsibility to pay ... A collection office will be set up in the supermarket.

From a letter by Amos Kito in the Cook Islands News: At the time of the French Revolution there were women who sat as close as possible to Madame Guillotine waiting for the tumbrels to arrive; they got their greatest moments of ecstasy when they literally saw heads roll. These same women are still with us, even on this fair island. Some still do their knitting and others hold their glass of sherry, gin, beer, lemonade, or cup of tea, coffee or Milo and for the want of anything better to do, they let their tongues wag and set the blade falling. Such tongues are honed to an edge of sharpness greater than the finest of steel.

Great fun, keep it up ladies, there is an inexhaustible supply of heads.

Heading in the Tonga Chronicle on a new commercial bank: “Bank opens with a burst.”

From a letter by Roger Williams in the Atoll Pioneer, GEIC, on supplies for outer islands: The Development Authority spokesman continued the fallacy of a good service (ie an average of two or three ships a month). This figure is most misleading as it is common to get two or three ships in a week and then none for a month. Sometimes two ships call on one day!

Anyway, the number of ships calling is unimportant— what they carry is the main concern.

From the News Bulletin, American Samoa: Radio Station WVUV listeners may have been puzzled Saturday when they heard several minutes of click, click, click of an obviously unattended record.

Did the announcer fall asleep? Was someone late for work? No. The fault lies with the boss.

The entire staff was at the station listening intently to Office of Samoan Information director, Neal Corbett, who talked a little longer than he intended to. His subject: Plans to improve the programming at WVUV.

From a report in the Cook Islands News: "What 1 said at the airport prior to my departure for the Law of the Sea Conference in Caracas has been misquoted so many times that I would like to replay the tape of my speech for you ALL to hear and perhaps stop people telling stories of what they think I said" [about independence], stated the Premier, Hon Sir Albert Henry, to a large crowd at Ngatangiia Packing Shed. An attentive | audience heard the Premiers' entire speech and this proved without a doubt that he did not say that the Cook Islands would go independent.

From a letter by Michael Alan White in the Micronesian Independent, Majuro: I have held my tongue, in the name of a free press, throughout my four years in Micronesia at some of the outrageous things you have printed in your paper. 1 have kept my mouth closed in the name of the free enterprise system, while you advocated the virtues of a return to a more traditional way of life for the people of Micronesia while at the same time your advertisements, hypocritically, consisted of 1 Schlitz, Datsun, Marlboro, Mobil and department stores.

I have remained quiet throughout some of your egregiously and wildly inaccurate stories on a wide variety of topics. But I am unable to do so any more. I 1 feel that, with the publication of “peeking through the palms” . . . you have hit a new low, not only for the noble profession of journalism which you profess, but for humanity and human decency.

From the Micronesian Independent: Donald H. Segretti has applied for a position with the Congress of Micronesia. Although Trust Territory employment policy is to keep job applications] confidential, it is hard to keep anything secret if it is connected with the Watergate affair.

Segretti is a Californian lawyer who pleaded guilty to three dismeanour charges for his activities as a political “dirty tricks man” for the Republicans.

From the Cook Islands News: “It is so unusual for anyone wanting to take dirty clothes we didn’t or haven’t given much thought or action to securing the premises. It is now quite obvious we do have some people who would do this sort of thing,” said Mr Hugh Henry, secretary of Supportive Services, commenting on a break-in at the Government laundry.

Letter from Mahendra Singh in The Fiji Times: We have often read in this column that the Royal Fiji Police Force is not doing its best to protect the citizens of this country. But very seldom do we read j about the force’s good deeds. Because of the growing rate of inflation and unemployment the crime rate will move upwards. The police are trying their utmost to solve their many problems . . . but a policeman works about 70 to 80 hours a week. A police constable is not paid any overtime except for an extra j duty allowance of $6 a month. A constable’s salary j is, I understand, $894 a year. ... The greatest burden of the force is carried by constables and noncommissioned officers, but they are among the worst paid employees of the government. 48 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —NOVEMBER, 1974

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Magazine Section Fiji's 'East India Company was neither wealthy nor long-living

By A. M. Quanchi

Just over one hundred years ago a company was formed in Melbourne with the hope that it vould become an Australasian version of the powerful and wealthy British East India Company. It was the Polynesia Company.

The American Civil War had ruined the Southern dates’ cotton crops and European buyers were offering ligh prices for good quality cotton. The Fiji Islands, vith their rich soils, suitable climate and abundant abour supply suddenly became the new Eldorado, and luring the years 1868 to 1871 many hundreds of Vicorian colonists rushed to Fiji, to become, they hoped, wealthy cotton planters.

The Victorian domination of Fiji was supreme and he Melbourne press proudly claimed that: “The Fiji slands, commercially speaking, may be said to belong o Victoria. Victorian capital, Victorian enterprise and Victorian colonists are transforming the principal isle if the group into a Victorian settlement”.

Prior to this rush to Fiji in the late 1860’s the European population had only been numbered in tens, and political control was being disputed between the wo powerful chiefs, Cakobau and Ma’afu. Victoria lecided the time was ripe for Victoria to act, and the Melbourne Age urged action: “Taken possession of by us now, under proper development these islands would in time become a property of great worth to Victoria . . . the task would be an easy one”.

The undoubted wealth that could be obtained from :otton and other commercial and trading ventures, and the ease with which European political control over the islands could be assumed, appealed to the small group of investors and shareholders who had just formed the Polynesia Company.

They intended to make a deal with Cakobau on the assumption that he was the paramount king over all Fiji, and thereby secure the monopoly rights over land development, banking, trade, customs and the overall rule in the island group.

A delegation to Fiji managed to get a charter granting them these rights signed by Cakobau, but the giftgiving and champagne tactics, the complaints of the British Consul in Fiji and the fact that Cakobau wasn’t regarded as the paramount king, meant that the first charter was publicly rejected by the Colonial Office in London and by the Australasian authorities.

Eventually the company signed another charter which limited them to a land developing role. The initial subscription to the company of 1,240 £2 shares was paid up and plans were made for a vessel to carry the prospective land-owning shareholders to the company’s, leases in Fiji.

The Polynesia Company had attempted to keep its dealings over the charter secret, and at the same time to release exaggerated reports of Fiji’s potential to the press, even to the extent of a false “gold rush”.

The Melbourne press were enthusiastically covering events in Fiji, and with a spirit of European expansionism into the “uncivilised world”, the Polynesia Company was considered by the Melbourne Age as an example of Victorian leadership: “Compared with the brilliant success of the Polynesia Company other commercial enterprises simply languish in the shade”.

With the charter signed, land hungry colonists and investors took notice, and the fortunes of the company Levuka, as it looked as the old capital of Fiji. 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

rose even though nothing yet had been done to get a start in Fiji.

Victoria had at that time two commodities that were to be a great stimulus to the company’s activities. One was the newly-won wealth from the gold rushes, the other was an excess of population. Commercial, shipping and trading interests saw in Fiji an opportunity to invest, and the current depression in the colonies made the promise of land and high returns from cotton planting, an attractive lure, not only to men of large and small capital, but also to men who had met failure on the fields, and who now sought that new Eldorado.

But the shareholders who had taken out their shares in land found, when they arrived in Fiji that there were often as many as four or five Fijian and European claimants to their lease.

The company found it could only take possession of 92,000 acres, not the 200,000 their charter granted.

So by 1871 the boom days were over, and for all its favourable press reports and grandiose schemes, the Polynesia Company eventually was to become a dismal failure.

By 1874 only 500 acres of its original grant were being cultivated and in 1880 it had to auction its blocks at Suva Point to provide a return for its shareholders.

The company’s story reflects the initial optimism, followed by frustration and discontent that typifies the expansion of the European community in Fiji. The grand dreams of success were dashed by the sudden hurricanes, the declining cotton market, the unwillingness of the Fijians to work, and then after 1874 by a colonial government which put native interests before those of the European community.

When, in 1874, Britain annexed Fiji, the company had waged a persistent battle with the Imperial Government and the new Crown Colony Government to secure the lands which it laid claim to. It received an unsympathetic reply, and like other European land claimants in Fiji the company found it could only keep those lands actually being cultivated, or those for which airtight legal justification could be provided.

In 1870 at the height of the rush to Fiji the company’s affairs had already come unfavourably to the attention of the colonial authorities. The Colonial Office, the Victorian Governor, and the newly established Fiji Times in Levuka were all warning of the dangers involved in risking money in Fiji, let alone with a company that had yet to give any signs of progress.

Early in 1870 the Fiji Times noted, “It is nearly time that the shareholders of the company showed some energy in settling their land, as the prospectus of the company has been so long before the public in Fiji that residents have begun to think the company is a myth”.

As far as the European community in Fiji was concerned, Victoria’s interest was not up to expectations.

For several years prior to the British annexation there had been agitation in both Melbourne and Levuka for Victoria to annex Fiji, but when Britain accepted this responsibility in 1874 any interest quickly died.

It is an interesting footnote that nearly 20 years after cession the European community in Fiji turned to Victoria once again and attempted to change Fiji’s mode of government by having the Colony of Victoria rule in place of the Crown Colony system that had been in force since 1874.

But Fiji no longer held the attractions it once did, and Victoria refused the invitation to incorporate Fiji into its colonial boundaries.

During this 1887 movement the Polynesia Company, not yet defunct, offered its assistance to the Fijian representatives who were then in Melbourne lobbying for the changeover of sovereignty.

The final condemnation of the company came from a Fiji Times editorial: “What may be said of this glorious Polynesia Company is that it is dying. It spent its life in injuring Fiji and deluding Victoria”.

An emotive but succinct statement. The company had both stimulated, and been part of the European, and especially the Victorian rush to Fiji, but as was the case of numerous other examples of European expansion in the tropics, success and profits were not always as easy to come by as the illusion of the tropical Eldorado gave promise of.

Interest in Fiji, and the Pacific, waned after the collapse of the rush. These sentiments that had been expressed in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1872 were not long lasting; “I think it is due to our position as the principal colony in Australia that we should be particularly careful with respect to the future of the South Sea Islands”.

But “this glorious company”, and Victorian aspirations in the Islands, soon became a forgotten byway of the early history of both the Colony of Victoria and Fiji.

Modern-day Levuka, seen here below the wings of a Fiji Air Services Islander aircraft (which operates daily services from the "new" capital of Suva) has probably not changed a very great deal from the days when the Polynesia Company held sway. The town still has an old world charm, with its timber buildings, leafy walks and unhurried atmosphere.

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, visited it in October for the centenary of the day at Levuka when Cakobau and his chiefs ceded Fiji to Queen Victoria. Travellers to Fiji will find a lot of interest in a visit to the old capital, which is too often by-passed by the jet-setters. 58 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Yesterday antas announced in November, 1954, had decided to discontinue, at the nd of March, 1955, the flying-boat service dnnecting Sydney with Noumea and the lew Hebrides once a week and ydney with Noumea and Laucala Bay : iji) once a fortnight. In place was > be a Skymaster service operating a Y" service, once a week, connecting ydney with Tontouta, Vila and Santo, and Fadi. This was one of the news items üblished in PIM 20 years ago this month. lo one likes income tax, while conceding is a necessity, but in the BSIP 20 ears ago they liked it even less. After n unsuccessful challenge to the legality f the tax, taxpayers tried a new tack, ocal residents, traders and businessmen ent a petition to the Secretary of tafe for the Colonies asking for ie tax to be removed. Whitehall ras unimpressed. he rate of resignations by expatriates rom the Papua New Guinea civil ervice today is a matter for official oncern. Resignations were a problem Iso 20 years ago when over 70 of he field staff in the PNG Department of district Services and Native Affairs urned their jobs in, because they said hey found it impossible to live in the salaries paid. fonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou, when -rown Prince Tungi 20 years ago, described himself, after returning from i trip to the US, as "not a tourist, sut a market investigator". He was then *remier as well as heir to the throne, md said he was not happy that Tonga ivas practically dependent only on the :oconut. Some ideas he brought back fhen were involved with development of funa fishing, coconut by-products and macadamia nuts.

The enormous mass of iron ore— mixed with chromium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and other metals —that constituted a large part of New Caledonia was "beginning to assume international significance", R. W. Robson wrote in PIM in November, 1954. In a world which, while declaring its hatred of war, was daily preparing for "the final arbitration of arms", the availability of metal was a factor which the major countries dared not ignore, and he predicted boom times for New Caledonia.

The transfer of 52 Ellice Islanders from over-populated Vaitapu atoll to Kioa in Buca Bay, Fiji, took place in October, 1954. But observers were critical of the apparent lack of foresight and commonsense in the selection of the settlers.

Since the Vaitapu Islanders had bought and first started settling Kioa some years earlier, the resettled population developed a preponderance of males. The settlers had asked that future groups from Vaitapu should consist of married couples, or single people with females predominant, but the latest arrivals had a preponderance of single men.

Two Fijian war clubs which once belonged to Ratu Seru Cakobau, Fiji's first and last "king", were returned to Fiji to be presented to the new Methodist Centenary Church in Suva.

About 80 years earlier, Cakobau gave the clubs to Dr Frederick Langham, who played an important part in the development of Fiji. The clubs reached New Zealand, via England, and were handed over to the Methodist Church in NZ for formal presentation to the church in Fiji during the centenary celebrations.

Two tons of tuna taken to Japan by a ship which had fished ofF Australia and a further 10 tons from another ship which fished off New Britain and Truk, had to be dumped when declared too radio-active for human consumption.

Nuclear scientists had said repeatedly since the March Bikini H-bomb explosion that any dangerous flow of radio-active water through ocean currents was impossible, but they seemed to have overlooked the fact that radio-active fish might travel great distances. There were differences of opinion, however, between Japanese and non-Japanese nuclear scientists on the definition of "dangerously" radio-active.

Following an October debate by the French Oceania Territorial Assembly, a stay had been called on police plans to banish Chinese head-tax evaders to Mangareva. The original Gazette notice read like a new colonising enterprise, containing the names of bakers, mechanics, taxi drivers, labourers, employers of labour, etc. Curiously, there was no mention of the deportees being under arrest. They were merely informed that they must confine their residence to Mangareva and get there by the first maritime opportunity —and stay there until further notice. Once there, it seemed that they would be left entirely to their own devices.

In an editorial, RIM again that month supported the work of the South Pacific Commission and said that although the fact that its headquarters was in Noumea had its disadvantages there was also definite advantages—"such as the co-operation and goodwill of French high officialdom, which is very helpful", and "the accommodation provided by the huge wartime Pentagon could not be found anywhere else except at crippling cost." PIM added that it was important that the scope, character and effect of the work of the SPC be kept constantly and prominently before press and politicians.

When, 20 years ago, more Ellice Islanders joined their friends and families on Kioa Island, Fiji, there was criticism of their selection. Here, in more recent times, Kioa Islanders put on a dancing display. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

nnm MANA is a vehicle for Pacific Islands’ writers and artists to publish their work. It is an organ of the South Pacific Creative Arts Society and its editorial committee comprises writers from many islands.

Material for publication must be sent direct to MANA’s editor, Marjorie Crocombe, South Pacific Creative Arts Society, Box 5083, Suva.

All the writers in this special Creative Writers Workshop issue of MANA have published their work except Lavenia Kaurasi of Rotuma a student studying for a degree at the USP. She is one of the older Fiji teachers. Russall Soaba of Now Guinoa is alroady an established writer in his own country but he attended the workshop, the only participant from New Guinea. He writes, plays, short stories and poetry but lately he has been concentrating on short stories. Peni Tutu’ila Malupo is from Tonga; Teata Makirere from the Cook Islands; Till Peseta and Viggo Rasmussen from Western Samoa; Mildred Sope from the New Hebrides.

All the work except Soaba’s came out of the workshop.

Writers Workshop

By Marjorie Crocombe

The outstanding success of the Creative Writers Workshop which UNESCO and the University of the South Pacific sponsored at the USP in Suva from August 26 to September 6 was epitomised by the noted Tongan poet, composer and choreographer, Peni Tutu ila Malupo, who wrote the poem on the opposite page.

Peni’s poem was presented at an evening, well attended by an appreciative audience, at which members of the workshop served up a rich diversity of songs, drama, poetry and short stories, much of it written by the members during the workshop.

Items were presented in a number of the Pacific's many national languages, as well as in neo-Melanesian (or Pidgin) and in English. Eti Sa’aga referred to them as “voices crying out in love, anger, sorrow, hope and shame”. The Pacific has never seen such a concentrated flowering of latent writing talent.

Denigrated, inhibited and withdrawn during the colonial era, the Pacific people are again beginning to take confidence and express themselves in traditional forms of expression that remain part of a valued heritage, as well as in new forms and styles reflecting the changes within the continuity of the unique world of our Island cultures.

The expressive arts were given a great stimulus by the workshop.

Member after member spoke of the confidence and motivation, as well as the skills and techniques generated by the workshop. They spoke of plans to return to Samoa, Rarotonga, Tarawa, Tonga, the New Hebrides and elsewhere across the Pacific to carry forward and expand the initiatives begun at the workshop.

It rests with the individuals who attended the workshop to give his or her skills to those back home who did not have the opportunity to attend.

Why do we regard the workshop as such a success?

Firstly, because it gave people with the talents for writing, the opportunity to meet together with people of other Pacific cultures between which there are great affinities, though we have been separated by great distances as well as colonial boundaries.

Secondly, we appreciated the fact that our consultants were deeply attuned to the cultures of the Pacific.

Albert Wendt of Samoa is familiar also with several other cultures.

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, a noted New Zealand poet, shared a deep one-ness with us through his own Polynesian ancestry and his appreciation of the hunger of Islanders to express themselves again after a hundred years of humiliation and lacking confidence. Jo Nacola of Fiji helped us to create our drama in its natural setting. Bob Smith has been in the Islands for some time and has absorbed a deep appreciation and understanding through which he gave us valuable technical assistance.

Thirdly, the organisation was undertaken by a committee of Islanders. We appreciated the help we have received from others, but in too many international meetings in the Pacific the presence and pressures of foreign advisers and experts is often too overpowering, and Pacific 60 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

ourtesy demands that we defer to le suggestions of distinguished isitors, even when we desperately r ant to organise in our own way, to take our own arrangements, to etermine our own priorities.

INESCO generously left these mat- :rs to us and, despite the difficulties nd complexities of organisation over reat distances with limited commnication, we appreciate arrangelents being a matter for Island elegates.

Where do we go from here?

The experience we underwent was jo valuable to lose, too rich to be sstricted to the privileged few who 'ere fortunate enough to attend. We re greatly concerned that this excitig beginning will be fostered and eveloped.

Creative Arts Workshop Ko koe e Tauhi ’o e Ngoue Kakala Na’ake fu’ifu’i ’aki ha vai ma’a ’O tauhi ta’etuku kae’oua ke matala 7 he faha’ita’u momoko mo e mafana ’O tatau e faingofua mo e faingata’a Ngaahi ’akau kehekehe na’ake fakalanga Oke tatanaki pea ke fakatahataha 26.8.74 kuo ne matala. ’Oku matala faka’ofo’ofo kia au Tupu 7 he kehekehe hono ngaahi lanu Ko e langilangi ’o e Pule’anga ’Akau.

Ko ’email sosaiete kuo kamata ’Oku ou lata ai peau ’ofa ai 'Oku tonu ke tan ngaue fakataha Pea lava ai ke tanaki Ako ki hono founga fakalakalaka ’A e ngoue kakala ke matala fungani Pea tail toll a hono matala Ke tau kahoa pea foki ki ’ api You are the keeper of the flower garden Watering it with waters pure Forever nurturing it until it blooms; In summer, in winter In good times and in bad times.

Different types you transplant Little by little, gathering Collecting and then growing Finally blooming in 26.8.74.

This colourful sight My fancy it has captured Nature’s gift to the Plant Kingdom.

Our Workshop now begun I feel at home in it, I have grown to love it.

So together let us learn of ways To further enrich this luxuriant garden That we may, from it gather flowers To weave our garlands For the return home.

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell addressing the Writers Workshop Participants from 12 Pacific countries at the Regional Writers Workshop, USP, Suva. 61 ’ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER. 1974

Short story

The Next Resort

By Russell Soaba

A CESSNA circles, whines and almost flaps like a loose calico in the wind before touching down to perch at Tarakwaruru. Out of that foreign man-made bird steps a girl of about 18, short, light brown and wearing a pair of swollen cosmetic eye-lids that reminds one of the story of a restless ‘daughter of the soil’ brought up in towns. We watch her unconcernedly, the way we are watching the other passengers alight from the small plane. She does not matter much. She is just one of the many that come and go, anonymous.

Yet quite against our childish stares of interest the girl walks straight to us, clutching a Qantas travelling bag and a brown parcel. She eyes each one of us for a moment then without offering us a smile of greeting she says, “Are you small ones Anuki?”

“We are,” we return in unison after discovering that she speaks Anuki.

“Then I am glad to speak my own language again after a long time,” she says, this time smiling. Her cheeks are swollen, if not fat, and almost flush with the European powder she might have puffed them with this morning before her journey. “What are your names?” she then asks.

We read out our names in turns.

When I mention my first name the big girl just stares at me for some time as if I have said something wrong. She then bites her lips which are painted red.

“What is your father’s name, Septimus?” she asks me, without looking at me.

“Father Gabriel, my elder,” I answer her. In Anuki we always address those older than us our elders.

But with this girl I am forced by some unknown demand to do so.

“Ah?” she looks straight at my eyes.

“My father’s name is Father Gabriel, my elder,” I tell her again with care. “He is the priest of the station.”

The girl’s eyebrows are uplifted slightly, as if she is surprised by what 1 have just said. As she turns away I see an expression of woe, suffering, but mainly of pain, on her face. It is as if the mention of my father’s name hurts her feelings. We watch her walk off to collect the remainder of her belongings with the other passengers.

“Septimus!” the girl calls and beckons me after she has collected all her luggage. “Come and carry some of my things,” she orders in English.

There is a high-pitched croak in her voice as if a fire is burning her throat.

The other little boys and girls come and help us with the luggage and we walk to the station with the big girl leading. The Cessna behind us roars, moans and its wings carry it high into the air. It is going back to Port Moresby from where the girl has come. We walk on, seeing nothing but the isolation of Tarakwaruru.

THE station itself is dry almost throughout the year. Trees are stunted and thinned by the dry seasons, the banana and coconut leaves are stale, olive and remain torn by the dry winds while the surrounding hills, barely big enough to be hills, look rocky and uninviting.

The only grass patches that survivd between the rocks put on the colour of near-savannah and lifelessness and the black soil on which you stand just lightly hides a thick layer of coral and rocks. A hard drive of a digging stick into the earth will result in a stubborn ricochet and a raw peel of the skin of the palms.

Not many people who have gone to towns and cities ever come back to Tarakwaruru. Yet the station itself has produced many who had “struck the jackpot” ranging from mere carpenters to senior public servants and intellectuals. But in its isolation alone, Tarakwaruru becomes the next resort for the troubled-minded like this big girl who might have been running from one net of confusion to another perhaps during all her Laughter

By Ta Makirere

How often we think That laughter shows Joy.

A Joy in meeting A Joy in success A Joy in knowing That sorrow has Gone.

Yet we forget laughter— Which comes in strange coats.

A coat of scorn A coat of hate A coat of fear Or of arrogance.

Do we ever ponder The laughter we share Is it one of knowing That sorrow has gone Or one that shatters And friendship is gone.

The nuisance

By Ta Makirere

He sees me approaching Always seems to How I simply don’t know Outside the national bank Nubukalou bridge Along the water front Wherever he still sees me I hurry to keep An appointment with the teller The travel agent or watch maker But somehow out of nowhere He suddenly appears His hair ungroomed for days His coat so stained and dirty Baggy trousers hanging low Disguising his feeble form Eyes so piercing yet appealing “Is it some trick?” I wonder But when he holds his palm to me And in my path he stands “It’s no trick!” my mind echoes.

“Excuse me please?” he pleads With a voice that melts the heart.

“I have no bus fare with me To get me to my home”. 62 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

outh. She has spent most of her fe in the city, perhaps. Or perhaps he went to a high school in Aus- *alia thus making herself alien and ninteresting in our eyes.

My father sometimes tells me of is own fears about the youths rought up in a foreign soil. He fears ley have lost their beginnings, but ic never explains fully what he leans by that because he thinks I m still too young to understand.

Some day, Septimus,” he tells me, you will know of the torments of the ities.”

“Septimus?” a little girl who is bout my size and who helps me airy the big girl’s travelling bag calls ly name.

“Yes?”

“Who is the big girl?”

“I don’t know, Charlotte.”

“I think she must be your big ister,” suggests Charlotte.

“I don’t know. I have many relates who have gone to Port Moresby, ut I don’t know if they are my rothers or sisters. None of them irites to my father, Charlotte. They on’t even send pictures of themslves.”

“But I still think she looks like our big sister,” insists Charlotte, as : she has known any of my relatives have gone to towns even before tie was born! I look unbelievingly t Charlotte who grins, revealing two illk teeth that are missing. We call er window-teeth. Some day when 'e are big enough I shall marry her.

CHE big girl leads us into the station, and in front of one class- □om she turns and stares at me the 'ay she did at the airstrip. She picks ff a leaf that has just been warped y the sun and holds it to her nose, he then lets it go, shaking her head 'ith a melancholy look and letting er eyes follow the leaf until she is /atching the black soil.

“Septimus, where is the house of our father?” she asks the leaf that > lying indifferently between her feet.

We lead her to the Mission House.

Father Gabriel comes out of the Mission House and eyes the girl for very long time. Within moments lis face, that was once known to wear /rinkled passions of animation, now urns bitter, remote and becomes an xpression worn by dedicated reigious figures in moments of toraenting contemplation. He opens his aouth to speak to the girl but his ower lip just hangs and trembles /ith the profoundest of human motions that words cannot express.

“Ma-Mary?” Father Gabriel aanages to stammer. “Ar-are you _9”

“Yes, Dadi,” replies the girl, her back turned on us and her head bowed. “I have come back to you.”

“My daughter!” cries my old father, as he folds his little, halftubercular body round the big girl.

Continuous, successive jerks of sobbing come out from both my father and the big girl, until my father’s wailing is louder with his whistly gaspings which indicate that he is already suffering from phlegmatics.

We all stand still, stunned.

When the big girl turns away to stare at me, still sobbing uncontrollably, she becomes a little girl who is angered by some unknown enemy which she cannot conquer. She charges at me in a passionate fury out of a kind of love now forgotten, yet being gradually revived, and I find myself in her womanly busom.

“Septimus!” she shrieks in a weird tone. “Remember me? It’s me— Mary! Why—why don’t you recognise me!?”

During the girl’s and my father’s meanings as well as Charlotte and the other little ones’ quiet crying, I feel in my soul a certain inflow of consolation. There is tranquility and peace in the air that surrounds us, as I remain numb in the arms of my sister, my blood. Her belly is soft and warm, a bit swollen, and I know Mary is seated with a child, with a guilt. And that guilt forces her not to be sure if I love her or not.

Suva sun

By Ta Makirere

How temperamental you are How unpredictable You begin with a promise To run an even race But somewhere along your track With not so much as a wink To warn conditioned minds You close your eyes And sleep Behind weeping clouds At noon?

At two?

At three?

Or four?

Have you no way of warning ULUAGALI'I

By Tili Peseta

THE policeman walked into his house, took off his helmet and passed a weary hand across his brow.

He placed the helmet carefully on top of the food safe. Like the uniform he wore, he was proud of the helmet: a policeman was respectable, the uniform told the world that he was educated, a man knowledgeable about the ways of the papalagi.

He was going to sit down on the mats when he remembered that he had to be careful and not crease the uniform as he needed to wear it again the next day. He looked around for a lavalava to change into. He went to the square wooden box which served as a holdall for his clothes, and the house-linen. With one hand he rummaged through to find a lavalava.

“Where on earth has this lavalava got to. Why do I never seem to find anything that I want.” He put both hands in the box and started digging out the clothes from the bottom of the box.

“Curse this woman! Why is she never around when I need her.” The policeman spied a piece of flowery material among the jumbled clothes and with one pull the clothes above it tumbled onto the floor.

“Can’t this woman ever keep anything in the house where I can find it.” He picked up the fallen clothes and crammed them back into the box.

Then he slammed down the lid. It caught the top of his little finger and he swore. He gingerly sucked the little finger while changing into his lavalava. Then taking off his shirt, he flung both to land on a long piece of sinnet strung out across the span of two fale posts. He had forgotten to be mindful of creasing his uniform.

“Blast that woman. She is never here when I come home.” He sat down reaching out for the All which was under the foodsafe, laid down on his side and went to sleep.

AT the beach, about 500 yards from the shore, a dark object floated and bobbed up at intervals.

It moved slowly towards the beach.

Gradually the object could be distinguished as that of the head of a person. The head lifted from the water. The eyes behind the fishing goggles were a blur, the face burnt a coconut brown. The swimmer hit 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

shallow water and started to wade ashore.

Slowly a figure of a woman emerged. She wore a tattered shirt opened half-way down her chest and notched around her bulging middle.

This bulge was accentuated by a strmg Of fish tied around her stomach. The woman lifted something she was trailing in the water and slung it over her shoulder. It was a thick metal spear about three feet long and at one end, a purplish octopus hung with its tentacles drooping. The spear was pushed through the head of the octopus. With the goggles pushed up on her forehead, shanghai in one hand, and the other balancing the spear on her shoulder, the woman made her way towards the beach. A dirty brown lavalava reached half-way down her shins, As the woman sauntered along the path towards her house, a hunchedback old woman greeted her.

“Malo, Maaloa, L see that you had favourable fishing. Your man will be happy tonight.’

' Thank you, Tina. Here are some fish to roast on the charcoal for your meal tonight.” This was said while the woman untied the string and wrenched three fair-sized fishes free of the string.

“Bless you! May you always have good fishing.” The woman retied the string of fish around her stomach and continued up the path.

At the house, she untied the fish and left them on a large flat stone which formed part of the paepae of the fale. Then she walked to the cooking house at the back, picked up the axe, and started chopping firewood.

The sound of the falling axe splintered the sleeping man’s dreams and woke him up. He rubbed his eyes, and sat up in time to see her carrying the firewood to the fireplace.

The man got up and went to the cooking house. His wife turned around.

“Good sleeping, my husband. Now fill the big pot with some water, and cook the fish for our evening meal.

I’m going to the pool to bathe.”

The man squatted to light the fire.

More Poems From

The Workshop

Tahroro

By Lavenia Kaurasi

Tm often made to turn with shame Our indigenous sauce denied fair praise Taroro Bona wherever we go Meaning We the eaters Of a sauce of stinking odour.

But let me first explain Tahroro is the name Clean handling and practice Are essential for its make Selected, green coconuts are salted and fermented The water-tight cork, rolled from banana leaves Ensures the Tahroro fitness to eat.

On green smoked leaves This pink sauce is spread Between layers of fish or beef or chicken Whether baked or grilled The dish is praised By many VIPs inspecting our island.

My friends you forget The Kora on sale Its taste and smell Are very much the same If you must cut labels into people’s faces Why not Kora Bona for a change?

Tomorrow

By Viggo Rasmussen

tomorrow flowers will bloom to catch the sun but i will be gone slipping slowly thru' the melting dew glistening into another endless thought The rush

By Mildred Sope

The town was overflowing with people hurrying from all directions to all destinations.

The lunch hour rush I, among the crowd, trying to be invisible to any mates around. 64 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1974

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Books, Reviews, writers

A Warm Hearted Tonga Classic

Appears Again-But Twofold

I believe that in America Patricia .edyard’s first book was published nder the title of Tonga, A Tale of le Friendly Isles, but I knew the ook as Friendly Island, the title by 'hich the UK edition was published y Peter Davies in 1956. It turned ut that most people knew the book s Friendly Island—certainly all the eople that I met—because it soon ecame something of a classic.

It was a quiet classic. It was never dected as Book of the Month; as ir as I know it was not widely in the world’s newspapers; ut those who read it sold themselves Dmpletely to the charm of Vavau, ic Kingdom of Tonga’s northern roup, where resided in a small white ouse on the headland Patricia Ledard and her Scots husband Farquhar latheson, the government medical fficer, and where Patricia wrote >vingly and penetratingly about life i her village of ’Utulei.

She told of how as an American lissionary teacher she arrived in onga, fell in love with Tonga and arquhar at the same time and larried them both, and how the lathesons made their life among ic people. She told of weddings, f royal visits, of births (including ic birth of her own daughter), of a ;rrible hurricane, and of the small each school she started. It was a ook that captured the spirit of the bngan village, and all of us who ;ad it wanted to go to Tonga.

I went to Tonga in 1958, and in r avau of course I sought out the Lithor and Farquhar. They were as had expected—two people with omfortable hearts, contented, prouctive and at ease. They shared n underplayed sense of humour, Imost a droll humour. Patricia Ledard, Mrs Matheson, became one of IM’s widely distributed corresponents and her occasional pieces have ppeared in PIM over the years since.

Meanwhile, there were many Ganges in her household, including le death of Farquhar. (“The illage people quarrelled,” she recalls in a foreword to her new, soft cover edition of Friendly Island, “and out of my sorrow I loved them; for they quarrelled over whose part of the cemetery he would be buried in.

Our wise town officer opened up a new section for our household and there overlooking the harbour that he loved, he lies.”) There were many changes, too, in Tonga, including the death of Queen Salote, full independence for the kingdom, air services to replace the regular monthly call of the Tofua, and even a hotel on the point opposite ’Utulei ... a hotel with a fine name, Port of Refuge—the name that Maurelle, Spanish discoverer of Vavau, gave to the area.

Earlier this year Pacific Publications decided that Patricia Ledyard’s Friendly Island had been too long out of print, and that a new generation should share her view of Tongan life —hence the reprint of the book, with a new foreword by Pat.

The new edition happens to coincide with a new hard cover book by Pat, published by Robert Hale in London, called ’Utulei, My Tongan Home—which is a restating of her life there over the last 20 years, with some new chapters. It covers much of the same ground as her original classic.

So it happens that Ledyard fans can enjoy, in the one year, almost the one month, her original warmhearted story in a cheaper edition, and a new book. Most people will want both. I recommend them both.

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It also tells you how the government departments are organised, what they do and who runs them, but in this respect this self-government issue differs from the six previous editions which gave not only the name of the permanent secretary but the names of all the other personnel who held senior positions in the department.

But such have been the extraordinary and continuing changes in this last 12 months that editor Judy Tudor decided to retain only the names of the departmental heads, and list the senior positions in the departments and not the people who hold them, because to do otherwise was impossible.

Nevertheless, despite problems like this the seventh edition of the Papua New Guinea Handbook is remarkable for the accuracy of its information, which was still being updated in some sections only a month before publication. In any case, the publishers say in a foreword that they plan to produce an early revision of the handbook soon after independence and to update in more frequent, but smaller, editions from then on. In the meantime, they point out, they have done their best “to ensure that the information in this new edition is, at the time PNG approaches independent status, as up-to-date as it is possible for any handbook to get”. (PAPUA NEW GUINEA HANDBOOK.

Seventh edition. Published by Pacific Publications (Australia) Pty Ltd, GPO Box 3408, Sydney, $5.50.) Background to Norfolk Island The double centenary of the discovery of Norfolk Island by Captain Cook, celebrated on the island on October 10, has brought with it a rush of Norfolk Island literature.

But all are the sort of books and booklets which have a long life, and they are not some ephemeral get-richquick pot-boilers.

R. N. Dalkin’s Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island (Pacific Publications, $6) was reviewed in these columns last month, and is already selling steadily on the island.

Among the acknowledgements given by the author in that book was one to Merval Hoare, secretary of the Norfolk Island Historical Society which was founded by Mr Dalkin —and Mrs Hoare this month has her name on two books of her own. One is a newly revised edition of her Rambler’s Guide to Norfolk Island, which can now be said to be well established, and the other is an attractive booklet called The Discovery of Norfolk Island.

The Rambler’s Guide was first published in 1965, and the new edition is the fifth (the fourth was published in 1972). The guide is a potted illustrated history of that historic island, 900 miles north-east of Sydney, but with detailed chapters on just what to see, whether you ramble by foot or by hired vehicle.

Mrs Hoare seems to know the history of every road, every feature of the island, so her guide makes fascinating reading besides being a practical where-and-what-is-it. This new edition has newly drawn maps and a new full-colour cover.

The Discovery of Norfolk Island is only 24 pages, but most attractively presented in a booklet published by the Australian Government Publishing Service in Canberra. The illustrations include watercolour drawings and etchings connected with Cook’s explorations.

The book concentrates on Cook’s second voyage during which he discovered the island, and gives verbatim extracts of the discovery from Cook, from the expedition’s astronomer, William Wales, the expedition’s naturalists, Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George, and extracts from the log of Joseph Gilbert, the master, Charles Clarke, the second lieutenant, and extracts from the journal of Robert Cooper, the first lieutenant.

There is an index and select bibliography. The booklet is an attractive, small addition to Norfolkana.

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New Speedbird holidays The new Speedbird holiday programme just launched by British Airways for the period November 1, 1974 to March 31, 1975 gives a choice of add-on package holidays in Britain, Europe and North America at very competitive rates.

“London for You”, for example, includes 13 nights’ hotel accommodation with English breakfast, tickets for six popular shows, an Avis self-drive car free of rental for three days, sightseeing, entertainment, a London Countdown card giving discounts at many shops, stores and restaurants and a number of other advantages for only 5A90.00.

An innovation in one of the holidays in Britain is one week in London plus a second week of unlimited travel .throughout England, Wales and Scotland by express coach services. Accommodation and continental breakfast are included in the first week but not in the second as travellers can choose to stay wherever they wish.

A package which includes accommodation, two tickets to London theatres, the use of an Avis car for one day and a 10 per cent cash discount card to many restaurants, stores etc, is available for only 5A72.00.

If an eight-day British Rail pass is taken instead of the coach, the cost is SAB7.

“Europe for You” offers eight, 12 or 15 day coach tours of Europe starting at the low price of SAII3 for an itinerary which includes five capitals. All coach travel is during daytime.

America, too, is included in the programme. You plan as you go along and select accommodation at any of the 500 Holiday Inns throughout North America. For two persons sharing a room the cost is SAB each per day, or with self-drive car including unlimited mileage, SAM a day each.

Mi Sa Moce, Fiji!

British Airways will cease operating its VC 10 services from Melbourne and Sydney across the Pacific by way of Nadi and Honolulu to Los Angeles and on to New York and London from the end of March, 1975.

At the same time a new British Airways/Air New Zealand interchange service will be introduced providing daily services by DC 10 between Auckland and London.

A government statement announcing the British Airways withdrawal from the Pacific route issued simultaneously in London and Canberra said that the British Government had agreed that British Airways should cease operations on the South Pacific route between Australia and the USA to balance the withdrawal of Qantas services through North America and Mexico to London.

This meant that British Airways and Qantas would no longer be authorised to operate services between Britain and A ustralia on routes other than the Kangaroo route (via South East Asia and Hong Kong).

The statement said that arrangements negotiated by government delegations in April and July had created a new framework within which the long-standing commercial cooperation between British Airways and Qantas could continue successfully taking into account current conditions on international routes over which they operated.

The new DC 10 aircraft interchange agreement will provide a daily through one-aircraft service between Auckland and London. As far as Los Angeles the aircraft will be operated by Air New Zealand crews, but at Los Angeles it will be taken over by British Airways crews for the non-stop operation to London.

Flights will call at Honolulu or Papeete on their way to Los Angeles and Thursday’s flight will provide a oneaircraft service from Fiji to London. There are frequent connections at Auckland from Australian ports.

It will be the first time British Airways has operated a Los Angeles/London service with wide-bodied aircraft.

British Airways first started services across the Pacific in April 1967 with 707 jetliners. The change to VC 10s was made in April 1969 and in October of the same year Los A ngeles became the port-of-call on the west coast of A merica instead of San Francisco.

ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Clement Freud looks at soccer-fever in Britain, and suggests how intrepid tourists can enjoy a slice of British life by taking in a Saturday afternoon match during the current season.

Twenty million fans can’t be wrong FOOTBALL is known formally as ‘Association Football’—from which is derived the abbreviated name ‘Soccer’, a term used by people who acknowledge the existence of other games involving feet and balls.

To the average Briton the ball is round, the goal is rectangular, garnished with a net, a team consists of 11 men and the purpose of the exercise is for one team to propel the aforementioned ball into the other side’s goal more often than they themselves are subjected to a similar indignity.

You know roughly what it is all about . . . and any friendly department store will advise you on the sartorial requirements for participants. In order of importance these consist of shinguards, boots, trousers, with shirt and socks coming a joint fourth place—their main purpose being in the fields of decency and identification. In the heat of a match, it is often impossible to look carefully at a player and recall from his physiognomy whether it is an ally or an enemy; thus, a claret and purple shirt is most helpful . . . especially if the other team is adorned in totally different colours.

British professional football, however, is very much more than just a series of matches between opposing sides.

It is an industry involving clubs, some of whom have a turnover in excess of £1 million per annum.

It is a means whereby talented players rise from economic mediocrity to incomes three and four times that of the Prime Minister. It is a vehicle for several million soft core gamblers who weekly, by participation in football pools, can spend the hours between completion-of-coupon and announcement of results dreaming of wealth beyond the bounds of their imagination. The rewards for selecting eight games that have ended in a score draw, viz. I—l,1 —1, 2 —2, etc., has been known to exceed £500,000 for Ip.

There is also a flourishing knitted scarf industry, scarves being in the colours of different clubs, while itinerant football supporters guarantee the continuation of a peculiarly un-obscene brand of graffiti.

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Football in Britain, with all the ittendant publicity it receives on adio and television, is the most alked about sport, the most written bout sport, and, it is generally recoglised, the sport that most accurately epresents the people of the country.

Go into a hostelry and say ‘How re things going?’, and provided that lie question is asked between August ,nd early May, the question will be •resumed to refer to the fortunes of he local professional football club.

In the period between the wars, t was felt by sociologists that the ittle man who had led a tediously aonotonous life harnessed himself □ his weekly 90 minutes of glamour ►y supporting his team and basking a the reflected glory—if any. What 5 certain is that a prosperous team aeans a great deal to the comaercial well-being of a town, which 5 why Burnley, with a population >f 74,000 and a First Division team, aeans much more to the people of mgland than, say Bradford, which •as 300,000 and a team in the Fourth Division.

But football in Britain is even aore than just a game of skill, an xcuse for cheap week-end travel, a aeans of turning Ip into a fortune iid a star on to which you can lang your humdrum life.

By identifying with the club of our home town, men and women •f Britain can have weekly moments •f joy and misery . . . and in several ases, history has been changed adically as a result of the game, 'or instance, in 1970, when England /ent to Mexico to defend the World mp they won in 1966, Mr Wilson’s jovernment wooed the national team nd players with Downing Street •arties prior to departure, messages •f encouragement in the preliminary ounds . . . and when England were nocked out of the competition by West Germany, in front of a home TV audience exceeding 20,000,000, the national feeling of misery was generally felt to have caused Labours defeat at the polls a week later.

This blind and continued support for the team of one’s first patronage is a strange phenomenon. The manager has long since retired to run a tobacconist or sports equipment shop near the ground. The players are scattered and forgotten, the ground has been rebuilt and the club colours changed when, after an inevitable cash crisis, a new chairman took over and his wife decided that green and white might look nicer than the discredited orange and black.

But come hell or high water, the old age pensioners still talk about ‘our team’ . . . and when the results are announced at 5 pm on a Saturday, victory for their erstwhile heroes (alas, all dead) still calls for celebration.

Naturally, the game has changed significantly as more money and more skill became available for training and management. The stars of my youth had bullet heads with which they transferred a fierce ball crossed from the wing into the back of the net with not so much as a late night headache to show for it. Other stars had amazingly strong left or right foot shots and they distinguished themselves mostly by idiosyncrasies of dress—like long shorts or heavily brilliantined hair.

Until the mid 19505, footballers were on a maximum wage which compared with junior schoolmasters and, from a social point of view, professional football got no one anywhere.

Today, the stars of football negotiate their contracts, some of them through agents. They drive large cars, endorse clothes, hair tonics and beer, are seen in the best night clubs and attend smart dinner parties. Even on the field of play, where their elders would solemnly shake the hand of a man who has scored a goal, these young lions jump upon the scorer and smother him with kisses, embraces and 1 know not what.

And yet, while so many of the trimmings of the game have changed, much of the intrinsic character has remained. If you are a masochist, you still go and watch Chelsea . . . a side of great talent with an uncanny way of losing against bad teams, beating the good ones.

At Bolton, they play it as hard today as they did when they had defenders with legs like oak trees whose second or third kick was actually directed at the ball. At Aston Villa, Birmingham, they get huge crowds out of all proportion to the allure of the game, and at Ipswich, where the games are skilful and the team succeeds more often than it fails, the crowds are small.

If there is change it has come in cities with two first class teams . . . like Manchester, where United ruled supreme for the twenty post-war years . . . only to sink into the Second Division this spring, leaving Manchester City to represent Mancunian honour. While the world will watch the results of Manchester City, the supporters of United will remain loyal ... at least for the next five years.

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In December the peak period, the carrier will offer 21/180 days return fare to London of $859.20. This will decrease to $802.20 on January 1, against a normal economy return fare of $1,489.60 Since its introduction in 1971, the 45/180 days economy excursion fare has been popular for visiting relations and friends in the UK.

The new validity period is subject to Government approval. 75 British airways PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

supporter, the Kop at Liverpool’s Anfield Road ground would be the place to go. A huge mass of swaying, chanting humanity singing with the pitch of a church choir; shouting advice with the heavy wit of cockney taxi drivers.

What they do in Liverpool, they do very very well. During the football season, from late August to early May, there is an immense choice of soccer matches being played all over the country on a Saturday afternoon.

At this time of the year, and again at the end of the season, there are also a number of midweek matches.

Some cities like Manchester and Glasgow have more than one professional side and in London there are 11 clubs playing top class football.

The difficulty for the uninitiated is to know which game to choose.

An indispensable handbook as to who’s who among the teams is the Playfair Football Annual. This lists the clubs, and the addresses of their grounds, tells you which belong to the Ist Division of the Football League, in other words which clubs have had the greatest success in the previous year, who their players are, which teams they are playing throughout the season and the nearest railway station to the ground.

Local newspapers too are useful for information on forthcoming fixtures and the fortunes of the local sides.

Tickets are normally available only from the Club direct, although in London there are theatre ticket agencies who hold tickets for some games. The only type of ticket you can buy in advance is for the Stand, which in fact entitles you to a seat.

These are sold initially by post from the ground, two or three weeks before the match, and any that are left are sold on the day. If you are prepared to stand —normally without cover —for the 90 minute duration of the game, then you simply pay to enter the ground. Price of admission does vary but for a League game this will usually be about 50 p. A seat is from £l.

Winners next month The editor is sorry that names and addresses of winners and the essay that won our recent competition were not available in time to be published in this issue. They will, however, be published in the December edition.

Coming Events In Britain

Some highlights of the next few months November 3 RAC Veteran Car Run London/Brighton, Sussex (provisional). 7 International Caravan & Camping Show Earls Court, London to 16 November. 9 Lord Mayor's Procession & Show Guildhall to Royal Courts of Justice, London. 10 Queen's University Festival in and around Queen's University, Belfast to 23 November. 10 Remembrance Service Westminster Abbey, London. 11 Tennis: Dewar Cup Royal Albert Hall, London to 16 November. 16 Rugby Football; Ulster v New Zealand Ravenhill, Belfast. 25 Churchill Exhibition "Churchill the Writer" Kings Library gallery, British Library, British Museum, London to January. 30 National Cat Club Championship Show Olympia, London.

December 2 Royal Smithfield & Agricultural Machinery Exhibition Earls Court, London to 6 December. 4 Richmond Championship Dog Show Olympia, London and 5 December. 4 Soccer: Oxford v Cambridge Wembley, London. 11 Rugby Football; Oxford v Cambridge Twickenham, London. 16 D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Sadler's Wells Theatre, London to 22 March. 18 Dunhill International Show Jumping Championships Olympia, London to 21 December.

January, 1975 European Architectural Heritage Year Throughout Europe January to December. 1 International Racing Car Show Olympia, London to 11 January. 1 International Boat Show Earls Court, London to 11 January. 1 Camping, Outdoor Life & Travel Exhibition Olympia, London to 12 January. 4 The Holiday '75 Show Olympia, London to 12 January. 4 International Racing & Sporting Motorcycle Show Horticultural Halls, London to 11 January.

February 1 Rugby: Scotland v Ireland (Union) Murrayfield, Edinburgh. 1 Rugby: England v France (Union) Twickenham, Middlesex. 7 Cruft's Dog Show Olympia, London and 8 February. 14 English Folk Dance & Song Society Festival Royal Albert Hall, London and 15 February. 15 Rugby: Wales v England (Union) Cardiff.

March 1 Rugby: Scotland v Wales (Union) Murrayfield, Edinburgh. 1 Soccer League Cup Final Wembley, London (provisional). 4 Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia, London to 29 March. 12 Soccer: England v West Germany (venue not yet fixed) (provisional). 15 Rugby: England v Scotland (Union) Twickenham, Middlesex. 15 Rugby Football; Wales v Ireland (Union) Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff.

May 3 Soccer: F.A. Cup Final Wembley, London. 21 Chelsea Flower Show Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London to 23 May (provisional). 23 Bath Festival Bath, Somerset to 1 June. 28 Bath & West Show Show Site, Shepton Mallet, Somerset to 31 May. 28 Golf: Walker Cup St. Andrews, Fife and 29 May.

June 11 Grosvenor House Antiques Fair Grosvenor House, London to 21 June. 17 Royal Highland Agricultural Show Ingliston, Edinburgh to 20 June (provisional). M , J 27 Royal National Rose Society Summer Show Royal Horticultural Society Halls, London and 28 June.

July 9 Open Golf Championship Carnoustie, Angus to 12 July. 16 Royal Tournament Earls Court, London to 2 August. 76 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974 r>..., . pacific jet British airways news

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Pacific Transport

Fewer Carriers To Cross Pacific

British Airways will disappear from transpacific flights by the end of March, 1975. In its place it las a unique arrangement with Air New Zealand, which will allow passengers to fly from Auckland d London without changing aircraft. Five carriers will remain on routes from Australia or New Zeamd to the US and Canada—Qantas, Air New Zealand, PAA, UTA and CP Air.

British Airways’ withdrawal is part f a changing pattern of air transport i and across the Pacific. Earlier this jar American Airlines and Air-India ithdrew from Pacific services bemse they were not profitable. Qantas irvices across the Pacific now end at m Francisco—they have eliminated ieir flights across the US to London, id thus ceased to be a round-theorld carrier, using their own aircraft id crews.

The change to British Airways jcurred because Britain and Australia ive concluded an air services agreeent which came into force on ctober 1. To balance the withdrawal : Qantas services through the US id Mexico to London, the British overnment agreed that British Airays services on the South Pacific jute should be withdrawn at the end March, 1975. This is expected to duce excess capacity on the South icific, as British Airways offers about )0 seats a week.

However, a move by PAA to inease the number of services from the S west coast to Australia from ree to six a week, will probably Fset the reduction in capacity. There also a very remote possibility that merican Airlines could come back the South Pacific.

The deal under which American irlines was to swap its Pacific rvices with PAA for PAA’s routes Bermuda and the Caribbean may )t now go through. A US Civil eronautics Board administrative dge. Judge William H. Dapper, has commended disapproval of the agreeent. He called it a very good agreeent for American, but a very bad :al for PAA. PAA had financial oblems, and approval of the agreeent would exacerbate them. There e two further steps before the deal approved or vetoed—it has to go the Civil Aeronautics Board itself, id President Ford.

Mr Albert V. Casey, chairman and esident of American Airlines, said : did not see how PAA’s financial state could be improved in any way if American Airlines reinstated competition on South Pacific routes.

British Airways, under its arrangement with Air New Zealand, will take over Air NZ’s DClOs at Los Angeles and fly them to London and back, using its own crews. This service will be an extension of the daily Air NZ Auckland-Los Angeles services, five of which are via Honolulu and two via Papeete. One of the services via Honolulu puts down at Nadi, and it is expected that this arrangement will continue.

British Overseas Airways Corporation, which later joined with British European Airways to form British -sny oj 90IAJ9S n paqounnj ‘sAn/vuiy tralia from London, via the US and the South Pacific in 1967, using Boeing 7075. British Airways will continue to fly into Australia, via South-East Asia.

Air Pacific is expanding its regional services. A second service from Tonga to Auckland is a probability.

The Fiji-Auckland weekly service, via Nukualofa, designed mainly to help illegal Tonga immigrants in NZ to get home, is running almost at capacity, and now it is expected a second service will be in operation by November.

Tonga is understood to be negotiating for some form of reciprocation, including a claim for promotional fares, inclusion of Tongan air hostesses in air crews, and training of Tongans as air crew and ground staff.

Air Pacific is also planning to introduce a Brisbane-Noumea-Fiji-Tonga service, which would bring French Fijian boat builder, Keni Vakacegu, leading boat building apprentice at the Derrick Technical Institute, Suva, proudly shows a fibreglass model to head tutor, Mr Peter Peal, and fellow students at the Auckland Technical Institute. Keni has spent months at the institute as winner of the 1974 PGH Overseas Training Award.

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These new services, just before the rrival of the first two of four Trisander aircraft, and a loan equivalent FI million from Australia, have elped to give a lift to the airline’s respects. It now has rights for 12 lonths at Pago Pago and Majuro, Ithough no announcement has yet een made when it will take these up.

Tie US Civil Aeronautics Board limitd the rights to 12 months so that at le end of a year it could review the •wnership of Air Pacific. The US could ress for a shareholding for PAA in iir Pacific, a move suggested some me ago and welcomed by the Fiji rime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese fara.

There has been a change in the lanagement of Air Pacific. Mr Stanley »uigg has been appointed general lanager in place of Mr Chris Ritchie, [e acted as general manager from .ugust when Mr Ritchie returned to .ustralia on medical advice. Mr itchie will resume duties with Qantas, om which he was seconded, when he jeovers. He was in Fiji as manager f Fiji Airways (now Air Pacific) om 1959 to 1965.

Low Progress On

He Law Of The Sea

Governments will have to consider ow to reach general agreement on II elements on a package deal on iws for the seas before the next ;ssion of the Law of the Sea Con- :rence.

As the next session, the third of le third United Nations conference ti the law of the sea, is scheduled • start in Geneva on March 17. )75, governments do not have uch time to reconcile many concting views. The second session of e third conference was held at aracas in June and July.

PNG has said it will pay close tention to developments to protect MG’s interests.

Papua New Guinea’s views are milar to those of Indonesia and Fiji, at the physical and political area an archipelago should be everying within a dotted line drawn und its most outlying islands, islets reefs. Micronesia is after an exusive economic zone extending 200 iles beyond dotted line boundaries. 5 views were put at Caracas by e US which, however, does not :cessarily agree with Micronesia’s ews.

Japan, which depends so much on e sea for a big part of its food, tiich it secures from the Pacific, ants reasonable proportions maintained about the outer limits of an archipelago. While there is plenty of “free” ocean in the Pacific, there are also plenty of fishing grounds inside the 200 miles of outer limits of dotted lines drawn round archipelagoes.

Sir Albert Henry, for the Cook Islands, asked the last meeting of the conference to give special attention to the Pacific, which was economically poor. If minerals were discovered in the seabed of small countries, and could be extracted, those countries should receive some of the benefits. He had in mind (naturally) the recent discovery of manganese nodules in the seabed round the Cook Islands, Britain’s view, a typical British compromise, is that the area under the sovereignty of an archipelago should be limited to a maximum of five times its total land surface.

The Caracas session was attended by 130 countries. Fifty new countries, which did not take part in the preparatory work, were negotiating on law of the sea issues for the first time, and this made progress slow.

Progress can be expected to continue being slow on such an important set of issues,

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The Micronesian Princess, the first new ship specially built for the Micronesian inter-island service, arrived at Saipan on her delivery voyage in September.

The Micronesian Princess, 1,300 tons, is 242 ft long, and is capable of a top speed of 15 knots. There is deck capacity for more than 100 passengers, and cabin accommodation for 12. The ship can also carry 36 20 ft containers. The crew of 12 is under Captain John Ongrung, of Palau. The ship is the first of eight to be delivered over the next few years.

Air charters for Norfolk A new charter air service, linking Brisbane with Norfolk Island, was launched in September by Air Norfolk using an Aero-Commander turbo-prop aircraft. Mr Charles Herman, an executive of the airline, said the aircraft would carry six passengers. Flying time is two, and three-quarter hours. 81 VCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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Concrete Proposals

Soon For Regional

SHIPPING?

It s now several years since a South Pacific regional shipping line was first mooted seriously and it hasn’t yet got to sea. But when the South Pacific Forum holds its next meeting at Nukualofa in July, 1975, it will probably have before it concrete proposals for getting a shipping line into operation.

The eight South Pacific Forum countries who met at Nukualofa late in August (PIM, Oct, p 83), agreed that Suva would be the best place to set up the headquarters of a shipping corporation. In addition to its central position, it had the necessary communications and banking facilities.

The director of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC), Mahe Tupouniua, said an investigation showed that a regional shipping line in the South Pacific would have shown total freight savings of at least $F3.7 million on the 1973 freight rates. For too long services in the South Pacific had been owned and operated from outside the region. Problems such as unsuitable ships, wrong union attitudes and an imbalance of trade all contributed in varying degrees to the overall difficult situation.

Sou* Tacific Regional° “hipping Council with President Hammer Deßoburt of Nauru as first ™n TTte meedns also set ud an Xsory boa“hh Mr Bob Dods ptu Secretarv for Transnort and chaiS ' SPEC w j|i provide secretarial services for the council The advisory board will make a detailed proposal about the corporat ion for consideration by the next mee ting of the council, in Suva, in April or May, 1975. As a short-term objective the council will organise the shipping line on a pooling basis. The various nations agreed that was the best arrangement till the corporation was financially strong enough to buy its own ships.

The Australian delegation advised that Australia would provide up to $50,000 towards the cost of consultants for the shipping venture in the coming year.

Forum countries represented at the meeting were New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, the Cook Islands and Western Samoa. The GEIC sent an observer.

Hold-Up For Fiji'S

Uluilakeba Replacement

The Tabu Soro, bought in Norway by the Fiji Government to replace the Uluilakeba in the Lau service, is P rovin S more expensive than plan- “d - Parliame "' n expenditure of $305,457 for the ship, Sf, pdce f °f *187,742, *60,000 for delivery, fuel an( * s P ecia l fittings for the voyage, $lO - 000 f ° r insurance and travelling expenses for two officials, *32,000 for a l teratlons in Fiji and $14,546 fo^ on t in p n 9 ies - The Tabu Soro ran into expensive trouble soon after leaving Norway on . the delivery voyage. A fuel pump feded and the engine broke down, Jh. e shi P P ut int 9 P 9F t ? f . S P ain ’

Trinidad, for repairs. She left there °. n dul y | 7 and arnved at Panama SIX days later.

There were still problems with the engine, including cooling trouble, and more work was necessary. About mid-September, the Tabu Soro was on sea trials at Balboa to ensure she was fit enough to cover the remaining 6,500 miles, The extra money involved in the trouble will be at least $35,000.

The Tabu Soro is unlikely to go 82 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —NOVEMBER, 1974

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Contact; C. IRWIN, GENERAL DELIVERY, LAUTOKA, FIJI. ito service before 1975, and in the leantime is missing out on lucrative □pra cargoes.

The government intends to take sgal action to recover the extra toney spent on repairs to the Tabu oro during its delivery voyage on re grounds that the ship was surged and certified fit for her voyage, he Assistant Minister for Roads and larine Transport, Mr Ted Beddoes, rid in Parliament in reply to a queson that the ship was inspected by ic Fiji Director of Marine in March, id was reported suitable.

It was agreed to buy it, subject to passing a special survey for classi- ;ation under rules of Det Norse eritas (the Norwegian equivalent of loyds), and any recommendations ere to be complied with by the vners. To ensure it was properly luipped and capable of making the mg delivery voyage, Det Norse eritas was asked to make a further irvey. The Harbour Master, Suva, ho was in Britain on leave, accepted divery of the ship in Oslo in April i behalf of the government. The >ecial survey had been completed id certificates issued. Afterwards, ie Harbour Master, while still in ritain, resigned from the Fiji Civil irvice.

Luge Transpac

Uit For Damages

Transpacific Lines Inc (Transpac), ie former shipping line which served ie US Trust Territory and which now in receivership, is again the ibject of a massive court action, ormer shareholders in the line have ied a suit against the TT Governicnt for SUS3I million, plus punive damages of SUSIO million, aimed as defendants are the High ommissioner, Mr Edward E. ihnston, the Attorney-General, Mr ichard I. Miyamoto, and the transit consultant, Mr Wayne C. hiessen.

The plaintiffs allege that Messrs ihnston, Miyamoto and Thiessen ded oppressively and maliciously i interfering with their contract ghts. The 24 plaintiffs include eorge C. Kiskaddon, former head : MILI (Transpac’s predecessor), ie Yap Shipping Co-op Association id Micronesian citizens, Pedro . Guerrero, Manuel D. Muna, arlos A. Shoda, Segundo Sablan, id Herculano Kohler.

The latest suit followed an earlier :tion in the US Court of Claims, hich was dismissed for lack of risdiction. In that suit, 16 Transpac lareholders sought recovery of lancial losses from the US, alleging that their private property was taken for public use by the US.

The plaintiffs allege that the Trust Territory did not live up to a contract, negotiated in August, 1968, with Micronesia Interocean Line Inc (MILI), which subsequently became Transpac. They claimed the TT Government was to furnish reasonable port facilities and did not, causing financial loss to them.

“The TT engaged in management practices causing a terminal financial crisis and destruction of Transpac, making the performance of the contract impossible”, they said.

They also alleged that the actions of those placed in operational control of Transpac contributed to the financial and operational destruction of Transpac, causing the company to be put in receivership. They based the $3l million claim on past and future earnings of Transpac which, they argued, would have resulted but for the actions of the defendants.

New Hebrides Tightens

Rescue Procedures

The New Hebrides condominium, appalled at the cost of search-rescue operations, in some cases unnecessary, are to lay down conditions under which they will be launched.

This action was sparked by a search for a launch, said to be missing, with seven people. Aircraft of Air Melanesiae and Air Pacific, merchant and naval ships, were diverted to look for the launch. It transpired that the launch had not put to sea.

A committee is now considering a search and rescue instruction, after which firm new procedures are expected to be introduced. In the meantime, the administration will not divert ships and aircraft for -a search unless there is a good reason to believe a vessel is overdue. Anyone anxious about a vessel has first to find out whether it set out in the first place, whether it may have anchored on the way, and be certain it has not turned up elsewhere. No full air/sea search will be launched until those three conditions have been met.

PNG Defence Force naval officer, Lieutenant Sevese Peter Raepa, pictured in Melbourne in September during an Australian-sponsored training course for Search and Rescue Co-ordinators directed by Mr Max Miles (left), and attended by men from many countries. 83 fcCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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Murdoch who left Milford Haven, Wales, in his yacht six years ago. He called at Malta, where he stayed for one year before visiting Spain, Morocco and the Canary Islands. He stayed at Grenada, West Indies, for four years, then left the Panama Canal and sailed direct to the Marquesas. Mr Murdoch is bound out of Rarotonga to Russell, NZ. • LA PAZ, 35 ft sloop registered at Morro Bay, California, arrived at Rarotonga after a very rough passage from Papeete with owner-skipper Leland H.

Richey and his wife, Shirley, on September 6. From Morro Bay they had called at Mexican ports, Costa Rica, the Marquesas and Tahiti. They left Rarotonga on September 18 with plans to call at New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea.

They are returning to California, but were undecided about what other ports to call at between the Coral Sea and Hawaii. • NATHALIE, 36 ft Swiss sloop registered at Basilea, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on September 11 with owner-captain William Ischer, Bernard Boudin and Jean Pierre Deruwe. Their cruise started from France two years ago and took them to Caribbean ports, Colombia, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands and French Polynesia. Nathalie left Rarotonga on September 14 for Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia and with plans to complete a circumnavigation. • MAREDEA, 60 ft American yawl registered at Wilmington, Del., arrived at Rarotonga on September 20 from Papeete with co-owners Dan Leahy, Christine Rooney and Bill Wilson. Also on board were two crew, Vic Culina and Jacques Shelly. Mr Shelly is French, the rest Americans. Maredea once belonged to the US Naval Academy which used her for racing. The present cruise, which her co-owners hope will be a circumnavigation, started from New York on Novem- 84 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1974

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Mans were to call at Tonga then stay in slew Zealand for the hurricane season. • WHITE HORSE OF KENT, 38 ft :etch, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete >n September 8 with British single-hander 'olin Ushar, who is New Zealand-bound.

Ar Ushar built the yacht in Capetown md sailed in December, 1971, to Rio de aneiro, then to the Caribbean where he pent a year. He gave the Galapagos a niss as the yacht has engine, but ailed at the Marquesas. • LEZARDER, 32 ft American cutter, rrived at Rarotonga on August 31 from ahitl and Bora Bora with owner-captain Mark S. Anthony and crew Mary Anne ohnston, Patricia Buxton and Gunther Mrchner. Plans were to call at Aitutaki, ’almerston and Niue Islands. • STARBOUND, 47 ft ketch, arrived at uva in September from Pago Pago after ruising from Annapolis, Maryland, Trough the West Indies and a number f island groups to the east of Fiji. She ; owned by George G. Stuermer, of luntington Beach, California. • VELA, 40 ft cutter, went aground n a reef just off Makaluva Island, Fiji, n September 19, when about to enter uva Harbour. She had arrived from ago Pago carrying owner, Charles /ilcox, and three members of his smily. Divers inspected the yacht before decision was made about salvage. • Among other arrivals at Suva in eptember were TOPAZ, 79 ft schooner, ■om Pago Pago; PUFFIN, 27 ft cutter, nd DOVE, 33 ft sloop, both from Tonga nd on the way to NZ; and JAGA. • MATANGI, 36 ft sloop, arrived at ago Pago in September from Auckland, ia the Cook Islands, carrying ownerdipper, Mr A. L. Cantwell, of Auckland, is wife, Jennifer, and son, John. • ORCA, 39 ft sloop, skippered by /illiam J. Truscott, South Pasadena, alifornia, arrived in Pago Pago in Sep- ?mber. Since leaving Newport Beach, alifornia, in September, 1972, Orca has ailed at Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji and New ealand. • STOERTEBEKER, 39 ft sloop, flying Te flag of West Germany, was a recent rrival at Pago Pago. She is under the ommand of Heiko Koeter, of Polderwag. he crew includes Eckard Brunjes and oslyn Boote. The sloop left Bremerhaven i August, 1973, and visited Dover, Vadeira, Las Palmas, Barbados, Panama nd Tahiti. 85 ’ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1974

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P.O. Box 38, Apia ansa FIAT OF AUSTRALIA PTV. LTD. • ELLA, 32 ft cutter, owned and skippered by Walter Poitevent, of Honolulu, was a recent arrival at Pago Pago.

She left Honolulu in March, 1974, and visited the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Society and Cook Islands before Pago Pago. The Ella crew includes Beth Church, of San Francisco, and Don Murray, of Winnipeg. • LEIF THE LUCKY, 34 ft sloop, arrived recently at Pago Pago, and will make its home there. The master, Leif V. Gustafson, sailed her from "somewhere in the Western Pacific" to take up a position in American Samoa. He declined to say where he started from, but said he made calls at Truk, Ponape and N'auru on the way. • FRI, the nuclear protest yacht, which was towed out of the test zone in 1973 by the French authorities, recently sailed into Papeete from NZ, carrying 12,000 antibomb protest cards from all countries bordering the Pacific. After leaving Tahiti the Fri will sail to Fiji and the Marshall Islands. • Among yachts in Honiara in September were MYONIE, 36 ft ketch, and SEEKER, 30 ft fibreglass yacht. Myonie, with owners Al and Helen Gehrmon, from Florida, USA, is on her third circumnavigation. The Solomons is familiar to Al— he was in Guadalcanal in 1943 with the US "Sea Bees". Myonie left New Zealand in May, with stops at Fiji, Canton (Phoenix Islands), Funafuti (Ellice Islands).

Seeker, with single-hander Jim Kennedy, of Los Angeles, USA, is bound for Kusaie and Ponape in the US Trust Territory. • Last news we had of WANDERER IV, with Susan and Eric Hiscock, on their way back to England from New Zealand and Sydney, was that they had safely arrived in Darwin. • SEVEN SEAS, 33 ft sloop, with owners Hans and Bridgette Wolf-Sternig from West Berlin, arrived in Port Moresby on its way to Europe via Suez. They intend having a working stopover for a while. © PLUNCH, 33 ft sloop from Hamburg, arrived in Port Moresby in September from Suva and Noumea. On board were owner Gunter Hermann and crew member Dittmar Viohle, who hope to work in Moresby. • NOELNAI, built in Port Moresby of ferro-cement by well-known couple Graham and Noela Byrnes, departed Moresby in September for Samarai, Lae and Madang on the start of their Indonesian cruise. • MAR-Y-PAZ, 60 ft ketch built by Alan Orams in New Zealand for Kermit and Delores Wall, reached Port Moresby after starting in the Auckland-Suva yacht race and continuing through New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. They intend cruising to Bali and eventually Hong Kong. ® Other recent visitors to Port Moresby were KRANICH, 40 ft Piver trimaran, with Eckard and Vera Luedthe and their three children, en route to Germany, and DULCINEA, 37 ft sloop, which arrived from Pago Pago and left mid-September for Bali and Singapore. Crew includes Californian Judy Erickson. • JINDIVIK, 33 ft Australian trimaran, was badly damaged and later overturned and sank in heavy seas recently off the southern Papua coast. Three men on board, owner Adrian Vandernilt, Cliff Shugg and Paul Carney, set out from Townsville. Heavy seas ripped off the port float; about two days later the trimaran overturned. The three men managed to salvage a life raft on which they drifted to the Papua coast. They stumbled ashore near the mouth of the Purari River. • CURLEW, an 81 ft schooner, arrived in American Samoa in September from Apia. The wood-hulled craft was built in Maine and is owned by Francis C.

Romen, of Santa Monica, California, who plans an indefinite stay in American Samoa. • IE MOANA, 50 ft ketch owned by George A. Perry, of Wilmington, Delaware, returned to American Samoa in August after a visit to Western Samoa.

Previous ports of call included Panama, Tahiti and Cook Islands.

Transport Briefs

• The NZ Government “banana boat”, the Moana Roa, which made 145 voyages out of Auckland in the last 14 years, has been handed over to the Royal NZ Navy, and will become a survey ship. She sailed 580,000 miles in those 14 years, plying mainly to the Cook Islands, but as a commercial proposition she was a disaster.

Captain Fraser, the master, and the chief engineer, Mr W. H.

Maidens, served with the ship since it was built. • A new shipping service linking Fiji with Singapore was begun in September. The ship, Liverpool Clipper, chartered for the service by Ben Shipping (Pte) Ltd, Singapore, from the Portland Shipping Co of Glasgow, will carry general and refrigerated cargo. The service will operate once a month. Fiji agent is Seatians (Fiji) Ltd. 86 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Howto Own A Luxury Sport Coupe

.A; :: To be perfectly honest there never was anything to stop a family man from driving the luxury sport coupe he always wanted. Provided, of course, that he was prepared to make certain sacrifices, like leaving his family behind.

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Look inside and you’ll see abeautifully designed dashboard with a full complement of instruments, comfortable padded seats, thick carpets, and all the trimmings that the Italians are famous for. But look again, and you’ll see something else: nothing. And a lot of it.

In other words there’s enough room for four people. And by that we mean room to stretch, yawn and scratch for four six foot men.

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The Fiat 124 Sport Coupe contains every feature you’ll find in any luxury sport coupe near its price. That is of course, if you can find a luxury sport coupe anywhere near its price.

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Business and Development

Ar Somare Gilds His Image With

The Bougainville Brochure

From GUS SMALES, in Port Moresby fhe Papua New Guinea Chief nister, Mr Somare, used an extralinary document in October to lounce the terms of a newly- ;otiated agreement on the Bounville Island copper mine, fhere’s little doubt that had he n announcing the same informai 12 months ago the presentation □ld have been altogether different.

Somare then was a sort of ional idol, secure in the knowledge t he rarely had to justify his ions and that his undisputed ionalism was in the interests of country. Such an announcement months ago would have been lightforward, factual and in low despite its obvious national imtance.

Jut 12 months of wear and tear a new-nation government can ke a wealth of difference.

"he result was that the statement led on the Bougainville terms of cement emerged as a sort of bal colour brochure selling the acity, astuteness, infallibility and mright perfection of the Somare ilition brand of nationalism. The □al terms of the agreement •eared to have been put into the cment as a mere appendage.

Lven the Government Information ice which handled the statement cribed it to journalists as “an wer to statements from new itical groups”. The new political ups preach a loud-voiced “A black >ua New Guinea for black mans and New Guineans” policy ich is becoming increasingly lionable.

"hey are a fairly far cry from pragmatic sort of nationalism ch has generally emerged from Somare’s establishment. But they creating an emotionalism which put Mr Somare into a new situai. le is feeling the reaction of the V atmosphere of nationalism which was largely responsible for creatin the first place. le is being forced to sell himself dly against the increasing clamour of groups which see themselves as more nationalist than the government. The Bougainville statement, with its big plug for the national strength of the government, was an obvious part of this reaction. Mr Somare is out to prove every opportunity that he and his followers can stand up to the world.

His basic political outlook today is neither more radical nor more conservative than it ever was, but it is the circumstances surrounding him that have changed. No longer is he the central figure of nationalism, and there is a natural psychological reaction as well as a political one to prove his sufficiency.

His experience in government has shown him that the shouting of Third-World slogans is no substitute for plain hard work, but he is finding he has to answer the sloganshouters on their own ground.

Before the new terms were announced, Mr Somare accused Bougainville Copper Ltd of a “back door” approach to achieve what it wants in PNG.

But Papua New Guinea, and Papua New Guinea alone, would dictate the terms of foreign investment inside its borders, he said.

Mr Somare was commenting on the company’s attempt during the negotiations to get the Australian Government to lend $230,000,000 to PNG. The proposed loan, which Australia refused to provide, was to allow PNG to buy a controlling interest in the big Bougainville mine.

Mr Somare had steadfastly refused to comment on the final round of talks, but he broke his silence in a broadcast from the PNG National Broadcasting Commission, commenting on reports of the approach which Bougainville Copper had made to the Australian Government.

His remarks suggested that PNG itself had not been aware of what was going on, although this is not borne out in other statements from Australia. There is every indication that Australia acted in close liaison with PNG.

Mr Somare’s comments made it abundantly clear however that his government was not at all anxious to have to buy a major share in the mine. All it wanted was a bigger slice of the earnings.

The Chief Minister said, “I suppose the company approached Australia because they thought Papua New Guinea was still some little colony that Australia looked after, I suppose the company thought that Australia could influence the decision of my ministry, but that is not so.”

Here are the detailed terms of the settlement: • The company will pay tax from Air fares up At least four Pacific airlines increased their fares in September. Rising fuel costs, higher wages bills, maintenance and associated airline costs were blamed.

Air Melanesiae lifted domestic fares by 4.5 per cent. Polynesian Airlines lifted fares by 12 per cent. Air Niugini added an average 10 per cent to domestic passenger, freight and charter rates. Air Pacific raised fares and cargo charges on internal routes by 13.5 per cent.

In defending the increases for Air Niugini, PNG’s Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr lambakey Okuk, explained that international airline fares and freight rates had increased on August 1 and further rises were predicted to come into effect around November 1. This would result in increases of 20 per cent in international tariffs in nine months, he said. Further, Air Pacific had increased fare and freight rates by 10 per cent in July and was seeking further rises, while the Australian domestic tariffs rose by an average of 12 per cent in August. 89 2IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER. 1974

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Mr Somare said he considered the points gained by his government in the negotiations had won “a tremendous improvement”. He said the negotiations had been carried out against a background of recognition that foreign interests must not dominate the economic affairs of PNG.

It’s hard to escape the conviction, too, that the newly-arising political groups have nothing to offer above what Mr Somare’s government has already offered.

The groups are largely composed of men very similar in outlook and background to Michael Somare, although some perhaps a bit younger.

Many of them if they had started early enough could now be in exactly the same position as he is.

But he beat them to the start, and now they are trying to catch up by claiming a “stronger” breed of nationalism. It’s a last-minute sprint for the second prize, with the unvoiced hope that the first prize could be available if the leader stumbles.

The talks which led to the newlyannounced settlement began in April.

Mr Somare had at first been reluctant to make any move which might frighten away future overseas investment, but as the pressures of nationalism mounted at home he pushed for a renegotiation of the agreement.

This became possible on a government basis after PNG achieved selfgovernment in December last year.

Samoan trust estates under fire From FELISE VA’A in Apia Western Samoa’s Public Accounts Committee accused the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation administration of “incompetency, misadministration and corruption” in a report submitted to the Western Samoa Parliament.

The fault was mainly with regard to debts owing to the corporation by commercial firms, private persons and government departments of $86,025.30 at February 28 this year, and by the corporation’s board members and staff of $81,263.19 for the same period, a total of $167,288.49.

Comparative debt figures for previous years were: $209,047 (1973)* $122,772 (1972); $117,074 (1971) and $55,671 (1970).

The Controller and Chief Auditor, Mr T. Overhoff, alleged in the report the deteriorating situation was due to the action of the general manager, Tupuola Nuuausala, “permitting the corporation’s funds to be used illegally for his own purpose up to a sum of $21,862.”

The report alleged that most of this sum was used by Tupuola to finance the construction of a number of boarding houses.

In an interview with the Samoa Times, Tupuola denied there was anything illegal in his use of WSTEC funds because the funds were openly debited to his account.

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The extent of borrowing is one thing. The declining profit margin is another. Occurring together, they prompted the Public Accounts Committee to recommend “that government immediately make drastic changes in the membership of the board of directors and executive staff in management of WSTEC”.

The profitability of the corporation during 1970 and 1971 averaged 5.35 per cent. Total funds used averaged about $2.5 million.

However, the corporation’s profitability in 1972 declined drastically to a mere 0.5 per cent “representing a net profit (excluding soap factory) of only $14,963 derived from the employment of funds and capital of over $2.5 million,” the report said.

“With the inclusion of soap factory profits of $34,808 (utilising funds and capital worth $100,000), the overall profitability of the corporation in 1972 was only 1.9 per cent on the employment of funds and capital of over $2.6 million.”

Profits declined in copra exports by $5,294 in 1972 compared with $71,206 in 1971 and there was a $41,518 loss in cocoa exports in 1972.

A drop of over 50 per cent was recorded in the profitability of the corporation’s engineering shop.

Biggest headache was the sharp decline in the profits from copra and cattle. These constituted a substantial section of the corporation’s activities, contributing in 1969 48 per cent of the net profit earned but declining to an average of 38.5 per cent for 1970 and 1971. By 1972 the profit margin had been reduced to 16 per cent.

The Public Accounts Committee expressed its concern at the “overkilling” of WSTEC cattle. This overkilling had negated the natural increase of the herd estimated at 20 per cent per annum.

Overkilling had become so bad that by 1973 there were only 7,513 cattle in the WSTEC herd, compared with 11,280 in 1955.

The committee alleged that the administration of WSTEC lease land was most inefficient; rentals were not paid in advance as required, no action was taken when rentals were due for review and re-assessment, little or ineffective effort was made to collect outstanding rents.

After the report was tabled in Parliament, the government asked Tupuola to retire, which he refused to do, saying that the government was bound to retain him under contract.

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Fhe government did force him out the convenient method of having i Head of State make an order ternating his services.

In the meantime, Tupai Lee is ing general manager, and, accord- ; to reliable sources, several teams outside experts are studying ways improving WSTEC’s services. lauruan public srvants unhappy Fhe Nauruan Workers Organisation which the republic’s public servants ong has protested to President mmer Deßoburt about the delay implementing the Kelly Report on irgin of Skills which was designed improve the sliding scale of salaries, [n a letter to President Deßoburt, NWO complains that the Cabinet > taken no action although the >ort was submitted nearly a year ), and that the Cabinet has appointa commission to consider salary reases for ministers and MPs ile the question of the NWO’s ges structure revision remains in :yance. ‘We view this lengthy inactivity with at concern and we can only say t any further delay does not help morale of Nauruan public vants,” states the letter which is ned by Allan Thoma, NWO’s )uty chairman, Deiye, the retary, and Christmas Bam, the asurer. fhe letter adds, “It is not fair nor litable to your people especially to ise who rightly should benefit from > report to delay this matter then” orfolk companies n tax charges >ix companies registered in Norfolk md were fined in the Special leral Court in Sydney on October for having failed to lodge income returns between 1970 and 1973. lilar charges against 18 other npanies were adjourned to Novber 21 on the application of their msel, who said the returns had n lodged. It had been said the returns were not in order, and the firms wanted to put them in order.

The firms dealt with were Hartley Miltons Ltd (three charges), Pangona Ltd (four charges); Pangona Consultants Ltd (two charges); Anne Gould (Holdings) Ltd (two charges); R. W. Gould (Distributing) Pty Ltd (two charges); and Ula Ltd (two charges). In each case a fine of $4O was imposed, plus $6 costs.

Mr G. Smythe, SM, said the 1901 Income Tax Assessment Act, as amended, applied to Norfolk Island.

He ordered the companies to file returns on or before November 11.

Mr D. P. Wall, who appeared for the Commissioner of Taxation, said when the cases were before the court in September, the companies had formed a complex tax avoidance scheme “involving millions of dollars”.

Receiver for New Guinea tea growers Mount Hagen Tea Growers’ Pty Ltd, which is facing a number of financial problems, in September invited a receiver-manager to take over.

Dr John Guise, PNG Agriculture Minister, said the tea industry was of considerable value to the development of the country. It earned more than $2.5 million in export income, and employed a work force of 5,000 to 7,000 in an area where there was little alternative employment, except coffee. Mount Hagen Tea Growers employed 1,000 people and processed tea grown by about 100 smallholders.

Dr Guise said he hoped the appointment of a receiver would enable the company’s plantation and factory to continue to grow and process tea.

Mixed feelings on dollar devaluation Devaluation of the Australian and NZ dollars by 12 per cent on September 25 was warmly welcomed in the Islands—at first news because it immediately reduced import prices.

But later there was disappointment when it was learned that some Australian manufacturers had slapped a 12 per cent increase on the price of their goods.

However, Fiji expects a big reduction in its import bill as Australia and NZ provide about 50 per cent of imports.

A spokesman for the W. R, Carpenter group in Fiji said that his company, because of prices increases in Australian and New Zealand goods when those countries revalued their currencies, turned to the US, 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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Generally, it was a low-profile performance by the three parties, pointing up two anxieties—not to upset the French, and to combat the fast-growing influence of the New Hebrides National Party.

But the two aims are counterproductive. The parties can only keep the French sweet by playing down the issue of independence and talking in terms of a long transition period—yet the National Party’s simple, emotive platform of “Independence Now” is the one which has clearly won widespread popular support.

The apparent unification of Na Griamel, UCNH and MANH could yet turn out to be an “unholy trinity”—especially with the unpredictable Jimmy Stevens in its midst. Jimmy’s capacity for creating problems for the two Residencies is already legendary, but the opportunities for troublerousing in a French-influenced political movement are enormous.

And the wary French know it, However, they need his movements’ support as a counter to the National Party.

The National Party’s weekend rally, held at the British Paddock in Vila, attracted a crowd of more than 800 and appeared to demonstrate the depth of the party’s strength, Their speakers, including party president Father Walter Lini, said nothing new ... the nationalist’s aims have already been stated explicitly. They doggedly pushed the independence theme, claiming that the time for New Hebrideans to take over the reins was now, not some time in the nebulous future. The National Party stuck to its timetable of independence by 1977—at the latest!

Moderates within the party hope that the Resident Commissioners will return from the London talks with concrete proposals for a Legislative Assembly, a body with real power. This, they say, will help keep the lid on the simmering frustrations of the New Hebridean people, But nothing will sway the party from its independence objective, “Freedom is our target,” says the party’s general secretary Barak Sope, “and the Residencies had better understand the message.”

Canada, Britain and Europe for cheaper goods. But the devaluations might make it worthwhile to switch back to Australian and New Zealand suppliers.

Freight rates, where they are quoted in Australia and New Zealand dollars, will be cheaper for all island groups, except Papua New Guinea. The Australian rates to PNG will be unchanged, while NZ rates may go up a little.

Fiji firm and workers join forces Mainline Constructions (Fiji) Ltd suspended work on the Coral Gardens Hotel at Korolevu, Fiji, when the developer, Coral Gardens Hotel Ltd, was unable to pay $400,000 in progress claims. Then, workers on the hotel site decided to stage a “sit in” till they received wages due to them, after which they and Mainline Constructions joined forces and formed a joint committee to administer the occupation.

Mainline Constructions (Fiji) is jointly owned by Carpenters and the Mainline Corporation of Australia, the latter in receivership. Mainline Corporation is the majority shareholder in Coral Gardens Hotel Ltd. 94 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —NOVEMBER, 1974 On the razor's edge Continued from p 9

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Sydney - Nz - Fiji/Tahiti - Uk

Chandris Lines maintains a twice-monthly passenger service from Sydney via NZ, Suva or Papeete.

Details from Chandris Lines, 135 King Street, Sydney (28-2451).

Sydney - Lord Howe Is - Norfolk Is

Somacal operates 25-day service from Sydney to Lord Howe and Norfolk Is.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301).

Chargeurs Caledoniens operates three-weekly cargo service Sydney-Norfolk Island-Noumea.

Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - HAWAII -

Canada - Us

P and 0 liners call at Auckland, Suva and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and the US.

Derails from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - TONGA - VILA -

Noumea - Samoas - Tahiti

Shaw Savill liners cruise in the Pacific sailing from Australia and New Zealand calling at Suva, Lautoka, Tonga, Vila, Noumea, Pago Pago, Tahiti, Apia, Vavau.

Details: Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St, Sydney (232-3844).

Sitmar Cruises operates a South Pacific cruise programme to include most of the above ports plus the Solomons.

Details from Sitmar Line (Australia) Pty Ltd, 22-30 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4521).

Royal Viking Line, with luxury cruise ships Royal Viking Sea, Star and Sky, cruises the Pacific from Sydney, calling at most of the above ports plus Port Moresby and Rarotonga.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty Ltd. 13-15 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0517).

P & 0 liners Oronsay, Oriana and Arcadia call at Suva, Honiara, Pago Pago, Auckland, Vila, Noumea, Honolulu, Nukualofa, Vavau, Savusavu, Jakarta and Bali regularly on cruises from Australia.

Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).

Australia - New Caledonia

Sofrana-Unilines operates a fortnightly service from Sydney to Noumea.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).

AUSTRALIA - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides

Sofrana-Unilines' ships call regularly at Sydney, Noumea and Vila.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031) and Burns Philp and Co Ltd, 340 Collins Street, Melbourne (67-8941).

Polynesie maintains three-weekly passenger sailings—Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.

Details from Omni Traders & Brokers Pty Limited, 261 George Street, Sydney (241-2872/6).

Australia ■ Fiji

Sofrana-Unilines operates Sydney-Fiji every 28 days.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).

Nauru Pacific Line operates cargo/passenger service to Fiji and South Pacific ports.

Details from Nauru Pacific Line, 227 Collins Street, Melbourne (654-4977); Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522); Dalgety Shipping, 291 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane (31-0331).

Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd operates three weekly cargo services from Sydney for Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301.; Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke St, Melbourne (600731); Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Australia - Tahiti

South Pacific United Lines has three vessels, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Krohn Trader, maintaining six weekly service Sydney/Papeete.

Details from Omni Traders & Brokers Prv Limited, 261 George Street, Sydney (241-2872/6).

Australia - Png

Containers Pacific Express (Burns Philp and AWP Line) operates four-weekly cargo service from Melbourne (direct) with MV Nimos and Sydney and Brisbane to Lae and Port Moresby with MV Tenos.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (241-3816).

Australia - Png • Bsip

New Guinea Australia Line's vessels operate from Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Honiara. Kieta, Gizo, Madang and Samarai.

Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).

New Guinea Express Lines with two ships operates three-weekly Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul.

Details from New Guinea Express Lines, 37 Pitt St, Sydney (241-1396) and 72 Eagle St, Brisbane (21-9333), Westralian Farmers Transport Pty Ltd, 459 Collins St, Melbourne (35-4366), Breckwoldt's Shipping Agencies in Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul.

Karlander New Guinea Line's two cargo vessels call at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kimbe.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301); Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke St, Melbourne (600731).

AUSTRALIA - MARSHALL ISLANDS - GUAM Nauru Pacific Line operates monthly conventional/container service Melbourne/Sydney to New Guinea, Guam and Micronesia.

Details from Nauru Pacific Line, 227 Collins Street, Melbourne (654-4977); Interocean Swire. 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).

Australia - Png - Far East

E. and A. Line passenger ships make monthly round voyages from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane calling at Port Moresby, Manila, Hong Kong, Keelung, Kobe, Yokohama (Tokyo), and Rabaul.

Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).

Far East - Fiji - New Zealand

New Zealand Unit Express (CNC, MOL, RIL) operates a three-weekly cargo service from Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva, NZ ports, Manila, Kaoshiung, Keelung, Hong Kong.

Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).

Royal Interocean Lines operates monthly passenger/cargo service with three ships from NZ to Bangkok, Pt Kelanq, Singapore, Djakarta to Fiji (alt. months) and NZ.

Details from Interocean Australia Services, 261 George Street, Sydney (2-0573), Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd. Suva and Lautoka.

Ben Shipping Pty Ltd, with Liverpool Clipper, operates monthly cargo service between Singapore and Suva.

Details from Seatrans (Fiji) Ltd.

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China Navigation Co's vessels operate i regular carao service from Hong Kong te Rabaul. Wewak, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby, Honiara. New neondes, Noumea, Papeete and bamoa.

Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).

North Europe - New Caledonia

Hamburg/Sued operates monthly carge services from Dunkirk and Le Havre to Noumea, via Panama.

Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (29-2101).

Messageries Maritimes operates five carge services a month from north and Mediterranean European ports to Papeete and Noumea.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 332 Pitt Street, Sydney (61-6664).

JAPAN - GUAM - FIJI - SAMOA -

N Caledonia • N Hebrides

Daiwa Line runs a monthly cargo service from Japan via Guam to Suva, Lautoka, Pago Pago, Apia, Vila, Santo and Noumea.

Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva.

New Zealand - Cook Is

Lorena, owned by NZ Shipping Corporation, operates three-weekly freight service between Auckland and Rarotonga with occasional calls at Aitutaki and Lyttleton.

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Pacific Navigation Co Ltd operates a monthly irgo service between Nukualofa, Apia, Suva id Lautoka to Sydney.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 itt St, Sydney (27-6301).

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOAS - TAHITI Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand lerates a fully containerised service Auckland, Onehunga, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia and jkualofa every 14 days.

A service is operated Auckland, or Onehunga, utoka, Suva, Auckland approximately every fo weeks.

A 28-day service is operated from Auckland Papeete.

Details from any office of the Union Steam ip Co, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Auckland.

Nz - Norfolk

USS Co vessels operate 26-day cargo service ickland, Suva, Norfolk Is, Auckland.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co of NZ J, PO Box 12, Auckland.

NZ - N CALEDONIA - N HEBRIDES - FIJI • WALLIS IS - NG - BSIP Sofrana Unilines with four ships operates Vila and Santo,- to Honiara and New inea; and to Noumea.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 42 Customs eet, Auckland (73-279), P.O. Box 3614 ex: NZ 2313.

NZ - FIJI - US Crusader cargo ships call at Suva, Levuka and nolulu on NZ-US west coast trips and at ra and/or Lautoka on US-NZ southbound ».

Mails from Blue Sta<r Port Lines (Managent) Ltd, P.O. Box 192 Wellington (70179).

NZ - FIJI ■ijian Swift and M.V. La Bonita operate a ular 18 day service from Auckland to Suva I Lautoka.

Mails from Reef Shipping Agencies Ltd '■ 315 ' Onehunga, NZ. (Phone 663-

Uk - Panama - Samoa - Fiji

rhe Fiji Direct Service, cargo only, is mainled by Conference vessels, sailing at regular ithly intervals out of London, via Panama Apia, Suva and Lautoka.

Mails from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva.

K - PNG • BSIP - GEIC - N HEBRIDES - N CALEDONIA >ank Line operates a monthly direct cargo rice from Europe, via the Panama Canal to fete, Noumea, major PNG ports and lara, occasionally to Tarawa, Vila, Santo Jayapura and Yandina.

Mails from Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd 'ork St, Sydney (27-2041).

Us - Samoa - Australia

acific Far East Line operates a three weekly ghter service from Pacific coast ports to o Pago, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and bane, returning via Auckland, Pago Pago Pacific northwest ports, Vancouver, San Ted) 00 anC * *"° S n 9 e * es- (No passengers Ma_iU from PFEL, 50 Young Street, Sydney

Us - Sydney - Geic - Honolulu

olumbus Lines operates a three weekly lamer cargo sailing from West Coast, US to Australasia, returning via Tarawa, GEIC and Honolulu to Nth America.

Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (29-2101).

Us ■ Fiji/Tahiti - Australia

Bank Line Ltd operate regular cargo 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, 1 York St, Sydney (27-204).

Pacific Far East Line cruise ships operate regularly from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Moorea, Papeete, Rarotonga, Auckland, Opua, Sydney, and return via Suva, Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolulu to San Francisco.

Freight is carried on these passenger liners.

Details from PFEL, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272).

Us - Tahiti - Samoa

Pacific Islands Transport operates a five/six weekly cargo service from North American west coast ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty Ltd, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2441).

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Sydney - Fiji ■ Tahiti - Mexico

Qantas, with 7075, operates twice weekly out of Sydney to Mexico City via Nadi, Papeete and Acapulco.

Sydney - Fiji - Tahiti - Canada

Qantas, with 7075, operates once weekly out of Sydney.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii - Canada

CP Air, with DCS, operates twice weekly services out of Sydney.

SYDNEY - NZ ■ HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClO's operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Honolulu three times weekly.

PanAm operates two 707 freighter services weekly from Sydney to San Francisco via Auckland and Honolulu.

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI - US Air-NZ, with DClOs, operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Tahiti twice weekly.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii - Us

Qantas operates four times weekly and return between Sydney and San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu with 74785; 707 s operate three times weekly and return to San Francisco via Honolulu. Additional 707 service Sydney/Nadi Tues and Sat and return.

British Airways with VClOs, operates from Melbourne and Sydney to Los Angeles and return five times a week.

SYDNEY - US (via NOUMEA, FIJI, NZ or TAHITI) UTA operates out of Sydney on Thu, Sat and Sun, return on Sat and Sun.

SYDNEY - US (via N CAL, FIJI, HAWAII) PanAm, with 7475, arrives Sydney from Los Angeles, via Honolulu and Nadi three times weekly and leaves on return flight the same days.

PanAm, with 707 s operates four days a week return trans-Pacific service out of Sydney to Los Angeles, via Noumea and Honolulu.

Mon, Wed, Fri flights to Australia go to Melbourne and return to Sydney the same day.

Melbourne - Fiji • Us

Qantas with 707 s and 747 s operates Melbourne/San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu three times weekly.

Melbourne - Nz - Hawaii - Us

Air-NZ, with DClOs, operates weekly from Melbourne to Los Angeles via Auckland and Honolulu and return to Sydney.

NZ - FIJI - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClO's, operates weekly from Auckland to Los Angeles, via Fiji and Hawaii and return.

Nz - Am Samoa ■ Tahiti Or

Hawaii - Us

PanAm, with 707 s operates out of Auckland via Tahiti three times weekly, and twice via American Samoa. Out of American Samoa, PanAm operates to the States three times weekly and out of Tahiti to the States four times weekly.

Australia-Far East

Sydney - Png - Far East

Qantas operates a weekly 707 service from Brisbane to Hong Kong and return, and a weekly service from Hong Kong to Port Moresby and return.

Pacific-Far East

Nauru ■ Micronesia - Japan

Air Nauru operates a service Nauru-Ponape- Guam-Okinawa-Kagoshima and return with a Fokker F2B jet twice weekly.

Details: Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 227 Collins St, Melbourne.

Japan - Tahiti - Peru

Air-France, with 7075, operates twice weekly Tokyo-Lima via Papeete, and return.

Australia-Pacific Islands

(For other schedules touching these islands see trans-Pacific services.) MELBOURNE - NOUMEA - HONIARA -

Nauru - Tarawa And Majuro

Air Nauru operates a twice-weekly service, Melbourne-Brisbane-Noumea-Honiara-Nauru and return, using a Fokker F2B let. Extra services are operated twice weekly to Majuro and fortnightly to Tarawa and return.

Details: Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 227 Collins St, Melbourne.

Brisbane • Fiji

Qantas operates a 707 direct from Brisbane to Fiji on Sat and Fiji to Brisbane on Sun.

Air Pacific with BACI-lls operates weekly from Suva via Nadi, Vila and Honiara to Brisbane on Wednesdays, returning to Suva on Thursdays via Honiara, Vila and Nadi.

Sydney ■ Lord Howe Is

Airlines of NSW, with Riley Heron, operates 97 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

V m

Caiwa Line

Direct Regular Service

Japan-South Pacific

Tarawa-Papeete-Pago Pago-Apia

Suva-Lautoka-Noumea-Vila

Santo-Honiara

Japan-Guam-Taiwan

Japan-Guam-Keelung By

Excellent Car/Container-Carrier

Japan-West Irian-Dili

Hong Kong-Tai Wan-West Irian-Dili

AGENTS: GUAM: ATKINS, KROLL (GUAM) LTD.

TARAWA: G. & E. I. DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

APIA: BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO., LTD.

PAGO PAGO: KNEUBUHL MARITIME SERVICES CORP.

NUKUALOFA: PACIFIC NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

SUVA: BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO., LTD.

LAUTOKA: BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO., LTD.

Noumea: Agence Maritime Et Aerienne

CALEDONIENNE.

SANTO: BURNS PHILP (NEW HEBRIDES) LTD.

VILA: BURNS PHILP (NEW HEBRIDES) LTD.

HONIARA: BRITISH SOLOMONS TRADING CO., LTD.

PAPEETE: AGENCE MARITIME DE FARA UTE.

HONG KONG: IKE MARITIME CO., LTD.

SINGAPORE: THE BORNEO CO., (SINGAPORE) LTD.

DJAJAPURA: P. N. PELAJARAN NASIONAL INDONESIA.

Dili: Sang Tai Hoo

Taiwan: For Cargo Between Japan/Guam/Taiwan

FORMOSA SHIPPING & ENTERPRISE CORP.

Taiwan: For Cargo Between Japan/South Pacific/

West Irian/Dili

MARITIME TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES, LTD.

THE DAIWA NAVIGATION CO.# LTD.

Osaka: “Dailine" Tokyo: “Funedailine"

Head Office Tokyo Office

NO. 25-1, 4-CHOME MINAMIKYUTARO- NO. 20. 3-CHOME KANDA-NISHIKI-

Machi, Higashi-Ku, Osaka Cho Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo

TEL; OSAKA (244) 1281-9 TEL; TOKYO (292) 2441-5 four times a week from Mascot, Sydney, to Lord Howe, using new airstrip.

Sydney - New Caledonia

Qantas and UTA operate Sydney to Noumea four times weekly and return.

Australia - New Zealand

British Airways with VClOs, operates weekly Brisbane to Auckland and return, and a weekly service Melbourne to Auckland and return.

Australia - Nz - Am Samoa ■

HAWAII PanAm, with 7075, operates two flights weekly, one from Sydney and one from Melbourne, to Auckland, Pago Pago and Honolulu and return.

Sydney - Norfolk Is

Qantas, with DC4s, operates three times weekly. More in holiday periods.

Australia - Png

TAA and Ansett, with 727 s each operate 7 times a week from Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne to Pt Moresby.

On Tues, Thurs, Fri, TAA Fokkers fly Townsville, Cairns, Port Moresby and return same day to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Ansett, with Fokker, operates Cairns, Port Moresby, Cairns, Townsville, Sun and Wed.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS. (See also trans-Padfic services.)

Nz - Am Samoa

PanAm, with 7075, operates from Auckland to Pago Pago and return twice weekly.

Air-NZ with DCBs operates a direct flight twice weekly to Pago Pago and return.

NZ - FIJI Air-NZ operates a daily service to Nadi and return.

NZ - FIJI - COOK IS - TAHITI Air-NZ DCS leaves Auckland Tuesdays for Nadi, Rarotonga, Papeete, returning over same route, arriving Auckland Wednesday.

Nz - Tahiti

UTA, with DCB-62, operates from Auckland and return twice weekly.

Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates twice weekly from Auckland and return.

Nz - New Caledonia

UTA operates weekly from Noumea on Fri and return on Wed.

Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Auckland- Noumea on Sunday and returns the same day.

New Zealand - Cook Is

Air-NZ DCS leaves Auckland Sundays for Rarotonga and return Sat.

Nz ■ Norfolk Is

Air-NZ, operates to Norfolk Is every Thurs and Sun and returns Wed and Sat.

Auckland - Sydney ■ Singapore

Air-NZ DCIO leaves Auckland via Sydney for Singapore twice weekly and returns same days.

Auckland ■ Sydney - Hong Kong

Air-NZ operates to Hong Kong from Auckland via Sydney twice weekly. Return service operates same day via Brisbane.

Nadi - Rarotonga

Air-NZ operates from Nadi to Rarotonga every Wednesday, and returns Tuesday.

Inter - Territory Services

Fiji - Tahiti - Easter Is - Chile

LAN-Chile, with 7075, operates from Santjago to Papeete Sun via Easter Island and Santiago to Fiji Thurs. Return flights Fiji to Santiago Sat and Papeete to Santiago via Easter Island Sun. 98 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

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 ☆ US- GULF/AUSTRALASIA VESSELS CALL AT FIJI WHEN REQUIRED / \liU FOR PARTICULARS APPLY: TH£ BANK LINE (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD., SYDNEY, N.S.W. , n ... F ' JI • GEIC Air Pacific, with BAG 1-1 Is, operates from Suva to Tarawa via Nadi on alternate Fridays, returning to Nadi the same day. Also operated with 7485, from Suva to Tarawa via Nadi and Funafuti on alternate Wednesdays and returning same route on alternate Thursdays. The 748 service also extends to Nauru.

Geic ■ Nauru

Air Pacific and Air Nauru each operate fortlightly between Nauru and Tarawa. ........ ... ~u aii

Nauru - Marshall Is

Air Nauru makes a twice-weekly flight Nauru- Maiuro and return with a Fokker F2B jet.

Details: Air Nauru, 227 Collins St, Melbourne.

Nauru ■ Western Samoa

Air Nauru operates a weekly flight Nauru- Vpia with return the next day.

Fiji ■ Western Samoa

a- c j ajviUA Air Pacific, with 7485, operates one service i week from Suva to Apia, returning the same lay. This flight crosses the International datein S-, ....

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates SJrn ‘ ’° P,S

Papua New Guinea - Singapore

Qentes using 7075, operates once weekly rom Port Moresby to Singapore via Darwin and eturn - FIJI - N HEBRIDES - BSIP -

P Moresby - Brisbane

Air Pacific, with BAG 1-1 Is, operates from uva on Sun and Wed, via Nadi to Vila and omara, the Sunday service extending to Port loresby, returning Monday same route. The (ed service extends to Brisbane, returning hurs. Flights depart Honiara Mon and Thurs >r SU u* ft P , aC , i [ iC als - operates from Nadi C termmator t 0 Vlla on Fn ° etUm - FIJI - TONGA - NZ Air Pacific with BAG 1-1 Is operates from Suva to Nukualofa on Mon, Tues, Wed and Sat, the Sat service extending to Auckland returning same day to Suva via Tonga and Nadi. .

Fiji - Wallis/Futuna

Fiji Air Service operates charter services to Wallis and Futuna Is.

Details: Fiji Air Services, P.O. Box 1259, Suva (22-666). '

Hawaii - Am Samoa - Tahiti

PanAm, with 7075, operates from Honolulu to Paqo Paqo three times weeklv to Tahiti direct twice weekly. PanAm, with 707 s Honolulu San" Francisco via Pago Pago and* Honolulu weeklv Paneete Ss op P e a r 9 a ° te vTi Honoll and c Pa9 ° Pago week| V and to Papeete from s an Francisco via Los Angeles four times weekly.

Hawaii - Micronesia

Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates from Honolulu two times weekly via Johnston, S a J' in ' Maiuro - Pona|,e - Truk ' Guam saipan ‘

F:Ew Caledonia - Fiji

UTA operates out of Noumea to Nadi and return twice weekly.

New Caledonia ■ New Hebrides

UTA ' with Caravelles, operates five return services a week, out of Noumea to Vila.

New Cal - Wallis Is - New Cal

UTA, with Caravelles, operates on the first, second and fourth Sat of each month from Noumea.

Wallis Is - Futuna Is

UTA, with a Britten Norman Islander, operates .°. ut of Wallis t 0 Futuna and return twice week| V-

New Guinea • Irian/Java

Air Niugini operates DC3s Madang via Wewak to Jayapura and return Jayapura to Madang alt. lues.

Png - Solomons

Air Pacific, with BAC 1-11, operates Sundays Honiara to Port Moresby and return Mondays.

Air Niugini operates to Honiara from Rabaul via Kieta and return on Sat, and from Port Moresby on Thurs, returning Fri. These services are under licence from Qantas.

Tahiti - Us

UTA, with DCIO and DCS operates from Papeete four times weekly.

Pan Am with 7075, operates regular return services to San Francisco, via Los Angeles; to San Francisco, via Honolulu; and to San Francisco, via Pago Pago and Honolulu.

Western Samoa - Tonga

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates three services weekly from Apia to Tonga and return.

W Samoa - Am Samoa

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates between Apia and Pago Pago 22 times weekly and return.

Tonga - Am Samoa

Polynesian Airlines with 7485, operates three services weekly from Tonga to Pago Pago and return.

Tonga - Niue - W Samoa

Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates a weekly service from Tonga to Apia via Niue.

Tahiti - Cook Is

Air Tahiti with Piper Aztec, operates charter service from Papeete to Rarotonga.

Details from Air Polynesia, P.O. Box 314, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, and UTA offices.

LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S —Sandefjord, Norway.

Motor Vessel "Thorsisle"

Regular Freight and Passenger Services between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and TAHITI and SAMOA GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 400 California Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (Sooth Sea) Compa*Y. SYDNEY—Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime Inter- Ltd.

SUVA —Borns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

LAE/RABAUL —Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PORT VILA Comptoirs Francais de Nouvelles Hebrides.

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 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.

Internal Services

FIJI Air Pacific, with HS74Bs, BAC 1-1 Is and Herons operates regular services to Labasa, Taveuni, Nadi, Suva and Savusavu.

Fiji Air Services, with Britten-Norman Islander and Beechcraft Baron aircraft, operates services to Castaway and Plantation village resorts. The Fijian hotel, Korolevu Beach hotel, Flagship Beachcomber hotel, Levuka, Lakeba, Vatukoula. Charter flights operate to anywhere in the Pacific.

Details: Fiji Air Services, P.O. Box 1259, Suva (telephone 22-666).

French Polynesia

Air Polynesie, with Fokker F 27 Friendship, Twin Otters and Islanders, operates to Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Rangiroa, Raiatea, Manihi, Takapoto, Hiva Oa, Ua Huka, Maupiti and Tubuai, Rurutu.

Details from Air Polynesie, P.O. Box 314, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, and UTA offices.

Air Tahiti, with light aircraft operates shuttle service from Papeete to Moorea and charter service to Raiatea, Bora Bora, Huahine, Rangiroa and Manihi.

Guam - Us Trust Territory

Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates regular service connecting Honolulu and Guam with Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau, Truk, Ponape, Kwajalein, Majuro, Tinian and Johnston Island.

Details from Air Micronesia, Saipan.

Air Pacific International Inc (not connected with the Fiji-based Air Pacific) operates Douglas DCS and 4 engined Herons in scheduled service daily to Saipan-Tinian-Rota-Yap-Ulithi-Koror-Truk from Guam. Group travel charters are available on 15 day minimum notice within the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands.

Details: Air Pacific International Inc, Box 7689, Tamuning, Guam, USA. Cable: AIRPAC Guam. Phone; 6465871.

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Air Pacific, with Herons, operates regularf services between Tarawa, Butaritari, North Tatoiteuea and Abemama.

Papua New Guinea

Air Niugini, with Fokkers and DC3s, operates a network of services between all major centres in Papua New Guinea. These services connect with Ansett and TAA's 727 Australia-PNG services.

DC3 aircraft are available for charter within PNG.

Aerial Tours operates in Central, Western, Gulf and Sepik districts. Aircraft are based at: Port Moresby, Kerema, Daru, Kiunga, Vanimo, Wewak.

Talair (Tourist Airlines of Niugini)—opera-® tes scheduled service and charter flights from| Port Moresby, Goroka, Kundiawa, Madang, Wewak, Vanimo, Mt Hagen, Mendi to Highlands, Sepik and Coastal areas. Talco Territory Travel Service of Papua New Guinea —Twin Otter Tourist flights throughout Papua New Guinea.

Further details from Talair, P.O. Box 108, Goroka, Papua New Guinea; Sydney Office: Papua New Guinea House, 225 Clarence St, Sydney.

Melanesian Airline Company Pty Limited (Macair) operates extensive commuter and charter services. Head office, PO Box 556, Lae.

Branches at Port Moresby, Alotau, Popondetta, Wau, Daru, Mt Hagen, Mendi and Goroka.

Crowley Airways Pty Ltd operates scheduled fixed-wing services from bases at Lae, Hoskins, Rabaul, Kavieng and Kieta to 34 ports in Morobe, West New Britain, East New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville districts, also helicopter and fixed-wing charters to anywhere in Papua New Guinea. Head office: PO Box 34, Lae. Phone 424733. Cables CROWLEY. Telex NE 42569.

Bougainville Air Services Pty Ltd operates daily throughout Bougainville. There are 11 regular services Kieta-Buin. Details: Arawa, Phone 956-159; Buka, Phone 16, Box 298, PO, Kieta.

New Caledonia

Air Caledonie with Twin Otters, and Islanders operates regular services to Houalfou, Isle of Pines, Isle Ouen, Kone, Koumac, Lifou, M are, Noumea, Ouvea Touho, Mueo, Belep, Tiga.

Details from Air Caledonie, Noumea.

New Hebrides

Air Melanesiae with Britten-Norman Islanders and Trislander operates to Santo, Malekula Norsup and Lamap, Aoba (Walaha and Longana), Pentecost (Lonorore), Erromanga, Tongoa, Aneityum, Tanna, Epi, Sola and Vila. Direct connections are available to and from Santo for all international flights arriving in Vila.

Details from Air Melanesiae P.O. Box 72.

Solomon Islands

Solair, with Beech Barons and Islanders operates to Auki, Avu Avu, Babanakira, Barakoma, BeHona Is, Fera Is, Gizo, Honiara, Kira Kira, Marau, Munda, Parasi, Sege, Yandma, Santa Cruz, Mono, Rennell Is, Choiseul Bay Ballalae and Rinai Cove.

Details from Solomon Islands Airways Ltd, Box 23, Honiara, BSIP.

TONGA Tonga Internal Air Service, with Britten- Norman Islander aircraft, operates from Fua'amotu, (airport for Nukualofa) to Vava u (daily except Sunday) and Eua (daily except* Sunday). Aircraft available for sightseeing and regional charters. . „ , .

Details from Tonga Tourist and Development Co, PO Box 91, Nukualofa, Tonga.

Cook Islands

Cook Islands Airways Ltd, with a Britten- Norman Islander, operates seven flights a ween between Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Service win be extended to Atiu. Manqaia and Mitiaro when airstrips are built. Private charters and scenic flights over Rarotonga and its reefs are also available. 100 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

nedilOyd Koninklijke Nedlloyd bv

Regular Sailings By Fast, Modern Cargo Vessels

from EUROPE via PANAMA to PAPEETE, NOUMEA, APIA, SUVA, LAUTOKA, NEW ZEALAND. from NEW ZEALAND via PANAMA to: EUROPE

(Mediterranean Cr North Continent)

and from AUSTRALIA to:

Central America Cr Caribbean

Inducement Sailings By Carcarrier

heavy-lift facilities—refrigerated space—cargo deeptanks For further particulars apply to Agents: Ets. Donald Tahiti Papeete.

Agence Maritime et Aerienne Caledonienne S.A. A.M.A.C., Noumea.

Russell & Somers (Wellington) ltd.

Wellington, N.Z.

Interocean Australia Services Pty. Ltd Sydney.

D. F. Nelson & Co. Ltd. Island Transport Ltd.

Apia. Suva, Lautoka.

NEDLLOYD General Representative Pacific Box 194, Wellington, N.Z. 1*. 1*. _ i j. 111— i j. 111— Deaths of Islands People Rev H. W. Figgess The Very Rev Herbert William iggess, rector of the Holy Trinity athedral, Suva, from 1948 to 1963, id dean from 1963 to 1967, died ;cently in Los Angeles aged 63. Mr iggess was ordained deacon in ngland in 1936, and served in a jmber of areas in Yorkshire, before ling to Fiji.

Mr Loa Reva Mr Loa Reva, Assistant Director : Teacher Education in Papua New uinea, died suddenly in September, ;ed 37. He had qualified as a teacher 1956, and taught at schools in veral districts. After graduating BA om the University of PNG in 1967 me of the first New Guineans to aduate from the university), he held nior appointments in the Education epartment. Mr Reva leaves a widow id six children.

Mrs Christina Izod Mrs Christina Izod, of Wakaiuna antation, Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea, died recently, aged 83.

She went to Samarai soon after World War 1, and married Mr Norman Izod, who had an engineering business, a few years later. Her husband took over the plantation after World War 11. Mrs Izod remained there and became rather a recluse after her husband’s death.

Mr Allen Innes Mr George Allen Innes, well known in the Islands before the war, has died in Sydney at the age of 84.

Allen Innes first went to Fiji in 1913 where he was with Burns Philp at Levuka. Later in Sydney he married Miss Alice Caddow who had been with the Colonial Hospital, Fiji, and both went to New Guinea after World War I, where Mr Innes was with Burns Philp in Samarai, Misima and Rabaul.

He later went into business on his own account at Salamaua, where he and his wife were mine hosts at the Salamaua Hotel during the busy gold-mining days of the early thirties. He retired to Sydney for health reasons in 1938, and for the last 11 years he and his wife have lived in their own cottage in Mowll Village. His wife survives him.

Mr R. Takinga Mr Rafael Takinga died recently at Pirumeri village in the Solomons’

Shortland Islands. He was 105. His wife died in 1926, leaving him with six children.

Dep. Supt. Shiri Raman Police Deputy Superintendent Shiri Raman, head of the Royal Fiji Police’s traffic department, was found dead in his car after it had run off the road about four miles outside Suva in September. An autopsy revealed that Mr Raman, who had intended to retire because of ill-health, died from a heart attack.

He joined the Royal Fiji Police in 1940.

Mr Fonoti Matautia Mr Fonoti Matautia (J. B. Brown), a leader in business and politics in Western Samoa for many years, died on October 9, aged 74. His business career was varied; he was a salesman, store manager, a baker and a shipowner. In agriculture, he was a successful planter and cattle man.

Firms he set up were Samoa Traders Ltd and J. B. Fonoti Ltd.

Mr Matautia found time to establish a school, which concentrated mainly on agriculture, and go into politics. He was Leader of the Fono a Faipule from 1939 to 1947, and served two terms in the Legislative Assembly. He became Minister of Agriculture in 1954, and retired because of ill-health in 1957. 101 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

is) LnnJ is) Cri ?Q r i is) Eq] 1

Dateline Hotel

TONGA "Friendly Hotel" of the "Friendly Islands"

Situated along the Nukualofa waterfront. Only five minutes walk from town. Single, double, family suites, airconditioning, and hot and cold water showers. Pool, bar, restaurant, duty-free shop, tour desk and boutique.

Book through your travel agent or write to International Dateline Hotel, P.O. Box 62, Nukualofa Tonga.

Cable Address; "DATELINE".

Represented Overseas by; Charles J. Henry and Associates Pty. Ltd.

Sydney and Melbourne. y* 7

Park View Motel—Brisbane

Quiet location —opp. Botanic Gardens.

Single, double, family suites, all with refrig., air conditioning, phone, TV, radio tea making facilities, from $l2. Pool and restaurant.

Phone 31-2695—Telex 40270.

Write for coloured brochure— Park View Motel, 128 Alice St, BRISBANE, Old., 4000 3007 Stay at Aggie Grey's the South Pacific's legendary hotel Situated right in the heart of Western bamoa. Enjoy Polynesian-style friendliness and service, in cool surroundings, superb en t®rt3 |nm 6nt and food. Magnificent white sand beaches only a short drive away Air,conditioned rooms, swimming pool and full bar facilities.

Bookings through Union Steamship Company of NZ, Pan Am, Air New Zealand or direct to Aggie Grey's, Apia, Western Samoa. Cables: AGGIES, APIA.

Primitive luxury (Polynesian style) Nestled away in the untouched Kingdom of Tonga is new, luxurious "Port of Refuge" International resort. Here is a unique opportunity for your clients to experience the tranquil and relaxed Tongan atmosphere while they enjoy the picturesque surroundings of the new "Port of Refuge". And only a short flight from Fiji.

Reasonable tariffs from $17.50 with special concessions for children. Agents commission 10 per cent.

Tonga's Port of Refuge

International Resort U

Uava’u Tonga Cables: "Refuge" Tonga or "Tongatours"

Sydney. Phone: Sydney 85-1603 or 282-472 ■*A A fa

Samoan Hideaway

Beach Resort Hotel

"The real Western Samoa"

Bungalows situated on a palm-fringed carpet of sand at the mouth of a jungle stream. This is Western Samoa. You'll be glad you came.

Bookings: Instant Hotels, Advance Accommodation, United Travel (in N.Z.), Accommodations Abroad (in Aust.).

Cables; "HIDEAWAY" Apia.

P.O. Box 1191, Apia, Western Samoa.

S

Southern Pacific Insurance

Company (Png) Limited

(Incorporated In Papua New Guinea)

Head Office: Bank Haus, Champion Pde. P.O. Box 136

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Ph. 2623

• FIRE • FIRE AND VOLCANIC ERUPTION • HOUSEHOLD COMPREHENSIVE • MOTOR VEHICLE • COMPULSORY THIRD PARTY • COMPULSORY WORKERS COMPENSATION

Marine • Public Liability • Burglary

Enquiries are invited for ail classes of insurance from special representatives at: PORT MORESBY: H. A. McKEE, General Manager, Champion Pde., P.O. Box 136,_ p h. 2623 or 2075. LAE: K. J. ARMSTRONG, Manager for Lae, Central Ave, P.O. Box 758, Ph. 42-4590 or 42-4256. RABAUL: R. H. MEYER, Manager for Rabaul, Mango Ave., P.O. Box 123, Pn. 92-2417 or 92-2755.

What'S The Matter

With Baby?

Most probably it's teething troubles and the surest way of soothing baby's sore gums, digestive disturbances and intestinal upsets, is to give baby Fisher's Teething Powders. You'll be delighted how effective they are—and so safe too, if used as directed. Fisher's Teething Powders are available from your chemist or store—only 30c for 20 powders. Fisher & Co., Manufacturing Chemists (Est. 1876), 17 May St., St.

Peters, N.S.W. 2044.

PIM 806/72 Pacific classic reprinted . . .

Patricia Ledyard's FRIENDLY ISLAND Just released —a new paperback edition of Patricia Ledyard's warmhearted story of her love affair with Tonga, updated and with a new foreword.

Price: Australia and overseas, $3.95 Aust., plus 30c posted; U.S.A., $6.40 U.S. posted.

Pacific Publications (Aust) Pty Ltd., Postal Address: G.P.O. Box 3408, Sydney, N.S.W. 2001. 102 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Line Advertisements Per line, $2.50 Aust., Minimum rate. 4 lines.

Hque Marine Service For Pacific

LANDS. Located in Southern California ntre of marine trade. We purchase for fttyards, fishermen, yachtsmen. Enquiries swered promptly. Hard-to-find marine ms our specialty. Try us. Blackie’s Boat rd, P.O. Box 2136, Newport Beach, 163, U.S.A.

EED AN APPALOOSA the world’s lest equine breed. Third largest breed [istry in the world. Australian mares in d to imported American Appaloosa Jlions for sale. R. Hanson, 123 Kenthurst ad, Kenthurst, 2154 N.S.W. Australia, one 654-1572 (Sydney, Australia).

FT YACHT MAST HEAD SLOOP. lit Sydney 1965. LOA 30 ft, beam 8 ft in., draft 5 ft 6 in. Volvo Penta NDI ssel. Marine ply, stainless steel rigging, 3y mast. This vessel is fully equipped i has successfully cruised the British omon Islands, Papua New Guinea and easily operated single handed. Price: ),500.00 0.N.0. For further details of sel contact: P.O. Box 783, Lae, Papua w Guinea. Tel.: 42-4305. Cable: Marinev.

VESTMENT. Block of 12 apartments istructed of permanent materials. Fully anted, showing good returns. Contact; ardie Apartments, Box 263, Port Vila, w Hebrides.

NCRETE BLOCK MACHINES. Makes cks, flags, edgings, screen-blocks, •den stools—up to 8 at once and 96 hour. $A139.00 c.i.f. main ports. Send leaflets. Forest Farm Research, Loniderry, N.S.W., 2753.

TTERFLIES AND BEETLES. Catchers Qted from all Pacific Islands. Please te in strictest confidence to; Michel her, ch. de Binche 2, Mons, Belgium.

EETS 45 ft. raised foc’sle trawler ifess. bit. 1963, near new 120 h.p. diesel trawl gear, radio, sounder, etc. .000.00. FLEETS, Rowe’s Bldg., Edward Brisbane. Cable “FLEETS BRISBANE’’.

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Index to Advertisers A. Industries 11 Adams 31, 37 Aggie Grey 102 Air N.Z. 80 Allied Manufacturing & Trading Industries 49 Arnotts 56 Australian National University 69 Bacardi 51 Bain Dawes 24 Bank of Hawaii 68 Bank of N.Z. 88 Bank Line 99 B. 73-76 Butterfly Co 103 C. 25 Clae Engines 42 Comalco 93 Com. N. G. Timbers 65 Consolidated Chemicals 90, 91 Cope Allman 14 Daiwa Bank 29 Daiwa Line 98 Dunlop N.Z. 36 Fiat 86, 87 Fisher & Co. 102 G.M.H. 95 Gas Supply 66 Gillespie Bros 54 Goodyear 46 Grasslands 103 Halvorsen 82 Harris Book Co. 71 Hastings Peering 40 Harveytile 32 Henry Cumines 103 Henry Lawson Bookshop 72 Honda cov. iii Interocean N.Z. Ltd. 96 International Dateline Hotel 102 Irwin 83 James Sandy 21 Kambara Kissen 85 Karlander Line 26 Keith Harris 44 Kerr Bros 22 Kikkoman 55 Knox Schlapp 78 Leong Bee and Soo Bee 94 Lees Trading 13 Massey-Ferguson 77 Mungo Scott cov. ii Nedlloyd 101 Nelson & Robertson 47 New Guinea Marine Surveys 81 Nissan cov. iv Pacific Line 100 Park View Motel 102 Parker Pen 28 Peter Fisher 41 Pioneer Electric 50 PNG Printing 41 Prouds 12, 13 Q'ld. Insurance 92 Regent of Fiji 2 Samoan Hideaway 102 Singer 34 Sofrana Unilines 97 Southern Pac Ins 102 Sunbeam 22 Swire, John 38 Tatham, S. E. 30 Tonga's Port of Refuge 102 Toshiba 42 Toyota 52, 53 Turners 91, 93 Union S.S. Co. 100 Warburton Franki 44 Wunderlich 70 103 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—NOVEMBER, 1974

Postscripts

Unwelcome Guests

Nine Tongan stowaways who arrived in Sydney in the Tauloto early in October are the financial responsibility of the ship’s owners, the Pacific Navigation Co Ltd, till they get back home. The stowaways, most of them aged 15 or 16, were discovered hiding under copra sacks during a routine search. They were not discovered by Tongan police who search most ships after they leave Nukualofa. As airlines will not accept them as passengers, they will be taken back to Tonga by the Tauloto, when passages are available. But as paying passengers have priority the stowaways will have to wait till berths are available.

Search Fails

An air-sea search for John Absalom, 33, in Papua New Guinea, ended on October 7 when all hope for his survival ended. He failed to return to Alotau, where he was Deputy District Commissioner, on September 29 from nearby islands.

Wreckage from his speedboat was found five days later. Mr Absalom, married, with three children, was in the public service 11 years.

No Problem Here

Cambridge Credit (New Hebrides) enterprises are not affected by the problems of Cambridge Credit Corp Ltd, in Australia, which is in receivership, according to a company spokesman in Sydney.

The New Hebrides company controls the Hotel Rossi in Vila, and is developing a block of resorts at Undine Bay. It also recently has taken over tourist interests in Tanna from the Paul family. The Undine Bay project is a 10-year-plan, and will be pushed ahead slowly, the spokesman said. The New Hebrides company is not in receivership.

Airline Purchase

The Bougainville Provincial Government, which is not yet fully established, has purchased a charter airline service previously operated by the Missionary Aviation Fellowship which has its regional headquarters in Melbourne. The Provincial Government is the first of a series of governments which fall just short of statehood and which have been provided for under central government legislation in Papua New Guinea. The purchase price of $200,000 involves three single-engine Cessna aircraft, hangar space and auxiliary buildings and equipment.

Woman Driver Killed

Mrs Diane Faramus, Australianborn wife of the Papua Yacht Club manager was fatally injured in October when the car she was driving in a women’s race in a speedway meeting in Port Moresby crashed through a safety fence. She died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Two spectators were injured.

Png Wage Fixed

After a long inquiry, the PNG Minimum Wages Board recommended on October 11 that a minimum wage for urban workers should be $2O a week, with further rises of $2.50 a week in January, 1975, and July, 1975, to make the wage $25, Employers’ immediate reaction was that the rise would lead to more unemployment as staff would have to be retrenched.

LONG ROW Anders Sweeland, a Swede, arrived in Apia late in September after rowing an open boat, the Waka Moana, 5,000 miles across the South Pacific from Chile. He passed through the French nuclear test zone off Tahiti.

He planned to spend a few days in Apia and then ship his boat to New Zealand, where he intends to settle.

Goodwill Gesture

Burns Philp recently, as a gesture of goodwill, handed over, free of charge, undeveloped plantation land on Witu Island in West New Britain to the local people. The land, about 5,600 acres of rough and broken country, should meet the people’s needs for some years, said the Minister for Lands, Mr Thomas Kavali. Burns Philp also proposes to release undeveloped areas, totalling about 20,000 acres on other plantations in Papua New Guinea.

Tabua For Queen

Fijians in Britain celebrated Cession Centenary Year at London’s Commonwealth Institute on October 17 and the chief guest was the Queen.

She received a tabua (whale’s tooth) from Ratu Isoa Gavidi, second secretary at the Fiji High Commission, who assured the Queen of “the continuing desire of the Fijian people to serve under her Majesty’s realm”.

Before touring the Commonwealth Exhibition, the Queen saw a 25minute performance by the Fijian dance group which had been touring the United Kingdom.

Hussey'S New Job

Mr Bill Hussey, centre of a row in Western Samoa in July when his job as regional director of the United Nations Development Programme was terminated by UNDP headquarters in Manila, has retired from UNDP and has opened an office in the United States as a consultant on Pacific affairs. As a consultant, Mr Hussey represented the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific Inc at the 14th South Pacific Conference at Rarotonga. Charging that Western Samoa had been insulted because UNDP in Manila refused to divulge the source of an alleged unfavourable report on Mr Hussey, Prime Minister Fiame Mataafa ordered the closing of the agency’s regional offices at Apia.

Honorary Chief

American Samoa’s retiring governor and perhaps the last appointed governor. John M. Haydon, left Pago Pago for home in October.

High chiefs presented him with the emblems of a Talking Chief and Mrs Jean Haydon, after whom the new museum, which she founded, is named, received several gifts including a pulatasi (dress) fan and a shell purse bearing her initials.

Drought Disaster

American President Gerald Ford has declared American Samoa a disaster area as a result of the drought which began on September 7 and has resulted in the closing of the territory’s three canneries, throwing 1,260 employees out of work. The United States regional director of the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration has presented the administration there with $185,500 for disaster unemployment assistance.

NOW NIUE CELEBRATES Attainment of self-government was expected to be celebrated on Niue in style on October 19. To mark the occasion as Niue Constitution Day, the whole population of about 4,000 planned to put away 35 pigs, 3,500 drinking coconuts, 6,000 taro, two carcases of beef, 3,500 meat and fish dishes and 1,400 takihi (taro, papaw and coconut cream pies).

Invited guests were NZ’s Governor-General, the Prime Minister of NZ and Western Samoa, the President of the Senate of American Samoa, NZ’s Leader of the Opposition and Island Affairs officials.

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