Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 51, No. 6 ( Jun. 1, 1980)
1980-06-01 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980 American Samoa . US$l.25 Australia Asl.oo* Fiji ~ Fsl.oo Hawaii A US mainland. ...US$l.5O Nauru $At .50 New Caledonia CFPI4O New Hebrides ............ Asl.oo NZ, Cook Is. A Niue NZ$l.OO Norfolk Island ASt .OO Papua New Guinea ...... Kl.OO Solomons ....... Ssl.oo Tahiti CFPISO Tonga ... pi .00 USTT A Guam US$l.5O Western Samoa Tl.lO * Recommended retail price only.

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New Zealand In The Pacific

How to find a REAL economy car.

When you look at a car billed as an economy model, ask yourself a few questions.

What sort of fuel consumption can be expected?

Low? Good.

What about other operating costs? Oil, lubrication, that kind of thing. Low again? Great.

How about maintenance? The car has a low-breakdown record? You are definitely on the right track.

What is the average life of the car? Is it better than the average in your area? Super. That’s important in an economy car.

Now. How is the after service? Buying a car is not all in the price you know. Plenty of service outlets?

One economy car coming up. All you have to do is check the price. Then you can tell if you are really getting an economy car.

You will probably find, after asking these questions about town, that REAL economy cars come down to Toyota, the world’s economy car builder.

See Toyota first. Then you won’t have to shop around.

Ihe Happy Economizer

Toyota Starlet

The car that says economy in every way And you will be happy for it. Big inside.

Small outside. Miserly with petrol.

Without sacrificing comfort. A good buy in an economy car even for Toyota.

L ~ w i PAPUA NEW GUINEA; ELA MOTORS, Scratchley Rd., Badili, P.O. Box 675, Port Moresby.

U.S. TRUST

Territory: Microl

CORPORATION, P.O. Box 267, Saipan.

FIJI ISLANDS: AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIES COMPANY, P.O. Box 5177, Raiwaqa, Suva AMERICAN SAMOA:

Burns Philp

(SOUTHSEA) CO., LTD., P.O. Box 129, Pago Pago.

WESTERN SAMOA:

Burns Philp

(SOUTHSEA) CO., LTD., P.O. Box 188, Apia.

Tonga: Burns Philp

(SOUTHSEA) CO., LTD., P.O. Box 55, Nukualofa.

Guam: Atkins, Kroll

(GUAM) LTD., P.O. Box 6428, Tamuning.

NEW HEBRIDES:

New Hebrides

MOTORS, P.O. Box 18, Vila.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: MENDANA ENTERPRISES (5.1.) LTD., P.O. Box 174, Honiara.

Tahiti: Nippon

AUTOMOTO, B.P. 342, Papeete.

COOK ISLANDS:

Cook Islands

TRADING I I JYI J| / \ CORPORATION LTD., I I P.O. Box 92, Rarotonga.

TOYOTA SERVICE NAURU ISLAND:

Nauru Cooperative

SOCIETY.

REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI: TARAWA MOTORS, Box 36, Bairiki, Kiribati.

NORFOLK ISLAND:

Mount Pitt

(ENTERPRISES) LTD..

P.O. Box 169.

NEW CALEDONIA:

Societe Importation

Automobile Du

PACIFIQUE, Rond-Point du Pacific (Station total) B.P. 438, Noumea.

The Toyota range includes: Toyota 1000, Toyota Starlet, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Celica, Toyota Corona, Toyota Cressida, Toyota Crown

American Samoa Australia Aust, $13 $12 Other $US16 Canada Cook Islands $14 $13 $US18 Piji ;rench Polynesia $12 $14 $F12 CFP 1700 Cuam Hawaii Japan (iribati $13 $13 $16 $13 $US16 $US16 Y4500 Micronesia Hauru $13 $18 $US16 Hew Caledonia Hew Hebrides $14 $13 CFP 1700 Jew Zealand Jiue $12 $13 $NZ13.50 Jorfolk Island $12 Jorlhern Marianas $13 $US16 K12 'apua New Guinea $13 olomon Islands $13 onga $13 uvalu $13 inited Kingdom $15 10 $US18 S Mainland Western Samoa $14 $13

Pacific Islands Monthly

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MONTHLY This Month’s Features * + RA P u RELAT,ONS ,N THE PACIFIC Professor Ron Crocombe of the Uni /ersity of the South Pacific examines a recent book on race, class and rebellion in the South Pacific and tells why he finds its conclusions surprising 13 * POSTMARK PAPEETE - Bengt and Mane-Therese Danielsson, starting a regular column, describe the background to the violent death of banker's son Olivier Breaud 1 g • THE SERPENTS OF A BOGUS EDEN - A US court clamps down on land promoters who took tens of thousands of dollars from Tuvalu Islanders, but can the Islanders retrieve their money? 22 • H 0J h ™ E P ° R CHILE PRESIDENT - Demonstrations in Fiji against President nnocnet of Chile may have wider repercussions on Chile’s world relations 25 • NEW ZEALAND IN THE REGION - William Gasson in Wellington and PIM writers look at New Zealand’s growing role as a regional member of the Pacific community 3Q * dlm' 8 PAC,F,C ~ Jud V Tudor continues her account of the 50 years recorded in PIM, coming to the sixties when the move to independence gathered strength in the colonies of the South Pacific 69 Cover: Hokule’a, replica of an ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe, arrives in Tahiti in April after a crossing from Hawaii using the navigation methods of the early Polynesians. Full report in yachting section. Photo: Teva Sylvain.

B <x>k» £ h,le 25, 79 Cook Islands 27, 61 Deaths Fifty Years of PIM 69 F, J' 23, 25 French Polynesia g Islands Press 8 5 Letters 5 New Hebrides ......"."......."..18, 21 New Zealand 21, 30-49 N, ue Pacific Report Papua New Guinea 21, 26, 27, 60, 79, 81 People Pitcairn 63 Political Currents 25 Postmark Papeete 19 Race Relations in the Pacific 13 Ships 87 Shipping Services 95 Solomon Islands 81 Tradewinds 79 Tradewlnds Intelligence 83 Travel 63 Tropicalities 21 Tuvalu 5, 22, 23 Western Samoa 28 Yachts 3 ‘VCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980 Founded 1930 by R. W. Robson Publisher Stuart Inder Editor Angus Smales Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon Editorial Adviser John Carter Manager John Berry Advertising Sales Manager Steve Gray A Pacific Publications production 76 Clarence Street, Sydney 2000 GPO Box 3408 Sydney 2001 Cables; PACPUB Sydney Telex: 21242 (answers INTARAD) Telephone. Sydney 29 6693 Melbourne 63 0211 ext. 1565 and 1858

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LETTERS Tuvalu’s PM off the hook In your April issue (pps6-57) an item appeared about Tuvalu.

Your ‘dreamt-up creation’ that my statement to the Tuvalu people was an admission that I have been wrong in planning the deal is in fact incorrect.

The statement made by me was based on the reassessment of the joint venture in the light of great increases in world oil prices since the time of the negotiations for the venture, and the expert advice from my advisers in Tuvalu. The decision was made from the reassessment of the project which showed that it would not be viable.

The investment with Mr Gross has nothing to do with the payment for ships for the fishing industry. The 15% interest paid quarterly to Tuvalu account has been received. This account is worked by the secretary for finance and the accountant, both Tuvalu Government officials, and Mr Gross not, as you stated, by Mr Gross alone.

Tuvalu’s share to the joint venture was to be paid from part of the profit of the catch of the ships and the rest to pay for the ships until the ships are paid off and the venture becomes solely owned by Tuvalu.

The question of the bank was and is one of the important matters Tuvalu pressed and is pressing for since its separation Tom the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1976. On the irst round of negotiations, two )anks from the region were ap- )roached and the result was legative. On Tuvalu’s second attempt three respected banks vere interested. Tuvalu’s hoice was made on the basis hat the bank will become the uvalu National Bank after a period agreed to by both partners. This will only happen when Tuvalu has the expertise and experience to run its bank.

The Barclays International Bank has offered to help put up the Tuvalu Bank and negotiations are well on the way.

When this bank is established then all Tuvalu investments will be transferred to this, the only bank in Tuvalu.

Your statement that Tuvalu needs its investment from Mr Gross to buy the Barclays International Bank is a very unkind one, especially when it is an offer from Barclays International Bank to help put up the Tuvalu Bank and this offer was made after the two banks from the region had declined.

The Tuvalu investments made externally will be invested in the Tuvalu Bank once it is established.

The buying of lands with the Green Valley Acres Corporation is not a Government project.

I sincerely hope that I have updated and brought the quality of PIM to what it used to be several years ago.

T. LAUTI Prime Minister Funafuti Tuvalu • Our ‘dreamt-up creation ’ was designed in part to let the prime minister off the hook in view of the criticism voiced by many in Tuvalu of Mr Lauti’s association with Sidney Gross. Our description of his radio address as an ‘ honest and dignified admission that he had been wrong in planning the deal’ was much gentler than statements made on the matter by others at various times. The prime minister appears to have misread our reports. Our report that the $550 380 invested with Mr Gross was neededfor investment in the joint venture with Barclays Bank was taken from the Tuvalu Government's News Sheet of December 12, 1979. On page 3 it was reported (inter alia) ‘Parliament also learned that Government plans to withdraw the half-a-million dollars which she invested in the Blue Chips Realty Investment Co in the United States. In reply to supplementary questions asking why, the Prime Minister told Parliament that Government has officially accepted proposals from the Barclays Bank International for a joint venture in establishing a bank here in Tuvalu; with Government owning 75% and Barclays 25% of the capital share issued. It is for this venture that Government plans to withdraw the investment ’

PIM has never reported that the land deals with Green Valley Inco were a government project.

For more about that particular subject see Tropicalities. Editor.

More on Hawaii and the Islands I read with much interest Dan Boylan’s article The Bishop as Symbol’ (PIM Mar p 35). Its general tone of consternation and muted optimism calls for some comment in rebuttal and clarification.

It cannot be disputed that Hawaii government has been slow to respond to developments within the Pacific island community. The East Asia orientation has been, among other things, the priority focus.

Professor Donald Topping remarked on other aspects which indicate a general lack of previous commitment to the Pacific island area. It is to such comments that some rejoinder must be made.

First, Topping’s criticism of the Hawaiian population is both unwarranted and uninformed. Unlike the genteel and white-dominated professional and social circles which Professor Topping is accustomed to; Hawaiians are not as privileged as Topping and his colleagues are in taking day-trip expeditions to the South Pacific or to do demure research on the island areas, protected by the secure embrace of academic tenure.

The University of Hawaii Pacific Islands Studies Program’s ‘lB7 faculty members’ are a white-dominated clique of continental emigres who have little empathy with the Hawaiian community.

They, moreover, have done little to substantively encourage Hawaiian students to pursue advanced degrees within and beyond the Program itself. Topping’s remarks are also uninformed in that Hawaiian contact with other Pacific islanders, particularly in French Polynesia and in Kiribati, have been on human and cultural levels rather than in the ostentatious manner of academe. To be more accurate, Topping’s ignorance of Hawaiians is more appalling, though not necessarily surprising, than his observations on the Hawaiians themselves.

Second, Topping’s vexation concerning the evidently poor Hawaii resident response to the Polynesian Cultural Center is misplaced. The answer is provided in Boylan’s article.

Hawaii residents are not eager to see the tourist ‘dance in a grass skirt, sample coconut meat, or be frightened by the flapping tongue and spear of a Maori warrior’. To be fair, however, PCC (as well as BYU/Hawaii) is considerably more than a tourist-oriented destination.

It is a living repository of reconstructed Polynesian culture. Recently. BYU/Hawaii’s Institute for Polynesian Studies has been issuing a biannual publication. Pacific Studies, which has given a forum for serious research on the Pacific area, regardless of discipline.

Such gestures have outstripped the generally self-serving and parochial activities of the Pacific Islands Studies Program. I disagree with the substance of Boylan’s conclusion. The ‘Hawaiian renaissance and Uncle Sam’s abundant dollars’ are not the proper vehicles for change. It would only serve to enhance the parasitic interests of the cloistered custodians of government grants.

William E. H. Tagupa

Graduate, Pacific Islands Studies Kaui Community College, University of Hawaii A word for some atolls Bengt Danielsson (PIM Mar p 22) writes ‘Commodore Byron was less lucky, since he sighted only a few worthless atolls’.

I am sure that your Tahiti correspondent would not describe his native Sweden as worthless, nor would he describe his adopted and beloved Tahiti as such. If Dr Danielsson opens his copy of Professor Maude’s book Of Islands and 5 ’ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980

Men and looks at chapter three he will see that Commodore Byron discovered the island of Nikunau, in the south-east of the Gilberts Group in Kiribati.

I do not think the people of Kiribati would agree that Nikunau is a worthless atoll, and I am certain the people of Nikunau would not agree.

I imagine that Dr Danielsson intended no offence but since he chose to bring up history perhaps he should read background more carefully.

Furthermore, since he is also an experienced writer and correspondent for your magazine I think that he might choose his words with care.

R. OVERY Librarian/Archivist Kiribati National Library Bairiki, Kiribati.

Correcting facts on Hides and Champion I have hesitated to write to you, but now do so in a helpful, not critical way. No doubt you will have many letters on the points I am going to mention in the February PIM article, ‘When they began to roll back the frontiers’, by Judy Tudor, pp 43-45.

The late L. J. O’Malley did not resign from the Papuan Administration with the late J.

G. Flides, in July 1936. Jack Hides’ companion on the illfated patrol was David Lyall, who died at Daru on September 16 1937. I served under Jim O’Malley in the Purari Delta in 1951-1952. He retired as a District Commissioner, in the normal course of his service, and died in Sydney in 1975.

Mr Ivan Champion and the late C. J. ‘Bill’ Adamson (not Anderson) left Daru on the Vailala on April 25 1936. It was Anzac Day. They were accompanied by the resident Magistrate, Daru, Mr Woodward.

The Vailala could go no further than about 160 miles above the junction of the Wawoi and Aworra Rivers. It was here Champion and Adamson disembarked with their carriers and stores, on April 30 1936.

I went to Papua New Guinea in 1946 and have been a keen reader of PIM over the years.

So I don’t like to see you publish mistakes.

H. E. (Lynn) CLARK Southport, Queensland PNG vs. Tahiti again Please allow me to reply to two articles, both of which appeared in PIM of December 1979: the first, ‘A Tahitian takes on Mr Olewale’ (p 15), and the second ‘Free advice to PNG, Fiji’ (p4O). The first article was written by Ms de Montlue but for the second, the author remains anonymous.

My replies would be directed to the respective authors.

To Ms de Montlue; Unfortunately, Ms de Montlue, your surname renders your arguments invalid. I would respect the views of a true Polynesian, but from a disguised Polynesian as your surname indicates, my respects fall short.

Your arguments are invalid because every logical person knows that those who ‘cry the loudest’ are the ones most disturbed. They’re disturbed because their personal interests are in danger; in this case, it is France whose interests are in danger so that the de Montlues would have to raise their voices. The de Montlues and others like them who benefit from French interests cannot entertain the idea of losing the ‘Polynesian paradise’, hence they will go to all lengths to safeguard those interests.

I need not go any further to make my point. However, to be fair to Ms de Montlue (and the readers) I would reply to her arguments.

Ms de Montlue tells us that French Polynesia has the highest standard of living in the South Pacific apart from American Samoa. For those who can reason what is there to stop them from reasoning that this is just another form of blackmail? Can they not see that the so-called high standard of living is just one way of keeping the Polynesians and the Micronesians ‘cool’ while the French and the Americans carry on their nuclear tests?

Please Ms de Montlue, what is the highest standard of living today when in the future you know every living creature on the islands is bound to be dead through nuclear poisoning?

The kind lady also referred to lawlessness in Papua New Guinea. At this point, I would refer her to the article ‘Big Terms for Papeete Eight’ (PIM, July 1979 (pp 27-29). The significance of that article was the question ... ‘is it less criminal to kill people slowly by radioactive poison ...?’ If Ms de Montlue refuses to see radioactive poisoning as lawlessness, then I do not know what it is!

Finally, I give half a mark to Ms de Montlue for questioning the Honourable Minister (Mr Olewale) on the issue of Irian Jaya. However, the issue here is more historical rather than contemporary. It all goes back to the so-called ‘Act of Free Choice’ of 1969; masterminded and enforced by the colonising power, with the approval of the UN. But leaving this aside, the question remains if people like Ms de Montlue (or a country like France) whose interests are in danger in Polynesia and consequently ‘raise hell’ at the slightest sound of the word ‘independence’ then how would one suppose Indonesia would react to the call for freedom whether it comes from the Irian Jayans themselves or PNG?

To Anonymous; .. the voice of the people is the voice of God.’ Please, why not admit that ‘the voice of the Polynesians is the voice of France’? I do not see why God has to come into this unless, of course, France is the equivalent of God. .. real savages ..Well now, are we not all products of history? Please Anonymous, refer to your history books.

Since you seem to favour France, perhaps you’d care to let us know just how many French people (including kings and queens) have had to say their last prayers before the guillotine was to do its job. Is the chopping of people’s necks any less savage than an arrow through the heart? Or is the killing of life (both human and animal) by French nuclear poison any less savage than a killing by a PNG arrow? ‘... international contamination.’ What a word, contamination! Even if the victims of PNG arrows are eaten there is reason to pardon our primitiveness, but I fail to see why a highly civilised society like France has to eat away the living cells of Polynesians and eventually the whole region of the South Pacific through its nuclear poison! If Anonymous; is so keen on a UN inquiry inU> the prevention of‘international contamination’ then it should! begin with a civilised society like France. After all, is eating a PNG arrow victim any more contaminated than living with a contaminated victim ofl French nuclear tests? Evidence suggests that ‘international contamination’ has occurred! and still continues without the contribution from PNG. ‘... liberating its racial brothers from .. . Indonesians ...’ Please, Anonymous, can you not see that the barriers the Irian Jayans are facing from; Indonesia are the same kind ol barriers the Polynesians are facing from France? Currenj situations in the Polynesian islands suggest that if the islands had the jungles of Irian Jaya, they would have done what the Irian Jayans are attempting to do to the Indonesian authorities. How\ L. J. O’Malley, photographed about the time that he accompanied Jack Hides on the 1933 Strickland River patrol in Papua. Hides resigned from the Papua Administration several years later in a controversy created by his writings and lectures, but O’Malley stayed on to become one of Papua New Guinea’s best-known district commissioners. 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 198; LETTERS

ever small the group that fights for freedom, whether it be [ Polynesians or Melanesians, I only time will tell if that fight I is for real. The question I’d like I to leave with Anonymous (and I the readers) is —is there not an I easier way out for those seeking their God-given right to j freedom than losing lives and [ spending years in prison?

I trust that these replies are [ adequate to the questions and arguments raised by the abovementioned authors. As is obvious from the above, I write here as a Papua New Guinean I (by blood) in defence of my country and the Honourable Minister, but my views may not necessarily be shared by all.

Thank you so kindly I remain a primitive Papua New Guinean.

Samson M. Polume

Victoria BC Canada Researching old money I am researching the paper currency issued in the Solomon and Gilbert Islands early this century.

Does anyone remember or hold records relating to the notes used by Burn Philp in the Solomon and Gilbert Islands between 1909 and 1916? They were in the values of £1 and £5 and were probably similar to those issued by the same company in North Queensland, Thursday Island, Samarai, Port Moresby and Tonga towards the end of the last century. The information is wanted for an on-going study dealing with the currency used in New Guinea and the Southwest Pacific.

Information on surviving specimens for any of the afore nentioned areas would be nvaluable. Any information vould be acknowledged. (Dr) J. W. MIRA 15 Harrow Road Bexley NSW Australia 2207 More on Fanning’s Villiam Greig v PIM article (Aug 1958 pB4) ttempted to tell about the life T ‘the Ayrshire Scot’, William jreig of Fanning and Washington Islands. Having ttle to go on, the author mixed a bit of truth with a lot of myth.

It made exciting reading, but contained a paucity of facts.

Among other things, it claimed that Greig had been ‘dumped’ alone on Fanning by a whaler whose skipper he had annoyed ‘beyond endurance’.

Nothing could have been farther from the truth. To set the record straight, we would like to share with your readers what we have found out about William Greig from our research.

Greig was born in Ayr, Scotland, on November 23, 1821, the youngest of six children. Following the tradition of many before him, he went to sea before his teens, working his way from cabin boy to navigator in a short span of years.

At the age of 23 he was master of a barque trading from Great Britain to ports in South America.

Fie first entered the Pacific as captain of a ship that he left in Valparaiso, and then made his way to Honolulu. Soon after, he and his good friend, Henry Christie, went to San Francisco together to try their luck in the California gold mines. They made their stake and used it to enter the Pacific maritime trade between Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia.

In 1852, Greig became one of the original members of the Hawaiian Masonic Lodge No 21 in Honolulu. He held positions of junior and senior warden in the lodge over the years, and remained a mason in good standing throughout his life.

In 1855, Greig left Honolulu, travelling to Arkansas to visit his brother, James Greig, and family. He continued on to the Continent where he purchased stock for a drygoods store that he opened in Honolulu in May 1856. An advertisement announcing the opening of Greig’s store was published in The Polynesian, a Honolulu newspaper.

By December that same year he put everything up for auction. For a while he remained in Honolulu, making one visit to the Island of Kaua’i in August 1857. Later that same year Greig went to Fanning to become assistant manager for Captain Henry English’s coconut oil industry there. He probably travelled on the brig Advance under Captain Miline, leaving Honolulu on December 22, 1857, for Fanning Island. Henry English owned the Advance, having acquired it at the time he purchased Fanning and the coconut oil industry from Charles B. Wilson in September 1852.

In March 1859, a partnership was formed between Henry English. William Greig and George Bicknell. In January 1864, because of ill health, English sold his share in the island to Greig and Bicknell.

Meanwhile, the coconut business had changed from oil to copra, and prospered. Greig and Bicknell branched out into several sidelines, including guano, pearl shell, beche-demer, ship repairing, victualling, and honey. Bicknell managed the Washington Island plantation, and Greig lived on Fanning. Each had a large two-storey frame house with commodious, well-furnished rooms. Cattle grazed on the lawn, providing milk, butter, and occasionally beef.

Greig and his wife, Teanau Atu of Penhryn Island, raised a family of four boys and five girls. In 1882, both the Bicknell and Greig families visited Honolulu and had their pictures taken together by the well-known photographer A. A. Montano.

Bicknell died in 1884, leaving his share of the business to his brother, missionary James Bicknell. William Greig died in San Francisco in 1892. After services at the Masonic Temple, his body was returned on the Douglas to Fanning Island for burial. Greig’s wife, Teanau, died in 1917 and was buried beside her husband.

Much more could be written about the adventures of William Greig and his family, but the above will serve to lay to rest the fallacious implications of the previous article.

Thelma Anderson

Marion Kelly

Honolulu Hawaii USA • Thelma Anderson is the widow of the late William Greig Anderson, grandson of William Greig, and Marion Kelly is their daughter. Mother and daughter have been researching the story since 1973. They say in a covering letter that members of the Greig family have been "distressed'' for 20 years because of ‘misrepresentations’ in the 1958 PIM article. In an appendix to their letter they thank more than a dozen Pacific libraries, museums, and institutions for ‘generous assistance’ in their work. Since this is the first complaint we’ve had about that 1958 article, we re only too pleased at the opportunity to put the record straight after 22 years. - Editor.

Appeal on PNG music studies I have come to the Music Archive at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies to reorganise the cataloguing system so that it will be more useful.

While I am here I would like to develop the Archive into the resource centre for the study of PNG music.

This would be possible by obtaining 1) all commercial recordings; 2) copies of important historical recordings which are now scattered in archives throughout the world; 3) printed materials on PNG music.

By bringing these items together in one location, any individual would be able to see what music research has been done from any particular area.

Efforts could then be made toward augmenting an existing collection or initiating work in an area previously undocumented. The development of such a collection would enable PNG music to be adequately studied in PNG a nice thought.

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Coastal Surveillance Survey

f Australia and New Zealand have formed an assessment team to examine the coastal surveillance requirements of Island I nations of the South Pacific Forum. The assessment, which is I being carried out by arrangements with the countries concerned, will deal with all civil surveillance requirements and in particular protection of fisheries and prevention and detection of smuggling and drug-running. The survey began in mid-April and will continue well into June, taking in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Tuvalu and Kiribati. Although civil surveillance requirements are involved, military defence advisers are included in the operation for technical aid. Australia and New Zealand are carrying out the project as an aid gesture and without commitment. Some of the countries being examined have already made tentative assessments of surveillance requirements but the new project is expected to enable the establishment of an integrated plan according to foreign affairs officials in Australia and New Zealand.

Pythons And Cats Against Rats

In the Tingwon Islands of northern Papua New Guinea government officials have brought in pythons and cats - with the approval of local villagers - in an attempt to end a plague of rats.

Reports so far have not indicated how the pythons are performing, but the cats were said to be operating ‘superbly’. The cats came from Kavieng on nearby New Ireland. Meanwhile the New Ireland Provincial Government is providing rice for the Tingwon islanders to offset a food shortage caused by the rat plague.

Politician Calls For Socialism

An Alliance Party conference in Fiji was told that Fiji needed advice from the Cuban president, Fidel Castro, on government control of rural labour and development. The suggestion was made by an alliance backbencher in parliament, Mr Jone banuve, who said he believed it was time Fiji turned to a new orm of government embodying rigid socialism and compulsory labour on the land.

Storm Deaths In Kiribati

Three peopie were killed and seven others seriously injured in Kiribati in April in what is now known to have been an arm of the cyclonic disturbances which brought 16 deaths to Fiji (PIM May pi 7) The Kiribati deaths occurred at Autukia Village Nonouti. when a structure collapsed in heavy winds during a pubhc gathenng. Those killed were two children and a woman The Kiribati weather office has confirmed that southern Kiribati was partly hit by the cyclone, but there are no other reports of casualties or serious damage.

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Chinese Embassy In Png

govar nment p apua New Guinea has agreed to the establishment of a Chinese Embassy in its country, revers- ■w.3 usa j giN f en b V the Previous Somare government. Mr iqqd US3 IS believed t 0 have be en based on fears that nn a h US | SR n + va nes could be br °ught into the Pacific by allowng a diplomatic presence, and Russia was also refused perrhllTw?h 0 th abllS t h M n h embaSSy ' Now however Ch 'na is going th *n 6 estab,ish ment of embassies in Fiji and Western * a ™ oa aa waH as In PNG although USSR has no diplomatic pres '■ ce ln the Pacific Islands. The Chinese Vice-premier Mr Li Xianl' an /® centl ’y visited PNG. He announced that his country would >end a survey team to PNG to examine possible economic co- °S® ra J'°" ln agricultural and forestry development and to prohernmp a ' d ,O . PNG - However the team is likely to ed ln sensi,lve negotiations because of an in- Ik aid between ,he two countries. China aid hntPMr kJ d 1 31 ,he ,. nature and conditions of its foreign dSntn P s N a G nd ha conditon P s ol,Cy °' aCCePti " 9 aid °" ly ° n i,S ° Wn

Review Of Fiji Public Service

? a n ®' ° f Australia’s most distinguished public servants, Sir Arthur i ange who once headed the Department of Defence has been review systems" used by the pubNc serviceh ’ 65, ret,red only recent 'V- T he appointment at Fiji’s Minkw Mr p 0U^ Ced ln Canberra by the Australian Prime of F iii Rph Rir r r ’ dUri^ 9 f S .l ate visit by the Governor-General of Rj!, Ratu Sir George Cakobau and Adi Lady Cakobau. Ratu h nrhTon 6 ’ l a,d tr,bute t 0 aid to Fiji, told a state luncheon in Canberra that in 10 years of independence his “ u n f ry hadh e ,d 'ts head high, had maintained stable governreached out in Partnership to other Pacific

Eniwetak Atoll Handed Back

Eniwetak Atoll, site of US nuclear tests in the 1940 s and 50s kbfnH e f^n ned t 0 'll people at a recent ceremony on Eniwetak a th / ee ' year decontamination operation carried atln qq US milltary forces - The people were moved to another atoll 33 years ago when nuclear testing began. About 500 Eniwetak people attended the ceremony which handed back their island, but it is still not clear how many intend to settle again on Eniwetak. A gradual movement back to the island is ® x Pf ctad ° ver tde next two or three months. Many of the people at the handing back ceremony, although Eniwetak people had never before seen their traditional home because they had been born away from the island after the nuclear tests began Reoresentatives of the US Government and US military forces attended the ceremony in which the Director of the Defence Nuclear Agency, Vice-Admiral Robert Munroe, said the free world owed a great debt to the islanders.

Wartime Wrecks Protected

Solomon Islands has passed legislation declaring equipment and wrecks left over from World War II as protected cultural property because of the growing interest by collectors, historians and technicians in World War II remnants. The legislation follows the pattern of similar laws introduced in Papua New Guinea two years ago. Under the laws of both countries no war wreckage or remnants can be removed from the country without permission, and anything of special historical value is banned from export. Provision is made for local communities to have a voice in the removal or preservation of war remnants in their area.

Pacific Super Power Threat

The Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales Mr Wran, told a conference of the Pacific Basin Economic Council in Sydney last month that the region was under threat because of super power rivalries. Mr Wran said that the rivalry of major powers posed a permanent threat to long-term peace and stability and it was the task of every nation in the Pacific Basin to do everything possible to form mutual bonds of understanding and trust. He said that the four greatest world powers three of them with nuclear strength, all had Pacific Ocean coastlines.

They were USSR, USA, Japan and China. Their presence in the region posed a task of particular delicacy to Pacific Ocean countries. The economic council which Mr Wran addressed is a grouping of business representatives from nations in the Pacific.

Antas Raises Charges For Air Niugini

Oantas, the airline which handles transit and turnaround requirements in Australia for the Papua New Guinea airline Air Niugini, has sharply increased its charges for the service. The increase is 38% in Brisbane and 180% in Sydney. Air Niugini reacted angrily to the Qantas move, claiming it had been'singled out among other airlines serviced by Qantas. Qantas said the increases were made purely on economic grounds, but has entered into a series of talks with Air Niugini.

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Navy Aircraft Hit Overhead Cable

Preliminary investigations into the US military aircraft accident which killed seven people and destroyed part of a hotel in American Samoa in April indicate the low-flying aircraft snagged its tail fin on the overhead tram cable which spans the harbour at Pago Pago. Six of the dead were the crew of the Lockheed Orion and the seventh was a Japanese tourist in the Rainmaker Hotel which the aircraft hit. Another Japanese tourist was badly burned. The Orion, an anti-submarine aircraft operated by the US Navy, had been taking part in Flag Day celebrations at Pago Pago and dropped off six parachutists from the Tropic Lightning Parachute Club of Hawaii. It then made two low flying passes over the harbour but while attempting a third it flew just under the overhead cable which tore off the fin and rudder. The Orion fell out of control, hit the ground beside the Rainmaker Hotel and burnt. An entire 78-room wing of the hotel was destroyed.

China Conducts Missile Test

China last month announced early plans to launch its first unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile into the South Pacific on a course and range which would put the splashdown between Kiribati and Tuvalu. China informed Australia and New Zealand of its intentions but Pacific Island countries said they had not been informed. The announcement brought a sharp reaction from most Pacific countries, although in Australia the acting Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr MacKellar, said merely that China’s intention showed the importance of making real progress towards nuclear disarmament. However Tuvalu said it was ‘outraged’, the Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Mr Kenilorea, said his country was ‘disappointed and concerned’ and the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan said his country was ‘offended and concerned’. Tuvalu and PNG both sent notes of protest to Chinese diplomatic officials. When the launch occurred on May 18, the missile splashed down about 1300 Km north-west of Fiji.

Judge Withdraws Resignation

Mr Justice Andrew Wilson, one of five Australian and British judges in Papua New Guinea who resigned last year following a clash with the government, has withdrawn his resignation. The judges, including the then Chief Justice Sir William Prentice, claimed they could no longer serve with honour in a country which appeared contemptuous of its courts. The confrontation arose when the then Prime Minister, Mr Somare, released his Justice Minister, Mrs Rooney, who had been gaoled for contempt of court.

Rebel Surrenders, Says Indonesia

Martin Tabu, leader of one of the Free Papua groups opposing Indonesian sovereignty in Irian Jaya, has surrendered according to statements by Indonesian officials. Indonesia reported that Tabu had been found at Waris, a village in the area of the Irian Jaya border with Papua New Guinea. Indonesia said it was taking no action against Tabu as a result of a ‘milder’ attitude towards rebel activity and in view of Tabu’s decision to give himself up.

Car Imports Restricted

The Western Samoa government has placed restrictions on the import of motor vehicles, new or second hand. The restrictions cover gifts of cars financed from overseas. Applicants are now required to obtain approval from the country’s Monetary Board before any vehicle is imported. Meanwhile the government is considering a possible ban on weekend petrol sales in a move to conserve fuel.

Military Academy For Png

The Joint Services College which Papua New Guinea maintains in Lae to train officers for its police, military services and gaol services is to close down this month. However the institute will continue to operate as a defence academy specialising in the training of military officers. The Minister for Defence Mr Gerega Pepena said it was no longer considered appropriate to train officers of all three services in a single college, but co-operation between the services would continue at a high level.

Fiji Plans National Lottery

Fiji has announced plans to establish a national lottery, and legislation for the proposal is being prepared for Parliament. The Governor-General, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, who announced plans for the lottery at the ceremonial opening of Parliament, said the proceeds would be used for welfare work.

New Zealand Grants To W. Samoa

The New Zealand government recently made cash grants td Western Samoa under its bilateral aid programme. The largest single grant was SWSISO 000 to the Western Samoa Development Bank. Other grants were given for the construction of a: water supply system at the Tanumalala banana plantation and for fruit juice extraction equipment at the Alafua food processing laboratory. A further grant was made to enable the Police Department to purchase two tractors with trailers and cultivators for the prison farms at Vaiaata and Tafaigata.

Kiribati Builds Exports

Kiribati’s marine products unit expects to export fish and lobster worth $350 000 from its Christmas Island fish farms this year.

Each week it air freights 1 1 /2 tonnes of milkfish to Nauru anc a tonne of fish and half a tonne of lobsters to Honolulu. The unit started last year and its manager, Mr Patrick Lawrence, saic if it was equipped with deep freezing plant it would be able tc sell anywhere in the world.

A Flag Day fly-past at 500 feet over Pago Harbour With fin torn off, disaster strikes. Burl Sloan pictures. 10 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980

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Race relations in the Pacific under the microscope A book recently published in Sydney Race, Class and Rebellion in the South Pacific * k QPiiinn , n ■ countries, and exerting some influence. Professor RON CROCOMBE of the University of the Ro h p nUm °' ' Sland at,on of the book and found, by and large, that its success is far from being fullyßeserved C made a " eVa ' U ' Race, Class and Rebellion in the South Pacific, is a short book, of only four chapters. It takes its title from the lead chapter written by Dr Alex Mamak.

This chapter tells somewhat more about Mamak than about race or class or rebellion or the South Pacific. To make his case sound plausible, he gives the key words new meanings.

I think any objective description of racial tensions in the Pacific would show that the most serious are between Indonesians and Melanesians in Irian Jaya, the next most serious between Indians and Fijians, and the next between Melanesians and Europeans in New Caledonia. But facing facts seems not to be Dr Mamak’s purpose so he says that (p4l) ‘according to our usage of the race concept, relations between members of a non-white population who come from distinct racial backrounc*s ( e S- Indo-Fijians and Fijians) are not race relations • Likewise (pi 4) ‘...the :oncept of race is solely used in he context of black-white regions.’

Class is defined as ‘relationship to the means of proluction and/or such factors as ncome level, education or ocupation, (p 14). This is reasoned 6 enough, except that /here, for example, this deflation would place the Indian 'usiness and professional comlunity in Fiji, the equivalent hinese community in Tahiti, olomons or Papua New ruinea, or the Vietnamese in le New Hebrides, in the same itegory as the European usiness and professional cornice, Class and Rebellion in ( e South Pacific. Edited by lex Mamak and Ahmed Ali.

Jblished by George Allen & nwin, Sydney. Hardback 13.50, paperback $6.95. munity, he later defines the similarity away.

Rebellion, according to my dictionary and to my understanding, is ‘rising in arms against’ an established government. There has been relatively little rebellion in the Pacific.

But rebellion can be manufactured to suit the taste by redefining the term, which Or Mamak does (p 13) as the willingness of a group to use or threaten to use, force ‘ in the sense of political struggle, not necessarily armed struggle . . .’

According to this definition, opposing political parties of every independent democracy in the world are in a constant state of ‘rebellion’.

The chapter carries on to convey an impression of everyone else in the Pacific in an almost constant state of rebellion against Europeans. I think Dr Mamak believes it.

A reader is left with the impression that rebellion first entered the Pacific as a reaction against Europeans. A well documented article by Gunson in the Journal of Pacific History (vol 14, pp2B-49), taking the example of Tonga, shows that rebellion i.e., actual overthrowing of the existing government by physical violence - ‘was rather a natural sequence in the political life of Tonga’. Tracing the known history of the Tongan kings over 200 years before European contact, he shows that ‘in each case the hau or paramount ruler of Tonga was overthrown and replaced by another hau ■ ■ The overthrowing was usually by warfare, assassination or exile. The last successful rebellion in Tonga was that by the man who, when his rebellion succeeded, called himself King George Tupou.

Thereafter, with the use of imported weapons, imported organisational technology and more effective means of communication, King George Tupou was able to put down rebellions against him (with heavy loss of life), and to establish an effective centralised government which has lasted to this day. Opposition and ‘action in order to counteract the effects of domination and exploitation’ in the interpretation of the persons taking the action (which is Dr Mamak’s definition) has continued in Tonga in the modern era as Dr Gunson’s article describes, though the opposition certainly does not meet my definition of rebellion.

The Tonga case is common.

In Fiji, classic rebellion fighting the rulers to the death was common. Any objective study of the history of the Pacific would show that the extent of rebellion against colonial governments was relatively small. I do not think that this is due so much to the goodness or badness of the governments concerned, but to the effectiveness of their control.

We need serious study of the circumstances under which such populations showed evidence of dissatisfaction, resistance, rebellion or revolution.

Implications Dr Mamak implies that the more there is ‘oppression’ (which he does not define but implies as differences in income, privilege, etc) the more the likelihood of rebellion. I would not have thought this was necessarily so.

To return to the Tonga.case, those who suffered most, the lowest class of society, were not those who rebelled it was people of the higher social strata who felt they were missing out. Likewise, in many parts of the world it is the upward aspiring sub-elite who rebel. There is no point in rebelling unless you think you have some chance of winning and feel a right to win.

In terms of gaps of income, privilege and dignity. New Hebrideans were vastly worse off than Samoans. But New Hebrideans were divided among themselves by language, culture and geography. The so-called Mau Rebellion against New Zealand authority in Western Samoa this was really an attempted revolution which sought to do away with colonial government, rather than a rebellion which simply seeks to replace the incumbent in the same form of government occurred because of Samoa’s cultural and linguistic uniformity and geographical compactness, and the incompetence of the New Zealand colonial administration.

Samoans, I would think, were by most criteria among the ‘best off Pacific people at that time. But they had good reason to revolt: they had the prerequisites to govern themselves effectively (which highly fragmented communities like the New Hebrides did not have at that time), and they were understandably offended by a third-rate administration. This administration was not generally oppressive in the usual sense it wasn’t competent enough to be so even if it had wanted to.

A similar New Zealand administration in the Cook Islands did not meet that reaction, not because it was virtuous, but because the population was small and scattered and in most of the islands tended to regard itself as rather lucky to be a colony. The shortlived Returned Soldiers protest movement in Rarotonga in the 1920 s was action by those who were better off than most, but who had seen much better still overseas.

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gratitude towards or acceptance of the dominant power is common in small isolated communities who have few material advantages whether Niuatoputapu in Tonga, or the isolated islands of any of the Pacific colonies or independent states.

Industrial relations in the South Pacific are described as ‘a long history of continuous reaction on the part of labour and the use of various forms of protest’ (p 26). Australia and New Zealand must have been in a constant state of civil war, with workers suffering from massive oppression, if we are to interpret the meaning of strikes the way Dr Mamak does.

The strikes quoted as examples of oppression are certainly not where wages and conditions were worst. They are just where we would expect them and where they are found in industrialised societies in those places where wages and conditions are best, and the pressure points where opportunities to improve them further are greatest the airlines, wharves, mines, etc.

We are told (p 32) that ‘in general, trade unions did not originate directly from outside pressures but emerged spontaneously out of the common needs and interests of South Pacific labour’. This is simply not true. Apart from influences from India in the case of Indian workers in Fiji, the Labour government in the United Kingdom in the immediate post-war period sent trade union specialists to Fiji. The unions in the Cook Island were set up as the result of activity by New Zealand unions, which also attempted without success to establish unions in Western Samoa. Even today unionism hardly exists there or in Tonga and many of the smaller countries. In New Caledonia, the unions have close linkages both in origin and action with those in France. ‘Today there is little evidence of ethnic exclusiveness in Fiji’s trade unions’ (p 35), and ‘the major occupational categories are ethnically mixed and the new work setting helps to make ethnicity irrelevant’ (p 27). The implications of such a statement, without further explanation, are inexcusable.

Everybody knows that the Fiji shipping industry, the waterside workers, the army, the Native Lands Trust Board and a variety of other fields are dominated by Fijians; and that the transport industry, small businesses and professions, the Sugar Corporation and tertiary education, are all dominated by Indians. Fijian school teachers and Indian school teachers actually have separate trade unions. One should not overstate differences, but Dr Mamak grossly understates them.

Carrying on his image, he lumps ‘Fijians and Indo- Fijians’ together in all cases and contrasts them with the ‘whites’ (p3O). This is really too simplistic; he is simply avoiding the truth. The word ‘white’ is spelt with a small ‘w’ but islanders’ and any other nonwhite category are spelt with capital letters. To bolster a crease in the size of white workforce in some industries like mining. In Nauru, for example, over 60% of the workforce in 1978 was expatriate’.

The clear implication is that it was white, but as Dr Mamak knows (but does not say), it is mainly Micronesian, Polynesian and Chinese. Nor does he relate such things as, for example, that work undertaken by a Nauruan (in 1978 certainly) and paid for at $1.40 per hour, was paid for at only 42 cent per hour if done by a fellow Micronesian from neighbouring Kiribati. The whole subject merits honest analysis, rather than distortion.

Dr Mamak quotes his own doctoral thesis as showing that ‘no outright opposition to physical or cultural differences such as religion, language or dietary habits were expressed by either Indo-Fijians or Fijians towards each other ...’

Not to Dr Mamak, understandably. Given the differences of language, culture, religion and so on, relations between Fijian and Indian people have been much more cordial than for communities of equivalent degrees of difference in most other parts of the world. But the implications of closeness and harmony that Dr Mamak suggest are simply naive.

Extensive and widespread exploitation of workers (paying much below award wages, requiring extensive overtime without any payment, substandard conditions and so on) are common in Fiji. But they are not generally associated with white employers. No mention of such realities is made.

Inaccurate generalisations; abound. It is said, for example,, that ‘racial pervasiveness tends; to override ethnicity’ in the; South Pacific (p3B). Given hi& definition this means that the; gap between whites and nonwhites overrides differences between non-white workers.

This would be true in Fiji and Papua New Guinea (though much less true in relation tc Koreans and Filipinos working in those places than in relation] to different Melanesian ethnic groups), not true in the mining industry of West New Guinea/ substantially untrue for New Caledonia (where white French, Asians ano weak case with loaded terminology, he uses the term Indo-Fijian to refer to the Indian people of Fiji but does not use the equivalent term Sino-Fijian, (though relations between Chinese and Fijians have generally been more harmonious than those between Indians and Fijians), or Euro- Fijian. The image is furthered by quoting derogatory terms such as ‘coon’, ‘nigger’, etc, which some whites used in respect of non-whites, but not quoting the equivalent equally derogatory terms used, for example, by Fijians and Indians to describe each other, or by various islanders to describe Europeans, and so on.

Conveying the same image (p 29) he says the Bougainville Mungkas Association was founded on the ethnic distinctiveness of Bougainvillean workers, in ‘contradistinction’ to other ethnic groups employed by the company.

Most readers will interpret from his wording that it was vis-a-vis Europeans, though in fact it was vis-a-vis other Melanesians.

Wide differences existed between whites and islanders in pay and conditions. It is a very important topic, there is discrimination, and it merits honest discussion and presentation of facts. He presents some facts in relation to white and indigenous staff at Bougainville Copper, but then goes on to speak of ‘... the in- Wage protesters in Fiji - but is it necessarily those with the least who make the most noise?

Riot police in Papua New Guinea where violent tribal differences suggest clashes between cultures.

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Polynesians are at times closer to each other than any of them are with Melanesians), partly true for Nauru (where the social gap between Nauruans and others is just as wide as that between Europeans and others I think Chinese would be at least as socially distinct not only from Nauruans but also from Gilbertese or Tuvaluans, as from Europeans or the Nauruans themselves). And relations between Korean or Taiwanese workers in the fishing industry in a number of Pacific countries seem to me to do little to support his thesis.

There are just so many of these hack generalisations which do not bear serious examination.

His relationship between race, class and ethnicity is made easy (p 39) by having only two categories - ‘whites’ and ‘lslanders’. Fijians and Indians, Melanesian New Caledonians and Vietnamese, Chinese and Nauruans are all lumped together as ‘lslanders’. This may well be Dr Mamak’s perception, but few Pacific islanders would see it that way.

There is an almost total ignoring of the major cultural divisions between Asian and indigenous people in Fiji, Nauru, New Caledonia, American Samoa, Tahiti, Papua New Guinea, Solomons, Guam or elsewhere. ‘Ethnicity may be emphasised by whites as a diversionary tactic - that is, to prevent antagonism from being directed solely at them’ (p 43). He is right. But in this case ethnicity is played down by an Asian author as a diversionary tactic to imply that there is not indigenous antagonism to his category.

By the end of the first chapter, any dislike, discrimination )r social distance has come to imply ‘rebellion’, though the word itself has gone except in the title.

The next two chapters pre- :ent five case studies. The cases ire very interesting and well nerit study. The only gross naccuracy is the title, ‘Reunion in the South Pacific : ive case studies’. The studies re that of the Bougainville opper miners’ strike in 1975 y Alexander Mamak and dchard Bedford, the Indian workers’ strike in Fiji in 1920, ie Maasina Rule in Solomon Islands by Hugh Laracy, the Parihaka movement in New Zealand from the late 1860 s to the 1880 s by Daniel Lyons, and the resistance of the Australian Aboriginal Gurindji at Wattie Creek by Hannah Middleton.

Alas, there is not a rebellion among them they are two strikes and three protest movements. This is a pity, because there have been some real rebellions in the history of the Pacific, including its colonial history, which is what the authors wish to highlight.

The greatest rebellion in the Pacific in the last 100 years is the Free Papua Movement against Indonesian colonialism in Irian Jaya. It still leads to many deaths and much suffering. The Mau in Western Samoa against New Zealand, particularly in the 19305, and against Germany the generation before, was a strong and effective movement. The rebellion of the Leeward Islanders in French Polynesia in the 1880 s, the rebellion of Melanesians in New Caledonia against French colonial rule particularly in 1878 - and the New Zealand race wars in the 1860 s and 1870 s all merit examination. The case study they present of New Zealand is particularly interesting, though they were more a protest movement than a rebellion.

Readers are told (p 44) that ‘rebellions occur because of basic social transformation such as the introduction of a capitalist economy and the breakdown of traditional socio-economic and political life’. The rebellions in Tonga, where they are best documented, had nothing to do with the capitalist economy, nor with the breakdown of traditional, socio-economic and political life they were an established part of it. Nor is the continuing rebellion in Irian Jaya caused by either ‘the introduction of capitalist economy’ or ‘the breakdown of traditional socio-economic and political life’. This is sociology at its sloppiest.

The case studies are generally excellent, but the one by Mamak and Bedford on the Bougainville strike does not reach the level of accuracy of the others. They rightly show the major differences in income levels between Papua New Guineans and expatriates for the same work in Papua New Guinea, but imply that this is because of the wickedness of the company. They need to add two riders (i) that the independent government of Papua New Guinea asked the company to hold down its local rates so as not to put pressure on the overall Papua New Guinea salary structure; and (ii) the Papua New Guinea Government will not allow expatriates security of tenure, equality of opportunity, the right to buy land, right of employment for their children, or various other privileges which Papua New Guineans enjoy.

What they are discussing is one of the most serious problems facing the Pacific today but distorting it does not help the search for a solution.

The final chapter, by Dr Ahmed Ali, is generally a good summary, though it too makes maximum mileage out of European/non-European conflict, clearly implying, for example, that ‘greed for economic gain’ is something exclusively associated with Europeans. Not everybody in Fiji would agree with that! And we are told (p 133) that most Pacific people ‘constitute a viable group of wage earners, plantation workers, dock hands and communal land owners who at various times have made up a single revolutionary class’. Really? Or again (pi 34) ‘the dehumanising aspect of colonial society oppression contrasts dramatically with the egalitarianism of traditional societies .. There were some very egalitarian societies in the Pacific, but they were the exception rather than the rule.

Likewise we are told that the Maoris are ‘engaged in a national liberation movement’ but no mention is made of the much more significant Fijian Nationalist Party, the Kanak Liberation Front, the Free Papuan Movement, and so on.

A much more accurate description of rebellions comes on the last page, where Dr Ali says *... rebellions must be viewed in the context of a struggle for power between various groups. This normally develops from a perceived sense of relative deprivation and frustration, and the belief that desired change can come about through collective effort’. This indeed is true.

But the final paragraph, saying that ‘in the South Pacific region rebellion has been the major aspect of group relations ever since the beginning of contact with Western culture’ is not really accurate. If one defines rebellion as broadly as that, it is true for everywhere in the world and for all phases of history. An accurate and objective study of race, class and rebellion in the Pacific would be particularly timely, but it has yet to be written.

Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldiers take time off duaring an Irian Jaya border patrol, an operation which is a direct by-product of tensions between Indonesians and some Melanesians ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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So reads the final paragraph of a statement issued at the end of a meeting of the ‘political commissars’ of the New Hebrides’ ruling Vanuaaku Party held at Tagabe, Port- Vila, in April.

The reason for their concern was plain: on the eve of the country’s independence (scheduled for July 30) there are clear signs of a revival of interest in the New Hebrides by such figures as the Hawaiibased real estate developer Eugene Peacock, who made a packet in the late ’6os out of buying land on Santo and selling it to Americans captivated by the idea of living on a Pacific Island. Peacock’s scheme was finally squashed when the condominium government in 1971 made it illegal to subdivide land and profit from it.

Peacock, interviewed early this year by English journalist Christopher Dobson his articles were published in an English weekly news magazine and an Australian daily said he is ‘awaiting the opportunities of independence’. ‘At least, this year I shall know what I can do with the land. There is no doubt in my mind that Santo’s future lies with tourism.’

Also showing renewed signs of activity is the so-called Phoenix Foundation, an organisation animated by extreme private-enterprise fundamentalism based on concepts of ‘no government’, ‘voluntary taxes’, and untrammelled free enterprise.

According to Dobson, the chief fount of its ideas is Dr John Hospers, a professor of philosophy at the University of South California. Dr Hospers stood for the presidency of the United States in 1972, as a candidate of the Libertarian Party.

He won one vote from the Electoral College.

The Phoenix Foundation was set up in the ’7os by Michael Oliver, who looks upon Hospers as his ‘guru’.

Oliver is of Lithuanian Jewish origin. For a while during World War II he was an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp, but has since done handsomely as a real estate developer in Carson City, Nevada.

The foundation is well known in the Pacific for its 1972 exploits on Minerva Reef between Fiji and Tonga (the idea was to build a concrete city on stilts on the usually submerged reef)- The venture came to grief when Tonga’s king arrived in the royal yacht, tore down the Minerva ‘flag’, and claimed the reef for his kingdom. There was a later, similar attempt on Abaco, one of the major islands in the Bahamas. It too failed.

But Oliver sees new opportunities on Santo, where he once owned considerable real estate. Long a patron of Santo’s Jimmy Stevens, leader of the Na-Griamel movement on Santo (he admits paying the fares for Stevens’ visit to the US last year), Oliver told Dobson; ‘I want Jimmy Stevens to become independent. I said to him that he must have real democracy on Santo.’

Proof of the foundation’s active interest was the April visit to the New Hebrides in the company of Stevens of a Carson City lawyer, Thomas Eck, an emissary of the foundation.

Eck, as befits an associate of the Oliver operation, is an expert in real estate. But no matter. According to Oliver, he went to the New Hebrides ‘to give some help on the constitution’ of ‘Vemerana’, the new ‘state’ proclaimed by Stevens on Santo, which he says he has ‘taken out of the New Hebrides’.

Interviewed by PIM on a visit to Sydney, Peter Taurakoto, private secretary to Chief Minister Walter Lini, said that Fr Lini had been approached by various people about the legality of Mr Eck’s visit. The chief minister replied that until independence immigration procedures were still in the hands of the British and French residencies, and that he could therefore do nothing about it. Mr Taurakoto added that at about the time he left the New Hebrides for Australia he believed an approach had been made by the British residency to the French about Eck’s status as a visitor.

But there are certain obstacles in the path of these planners-from-outside of the future of Santo. • The US Government has warned Phoenix Foundation leaders that if they sponsor an insurrection in the New Hebrides they will be arrested and charged. (It seems that it is for this reason that the Pheonix Foundation recently transferred activities to Amsterdam, where Robert J.

Doom, a Dutch-born economist and investment adviser, and Harry Schultz, publisher of a financial newsletter, run its affairs.) On the question of violence and insurrection, Doom told Dobson: ‘We are not involved with mercenaries. We are peaceful and remain so. We cannot of course say that there will be no violence because of political upheaval, but people should be happy with us because we calm things down? • The British and French Governments have sent two senior police officers familiar with the local scene with no other brief than that of assessing potential secessionist troubles. • The implacable stand against secessionist moves by the New Hebrides Government, and by the influential Independent Opposition headed by former Chief Minister Fr Gerard Leymang.

French anthropologist Jean Guiart has said of the present situation in the New Hebrides (PIM Apr pi 1): ‘... it’s grossly mistaken for Europeans to meddle in a situation of this kind on the eve of a country’s independence.’

Whatever else can be said of the Peacocks, Olivers, Dooms, and the rest, what they are doing appears to be a textbook example of just what Professor Guiart thinks ought not to be done. Malcolm Salmon.

U.S. lawyer Thomas Eck and bearded Jimmy Stevens - ‘New State’ advocates. 18 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980 D

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The discovery on March 31 of the horribly mutilated body of kidnap victim Olivier Breaud, son of wealthy French banker Jean Breaud, made with the reluctant co-operation of the three murderers, answered a few questions which had puzzled everybody up to that point (PIM May p 17). But at the same time it raised many more which will be with us for years to come.

Hitherto, the behaviour and motives of the kidnappers had definitely not made sense. Above all, if their aim had really been as reported to obtain a huge ransom why had they killed their victim, after only one lame attempt to contact the Breaud family? Once an autopsy had been performed, however, the whole look of the case changed. The most shocking revelation was that the Le Goff husband and wife team and their accomplice Daniel Chelle had literally beaten Olivier Breaud to death in slow stages, over a period of 24 hours, breaking practically all his bones in the process.

The only possible explanation for this monstrous cruelty in the worst Gestapo tradition is, of course, that the three sadists were not after money at all but were seeking revenge. What sort of grudge they may have had against the Breauds is far from clear, but it is a well-known fact that they were customers of long standing with the Banque de Tahiti, which belongs to this powerful family, and it seems that they personally knew Olivier.

By the time the funeral took place, in the presence of a wide cross-section of grim-faced political, religious and civic leaders, the two local newspapers were pouring out stories about the murderers’ lurid past and strange business activities.

Although one of them, Yves Le Goff, had already committed a murder in France in the 19605, and all of them had previous criminal records, in addition to having gone bankrupt after various shady dealings, they were warmly welcomed in Tahiti as bona fide investors.

Even more incredible is the fact that when, after a few years in Tahiti, they decided to go into the textile business (of which they had no previous experience) the local authorities not only encouraged them to do so but also assisted them financially.

Among other things they obtained a SUS4OO 000 loan at exceptionally low interest to build and equip a weaving mill, exemption from customs duties on raw materials, and, to top it all, a firm promise that the administration would pay the whole work force, 50 men strong, for the first six months of operations! During a post-murder inspection of the ‘textile factory’ it was discovered that only three looms out of 40 functioned, and that the supply of thread was barely enough to keep them going for one day.

Why were these convicted criminals and crooked businessmen given such favoured treatment? The answer to this pertinent question was first whispered, then hinted at, and finally printed in big, bold type in the press, whereas the government TV and radio news broadcasters kept mum. Simply formulated, the answer was that the politicians and officials who had gone out of their way to help the ‘investors’ had also sponsored another highly private enterprise sex orgies organised by the murderers in their swank villa on the West coast of Tahiti. The select party-goers must all have been incredibly gullible or terribly drunk or both at the same time since they had cheerfully allowed their hosts to take very colourful pictures of them in full action, thereby opening the door wide to blackmail.

Incidentally, the gendarmes found not only these incriminating still pictures in the villa, but also a movie of a do-it-yourself pornographic performance. According to persistent press reports, this movie was produced with the generous assistance of some technicians from the local TV station.

Of course, this accusation was promptly denied (Take my word for it’) by the former director, Henri Sire, who was recently packed off to Noumea.

One of the most frequently photographed visitors at Le Goff’ s porno-palace turned out to be Vice-President Francis Sanford’s principal secretary, Paul Bourgeois. Although no formal charges were, or could be, brought against him, the Autonomist party bosses held him mainly responsible for the many unwarranted favours bestowed on the phony industrialists, and he was forced to resign. Many more heads will probably roll - both figuratively and literally - when the infernal killers are eventually brought to trial and start supplying more details about their various activities and associates, as they are bound to do, since they have nothing more to lose, the penalty for a crime of this type being death by guillotine.

The question most often heard in Tahiti these last weeks, however, is why metropolitan French crooks and criminals should be let in at all? From all quarters restrictive measures are being suggested, some of them very far-reaching indeed.

Strangely enough, the most ineffectual proposal was made by a group of close friends of Mrs Tila Breaud who began distributing a petition, addressed to President Giscard d’Estaing, and vaguely asking for stricter legislation and more rigorous justice. Droves of indignant citizens signed it nevertheless.

The Gaullist deputy Gaston Flosse, whose Tahoeraa Huiraatira party recently came out for full internal selfgovernment (PIM May p 27), squarely blamed the French immigration police for laxity and negligence, and tabled a bill which, if adopted, would make it compulsory for all resident Frenchmen with a criminal record to report to the police once a month. He was joined by the second deputy for French Polynesia, Jean Juventin, who was elected on an Autonomist ticket. Highly embarrassed, Minister for Overseas Territories Paul Dijoud had to veto the proposed measure which he did by branding it ‘discriminatory’ and an ‘infringement of civil liberties’.

As usual, the most radical solution was proposed by the maverick president of the Polynesian Liberation Front, Oscar Temaru, who publicly chided all other political leaders for lacking the courage to face the problem squarely. Briefly his message was: ‘Our problem is not simply a matter of stopping French criminals and crooks from settling in our islands. They form only a small portion of the total number of French immigrants who, since the bomb tests began, have been pouring into Tahiti at the rate of a thousand a year. ‘The French want to continue these deadly tests and they plan to grab all the wealth our ocean contains. This is why it is the deliberate policy of the Paris government to swamp the country with French settlers. ‘lf we don’t stop them now, we shall soon be a minority in our own country. This is what has already happened in New Caledonia. Our only salvation is therefore to achieve independence as fast as possible.’ 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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TROPICALITIES For Mona Bailey ‘Big is beaut’

When Mona Bailey arrived in New Zealand from Apia in 1944, she could say only ‘yes, please’ and ‘no, thank you’ in English. Today, she owns three ‘big girl’ boutiques in Auckland that draw clients not only from all over the city but also from Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

She also conducts a sizeable mail order business.

In 1960, she returned to Apia, married and stayed there till 1968. Now, she has four children, all at secondary school.

Besides running a home and business, she lectures to women’s groups on the fashion problems of the ‘overendowed’ and has also featured on a Radio Pacific talk-back show.

Mrs Bailey understands the problems of ‘big girls’ she weighs in at 16 stone, having reduced from 22.

Her business began as a hobby five years ago and grew out of the fact that Samoan women, especially ministers’ and chiefs’ wives, could not buy pulatasis in Auckland but had to import them from home. Otherwise, they had no choice but to wear European dress. Since many required supersizes, this posed problems.

The clothes Mrs Bailey designs have a definite Pacific flavour if only because New Zealand life has an increasingly Pacific content. Pool parties and outdoor entertaining call for kaftans, mu’umu’us and patio wear.

She certainly does not cater solely for Pacific Island women. Indeed 80% of her customers are Pakehas whose size almost ostracises them from a society not geared to the idea that large is lovely even if rosy, billowy and amiable. For this reason, she sees her business as a service to a sector of the community never previously catered for, and often the victims of frustration, foil) and fear.

Mrs Bailey finds that their size depresses many women, reducing them to tears, driving some even to the brink of suicide.

Stores do not help. Such large sizes as they carry tend to dowdiness, lack of colour, cut and imagination, suiting the wearer about as well as a top hat. Buyers for the stores have little idea of what ‘big girls’ want and wear. Manufacturers do not know what to make for them. Therefore, virtually no one specialises in large sizes which in most shops generally go no higher than 18. Mrs Bailey stocks up to size 36, a rarity in Auckland unlike Sydney, which has accepted the fact that the big woman needs public awareness of her needs.

Mrs Bailey regards good grooming as essential for the big woman who will stand out no matter how she tries to hide, to shrink like a cold monkey, to play down her presence.

Therefore, she aims to build confidence. With help and advice, she reckons she saves five marriages a year.

She recommends that the woman who makes Playboy’s playmates look like severe case of undernourishment should never go shopping with a friend, much less a slim one.

Therefore her shops have not fitting rooms but consulting bays for women who normally lack courage to ask for a size to fit a 60-inch bust or an 80-inch hip.

Some manufacturers make specially for Mrs Bailey. What she cannot get from them, a team of outworkers makes.

She also intends going into jewellery and accessories, further making hers the first boutiques, she believes, catering for ‘big girls’ with young styles.

T can’t sew and I can’t draw', she confesses but she can put her ideas across, illustrating, elaborating, criticising, illuminating.

Women coming into her shop seldom leave with only one item. Some buy a whole wardrobe, will spend $lOOO in one crack and leave no longer feeling as if burdened with the misery of the Wandering Jew, Molly G. Elliott in Auckland.

Papa Doc takes to the sea Sir John Guise, one of the father figures of Papua New Guinea politics and a former governor-general of PNG, will sail in one of the Milne Bay canoes taking part in the second stage of the Festival Armada, which will be one of the highlights of the Third South Pacific Festival of Arts to be held from the end of June into July.

He will sail from Mullins Harbour to Port Moresby, a voyage of seven days.

The world leaves its calling card The New Hebrideans considered the New Hebrides the centre of the universe, and why not?

The centre must be somewhere and what better place than a verdant chain of isles with spokes radiating to the rest of the world, totally indifferent to the rest of the world and unaffected (they thought) by outside influences? The glossy illustrated brochures speak of lucid emerald green sea water that folds you in its satiny embrace, and tropic scents with clean white sand beneath you and coral of vivid hues to gaze on.

True! But they don’t mention the medley of colours that one now finds on the sandy bottom: orange, bright blue, shamrock green, silver and Mona Bailey When Mr and Mrs Brian Nichols of Alofa on Niue became the parents of twin boys just over two years ago they faced the problem which has faced so many parents what to name the children. But their final choice was something out of the ordinary when they called the boys Hercules and Orion. They took the names from Royal New Zealand Hercules transports and Orion surveillance aircraft which often fly low over the island. Now the Lockheed Corporation in USA, manufacturers of both aircraft types, has given the boys presents for their second birthday models of a Hercules and an Orion. 21 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

gold glorious colours. But not coral alas, aluminium and tin of jettisoned soft drink cans and beer cans.

The world has reached back to the centre of the universe and left its calling card.

There was a time it could almost be ‘once upon a time’ not a skerrick, not a scrap, not a morsel of food, drinking or eating utensils or any personal belongings would be left lying around outside one’s own area.

Poison, and the implicit belief by the islanders in its powers in the hands of certain people, was the deterrent. Anyone wishing someone else harm could gather something used by him and have a ‘clever’ person (someone who could make poison) work poison on that person somewhat in the same way as Australian Aborigines point the bone.

No wonder everyone was careful to leave nothing that they had used lying around.

Workers in a hostile (i.e., not their home ground, or that of a friendly village) region would carefully collect any scraps of food left over from a meal and transport them back to their own area. Under no circumstances would they use the bush as a toilet away from home. The fear engendered by poison is something to deplore but the side effect (the silver lining in the cloud) is that absolutely no rubbish was ever left lying around.

With the gradual influence from the outside world and the introduction of people from other islands (mostly government workers) this fear has been gradually broken down and certainly outsiders are contemptuous of the threat of poison.

Hence, pollution to an astounding degree on the beaches and in the sea. Tins are thrown aside with abandon and bottles smashed against a convenient tree or rock resulting in deep cuts for the unwary bather.

It is a natural result of the breaking down of old customs and values. What is wrong that with education and travel so often comes that which is undesirable? Katherine Paul Law catches up with the serpents of a bogus Eden A correspondent in Funafuti, Tuvalu, here backgrounds our report (RIM May p 9) on the bursting of the Texas ‘Green Valley Acres’ land bubble into which Tuvaluans poured tens of thousands of their hard-earned dollars.

The hopes of numerous Tuvaluans faded at the end of March with the receipt by Prime Minister Toalipi Lauti of a letter from Dr Joseph Finney of Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr Finney lived for about six months in 1971 on one of the islands of Tuvalu, Nanumaga.

Some of his Tuvaluan friends had written to him to ask his advice concerning land which they had bought in ‘Green Valley’ in Texas. He made inquiries with the Texas State authorities and the US Government and, as he put it: ‘The news is bad. The people of Nanumaga are victims of fraud. The developers of Green Valley have obtained more than SUSIB millon by selling bad land to persons lacking information, and have done so by making false statements about the land.’

With his letter Dr Finney enclosed copies of a letter he had received from the US Federal Trade Commission in Dallas, Texas, together with a copy of the press release put out by the commission’s head office in Washington. This pointed out that on March 4, 1980, the FTC had asked a federal court in Texas to require three landdevelopment companies Southwest Sunsites Inc, Green Valley Acres Inc, and Green Valley Acres, Inc 11, all of Encino, California to freeze all future payments, estimated to be worth $lO million, for some 40 000 acres of land in West Texas. About 60% of the lots involved were sold by brokers Porter Realty Inc. of Coral Gables, Florida. It then gave details of some of the instances of misrepresentation alleged to have been made by those involved. At the end it listed three persons named in the application in addition to the corporate respondents Sidney Gross, Edwin Kritzler and Irvin Porter. The American ambassador subsequently confirmed that the injunction had been granted.

As anyone who has followed the fortunes of Tuvalu will know, the name of Sidney Gross rings a very loud bell.

Tuvalu’s brief and unhappy love affair with Sidney Gross is something the country’s leaders would like to forget as soon as possible. Having itself been taken in by the smoothtalking Mr Gross, the government now has to face the unpalatable fact that many of its citizens were also taken in by his business colleagues. The people of Nanumaga are said to have subscribed between SASO 000 and $6O 000, paying SUSIOOO per acre for land worth no more than $5O an acre, according to the Texas attorney-general. On Niutao, too, a part-Tuvaluan, Mr Bula Tokotasi O’Brien, persuaded the people to hand over some SA2O 000 for the land in Texas.

One wonders what will happen to the flashy silver cup he received from a grateful company for being ‘salesman of the month’, and which was included among the independence gifts now kept in the prime minister’s residence.

In his letter Dr Finney urged the prime minister to do something to help the people try to recover their money. It is suggested that an attorney be briefed to collate the evidence of which plenty is available to help the FTC bring a prosecution. Understandably, the leaders of the Nanumaga and Niutao people are still somewhat numbed by the news. The secretary to government stated on Radio Tuvalu that although the government had pointed out the dangers of getting involved with purchases of this kind, it was still prepared to see what could be done to retrieve the losses if the people as a whole decided that that was what they wanted.

From the figures quoted by the FTC it is obvious that the Tuvaluan people are not the only ones to have been taken in indeed many people on Funafuti know people in Kiribati who ‘invested’ in the same project. It is to be hoped that those responsible will never again be able to perpetrate such despicable frauds on their fellow men.

Picture shows a group of Tuvaluans on the Green Acres land. They were flown there when doubts about the land began to circulate. Experts say water would give life to the sandy plain, but the problems of getting sufficient water are too great. 22 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE. 1980 TROPICALITIES

USAAF Sgt finds old Fiji flag Fiji has got back what is possibly its only remaining preindependence governor’s flag thanks to a US air force sergeant stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, USA.

TSgt Martin W. O. Collett Jr returned the flag at a ceremony in Washington in March. He discovered it while stationed in Fiji in 1969. ‘I was looking for a Union Jack which had either flown over the Government Building or the Government House,’ he said. His search took him to the governorgeneral’s mansion, and to a soldier on the staff of the governor-general’s aide-decamp. ‘He told me to look through a cabinet they had there and pick out what I wanted from 10 or 12 Union Jacks waiting to be destroyed,’ Collett said. He made his find while looking through the rumpled contents of the cabinet.

It is a Union Jack, but with a circle in the centre containing a hand-painted crest flanked by two Fijians. There is also a motto, written in Fijian, which Collett said translates roughly into: ‘Fear God and honour the king.’

It is tom and frayed. Originally about 4m long it is now only a little more than 3m. ‘When I saw it my first thought was that this flag shouldn’t be destroyed. Just seeing the hand work involved, I knew it would be historically significant. ‘My next thought was that I’d save it and some day return it,’ said Collett.

His chance to do that didn’t come until July of last year. He and his wife Fijian Adi were vacationing in the islands, i was trying to trace her family tree while we were there,’ said Collett.

In the process, he visited the Fiji Museum in Suva where he met the director Fergus Clunie.

The story of the flag unfolded and Clunie expressed an interest in getting it back to its homeland. ‘He told me the museum was trying to locate the last flag used before Fiji got its independence from Great Britain in 1970. During their 96 years under British rule, there were only three or so flags made for the governor. ‘Mr Clunie said the museum was gathering material for a display concerning that era under Great Britain,’ said Collett.

But efforts to locate the governors’ flags had been unsuccessful - until Collett walked into the museum.

Collett added: ‘ln colonial days flags were extremely expensive. When a flag frayed, they’d just keep on sewing it together until they had to make a new one.

While he doesn’t consider himself an historian, Collett has had five assignments throughout the Pacific and collects artifacts from the various islands and countries he visits.

Many of them are of an historical character. Why? ‘To me, learning about people and their history is fascinating,’ he said. From a news release by TSgt Mike Gose, USAAF, Langley, Virginia, USA Tuvalu: Hotel diplomacy In the first three months of this year the residents of Funafuti twice had firsthand experience of the ‘Pacific Way’, as demonstrated by the country’s leaders.

Both occasions centred on the presentation of credentials by foreign diplomats accredited to Tuvalu.

In Western and Eastern Capitals such ceremonies are usually surrounded with considerable formality. In London, for example, an incoming ambassador would be dressed in a morning suit, and would drive lop-hatted from his embassy to Buckingham Palace in an official horse-drawn carriage. The actual presentation would take place in private.

Here in Tuvalu things are done a little less formally! It is now customary for the official ‘ceremony’ to take place at a public reception in the country’s only hotel at Funafuti.

Thus it was that at the end of January United States Ambassador John Condon, and Papua New Guinea High Commissioner Dr Ako Toua, publicly presented their credentials to Governor- General Sir Fiatau Penitala Teo, and Prime Minister.

Toalipi Lauti respectively.

Those present during the ceremony heard what President Carter had written to Queen Elizabeth about the suitability of John Condon for the post and what Michael Somare thought about Dr Toua’s qualifications.

In his impromptu speech thanking the diplomats for the kind things they had said about their reception in Tuvalu the prime minister pointed out that the informal nature of the occasion typified the ‘Pacific Way’ of doing things. Indeed the friendly yet dignified atmosphere of the occasion was one which made a considerable impression on foreigners like myself who were witnessing it for the first time.

The most recent occasion was at the beginning of March when the new High Commissioner for New Zealand Michael Powles arrived to present his credentials. Once again the ceremony took place in public, although this time we did not hear what was in the actual letter. We now look forward with considerable interest to the next such demonstration of the way in which international relations are conducted in this part of the world.

A correspondent on Funafuti.

The Lustful Vicar stirs a storm A brisk business supplying imported sex films on video tape has posed a censorship problem in Fiji. The tapes, which are being sold and rented for home viewing, include some internationallyknown films which were banned from cinemas in Fiji.

Others are from the ‘quickie’ sex film market with titles including The Amorous Headmaster, The Lustful Vicar and A Thousand and One Danish Delights.

Public complaints have been made about the import of the films, but the legal position is not clear and Fiji’s censorship regulations were written before the availability of modern home video equipment made the present situation possible.

A report has been sought by the Solicitor-General, Mr Qoroniasi Bale, following a request from the Social Welfare Department.

A member of the Film Censorship Board, Mr Narayan Singh Niranjan, confirmed that complaints had been received about the advertising and circulation of the tapes. He said that movie film considered pornographic could not be imported, even for private viewing, and on that basis it would appear that video tape of similar subjects should also be banned.

Sharan Brothers Ltd, who have been importing the tapes, believe there is no law preventing the private viewing of the tapes. ‘And people who think the tapes are obscene don’t have to buy them’ commented Mr Emmanuel Sharan.

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Eggs And Anger

Chile: Pinochet’s hot taste of Fiji The unofficial rebuff which Fiji people gave in March to the President of Chile, General Pinochet, (PIM May p 9) has not gone unnoticed in the wider field of international relations.

The Fiji incident, coupled with a more formal rebuff from the Republic of the Philippines, suggests that public distaste for the Pinochet regime in Chile may be more deepseated than some governments themselves have realised. The Philippines cancelled General Pinochet’s visit only a few days before he was due to arrive, and in Fiji public reaction was a major factor in his premature departure.

Hard on the heels of what happened, there are now indications from news agencies with links in Japan and the South American continent that General Pinochet may have to call off his plans for a visit to Japan. There is speculation, too, about the outcome of his tentatively-planned visit to China.

A detailed look at what happened in Fiji suggests that General Pinochet manipulated his Fiji visit in an attempt, to bolster his international standing, but the plan failed largely through the action of church groups and trade unions.

He initially informed the Fiji Government that he and his party of 38 would welcome the opportunity for a ‘private transit’ visit on their way to the Philippines. His Foreign Policy Office announced however that he was ‘accepting an invitation to officially visit Fiji’.

The Fiji Government, puzzled but anxious not to offend, then revised its plans to provide for a full State welcome including guards of honour and a State luncheon and accommodation at Government House. A brief newspaper announcement of the arrangements was followed by protest letters and then by a statement from the powerful Pacific Conference of Churches that it would boycott all activities involved in the visit. The PCC said it could not be party to a situation which smacked of sympathy for a regime well-documented in denying human rights.

The Fiji Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, criticised the PCC for an ‘unchristian attitude’, and described the visit as an opportunity for citizens of a free country to persuade and influence General Pinochet.

Opposition mounted as the Fiji Council of Trade Unions, the University of the South Pacific Students Association, the YWCA, the Federated Airlines Staff Union and the Fiji Council of Churches mounted a campaign through press releases, letters to the editor and paid advertising.

These events occurred while the executive members of the Pacific Conference of Churches were holding a meeting in the remote Cook Islands.

When the Catholic Bishop was told of the radio broadcast of one of his flock, he declared, it was time that the Prime Minister be paid a clergy visit.

Then the combined churches of Fiji placed an advertisement in the Fiji Times encouraging churches to hold a special day of prayer for persons known to be suffering gross violations of human rights, and indicating their expectation that the Prime Minister would seriously discuss with President Pinochet the well documented cases of 39 persons arrested and missing in Chile.

Fiji citizens were encouraged to show their opposition to the visit by public, peaceful demonstrations. The government, obviously perturbed, switched the public luncheon from the Governor- General’s grounds to a nearby hotel, and it was announced that General Pinochet would not stay at the Governor- General’s house, but at the Government guest house. A subtle but significant change.

On the day of General Pinochet’s visit, the arrival times of his visit bounced from 11 am to 11 pm (purposefully?) confusing would-be demonstrators at the Nadi International Airport. Local papers once again were filled with letters to the editor, articles, photos, and paid ads. The National Youth Council joined with the trade unions and Students Association to state that by welcoming and entertaining General Pinochet Fiji was recognising him as legitimate leader, condoning the inhuman regime, inconsistently presenting Fiji’s foreign policy and wrongly using Fiji taxpayers’ money entertaining a mass murderer comparable to Idi Amin and Hitler.

Two hours before General Pinochet’s scheduled arrival time, radio news from Australia announced that President Marcos had cancelled Pinochet’s state visit to the Philippines. Churches and trade unions in the Philippines had staged massive demonstrations even before the visit of the Chilean dictator. Fiji was left to entertain solely the unwanted general.

The evening was balmy, the crowd quiet but determined. A group of Fijians wearing traditional grass skirts performed ceremonial mourning. Others wore black arm bands, chanted protests and held placards in Spanish and English. About 1500 people lined the streets to protest against the general’s visit to Fiji. Since airline workers were protesting, Qantas management staff had to service the Lan Chile 707 when it landed at 11.30 pm. Heavily guarded cars emerged from the airstrip to be met by a chanting crowd; ‘Chile si, Pinochet no’.

The Pinochet car whisked through the crowd, but not before several eggs and water bombs splattered across the windshield.

Early next morning, it was obvious that General Pinochet knew he was unwelcome in Fiji. ‘Due to cancellation of the Philippines visit, General Pinochet decided to cut short his visit to Fiji,’ said an official announcement. In fact he fled Decorated with leaves and holding anti-Pinochet placards, demonstrators line the roadside.

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at 10.30 am, without even paying his respects to Suva, government house or the Suva demonstrators. Radio reports from Australia and the USA predicted this widespread show of distaste for Chile’s regime would cause a drastic change in the general’s plans to visit Japan and possibly China later this year.

Fiji is a small country but its people are not afraid to speak up on issues that upset them.

Of all the mail received by local newspapers only one indicated half-heartedly he did not find anything wrong with the visit of General Pinochet or any others to Fiji. ‘For the Almighty will punish the wrong-doer whoever he may be.’ It appeared to most of the devout Christians here, that the Almighty was already at work.

Dianne Goodwillie in Suva.

A VETERAN’S

View Of Png

A ustralian writer and photographer JAMES SINCLAIR recently went back to visit Papua New Guinea, the country where he served for many years up to the time of independence as a District Officer and District Commissioner. Here's what he had to say about the capital.

Port Moresby, together with some general observations on PNG today: I was eagerly looking forward to returning to the country where most of my adult life was spent and which continues to claim my interest and affection. Most old hands would agree, I feel sure, that the process of establishing life in Australia after many years in PNG is difficult and indeed painful; I have certainly found it so.

At first sight there was little change in the physical appearance of Port Moresby, which was never one of my favourite places. There are a number of high-rise buildings completed and under construction in the main business district, characterless in the modern steelconcrete-glass architectural style, and additional development in the headquarters of government at Waigani, but not much else immediately apparent. The city is vaguely grubby, though. General urban maintenance is slipping and there is a crying need for lavish applications of paint. Ugly security fences assault the eye at every turn, and there is no doubt that they are necessary.

The roads are good, thronged with an enormous number of Japanese vehicles, mostly late models. (The Japanese themselves are much in evidence at the principal hotels.) I was told that it is now a difficult and expensive matter to keep an older car on the road, for skihed mechanics are hard to find.

General stores like Steamships and Burns Philp used to be known for the high quality of the merchandise they sold.

Good cheap clothing from Asia was once readily available; now the stores seem to be full of sleazy rubbish selling at high prices in kina, and the kina is currently valued at $A 1.3! Oh, there are still specialty shops handling good stuff, but these are beyond the purses of the multitude of people from all over PNG who crowd the streets of the nation’s capital.

The cost of food and drink, clothing, transport and shelter in Port Moresby today is so great that one wonders how the ordinary man survives on the minimum urban wage.

During my stay, the city was plagued by power failures almost daily. Breakdowns in power generating machinery and a critical shortage of engineers were the cause. In the massive air-conditioned central government buildings at Waigani, constructive work is impossible when the power fails. We in Australia are used to power failures. Lord knows, but most of us have, or can afford, standby measures not available to the average national resident of Port Moresby.

The current difficulties with the maintenance of the power supply highlights the continuing dependence of PNG on outside expertise in so many areas. Localisation is still rightly the national aim, but in the past few years the government has been forced to relax the policy in order to keep the machinery of state operating. And not only of state readers of major Australian newspapers have become accustomed to the appearance of frequent advertisements by private companies in PNG as well as the government, seeking staff in an extraordinary variety of fields. PNG seems destined to continue along the path of reliance upon the capitalist system that rules most of the world outside the communist bloc and her dependency on such outside aid seems unlikely to lessen significantly in the immediate future.

I had the pleasure of meeting a number of old friends, national officers mostly, and I did not sense any particular animosity among the ordinary run of people towards Australians of the colonial era.

Indeed, one of the principal topics of conversation in Port Moresby was the report by the now-departed public prosecutor, Mr Kevin Egan, and his emphatic endorsement of the kiap system of the old Australian administration.

Did I think that this system Port Moresby’s outer urban sprawl-good roads, busy, growing, but vaguely grubby Police move back trade union leader Apisai Tora during the Nadi Airport demonstration against President Pinochet of Chile. 26 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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could be reintroduced, I was asked by Rotarians, business people and men in government, in view of the apparent breakdown of law and order in some parts of the country? And of course the answer had to be, no. The entire fabric of life and government within which the kiap system operated has largely vanished, now that PNG is an independent state.

Another question that is sure to generate impassioned debate in PNG today is the pros and cons of provincial government. The concept of provincial government is enshrined within the Constitution of PNG, and no doubt will so remain, for it is hard to change such a hallowed document.

Every province now has its own provincial government, complete with premier, assembly, ministers and bureaucracy, with considerable and increasing financial and administrative powers and responsibilities. The cost in straight money terms is great, but many observers (and many of them Papua New Guineans, let me say) are concerned about the ultimate cost to PNG in political and human terms.

Certain administrative secretaries in the provinces (the nearest equivalent to the district commissioners of the Australian administration) poured out their hearts to me in a disturbing way about the waste and inefficiency of the provincial governments, and the increasing neglect of the people in the villages.

Those that support the system point out, fairly enough, that the provincial governments have scarcely been functioning long enough for final judgments to yet be made. Had not a policy of decentralisation been followed in PNG, they say, regions such as the North Solomons and the Gazelle would surely have broken away from the independent PNG State.

Now that Michael Somare and his government have fallen and been replaced by Sir Julius Chan and his colleagues it seems certain that the process of decentralisation of power from Port Moresby to the provinces will continue, for Fr John Momis is now in office, and he was one of the principal architects of provincial government.

The possibility that this time Michael Somare would lose office seemed to be widely accepted in Port Moresby while I was there. Nobody with personal knowledge of the man, however, would imagine that Somare has run his race.

I would be very surprised if Sir Julius Chan does not find the preservation of the coalition that put him into power a difficult matter. We could well see Somare back in the saddle should the Chan coalition founder.

Whatever the criticisms that can be made about the State of Papua New Guinea, one thing cannot be denied: the country has weathered the stormy seas of independence in a way that many observers would have thought unlikely. The future is another thing, but a lot of the credit for the past must go to Michael Somare.

It’S Plain Mr

Albert Henry

Former Cook Islands Premier Sir Albert Henry was stripped of his knighthood by order of Queen Elizabeth II in April. WILLIAM GASSON tells the story in a despatch from Wellington.

When Cook Islands Premier Albert Henry learnt in 1974 that he was about to be knighted his first reaction was amazement.

In an interview after the investiture he laughed, and when asked to describe his reaction he said: ‘Well, I’ll tell you ... I thought that if somebody had come up to me back in those days when I was cleaning buses in New Zeland to earn enough money to feed my family, and told me that one day I would be kneeling at the new jet airport at Rarotonga while the Queen of England knighted me . . . well, by jove, I would have started looking around for the men in the white coats with the butterfly nets who must be looking for this lunatic.’

Six years later Albert Henry was no longer laughing. The same Queen of England had just cancelled and annulled his Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in a notice headed ‘Forfeiture of an Honour’.

The sudden return to plain ‘Mr Henry’ from ‘Sir Albert’ followed his trial last year when he pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiring to defraud the Crown and one other that came under the Public Monies Act all of which were related to flying in voters from New Zealand to support his Cook Islands Party in the 1978 general election with the help of government money.

He won the election but the result was later overturned and Henry found himself in a political wilderness.

Now the wilderness has grown with him stripped of his title.

It was ‘sad, but inevitable’, said New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who recommended the move to the Queen after discussing it with the current Cook Islands Premier Dr Tom Davis during a visit to Wellington. ‘lt was inevitable from the time of his conviction and the nature of the charge. It is in accordance with all precedents in these things and there was no option but for it to happen,’ said Muldoon.

Henry follows the keeper of the Queen’s art collection Anthony Blunt who was the last person to be stripped of a knighthood. Blunt’s error was in spying for the Russians.

What probably galls Albert Henry most is the knighthood that was conferred on the Cook Islands chief justice, Gaven John Donne, who ousted Henry and his government after the last general election.

That knighthood came four months after the general election which led to Henry stepping back into the anonymous ranks of ‘Mister’.

REGIONALISM

Trend In Png

Papua New Guinea has yet another political party in its parliament with the formation of the Papuan National Alliance, which will call itself Panal.

Panal, formed by the member for Middle Fly, Mrs Waliyato Clowes, becomes the seventh group active in current politics and represents members described as ‘moderate Papuan politicians’. The party exists within the newly-formed The ugly side of Port Moresby- shanty homes for the restless Mr Henry 27

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Chan government and although its strength has not yet been determined it appears likely to have no more than eight members.

Mrs Clowes, one of only three women in the PNG National Parliament, has been associated with three other groups in her parliamentary career of only three years and this in itself highlights the continuous state of flux in PNG political alignments.

The real significance of the new party however is that it demonstrates an increasing trend towards regionalism in the politics of PNG. In the political sense neither ‘Papuans’ nor ‘New Guineans’ are supposed to exist any longer the people are all ‘Papua New Guineans’. The big political issue in the days leading to independence was the need for national unity and the burying of any regionalism, which was seen as a threat to national unity.

The first great exception to this was the formation of Miss Josephine Abaijah’s Papua Besena which saw and still sees Papua as an entity.

In theory Papua Besena still stands for separation, but in practice the attitude is largely symbolic and the party’s main concern is getting a fair deal for what it sees as ‘Papuan’ people.

Since independence regionalism has become increasingly obvious even in parties which were not originally created on a regional basis. The National Party became very much a Highlands regional party, and provincial politics led to pressure groups in national politics.

The newly-formed Panal is not a separatist group like Papua Besena, and this is demonstrated in the use of the term ‘moderate Papuans’ for its supporters. Mrs Clowes makes it clear, too, that the party’s area of interest extends slightly beyond the old Papuan border into part of the Highlands.

Nonetheless Panal is a regional grouping in a country which set out to avoid regionalism in its political factions.

Describing the aims of her new party Mrs Clowes said ‘We are not a radical separatist movement and we aim to work with, not against, our partners in government.’

Mrs Clowes, 29, was a school teacher before her election to parliament in 1977. She was linked with the United Party at the time of the elections, later aligned herself with the revived National Party and eventually was associated with Papua Besena in a calculated political move to maintain solidarity between the National Party and Papua Besena. Angus Smales.

Tupuola Efi

INTERVIEWED Looking back on a difficult year in which he had to fight desperately to remain in power. Western Samoa’s Prime Minister Tupuola Efi agrees that the political situation in his country has changed markedly since last year’s elections.

T think things have settled down now but it’s a little less easy to predict how things will go,’ he said on a recent visit to Auckland. He was in New Zealand for talks with Prime Minister Rob Muldoon.

They discussed the controversial language achievement test for overseas students, Samoa’s request for fishing rights in New Zealand’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone, and the schedules of the Pacific Forum Line.

Tupuola Efi was delighted to learn that the New Zealand Government no longer wanted the so-called ‘Latos’ language test applied to Samoan students. Critics claimed it was being used as a backdoor method to reduce the number of Pacific Island students studying in New Zealand.

On fishing, Mr Muldoon offered to look personally at Western Samoa’s application for fishing rights in 1981.

In Auckland, Tupuola Efi discussed his political position and the changing domestic political scene since the formation of the opposition Human Rights Protection Party. ‘My opinion is that the opposition is still very much a loose grouping,’ he said. What did he think bound the opposition together? T suspect it’s wanting to oust the Government so they can get a crack at it.’

He acknowledged ‘a tendency for some people not to like the pace of development they’d like to slow things down’. v Tupuola Efi admitted to having been ‘caught napping’ by the opposition group: ‘l'd go so far as to say we were lulled into a false sense of security.’

He said he had an open mind about the growth of political parties in Western Samoa. ‘I have always felt you need an interest that provides the impetus to set up an ideology and a party. That interest must be antagonistic to another interest. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.’

Looking back on his almost four years as prime minister, Tupuola Efi said he was happy with what’s been accomplished: ‘I think the record speaks for itself.’

There are some things I would do differently,’ he said. ‘Keeping people abreast was something we tended not to emphasise. It is an important part of the growth of a country like ours that people understand why we are doing things.’

Asked how long he thought he would stay on as leader Tupuola said he would rather not say, ‘for the reason I would be plagued by such a remark for years afterward’. ‘One of the hardest decisions for a political leader is to know when to make a decent exit. I pray I will know when.’ - James Tally, in Auckland.

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An Island Country In

A New Relationship

"More English than England’ was how a travel writer described the New Zealand of only 30 years ago. But the past 10 years have seen an almost revolutionary change in New Zealand at home and its links with the newly-emerged Island nations of the South Pacific. In the following pages PIM looks at the Pacific relationships and the regional role of the modern New Zealand. new zealand in the pacific The last decade has seen extraordinary growth in the development of New Zealand as a Pacific identity rather than as a Pacific outpost of the Western World. Links with the Pacific have strengthened in politics, government to government co-operation, trade and culture. Here WILLIAM GASSON, long an observer of the New Zealand scene from Wellington, asks: How to measure NZ influence in the Pacific?

Anyone using the level of aid to measure New Zealand’s interest in the Pacific Islands will be easily misled. The fact is that in real terms aid money slipped backwards in successive years but the interest taken by New Zealand in the Pacific continues to rise Prune Minister Robert Muldoon takes a personal interest m Pacific affairs as evidenced recently when Western Samoan Prime Minister Tupuola Efi arrived in New Zealand incensed by the English language test imposed on his country’s students studymg here.

Two days of talks and Efi was heading home full of praise for Muldoon, who‘when the chips are down never lets you down.’

After generations of looking beyond the Pacific Islands New Zealand now firmly acknowledges the presence of its scattered neighbours and official policy is to adopt a high profile in the South Pacific which only makes it more frustrating for aid officials trying to make the diminishing New Zealand dollar go further While New Zealand’s economic future half way through the gQs looks promising, the immediate years indicate a grim battle to control galloping inflation now at the 18.4% a year level to inject massive investments into energy and other industrial developments, to overcome high unemployment and to accelerate even more a growing range of exports to an equally growing range of markets. But that includes the Pacific Islands which overall now represent New Zealand’s sixth largest trading market. And that must grow in the years ahead as more islands gain their independence and the region inter-reacts as an economic unit.

While New Zealand uses the argument that the United States must open its trading doors to New Zealand’s products so that New Zealand can be strong economically and afford the kind of defence potential demanded of it by ANZUS membership, so too the Pacific Islands can use a similar argument on New Zealand for their products.

Economically weak communities are vulnerable communities.

That makes the present talks on the South Pacific Area of Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement (SPARTECA) so important since its concept is to provide for the Pacific Forum islands free and unrestricted access to New Zealand and Australian markets. Related to that development is the New Zealand PUDS (Pacific Islands Industrial Scheme) which encourages businessmen to invest in the islands and develop industries there, with the help of various incentives.

The main weakness is the lack of any guaranteed access to New Zealand’s market for island manufactured goods. In fact eight applications for access to New Zealand have been granted since the scheme began in 1976 and while many industries are aimed specifically at the island markets, New Zealand and Australia are looked on as the logical outlets for goods. Wellington officials are cautiously optimistic at the progress in putting together the text of the trade agreement that will be put before Forum members when they meet in July. While it seems inevitable that there will be a measure of protection built into the agreement, the aim is to make island 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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After the Australia-New Zealand officials’ talks in Canberra in May another official commented that the negative list of goods was surprisingly small. Officials have been impressed that the idea of free access for island products to New Zealand has been so easily accepted in a country that has hidden for so long behind protective trade barriers. They put it down to the growing feeling throughout New Zealand of freeing the country from its protective blanket and letting market forces have greater influence.

For the Pacific Islands’ fledgling industries the timing of that attitude is perfect since it suggests less opposition from the Federation of Labour that supports the trade agreement idea in principle but traditionally has been sensitive to a flow of imported island products that might threaten New Zealand jobs.

Ironically however New Zealand may be forced to insert restraints into SPAR- TECA to protect the trade of islands such as the Cooks, Niue and Western Samoa that enjov special access to this market. In a free competition situation, Niue’s passionfruit industry might collapse.

Officials see the trade agreement as an important political as well as trading exercise and the Island Forum members have insisted that the agreement include a statement of principle from New Zealand and Australia that they will encourage regional trade and investment. As an introduction to the 80s, New Zealand sees the agreement as binding the South Pacific into a far stronger trading area that will be consolidated by the growing air and sea links and regional operations such as harvesting the fish resources.

In the development of air links New Zealand in the years ahead might find itself at loggerheads with expansionistminded Island states. While its policy is to do nothing to hinder the development of regional carriers in the area or to displace them, the fact is that with the merger of its domestic NAC airline and its international Air New Zealand into one airline, New Zealand now has jet aircraft suited for island hopping. ‘This would only be in accordance with bilateral air agreements but in certain cases it may appear that New Zealand has changed its policy,’ one official said. For example. Air New Zealand has not yet flown on the Auckland to Tonga air route. If the two countries signed an air agreement it might appear that Air New Zealand was attempting to displace other regional airlines. But the official’s view was that any such move would be within accepted bilateral practice.

On the sea New Zealand has shown its support for the twoyear-old Pacific Forum Line which has suffered rough times. New Zealand’s support is in the form of a container ship better suited to Islands operations than two others in use.

American overtures to New Zealand to help usher the US Trust Territories into a measure of independence have met with a prompt and favourable response. A trade mission left Auckland in May for Micronesia with its members confident of business opportunities there. American plans to accelerate capital developments in that region have already attracted New Zealand interest and involvement.

As for moving closer to their Pacific Island cousins and New Zealand the response in Wellington is along the lines of: ‘We would encourage the Trust Territories to come to the Pacific and get to know the other islands. We would like a closer relationship as well.

There is great interest here in the region and we feel we have a part to play there.’ New Zealand also warmly welcomes the Forum Fisheries Agency a scheme that is likely to test the practicality of Forum members working effectively in assessing and developing a regional resource.

While the American policy of pursuing migratory tuna through the Islands’ economic zones is seen in New Zealand as an irritant. New Zealand is keen to assist in the vital research program that must precede a concerted fishing operation. The whole operation also suggests to New Zealanders that the present agency’s membership limitation to Forum countries may need to be expanded to encompass countries traditionally interested in fishing.

Toss idea aside says PM Any developing country harbouring the hope that New Zealand might boost its foreign aid in the next financial year can toss aside the idea.

Prime Minister Robert Muldoon seemed to make it pretty clear when addressing Wellington Rotary clubs that continuing oil price shocks have effectively cancelled out any increase in aid money.

With the country’s terms of trade again heavily under pressure more exports are needed to achieve the same relative income so, added Mr Muldoon: ‘in those circumstances my Government in the last four years has held our aid roughly steady in dollar terms and that has meant a decline in real terms.’

To soften the blow for Pacific Island neighbours however Mr Muldoon said that the country’s aid emphasis had swung towards them. About half of New Zealand’s $5O million aid goes to the South Pacific and Mr Muldoon suggested that Rotary clubs focus their special projects in future also on their South Pacific neighbours.

While the government itself looks like it will be unwilling to boost aid money levels when the new financial year starts in April it hopes apparently that the private sector might step into the growing decline in actual aid value.

At least Mr Muldoon will be able to say to Pacific Island leaders when next they raise the aid issue ‘we’re trying’. And if that is insufficient then he can repeat what he told the Rotarians. ‘The ability of the New Zealand Government to play a part in international aid programmes grows progressively more difficult as our balance of payments position comes under greater pressure from the increasing price of oil and other commodities relative to the price that we get from our own exports.’

In laymen’s terms that will mean ‘no’.

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Radio New Zealand is working on a plan to make a greater impact among the Pacific Islands during the 1980 s with shortwave broadcasts and taped programmes.

It must do. On the one hand it faces increasing competition from a host of countries beaming powerful transmitters to the Pacific Islands. On the other hand its two 37-year-old 7.5 kw transmitters are unequal to the struggle.

Add to that a change in the 11-year sunspot cycle which will bring concentrated use of lower frequencies to the Pacific Islands during 1982-86 and New Zealand faces little chance of maintaining a reliable shortwave service to the region with its present equipment. That, many people argue, would be disastrous for a country aligning itself more and more with the region and playing host to thousands of Islanders whose relatives want to maintain contact with New Zealand.

Radio New Zealand’s battle to obtain the funds to provide the equipment for a viable service that can promote the country reflects the peculiar New Zealand capacity to lose the international publicity stakes by default. But while the equipment might be of World War II vintage, the quality of the tailor-made programmes and service that Radio New Zealand staff produce for the Islands matches the world’s best with ease.

The pity of it is that many Islanders are unaware of the services offered and tend to look towards Radio Australia with its vast resources and transmitting power.

Pacific Island broadcasters from commercial stations were given an insight into New Zealand’s operations this May on a three-week course sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development. A second training course is scheduled for later this year on broadcasting in the vernacular which should also benefit staff in New Zealand’s Maori and Pacific Island Programming Unit. In the past 18 months, New Zealand’s interest has swung quite sharply towards programmes in Island languages internally and overseas.

At present Radio New Zealand provides a special shortwave news bulletin for Pacific listeners from Monday to Friday in English and in the vernacular for Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Niue.

Shortwave also carries sports fixtures plus any other events that might interest the Pacific communities. Augmenting the shortwave service is Radio New Zealand’s growing transcription service which incorporates tapes and cassettes. This includes a weekly 30-minute vernacular newsletter for Samoa, Tonga, the Cooks and a fortnightly programme for Niue.

Then there are weekly 30minute programmes on the Pacific and New Zealand, on sports and on any special items.

Expansion of this service supports the weak shortwave voice of Radio New Zealand. The new transcription programmes include Hymns on Sunday Morning which is proving very popular and is distributed to Samoa, Tonga, the Cooks, Niue and Nauru. There are outside broadcast recordings of Polynesian church services.

This month the first of a series of 30-minute programmes of band music called Band Call begins while Pacific Comment talks on Pacific topics has just begun.

Another new programme Pacific Connection presents a pop programme targetted to Pacific radio listeners and laced with brief items about New Zealand and its way of life. Already this programme, which began some six weeks ago, has produced a heartening flow of appreciative mail.

Radio New Zealand’s next stage will be for Brian Jennings, who hosts the programme, to visit Pacific Islands and handle breakfast sessions there. Eventually he should become radio’s Mr Pacific.

On the more serious side Radio New Zealand will also introduce a development programme concerned with human and natural resources and social development. This will cover a host of topics associated with improving the living standards of people.

While Radio New Zealand staff might express satisfaction with the progress made with these transcription programmes, they realise they hardly substitute for the immediacy and directness of short wave programmes.

Radio New Zealand looks on the transcription service more as an interim measure until it receives its high powered transmitters that can compete more equally with other countries. That’s a political decision which the Government must face and it must be a painful one for a Government now in the throes of tightening all the purse strings possible on public spending.

But the question the Government must ask itself, and ask the Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon, in particular since he has taken a personal interest in the region, is: ‘Can the radio voice of New Zealand be allowed to die?’ Compared with the atmospheric chorus coming from the Soviet Union, China and Australia who increased their output last year to cover the region with sound and information, New Zealand’s voice is just a whisper.

It’s high time it blew its own trumpet.

William Gasson in Wellington.

The Rev L Sio performs the dedication service which established Radio New Zealand’s Polynesian service.

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Statistics can turn up some oddfacts from time to time, and in Papua New Guinea one of these is the revelation that tourists from New Zealand are among the heaviest spenders per head of any visitors.

When it comes to spending money on artifacts bows and arrows, spears, shields and carvings to show the folk back home Americans take the prize according to recent figures in Port Moresby. But for sheer spending on accommodation, tours, sightseeing and entertainment the New Zealanders are well out in the front row. New Zealanders themselves are somewhat doubtful about how they earned this reputation, claiming that the air fares alone from New Zealand to PNG and return (travel is via Australia) don’t leave much change.

In real terms the number of New Zealand tourists visiting PNG is still fairly small, fewer than 800 a year. Latest reports however indicate a significant increase in inquiries, and tourist officials say this is usually a symptom of an approaching increase in tourist travel. The main criticism expressed by New Zealand tourists who have been questioned at Port Moresby airport is that internal travel in PNG is excessively expensive - an attitude shared by tourists of other nationalities and largely caused by the fact that most trunk travel has to be done by air.

Tourist trade links from New Zealand to PNG (there’s not much in the other direction) are part of the increasing awareness which New Zealand is showing for its regional neighbour which achieved independence not quite five years ago. There is now a developing relationship between the two countries fostered by the fact that both are members of the Commonwealth, both have similar views on regional politics and both are members of the South Pacific Forum.

Both have also expressed formal opposition to nuclear tests in the Pacific, and to any development of super-power rivalry in the Pacific.

The two countries have had full diplomatic relationships since PNG gained independence in 1975, each maintaining a High Commission. Since that date New Zealand has made a marked attempt to increase its trade relations with PNG, cutting into part of the markets held traditionally by Australia. These include canned and dairy foodstuffs, meat, ropes and fibres, marine fittings and equipment, and paints and chemicals.

Backed by a number of campaigns these moves have been fairly successful. In 1974 - just before PNG independence the annual total sales of New Zealand products to PNG were worth SNZI.B million. By 1977 this had risen to 10.6 million, by 1978 to 16.9 million and the most recent projection exceeds 20 million. PNG exports to New Zealand, mainly tropical produce, are running at about 7 million a year.

Coffee sales are at present PNG’s highest earning exports to New Zealand, bringing in SNZS million a year. Other exports to New Zealand are logs and specialised timbers, tea and cocoa.

Papua New Guinea is a member of the Pacific region group which has been attempting to negotiate preferential trade agreements with New Zealand but in general terms New Zealand applies to PNG its blanket arrangements for imports from developing countries and there is no immediate move to vary these arrangements to suit the specific requirements of PNG.

There are no passenger shipping links between the two countries, and cargo links have gone through a period of flux which has created a measure of uncertainty in trading arrangements. This situation has now largely settled down with the establishment of three regular operators on the run.

PNG shares in New Zealand’s overseas aid programme, and aid was first provided in 1973 during PNG’s transitional self government period. Aid of about SNZ3 million a year is now being provided together with an undertaking from New Zealand that it will continue ‘even if we find it difficult’ says the Deputy Prime Minister Mr Talboys.

There have been minor differences between the two countries on the nature of the aid programme, mainly arising from New Zealand stipulations that where possible purchases and services involved in aid projects should be contracted to New Zealand sources. As a matter of policy PNG generally does not accept this principle. but representatives of both governments are quick to claim that any differences have never interrupted the friendly relationship which exists.

New Zealand aid also is directed to specific projects in PNG, and is not in the form of untied budget support. But here too the countries have reached a working arrangement in which PNG submits lists of projects for which it is soliciting aid and New Zealand makes the final selection.

Under this scheme New Zealand has provided support for agricultural and horticultural research projects, a timber industry training college, marine transport and fresh food marketing projects.

PNG is also a member of a New Zealand development scheme which operates in a number of Island countries, the Pacific Islands Industrial Scheme. New Zealand established the scheme in 1976 with incentives to encourage its own companies to establish industrial ventures in other countries. The reasoning was that, provided New Zealand companies met the investment requirements of the countries they entered, there would be mutual benefits for all partners and opportunities for regional development.

So far however PNG has had little involvement with the scheme which is more strongly entrenched in Fiji. Western Samoa and the Cook Islands.

PNG observers share the view already expressed by critics in New Zealand itself that the scheme will never achieve real potential unless the goods it produces have better accessibility to the New Zealand and Australian - market.

The New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroard scheme also has a small band of teachers, instructors and health workers in PNG, most of them working through missionary organisations. The missionary organisations themselves draw staff and volunteers from New Zealand.

Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have both received New Zealand aid in times of natural disaster. Here Squadron Leader Doug Paterson and Fit Lieutenant Phil Jones of the Royal New Zealand Air Force discuss a helicopter supply drop for earthquake victims with Solomon Islands officials Mr Everest Ega and Mr John Kaitu. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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Boost In Aid

A public opinion poll carried out by a political scientist indicates that a majority of New Zealanders want to see their country maintain its level of overseas aid, and a ‘substantial minority’ favour an increase in aid.

The survey was carried out by Dr Stephen Hoadley, Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Auckland. Dr Hoadley points out that even to maintain the present level of aid means increasing the annual grant to maintain the buying power of the funds. In real terms, he says, New Zealand aid to overseas countries is decreasing.

Dr Hoadley’s poll was carried out from a cross-section of 251 people in the Eden electoral district in New Zealand.

Here is what he had to say about the survey and its results:

Survey Report

The first question I asked was, ‘Do you think the New Zealand Government should give aid to develop the poorer countries?’

A total of 175 (69.6%) were in favour, 53 (21.4%) were opposed and 23 (9%) were undecided or had no opinion.

Clearly the aid programme enjoys general public approval, albeit with some exceptions.

The results, when compared with surveys in two overseas countries, indicated that New Zealanders were more in favour of giving aid than were people in USA and Britain.

However, New Zealand’s aid has gone up and down in the last few years. What did the Eden respondents think the level of aid should be?

Rather than ask for specific figures, which might be confusing to the average person, I asked a question which British and Australian polls have introduced successfully: ‘Do you think New Zealand’s aid to the poor countries should be increased, decreased, or kept about the same?’

Answering this question 53.7% said aid should be kept about the same, 34.2% said it should be increased and 12.1% said it should be decreased.

About half the respondents appear satisfied with the present level. Fully 14% of respondents volunteered the apology that New Zealand couldn’t afford more, implying they would favour an increase when economic circumstances improve. But noteworthy was the predominance of those wishing aid increased over those wishing it decreased, without qualification.

It would be safe to say, then, that a preponderant proportion wish to keep aid at least up to the present level and a substantial minority wish to increase it.

This stands in contrast to Government’s policy of holding dollar aid levels static with the consequence that real aid levels continue to fall in value.

Much early aid was motivated by humanitarian sentiments. But more recently an element of self-interest has been formalised in official aid policy as a result of the invitation in 1969 by Prime Minister Holyoake to the private sector to execute aid projects, partly to help offset the unfavourable balance of payments by stimulating the export of New Zealand goods and services abroad.

And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appears to view aid as an element in New Zealand’s diplomatic outreach.

How do the public rate these three motives altruism, economic interests, and political interests - in the aid programme? The Eden respondents were asked to rate on a four-point scale the desirability of each of 11 reasons New Zealand might have for helping poorer countries.

Altruistic reasons were found to have been chosen over economic self-interest reasons by 16 percentage points on the average.

One is inclined to conclude that altruistic reasons for aid carry more credibility than economic or political interest reasons among respondents.

Turning more specifically to the kinds of aid projects New Zealand should implement, opinions vary from immediate relief through educational and agricultural assistance to longterm infrastructural construction work. The Government favours the latter for reasons of administrative convenience, financial accountability, availability of expertise, and desire by recipient government officers.

Recently, however, developmental theorists and international agencies have begun to acknowledge that ‘conventional’ aid of this sort has not reduced poverty, created jobs, or filled basic human needs, particularly in the rural areas, and has sometimes resulted in showpiece projects which actually induced further social imbalances and economic dependency in recipient countries. I asked Eden respondents to rate the importance of various sorts of aid projects.

Projects dealing with basic human needs were found to have been chosen in favour of conventional aid projects by 10 percentage points on the average.

In summary, responses to the Eden poll suggest that New Zealanders wish to see overseas aid maintained at its present level or increased (which means raising the vote to keep up with inflation); that they wish the aid programme to be based more upon altruistic motives than economic or political interests; and that they favour projects directed to serving basic human needs more than conventional infrastructural or industrial development.

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That was the year in which the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman logged a sighting which he named Staten Landt. later changed by geographers in his own country to Nieuw Zeeland. The first thorough record of coastal exploration, including some charts, was made by Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy in 1769.

Whalers, traders and missionaries visited New Zealand after Cook. The British Government declared sovereignty there in 1840 when Captain William Hobson negotiated the Treaty of Waitangi with leading Maori chiefs. The first British settlers arrived about the same time through the New Zealand Company, an association which planned to establish a model colony based on migration. They founded Wellington which became the national capital 25 years later.

New Zealand assumed internal self government in 1852, followed by increasing tensions between whites and Maoris mainly over land disputes.

The 1870 s were a period of rapid expansion including a gold rush in the South Island and extensive road and rail development. Timber and later wool became the chief exports, and New Zealand became a pioneer exporter of refrigerated foodstuff's.

New Zealand was the first country to extend voting rights to women in a period of rapid social change at the turn of the century.

In 1907 New Zealand shed its colonial image, adopting the title of Dominion, and entered a period of agricultural and industrial prosperity. This was followed by the disruption of World War I, industrial problems and the economic depression of the 1930 s all of which were ingredients in the adoption of progressive social legislation.

Although New Zealand has always had a close association with the Pacific Islands it is only in recent years that it has begun to emphasise its role as a member country of the Pacific region.

A paper published by the Planning Council of New Zealand, a statutory body established by parliament, makes this point by saying that a broader sense of economic and political partnership is being established with regional neighbours ‘although our stake in the European tradition remains important’.

The paper says ‘When we ask ourselves who we are, it often leads to a strong identification with the European model. Many of us remain perplexed by the Maori and wider Polynesian elements of our heritage. To accept these is. however, overcoming a hurdle in self discovery because we can then accept the simple truth that New Zealand does not automatically belong to the western world.' Pacific aid gets NZ priorities New Zealand government to government aid in the South Pacific last year amounted to 5NZ29.3 million.

In addition, about SNZ7OO 000 was made available to the South Pacific Commission and the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation.

The government to government aid in the South Pacific amounted to 67 percent of New Zealand’s total aid to developing countries throughout the world. The Cook Islands and Fiji were the biggest aid recipients in the Pacific Islands.

New Zealand spent 0.36% of its gross national product on official development assistance, a slight decline from the previous year. The New Zealand Government describes the decline as reflecting a continued restraint on aid brought about by internal economic circumstances.

In determining its aid grants the official New Zealand attitude is that it ‘responds where possible to the developmental needs of selected countries’.

Except in instances where a direct association exists notably the Cook Islands the aid is paid for specific projects and is not direct budget support. About half the Cook Islands aid is direct budget support.

In allocating project aid in the Pacific Islands New Zealand has given emphasis to productive sector development including livestock and pasture improvement programmes, forestry, agricultural crops and fisheries.

Details of New Zealand government to government aid in the South Pacific last year, expressed in thousands of dollars, was; Solomon Islands 384 Cook Islands 6 253 Fiji 4 956 Kiribati 343 New Hebrides 150 Niue 3 215 Papua New Guinea 2 227 Tokelau 1 049 Tonga 2 314 Tuvalu 29 Western Samoa 3 829 Regional 4 581 Total 29 330 Deputy Prime Minister Brian Talboys sees a vigorous Island response’ to NZ policies. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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This year’s allocation of funds will be SNZ222 000, an increase of more than SNZ2O 000 over last year’s figure.

The government has also agreed to carry out an annual review of the work being undertaken by volunteers, and to consider whether financial support could be provided for a greater number of volunteers.

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Traditionally the people of the Cook Islands have seen New Zealand as a land of milk and honey where they can try their luck and come home in triumph.

Albert Henry’s period as a worker in New Zealand before he came home to become his country’s first premier was a textbook case. But now there are growing noises suggesting that the milk has turned sour and the honey is no longer sweet.

The Cook Islands were proclaimed a part of New Zealand under the much maligned Colonial Boundaries Act of 1895, leading to a New Zealand administration there and eventually to the 1965 act of self determination in which the Islanders adopted ‘full self government in free association with New Zealand’.

The technical arrangement means that in practice the Islanders are fully independent but retain a New Zealand citizenship with full rights of entry.

The Cook Islands remain the largest recipients of New Zealand overseas aid, last year receiving grants of nearly SNZ7 million. ‘But who wants to go there any longer?’ asked the newspaper Cook Islands News recently. It quoted a cynical comment that the position of Cook Islanders in New Zealand today was ‘working in a low paying manual job, having a good time drinking and gambling and carrying out strong Christian devotion to various churches’.

And the Cook Islands Government Representative in New Zealand, Mr Norman George, says ‘lf there is anything I would like to achieve it would be to change this feeling of hopelessness and negative attitude among the Cook Islanders’.

The Cook Islands News claims that after four decades of migration to New Zealand by Islanders a stage has been reached where no longer are there better opportunities ‘in this so called land of plenty’. It quotes rising unemployment figures militating against jobs for Cook Islanders, and says that ‘taxation, bills, frustrations and an ever increasing cost of living are causing rude shocks and disillusionment’.

In an appeal to Islanders to come home and develop their own country, the paper says ‘lt is not surprising that New Zealanders should feel a certain degree of contempt for Islanders who come to New Zealand looking for jobs. This means that the chance of a New Zealander finding employment in his own country is considerably minimised. Like every other country facing similar problems when the chips are down discrimination emerges, and New Zealand is no different. ‘Cliches such as “send the islanders home” become common. Cook Islanders are ultimately better off at home where the abundant natural resources are available, employment opportunities available and the day to day living expenses comparatively lower. ‘For those of our Cook Islands people wanting to emigrate to New Zealand, our advice is “Don’t unless you have a job guaranteed” for the dreamers who still class New Zealand as the land of milk and honey, you had better wake up smartly and look around you.

Our final words to our people at home is for them to start appreciating what they have there, confine their aspirations to the Cook Islands and work their hardest to keep our little nation the way it is.’

Link over Tasman watched New Zealand and Australia are moving towards a common policy in their trading relationships with Pacific Island countries.

This is the forecast outcome of recent talks in New Zealand between the two prime ministers, Mr Fraser of Australia and Mr Muldoon of New Zealand.

The main thrust of their talks was to establish closer economic links between their two countries, but at the same time to establish a unified attitude towards trade and economic links with Island countries in the region.

In a statement issued after the talks the two prime ministers said they believed a closer relationship would, in itself, benefit the South Pacific regional economy.

Island leaders are watching the situation with interest because they fail to see how closer links between the two developed countries in the region will necessarily benefit their own economies.

Fiji and Papua New Guinea have already advocated that New Zealand should lower some import restrictions and show greater trade preference to Island regional countries.

Mr Fraser told the Australian Parliament recently that if Australia and New Zealand could co-operate more closely they would have a stronger base for expanding their economic links with the South Pacific and South east Asia. He said that he and Mr Muldoon had agreed on broad principles for further development and diversification of the economic relationship, and guidelines had been set for further study by government officials.

The objective would be the reduction and desirably the elimination of all barriers to trans-Tasman trade on all goods produced in either country, over a reasonable period of time,’ he said.

Mr Fraser told parliament that no commitment to any specific proposal had been made at this stage and no decision would be taken until the studies had been completed and there had been consultation with interested parties in both countries.

Mr Fraser said it was not possible at this stage to set down a firm timetable leading to further decisions by governments. Meanwhile the New Zealand-Australia Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would continue and the existing Australia-New Zealand agreement on tariffs and tariff preferences, due for review in November this year, would continue for at least one year.

Cook Islanders and other Islanders working in Auckland get an English language lesson. 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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New Zealand authorities estimate that by 1982 New Zealand will be getting 650 000 tourists a year, and that by 1990 the figure will be two million. This compares with a present figure of about 500 000 visitors a year.

While more and more people are visiting New Zealand, tourist figures show that more New Zealanders are beginning to travel abroard.

Latest figures, for instance, show that for the 12 months up to January 1980 the number of New Zealanders visiting Australia for vacation or business increased by a startling 31% from 171 700 people to 225 900. Although the number of travellers wasn’t so impressive, the percentage of New Zealanders visiting other countries last year also increased markedly. For example, the number of New Zealanders visiting the US and Canada (43 000) represented an increase of 28.1% on the previous year; New Zealand travellers to the UK and Europe were up 26.7%, to Asia 11.7% and to the Pacific Islands 12%. Even more New Zealanders went to the Islands (277 700 last year) than they did to Australia.

Surprisingly, the number of Australians visiting New Zealand in the same 12 months to January was down 1.2% on the previous year 214 700 in 1979 compared with 217 300 for 1978. Most tourist operators and authorities agree that the main reason for this drop in Australian visitors to New Zealand has been the recent great explosion in the variety of package holidays offered to Australians and not available yet to New Zealanders because of Government restrictions.

There are still millions of Australians who have yet to visit New Zealand and probably plan to go there, but as one tourist operator said, ‘New Zealand is friendly, right next door, and Australians are taking the cheap holidays to Asia and Europe while they can get them, with the idea that New Zealand will still be there the next time around’.

But New Zealand is beginning to fight back by introducing special new tour packages which associate the Pacific Islands with New Zealand, and aimed especially at Australians, and also encourage visitors from elsewhere particularly from Japan.

Japanese tourism will get a shot in the arm with the inauguration on July 4 of a direct Japan Airlines twice weekly flight between Tokyo and Auckland via Nadi, Fiji, followed by the inauguration on August 1 of a weekly Air New Zealand flight on the same route.

Up to now there have been no direct flights from Japan into New Zealand, and even New Zealand exports to Japan, which are increasing steadily by air have to be flown to Honolulu by Air New Zealand and transhipped to JAL aircraft (New Zealand’s exports to Japan include live eels, deer horns, and kiwi fruit).

At present Japanese visitors Top: Garden and pool at the Rarotongan, the first hotel outside New Zealand in which the government-owned Tourist Hotel Corporation acquired an interest. It is at Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and ownership is shared with the Cook Islands Government and Air New Zealand. Left: At home the corporation operates The Hermitage in Mount Cook National Park, shoulder-to-shoulder with the mountain scenery which is part of the New Zealand tourist reputation. 47 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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into New Zealand per year amount to only 20 000, but these new flights are expected to bring in large numbers of Japanese on special package deals, especially as Fiji is a popular tourist destination for Japanese, and the combination of Fiji plus New Zealand will be very attractive.

Air New Zealand is also involved in the big tourist campaign to attract those many Australians who like to visit the Islands. The new programme, beginning in June, offers a wide selection of package tours involving Islands destinations not normally visited in great numbers by Australians, such as Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Tahiti and its neighbours. Some of these packages also include New Zealand as a destination, but even if many passengers don’t see New Zealand, Air New Zealand will benefit as the carrier, and so will some New Zealandoperated hotels in the Islands.

The new packages include stays at the Rarotongan Hotel in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, and the Tusitala in Apia, Western Samoa, and these hotels are now associated with the New Zealand Government’s Tourist Hotel Corporation, which is also taking part in this new drive to attract more Australians.

The Tourist Hotel Corporation of New Zealand was established in 1955 to acquire a chain of hotels which had been built and acquired over more than 50 years by the then New Zealand Department of Tourist and Health Resorts.

When the corporation was established, these government hotels reflected the impoverished state of New Zealand’s post-war economy, and considerable development was needed. The hotels were run-down and supplying poor service, but private hoteliers at that time were offering nothing better. Freight costs and material shortages provided little incentive to supply quality accommodation in remote areas of New Zealand particularly, so the development of the rural hotel industry had almost ground to a halt.

The THC revolutionised the image of the government resorts with world standard chefs and kitchens, wine cellars and first rate accommodation and staffs. The THC today operates 12 hotels throughout New Zealand, scattered from Waitangi to Milford, with a total of 1500 beds.

In addition the THC owns the Rarotongan in partnership with Air New Zealand and the Cook Islands Government the first of its hotels to be acquired outside New Zealand.

Recently it took over the operations of the Governmentowned Tusitala hotel in Apia, and has considerably improved its operations. More than 200 000 guests now stay annually in THC hotels, more than 60% from abroad. The year 1976 was a vintage year in that for the first time ever Australian visitors outnumbered New Zealanders in the THC chain - Another shot in the arm was given THC operations in June 1976 when the THC joined forces with the TraveLodge New Zealand chain, for marketing. TraveLodge oper ated mainly in the cities and THC mainly in rural settings, and what THC needed was access to the tourist gateways of New Zealand - Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

The TraveLodge association enables this.

Both TraveLodge and THC sell each other’s accommodation, and between them they now offer 2500 beds in 15 key locations throughout New Zealand. Both partners retain their autonomy but travellers benefit from the economy the tour operator derives from dealing with one group rather than with a multiplicity of hotel interests.

By 1982 all the THC hotels will have undergone considerable up-grading and addition.

The corporation has already spent more than $2 million on developments at Waitangi and Wairakai hotels, and additions to the Franz Josef hotel will cost another $1 million by next year, with more than $6 million allotted for major alterations and additions at the THC Mount Cook Complex.

In the last 10 years occupancy figures have soared 60% in THC hotels.

Contemporary Maori artist Cliff Whiting based this figure on the traditional art of his ancestors and in a new tradition creating interest among visitors from all parts of the world.

Traditional Maori dancing displays attract interest culturally and as a spectacle.

Mitre Peak on Milford Sound a New Zealand Scenic wonder.

When The Public

At Yamaha, we keep an ear to the ground and an eye on the uture. Because listening to what people want and asking what /ve’ll all need tomorrow is the only way to make progress neaningful in a world where change has become commonplace.

This involves far more than collating research reports and jnalyzing computer projections. It requires an active, day-to-day nvolvement with the way people around the world live and work, t demands a real concern for improved living standards everyvhere. And there must be a real willingness to master technology o human needs, instead of vice versa. Some ways we’ve done his are more important than others. But all reflect Yamaha’s elentless commitment to giving the public what it needs at the )hce it wants to pay.

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Hard-Nosed Cyclists Asked For The

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“Thumper”, the affectionate nickname given to big 500 cc tingle which revolutionized motorcycling 50 years ago, disippeared from the roads several years ago. But it was always nissed. No other bike ever quite recaptured the same sense of irute power and awesome strength. Unfortunately, Thumper’s lisadvantages outweighed its advantages for modern motortycling. That is, they did until Yamaha engineers came up with a lew version of this old classic to the delight of thousands of lostalgic purists.

Yamaha’s version has the lightness and exhaust note of doesn’t do is even more impor to start, it doesn’t require daily enthusiast have his cake and ■ Thumper may never be ont has won us the undying gratiti individualists and the respect • community.

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In many countries, it’s not: is getting the water where it’s Not the big kind used for mas economical ones that can be shared by many in the same tl world’s most experienced mall faced no technological problem pump needed. The YP2 and Y really quite simple. They’re ligl consume a minimum amount the world, not only for agricult stock raising and hundreds ofi represent only a tiny part of o> a real need, they’re as imports

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ch a shortage of water as it d most. This requires pumps igation schemes, but small, from place to place and village. As one of the small engines, Yamaha lesigning just the type of tps we came up with are erful, easy-to-maintain and Today, they’re used all over t for construction, fishing, jses. Like Thumper, these sales. But in terms of filling my product we’ve ever built.

African Nations Wanted To

MODERNIZE THEIR FISHING FLEETS.

YAMAHA HELPED THEM.

Although many people don’t realize it, Yamaha is one of the world’s largest builders of coastal fishing boats. So, when several African nations wanted help to modernize their fishing fleets, Yamaha was a natural choice. We did much more than just supply modern vessels, however. In cooperation with official government agencies, we evaluated requirements, conducted training programs and helped reorganize everything from choice of nets to maintenance programs. Today, our involvement in the fishing industry extends from the Japan Sea to Mexico, South America, Africa, the Middle East and back to Asia. We make more than 40 different commercial fishing boats ranging from small open-deck boats to huge 60-ton vessels for extended coastal fishing operations. All are made using advanced FRF techniques to provide a longer crusing radius and lower fuel consumption while extending hull life and reducing the need for maintenance. They’re also another significant example of how Yamaha engineering is making a real contribution to international development and individual progress.

Yamaha Listens To The World

Yamaha’s international sales and service network does far more than just sell and service Yamaha products. They’re an indispensible part of our total worldwide information gathering system. By living and working with the people they serve, listening to their problems and needs, understanding the particular problems of different nations and regions, the Yamaha engineers, technicians and salesmen in more than 120 countries keep the company abreast of changes so the company can keep abreast of progress.

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PEOPLE Bereina. He is only the third Papua New Guinean to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic bishop under a leadership localisation scheme introduced by the church eight years ago.

The Bereina Diocese extends from the foothills of the Owen Stanley Ranges to the PNG south coast.

Andree Millar, an Australian who has lived more than 40 years in Papua New Guinea and has become widely known as a tropical plant naturalist and expert on orchids, has been approached by the PNG Government to lead a research project on cold-climate flowers in the PNG Highlands. Mrs Millar recently retired as Curator of National Botanic Gardens. The PNG Government wants to promote flower-growing in the Highlands as a commercial venture, and Mrs Millar has already established a pilot flower farm at Minj in the Western Highlands.

After two elections and four months of waiting. Kun Sigrah was finally declared lieutenant-governor of Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia, in April.

Kosrae voters went to the polls on November 21 last year to elect a new It-gov following the resignation of Yosiwo George, who became director of social services for the FSM Government.

Seven candidates stood for the post. Moses Mackwelung, who was a ‘write-in’ candidate, won the largest number of votes, but was disqualified because of age. (Kosrae’s charter requires that the governor and lieutenant governor be at least 35 years of age.) On December 27 a run-off election was held between Kun Sigrah and Kasuo Isisaki.

Again Mackwelung won as a write-in candidate, and again he was disqualified.

After a lapse of almost four months State Governor Jacob Nena announced that Kun Sigrah had won the December election.

Claude Charbonniaud, French High Commissioner in New Caledonia, visited Australia as a guest of the Australian Government from April 26 to Jean-Baptiste Conri of Hienghene, New Caledonia, has become the first non- Australian to receive the Australian Bravery Medal for an action outside Australia.

In May 1978 Mr Conri was travelling in a bus with a party of 23 Australian schoolchildren and adults from a concert to their hotel when the bus ran off the road in darkness and heavy rain, then plunged into a river (PIM Jul 1978 p 52). Two of the schoolchildren and the wife of the manager of the Hienghene hotel were drowned.

The citation to the medal said that despite his own injuries Mr Conri repeatedly dived back to the sinking bus and brought several passengers to the surface. He supported others in the water and gave first aid to the injured who had reached the shore.

The citation said that Mr Conri had displayed considerable courage in entering the bus to save injured passengers.

Carl Riechelmann has been appointed by the Republic of Nauru as its honorary consul in Tonga. Mr Riechelmann, resident manager of the oil company Webb Tonga Inc, who is an agent for Air Nauru, said that President Hammer Deßoburt and his government hold Tonga in high esteem and look upon Tonga’s King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV as a close friend.

Mr Riechelmann’s appointment brings to three the number of honorary consuls serving in Tonga. The other two are Father Georges Callet, honorary consul of the French Republic, and Ralph Sanft, for the Federal German Republic.

A crowd of 5000 at Bereina in the south of Papua New Guinea attended the recent installation of Bishop Benedict ToVarpin as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of May 10. He visited Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Rockhampton.

Denyse Gubbay is Representative in Australia of New Caledonia’s Office du Tourisme.

Due to a touch of gremlinology in our filing system. PIM announced in its April issue (p3l) that the post had newly gone to Mr Sandy McDonald. In fact, Mr McDonald was in the job, but left it late last year. Our apologies to all concerned.

Ms Gubbay operates out of the Banque Rationale de Paris building, 12 Castlereagh St, Sydney, 2000.

David Lange, deputy leader of New Zealand’s Opposition Labour Party, visited Western Samoa in April. He toured Savaii accompanied by Prime Minister Tupuoia Efi, and visited WSTEC plantations.

The Rev Tafatolu Filemoni has been appointed by the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand as Pacific Islands consultant in an effort to foster greater understanding between Europeans and Polynesians in the Church. He was born in Western Samoa.

Of his new job he says; This is a two-way process Pakeha and Pacific Islanders both need a greater understanding of the attitudes and cultures of others.’

Akuila Savu has been named deputy general manager, and Kit Naidu assistant general manager of Air Pacific, Fiji’s national airline.

Mr Savu leaves the post of director of the government’s central planning office, and Mr Naidu that of Air Pacific’s commercial services manager.

The chairman of the board of Air Pacific, Don Aidney, said Denyse Gubbay Eighty teachers and education officials from Tonga and Western Samoa have been attending a teacher training course at Macquarie University in Sydney. Robin Thornley, a mathematics consultant, demonstrates a mathematics teaching aid to Epenesa Esera (right) and Vatoa Mapusua, teachers from Western Samoa. -AIS photograph. 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980

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that as deputy general manager Mr Savu will understudy general manager Captain Alan Bodger in all aspects of the airline’s operation, but with particular attention to the financial side of the company, with the aim of assuming the top position in the future.

Mr Naidu will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the airline with commercial. traffic, operations. and sales among his areas of responsibility.

Andrew Stuart, since November 1978 the occupant of the frequently hot seat of British resident commissioner in the New Hebrides, has been appointed Britain’s ambassador to Finland. He will take up the post immediately after the New Hebrides’ independence celebrations, scheduled for the end of July. lan Mclntyre reports from Port-Vila: ‘Andrew Stuart emphasises that he is not deserting the New Hebrides, but will remain until his job reverts to high commissioner status on independence, and then, as a career diplomat, he will accept promotion to the Helsinki post. ‘Advice and arrangements for his new post were made well in advance of announcement of the New Hebrides indepence date and he is personally sacrificing eight months leave by remaining here until July 3jo. ‘Andrew Stuart has previously served in Helsinki from 1968-72 as head of the political section of the British Embassy, and is delighted to be returning as head of mission. ‘He was awarded the CMG in 1979.’

Interviewed by the French/ Bislama weekly Nahanga on his new appointment. Mr Stuart said: ‘While leaving a part of my heart in New Hebrides, which 1 love very much. I’m delighted to be going back to Finland . . ‘The Finns are very interesting people because in a wav they are two peoples. There’s a winter Finn, who’s rather austere and reserved. But when the good weather arrives, he becomes full of good cheer, not to say exuberance.”

Maria Kunjib is a not-soordinary village mother from Mount Hagen. Papua New Guinea. She cannot read or write, but that troubles her not at all. She is a very successful businesswoman, owning and operating a fleet of six very large trucks. She also has a new petrol station and trade store.

And .. . she’s paid for everything she owns. She owes not a toea to anyone.

Maria is about 40 and has three daughters. Husband Ammenny used to work in a large Hagen store. Now he helps Maria with her bookkeeping.

One of the most important days in Maria’s life was July 27, 1972. ‘She can remember everything that happened on that day,’ reports the monthly magazine New Nation. ‘Because that was when she bought her first truck. It was a small Toyota Stout and she paid for it with money she had earned from growing coffee.’

From that time on her fleet kept growing not only in numbers but in the size of the units employed.

New Nation concludes: ‘Maria’s business success story shows that you do not need a lot of schooling to get on in life.’

Les Johnson, the one-time Western Australian school teacher who was Australia’s man on the spot in bringing self-government to Papua New Guinea, has retired after a distinguished public service career. His retirement as Australian ambassador to Greece and high commissioner to Cyprus has been announced by Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrew Peacock.

However, it was as administrator and later high commissioner in PNG that Mr Johnson was best known. After holding an administrative position with the education department in Western Australia Mr Johnson went to PNG in 1962 and became director of education for the then Australian-administered territory. He turned down a university post in Tasmania in 1970 to become administrator of PNG at the request of the Australian Government when the move for independence was gathering speed. His terms of reference were simple in essence but complex in practice to prepare a country for selfgovernment in a few short years which left no time for long-range planning.

He established an extraordinarily strong rapport with Michael Somare, the man who emerged as PNG’s first national leader, and knew how to step into the background as the political changes were accomplished. Mr Johnson had already left PNG to head the Australian Development Assistance Agency when independence came in 1975, but he had seen the country into self-government under arrangements which contributed much to the firm relationship now existing between Australia and PNG.

Maria Kunjib - ‘hard work, good book-keeping and honesty’ is her claim.

L. W. Johnson-retiring after a distinguished public service career. 55 PEOPLE PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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A cheerful soul with an abiding interest in the Pacific Islands is Peter Kratzmann, a resident of West Germany who values PIM so much that he has each year’s 12 issues bound in leather.

Perhaps it was not entirely necessary that he should do so, but in a note about his visits he explains in pungent words that he ‘is not a Pacific beauty, but only a bloody shipwrecked Kraut stranded in Solomon Islands’.

Peter who comes to the Pacific whenever he can, has long been looking for a ‘chiefs daughter’ to take as a bride.

The search appears to be taking a new direction following Peter’s perusal of PlM’s 1980 calendar, featuring some beautiful young women of Polynesia.

Peter’s only objection to the tropics is ‘the bloody mosquitoes’. But they evidently won’t stop him from keeping on coming.

Four-year-old Virgilio De Asa, who attends kindergarten at Suva’s YWCA, looks like being something of a chess prodigy.

Virgilio only started playing in February, but by April had already won two games while attending the weekly chess clinic where primary and secondary students attend to better their game.

Dr Virgilio De Asa, father of Virgilio Jr, has won the Suva chess championship for the past two years. He was a founder member of the Fiji Chess Federation.

He told the Fiji Times : ‘World champions like Bobby Fischer started learning the fundamentals at the age of five, while Junior has started at four.’

Chess runs in the family, which hails from the Philippines. As well as Dad and Virgilio. brothers Ariel, who is six, and Alvin. 11, are also keen la s Buri Kidu, a 34-year-old Papua New Guinean lawyer, is to become his country’s new chief justice. The appointment has been announced by the PNG Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan. Mr Kidu is a former Secretary for Justice, and more recently secretary of the prime minister’s department. He is the first PNG national to hold this position, following a suecession of Australian judges, and only the second PNG national to become a judge, The present and former governments in PNG approached him on a number of occasions to accept an appointment to the bench, but he initially refused. ‘I suppose I was not ready before,’ he said after the appointment was announced. The retiring chief justice is Sir William Prentice. A New South Wales judge, Mr Justice Hal Wootten, had earlier been engaged to become chief justice this month, but he told the incoming Chan government that he was no longer available.

A w T T ,n F ‘J‘’ M J Jus,,ce u TIm ° cl Ju-vaga lhe « rst Fijian to hold the post of his country’s chief justice. Judge Tuivaga, who was also the first Fijian to be made a judge, was sworn in recently as chief justice and installed at a colourful ceremony in the Supreme Court, Suva. Judge Tuivaga, 48, was born in Suva and served as a magistrate early in his career. He qualified in law in England and gained experience in Australia as a member of the New South Wales Bar.

Later he held senior legal positions in the public service, and was appointed a judge in 1972.

Virgilio de Asa, chess player from the kindergarten.

This year’s Moomba Festival In Melbourne brought visitors to Australia from all parts of the Pacific Islands and south-east Asia. At Melbourne Zoo Kathy Delanty of Australia shows a koala to (from left) Vai’ufia Afeaki, Tonga; Deborah Gurgiel, New Zealand; Christine Van Der Ven , Singapore and Sinu Delailomaloma, Fiji. 57 PEOPLE PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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BOOKS Aids to understanding Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea: A Political History. By James Griffin, Hank Nelson, Stewart Firth.

Published by Heinemann Educational Australia. Cloth $17.50, paperback $8.95.

Development and Dependency: The Political Economy of Papua New Guinea. By Azeem Amarshi, Kenneth Good, Rex Mortimer. Published by Oxford University Press. Cloth $17.50, paperback $8.95.

These two recently published books were written by previous members of the academic staff of the University of Papua New Guinea. Griffin, Nelson and Firth were among the university’s foundation members.

Amarshi, Good and Mortimer could be said to have belonged to a ‘second generation’. Rex Mortimer died at about the time of publication of Development and Dependency. He was a man of academic merit, and those who knew him found him a skilful and trusted conciliator. Griffin and his colleagues are historians.

Mortimer was professor of political studies, and Amarshi and Good were political scientists.

Because of the recent changes in the political scene in PNG these books are essential reading for those who would try to understand it.

The constitution of PNG was ‘home-grown’. It was Papua New Guineans who determined to continue with a Westminster system of government, which Australia had imported and imposed. Australia can take pride that the members of the House of Assembly behaved with commendable restraint, as did the people in the streets, when on March 11 1980 the House voted no confidence in Michael Somare and elected Sir Julius Chan as prime minister. Under the constitution any motion of no confidence must also nominate the alternative prime minister. It is noteworthy that Chan was nominated and not lambakey Okuk, the leader of the opposition.

The motion of no confidence had been well canvassed and clearly predicted, but there were no mass rallies, no stonethrowing. Sir Julius took power with six months before he can be challenged. He may well need all of it to mould his disparate group of supporters into a workable coalition.

A Political History gives a full and very readable account of how Michael Somare formed a coalition that brought PNG to self-government in December 1973 and independence in September 1975. The book’s title may be a misnomer - it is an ambitious one. It might have been better to have concentrated on the development of a national political structure, which would include the parts played or not played by the administering authority.

More space might have been given to the Highlands. The chapter on the Highlands concentrates mainly on the Eastern Highlands and Goroka. Much more space seems to have been given to the turmoil on Bougainville (now the province of the Northern Solomons) than to any discussion of the continuing mayhem in the Highland provinces, especially lambakey Okuk’s Simbu. (see Whither the Provinces? PIM, Feb p 27). Papua Basena is growing not as a political philosophy as Josephine Abaijah saw, it is now an active disruptive party. It must be disruptive if it is to gain its ends; its politicians must have compromised their demands to support the national Chan.

These are continuing, and, indeed, in the Highlands, festering sores. It can be anticipated if the Ok Tedi copper mining venture goes ahead there will be special demands from the Western Province.

However if we look on A Political History as portraying Bougainville as an example of the kind of difficulties a prime minister in a country of 700 tongues and 700 cultures will have, and how he settled them, it is splendid. There is one other criticism that seems reasonable: the space given to PNG’s relations with Indonesia is just half that given relations with Australia over the Torres Strait Islands. Surely no one can envisage the armies of Australia and PNG facing each other across the strait, yet elements of the Indonesian and PNG armies have had a confrontation, of sorts, along their border!

A Political History doesn’t go beyond 1978. It could not anticipate Somare’s downfall, which some people think was finally brought about by what has become known as the ‘Rooney affair’. Nahau Rooney is an intelligent, well educated Manus woman who was minister for justice. All newly independent democratic governments will accept the need to ensure that the executive may not interfere with the judiciary. But they will at times want a dialogue with a court; and no matter if one’s education was in English, it is the most natural thing in the world for those for whom English is a second language to resort to writing. Mrs Rooney was guilty of contempt. The way she was tried allowed her no recourse of appeal. Her offer to apologise was rejected. This reviewer is prepared to say that no other PNG bench since 1945-46 would have sentenced her as the 1979 bench did, and this reviewer is prepared to go so far as to say that Mrs Rooney would not have been arraigned. Somare had a number of alternatives. He acted with precision and released Mrs Rooney after she had spent only a few hours in gaol.

Although there was a public outcry, and Okuk made as much political as he could, there was no defection from Somare’s ministry.

Development and Dependency saw the writing on the wall for Somare after he failed in 1978 to get the parliamentary support he needed to strengthen the leadership code, requiring ministers and senior public servants to give details of their assets and business activities, and also those of their families. Somare’s deputy Julius Chan opposed what Somare was trying to do, as did Okuk.

The authors of Development and Dependency call their review a preliminary one and admit they have no quick panaceas. They also admit that they selected those authors who from their theoretical standpoint produce data which are crucial in determining PNG’s present situation and potential.

This reviewer gets the im- Chan-demanded loyalty.

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Telephone 784-824. pression that some of their references are taken out of context. As an example Good quotes Epstein writing in his Matupit that the luluai system is ‘geared to little more than maintaining the colonial status quo’. In fact Epstein does not use the word ‘colonial’. It suits Good to add it. But it is not in the context of Epstein’s argument. Academic carelessness?

Much of what Development and Dependency says cannot be contradicted. Australia’s education policies were too slow.

But the authors are out of touch with the social scene in PNG.

They follow the marxist line.

Socialism as they know it cannot succeed in a country where people can say land was the only thing worth ‘living, working. fighting for’ (second report of the committee chaired by Sir John Guise on the emergency in the Highlands, tabled in parliament February 1980). They write of the peasants, and using another’s definition they are described as ‘someone who produces mainly for their own consumption and for the fulfilment of obligations to holders of political and economic power’. If the latter factor is an essential ingredient of the definition, then most farmers in PNG are not peasants.

Development and Dependency is very readable but some will get a little tired of ‘petty bourgeoisie’ and ‘proletariat’; though The Political History does manage embourgeoisement.

From these two books can we assess why Somare fell and Julius Chan became prime minister? In Political History described the weakness of the party system.

Hegarty’s chapter in Development and Dependency gives a clear picture of the situation.

Whilst Australia might take pride in how a Westminster type government stood up to the trauma of voting no confidence in a well respected, even revered, leader, it can take no pride in the failure to establish that other ingredient of Westminster - political parties. They were allowed to grow. The United Party may have had some fostering from the Administration. But it would be quite wrong to say that there was any policy decision to harass the Bully Beef Club, the forerunner of Pangu Pati (see Somare’s autobiography Sana). That they came under surveillance by the special branch should never have worried them. That branch of the police was quite inept. As essential of party development and membership is loyalty to the platform of the party and its leader. Only Chan, who is a first-rate administrator, was able to weld a party together and keep it intact. His party had its policies and Chan demanded loyalty and got it.

It remains to be seen whether he can do the same with his very volatile coalition.

The loyalty of some of his partners is suspect, that is, if loyalties to one’s own self and ambitions are politically undesirable.

Of the 25 ministers, 11 had been ministers in the two Somare governments. Chan and his Peoples Progress Party left the first coalition claiming Somare didn’t consult them sufficiently. What was left of a truncated opposition, the United Party, joined Somare in a new coalition. Somare dismissed a number of ministers only to see them cross the chamber into opposition.

Can Chan succeed where Somare failed? The people on whom Chan depends are Okuk. described by Development and Dependency as ‘an aggressive rural capitalist from Chimbu Province’ and in A Political History his performance as a minister is described as ‘an understandable blend of legitimate nationalist aspirations, erratic and inextricable, self-interest clutching at recognition, executive energy and impotence, systematic incomprehension and raging impropriety’. Then there is John Kaputin, twice dismissed as a Minister by Somare, who in Development and Dependency is described as ‘a picture of immense contradictions and inconsistency’, and with an inability to extract himself totally from the system he dislikes so much. A Political History calls him a ‘passionate’ man but ‘too negative and too rooted in his own Tolai concerns’.

A Political History did not see Chan as a credible nationalist leader because he is ‘too identifiably Chinese and big-business-oriented’. But it did see Father Momis as the only alternative to Somare.

Momis is an ambitious man.

Maybe ill health will dog him.

What can be said is that Somare will make a vigorous and astute leader of the opposition. This will be good for the political future.

John Gunther Traditional life and death in the Cooks Cook Islands Customs. By William Wyatt Gill Published by the Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, in association with the Ministry of Education, Rarotonga. No price given.

Several of the London Missionary Society missionaries deserve continued credit for the way in which they recorded in written form their observations of the way of life of the peoples of the Cook Islands in the early days of European contact.

Perhaps the most observant and certainly the most prolific writer among these missionaries was the Rev William Wyatt Gill, who was stationed on both Mangaia and Rarotonga, and who was determined to establish an anthropological record of the lifestyle of the Polynesians among whom he worked.

There is a growing urge among the peoples of the Pacific to regain credible knowledge of the customs of their ancestors, and they are now turning for evidence to the writings of the early European visitors and residents. Unfortunately, the volumes prepared by these authors are now collector’s items and are therefore not easily accessible to the Kaputin-contradictions.

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The 28 pages of Cook Islands Customs are crowded with an amazing wealth of detail about customs relating to birth, marriage, death, the spirit world, tribal structure, warfare, food, clothing .. . More importantly, it affords some insight into practices which were still regarded as traditional in Gill’s time, and still have great importance for the present-day Cook Islands society. Many children are brought up today in the Cook Islands as adopted, or ‘feeding children’. Gill says: ‘The curse of native family life is adoption; this makes discipline almost impossible. A cross word will make a youngster run off to its adopted parents who sympathise where they should scold. I have known parents take a present of food to the runaway, and humbly entreat his return; but all in vain! These adopted parents, however, will resolutely set themselves to discharge the duties of the real parents in teaching the youngster the arts needful in after life.’

Land tenure is perhaps the most pressing social question for many Cook Islanders today and much time is spent in litigation concerning inheritance by both males and females.

Again Gill throws light on the customs of land inheritance.

He wrote: ‘Land is the property of the tribe, and must on no account be alienated. The adopted son possesses land only so long as he goes with the clan, obeys the commands of the elders, and fights (if need be) against his nearest of kin for the tribe into which he has been adopted. A woman, in general, owns not an inch of soil, lest she carry away the right to it into another family.’

Gill’s writings could probably be criticised by modern professional anthropologists because some of his conclusions were wrong. However, he was a first-hand participant observer for many years, and he had the scholar’s eye for detail. I must applaud the publishers’ initiative in producing Cook Islands Customs and express without reservation my hope that they will give us more such vital facsimile material in future.

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Enter the Colonies Enter the Colonies Dancing.

By Edward Pask. Published by Oxford University Press. 1979. 5A19.95.

This excellent new book creates a kaleidoscope of colourful early dance and dancers seen in Australia from 1853 to 1940. The sketches and lithographs of theatres, the steel engravings and tintype photos bring to life such classic dance performances as Les Sylphides in 1845 and such glowing performers as the Irish adventuress, Lola Montez. ‘She had nothing Andalusian about her except a magnificent pair of dark eyes.’ She charmed the gold rush camps at Ballarat and Bendigo, and had been the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria who created her Baroness de Rosenthal and Countess of Lansfield before she was banished from the kingdom in 1848.

She captured audiences in the USA with her Spider Dance before her Australian notoriety about it in 1855-56 began. In this item she wildly escaped from a spider’s clinging web and shook spiders from her voluminous petticoats.

Later there were performances by highly trained, truly great stars seen in some rare photos. These dancers include the Danish Adeline Genee in 1913, the Russians such as Anna Pavlova in 1929 and, in the 1930-40 era, the three Ballets Russes companies under Colonel de Basil which toured with such artists as Irina Baronova, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, David Lichine and the great choreographer, Michael Fokine who travelled with the 1938-39 tour. That company called itself the Covent Garden Russian Ballet.

Of special interest was the Polynesian based production of Tapu to music by Alfred Hill, with story by Arthur Adams and J. C. Williamson.

In 1904 the performance was given in Sydney and Melbourne. Included were a poi dance and a haka by a group of Maori people known as The Duke’s Own who had performed before the Duke and Duchess of York during their visit to New Zealand en route from their 1901 Australian tour which celebrated Federation.

The book has over 90 black and white illustrations. Beth Dean Cook Island children - is adoption a social evil? 62 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980 BOOKS

Pitcairn’s hallmarks: Geographical isolation, human closeness TRAVEL GWENDA CORNELL who, in the yacht Aventura, shares the Pacific-wide wanderings of husband Jimmy Cornell, PlM’s yachting correspondent extraordinary, here tells the story of the family’s recent visit (children Doina and Ivan were with them too) to Pitcairn Island. As a description of the lifestyle on remote Pitcairn on the threshold of the 1980 s, her account is of absorbing interest.

The mutiny on the Bounty must be the most famous mutiny of all time a fascinating true story that for decades has intrigued writers and filmmakers, and continues to do so.

The mutineers’ retreat, Pitcairn Island, had intrigued us too, so we decided to shape our sailing route across the Pacific to include it.

It was almost 2000 kilometres from Easter Island, the nearest island to the east, and it was 12 days before we saw the tiny dot of Pitcairn rising 300 metres like a rock out of the ocean. Barely three kilometres long, lying in the middle of the South Pacific, exactly halfway on the shipping route between Panama and New Zealand, Pitcairn must be one of the remotest places in the world.

There is no regular passenger service, a declining number of supply ships, no airstrip, and the only outsiders to visit Pitcairn come on the few yachts that call.

It was just this remoteness that made Pitcairn attractive to the Bounty mutineers, who fled there in 1790, led by Fletcher Christian, taking some Polynesian women from Tahiti along with them. Murder and violence in general brought death to most of the nine mutineers, and in 1808, when the island was rediscoverd, only one man, John Adams, remained, along with 10 women and 23 children. The women had been the main force in sustaining the life of the community, clearing and cultivating the land, tending livestock, fishing and doing all the myriad other jobs. John Adams had taught the children to read, using the Bible salvaged from the Bounty, which had been burnt in the bay in an effort to avoid detection.

At first light we dropped our anchor in Bounty Bay, near the spot where the Bounty had been scuttled. A few houses were well hidden by trees on the top of the cliffs which towered up from the bay.

Nothing stirred. It was an hour before tiny pinlike figures appeared on the cliff waving madly. Then several motorbikes made their way down the steep track, and activity started on the quay. An inflatable rescue craft bounced out over the waves, which were rolling and breaking into the small boat harbour. In the large swell it was with some difficulty that the three young men clambered aboard. ‘Welcome to Pitcairn,' said Nig Brown. ‘We’ve brought you some bananas.’ He handed me a huge stem.

Dennis Christian and Brian Young also introduced themselves, our children getting excited at recognising the famous surnames, for we had all been busy rereading the story of Pitcairn and the Bounty during the 12 days from Easter Island.

There hadn’t been a visiting yacht for quite a while, so we sat swapping yarns. ‘lt’s very rare that we can’t get out to a boat,’ said Nig, ‘although we’ve had the occasional accident in rough weather. When we go out in the long boats to meet cargo ships, they sometimes drift several miles with us tied alongside and then it can be a long hard slog back to the island if it’s a bit rough.’

They think nothing of taking their open long boats across 110 kilometres or so of ocean to the small uninhabited atoll of Oeno, for wfiat-fhey regard as a holiday away from their own island. ‘Everyone is waiting to meet you. Let’s go ashore,’ said Brian.

The ocean swell hooked around the tiny island into Bounty Bay all the time.

Watching those breakers, I was a bit apprehensive about going in. I needn’t have worried though as Nig demonstrated his seamanship, waiting for just the right moment, watching the waves and then timing one just right, opening the throttle full on the powerful outboard motor. We surfed in with the wave to land in the boat harbour behind a small breakwater.

It did seem as though almost every inhabitant of Pitcairn The main settlement of Pitcairn is perched on cliffs overlooking Bounty Bay. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, JUNE, 1980

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[ was waiting to greet us at the f top of the hill, for only 65 \ people live on the island now, | the population having dwindled through lack of work opportunities. Many of the young people who go to New Zealand to complete their edu- ; cation never return. All the people living on Pitcairn today can trace their ancestry back to the mutineers and their Tahitian wives although they look more English than Polynesian, mainly due to the visits of other sailors who found Pitcairn a paradise difficult to resist.

English and Polynesian ways had mingled in the isolation of the island, and still do, with such dishes as goat baked in a stone oven with sweet potato and manioc, contrasting with egg-and-bacon breakfasts and the strong cups of tea offered throughout the day*. One of the first things I noticed was the strange English dialect they use among themselves although everyone spoke standard English to us.

We were immediately welcomed into the family of the magistrate Ivan Christian, and they looked after us with great hospitality throughout our stay. Various people dropped in to meet us. There was a little argument going on over who had seen us first, for they were quite peeved that we had sneaked in at dawn with no one seeing us arrive. By a custom dating from the years when the British Navy was searching for the mutineers, the sighting of ships approaching the island is a matter of principle for the Pitcairners. It was Olive Christian, Ivan’s daughter-in-law, who had raised the alarm that is, turning the handle on the island’s telephone system, giving the long rings which mean there is some general information for all. The houses have old wall telephones with a handle to crank, each family having its own ‘morse code’ of short and long rings instead of a number. But on a series of long rings everyone picks up the phone and can chip in.

The feeling of being part of one large family was very strong, and in fact nearly everyone is related in some way to everyone else. The extended family system, that has been lost elsewhere and which people have tried to recreate in various forms of communal life, flourishes on Pitcairn.

People dropped in and out to ask for things or just to pass the time of day. The children had the run of all the houses and seemed to get fed wherever they happened to be when a meal was being served.

This strong, supportive and happy atmosphere was one of the things keeping some of the young people, such as Olive Christian, on the island. Olive, in T-shirt and shorts, a thoroughly modern mother of three young boys, explained her life to me, as she sat carving a wooden shark, traditionally a male occupation, to the sound of her favourite Country and Western music on a cassette recorder.

She pointed out the, large deep freeze, which has made such a difference to the life of Pitcairn housewives. Supplies have always been a problem, and the last official supply ship to restock that freezer had been there five months ago. No one knew when the next ship would arrive, so the housewife has to plan her shopping list with great care.

The enormous freedom enjoyed by the children Olive considers as another of the advantages of life on the island.

T never have to worry about the children,’ said Olive, There is no harm they can come to, no traffic in the village.’

Indeed, the youngsters almost run wild and my children, Doina and Ivan, had been quick to shed their shoes and join them, climbing banyan trees, playing a peculiar form of island rounders, and making their way down the cliff to swim in one of the huge rockpools.

They couldn’t be persuaded back to our boat and spent the night happily ashore with the Christian family, getting up early to go to school.

Even school is just like a family, consisting of one class of eight children aged from five to 14. The schoolteacher, sent out from New Zealand for a stint of two years, is one of the few non-Pitcairners on the island. The others are the Pastor and his wife, the nurse.

A medical emergency is one of the real fears on the island, as some young people have died from appendicitis in the past. There is no doctor. New Zealand is over 5000 kilometres away, a week’s journey by sea.

The nearest inhabited island is in the Gambier group in French Polynesia, 500 kilometres away. But it has no doctor or hospital either.

Olive expressed her concern for the children’s teeth and the lack of dental facilities, although at the time her husband was in Auckland on a short course in dentistry. Apart from tooth decay, I was impressed by the health of the children.

I observed for myself the lack of any flat area suitable for an airstrip when Olive took me for a tour of the island by motorbike, the normal method of transport. She handled the bike skilfully, pushing through the long grass and over the bumpy ground. A small dirt road runs through the main village, Adamstown. But the rest of the rugged, hilly island is accessible only by narrow, overgrown and sometimes seemingly vertical paths, it was like a motorcrosse, but I managed to stay on the pillion and was rewarded by the superb views, especially from the Ships Landing Point, looking down on the village of Adamstown and our own A ventura at anchor below in Bounty Bay.

There were sheer rugged cliffs all around the island and no beaches. It was easy to see how the houses were hidden and the mutineers escaped detection by any passing ships.

The names given to various parts of the island were fascinating and often selfexplanatory: Down Rope, Johnny Fall, Where Tom Off, and Bitey-Bitey.

Later we walked along the main road, a slightly wider dirt track, past the co-operative shop to the small square, bounded by the church, courthouse and post office. Here stands the enormous anchor salvaged from the Bounty, and in the church we inspected the Bible from which John Adams had taught the children to read.

The anchor and Bible are two of the very few things left from the famous ship.

There was great activity in the village, for a Norwegian ship was due the following day to collect mail. Everyone was busy writing letters and finishing off various handicrafts they hoped to sell to the crew.

Models of the Bounty and carved sharks, set with real shark’s teeth, are among the things made by the men, while beautifully woven pandanus baskets are the women’s speciality.

The Pitcairners used to do a good trade selling handicrafts to the 20 or more cargo ships a year that used to break their journey for a couple of hours on the Panama-New Zealand run. With the advent of con- Aventura in Bounty Bay off Pitcairn Island. 65 TRAVEL PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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Nevertheless, the island makes a fair income from the sale of postage stamps. This covers the costs of education, health, administration and public works.

As a matter of policy all adult men have some kind of a job paid by the administration running the generator, maintaining the road, the dock, the public buildings, etc. Men and women work together in their gardens and grow a wide range of produce.

We were lucky that our last evening coincided with Dennis Christian’s birthday. Every birthday and special occasion is celebrated by what is called a ‘Public Dinner’. Any quarrels are forgotten and everyone is invited. Dennis’ mother provided the setting, but each housewife brought her own contribution, a meat or vegetable dish, a cake or a pudding. Soon the table was laden with an amazing variety of appetising dishes.

It was difficult to believe that the last supply ship had been five months ago.

Notable was the absence of alcohol, for as Seventh-day Adventists the islanders neither drink nor smoke, but this doesn’t affect their great capacity for enjoying themselves.

The younger generation soon had a record player organised and a disco going in one of the rooms, the children were playing ghosts in the garden while the older people sat and chatted, the women’s hands never still as they wove pandanus or knitted while talking.

Later, the Pitcairners sang for us in harmonious voices the special goodbye songs they sing as they pull away in their long boats from visiting ships. In the songs one could sense the isolation and loneliness of the people, and a sadness that a contact with the outside world had come to an end. Our visit too had to end, and we sadly bade farewell to our new friends, for in our short visit, they had managed to make us too feel part of the Pitcairn family.

Exploring Niue on two wheels Yachtie P. BREMER KAMP was on Niue not long ago as part of the crew of Scheherazade. Following is his account of a day ashore exploring Niue by motor bike.

Captain Cook was the first European to discover Niue Island in 1774. His efforts to put ashore to explore and talk to the natives were repelled with such violence he withdrew and called the discovery ‘Savage Island’. When we arrived off the town of Alofi, the customs and immigration officers were friendly and made us most welcome. I’m sure if the good captain were to return today he also would be made more welcome at Niue than at some other of the more demanding ports of the South Pacific.

Niue Island is 370 kilometres east of Vavau and 500-odd kilometres south of Samoa.

The inhabitants of the northern half generally are of Samoan ancestry, while those of the south are of Tongan origin. In the days of Cook there was no love lost between the two tribes and this, possibly, was the reason for his ferocious rebuff.

Today the population is a meld of easy-going Polynesians, who quickly dispel any unfavourable impression that may linger from the ‘Savage Island’ incident.

Downtown Alofi has five or six buildings, built of corrugated iron and coral stone, while the government buildings are of more modern materials. A short strip of bitumen keeps the dust from settling on the already faded paintwork, while the everencroaching vegetation hides the plumbing defects and is pleasing to the eye.

Inquiring at the post office I found it was possible to hire motor bikes at the local garage.

Armed with cameras, costumes and sandwiches we chugged off on our motor bikes to where luck would lead us.

Niue lies in the earthquake belt between New Zealand and the Solomons and in past centuries was subjected to considerable elevating forces.

Originally a coral atoll about three to five metres above sea level with an enclosed lagoon, subterranean forces lifted the whole atoll out of the sea about 60 metres. Today the island is terraced in two levels. The coastal terrace is bordered by cliffs up to 21 metres high which have eroded into numerous caves. The tropical rainfall has turned the decaying vegetation into a mild carbonic acid which has readily eaten into the coral stone to such an extent that the whole island is honeycombed with caves, chasms and spectacular landforms.

The first of the caves we visited was called Avaiki. The descent from the road was quite steep and made with the assistance of roots and vines from a nearby tree. Once inside the cathedral-like void, it was ironic to notice that it was being used for canoe stowage.

From time to time we could hear the ocean surging through the other entrances. I decided to follow one through and came upon a delightful grotto, where we cooled off with a swim.

Back on the road again, we putted off to Matapa Chasm, the bathing place of the ancient chiefs. This fault is almost two kilometres long and not more than 30 metres wide. It runs inland from a narrow entrance on the coast where it is 18 to 21 metres high. The water was so inviting it was impossible to pass by without having a swim.

We found the water pleasantly refreshing and cool, as only the midday sun ever reaches into the chasm. Reluctantly we wandered back to the motor bikes and drove off to the Arches of Talava.

We motored up to the top of the second terrace, past plantations of limes, passion fruit, bananas and coconuts, stopping for a sample at the invitation of a gardener. The walk out to the Arch is about a kilometre and a half, over relatively easy ground. On reaching the coast you can gaze upon what must be one of the seven wonders of the Pacific.

There was an unforgettable atmosphere about the Arch, bringing to mind the spirits of ancient chiefs, pagan sacrifices and Polynesian legends.

Earlier that morning at the post office, we were aware of a general air of excitement and found that this was due to the fact that the cinema would be operating that night. My informant, however, was not sure what was showing. Eager to experience a movie in this island setting, we decided to go. The ticket collector could not say what was showing either, but for 50 cents this could hardly be considered cause for complaint.

The cinema was an old corrugated iron structure that has somehow managed to survive the occasional cyclone. There was seating for about 100, and we were among the last to get seats. However, when all seats were filled, the audience just kept rolling in. I do not know whether the dogs had tickets or not, but they were certainly enjoying the occasion. When the walls were bulging with the size of the audience, the lights went out and the film started backwards! Lights on again for a quick rewind, and the assembly settled down for an enjoyable evening, interrupted only when the generator ran out of fuel and a couple of dogs started to fight in the side door.

If you find yourself in the Pacific and looking for an atoll with a difference, be sure to call at Niue, a real Pacific jewel. From Scheherazade in transit.

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In the Pacific Islands, the 1960 s were when the metaphorical chickens of the United Nations Committee of 24 anticolonialists and other theorists started to come home to roost.

The fifties had started out still making good the years of war, one foot in the past. But by the end of that decade, some administering powers were already beginning to see the light and the virtue of the brave new world of majority rule, one-man-one-vote and independence for all. The main reason for this was that colonies, far from being valuable assets, were turning out, in the post-World War II era, to be more likely bottomless sinks for taxpayers’ money. Further, they were targets for mischiefmaking Russians and Third World members of the United Nations.

Better by far to bring them quickly to some semblance of Western democratic government, promise them continued financial support and get out.

Britain had already had a fill of colonial problems in Africa and South-east Asia. So why not make a virtue of leaving the Pacific by giving these islands up, as Prime Minister Menzies of Australia had said, too soon rather than too late?

If it was Britain which started the trend, Australia and New Zealand were quick to follow and had swifter success, as some of Britain’s bits and pieces were exceedingly difficult to move. But between the three of them in 1960 were divided the administrations of Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Western Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Papua-New Guinea, Nauru, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, half of the New Hebrides, plus the oversight of Tonga and Norfolk Island. What was left to the Netherlands, France and the United States was minor by comparison.

The Netherlands, which had been reduced to West New Guinea, had even less to lose than the British and liquidated its liabilities in another way.

The French still had use for their Pacific territories, had already given them universal suffrage, representatives in the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies and managed to insist that that was enough.

The United States, theoretically the greatest anticolonialist of the lot, was still exploding H-bombs in the North Pacific in the early 1960 s and building an anti-missile base at Kwajalein, in the Marshalls. Independence for its territories was complicated anyway by the differing outlooks of the scattered Micronesian groups and the desire of most to continue having US support, no matter what kind of independence they ultimately achieved. The setting up of the Congress of Micronesia in 1965 seemed to do little to weld the disparate groups into one people. Guam had already settled its relationship with the US and the American Samoans were still suffering from the withdrawal of the Pago Pago navy base.

Generally, however, the sixties saw much political advancement everywhere.

Advisory Councils grew into Legislative Councils; those with Legislative Councils got Assemblies; a few achieved parliaments or Houses of Representatives. Nominated members gave way to elected members through electoral colleges, then by straight-out universal suffrage, while the elite became under-secretaries, ministerial members and, finally, full-blown ministers.

There were Leaders of Government Business who grew into Chief Ministers and finally into Premiers or Prime Ministers. By the end of the decade, two countries had become independent states, one had self-government, one had been thrown to the wolves and many were on the brink of cutting loose from colonial apronstrings.

In the race to nationhood it was fitting that the Western Samoans, who had known where they wanted to go for decades, should have been the first to hoist their own flag and sing their own anthem and, on January 1, 1962, experience the delicious joys of total independence also, in due course, to experience the problems that went with it.

Also quick of solution was the West New Guinea situation. In May 1960 the Dutch announced a 10-year plan of building up the WNG Papuans politically and economically with the territory immediately getting a New Guinea Council with a Papuan majority.

This was followed by more sabre-rattling by Indonesia’s Soekarno and. later, visits to Australia by his General Nasution, who was told that Australia could not take any initiative in a procedure designed to hand over sovereignty and the right to self-determination in WNG. In spite of these fair words, by the time the Indonesians were dropping parachute troops into WNG in 1962, Australia had retreated into masterly silence.

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The settlement, however, had two face-saving clauses: the Dutch undertook to provide something like $3O million over the first three years for Papuan development, the amount being paid into a special UN fund; and, by 1969, the Papuans were to be allowed an ‘act of free choice’ as to whether they would remain with Indonesia or not.

The first concession was hamstrung from the start, as at the successful conclusion of his WNG adventure, Soekarno began his confrontation with Malaysia and eventually took Indonesia out of the UN. By the time the Indonesians had got rid of him and were back in the UN, Indonesia was on the brink of economic and political disaster and WNG, out at the end of the line, in parlous state.

The Dutch fund had been frozen by the UN and the thaw had scarcely begun in 1968 when an article by Peter Hastings appeared in PIM, describing his visit to this forlorn place. It was without shipping, planes or cash; Papuans were seen only in the background, disillusioned Indonesians were everywhere. Papuans who did manage to get near him told of deprivation, harassment, gaol and even executions.

Half the UN fund was at that time being used to try to get communications and some of the utilities restored; half was earmarked for small-scale development mostly of agriculture a mere drop in the bucket of what was required.

There was then remaining the second face-saver, the act of free choice to be taken before the end of 1969.

The United Nations, which had insisted that Western Samoa, of one mind about independence and with New Zealand willing, must hold a plebiscite based on universal suffrage before independence, made no such stipulation in the case of WNG. Instead, the business was allowed to follow Indonesian custom under which a few thousand selected voters, by some mysterious means, arrived at a consensus on behalf of their million compatriots.

It was no surprise that the vote was to remain with Indonesia. There was, in any event, nowhere else for them to go by that time. Virtually abandoned by the United Nations, any pipedreams they might once have had of joining PNG had long been exposed for the myths they were; to go it alone in an underdeveloped country that had been stripped down to bare bones, was clearly impossible. The Papuans, who were no longer permitted to call themselves that, were stuck with the Indonesians for the foreseeable future.

In contrast to the malign fate that overtook the WNG Papuans, the fewer than 3000 Nauruans from the valuable phosphate island got all they wanted in the 19605, pressed down and running over.

Australia brought up the future of these people in mid-1961 when it was believed that the phosphate deposits would run out in 30 years. It was announced then that Australia, on behalf of NZ and UK, the other two partners in the joint Trusteeship, was offering Nauruans a home in 1961 guard of honour forms up outside the West New Guinea parliament which Holland established shortly before Indonesia gained international recognition of its rights to administer West New Guinea, now known as Irian Jaya and a province of Indonesia. 50 YEARS OF RIM

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The Nauruans weren’t interested they wanted an [ island of their own, they said, | where they could retain their identity, and a search for this began immediately. Starting with Prince of Wales Island in Torres Strait, the hunt continued to Fraser Island and finally Curtis, both inside Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. But all efforts failed, wrecked on Nauruan insistence on independence and sovereignty on any island on which they settled, and Queensland’s equally adamant refusal to give up territory in these circumstances.

At the end of 1964 the Nauruans decided to stay put on Nauru, with the old workings rehabilitated. Australia, ever obliging, sent in a team of experts whose opinion was that it was physically possible, by blasting down flat the coral pinnacles left after phosphatic rock was extracted. Cost was another matter; that had not been in their terms of reference.

Nothing further was heard about rehabilitation as Nauru soon engaged Australian public relations experts to put their case for independence, and two economic advisers to show why the Nauruans should become owners of the phosphate industry which had been run on behalf of Australia, NZ and UK since shortly after World War I by the British Phosphate Commissioners.

Talks went on through 1965 and 1966 and by mid-1967 it was all over. The Nauruans, led by Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt and advised by Australian experts, were to buy out the BPC assets for something aver $2l million, paid out of profits over three years. Agreement on Nauruan independence followed, the announcement being made in Canberra on October 24, 1967, and setting the date at January H, 1968, three months hence.

While the official machinery vas set in motion, back home amongst the phosphate that vould soon be theirs, Nauruans were designing a lag, a coat of arms, stamps; ippointing senior public servants; organising a guest list and making preparations for the January celebrations. They were whipping up a constitution with the help of Professor Jim Davidson, holding a convention to approve it; even holding a by-election for the seat of one member of the Legislative Council, Victor Eoaeo, who had resigned because he thought they were rushing too quickly into independence.

They’ll be independent or bust,’ was the headline in PIM in January 1968, and on the appointed day the new royal blue flag with gold central stripe (representing the equator) and 12-pointed white star (representing the 12 original tribes of Nauru) was raised, and the Australian flag brought down. The Pacific’s smallest, newest and richest independent nation was off and running.

A sort of sombre counterpoint to the success of the Nauruans was the efforts of the Banabans, once from the equally famous source of phosphate, Ocean Island, part of the then Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony. Since the war the Banabans had been relocated on the fertile Fiji island of Rabi which had been purchased for them. From time to time they were reported to be ‘doing better’ there, or ‘settling in well’, and only in October 1965, when the Nauruans were already well on their way in the phosphate stakes, did they speak up and tell the world how miserable they had been.

To Stuart Inder, one of PlM’s editors who visited them, they claimed that they were poverty-stricken, even starving, while the GEIC reaped the benefit of Ocean Island’s rich phosphate.

Following this PIM article the Rabi people had a spate of publicity from newspapers, magazines and even TV, and as a result some crumbs of comfort fell their way their royalties on Ocean Island phosphate were doubled and in mid-1967 the British House of Commons decided to give the Banabans an ex gratia payment equivalent to SA2OO 000 in ‘consideration of the effects of phosphate mining on Ocean Island since 1900’. The payment had followed visits to London of the Banaban leader, Rotan Tito, his son, the Rev Tebuke Rotan, and legal advisers. It seems a fairly handsome gesture, but the Banabans thought it insignificant beside what the Nauruans were to get. It certainly wasn’t the end of the Banaban saga that went on inside and outside British courts far beyond the sixties.

Another happier story was being written in the meantime in the Cook Islands. In March 1964 Albert Henry, who in the fifties had masterminded the Cook Islands Progressive Association from New Zealand where he had lived for 20 years, came home to live permanently in Rarotonga. The reason was that the Cooks were to become self-governing, and Albert already had set his sights on the premiership. He was greeted as a Messiah and set about forming the Cook Islands Party.

The Cooks’ new constitution, which would go into effect after the first election, provided for NZ citizenship for Cook Islanders, a NZ High Commissioner, and substantial yearly grants. It also stipulated that candidates for election had to have resided at least three years previously in the group and there was the rub, for Albert Henry had not.

The Henry family, however, soon got over this problem.

Mrs Marguerite Storey, sister of Albert, would stand for election and keep the seat warm for Albert while amendments to the constitution were made.

This accomplished, she would then stand down, Albert would contest a by-election and become Premier.

And so it came to pass after the Cl Party won 14 of the 22 seats. Nor did Mrs Storey disappear from the scene.

When the Legislative Assembly met after Albert’s elevation she was made Speaker of the House, as allowed by the new constitution.

One of the first acts of the new government was to declare that stamps would finance old age pensions, one of the Henry election promises. NZ had previously supplied the Cooks with stamps but in future a Philatelic Bureau would run the business and business it turned out to be. It was, alas, an aspect of the stamp business that in the end put an end to the Henry regime. But from 1965 for the next 14 years, the Cooks were, indeed, Henry country.

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Between the old Legislative Council of 1960 and the House of Assembly of 1968 some wonderful and weird things had happened, not the least of which was what PIM called the extravaganza of the 1964 election for the first House and what preceded it the mammoth task of recording the names of about one million people on electoral rolls. This was achieved by Native Affairs officers visiting 12 000 villages scattered over about 177 000 square miles of rugged, generally roadless, country, using everything from helicopters to their own two feet.

At this time PNG was about 60% illiterate, fewer than a third of the people had ever voted and then only at local councils, yet the authorities introduced ballot papers with names only, no symbols, and modified preferential voting after the style of the Australian system, where one lists all candidates in order of preference.

Where voters could not read or didn’t know what to do, they could whisper their preferences to officials stationed there for that purpose.

It was small wonder that the result was, as PIM said in one of the understatements of the age, ‘full of surprises’. Of the dozen native members who had sat in the last ‘Legco’ only two survived the cataclysm, their places being taken by 35 new, unknown quantities.

Although for the first time official members were outnumbered and therefore could technically be outvoted, 10 under-secretaries were chosen from elected members and paid £l3OO a year, in contrast to the £950 paid ordinary members. It was believed that the £350 differential in salary would keep these honest and toeing the official line. In any event Australia, through its Minister for Terrilories and the PNG Administrator, still had power to withhold assent to any legislation.

There were about 40 000 Europeans in PNG at this time, a large proportion of them rugged individualists whose outlook on life still lagged about 50 years behind that of those who called the shots in the United Nations Trusteeship Council. The newly elected, indigenous members of the House assembled, clothed in identical outfits made from the same bolt of grey cloth. This garb sat uneasily on frames that a few weeks before had more usually worn a cotton lap-lap or even a few strings and bustle of leaves. The white cynics stood on the sidelines and said: ‘Poor, silly buggers’.

They didn’t realise that it was against them that the gun was loaded.

By the second House election in 1968, there was no doubt which way events were shaping. There were now political parties, including the socalled ‘radical’ Pangu Pati run by a triumvirate for whom the spokesman was someone PIM at first designated merely as M.

Somare.

Adherents of Pangu in the House varied in numbers from time to time, were regarded with hostility by other members, and were given small chance of surviving by outsiders — forecasts that history has shown were wide of the mark. Pangu, with changes of mood, aspirations and adherents, survived, and Michael Somare was to become PNG’s first Prime Minister — though that was still seven years away.

In 1960 Fiji still awaited the result of an investigation by a team of experts headed by Sir Alan Burns which had been set up the previous year to inquire into Fiji’s economic situation and chart a course for orderly development in the future.

The 154-page report was released in mid-March that year and PlM’s founder. R. W. Robson, who reviewed it from London, called it a thoroughly practical, down-to-earth diagnosis of Fiji’s embarrassments and a blueprint of measures that should be taken to overcome them.

Others thought otherwise, especially the Fijians who resented the Burns recommendation that something be done about the unequal distribution of land which was traditionally secured to them. Nor did they like the suggestion that the system of Fijian administration which preserved communal organisation be modified or scrapped.

Local bureaucracy also found parts of the recommendations difficult to put into effect or otherwise unpalatable and although many of the minor changes were adopted, many of the major ones were delayed or shelved altogether.

Race relations were at a low ebb in the early 19605, which was another reason for the poor response to Burns’ recommendations.

Of more immediate impact was the report and recommendations of the Trustram Eve inquiry into the sugar industry which had followed years of wrangling between growers and millers, bringing this major Fiji export industry close to anarchy.

Acting quickly on the Eve report, a Sugar Industry Board, headed by a permanent chairman, was set up along with a Sugar Advisory Board of 18 members representing all factions in the industry. The report also recommended that the CSR Cos, the only millers, set up a Fiji subsidiary in order that the company’s Fiji operations could be more readily available for examination by the Sugar Industry Board. CSR complied, establishing South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd with a nominal capital of £ls million.

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His report was not issued until the end of January 1970 when he found for the growers as, in his opinion, the millers had had a good innings over the previous eight years. The new contract for the 1970 s would not be based on the Eve formula but on 65% of the proceeds of the cane going to growers and 35% to the millers.

It was a bombshell in Fiji, leading to the withdrawal of the CSR Cos which had been milling sugar in Fiji for 90 years, and a whole new ballgame for Fiji’s sugar industry.

Sugar squabbles notwithstanding, the British Colonial Office by 1965 was impatient at the country’s slow political advancement. In August that year, with a view to thrashing out something more acceptable in the world of the 19605, the whole 18 non-official members of the Legco were flown to London at great expense to get down to business with Colonial Office staff.

Acrimony and disharmony were part of the proceedings, popularly blamed on the four Indian delegates led by Mr. A.

D. Patel; nonetheless the majority carried the day and took home a plan for an enlarged Legco with common rolls for three special electorates covering the whole country as well as the traditional communal rolls. A Ministerial Member system was also to be introduced.

Back home. Ratu K. K. T.

Mara was instrumental in forming the Alliance Party which aimed to be multi-racial, and A. D. Patel became leader of a largely Indian Federation Party. Elections at the end of 1966 resulted in the majority of seats going to the Alliance while the Federation got only nine.

Ratu Mara took the newly created post of Leader of Government Business heading an Executive Council, or Cabinet, of 10 chosen on party lines.

At the first meeting of the new Council, the nine Federation members walked out, their seats ultimately being declared vacant and by-elections held.

The same number of Federation members then romped back again.

A wave of anti-Indian feeling swept the rest of the populace and then gradually subsided into unexpected calm.

By 1969 Lord Denning was engaged in a marathon hearing of new sugar disputes and politics were marking time. Nevertheless, Whitehall was again planning a constitutional conference but expecting more preliminary agreement between the parties than had been manifest at the 1965 talks something that was perhaps made easier following the sudden death in 1969 of the Federation Party’s fiery leader, A. D.

Patel.

Political events were at last on the move in Fiji at the end of 1969, although few would have bet then that independence and Dominion status were just a year away.

Politics were not the only activities in the Islands in the 19605. In other spheres there were equally notable advances.

In education, the South Pacific acquired two full-blown universities, the first in Port Moresby followed closely by one in Suva. Lower down the scale, Papua-New Guinea got a crash programme of primary education guided by crashtrained teachers to try to make up for the generations of neglect. Even more innovative was the educational system introduced into American Samoa by Governor Rex Lee under which almost all instruction was through television.

Regarded as somthing of a miracle early on, by the end of the decade experts and parents alike were to have serious reservations about the scheme.

Economically all islands made progress, one way or another. Prices for the old traditional export crops fluctuated widely with more left to indigenous growers, for the big European plantations were on the way out or under challenge over land ownership or legality of titles. But other large-scale developments included the establishment of Bougainville Copper Ltd, following five years of intensive prospecting and testing by the parent company, Conzinc Riotinto, at Panguna in the mountains behind Kieta in Bougainville.

Final cost: S4OO million.

In Western Samoa, Potlatch Forests Inc, one of the largest timber producers in the US, obtained extensive leases on the island of Savaii where a new port and airstrip were built. By 1970 it was producing kiln-dried timber and veneer sheets for the US, although troubles were to come later.

Elsewhere, in P-NG and the Solomons, large-scale forest leases were being exploited for timber and timber-products, mostly designed for Japan, while in New Britain oil palm was being established in a big way, and was planned for the Solomons as well.

Mining on the South Pacific’s third phosphate island, Makatea in French Polynesia, ceased in the 19605, but the French company responsible set up the large-scale manganese mine at Forari in the New Hebrides which did well before fading.

Tourism was an industry that bloomed universally, even in such places as the Cooks and Western Samoa, previously wary for fear it changed local ways or impinged on sacred Sundays.

In Fiji there was a great expansion in hotel building and by the end of the decade revenue from the visitor industry was second only to sugar production.

As an accompaniment, communications improved everywhere, in all departments, from roads to jet airports, plus two British round-the-world cables.

COMPAC, completed in 1963 at a cost of £Stg3o million, linked Australia, NZ, Fiji, Flawaii and Canada with the UK and Europe. The £Stg24 million SEACOM cable followed, to open in 1967 linking Singapore, Jesselton, Hong Kong, Guam, Madang, Cairns and thence by landline to Sydney and COMPAC. The only non-British station in SEACOM is Guam, where personnel from OTC Australia A development phase in the 1960s led to the establishment of the Bougainville copper mine - one of the world’s biggest open pit mines -on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. 75 50 YEARS OF PIM PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1980

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Amongst happenings of the i sixties common to almost all South Pacific countries was the change-over to decimal currency Australia and its islands in 1966, New Zealand, its appendages and Tonga in 1967, and Fiji in 1969. In each £1 became equivalent of two dollars, each dollar worth 100 cents.

With the exception of Western Samoa, which at the end of the decade was still insisting that residents and visitors alike obtain permits to imbibe alcohol from a local Liquor Board, most territories removed existing restrictions on non-Europeans. In most islands there had been some sort of previous permit system, but Papua New Guineans graduated overnight in October 1962 from total prohibition to an open go at anything they fancied. It was soon obvious that there were going to be few conservative social drinkers amongst them they drank to get drunk and alcohol continued to be a problem.

Among the important people who died during the period under review was Tonga’s beloved Queen Salote - in December 1965, after a record reign of 47 years and eight months. She was succeeded by her eldest son, Prince Tungi, who became King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV.

He was crowned on July 4, 1967, in European style, with a Tongan installation following.

For the European ceremony the King and his Queen Mata’aho wore scarlet velvet robes trimmed with ermine and with ermine capes. The Royal Chaplain and the President-General of the Methodist Church in Australia officiated at the proceedings which had a strong resemblance to the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminister Abbey 15 years before. The heavy gold Tongan crown used had been made in Australia 100 years before for the new King’s greatgrandfather.

Over 70 000 Tongans were in Nukualofa for the occasion, plus overseas guests and representatives of the media, one of whom (according to a report in PIM) felt that the event did not need to be written so much as set to music. Stuart Inder, PIM editor, who was there disagreed. Tonga was a Christian country with a constitutional monarchy, he said. It was therefore fitting that it should crown its King in a Christian ceremony.

An event of even more international significance was the announcement by France in 1963 that a base for nuclear experiments would be built on five remote atolls of the Tuamotu-Gambier group of French Polynesia, the actual test site being Moruroa.

Although both the UK and US had tested atomic bombs in the north Pacific unhindered, the French announcement brought howls of displeasure from all quarters. The French, nonetheless, went on with their plans and although the first socalled nuclear device was not detonated until July 1966, preparations for it changed the life of Tahiti which became a forward base for the Centre d'Experimentations du Pacifique (CEP). New buildings, new houses sprang up. A vast new harbour and appropriate installations were built; the main airport was vastly extended, with similar airstrips built out in the atolls.

On the more entertaining side, there were no fewer than three South Pacific Games held in the sixties the first in Suva (1963), which PIM said ‘Went off with a bang’; the second in Noumea (1966) which also ‘Went off with a bang’, although there were some complaints about food and accommodation; and the third (1969) in Port Moresby where there were complaints about the distance the Games villages were from the main Konedobu sports arena. However, having apparently got its gramophone needle stuck on this subject, PIM said that these again ‘Went off with a bang’.

PIM also started a few rabbits of its own running during the sixties items that went on from issue to issue gaining reader momentum. For example, there was the occasion when John F. Kennedy became odds-on favourite for the US Presidency in 1959-60, with considerable renewed interest in his war service in the SW Pacific when as Lieutenant Kennedy he was in charge of PT boat 109. In 1943, the PT boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer and he and 10 survivors reached a small island near Gizo.

There he was rescued, allegedly by a New Zealand coastwatcher, and in 1960 PIM started looking for this mysterious person. Eventually, the real Whodunit stood up ex- Coastwatcher Reg Evans, an Australian and not a New Zealander and we were able to set the record straight. Mr In 1963 Fiji produced this flag to mark its role as first host country for the South Pacific Games, establishing the games as a regular interchange of sport and culture between Pacific Island countries.

After reigning for nearly 48 years, Queen Salote of Tonga died in 1965. She was one of the most widely known and loved of Pacific Island traditional or political leaders and Is shown here with Tongan students in Sydney during a visit to Australia not long before her death. 77 50 YEARS OF RIM ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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Then, in January 1967, when a Mr Ted Hebblewhite accidentally discovered an old, overgrown stone wall in the bush at Big Bay, Santo, New Hebrides, controversy as to who built it went on for months. Robert Langdon, then on PIM staff and sort of resident historian, claimed that it could have been build by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros who had tried to build a settlement on this spot as long before as 1606 and of which no traces had been found. If the wall was, indeed, his wall then it would be a major historical find.

Vociferous NH readers thereupon came to light with a dozen reasons why Bob Langdon was wrong. It was the remains of a 19th century trade store, mission station, pigpen or what-have-you, they said.

The arguments dragged on for months, the origin of Langdon’s Wall, as it came to be called in the New Hebrides, getting no closer to solution.

As for PIM itself during this period the magazine reached its largest size, it began to be distributed in the Pacific Islands by air, and it burst forth into covers in full colour.

We lost to the Grim Reaper our long-time columnist and friend, Gordon Thomas, whose Talk-Talk column commented on current events in PNG and was a wonderful source of happenings in the Territory away back to 1911 when Gordon had first gone there, during the German era.

His place was taken by Percy Chatterton with his individual column while at about the same time we introduced a section called ‘Practical Planter’.

Stuart Inder, too, was ‘Up Front with the Editor’, being his usual cheerful and everoptimistic self as far as Islands and Islanders were concerned, while the other editor, writing as ‘Sydneysider’, indulged in her natural cynicism as often as she saw fit. The Inder-Tudor partnership of those busy years on PIM was a productive and agreeable one. 78 50 YEARS OF RIM PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

TRADE WINDS PNG seeking foreign cocoa loan The Papua New Guinea Government is negotiating .an overseas loan of SA2O million from low interest aid sources to redevelop privately-owned cocoa plantations.

Funds from the loan will be allocated only to Papua New Guineans, many of whom are now operating small plantations which were split up from larger estates previously owned by Australians and other foreign interests.

The changeover from foreign-owned to local-owned properties has created problems in the industry because of the lack of management and planting skills, together with economic changes created by the splitting of large properties.

The PNG Cocoa Industry Board has made several approaches to the PNG Development Bank for aid in reviving the cocoa growing industry. However the approaches were not completely successful because guarantees of land tenure were not always available as loan securities and there was a lack of skilled staff to supervise the application of loans made to smallholders.

The funds will now come from the overseas loan which the government is negotiating.

The Cocoa Industry Board is now preparing recommendations on how the money should be applied and supervised.

Cocoa exports from PNG have been falling off for several years, but industry advisers say the potential for export earnings is still high provided the home industry can get aid funds to redevelop and replant properties.

Fiji, PNG look at alternative fuel Papua New Guinea and Fiji are becoming increasingly concerned at the rising price of petrol and other fuel oils, major import items for both countries. In a series of separate studies the two countries are looking at the possibility ofproducing substitute fuels from cassava and sugar cane.

While petrol prices continue to soar in Fiji, the government and an independent consultant are examining a new proposal to produce ethanol motor fuel from cassava.

In Papua New Guinea, where petrol prices so far have remained comparatively low, the government is awaiting a report from a study mission which has been examining ethanol production from sugar cane and cassava in Brazil.

Fuel oil purchases provide one of the greatest drains of foreign reserves for Fiji and PNG, and both countries are anxious to insure themselves against the world-wide upward trend in oil prices.

British Petroleum and the Fiji Sugar Corporation have already carried out a study in Fiji on the possibility of using sugar cane for ethanol. The newest study, for producing ethanol from cassava, was carried out by Mobil and a government team. The results of the study went to cabinet for consideration last month, ironically only a few days before the retail price of petrol went up another three cents a litre. In terms of the old measure, motorists in Fiji are now paying $1.96 a gallon for petrol, and the oil companies claim the price should be even higher.

The ethanol-from-cassava study now before cabinet does not hold out any promise of providing ethanol at a lower price than petrol. However the price would not be subject to outside influences and would be more likely to remain static. The cassava proposal would also reduce the drain on foreign funds, possibly up by 20%. v Other advantages from the proposal are the creation of a new Fiji industry, employing up to 500 people.

Although the study claims that a cassava project would be viable and advantageous to the national economy, it warns that flood damage to crops would be an ever-present problem in the areas considered generally suitable for production. The suggested areas are in the Korotolutolu Basin in the north-west of Vanua Levu and in the Rewa Basin at Natewa Bay.

Fiji is at present importing about 60 000 kilolitres of petrol a year, apart from other fuel oils and by-products, and the imports are increasing by about 3% a year. The present annual bill for petrol is about SF62 million annually, and the cassava study suggests that this could be reduced by 20% within five years.

Ethanol can be used as a motor fuel in two ways according to technical reports now before PNG and Fiji study teams. If it is used straight, engine modifications have to be made and the modified engines are no longer suitable for petrol fuel.

The alternative method is to mix up to one part of ethanol with four parts of petrol. This requires no engine modification and allows engines to run on pure petrol or on the mixed fuel.

The mixed fuel is known as gasohol.

Plantation company, too . . .

Dylup Plantations Limited, an Australian-listed company with plantation operations in Papua New Guinea, announced last month that it had undertaken an extensive project to study and develop substitute fuels.

In its annual report to directors the company said it had entered a joint arrangement with the government in the fuel study because of the government’s own concern at the rising cost of fuel.

Dylup Plantations is initially orientating the study to its own requirements, examining materials already available on the plantation with a view to using them to reduce fast-rising costs.

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The Juan Fernandez Islands are a district of the continental Chilean province of Valparaiso. They comprise three islands: Robinson Crusoe’s, Alexander Selkirk and Santa Clara. Capital of the district is St John the Baptist on Robinson Crusoe’s Island.

The group’s population is about 700.

There is a 25-bed hotel in the capital. Most of its guests are tourists, lured by the excellent scuba diving possibilities, or the attractions of ‘Bear Island’, inhabited by large numbers of bears living in natural conditions. The island is also the home of a large colony of seals.

Fishermen are frequent visitors to the Juan Fernandez group, whose surrounding waters are rich in tuna, rock salmon and, of course, lobster.

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The perfume, made from the Western Australia boronia flower, is being sold in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Hebrides, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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The strong-minded and outspoken Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr lambakey Okuk, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, has been at the centre of much of the controversy. Within weeks of taking office following the fall of the Somare Government, Mr Okuk first suspended and later sacked the General Manager of Air Niugini, Mr Gerald Fallscheer, an Australian.

Mr Fallscheer had been in the job for only 10 months and Mr Okuk accused him of inefficiency. Mr Okuk said the airline was facing a serious financial problem, but claimed that Mr Fallscheer had not properly acquainted him with the situation to allow proper liaison between management and government in the operation of the airline.

The trigger for Mr Fallscheer’s suspension was his departure overseas on leave at a time when Mr Okuk said he should have stayed on the job.

Mr Fallscheer has since taken legal action on grounds of wrongful dismissal.

It became apparent that all was not well at Air Niugini earlier this year when allegations were made that the airline was in serious financial trouble. The National Airlines Commission asked the Ombudsman to investigate claims of impropriety against the airline’s management.

Meanwhile the airline sacked its commercial manager, Mr Niels Brockdorff, and Mr Okuk who was then leader of the Parliamentary Opposition - said the sacking was because Mr Brockdorff ‘knew too much’. Later when Mr Okuk came to office in the new Chan government he entrenched a political row by appointing Mr Brockdorff to chair a committee of review into Air Niugini.

He acted against the advice of departmental heads and was bitterly criticised by the airline’s deputy manager Mr Bart Philemon. Mr Okuk retaliated against Mr Philemon the highest-placed Papua New Guinean citizen in the airline’s executive by calling him a stooge for external influences.

Hard on the heels of the management problems the biggest union in the airline, the National Graded Officers Association, called a strike over ‘political interference in management’. The Airline was grounded for 36 hours before the strike was settled.

Although the Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan, supported Mr Okuk’s actions he has admitted that Mr Okuk was not ‘diplomatic’. ‘Certainly his personal style is not the Michael Somare approach of compromise,’ Sir Julius said. He added ‘The new government was forced to intervene. The minister took firm and immediate action. I admit he was undiplomatic, but the facts are there. Air Niugini’s problems are of such a size that they could not have been built up overnight.’

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FOR SOLOMONS Australia will give Solomon Islands $A14.3 million in aid during the next three years.

Details of the Solomon Islands grant were made known after Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrew Peacock announced that his country would give an overall grant of nearly $l2O million to South Pacific countries.

A Solomon Islands Government spokesman says some of the money, which will not be available until July, will be spent on civil and economic development.

A senior official of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Roy Spratt, has been to Solomon Islands to discuss what other projects the money will be spent on. The spokesman said projects must be recommended in detail and must be approved by the Solomons Government before any money could be made available to ministries.

About $5.3 million will be spent on developing a hydropower scheme to supply electricity to Honiara, the Solomon Islands capital.

Meanwhile the British Government has announced reductions in some of its overseas aid programmes. However this will not affect Solomon Islands immediately because of a firm commitment of SA44 million as an independence aid settlement.

The British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, Gordon Slater, said in Honiara that assurance was given last October that the aid settlement would be honoured. The financial settlement covers four years from July 1978 when the country gained its independence from Britain to July 1982.

Mr Slater said it was not immediately known how the new approach in Britain’s budgeting might affect Solomon Islands aid after 1982.

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IRADEWINDS INTELLIGENCE...TRADEWINDS INTELLIGENCE...TRA THE PAPUA New Guinea Government has accepted a determination from its minimum wages board which will mean the granting of full wages indexation up to 8% cost of living increases.

The increases will be measured every three months and the arrangement will apply at least for three years. The Labor and Employment Minister, Mr Jacob Lemeki, who announced the arrangements, said the government planned to reduce its role as an arbitrator. If the cost of living rises more than 8% in a threemonth period there will be partial indexation. PNG generally has been keeping down its inflation to 5% annually, although recent figures showed a higher trend.

NAURU has formally expressed its disappointment to the Asian Development Bank for continuing not to recognise Nauru as a developing member nation under the terms of the bank’s constitution. The Asian Development Bank is an organisation which makes soft loans available to developing nations. At present however it considers Nauru ineligible because of the high income relative to population which is earned from phosphate exports. Nauru believes it should be eligible today for development aid and should not have to wait 10 or 20 years until its income slumped as phosphate deposits became exhausted. Mr K. Clodumar, who represented Nauru at the recent session of the Economic Commission for Asia in Thailand, said there was an urgent need to immediately draw up resources for Nauru’s future if longstanding dependence on foreign aid was to be avoided.

FOLLOWING the storms which brought severe flooding to the Central Division of Fiji earlier this month concern has been caused by sickness in cattle herds in the area. The Ministry of Agriculture says much of the trouble can be attributed to semistarvation because of the loss of normal pasture in the floods.

The Ministry has mounted a special relief campaign, and has been making free issues of molasses, coconut meal and wheat bran as cattle fodder. At the height of the flooding more than 2000 cattle were swept away and drowned.

A STERLING loan of £1 million which Britain had agreed to make to Tonga has been increased by nearly half to enable a greater degree of roadwork and electricity development to be carried out. The amended agreement was signed in Tonga recently.

The loan is interest free and repayable in 25 years.

TOURISM to the Marianas increased by 26% for the month in March according to figures released by the Marianas Visitors Bureau. The bulk of the visitors came from USA and Japan.

NEW Hebrides, due to become independent on July 30 with the national name of Vanuatu, is to follow the pattern set by most other Pacific countries by declaring an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles from its shoreline. The intention was announced by the Finance Minister, Mr Kalpokor Kalsakau.

THE NEW Zealand company Winstone Ltd has won contracts worth SNZ7 million for realigning, surfacing and sealing 52 km of the Papua New Guinea Highlands Highway. The highway links the port of Lae with Goroka in the inland mountains. The newlylet contracts go to two subsidiaries of Winstones Winstone Quarries and Kubor Earthmovers (PNG). Kubor is a PNG-based company.

A CONTROVERSY has arisen over arrangements for shipping bananas from Western Samoa and Tonga to New Zealand following a SNZSO,OOO loss when more than 4000 cases went bad in the cargo ship Forum New Zealand. The bananas were packed in shipping containers equipped with electrically-powered chillers which obviously did not work or were not connected during the voyage. The controversy concerns the suitability of the equipment and the industrial responsibility to connect and monitor the equipment during voyages.

AN AUSTRALIAN partnership formed by Wood Hall Ltd, Thiess Holdings Ltd and Leighton Holdings Ltd has begun preliminary work on the sAustsl million Nadi-Lautoka water supply scheme in Fiji. The project is due for completion in 1983.

It will include the construction of an earth and rockfill dam, a water treatment plant and about 60 km of supply piping.

THE ASIAN Development Bank, already heavily involved in hydro-power development in Western Samoa, is to extend its services there by undertaking a feasibility study for a hydro scheme in the Vaipu and Afulio Basins 30 km outside Apia. The team of consultants to be provided under the technical assistance will include a geologist, a hydrologist, a surveyor and specialist engineers experienced in dam design and construction, electromechanical designs of hydro plants and the design of transmission facilities. The consultants’ field work is expected to begin in August.

A GROUP of businessmen from northern Queensland in Australia want to promote trade and tourism between their part of the State and Papua New Guinea. Traditionally the trade and tourist links have been from Australian east coast ports further south, but business interests in the north of Queensland now want to promote the ports of Cairns and Townsville for links with PNG.

A ship owned by the Dillingham Corporation has already begun a regular service between northern Queensland and PNG.

THE BANK of NSW (Papua New Guinea) Ltd has sold 450 000 shares, a little more than 10% of its paid-up capital, to the Investment Corporation of PNG, the Public Service Association and the Public Service Association’s Savings and Loan Society. The placements, worth K 450 000 are to provide additional capital to meet continuing growth, and are in line with the PNG Government policy of local equity in overseas owned companies.

THE FIJI economy will continue to face strong inflationary pressures in the immediate future, according to the government statistician in Suva, Mr Ratilal Lodhia. Mr Lodhia was commenting on the latest cost of living figures which showed that the consumer price index in March was 12.6% higher than it had been in March last year. Mr Lodhia said that despite Fiji’s attempts to keep down its own prices spiral, it faced the common problem of Pacific Island countries in ‘importing’ inflation from its trading partners.

A PROGRAMMING mission established under the Lome Convention will begin touring South Pacific countries this month to discuss the incoming aid budget for expenditure in the South Pacific. Lome is a link between the European Economic Community, Pacific Island countries and Caribbean countries. It provides concessional access for tropical products to Europe, a measure of stabilisation in the produce market, and also a channel for aid from the EEC to the Pacific and Caribbean.

THE FIJI Government has asked Air New Zealand and Qantas to sell it their shares in the Fiji national airline, Air Pacific. Air New Zealand and Qantas each holds 9.15 % of the issued capital in Air Pacific and the Fiji Government already holds 73%. In Papua New Guinea the Transport Minister, Mr Okuk, has confirmed in principle that his government wants to buy out an 11% holding by the Australian Ansett group in the PNG national airline, Air Niugini. Mr Okuk concedes however that his government cannot immediately finance such a purchase.

THE FEDERATED States of Micronesia have adopted new laws to regulate banking business, including the terms of ownership of banks. Local banks will require a minimum capital of a million dollars, of which Micronesian citizens must own two-thirds.

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From the ISLANDS PRESS From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby The Police Force is ineffective, the Police Commissioner, Mr Philip Bouraga, said yesterday. Mr Bouraga said the force was lacking responsible and effective manpower in all areas of its operations ‘Policemen at all ranks are working under continuous public criticism,’ he said. ‘There is, however, some truth in suggestions of police brutality when arresting people and misuse of police cars,’ Mr Bouraga said ‘There is also evidence of uniformed policemen acting irresponsibly but I have no time or resources to investigate’....

From an editorial in the Micronesian Independent It is with some degree of expectation and hope that we regard the completion of lengthy status negotiations betwen the peoples of the United States and the Marshall Islands. The fact that the Marshalls has again proven itself more organised and more apt to negotiate a sophisticated and far-reaching compact surely gives observers the impression that, as a group, the inhabitants of these central Pacific atolls still have a cohesiveness and communal strength, despite more than 30 years of unchannelled and often disruptive administration by a second power.

From a speech by Fiji Minister of Education Semesa Sikivou, reported in The Fiji Times, Suva ‘Far too often evidence of our failure in citizenship training is clearly seen,’ he said. ‘And it is increasingly and alarmingly becoming a pattern in our daily lives. I appeal to you all, as you look for new directions and new emphasis in the next 50 years to regard getting rid of this growing cancer of anti-social, anti-government behaviour and lawlessness from our society’s body as topmost priority.’

From an interview with Fijian singer Sakiusa Bulicokocoko reported in the News Drum, Honiara ‘Musically, I prefer Japan to the States, Japanese singers are so versatile. They can copy the styles of songs so accurately, they even copy the scratches on the record,’ he said.

From a letter in the Arawa Bulletin, North Solomon Province, Papua New Guinea Arawa is becoming a dangerous place to live in and enjoy her image. Crimes such as paybacks between groups of wantoks, break and enters to people’s homes, attacks on persons by drunken mobs and fighting are emerging here and there on a considerable scale. One could risk his or her life to take a walk alone to enjoy the cool of the evening in the town . . . Another factor eroding the images of the towns of Arawa, Kieta and Toniva is prostitution or the so-called Five Kinas. There is a grave rise in the rate of prostitution which is clearly shown in the increased intake of patients receiving treatment as a consequence.

Letter from reader in New Nation, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea I was travelling to Wewak town on a bus when I caught one beautiful girl sitting beside me. She took out a comb from her basket and started combing her hair ... If she was my sister I would have kicked her out of the bus . . . My sisters, stop combing your hair in public places because you’ll never marry me or my good friends. I reckon you’re going to marry an alcoholic.

From the Nauru Post, Nauru A well known doctor in Kiribati occupied a double nakatari with a Nauruan of some affluence. The doctor was absolutely amazed to notice that the Nauruan, for want of something better, had used a $2O note as toilet paper.

From a News Drum report of a debate in the Solomons Parliament on new regulations for voting in elections Mr Hilly (Simbo and Ranonga) wanted the voting age to be lowered to 16 . . . and Mr Tepaika (Minister) wanted the people aged 60 and over to be excluded from voting.

From a letter in the Arawa Bulletin, North Solomon Province, PNG I would like to get it across and especially to immature brother of Camp 6 at Loloho about throwing stones during movies. Whoever you are, please leave us alone with respect. Most of us come to watch movies in peace without any disturbance but when movies do not suit you, please move out in a good manner. I myself and many others get very cross when you throw stones on the roof, wall and even at the screen while the movie is on.

From the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga It took a Nikao resident several attempts in the course of half an hour on Saturday night to get through to the telephone exchange to ask them to put her through to the fire emergency station. Meanwhile, a five-room house across the road was burning merrily away.

From The Fiji Times, Suva The proprietor of a sauna bath at Lautoka has landed in hot water with the city council over the absence of toilet facilities in an adjoining cafe. The council says it approved the bath plans on condition the owner, Mr M. Khalil, provided a toilet in the cafe located in the same building. The original toilet for the cafe was closed off in the sauna bath section, leaving no convenience for the cafe as required by law. And as tempers heat up over this issue the council says Mr Khalil will have to close down his cafe unless he provides the facility .. .

From the Cricket section Arawa Bulletin, North Solomon Province, PNG Congratulations to these ranunculaceous adonic youths from Panguna with the bloom of innocence yet upon their cheeks racing across the dampened verdant field to glory.

From a leter in the News Drum, Honiara, protesting at a rise in shipping fares according to public opinion, it is to a great extent unfair, not appropriate, unprofaned and unweening. The question is, will the services improve then because the fares have gone up? Certainly not. It will only bring nothing but more coffee for the concerned Board of Directors.

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Mew Png Run

ro US PORTS fhe Papua New Guinea Shipping Corporation has announced the start of a new service linking PNG to Darwin ind the west coast of North America. The service, to commence in mid-May, will be operated by the line’s semi- :ontainer vessel Forum Niugini vhich will be renamed Niugini Chief The new service will provide sailings every two months linkng the PNG ports of Rabaul, Kdeta, Lae and Port Moresby ivith Darwin in Northern Aus- :ralia and San Francisco and Los Angeles on the west coast nf the United States. The service will take over the PNG Shipping Corporation’s existing service from PNG to Darwin which started in September last year.

The Corporation believes the new service will greatly enhance PNG’s export opportunities. The timber trade to Darwin has steadily built up, and there are now also possibilities for the export of manufactured goods. It is expected the new line will carry substantial quantities of coffee, tea, cocoa, timber and frozen sea foods to the United States.

On the return run, great interest has been shown for importing heavy equipment including mining equipment, consumer goods and newsprint. The line is currently negotiating to export frozen beef from Darwin to the United States.

Niugini Chief is a modem semi-container vessel, of 5200 tonnes deadweight carrying capacity. She is capable of carrying up to 60 refrigerated containers and has for the past 10 months operated a New Zealand-PNG service under charter for Pacific Forum line.

Her place on that service will be taken by two custom-built vessels.

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The first ro-ro 10-lo cargo ship to be operated by Tonga has now begun operating in the Pacific under charter to the Pacific Forum Line. It is Fua Kavenga (translating as Carrier of Burdens) which was built in West Germany and was received with celebrations after its delivery voyage to Nukualofa.

The ship will service links between Tonga, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, and its detailed schedule to be announced shortly will include other South Pacific Island ports. The 118-metre ship has a deadweight measurement of 5600 tonnes with sophisticated cargo-handling equipment to increase efficiency in smaller ports. It can handle containers, general cargo, bulk coconut oil and bulk caustic soda.

Fua Kavenga has two main engines, each of 1655 kw, and a maximum speed of 15.3 knots.

It has a complement of 31 officers and seamen.

The cost of the ship was 5T10.15 million financed under a capital aid agreement between the governments of West Germany and Tonga.

Effectively this amounts to a low-interest soft loan, but including the possibility that West Germany could, at its discretion and in appropriate drcumstances, at some future date remit the outstanding capital debt and interest.

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An interesting arrival for the residents of Gizo Island in Solomon Islands recently was the Australian auxiliary schooner Wongala commanded by Captain J. E.

McGrath. She sailed to Gizo via Cairns in north-east Australia after an extensive refit in Brisbane, when modern electronic navigation aids were installed.

Local residents, merchants and shipping representatives inspected the three-masted vessel during her short stay.

She then left for Honiara, her new port of registry, where, after a brief ceremony, the Solomon Islands flag was hoisted.

Owners, R. and J. Dowell of Honiara, intend to place the Wongala, previously wellknown on the trans-Tasman run, in service between North Queensland and the western provinces of Solomon Islands.

The oldest ship still in active service in the United States Navy Celebrated its 40th birthday in Sydney Harbour during a visit to Australia last month, it is the USS Dixie, a fleet tender ship servicing naval destroyers. For the past six months the ship has been operating in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf areas, The last time USS Dixie was in Sydney was 36 years ago at the height of Australian and US involvement in the Pacific War.

The ship took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea off Papua New Guinea and in the retaking of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands. The ship has 30 officers (including three women) and 810 men.

The Fiji shipyard operated by the Carpenter Group Industrial Division is to build two coastal ships for Government-backed companies in Solomon Islands. The contract, worth SA842 000, was negotiated from tenders which also came from shipyards in U.K., Japan and Taiwan. The 27m ships will be landing-craft with a cargo capacity of 130 tonnes, and will also be able to carry up to 120 passengers for short runs. 87 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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EXPERIMENT A world-wide trend to reconsider the possibilities of wind power for working ships has led to the construction of a new type of sailing schooner in New Zealand. The schooner is the 146-ton Manutea, built by Kumeu Engineering Ltd in Auckland, and soon to go into service between New Zealand and Pacific Island ports.

The schooner was ordered by a newly-formed company known as South Pacific Windpower, backed by a group of US technicians now based in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands.

The company is designing, manufacturing and marketing pumps and electrical generators driven by wind-power and has committed itself to its own principles by deciding to use a sailing ship for exporting the equipment. The company also makes solar panels for generating power from sunlight.

Manutea is more than a modern copy of an old design.

Most of its power supplies for navigation equipment, deck equipment and other auxiliary use will come from wind and solar sources. The rigging has also been specially designed sc that a crew of up to eight wil be able to handle the 550 C square feet of sail. The schooner is 112 ft overall, ha; a beam of 25 ft and a 500( cubic-ft cargo capacity.

If the experiment is successful, the owners plan to commission a bigger schooner buili on similar lines.

China Links

IN AGENCY A joint Pacific shipping venture is to be established between the Australian firm Bums Philp and Company Ltd and the Chinese company COSCO (China Ocean Shipping). COSCO vessels already operate from China to Australian and Pacific Island ports but the new combined venture will create a specialised South Pacific joint agency. It is the first venture to be established in partnership for South Pacific shipping operations between an Australian company and a Chinese State-owned organisation.

Executives of Bums Philp visited China over a period of three months to negotiate the arrangements, and the final agreement was signed in Sydney recently between the Deputy General Manager of COSCO, Mr Zhou Qiuyan and the Chairman of Bums Philp, Mr J. D. O. Bums.

The agreement will come into force in July, and will take over from existing COSCO arrangements in the South Pacific.

COSCO ships which already visit Australia and the Pacific Islands include a big pro- Blsh Limited of Fiji, general and marine engineers, have begun a drive to develop ship repair and survey work in Fiji rather than see the work going to Australian and New Zealand workshops.

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Tuna Survey

GOESAHEAD A South Pacific Commission research project into skipjack tuna resources is now well advanced following the continuing operations of the chartered research ship Hatsutori Maru.

Since late in 1977 the ship has caught, tagged and released 114 000 tuna. About 4000 of the tagged fish have since been caught in countries over a wide region of the South Pacific, and the date and location advised to the research project.

The operation is part of a wide-ranging survey which will provide information about the migratory habits of tuna, and will assist in arrangements for the planned South Pacific fishing agency, as well as providing international scientific information.

Hatsutori Maru, which has recently been operating in Fijian waters and carries a number of Fijian crewmen, has operated in the waters of 19 Pacific Island countries and territories during the present programme.

One of the research scientists involved in the project, Mr Robert Gillett, reported that a considerable amount of important information had been gained. He said that islander fishermen had generally been co-operative in returning details of tagged fish they had caught.

He said it was interesting to note that of 9000 skipjack and yellowfin tuna tagged in Fiji waters early in 1978, 950 had since been caught by fishermen as far apart as Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Samoa, Tuvalu and New Zealand.

The ship will shortly begin a tagging programme in waters of Wallis Island and Solomon Islands. Before the end of the year taggings will also be extended to the Philippines and Japan to determine migration movements towards the South Pacific.

The migration habits of tuna are one of the principal issues causing disagreement between South Pacific countries and USA towards the proposed fisheries agencies involving South Pacific governments.

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Tuna Escape

In Western Samoa a commissioning exercise for a new tunafishing ship was a failure when handling equipment did not operate correctly. The ship Austin Bernicke is one of two purse-seiners bought by the local Nauru Local Government Council for a tuna fishing project in Nauru. Officials from the council were on board for the commissioning exercise which was operated out of the port of Apia.

About a mile of nets had been laid in a circle and the lower rim at 500 metres was being tightened when a steel cable broke. What appeared to have been a heavy catch then escaped, and the net brought to the surface only seven tuna and one other fish which was not identified. The ship returned to Apia where new and heavier equipment is being installed.

Austin Bernicke and a sister ship Victor Eoaeo were built for a French company which encountered financial difficulties, and were recently acquired from a shipyard in Peru for the Nauru project.

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YACHTS Hokule’a in Tahiti Kamehameha’s Hawaiian Studies Institute in Hawaii, is well-versed in the demands of open ocean sailing. He graduated from the California Maritime Academy and sailed on vessels ranging from a 52-foot schooner out of Lahaina to 50 000 ton freighters sailing between Japan, Hong Kong, Anchorage and th£ Caribbean. Pi’ianai’a also has a long-standing knowledge of Hokule’a. He served as first mate aboard the canoe on her return voyage from Tahiti in 1976 and has been instrumental in utilising the Hokule’a as a floating classroom for school children throughout the Hawaiian Islands. According to Pi’ianai’a, the voyage was a test of ancient navigational skills and human endurance.

He said ‘Our primary goal was to rely on nature for determining our position at sea rather than modern day equipment like the sextant, compass, chronometer or charts. During the day the crew used ocean currents, sea swells and the flight pattern of birds to steer the canoe towards Tahiti. At night the stars were our guide.’

Pi’ianai’a said that birds were a good indicator of nearby islands, and species like the tern or noddy rarely flew more than 25 km from land. ‘Spot a tern and land can’t be far off,’ he said.

Most night-time navigation was the responsibility of Nainoa Thompson, another veteran of the first voyage.

Thompson’s knowledge of the navigational use of stars was developed through his tutelage under Mau Pialug, the Micronesian who served as navigator on the Hawaii to Tahiti leg of the 1976 voyage, and a great deal of self-study.

The canoe’s name, Hokule'a, refers to one of the most important stars that Thompson has learned to recognise. It refers to the zenith star of the Big Island (Arcturus in constellation Bootes) which ancient Polynesian sailors used as a guide for sailing from Tahiti to Hawaii.

Since the capsize off Molokai in 1978, Hokule’a has undergone considerable repair and re-designing to ensure its seaworthiness and safety. The canoe’s bamboo deck was replaced with planking, more than five miles of lashing were inspected and repaired, the canvas sails were increased in size and three coats of sealant were applied to protect the fibreglass hulls from barnacles.

Sixty people, ranging in age from 20 to 65 years, applied to be crew members but only 22 were selected. Although they came from diverse social and economic backgrounds, the crew shared the common bonds of Hawaiian ancestry and experience at sea.

Life aboard Hokule'a is not easy. Harsh wind, rain, sea » HOKULE’A, the Hawaiian- Duilt double-hulled canoe nade on the pattern of ancient 3 olynesian voyaging canoes, :ompleted its third open- Dcean crossing in the Pacific n April (see cover picture). It crossed from Hawaii to Tahiti, employing the systems of /vinds, currents and navigation Dy the stars pioneered thousands of years ago by longdistance Polynesian seamen.

The 20-metre canoe which Hawaiian builders called Hawaii’s bicentennial gift to he nation’ and ‘the spaceship Df our ancestors’ made its first Dcean crossing in 1976 on a ound voyage of 6000 nautical niles between Hawaii and the Society Islands. Its second /oyage from Hawaii ended in disaster off the Hawaiian sland of Molokai when heavy seas swamped the canoe with he death of one crewman.

For the April crossing to' Fahiti the US Coast Guard Ser- /ice insisted that the Hokule’a :arry safety flares, life preservers, radio beacons, medical <its and communications radio Dut these were essentially a Dack-up and the voyage was sompleted using the methods Df the early voyagers.

Scientifically, the voyage /vas regarded as a ‘giant step jack in time’. It not only Droved the seaworthiness of a 3 olynesian-designed canoe, Dut provided evidence that the ancient sailors who settled the 3 acific islands were capable Df making deliberate long dis- :ance voyages using only their finely honed knowledge of the stars, sea and winds to chart a precise course.

Gordon Pi’ianai’a captained Hokule’a for this year’s voyage. Pi’ianai’a, Director of swells and boredom can take a heavy toll from the most experienced sailor. Food can help build the strength and morale needed to endure the many hardships. Pi’ianai’a said that poi, dried fish, bananas, coconuts and other traditional Hawaiian food were taken on the journey, but the bulk of the crew’s diet consisted of canned fish, meat, vegetables, biscuits, and 200 gallons of water for cooking and drinking. ‘After our first voyage in 1976, one crew member joked that he was thinking of writing a book entitled A Thousand Ways of Cooking Corned Beef,' he said.

The crew made one concession to modern ways by carrying a portable gas stove to guarantee at least one hot meal a day. Fish were caught during the voyage to supplement the diet. Ointments and oils were used to prevent skin trouble from exposure to wind and sun. Salt water was used on board for baths.

Swimming overboard was While the Hawaiian-built Hokule’a, based on a traditional design, continues to make sailing history Fijian craftsmen are turning to an old boat-building skill of their own. They are reviving the art of using traditional stone tools to make coastal canoes. Carvers shown In this picture are making what is believed to be the first canoe made in Fiji for more than 100 years using only tools of stone and wood. 91 3 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

generally banned because of the danger of shark attack or the possibility that wind gusts could separate swimmers from the canoe. Dennis Olkowski in Honolulu. • JOKER. The 9.2-metre yacht Joker, owned by Bill Webb of Port-Vila in the New Hebrides, has hit a partlysubmerged object in Mele Bay and is now beyond salvage, sunk in deep water.

Weoo, who is manager of the Hotel Rossi in Port-Vila, was on board with his daughter Georgina and Ashley Springer when the accident occurred. A tug attempted to tow the yacht which sank soon after the rope was taken on board. • MONI. The Pacific voyage of lone Japanese yachtsman Hireaki Narusi ended abruptly on April 13 when his luxury yacht Moni ran aground on Caulekaleka reef at Beqa Island. After arrival in Suva and reporting to the authorities, Mr Narusi flew home to Japan, leaving his yacht on the reef. Since his departure, illegal boarders have stripped the Moni which was believed to have been worth between $7O 000 and $lOO 000.

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17-metre yacht crewed by five Australians ran aground on the reef off Beqa early in May on a voyage from Lord Howe Island. The crew took to the life raft and were picked up by the government launch Ra Marama. Four members of the crew are Cherie Murray-Lee (23), Jack Pemberton (55), Gerard Cardalliaguet (32) and Carl Pemberton (32). The name of the fifth crewman was unavailable. • CAPELLA, a 40-ft fibreglass sloop arrived in Tubuai, French Polynesia, after a 20-day crossing from Auckland with co-owners Steve Rose and Curt Hallam and crew Bill Shofstall. Rose and Hallam left California two years ago with their wives on a voyage to Australia via Hawaii, Christmas Island, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and New Caledonia but the two women are island-hopping by jet while the men begin their uphill sail back home. • ATCHIN is the name being used at present for a 40-ft traditional ocean-going canoe which a crew from the New Hebrides hopes to sail to Papua New Guinea for the South Pacific Festival of Arts late in June. The canoe is being built on Atchin Island in the New Hebrides on a spot which the islanders say is sacred ground and has been used over several hundred years for the construction of important sailing canoes. A bird with an open beak is being carved for a figurehead following an old custom on the island which claims that this will ensure the craft is never off course. The mast is more than 25 feet high and the tree from which the canoe was carved was felled on the mainland of Malekula Island and towed behind a workboat to Atchin. • MAIA. This Spencer 53 yacht, from Mercer Island near Seattle in Washington State, USA, arrived in Rarotonga’s Avatiu harbour in mid-April with owners Don and Betty Miller on board. Maia had come from Borabora after a journey down the West Caost of the United States and Mexico, followed by a 21-day passage from Acapulco to the Marquesas and stops in the Tuamotus and Society Islands.

Maia has belonged to the Millers for the past six years and they have done a lot of work on her themselves, including the ketch rigging.

Long-range cruising is a relatively new experience for the Millers. Before they bought Maia they were ardent racers for some 25 years, participating in many major regattas on the West Coast of the US and internationally. From Rarotonga, Maia was bound for Niue where the Millers were to visit friends, and then on to the two Samoas, Tonga and Fiji. Maia will probably spend the 1980/81 cyclone season in New Zealand, but her destination after that is uncertain, although the Millers would like to cruise in the Mediterranean.

This yacht takes her name from a star one of the seven sisters in the Pieiades constellation who was also the mother of the god Hermes in Greek mythology, although according to sources the Millers met in the Societies, Maia is a variety of banana in their language. • DEERFOOT. Rarotonga was the first port of call on the maiden voyage of Deerfoot, A 22-metre luxury cruiser which was built in New Zealand and will be promoted on the West Coast of the United States as a prototype of its class and the first of a series of fast cruising yachts which will be marketer: world wide. Designed b> Peterson of Honolulu from s basic concept by New Zealand boat-builder Bob Salthouse, Deerfoot was finished in October 1979 after a construction period of 18 months. The fibreglass cruiser with balsa core is owned by American Stanley Dashen,, who was accompanied on the yacht’s first voyage by saill master Pony Moore, electronics technician Tom Wees,, chief cook John Vause and! deck hand Jim Boyd.

The electronics features of this remarkable cruiser include radar, satellite navigation system, an automatic radar warning system incorporated in an automatic depth finding system for navigation in shallow waters, amateur HP, HP and VHP radio systems, a complete electronic burglar alarm system, automatic weather print-out, and a Loran Rayner 3000 Mark II navigation system at a total value of over $3O 000.

Decorative details on board this spacious eight-berth cruiser include leadlight window panels custom designed by Holly Sanford, original prints and etchings, shag-pile carpet in the double-berth stateroom and a microwave toaster and oven in the galley.

Deerfoot will eventually be based in Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean, but was built in New Zealand. • DESERTER. This is a 36-ft Cross design trimaran taking Dick Minton and Margie Morris, plus one cat, on a very Retired couple Mary and Ted Lyne on board their Alden 42 yawl Cavalera of Exe. The Lynes have been cruising non-stop for all of the five years since they left Exeter, England, in 1975. Photo: Jimmy Cornell.

Cape lla at Tubuai on the way home to USA. From left: Curt Hallam, Bill Shorfstall and Steve Rose. 92 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE. 1980 YACHTS

South Sea Freighters Limited Announcing: A 30-day service between Singapore, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands . ?! rr'i is* m % & AGENTS: New Hebrides: South Sea Freighters Limited, PO Box 166 Port Vila • Singapore: Bienley & Co. (Pte) Ltd. Telex RS 25114, Phone: 98 1935 Pi Moresby:' Nuigini Express Lines • Oro Bay: Carnell Carriers, Popondetta P.N.G. • Madang: B J. Back • Lar Nuigini Express Lines • Wewak Burns Philp (N. 6.) Ltd Kioto Burns Philp (N.G.) Ltd. • Klmbe: Harrisons & Crossfield (P.N.G.) Ltd. • Rabaul: New Guinea Cocoa (Export) Co. Pty. Ltd. • Honiara: Island Co-operative Shipping Federation Ltd.

Serviced by MV Solomon Sea and MV Bismarck Sea. eisurely Pacific cruise which eft from Long Beach, Califorlia, in March 1977. Deserter lad taken three years to sail rom California through the Hawaiian Islands, the Tuamous and the Societies before caching Avatiu harbour in late \pril. Dick and Margie planned o spend four to six weeks in Harotonga before heading for \merican Samoa. Dick Minton las owned Deserter for a little )ver three years, and has been cruising in the Pacific for almost as long as he has had his trimaran. » TRIPS II is a 36-ft trimaran jesigned by Powell Hargrave and built with the help of his vife Shirley. Trips II is now iome for the couple, and is aking them on their first longange cruise, which left from slanaimo on Vancouver Island n July 1978. Accompanying 3 owell and Shirley are their sight year old son Thor and a riend, Wayne Gorrie, who was Dn board when Trips II put in o Avatiu harbour in Rarotonga spent five months in Mexico after Trips II lost an anchor and ended up on a reef there. They then headed out to the Marquesas after repairs. From French Polynesia Trips II sailed to Pago Pago, Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and New Zealand, where the trimaran hauled out to make repairs to the keel. The passage to Rarotonga was a rough one for Trips 11, with 35 to 40 knot winds making it necessary for the crew to put out a parachute and sit for 36 hours. • LIBERTY 111, a 36-ft yacht, is home for David and Teresa Lucas, who are originally from London, but are now based in Vancouver. This is their second trip to the Pacific in Liberty 111. The first was in 1976. Liberty 111 arrived in Rarotonga in mid-April from the Society Islands as part of a voyage that started from Vancouver in October last year, and continued on through San Diego, the Marquesas and the Tuamotus.

Accompanying the Lucases are two cats, one of which is a veteran of the 1976 voyage.

Liberty 111 is a 1947 Herreshoff design which was not built until 1971, in Vancouver.

Teresa describes the design as an old-fashioned one, which is very low and therefore means the yacht tends to be wetter on deck but has its advantages in the wind. The Lucases have lived on board Liberty 111 since they bought her seven years ago, and are founder members of the Bluewater Cruising Association, a 500-member group of ‘dreamers, doers and cruisers’ from the Vancouver area who get together socially and on the water. Liberty 111 was bound for American Samoa, Tonga and probably Fiji after 10 days in Avatiu harbour.

Plans after that may include a stop in New Zealand, but they have no definite destination, and will keep going as the budget allows. • ASTRAL ROSE, a 50-ft steel sloop from Christchurch’s port, Lyttelton, in New Zealand, arrived in Rarotonga’s Avatiu harbour after a lOV2 day run from Auckland.

Astral Rose left Christchurch on Boxing Day last year, and cruised in the Marlborough Sounds before going on to Auckland and the Cook Islands. Skipper and owner Graham Kendall is accompanied on the trip by his fiancee Ruth Washer, with Pip and Evan Marks and John Wemyss, all from New Zealand’s South Island.

Graham Kendall bought the 21-ton sloop second-hand and had her refitted at a cost of around $20,000, with instruments that include an automatic weather print-out.

Astral Rose was designed by Auckland’s Alan Mummery, and her skipper is proud of the fact that she had covered 1900 miles at an average of 180 miles a day so far. She was in Rarotonga for about ten days, where she picked up two passengers and continued on to Tahiti. From there she was bound for Hawaii and Fiji, and back to Lyttelton in November of this year. 93 YACHTS >ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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LOCAL AGENTS AND REPRESENTATION; e- PAPUA NEW GUINEA: RABAUL: M. & C. Seeto, P.O. Box 131, Rabaul.

Telephone 92-2919.

FIJI: K. Witherington Ltd,, P.O. Box 293, Suva.

Telephone 22-356.

MADANG; W. Double.

P.O. Box 22, Madang.

Telephone 82-2696.

NEW HEBRIDES: John Lum & Associates, P.O. Box 65, Santo.

Telephone 329.

SOLOMON ISLANDS; Mr. Tom Lo, P.O. Box 327, Honiara.

Telephone 399.

Resident Agents in other Pacific Territories.

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Of The Pacific Islands

Regular Monthly Liner Services from Australia and New Zealand to the South and Central Pacific FOR INFORMATION CONTACT AGENTS: AMERICAN SAMOA; Polynesian Shipping Services Inc. P.O. Box 1478, Pago Pago.

AUSTRALIA; The Australian National Line, 50 Queen Street. Melbourne.

Union Bulkships Pty.Ltd., 333-339 George Street, Sydney.

GILBERT ISLANDS; Gilbert Islands Shipping Corp. P.O. Box 495. Tarawa.

Bums Philp South Sea Co. Ltd. GPO Box 355, Suva.

NEW CALEDONIA: ETS Ballande, BP. C 4, Noumea.

NEW HEBRIDES: Burns Philp New Hebrides Limited, Vila.

NEW ZEALAND: Tho Shipping Corp. of N.Z. Ltd. P.O. Box 3344, Wellington

Papua New Guinea; „

Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. P.O. Box 1. Port Moresby.

SOLOMON ISLANDS; Sullivans S.l. Ltd. GPO Box 3, Honiara.

TONGA: Union Steam Ship Co. P.O. Box 4. Nukualofa.

SHIPPING SERVICES Should any shipping company wish to have its services cargo and passenger included in these listings they should contact PIM.

Australia - Fiji

Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd operates nonthly cargo services from Sydney to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301), Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke Street, Melbourne (60-0731), Burns Philp (SS) Do Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Sofrana-Unilines (Fiji Express Line) >perates to Suva and Lautoka every hree weeks from the main ports on the jast coast of Australia and monthly to .autoka from Melbourne and Sydney.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney, (27-2031), Trans- Vustral Shipping Pty Ltd, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162), ACTA Pty _td, Brisbane (221-3116), Elder-ANL >ty Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688), ANL, Newcastle (049-24364), Clements & Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania 31-1833).

AUSTRALIA - FIJI - SAMOAS - TONGA Pacific Forum Line operates a fully :ontainerised service (Gen/Reefer) rom Brisbane and Sydney to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia and Pago >ago.

Funafuti cargo transhipped at Suva.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Sydley; Union Bulkships, Sydney; ANL, Brisbane; Burns Philp (SS) Co, Lauoka, Suva and Apia; Union Co, vluku’alofa; Polynesia Shipping Services, Pago Pago or Pacific Forum Line Head Office, Apia.

AUSTRALIA - LORD HOWE IS -

Norfolk Is

Compagnie des Chargeurs Daledoniens operates four-weekly :argo service Sydney - Lord Howe sland and Norfolk Island.

Details Hetherington Kingsbury Pty _td, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney 27-1671).

AUSTRALIA - NAURU - KIRIBATI Nauru Pacific Line operates regular :argo/passenger service from Melxiurne to Nauru and Tarawa.

Details: Nauru Pacific Line, Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne 653-5709), Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

Australia - New Caledonia

(And/Or) New Hebrides

Karlander operates a monthly service rom Sydney to Noumea.

Details; Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 9-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301).

Sofrana-Unilines ships serve Joumea every three weeks from the nain ports along the east Australian ;oast.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031), Trans- Shipping Pty Ltd, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162), ACTA Pty -td, Brisbane (221-3116), Elders-ANL >ty Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688), ANL, Newcastle (049-24364), Clements & Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania 31-1833).

Compagnie des Chargeurs Cale- Joniens operates a three-weekly conainerised cargo service from Sydney to Houmea.

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

Compagnie Generale Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Noumea, Port Vila and Santo, using a self-sustained fully containerised vessel.

Details Compagnie Generale Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Daiwa Line operates 30 day service from Sydney to Vila and Santo.

Details Meridian Shipping & Transport Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633), Tlx; AA25970.

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI -

Hawaii - Us

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

Details from P & O Booking Centre, World Travel Headquarters Pty Ltd. 33 Btigh Street, Sydney (231-6655).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI - TONGA - N. HEBRIDES - NOUMEA - PNG -

Solomons - Samoas - Tahiti

Sitmar Cruises operates a year-round cruise programme to include most of the above countries.

Details from Sitmar Cruises, 47 Elizabeth Street, Sydney (232-7511).

P & O liners call at Auckland, Bay of Islands, Honiara, Lautoka, Noumea, Nukualofa, Pago Pago, Papeete, Port Moresby, Santo, Savusavu, Suva, Vavau and Vila on cruises from Australia.

Details from P & O Booking Centre, World Travel Headquarters Pty Ltd, 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (231-6655).

Australia - Micronesia

Nauru Pacific Line operates a regular container service from Melbourne to Majuro, Kosrae. Ponape, Truk, Guam and Saipan.

Details Nauru Pacific Line, Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, (653-5709), Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

Australia - Png

New Guinea Express Lines operates three-weekly conventional and container services Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Alotau.

Details from New Guinea Express Lines, PO Box R 73, Royal Exchange PC, Sydney (241-3991) MacArthur Shipping Agency Co, 82-92 Eagle Street, Brisbane (229-3777), New Guinea Express Lines, 327 Collins Street. Melbourne (61-3053), Niugini Express Lines in Port Moresby (21-4572), Lae (42-1536), Rabtrad Niugini Pty Ltd, Rabaul (92-2911), Alotau Stevedoring & T’sport (61-1318).

Karlander New Guinea Line's cargo vessels call at Melbourne, Sydney, Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kimbe, Rabaul, Popondetta.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301), Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke Street, Melbourne (60-0731).

Austral! A-Png-Solomons

A consortium of Conpac, NGAL/PNGL have three container vessels operating on a 28 day turnaround from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Kieta and Honiara supplemented by Daiwa vessels, Pacific Princess and Fiji Maru extending from Sydney to Lae on a monthly basis.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (2-0547) and Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney. (2-0522).

AUSTRALIA - SOLOMONS -

Kiribati - Micronesia

Daiwa Line operates a container service every 30 days from Sydney to Honiara, Kieta, Tarawa and Guam. Gizo cargoes transhipped at Honiara, 95 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

KYOWA

Your Business Partner

Kyowa Line

Kon gTaiwanßS. Korea £ New aledon ' a F| I'- W Samoa. A Samoa. Tahiti, Cook Is.. Tonga. New Hebrides. Ellice Is,. Nauru To. Guam, Saipan, Truk, Ponape, Majuro, Yap, Koror To: Papua New Guinea, Other Pacific Islands.

Philippine AGENTS Taiwan; Royal Steamship Corp, Ltd , Taipei S. Korea; Dong Sue Shipping Co.. Ltd , Seoul Hong Kong; Dahzun Enterprises Ltd Singapore; Ocean Shipping & Enterprises Pte. Ltd Guam: Maritime Agencies of The, Pacific Ltd , Guam Saipan; Saipan Shipping Co, Inc. Saipan Solomon; Solomon Taiyo Ltd, Honiara Tahiti: J A Cowan & Fils, Papeete Cooks; Eastern Associates Ltd , Rarotonga Tonga: EM. Jones Ltd, Nukualofa New Hebrides: Pentecost Pacific S.A., Port Vila Phillippines: Sky International Inc,, Manila Ponape: United Micronesia Development Association, Ponape A.Samoa: Island Pacific Agencies Inc., Pago Pago W. Samoa: Morris Hedstrom Ltd Apia Fiji: Carpenter Shipping, Suva & Lautoka Nauru: Nauru phosphate Corp.

PNG; Carpenter Shipping Agencies. Port Moresby. Rabaul New Caledonia: Agence Maritime Du Rond Point Du Pacific. Noumea Indonesia; P T Porodisa Raya Shipping Lines. Jakarta Sabah: KOH Han Ming Shipping & Forwarding Agent , Kotakmabalu Sarawak: Pan Sarawak Agencies Sdn. Bhd.. Sibu & Kuching Australia: Hethenngton Kingsbury Pty. Ltd, Sydney, NSW Newzealand: Russell & Summers Ltd., Aukland KYOWA SHIPPING CO., LTD.

Head Office

sth FI., Suzumaru Bldg. 39-8, 2-chome, Nishi-Shinbashi. Minato-ku, Tokyo. Japan.

Phone : 03(437)2885(Rep.) Cables : “MARIQUEEN” Tokyo. Tele* : 242-4651 Kyowa J.

Osaka Office

Frontier Bldg., 3-13 Hirano-cho, Higashi-ku, Osaka, Japan.

Phone : 06(227) 0422(Rep.) Cables : “MARIQUEEN" Osaka. Tele* : 522-3896 Kyowa 0.

Saipan, cargoes transhipped at Kobe.

Details Meridian Shipping & Transport Agencies Pty Ltd. Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633), Tlx AA25970.

AUSTRALIA - SOLOMONS - NORTHERN MARIANAS-TAIWAN- JAPAN Daiwa Line offers a four-weekly service Sydney-Honiara-Guam-Taiwan- Japan with transhipment at Kobe for Saipan, Details Meridian Shipping & Transport Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633). Tlx’

AA25970.

Australia - Tahiti

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Papeete using a self-sustained fully containerised vessel.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

AUSTRALIA - TONGA -

Samoas - Tahiti

Karlander operates a monthly cargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Nukualofa, Apia, Papeete, US west coast.

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

Australia - W. Samoa

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Apia, using a self-sustained fully containerised vessel.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Far East - Fiji - New

ZEALAND New Zealand Unit Express (NZUE) operates a fortnightly palletised cargo service from Manila, Keelung, Kaoshiung and Hong Kong to Lautoka!

Suva and thence to NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, S uv f (312-244), Burns Philp, Suva rv-a P 0 S N ' Co ’ Well 'ngton (736-477) or Nedlloyd Swire Pty Ltd Sydney (20-522). y Nedlloyd operates bi-weekly cargo service with four ships from Sourabaya Jakarta, Bangkok, Port Kelang and Singapore to Suva and NZ ports Details from Nedlloyd (Aust) Pty Ltd Sydney < 27 3801 )■ Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Far East - Mid-S. Pacific

China Navigation’s New Guinea Pacific Line (NGPL) operates a regular cargo service from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Manila, Port Kelang and Singapore to Wewak, Madang, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kieta, Lae, Port Moresby, Honiara, Santo Vila, Noumea, Papeete, Pago Pago!

Apia, Tarawa and Nauru.

Details from Steamships Trading Co Port Moresby (21-2000).

Kyowa Shipping Ltd, operates monthly services from Hong Kong, Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan, to Guam, Saipan, Solomons, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western and American Samoa, Tahiti!

Cook Is., Tonga and New Hebrides.

Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671). X y Daiwa Line operates 30-day service from Moji, Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohama to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Sydney, Honiara, Kieta, Tarawa and Guam.

Details: Meridian Shipping & Transport Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633) Tlx AA25970.

Japan - Fiji - New Zealand

China Navigation, operates a monthly service from main ports Japan to Suva and Lautoka and thence Noumea and NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping Suva (312-244).

Mjtqiij n J^k AN ,' PNG 0 S K , Lines operates a monthly service from main ports Japan and Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, M rStano K f 6ta an< ?

Details from J. C. Waller, Port Moresby (21 -2919/21-1898).

Japan - Guam Fi Ii Tawm

SAMOA Trai innli! 1 ' ' n aiu S J , . OMONS - KIRIBATI Daiwa Lines runs a monthly cargo service from Japan via Guam to Lautoka, Suva, Papeete, Pago Pago. Apia, Sydney, Noumea, Honiara, Tarawa, Gua ™ .. . _ Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva - Wamei^Pa'rmr M |?n^ S ' T °? GA tized/nallPtS a nl operates unid | i d ree L er cargo service Honolulu/Pago Pago-Apia- Nukualofa. Line Islands and Suva by inducement.

Details from Hawaii-Pacific Maritime 1 Honolulu, Hi 96801. Tel. (808) 521-9806 Freight Dept. Tlx (RCA): 723-8330 ITT 743-0040 Cables ' oral ' NPU , rili:nAlll . _ NE ™ C a^ E S2£!* ’ FIJI ‘ WEST

£® Ast North America

PAD Line operates an approx. 3weekly ro-ro service from Noumea and Suva to Honolulu and West Coast USA and Canadian ports.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA BP 1602, Noumea (27-51-91), Tlx NMO4B; W. R. Carpenter, 100 Thomson St Suva (31-11-22), Tlx FJ2199; Trans- Austral Shipping. Box R 232 PO, Royal Exchange, NSW (27-2441), Tlx AA21204.

Ra Ntinent

Bank Line operates regular cargo service from Kieta, Rabaul, Kimbe, RntSrH 9 a and h 3 a Cardlff ’ Hamburg , Rottercfam and Antwerp.

Details from Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York street - Sydney (27-2041 Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd ports ’ P PNG - US Bank Lin e operates regular carg service from Kieta, Rabaul, Kimbe Madang and Lae direct to New Orleans £ alls at other US and Gulf an d Eas Coast ports on inducement Details from Bank Line ( A ' asia ) Pt Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041 Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd PNG ports ; P SOLOMONS - USA -

Uk/Continent

Bank Line operates regular carg service from Honiara to New Orleans Cardiff, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Am wero Details from Bank Line (A'asia) PI Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041 Trad| ng Co, Honiara (389) NZ - COOK IS - NIUE - TAHITI Shipping Corporation of NZ Ltd oper ates cargo services based on pallets and similar units from Auckland to Niue Cook Islands and Tahiti.

Details from the Shipping Corp of N 2 Ltd. PC Box 3420, Aucklanc (797-210), Waterfront Commission, PC Box 61, Rarotonga; Lighterage anc Stevedoring Co, Aitutaki; Niue Gov- Offices, Niue Island Compagnie Maritime Polynesienne, B'P’ 368 Papeete Tahiti.

NZ - FIJI Reef operates a regular 18-day service from Auckland to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Reef Shipping Agencies PO Box 3382, Auckland, NZ (77-1221-3) Pacific Line with one ship operates fortnightly roro cargo service New Zealand, Lautoka, Suva.

Details: Sofrana Unilines, 18 Customs Street, Auckland (773-279) PO Box 3614, Telex: NZ2313 ; 96 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE. 1980

Nz - Fiji - North America (Wc)

Blue Star Line Ltd Pacific Coast conamer services. Only direct service to and from New Zealand. Blue Star vessels call at Suva and Honolulu on NJZ-US-West Coast voyages Details from Blueport ACT (NZ) Ltd, 3 0 Box 192, Wellington (739-029) .

Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, GPO Box 355, Suva, Fiji (311-777).

Nz - Fiji - Samoas - Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully :ontainerised two-weekly service Gen/Reefer) from Auckland to Lauoka, Suva. Apia, Pago Pago and Huku'alofa.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, A/ellington; Union Co, Auckland, Lauoka, Suva, Apia and Nukualofa; Polynesia Shipping Services, Pago 3 ago or Pacific Forum Line Head Office, Apia.

NZ-N. CALEDONIA-FIJI-

Solomons-Png

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully jontainerised service (Gen/Reefer) rom Lyttelton, Napier, Tauranga, to Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Honiara, Kieta, Lae and Port Moresby.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, A/ellington; Shipping Corporation of HZ, Lyttelton, Napier; Union Co, fauranga, Auckland, Suva, Lautoka; Bofrana, Noumea; Steamships Trading Do, Kieta, Lae. Port Moresby; Sullivans SI) Ltd, Honiara or Pacific Forum Line Head Office, Apia.

NZ-N. CALEDONIA-N. HEBRIDES-

Png-Solomons

Sofrana Unilines with three ships operates to Vila and Santo, to Honiara and 3 apua New Guinea and to Norfolk sland and Noumea.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, 18 Dustoms Street, Auckland (773-279), 3 0 Box 3614, Telex NZ2313.

Nz - Tahiti

Compagnie Tahitienne Maritime SA vith one ship operates monthly service Hew Zealand - Papeete.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, PO Box 3614, 18 Customs St, Auckland 773-279), Tlx NZ2313.

Nz - Tonga - Samoas

Pacific Navigation of Tonga operates a four-weekly cargo service, Auckland - Nukualofa - Pago Pago - Apia - Auckland.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd, Downtown House, Queen Street, Auckland (30-229).

Warner Pacific Line services Auckland - Nukualofa/Vavau/ Apia /Pago Pago fortnightly carrying general and freezer cargoes. Also Timaru - Nuku'alofa/Vavau/Apia every 21 days carrying freezer cargo.

Details from Air Marine Services (NZ) Ltd, PO Box 2505, Auckland (796-841), Telex NZ21555.

EUROPE - TAHITI -

New Caledonia

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates services from Europe and Mediterranean ports to Papeete and Noumea using three roro and two multi-purpose vessels thus ensuring a bi-monthly sailing to and from.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 1? Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231 -3700).

Hamburg-Sued operates monthly cargo services from Hamburg, Dunkiri< and Le Havre to Papeete, Noumea, via Panama.

Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (290-2966), Columbus Maritime Services, 17 Albert Street, Auckland (77-3460).

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Fiji - N. Caledonia

Nedlloyd offers regular cargo services from Northern Europe and UK to Papeete, Apia, Fiji and New Caledonia.

Details Nedlloyd (Aust) Pty Ltd, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-3801).

Uk - N Continent - Fiji

The Bank Line operates a regular 28 day cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from The Bank Line (Australasia) Pty Ltd, 1 York St, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (South Sea) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

UK/N. CONTINENT - PNG - SOLOMONS The Bank Line operates a regular 28 day cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kieta and Honiara and on inducement to Yandina.

Details from The Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, PNG ports; Trading Co Honiara.

UK/N. CONTINENT - TAHITI -

N. Caledonia - N. Hebrides

The Bank Line operates a regular 28 day cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to Papeete and Noumea.

Details from The Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041); Ets A M Fare UTE, Papeete; Ets Ballande, Noumea.

US - FIJI - TAHITI - NZ - AUSTRALIA The Bank and Savill Line Ltd, operates regular cargo services from US Gulf ports to Australia and NZ. Calls at Suva, Lautoka and Papeete on demand.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041) or Howard Smith Industries Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-5611).

Us - Hawaii - Micronesia

Philippines, Micronesia & Orient Navigation Co (PM&O Lines) operates regular container service on selfsustained ship with ro-ro capabilities from Oakland, Portland and Honolulu to Majuro, Kosrae, Ponape, Truk, Saipan, Yap and Koror.

Details for Micronesia can be obtained from Larry Guerrero, PM&O Owners Rep, PO Box 803, Saipan, Ml 96950, Cable COMMONTIME; PM&O Lines, 181 Fremont St, San Francisco, California 94105, Cable PMONAV.

US - HAWAII - NAURU - MICRONESIA Nauru Pacific Line operates regular conventional/container and passenger service from San Francisco and Honolulu to Majuro, Ponape, Truk and Saipan. Cargo is accepted for Nauru and Kosrai with transhipment at Majuro and Ponape.

Details from Nauru Pacific Line, Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne (653-5709); North American Maritime Agencies, PO Box 7302, San Francisco, California 94120 (981-0343),

Us - Noumea - Fiji

PAD Line operates an approx 3-weekly roro service from West Coast USA and Canada to Noumea and Suva.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA, BP 1602, Noumea (27-51 -91), Tlx NMO4B; W. R. Carpenter, 100 Thomson St, Suva (31-11-22), Tlx FJ2199; Trans-Austral Shipping, Box R 232 PO. Royal Exchange, NSW (27-2441), Tlx AA21204.

Us - Tahiti - Samoa

Pacific Islands Transport operates a five weekly cargo service from North America west coast ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Services Inc, PO Box 1478 Pago Pago (9-6799).

Polynesia Line operates container and general cargo service from US west coast ports to Papeete and Pago Pago.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Services Inc., PO Box 1478, Pago Pago (9-6799).

US - TAHITI - SAMOA - NZ - AUST Farrell Lines Inc. operate a fast regular lash/container cargo service from west coast ports Canada/USA to Papeete and Pago Pago thence to NZ and Australia.

Details Wilh Wilhelmson Agency, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Tlx AA20136, Cable FARSHIPS Sydney; Dalgety (NZ) Ltd, Auckland and Wellington, Tlx NZ2445, Cable DALSHIP Auckland; Compagnie Maritime Polynesienne, Immeuble Franco Oceanienne, PO Box 368, Papeete, Tahiti, Tel 26393, Tlx 258. FP ANSB Taporo, Cable OCEAN Papeete; Kneubuhl Maritime Service. PO Box 39, Pago Pago, Telephone 633-5121; Tlx 782505.

DEATHS of Islands People J. L. CHIPPER John Lester Chipper, the Englishman who became a Papua New Guinean and a symbol of urban development in Rabaul, died on April 28 just short of his 70th birthday. He suffered a heart attack while making one of the dawn patrols for which he had become widely known his early morning tour of the streets and parks of Rabaul to make sure everything was shipshape.

Jack Chipper was a businessman, politician, land and property developer and planner who became one of the mainstays of commercial and civic development in Rabaul. In his final years he phased himself out of much of his active involvement in business interests, devoting an increasing amount of time to the civic affairs of Rabaul.

He was born in England in 1910, spent a brief period as a young man in Australia, and in 1932 became one of the many who tried their luck on the New Guinea goldfields. He worked at jobs in Wau, Bulolo and Maprik and at the outbreak of war in the Pacific he became a member of the Allied Special Z Force. He served in small ships with Z Force and saw action in Timor and the Southwest Pacific.

His extensive business interests began in Rabaul after the war, and were based on the salvage of wartime materials.

His later interests included timber logging and milling, building and property development, plantations, light engineering, civil engineering, automotive sales and service, trucking and financing.

Mr Chipper’s politics began when the then Australian administration of Papua New Guinea appointed him to the Rabaul Town Advisory Council in 1951, and he fast became one of the most controversial figures in PNG public life. He was elected to the Legislative Council and was one of a group of members who resigned in a controversy over the introduction of income tax.

He spent 29 years as a civic affairs representative in Rabaul, first in the town advisory council and then in the bodies which superseded it, the Rabaul Town Council and the Rabaul Community Government. He was president of the town council for eight years and was president of the community government at the time of his death.

Mr Chipper became a naturalised PNG citizen at independence.

L. G. MATTHEWS In Kempsey NSW, Australia, on April 16, Leonard George Matthews CBE, a former arbitration commissioner in Australia and Papua New Guinea, at the age of 65.

In 1966 Mr Matthews handed down the historically important decision in Port Moresby which meant that PNG public servants then being phased into the Australian administration of their country could not expect to get the same wages as Australians in the same service. His decision was based on evidence from a hearing spread over 17 months, and precipitated protests and political activism which were an ingredient of the ultimate movement towards self-government and independence. Michael Somare, the man who became PNG’s first prime minister, was a prominent figure in the protests but after independence he appointed Mr Matthews as Chairman of the PNG Wages 97 ’ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE, 1980

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Board. He referred to Mr Matthews as a man of ‘ability and integrity whose earlier decision, although unpopular, was based on the evidence presented’.

Mr Matthews was an arbitrator for 18 years in Australia and PNG and was made a CBE in 1977 in recognition of his service to industrial relations.

He lived in Melbourne, Victoria, and retired only this year.

He was holidaying with relatives in NSW when he collapsed and died.

Bwebwetake Areieta

At Ambo, Kiribati, on March 8, aged 37, after the motorcycle he was riding hit a coconut tree.

Bwebwetake joined the civil service in 1963, and rose to senior posts including officerin-charge of broadcasting. He entered politics when he was appointed to the then Executive Council in 1971 as member for social services. In 1974 he was elected to the House of Assembly as member for Maiana, and at various times was minister for works and communications and acting Speaker.

The defeat of the former government cost him his ministerial post, but he remained member for Maiana until his death.

Dr Theodore Braun

In Hastings Nebraska, USA, on March 20 at the age of 76 and after 40 years of service as a Lutheran missionary doctor in Papua New Guinea.

Dr Braun, who was born in Nebraska, studied at Rush Medical College in Chicago and later in Germany. In the 1930 s he established hospitals at Finschhafen and Madang in PNG. Both were destroyed during World War 11, and Dr Braun and his wife she was a missionary nurse were held captive by the Japanese for two years. The Brauns survived the strafing of a ship in which the Japanese were carrying 150 Lutheran and Catholic missionaries, and later Dr Braun saved the life of an injured priest by amputating his leg with a carpenter’s saw.

Dr and Mrs Braun were freed at the end of the war but went back to PNG and continued their medical work there until retiring five years ago. Mrs Braun survives her husband.

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