Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 53, No. 7 ( Jul. 1, 1982)
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THE MONTH • THE BOUNTY FILMS Dr Norman Douglas surveys the history of films on the theme of the Bounty mutiny, and finds that the whole business started in Australia as far back as 1916 11 • SOLOMONS HISTORY Jonathon Fifi’i, a prominent Solomon Islands figure for many years, talks to Barry Shineberg about the significance of the muchmisunderstood post-World War II ‘Marching Rule’ movement in the Solomons, and throws new light on the background to the murder in 1927 of a British official in that country 15 • FRENCH POLYNESIA’S ELECTION Marie-ThSrdse and Bengt Danielsson report in detail on the upset result in the May 23 poll in French Polynesia, and the reasons why such a revered leader as Francis Sanford suffered a defeat 22 • BEFORE VANUATU Secret French official documents reveal how Paris planned to arrange things so that the French presence in the New Hebrides would last forever 31 • BELAU’S PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED President Haruo Remeliik of Belau discusses his country’s future with Michel Bongiovanni and Dasha Ross 37 • CHANGE IN NEW CALDEDONIA Helen Fraser reports from Noumea on the dramatic political developments which culminated in the election of a new Council of Government ‘of Reform and Development’ in New Caledonia on June 18 40 • YESTERDAY E. A. Harvey completes his four-part series on a 1938 voyage around the New Hebrides archipelago in an inter-island trading vessel 47 Australia in the Pacific 51 Belau 37 Books 51 Bounty mutiny films 11 Deaths 73 Early sailing contact 27 Fiji 51, 59 France in the Pacific 22, 31, 51 French Polynesia 22, 25 Islands Press 19 Japan in the Pacific 61 Letters 7 Maori Voice 55 Mariana Islands 29 Micronesia 41 New Caledonia 40, 51 Pacific languages 30 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 53, 58, 59 People 41 Political Currents 31 Postmark Papeete 22 Shipping Services 70 Solomon Islands 15 Tonga 57 Tradewinds 57 Tropicalities <25 Tuvalu 61 Vanuatu 31, 35, 47 Western Samoa 28, 59 Yachts 65 Yesterday 47 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 Founded 1930 by R. W. Robson Editor Angus Smales Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon Advertising Manager Stephen Brandon Editorial Adviser John Carter A Pacific Publications production 76 Clarence Street, Sydney 2000 GPO Box 3408 Sydney 2001 Cables: PACPUB Sydney Telex: 21242 (answers INTARAD) Telephone: Sydney 20-231 Melbourne 63 0211 Manager; John Berry (03) 63-0211 Ext. 1860

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Pacific Report

Big Three’ All Confident In Png Poll

Papua New Guineans on June 5 began their three weeks of voting in the country’s second general election since independence in 1975. As voting began, leaders of all three major parties expressed confidence as to the outcome. Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan said he believed he would be able to form another coalition government if his Peoples Progress Party managed to win 30 of the Parliament’s 109 seats, lambakey Okuk, deputy prime minister and leader of the National Party, predicted his party would win 35 to 45 seats. Leader of the Opposition, and Pangu Party leader, Michael Somare, was the only one of the trio to predict that his party would win sufficient seats to govern alone.

In all, nine parties and more than 1100 candidates are contesting the election.

20Th Birthday Feted In Western Samoa

Week-long celebrations of the 20th anniversary of independence took place in Western Samoa from June 1. Among foreign guests were Cook Islands Prime Minister Sir Thomas Davis and Lady Davis, and Papua New Guinea’s Chief Justice Sir Buri Kidu. PNG Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan said he was sorry election commitments prevented him from attending, but was delighted Sir Buri could go to represent PNG. Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to achieve independence, in 1962.

Usa, Marshalls, Agree On Compact

The USA and the Marshall Islands have ended more than 13 years of negotiations with an agreement to allow the Marshalls to become a free republic. A United Press International report stated that the first ‘Compact of Free Association’ between the two nations calls for about SUS2OOO million in American aid to be given to the Marshalls over a 15-year period. The agreement, negotiated in Honolulu, can be extended for a further 15 years.

Under the compact the islands will continue to be defended by the USA, and America will continue to use atolls in the group for missile tests.

Charge, Countercharge, In Border Row

Indonesia has officially denied Papua New Guinea claims of incursions across the Irian Jaya border by its forces on May 14, 15 and 21. The row, coinciding with PNG’s election campaign, has thrown severe strain on relations between the two countries, a strain exacerbated by the outspoken anti-Indonesian stand taken by Deputy Prime Minister lambakey Okuk in his election campaigning. Indonesia, in a stiff diplomatic statement issued on June 10 in Jakarta in reply to a PNG protest, said that Free Papua Movement (OPM) rebels had captured 58 employees at an Indonesian sawmill last October and taken them to PNG as hostages. The PNG Government had done nothing to return them to Irian Jaya. It said that 30 of the 58 were Selus people, and were finally released by Selus people crossing the border, not Indonesian soldiers. Port Moresby sources say there is absolutely no doubt that there was an Indonesian incursion on May 14. It is also widely believed in the PNG capital that a helicopter landing seven kilometres inside PNG territory by Irian Jaya commander Brigadier-General Santoso was an attempt to find the whereabouts of the remaining hostages, and was not ‘caused by bad weather’ as claimed by the Indonesians.

Big New Shift In Noumea Politics

Two members of the Centrist F6d6ration pour une Nouvelle Soctete Caledonienne (FNSC) have resigned from New Caledonia’s council of government, saying they can no longer work with their former coalition partners on the council, the representatives of the conservative Ralliement Pour la Caledonie dans la Republique (RPCR). They said the RPCR had been rigid in blocking any reformist or progressive moves. A Radio Australia correspondent in Noumea reported on June 9 that it was now expected that the FNSC would form a coalition in the Territorial Assembly with the Front Independantiste (FI), ensuring a majority for a censure motion against the remaining government councillors. (See earlier report from Helen Fraser, Political Currents, this issue.) As the above developments were occurring, it was announced that the expired six-month term of France’s High Commissioner Christian Nucci was to be renewed for at least another three months.

Fiji Candidate S Tactical Retreat’

The withdrawal of an Alliance Party candidate, Bua farmer Shiu Prasad, from the Fiji general election contest in July, gave the National Federation Party candidate, Senator Subarmarni Basawaiya, the Savusavu/Macuatu East Indian Communal seat in the House of Representatives without a fight. First impressions were that Shiu Prasad, an ex-NFP man, had double-crossed the Alliance. But Alliance members later claimed that their loss of the seat was a tactical victory. Councillor Parbhu Prasad of the Alliance called it a ‘calculated gamble’. The NFP would have won the seat, anyway, he said. But, now that there was no election for that seat, many NFP supporters would not bother turning up to vote in the election for the two National seats in the Vanua Levu North and West constituencies, giving the Alliance a much better chance of winning the two National seats.

Sentences On Tahiti Eight Reduced

A court of appeal in Versailles has reduced the sentences on eight Tahitians convicted of the murder of a prison warder in Papeete’s Nuutnia gaol on January 14, 1978 (PIM Jul ’79 p 27). The chief accused, Imanuela Tauhiro, 42, had his sentence reduced from life to 10 years, and his seven companions, who had been given terms at their original Papeete trial of between 12 and 20 years, had theirs cut back to four years. In view of the time they have served so far both before and since their first trial they were released shortly after the Versailles hearing closed. All men joined in an appeal in court for forgiveness from the widow of the slain warder, Pierre Hoatua, saying they had never intended to kill him.

All have insisted all along that they were not common criminals, but fighters for the independence of their country, and against France’s nuclear testing programme at Moruroa. The reductions won in their sentences indicate that since the Mitterrand government came to power, the French courts are willing to give some credence to such a claim.

Two Ministers Resign In Solomons

Two cabinet ministers in the Solomon Islands government have resigned. They are the minister for foreign affairs and international trade, Mr Ezekiel Alebua, and the minister for Guadalcanal provincial affairs, Mr Waeta Ben. The two ministers have been ministers in the government of prime minister Mr Solomon Mamaloni since the fall of the Kenilorea government last year.

Both Mr Alebua and Mr Ben said they resigned for a number of reasons including not being able to work well with other members of the cabinet.

Spec, Src: No Merger Yet

The long-running debate about a merger of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC) and the South Pacific Commission (SPC) has reached a new staging-point: a working party of the South Pacific Forum, SPEC’s parent body, after long deliberations, is reported to have recommended that the time is not ripe for a merger. Since membership of the forum is limited to independent countries, a merger at present would prevent French Pacific territories from belonging.

Paris Takes New Look At Asia, Pacific

An unprecedented five-day conference in Paris in May brought together 18 French ambassadors and consuls-general to Pacific countries and Pacific Rim states such as the US, Canada, China and the Soviet Union. It was also attended by France’s high commissioners to New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Official French sources said the conference represented just a beginning of new French approaches to a region ‘which is extremely underestimated in France’. The conference studied three themes: the industrial Pacific, the military Pacific, and the South Pacific. The latter is of particular interest to France because of its territories in the region and its Moruroa nuclear tests. An AFP report said the conference saw the South Pacific as a zone ‘devoid of people’ where, ‘thanks particularly to the vigilance of Australia, Western influence is not contested’.

Michael Somare Among The Godfathers

Former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare was the only speaker from the Pacific Island countries at a slap-up June convention it cost each person there $A345 to attend at Sydney’s Hilton Hotel. The subject was: Development of Pacific Resources. He told the convention: ‘Most of you are on the Rim, deciding whether to plunge in. We are in the Basin which is surrounded by that Rim, and we are watching with some 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

apprehension. The total population of the countries of the Rim including China, but excluding Russia, is over 1830 million’

Compare this to the population of the 21 Pacific Island countries which amounts to a mere five million topped even by the population of Hong Kong on its own ... In being invited into such a community of these advanced and industrialised countries of the Pacific Rim, I sometimes wonder whether, in the language of the Godfather, we are being made an offer we can’t refuse... We certainly cannot afford to be left out of co-operation because we are small enough to be ignored if we don’t co-operate

‘Dump N-Waste Dump Plan’ Petition

The Japanese Science and Technology Agency the body overseeing the planned nuclear waste-dumping programme says it has received a petition signed by almost 9000 people in Australia, New Zealand, and various Pacific Island countries calling for abandonment of the programme. But Isamu Sasaya, director of the agency’s Nuclear Safety Bureau, said they had no intention of doing any such thing. He repeated Japanese Government claims that there is no danger of sea contamination with dumping of low-level radio-active waste 700 nautical miles from the nearest non-Japanese islands, the Northern Marianas

Malaysia’S Pm In South Pacific

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad in May- June made official visits to Fiji, Tonga, and Western Samoa.

More Meetings On Law Of The Sea

Following the April 30 ratification in New York of the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention, the LOS Conference must hold two more meetings this year: in New York in September, to act on recommendations of its drafting committee; and then at Caracas, probably in early December, where government representatives! after nine long years of work, will finally sign the convention. The LOS Conference failed to meet its goal of adopting the convention by consensus. Instead, in a vote requested by the USA, and taken on April 30, it adopted the text by 130 in favour to four against, with 17 abstentions. Voting against were Israel Turkey, USA and Venezuela.

‘Merge Usp, Upng’ Maraj

Before leaving towards the end of May to take up a position with the World Bank (PIM Apr, p 29), Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific Dr James Maraj, in a farewell speech, suggested the amalgamation of the Universities of the South Pacific and Papua New Guinea. ‘I think the higher education needs of a population of some five million people the three and a half they have in Papua New Guinea, and the one and a quarter million we (countries represented at the USP) have could be better provided for within some such structure’, said Dr Maraj. He added that the question had been put very informally to the UPNG authorities, but he doubted that the proposal would come to much until the ‘political will’_was clearly manifested.

South Pacific Law Jaw-Jaw In Canberra

The fifth South Pacific Judicial Conference held in Canberra in May failed to agree on a proposal for a unified Court of Appeal for South and West Pacific nations. The case for such a court was led by prominent Fiji barrister Mere Pulea Kite, who argued it both in its own right and as a step towards regional unity in the Pacific.

In a scarcely veiled reference to the Privy Council in London, she said: ‘Are we seeking perfect justice in an elite but remote appellate system, or do we seek for our people the justice we all understand?’ Associate Justice E. F. Gianotti, of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, appeared to sum up response of the 17 countries represented at the conference when he said: ‘I feel that a Court of Appeals in the Pacific north, south or west would be a good thing, but I don’t think there is a chance of it ever happening.’ However, there was considerable support for the idea of a floating panel of regional judges, from which individual countries could draw their courts of appeal from time to time.

Oz Unions Rethink Islands Links

Australian trade unions are re-thinking their attitude to links with Pacific Island trade unions, according to the new Australian High Commissioner to Fiji and Tuvalu, Colin McDonald. They accept that Island unions are not prepared to be used merely as a vehicle for the campaign against nuclear tests, weapons, waste-dumping and uranium mining which is strongly supported by certain Australian trade union officials, he says. Last year Australian and New Zealand unions sponsored the formation of the Pacific Trade Union forum, an association of trade unions covering several South Pacific countries and Hawaii and Japan. Mr McDonald said creation of the Forum has been an attempt by Australian and New Zealand unions to ‘develop a union front’ against the presence of nuclear materials of all kinds in the region. But the Pacific Islanders have shown that their first concern is the improvement of 'working and pay conditions in their own countries, and improvements to their own organisations.

Australian unions realise that they have a duty to assist with this process and some, including officials of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, have contacted the foreign affairs department in Canberra to advise about giving such assistance. ‘We are now in a dialogue,’ Mr McDonald said.

Sad Fate Of Kyoten Maru

The Kyoten Maru, 8750-tonne .cargo carrier on its way to Port Moresby with a $4 million cargo including equipment for the Ok Tedi mine, ran aground off the Queensland coast late in May and sank two days later, A Fiji-based salvage partnership, Marine Pacific and Salvage Pacific, was preparing a salvage attempt when the ship slid off the reef into deep water. The crew had already left the vessel. Evolution Maritime, of Hong Kong, the owner of Kyoten Maru, had contracted with the salvagers on a Lloyd’s Open Form no cure, no pay so that the loss of the ship means a loss for the Fiji firms. According to Marine director lan Hoskison, not more than a few thousand dollars had been spent on preparing the salvage attempt.

Pacific Conservatives Get Together

A new political grouping, to be known as the Pacific Democrat Union and to be a sister body to the European Democrat Union, formed in 1978 was to be inaugurated in Tokyo late in June. The union aims to establish for the first time regular contacts between Centre and moderate Centre-Right parties in the Pacific Basin area. Political parties from the USA, Canada, Papua New Guinea and Fiji were expected to join Australia, New Zealand and Japan at the inauguration. It was also expected that observers from the British Conservative Party and the European Democratic Union, and possibly also from Western Samoa and Solomon Islands, would be present.

Bank Line Back In Vanuatu

After an absence of nearly five years, the familiar Bank Line vessels will once more be calling at Port-Vila and Santo, Vanuatu, carrying both container and bulk-break cargo. While direct calls ceased in 1978, Bank Line ships have still been bringing cargo for Vanuatu, but trans-shipping it in Noumea. The first ship on the new schedule was the Clydebank, which uplifted 1500 tonnes of copra at the two ports of call. lan Mclntyre in Port-Vila.

Week-Long Strike In Fiji Sugar Mills

A week-long strike at Fiji’s four sugarcane-crushing mills in May ended with agreement to take the contentious issue demarcation as between one union and another to arbitration.

Fiji is aiming at a record sugar production of almost 500 000 tonnes this year.

‘No’ To Maoris In South Pacific Games

The South Pacific Games Council, which will hold the Seventh South Pacific Games in Western Samoa in 1983, has rejected an application by the New Zealand Maoris to compete in the Games.

Rejection was based on the Games Charter, which limits inclusion in the event to members of the South Pacific Commission and Conference, but excludes the metropolitan powers of Australia, New Zealand, United States, Britain and France. The Maori delegates in Apia, who were refused a hearing by the council, argue that they are a South Pacific people and the indigenous people of New Zealand. They wanted to compete as Maoris and not as representing New Zealand.

Talair’S 30Th Birthday

Talair, the biggest third-level aircraft operator in the Pacific Islands, has just celebrated 30 years of passenger and freight flying in Papua New Guinea. Talair (then Territory Airlines) made its inaugural flight on May 5, 1952, when a De Havilland 85 Dragon was flown from Lae to the Wau Valley. The pilot was Ray Harris, one of the two Australians who formed the airline. His partner, Jack Gray, was killed in a flying accident five years later, and the airline was acquired by Dennis Buchanan who still controls it through extensive company interests. Talair now has a fleet of more than 60 aircraft operating charter and scheduled services throughout PNG. The fleet includes seven De Havilland Twin Otters, 19 Britten Norman Islanders and 29 various Cessna and Beechcraft types. Talair was one of the first operators to put into service the Cessna 180, the forerunner 28 years ago of a series of Cessna types which has been commercially successful in PNG. 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

LETTERS The 30 lies of 30 Jours PIM (Oct ’81 p5) reported the imminent launching of 30 Jours, a French/English language magazine directed at the Pacific. After some delays, the magazine finally made its appearance in February 1982, and has appeared regularly since.

It should be noted first of all that 30 Jours has signally failed to deliver on its promise of bilingualism. The magazine is to all intents and purposes French. The only ‘bilingual’ thing about it is that its major articles are accompanied by small panels carrying short summaries of their content in ‘English’ of unfailing quaintness.

Rather garish in appearance, with colour splashed throughout and relatively little advertising, 30 Jours is evidently not to be taken too seriously. Its April :over picture and story reflected its editors’ intense ;xcitement at certain genetic nutations being observed in •ome children in the Laulasi islands in the Solomons: they ire being born with fair hair . . .

But its lightweight editorial ipproach is perhaps still better lemonstrated in an article in its Vlay issue attacking PIM.

Seizing on the pretext of the criticism directed at PIM by he (now unseated) council of government of French (PIM Jun p7) — ‘a lard blow for PIM just when t’s looking for its second wind’, iccording to 30 Jours — the irticle launches into a descripion of PIM’s ‘woes’ that is an bsolute model of irresponsible, catty journalism.

A sample: ‘Starting off as [uite a small magazine, the publishers of PIM, the Herald & Weekly Times Ltd, have over the years built it up into an authoritative regional publication.’

False. The H&WT acquired Pacific Publications, publishers of PIM, only in 1974, when the magazine had been in existence for 44 years.

Another: ‘The H&WT lost more than $l6O 000 in 1981.’

Not only false, but a real howler. The H&WT, the largest media group in Australia, of which Pacific Publications is a small subsidiary, regularly appears in the 30s bracket in lists of Australia’s 100 largest companies. Its profits last year were SA4O million before-tax, and $26 million after-tax. A painful ‘loss’!

Yet another: ‘H&WT closed down its Sydney subsidiary, Pacific Publications ...’

False. Pacific Publications remains in existence in Sydney.

And again; ‘Malcolm Salmon, PlM’s editor . ..’

False again. Angus Smales is editor of the magazine, of which Salmon is associate editor. 30 Jours does not fail to vent a touch of McCarthyite spleen by recalling in an aside that Salmon once wrote for newspapers on the Left of Australian politics. Many people who know a little about recent Australian political history will recall that Salmon, as a speaker and writer, was among the most influential critics of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war, and that his translation of a French history of Vietnam was long a prescribed text in Australian universities. Those who, like the present writer, observed Salmon’s work at this time, regarded it as a thoroughly honourable episode in the life of a thoroughly honourable man. But about all this 30 Jours neither knows or cares. ..

But there’s more: ‘Salmon is practically the only survivor of the original team that built up PlM’s reputation.’

False again. Though getting on, Salmon is not yet as old as Methuselah: he joined PIM only m 1976, 46 years after the founding of the magazine.

After this grand display of crazy non-marksmanship, the writer turns the scattergun on PlM’s Tahiti correspondent Bengt Danielsson. (By now familiar with the general level of 30 Jours I could not for a moment be persuaded that it was chivairy, and not a crusty brand of old-fashioned French sexism, that led the writer to ignore Bengt Danielsson’s fellowcorrespondent, his wife Marie- Therese, in the tirade.) Bengt Danielsson duly abused, the French Polynesian criticism of PIM is then joyfully reproduced in extenso.

Those who have not by now become bored with the whole affair may consult PIM June for the criticism and the Danielssons’ reply to it, which is fully supported by the man at the eye of the storm, the archaeologist Professor Sinoto.

It is perhaps natural that the editors of 30 Jours should display a morbid interest in the ‘woes’ real or imagined of various publications. After all, they themselves are the traumatised survivors of the wreck of the ultra-conservative Noumea daily France Australe which foundered early in 1980 when its backers in the nickel company SEN wearied of picking up the tab for its recurring and mounting losses.

Perhaps it’s time that the various financial backers of 30 Jours (said to include the French Government itself) had a close look at how their money is being spent.

P. WARBECK Sydney NSW Australia Hard talking on SPARTECA It was galling to read the criticisms of Australia and its behaviour in the item Thrust and parry in the SPARTECA debate’ (PIM Apr p 49). Australia was cast as the villain of the piece, the hapless South Pacific forum countries again falling prey to its neo-colonialist designs.

SPARTECA is not something that was unilaterally imposed on the Pacific states. It is surely not an agreement that had outlived its usefulness, having been in operation for little more than a year. If SPAR- TECA does not achieve what the Pacific states had hoped for, why did they become a party to it in the first place?

The observation that not all the Forum countries signed the agreement immediately suggests there was some original dissatisfaction. If that was the Mum looks happy, the child looks sick and the magazine certainly is ... 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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case, it is surely up to those states to adopt a more united and harder bargaining position.

They cannot realistically expect Australia to do this for them.

The comment which concerned me most was the one attributed to Dr William Sutherland to the effect that ‘the Australian Government (must) confront Australian domestic interests with what SPARTECA must achieve’.

Confront them with what?

With an agreement whereby a small group of Pacific businessmen prosper, possibly at the expense of their Australian counterparts? With an agreement that will help to ensure that the elites in these countries have sufficient foreign exchange to continue living in the manner to which they have become accustomed?

Before waxing lyrical about the importance of SPARTECA to the Pacific countries one would do well to remember that these are predominantly rural societies where linkages between industrial growth and general improvements in the welfare of the people do not necessarily go hand in hand.

Having got this far, and before I lose too many readers, I must now confess that I am not totally serious in all of this.

But too often, and in all seriousness, a ‘good guys and villains’ dichotomy is drawn in discussing relations between the more and less developed countries that is both inappropriate and counter-productive. Above I have not told the whole story.

Nor does the Sutherland argument, as reported, tell the whole story.

An old and basic premise to the understanding of the international behaviour of any country is to look at the domestic political constraints on that country’s foreign policy. In the case of Australia there are real domestic constraints on what any government can do by way of liberalising trade.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, for example, earnestly supports the cause of developing countries. Yet in the more limited confines of Australian economic debate he can be seen as a protectionist. There are real powers at work here that cannot be easily pushed aside or circumvented. To suggest otherwise is like suggesting gravity should go away so man can fly.

If SPARTECA is not fulfilling the expectations of the Pacific states this may well be because those expectations are not solidly enough grounded. A realistic evaluation of what SPARTECA is, or might become, should similarly be cognisant of what is possible. Black and white pictures of good guys and villains do not help.

My prognosis should not however be mistaken as a conservative one. Man learnt to fly, but not by wishing gravity away.

T. CRESSING Millswood SA Australia Protecting marine life in Vanuatu I wish to express my concern about the gradual disappearance of the rare species of underwater life from the waters of Vanuatu. The red and black corals are becoming increasingly scarce round Vanuatu as expatriates pick it all up in order partly to decorate their homes, and partly to sell it to jewellers at high prices.

Another very serious concern is the killing of turtles for their shells which is a current occupation of expatriate citizens, who ought to be best prepared to respect the natural environment of their host country.

Allen Power, the author of a book on the Great Barrier Reef and the leader of dive expeditions in Santo, can recall the days when, not very long ago, there used to be red coral growing all along the main wharf in Luganville, until a diving team came and picked it all up in one day it never grew again.

The wreck of the President Coolidge is also currently ransacked and the coral gardens above the Coolidge are often used as a free souvenir shop. As there is no legislation in Vanuatu at present, the people concerned with the rapid disappearance of rare corals, shells and turtles are left helpless and can only watch with increasing anxiety the chain of life based on those corals gradually disintegrating.

Let us hope legislation will soon be established so we can all still enjoy the rare beauty of the underwater life round Vanuatu.

In the meantime I hope this letter will encourage people to be more considerate.

Francoise Brindle

Santo Vanuatu Dry eye over an untended tomb I have nothing against white people I happen to be one.

But I’ll leave it to Stu Inder (PIM May p 25) to express remorse that the racist Christopher Robinson lies in an untended grave in Port Moresby.

Inder reported that Robinson, while acting administrator of Papua in 1904, was involved in a clash in which ‘a number of natives were killed’.

When the Australian Government pointed out to Robinson that killing ‘natives’ was not proper, poor Robinson shot himself.

Inder reported that the white citizens in the colonial stronghold of Samarai eulogised Robinson with a monument: ‘Able Governor, upright man, honest judge. His aim was to make New Guinea a country for white men.’

In contrast, Inder lamented, his Hanuabada granite slab states: ‘ln memory of Christopher Robinson, who died 20 June 1904, aged 32.

RIP.’ Perhaps ‘RIP’ means ‘residing in purgatory’.

J. GREGORY Honolulu Hawaii USA Calling William A. Robinson Two letters in the May issue of PIM have pleasing features one written by Mrs Electa Johnson of Massachusetts, and the other by Bruce McCloskey of Florida. They bear witness to the widespread circulation of the magazine, and that of Mrs Johnson spreads the good news that her husband, Irving, is alive and well and not demised as stated by me in my article in PIM earlier this year. I was wrongly informed, I am happy to say seadogs of his calibre should never let go of the wheel.

My article also said that William A. Robinson’s Svaap was wrecked in the Galapagos group. Mr McCloskey in his letter states that the vessel was left there and taken over by the Ecuadorian Government when Robinson was evacuated to Panama after contracting acute appendicitis.

In the preface to his book To the Great Southern Sea which describes a voyage he made in his 22-metre brigantine Varua, in 1951, from Papeete down to the edge of the Antarctic iceberg region, thence across to Chile, up to Panama and back to Papeete, he mentions visiting the Galapagos during his second cruise in Svaap, his The Robinson monument: ‘Able governor, upright man, honest judge’. Picture by C. W.

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evacuation to Panama with appendicitis and, I quote: The accident lost us Svaap which had to be left in Galapagos and was confiscated and wrecked by the Ecuadorians.’

Incidentally, several people have written to me from USA asking if I knew of the present whereabouts of Mr Robinson, or even if he still existed.

Having made one boob in that respect, I would not reply one way or the other. But several years ago, in search of the same information, I wrote first to the Postmaster and then to the Harbourmaster at Papeete. But in each case my letter went unanswered.

Mr Robinson, if possible, will you please stand up?

Bert E. Weston

Wollstonecraft NSW Australia A reviewer strikes back If David Paul of Massachusetts USA (PIM Mar p 11) wants to go in boots and all on the motives he thinks shape U.S. foreign policy, and PIM is prepared to give him the space, that’s all right by me.

But I’m entitled to object when he uses as his excuse a review I never wrote about John Dorrance’s booklet, Oceania and the United States (PIM Oct ’Bl p 29). Dorrance is entitled to complain, too, that the book he wrote has no connection with the one David Paul appears to be writing about.

Dorrance didn’t write a book about the difference between theory and practice in U.S. foreign policy. What he did, and what my review clearly said he did, was present a fair summary of the whole Pacific Islands political environment, both from an Islands point of view and that of the Rim countries.

The book adds up to what I said was ‘an invaluable little handbook ... an objective analysis filled with clear-sighted observations on the Pacific Islands which ought to be an aid to the makers of U.S. foreign policy’. But, 1 noted, ‘whether they’ll refer to it when next there is an important decision to be made is another matter’.

It’s a handbook worth having because of the information in it about the Pacific Islands, and it would be unfortunate if this fact became obscured because Mr Paul chooses to use Dorrance and his reviewer for some domestic political barrowpushing exercise of his own.

Stuart Inder

Sydney NSW Australia Unwelcome Hilda?

Hilda Lini, the sister of the prime minister of Vanuatu, recently found herself employment at the South Pacific Commission in Noumea, and has taken the opportunity to air her political views.

She is able to speak out because the French Pacific territories are still under French guidance, and free speech is allowed. This is in contrast to the situation in her own country, which will quickly deport not only foreigners but mixed-race people and locallyborn non-Melanesians if they dare to criticise.

Many of those who did this are now living here in New Caledonia, and do not particularly wish to see her around to remind them of her Banana Republic.

Our local press has been getting its back up about her.

But they shouldn’t fret. If past performance is any indication, Miss Lini will not remain long, as she has never held any position in the past for an extended period.

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SUPPLIED) Noumea New Caledonia Call for history of Tongan royals In response to the latest letter by Miss Pauline Manutu’ufanga ’Unga (PIM Jan p 8) I would like to make a few comments. Firstly, I notice that Miss ’Unga has made an effort to be pleasantly caustic throughout her letter.

Now allow me to get to the business at hand. I did not intend to condemn the traditions of the Tongan Royal Family. I meant no disrespect. I have only admiration for HM the King, who is (in my opinion) the world’s hardest-working chief-of-state. Every monarchy depends upon the traditions which have developed over the centuries. In this modern world of republics, monarchies need these traditions in order to survive. I simply stated the need for these traditions to be somewhat flexible.

I am glad that Miss ’Unga has given me some real information concerning the background of the Anderson family.

This explains the King’s reasons for barring Prince Ala’i from the line of succession to the Tongan throne. Previously my only knowledge of this situation has come from the pages of PIM. If I had lived in the Pacific region, perhaps I would have heard more news.

I am sure that you will understand that my impression was simply of a young couple whose love was doomed because of royal tradition. Now that I am better informed, I regret the little fracas which has occurred over these past months.

However, the situation surrounding the coverage of the marriage of Prince Ala’i points up the sad lack of information available about Tonga. I wish that PIM would increase its coverage of Tonga and the other small countries. Coverage of the yachties, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, New Caledonia and other regular features could be toned-down, perhaps to coverage only every second month.

Please excuse my momentary deviation from the subject. By their nature, royal families are doomed to live in the public eye.

However, Tonga’s royalty have always been shrouded in a ‘mist’. I believe that the present-day royalty need personal privacy. Yet even the lives of Tonga’s dead monarchs seem so secret. People who love to study Tongan history (as I do) eagerly await a full-length history of the Tongan Royal Family. After all, the lives of these people have been intertwined with Tonga’s history for hundreds of years. Perhaps the noted Tongan writer, Sione Latukefu, could attempt this feat.

As to Miss ’Unga’s rude closing remark concerning her sex and marital status. Please note that the signature P. Manutu’ufanga ’Unga (PIM June ’Bl p 7) indicates neither masculine nor feminine gender!

I regret the length of my letter and that I have strayed from the original subject. I have gained some enlightenment concerning Prince Ala’i and Miss Anderson (or is it Mrs Tupon or Princess Heimataura?). I have seen my error and hope that this puts an end to the controversy. Thank you.

Randy Duff

Indianapolis USA We hope Mr Duff appreciated the main story in our May issue on how Tongan society reacted to Cyclone Isaac.

Editor.

W. A. Robinson’s brigantine Varua in which he cruised the south-eastern Pacific. The picture is from his book, The Great Southern Sea. 10 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JULY, 198: LETTERS

The perennial cinematic voyage of Bligh, Christian, and HMS Bounty Dr NORMAN DOUGLAS, a lecturer in Pacific Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, has been studying the history of the various films made over the past 60-odd years telling the story of the Bounty mutiny. He turns up evidence that Australian film-makers were easily the earliest in the field, producing the first film on the subject in 1916.

British film director David Lean and his producer Dino de Laurentiis have finally abandoned plans for a two-part remake of the story of the Bounty mutiny (PIM Jun p 24).

Film buffs who have been following the details of this production in the pages of PIM and elsewhere were doubtless able to recall two previous versions of the Bligh-Christian confrontation: the classic 1935 version with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and the 1962 version with Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando. The latter, while giving a huge boost to Tahiti’s pre-nuclear economy, also came unintentionally close to self-parody. The American films, both inspired by the novels of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, are well known. Less well known is the fact that the story of the Pacific’s best-known mutiny has been filmed five times twice by Australians.

In 1916, 20 years before MGM re-created Captain William Bligh in the image of Charles Laughton, an Australian film-maker produced the first film of the Bounty story. It had the double distinction of being the first cinematic version of the mutiny and the first Australian dramatic film in which extensive Pacific Islands locations were used.

Without so much as Nordhoff and Hall’s novel to guide him, producer-director Raymond Longford began his work like most good students of Pacific history at Sydney’s Mitchell Library. There, in the interests Df historical accuracy, he examined records which dealt with the mutiny and the subsequent developments on Pitcairn Island.

Longford’s output until that time had not been particularly impressive, consisting as it did }f routine melodrama and mock ;xotica such as A Maori Maid’s Love. Clearly, the film of the Bounty mutiny was conceived on a far grander scale. Indeed, the Melbourne Argus of December 2, 1916, announced it to be ‘probably the most costly production yet made in Australia’.

But such an ambitious work could not be based solely on library research and filmed entirely in Sydney, for, however attractive the beaches at Bondi and Cronulla may have been, they paled in comparison with the settings against which the drama had been originally enacted.

Consequently, Longford, whose later work was to win him deserved praise for its attention to authenticity and detail, despatched an expedition to Tahiti. There he obtained many scenes in which the islanders figured prominently. In June 1916 a contingent including George Cross, who had the role of Captain Bligh, was on Norfolk Island for the purpose of further location filming.

Longford’s attempt to obtain ‘convincing local colour’ led him, however, down some strange paths. For further sections dealing with incidents in the islands, the unit went to New Zealand. What prompted this move is not certain New Zealand was on neither Bligh’s nor the mutineers’ itinerary. It may have been that Longford found the Tahitians lacking in the dramatic ability necessary for leading parts, since he apparently used some Maoris in the film, and gave two Maori performers Meta Taupopoki and Mere Omohau the roles of Otoo, a Tahitian chief, and his daughter.

Apart from an earlier work of Longford’s, about which very little is known, this was probably the first occasion on which Pacific Islanders had taken part in a dramatic film. Films before 1915-16 which dealt with the Islands seem to have been purely ethnographic in nature.

Mutiny on the Bounty was released in late 1916 by the theatrical entrepreneurs Crick and Jones. Supporting George Cross as Bligh was Charles Villiers as Fletcher Christian, and Ada Guildford and Lottie Lyell, who, if one may judge from the number of times she appeared in the films, must have been Longford’s favourite actress.

When the film was screened at J. C. Williamson’s Paramount Theatre in Melbourne, it was billed as The greatest of all Australian Pictures’, a claim which may have been justified by the cost of the production.

With the casual disregard for accuracy typical of film publicity, it was claimed to be ‘a story of early Australian history’, and one that was ‘taken .. . with great attention to detail upon the exact locations on which the story was enacted’.

The publicity given the film seems to have been one of its most colourful aspects. ‘The Story,’ announced The Age, ‘is one of brutal tyranny and oppression, of violent passion, of murderous revenge, of masterful ascendancy, of unions begun in lust and ending in pure affection, of a community originating in crime and nursed in lawlessness, giving to the world the one and only real example of a Golden Age.’

Reviewers of the film used language only slightly less flamboyant than that of the George Cross as Captain Bligh -From the National Film Archive, National Library of Australia. 11 °ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

publicity men. The Winner assured its readers that, in its ‘arresting presentment of an historic happening,’ the film would appeal ‘to those who look beyond the meretricious sparkle of screen sensation allied to mawkish sentimentalism’.

In the manner of all works aspiring to epic qualities, Mutiny of The Bounty provided a moral. Tagged on to the film was a scene showing descendants of Fletcher Christian enlisting in Sydney to fight for King and Country in the Great War, presumably as atonement for the sins of their forefather.

Despite the expense of production, the excesses of the publicity writers and the generally favourable reviews, the film was apparently something less than a success. By the fourth day of its one-week run at the Paramount the billing had changed, and Mutiny was being advertised as the support to an American melodrama called The Love Mask.

Raymond Longford eventually gained a place in the Australian cinema’s sparsely populated Hall of Fame with his versions of those classic Australian ‘folk’ pieces, The Sentimental Bloke and On Our Selection. The merits of his Mutiny of The Bounty can no longer be assessed, since there is evidently no print of the film extant. In the early years of film production in Australia, the requirements of posterity were not seriously considered, and many pioneer works were lost or destroyed through negligence or sheer indifference.

The adventures of Bligh and his recalcitrant crew were forgotten, so far as film men were concerned, for 16 years. In 1932 another Australian producer, Charles Chauvel, revived the Bounty story. Nordhoff and Hall had already begun the research for their fictionalised account, but its publication lay a year in the future. If Chauvel was aware either of their labours or Longford’s earlier work, he gave no indication of it. Indeed, he wrote as though his discovery had been accidental: ‘With a globe-trotting companion I was tracing through the map of the world in an attempt to discover a place where a movie camera had never been and where a story was perhaps lying untouched.’

Chauvel’s attempts to find an out-of-the-way locale for a film led him to consider Tristan da Cunha, Juan Fernandez and Easter Island. Finally, he ‘stumbled upon Pitcairn Island’. His first serious introduction to the Bounty story took place when he came across Bligh’s log of the Providence on a Queensland cattle station owned by the Bligh-Nuttings, descendants of the longsuffering captain.

The log of the Providence contained references to the Bounty mutiny. Chauvel, with an eye for the exotic and dramatic, found his interest aroused. Like his predecessor, Longford, he headed for the Mitchell Library and spent a year’s research going through Bligh’s log of the Bounty , the Journal of James Morrison and other relevant documents.

A new production company, Expeditionary Films, was formed, and under its auspices Chauvel and his crew left for the Islands on April 14, 1932.

Chauvel attempted to keep his exact motives and destination as secret as possible, apparently fearing that an American company would rush in before him.

He had shortly before spent some time in the United States and had first-hand knowledge of the facilities and throat-cutting techniques of Hollywood film producers. When he departed for the Islands, even his cameraman, Tasman Higgins, was allegedly unaware of the scene of their operation.

In New Zealand, a few months later, with a sizeable amount of exposed film in the can, Chauvel was less reticent about disclosing information.

He had been, he informed the press, at Pitcairn Island, and had nothing but praise for the islanders’ magnificent seamanship and the great assistance they had given him. Chauvel’s own experience on Pitcairn had been dramatic enough. A severe earthquake had rocked the island during his stay, and members of the film crew had been nearly drowned when attempting to land in a whaleboat.

Having given the newsmen a taste of his activities, Chauvel announced his departure for Tahiti and further filming there.

When he returned to Sydney late in August 1932, after having travelled some 24 000 kilometres in ‘little known parts of the Pacific Ocean’, Chauvel’s bashfulness about his travels of the previous months had disappeared. It was the belief of his company, he said, that Australian history was too much neglected and attempts would be made to fill in the gaps.

Every effort had been made to present a faithful picture of the wanderings of the Bounty mutineers before they reached Pitcairn Island. He had followed the route of the Bounty and had seen the remains lying in the clear water at Pitcairn.

At Tahiti, he had filmed native dances with natives specially chosen for the occasion, as a knowledge of primitive dances was rapidly dying out.

But Chauvel, in his enthusiasm, had reckoned without the eternal bugbear of film producers both foreign and domestic the Australian censor.

While he filmed interiors at Cinesound’s studios, and a few other scenes on a ship in Sydney Harbour, the film censor, W.

Cresswell O’Reilly, inspected the Tahitian footage and found it not to his taste. He, therefore, denied it right of entry, almost in its entirety.

Claiming that the decision was unfair, Chauvel pointed out that the sequences had been viewed out of context, and in any event some of the material would be discarded during the editing of the completed film.

Moreover, he argued, a recently released American film had shown African natives in a similar state of nudity. While in Tahiti, his company had been warmly congratulated by both A pointed reply by Captain Bligh From the National Film Archive, National Library of Australia 12 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JULY, 1982

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the administration and the missionaries for attempting to reproduce the Tahitian dances faithfully, instead of making up travesties of them. The film, tentatively entitled The Mutiny of the Bounty, would, Chauvel claimed, have ‘a strong historical and ethnographical interest’. It was not his intention to ‘introduce any suggestion of an improper element’.

The censor, apparently less concerned with the merits of history and ethnography than with the possible titillation of the cinema public by the sight of bouncing, brown breasts, was unimpressed by these claims.

To add to Chauvel’s dismay, he also ordered a cut in one of the episodes filmed in Sydney before allowing the film to be exported.

Chauvel carried his protest to the Commonwealth Appeal Board, which passed everything in the completed film save one sequence of native dancing.

Still dissatisfied with the decision, Chauvel threatened to take the matter before the Minister for Customs and, if necessary, distribute the film for export only, thereby denying Australians the opportunity to witness the filling of the gaps in their history .. .

He had previously argued that the removal of the scenes of Tahitian dancing would ‘seriously affect the dramatic value of the story’. He now insisted that the sequence was ‘the pivot of the whole film’, and, if deleted, the film would be spoilt. Finally, in March 1933, after some months of pleading, protesting and threatening, the film was passed in a form acceptable to both Chauvel and the censor.

A press conference and luncheon to launch the film, which now bore the title In the Wake of the Bounty, was held and attended by various dignitaries, including the imperial apologist and writer on Pacific affairs, C. Brunsdon Fletcher.

Fletcher spoke with his characteristic irrelevance on the ‘essential soundness and solidarity of the British Empire’ and concluded with the observation that the film’s producers ‘had done something decisive and valuable to make their country known elsewhere’.

Once again the publicity men trotted out their purplest prose.

The film, said its advertising, offered definite proof that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’, and audiences were invited to witness ‘the charm of the exotic when the sirens of the islands woo these sea-faring adventurers with the beauty of their native dances that will set your pulses tingling too. And then the dreadful aftermath of all their revelry!’

Viewed ioaay, In the Wake of the Bounty seems a curious mixture of documentary and melodrama, travelogue and tedious romance. Excellently photographed scenes of the islands are in complete contrast with static interiors, the unaffected behaviour of the Tahitians and Pitcairn Islanders with the generally stiff performances of the principals, and the adequate dialogue with an incongruous musical score.

Reviewers of the time were not slow to point out the incongruities in the work, while admitting that the film ‘indicates what a fruitful field there is for film production in the Pacific’. Unfortunately, few Australian producers seem to have heeded the indication.

Most of the critics paid scant attention to what may ultimately have been Chauvel’s most important contribution to the film world.

In the role of Bligh’s antagonist, Fletcher Christian, Chauvel had cast a young ex-New Guinea patrol officer named Errol Flynn. It was Flynn’s first screen part and in the light of his subsequent career it shows up poorly. Flynn, however, was later to win a Hollywood contract where, under the auspices of Warner Brothers, he gained a series of impressive victories over the Sheriff of Nottingham (in Robin Hood), the Spaniards (in The Sea Hawk), the Nazis (in Desperate Journey) and the Japanese (in Objective Burma), but suffered defeat by the Sioux Indians (in They Died With Their Boots On).

It is an odd coincidence that two of Australia’s most important film men should have chosen the Bounty story as a screen vehicle and, in doing so, anticipated Hollywood’s interest in it.

But Australia’s early filmmakers deserve more credit than is generally given them.

Australian movies are said to be passing through a ‘Golden Age’, one that coincides with a growing Australian interest and involvement in the Pacific. With any luck we may also see a revival of interest in Pacific stories and subjects. Historically, Australian film-men seem to have a valid claim on the Islands.

As for Chauvel, his fears of Hollywood’s cut-throat tactics seemed well founded. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the United States distribution rights to In the Wake of the Bounty and suppressed its release, preferring to bowdlerise and re-edit the Pitcairn material into two short films to promote their own 1935 version.

Another scene from the 1916 production From the National Film Archive, National Library of Australia Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian, his first screen part - From the National Film Archive, National Library of Australia. 14 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JULY, 1982

Interview With Jonathon Fifi'I

Setting the record straight on ‘Marching Rule’ and a 1927 murder JONATHON FIFI’I, veteran Solomon Islands patriot and politician from the Kwaio hill country of central Malaita, was recently in Canberra where he spoke with BARRY SHINEBERG about his role in Solomon Islands independence movements. Since 1962 Mr Fifi’i has worked with anthropologist, ROGER KEESING, now at the Australian National University, on studies of the customs of the Kwaio people. Mr Fifi’i has just finished compiling a Kwaio language dictionary, and is now writing his autobiography. His interview with Barry Shineberg, which appears below, sheds fascinating new light on the (misnamed) ‘Marching Rule’ movement, and the 1927 killing of British District Commissioner W.R. BELL Barry Shineberg: You were a small boy of six when the punitive expedition of 1927 in central Malatia avenged the death of District Officer W.R.

Belli and firmly established Pax Britannica in Solomon Islands.

You were educated in a Seventh-day Adventist mission in Malaita. You witnessed the flight of the British administrator and teachers in the face of the Japanese invasion in 1942.

You came to know and work with the Americans during the war in the Pacific. You were a key figure in Maasina Rule, which set up its own administration in Malaita in 1946 in opposition to the British administration. You were charged, together with eight other Maasina Rule leaders, with sedition and sentenced to six years imprisonment. After three years you were pardoned and served in a newly established regional council of Malaita. In the ’7os, you served as a member of the Governing and Legislative Councils of the Solomon Islands, participated in constitutional discussions in London prior to independence in 1978, and served as a member of parliament until 1980.

Since that time you have been working on questions of land, language and education.

Which of these events stand out for you as being the most important?

Jonathon Fifi’i: Most of the things you have mentioned were important for me. Perhaps I could pick out two things. First, the war which came to us in 1942. Before then, my people worked on plantations. There were rules that we couldn’t enter the houses of white men.

We were treated as if we were nothing at all. People were whipped around their backs. If a white man killed a Melanesian we felt he would not go to court, but if a Melanesian killed a white man he’d be taken to court and he’d be sentenced perhaps to five years. We worked hard in plantations for only five or 10 shillings a month.

Then there was the war. I was at school then and all my teachers went back to Australia. A lot of Americans came, and Australians too. Most of the blacks who came were really better than us. They wore long pants, shirts, neck-ties and so on. Before that, we never wore long trousers, shirts, or anything like that. So we saw something different between ourselves and other black people.

We said what we were going to do then. We were treated like this because we were frightened of the white man. When a white man came we had to carry him from the ship to the shore and if he went back to the ship we’d have to carry him there. And we couldn’t take part in any white man’s discussion— sit down in a chair with him as we are doing now. So that’s what it was like and we just hated it.

With the American army and the marines it was different. We sat down with them, ate and talked with them, and then in 1944 and 1945 we came back home. 8.5.: Was there any difference between the black and white Americans?

J.F.: No, no difference between white and black. They had the same jobs, they sat down together, they were equal. 8.5.: Your work for the Americans how was it organised?

J.F.: I worked in a gang of 24 people from Kwaio. The district constable recruited us and he called us in front of him to decide who was going to be in charge of the gang. Anything the Americans wanted they talked to me. I interpreted for them. The Americans didn’t know any pidgin at all. That’s why the constable chose me to be in charge of the gang because I could speak English. 8.5.: Where did you work? In Honiara?

J.F.: No, in Lungga and Tenaru. 8.5.: What work did you do?

J.F.: We carried dead people to the cemetery. Second, we had to make small paths through the bush for the scouts.

We carried ammunition and equipment for the army. Sometimes we unloaded ships. 8.5.: The second point that you wish to comment on?

J.F.: Now I’d like to say one thing about Maasina Rule. The white man didn’t understand it Solomon Islander Jonathon Fifl’i: ‘We are not crazy’. 15 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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and used different words to talk about it. I was very angry when I heard a district officer calling it Marching Rule. We say Maasina. It means brotherhood. It’s a word from the Are- Are language (in southern Malaita).

We didn’t use the word Marching Rule. You know, it’s not useful for us to have this word Marching. It can’t be used for an idea to be introduced to others. What are we going to do by marching? Nothing at all.

We are not crazy. Our idea was that we should work together like brothers sit down and talk with the government like other black people from other countries. 8.5.: I have here a report from PIM, November 1947, quoting the Secretary of the Melanesian Mission, Major H.S. Robinson, after his return to Australia from a tour of the Solomon Islands. He said: ‘When we steamed ... along the northwest coast of Malaita, we were interested to see a line of 43 native houses (we counted them) all sited and completed with military precision a very neat and workmanlike job and all empty. They had been erected by followers of the Marching Rule cult in the belief that cargoes of goods were coming to them from across the sea, and these were to be the store-houses for the goods.’ Would you like to comment on that report?

J.F.: Most of the people who talked and wrote about Marching Rule didn’t ask us what we were doing. It’s true we came down to the coast, cleared ground and built houses. We wanted to show the government what we could do. The houses were there for people to come down to and stay there, and to hold meetings in. We’d stay there for two or three days until our food was finished and the we’d go home. We’d arrange to come back eight days later to talk and discuss at other meetings. 8.5.: The question of cargo?

J.F.: I get very angry when I hear about this cargo. The only cargo we know is the cargo that’s imported by ship from Australia. The Malaita was one of them. The cargo would be unloaded at Makabo, Gavuto and Tulagi. I was there and saw it being unloaded. People said we were coming down to the coast to wait for cargo? What kind of cargo? This is something we can’t make any sense of. We are not a crazy, lunatic people.

You can’t expect the whole of Malaitian people to be lunatics.

We didn’t expect other people to feed us. This is not our way.

We have our own gardens. Our idea in Maasina Rule was to show that we could do something ourselves, that we can organise our own lives, that we are prepared to govern ourselves. 8.5.: Maasina wasn’t the first organised movement of the Solomons Island people to express their dissatisfaction with the Administration, was it? I’m thinking of the Chair and Rule movement in Ysabel, in 1939, formed with the aid of the Anglican priest, the Rev R.P. Fallows. People came and joined in from other islands too.

What is meant by Rule?

J.F.: Rule is the meeting of people to discuss the work to be done. At the time, I was a cook boy in Tulagi. I could see that Mr Fallows was treating people very well. He was talking about the same thing as them the government was treating the Melanesian people very badly.

His name was Mama Fellows.

They didn’t organise it well and it failed, and also it was based on the white man. All the government had to do was to send him out of the country. It wasn’t people from the country trying things. 8.5.: The Administration commented favourably on certain aspects of Maasina Rule.

But what caused them to bring charges against you?

J.F.: We didn’t pay taxes to the government. We didn’t know what the British were doing with the money we paid them. We collected the taxes and kept the money to use ourselves. We stopped people working in the plantations where the work was terrible.

The government said to let them go. We said we are the boss now. We must approve their going to work on plantations. 8.5.: You were charged with sedition. Did that surprise you?

J.F.: Yes, we were very surprised. We did not intend to overthrow the government. So we wondered why we were charged with sedition. We expected the government to sit down with us and ask us what we wanted. 8.5.: How many of you were charged?

J.F.: There were nine of us six of us are still alive. 8.5.: One for each of the nine regions of Malaita involved in Maasina Rule?

J.F.: We should have been 10.

But the other headman he was an ex-government headman became frightened when the government started to arrest us. 8.5.: What happened to Maasina Rule when you people were arrested?

J.F.: Other people took over our jobs. They worked in different ways. They stayed in the bush and never saw the government officers. 8.5.: What kind of legal defence did you have at your trial? Did you have good lawyers?

J.F.: We said we wanted to hire a lawyer. They said no. We only had one lawyer appointed by the government. 8.5.: You were sentenced to six years imprisonment, but only served three years. What was it like in gaol? Why were you freed?

J.F.: We were in Honiara first, then we went to Gizo in western Solomon Islands. We dug drains, built houses. Mr Gregory Smith came from England to see us. He had been a Resident Commissioner in Nigeria and Kenya and asked us what we wanted. We said we wanted self-government and in- Part of the Malaita coastline. It is heavily timbered, steep and rugged, and subject to drenching rain. When the so-called Marching Rule (it should have been called Maasina Rule) developed, many islanders moved from the central mountains to the coast and established new settlements. This in turn has led to a number of modern-day land ownership disputes between clan groups. 17 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

dependence. We were released from prison in 1950 after our talks with Mr Gregory Smith. 8.5.: Were you completely free freed unconditionally?

J.F.: They got us some papers to sign. We had to carry a paper for one year and promise not to break any laws, and we had to report what we were going to say to the people. 8.5.: What did you gain as the result of Maasina Rule?

J.F.: We formed a regional council for Malaita. Other parts of the Solomon Islands had theirs too. We were concerned with agriculture; we set up customs courts, and so on. I was elected to be a council member.

I was a judge in the customs court for four years. People asked me to write about their customs and about their land and to work out genealogies. I didn’t know much about this.

Anyway, I wrote about it, and helped people talk about customs. I’m still doing that. 8.5.: I have read that you were a member of the Solomon Islands delegation to London to discuss constitutional matters with the British before obtaining your independence in 1978.

What did you think of London?

J.F.: I liked London because they showed respect for old places, as we do at home. I saw some very old houses and fences. I was very interested to look at old weapons because at home we have our old weapons too. What was very surprising was to meet beggars in the streets asking you for three, four or five pence. I was surprised. 8.5.: Why?

J.F.: This didn’t happen at home. It’s impossible for me to ask for money from other people. 8.5.: I would like to ask you about the killing of District Commissioner Bell in 1927 on the coast of Kwaio. After the killing there was a terrible punitive expedition there to avenge his death which is described in the recent book by R.M. Keesing and P. Corris, Lightning Meets the West Wind: the Malaita Massacre, published by Oxford University Press. I have the impression that after this, all movements against the British administration tended to be peaceful.

Would you comment on the killings?

J.F.: The reason why they killed Mr Bell. Mr Bell was not very fair and not very close to the people. He roused the people. He used bad words ‘bastard’ for example when he talked to the people and when he held court. For example, if people were too shy and talked slowly, he would say: ‘You bastard, you must talk.’

He let his headman strike and whip people when they were out on patrol. 8.5.: You must have been very young then a boy of six or so. You would have heard about the matter from others, wouldn’t you? Bell and his party were killed while collecting taxes, weren’t they?

J.F.: Yes. 8.5.: 1 believe that Bell had opposed the imposition of taxes on the people, that he had succeeded in postponing the tax for two years from 1921 to 1923 in Malaita. And then he managed to have the tax reduced from £1 to 5/-. In other parts of the Solomons people were paying £l. Taxes were said to be one of the main complaints against the British during the ’2os and ’3os because the people felt that the administration was not doing anything for the people in return for the taxes they collected. Do you think that opposition to the taxes played any part in the killings?

J.F.; Mr Bell trying to stop the tax? I didn’t hear that. But I knew many people who had been in court because of the tax.

Basil (Basiana) only had four shillings. He came to Mr Bell and said: ‘Mr Bell, will you accept four shillings.’ Mr Bell said: ‘You bastard. I cannot allow you to only pay four shillings.’ Basil said; ‘How can I get another shilling. There’s no one to give it to me.' But Mr Bell said: ‘You have to go back home now to-night and find another shilling. Then you come back.’ Basil went back home and got here in the evening. He didn’t know where he was going to get the shilling. So he took a shell, inherited from an ancestor from five generations back, and he looked at the shell and said; ‘I have to break the shell now.’ And he broke it and tried to grind one piece so that it would be equal with a shilling.

He ground it all the night. He took it down to Mr Bell and said; ‘Mr Bell, I can find one more shilling. I have been working on it for one whole night so it can be added to the four shillings to make five. You like the four shillings because you accept the head of your king, but this is from my ancestors inherited from four or five generations. Now accept it.’

Mr Bell laughed and swore at him and said: ‘Basil, you bastard. You must not do this next time. OK, I’ll accept it, but don’t do it next time.”

So, from that the problems arose the killings because Basil was a very powerful fighting man. 8.5.: He was one of the men involved in killing Bell?

J.F.: He was the organiser of the killings.

Land disputes which stemmed from the migration of people between the central mountains and the coast developed into a series of legal and political issues on Malaita Island about 12 years ago. This picture shows a meeting of leaders and landowners near Maoro Village during a 1972 attempt to solve ownership disputes. Nelson Kifo, then president of Malaita Local Government Council, stands with hand on hip.

Picture by Denis Fisk. 18 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

From the ISLANDS PRESS From the Tonga Chronicle, Nukualofa Three men who caused a nuisance by begging in a public place ended up in jail. They are Finau Mapa, 30, and Taitusi Taulongo, both of Kolofo’ou, and Pimi Tupou, 28, of Kolomotu’a. The three accused, the first to appear in Court for begging, committed the offence on April 19 and appeared before the Nuku’alofa Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday... In passing sentence, Magistrate Helu condemned begging, which he described as an “annoying act”. He said that it was a comparatively recent introduction into Tonga, but it has increased at such an alarming rate that Parliament in 1975 passed a bill to attempt to cut begging by half.

From the Marshall Islands Journal ... the Islanders, who were once (and very well may still be) among the world’s best fishermen, have all (according to the American plans for future development) left their outrigger canoes to rot on the outer atolls and come into the centers to eat canned tuna and mackerel and rice and drive about in taxi cabs.

From the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga The English and the countries of the old empire call it cricket; the Tongans call it kilikiti, but in Samoa it is keriketi.. . still the King of Games but with no other semblance to the international matches of Lords and the Oval.

From Tohi Tala Niue, Niue Island Talaia Makaia of Namukulu was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty but his case was related to spiritual belief. Defended by Kapaga, Talaia pleaded that he had shot at a gravestone in retaliation as the said ‘deceased’ is reported to have haunted his sister. He was duly convicted and given a suspended sentence of two months and the firearm confiscated.

From an editorial in The Observer, Apia, on the decision of the Chief Justice that the matai system of voting infringes the Constitution .. . Former Clerk of House, Feesago Fepuleai, who is now High Commissioner in New Zealand is of the opinion that the decision and its ramifications would wreck the so-called “Faa-Samoa” (Samoan custom) to which the matai suffrage is linked. He says that this is unacceptable. The question is: To Whom? If the Faa Samoa, no matter how sacred, discriminates against people and allows one part of the multitudes to rule supreme ignoring the other three parts, then it is the Faa-Samoa which is unacceptable.

From a report in the News Drum, Honiara, of the launching of the first series of books in Pijiruby the Pijin Literary Project The Adult Education Officer of the Ministry of Education, Training and Cultural Affairs, Mr David Lilimae, said that politicians and senior officials of his Ministry do not support the idea of introducing Pijin language within the Primary School curriculum. He said national leaders would rather see English and children’s mother tongues be encouraged in schools.

From an article in the Tonga Chronicle on repopulating Tonga with poultry after Cyclone Isaac Consideration was given to importing modern poultry flocks to bolster the depleted Tongan flocks. But this was ruled impractical and expensive. Such large birds have lost their ability to fly and find their own food, and they are not disease-resistant. Most importantly, Mr Murray said, these birds have almost lost the instinct to sit and hatch their young.

From a report by the Niue Consular Office in New Zealand to the Tohi Tala Niue of Niue Island I have often been asked about job prospects in Niue and so on. One guy in fact came up and said “What do you honestly think? Will Niue still be there in five years time?” He had apparently been given the impression by some of the Niueans here that there will be nothing in Niue and never will be in five years. Disturbing thought? No? Well, I guess as you want to call yourself a “Niuean” here or on Niue, the place will survive. Personally, my stock answer to that type of question is that as long as there are a few old diehards like you or I, as long as we’re prepared to stay and give meaning to our heritage and name as Niueans and carry the rest on your shoulders, Niue shall continue and will continue to survive well beyond the most pessimistic predictions.

From the classified advertisements in The Fiji Times Housing Authority requires a temporary competent carpenter.

From the Marshall Islands Journal, Majuro Hordes of Japanese newsmen have invaded Guam to join the search for a possible WWII straggler. Footprints and rope in a cave are the primary evidence.

From the Cook Islands News Nearly 30% of all deaths in the Cook Islands within the last 5-8 years have been due to diseases of the heart and circulation. The Health Department, when releasing these figures, added that the Cook Islands rate of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and gout have increased greatly over the last 10 years. The department attributes this decline in our health standards to the fact that our nation has changed from the “simple traditional life” to the “money-oriented society”.

From The Samoa Times, Apia Professor Murphy, of McGill University, Canada, who has been studying suicide patterns in 50 countries has confirmed that “the international statistics on suicides during the 1970 s do not show any other country to have a suicide rate in males aged 15-24 which is as high as the Western Samoa one”. Since 1966, there have been 245 suicides in Western Samoa. In 1980, there were 40 suicides, in 1981,42.

From an editorial in the Samoa Times on The Suicide Problem .. . The problem is how can we make our young people see themselves as if in a mirror. The promises of materialism (fostered by a highly materialistic educational system) and rising expectations inflamed in large part by the media especially television and the movies have in large measure distorted the values of our young people made worse by the cultural lag of our elders and our society. What we need is for an educational system to reflect the basics of Samoan society; respect for authority and tradition and the family.

About us from the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga We’re still the Cook Islands. That’s what a CIBNC reporter told a reporter from the Sydney-based Pacific Islands Monthly magazine who phoned to ask if it was true the Cook Islands has been renamed. Someone from a Brisbane publishing company phoned the PIM and told them the Cook Islands had been renamed.

The Brisbane caller could not tell the Pacific Islands Monthly what the new name was, but did say it would enable the Cook Islands to get more aid. When contacted for comment, the Prime Minister, Sir Thomas Davis, said we definitely haven’t changed our name and aren’t contemplating doing so. He said he doesn’t know how a new name can get more aid, adding: “The rose by any name smells as sweet.”

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Wrecks, safe returns in May 23 poll ‘Our canoe is caught in a raging storm. But we have faced other tempests in the past, and we shall pull through this one too, and eventually reach our destination.’

This was how French Polynesia’s Vice-President of the Council of Government Francis Sanford (who can best be described as a prime minister for local affairs, kept on a leash by the French High Commissioner) described the position of his coalition government in a campaign speech a few weeks before the May 23 territorial elections.

It was an apt metaphor from the leader of a seafaring people.

But perhaps it should be explained, for the benefit of the uninitiated, that the canoe that Francis Sanford has been steering for the past five years, like the ancient taurua canoes, has two hulls. One represents his own Ea api party, mostly favoured by part-Europeans, and the other John Teariki’s Here aia party, supported by a basically Polynesian electorate.

It is with some sadness that we record in similar allegorical Polynesian vein that instead of reaching harbour safely, the coalition canoe broke asunder in the pre-electoral storms.

While Teariki and his crew managed to stabilise their hull and sail to safety, the Ea api hull proved rotten and worm-eaten, and eventually limped into harbour totally swamped and with only one man on board Francis Sanford himself. On his arrival ashore he found his first lieutenant Emile Vernaudon, who had abandoned his captain at the height of the storm, together with several former members of his crew.

Expressed in the officially sanctioned European language of figures and statistics, all this means that the 60 000 of the 85 000 registered voters in French Polynesia who went to the polls on May 23 to elect the 30 members of the Territorial Assembly (there were 398 candidates!) from five constituencies cast enough votes 15.8 percent of the total for Teariki’s party to return him and his five companions.

But the voters showed their strong disapproval of Francis Sanford’s leadership by giving his party only a pitiful 2929 votes. The magnitude of the defeat is clearly demonstrated if the Ea api vote is expressed as a percentage of the total votes cast: 4.4 percent! This gave a seat in the assembly to only the bearer of the first name on the Ea api list, none other than Francis Sanford. In the previous assembly, his party had controlled seven seats.

Another notable victim of the various electoral shipwrecks was the long-time speaker of the Territorial Assembly, Frantz Vanizette, whom we should perhaps call a ‘stowaway’ on the Autonomist double-canoe, since he had been regularly elected with the help of his friends Teariki and Sanford. Up to election day he had been the only Frenchman to sit in the assembly. He was accepted there as more or less a permanent fixture because of his fine grasp of parliamentary procedure, and his excellent contacts in the ministries in Paris.

But, with a notable lack of appreciation of what his status really was, he decided for the purposes of this election to form a new party, together with a part-Polynesian government employee Maco (Marc) Tevane, whom Francis Sanford had made his trusted councillor for cultural affairs back in 1977. For reasons that are quite unfathomable, Vanizette and Tevane chose to call themselves Social Democrats, and stood candidates in several constituencies. They polled a wretched 2.8 percent of the vote, leaving Vanizette without a seat in the assembly.

We only mention this minor disaster at all because it tellingly gives the lie to the shining image of Maco Tevane assiduously cultivated by French officialdom. This highly unrepresentative figure has been the perennial representative of French Polynesia at international conferences and seminars throughout the Pacific. His function was to serve as living proof that the Polynesians run the show in the territory ...

So much for the losers. Let us now move on to the winners.

Foremost among them is Gaston Flosse and his Tahoeraa Huiraatira party, which can best be described as a sleek, highpowered, cabin cruiser, manned by a crew of smart young men dedicated to various forms of free enterprise. This party, which is affiliated with the French RPR Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac and therefore appeals strongly to the 10 000-odd French expatriate voters, won 13 seats. This was four more than it held in the previous assembly, but still three short of an absolute majority. It secured 17 787 votes, 29.3 percent of the total.

The most brilliant performance, however, was turned on by the small la mana te nunaa outrigger canoe. Its achievement in winning three seats in the assembly in which it has never before been represented crowned years of hard, slogging work by its young and dedicated members among the most destitute and miserable Polynesians. The party is socialist (but has no affiliation with the party of President Mitterrand), proindependence, and anti-nuclear.

They would have won a fourth seat if the Polynesians who favour independence had all voted for la mana instead of wasting about 2000 votes on the eight other pro-independence candidates, some of whom are pure mavericks.

As usual, the French authorities found the necessary legalistic means to disqualify the number one activist and freedom fighter, Charlie Ching, and his place at the head of his party’s list was taken at the last minute by his wife.

The total number of votes cast in favour of pro-independence candidates la mana, plus the eight smaller groups was 9202, which corresponds to 15 percent of the total.

We should also note that four other small craft, among them a junk Arthur Chung’s Taatira party, backed by an overwhelmingly Chinese electorate also crossed the finishing line.

Francis Sanford’s crushing defeat was easy to predict as we ourselves did in our letter in PIM (Jun p 7).

It must in the first place be ascribed to his meek acceptance, while in power, of French colonial rule and the abominable nuclear tests.

It must be stressed that during the previous 15 years he had gained the status of a national hero in the freedom struggle, almost on a par with Pouvanaa a Oopa, who was honoured two weeks before the elections by a huge monument erected in the park outside the Territorial Assembly building. (See our separate account in Tropicalities, this issue.) But Francis Sanford has lately been outflanked both on his Left by the la Mana party, and on his Right by Gaston Flosse, 22 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

who wants complete internal self-government on the Cook Islands model, and threatens to oppose further nuclear testing if there are more ugly accidents at Moruroa.

The irony of it all is that Francis Sanford has actually not given up his old anti-colonial and anti-nuclear stand.

What has happened is simply that as the holder of the highest local office he was gradually bogged down by the mass of urgent social and economic problems that cropped up daily, and that always had to be solved somehow and always, of course, only on a temporary basis.

In addition, the poor vice-president was burdened with an endless succession of ceremonial tasks; cutting gaily coloured ribbons at the opening of new schools, bridges and roads; crowning beauty queens; entertaining French ministers and their wives; and eating, eating, eating, as the guest of honour of the hundreds of clubs and associations that now exist in the territory.

This problem, of course, is faced by prime ministers the world over. They usually solve it by delegating responsibility to bright and knowledgeable cabinet ministers, departmental heads, and secretaries.

But unfortunately for Francis Sanford, most of his technocrats were provided by the French Government, and were much more inclined to take orders from the High Commissioner than from him.

Even worse, the few the constitution allowed him to choose for himself were either pompous pseudo-intellectuals, expatriate fortune-hunters, or worthless hangers-on who produced a series of wild economic schemes which invariably collapsed if they ever got off the ground at all.

The worst scandal involved two convicted French criminals who, posing as industrialists, managed to obtain 60 million francs from French Polynesian government funds to launch an unworkable textile mill equipped with discarded and rusty machinery picked up from a garbage dump in Paris. They were later responsible for the kidnapping and brutal murder of the wealthy young businessman Olivier Breaud (PIM May ’BO pi 7, Jun ’BO p!9).

The whole affair proved so embarrassing to the French administration and the Sanford government that the two killers, who are perfectly willing to tell the full story, have (for this very reason) not yet been brought to trial.

What finally sealed Sanford’s fate, however, was the defection, less than two months before the elections, of his own party secretary, the ‘Sherilf Emile Vernaudon. Vernaudon managed to persuade enough Ea api officials and members to follow his example, and, with the help of these other renegades, formed a new party, Aia api.

To top it all, after winning three seats, Vernaudon allied himself with Sanford’s arch-rival Gaston Flosse, who thereby gained at long last a precarious majority in the assembly. As the last bitter pill for Francis Sanford to swallow, Vernaudon was rewarded for his switch of allegiance with the post of speaker of the new assembly.

At a press conference held immediately after he had been assured of Vernaudon’s support, Gaston Flosse announced that as vice-president and new majority leader, he considered that the most pressing task was to negotiate a complete revision of the existing constitution with the socialist government in Paris.

His aim, he said, was to give French Polynesia full internal selfgovernment by July.

Next, Flosse can be expected to see to it that the impartial committee of inquiry into the extent of the radio-active pollution of French Polynesia which is to include Australian, New Zealand, and Japanese radiobiologists set up at his own suggestion by unanimous decision of the old assembly on December 21, 1981, will at long last begin its work.

While the opposition members will give support to these two measures, the new assembly will be sharply divided on economic issues. For while the new majority is entirely in favour of free enterprise, and economic development along Western, capitalistic lines, the main opposition parties. Here aia and la mana are likely to make common cause in favour of an economy based on small, family-oriented production units, on either a socialist or co-operative model, managed solely for the good of the Polynesians themselves.

Since we are a husband and wife team, may we be permitted a final comment on the lopsided composition of the electoral lists.

Of the 398 candidates presented by about 30 different parties and groups, fewer than 20 were women, and only one, representing Tahoeraa Huiraatira, was elected.

We must therefore conclude that the numerous highly publicised regional conferences which are regularly organised to promote the status of Pacific women the last one was held in Papeete in July, 1981 have had no impact whatsoever on the all-male political leaders of French Polynesia.

Will the new majority be more eager to do women justice, and help them to secure equal representation in all political bodies?

After all, women represent 50 percent of the voters.

Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson.

A pre-election meeting for the party calling itself la mana te nunaa (power to the people). The party won three seats.

Francis Sanford a burden too heavy to carry? 23 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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TROPICALITIES Pouvanaa: A monumental blunder?

Like most great men, Pouvanaa a Oopa, the indomitable Polynesian freedom fighter who died in 1977, is more honoured and praised today than during his lifetime especially by his one-time adversaries, detractors and tormentors. Some of them are even claiming that they were always pouvanistes at heart, and are now trying to push aside his old and faithful companions, who fought at his side and shared his prison cells.

Inevitably, this belated adulation was bound to express itself one day in the erection of a huge monument to Pouvanaa. The only surprising thing really is that we have had to wait so long.

But in the month of May this year, such a monument was at last installed in the park outside the Territorial Assembly building in Papeete. The main instigator of the scheme was in fact the only political leader who could truly claim to be Pouvanaa’s spiritual heir John Teariki, who courageously continued the struggle against French colonial rule and nuclear tests when the 65-year-old metua (father) was sentenced to an eight-year prison term on trumped-up charges, coupled with a 15-year banishment from the islands.

May 10, the date chosen for the unveiling of the four-metrehigh stone monument, costing three million francs, also seemed appropriate, since Pouvanaa was bom on that day in 1895. But some of Teariki’s political opponents, of course, decried the whole scheme as a propaganda stunt to help him in the territorial elections on May 23.

A much more valid criticism could be, and was, levelled at the monument itself which consists of a stela of imported French stone, topped by a perfectly hideous bust, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the dead freedom fighter.

But how could it, since the French sculptor, Georges Oudot, who committed this artistic crime, had never known Pouvanaa? Considering that there ere in the territory at least a doznn Polynesian — 1 producing mcix original woiks. or works n ir * v «e local tradition, it is a* stand why the task wa:> u. to a Frenchman who strictly adheres to the conventional style prescribed for the decoration of all French government buildings.

The protests directed at the banality of the bust, perched on a shelf at the top of the stela, were as nothing, however, when compared to the anguished howls let out by Pouvanaa’s son David at the inscription engraved on two marble plaques at the foot of the monument.

Although the text was 23 lines long, its anonymous author (probably one of the numerous French bureaucrats employed by the local government) had absolutely nothing to say about Pouvanaa’s life-long struggle for independence, and his strong condemnation of the nuclear tests at Moruroa. Instead, it was blandly suggested that he had become a hero of the Polynesian people because he had persuaded the French administration to employ more natives, increase welfare handouts, and return some alienated land to its rightful owners.

David Oopa was so incensed by this watered-down and censored version of his father’s curriculum vitae that he took the whole organising committee to court, where the judge had the pluck to order the second half of the inscription on the plaques (one is in Tahitian, and the other in French) to be erased in favour of a more truthful version.

As a result of all this criticism and adverse publicity, the crowd that turned up for the inauguration ceremony was pitifully small. But it included several political leaders, foremost among them Gaston Flosse, who gallantly saluted the man who had been the bitterest enemy of his party. Just as during Pouvanaa’s lifetime, the crowd was made up of 99 percent Polynesians, for apart from half a dozen newspaper reporters and photographers dispatched to cover the event, the only Europeans present were three or four church dignitaries.

Most appropriately, the French government was represented by the chief inspector of the Renseignements Generaux (Thought Police), which had shadowed and spied on him all his life. He had the satisfaction of hearing six insipid speeches, extolling almost exclusively Pouvanaa’s virtues as peacemaker, reconciler and mediator.

If an uninformed foreigner had by chance stopped a moment to listen, he would definitely have gone away with the impression that the man being honoured must certainly have been a saint.

All this was too much for ‘Cheeky Charlie’ Ching, Pouvanaa’s nephew, who has followed in his uncle’s footsteps Echo of the past Pouvanaa (centre), Francis Sanford (right) and Frantz Vanizette at a political meeting in 1976. ‘A perfectly hideout butt’ Unveiling Pouvanaa’s monument 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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and already served two long prison terms for alleged subversive activities. (PIM Mar p3O).

Speaking on radio and TV in the name of the Taata Tahiti Tiama independence party, he proposed in an election campaign speech that the misleading text on the marble plaques should be replaced by the following more adequate homage; In sad remembrance of the fate suffered by Pouvanaa a Oopa at the hands of the French colonialists, and in happy remembrance of his heroic struggle for his Polynesian people.

He became our most illustrious political prisoner, and the first bomb victim, for he was sentenced, on fabricated charges, and sent into exile for eight years, because he opposed the Satanic nuclear tests which are still killing us all.

May those who today pay honour to our dead metua remember that during his lifetime he fought constantly for the independence of Polynesia.

Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson in Papeete.

Has NZ found a caravel?

During a recent search for a missing fisherman off the rugged northwest coast of New Zealand’s North Island, what is believed to be a well-preserved wreck of a 16th-century Portuguese or Spanish caravel was sighted by a helicopter pilot.

Described as ‘historically important’ by its discoverer the wreck is to be privately surveyed and possibly salvaged early next year. The success of the licensed marine survey is critical to government involvement in recovery of the vessel. It appears government authorities are not wholly convinced of a pre- Tasman dating for the partially uncovered wreck.

In a short, dramatic television documentary screened in April, claims were made by commentators on the ‘caravel’ that its discovery could substantially alter New Zealand’s historical record. It could also help to resolve, it was thought, mysteries relating to the finding of, for example, a well-preserved Spanish helmet in Wellington harbour some years ago, and the discovery of an ancient Tamil ship’s bell, and a strange Asian stone bird called by Maori Korotangi. Perhaps more significantly, it has been suggested that the wreck may possibly be ‘the lost caravel’ of Robert Langdon’s book of that name. This remarkable, work is a classic of maritime research.

Implied in the ‘Langdon Connection’ is that the discovery of the wreck may considerably alter the Maori historical and cultural record, the suggestion being that the crew of the vessel got safely ashore from the wreck, settled among the Te Rarawa tribe and influenced, through intermarriage and contact, the indigenous Maori culture. However, given the violent reception of Abel Tasman and his men in 1642 at Murderers Bay, it is in fact highly unlikely that the ‘caravel’ crew would have survived confrontation with northern Maori warriors, who were noted well into the 19th century for their savagery.

Although the Tamil Bell, Spanish helmet and Korotangi bird were shown in the documentary (along with a graphic illustration of a Portuguese caravel) there were no film clips of the wreck itself only an aerial panorama of the windswept northern coast and surging rollers and breakers, dramatically crashing over the resting place of the mysterious wreck.

First sighted in the shifting sands of the Dargaville coast by Noel Hilliam, the ‘caravel’ wreck lies off a 100-kilometre stretch of beach where nearly 150 other wrecks have been recorded, most of them 19th-century coastal traders. In his description of the ‘caravel’, Mr Hilliam said that from the shape of the hull and bow sections of the wreck, he knew it was not a modern vessel: it had a distinctive beak-head shape of prow and a well-forward At top: Tasman’s ships under attack by Maori. This is the earliest-known record of Maori warriors and their war canoes. A view of Murderers’ Bay (now renamed Golden Bay), the drawing appeared in Tasman’s Journal.

At right: The ‘Tamil Bell’ discovered in 1826. It has been put forward as evidence of a Portuguese landfall in New Zealand before Tasman’s 1642 arrival. Tasman lost four men in a Maori attack on his two ships, the Zeehaen and Heemskerck.

As a result of the skirmish, the Dutch navigator left the New Zealand coast without attempting further landings.

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Relating the possibility of the wreck being a Portuguese caravel to several theories on early Pacific navigation, Mr Hilliam also connected the wreck with Maori myth, and the discovery of an unusual ring and stone caim in the region. Mr Hilliam, and the members of the Dargaville museum trust, anticipate difficulties in recovery of the ‘caravel’. The coast is wild and treacherous, with a driving fourknot rip that slants a powerful swell into a towering sandstone cliff line. Beyond the breakers, rips run at nine to 10 knots.

Like the driving tidal rips of the Dargaville coast, the impulse to speculate on possible early European influence on the development of Maori culture is powerful and well known in research into the cultures of other Polynesians. Should any advanced knowledge of navigation for example be discovered among Tongans or Tahitians, there is inevitably a claim to alien or European contact in the distant past. That the indigenous Polynesian was capable of independent observation and discovery seems, to some ‘experts’, unrealistic, even naive. Whether or not this initial cultural arrogance will escalate or diminish in the salvaging and preservation of New Zealand’s ‘caravel’ remains to be seen Alan Taylor in Auckland.

Samoa’s youth suicide wave In the 1920 s the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead, in her classic Coming of Age in Samoa, painted a rosy picture of young Samoans who were carefree and devoid of problems associated with growing up. She painted a picture of a sexually permissive society (since contradicted by many Samoans) whose value-free attitudes towards sex produced healthy, mentally robust Samoan youngsters.

But that was in the 19205. If Margaret Mead were alive today, she would probably have to rewrite her book to allow for the great changes which have affected Samoan society, and its youth in particular. Especially, she would have to come to grips with one of the biggest social problems now characterising Samoan society, namely, the high suicide rate among young people.

Western Samoa has the highest suicide rate for young males aged 15 to 24 in the world. The Western Samoan rate is 94.8 per 100 000 young males of that age group. This is triple the rate of the next highest country, Switzerland, with 32.6 per 100 000, followed by Hungary 29.3, West Germany 23.8, Canada 22.5, USA 21.8, Japan 19.2, Norway 18.1, Denmark 12.2, Venezuela 11.6, Thailand 9.9, Argentina 9.3, Netherlands 8.1, Israel 6.3, Italy 4.8, Peru 4.4, Greece 3.4, Spain 2.2, Philippines 2.1 and Egypt 0.2. These figures come from World Health Organisation statistics for 1980.

Yet the trend continues, with no end in sight. The persistence of the problem led to the establishment in June 1981 of a Suicide Study Group made up of representatives from the Fellowship of Churches, the Health and Justice Departments and the Young Men’s Christian Association. The group, chaired by Chief Justice R.B. St John, immediately decided to carry out a survey of suicides utilising both Health and Justice Department records. Approximately a year later, the study was completed and released to the press.

The group is now carrying out the second part of its programme consisting of a public awareness campaign to bring the problem to the notice of the public.

In its research, the study group searched back into the suicide records of the 19605. No records were kept before that time, perhaps an indication of the negligible significance of the problem then. The group was satisfied that before 1970 suicides averaged five or six a 28 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 TROPICALITIES

year. There were also six suicides in 1970. But from then on, the number grew progressively greater. There were nine suicides in 1971, 10 in 1972 and 1973 and nine again in 1974.

In 1975, the key year to the Study Group, suicides jumped to 11 and then doubled to 23 in 1976 continuing ever upwards: 27 in 1977, 19 in 1978, 31 in 1979, 40 in 1980 and 42 in 1981. A member of the group, Dennis Oliver, thinks the 1978 figure would probably be higher, but for inefficient record-keeping. In the space of seven years, the suicide rate has increased 400 percent, excluding failed attempts.

What has puzzled the group is why the suicide rate suddenly jumped beginning in 1975.

Also, why is it that most of the suicides are occurring not in urban areas but in the villages?

Further, of the 243 suicides recorded by the Coroner’s Court for the period 1966 to 1981, only 99 villages were affected. The other 261 villages in Western Samoa had no suicides.

The study found that the most suicides occurred, since 1975, in the male age group 15 to 24. In most years they comprise 50 percent or more of all suicides. They are closely followed by males in the 25 to 34 age bracket and since 1979 there has been an upswing in the number of female suicides.

For the period 1970 to 1981, the events which precipitated the suicide were scolding (40 percent of all suicides), argument 18 percent, under influence of alcohol 13 percent, refused request seven, escape from prison six, relief from illness five, felt unloved four, mental patient three, ashamed of sexual adventure, and suicide pact, two percent each.

Fifty-five percent of the suicides followed conflict with parents, 20 percent with spouses, 11 percent with siblings, five percent with other relatives, three percent boy/girl friend, and other, smaller percentages followed conflict with others.

Since 1970, the most common means of suicide was paraquat poison (111), followed by hanging (49), shooting (48) and other methods. The increased use of paraquat has led to much public concern here about the easy availability of the poison and moves are under way to restrict its sale and use.

Why the high suicide rate?

The study group is most careful not to give a position, preferring that the problem be given a public airing, and encouraging public participation in reducing it. But probably it is a reflection of the rapid technological progress resulting in rapid economic development. Cultural values, however, are slow in adapting, leading to a clash between the future-oriented young people, and past-oriented older folk. Young people are taking out their dissatisfaction through suicide, and until old and young are prepared to compromise suicide is likely to remain a grave social problem.

Felise Va’a in Apia.

Marianas’ German days recalled Elfriede Craddock has created a little masterpiece on Saipan. Her exhibition of the German years (1899-1914) in the Marianas at the Commonwealth Insular Arts Council is just right. She has combined the photograph and artefact with the written word to catch the spirit of the times.

Her exhibition depicts the daily round of activities on the islands, the buildings (government offices, schools, and houses), the stamps, the coins, the ships, and the German officials. One special feature was the presentation of the dress styles of the time lavalava (Carolinian), mestiza (Chamorro), and dirndl (German).

Artefacts from daily life include a pot, pounder, and the wheel of a carabao cart.

Craddock directed the effort to seek documentation and photographic information from sources in Spain, Finland, Germany, the Philippines, Guam and Saipan. A number of interviews were conducted with residents who had lived through the German years.

To better remember ‘The German Interlude’ and the exhibition itself, Craddock prepared a booklet Life in the Northern Mariana Islands during the German Administration (1899-1914). This is a factual account of the German years with reproductions of many of the photographs found in the exhibition. It contains a short chronology of the Marianas, one of world events during the German administration, and a bibliography of sources. The booklet is a fine complement to the exhibition.

Today Elfriede Craddock is living in New York. She will be missed, but the exhibition and the booklet remain to remind us of her dedication to the people of the Commonwealth. (Fr) Thomas B. McGrath, SJ, in Guam.

Vavau: Help for handicapped Disabled persons around the world were the focus of the United Nations in 1981, but in Vavau, Tonga, this is the year for the handicapped.

Children suffering from such problems as deafness, cerebral palsy, blindness, epilepsy and cretinism, who have traditionally been kept at home, now have an opportunity to attend classes for the first time in Vavau.

Students ranging in age from three to 31 years receive instruction four days a week through the efforts of the Tonga Red Cross of Vavau in classrooms donated by the Sacred Heart Convent in Neiafu.

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Centre (0.T.A.) is based on a school for the handicapped which was established in Nukualofa six years ago. (The English translation of the name is ‘Love. Faith. Hope.’) The Nukualofa centre has developed rapidly and has a paid staff of nine instructors and a fulltime salaried administrator, Nanasi Vaea. The Vavau school has just begun and no staff members receive salaries.

Yet according to Donna Lu’isa Score, Tongan Red Cross field representative and a United States Peace Corps volunteer, support for the school from members of the community has been tremendous. ‘Our head teacher Palu Tu’i’onetoa lives 13 miles from Neiafu, and she leaves her family for four days a week to live in town so she can run the school,’ Lu’isa said.

One of the biggest problems faced by the O.T.A governing board is transport for the students, but bus drivers have taken the youngsters as passengers without charge. ‘Ma’afu Tupou, the governor of Vavau, wrote a letter to owners of public transport asking for this donation,’ Lu’isa said.

O.T.A. students and staff received a boost the week after Cyclone Isaac when Her Majesty Halaevalu Mata’aho, Queen of the Kingdom of Tonga and President of Tonga Red Cross, visited the school and sang and joked with the children. Lu’isa said Her Majesty is keenly interested in the programme and pleased to see it has become a community effort at the village level.

The O.T.A. centre began on a shoestring and continues to operate in that way. Standing beside a large Red Cross banner on the days cruise ships called at Neiafu, Lu’isa collected $260 for the programme. From Recalling the German times 29 TROPICALITIES PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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A fund-raising dance at the Paradise International Hotel, Neiafu, in February brought in $4BO and was the first time the O.T.A. students had a chance to demonstrate their singing ability when they performed a song written especially for the Centre.

Whereas the classroom space, most transport, baked goods and some supplies have been donated, the needs of the children are numerous, and Lu’isa sees this as the critical problem. ‘We have several students with partial hearing who are deaf-mutes, but with hearing aids they could be taught to speak and they could hear,’ she said. ‘Right now we have one aid on loan from Nukualofa. The first day I tried it on one of the deaf teenage girls she was angry because she did not like the noises she heard, but now she is beginning to talk for the first time,’ she added.

The cost of hearing aids and necessary batteries cannot be covered by the current budget.

Neither can the expense of wheelchairs which according to Lu’isa are desperately needed. ‘We have a number of potential students who can’t make it to the school because they are unable to walk and are too large to be physically carried,’ Lu’isa said.

In addition to the head teacher Palu Tu’i’onetoa, three other teachers (Malia Lutu Vai, Lamona Fenukitau and Fatafehi Moala’eua) have been donating their services since the school opened in January 11.

Hinemoa Lolohea, ’Elati Finau, Latu Veleika, Seini Ngase’eata and Sanilaiti ’Ala are now fulltime volunteers also. ‘The program couldn’t exist without the donation of time by these people,’ Lu’isa said. ‘lt’s a sacrifice on their part, and it’s sacrifices such as this which keep the Centre going,’ she added. ‘We’re still working at a base level,’ Lu’isa explained. ‘We need such things as blunt edged scissors, paper, pencils, crayons many things which can’t be bought here in Neiafu,’ she said.

In assessing priority needs for handicapped persons in Vavau, Lu’isa listed; hearing aids and batteries, wheelchairs, special wheelchairs for victims of cerebral palsy, durable educational toys, recreational equipment for developing co-ordination, and musical instruments.

Donations to the ’Ofa. Tui. ’Amanaki. Centre of Vavau can be sent to: Tonga Red Cross Vavau, Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga, South Pacific. All contributions should be marked ‘gift’ and ‘O.T.A.’ should be written on the envelope or inside.

Joan D. Pease in Neiafu.

Pacific languages mapped Part one of a two-volume atlas mapping the more than 2000 languages and dialects of the Pacific area has been completed in Australia.

The atlas is a joint project involving the Australian Academy of Humanities, the Japan Academy and the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. The first part of the Language Atlas of the Pacific Area comprises 24 multicoloured plates plus text covering Papua New Guinea and its surrounding region.

Part two to have 23 plates will cover the Japan area, Taiwan, the Philippines, and mainland and insular Southeast Asia.

According to the ANU Reporter the atlas project grew out of 25 years of extensive research in the area. Much of the work was carried out through the Department of Linguistics in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the ANU with results published through its Pacific Linguistics publication. Professor Stephen Wurm, professor of linguistics at the ANU, and joint general editor of the atlas, said the volume was the only up-to-date, complete publication mapping the languages of the area.

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POLITICAL CURRENTS

Political Dynamite In A Vila Carport

Before Vanuatu: Anatomy of the French plan to hang around forever PIM May (p 33) carried extracts from a confidential report to Paris made in October 1969 by the then French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, Jacques Mouradian.

In it Mr Mouradian made clear France’s intention to ‘stay’ in the New Hebrides, acting on the express instructions of General de Gaulle.

He also described the contrary intentions of France’s British partners in the condominium, who wanted to lead the country to independence, and the means being employed by France to foil this British plan.

These included vigorous expansion of the French schools system to build ‘our new clientele of New Hebrideans undergoing Gallicisation by way of education’; rapid and generous expansion of French health services; payment of very high salaries to New Hebrideans in French employ; strong opposition to any integration (as desired by the British) of the various separate French and British administrative services in the country; and efforts by all means to delay the participation of New Hebrideans in local political life.

Mr Mouradian also described French mistrust of the activity of international organisations such as the United Nations in the New Hebrides, and their consequent grudging acceptance of the South Pacific Commission as a ‘lesser evil’ in this connection.

Finally, the Resident Commissioner outlined what he called a ‘fallback’ French position in the event that independence could not, despite the very best efforts of the French, be prevented: the French would agree to it, but on condition that it would be ‘tempered inescapably by co-operation agreements with France’.

Now HOWARD VAN TREASE, director of the University of the South Pacific Centre in Port-Vila, carries the story further with more analysis of other similar confidential French reports.

In the first of three articles he examines French official attitudes to the land problem in the New Hebrides, and the relationship of this problem to that of political independence. • • • Perhaps the only positive thing to come out of the French government’s attempt to block the independence of Vanuatu in July 1980 was that when the decision was finally made to leave in the last days before July 30, the staff in the French Residency were ill-prepared to make their exit. As a result, chaos reigned as staff furiously burned mountains of paper and documents (PIM Apr pi 3).

When time ran out they dumped a large pile of seemingly unimportant files in the Residency carport.

Among the rubbish, however, was a small collection of monthly confidential reports of the French Resident Commissioner to the Ministry of Overseas Departments and Territories in Paris concerning the state of affairs in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu).

Each month the French Resident Commissioner provided his superiors with a synthesis of the events and developments in the archipelago under the headings: etat d’esprit des populations (state of mind of the population), vie politique (political life), vie economique (economic life), vie sociale (social life) and vie administrative (administrative life).

While not a complete set, the reports provide an illuminating insight into the attitudes and policies of the French Government prior to independence, a knowledge of which makes it easier to understand the basis of some of the problems Vanuatu faces today, and the policy the French Government is at present following.

The italicised quotations which follow are at times rather long. It was felt, however, that it was better simply to allow the French Resident Commissioners to speak for themselves. Copies of these reports are now held in many countries.

Given the principle embodied in the Protocol of 1914, which required the agreements of both metropolitan governments in order to make any change in the system, the French indeed might eventually have succeeded in their plan to implant themselves permanently in Vanuatu. They were prepared to spend more money than the British on building up their system of education and social services, and in the end this would have had the desired effect of creating the dependence on and loyalty to France which could have enabled them to stay.

What they didn’t expect, but what soon came to be a far greater threat to their plans than British attempts to keep pace, was opposition by ni- Vanuatu to the condominium system itself. The focal point of this opposition was the land problem, which began to itensify in the mid-1960s in the form of a semi-cult movement called Nagriamel, led by Jimmy Moli Stevens, but later evolved into a nationalist movement with the clear goal of achieving full independence.

French officials were extremely frightened of Jimmy Stevens when confrontations between his followers and European (primarily French) plantation owners first began in the late 19605.

Whatever the future of the movement shall be, a string of claims has emerged and we have to consider it. It is urgent to find a solution to the land litigations if we want to prevent them from growing into disputes which would diminish our influence just at the moment when it is increasing. (Mouradian, August 1968.) French officials realised that since the vast majority of alienated land in Vanuatu was held or claimed by French nationals and companies, they were indeed the most vulnerable to attacks from ni-Vanuatu pushing for reform.

The French pressed their British partners to join them in taking firm action against Stevens, which led eventually to his arrest and imprisonment in 1968. During his period in prison, however, French Residency officials were able to have regular contact and discussions with him, which led them to the conclusion that he and his movement could be contained.

His theme is as follows: Melanesians never sold land to Europeans. Owing to this he categorically refuses to recognise any registration of undeveloped land which might have been approved by the Joint Court... He accepts only the old agreements valid for the right to use the land which according to Melanesian custom are the only rights recognised; the ownership rights remain theirs... He abstains from claiming developed parcels since, in this case, the occupation rights have been used... He does not at all intend to prevent the economic development of this country by the settlers or the companies, but when he refers to occupation of undeveloped land or the cultivation of fallow parcels, the right to use the land must be subjected to new agree- 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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ments and must not be based on permanent ownership, which to him and his kind is an alien way of thinking. (Mouradian, May 1968.) From the above it can be seen that the French had achieved a certain understanding of the land problem in Vanuatu.

Moreover, although they never admitted it publicly, they came to accept that indeed ownership of a large percentage of the land claimed or registered in the names of French nationals and companies especially the Societe Francaise des Nouvelles-Hebrides (SFNH) was not based on sound titles.

Originally, the Company prided themselves on possessing 800 000 ha. This enormous figure leaves no doubt as to the way that land was acquired, and the large areas returned subsequently leave a bad feeling about the legitimacy (moral if not legal) of the 180 000 hectares remaining. (Mouradian, May 1968.) The problem they faced was to defuse a situation which was severely threatening their longterm position in Vanuatu.

While the French Residency recognised the danger of allowing the problem of alienated land to get out of hand, they opposed any change in the 1914 Protocol which would have brought into question the status of registered titles.

While showing itself open to progressive solutions, the French Residency has not lessened its vehement defence of the unimpeachability of judgments of the Joint Court.

It refused to agree to the creation of a commission which would have acted as a kind of popular tribunal of appeal from its judgments. (Mouradian, October 1969.) They realised, however, that some concessions were necessary in order to prevent the land problem from threatening their long-term plan of implantation.

The strategy they adopted in the late 1960 s was to attempt to deal with each individual ni- Vanuatu challenge, rather than allow a general review of land through a land commission, which they feared might lead to pressure to change the whole system. Many registered titles included vast amounts of uncleared bush land, in addition to developed plantation areas, and the French calculated that by giving up ‘dark bush’ they could satisfy ni-Vanuatu demands and at the same time retain their economic base.

Since Jimmy Stevens’ main aim was to halt the expansion of European plantations into undeveloped bush areas, which he argued belonged to ni-Vanuatu by right and was needed for their future development, the French plan to hand back or transfer title to large sections of ‘dark bush’ was not an unintelligent response to adopt.

Authorities in Paris -eventually agreed to French Residency proposals to hand back undeveloped land. Beginning in 1973, and continuing off and on throughout the 19705, both registered land and land under application for registration by the Joint Court totalling nearly 250 000 hectares (nearly 25% of the land area of Vanuatu) was handed back to ni-Vanuatu.

The French Government was able to hand back land of its own, but in the case of SFNH, it agreed to purchase the land from the company first. The largest blocks of land returned were on Santo and Malekula, but the programme also included transfers on Epi, Pentecost, Maewo, Ambrym and Nguna.

The French Residency clearly intended the policy of returning land for political purposes careful consideration was given to which individuals or communities were to be given titles.

For the time being it seems impossible to insure an overall settlement of these disputes. In these circumstances the French Residency tries to settle disputes case by case, sparing at the same time the interest and peace of mind of our nationals, as well as the aspirations of the natives it appears advisable to satisfy. (Langlois, August 1973.) Undermining National (now Vanuaaku) Party influence was one of the primary uses of the policy.

We can expect some reactions when our nuclear tests are resumed and no doubt when newkmd claims come up. That is why I feel that the National Party should be tackled and announcements should be made to the native owners of Malekula and Santo of a forthcoming restitution of the first land bought by the State from SFNH. (Langlois, January 1973.) However, wnile this had the effect of buying off Jimmy Stevens, it came too late to stop the development of the nationalist movement.

By early 1971, prior to the establishment of the New Hebrides Cultural Association, the then French Resident Commissioner had come to realise that it was inevitable that Melanesians would soon become involved in politics. There were in fact proposals by French expatriates that efforts should be made to recruit Melanesians into the political game in order to control them.

Certain Europeans, such as M. Delacroix, think that it is time to organise young Melanesians into political groupings which would permit the inevitable evolution of their behaviour to be guided. I fear that they (Europeans like Delacroix) delude themselves with illusions and I rather believe that these political regroupings which will cer- ‘All we hope for is that this elite (natives) will be francophone, trained in our own way of thinking’, said Robert Langlois, pictured here (centre) on arrival at Vila in December, 1969, and welcomed by British Resident Commissioner C. H. Allan (left) and acting French Resident Commissioner Delabrousse. 33

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tainly take place will be undertaken by the natives themselves, as soon as a small thinking elite, capable of representing the masses, will have been formed. All we hope for is that this elite will be francophone, trained in our own way of thinking. (Langlois, January 1971.) The above comment by the then French Resident Commissioner, R. Langlois, recognised the inevitable awakening of Melanesians to the reality of life in the condominium, and that they would in the long run want to develop their own political strategies.

Following the demonstration in August 1971 of primarily anglophone Melanesians linked to the New Hebrides Cultural Association in support of a joint regulation to limit land subdivision in the group, Langlois noted: Although the demonstration held for about two hours by just a few dozen natives was absolutely calm, its impact on the Europeans was gripping.

Unable to believe that natives could adopt an attitude that had not been dictated to them, the European population pinned this fear down to the activity of the British Residency. the Presbyterian Mission, the Anglicans, etc.. .

It is evident that the British were delighted to see an awakening of civic consciousness in the natives, who wished to have their say in the settlement of affairs bearing on general interests. It is nonetheless certain that this awakening has been spontaneous, its occurrence having been hastened by the attitudes of the Europeans, yet it had been lying in wait for a coherent and organised movement. (Langlois, August 1971.) This realistic attitude on the part of Langlois, however, was not adopted by subsequent French Resident Commissioners, who found it difficult to attribute the political activities in the 1970 s of the New Hebrides National Party, and later the Vanuaaku Party, to a Melanesian desire for reform.

Their inability to accept the notion that ni-Vanuatu themselves possessed a desire for political change and independence which had not been planted by outsiders, reveals the disdain in which French officials held Melanesians, and the extent to which they were willing to disregard the feelings of colonised people in the pursuit of their own national interests.

French officials possessed an outdated 19th-century belief in the ‘superiority’ of French culture, and believed that Melanesians could be enticed into a state of perpetual colonial domination and subservience.

All that was needed, they believed, was time for their policies to take effect.

The discontent is undeniable, tensions between groups are a threat which must be controlled as much as possible.

The success of our policy being first and foremost a question of time, time to train our elite, to rally various sectors of the population around us, to establish the local structures we propose. To have our position damaged by movements against which we are unprepared or could not contain, would be unfortunate. (Langlois, July 1972).

By the mid-19705, however, French officials were learning under the impact of political developments that their position was not as secure as they had hoped. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of hectares of formerly French-held land had been transferred to ni-Vanuatu ownership, Melanesian discontent and protest was increasing. What they had failed to recognise was that land was not the key issue, but merely the catalyst for the nationalist movement. The real issue was political power independence.

The constant theme running throughout the French Resident Commissioners’ reports is that political agitation by primarily English-speaking Melanesians was planned and orchestrated by the British Residency, and that the notion of independence was the result of radical ideas implanted in the minds of young ni-Vanuatu studying abroad. The French Resident Commissioner noted in 1972 that: From correspondence received in Port-Vila, it would appear that Anglophone students from outside and especially in Suva find sympathetic ears and precise advice for their complaints which according to some should result in violent action. Out of all these young natives’ claims, the one concerning political status is evidently most energetically brandished, but without a doubt, the restitution of land is a firmer claim and it upholds the whole objection to the condominium regime . . . The return of these young men will be spread over a period of a few years only, after which a regular influx of them will swell their ranks. We have enough time left for manoeuvring wherever possible, and we must speed up the settlement of pending lawsuits involving the French State and the SFNH. (Langlois, August 1972.) The French Government used the argument of British Residency plotting and foreign influence throughout the 1970 s to rationalise their own actions.

They blatantly attempted to manipulate and control political developments and the Melanesians involved on the pretext that the British and others were doing the same. It is significant to note, however, that the French Resident Commissioners’ reports never specify incidents in which the British Residency was supposed to have taken an active role.

One can only assume that it was impossible for French officials to imagine that the British were not involved in manipulation of the situation to the same intense degree as they were .. .

Next month: Political manipulation, and the politics of land: Stevens, Oliver, Peacock.

Vanuatu lays claim to Matthew and Hunter Vanuatu’s Ministry of Land and Natural Resources has laid claim to the uninhabited islands of Matthew (12 hectares) and Hunter (40.5 hectares) lying south of Anatom in Vanuatu, and east of the Loyalty Islands in New Caledonia. A statement from the ministry read on Radio Vanuatu on May 27 declared: ‘There appears to be an increasing number of publications on both maps and literature which are issued by various ministries and departments of government that do not properly include the full extent of the nation’s islands. ‘This particularly applies to the two most southerly islands of Matthew and Hunter which, while they may not represent a The ‘absolutely calm’ demonstration led by Anglican Father John Bani (centre) in August, 1971. 35

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The islands, of volcanic origin, have been shown on various maps as belonging to Vanuatu or New Caledonia. A gazetteer, compiled by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau of the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, lists them as New Caledonia’s possessions. The Pacific Islands Year Book also lists them as being possessions of New Caledonia.

The Geographical Handbook Series (vol. 3), published by British Naval Intelligence for restricted circulation, includes both Matthew and Hunter in the, then, New Hebrides. But it records that they ‘have not been claimed by France or Britain, or by any other power’.

Belau’s president looks to a ‘strenuous’ future MICHEL BONGIOVANNI and DASHA ROSS conducted this interview with Belau’s President HARUO REMELIIK during the filming of their television documentary, Belau: Choices After Nationhood.

Haruo Remeliik has played a significant role in the development of the Republic of Belau over the last decade, culminating with his election as first president in November 1980.

Born in Belau in 1934, he completed his education in Hawaii and returned to Belau to follow a legal career, first as a clerk of courts and then as an associate judge of the Belau District Court. From there he went on to become deputy district administrator for the Trust Territory for almost 10 years.

In 1979 he was president of Belau’s Constitutional Convention which drafted the world’s first nuclear free Constitution, and was voted for by an overwhelming 79% of the Belauan people on July 9, 1980. During this time he was also chairman of the Belau Commission on Status and Transition which conducted the on-going negotiations with the USA over the draft Compact of Free Association.

A contentious document that has been negotiated over the last 12 years, and with no finality in sight, it will be the determining factor in Belau’s future development. A subsidiary agreement of the draft compact demands Military Land Use rights, which would turn 30 percent of Belau into American military bases, potentially turning this picturesque group of coral atolls into another Guam.

In his inauguration speech, January 1, 1981, Remeliik alluded to the new nation as a canoe, stating: ‘For so many years we were but riders on other’s ships, going to destinations we* never chose . . . but now a new day dawns on Belau.

We are to enter the high seas to sail with other nations.’

He also emphasised the strenuous reality to be faced: ‘We will move through treacherous waters of national resource development, that great typhoon of developing an emerging nation. We recognise too that our major resource .. . is our own people as human resources.’

What would you like to see for the future of Belau?

Economic self-reliance is what I would like to see for Belau, because without that we cannot hope to achieve our ultimate goal, which is total independence, and that’s our goal, everything we do today is to prepare an independent government.

How far away is that?

It is still very far away from us.

We are now at the stage where economic independence is inconceivable in Belau today. We are totally dependent on the grants from the US Government. We have very little revenue that we are generating on our own, and what revenue we do generate is hardly enough to sustain the needs of one governmental department. Basically we are a country dependent on the aid given by the United States government.

You were the President of the Constitutional Convention which drafted the nuclear free constitution, you also took a very strong stand against United States pressures to revise the constitution. Why then did you initial the compact of free association which could be seen to be in opposition to the national constitution?

You are right, I took a strong stand opposing the US approach to have certain parts of our constitution amended. I initialled the compact based on my responsibility as chairman of the Status Transition Commission, where the majority vote of the members of the Status Commission was in favour of the compact. I went ahead and initialled the compact, knowing that it was in conflict with some aspects of the Constitution. But on the other hand I was strongly of the belief that the ultimate decision will be made by the Belauan people, the people who overwhelmingly ratified the Constitution. Because although the compact makes certain allowances with regard to nuclear devices, our Constitution provides that the compact must be accepted by 75 per cent of the people when it is put to the referendum. I have confidence that the people of Belau are pretty much aware of things and are very capable of making their own decision.

Perhaps one of the most contentious parts of the Compact of Free Association is the Military Land Use Rights Subsidiary Agreement. On an island such as this, where land is such a sensitive issue, how will the Belauan people respond to the proposal of the appropriation of aproximately 32 000 acres of their land to be used for US military training bases?

You are correct that land is a very sensitive matter here in Belau, because of lack of land.

The idea behind this particular subsidiary agreement is that the national government of Belau would negotiate with the owner of the property within the area specified by the US for whatever requirements they may have. It was made clear during the negotiations that the land will not be used for activities directly related to aggression, only for training purposes, and although the training of military personnel could be seen to be aggressive activity, we consider it lesser in degree than the installation of military equipment. Because we told them we don’t want anything that will attract aggression from outside Belau, because during the last war, which we were not part of, many of us were killed, we were taken from our homes and forced to live in the jungle. We don’t want to see that repeated.

But in this particular subsidiary agreement there are plans 37

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The Reagan administration has seriously reduced the 1981/82 budget available to Belau.

What plans does the government have to deal with such restrictions?

As of now we don’t have any additional sources of funds to make up for what has been reduced by the Reagan administration. We are trying to balance our budget by cutting our expenses, but this is something we find very hard to accomplish because the government we inherited from the Trust Territory is very expensive because of its size. But if we reduce our government we will create social problems because we don’t have many other job opportunities, the government is the major employer in Belau.

Without the Government payroll, the people from Koror would not be able to survive economically to continue the lifestyle they enjoy today, so we are stuck with a costly government we have to maintain to provide economic survival for our people.

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New Caledonia: A new governing majority is taking shape?

As in French Polynesia, where the May 23 elections put new faces in control of the territory’s affairs, big changes are brewing in New Caledonia’s local government.

Throughout April-May discreet negotiations went on between the Centrist Federation pour une Nouvelle Societe Caledonienne (FNSC) and the pro-independence Front Independantiste (FI) with a view to forming a new council of government (a sort of cabinet).

This possibility has arisen because in coalition the two groups now have the numbers in the 36-member Territorial Assembly (TA) to pass a motion of censure against the present council, which is dominated by the Ralliement Pour la Caledonie dans la Republique (RPCR).

The three-years-old coalition between the RPCR and the FNSC fell apart earlier this year when the latter voted with the FI for the introduction of income tax in New Caledonia (PIM Feb p 5). In any new council, the FI (14 members in the TA) would have a majority over the FNSC (seven TA members). (The council consists of seven members.) French High Commissioner Christian Nucci has been attempting to steer the two groups towards such a decision because this would perhaps temporarily defuse the independence issue by giving some limited power to the five parties in the FI.

Within the framework of the French Government’s desire for a consensus on the question of independence, the fortunes of the firmly anti-independence RCPR have been in decline.

The 1982 session of the TA had a rowdy opening at the end of April when Mr Nucci delivered his opening address amidst booing and heckling from supporters of the RPCR and the equally antiindependence Parti National Caledonien (PNC). The hostile crowd of 300 was particularly abusive when Mr Nucci spoke of the need for consultation and compromise in the mapping of New Caledonia’s future.

Significantly, the session was boycotted by RPCR politicians who had demanded Mr Nucci’s recall to Paris because he had permitted the expulsion of RPCR member Dick Ukeiwe, vice-president of the council of government (a sort of prime minister), from a meeting of the council of Great Chiefs.

With the FNSC abstaining from the vote, neither the RPCR nor the FI could command an absolute majority in the election for president of the Territorial Assembly, but in the third and final round of voting Jean Leques of the RPCR was elected, one vote ahead of Gabriel Paita of the Union Caledonienne (UC), largest party in the FI.

However, the fortunes of the RPCR deteriorated further in the following weeks when first Mme Marie-Paule Serve and then the Wallisian Petelo Manuofiua resigned from the party. With these two defections from its ranks in the TA, the RPCR had only 13 members, leaving the FI as the largest single group. Both Mme Serve and Mr Manuofiua are sitting as Independents, having said that they could contribute more in this way to dialogue and consultation between all sides on the question of New Caledonia’s future. Both listed the ‘rigidity’ of the RPCR among their reasons for resignation.

Some indication of France’s intentions for the territory has been given by the publication of the texts of the government’s first two ordinances one setting up an office for the development of the interior (of the main island) and the territory’s offshore islands, and the other setting up a Melanesian scientific, cultural and technical office.

However, the third and most controversial reform, that concerning land, got off to a bad start when Henri Emmanuelli, secretary of state for overseas departments and territories, released the preliminary text to the presk in Paris, after which it was published in the Noumea daily Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes on May 21-22.

This obliged Mr Nucci to hastily convene meetings with local politicians to explain the reform.

The proposed land reform, which has been widely described as ‘vague’, sets up a land office with power to recognise ‘Custom’ claims to land. Particular attention would be given to individuals or groups with proposals for economic or agricultural exploitation of land.

However, before ratification the ordinance has to be debated, and perhaps modified, by the TA, after which it goes to the council of ministers in Paris.

Helen Fraser in Noumea.

Christian Nucci an angry reception when he called for greater consultation. 40 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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PEOPLE Judging from the contents of the memoranda coming from the Micronesian Seminar in Truk on the negotiations between the United States and the Micronesians on the Compact of Free Association PIM May p 29, there’s not much likely to escape the expert eagle eye of Jesuit laybrother Henry M.

Schwalbenberg.

He was called in last year to help the seminar’s director, Father Francis X. Hezel, also of the Society of Jesus, who has been in Micronesia since 1963 less three years off to do a theological course. Brother Schwalbenberg, a US citizen born in February, 1955, has an impressive academic record, especially in the way of the odd things sometimes encountered behind the woodwork in the corridors of power. He mastered in International Affairs at Columbia University in the School of International Affairs working on international and development economics. At the same time, 1978, he got a BSc in electrical engineering. He holds three academic honours Columbia University International Fellow, School of International Affairs Fellow, and Prentis Scholar in Engineering.

Before being called to Micronesia, he ranged over a whole gamut of economic and sociological subjects, monitoring a special United Nations session on economic issues, researching US foreign policy towards the Third World that would be a sticky assignment researching Haitian economic development options and then doing the same job in Brazil, preparing a case study for the UN’s World Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries, and completing an economic survey and analysis for local business and church leaders in a small Peruvian coastal town. He also found time to make a sabbatical study in theology and social ethics at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge (Mass). He entered the Jesuit order in 1978.

The Micronesian Seminar, called Mic Sem on Truk, is a pastoral-research institute established by the RC Diocese of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in 1972 with Fr Hezel as its director. One of Mic Sem’s major tasks is to try to stimulate socio-theological reflection on contemporary issues in Micronesia, including the whole range of social, economic and political issues of importance to the islands today. In that connection they have run several conferences for government leaders, churchmen and others on such themes as ‘Education for what?’, ‘Human development’, and ‘Youth in Micronesia’.

Fr Hezel has also been working over the last six years on a study of suicide in Micronesia and, this year, Mic Sem ran a study on ‘Youth Drinking in Micronesia’. It also assists missionaries in training programmes, the media and other educational facets of their work among the people. Fr Hezel is also director of Xavier High School, but will shed that hat at the end of this term. He’s also making a name for himself as a historian with some articles in the Journal of Pacific History and others and has done three books on local history Foreign Ships in Micronesia (reviewed in January PIM), Winds of Change (in collaboration with Mark Berg) and The First Taint of Civilisation, which should be published any time now by the University of Hawaii Press. John Carter Papua New Guinea’s first holder of a doctorate degree in scentific research is David Linge, 34, who won this distinction with a 344-page thesis on root knot nematode (a parasitic worm) which infects PNG’s traditional nutritious plant, wing bean.

Dr Linge gained an outstanding BSc from the University of PNG in 1974, then did an honours degree, and in 1977 was awarded a Commonwealth post-graduate scholarship in the Department of Zoology and Applied Entomology at the Imperial College, London. In 1978 he was awarded the degree of Master of Science and the Imperial College Diploma.

He was then invited to enrol for studies leading to a PhD on a scientific research work. The wing bean thesis is the result.

Dr Linge belongs to a family well known on the Gazelle Peninsula and in New Ireland.

His father, the late Rev Hosea Linge, better known as Talatala Hosea Linge was the first ordained minister of the Methodist Church from the New Guinea islands, and is also regarded as the first Papua New Guinean ever to write an autobiography. He died in 1973, aged about 75.

There are still six Papua New Guineans pursuing doctoral studies at overseas universities.

Lindsay Watt has taken up duties as New Zealand high commissioner to Fiji. He will live in Suva and will also be accredited to Tuvalu, Naurau and Kiribati.

Mr Watt succeeds Michael Powles, who has been appointed New Zealand’s ambassador to Indonesia.

Sister Mary Berchmans was 25 when she arrived in Fiji in October 1915. Since that time, she has never left the country.

Today she lives in a Suva convent, and, at 92, is the oldest nun in Fiji and the longestserving missionary sister.

On her arrival as a young French sister who had just taken her final vows, Sister Berchmans joined five other sisters at the leper hospital on the island of Makogai. There she nursed the patients and cared for their needs, both spiritual and physical, before continuing her work in other centres around Fiji.

Her story is more or less Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (left), prime minister of Fiji, met Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia, during a recent visit to the Australian capital, Canberra. Ratu Mara, who held talks on Fiji-Australia relationships, is this month facing a general election at home.

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synonymous with the order to which she belongs: the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary, which in May celebrated 100 years work in Fiji.

The pioneers of the order in Fiji were four sisters who arrived from France in May, 1882.

Since then, the tireless work of its members has led to the establishment of about 12 schools around Fiji, including the Yat Sen Primary School and Stella Maris Primary School, the St Elizabeth’s Home at Korovou and Ra Maternity Hospital.

The Indian High Commissioner to Fiji, Mrs Soonu Kochar, left Fiji in April after completing her term.

She has been succeeded by Mr Chitilenchery Pathiyil Ravindranathan. who has worked as counsellor in the Indian Embassy in Paris.

A Fiji citizen, Ross McDonald, has been appointed the new managing director of Burns Philp (Vanuatu) Ltd.

Mr McDonald has been named to the post by Philip Best, chief executive of the Burns Philp group of companies in Sydney.

Mr McDonald, who is at present manager of the Manufacturing Group of the South Sea Company, will assume his new position in August.

In addition to Vanuatu, Mr McDonald will have the responsibility for Burns Philp’s operations in Solomon Islands.

Mr McDonald will be in charge of six divisions with nearly 400 employees in Vanuatu alone. He will also be responsible for nearly 280 staff in the Solomons operations.

Ex-champion jockey in his native Panama, Manuel Ycaza and his intended bride, model and actress Jeanne Detwiler, had such romantic ideas about Fiji that they decided they would get married there. And they did. They tied the knot at the District Registry Office in Lautoka, spent their honeymoon at the Fijian Resort Hotel, and had a four-day cruise through the Yasawa Islands.

After spending several days in French Polynesia they returned to the United States where Manuel has a real estate company. Bride Jeanne is with Columbia film studio.

Said the new Mrs Ycaza, looking through rose-coloured glasses while on her honeymoon: ‘We always wanted to get married in Fiji because it is the most romantic island (sic) of all’

American Samoa High Court Chief Justice Richard Miyamoto has been ordered to transfer ‘or else’ to Micronesia as an associate justice. The ‘or else’ was contained in a letter to him from Acting Personnel Officer Mary D. Ellis in the US Department of the Interior. She wrote: T feel obligated to advise you that if you do not accept the reassignment, resign from your position, or transfer to another Federal agency by April 15, 1982, it will be necessary for me to propose your removal from your position and the Federal Service for failure to accept a directed geographic reassignment.’

The Samoans are upset by the judge’s transfer as his six years in the territory, first as an associate judge and then as chief justice, have been outstanding, say the locals. Judge Miyamoto’s judgments included an important ruling on individual land ownership, and he has just completed a full revision of High Court Rules.

American Samoa’s Representative in the US Congress, Fofo Sunia, was upset at news of the transfer, of which he had not been informed. He said the excuse given for the transfer that the Trust Territory High Court was ‘faced with an unrelenting caseload’ was a very poor one.

T think it is insulting to the Samoan people,’ said Fofo.

The judge is no stranger to Micronesia, having previously served as attorney-general of the Trust Territory.

There’s a consolation prize for the judge, which might smooth his ruffled feathers. The Pacific Army Reserve at Fort De Russy has awarded him the Civilian Service Medal. The award says the judge, a retired colonel of the Army Reserve, had represented the reserve in the territory and was instrumental in the acquisition of lands and training facilities during the initial establishment of the Reserve in American Samoa.

As liaison man between the government and the military, he had also made a substantial contribution to the expansion of the Army Reserve forces in the Pacific.

Two Dutch Roman Catholic priests in the Cook Islands, Father George Kester, of Aitutaki, and Father Nicholas Herdeman, of Arorangi, have been made Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Queen of the Netherlands for their work in the Cooks. Father Kester, who arrived from Holland in 1947, worked at Manihiki, Titikaveka, Matavera and Arorangi before going to his present ‘cure’ at Aitutaki. Father Herdeman, who now lives in retirement at Arorangi, came to the Cooks a year after Fr Kester and has worked on Manihiki, Mauke, Penrhyn, Aitutaki, and Rarotonga.

Ex-RAF officer (1944-47) George Norman Stanfield has been appointed British High Commissioner in Solomon Islands, succeeding Gordon Slater, who will return to Britain shortly. Mr Stanfield has served with the British Ministry of Food, Ministry of Supply, the War Office and in Commonwealth Relations Office.

Michael Schnetzer has arrived in Fiji from his native Switzerland to take up duties as food and beverage manager at the Fijian Hotel Resort on Yanuca Island.

In his 15-year career in the hotel industry, Mr Schnetzer has piled up an impressive array of qualifications both through his work in Switzerland, and with such other institutions as the Stratford-on-Avon Hilton in the United Kingdom, and Norway’s Royal Viking Line.

In 1976-79 he attended the Ecole Hoteliere (the Swiss Hotel Management Institute) where he gained the institute’s diploma.

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Western Samoa’s 1982 Christmas postage stamps have been designed by three 16-yearold students, an 11-year-old and a seven-year-old. They won a design competition which attracted 127 entries, the prizes being $l5O for each winning design. Winners were Panapa Pouesi, Ralph Laban and Fetalaiga Fareni, all aged 16 and students at Leulumoega Fou College, Maria Falanai Tofaeono, 11, of St Mary’s Ross McDonald Michael Schnetzer 43 PEOPLE PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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Dr Esika Macu Salato of Fiji, who has had a distinguished career as a medical doctor, elected official, diplomat and international civil servant, has been selected to join the new Diplomat-in-Residence programme at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

The programme, which began earlier this year, brings diplomats from Asia, the Pacific and Western countries to work with East-West Center institutes and to conduct seminars and research.

Dr Salato will join Ambassador William Bodde Jr, the Center’s first diplomat-inresidence, who served most recently as US ambassador to Fiji, Tonga and Tuvalu and as minister to Kiribati.

A graduate of the Fiji School of Medicine, Dr Salato did pioneer work in the eradication of tuberculosis in Fiji and Solomon Islands. During World War II he was medical officer in the Fiji Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. In 1960 he received the coveted Commonwealth Award for outstanding contributions to the tuberculosis service.

Dr Salato in 1970 became the first elected non-European mayor of Suva. He retired in 1972 as director of curative medical services after 36 years as a medical officer. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year Honours List in 1973.

From 1972 to 1973 he was Fiji’s acting high commissioner in London and ambassador to the European Economic Community in Brussels. In 1975 he became secretary-general of the South Pacific Commission, the most comprehensive regional organisation in the South Pacific. East-West Center News.

George Chand has been promoted to divisional marketing manager of Burns Philp manufacturing group, by division manager John Potts.

Mr Chand will be responsible for formulating and instituting overall sales policies for the division which includes Wisco Furniture, Pacific Cabin Crackers, Union Soaps, Viti Plastics, Sunshine Products, and Righted Fiji Ltd.

In announcing the appointment, Mr Potts said that Mr Chand has shown a clear grasp of the scope of the job that includes exports of a wide range of products. ‘He has recently completed a tour of the South Pacific and the west coast of the United States and has returned with a clear understanding of the export potential in these markets.

He will make a major contribution in his position,’ said Mr Potts.

Before his promotion, Mr Chand was sales manager for the division. He began work in the food and manufacturing industry in 1972 for Arnott’s Biscuits out of Australia. He left Arnott’s in 1975 to join the then Cope Allman Company as market development manager.

He stayed with the company in its changeover when Burns Philp purchased Cope Allman in 1978.

An Auckland-born New Zealander of Fiji Indian origin, Anand Satyanand, has taken up an appointment as a New Zealand District Court Judge. Mr Satyanand, 37, qualified in 1970 and worked for five years as a Crown Prosecutor before turning to private law practice with the Auckland law firm of Shieff Angland Dew & Co. In those years a number of legal matters took him for appearances before courts in Fiji, the Cook Islands and Western Somoa. He took up duties in Palmerston North in June.

President Haruo Remeliik of the Republic of Palau has announced the confirmation by the country’s Senate of Lazarus E. Salii as the republic’s first ambassador.

Ambassador Salii’s mission will include Compact of Free Association negotiations with the US, and establishing diplomatic and trade relations with the various nations of the world.

The official proclamation said that Ambassador Salii ‘will be the sole official conduit for the republic’s international relations, and will in the immediate future be conducting Palau’s Pacific neighbours on the republic’s behalf’.

The appointment of the Most Rev George Bernarding as first Catholic Archbishop of the Papua New Guinea Highlands was warmly welcomed by the Deputy Prime Minister, lambakey Okuk.

Mr Okuk said the new archbishop had served the people of Papua New Guinea well for 40 years, and his new appointment was a recognition by the church of his outststanding leadership during that long period.

Mr Okuk said that as one who knew Archbishop Bernarding personally, he regarded the appointment as not only added recognition for the new archbishop, but for the Highlands as well. ‘Under the strong leadership of Archbishop Bernarding, the Catholic Church in the Hagen Diocese has contributed much to the development of the region in education and health services, as well as in Christian life,’ he said. ‘On behalf of all Highlanders I thank the Pope for the added recognition he has given to our region, and I congratulate the new archbishop on a welldeserved honour,’ Mr Okuk said.

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A two-hour visit to Aitutaki in 1955, while flying from Tahiti to Samoa on a TEAL seaplane, probably placed the Cooks in his files on ‘Places to return to when retired’.

Fiji’s High Commissoner in London, Ratu Josua Toganivalu, is now a doublebarrelled ambassador ambassador to Israel, a post he has held for some time, and ambassador to Egypt. Meanwhile, he still holds his post as high commissioner in London. Recently, Ratu Josua presented his credentials to Egyptian President Mubarak, who told him that he appreciated the Fiji Government’s decision to send peace-keeping troops to the Sinai.

Roger Barlthrop, muchtravelled career diplomat in the British service, is the successor to Viscount Dunrossil as British high commissioner to Fiji. Ex- Oxford University, ex-Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he has served in missions in India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Turkey, the West Indies, Ethiopia and, since 1978 to date, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as head of the Commonwealth co-ordination department.

Lawrie Wickham, MP for Gizo and Kolombangara in the Solomons since 1976, has resigned for personal reasons. In the last government, he was minister of law and information, a ministry which is now abolished.

The director of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, James Ingram, has been appointed executive director of the Rome-based World Food Program (WFP). Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Tony Street, and Minister for Primary Industry Peter Nixon, said this was the first time an Australian has been appointed to head a major United Nations body and reflected recognition within the UN of the strong support Australia had given to that organisation over many years.

Mr Ingram was appointed director of ADAS in 1976.

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Mr Ingram said he believed his appointment was also a reflection of ADAB’s high international standing which was due to the tremendous dedication of the bureau’s staff.

Former Cook Islands Chief Justice Sir Gaven Donne has become the first Queen’s Representative in the Cooks. The new post, replacing the old one of Governor-General, was created in the framework of the recent constitutional changes in the Cooks.

His successor as chief justice is Mr Justice Speight, who retired from the New Zealand High Court at the end of May.

Mr Justice Speight will be the senior of two High Court judges in the Cooks. In addition to this work he will join a Court of Appeal in Fiji which already comprises three New Zealanders, Sir Trevor Gould, Sir Trevor Henry, and Mr B.C.

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In his capacity as Cook Islands chief justice, Sir Gaven unseated the government of the late Sir Albert Henry when he upheld opposition complaints of bribery of voters. 46 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 PEOPLE

To the far north, for the stories of Corlette, and of ill-fated Mazoyer YESTERDAY E. A. HARVEY concludes his four-part series on a 1938 journey through the then New Hebrides on the inter-island trading vessel Mirani. This time he continues his exploration of the islands in the north of the Group, meeting as usual some thoroughly memorable characters on the way.

The following day we proceeded on to the small islands of Rano, Ouala and Atchin. We arrived at Atchin at sunset and went ashore, our Boys lustily singing their plaintive songs. The Chief, Willy, and the whole village were drawn up between their beached canoes to welcome us.

The island is free from fever and flourishing. No whites live here. It is hard to realise that Rano, Ouala and Atchin are hard by the northwest coast of Malekula. The atmosphere here is so different.

The Chief trades the copra on behalf of his people. They are a co-op, as it were. There are a few native teachers here, but no white missionaries. The Atchinites seem to be too much for them.

Willy ordered a guide to show us the old dancing grounds. A track led to a broad, winding avenue flanked by low coral walls. Great trees met overhead. We went on for about 20 minutes, and found the avenue opened on to an oval. Here were two rounded stones, covered in moss and at least 10 feet high, like the halves of two huge eggs.

Near these were heavy stone slabs. We were told: ‘Some stones belong water, some stones belong salt water.’

This oval gave on to a long elliptical clearing. On one side were thatched and woven huts, smallish and rubbing shoulders with each other. The front of the ridge poles ran off into beautifully carved frigate birds with a wingspread of about eleven feet. Their immense wings gave one the odd feeling that they were about to take off, like moulting and dilapidated fowl. The doorposts were huge upright slabs of stone with grotesque inscribed heads. The strange huts stood close together in a long line, which was broken by a large banyan trunk and some 12-feet high tam-tams. In front of the huts were what appeared to be slab seats. The visual effect in the torchlight and dappled moonbeams was really weird.

On the opposite side of the ellipse were rows of stones innumerable. Each one, the guide said, represented a pig. (I wonder if he meant long pig!) At a point one third down the long axis were two upright stakes, close together and rubbed smooth. Twenty feet high, they were. Two-thirds of the way down the axis was a circle of stakes. The men who constructed this were no mean artists. What wild stamping had gone on there, and by whom?

The guide could only tell us: ‘A long, long, long, long, long, long, time Master, me no savvee.

Father belong me no savvee, long time.’ He drew his ‘longs’ out into a long note and held it.

He ‘no savvee’. We saw a 30-foot canoe with a frigate bird figurehead, and smaller canoes with pigeon heads upon their bows. Here I was able to procure a pig’s skull: ‘One head belong earth’, and a club which had been blooded: ‘Five men, Master, my Word!’ Maurice informed the stately native that he was ‘a bloody liar’. However, I got a fine old war club for three shillings, thanks to Maurice’s bargaining.

After the Chief had finished weighing the copra, he informed us that the club really had killed men. We were anxious to know that, bloodthirsty blighters that we are.

Unfortunately we leave Atchin at 3am and arrive at Bushman’s Bay again at 6.30 am.

Maurice, Les Love and I got away early. After a really tough bush walk, we were met by Margaret Corlette, our host’s daughter. She is a beautiful and charming girl and speaks English perfectly. Her skin is the colour of honey, and she wore red and white flowers in her dark, warm hair. She listened to our adventures and congratulated us on our bushmanship, exclaiming, ‘By Jove!’, in a low, attractive voice.

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and debased women. He spoke of their complex marriage system, and their religion, which seems akin to primitive spiritualism.

North Malekula is the only place in the Group where cannibalism is still practised. Aoba was considered to be the most notorious of the cannibal isles in its heyday. A regular traffic in victims was carried on. This was still within the memory of older men.

I learnt that it would be quite safe to travel alone from coast to coast right across Malekula.

A Namba village would give you food and overnight accommodation and send you on to the next village, which in turn would pass you on until you had reached your destination. If you wanted to stay for a day they would understand, the journey could be tiring or maybe you were sick.

But if you were an anthropologist, or just a sticky-beak, and stayed on and on asking all sorts of questions, even about their sex habits, the hosts would become very suspicious. One day you would be hurrying to bring your notes up to date and passing one of the village men.

Death would come upon you unawares and instantly with one blow to the back of your head with a club. The outside world would never know what happened,, you had simply disappeared.

The conversation turned to the influence of the Missions. It is said that a story loses nothing in the telling with Corlette. The following one deserves to be repeated ... A churchman of high rank was dismissed from Melanesia for offences against boys. Corlette insisted the circumstances were as follows. A certain trader imported cantharides, thinking he would do a good trade because the natives are partial to home-grown aphrodisiacs. The cantharides arrived unground, so the trader, with considerable cheek, borrowed the churchman’s coffee grinder and returned it uncleaned. The Mission Boy ground the good man’s coffee through it ... The point is taken.

Corlette told a good cannibal story too. It came from native sources originally and is one of the stock yarns of the Group. A gentleman was gnawing away at a forearm, and catching a sinew from the wrist in his teeth he reefed at it the cooked hand closed quickly and scratched his face.

Sometimes unwanted children on the island are left to starve. Often they are found by Corlette, who brings them up.

He showed us the latest arrival, a baby girl about four months old, and weighing five pounds.

Corlette is feeding her on milk and olive oil. When he first got her six weeks before she was only half the size and covered in sores and flies. Our host is a great favourite with the shy piccaninnies.

Towards sunset Margaret took us for a walk to see her garden of crotons. The walk led us through tomatoes, wild chillies, yams, pineapple, bananas and grenadilla vines. Occasionally we passed coffee trees. Upon returning we were more than ready for high tea.

There was to be a big ‘danis’ that night. In the meantime a girl amused herself and us by making intricate patterns with a circle of string. She twirled it round her fingers with extraordinary speed and with a marvellous variety of weave.

Our enjoyment of the ‘danis’ was interrupted by the Mate, who had been sent to round us up. The ship was supposed to sail at 10pm. Not a hope. Back on board we found La Fleur tight, and what a nuisance.

It is very late now, or early if you wish. Mirani has cleared Bushman’s Bay and is on a nor’ by nor’westerly course for the Canale du Segond. Fare thee well, unforgettable Malekula. • • • The Canale du Segond is 20-odd miles of winding channel formed by the Island of Acre and a good half of the south coast of neighbouring Santo. Half way along is the Santo town of Luganville. I say ‘town’ because there is a French hospital and residence there.

The whole district is very decidedly French. As usual our Supers knew where to go, a cafe-cum-grog shop, run by a big, good-humoured woman who knew what’s what.

Concluding our business here, the ship moved on to Baldwin Cove on Santo. We anchored in a lagoon with a maze of small islands hard by.

Winding lanes of water meandered between them. The sea was like shimmering satin, and far away a slash of white proclaimed the reef. The British District Agent came aboard to say ‘Hullo’.

Once more winding up our business, we moved down the channel to the wealthy Seventhday Adventist Mission, ‘Fella him eat grass no more’. Then on down the Bruat Strait between Acre and the bigger island of Malo. This waterway is full of reefs and has a seven-knot tide.

The insurance companies will not cover an accident in this channel. We bring up at Bay Benia and it is as hot as hell.

I suppose it would be about 4pm when a launch approached the Mirani. I was being shown how to handle a sextant and was bringing the sun down to the horizon. The planter came aboard and eventually was introduced to me. He took my hand in an iron grip, and said he noticed me from the launch and thought: ‘Monsieur has never handled a sextant in his life before.’ He was M’sieur Paul Mazoyer, a tall, powerfullybuilt, French colonial, with a slight stumble in his walk.

During the War he had served in France. We hit it off well together and he invited me ashore for dinner. Maurice was to follow later. We went fishing together in the quiet of the afternoon. My friend threw a hand net with great accuracy and silence and caught a huge quantity of sardines.

He showed me a 42-foot Three wives and a youngster of a Malekula chief. Their headdresses are dyed red. 49 YESTERDAY PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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The wood came from his own teak trees that he had felled.

In his dealings with his workers he claimed to be a hard man but just. Dishonesty from anyone he would not tolerate. A short while before he had trouble with a Tonkinese cook.

Matters came to a head and the cook took off at top speed.

Mazoyer rushed for his gun and fired at the fleeing figure. Depending on the way you look at it, the cook was lucky, or unlucky, to lose only one of his balls. Mazoyer has a thousand acres here and exports the best cocoa to Marseilles.

Once more I enjoyed the fine island hospitality. Mazoyer is a man in his late 40s with a wild history. Now, on his own hearth, nursing his cat, he is a kindly and interesting host.

It was near midnight when the two plantation Boys rowed Maurice and me to the ship.

Across the dark lagoon came the strains of Mazoyer’s bugle farewelling us. The last call at night: ‘Extinguish all lights.’

It was barely 18 months later that I was shocked to get word from friends that Paul Mazoyer, anchored in a remote bay in north-western Malekula, had his fine little ketch suddenly surrounded by hostile war canoes. Mazoyer and his crew died bloodily, exacting a heavy toll from their attackers.

The next weeks were spent trading and collecting or failing to collect copra around the Banks group what islands are more lonely and beautiful than these? at Santo’s Big Bay, Port Olry, and Hog Harbour, then Aoba, Maewo, Pentecost, and wild Ambrym, with its flutes and volcanoes. Then on to and Epi, whence the run south to Port-Vila was uneventful, and a little saddening for me: goodbyes were in the offing.

I spent 12 days in Vila waiting for the Morinda. On the sixth day the Mirani left for Erromango, with Maurice. I watched her till she was hull down, and above her a long thin stream of smoke drifted lazily away. The Mirani had taken part of me with her.

There were days of incessant rain, days of cloudless skies, and days the colour of gun metal, with the sun hung in the afternoon sky as if drawn down by a sextant.

I had wonderful dinners with Marc, Les Love, a nice lass called Paulette, and Charles.

Marc, Les and Charles were all doing a stint ashore, thank goodness. I enjoyed the hospitality of Madame Reid’s, and renewed acquaintance with the turtle, Doy, giggling Lucy and the decorative, doll-like little Quan who gave me breakfast. I must not forget the games of poker with a Noumean Capitaine of the Gendarmerie, and once I had dinner aboard the Polyn'esien. Then the Polyn'esien left for the Wallis, and it became urgently necessary for me to return home. ‘Wild Ambrym' with its volcanoes... picture by Allan Holmes 50 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 YESTERDAY

BOOKS New Caledonia 1940-42 Australia and the Free French: A difficult but fruitful union The Cross of Lorraine in the South Pacific Australia and the Free French Movement 1940-1942. By John Lawrey.

Published by the Journal of Pacific History, Canberra, 1982. vii 142 pp. 5A8.50. ISBN 0 99595477 1 I.

As a young man in the period 1940-43 John Lawrey spent more than two years in Noumea as assistant to B. C. Ballard, the Australian Government representative there. He therefore witnessed, and sometimes took part in, events described in this book.

But he writes: T have striven... to keep fallible memory in its proper, subordinate place; the account now given is founded essentially on the extensive documentation now available to researchers in the Australian, British and United States archives, and on such trustworthy French sources as I found accessible despite the 50-year rule still applied to French official records.’

He is as good as his word. His text is practically devoid of personal reminiscences, but references to his sources, together with a good index, occupy almost 20 pages at the back of the book.

With a lifetime of writing serious reports on serious matters behind him (he has served as Australian ambassador to countries as significant as Spain, Egypt and the USSR), John Lawrey excels at sticking to his theme which, in his own words, is ‘to set the development of the Free French movement, and Australia’s cooperation with it, in the context of the contemporary political and strategic situation’. This he does in a masterly manner, disentangling the thread of his narrative unerringly from the vast mass of material before him.

It must be said, however, that his method has the defects of its qualities. The nub of his subject is the circumstances in which the Free French movement prevailed in New Caledonia in September, 1940, the role played by Australia in these events, and their enormously beneficial effects on Allied fortunes in the Pacific War which broke out in December, 1941.

He pursues this theme with such single-mindedness that, for example, Tahiti’s adherence to the Free French cause is referred to in a single phrase. A few paragraphs on what happened in Tahiti, and why, would surely not have been out of place. Likewise ‘the lamentable battle of Oran’ (which resulted in victory for the Vichy forces who held this Algerian city until it fell to the Allies in November, 1942) is referred to only in the five words quoted above, as if all Mr Lawrey’s readers are as steeped in the history of World War II as he undoubtedly is.

There are other, similar examples.

But these points seem not much more than quibbles when set against the dignity and authority of Lawrey’s text as a whole.

The book opens with a notably humane and sensitive account of the French conquest of New Caledonia from 1853 onwards, the nature of the society implanted there (with particular reference to the pernicious effects of the penalcolony system), and the fate of the indigenous Melanesian population.

He provides a vivid account of the utter confusion reigning in the colony following the fall of France in June 1940, the generally pusillanimous behaviour of local French officialdom, the trifling impact made at first by de Gaulle’s call to resistance from his base in London, and then the gradual emergence, especially in ‘the bush’ outside Noumea, of a popular groundswell of support among French settlers for de Gaulle and the Free French cause. This upsurge culminated in the ousting of a pro-Vichy governor on September 19, 1940, and his replacement by the Gaullist supporter, Henri Sautot.

The whole thing, Lawrey writes, ‘had been achieved by local French effort, with decisive, though circumspect, Australian support’.

Sautot, a key figure in the whole drama, had been French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, where he rallied practically the whole French population to de Gaulle’s side.

He was conveyed from Port- Vila, under the protection of the Australian cruiser HMAS Adelaide , to Noumea to assume the governorship of New Caledonia to which he had been appointed by General de Gaulle. The Adelaide, under the extraordinarily able Captain H. A. Showers, RAN, remained in Noumea long enough to secure the peaceful departure from the port of the French sloop Dumont d’Urville, which had come from Papeete to promote the interests of the Vichy regime. The ship’s departure was a decisive element in consolidating the infant Gaullist administration ashore.

The subsequent active Australian economic and defence relationships with New Caledonia are described in detail and with due attention to their delicate nature, given French sensitivities on matters of sovereignty, which were especially great at the Gaullist headquarters in far-off London.

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the work in New Caledonia in 1941-42 of the Australian army’s No. 3 Independent Company, a small guerrilla unit of about 300 men. They represented the only Australian force available to strengthen New Caledonia’s defence following the outbreak of the Pacific War, and did remarkably effective work until they were withdrawn after US forces had arrived in strength.

Lawrey’s bias always most discreetly expressed, it must be said is understandably in the direction of a favourable appraisal of Australian official actions. But he is far from blind to the contemporary realities.

He frankly acknowledges that the involvement of the Adelaide in New Caledonia came about as the result of British urging.

Giving full personal credit to the then Australian Prime Minister R. G. Menzies for acceding to British appeals concerning the Adelaide, and for the general policy of Australian cooperation with the Free French movement, he nevertheless writes: Australia at this time was in a quasicolonial situation, locked firmly and voluntarily into the British imperial system. Rather than a foreign policy of its own it had a recognised but sparingly exercised right to comment on the policies developed by the United Kingdom on behalf of the empire as a whole.

In war even more than in peace Australian policies had to be harmonised with those of the United Kingdom.

The events of 1940 paved the way directly for the massive American military presence in New Caledonia, which was the pre-condition for victory in the decisive battle for Guadalcanal in 1942. Lawrey quotes the American naval historian S. E.

Morison on the Guadalcanal battle; ‘The nerve center of this campaign was not ... at Washington or Pearl Harbor, but at Noumea, where Admiral Halsey and his chief of staff. .. with about 15 seasoned staff officers and 50 blue-jackets ran the entire South Pacific Force of Navy, Army, Marine Corps. .

Lawrey’s concluding paragraph pulls his whole story together in typically authoritative fashion; . . . Without straying unduly into the realm of conjecture it is possible to reflect on the complications that would have arisen if a Vichy regime, destined inevitably to toe the Japanese line, had been allowed to take hold in the South Seas. In 1940 the ralliement of New Caledonia had been a close-run thing, but fortune had favoured the brave and skilful. One of Australia’s first genuine foreign policy decisions had been forced on it, with the happiest results, but the harmonious merging of this modest beginning into the great events of 1942-45 should not obscure the fact that the successful execution of Menzies’ bold decision to co-operate with the Free French was the achievement of a tiny group of men on the ground Australian, British and French. In this corner of the world Allied co-operation was a reality and, whatever may be thought of New Caledonia’s history as a French colony, no man of goodwill can fail to rejoice in that, nor in the way thus prepared for the territory’s reunion with a liberated France.

One startling new fact learned by this reviewer from Lawrey’s book is that the warm and engaging character, Sautot, after having been arrested and deported from New Caledonia to London on the orders of de Gaulle’s handpicked emissary, the decidedly weird Rear- Admiral Georges Thierry d’Argenlieu, actually contemplated killing de Gaulle, whose cause he had served with outstanding courage and devotion from the beginning. Lawrey writes: In 1950 the present writer called on Sautot at Noumea, of which town he had been elected mayor, and expressed regret at having been unable to keep the appointment accorded him in May 1942 (he was arrested just before the time of the appointment). The ex-Governor at once began to recount, emotionally and at length, his journey to London and the disillusioning meeting with his hero de Gaulle. For the most part he was recapitulating what had already been written in his book published a year before. But there was something new.

Launched into an account of his London tribulations, he said, ‘And then I decided I had to kill General de Gaulle’. Sensing an incredulous reaction, such as he may well have encountered elsewhere for no one who knew him could believe that he would wait seven years to recount such a story he insisted that he had reached the conclusion that political assassination had become his duty, to be performed during one of de Gaulle’s morning walks in Pall Mall. He had been dissuaded only at the last moment, he said, by a French priest to whom he made his confession at Westminster Cathedral.

It will never be known how much French history may have been influenced by the quick reaction of that unknown priest. . .

It is a great pity that the Australian National University’s Printing Service which set the type for the book apparently does not run to a fount equipped with French accents. The washed-out-looking, handadded, little blobs that do duty for accents in the book sit oddly with the high professionalism of a text which they conspicuously fail to adorn. Apart from this, the physical production of the book is first-rate.

Malcolm Salmon.

Yea and nay on Melanesian Way The Melanesian Way: Total Cosmic Vision of Life. By Bernard Narakobi and Others.

Published by the Institute of Papua New Guinea studies.

Between 1976 and 1978 the Papua New Guinea Post- Courier published a lengthy series of articles by Bernard Narakobi under the general title ‘Melanesian Voice’. The articles were penetrating and provocative, and drew comments from readers ranging from the adulatory to the abusive.

The articles, and still more the comments, were of very variable quality and value, but by and large they were well worth gathering together in a permanent form as has been done here.

Was there in the past a distinctive and tolerably uniform lifestyle which can properly be described as ‘the Melanesian Way’? And, if so, can it survive impact with the lifestyle of the Western world?

My answers would be ‘Yes’ to the first question and ‘No’ to the second.

As I understand it, the Melanesian Way was a lifestyle which was communalistic and egalitarian, making its decisions by consensus and achieving its aims by co-operation. It emerged in small communities, in a moneyless, subsistence economy, which lacked crops which could be stored for any but quite short periods.

Affluence by hoarding was impossible the best that could be aimed at was prestige by giving away. The Melanesian Way was egalitarian because it had to be, not because of some inward urge to egalitarianism Sautot meets de Gaulle 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 BOOKS

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deeply implanted in the Melanesian soul. The course of events in Papua New Guinea in the years since independence has made it clear that, given the chance, Melanesians can be just as individualistic, just as selfish and just as grasping as the rest of us no more and no less.

Here, as all over the world, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that there aren’t some aspects of the Melanesian Way which could be incorporated into the Papua New Guinean life-style.

There are notably the use of consultation and consensus to a far greater extent than at present. But even here I notice an increasing tendency for Papua New Guineans in the seats of power to say, ‘Don’t argue, I’m the boss, do as I tell you’.

I knew and admired the Melanesian Way, in a still relatively unpolluted form, before Bernard Narakobi was born. It gives me no pleasure to write its epitaph. But sorry Bernard, there’s no way back to the Garden of Eden. (Sir) Percy Chatterton. (The above review was originally broadcast by the Papua New Guinea National Broadcasting Commission.) Maoridom lias a new voire Whaanga. Published by the New Zealand Department of Maori Affairs, Private Bag, Wellington. Subscription SNZS for six issues a year, available from the department.

Overseas subscribers, $7.50.

The New Zealand Department of Maori Affairs has taken a praiseworthy initiative in publishing Tu Tangata , a magazine featuring news and views on Maoridom. The editor, Philip Whaanga, says that the magazine will carry ‘regular features on politics, community happenings, health, people and arts’, and that ‘Tu Tangata wants to promote discussion especially on contentious issues, but it should be noted that opinions expressed are those of individual contributors and not the Department of Maori Affairs’.

The magazine is produced to the highest professional standards and is printed by the New Zealand Government Printer.

The range of articles included in the issue I received would be of interest to a wide range of readers, both Maori and non- Maori. The editor appears to have been allowed to operate even-handedly, as equal coverage has been given to the views of the main Maori political groupings and their attitudes towards Maori political representation.

However, I have an uneasy feeling that perhaps the magazine is adopting a rather ethnocentric attitude. I hope that it will not establish a narrow approach: New Zealand is home to the world’s largest Polynesian population, New Zealand Maoris, Cook Islanders, Samoans, Niueans, Tokelauans, and others. But the only reference in the issue I read to the existence in New Zealand of the island Polynesians was that Dorice Read, a Rarotongan, is a National Party candidate for the Auckland Central Parliamentary seat. Interestingly enough, Mrs Read is listed together with National Party Maori candidates.

Tu Tangata needs to be nurtured and given the chance to establish its credentials as a respected vehicle for the expression of opinions generated from Maoridom. It is to be hoped that it will continue to reflect all shades of the political spectrum and that it will reveal the strengths of Maoridom to all sections of the New Zealand populance.

W. G. Coppell.

'How' of easing women's load Knowing and Knowing How.

Edited and compiled by Vanessa Griffen. Published by the Centre for Applied Studies in Development, University of the South Pacific Women’s Programme.

Women the world over receive less help than men from development and funding agencies, and often their own authorities.

They have less education, less training, credit, equipment, seeds, technical assistance, than men. This is also true in the South Pacific, in total disregard of women’s vital role in subsistence agriculture and village support, especially in Melanesia.

Women are child-bearers, and responsible for family welfare. They are often heads of families (husbands being elsewhere), they are food producers and processers, food storers and marketers. Figures from Solomon Islands at a South Pacific Commission Women’s Workshop gave a much lower life expectancy for women than men this is against all world trends, and clearly the result of heavy subsistence labour, and too frequent child-bearing.

A concerted effort to ‘lighten the load’ is indicated, and technologies can be one method the provision of tools. Additionally, technologies have status (which is why they are largely in the hands of men).

Technologies bridge the muscle-power gap between the sexes, and reduce powerlessness in many areas.

The Centre for Applied Studies in Development, Vanessa Griffen, and the Women’s Programme Director, Claire Slatter, are to be commended therefore for their book, a milestone in the process of meeting the above problems.

These are stated clearly in an excellent introduction. The book assembles immensely valuable material in the fields which most affect women’s daily lives: cooking and the energy required for it, water and sanitation, household improvements, food preservation, housing. Throughout the book the ‘how to make’ directions are simple and clear, with good supporting diagrams.

This writer has worked with groups in many of the technologies described, and feels confident that field workers will be able to use the manual in most situations, give the support often needed in tools and material by the authorities.

The real problem will be dissemination a continuing worry in the South Pacific.

More books will follow in the series, on health, nutrition, food production, and income-earning activities for women. They are eagerly awaited.

Ruth E.

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Hooks received Papua New Guinea’s Prehistory: An Introduction. Prepared by Pamela Swadling. Published by the National Museum & Art Gallery, PO Box 5560, Boroko, PNG, in association with Gordon & Gotch (PNG) Pty Ltd. ISBN 0 7247 0869 3. Price $l.OO.

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. By Gordon W. Prange.

Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London, distributed by Thomas Nelson Australia, 480 La Trobe Street, Melbourne 3000. ISBN 0 7181 20906. Pub 1982. Recommended price $25.80.

Air Raid: Pearl Harbor Recollections of a Day of Infamy. Edited by Paul Stillwell. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 0 87021 086 6. No price available.

Losing Control ... Towards an Understanding of Transnational Corporations in the Pacific Islands Context. By James E Winkler. Published by the Pacific Conference of Churches, PO Box 208, Suva, Fiji. Price SF2.

Building a Pacific Community: The Addresses and Papers of the Pacific Community Lecture Series. Edited and Introduced by Paul Hooper. Published by the University Press of Hawaii, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. ISBN 0 8248 0790 1. Price $9.95. Pub. 1982.

Anuta: Social Structure of a Polynesian Island. By Richard Fineberg. Published by the Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus. Laie, Hawaii 96792. Price $8.50. ISBN 0 939154 24 2 (hard cover) ISBN 0 939154 23 4 (soft cover).

Oral Tradition in Melanesia. Edited by Donald Denoon and Roderick Lacey.

Published by the University of Papua New Guinea and the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Port Moresby. No ISBN or price given.

Millstones and Milestones: The Career of B.F. Dillingham. By Paul Yardley. Published by the University Press of Hawaii, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. ISBN 0 8248 0761 8. Price $17.50. Pub. 1982.

Eruera: The Teachings of a Maori Elder.

Eruera Stirling as told to Anne Salmond.

Published by Oxford University Press, 222-236 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 0 19 558070 2 paper, ISBN 0 19 558069 9 cloth. Price $24.

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Words of The Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia, by R.E. Johannes. Published by University of California Press, distributed by Australia & New Zealand Book Co Pty Ltd, PO Box 459, Brookvale, NSW 2100. Pub. 1981. ISBN 0 520 03929 7. Price: $23.50.

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TRADE WINDS Getting up after Isaac: 2 years in Tongatapu, Vavau, 8 in Haapai?

PENNY HODGKINSON reports from Nukualofa on Tonga’s economic outlook following Cyclone Isaac on March 3 and a second, more localised, cyclone which hit Tongatapu on May 30.

Tonga’s predominantly agricultural economy could take two full years to recover from the March 3 cyclone disaster. But limited exports of vanilla and sweet potatoes are expected before the end of this year, and it is hoped that manioc and taro will be added to next year’s list.

However, yam and copra exports are unlikely to resume before 1984.

This was the forecast made by Director of Agriculture T.

Simiki on May 28 just two days before another severe though more localised cyclone hit the main island, Tongatapu, extensively damaging crops and buildings in the Eastern District which had escaped comparatively unscathed from Cyclone Isaac.

The second blow in both senses of the word will inevitably distort the recovery picture and further delay the agricultural recovery on which Tonga’s economic future depends so heavily.

Even if Tongatapu and Vavau still manage to swing back to normal within the predicted two-year period, recovery in the central island group of Haapai will be a much longer and more difficult process.

The population there relies almost entirely on subsistence crops, fishing, and copra as a cash-earner. With 50 percent of coconut palms, and most fishing boats and plantation areas destroyed by Isaac, it could be as much as eight years before the Haapai people struggle back to their pre-cyclone living standard.

To speed up the process, the Agriculture Department is already experimenting with the development of alternative cash crops in this area (such as vanilla and black pepper), and seeking the rapid replacement of small boats, fishing gear and cold storage facilities.

Mr Simiki sees copra as the key income-earner for the foreseeable future, both as an export and as the basis for local production of coconut oil, desiccated coconut, and soap, despite the worrying drop in world prices caused by increased oil palm production in Asia and Papua New Guinea. ‘We haven’t the climate or the area for oil palms,’ he says, ‘so we’ll have to stick with copra and concentrate on increasing nut output per palm.’

Asked about rumours that the new desiccated coconut factory an ultra-modern Australian aid design-and-build project is encountering major problems, Mr Simiki admitted that ‘bugs in the technology’ were causing headaches concerning both quality and quantity of production.

Also, heating by electricity was proving an extremely expensive alternative to the simple, lowcost system of burning coconut husks as used in the old factory.

On the subject of commercial fishing, long a problem in Tonga, the director said the picture was looking considerably brighter.

The new Japanese-aid tuna vessel Lofa had caught and sold more fish in its first three months of operation than the combined output of previous Fisheries vessels over a full year. This he attributed partly to the excellent equipment and conditions aboard the vessel, and partly to a new system under which captain and crew plan their own operations on a bonus scheme basis that motivates them to put in as much time at sea as possible.

On the broad economic front, economists at the Central Planning Department say that the 1980-85 Development Plan IV will continue to be implemented, but will need to be modified to incorporate rehabilitation projects ahead of some planned development projects.

The rehabilitation programme will come under the direction of the Disaster Relief Control Office, which is to remain in existence for two years. Most of the programme will be funded from overseas aid money. But it is not yet clear to what extent this will be finance diverted from development projects, as distinct from new supplementary assistance.

The drop in exports and rise In the wake of Isaac - RAAF picture by Barry Coyles. 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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My address: Phone; in imports as a direct result of Cyclone Isaac will almost certainly exacerbate the kingdom’s already massive visible trade deficit problem, and there are other cyclone-linked factors which are bound to depress the 1982 revenue flow.

For example, all relief supplies coming into Tonga (and to some degree replacing normal imports) are free of the usual port and customs charges.

Again, agricultural extension services to farmers, the supply of tractors and other equipment from the Government machinery pool, etc, are being provided free or at cost, instead of at normal rates. Likewise, fees, at all government schools have been waived for two terms to assist family rehabilitation.

Remittances from Tongans working overseas, always a significant economic factor, swelled dramatically immediately after Isaac, but have since fallen back. At this stage it looks as if the 1982 total will be no higher than average.

Broadly speaking, the private sector does not appear to have been badly affected. Numerous small Tongan corner-stores were demolished. Very few were insured. However, the larger retail outlets have probably received a boost. What damage they suffered was fully insured against, and business has boomed since March 3 as householders flock to purchase what they need to get going again.

Both the private and government building sectors are, of course, hyper-active. The government construction firm and the handful of private building contractors are flat out coping with the post-cyclone demand for repair and replacement work, and the Ministry of Works’ prefabrication line for manufacturing 2000 cycloneresistant‘core houses’is already in full production, The sharp increase in building and agricultural activity in cyclone-ravaged areas has had the incidental benefit of generating more jobs, but full employment is still a pipe dream in Tonga, particularly for those who leave school with School Certificate or UE qualifications and search in vain for appropriate job openings.

The number of families still living in the post-Isaac tent towns is gradually decreasing but a large question mark still hangs over the heads of the hard-core remainder of homeless and helpless.

The official attitude, in this Non-Welfare State, is ‘No more help for those who do not help themselves’. This rugged insistence on the self-help principle is admirable in theory. But it does not solve the problem of where to begin, if one has no land, no home, no money, no job and little or no chance of finding one.

The consensus seems to be that the March 3 kick-in-theteeth was a ST2S million one.

The second cyclone on May 30 has added to the bill, and the problems. But Tonga is still determined to pick herself up again within two years. ‘Business talk’ risk in PNG Tourists in Papua New Guinea on a 30-day visa are liable to fines or expulsion if they ‘talk business’ with locals. The threat came from Foreign Affairs and Trade Secretary Paulias Matane, who said foreign businessmen were entering the country as tourists and then attempting to do business with PNG firms. The National Investment and Development Authority, which was the legitimate avenue for business negotiations, would be given daily lists of new arrivals entering on tourist visas. It is understood that the measures are directed, largely, at some Asian businessmen, particularly from the Philippines, who have proposed ‘get rich quick’ schemes to some of the provincial governments.

Tourism men honoured Bartholomew Buchanan, manager of the Solomon Islands Tourist Authority, and Marae Irata, an administrative officer in the Kiribati Department of Tourism, have been awarded the 1982 scholarships offered by the Pacific Area Travel Association, and sponsored by the Avis Corporation and Panell Kerr Forster Ltd. Each scholarship is worth SUS22SO and will cover the cost of attending a sixweeks specialised course at the University of Hawaii’s School of Travel Industry Management.

Chute’s down takeover chute The New Zealand company.

General Foods, has taken over Fiji’s biggest poultry meat firm, Chute’s Chicken Ltd of Tamavua, but the purchase price has not been disclosed.

Chute’s Chicken has more than 100 staff including farming and process workers. Bob Fyfe, managing director of General Foods, said he plans to open a fried chicken takeaway shop in Suva in July.

Bonuses at Monasavu Nearly 500 Fiji construction workers, who will lose their jobs by August when the Monasavu hydro-electric project is completed, will be given more than $BOO each as a bonus. It will cost the Fiji Electricity Authority more than $142 000 in redundancy pay and bonus.

According to an FEA spokesman, the payment to each man includes a ‘generous completion bonus’ averaging $292 in recognition of the high quality of the work and completion ahead of schedule resulting in an estimated saving to the FEA of $1.2 million.

Fuaamotu to light up Runway lighting is to be installed at Tonga’s international airport this year.

A New Zealand bilateral aid project, the work will enable Fuaamotu airport, situated on the main island of Tongatapu, to handle regular night services by jet aircraft. It will also make the airport safer for emergency flights during the hours of darkness.

Although the equipment has all been ordered, installation is affected by a proposal to extend the runway by 120 metres. The United Nations Development Programme is funding the ex- 58 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 TRADEWINDS

tension work. There is provision in the lighting project to cover the extension.

The lighting scheme is expected to cost SNZ7S 000.

New fishmarket for Apia Western Samoa’s new fishmarket on the waterfront at Apia was handed over to the government at the end of May.

The market, financed by the Japanese Government to the tune of SUS 3 million, consists in the main of a U-shaped wharfing area, a fishmarket and equipment. One section of the wharf is for large ships and there are hoists for lifting marine engines needing repair, four 12.5-tonne refrigeration units, storerooms, a sales counter and ancillary offices. Main contractors were Rinkai Construction and Nippon Tetropod, both of Japan.

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Workers employed by Airport Terminal Services (Fiji) Ltd at Nadi Airport are hoping to hand SFIOOOOO to the company to add to $lOO 000 they’ve already invested in the company through their trust fund.

This will bring them to within two percent of workers’ control of the company. The latest payment will give them a 49 percent share. The first instalment of $lOO 000 was backpay to last September, and contributions they have been making fortnightly from their pay.

Hopes pinned on Mexican Mollie Fiji’s Ika Corporation is hoping to increase its annual catch of skipjack tuna by 50 percent with the aid of the Mexican Mollie, a small fish imported from Western Samoa to form the nucleus of a fishbait farm.

The farm is under construction at Togalevu on Viti Levu. The fishing fleet of 14 boats has relied on catching bait while on fishing trips, an operation which takes up time that should be spent fishing for tuna. If the farm is successful, the fleet can carry its bait from port.

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A new look, and on the go for profitable ’Bos STUART INDER talks to KENNETH HEDDLE, managing director of Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, about the company’s active planning for diversification and expansion, which, according to Mr Heddle, will ensure the company’s profit growth in 12 to 18 months.

Although overall Pacific Islands trade is in severe recession, and Papua New Guinea is having its toughest year in a decade, Kenneth Heddle is confident, even optimistic, about the future profit growth of the Burns Philp Group. ‘Look at it this way,’ he says from behind his Port Moresby desk. ‘ln almost 100 years of history, the Islands have made a significant contribution to Burns Philp’s success. ‘Now the Islands are in serious recession here in PNG we’ve only just reached the bottom of it, and I think we are going to bump along the bottom for the next 12 to 18 months. ‘But in the meantime, as a result of a very sensible diversification policy, the group has strongly developed its Australian operations and is not so dependent on the Islands. ‘Now, when we in the Islands come out of this recession and start adding to the impact of that steady Australian growth, well, I think you could visualise some most exciting results!’

Kenneth Heddle is 50 and a Scot, originally from Glasgow like the original Philp. He was appointed managing director of Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd 18 months ago after spending the major part of his business career in senior management positions in the developing world Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia.

Burns Philp got him from Wilkinson Sword, where for four years he had been regional director Middle East and Africa.

The recession in PNG had only just begun when he arrived he says it really bit savagely from July last year but after 90 years in PNG, Burns Philp’s image and direction were in need of rethinking, and Heddle was invited to do it with full support from the parent company in Sydney.

The plantation division, which now reports to Sydney, is to come under his direction too on July 1.

Burns Philp (PNG) has, as Heddle says, made a significant contribution to the group which will celebrate its centenary in 1983. James Burns chose Port Moresby in 1891 for his first branch in the South Pacific by buying, for shares, the pioneering Andrew Goldie’s trade store and 50 acres of land.

Burns Philp (PNG) is considerably bigger than Burns Philp (South Sea), which runs the Fiji, Tonga and Samoa operations. For most of its life it has been the largest company in PNG, and is only surpassed now by Bougainville Copper Ltd.

It employs 5000 people, is 32 percent locally owned (26 percent held for the PNG Government by the PNG Investment Corporation), with local ownership projected to rise to 40 percent over the next 18 to 24 months, depending on the state of the market.

Total assets are about KB5 million (about $ All 3 million).

But this figure is expected to drop by about KlO million next year which is a clue to Burns Philp’s new strategy in PNG. ‘We’ve taken stock of what we own and what we want to do, and we have too much of what we don’t need,’ says Mr Heddle. ‘We’re disposing sensibly of the excess so we can concentrate on what we do best automotive, shipping and transport, a growing industrial division, and of course our very large merchandising business, particularly the wholesale.’

Burns Philp is hiving off the small businesses which once earned it the reputation of being a corporate octopus (although Mr Heddle feels that the public has never appreciated just how much BPs has ploughed back into the country in that time).

Picture theatres, liquor taverns, small retail stores in Bulolo, Wau, Dam, Kokopo and Samarai have been sold or are for sale. The taverns should all have gone by the end of the year. Port Moresby’s old Papuan Theatre has been bought for redevelopment by businessman Hugo Berghuser.

It’s not true any more, if it ever was, that every second commercial site in Port Moresby’s town area is owned by Burns Philp and the others by Steamships Trading Co.

Burns Philp has sold off more than K 2 million’s worth of town property in the last 12 months, and the only significant superfluous block still to be sold is the Port Moresby Hotel the Bottom Pub (to distinguish it from the Papua Hotel, or Top Kenneth Heddle 59 TRADEWINDS PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982

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He’s hopeful that the surplus property can be got into local hands, and is prepared to look at joint ventures. Residential property is not for sale the company can use all it has as part of its policy of upgrading staff quarters.

BP will sell all its small retail outlets. Under recent new laws many types of small businesses will have to be 50 percent locally owned anyway, but Burns Philp sees sense in selling the stores to local businessmen who want to grow bigger. BP’s wholesale division can service a growing chain of retail outlets no matter who owns them its Port Moresby wholesale store, worth more than K 1 million, contains K 5 to K 6 million worth of goods at any one time.

In Australia in the early days Burns Philp based its expansion on wholesale operations, selling many of the goldfields trade stores it acquired to its managers on condition they continued to buy wholesale from the firm.

Burns Philp’s bigger retail stores, which it is retaining, are changing their image too. In the main Port Moresby store, buyers won’t find large stocks of Stuart crystal and Wedgwood pottery as in the old days.

Papua New Guineans now comprise 75 percent of the buying power, says Mr Heddle, and although a growing middle class urban population has the money to buy Wedgwood, and is buying Wedgwood, there is not the need for the same range of stocks now that the expatriate population is dwindling. ‘We must look to serve our main market, and expatriate ranks will continue to thin,’ said Mr Heddle.

He’s changing the image in other ways. BP buildings are being smartened up and painted in standard colours. The Burns Philp house flag is appearing on vehicles and buildings throughout the country, for Mr Heddle looks on it as an image-builder. ‘When I travel I find people recognise it now, and sometimes even wave,’ he says.

He’s considerably expanded staff training. A fully qualified accountant is looking after commercial training and eight girls are always in training in the company’s secretarial school. ‘We’ve the best training and development department in the country,’ he says. ‘We’ve taken positive measures to beef it up so we can train citizen staff to be future managers. ‘And we are actively looking for two prominent Papua New Guineans for our board and I don’t mean window-dressing.’

The training of nationals doesn’t mean there are not good opportunities for Australians in the meantime.

Mr Heddle says: ‘We are very keen to attract bright young Australians prepared to adjust to this society for a period of three to four years. They will be given responsibility and authority early, and they will get tremendous experience from it, which will stand them in very good stead in their future career development. But they must be young managers interested in helping to develop this country.’

All these changes are aimed at making the company more efficient. For expansion he is looking at the company’s manufacturing base, which is currently seven to eight percent of its business. His target is 25 pfercent.

Because of PNG’s unique problems of terrain with a high central mountain barrier on the main island so there is no trans-island road, or any possibility of one being economically viable for many years Mr Heddle sees great opportunities for small factories. ‘lf there is not the volume of goods from a factory in, say, Port Moresby to support shipping costs to the other side, then you build another factory on the other side,’ he says. ‘You can establish similar plants in several locations, and instead of having a KlO million turnover in one spot, you have five factories each with a turnover of K 2 million at strategic spots around the country. This development is already happening and, frankly, it’s going to continue because of the difficulties 60 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JULY, 1982 TRADEWINDS

and costs of road building.’

Factories can concentrate usefully on import substitution, such as in the manufacture of bleach, detergent and soap powder, which he says can be brought into the country in bulk or concentrate, processed, packed in conjunction with the company’s interests in packaging operations, and distributed through the company’s own distribution network, which is the largest in the country.

Mr Meddle is optimistic in the long term about Burns Philp’s plantation operations, despite substantial losses last year and more losses this year.

The uneconomic units among the company’s 21 PNG plantations have had to be closed or put on a care and maintenance basis, and hundreds of workers have been laid off. Copra and coffee prices have fallen by half since 1980, cocoa and oil palm by more than 30 percent. ‘We are talking continuously to see what we can do,’ he says. ‘The plantation industry is not dead but it’s flat on its back and the referee has got to a count of eight. We need significant increase in coconut and cocoa yields plus an increase in area in the main plantations.’

He sees the yield problem being resolved in time with the development of higher yielding hybrids. It can’t be done overnight, but he says that Burns Philp will continue to be involved with primary industry.

Meanwhile he is not despondent at the effects of the general recession, although it has knocked more than 30 percent off the important automotive industry in the last 12 months, and hit general sales. The recession is hurting disposable income which, he feels, is struggling to keep up with inflation. ‘We are having our toughest year, I should think, in the last decade,’ he says. ‘But we are busy streamlining the organisation, getting it leaner and fitter. ‘Being broadly based we have the organisational and financial strength to weather the storm, and we are preparing now for the emergence from recession in 12 to 18 months. ‘When that happens, we shall be a damn sight better at our job.’

Te Tautai: A gift to Tuvalu from Japan A 173-tonne fishing vessel Te Tautai has been handed over to Tuvalu as a gift from the Japanese Government. Te Tautai (‘Master Fisherman’) is a fisheries training vessel valued at SUSI. 6 million which was designed and built especially for the training of Tuvalu fishermen.

The vessel will operate initially under a management contract to the Ika Corporation of Fiji and will fish as part of the Ika fleet. On board are four Japanese experts, 22 Tuvaluans and four Fijians.

At the official handing-over ceremony, Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Dr Tomasi Puapua said that Tuvalu’s economic future should be based on its marine resources and that he had every confidence that Te Tautai would have a bright future.

Representing Japan was Mr Tekaiama from the Japanese Embassy in Fiji, Mr Morita from Taiyo Fishing Company, the consultants, and Mr lisaku from the shipbuilders, lisaku Shipping Company.

The vessel is capable of both long-line tuna fishing and pole and line skipjack fishing, and both methods will be taught by the Japanese experts on board.

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Rendova bought The Solomon Islands Western Provincial Assembly has agreed to buy for $S 193 000 the Rendova Harbour plantation which covers 666 hectares in the northwest of Rendova main island and three smaller islands.

The owner is Commander Scott Elliot, who took over from Lever Brothers after World War 11. He ran the plantation more as a social experiment than a commercial venture, building a school and church, providing playing fields and, for plantation workers, pay scales based on service, a beer canteen and paid holidays.

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This listening watch is kept daily on many yachts and in countless shore stations throughout the Pacific as fellow hams are linked together by the crisscrossing of RF waves bouncing off the reflective layers of the earth’s ionosphere.

There are increasing numbers of such SOLAS nets operated by amateur radio operators and dedicated to Safety Of Life At Sea. Widely spaced base stations stand by faithfully to pick up and relay signals from yachts and ships wishing to check in with daily position reports. Net Controls with the help of their shore relays accept and record check-ins, supplying weather forecasts, medical advice, mechanical, and other technical expertise, as requested, shepherding their flock of ships safely into port, while a throng of silent listeners are at their mikes ready to help out if necessary. This unique and invaluable service is deeply appreciated by those of us who stand to benefit from the dedicated vigilance of net members. ‘Hams’ are licensed amateur radio operators running experimental radio stations from their homes. They constitute a global fraternity which has grown up with radio itself.

Often designing and building their own equipment, they have been instrumental in furthering the state of the art. Noted for public service during such disasters as earthquakes, floods and forest fires, typhoons and tornadoes, they are sometimes able to supply communication when all other means fail.

Their ‘ham shacks’ may house tiers of electronic equipment representing thousands of dollars. Linear amplifiers and rotating beam antennas put them in touch with any part of the world, depending upon frequency, season, sunspot activity, ionospheric idiosyncracy, time of day or night. Or, the amateur radio station may be a single transceiver in a corner of a living room, in a car, in a plane, or aboard a yacht. For today’s compact single sideband transceivers are a far cry from the spark-gap transmitters of the turn of the century or the bulky powerhungry rigs of the more immediate past.

An astonishing multitude of cruising yachts now carry fiveband single sideband transceivers operating over many thousands of miles on the 10, 15 and 20 metre portions of the amateur radio bands, and on 40 and 80 metres for shorter-range contacts. The radios they carry may be hybrid rigs in which all stages but the final are transistorised, and where plugin printed circuit boards make servicing a simple matter. But miniature all solid-state SSB rigs are becoming increasingly popular for shipboard use for they weigh a mere three kilograms or so and draw only about 340 milliamps in receive mode.

Maritime Mobiles or Mickey Mice as they are known can be heard on the ham bands arranging a rendez-vous, exchanging information on approaches and anchorages, organising the forwarding of mail, or engaging in a companionable rag-chewing ‘QSO’.

There is nothing like a chat with folks back home to reassure them of your safety at sea, via ‘phone patches’ in countries where third-party traffic is permitted. Cooperative land stations ‘patch’ the voyager into their telephone systems, the understanding being that no business or commercial messages may be passed.

A licence is required to operate an amateur radio station. International agreements require amateurs to be familiar with radio operation, regulations and theory, and to be able to communicate in Morse code. This latter ability can be important in emergencies when voice may be unintelligible because of poor propagation, low batteries, or an overcrowded band. Meteorological info transmitted in ‘cw’ can be used to construct weather charts. One chap we know tapes the broadcasts to copy at a slower speed.

It is essential to get a ham licence before setting out on a cruise for it is very difficult or even impossible to obtain one once out of home waters. Some foreign nations will issue temporary licences for use within their own territorial waters application to be made at the communications office on arrival. Otherwise use of the ham rig can be limited to emergencies only, at which time amateur radio operators may help a stricken vessel without fear of unlawfully working an unlicensed station.

For those of us without a technical background, getting a licence may be a challenge.

Radio clubs offer classes for beginners which some people find helpful. I used tapes to gain Morse mastery, finding several short practice sessions a day more effective than a single lengthy period of study. To bone up on basic electrical and radio principles and operating procedures, there are various study guides and radio publications available. Government department of communications bulletins provide knowledge of the regulations pertaining to amateur radio operation.

One of the most avid seagoing hams we know seldom leaves his boat, shunning the ‘eyeball QSO’. A prisoner to his schedules, he lives for his radio contacts, a floating troglodyte, happy to pass his time resonating his antenna, giving out signal reports, comparing rigs, or just ‘reading the mail’.

Other blue-water cruisers prefer to do without ham radio. ‘Why encumber myself with skeds?’ ‘We chose this way of life in order to get away from ringing telephones and knocks on the door.' ‘We don't want to clutter our yachts with multiband dipoles or quarter wave whips.’ ‘As a safety measure, forget it! We can’t expect anyone else to come to our aid. We are on our own.’ So go the objections.

However, most of us value contacts with friendly voices thousands of miles away, just as armchair operators enjoy vicarious adventuring with sailors on small ships.

JANE DeRIDDER reports from Kerikeri, New Zealand: • WINDSTAR. A Sparkman and Stephens 42, Windstar of Lahaina, Hawaii ventures further off the beaten track than most cruising yachts. Wally Sanger has visited Penrhyn, Rakahanga, Manihiki, the Danger Islands, Swains Island (where his was the first yacht to call in two years), Wallis and Rotuma Islands and Nauru. Windstar was nine months in Solomon Islands, and spent the 1980-81 hurricane season in Tuvalu. T can’t speak highly enough of the people here, particularly in Nanumea.’ With Merran Randall of Sydney who joined Windstar in Port-Vila, Wally managed to anchor for two nights in a roily anchorage off Norfolk Island. Here amateur radio operator John Anderson and his wife Florence showed the young couple around. John is well known to South Pacific yachtsmen for his detailed daily weather reports and forecasts to yachts making ocean passages.

Wally and Merran will head from New Zealand to Hong Kong via Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. • SHAMMY. When Bill Shamhart, general surgeon from Rosedale, California, himself underwent hand surgery, he retired early (‘Not early enough’) to cruise on his George Moore-designed, San Francisco-registered 15m ketch Shammy. Though the vessel was designed for a crew of eight, Dr Shamhart and his wife Carol usually sail the yacht themselves with the help of a British Hydrovane steering gear, a Benmar auto pilot and a 130 hp Cummins diesel.

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New Zealand from a flying visit to family in California, she will find modifications to Shammy, including a queen-sized bunk and a shower. The Shamharts hope to return to Noumea, the Loyalties and Vanuatu, then to visit Solomon Islands. • ANTARESII. A Euros 41, one of 300 or so of a series of 13m cruising yachts built by the French firm Amel, Antares II has carried Jean- Claude and Gertrude Stark and family from their home in La Rochelle to the Pacific via Madeira, the Canary Islands, Dakar, the Antilles and Venezuela. Seventeenyear-old Philippe stayed behind in Tahiti to attend school and surf-sail.

Now it is 14-year-old Frederic’s turn to exchange lessons on board for formal schooling. The family is heading next from New Zealand back to Tahiti. Retired mechanical engineer Jean-Claude says that he is incredibly lucky in that his wife adores the sea and can produce a boeuf bourguignon in winds of Force 8 or 9, at which time, ‘Curiously it seems that the sea is calm’. • RAIREVA: Peter and Sandy Oehmen, who roamed the Pacific for years on their Ingrid ketch Freyja are in Taipei overseeing the construction of their new 13.7 m cutter. A modified Peterson 44 (13.5 X 3.9 X 1.98), but custombuilt to their specifications, she’ll be named Raireva which means ‘a restless soul who sails like a cloud on the trade winds from island to island .. .’ • BREEZE. New Zealander Ralph Sewell and his family, built the brigantine Breeze in the traditional manner using adze, drawknife, slick, jack plane, caulking iron and mallet, crosscut saw and auger.

With three yards on the mainmast she is a copy of an early New Zealand coaster, built so that young people will be able to have an opportunity to know what a 19thcentury sailing ship looks like and feels like to sail and to maintain.

Planked with Coromandel kauri, fastened with copper nails and roves, caulked with oakum and cotton, she has pohutukawa knees, a coal range, a lead line and a traditional hand windlass. Shore boats are sail and oar-powered. The Sewells’ aim is to perpetuate almost forgotten arts, and to revive seamanship and self-reliance on water.

People interested in sailing in Breeze should write to Secretary, Small Ships Society, 153 Ocean View Road, Oneroha, Waiheke Island, Auckland.

TAM-TAM reports from Port-Vila: • JELLICLE. Two yachtsmen returned to Vila on May 9 after a four-month ‘walkabout’ in Sydney, Australia.

Karie Kalo, aged 18, of Lumbukuti, Tongoa, and retired British Royal Navy Commander Mike Bailes spent just over a month at sea travelling to and from Australia on Mike’s 8m yacht Jellicle, powered solely by wind.

Karie and Mike left Vila on November 18 last year for Australia.

Karie has gained sailing experience with Mike around Efate Island for the last two years and is commended by Mike as being ‘a good sailor and a good navigator’.

Karie told Tam-Tam that about 500 kilometres from Australia on their way back to Vanuatu, while they were drinking tea, their yacht accidentally ran into a whale, but luckily there was no damage done.

Mike and Karie worked a threehour shift on navigating their yacht during their 20-day trip from Sydney to Vila.

Karie said he enjoyed the trip even though at times they ran into very rough weather.

Mike is now back with the Marine Training School and Karie has joined the Fisheries Department.

Reporting on the result of the fourth Tauranga (New Zealand) Port-Vila yacht race in May, Tam- Tam said: The coveted trophy for the overall winner of the Fourth Tauranga- Vila Ocean Yacht Race was snatched by the Fidelis.

Skipper P.A. Williams said he owed the Fidelis’ success to his 10-man crew and added, ‘They are wonderful and I love them all.’

They had had exceptionally favourable weather on the way, and ‘on a good day’ they would cover more than 350 kilometres,’ he said.

The skipper said his yacht arrived at the entrance of Vila Harbour several hours ahead of the record time currently held by Nero, except that they ‘wasted’ four precious hours trying to locate the Pango Lighthouse which ‘should have been on’ to guide them in. ‘We would have broken the record had it not been for the absence of the light,’ a regretful P.A. Williams said. A Ports and Marine official admitted the light’s absence and explained that there was a minor fault with the gas lamp and that it was repaired the next morning.

The skipper said the Fidelis was the oldest yacht in the whole fleet and yet the fastest. It had participated in other international races including the Sydney-Hobart.

P.A. Williams said he would like to see the Port-Vila Yacht Club expand its activities and membership, involving all interested groups including particularly, ni-Vanuatu, and acquire more equipment.

In this year’s race, the Rhiannon The brigantine Breeze anchored in the Kerikeri Stone Store Basin in New Zealand with Ralph Sewell alongside and rowing ashore in one of the ship’s pulling boats. To the right is Margarita, of Kerikeri, another of the many vessels designed and built by Ralph Jane DeRidder picture.

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Lord Howe has a centenary A re-enactment of the April 1882 landing of the New South Wales Government team who conducted the first government survey of Lord Howe Island was staged by the islanders to commemorate the centenary of this event. Representatives from the various government departments involved in the original survey were on hand to mark the centenary. Represented were: the Department of Mines, the Department of Trigonometrical Survey, the Botanic Gardens, and the Australian Museum. The chief photographer from the Government Printing Office was present. Also there was the historian of the Burns Philp company.

Descendants of the 46 1882 inhabitants of Lord Howe Island greeted the landing party. Their parts were played by longtime residents. All taking part in the re-enactment wore period costumes. The parts of Nathan Chase Thompson and family to whom so many of the present-day inhabitants are related were acted by Nathan’s grandson Paul Thompson and his wife and children. A Channel 9 television team was on hand to make a documentary of the centenary festivities which included a picnic, 1882-style, a concert, and a retaking of the 19 views contained in the 1882 report by the government printing office photographer.

Jim Dorman, curator of the Lord Howe Island Museum and his committee arranged to republish the 1882 report. The “Report of the Present and Future Prospects of Lord Howe Island” by the Honourable J.

Bowie Wilson (Thomas Richard, Government Printer, 1882) is on sale for SAIS. In addition, as a collector’s item, a limited red leather-bound edition of the report signed by Premier Neville Wran, and the ex-governor of NSW, Sir Roden Cutler, is being sold at $lOO a copy. Proceeds of its sale will go to the Lord Howe Island Museum. The original 19 glass plates were used to reproduce the photographs.

It was following the Honourable J. Bowie Wilson’s farsighted recommendations accompanying the 1882 report that the present government policy of preservation and restraint was instigated, the result of which has been the retention of Lord Howe Island’s unique and unspoiled character.

Jane DeRidder.

NZ radio to cut Islands service?

New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Warren Cooper favours ending his country’s shortwave broadcasts to the Pacific as a cost-cutting exercise.

The government has called on all its departments to cut costs by three percent and Mr Cooper has apparently eyed the SNZ2OO 000 spent annually on keeping the South Pacific abreast of events in New Zealand. He pointed to that sum when talking to journalists and to ‘a couple of archaic transmitters’ that might need to be replaced for $6 million.

According to Mr Cooper, came second and the Nero which set the record at seven days, 13 hours and 43 minutes in 1980, came third.

All other 17 yachts arrived safely, and received certificates and various trophies. While some of the yachts planned to sail home immediately, others were expected to relax and sail around the islands.

The Port-Vila Yacht Club also arranged local bus tours and miniraces in Vila Harbour, including wind-surfing.

Asked whether Fidelis will be participating in the next Tauranga- Vila Ocean Yacht Race, the skipper grinned and replied: ‘Probably’.

Peter Mcquarrie

reports from Funafuti , Tuvalu: • GLAYVA. A 15m Hood sloop arrived from Tarawa in Kiribati with owner, Tony Hallsworth, sailing single-handed. Tony left Funafuti bound direct for Opua in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. • SABRA. An 11m Sparkman and Stephens sloop from Newport beach in California. Sailed by owner Ted Salvin and crew Alan Allright, Sabra sailed from California to Hawaii, Majuro, Tarawa and Funafuti. She departed for Suva, and then for a one-year cruise of New Zealand waters.

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LTD who became foreign minister late last year: ‘We haven’t had many reports coming back saying that the radio programmes going up (from New Zealand) are putting New Zealand as a nation in the best possible light.’

When journalists asked him whether he was criticising Radio New Zealand’s news services, Mr Cooper said: ‘lt’s a logical response to some of the programmes coming out which are pretty pessimistic and don’t show New Zealand in the best light possible.’

Reaction to that news was prompt.

Mr Cooper preferred propaganda, said The Star in Christchurch in an editorial. ‘ln other words, don’t tell the Pacific about New Zealand the way it is but rather the way the Government wants people to believe it is.’

The Auckland Star also weighed in with adverse editorial comment.

The opposition Labour Party’s shadow minister on broadcasting Jonathan Hunt said it would be disastrous to cut the air link with the South Pacific people.

Australian-sourced programmes were giving Australia a high profile with the right type of news so the area would not go without a service, he said.

So are a lot of other countries giving the Pacific islanders a variety of services and these range from the Russians, Germans, French and Japanese to the Chinese and Latin Americans.

Amidst that cacophony of sound on the radio waves, New Zealand’s voice from its two US-made World War II 7.5 kilo Watt transmitters is puny.

William Gas son in Wellington.

Five years to a malaria vaccine?

Two British scientists believe they may be within five years of a commercially available vaccine against malaria.

Researchers in different parts of the world have for years been working to produce a vaccine for this disease which causes a million deaths a year and is at present overcoming attempts to control it.

Two scientists from the Wellcome Research Laboratories at Beckenham, near London, recently reported to Nature magazine that they had identified two proteins associated with malaria in mice and had successfully purified them. They had then been used to immunise mice against malaria.

In tests, groups of mice immunised with one of the two proteins all survived after being injected with the malaria parasite. But the untreated control groups were wiped out by the disease.

One of the two men involved, Dr Anthony Holder, has confirmed that since their report, published last November, they had succeeded in identifying a protein from the malaria parasite. Following this major development, they were now in the process of purifying the protein in order to produce sufficient for tests on monkeys.

It is hoped the first tests will be carried out within the next 12 months.

Monkeys are in many ways good models of the human and for obvious reasons it is not possible at this stage to try a possible vaccine on volunteer humans.

If the protein just identified proves to be successful in triggering the body’s natural defences against the human malaria parasite, efforts will be made to use genetic-engineering techniques to produce it in bulk for use as a vaccine. Genes coating this particular protein will be isolated and transferred to bacteria which will produce the protein in volume.

Dr Holder is quietly optimistic that he and his colleague, Dr Robert Freeman, are on the road to a malaria vaccine. He said: ‘Assuming there are no snags then one can consider a time scale of five years before a commercially available vaccine will be produced.’

At least 500 million people in some 60 countries are at risk each year from the anopheles mosquito and its deadly malaria parasites. There is alarm at the resurgence of malaria in many countries where eradication programmes have taken place.

John F. Webb, Science Correspondent, LPS. 69

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Australia - Fiji

Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd operates monthly cargo services from Sydney to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232-1011), Dalgety Shipping, 460 Bourke Street, Melbourne (616-6700), Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Sofrana-Unilines (Fiji Express Line) operates to Suva and Lautoka every two weeks from the main ports on the east coast of Australia and monthly to Lautoka from Melbourne and Sydney.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney, (27-2031), Trans- Austral Shipping Pty Ltd. 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162); ACTA Pty Ltd, Brisbane (221-3116); Elders-ANL Pty Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688); ANL, Newcastle (049-24364); Clements & Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania (31-1833); Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St, Suva. Fiji (312 244), Tlx 2199 FJ.

Australia - Samoas - Tonga

Warner Pacific Lines operates a regular cargo service from Sydney to Nukualofa, Pago Pago, Apia and Asau.

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

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Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised service (Gen/Reefer) from Sydney to Noumea, Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago and Nuku’alofa.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Sydney; Union Bulkships, Sydney and Melbourne; SATO, Noumea, Australian National Line, Brisbane; Burns Philp (SS) Co, Lautoka, Suva and Apia; Union Co, Nuku’alofa; Polynesia Shipping Services, Pago Pago or Pacific Forum Line Head Office, Apia.

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Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens operates four-weekly cargo service Sydney - Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.

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

Australia - Kiribati

Karlander operates a 5/6 weekly service from Melbourne and Sydney to Kiribati (Tarawa).

Details: Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232-1011).

AUSTRALIA - NAURU - KIRIBATI Nauru Pacific Line operates regular cargo/passenger service from Melbourne to Nauru and Tarawa Details: Nauru Corporation (Vic) Inc (Shipping Division), Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne (653-5709), Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

Australia - New Caledonia

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Sofrana-Unilines ships serve Noumea every two weeks from the main ports along the east Australian coast.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-9851), Trans- Austral Shipping Pty Ltd, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162), ACTA Pty Ltd, Brisbane (221-3116), Elders-ANL Pty Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688), ANL, Newcastle (049-24364), Clements & Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania (31-1833).

Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledonians operates a three-weekly containerised cargo service from Sydney to Noumea.

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

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Noumea, Port Vila and Santo, for containerised and break bulk cargo.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI -

Hawaii - Us

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

Details from P & O Booking Centre, World Travel Headquarters Pty Ltd, 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (231-6655).

Australia - Nz - Fiji - Tonga

VANUATU - NOUMEA - SOLOMONS -

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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).

Pacific Forum Line operates containerized and general cargo service from Australia and NZ to Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago, Tonga and other South Pacific ports.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Services Inc, PO Box 1478, Pago Paqo 96799.

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Asia - Japan

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Australia - Micronesia

Nauru Pacific Line operates a regular container service from Melbourne to Majuro, Kosrae, Ponape, Truk, Guam and Saipan.

Details Nauru Corporation (Vic) Inc (Shipping Division), Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, (653-5709), Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

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Australia - Png

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 (232-1011), Dalgety Shipping, 460 Bourke Street, Melbourne (616-6700).

Australia - Png - Solomons

A consortium of Conpac, NGAL/PNGL have three container vessels operating on a 28 day turn-around from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Kieta and Honiara.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (2-0547) and Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney. (2-0522).

New Guinea Express Lines operates a fortnightly container service from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Alotau, Rabaul, Honiara.

Details from New Guinea Express Lines, PC Box R 73, Royal Exchange, Sydney (241-3991) MacArthur Shipping Agency Co, 39 Creek Street, Brisbane (229-3777), New Guinea Express Lines, 327 Collins Street, Melbourne (61-3053), Niugini Express Lines, Port Moresby (21-4572), Lae (42-1536), Rabtrad Niugini Pty Ltd, Rabaul (92-2911). Alotau Stevedoring & Transport, Alotau (61-1318) and Island Cooperative Shipping Federation, Honiara (808).

Sofrana-Unilines (PNG Line) operates a monthly service to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kieta, Honiara from main ports on the east coast of Australia.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-9851); Trans- Austral Shipping Pty Ltd, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162); ACTA Pty Ltd, Brisbane (221-3116); Elders ANL Pty Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688).

Australia - Tahiti

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Papeete for containerised and break-bulk cargo.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Australia - Tahiti - Us

Karlander operates a monthly cargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Papeete, US west coast.

Details: Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232-1011).

Australia - W. Samoa

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Apia.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Australia - Nz - Tahiti - Chile

Kapal Pacifico (KP) Pty Ltd offers a bi-monthly service from Geelong, East Australia to New Zealand ports Tauranga and Whangarei, Papeete and ports on the west coast of South America.

Details: Kapal Pacifco (KP) Pty Ltd, 4th Floor, 36 York Street, Sydney (233-8515) Tlx 71875; Beaufort Shipping Agency Co, 2 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (239-1022); Universal Shipping Agency, 85 Fort Street, Auckland, NZ (30-930) Tlx 21517; I B Taylor Y Cia Ltd n Chile.

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ZEALAND New Zealand Unit Express (NZUE) operates a monthly palletised cargo service from Manila, Keelung, <aoshiung and Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva and thence to NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson Street, Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199, Burns Philp, Suva (311-777), P & O S.N. Co. Wellington (736-477) or Nedlloyd Swire Pty Ltd, Sydney (20-522).

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, 8 Spring St, Sydney (27 3801), Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Far East - Mid-S. Pacific

China Navigation’s New Guinea Pacific Line operates a regular container service from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Manila, Port Kelang and Singapore to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul and Honiara monthly and to Wewak, Madang and Kieta every three months. Cargo from the same Far Eastern ports to the South Pacific ports of Noumea, Santo, Vila, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Rarotonga and Tarawa will be shipped via Japan on the monthly Bali Hai service.

Details from Steamships Trading Co., Port Moresby (21-2000).

Kyowa Shipping Ltd. operates monthly services from Japan to Guam, Saipan, Solomons, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western and American Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga and Vanuatu.

Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671); Carpenters Shipping, Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Japan - Fiji - New Zealand

Kyowa Shipping Co Ltd operates a monthly service from main ports of Japan to Suva and Lautoka and thence to island ports and NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St, Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Japan - Micronesia

The NYK Shipping Line operates a monthly cargo service from Japan to Micronesia, calling at Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, Saipan, Guam, Truk, Ponape and Majuro, returning via Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohama.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co Ltd, 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Japan - Png

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines operates a monthly service from main ports Japan and Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kieta and Kimbe.

Details from Robert-Laurie (PNG) Pty Ltd, Port Moresby (21-2466/ 21-1898),

New Caledonia - Fiji - West

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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; Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St., Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Png - Inter - Mainport

Papua New Guinea Line offers scheduled 10/20-day coastal liner services linking all PNG major ports with containerisation, reefer, heavy lift and transhipment facilities.

Details from PNG Line, Box 543, Port Moresby. PNG, (21-1174), Tlx 22269.

Png - Uk/Continent

The Bank Line operates regular cargo service from Port Moresby, Oro Bay, Kieta, Rabaul, Kimbe, Madang and Lae to Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le Havre.

Details from The Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, PNG ports.

Solomons - Uk/Continent

The Bank Line operates regular cargo service from Honiara to Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le Havre.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2041); Trade© Shipping (588).

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NZ • COOK IS - NIUE - TAHITI Shipping Corporation of NZ Ltd operates cargo services based on pallets and similar units from Auckland to Niue, Cook Islands and Tahiti.

Details from the Shipping Corp of NZ Ltd, PO Box 3420, Auckland (797-210), Waterfront Commission, PO Box 61, Rarotonga; Cook Islands; Niue Govt 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); M.V. Fijian Shipping Agencies Ltd, Private Bag, Suva, Fiji (31 1056).

Pacific Line with one ship operates fortnightly ro-ro cargo service New Zealand, Lautoka, Suva.

Details: Sofrana Unilines, 18 Customs Street, Auckland (773-279) PO Box 3614, Telex: NZ2313; Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson Street. Suva (312244), Tlx. 2199 FJ.

Nz - Fiji - North America (Wc)

Blue Star Line Ltd Pacific Coast container services. Only direct service to and from New Zealand. Blue Star vessels call at Suva and Honolulu on NZ- US-West Coast voyages.

Details from Blueport ACT (NZ) Ltd, PO Box 192, Wellington (739-029) .

Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, GPO Box 355, Suva, Fiji (311-777). Tlx. FJ2168 Burship.

Nz - Fiji - Samoas - Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised three-weekly service (Gen/Reefer) from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago and Nukualofa.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland; Union Co, Auckland, Lautoka, Suva, Apia and Nuku'alofa; Polynesia Shipping Services, Pago Pago or Pacific Forum Line Head Office, Apia.

Nz - Tonga - Samoas

Warner Pacific Line operates a regular cargo service from Timaru, Onehunga and Westport to Nukualofa, Vavau and Apia with regular calls to Haapai and Pago Pago.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd, PO Box 1372, Auckland, NZ; Warner Pacific Line, Box 93, Nukualofa, Tonga and Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga; Polynesia Shipping Services, Box 1478, Pago Pago.

American Samoa 96799, and Mealelei (Western Samoa) Ltd, Box 4171, Apia, W. Samoa.

NZ - N. CALEDONIA - FIJI -

Solomons - Png

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised service (Gen /Reefer) from Lyttelton, Napier, Auckland to Suva, Lautoka, Honiara, Kieta, Lae and Port Moresby.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland; Shipping Corporation of NZ, Auckland, Lyttelton, Napier; Union Co, Auckland, Suva, Lautoka; Steamships Trading Co, Kieta, Lae, Port Moresby; Sullivans (SI) Ltd, Honiara or Pacific Forum Line Head Office, Apia.

NZ - N. CALEDONIA - VANUATU -

Png - Solomons

Sofrana Unilines with three ships operates to Vila and Santo, to Honiara and Papua New Guinea and to Norfolk Island and Noumea.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, 18 Customs Street, Auckland (773-279), PO Box 3614, Telex NZ2313.

Nz - Tahiti

Compagnie Tahitienne Maritime SA with one ship operates monthly service New Zealand - Papeete.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, PO 3ox 3614, 18 Customs St, Auckland 773-279), Tlx NZ2313.

Nz - Tonga - Samoas

Warner Pacific Line . services Auckland - Nuku'alofa/Vavau/Apia/ Pago Pago fortnightly carrying general and freezer cargoes.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd, Downtown House, 21 Queen St, Auckland, PO Box 1372 (30-299), Cables MACSHIP, Telex NZ2554; Warner Pacific Line, Box 93, Nukualofa, Tonga; Mealelei (Western Samoa) Ltd, Box 4171, Apia, Western Samoa; Polynesia Shipping Services, Box 1478, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799.

Nz - Central Pacific

Kyowa Shipping Ltd operates a monthly cargo service from Auckland and Mt Maunganui to Noumea, Vila, Santo, Guam, Majuro, Nauru and Tarawa.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd, PO Box 1372, Auckland (9-30229); Tlx 2554 NZ.

EUROPE - TAHITI -

New Caledonia

Compagnie Generate Maritime operates services from Europe and Mediterranean ports to Papeete and Noumea using three ro-ro and multipurpose vessels thus ensuring a bimonthly sailing to and from.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Europe-Tahiti-New

CALEDONIA - NEW ZEALAND -

Solomons - Png - Europe

Polish Ocean Lines offers regular monthly sailings for containerised and breakbulk cargo from Hamburg, Antwerp, Dunkirk and Rouen to Papeete, Noumea, New Zealand, Honiara, Lae, returning to Europe via Suez, Other ports in the South Pacific can be served with inducement.

Details from Sotama, BP 9170, Papeete (27805), Tlx. 296; SATO, BP C 2, Noumea (272094), Tlx. 163 NM SATO; Union Steamship Co of NZ. PO Box 50, Apia, Tlx. 25; Williams and Gosling, PO Box 79, Suva (312633), Tlx. 2163; Warner Pacific Line, PO Box 93, Nukualofa (21089), Tlx. 66219; Universal Shipping Agencies, PO Box 2282, Auckland (30930), Tlx. 21517.

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); Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St, Suva (312 244), Tlx 2199 FJ.

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - SOLOMONS - PNG - VANUATU Columbus Line Reederei GMBH operates regular services from Hamburg, Hull, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Le Havre, to Papeete, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Port Moresby, Lae, Honiara, Kieta, Rabaul, Lae. and return to Europe.

Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (290-2966), Columbus Maritime Services, 17 Albert Street, Auckland (77-3460); Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St, Suva (312 244), Tlx 2199 FJ.

Uk - N. Continent - Fiji

The Bank Line operates a regular cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Le Havre to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (South Sea) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

UK/N. CONTINENT - PNG - SOLOMONS The Bank Line operates a regular cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Le Havre to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kieta and Honiara and on inducement to Yandina.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, PNG ports; Tradco Shipping (588).

UK/N. CONTINENT - TAHITI - N. CALEDONIA The Bank Line operates a regular cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Le Havre to Papeete and Noumea.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2041); Ets A M Fare UTE, Papeete; Ets Ballande, Noumea.

US - FIJI - TAHITI - NZ - AUSTRALIA The Bank 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 and Savill Line Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2041) or Orient Shipping Services, 32 Bridge Street, Sydney (241-2753).

US - HAWAII - KIRIBATI - 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 Tarawa, Ebeye, 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, Tlx 783605; PM80; 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 Corporation (Vic) Inc (Shipping Division), Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne (653-5709); North American Maritime Agencies, 100 California St., San Francisco. California 9411.

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; Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St, Suva (31-2244), 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 96799.

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 96799.

DEATHS of Islands People Posu Ank In the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea, in April, aged 35, in a car accident.

Mr Ank, of Wangia, near Mendi, was the sitting member for Mendi and government whip in the People’s Progress Party led by Sir Julius Chan.

He was elected to parliament in 1977. It is believed he died instantly when the car he was driving overturned. Sir Julius Chan said: ‘His death has been a sad event for me personally, his parliamentary colleagues, and indeed the nation as a whole.’

Shiu Narayan Kanhai In Suva in March aged 49, from a heart attack.

Mr Kanhai was general secretary of the Fiji Teachers Union, and National Federation Party candidate for the Nasinu Vunidawa Indian communal seat in the July elections. A spokesman for the union paid tribute to Mr Kanhai’s ‘tremendous and untiring contribution to the teachers in Fiji’.

Ariel David Sharan In Vancouver, in April, aged 70.

Mr Sharan was one of the founders of the Sharan Brothers Theatres cinema chain in Fiji.

Formerly a teacher, he went into business at Levuka, and with his four brothers set up a chain of cinemas throughout Fiji. He retired to Vancouver in 1977.

David Gray In Suva in April, aged 48.

A former superintendent and deputy director of personnel and training in the Royal Fiji Police Force, Mr Gray had retired early this year, having served in the force since 1963.

He was fishing with friends when he suddenly became ill, dying on the same day.

Rev. Fe’aofaki Lose In Sydney in April, aged 58, in a car accident.

He was one of the most respected figures in the Tongan community in Australia. More than 300 Tongans attended his funeral service.

Mohammed Taiyab Khan In Lautoka, Fiji, in May, aged 55, from a heart attack.

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Ponswamy Goundar In Labasa, Fiji, in April, aged 49, from heart failure.

Mr Goundar was appointed Commissioner Northern only four months before his death.

He was attending Labasa Hospital for treatment after a car accident whe he suddenly collapsed and died. He was a popular figure and Labasa’s first ‘home-grown’ commissioner.

Surendra Singh In Suva in April, aged 46, of cancer.

A former commissioner of inland revenue, Mr Singh joined the Fiji Civil Service in 1961, after graduating from Otago University, New Zealand, with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He was honoured with a CBE in 1980, the citation hailing him as one of the architects of Fiji’s tax system.

Harold Picton-Smith In Navua, Fiji, in March aged 64.

Mr Picton-Smith came to Fiji in 1964 to work in the public service, holding a variety of posts, including that of Registrar-General and Registrar of Titles, before being appointed Solicitor-General in 1971. He was responsible for the revised edition of the Laws of Fiji in 1964 and 1978. Mr Smith was made an OBE in 1980. He retired from the service in 1979 and took Fiji citizenship.

Following his retirement he spent several months in the Marshall Islands advising the local authorities on the settingup of their new administration.

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