Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 53, No. 9 ( Sep. 1, 1982)
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THE MONTH • ELECTION FEVER Robert Keith-Reid reports on the turbulent post-election scene in Fiji, and Angus Smales writes on Papua New Guinea politics following the sweeping comeback victory in the recent elections of the country’s founding Prime Minister Michael Somare 10,15 • MARSHALL ISLANDS American journalist Gift Johnson reports from Kwajalein as Marshallese landowners occupy the giant U.S. missile-testing base, and U.S. officialdom shows itself increasingly opposed to the independence option which the Marshallese claim is their right 30 • NEW CALEDONIA Helen Fraser reports from Noumea on the growing pressures of nationalism 19 • MARLON BRANDO For the first time in more than 20 years, the U.S. film star Marlon Brando has granted a press interview to the Papeete daily, Les Nouvelles. He talks about films, life, the bomb and why he loves Tahiti 33 • TRADEWINDS A large-scale display of Pacific Islands products planned for Sydney in September has inspired a new aggression in the marketing approach of many Island countries 58 • HAWAII Dr Stephen Weinstein begins a two-part report of an off-the-beaten track exploration of several islands of the Hawaii group. This month he visits Lanai, Molokai and Maui 53 Books 47 Brando. Marlon 33 Cook Islands 35 Deaths 73 Fiji 10 France in the Pacific 19, 27 French Polynesia 33, 41 Hawaii 53 Islands Press 18 Kiribati 37, 51 Letters 7 Micronesia 30 New Caledonia 19 New Zealand in the Pacific 35, 40 Pacific Report 5 Papua New Guinea 7, 15, 49 People 41 Political Currents 27 Postmark Papeete 24 Shipping Services 69 Travel 53 Tradewinds 58 Tropicalities 33 U.S. in the Pacific 30 Vanuatu 40, 27 Yachts 65 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

Doings Of The South Pacific Forum

Heads of government at the 13th meeting of the South Pacific Forum in Rotorua in New Zealand, in August, agreed not to push France on the subject of the decolonisation of New Caledonia, as they were satisfied she was genuine in her current efforts to bring about reforms. But they “urged” France to work closely with the Kanak people for a peaceful transition to independence.

The Forum rejected a call by the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Father Uni, to have New Caledonia listed as a colony in the UN so as to make sure that world pressure is kept up on France. It was decided that such a move, while France was working on New Caledonia’s problems, would be “counter-productive”. The question has been put on the agenda for the next Forum meeting to be held in Australia next year, but meanwhile Vanuatu has said that it might unilaterally put on pressure to have New Caledonia listed at the UN. On other matters the Forum also agreed to supply the Pacific Forum Line with another $U.5.12.6 million to allow it to meet conditions for a European Investment Bank loan so that it can buy containers instead of leasing them; decided to arrange for a study of civil aviation needs in the islands so that proper regional plans can be drawn up that might help the Islands airlines out of their economic downturn; attacked the United States for not signing the Law of the Sea convention and asked for that country to revise its policy on highly migratory fish species; and decided to put aside the question of whether there should be one regional body in place of the South Pacific Commission, SPEC and the Forum. A full report of the meeting will appear in the October issue of PIM.

Marshall Islands Poll Deferred

As forecast by U.S. journalist Giff Johnson on page 30 of this month’s PIM, the U.S. has deferred the August referendum in the Marshall Islands. The referendum is to seek opinion on the Compact of Free Association which is to be established between the two countries. The contentious issue in the referendum is whether questions about independence should be included. The U.S. now wants the referendum postponed to October 1 at the earliest. Marshallese Foreign Secretary Tony deßrum responded by saying he would lead a delegation to Washington to invoke the aid of Congress and the White House, and to the United Nations Decolonisation Committee in New York. Back in June, the U.S. had asked for a postponement, because, it claimed, the August date did not allow enough time for public education concerning the proposals. Speaking at a meeting of the UN Trusteeship council in May, Mr deßrum had named October 1 as the day on which the Marshalls would become independent, if the people rejected the compact, or the U.S. failed to ratify it. At that time the raising of the independence issue was seen as merely a Marshallese attempt to force the hand of the Americans. John Carter.

Now It’S Soviet Meddling In Fiji Poll

Allegations of Soviet intervention in Fiji’s July election through secret funding of the opposition National Federation Party (NFP) are to be the subject of a judicial inquiry. The allegations, made by Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, also link Indian Government officials with the funding, and have thus thrown considerable strain on India-Fiji relations. The charges of Soviet intervention came on the heels of NFP charges of Australian interference in the elections (see Robert Keith-Reid’s report this issue). These charges will also be investigated. In the wake of the KGB slush fund claims, the Fiji Government clapped a ban on all visits by Soviet ships to Fiji ports a move which will cost the country $F500,000 a year, according to the managing director of the company handling the docking and re-supplying of Soviet vessels visiting Fiji.

70-Kilotonne Blast At Moruroa

A nuclear test at Moruroa Atoll on July 25 was in the range of 70 kilotonnes, more than three times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, according to New Zealand scientists. An observatory in the Netherlands had earlier estimated the blast at 50 kilotonnes. A Radio Australia report said that altogether 52 blasts have been recorded at Moruroa. The tests have been underground since 1975, with the biggest, of 140 kilotonnes, being recorded in 1979. The original Dutch reports said that the July 25 explosion triggered a tremor registering 5.9 on the Richter scale. It said the blast was the strongest in the past two years, and the fourth for the month of July.

U.N. Mission Head In Micronesia

A United Nations mission, on an inspection tour of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Micronesia) (PIM Aug. P 5), assured a welcoming group on Yap that the termination of the trusteeship would be simultaneous in all Micronesian states. The assurance was given by Trusteeship Council President Paul Poudade, of France, in reply to Yap leaders who had expressed concern at recent trends in the negotiations, saying that U.S. Ambassador Zeder appeared to be offering the Marshall Islands a different deal from those offered to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Belau. Outlining the program leading up to trusteeship termination, Mr Poudade said intensive political education on the compact would follow completion of the negotiations. A plebiscite would then follow and, if approved, the compact would go to the legislatures for endorsement and then to the U.S.

President and Congress. If sanctioned, the compact would go to the UN Security Council for final approval. Asked about a possible veto of the compact by the Soviet Union, Mr Poudade said he could not comment until the compact reached the Security Council. It was a sensitive issue since the Trust Territory was a strategic area. Mr Poudade promised to convey to the Japanese Government’s Ambassador at the United Nations “strong” Yapese opposition to Japan s proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in the Pacific Ocean.

“Fiji Soldiers Spying’’ Israel

Fiji soldiers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were among those accused of selling intelligence about Israeli attack plans to Palestinian guerrillas.

The charge was made by Israel's Military Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Raphael Eytan. An Israeli military spokesman claimed that UNIFIL soldiers from Ireland, France, Senegal and Fiji had taken part in the traffic. The charge was based on documents allegedly written by captured Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) personnel. Denying the charges, UNIFIL commander Major-General William Callaghan told Eytan in a letter that he was “frankly surprised by your evaluation of these extremely primitive, inaccurate and amateur documents, and I find nothing in them to support your contention”. The Fiji Times in an editorial dismissed the charges as “laughable”, pointing out that not even Israel’s closest allies knew what it was going to do next. The editorial said the charges were “a red herring to divert world attention from the horrendous punishment Israel has inflicted and is continuing to inflict on Beirut and other Lebanese towns and villages in which thousands of civilians have died”.

Oz Scientists Oppose French Uranium Stake

Two leading Australian scientists have joined in urging the Australian Government not to allow French interests into the Australian uranium mining industry, saying Australia’s credibility in the Pacific would be “seriously undermined” if they were permitted to join. The scientists are Bob Robotham, formerly with the British Atomic Energy Commission, and Dr Don Hutton of the Physics Department, Monash University, Melbourne.

Radio Australia’s Melbourne office reported in August that the French Government is negotiating for an equity stake in the Yeelirrie uranium deposit in Western Australia.

Solomon Wins Through In Solomons

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni beat off a late-July challenge to his position when parliament voted on a motion of no-confidence in him 20 against, 12 for, and five (including Mr Mamaloni) declining to vote. The motion was brought by former Foreign Affairs Minister Ezekiel Alebua, who resigned in June (PIM Jul. P 5). His motion alleged misbehaviour by some ministers. A by-election held at about the same time 5

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was won by the National Democratic Party, junior partner in the ruling coalition. Party numbers in parliament are now: Alliance Party (Mamaloni) 11, NDP four, the opposition United Party 12, and Independents 11.

Lafleur Election Dates Set

The election in New Caledonia made necessary by the politically-inspired resignation of Rightwing Deputy to the National Assembly, Jacques Lafleur, has been set for September 5 (first round) and September 12 (second round). Claiming that the new Government Council in the territory is unrepresentative of majority opinion, Mr Lafleur claims that his new election will have the character of a “referendum”. He is virtually certain of re-election in his west coast constituency with its large concentration of European voters. But the main significance of the affair will lie in the size of the vote he receives in comparison with the last time he stood. If it is up, he will claim to have proved his point. If it is down, his whole exercise will be seen to have backfired.

Fsm. U.S., To Talk Again

The Federated States of Micronesia Truk, Ponape, Yap and Kosrae and the U.S. plan to resume talks in September on subsidiary agreements to the Compact of Free Association. The talks had been suspended since October, 1981. Chief FSM negotiator Andon Amaraich said in August that problems associated with the transition issues and unfulfilled U.S. commitments remain to be solved. Transition issues included aid for upgrading communications, construction of a new FSM capital (probably at Palikir in Ponape) and a new community college, land claims, a capital improvements program, and the maintenance of utilities. Subsidiary agreements are pending on the status of military forces, military use and operating rights, federal programs (including postal and weather services), federal aviation administration and civil aviation, extradition and law enforcement, transfer of property, telecommunications, disaster control and mutual security.

Filling Out Vanuatu Parliament At Last

After a long delay, nominations were called for in July for by-elections in the four parliamentary seats in Vanuatu that have been vacant since independence on July 30,1980. Three of the seats were won in the 1979 elections by candidates of the opposition so-called 'Moderate” parties. These have been vacant since one of the three MPs, Alexis Yolou, was shot dead in pre-independence trouble on the island of Tanna in June 1980, and the other two were deported to New Caledonia after the collapse of the secessionist revolt on Santo in August 1980.

The fourth seat was held by the Vanuaaku Party, but fell vacant when the incumbent MP. George Kalkoa, resigned from parliament to take office as President Ati George Sokomanu.

Vanuatu's electoral office announced that two of the byelections for Port-Vila Urban and Efate Rural were to be held on August 26, the one for Luganville on August 31, and that for Tanna on September 2.

Kolone. Muldoon Huddle On Citizenship

Western Samoa's Prime Minister Va'ai Kolone held talks in Wellington in August with New Zealand Prime Minister Muldoon on a recent ruling by the Privy Council in London that some Samoans automatically have New Zealand citizenship. Mr Muldoon said after the talks that legislation would be introduced in New Zealand to circumvent the ruling, but ruled out any hasty action on the part of his government.

Oz Fury At U.S. Over Law Of Sea

Rumblings from the U.S. refusal to sign the Law of the Sea Convention (PIM Aug. P 5) continue to be heard, with unnamed Australian officials in particular expressing fury at the U.S. action. One official involved with the negotiations told The Sydney Morning Herald’s correspondent in New York, Paul Sheehan, that the Americans “are behaving like a bunch of clowns.” He added: “The decision by the U.S. was a sledgehammer blow. This conference is a landmark because it does so much and the difficult negotiation of it over many years was a triumph for world diplomacy. U.S. diplomacy has been of a deplorably low quality since the Reagan administration took over. One of President Reagan’s first acts on taking office was to sack the entire American delegation to the conference. The deputy U.S. negotiator in the Reagan-appointed team is Leigh Ratiner, a former legal adviser to the Kennecott Corporation, which has significant interests in deep-sea mining. Mr Ratiner claims to have been a main mover in having the U.S. refuse to sign the treaty, which among other things declares the moon to be “the common heritage of mankind”.

Vanuatu Gets A New Party, The Viap

Breakaway elements from Vanuatu’s ruling Vanuaaku Party have formed a new party, the Vanuatu Independent Alliance Party. Speakers at its first rally in Luganville in July were dismissed government ministers Thomas Reuben Seru (Santo) and George Worek (Banks), supported by Kalmar Vocor, John Tari, and Morrison Tangarasi. According to a French-language report in the government newspaper Tam-Tam party supporters at the rally numbered no more than 30, the rest of the sparse crowd being made up of curious onlookers. Mr Seru said that the VIAP would attempt to position itself between the government and the opposition “to try to give new directions in the functioning of the government”.

World War Ii Remembrance Day In Png

An Australian naval patrol boat, HMAS Warrnambool, was in Papua New Guinea for Remembrance Day, July 23. Remembrance Day has been designated a national holiday by the PNG Government in commemoration of Australian, American, New Zealand and Papua New Guinean soldiers who died in the country during World War 11.

Typhoid Outbreak In Fiji

More than 30 typhoid cases were being treated at Suva’s Colonial War Memorial Hospital in early August. The epidemic was mainly confined to the Central Division of the main island of Viti Levu. But on August 12 doctors said that it appeared to be spreading to the western half of the island, with a 25-year-old woman being admitted to the Lautoka Hospital for treatment for the disease. A major campaign of inoculation was mounted in the affected areas.

Nauru’S “Yes’’ To Sparteca

Nauru announced in August its readiness to join SPARTECA, the South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Agreement under which Australia and New Zealand permit duty-free access to a range of goods from member countries of the South Pacific Forum. Nauru was the last Forum country to join.

Back At Spec: Mahe Tupouniua

The founding director of the South Pacific Bureau of Economic Co-operation, Mahe Tupouniua, has been reappointed to the post, a move foreshadowed by PIM when he stepped down earlier this year as Tonga’s finance minister (PIM May PI 5). The former director, Papua New Guinea’s Dr Gabriel Gris, died in office in March.

Solomon Islands’ Devaluation

Solomon Islands devalued its currency by 10 per cent from August 13. The devaluation meant that the SSI exchanged at about U.5.95c, and A97c. Finance Minister Bartholomew Ulufa’alu said the move would help local producers to compete against imports. Other measures included an increase in depreciation allowances on investments in production and manufacturing, and a cut in import duties on goods required to boost performance by local exporters and manufacturers.

Wellington Meeting For Democratic Union

The first executive meeting of the newly formed Pacific Democratic Union (PIM July P 6), is expected to be held in Wellington in November or December. New Zealand’s National Party President, Sir George Chapman, brought back the news from the union’s inauguration in Tokyo. The party’s general director Barrie Leay has been appointed conference secretary.

The union a sister body to the European Democratic Union was a political structure of Centre-Right parties in the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Sir George said. The aim was to bring both unions together as the International Democratic Union that would balance the Socialist International.

The Pacific Union was committed to free enterprise, democracy, and peace and freedom in the region, said Sir George, who added that the objective was to bring other Pacific countries into the union. William Gasson in Wellington. 6 h r

Pacific Islands Monthly — September, 1982

LETTERS Remembering Milne Bay, 40 years on Forty years ago, from August 24 to September 7, 1942, a handful of Australian militiamen, together with a small force of AIF, probably changed the outcome of World War 2 at the battle of Milne Bay.

There is a tale worth telling of the aftermath of that victory. It concerns the reluctance of General MacArthur and his staff to give credit for the victory to Australian troops.

A Captain R. E. G. Cunningham arrived at Milne Bay with an AIF unit late in 1943. Halfway along Turnbull Field he noted a piece of tin nailed to a coconut tree stump bearing the message “This marks the spot of the first land defeat of the Japanese army in the Pacific.” “In memory of the Australian men who lost their lives in this action.”

Some time later Cunningham found that the sign had gone souvenired undoubtedly by U.S. troops who had arrived about the same time as Cunningham’s unit.

He was so upset that he decided to erect on the site something that could not be removed and had a draftsman in his unit design a concrete structure.

Twelve men of his unit helped construct it in their spare time, and the U.S. forces generously supplied a slab of copper upon which were engraved the words originally on the coconut stump sign.

Two Australian war correspondents heard of the project and a story and photograph were published in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Subsequent to this, an order was issued to all AIF units from LHQ Melbourne which said: “From this date, no memorial or plaque will be erected and especially wording placed on such structure by any unit serving in any area.”

Obviously, this order was issued in response to the article and was aimed at avoiding offence to the Americans.

From then on, the Australian Army was banned from taking any action, however commendable, to tell the truth about its feats. But the monument was already up and glorifies the Australian victory at Milne Bay.

Geoff Masters

Hawthorne, Qld.

Australia A film tells the nuclear story I am writing to commend to you and to your readers a film that has recently begun circulating in North America.

It is called The Atomic Cafe and is a very effective gathering together of old film clips (U.S. Army training films, Civil Defence films, early films of nuclear tests) from the ’4os and ’sos concerning the atomic bomb, nuclear testing, and civil defence. Included are film excerpts of U.S. Army officers explaining to Bikini Islanders the use of their island for nuclear testing.

This is a film that I believe would be very effective in the Pacific Islands if it could be circulated there. You perhaps know about the film already.

However, I am writing just in case you do not. It is a film that I hope PIM will discuss and bring to the attention of Pacific Islanders.

With very best wishes. (The Rev.) TERRY BROWN Faculty of Divinity Trinity College Toronto, Ont.

Canada Keeping an eye on the Indonesians . . .

Now that Indonesian incursions into Papua New Guinea are becoming more blatant, frequent, intimidating and provocative, perhaps Australians and the Australian Government will begin to realise that Australia’s most probable enemy in the next few years is militant Indonesia, at least while Indonesia has its present form and type of government.

Having stood by while Indonesia raped East Timor, and perhaps even condoned that aggression, Australia has encouraged the Jakarta junta to attempt in the next few years a similar move against PNG.

Make no mistake about it, Indonesia intends to take over PNG. When (not if) this happens, what will Australia do?

There is little doubt that Reagan-type governments in the USA will condone, possibly even encourage, such Indonesian aggression in the same way as the USA and Australia encouraged Indonesian aggression against East Timor.

Can PNG depend on Australian support in any dispute with Indonesia? Indications are that such support is extremely doubtful.

Australian Governments both Labor and Liberal tolerated the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and continue to ignore genocide in that unhappy island. Australia’s support of Vanuatu was lukewarm during the foreign-inspired insurrection there, while there is now evidence of Australian interference in the internal affairs of Fiji. All this combined with economic imperialism on the part of Australian companies makes Australia a doubtful ally for any small Pacific Island nation.

Anyone who has witnessed the suave but sinister activities of the Indonesian Consulate staff in Darwin, NT (video files of Timorese refugees, etc.) will know that PNG would just be a stepping stone on the way to an Indonesian invasion of Australia’s Northern Territory.

All Australia’s defence and diplomatic efforts should be directed to containing Indonesia and supporting independent PNG.

By the way what an unfortunate headline yours was on the cover of the June PIM. I refer of course to “Indian challenge in Fiji election”. That was a deliberately provocative title calculated to arouse racial fears. Irresponsible journalism!

Bruce Turner

Mildura, Vic.

Australia Spanish galleon or . . .?

In a television news item screened in Auckland recently, it was reported that the discoverer of the Northland The memorial at Turnbull Field, Milne Bay: Not so easy to carry away. - Stuart Inder picture. 7

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“sunken galleon” (PIM Jul.

P 27) has received from Spain confirmation of his identification of the wreck ... it appears that he sent a sketch of the “galleon” to a Spanish marine expert who thinks it is the wreck of the San Lesme.

Needless to say, I am still doubtful. There have been no press releases on the identification of the wreck, nor is there any news of Robert Langdon having visited it. The discoverer of the “galleon” appeared to believe that Mr Langdon would be on the first plane once he’d heard about the wreck.

As an archaeologist and writer specialising in classical Maori culture, I am very interested in cultural diffusion and, naturally, view with the utmost suspicion any claims in support of Spanish exploration within Eastern Polynesia and, more specifically, New Zealand. Hopefully PIM will be cautious in its coverage of the San Lesme discovery. Over the past few weeks there has been another controversy, revolving around the discovery in Tahiti of a canoe that some enthusiasts believe is made of New Zealand totara thus proving evidence of a return voyage to Tahiti by classic Maori navigators. However, Professor Sinoto of Bishop Museum denied that the wood was totara.

Alan Taylor

Auckland New Zealand Another Kiap bash Three cheers for the “Legendary Kiaps” and Bert E. Weston (PIM Jun. P 8). In his long and impressive list of Kiap- Mates he only seems to have forgotten Errol Flynn. That is surprising indeed.

Bert E. Weston describes efficiently his own pre-war activities in Papua New Guinea from “Recruiter” (in more simple terms “Blackbirder”) to heroic shoot-outs with unruly Kanakas who did not want to work for a stick of tobacco, or to be separated from their families. The only comment that’s called for is that nobody ever asked Mr Weston or his Kiap-Mates to come to PNG in the first place.

Kessua Tamai (PIM Mar.

P 10) dared to make reference to the number of half-castes roaming the PNG towns and villages. Congratulations to Kessua Tamai for having the guts to pick up this sad chapter of Australian colonial administration of PNG, which Bert E. Weston considers to be a normal part of colonisation.

The latest figures received for New Britain alone record no fewer than 3700 half-castes, whose proud Kiap fathers were in a hurry to get home to Australia, and let their offspring and their mothers fight for themselves, with the children now belonging neither to one nor the other.

Vitaliz Paingame

Cairns, Qld.

Australia This letter cut for length.

Editor.

Meet the Campes of Saint Michel I would not like to appear from my last letter (PIM Apr. P 9) some sort of “yachtie-basher”, and, in fact, am happy to write today about the yacht Saint Michel and her crew (mentioned earlier in your yachts section).

Our family met the wonderful Campes when they called in Cairns for an overhaul of Saint Michel after a long cruise around the world.

They certainly could not be classified as the “leisure class”, nor among the inexperienced sailors criticised by your correspondents Frank Lewsi, Dr Patil, etc.

Joachim, from Hamburg, is not only a qualified skipper but a professional cameraman, under contract for several video films. Some of them he shot recently during a sevenmonths stay in Papua New Guinea.

As an “old hand” from the former Territory, I saw too many film-makers and reporters passing far too quickly through one of the toughest and most complex countries in the world. I include some French media “tourists” in this category.

Marie, the “Mate”, incidentally she will never forgive me is the granddaughter of the famous French poet, academician, diplomat, etc. Paul Claudel. She also controls the children Sylvestre, Barthelemy, Loetitia and Calixte, deckhands and students, who find themselves in the hands of a sucession of international teachers from one port to another.

They stayed three days in our home, and showed clearly that their long voyage had not affected their European manners or their general knowledge on the contrary. Their travels only seem to have increased their fluency in English, French and German.

We were sorry, and so were many of our friends, to see the Saint Michel sail away to the north towards Darwin, Indonesia, and, eventually, the USA.

Bon voyage, Joachim, Marie, et les infants.

J. Huon De Navrancourt

Atherton, Qld.

Australia ‘D-Notices’ PIM accused The famous “D-Notice system”, under which editors suppress readers’ letters and other material which appear to criticise the status quo or, in general, come too close to the truth, appears to have arrived in the offices of that once widely respected and popular magazine, Pacific Islands Monthly.

Is this Australia’s version of true journalistic professionalism?

Manfred Eiserman

Cairns, Qld.

Australia This letter cut for length. We wish Mr Eiserman would be more specific in his accusations about “D-Notices”.

Editor.

Letter-writer Huon de Navrancourt demonstrates his claim that he is not a “yachtie-basher”. He’s relaxing on board Saint Michel with his charming hostess Marie Campe.-Joachim Campe - picture. 9

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LETTERS

Fiji’s poll of records: Most voters, most bitterness, most mud-slinging Fiji’s general election, the fourth since independence came in 1970, was won by the ruling Alliance Party with its majority cut to four. It was an election calling for many superlatives the biggest turn-out of voters, the bitterest, fought on racial levels, and the dirtiest, indicating that Fiji’s politicians in some respects have little to learn from their counterparts in the so-called developed countries. Below, ROBERT KEITH-REID, Fiji’s leading political commentator, tells the story.

Tense times lie ahead for the Parliament of Fiji. After years of relatively soft, unchallenged living, the ruling Alliance Party faces an Opposition with a strength and collection of talent sufficient to keep government ministers on their toes, clutching nervously at their portfolio papers, for the next five years.

The July election saw the Alliance retain power, but only just. It had its majority in the 52-seat House of Representatives slashed from 20 to four, winning 28 seats against 36 in September, 1977. The National Federation Party (NFP), supported by most of the country’s Indian community, won 22 seats. Its small Fijian partner, the Western United Front (WUF), picked up two as a present from the NFP, making for an Opposition side of 24.

A four-seat majority is sufficient for the Fijian-dominated Alliance to control parliament, but, as a winning score, it is not really a convincing one.

But for some miscalculations, the NFP could have won the election, getting 27 or 28 seats. In three vital constituencies, the total vote in favor of the Alliance carried a margin of only 2000 votes.

A week before seven days of polling began on July 10, with each voter casting four votes, to elect one communal and three cross-voting, or national, MPs, the Alliance was in a critical position. It had had its credibility ripped apart by revelations that it had hired foreign consultants to devise a campaign strategy for it.

Months of careful planning and preparation to convince 292,000 registered voters they should “keep Fiji in safe hands” seemed to be cascading down the drain as the NFP flourished, with gleeful horror, copies of the report, prepared by a team led by an Australian business consultant, Alan Carroll, and flooded the country with about 300 copies of an Australian Broadcasting Commission Four Corners current affairs television programme. This claimed that the report was evidence of sinister foreign interest in Fiji’s affairs, business interests who wanted to see the Alliance remain in power.

The contents of the report suggested that, to beat the NFP, the Alliance should smear the character of the Opposition Leader, Mr Jai Ram Reddy, and the WUF leader, Ratu Osea Gavidi; exploit racial and religious tensions; buy off or threaten other opponents, and use other curious techniques such as “stroking” and “toe-cutting” in its endeavours to do down the NFP.

Alliance leader and Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara admitted the existence of the report but angrily refuted claims that it had been used. It was repugnant to all that he personally, and the Alliance, stood for, he said.

A lot of people were shocked by what they read in Fiji’s daily newspapers about the Carroll report. The showing of the Four Corners programme, arranged country-wide in cinemas and on video-TV sets, made them more uneasy.

But the NFP went overboard with its efforts to convince the electorate of the wickedness of the Alliance, and the impact backfired on it badly.

Seizing on particular comment in the Four Corners show that Ratu Mara was the descendant of chiefs who “clubbed and ate thir way to power” in bad, old cannibal days the Alliance hammered into Fijian minds the belief that their traditions and chiefs had been insulted in a manner never to be forgotten or forgiven.

The insult had come from “racist” foreigners,and, by spreading it around the country on video screens, the NFP was associating itself fully with it, thundered the Alliance in a series of newspaper advertisements.

Voting statistics worked out after the election showed how well the counter-attack had worked for the Alliance, although they cannot be said to have been soley affected by it.

The Alliance won all 12 Fijian communal seats, including one regained from the WUF leader, Gavidi, and the three communal seats reserved for General (non-Fijian and non-Indian) voters. It took all the cross-voting (national) seats for constituencies having Fijian majorities in them, plus two for constituencies with small Indian majorities.

The NFP easily won all the 12 Indian communal seats and with two exceptions it took cross-voting seats for consti- Electoral officials load ballot boxes before the counting begins. — Fiji Times picture. 10

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tuencies having Indian majorities.

Voters turn-out was about 86 per cent by far the greatest proportion in the history of the country’s general elections, and a clear reflection of the feelings stirred up by an overlong and notably acrimonious campaign.

The Alliance got 86 per cent of the Fijian communal vote; WUF got seven percent and the NFP only 0.8 per cent.

On the other hand, the NFP won 84 per cent of the Indian communal vote. The Alliance got just over 15 per cent.

Curiously, in winning 28 seats, the Alliance took 51.8 per cent of the total vote while, in the second election of 1977, having narrowly lost an election six months earlier, it got only 44 per cent of the total vote in winning 36 seats.

Jai Ram Reddy, who before the count had been aggressively predicting a win for his party, by 30 seats, quickly capitulated with the complaint that voting had been entirely racial.

At a press conference two days after the election, Ratu Mara agreed, saying: “I feel sure it will be a long time before we achieve a multiracial Fiji.”

Ratu Mara may have pulled a few more critical votes his way when, after being caught outside a polling station by The Fiji Times, he announced that, unless the Alliance won at least 30 seats, he would resign.

If the next government had a majority of only two or three seats he would consider that he had failed and would hand over to another leader.

At the post-election press Loser's smile: Shree Ramlu (Alliance), defeated member for Vanua Levu North, could still raise a smile as he took down the sign which had hung outside his electorate office for five years. - Fiji Times picture.

A marked man: Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara has his finger marked in indelible ink after voting at Veiuto polling station. The marking procedure is used by Fiji electoral officials to prevent any attempts at multiple voting. - Anne Livingston picture for Fiji Times. 11

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conference, at which he lashed out at “interference” in Fiji affairs by foreign journalists and hinted that curbs might be introduced to prevent intrusions by them at election times, Ratu Mara was asked if he’d been sincere about his resignation threat.

A few hours before the meeting with the press he had been unanimously re-elected party leader by his 27 fellow Alliance MPs and had then gone to Government House to be reappointed as PM.

Why had he changed his mind?

Because of that vote, he said, referring to the 51.8 per cent overall poll for the Alliance.

For a government which had more or less been in power for 16 years, to score that level of support was “more than ever we expected,” and not a figure that could be achieved easily in any other democratic country.

His threat to resign had “spurred a lot of people into the polling booths,” he agreed, but it had been made to a reporter because “people like you like instant answers, and you build images of people by instant answers.”

“You don’t like considered answers. You ask instant questions and you get instant answers.”

The Alliance went into the election counting heavily on a repetition of 1977 when quarrelling in the NFP between its then leader, Siddiq Koya, and other personalities, split the party so badly that it was unable to form a government after winning an election in April of that year, but not with a working majority. The rift between the two factions was so great by September that the Indian community was seriously split and the Alliance scored a resounding victory.

The NFP’s leader, Mr Reddy, deserves admiration for his achievement in reconstructing the NFP, holding it together through the election just over, and steering it to within a hairsbreath of taking over government.

Throughout the campaign there were signs that all was not completely well within the NFP, and that Reddy had worries about Koya. After five years’ absence from parliament, Mr Koya was re-elected as member for an Indian communal seat. After the election, there were anonymous demands for Mr Reddy’s removal as party leader. It seemed likely, however, that he would still be in the Opposition Leader’s chair when the new House of Representatives held its first meeting on August 17.

Two Fijian opponents of the Alliance, WUF and the Fijian Nationalist Party, were shown by the election results to be of little significance in the nation’s affairs. WUF was formed in mid-1981 by the then independent member for the Nadroga-Navosa Fijian communal seat, Ratu Osea Gavidi, who agreed with Mr Reddy on the formation of a coalition government should they beat the Alliance.

Mr Reddy hoped that the association with WUF would diffuse the NFP’s “Indian party” image.

There were moments when WUF looked as if it might be a serious problem for the Alliance. As things turned out, it did badly in five of the Fijian communal constituencies in which it fought.

Two WUF supporters won cross-voting seats, but only because of the large pro-NFP Indian vote in those constituencies. The NFP had agreed that WUF should contest them without NFP opposition.

The election had obliterated the Fijian Nationalists who, in the first election of 1977, won almost 25 percent of the Fijian communal vote and were responsible for the Alliance defeat at that time. All its 22 candidates failed, many losing their deposits.

Alliance losses included three ministers of state Mr Bill Clark (Energy), Mr Sakiasi Waqanivavalagi (Lands, Minerals and Youth) and Mr Ishwar P. Bajpai (Cooperatives). New faces in its team include millionaire businessmen Mr Jim Ah Koy and Mr Peter Stinson, and Dr Ahmed Ali, formerly director of the University of the South Pacific’s Institute of Social and Administrative Studies.

The NFP side features Sir Vijay Singh, a former member of the Alliance and former Alliance Attorney-General, Mr Sharda Nand, a former permanent secretary for Commerce and Industry, and now managing director of a large flourmilling company, and another senior academic from the university, Dr Satya Nandan.

The inclusion of these and other new faces has produced what should be the most able Opposition ever seated in the House of Representatives.

But, memories and resentments lingering from what became a bitter and, at times, an ugly, personal duel between Ratu Mara and Mr Reddy, and the presence of the Opposition’s benches of such formidable politicians as Mr Koya and Sir Vijay Singh, could make the next five years stormy ones for parliamentary staff to ride through that’s if the House’s life lasts that long.

Ratu Mara has made it plain that he doesn’t think he can work well with Mr Reddy any more in getting parliamentary routines and procedures worked out. He’d prefer to see Mr Koya someone he wasn’t talking to five years ago back in the Opposition Leader’s seat.

Mr Reddy will press for a full inquiry into the implications of the Carroll report, and Ratu Mara has promised that any inquiry will be a judicial one.

Fiji’s electors, despite what their leaders said and did about each other, did their bit by voting in a notably calm and incident-free fashion. They seem anxious to see all the sound and fury of the election die away, and eventually be forgotten. Unfortunately for them, however, the two leaders, who pretend to have thick skins but really haven’t, seem loath to lower their lances.

An enlarged Cabinet of 15 ministers was announced by the PM on July 26. Three ministers of state were also appointed and the contents of some portfolios were shuffled around.

Ratu Mara gave up foreign affairs, which he has held since 1970, handing the portfolio to former House of Representatives’ Speaker Mr Mosese Qionibaravi, who is also Minister for Tourism.

Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau continues as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Fijian Affairs and Rural Development.

Other posts are: Agriculture and Fisheries, donate Mavoa; Employment and Industrial Relations, Mohammed Ramzan; Economic Planning and Development, Ratu David Toganivalu; Transport and Civil Aviation, Edward Beddoes; Finance, Charles Walker; Communications and Works, Semesa Sikivou; Lands, Local Government and Housing, Militoni Leweniqila; Attorney-General Senator Manikam Pillai; Home Affairs, Ratu William Toganivalu; Energy and Minerals, Peter Stinson; Education and Youth, Dr Ahmed Ali; Health and Social Welfare, Dr Apenisa Kuruisaqila.

Ministers of State are: Cooperatives, Livai Nasilivata; Forests, Ratu Josaia Tavaiqia; Minister without Portfolio, Apisai Tora.

Wheel of fortune: Alliance Party supporters salvaged this cast iron wheel from an old piece of machinery and hung it outside one of their campaign offices. The Alliance uses a wheel as its official symbol. - Fiji Times picture. 13 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1982

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“The Chief” regains his leadership after a bitter PNG campaign Michael Somare the man they call “The Chief” is back as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. True to his prediction he survived two weeks of bitter political fighting in the wake of a general election to emerge early in August with the numbers to form a government. ANGUS SMALES tells the story: ~ The July count in the Papua New Guinea general election left Mr Michael Somare’s Pangu Party with the biggest collection of seats of any party, but too few to form a government without aid. Somare, the man who led PNG to independence in a 1975 but who lost his national leadership in a parliamentary vote in 1980, set out to organise the extra support he needed. He won after an intense campaign which was marked by bitter exchanges and fluctuating loyalties. Under the PNG constitutional system in which parliament directly votes for its prime minister he was returned by 66 votes to 40. The man he defeated in the formal ballot was his former ally Father John Momis, representing the disrupted Chan coalition.

Sir Julius Chan himself, former leader of the coalition and prime minister, did not figure in the vote. He valiantly fought a rearguard action for some days after the election count, and then with tacit support of his Peoples Progress Party he withdrew from the running.

Effective leadership was becoming impossible in the atmosphere of dissent, he said.

The former deputy prime minister, Mr lambakey Okuk, did not get a chance to figure in the fight because he had lost his parliamentary seat. Mr Ted Diro, entering parliament for the first time after a military career which led him to command the PNG Defence Force, took over the National Party leadership from Mr Okuk and became leader of the Opposition. He was criticised in some quarters for pushing too hard, but his opposition leadership is a rare achievement for a first-term-in-office man. He could well have been deputy prime minister under Somare had he played his cards differently.

Mr Paias Wingti, a low key but effective and solid Somare man, went in as deputy prime minister and Mr Dennis Young as Speaker of Parliament. Mr Young, a naturalised PNG citizen, came to PNG 16 years ago and was born in England.

He is the second naturalised citizen to hold the position since Independence. The other was Australian born Mr Barry Holloway who is now a member of the Somare ministry.

Towards the end of July after the general success of the Pangu vote had been confirmed, intense lobbying began in the campaign to form a government. Sir Julius Chan and Michael Somare both appeared to have strong chances, with Ted Diro being seen in the role of a kingmaker. Sir Julius stressed that the coalition was still united, Sir Julius and Somare each issued figures claiming a majority of supporters but the figures they quoted added up to 15 more than the membership of parliament.

By the end of July it became apparent that there were strains in the Chan coalition group, largely centred on the leadership issue. Sir Julius was seen as the natural leader by seniority and because he was still prime minister, but Diro provided a challenge because he led the biggest party grouping. Somare at this stage was making little comment except to say he was confident of mustering the numbers to govern.

July ended with three dramatic developments. The first was when the five-member-strong United Party announced that although it was technically part of the coalition group it had been holding secret talks with Somare and had decided to join forces with the Somare Pangu Party. With candor if not with grace the United Party leader, Mr Roy Evara, said “We are not interested in mere numbers we want to be in government for the next five years.”

The second development was when the Melanesian Alliance, led by Father John Momis, said it intended to throw its eight supporters behind Somare.

And the final development was an announcement by Sir Julius that he was pulling out of the controversy over leadership of the coalition. “I have no wish to hang on to leadership of a coalition which is so split by dissent that it cannot say who its leader is,” he said.

In the final run up to the formation of a government there was yet another surprise Father Momis relinquished his plan to join forces with the Somare group and became the coalition group’s nomination for prime minister.

Michael Somare went back to office with no trouble soon Michael Somare - back on top. The picture was taken in the Opposition leader’s office shortly before his return to the Prime Minister’s office. On the wall is a portrait of his father, Ludwig. Rob Walls picture for Rapport. 15

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afterwards. Three days later the opposition came to grips with its leadership problem and voted on the issue. Ted Diro defeated Sir Julius Chan by 19 votes to 18 to become opposition leader, and Sir Julius then deferred to Father Momis who was confirmed as deputy opposition leader.

The Governor General, Sir Tore Lokoloko, formally addressed parliament on the aims of the new Somare government. He told the official opening of the new parliament that measures similar to those used in wartime were needed to restore the country’s development targets and national priorities in health, education, agriculture, housing and industry.

Members of the new Somare ministry are: Michael Somare, Prime Minister; Paias Wingti, Deputy Prime Minister, National Planning and Development, Primary Industry; Rabbie Namaliu, Foreign Affairs and Trade; Phillip Bouraga, Finance; Karl Stack, Commerce and Industry; Francis Didman, Minerals and Energy; Matthew Bendumb, Transport and Civil Aviation; Barry Holloway, Education; Tony Siaguru, Public Service; Roy Evara, Home Affairs; Bebes Korowaro, Lands; Kala Swokim, Urban Development; John Nilkare, Decentralisation; Epel Tito, Defence; Sir Pita Lus, Parliamentary Services; Kaspar Angua, Labour and Employment; Michael Pondros, Public Utilities; Martin Tovadek, Health; Pundia Range, Correctional Services and Liquor Licensing; MacKenzie Jovoka, Culture and Tourism; Tony Bais, Justice; Tom Awasa, Religion, Youth and Recreation; John Giheno, Police; Halalu Mai, Environment and Conservation; Lukas Waka, Forests; Boyamo Sali, Media; Pato Kakarya, Works and Supply.

Eleven members of the new Cabinet are entering Parliament for the first time, although some of the newcomers particularly Tony Siaguru, Rabbie Namaliu, Phillip Bouraga and John Nilkare should be of particular value because of their senior public service experience. The only survivors of Mr Somare’s “old guard” when he first led PNG are Barry Holloway and Sir Pita Lus.

Mr Somare was three days behind schedule in naming his Cabinet and he freely admitted that the delay was caused because he was running into what he called “regional problems.” This is a particularly sensitive issue in PNG where the country’s clearly-defined regions tacitly demand equal representation in Cabinet. The upshot was that Mr Somare was to some extent obliged to appoint a bigger Cabinet than he would have liked. To do otherwise would have been to invite early dissent and electorate dissatisfactions. He had already campaigned on the basis that Pangu would cut administrative waste, and no doubt felt some embarrassment in naming a Cabinet which, in terms of numbers, was right on the constitutional limit.

He was quick to assure Parliament that he would review his team within three months and hoped to “effectively reduce” the numbers.

Mr Somare said he realised he had selected a big Cabinet at a time when the country was facing economic hardship, and he was aware that critics would see his action as contrary to his stated policies.

However he believed it would have been premature to reduce the numbers immediately because no information was available on the areas where savings could best be made.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that Mr Somare has merely deferred a difficult decision, particularly as he also told Parliament that he would be failing in his duty to the constitution if he didn’t spread regional representation as widely as possible. If there is no wastage in his Cabinet in the first three months, he is going to find extreme political difficulty in shedding some of his ministers.

An editorial in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, published in Port Moresby, was critical of the size of the Cabinet in political and practical terms and accused Mr Somare of having made obvious and unnecessary concessions to regional jealousies. The editorial suggested that Mr Somare was well aware that the ministry was too big to be compatible with a policy of national belt tightening. “The anachronistic tradition of sharing the ministries among the regions must be abandoned,” the editorial said.

But from his newly influential position as Leader of the Opposition, Mr Ted Diro alleged that regional jealousies were far from soothed anyway. Mr Diro’s claim was that a nucleus of four men from the East Sepik region now had a firm grip on PNG’s national affairs because of the strength and integration of their portfolios. He named the four as Mr Somare, leading the National Executive Council; Mr Siaguru, controlling the public service; Sir Pita Lus, controlling the parliamentary legislative programme; and Mr Bais, heading the country’s judicial arm. Mr Diro said the situation confirmed a view held by many that Mr Somare was effectively becoming a dictator, and that the Sepik people through their bloc in Parliament were in a position to control national management. Mr Somare later denied the allegations, saying that he and all his ministers were subject to the democratic check and balance which PNG had built into its constitution. (The East Sepik, Mr Somare’s home area, is in the north-west of the PNG mainland).

The new Somare government appears to have entered its stewardship in an atmosphere of some bitterness and a measure of recrimination. The spirit of national crusade and cross-party links which marked every facet of PNG politics in the days of selfgovernment and independence is no longer there. This was perhaps inevitable as national management became a task rather than a target, and as a growing corps of new politicians split and rejoined and split again in the contest for the top. The climate of today’s PNG economy an economy affected by outside forces as much as by internal politics is another factor which has clouded the political atmosphere.

Outside the immediate areas of political factionalism there’s a general feeling that Mr Somare will bring back something of the spirit which marked his first term of office, and which could do much to remove the divisiveness which has become apparent in PNG affairs. Sir Julius Chan was a direct-minded and capable Prime Minister who dissipated much of his effectiveness in a never-ending battle to hold his government together. Michael Somare gives the impression of being neither more nor less capable, but he goes back to office with one big advantage he has done it all before.

When he lost office he described his introduction to the Opposition ranks as “the start of a rest before I think things over and come back again.”

Not all his supporters believed he could make the comeback, but even before the election it was apparent that his position was strengthening. His present intention is to retire in 1987, the year of the next general election. He will then be 52 years of age and will have been in Parliament continuously for 19 years.

Ted Diro - a new sort of leadership. Formerly Brigadier- General, and in command of the PNG Defence Force, he left the army last year, was elected to parliament this year and narrowly defeated former Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan to become the new Opposition leader. Eva Uwedo picture. 17

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From the ISLANDS PRESS From Comment by Sports Editor Numa Alu in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby Representative teams all over the world wear national emblems on their uniform. And those sporting organisations do not seem to have any hassle with their governments on the use of those emblems. Although our Kumul rugby league team can wear the national crest, the Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department, Mr Fred Reiher, in his wisdom, has seen fit to refuse the PNG Commonwealth Games Committee the privilege. His reason for the refusal is that the crest represents the Government and not the country. If that is so, what is our national emblem, or don’t we have one? . . .

From The Observer, Apia Western Samoa “tala” cannot buy a carton of herring any more at Chan Mow & Co. Ltd. wholesaling outfit at Saleufi.

Buyers are turned away if they do not have U.S. dollars to do their purchasing. According to the manager of Chan Mow’s wholesale department, Komisi Chan Mow, “the idea is to help out the banks with their foreign revenues” ... He said the move had been decided upon when his company found out that a lot of small store owners in the villages were buying their cartons of herrings direct from American Samoa.

Komisi said those U.S. dollars should not keep pouring out to American Samoa. They should be banked in local banks, he believed.

From Marianas Variety News & Views, Saipan What the Northern Marianas needs is fewer political science majors and lawyers and more plumbers, carpenters and electricians. At least that’s the view of Rep. Mike Sablan who made the comments during a House committee hearing into a bill to establish post secondary education assistance. “It seems in the near future we’re going to have 100 political science majors and 50 lawyers and nobody cares about learning to fix up houses and parks,” he said.

From The Fiji Times, Suva If you’re wondering why Suva City Council workmen are painting the city’s manholes white, here’s the answer. The Government Lands Department wants to plot the city’s sewer and stormwater manhole system from the air. So the manholes have to be clearly identifiable on aerial photographs that will be taken in the next two weeks.

Hard-working Cook Islanders, as instanced by Prime Minister Sir Thomas Davis and reported in the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga Sir Thomas gave the example of Aitutaki, whose 2000 people, he said, have managed to produce more bananas than Samoa or Tonga.

From the Samoa Times, Apia “The marriage between Polynesian Airlines and the Australian internal carrier Ansett has been consummated”, is the graphic description used by the Minister of Economic Development, Lauofo Meti, to express delight at the satisfactory development now reached for the purchase of the Boeing 737 jet “Sina” from the government of Nauru through its financial arm RONFIN (Republic of Nauru Finance and Investment Corporation).

From a speech by President Ati George Sokomanu during a visit to Ambae and Maewo, reported in Tam-Tam, Port-Vila He said since independence people don’t really understand the meaning of independence and are still expecting the Government to supply all their needs as the British and French Governments (did) during the colonial days.

From an editorial in the Samoa Times, Apia His Highness the Head of State broke protocol yesterday, according to our understanding anyway, by greeting the Governor-General of New Zealand, a mere representative of Her Majesty the Queen, the constitutional Head of State of New Zealand, and his proper counterpart. Further, His Highness was forced, more by ill-prepared underlings than his own doing, to yield even his proper place as host, when a Foreign Affairs liaison officer and a Police Officer misdirected the Governor-General to the left hand seat of the Head of State’s limousine.

From the Pitcairn Miscellany When Pastor Petty came ashore, he brought with him a carton which has somewhat changed evenings on Pitcairn. It was a video TV and a mass of recorded programs. The first showing was in the Court House, and the locals were able to see a video tape Thurman (Pastor Petty) took of various Pitcairners now living in New Zealand. There was many a happy tear in the Court House that night as relatives and close friends were recognised, some after an absence of many years. Since that time there have been regular showings of the “Muppets” and first-rate feature films such as “Blue Lagoon”, “Kramer v. Kramer” and “Sink the Bismarck”. Thurman says he has around 60 feature films as well as other programs; so there are a few nights’ entertainment in store yet. Certainly everyone on the island has been enjoying these showings, although I sometimes reflect that it is perhaps a little sad that TV has invaded even this remote spot.

From the “Crew didn’t like it”, by C. Hoepper, in the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga It was going to cost, if they wanted to bring them through customs. That’s what the flight crew of last Thursday’s plane from Tahiti found when they tried to bring French bread into the country. They were told they would have to pay a “use” tax of $2 per loaf, never mind that the long, thin loaves had only cost 300 francs (about 30 cents) back in Papeete. Well, the off shot of this was that the crew took their bread back with them on the plane rather than pay the duty, and friends of the crew here lost out on the chance of getting some French bread.

From “an unemployed youth’s view of things”, by columnist Mika in The Observer, Apia . . .You people sit on your “ivory towers” and pontificate to us, telling us what is wrong with us; what’s good for us. How would you know when you haven’t experienced what it’s like to be unemployed? When you have to steal to live. You people talk about justice, about honesty, about everything else that we are not. How can you talk about justice when those of you who commit offences like smuggling, defrauding government of revenues are not brought to justice . . .

From a news report on Radio Vanuatu Mr Robert Early, a linguist who comes from the Summer Institute of Linguistics in New Zealand, is now on Epi. He is there to do translation work. Pastor Willie Oli, an Epi man, said this morning that Mr Early will undertake a project of translation of hymns, parts of the Bible, and custom stories into the Epi language. However, he said, Mr Early will firstly be learning the Epi language before beginning his work. The last translation from English to Epi language was done in 1906. Mr Early has previously done translation work in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Western Samoa. 18

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New Caledonia

Clubs, rocks, tear gas - and the freeing of a murder suspect HELEN FRASER in Noumea reports on the latest events in the long ordeal of New Caledonia: the day of violence on July 22, and the controversial release on bail of Dominique Canon, suspected killer of the leading pro-independence figure, Pierre Declercq.

As New Caledonia continued to hold the attention of the Pacific in August, High Commissioner Christian Nucci took off on a series of visits to nefghboring countries during which he sought to explain to their governments French plans for reform in the territory. Among countries he visited were Fiji, Vanuatu, Australia and New Zealand.

As he travelled, shock waves from the outburst of violence in Noumea on July 22 were still being felt throughout New Caledonia.

On that day 60 young men, armed with clubs and wearing crash helmets, invaded the Territorial Assembly chamber shouting “resign, resign”, and assaulting politicians from the Front Independantiste (FI) and the Federation pour une Nouvelle Societe Caledonienne (FNSC). The assembly at the time was debating France’s contentious land reform program, The “commandos” (as the French call them) were quickly joined by more than 50 supporters from the public gallery. In the ensuing violence three Independantiste politicians were injured, chairs were thrown, windows broken, desks overturned and a TV camera smashed, Twenty minutes later, after police had arrested seven commandos and cleared the chamber, riots broke out in the street outside the assembly as 400 Right-wing demonstrators hurled rocks and sticks at the 100-strong cordon of Garde Mobile who replied with dozens of canisters of tear gas and eventually dispersed the rioters. The latter rejoined 10,000 Right-wing demonstrators in Noumea’s Place des Cocotiers. More brawls and vandalism of shops broke out later in the day, this time involving the demonstrators and groups of young Melanesians.

July 22 was the date set down for the Territorial Assembly to debate the first of France’s reforms, that concerning land, under which the State will have the power to purchase and return tribal land to Melanesians. But since last December, when the French National Assembly in Paris voted to rule New Caledonia by decree for a year, the Territorial Assembly has no power to alter the reforms it can only give an opinion.

It is this very lack of power that has led to the frustration of the Right. The umbrella organisation ironically called Committee for the Defence of Institutions (its member organisations include the Right-wing political parties RCPR and PNC, the farmers’

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body RURALE, and the Domi nique Canon Support Committee) called a general strike for July 22 in protest against the reforms, and to repeat their demand for new elections to the Territorial Assembly (PIM Aug. p!7).

The strike, held in conjunction with the 10,000-strong demonstration, was largely successful. Most of Noumea’s shops and businesses were closed and many workers found themselves locked out by their employers when they turned up for work. However, the strike did not affect the nickel plant SEN, nor the docks. Nor did it affect the loading at Ouaco of two ships belonging to RCPR president Jacques Lafleur.

The assembly resumed the land debate after calm was restored. With most FNSC members abstaining and some voting against, the result was an unfavorable opinion on the proposed measures.

During the following week France’s other proposals for the setting up of an office of Melanesian culture and identity, economic development of the interior and the islands, and a judicial reform which incorporates some Melanesian Custom into law also received unfavorable opinions.

The FNSC members are opposed to the principle of rule by decree, hence their abstentions.

The violence of July 22 was deplored by the Government Council, High Commissioner Nucci, and France’s secretary of state for overseas departments and territories Henri Emmanuelli.

The Territorial Assembly passed an urgency motion condemning the premeditated violence, calling for the immediate dissolution of extremist organisations, and restitution for damage caused by the rioters.

Police have also received criticism because their small guard at the assembly despite warnings of violence was easily overpowered and locked out of the assembly for eight minutes.

Right on the heels of the assembly invasion came the release on bail of Dominique Canon, 20, who has been jailed and awaiting trial since last September for the murder of Independantiste Pierre Declercq. The examining judge said that at this stage Canon was no longer necessary to judicial inquiries.

The July 23 release of Canon gave joy to the members of his support committee, but shocked and angered the independantists.

The president of the Pierre Declercq Memorial Committee, Christian Burck, said he feared for the consequences of Canon’s release.

Testimony was given during his 10-month stay in prison that Canon is a member of the extreme Right-wing organisation MOP (Movement for Order and Peace). The founder of MoP > Henri Morini, was one °f those arrested for the invas*on °f the assembly, Two hundred and fifty peo- P^ e demonstrated against Canon s release on August 7 at Noumea’s court house. Mme Maguitte Declercq read to the § rou P her letter to President Mitterrand asking him to obtain all information surrounding her husband’s mu rder.

The French security service have said they cannot re l ease information they possess concerning Canon because °f security risks.

Above: Right wing Deputy to the National Assembly Jacques Lafleur addresses the July 22 demonstration Above: Demonstrators assemble outside the Place des Cocotiers in Noumea on July 22.

Left: “Give us back our land unconditionally” says the banner held by demonstrating Melanesians at Voh, 1300 km north of Noumea. They demonstrated during a visit by High Commissioner Christian Nucci. 22

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New Caledonia

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Changing face of Tahiti’s TIURAI Since 1881, the big annual event in French Polynesia has been the TIURAI which is simply the Tahitian way of pronouncing the English word July. Officially, as everybody knows, this festival commemorates the glorious day in 1789 when the hated symbol of the despotic rule of Louis XVI, the Bastille prison, was destroyed by the people of Paris.

But to ascribe the fervour with which the Tahitians participate in the three-week festival to any revolutionary or republican sentiments would be a gross mistake. In fact, throughout the reign of Napoleon 111, from 1852 to 1870, the Tahitians celebrated with equal zest, every year, on August 15, the French Emperor’s birthday. But whatever the pretext for the carousing, there was always up to 1963 a common denominator: the Tahitians themselves were the main organisers, actors and beneficiaries of the annual affairs.

What has changed since that year, when General de Gaulle made his fateful decision to use French Polynesia for nuclear bomb tests, is the general character of the TIURAI festival. It has become a more and more commercially orientated show for the enjoyment of the 25,000 Frenchmen who since that time have come to live and work in the islands, and the 10,000 foreign tourists who flock to Papeete on this occasion in the hope of catching a glimpse of the real South Seas that enchanted Cook, Melville and Gauguin.

The dominant role played by the French armed forces in the territory nowadays was strongly evident in the big parade that opened the 1982 TIURAI festival early in the morning of July 14, Bastille Day itself. To begin with, the admiral in charge of the nuclear testing made the 3000 or so Tahitians who were to march past the official grandstand wait for 40 minutes while first of all he himself was made a commandeur de la legion d'honneur, and then while he, with much ceremony, distributed medals to no fewer than 34 worthy officers and men.

When the parade at long last got under way, it was spearheaded by 700 troops and policemen (representing a tenth of the total garrison), while a military press officer with an unpleasant metallic voice told us all about the glorious feats of arms of the French colonial regiments represented. (All this was as nothing, however, to the mental suffering inflicted upon those who followed the ceremony on radio or TV, for the commentator was, as usual, a Frenchman who knew nothing about local customs and traditions, and who mispronounced all Polynesian names and words in the most atrocious manner.) The smartly dressed groups of Polynesians who followed, in only slightly less military order, provided a sure guide to the activities and interests that are officially encouraged and approved of; thus, the local churches and missions were out in strength, there were canoe-paddlers, footballers, volley ball players, archers, as well as singers, dancers and craftsmen. On the other hand, no political, ecological or philanthropic association was represented that is, if we exclude from these categories a group of police-dog trainers, who are doing a roaring trade among the new French settlers, all scared to death of the activities of the numerous Tahitian youth gangs.

The flooding of the country with French settlers and army personnel since 1963 is constantly presented as a great blessing to the natives who, by selling goods and services to these eager customers, have supposedly achieved the highest standard of living in the Pacific. Even if the true picture is considerably less glossy, it is an undisputed fact that the whole island economy has been totally transformed in less than a generation.

Before this enforced prosperity hit the Tahitians, they were all free, independent planters and fishermen who could easily and did spend weeks and months composing songs, rehearsing dances and making costumes in preparation for the TIURAI, and then remain in town for the duration of the festival.

Today, practically all adult Tahitians, both men and women, regularly work for wages. Their employers, of course, refuse to give them leave of two or three months, however patriotic the cause may be. This is why there have emerged groups of professional dancers and singers who perform all year round in the big hotels and restaurants, when they are not on extended tours of America, Europe, Japan, or the Arab countries.

Fortunately, all Polynesians can still sing and dance, and they do so with the wonderful grace, zest and humour for which they have become famous throughout the world. When it comes to other aspects of their ancestral culture, however, there has been a complete break with the past, and the present generations either know nothing, or have totally erroneous ideas, about them, If Tahiti is to compete successfully with Hawaii in the Polynesian entertainment field and this is the avowed aim of the local tourist board we had therefore better follow the example of Waikiki and Laie and hire anthropologists with university degrees, and imaginative showmen, to train truly profesional native performers.

A first timid step in this direction was taken this year by calling in High Chief Tavana Anderson from Honolulu to help with the tattooing ceremony and the re-enactment of a ‘Tahitian coronation’. Tavana promptly imported two tattooing masters from Samoa who set to work on Tahitian volunteers, surrounded by ever-growing crowds of paying spectators.

However, it remains a mystery to us why these fine craftsmen were not allowed to use any Samoan designs, but had to work solely from poor copies of the splendid pictures of tattooed Marquesans which illustrate the classical accounts by Karl von den Steinen and Willowdean Handy.

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Tavana’s guiding spirit could also be seen in the ‘coronation’ ceremony which took place on the marae, or open air temple, situated in the beautiful Arahurahu valley in Paea. Although the actors engaged a little too often in uncalled-for shouting matches, it was on the whole an amusing spectacle. Whether a ceremony even remotely resembling this enthusiastically applauded show was ever performed on a Tahitian marae is, of course, very doubtful.

But who really cares in this context, as long as it is good entertainment? And it certainly did not seem to bother the predominantly European audiences in any way that some costumes were Samoan, the god images Marquesan, the head-dresses Hawaiian, and most of the king’s personal ornaments Melanesian.

Obviously with an eye to making an extra buck, the much-touted ‘ancient and mysterious fire-walking ceremony known only to the sorcerers of Raiatea’ was not performed on the marae but put on as a separate show. More than one spectator found it daylight robbery to have to pay the equivalent of SUS 7 to see a mumbling, stumbling old man hurry over an earth oven hardly bigger than a bath tub. And in the scuffle that ensued, disappointingly few spectators managed to burn their feet. The tourist board should immediately despatch a study team to Beqa to learn something from the clever methods by which Fijiian fire-walkers create their tense dramas.

Having been taught for 200 years by all European missionaries and government officials to despise the heathen rites and superstitions of their savage ancestors, many modern Polynesians are quite naturally less than enthusiastic about these commercial forms of cultural revival.

No such stigma attaches, however, to the ancient sports, of which the most popular is canoe racing. In fact, it is the Tahitian sport, and men, women and children almost without exception take the same passionate interest in it as Australians do in horse racing. They also wager with similar recklessness and conviction on their fancied entrants.

Until a few years ago, all canoe races took place in the protected harbour of Papeete, and race distances rarely exceeded 3000 metres. These lagoon races are still as popular as ever, and this year more than 500 canoes participated in the various competitions for one, three, six and 16 seaters, paddled either by men or women. However, in addition to these races we now have a variety of canoe races of the ‘sea marathon’ type. Pioneered by the Hawaiian canoe clubs, races of this kind are growing rapidly in importance.

The defeat suffered last year by the Tahitian canoe teams at the hands of the American paddlers from the Californian canoe club IMUA (a well-chosen name: it is Polynesian for ‘Forward’) therefore amounted almost to a national disaster. The event was a 32-kilometre race from Marlon Brando’s Tetiaroa atoll to Point Venus. The chairman of the Polynesian Canoe Federation, ‘Sheriff’ Vernaudon, swore vengeance, and eventually came up with the perfect riposte: this simply consisted of getting together in secret a national team of the best paddlers produced by the various clubs. Secrecy was, of course, imposed so as not to give the Californian clubs time to follow suit. As a result of these slightly unfair tactics, the Tahitian national team this year beat the IMUA team by three minutes and nine seconds, and the Hawaiian clubs by even wider margins.

The sea had been exceptionally calm for these events. But it had again taken on its usual choppy aspect when, a few days later, 14 female teams set off from Moorea on a 24-kilometre race to Papeete harbour. Only 10 teams finished the race, and again the winner was the Tahitian team to the delirious joy of the huge crowd of spectators.

One more open sea race remained, the longest of them all, from Tahiti to Moorea and around it, and then back to Tahiti a distance of not less than 84 kilometres. When trying to put together a third national team, however, the TIURAI organisers fell foul of the even more sectarian spirit of the leaders of the clubs, who all wanted to keep their champion paddlers and thus increase their own chances of winning.

Throwing all sense of fair play to the winds, the TIURAI organisers suddenly banned foreign clubs from participating in such a ‘typically Polynesian race’ whatever that may mean! The Californian and Hawaiian haole paddlers responded by threatening, in front of American television cameras, to boycott all future TIURAI festivals if they were prevented in this thoroughly unsporting manner from having any chance of getting even with the Tahitians.

The organisers relented and graciously announced that the foreign teams could paddle the same distance but hors concours, or not as competitors!

Anger is the sharpest of spurs, and this probably accounts for the fact that the IMUA team managed to hold the lead from start to finish, beating the nearest Tahitian club by five minutes, and setting a new record by covering the 84 kilometres in six hours, 51 minutes an average speed of 6.5 knots!

To end on the same anthropological note as we began, there is no doubt that the increasing difficulties faced by the Tahitians in maintaining their traditional position as kings of the ocean stem from the profound changes in their way of life over the past decades. While the American paddlers from California and Hawaii train hard, drink milk, and eat health foods, most of the Tahitians are today urban, and even slum, dwellers, who live far from the sea, drink too much beer, wine and liquor, and subsist largely on polished rice, bread, canned food and sweets.

Very revealingly, the best local paddlers today come from the rural districts on the south coast of Tahiti, from the remote peninsula of Taiarapu, and from the outer islands, where men and women still use canoes in their daily work.

It is to these places also that all tourists in quest of more genuine folklore should go next TIURAI.

Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson.

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Before Vanuatu

Final bankruptcy of plans for pro-French majority HOWARD VAN TREASE this month concludes his three-part series of analyses of a number of confidential reports to Paris by successive French Resident Commissioners in Port-Vila, New Hebrides/Vanuatu. The reports, inadvertently left behind by French diplomatic personnel in the flurry of their departure on Vanuatu’s accession to independence in 1980, cover the period 1969 up to the eve of independence.

The most difficult task facing French officials was getting the various parties on which they were working to put aside their rivalries and differences and agree to a common strategy.

For the time being the agreement between parties on a concerted strategy is still hypothetical, despite the intervention of the French Residency. (Gauger, September 1975.) Even with the French Resident Commissioner’s direct involvement, dbtaining unity among the “moderate” parties proved difficult.

MANH leaders, temporarily in Port Vila, remained elusive faced by our reprimands, in spite of the warning I gave them that they would receive no help from the Residency if they did not agree to an “entente” with UCNH. (Gauger, October 1975.) One of the key issues was persuading the various parties to limit the number of candidates to constituencies where they had a chance of winning, and to prevent vote-splitting in others.

Reports from delegates and from the Police Station made one fear a resounding defeat of the moderates in North Efate.

Individual talks with the leaders of the MANH finally shook their pride. They agreed finally in the last week of October during an ultimate intervention on my part in Santo to withdraw six candidates from MANH and Nagriamel as well as related independents.

Among these are Bouletare on Pentecost and Ruru Gratiana on Malekula, which will give Vincent Boulekone and Father Leymang a better chance. At the same time the Residency obtained the resignation of Lionel Michel, French candidate of the National Party, thus ensuring the election of a French UCNH in the town.

These are no small advantages. (Gauger, October 1975.) In addition, despite the cooling of relations, the French Residency still maintained contact with Jimmy Stevens, though with little success. The French Resident Commissioner intervened personally to get Nagriamel support: Despite assurances which he gave to me during my visit to Santo, Jimmy Stevens has done nothing yet or would do nothing towards withdrawing the Ambrym and Epi-Paama candidates. (Gauger, October 1975.) The difficulty which the French Residency encountered in its attempted manipulation of the “moderate” parties shows the degree to which they had overestimated their ability to create a loyalty to France, even among their supporters, when local issues were at stake.

The French Residency, however, carried its manipulation of political events even further to the extent that French officials attempted to buy votes by authorising direct aid and assistance to various key constituencies.

According to instructions received in the course of a tour of South Pentecost, I have been able to organise certain road jobs in the Melsisi region with the help of the High Commis sioner and the armed forces of New Caledonia. This should draw a few hesitant voters towards Vincent Boulekone.

On his side, the French District Agent of Santo has been able to proceed to clear rocks from many roads in Maewo and the Banks Islands out of private funds, thus being able at the most opportune moment to keep old promises. On October 14 I handed over publicly to various families and Melanesian communities of Santo, land titles representing more than 3000 hectares bought back by the State from SFNH. (Gauger, October 1977.) However, despite this wheeling and dealing, the National Party won 55 per cent of the Melanesian vote in the 1975 election, and proved that ni-Vanuatu minds were not as easily moulded or bought as the French had thought.

The effect of the defeat in the 1975 Representative Assembly election brought French Residency officials to the conclusion that more direct support was necessary for the so-called “moderate” parties and in particular the UCNH if a French political victory was to be achieved.

It remains certain the UCNH is our surest and principal ally and it can play a major role in the political life of the Archipelago if it is given the means. Started from nothing, based on good will, it managed to lead an intense electoral battle confronted by 50 years of one-way political and religious indoctrination. The result was unexpected. It could even improve if that party had the means to pay at least two permanent officials who could take over from those who, today, leave their professional occupation to fulfil a deserving job in difficult conditions. (Gauger, May 1976.) Unfortunately, we do not have the full set of monthly reports from that time onwards. Thus it is not possible to confirm for certain whether the French Government supported UCNH financially, though given their record of direct involvement in politics, it can be assumed that they did.

French Residency officials, however, again misjudged their ability to manipulate the political situation and control the ni-Vanuatu involved.

Rather than rallying behind France and her policies in the years following the 1975 election, French-educated ni- Vanuatu became less and less willing to allow themselves to be used by the French Government. In May 1977 the French Resident Commissioner commented: The French-trained primary teachers, whom I had the intention of relying on as the basis for a new political elite, are disengaging themselves from the worn-out political parties and seem disoriented.

They do not want to associate themselves with either the TAN-UNION or the Federation. Nor do they want to join up with the Vanuaaku Party, which retains the image of the party of independence. I am striving to mobilise them under three themes: defence of bi-lingualism, defence of democracy, defence of French influences. But the response remains modest and I have not 27

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been able until now to identify, even among two or three of them, any inclination to step forward. (Gauger, May 1977.) Vincent Boulekone struck an even harder blow when in September of 1978 he withdrew from the UCNH to form his own party. In a letter to the President of the UCNH he gave among his reasons: I want to work with my compatriots and not be a tool at their disposal.

I realise that the members of the UCNH do not support the aspirations of Melanesians who are seeking to work and discuss with their brothers who are not members of the Government Party or the Assembly (i.e. Vanuaaku members).

I want to preserve the liberty of children to learn their language and their culture before learning French or English. (Annex 2, September 1978.) We witness therefore, by the late 19705, the almost total bankruptcy of French policy in Vanuatu. The election in November 1979 in which the Vanuaaka Party polled 62 per cent of the vote was a clear statement that the French had failed to create a francophone majority in Vanuatu.

But even more revealing are the above words of one of the country’s most highly-educated and respected Frenchspeaking ni-Vanuatu. He and others had come to realise that they were being used, that divisions were being created between them and their fellow ni-Vanuatu, and that in the process their identity as Melanesians was being ruthlessly undermined.

Unfortunately for Vanuatu, the French Residency did not give up the battle and continued its campaign to disrupt the orderly progression towards independence, despite the rejection of their policy even by French-speaking ni- Vanuatu.

After the November 1979 elections they attempted to force the new government to make changes in the constitution which they had accepted only a few months earlier. In a last desperate attempt to maintain a dominant position in that part of the group where their interests were mainly concentrated and which had the greatest economic potential Santo and the neighboring islands the French Government actively supported a rebellion aimed at retaining French political control. They failed again, but the deep wounds created by the armed rebellion and the measures required to put it down are still not healed.

The many difficulties encountered by the Vanuatu Government in finalising its aid agreement with France can only lead one to the conclusion that French Government policy towards Vanuatu has not changed much since independence, though they have found it necessary to alter their tactics. It is clear that the French now intend to use aid as the lever to force the Vanuatu Government to follow policies acceptable to France. Back in 1969, the French Resident Commissioner alluded to the strategy which would be followed should France be forced to accept independence; We have kept in reserve an alternative, fall-back solution which would involve independence tempered inescapably by co-operation agreements with France. (Mouradian, October 1968).

In reply to a question in the French National Assembly recently regarding the size of France’s aid contribution to Vanuatu the third largest provided by the French Government to former dependencies Minister of Foreign Affairs Claude Cheysson stated plainly that it was intended to assist France in maintaining her position and influence in the South Pacific.

If France can silence the Vanuatu Government through aid on the issue of continued colonial domination of other Pacific people, then it will have won a great victory, since it is obvious that Vanuatu’s independence has done much to stimulate and encourage the independence movements in New Caledonia and Tahiti.

The real issue is, of course, nuclear testing. Without nuclear weapons, France ceases to have significant influence and power in the world and, without colonies in the Pacific, France has no testing ground for developing these weapons.

The two issues are irrevocably linked. It is significant that one of the demands which the Vanuatu Government was forced to agree to as part of the final aid agreement with France was not to interfere in the “internal affairs” of France. What this means is that Vanuatu will be under constant pressure not to interfere in New Caledonia, since the French Government regards all their Pacific territories as part of France.

Another important aspect of France’s strategy to maintain her power and influence in the Pacific is to resist any changes in Vanuatu Government policy relating to the teaching of French language and culture.

It is not by chance that French aid money to Vanuatu for education is earmarked specifically for the support of French schools and is controlled in the Ministry of Education by a French expatriate.

Another pillar of France’s influence in Vanuatu is her business interests. The French Government is concerned that, for example, the land holdings of the SFNH and PRNH plantations should not be threatened.

In the first round of aid negotiations in 1980, one of the demands made was that French companies should be given automatic leases on their former registered titles which would be unconstitutional. This was duly rejected by the Vanuatu Government. They also demanded that French nationals be allowed to hold dual citizenship, which would have made it possible for long-time French residents in Vanuatu to remain in the country to carry on their various business enterprises and political activities. This, too, was rejected by the Vanuatu Government.

The official documents referred to in this paper, usually quoting the most senior French officials in the country, confirm what many ni- Vanuatu this year celebrated the second year of its independence with celebrations at home and a number of special functions in other Pacific countries. In Australia a function in Sydney marked the occasion. Shown here at the Sydney gathering are the official Vanuatu government representatives tom Bakeo (left) and Job Dalesa (right) with host Chris K. Sattler. 29

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Moreover, it is important to remember that French officials in Vanuatu prior to independence were under the direction of the Governor (later High Commissioner) in Noumea, who for most of the colonial era co-ordinated policy for all French territories in the Pacific.

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U.S. vetoes independence as Marshallese landowners occupy Kwajalein Reporting from where the action is the Marshall Islands’ Kwajalein Atoll, and neighboring Ebeye Island U.S. journalist GIFF JOHNSON tells the story of the tense battle being waged by Kwajalein landowners, and in other ways and other places by the Marshalls Government, over the terms of their post-Trusteeship relations with the U.S.

Landowners at the United States Army’s strategic Kwajalein Missile Range have mounted a major “sail-in” occupation of their off-limits islands, calling for rejection of the recently signed Compact of Free Association (PIM Aug., p 33). In response, the U.S. has demanded that independence earlier agreed by U.S. and Marshall Islands negotiatiors as an option for Marshallese voters be removed from the ballot for the upcoming referendum on the compact. The U.S. Defense Department has attempted to impose a total media blackout of the Kwajalein sail-in by barring reporters access to Kwajalein, and prohibiting normal telephone communications.

The 5000-member Kwajalein Atoll Corporation announced its opposition to the compact immediately after the May 30 agreement was signed by U.S. and Marshallese negotiators, ending 13 years of negotiations. Late in July more than 1000 landowners were occupying at least eight islands in Kwajalein, including six in the hazard zone for incoming missiles. They were protesting against compact provisions granting the U.S. 50 years use of Kwajalein; a Mutual Security pact giving the U.S. permanent military denial powers; proposed annual payments of 5U.5.1.9 million, well below the current $9 million yearly rent; and no provisions for past-use compensation.

U.S. Ambassador Fred Zeder and Marshalls Foreign Secretary Tony deßrum in mid-May signed a Memorandum of Understanding for an accelerated shedule to end the United Nations Trusteeship by October 1. It outlined two options for Marshallese voters in an August 17 referendum: approval of the compact of Free Association, or full independence. In either case, U.S. control via the United Nations agreement which deßrum said “hangs like a millstone on our economic advancement (and) political freedom” would terminate.

The U.S. Government would not have objected to the independence option if compact approval was a certainty, say informed sources. When Kwajalein landowners put compact approval in jeopardy, however, U.S. officals quickly repudiated Zeder’s memorandum. “We have done everything we can to expedite the process” of granting greater autonomy to the Marshallese, said Deputy assistant Secretary of Defense Noel Koch, “but declaring independence simply isn’t an available option to them” under international law. This statement was made despite UN Trusteeship provisions binding the U.S. to develop Micronesia “toward self government or independence, as may be appropriate...”

Pentagon officials were reportedly “furious” because they feared the Marshallese would vote for independence and then demand more than the annual $1.9 million payments specified in the compact. The Pentagon is vitally concerned with the future of Kwajalein wrote The Wall Street Journal (July 9), because “it would cost as much as $2 billion, according to some Pentagon planners, to set up a similar testing establishment elsewhere. What’s more important, military strategists say, is that it would be extremely difficult to find a comparable site that missiles could reach without flying them over major population centres.

Virtually all of America’s nuclear-weapons delivery systems have been tested at the multi-billion range, and the new MX missile is scheduled for testing there in a few months.

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Bongiovanni, D. Ross contact P.O. Box N 224, Grosvenor St. Sydney 2000, Tel (02) 309 2339. Australia. nuclear free pacific economic development Homecoming”, Kwajalein landowners say they have no intention of leaving their islands, many of them dotted with radar and other missiletracking equipment. Both the U.S. and Marshall Islands Governments, however, are taking a tough stand against the protests which threaten to disrupt missile-testing operations.

Both governments contend the Kwajalein Atoll corporation is bound by an Interim Use Agreement for Kwajalein, which expires on September 30. The KAC, which refused to sign the agreement, but has received payments specified in the pact, says it is not legally bound by it. The Marshalls Government, at the occupation’s outset, obtained a Temporary Restraining Order from Marshalls High court Justice John Lanham, barring the KAC from occupying islands or interfering with Kwajalein Missile Range operations. This court order gave the U.S. legal authority for the arrest of 13 KAC leaders as they entered a restricted area, said the Kwajalein security police. But George Allen, legal counsel for the KAC, contends the real reason the arrests were made was because they were moving into the swimming area for Kwajalein’s predominantly white, American population.

The Temporary Restraining Order was overturned by a higher court and the Marshallese released. Since then, however, the Marshalls Government has received a new court order fining the KAC for all costs caused by KAC disruption of missile range activities. In mid-July, the figure was well over $lOO,OOO and growing daily. The Marshalls and U.S. Governments contend that “all functions of the range are continuing normally.” But landowners claim that two missile tests, normally targeted for Kwajalein’s 2300-square kilometre lagoon, were re-targeted to land well away from the Atoll.

Occupation of the six islands in the “mid-corridor” hazard zone “precludes testing into the lagoon unless the military are going to violate their own safety regulations”, said Allen.

The U.S. has also refused to make the July $2 million rental payment the final instalment of the one-year interim use agreement until the occupation ends, and has instituted a series of actions to pressure the landowners to return to tiny 27-hectare Ebeye Island, where approximately 8000 Marshallese live. Ebeye is five kilometres from Kwajalein Island, and the 700 or so Marshallese employees are ferried to and from work daily, as they must be off Kwajalein by night.

Kwajalein security police in July were searching everyone who left Kwajalein for Ebeye and confiscating all food, cigarettes and other items.

The day this writer arrived, an entire crate of fresh mangoes, brought from Honolulu by a Marshallese woman, was taken by security police.

Additionally, all . Marshallese, excepting Kwajalein employees with ID badges, have officially been prevented from going to Kwajalein, which precludes Marshallese use of the bank. There is no bank on Ebeye. Unable to pay off loans and other bills, and prevented from picking up food shipments from Kwajalein, Ebeye businesses are both losing money and running “dangerously low on food supplies”, said Chamber of Commerce President Fountain Inok. At the request of the Chamber of Commerce, President Amata Kabua cabled the Defense Department asking for a re-opening of bank services to the business community on Ebeye.

There had been no response at time of writing.

These events have been surrounded by a shroud of secrecy. In early July, an Australian network film crew, with valid Marshalls Government passes for Ebeye, were arrested on the day of their arrival on Ebeye and flown back to Majuro. After negotiations and an apology from the Marshalls Government, they were allowed back to Ebeye for one day of filming. A Guam Pacific Daily News reporter was repeatedly denied access, and a local reporter for the Marshall Islands Journal was thrown off Kwajalein by security police.

The Marshall Islands Government has scheduled a referendum for August 17 on the Compact of Free Association, but strong U.S. opposition to the rush suggests it may be postponed. Some observers believe the U.S. wants a referendum delay to “take the steam” out of the anti-compact protests at Kwajalein.

Since the late 19605, Kwajalein landowners have continuously protested at living conditions on Ebeye and at the lack of compensation.

The landowners believe they are caught between the U.S.

Trust Territory bureaucracy, and a Kwajalein army command unconcerned with their problems on Ebeye. They say it is only when they physicially occupy their islands in protest that they are able to force action by U.S. officials. After a major occupation in 1979 (PIM Sept. 1979 Pl 9) the U.S. upped compensation payments from a few hundred thousand dollars a year to $9 million annually. KAC leaders were not surprised to hear President Kabua announce on June 30 10 days after the current protests began —that $6 million is now available to upgrade the power plant and sewage system and to provide drinking water for every Ebeye home.

Senator Ataji Balos, Chairman of the KAC, who in June resigned his post as Minister for Internal Security in the Marshall Islands Cabinet, summarised the Kwajalein landowners’ position on the compact: “I was the only member of the congress of Micronesia Joint Committee on Future Status who refused to sign the 1976 compact. If I could not support a compact which gave the U.S. 15 years at Kwajalein with no hope of help for my people, how can I now support a compact which gives 50 years?”

Footnote: As foreshadowed by Giff Johnson, the U.S. did veto the August 17 plebiscite, as told in Pacific Report, P. 6. 32

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TROPICALITIES Brando on films, life, and the bomb Marlon Brando has broken a self-imposed ban of more than 20 years and given a press interview. Looking at his scarred knuckles the scars, he said, were from blows he has dealt out over the years to paparazzi, or “journalistic pests” he told two reporters from the Tahiti daily Les Nouvelles that he was allowing himself to be interviewed because “he felt at home in Tahiti”, and felt that local journalists were “not ill-intentioned”.

As it turned out he talked for an hour and a half to Marine Palkovic and Denis Herrmann when they visited him on the island of Tetiaroa where he has his Polynesian home.

Asked what he thought of the film world today, he said: “Almost without exception films today are dependent on making money, and so are purely commercial propositions. In the USA, films are an industry, and film-making is not considered an art. There are exceptions among Japanese, Italian, French, and even American films. But generally speaking films are geared solely to the prospect of success at the box office there must be a return on the producers’ investments.

“A director like Ingmar Bergmann will never succeed in the United States. Nor would the French film La Cage aux Folles. I personally thought this film was marvellous. I saw it eight times, and simply couldn’t stop laughing.

Everything about it was wonderful, the script, the actors, the dialogue, the sets everything was perfect...

“There are some very moving passages in the film, but it will never succeed in America because Americans are very provincial, their tastes are conditioned by television. The French are being condtioned by television too. There are some good films being made, but they’re very rare...”

Asked whether he agreed with a description of himself as “an actor of genius”, Brando replied; “There’s no such thing as genius, there are only intelligent people.. . People who are intelligent in various fields of activity...”

The reporters asked did he ever feel concern about Polynesia’s problems with nuclear testing.

Brando replied; “Yes, certainly I d 0...

“The Americans didn’t want to explode their bombs in the United States so they looked around and found a pretty spot, they evacuated the inhabitants and settled them elsewhere, and for 25 or 30 years these people stayed on this other island. The Americans meanwhile got on with their bomb testing.

“I think the whole thing was amoral, but the Americans believed they were making a great gift to the world.

How many cancers did they cause? Ten years ago my wife Tarita arrived in the United States, and she had a goitre.

The first question the doctor asked her was where had she been at the time of the American bomb tests. She’d been at Borabora.

“I asked why he had asked this question, and the doctor replied it was because he’d seen the consequences of these tests before.

“It’s the same thing here.

The French are doing the same thing as the Americans did.

“But the way things are today, if the French produce a missile, the Russians and Americans have already developed an anti-missile missile, and so it goes on an on.

“Really, we’re all in the same boat, It’s loaded with dynamite, and if someone flings the dynamite at his enemy the whole lot will be blown up, and we’ll all be involved.”

Brando was asked the reasons for his deep affection for the Tahitian people.

“You know in the United States there are people who if they see me in the street, or in a restaurant somewhere, immediately telephone newspaper photographers to tell them where I am. And then these clowns turn up and lie in wait for me...

“Now the Tahitians don’t care about the cinema at all.

They don’t go around asking for autographs. It’s only the Chinese, the French and the Americans who do that to me.

The Tahitians, never.

“That’s why it’s a great pleasure for me to talk to a Tahitian. You can talk with a Tahitian about any subject under the sun...

“To me it’s a sign of a sort of cultural intelligence because it shows he knows that all this film business is not important.

He’d be more interested in the names of the fish you’ve got in your boat.

“But we and the whole world are suffering and suffocating over superficial matters that don’t really add up to to a thing.”

“Would Brando say he had acquired wisdom over the years?”

“Wisdom?” (Pause...) “I can now immediately recognise the sound made by a falling coconut, and I know how to take quick evasive action.. .

That’s wisdom enough for here in Tahiti...”

The Tami Canoe Voyage story A plan to sail a traditional outrigger canoe on a round trip of almost 6500 kilometres from Papua New Guinea’s Tami Islands to Vanuatu and back for the 1983 South Pacific Festival of Arts is well underway, and is receiving significant international support.

Barney Orere of the PNG Office of Information explains: “It is easy to preserve songs and dances and age-old institutions such as bride price and initiation ceremonies and building and carving, because these things are still an important part of the daily life of PNG. But because of modern technology some of this nation’s culture is dying rapidly.

“For example, the art and craftsmanship of building ocean-going trading canoes, traditional navigation, and the use of traditional trade routes are being forgotten.

“One might ask what relevance is there in using these traditional trading routes when there are available today better and more economical alternatives? The answer I have to such a question is that we must be concerned with An artist’s impression of a Tami canoe similar to the one being built for the voyage from PNG to Vanuatu. Picture by courtesy of Tami Canoe Voyage. 33

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The skills involved in building the traditional Tami Islands canoe may now be possessed by as few as four people, all in their mid-60s.

“When they go,” writes Mr Orere, “the canoe goes with them,”

The plan is to build a new canoe, recording permanently every step in the process of construction, and at the same time instructing young islanders in the art.

The project is the brainchild of a young American, Terry Linehan, who sailed across the Atlantic at 25, and crewed on Operation Drake’s flagship, Eye of the Wind. He will be supported by other Westerners, including Major Frank Esson, a helicopter test pilot in the British Army.

Army communications specialists will be selected to provide the high frequency communications needed to maintain constant contact with the canoe, while the crew will be carefully chosen from the Tami Islands.

Already the chosen tree is in the process of being turned into a magnificent 15-metre canoe.

The main expedition is expected to arrive in PNG either late this year or early next.

The Tami Canoe Voyage as the project is known has received support from the National Maritime Historical Society of America, and has thus achieved charitable status. Anyone wishing to support the project financially should write to Tami Canoe Voyage, National Maritime Historical Society, 2 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. A project office has also been established in the District Office, Finschhafen, PNG. The project has the full support of the Morobe Provincial Government.

Warm approval for the project has also come in a letter from Prince Charles. The prince wrote: “I applaud Terry Linehan’s initiative and wish him every success. Today, when there is so much aggression and hatred, it is good to see an international group of young people tackling a challenging, exciting and worthwhile task without thought for their own comfort or profit. I believe everything should be done to encourage such an enterprise so that the pioneer spirit will live on in the coming generation.”

One recent journey by a Tami canoe was in February 1979 when Sailas Guape and his four sons sailed Anzane to Lae, a journey which lasted four days. Anzane is the last of the old Tami canoes which sailed in the late 19605. It was rebuilt with sponsorship from the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby.

Longest bridge for Raro Rarotonga has just acquired its longest bridge. It took more than two years and $56,000 to build; it’s 31 metres long and, until a new sportsfield is constructed, it will be used by only five or six families.

The bridge, in the Takuvaine Valley, replaces a shorter one which fell to pieces during a flood in January, 1980.

But, small as it is, the new bridge attracted an imposing crowd of VIPs to its opening.

There was Prime Minister Sir Thomas Davis, his wife Pa Tepaeru Ariki, Cabinet Ministers Papamana Pokina and Vincent Ingram, with spouses, Opposition Leader Geoffrey Henry and Mrs Henry, Assistant Minister Teariki Piri and Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, CBE, plus MP and Fred Goodwin and Mrs Goodwin, workmen, not forgetting the people who’ll use the bridge.

The area served by the bridge is named Te Oro but the bridge, like its predecessor, is called Arakotini, a Maori adaptation of the words Arctic Ocean, so-called, according to Timote Turu, master of ceremonies at the opening, because, “back in the past, someone from the area was asked where he came from and he replied, whether jokingly or not, Arakotini, and this name was passed on to the bridge.”

First to cross the new bridge was the Prime Minister, who drove across, followed by the other guests, for a closing prayer at the other end.

Famous victory of Falema’i Falema’i Lesa faced the same problem as about 2300 other Western Samoans living in New Zealand; She wanted to stay but had been ordered back to her country for overstaying.

But Falema’i who came to New Zealand seven years ago, decided to fight those instructions. For five years she battled in the legal arena that step by step took her to New Zealand’s Court of Appeal. There she lost her claim that she was a New Zealand citizen. So she went to the Privy Council in London, won her case on July 19, and became overnight the toast of the Western Samoan community in New Zealand.

While Samoans beamed with pleasure the New Zealand Government was dumb founded. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon intoned that the Privy Council decision was “obviously a very serious matter” which raised issues of the “greatest consitutional importance.”

About 300 Western Samoan over-stayers whose cases were before the courts heaved a collective sigh of relief, while others calculated that the decision meant that some 120,000 Samoans were now eligible for New Zealand citizenship if they wanted it.

“I am happy that I have saved a lot of people who were about to be deported home,” said Falema’i, who first appeared in court as an overstayer back in March 1979. She promptly paid tribute to the Samoan community that had raised SNZ3O,OOO to help meet her legal expenses.

Falema’i claimed that her birth in Western Samoa in 1946 made her a New Zealand citizen. The Court of Appeal said no. The British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act passed in 1928 was not intended to make all Western Samoans born after that date British subjects, said the Court of Appeal.

Falema’i however insisted that Western Samoans born between 1928 and 1949 were Papua New Guinea, long renowned for the standard of its postage stamps, has issued four new definitives displaying some of the beautiful corals found in PNG waters. They are, from top left, Stylophora SP, which are among the false finger corals, 1 toea denomination; Acropora Humilis, from a widely varied range of corals, 5 toea; Distichopora SP, one of the lace corals, 15 toea; and Xenia SP, 1 kina. The stamps were released on July 21, and the illustrations were from photographs taken by underwater diver Bob Halstead of Port Moresoy. Halstead also wrote the background notes for the issue. The next PNG stamp issue, due on September 15, will commemorate the centenary there of the Roman Catholic Church. 35

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New Zealand citizens and so were their children. This covered some 35,000 Samoans born between those dates and their 85,000 children.

Until January 1, 1949, all New Zealanders were British subjects because they lived in New Zealand. From that date the Government introduced the status of “New Zealand citizen” under the British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948.

British subjects born in New Zealand before then became New Zealnd citizens automatically.

The Privy Council decision said in effect that persons born in Western Samoa before January 1, 1949, were also to be regarded as natural-born British subjects. Those people were automatically New Zealand citizens as a result of the 1948 Act which made anyone who was a British subject immediately before the Act came into force, a New Zealand citizen if he or she was born in Western Samoa.

The reason for linking New Zealand with Western Samoa in the first place dates back to 1914 when New Zealand troops landed in what was then a German colony shortly after the outbreak of World War 1.

New Zealand was given administrative responsibility for the islands under a League of Nations mandate from 1919.

From 1946 it continued its administrative role under the United Nations until Western Samoa became independent in 1962.

Over the years the movement of Western Samoans and other Polynesian people to New Zealand has accelerated to make Auckland the world’s biggest Polynesian city.

New Zealand authorities have fought a rearguard action against the growing number of over-stayers who prefer the working and living opportunities in Auckland to their own tropical paradises.

Falema’i appears now to have opened the floodgates for 75 per cent of Western Samoa’s population to go to New Zealand. But a headlong rush is not anticipated.

Muldoon himself saw “no immediate urgency” in finding a solution to the citizenship issue. “To take advantage of this decision they have got to identify themselves as coming inside the definition that the Privy Council lays down and, to do that, you’ve got to get a birth certificate and you’ve got to be able to show you’re the person referred to on the birth certificate and that’s not always going to be easy or quick,” he said.

Nor would Western Samoa like to lose its able-bodied people, while New Zealand officials wince at the prospect of increasing the ranks of unskilled and unemployed people in New Zealand with the attendant financial, educational, health and housing problems.

Until the Government had a chance to read the fine print in the Privy Council’s ruling, Muldoon stopped issuing further permits for temporary visitors from Samoa.

The Government had the responsibility to solve the problem in a spirit of goodwill and generosity, said Muldoon in his weekly column in the newspaper Truth.

The effect of the Privy Council ruling spreads wider than just New Zealand.

“If Samoans are automatically New Zealand citizens, then clearly they can enter Australia without visas and they have the same rights in regard to entry to Britain as New Zealanders,” wrote Muldoon.

How the Government solves the issue concerns many New Zealanders. The New Zealand Herald spelt out that concern in an editorial when it said: “What happens now must be the subject of some anxious study. The first consideration should be that the woman who won her case and others in a similar position should not be disadvantaged by retroactive legislation aiming to make them subject to prosecution and conviction as overstayers. Any such move would be widely seen as a gross abuse of power.” William Gasson in Wellington.

Von Stellmach in the Pacific again That tireless and talented maker of films, Karl-Heinz Stellmach of West Germany, is on the job again, this time in Kiribati, homeland of his wife Aborina.

His project? A series entitled Adventure South Seas, which has been commissioned by West German television.

The first of the 45-minute documentaries, Kabua A Fisherman of Kiribati, is expected to be screened in Germany around Christmas time.

Aborina is now a fullytrained movie camera operator, and will do most of the photography involving women. She says: “I personally have never felt dominated by men, but I do think that the female touch in many TV film serials is lacking, because the film crews consist almost entirely of men.”

Karl-Heinz claims they are not going to do a rush job on the series, saying: “It’s just not possible to make a really good film in the Pacific within two or three weeks. Because of this we told the television people in Germany that we’re going to take our time about it, and make something of which we and the Pacific Islanders can be really proud.”

On a severely practical note he says: “The basic idea of our series is to give a realistic picture of the Pacific Islands so that the ‘bosses’ of the European Economic Community will be better able to help in the area.

“It’s most unfortunate that even today many persons in high places in Europe really have very little idea of conditions in the modern Pacific.

“Hence our film series which, apart from imparting realistic information, will also, we hope, be highly entertaining. The ‘straight’ TV documentary is a bit out of fashion these days.”

Karl-Heinz is confident his series will eventually be seen in English-speaking countries, as well as his own and in countries using a lot of other languages as well.

Karl-Heinz’s family film company was founded by his grandfather in the early 19205.

Among his grandfather’s productions was the famous film The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich.

Karl-Heinz himself first came to international prominence when he did the outdoor shooting for The Sound of Music.

Introducing PIWO The Pacific Islands Women’s Organisation (PIWO) was established in February 1982, based in Honolulu. Its membership includes women from American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, the Northern Marianas, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, Tonga, and Western Samoa. Some members are studying in Hawaii. Others live there permanently.

Objectives of the organisation include: Participation and co-operation in national and regional development; to learn about women’s activities in all the Pacific Islands and other countries; to share and disseminate information on women’s activities in the Pacific Islands; to establish regional linkages and networks among Pacific Island women to facilitate regional co-operation and to establish and maintain contact with other national regional and international organisations.

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PIWO participated in activities for National Women’s History Week held during March 7-13, where it staged an exhibit on Pacific Islands Women in History. The national celebration was designed to raise awareness of the wealth of women’s history that has been omitted from history books.

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PIWO also sponsored an exhibit for the East-West Center’s International Fair held in April.

Officers elected to the executive council are Pamela Takiora Ingram Pryor, president; Kaleve Tufono, vicepresident; and Leilani Rodby, executive secretary/treasurer.

Sydney honours Vanuatu’s day Acting on behalf of the Vanuatu Government, the Australian-based export-import firm Henry P. Cumines Pty.

Ltd. hosted a cocktail party in Sydney on July 30 to mark the second anniversary of Vanuatu’s independence, which fell on that day.

Representing the Vanuatu Government were First Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs Tom Bakeo, and Job Dalesa, Commissioner, Northern District. Mr Dalesa, stationed in Santo, had perhaps the roughest time of any government official during the abortive secessionist revolt of May-August 1980.

Other Ni-Vanuatu present included theological student Thomas Niditauae, and Mary Labi, who is studying to perfect her English at the Sydney college.

Hosting the gathering on behalf of Henry Cumines were one of the company’s directors, Chris K. Sattler, and Cindy-Lee Warren, a former resident of Vanuatu.

Alkan Tololo, Consul-General in Sydney of Papua New Guines, represented his government, and there were representatives present from the British High Commission and the French Consulate General.

Other guests attended on behalf of a number of Australian Government departments, including Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Customs, and Trade and Resources.

Film Australia was represented by Bob Kingsbury, a veteran of film-making in Vanuatu.

Associate Editor Malcolm Salmon was present on behalf of PIM.

Cooks “leaders” trained in NZ New Zealand’s Cook Islands community now has 23 members who have graduated in community leadership.

The group, including six women, received their certificates from the Minister of Education Merv Wellington at the end of their year-long course run by the Pacific Islanders’ Educational Resource Centre in Auckland.

They will form a Cook Islands leadership organisation that will help their people and other Polynesian groups to cope with New Zealand conditions, while preserving their own cultural identity.

The resource centre plans to hold similar courses for other Pacific Island groups.

“There is a need for our people not only to take part but to know what is happening in New Zealand,” said the Cook Islands orientation tutor Tupae Pepe.

William Gasson in Wellington.

Heritage body set up Creation of a Pacific Heritage Foundation was proposed at the opening ceremony of a Cultural Heritage Conservation Seminar held at the East- West Center in Honolulu from July 21 to August 4. The call for the setting-up of a foundation came from Bill Lane, Jr., publisher of Sunset Magazine, who was the main speaker at the start of the conference.

Lane pledged part of his personal time and substantial financial support if the proposed organisation met his criteria of independent operation multilateral representation, adequate budgeting, and reponsible research.

Nearly 50 participants from 14 Asian and Pacific countries including American Samoa, Fiji and Kiribati received a warm “aloha” welcome from Hawaii’s Governor Ariyoshi.

The governor stressed the need and benefit of individuals retaining contact and pride in their ethnic origins, even though they lived elsewhere.

Ariyoshi eloquently expressed his belief that the diversity of Hawaii’s present population and cultural heritage was as important an aspect of her beauty and uniqueness as any of her physical attributes.

Dr Victor Li, president of the East-West Center, sensitively pointed out a less obvious point that preservation of a cultural heritage involved more than mere techniques. For just as the qualities and objects of a heritage express a society, the means to preserve them must also fit within the basic framework and structure of the culture.

One definition of “cultural heritage” offered by Robert Collins of the U.S. National Trust embraces: Social traditions, ethics, manners, markets and market goods, the way people dress, drive, drink, die, weep, worship and weave ... how they earn, spend, relax and go to war ... their tools, fabrics, doorways, music, metals, masks, boxes, beads, coffins, bottles, weapons, charms, utensils, hats and handshakes.

The workshop’s theme that tourism and the preservation of such historical and cultural heritages are compatible appears somewhat controversial.

But Bill Lane in his keynote speech gave examples in which tourist revenue and the private sector help support and maintain features of cultural and historical importance.

One instance is the botanical garden on Kuai, Hawaii. Funds from a private drug company interested in the medicinal qualities of the plants, as well as tourist revenues, support this project.

More specific information on ways and means to safeguard and maintain one’s cultural heritage was provided at individual sessions covering, among other subjects, the philosophy of cultural heritage in national development plans, identification and inventory of cultural resources, assembling information into usable forms, discussion of conservation processes, institutional frameworks, developing, financing and packing heritage material, the restoration of archaeological sites, and network support systems.

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Caroline Yacoe in Honolulu.

Thomas Niditauae (left), a theological student from Vanuatu, and District Commissioner Job Dalesa, who represented the Vanuatu government, share a joke at the Vanuatu independence reception in Sydney. Another picture on page 27. 40

Pacific Islands Monthly —September, 1982

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PEOPLE For Francis Ariioehau Sanford, one of the most charismatic political personalities of the South Pacific, losing the vice-presidency of French Polynesia in May was a personal blow.

Now, instead of holding the territory’s highest elected office, he is just an opposition backbencher. But the 70-yearold politician hasn’t any regrets and he certainly doesn’t intend to retire.

“It’s the will of the people,” he said philosophically in an interview after his crushing electoral loss.

“After all, many great men in history de Gaulle, Churchill, for example have been rejected by the people. That’s democracy.”

Why was his Ea Api (New Way) party and the autonomist United Front coalition so heavily defeated?

“It’s very hard to answer that because only God knows,” said Mr Sanford, a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant nation. His party won only one seat his own in the 30-seat Territorial Assembly.

But the man who has guided the destiny of French Polynesia for much of the past two decades denied allegations by other parties that his administration had been guilty of mismanagement and irresponsibility. “That’s their point of view it’s certainly not mine.”

Mr Sanford said that during his most recent five-year period of rule Tahiti had been given a social welfare system that was the envy of the Pacific.

“Before the new constitution in 1977 only French metropolitan people working for some companies, officials, and military people, had the right to social welfare benefits.

“Now you can say that in Tahiti almost 90 per cent of the people including farmers, fishermen and other self-employed people have the benefit of everything. Their children receive a family allowance every month.

“It’s a lot of progress, yet the people think that’s easy. But we had to ask for the help of France.”

Mr Sanford praised the economic and cultural ties with Australia and New Zealand and predicted no change by the new Gaullist administration. “We need these two countries and I’m sure relations will continue to improve.”

Long an opponent of nuclear tests, Mr Sanford’s views have been tempered by the reality of an economy heavily subsidised by the nuclear program.

“For years we fought against atmospheric tests; we succeeded. They’re underground now. But we have another problem,” Mr Sanford said.

“Those people employed by the Pacific Experimentation Centre (CEP) need work. So that’s a matter to settle first because how are they going to live?

“I’ve always been against atomic tests. I’m still against them. But the people have to come first.”

What about his own future?

“I need a rest. I’ve been working in politics for 25 years now and a seat in the Assembly is fine.”

His first major task will be rebuilding the structure of his party which was clearly crippled by the defection of former secretary-general Emile Vernaudon to form the breakaway Aia Api (New Country) party. David Robie in Papeete.

Francis Bugotu, appointed by the 21st South Pacific Conference in October 1981, in Vanuatu, to succeed M. Young Vivian of Niue as secretarygeneral of the South Pacific Commission, took up his duties at the beginning of July.

A Solomon Islander, Mr Bugotu is married with two children. He has had extensive experience in both church and government service, mainly as an educationalist. From 1959 to 1969, he was a teacher and Inspector of Mission Schools of the Church of Melanesia (Anglican). He joined government service in 1962 as education officer, and worked for some years as a lecturer at the Solomon Islands Teachers College. In 1968, he took up the position of chief education officer and permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education. On his return from a Masters’ course at Lancaster University, England, in 1972- 73, he was appointed chairman of the Review Committee on Education (1974-75), which produced a document called “Education for What?”

Mr Bugotu was appointed permanent secretary to the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of the Solomon Islands Government, when he was also the titular head of Solomon Islands Civil Service, a position he held until independence in July 1978. His diplomatic career began after independence when he became Solomon Islands’ Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Roving Ambassador.

In the course of his education and carrer, Mr Bugotu has travelled widely, both within and beyond the SPC region.

Before taking up his appointment with the SPC, Mr Bugotu was accredited as Solomon Islands Ambassador to the U.S.A., the United Nations and the European Economic Community, West Germany and Sweden, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdon, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. SPC Press Release.

Although not a candidate in the July general elections in Fiji, Mahendra Patel got more publicity than most people who were. It was Mr Patel who commissioned the Carroll report (see Fiji election story this issue) which blew up into the hottest talking point of the campaign. He called for the report because he wanted a sort of crystal ball by which he could look into Fiji’s political future. He has many business interests which could be affected by such things as election results. But instead of a cool crystal ball he got a very hot potato. Mr Patel is, among other things, closely connected with tourism, head of Motibhai and Co. (which has the duty-free concession at Nadi Airport), and a director of Air Pacific.

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mission born of World War II returned to Papua New Guinea for Remembrance Day, July 23.

Jose Holguin wants to find the wreck of his 852 bomber, shot down near Rabaul by the Japanese on June 26,1943, and the remains of his fellow crewmen.

Mr Holguin was a navigator with the 43rd Bombardment Group.

He fought in a crew of eight and was the only man to survive the attack.

The 61-year-old retired officer he ended his service as a lieutenant-colonel in 1963 left Los Angeles, California, to travel to P.N.G. for Remembrance Day.

He said his greatest wish was to locate the aircraft wreck and to have the remains of his comrades transported home.

He began his search with the help of Bruce Hoy, who runs a museum of wartime relics in Port Moresby, and Brian Bennett, in Rabaul, who has researched the possible location of the wreck.

“If I find the wreckage I will say a few prayers for my comrades and then arrange for security measures until U.S. personnel can send the remains back home,” Mr Holguin said.

Mr Holguin said after the crash he had wandered in the East New Britain bush for three weeks before being found and taken care of by local people.

“I have always been grateful for this because although a stranger I was well taken care of,” he said.

He later spent two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Rabaul. Of 64 prisoners only six survived.

The others died either from malnutrition or in the Allied bombing of Rabaul, Mr Holguin said. From a report by Wally Hiambohn in The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier.

The youngest son of the King and Queen of Tonga, H.R.H.

Prince Lavaka-Ata, was engaged to Miss Nanasipau‘u Vaea, eldest daughter of the Minister of Labor, Commerce and Industries, Baron Vaea and Baroness Tuputupu, on July 12.

The engagement was officiated by the Royal Chaplain Rev. Dr Viliami Huluholo Mo‘ungaloa at Baron Vaea’s residence, Kaitangi. The brief ceremony was the highlight of Prince Lavaka-Ata’s 21st birthday celebrations.

Peter Barker, a half section of the popular Port-Vila restaurant Ma Barker’s his better half Rose being the other half has taken over management of the Hotel Rossi, just a short walk away from the restaurant. Peter, who was manager of the Otintai Hotel in Tarawa in the early 70s before going to Vanuatu, is hoping to provide a little flavor of nostalgia (or a “thank heavens that’s gone” attitude, depending on the way you look at it) by recreating the original colonial style of the venerable Rossi. But, he’ll still be much in evidence at Ma’s.

When Fiji’s Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, announced the names of his ministers in his new government, there would be some people in Fiji who would exclaim: “Well, he’s got there at last.”

They’d be referring to the new Minister without Portfolio, Apisai Vuniyayawa Mohammed Tora, trade union organiser, ex-gunner in the Malayan campaign, politician, stormy petrel and a thorn in the side of many government officials and others. He could also be called the Great Unsinkable, for many have tried to torpedo him especially colonial officials in the old days, employers, other trade union leaders, and the police.

He’s come out almost unscathed from all his battles, though he has seen the inside of a cell. But even those walls couldn’t hold him.

He was gaoled for an offence against the labor laws restricting the right to strike under certain conditions. He won his appeal, and he’s been winning ever since. Now he’s a Minister of State. How did he manage that?

By being Tora! He got the Alliance ticket in the July general election, probably because he was seen as the only candidate likely to beat Ratu Napolioni Dawai in the Ba/ Nadi Fijian communal constituency. It’s also Tora’s home.

He’s a member of the Fijian land-owning unit in the Sabeto Valley, and has wielded a lot of influence in the area for years.

Ratu Napolioni, as Tui Nadi, also wields or did wield a lot of influence. But he threw in his lot with Ratu Osea Gavidi’s Western United Front.

And, obviously, the Fijians didn’t like the idea of coalescing with the National Federation Party.

Tora romped home with a majority of 5067 in a poll of 10,022. For once he’s on the popular side. He’s joined the Establishment, something no one would have forecast 25 years ago. But he’ll still be nobody’s man but Tora’s.

Born on January 5, 1934 at Vunidawa, the son of the late Ratu Kalaveti Tora, he was educated at Queen Victoria School at Lodoni, the top school for Fijians.

After some military service, he joined the Public Service as a clerk in 1957 and rapidly ran into trouble. But it wasn’t really of his own making. They were colonial days and his European boss was one of the old school “You’ve got to keep ’em in check” who saw Tora’s educational background as just the right sort of thing to make a tea-boy. Tora’s employment with the Public Service ended when he told the boss he hadn’t worked hard at Q.V.S. just to make the tea.

Two years later he emerged as a trade unionist, working as organiser for the Wholesale and Retail Workers’ General Union. He became its president in 1960. In those days, a trade union organiser had a hard furrow to plough. The big firms, mostly Australian, didn’t like trade unions for reasons well known everywhere, and Tora had a hard fight. He made a lot of mistakes but he had few mentors.

Government officials didn’t like the unions either. They still don’t in many of the South Pacific Island countries. But Fiji now has a well organised trade union movement which plays an honorable part in the country’s working life. Much of that Fiji owes to Tora and other trade union leaders of the early days.

Not that he was ever the recognised leader of Fiji trade unionism. He was too much of an individualist for that. He fell out with other unionists, notably over the affairs of the Trade Union Congress, and formed his own Fijian Federation of Labour. Several other unions have been formed by him or have come under his sway, and it’s likely that as a Minister without Portfolio he can make his influence felt, for good or ill, among the unions. Why didn’t he get the job of Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations?

That went to Mohammed Ramzan, who’s been as long, if not longer, connected with trade unionism.

For a time in the 19605, he The royal engagement in Tonga. Prince Lavaka-Ata gives an engagement ring to his bride-to-be, Nanasipau'u. 43

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He had a colorful patch in late 1959 and early 1960 when he became one of the leaders of oil workers whose strike led to riots in Suva. As PIM reported at the time, Tora “has developed a strong sense of mission and sees himself as a man of destiny. His model is Fidel Castro, on whom he is increasingly modelling himself in appearance.”

A reporter from The Fiji Times went to interview Tora during the stormy times of the strike. He returned to the office, a little shaken, believing he had stared death in the face. What he had stared at was his “interviewee” wearing a Fidel Castro hat and ominously sharpening a wickedlooking knife.

As mentioned above, Tora had some war service. In 1952, he joined the 2 AA (Comp) Fiji Artillery and served as a corporal in a mortar platoon.

Then, from 1954 to 1956, he served in the Malayan Campaign. Around that time, he became a Muslim.

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Malaya he also developed an interest in, and sympathy for, the terrorists against whom he was fighting.” As you can see, Tora is a man of many parts, many facets, and his career as one of Her Majesty’s Ministers of State will be watched with great interest.

He’d probably like to be Prime Minister! John Carter.

Guam’s Patty Chong Kerkos was “first runner-up” in the Miss Universe Pageant held in July in Lima, Peru. It was the first time that a Guam contestant has won the title.

In the event that Miss Canada, Karen Baldwin, is unable to fulfil her role as Miss Universe, Kerkos will assume the title.

The 18-year-old had earlier received the Miss International Press award at a banquet where newsmen officially presented her with the crown. It was the first year that this award has been presented at the Miss Universe Pageant.

Kerkos lives with her family in Hyundai, Mongmong. She has lived on Guam for 11 years. She attends the University of Guam and plans to attend a fashion design school in France.

She was born in Seoul, Korea, and has lived in Japan, the U.S., Korea and now Guam, which she considers home.

Kerkos, who speaks five languages Korean, Japanese, English, Spanish and Chinese is also a gymnast, bodybuilder, practises martial arts and is a modern dance instructor. Guam Visitors Bureau.

When Auckland-based Tahitian Nat Mara flew to Paris 39 years ago his mission was simple to drop bombs. In July 1982 he flew back there.

Only this time it was to be feted as a wartime hero.

Natapu Mara, 60, was one of three Tahitians invited by the French Government to the annual Bastille Day parade on July 14.

Before flying to Paris, Mr Mara, who has lived in New Zealand for the past 30 years, was feted by French High Commissioner Paul Noirot- Cosson in Papeete.

“It was a great honor for me to go back to Paris and see many of my old wartime comrades after so long,” he said.

Now a social worker for the Tahitian community in New Zealand and living in the Auckland suburb of Te Atatu, his first visit to Paris seems as vivid to him as if it had happened yesterday.

He still remembers with excitement seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time on that 1943 mission. But he is also sad that his task then was to drop bombs on a target in the city of his dreams.

Mr Mara has scars on his right leg which are permanent reminders of his service with the Free French Air Force.

His other wartime souvenirs include the Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre with three palms, Medaille de Resistance, Medaille Commemoratif and the lanyard of the Legion d’Honneur.

The citation with the Croix de Guerre tells how he saved the life of a French pilot when their Boston medium-range bomber was shot down over the English Channel shortly before his 21st birthday.

In 1941, after the fall of France, Mr Mara had gone to New Zealand with 21 other Tahitian volunteers to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force but only 12 were accepted.

They were eventually trained in Canada and Britain and joined the Free French forces.

Six of the volunteers joined the Lorraine Squadron. Mr Mara was the only one of them who wasn’t either killed or taken prisoner. Two died in training, two were killed over Europe, and another was captured by the Nazis.

Mr Mara, a wireless operator and air gunner, flew a total of 51 operational flights.

“They used to call me the last of the Mohicans,” he said with a chuckle. “They wouldn’t let me fly any more after those 51 missions.”

Ten years ago, he was awarded a French knighthood Chevalier dans I’Ordre national du Merite, second only to the Legion d’Honneur, for his social work in New Zealand.

His work among Tahitians includes interpreting for them in consultations with doctors, and arranging accommodation. About 500 Tahitians a year go to New Zealand for medical treatment. Mr Mara has also been president of the Tahiti Nui club in Auckland, and managed a group of Tahitian dancers for more than 20 years.

He led the first group of Maori entertainers to visit Tahiti, and has exported prefabricated houses to the French-speaking Pacific in collaboration with a brother in Noumea.

Though still a French Polynesian, Mr Mara is married to a New Zealander, Julie, and the couple have five children. They were delighted about his Paris trip.

When he got there, one place Mr Mara certainly didn’t miss was the famous girlie cabaret Folies Bergeres.

“The last time I went there I was never so embarrassed in all my life. I went with an Irishman and he just got so excited and carried away when everybody else was dead quiet.”

David Robie in Auckland.

Seini Vakasiuola, a nurse and associate director of the Tongan Foundation for the South Pacific, took up a Nuffield Visitors’ Award in August. The award was arranged by the United Kingdom Foundation for the peoples of the South Pacific (FSP) Miss Vakasiuola will spend five months in Britain exploring how British voluntary agencies work, and attending a course in Development Studies at the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham.

Miss Vakasiuola has been deputy director in Tonga of the FSP programme since 1978. Previously she worked with the Niuola Women in Development Association and before that followed a career in nursing to become assistant deputy matron at Vaiola Hospital in Tonga.

The UK FSP was formed in November 1981 and aims to support projects and programmes in the South Pacific region.

This is the first Nuffield Visitors’ Award to a Pacific Islander.

Wayne Heffernan has taken up the newly created post of Air Pacific’s cargo sales manager in Australia. Mr Heffernan comes to the new job after experience in cargo covering 18 months with Air New Zealand and five years with the Australian domestic carrier Ansett.

Air Pacific’s cargo manager Seth Maharaj commented: “Mr Heffernan is needed because of the big increase in cargo movement between Australia and Fiji.

“With our shared service on the Qantas 747 out of Melbourne and Sydney, coupled with our daily service on our 737 out of Brisbane, our capability to move cargo has increased substantially.”

Air Pacific’s existing cargo representatives in the Australian States of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria will now report directly to Mr Heffernan.

Jane Dickhudt has been appointed editor of the Marianas Variety newspaper by publishers Abed and Paz Castro Younis.

Ms Dickhudt, 26, has served as associate editor of the paper since January 1981.

She succeeds Kurt Liepman, who has resigned.

An avid runner, Ms Dickhudt won the Guam Marathon women’s division last year.

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BOOKS First Tikopia, now Anuta is on the anthropological map Anuta: Social Structure of a Polynesian Island. By Richard Feinberg. Published by the Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University- Hawaii Campus and the Polynesian Cultural Center Laie, Hawaii, with the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 1981. $U.5.16.95 (cloth) ISBN 0 939154 24 2; $U.5.8.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 939154 23 4.

Until quite recently anyone wanting to learn about the island of Anuta could not readily add much to the few bald facts to be found in the Pacific Islands Year Book.

That inestimable reference work tells us that Anuta is one of the easternmost outliers of the Solomons; that its people are Polynesians; and that its nearest neighbors are uninhabited Fataka, 42 kilometres SE, and Tikopia, 120 kilometres SW. The Year Book also says that Anuta is only about one kilometre long from north to south; that its people maintain contact with, and are related to, their Polynesian neighbors on Tikopia; and that the island’s European discoverer, Captain Edward Edwards, of HMS Pandora, called it Cherry Island when he came upon it in 1791.

A year or two ago, if my life had depended on adding a few details to the Year Book's meagre facts, I could have said that Captain Edwards gave Anuta its arboreal name not because he found cherry trees growing there but because a certain Mr Cherry was commissioner of the Royal Navy Victualling Office when the Pandora >left England. After that I would have had nothing more to say. For me, as for most other people who had even so much as heard of Anuta, the island was just a dot on the map with no particular identity.

All that has now changed.

Anuta now has its own dedicated chronicler and explicator, Richard Feinberg, who seems to be girding his loins to do for that island what New Zealand anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth has been doing for Tikopia these past 50 years: He is putting Anuta on the anthropological map.

Feinberg, an American now in his mid-30s, first heard of Anuta from Sir Raymond Firth. That was in 1971 when Firth gave a series of lectures at the University of Chicago.

One day, Feinberg confided to Firth that he would like to carry out research for a doctoral dissertation on some really remote island in Polynesia or Melanesia, and Firth, who had visited Anuta for a day some 20 years earlier, suggested that Anuta was just the place.

Firth explained, however, that Anuta had only about 200 people; that access to it was only by sea; that there was no proper anchorage; and that weather conditions were sometimes so bad that intending visitors could not get ashore. Furthermore, Anuta was hundreds of miles from the nearest medical aid, and although the islanders would undoubtedly give a would-be resident anthropologist a warm welcome, they were simple folk who would not provide intellectual companionship of a sophisticated kind.

Despite all these warnings, Feinberg went to Anuta in March 1972 and stayed there until January 1973. Afterwards, he spent six weeks among the small Anutan community in Honiara. Since then, he has published a steady stream of scholarly papers on Anutan themes, as well as the first Anutan grammar and dictionary. Now he has brought out his magnum opus so far a book of more than 370 pages, Anuta: Social Structure of a Polynesian Island.

From the inside, the book has a somewhat forbidding appearance for it contains half a dozen appendices to the main text that fill no fewer than 150 pages. Among these are six fold-out genealogies measuring up to 95 cm (37 in.) across.

The genealogies trace the ancestry of virtually every Anutan back to one or another of the island’s putative immigrants, sometimes many centuries ago. In addition, there is an appendix giving the name, date of birth, family unit, etc., of every Anutan who came within reach of Feinberg’s anthropological microscope.

Feinberg is by no means apologetic about his apendices. He says it is common for anthropologists to make assertions about the kinship systems of the people they study, but it is less common for them to detail the data from which they draw their inferences.

His genealogies and pages of personal data are therefore presented with a view to correcting this situation and also in the hope that they will be useful to other students of Polynesian ethnohistory, de- These portraits, linked with the history of Tikopia more than 150 years ago, include those of Martin Bushart (centre) and Lascar Joe (lower right). The pictures were in a book published last century and were done by an artist in the d’Urville expedition of 1828 - 15 years after the two men settled on the island. 47

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Feinberg’s book proper consists of eight chapters which, in the main, concentrate on getting to grips with Anuta’s social structure. They are written in crisp, reasonably simple English, which is agreeably free of the jargon that many social anthropoligists use. The second chapter, “The Setting”, provides an excellent background to Feinberg’s study. Three memorable points he makes are: (1) although Anuta’s land area is only 0.15 square miles, a remarkable variety of vegetable life has been squeezed into this small space; (2) the Anutan agricultural system is one of the most intensive in the Pacific; and (3) for someone coming from a non-oceanic environment, the variety of ways in which the Anutans catch fish is “nothing less than incredible”.

Feinberg says that the origin of Anuta’s first human inhabitants is unknown and that little is known about its people until the time of Pu Ariki, a chief from Tikopia of about 14 generations ago. From then on, Anuta is said to have been settled by people from Tonga, Wallis Island, Samoa and Rotuma, and has always maintained relations with Tikopia.

“There is currently a great deal of Tikopian admixture in the Anutan population,” Feinberg says. “The languages of the two islands are mutually intelligible. Their culture and social structure are similar, and the people of the two islands see themselves as being closely allied when comparing themselves with the rest of the world.” Feinberg says also that although Tongan and Samoan blood has been retained through Anuta’s women, the island’s present chiefly line traces its ancestry back to one Pu Taupare, an immigrant from Wallis Island, which is otherwise known as East Uvea.

These statements are particularly interesting in the light of a recently published study by Professor Bruce Biggs, a specialist in Polynesian languages at the University of Auckland. This study, which was partly based on Feinberg’s Anutan dictionary, had not been published when Feinberg’s book went to press. It is entitled “The Position of East Uvean and Anutan in the Polynesian Language Family” (Te Reo, vol. 23, 1980), and it reveals that Anutan is basically a dialect of Tikopian, which has been heavily overlaid by borrowings from Wallisian, or East Uvean. In other words, Biggs’ study generally confirms what Feinberg learned about Anutan prehistory from local traditions.

However, neither Biggs’ study nor Feinberg’s book does anything to explain why the elderly, tattooed Anutan man whose photograph in colour graces the cover of Feinberg’s book, looks decidedly European. Not only does the man have the characteristically lean body structure of many Europeans, his skin color is remarkably light, his facial features and hair form are Caucasoid, and he is unusually bald for a “true-blue” Pacific Islander.

For what it is worth, I have my own theory as to why the man on Feinberg’s cover looks as European as he does, even though Anuta had never had any resident Europeans until the last few years. My theory is that the man is a descendant of a Prussian seaman, Martin Bushart, who was left on Tikopia in 1813 with his pregnant Fijian wife and a Lascar called Joe. One of the officers in the ship that brought Tikopia these early aliens was Peter Dillon, an Irish seaman, who returned to Tikopia in his own ship some 13 years later.

Bushart and the Lascar came out to greet him; and it was because the Lascar had a silver sword guard with him, obtained from neighboring Vanikoro, that Dillon later elucidated the fate of the French explorer La Perouse.

Bushart actually accompanied Dillon to Vanikoro, and then went on to Calcutta with him. However, when Dillon brought him back to the Pacific in the following year, Bushart was determined to return to Tikopia, “there to end his days”, as Dillon put it, “in retirement from worldly affairs”. Dillon’s statement suggests to me that Bushart had left a family on Tikopia.

Indeed, it would be surprising if he had not and if he did, it would have been a part-European family whose genes would, inevitably, have been passed down the years to the Tikopians of today as well as to their close relatives, the Anutans.

As far as I know, however, the possibility that either Bushart or the Lascar or, for that matter, several other early European beachcombers on Tikopia could have left descendants on that island is nowhere mentioned in the works of Sir Raymond Firth, even though European-looking faces peer occasionally from the not-terribly-good photographs that illustrate his pages.

Social anthropologists seem to have a blind spot for this sort of thing for they like to believe that the remote and isolated communities they investigate are uncontaminated by genetic or cultural influences from the outside world.

This being so, I hope that any ethnohistorians, demographers or geneticists who have occasion in future to use Feinberg’s superb genealogies will spare a thought for Martin Bushart, the Lascar and those other early beachcombers.

The fact is that although Bushart and the Lascar, for example, were but two distinctive aliens in the Tikopian population of 1813, their Prussian and Indian genes could now be so widespread that every living Tikopian and Anutan is of part-Prussian or part- Indian descent to a greater or lesser degree!

In short, despite the difficulty one still has in getting to and then getting on to Anuta, that island in an ethnic sense, at 48 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1982 BOOKS

least does not seem to be quite as remote from the Western World as Feinberg thought it was when he went there in 1972. And that makes me wonder whether Anuta’s social structure, which Feinberg has described in minute detail, might not, perhaps, be as purely “Polynesian” as it was before Bushart and the Lascar settled on Tikopia 169 years ago.

Robert Langdon.

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Upsetting old ideas of how PNG came to be Papua New Guinea’s Prehistory: An Introduction. By Pamela Swadling. Published by the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, P.O. Box 5560, Boroko, PNG, in conjunction with Gordon & Gotch (PNG) Pty. Ltd., 1981. Airmail to Australia K 0.75; to New Zealand Kl; to Europe and North America K 1.75. Discounts available if ordered in quantity. ISBN 0 7247 0869 3.

The last two decades have overturned everything we thought we knew about the history of Papua New Guinea.

People have been there for more than 40,000 years; they developed agriculture at least 10,000 years ago; there is little sign that major changes came as a result of invasion or diffusion from ‘higher’ cultures in Asia; and New Guineans are not closely related to Africans but are related to Australian Aborigines. This beautifully produced and very inexpensive book from the National Museum of PNG summarises some of these recent discoveries.

The book is based on the elegant pre-history display in the National Museum. It covers the early settlements, agricultural history, mortars and pestles. There are brief sections on the settlement of the other Pacific islands, and on radiocarbon dating. In each section there are many colored illustrations of excavations and artefacts recovered from them, as well as of recent traditional practices which illustrate aspects of the prehistoric past. There is also a series of dramatically colored maps which give an immediately comprehensible overview of particular topics such as the location of sites, the homelands of various crop plants, and the distribution of languages. The book is colorful, well laid out, and generally accurate in its information.

The first part discusses climatic change and the early settlements. It shows why people must have come to PNG by sea around 50,000 years ago.

There are photos of sites up to 30,000 years old, and of some of their artefacts. Prominent among these are “waisted blades” which are like a stone axehead with notches in the side for hafting. This book calls them “axes”, but they may equally well have been clubheads or digging tools.

Some have been found on uplifted coral reefs on the Huon Peninsula the first time anything older than 10,000 years has been found in the lowland parts of the main island.

The second major chapter is about the excavations at Kuk, near Mt. Hagen, where drains and channels, clearly for gardening purposes, have been dated to more than 9000 years ago. Pamela Swadling properly points out that many, probably all, of the earliest crops were indigenous to the island, and that gardening was a local development based on long-term knowledge of local foodplant resources. In the highlands, at least, the coincidence between the dates for the beginning of gardening and of major climatic change (the end of the “ice age”) is striking, and it seems likely that the latter stimulated the former. The book also accepts the generally believed idea that sweet potato has only been in PNG for about 300 years: some of us now see reasons for suggesting that about 1000 years is a more likely time. But there is no direct evidence of this yet.

The discussion on mortars and pestles is excellent. It points out that these have most commonly been found in areas where taro is, or was, the major crop, and that very similar artefacts are still used for making taro puddings, often of ceremonial importance, in the islands of Melanesia. It suggests that this is what the prehistoric examples were used for. This is probably the most likely explanation ever proposed.

There are two important gaps in this book. First, there is no discussion of the physical nature of Niuginians, their ancestors, and their relationships with other people in the world. Second, and more surprisingly, there is nothing about the pre-history of lowland areas. Pamela Swadling has herself researched for some years around Port Moresby and has written scientifically about that area.

Further, we now know that obsidian lias been mined and traded around New Britain and New Ireland for about 10,000 years, and it is out of this background that many of the Pacific islands were settled some 3000 to 4000 years ago. It seems rather a shame that none of these things has been mentioned since they add significantly to the story of PNG’s pre-history.

Nonetheless, what has been published is excellent. The book will be widely used within PNG, for it is a cheap and intelligent text. It will be valuable to people visiting the museum, and should help dispel some of the myths about the history of PNG which are still widespread in Australian and other white societies.

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Peter White.

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Mr von Daniken tries his bag of tricks on Kiribati The Stones of Kiribati: Pathways to the Gods? By Erich Von Daniken. Published by Souvenir Press Ltd., 43 Great Russell Street, London WCIB SPA 1982. Distributed by Hutchinson Group (Aust.) Pty.

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Was the earth visited by extraterrestrial beings from outer space in prehistoric times?

Swiss author Erich von Daniken is convinced that this was so, and has so far written eight books citing evidence in support of his theory. He attained world-wide fame with his book Chariot of the Gods and has since acquired a following of devotees in all parts of the globe. It was one of these, a former missionary to Kiribati, who gave him the idea which resulted in his latest book, The Stones of Kiribati.

I was most intrigued to find out what von Daniken could have unearthed in support of his theory on the coral atolls of Kiribati.

After describing in great detail his journey to Kiribati via Nauru, the author arrived in Tarawa in the midst of a strike by civil servants. This strike disturbed his plans in more ways than one, yet he managed to charter a plane and fly to Abaiang, Tamana and Arorae.

The large stone structures, which he had come all the way to Kiribati to find, in the hope of adding more evidence to his theory, failed to materialise on Abaiang, where all the islanders could show him were some old graves. On Tamana he was even less lucky, but on Arorae he was delighted to find something that interested him.

Von Daniken found there the stones that give the title to his book, a cluster of large weather-beaten slabs, some fallen to the ground, some still standing. What excited him most were some of the standing stones, which had grooves cut into their tops, all pointing in different directions. The author promptly drew the conclusion that these were prehistoric aids to navigation, by which the ancient islanders managed to navigate to distant places. With the help of a compass and maps, von Daniken traces these directions, which do indeed lead to Niutau in Tuvalu, to Western Samoa, to the Tuamotus and to Hawaii.

This is an interesting proposition in itself, although it has little to do with the main purpose of the expedition. This is the more so since the chances are that any line drawn from anywhere in Kiribati will sooner or later lead to another island somewhere in the Pacific, especially as some archipelagoes, such as the Tuamotus which he cites, cover a very large area of ocean.

Still searching for signs of visits from outer space, the author is next taken to North Tarawa, to a taboo area, whose meaning is a closed book even to the local people. It is a circle 14 metres in diameter with a large square in the centre marked out by small stones, the entire area being completely bereft of vegetation.

Not even a blade of grass grows inside the circle, although there is plenty of vegetation all round. According to local tradition, every living creature, man or animal, who enters the circle is doomed to early death. When the author’s assistant attempted to enter the circle, he was forcibly held back by the islanders. Suspecting that the area might be radio-active, von Daniken took several measurements with a Geiger counter, but nothing was detected. It is indeed a magic area, for which not even an author as resourceful as von Daniken can offer a plausible explanation.

The last items investigated by the author on his short stay in Kiribati were a set of large indentations in the ground on the beach near the village of Banreaba, which had been described in an earlier publication as the footprints of a prehistoric giant. Similar indentations are reputedly found on several islands of Kiribati, but even the few that von Daniken saw and photographed on Tarawa were enough to convince him that they were left behind by what he calls “an extra-terrestrial”.

It is up to the reader to make his own judgment from the photographs. But having seen many such coral indentations of various shapes, and not only in Kiribati, I am equally convinced that there is a natural explanation for this phenomenon.

Generally speaking, none of the evidence uncovered by von Daniken in Kiribati satisfactorily supports his theory of prehistoric visitors from outer space maybe this is the reason why the author spent exactly one week in the country.

In spite of the book’s title, the Kiribati adventure occupies only the first chapter of the book, the rest being made up of various essays dealing with aspects of his theory, and supporting evidence from other places around the world.

I found the most interesting point raised by von Daniken, and one which could well support his theory, is his interpretation of the Kiribati legend of Nareau the Creator.

He points out similar cosmic features in other Pacific myths, mostly Polynesian, and, in a later chapter, briefly mentions the marae found on various Polynesian islands.

For some reason the author does not seem to attach much importance to these stone structures, of which, especially in French Polynesia, there are far more than there are stones in Kiribati. Even more puzzling is the fact that the picture on the cover of the book, under the title The Stones of Kiribati, depicts the large marae at Raiatea in the Society Islands.

There are other inconsistencies in the book, not to speak of factual errors. These are probably due to the extremely short time the author was actually in the Pacific. Unfortunately, Erich von Daniken belongs to the breed who fly in and fly out of the Pacific, and on their return home set themselves up as authorities.

The fact that the trilithon of Tonga has apparently escaped the notice of von Daniken, who devotes his life to examining such stone structures around the world, rather glaringly demonstrates the superficiality of his knowledge of the Pacific region.

Jimmy Cornell.

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TRAVEL Dr STEPHEN WEINSTEIN and his nursing-sister wife ELISABETH take a behind-the-tourist-brochures look at the islands of the Hawaii group. In the first of two articles they describe visits to Lanai, Molokai and Maui islands.

Hawaii: Savoring the pleasures of Lanai, Molokai and Maui In terms of tourist and travel literature, more has probably been written about Hawaii than any other group of islands, and new guidebooks are coming out every year. So while not attempting to write an anywhere near complete summary of each island’s attractions, we hope to share with PIM readers what we personally have found most worthwhile this often does not include well-advertised commercial attractions for which most visitors appear to make a beeline.

Lanai: This is one of the less frequently visited islands, being entirely owned by the Dole Pineapple Company since 1930, when it was bought for just overSUSl million. Before that it was a ranch (there are still abandoned cowboy huts standing in remote areas), and back in the last century it was the site of a Mormon settlement, founded by Walter Murray Gibson, an adventurer who later became prime minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Most people on Lanai are employed by the Dole Co., the largest ethnic group being Filipinos, followed by Hawaiians.

Except for a few homesteads on the coast, nearly everyone lives in Lanai City, the small and only town (with one 12room hotel) surrounded by pineapple fields. There are plans afoot to build a new hotel, and these are regarded with some apprehension by the local people who fear it could change the island’s way of life.

This conflict has already been repeated on most of the other islands, with the locals often losing out to the interests of real estate developers and hotels.

Manele Bay, on the southern coast of Lanai, has a beautiful beach with camping facilities (camping by permit from “the Company”), a small boat harbor to which yachts from Oahu and Maui come over for the weekend, and good snorkelling on the rich reefs. This is a fine spot to observe Hawaiian corals and reef life, with masses of colorful reef fish including wrasse, tangs, goatfish, parrotfish, and invertebrate life. Most sea creatures are known better by their Hawaiian names which we won’t attempt to reproduce.

We happened to be at Manele Bay on Thanksgiving Night, and were spontaneously invited to a luau in progress in the picnic grounds. Luau (Hawaiian feasts) are now an established part of the tourist scene in Waikiki, but these are unfortunately far from the “real thing.” The earth oven, imu, was the favorite method of cooking in old Hawaii and much of Oceania, and the traditional foods prepared this way are pork, fish, chicken, taro, sweet potato, and so on.

The most authentic luau are those prepared by local people and church groups for special occasions, and these will often feature some raw or marinated foods highly regarded by the Hawaiians. Examples of foods eaten raw are fish, crabs, limpets (opihi a great delicacy eaten with seaweed), and occasionally liver and seaurchin roe. Poi, the staple traditional food, was prepared by pounding cooked taro root.

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Shipwreck Beach, on the north shore, is reached after a short scenic drive through pineapple fields and rough scrublands, and is littered with wooden ship-parts, fishing nets and floaters, bottles and other debris from the sea. The scene is dominated by a huge concrete-hulled transport ship of World War II vintage, which was wrecked there. The locals have salvaged what they could, including parts of a large teak table from the captain’s cabin. Across the channel is Maui, with Mt. Haleaka soaring into the clouds.

The place we found most interesting on Lanai was the village of Kaunolu, a complex of ruins of a Hawaiian fishing village, which is reached by a rough jeep trail. The scenic location includes a temple, heiau, numerous house platforms and walls of rock, as well as the ruins of King Kamehameha’s fortified house. Near the heiau are petroglyphs carved on the rocks, and also stone slabs pitted with rows of holes in a rectangular pattern for the Hawaiian game of konane, a form of checkers/ draughts.

Some of the house platforms had small caves under them, which we managed to find by using a 1920 map put out by the Bishop Museum after an archeological survey. The waters near Kaunolu are crystal clear and full of fish, with rock pools along the shore. One particular cliff in the area, called “Kahekili’s Leap,” was so-called because King Kamehameha used it to punish offenders, or to test the courage of his warriors depending on which source you use.

There are numerous other ruins of houses and temples around Lanai, but at Kaunolu they are concentrated in a small area. The village was not entirely abandoned until late last century. Between the rocks of the house platforms were scattered large limpet (opihi) shells far larger than any found today, with diameters of up to 8 centimetres.

Molokai: The settlement on the Kalaupapa peninsula on the north shore of Molokai is the only leper colony in the USA. It can be reached by air in a rickety 1947 vintage plane, or by a mule train that winds down a trail on the cliff face from “topside Molokai,” as the remainder of the island is called by the Kalaupapa people.

Since 1968, people have no longer been forced to stay in the settlement, as there are now no active leprosy cases.

But the patients and their families, now elderly, prefer to live out their lives there.

Most patients receive anti-leprosy drugs and regular checkups by the resident physician, Dr Hasselblad, an interesting man who is also the administrator of the settlement. He had spent 20 years as a missionary doctor in India, together with his charming wife, before coming to Kalaupapa.

On the opposite end of the peninsula are the ruins of Kalawao, the 19th century location of the settlement, and the scene of much suffering as leprosy victims were forcibly separated from their families and confined on the remote peninsula. Such scenes are described in James A. Michener’s Hawaii. But conditions improved when Father Damien, a Belgian priest, took charge of the colony. He himself ultimately contracted the disease and died there. His church can be visited. His tomb stands close by.

To visit the peninsula one needs a permit from the Department of Health, which is issued only to relatives and friends of patients, or if one travels as part of one of the two tour group organisations operated by patients living there. No children, or overnight stays, are allowed, but visitors need not feel in any danger since there are no longer any active, contagious cases of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in Kalaupapa.

One of the more interesting buildings in the settlement is a long structure where patients and their visitors were allowed to meet, sitting in opposite rows separated by a long table.

It is a relic of the old days before the disease could be controlled by drugs. The atmosphere of Kalaupapa is quiet and rural, with old wooden houses and old cars.

It’s like stepping back into the Hawaii of the 19305.

For accommodation in Molokai, we stayed at the Pau Hana Inn, in the main town of Kaunakakai. It is on the beach opposite the channel separating Molokai from Lanai and Maui (with good views of both these islands), and is neat and moderately priced with a strong “local” flavor.

There are four lush and beautiful valleys on the north shore of Molokai, only one of which is accessible by car. The others can be reached only by sea, or by strenuous hikes along ridge trails over the mountains. The Halawa valley can be reached by driving around the eastern tip of the island. Now only a few people, mainly of Hawaiian ancestry, live there. But in pre-contact times the valley had a large population, evidenced by the extensive stone walls and taro patches now entirely overgrown by forest. A hike up the valley leads to two spectacular waterfalls with large pools of cool, dark water. Wild fruits are plentiful along the trail. In summer people camp at the mouth of the valley, where there is good fishing. A small wooden church, with a Hawaiian-language Bible on the pulpit, lies on the road to what was once a much larger community.

The other valleys also had large populations in pre-contact times, but are now all uninhabited except for Pelekunu valley, where a Hawaiian activist and some followers are trying to recreate the ancient way of life, growing taro, and living off the bounty of land and sea by using many traditional techniques, the north shore of Molokai has waterfalls running off the steep cliffs, and there is deep green forest in the valleys all along the coast.

Maui: After Oahu, Maui is the most built-up of the islands, and it is becoming more so all the time, with new hotels and blocks of condominiums going up, and a rapid increase in population in recent years.

The urban centres of Wailuku and Kahului are located in the mid-portion of the island. On the western half are the resort area of Kaanapali, and the old port of Lahaina, a centre of the Wreckage of a World War II transport ship off Shipwreck Beach on Lanai. 55 TRAVEL

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During the months of January to March whales can be seen in the channel on their way to Maalaea Bay where they have their young, and charter boats take tourists out for closer viewing. Near Olowalu are the little publicised petroglyphs, which have been much abused by more recent graffitists. Museums abound, displaying ancient Hawaiian artefacts.

In our view, the eastern part of Maui offers most of interest. To reach it one follows the “Hana Highway,” a narrow two-lane road winding its way through small valleys, past waterfalls and pools, and finally reaching Hana, a quiet little town inhabited mainly by people of Hawaiian descent. Along the Hana Highway are the two villages of Keanae and Wailua, with their taro patches adding color to the dramatic coastal scenery.

Before reaching Hana proper, one passes the Waianapanapa camp grounds and caves.

These caves were originally formed by lava tubes, and are now partially filled with clear, fresh rainwater. The cave mouths are reached by a short paved trail, and the water supports a unique population of tiny red shrimps.

Legend has it that a Hawaiian princess hid from her abusive husband in these caves, but was caught and killed, with the shrimps now serving as a reminder of her shed blood.

Past Hana the road gets poorer, with more hairpin bends, until one reaches the Seven Pools, marked on some maps as the “Seven Sacred Pools,” though there appears to be no evidence that the old Hawaiians regarded them as anything but secular, the “Sacred” having presumably been added to promote tourism in more recent times. In addition to the very pretty pools joined by small waterfalls, there is a trail leading to larger falls further upstream, with good swimming in the pools.

The nearby camp ground has some stone walls dating from pre-Captain Cook times, as well as a view of Mauna Kea’s peak on the Big Island across the channel. After living in Honolulu we are always impressed by how bright and clear the stars are out in places like this where there are no electric lights to dim the view.

Near the Seven Pools area is Kipahulu church, now restored after having fallen into disrepair in the 19605. In this remote little place is the grave of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, first solo trans-Atlantic aviator, who lived in eastern Maui for his last years. Here the paved road ends, and we were prevented from exploring the ranches that lay farther on by the car-rental contract, which does not extend to travel on dirt roads.

Maui’s most famous attraction is perhaps Mt. Haleakala, the dormant (as opposed to extinct) volcano, where legend has it that the Polynesian demi-god Maui lassoed the sun and slowed its daily passage across the skies. The crater itself contains numerous smaller cinder cones with their own craters, and, being above the tree-line, it is as barren as a lunar landscape. Several hiking trails cross the crater, but warm clothes are needed as it gets quite chilly. In fact during the winter months it snows up here, though not to the degree to make skiing possible.

There are beautiful silversword ferns, and Nene geese.

But more impressive is the view taking in the rest of Maui, plus four of the other islands.

One of these is the uninhabited Kahoolawe, which is used as a target range by the navy. It was once a ranch, and still has a number of wild goats, who could well be suffering from shell-shock by now. A couple of years ago the Kahoolawe Ghana , a Hawaiian land-rights activist group “occupied” the island by a sit-in, to draw attention to the historical value of some sites there. But today it remains uninhabited while agreements are being worked out.

Next month: Kahoolawe, Kauai, Hawaii, Oahu.

Rock carving near Kaunolo village, a remote fishing settlement on Lanai.

Hawaiian geese at Mount Haleakala on Maui Island approach visitors’ cars to be fed. 57

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Trade Winds

September 1982 sees in Australia what will probably be the biggest-ever trade display put on by Pacific Island countries. Previewing the event, to be held in Sydney, a special correspondent says that it has brought out a new spirit of purpose and initiative in the approach to export marketing of many Island countries.

Islanders’ new “get up and go” approach to big trade display “Millionaire’s salad for export to Australia.”

When this item from Kiribati was noted among the dozens of commodities and wares coming for a September Pacific Islands trade display in Sydney, it was like a declaration: a declaration of the Islands’ growing determination to sell anything they can in the competitive markets of the developed world.

These are the markets, of course, in which the island countries have taken such a caning with commodity prices.

But the most harmful events still do some good somewhere, and the collapsed commodity markets appear to have sharpened up the generally easygoing approach to marketing in all the Islands.

Besides millionaire’s salad from the “heart” of the coconut palm it gets its name from the fact that removal of the part that’s eaten kills the tree the goods being offered to Australian buyers indicate how the Islands are making better use of the scarce resources, local skills and various aid schemes and joint ventures to find new markets and to find products frequently foreign to their islands for those markets.

A look at a few says a lot: • Handmade leather saddles (for horses) and fine hand-crafted wool sweaters from Tonga. • High quality coconut hardwood for the building trade from Solomon Islands. • Fresh flowers from Vanuatu. • Tropical wines from Western Samoa. • Office and domestic furniture and panelling, all of solid timber, and stationery, from Papua New Guinea. • Spicy snack foods from Fiji based on Indian traditional ingredients, which have potential to capture some of the Australian pub and club market. • Honey and coconut cream syrup from Niue and Western Samoa, a substitute for maple syrup.

The nine countries Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and Western Samoa are presenting their commodities and wares at the International Trade Development Centre (ITDC) from 28-30 September.

The display was a proposal of the Australian Governmentfinanced trade commission of the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation (SPEC); the organisation is by the Aus-tralian Department of Trade and Resources which runs the ITDC to promote imports from developing countries, using Australian Development Assistance funds; and the selection and arranging of goods is by each country with assistance from ITDC staff.

However, there is more to this event than that.

It is the culmination so far of efforts made by so many Islands businessmen, of exhortations by Islands politicians, of financing by aid donor countries and joint-venture partners, and of the lowering of trade barriers through agreements like SPARTECA, giving Pacific Island countries dutyfree entry to Australia and New Zealand for most exports.

The rather desperate economic situation created in most Pacific Island countries by the Clothing for local sales and for export is manufactured in Port Moresby.

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commodities market prices has certainly given further incentive.

The Pacific Islands generally have not been fast to develop export markets beyond traditional commodities markets because of their lack of an industrial base. However, considerable progress has been made in the past few years in some countries in import replacement, and in turning traditional skills to production of goods sometimes intended entirely for export.

The Sydney trade display will not reveal a sudden wealth of goods for export, but will show a number of lines already selling successfully in Australia and elsewhere, and others with potential and could surprise buyers in some trade areas.

Already some Island products are selling in some of Australia’s more expensive department and specialist stores. The negative attitude so common not so many years ago of “We haven’t got much to offer” is being replaced with “What do you need, and can we make it for you?”

The side-by-side showing of goods from so many countries with similar resources also should heighten awareness of potential and establish who is leading in development of those resources of human beings, earth and sea.

In March this year, five of the Island countries Fiji, PNG, Tonga, Western Samoa and Solomon Islands participated with five Asian countries in a food and beverage display at the ITDC in response to a decision at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Melbourne last year.

For the Islands, it was something of a testing of the market. The testing must have been encouraging, for a number of the same companies are back this month to try to tie up agencies and distributorships, or to widen their markets.

A look through what is to be displayed is an incomplete, but indicative, inventory of what the Pacific Islands produce and could produce for consumer markets.

Both the March and the current displays also point up the differences between the two largest countries, PNG and Fiji, in production of consumer and export goods. For historic and political policy reasons, Fiji has a far greater range of goods to offer.

Here is a summary of what’s on offer: Food and Beverages: Frozen fish and lobster tails, canned tuna; fresh tropical and citrus fruits, fruit juices and purees; dried fruits and root vegetables for cooking, and snack foods, from banana and breadfruit chips to Indian-spiced packaged taste sensations; herbs, vanilla and chillies; peanuts; confectionery; tea and coffee (both from nontraditional sources); tropical wines; coconut canned in many forms as cream or milk, with taro leaves as palusami, desiccated or as oil, with honey as a syrup; and then there is beer.

Timber Products: Pine products from Fiji; solid timber furniture and timbers largely for export from PNG; coconut hardwood flooring, tiles, or panelling from the Solomons; furniture from Fiji and Kirribati.

Handicrafts, Jewellery, and Giftware: These are from all nine countries, including tapa; woven leaf goods; precious shells, black and pink coral and gold and silver made into jewellery and body ornaments; carvings. The range is unusually wide with high levels of craftsmanship and artistry in some.

Clothing and Woollen or Cotton Goods: From Tonga come the classic Aran (isles of Ireland) hand-crafted wool knitwear; from PNG a line of trousers and dresses, cotton yarn blankets and ponchos, woollen rugs and coats; from Niue sundresses and shirts in screen prints, table cloths and serviettes, wall hangings, cushion and pillow covers; from Western Samoa “Polynesian dresses and sweaters” and from the Cooks “fashion garments.”

Miscellaneous: Among other goods are the range of Tongan hand-sewn footballs, the saddles and other leather goods, and five products of Tonga’s own publishing house; the stamps of Niue and Kiribati; coconut and oil palm soaps (including seawater soap); trochus shell buttons from Vanuatu; coconut charcoal from Niue; and pyrethrum (the insect-killing flowers) from PNG.

A welcome Princess The German-owned luxury cruise ship Princess Mahsuri, which is under charter to Singapore-based Straits Shipping, will make seven calls to Port- Vila in Vanuatu and other island ports seven times between December 1982, and April 1983, sailing out of Sydney.

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The big change he’s talking about arises from a decision of the outgoing Cabinet of Sir Julius Chan to link the private sector’s Tourist Association with the National Cultural Council, giving them joint responsibility for controlled tourism within the country.

He told Charles Sriber, Travel Editor of The Australian newspaper, that the decision means that PNG now has a statutory tourist body, and that the vacuum created when the country’s old Office of Tourism was scrapped last December has been filled.

Mr Carter said: “One of the problems with the defunct Office of Tourism was its limitations as a mere promotional organisation. It had no teeth and could make no binding decisions. The new arrangement should do a lot to get a real plan going, one that will be in the interests of PGN and of its visitors.”

Hudson’s make headway Australian-based exporter of modular building system housing, George Hudson Homes, has projects in the pipeline for an airport terminal in Papua New Guinea, a luxury holiday resort in Vanuatu provided with two-storey duplex units with two and three bedrooms, and low-cost housing for cyclone-ravaged Tonga.

The company is already well represented in the latter country after its major project of building the Australian High Commissioner’s residence in Nukualofa. It claims in a press release that the building survived Cyclone Isaac in March without structural damage.

Key element in the George Hudson operation is a sandwich panel of Hardiflex and polystyrene known as “Therma-Panel”.

The 45mm-thick polystyrene is sheeted each side with 4.5 mm cement fibre board, using a glue that is resistant to heat, water and mould, making the sandwich panel strong enough to support roof and ceiling structures.

The company says the insulating quality of the sandwich is about the same as a cavity brick wall.

Rarotonga’s wharf project The first test piles have been constructed for the SNZ3 million new wharf development at Avatiu on Rarotonga. The project, funded by the New Zealand Development Aid Fund, will take three years to complete. Nearly 800 concrete piles are being made by Brown and Doherty of the Cook Islands in the biggest civil engineering project ever carried out in the Cook Islands.

Samoa: World Bank threat The World Bank has threatened to withhold most of the SWSB million which it has made available to the Western Samoa Trust Estates (WSTEC) for development because the bank was “not happy” with how about half the $1.2 million already advanced had been used.

A mission from the bank visited Samoa and found that $600,000 had been spent on building residences and guest houses in each of WSTEC’s four main plantations on Savaii at Lata, Falelima, Asau and Vaiaata. The money should have been spent on replanting crops. The guest houses were for visiting gov- 60

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ernment officials and their guests.

The Australian Government had offered aid to build the premises, but because the then government failed to supply Australia with the information it requested and went ahead with the project, Australia refused to pay for the buildings.

The World Bank asked for revised plans for the planting of up to 120 hectares with cocoa before the year’s end, and warned that, if development was not satisfactory, aid would be cut off.

Atiu relieved by Maverick The cruising American yacht Maverick, skippered by Michael Needham, sailed to the rescue of the hungry people of Atiu, Cook Islands, recently. Maverick was anchored at Avatiu on Rarotonga when word arrived that the Atiuans’ larder was nearly empty, and no ships were scheduled to call there. Prime Minister Sir Tom Davis, a yachtie from way back, had the answer. “See Michael Needham of the Maverick,” he said.

Michael obliged. Maverick sailed to Atiu with a load of food, and then, at Atiu, took on board bags of taro, cartons of pineapples and other produce destined for New Zealand but marooned because of the lack of shipping. When Maverick dropped anchor at Avatiu, the cargo the first from Atiu was discharged. It turned the scales at two tonnes.

Air Pacific as courier Air Pacific has started a new door-to-door courier service for Fiji and international delivery of documents and films.

Labasa, Nadi and Suva are the primary pickup points in Fiji.

In Fiji itself or to Australia and New Zealand the service undertakes to make delivery in 24 hours. The overseas section of the service is linked with the Australian-based transport giant Thomas Nationwide Transport (TNT).

Oz aid for Fiji Australia has offered almost SAIO million in aid for Fiji for this financial year, the greatest part, $8 million, going towards projects nearing completion, including the Yalavou beef scheme, Australia’s largest aid project in Fiji, and the Monasavu hydro-electricity scheme.

New Zealand has announced aid for Fiji of SNZ4 million.

New service for Majuro The Philippines, Micronesia and Orient Navigation Co. will call at Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, every 28 days on an eastbound route, primarily to uplift coconut oil from the Tobolar plant. The Nauru Pacific Line also calls for coconut oil.

Suva port’s big upgrade Port facilities in Fiji’s capital Suva are to be upgraded at a cost of more than SFIO million.

Contractors are a Fiji company, Reddy Fletcher contractors.

Cheap bed lure in Tahiti From August 4 Air Pacific and Qantas jointly introduced a $lO accommodation stopover package in Tahiti.

The package provides up to two nights’ accommodation at $lO per night at the Tahiti Holiday Inn for passengers on Air Pacific flights out of Fiji who are awaiting connecting flights with Qantas to Los Angeles.

The package is designed to encourage those flying to the United States to fly through Tahiti instead of Hawaii. • • • Two Suva firms, Lalato and Company and Central Pharmacy, and the New Zealand firm of John Heald and Sons, are partners in a new company, Pablo, which has opened a plastic goods factory in Nasinu, near Suva. • • • Canada is financing a mussel culture project for Western Samoa’s fisheries. Mussel spat is being imported from the Philippines and, if experiments are successful, it will become a project for women’s committees in the villages.

Fiji is increasing its exports to Japan, adding Cheddar cheese to the list, which also includes tinned catfood. A large fishcanning factory at Levuka, Fiji’s old capital, in which the Fiji Government and Japanese interests are partners, is a big supplier to the animal food market. • • • Tuvalu has drawn up a Rural Small Projects Programme to be submitted to Australia under the bilateral aid agreement. Under the agreement Australia will provide up to a maximum of $lO,OOO for each project. A similar scheme is being discussed with the New Zealand Government. West Germany has also given $5OOO for a water and sanitation improvement project.

Taveuni’s into coffee A Fiji coffee project costing about SFI million to establish has been officially opened on the island of Taveuni. The group of companies behind the project expect to have about 250,000 trees producing a crop of 500,000 tonnes by 1987.

Japan aids Kiribati Japan has granted Kiribati 500 million yen (about SA2 million) for a fisheries promotion project, according to an official Japanese news release.

This follows a request from Kiribati for a fisheries research and training vessel, fishing tackle and refrigerating and ice-making equipment to develop a fisheries industry now that the reserves of phosphate ore have been depleted.

The government of Kiribati had formulated a fisheries promotion project as part of its fourth national development plan, with the object of training fishermen and securing the means of distributing marine products, the news release said.

Williarn Gasson, in Wellington Air Pacific of Fiji and Qantas of Australia, who historically have close links, have embarked on a new programme of commercial relationships involving Pacific regional routes. Here Mr Akuila Savu for Air Pacific ana Mr Ron Yates for Qantas shake hands after signing a new five-year commercial agreement.

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Mr Munch-Petersen is at the University of the South Pacific in Suva.

AESOP off the ground The New Australian Executive Service Overseas Program (AESOP), which will provide volunteer Australian executives, managers and technicians for developing countries, has reported a “most enthusiastic response” from the ASEAN region, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific.

In the three months since the scheme became operational, 67 requests for aid under the scheme have come from Malaysia (5), Niue (1), the Philippines (38), Papua New Guinea (18), Solomon Islands (2), Thailand (1), Tonga (1), and Turkey (1).

They covered a wide range of enterprises including furniture-making, engineering, business administration, advertising and agriculture.

Of the 67 applicants, two have been rejected as falling outside AESOP guidelines, two have been accepted and volunteers allocated, and further details are being sought to allow formal consideration of the remaining 63 expressions of interest.

The executive director of AESOP, Rod Cheatley, said many Australians of high calibre already had offered their experience and expertise. He said a register of skills was being developed so that AESOP’s foreign representatives could be advised of the services available. • • • The Vanuatu Commodities Marketing Board reports improved production and quality of copra since the board was established in April. The docks at Port-Vila and Santo had received 4136 tonnes in June.

Future of Fentress The U.S. Trust Territory Government has given the Marshall Islands the freighter Fentress, a well-known cargo carrier in Micronesia, and the republic’s government has formed a company, Marshall Islands Maritime Company Inc. to run the ship. The government is the sole stockholder. It is planned to put the ship into service between Honolulu, Tahiti, the Samoas and the Marshalls. The government will eventually be acquired by private interests. • • • Qantas, Australia’s flag carrier, has exercised its right to a share of the air traffic between Sydney and Port-Vila.

One of the two flights by Air Vanuatu (Ansett Airlines and Vanuatu Government) between Sydney and the Vanuatu capital each week becomes a Qantas flight with a Qantas flight number. • • • German shipping consultant Captain Jorg Wagener, 42, has arrived in Apia to take over as new general manager of Samoa Shipping Services, succeeding Captain Rasmus Sieg, who has returned to Hamburg. Captain Wagener, who is on a two-year assignment, comes to Western Samoa from the Philippines where he was employed by the United Nations to design a container terminal. He has worked as a shipping consultant in various countries including Kiribati. • • • The prospects of profitable fishing for deep-water shrimps in Papua New Guinea waters are being investigated by Michael King, a marine biologist from the University of the South Pacific. • • • Fiji’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation have signed an agreement for a $F155,000 health programme concentrated on mothers, children, and family planning.

Utrik to go solar The council on Utrik Atoll in the Marshall Islands plans to spend SU.S. 100,000 it has received from the United States as radiation compensation on the installation of a solarpowered electricity generating system. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has agreed to share with the council the cost of installing a 16 kW system which will provide power for lighting, refrigeration and some community washing machines.

Air Niugini’s new Canadian manufactured Dash-7 aircraft have been going through political as well as technical considerations at they take over many internal routes in Papua New Guinea. The newly-returned Prime Minister Michael Somare at first threatened to sell them on the grounds that they had been bought for political grandstanding by tne previous government. But the deal was too big to reverse and no immediate change is likely. One of the new aircraft is shown here at Rabaul Airport. - Stuart Inder picture. 63

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According to a report in The New Zealand Herald, the project would require a network of up to 6000 small land stations.

Final recommendations should be drawn up by the end of September and will be put to the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation, the secretariat of the South Pacific Forum, probably in July next year.

The estimated cost is about $129 million if a special satellite is put up, plus an average of $25,800 for each land station, together with the cost of augmenting existing facilities and training technicians.

The Washington team, headed by Jane N. Hurd, is drawn from the Public Service Satellite Consortium and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

A similar study, concentrating on specific country-bycountry costs, has been undertaken for the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation by V. K. Sargeant, an Australian, and a New Zealander, Warwick Thorley. They are likely to recommend a combination of terrestrial and satellite systems.

The Washington team suggests that Pacific Island nations may be able to put up 10 per cent of the initial cost, with countries such as New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Japan and France supplying 50 per cent to 60 per cent in low-interest, long-term loans.

The remainder would come from foreign commercial banks, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, the United Nations Development Program, foundations, private investors and perhaps the World Bank.

Impetus for the study came from the first South Pacific Forum meeting in Wellington in 1971, when Ministers discussed the inadequacy of telecommunications in the region.

Jane Hurd says internaional links have been established since then, but in most cases links with rural areas and outlying islands within given countries remain rudimentary or non-existent.

The team has visited many of the Pacific nations including a number of outlying areas to see the problems on the ground and ask users what their needs are.

In an article on her experiences, Jane Hurd noted the following comments from Islanders in outlying areas: “Anything a week late is still news to us.

“We use broadcast radio.

You only hope the message gets through to the person you are aiming at.

“Communications here is a boat woth an outboard motor.”

The PSSC team sees the project as definitely a regional one, with four options for managing it: One Pacific country acting as administrator and manager, a corporation to be established by the Pacific Island countries, a new consortium with membership representing all user countries, or an existing entity, such as the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Co-operation.

It says about one-third of the satellite installtions would probably make a profit, one-third would break even and one-third would lose money.

This, it says, would perhaps argue for some regional sharing of revenues if one country made a significant profit on all its facilities while a smaller neighbor made a profit on fewer than half its installations.

The team sees the basic need as improved telephone services, followed by telex and telegraphy, with television in most cases a distant option.

Among examples of the need for better communications, the team says lack of communication means people in remote areas come to accept death as the inevitable consequence of major illness or injury, even though they know people in towns have ready access to doctors and hospitals.

In Micronesia, it says, inadequate radio communication led to the death of one man and permanent blindness of several others who had drunk wood alcohol. They might have been saved if medical advice had been available by voice or data link.

In a recent letter to PIM, Ms Hurd said she hoped to have the final report ready before the SPECTEL, the meeting of South Pacific telecommunications authorities, due to be held in Vanuatu this year.

FSM’s 15-year plan In his third annual state of the nation message, Federated States of Micronesia President Tosiwo Nakayama has urged the FSM Congress to increase tax rates to finance development projects. Presenting the Congress with a 15-year development plan, President Nakayama said there was a need to reconstruct the economy to focus activities on primary industries which would support human development. 64

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Trade Winds

YACHTS lAN G. MENZIES of the Royal Papua Yacht Club reports from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Late June saw the advent of the south-easterly trades which swept into Port Moresby a record number of cruising yachts. Here are details of the earlier arrivals: • HORNET. A 13m GRP custom-built centre-board cutter, owned and skippered by Dr Dale Huber, who is accompanied by his wife Jeri and daughter Maureen Harris. The Hubers hail from Everett, Washington State, and left their home port of Seattle in July 1978. Their relaxed cruising schedule has allowed them eight months in Hawaii, 11 months in Fiji and 15 months in Bundaberg (Central coast of Queensland, Australia). While in Australia the family bought an old car and drove clear across the centre of Australia from north to south! Hornet departed Bundaberg in early June and made a good passage of nine days to Honiara in Solomon Islands. After exploring those islands they departed from Gizo and made their first PNG landfall at Samarai.

From Port Moresby they will head west through the Torres Strait to Darwin and then on to Jakarta and eventually the Red Sea. The circumnavigation should take up to eight years as Dale says, he’s retired now so there’s no need to hurry!

While in Port Moresby, the Hubers were hosts to whole groups of cruising yachties for the July 4 celebrations a great evening with a few sore heads the next day! • PESCARUS. A 9m Golden Hind out of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Dr Mike Couch, his wife Lindy and their two-anda-half year-old son Mischa made an uneventful 12-days passage from Noumea, New Caledonia. The Couches left the United Kingdom in 1975 and have stopped over in various parts around the world, their most recent sojourn being a year in New Zealand.

From Port Moresby they will also head to Darwin to pick up more charts for the cruise to Sri Lanka and through the Red Sea. • WASA. a 9m sloop rig GRP fin keel yacht, built in only 11 months by Rolf and Helga Wemmer of Wilhelmshaven of West Germany. They departed their home port in May 1980 and sailed via Spain, Canary Islands, Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands, where they were able to explore extensively as a result of their special cruising permit.

Thence to Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. On the New Zealand leg they hit some really dirty weather and Rolf suffered two broken ribs as a result of a heavy blow from his tiller. A good passage of 10 days was made from New Zealand to Noumea, with a further 12 days to Port Moresby.

Rolf and Helga were forced to extend their stay in Port Moresby due to a badly infected leg sustained by Rolf from brushing against a nasty piece of coral. From Port Moresby they departed for Darwin and will take the Red Sea route to be back in Germany by August 1983. • TALARI A. An H 55 Marco Polo ex Plymouth, USA, has made very fast passages since it departed from West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 2, 1982! With Richard Bird and Delia Chua at the helm, and assisted by two other crew, they plan to head to Singapore where Richard and Delia have their home.

Talaria is a delightful threemasted schooner built of mahogany in the classic H design it’s sleek and fast!

Jane Deridder

reports from Noumea, New Caledonia: • MAUD. There’s life in the old girl yet! Launched in 1899, Maud is a Norwegian cuttertype vessel. Her vital statistics are 14.2 m bumkin to bowspirit, 3.6 m beam, 2.3 m draft. William Fife-designed, Scottishbuilt, she’s carvel-planked splined and glued of pitch pine on oak and rock elm. In June Maud survived a Force 10 gale between New Zealand and New Caledonia, the same weather system that rolled the Los Angeles yacht Seagull near Norfolk Island, breaking the skipper’s neck and ripping off the cabin top. Maud was hove to for three days in that gales during which time Norfolk Island recorded 70 to 80 knot gusts. But as Claud Worth wrote in his classic Yacht Cruising, circa 1909, ‘ Maud is an exceptionally safe sea boat’.

Maud is owned and sailed by two young New Zealanders, both from New Plymouth.

They are Ross O’Donnell, a carpenter, who among other adventures spent six months on Scott Base in the Antarctic; and Brett Allen, a mechanic, who once travelled around the world with his surfboard.

Brent Anderson and Philippa and Mary Gallagher make up the youthful crew. Mary, sometime hang-glider, who owns her own small sailing boat, was on the schooner Sofia when she was rolled off North Cape in March (PIM June p 59).

This is obviously not Maud's first Pacific cruise, for when one ex-owner, Shaun Ledward, sailed her out from the United Kingdom 10 years ago, the older island people recognised the vessel everywhere it went. • ILLUSION. David Lynch- Watson sailed from the UK to New Zealand 10 years ago on the old-timer Maud. Lynch- Watson, a consulting electrical engineer on a two-years leave of absence, now plans to compete his circumnavigation and at the same time introduce his wife Joanne to his family in England. The newly-weds have chosen a 10.7 m steel Brekveldt-designed sloop, Illusion, to make their proposed trip via Suez and the mediterranean.

Nigel Pollett of Nelson signed on as crew on Illusion just two months after spending several days in a liferaft off the northern tip of New Zealand as an aftermath of the capsizing and sinking of the topsail schooner Sofia. • MISTY. Doug Clark built the 11m steel sloop Misty in ‘two and a half thousand hours’ over a four-year period entirely on his own. By the time he’d finished the hull, Doug says he felt he really knew how to weld. He built her in Simonstown, South Africa, the strategically important naval base situated between Cape Point and Cape Hangclip.

Doug says that on that inhospitable stretch of coastline, vessels must ride out a southeasterly gale behind Cape Hangclip, just inside False Bay, but for security reasons cannot venture into the False Bay Yacht Club. Doug and Alex Versfeld (‘a superb navigator’) left South Africa in March of ’Bl, stopping in St.

Helena, Ascension, the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha where a highlight of their trip they swam with the dolphins! After cruising the Caribbean, the boys spent several months on the US east coast. They describe the hospitality there as ‘unreal’.

The first time in almost 30,000 kilometres that they’ve not kept to their itinerary was when they gave up trying to beat us to Brisbane after two days lying ahull in gale force westerlies, and instead cleared customs in Noumea 12 days out of Suva.

Scottish-built Maud is of Norwegian cutter design and was launched more than 80 years ago. Present owners are Ross O’Donnell and Brett Allen from New Plymouth in New Zealand.- Jane DeRidder picture. 65

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There is an explanation as to why stainless steel forceps are used on Misty to hang up clothes to fasten the sun awning, and other such jobs: Doug is a bio-medical engineer, a growing faculty, says Doug, now that human organ implants are becoming commonplace. • DALMATA. Milan-born Aldo Nicolich (boat-builder, cabinet-maker) has worked in timber all hfs life, so it is not surprising that the building in Brisbane of his Australian spotted-gum 9m yacht Dalmata a four-and-a-half-year project was competently done.

What is interesting is that Aldo designed the vessel himself, ‘a necessity, not because I’m a designer.’ He built a floating model to scale, one kilo equalling one tonne. Using a mixture of features gleaned from Slocum, Girbault, Pigeon and Hiscock, Aldo came up with a reliable cruising boat design which he says meets his expectations reasonably well.

She’s a deep keel cutter with transom-mounted rudder. This is Aide’s third offshore trip in Dalmata in four years, always as a solo sailor. He said in Noumea: ‘l’ve been by myself too long. I don’t want to lose my freedom.’ • PUFF. Puff is a modified 14m ‘Piver’ trimaran with an Aframe mast that arrived in Noumea 12 days out from Honiara, hard on the wind al that way. Here Yvan Join will be joined by his wife Akita and their son Damien.

How does a young Frenchman find himself the skipper of Geomarex? (Geomarex from ‘geo-marine exploration’ is a firm engaged in seeking minerals by drilling in various lagoons in the Pacific.) Yvan Join and two companions were rescued from the Kermadec Islands in September 1978 after Yvan’s own Noumea-built 10m ferro yacht Morskoul was wrecked. The anchor rope had jumped the bow roller and frayed through while the boys were hiking ashore. They were picked up by Akaron, a New Zealand research vessel under contract to Geomarex which just happened to be passing close by. Fortunately Captain Gerry Clark of Kerikeri was scanning the shores with binoculars doing a seabird count. Yvan saved only his sextant, his money, his sails and his skin. Because Yvan is a trained mechanic and can navigate, he was kept on as crew.

John met his Gilbertese wife Akita on Christmas Island.

There he bought a Vancouver 11m steel sloop, Goldberry, for $2600. Engineless, Goldberry was 86 days en route from Vancouver, the owners were fed up, and Yvan was the only customer! Join plans to return to Christmas Island to get Goldberry back into cruising trim. • SANYATI. ‘I never sailed a day in my life till I put her in the water,’ said Harry Gilfoyle, solo sailor from Brisbane of his 9m sloop Sanyati.

Harry rode a pushbike around Europe for six months, decided he couldn’t do that for the rest of his life, decided on blue water cruising as a lifestyle, and built his Robertsdesigned 9m glass and airex sandwich sloop. Sanyati's single cylinder lOhp Yanmar diesel engine running the better part of an hour each day keeps the battery charged sufficiently to run Harry’s ham transceiver, a Yaesu FT7O7 solid state rig. Getting his amateur radio licence was no great problem for Harry, for he is an electrician by trade, with electronics his great interest. Sanyati’s Brisbane- Noumea crossing was a slow, windless one. En route Harry had a foot pump-operated shower every day, and still used only a quarter of his 60-gallon supply of fresh water. • ROCKHOPPER. It is always interesting to see what vessel is selected by experienced sailors to make a major offshore cruise. Michael and Jeannette York of Sydney decided on a Laurent Giles ‘Salar 40’ ketch after many years of ocean racing and cruising.

Mick was on Kialoa when that maxi-racer set her record in the Sydney-Hobart race. He raced on Gretel in the America’s Cup, and on Caprice of Huon in the Admiral’s Cup. returning short-handed from a Sydney-Noumea Race in his previous yacht Tui Manu, and plagued with headwinds and calms, York reckoned: ‘There’s got to be a better way.

I want a wheelhouse and at least 1000-mile range under power.’ He says that although Rockhopper looks a motor sailer, she can hold some of the modern racing boats when not close-hauled for she soon uses her full water-line length and very quickly gets to good speed. Tasmanian-built, she’s the only steel hulled ‘Salar 40.’

Mick is on three months longservice leave from Borg Warner where he is a divisional manager. Jeannette is a talented painter, able to continue her work as she cruises.

The Yorks stopped in Lord Howe Island on their way to Noumea. CBers on Lord Howe were startled to hear ‘Rockhopper calling Pebble Jumper.' The latter is the Yorks’ shore boat. • SOLO LIGHTS. John and Giselle Dean are widely known in the Pacific. Auckland was John’s home town. Here he started his many-faceted life as commercial diver, soldier, shipwright and businessman among other occupations. Gigi was born in Ouvea in the Loyalty Islands as far as she Aldo Nicolich on board Dalmata, the deep-keel cutter which he designed and built. “If I can catch a couple of fish to fill my pot I’m happy,” he says. - Jane DeRidder picture.

Rockhopper, a Sydney-based ketch, off Lord Howe Island.

Experienced sailors Michael and Jeannette York were on the first leg of a three-month cruise to New Caledonia. 66

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YACHTS

knows, the only European baby to be born there. Early on, the Deans spent several years in New Guinea where John was master of a tanker.

They’ve also lived and worked in Europe, Malaysia and the Philippines. They’ve been based in Madang, Port Moresby, Sydney, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast; in Hong Kong where John was a property investment consultant for five years; and in Taiwan overseeing the construction of their previous boat.

In all these places and over all these years they’ve always had a yacht, and more often than not they’ve lived aboard. ‘The only magazine we’ve bought consistently over the years is PIM - for the “yachts” section.’ John and Gigi bought their 17 m ‘Greenhithe’ New Zealand-built yacht Solo Lights in Brisbane in February ’B2 with the intention of ‘getting back to cruising and a simple lifestyle’. She’s their 12th yacht in 20 years. John’s comment on Kiwi shipbuilding: ‘lf I were to build another boat I’d have it built in New Zealand.

The quality is better than anywhere in the world.’ • INOA. Tim McCormick and Mike Stiefel, joint owners of the ‘Westsail 32’ Inoa of Chino, left Hawaii a year and a half ago. They were waiting in Noumea for delivery to Marine Corail of a Walker SAT NAY, as were several other overseas cruising yachts.

Helped by a devaluation of the franc, a satellite navigation instrument now costs less than SUS2OOO in Noumea, a far cry from 10 times that amount not many years back. Inoa is one of a group of yachts all heading towards Japan. Others in the cruising ‘flotilla’ are Manana, Taku and Alrisha, all of which have been reported in previous issues of PIM. In June in the Isle of Pines, Inoa dragged in a westerly, and has a damaged toerail as a reminder of this misadventure. One of the shortcomings of cruising is that somebody has to stay on the boat, McCormick and Stiefel say. A way around what they term ‘cruising paranoia’ is to put the boat on the hard as they did in New Zealand when Inoa sat high and dry at Orams Marina in Whangarei while the boys and Judy Mcgonigall toured in a van.

Judy joins Inoa as crew in Noumea. • TANGO. ‘After eight years cruising this has got to be the quietest season ever,’ say Noel and June Dabb of their June ’Bl to March ’B2 circuit from Brisbane to Cairns by way of Noumea, Ouvea, Vanuatu, the Banks, Torres and Santa Cruz islands, the Solomons, Rabaul, New Guinea, New Britain and Samurai. In 8850 kilometres they motored 4000 kilometres, either because of no wind at all or light winds. The Dabbs found the south side of New Britain to be an interesting coast. There they saw no other yacht for months, except for a Japanese one whose occupants spoke no English. A problem on that particular coastline, said Noel, is that hops from shelter to shelter are long.

They sometimes had to leave at 2 a.m. to arrive at the next anchorage by 4 or 5 p.m. Tango is a 13 m ‘Crowther’ catamaran. New Zealanders Noel and June have also built and cruised Ecstasy, a 13 m one-off Keith Atkinson ketch, and a 10 Townsen ‘Twilight’, Ju’el. • LITTLE NEMO. She grew too small for us,’ say Leo and Gigi Coifs of the ‘S&S 34’ in which they started their cruise from Antwerp five years ago.

So during a year’s pause in Florida, they sold it and bought it Antigua the French-built ‘Hood 38’ Little Nemo. The Coifs describe her as ‘a small boat with a lot of room.’ The 12 m vessel is a hefty 14 tonnes, and with centreboard down draws eleven feet (3.3 m). Leo started sailing as a boy, racing in the English Channel and the North Sea. For years he dreamed of going cruising.

Now after five years in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the US, and the South Pacific, ‘We find it the normal way of living’. • JANE. Though New York fashion illustrator Jane Weller admits she does not like making passages, she says she does enjoy the variety of experiences that cruising brings.

T feel now that I can go anywhere, do anything!’ Jane and Paul Weller were in Port- Vila when mail caught up with them. As a result they sailed back to New Zealand in order to leave their 12 m ‘Grampion’ yawl, Jane, safely at Grams Marina in Whangarei so they could fly back for their son Michael’s Central Park wedding. Michael Weller, Oscar nominee playwright/script writer, wrote scripts for the movies Hair and Ragtime. About his wedding festivities, Jane said. ‘lt was just the opposite of the life we lead on the boat, and I loved every minute of it’, though she says she was forced to shed unaccustomed shoes at the reception. Paul, after whooping it up in rented ‘soup and fish’ was anxious to get back to his yacht-home. ‘Even when it’s uncomfortable I’m thrilled with it all. I love to see Jane kick up her heels and go!’

John and Giselle Dean call it “getting back to the simple life” as they board Solo Lights, a 17-metre yacht which they bought in Australia for Pacific cruising. - Jane DeRidder picture.

Tim McCormick reads PIM’s yachting notes as Inoa rides at anchor in Noumea. McCormick and Mike Stiefel have been cruising Inoa out of Hawaii for more than 18 months. - Jane DeRidder picture.

Paul Weller rolls a final coat of paint on the deck after the 12-metre yawl Jane received a new anti-skid deck surface. The yacht, based in New York, is now in New Zealand. - Jane DeRidder picture. 67

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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 mam 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, Burme, 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 Vavau.

Details from Hethenngton Wesfarmers Shipping Agency, 37-49 Pitt Street. Sydney. (27-1671).

AUSTRALIA - NEW CALEDONIA -

Fiji - Samoas - Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised service (general, reefer and ro-ro) from Sydney to Noumea, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago, Nukualofa, Sydney. Cargo centralized from Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane.

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

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

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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 Caledomens operates a three-weekly containerised cargo service from Sydney to Noumea.

Details Hetherington Wesfarmers Shipping Agency, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

Compagnie Generale Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Noumea, Port Vila and Santo, for containerised and break bulk cargo Details Compagnie Generale Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

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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).

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P & O liners call at Auckland, Bay of Islands, Honiara, Lautoka. Noumea, Nuku'alofa, Pago Pago, Papeete, Port Moresby, Santo, Savusavu, Suva, Vavau and Vila on cruises from Australia.

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AUSTRALIA - NZ - SOLOMONS - PNG Pacific Forum Line operates containerized and general cargo service from Auckland to Honiara, Lae, Port Moresby, Brisbane Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland; Steamships Shipping, Port Moresby; Sullivans Ltd, Honiara.

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Minghua Cruises operates cruise services from Sydney to Hawaii and most Pacific ports, with several cruises to South East Asia, including Japan, China and Hong Kong.

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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),

Australia - Tuvalu

Karlander operates a three monthly service from Sydney and Melbourne to Tuvalu (Funafuti).

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

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, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kiuta, 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); Niugim Express Lines, Port Moresby (21-4572); Lae (42-1536); Rabtrad Niugini Pty Ltd, Rabaul (92-2911) and Kieta; Alotau Stevedor- .ng & Transport, Alotau (61-1318); Ngatia Wholesalers Pty Ltd, Kimbe (93-5102); and Island Co-operative Shipping Federation. Honiara (808).

Sofrana-Unilines (PNG Line) operates a monthly service to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kieta, Honiara from mam 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 Generale Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Papeete for containerised and break-bulk cargo.

Details Compagnie Generale 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 - 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; l B Taylor Y Cia Ltd in Chile.

Far East - Fiji - New

ZEALAND New Zealand Unit Express (NZUE) operates a monthly palletised cargo service from Manila, Keelung, Kaoshiung 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 69

Pacific Islands Monthly— September, 1982

Only our Dragon Boat visits more ports, more often, in the South Pacific.

The New Guinea Pacific Line offers the quality handling you're used to, through its exclusive containerised service to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Rely on us all the way. • Fast transit times to all ports. • A guaranteed schedule every 30 days, thanks to berths in Papua New Guinea and Honiara reserved for N.G.P.L. use. • Safe, secure transports goods in containers, both L.C.L., and F.C.L. no more damage or pilferage of cargo. • A wide coverage of all ports with the monthly container service from Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Bangkok to all Papua New Guinea ports and Honiara.

For further details on our reliable Dragon Boat service contact:

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Steamship Trading Co., Ltd.

Port Moresby Telephone: 212000 HONG KONG Swire Shipping (Agencies) Ltd.

Telephone: 5-264311 CD O C\J

New Guinea

Pacific Une

SINGAPORE Straits Shipping Pte. Ltd.

Telephone: 436071 Q.

O z (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 Pn.lp (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, Cook is., Tonga and Vanuatu.

Details. Hetherington Wesfarmers Snipping Agency, 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 - Fiji - Island Ports

Balihai service operates a monthly service from mam ports of Japan to Suva and Lautoka and thence to island ports.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St, Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199 and Burns Philp, Suva- (3ll-777).

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

Coast North America

PAD Line operates an approx. 3weekly ro-ro service from Noumea and Suva to Honolulu and West Coast USA and Canadian ports.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA, BP 1602, Noumea (27-51 -91), Tlx NMO4B; 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); Tradco Shipping (588).

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 _td, PC Box 3420, Auckland (797-210), Waterfront Commission, PC Box 61, Rarotonga; Cook Islands; Niue Govt Offices, Niue Island Compagme Maritime Polynesienne, BP’ 368, Papeete, Tahiti.

NZ - FIJI Reef operates a regular 18-day service from Auckland to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Reef Shipping Agencies, PC 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 Nuku’alofa.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland; Union Co, Auckland, Lautoka, Suva, Apia and Nuku’alofa; Polynesia Shipping Services, Pago Pago or Pacific Forum Line, Apia.

Nz - Fiji - Samoas - Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised service (gen/reefer) from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago and Nukualofa.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland; Pacific Forum Line, Apia; Union Company, Suva, Lautoka and Nukualofa.

NZ - N. CALEDONIA - VANUATU -

Png - Solomons

Sofrana Unilines with three ships operates to Vila and Santo, to Honiara and Papua New Guinea and t. Norfolk Island and Noumea.

Details from Sofrana Umlines, 18 Customs Street, Auckland (773-279), PO Box 3614, Telex NZ2313.

Nz - Tahiti

Compagme Tahitienne Maritime SA with one ship operates monthly service New Zealand - Papeete.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, PO Box 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.

Shipping Schedules

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Local Agents And

REPRESENTATION 428 George St., Sydney.

Cables: Henco Sydney.

G.P.O. Box 3949.

Telephone: 232 5377.

For specialised and personalised buying service throughout the Pacific Islands and the East.

Resident Agents in other Pacific Territories.

Papua New Guinea

RABAUL: M. & C. Seeto, P.O. Box 131, Rabaul.

Telephone 92 2919.

MADANG: W. Double, P.O. Box 22, Madang.

Telephone 82 2696.

FIJI K. Witherington Ltd., P.O. Box 293, Suva.

Telephone 22 356.

VANUATU John Lum & Associates, P.O. Box 65, Santo.

Telephone 329.

Solomon Islands

Mr. Tom Lo, P.O. Box 327, Honiara.

Telephone 399

Pacific Islands

Transport Line

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xoc Qeqeral Stean\ship General Agents 400 California Street, San Francisco, CA, USA PAPEETE: Agence Maritime Internationale, Tahiti PAGO PAGO: Polynesia Shipping Services, Inc.

APIA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

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; Kneubuhl Maritime Services, Box 39, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 96799.

Nz - New Caledonia

Central Pacific Line operates a monthly cargo service from Auckland, Lyttelton, Napier and Mt Maunganui to Noumea.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd, PO Box 1372, Auckland (9-30229); Tlx 2554 NZ EUROPE - TAHITI -

New Caledonia

Compagnie Generale 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 Generale 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, HamDurg, 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 LITE, 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 selfsustamed 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 t-remont 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.

Hawaii - Tahiti - Samoas

Marshall Islands Maritime Co operates a service every 32 days between Honolulu, Papeete, Pago Pago and Apia.

Details from the Maritime Co of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii; Morris Hedstrom, Apia, Western Samoa and the Marshall Islands Maritime Co, Majuro, Marshall Islands.

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. 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1982

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Pacific Islands Monthly —September, 1982

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DEATHS of Islands People Maika Brown At Levuka, Fiji, on July 13, aged 108.

One of the best known figures in the Anglican Church in Fiji, Maika Brown was born in Suva on July 13,1874, the same day of the year as that on which he died 108 years later.

His parents had been blackbirded to Fiji from the Solomons, and elected to stay on in the country when their three-years indenture had been completed.

His father died while he was still a boy, and his mother remarried. His stepfather gave him a good education, for those days, and he was accepted for medical training at the old hospital in Suva. But when his stepfather moved the family to Levuka, he needed Maika’s help in establishing a fishing business in Ovalau, so the young man had to leave medical school.

Maika went to work for the Morris Hedstrom company in Levuka, and he remained with the company for the rest of his working life.

He was a lay reader and preacher with the Church of England in Levuka for 64 years.

In an interview published in PIM (Sept. ’Bl, p 25) Victor Carell wrote of Maika Brown: “He is truly amazing . . . His command of English is exceptional and his memory is sharp. He can quote long sections of the Bible and delights in reciting one psalm after another, to be followed by excerpts from the Book of Moses, with no hesitation whatsoever.”

Taking his leave of Mr Brown, Victor Carell asked him how he felt. “I feel fine ... I feel strong ... I can even do a little dance,” he shouted. And he did, 107 years old as he was at the time.

He married his wife Merelita in 1916. They had 13 children.

John Kalomala In Papua New Guinea in August, of stab wounds to the head sustained in a hotel brawl.

Mr Kalomala, of Wabag, in Enga Province, had stood without success as a candidate in PNG’s July general elections.

Madeline Edith Kerkham In Auckland on July 11, aged 86.

Mrs Kerkham (nee Edwards) was a member of a very old established Fiji family, her parents having arrived in the colony in the year 1876 from Oxford, England. She was born in Levuka in 1895 and lived in Levuka and Suva for more than 70 years.

Daughters Grace and Noeline and sons Onslow and Bruce reside in New Zealand, and sons Richard and Allen in Sydney.

With them are left 19 grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren to mourn her loss. Her husband, Richard Charles Kerkham, who spent a lifetime of service in Fiji with Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., died in Suva in 1963. A. S.

Kerkham Rev. Aisake Raratabu In Los Angeles, USA, on May 23.

The Rev Aisake Raratabu died while returning to his home in Fiji after attending an international conference. He had been in Holland for a meeting of the executive committee of the World Association for Christian Communications (WACC). Mr Raratabu was chairman for the WACC Pacific Region. Earlier he had worked for the Pacific Council of Churches for eight years, managing Pasifika Productions, and he had been an information officer for the council.

Senior Inspector Francis Kumbia Shot dead by another police officer in his Mount Hagen office in June.

One of Papua New Guinea’s most experienced police officers, Senior Inspector Kumbia was commander of the Special Police Unit, Highlands Mobile Police.

According to eye-witnesses, he was in his office at Bindon Barracks when his assailant came in with a rifle and started firing wildly.

The attacker himself was shot in the incident. A Mount Hagen Hospital spokesman said the man had been under observation for suspected mental illness. 73

Pacific Islands Monthly —September, 1982

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Darkie Johnson went to Papua New Guinea in 1948 as an aircraft engineer, first at Madang and then at Lae, maintaining aircraft for Qantas, TAA, MAL, Crowley Airways and others.

After leaving PNG he worked for Helicopter Utilities until his retirement. C. Gane Joshua Hiua At Sulphur Bay, Tanna, Vanuatu, on July 13, after a long illness.

Joshua Hiua was the John Frum member of the TAFEA Island Government Council and had been so since creation of the council in 1981.

Thompson Samuel At Norsup Hospital, Vanuatu, in June, aged 47.

Thompson Samuel had 27 years of service with the New Hebrides/Vanuatu health service, working mainly as a surgical dresser.

He was employed for many years by the Presbyterian Church.

Hira Singh While being rushed to Lautoka Hospital, Fiji, in June, of a heart attack, aged 50.

Mr Singh, an Alliance Party activist, suffered the attack at an election meeting at Votualevu, Nadi.

Bobbie Gaigo In Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea in August.

For many years Bobbie Gaigo was a self-appointed spokesman for the people of Tatana Village on the outer rim of Port Moresby. In this role he was a controversial and colorful figure, sometimes at odds with the people he represented but in recent years increasingly respected. In the days of the Australian administration of PNG he was a frequent letter-writer to politicians and senior officials in Australia. One of his major crusades was for the revision of land tenure legislation.

When Queen Elizabeth visited PNG on one occasion he organised a demonstration on land issues. But he freely conceded “the Queen got more attention than I did”.

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